Ghostrunners - 406 - Brad's Dad in the Student Section

Episode Date: February 3, 2025

Jake releases a manifesto for the Chiefs, Brad has a hilarious story from a college basketball game, everyone gives updates on their journey to get shredded, and Jake almost had a firecracker-shrimp-Steve-Koop-on-a-bridge situation go down at a pickleball tournament. Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Check out Cozy Earth and get 40% off site wide with this link: http://www.cozyearth.com/ghostrunners Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You gotta say that on the podcast. You can't say that before we start recording. Everyone needs to hear that. That was so funny. I didn't have to be too much. Tell me. Say it, dude. I know.

I know there's going to be people out there like that's too far, but just. That was so funny. All right. I know what we're going to same, but say it again. Give the background. Like give the whole context of everything. I'm not even going to try this. Come on, come on, it was so funny. If you were to press the button five seconds earlier, they would have got to hear it.

I was like, are we rolling right now? We can just use that. I can't believe we're recording. Alright, alright. I'm not even going to... funny that's it that was it guys oh I do I think this type means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat to Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet cause it's a ghost from the Spock house. Every morning, morning we're taking grandpas from the Spock house.

Go for a Spock house? That joke's never gonna get old, man. How much longer are you guys gonna do this? I don't know. Maybe one more time. Oh man. I don't know, maybe one more time. Timon's in therapy like five years from now, like lying down on one of those like table like wherever those beds and he's like, I mean, it all started this one time when you know, they asked me to do something I was not prepared for it.

And they just kept doing it. It's a life of anxiety. Scared always been put on the spot. I don't know. I don't know where it comes from. Yeah, my dad was laughed at every single day until he was 18 years old. Yeah, maybe that's part of it.

Okay. Oh man. Hey, happy Monday. Happy Monday. Go Chiefs. Go Chiefs, they're in the Super Bowl. Yeah. Did you hear?

Timon heard. I heard. Yeah, I saw. Timon, watch the game. Did you hear this and heard I heard yeah, I saw time and watched the game Did you hear this? No, how do you know this? I? Go ahead. I saw time in the other day. Yeah in the wild on it. I didn't even pay him How do you guys see each other Timon you want to go ahead or sure? It was that the um,'d you call them last week?

Letterbox. Yeah. Go ahead. Letterbox. It was, so my friend JJ, who's like gone to some of these like, uh, college age, kind of like worship night type things at LBC invited me to go to this like men's worship night thing. Yeah. Brad was there. Yeah. I walk in and there's Timon, Jesse, Zach, the boys. Jesse's going to the college age version of night thing. I think Jesse should go before time. And that guy, he seems like he's got his head on his shoulders. Timon's all over the place. Yep. For getting him out smores, you know, stuff like that. So, uh, yeah, it was fun to see time in there. Uh, I don't even know JJ though. This is a new, yeah, he, well, he's from, he's from Fort Scott, but like moved to Kansas City.

Fort Scott. Interesting. And, uh, so I know him through church and then he's just like, goes there for the community, I guess. Cool, man. Yeah. Yeah. What'd you think of the worship night? I thought it was awesome.

Yeah. Yeah. It was, it was super cool. It's one of my favorite things. Like, yeah, yeah. The men's worship night. Yeah. Just getting together and it was great.

Yeah. It's awesome of my favorite things. Like, yeah, yeah. The men's worship. Yeah. Just getting together and it was great. Yeah. It's awesome. Yep. Did you, were you okay with the instruments in the music? Cause I know that you're, yeah, I had to take some deep breaths. Yeah. Okay. I honestly didn't have this question. We'll talk about chiefs a second. So classic thing with like older, like worship leaders is like they change the octave of of the song halfway through the octave, the key, you know? So it's like that say, you know, I once was blind, but now I'm fine. But now I see when we've been there. Like, yeah. And like, it's a little bit, I don't, I don't love it personally. Okay love it personally. But it's what I feel like a lot of old like organists, like people that have like choirs in their church. You want them to stay home, stay in home base. I've never been a change the key guy personally.

Because often it's like, okay, I'm kind of comfortable singing in this key. And then it's like, let's go higher. Make it harder. Yes, pretty much. And then all of a sudden, like, especially when it's a whole congregation of men and women, maybe it's a good key for the women. And then all of a sudden it's like, well, this isn't a good key for me or vice versa. Anyway, Your key changes lower. Like it always goes higher when you hear of a key change.

Yeah, good question. I can't think of a time where you go lower. I think it's like it's always the goal is to make it more kind of triumphant stuff. So it's like going lower, we kind of diminish that. Right? Yeah. I umphent and stuff. So it's like going lower. We kind of diminish that. Right. Yeah. So I'll have to say my question was, do you guys without instruments ever do key changes? Cause that would seem impossible. We never do. Yeah. I, I think like, I liked it that night. I think it was like how great that water or something like that. And I thought it was cool. Yeah. And I was kind of anticipating it. That's a song you typically would hear it on. Yeah. It's like the fourth verse.

I was ready for it. Yeah. Bring it home with the key change Come on. So yeah, yeah, I sing the Elvis version. I think so Or he like did it in an Elvis way just only the sideburns like everything else is pretty normal But like he came it was like the last song, you know after they spoke for a while like hey Let's have one last song before we leave and he came out with sideburns twice as long as they were before I was like, how do you do that? So he just, yeah, he called us all mamas, even though we were men. Good. All right, mamas.

One last song for your mamas. Yeah. Okay, mama. So anyway, yeah, I thought about you during that part though. I was like, well, I've thought about you the whole time. So I was like, what is time and thing about this music and whatever? Not because of the instruments, but just no,, I had music nothing bad to say about it So right that was fun to worship with time. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah

Chiefs I've been watched it timing. Yes. Yeah, where'd you watch it Zach's house? Nice. Yeah, we also went to a friend's house. Yes, Scott's house. Yes, we did It was a little late getting there right before kickoff right away You guys instantly just bad What's that word juju no, uh bad Beat this is a good podcast doesn't matter basically as soon as I get in there. They're making uh All this food and they got puppy chow bad influences. That's the word

Temptations Scott's like got to coke zeroes, oh no, I'm trying to be healthy. And Brad's like, they're cherry Coke Zeroes. I'm like, stop you guys. Sorry. I thought zeroes were okay. We're going for less. I don't know. Yeah. I thought I was like, I was like embracing with you. Like, dude, you and I more than anybody else I know love cherry things, like cherry coke. It is so good. Like cherry and vanilla, like you and I get excited about those things.

And so I thought we were gonna like, dude, chiefs are on, cherry coke zeroes in the fridge. A splurge a little bit, yeah. And you're like, why are you telling me that? Sorry. But I stayed strong all night with the puppy chow. One thing that was nice, I keep meaning to post this video to our Facebook page, but the boys got shredded. It thing that was nice, I keep meaning to post this video to our Facebook page,

but the boys got shredded. It's a great way to get shredded when you motivate yourself with the Chiefs after the first touchdown, which I think this is like a college mascot in certain schools. But Willie the Wildcat did it at K-State. Okay, I feel like the Oregon Duck has done it.

Oh, for sure the Duck does it. Anyway, Chiefs score seven points, Gunner drops down and starts doing seven pushups. And I was like, well, I'll do it. Scott was like, well, I'll join. Brad's like, well, I'll join. I'm not gonna not do it if everyone else is doing it. So then the chief score 14 points.

No problem. Instead of just doing seven pushups, now you do the number of pushups of the points they currently have. You do 14, well, then they score four touchdowns and they get extra, or a two point conversion. Now they score field goal. We ended up doing 103 pushups that night.

Brad was texting later about it and said, had fun with you guys, still a little sore from a hashtag AFC 103. It's a great hashtag. AFC 103. We'll always remember it. That was the night, the AFC 103. Yeah, what did we score, 32 points?

So after we scored 32 points, I was like, you know, there was like three minutes left in the game. I was like, gosh, I hope the defense holds him and we just run out the clock. We don't need to score any more points. You know, like 32 in a row was like a little tough. It was funny how the pushups affected how we cheered for the game.

Yes, like. Come on, hold them here. Let's have a, let's have just a dog fight in the trenches. Let's really hold them. And also like, it was funny, like we were also preparing for the pushups. That was funny too. Like we were anticipating a score.

And so like we would all assume positions around the room. It was like different superstition things. Like Scott's like, I'm going to go and get positioned now. Like that's not working, Scott. Yeah, Scott would be like, what, every time I do this, we don't score. I need to stand back up. It's like my home mistakes, a five step drop. It's like, I'm going to go and get a little lower.

Yeah. Oh, he's stalling it deep. Get down, get down. That never worked. But yeah. So it was fun doing pushups together. There was one time I think there was, there was one maybe like controversial, like, or not controversial. There, there was plenty of controversy, blah, blah, blah. But there was one time where I think it was like, I don't know, they're going to review it, see if they're scoring. And I was already going and I was like, I don't care. I'm going to, I hope they confirm it because I'm not doing this again. Yeah. We were trying to mess with Brad.

Oh, out of bounds. Oh, you were just messing with me. Yeah. They weren't even like somewhat thinking about it. I thought 100% because like sometimes you guys were like, we're going to wait for the extra point. I was like, nope, I'm getting ahead of them. Yeah. Brad would like walked away or like, Oh, I hope they don't call it out of bounds.

It's like, you guys are messing with me. And then we kept going. He's like, you guys serious? Like, no, I thought you were real. That's so funny. Yeah, that was great. Yeah. Just a classic joke throughout the game was like, you know, sometimes we're like on our

own 10 yard line or something like 90 yards away, right? On our own 10 yard line. Good. I always forget how the terminology is. I have no problem with that. You know, when I get mixed up in basketball is back court and front court. Sometimes they get those confused. I also, I'm pretty positive. Front court is your own. You're trying to score on. Is that right? Well, I just think like a position like, oh, the Warriors, they've got a great back court. Oh, I see. I think I think those I think it means guards

Yeah, yeah tricky though. Yeah, oh and yard line Yeah, so like 90 yards for a touchdown very improbable It'd be like we would jokingly like get on the ground and get ready for push up just think you know Like they rattle one or like we're on defense. We're like I could feel one coming boys You know I'm gonna go and go down for one. Yeah, So I have a head start. Yeah, plank position until we get this. So it was great. It was so fun. Pushups are a fun part of the night.

I mean, yeah, it was just funny to like hear us all like struggling together to do these things. Yeah. I mean, I haven't done that many pushups in a row in a long time. I went upstairs at halftime to make my own little factor meal. Did you guys Wim Hof? No, we didn't Wim Hof

We just sat there in silence, you know It was pretty nice little cozy vibe down in Scott's Basement. There's dark He had those LEDs that you know, the the new fad of the world is these LEDs Clyde really open his eyes Yeah, how a TV can look? Yeah, but pretty much just hung out. Well, that's good as a fan You also have to lock in come play off to him. Yeah, as a fan, you also need to read every single thing that people are saying right during halftime and during commercials. You were I rely on you for that. Like I think I do just fine commercials. You're like, okay, that was only the third designed run that Patrick Mahomes has ran in the last five years.

Yeah, you know, like I love finding the fun facts. Yeah. Yeah, you're my curator of that. So Nazi Johnson started the game at corner, but then no longer played with the starting team. The rest of the game, very interesting. What's up? Maybe it was one of those like Jaylen Watson got, you know, punished like, Hey, you're sitting out this game. You're not going to start. Come on coach. Come on. No, you're not starting this game. I don't care what you say. And then it's like three snaps in. Nasi Johnson's not. All right. All right. So, so time in how much, how much were you watching versus how much was it just on in the background? How much were you guys like singing songs? We were sitting around it. How many like hobbit songs did you see during this broadcast?

We were pretty locked in on it. I mean, and I, I was watching. It wasn't like boring to me. Oh, wow. Like, I was like, well, just as in like, it wasn't like I was so uninterested in the outcome that I just was kind of like wandering around. Like I like watching. You were like intrigued by it. Yeah.

Good. What was there a point in the game where you were like extremely confused? Was there anything that you had never encountered in like football rules or anything? I think a few times like there was, uh, I really wasn't like analyzing much, but I think there was one time where they were just really crowding around the ball and I was like, that's kind of interesting. Wonder what's going to happen with that group hugging a lot. The bills are calling the group hug play and it's not working. But yeah, I don't know. I mean, not that much. I was, I was always like, like, I would not have been able to tell if there was a close something or like in a review. I was like, I don't know

what I would think. I don't know what the rule is. Yeah. I don't know how you determine. No clue. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, even among people who watch a lot of football, the rules either change so much or they're so ambiguous that it's even hard to like know like, what is the rule on ball hitting the ground? Yeah. I think it can hit the ground, but as long as it doesn't move, which is kind of a gray area. Yeah. You have control of the ball before you hit the ground. Yes. And it doesn't jostle. They like to use the word jostle. Yeah. It looks to be jostling around a bit. Jim. Jostle is a good word. Yeah. I like Jocelyn. Yeah, I was Jocelyn around. I mean, I don't know.

The shocks on this thing are rough. I was Jocelyn around when I was driving it. We used to have a Jocelyn who listened to the podcast. We were the worship leader. I wonder if she's still out there. I wonder if she changes keys halfway through the song. Jocelyn, how you doing? How do you prefer your Jocelyn spelled?

Jocelyn the listener is with a C and a Y. What did I do with the Jocelyn SS? No, I like C and Y. I think that's the, I'm a standard guy. I'm not trying to mod out any names. I'm not, you know, my truck- You're not buying the Call of Duty package. Yeah, my truck comes with what it comes with

and I'm not doing lift kits. I'm not, I think the C and the Y are are the right way the regular way C and the Y As in is there an E between those J O C E L Y. That's the one I know. Yeah, I don't know Jocelyn sounds great to me. It weighs can you spell Jocelyn? I'll tell you Catherine, you know K A T H R Y in there's a million ways to spell, not that many. A lot of Catherine's. Yeah, and you know, of course, my Catherine thinks that's the right way to spell it.

And I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. It's not the most common way. So I don't think you could say it's the right way, but I think it might be my favorite way. 100%. I like the Y. Y's are cool. Yeah. I might. I was trying to tell Rachel. Rachel Y's are cool. I was telling her, yeah, Why's are cool. Yeah. I might try to tell Rachel Rachel. Why is so cool?

I was telling you. Yeah. He's a cool. Yeah. Yeah. There's something about them. I don't know. They're just, they got a little bit of swag to them.

Yeah. Yeah. Eyes take all. We've all seen them. No offense, Tymon, you know, time at T I M Y N T Y M O N though. That's what I meant. Yeah Yeah, yeah confuse a lot less people. Yes, it's like a fanatic. I've always thought that was like I should just change it What's it gonna take? How many patrons if I get it legally? I'm three tattoos. Would you change your name legally? It's a good

Like a good trade. I could do I could do any tattoo and I could put them anywhere on my body. And the only it's just a why it's just I it's pronounced the same. Everyone who knows me. Yeah. But it's just people who meet me for the first time. It makes more sense. I mean, I had a friend in college who like, so his name was Russell, but he wanted to go by Russ. And so when he started, I think early on, like first grade, second grade, third grade, at some point he was just like, it's just gonna be R-U-S. And he just determined that for himself because it is a nickname. It essentially could be like,

I could spell Jake however I want it. Because all I'm doing is telling the teacher. They look down and say Jacob. And I say, no, it's Jake, J-A-K-K-E-E. All right, that's how he says. And so yeah, Russ, he just like, just one S. It looks very strange, but he's like, I just yeah Russ he just like just one ass it looks very strange But he's like I just made it up. That's why it looks so weird

That's how Hattie would spell Russ like it's like it's like a third grader. I guess phonetically is like R US I don't know what what's the second one even doing? It's just a lot of fuss for that second s So anyway, Justin I don't know what timing timing all that to say chiefs are going back to Super Bowl Maybe we do a little Super Bowl preview Wednesday episode or this episode or patreon episode or patreon or We don't do it wherever you listen to it. That's where you'll know what platform it's on Once you're listening to it already Yeah

Fun weekend though time. What are you been up to did, you pulled an all-nighter basically Friday. Oh yeah, I didn't even write that down. Yeah, tell me about this because, well just tell me about these other gigs you randomly pick up, because they all sound brutal. I'm like, do we need to pay you more? Do we need to give you more work? Because you're like, yeah, I flew to San Diego.

It was brutal. I, editing that. I don't know, I, so flew to San Diego. It was brutal. I editing that. I don't know. So I'll just walk you out, walk you through the story of Friday night through Saturday morning, I guess. So I, and yeah, I think this, the reason I said yes to this, I think I like said yes to this first thing and then said yes to you,

not ever thinking about their relation to each other. Okay. I don't know if I regret it I don't know. It was it was fine. But so I Friday night Filmed like a recap video for this like creative conference type thing. Mm-hmm. And it was like a Yeah, it was just like a probably four or five hours of filming this just getting random shots and then the guy wanted like a As fast as I can turn around like the next he wanted to post it the next day.

Little sizzle reel. Yeah, yeah. OK. And so naturally I chose like probably the most complicated way to make the video and like grab like a like sound bites from the speakers and like made it kind of more of a storyline or not a storyline, but just like a cohesive thing, which I think made it a much better video, but just made it way more work for myself. So I stayed up till like 4 AM ish doing that. Then I'm falling asleep till probably five and then woke up around six 30 and then went and filmed a pickleball tournament.

One and a half hours. Yeah. And then so I had a monster with me then and then got like an hour nap and then I was fine. I think sleep might be a scam. Ooh, hot days. Cause I was like, I was, I was a little tired, but then I was like, I got two and a half hours total with the nap. And the next night got, I don't know, six, seven, and then I was fine.

You're 18. Wow. That's the most 18 year old thing. Like I think we've all gone through like, I think sleep might be a scam Like I knew so many guys in college that were like I think I'm gonna sleep for like three hours at a time And then like you know just be up sporadically or like 90 minutes like all these like ways to biohack sleep Yeah, it's always come back to eight hours a night 18 to 22 that age range of my life I took a lot of years off my later life But I just didn't sleep much for four years. Yeah, I'm still functioning. You're fine. I think when I say sleep is like, I think getting, if I had gotten that more than once at all, I would have like crashed hard. Like I would have had a problem, but I can get like one night that's bad. I think I'm fine.

But yeah, I don't know. It was fun. I was like happy with the final product of the edit and then had a fun time at the tournament. That's good How long was yeah, how long was the tournament like all day like eight till? Was it like one? Yeah, okay. Yeah, wasn't horrible. That's a good amount of time and most of the time there Really just like it was like while we're doing like pool play and stuff, I was like, time, you can just set your camera down on a tripod. And I've told him, I was like, don't feel about like you can be on your phone. I don't, you don't need to like pay attention and act like you're working. Yeah. It was, it was nothing like exhausting or difficult at all. So that was, that was, you weren't

doing a pushup for every point. Yeah. Well, at one point he pulled out his laptop and he had headphones in and he was just like working on his computer and I was like, you know what good for timing Yeah, this guy's getting paid twice. He might be editing a ghost. Yeah. So right now good for him And I was like, what are you working over there? He's like I was just like making a song on GarageBand Engage it. Yeah, are you using the sounds in here? Like where did this audio come from? How'd that song turn out by the way? I didn't I just well actually no I was like working on an idea I've had it just made a little progress. Can we hear it? Is it ready for consumption? No No, I don't I mean it's just like the I the concept has like vocals and stuff, but there's just nothing

It's just like a very bare-bones like instrumental things. Gotcha fun. Is there original song you just sang? Yeah Fun pretty fun. It might turn it's on I don't know if it'll ever come to fruition, but you mess with GarageBand a lot. A decent amount. I always, I do. I mess with it a lot. I never make a lot of stuff that I'm happy with, but I think it's just like,

it's just good practice for music. I don't know. It's a lot of fun. That's another thing I think I've said plenty of times. Yeah. I've tried a lot and it just never turns out very, like I've too high of standards and it does not sound good on there. It has to be something I would want to listen to right is I can't make yeah

So Saturday pickleball tournament You know, I'm a full week into like working out And you know, it's protein everything. Yeah, and we can talk about more later But there's so many variables happening in my body right now Just like I've just changed so many things that when I do feel some sort of side effect or some difference It's like well who knows where that's coming from. Yeah, that could be six different things. That's making me feel this way One of them that I have not adjusted to yet is I I poop Yeah, you said I poop. I mean you didn't I know you've been pooping more than once a week recently

But like for a while time it was like not a lot of fiber in the diet. Right. It was like, all right. Sunday afternoon. Here we go. Post church poop. Yeah. Yeah. So I've been better for a few years now, but this is something else. And I'm not used to this. Okay. So I think I had to leave my house at like 6 45 that morning. I get up, you know, have my little morning ashwagand, you know, I'm hopping out of there. And yeah. And pretty much as soon as the tournament starts, little bubble gut hits. I'm like, oh man, normally I see this coming.

This isn't like a feeling of like, maybe later today I'll find my way to a toilet. It's like, we're in the ninth inning. Where was the rest of the ball game? I got no heads up about this. Yeah, we're just skipping right to the closer. Yeah, I'm having dessert now. So I was just like, oh boy.

Hopefully there's like some gaps in this tournament. It ended up being one of the most well-ran, most efficient tournaments I've ever seen. I mean, no time off, just back to back to back. And so I'm really trying to figure out how I can make this work. Is there any time, okay, maybe, so I'm having to play just multiple games on a poop stomach.

And it's not going away? Because sometimes ebbs and flows. You think maybe if there's adrenaline or sweat, sometimes certain things can go away. Yeah, I feel like adrenaline really kills all that stuff for me. Yeah, even just being distracted sometimes can make you not feel as sick or whatever. And no, it's just like the human body wants what it wants and it wants excretion.

Yeah. And so I was like, it's got to happen. I'm trying to plan it out. And so between pool play and like the bracket, I was like, I've just got to go and just try to make it work. And so we're playing in like this bubble, this indoor tennis facility. And so I've got to make a mad dash to like the actual like building about a hundred yards away. So I'm sprinting up there, open up the door, go to the bathroom.

First thing I see is a pair of feet under the stall. I'm like bummer, go around the only stall. Whoa. In the whole- One stall facility. Facility. Go back to the front desk. Hey, do you guys have any other bathrooms? No, which is the one I was like the whole facility. Cause it's like multiple, this is

like a Genesis health club. This is a gym. Yeah. It's huge. How is that? They don't have a locker room. I don't have a locker room with like, sure. I don't think it's, I think it's a Genesis tennis club. So I don't know if they actually have a weird, that's crazy. But it felt like it should have a locker room. He can't just have one stall. He's like, well, I feel like building codes, like my cousin like has a his in-laws have a wedding venue and they have to have like a bathroom that has like three stalls in it for each

gender. Like a point there should be some rule or law. There probably is something they probably got grandfathered in a hundred years ago or I don't know what I like because. Cause there are two, there's three different structures. Like two of them are, are bubbles. Oh, maybe that's part of it. I don't know. You know, but there's a detached thing. And so it's not technically even like McLean's when they open up that second back portion, they had to add a bathroom for building code. So I have three bathrooms in McLean's, only have one bathroom in Genesis. Yeah. So I mean, all the urinals you could ask for, but one stall.

And so now I'm up against the clock. I'm up against my body and these guys went sink. Women's restroom somewhat crossed my mind, but there's just too much traffic. I mean, I'm not going to be able to pull this off. And so I just have to like, wait, I'm texting my team. So it was kind of a fun for it was like a four man team tournament, to be able to pull this off. And so I just have to like wait, I'm texting my team. So it was kind of a fun for it. It was like a four man team tournament, but I'm just like, hey, just like, go without me.

I got business to take care of. And this guy does get done in about five, 10 minutes, get in there. It stinks to high heaven. Five, 10 minutes too long. Maybe the worst part is he's a pickleball player. He just got done playing. He's warm, sweaty.

I'm warm, sweaty. Oh, just the heat. The heat in there. His former legs, that seat, my body. Oh, it's hot in there. It's steamy. Business gets taken care of. I start to take a little inventory.

Not a lot of toilet paper. Now I'm having a rash in this toilet paper like it's World War II. I mean, this was a nightmare scenario. So these people were very well prepared for the scheduling, like logistics there. Oh, the tournament director all over it. Nobody that's active and healthy

is ever gonna need to go to the bathroom. Yeah, yeah, I blame Genesis. So yeah, I'm having a rash in that at one point I was like they didn't have those seat covers and they did take a peek like I can make that work. Honestly, that's about the same qualities as toilet. Yeah. I won't even notice it. That's when you're desperate is when you're like, when you run out and you're like trying to yank off the last little bit that sticks to the role, you know, you're like, gosh, I need that. I need that little thing. And while we're at it, tear off that roll and make it flat.

Oh man, that's a rough feeling. And it always happens when you're like, when you don't, you know, look for it first cause you're so desperately like, I gotta get in there and go. Yeah. I didn't. Yeah. Oh wow. It's so uh, but uh, All set all done and uh, man, I felt like a new man afterwards. Yeah, it felt great So I came scampering back and here we go. Oh good. And but yeah, it's a thing I mean I I poop in public all the time now. I just get caught. It's not used to this Because so much fiber going on that

I forgot where it was recently. Oh, at the gym. Yeah. Yeah. Your toilet paper. Not too bad. Not too bad. I, uh, I used to get so nervous in high school before football practice. So I always had to go to the bathroom before practice. Yes. I, I was so like, we were like borderline verbally abused football team. And so I was just always so scared. Just on edge. Yeah, dude. I was not a happy boy when I played football. You know, like looking back, it was like, those were so fun. That was great times.

But like at the time I was like, I am miserable. And so every time like six, seventh hour, I had to like, hey, can I please go to the bathroom and yeah, hustle on over there, get it done. I don't know if I ever pooped in my high school. Yeah. All four years. Really? Yeah. Wow. Cause it would have taken me the whole period Yeah, you know, that's so embarrassing. Yeah. Also, they're gonna think I'm like doing on purpose. No, it's just my routine

I just need I need the time. Did it take you a long time even before you had a phone? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah, you're grandma grandpa's house. He bust open the Reader's Digest Yeah I'm at my house got a little book maybe okay Can you speed poop if you want to like how how like do you think you could go fast? Yeah, you probably went fast this time. Well, yeah, that's true. Yeah, so there are times when yeah, you rock in a hard place, but Which also brings you to my next point. Yeah, it kind of depends what we see what we get out. Is it more of a rock? Is it more of a stone?

Is it more of a salamander? more of a stone? Is it more of a salamander? Is it a rock or is it a stone? Yeah, I don't know. Salamander. You know, it kind of depends there, but no, I'm not good under pressure. Yeah. Yeah.

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You just cut off there. Yikes. Speaking of that, and I get under pressure, no one loses at game point like me and Isaac. We might not have the clutch, Gene, as it turns out. No one comes in second like me and Isaac. No one loses the game after being at game point early, like me and Isaac. No one loses the game after being a game point early like me and Isaac.

So. How bad was it? On par with it. I think when we flew all the way out to Vegas for a tournament and we're up 10-5-1 with the serve, end up blowing that one. Similar. Okay.

Similar. This was like, it's rally. It's going to 11. Yeah, that was to 11. This is rally scoring and you played a 21. The way the rules work somewhat screws you over but basically we were up 20 to 14 really need one more point But once you get to 20 now you have to win on your serve So the other team kind of has free reign like they can't they have nothing to lose

Okay, they kind of get to tee off on you once you get to 20 you have to win on your serve so it if we were if it's zero zero. Yeah, and You serve to me, but you serve it in the net. I get a point sure sure sure It's like every mistake is a point until one team gets to game point. Yes, and then only one team can score So we were serving 20 to 14 We don't win that point. All right now they have have 15. Yeah. All right. Now we get to serve back 2015. All right. We don't get that point. Now it's 2016. You know, it's like, it kind of allows for closer games. Is that, that's how I played ping pong back in the day.

Or it was like, you can't lose on a serve. Like, Yeah, that was like actually serving, like let them rip on the serve. And so I was like, yeah, you barely skim it. Yeah. This was like, you can't even win the at any of the point when you're serving. Right. So yeah, we lost a couple of those, but it's all good. Um, still had fun. It's good time.

You came in second place. Uh, I think we came in third. We won third place game. Of course the team that did win it all beat them earlier in the day. So yeah, we can, we can collapse like, like anybody can collapse. It's pretty impressive. It is interesting. Like, yeah, like maybe there is a mental, I mean, I feel like there's a mental block with me with stuff like that. So it could be a people pleaser thing. You know, you take your foot off the gas or

maybe we just don't take this as seriously as other people do. Yeah. Having too much fun, trying to bring too much levity to it. It's like, no, just be serious here. One more point. Yeah. That's funny. Yeah. I'd rather not know what we're going to. Like, just keep me in the dark. I'm just gonna play and don't tell me. If I could somehow not know the score. Maybe that's the strategy. Can I borrow your like woodworking,

like really noise cancelling headphones and I'm just locked in. Yes, you may, yeah. I'll get you some. Bow and Hattie, no, Bow and Rosie specifically are coming down to the basement all the time while I'm working and they always bring headphones with them, no, Bo and Rosie specifically, are coming down to the basement all the time while I'm working, and they always bring headphones with them, thinking

that they're like woodworking headphones, so that's not loud and stuff. Hattie doesn't come down there? Not too much. Not too much. No, I mean, I think Catherine's like sending them down, while Hattie's trying to do school and stuff. I gotcha.

Yeah, Bo especially loves. I've started saying, you know me, I'm always trying to market school and stuff. I got you. So, yeah, Bo, especially loves, I started saying, you know, me, I'm always trying to market things are like, you know, label things as like fun, whatever. And so right now I'm like, my question to Bo a lot is, Bo, you want to do something dangerous? That's what I ask him. And then I'll like take out my like pocket knife and I'll have him cut some like, you know, there's like plastic wrapped, you know, pieces of wood or something like a bundle of like 10 of them. I was like, I want you to cut all these, but be careful because this knife is, you know, very sharp,

you know, all this stuff. Did you take it serious? Is he like, yeah, he does. And then he, then he'll come back, you know, two hours later, dad, can we do something dangerous? And so then I'm like trying to think of like, yeah, what else can we do? You know, jump off the roof. Yeah. It's like, what's the, what's the boundary of like dangerous, but like also like, you know, let's not try to make them do the stuff without me. Yeah. You know, like we were working on electrical stuff. I actually learned this from, I'm very scared of electrical stuff,

but my friend Justin, Justin Jordan, yeah, South Dakota Justin, there was one time, like our breaker box is kind of like tucked back in our garage where we have all this storage stuff from our basement right now. So it's pretty hard to get to. Catherine could get to it just fine. Big daddy, a little bit tougher.

Okay. And so Justin's like, oh, can we turn off this breaker for these light switches? And I was like, yeah, yeah. He's like, what? It's like, oh, it's just kind of a hard thing to get to. He's like, that's okay, I'll just trip it real quick. And so he just takes some like live wire and just like puts them together and sparks and then just turns off the breaker.

And so there was one time where Bo was like, can we do something dangerous? I was like, yep, you stand right here. We're going to trip this break. So he did it with Bo. So yeah, I was like, and you know, he's like standing a safe distance away, but there's like, yeah, sparks that fly or whatever. So he wasn't holding on to it. You're like, he's like nearby. No, no, no. Yeah. Did he like it?

Oh, he thought it was awesome. Yeah. Can we do something dangerous? How is the baseball coming along? You got a deadline now that the Chiefs made it to the Superbowl. Deadlines are what a life hack deadlines are. I mean, because like there has been so many ebbs and flows in this whole process. And so often I'm just like, you know what?

I'm just going to do what I can today and that's good enough. And I'm just going to keep, you know, chopping wood, you know, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Now it's like, how do you eat an elephant by the Superbowl? You take a bigger piece, you know, like last night talking about time and like not getting much sleep. I think I went to bed at one probably. Wow. Yeah. Staying up later, working on it because not only we're trying to get ready for the Super Bowl, but Saturday before the Super Bowl, Henry is getting like dedicated to our church. Cool.

We're doing like a dedication thing for him and Catherine's parents are going to come in town for that on Wednesday, AKA like five, six days from now. So your deadline got bumped up a lot. Correct. And for the record, like Catherine asked me about this. I was all about it. Like I wasn't like, Catherine, that's crazy. No, you know, in my head, I was like, we'll make it work. Even if they have to sleep in our bed and we'll sleep on an air mattress. Okay. So they're all going to stay with you starting with staying with us. And if anything, we're like, maybe they can watch the kids while Catherine helps me some,

whatever. But it's just a lot of processed dominoes. I want to spray the walls because it's panel. And so like paneling, so there's all these little ridges in the walls. Way easier to spray it than roll something in those little ridges. So I want to spray the walls,

but I also want to put new flooring down, but I'm not going to put new flooring down and then spray the walls because then the spray gets on the floors. And so it's like, okay, I got to spray the walls first. But before I do that, I got to do this. And then, so anyway, I'm from here. I will go home right now and just like do more work on it.

And back to basement until I die, basically. But hopefully, I mean, it's going to be ready for the Super Bowl. It's not going to be done done, but it's going to be like in inhabit, no habitable. Habitable. Yeah. So, you know, there's going to be lots of little 95% kind of things not done. Okay. That needs a door on it still.

Like, you know, that needs caulked and like fill in the nail holes there, whatever stuff like that. But we can go there. We get in and watch a game. Surely. Right? Yeah. Also like two of the guys helped.

So my friends, Justin and Jordan, my friend, Justin Jordan and Jordan Algy. Yep. So confusing. No, Justin Jordan and then Jordan. I was like, so Jordan, I mean, Justin, whatever. They came and helped me yesterday. Both so willing to help both so wonderful, but they're both like due with baby, like their wives are due with babies in the cow. And so Jordan's like, Hey man, I can come back on Friday to help you with flooring stuff. It's like, that

would be awesome. He's like, yeah, unless we have a kid before then. I'm like, ah, please tell your wife to just keep it in a little bit. Don't have it. Just suck it in a little like for Brad's sake, you know, the Super Bowl. So anyway, but it's coming along. It's a it's a lot, but it's also like, yeah, the ceiling is done and it looks good. And that's that's a big win. And so one thing at a time got the ceiling, got the ceiling. Yeah. It was fun. Doing dangerous things with Bo. Dangerous things with Bo.

Catherine is over a couple nights ago. She was majin with the girls and I got in on a game. We were talking, she said she's doing a lot of science right now with Hattie. Hattie's really into rocks. Oh yeah. And Catherine was like, oh geez, I gotta figure out my lesson for tomorrow,

because I think Catherine, like, geeks out of like history and stuff like that. Like she can go on and on for that. But I think science, she's really got to gear up for science. So but it was fun just like learning what Hattie is learning. And like, I guess, Catherine's teacher hand signals for the types of rock. Yeah, I didn't get I didn't learn this. OK, I mean, you have hand signals. What are the three types of rock? See what you learned. Sedimentary. Okay.

I'm not even sure what passed that. Okay. You want me to give you one letter or two letters of the next one? Try giving me one. I. Oh yeah I don't know. G. It's Lee. IG. Oh, oh, wait. He's being ignorant. It's gonna be obvious what I hear, but I don't know. IG in E. Wait. O. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know what then. Igneous. Oh, Igneous. Okay, that's, it's familiar, but yeah, that's been a long time since I've heard of that. All right, number three, I don't know. I don't know what then igneous. Oh, okay. That's it's familiar. But yeah, that's that's been a long time I've heard of that. All right. Number three, I think M M Nope Zuckerberg fan

E I don't know man T May met Mediterranean Mediterranean Iranian rock. Yes, That all flows out of the sea of Mediterranean. Yep, take Greece. Metamorphic. Okay. Man, yeah, that left my mind. Maybe Taiman would have learned it had Catherine taught him hand signals.

Probably so. Dude, so much of Cathy's learning is like songs as well, and it's amazing how much easier it is for her to remember stuff with, like when it goes to a tune. That's probably the beauty of homeschooling. You figure out how someone learns and then you just pound it in. Yep. I haven't, uh, yeah, I haven't been around for too much. I mean, I've seen that maybe one time, like her do like the signals or whatever

that is. Uh, yeah, but it just been so, yeah. And then dated with other things right now. Yeah. So you got your own rock. Yeah. It is kind of hard. Like they'll be like, dad, can we, we love doing a, what they call it, sleep, not sleeping monster, a sneak attack where I essentially like just like rest on the bed for a while and then they like sneak up on me and wake me up and then we wrestle.

Could we play sneak attack? Can we do this? Can we, can we play tickle monster? We play math, whatever, all these different things. And I've been having to tell them No so many times it's like is this is this basement worth it if I don't like Have time with my kids, you know, yeah It's like a really tough like I need to be responsible and say no to this even though I want to be with them

So it's tough. How's the House shredding going for everyone? Well, you freaking tell me. I don't know. Let's see, how has it been going? I mean, oh, another thing, I have been spending time with my kids. Bo and I have been doing some shredding together. We're back on the shred train. By the breaker box.

Yeah, you want to get dangerous? Yeah, we got two guns right here waiting for us. Yeah, we mainly curls. He likes curls. He likes farmers walks. He loves doing like just holding them and just walking around the house. He's like, so dad, we can do farmers walks from the couch to the chair and then from the chair back to the couch.

Like awesome. But you know, he's got these three pound weights that Catherine uses every once in a while. Okay. And we'll be doing curls and that three pound weight is like perfect for how strong that's what he needs. Like it's truly hard for him. You know, we'll do 10 of them, you know, so we're doing, and eventually he's like, one, two, and then you can tell he's getting hard.

He's like three, four, he's not moving at all. And I'm like, put them down. You got to put them down here. And then he like swings. I mean, it at all. And I'm like, put him down. You gotta put him down here. And then he swings him back up. I mean, it's awesome. But it's like watching him do something hard. I'm like, yeah, there you go, Bo. Good job, man.

So I haven't been getting to the gym a ton, but I have been trying to do something every day, trying to lift something. And then doing this, yeah. Have you heard of the term neat? I think it's time to look at neat, neat exercise or something like that. Non-exercise activity or something like that.

Basically like, yeah, you might not work out, but you are, I don't know, what's up really. Like you do construction for a living. You cleaned out the garage. Sure, yes. Yeah, you might have to walk five miles because you went to Disney World today or whatever. That. Yeah. You might, you might have to walk, you know, five miles because you went to Disney world today or whatever. Like that's neat. That's not, you know, whatever. So I feel like I've been doing a lot of neat exercise in the basement. Yeah. It says non-exercise

activity thermogenesis, the energy expenditure that occurs during just everyday activities. Okay. So just walking, standing, fidgeting, doing housework, housework, taking the stairs and playing with kids. They're throwing fidgeting in there housework, taking the stairs and playing with kids. They're throwing fidgeting in there. Fidgeting is wild. Maybe just like bouncing of the leg. I could be burning a couple of cows. I feel like.

Yeah. You better, if you're counting that, I better see you fidget. I'm just a fidgeter, man. Yeah. How'd you lose weight? Oh, just got a little more anxious. Yeah. I'm kneading right now.

Fidgeting is wild. Yeah. Like parking farther away because it's a full parking lot. That's okay standing desk. Yeah thermogenesis That's what Jake felt, you know going in after that guy hot. Yeah. Yeah, that was My thermogenesis Anyway, so yeah, what about you? Great you know, it's I Anyway, so yeah, what about you? Great. I always tell them time before I start recording. I don't know if I've ever received more feedback and encouragement and just like,

general just knowledge from go-sees about anything more than I have about fitness. People are into it. But it's great because I don't know hardly anything about any of this stuff, so I welcome all of it. Now you do get people saying things that disagree with each other though, so then you gotta go figure out, well, what's true?

So I wrote out, the word of the week is exhaustion. For two reasons. One, I've started trying to make my workouts a little harder because for the first week I was like, I'm probably not as sore as I should have been. Maybe I need to go a little harder when I'm working out. Right, your winner of the week was like, I don't sweat anymore.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this week, yeah, I sweat every time I work out. So the app I use, I was doing one hour workouts, but I was getting them done in 45 minutes. So now I switch it to an hour and a half workouts. So I'm getting done in an hour. So doing 12 exercises or so every time I go work out. That's awesome, that's a lot.

Yeah, so it is quite a bit. I try to really crank them out and make it a little bit more of a workout. But more so, exhaustion comes from just the back end and the nutrition and the, just this whole thing's an equation and that's what I like about it. But everyone has a different view

of what the equation should be. And yeah, borderline just driven myself crazy this week, trying to figure out like exactly, because I think I'm doing all the right stuff. Like, well, I'm kind of allergic to whey protein. So I'll do, I'll just do pea protein. And then one thing leads to another and then you read, oh, well not all plant-based proteins are made the same.

Even as protein, you gotta make sure it's the right amino acids. So I'm like, oh, I'm digging into this. Where's it sourced from? Where's this? How many ingredients does it have? And so then I get suckered into, I bought some protein powder that's got three ingredients.

One of them's chalk, I'm pretty sure. This thing tasted, I'd rather time it throw up in my mouth. It's chalk, dust, and a hint of an aroma of cacao. Yes. Yeah. Cacao farmers c like excess or something. It was made in the same city where they also make dark chocolate.

Yes. So like, you're going to get just a hint. Just a little bit of air, like from that. Just how they make La Croix. So I was like, this is brutal. Forget this. So it's just a lot of just like overcompensating one way or the other, right?

I think I got to be so organic, so healthy. And I'm like, what am I doing? And so at one point, just a couple nights ago, I was laying in bed with Rachel. I said, you know what? I'm driving myself crazy. Here's what I'm going to do. And here's what I can easily commit to. I'm going to eat fruits and vegetables every day. I'm going to eat my like weight and protein and grams every day. I'm going to work out. Yeah. That's like, that's what I'm going to my like weight and protein and grams every day. I'm gonna work out. Yeah. That's what I'm gonna do every day.

And I'm not gonna like eat unhealthy as well. Like that's all I'm gonna eat is chicken, fruit and vegetables and protein. And Rachel was like, wow, you are, what is, I can never remember these like funny things, Rachel. She's like, you are turning into a perfect husband. Or whatever I said, it's like all I'm gonna use fruits, vegetables to be healthy.

It's like, this is great. But yeah, so just getting so confused at times, because then you burn a bunch of calories by playing pickleball, working out, doing all these things. So then your macros go up because you have to eat more. Well, now it's saying I need to eat 300 grams of protein. Like, well, I don't think that's what I should do. So it's just so much to figure out.

I'm like, forget it. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, I don't think that's what I should do. You know, so it's just, it's so much to figure out. I'm like, forget it. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, I haven't read it in a week because I've been busy, but Atomic Habits, that's like, their whole thing is like you, in order to gain habits, you don't have to be, like in order for somebody to win an election, they don't have to win 100% of the vote.

They have to win the popular, like more votes than, well, I shouldn't say the popular vote. That's not all right. They have to win the popular, like more votes than, well, I shouldn't say the popular vote. That's not always, they have to win more than they lose essentially. Like in other words, like, yeah, as long as you're winning every day and you're making strides, that's the win. Like, and just trust the process, good enough.

And then if it's like, oh, three months down the line, there's been no change, maybe the process needs to be changed. But it's like, well, you're not going to see results unless you're timing right away. Yeah. You know? And so, yeah, it's just like, just, just do, do something, win the day. Yeah.

And then hopefully like enough days that you win, lose every once in a while, like thing, I, I should have eaten more protein today, but I didn't or whatever. Yeah. Cause it's just, it is exhausting. Cause it's like, well, I'm trying to get stronger and get bulkier. And so, yeah, you probably need more calories

than somebody who's trying to lose weight, you know? But that's, people are very back and forth. People give me all sorts of advice on the calorie deficit thing. If you're trying to like build muscle, get shredded, you don't need to be too much, you don't need to be in the calorie deficit. But then other people are like, well, you know,

you do need to lose some weight to get lean. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm just doing what I can do. I'm just got chicken, fruits, vegetables, and that's it. How can that be bad? If the carbs and the fats are a little off someday. Yes. Yeah. I've heard the idea of like one ingredient food is always good. Like in other words, like, yeah, if you're having blueberries, blueberries are healthy. Yeah. I mean, there's, of course, there's arguments of, well, are they organic? Are they this? Pesticides?

It's like an unorganic blueberry is better than this thing that has 25 ingredients in it, no matter what. You know what I mean? Yeah, so it's like, yeah, if you're eating a lot of chicken, whole chicken, good for you. You might have, well, what about the microplastics on that chicken? Blah, blah, blah. It's like, yeah, I understand. Like there's not perfection, but our bodies are

super resilient too. Like think about what you've eaten so far in your life and how your body's been just fine. Yeah, that's kind of crazy. Really though, like truly. So it's like, it's not like we have to be perfect. We just have to try to win. Yeah. Try to do something. So so yeah, it is exhilarating though where I'm at I'm on a good routine. It feels easy And I like it look up her this morning got a little pop in before the podcast boy And are you trying to always do it in the morning like first thing eat the frog funny you bring that up Yeah trying to Head I had the old boys at MVP heatingating and Cooling come by this week.

Just figured this house is 200 years old. Let's get the furnace checked out. We keep it pretty warm in here. We're working our hard. And just do like a yearly checkup. And anyway, they were like supposed to come between noon and four. He calls me at like 8 a.m.

He's like, I can come by right now. Which is like really cool. But also, that's kinda what I was planning on working out and then I could work the whole time here later. And so then he's actually, he doesn't arrive when he says he's going to, and then he does get here, there's like problems. He's like, I gotta go to the store, get this thing,

I'll be back. So two days in a row, got a new humidifier yesterday. Turns out my humidifier was just growing mold. Had it all over it and had it on like the vents in the basement. So $1,800 and it's gone. Hey man, that's exciting. But like you can look at that thing every single,

like you're gonna think about it all the time. Oh yeah. Oh, it's like, this is so fun to have this. When people come over to my house, like let me show you the humidifier. Have you guys, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's crown molding, but have you seen the humidifier?

Have you seen my humidifier in my unfinished basement? Come on down. Yeah, it's original hardwoods, but how much moisture you think is in this air? Just guess. Yeah. 35. Yeah, I know. I know.

Yeah. So we can. Yeah. No, it's it's it's right downstairs. We can just go on down. So I've been trying to be in a routine where I start my day with it. But yeah, they had to come two days in a row to like fix stuff So that's one thing I need to be better at is just doing it at a certain time

Like this is our time to do this Like I was pretty good for a while walking like first thing in the morning Yeah, and it's it's such a good thing to like win your day right off the bat. I'm just like I did it I got that thing. Yeah, I ate the frog the The days I ran the mile in the morning, oh, I felt like a king. Yes. It was awesome. But why, I mean, it sounds like you're pretty good at it, but like, why for me is it like,

hey, this thing is really, really good and you feel really good after you do it. And it's like, yeah, tomorrow I'm not gonna do that. Yeah. You know? Like, I mean, whatever. Why I want that tomorrow? Fill in the blank, like reading your bio,

like having a quiet time in the morning. It's like getting up early. It's like, oh, I feel so whatever. I don't want that tomorrow. Fill in the blank. Like reading your bio, like having a quiet time in the morning, it's like getting up early. It's like, oh, I feel so good when I do that. And then you wake up the next morning, you're like, ah, I'm just gonna sleep bad. You know? Like, what is that? I don't know. Something to be said about just like,

I'm not gonna nail it right now on the spot, but something about like, this like fleeting sense of like accomplishment. That's like, I could do that quick. I can accomplish that quicker than it would take me to go to the gym and work out in an hour. Like, or I could respond to this text right now, or I could get a head start on this right now.

I could get going on this right now. And like those become more appealing than the thing that's going to take longer or going to take a drive to do it. Or just inconvenience in general. Yeah. Yeah. Like sometimes whatever this basement thing, I keep coming back to it, Or just inconvenience in general. Yeah. Yeah. Like sometimes, whatever, this basement thing, I keep coming back to it, but like,

I'll be like working on something. I'll be 80% done with it. And then I'll like get distracted by this thing in the corner. I'll be like, I'm going to go work on that thing in the corner for a little bit. It's like, what do you, and then I find myself like over there. I'm like, what are you doing? Go back to the thing you don't want to do and get it done.

That classic meme where the guy is walking down the street with a girl, but he's looking at the girl behind him. That's like me with a project 90 it done. That classic meme where the guy is walking down the street with a girl, but he's looking at the girl behind him. That's like me with a project 90% done. And then the girl in the foreground, like some new project that's way harder. Yeah, let's go over here. Okay, yeah. It's fun to get started on something.

Yeah. But it's never, it's like, like last night I probably, I was sanding something. I was sanding all this like nail filler off of my ceiling. So it was like, I looked like a silver fox, but I looked like George Clooney. Like had stuff all over me. And it was like, this is kind of miserable.

I wonder if I could do this a better way. And so then I went to the shop and spent like 30 minutes trying to find better sandpaper. And I'm like, you could be done by now if you just sucked it up. Yeah. Oh, I just, I'm in my own head sometimes with that stuff. I did that too.

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Yeah. I haven't gotten like that much, but like a couple people have like given some advice, but yeah, current, I don't have much to report. I just current state is like, I had a bit of a lull and like the consistent everyday like at home stuff over the weekend, but then now I'm like back and like way harder. And now I'm like a gym membership. Hey, like was that? No. Okay. I'm I think Jesse's going to get one too. Cause like I need like somebody somebody there with me. Yeah. And so how far away is the plan of fitness? 18 minutes. Ooh, PF.

All right, that's not too bad. Mine's like 16 minutes away. How far is Lenexa? 12, 15. Dang, that's nice. I haven't emailed back. Go on in there, man. Talk to Shay.

Okay. She's great. I will. What's he in charge of? She, Jake, please. Women can be in charge of things at gyms too. Women can lift weights too. Jake. Okay. Women can get shredded too. Okay. She's one of the managers. I'm still gonna have a tough time. Hey, nice to meet you, sir. She got a ponytail. Shay like is it short for Shason?

That's great time. Yeah, but I'm I'm starting to like really track Just like my calories and stuff on like the fitness pal app and just like your fitness, my fitness. Okay. Yeah. But our together collectively is our fitness pal. But yeah, pretty simple, but just like trying to get protein calories and workout. You said you're, you're a breakfast boy all of a sudden. Yeah, I'm realizing it's easy to get a good breakfast.

I would always just like leave wherever I need to go and then just be like, I didn't get breakfast. I'll just like pick up some little thing like quick trip or something. But it's like I can just make three fried eggs, put them on some buttered toast. Yeah. And it's delicious. And then drink some milk. And then it's like 800 calories and like protein. Like, it's great.'s great start. Yeah. I know Jake, you got it. Not you got it, but eggs are so good. I got to figure out eggs. Eggs are awesome. I got to learn to love them. I got to come around on them. Yeah. Yeah. Eggs are good. That's sweet, dude.

Yeah. Good for you. Um, okay. I have something to talk about, uh, that you've already seen the spoiler alert from a dig. It's spoiled a little bit, but just all time. One of my, one of my highlights from five years of living probably the last five years. Um, so my dad and I, my dad has season tickets to Kansas basketball, uh, have not been to a game. I have not been to a game all year with him. Just, yeah, trying to find the right times or whatever. Um, it's just a little bit of a commitment to go to these games for me and my family and everything. So I was really excited. KU was playing Houston. Houston's number one, the big 12 conference, all these different things. My dad and I go and as we're leaving, I get

a text from ghosty Olivia is her name. Olivia. I don't know if I've mentioned her on the podcast before, but she, she works for KU. She's KU athletic trainer for the cheer team, and the dance team, and the softball team. Yeah, we love Olivia. She's wonderful. She's awesome. She came to Branson.

She's come plenty of times, different things. She's awesome. So she texts randomly. She truly hasn't texted her all season. She's like, any chance you're going to be at the KU game tonight? I was like, I am coming to the KU game tonight. Yes. She's like, well, would you want a parking pass and an upgraded ticket?

And I was like, uh, what do you think? Yes, of course. And in my head, I'm like, how does she know it's an upgraded ticket? This must be a really good seat, you know, whatever automatically better in whatever you're paying for it. Really? Okay, cool. Um, and she kind of said something like, so, so then we're like, dude, we're getting these new, like, of course, my dad and I, my dad, if you think I love like upgrades and free things and stuff, I get it from my dad. Like that's who I, like my dad is like known for just like, Hey, if you ever need somebody to invite, I'd love to come with, you know, like all these different things. So my dad's pumped. We're like, okay, who can we gift these, our tickets to whatever. We're trying to find people. And then Olivia's like, actually, you're still gonna need your tickets to get in.

So we're like, oh, sorry, nevermind Dan. Like we can't give them to you anyway. And so we get in there and she's like, I'm just gonna meet you and then I'll take you. I'll escort you to the seats. And I was like, okay, cool. So we meet on the court, like literally on the court. And she's like, yeah, our seats are this way.

So she starts walking and we start walking through this. You just walk right onto the court. It's the first thing you do when you get there is walk on the court. And she's like, yeah, our seats are this way. So she starts walking and we start walking through this. You just walk right onto the court. It's the first thing you do when you get there is walk on the court to meet Olivia. Oh, well, yeah. If you know my dad, not the first thing, because my dad loves to get there. Oh, you take a lap.

Oh yeah. We get there an hour early, you know? And he's, the game's at 5.30 and my dad's like, I think we could go to, you know, dinner, I guess, before. I don't know what this meal was. Like, he's always like, ah, do you think three o'clock's early enough? Like dad, like three o'clock is fine. Like it's like, you think we should do two 30? I was like, no, three, we have plenty

of time anyway. So yeah, we get there. We're walking around, you know, admiring all the trophies always take a picture next to the national champ every single time. National championship trophy stand next to it's terrible lighting. It's never a good picture, but every single time. So then we meet Olivia, you know, say hi to her. And then we start walking security guards like, whoa. And she's like, don't worry there with me. And I was like, Oh, that feels cool. Yeah. Always a fun time. So we're like right there on the court guys are warming up. And then she starts walking us, you know, through the student section. We're like, Whoa, okay, cool. And then all of a sudden she's like, okay, here we are.

And literally we are in the student section. We could not, we are, we are literally like KU has two, like on both behind both baskets, they have student sections. We are, we are behind one of the baskets. Here's this, like the main like student section up and down right here. And then there's a little arm to it over here. We are at the diagonal part of the arm, like five rows up from the court.

It's pretty low. Literally right behind us are students. The row behind us is students. And then she has two rows here for the spirit squad. Is like her. And so she's like, yeah, a lot of the coaches, cheer know, cheer coaches, dance coach, whatever weren't able to come to this game. And so we had to, you know, we were like looking for people to fill the seats. We figured you guys want to sit here. And at first my dad and I were like, this is kind of, this is

kind of wild. Like it's kind of weird. Like we're like in the student center. And then of course, by the end of it, it's like, this is awesome. This is wild. We are right here in the middle of everything. It's amazing how much more you can see of the game. Like just being a little bit closer. Like you never think you have a bad seat, but then you're like, wow, I've never seen the way he like interacts or like,

look at him, he's laughing, you know, joking around about this. So anyway, it's a great game. Like truly like just a electric game. Oh, and beforehand, earlier that day, I met a ghostie at McLean's, Ian, Ian and Emily. They're just in town, literally from North Carolina to go to the KU basketball game.

He's like, I'm a huge college basketball fan. Yeah, they weren't playing in North Carolina team there. No, he's just like, I just, Allen Fieldhouse is like one of the best sports venues I've ever been. I wanted to go. What are the odds? And so in my head the whole time, I'm like, this is just, Alan Fieldhouse is like one of the best sports venues I've never been. I wanted to go. What are the odds? And so in my head the whole time, I'm like, this is a great game.

Ian is loving it. Like I'm so proud of like this place for Ian to see like it rocking like this. It's like truly an amazing game. We go into double overtime, lose the game, like a wild game. I heard it was like some stat that was like, it was the least likely, um, victory for like a team in the last 15 years of college basketball or something like that. Um, doesn't matter because he got his money's worth. Ian got his money's worth. It was absolutely crazy bonkers game. Um, but the highlight of the night and the thing that you've seen is, so

every single basketball game that's televised has what's called a TV timeout after every four minutes of the game. And so traditionally the very last four minute timeout KU always does this one song called the hum, which is like it's from like Wolf of Wall Street like, Scott's constantly doing on the pickleball court. Dude, it is it is like Scott's, yeah, like dream song. I mean, it's a wonderful, awesome song. And my dad loves the hum, loves it. Every single time, he's like always clapping along with it, getting into it.

And every time they do the hum, they also bring out these massive like tarp flags and like throw them over the entire student section on both sides. So one of them has a big KU, one have is a big Jayhawk, whatever. And so we're in the student section essentially. And here comes the flag. And I was like, dad, here's your song. Here's your song. And I'm like, dad, you should go over there and get under the flag and get into it with the student section. And so he like looks a couple of times, you know, back and forth out of like frantic,

like looking at it. And then he's just like, take my phone and film me. And I was like, all right. And so I'm filming up and there's my dad just like holding the flag. And then like, I mean, yeah, the beat drops on it. Oh man, just going absolutely nuts to this thing. Oh man, just going absolutely nuts to this thing. I'm like, while he's like getting into position on the flag, I am like so excited as his son, like filming him do this. And these students section people, like the students behind me,

I'm such a frigging like boomer energy. Like I'm like filming my dad, like so excited. And they're like, it's not recording. It's not recording. Press record. Oh, that's so embarrassing. Yes. A hundred percent. I'm like, yeah, I'm only 34. I know. I'm sorry. Uh, and so I got most of the video. Like it was an absolutely epic video, send it to all my family. Um, and I was just like, that was so awesome. Like my dad just jumping up and down, like looking at me every once in a while smiling. Like just what a highlight.

Anyway, KU ends up losing this game in a heartbreaking fashion. And so what do you do when your team loses is you go to Twitter and you commiserate like later on that night. Blame the refs. Yeah, 100%. No, it was definitely not the ref's fault. It was just like, what a bummer. I'm on Twitter.

And I'm never on Twitter and I'm never on Twitter anymore. Like whatever, but there's like, I even went to like my following page because there's like a following and a foot. You went to my following page, specifically see all these KU guys I follow and I'm just scrolling through dude. And some, one guy that I follow had reposted this tweet and it was like, look at this man who decided to, who decided to like, get himself in on the tradition of the flag chant or whatever it was. And I click on it and there it is from far away,

my dad, da da da da da da da da da. That was like, no way. Like that's not my video. It's like some random like fans video, seeing my dad get in there. I gotta pull this out and film this thing. And then, I mean, so it's just like, no way. Like that's not my video. It's like some random like fans video, seeing my dad get in there. I got to pull this out and film this thing. And then, I mean, so it's just like, I can't believe this. You know, it's got 40,000 views now, which is like kind of like the Steve

Coop thing where it's just like, I can't believe that many people have seen the video. Send that to my dad. And then I look at the comments. This is just one more little thing for you and I, this fun, but I got like five responses. One of them is Lee Ann Cleaver saying, I love this so much. Lee Ann Cleaver is like a mom of a K life family. Did she know it was you and you had no idea. Just a KU fan seeing this thing. I'm like, what love this. And I'm like, no way. So I text Logan Cleaver, like dude, your mom, this is my dad and your mom. Just an absolutely like one of my favorite sports memories, even though we lost the game, I was like, that was so awesome. Like that is my dad to a T like I get a lot of my, my humor is definitely from my mom. My quick wittedness, like she is so

funny. I get so much of my personality from my mom, but like as far as like being very comfortable and in front of people and like wanting to like be the spotlight, 100% my dad. Like my mom would never want to do that. My dad's like, yeah, I'll do that. Let's do it. You know, whatever. Oh man, it was awesome.

Oh, he looked old up there. He looked like an old man, but at the same time, there was some separation in the feet and the ground jumping up and down. So that was great. He was under there being like, I'm an entrepreneurial student. I go here, dude. It was awesome. It was so much fun. He also took like, picked like a selfie with the mascot as he's walking through like, Hey, take a picture with me. You know, he just had the time of his life in the student section, dude. It was, it was absolutely so much fun. It was wild.

So I think, yeah, Olivia posted this as a Twitter link on our Facebook page, but time, we'll have to throw it in our, our, uh, edit too, because it's just, it's unbelievable. I mean, but yeah, somebody, I saw somebody comment like, this is my new favorite video. Like I've seen the video of Jake exploding in the fire pit. This trumps that one. Like as far as my new favorite video goes,

somebody's like, I watched this video 12 times straight. You know? So I think Scott, I showed it to him. He's like, dude, I've watched that three times in a row. You know? I remember when we were all watching the Chiefs game, you would like, you had made some comment, like something crazy happened at the KU game.

I told Scott, I'm not telling you, Jake, because I'm gonna say it on the podcast. And when I opened that link on the Facebook page, I was like, this is probably it. So I closed it out pretty quickly. So I really haven't like really seen it and appreciated it. So now I could just go watch it 15 times. Oh my gosh.

I mean, it really is. And he like sticks out like a sore thumb, obviously, because like he's, he got this big old man amongst all these students just right there on the edge of the flag, just having the time of his life, dude. I got to send that to my dad and coach John. I feel like they will both love it. So anyway, shout out to my dad. I mean, just what a win. What a fun time with him. So anyway, but then, yeah, we lost the game, dude. And like, I've only been to one other loss ever at Allen field house. And it was right before,

because we don't ever lose at home. It's crazy. It's kind of like the chiefs. And so it's like the other time I, they lost, they lost to Kentucky the day before the chiefs lost to the Bengals in the AFC championship. So I was like, oh no. there's a pattern. Yes, dude.

And then we saw like this, like dad and son that we never see in the parking lot. And I was like, the last time we saw you guys was a, was that Kentucky game? I, I was like, Oh my gosh. Now you have like three pieces of data lining up. Right. It's like, this is, this is too much. So she's broke the curse, man. But, uh, just a wild, so much fun just with my dad and just embracing the fact that this is crazy. We're this dude shout to Olivia. She's so much fun. And yeah, just hooking it up. So hooking it up. I was like, anytime. And then we got to go to that like athletic, like training facility afterwards,

which is really dope. Oh, wow Yeah showing us all around that and yeah I was like anytime you need more people to fill in for the spirit squad seats. Let us know we're in spirit squad seek Okay. Yeah, so anyway That's fun. Okay. I I prepared something this is a you know, I feel like I'm I'm normally the one like alright We're loose if we talk about football too much, we're losing people. Let's save it for the Patreon, you know, but just took it upon myself.

I feel like something needs to be said. And so- Clear the air a little bit. Clear the air a little bit. Nancy posted on her Facebook page right after the game, screenshot of a call she didn't agree with. This is a first down point blank. She said, hashtag Bills got cheated. A lot of people coming to her defense a lot of people arguing with her

Stacey comments There's no there's literally no reasoning with Chiefs fans. They believe the Chiefs can do no wrong and earned everything Okay, bud. Sure. Oh She butted she butted us as Chiefs fans. She butted Taylor said Yep, refs showing up once again for the Chiefs. All, so many people, not just within Ghostrunners, so many people in the world. All my friends that are not Chiefs fans are, yep.

Yeah, a lot of people seem like they wholeheartedly believe the NFL and the referees together have conspired to help the Chiefs win so I took a little bit time out my week and This is as best I could from a from a logical from an objective standpoint This is why I don't believe Yeah, this is why I don't believe the NFL is rigging games for the Chiefs. And you guys just hear me out. Let me know what you think. Just give me give me a single shot

on Jake here and just let him go on. That's my director right there. The NFL employees hundreds of referees, officials and league staff every year to pull off a conspiracy rigging games for a single team, you would need a significant number of these people to be in on the plot. I think it's implausible that no referee has ever come forward as a whistleblower or leaked evidence of this. Referees are human with diverse loyalties, ethics and motivations. Keeping them all silent is virtually impossible.

Conspiracy theories always unravel when too many people are involved. I could go into this more, but let's get into the good stuff. Point two, NFL owners are billionaires with immense influence, competitive egos. They're heavily invested in their teams, franchises are worth four, five, six, seven, eight billion dollars each. That's a billion with a B?

A billion with a B. Wow. For a conspiracy to favor the chiefs, it would mean the other 31 owners are complicit. Why would Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, other high profile owners agree to an arrangement that disadvantages their own multi-billion dollar investments? Then again, Brad, are billionaires known

for being kind of like very generous and just wanting to help for the greater good? For no other reason besides just helping, yeah. These owners sit on committees, this is what people don't really know. These owners sit on committees that oversee NFL rules and officiating. They have a direct say in league operations.

And if favoritism existed, it would have been exposed and dismantled. If the chiefs were in any way unfairly benefiting, owners could put pressure on Commissioner Roger Goodell, whose job depends on keeping owners happy, and they could vote to investigate officiating practices. None of those things have taken place. And the fact that none of that has taken place, I think speaks volumes about the league's integrity. Now we're getting to the good stuff. The NFL thrives on parody. Most people would

agree on that. It is designed to be fair. Parody like the onion Babylon B? Yeah, with a D. Parody with a T. Oh, parity. Parity. The league's entire structure promotes parody. Let's take a look at the draft.

Teams with worse records gets higher draft picks to balance talent across the league. The salary cap, it limits team spending, ensuring no team can outspend others to build a super team. There's even revenue sharing in the NFL. Teams pull most revenue from TV deals, merchandise, etc. So smaller market teams can remain competitive. The unpredictability is what NFL fans love. One of the most common like monikers in the NFL is what? Any given Sunday, any given Sunday. We see it all the time. You look back to week one this year, the Patriots beat the Bengals.

When you think back to that, like how that happened. They're upset all the time. The Patriots are America's team. They get all the calls. Yeah. If the league were rigged for the Chiefs, fans of struggling teams, Jets, Browns, fill in the blank, would see no hope, disengage, stop watching games.

This is the part of it like historical dynasties don't require rigging. Other dynasties have come and gone. You look at a stealer seventies, Cowboys, nineties, Patriots, two thousands. None of their, none with no conspiracy theories holding water. And the chief's current success fits a historical pattern of strong teams dominating through amazing coaching, elite players, and a great front office. Every dynasty has those things. Chiefs are no different. No.

Rigging the league for one team would undermine the very system that has made the NFL the most popular sport in America. Fans of teams that feel cheated would stop watching, which would hurt ratings and profits. That's the opposite of what the league wants. About 60% of the way through. About two thirds of the way through. And just more on that topic. The NFL's reputation is its greatest asset. Its success is built on its credibility. If fans believed the league was rigged, they would lose faith in the game's outcomes. Lower viewership. Scandals are already high risk. We've seen this before. Scandals like already high risk. We've seen this before.

Scandals like with the Patriots, Deflategate, Spygate, they caused massive controversies, required extensive damage control. Imagine the fallout if an actual rigging conspiracy for the Chiefs were exposed. It would destroy the trust of the NFL overnight. The Chiefs are already an attractive franchise because their natural talent, exciting style of play, fill in the blank.

Rigging the league for them would bring minimal additional benefit compared to the catastrophic consequences of getting caught. And in just in today's age, like instant replays, social media, constant scrutiny, any hint of bias is dissected by millions of fans. We're seeing it for the league to successfully rig games. They would need to fool an army of passionate, hyper attentive fans every single week. And I don't believe it's feasible. No. And here's something I haven't seen anyone say online. This is like really like my own hot take here. But I think the chief's success, I think the chief success actually hurts the NFL's reputation.

If the NFL were truly breakingging games for the Chiefs, they're doing a horrible job managing the public perception of it. Every Chiefs win is met with outrage, accusations and speculation about the refs. The entire media landscape is focused on officiating, not the game itself. Like when we're recording this, it's Super Bowl week.

And that's all anyone's talking about. The NFL does not want this. The last thing any league wants, it's for its biggest post-game discussion Super Bowl week. And that's all anyone's talking about. The NFL does not want this. The last thing any league wants, it's for its biggest post-game discussion or pre-Super Bowl discussion to be, if the sport is even fair. Look at what's happening now.

Every Chiefs win fuels the fire. Fans are actively disengaging, saying they don't trust what they're watching, threatening to boycott the Super Bowl. This is the opposite of what the NFL wants. Instead of celebrating its biggest stars and hyping up the product, the league is constantly fighting off credibility issues. If the Chiefs winning was good for the NFL wants. Instead of celebrating its biggest stars and hyping up the product, the league is constantly fighting off credibility issues.

If the Chiefs winning was good for the NFL, wouldn't they want it to make it a feel good story? If anything, the Chiefs, or sorry, if anything, the NFL should want the Chiefs to lose once in a while, just to restore faith in the competition. Instead, Mahomes and company keep winning because, get this. They're actually

good and the league suffers because people can't accept that. Do not confuse greatness with unfairness. Do not confuse greatness with unfairness. Elphine and after all that, if you still think the NFL is rigged for the chiefs, take out a second mortgage on your house and bet it on the chiefs. That's what I think. Yeah. It was like, no one truly believes it. That's what I, that's my, my, my thought is like, if you believe it, then yeah, put your money where your mouth is. That's the easiest money you can make. I had no problem with conspiracy theory people online saying it, but when it became a ghost

runners issue, I'm like, wait, these are normal, real people believing this. I have to say something. They're misguided. Do not confuse greatness with unfairness. And yeah, like I said, if you believe it's still rigged by all means, make some irresponsible decisions and bet on the chiefs. Yeah. Well, it's only rigged up to the Superbowl and then that's what they would say. Well, hey, after that, like they have to win themselves. You know, like the rest can only do so much. They can't like actually win games, but they can help the Chiefs out get closer.

Well, counterpoint, people would say this all started with the James Bradbury hold in the Eagles Super Bowl. Wow. Remember that controversial call, which in the post-game interview, he said, yes, I held him. Yes. It's crazy how controversial that is.

That was, yeah. When he admitted to it. That is, I'm so glad that he admitted to it yeah, like I think that would have been like a big deal if he didn't but That's great. Jake. Yeah You tell him baby. That's it. I just I welcome your feedback. Yeah, I'm not gonna not gonna Well, yeah, I welcome your feedback. I Just think it's like, I mean, it's easy to hate on the team that wins. That's I understand.

But I'm like, I don't, I just, I have, and whatever, maybe we're just like making people mad back and forth right now. But it's like, I can't, I can't truly believe in anybody's heart of hearts that they think it's actually rigged. I think it's fun to be like, Oh, that's not really, that doesn't seem like quite a fair call. Like that's fine. I understand that. But to be like, this thing is, there's a script for this that yeah, billion dollar industries. Like if there was a script, then the Cowboys will be winning more often. Like at all. York or LA there's two teams in LA, two teams in New York. Sure. Why aren't they more successful?

Yeah. All these, like very rich, like valuable franchises would be winning the games. Yeah. And Mahomes won a Super Bowl before it was rigged. And then since then they're like, why don't we start rigging for him now? Yeah. Well, it's big pharma. That's why Taylor and Travis are together.

Still. Cause everyone's talking about the shots now, right? Look at the snowball effect. Yeah. Yeah. So funny. Yeah. I start to believe that they believe it more recently.

You get fired up about it, yeah. Yeah. And I just, cause people want to argue specific calls. I'm like, we could argue that all day, whatever, referees make mistakes for both teams every game. I want to take a massive step I'm like, we could argue that all day, whatever. Referees make mistakes for both teams every game. I want to take a massive step back and like, let's just at, let's actually try and see is this feasible. And it's just not. Be like, you're saying that, yeah, all these billionaires just are totally okay

with losing all the time. And we're losing money. Like that's just so not a billionaire thing. Yeah. Lose a little bit every year. I mean, I, I have more than enough, right? I'm fine. You think I bought this team to profit off of it? No. I'm trying to stay, if anything, if I go down a little bit.

It's a tax write-off. That's the thing that's the hardest to get past is that the billionaire owners oversee all this. Yeah. You're essentially saying the other billionaires are rigging it for the chiefs. billionaires are rigging up for the Chiefs The competition is rigging up for the Chiefs. Sure doesn't make sense. It does not make sense. That's all we need to say I'm done. No, I love it. Good job, Jake

Thanks way to way to pop up timing my thoughts my go to law school Uh, I don't know. I liked it Good job, Jake Good Good job, Jake. I don't know. I just liked it. Good. Jake, I've only got about four hours, five hours sleep last night. No problem. You know why? Because I have cap. Oh, you know why? Some type of radioactivity.

Let's start. Okay, sorry. Jake, I'm sorry. You don't? Start from the top. I'm kind of getting mad at you, man. Please chill just a little bit. Jacob only got like five, six hours, seven hours, eight hours of sleep last night.

Do you know why? Why? Wait, I think you were supposed to say, but I still feel awake. And then I'll say why. Oh, okay. Now permission for you to be mad at me. Wait, I think you're supposed to say but I but I still feel awake and then I'll say why oh and then you okay now Permission for you to be mad at me Jake. I've only got Like two and a half three hours of sleep last night. Sounds better Jake. I've only gotten two out half

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Good. We almost had that at the same time. Time and do it where we like ended up back together. Use AI servers. Thanks. Thanks. I don't know how to follow that really. time and do it where we ended up back together. Use AI servers. Thanks. Thanks. I don't know how to follow that really.

You wanna get a, wait what's that segment we used to do? Don't get me started. You wanna have a, should I just give you a don't get me started just so you get to be fired up too? Yeah. All right. People think the NFL's rigged. Oh!

Yeah, I just turned my computer on when you say it. All right. Scrolling. Oh! I just turn my computer and you say it. All right. Scrolling. Oh gosh. And that's in any form of scrolling. The things you do with your fingertips these days. Scrolling should be last on the list. Okay.

Right? Typing, sure. Typing, you're getting somewhere. Typing, you're seeing yourself make progress. Scrolling, these days it's endless. It's endless, Jake. Let's talk horizontal progress, not vertical progress. That's what I'm saying.

Scrolling, you go down. Typing, and you also go down. Well, but horizontal first. After you go horizontal. Yeah. I don't wanna go down, typewriter made me. Every once in a while, I respond to an email and I don't go down. It just keeps typing out to the right.

Sometimes it does. Why in the world is that happening? Yeah. But you know what? I welcome it because then I don't have to scroll. Infinite horizontal. I'll scroll horizontal. I'll scroll horizontal all day because that's time.

Time is on a horizontal spectrum, right? I don't want to be on the spectrum scrolling down, right? I want to be on the spectrum scrolling right. I'm way over there on the spectrum. So yeah, right. Give me a break about this scrolling thing. I mean, I remember when the Zuckerbergs and the Musks and the Instagram guy and the, what's his name?

The MySpace Jack or whatever. MySpace Jack. Freaking Jack. Tom. Freaking Tom. Just Tom and Jack probably was like, Hey, we should scroll all the time. I'm like, I'm done scrolling.

Yeah. I remember when the mouse came out with the little thing in the middle and you could just scroll that thing. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Right. I don't want to do it. I don't want you to do it. I don't want not ever give me

If there's if there's a million results on Google I want 25 per page max and then I want to I want to click over. I don't want endless scrolls Dead Sea Scrolls pretty good. All right, Dead Sea Scrolls. I can get behind that's not scrolling. Those are scrolls Those are scrolls. Yeah, give me all the scrolls like a scroll. Yes scribes and scrolls not Not the Zucker books and the must on the frickin Tom's and the trolls rhyming Yeah, I was trying to okay. I couldn't think of anything. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. There's not that much to rhyme with that Yeah, right. Yeah, right. There's not that much to rhyme with that. Yeah, right Had he's been rhyming a lot lately

Having a blast with it and what and like how thinking it's the funniest joke in the world She was eat. She was having a little bit of protein shake the other day. Okay, she's like this shake is Something I like to take And then she thought of a few more like, this shake is not baked. And then I was like, all right, what about earthquake? This shake would be good in an earthquake. We should do an ad read.

Yeah. That style. Maybe so. And then like all of a sudden she got on a roll, like everything she saw, like trying to find rhymes for it So that's fun. I think it's fun to rhyme scroll and troll. She would have been shooting all over that one. So Anyway, don't get me started on scrolling Anyway, all right

reviews of Anyway, all right. Reviews of the week. Not just, I don't want to see your letterbox review. Actually you seen any movies lately? Yeah, I, you know, it's kind of a funny thing. I, so I watched, um, Trey's special on Hulu. And I was like, I was like, I love logging things on letterbox so much. I'm going to add this to letterbox. So I like just got some info and like put it on this other site that adds it on there. So it's on there. It's gotten like 30 other logs. Oh, but you started it. I like added it. It wouldn't have been on the site. It wasn't for me. Nice. You're going to become like a Wikipedia editor. You're gonna like fall in love with this Yeah, like I'm changing the internet, right? Yeah Many. Oh, sorry. How many stars did you get? That's confidential. Yeah, you follow me on there. Yeah. There you go. Good. Good. Good

Yeah, yeah, that's the cliffhanger. Yeah, and then one other you gonna put my special on letterbox I'm I I thought about I was like that's easy easy enough fun. I think it'd be fun. Are you going on hulu hulu hulu? David said no hulu or amazoffle hulal Amazoffle, what are you doing right now? Oh, I felt like Everything's LLL. That's who who LOL

what? hulu hul you I? I know, I know. I thought there was some campaign where it's like, we're doing all these standup comedians on Hulu. Who LOL? Maybe it is. LOL. So then I was trying to think of other ones.

I never saw that. Maybe they're trying to compete with Netflix as a joke. That's kind of their side brand. Amaz, that's what I was saying. Amaz-awful. O-F-L, like a raffle. Sounds like you're saying awful. I know, I got it. I got it, Tim. Hey, not like a raffle. Sounds like an awful. I know I got it. I got time. Hey,

not everything's hilarious. Okay. I try my hardest. All right. What else you going to, to, to, to, yeah, don't get me started. Prime prime, prime. What about HBO max? LOL. The most LOL. That's good. HBO Max. That's really funny. LMAO. That's really funny. All right. I'll get there. My review of the week. New ghostie five stars from Keaton farm D. I'm still a somewhat new listener that goes for his podcast. However, as someone who grew up in Springfield, Missouri, maybe Illinois, Massachusetts, we don't know, and moved to Kansas City about nine years ago, I really appreciate and relate to what these guys are doing. My wife and I had our first son about a year ago. Congratulations. We became a homeowner not long before that. Congratulations on the humidifier. And so I enjoy hearing how, how they have tackled

similar situations and especially how intentional of a dad Brad is. I'm encouraged by their boldness and their faith and how that impacts their day to day in the relationships They have formed through that go sir His podcast has made working out and my commute that much more enjoyable And I'm excited for my son to get a bit older so that he can appreciate it as well. That's fun to think about That is fun Thank you For the review Keaton his name keep Keaton Farmedy. Keaton Farmedy. Mine's

short and sweet, but it's helpful. From Casey Olson, 10. You got to get with the mind pup guys. They will set you on a great path to get strong and shredded. Look them up if you like this podcast. So someone put this in the Facebook page as well. Yeah. Someone made some like AI, you know, language model that pulls from fitness podcast It's a you can ask it like fitness based questions and it'll get give you answers Based on what these guys you know, basically listen to a million podcasts for you. That's pretty fun So yeah, shut up mind pump mind pump. I said pop at first mine pump Okay, mind pump. Oh, yeah. My heart goes out to them.

I really, really appreciate them. Mind pump. That's what, yeah, Elon, Elon loves mind pump. Yeah. That's great. Okay, great. Would you guys like to end this episode with a jingle? Great job last week, by the way.

I think it was. Anna, Anna. Yeah, I think it was, uh, yeah. Someone, uh, who was it asked if someone could clip that up and put it on Spotify. I'm with you. Someone needs to do that. Not me, but someone do it. Put on Spotify goes to his tight beats, put the Anna song on there. Yes. Uh, I'm going to send this one to you, Timon. You can, you can sing along with me if you want. No, Noah, Noah Sweep sent us one. Let's see if he said anything that I need to tell you about.

Oh, yeah, he said some nice things. While I forward this to you, Timon, I'll read it to you. Cool. Timon, I'm not going to say your email on here, just in case. You never know. All right, Timon, I just sent it to you. He said, I want to thank you guys again for bringing so much joy

Into my and the other ghosties lives It's rare to find something so enjoyable listen to that you also don't have to feel guilty about listening to I Even got my mom to be a fan heck. Yeah, baby Oh, you helped make my drive to work and clean the house so much more enjoyable God bless you guys and your families. Hope to see you soon Noah shwapey shwapey shwapey Wait, that's an actor. Is that the guy from Stranger Things? No, that's oh, snap. I knew it was like a what if Noah snap. He doesn't say anything. He just just puts his full name in there and is like, we'll see if you know me. Which one

of them? What character is he on? Stranger Things? I don't know. That guy. Oh, well, yeah, well, a couple of stranger things addicts on her couple strange heads I watch Like I just watched two seasons of it. I think one time don't know I recall When I was like just season one out I was like with my sister She was watching like a scariest moments compilation freaked me out. Yeah, I was like I was like eight or nine probably Kind of scarred me. Timon's so young dude. That's crazy. That's what I don't really fast. I'll say that. Yeah. It feels like stranger things came out very recently to be like not truly. Like if I had to consciously be

like, it was like a, my Crenshaw years to 2016, 2017, I think was when Hattie was born. Yeah. Right. Okay. So I couldn't have been quite that young, but like, yeah, I was young though. Yeah. Now you got a low voice. I was, I was young, you know? I was young. I was a little kid. I didn't eat eggs for breakfast.

All right, time. Let's do this thing. You know this song? I know the chorus at least, so I can try to join in. All right, here we go. I can't wait to hear what you guys come up with. Would you like me to afford it to you? No.

Jake thought ticks were only true for the good old days. Jake thought ticks were only true for the good old days. Jake thought ticks were only true for the good old days. Jake thought ticks were only true for the good old days. Jake thought ticks were only true for the good old days. Jake thought ticks were only true for the good old days. Jake thought ticks were only true for the good old days. Jake thought ticks were to afford it to you? No. Jake thought ticks were only true for animals. Good start. Meant for other dogs but not for him. The tick was out to get him.

That's the way it seemed. And do do do, and now Jake is allergic to red meat. So Jake saw Dr. On, now On's a believer, there's'm a believer Jake's a meat eater if he tried Jake thought acupuncture could cure his alpha gal Got needles in his ear, let's test for that too The non-push Jake's arm down down. Do-do-do-do. Oh, you're very strong. Do-do-do-do.

Hold on, this says COVID. This seems wrong. So Jake's our doctor. Ah! Now Ahan's a believer. There's not a trace of doubt in his mind. Jake is cured. Oh, one's a believer. Jake's a meat eater if you try. Timing. Do the camera on you and dance, man. Don't go crazy.

Now, dude, I'm taking dance. Oh, my gosh. Tell me. What's the use in trying? It really isn't fun. When Jake wanted steak, he got no runs! So Jake saw Dr. Anne, and now on's a believer. There's not a trace Of doubt in his mind Jake is cured, ooh

Hans a believer Jake's a meat eater If he tries Octave up! Scooch, Jake's a doctor, ayy! Now Hans a believer There's not a trace Who's Jake's a doctor? Ayy! No, I'm the believer! It's not a trace! Down in his mind!

Is Jake a meat eater? No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Jake's not a meat eater! He solved the case! Brad was a believer sorry not a trace a doubt in his mind yeah

nailed it at the end there finished strong that was a great one. That was fun! Well performed, well written. Come on, bring us another one, maybe. Yeah, keep them coming. I will say, this is, I mean, whatever.

It's one of those like generational things. Who do you think sings that? Well, maybe Jake, you might. When you think of that song, what do you think of? Smash Mouth. Yes, which is like a, it's a cover of an old song by the monkeys back in the day. Oh, well how about that? Hey, hey, we're the monkeys.

People say monkey around. People are going to know our song from Smash Mouth. So anyway, cause he sent, what did he say? Oh, like in his thing, it said jingle to I'm a believer by Smash Mouth. I was like, okay. But it's thing, it said, jingle to I'm a believer by Smash Mouth. I was like, eh, okay. But it's a fun version of it. So shout out Noah. Shout out to all the ghosties.

Thank you guys for always listening. Always, always listening. I had the thought the other day, someone should write a jingle to dare you to move my switch foot. Oh, good song. Yeah. Is that one of those songs too?

I remember like listening that on headphones back today and it was left side, right side. That's a different, no, that's meant to live. That's meant to live. I think I thought maybe dare you to move to like welcome to the fall out. Yeah, maybe that was a little oh, they're gonna move that was like all left all right mental. Okay, yep Man that was like one of the first like electric guitar songs. I learned yeah Two two two four with a bin two two two four with a bin Yeah, whatever. It was something like that Good times. Good times, guys. Times. We'll see you Wednesday. I'm going to talk more about.

Oh, I got my decks of scan results. I forgot to. Oh, I'm excited. I'll tell you where I'm at there. Great. And we're going to do a fun schmores. Oh, yeah, we are. Simon, you ready?

Yeah. All right. We love you guys. See you Wednesday. Ghost from the spot. And we're gonna do a fun schmores. Oh yeah, we are. Timon, you ready? Yeah. All right. All right, we love you guys. See you Wednesday.

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