Ghostrunners - 390 - Made Up Hallmark Christmas Movies

Episode Date: December 9, 2024

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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a very special episode for you today. Sad on one end because Brad Ellis has fallen sick along with the rest of his family. But I have a very special co-host. Welcome him to the desk. Timon Emche, everyone. Hey. Thank you. Hey. Yeah, maybe come to work on a Thursday. Can you believe that?

Thanks for thanks for being here, Timon. Yeah. Yeah, we Brad is going gonna be on this episode, don't worry. We did about a 30 minute section with him over Zoom, where, yeah, we talked to Brad, he gives a gift giving guide, but yeah, he did Thanksgiving with his family and everybody's sick and he gave us a heads up. He's like, hey, if you don't want to be around me, no worries.

He's like, normally I've never, I mean, Brad and I recorded in person, like during COVID. I think he had COVID and was like, bring it on. He really had to convince us. Like it took a few rounds of like, well guys, like you should be a little worried. Yeah, that's true. Cause we didn't put up much,

we didn't even ask any questions. We're like, oh, all good dude. Yeah, we're still, he's like, well, there's quite because we didn't put up much room. We didn't even ask any questions like I know oh all good, dude Yeah, we're still he's like my distance. Well, there's quite a few of us sick. Oh, okay I think we should still be good. Seriously guys. It's bad over here And then I think I'm the question of like like how bad is what is it exactly? And then yeah, we were still down. I was like puking and yeah, he said a lot of people were throwing up So that's when I was like, well that, if it's a cold, oh, bring on a cold.

I laugh at a cold. Throwing up is the worst. And I mean, I just don't like throwing up a general, but you actually have legitimate things that you don't wanna miss, which makes sense. Choir this weekend. Choir, yeah, and then next weekend is that Young Jesus show.

Young Jesus. A lot of, yeah, if my voice gets hurt, that's, it's not a good thing. Totally. Yeah, how much are you singing? In the choir, I assume quite a bit, but in Young Jesus. In the choir, I am singing most of the time. But yeah, and the Young Jesus, I mean, it's like one,

I'm only really in it for five, like five minutes-ish. I just come on, sing my little Young Jesus song. But you are singing. But I'm singing. So you need to be able to sing. All I am doing is singing. I don't have any speaking lines. So the singing voice needs to be preserved.

Okay, that's good. Yeah, two things. One, anytime you say Young Jesus, it just sounds like a rapper. I can't get it through my head that that's a character of biblical proportions. And to, yeah, I've had to perform before, not even sing, but I just had to perform before with no voice or sick and it stinks.

So yeah, so no Brad today, but we still, today and Wednesday's episode, we're still going to feature Brad for a little bit. First thing let's get to right off the bat, we'll put the video on screen here, but yesterday, I don't even know where to begin with this. I have footage of your family, I think in Yellowstone National Park, and I have that footage of the bear pooping in the woods. Yes, okay, oh, I understand now.

Yeah, well, how did that happen? So, well, I want you to guess how that happened and also want you to explain yourself Why were you recording the bear pooping because it sounds like your voice behind the camera. Yes Okay, so I do have I think a decent theory of why you have to have the footage in the first place Okay, cuz Zach mentioned something about meeting you to like transfer something. Okay. Yes just for coffee or something like that Yes, I got a hard drive from Zach. And he- I'm guessing he unknowingly,

Zach, he's good at his job, but he's also, I feel like he would be the type of guy who wouldn't check everything that he's giving you or something. Maybe that's my theory is that like- In the same way- There was something I had that he missed. That Brad warned us five times about how sick he was

Zack gave me a heads up three or four times and I don't know what's on that hard drive Which is like a scary thing to tell someone or he would say like and I don't know really he kind of does But he's like he doesn't want you to know. Yeah, and I will say it wasn't so I'm not exactly like clicking around trying to find things Yeah, I like, as far as I know, this is Zach's hard drive. But one of the folders said national park footage. I was like, well, who doesn't love national park footage? I'm sure that's beautiful. And then I click on it and then all these files, it's not like it's labeled bear pooping.

They're labeled just file names. It's gibberish. And the very first one I click on, the very first frame I see is the bear pooping. It's the only thing I've seen on the hard drive. Really? It's just the bear pooping. I was like, I can't, is the whole thing the bear pooping? Is it just this one scene?

Yeah. Let me explain myself. So we were at whatever National Park it was in Tennessee. I don't actually remember what it's called, but it was like, it was like bear season. We didn't like even plan that, but it was like, I think we saw a lot more bears and a lot of people see when you go there. So that was fun and like pretty close up. And so I want to say,

I don't remember the pooping specifically, but I want to say it was like we ran into a bear at pretty close distance and I had my cameras, I'm trying to get some good footage of this and I think it just happened to poop. I wasn't like, oh, it's pooping. I got it. I get it.

Uh oh, ooh I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet cause it's the Ghost from the Sparkans. Ghost from the Sparkans. Every Monday morning we're taking care of Ghost from the Sparkans. making grandma some spaghet. Go for a vodka? Okay, well, Brad, no Brad, still gonna be a fun episode. I've got these gloves on.

I wanna address that right off the bat. Here's what I'll say, there's nothing I can't do with these gloves on. It's my first pair of work gloves. I bought them myself and it's been cold recently and I've been working outside and there's nothing I can't do. Last night I was, so my sister and Brayden are moving away.

I don't know if you knew that or not. They're moving tomorrow actually. Really fun, I'm excited for them. I'm gonna let Caitlin maybe someday come on the podcast and talk about what they're doing and why they're moving but anyway So I mean Rachel go take a Caitlin's last like power life class last night She's like an instructor and it was really cool. It was like jam-packed 65 people in this like tiny

Fitness studio. Oh, yeah, I think I saw I thought you see yeah I saw like a just picture of a lot of people it was packed I five minutes into it me and the girl next to me, Rachel's on my left, stranger's on my right, we like brushed hands, which I didn't love. And I was like, first of all, that's how close it is. But also I was like, this is so embarrassing. I'm like the creep who like touches girls

while working out. Oops. Oh did I? Oh my gosh. And after that, I got so far on the opposite side of my yoga mat. I was basically on top of Rachel's so I didn't touch this girl again. Anyway after that, I got so far on the opposite side of my yoga mat. I was basically on top of Rachel's, so I didn't touch the scroll again.

Anyway, that was really fun. After that, we're rushing home. My friend Alex Dimcheck is staying with us last night as well. So like, let's get the house ready for him. I'm like, oh yeah, Caitlin and Brayden are moving their stuff tomorrow, which is today, and all their stuff is in our basement,

and our garage is full. So I'm like, hey, I'll put the gloves on, get to work. So we had a white trash night, which is what I call it when I burn my own trash. It just seems like a good name for it. I start burning the trash. There's like 25 mile an hour winds, so I'm like, all right, this is probably not smart.

I stop burning the trash, and then I get a text from Knack Baxter, not MD, but the one who runs food trucks. And he was like, hey, just FYI, you should probably winterize your food truck. Like that does sound good. That does sound like what I should do. And he's like telling me all these things to do.

So I'm like, great, already got the gloves on. Let's go winterize the food truck. And you know, the last few months, I haven't had any like negative things happen to Bondi where I've had time to kind of be like, you know what, this is gonna be good. Spring, we're gonna hit the ground running. I'm gonna find someone to manage it. It's gonna be awesome.

I spent 45 minutes working on the truck last night and I am ready to burn it to the ground. So if anyone wants a Bondi franchise, you let me know. It's awesome, I got everything you need. Yeah, so it was just like, all I need to do is like, mainly drain the water so it doesn't like freeze and crack or, you know, whatever. But just to run the sink, you got to turn the power on.

Easy, get the generator going. I'm like, it's not starting. Oh yeah, I forgot. I had to like crank start it. Oh yeah, that's the fix. Even a crank start, that's not working. But dude, I have the gloves on. So anything, it's no problem.

That's true. So then I go from there, then I'm just, then I just, once you get the gloves on, then you're like, maybe I'll do the gutters. Maybe I'll move stuff around the basement. Maybe I'll redo some storage. First thing I did this morning, wake up at six something, Caitlin and Brayden over here at seven,

I throw the gloves on. Nice. I'm just a glove guy now. Yeah. It kind of smells like a baseball glove. I like that, so. I like that. So I like just fit like Snuggly, which is like I feel like there's some work gloves where it's like a very yeah, you're right I think that's it. Those are really nice gloves. Thank you. I like them. Yep

I have a guess of you said there's nothing you can't do. I have a guess. Can you use your computer? Is that possible? That's a good point. Yeah, I think that's a pretty significant part of what you do. Yeah, there's a lot I can't do which is earn money by working right with it. Yeah, it doesn't work on the phone or computer but Anything outdoors I can do it smells great and you know fit great too So Brad's got a gift his his gift-giving guide later this episode mine is get you get you some deer skin gloves Yeah, and just smell them That's all you need to do His gift giving guide later this episode, mine is get you some deer skin gloves. Yeah. And just smell them. That's all you need to do.

Anyway, did you have a good Thanksgiving time? I did, yeah. Pretty low key, just like at home with like my family on the Thursday and then Friday went to like my aunt and uncles. Didn't go outside of Kansas City though. Okay, stay here. Yeah, but yeah, my aunt and uncles,

we play a lot of, have you played Nine Square? Oh, Nine Square in the air with like the do you have your own stuff? We set up. Yeah Good for you guys. But like this last like couple weeks, I think But it's all these pipes or I don't even know if it's honestly. I just know we have one now I must not have been home when it happened But yeah, it's a lot of fun. Yeah, if you don't know, it's a very homemade looking, it's just PVC pipe, it's not even painted most of the time. I mean, it's like a hillbilly yard game, basically. It looks like we shouldn't have bought it,

but I think we do. Like it looks like we should have just like had the, like we found the parts around our house or something. I would be shocked if anyone is like somehow packaging and bundling a nine square in the air for people to like buy, but maybe you can buy it. But yeah, I've played it a couple different, like at camp or some other people's house.

And yeah, you just keep the ball in the air. It's almost like you've got little squares that you're in and you don't want to let the ball hit the ground through your square. So it's like, you know, it's like, it has aspects of tic-tac-toe and park cheesy and maybe like, what's that other show where they're in the rooms?

Love on the Spectrum. No, that's not, love is blind. Love is blind. It's a lot like tic-tac-toe and love on the Spectrum. You guys will love it. It's a fun game. It's a fun game. Anyway, so you're doing that with the whole family.

It wasn't warm out, was it? It was, no. But we played outside. I mean, it was like warm enough where we could play for about an hour and it was okay. But we walked in like, we realized how cold it was once we'd go inside. Like, oh, I can't feel my hands.

But I love Nine Square. Jesse, my brother Jesse, he like, he gets in, he like, when he serves it, he's always trying to split where it like, will fall into someone's like, hit the post or whatever. He gets pretty sneaky. He's not exactly like, all right, gentlemen serve,

let's just get it going. No. He's like. And he's not afraid to do that to my like four year old sister either. Wow, killer instinct. Yeah. I could learn something from him.

That's fun. And then you do any turkey trots? No. I haven't, I haven't run for so long. I started the year so strong with, with running every day. And it's, when I stopped, I haven't I haven't run for so long I started the year so strong with with running every day and it's when I stopped I really stopped good for you Thank you. Yeah, a lot of people they kind of stop, you know how to stop Yeah, a lot of people have New Year's resolutions and you know to start things. It's not giving into laziness. It's just committing to something It's just not the hard thing committing to something. That's good. Yeah, I

Once I got with Rachel, we've always been in Iowa for Thanksgiving and have done turkey trots like three years in a row. This year we're in Stratford. She's like, we got a trot. And so she Googles it. She's like, let's see if Stratford has one. And sure enough, they do.

Wow. Cold day. But just showed up. Caitlin O'Braden came with us. That was fun. Caitlin thought it was only, she thought a 5K was two and a half miles. So she got two and a half miles like,

oh, done. Glad I pushed myself there at the end. I don't know, I couldn't have done much further than that. So I- Did they have like a finish line set up? Yeah, I wasn't with her. So I don't know where the confusion comes exactly. Maybe she just-

Why everyone keep going. Yeah, basically like, why did they not make it a full circle? We're not even to the end. Either way. Where did she get two and a half miles is my question. I don't know, Strafford education, I guess, probably. Maybe.

It's their own fault. Yeah, I was making fun of her. I was like, you know, Caitlin's probably thinking, why does everyone have such a tough time kilometers to miles? It's just half. It's just, it's always 50%. It's not that hard.

You just double it. So yeah, she ended a little early. I did a strategy. Well, first of all, say doing a mile every day made the Turkey Trot way easier this year compared to years past where I'm just in my 30s trying to do my first 5K and it sucked. So this wasn't too bad at all.

First mile, nine and a half minute pace. We're really at all. First mile, nine and a half minute pace. We're really going slow. Second mile, nine and a half minute pace. Third mile, I timed it. First two miles were listening to a podcast. Third mile, I've got three upbeat songs queued up and I was like, let's just see how fast I can go. Pretty fun.

And then the last one was like 750 something. For like the last mile of 5K, that's great. Like I remember I did like the Lenexa, like July 4th 5K thing. And it was like, since I think I had been running a mile a day before that. And I was like, the first mile was a breeze. And I was like,

then by the third mile, I hated it so much. Yeah, you ready to be done after two and a half miles. I don't know what, I was, yeah, I was Caitlin. It's a fun way of doing it because you get to pass a lot of people. Yeah. Sure, everyone passes you immediately. It is way more fun than running by yourself,

just like from a competition standpoint. Yeah, there are a lot of like Stratford high school boys there, which I was like, if I finish ahead of any of them, I'm gonna be excited. Especially the ones that had cross country hoodies on. I was like, oh, these guys are like next level. Their themed hoodies this year were like

Stratford cross country, no speed limit. Wow. That's a great. Did you beat any? Yeah, a couple of them. Felt good. Rachel, I always love making fun of just like, which I know you didn't really get this experience,

but it's like high school slogans. Like any locker room you've ever been in, like the school has a slogan or it has like a word of the year or like a phrase of the year. Trying to think back to any you've ever been in, like the school has a slogan, or it has like a word of the year, or like a phrase of the year. I'm trying to think back to any times I've been in like, high school, just I'm thinking of like, Greenleaf Dance recitals that have been in- You guys have slogans?

Occasionally, no, no, no, like occasionally- One heartbeat. Hosted in like a school. Oh, okay. And like in the, like the green room is probably more of like a random- Multi-purpose room or something? I'm trying to think of like what I've seen on the wall.

I don't know. Rachel was obsessed. Picture like banners and stuff. Cause we were in different Stratford gyms at different times and you know, we're the Stratford Indians and there was one big thing on the wall that said one tribe and she's like, that's so great. That's such a small town.

Like, yeah, we're the Indians. One tribe guys, one tribe, don't forget. So that was fun. My aunt Angie showed up. We didn't even plan it. She was also there at the circuit rod and she won her age group. So good for Aunt Angie.

That's sweet. Did a good job. Before we get into more just like life updates and even before we get into Brad, should we just go ahead and do the Hallmark Christmas movie thing? I just wanna get over with. I'm excited. I gotta take the gloves off so I could scroll.

So we're gonna do something for you guys. I just it's that time of year if you listen to correct opinions You know train Katie they love Like cheesy Hallmark Netflix Christmas movies, I don't particularly get into them unless you tell me ahead of time This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen and then I'll be excited to watch it But it's still fun to, you know, everyone kind of knows the format of them. So today, instead of giving you reviews over ones we've seen or ones we think are gonna be good.

Which I couldn't do, because I don't think I've ever seen a Hallmark Christmas movie. Oh really? Yes, so this was a little tough. I had to do a little bit of Googling, but I think I have decent things. Let me ask you and let me ask the audience

permission to go viral? Granted. All right. These are made up Hallmark Christmas movies. First one I've got is Santa Paws. I like the name. Santa Paws, a small town veterinarian rescues a scruffy dog on Christmas Eve.

Realizes, wait, it's not gonna special powers. It can find lost presents. She and the dog team up to save Christmas for the local orphanage. Then she realizes the man claiming to be the dog's owner might be the real Santa Claus. Wow. This is already so much better than any of mine.

Oh, just wait. That was the only one that's not. Well, yeah, you'll see. That was starting off small. I'm excited for years. Okay. So this one's called a cold Colorado Christmas. Nice. Alliteration. So a man named Jameson Icicle lives on a sheep farm in Colorado.

He's a widowed father of two. Is he? And his sheep are like dying of this mysterious disease. And he's worried since it's almost Christmas time, he's worried like, oh, the financials are down because my sheep are all dying. My kids are gonna have a horrible Christmas. I'm not gonna be able to give him any presents. And so, but then this woman visits town.

What's her name? Margaret Chestnuts. She happens to specialize in like animal medicine. She visits the farm to try and cure the sheep, but a blizzard comes and she has to stay with them. And then- I thought you were just gonna say, a blizzard comes and just like wrecks the whole town.

Everyone kind of dies. Definitely sheep included, yeah. No, so in that time when she has to like stay with them during this like snowed in, Margaret and Jameson fall in love. And once the blizzard is over, the sheep are mysteriously healed by the magic of romance and love in Santa Claus

And this is who are the main characters in Jameson icicle and Margaret Chestnuts. That was my favorite part All right, this one This is this one gets a little wordy in description. This was called Jingle Jail Good workaholic lawyer gets arrested in a small town for accidentally stealing a Christmas ornament. Oopsie daisy. Her punishment? She has to perform a hundred hours of community service. While hanging lights on Main Street, she finds herself falling for the local sheriff, who was secretly her arresting officer.

Whoa. She starts to piece things together. The climax of the movie, she confronts him. And that's when we find out he was just a volunteer fireman he's total creep that's great that's a good ending thanks yeah they didn't end up together yeah that's funny okay this one's just some kind of short it's called cranberry crush okay so it's a mobile game where you try to get three of the same color in a row. Yep. So this sad lonely, this guy's a delivery man. He's kind of sad.

His name is Theodore Fireplace. And he has to, he has to deliver a box of cranberry sauces to his house on Christmas. But he discovers it's the home of his old high school crush. Ooh, what's her name? Rosie Snowflake. Okay. And then they fall in love and get married.

That's kind of it. That's great. Thank you. Theodore Fireplace. That's awesome. Thank you. Theodore fireplace. That's awesome. All right, this one is short and sweet. It's called, this one's called 23 and meat. Ooh, good.

Charming small town butcher, quirky big city food blogger, fall in love with the butcher shop. They take a 23 and me test, find out their first cousins, have a tough decision to make. This is good. I don't want to give it away, but it's, yeah.

You can kind of guess. It's a tough decision. Okay. This one is called the Molar Express. And I honestly couldn't think of a story for it, but the concept is a dentist and a train conductor fall in love, and they start a business where they do dental work for train passengers. Wow.

Good for them on Christmas. Whole movie takes place on Christmas. Yeah, there we go. Start to finish. They grow. It's a, nah, that was going to be too confusing. International date line, two days of Christmas. That's a new movie.

I'll get to that later. All right. This one, this is my last one that had written down. This was called North Pole real estate. Big city real estate agent is sent up North to buy a quaint like Christmas loving town to build a ski resort on it. Except she falls in love with the charming mayor who insists Santa lives there. What? Just as she decides to save the town and embrace the holiday spirit, she accidentally starts a gentrification boom and now the Santa elves can't afford rent. That sucks. That's too bad. Okay. Do you

have any more? I have a couple more. Wow, good for you. Keep going. Thank you. So this one's called the Christmas crime. Okay. A mysterious person has been stealing Christmas lights straight off a woman's like house while she's asleep. Oh, okay. This woman's name is Emily Pudding. Her friend, Jeremy Snowdrift, a private investigator

offers to help her find the thief. Yeah. And then after just weeks of them trying to find the thief of more stolen lights, Jeremy finally reveals that he's been stealing the lights all along and investigating the made-up case was an excuse to spend time with Emily Yeah, this is kind of a Jake Gyllenhaal nightcrawler situation. Okay, I believe you. Yeah haven't seen it. He Really good movie. He starts off. I think like just he's just trying to make money any way possible He learns that you can like take footage

and like sell it to the local news basically. Like if you're the first one on the scene or you know basically if you have exclusive footage you could sell it for a couple hundred bucks. We gets addicted to it and then he starts almost like creating the crime or creating havoc just so we can be the first on the scene. That sounds like it's really good.

Yeah. Yeah. Sweet. So and then eventually he takes her to a secluded snow covered hill That sounds like a quote. It's really good. Yeah. Yeah. Sweet. And then eventually he takes her to a secluded snow-covered hill where he's been using her lights to create- Oh wait, sorry, the movie wasn't over. It's not done.

Okay, sorry. He's been using her lights to create like a beautiful light display. Oh, that's nice. And she's like, aww, and then they fall in love and get married. That's cute. That's like those birds you see on like planet Earth, Like, man, this male bird's being so annoying. No, he was actually building you like a beautiful nest of shiny things.

He was destroying her nest to build his. Which is, that's cute. It's beautiful. Quick sidebar on those planet Earth movies. My uncle John kept asking Rachel if she had seen Wyatt Earp, which is a ridiculous thing to ask a woman in her 20s. Like, hey, have you seen the Wyatt Earp stuff, right?

Rachel's like, no. But the whole time she was saying no She thought John was asking her she'd seen wide earth Wow she's like I've seen planet Earth. I've seen our planet I haven't seen wider a weird name, but yeah, is that like a flat earth thing or is it a flat earth debunking? Either way, I haven't seen wide earth That's another homo chrysanthemum. That's great Brad when I say fun, brown, what comes to mind? James Winston. Yes.

And who, and what is James Winston's favorite way to wake up? Playing, oh coffee coffee Yes And what kind of coffee is his favorite to wake up with? Main Street Roasters. That's correct And Tymon what football team does Jamis Winston play on? Eagles Oh

Kinda They're both on they're both east of us. The Cleveland Browns. Oh, Browns. Wait, that reminds me of Coffee all over again. What's going on? He's brown? It's brown?

What you need to know is that the major roasters will sell you anything brown. They'll sell you beans. They'll sell you bags. They have merch that's brown. Some of their mugs, the bottom of it, it looks kind of like quirky, it's brown. Quirky, C-O-R-K. Yeah, it can be quirky too.

It's kind of fun, kind of quirky, quirky. Yeah, so we're sponsored by MainStreetRoasters.com, or you can go right directly to them in Nappany, Indiana, but they are a family-owned, locally run, small business-owned coffee shop in Nappany, Indiana, but they are a family-owned, locally run small business-owned coffee shop in Nappany, Indiana, and they make the best darned beans this side or the other side of the Mississippi. Both sides of Mississippi, both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. That's right. I'm looking right now at holiday favorite flavors, which i think we know which holiday they're talking about we've got drummer boy joe uh sleigh ride roast fun names guys and guess what that's right they're

all brown yes i'm still on the brown thing how do you take your coffee brown i don't care what it could be black eventually but initially it better start brown. So get your browns. Oh, I just thought of a fun slogan for them. What can brown do for you? I love it, dude. I was going to say take the grounds to the Super Bowl, but that doesn't make sense either. So what can browns do for you?

That's really good, Jake. You should see if I think that no one else does that. I'll text Haley right now. Hey, if you're listening and you want your Browns from Main Street Roasters, use promo code GRKC and you're gonna get 10% off. Go right now. Go right now.

Get some, stuck some stuffings with some MainStreetRoasters.com GRKC. I have one more if you'd like to hear it. Please. Actually two more. We don't have to use all of them. So this one says, this one called the Christmas Truce. So this big city liar, her name is Delaney Frostbite.

She gets snowed in in a small town inn on a work trip, but the owner of the inn is her old high school like debate rival, Jeremiah Stocking. Yeah. And so naturally they go back to fighting just like old times, but then they realize they have to team up to save the town's like annual Christmas rhubarb pie bake-off.

It's only rhubarb pies. And then as they're trying to save it, they fall in love. They save the bake-off and they never fight again. Wow. Rhubarb save Christmas. Yeah. That's a good one. Those are great names.

Jeremy Stalking, the villain. You have one more or that was the last one? I have one more if you want it. Yeah, yeah, keep it going. This one's called Calligraphy on Christmas. Most titles have Christmas in the name. Well, that's good, no confusion. So a woman named Gwen Eggnog owns a stationary shop

in the big city and she's hosting like a Christmas card contest for Christmas. And then to her surprise, this gruff, no-nonsense country boy, Jeff Chimney, he enters the competition. And she's like, what's this guy going to do with a Christmas card? But to her surprise, he has beautiful penmanship. And he's really artistic.

And so he wins the contest and her heart and they get married. Wow. Jeff Christmas, Jeff Chimney. And that's it. That was great. Coming in Instagram near you, did we go viral? Let us know.

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Brad Ellis, everyone. What's up, guys? It's me, Brad. In the studio. Yeah, did you see that coming? In the studio, but the old studio here in the wood shop. Actually, on the same desk that we used a long time ago, Jake, here we are. Listen to it.

You recognize that sound, Jake? Yep, recognize it anywhere. So, sorry that I'm missing you guys in person. I can smell you, I can smell you, but I can't be there with you. Yeah, I don't know how much you've said it, whatever, so far, but sickness in the family, and right now I think there's 24 people in Catherine's extended family,

and 17 of them have gotten sick, and somehow daddy's okay. I don't know Katherine's extended family, and 17 of them have gotten sick, and somehow, daddy's okay. I don't know what's going on, but I was like, here are the facts, guys. I don't know if it's a smart idea for us all to gather together, when literally somebody threw up in my house last night.

Yeah, what do you, two questions. What do you attribute the the health to and? Second thing I was still down to record if it was just like oh everyone's getting a cold But when you said people are throwing up Yeah, then I was like no longer interested and it's like 17 people like it's not like maybe maybe it's a fluke It's like it's like so much more than the majority, you know? So yeah. Honestly, I don't know. I have, I mean, I've talked about it a little bit already, but I've been trying to be healthy. And so Thanksgiving, I did not, I didn't pig

out. I mean, I had some 30 count chicken nugget style, you know, meals, but not anything crazy crazy for pigging out. Like I didn't have any pie, but I had some cookies, you know, I didn't have three plates of mashed potatoes But I had I had a dollop, you know, so no No pie. I I could take her leave pie. I don't know. It's fine Really? I was gonna say choosing like a couple cookies over pies kind of you can't I wouldn't do that. Oh man ice cream Weakness all day pie. Yeah, I don't do that. Oh man, ice cream weakness all day. Pie, eh, I don't know, it's fine. I had so much apple pie.

I had, I love apple pie, yeah. I don't even know if we had apple pie. That's like, apple pie's nice. Oh, that's your problem, yeah. Pecan pie? Pumpkin pie? Here's your problem. Yeah, I think I've gotten my...

I would choose chocolate chip cookies over a pecan pie also. Yeah. I can't even pronounce it. I dislike it so much. Pecan pie. I pecan't with that pie. I don't even bother to try. That's right.

Yeah, what's the point of pronouncing it right? So anyway, and then another thing I did, which not a direct correlation by any means because the other two people that did this with me, both got sick, but I'm still attributing it to something good, is that the first day I got there, Brooks, Chef Brooks, jokingly said, Catherine's parents have a pool, swimming pool,

and he's like, we should do a cold plunge in there. And I was like, Catherine's parents have a pool, swimming pool, and he's like, we should do a cold plunge in there. And I was like, absolutely. And so Thanksgiving morning, we plunged for three minutes. It was awesome, Brooks and I did. So much so that then the next day I plunged again with brother-in-law Josh, it was awesome. And so then the third day I plunged again by myself. So I was the only one that plunged three times.

It's getting sad. The third time it was sad. It was like 5 p.m. like the sun had gone down. It was like this is a little torturous. I'm not saying those things are what caused me to not be sick right now but I don't know. On one level it's like there's no way I'm the pinnacle of health. On the other hand it's like well I mean look at the facts. So yeah who else was cold plunging in the sunset? Just you. Just me, baby. Just, just big daddy nips nips in. So, anyway, so yeah, did, uh, did that, that was actually really fun.

I think that's going to be a tradition now is like, uh, yeah, cold plunge and Thanksgiving morning. It was really fun. So that's funny. So anyway, yeah, feeling all right. But yeah, just wanted to kind of quarantine from you guys. Thanks for being understanding and yeah, not willing to get sick. I was like, when it happened again last night, I was like, I need to at least let them know the facts and be like, we don't have to do this in person. There is technology out there for one time. I appreciate it. And yeah, it's smart, it's safe, and Tymon's Young Jesus soon. When is that, Ted?

It's like the weekend, whatever weekend, the 14th is on. So, yeah, coming up. And so that would be, that's pretty soon. And then I also have, M&U has their whole choir Christmas concert this weekend. So yeah, I was like, I feel good about not risking it. Do you practically go to M and U at this point? Timing? I'm serious. Your location it's at mid American Nazarene University.

I feel like I go to M and U with like just the fun parts. Like, I don't take any classes there, but I know a lot of people there. I'm like making friends there and I go to choir there, but I don't actually like pay tuition or anything Yeah, I do pay for voice lessons, but yeah the choir it's just like I just show up it's kind of fun Okay young Jesus Remind me of those dates sometime because I want to I want to. And Bo needs to see you as young Jesus, right? Yeah. We need that young Jesus role model in our lives, so. Yeah.

Oh man, if Bo's healthy by then, I don't know, we'll see. Gotta get Bo healthy, gotta get Jesus healthy. Gotta keep Jesus healthy, right? Yeah, 100%. It was sweet. Is Jesus, oh go ahead. Permission to ask a theological question real quick? Go for it.

Is getting sick a sin? Is Jesus susceptible to the flu? Oh. Getting sick does not feel like a sin. It feels like it's a product of sin. I wouldn't think so. Hmm. Oh, yeah. I don't feel like my kids are worse at being humans because they're yakking in the

Odyssey on the way home in Fort Scott, Kansas. Yeah. But also I don't think that would have happened. Oh, Fort Scott, it's a beautiful town, dude. You should check it out sometime, Timon. But also it doesn't feel like if Eve didn't bite that apple, I don't think they're yakking either, you know? Good point.

Do you agree? Yep. Good job. Bite that apple. I don't think I don't think they're yacking either, you know Is that you agree? Yep. Good job There's your answer No, man, yeah, I was gonna say speaking of young Jesus Not really, but I just prayed for Bo before he went to bed the other night This is a God we know we know you're the greatest doctor in the world. First of all, later, Hattie was like, you mean the universe. God's bigger than the world.

I was like, all right, miss, whatever. I don't even know the difference, to be honest. She goes, but then anyway, I was like, you're the greatest doctor in the world. We know that you can heal Bo. So I just pray that you heal Bo. And the next morning he came up to me, like ran into my room and he's like, Dad, your prayer worked! I feel better! It was like so cool to like watch him understand that. So anyway, and then Hattie has to get, you know, deeper into theology of, well, then there could be a better

doctor in some other planet, Dad. And I was like, all right, Hattie, you win. But anyway, okay let's do it. I would think about when I was that age just like well you can't say the world you have to yeah it doesn't make sense. God's green earth? What about God's black universe? Why aren't we saying that more? Yeah that's right. So anyway yeah Hatt Hattie needs to, you know, teach us all theology. I'll ask her about the Jesus being sick question and she can let us know. But anyway, let's do some,

I have another Christmas gift list for you guys, if you don't mind. That's my one contribution to today's podcast, that and the theology study brought to you by M&U graduate. So I kind of teased it last week guys, everyone's been talking about it. Luxury in the everyday, huh? Right? Everyone's talking? Huh? Right? Huh? Right, guys? Uh, I can't see you at all, so I don't know if this is going well. I don't know if you're laughing. I have my own notes up. Hey, guys, huh?

Right? Oh, man. Okay. Uh, so- Did you adjust your settings to only see yourself while you talk? No, but I was going to my notes to get my luxury in the everyday that everyone's talking about. I was going to say, narcissist much? Is that a sin to just look at yourself the whole time instead of looking at other people?

What if I'm stumbling by looking at Jake? OK, so anyway, OK, everyone's talking about it, guys. Here it is. It's time Luxury in the everyday First and foremost just gifts for luxury in the everyday. God always mention our sponsors If you want coffee delivered straight straight to your house That is the best coffee you could ever have get some mainstream roasters if you want the best House good beans good beans

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Delay makes it so much funnier for some reason. Because it's like, you mentioned it, it's like a good three seconds and it's like, oh I gotta draw this out longer. Whatever. I'm trying to like anticipate it. I'm trying to go early and I still think I'm messing it up. Yeah, will the delay be evident in the post or do you think it'll like sync itself up? Who knows. We'll see.

We'll see, Diamond. Alright, and then if you want steakhouse quality bed sheets, go to CozyEarth.com for those. Jake? Good bed sheets. I pretended to talk. Good shane needs CozyEarth. I'm gonna say every single one of these and then I'm gonna take six seconds of silence to wait for your guys' response and if you have nothing then I'm going the next one. So there might be six seconds of silence between all these if there's no opinions on them, alright? Okay. Thank you. All right. So first and foremost here is this pin. It's called a Squire roller ball pin. Jake and I just got them from our little gift box from Fellowship Adventures. It is the nicest pin I've ever used by far. Jake, have you used it yet?

I used it the very first day I think I opened it. I was like, this pen is awesome. I don't know where it is now. It is something different than, like it's one of those things where it's like, how good can a pen be? I'm not saying everyone has to get it because it is expensive. There's good Pilot G207s out there

that you can get for stocking stuffers as well. But if you really want to go above and beyond for someone who writes a lot, get one of these I believe that James clear the guy that does atomic habits Kind of endorsed this pin, but all that to say great pin So All right next up My next thing that I like I don't actually have this in my own house, but TJ had them in every single toilet in his house, and it is the Squatty Potty.

The Squatty Potty. What is that? My parents' toilet back home is so low to the ground that it feels like a Squatty Potty. And? I don't notice any benefit. Okay. I will say I didn't think it was that big of a deal until going to Hawaii with TJ's Squatty Potty's and it it I it helps it just it just makes the access better. I'll say that. So Tyman basically it's just a stool that you put your feet maybe eight inches off the

ground when you're going number two and it just makes it better. And basically it's just a stool that you put your feet maybe eight inches off the ground when you're going number two and it just makes it better. Luxury in the everyday. I would have to see that to believe it because that seems like it would make it comfortable. I don't like that. I don't know. I don't know if you need to see it to believe it. Maybe you need to try it out yourself.

I think that's what I mean. I don't want to watch somebody doing it necessarily. I just I would like to try it for myself. For me to believe it. I need to see you do it Brad. Then I will believe it. You love it the next time you're out. That's the only way. Yeah. I'll come to you. Okay. So that's Squatty Potty. Next on the same lines. I promise they're not all like this. This is the last one. But Jake knows from experience the luxury of a bidet. I do and I like it.

Thank you Jake. Luxury in the every bidet. Luxury in the every bidet. That's good. Yeah, I personally want one So if anybody's looking for gifts for me out there, I hear Tushy's a nice one Others are probably good, too. I don't know what kind you have Jake, but Jake has one that has two extreme settings on it Yeah, I came with the house. I love it. I really do. I don't like pooping elsewhere Every house I ever live in will have a bidet in it. I was going to ask, next toilet you frequent.

I've never used one. Come on over. Tymon, you have to see it to believe it, Tymon. Yep, I got to see both of you doing it. Yep. That's the only way to convince me. All right, next up, another thing that Jake and I share in common, we both have the same brand of sunglasses. The sunglasses are called WMP Eyewear and we actually bought them. They're the exact same, almost the exact same sunglasses. I think they're $40, but they're polarized.

They're comfortable. They feel high quality. They're not so expensive that if you break them or you lose them, you're upset, but they feel better than any other $40 sunglasses I ever had. Good word, Brad, good word. Good eye protection. All right. Next one, I don't have a specific brand for this.

I just said nice socks. I think that could be Cozy Earth, that could be Bombas I know a lot of people love, but just anytime you upgrade or even just get new socks, I think that's just a hug for your feet that is just very kind. I love that you brought up socks. I have a very, very mediocre life update to share with you right now.

All right, so yesterday for the first time I did something. And it's called putting your socks over your sweatpants. Okay. And I loved how it felt. It was so cozy that I am doing it again today. See that? I'm doing it right now, dude. Guess what I'm doing?

Oh! That was like a squatty potty getting it up there. No way. Oh yeah, baby. I've been rocking those socks today. Get out of my face, dude. So cozy. Catherine gave me such a heart. She's like, your ankles look so huge.

I was like, I don't care. I think I look kind of cool. I think I'm cute. Yeah. I went into public today. I was in Black Dog Coffee looking like a hobo, but all my ankles were cozy. I was like, I don't care. I think I look kind of cool.

I think I'm cute. Yeah. I went into public today. I was in Black Dog Coffee looking like a hobo, but all my ankles were cozy. I loved it. Oh yeah. That's amazing, dude.

That feels, it seems like that'd be less cozy to me. I'm sorry, I feel like I disagree with everything, but I like, I don't know if I like that. Again, I'm gonna try it though. I'm only on day two. But yeah, I've got some nice long thick I think they're like Cabela's socks or something. I don't okay. Yeah My other ones that I wore at the pheasant hunt. Maybe just pheasant hunt changes you

Yeah, you have to see it to believe it time It's so on time it's less now is watch Brad poop watch Jake poop go out of pheasant hunt. Yep Great. I'm gonna be sitting there with my squatty potty like sea timing. Told you these socks are awesome. Brad, I've been watching a lot of Parks and Rec. Sure. I'm going to put you on the spot a little bit here, but can I hear just a little bit of like a good ranchers promo from the perspective of John Ralphiel?

Oh, wow. John Ralphio. Oh wow, John Ralphio, okay. G to the O to the O.D. Ranchers, it's the best. If you have a question, it's your answer to the problem. That was good. What about that? That was good. Loquacious and lusciously amaz. I should have stopped. I should have stopped Really good start Yeah, love that character. He's the best but what we're really here to talk about is good ranchers

Too many of you guys no not too many so many of you guys took advantage of the holiday ham deal that They ran out of ham Whatever will we do? Oh, we got all this other stuff sitting around. We'll give that away for free instead So instead it's fresh, but it's it's been sitting around for like an hour or two Yes sitting around is like we ordered this last week. Oh my gosh. It's already here. Perfect. Let's ship it out Yeah, they're doing a pick your protein little promo now For this holiday season. So if you don't know Good Ranchers They are an all-american

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bacon or salmon. And you don't just spin a wheel and just see what kind of protein you want, unless that's fun for you and make your own wheel. No, you get to choose your own out of those four right there. If you ask my son right now, he would tell you that protein makes you strong. So if you want to get stronger, you go to GoodRangers.com, use our promo code GRKC, for $25 off, plus pick your protein.

It's GoodRangers.com, it's American meat delivered. Yeehaw! And just to reiterate, you can spin a wheel, but you're just going to have to make your own, or Google like, you know, random number generator, maybe build an Excel spreadsheet, I'm not sure. It's on you. If you do do that, please send us a selection process for you guys doing the wheel.

I would love to see it. Yeah, kind of a selection Sunday thing. Yep, goodwriters.com, Merrick Me Delivered. Yep. All right, two more selection Sunday thing. Yeah, good right calm married me delivered. Yep All right, uh two more here real quick The next one pretty simple you guys are gonna have any opinions about it, but it's an avocado slicer I bought one for Katherine based off like a Google search like ten years ago I don't even think we're married yet, but it's just like here's a creative gift to give your wife and she loves it I don't think it's that hard to cut an avocado without it but I think using one

is just nice for some reason it like gives you the ability to like like take out the pork with it and do other things and she loves it. So avocado slicer. Nice. Okay all right and last one is my favorite pillow I've ever, I'm kind of, you know me, I'm opinionated about a lot of things, but I'm pretty picky about my pillows to the point where I think I can sleep almost anywhere with a good pillow. The bed can stink, it can be on the ground, but if I have my nice pillow, I'm good. So I actually take this with me to Texas now and it's a Tuftft and needle pillow. That's the brand of it tuft and needle. Highly highly recommend this pillow. It is luxury in the

everyday I'm sure it's a little bit expensive as far as pillows go. But I think if someone has one, it's kind of memory foamy. It just feels nice, especially if you compare it with some nice cozy earth pillowcases. So highly recommend the Tuft & Needle pillow. Someday we should do a blind taste test pillow test. Oh, okay. Yeah, my dad- And we have a bunch of different pillows for you.

My dad has used the same pillow maybe for 80 years. He's 72 years old. I think he's used it for 80 years like it feels like nothing is in there He just balls it up. It's a some kind of amalgam and just sleeps on it It feels like it's like what is this thing? It doesn't feel like there's anything there, but he's totally fine with it But I think it's just whatever you're used to you're good. So beautiful

That's that's my list so Beautiful. Alright. That's my list. Wow, is that your house timing? Yeah. Someone's... is that... I don't know. I heard like a Tarzan scream. It might have been either Tarzan or the end of Defying Gravity from Wicked. I'm not sure. The Wicked soundtrack has been going crazy in my house.

I was gonna say, I bet. It's just non-stop Defying Gravity Yeah, oh, yeah. Oh all of them though. It's the kids have have all the songs like names memorized they just like they'll ask the Alexa to just like play it and it's Yeah, it's non-stop. It's fun though. They're good songs. That's awesome. They're good songs. It's really good Do you guys know Wicked at all? Is that like have you I don't know you familiar? Yeah timing Yeah, I've seen it before you were even friggin more probably Yeah, no, I see the movie twice in them

Sweet that's cool. I yeah, I I had never I knew some of the songs just saw the movie twice since it's come out and it's it's very good I recommend twice already I'll see it you should Hey three hours long. No, I'm gonna I'm gonna at least shut the door. I just realized the door Oh, let it go a little bit. I like it. It's great Hey as long as list the people listening don't care. That's funny, dude. Yeah, I can't tell the song. Yeah, we almost went and saw it in Branson IMAX over Thanksgiving.

And then I forgot, but I'd like to see it. Yeah, give it a try. Ariana Grande is like surprisingly just a very good like performer not just singing she's very good good yeah good good grande good grande all right well that has been my gift guys grande good grande good defiance gravity The delay to Brad's Workshop Wi-Fi it would be quicker for me to just go outside and yell it would get to him at the same speed So do you feel like it's mine specifically? It's not everybody's I Can see time in like crystal clear and you are like very pixelated. Oh. Sorry. Oh.

Oh. Oh. There we go. I'm so sorry. Oh, now I can tell who it is. I was with Brad this whole time. I thought it was so skinny. I thought it was Manute Bowl earlier.

I thought that's who I was talking to. It's dark and skinny. I thought it was a remote call over there. All right, boys. Good luck with the rest of the episode. We'll see you Wednesday for a little schmort. Sweet. Sounds good.

All right. Thank you, Bradley. We just wrapped up there talking about Wicked. Tyman, you've seen it twice. I have. So here's what I, legitimately I'm not trying to be funny, but don't understand.

I always thought Wicked was this musical that I always see in Broadway, whatever. Now that Wicked is in my face all the time, now it seems like it's, shoot, what's it called? Yellow Brick Road. What's it called? Wizard of Oz. Yeah.

Is it the Wizard of Oz? Or what's its relationship? I think, my understanding is that it's based on a book, like Wicked is, but the book is based on Wizard of Oz, and it's like a prequel thing. Because Wicked, and this is only part one, it's out. But from what I can tell, it's just setting up a lot of stuff for the Wizard of Oz.

Wait, so Wicked the musical, or sorry, Wicked the Broadway production. Yeah. That is a prequel to the Wizard of Oz? Yeah, like a spin-off prequel thing. And it's only part one? No, the Broadway musical is part one and two. The Broadway musical is all the parts.

Okay. The movie that just came out ends where the Broadway's intermission begins. Like, it's like the first half of Broadway's, but it's still- Is there still a conclusion? Kind of. It's very much like you wanna see part two now. Okay.

The story, there's a lot of things set up. There's some things kind of concluded,'s very much like you want to see part two now. OK. The story. There's a lot of things set up. There's some things kind of concluded, but not much. Interesting. When's part two come out? I think like in a year, from what I understand. So I think we've already shot it and stuff. Good for them. But they're just squeezing that. Yeah. It's like, let's, you know, Hunger Games this. Like, no, one book. No, that's two movies.

Yeah. And I don't I don't really know how they I've never seen the show. I don't really I haven't like listened through the whole show. So I don't know what the really know how they I've never seen the show. I don't really I mean like listen through the whole show So I don't know what the pacing everything is, but I'm like impressed. They managed to make a two hour and 40 minute movie Yeah with part one But I liked it. Yeah, so it's here's what I know. Yeah black lady white lady Are they both witches? Yes, okay, well green green lady white lady. Sorry you've seen interviews only Are they both witches? Yes. Okay. Well, Green Lady, White Lady.

Sorry. You've seen interviews only? Yeah, you're right. Green Lady, White Lady. Yeah. White Lady, Ariana Grande. Correct. Green Lady.

Cynthia Erivo. Okay. She's great. They're both really good. Everyone is obsessed with them. It makes me feel like I got to see this movie him With them them. I thought you said whatever sorry they them Just everyone it just can't stop talking about this the singing and the acting and the Oscars and yeah performance

I think there's like I see two sides of people talking about how they're really weird in interviews And then people are talking about how they're great in the movie. Oh, you seen like press things with wicked no, okay There's some just like weird viral like they did they're crying all the time Like interview like someone will bring up like what did you have to eat on set? And they're just like like comforting like it was a salad and like just for no reason. I don't know It's it's that's interesting. Like is it a PR move? What happened on set? Yeah Trauma bonded them. Well, I heard like the Wizard of Oz is like notorious

for it's like it's awful working conditions. So maybe they were like, let's do the same thing nowadays. Let's have asbestos. Great, we gotta make this the worst movie to be on. Yeah, look at Judy Garland. She turned out awesome. Let's do the same thing to Ariana Grande. Let's put Ozempic in all of her food.

Yeah. But movie is great though. Let's put Ozempic in all of her food. Yeah. But movie is great though. Movie's great. The product is fun. The art turned out awesome. Yeah. Yeah, I might see it. I don't see a lot of musicals.

My sister was just talking last night about how she went and saw the new Mean Girls and had no idea it was a musical. And it was like, man, there's a lot of singing in this. They're kind of tricking people. They won't put, like for Wicked, it's like, well, everyone knows it's a lot of singing in this. They're kind of tricking people. They won't put, like for Wicked, it's like everyone knows it's a musical, but they'll put no singing in the trailers.

Yeah, that's how they get you down. Because a lot of people don't like musicals. And they try to trick you into it. State and switch. Yeah. I never saw Mean Girls, heard it was not great. Yeah, I don't know about the musical. The original people like, it's pretty quotable.

Sweet. Yeah, your family's just obsessed, everyone's singing it, everyone saw it. I mean, only, no, only like me and like, only the few older siblings have seen it, but all the kids love the music, and they wanna go see it. I might take some of them sometime.

Good for you. But yeah, fun movie. Four out of five on Letterboxd. If you wanna follow me, time an impsh. Oh yeah, fun movie. I write four out of five on Letterboxd. If you wanna follow me, time and nip shh. Oh yeah. Like my reviews. What else did you see recently that you reviewed? I put on Instagram, The Muppet Christmas Carol.

Oh yeah, is that homework? Nope. I didn't think so. Have you seen any Muppet movies? No, I've always been turned off by the Muppet part. Yeah, but I watched this, I was like, this is so like, but I watched this, I was like, this is so just technically impressive, how they do the puppet things and all the stuff.

And also just a fun movie. Because how are those puppets talking? That's what everyone is trying to figure out. How did, yeah. No, it's just lighting tricks. I think, like, paper mache is mostly what it is. That's how they talk But yeah, there's some impressive things. It's like how am I seeing this puppets feet right now? And it's like also made in the 90s. It's like oh, it's pretty cool. Michael Caine is Scrooge in it

Oh, he's like fully committed to like serious and the Muppets are like all the funny things and it's like works really well Oh cool, like yeah, I think if he took it less seriously, it could work less good. Okay. Yeah, good movie. All right, good to know. Couple just updates, quick hitters from my time back in Stratford.

One got an update from my parents. So I don't know how this came up, but my parents have a bit of an issue on their hands. So occasionally when they want to go out of town for an extended period of time, they will hire a dog sitter. Now you might be wondering, why would they hire someone doesn't,

their sister and brother-in-law live right behind them? They do, but they're terrified of dogs. So it doesn't work out. The only dog I've ever seen, the only time I've ever seen my dog bark at all, it's at them. I think he can smell the fear. Oh, interesting.

Okay. Anyway. He targets them. Yeah. They still hire dog sitters. They did it once. I think when Rachel and I got married, they had to hire a dog sitter. And this one was great girl.

Called them during the wedding, called my mom and said, hey, I have an opportunity to go to the lake. Is that cool? Thinking about just, when will you guys be back? That girl ended up pregnant about nine months after she dog sat at my parents' house and did a little house sitting.

And then more recently, my parents found something in their freezer, it was like garlic bread that wasn't theirs. And this was from a different dog sitter they had. And they're like, hey, did you leave this behind? She's like, oh, yep, I had my boyfriend stay with me and he must have left behind. So my parents' house is becoming the conception house

of Stratford. I think young couples across the 417 area are unfortunately using my parents' house to do what they'd like to do. So just- That is too bad. Look out, out there. Just don't get a dog, I guess is what I'm trying to say.

Get a fence. Get a fence, it's a metaphor. Protect yourself. I've never thought much about like, struggling to find a dog sitter, because like I've only known, we live in like enough of a neighborhood where it's like we can just have a neighbor do it yes your parents house is more out in the open yeah and I you know

we did our mile run out in the yard and the dog doesn't get near the road he gives us our space I'm like I think you just leave him outside for the weekend yeah we've lost a lot of dogs that way so I get it. Okay this one Jake is gonna be me acting like Kevin Malone from the office, okay? Got it Imagine I'm so bad at that now. I just feel like doing RFK Imagine the greatest gift you could give then Double it gift you could give then double it. What is it, Kevin?

That's all I want to do from Kevin is just to double it. Ah, what is it, Brad? It's healing waters international. We are running a campaign for them. They are a sponsor of today's show, give.healingwaters.org. If you go to that, give.healingwaters.org slash PMD beauty right now. Give healing waters org if you go to that give healing waters org slash

PMD beauty right now PMD is awesome. They are going to match whatever you donate up to ten thousand dollars So we're trying to raise ten thousand dollars that will turn into twenty thousand dollars for the sake of clean water in the world I Real quick Kevin you did great. I do think it's give.healingwaters.org slash PMD match. Dang it! Yeah you're right give.healingwaters.org slash PMD match. And we say match and we say double it we say those two things because they are going to match your donation and double it. Yeah, if you don't know about PMD Beauty, it is a very high-end beauty brand.

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or how big your donation It is making a true difference with healing waters international. So once again give that healing waters org slash PMD match Black how was your black Friday? It was fun. What'd you do? I Well, that was when we I was at my aunt and uncle's so we got home I was like I'm gonna look up and see there there's a few deals I should take advantage of. What do you do when you look up deals? You just search deals? First what I did, I went to Amazon.

Best Buy door busters! I was like, maybe Amazon will kind of know what I like and recommend stuff. I didn't find much. And then I was with my sister Anna and she was like, well let's find you some clothes and stuff. And so I went to Old Navy, they had like 50% off everything. So I was trying some like. So you went into town on Black Friday? What? Or you're online in Old Navy? to Old Navy, they had like 50% off everything. So I was trying some like.

So you went into town on Black Friday? What? Or you're online in Old Navy? Online Old Navy. Okay, okay. But yeah, I got some like, she's like, well you've, I don't know, you kind of dress the same. Let's like, see what happens if we.

Let's see what happens. Change it up a little bit. So I got some like, some fun sweaters. Which I really like. And then I'm trying to see how like, some looser jeans Work Gen Z jeans Gen Z jeans, and I like them so far Is this Anna pushing you this way or are you like I think it was I think it was she was the push I needed

But I've always liked and kind of I've never really liked my how I I don't know I've never thought I had good jeans, okay in athleticism anyway you want to swing it but no I just I don't know I'm like I if I've had I've worn slim cut jeans my whole life yeah I'll try some baggier ones that is so far it's like I like how they look and they feel so much more comfortable yeah yeah that's good yeah I wore a good amount of jeans on the hunting trip and I think I'm changing as well. I like jeans. I'm wearing snow pants right now.

Snow pants and gloves right now. So we're all changing a little bit, Anna. Take that. Yeah, it is funny. Like I also was like, it's Black Friday. Like I should like buy something. But I don't know what I want. So I don't know what to Google.

The best thing you could do is just scroll Instagram and wait for an ad to pop up. And just like people, I got some Graham merch. That was kind of fun. Oh, that's nice. I saw that he's coming on tour with Connor Price. Yeah. And he's coming to Kansas City.

I don't know Connor Price very much, but I almost want to go just for Graham. I was gonna say like. 80 bucks. Or like I didn't see many cheap tickets. I bet Graham can hook me up with some tickets. So we should go together. That'd be, I'd be super dumb.

Because I think he's coming in April or something. So yeah He told me to hit him up when I whenever I come to Nashville So you think that also am I also allowed to hit him up if he comes to me? Maybe ask him Hey, am I allowed to hit you up? Can I hit you up also in this situation? If not, I can hit you up later Yeah, that'd be fun sweet. So you got Graham merch. That's nice. Yes. He was in my top top five I was I saw that I was thinking about getting um Preston goes merch. Mmm He just came out the hoodie says keep going. Yeah, there were the one Instagram ad that got me meta Ray-Ban glasses Oh, it's like the camera ones. Yeah, I was like I bet we could use that for first-person pickleball or even just like ads

Yeah, or I don't know anything. That's first person POV. Yeah You brought up Spotify wrapped. Um, we should talk about that real quick I know we've talked about this before and you really enjoy Seeing everyone's wrapped. I love seeing everyone. Yeah, I almost put on my story Like if you're scared to post it because you think people won't care just let I will care Yeah, I will I might even I like respond to your thing. I love being like, oh, I love this person too. It's so fun to me. And then I feel like memes always go viral,

like, oh, we get it, like you listen to this person. It's like, I like seeing it. It is interesting. It's a cool peek into what someone is like. And most of the time, not in a great way. There's a guy I follow, one of Trey's best friends actually, his number one song was Bad Idea, right? From Olivia Rodrigo.

And I was like. Pretty good song, but no, just kidding. But not if you're 34. That's weird. Yeah, and I was like, man, I guess I'll have to talk to him about that. I'll have to confront him in person. And if any Olivia Rodrigo song,

that's not the best one, there's so many. That's interesting. Yeah, so sometimes it leaves you with more questions than answers, but I don't know why you would know this guy, but he is a ghosty, do you know the Mitchell Bowser? Yeah. Have you ever met him? I don't think so.

Okay, I was gonna say, because I- I think I follow him as of recently, just like, because I- Did you see his spot as well, he rapped then? So he's gonna bring this up as hilarious. I think so. I wanna say, I can't remember bring this up. It's hilarious. I think so. I want to say I can't remember exactly. I remember you being funny. Yeah.

So he's hilarious. He came on the Gulf Shores trip and just so funny. I want to know how he pulled this off. I mean, I think I know. But basically he posted Spotify wrapped his top artist. It's only one. His top song. It's only one minutes. Listen to is six and it's Skrillex bangering. So I'm guessing like maybe he created

a separate Spotify account, only listened to one song all year. Or he could have, I mean, he probably could have just like Photoshopped it or whatever. That's true too. That's so funny though. I just, I pull it up. He just goes, let's go.

Fire emojis. Skrillex bangering, top song, six minutes. And then I saw some other people or someone else post, which is probably like a Photoshopped as well. But it was their top song was the, they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs remix. That's a good song. Yeah.

That's so funny. Yeah, my Spotify rap is once again ruined by Shawn Mendes and my classical conditioning, but hey, I'm falling asleep with the best of him, so it's working. But- He has a new album out. I listened to some of it, it's pretty good. You know, I saw something popped up recently

and it was shirtless Shawn. I was like, oh, I don't know. I clicked carefully. Yeah, but he's still good, but yeah, it's just the same old, his first album, let's do it over and over, running into fall sleep on planes and it works. But Taylor Swift was right there as well. So Taylor, Shawn Mendes, and then I think it was like Forrest Frank.

Great. He was my third as well. Yeah. I've kind of had a Forrest Frank redemption arc. You're back. I think, because I just got tickets for his tour. I think that's enough to say that I'm like back on board. When is he coming to Kansas City?

He's coming to Independence in like May, I think. May 7th I want to say. Oh cool. Yeah, going with some friends. Independence. Yeah. All right. Let's see, what else?

Just fun updates from Friday Pickleball as far as Black Friday goes. So the Sunday before Thanksgiving, we had our biggest day in company history. Like, oh, this is awesome. Sweet. Could be a good week. Then the next day, Monday, it's a bigger day than that day was. And then Tuesday, we launched bags.

And then that's another big day. And then like, yeah, Black Friday was obviously huge. Thanksgiving was huge. Thanksgiving was huge. So anyway, thank you to everyone who bought Friday paddles and is telling their friends and is posting their affiliate code in every single comment section, Samuel Sim. Just appreciate it.

It's fun. And as of today, when we're recording this, I think we have some merch now too. So go get some Friday shirts, Friday bags. Zach will be glad to hear. That's right. I should text him and be like, dude, it's on the website. You can go look at it now.

Yeah. Okay, last thing, let's wrap up with this. So it just, I had a great time back in Stratford. I mean, this is why, what helped me fall in love with Rachel. Cause my first time going to Iowa for Thanksgiving, the things we did with her family is exactly what we do as our family, which is like break into the middle school gym

and just like play sports all night long. I know you have a lot of editing to do, so maybe there's a video right now, maybe not, but my mom was able to get the security footage because she works for the school of us playing pickleball, which is pretty just like, I don't know, it's just so hillbilly. I mean, we're using the volleyball parameters.

It's four on four, but the net is only 10 feet wide. So we're using school tables and benches as the other part of the net. And there's all these new rules. You can enter the kitchen once per rally. It's called the spike. It's very fun because sometimes you forget about the spike and you just serve it.

And they just like smash your serve. Yeah. And that's very fun. Cause sometimes you forget about the spike and you just serve it and they just like smash your serve. Yeah. That's very fun. We set up, they had volleyball poles. We set up a volleyball net and then we're, now we're playing pickleball over volleyball net. I've done that before. Actual volleyball.

That is so funny. My cousin, Steve-O was like, this is great. I think it's been two years since I've jumped. I was like, that's a hilarious fun fact. That is not good though. Wow. He's like, yeah, I think it's been two years since I jumped. So he was like, that's a hilarious fun fact. That is not good though. Wow. He's like, yeah, I think it's been two years since I jumped.

So he was going through it a little bit. Get to the sky zone or something. Yeah, get a subscription to Urban Air. Strafford has a small town, little coffee shop called Common Grounds. Rachel and I go visit it. I know that coffee shop. Is it the same?

I bet it's a pretty common name. I know there's one in Waco as well. Actually, that's a very good point. Yeah, there's one in Waco as well. Actually, that's a very good point. Yeah, there's one in Illinois where my cousin worked there as well. Wait, Jimmy Icicle? I know that name. He's from my hometown.

But Caden, the barista slash owner is like, I know you guys listen to the podcast and he works at Strafford. That's pretty cool. Yeah, so shout out Caden. Very nice guy. The game Wavelink that we played on the podcast recently, we played that with our family for the first time,

very fun. Once again, sorry, this is a big video heavy episode. The first, the bear pooping, now this, but I was able to take a video, oh no, sorry, Rachel took a video of, so there's one time where I'm in charge and I'm like, all right, the spectrum is like best era to go back in time to, or worst era to go back in time to. And so I said the era when Jesus was alive. So what's your first impressions of that? Where would that rank on the spectrum?

first impressions of that? Where would that rank on the spectrum? Like, pretty darn good. Pretty darn good. Yeah. Thank you. So yeah, it was like 90% of the way good. So I was like, I'm gonna go with that. Cause like, this would be awesome.

But you know, I still have like a, I don't have a pillow. Yeah. Anyway. So yeah, maybe you just like roll the clip. Worst era to time travel, best era to time travel. I'm gonna say the period when Jesus was alive. Oh, that was a horrible time.

I know. People got lives received. People got lives received. Everybody stunk. Yeah, how you having? No treatments for any of that. No bad. I could go either way on that.

Do you live, are you there? Or are you just in the world at the top? He's just sent traffic. He's walking with Jesus. You're in this location where Jesus was alive. Everybody hated him. They all lived in pain. Barely long enough to procreate.

Immediately everyone nod on my team. It's just like, oh, that'd be awful. Oh my gosh. I mean, just. It's just like, oh, that'd be awful. Oh my gosh. I mean, just cause it's Jesus there. I mean, you don't even get to see Jesus. Oh yeah. You get syphilis.

I mean, you die when you're 18. You might get crucified. It was positive. You could see. Well, it was everyone on the other team trying to like sway my team. And then my dad goes, man, I could go either way on this one. I was like, oh my gosh.

So anyway, just a funny video of just like what it's like playing games with our family. But then one wavelength, what is it? Spectrum that we had, I wanna get your opinion on. So Rachel had this. She had to decide it was most underrated letter versus most overrated letter of the alphabet.

Wait, and so then, how would that work? How do you specterize that? Yeah, I don't know, you have to figure it out. Would you just try to correspond your percentage with where that is in the alphabet? No, I think it's based off, well let me just ask you this. Forget it, wavelength. When it comes to underrated letters, what do you think?

G. Really, why G? I have no idea. It's kind of like, it's kind of short, but it has some roots, I don't know. I like G. Rachel. Not enough people like G.

Just gonna kind of stick with the first thing I said. I have no idea why. I'm trying my hard gonna play this now. Oh, I think Rachel would say a letter and then everyone else was trying to decide if it was overrated or underrated. That was the spectrum. I see.

But Rachel said U, and she feels like U is very underrated. I think U is aptly. As far as the vowels go, it's one of the lesser looked at vowels. You could shorten Y-O-U to U. And she made a good point, without the Q, useless.

Or without U, the Q is the, yes, yeah. Really helps the Q. Yeah, I get that. Very underrated letter. Very overrated letter? Any thoughts? I think A, it's full of itself, just because it's like at the beginning,

it's like you're not that special. Yeah, E I think might be more common. Yeah, but the thing is, and it's listed first in the vowels. I think it's just got a big head. Yeah Yeah, yeah, it like it hit puberty first. It's like the biggest kid in class. Yeah, cool. Good luck Yeah, nice. We thought P maybe okay, because sometimes it's like straight It starts a letter and it's still there starts a word. It's still silent. I love P though It's a little overrated you like a silent P? No, I just like P. Like sitting down P? A letter N, yeah.

All right, well yeah, that was fun. Yeah. Fun conversation with the family. Overrated, underrated letters. That's awesome. Let's do our reviews of the week. Gonna take the gloves off. Mine comes from a text from Caleb Sullivan.

Shout out Caleb Sullivan, he's a ghostie. Says, guys, I never wanna abuse the privilege of having your numbers. With that said, I've never listened to an episode twice. But the glossary episode has me smiling so big that I'm about to watch it again. The Jake and Brad origins story is pure joy, much love, Caleb Sullivan.

I was like, wow, of all the episodes I've listened to twice. Yeah. Or even to listen to once. I couldn't believe it. My sister was listening. If you're listening through, you're like, wow, I don't need this. Yeah.

Huh. I listened to it though. My sister listened to it. I was like, you know everything. She's like, oh, I'm dying laughing when you said KAA, you know, whatever. So anyway, thank you, Caleb Sullivan. Thanks, Caleb.

This, my review comes from Mary Margaret Phillips. That's nice. It's called Timeliest Podcast in Kansas. It's five stars. If you've read any other reviews, you know what top-notch content this podcast provides. So I'm going to focus on another aspect of what makes this podcast five stars.

It always comes out on time. Rain or shine, summer or winter, holiday or not. At some point in the wee hours of each and every Monday, Wednesday morning, an eight pound four ounce brand new baby episode of Ghost Runners is dropped by the podcast stork onto your phone. Never late, never missing, always dependable. And for that, I thank you. Also, I listened to today's episode after hearing that my grandfather

had passed away a few hours earlier. Hearing Jake reflect upon his grandfather's death was so helpful and really timely. Timely? Yeah. A sad thing to have in common with your podcast host but still lovely to hear his thoughts as I experienced something similar. Lastly as a vegan of seven plus years I finally realized I could gift good ranchers thanks to Brad practical Brad's practical gift guide. Sixteen Waggabee burgers coming your way for Christmas in-laws. Wow. Wow.

That's cool. Good review. Great review. Timely. Timely, would you like to end this episode with a jingle? I would be willing to try. Okay. All right, first let's decide the genre

of copyright free music. Do you have a genre you're enjoying lately? I love just like folky, folk banjo. Copyright free folk banjo. Yeah. All right. What should the lyrics be about? Yeah, you're on chat.

GPT. Yeah. I want you to tell them to write a song called a Hillbilly Christmas. Okay. Since we got a banjo involved. All right, let's see. Folk, no copyright music.

What do you think of this one? I like it. Well it's Christmas time in the holler, can't you hear the sleigh bells ring? We've got moonshine in a mason jar and a banjo that can't sing. All the firewoods are cracklin', granny's bakin' up some pie. Got moonshine in a mason jar and a banjo that can't sing Firewoods are cracklin', granny's bakin' up some pie

Cousin Joe's outside in the snow, rasslin' with a possum, my oh my It's a hillbilly Christmas down in Tennessee Where the deer wear bells and the hounds sing harmony Sippin' on cider, stringin' popcorn round the tree It's a hillbilly Christmas, as merry as can be We got a truck head full of presents Wrapped in duct tape and some bows Santa's sleigh ain't needin'

Round here is four wheel drive that goes Yeah! The kids are shootin' beep beep guns at the tin cans on the fence And Uncle Earl's been eggnog enough to make no dang sense It's a hillbilly Christmas down in Tennessee Where the deer wear bells and the hounds sing harmony We're sipping on cider, stringing popcorn round the tree. It's a hillbilly Christmas, as merry as can be.

So grab a plate of biscuits and some ham fresh from the pan. Join the hillbilly Christmas, where the love runs through the land from the holler to the mountains. Let's raise a joyful cheer for a hillbilly Christmas. The best time of the year. YouTube fade out. Dude, that was great. It's crazy how quickly that all comes together.

You, Chad GPT, a melody, copyright free song. That happened so fast. That's that's timely. You could say timely. It happens timely. Great work. Great work on last week's jingle as well. That was awesome.

Thanks. People really responded. I like I was just like, well, I like the song. I'll record it. And I was like, well, I like this song, I'll just record it. And I was like, honestly, like, I don't know, it's kind of random and weird and like, Bob Dylan? Yeah, Bob Dylan. But then people were kind of touched by it. Yeah, it was pretty cool. No, I didn't think it killed the vibe. It was fun.

Have you seen them making a Bob Dylan movie? Yes. Yes. I mean, Rachel Wynn saw Bonhoeffer and that was one of the previews. I was like, oh, fun. I don't know much about Bob Dylan.. Yes. Yes. Rachel went saw Bonhoeffer. That was one of the previews. Oh, fun. I don't know much about Bob Dylan. Maybe we'll go. Yeah. Anyway, thank you all for listening to this episode. And me and Tymon will be back Wednesday. Brad is once again joining on Wednesday's episode via Zoom. We're gonna do a Schmores of Christmas songs. So see you Wednesday. Thank you.

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