Ghostrunners - 409 - Backyard Wedding DJ

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

We always promised ourselves that once we got to episode 409, we would compare how we feel about certain men in pop culture so stick around for that. We also play some trivia and hear from Ghosties about their worst Valentine's Day stories! Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU 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

Monday's episode, we talked to, hello ghosties. Brad and Tymon. I'm not a ghostie. We are the Ghost Runners. We are the Ghost Runners. Hello, Jake. Oh yeah, we were talking about 409, the cleaning. We'll get to that later.

But on Monday's episode, we talked about just like vocab words and terms that you can barely remember. I thought I'd start this episode off by quizzing you guys. This is a website. It says important geography terms for high school students Not geography. Sorry. Did you finish geography? Geography, I just I feel like there's a weak spot in my education in general Perfect. So this will be great weak spot

Okay, what are your strong spots? Um, I don't know writing in like English. Yeah, I a writing quiz on a podcast. Yeah, that's gonna do numbers Yeah, let's check out your penmanship next. Oh, yeah, right in cursor for me on this podcast. Like what? this guy First time podcasting. What's a writing quiz? All right, let's hear some geography. What was it? Geography terms important Important for geography terms for high school students. If you don't know these. Is this an actual website or is this GPT? This is ginconnection.com. Okay, that is so much more like.

We like that. Credible than chat GPT. Your first word. No, you know what? I'm gonna give you the definition. I like that better. Because this one's tough. Okay.

An underground reservoir of water which could be extracted for surface use Can I say spring you can say spring may I say spring you may say spring? Well, I think it's strong spots politeness may I You like may I cuz I know you can't I don't know can you I don't know can you? Shane if he says it's hard, it's not gonna be geyser, but it feels like geyser. Like that's- You think we extract water out of the geyser?

Reservoir. No, reservoir is in the definition. Crap. An underground reservoir of water which can be extracted for surface use. For surface use. For surfaces. We don't use geysers.

It sounds like what I know a spring is. I don't know much else of a guess. Spring sounds pretty good. I'll say autumn. Close. Aquifer. Oh, dude. Had some similar letters there. Heard of it. That's good. I think an aquifer probably is a spring of sorts. Maybe close. All right. This song will you the word. You give me the definition. Archipelago. Oh, no, no, the word, but not all right.

Time. It was the word. Add onto that archipelago archipelago. Dang it. Is it? It's like, oh, I know this kind of not well enough to spout it off archipelago. Did we talk about this recently? It's the tip of a mountain. Tip of a mountain.

Highest point. You didn't ask. Didn't ask permission. I thought it was like an island or something like that. Is that what it says? An island or something like that? Is an Australian archipelago? No. Not even close? Island is close.

Is it? Yeah. I'll give you some examples. Island like Hawaii or the Galapagos Islands. It's like a multitude, multiple islands. Yes. Okay. Yes. A chain. Jane. Maybe it is Australia. Prison penal colony. A chain or set of islands grouped together. That's funny. Yeah, okay. All right. That's how archipelago does sound like it's something that you like summit in Mount Everest. I summited the archipelago.

Yeah. I agree with the way it sounds, Timon. Thanks. I saw a podcast yesterday. This girl said that most people who die trying to climb Mount Everest die like waiting in line. Wow. Really sad because they oversell it. So you have to like you get to base camp and then you wait your turn to summit it. And that's when people die from like freezing.

I don't know how. Yeah, I know how, you know, starvation, dehydration, whatever. Like, you know, yeah, no, no, no, they didn't bring their star links. So we can't get on the socials. Oh, interesting. Yeah, kind of sad. OK, I'm going to give you the definition this links. So we can't get on the socials. Oh, interesting. Yeah, kind of sad. Okay, I'm gonna give you the definition this time. We're going to get one right.

Okay. The current theory that the continents of the earth move across the earth on giant tectonic plates. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. I was gonna say that no matter what you said. Current theory, tectonic plates. Oh Just no not a sliver. Oh really splinter of an idea. Oh, you know a splinter in there

Tectonic plates This is one of those things. I think I would I've definitely heard of whatever this one words No, it's a theory theories are always two words. It's a good point. Yeah. Yeah, this is a soft spot Yeah, yeah Edgar Allen weird over here. I've heard the theory of Evolution. No, it's evolution Right, right good two words Edgar Allen letterboxed over here Edgar Allen Poe No, that's his real name

They grow up home schooled No, that's his real name they grow up home schooled Ground Pound Boned I Think the answer is I don't know. I can't think of it. I can't think of continental drift. Oh I can't think of it. I can't think of. Continental Drift. Oh.

It's a time, it don't give me that old. Ice Age movie. Ice Age, it all comes back to Ice Age. All right, let's try to think they, we're working our way down. We're getting easier and easier. All right, first one to get it wins and then we'll go to the theme music.

Give me the word that has this definition. Can we interrupt you halfway through if we know? At any point, you may buzz in. Okay, buzz in however you see fit. Lime stunk, sorry. Wait, that was his guess. I guess I did it. That was his guess, I had already started.

How'd you start? Zero degrees latitude, divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres. Equators. Yes, equator, you didn't buzz in, but good job. I was so tempted as a joke to just throw two birds right your way. Yeah.

Home school. Yeah. attempted as a joke to just throw two birds right your way. Homeschool! Yeah! Uh oh, ooh I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet cause it it's the Ghost from the SpotCast. Every Monday morning, we're taking Grandmas from the SpotCast. Go for a podcast? Oh my, that would have been rude. That was great though.

And that's good practice for our trivia podcast. That'll be great, yeah. I'm not that serious about it, but it does seem like it'd be easy. And we could batch. We already have the equipment we could batch. That's what I love. The idea of batching. Yeah. It's timeless. It's evergreen. It's evergreen. Yeah. Unless we do, should we do current event trivia? So it's like way harder. That current event trivia. All right. Who could buzz it first? This male pop artist did a front flip off of a piano at the Grammys. male pop artist did a front flip off of a piano at the Grammys. Benson Boone didn't even know it. Hadn't heard of it.

The beautiful Zimmy Dumb Dumb, say what? That was the song. Was it? Yeah, yeah. Did he do it right when he... That part? Yeah. Like the clav... Whatever you call it, the climax of that. Yeah, he did. Yeah.

Right when he starts screaming is like when he landed. You could tell he must do this at every concert. It was a dialed in front flip. That's sweet. It was sweet. My brother-in-law and niece went to his concert in St. Louis because they won tickets. Oh cool.

On the radio. And it looked like an awesome, like, I think I like him. I don't listen to him very often, but he seems like he can really sing, right? Cause he was on American Idol. So I think, you know, if that's your come-up and it's like, oh you clearly have talent. So yeah, no that Yeah, definitely a singer really good singer. Yeah One of the only males that I feel like is really trending upwards. He it feels somehow like

Planted to me a little bit like it was like little bit like it was like okay okay too easy for like beautiful things to be like the song like I don't know a hundred percent those things are planned you think the industry is like we don't have any men in pop right now maybe how about I'll Benson be also his back I didn't know find out I could sing to like a year ago then I then I'm on American Idol. Yeah, it works out as the Carrie Underwood way I mean I used to sing in my church people acted. I don't know anything else. Yeah, Carrie Edwards the best I don't know. I mean, don't you think that's a little bit planted? I think they are. No. Yeah, I think Yeah seems a little planted but not that's a bad thing

I don't know like I think if you're a big enough record company, I don't know, or whatever those people that play music, you can be like, we're going to choose them to play their songs all the time now. Yeah. We're going to. Or yeah, if you have some upcoming talent, you probably signed with an agency, CAA, WME,

these big companies, and they look at their talent pool. Like, wow, we have no male pop artist in our talent pool right now. Sure. We will do whatever it takes to make sure the best pop songs written go to Benson for this next two years. And like, can't you pay off the songwriter. Surely you know the people,

like Spotify and Apple Music are the two main platforms. Surely you can be like, hey, Spotify, we want you to put these songs on this kind of playlist. And then all of a sudden they're getting played all the time, right? Like, yeah. I think they're also catchy songs. I don't think it's purely just the industry

or the algorithm putting them there. It's like, people want to listen to these songs. Yeah, boy comes first though, chicken or the egg kind of thing. Yeah, it's like they wouldn't have found out about them if like the label, the agency didn't like, hey, a little backdoor action, get us on, you know, fresh music Friday or new releases,

discovery weekly, those things. There's gotta be like strings to pull with that kind of stuff. There has to be. I mean, if you're Spotify, you would be dumb not to take some illegal money. You go to like feel good hits or feel good music. You don't find some random person

you never heard of on there. It's the weekend with a new song. Is this feel good hits? I don't know. What's this about? I don't feel that good about this. Yeah, I can't feel my face. Oh, it's just like, it numbs you up to, yeah, feeling.

So therefore you don't feel too good about it. Anyway, that's my thought on you have a pop culture trivia question for us. I know you've been paying attention to a bunch of stuff like pop culture trivia question. Let's think of things I know in pop culture right now. Oh, I do have something trivia. It's a little bit. It's a little bit whatever you's a little bit, whatever. Um, you ever heard of Amelia Perez? Yeah. You letterbox. I was gonna say we don't

have to get too far into it because a it's whatever. Uh, but man, if we honestly correct opinions should do a segment where you guys watch and react to this. Have you watched this clip of the song? Yeah, it's the one that went, it's like big viral. It's just wild. So how do I win? It's a trivia question. Newly appraised.

Who, who is, uh, no, what, what does she say? What actress actress tweeted racist? No, I don't know about all that. What's that? The lead actress or actor. I don't know. Oh, dropped out of the Oscars now or like, oh, the Netflix dropped her because she had like bad tweets in her like past or something like that. Really? Yeah. So I didn't know any of this. So it's it's Amelia Presley is the name of a movie.

Oh, oh, oh. And from what I understand, it is like this drug lord from Mexico who decides they, he wants to turn into a woman. Okay. Tariffs. And I think this lawyer helps him do it. And then they like kind of reunite later. But then guess what, Jake? How do you know all this?

It's a musical. Oh, singing in Espanol. Get this. There's no good song. Dude, the song. I yeah. So Catherine was like, have you have you heard about like because it was nominated for an Oscar this I think it's not ended for 13 Oscars. Okay. I think it's like the third most in history Maybe I don't know if that's true. This man now woman is was nominated for best actress I believe or something like wait the actor or the actor. Yes wanted to change not just the character I Yeah, I think it's both actor had chicken or what's came first chicken. Yeah, I don't know I thought you were originally telling me that the character in the story

I think I think that is what the story is. Oh, and then the actor was like I kind of liked it No, I'll take a little bite for myself. I think the actor was like, I kind of liked it. No, no, I'll take a little bite for myself. I think the actor was already that way. Yeah. All right. So anyway, there's this whole like, I watched like one minute of this clip where this girl who's like the lawyer wants to go and get all this information about having this change done for this guy.

And it's like, it's a song, but it's not even really a song. It's just in like singing. It's just words poorly written and weird. So bad. It's unbelievable how bad it is. And yet it got nominated for an Oscar. So you guys watch little rundown of how it sounds. It, well, that's the thing. It's like, it says all these words that I don't, I mean, it's just scientific things, but it's like, do you want, you know, to remove the Adam's apple? Yes. Remove the this, rhinoplasty, yes. And like- That's a great song.

It really is so bad. And it got nominated over Wicked, I think. Or something like- Just more nominated for sure. Like, most people don't sing those type of words in like a show tunes way. I bet it would sound fun to hear- It was wild.

Vast deference. Fun as it's saying beautifully. Yes. It was wild. Vast deference saying beautiful. Yes. Yes. And they're kind of, they're supposed to be in Mexico, I think. And so it's like, see it's always all Zaldana. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. The, you know, she is avatar, the terminal drum line. Nice girl. Yeah. Um, yeah. What else? Yeah. Whatever. Anyway. Um, and, but she's supposed to be Mexican. She's supposed to, or is it Columbia or somewhere like that? So she has an accent while she's trying to sing the song. It's just, it's so in my, in my thing, non-artistic view, it's so bad. Yeah. So the question is,

do you think it's bad too? And you said from a non-artistic view, you think it's bad. I don't know. I've never been tested. So I don think it's bad. I don't know. I've never been tested. So I don't know about that. I don't know either. Anyway, that's the one thing I've, I think it's going back to letterbox. It's the lowest rated best picture nominee of all time. Oh really?

It's only a Netflix movie, I believe. Right? Like that. It was never in theaters or anything. Yeah, maybe so. Anyway, it's super. Like I watched that clip and then I watched, I just looked it up on YouTube and then there was like a Ben Shapiro did like a, he's like really into movies. And so he did like a movie review

on it and it's his take is pretty funny on it. It's funny because my whole YouTube feed is a movie related stuff. And so that's the only thing. Sometimes I get Ben Shapiro just because he's talking about movies and I watch him. Yeah, he's kind of funny. So he's like, it was the worst movie of all time. Like he said. Huh. Anyway. So anyway, that's that's the one thing of pop culture I know is pop culture trivia. Oscar stuff, I guess. But anyway.

If I can skip ahead a bit to comment of the week, I just wanted to bring this up because I think it's great. You don't have to comment of the week. I just wanted to bring this up because I think it's great. You don't have to do comment right now, but Megan commented last week and said, thank you for being the ultimate comfort podcast. I'm having surgery tomorrow but the pod is the greatest reaction.

And then like Max replies, like thank you for putting a name to it for me. They're absolutely the best comfort podcast. And when comments blow, they're praying for her surgery. So it's just a great little microcosm of our community and it was fun, it was great. And I have been thinking about that a lot the last few days, Comfort Podcast.

Yeah, that's nice. Which is another, like put it on the board of another, just like funny, you know, like, Brad and I go into this trying to be as funny and entertaining as possible. And all the best feedback is about other things. And it's just a great reminder. It's like, yeah, we'll do our best, try to be funny,

but you guys seem to mainly take away other things and it's just a great reminder. It's like, yeah, we'll do our best, try to be funny, but you guys seem to mainly take away other things from it. Yeah, it is fun to just continue to see, I mean, Jesus juke, but it always just feels like the Lord being like, we have one idea for this thing, but look at how I'm gonna use this for something different. Yeah, so yeah, Megan, hopefully everything is going well. And you're doing well.

Thanks for that comment. Yeah, absolutely. My comment of the week is going to come later, I suppose. I had it pulled up. Do you ever do this where you have it pulled up and then you use that tab on accident? Yeah, I have. Dang it.

Especially with the podcast. Like so often I'm like, or I'll X something out. Like I don't need my Gmail open right now. It's just going to distract me. Oh wait. It's like, wait, but the jingle was on there. Dang it. So anyway, let's do some.

These are submitted a long time ago. But remember back when we did Ghost Stories? Of course. Was that? It would call in. Pre-timing or was that during time? I think that was during time. I That was me. I think I was there. Good times. Well, we had some people submit some Valentine's Day stories and I'm just going to read a few of them and we can kind of react to them. Okay.

So they're a little bit long winded. A few of them, And we can kind of react to them. OK. So they're a little bit long winded, a few of them. But Kaylee Thompson, Kaylee Thompson engaged Kaylee. Wow. Shout out Kaylee. She came to Florida with us. She's awesome. She said, so there I was, sophomore year of high school.

We'll call the guy Chad. And this is his real name was Derek. No, I'm just kidding. He was a whole year older and was the star running back on the football team. Running back. We all know the type. Yeah.

I mean, why just throw it every once in a while. This was the first boy who had asked me to be his girlfriend and we were officially dating for about two weeks before Valentine's day. What age is she again? Sophomore year. Okay, okay, okay, got it. Sweet little hopeless romantic me was titillated

when he asked if I wanted to go on a date for Valentine's because this is the stuff of movies, right? Wrong. Well, right in a bad way. So I spent an absurd amount of time picking out an outfit, doing my makeup, hair, the whole nine yards. 430 rolls around, no Chad. I think, hmm, maybe he stopped by the store to get some

flowers. Nope. Five 30 finally came and I texted him because I thought I had possibly gotten the time wrong. And I asked if he was still coming to pick me up. Response in quotation marks. Oh darn. Yes. I'll be on my way. Another hour goes by of me watching friends waiting for this boy while my parents looked on. I'm assuming heartbreaking because their daughter was giving this kid excuse after excuse. So Chad finally shows up around 630 and instead of coming to the door, text me, I'm here. You can't do that, Chad. You can't.

Yeah. I like talk to Chad's parents, his running back parents. Yeah, there's plenty of things that are back and forth, but pick the girl up, especially first, come on. So I get in the car, excited to just be there. No flowers, by the way. But notice we're definitely not on the way to a restaurant, but rather staying in the same neighborhood.

Again, me thinking the best, I presume maybe he had cooked for me. That was what took so long, right? Kaylee is one of the sweeter people. Yeah. Why not believe in this? Oh man. Well, we pull up to a house that was not his and I ask Chad, where are we?

We are at as soon to be stepmom's house. He responded who I'd never met. I go in the house. His dad is there with the future mother standing in front of a table set with rose petals and steak and asparagus and cheese steak. Very romantic and thought, right? Well, turns out the dad had planned this for his future wife and chatted asked him, well, really asked his future stepmom. I later learned if he could bring a girl and join in on the dinner. Yes, I learned about all this five minutes

into stepping into this random woman's house. So at this point, I'm confused, a little hurt, and just downright uncomfortable. But the future mom was very hospitable. Not sure if Chad's dad even said one word to me the entire dinner. Oh, that's so brutal. We have a dinner where I'm basically asked questions by this woman.

Chad is just happy to be eating steak. And his dad is what I can only assume it in silence because his son and little girlfriend ruined his romantic night. So we finally come on, dad, do throw your son a bone, a T bone. So we finally finished this dinner. That feels like it was 10 years long and the stepmom says, it was so nice to meet you. You're coming to our wedding, right? She presumed to look at me and Chad and Chad just as oblivious as ever shrugs and says, sure. I'm confused as I'll get out because I don't know this woman. Why would I go to her wedding? However, she then proceeded to ask me the big question. Oh, we don't have anyone to play music. Would you mind being the DJ? All we need is a playlist or two. I'll spare the details at the end of that night,

but it was just more awkward and weird. And yes, I did go to the backyard wedding and play my curated playlist. We broke up shortly after. That's a really good story. Holy cow. That sucks. Amazing. Yeah. So good. You know, early I brought up Chad's parents and I'm glad we cow, that sucks. Amazing, yeah, so good. You know, early I brought up Chad's parents and I'm glad we got to meet them. I'm not surprised that the dad who doesn't raise a son to go to the door also doesn't talk to the girl. Yes. Brutal.

It feels like the apple doesn't fall too far from the T-bone there. Yep. Yeah. Anyway. Kaylee, thanks for writing that in way back in the day. Hope you're doing well. Did you ever do anything like that? Have you ever like cooked, tried to cook,

attempted to cook? Not until like college. Really? College girlfriend. You did it? Yeah, and I was like, yeah, let's make a little something. I think it was around Valentine's Day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, classic.

Candles. What'd you try to cook, do you remember? I think it was asparagus. Really? And I Think we just did asparagus Just straight spare like vegetables. Yeah, yes. Yeah, she was she was really wanting to strike, but she's a guy spare I guess Yeah, I guess a good one for out there timing, make your own pizza, make your own pizza. You can get pre pre done dough or sometimes I would just do like a flatbread piece of bread.

You could do something there. You can make them. Then it's like you're, you're doing it together. That's fun. Oh my gosh. That's too much pepperoni. I didn't know you were lactose. I'm sorry. This is a lot of mozzarella for you. Oh man. Anyway, fun. Thanks to Kaylee for sending that in. A few more here. I'm just going to, there's just three total here. Michaela style. Shout out to Michaela. another Florida ghosty came to the Florida trip. Um, Kevin, who's her husband, um, went to Kevin and I went to Boone, North Carolina

to go skiing for Valentine's day when we were engaged about two hours away from where we lived towards the end of the night, a snowstorm came out of nowhere to the point that we couldn't see in front of us while we were skiing, just an absolute blizzard. We decided to go ahead and leave to try to beat the storm home. Driving is 1999 Mazda protege. Time to look that up for us and show us what that looks like. 1999 Mazda protege. Sounds made up. That's not a real car. We had to drive on the back roads through the mountains because that's all our GPS would give us. As expected, the car did not handle it well on the one lane tiny road, cliff on one side, mountain on the other. Boy.

At one point I had my window down in the passenger seat with my arm outside the window touching the mountain to keep us from crashing into it. We had to have, we had to have been going five miles an hour crawling, just trying not to spin out over the cliff. That is awful. Eventually we got through the mountain, but we were in the middle of nowhere with no functioning GPS and no self-service. I was keeping track of houses and places of refuge if the car got stuck or broken down

and we needed somewhere to stay. But being the righteous Christian couple that we were, we couldn't justify finding a hotel to stay in together and safely coming home the next day. She's like, looking back, we didn't have to share a bed, but whatever. So we just instant crawled our way until we got to a main road and could find our way home. Ended up taking four hours instead of two. And it was definitely the most memorable Valentine's Day we've ever had. That's scary. I hate that for them. Also, I love this picture of the time and

town. What a brutal car to be touching a mountain and Mazda protege. Oh Wow, it's a tiny little car. Yeah. Yeah, that's amazing Wow touching a mountain. Yeah. Oh, let's make sure we don't hit it. I Remember be careful. Oh, where you were you were you touching there? Yeah That's touching the mountain. I I remember my dad and I drove home from a KU game one time and I, yeah, I had to like tell him which, I was like, okay, you gotta go left, right. Like he couldn't see the road very well at all.

It was, we still talk about it this day though. It's a great time. Scam call? Scam call. El Dorado, Kansas. See what they have to say. El Dorado, it's El Dorado. Hi, hello, are you calling from El Dorado?

I'll tell Dorado. Hi. Hello. Are you calling from El Dorado? Or is it El Dorado? Got him. Got him. That's good scam. They really get you. Yep. It's all AI. They're just recording voices. And so they got Dorado now. Yep. They've needed that one for a while. That's on the bingo card. Binary code. It's all in there. Any, yeah, you got any similar stories? Any similar? Touching mountains? Snowstorm or?

My first time ever driving to, so I think I've said this before on the podcast, but I never did a visit at SBU. It was just like my parents went there. They liked it. But I did visit there once before. Just, it was like the interview for the honors program. Just like go there and try to get the full ride scholarship.

And I had like a really unreliable, but cool truck back in the day. You'll have one 50? Yeah, I think it was front wheel drive. So it's just awful in the snow cause there's nothing in the bed. Probably, well, yeah, maybe. I just remember being terrible in the snow on four-wheel drive. Yeah, and

Yeah, a little hilly in the Ozark Mountains trying to get to Bolivar and it was like the gnarliest snow I've ever driven in and I just I remember thinking I'm gonna die before I get to college Oh, well, you know, they'll give the scholarship to somebody else That's fine. Yeah hated it. Just like yeah, one of those you can't see in front of you. It was like daylight and it was still just like brutal. And if you know that area, like, those are like next level, like hills. Yeah, there's gonna be some hills.

Yeah, it's not as bad as going to Branson, but it's still like- Oh, I guess so. You're going the other way, yeah. But there's still some hills and yeah, just scary. Every time you go downhill, so scary. But you got to get enough speed to go uphill. Right. Snowing and ice and everything. But, jeez. Yeah, I made it there and it's fine didn't get the four ride I got the the base package

Just kind of the bare minimum like yes your ACT score is good enough, but what is nothing else full ride They only give out one. Oh her was it Anderson No, I don't maybe think for a little I bit. I was like, maybe think about too. No, Meg Goodman. Really? Yeah. Over Anderson and Jake? Yeah, she was smart though.

All right. Makes sense. I don't know what she did in her interview that I didn't do, but anyway. The girl I cooked asparagus for, she was the one her year who got the full ride though. Oh, okay. Smarty pants.

That like kind of sealed the deal for you. Like I'm gonna date that girl. She's full ride. I'm gonna make her asparagus. She doesn't have any debt. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. It's fiscally responsible good for you One more unless time and you have any stories similar to Michaela nope You were gonna midget something no you didn't have a story This one's from arena Holyfield another great. He came to time and since the sensibility play. Yeah. All right. Arena. Remember that big Paul Valentine's day 2021. Me and my boyfriend celebrated our first Valentine's day together. I got in his car to go to church and I gave him one

of those giant cards in parentheses. It was pizza themed and a gift bag of candy. His response, you got me all that. I was embarrassed. So I just put, guys are so funny. Like that's, you got, why'd you do that? That's so funny. Wait, that's, that's for me. Why? What's that? I was embarrassed. So I just put it all in the back seat and didn't let them open it. And we drove to church in silence. As we were walking in church, he goes, I didn't get you anything because I didn't know what you wanted.

My embarrassment then progressed to anger because I'd been expressing for weeks that I wanted chocolate covered strawberries and, or to get engaged. Just one or the other. I don't care which one. Please. You could make up your stuff. We could dip the chocolate ourselves. You know?

So after church, he had plans. We had plans to go out with our friends. My boyfriend starts to head that way after we eat Taco Bell for lunch. And I thought, and I go, I thought we weren't going there till dinner time. I have to finish watching the work coats. And then princess, she explains this. I was a manager at Chick-fil-A at a really weird, I was a manager at Chick-fil-A at the time and took the coats home every Sunday during the winter months to wash them.

Okay. My boyfriend gets really weird about it and starts asking if my brother can do that instead. At this point, I'm pretty frustrated at all the events thus far. So we ended up sorting that out and heading to our friend's apartment. He stops at a park a few blocks away from their apartment and I go, what are we doing here? I kind of already knew, but still, and he has me get out of the car. It was the week when Casey had the lowest record temperature. So it was cold. I remember that minus 22 wind chill cold. So we were doing the slight jog to a bridge over a frozen pond. I catch a glimpse of one of our friends around the corner of a building.

So I definitely know at this point what's about to go down. Once at the bridge, my boyfriend tells me to look over at the building where our friend is and she holds up a sign that says, will you be mine? And when I turn back around, he's on one knee with a ring. I hesitate for a bit because he never actually asked me to marry him and I didn't wanna take off my gloves because it was so cold. But I ended up taking off my gloves.

We hugged and kissed and it was magical. We immediately darted back to the car because again, it was cold. That's when I see our other friend who was taking pictures of everything. That October, I got married to the love of my life on a much warmer day than Valentine's Day. That's great.

I love that, yeah, the guy is like, honestly, he's telling his buddy, chocolate or strawberries are hard to find. Engagement ring, I mean, everyone sells engagement rings. Yeah, you could get them online right now. Chocolate or strawberries, I mean, do you make those at a time? You can't really buy them ahead of time, right?

There's milk chocolate, there's dark chocolate, there's white chocolate, I mean, I don't know. Where do we go for that? I don't know, it's messy cleanup. Is it supposed to be semi-sweet chocolate morsels? Semi-sweet doesn't sound that good to me. Honestly, dude ring like I can I can get a ring I'll buy a ring. I'll go to the store and say one ring, please ring, please ring me up ring me That's what they call that. I'm gonna play game of checkers get to the end. Yep. Yep. Ring me ring me. I got ringworm Um

anyway, yeah, so he's like I I know that feeling. Did you experience this at all with Rachel the day you got engaged where it was like, one thing goes a little bit off plan and you're like, no, no, no, we can't do that. Like, like, I feel like I'm like the most chill guy ever. But like the day I got, I mean, not the most chill guy ever, but like normally with Catherine, I was like, yeah, fine. Take your time. But this time it was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, just so aggressive, manipulative. Like you guys got engaged at Meadowbrook and it was like, you guys were going to walk like, let's go this way. No, no, we have to go this way. And we're going to take a right. Yeah.

Cause I'm the man. I'll tell you where you want to go. Yeah. Nothing. I was a very stressful. Like I always say the day we got engaged was so much more stressful than the day we got married. Just cause you know, yeah, yeah. She didn't know anything.

Yeah. But the thing that almost got screwed up without me knowing, which I'm sure we talked about this three years ago when it happened, was that Rachel almost dyed her hair that day at school. I don't know if you remember that, but like other kids were doing like spray on, so that's when it almost got ruined.

I was none the wiser, but that would have been bad. Oh, you weren't, you didn't know. I didn't know that till after we got engaged. She was like, oh my gosh, I almost dyed my hair today. Oh yeah. It was like a temporary dye, obviously. But yeah, I was like, hey, go shower, go shower right now.

Exactly. I'm going to rinse you off of the hose if you don't have time to go shower. Like she's like, oh yeah, I'm going to do this. You know, it's red, you know, red kingdom. I have red, you know. Please, that's a terrible idea. Trust me, I had a teacher back in the day.

You look ugly with that. Mr. Reese had red hair and he did sit-ups for it. And he was like, he did red and blue on his hair and it was just not a terrible idea. Trust me. I had a teacher back in the day. You look ugly with that. Mr. Reese had red hair and he did sit-ups for it. And he was like, he did red and blue on his hair. And it was just not a good idea. So just trust me. Don't do that, please. Yeah. I know, Brayden, when he proposed to Caitlin,

he wouldn't let her walk on a certain path. Like she wanted to walk down by Lake Taney Como because it was so hot. Hey, let's walk down by the water. It's cool. Right. No. No. Yeah. There's walk down by the water. It's cool. No, no Yeah, there's something I feel like that happens more often than not or it's just like all of a sudden It's like you can't deviate from the planet all there might be people like yeah, you guys were getting there taking pictures, right?

Yeah, I think it brain also he wanted Caitlin's hands to be empty when you know, throw away drink She had like a styrofoam cup. He's like, hey, can I get a sip of that? It's just down. Oh, I guess I drank it all, throw this away. Yeah, time got away from me there. Yeah, it's just so funny. Like you get on these tracks like, yeah, most guys, it's the first thing.

Can your brother wash the coats? It's like, just let me wash the coats. For guys, it's the first thing they've planned their whole life. So like, it can't go anything other than the way I planned it. It has to go this way. There's no wiggle room. Tymon, that's a good advice for you.

Get a little like have a plan that has a little wiggle room. Okay. Some redundancy plans. Oh man. So good. Yeah. Think about every every angle. Yeah.

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Yeah, so I'll be there look laugh lob Love laugh lob love laugh lob would have been a great name Yeah Yeah, that's good Love Laugh Lob would have been a great name. Love Laugh Lob. You were. Yeah, that's good. No, I don't think we go super big on Valentine's Day, typically, but when you treat her the way I do every day. Every day's V-Day. It always feels like Valentine's Day.

That's right. No, but time about you and... Oh, well, wait. Or wait. Do you want us? What are you? Huh? Let's, let's talk Friday we doing this Friday and next Friday Anything uh or diamond See

We second is I cow. I'm sure yet. Not sure yet. No By the gym. Yeah, but yeah married to the game married to the grind. No. Probably the gym. Yeah. Yeah. Married to the game. Married to the grind. Yeah. Engaged to the bench. Proposing to me. Me and judges are just engaged to the bench. Yeah. Catherine and I don't do a whole lot Valentine's Day stuff. We have plans that night, but I think Rachel like doesn't have school that day or something. So we're going to do like a Valentine's Day hang,

which feels wrong. Valentine's Day, you only see a woman at night. That'd be great. So when does this come out? Oh, it comes out before, I can't spoil it then. Yeah, I don't know. But I think it's like, you each get to take the other person to do something.

Cool. So it could be food. So we might, I mean, we haven't talked about it. The whole thing's a secret. We could go back to back lunch. And if that's the case, then I guess we're eating two lunches. Or we could go back to back activity. I guess we're not having lunch.

Do you know who gets to go first? I don't think we've decided yet. Okay. You should let Rachel go first because I feel like she would just make something up. If you do lunch and she was going to do lunch, she'll just be like, oh, we're going to do this instead. No, this is my plan.

This is my plan. Whereas you would hilariously be like, well, I was going to take you to lunch, so we're going to do lunch. She'll just be like, Oh, we're going to do this instead. No, this is my plan. This is my plan. Whereas you would hilariously be like, well, I was going to take you to lunch. So we're going to second. I didn't eat all that salad. Yeah. Eat it again. Yeah. I think our first Valentine's day as a married couple, it was like the one time that Catherine's friends could come visit her from Texas was like over Valentine's week. So like, I think we set the precedent of like, Valentine's is pretty chill. We don't have to do much for it. I think we got a heart shaped pizza and we ate it with her friends. That's great. So that's maybe that'll be the tradition. It's just something like that. But yeah.

Then again, who knows? Maybe after laughs and lobs, I'll go downtown and they'll bump in at time. I forgot what I wanted to say where he's going to be. Yeah, let's just say. But capital grill. Pretty nice restaurant. Girl downtown now. Yeah, they open one up for him. I think this is this is like this is the most like guy way of planning this ever. And it kind of is a Valentine's theme thing, but also just like just an idea. I had chiefs watch party. It's all red.

It's all red. I'm doing like a I don't even like the word daddy, but daddy daughter Bunko night you're done Bunko. Oh, yeah Bunko. Yeah a game of Chance if that's where you're in is that Roll the dice trying to get a number. Yeah. Yeah old ladies love Bunko Yeah, I was gonna say my mom was in like a bunko club. Yeah But I think it's an easy enough thing for like Hattie to learn how to play. Yeah. She likes dice. She loves dice. She loves tenzy. And so, uh, yeah, I think I'm just inviting like, like

Tate's him, Tate and his daughter, military Bob and his daughter, a few other. So I think you guys are all bunking together. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause it's like a, that's fun. Because what we always play is like, there's four people that play at a table. Yeah. But then if you win, you go, you keep heading up the table. And if you lose, you stay put or whatever, you know, until you make it to the head table

and you have to go all the way back down to the bottom. And we would do it opening night of staff training week. Okay. Kind of a get to know you. Cause you are mixing and matching a lot. Yeah. And so I think it's a fun way to like get to know, yeah. Joke around with the other dads,

joke around with the other, you know, kids. And so it could be fun. But like, it's one of those things where like, I have the idea. I've kind of like throw it out to the guys and the guys were like, yeah, sure. Like what time, where are we thinking we'll do it? And I'm like, I will figure that out. I don't, it's bunko. Yeah, truly. And all the guys are like, great. You know, oh, awesome. And like, Catherine's like, where are you going to do it? And I was like, I don't know. We can do it in our basement if we have to, we can do it anywhere. And like, Catherine's like, where are you going to do it? And I was like, I don't know. We can do it our basement if we have to. We can do it anywhere we can. That's fun. You know, what are you going to do for food?

Or I don't know, figure out some snacks. I think we might do like a little what do we call it in Gulf Shores? But like the the gate, the room of treasure room. Yeah. Treasure room kind of where it's like most wins, most losses. If you ever get a bunko, you get to go to the treasure, you know, all these different things. So it could be fun. Rachel is not detail oriented at all. So she'll never like ask me questions about that. The one thing that I'm always so shocked. She'll ask me like, I have something coming up, like

the standup comedy event two weeks from now. She's like, Oh, what are you wearing for that? Yeah. What am I wearing? I have no idea. She asked me last night, because she is gonna be flying back from Denver the day of the Super Bowl, but she's planning on being here in time, she's gonna come to the thing. And I was like, so you'll make it there at time? She's like, yeah, I am. What are you gonna wear to it?

I'm like, you gotta quit asking me what I'm wearing. I'm never gonna know. Maybe ask you an hour beforehand, you'll have an answer. Ask me once I have it on. Do you think she's concerned? Is it more of like a, I wanna make sure you're prepared and like have clothes, cause you have plenty of clothes. I have plenty of clothes.

I don't think it's a inventory. I don't know what it is. I think she is probably looking to get a sense of casual versus not casual. Like, what are you gonna wear? Like are you gonna wear your Jersey? Like I probably not. That's so funny. I don't know.

I'm not like typically the like, Chief's game's on, jersey's on, let's go boys. Like, oh, I'm in a purple shirt. Yeah, this is good. So I was like, sorry, I don't. Gunner's a big Chiefs, always wear your Chief stuff every Chiefs game. Yeah, he is, isn't he?

That's great. That's a good character. Call it Chief socks. He's got them home socks. Yeah. But yeah, I've noticed that recently a lot of, yeah. What are you gonna wear? What are you gonna be wearing? Cause I, yeah, I have no idea.

Maybe she is asking for like trying to figure out what's my equivalent of this. Yeah, how nice is it? Where in reality it's like, don't do that because girls are gonna dress differently. Like, Catherine. I don't know anyway. Catherine will not base what she's wearing off of what I'm wearing.

Like she'll rise to her own level of whatever. I came over to your house, Rachel and I both did to watch a beast games a few weeks ago. You know, it was like nine o'clock at night. Yeah. Walk over there and I've got jeans on. Catherine's like, what are you wearing jeans for? Dude, you're wearing jeans. How often? I'm in my, I'm in my sweat pants. I'm like, oh, I'm sorry. Like I can't enjoy this. How often do you guys change your clothes during the day? I have to get sweaty in them. Otherwise, you have to have a reason to change your clothes.

Catherine, I'll go to bed in this immediately when she gets home. Like, let's say she's out doing homeschool co-op thing or whatever for the morning and the afternoon. She comes home in her jeans and she's immediately changing into like sweats. Girls do not like their jeans. That's too bad, isn't it? The second Rachel gets home. Yeah.

It's time for, like, yeah, sometimes Sunday afternoon or Sunday, my whole day, I still wear my church clothes. Yeah, why is that? And Catherine, immediately. Immediately. Like, she's not even out of the car yet. I'm just kidding. Neighbors just kidding. Yeah, it's wild. Like what's that about?

Yeah, that's a good point. And I don't think it's like, because she's super uncomfortable, I just think it's like, she knows. They love like, I wanna get cozy. They're vibe driven. Yeah, maybe so. I don't know.

I'm just like, ah, it's kind of a hassle. I'm good in what I'm in. I didn't like put the jeans on I don't want to take them off now. Do you ever change your clothes type? Like you get home and like put on sweats I do love changing after getting home from church Oh you do like and it's just like sweats and hoodie, but not I'm not crazy about it How dressed up is your church pretty dressed up? What are you wearing? I'll wear a lot of times like gray like like not khaki, just like dress pants and then like a button up,

tucked in sometimes a tie. Oh, that's nice. Okay. Yeah. So enough where it's like, it's pretty, it's like, it gets pretty uncomfortable. Sure. Yeah. That's fair. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. Yeah. I don't know. Bo though, because I don't always change out of mind on Sundays, he is obsessed with trying to convince Catherine to at least keep on one of his items of clothing from church. Can I just kind of keep my pants on and just change my shirt? That's fine. Oh yes, dad. I'm keeping my pants on too. Yeah. Like, oh, good job, buddy. He did it. I know this counts as changing, but a recent rhythm I've been in is like, yeah, I spent all day in a t-shirt and a crew neck sweatshirt time for bed I'm gonna take off this the t-shirt because there's you know Maybe I sweat in there a tiny bit throughout the day and then put on the crew neck sweatshirt

And then sleep in that oh interesting. I don't mind that I think Catherine would be like you wore that shirt all day You were in public touching xyz. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I was. I touched it all. Like, uh, yeah, that's, that's the difference. I don't know about every girl, but that's different in my wife and me is like, I could come home from whatever fill in the blank and be like, I want to take a nap. I get on the covers and whatever I'm wearing, just fine. And that's like, I, like, I should go to jail for that. If, if Catherine, for the police, maybe that's a value I'm under appreciating in Rachel because doesn't care. Yeah. How do I word this without sounding?

I want to say she's a, she doesn't care. Yeah. I don't know. She's like, yeah, pretty, we both, we could probably use a few more showers in a week. We could probably change our bed sheets more than we do. But it's all good. We both have a low tolerance for stuff like that, which is nice.

I do too, but I will say it is nice having somebody who changes the bed sheets and like, I'll have to help, but like she washed them and like pretty adamantly and it's, there's a difference between a fresh bed sheet and a non. So yeah, consider it. But then- I'm not gonna be the person.

I'll tell you that right now. Cause then you're that guy for life. Yeah, you get stuck doing it. But then- I'm not gonna be the person. I'll tell you that right now. Because then you're that guy for life. Yeah, you get stuck doing it. Yeah. Yeah. Are you the trash guy still? Yeah, big time trash guy. And then lately, you know, a lot more just around the sink, you know, washing that blender twice a day.

I use a knife every day now. What do you knife? Who have I become? My chicken patty. Your chicken patty. Yeah, I mean, I just eat the same stuff over and over. I mean, it's just like a chicken and a vegetable for lunch and dinner every single day. So, you know, you warm it up for about three minutes,

take off the little packaging, and then I cut open the chicken so it warms up a little more evenly. You gotta expose it a little bit. So are you not eating the same thing as Rachel? Like for dinner or anything? No, she's actually been on a kind of a new diet lately. So yeah, we're both cooking a ton.

Cooking's a loose term for me. Heating up. But we're both getting things warm. Yep. And eating vegetables. Love it. So yeah, not eating the same things. Have you found, oh, I actually kind of like that vegetable or oh, my gosh,

I really don't like that one. You know, factor, I think they must just load up their vegetables with butter or something, because most of them taste pretty darn good. OK, the only one that I didn't care for, I think it was described as a squash medley, which sounds fun. Sounds like some game you'd play a track and field day. Oh, the squash medley. hope Keegan's on my team. No, it didn't taste that good.

That was the worst vegetable so far. Otherwise, yeah, I mean, I'd say, last week my word was exhaustion, this week we're locked in. I'm a robot now. I eat the food with a frown on my face and I say, that's fine, I'll eat the chicken, I'll eat the green beans. Really?

Yeah, getting kind of tired of the food, but you know, you just down it, move on. Really? You're not going to like try to change it up? Yeah, I am. Okay. I'll just suck it up. Yeah, I'm locked in.

That's great. What else? Anything else? Any other realizations from shredding? From shredding. I know you said your gym plays the music too loud. Yeah, I lost my wedding ring. Blame that on the shredding? From shredding. I know you said your Jim plays the music too loud. Yeah, I lost my wedding ring. Blame that on the shredding

because I don't like how it feels with the dumbbells. So I took it off, put it in my pocket, lost it. That's why I buy a $16 one from Amazon. Another one's here tomorrow. Oh really? Yeah. You like straight up lost it. You never found it.

Yeah, I don't know where it's at. Nice. Could be in my car. We'll find it next time Mr. Dog hair is over. What kind of animal you got? He's engaged. Yeah, I don't know where that could be in my car. We'll find it next time Mr. Dog hair is over. What kind of animal you got? He's engaged. Why has he got that ring on his finger? Let's see what else.

Looking forward someday to seeing some results, you know, just keep a nose to the grindstone in the meantime. Hey, you don't look bad. How about that? And my nose is in that grindstone. Yeah. I love it. What do you like, do you have a favorite or like a thing that you do feel like you like feel the most either, either in the mirror or just like as you're working out, like I look, I look pretty strong doing this one. I think anything, I guess the bigger muscles feel better, like legs or like even like your back. Okay, like a nice cable row

Yes, feels like you're really you're you're moving the earth. Okay when you're doing cable rows I like the machines too. Do you yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I like the machines too. I like the machines just fine I don't know. I don't know enough about this stuff I wonder if some I I feel like the guys that are like going hard at the gym are like usually at the dumbbells Yeah, like the free barbells. Yeah But the machines are doing alright seems like a very similar motion still pushing a lot of weight around I get I get hot Yeah, I get sweaty there is one machine It's not even a machine

I should say it's just like an object in the gym that I've been very nervous about for three weeks Because I've been waiting like I'll wait till someone else uses it. And I'll use it. I was in the gym yesterday, Googling gym equipment with pictures. I was like, let me just see a database and I will pick it out from a lineup. Could find it in there. It's like, I'm gonna have to take a chance on this. I'm going to have to like, there's not that many people around today. You're the pioneer.

One of those with just like, it's not a decline bench or whatever, like for abs or anything. It's just like, it's more of an incline. It's like, it's got spot for your feet at the bottom and then kind of an overhang. It's like, I can kind of see how my body's supposed to do this. Is it supposed to be on your side? But I don't know side, I don't know stomach, I don't know back. Yeah, is it a... I busted it out the other day, threw my feet in there. Is it? Go ahead.

I think it's like a lower back ham feet in there. Is it? Go ahead. I think it's like a lower back hamstring thing. Are you supposed to just like bend your back down? Is it that thing? Is it like, does it go up to like right here? Yeah, it goes to like your waist basically. And so you lean down, you know, your nose is going towards the ground and using your hamstrings and back, you go back up.

That's how I was using it. That's no one laughed at me. I, I worked out with my brother-in-law at Thanksgiving and he was like, let's go over here. It's good for it. It it helps you feel in your back or whatever. I was like, okay. And yeah, we used to use like a plate, like put a plate on our chest or something and went down and up.

But yeah, I was scared I was gonna fall over though. Is that what you were? That was the most nerve wracking, that was the most daredevil I've been in the gym so far. I don't know what this is, someone might, is probably filming me. I love it. I like I don't know what this is someone might is probably filming Me, but I love it. I'm gonna try it. So that was okay. And Then what else have I realized it's hard to feel anything in the glutes

I don't know if that's just your butts just one big ball of muscle. You're doing spots man. I'm working this thing. Yeah When do I feel it? Oh, yeah, I don't know. Do you do squats? Yeah squats and I even do things like there's like a glute machine where you just like a leg kickback When do I feel it? Like, I don't know. Do you do squats? Yeah, squats and I even do things like, there's like a glute machine where it's like a leg kickback. And it's like, I can barely, it's like as much weight as I can handle, but ain't sore. Where are you feeling it?

You feeling in the legs? I try to like, I'm like, maybe my form's somewhat wrong and trying to mix it up. Maybe your butt won't quit. Yeah, I gotta figure that butt out. It's strong, it's just like, it's a peak muscle mass. There's no room to grow or tear. You're doing just fine there, yeah.

I don't stop till something tears or pops. That's me. Got to see Steve and Angie Koop this week at the Cheesecake Factory. Love the Cheesecake Factory, so does Steve. Yep, Cheesecake Factory. Yeah, wecake Factory. So does Steve. Yep. Cheesecake Factory. Yeah, we thought it'd be funny to go there. We met up with them,

because I got Rachel her new car. They were gonna buy the Rachel's old car from us. That's kind of- Very nice of them. Like this car that doesn't really work, but it's been in the shop twice in three weeks, both times it was covered by the warranty and the manufacturer.

It's like, all right, it's, it's good now. And so we drove it up to Des Moines, met them there, had Cheesecake Factory. It was great. That's fun. And yeah, just turned right around back home. It's how we spent our Saturday. But yeah, Steve called yesterday. The car won't turn on. What? I'm so sorry. What was their diagnosis the first two times in the? First time it was like the 12 volt battery like kind of the smaller battery That's like starts the car. Yeah, something didn't happen

And then the second time I forgot what happened Rachel was the one who dealt with him and it's all on a sheet of paper I guess several issues. It was like in the shop for like two weeks and But they say hey, we got all fixed is all covered. It's free. It's like, oh, this is awesome brand new car Basically, and then yeah, I think as we speak today, it is getting towed in Iowa. Well, because they have, don't they have another one? Yeah. The same one?

And Angie's is just fine. They have had no problem with it. Yeah, Steve said he had a amazing three days with it. He said, I love this car. Oh, that's good. He's like, I might be the only farmer in Iowa driving an electric car right now. They're all gonna laugh at me, but I don't care.

He's like, I love this car. So, but yeah, now it's being towed. And this guy, we were trying to convince him. So I think Ford is having so much trouble with their electric car fleet that they're doing their own buyback program. They're like, I think it's basically like, we're sorry, we'll buy it back from you.

Because all these things are losing their value so much. And in the midst of this buyback program, everything's crazy cheap right now. That Steve's like, you know, I might buy me one of those Ford Lightnings. And I was like, do not buy Ford Lightning. I've heard a single person say that they're like great or fun or like reliable.

He's like, you know, Ford is the leaders in EV. Yeah, I mean, you think Ford, you think cutting edge technology, electric. Also you have Ford electric cars that are not, they're being towed. And he's like, yeah, I think you want to give me a Ford Lightning. So to be continued. We can take to the timeshare Yeah, they'll take it take it down to the timeshare so man, we'll see I thought that was funny though I think they look cool Steve, but uh, just get an F-150 baby. I know just just get old gas

He's probably just been driving as a wife. He's like I want something else. Oh, does he have an F-150 baby. I know just just get old gas. He's probably just been driving as a life He's like I want something else. Oh does he have an F-150? I'm sure they got so many vehicles and trucks out of the farm I have in my notes. I wrote down freaking Dwayne Any guesses Wade or Dwayne fall from the sky D? Or Dwayne? Falling from the sky? Doreen? Dwayne? Why is it snowing Dwayne? It's Dwayne. Freaking Dwayne.

Let's see. Any guesses? Dwayne? Freaking Dwayne. Freaking Dwayne. I have no... I don't know. My guesses are either Friday pickleball related

or your house like thermostat, you know, or you know, like downstairs, your HVAC. Or Paramans name was Dwayne. Or the guy outside. Yeah. You watched Moana, the rock. The rock, Dwayne. Dwayne DeWaak Johnson.

He's good in this. Dwayne DeWaak Johnson. I'm a big fan of DeWaak and Dwayne. Dwayne DeWaak Johnson. He's good in this. Dwayne DeWaak Johnson. I'm a big fan of DeWaak and Dwayne. This is pickleball related, not even for Friday, not even gotta film it, but Rachel's gonna be out of town this Saturday, and there's a pickleball tournament happening. It's like, oh, why not?

I don't really care to play like coed pickleball that often. Sexist. But I was like, yeah, Rachel's out of town, let's do it. And it's like a, it's a four man team format. Like we talked about previously, your rating has to equal a certain amount or lower. So, you know, you really get to be a GM and you kind of got to build this team one by one

because they're like, oh, well, she's in. All right, then we can't get this guy then. Right. So it's kind of fun to build a team. So right away, I've got another guy and a girl that are in. So it's like, we just got to find our last girl under this rating great So then I'm just messaging

Just random women. Okay, just like hey you want to play Everyone's turning me down then it gets bad I'm scrolling the duper app which is like the rating system and you can like sort like female this rating this radius I'm finding them. I'm like checking their parameters, you know, this looks good, message them on Facebook. I mean, it's getting, if I do this anymore, Facebook's gonna shut me down and give me a restraining order. Yeah, you have to have Rachel's like sitting next to you while you're doing this.

Yeah, I start every message, hey, married guy here. What are you doing this Saturday? Right. I mean, one girl even messaged me back and said, did you send this? I think this is a scam. I was like, I gotta mess with my copy here. I guess it's not getting the job done.

So I mean, just, I truly like, I'm kind of going over this quickly, but I spent a lot of time doing this. I spent too much time trying to play in this dumb tournament. We finally find one girl, she's like, I'm in. We're like, great, we're in a group text. I'll sign us up, send me your birthday's email. I'll put us in a couple hours later.

She's like, hey, so I think I'm gonna have to back out. Dwayne is mad at me. Who's Dwayne? He's like the tournament director. I told him I would play in a different division and now he's mad that I'm gonna play with you guys. I said, if less, Dwayne may have just been reading too many thrillers.

I'm like, unless Dwayne has some sort of blackmail on you Don't let who cares. There's always an angle with Dwayne. Yeah, I'm like it doesn't it doesn't matter. She's like, I don't know I really don't want to disappoint Dwayne. I'm like who is some sort of kingpin? So he's just the puppet master He's the director of the tournament. Yeah, I guess he's in charge of the tournament So he's gonna be mad at her if she plays with us. I was like, what an odd, I don't understand this at all. What's gonna happen if he's mad? That's actually, I don't know this girl though, because she's a random woman on Facebook,

so I'm like, I'll stay out of what you and Dwayne have going on, I don't know what. So then I go, I'm back to the grind, re-messaging, I'm texting her, well, do you know of anyone who I wanna play, could you reach out to people? Right. Truly spent a stupid amount of time trying to find this team. I finally find someone yesterday.

I'm like, we did it, it was all worth it. I go to sign up, get a text from Dwayne. He says, no can do. I'm like, what is it this time? He said, you guys would be the seventh. So this whole time on the website says eight teams max, there's six teams signed up, it says two teams remaining. Great, we sign up, he says,

well, you guys would be the seventh team. I can't do a tournament with an odd number. Yes, you can. I bet you could figure it out. You could Google 17 brackets. You could do... There's so many ways. Freaking Dwayne, dude.

Freaking Dwayne. So I'm like... You're like, Dwayne, we wouldn't be in this predicament because we would have signed up a long time ago. Yeah, we were trying to be the fourth team and you wouldn't let Katie join our team. And now I was like, what if I would have joined two weeks ago, but I was still the seventh team?

He's like, unless we had an eighth team, you wouldn't have been able to join. I was like, what a ridiculous policy. And maybe I'm just too much of like a free market capital, invisible hand. I'm like, if someone's offering you money and you don't have to do any more work, I'm just always shocked when people turn that down.

Yes. I'm like, hey, no, we're down, we'll be there. I would have to redo a bracket that I haven't made yet. Well, you're supposed to, anytime you have a problem, you're supposed to come up with a solution, Jake. So send them the... Image of a 17 bracket. Yeah, there's a million ways you could do it.

Just have one team not play if it's round. He's like, well, it's round robin. So we all played, well, okay, just there. Don't make it round robin for that one. One team said there's so many ways around this. So you're not playing. Yes, there's not playing. So I even mess I was like, so all the I said 35 Facebook messages, this is all for nothing.

He's like, yeah, I'm afraid so like that's wild. It says two teams remaining. Yeah, that's freaking Dwayne. Dude. Yeah. Like this is ridiculous. Is this that chicken pickle? No, it's up. It's up where I had the bathroom incident a few weeks ago, Genesis up north.

They don't seem like they have all their ducks in a row. Yeah, maybe not. Maybe, maybe Dwayne. But Dwayne be not. I'm sorry. Well, hey now, but now my Saturday's free. That's fun. I think I'm gonna spend it getting things ready

for the Super Bowl. Like I said, I have an free. That's fun. I think I'm gonna spend it getting things ready for the Super Bowl. Like I said, I have an idea. Oh, wow. Like, you know, make it a little extra fun for us that day. Perfect. I love it. So that'd be fun. It'll be a good time.

It'll be a good time. We're dedicating Henry at our church on Saturday. Oh, that's fun. Yeah, that's why Catherine's parents are here. That's why they're here. Yeah, it'll be fun. So we didn't ever dedicate Hattie. So I kind of feel bad about that. It's like, do we dedicate or no? Like, well, just know

how you're, you're good. They love you. You know, no, it's a sweet time. They, they're pretty intentional about our churches. I mean, it's just on Saturday and, uh, yeah, we like write him a letter and Mike read it to him and stuff. He he doesn't understand it, but someday he'll That's still nice. Yeah, that's nice. And they do that. They got dessert or little snacks. Oh Nice snacks. They don't skimp on the snacks Our tithe money's going to some nice snacks Jake good for you guys It'll be fun. I had a fun little quinky dink this week. I woke up and I'm, I think I slept in to like eight or something, but Rachel had already gone

to a workout class and come back. Good for her. Yeah. And she's like, hey, how'd you sleep? And I was like, I had kind of a weird dream. So I maybe talked about my friend Janine on here before. I went to Yosemite with her. Maybe you would recognize her.

She's an influencer, creator, whatever you wanna call it. And I was like, I had a dream that I was on some sort of vacation with Janine and her husband. It was like a resort. I think, maybe I was on their honeymoon. I don't know. We just played so much ping pong.

And there were so many people around and we kept on making, oh, excuse me, excuse me, you know, just like an awkward, I was constantly picking up a ping pong ball this whole week long, weird dream. Rachel's like, all right, that's kind of crazy. She's like, when I was at Pilates this morning, she said I was halfway through and Ghostrunners ended and then it just auto-played Janine's podcast.

She has her own podcast? Yeah, she has her podcast. And she said, earlier on in the podcast, they talked about you own podcast. Yeah. She has a podcast. And she said early on in the podcast, they talked about you in it. Oh, I was like, what? This is a coincidence. Yeah. Um, and I was like, wait, wait, wait, were you playing that podcast? Like at home? Like did I hear it in my dream? And that's why this happened. She was like, no, no, no. I like, I stopped before I got home. Like I haven't listened to it here You haven't mentioned Jeanine we don't talk about she It was wild she was like yeah, they talked about you

Kind of for a little bit. I guess me and Trey poked fun of one of their friends and like a clip Apparently they were really good sports about it. And so anyway, I've always known what you need and was like hey this crazy coincidence You know whatever and then Janine came back and she's like, the clip was hilarious. So I was like, oh, that's great. She was- Also I've been dreaming about you as well. Yeah, but it's not ping pong, it's pickleball.

Yeah, like how is this all happening? But yeah, it was kind of funny. I was also giving Rachel a hard time because I saw it up on her phone later, you know, on Spotify. So in the name of the episode was, does dating sometimes feel impossible? I go, what are you doing listening to this?

Of course it feels impossible, you're married to me. Yeah, it feels impossible. It's literally not possible. Like you are legally required to be married. She thought that was kind of funny. She's like, yeah, that is, I don't know why. She's like, it's really autoplay, but I was like, but you listened to it in the car ride home?

Yeah, I kept listening to it. Sometimes, I side with Rachel a little bit. Sometimes I'm just like, I don't want to go through the fuss. I don't have to find something. Nope. I'm just, I'm good with this right now. Like, uh, and sometimes Spotify auto plays some random ones. Cause yeah, I think Rachel's like, I didn't, I'm not like following this podcast.

I didn't ask for this, but you've listened to at least one clip of them. Maybe one time. Yeah. Like I don't listen to walk in love every week by any means. But yeah, all of a sudden one of my podcasts got over recently and it just started playing walk in. And I was like, oh, I'll listen to this. Yeah, that's the whole thing.

It's great. Dating feels impossible. We've been saying that a lot in the house. Man, dating feels impossible right now. Yeah, that's funny. A rat race. What's her podcast called? I don't. Yeah, that's funny. The rat race. What's her podcast called? I don't know.

Janine's podcast. Unfiltered. Janine, nah, I don't know, that's probably not it. Janine. I'm finding it. Shout out to the Happy and Healthy with Janine Amapola podcast. Cool.

Was she the one that, was that the trip where it was like a really good sunset and you guys all clapped for the sunset? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Cause the wildfires, don't say the action. Cause the wildfires in like around Bay area at the time.

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Have a random little segment here It's another catchy one another catchy name. Okay, it's not relatable or not, dude It's not get off your val Valor get off your high horse is another really catchy name. It's called as a blank. Have you ever experienced this? Okay. All right.

And so some of these are- It is a good name. Yeah. Some of these are directed towards you. Some of these, I just need response from the ghosties, but we can talk about what our theories on them are. So first one, obviously not directed at you. As a woman, have you ever experienced the feeling

of your pocket bubbling up in the swimming pool? You know exactly what I'm talking about. Yeah, guys know. Especially when you don't have actual swim trunks on, you just have shorts on. How'd you come up with these? I just. Just brain? Yeah. Yeah, nice.

What do you mean? How do you come up with things? No, sorry. I didn't know if I like zoned out when he said like, you know, just random, random, relatable moments. Random. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Fun. As a woman, have you ever experienced the feeling of your pocket bubbling up? Like there's this feeling. I don't like it personally. Yeah. I don't like it either. All of a sudden you just got these two buoys next to how you get rid of them. It looks like you just farted in the pool. You just like shove them back in. Yeah.

Which is fine for a few minutes and then all of a sudden, Yeah. And you're like, I thought I got up there. Yeah. I got a small one somewhere. Do you think, do you think most women have ever even known that or like ever experienced that themselves? No, unless they were like, oh yeah, it's summer camp. I would wear my shorts over my, even in those small pockets. I was going to say girls don't even really have pockets.

No, not really. They get short change there. Yeah, literally. That's where the word comes from. Short change. Yeah. Oh wow. Etymology.

It's a fun time. As a non-church staff member, have you ever been in a large building alone at night and been creeped out? Yes. Yes? Yes. This, at Tax per marketer, like

that office space I'd work in. Sometimes I'd be there till like 9 PM. Yeah. And I'd have to turn off the lights and then like, it's not right by the door. So it's like in the dark, get to the door. It was terrible. It was awful. Big buildings when you're by yourself are so creepy, man. Even my house When everyone's asleep and it's dark, I'm like, I'm kind of scared right? Really? Yeah Yeah, it's a creeps creeps me out. You know, I'm feeling like I'm trying to think of a specific time But yeah big buildings dark. It's mind over matter man with you Yeah, any rationality of my mind is gone like all the anything

This is where everyone that like there's things that want to kill me Yes, yeah, it's weird or creatures. Yeah, I'm a big you know, especially late at night Those creatures are different creatures and I'm used to during the day, you know Raccoons are out. Yeah, I don't know how to deal with raccoons. I don't want to do what about you do night watch Yeah, that was different because you guys had a car didn't you? Yeah, that was crazy. Your night watch was different, because you guys had a car, didn't you? Yeah. We just walk. We did, yeah, that sucks. There was one part, K2 had like a back gate.

So you did have to get out of the car and close the back gate, and that was the worst, because it's in the furthest corner of camp, and there'd be these legends of, and true, they were true stories, but like, that's when you would get messed with. Like, hey, when they have to get out of the car, that's when we're gonna steal their truck

or do things to them or whatever. Like, that's when you got messed with. Yeah. So, but you had to get out and close the back gate. Oh, it was the worst. Yeah, so there you go. Dark, scary. Or is there no shadows in the daytime?

Is that what your phony phrase was that one time? Oh yeah, something like that. It's like all these shadows at night watch back in the day. What was that? Was that a tree or was that a deer that's going to come out and claw it? Rabid raccoon maybe. Of course it was a deer.

It's always a deer. As a non-Christian, have you ever been offended by someone telling you Merry Christmas? I'm just curious about that. I think, yeah, I don't, I don't, if someone, well, I don't know. I've never had somebody be like, happy Hanukkah to me, but I don't think I'd be like offended.

I'd just be like, oh, thanks. It's Christmas time. Or especially when a brand says it. If you're a non-Christian, are you more likely to be offended if a person says it or a brand says it? Brands feel easier to get mad at than a person, right? Like a brand, unless the brand is like somebody's name or something like that, like when I know that person.

Apple says it, it's like, where are they going? Kind of stance are they taking. As a non-jeep driver, we're all non-jeep drivers here. As of now. Have you ever experienced camaraderie with a stranger on the street based on the car you drive? You know how jeep drivers have the jeep wave? Oh yeah, the ducks.

The ducks. I've never once pulled up. I don't know of either of those things. I've never once pulled up next to another Honda Odyssey driver and been like, you love this car or what? Sportage. Yeah. I'll see other sportages and be like in my head like, Hey, like that's my yeah, but you're not like, no, but we've never connected over it or acknowledge each other. Right at all.

Yeah. Oh, you got an F-150? Me too. It's the most popular truck in America. We plenty of us. Yeah. Yeah. I think it has to be a Jeep or a motorcycle. Feel a comrade. Maybe so. Yeah. Last one here. As a person with long hair, have you ever experienced the itchiness after a haircut? You think people with long hair, you know, after you get your haircut, you got the little

hair and the inside your in there. Yeah. Change your shirt. Yeah. I don't know. Do you think, huh, do women like do girls? It doesn't seem like they would. It doesn't feel like little steps down here.

Yeah. It can't even get in your shirt. I don't think they get itchy. It's not getting in your scalp. I would, I don't think so. They probably don't get itchy. I also don't understand a lot of what goes on in a woman's hair. Just like when they cut it, how they cut it, layering.

What does that mean? Roots showing, I don't see why that's such a bad thing. And also, I keep wanting to say burnt ends. What's it called? Split ends. Split ends. Don't get that either. Do men, like, can you get split ends with short hair? Do you know?

I think you have to have like female, like body parts. Okay. Great. Burn ends though. We love burn ends. Yeah. That's the boy body part. Am I right, fellas?

Yeah, I know what I'm saying. So that's all I got. As a blank, have you ever experienced this? That's kind of fun. Brought to you by Mace Room. It's a unique creative writing exercise. Thank you. Yeah, feel free to do your own out there or jacretime it.

Yeah, those are good. It's gonna be hard for me to come over on the spot. As a blank, have you ever experienced this? The first one was inspired by the bubble in the- Just wondering if girls experienced it too. I was like, I was like, I wonder if I told this to Catherine, if she'd be like, what are you talking about? Cause every guy I think knows exactly what I'm talking about.

Oh yeah. But I think girls, I don't know. I don't know. That's why I'm asking. I'm trying to start the conversation. I got one. Yes. We have to start as a blank as a heterosexual man. Have you ever looked

at miles teller and thought, hmm. What is the meaning? I'll do it one more time. Is that a good home or is that like I don't I don't do it one more time. I'm sure I'm interpreting it. I think you interpret it either way though though No, I'll do it one more time Yeah, that was happier that was nice my answer is yes Brad I'll do it one more time hmm Not miles teller Some guys though. Yeah, yeah, not bad

You know miles teller Yeah, okay miles teller is like What noise would you make for him? Miles Teller is dope. I think Miles Teller is cool. What noise though? That's way more than James. That's more than mine. No, no, no.

Mine's like... Mine's like, mine's like, mine's like, dang, I want to, like, Patrick. No, no, no, no. Yeah, mine's like curiosity. It's like, ah... Curiosity is what? Yours is like, I'm, I'm all in. No, no, no.

I'm in. I'm in. I'm in. I'm in. I'm in. I'm in. I'm in. I'm impressed. I would do the same thing. You were sold for window shopping. He's cool, man. But it was nothing to look at, but Patrick Holmes, dope dude. Okay. You would say, you say, what would you do? What time it's hard. Okay, you would say you say

What would you do what time it's hard? Go ahead letterbox. I don't know. Give me a give me someone give me Harry Styles Okay, okay, give me my teller No yours is different, you had a little smile to your Mine was appreciative yours was more I Appreciate you and more no, I think Honestly, I was like I don't I don't see the miles teller like people like obsessed with miles teller I was like I can see I I'm not trying to be like so like Whatever that I can't be like I understand when a guy is good-looking Jake great-looking guy, but I'm not overcompensating now. It's getting weird. Degrade me. Now it's getting weird for me. Yeah. You can't see results

at all, dude. So I have looked at every inch of your body. I have not seen a single result. No, but I'm like, I just don't. Miles Taylor specifically is not one that I'm like, I just don't, Miles Teller specifically is not one that I'm like, obviously like, oh yeah, that guy's an Adonis. And that's okay. It's just the noise told a different story. Because I think I, I'm getting fired up. I think Miles Teller is so cool. I think Whiplash, you know how I feel about Whiplash.

I'm impressed that he was so young during Whiplash. He was like 26 when he filmed that. Random. How old do you think he looked? I think he looked like college age. How was his body looking at? Let's see. V-neck scene. I don't know.

Anyway, I just think he's cool, man. I think he's cool. So I'm like, dang, that guy's cool. Feel the same way towards Jensen, man. Jensen. We became Facebook friends yesterday. I think he just got a Facebook. Oh yeah. I was gonna say, I didn't know you even had one. Yeah. He's in the Facebook group now. Oh, fun. I was talking on the phone the other day talking about getting big. He was giving me some advice. That's cool. That's fun. He has gotten big and he was not like, you kind of assume he's

just like naturally big, but I think he was a string bean. Yeah. And he's a big boy now. Big bean. That's my noise for Jensen. Yeah, whatever. All right, that we did that. Good segment. That's my noise for Jensen. Yeah, whatever. All right, that we did that. Good segment. As a blank, have you ever looked at Miles Teller? Good segment. Who else would you rank up there? I kind of had a tough time thinking. I can't think of any off the top of my head. They're like, oh my gosh. Yeah, like, oh

maybe uh off the top of my head. They're like, Oh my gosh. Yeah. Like, Oh, maybe, uh, Ryan Gosling. He's a good looking guy or Reynolds. Wait, that's who no, they're no Gosling is good. Yeah. Yeah. Both. Both. Crazy stupid love. Ryan Gosling is like, I understand everything. Emma Stone's feeling this. Give me some cold water. He's just cool. Yeah. I've seen him in La La Land. Yeah. He's good looking in that. But then saw him in Fall Guy. Seems a little puffy now. Oh, puffy. Maybe water weight. Probably too much ATP. Working out too much. Hmm. Yeah. Good looking guy. Ryan Gosling. Remember the Titans? Too young. Too young for me. I like my men at least 26. Like Miles Teller. Yeah. Ryan Reynolds. Look at, look at Ryan Gosling and remember the Titans. You'll agree,

Tymon. He's too young for you. Okay. It wouldn't work out. Time is like, no, that's my perfect age. No, that's good for me right now. It's hard to like strongly agree or disagree too much with anything because then it's like, well, why? Yeah, whatever. Why do you care so much? Yeah. Yeah.

He's a little young. Yeah. A little young. Tom Holland seems he's a cutie, right? He's a cutie. He's like lovable, but also a good looking guy, but not really a man. See for me, he doesn't do it for me. Not my type. You don't think he's like lovably cute? He's a lovable guy.

I don't know if I've seen him in a single movie. That could be it. You should see Spider-Man. His Spider-Man is pretty good. You have to see Spider-Man. Dude,. His Spider-Man is pretty good. You have to see Spider-Man. Dude, it's awesome. It make you rethink the whole universe of Spider-Man. Thanks for asking that question, Jake. Going down that rabbit hole. Matt Stafford.

Who's that? That's your... Who is that? Typhind. Harrison Bunker? Apparently the girls like him. Well, they used to. I don't know.

Her life girls. Yeah. That's, that's what it looks like. That one guy that he's, he's like a, I don't know musical theater people. So Lin-Manuel, you Jackman probably you Jackman. Good looking guy. I was going to say the two, like this is more like rugged like in Prisoners, Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. Okay. Oh yeah, I like Jake Gyllenhaal. You were going like this first. You're like Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal. Oh wait, I shouldn't do that.

Anyway. All right. Good segment. As a guy, I don't want to hear what girls think. I shouldn't do that. Anyway. All right. Good segment. As a guy, I don't want, I don't want to hear what girls think. I wouldn't mind. I want to hear what some of the guys are like that guy's a stud. Yeah. Yeah. Make you say, Anyway, fun times.

Fun times. Should we wrap it up? I think we should. Winds of the week, you know, announcements's kind of like church at the end. Oh, and some. You do announcements at the end? I think my church growing up kind of did. On your way out, don't forget, next Friday, mission trip,

chili, meet up. All the things. My wind of the week is gonna be that I spent a lot of time editing a video about my baby of the week and Molly Beck playing in that tournament together and it performed really well and the comments are just unbelievably supportive of Rachel and Molly. It just, I love showing people off.

It's one of my favorite things in life, showing my friends off, showing my family off, showing Rachel off and Molly. So yeah, they, they did such a good job in the tournament and their personalities showed and everyone like Appreciated the things I wanted them to appreciate about like Rachel. I'm always so it was just fun it was a fun piece of content to create and to post and So shout out to the ghosties because I saw several of you there in the comments Some of you guys are just so loyal every time consistently commenting. So thanks. It's fun. Can't wait to do it again That's great.

My win of the week is very basement related, as a basement and general win of the week, but also my kids played down there. Like we weren't even done with the floors yet and Bo and Rose were like playing hide and seek, quote unquote, down there. I was like, Jordan, this is the first time in a month and a half my kids have played down here.

That's great. It's so good. And yesterday, just in general, I was like, Jordan, this is the first time in a month and a half my kids have played down here. It's like, it's so good. And yesterday, just in general, this is when our in-laws came in town and it was the cleanest our house had been in a long time. And I, I, everything like physically, I think I am a better person when the house is clean. Really? I like it like messes it like, yes, emotionally, like I am a, I need, I don't need it. And Catherine, I try to be very gracious because I know that Catherine sometimes gets stressed about if it's

whatever, like a mess or a wreck or whatever. She feels like it's all in her and it's not, but yes, it is so nice when things are put to put away and organized and cleaned up. And she even like went all, she did, she mopped, she, she did it did it all oh now mopping is that's next level I'm more of a I'm more of a tidy guy mopping I can give or take but I just like things being put back not just like all over the ground or whatever so man mopping is a real deal real deal so that's my one of the week timing you got one uh what I thought of was I just love a good spontaneous anything like hangout and me and Zach were both like happened to be kind of in town, Lennox area, played some singles at BDA.

Oh, wow. There's a lot of fun when it was like nice out last week. Yeah. I don't know what day was Monday. Maybe it was Sunday and Monday. Yeah, it was great, dude. Yeah. I want to walk with Catherine that day.

Do you know that? No, I didn't know you guys. Me, Rachel and Catherine. Oh, I didn't know that. I was like, you and Catherine. She's not. I'm kind that? No, I didn't know you guys. Me, Rachel and Catherine. Oh, I didn't know that. I was like, you and Catherine? I'm kind of alarmed that she didn't know. Yeah, to the pickleball, right? Yeah, it was like she was our chaperone.

We like walked there and she like dropped us off like, all right, you guys, I'm gonna head back. You have your fun. Yeah, don't do it. Yeah, stay that far apart now. Yeah, but nice days last week. I empathize or sympathize, don't know which one's which. With people from like southern states or something, it went from like 60 degrees or whatever that

was, 55. Next day was like 30 degrees. And I felt like it was the Antarctic outside. And I was like, I got used to it for like three days. It was nice. And then one day, whereas like a week earlier, it was like, I got used to it for like three days. It was nice. And then one day, whereas like a week earlier, it was like zero. I was like, I am, I am, I am so cold right now.

Weather can make you so short-sighted. Like, yeah, we had two, maybe three-ish days in a row over 50 degrees. Beautiful. And I took my winter coats and I like threw them as far away as I could in my room. It was like, I mean, I can't imagine ever needing those again.

We don't need those. Yeah, that's- I won't even need them next year. Yeah. I'll throw them as far away as I could in my room. I mean, I can't imagine ever needing those again. We don't need those. Yeah, that's- I won't even need them next year. Yeah. I'll throw them away. So real. I mean, it's the same thing, like if my house is cold, the way I dress changes.

I don't care what Stiffener says outside, I'm cold right now. Right. The way you shop when you're hungry, it can be so short-sighted. It's like, yeah, I need to buy all this. I'm hungry now. It doesn't matter.

Comment of the week? I got, oh, you're in your- I didn't mind, Comfort Podcast, all this. I'm hungry now. It doesn't matter. Um, comment of the week. I got, oh, you're in comfort podcast. Loved it. I got one. Great. Uh, from Facebook, Emma Everson comments, like posted, what was time and slip up? I think I missed it. Oh yeah. And Chris Dale said, I don't know. Maybe he got off topic. That was great. That's great. Uh, my comment of the week is coming from Misty Moments 89. She's a loyal, loyal commenter. Loyal Ameri-mount grad. I believe.

I believe she's a Gale. Are they the Gales? Go Brad. That's awesome that you're close to meeting your basement goal. How have you and Catherine been able to get through the construction? Well, a bold assumption to think that we've gotten through it. Well, bring in a third party, bring in a third party. Honestly, Catherine's been very gracious. That's been the main thing is just, yeah, she's been really wonderful and patient and doesn't complain, you know, when she has to, because obviously it's putting more on her plate as well with the kids and everything. And she's been very good, very supportive. I'm like, I'm going out to Home Depot. Okay, see ya, whatever. So she's been awesome. So that's main thing is just having a great wife.

But it has been like, there's been multiple times this past month where like things we would never miscommunicate on. We just didn't like, I was like, what aren't you supposed to be picking our picking her up, picking the babysitter up? She's like, no, I thought you were going to do that. I was like, so I have to leave right now? I'm not showered, you know, whatever, all these different things. So we've definitely had some head-to-head moments, but overall just thankful for Catherine. So that was a fun question, an opportunity to brag on her a little bit.

So shout out to my wife. My wife. So closing announcements this Friday, come to Laughs and Loves, Chicken Pickle North KC. If you're a dude in Kansas City, please live in my Olathe House. Got two spots open for you. And if you wanna work with me and Rachel at Bondi,

this spring, this summer, let us know. We doin' it? We goin' for it? I renewed my food establishment license, so you tell me. Cool. What are you lookin looking for in a, what kind of employees you want?

Reliable. Okay. But like hour wise, time wise. Social. Okay, but like just like. I can count on them. Like tangible like things that they can expect to do. I would say just like, they get it. Okay. They get it. They know how it's supposed to be done. That's as tangible as it gets right there

Yeah, I hate to get into the nitty-gritty, but good. Yeah, they get it. Yeah, I don't even need to look at the job description online I'm sure that's just hopefully you get it. Cool. Yeah, I think it I used to get so bogged down and like anxious because in my head bond I needed to be like this a bogged down and like anxious. Cause in my head, Bondi needed to be like this, a massive business. Empire. Yeah, yeah. And now I've had better peace of mind looking at it like,

it's just this fun little project. When it's open, it's open. Cause at this point I'm like, just get my money back. I don't even care about like profiting off this. It's just like, I've already sunk so much into it. So it helps me a little bit to look at it that way. Like we'll be open when we can. Maybe we'll wait till Rachel's out of school

and can help out more with it. way. Like, we'll be open when we can. Maybe we'll wait till Rachel's out of school and can help out more with it. Yeah, cool. That's kind of nice. We were just talking about Bondi. Oh, maybe because my in-laws were asking about the truck over there. What's going on?

You got some trashy neighbors over there. What's that truck in their driveway? Oh no, Hattie was like talking up Bondi though. It's really good. She had one ball, she's hooked for life. That's right. So she would work if you need. She'd be great.

Well, does she meet the criteria? Reliable, social, and gets it? I think she gets it. I think she gets it. I think she gets it. That's the main three things. Oh, this is a funny quick story to end the podcast. The other night I went to the KU game.

And so my, so Catherine was staying home with the rest of the kids. I dropped Hattie off at cheer practice and our friend, Alyssa military Bob's wife was going to take her home. Alyssa is the coach. And so Alyssa is hanging out, talking to the after practices over to this other mom and kind of like talking to her. But I think also kind of stalling because she was waiting for Hattie to get picked up. And I asked Catherine, I was like, so Alyssa like knows for sure, like that. Yeah, whatever. She's taking her home. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, it's military Bob's wife. It's a, yeah. She's got to be like, okay, Hattie, it's it's, you know, 1900, where are your parents? And yeah, she goes, Hattie is your mom picking you up? And Hattie goes, no, she's at home with, she's at home with, you know, my brother and sister and brother, whatever. Is your dad picking you up? No, he's at the KU game. And she goes, okay, well, do you know who's taking you home? Who's picking you up?

And she goes, you are fairly kind of like that. Like, so I don't know if she gets it completely, you know? I don't know if she's quite, you know, right? Like, and then Alyssa's like, oh my gosh, yes, that's right, of course, I'm sorry. But I loved that Hattie was just like, you're supposed to be the one to take me home. Hattie's kind of looking around like, isn't it obvious?

You have a car, huh? Why don't you look in the mirror and I'll show you. Yeah, you have a driver's license? Yeah. You tell me who's license? Yeah. You tell me who's picking me up. I do love that she was not too shy to be like, you know, that's for a great quality. Actually.

Right. Rather than like, no, you're right. That doesn't make sense because you're driving me home. You are. I bet it was not a rude sounding, but it sounds kind of like, oh, duh, you are, you know, whatever. Anyway, kind of funny little,, duh, you are, you know, whatever. But anyway, kind of a funny little. I bet that was fun to hear,

Alyssa tell you guys that story back. Apparently she sent Catherine a voice memo right away. You are. So, all right, hey, another great week of episodes. We always appreciate y'all. Appreciate time and being here. Yeah, I ratify. Ratify.

This episode. Ratify, brother. To go out. That's right. It's been good. Yeah, get your archipelagos in order. Get your continental drifts. Get your continental drifts.

In order. Don't continental drift away from what's important in your life. Don't let your morals, your values erode away. Yep. Don't let your morals, your values erode away. Mm-hmm. Yep. So. We're thankful, Aqua, for you guys. Good.

Happy holidays, happy Kwanzaa. I say Merry Chrismeth. Yeah, roll it from there, Ty. We love you guys. Chrismeth. Yeah, roll it from there, Ty. We love you guys.