Ghostrunners - 394 - Almost Burning the House Down

Episode Date: December 23, 2024

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Happy Monday, Ghosties. Woo! Yeah, we're in the Christmas spirit here today, Jake. Yes, we are. We're wearing our red and our green. Yes, dude, so festive in here. Yes, you think our outfits are cool. Look at time.

Look at tea. Whoa! Calm down. New camera. Is that a Hallmark card over there? Just you happy to see me? I don't know. I have been getting in the Christmas spirit,

specifically trying to listen to Christmas music. And Hattie's favorite Christmas song is Mary, did you know? I don't know why. Maria or just the Mary version. Hey, I don't know if she's heard that one, but Mary, did you know? And so, you know, I drove to McLean's the other day. It's like a three minute drive. And so it was already playing in my car.

I was like, yeah, I'll let this play. And there's a part in it where the guy's like, oh, Mary, did you know? Um, and so yeah, driving McClain's get out of my truck and I'm a weird person by myself sometimes weird person all the time, but um, as I'm getting out of my truck, I just, I sing that part. I like pretty, pretty much the same volume as that. Just like maybe a little bit lower. In the parking lot, essentially. In the parking lot, essentially.

I'm talking like probably a six out of 10 volume, like just like a, oh, Mary, did you know? This is already funny. I don't know where the story's going. Yeah. It's hilarious. I mean, and as I pull, like, so I do that as I'm opening my door, get out and I look

and face to face with me is somebody waiting to get in their car next to me. And I just go, how you doing? Just kept walking. It was awkward. They say anything or? No, I mean, but that's, that's, it was, it was like, they definitely heard. That's funny. It would be great almost like in the office if she's like, I'm Mary, like, you know,

when they walk by, I'm Pam. Oh, no, you're right. Get out of here, Pam. Get out of here. You're not the right Pam. You're not you're not my Mary. Yeah. Somebody else's Mary. Did you know? Yeah, just uh, Oh Mary did you know? Hey, how you doing? Uh, lovely weather we're having, huh? 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 Runners Podcast Ghost Runners Podcast Every Monday morning we're taking Grandmas to the Sparket Ghost Runners Podcast We're in the Christmas mood here, Ghost Runners Christmas mood! This is great! It's Monday, December 23rd Happy December 23rd Happy December 23rd. Happy December 23rd Christmas Eve Eve. It is we recorded the podcast last Thursday Morning and by last Thursday night. I was already ready to record a new podcast

I like so much happened to me last Thursday as soon as we got done. May I begin floor is yours? Time is yours And the floor when you're a coach that would be something you could say floors yours floors yours. Yeah, the floor is yours Matt the floor is yours Matt. The floor is yours. Hey Packers fans the floor is yours So we get done recording here me and uh me and all Christmas card over here card over here go to Chick-fil-A. I have to, normally I would go get food for Tymon. Let him keep working, you know. Time is money.

We're paying him. Might keep those fingers moving. No, but good boy. But I was like, hey, we're doing this Friday pickleball, 12 days of Christmas thing. Tymon, do you mind recording me? Which I'm sure you guys saw it. Maybe you did, maybe you didn't.

But Timon's in the shotgun seat and I'm gonna give away a paddle. And I was like, I think Chick-fil-A drive-through would be a great way to start this off. I've had great experiences in the past when I've done drive-through shenanigans at Chick-fil-A. They're always so friendly there. And yeah, this woman came to me and made my food

and I was like, here you go. I was like, thank you so much. Also, hey, do you play pickleball? She said, who? I was like, that's not it, that's not good. This is not gonna go great. I said, pickleball, what? The sport with the ball and everything.

I said, the sport with the ball and everything. You know, the one sport that has a ball. I just was like showing it to her. I panicked a bit and- You had the paddle in your hand, like- Yeah, it was like, the sport. You know? It was like I was holding a knife at her

and she's back to me, she's like, have a good day. Listen, we don't carry anything above 50, okay? Take what you want. Yeah, like I think I handle it so like perfect in the moment I look back at the video and I was like I did say everybody down To start it. I could have been it everybody down for a new pickle Those the sport of the ball everybody freeze. I have an exciting announcement, right? I Can't show you but I have something under here

that you're gonna freak out about. Kind of, what is that? Is that Tommy Boy? I think it's Tommy Boy. I always get that in black sheet mixed up. But I think it says everybody down, everybody freeze, and they all just drop to the ground and throw their guns. It's like, ah.

Right. Anyway, so that didn't go well. It was kind of a funny video though. Hot start to the week. Did she take it? No, she truly backed away. She's like, no, thank you. I was like, you don't wanna give it to anyone?

And she was like, already turned around. So then I just throw it in there anyway, like a grenade. Take it. Yeah, it's like that awful, awful trend, but where they would throw, people would throw milkshakes back at the McDonald's workers. Have you seen that? Yeah, I have like that Awful awful trend but where they were through people would throw milkshakes back at the McDonald's workers. I seen that. Yeah I have seen that one. I Six years ago eggnog der. Yeah. Yeah Friday. They're not

No, I just drove away with the paddle so it was kind of funny but Anyway, so me and the Friday guys we're gonna split this up like I'll do every third day Scott and Isaac the same well, then Ten minutes're back at the house, time and I just eating, get a knock at the door. And it's, I see the truck outside of it. He's like a roofer. Oh, I saw the sign in your yard. Yeah. Yeah.

And I was like, perfect, day four, let's knock that out too. Okay. And so I knocked day four out, David the roofer. He did a great job on camera Okay, he was awesome because I told him I was like, hey, I want to do is it cool I'll trade you like you can inspect my roof if I can give you these paddles. He's like, let's do it And so I was like, hey, I'm Jake. I'm David. He's like How did he say it? I was like, do you want these four free pickleball paddles? He's like, yes. Can I expect your roof?

I was like, yeah Go for it. I'll try using singles for the pickles. Yeah, of course he's doing a service for you and you're giving him. And he gets something for free. So it was a great day for David. That's awesome. We'll come back to him.

But later that day, then I go and meet with, I think we talked about this on the podcast, but Will Severance introduced me to a business coach at their book launch. Met with him, I didn't really know what to expect out of this, but met with Jeremy down at Pilgrim Coffee. And Jeremy, I don't know if he has much social media because he only knew me from LinkedIn. And so my LinkedIn was last updated in 2014

and it says, or 2016, it says videographer. And so Jeremy thought he was meeting with a videographer. So it was a great under promise over deliver. He was shocked at how much I had going on for a videographer. Like, wow, yeah. And you press record on all those things too? Yeah, so I was like, that's cool that you were still willing to meet with me

if you thought I was just like a freelance videographer. That's nice of you. But anyway, it was great. Good meeting. I leave there and I get my car. And then I realize I should really have to go to the bathroom. I don't know if I can make it 25 minutes home. I'm gonna go back in.

Normally I don't do that, but I was just in there and I bought something. I think I've earned the right to go to the bathroom. Oh yeah, no problem. I would not have given it a second thought. I wouldn't even think that way. I'd go to McDonald's and go in right now. Without buying something?

Anywhere. Anywhere. Anywhere, White House. I wouldn't even buy anything from a souvenir shop. No way, no way. I think I would be willing, yeah, anywhere. Any old gas station, especially. Without buying something?

Oh, gas station, especially. Especially a gas station. That's just a bathroom with some things you can also buy if you want to. It's primarily a bathroom business. It's a convenience store. Yeah. Wow, so my dad raised me differently, I guess.

If you're gonna use their facilities, you gotta support them. Anyway, so I'm like, all right, I'll go back in. And I feel like there's a tipping point between, not between, but like you're waiting for a bathroom to open up, so the men's room was like locked. And at a certain point for me anyway, I wanna know your guys' thoughts.

Once you've waited a certain amount, it's like, I don't wanna go in there after them. What would you say your time is? I think anytime you know what's happening in there, and it's not number one, it's almost too late for me. Like beyond five minutes basically. Well, there's like an XY curve for this because it's like, how bad do I have to go?

Exactly. You know, cause yeah, I would say, Well, there's a there's like an XY curve for this because it's like how bad do I have to go exactly? you know, cuz Yeah, I would say I would Realistically four minutes of me waiting because I don't know how long they've been in there before I'm waiting Yeah, even if you admit it a doubt like maybe they just got in there and they're really washing their hands still I can't see it though Yes, I think four minutes four minutes is plenty of time for me to be like, I don't have to go that bad or whatever.

I can find somewhere else. Yeah, I was rocking a hard place because I did really have to go. So I was like, I need this to work out. But the longer you wait, the worse it gets for everything. The worse I have to go and the worst it's gonna be for me later. Yeah, well, if let's take this into consideration.

It's 2024. Oh, be for me later. Yeah. Well, if let's take this into consideration, it's 2024. Oh, you think in sync? Yeah. You think where the baristas work? Yeah, I'm sinking. No, I'm I'm thinking, how much is it really they're struggling in the bathroom versus how much time are they just wasting on the throne? I would like to think they're scrolling.

I think so, too. And then therefore, it's like, what's the big deal? Maybe they've already cursy flushed. It's not even gonna smell anything. So, cause we're talking that. That's what we're talking about. Like we don't want to go in after this person's been laboring in this bathroom. Yes.

Correct? Yeah. Yeah. So eventually I would guess I got to six or seven minutes. Wow. Like a little past where I would normally go. And I was like, I don't want to go in there. I will, I will figure it out.

Yep. And- And your principles are like, I can't just go to a quick trip right now. You know? No, and there were not that many things nearby. Right. I will say like, going to a very low attended establishment,

like I think next to Pilgrim Coffee, there's like a bar and grill. If you go there at three o'clock in the afternoon and just use their bathroom, that feels wrong to me for some reason. Tymon? I'm with you on that. You feel that?

It has to be like more of a, people are in and out. The vibe, you have to go by vibes, I feel like. Yeah, you wouldn't even, they wouldn't even know if you're there or not. Yeah. Kind of thing. Yeah.

So where Pilgrim is out is that there's not a lot of bathroom friendly type restaurants there, like you're saying. Manchu Walk at 4 p.m. Yes, I agree with you on that, yeah, 5%. Actually, I should say the meeting was at four, we got done by five, night was starting to fall. That's important.

I'm proud to announce I did my first public urination last Thursday evening, I just couldn't take it. Bo would be so proud. And I was unwilling to go into Taco John's or whatever else was nearby there. I was like, well, I just couldn't take it. Bo would be so proud. And I was unwilling to go into Taco John's or whatever else was nearby there. I was like, well, I just. It was, they're building a new storage mart. I'll tell you that.

So here in a couple of months, there'll be a storage mart on Google maps. And I got to know that place. So really nearby there, but no, just a, just a vacant parking lot. Okay. Oh yeah. Under the darkness of night.

I'm not saying that there's not more evidence one way or the other on this, but I am confident that it is better to be a man than a woman squarely because we can do that. That was nice. So easily. Cause even- And somewhat inconspicuously. I was even thinking like,

if I was a woman or an pretty windy night Pretty windy night as guys were able to account for this. Yep. You start one way. Whoa, whoa, whoa kind of windy. Yeah All right. Now I'm peeing down with Girl, we backbend. Yeah, it's like you're on like one of those like bouncy balls like Gosh, yeah South south southwest tonight. Yeah, I don't know how you, I mean, it's just a mess. Wow. So anyway, it felt good.

It was really cold, but it felt really good. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, publicly urinated. That's amazing. I mean- In the city. Yeah, oh yeah, Bo, so many times, dude. That's just, I had a time recently, you know, I've been trying to drink more water.

I've been taking creatine, haven't done it in a while, but I'm taking creatine, which is like the one side effect of creatine is kidney stones. Big side effect. I think that's because you don't drink enough water and it like retains water in your muscles or whatever it is. So like you need more water. And so I've been trying to drink like a gallon and a half of water every day when I'm doing it. Oh, you should be fine on stones. I think so too, but I don't want to take a chance. Yeah. And so, yeah, there was, and so normally I would try to drink like a half a gallon, like first thing in the morning, like two 32 ounce Yetis basically.

And there was one time where I was, yeah, in like downtown West bottoms area. I was like doing some furniture work down there recently and multiple, I went to three different, two gas stations and then one like Mexican restaurant. And none of them had bathrooms at work. No Bueno, no Bano. One of them was like, sorry, our bathroom's out.

Go to the Mexican restaurant. Mexican restaurant was closed. And so I just, I found an alley. This is a Topeka toothpaste situation. Yeah. Go down to the smoke shop. They have toothpaste. And it was, eventually it was like, I was like, I'm about to go.

It kinda hurts. Like I literally like, yeah, like barely could turn the steering wheel to like go into this alley and like shoved it in park, like ran over there. And you just went in the alleyway? West bottoms does have a lot of nooks and crannies, but I think someone could walk up on you at any point. And that's the thing, like I'm like,

I don't care at that point. It's somebody walking up on me at any point. And that's the thing. I'm like, I don't care. At that point, you're somebody walking up on me. I tried to like shield with the truck. Is that what you did? Yep, shield with car. Yeah, and then just went for it. And Bo, yeah, he never has to go until he absolutely has to go. There's no warning. So we're driving, and he's like, I have to go right now.

And so it's always just like, all right. And luckily for a four-year-old, it's not a big deal to just be like, hey, sorry, this guy's got to go right now. And so it's always just like, all right. And luckily for a four year old, it's not a big deal. Just be like, hey, sorry, this guy's gotta go. I didn't, I don't know. It's kind of cute. Who's kid? It's not as cute when we do it. Yeah, you're like looking at those little butt cheeks.

That's kind of cute. He pulls it all the way down to the ankle. Yeah. If we do that, we're, yeah, sex offenders. But anyway, that's great. Did that. And then night wasn't over. Also somewhat birthday party,

somewhat going away party for Gabe and Mattie Oliver at Topgolf. So me and Rachel went, Celia was there, Cole and Talia Ford were there. It's a ghosty reunion. Yeah, ghosty reunion. You were almost there. Yeah.

And it was fun. I had a good time. Dude, they've renovated the machines at Topco. I've been in like a year. Oh yeah. We have new, new interfaces, new, new games. They have a screen on there now. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Cool. Nice. New mechanism to get the ball out. It was nice. New ball mechanism. But while there, I learned that Celia is a massive survivor fan. The only other people I know massive survivor fans are my parents.

And so quickly I became the middleman between the two of them. I would take a video of Celia and send it to my parents. My parents would send a video back to me and I would like text it to Celia the next morning. And anyway, my dad called me Friday morning. It's like, I just wanna say thank you for my new best friend. He said, me and Celia have been messaging on something.

Trish, what have you been messaging? He didn't even know what website he's on, but he knows that him and Celia are really bonding. They really needed each other, I think. I think they've both been watching Survivor without any extra outsider input, and they've really bonded, and they're BFFs now. It feels like people that are into Survivor are like,

they really like it. Like sometimes it's like, I didn't even know that show was still on are into Survivor are like, they really like it. Like sometimes it's like, I didn't even know that show was still on. And these people like live tweeting the whole thing. Jeff Probst is still there, raising the arms, tribe has spoken. What does that mean? I don't even know, I've never watched it. Oh, it's just something I like poker-fuddled.

Every time the game starts, instead of just like, go, it's always like one arm down, one arm up. Survivors, begin. It's just this every time I've ever seen it. I used to watch it back in high school, but same guy, still there as like the host. Yeah, he's got a meal ticket. I mean, that'd be a great job, right?

I would think so. Does he have to like slum it with them though? Surely not. He's got like a tent. That'd be interesting. Yeah. Where's Jeff Prupp's children? Children's book. Yeah, yeah. It's like, do people ever try to steal stuff from his tent? Yeah.

Is it like reachable, approachable? That's interesting. Anyway, just a lot of stuff happened Thursday. It was great. That's fun. Our Thursday was eventful as well, I believe. I can't remember if it was Thursday or Friday, but it was not a fun eventful.

We, Catherine, I don't remember if it was Thursday or Friday, but it was not a fun eventful. We, Catherine, I don't remember what like motivated her to think this, but we have, we got checked for mold in our house and we got some. I called a mold guy yesterday. Oh, we got, we got guys for you if you need them. That'd be great. They won't call me back. So I'll take your mold guy.

It was almost like they were too available though, to where I was like, like, like, oh yeah, we can come tomorrow. Oh yeah. And if like once it gets tested and stuff like, yeah, yeah. My like the next guy can come and give you an estimate like that day probably. And I'm like, how are we getting taken around? Great though. Cause I'm going to Iowa probably tomorrow afternoon. What motivated you? You see some saw some. Okay. Also this goes back to, we'll put a bookmark in it. Okay. Got this goes has to deal with another story for later. Fair enough. Yeah, basically It's expensive to get tested. It's expensive to get it fixed. It's just expensive all is it really? Yeah, how bad is mold? I'm gonna Google real quick. Well, that's how bad is

Like they they gave me this test back and like it was constant I mean people are gonna respond and be like Brad That's the thing dude. Like they gave me this test back and like it was constant. I mean, people are going to respond and be like, Brad, you're an idiot for saying any of this probably. But it was like the test came back and it was like, very concentrated to our basement. Like the rest of our house is pretty much fine. Like they had like maybe a trace of it upstairs,

but maybe that's coming from the basement or something. And it's like, it's not mold that's going to, like the type that they found in our basement was not going to kill us or anything. Not like, we're lethal. It's just like, oh, but you could get sick because of that mold more. You get colds or whatever.

Did they mention airborne spores? Oh, yeah. OK, so the solution, they said, was like, we're going to have to take down your ceiling, that paneling ceiling that we have in our basement. What? Yeah, like take that, because they think the mold's up there.

And then also we're gonna have to take out your carpet and clean all that. This is why it's expensive. Can I just say real quick? Yeah. Life lesson, anyone out there, never finish your basement. That sounds awful.

Fair. That's a fair assessment. Yeah, especially in an old house. It's like, I don't know. And so, yeah. And so I'm like, okay, well, if it's gonna cost that much for all this labor to take it out, can I just do that myself?

And they're like, well, no, no, no. The spores might move around. Oh, they're talking spores. And that's when I'm like, am I getting taken for a ride here? Or is this real? Like, yeah, all the spores and stuff. I don't, I mean, because they're not even sure,

they weren't even positive it was in the ceiling. They're like, that's just our best guess. And so we're going to do that and then we can retest. And if it's good, then it's good. If not, we're going to have to redo more stuff. And I'm like, I don't know. Luckily, they're two different companies. The testing people, that'd be a conflict of interest,

I think, if the testing people and the remediation people are the same. That's good, at least. So anyway, that meant that Saturday, all day Saturday, we took everything out of our basement. They were like, you can leave the bed and the couch down there, but everything else, you need to move out. And so on one level, it was kind of therapeutic,

because I'm like, we're not putting all this stuff back in our basement. We're going to get rid of some stuff. Yeah. On the other level, it was like kind of therapeutic. So I'm like, we're not putting all this stuff back in our. We're going to get rid of some stuff. Yeah. On the other level, it was like, hey, my back's kind of been bothering me recently. It's definitely bothering me now. Yeah. But luckily, Catherine, she did great at like rallying Bo

and Hattie to help. And they did a good job. They never like, I feel like they had a good attitude almost the whole time. So like Catherine, Catherine, sometimes I just get frustrated with her. And this is one of those times where it's like, I'm going to burn these things. And you would never know the difference.

Catherine's mom and dad generously donated us probably from 1993, a set of encyclopedias. Oh, you gotta keep those. Dude. And so of course, like it was annoying getting them back from Texas to Kansas and then like bringing them all downstairs and like these massive books.

And then I'm like, Catherine, we gotta throw these away. And she's like, no, we can't. I'm like, we can, they have something called Wikipedia. That's the whole point of this thing. And she's like, but what if, like, what if they have false information on there, like this, and I'm like, who knows if this is true information on this?

Also, I don't know if the validity of the information should even be part of the argument. It should just be. Also, yeah, new information comes about. Also, we haven't used these things in two years. Yeah, I think that's the, yeah. Ugh, you know, and so Bo's job was like to take every single encyclopedia, you know, read

it, memorize it. Now we can throw it away. Yeah, exactly. So I'm not advocating for burning books, but if I were, it'd be those encyclopedias. Dude, I did a book burning back in the day. I don't know if I've talked about this on the podcast. Also, before I get to that for the record, I do love your basement. A lot of good memories down there. Great. I'm glad you finish your basement. Yeah. But sometimes want to hear about or just knowing how much trouble we have over their own basement I'm like, I would never finish an old basement, right? I think it's it's more just Yeah, it's like hey, whatever you're doing down there. Don't become married to it Like you can finish however you want, but don't spend the nice money on the you know, nice get the nice carpet

Yeah, or just prepared to be. be stressed out by later, I guess. Disappointed. Yeah. Yeah. So I had that book business back in the day. Maybe I have talked about this podcast. And anyway, there are certain books that were just, we'll say bad for business because they were SBU specific books. So you couldn't resell them online if you didn't sell them back to a student. So we didn't really like buying them back. Well, we had a bunch of these books. And not only are is it SBU specific, but SBU then change the book and change the class. So it's like they really have no value. Planned obsolescence basically. Yes. So it's like, we can't do anything with them. We tried to donate them to the library. The library wouldn't accept them. We tried to do

something else and that didn't work. We're like, what a racket. We just have all these books. And anyway, it was a pretty popular thing in Bolivar to like go do bonfires out by the bridge and stuff like that. And so we just took the books there one night and had just a good old, just, it was called like, Fizz, Fizzed, Fizzfit, something weird class like that.

And we burned 120 books. And they went up quick. Oh yeah, that's a great fire. And we didn't really think that much of it just because we knew the due diligence that we did to try and not come to this. But anyway, caused a bit of a fit once word got around. People did not like that.

Which kind of people? Like the stimulus faculty? Libs, no I'm just kidding. That's why they're called liberals, it's different books, like library. Oh, I thought it was lids, like literature. Lids, yeah, yeah, yeah. Lids.

No, I just remember a couple people who were into reading, getting upset about it. Great, then read that book or buy it. We tried to sell it, no one wanted it then. We tried. That is funny. Anyways, yeah, Anderson and I did a good book burning back in the day. We tried. That is funny. Anyways, yeah. Anderson and I did a good book burning back today.

I should text him, see if he remembers that. Dude, you remember when we used to look burned? Remember when they got pretty upset that we burned all those books. Yeah, anyway. You should have just taken a stand towards what they were teaching in those books and then it would have been totally valid.

Yeah. You know? That was fun. Wow. Yeah, anyway, so we got mold. Hopefully it's gonna get better. Cause like that's where Hattie spends every single afternoon, quiet time. And so every night, recently we've been doing popcorn prayers

at our table, cause all the kids want to pray. And so Rosie always prays for her little, she calls it her chicky, but like her blanket, it's got a hole in it. And so she'll just be like, dear guy, baby, cheeky hole. Popcorn, Hattie. But Hattie's prayer every single night is, please help the mold go away.

Oh wow. Please help the mold go away. Please help the mold guys do a good job and get all the mold out. That's great. So Hattie's really becoming an adult. Also, what is Rosie praying for? Is she wanting the hole to like be repaired

or just not to get bigger? Yeah, there's an understanding with my kids. Yeah, it's so cute. There's a way she goes, he keep hole. And she's like praying like so that like genuinely for this. Like really? Yeah. Seriously.

There's a belief within my kids that honey, Catherine's mom is the only one that like can sew things. like Catherine can sew, but like, so she wants, she's praying for honey to be able to fix. Oh, honey fix hole. You got he, hi, he, oh, boy. It's so cute, man. I need to get a video of it because eventually she's not going to be able to, she's going to be able to say it right or something. But, oh, it's awesome.

And she is like, if you, if she doesn't get to pray, it's, it's game over. Like she has to be able to pray for this. So anyway, he, he hold. But anyway, the mold, the mold is, is the topic of conversation in our house. And one of the other things that they're doing to fix it is they've given us these massive, really loud fans, like filter kind of things. And so there's one downstairs, I believe, but then there's one in our living room. And so it makes it so loud in our living room.

And it might be a very subtle form of torture. Like it is killing us. Like it's like what the FBI did to the Waco people. The um what are the branch Davidians? Is that what happens? Like they just like psychological warfare. They annoyed them with noise dude like cat like both of us. Catherine like last night it was you know 30 degrees outside and I made a fire pit for us. I was like, just so we can go outside and not be like miserable inside. Wow. And I mean, if we go to one of our rooms,

we can like, it's not too loud, but like it's just like a massive sound machine in our living room, in our kitchen, in our dining room. Really? We can't go in our basement. And so it makes our small house feel tiny. I just, once it starts to get that annoying, I just say, let it mold, let it grow.

Every once in a while we have to turn it off. Like during meals and stuff, it's like, just turn it off. It'll be fine. Cause they want it to go 24 seven. When are they coming to fix everything? They're going to like fog the basement today, I believe. Yeah. And then I think they're going to retest tomorrow maybe.

And so if, and if the test comes back good, we're good. And then we can go to the process of refinishing stuff down there and whatnot. Okay. Maybe I deal with this once we're back. Cause this is like a multi-day thing. Yeah, unfortunately. Gotcha.

You're going to Iowa though? Yes, I think I was thinking about this this morning. I think this is my first time ever not being with my family on Christmas. This will be the first year, I think. So yeah, Iowa, the day's leading up to Christmas and then Christmas day. And then we'll still see both families

and we'll drive down and hang out with my folks a couple of days later. So it'll be fun. Yeah, Iowa should be great. We're throwing, wait, hold on. By the time this comes out, yeah. By the time this comes out, it's happened. Rachel is kind of spearheading and throwing a surprise birthday party for her brother and sister-in-law. Oh, okay in

Her mom's new coffee shop. It's like not fully like ready yet, but it's insulated and you know, it has heat everything So that's kind of fun doing that Saturday Tommy Tommy and Cory. Okay, both turning 30 so doing like surprise birthday party for them and Tams coming back into town. I haven't seen him in a while to be fun. Yeah, I'm facing it in the coupe fantasy league We are facing each other in the playoffs. Okay, i'd be good to look them in the eyes Yeah, take them down freak them out a little bit. Are you still in the guillotine leagues? Yes, dude. It's getting uh, we're as recording this we're down to three by the time this comes out. We're down to two Okay teams, so it's uh, it's me We're as recording this, we're down to three. By the time this comes out, we're down to two teams.

So it's me, shoot what's his name, Poindexter, and Lindsay Harris, John, or no, Lindsay Merchant, John Harris. Dude, they clean up, they're good. Every year, they make it to like the top four, I feel like, so. Anyway, I feel like I peeked too early.

Just like the last two weeks, I've just put up bonkers numbers and like, I can't keep this up. Mainly because I have Josh Allen. So it's like, this isn't repeatable. But then again, you look at it, or everyone else, everyone's got stack teams. I've got Jalen Hurts, Josh Allen,

as close to sure things as you can get as fantasy quarterback. Amar Jackson, sure, great. Divisional opponent this week though. Never plays great against the Steelers. Feeling great about that. Wow, yeah. Poindexters got Alvin Kamara, game-tight decision,

Monday night game. That's a tough spot. Yeah, you need to get his backup, which is not gonna do anything. Yeah, so if he can't go, I don't know who your flex is. You've got only two teams to choose from. Anyway. Yeah, it gets to the point where it's like, it's not that you don't have a good team, it's that I have to pick the right players for my good team.

Or like, there's not players available. It's like, there's players available. It's just picking the right ones. Yeah, it's crazy. Like if you play fantasy football, you probably enjoy this. But like you get to the end of the season, there's only three teams. I'm having to make really tough decisions.

I mean, last week I guessed incorrectly and luckily still won, but I had Terry McLaurin on the bench, two touchdowns. I had C.D. Lamb on the bench, 25 point game. So you haven't peaked, you know? That's true. Right, like that would have been peaking. So I scored two, last thing I'll say,

I scored 240 points last week, but had I done the correct lineup, I would have scored over 300. So that's what I'm like, I can't keep doing this. Yeah, that's like, unheard of. This is all time. Yeah, that's amazing, dude. So, Brad, what is this?

Water. No, glass. Yes. Micro. And specifically, what's in it? Water. There we go, that was the answer I was trying to get to the whole time.

Okay, okay. Just kidding guys. It's water. And I had the privilege of just filling this up 20 feet away from me. Pro bono. Clean water, pro bono, that's right. As much as I want.

Yeah. What if I told you over a billion people do not have that same access that I have? I would say that's not fair for a million people. It's true and it's true, but we can help. Healing Waters is here. You said a billion. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What if I said a billion? What if I said over a billion? I thought you said a million and that wouldn't have been, that would have been right. That's also correct. Yeah. Square is a rectangle. Wow. Go ahead.

But a rectangle is not a square. Let that be a lesson to you guys. You can't fit a rectangle on a square hole and you can't bring clean water solutions unless they have money. That's what I'm trying to get at. Healing Waters is stepping in and they've been doing it for years.

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Why? You can skip it. Oh, what, just like that? Just like that. How about dinner with my third cousin? Skip it. Prince Fluffy's favorite treats? Skippable. Midnight snacks?

Skip. My neighbor's nightly saxophone practices? Er, nope. You're on your own there. Could have skipped it, should have skipped it. Skip to the good part and get groceries, meals, and more delivered right to your door on skip. Now to get to some even more boring stuff. Can we spend five minutes just talking about really

just like adult married homeowner things. I mean, I've just talked about mold remediation for 20. So yeah, permission floor is yours. Floor is yours. And I remember you back in the day, like you looked forward to these conversations with me. We're here. Top loader, yeah, whatever.

Yeah, so a few different things to mention. One, I should have added this to Brad's gift guide, my favorite things I've recently become aware of One, I should have added this to Brad's gift guide, My Favorite Things. I've recently become aware of and fallen in love with a humidifier. A humidifier. Humidifier. Okay, yes.

More helpful than you would think. Oh yeah. Just for that little spurts of mist in your whole big bedroom. Part of me is like, how much can that even help? There's so much air, little mist, but noticeable difference every morning in my throat. It's crazy how well it works.

And there was one morning where I woke up and I was like, oh my gosh, darn, like maybe it's starting to wear off already, my throat feels scratchy. I looked, it ran out of water. Direct correlation, I knew it was working. That is like more evidence that it was working. So that fired me up. Anyway, that's it, I knew it was working. That is like more evidence than it was working. It's not fired me up. Anyway, that's it.

Just love the humidifier. Well, let's get even more adult. I think you can, and or you have a humidifier on your heating system. Like, so you can- We'll get to this. Okay, great dude. Like you can adjust it like throughout the winter.

Yeah, summertime. Yeah. Yes. Cause you don't want a bunch of humidity in the summer. Yes. Right? You need a dehumidifier? Yes. Because you don't want a bunch of humidity in the summer. Yes, do. You need a dehumidifier. Yes, do. Okay, yeah, yeah, so you're loving the humidifier. I like the humidifier.

There's a couple other just like, yeah, home things this week, good to knock some stuff out, good to get a couple wins because we're about to go into the losses, but figuring out my, so Rachel and I, we're so adaptable that sometimes I don't even realize it. For the last six months, we have not used like a garage door opener.

We just go in the front door now. It was just like, all right, no, like I, mine ran out of batteries and Rachel can't find hers. So just, we were just like, no worries. We just won't do that anymore. Well, this week I was like, I'm gonna fix that. A little like Christmas gift to Rachel. Figured out we have a smart garage door opener. Yeah, so you could do it on your phone

I connected it to my car when I get within 70 feet. I like geo fins to my Driveway, okay, it opens automatically cool. I don't even have a garage over now. That was a big win. That is cool That was fun. Once you get inside does it like automatically shut that'd be cool too. Once I drive away It does it's a garage doors open and I drive away. Okay, it win. That is cool. That was fun. Once you get inside, does it like automatically shut? That'd be cool too. Once I drive away, it does. If the garage door is open and I drive away, it'll shut. That is cool. Pretty fun. What other, other just like boring stuff like that

that felt good to knock out this week. Anyway, let's get back to- That's not boring. That's pretty cool. I was fired up about the garage door opener. So is it, it does it with your phone or does it do it? Like it's the GPS on your phone, not GPS in your car. No, it is GPS on the car. The automatic thing is.

But you know, if I'm in a situation where I need to, my phone's got me. That's a W, that's a W. Also little W, I was noticing their day. I haven't thought much about mallet finger. I think it's slowly been healing. We went from 92% like mobility. I'd say we're up to 98 now.

So it is slowly getting better. Hey, as a 30 something year old, 98 is all you want. I'll take 98. Yeah. I'll take 98. Like if my knees work 98% of how much they should, great. Yeah. That sounds awesome.

Sounds really excited about that. All right, now back to David the roofer. Yeah, David. Roof, yeah. David, David. Roof. Yeah. David, can I, can I expect a roof? Sure. So he does expect the roof and he comes back in

and Timon was sitting right here and then Timon got a pretty nice, just got to eavesdrop where David and I had a 25 minute. Talking for a while. I wasn't like listening to what you were actually talking. I was like, they're still talking. David just invited himself in and we just sat right at the table and talked for a long time.

And basically he's just showing me everything. Like how's the roof? It's not good. It is not good. Which I had a feeling, I don't know, the house is a hundred years old and how new can the roof be? It doesn't look great.

And so he's like, yeah, you have actually like a ton of hill damage. You're like missing shingles. There's like a hole in your chimney. And I'm like, Oh, this sounds actually kind of serious. I don't think you're just making this up. I don't think you're yanking my chain. Cause you didn't have an inspection on your house when you bought it. No, we did. Okay. We'll get to that too. Okay. You're saying all the right things. It's great. We did and probably like three weeks ago, I woke up one morning to a leak in our master bedroom. Oh wow. So I was like, oh yeah, this is a good reminder.

I meant to like kind of fix this anyway. It's like, great, David, you came, you're my guy now, because you came with the right day. Wow. It's like, yeah, let's get this fixed. He's kind of sharing with me how this anyway. It's like, great, David, you came, you're my guy now, because you came with the right day. Wow. It's like, yeah, let's get this fixed. He's kind of sharing with me how this works. Okay, so you'll get an adjuster to come out and he'll take a look at it.

I'll come with him. I'm like, okay, let's do it. So he comes a couple of days later. Really liked my insurance guy. We had some nice chats, but not sure if I love insurance as a whole. I really haven't had to deal with it. Like this is my first time really like filing a claim

really for anything. Yeah, there's something about like health insurance or just healthcare slash this kind of stuff that's just no fun. Like just paperwork and processes. Or is this covered? Oh, is this doctor? Is an allergist covered?

I don't wanna deal with that. I wanna make YouTube videos. Yeah, yeah. I'm allergist covered? I don't want to deal with that I want to make YouTube videos. Yeah, sure how everyone feels. I don't want to do that. I want to raise my kids Yeah, I don't want to I don't want to figure out if this doctor's in my coverage yeah, anyway, so just deal with that and so a juster comes out and My deductible on my home insurance is $1,500. Okay. I don't know if that's normal or not. I probably spent five minutes making that decision. Five seconds even.

However, for wind and hail damage, that deductible is $8,100. That's a lot more. So what is even, what is covered under the home then? If not wind and hail on my home? It's a separate like premium, I guess. I guess this is common. I don't know.

Look out. Okay, go ahead. Yeah, keep going. I don't even know. That's one of those things like we did prices right. Like how much does it cost to get a new roof? I wouldn't know if it's 4,000 or 40,000. Like I have no idea.

So we have a pretty small home. So I didn't think our roof would be super, super expensive, but the adjuster comes out and he's like, yeah, you do have some definite roof damage, especially if your house is leaking, we gotta get that fixed. He says your roof is worth $9,000. And so I just don't see, basically,

insurance always wins is kind of what I'm thinking. Because the more I've looked into it and asked people, there's no way a new roof only costs $9,000, even if it is small. Okay, right. And the fact that, so if I were to do this, I would have to pay my insurance $8,000. They would give me a check for $1,000.

But then I still have to pay the roofer, I mean, $9,000. Cause that's what he probably thinks it costs, you know, or whatever. Well, are they saying that your current roof is $9,000 or a new roof? Cause I think maybe it's like, it's kind of like, Hey, yeah, my car got wrecked and it's a 2000, whatever Tesla. It's like, well, but it's 2048.

And so now that Tesla that you paid this much for, and then if you replaced it with a brand new Tesla would be this much. It's not worth that much. You know what I mean? So it's like your current roof might be $9,000, but the new one might be a lot more. That's what they did.

Yeah, you're right. It was like $12,000 roof. We had to depreciate it though. Yeah. That was 9,000. So maybe, yeah. So maybe it's going to cost 12,000 for a new one or whatever. So you would get more from the insurance company, I think.

Well, I mean, they sent me a bill like, if you accept this, we'll send you a check for $1,300. Oh, they did? Yeah, yeah. I don't know. I got a roof guy. One of my best friends is a roof guy. Let's have him, I wanna start a bidding war among roofers and let's get this price down. I think that's kind of what happens sometimes

I think that's what insurance fraud can be sometimes. They're like how much is insurance giving you? Okay, great That's what will charge you. Mm-hmm, you know kind of thing I don't really know how it works exactly, but my guy would never do that for the record good Well, I also like David But Jeremy, yeah, Jerry. No, so yeah, let's have them compete Yeah, but anyway just annoying just I know a lot of people have gone through this But Jeremy. Jeremy. No. So yeah, let's have them compete. Yeah. But anyway, just annoying.

Just, I know a lot of people have gone through this, but this is my first time realizing that it's all a scam. Why is it $8,100 for a deductible on that? Yeah. I pay it every month. What does it cover? How does this work? Maybe it covers mold and you don't know it or something like that.

I don't know. I don't know what. That's a fair question. I've never really had to use. Oh, that's not true. When my fireplace had those issues, I use homeowners insurance. It's funny. You bring up the fireplace. Everything, everything has like, and this next chapter, we're going to bring that up. So David comes back a second time and he's asking me, he's like, so you have an electric fireplace, right? And I said, no, I don't.

He said, you have a wood burning fireplace? He's freaking out. And I was like, yeah, I was actually, I was like, just last week on the podcast, the very end of Wednesday's episode, I was like, next week, you know, I'm gonna surprise Rachel with a fire. We've never had one. I think it's time.

I was planning on doing it tonight, actually. I'm gonna surprise Rachel when she got home, with a little fire. That was the plan. David said, you cannot light a fire in this house. Like, what's going on? He shows me a picture. In my attic, you can see the chimney.

You can see the brick of the chimney going up, and then you see it stop. It just cut off, and then, I know, 12 inches above that, it's just my roof. So had I lit a fire in my house, all of the smoke slash fire would have gone into my attic. You would have just been lighting your house on fire. Would it have burned down? I don't know. It would have been pretty hot. Would have been pretty smoky. I'll tell you this much. The homeowner's insurance would have paid for that. so I'm like, this whole, I can't believe, did we narrowly escape death?

I can't believe this. Then I'm thinking, wait, I've had my home inspected. Wait, a year ago, I had a chimney flues come by here and clean out my chimney. I've taken the necessary precautions to avoid something like this. I would have thought. So then I go back and look at everything.

And so I go back and look at my house inspection. This is kind of where the mold comes in and some other stuff. And the house inspection said something like, we don't take on the liability of chimneys, seek a chimney professional to do this. So they basically bowed out of the chimney inspection. That's fine.

A well-trained monkey can see, hey, the chimney is not there anymore, so don't use it. Like, I'm not saying you can't, I'm just saying that you can't. When you were in the attic, you would have seen that. Yes. I trusted you to see that a little bit.

Dude. So that's insane. So I don't know if at some point, some idiot, previous homeowner, I'm starting to get pretty upset at the previous homeowner, I'm starting to get pretty upset at the previous homeowner. Cause things are starting to rack up in what they left me with and what they didn't tell me.

One of them being the chimney's not connected. Don't light a fire. Don't do that. So when we bought the house, there was ash in the fireplace. I even went back and looked at the old Zillow pictures just to make sure I wasn't crazy. I'm like, yeah, there's ash in there. Like it was somewhat recently burned.

So what did they do? Were they the ones who disconnected the chimney from itself? Because we still have a chimney on the roof. Right. It's got like a filter, like it's a functional chimney. At some point this worked. So have you gone up to the attic yourself?

Just curious. No, I haven't. But he has pictures of it. Yeah, he showed me pictures. It's just like, it just cut. Does it look like a saw just like cut it off? Yeah, I mean, it looks like the top of a chimney. What it just it's flat. And there's no, yeah. I wonder if like there's no sign of like, oh yeah, that burned the roof right there. It doesn't look like it. Maybe fire. Who knows how fireworks. Maybe if it's enough of a, you know,

wind stream up, it'll just suck right up in there. Luckily David did say I have a hole in my roof. So I was like, well, so it could have escaped. It'll find a way. It would have, yeah. Takes, it would get out, heat rises. It takes the form of its- Its hole, it's like an octopus. Oh my gosh, dude.

So I'm just like, who disconnected this? And why didn't they tell me? That's a big thing you need to pass on. Yeah. So to add to the list, they, this previous homeowner used to have rabbits. They left the whole rabbit cage in the basement for me. That was nice of them.

They left so much other crap in the basement. They didn't tell me that the basement floods every time there's a mist out. You're gonna have a river down there. They should have left me a kayak so I could at least enjoy it every time it rains. I mean- Pool party downstairs.

They left all sorts of just like weird crap around the house, children's toys, a sled. They left their children's names up on the shelves in my room, which that felt wrong to scrape that off. And that feels like they're dying and back to the future or something. It was slowly disappearing. I left a lot of weird stuff behind. And now to the list, the disconnected chimney, they tried to kill me. or something that was slowly disappearing. Dude, I left a lot of weird stuff behind. And now to the list, the disconnected chimney

that tried to kill me. That's wild. That is wild. That is just not there anymore. And that no one, I am frustrated with that homeowner stuff. Like that stinks. Like, but also like, like, yeah, first of all, what's the rule on like, hey, if you don't do this,

we could, we could fine you, or is it just like, a lack of disclosure? Well, it stinks to be you. Like, cause on the, on the flip side, like, if they don't get their couch out in time, is that your couch? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like I own everything in this property.

It's like, great, then please get rid of all the crud that we didn't want to take. Yeah. You know, or whatever. But like, I'm more like fired up about like, how bad of an inspector did you have? Yeah. Like.

I did text Peter about it. I was like, just FYI. Don't use this guy anymore. Or whatever. What if Peter, did he have any like thoughts about this? So I texted Peter and... That's a chippy thing is wild. That's insane. I couldn't believe that. I was like, it's this can, I just wouldn't have even thought that's a chimney thing is wild. That's insane.

I couldn't believe that. I was like, it's this can, I just wouldn't have even thought that's a possibility. You absolutely could have burned down your house. Yes. This week, tonight, tonight, I would have burned down my house. No one would have assumed. Oh, I should probably check to make sure the chimney goes all the way up to the top. You see fireplace on bottom chimney on top.

You never think I wonder if there's some sort of trick or optical illusion in the middle. That's not connected. That is nuts. Okay. So Peter said, dude, face palm emoji. The same thing happened with the house we renovated in Aletha with one of the fireplaces.

He said he's got some problem or some guy going around disconnecting chimneys. He said, I called the inspection company we use and they said they don't inspect chimney or fireplaces because of the added liability But it's a service. They farm out of clients want it. I will take the L on that one Yeah I'm just kidding. I was like dude. It's not your fault. I didn't consider this a possibility Yeah, exactly. It does seem like so rare, but like. But also, could it have been this way the whole time?

Did someone build a fire plate? Like this was all supposed to be fake from the beginning? I don't know how this works. Or how, how truly I have no idea as well. So maybe this is the stupidest thing I could have ever said, but like, how hard would it be to like connect it with a like piece of metal? Like, I don't know, like something like case.

Does it have to be all brick or can there be parts where it's a cheap fix? I got a metal liner that just assists it up, you know? Yeah, cause reconnecting to brick sounds very expensive. Maybe, yeah. Well, just anything to take the roof back. Also, why'd they do it? Why'd they take it?

That's what I'm saying. Surely they had a good reason to do it. I got chimney guy. I got, I got a guy for everything. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to call back the Flooz brothers. Yeah. I'll shout them out. Loved them in the moment, but these are the guys. Yeah. No good. They cleaned my chimney a year ago. They're like, they're, they're like the Nikes. Like they're like the, or like, you know, like they're like the whatever.

They were based in Shawnee. I wanted to support local. No, no, they're not local. Maybe they are actually. I don't know. I don't like them. I like the name. They were Shawnee. I gave them a business. They have like an automated message when you call them. Like get out of here.

And so I need to call them back and just like. Give them a piece of your flu. I will give them a piece of my flu and say, Hey, maybe I'll bend the truth a little bit. Hey, I burned that. I know I'll say, how can I word this and not lie? No, no, no, I'm gonna be completely honest, but it's gonna have a hint of,

I'm gonna say we don't have kids in our house. And you checked our fireplace and you didn't tell me that it was disconnected and kind of hopefully they Connect the dots and they think we killed her From us we no longer have kids our house. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's the best way to work. You've had Bo and Hattie come visit And I was 16 and 17 when I worked here. Yeah, kids. No kids do not sleep in this house Yes. Yeah, how can I word it? So it sounds like really bad.

We had kids in this house and now I just... Yeah, I don't know. But I do, I think need to call them and be pretty upset with them because... That's crazy. Like to get a house inspection and to get a professional chimney sweep to your house and both of them don't alert you that your house

at any point could go up in flames if you start a fire. That's no longer on me. Like I understand like we don't have liability on the chimney, whatever. We can't tell you if you can use this fireplace, but you can just be a common decency. I'm up here. Just making sure you know this.

Don't light that thing. That doesn't seem like you could get like, it's one thing to say, yes, you can have a fire. That seems like you're now like, yes, liable. I don't think it's nearly as much of a leap to say don't light it because it's not a good idea. Right? Like, and you're not going to then sue them, be like, dude, you cost me five years of fires in my house. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I could have had fire down in my main floor just enjoying the logs.

So wow, dude, homeowners hit you quick. Yeah, a lot of just annoying homeowner stuff this week. Okay, so then the mold. So the mold. So first of all, I swear a week ago, Rachel mentioned to me the potential of mold in our basement. Probably because she's talking to Catherine. So probably, yeah, I think that all makes sense.

Yeah. You're welcome. And so then I'm looking at this house inspection form from two years ago to see what they said about the chimney. And then I'm seeing that they reported mold in the inspection in the basement. Okay. Okay. And I didn't, I guess I looked at that

and didn't care or didn't, I don't know. Yeah. My fault. And I'm like, between Rachel and that, I need to get this fixed. So I'm excited to tell Rachel like, hey, I called the mold guy, he's coming over. She's like, I've never brought up mold. I thought you did last week. Soon we're both just gaslighting each other. Yeah, yeah, no, you brought it

up last week. She's like, I've never even thought about mold. It's like, really? I don't even know if I know what mold is. So we're like, well, it doesn't matter. Either way, I'm going to get this mold fixed. So yeah, I got a mold guy coming soon. We got, I got a MVP heating and cooling coming tomorrow. Our bedroom's not getting warm, Brad. Okay. That's a problem. Fix that.

Hey, maybe they'll clean your vents. They'll do a little bit of both. And it all comes through a circle, the humidifier. Yes. Cause I saw in the inspection that that was something. Not good. I don't know. It was orange, so not red.

I don't mean to be a sound like a broken record. I got HVAC people if you need them. Well, I, uh, back when I thought Bondi Bowls was a real business, I started paying for like the, like some kind of, I don't forget what it is exactly, but basically like this place was going to be like on call for me. Yeah. Oh, I saw it. It's all connected. Like they were willing to do it for Bondi and for your house. I guess so. Coming tomorrow. Great, man. So, okay. I mean, that's a lot of money going out. Yep. That's that time of year, you know, usually it's for presents, not for mold. Ooh, new furnace filter. Oh, dude. Yeah. You got a chimney.

Wow. A couple new shing's. Yeah. Yeah. It's one of those things where like, like after all this mold stuff like went down, I was like, I just miss, you know, 30 minutes ago when we just didn't know. You know, like on one level, it's like, of course, now that we know we have to do something about this. But man, was it nice when we didn't know about this. I know. Or like nice when like we were renting. Yeah. Oh, that was nice. Ignorance was bliss. Oh, you know, just call somebody. So I do think about sometimes like, I'm not really the type to like, make a bunch of changes that I couldn't do if I wasn't renting.

Like, yeah, I live the same way owning or renting. Yeah, you're not doing any. I'm not like, well, owning is nice, because then I can really get in there and I can really open up the space, tear down that wall, then I can really landscape and you know, it doesn't really matter to me. So we'll think about all those landscape landscaping projects you and Rachel are doing. Well, I'm going to get around to them and, and I like the problems that arise. Yes. That's why I do it. There are some people that are like very successful.

I mean, I see like reels of guys that are like, no, I never will own a house. I'm just going to always rent. Yeah., I never will own a house. I'm just gonna always rent. Yeah, Elon Musk doesn't own a house. Interesting. You know what I'd like to is how my mortgage kind of just slowly goes up secretly. I kind of like that. That might be the homeowners insurance though.

Yeah. Yeah, that's fun. Yeah, but at least you only have to pay like $8,000 if something goes terribly wrong. That's it. That's the safety blanket you pay for. All right right that concludes adulting

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Yeah, I really want to do that. Yeah. I don't know if it's still showing, but it was just IMAX. It was so good. You got to see it, Brad. Yeah? Yeah. What's the guy's name that he cries about? Or maybe it's a dog or something. Who knows who it is? McClain. That's like the shot I could see is Matthew McConaughey crying. Oh, it's so good, dude.

I think my previous record for like most I've cried in a movie was Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump late at night by yourself. Oh, yeah. Oh, really? This beat. Oh, it's so good. Did you look around when you're crying or were you just like... Not really. I was just like, I'm in it. I'm in the moment. Was it the Murph part? Yeah. But I also cried when he's leaving. There's another part. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dude. The part, should we keep talking about this movie that Brad hasn't seen? I remember seeing it in theaters and when they first go away, or not first, but when they go away on that one planet where the time is very different.

And he's like, how long have I been gone? And it's that like big number. The audience in the theater gasped when I first watched it. And that gave me goosebumps. It was like kind of cool. Like we are all so into this movie. They were feeling the gravity of like his decision. Cause like this audience is all like people that love this movie. I saw that.

Cause like this audience, people that love this movie and want to like see it again. Yeah. So like there's nothing that they're shocked by. Oh dude. There was this one guy like down to our left that just any like Christopher Nolan movies aren't that funny typically. But any of the slightest joke and you just know that he's watched this like a hundred times and just waiting for the jokes like, Oh, good one. Was like, did Zach make fun of that guy? I could see Zach be a tip to be like, not make fun of it. We just loved it. We would always look at each other. Every time he had giggled, we're just like, this guy.

What were the rules about like singing along during the songs? We did the Hans Zimmer. Like we kind of go, wow. Yeah. But yeah, that was my Thursday. How was young Jesus? Young Jesus went well. I forgot to talk about that. Yeah.

It was great. I mean, I probably had, I kind of realized during show weekend, like I might have the easiest job in this show because almost everyone else is in, I see how you think about Jesus. Like a cake walk in Jesus. Uh, just everyone else is in like multiple songs and like also sings harmonies and all this stuff. And I just kind of walk out for three minutes and sing my song. And then I go back off stage solo Are you a little course idea? So wow? But yeah, it went well That's cool. I really tried to make it Saturday night. Yeah, and then I fell asleep at 6 p.m

So I woke up at like 9. I was like dang. Okay, huh? Missed it. That's wild. She just means to you. Yeah Yeah, yeah. yeah, easy. I don't know. It really was like a possibility. It's like, I don't have any other plans. Yeah, I don't see why not. Boom. That's funny.

Three hour nap. Gone. We had that pickleball tournament that morning. So I guess we're just exhausted because Rachel fell asleep that night, like 7.45 and fell asleep for the rest of the night. Wow. She slept like 13 hours.

It was awesome. What happened at that pickleball tournament? But everything went well? Yeah, it was all good. up like 13 hours. It was awesome. What happened at that pickleball? But everything went well. Yeah, it was all good. I don't know much to talk about this after the Saturday show. That was when like some friends came or whatever. Yeah. And we went to chicken and pickle after. Well, that's nice. Earlier that day, I was like, I wonder if they have any open. It was like only the 10 to 11 p.m. So I looked at the court. Yeah, it was fun. You've been playing a lot of pickleball. How's the game coming along that's fun. You've been playing a lot of pickleball How's the game coming along? Uh, I haven't been playing a lot. But then this past week I have like

Twice which is more than most any weeks like recently. Um, you're back. How many paddles do you still have to give away a Few yeah I mean I still have like if there's if I'm with someone playing pickleball and they don't have a paddle I'll just like take one like I I still, I don't have like, yeah. And I know where I can get more. So, but yeah. So this, so Tuesday night, the Kelly family, who we've talked about, they did like a little like chicken pickle evening where they got a couple of courts for a couple of hours.

And I was like on, on Saturday night, I was like, Oh, I've lost my, any skill I have. I can't play anymore. But then Tuesday night, I was kind of on fire. Like I... You found it. Yeah, you found it. I played me and my dad versus Oliver and his dad. Oh. And we beat them.

Oh. Wow. I was like... Should have filmed it. Yeah, I should have. I've never been like this that consistent with like hitting like a backhand like... Oh, look out. Two handed backhand.

It's fun. My dad can beat your dad. Oh, yeah? Meet me on the court, Kelly. Oh, yeah? 00 You handed back in, it was fun. My dad can be your dad. Oh yeah? Meet me on the court, Kelly. Oh yeah, 002. Bring it. Time in, let's talk more theatrical productions. Ever heard of something called a,

I think it's called a radio play? Is this, the only thing that comes to mind is like a Studio C sketch where they like, it's like all sound effects and like bingo. It's yeah like an audio drama type thing You heard it. I was gonna say the famous 80s song video killed the radio play. Yeah, very good song. Yeah That's that's it. We both got it. Yeah, cool. No, I Catherine was looking for different like Christmasy things to do in Kansas City Yeah And one of the things that my parents actually went to last night is like a radio play of it's a wonderful life Yeah. Cool. No, I, Catherine was looking for different like Christmasy things to do in Kansas City. Yeah.

And one of the things that my parents actually went to last night is like a radio play of It's a Wonderful Life. Interesting. Where it's like literally, yeah, I don't think anybody's even in costume. They're just standing at microphones. It's like imagine like in the 20s when they were doing a show, yeah, with radio, but it's like they do all the sound effects and all these different things. Oh, wow.

That's awesome. And I'm like, would that be fun to sit and watch them do? And I was like, I think it would. I think that'd be sweet to see how they make all the sound effects. Because this sketch that I'm thinking of, like right at the beginning of the show, the sound effects guy accidentally knocks over his entire table of sound effects equipment. So we asked to do everything himself. It's like, I remember it being really funny.

I see. But yeah, that'd be cool. Because I like watching like the everyone's wall my algorithm, like the Foley like sound like sound engineers, like this, this legendary Disney sound guy that like adds all these like, you know, whoosh, whoosh. Yeah. Yeah. Like all those different things. Like, yeah, I've used this thing that I made, you know, back in 1948. I use it for Bambi and I've used it for Home Alone or whatever.

Yeah, that's fun. So I didn't know if you'd heard of it though. I was just intrigued because on one level it's like, that sounds boring. On another level it's like, but maybe it would be something I could appreciate. I love it's a wonderful life. Sure. Yeah. So Mary.

Yeah. I got to put some clothes on. I'm getting so cold. Are you? I'm sorry. Dang dude. I turned down the heat It was 74 and so I was like, oh, yeah, that's what we keep it at. That's wild

74 is nice and cozy Ghosties come to my defense 74 is wild No, I I think look how many clothes you're wearing though. I like wearing clothes You're 74 though 74 that feels really nice Madison McCalla. Give us a poll 74. Good. Too hot. Too cold. I'm curious what people think. I think 74 is too hot for the winter to turn it down to 70 though. Yeah. I'm going to start coming over your house and changing the temperature. You don't you dare? I bet our house podcast. I bet our house is below 70 some of the time like yeah decent all the time

Oh, yeah, I'm sure I'd add yeah, he would not There's also a chance. We don't have the best heater and that we have to keep it higher from to like heat the house because we don't have a very big house and I think we still have to crank it up to Make it tolerable in here, but yeah, I'll put some more clothes on next episode. Hey, let's just, I'll give you some clothes. Thank you. A lot of being by the room. Yeah, why don't you just take clothes off instead of changing the thermostat?

Then we're both comfortable. Yeah, you're right. Okay, hey, fine. There's solutions here. Speaking of Chicken Pickle, I had my phone call with them about the big idea, Chicken Pickle corporate. They're really excited about it.

I think it's gonna happen. I don't know which city yet, but probably like St. Louis or Oklahoma City or Dallas. Oh yeah, wait, this wasn't the episode you were on, Brad. I don't know if time, if you're gonna be opening for me. That seems as we got it in the weeds. I get it.

That may be tougher to bring off. But yeah. But anyway, kind of fun if I get to perform at some Chicken Pickles and do a little Friday meetup as well. So, it's kind of fun. They seem pretty excited. What else? My sister's the most famous person in my family.

You see this? Oh yeah, we barely started talking about this at the end of last week's episode and then it became kind of a thing. Yeah, so Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey went to Children's Mercy, which is the hospital in Kansas City Where Gabe Oliver just stopped working, but it was working. Yep, Texas and where my sister works and Yeah, my sister got it was like her unit got a picture with Taylor Swift

Like I think the only like group picture that she took and my sister's like two heads away from right there I mean, she probably knows exactly what Taylor's sister smells like, you know what I mean? And yeah, apparently my sister said that, like I think the name of her unit is sedation. I'm not sure exactly what they, yeah. I think it's like MRI, sedation stuff. Anyway, and apparently her area of the hospital

is where there's like an emergency exit or some way of inconspicuously getting in and out. And so that's why she was down there, took a picture with all of them. So pretty crazy. And then again, last night, not nearly as exciting as Taylor Swift, but my sister was on the local news because they had like some, like all these police cars and stuff, like did like a fun thing for the patients of Children's Mercy where they parked their cars outside the hospital and like put their lights on.

And they're like doing this interview with everybody. And then they like pan up to the window of Children's Mercy and my sister just like going crazy. And they put her on the local news. So she's just getting notified, notified, talked about, left and right. Notoriety. It's a good time to be at Children's Mercy.

It sounds like. Yeah. Also going on there. Yeah. Work there, patient there. Yeah. So pretty crazy. It was wild.

Like I was like, that's like one of the most famous people in the world. And you were so close, like closer than probably almost anybody ever gets to her. It's pretty sweet. You know, like Taylor Swift doesn't, as far as I know, do like VIP meet and greet. She doesn't even do like-

She seems very inaccessible. Yeah, she's just- Jen Open Yael loves Taylor Swift. And I bet like she would be willing to spend whatever money it takes. And I don't think that's an option for her to get that close to her. I mean, Taylor doesn't even, she's never done a podcast.

She doesn't even do like late night anymore. Like she just doesn't like make herself available that way. Yeah, that's what your sister two faces away. That's pretty crazy. Yeah, there she is. I did enjoy a gay Bolivar sent us a video from his phone of Taylor walking through his hallway. And you don't get to see much, but you do get to see,

like she's like waving like, Hey guys, thanks for having me. And then some like PR like kind of Karen lady is like, no phones, no phones, no thank you. And then Taylor's like, chill, it's fine. So it was nice to see that. It seems like Taylor was like a normal person, like they're fine, it's all good.

My assumption was that maybe that lady was like a children's mercy employee. Not like her handler or something. It was like, hey, you're in charge of like this. And so maybe she was just like trying to, that's my kind of protector. I'm trying to do my job. You know, I was supposed to say, don't do that. Whatever.

I don't know. She didn't look official enough to be Taylor's person. She didn't look polished enough for me. She looked more Kansas city, less like Hollywood, you know, Nashville, maybe she looked Nashville to you. No way. I can't say that. Yeah. Not a chance to you? No way. I can't say anything. Not a chance, yeah, not a chance.

Anyway, yeah, so shout out to Julie, she's famous. That's awesome. The Kelsey Brothers posted her picture. Yeah. Or maybe it was just, I don't know, whoever posted it, something. So, pretty fun. Pretty fun.

Have I talked on this podcast before about that Ben Stiller's making a pickleball movie. Do you guys know about this? Maybe? No, I think he's like somewhat appearing in it, but he's like, he's really taking what he did for dodgeball and he's doing it for pickleball. But this time I think he's like writing and directing it and not acting as much. But there's like a good amount of like a Lister's who are going to be in this pickleball movie. Apparently one of the leads is Jake Johnson from new girl. Yes. Well, anyway, not acting as much, but there's like a good amount of like A-listers who are gonna be in this pickleball movie apparently. One of the leads is Jake Johnson from New Girl. Yes.

Well, anyway, the production company approached Friday and wanted to like work together in some capacity. So we've been like emailing back and forth, trying to figure all this out, whether it's- Like you be in a movie? At first I thought it was like, as talent, it turns out they want us for our paddles. So I think- Okay, cool too. Yeah, still they want us for our paddles. So I think-

Cool too. Yeah, still awesome to be involved in any capacity. So we're sort of trying to figure it out. Who knows if anything will happen. Maybe it's an exclusive paddle for the movie, whatever. But Jake Johnson really into all this, wants to like potentially make some like content with us and also wants equity in Friday Pickleball.

Cool. He's like all in. So it was just fun to like see that email. That you've been emailing with Jake Johnson or? Yeah. Yeah. And, or no, not with him, like his, his people. Okay.

Cool. Anyway, that was kind of fun. I sent a Mark Cuban gift that said I'm out, but, or I would like send this big text. Like that's pretty cool. He wants a piece of the pie. I don't blame him for that reason I'm out so just the move oh the cameras off whatever just a movie as a whole is like just an

exciting thing cuz like been very card full oh come on oh I'm back here I don't know yeah wait so should we just just delete that delete it because it's recorded. Yes on there Yes, you guys are okay with this. Yes. All right time and keep to our weight Brad talk if time is gonna talk we should put him on C probably What were you saying about I'll say what you're gonna say Brad say it for time I was just gonna say like Ben Stiller I know he can make a movie cuz he made like a really good secret life Walter Mitty a movie I really like yeah, so I'm excited to see this. That's exactly what I was gonna say. So go. Yeah. Yeah

been so Yeah, that's about it for that Jake how's it coming? He's a videographer so he can do this in his sleep. Yeah, you see my LinkedIn. This is what I do all the time Right now I'm frozen on camera. Oh. Time it. We just chill for a second.

Just be chill. Be cool, Tim. You guys feel free to talk or you can just watch me do this. Sure. Please, for the love of God, have a podcast. Sure. Yeah, yeah. Please for the love of God have a podcast. Sure.

Yeah. Oh, Mary, did you know? All right. Thanks for holding down the fort without me. Yeah, you bet. No problem. One of the keep attention. I don't have to be here.

No, dude. Yeah, we could, we could do this thing in our sleep. No problem. So please bring something up. Here's a random thought for you guys. I was in charge of seasoning a chicken this week, looked up some seasoning stuff. C3Bros. C3Bros. And I think there needs to, whoever decided to name one of them tablespoons and one of them teaspoons is mean.

I think that the, like there's so many letters in the alphabet, call one of them tablespoons and one of them teaspoonsaspoons or something like that because because you look at that it'll just say like one Tbs salt. Oh one Tsp paprika. I almost put Tbs paprika That would have been too many paps. It is really close. Not only the way you say it But yeah, you're right the way you abbreviate it is crazy close.

It's way too close. And for an amateur person like me, it'd be way easier to say, I guess C's are cups, but like, okay, X, I don't care. Some other thing. I've never really thought about that, but that is a classic like imperial system thing, isn't it? Just like our own words for it.

They don't make any sense. A mile, a yard, a teaspoon, a gallon. Yeah. It's like, it almost got me. I'll just say that. I almost put a tablespoon of pepper in. I think I was supposed to put like, maybe it was even two tablespoons,

but instead it was supposed to be two teaspoons. And you imagine. Whatever it was. Anyway, so there's a big difference, Jake. Let's take a straw poll. Would you guys be in favor of converting to the metric system across the board? Yes, everything but football Yeah, I would too yeah, but I but it's so hard to go it'd be very tough to like transition I feel like but it takes three months

To get used to like speed limit distance away No, I'm thinking about it now for the first time. It'd take three months on the dot. I think we would adjust quicker than you think. I use the metric system about half the time in woodworking because sometimes it's easier to say, okay, it's 128 millimeters.

I'm trying to get half of that then rather than being like, okay, it's 58 and seven eights. Trying to get half of that. Oh, I see, yeah. So sometimes it's like, that's too hard. I'll just use this math. I think it'd be fun to switch. Just give us more things that we can like hang on to

from our childhood. That's always fun. So if like, imagine next year we switched to the metric system and then 50 years from now, we're talking to our grandkids and like, I mean, I threw the ball, I mean, probably 20, 30 feet. And they're like, oh, grandpa, he's always saying feet still.

He's so old. He says feet. Yes. Yeah, that is exactly. It would be like one of those things, like, sorry, I just can't, I can't shake that. What is like, like how big is milk in other countries? Liters.

Just one liter of milk? Oh, I see. I see. Like when it's sold. Like two liters or do they go? Because like a gallon is more than two liters. Yeah. How many liters is that? I figure three, four, five. No, two, two, two point six. My guess. You're thinking of an engine.

I'm thinking you had to. Timon, you looking up? Yep. Three point seven liters. I'm thinking, yeah. Timon, you looking up? Yep, 3.7 liters. Oh, 3.8 in a gallon. Really? Yeah. So I could get basically two liters of pop for a gallon. Wow.

That's crazy, because I just thought there were so much. Those two liter bottles, they must just be. That's a good lesson. The taller you are, the know. More respect you get. Yeah, I guess so. Look up now like, yeah, like European milk size. Yeah, they go four liters. Yeah, you buy a four liter?

Or is it like a two liter? A two liter of milk would be hilarious. Or are Europeans just like way, just like less in the milk. Like, what are you doing? Just give me a liter of milk. Give me a quart, give me a pint. Sorry, I'm... Yeah. How do you Google that? Quart is 1-4th of a gallon. Yeah, that's like Imperial though. That's not theirs, right?

Yeah, even pint would be ours except you can always hear the Irish people talk about oh, give me a pint. I fancy a pint. Yeah pint a liter. It's it's telling me about milk bags Yeah. Pint a liter. It's telling me about milk bags. It says, don't get on those websites. Come on. Not on my wifi. Canada.

No, no, no, no. Uh, in some parts of Canada, milk is sold in. Can I inspect your milk bags? David. Whoa, David. Not for four panels. You have one hole in your milk bag. It's talking about, okay, like UK it's typically sold in pint sized bottles that's half liter

There's that word again pint a typical that says a typical milk bag contains approximately one liter of milk And then in Canada, it's like I'm so I'm so curious what a milk bag looks like, but I'm also like, I can't just, European milk? No, I can't just. No, I'm gonna type in show me milk bags. You type in show me and it's, oh, actually I did Google, pint is a unit of volume, both in both the Imperial and United States customer. I know pints are small.

So it's not a metric system thing. I'm assuming pints. So why are they using pint? Why are the Irish using pint? Yeah, cause pints are divided into gallons, I think. Like if eventually. I don't know if that's true though. I think that's maybe our idiot thinking.

Cause I think pint sounds like one fifth of a gallon, pint. Pinto. But I don't know if it, that's a weird thing. Surely not fifth. That's what I'm saying. I think that we were like, we're not using pints here. We're using quarts. I think I'm silly.

Yeah. The United States, these are countries who use pint. The UK, and then other countries like Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. So there's anybody that speaks English at all. Using the pints. Yeah, fancy point. Just for like beer mainly.

That's interesting. I guess then again, we randomly dip into the metric system two liter Yeah, you're right. I think that Canadians like they use meters but then or kilometers, but then they'll be like, yeah He's six feet tall That's so interesting. I got learned that and how are Canadian milk bags in comparison? I think they're tougher You know, they had to withstand the winter up there You gotta have some some thick the winter up there. You got to have some, some thick milk bags up there. I, uh, yeah, I was watching some video the other day, like this

Canadian home renovator trying to figure out how to finish my basement again. And, uh, sometimes you use millimeters. Other times you'd be like, yeah, this thing's like, you know, six and a quarter inch. I'm like, what the, you can't, you're not allowed. You're not allowed to do that. I think milk overseas is sold in like cartons and it might be like a liter at a time. Yeah, most definitive answer I've found is in Europe, two liter, one liter and half liter are the typical norm that I've seen.

You've seen paper carton? You've seen bags? This says containers. Oof. That's what's at the container store. Yep. It's milk. That's all it's a European company. Yeah, it's not telling me materials, materials.

Huh. Huh. Teaspoon table soon is ridiculous though. I'm with you. Thank you. I just for the amateur person out there. You can't breeze through that. Imagine if if somebody didn't know how to use inches, inches to feet, and one of them is inches

and one of them is into inches. Yeah, and there it's INCH versus INTH. It's like, somebody's gonna mess that up at some point and make way too small of a bed frame. So, think about it. So. So, anyway, yeah, just almost had a big old mess on our hands there, but the season the chicken was seasoned nice. So Jake Jake Jake

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That little hole. Yeah, little hole. I don't know what, I wanna say perforated, but that's not the right word. Basically there's a way for like smell to get out, but not for coffee to get out. Freshness to stay in, yeah. Yeah, it's just great the way they package them.

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That's great. Go to masonroasters.com. Take advantage right now. Something I wrote down this week. does Catherine ever, or you to Catherine, do you guys ever have to like translate for each other? Maybe someone in public, someone you're talking to? Mm, I'm sure, I can't think of a specific example, but yeah, probably. Or like, or maybe not translate as much as like,

yeah, kind of spell it out a little bit. Yeah, like kind of fill in the blanks, this is what he's saying. Or like, I, kind of spell it out a little bit. Yeah, like kind of fill in the blanks. This is what he's saying. Or like, I think Catherine sometimes does it to me when it's like, I'm joking, but I'm a little more dry about it. Like she'll like- Change it for them.

She's just kind of laughing. He's joking. Lighthearted, like, oh yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. You know, I don't know, something like that maybe. Rachel and I are always just like laughing and noticing different, like there's just different types of people who are like I am going to have to be the bridge in this

conversation for this person to Rachel, right? Which doesn't happen as often as I would say is Rachel having a help me out with like someone to me. And it's happened recently. Like things like, like girls are like talking about girl stuff. No, I feel like more often than not, it's like someone like honestly, who's like maybe not very articulate or kind of like awkward. And I'm just not very good at like filling in the blanks and like really understanding

or comprehending what they're trying to say. And Rachel's very, just more perceptive in that. Like this is kind of what he means. And it's like, yeah, he's asking this. And I'm like, man, I needed you there. I had no idea what he was saying. I was trying so hard. But we had an example of that this week.

We went to Nectar, Acai Bowl place after church. And man, it was a good one because I ordered a bowl, Rachel ordered a smoothie. And this guy afterwards is like, he's running out of apples. And I'm like, all I heard was apples. And I don't even, I've never thought of apples being like a topping on, I've never seen that.

Like they slice apple, he's asking if I want apples. And so at first I go, no, thank you. And he goes, no, no, no, which one? And so I'm like, sorry, one more time. He's like, for like the juice, which kind of apple do you want? And so I was like, oh, sorry, that would be a question for my wife.

She was the one who got kind of the smoothie. So then I call Rachel up from where she's at. I'm like, he's got a question for you. And then he asked Rachel, like, which kind of apple do you want for the juice? And then Rachel was like, no, I didn't have any juice. I got like this kind of smoothie. I think he's talking to you. And I'm like, all right, didn't have any, any juice. I got like this kind of smoothie. I think he's talking to you.

And I'm like, all right, so one more time, what is it? And then he's like, in the base of your acai bowl, this is kind of me finding blanks now, he's like, there's apple juice. And then he goes, you want bitter or sweet? And I was like, bitter. And then Rachel's having to just like, she's translating all this for me.

He's saying, what kind of apple do you want for your apple juice? And I was like, bitter? And she's like, I don't know. And then this other employee has to step in and be like, Reggie, green apples are not bitter. And I was like, what? What?

What? No wonder I have trouble. Yeah, trying to decipher it, but now you're also like getting false information along the way. Instead of the word sour, he was calling like Granny Smith apples bitter. Yeah. So I didn't know that I chose sweet.

So I got the red apple. 100%. But yeah, either way, I just felt bad. I had to ask him six times. He asked the same question. And yeah, luckily Rachel was there. If Rachel wasn't there, I'd still be there trying to figure out what his question was. Did you order a different smoothie or is it just like this one time they asked you that

like customization? Well, I'll tell you, Brad. Good question. I recently have become kind of an app guy. Chick-fil-A mobile through. App guy, not Apple, but just Apple. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah.

A mobile app guy. Just like utilizing them, having something ready for me. Especially Nectar. That's a good one to have an app for. Life hack. Yeah. Yeah, a mobile app guy just like utilizing them having something ready for me, especially nectar That's a that's a good one to have an app for life hack Yeah, and you wonder like ah, what if they make it where I get there? They'll put in the fridge They do they do a good job of that. You already know this good for you take you don't think I've been an app guy for years It's more of the especially nectar nectar. It takes 16 minutes for them to make your smoothie bowl It does and you guys sit through them blending it six inches from your ear

It's so loud. There's no carpet or anything to deafen the noise in there. Trying to make it loud. Yes. So I've been ordering ahead of time. Well, in the app, you know, the app really tells you your options because in person you see the menu. Like, I don't know how much I can customize this. The app will let you know. Yeah. And in the app, I found you could sub apple juice for cashew milk in the base. Oh my gosh. no brainer. Really? Way better. Like creamier. Way better.

Yeah. Just taste, taste alone. Just, it's a better taste. Get that cashew nut juice out of there. Oh, you're saying get, oh, I see. I thought you were saying the opposite. Get the apple juice in there. No, no, no.

Put apple juice in your base. Okay. Trust me. Um, but the app has never asked which type of apple. And so that's why I just didn't. Gotcha. I'm just thinking sliced apples on top I'm like dude. I don't need that. This isn't my question

So anyway, I don't know if there's other couples out there Maybe like you're always having to translate for each other But oh, I think it happened Rachel's helping me a lot it's gonna happen like when I'm 75 Catherine's gonna have to tell them what I'm meaning all the time. Yeah, like I'm gonna have my own language by that point You know what I'm meaning all the time. Like I'm gonna have my own language by that point. You know what I mean? Cather's gonna be like, he doesn't mean that. He's asking for a chicken burrito. I don't know why he calls it that or whatever.

Can I get one of those bean blankets with chicken inside? Because I feel like with a lot of other people, I kind of help bridge the gap. I feel like I've been there for Scott when he's making a weird joke. And I'm like, this is a movie that we like. I don't expect you to know it. Or like, just with Isaac, there are these guys

ask us about our paddles and he's like, now what's the twist weight on these? And Isaac's like, they come in about 8.3 ounces. I'm like, no, Isaac, he's asking the twist weight, which is like a whole different measurement. Oh, sorry, yeah, I don't know No, I don't know but the weight is eight point three ounces. So yeah, most of the time I'm the translator but not With Rachel around she's better than me, dude

I feel like we have a friend Will Severns and I feel like that guy needs a professional trainer Do you feel that from him one of my best? I love him what we hang out a lot But they're like half the time. I'm like, I don't get it. I don't understand what you're saying. Are you joking? Are you serious? I think you're trying to make a joke, but I don't even really know if you made it all the way before you were waiting, like just assuming like I knew what you were about to say. Will does kind of talk. And even if I know he's joking, he talks in a way that sounds like he's quoting something that I haven't seen before. So you're like, I guess I just haven't seen it. Yes. Like every once in a while I'll like he's quoting something that I haven't seen before. So you're like, I guess I just haven't seen it.

Yes, like every once in a while I'll be like, what's that from? He's like, I was just making a joke about this thing. Like he does a good job just the way he talks. He's like, maybe later we get a couple, couple of mobile phones going. Like, is that like a reference to some old video? Yeah, maybe we link headsets.

Like, what does that mean? Yeah. You know, professional translate that one inside. Yeah, whatever. Like, it's like I need his wife around all the time. So I help me out here, Lauren. But anyway, yeah. How long have we been recording here?

Time? I have so many more things written down, but I'm like, we got we got plenty of time. We've gone like an hour 20. What do you think, Jake? You want to keep going? Give me something. Let's see. Um, uh, yeah, we, we, you know, we talked about adult things.

Let's talk about kid things. Uh, I taught Hattie a new game called connect for this week. Oh, fun. And yeah, we played, we went to McLean's for data days. It was just me, Hattie and Rosie. Cause Bo got in some trouble before had a little punishment of staying home, but So it was really fun. We played connect for and shoots and ladders and I know it's not a difficult game to be good at

But I I'm convinced I'm top 95 percentile in the world and connect for you guys play jumbo connect for like outside. No, we play just okay regular one Granted it was Hattie, but I I swept her you do just you know I did just fine with it I let her win one time but then I connected five on her the next time is just oh That's a fun way to like handicap a little bit. Yeah, you got to do four. I got to five Yeah, you got to do three. I got to five Yeah, but I really am convinced like I think I could beat most people in connect for in this in a recent Friday pickleball video

We did we went to that Airbnb in Palm Springs We kind of did like a decathlon of events where we competed against them Yeah, and one of them was like speed connect for yep and like yes. This guy's a Rubik's Cube champion. Yes He's Asian, but I still You whooped I'll put myself up against anyone. Yeah, and I But I will say, there was no bottom to it. We couldn't find it. And so I don't know if you saw this in the video, but Scott and Isaac are having like hold the bottom of it

with their hands, basically. I don't think I saw that. And it wasn't perfect. They're like using a rolled up towel and trying to hold it. Okay. But it's like not level. So you can't really even see like, am I about to win? Oh no, I guess I wasn't that it's diagonal. Yeah. Yeah. But I do love that game. And I

love the speed version of it too. Yeah. We see you and Catherine do it in Florida. Yeah. That was fun. Yeah. Go Shores getaway. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think Catherine could probably compete with me, but I'm, I'm ready to take my talents on the road with connect four. Yeah. I'll play anybody. Speed or regular. Yeah. You are good at that. But yeah. And then shoots and ladders, had he loved it. It's the simplest game, dude, but it was fun. So next ghost runners getaway, we should have like a stump the Schwab kind of thing of like, we'll take what we're best at and, you know, see if anyone can, can beat us in it. That's a, yeah. Also just as an aside, it's Christmas season.

So I don't want to do this. Not, well, we could do it. Ghost Riders get away. I was just on a podcast last night with a friend. I think it's coming out by the time this is out called Your Feature Presentation. It's a movie podcast that my friend has. Oh, wow.

Dad's on Maui guy. Heath is his name. And we talked for like an hour and a half about Home Alone. I just talked in detail about Home Alone. And he, it was like, it was Heath. And then he's got another co-host, Andrew. Um, and then me. And so he, Heath had some quick, like trivia for Andrew and I to compete against a hundred percent, dude, I dominated to the point where I'm like, I mean, within reason, I want, I would love for people to try to stop me on Home Alone Trivia.

I'm not going to know, you know, what time was this or what was the license plate on this or how many millions of dollars they spend on, I don't know that kind of stuff. But yeah, normal things to know if you saw them. Yeah, right. Like what's this quote or what's the detail on this or whatever? Because all the questions he asked, like even like the hard ones, I was like, that's easy. Little Nero's pizza, yeah, of course. So, but it's fun to break it down.

Someone made little Nero's pizza merch and hats and stuff. Oh really? That's cool. Yeah, that's fun. Good idea. Any chefs reach out yet? We got one, yeah. You're hired.

Yeah. Yeah. Molly, I believe is her name. Yeah, you're hired Yeah, Molly I believe is her name so Molly gonna talk it yeah probably January I was like, let's let's reconnect then but good. Yeah good email word good email. Yeah, let's let's circle back Good yeah, that's one. Um, should we do our reviews of the week? Good. Yeah, that's fun. Should we do our reviews of the week? Yeah, I got one here from Erica. This is my first time reviewing any podcast

and that's because there is no podcast like this one. Only podcast that has me laughing out loud, singing along to the jingle and listening as soon as every episode drops. Thank you, Jake Braden-Tyman, for the joy you bring to my Mondays and Wednesdays and the rest of the days that end in Y's, I'm still catching up on older episodes.

Grateful to be a part of a community like this, cowboy hat smiling emoji. Giddy up, Erica. There you go. Serena Oriente left a five-star review saying, "'This podcast anticipates my needs.' This morning I had the thought, I know Tyman and Brad are the singers of the show,

but hearing Jake throw his hat in the vocal arena is always such a treat. I wish we had more of that. Well wouldn't you know it? Jake started this morning's episode asking time for a voice lesson. Boy was it nice. Jesus must like this podcast because the spirits moving. That's great. Thanks Serena.

Thank you for wanting that. I will deliver that once a year. Nice. Yeah. Boy was it nice. Oh, I delivered. Yes, very much so. Yeah, it is always fun to have that from old Jacob. Would you guys like to end this episode with a jingle of sorts?

Yes, Tymon, I'll forward to you again just so you have the link here. This is another Mattie Dederle special. All right. She's on a roll. Man, I could go for a roll right now. This is another Matty Dieterle special. All right. She's on a roll. Man, I could go for a roll right now. What kind? McLean's Pastries after this. That sounds so.

Five and 10, name five different kinds of rolls. 10 seconds, go. Butter roll, dinner roll, jelly roll, tuck and roll. I want to say monkey roll? Is that? I don't think that's one. Buttered roll. Yeah, butter roll. Stop, say monkey roll. I don't think that's one. Buttered roll. Yeah, butter roll.

Stop drop and roll. That's good. Tuck and roll sounded good though. What's the one thing, for some reason you do it football or you just jump over each other. Monkey. Oh barrel. No barrel roll is a thing.

Is it barrel? Monkey roll? I know what you're talking about. Monkey roll. We're gonna change the way we block. We're gonna change the way we block. We're gonna change the way we tackle. I'm not seeing the jingle. Monkey rolls, it's a type of spicy tuna

and tempura shrimp roll. Timon, I forwarded it. I think that football thing is called the monkey roll. Okay. Consider me a champion. Man, did that feel right when I said it though. Oh wait. Have you sent it before?

Is that what I'm supposed to send? Yeah, I have sent it before, but I just forwarded it to you right now. I'm not seeing it. Tyman, do you want me to come over there and check your email for you? It's because Tyman was looking up milk bags earlier. Probably got some sort of virus.

Email doesn't work now. Forward it, Tyman Wimsh. Yep. Oh, I see it now. Great. Well, I'll be, Tyman. All right, give me a little count in because I think it comes in right away.

Okay. Okay. If you can tell. This is for you Steve Triplett. Sinking. Oh, it's sinking. Here it comes. Right now. Sorry. That's all right.

This is raw, baby, this is raw. Go. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I gotta get to the same thing. Okay. Three, two, one. Well, okay. I think it starts right there, actually.

But the lyrics are going. So three, two, one, and go. I'll have blue, I'll have boo. Have boo. I think it's right there. Yeah, what is it? Should we say three, two, one? For the words to start, it doesn't start on boo. It starts on I'll have a. Please just play it again.

That's a good point, Tymon. Sinking. I'll have a boo Christmas with you too I'll be so boo giving five star reviews Wrapping paper of red and a green Christmas tree Rachel's such a dear with her decorating and Windows Boo Podcasts start droppin' That's Windows Boo Jingles I'm writin'

You'll be doing alright With Jake's meat that's still white And I'll have a boo boo boo boo Christmas Right here, Tom, do I come back? Yes. There we go. There we go. All right. With good friends, friends of mine. And I'll have a boo. That's good. A boo, boo, boo, great fun.

That's good. You'll meet who went all right with things me that's still one. And I'll have a boo boo boo boo Christmas. Timon, can I hear your Elvis? I don't really know him. I never met him. I can go from what Brad did. Wait, you don't really, like, I'm not really sure how he sounds. Wow.

I'm not, I would say I'm a B minus C plus Elvis fan myself. I don't know his catalog very well. I mean, I know like his- Like I saw Lilo instead once, like many years ago. I would just think it's like Michael Jackson though. It's like, well, even if you don't seek him out, you just hear him. You know him enough.

That's the other one, maybe. I don't feel like I know Michael Jackson. I know his like five biggest hits probably, but I don't know that next. I would expect that from time and as well, to at least know like the five biggest. I can come back next Monday with a prepared Alice impression.

That would be great. You know, Rach Rachel and I were listening to some Christmas music. We got, have you heard of 10th Avenue North's Christmas stuff? No, I don't know who they are. I don't know if I've specifically heard their Christmas. I didn't know they made a Christmas album or when they even did it. But we got on that kind of like train on Spotify. And so I haven't actually dug into this, but from what it sounds, the few songs I've heard, it sounds like they made a Christmas album where every song is trying to be like a different genre. It sounds like something Don May would have tried

to do, honestly. It was just like, let's do a compilation of everything. Because one song almost sounds like it's like Aladdin vibes. It's like almost like swing music. I think it's like Little Drummer Boy, but like swing style. Interesting. But then there's some other Christmas song where it's like a parody of Jailhouse Rock by Elvis,

but it's just about Christmas, has nothing to do with jail, or they don't sing it like Elvis. Came to the major island. Yes, dude, that's it. On a starry night. Yeah. It's like that, it's like.

Donkeys and the cows and the horses are bright. Go, go, Jesus, I'm coming. Everybody come on. That's funny. Now, I mean, you basically sang it. I'm going to try to find it now. Let's see when it was gone. It was just so random.

It was like to just like melodically cover a really old song, but nothing else about it has anything to do with jail or Elvis. The rest of it's just a Christmas song. Interesting. Um, 10th Avenue. You think they go one zero? No, they spelled it out. No, they're 10th 10th Avenue North decade. The halls. What was it called? Oh, you ever heard of the song good King Winslow's? Yeah, I never heard of it. Rachel is like, oh, Good King Winslos. I was like, what is this? Winsoslos. Winsoslos, yeah, see, I don't even know how to say it.

I've never heard the words though. I played it as a trumpet song. I played it as a piano song. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Is that it? I'm thinking, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun thinking done. That that that that that that that that that that that isn't it? Yeah. Oh, I'll find it later. We'll put it at the end of this audio only. Right, the downtime.

Yep. Yeah, Jailhouse Rock. But Christmas, ended by a Christian rock band. Kind of fun. Frankincense, Frankincense, more than the gold for him. Shepherds were a word when the angels came. and the gold for him. Champions were a word when the angels came. Mary had a pregnant belly. I don't know. I'm loving this. Someone write a jingle to Jailhouse Rock for Brad to do.

I like this. This is great. Oh man. Yeah, that's, that's, that's funny. Mary had a pregnant belly. Mary had a baby in a pregnant belly. Joseph was confused cause he and she was a bird. That'd be a good song. That's out of all the songs to like, I think, but it sounds like decade through the halls. So maybe it's just like, yeah, that kind of makes it snow. Swing music and then fifties jailhouse rock. Come they told me. It's just like, so funny. Yeah. It's a baby, see?

Yeah. But decade the holes. Now, you know, I'm coming around to it. Now it's kind of fun idea. Now that you know that that's there. That that's what it's called. Yeah, it's weird when it's in just a, just Spotify shuffle like Michael Buble and then. Wow.

I've got odd. Yeah. They do like, yeah, eighties or 90s ska music for one of them. I feel like the 80s music would almost be your version of Mary, did you know? Oh, Mary, did you know? Yeah, it sounds like an 80s hair band or something. Yeah, maybe Jeff Moore in the distance

did the 80s version of it or something. So good, man. I got a chance to talk to our pastor a couple weeks ago. I told him, I said, hey, I got someone who wanted to tell you hello. Jeff Moore said hi. He's like, whoa, Jeff Moore, he couldn't believe it. And then this past Sunday, I got to tell a son

because his son, cool story, we met at Pilgrim like three years ago before he was even going to abundant life. It was kind of a Luke Hogan situation. I was just like, this was like when I was single, it's like, man, I'm always meeting dudes at coffee shops. When do the women come around? I'm so good at making connections with dudes.

Anyway, end up being pastor's son and he's been to Fellowship Outfitters. He's done the whole trip we did in South Dakota. Fellowship Outfitters. Fellowship Outfitters. Sorry, you've been heard. Fellowship Outfitters. That was cool.

The pastor or the son? I think they both have. Okay. But yeah. That's awesome. So pastor or the son? I think they both have. Okay. But yeah. That's awesome. So fun. Fun times. Shout out Jeff.

Fun times, good boys. Shout out Jeff and shout out Chef. Chef. Oh, Molly. Chef Molly. Yeah. I shouldn't say this. Who knows if she's gonna get a job or not.

Yeah. Anyway. All right guys. Hey, Merry Christmas. I guess this Wednesday episode is on Christmas. Oh wow. Wow. Nobody's gonna listen to that one. It doesn't even matter what we say. Do we like postpone it to Thursday? Ah, they can listen when they... They listen when they want to.

Yeah, yeah. The Chippaud guys, they got a good shelf life. That's right. Because the Glossary episode. Yep. So, all right guys, we love you, we'll see you Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. I'm Mark.

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