Ghostrunners - 392 - HIPAA Violation

Episode Date: December 16, 2024

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Happy Monday, Ghosties. We are back here for another episode of Ghost Riders Podcast. Brad is back. I'm back. Yeah, it was so fun listening to y'all last week without me. Tymon, you did a great job. Thank you. Jake, always a great job.

Thank you. But yeah, Tymon, I think it was you. I don't know. Whatever. You guys were talking back and forth about one man band. And I was like, dude, I have a loop pedal. I texted you guys. I was like, Tymon, I have a loop pedal.

Let's mess around with the loop pedal on the podcast. So I brought my loop pedal. We have it my jam man haven't used it in 12 years. I bet but I got it as a actually a graduation present from high school, so when I was Tyman's age and Yeah, just never haven't used in a while To the point where it's proven that I haven't used in a while because I can't find the power cord for it So but it's pretty nice. It's a nice. It's a nice one. So yeah, I haven't used in a while because I can't find the power cord for it. So. But it's pretty nice. It's a nice one. So yeah, I don't know. Maybe it's well made.

It's really well made. Like it has a lot of cool plugins in the back. It's heavy. So I think we're gonna, I mean, yeah, we tried finding power cords. We'd look through the closet. We don't have anything that could fit this. So it doesn't have electricity,

but we're gonna give it a shot anyway. Let's just see if it works. All right, So I'll lay down like a kind of a, just a simple beat to start and then I'll try and like loop it and then time and add onto that. Yeah. Not to get too technical with like the musical terms or whatever, but your microphone, time and microphone and my microphone are all connected to the jam, man. Okay. Okay. And are they pre-routerota rooted or is that in post? Oh, man I don't I can't remember the levels are adjusted after but their levels are Okay, now, okay. I've got loop level rhythm level mic level and inst level. Oh

Instagram like an Instagram clip. I yeah like the filter go how much CPI you want on there? Let me get some more water real quick. All right, let me All right how much CPI you want on there. Let me get some more water real quick. Alright, let me... Alright! We're ready? Yeah, let's try it. Can you count me in? Give me a five, six, seven, eight. Five, six, seven, eight. Boom, psst.

Boom, psst. Boom, psst. Boom, psst. Boom, psst. Boom, psst. boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, I didn't think about it quite that hard though. Quite how hard that would be.

That was wild. From the top. All right, all right, all right. Let's just, let's just, let's try it with just a note. Nope. Okay. Just take the, take the out of it. Ooh, what if I get your hands involved?

Okay, we'll try that. And your microphone is also sorry to get get sorry to be like jargony, but your microphone is also connected in so it should work. So five, six, seven, eight, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom Ah, hold on No problem Boom, boom, boom, boom Boom, boom, boom, boom

Boom, boom, boom, boom Hold on Boom, boom, boom, boom Two, three, four. Black Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it away. This year, you saved me from tears. I'll give it to someone special Could you up the speed a little bit on the looper? We're going to up the speed a little bit

Rockin' around the Christmas tree at the Daffy Hall I don't know the words Mistletoe hung where you can't see I don't know the words. Mistletoe hung where you can see. I'm upping the octave. I'm upping the octave. Up the octave. Silent night.

Holy night. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, have some fun and go ahead, get on your feet, cause it's the Ghost from the Spark House. Ghost from the Spark House. Every Monday morning we're taking grand baths from the Spark House. Ooh. Go for a vodka? I really, I truly did enjoy listening to you guys last week. It was fun.

I think. Really? Yeah, yeah. It was fun to be on the other side. There were a few times where I want, I listening to you guys last week. It was fun, I think. Really? Yeah, yeah. It was fun to be on the other side. There were a few times where I did text you guys. I was like, I told you Dax Flame was a fraud. I said it. You and Trey Kennedy both were perceptive on that. You knew.

Yeah, we're perceptive guys like that. Me and Tymon just believe in people. We believe in autism. We believe in the internet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody on the internet's real all the time. That's a fact. Sorry.

Yeah. You got a little piece of, you got paper out. You been writing? Dude, I've been. Little Hemingway over here? What's going on? Listen, I have been trying to purge myself on my phone recently.

I've been. Ooh, I think I've been doing the opposite. Dude, and how, does it affect you? It affects me. I don't know, In like what way? Like I think I am just consuming too much and like comparing too much and like, yeah, just like, like anxiety is such a thrown out word. And I don't want to say like, it gives me anxiety, but like it messes with me some, like, like it's like, or I'm just like finding myself just like, I don't even know why I'm on my phone right now. I'm just opening Instagram for no reason to just look to be entertained or like whatever.

So I'm like, I'm very bricked right now. Just bricked. Cool. And then also I've been using personal do not disturb. And I love it. Okay. You know what I mean by personal, right? Like agree, choose who can break through.

Yeah. So like if Jake texts me, I'll get it every time. Yeah. Like if my mom and dad or Katherine or whoever, like I get that. But like, if, you know, whatever some automatic spam text gets me, I don't have to pull out my phone every time or whatever. And it's been awesome. I just, yeah, anyway. So I've been, yeah, I've been writing a lot more things down, which kind of came back to bite me today. Cause I realized I didn't have my journal with me. So I had to go back and get my journal.

Did you have your phone with you? 100%. You have your computer with you? 100%. Nah. Yeah. Oh yeah, 100%. So, but yeah, it's just been,

it's like changed me a little bit. Like I've, I read a book in like three days. Like I don't think, I don't ever read books. Is this because your family got sick or is this just separate? I think that's part of it I think it was like because Yeah, it's definitely related to that slash just like the holidays. I'm just like not working as much therefore. I'm just on my phone Consuming and just like or like anytime I get in the car

I like feel this need I like I got to turn something on and now it's like no I'm just gonna be silent and like listen to my thoughts for a little bit. Silent drive. Drive. Holy drive. All is drive. All is drive. Round yon drive. Good. You guys are never gonna believe this.

We just came up with all that. That was it. That was it. Completely on the spot. Well, I did have it in my notes. Didn't even jam man it. I said, Hey, silent drive. Anyway, yeah, I got, I got notes.

I mean, I do have my computer out still because I'm not a psychopath, but that reminded me of back in the day when we were trying to sing like Christmas songs and Jake said we three kings of Israel. We just added that into every single song. Yeah every song has Israel in it. Yeah yeah that song came on the other day and I was like man last year was a good learning point for me. Yeah good point in time. Yeah good point. Good point. Good point. Yeah, anyway. Yeah, I've just been writing, been thinking.

So what do you write down? Well, this is just like yesterday, I just took like 20 minutes to like think about like things to write down for the podcast. Oh, these are podcast notes? This right here, podcast notes. I mean, I'm writing down all, there's been a lot, like sometimes I'll literally just put like SOC,

which stands for stream of consciousness, SOC 12.3. And I just write down things and anything. Like just to like get it out of my brain a little bit. Like, so it doesn't have to be like, these are my notes that I'm writing about woodworking thoughts that I have. You know, it's just like, just write down anything. And just like-

Yeah. I think writing things down would give me anxiety because I have such terrible handwriting. When I would go back to look at it, I'd be like, that's embarrassing. I can barely read my own handwriting. Now I have anxiety. Go get on Instagram. You'll better. You know what doesn't have terrible handwriting times you Roman. Yeah. Helvetica. Yeah. Here's Yeah, here's the hack that I've done, is I've started writing only in cursive. Left-handed. And left-handed.

See, I don't do either of those two things. Well, left-handed, it's gonna look terrible. So, no, but if you write in cursive, people just think you're writing fast, and it's just for you, and therefore no one's, like, are you judging my bad cursive handwriting? Oh, I don't judge anyone's handwriting. It's just my own, it's so bad.

But what about if you wrote it in cursive, would you judge that as bad? I judge my own. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, maybe not. It's like, yeah, I was in a certain mood that day. I don't know what it was. I think cursive, you're just, you have the license to be free with it and just throw it around.

Every once in a while, like, it's like, I got six of this, you know, nine letters in there, right? I'll just kind of scribble the end of this thing. I don't even know if I could completely nail the curse of alphabet I bet I could get everything under case, correct? But uppercase like the the F is kind of crazy. The Z is kind of crazy Here's the here's the trick Jake. The Q is like a 2. I'm remembering all this right now, right? What else? I've really... The Q is the one that's out of pocket.

F, Z and Q are a little too high and mighty. Z is fun though. Z is high and mighty. Is Z like one of those music notes? Yeah, almost like a little treble clef kind of thing. Treble clef. Treble clef. Yeah, I just use...

I just print the Z and then do the rest in cursive. Or the Q. Yeah. Anyway, yeah. I mean, there's certain things I don't even... Yeah, I just use I just use I just print the Z and then do the rest of the person Yeah Anyway, yeah, I mean there's certain things. I don't even like I don't even know what that says You know like some of these things are kind of hard to read Oh, I'm just throwing things in there so like that's a bill of sale for a table. I made I don't even know what that says Yeah, I owe you you'll be fine. Yeah, we'll figure out later No, anyway, so yeah, I don't know. I've just been, been writing cursive, man. I just like cursive. Cool. It's good stuff. So what do you got? I did. I wrote

down Thanksgiving recap. Not much to say. Um, but I realized I haven't talked about it too much yet. Um, just the best drive down we've ever had to Texas easily since definitely since having Henry, this is only a couple of times we've done it. But I think we like set the record for time ever with kids driving down there. Well, that's nice. Henry's taking a bottle now. And so we don't have to stop to feed him. So I think we got there in like six and a half hours and sometimes it's like nine hours. It was wild to the point where it's not now we're spoiled on it. Like you can get to Dallas in six and a half hours from here. She's like a little bit north of Dallas.

Yeah. Sure. Sure. And so I bet you can get there in seven. Wow. Maybe I'm wrong. We flew though. It was awesome. And so not literally flew, we drove, but then on the way back, it was rough.

Multiple times of kids getting sick. There's a few times where we had to stop because you know, Hattie was like, I'm starting kids getting sick. There was a few times where we had to stop because, you know, Hattie was like, I'm starting to feel sick. And so we like did like musical chairs, like maybe it's just motion sickness. So let's go to the middle seat. And yeah, eventually Bo is so quiet with this

when he gets sick. Like he doesn't. He doesn't like tell you what's happening. And it doesn't, he doesn't like make a loud noise when he gets, he just all of a sudden goes, anybody, anybody I need help here. Anybody? Somebody, anybody?

I got sick. And it's like out of nowhere. It's like if Simon or Tymon was in the corner right now, just getting sick. Like we had no idea. Anybody? And so, yeah, that happened multiple times. Henry, you know, got sick. Anyway, it was just rough. And so by like, I think like three different times,

like kids got sick. And so finally we just had like a system. It's like, all right, you get the bag, I'll go inside, grab some paper towels, you know, from the gas station, whatever. So this is when your family started getting sick, basically. Dude, they, yeah, it was like, it was kind of like every day,

like a different person got sick for like five days straight. So like it wasn't- Five days is a long time to be sick. It was very frustrating. So that's why it was like, I'm going to get it eventually. Yeah. It's coming for me. Did you?

It never came, no. You are the pinnacle of health. I don't know what happened. I mean, I had stomach aches a few times, so I think I got whatever it was, but I was fending it off. The immune system- Swoop, swoop, swoop.

Fought it off. I mean, I was just like Mike Tyson against Paul brother, Jake, Logan, Aaron, Mr. Tyson. Hey, Mr. Tyson, we can cook the books. So anyway, yeah, I don't know. I didn't ever get sick, but one of the highlights highlighted a gift, so we also celebrate Christmas down there with Thanksgiving.

And Uncle Brooks got all the kids as a, like a joint gift, all the Ellis kids, the game Mouse Trap. Oh, really fun game. Great game, terrible game. Fun to put together. Yeah, I guess that's true. I don't know how it's really played,

but it's fun to put together. I learned how to play it, and it's literally just like just taking turns putting together the thing, basically. Oh, right. Like roll, you know, spin it or roll a die and then go a few spaces. And if you land on this kind of space,

you put a thing on the mouse trap. But it's actually pretty impressive watching my kids. I was like, they're not going to be able to do this. They did it. Figured it out. Bo was pretty good at it. And so, yeah. And so that was a fun little highlight.

Yeah, I don't know. Mousetrap was just a fun. Every once in a while, it's like, oh, yeah, I forgot about mousetrap. Yeah, totally. You know what I mean? Like, do you guys have mousetrap at home time? I think we did at one point.

I don't know if we still have the game. Yeah. I had a lot of fun with it, though, back when I was, yeah, nine or whatever. It's great. Yeah. It's impressive watching them put it all together and take turns doing it. Good gift, Brooks. Good gift. And then last thing I wrote down was we watched die hard, which was awesome as a, as a family with Catherine's whole, like her mom and everybody watched it. It was kind of like, I think I really love Die Hard.

I've never seen it. I would love to watch it with you. Like that's what I'm saying. Like it was like a really, it was my idea. And people were like, dude, Die Hard's great. Yeah. But then there were other people that hadn't seen it. Like my brother-in-law Josh hadn't seen it.

You know, a lot of people were like, I haven't seen it since 1995 probably. Yeah. And it's just a great 90s movie, but it also like stands up to time. Cool. It's got language. We should watch that and Truman Show.

Don't forget. What a double feature. We're still on for Troom at some point. Yeah, but it's a Christmas, it takes place during Christmas. So it's kind of fun to watch it. Okay. Yeah. So let's do it.

Do it. You in? Yeah, I'd love to watch Die Hard. I people talk about Bruce Wallace, right? Yeah Yeah, hurt. It's great. It's so good, dude. Bruce Wallace the guy from Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe Yeah, Dan Radcliffe was negative five years. Oh, yeah. I'm What's it? Since Nate from Harry Potter? What's his name? Oh Alan Alan Rickman. Yeah. Yeah. He's the bad guy anyway Yeah, you know, you don't from Harry Potter. What's his name? Oh, Alan. Alan Rickman. Yeah. Yeah. He's the bad guy. Anyway. Yeah, you know, you don't know Harry Potter. I don't know any of that. Anyway. Brad, you've missed out on a couple things I feel bad about. One, chief's watch party. Oh, I know.

Everyone. Kind of everyone was there. It was crazy. I didn't realize Scott was invited. Both Scots. No. Caldwell? Yeah. Jumping up and down with two feet. Harrison came. Wow. It was great, dude. And it fit everybody? Yeah. Okay. It sounded like Glad was like worried about that. It was fun. I mean, we all fit. We had chairs. And then Gabe's birthday party, Topgolf. Yeah. I was close to being able to come to that. Yeah. Yeah.

So, Missy had some hangouts, but they're both fun. Yeah, Glide had us over. He wanted us to come over like an hour and a half before the game, because like he and his wife put together just a bunch of like Christmas games. We were like, you're supposed to dress up and you're supposed to like come prepared.

And so I dressed up as a Santa, like Santa with the Dante Hall jersey on. I went as deck the halls. Oh yeah. Thought that was, you know, appropriate. And it was fun. They just had all these like mini games for us, just like Christmas themed mini games.

And they had probably like 40 envelopes on the wall with like, I think a total of like, you said it was probably like $200 and like prizes in there. I was like, dude, that's awesome. What a fucking Christmas party. Yeah, they went all out. Yeah, it wasn't just like a, hey, come over to watch the game kind of thing.

Yeah, and Glide's house is cool. Like they just have like really good lighting. Like he has LED strips behind the TV. And so during the game, those were red. And so they just like cast this really cool light on the wall behind it. And in corners, he had LED strips that were green. So it was just so Christmassy.

Oh, wow. So cozy in there. Dude. Scott and I couldn't get over the lighting. But the games were awesome. So every person who came in got an envelope. But then when you would win a game, you got more envelopes and whatnot.

And so of course, after you start to build up a few of these, I start to get together like, let's do some side bets on these envelopes. And so there was- Do some trades. Every, yeah, yeah. On the loaves. And so there was- Do some trades. Every now and then you'd get partners for something and Scott Peck and I were doing quite well.

Okay. And so by the final game, I was like, anyone want to bet? I'll give you one-on-one odds that Scott and I don't win this next one. It's just Scott and I versus the field. Wow, and how many other people are there? I mean, probably six or five other teams or something. Yeah.

And it was a game where like one person is throwing Christmas ornaments and the other person is trying to like catch them in like cups or whatever. So just a coordination game. We go last. And so like. Oh, you went one at a time.

Yeah, so you go one at a time. And so, yeah, you throw these just like little like bulbs basically of ornaments into like styrofoam cups that are all like a box. And you got to get five in a row. Well, we're doing good. Bang, two, three, four. And then the fifth one I throw was like really short.

And so Scott goes to like try and like catch it. And he just throws all the ornaments out of the cup. What's the ruling on that? I just gave up. I was like, that's hilarious. Yeah. So it was fun. So I lost a lot of my envelopes there at the end of the night, but it was just gave up. I was like, that's hilarious. So it was fun. So I lost a lot of my envelopes there

at the end of the night, but it was just so fun. Did you know what were in the envelopes or? No, it was like a surprise. So all you're doing is collecting envelopes. And at the end of the night, you're like, everyone opens them. So it could be like $1, it could be $20. Oh, just cash?

Yeah. Okay, nice. It was great though. It was, I needed a Hattie there really because there was a memory game Okay, so all these styrofoam coats are upside down and you're trying to match things that are underneath them Well, the worst thing that could happen to the game is Point Dexter over here. I'm you know, like a hawk. I'm paying attention, you know, I'm going full Dex flame on all these

Well, then I Uncovered one where if you get the Chargers playing card, it means you're just automatically out. And so once I was out, oh, they were screwed. And it took them, they just kept going and going. And I'm sitting here like, you literally just chose that one. You just, you chose it three times in a row. Oh my gosh. You were Hattie. You were Hattie in that situation and everyone else was Bo.

Like that's what Bo does. What are you doing? You would have really enjoyed it though, cause it got, I mean, it got hilarious how many times over and over and over everyone else was Bo. Like that's what Bo does. Yeah. What are you doing? You would have really enjoyed it though. Cause it got, I mean, it got hilarious. How many times over and over and over to the point where glide's going, guys, I might've messed up. Maybe there's not an even number.

Let's just, you know what, when you pull one up, just remove it, just remove it from the pile. It's getting, it's getting really sad. And come to find out glide did not mess up. We were just, people just weren't paying attention. We were just really dumb. Yeah. Yeah find out, Glide did not mess up. We were just- People just weren't paying attention? We were just really dumb. Yeah.

Yeah. The Bills and Rams game was on, like was ending while we were playing it. So it was really good timing. Yeah. So I was like, I can look at highlights later. I'm gonna win this memory game. That's great.

But anyway, fun times, great game. Glide's daughter, Ember, I think her name is, she greeted all of us with like a hand-drawn snowman that said, thank you for coming. It was awesome. It was just cool. That's amazing. Yeah, tons of snacks, pizza,

brought up some Bucky's, Beaver Nuggets, really fun night and the Chiefs won easily. Yeah, of course. Always. I mean, never a doubt, right? Never a doubt. That's why the goal posts are there, to help direct it in. Yeah. Yeah, they? Never a doubt. That's why the goal posts are there, to help direct it in.

Yeah. Yeah, they're like bumpers. Most people don't utilize them. Exactly, but it's way easier to get a strike with bumpers. Yeah. You never get a gutter ball when you have them. Most people are scared to use them. That was crazy.

It's like the Chiefs have a bingo card. That's like, here's all the ways you have to win, see if you can do it. Yeah. And they've, like a field goal block, a fumble, a doinked in field goal. What other like just crazy things. Oh, the, the first game that we were at the Ravens game. Like the other guy just can't like be in bounds by just a little bit. Yeah. Toe out of bounds. Yeah. So I don't know what happened next. I'm sure something crazy has already happened with the jamis winston game Jamis threw for 500 yards and we won. Yeah, like that's what it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen in my home

It's through for a hundred yards like had some good chiefs discourse in the facebook Uh group this week wouldn't know honestly. I haven't been on very much. What is it? Well, we know I commented on oh the one that was like, hey I'm tired of the chiefs that yeah, I didn't see that by the time I got on it had like 52 comments I was like man. All I commented is like the chiefs are doing a number on people. It's just crazy Oh, yeah, that's what I was just like, it's just how sports are I get it? I would probably feel the same way but it's my team. So therefore because people are like, I'm tired of chiefs winning It's not fun. Watch the chief. I'd rather have the Patriots. So I didn't, I didn't go on that bait.

I could have, I would have been like, Patriots are cheaters. Yeah. You're confirmed cheaters. Yeah. But, uh, I was like, yeah, I get it. Oh, well. Oh, well. Oh, well.

Yeah. But yeah, just haven't been my, my mom said something about like, she talked, called me on the phone. She was like, yeah, you know, chiefs, like some of the ghosties don't really like the chiefs. I was like, I don't even know what you're talking about right now, but I'm sure it's true. So yeah. And then a couple of quick things from Gabe's kind of

going away slash birthday party at Topgolf. One, he told a cool story. I don't know if I'm, if this is totally a HIPAA violation. It's all good. He's about to leave anyway. Basically from his pocket cell phone, Ghostrunner started playing one day when he's with a patient.

And he's like, oh, that's kind of embarrassing. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And anyway, Gabe's like kind of embarrassed, like, wow, am I 80 years old? My phone just playing a podcast. This has never happened. So he turns it off, leaves the room. When he comes back in, his patient is like,

was that Ghostrunners coming out of your phone? And he's like, yeah, it was. And to come to find out, she knows timing. That's how she listened to the podcast. Yeah, it's. Oh, that's a hippo virus. Oh, it's hippo. That'll do it, time.

That's my bad. Oh Yeah, she has all those problems Yeah, she okay, I think so She texted you so that's good. Yeah We can believe it oh my gosh, yeah, just believe it out time. It was so funny Jake's like, you know what? Maybe I'll tell the story. Oh I know exactly and her parents are Steve and Marcy. Yeah first and last name. Oh, okay, but she does It didn't even occur to me why you would like bring up that oh, I'll tell this like yeah hospital Hospital. Yeah Yeah, but you know, yeah, that's cool, man. That's really cool. Pretty cool story though. That

is fun though, because it's a pretty small podcast. Although contrary to what I think we just hit a million downloads for the year on audio. Oh, cool. That's kind of fun. That is right in the nick of time before the new year. That's right. So a million like audio only listens, which is fun. Probably because that I need to find their name, but somebody listened for like half their waking hours. Tucker Tucker Hamilton. Is that it? I think so. We're talking about it. Yeah. More than half. Yeah. Yeah. Wild. We should we should find those numbers.

Insane. Thanks to everyone who had us on their Spotify wrapped and posted about it or tagged us in it. I agree with you, Timon. I like the Spotify wrapped. If it were like seeing Spotify wrapped every single week, it'd be annoying. But once a year- Once a year I can handle it.

Yeah, it's enjoyable. And it also like, it does, yeah, give you a glimpse into who these people, like it's like really, wow, you're still on Jonas Brothers. I didn't know anybody listen to Jonas Brothers, you know, whatever. Like, yeah, did they come out new music?

Okay. A couple of songs. Wow. I just pounded those, I guess. Like Harrison loves, oh gosh, what's her name? Something Perry. Katy Perry. Christina Perry? Christina Perry, Jar of Farts. What's the, what's her name?

What's her band? I don't know. That's a real part. Christina Perry, Katy Perry. No, I of Farts. What's the, what's her name? What's her band? I don't know. That's a real part. Christina Perry, Katy Perry. No, I know Katy Perry. What's the girls, what's like the band that's like really popular that's got a girl that sings? I know it's so vague.

Tate McRae. Paramore? Billy Iris. Oh, Hayley Williams. Hayley Williams, yeah. Harrison loves Paramore, like on his Spotify rap. Like, I think it was number two. This was like probably five years ago, but like, I don't know.

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It was fun learning that from Gabe. And also I just thought this was so just like wholesome and cool. Daniel Ming was there. Very loyal ghosty. Had some funny YouTube comments lately. Yes. Daniel, keep it up.

Really enjoyable. Anyway, we were hanging out and you know, Daniel Ming, big chess guy. He and I played all the time, used to digitally and also in Gulf Shores we played. I believe when we were in Gulf Shores is when Dr. Ben Miller also was like, hey, let me take a crack at this chess thing.

I think that's when it started. And since then has been addicted, plays chess all the time. He and Daniel- Wait, he had never played before? I don't think so. I'm pretty sure like Daniel was teaching him in Gulf Sh yours, but they play all the time, I guess. And next weekend, Daniel May is flying down to Georgia to play in a chess tournament, like against slash alongside Dr. Ben. That's

awesome. It's so like a IRL like sit down wooden piece, you know, like chess turn. Yeah. That's so cool. Yeah. You should take a train down there. I just go full 1950s. The whole thing. We're a fedora. Take a train. Play chess in real life. Don't use your phone.

Yeah. Call. Use a pay phone the whole time. Yeah. Yeah. Pull out your map. Figure out where you're going. I was like, that is so cool.

That's so awesome. You all are doing that. Yeah. I love hearing stories of ghosties meeting in real life like that. Obviously they've met multiple times before that on vacations and stuff, but. We've had people like be bridesmaids in their wedding because they found each other from the podcast

and had people who are dating because they found each other from the podcast. We were always waiting for that chess tournament connection. We've always said, please. Yeah. And now we got it. We just need a Bobby Fisher in our lives. Now we have one.

Ghosty Fisher. Yeah, right. Benny Fisher. That's so cool. So do you, I want, now I don't want to know how a chess tournament works. Like, like, is it like- Yeah, I was asking a little bit about that.

Different rankings? Yes, different rankings. But I think if you don't like play these types of chess tournaments, you know, on a regular basis, then you don't have a rating. It's not like they can take your chess.com rating and put it in. So I think Daniel and Ben are both competing at the lowest level. Yeah. And Daniel said they'll still probably get smoked. Yeah. I mean, it probably it's like one of those things where it's like,

yeah, if you're doing this, you're probably really good. Yeah. Daniel was like fully expected to get smoked by a six year old. And I was like, dude, I get it. First of all, that's kind of how I am in pickleball now. Like if you see like a 14 year old, you're like, they're really good. They play all the time. They're homeschooled. This is not fair.

I played once a week. How old were those guys? I watched the pickleball video recently. Chris and Isaac. Oh nice, yeah. Those kids seemed young. Oh, no, I think Chris is probably like 28. Isaac's like 23.

So sorry about that guys. My bad. Are they? No, I think Chris is probably like 28. Isaac's like 23. So sorry about that, guys. My bad. Are they really? I thought, oh, I thought they gave me some younger vibes. Isaac is the one who dated Anna Buffini, who I met like months ago. And I was like, hey, cool, fun guy. Okay. Did I talk about on this episode or no, I think it was the Pickleball Studio podcast.

They were trying to guess me, Scott and Isaac's ages. I listened to that. Yeah, it was so funny. I was like, all right, I'll give you a hint. One of us is 10 years apart from the other. Like, oh, Scott's the old one. He's like, guys. That was baffling to hear like all their, all their guesses. Scott was getting so offended. Like, okay, sorry. Isaac's the old one. Scott's got like, like white in his facial hair.

Yeah. Like Scott, you're clearly older than Isaac. That's what's crazy though, is that they thought that you were the young one a few times. I was never you're clearly older than Isaac. That's what's crazy though, is that they thought that you were the young one a few times. I was never pegged as the old guy. Yeah, come on. Hey. You getting the mustache back?

Unbelievable. Yeah, I don't know, this started out of laziness. One day, you know, shaving on the way to somewhere, didn't have time to wrap it up. I was like, I'll get the mustache later. And then, yeah, just kind of left it and no one ever believes me, but Rachel legitimately likes it. Everyone's always like, oh, I've had it down.

Does she like, would she like all your facial hair? Like, would she rather you just like grow it out? I think she has asked for that before. And I said, I'm trying. Oh, really? I can't though, it's weak, yeah. Cause your mustache grows in so quick. Yeah, it's like in, uh, in the,

what are the mandible area down here? Mandolin. Yeah. The mandolin. I can get the banjo and get the bassoon. I can't get the mandolin. Wait, wait, just stick with the, the, I couldn't, it was quick. It was quick. I couldn't think. I should have said violin, I guess. Fiddle would have been better. Obviously if I have more time violin, I guess. B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B mustache over nothing, which that's kind of hard for me to even believe, but. I like it. Thanks. Yeah. I like the mustache. Thanks.

You guys? I, whenever we were going through all this sickness, I went full shave and like down to like, like I literally like shaved it clean and then like shaved it three more times. Just be as, as like soft as possible. Like it was just like my skin was like a baby's bum. And how fun is that?

Is like rubbing it? But at the same time, I didn't love, I didn't love the space in between my nose and my lip anymore. It's like, y'all don't like you. Really? You didn't like how smooth it was? I didn't like the way I looked. Oh, interesting.

I thought it looked different in a less good way. Huh. Bad. I'm always chasing that clean shave. Cause I'm always just an electric and like, it's fine. But there's still just like a shadow there. I don't know if I love it. No, I had some time on my hands.

I shaved creamed multiple times. She just creamed. Zoom, zoom. Yeah. It is nice. Yeah. When you go razor and cream. And then like the next time you put on your shirt, it's like almost like something was weird.

Like, oh yeah, it was my face clean shaven. Catherine likes it. She'd rather maybe clean shaven all the time. So I'm kind of the opposite of you. Like you want the clean shave, but Rachel likes it. Maybe we should switch. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I was going to say. Yeah. Folicles, follicles, follicles, follicles, follicles, which find a way science. Been celebrating a lot of Christmas. How come? Christmas season. Okay.

Jake, I don't know. People always ask, how's Christmas? They never say, how come Christmas? How come? Yeah, just like, the past I've always been like, dang, I wish I would've gotten into the Christmas spirit quicker. You know, and this year I'm getting into it.

I kind of, I liked it as well. I think it was hunting weekend, so probably mid-November I came back, Rachel decorated for Christmas. And you were good with it. I was like, I liked it as well. I think it was hunting weekend. So probably mid November, I came back, Rachel decorated for Christmas. And you were good with it. I was like, that's great with me. Yeah. Cause last year we were in Australia.

Whoa. Duh. Just getting sunburned. Had to do that instead of, you know, feel Christmassy. And so anyway, we made up for it this year. Oh yeah. I forgot you guys were like, did you put up a Christmas tree though last year? Yeah. I think for like eight days.

Worth it. Yeah. So yeah, just been like, Did you put up a Christmas tree though last year? Yeah, I think for like eight days. Where are they? Yeah. So yeah, just been like, and this is like the first year since Catherine, even before Catherine and I were married, this is the first year that we're not traveling to Texas in December. Okay.

Like every other year we do actual like Christmas day in Texas, and then we, you know, like switch with Thanksgiving. But this year we did Thanksgiving and Christmas together in Texas. And then we, you know, like switch with Thanksgiving. But this year we did Thanksgiving and Christmas together in Texas. So we're like here for the first time ever in December. So it feels like we have so much time to like do stuff. So it's just like, let's just go see more lights. Let's go do this. Let's do that. So Bo Rosie and I had, he wasn't feeling great one night. Catherine was staying home with her and Henry Bo Rosie and I went to Deanna Rose,

which is in Kansas City, it's the farmstead, kind of petting zoo kind of place, but they also do like lights for the Christmas season, you know, synchronized lights. And it was good. The kids liked it, but they did probably six songs in a row that weren't Christmas songs. Oh.

Like I got there. There's so many Christmas songs to choose from. You don't even be plucking from. Antihero by Taylor Swift was the first song like we pulled up. Huh? Why that? Why? Yeah, exactly.

Is Santa Santa the antihero? Antihero. Yeah. Antihero. And then I'm not like I am, but I'm not, but I'm getting more passionate about this of like they were so, so hard on happy holidays. No Christmas.

Didn't hear the word Christmas in any of the songs in between. They had this little like talking light bulb that was like, like, this is my favorite holiday gift or something. I'm like, stop saying that. Like, then we sing about Santa. Like the song has Santa. Be a man and say Christmas. Just man up. Well, then we sing about Santa. Like the song has Santa in it. Be a man and say Christmas. Just man up.

Well, that's good. I just, I don't get offended if someone were to ever say like, happy Hanukkah. Like I'm not like, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's Merry Christmas to me. Like, cause therefore they're celebrating Hanukkah. That's fine. So therefore I don't think it should be offensive

if I say Merry Christmas to somebody. I think if you're going to like a Christmas light display and Santa's there and reindeer there, you kind of like- You understand what you're signing up for? Yeah, it's probably not where you should go if you're easily offended by the word Christmas. That's what I'm saying.

Like it's like, yeah. It's one thing if you're a company putting out a press release or putting out, you know, branding on your soda can or something like, yeah, be more inclusive, but yeah, like a private Christmas light display. You probably say Merry Christmas. It was like they were trying really, really hard not to,

like it's one thing to be like this, like we did four Christmas songs, but hey, what about that really fun Hanukkah song? Let's sing, let's do eight crazy nights synchronized. Okay, great, let's do it. I don't care. Get out of the jam man, loop it. It was just like, it was over the top to the point where I was like, I got home and I was like, Catherine, I now have an opinion

on this. So, um, but yeah, we've been doing Christmas lights multiple times, going to Polar Express with the kids tomorrow. Uh, should be fun. Did like our, our, our, our church does a, they call it Kansas City Christmas, but it's just like this big choir production kind of thing. Went to that on Saturday with Bo naturally just started crying halfway through. I did. So I was like, this is great. And then Bo kind of brought the mood back down to just like, we're here doing, you know, just being goofy. I got like in the middle, like they, they, they sing for a while. And then there's a few different breaks. Uh, the pastor comes up and is talking for like 10 minutes, like basically sharing the gospel and Bo just farts pretty loud.

And I look over at me and he goes, excuse me. Oh, and we, we got there a little bit late and so it was, it was packed. And so we were literally at the second row, like we were close up, which was fun for him because he got to see the, the bassoons and the banjos and the dulcimer right there. Good trifecta. But yeah, anyway, he just let one riff. Hey, we only do that at home. In public, we just, we don't do that.

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from like a dinner last week and like drove through Mission Hills to see like Christmas lights and stuff, like the Ward Parkway houses. And there was once a neighborhood where the sidewalk has like these archways that someone built through all of them. And so we talked about running our last mile of the year through those at night.

That could be cool. Yeah, I love Christmas lights. And I think it feels like less and less people are putting them up these days. True? I don't know the data on that. I feel like America is doing just fine. I think I see a lot.

Maybe it's just like as a kid, you just remember things differently, but it just felt like all the neighbors put up Christmas lights. Now not as many, but have you seen the ones down the road from us? No, where do I need to go? Just south of like where you run your miles sometimes. Yeah. At night, dude, they're little griswolds. Oh, great.

It's like running. Is it within running distance or I need to go? Oh yeah, like three houses down from us. Oh. Yeah. How have I not seen that? I don't know. I've been taking a new route. Have you?

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Hey, for all those doing their daily miles, we're almost done. Shout out to everyone who's done it all year long. That's crazy. And tell us, I asked you off the pod,

I was like, are you gonna continue that or what? Have you solidified where you're thinking for that yet? I think the 2025 plan is every day you have to do one of these things. Run a mile, 100 pushups, 100 sit-ups, 100 body squats. Or 100 pull ups. Or 100 pull ups with a rucksack.

Just like all these other impossible things. Or if you want to, you can run 100 miles or, you know. Swim 100 miles, whatever, just do one of them. Love it. I think it'll be something like that. Which one do you think you'll lean on the most? I don't, it's hard to say. I don't know.

I haven't done pushups and sit ups in forever. Dude, I'm starting to love the mile though. It's interesting. I've hated it all year long. And then more recently, I use it as a cure for everything. Okay. Getting kind of, whoa, I'm kind of dozing off. Go around a mile.

Bang, I'm awake. The other night, I'm like, man, I'm kind of dozing off. Go run a mile. Yep. Bang, I'm awake. The other night, I'm like, man, I think it's happening. I think I'm getting like, I'm starting to get like sick. Like I'm starting to feel queasy. It's not like a red meat type queasy. Like, well, I haven't run my mile yet. Even though it's like, I don't want to move at all. Go run a mile.

Boom, good to go the rest of the night. Yeah. So the mile is my band bandaid for everything right now. So I might just use it as that. Just like, if I just need it for something, quick little energy boost, quick little, what's it called? Endorphins.

Quick little immune system boost. I don't know how it works. It does feel like the mile is probably the, I don't know which one's easiest. Do you think that's the easiest out of all those? I think sit-ups might be the easiest. Maybe for you. I don't know which one's easiest. Do you think that's the easiest out of all those? I think sit ups might be the easiest. Maybe for you. I don't know.

For me, I haven't done too many sit ups in a while. Yeah, 100 of anything is a lot. It just uses the least amount of muscle. Running's not that hard. Push ups though, I mean, that uses a good amount of muscles. Shoulders, pecs, abs. 100 push ups you'll feel for sure. Yeah. 100 squats. 100 squats mayups you'll feel for sure. Yeah.

100 squats. 100 squats may not be that bad with no weight. Yeah, it feels like 200 squats would be the equivalent to 100 sit-ups. We were trying to figure this out as a family over Thanksgiving and you should have heard Uncle John, he's like, 100 push-ups? Oh my gosh, 150.

We're like, John, you. I would love to watch John do 10 pushups. Yeah, that's what we said. We're like, do 10 right now. Do 20 before you go to bed at night. Tell me how you feel tomorrow. Like, there's no way you think 100 is not enough. You, I mean, yeah, you get out of breath,

go into the refrigerator. You've got a pig heart in your body. I think 100's plenty. So he claims he's gonna do it. Yeah, it's like, if he was saying that when he was playing college football, like, yeah, 100 pushups are easy. Yeah, if you think so's plenty. So he claims he's gonna do it. Yeah, it's like, if he was saying that when he was playing college football, like, yeah. 100 pushups are easy. Yeah, if you think so, okay.

But now it's like, get over it, all right? We're all not in the same shape. So, all right, Jake, you have been known to be in gifted class. Specifically, I think you're just a savant when it comes to math. So we're gonna do some mental math problems. Oh boy.

All right? We'll start easy, 24 divided, this is speed, speed round. 24 divided by three. Eight. 24 divided by eight. Three. 24 times three. 72.

24, it doesn't have to always be 24, but 24 plus 42. 66. Okay, 88 times two. 176. 250 times two. 500. 896 times 2. 176. 250 times 2. 500. 896 times 2. Uh, 1,982. Let's go!

I think that's right. 1,992 maybe. So if I do $896 to give.healingwaters.org slash PMD match. 1,792. My goodness, I'm sorry. Let's just, I'm so tired of doing these ads when we screw them up. I Don't know what the original number was anymore. They were 896. So yeah, okay, okay? 17 1792 1792

Hey, let's redeem 749 easy okay. Oh, it's just right under 1,500. Yeah. Sorry. So minus two, 1498. 1498, 1498 times two. Hey, right under 3,000 minus four, 2,996. Okay, 2,996 times two. Oh, it's right under 6,000 minus 12.

So 5,988. So you're saying that if you donate $5,988 to Healing Waters International, they would match how much? $5,988 to give you a grand total of? Oh, here we go again. Oh, that's right under 12,000, but mine is 24. So 23,976. 11,970.

I'm getting the hard part right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 11,976. 11,976. Dang it! I'm getting the hard part right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, America, the world, everyone needs water, good water. We need to provide it to other people. People are in need of this thing. Healing Waters International is working to eradicate those issues. In Mexico, in South America, in Africa, Asia, you name it.

Healing Waters is international. That means all over the nations. Pan, pan national. Japan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Panama. Panama probably. Panjia.

They all need them. You never know. Whether you could do math or not, you need water. That's where we're trying to convey. Kyrgyzpan. Yeah. Kyrgyzpan. Tajik know. Yeah. Whether you could do math or not, you need water. That's where we're trying to get to. Kirk's expand. Yeah. Kirk expand. Tachika pan.

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Anyway, game.healingwires.org slash PMD match. Tymo, what are you looking forward to about Christmas? I mean, we don't have too many, like all that many traditions as a family, but like I'm excited to go to Illinois. That's always fun. See my mom's side of the family Yeah, I don't know I think What's Christmas Day gonna look like

That's one thing we don't have like a specific Regular Christmas Day thing, but I think I'm guessing just well opens we get we have like a family We draw names each person has one like okay person that I get for I'll open those that'll be fun So it's like okay. It's your turn now Okay, it's your turn now. Yeah. Yeah, okay. I'm sure we'll sing we always sing Yeah, I'm excited Without saying who exactly who is the worst gift giver in your family is there someone you're like and why is it Jonas? I don't know. I don't think there's one that stands out. Okay. As a bad gift giver. I think

we're all fine. We all look out. We all like know each other's interests well enough. What kind of gifts are we or what's the monetary limit on these gifts? Oh, I think we parents are, are your parents buying them or are you buying them yourself? Parents are buying them for like the younger half. Right. And I think the older ones or just whoever's like making money is like getting their own yeah but yeah I think it was like around 40 ish okay but like if you want to go higher you can cool like if you're paying for it yourself and Michael Scott says like that's how much you show that you love someone three hundred dollars worth yeah so who do you have this year? Uh, Oh, you're not supposed to know like they're not it's secret. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Leave it out. I'll just like the other. Yeah. Sorry. I was thinking it was a no. You're good. It was like, we know who has, we know who has us. We just don't know the gift. So you guys know the gift. You just don't know the person. Yes. I'm kidding. You don't actually know the gift. Like you don't know the gift. Yeah. Whatever you do know the gift of, I kidding. You don't actually know the gift. Wait. Like you don't know the gift of what someone's giving you. Yeah, I was thinking I know my gift. Yeah, whatever. You do know the gift of... I see. You know what gift you're giving. You just like go into a department store blind.

It's like, uh, this will be great. I don't know the person. We don't know either. Yeah, hope you love it. We don't know either thing. Uh, okay. A few different things. First of all, I loved the voice lesson in the last episode. Yeah, that was about five seconds before we started recording. I was like, Ty, you want to give me a voice lesson was about five seconds before we started recording. I was like, Tommy, you want to give me a voice lesson? He's like, sure. I was like, all right, let's do it.

I did it alongside of you. It was fun. I've never, cause I've never done any kind of learning. Like I don't know how to do any of that stuff. I was never in choir or anything. The theater folks really enjoyed it. I got a lot of feedback. My mom liked it. She, she like doesn't listen very often, but the sense it was like me more, she listened and she was like cracking up. You Like the voice lesson. Oh yeah. Um, yeah. Does all, do all of your family members sing?

Well, like they can all carry a tune. It can all carry a tune for sure. Cause that's what I'm so interested. Like, like, cause yeah, sometimes Jake was not doing the right notes, but then Jake was like, I know I'm not doing the right notes. And so I like, like, does a tone deaf person deaf person, if you were to like sing a note, could the tone deaf person not find that same note on a piano, do you think?

You know what I mean? Cause I think Jake, do you think you could probably do that? I don't know, I've never tried. Like, yeah. I think I would know if it was right or wrong. Yeah. Right. If you sing the same note over and over and over again, and then Jake would eventually be able

to figure out which one it is. Yeah, what I've heard is tone deaf people just like, I think the term is thrown around a little too loosely. Someone who's actually tone deaf, like they hear music differently than other people. They don't, they can't hear a difference between pitches. Like they could, you'd say this is a high pitch, low pitch. They wouldn't even know. They don't know how to even change their voice.

I think it's more of a, almost like a severe, like a big genetic thing. I don't know. Gotcha. But, cause yeah, I think Jake, you could for sure like, I think I can hum a note and you could figure it out on the piano eventually, I think. Yeah, it's the, it's the mouth and the throat. Which is just how anybody is at first. It's probably just not as obvious because

time has been singing more in his life than you probably ever did. This is my parents' fault. It's always your parents' fault. Yeah, my parents fault. I'm it's always your parents Yeah, yeah, sweet. I was taking the blame this whole time Rachel went to all that school. Just say it's your dad's fault It's your mom's fault. Yeah, it's all you gotta do is tell the patients that mm-hmm No, but yeah, I don't know I think like even when I learned how to sing I was like, oh, that's not the right note But my body is trying to sing the right note. It's not doing it.

Yeah, you fix it. You learn. Yeah, you train yourself, I guess. But something you'll appreciate, Timon. Jake, you can appreciate it too. I'll try. Right now, so first of all, you guys know one of my personality things.

I love Home Alone. Home Alone, big time. Big time Home Alone fan. I would dare to say you love being Home Alone. Home Alone. Big time. Big time Home Alone fan. I would dare to say you love being Home Alone. Will you be surprised? No. Yeah. Big time. And but anyway, obviously Home Alone, a little bit of a got some, got some language in it, got some, you know, scariness to it. So I haven't shown my kids yet, but Bo right now, specifically is obsessed with Home Alone, even though he's never seen the movie. How so? We have two Home Alone

books. Okay. And so we read those all the time, like Home Alone one, Home Alone two. And it does do a pretty good job of like telling what happens in the story and stuff. But then the thing that's really interesting time in and Jake is he, thank you. So dumb. Bo loves the soundtrack for Home Alone, the instrumental soundtrack, like, like John Williams, you know, the famous composer, great soundtrack, but like Bo, it's so interesting. He's four years old and he can understand through the music, like what is kind of, he thinks at least,

what's happening in the movie. But he hasn't seen the movie. He's like, this part sounds like Tiptoes. It's like pretty cool to like listen to him, like understand that, or he's like, oh, it sounds like it's snowing right here. Like, cause it's like the sleigh bells are kind of like jingling, you know, in a different way or something.

That's cool. Credit to the composer and credit to Beau. That's sweet. Yeah. Like there's parts where he's just like, I don't like this part. It's too scary. And it's literally just music. Like, it's not like anything else.

It's not words. It's not, he's like, Oh, this part kind of scares me. Or he'll be like, this must be when Harry and Marv show up. You know, like, just like a different tone. And like, I don't know. I think it's a fun thing to like intuitively learn that about music. Cause I think we all probably understand that. Cause I'm like, if he can learn that about music, he can learn that about people's tones of voices. And like, that's a, that's a cool skill to kind of accidentally figure out that your kids should learn.

Yeah. That reminds me of like when I was, I guess older than Bo was, but I would always, I was obsessed with just instrumental soundtracks of movies and stuff that I hadn't seen. And I was just like, I would look up stuff and know just like trivia about these movies. It'd be like movies I wasn't allowed to watch or something like that. I'd be like this Marvel movie. Cause I was, I thought Marvel was like the coolest thing, whatever. And I would just like, I would know, this is kind of Dax Flammie. I would know like the release dates of, of like movies and all this random stuff. But yeah, the soundtracks,

I would be like, I bet this is, that reminds me very much of my younger. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, he wants to listen to setting the trap over and over again. Mouse trap. Yeah. Yeah. He's just like, this is the part where they fall in the goo. And I'm like, they don't even fall in the goo in Home Alone 1, it's Home Alone 2, Bo, but you know. Whatever. But he's like so confident. He's like, this is the part where they slip on the ice.

I know it. I know it. And I'm like, okay, buddy, whatever you say. My musical obsession at a young age, maybe I've talked about this on the podcast before, but did the African Children's Choir ever come to your church growing up? Electric. Oh, I dove, but did the African Children's Choir ever come to your church growing up? Electric.

Oh, I dove so hard into the African Children's to where I had like the songs memorized. I don't even know what language it was in, but it wasn't English. And I had it like word for word. I don't think I would know it now, but I'm sure if I could find that old cassette, it would bring back like a flood of memories

if I could find that exact one I had. But for whatever reason, I was just like, maybe it was my first experience with black people. I was just like, all I know is Michael Jordan and these kids. I love them both. Oh, yeah. Well, I've learned just in general, a choir really is moving to me, just in general.

And then when it's like, they're singing in this very passionate other language, it's just like, oh, let's go. That's just exciting. Yeah. I don't know. I think there's just something special about just a lot of people singing together. I don't know. Yeah. So I agree. The MNU choir thing was this past weekend. It was like, it's so fun to sing. Yeah. Just with, and there was like a whole orchestra and band there. It was awesome. Yeah. That's how my church is all the time basically, but even more so for this special concert. And so it was just like, Oh, it's heavenly. So anyway,

should we do a one of our Christmas segments? Oh yeah. Holiday segment. These are holiday segments. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do some phony phrases. Okay. These are around them down Christmas phony phrases. Sorry, one more time. Camera wasn't quite on you. Permission to go. Oh, sure. Yeah. Which by the way, I know you've been bricked fully bricked. Have you seen, we went a little vi. Really? So I originally, I think I asked time and clip together the farming schmores. And then we were like all behind on stuff. I was like, you know what? That's going to take longer. Just give me the clip of us talking about debriefing.

They like that. 150,000 views. Really? It's like one of the more viral things we've ever done with that wasn't like intentionally like, yeah, meant to perform on Instagram. It's it's fun to debrief. People really appreciate it. Yeah, I think it has like 5000 shares. I think every spouse is just showing it with their spouse. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People really appreciate it. Yeah, I think it has like 5,000 shares.

I think every spouse is just sharing it with their spouse. So, should do more of that. Okay. Relatable content. I never thought about this. Dude, let's try to like relate to people. Let's try to just be normal guys. Let's stop being all-stars and just being like everyday players, right?

Imagine with me. Okay. We start like a skit comedy channel. Yeah. We don't name it Jake and Brad or anything. We name it after something people already have a positive connotation to. Somebody that goes play on words with like shorter videos. Okay. Like, I don't know.

Timon, you got it on you? We'll call it Daisy Dukes. Daisy Dukes. Nah, no. Maybe people will think like, oh, sexy. They guys are, yeah, my Coach K fans. Yeah. Yeah. Jean Schwartz. We'll call it Jean Schwartz.

Can we still be sexy on the channel? Who are you right now? I don't know, but I like them. Do my own thing right now. We put Scott in an elf costume last night and he became a different person. You would have loved it. Honestly, you as put Scott in an elf costume last night and he became a different person. You would have loved it. Honestly, you and Santa Scott as an elf

would be an electric pairing. It was so good. Bring it on, Scotty. Because we were just doing all these ads like, Christmas time, get a paddle. And Scott was just like, yep, made them for ya, made them myself. You know, been working in the North Pole.

And his little squealy Scott voice, it was great. That's awesome. Anyway, gone viral, permission to go viral again, granted. This is Christmas Phony Phrases. We're back. Okay. I have a lot. They're not good.

I want more quantity. Same, dude. Let's just pepper. Okay. First one for me is, an operating fireplace prevents toys from coming in. What's that mean? In other words, like, uh, like, yeah, uh, fireplace doing what it's supposed to do. It's, it's, it's having a fire, but if a fire is always

going, if something, if you don't ever take a rest, the good things can't always come to you. Take a little rest. Yeah. Clean out your ass. Santa's not coming. Yeah. When your ashes, you know, up to your knees. Yeah. Yeah. Santa's not coming. Yeah when your ash is you know up to your knees. Yep. Yeah Putting tinsel on a cactus Yeah, sure. Yeah it you know, it makes the cactus look a little better, but it's still prickly. It's still pokey. It's still a cactus You got to wrap the present before it's put under the tree. Mm-hmm So Well, give me a little more time, you got to wrap the present before it's

put on the tree. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, you can't just, you needed that. You got to do the, you got to do the work before you can reap the reward of seeing it there for somebody else to open up and take your money in the form of a thing. I've got one like that. Okay. It's like have an eggnog before the presents. Yeah. You're kind of, you're celebrating before you've kind of earned the right to celebrate. Right.

You're like doing a dance at like the five yard line and someone like, you know, strips it out of your hand. Leon let, oh, that guy drank the eggnog before opening presents. That's right. That's what he did right there. Yeah. Gotta get to the end zone, open the presents. Yeah. Timing you have one?

Yes. I got lost as an elf in July. You're just, you're, this guy's out of his element. He doesn't fish out of water type thing. Does he even work in July? I don't know what they do in July. He's lost like an elf. That's good. Mine's just more of a phrase than a whole phrase. Red nosing it. Like, oh, that guy's red nos whole phrase. Red-nosing it. Like, oh, that guy's red-nosing it. He's leading the charge. He's leading through adversity. Yeah.

He's leading through adversity. That guy red-nosed this whole project, man. Just absolute red-noser when it comes down to it. Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen what Lamello Ball's doing for the Hornets this year? Dude, he is red-nosing that team to the championship. Yeah. Yup. That you seen what LaMelo Ball's doing for the Hornets this year? Dude, he is red nosing that team to the championship. Yeah. Yep.

That's a great one. Red nosing is good. I like that one. I have one also that involves Mr. Red Nose himself. Blaming Rudolph for the fog. This is when you're blaming something bad happen on the guy you should be thanking. This is the guy who's the least to blame.

He is the most helpful and you're blaming him as a scapegoat, scape deer? No. No. Time? I got all wrapping, but no gift. He's kind of fake, he's a fraud. Like you think you know him, there's really nothing to it though.

Yeah, shiny paper, but underneath it's just a rock Yep, that's good. This one's a little bit more of like a I don't know. It got some attitude to it So it's not quite grant grammatically, correct. It's a Santa don't fly a 737 So Stain the fact Santa don't fly seven three. No, in other words, like he doesn't, you don't need, you don't always need the best equipment. You need the best people, the best characters around you. It's the Indian, not the arrow.

I just came up with that one. Careful. Stratford. Yeah. It's all good, I get the pass. You're right, you're right, I'm sorry. Come on, I'm Stratford. We have an arrowhead yeah all over all over one tribe

I have one kind like yours timing. Don't gift wrap the coal. Don't give wrap the coal. Mm-hmm. Yeah, very good So that's it. Yeah, I Got chasing a snowflake in a blizzard. Oh Wow Wow in a snowflake in a blizzard. Oh, wow. Wow. Wow. That's great. Just putting effort into something that's just,

it's not worth it. Yeah. It's not useless. That's really good. For someone with just like unrealistic dreams. Yeah. I got Christmas. Sorry.

Sorry. Christmas tree farms are just farms 11 months out of the year. In other words, put in the work and then you'll reap the reward eventually, but not right away. Hey, just a normal farm until it's not. Yeah.

July, pine tree farm. Yeah. May, pine tree farm. January, pine tree farm. Christmas. That's a Christmas tree farm. That there is a Christmas tree farm. That's a Christmas tree farm. All right.

Sledding uphill. Yeah, just you're sledding uphill. Can't do it. I mean, you just you can't do it. Sit down and try to go uphill. I dare you. I, I know it sounds like it could be just you can't do it. Can't do it.

Can't do it guys. Go back inside. Can't do it. go back inside and do it some hot cocoa Oh hot cocoa. Oh, sorry timing for Usurping you kind of red nosing this cold weather makes hot chocolate better taste better From the top was it cold weather makes hot chocolate taste better true Right like who wants hot chocolate in July true at a pine tree farm No, thanks need to go through adversity. You need to red nose a little bit before you can have the hot chocolate in July? True. At a pine tree farm? No thanks. You need to go through adversity. You need to red nose a little bit before you can have the hot chocolate.

Yeah. Both literally and you'll get red nose from being outside because you're cold. True. So. Let's see. Hold your reindeer. It's just hold your horses, but reindeer.

Oh, hold your reindeer. You can say this like during December. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's a seasonal phrase. That's great. I'm not coming up with a new description. They don't make sunscreen for Frosty. Wow.

Wow. That would be a little bit. It would be pointless. He's gonna melt either way. Wow. That was good. Thanks. Tinsel's ugly without the tree.

You ever seen tinsel on the ground? It's like, get that out of here. What about a cactus? What about the ground? No, either, either. Tinsel's ugly without the tree. Thanks. It's just like, hey, you need all aspects of this thing

to make it work. You can't just, you know, throw a lipstick on a pig essentially. The sum is greater than the parts. Mm-hmm. Timon? I'm realizing most of mine that are left are mean the same thing, lipstick on a pig, essentially. The sum is greater than the parts. Mm-hmm. Kevin? I'm realizing most of mine that are left are mean the same thing,

but I got fitting a big gift on a small chimney. Yeah. Just again, just kind of useless to it's impossible. So why are you even trying? Or, nah, no, I'm gonna stick it up. I'm gonna stick it up. Second definition, nah, just to stick it up. Second definition? Nah, just first one.

All right. Reindeer on roller skates. Oh, wow. That's going to be crazy. That's going to be chaotic. If you want to go for it, I wouldn't. It's like a reindeer on roller skates. On the top of the house.

Something like reindeer flying. Well, just when they're- You're way down. Grounded. Yeah. Well, that's like a reindeer, I remember. Crazy. It's crazy.

Only elves work at Santa's workshop. In other words, Santa's workshop, but only elves are working there. This means like delegate. Yeah. Like Santa's getting the credit, but there's a lot of people underneath them that deserve the credit. It might be Santa's workshop the credit, but there's a lot of people underneath them that deserve the credit.

It might be Santa's workshop, but only elves work there. So. I have one last one. It's like that. Like elves without a workshop. Wow. No meaning. Yeah.

No purpose, elves in July. I'm like an elf without a workshop here. Yeah, I'm like a, wish I could help, I'm like an elf without a workshop. You gotta let me fly. Yeah, just boss won't give me any work. Elf without a workshop here. Yeah. Like I wish I could help. I'm like, I'll help without a workshop. You gotta let me fly. Yeah. Just boss won't give me any work. Help without a workshop. Paper pusher. Yep. This one's going to have a bit of a spoiler for um, for young little kids. Uh, so this one says 15 seconds. This one is at least reindeer are real. It's like there's always a positive in something like Santa might not be, but reindeer are still real. Like there's a find the the light.

I think when I was younger, I had an easier time believing in Santa than I did the reindeer. It's like, yeah, I can. Yeah, I get the chimney and the cookie and the omniscience, but a reindeer. I've seen deer. This is they don't. I don't think so. What are you guys talking about sorry we celebrate Christmas we were talking Christmas stuff he's a happy holidays guy loves it you guys are saying something that I don't believe I still hear the bell from Polar Express last Last one, stocking stuffers don't need to be wrapped. Sometimes you don't need to go through the trouble. Just put them in the stocking.

Yeah, it's like that meeting could have been an email. We don't need to fancy up this whole big meeting. Just two sentences. That's a stocking stuffer. That's not a full present. Had to know where you came from, what job you had before you spent in this company. We don't wrap our stockings.

We don't. We put our stockings above our pants. Yep, warmer. But we don't wrap them. You got any more time in? I'm out. Hey, we're all at the same time. That's fun.

How about that? Yep. I also just put missile in my S-S-I-L-E, missile tow pun, question mark. You got anything with that? Yep. I also just put missile in my S S I L E missile tow pun question mark. You got anything with that? The Cuban missile tow crisis. Yeah. Like how do I like, I don't know, I couldn't think of, couldn't think of like, couldn't land the plane there, couldn't land the 737, but I don't know.

There's something there. This Cuban missile tow crisis. Yeah, you're right, that's probably. It's what you don't wanna get kissed by Fidel Castro. Massive mustache. Big bomber. Also bad guy. Also just not a fun guy, so.

Bad guy. That was fun, did we go viral? Hard to tell. You never know. You never really know. I'm getting a call. Oh, hello? Oh, you need to talk to Brad? Here you go. know. I'm getting a call. Oh, hello. Oh, you need to talk to Brad.

Here you go. Sorry, I'm getting a call too. Hello. Oh, it's the same person. Let's just link in. Oh, okay. Hello? Yeah.

No, you just tap your phones together. I got some new technology. Here, hold on. Let me. Yeah, go ahead. Do you mind if I come? Hello? Hello. Oh, now I get an echo.

It's looping. Okay. Hold on. Wait, wait, wait. No, no problem. I got to unloop it. Yeah, totally. Okay.

Uh huh. No. American farmer. Yeah. Right. Okay. Uh huh. Rea- no. American farmer? Yeah. Right. Um, where- yeah, I'm central. 1131.

Okay. No, that's- I can't do this. What'd you- okay. No, no, I mean- yeah. Two, two sisters. I know. I know. It's that time of year. I know. What'd you, oh, you were talking to, okay. Yeah, no problem. I can hold. Yes. I know. Yeah. Okay. All right. I'm going to do a Good Ranchers ad real quick. Do you mind if I call you back?

I'll call you right back. It's an incredible deal. You want to hear about it? Oh, yeah. Okay. Sure. So what is Good Ranchers? Good Ranchers is a company that sells meat. Yeah, they have a website. Good Ranchers.com. Tell them about the December thing. Tell them about the December thing. Tell them about the December thing. Yeah, they have a website. Good Ranchers dot com.

Tell them about the December thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Meat, beef, chicken. You like salmon? One month old. It's like this month. They have to take advantage fast. I bet the tilapia recipe would be pretty good on salmon.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. White cream sauce. Yeah. It's white cream sauce. Wow. Okay. Would you always be closing? All right. So, okay. So they, we have a special offer right now. They've used our, so we have promo code GRKC at good ranchers.com. You get $25 off every box for a year. Free gift. Oh, a free gift. Every box ever. And you get a free gift with every single order. Yeah. Yeah, you seem like a bacon guy. Ha ha ha ha ha. Totally.

That's shipping. Shipping is good. Oh, and the shipping is included really fast. Yeah, they have, yeah, so different things. You can get chicken, you can get beef, you can get salmon, or you can get bacon with that. Talk about the benefits to the meat. You know, it's antibiotics and hormones.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys are antibiotic, no hormone, no acetyl kind of people, right? Who isn't these days? Exactly, I agree. Yes, okay. Yeah, so that's exactly what they do. Good Ranchers is no homo, I'm sorry. I said, homones. I know, I know, it's one what they do. Good Ranchers is no home. I'm sorry.

I said, home owns. I know, I know. It's one of those days. No hormones, right? Seed oils, antibiotics, steakhouse quality meat. It truly just tastes better. I mentioned the gift boxes just real quick. Oh, and they do have, if you want to get it for somebody

else, they have these $99 gift boxes right now. Same website. Yeah. Good ranchers.com. They're on their affordable ships. Right to them. Your dad like steak. Don't miss his dad's dad's dad's dad.

I'm so sorry to hear that. Okay. Well you can eat one in his honor maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, yeah, it's goodranters.com. I, do you mind if I, I'm going to leave, this might actually work for the ad. So I guess I could stay on the line.

He likes, he likes musicals. Bring up musicals. He likes musicals. He likes musicals. He's got, he's got a daughter. He's got a daughter. Okay. So I bet your daughter wants to be Elphaba for Halloween next year.

Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Oh, okay. All right. See you. He had to go really quick. I don't know. That's kind of weird. Nice guy though.

I love him. No hormones. No hormones. Hey, no hormones. GoodRangers.com, GRKC. Anything you guys want to, any closing thoughts this episode? You want to get on to reviews of the week? I do have one question.

Go right ahead. For you guys slash the go-sees. It's a valid or get off my high horse. Oh, great. But it's kind of a transitive property. Is that the right thing? It's my neighbor towards me. Not Jake, but another neighbor of mine. So my next door neighbor, she let's present the facts.

I'll try to present them without being too biased towards me. She has a dog. This dog is big. This dog subjectively, I would say is a little scary. I think whenever you have pointy ears that don't go down, like they have permanently pointy ears, it's the scary sound in Home Alone. Is he a Doberman Pinscher?

Is that what he is? I think that's what he is. Doberman Pinscher. And whatever. She has a, like a doggy door for him. So every single time he hears our kids outside, he runs outside all day, which honestly our kids are fine with it. He's not a terrible dog, but he does like to bark at them and our kids are just normal like, no, no. And

then they kind of yell back and they do pretty good job. Anyway, so I, along with my friend Gabe Oliver put up Christmas lights on my house and on my shop. And we even had a few leftover to put on the shed next to my shop. Fun vibes. Why not? Great times. Uh, my neighbor comes up to me one time when we're out in the backyard and she says, Hey, are those lights, uh, going to be on all night? And I said, uh, I have, they're on a timer. I was like, why? She's like, well, I have to walk my dog at night or else he gets restless. And if there's any lights on at all, the, uh, he'll see squirrels and,

and chase them down or something. What a specific problem. And, and so are those lights going to be on? She was, to be fair, she was like, they're so pretty. Like she was very kind about it. I'm not trying to like paint this woman in like a terrible light. I have heard people do this thing.

Like they walk their dogs on sidewalks and streets. So is it valid or get off my high horse for me to think why not just walk them on the street? Maybe they would get do distracted by other things on the streets. Like she just does laps around her backyard with this dog. I don't even think you need to, so valid, valid. I don't even think you need to come up

with like a solution for her. This is so not your problem. This is so not how I live my life that I can't even like wrap my head around like the idea of like, I should like preemptively complain to my neighbor about something that's a hundred percent my problem. Like I have a dog dog with that comes responsibilities. One of them, I choose to walk him

in the middle of the night for- It's when she gets home from work, you know, but yeah. Yeah, maybe not the middle of the night, but like we'll say from eight to 10 at night. In the winter, that's cold. I don't know. Yeah. And just like, yeah, it's a dog who likes grow.

It just, I feel like dogs can see in the middle of the night anyway, right? You feel like you're ever out with your dog and like, how are they seeing stuff? What are they running towards? They could see way better than me. They could smell that squirrel before they could see that squirrel.

I got like seven reasons why this is dumb. So you're saying she needs to get off her high horse. She needs to get off her high horse. Timon? I don't know. I think, yeah, high horse. Cause I'm a people pleaser. And so of course I'm like, yeah, I can, I can turn them up.

But at the same time, it's like the whole points of having the lights on is when it's dark out is where they're magical, you know? Yeah, that, yeah, I do know. High horse. And it looks awesome. Like when it's on the house and on the shop and on the shed.

And the crux of the issue is that your Christmas lights will illuminate, potentially illuminate squirrels that her dog might chase after. And we also live in the city. It's not like we're in the country where like, there's just no light pollution. Like it's so bright outside. Like we have street lights. Yeah. Anyway. Very specific issue. It is. And it's not like, like, and like both Catherine and I are trying to be like, sensitive to it, but also like,

is that something we should be, also like you're saying, like, is that our problem? Yeah, small yard. How good of a workout that is that dog even getting? Now I'm with you, walk on the sidewalk. It feels like you could walk literally miles and miles on that down the road. You could get to the Panama Canal using a sidewalk,

I think. Yeah. Also he's running around all day because he goes outside whenever he wants because he has that doggy door. Yeah, unlimited access. Anyway, I'm not trying to sound, I don't know. I hate like complaining too much. I'm just curious what your guys' thoughts are about like.

No, that's insane. Okay, there you go. That is, yep, she's certifiably crazy. Yep, that woman's wild. All right. I've got a review of the week from Whitney Simps. Whitney, who are you simping for? She said the glossary episode.

I've listed for several years now and thoroughly enjoyed today's recap. One of my favorite episodes is Boost Mobile when Tony calls Jake during the episode that That was a wild one that was all time. I missed the calls coming in during the episodes They always get got me tickled. Thanks for such a great pod That's good to know Whitney simps some people have called kind of recently and I've just like ignored them But I'll let them holler next time they call Always have fun timing. Did you do Mary Margaret Phillips last week? No, I don't think you did.

I think I did. The timeliest podcast. I think that's the only other one. Or did you do poultry in motion? Yes, here, read this top one. Okay. I know it's a cell phone. Whoa, this is a small little,

I know I pulled up my podcast. I was like, dang it, I'm break. All right. Oh, that's fun. I don't have that one on my. Yeah, I know you prefer cursive. Okay five star review I like how small your text is I might have to change it. It's as small as it goes keeps me young. My 18 year old cousin told me to listen. Five stars from Svia Lizbeth Bauck. Oh she's uh Estonian. She's Johan's daughter. All right. Hi, Brett. Hi, Jake Braden

Timon. I have been listening to your podcast for almost a year now and figured it was time to leave a much deserved review of a 31 year old stay at home mom with four children. Hello. Who listened to correct opinions frequently when I flew out to CA to visit with family last January. CA is California or Canada. I'm so sorry. Sorry for assuming. I was talking with my cousin Nathan about how we both love Jake and how fun and funny he is to listen

when my cousin asked if I'd ever listened to Ghost Runners. I said no, and he then proceeded to spend the next 30 minutes telling me why I needed to. I gave it a try and have been hooked ever since. I've even showed my husband Jake's wedding video. My husband hates wedding videos. And afterwards he said, that's the best wedding video I've ever seen.

Awesome. Thank you three for doing what you do. It's so wonderful to hear from friends who love God and value community. You are truly reaching all age demographics. May God bless you and your family and your families. Thank you. That's sweet.

I love that. Thanks for showing it to me, Jake. You're welcome. It's awesome. Keep you. That's sweet. I love that. Thanks for showing it to me, Jake. You're welcome. It's awesome. Keep you young, small font. Yeah, we appreciate all the five star reviews, all the comments, all the wonderful things you guys, all the feedback. It's wonderful. Would you guys like to end this episode with a jingle? Oh yeah. I think you have one this week. Although, Timon, you got a lot of good feedback. People definitely want more or AI one improv AI Yeah, I think they like it because it stays in the YouTube version. Yeah, which one are you thinking of Jake? Oh, I thought you we had a

LDB oh Yeah, little drummer be maybe we'll save that little D boy time. I just forwarded you Few different ways to describe that little D boy time. I just forwarded you Few different ways to describe it D boy Time I just I forward you an email. I'm refreshing. Okay You guys need me? Okay, pop a quick nap. Oh, I'll forward I'll forward to you too Jake if you want to get in here, we can go back and we can go back and forth You did some voice lessons. I think it's going to be more me singing because it's about you timing. But Maddie D really wrote

one for us. Holy crap. Okay. Do you want me to connect or anybody else? I'm there. I'm there. I'm there, dude. I'm there. I'm there. Say no more, bro. I'm there. Is it? I don't think, I don't think yet. This is not right here. LD boy. Not yet. There it goes. Yep. Maria, did you know

Oh, sorry. That your baby boy Would produce for Ghostrunners Maria, did you know That your baby boy would be a videographer? Did you know that your baby boy would post AI reviews? The Adobe Process video. This has a cuss word in it. It got a million views

did you know that your baby boy would be an equestrian Did you know that your baby boy would love blueberry sauce? Sorry, say that weird When he picks things for his schmorz drafts He does not get applause. Come on! Maria, did you know? Is this the bridge here? Yeah, let me let you know when the words come up. Interlude here. Maria, did you know?

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Maria did you know that your baby boy had no real graduation Maria did you know that your baby boy has no history education? Did you know that your baby boy's Branson trip would be damp? And this sleeping child you're holding is the great time man. Oh Maria, did you know? That was beautiful. Thank you, Maddie Deterle. Thank you, Matty Deterle. Touching, Matty Deterle.

The references are always impressive. Like just the- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well written. Very well written. Always. Good singing. Yeah. Thanks, guys. Tough track to sing to.

Maria, did you know? Yeah, you did great. We're kind of running out of time for Christmas jingles, so we might do a jingle Wednesday episode. Oh, why not? Well, Steve Trippett will appreciate the next one. Blue Christmas. Hey, Jake.

Stop spelling it out. Oh, I know her. She's in Greenleaf with me. Sorry, guys. I put the eggnog before the presents. Golly. All right. We love you guys.

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