Ghostrunners - 381 - Don't Get Me Started

Episode Date: November 6, 2024

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Last week, my mom stayed the night. I don't know if I talked about this in the podcast. She came up to watch the gymnastics, USA Gymnastics do a little exhibition. Okay. Yeah, I guess they do this. It's like, hey, after the Olympics, everyone knows us. Yeah, I saw some people that went to that.

Yeah, so a little exhibition. Yeah, it's cool. Anyway, my mom and sister went to that together. My mom stays here that night. And so of course we send her away with like, hey, what do you need? You need pickle pad paddles. You need golf balls for some reason. You need granola, you know, Sunday swagger, peanut butter, fish in the swag. We load her up with a, um, just a moderately sized bag of granola, you know, maybe a court sized

gallon size bag. I don't know what's bigger. A gallon is bigger. Four quarts and a gallon. Yeah, yeah. Either way, not that big a bag of griddle. Not sandwich bag, but not gallon size, right? That's probably it. Great. I would dare to say quart maybe.

Like if you're going to the beach, you put your grapes in there, in this size bag. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay, got it. The next day, I get a Venmo for my dad and it says, I'm not going to tell you the money because I want you're going to guess this, but it says

the description says your mother is an idiot. Like, I don't know why I got Venmo for this. I don't know what any of this means, whatever. I call him a couple of days later. I'm like, Hey, what was that Venmo about? He goes, well, your mom wanted to pay you for the granola you gave her. And I was like, arguing back and forth about it. Yeah. And I was like, hey, what was that Venmo about? He goes, well, your mom wanted to pay you for the granola you gave her. And I was like. They're arguing back and forth about it. Yeah, and I was like, what? No, we're giving it away because it's gonna expire. So like, we can't sell it.

It's worth nothing. He's like, trust me, I tried to tell her. And he's like, we even sell granola. I know how much it costs. It doesn't cost anything really, you know, whatever. Anyway, but my mom was really adamant she couldn't get her venmo to work. So she asked my dad, like, can you venmo Jake for the granola? How much do you think she venmoed me?

Court sized bag of granola. Oh, it makes sense. I do think I disagree with Steve that granola can be expensive. I'll say that. Yeah, this isn't just straight up oats. This is like a baked, a cooked recipe. This is good granola can be expensive. I'll say that. Yeah, this isn't just straight up oats. This is like a baked, a cooked recipe. This is good granola. Like we get granola from Costco and it's not cheap. 25 bucks.

No, that would be wild. I'm saying $10. Okay, 10, 25. I received a Venmo for $40. She's just looking out for you. I know, I was like, that is so much. So I think that's why my dad was like, your mom's an idiot. She wants me to give you $40.

That also took a shower at your house, I bet. There's a little water. Yep. And waters like that's probably like $18 there. Yeah. Lights. I remember lights being on when she was here. And did you guys keep the heat and air conditioning off?

No, we used it. Okay. So that's electricity. Yeah. And, and you had to, you had to, these floors had to be finished at one point and she's stretching off. No, we used it. Okay, so that's electricity. Yeah, and you had to, these floors had to be finished at one point and she's putting her feet on them. They're previously finished floors.

So you gotta take that depreciation. I mean, that's $6 right there. She might've kind of undercut me a little bit now that you bring all this up. I might Venmo request her a little bit more. Yeah, and taxes ain't free. Taxes ain't free? Yeah, I could not believe.

Yeah, $40 for a small bag of granola. Okay, here's the kicker is that your dad is actually the idiot because she said, give him $4 for it. And your dad actually pressed the zero on the way to the sin. Oh Trish, I made a horrible mistake. I just couldn't believe that.

I was like, that is so generous. It's so nice. And it also, it worries me a little bit that my mom may not have a grasp on how much things cost in the real world. I was like, well, this is the city. You know, she's from the small town. You go into the big city. The cost of living goes up a little bit.

It's like it's like if we go to California, you know, we go get Nassai Bowl there. They're like, all right, that'll be eighty five dollars. It's like, I guess that's just how it is here. Most of that's probably the granola. Right. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Like this is the same like It's like, I guess that's just how it is here. Most of that's probably the granola, right? Yeah. Right. Yeah. I'm like, this is the same like mom who like, you know, we couldn't ever get a full size candy bar. I mean, my sister never had anything on her. We split every treat, every snack,

you know, and now we're throwing out 40 bones for granola. I couldn't believe it. So that's her savings account there. Yeah. The amount of money I could have made at Mies Roasters if I had spent or if I charged people $40 a bag So add that up. You're you are literally a king. Yeah There was something else I was gonna say I was like waiting to say it and I can't remember it now So pretend I said some good punchline oh my gosh dude yep AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHaha that oh AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Beating 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 a ghost from the Sparky

Ghost from the Sparky There among the morning overtaking Grandmas from the Sparky Go for a vodka? I hope the camera was on Brad for both of those because there were two And I will say yeah, it's getting a little warm in here so I don't blame you maybe maybe that was all planned I was like the first time he makes a funny joke. I'm gonna do this I'm committed now. I'm staying in the shirt.

Oh, Dieterle, you got two great gifts coming your way. Oh, what a gift for you. A gift. I keep, Scott loves, I found out that Scott hadn't seen the show, You, ever. And my immediate reaction was like, oh, what a gift. You like get to watch this for the first time. It's like, if someone hasn't seen The Office,

you're breaking bad. Like, what a gift. You get to experience this without knowing what happens. And Scott loves that. He's been watching all these trips we go on. He's always telling us what happened with you. And he's like, I just love, dude, it is such a gift, dude. It really is.

So I love saying that to people now, what a gift it is. Top five shows you wish you hadn't seen yet. Office, Breaking Bad. Lost, Lost for Me, did you watch Lost? Oh really? Okay, Rachel and I started watching this like last week. We're like, everyone loves Lost. And?

Let's put this on. We watched the first episode and Rachel was like, I feel like this is like some weird supernatural stuff going on with this like noise or this creature or whatever. She's like, I'm out. Okay. So we got out. It has some supernatural for sure.

Yeah. But it's awesome. Really? So yeah, we both kind of couldn't get into it. And you know me, I'm not a, gosh, I'm so wet. I'm not a supernatural, like I'm not a fan of like fantasy stuff. And you still were into it.

So awesome. Maybe we should go back and give it a try. Cause yeah, it was a little bit like, I wanted it to be a deserted island show. And it was like, this is deserted Island, plus some kind of spooky vibe. I didn't like that. I didn't like spooky vibe.

It kind of intrigues me. Really? Yeah. It was too spooky. It was too much of a vibe. It was like a guy gets pulled out of an airplane by some beast, but I feel like it's like, well, no one saw it.

This is some, it's like a haunted, haunted Island or something. The first, we'll call it two seasons, three seasons are 85%, 90 percent normal, 10 percent spooky. Yeah, like I think. I think it's worth it. Really? OK, if you if you want to, if you if you have time to watch that, it's a commitment. OK.

I've learned recently, I'm like, I'm watching Suits right now. Yeah, which is just fine. It's a it's a I stopped watching It's a solid B. Maybe B. No, it's a solid B. I think it's a B. 84% letterboxed What would you say out of three and a half or at a or out of five out of ten? We're out of three and a half either Yeah, a solid a solid. Well, I'm trying to be more critical. Yep. So I'm gonna go three and a half stars. Okay, I But at the same time I'm like well, it's something to watch and I'm already kind of invested in this and I don't love that I feel that way.

Like it's almost like with my personality, it's like, well, I gotta get to the end of this thing. But I don't know if I love this. And sometimes I'm staying up too late watching it. And like, so if you don't wanna watch Lost, don't watch Lost is what I'm trying to say. Suits, I was also into it for a while. And after a while I was like,

I don't want to watch the next episode. I don't know why. I just don't want, I don't care about the next one. So I guess I'll stop and I never look back. It's just, it's not too high or not too low. It's kind of the same episode. Yeah. Hilarious.

One of the things they do is they're, it's a lawyer show time in like big time New York. Attorneys. Sorry. So sorry. Attorneys. New York attorneys. Sorry. Attorneys. Oh, okay. Sorry. But one of the things they do, they always like bring a folder to somebody and they're like,

you don't want to take a look at this. Oh, instantly they can analyze a thousand words on a page. Yes. They'll look at it for two seconds. They'll be like, you gotta be GD kidding me. It's like, you did not, unless it's highlighted exactly where they want to see it or something. But at the same time, how bad of a TV show would it be if you're like, give me one, take a look at this. OK. Wait, what?

You know, like it's like five seconds, 10 seconds of whatever. But all right. Top five things you wish you could see for the first time again. Office Breaking Bad, Lost. Lost was the lost was the biggest show that I was just like. There were so many into the episodes. Rose is like, holy, you know, like, wow, it's that good. Great cliffhangers. Yep. Oh, yeah. If anybody's seen lost, here's the, here's

the caveat for lost. And it's, it's unfortunately a caveat for a lot of movie or a lot of shows is the ending is not that great. And so I've heard that about lost, but that's what I've heard about game of Thrones. And so it's like, makes me not want to watch game of Thrones. Also, I'm not really interested in that stuff. It's still the beginning of loss is so worth it, even though the end is not. Those three, let's call it, I don't know, Parks and Rec might be up there for me. Trying to think of other shows that I really like the drama

on. Can you think of any more? I think shows, it would be tough to do a list of just five shows, but I would go to the office, Breaking Bad, give me Prison Break, that's my lost. Yeah, Catherine loved Prison Break in 24. Yeah. That was a golden age for Fox there.

Give me Get Out, the movie. Oh, we're going to TV shows too? Oh snap. Thank you, movies, sorry. Sorry, I'm wet, okay? And then, uh, maybe, maybe Borat. I've never seen it. I remember the first, just the first time I saw that as a 15 year old, I just couldn't believe anything.

Yeah. I just never seen a movie like that. I watched the Ali G show back in the day, but never, never seen the movie. Oh, we're talking TV shows. Okay. Interesting. Okay. Okay. In my movie that I would like to see again, I don't know.

I, I, I'm blanking now. So those are my four. The ghosties, you choose my fifth one for me. All right. Can I tell you about my, my flight experience home last week? I'm excited to hear about it. So yeah, I talked on Monday about how I upgraded to first class.

So before that, I have to fly from South Bend to Charlotte. So South Bend, Indiana, as you can imagine, very small airport, very just like, yeah, just a basic small town airport. They did have Ubers, that was nice. Take a nice little 6.30 AM Uber to get there. Early morning, I mean, it's dark out, we're all tired, it's Sunday morning,

and just can't wait to nap on this airplane. Just all of us in the gate, I feel like we're all dead, we're all barely hanging on. And then behind me, I start to hear singing. And it's a type of singing that sounds like almost like a drunken stupor. It sounds like, Can time and help us out here? I will, I'll actually demonstrate it because I sound like someone who is probably having an issue singing. So, and it's like, it's, it almost sounds like the singing that like a homeless person would do.

Okay. But it's confusing because I'm in an airport, so this isn't making sense. So it's, great day in the neighborhood, but why can't every day feel just as good? Woo, I need singing lessons. And I'm like, I gotta turn around and see what this is.

Cause it seems like, it's not a homeless person in the airport, right? I turn around, it is a flight attendant, just carrying his luggage. He's dressed up, he's got a bow tie, he's got a vest. I mean, just singing his little heart out. And I'm like, don't be gate six. Don't be gate six. Don't be gate six.

Don't be gate six. He gets up to our gate and he said, all these unhappy people trying to get on my airplane today. I don't think so. I was like, oh, we are in for a nightmare. This is a nightmare. You can't go bow tie at 6.30 AM. You can't sing.

It's a great day to be alive. Sure. I I know This is a guy. Oh, I'll get to my summary of him later. Um, so yeah, just immediately he's singing that so loudly in an airport um I can't believe he wasn't embarrassed by this. He's singing poorly All these unhappy people i'm gonna need to see smiles. No one boards until I see some smiles. All right, next question. Who's got the coffee? Where are my coffee drinkers at, huh?

And where are my alcohol drinkers at? That's what I've done. I knew this guy. All right, you're gonna get a free drink later. Wait, so this is in the airplane or in the? Still in the gate. Okay. Just waiting to board.

He boards first. I was like, oh brother. So then I get in, This is not the first class flight. This is just South Bend to Charlotte. I'm in my seat and through the AirPods, I, you know, I'm hearing all of his announcements. All right. Hope you enjoy this. Uh, you know, we've got a smaller aircraft for you guys today and should be a good time. Although I will say the leg room is a lot like Ohio State football. Disappoint disappointing. All right. Go blue!

He's yelling into the overhead speaker. Go blue, who else? Come on, let me hear you. Go blue, go big blue. Anybody? No, not really, not a ton of enthusiasm. He goes, Michigan football, baby. Know it, learn it, love it.

Let me hear you say it, go blue. He's just like going on and on. I'm like, dude, we're in, am I, we're in Notre Dame, right? Why is the Michigan Ohio State rivalry? Who cares? Connor Stallions is your flight attendant. Yeah. And so it's just, unfortunately,

we get into a situation where it takes us a while to taxi out. Oh. And so he just gets to have a blast. So he starts off just going up and down the aisles, just talking to anyone who will talk back to him. Just like talking, just like, where are you coming from? Is he leaning on the chair?

Yeah, he's the waiter who's a little too personal. Yeah, it's just like, just a bothersome guy. Luckily he never comes my way, but he's very, very eager to offer people free alcohol. It's like 6.30, 7 a.m. But you have to smile at him. He's big on smiles. He mentioned smiles a lot. At one point over the intercom, he's back there again. He goes, all right.

All right, we're gonna have a great flight today. My name is so-and-so. I was a comedian for 27 years and I was a stunt man for 14 years. That's why my head is shaped the way it is. No one can make fun of my head shape. Nah, this guy can't, no, this guy can't make fun of my head. The one guy that gives eye contact to him,

like, come on, you can do it. This guy can do it. And he goes, so like I said, he used to be a comedian and I know what you're thinking, tell us a joke. All right, I'll tell you guys a few. He proceeds to rattle off. Well, I wrote down the first one and the last one. Wow.

He did five or six. Wow. This is the first one. What do you call a cow that doesn't produce milk? An utter failure. Not bad. He's just doing laughy taffy jokes. I mean, he will not shut up.

I mean, it's insane. His last joke, he says, all right, there's two balloons in the desert. One balloon says to the other balloon, look out for that cactus. The other balloon says, what's a cactus? And then cherry on top, he goes, that one might take a minute.

That's so insulting, dude. That's so mean. That one might take a minute. That's so mean to say to us. If you if you think we're old enough to handle alcohol, you can't expect us to not get that joke. You don't get both. Yeah, you might. Yeah. Ask your neighbor if you don't get that one. Oh, let you know. Yeah, it was just brutal. The last thing I can remember was, I had some decent experiences flying American recently,

but they really sell you on their AA advantage credit card or whatever it is, and they sell you too hard on it. It is repulsive. You get treated like a telemarketer called you and you can't hang up. That's what it feels like the way they're pitching you this credit card and just like, you can't avoid up. That's what it feels like, the way they're pitching you this credit card and just like, you can't avoid,

I mean, the AirPods are only so powerful and you just, you hear them over the loudspeaker tell you about this credit card. Don't you feel like sometimes, like especially the pilots, they have like a crank on the volume to be like, I'm gonna deafen them with this announcement. Like sometimes the pilot's like,

hey, we're gonna make a while, we're gonna free, and we're gonna swear. Cr is. Double check. Taxi. No, no, no. We're going to get a little day. We're going to get about six, seven, seven, eight minutes here and that's where it'll be on the way down to Ken's setting. And the other time it's like, so loud. It's like, you, I guess you're trying to wake us up with this. Like, yeah, it just crappy speakers too. Like maybe they don't have control. Just that. It's like, I guess you're trying to wake us up with this. Like. Yeah, it just crappy speakers too. Like maybe they don't have control.

Just that it's finicky. It goes in and out. I bet they got some kind of volume on there. They want us to know. Yeah. Yeah, just so loud. Just pitching this credit card over and over. He's answering personal questions.

He's doing crowd work with credit card info, you know, which is brutal. And going up and down, that was a bummer. And then he ends it with like this speech. It was like he was running for office or something. This speech about how, all I really remember, I was done writing things down in my podcast notes at this point.

I was like, I'm just so sick of this. But it was something about, when you smile, the world smiles back. It was like the name of the speech. And it was like, I just feel like this is a guy who like, he goes out to a bar and he complains to people. He's like, all I do is I smile at people. And all I want is to smile back.

Why is that so hard? It's like, maybe there's a little more to being a good person than just smiling. He's way too caught up on the smiling. Like, like everything he's saying, I think you and I are like, yeah, I agree with what you're saying, bro, but like. Yes, there's nothing wrong. But maybe recognize that there's good and bad times

to be that way. Yeah. Like maybe recognize that like, oh, it's great that you want to like be a light in this situation at 6.30 in the morning, but there's different ways at 6.30 in the morning versus 6.30 at night to bring energy to somebody. Like.

Yeah, like Rachel, we're talking about this. She's like, there'll be some days where we have like a 5.30 AM, like we're doing two a days, it's pre-season, like no one wants to be here. We're all so tired, we're all so exhausted. And you've still got a coach being like pretend chipper. Hey, it's gotta be a great day ladies. You know, it's like that.

It's like, it's okay to just like, let's just get through this. Let's just grind this out. Yeah, it's gotta be hard and that's fine, but we don't need to pretend to be fake happy, fake exuberant. And especially when people start preaching things that are obvious, that's really bothersome.

Sometimes guys, a smile can make someone's day. Yeah, chill. Like, yeah. Sometimes you should- I do love the idea of smiling at people. I do love the idea of being kind to people. But like, if that guy would have just gone, like when you you were taxing like I'm gonna offer coffee to every single person Like would you guys like some coffee while we wait?

Would you like like I would be in such a better mood? Yeah, like that guy so much more than if he's doing stand-up comedy Right, then, you know, it's a great principle. I don't care if it's business or you know personal just being friendly to people Friend-making show don't tell show don't, show don't tell. Show don't tell. Show don't tell. It's one thing to tell someone, I'm gonna do this for you. I'm gonna do this for you. Even just like, this product can do this for you.

This can help you do this. This paddle has better spit, whatever it is. Show it. Show don't tell. Show don't tell. I love it. Chestnut checkers, you know? Like plate, like it's not like,

hey, I'm just gonna smile and be bubbly every single minute of the day. Well, that's checkers. That's literally like when in checkers, you can only move one, you know, one way. Maybe once you get king, you can go the other way, but chess it's like, no, there's different things for different situations, different strategies. It's like, Hey, you can rock the bow tie. That's fine. But just chill out a little bit on the volume.

Yeah. We just, we need to stop pretending like you saying, be nice to people out there is groundbreaking advice. We gotta, we gotta chill with that. Yeah. You like start to like stand up to like give them a standing ovation. You're like, oh, sorry, seatbelt. I would though.

Just know man. I got my hands high for you. I even like, I love the idea of, hey, if, seatbelt. I would though. Just know, man. I got my hams high for you. I even like, I love the idea of, hey, if one person's vibing with them at six during the morning, got some energy, let's have a private conversation that's really fun and funny. Like that's great.

Like, but don't force it. Yeah, it was. There's probably a reason he's, you know, South Bend to Charlotte and not, you know, Dallas to LA. You know what I'm saying? Probably so. He was...

He's not getting too many international flights. One last thing I just remembered, cause Rachel asked me, she was like, Oh, like bow tie, some of the things you're saying. She was like, gay? I was like, I don't know, because he mentioned his ex-wife multiple times. She's like, how does he mention?

I was like, I don't know. He found a way to bring it up multiple times. I've never known a flight attendant's previous marriages, but this guy I'd known, I know he has an ex-wife. He like, he would bring it up in jokes. He would bring it up serving drinks, you know, just everything. Well, my ex-wife loved that Coke.

Okay, so tell me then, juxtaposing. Oh yeah, I got to the first class part. So that, I mean, this, it's all gonna be worth Oh yeah, I got to the first class part. OK, so that, I mean, it's all going to be worth it though, once we get to first class. Yeah. So the Charlotte airport, go see if you can validate this. If anyone has been in the Charlotte airport any time in last month, it is nuts right now.

They're going through a ton of construction. It's a mess on the tarmac. It's a mess inside the airport. None of the escalators work. None of the moving walkways where, you know, it's just like. Curved escalators? Straight. Yikes. It's all just on the tarmac. It's a mess inside the airport. None of the escalators work. None of the moving walkways where, you know, it's just like straight. It's all just analog, baby. Using your legs.

So it's a mess. So landing there, it's probably like sitting on the airplane for the 20, 30 minutes before we get to our gate. When we eventually left, it was the same way. So by the time we get off our gate, I gotta hustle. We landed in E-Gate, I gotta get to A. Those are the two options to the airport. No tram in Charlotte.

There's just a long way of walking. So. And no moving walkways. No moving walkways. It's all you. I don't know if I'm necessarily gonna miss my flight, but I need to kind of hustle a little bit. And also I'm definitely missing out

on my priority boarding I was gonna get. It's like, that's not the end of the world. My seat's assigned. Sure. It's all good. And, but I'm sitting in the front row. That's gonna be fun. Yeah. Would have been nice.

Yeah. Get off the plane. I'm like, all right, time to go. Got my luggage, double checked. I didn't leave it on the airplane. Let's do this. I get off the plane and a girl stops me and she's like, you do the Ghost Runners podcast, don't you?

I was like, first of all, in my head I'm thinking, how do they always know when I'm running late to a flight? How do they always know? But if she said something else, it'd be like, oh, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's like, Ghost Runners, I gotta stop and talk to ya. That's awesome. She's like, I actually don't listen.

My friend, I think I said her friend's name was Neely. But that sounds weird now that I say it out loud. I think it's Neely. Rebecca Neely? Rebecca Neely? Jacob Neely? Maybe it was the last name. I don't know. Either way, she was like,

my friend loves you guys so much that I know what you look like. I was like, that's awesome. That's so cool. I stopped to talk to her for a little bit, recorded a little video for her, and then I took off running when I was done. I was like, I have to go.

So I start running away. And anyway, finally get there. It was actually kind of fun. I wish I could have stopped and like taken more video or pictures. I've never seen an airport like this, where generally probably like 60% of the people I could see were also in a hurry.

It was kind of, it felt like Christmas day or like how movies depict a crazy airport. Yeah, like the floor on Wall Street, something like that. I've never really been in a scenario like that. I was like, I wish I could take this and more or like film it to show you. But I was like, I'm jogging as well. But we were all jogging.

Yeah. No, 60% of the airport's jogging. It was kind of madness, but it was kind of fun. We're just like, we're all in this together. It's kind of cool. Anyway, I get to my gate, it's all good. I'm starting to board. And right as I'm getting ready

to sit down, a guy asked me, he was like, hey, I'd love to be able to sit with my wife. Can you, would you mind trading me seats? And I was like, in my head, I'm thinking, the one time I paid for first class and you paid for first class too, you couldn't have assigned your seat next to your wife. Yeah, cause you just upgraded yesterday.

When did this guy? Yeah, well, how you can't. Okay. And also you'll be fine. Yeah. Two hours without her. What are you guys gonna do? You guys share an iPad?

Okay, that's fair. I'll switch for shared iPad. Okay. Of course, these are all things I'm thinking in my head. Externally, I was like, oh my gosh. Oh, I'd feel terrible if you didn't sit next to me. Yes, dude, of course. And so I'm like, even at first class,

I can't sit where I wanna sit. I still, they know I had that face, like this guy will do anything. Because you were supposed to be first row. And now you are. Yeah, I was supposed to be 1A. Got moved back to 4D. Yikes. Not the end of the world.

Still a first class seat, still a window seat. Wasn't that bad. Just couldn't believe I got picked on. However, can't lean back. Cause I'm at the back of first class. That's tough. Dang it. Yeah, yeah.

Why, stop switching me seats. Yeah, bummer. 40% of my flights, I don't end up in the seat I want. Why didn't they ask the other guy? The other guy was probably there before you. Well, there's only two It was like his I was about to sit next to his wife. I know but why not ask oh I see whoever's in yeah the opposite so that they would sit in the front row

Yeah, I don't know There's they know what they're doing. There's a there's a Ponzi scheme going on going on first-class seats Otherwise, it really wasn't that bad. I'm back in 4D, it's crazy. Like sir, can I get you a drink? And it was still pretty early in the morning. I don't really want soda. Got an orange juice.

Okay. Got a little OJ to start off. What kind of cup? Anything fancy? Glasses. Yeah, let's talk about it. I never, let's talk about it. Yeah, what kind of glass? We can talk a curved glass, straight up.

Curved edge glass. It was nice probably eight ounces Not a huge glass. Hey, but I bet they'd with ice hills six ounces. Okay, I did ice Cubed Yeah, I mean it was just like this is cool, I mean I just drank it immediately then he was back in ten seconds I was like, yeah, you take it. I'm done But then I did get a refill on my orange juice, that was nice. So that was before you left,

is you got some orange juice. Before I took off, from what I could tell, I was the only person who had two glasses of orange juice. Okay. But no, it really wasn't that bad. It was mainly the first flight to Charlotte where all the craziness happened and having to sprint to the airport.

But once I got back at 4D, it was fine, I stayed awake, I downloaded all the stuff that I was gonna watch. But then I get on like the American Airlines Entertainment, AA in-flight entertainment, and American Sniper on. I never turned down an opportunity to watch American Sniper. So good.

So good. You missed, I'll put your in Leavenworth. I remember that part. You remember the most random lines. Well, cause it's about Kansas. So I was like, cool. They mentioned Leavenworth. Yeah, it's one of the first lines in the movie too. So good. Really good movie. Well, cause it's about Kansas. So I was like, cool. They mentioned Leavenworth.

Yeah, it's one of the first lines in the movie too. So good. Really good movie. It's nice when you're watching by yourself too, cause I kind of skip over some of the like romantic scenes. Like, eh, get me war. That's funny. You, I've, I'd never just skip over scenes in movies.

Oh, you should. Maybe I should. It's a great way to get through a movie. I am really rethinking my life right now. Especially like an action movie. Especially when you know the movie. An action movie I've seen before. Get me to Baghdad.

I don't need to see you. I need you here for me. You're not a present husband. Sometimes it's like, I gotta earn the good parts by sitting through the bad parts. Yeah, it's like, oh, what's that? There's a food like that. Oh, it's like a drumstick. I know the ends where it's like, oh, what's that? There's a food like that. Oh, it's like a drumstick.

Okay. It's like, I know the ends where it's at. That bottom chocolate at the, yeah. That's so good. Good word. Or fun dip, fun dip especially. What I really want is just piece of chalk. You like that?

Yeah. Oh, but you don't like the pixie dust? It's nice. Yeah. But it's no chalk. I love the chalk stick. But you gotta get the chalk a little bit moist first. Oh yeah, it's wet. Yeah, but it's no chalk. I love chalk sticks, but you got to get the chalk a little bit moist first Oh, yeah, it's wet. Yeah, you got it. You got a you got a it's like an oatmeal cookie. You have to

Soggy it up a little bit You have those oatmeal cookies. They're too firm too hard I like to let them rest in my mouth a little not oatmeal cream pies not oatmeal cream pies oatmeal frosted oatmeal cookies Okay, I see. Yeah too hard fair enough Okay, so comfortable like significantly more comfortable chair. It was fine. You just you you don't have to do with someone in your space I mean this wasn't like a Transatlantic flight where I got I got a pod. I got a mattress. I got to lay down It's just a chair that I couldn't lean back in

But I had a little extra leg room and no one was next to me. Cool. So cool 60 bucks You got the itch now. You're gonna always go first class. That's all. Yeah, that's all I do now Well first class guy, I got I got 40 extra dollars for this gorilla. So I got to put it somewhere. Yeah Yeah, it was fun. I love it man Kind of trending in my life right now is My kids and I, we call it going on a deer hunt, but- That's fun.

Yeah, the first time it happened, Hattie and I and Rosie, they got up really early one morning. And so I was like, let's go on a walk and we'll go on a deer hunt. Cause there's been a few times where I've been on walks early in the morning and I've seen some deer.

Cause we live like pretty close to like some woods, like more like secluded areas. So anyway, now it's like almost every night where we, I just put the kids in the truck. They're all just like crammed in the front seat. Like I probably shouldn't admit some of this to people. Like literally the other night, I like was feeding Henry his bottle while I was driving.

Like I'm driving like 15 miles an hour down our side street, whatever. But once we get into the area where the deer sometimes are, we all have to be quiet the whole time. Yeah, that's fun. We roll down the windows, we're going real slow. And if anybody sees one, they're deer, parrots. And so it's just a way to get Catherine a little bit of time.

Now Catherine wants to come because we're starting to see the deer. You're having so much fun. Yeah, we're having a blast. You know where you need to take them? Where did we used to see all those deer? Yeah, right there by Argosy. Yeah, it's a little ways away. Yeah. But I mean, with outfield, every time we would see at least 15 deer. Yes, they were nuts because they it's always by the water.

I guess by the river. Yeah, 100 percent. This one's definitely I think one time we saw three in the same night with big deal. That's fun. So we respect their distance. You know, we give them some space. But, you know, Bo's like analyzing. He's like, I think that was that was the mom and that was the baby. You know, like just loving it. And so and Rosie, of course, doesn't understand being quiet.

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Scene. I don't know if it's because tell me if I should worry about this or not. Because as like somebody, I feel like I've been gone more than I ever have been in her life so far recently. I was going to Indiana. It's funny. And I told Bo I was like, yeah, buddy, I'm actually leaving again today going for a while. Jokingly, I was like, you come with me if you want. He's like, I'm not tall enough to shoot the guns though. I'm like, what are you talking about? Oh, he thinks I'm going on my hunting trip. That is a different trip. That'll be in a couple more weeks, buddy. I'll leave you again.

But yeah, Rosie has started calling me her daddy. My daddy, that's my daddy. That's my daddy. And I'm like, I don't know if that's good to say to Catherine, like, my daddy. Because then it sounds like it's not just daddy. You know what I'm saying? Like if you were talking to Caitlin, your sister right now, and to Catherine like, my daddy. Cause then it sounds like it's not just daddy. You know what I'm saying? Like, if you were talking to Caitlin,

your sister right now and you're like, I'm gonna call my mom. It's like, why'd you say that? Yeah. It's our mom. Like it's our thing together. You know what I mean? You like, you need to teach her like

plural possessive pronouns. Like it's our dad. Only if it's because she's saying that because I'm not around enough or something. That's what I'm worried about. It's like, are you calling? That's my dad. She'll say it to Kevin like, yeah, my daddy's here.

My daddy's here. Yeah, my daddy's here. That's my daddy. That's a fun phase. Yeah, it's cute. I mean, she's so fun. She like makes the point every single morning when she wakes up to say good morning

to every single person in our family and like come up and like Give them a baby. Yeah It's one of the more fun stages to be gone a lot It's one of the ones that like they need you the most and so if you're gone They will start just like kind of separating you from their family. That's my daddy, but he's never here Anyway, should we do some segments? Let's do some segments. Let's do This one it's got a catchy name.

So I think it's gonna be one that lives on. Oh yeah, tell them the catchy name. This one's called valid or get off my high horse. I like it cause it's quick and it rhymes. Valid or get off my high horse. Yeah. So I'm not gonna say it again cause you've, you recognize it, but it's basically the idea of like,

Hey, I have some opinions. Hey, good for you for having that opinion. Yeah, it's silly that that person made you move your row in first class or chill out. It's not that you don't even lean back your chair that often anyway, get off your high horse. So we have some opinions here. My first one, valid or get off my high horse?

When people, businesses, mainly label something as, and this is in like in quotation marks, $10, $10 buck lunch. That to me reads $10 buck lunch. It should either be 10 buck lunch or $10 lunch. Valid or get off my high horse. I'd like to know what you think. I've never seen what you're referring to,

a 10 buck lunch. Where do you see these words together? I just saw it today, old Shawnee pizza, pretty close to our house, like had a banner. That's a $10 buck lunch. We wouldn't say bucks? Like 10 bucks for lunch? It's like saying like, hey, we have like a special, it's a10 buck lunch. We wouldn't say bucks, like 10 bucks for lunch. It's like saying like, hey, we have like a special,

it's a 10 buck lunch. I've never heard that phrase, very valid. Well, it doesn't have to be that exactly. It can be like, it costs dollar sign $100. Dollar, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that is annoying. Cause you don't have to spell dollars if the dollar sign is there.

Okay. I think a lot of people don't know that though. So is that a high horse or is that valid? I don't know. There's a lot of people who still don't have to spell dollars if the dollar sign is there. I think a lot of people don't know that though. So is that a high horse or is that valid? I don't know. There's a lot of people who still don't know the difference in lose and loose. A lot of people who spell definitely wrong. So I think you also-

Defiantly. Yeah, there's a lot of people who don't know how the dollar sign works. I mean, so many people put the dollar sign after the number still. That's true. There's a lot of dollar sign education that needs to happen in this country.

So for that I say I don't know Maybe I didn't realize I was on a high horse about this because like I didn't realize dollar sign is like a not as known I don't know Tymon. I think 90% of people are pretty good with the dollar. Maybe it's like no should be not 90% Really? I would have thought so too. I bet people don't do it right, but I don't know if they knowingly or Ignorantly are doing it wrong Or if it's just like ah who cares mm-hmm. I don't know hmm. Maybe not

I'm gonna say valid. I said yeah valid for sure time. It was vibed with me. I could tell right away Oh, yeah, he's like oh, I get it. get this. Yeah, cuz I've noticed that before it's weird Yeah, ten buck lunch ten dollar buck lunch ten dollars Hundred dollars dollars. Yeah one time only Yeah with with the quick one hundred dollar dollar down payment Stop with that. That's a good one. Good observation. Especially when it's like a printed banner that somebody approved and was like, send it off.

You know what I mean? So. Yeah, valid. Thank you. Valid or get off my high horse? I want to be addressed when I walk to the Chipotle counter. Really grinds my gears when they just stare at me. They don't address me. They don't say, what can I get for you today? They don't say, how's it going? They just stare at me. They don't address me, they don't say,

what can I get for you today? They don't say, how's it going? They just stare at me and wait for me to start ordering. Oh really? I don't like that. Yeah, I would absolutely. Sometimes I wait. Yeah, I mean, it happens 70% of the time.

They just stand there and just stare at you and I'll stare back at them. And then they just, sometimes they will gesture. Oh, okay. Oh, I think that's. You can't speak to me. Oh yeah, valid. You can't have customer service.

For sure valid. I don't know if I've noticed this, but valid. Oh, it happens. I do it often to people, but it's almost like, it's not a high horse thing for me. It's like literally just being a person thing for me. Like often I will come in with them and say, hey, how's it going?

And they'll be like, it's good, how are you? Good. And then I wait for them to say something. Cause I exactly, exactly, exactly. Maybe they got an online order. I don't know. Are you ready for me? Sometimes I'll ask like, are you ready for me to order? Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. There's like a, so annoyed at me. Oh, valid. A hundred percent valid. Cause it's not a high horse thing. It's you saying I I'll treat you as a human. You treat me as a human. A hundred percent. But just do that. That's like me and Zach getting into our Uber from the Pickleball

place. Like the guy just doesn't like, he just drives up and then I'm kind of like looking to the window like, Hey, is this like whatever? I'm pretty sure this is the guy. I say his name. He's like, yeah. I'm like, yeah, I'm obviously your river driver. Yeah. No, valid. I think it's valid. Thank you. Yeah. Just talk to me. All right. Valid or get off my high horse. I think this is a pretty Thank you. Yeah. Alan, just talk to me. All right, valid or get off my high horse. I think this is a pretty common thing that people have frustrations with, I hope, but I am not an exception.

I really, really, really believe the left lane is reserved for people that are passing and or going the fastest out of the moving traffic. Valid. It kills me. And it kills literally hundreds of cars worth of traffic if somebody does this wrong. Like if you notice there's at least two people behind you

and you're in the left lane, you better get the heck over. Figure it out. I am not one to tailgate somebody ever. Like even if they're in the left lane. But I am a fan of the sweeping declaration of taking my hand and going, get over, get over. Like I want them to look in the rear view mirror once while and see this guy going, get over.

You were honking at someone on the highway? Yeah. Yeah, it feels good. I honked at a trash truck this morning. What were they up to? They were way too close. They were in my lane. They were- Oh yeah, yeah. They were 20. You gotta get their attention. close. They were in my lane. They were.

Oh, yeah, yeah. They were 20. You gotta get their attention. Hey. No. Hang up and drive. They were 15% in my lane. Too much. It's like a wheels worth in my lane.

Trash truck. And it was in construction on 69 Highway. I don't like it. Narrow lanes. Yeah, it was like, beep, beep. He was driving with a steering wheel on the right side of the trash truck. Could have been the issue. I think so. He was Australian, he was driving with a steering wheel on the right side of the trash truck. Could have been the issue. I think so. I don't think he was Australian, right?

Yeah. So I gave him a quick one though, as I was passing them, just a quick like, good luck with your rubbish. Steph, why you're not doing a very good job right now. See ya. See ya. So yeah. I mean, I did a lot of driving this weekend every once in a while You just notice probably mostly in st. Louis people just driving poorly And yeah, I just did not appreciate it. Yeah valid. Yep. There's rules I mean living a nation of laws you can see like literally 50 cars behind you like just waiting for this one if this one person just did something different we'd be fine It kind of reminds you of like slow golfers all it takes is one slow golfer and you can ruin the timing and the schedule

of like a hundred people behind you. Sure. It's a really big deal to like back that up. Yeah, just recognize it a little bit, Scott. Yeah, right lane, speed limit. Middle lane, five to 10 over. Left lane, Autobahn, do your thing. Yes.

Just pass and get back over. Yes. Valid. Because then you start having people trying to pass on the right lane. And then that gets dangerous with people. Now we got mergers. Yeah, you got mergers, you got acquisitions.

Yep. Yeah, so. This is great, you said a food thing, I said a food thing. You said a street thing, I got a street thing. Street thing. Valid or get off my high horse. Show a little hustle crossing the street. Show a little hustle walking through the parking lot while I'm trying to get by. Absolutely.

Get on your horse a little bit. I think just because I am always hustling if I'm in that situation. I'm always a little pep in my step. I'm like, why can't you do the same thing? Yeah. People just don't acknowledge you. Just head down just walking as slow as possible Hurry it up grandma Or at least look at me I wonder if this is a regional thing or if this is a everybody in America thing because I think in a in Midwest It's it's yeah, it's almost different than the south even of like Midwest. It's like beyond courtesy beyond like hospital You know like just being nice. It's like, we gotta go beyond like being kind. Oh, totally.

Like I have the walk, like light. I'm supposed to walk, but I recognize there's a guy in the right lane trying to turn right. And he could, so I'm like, oh, I'll hustle for him. Look around, be aware. It's the effort thing for me as well. It's kind of like the, you know, quiet roommate thing where it's like, I don't know if you're even going

any faster, but your shoulders are moving. They need to bounce. I need to see some bounce. Like even if, even if your legs are going the same amount if your shoulders are bouncing, you're's like, I don't know if you're even going any faster, but your shoulders are moving. They need to bounce. They need to see some bounce. Like even if, even if your legs are going the same amount, if your shoulders are bouncing, you're just like, okay. We were in the car recently, there was that girl walking like that young, like a college age girl, she was in like a crop top and you rolled down your window

and you said, let me see some bounce. And I was like, I agree. Let's see a little bounce. When you were telling me this beginning of the story, I was like, this does sound familiar. And then you said that part, I was like, I agree. Let's see a little bounce. When you were telling me this beginning story, I was like, this does sound familiar. And then you said that part, I was like, no, no, no. That's not true. Nothing about that's true.

I wish you would have interjected like, yes, I remember this. Sorry, keep going. I do kind of remember like us waiting for somebody and me being like, yeah, take your time. Something like that. Oh man. Show a little bounce, keep moving.

Yeah, walk slower, baby. Smile more, bounce way more. Oh my gosh. A smile will change lives, you know? Hey, the world smiles back. Keep bouncing, baby. Oh my gosh. I'm glad you remember that too.

Yeah. I was shocked you said that. Golly, that's funny. Yeah, so I think all that to say valid. Thank you. Yeah. All right. My last one valid or get off my high horse.

A single question mark text to me kills my desire to respond. I don't care who you are. I don't care if it's a hundred percent my fault. If you respond, if I haven't responded yet and you just respond with a single question mark, I don't know if I'll ever respond to you again in my life. I don't know if, like I was selling some things on Facebook marketplace recently,

this is what made me think of it. Somebody said, hey, is this available? I'm in Hawaii, I'm like not looking at my phone, certainly not looking at my marketplace, you know, notifications I don't have turned on. And then three days later, this guy just responded with a question mark. I'm never going to respond to that guy again in my entire life. Well, clearly this guy, this guy is one of the busiest guys in the world.

He doesn't have time for full sentence. The only thing he has time for is the question mark shift backslash. And I'll tell you this right now, if they were to say, Hey, Brad, just checking in again on this, they've got themselves you this right now. If they were to say, Hey, Brad, just checking in again on this, they've got themselves a table right now. 100%. They are, they are, I am, I am so apologetic. I'm like, I'm so sorry for not responding sooner. This my bad. I, I've been away, you know, whatever. I'm justifying it. But if they just say question mark, it's over. Yep. It's over. I don't care if you've podcasted with me for six years of your life. You send me a question mark It's not Jake. Yep. I think it's valid. I agree, too

I I know someone who's a question marker really and I'm like, wow, I will say I don't hate it as much when you question The text does that make sense like a No, like, you know, you can like respond your own tap back message. Yeah. Yeah, I'm saying like you're like questioning it Like what do you mean? Oh, oh, or just like a, hey, following up on this. Where we at on this? I don't mind that as much as just the one or six, seven question marks, just a bunch of them.

That guy might as well just like insult my parents at that point. It's like, let's fight. When you started the like take, at first I thought you were saying like, asking any question, you have to use multiple question marks. It's like show some enthusiasm. Only using one question mark. Oh yeah. Only using one. But yeah, I think that's valid.

It is funny. Like the little nuances of like, there's a difference between a question mark and a question mark exclamation point. Totally. I'm a big question mark explanation point together kind of guy. Yeah. I like to use them when they are needed. I only ever. We think in Cane's today for lunch boys. Or I only ever we think in canes today for lunch boys Or hey, we think in canes day for lunch boys

Would you ever like when you do if you're doing just two and it's like question mark an explanation point? What order are they in question mark first always really because it is a question for the first things first. Yeah above all else It's a question. No, but that's what I'm saying is so it has to end with the question mark because it's above all It's a question. No, I see it. I think it has to round like it like it's a question. No, but that's what I'm saying is so it has to end with the question mark because it's above all it's a question. No, I see it. I think it has to round like it had it like it's a little bookmark for it. Like a bookend psycho. Really interesting. You go exclamation point question mark. If I ever, if I ever, and I can even, if I do like a bunch of them, like, like a bunch, you're like, well, I got it. They have to end with the question. It's like the parentheses for you. It's like this kind of closes it out.

I will say if I'm say if I'm doing multiple, I'm going question mark, exclamation point, question mark. Same, yeah. Great. But if there's just two, you go question mark, exclamation point. Yeah. No, wait, no. Yeah.

The other way. I will go exclamation point, question mark. This could be a millennial person's thing. Yeah, 100%. Could be gas. Cat for real, for real. Could be gas involved. So, okay, thanks for validating my things.

You got any more? Okay, I have two more, both with Pickleball. One's my thing and one I'm saying on behalf of Scott Peck, the customer service rep for Friday Pickleball. Okay. So Scott would say, valid or get off my high horse. People need to stop complaining so much and returning paddles for like the tiniest bit

of like paint chipping off their paddle. Give me more context. We just get people want a full refund. They've been using their paddle for three months. And you know, they've hit a plastic ball with a pig wall paddle at high speeds for, you know, they've hit it probably 2000 times and like a little bit of like paint has chipped off

and now they'd like a full refund. And by a little bit, it's like the mark that like a pin would make probably. Completely get up, no, they get off their high horse. They are on the horse. Yeah, they're on the horse. Get down from there. You can't expect, I mean, it's like,

when you get scuffs on your baseball bat, you're not like, well, I gotta return this. It's broken now. It's like, well, I was using it how it was meant to be used. I understand you guys have a warranty of however many six months or something like that. 99 day happiness guarantee.

Holy cow, that's amazing. But. Well, that's amazing. No way. But I don't think, I don't think I'm unhappy because a little bit of paint's chipped off. Also, I thought maybe you were gonna say like, it was delivered with a little paint chipped off.

Maybe I could see the justification then, where it's like, this is already messed up. But even then it's like, it's gonna get messed up eventually. That's, it's sports. That's what you do. It's like being frustrated that your shoes that you run in every single day wear out after a year.

Hey, they don't have the same grip they had a year and a half ago. Hey, my golf balls got mud on it. Sure. My basketball dimples have worn down. Yeah. Like this is part of using it. That's the agreement that you choose when you use something.

I want to make a video someday, maybe our next tournament that Isaac you use something. I want to make a video someday Maybe our next tournament that Isaac and I do I want to do a video like can I win a tournament with returned paddles? Okay, because people return them for I mean this paddle works fantastic It is a hundred percent the paddle you bought it all I play with is returned paddles. That's true. That's what I use Yeah, cuz I guess I think that's what gave me the idea cuz I was already doing it anyway I was like well, I'm already doing this. I just haven't like addressed to the I think that's what gave me the idea because I was already doing it anyway. I was like, well, I'm already doing this. I just haven't like addressed to the camera that that's what I'm doing.

Because so many go to Scott, it's like, well, we don't need to ever buy or like put an order for ourselves. So just use the return ones. Yeah. Anyway. I think we've talked about a long time ago, like the idea of like using a mattress for 364 days

and then taking it back because it has a year. I've never enjoyed that. Like I never liked the idea of like, well, technically this, you know, kind of thing. So I did it once with a TV when we had Rosie and I didn't love it. So, and that even was like, well, it's Samsung and Best Buy, they'll be fine.

They could take a hit. You know, it's not Casper. Those lovely people over there at Casper. It's not my wild yam people So it's not Second pickleball thing. This is my thing. I Ain't similar to the Chipotle thing. I would like to be responded to after complimenting someone Like after a pickleball point, I would say any sport it happens at volleyball

It happens a lot of times in sports with a net, I would say. Like afterwards, you're like, oh, good shot, guys. Hey, good point, guys. After I've done this six, seven, eight, nine times, I'm starting to get a little peeved off that they haven't said thank you a single time. Yeah, I'll give you the first three. Maybe you didn't hear me. Maybe you're locked in right now. But if over and over and over, I keep complimenting you and you don't say anything, kind of grinds my

gears. The game we lost in Vegas, Timer was there, he's fighting off Nimone. You saw it. Couldn't get those guys to respond to me. Couldn't even say anything. They spoke English. They were so rude. This is the closest I'm going to say to get off your high horse. I still don't know if I truly think it's, you're not on a high horse. It's just like sports is just so competitive. And like, sometimes I think there's just different situations. Like if you are winning and they beat you in a point and you say, Hey, good point guys. It's kind of like patronizing a little bit sometimes. Yeah. If it's like 10 to zero, I'm like, Oh, good trial. Good shot, dude. Great point. Or like, yeah, if you win the point and you say like, man, good rally guys. It's like,

shut up. What about like you're in a tournament, it's five to four, they did put the ball away and you say, dude, good shot. Yeah, and mate, yeah, once again, not a high horse thing, but it might be like, dude, I don't wanna get psyched out by this guy. I don't wanna be too nice. Like I wanna lose my edge kind of thing. Yeah.

But still- Pickleball. Also, first of all, yes, we're not playing competitively in any kind of leagues or, you know, school or we're not getting paid to do this stuff. Also at the end of the game, if, if they're not, are they nice to you at least then? Hmm. Okay. The guys I'm thinking of, they were, they didn't. Yeah. So, so, cause that, they were, they didn't, yeah. So, so. Cause that, that translates more to the other, like,

if it's like the game's over and they compartmentalize and they're like, it's over. Cause you watch the NFL where like people are trash talking, like pushing each other around after every play. But in the end of the game, they're buddy, buddy. They're tight with each other. They're like, it's over. Like the game's over.

I need a new mentality on the pickable court. No. Mr. Nice guy. No, no more compliment guy I'm not saying that because I think you can you can play the same no matter what? What so I think it's fine. What if after every shot instead of what I would normally say hey good point guys good rally Hey good good placement there. I say dude lucky shot. Yeah lucky rally. Yeah. Oh man lucky place She's dude. You're not gonna get lucky like that all day. Wow. Lucky rally. Yeah. Oh man. Lucky place. Dude, you're not gonna get lucky like that all day. Wow.

I can't believe that worked out. Man, the wind. Dang, dude. Your, your pals chipped a little bit. I get a new one. Yeah. Cause I was wearing my pickleball socks that I am lucky. You are so lucky.

Time. Did you think of any? No. Sorry. Don't worry about it. Timon. Don't worry about it. Timon, can you think of a letter? I could think of a letter. Would you like me to say it? Please? P. What do you think of that starts with the letter P? Photos, pictures, paintings. It's all art based. A schmores of P. Think of a verb. Pushes. Pushes. Things we push. Plucks. I can't think of anything.

Okay. Can you think of anything? I wasn't trying. Let's think. The schmores of? Schmores of things that? Penguins. Pop. Pop. Pop. Okay. Is that? Things that pop. Things that pop. Are there 12 things that pop surely Schmoors of Schmoors of pops. We'll just keep it there. All right schmoors of pops. All right, I won a couple weeks ago I think you've won every impromptu s'mores. Yeah, you also won it made sure rosters. Oh, yeah We did a impromptu schmoors of toys made sure rosters Okay toys at Macy's Roasters. OK, now you choose more pops.

I'm going to go first and then I'm going to let Jake go and then time and go. All righty. All right. My first one, not more of pops is going to be popsicles. OK, popsicles. That's good. Just a wonderful treat that sometimes they come in the double and you get two. You get to share them. Double pops. Just a fun thing.

Popsicle sticks, you know, great times. So popsicles. Okay. My first pick is going to be, you know, I grew up calling this pop and that's Dr. Pepper. Yeah. That was one. Dang it. Dang it. Yeah. It's my number one pop. Yeah, I

Think if you say the word pop still you probably still drink a lot of Dr. Pepper So I love I would love some pop right now. Yeah, okay I'm gonna start with these those rubber pop-up toys. They turn inside out. Yeah, put them down little poppers wait a bit Yep. Yeah. My first one. Popper toys. And I gotta say pop rocks. Oh.

Fun candy to eat. Things that pop. All right. Back to me. Yep. I'm gonna say your grandpa. You refer to him as Pops. Yeah, that's what we call Catherine's dad, Pops.

There you go. So it'd be any term of endearment or affectionate term for the person in your life, maybe it's just your dad, maybe it's your grandpa. But it's the Pops in your family. I love it. You don't get called Pops if people dislike you. Yeah, you've lived a good life of respectable values.

Absolutely, Pops. Be called Pops. Shoot, I had one, I lost it. Oh. Dirty Pop. The N-Sync song. Um, shoot, I had one. I lost it. Oh, dirty pop. The end thing. Yeah. Is it called dirty pop or is it called pop? Whatever it is. Great. Dirty pop. Good song. Sick and tired of hearing. Yeah.

People talking about. You did a jingle to this back then, didn't you? I think so. I think you did. I think I did. Um, so that's my first one, Dirty Pop. And then other one for Pops. Pop Goes the Weasel. Yeah. The song?

The song, the toy. You hear it often associated with ice cream trucks. And then all of a sudden you get popsicles because of that jack in the box all the things pop goes the weasel so i thought of that one in five seconds so beat that i'm gonna go with tootsie pops it was a fun just a hybrid candy i get a sucker i get a tootsie roll and i get to search the wrapper for a little star i I don't even really know what it gets me, but I know it's just be looking for a star. How do you know that? Oh yeah.

Back in the day, if you had the Native American with the star, you would get a free, like on the rapper, you'd take it back in and get a free second pop. Okay. That's what I just redeemed for free pop. Uh, kids, the kids still love those things. Yeah. Still good. Just the other day at, I had to go get my haircut

on the way to dropping Rosie and Bo off at Mother's Day Out. And so my hair, my barber gave them both a mini Tootsie Pop. Okay. And it's nine o'clock in the morning, I'm driving them to Mother's Day Out and I go to pick up them from the backseat. Bo is smart enough and hears me to say like, we're having those after lunch or whatever.

And Rosie's just got orange Tootsie Pop all over her mouth. And she's like, it's not like I'm like pawning her off to somebody else for five hours. Like, here you go, sorry, she has a bunch of sugar right before going to you. But yeah, they make the small ones now, which are awesome. That's nice. Orange, blue, what's your favorite? It's you're awesome. That's nice. Orange blue.

What's your favorite? I like blue and red. Red's nice. Yeah. I don't like the chocolate one very much. Oh, yeah. No. Also do it, but it feels like I'm already getting I'm kind of

getting that brown later. Yeah. Yeah, it spoils it. Yeah. I want fruit now. Yeah, man. All the red ones. They're also orange, blue, orange is good.

Those are all really good I go red blue then orange. I think reds top. I don't know if I've had blue or no It's purple on the inside like the actual thing but like it's blue on the wrappers blue. Oh gotcha. Okay. Yeah Thank God I'd go for it red and orange then blue. All right, go ahead Me. Yep. I'm gonna say pop music Okay, I think a lot of fun artists, fun songs come out of pop music. Who do you think of when you think of pop music? Like right now, like Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish, I don't know. A lot of girls. Yeah. Libby Roderig,

Tate McRae, Chapel. Justin Bieber, that's a boy. He's making music all the time these days. Yeah. Constantly dropping new stuff. Yeah. King of Pop. Michael Jackson. True. It's a guy.

Kinda. And then I want to say. Toby, you're a guy. Popcorn. Popcorn! Love popcorn. Great answer, Ty. Thank you.

Nice. Dang it. Tyman went for just all the things that are called Pop yeah, I mean we all did but why not? Popcorn how did I? All right, my last pick is gonna be We just called him poppers the but the firework things that like Against the ground great for a prank you put him under someone tire. Great for a prank, just throw them at their feet.

Yep. You prank people a lot of different ways. Also just fun, safe for kids. Notice what you do them in the city limit. Yeah, those are a great gateway drug to fireworks. Yes, they are. Just throw those things. Throw those things.

They're loud, but they're not too loud. Unless you have to have a bunch of them. You ever like, between your fingers, pop them? I was never the daredevil type. I wasn't like, let me put this. Yeah, it'll kill you But seriously I'm with you I'm like No

That sounds like it would kind of hurt the people who would put like a match out on their tongue or put the candle out With their fingers or jump over the fire. I'm good on that. Yeah, I'm good on that Out of those three, I'd jump over the fire first, I think. Yeah. I'd fire then candle. You would? Yeah. Poppers. Good pick. Poppers.

Poppers. I know. I thought it was a long time ago, but it's not true to me, so I couldn't pick it. Oh really? I don't even know if you're thinking the right thing, but I'm thinking of jalapeno poppers. Yep, that's what I thought at first.

I was like, people love those, but I don't like them, so I'm not allowed to pick them. I'm not a panda picker wait They're so good describe them briefly to me stuffed jalapenos. Oh, yeah short painful bite Like cream cheese cream cheese and then oh, yeah, you put bacon around them. Maybe a little I've had them with quail Big and quail around jalapeno potail wrap jalapeno popper. Baking wrapped jalapeno popper. Oh yeah, I know those things are insane, dude. I was so excited to say that as my honorable mention. Sorry, dude, you said poppers. I know.

Too many times, they got me going. Wow, I went from like no chance I win this thing to like, I might be in the driver seat boys with my fourth rounder. I got Tom Brady in my fourth round. Um, so I said popsicles, dirty pop pop goes the weasel bacon wrapped jalapeno poppers. Jake said, Dr. Pepper, the grandpa named pops, uh, Tootsie pops and the poppers fireworks. Good luck. Madison McCullough on emojis for this time and said the popper toys. Wait, what was that?

Yeah. Oh, the things are like pop. Yeah. Rubber pop like pop pop things. Pop rocks, pop music, popcorn. Very good guys. Definitely did not expect to do that. It's more as this was good.

But that was fun. Auto mention is anytime Joe Biden says the word corn pop. I like that. You do a pretty good Biden. Do I? I think. I haven't thought about it in a while. I actually haven't heard him talk in a while.

He's just kind of chilling right now. It's kind of crazy. I think I have a theory that he's a little, and it's not really my theory, but I think he's pretty annoyed with how all this went. Oh yeah. I mean, he's putting on a Trump hat. I mean, he's like, he really doesn't care.

Oh yeah. There has been a few times where he's had outbursts, like in outrage outbursts. I like a feisty Joe. I like a feisty corn pop. It's like finally, where you been? Yeah, I like it. Yeah, he's got mad at a interviewer recently

Or something. Hey, hey, what are you doing? You don't say that. What are you doing? I'm your corn pop I mean seriously, come on. Come on sit around corn pops a lot. Yeah, think about it. So All right, that's been schmores. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you What's up, man? How are you man? What's that roster? What's up, man? How you doing? How you doing roaster? It's like um, yeah Oh, I'll be your I'll be your goose you be my rooster Good

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MainstreetRoasters.com GRKC, 10% off, for the best coffee that your taste buds can handle. Synapses, go. Going back to the question mark thing, do we wanna get Cane's after this, guys? It does sound nice. Yes, I do. Period.

I would like that. Fire me up. I would like that quite a bit. One last segment. Yeah, let's do it. This was a Nathan Cole suggested this he said. He did. Let me see if I can find the actual text,

but it's called, don't get me started. Let me see. I love this idea. He said, my family just introduced me to a game called don't get me started. And I think it could be a fun podcast segment. It could even be clip for IG and YT shorts as well time. Essentially one person gives the other a topic

that they have to rant about for any amount of time. We average about 60 seconds. Person ranting just passionately and often humorously rants about that topic until they're out of things to say on it. It may sound a little boring the way I described it, but I think you guys, and probably Timon as well, could find a way to make it really funny.

Great. Sweet. Can I give you guys, we'll do this to two people at a time Okay, I'm gonna have an alter ego time and you want to alter ego it you want to give me one No, okay. I'm just gonna who are you gonna be I'm gonna be I'm gonna be I'm gonna be northeastern of some sort. I don't know if it's New York or Whatever. I don't know the New York's gonna be good for this first one Okay, and I think I'm gonna be I don't know if I'm gonna be I was gonna say I'm gonna be a woman every time But I don't know if that's true. I'm thinking to myself. We did that video about the gossiping ants one time

I think I might be that woman But I don't know. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna commit to woman every time. All right, I'm thinking about alter ego I'm not and I'm wondering if it's too many things to think about We'll see but it sometimes it kind of helps you. That's true. No, I'm not going to put it on for you, but you just feed off my energy time. Okay. Your topic to not get you started on is cup holders. Ah, cup holders, dude. Don't get me started. These things these days, when I was, when I was first driving, I had an 88 Honda Accord. Four doors, four cylinders, four miles per gallon. That thing was just fine.

Guess how many cupholders it had, Jacob? Zero cupholders in the whole thing. That was just fine, because you know what? When you're driving, you don't need to worry about where you're putting your cups because you don't need any cups. You need two hands, one on 10, one on two. And you're just driving down the road.

These days, I have a friend. I have a friend. She's a friend of mine from church, from St. Teresa's. She has a minivan, a Honda Odyssey, something like that, Honda Odyssey. 16 cup holders in the thing, Jacob. Don't get me started. What do you need so many cup holders for? These days, just holding in your bladder till you get there and then drink your drinks. You don't need cup holders. Jake, tell me what, Jake, what's below your torso and above your feet?

Waist. Legs. Legs. Your legs. When you're sitting down, there's a space right between them. Right between them. You squeeze it. Our God given cup holder.

Yes. That's good. 100%. So you're still a fan of using some kind of cup holder. You use your bladder. Was that your argument? You lost me a little bit there at the end. My argument is no cups.

Okay, yeah. You don't need cups, so you don't need holders for them. Okay, because your bladder can hold it. Because you don't need anything in there until you get to your destination. Don't need a solution if you don't introduce the problem. That's good. I once drove 18 hours on one tank of gas

and one bladder full of liquid. Liquid? Liquid. One bladder full of liquid. I said liquid. I think. That's good, good job. That was really good.

Nice little thunder and lightning there. All right. Mine for don't get me started. You have an alter ego? I don't know. I could try to be Trump. Yeah. Perfect. Me and Trump. I don't know if I have a Trump impression. I could try. Biden and Trump. All right. Here we go. All right. Don't get me started on playgrounds. These days, playgrounds, we used to just throw a throw a tire over a pole. And now you got the monkey slides, monkey hoop, monkey swings and monkey bars. Hooped monkey swings and monkey bars. It's too much.

Brad. Brad, a lot of people are talking about these playgrounds and they're writing all kinds of, all kinds of technology to them, Brad. And when I was a boy, Brad, we look at your hands, Brad. That's not Trump anymore. No, it's good. Look at my hands. What do you use to pick up things, Brad? A lot of people would say they're called fingers, Brad. Yeah, my fingers. And we play all kinds of games. There's Johnny Johnny whoop. We got that's a great game. Here's the church, here's the steeple. Okay.

That's another great game. Who needs all this architectural things with the mulch and the turf in the fancy neighborhoods? We don't need them. You're having playground, you know who plays on the playgrounds that we build for our schools? Who's that? The Alley Cats. I come in one day, and I was bus driving the buses, and I was driving kiddos on the buses.

And I come here one day, and the monkey bars are just Alley Cats. Just a bunch of them. Just a bunch of Alley Cats. That doesn't sound like a good situation. We don't need playgrounds. OK. No, don't. Just take them away.

Yeah. And mulch. Very good., don't take them away. Yeah. And mulch. Very good, thank you. Mulch hurts. Yes. That was great. You would start every sentence so much like Trump and by the time you got to Brad,

then it was someone else entirely. It was like just an old guy. And it was still better than I could do. It's hard to maintain an impression for like a whole long thing. At some point I do want to just by myself trust see how close I can get. I am such a big fan of the people who could sing can do impressions. Oh you think so?

I think I think it's a correlation. You think it goes the other way as well? Maybe yeah if you do impressions you can probably sing. Because you can kind of hear things differently. Yeah you just have a skill in there. Inner ear skill. Inner ears. All right, Tymon, what's me and Brad's topic?

Toaster ovens. Oh, Tymon. I shouldn't have even. Do you know? I would, I think I do. Do you know about my cousin? Down at the muffler store? Can you tell? Get started. My cousin down at the muffler store. You tell him.

Get started. My cousin's been at the same muffler store for 18 years, Diamond. 18 hard grueling years. Changing mufflers. Brad doesn't need someone else doing it. Don't get me started. Maintaining mufflers.

else doing it. Don't get me started. Maintaining mufflers, analyzing mufflers. It's all because some Jack Weasel 19 years ago claimed that my cousin, some rusty ball joint, after having one too many fun dips, shoved this guy's hand in a toaster oven, started it up and burned his hand clean off. You think that's true, Tymon? I believe it. There's no way. There's no way. Justice, justice for Antonio. That's all I'm going to say about him.

Toaster ovens, Tymon, are for somebody who thinks, hey, I don't have, I have too much space in my kitchen. I just need one more appliance. You can do things in a toaster oven that I just use a toaster for. Stop laughing. Sorry, it's serious, Antonio. You can, yeah, because if I want my morning bagel

with a cream cheese smear, I just use the toaster. If I want my evening bagel bites, it's always bagel related timing. At night, I use the oven. I don't give one rat's rip about Tosa Ovens. They've done nothing but cause humiliation and agony for my family. If I see one of those in your house, Timon,

can I go ahead and be honest with you? Can I go ahead and be honest? I'm gonna rip it out of its socket and I'm gonna shove it in one of your sockets. Okay. Don't get me started. Right? What's the deal with toaster ovens? I mean, are they toasters or are they ovens? They don't even know what they are. You see this big thing on your counter. It's like, pick a lane buddy. Yeah. Pick a lane. Yeah. It's like, hey, Dion Sanders, it worked for you. It's not going to work for very many other people.

Are you here to toast or are you here to bake? No one knows. Don't get me started on the dial. You turn it to bake. Next thing you know, it's either sourdough or charcoal. Yes. Oh, they're impossible. It's impossible.

And then if it's warmed up, it takes less time than if it's not warmed up. You're telling me. Yeah. Preheat it. Yeah, right. Don't get me started. Pick a lane! And scene!

Scene. All right. I like that game. It's a good game. We done? We... One more, one more? I'll give you guys one more.

All right. So Brad, probably. No, you start timing. Oh Cuz of that crack. I Was saying I'm just saying take it away. It's probably gonna be Brad just dominant. No, I was kidding This one should be fun. Your topic is Democracy, are you kidding me? We're gonna get into this an election week no less. All right

so so free will. Good start. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Some would say we've got it. Some would say we haven't. Others know how to read a book.

But I don't think we should use it either way. Good. Excuse me? Only a few people should. And point here is that democracy is not a good idea. What do you want? Something else. And I'm thinking we take a page out of the book of what they're doing in Africa. Oh, okay. Yeah.

That whole continent. I think we need more time in the sun. Good. Brad? I was going to let you go for a while. Well first of all, everyone thinks it's pronounced democracy. Until fourth grade, I'm going to be honest with you, Jacob, I thought it was Democracie. Okay?

Okay? I'm gonna... Hand up. That was what I said. I would say, you know, America's a Democracie and they would say, you fool. It's democracy. I say, whatever. Uh, listen, I, uh... I don't know if I believe in it. I don't know if I believe in anything these days, Jake. What's going on? These days I look out in the world and I think,

I'm surprised the sun's even up right now. One thing that is constant is the sun. Africa. I didn't even know what that guy was spouting off. I don't know. That guy sounded like he still calls it democracie. Maybe he sounds like someone who didn't do all their history class. I don't know that guy sounded like he still calls it the mock or get democraki Maybe sounds like someone who didn't do all their history class. This sounds like somebody yeah, who hasn't registered to vote

On anything not even small the only thing he votes on his schmores. He votes for the wrong guy Democracy You want to get me started on democracy, I'll go ahead and say it like this. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. Right to vote? Yeah, right. Yeah, right. What are you in favor of?

Yeah, right. What am I in favor of? Just read the newspaper and tell me you're in favor of it. Right? Yeah, right. Right? Yeah, right. Right. Yeah, right. Google, Google something out there and tell me what the first thing you find is.

It's not good. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. That's so convincing while saying nothing. I mean, look at it. It's on your phone, it's on your computers. It's on the news every night. Yeah, right.

That's a great character. Dude, I found this, dude, that's so funny. So that reminds me, I found this comedian. Well, it's Andy Daly. Do you know who that actor is? He's in a couple of like Will Ferrell movies, D-A-L-Y. Oh yeah. So I guess he's done some standup.

I found a clip, it's an audio only clip of him 14 years ago. He did like, I think it was just part of a set, but he did like a three minute bit where he didn't say anything. He was only using like very common like phrases that comedians do without any substance. It was kind of like that, like a political person

complaining without saying anything. Like, look at what they're saying. So, oh, Rachel loves it maybe even more than I do. It's so funny. I'll try to remember it. So he'll say something. He's Ben Franklin from the office. That's right, he is.

Creepy Ben Franklin. Yeah, so he's like, all right, what do we got going on here? You see what's going on, Lily? I mean, I had one guy the other day, he's like, get a load of this. I'm like, I know, I know if I would know it was going to be this way. I'd be like, no thanks. No thanks. I mean, when did the world get all this all of a sudden, right? I mean, everybody knows it.

And I'm just wondering, hey, when's my wake up call? Is there, I mean, I don't know, it's got to be like this. Is there a sign on my back that says it? I don't know. Just like, yeah, no context. Nothing to anything. Yeah, he's like, the other day, a guy says to me, he's looking over me, I'm over here,

I'm just doing my thing, I'm minding my own business. He goes, come on! And I'm going, you know it, you know it! Oh, it's always gonna be like that. Oh, it's so, and the crowd is like fully on board. Just three minutes of him saying nothing. Kind of like that, it was really good. I mean, he's on a lot of, yeah, this guy is funny.

I think he might be like a Conan O'Brien guy, maybe. Maybe. Yeah, it's good. Anyway, that's great. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. I love that character. Complaining about where America's at this day and age,

but without any evidence. Yeah, without any like real substance to it at all. Just like, well, I mean, you Google it, go to the, go to the deli right now and tell me what you think. Tell me what you see. What's the first thing you see when you walk up to that counter? Yep. Yeah. Right. Didn't used to be like this. Yeah. Right.

You know, 40 years ago, I don't think so. You're like, you're like so judgmental. Yeah. You kind of like laugh out of frustration. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. Yeah, dentists ain't the same. Yeah, right.

Yeah, right. Got to plug in my phone. Yeah, right. Oh gosh. You want me to plug in? Yeah. Digital thermostat. Yeah, right.

Sure it is. Sure it is. Don't step. Don't stand too close to it step don't stand too close to it don't stand too close to it you'll you'll start seeing a little eyeball in there yeah right yeah all right that's great you google it first thing you see yeah right oh yeah right all right let's finish up the episode yeah yeah right Yeah, right. Yeah, right. Yeah Let's do comment of the week. What do you want to do first? Do a win of the week. It's funny how like we don't have like a great cadence for Wednesday, even though we've done it

Super far. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. We do this too My win of the week was well, Indiana mainment one of the week. Yeah. Can I say overarching just it's, it's always so energizing, so fulfilling. So like, you know, whatever cup overflows when we have these events, when we get to meet people. Um, yeah, we're so blessed by that. Uh, another one of the week was getting to show Justin from last week. I took him to, uh, we all went to barbecue after. And then I took him to arrowhead stadium and showed him the chiefs stadium. And he thought it was like hallowed ground or something.

Like, he thought we were at the Holy land. I mean, the grass. I can't believe, like, as we were driving, he's like, I can't believe I'm looking at arrowhead stadium right now. And he tried driving up, he's like, I can't believe I'm looking at a overhead stadium right now. And he tried so hard. He's like, I'm gonna get in. I'm gonna get in here.

And, you know, did the same things I would have done. Like, just like anytime we saw somebody working inside, he'd be like, excuse me, can I come, can you talk to me real quick? Can I ask you a question? Like this big black dude that came over his worker and he's like, man, I just want to know how'd you get your dreadlocks to sit like that so well? And this guy's like, what do you want, man? He's like, I'm from Columbus. I just want to be able to go inside real quick. And I've never been to Kansas City. And the

guy of course is like, no, we can't let anybody inside. But it was a great time with Justin, laughing with him. And then on the way home or away the airport, I got some great, like just deeper, like father conversations with him. So just thankful that he was on, thankful for his sponsorship, thankful for his friendship. Fun. When my one of the week, I think if I'm honest with myself, it just got to be the chiefs. Yeah. It's just fun. They're undefeated. They are by far the best team in the NFL, which I don't know if we could say that.

Lions? I think so. Okay. I don't know, just compared to years past, the Chiefs have never been in a spot like this. Even when we won the Super Bowls, we've never been in a spot like this. Mahomes never started seven and O.

Chiefs defense has never been a top three defense ever. It's the defense, isn't it? I mean, Mahomes feels like he's the defense, isn't it? I mean, yeah. Like my homes feels like he's been good. Obviously he's my homes, but it feels like the defense is like unbelievably good. It's just so fun. Yeah. And we got D hop now.

Yeah. So good. Yeah. I am weirdly worried about the bucks, which this is coming out after the bucks. I don't know why I'm not, I'm not as high on the Chiefs as you are right now. I Like your optimism. Yeah, I'm with you. I don't think we'll go under feeted We'll probably lose like at the bills and like maybe a weird Broncos game or something, you know, but it's all good. Oh, yeah Love it. I love that. I'm not taking the time to look at all the chief stuff

But I know that you'll send me stuff every once while I'll give you the good stuff. I'll filter out the bad stuff. Yeah Timing you gotta win. Yeah last night after choir So like I do choir at M&U a lot of other people do acquire at Greenleaf and like on the same night same time I mean just meet up and play pickleball for a bit after ooh, so fun I'm both like Olisa, so Two Trails Park. And last night we get there, no one's there. It's so windy.

Yeah. Yeah. And it was the most, it was the funniest pickleball game I've ever played. It's amazing. Yeah. I don't like it when people are like, oh, it's too windy to play. It's like, no, just have fun and like embrace how crazy it is. If you're with your friends, it makes it so much more fun.

Oh yeah. Going against the wind. You physically can't hit a ball out. Yeah. Or not long anyway. And you're serving from the other side. You just tap it. Yeah. Yeah.

Some of my most favorite most favorite memories when we first started playing pickball were like the crazy weather times. The wind and the rain and yes sliding around. We got wooden paddles. Yeah. Yeah. It's just a blast. No one's going to the kitchen.

We're just ripping for hands as hard as we can each other. Totally. Put the scores in duper timing. Yeah. Yeah. It was just a blast. No one's going to the kitchen where it's ripping four hands as hard as we can at each other. Yeah. Put those scores in duper timing. No. Good. Don't remember a single one. It's the memories, not the memories of the scores. I always say it's the memories that you have in your head,

not the memories in the duper app. Duper app. Comment of the week, Brad? Comment of the week is coming from Elizabeth Virgil, 84. I was planning on ordering the So Strong bars from my sister who is about to have a baby soon. It seemed like a real confirmation to do so when Brad said, Catherine loved eating them after Henry.

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Not specifically, sorry. Yeah, I know you don't usually. Sorry, I didn't. No, it's fine. I didn't know if I should find one. That's fine. All right, that's it. That was the podcast episode.

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