Ghostrunners - 376 - Acupuncture is WILD

Episode Date: October 21, 2024

Rachel replaces Timon in this episode to talk about Brad's time in Hawaii, the famous person we've met, and CrossFit. Sorry the audio gets wonky towards the end! Blame it on Timon's pneumonia. Help give the gift of water to those in need: https://give.healingwaters.org/ghostrunners Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I had a girl voice memo me this week and like I'm looking for podcasting advice. I get this decently often. Yeah. This was different because first of all, it's the only time I've ever heard someone request podcasting advice and all she wanted to know was which laptop to use. Laptop. Yeah. Okay.

All the things out of marketing clips, tick tock YouTube. Can you post your video to Spotify gear microphone? What's an XLR? Yeah, yeah. Rodecaster, it was laptop. On top of that, she said the word laptop probably 19 times in the voice memo and she pronounced it lab top.

Oh no. Every single time. Laptop. Laptop. So I just know some podcasters, they have like a laptop that they really like. And you know where this girl's from? Sherman, Texas.

Really? Yeah. A bunch of lab toppers out there in Sherman, Texas. Yeah, so I like voiced her back. I was like, this is great. No one's ever asked me about podcasting laptops before. It doesn't really matter. And they've definitely never pronounced that laptop.

Laptop. And she texted, she said, is it not laptop? She thought. I don't. She thinks that she's like, she's just been a scientist her whole life. And it's always been the thing that you do, like all your lab work on.

So it's a laptop. Yeah. I don't understand. Like, this is so interesting. It must have been originated here in the lab. You know? Every computer, they make it in like a science lab.

Lab top. And then she was like, there's these dogs that get cloned. And so they're lab dogs. So the lab. So. Well, there is a real. So they'll have. So. Well, there is a real dog called a lab. Dang it.

So that's confusing. Well, but there's lap dogs. Lap, like a service or like a smaller. Time it's not here today, guys. So we're gonna be a little off. You know, we took time into Vegas and you're probably wondering, how's he doing? How's he holding up?

Still hungover. Yeah, he contracted something. It ends in an IA. He got pneumonia. Of all the things from Vegas, he chose pneumonia. Yeah, he chose pneumonia and what's the opposite of ignorance? Labd, ignorance, knowledge?

Knowledge. Wisdom, what are you trying to say? I don't know. He's like no longer an innocent kid. He's just pneumonia and exposure to other, he's exposed to a lot of things. He's woke. Woke.

But not like Maria, nothing happened. So let's just roll the, let's just get into it. Let's get into it. Let's just roll time and do the, at any point now, roll the intro music. 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 it's the Ghost from the Spotcats. I'm a smart cat. I'm a smart cat. Every morning, morning, we're taking round the small, small cat.

Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Go for a vodka? You know what's bad? Rachel left halfway through that intro. Rachel started off. She's like, I get it.

I understand what these guys do. Rachel started off in this room. And it didn't really get anywhere. And she's out of here anywhere and she's outta here. So she's gone. Oh, it's funny. Time is gone. Will Severance just texted me,

hey, what's the coffee shop that that girl likes? We were just talking about this. Oh, Celia, Zhengzhu. I just looked it up. It's called Chingu. See, if you don't know what it's called and you think, I wanna say it's Chingzhu, you sound racist if you say that.

Yeah, Chingu. Chingu. That's the fourth time I that. Yeah. Ching Gu. Ching Gu. That's the fourth time I've looked that name up and I still don't remember it. That's a bad name. Right? That's a good point too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

If you keep having to look it up, like is it Shake Shackle? I gotta look it up again. What is it? Is it Laptop? Is it Who's a Burger? I know it starts a question. How's a burger?

Where's a burger? No, that doesn't seem right. It's not Quando's a burger, right? No. Tonde style burger. It's something, look it up again. Look it up again. What a burger.

Oh, what a burger. It's Chingu. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's Chingu. Anyway, now we're back. Now we're back. We've been apart for like 10 days or so. Yeah, I looked, this is how often we texted.

The last time I texted you was on October 3rd. Wow. It is now, we are recording this on October 18th. 15 days of no text. I did text you this morning at 12 51 a.m. That was nice. Yeah, and said, can we, what time are we doing this thing? Are we are we still recording tomorrow? I think we just had confidence like yeah, we know we're supposed to be Friday

Yeah, no, I I intentionally there were a couple things I obviously could have texted you about but I was like he's in Hawaii He's doing his thing because I I keep monitoring Mainstreet roasters like flights and I'm like should I fly there, you know, so we'll figure that out later today I just texted you something. Don't read it on the podcast, but Will Severn's response to Chingu is pretty funny. Okay.

So yeah, just got back yesterday afternoon. Isn't that pretty funny? Yeah. Yeah, just got back yesterday afternoon. I don't know about the jet lag thing. I want to pretend like I'm not tired, but I'm definitely feeling it a little bit right now. Right. Because it's like a five hour difference. So like right now in Hawaii, it's

5 30 in the morning. And that's where it messes with you. I think I think it's, it wasn't that bad coming home yesterday. Flying east is always worse than flying west. I feel like there's a Devo in there somewhere. There you go. I don't know. Where's the devil? Where is he? Yeah. Going going going north way easier than going south Gravity, you know, yeah. Yeah grabbed. Yeah so Yeah, I don't know. I feel I feel alright right now, but Catherine she did warn me a couple days ago She's like fyi, we have a pretty busy weekend, which is not what you want to hear when you're coming back

But also you can't there's there's 0% of me that can, she has all the leverage right now. Like I know it's not, I know it's not like a marriage thing. Like don't keep tabs, don't keep score. And we don't truly, but kinda. I mean, if one of you just spent nine days in Hawaii though, you're kind of aware of what the score is. Well to be fair though, Catherine did drive like nine hours

by herself to go to the Texas State Fair with the kids. Okay. With four kids. That's pretty even then. Yeah. Okay. With four kids. That's pretty even then. Yeah. More even than I thought. Anyway, it's, so yeah, back from the, I know this is probably already like,

people say this all the time, so I don't want to be like a stereotypical guy, but like, Kansas is better than Hawaii. I think. Everyone says it, but now you can live. I was like, finally. Gosh. I'm back in this place.

It's like low 40s in the morning. Oh, sweet. It'll wake you up quick here, you know. There is one benefit to getting cooler is that running is way better. I forgot if it's been seven months since I ran in this weather. Okay.

That is way nicer. What's the optimal, like, is that the right word? That's a good word. Yeah. Okay. I might be a little bit struggling today. I'm sorry. Uh, what's like the best temperature? Cause obviously when it gets down to the 30, that's probably too cold, right? I feel like if you're like Luis Chavez, you're probably some freak and like 39 is

the best. If you're like me, I'm like 50, 55. Yeah. It's still brisk. So right now you're feeling it. Yeah. Yeah. It's great. Rachel's back. What's she got now? She got got a bowl she's just coming to watch Hey you can talk to that Mike if you want we got a little mic for you Check on the mic right now. Can you hear me? Oh who needs timing when you got Rachel? Yeah You can move that light however, you know, you can move it closer to us so you can I do like the light being right There though. No camera fun. The cameras away the lights will play. That's what we always say time in has pneumonia Rachel will sit Also, I think some people are gonna theorize

that Timon doesn't have pneumonia, he's holding out till he gets put on camera. Which is a good theory. Well, I thought about joking today, guys, we sold 100 tickets for Napanee, and so therefore Timon's on camera! And he's actually not here today. He's not here at all.

We got him a camera and he's not here. Hey, Rachel. Hey. What are you looking at down there? Charger, looking for a charger spot. He's not here at all. We got him a camera and he's not here. Hey, Rachel. What are you looking at down there? Charger. Looking for a charger. Oh, you'll find it. Let me plug you in. Red stall stall stall in the stall stall. So anyway, Jake likes running in 55 degree weather. Also Jake, you said that you're not a freak like Luis Chavez. I think you're, you're, you're freak adjacent right now though. Like I think you're like, because you've run 300 days in a row or whatever it is.

Like you can't run that many days in a row and not be a little bit of a freak. Like, like it's one thing. It's one thing to be like, okay, yeah, I I'm kind of a runner. I run the majority of days in the, but like it takes a freak effort to do it every single day. Cause what, what's today? Today's October 18th. I don't know how to quickly Google this. October 18th.

How many days? What day of the year? Friday, October 18th. Thank you. What number day? 291. Okay. I think. It 291. Okay. I think.

It feels right. Yeah. So 291 days that you've run in a row. That's a, that's, that's freaking Jason. So here's why I label, here's why I throw the F word around with Luis Chavez. So maybe, do you see that Facebook post about Element? And then I commented about Luis or whatever.

So Luis, I've been texting a little bit. Let's look at some of my texts to Luis. These come in at 9.30 PM. His response comes at 4.40 AM. Yeah. Freak. After he'd done 48 miles. Yeah, yeah.

That was after he ran. After he, yeah, he raised his heart rate to a solid 62 beats per minute. Yeah, running 10, 15 miles. Um, and then I texted him Sunday night. So that was Saturday. Then Sunday night, I texted him at 10, 39 PM. I said, is this a normal amount to be sent to someone? This is like a six month supply.

He texted Monday at 4 50 AM. Well, he's a row. He's a machine at different times when he's in Oklahoma city, right? Oh, that's true. It's more South. Yeah, it's the Southern time zone. He said, typically when I nominate people, they get one 30 pack of sticks. He probably gave them your socials and they're like, well, we gotta get on this guy. He was like, element must be a big fan of you

or the podcast or something. That's sick. Yeah, so you got a ton. There's so much. I was gone and Rachel was just like, what did you order? All right, not really like that, but just like, did you? He's like, oh, oh, is there a partnership new partnership or something? Yeah, it came in like a good ranchers box Yeah, it's huge and it was just from Luis being like you like element. Okay I have some sort of thing where I can send you some just like a little sample pack or something. Yeah, it's awesome

Wow, yeah like one sure. All right. Oh right now. Yeah, sure I'm good for now. TJ. This is such a classic Rachel move, by the way. Yeah. So yeah, she's avoiding avoiding something. She will. She is the most servant hearted. Yeah. Let me get you something. Let me make you something. Let me you know what the rug needs vacuumed.

Let me vacuum it up for you. What's your go-to procrastination technique? Stay up late. Just keep staying up, not working on it. Yeah. I think that's what I do. That's fair. I procrastinate sometimes like after,

maybe not after the fact. Yeah, just going to bed. I'm just like, I don't want to get up and go to bed right now. I just want to, I'll just sit here on my phone for a few hours. Yeah, let's go on YouTube and see. All right. Sunday night especially,

I'll often watch Sunday Night Football downstairs vibe, and I'll either fall asleep or like wake up, no, or you know, whatever. It's over and I'm like, I'm just gonna look at my, look at Facebook, look at Twitter for a while and read up on some of this stuff. Oh yeah, it's Sunday. Well, I'll look at fantasy stuff again.

Maybe I should check that out. Prime time, you know, NFL prime time's on. Check that out. You guys should check that out. Primetime, you know, NFL primetime's on. Check that out. You guys should check that out. So anyway, everyone procrastinates. And so it's great to have a wife who when she procrastinates, she becomes a better person. She just wants to help.

Catherine just wants to talk to me. And I'm just like, I know what you're doing, go. And then she'll like, is it gaslighting? I don't know if that's the right word, but she'll like make me feel like, what? No, I'm just trying to talk to you. Like, no, you're not. You're trying to like avoid doing the work

that you need to be doing right now. So anyway. Anyway, so yeah, element. Elements, shout out. TJ had element at his house for Dad's on My Way. He had a, I think he had a, I don't know if it's from Costco or something, but it was watermelon and I think lime.

I had the watermelon the whole time. It was great. Great, yeah. So they sent me not just the stick, the powder, they sent me like cans. They make like sparkling salt water, basically. Sparkling? Yeah. Oh yeah, do you want a sparkling, Rachel?

Oh no, unless you've already done that. No, thank you. I would like the powder's fine. But I do sometimes take LaCroix and combine it with my Relyte, which is the same as element, but maybe better, maybe La Croix and combine it with my relight which is same as oh nice Element, but maybe better maybe worse depending on who wants to sponsor us Verdict is still out on that. Oh, man Thank you. Oh you about to mix it now. Yeah, I hope you like it. It's I will say it

I like told Rachel I was like these are really good if you're like Sweaty and really hot. I think just to happen like your house was like, these are really good if you're like sweaty and really hot. I think just to have in like your house is like, oh yeah, I can, I can get down on it. Well, but it says on the packet, it'll say like, like TJ only has half a packet every time. Cause it'll say on there like, have like half for salty, total like full for saltiest

or no, whatever, vice versa. Maybe it's on the packet. Maybe it's on- 16 to 32 ounces of water to find your taste. Go ahead and use the mic, use the mic, use the mic. Use the podcast mic. All right, mix one stick pack with anywhere from 16 to 32 ounces of water to find your taste.

You'll get the hang of it pretty quickly. Stay salty. Oh, really? It had a little graph on TJ's, I thought. Maybe it was on the box. Maybe it's on the box. I did get the hang of it pretty quickly. Stay salty. Oh, really? It had a little like graph on TJ's I thought. Maybe it was on the box. Maybe it's on the box. I did get the hang of it quickly. So I had a like large, oh yeah.

Raspberry or citrus? Raspberry. Citrus for some reason, I'm not a big like, I don't like LaCroix lime very much. Oh, I'm the opposite. I would always choose citrus in that situation. Yeah, thank you for choosing raspberry. Like lemon, redmond, relight, which is pretty good

But maybe not as good as element lemon lime is not my favorite So well, you just got the whole pack. Hope that's okay. That's great. That's plate for that size water. That's plenty Yeah, because I in Vegas I had that size water bottle and it's hot It's sweaty and I was like this is like so much more than a water bottle. I should probably put two in here Oh pretty quickly. I was like, hey guys choose plenty much more than a water bottle. I should probably put two in here. Oh, pretty quickly. I was like, hey guys, two's plenty for a water bottle this size. Two's good. Two's good.

Yeah. I didn't tell time and that was like, hey, just if you ever get in this exact scenario, two's plenty, plenty of salt. I Googled, can you OD on sodium and electrolytes? And? No. Yeah. The answer is no.

I mean, it's hard. I think it's more. Sodium, Probably. But I think it's hard. It's way better to have too much salt in your system to have than to have too much sugar. Like, I think you just you just urinated out. Yeah. Yeah. Like a diuretic. Also, thank you, doctor. Thanks, Rach. You're welcome. Fun. Raspberry, you said? Yep.

Here we are. Here we are. That's part. Oh, that's got a little, uh... Salt. Little punch to it. No, a little sour. Oh, really? Whoa, you're going that whole thing for that glass? Yep. You dog.

That's great. Oh, it said I would find my... Find my taste, so I did. You'll get the hang of it pretty quick. He stays salty. I think, uh... Yeah, I've heard, like, if you are tired and you think you need more caffeine a lot of times You just need more salt

Really? That's what i've heard I've found uh That if you're tired hydrated in general you just eat like endorphins go run around the house. Also true you wake up also true Um, I read that if you're tired, if you get sleep, that helps. Also true. Yeah. So also true. Also true. Also true. Rachel, what are you up to today? It's fun that you're just on the podcast now. That is fun. I'm never good. I don't get to do this anymore. Yeah, you're working woman. I have been, I've been having a great morning. Went to a Bible study with friends and nothing else planned. All right What are you doing? You're doing a Bible study with church with just friends friends who go to church

Christina and Lindy. Your church though? Like is it through the church? No, it's not through church though. Okay Just some people wanting to learn more about the word. Exactly. Okay. It's great fun. Where do you guys meet? Usually we meet at Black Dog. Okay, but since I didn't have school, we could go some other places. I don't know why that was really why we could go other places. But we went to Parisi today, which is a nice coffee shop. And we went through first Thessalonians. The whole thing. Not the whole thing.

They were quick. Yeah, right. Last half, last half. It is quick. Wow. I think just five chapters. Okay, cool. It's great. Wow. I think just five chapters. Okay, cool. It's great.

Who's leading it? Or is it like, you have a book or like- We've got a book to fill out for it. I wouldn't say any of us lead it. We kind of just go through each question together. Sweet. Fun. And Lindy is the one that just got engaged?

Yes, Lindy just got engaged. And just ran a marathon. Yeah. What's better? What's like more, what are you more proud of? Like what do you show first, your ring or your metal? Your, or your lack of toenails. Toenails?

Is that a thing? Yeah. Oh, fun. It didn't happen to her, it didn't happen to her. That's, I was talking about a friend. A different friend. Yeah. I saw that online somewhere.

She was over last night, say a lot of ladies were over last night for Maj night. Yeah. Majang. A girlfriend. I saw that online somewhere. She was over last night, a lot of the ladies were over last night for Maj night. Majang. Majang. Oh yeah. It's all the trend these days. It is, it is.

And so I'm letting them play, but I was like, real quick, Lindy, congrats on running Marathon. That's so awesome. And she was like, thank you. I'll never do it again. It was like, so I didn't even ask, you think you'll do it again?

She was like, thank you. We don't even need to talk about it because I'm never gonna do it again. She said she got to mile 21 feeling fine. I was like, that is a feat in and of itself. And then she said from 21 to 26, it was just the worst. That's crazy to have to run six miles feeling miserable. An hour of running. Yeah, yeah, that's really miserable. What's your your ideal temperature to run in we were just talking about this

65 yeah, it's so warm. Yeah, so wait minus warm Minus warm mine Jake said 55 That cold hurts my throat when I breathe that's what I was thinking like there's got to be a low enough temperature work But 55 really I don't. Yeah, I think so. And because I won't ever get hot enough to take a sweatshirt off with 55, but if it's 65, I will be able to take a sweatshirt off. See, I like right at a t-shirt.

Yeah. I like, I like warm. Give me 75, 80. I love it. I just noticed there is a direct correlation between like the temperature and the speed of which I finish a mile. It's subconscious. I don't even think about it. I'm just like running listening to a podcast when it's 50 degrees. I get done and look like, oh, that was two minutes faster than it was in the middle of the summer.

I'm not even thinking about it. Like more motivated to run fast and get done? I think it truly is more enjoyable. I think it's a biological response to like my heart's not having to work as hard, you know, I'm not sweating as much. But I think it is a more enjoyable. I think it's a biological response to like, my heart's not having to work as hard, you know, I'm not sweating as much. But I think it is a little bit of motivation. Like I'm a little chilly, let's pick up pace. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We went to CrossFit, dad's on Maui. Oh, TJ still. TJ's all about CrossFit, he's all about it. And yeah, so we went and have you ever done it? No, I've been in a CrossFit gym and have you ever done it? No. I've been in a CrossFit gym and I did Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Oh, okay. Wow. Same thing, pretty much.

I don't know, it seems like every day is different in CrossFit, so who knows what they're doing Jiu Jitsu some days. You have done it, I know you're eating now, sorry. What'd you think of it? How'd you, you probably loved it. Didn't like it. Oh really?

Why? Way too intense. Too intense? Mm-hmm. But I also did it when I was doing volleyball. So it was meant to be, but hurt my knees so bad because they just push so much weight that your form isn't ever really focused on at least where I was. So from what I understood, from what we did this time, it was like, I don't know if this is how all CrossFit is, but like, there's like the weight training part of it, like the lifts that you normally do, bench press, squats, hand clean, whatever. And then there's like the more like plyometric. Like I know your friends online part of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like the things are like, I'm better than you kind of things. Like, yeah, like take the bar and like, what do they call them? Toes to toes to bar. Guess if I tried that.

No. Well, they're like, you like, you can do toes to bar or if you don't think you can do that, you can just lay on the ground. You can handstand push-ups. And yeah, like touch, like V-ups is what they call them. I was like, yeah, I'll do that. V-ups, now I've done those.

There's just sit-ups that lower abs. Lower abs, so three days later, I'm still feeling it quite a bit. Yeah. How many reps did you have to do? Yeah, that was the hard thing. 2169 or something? No, it was 10 of 10 for everything.

Ooh. So first of all, it was just bench press, which daddy did just fine on the bench. No problem. Did they say what percent max you should do? No, they kind of just were like work up. It was five reps of three, they kind of just were like work up. It was, it was, it was three, five, five reps of three, five sets of three.

Okay. Yeah. So you had to do probably a high weight if it's only three reps. But the guys I was with didn't really, I, I, it's, it's kind of like this. The guys I was with? Well, it's, it's tough cause it's like, cause it's like, hey, yeah, find a partner, you know,

and it's like all, like all 10 of us came and did this thing together, which was fun. Um, TJ kind of pressure is all into it. I was literally sleeping at seven 30 and he came and woke me up. He's like, Hey, everyone else is doing it. Do you want to go? And I was like, yeah, of course. Of course. Like I'm trying to be, I'm here to help. I'm trying to be the best helper I can. I'm trying to set the vibes. Of course I'll be there. And literally I got up and like walked out the door in 45 seconds. Like, let's do this thing. Um, so anyway, this, this, they were like, Hey, you know, find a bench press buddy. And so this guy, I, I didn't know, I didn't know. You don't want to be like, well, I can do this.

So do you want to do this? You know, cause then what if you can't or whatever. And so the bench press wasn't that hard for me, but then the 10 of 10, and of course TJ was like, this is a really hard one today. I'm like, are you just saying that? And he's like, no, it was terrible. But it was like 10 toes to bar, which I didn't do. I did the V-ups and then it was 10 burpees. Terrible.

It seems like for what I know about you and Gravity, no, you'd love burpees. I don't like burpees. No part of me loved the burps. Do they do the push up burpees? They told us like you could do those if you want to. So of course I did those at the end. I was like, this is ridiculous.

Yeah, I'm doing 10 of these things. And then it was a hundred meter run. And so, oh, what a relief. Honestly, it was like, I could do this. Like, yeah, this is fun. I don't have to bend down. Yes, dude. But unfortunately, on the bench press, I like kind of hurt whatever like my upper back is like, like sometimes when I just lay down

flat, I know that sounds ridiculous, but I hurt like my, like I'll pull something in my back. So the rest of the time, even when I was like jogging, it was like, this hurts. I'm uncomfortable right now. Any back injury. Everything uses your back. It's so annoying. It was just like involuntarily the whole time. I'd just be like, ah, here we go. Everything I did, ah, but it was fun. I could see why people get into it. Cause it was, I mean, the coach was so encouraging. He kept calling me big man,

which I like when he's like encouraging big man. Yeah, we've talked about this. If it's big boy, come on big boy. It feels like insulting a little bit. come on big boy. It feels like Insulting a little bit probably big tub. No, no, stop stop stop Come on big man. Yeah, like and and and he said to TJ like he's like dang man You brought some he said some words I shouldn't say but some strong guys here today You brought some big boys today big big strong guys today and I was like, yeah, you did. That's right So I'm the helper. That's right.

So I'm the helper. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. I'm the, I'm the guy that cleans up the dishes. So anyway, it was fun, but I was drenched by the end of it because I was hot out there. And I kind of liked it though. It's good. I think it's for your muscles. It feels better even though I mess up my back. And then you cold plunge, then you element. I wish dude. That would be nice. That'd be great. Rachel kind of does, I mean, it's not CrossFit, but I mean like three or four times a week, Rachel wakes up at like 5 a.m.

and goes crazy before school doing, well, it's a bunch of rucksack work, right? Yeah, we're rocking. We're rocking, I'm kidding. What is it though? I don't even know what that means. It sounds good. Is it rucksack? Is that a big CrossFit thing? It's like that bag you wear while though? I don't even know what that means. It sounds good.

Is it rucksack? Is that a big CrossFit thing? It's like that bag you wear while you're- Oh, is that what that is? Oh, God. I expected the CrossFitters in the room to know. Yeah, that's a big CrossFitters here. Rucksack bag.

Oh, it's just like a bag. Oh, I see. I like Rachel's. Yeah, we rocked. We were rocking. Cause I'm a ruckus. Could be a weighted backpack. I see. Oh, weighted backpack. Gosh, we did that actually in volleyball workouts. What We were rockin'. Cause and a ruckus. Could be a weighted backpack, I see.

Oh, weighted backpack, gosh, we did that actually in volleyball workouts. What's the difference between a backpack and a, so I think rucksack in general is like a term for like a Boy Scout that would, or like a bag that a Boy Scout would use on like a hiking trip. It's not a knapsack.

That's a Boy Scout who doesn't work out. He just like walks around. Yes, he has a stick with a bandana tied on it. Huck Finn. Hucks like he's stick with a bandana tied on it. Yeah Yeah, that's a nap. Yeah, that's a nap. Backpacks and rucks. Gosh rucksacks. Backpacks are designed for smaller loads such as laptop lunch lunch pack lunch pox or reading or reading you gotta get your kids vaccinated for lunch pox reading materials Rucksacks usually have more storage space and compartmentalize, making them better for carrying heavier loads such as temps, sleeping tags, and bulkier tamping items.

Well, that's nice. Yeah. So anyway, that's what happens at my gym. It's Rachel. A bunch of former boy scouts. Is it like a circuit thing though? Like you do? Yeah.

Take a circuit. Yeah. Some days are like this, some days are upper body. It's fun. It's good workout. And you get to do your own weight, which I liked, because Involvable is always maxing out. And now it's just whatever I want. Whatever.

It's lovely. You're feeling good. That's fun. All right. We have so much to talk about. I feel like we haven't even gotten into anything yet. We're rucking or, you know, lab dubbing. We're rucking, we're sacking.

I'm gonna, let's talk about Good Ranchers. And then I wanna get to it as soon as possible. I gotta tell you about the craziest 15 minutes of my life. Okay. Maybe. Okay. Maybe. Fun.

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No, no, no. Tell me, tell me about 15 minutes. If I would have thought of this ahead of time, I would have brought a Bible in here and sworn on it because I want you to know everything I'm about to tell you is 100% true. You don't ever have to do that for me. I always just believe you.

I just, I feel like what you're about to hear is gonna sound like I'm maybe exaggerating something or maybe like, well, no one else was there. So how do we really know? Hand over my heart. Is that close enough to the Bible? Everything I'm about to say is true. I don't know. I don't know if your heart's the same as the Bible. Your heart's a sit, you know, head. No. Where do you want me to put it? You vowed on your wedding ring. Yeah. Hand over my hand over my hand over my ring.

Cross my ring and hope to die. Hand on my rucksack. All right, go ahead. All right. you mean to go with the props that you used the other day? You know, so I've told the story a couple of different ways. You put down the laptop for this. Well, I'm excited because I don't even need any notes. I actually don't think I need the props because I've told this story a couple of different times already. And when I use the props, I don't think it hit as hard. So I'm going to go no props.

How much do you want me to interact? How much do you want me to just listen? You can interject at any point, full permission. Hand on my rucksack, you can interject whenever you want. All right, so I teased it last week that I was going to be getting kind of that experimental acupuncture to rid myself of the alpha-gal tick bite red meat allergy.

So I look up like, it's like called-A-A-T acupuncture. And it's not that popular. There's only two places in the entire Kansas City metro that offer this. The one that was by far the closest is in Grandview, Missouri. By far the closest. Yeah, I think the other one was like St. Joe or something.

Oh, wow. Yeah, because Grandview is 40 minutes. Not close. Yeah. So if you're in the area, you know Grandview is not where you want any kind of procedure done. Never have I ever gotten a procedure done there. I'll just say that.

Nothing. Yeah. But if you were to say, I got a needle in me in Grandview, you would say, that makes sense. Sure. Yeah, right. That's why you go down there. Anyway, it's a strip mall. It looks exactly how you're expecting that makes sense. That's why you go down there. Anyway, it's a strip mall.

It looks exactly how you're expecting it to look. It's a rundown building at Grandview. No problem though, the inside's fine. Let's get to the main point here. So I go in and this guy sits me down and within 30 seconds he was like, all right, so you got alpha-gal, great. Lime's disease.

I said no, thankfully I never had any Lyme symptoms. He's like, all right, we'll check for it. I was like, oh, okay, cool. I guess I'm going to get like checked for these. I've never had like an allergy test. We got insurance recently. So Rachel was like, hey, you should go to like a allergist or whatever.

And we hadn't done it yet. Just go to Grandview instead. You just go to Grandview Acupuncture. They don't take insurance. It's awesome. So I have seen allergy tests done before where they will like put stuff on your skin and then see how it reacts.

I think also probably the most scientific, the best way to do it would be like, just like blood work, right? Just like, let's get into your body and test it. He begins a new method that I've never seen before. And I don't even know this is happening. He's just like, go ahead and sit right here. And he doesn't tell me what he's about to be doing.

He just like, all right, go ahead and sit right here. Now I want you to hold this thing. So I grab, it's 100% just like plastic. It's just a plastic rod. And he goes, don't hold it here, don't hold it here, right here. I was like, okay, great. Out of the rod is like a wire, looks like a charging cord.

Oh, I think I, have you seen something like this? I might have done this. Okay, out of that goes to another, Oh, different. Okay. Goes to another plastic box. Okay.

I can't emphasize enough how this did not feel technologically sound. They're like, there was no technology happening. It was just plastic on plastic. Was it plugged in? No. Okay. It was just like a standalone device. Okay. It was like anything in this room. It just plastic on plastic. Was it plugged in? No. It was just like a standalone device. Okay.

It was like anything in this room. It just connected to nothing. So I'm holding that and he's like, all right, now put your right arm out like this. I go, okay. And he's like, I'm gonna try to push it down. He tries to push it down. He's like, oh, you're very strong, very strong.

I was like, oh, thanks. Yeah, I've been rocking. Play a lot of pickleball. And so he's like, okay, yeah. Yeah, well. I've been rocking. Played a lot of pickleball. And so he's like, okay, okay, now we're gonna come over here. And then he takes a little vial. I mean, it's this small, it's got clear liquid in it. You could see it moving around and it says alpha gal on it. And he drops that into like the plastic little case

over here. And then he comes back to my right arm and he pushes my arm down. He's like, yep, you got alpha gal. And I go, what? Sorry, what? You're testing me for the allergy right now. And he's like, you know, and he's explaining it like, yes,

you know, you push your arm down, normal, good. You're still strong. If I'm able to push you down, you're weak. And I was like, but how does, all right, let's do this again from the top, from the top. So I made him do weak. And I was like, but how does, all right, let's do this again from the top, from the top, so I made him do it again. I was like, all right, seriously, seriously.

All right, now I'm ready. Cause now it feels like a magic trick is what it felt like. I was like, this is like, you know. I've heard of this before or something similar to this. I had not. I just couldn't believe I was in there by myself. I was like, Rachel needs to be here.

Someone, I need time and film this. And so he's like, all right, from the top, take the vial out. I love that you've made him do it twice. I think that's awesome. Cause like, yeah, once it's like, how'd you, you were best with me. You were, I wasn't ready for that one. Yeah. Yeah. Now I know how it works. I'm like, all right. Okay. And so then, all right, no vial, just, just raw. And so then I'm like, all right,

let's see. And this time I swear he's doing like a, I feel like you're not pushing that hard. And he's like, everyone say this, everyone. And I was like, all right. And so he puts the vial back in, pushes it down. He's like, see, it works. And you couldn't, was it hard to push down? I mean, it just felt like he was pushing way harder down

when he wanted the answers he was getting. And so I kid you not, this is insane. So I'm like, that's crazy. So I, because of that, I have Alpha Gal. He's like, yeah, says it right here. Oh, this says COVID. So I was like, I have COVID. He's like, no, no, no, no. No, that was a, hold on. No, I think it was Alpha Gal. It was Alpha Gal. So he put the wrong vial in there when he thought he was testing me for the tick bite thing. I saw it, it said COVID on it. Oh no.

No, I mean, but, well, yeah. Double negative thing. I'm sure, I don't know. So wait, did he do more? Oh yeah, so then I was like, let's see what you got here. Because sometimes you might, like I bet we all have coronavirus in our system a little bit.

Hey, that's a good point. I didn't even think about that. Yeah. Anyway, it was just hilarious. Look, Rachel's laughing like, I agree. You're like, oh, I don't know about that. I didn't think about that.

Yeah, good point. And so he is getting these vials, by the way, he's got dozens and maybe hundreds of them. He's getting them out of VHS cases that are kind of labeled by category, like food and beverage, outdoor, like animal and pet and whatever. Like they're VHS cases.

Every once in a while it's just like, Jake second grade soccer. It's like, whoa, sorry, that's that's a home video. My bad. It's like the wrong one. And so he would get him out and he'd stare at him. And so you say he's like a magician. He should have shown everybody.

This one says Lyme's disease. Everyone agrees. It says Lyme's disease. I'm going to show the camera. I'm not going to show you. I'm not going to look out. It says Covid. Covid. How do I do that? That's funny. Okay. So yeah. So at this point, I've never felt this way in my life where I legit, I was 80% sure that I was on some sort of hidden camera, impractical joker saying, I just, I was so confident. I was

like, this is insane. This is hilarious. Like this guy's got makeup on. Yeah. He's just pushing my arms. Like Brad, like doing this. Yeah. It's just a little thing of what's got makeup on. Yeah. He's just pushing my arm down. Is this Brad doing this? Yeah. It's just a little thing of, it looks like water. How does the water know? I just can't believe this. And so I legitimately started looking around, seeing what could have been a camera.

Yeah. I'm like, there's some things, I mean, it could be under that hat or like in a picture frame, maybe. That hand sanitizer looks like it has a weird like button on top of it. They're not really black at the top. I've never been in that situation in my life where I was looking for hidden cameras,

but I was so sure, I was like, this is a thing. This is great. That's so cool, I'm gonna be a part of something like this. So then you start hamming it up. Like, well, this is my moment. So then we just start running the gamut of other things to test. He's like, you have any other allergies?

And I was like, I mean, just seasonal stuff, but to test. He's like, you have any other allergies? And I was like, I mean, just like seasonal stuff, but nothing crazy. He's like, we could test for that. We could test for that. So then he, he puts something out, I don't even know what he put in the plastic thing and he puts it down and he's like, yeah, you're allergic. And I was like, what was that?

It just said tree on it. Trees. I was like, well, I don't think I'm allergic to trees. He's like, well, a lot of these allergies, like pollen and ragweed, dog fart weed, they come from trees. I was like, whatever. All right.

I guess I can't go anywhere that has trees anymore. Because the thing is I wasn't going, I wasn't coming here to be tested. I already know I have it. So it's like, oh yeah, you were the day. I guess I don't care if this is legit or not. Just cure me. Yeah. So I started to lose a little bit of like fire.

I was like, I guess just do whatever you want to do, man. I don't know. How long was this? It was probably like 10 minutes of testing. Oh, that's not bad. So, but we start doing other stuff. So then I asked him, I was like, do you have other alpha-gal patients

that they're like red meat allergy has bled into dairy? So I said, I feel like mine's getting progressively worse where like I used to be able to have like Andes, now I can't have Andes. And he didn't say like he had ever heard of that. He's like, we can test for it. I was like, I bet we can. All right, let's do it.

And so then he puts lactose in the lactose water in there and it pushes my arm down, no pushy pushy. He's like, wow, wow, wow. And then he gets another one that says milk. This is separate from lactose. He puts milk in there, arm goes down. He puts a third one in there called casein or something like that.

I've heard of that. I don't know what it is, but. I don't know what it is either. Spoiler, he doesn't really. So casein, arm, I think arm stayed straight as well. I'm gonna look up casein real quick. And so I asked him, I said, what are the, how do all these three work?

How can I be allergic to milk, but not lactose? Bit of a language barrier at that point. I don't know what. Where is this guy from you think? China. Okay. We talked. He's got, I, so yeah.

How do you spell case? I think it's with a C. That's all I know. E-I-N. E-I-N, okay. Oh yeah, dairy product, okay. Protein found in milk that gives milk its white color. Okay. Oh, it's like flamingos.

They turn pink when they eat the shrimp. The lactose is the sugar. No, no, sorry. The protein. Just a second, it says it's like flamingos. Yeah, the casein gives it, yeah. I got so pasty because I had so much casein as a kid. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

I loved milk. You said lactose is the sugar? Lactose is the so much casein as a kid. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I loved milk. You said lactose is the sugar? Lactose is the sugar, casein is the protein. Yeah, milk consists of around 80% casein protein. So it's interesting that I'm not allergic to either of the ingredients, but I'm allergic to milk as a whole. I guess so.

So whatever, then we start. Yogurt, cheese, infant formulas. So there you go. That's mainly what I eat. You're doing formula instead of milk itself or a variety of dietary supplements. I'm big into those too. Do not confuse casein protein with casein peptides. So I'll try my best. Okay. All right. We get on with the testing and it's time to like put the acupuncture to do it.

And so then he takes another just like plastic device. I'm like, what is this doing? And it kind of looked like a box cutter, but with like a level on it. I mean, it just, there was nothing really to this. It's so then he starts digging around my inner ear. What? And it's kind of like making noise. What's the box cutter?

It wasn't, I mean, there wasn't a knife to it, but that was kind of the shape, like an angled kind of like making noise with the box cutter It wasn't Emily there wasn't a knife to it But that was kind of the shape like an angled kind of like in your plastic yet in my ear He's just digging around and I swear I can't tell I don't think he was making the noises but it was like making noises like if just like a human was like You know, it's what it sounded like yeah like a human try to be like, I'm tinkering with this. I'm figuring it out. And so maybe the machine, the little device was doing it, but he was just digging around. He's like, all right, we found the alpha gal spot. And then he makes a little mark with a pin in my ear.

And then he's like, all right, now let's go in for for milk as well. And so then he digs around. He finds the milk spot, which is hilarious. Yeah. Everyone's ear. Everyone has a milk spot. What if I was alerted to 20 different things?

There wouldn't be enough real estate in my ear to be injectable. Well, you got two ears. Good point. Yeah, and some nostrils. It's any orifice. There's cartilage in a lot of places. So then he's like, all right, we're gonna put these,

I mean, they're super tiny things of metal. It looks like a shrunk down earring or like a shrunk down fish hook almost where it's got like a little, anyway, super, super tiny. Wow. They're in like a little plastic baggie. And he's like, all right, I'm going to put these in your ear. You're not allergic to metal, are you?

I was like, I don't think so. Yeah, let's check. He said, well, let's test. So then I'm holding the metal earrings basically. And he pushes down my arm, let's check. He said, well, let's test. Yeah. So then I'm holding the metal earrings basically And he pushes down my arm does it guys like, all right, you're good I was like so I could have held a tick in my hand I could have held I could use could have poured metals different because it has it doesn't have the case in in Like I was like I could have just you could have poured milk on my hand and we could have tested it that way

How does this make sense? Because I even asked him I I was like, so what's in these vials? He's like, well, it's signals. And I was like, well, it doesn't feel like there's anything like electromagnetic happening. Like how does my body know what's in here? And he's like, it's in the signals. Good for you for asking all these questions. It was insane, dude.

So anyway, not allergic to metal, put some in my ear, easy peasy, no pain, just chilling in there. It's well, currently them in my ear, easy peasy, no pain, just chilling in there. It's well, currently, the next three weeks, I've got an alpha-gal metal and I got a milk rod in there. Whoa, you have them in there. They're in there.

Can you tell? No. Really? One of the first things he told me was, do not get it wet, immediately went home and showered with it, totally forgot, so you really, because that's what I said, like mallet finger,

I knew I had an injury. Right. Think about it constantly. It's very obvious. But this is like a pain-free thing in my body. Did you really, that's what I'm saying. Like mallet finger, I knew I had an injury. Think about it constantly. It's very obvious. But this is like a pain-free thing in my body. Did you like intentionally get it wet? Like I wash off my ears every time I shower. Did you like shove some water down? No, it was about halfway through the shower

and I was like, ah, geez. So now when you shower, you just put one hand over your ear. He gave me an ear cap. That's still in my car. I haven't put it on. I don't know what it looks like. Like one little head, like one of these things, like headphones. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. You give me a pack of ear caps. So I haven't, I haven't used those yet. Oh, I love everything about it. Cause like now being married to Catherine, I've been exposed to some of this stuff before

homeopathic type. You have never. And so you're the fact that you went and that you didn't walk out three minutes into it is amazing, because you're like, what are you doing with this probe, this thing? I was unlike anything I've ever experienced. Or just like my expectations versus what was happening. You were just expecting to walk in there, they stick some needles in you for 30 minutes,

and then you walk out. Exactly, just like, hey, I have this, I'm willing to pay full price for it. Do it. Rather than like, we're going to run you through some tests and they're going to be pretty weird, pretty Eastern medicine. My hardest thing with, we'll call it whatever, just non-traditional medicine,

whatever you want to call that, like Eastern medicine, homeopathic, maybe that is traditional medicine. I don't know. But like, is you tell them what's wrong with you and then they check and they're like, yep, that's wrong. That was a little bit of it.

And that's where I get a little bit of like, well, would you have figured this out without me telling you? And maybe that's what doctors do too, to an extent. Like I don't know, like maybe they, cause then if I go to a doctor and say, figure out what's wrong with me and my foot's broken and they test me for everything else, they, you know, they're testing my, they're doing an MRI of my head or something. Like, I think an MRI can really diagnose what's wrong. It doesn't need human input to be like, and look for a meniscus injury.

Like we'll find it. But I'm just saying like, maybe it's just like expediting the process. I guess maybe it's my, because yeah, I remember telling Catherine, I was like, well yeah, I told him that I like was tired a lot. And then they'd be like, well, that explains why you're tired. It's like, well, you wouldn't have known that. I gave you that info. Yeah, it's like a psychic, like a mentalist,

where they kind of use information to fool you. Yes, yes, I see. You're very stressed at work. You said that you have a new job. You're very stressed at work. Whatever. Like, uh. Yeah, you could easily deduce that.

Yeah, Isaac told me a story about, did you ever hear about him going to the chiropractor and doing, because chiropractor runs the gamut of like, sometimes it's just people that pop your back, sometimes it's like super holistic medicine. Drink this soup, say this chant. And like, I think they did the arm thing with him. Really?

For like different years of his life or something like this. Whoa. And there was one time where it went down and it was the year of his life that his dad got like let go of his job It was like all this stressful time like really like extreme things See, it feels like a magic trick though. It's crazy. But like yeah, I know and that's where you just have to like be like

Do I want to believe this or not? And at the end of the day, it's like you don't have to but I as well try see what happens with my ear And that's what I thought I was like, this is pretty low risk. Like it was $250 to maybe be able to eat burgers again for the rest of my life. And not have to worry about, yeah. It was amazing. All the inconveniences that come with that. So if it works, great.

Yeah. So I asked him just to wrap up the story. I was like, all right. So I just leave it. He said, leave these in for three weeks, come back in three weeks and we'll take them out. I was like, great. And I I just leave it. He said, leave these in for three weeks, come back in three weeks and we'll take them out. I was like, great. And I said, should I like be weaning myself on

to like meet in that time? Like, should I go get some tacos right now? He laughed so hard at this that he falls over. That's the part where I'm like, no one's gonna believe me. Fell over? Falls over, falls over one chair and then uses another chair to grab himself. Like one leg was off the ground. And I wasn't trying to be funny. I was just

like, I don't know how this works. Like, should I go ahead up a taco truck? Oh, how offended were you? How, how bothered were you by this? That, I mean, that was kind of entertaining. Okay, man. Like, sorry. I'm trying to figure this. Oh my gosh. I was like, at least he's, he's a friendly guy. He died. He's like, this guy is a comedian. I get it. Yeah. Like he said, no, he said, he's a friendly guy. He died. He's like, this guy is a comedian. I get it. Like he said, no.

He said, wait until the three weeks is up. Yep. He said three weeks and yeah, we'll take him out. Then you're good to go. Cool. Please schedule it for a time that I can come with. I need to see him. I've already, yeah, that'd be fun. Had you get in there and do the arm thing.

Oh, I would love to see it. So everyone should go. Dr. Anne, A-N, Grandview, Missouri. A-N. A-N. Dr. Anne. A.N. Grandview, Missouri. A.N. A.N. Dr. Anne. Dr. Anne. Did you tell Catherine the story? Yeah.

It sounds like you maybe talked to her a little bit. No, I asked him about it because I know what Catherine's thing is. Oh yeah. But that is like a metal rod. Yes. And there's something with the lecture of. Yeah. Yeah. So I've done this weird thing.

And it's like, one of those things where like, you say it out loud and it's like, that crazy and it might be you know, I don't know But at the same time, it's very interesting like yeah, it's like electro. I think it's well EDS electro I don't know what it is electro dermal something but you hold a metal probe and then she like uses another probe like touch your fingertips and like tell where Problem areas are your body. You're like, what's going on? There's electricity happening there. Yeah.

She's like looking at a computer, but maybe that's all smoke and mirrors too. Like then again, it'd be a bummer if they were just ripping people off left and right with this. I think she did. And I didn't fact check her on this, but she's like, this is covered. This is like the main, uh, way of, you know, doing medicine in some other country. Like it wasn't Germany, but it was somewhere over there. Like Belarus, this is all they do Croatia.

This is like their first line of offense and then they go up to whatever it was. So I was like, well, if somebody believes in this thing, I guess I can do it. But I mean, it doesn't your acupuncture stuff works. I am going to be a raving man with her. Right. You're Casey. Hey, they could fix your lactose intolerance go get this right now anyone who has anything oh yeah I think this is how you this is how you can start it in the whole the whole red pill whatever you want to call it you know thing it's like you know what I think this is a little different than I've been hearing about my whole life yeah I don't care for the

allergy testing but if you know you have something get it put in your ear get a little in there. It is so interesting though, like they just put this thing in there, they just shove your arm down. It would have been interesting, like maybe have Rachel come next time and push it down. She's like, I swear I'm pushing with the same. That's what I need. Yeah, I need someone I can trust, need some control there. So I tried to, I tried to like Google this like device that was used on me so I could like show people. Very hard to find. I did find when I Googled like allergy test with arm strength and then click on images is I saw an image of a woman petting a dog in one hand and her arm outstretched on the right.

So I think it was like, well, let's see if you're allergic to dogs. And that was such a funny picture. I couldn't find anything else. But I found that I was like, that's so funny. That's what he did to me. He allergic to metal? All right, hold it. Yeah, here you go.

Some things are like right there. Other things you have to have the vial for it. You need the vial with the signal. So they just give you like a bottle of Corona. And it's like, well, let's see if you have Corona. Like that's wild, dude. I got in my car and first thing I did was I looked up the reviews to this place

because I did not do that ahead of time. And I will say this clinic has 99 reviews and an average of five stars. Wow. Yeah. So people, I will say probably most of the people go and know what they're getting themselves into. They kind of seek this stuff out. Whereas you're like, what in the world?

They didn't give me a chewable tablet and a prescription for Walgreens. Like. Yeah, so I mean they, and then I also looked up his like qualifications. I was like, let's figure out what this guy is licensed in. He got some sort of degree in China back in the day. It said bachelor of surgery. Maybe that's there's a language barrier.

Maybe that's all you need in China. I don't know what bachelor means. Yeah, who knows, man. But hey, surgery. It is so interesting, like, just health of different countries and like, like there's something crazy about Japan. I don't know the stat very well, like to regurgitate it. But like, Japan has just as many McDonald's as we do.

Or like, yeah, like they eat similarly to what we do. But they are like, like no one's obese in Japan. And it's like, how, what's going on? What's different? Like, I don't know, just like one of those things where like, I think in America, we're like, this is how we should do it. You know, and it's really like, maybe other people know what you're talking about. Japan, they have Hello Kitty and baseball and I don't know.

That's enough. That's good. Shogayopani. Yeah. Anyway, so it was a wild time, but I'm really excited to see what's going to happen. I hope it works just for multiple reasons. The obviously it would be awesome.

Just like you don't have to worry about these things anymore. Yeah, every barbecue every cookout I get to eat now. I don't wait till I get home. I think I've talked about this once on the podcast and I don't once again not next Friday to stuff. But one of my friends who ran his wife ran a gluten-free dairy, sorry, gluten-free bakery said that almost all people who are gluten-free celiac, whatever you want to call it, are like upper-class white women.

Oh yeah. Which is so interesting. Like it's like, so what, like is there, you know, like all these lactose people that are lactose intolerant as there are like a Venn diagram there as well. Yeah, what happened to us? Socio-economic rate. Yeah, whatever it is.

Yeah, what you grew up. I don't know. There's stuff like that. It's all this stuff's really interesting. So talk to Catherine. She would love to. You should just have like one on one coffee with Catherine for five hours. She'll talk to you.

Talk your ear off about this stuff. I said gluten. Sorry, one last thing. He did test me for gluten is anyway, he tested me for 1000 things. But by the end, I started being kind of like you're saying like right giving him the answers. Yes. And so I tried to play it neutral. He's like, you want to test for gluten? And I was like, yeah, that might be good. Trying to almost lead him one way and I will say didn't go down on glue. Okay. Interesting.

Forgot about that part. Okay. A little bit. He also tested me for chicken. And I was like, I promise you I'm not. He's like, why don't we test? So we tested there. Then after the ronds ran, then he tested me for alpha gal again.

Arm was steady. Cause you want to make sure you got the right spot. I guess so. And then that wasn't good enough. So then he had specific vials for each animal. And so then we did cow, we did pig. Well, that wasn't good enough. We did beef, we did pork.

He's like, sometimes you can do Alpha Gal, but not beef. There were times he would double up. Sorry, I keep remembering stuff. I didn't write any of it down. There would be Alpha Gal in the canister and allergy. Okay. It's too tiny. Allergy. Then you would take allergy, I'll put toxin in. You think we got to see if it's an allergy or a toxin? See, I don't even know the difference. He said allergy, easier to treat. Okay. Sounds right. So was it allergy? It was an alpha-gal allergy. Interesting. So at least according to this guy,

it's confirmed that you have it. My arm was moving down. According to this guy, it's confirmed that you have it. My arm was moving, man. And you were like, you were trying, were you trying to resist? It felt like I was the control, you know, like I'm the same every time. So I'm sure the ghosties are playing it on both sides. Like, let me know if you've experienced this, what you think of this. Well, just like, yeah, just anything like this, anything that's like a little bit out there like blurry creatures, the podcast that does all like the supernatural,

you know, whatever spiritual warfare stuff. It's like, you can believe it or not believe it, but if it's true, that's crazy. If it's true, it's kind of, yeah, it's very interesting at least like just consider it at least, you know, so last thing I'll say truly tie it bow right out. I'm done. I Googled like allergy tests via arm shrink. Then there's the internet is very consistent saying this is not a like recognized way of testing for allergies.

Interesting. Like it is not. Yeah. People don't believe in it. Yeah. Which from Western medicine, I was going to say what who who's who's controlling the internet out there, though? The Zuckerbergs of the world, the big pharmas of the world, you know Proctor, Gable, Johnson, Johnson and Johnson Okay, well that that segment was brought to you by Good Ranchers at the beginning and by Healing Waters International at the end That's right, because they did offer me a water. They did and I said I'll take the metal rod. Thanks

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safe water. So give.healingwaters.org slash ghostrunners. Wow, you were just saying that. I got a text. This is interesting timing. It's from a number I don't know and it says, dude, I am so stoked for you to see an acupuncturist. I hope it works. Okay. But I don't, so I don't have their number. Okay. But I don't. So I don't have their number. We've only texted once before and they text me on my birthday an image of like a looks like a like a Burney's Mountain Doodle sitting in a swing set. And it says when I only made 20 pizza rolls, but could have easily in 25 or maybe 30. I mean, it said hope you have a great birthday. So that's our only other previous text. And then now they're excited for AC and acupuncture. This is probably a podcast listener. Are you a- Identify yourself when this comes out. Are you a save the number if you know the number kind of thing? Yes, I try to stay on top of that. Me too. Okay. I was going to ask maybe send me the number,

but it sounds like you already did. So- San Francisco area is the area code. Caitlin? Cano? is that her area code? Cano, she's from Colorado. She originally San Francisco. That's F.O. Semi the number. I'll see. I could be she's a girl. That sounds like a person. Yeah, yeah. And she called you dude.

Yeah. Oh, look at that. Like me. I'm just. Yeah. That's so cute. It's really like, I think she just made it herself Let's come in our be real right now. Let me see your number for Dude all this talk to you notice that's way quicker That's her. Oh great. We found it. Yeah. All right, Keelan canal. I'm now saving your number That's fun

What was I gonna say about that? Mahalo. Oh, let's talk about Dad's on Maui a little bit. So yeah, just went to Maui hanging out with TJ and a bunch of dads for a week or so. And I learned that TJ and I are different in a lot of ways. Oh, really? I mean, we had so much fun and a blast. But that's one thing like I asked like, are you the kind of guy

that says numbers? You said yes. I learned TJ, just the difference in how I would handle this even versus how TJ handled it. Like, I mean, he killed it. He did a great job. But like, you know, we have like this tech story going on where everyone introduces themselves, like gives a little background on themselves. As I'm like flying on the plane, I'm taking out like a notepad and like making a different page for every single guy of like making notes of like, okay, this is what Heath's all about. I can talk to him about. How many guys are there? Keep track of. There were 8 plus us. So, okay. 8 boy scouts. 8 boy scouts. 8 tiger cubs and then a couple of Scout leaders. And then so I'm like, all right, yeah, he's in the movies, you know, Lewis is an engineer,

like all these different things. And I get there and I'm like talking to TJ, he's like, like TJ's like, yeah, I intentionally didn't read anything on any of these guys because I'm like, what? He's like, yeah, I want to like be more like surprised about like what they do when they get here. And I'm like, that is so opposite of me. I'm more like, oh, look up every guy, what they look like and know their name beforehand. Try my best to have as much information as possible about them.

And TJ couldn't be the opposite. That's a pretty funny difference in how you approach it. Yeah. It was a lot of prep work is how we were different. Same with when we get right beforehand, maybe two hours before they got there, TJ's got a little nervous energy, which was kind of encouraging to see because at first I was like, do you even, if you don't know these guys, do you even care about these guys? You don't even care.

They're our newest likes movies. He's like, oh, maybe, I don't know, let's make some Rice Krispies. That's what Brooke always does. I was like, okay, cool. One second Rice Krispies. And I didn't realize that- With you writing. Yeah. Yeah. What's he doing? Brooke always does, I was like, okay, cool. I want a second Rice Krispies. And I didn't realize that- With you wearing-

Yeah, what's he doing? I didn't realize what, I didn't realize it over the last minute. I thought he had like gone, or I just thought about going to the store for these. And so it looked like the most amateurly like planned out Rice Krispies of all time. Like he gets out like two big boxes of Rice Krispies

like from Costco, like, you know, where they come in the double bag and neither of them had barely any Ricerispies from Costco, like where they come in the double bag, and neither of them had barely any rice krispies left in them. And so he's like, oh, we don't have, it says we need 12 cups, we only have 10. You can get it with Doritos. Okay, what else do we have? And he's like, I don't know, let's just do, okay,

that's fine for the rice krispies, let's do butter. And then he gets out the body, he's like, ah, dang, we only have eight tablespoons of butter instead of 12. Oh my God. Like this is, this is exact opposite of like, I would make sure we had extra about all this stuff, you know, and then he gets out the marshmallows. That's when it was like the kicker. He's like, all right, so it's a bag of marshmallow that says 16

ounce and he looks and he paused for like five seconds, like trying to find out how big this marshmallow bag is. And he just goes, Oh, it's only 10 ounces. And I'm like, Oh my god. You don't have any of the ingredients. Yes. I was like, TJ, we were just at the store. We had got all this stuff. That's pretty funny. I know, and I relate. Yeah. And of course, like it's rice crispies with butter and sugar and you know, it still tasted great even if the ratios were a little off. Right. So you guys still made them. Yeah. I was like, just throw it all in there. And that's,

that's where we are. I'm not that like type A to where it's like, this isn't gonna work. It's like, I don't know, it'll be fine. Blend it. Guys will like it. If they don't like it, then throw it away. Yeah.

Who cares? But anyway, yeah, we just, we had so much fun the whole time. It was like, it was just like anything we'd ever done. It was a random assortment of people. It's not like every single guy was active or every single guy liked sports or every single guy wanted to just chill. It was very all over the place.

But just like a ghosty getaway where there's a common denominator of everyone at least knows of walk in love and listens to it. And everyone is us dad. And so we at least have that. I'm sure they're all relatively very friendly people, and listens to it. And everyone is us dad. And so like we at least have that. I'm sure they're all relatively very friendly people, very fun loving people. Very, yeah, exactly. Like everyone wanted to be there. It wasn't like anybody was like pulling teeth, getting there. They got sent to summer camp as like a disciplinary thing. Exactly. So that would be great though if a wife did like go shape up, go to Hawaii.

Just yeah, this is the last straw. If you you don't like this then we're done. Okay But uh, I mean, yeah overall it was so fun Like guys said pretty extreme things like I haven't slept this well in four years Wow You know, I haven't relaxed like this like presidents I guess so Biden is just I can't I can't sleep Joe's just making me nervous So Biden is just, I can't, I can't sleep. Joe was just making me nervous. Yeah, I haven't relaxed like this. Like I can't remember the last time I came into the kitchen

and, you know, felt like somebody else had made like, like my kids weren't expecting food made for me. You know, like all these different things. I can't remember the last time I had rice krispies that tasted this bad. I can't believe, yeah, I can't remember when the March krispies never had any marshmallows. I can't remember a time where I've just had

pretty much just dry Rice Krispies to eat as a snack. Right, right. So, but it was great, man. I mean, I have lots of notes written down, but there were two guys there from, there are basically the Ghost Runners funnel. Like, listen to the,

Oh cool. Listen to our podcast and therefore heard from TJ, listen to his episode and now came to this thing because it's pretty cool And there was one guy like Tyler shout Tyler so fun. I would love big man shout shout big man Tyler He would be so fun to just have as a producer as somebody with a microphone because he laughs at everything Oh, right And yeah The one guy Heath was a babe was like you'll be, like when you first like came and you laughed a lot. I wasn't so sure about you, man. Like, because it's like a pretty like distinct, like awesome laugh. It's like, is this guy gonna like be annoyingly like that? But he was just like, so fun to have around because he was just laughing all the time. I love people like that. Yeah, it would be like a lap track basically, podcast. Like to the point where if he didn't lap, I was like, I mean that wasn't funny at all

I really bombed that was really bad But yeah, he came as a ghost hunter So and he told me like I agreed to hung out for like two hours before he's like I just gotta get out of the way I'm a huge justy. Oh great sweet. Yeah, thanks for telling me something Like, you know say tell you a bunch of things about my life that you already know I'm gonna think but yeah shot at Tyler and Johnson. They were the ghosties That's pretty cool. So where do they live? Johnson's a Tyler, Texas boy

Using yeah, he's from East Texas. I heard some Johnson, Tennessee Yeah, and then Tyler is from Columbia, South Carolina. Cool. So Yeah, great times. Yeah, there was there was two guys that came late. Tyler Tong is his name. Cool. And then Lewis Hudson. Lewis likes movies. Lewis is the engineer. Heath likes movies. I'm sure Lewis has watched a movie or two. I didn't read any of those texts. But Lewis is like half Korean. Cool. And so naturally we get there and wait. Cool. And so naturally we get there and wait, I just love like so naturally we're like go ahead and make us some barbecue. Yeah like what's the rest of the sentence they were all assuming. He's half Korean so you see where this is going. So I have no idea. Lewis

Hudson and Tyler Pong get there a little bit later than everybody else. Okay. We're all like, we go in the ocean to watch the turtles come in. Yeah. And you know, plastic TJ, I love TJ and I think this is great about him, but he's all about metaphors. He's all about like, he's emotional guy. So he's like, let's like watch the turtles come in and silence and like reflect, you know, whatever. And I'm like, dude, it's like 3am for all these guys.

Is it the first night? It's the first night. Oh, I'm exhausted. It's like sunset. I'm like, come on, Turtles, let's go, you know, whatever. But and so these guys get here, Tyler Tong, Louis Hudson and naturally everyone thinks, you know, Korean Tyler Tong. Oh, I see. I see. It's like everyone's like, hey, you must be Tyler Tong. He's like, no, my name's Lewis.

No, my bad, dude. Because Tyler Tong is as wise can be. How about milk grown up? Yeah, do it just fine on the lactose. So that's kind of I see where you're going. It was pretty funny, like, yeah, big. So there's a few inside jokes. I'll tell real quick, just like little like things kind of like, you know, on your feet or anything like that, where it's just like, you say it once and it kind of catches on. One of them is that that remember that video of the guy at the football game, like in the stands, you know, the one where the guy's like, what's better than this, huh? Just guys being dudes. Yeah, I love that video. So I said that one time and we just said it over and over. You just loved it. It's just guys being dudes. There was one time we were playing spike ball on the beach and this guy that wasn't with us was

walking by. He's like, was this like a bachelor party or something? And he's hard to explain. Like, no, it's just a bunch of dads who listen to a podcast. And so I just go, nah, it's just a bunch of guys being dudes. And that resonated with this guy more than anything. He's like, that is awesome, dude. Good job. Like, like, that is awesome, dude. Good job. Like, like I could tell, like we like made him think about something that like guys be it. Do you find a metaphor in those turtles later? Yes. These are turtles being turtles.

Yeah. So guys being dudes was kind of like the rally cry for the week. If we ever do some kind of like male only, dad only, whatever goes sort of saying, that's what we should call it. Guys being dads. Guys being dads. That's the other should call it. Guys being dads. Guys being dads. That's the other thing I said. Just guys being dads. Yeah, because it is kind of like people are like, oh, so you guys, wait, you're from South Carolina, you're from Texas, you're from whatever, all these are Minnesota. Like, why are you all here together? Just guys being dudes.

Just guy stuff. So that's one one inside joke we had another one. I don't even know where this comes from. Scott, you're listening to this. it comes from Scott growing up. But Scott would always quote this thing where you just it's kind of like Asian accent, but you just always go be a man. Have you heard this? I don't know what that's from. I don't.

And so there were so many times where like we're like cliff jumping like, I don't know should we do it or not? I was like, hey, just think about it real quick. And then just be a man. You know, love that. Be a man. Oh, people. We said it all the time. Yeah, man. Come on. Be it's kind of cool. Be a man. You're just like the joke creator kind of it was awesome. Like a trendsetter trailblazer guys being dudes be a man. What were some other ones that we said? Oh, one

that TJ kept asking me anytime I was like like any sort of relaxed, any sort of like low energy, he'd just be like, you fadin dude? You fadin bro? And I was like, no, he doesn't fade. I'm not fadin. No way. And there was one time I was going, if I'm fadin, you're already dead. But he asked me that like probably every day.

You fadin? I was like, no, I'm fine. So those are kind of like some of the inside jokes. I'm trying to look at, be a man. Oh, another one that TJ couldn't, he like really observed this about me. He's like, you love bringing a drink for the road, didn't you? I would always bring it like, cause like he had a little fridge in his garage. So every time we were walking up, I'd always grab a drink and bring it.

That's easy to ask him for it. That's easy. I love having a cold drink in my hands. I'm driving somewhere. It's like you love drinks for the road. I was like, yeah, I do. That's that's a crime lock me up. That's one thing that we learned is like, you know, Brooke had done some moms on Maui before like hosted some girls coming out. And so she gave a grocery list of things for TJ to buy. And it was classic like girls versus guys like trends. She's like, they're going to eat a lot of grapes, get a bunch of grapes. So we went to Costco and bought like four

big containers of grapes. And TJ's like, I think we had three and a half containers left over by the end of the day. Oh, nobody graped. And then she, but like apparently the girls, like TJ or Brooke said, she only bought one thing of Spind drift, like a 30 pack from Costco, like one 30 can of spin. Like we drank that within the first day. Like, and so the guys, I bet we had 200 cans worth of it.

And we drank so much coffee. Like it was just like guys just drink a lot more liquids than girls apparently. Interesting. Yeah. I don't know. So it was, it was so funny though. Like TJ would like put grapes with like a mason jar for the beach and stuff like what? I don't know broke told me to do this

Be a man mason jars a little over the top it was it was like I've seen broke do this and so I'm gonna do a Kind of thing That's right. Did you get there like a day early kind of to help? Yeah. Yeah It was like a nice solid like day in a half basically of like just hanging out with TJ. Yeah. Getting things ready, making rice crispy treats, all the things. Yeah. We went to Costco. Apparently the Costco there according to TJ is the highest grossing Costco in the world. Good for them. Yeah. Probably because everything's twice as expensive. Yeah. Just top line. It was was crazy like we went to like i went

to go get more drinks at like a normal like Safeway grocery store 1250 for a 12 pack of Coca-Cola wow 1250 yeah i bet here it's seven yeah those are like vending machine prices but in folk yeah and that was on sale that ain't right crazy So where are the guys that slept in four years? Yeah, he can't get over it. So, you know, I got a lot more in doubt. I mean, most of our small little small little joy, small little fun things. What kind of coffee do you have in Hawaii? Dude, that's the thing is we had the best coffee in the world

for mainstream roasters in that many. Oh, you did bring me to your sister. No, I was like, oh, I wasn't. I wish I I wish. But we had some we had some good coffee there, but it wasn't made sure. I see. Yeah, I see. I see. I see. Yeah, we are once again. Once again, sponsor my main churisters.

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Is it really? Yes. So if you're listening to this and you're within 18 and a half hours driving distance from Napa Nii, you have no excuse for not coming. 19 hours, fine, no problem. I understand if you're in... I think it's also Canadians are coming. Yeah, we have like 10 Canadians. Yeah. That's awesome. That's insane. So come to Main Street Ro Jake. I know I've talked about Maui for a while. Oh, you're fine. You're fine. Well, Canada just reminded me. Did you see that Facebook post in our Facebook page about Canada versus America? And there were some contentious, not contentious, but some disagreement. Yeah, I just clicked on it to go look at what other people said because I, Nick Bard was

like, hey, I'm a Canadian. We are so similar to America. Some people get offended by that. But I feel like we're just like the same type of people. I think America is great. I think Canada is great. I was like, oh, that's kind of nice. Like a lot of Canadians agreed. Jasmine Martin said a funny comment. I agree that we're similar, but that doesn't stop me from getting offended.

If someone calls me American, that's probably the most American thing you could say, though, because if the rules were reversed, I would be like, No, don't call me Canadian. Joel Billington commented, he's in like Quebec or something. You think he said respectfully as a fellow Canadian slash American, I don't think that two countries could be any more different. There's no way I responded.

I said, you don't think they could be any more different? Canada and the US are more different than the US and Somalia. Yes I was gonna say Iraq. You know they are more similar than the US and Canada. Yeah they are they both love oil and Canada they're just all EVs up there. I also really liked Angela Birdwell she commented I really want to visit Banff. Yeah I liked it. I agree, I also it seems great Lake Victoria Sounds nice. Yeah Vancouver is a nice city in the right places Yeah, is that the place that has like the like skid row like the legal needles? Yeah, anyway, that's kind of fun

I saw discourse on the trip from Canada He loved pointing out when things were Canadian like oh you're you're on a blackstone. Eh, like yeah black stones from Canada Oh Great. Yeah Jim Carrey. Oh, he's he's Canadian All right Pretty cool time boy filming Canada. It's like really okay, Toronto. Yeah, I did learn that Toronto is essentially like Yeah, I think I've never been in Toronto.

We did a show there, but that was the day of my sister's wedding. So I missed out on that Toronto show. Priorities. Thank you. Have you done any shows in Canada? No. The whole Canada run, I was at my sister's wedding. I've been to Montreal for a brand deal with the Canadian football league with Jugglin

Josh back in the day. Is that right? Yeah. It's like a two-day trip to Montreal. It's kind of fun. Really French. I'd love just, you need not to give context really. I mean just very small context. I just love a list of all the things you've done, all the places you've gone in the last 10 years. Like, you know what? Yeah. All that. That's all I have to say. Like Montreal, Canada, Joe and Josh Canadian Football League. Like I don't need to know like all the details or like a story behind everything. But yeah, just like some buzzwords I could give you like Oakland, a stadium, Apple pie, five hour energy. Sure. In the world. That's good enough.

Well, this is a fun like pose question from dads on Maui. I don't know how we got talking about it, but DJ asked everybody who's the most famous person you've ever met. And we went around. So I have first of all, I'd like to hear your answer. I did joke about like maybe trachea. Did he? No, I'd like to hear your answers first of all.

But I also want to have a debate about something because there's one guy who's like, I'll go last because I think I'm definitely going to win. Why would you say that? It was like four days. Who does this lever need to be for that to be acceptable? Jesus Christ. Yeah. It has to be one of those two. Yeah. Or like Trump, maybe. Turns out he was wrong. He was not the most famous person. Oh, I love that. All right. So we we went around I tried to remember what everyone said but and it was like I'll go last It was like met as in like had a personal encounter with it wasn't like I've had a deep conversation like whatever It was just like I've seen this guy. I've said hi. Yeah, whatever to them. Whatever. We've conversed

So I can't remember my answer. I tried to think I was like, I feel like I've probably met somebody more famous But I was like I saw Howard I've probably met somebody more Fair but I was like I saw how it started at a barbecue place in Memphis I think that's the most famous person you say Jackson the homes in the steam room. I said But there was one guy who said somebody what if you suggested all right, let's do it one more time most favorite person You met in a steam room. I'll go last Yeah, somebody said Bob Dylan somebody said like, like, some famous crossfitter. And we're all like, who? He's like, oh, he's really into crossfit.

Mr. Ruck. Yeah. That's the guy that invented the sack. Dwayne the Ruck Johnson. Yeah, the Ruck. You smell what the Ruck is cooking. So then, yeah, the TJ said Kevin Durant. I was like, oh, that's probably winning right now. And then Lewis. Lewis is so funny dude.

Lewis hates movies. Big engineer. Big engineer. And classic engineer. Like you could tell this guy is smarter than the rest of us. Like every time he like told the story, he gave the model number of whatever he was like. He's like, yeah, so you know, like I flew, he flew helicopters in the army. I flew a helicopter on the A790. Learjet 6780.

And of course I'm like, I don't know what that and then he's like, you know, oh, espresso machines. We got really into espresso machines. We have the Breville 680. And I'm like, oh, what color is it? Yeah. Shiny. The one that grinds or not doesn't grind. I don't know. Clanky. But he goes, so he was in the army. So one guy said, one guy said he ran into LeBron James in, uh, at Cedar point in Ohio at the museum park. Whoa. I was like, you're winning right now.

And this guy gave you talk to him. He like saw him. He did. He literally ran into him. A criminal like literally like actually charged bumped into LeBron James, looked up with this guy, uh, and this other Lewis, like I said, funny, hilarious dude in his own right. Like he's like, well, when I was in the army, I kind of met Barack Obama.

Okay. Oh, wow. I was like, oh, what do you mean kind of met? He's like, he's like, like I shook his hand twice. I was like, Lewis, what that that's exactly me. That's better than bump into it. Yes. He's like, does that count if I like just shook his hand and said like, Lewis, what? That's exactly me. That's better than bump into it. Yes. He's like, does that count if I like just shook his hand and said, like, nice to meet you?

We're like, none of us shook the people's hands we chose. Yeah, I just saw how it started. And he pulled pork from a roast. Like, yeah, that counts, man. And so then so then the last guy that was like, you know, I'm going to win. He was like, ah, it was Jay Leno. I don't know. win. He was like, ah, it was Jay Leno. I don't know. Famous for sure. But not like undeniably, the, you know, whatever. And so, so then the Jay Leno. So, so first part of the question that I'd like to hear is your answer to who's the most famous person you met. Second part is we had a discussion, debate, whatever. Who's more famous Obama or LeBron? You got to go president. Okay, go ahead.

Oh really? First thoughts, first thoughts. You got to go president. I want to hear your answer to. Yeah, I don't know. I need to think about it. All right. Famous, most famous person I've ever met.

It's also hard to dictate fame a little bit, I guess. Jennifer Lopez is probably the most A list person as far as like international fame. Every Spanish speaking country loves her. Okay. America loves her. Do they buy you pizza? Yeah. Um, Gervil Lopez, I mean, I have full-on conversation with. I think that's pretty A-list. Yeah. I don't know if I could have someone that tops that. Maybe Trey. And then Trey, John Crist, Jeremiah Crist Jeremiah's yeah and then TJ TJ's pretty big yeah I don't know what are you Rachel or anyone else that I've met you don't know him Anderson oh yeah it didn't be Pam Anderson who she kisses me

who's bigger bigger who's more popular Who's more popular? Good rock more. Yeah, probably Jennifer Lopez now Yeah, she's all time Yeah, all right. Yeah, as actor and performer. She did a Super Bowl recently pretty solid true Yeah, I forgot about pay me Anderson What was he just going to say? I forgot. I don't know what I was just going to say. What did you say, Rachel?

I don't I've never met anyone famous. And there's oh, I know it was this guy was famous to me. Well, I met in the Penn State head bullet book. And they're talking about the Penn State campus. And they are really good. What's his name? Rathrose. Rathrose.

I hear them and it was a profile picture. Wow. You were fired up to be Coach Rose. It was. We just went to the Pinnacle. Do you know what this guy looks like? Because I was obsessed with him. Do you know what this legend looks like, Jill? Here's old Russ.

He was smoking? Yes. Boy, that legend. Wow. Oh my God. Russ. So you loved him. Yeah.

It's like when they were winning all the national championships and my uncle lives nearly there, so we were like, but still we're in Penn State, Canada. And then you saw him. Yeah, it's like when they were winning all the national championships. And my uncle lives nearly there, so we were like, let's do it in Penn State campus. And then you saw him. And he was outside smoking, so I had to take pictures. Oh, so he wasn't even like, you were on a tour. He wasn't doing meat. No, I was like 12 or 11. That's awesome, that is awesome.

I mean, it was amazing. I remember, I loved Death Cab for 2D back in the day, and they said the same hotel as me in Chicago one time, and I freaked out. Saw him smoking like no way. Rachel, I can think of uh someone I introduce you to that's pretty famous and that same night I'll just tell you this is a tough guessing game uh Dan and Shay oh and then who else did we see in that? Yeah Bobby Witt. Yeah Bobby Witt Jr. Yeah, Davey Shay then. Yeah or uh you met met the dude perfect guys

here you go dude perfect guys hey if you're 18 and under they're bigger than obama or maybe jay leno freaks in and under you've met some people that's why i was curious what your answer would be but jennifer lopez is bigger than dude perfect i think so even like logan paul you know it's like it's not even close to Jennifer Lopez. That's right. I don't know. Yeah, probably. You're probably right. Like, because that's the thing. You have to you have to weigh not only like America, but not even only our demographic. Yeah. Like, do your parents know what Logan Paul looks like? No, no. Do they know what Jennifer Lopez looks like? Yes. Yeah. You know. So yeah, Barack Obama or LeBron James?

Who is more famous? I think LeBron. Ray. I do. Because, well, he's got a brand, right? OK. Oh, he means like LeBron Shoes. He's like the best at something. Mm hmm. Of all of his every years.

Tied longest. Actually, no, not even. Never mind. That would make sense. Like kids in, let's say, a European company. European company, Volkswagen. Yes. Kids in Volkswagen. Kids in Volkswagen.

If you show them a picture of Obama, would they know it's Obama? If you show them a picture of LeBron. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe that's American arrogance, but I'm like, I think everyone knows who the American president is. But from a while ago? First, let me just say, I was on the team with that's his American arrogance. I think everyone knows who the American president is. I kind of think so too. But from a while ago? First, let me just say I was on the team with LeBron for this.

So I'm with you. But then the more I think about it, the more I'm like, I don't know how big basketball is. But then again, basketball is huge in China. China is like half the world. A lot of folks. So I don't know. But then again, I bet all those same guys probably, if they know LeBron James, they

know Barack Obama. You know, I think that 1.5 billion people live in India. It's like that's really a lot of the world, too. I think it all comes down to India. India is a swing vote. Do we think people in India know Obama more or LeBron James more? If you live in India right now, let us know. Yeah, let us know. Comment below.

India is a swing vote. A.I. San Obama. OK. A.I. saying Obama. Okay. A.I. saying, say from the perspective of an Indian woman. A.I. is always right too. Yeah. You see that Snapchat of me? I'll ask. Snapchat A.I. or something like that.

They said, go straight to Jake Triplett and we'll find that. Brad Wisington or something like that. Here it is. Go straight to his podcast. It's hosted by two funny guys, Jake Triplett and Brady Martin Govitz. They share hilarious stories, live experience, a great banner together. How hilarious stories. All their stories are the Instagram.

This is not the metric, I don't think, but Instagram. I think Barack Obama has like 40 million followers. LeBron has like 130 million followers. 40 million. It's more than I would have thought for. ButBron has like 130 million followers, 40 million. That's more than I would have thought for. But then TJ is like, well, if that's the metric, then Selena Gomez more famous than both of them. Yeah. Ronaldo. Yeah, it's different.

Which I think maybe Ronaldo is. Yeah. Who's the most famous person in the world? Taylor Swift. You think? Yeah. More than Ronaldo? Yeah. Yeah, I do. I do. Or Trump. Yes. Yeah. Trump. That's a good three headed monster right there. Who is more well known or messy?

Probably Ronald. Ronald's got like that. He's he's harder. Ronaldo, Trump or Taylor Swift. He comes back to India. You think so? Which India would probably know. Yeah, probably. I suppose so. Right.

Yeah, I think there's probably like if you think of like like like the really lower class parts of Africa, not like the Yeah, I think there's probably like if you think of like Like Like the really lower class parts of Africa not like the kind of somewhat westernized parts But like the dirt roads dirt houses, they probably know Ronaldo. They probably don't know Taylor Swift But it all goes back to India. Oh rats Who's the most famous person in the world? Number one, Ronaldo. Number two, Obama. Oh, really? OK. What? Then Messi, then Elon Musk.

Oh, he's African. Then Dwayne The Rock Johnson. The Rock. Ian said that the other day. He's like, what about The Rock? No. I don't get that. I guess people know he's a movie star. So yeah, movies movies are their own language Who knows man fun fun debate? Yes. It was I know I screen-shotted a review the week somewhere in my phone

I can't find iOS 18 photos app. My goodness can't find a darn thing these days Is that bad? It's that bad. Yeah, don't download it It's like jokes. I kept calling TJ have to say about that. Yeah, don't download it. That was another inside joke. He's like, can I call TJ a gadget guy? Gadget guy. I'm like, you're such a gadget guy. Cause he has like, he doesn't don't like, you know, plug in ice maker. He's got like a massage, like foot massager.

I was like, you're such a gadget guy. Yes, having a massage thing is for sure a gadget. He had a multiple. He had a foot massager. He had like one of those ones you put on your shoulders. Oh wow. He has a squatty potty at every every toilet Oh my that's a gadget guy thing to do. She's like things you don't need sure

What I like kind of nice to have he doesn't have a bidet but everything else He was kind of offended by it. I'm gonna catch it guy. No like hey, I am And then he makes fun of my iPad for having a button like a whole button on it I was like you're a cat gadget guys would say something button like a whole button on it. I was like, you're a gadget. Gadget guys would say something. They kept calling my iPhone and iPhone touch. I was like, All right, that's a guy. Like only two cameras on the back. Yeah, like, does it even does does AirPlay it or what's it called AirDrop even work on my

point? Yeah. Are you gonna review? Yeah, we have a lot of them. We're gonna record it forever. In the spirit of Africa Just review five stars to this. I don't want to make any assumptions But I think I'm your only listener in the Democratic Republic of the Congo possibly in all of Africa So that's why you won't be seeing me at any of your events Here's a funnel but you're not playing tickets Anyway, you guys are probably so much joy in my life when things get tough living overseas

You guys bring me so much joy. Thanks for doing all you do. I appreciate all says he's originally from Utah. So pretty cool the Congo ghosty 18 It's a long one, but it's a sweet one. So the best five stars. This podcast is the best. I Started listening a year ago and I love it. The podcast is like the office. You can listen back several times I never get told and still makes you laugh. I'm going back through all the episodes for the second time while staying caught up. I work in a ranch and you guys keep me company while I'm fixing fences, sorry, fixing fences, taking care of the horses or even riding.

Any? Any? Sometimes I'll get through three or four episodes a day. No time for actual reasons for my review. I feel like I have to give credit for you guys for influencing my sense of humor. I find myself using the same jokes you guys do on the podcast. Here are some examples. Fun. Saying, not really or kind of when someone asks a question with a yes or no answer.

Like, have you seen this movie? I started doing this around my family and they laugh every time. Back in 2020, I think Jake sent me this DM to a girl. Probably an ugly girl. That's really nice of you to offer, but it's not about the recognition. You can name the children's hospital after someone else. Please, I insist. If anything, name it after one of the 15 kids I saved from the wreckage. I don't remember this. And then you follow up and you say, oh my gosh.

That was not meant for you. That was not supposed to go. I'm so embarrassed. Oh, yeah. That was supposed to go to the oh, you address it. Dear Mayor. Oh, yeah. At the top. That was the same time where maybe you said, I don't technically have a foot fetish. Is that what it was? But then you said that and then you were is another one. That's right. I forgot about that.

Yeah. Old podcast story. Yeah. I was. Yeah, that was embarrassing. That was too bad. Here's another example. Yelling, hey, Bob, like Brad does, and also calling people big daddy. Also back in 2020, Jake started an episode with anyways, I'll just say long story short, there's a reason we domesticate dogs now. And then you guys went in the opening jingle. I also thought that was funny. And now when there's a silence, I'll say that or something like that again, and always get the laugh. That's great. Last paragraph here says, my family always ask where I get all this stuff from and I always say it's from this podcast and

give you guys credit. I try and get people to listen because I know they'll enjoy it as much as I do. This podcast is seriously the best and the only one I listen to. Anyway, sorry for the long review. Keep doing what you're doing. You guys are the best. Thanks Ghosty18. Sorry for the long review. Keep doing what you're doing. You guys are the best. Thanks ghosty 18 Correct. That's encouraging to hear that you find us funny. I'm not even being that sarcastic. That's just nice I don't care how many times we hear it. It's good to know you're like you're you're resonated with humor We're trying to be funny. Totally. Yeah, that's good. I'm glad you like it Yeah, somebody this week. I feel like by the other week somebody joked like Oh Brad You have a podcast like cuz I think I was talking about it so much.

I don't know. Because some of the guys like knew the podcast. So anyway, but one of the guys asked like, what's the best thing we can do to help you? Like how can we help you like on the podcast? I was like, just tell your friends. Yeah, spread the word. Like that's the that's the easiest way to grow this thing is to just tell your friends. So if you want to help, that's the way to help. So thank you to go see it team for doing that. All right, Brad

Nope, no pressure. Would you like to end this episode with a jingle? I would. Wow. Let me send you this link real quick Cool. This one's coming from I don't know how to pronounce the last name. I'm sorry. Tammy Brittle. Oh, yeah Branson Branson, came to Branson. So she wrote a song about Branson. And so listen to this song and tell me if it makes you want to go to Napanee. In September, in Missouri, Ozark Mountains, Taney Como River, made some new friends, laughed Blind karaoke, teardrops in Steve's eyes. Take me back to Branson with Brad and Jay. And Tommy and all the ghosties for the weekend. Take me back to Brunson Silver Dollar City, what a great park

Potatoes on the stick, yeah, coasters in the dark But the best day was Sunday, the best day, Sunday at the branch. Worshipping with ghosties, Jensen wore Isaac's pants. Take me back to Branson with Brad and Jane and time and all the ghosties for the weekend take me back to Brenton this part I kind of struggle with I'm sorry I hear their voices every Monday, every Wednesday Podcast still reminds of the time that we had And thinkin' bout it now I get a feelin' that I should be goin' Nappin' eatin' to Nappin' eat! Take me back to Branson with Brad and Jane

And time and all the ghosties for the weekend Take me back To Rensen, with Brad and Jay And Tyman and all the ghosties For the weekend Take me back To Rensen Take me back to Branson. Take me back to Branson.

Take me back to Branson. Or just come to Napanee. Well done Brad. well done Tammy. I was waiting for Rachel to say hello. Jake wasn't joining the lyrics. She's bobbing over there. She was, she's bobbing. She's rocking. Good stuff. All right. Thanks for listening. Sorry the time has pneumonia.

Plenty more to talk about in the Wednesday episode. I can't wait to hear about Las Vegas. Yeah, I gotta talk Vegas. Bummed time. We'll be here to help rehash it But yeah, I'll tell you guys all about Vegas on with impromptu schmores impromptu schmores Alright, okay Thanks guys for listening as always. We love you always appreciate your support come nappin II. It's not too late. I'm net me It's not gonna be too late unless you're listening to this after October 26 and then it's too late. You missed it So don't miss it come Come nap me come nap me Come and nap me