Ghostrunners - 383 - Taking a Picture with Taylor Swift

Episode Date: November 13, 2024

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Like I said on Monday, this is big time of year for a pickleball, you know, Facebook ads, Google ads, everything. I'm trying to think of anything I can. I one night I stayed up late and just made like memes. I don't know what got into me and why I did that. OK, Michael Scott. Yeah. Name. So I did one breaking bad one. So like the text says, like.

My wife. Me. Is this entertaining? Is this fun? When I think I said when my wife says we're done spending money on pickleball and then it's breaking bad, like season five, Walter's got the broken nose. He gets right up and saw Goodman's face. He says, we're done when I say we're done. That's good.

We'll see. I don't know if this is a good word. Anyway, that was a wild hair one night. And then yesterday I was like, I got another wild hair. Let's do, I was like I got another wild hair let's do I was like I'm gonna throw on the turtleneck I'm gonna throw on the fake glasses I'm gonna take some photos like on the pickleball court looking serious looking thoughtful You always do this when you're serious you touch the fingertips together Yeah and time is gonna take some pictures of me and then

somewhere in like the blank space of the photo I'm gonna come up with like pictures of me and then somewhere in like the blank space of the photo I'm gonna come up with like punny pickleball sayings. Oh okay give me you got one? Dumb. Yeah so well be thinking. Okay. So here's I so where this came from is I thought of I thought of I dink therefore I am. Okay. So it's like that's why I should be in like a turtleneck because it's like thought provoking, but pickleball. I see. I dink therefore I am. Yep. I dink therefore I slam. Just a slight variation. I like that one a lot too. Then we've got dink responsibly. Classic. Yep. Dink in moderation. Okay. Carpe dinkum. Don't dink and drive. I thought about that, but I was like, is that? Yeah, I guess I could, yeah. I could say not to.

I could say not to do it. Yeah. Carpe dinkum. Love it. They're all dink based. I couldn't think of a single thing without dink involved. The pickle wall prices these days are such a racket. How do we not think of that yesterday? I don't know. That's so good. It's a racket. How do we not think of that yesterday?

I don't know. That's so good. It's a racket. But this is all leading to, Tymon came up with on yesterday, much like this, on the fly. Okay. So good.

Yeah. You can lead a horse to water where you can't make him dink. Isn't that good? It sounds like, dude, we gotta, I was like, can you go take a picture with a horse or in the paddle? I don't know, something, we got it. We have to have a real horse in there.

Got to get it, no, what's the word? No ifs, ands, or buts, we're getting the horse in the shot. We gotta. Oh yeah. And a Bafini, got a horse? Yes. She got a paddle? I don't know.

Yeah. Anna? I like the rac don't know. Yeah. Anna? I like the racket one though. Okay. I don't know. I kind of like the racket one. Everyone was trying to come up with them yesterday. No one thought of that.

No one thought of these prices are a racket. Yeah. Racket. What else? We got kitchen, anything with kitchen. It's hard to think of anything that already rhymes with kitchen or pickle. Yeah. Niche, niche and in the kitchen.

Like something about niche. Zach recommended that we recreate the movie poster for the fault in our stars where like the male and female are like basically kissing on the ground and it would be the fault in our serves. Oh very good that's everyone's gonna get that. So come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet cause it's a ghost from the spot cam Ghost from the spot cam Every Monday morning we're taking grandpas from the spot cam Go for a spot cam

Was that a like mediocre, mediocre movie timing? Never seen it It's fine, it's not one's okay it's it's not one that's like man everyone's gonna know that like Toy Story sure crying movie oh yeah yeah I think disease oh yeah that's that's kind of the main part of it that reminds me I didn't write this down in my notes disease I'm so glad we thought we talked about disease people here wow I would have never forgiven myself diseases all right now I'm hyping up too much so I went to the chiefs game with We talked about disease. People here. Wow. I would have never forgiven myself.

Diseases. All right, now I'm hyping up too much. So I went to the Chiefs game with Gabe Oliver. Yeah, Gabe Oliver. He is a travel nurse, often working in pediatric hospitals, typically in oncology. So he said there's been a-

And I know what oncology is, but just for the people out there that aren't as from, like Tymon. Tymon, I see that hand. Didn't finish history. He might not know. We can't make that joke anymore. People are gonna see that Tymon's.

Tymon, you had something to say about oncology? Yeah, yeah, I've been raising my, I just didn't. Yeah. I didn't. I've been raising my hand. Yeah, it's been, they're both up. Yeah. I learned this like within the last year.

It's cancer. Yeah. Cancer ward of the hospital, whatever. Oncology. It's not somebody that just is always there if you need them. On call. Yeah. Right. It's not somebody that just is always there if you need them. On call. Yeah. He said they had a kid somewhat recently who was granted a make a wish. Oh. And they're like, all right. So what do you want?

I know what that is, but time, do you know what it is? Hands up again. Have you heard that? What is? Make a wish. Oh yeah. Okay. I know if it was, I only see it on ESPN So, you know like masculine channels that people watch light enough time big bass prototype stuff. Yeah Yeah, yeah that could make a wish kid make a wish foundation you get anything you want dude Perfect had a video with it. I think there it is

It's like a yeah, if you have some sort of terminal illness typically it's like I anything you want and he's like I The only thing I want, Nintendo Switch. And Gabe was like, dude, hike it up a little bit. Oh, Gabe was talking to him about it? Yeah, I was like, dude, you can go to Disney World. You can meet dude perfect. Like you can get any food you want. You're like, ah, can I just get like a really nice napkin? Like no, no.

Mustard packet. Yeah. Your last meal. Two peanut M&Ms. Two peanut, yeah, think bigger. Peanut, butter M&Ms? Three peanut M&Ms. Family size.

Figure. Shareable. 17 peanut M&Ms. So what did he... So he was like trying to be like, your parents are probably just buying your Nintendo Switch. You have a terminal. Like dude, what do you want to see?

What do you, Great Wall of China, dude? You name it. Go anywhere, do anything. Yeah. Tom Hanks, I don't know what's possible. It's like fine, let's play Nintendo Switch on the Great Wall of China, I guess. And the kid held strong.

It's a Nintendo Switch, so he got it. Yeah. So that was probably an easy one for the foundation to grant. Wow. He said there's another one a couple of years ago. This is right, like shortly after, really the height of like Russia invaded Ukraine,

that war is going nuts. They had a... And I know what Ukraine is. Oh, sorry, Ukraine. But for... Brad's hand. It's not construction. It's not like an iPod, Ukraine.

It's not a service like that. So it's Republic, though. Pod just reminded me. I just learned recently, R slash today I learned, pod... Podcasting comes from the iPod. It's because Apple named it the iPod. And then they're like, we're going to have these radio shows on the iPod. It's because Apple named it the iPod. And then they're like, we're gonna have these radio shows on the iPod.

We're gonna call it podcasting. Huh. What was it called? Did they have any name before that? They're the Lizard Radio. There's a little rare for you. That's malarkey. Yeah.

I mean, seriously, think about it. What's the deal? I don't know. Maybe. I think that's true though. That's fun. Oh, it makes sense. Now you say it. Something just clicked in my head and I was like, that's. Maybe I think that's true though. That's fun. Oh, it makes sense. Now you say it.

Something just like clicked in my head and I was like, that's it I think. So I actually didn't read it anywhere. This is just my own. No, I read it. I could see thoughts in my head. It just, it really clicked one day. I was like, that has to be it.

Probably. No one look it up. I was just like, that has to be it. All right. Russian immigrant child is like in the hospital with Gabe. He's also granted to make a wish. He's like seven years old, had his age. What do you want?

And he said, I want citizenship for my dad. What? They're like, oh wow. Well, we can't do that. What about a Nintendo Switch? Oh yeah. Think bigger. Yeah, they're trying to distract him.

I'm like, what about Mickey Mouse? Change your mind a little bit? Gabe said he was like a really just like awesome kid. Just like, son of a kid. I kind of forget what else Gabe told me. It was really cool though. Just like, all right, we can't get citizenship for your dad. And he just like, all he wanted was like things for his family. Just like, well, can they have like a new, like a house here?

Can they have this? Like, do you want anything? Yeah. He was like, I'm just happy to be in America. Like, I don't need anything. Wow. Like that's awesome. Wow. That's also very interesting that Gabe has been in contact with two of these kids. Like how often, I don't know. I don't understand how many make a wish. Maybe it first go out there. Wits and wagers question. How many make a wishes are granted in a year? I have no idea. 300.

That's what I would, I guess not that many. And so that fact that Gabe has, but maybe it's more than that. It's sad. I mean, that's a sad thing to think about like how many kids are terminating. Dealing with stuff like that. Yeah, I got a kick out of, I was like,

that's kind of a bit of like anything you want, bud. Nintendo Switch? Yeah. I'd be good with that. Dude, kind of not, this is not the, this is parallel. My grandpa, he died when I was three years old. Okay. And so, but, and I think he knew he was like, he had cancer, he was dying. Of course I didn't recognize he was like, he had cancer, he was dying.

Of course I didn't recognize any of this, he was a three year old. But my grandpa, my dad and I went to Toys R Us one time and my grandpa was like, Brad, you can get anything in this entire store. And I did the same thing, I didn't switch things, but I did, I was really into Power Rangers and so I found this Power Rangers like pencil box.

You know those things? I was like, I want that. And a peanut in a minute. I want that and you can fill it with peanut in a minute. That'd be awesome. That's actually pretty good to start with peanut in a minute and if you transition to pencils, now they kind of smell good.

Yeah. You don't want to go the other way. You got pencil shavings, you got peanut in a minute. That'd be rough. Yeah, you don't know if it's like, oh, is that peanut shaving or is that pencil shaving? But then he kind of the same thing, like he was like, how about we also get this thing?

And so he bought me, I don't know how to Google it. It's like a Fisher Price Castle. And I feel like it's like the coolest 90s castle. Yes, I already can imagine it. Yeah, much like the podcasting thing. Yeah, it says on here, vintage 1994 Fisher Price great adventures castle play set. Knights with seven, it has like a cannonball, cannon. I wanna see if it's the same one.

Oh yeah, the cannonball cannon. And it's got like a moat. 100%. Yeah. 100%, I mean, exact one. My parents still have it at their house and it's like my kid's favorite thing to play with. I could play with it right now.

I loved it, dude. That was a great toy. So I'm so glad that, yeah, he wasn't just like, all right, I could get off for, you off for $2 here with this pencil box. Pencil box it is. For Power Rangers. I also do have the Power Rangers pencil box still. Do you really?

That's cool. We have my parents' house. Make a wish has 58 chapters nationwide, 50 countries, six continents, so it's pretty big. It says they grant 35 wishes per day in the United States and its territories. OK. So was that like.

Twelve hundred or so. Thirty five times three sixty five. Am I doing bad math? Oh, twelve thousand. I'm so right. I was trying to forget the zero. Yeah. That is one of the hardest things. It's tough mentally if there's not zero is already zero. Yeah. That is one of the hardest things. It's tough mentally. If there's not zero is already involved. Yeah. Tricky.

12,000. Okay, so we were a little off with 300 per year. Yeah. In the calendar year 2022, we reached a record of 17,000 wishes granted. 2022? Right globally. Anyway, good for Gabe.

Yeah. Nintendo Switch. How was the cheese game? So it was, like I Gabe. Yeah, Nintendo Switch. Get Eminem. How was the cheese game? So it was, like I said on Monday, the more and more rain is in the forecast. Initially I was like, that's too bad. But then pretty quickly I was like, no, we're gonna make the most of this.

We're gonna prepare. It's kinda like hunting. You're like, you're not cold if you just prepare adequately. No such thing as bad weather. And it was never gonna drop below 60 degrees. I was like, that's so great still for November. We can do this. Truly. And so I bought a five pack of ponchos for everybody. And then I got waterproof pants and then I got boots. I was gonna wear hunting. Waterproof pants? What do waterproof pants look like?

Just plastic bags. Okay. No, just like snow pants kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tough, kind of polyester plastic on the outside. Fleece lined. Yeah. Little warm then. Little warm. Yeah, in a good way.

That was great. I was so comfy the whole night. Never got wet. It was the way to do it. It was truly a fun experience. So I went with Gabe Oliver, who is a big football fan, big Philadelphia Eagles fan, has been to a handful of Eagles games.

This is his first time going to a Chiefs game. His main takeaway, he's like, I can't believe, not necessarily how nice Chiefs fans are, but how non-mean they are. Dude, it's a different world in Philadelphia. Yeah, he was like, I love the Eagles, but I do not associate with the fans in Philadelphia. Yeah, yeah, it was like I love the Eagles, but I do not associate with like the fans of Philadelphia Yeah, like I just don't like what we have going on there because I would say the Chiefs fans are mean like

Yes, NFL fans are just the Chiefs fans are so passionate. Mm-hmm. Yeah, and I have a theory I was telling gave this unproven kind of like the podcast thing, but when prices drop when temperature is bad I kinda like the podcast thing. But when prices drop, when temperature is bad, blue collar type workers can now afford to go to Chief's Game. So you get a little different clientele in the upper deck of a rainy game. You guys were up there. We were up there.

And I was like, on one end, I think it's gonna be louder. I think these people may have been to Chief's Game in a while. These are just my sociological theories here. But anyway, yeah, I think it's kind of a rough crowd sometimes. You wear a different jersey. Upper deck in general is rougher. Mm hmm. Was he wear a different jersey?

No, no, no. We had a guy to us in front of us wearing a Buccaneers jersey. Wasn't being too obnoxious. But I think you wear other teams jersey and you cheer the way he was cheering. I think you almost you you invite. Yes. Tension. You can at least understand why they're mad at you. When you're cheering against the team that they all love. Yeah, you have a little bit of a sicko in you. You're like, I kinda want you guys to get me right now.

Normally I don't agree with this type of ideology, but it is kind of like, was he asking for it? What was he wearing? Yes, he was asking for it. Anyway, so Chiefs fans are just like kind of laughing. I'm kind of poking fun of him, but such like a harmless and it's the things and Gabe was cackling laughing.

He's like, this is so just like funny. Like the bucket years guys try to look through his binoculars and this Chiefs fan is like leaning over six seats just to put his hat in the way of his binoculars. Like, ah, buddy. And then hits him on the head with his cap. And it was so similar. He's like him on the head with his cap and sits back down. It was so similar.

He's like, he was messing with a dog or something. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. Smacks him on the head. Oh, man. It's so funny. The guy's just sitting there just taking it. Buccaneers are losing.

So, yeah, he just couldn't believe it. He's like, man. He also couldn't believe how nice we were to like, our own team. He's like, you know, Travis Kelsey dropped a ball on third down, we didn't convert. He's like, I can't believe you guys aren't booing him. I was like, it would take a lot for the Chiefs

to ever boo Mahomes or Kelsey. Because Kelsey had a big fumble that he lost and a big drop and no, it was not even rumblings of booing. He had 14 catches, you know, he's like, we love him. Yeah. He was like dude in Philly, every time we punt, it feels like we boo. The boo birds, yeah.

No, I think like the Chiefs are games, if not years away from ever booing. Yeah. Like it would take five losses in a row for the Chiefs to get booed. And it would be like, you'd boo McCole Hardman for dropping us punt for the eighth time Yeah, that's why I was trying to I had fun like kind of coaching up

You know cuz I went with purely ghosties who have moved here recently. It was Celia Maddie and Gabe and I'm you know and kind of welcoming them like alright. This is what chiefs games are like. This is how we do this I was like once you got knows a chiefs fan you never ever have to be worried Like matter you anxious right? I know we're down seven never ever have to be worried. It's like Matt, are you anxious? I know we're down seven in third quarter, are you worried? Maybe a little bit, game's bad luck. Ah, I don't wanna hear it. Bad luck. It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter. We have my homes. That's one thing, if you're gonna watch Chiefs fans, you need to know it doesn't matter, we're gonna win. See, but you, I love that and I agree with that. But at the same time, it's like, but you gotta appreciate how great, the reason we don't have to worry

is not because this is just how football is, it's because we have somebody that no one else has ever had. Yeah, we got a good crew, good blend of things happening right now. Yeah, Monday night, you know, the kids watched it for me for like the first quarter and a half, they went to bed. And Catherine's just meandering around the house,

bebopping around, doing her thing, and just checking in every once in a while. Not a care in the world. And then we win, and she's like, oh, overtime, oh gosh. And then I come to bed, and she's like, you guys, we win? Like, yeah, we won.

Yeah, I knew we would win. It's like, but still. No, do you want to know some specifics about it? But we're eight and oh, Catherine, we're good. Whatever. She's almost to the next level of just like well. Yeah, of course we won I I think Rachel's there a little bit too like yeah, she's just good that mom's she did say she she had she stood up for the Chiefs a little bit she had some girls over for the game Okay, and one of her friends had something like and what else fuck the Chiefs Chiefs are just like not that good this year

I just like I mean they're undefeated. I think they're doing all right. Yeah, but they didn't win every game by 15 points. They didn't win the way I wanted them to win. Boo hoo. Let's keep talking about the Chiefs. They looked good on Monday. They looked like the Chiefs.

I feel like I was borderline annoying our Chiefs group text about how excited I was about DeAndre Hopkins leading up to this. I was like, the entire national media thinks he's washed because he's 32. That's still younger than me. And I could run some rounds.

And it's fine. I don't feel that much sorrow. I was like, he's a year older than Tyree Kill, a year older than Mike Evans. And we're acting like he's a dinosaur. My homes has never had a receiver like this. This is all things I was saying pre ever taking a snap. I'm so bad it's coming true.

People were just like, I don't see how this moves the needle that much. Really? Yeah, that's ridiculous. He's washed. He's all look at what he's. Yeah, he hadn't done anything. And yeah, with what quarterback? You and what army? Yeah. Anyway, I was fired up, pumped. I was a big clapper on Monday.

I was clapping a lot of my house by myself. Yeah. Yeah, it was fun. It was a good time. We got there just in time. This is pretty euphoric. Right when we get to like, you know, you leave kind of the interior, you feel the breeze for the first time,

you see the lights, you see the field. We come out to the 50 yard line. The first two people I see are my homes and Kelsey, and it's right at the end of the National Anthem. It was beautiful. It's right when they were at home with the Chiefs the flyover happened. I mean we timed it Amazingly well, right? It was awesome. That's great. And then it was just a it was a great game In the rain, no problem. Have you missed?

One thing so during the game, you know, the girls are obviously like we're Taylor Swift that we're since we've done like I'm pretty sure She's below us. They're using binoculars. They're trying to see Taylor. I was like, yeah, I was like, let me text shooty. So I texted shooty a picture of Maddie and Celia looking through binoculars. And I was like, hey, the girls want to know because I know he knows Celia from the Gulf Shore strip. I said they want to know where where Taylor's sweating. Swift is sitting. She might be sweating. And he's like, almost positive, 119B, yada yada.

I'm like, thank you, appreciate it. Then he texts me the next day and he said, this might be the craziest thing I've ever seen. The picture you sent me was taken at the exact moment our fan cam was taking a picture of you. Oh, cool. Have you seen the fan cam? Yeah.

You know what that is? Yeah. I'll send it to both of you guys now. That's awesome. So I guess I didn't know about this. Once per game, some crazy high megapixel camera just takes a picture of everything. You like zoom in infinity and see whoever you need to.

Ooh, let's try to find him, Tymon. I am like straight across 50 yard line. Oh, nice seats. By Clint Davis? Yes, because he tagged himself. That guy was funny too. Yes, you can tag yourself in these images as like, I'm there, I'm the Chiefs fan.

I'm looking for the guy in the waterproof pants. How high up were you? I was like two rows above Clint Davis a little to the left of Clint Davis Oh, you're close to Clint. Yeah, he was right next to me. I'm and don't don't just cheat and go to Clint So Clint, I mean, I don't know this guy. He just tagged himself in this photo, but I reckon I put two and two together He was the guy he was like standing up in the first quarter Mad at everyone else around him for also not standing up with him. He would like shrug his shoulders. Chiefs fan. What are we doing? We don't care about the team anymore. We don't stand up for games anymore. Shaming, shaming them, shaming chiefs fans. And it's like, we stood, we stood just

not the whole game. That's fun. Do you find him timing? No, we're in relation to Clint Davis. I'm just over the 50 yard line is sorry time Middle of the picture. I'm here at Clint Davis. I know where the 50 mark. I'm here I'm teasing up into the left a little bit from here at the wall with two ease Anyway, is that crazy like right when I'm taking the picture to send a shooting is right when they sent that photo. That is crazy. I sent it to the crew and I was like, isn't this insane? And then it's kind of fun to scroll around. Like I saw Brittany Mahomes, I found her in her suite.

And then Taylor Swift is in there. Really? Maddie had a funny comment. She's like, pretty cool that we took a picture of Taylor Swift. Yeah, that's good. We're in a picture with her. That is a crazy, well, like I can see all your faces.

It's not like, I haven't seen one of these in a long time. It's like technology. Yeah. I don't know what it is. I think they do them on a lot of events. Like a lot of, like I bet, I think K state does them. Like, I don't know. I could be wrong, but so where was Taylor? Was she underneath you? Oh, I see down there. Yeah. Down to the left. A little section over from Joe Buck and Troy Eichmann. Wow. Or right below. Oh, there's Ed Kelsey.

Yeah. Oh, there she is with her mom. Mama Andrea, Mama Kelsey. Crazy man. It's kind of fun browsing around. So you go to the right and you see Brittany Mahomes is in a box basically by herself. And it looks like a, like a cinema camera, like a Netflix type camera.

And she's like at the glass, like looking nervous, but this was taken during a timeout. You can see there's no one on the field. She's to the right, you said? To the right and right above Build-A-Bear. There's a bunch of Build-A-Bear. Oh, I see her, there she is. So you see how, I'm guessing they're filming some sort of documentary or reality show and she's like, all right

We need a shot of you being nervous at the game. And so she's like pounding on the glass like Do you think this was after my homes got hurt? No, this was taken some time in the I see first or second quarter. I think Cuz that's when I took the five oh two. There's a screen right here of it. Man. That's fun We don't have to this is probably not great entertainment for everybody else, but I am going to look at this more. Yeah. I wonder if they are doing some kind of documentary on so quite the Queen, the homes.

Yeah. She's like the only one up there. Yeah. Weird. Oh, I see like Patrick's family back there. Also glide was a section over from me. Did you find him in the picture? Yeah, that's crazy How's glide doing? I need to get together with him. He's great. We played football on Saturday. He's a beast Is he yeah the Berg? How's that going?

Yeah, football is awesome as always is a great time Nobody got hurt. No one jinxed getting hurt. Good, Jake. I'm so glad no one got hurt this week. Dude, next week. Now, next week. Come on. Anyway, it was fun. I love football.

Yeah, man, it was, Hattie still kind of doesn't understand football that well, but like enough to like where it's still, it's been fun watching with her recently and same with Bo. And so, that's nice. But they know Kelsey and Mahomes really well. Like they know those players. It's good guys to know.

Yeah. I asked Celia afterwards, I said, what do you know about football now that you didn't know beforehand? And she said, I know about downs now. She said it was always really confusing. Just arbitrary number they have to get to. Why are they going out of bounds?

And she's like, I think I know the downs now. Yeah, that was whenever I first met Katherine. She was like, my dad watched football a bunch growing up, but I'd never really understood that. Yeah. And it's I took I tell Hattie, it's the tries they have. They have four tries to get 10 yards. Tries is good. It's so much easier on TV because you can see the yellow line. Yeah. They have four tries to get ten yards tries is good It's so much easier on TV because you can see the yellow line Yeah, they have four tries to get there and if they get past it then they get another try

usually they only get three tries and then they have to do something else, but Yeah, that's fun speaking of Celia. I went to a coffee shop. She recommended Chingu. Oh, yeah pretty fun. What's it about? Chingu. Oh yeah. Pretty fun. What's it about? Chingu, I think somebody, a ghostie commented that it meant friend in Korean. So it's got some Asian vibe to it.

In Cantonese it means Main Street Roasters. That's right. Yeah, I'm sure they roast, Main Street Roasters beans only, but there's a Chingu restaurant and then there's a Chingu coffee. Two different places. Don't get it mixed up. I went to the restaurant first. I was like, this isn't Westport. There's a Chingu restaurant and then there's a Chingu coffee. Two different places. Don't get it mixed up.

I went to the restaurant first. I was like, this is in Westport. Why didn't she describe it as being in Westport? She said, it's off rainbow a little bit. I'm like, I don't, this is, no. No thanks. And then it didn't open till 11 a.m. I was like, I don't think this is a coffee shop.

So I went to it. It was fine. I'm trying to be more critical in my ratings like timing. And so I rated it a 3.1 out of five. I was like, I'm not, it was fine. The wifi, fastest coffee shop wifi I've seen in a long time. But the coffee? It was fine.

Some people say it's Ching Do, I say Ching No Thank You. Ching No Thank You. I've been getting cortados everywhere I go. And it was good, it was fine, but it wasn't, I'm not coming back for the coffee alone, I'll say that. So, but overall it was fun. It was the day of the election. And so there were a lot of people there,

like straight up, I heard somebody be like, who are you voting for? And it's like, I don't, not to me, like. They're taking like straw polls or what? No, like they're friends. But still, I don't, not to me, like. They're taking like straw poles or what? No, like they're friends. But still, I don't know. It just felt like a little bit of like a personal question. Like a person, like we don't need to talk about this right now.

All up in my chin-ness. My chin-ness. So anyway, I recommend it to people though in Kansas City, go to Chingu. Yeah. Hey, if you're looking for a 3.1 star coffee shop, this is one of the better ones. I think you're telling me that with sarcasm. I think for a 3.1 rated coffee shop. 3.1, no, we're changing the rating scale though.

There's not gonna be a bunch of four fives and five ohs. Most of them are 3.1. But there's some, there is some. I think McLean's under 3.1, and I love McLean's. Oh. Their coffee though McLean's. Oh. Their coffee though, not that good. Oh. Jake, maybe you should get on the board. We're redefining how critical we are.

I'm rethinking Chengdu. I think Black Dog, 3.3. That's a wake up call. Really? Black Dog above McLean's. Coffee? That's a wake up call. Really? Black dog above McClain's. Coffee? Over my dead body.

Messenger? 3.8. Yeah, right. No, you know coffee a lot better than I do. I don't know. I just, I just do. Well, that's what I don't try. I it's so subjective. But yeah, I'm trying to just be more critical in my rankings.

Yeah, you mean my rainy. So shout out to Celia, though, for the good recommendation. That's nice. Yeah, I've I got some good time with Tommy Coop at the wedding. I got a I don't know if it's a business for us. Here's what I'll say. I'll skip to the end. I got out talking to him for 30 straight minutes about what he's been doing

and I immediately texted Peter Casey. Like this is something you're gonna be all over. Basically what he's been doing is he's been flipping lawnmowers on Facebook marketplace. I've heard of him doing this. Oh really, how do you know about this? I don't know about it. I don't know, I thought you told me maybe one time. I know. I know somehow. He's been doing it. What if I did?

Yeah, but he's got again. It's pretty successful. So what he does More often than not he's not doing anything to the lump It's not like a house where you go in and you DIY and you gut it and now you sell it He's buying lawnmowers off Facebook Polishing them taking better photos, and then reselling them for like twice as much money. Okay. That's it.

And it's working? Yeah. Yeah. I can't, I couldn't believe it. That is totally Peter. Yes. Peter would do great with that. I was like, this is awesome.

He's like, I just have some really good polish and you just wait until a good time of day and you take pictures and you're gonna love this. He said, I just, I always mow my lawn with it. So one, I don't have to ever get my own lawn mower. And two, I gotta make sure it works. Yeah, biohacking, not biohacking, yeah, hacking, hacking the system.

Yeah, he's like, and occasionally you'll need something random, like it needs a new dipstick. I will replace the dipstick, I'll mow the lawn, maybe I'll sharpen the blades. I rarely, I do anything. All I do is I just polish it and take new pictures and it's worth like a thousand dollars more Wow, it's amazing

I've heard that same idea for like used cars Like buy buy a decent car that just detail it looks terrible and detail it But the thing is I think it's like you can only do that three or four times a year Before you have to get like a like a dealership like license or something Like you can't you can't just be a dealer of cars like that. But lawnmowers unregulated. It sounds like, yeah, it sounds like that's how you crack the code.

Cause lawnmowers are expensive still. Like they're $2,000 sometimes used probably. It's sometimes these things are like borderline tractors that could also work as a snow plower. You know, like they can be used for a lot of things. But he's like, also do little bitty riding lawnmowers He's like I'm just caught the whole state of Iowa. I'm looking around He's like anytime I have somewhere to be is that Kansas City?

I was trying to buy some lawnmowers get city of I'm here cool. What's that purple purple wave? That was called there's some website that does this That was called yeah purple wave. I'm sure Tommy's heard of it But Tommy if you listen you haven't check out purple. It's like an sure Tommy's heard of it. But Tommy, if you're listening and you haven't, check out Purple Wave. It's like an auction site. A lot of times it's like government vehicles that are no longer able to be used. Humvee.

Yeah, like a government. The city of Shawnee no longer needs their lawnmowers. Or it's like, they're too old, so they're buying new ones with the tax dollars. And so they sell them on their auction site. That's a fun little website to know about. Yeah. So I think it's a lot of like trucks and school.

I bet you could buy a school bus on there. That's fun. Time when you and your friends, you get a school bus, a short bus, short bus would be awesome. Do road trip at a short bus. That'd be awesome. That was one of our limo ideas. It was a hearse limo short bus.

I love a road trip where you can kind of like meander about whatever you're driving in meander. Yeah I tried to get a short bus for the South Dakota trip Oh Really couldn't find one for rental without like it being like it's a charter business that somebody else has to drive dang But wouldn't it fun? Yeah, it's a great idea Yeah, really fun. But anyway, yeah, I was just obsessed. I was like, this is such good. Just like, this is a, this is a lesson on like salesmanship and branding and marketing and advertising.

He said, sometimes you'll buy a John Deere tractor and the stickers have fallen off. He's like, I'll go buy brand new stickers. That ups the value. He said, I'll take a picture of the lawn. I just mode, prove it's worth. I was like, dude, you're like Wolf of Wall Street lawnmowers. It is amazing though, like how much the presentation matters with stuff like that, like value.

Yeah, just a nice picture of it makes a huge difference. For whatever reason, something's coming to mind. I don't know if I made this up. It feels like there should be a quote about people want the sizzle of the fajita, not the meat. Ooh, yeah. Is that an actual quote that exists? I think they say like, he's all, he got the steak,

but give me the sizzle or whatever. Yeah, that kind of. Something like that exists probably. Yeah, yeah. All sizzle, no steak or something like that. Tommy Lawnmowers incorporated slogan. I'll show you the sizzle. Thoughts on that?

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Yeah. You do have to have some storage though. Cause what if you don't sell one for a month or two? He said, right, you know, like this time of year, no one's buying lawnmowers. So you, you buy the lawnmowers now You sit on them until March April. Yeah, that's a good point like people are probably books Yeah, they're not they're not valuable to them. So they're selling them cheaper trying to get them out of their hair That's fun

Anyway, does anybody else pick them up for him? Like is he like no, it's all him He said that's the biggest bottleneck of the business. It's just physically driving there. He's like, otherwise it's pretty easy. It takes no time at all. Just driving to pick up the lawnmower. Tell him about uShip.com. There's another thing you can do. UShip. U, the letter U.

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Okay. Why? Oh, just like, yeah, is there like an attraction aspect of it? Yeah, it was like, it was like, yeah, whatever. Come see where Mike Vick was. Yeah, I didn't say that, but it was like hours, you know, visit, I don't know if it was visiting hours, but like some kind of like, you can come tour,

tours available daily or something like that. Wow. What, what, why? These are just, it's part of the true crime movement going on in books and in shows and in movies and in podcasts. People are obsessed with crime now. Yeah. They're gonna go and people will think

they have that dog in them. They're gonna go see where Mike Vick used to live for a few years. Like what causes you to want to like spend your day being entertained by walking around a prison? Same people who decorate for Halloween. Maybe so. I don't know, brother.

That time of year, you know? Yeah, you pay extra, you get one of those like, what is it, nightstick, is that what they're called? Billy club? And you get to like walk down the. Cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling. I think it'd be fun, you know,

I've heard they do this at the Titanic Museum in Branson. You get a little card like, hey, you're Dorothy, you're from Germany and you were on this ship, let's see if you stayed alive or not. Right. They do the same thing like, hey, you're a, you know, Nazi. You're part of this movement. Who are you going to side with?

Yeah, you. Let's see how yard time goes. You did not make it out. Yeah. Yeah. You have solitary for 48 hours and then you just have to sit there. Yeah. You don't get to see the rest of it.

That's what you get. You sharpened a toothbrush. I mean, there's no way that this jail is that interesting. Because they can't show you the good stuff. Yeah, like, can I go bench press with the other inmates real quick? Like, that'd be kind of fun. They'd play basketball today?

Yeah. Kind of be on the white team? Like Alcatraz, I understand why you white team. I like Alcatraz. I understand why you would want to go see Alcatraz. I've seen it from a bridge. Pretty neat. Pretty neat. Yeah.

But ours is just in the middle of Kansas and just not in a nice part of town. It's just sad. Yeah. That is kind of funny. Also, why do they need the money? Isn't it like federally funded jail? Yeah. Somebody. yeah, yeah. Why is it like we need to up our tourism

with putting this on a billboard for people to come see? Yeah, the fact that they did that assumes that the prison has a marketing budget and they had to get approval. Like, can we use some of this for billboard advertising? Right. Well, yes, but we also got banner ads on websites. We've got a couple of local influencers

doing some prison stuff for us. We've been doing push notifications on Purple Wave. We've got SMS ads on websites. We've got a couple local influencers doing some prison stuff for us. So. We've been doing push notifications on Purple Wave. We've got SMS, email blast. Yes, we could do billboard. How's that work? I don't know. Like so much of me wanted to like turn around

and try to, it was one of those digital billboards. So like I only saw it for five seconds. And I was like, I want to see that again because I want to know exactly what the advertise. Like it wasn't like one specific event. It was like, I want to see that again. I want to know exactly what the advertised, like it wasn't like one specific event. It was like, come whenever you want and just see the jail. We'll be here. Yeah. That's their slogan. Leavenworth maximum security prison. We'll be here. We'll be here. So we'll be here for your entire life. I was, I was like, what's the business model here? So time and drive your short bus there give us the details. I'll let you know

yeah let us know. Give a report. Little Seggy? Let's do it. Which one? The one. Little Dicky aka Little Seggy. All right I've got a few more valid or get off my high horsies. Okay. Let's think first. This seems to be bothering me lately. I'm on the highway. We're talking interstate. We're talking speed limits, 65 wide open spaces.

I'm in the right lane because I'm going to be, but it didn't even matter. I'm just, I'm just driving in the right lane because I'm gonna be, well, that didn't even matter. I'm just driving in the right lane. Someone is merging in, they're gonna be plenty ahead of me, that's fine. Basically what I'm saying is when you merge onto the highway, you should be going the speed limit. Already. Yes.

I don't think there should be an adjustment period where then I have to slow down to 55 and wait for you to get back up to speed. You're saying the right lane, like once they're in like not the On-ramp lane, but like once you're like a part of the highway you should be going the speed limit Yeah, I don't think you should be slowing down traffic. It seems like oftentimes 90% of the time they're not going to speed limit when they enter the highway Yeah, I think the standard deviation. I think valid first of all all. I, may I, I'd say get off your high horse.

Wow. Because I'm gonna say, feels like a little bit of a electric car driver, I can accelerate as fast as I want. As a minivan driver, I can't get up there as fast as I want to. Yeah, but that's what the onramp's for. Yeah, I was gonna say, I take a lot of trips, a lot of rental cars in my life recently,

if you have enough time. Here's what I'll give give you some ammunition though. Sometimes the lane you have to merge, like it's ending soon. And so you need to slow down to like make sure you get a spot. Oh yeah. But for the most part on the interstate, there's a ton of room. Get up to speed. Use that on ramp.

I think it can very much depend on the highway in the context. I think there's some ramps that are easier to work with than others. Fair, fair. Because there's a few that are like, holy cow, that's the on ramp. Short ramp.

There's times where I'm like, if there was a semi coming, I would be done, it'd be over. Yeah, getting onto I-35 from kind of like, probably like lateral with a coffin performing arts center that like into a short amount of time. Near Trace. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Maybe I'll say get off your valid.

Is that fair to say? Get off your pony. Get off your Sheldon pony. Yeah, it's a Sheldon pony. Get off your low pony. It's a low pony. Yeah, I think I think as long as they're let's say 65, as long as they're going 60 ish, like I don't think it has to be like whoa, you're flying Okay, you're going 75 miles an hour all of a sudden because I think that can be a little bit sketchy the other way

But yeah, I think it's I think you're right. It has to be around there. Yeah, you should not be slamming on your brakes To get there. Yeah, it seems like no one's going the speed limit when they're on the highway. Hmm That's all I ask it feels like there's some days where it just, I think it's probably just me, but some days it's like, it feels like every single person that I'm driving with doesn't know how to drive. And I think that why I say it's me is because

I think it's just more frustrated or something. There's some days if I didn't sleep much the night before and didn't eat breakfast, everyone's a worse driver. Everyone just makes me mad more often. Yeah, it's like, how do they know? Like some, I think sometimes I'm just more aggressive driving or something where it's just like, what are we doing driving this slow in the left lane?

And then I try to get over, you know, I don't like passing people around that not in the left lane, but I do it sometimes. I'm like, then everyone, ever, there's three people in a row. They're just going five miles under. And it's like, you guys are forming a wall right now. You ever take a look at who you're passing and try to take some like census type data on who it is?

Every time. Yeah. Every time. I'm not gonna publish my list, but I've been keeping track. That's the thing though, Jake, you don't have to publish your list because everyone knows exactly what you're saying and what you're talking about.

That's just true. It's just real. There's been a few times recently I have out loud said, oh, sorry to an old woman. They're old. Yeah. Like unintentionally, I'll kind of like get too close to her. And I'm in a big truck. I don't know. I don't like it when a big truck gets up on me.

And so I'm like, stop. And I'm just a nice guy, just actually going too fast behind her. And I go around and I look't know. I don't like it when a big truck gets up on me. And so I'm like, stop. And I'm just a nice guy just accidentally going too fast behind her. And then I go around and I look at her. I'm like, Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I was at a stoplight very pretty village. So nice, safe spot. Easy stoplight. Make sure you stop car in front of me has their right blinker on. And there's no one here. And they just refused to turn right. I was like, I think I should like, let them know like you're allowed to. I was going to give them a two quick ones. Yeah. Handicap sticker on the back. I said, let them, let them do what they need to do. Let them take their time. Let them crawl. That's

fair. Let them crawl. That's fair. All right. Valid, get off my horse. Hoi horse. Somebody, so I live on a corner lot, as you guys know. Every once in a while, people will put signs up in my yard for garage sale or estate sale, whatever. Somebody recently put up a moving sale sign in my yard. In the past, they have knocked on my door, people have been like, hey, do you mind if I put a sign up in your yard? And I thought to myself, that's not that big of a deal.

Like you don't have to ask, but yeah, of course. Yeah, no problem. They're like, I'll, you know, whatever. I'll be mindful of it. These people put up a moving sale in our yard. Don't love it now that I know that there's a common courtesy idea of the you can knock, which is really nice. But it's been there.

They didn't, they didn't ever take it down. They just straight in there for like a week and a half now. It's a problem with moving sales. They move. So this is, this is where it gets high horsey. I mean, that that's high horsey enough to be like a little bit annoyed by that. They put moving sale and they put their address on it. What if I take that sign and go stick it back in their yard?

Ballot or get off my high horse. There is one major thing that's going to make it determine one or the other here. Whether you stick it or whether you place it. Oh, just throw it in there. Just dis no, I think sticking it is more disrespectful. Do you? I think you spent more time on it. It's like shoving it.

That's right. You put it on mine or you put it back on yours. Rather just like placing it back as like, here's your sign. Placing it flat on the ground. Pretty aggressive still. I think leaning it up against their house though. Nice. I think throwing it through their window.

High horse. High horse. Yeah. Committing a hate crime. High horse. Yeah. Maybe their window. High horse. High horse, yeah. Committing a hate crime, high horse. Maybe a crime, yeah. Maybe criminal activity. High crime. Yeah.

I don't think it's- I'm not gonna do it. I think you would be valid to take it and leave it at the foot of their driveway. Yeah? Placed, not stuck, not staked. Okay, but it's about how I do it. It's about how it gets returned. I don't mind, like I understand understand like we're on a corner.

Like it doesn't even feel like it's really my house on that corner. Hey! It is, but I just- Take owner. Have some pride. Hey! Okay? What was the deal here? But I think I just want them to recognize like people put up garage sale signs all the time.

I'm like great, and then they take them off. Great. Great. Don't leave it. Okay? Like people put up garage sale signs all the time. I'm like great, and then they take them off great great Don't leave it. Okay So what do you think time Valorate get off how it's valid yeah, go put it go place it all right I wouldn't even be mad if you stuck it Wow time is gonna give you the green light stick Where can I stick it? Can I stick it right in the middle? I think right in the middle feels mean a F It's their 50 yard line you dance on right in the middle of I think right in the middle feels mean AF. It's their 50 yard line. You would dance on there.

Right in the middle of the yard is really fun. That is, that is, yeah. Cause you took the time to walk up to the middle. Like this guy was in my yard and he was mad. They feel violated. Yeah. Sticking in there like all the way down. They have to like really yank to get it back.

Also. Pour cement. You even give the yard. You give the yard multiple like stab wounds around it. Yeah. Yeah, it took their yard a little bit Yeah, it's like a hot dog in the microwave. I think uh, The the thing I just thought of is they probably put out more than one sign They don't know who it came from. They don't even know unless you say from brad on the corner

Which maybe I should put a calling card on big white truck come on. Get it. Yeah I will intimidate you just like I did that old woman So that's a fun one. That was good. Yeah. Tommy, you said you had a bunch? Nope. All right.

Not a single one. This doesn't happen that often, but it happened to me recently. So I'm in the process of maybe, hey, who knows, buy some land and build along with kind of the Friday team, build like a pickleball barn on the property. I think it'd be really fun to like, be able to shoot all our content in one spot,

indoors, well-lit, permanent cameras, soundproof, you know, everything you would want, it'd be awesome. So I'm starting to inquire about people who build pole barns. And it's one of those industries where nothing's available online. Every single company is like, you gotta call us for a quote, you got to email us for a quote. No prices.

Sure. And so I'm just filling out the same forms over and over. Hey, this is what I'm looking for. It's my number, my email. Well, people start calling me and like, hey, I'm with, you know, whoever Barnes, you inquired. I'm like, oh yeah, you know, how's it going? And they're like, all right, so you're looking for a kind of a pickleball barn.

And I go, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they go, just let me make sure I have your email correct. TR, yeah, yeah, it's good. Well, let me just verify it. Like I typed it in, it's good. And just so we got a good phone number for you, it's four, one, set.

When they- The one that we're on the phone for? Yeah, like when they re-verify information that I've given, like I said, this isn't a very common occurrence, but it happened twice doing this. Really? Yeah. It's like, I have it. I think it happens at doctor's offices a little bit too. Yeah. Like I filled this out online, fill out this sheet of paper. Let's let's really make sure that you got it right. Yeah. Just if I messed up the first time, that's on me. For some reason, I feel like I enjoy the process of like confirming that. I don't know. Like I'd be like, I like to know that you have it right. I don't know. I need a shorter email. Maybe I'd be

more excited about it. Yeah. Well, what if they just like, instead of spelling it out, they just quickly were like, this is your email out, they just quickly were like, this is your email address, right? It's like, yeah, that doesn't bother me. If anything, I think they're just being thorough. They might be making thousands of dollars or missing out on thousands of dollars if they don't have your email address, right?

It's a good point. The phone number is ridiculous because they're literally talking to you. Yeah, it must be a landline. I don't know what they were calling me from. Some office phone, like, you know, they're asking, and can we text that? Yes.

Yeah. Maybe pole barn people there. It's just old fashioned. You know? So that's it. I think you're 42. I'm not, yeah, I'm in my 40s or something. Not super passionate about this,

but it just happened recently. I was like, just, if I typed in my own phone number wrong, that's on me. I'll take the blame. But see, they want to make sure that they can make your, like you're making the money. Yeah, I see both sides. Yeah.

I would never re-verify though. There's been a few times, I've never done this. There's been a few times where people fill out custom contact forms on my website and their email address is wrong It auto fills. I can't believe anyone's ever typed their email wrong. Yeah, I don't know. I yeah, it's just like I'm saying okay. Well, what do I do now? So I have to call them like a gin Exer, whatever Rotary phone talked. Yeah

Dial long distance. Zero operator. So, yeah, I think, I think it's a little high horse, but not, not, I'm not passionate high horse for you on that. All right. This one is not mine. This one's from Alvaro on the Facebook group. Let's see if I can find the exact posts real quick because I like it a lot.

Valor get off my high horse. When people use abbreviations wrong, specifically when talking about a car's VIN, you know what VIN number is? The sentence goes something like this. I need to write down my vehicle's VIN number for my registration. VIN stands for vehicle identification number. So what you're telling me is I need to write down my vehicle's VIN number for my registration. VIN stands for vehicle identification number.

So what you're telling me is I need to write down my vehicle's vehicle identification number number. I'm going to lose my mind. That's so great. Valid or get off my horse. I think it's valid to be to like recognize it. It's high horsey to correct someone, like in person of it. Oh yeah.

Actually, like Oscar in the office. Actually, you don't need to say ATM machine. The M already stands for machine. Thank you, have a nice, and when it's time to enter in that pin, you don't have to say pin number. See ya. Yeah.

High horsey to correct. I think. In the right context. Yeah, when, yeah, when, no, never would you correct? I would correct my wife. Okay. I would correct. Not in front of others, FYI.

Yeah. Bad idea, I do it all the time. It's like, hey, please don't do that. Sorry. That was a good leadership principle I learned from Ward Weeby is criticize privately, edify, yeah, publicly. That's good. Gosh Do that more in barrage, too. You've got him. Hey, I

will as and I I Didn't have anything to encourage you on I realize I was just speaking slightly louder Hot water heater. I never thought about that one. I Don't even know if I totally understand it. Is it redundant? I don't think, well. Cause you'd say water heater. Yes, the hot part.

Hot water implies that it's already, well, hot water heater's fine. Yeah, that's why I haven't thought about it before, cause it's not redundant. Yeah, I agree. The word hot and heat, yes, those on paper appear redundant if they go basically back to back, but I Don't know can you call it a water heater

No, yeah, I'm back. I'm back. You can't you should just call it a water heater You think I think water heater is fine and maybe better because it's more concise but hot water heater. No problem I don't have any problems Yeah, now I'm getting twisted a little bit on this cuz I'm like I shouldn't call it like a lukewarm water heater Like you're not cold water heater would be idiotic But it's not a it's it is a cold water heater. It's warming. It's heating the water You know water it's it's more a cold water here than a water. I'm flipping again You you would sound like an idiot though if you said cold water here, so maybe say hot water heater I

Think I'm on board with calling it a water heater. Same. HVAC is fairly new. The water heater is probably about six years old. How'd that sound? How'd that sound coming out? That sounded a little hick. It sounded pretty cool. Pretty cool. Water heater, I don't know. Gotta go pick up some sticks, check out the water heater.

Any? Any. Cool. Pretty cool. Water heater. I don't know. Gotta go pick up some sticks, check out the water heater. Any? Any? No, I think that's hot water heater. I'm not, no qualms with hot water heater. But yeah, pin, VIN, ATM. I've thought about those before. Someone brought up MLB baseball.

I never really thought about that. MLB baseball. VIN feels a little too small to me. VIN number just flows. ATM machine doesn't flow. This is what it was. I've never said ATM machine. I feel like that's the one of these

that I've like heard the least. Well, come to the casino. There's a difference between, it feels like going to the ATM machine and going to the ATM at the bank. There's. Really? Yeah, one's like a standalone place.

Yeah, they have an ATM machine there. Rather than like, I'm going to like to drive through ATM. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like when I say ATM machine, it's different than an ATM. There are like rare times in my lexicon, my diction where I will intentionally say things wrong, whether it to be funny or just because it's like colloquially, that's how we kind of speak. And I feel like occasionally

like pin number and then number, I will do that. Like I know it's not accurate, but if I say like, do you have the VIN? I think you almost like don't catch what I'm saying. It slips in there too much. I think so. It's slippery. Or it's just a little bit not well enough known. Yeah. Like the Vin, the what? What are you saying? Like the Vin. A car Vin. What's a, are you saying van?

A car van? Yeah. Carvana? He's talking funny. You got that Vian? Vian, Vian. Charlie Humbert said the Los Angeles angels, which I thought was pretty funny.

The angels angels. Yeah. Oh, Alvaro responded to that one. He said, I saw that when I was in LA like come on man I can't say that like come on man Man any other good ones in the list, let's see Apparently I looked up. I looked this up. It's called RAS syndrome redundant acronym syndrome syndrome is like the no

Kind of fun. You dog. Good. Reddit you dog. Somebody no way that Jesse Platner he said ASAP as possible. There's no way people actually say oh yeah. I've only heard that as a joke. He's Josh and yeah, I'll say that occasionally their racial TBH honest. I do kind of, this one I've noticed people saying, three o'clock PM in the afternoon, or like two a.m. in the morning. It's like that.

That's one of the worst for me, I think. I did something similar like this. I was talking to Janelle Benyell, and I was like starting to like ramble about something, and revisionist history, I'd like to think I misspoke, but either way, here's what I said. I said, okay, sorry, I'm rambling. I'm just talking out loud right now.

Anyway, yada, yada, yada, I get talking. And Janelle's like kind of giggling at the end of the sentence. I was like, what's going on? She's like, I'm sorry, I normally wouldn't do this to someone, but I think you'll appreciate. I just think it's really funny when people say they're talking out loud.

I was like, oh my gosh, you're right. I can't believe I said that. That's so embarrassing. I said, I'm talking out loud? Do I normally say that? I think I'm gonna say I'm thinking out loud. Either way, I was like having a panic attack. I was like, that's so embarrassing.

Have you noticed since then? No, I am guessing I meant to say I'm thinking out loud. But I said, sorry, I'm just talking out loud right now. Yeah, doy. Yeah, no doy. Geez idiot Okay, so embarrassed pin number. Should we start saying PI number? Yeah private investigator your VI number Like because people don't want us to say pin number of in number But sometimes I think you need to know it's a number you catch the MLB ML baseball game last night

Yeah the MLB or ML baseball game last night? Oh, Ava Clark said it. My friend I like to say SMH my head. At least we are aware that's wrong. Yeah. Well, there was a friend of mine at camp. He would always say, dude, WTH heck, man. WT hack. JK kidding. JK kidding. That's from New Girl. All right. Those are those are mine. You got any more? Sure. I'll just go quick when people

Like responded a group text but haven't responded to you individually yet. Oh I wasn't thinking of you. Well, I'm just gonna let you know I do it to people Honestly, it's kind of my It's like it's like Accountability for me to then respond to that person immediately after that and I think that's great I think that's how you should because I am cognizant of like, oh, they know I'm on my phone now Yeah, I'm like give it give me the benefit of the doubt most of the time that I haven't seen it yet Yeah, yeah, I think you get 60 seconds from group message. I need to be texted individually as well.

Flying over to that. Fly over there. Yeah, that's one. And then last one is when people this one's like a little more broad, but like when people just in general don't like cater their information or like sense of humor or like instructions to you in any way, like when an old ranch hand is talking to me, like I'm supposed to know the ins and outs of a, you know, whatever the RV engine he's working on

or something, it's like, look at how I'm dressed, look at who I am. It doesn't feel like you're even trying to meet me halfway. The same thing can be said with the way people like to joke around with you. Like there was a girl in Rachel's life who she got to see this weekend, an old friend, and this girl just like keeps giving Rachel a hard time like throwing like F bombs

at her like, Coop, when are we gonna get you F'ing drunk this weekend? It's like, does she not know like who you are? Yeah. You grew up with this girl. Yeah. It's just interesting when people don't in any way try to cater how they act to you. Yeah. And like they're just, hey, with this girl. Yeah, it's just interesting when people don't in any way try to cater how they act to you

Yeah, and like they're just hey, I'm me. Yeah, it's like well do better Okay, kind of like what are you talking about? Like gunner or something in the group chat like just joking around with yeah gunner It's like catering. Yeah, I don't know like he's doing he's In a sense, I just kind of like this how I'd be in any group text Yeah, I don't care who's in here like you're introducing a friend to like your mom or something and they're just like acting. I don't know. Right.

Respectful. That's a good example too. Like you can act that way later tonight after a couple dooskies, but not in front of my mom right now. I do think. Yeah. Sometimes people just assume that you agree with them on everything. Like political stuff.

Sometimes sometimes people are like saying things. I'm like, ah, what, I don't agree with this, but I don't want to talk. You think this is a good idea to talk about all this right now? Yeah, you see what's been going on? Yeah. Like in the middle of a coffee shop? I don't want to do this with Gingoo.

I think we need to open it up bigger. I'm just like, oh, wow. You just assume everyone has that belief. Things like you do. And or you're just like, I would love to fight you if you disagree Yeah, what was the first kind of thing you said just like a specific jargon when they have specialized jargon Yeah, that they don't try to dumb down for you. I don't care what it is a barista a technician anything I think I think technician I was gonna say is like a really common one and it to me sometimes

It's like maybe they are trying to dumb it down But they don't understand how much smarter smarter they are at that thing than we are. Like maybe an RV mechanic thinks everyone at least knows what a carburetor is. You got to grow up knowing what an alternator does. Like, yeah, you might not know the whatever the drive shaft or blah, blah, blah or whatever, but like you understand what an engine does. So therefore- That's true. I could just assume everyone grew up right with yeah then being taught this right I get that yeah I wonder what we are blind to like that like Probably some social media aspects like oh just shoot up a comment. I

Don't know how to do that. Yeah like that DM maybe people don't know yeah I mean I told Steve Koop to text me that link from his computer right like I don't know How to do that like in an easy way? Yeah Yeah, you know just the words. I was saying though, right? Yeah, I would be really cognizant of that with woodworking like I try never like not talk I don't want to I don't ever mean to talk down to anybody but always like be like hey if you don't understand this Like let me explain it to you,

because I know what it's like to not understand it. Plainer. Hardly knower. Good, all right, we're learning. All right, that's good. I think it'd be fun. I think certain ghosties would really get a kick out of you and I just under the hood,

just explaining a car to people. Oh yeah, we could. I think we'd do a good job. Dude, you know what, that made me think of Jesse Platner, friend of Timon's. Does he have a brother named Javin? Yes. Yes. This, I don't, I don't know Javin from Adam, but he messaged me,

messaged Ghost, or yeah, Ghost Riders account the other day when I posted that picture of the Good Ranchers meet. And he's like, your grill guards or your grill grates are upside down. Which is just the most, which is just the most like, I don't know him, but I know Jesse. And I'm like, Jesse would absolutely tell me that. And he was wrong first of all. Oh, he was? He was, I was like, he's like, well, why are those things up?

I was like, I don't know what to tell you. But I was like, I think that I'm pretty sure they are. I can, I'll check. It's how they are. But it was just a classic, like, I know, I know, I know these things. You know I know I know I know these things You know, you know, I know certain things listen. I think my grill Grates are fine. So if you support mainstream roasters. Mm-hmm. Thank you. Thank you

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Fair, good call. No thank you. Yeah. Didn't sniff your letter. But if you were to smell it and it were to smell like Main Street Roasters, it would smell unbelievable. That's right.

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well, so one, I think I have a decent understanding of alternator, carburetor. I couldn't even tell you where at on the car it is. Yeah. It's like a woman's body. Like, like draw me, like how big is a carburetor? I don't know if it's, I don't know if it's the size of a muffin or the size of a basketball.

Yep. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I could lift that by myself or if I'd need like a machine to lift it out for me. Like a pipe underneath, a drain pipe. Like carburetor sounds like a pretty friendly part part like I think I would like the carburetor I think it's next to the engine Sounds like it

Does it does fluid? Well, it carburetes. Yeah, I was gonna say no one knows that that word like alternator you at least know the word alternate Hey, what are you? I'm just carburetting today. Just carburetting at a coffee shop today. Mm-hmm. I'm working from home, so a little carburetion, a little work. Yeah. And maybe we could get together on a whiteboard and just kind of carburet for a little bit. What do you guys think? Do you know what it means? You looking it up, Timon? I don't even know if it is a real word.

Timon's giving me the silent treatment. Sorry. Uh. I don't, I don't know if it's a word guys. What does carburet mean? To combine chemically with carbon. So that's why no one says it in everyday life. And that's why I don't know what it means. Combine chemically with carbon. To enrich by mixing with volatile carbon compounds

All right Yeah, right. Yeah, right good. Good. Carbureted just as having been gone through a carburetor. Yeah, right Yeah, likely story. Yeah, right Somebody else those are my things. I like those. I think those are good Those are my things. I like those. I think those are good. So, just like those. So.

We talked about rackets. That's a racket. I'll tell you what else is a racket. Light bulbs. Too expensive? Not sold in single quantities. I went to- Oh, you gotta go like a Walgreens or somewhere weird. No, but this is a just too specific of a light bulb

First of all, I I went I don't do this often I went to Home Depot looked at the light bulbs and left because I was empty-handed I was like, I don't I had the light bulb in my hand even to like be like this is the one I need And I couldn't figure it out And as I was leaving credit to the Home Depot guy, Dwayne. He was like, you find a light bulb, man? I was like, no, I didn't. And he came and helped me and he found the right one for me.

Oh, really? But yeah, they only had them in six packs or two packs. And these things are like LED light bulbs. And so they're, you know, seven bucks each. I'm like, I don't need two of them. They said they're going to last you for 13 years. Oh, wow. Where is this going? Just that it's a racket.

What? No, I'm saying where is this? Where's the light? Like, what's the point of you talking about it? I don't freaking know. But like, get to the point though. Like, what's entertaining about this? No, I know. Where is the light bulb going? It's a can light in our basement. Yeah. So there could be more that go out. Yeah, but that's the thing is like these LED things are like boasting that they're never gonna go out. You could buy a two pack.

I would be worried enough that I could like- I did buy a two pack. And that's the point. If everyone buys two packs, then we just got loose light bulbs for no reason. I spent $15 on those things. Absolute worst case scenario. You never have to change those light bulbs.

They last until you sell the house and the next homeowner has one free light bulb. Never gonna leave that house though. Only until I die. Then great. The lights will go out in time. Maybe. You don't know when I'm gonna die.

Because if one of them just went out, who's to say one of the other ones that you haven't recently switched out will go out soon? Well, that's frustrating too. That's a racket too. It's like, they say it's gonna last 13 years. I definitely replaced those things like four years ago. That's not 13.

It's a racket. Racket times two, racketeering. Charging for racketeering. Yeah, I don't know. Just a little bit frustrated with the light bulbs these days. Timing light bulbs shouldn't be $15. That's all I'm saying. Yeah. Light bulbs, a dollar each max.

It is. They're so light that it does feel ridiculous to spend money on them. Yeah. I tell you what. I will say with the two-pack I would be worried enough about potentially like dropping when I'm breaking it as I'm doing something that it's like it's nice to have The option yeah, but these LEDs you felt those LEDs recently timing They feel like you're holding like carbon fiber some carburetor sweet like they're like they feel tough They've been well carpet like if I dropped an LED light bulb right now, no problem. Oh, no problem I gotta get yeah, I was not aware. Yeah, they're nice

750 nice So where's this going? Where's this going? Just going Gosh, I don't know dude No, it's a racket did no I was just curious where it was going. In the house, in the garage, wherever. I have other things. Do you want to say things, though?

Go for it. Spent some time with my family. My sister was in town this past weekend. It was her daughter's birthday and we got to hang out with them. And my 11-year-old nephew Cole is awesome. But he greeted us, we were meeting him for breakfast on, uh, but he greeted us. We were meeting him for breakfast on Saturday morning and he greeted us with the most like ridiculous looking gold chain

I've ever seen in my life. He had one on, he had one on. He looked like Justin Jefferson. And that's first thing I said, I was like, what's up? I mean, it took everything in me not to make fun of him for this. Like what he had. He wasn't trying to be funny? I don't know. I don't think so. He thought he was cool. He thought. J.J. does.

Yeah. I think he had bought a chain recently at some fair or some like, some like whatever, county fair, whatever. Lost it. And on the way to Kansas City, my sister Dana, oldest sister was talking to my sister Julie. My sister Julie loves like bargain hunting, thrift stores. She goes to this place in Kansas City a lot called Retail Rebel. Okay. Where apparently like you can fit like whatever you can fit in a bag, it's $16 or something like that.

Cool. There's some light bulbs in there. Oh, she's always, and so she's like, yeah, I'm going to Retail Rebel. You want anything? And Cole's like, look for a chain for me. And so it looks like this chain that like an 85 year old woman would wear kind of thing. But it was like one of those things where it's like, I think he sees these athletes wearing these chains.

And I was like, I'm not gonna fault him for that. Cause I bet when I was his age, I was trying to do things that athletes were doing too. Yeah. Do you ever go through a necklace phase? Like fighting necklace or? Any kind. I did have like a puka, I was a puka, but not like the thick pukas,

like I was like tiny pukas. But there were a few times where like I'd be playing basketball with my friends and one guy in particular, I think, ripped him off multiple times on purpose and it really hurt my feelings. It made me sad. That is sad.

Because it's not like you can just like buy another one online like you can now. It's like, I got that in Florida. What the heck, dude? It's like Destin miniature polka. So, but I did, yeah, we all went through phases of stuff, but I mean, it's just like, gosh, you look ridiculous. Like an 11 year old white boy from West Kansas

with like a gold chain. It's like a thick one. It's not, there's like a, like I think it's pretty popular these days for guys to wear like cross necklaces and like kind of subtle necklaces and stuff. But like, I mean, this thing was asking to be talked about. So good for Cole. Yeah. He's just rocking it. I enjoyed seeing all the pictures of all the cousins and everybody at your house. Yeah. Yeah. It's fun, man. It's fun to fun to, yeah, we're just kind of at this age.

I mean, our kids are the youngest on that side and Hattie's actually the oldest on our other side, which is kind of an interesting dynamic. But because they're the youngest, it just feels like those kids can all play together so easily and even like, yeah, Henry's been taken care of by the older kids and all this stuff. That's great.

Yeah, so anyway, fun time. I think older kids and all this stuff. That's great. Yeah. So anyway, fun time. I think Bo was kind of at this like stage though, where he's kind of annoying the older kids. Really? I think he's kind of just a little, because he's kind of onry right now. Bo is super like potty humor. He like, Catherine's like, I have a, it's official.

I have a boy. Like he's just always finding ways to like find potty humor and stuff. Like we're like joking about, do you do this? Like, uh, I don't, I'm trying to think of, Oh, we like Rosie right now, every time we leave the house, if, if not everyone's in that, like in the car, she'll say goodbye, goodbye, mom, goodbye, you know, tour blanket, goodbye, uh, cop, you know, all these different things. And so the other day we were just being goofy, saying stuff. And of course, Beau was like, goodbye poopy toilets. It's like classic. Yeah. Just like always goodbye, Mr. Poop. It's like, stop like no one's encouraging. Like, I don't think,

I don't think it's like, oh, it's because we made these jokes and we told him it was funny. It's like, where's that naturally just in him just to make these jokes. Goodbye, Mr. Poopy Pooper. That's a good one. Yeah. And he laughs at himself so hard right now. He's not deterred by you guys not laughing or anything. I'm trying to get him to be deterred by me saying,

stop doing that. We don't make those kinds of jokes. Yeah. Not that often, unless you would rattle them off twice as often if I didn't. But is how do you laugh? Not really. Hattie does love the idea of like me jokingly being frustrated at my kids though. Like, oh, she likes that style of humor. Like whatever that is, like, you know, where I'm just like, oh my God, like, like, you know, or whatever, like Bo walks around with his shirt on his

head or something. I'm just like, what are you doing? You know, something like that. Hattie dies laughing with that's fun. Yeah. When she sees that I'm frustrated or something like that. So I'm sure if I was like, Bo, stop, stop, quit it, you know, she would laugh at that, but overall she's not, she's not encouraging it too much.

That's good. Goodbye, Mr. Pooper-Peep, poopy pants. So good. It's like, oh, stop. So good. Good stuff. I don't know if I have too much else to say. It was, I guess, just only other funny thing yesterday from

filming ads and everything. I was kind of thinking we would all like, we would shoot stuff together, we would edit stuff together. This is like Friday Pickle on Facebook ads. Well, Zach edits on like a like a desktop computer at home so we couldn't bring it. And so there were just so many times yesterday where Zach didn't have anything to do and so I just kept giving him random tasks and he was always so excited to do it. He would always thank me for the opportunity to do the task. Thank you chef Thank you. Yeah, put him to work. I had him And wrap a present for me yesterday one on the yeah, he did great. He did a good job

I I feel like that's not a skill. I don't know. I certainly don't have that No, not many like 17 year old boys. Yeah. You probably, and not me either. Oh, I am a one out of 10, F minus. I just had a feeling. I was like, Zach's gonna be good at this. He's like, why do you think you're good at this? Tim was like, you have like artism. You're artistic.

You have a certain way about you. You're saying Peyton Manning? And you did do a good job. So what else, you put him to work. Just any, just the tiniest errand, like hey, right there, go across, I forgot something in my trunk. He's like, on it.

He just dashes away. Juice box boy, yeah. He's a good boy. Just did everything. So what, you were editing videos, like after doing them yesterday? Like on the fly? Yeah, we're trying to get them out as soon as possible.

So we would shoot a batch of one, go back to our computers, edit it. All right, go back, shoot some more, go back, edit them, whatever. It was fun. I think there was one other takeaway from yesterday. I did a good job of writing it down. What else did we do, Ty?

We did all the podcast ads. Yeah, we went to the courts. Did you do like the fake pod, like you're like talking to me kind of thing. Can we talk about this? It was less fake talking to you and more like just directly talk to the camera. But yeah, right here. Yeah. Same style.

I'm going to think of it later. There was some other funny takeaway, but had a good time. Yeah. Good. That's good. I'm excited. I watch every single ad. Do you have 10 seconds to watch this ad? And then I think to myself, should I not watch the ad? Because I'm just wasting their money.

Technically, yes, but it's all good. Yeah, it's like, yeah, small enough of a cost or whatever. Evan, who, wild yam cream guy, he texted me, he's like, dude, obviously no big deal. I just knew you'd get a kick out of this. He said, I had my worst day ever when the podcast came out when I talked about it because his ads still cost money to run those ads.

So so he were researching wild yam cream, but then not buying anything that he's like, technically I lost money that day on like the ad spend. Just you wait, it'll all turn around. Yeah, yeah. That's take a while. Yeah. But yeah.

Now people that don't care about wild yam cream, technically might get ads for it. That's kind a while. Yeah. But now people that don't care about wild yam cream technically might get ads for it. That's I have. It's kind of funny. I have qualms with that with Facebook Marketplace. If I want to sell, let's say I want to sell a lawnmower on Facebook Marketplace. I don't know how much a lawnmower costs. And so I searched lawnmower and you know, I'm looking through it. And then my algorithm for Facebook marketplace shows me a bunch of lawnmowers. In reality, I'm like, I don't want a lawnmower. I'm trying to get rid of my lawnmower.

Like I want there to be a different search function of like, I'm trying to sell this and I need to compare it to something else. Yeah. Does that make sense? That does make sense. Yeah, it just kills me. Like I'm trying to sell my AirPods

and then all they'll show me is more AirPods. That's the last thing I need. Boy, I have enough of those. I bought a Christmas gift for Rachel off of a Facebook ad that I got. So good job. The really good ad. It worked. I bought it.

And since then, now they know me. It's not like, oh, I'm getting similar items now. I keep getting the same ad and I want to tell them it worked. Move on from me. You did it. You're wasting money with me. I already did it. Is there wasting money with me. I already did it Is there a way to like leave feedback? Yeah, you can like hide ads like this hide this advertiser

You know, it's doing it. Nice girl. Yeah, I'm intrigued what you bought, but obviously you can't ask now Is that what he wrapped no, it's empty box, okay, I said this idea. I was like throw your other gifts in the trash. Oh good Oh, oh, yeah Christmas my birthday is coming up my birthday my birthday today on this party. It is number 13th, right? Yeah next Wednesday My birthday, right? Welcome. I Yeah, next Wednesday. Happy birthday, Brad. You're welcome. Yeah, you're welcome. Like my mom and others have like always been like, will you update your birthday list?

I want to know what you want for your birthday. And I'm always so like thankful that I don't have that much stuff that I want. Nintendo Switch. Yeah. But here's a, yeah, I guess it's just a, because Christmas then comes right after my birthday and then I'm like, boy, if I had a hard time with my birthday, I don't know what to ask for for Christmas.

If anybody has anything out there that they think I want, let me know what it is and I'll think about it. Oh, like support their business? Well, maybe, sure. I was thinking more just like something that they love in their life that I've I don't have like this gadget or this gizmo. Yeah. This widget. Like, you know, this what you might call it this who's he what's the yep like this foot massager changed

my life. And I'm like, okay, I don't have a foot massager. This. I love this blanket. I love disposable slacks. Interesting. Where once throw this blanket. I love whatever. Disposable slacks. Interesting. Wear them once, throw them out. That's good, yes. If that is true, that maybe I need one. I don't know. Let us know.

So if ghosties out there wanna give me advice on things I don't know that I need, basically. Like I have clothes. I like my car, but I don't need anything else for it I don't need whatever I don't know you have a car wash subscription I do that is a good one though boy who got that for you boy yeah who do I need to who do I need to punch? Who needs a knuckle sandwich? Who do I need to punch right in the poo poo? Yeah, I don't know. I've thought of a few things.

I'm trying to get more into grilling, and so I'm like, OK, grilling accessories. I don't know. I like my stuff. I have things that I have. You like a good fire, fire pit accessories? Yeah. Wood? Yeah.

I do love a good fire. I've after I think the night after we had a fire at your house, I went and made my own fire. You know what? I should, I'm gonna ask for firewood for Christmas. I, you can, you are welcome to do that. I just bought a bunch of firewood and you can have some. Merry Christmas.

Yeah, maybe that's my Christmas. Or you asked for it. but where'd you get yours from There's like a local firewood. I think it's called the K&M firewood or something like that, but about a half cord court Cord Four cords make a gallon. It's it's a lot. I got a lot. That's a measurement. I've never heard before. Yeah, that sounds like old English I got a lot that's a measurement. I've never heard before. Yeah, that sounds like old English Yeah, cord medieval a cord of wood. Yeah, I bet it's like I mean it's a lot like sounds biblical We burn our wood in our house, you know, and we didn't even use all the half cord last year So didn't use half cord last year

It's not like you're making it up. No, it's a thing half cord. I might give a sworn sworn of wood a swath. Yeah, I've heard that time when I've heard but Yeah, sworn or like a sworn is more like you can buy that at the store a cord. You have to go. Yeah private intense words makes a cord tense and then four cords makes a Lank a lank. Yeah lank. I mean that's for like a hospitals. Oh, yeah stoves in the hospitals Yep, that's great Yeah, are you have you guys used your fireplace yet? No, it's paid like who knows how much money to get it cleaned out

It's ready and just didn't do a darn thing with it. You know just getting the bats out Just getting me down bats. We had soot bunch of soot Cuz yeah, all the lengths worth of lakes. I was worth of length. Yeah. Yeah all those links caught up in the yeah, so Anyway, let me know what I want for my birthday slash Christmas. I Don't know happy birthday when this is being recorded. Hey, thanks. Hey, thanks. Thanks to my mom, really. You gotta go. I gotta go.

Holy cow, I do have to go. Let's end this puppy with win of the week and comment of the week. Oh, I know, I took a screenshot. My win of the week is the kids right now are doing like thankfulness turkeys, where they have like the, like

the craft where every day they put different feathers on there. Uh, and so first of all, Bo colored his Turkey and called it his peanut because it just looked like a peanut with no feathers on it, which I thought was funny. And then the first, uh, the first thing he was thankful for that he could think of was he called, he said it's the blessing is what we do, but I, I basically pray to him every night, the same prayer. And I like, it's like a body blessing, which sounds weird, but I pray like, you know, Jesus be with both feet.

May they bring good news, be with his legs, may they carry on in times of suffering, like all these different things. And that was the first thing he was thankful for. That was a win for me. Wow. Is that he, cause I'm, cause sometimes he's just laughing through it. He's like, or he doesn't seem like he cares. I have five arms.

Yeah. Be with my poo poo cause it's a poo poo. But it's sweet. It's one of those. And that's the whole point is like, it's supposed to be like this liturgical thing where he, cause now he can do it. Like he'd done it to Hattie before, which is pretty cute. Cool.

But anyway, win of the week is Bo Bo and the blessing also, I think maybe Rosie's gonna be potty trained soon So that's a big win. That seemed like a big win. So I'm gonna go out of order because I found my comment of the week. I was a Facebook post from Danielle Miller. Shout out Danielle she came to Branson. Oh, yeah real fun girl There's a lot here, but basically, she just goes on a list and say, she says, let me just say, we can trust Brad and Jake's opinions on things.

Quinoa crisps, fire. I buy, oh she says, buy them now. Bait drinking, major roasters for a cost of your now. Never going back. Just got on the good rancher's train. Just like Brad says, you come for the beef, you stay for the chicken. Chicken's far better than anything else.

Cozy Earth may seem like an investment, but it's one of the best purchases I've ever made. So strong order is on the way. She also had to edit it and say, I forgot about Roeback, it's my husband's favorite shirt. So. GRKC20. It's just great to see all that.

It was like unprovoked, unpaid, just we got a little reputation going here. Shout out our sponsors, but also we like to think we align ourselves with people who make good stuff I think that's one of the things we've talked about is like we're not going to sponsor anybody that we don't truly love and believe it Yeah, like we spend some options. Yeah We want to we want to make sure that like we don't lose people's trust like we want people to say like if we say like Good ranchers meat is incredible. It is incredible Yeah, and they have no repeat customers because it's trash right and then it's then when we talk about you know

Whatever healing waters or mason roasters like i'm not gonna support that it might be bad And they're just good at talking about it. It's like no we love these things so that I did love that That post as well. Thank you um Let me find this I can go win right now if you want that post as well. Thank you. Let me find this. I can go win right now if you want. My win of the week is going to be post, I went about at three a.m. last night, having a little trouble finding the right words.

Basically, I assume this time tomorrow, my win of the week is gonna be seeing Rachel getting inducted into the Hall of Fame. Yeah, that's tonight or tomorrow. Retroactive win of the week. That's the word, dude. Yes. Yeah. Anyway, go and make that happen. It's gonna be such a fun weekend. My parents come up to Iowa, spend a little time there. Rachel's family. Good to see Rachel. Just awesome. Yeah, very retroactively proud of her as well. Absolutely. You should be, man. That's so cool. Very cool. That's my setter. Time you have a win? Yeah. This weekend got to go. Guess what state I went to. Illinois. Yeah.

I hung out with my grandparents and also my cousin. That was just great. I feel like I don't see my grandparents that much. So me and Jesse just took a little road trip. Just you two. Yeah. Sweet. It was a lot of fun. That's great. You're not going to ever regret those times. Like I'm glad that we got that time with my grandparents. That's awesome. Cool. My comment of the week is coming from Cassie B talking about the, she said, I collected those Indian and star Tootsie Pop rappers as a kid. I love, I remember going into the store with my mom one time trying to redeem a free one and they had no idea what we were talking about it's also wild to think how this was such a widely known thing amongst kids before social media was a thing Hundred percent all that stuff. Yeah, I am fully prepared if Hattie or Bo ever asked me like can we go redeem these?

I'm just going to slip them money and be like the the cashier. I'd just be like just be cool about it. Just be cool Yeah, just take it so Because I know that you can't redeem them anymore, but I think at one point you could. And so that's why I do it. Yeah. Big time. So we are doing a little something like that. Little sneak preview, uh, little Michael Scott, Willy Wonka style with Friday paddles, really tootsie pop style. But out of all, we have a Christmas paddle coming out. Only 50 of them have like a certain like Christmas elf on them.

And then if you find that elf and you get like a bunch of free stuff and everything. Ooh, I like that. Yeah, a little golden ticket idea. That's fun. That's really fun. How are you gonna like, I guess when they buy it, it'll say it on there, like on the website?

Like what's the best way of like getting that word out yeah I mean luckily we have like 80,000 customers on our like email list so that's an easy way to like reach some of them you know then tens of thousands and like our we have their phone numbers we can text them and also just like our ads hopefully providing some education that's three story whatever hit them from a bunch of different angles and Yeah, 50 people is like a sticker or is it like something that's like permanently on the path No, they're like made different like I think 50 of them have like this like different design. It's cute. It's cute All right. That's my comment timing you got a comment. No didn't find one. I like them all Great comments. Here's something like them all. People did love time. It's a

Trump impression and I didn't, I listened to like, Oh, you did it. I had to turn it up. I was like, Oh dude, it was so funny. So funny that and your Zach impression last episode was so funny. That compression is really good. All right. Thank you. Thank you. I do accept tips. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I do accept tips. Yeah. I'm joking. I'm joking.

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