Ghostrunners - 412 - Spin Zone

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

Jake had a great Valentine's Day, Brad can't stop watching Baby Driver, and they can spin zone anything in this two hour episode! 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

Woo. We good time? Yeah. We match today, Jake. Some dark Navy. Yeah. It's dark Navy day on the pod. But hey, this is, I know people like the podcast because we're happy, positive people, but I'm, I'm go ahead and believe this out time and I'm tired of that. Okay. I believe this. I went out. I believe this I went out. I'm f***ing tired of that too. I'm just... Let me start over. That was a cake. Hey, I'm just tired of being positive all the time. Is this for you? I'm sorry. I just got a phone call. Starting off hot.

Yeah, it's me. Hello? Is this thing on? Testing one two one two. Good start to the episode. All right. Yeah. So the whole idea of this thing is that we're going to complain about stuff. And then the other person's, we're calling spin zone. Jake's going to be positive. I'm going to be, Hey, it's not that bad. It's not that bad. Bones were meant to be broken. Yes. Yep. So let's go ahead and just start off real simple.

I'm sad the Chiefs want lost the Super Bowl. I'm sad. Okay. Spin zone. We got dominated in the Super Bowl. Time and biggest sports fan in the room. Tell them why that's okay. Cream Hunt got three carries on 11 snaps.

Because it added to there, there was one cool touchdown that was a highlight that you can watch over and over. All right. So spin zone. I think spin zone is at least we don't have to hear about rigging scripted referees are on our team. Hey, the team photo, where's the black and white stripes? We're the second best team. That's clearly better. Clearly better. Okay. Fair. You're right.

There was no doubt. It wasn't like, Oh, maybe, maybe we should have, uh, for the team. We're the second best team. We're the second best team. We're the second best team. We're the second best team. We're the second best team. We're the second best team.

We're the second best team. We're the second best team. We're the second best team. We're the second best team. We're the second best team. We're the second best team. We're the second best team. We're the second best team.

We're the second best team. We're the second best team. We're the second best team. We're the second best team. We're the second best team. That's clearly better clearly better. Okay fair. You're right. There was no doubt It wasn't like oh, maybe mm-hmm. Maybe we should have if we just would have done this one thing This one play would have gone our way Kelsey would have caught that one drop that he dropped instead of the six drops that he dropped Yeah, okay All right, I'll go again another one of my favorite favorite sports teams, KU basketball, just in the crapper right now. Just okay. We lost by almost 40 points.

Tied our worst to what religion? To the LDS religion. Okay. To the fighting Joseph Smith's out in Provo, Utah. Time to get a drink afterwards. Biggest sports fan in Mormon I know. Give me a spin zone. I didn't know I was gonna be involved in this segment I'm doing my best and I know a lot of its sports. So I'm gonna like just give me an analogy

Like give me a metaphor for how life is like basketball life is like basketball you there's There's ups. Yeah, and there's Missed three- three pointers. Yes. Thank you. So it's, it's, it's going to be okay. Yeah. Gosh. That's my spin zone is it's, it's okay.

It's all right. You considered it might be all right. Yeah, true. I haven't, this is exactly how I was hoping this would go. Rachel went to three years of graduate school to get her a license in professional counseling and most of, like when I would listen in on it, most of it was like, all right, now repeat after me.

It's all good. It's all good. There's ups and there's missed three points. That's all it is. The whole degree. Good. Thank you, Tyler. That's very good.

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 this is a Ghost Runners podcast Ghost Runners podcast Every Monday morning we're taking back Ghost Runners podcast Ghost Runners podcast There's ups, we know ups And then there's just like bricks Oh There's ups we know ups and there's just like bricks yeah

It'd be fun to do a whole segment with Tyman of Basketball terms, maybe we'll do it right now. Let's okay. What's a brick timing? In basketball didn't know that was the thing. I was I thought he was I didn't know what Jake was talking about All right, could you guess? Yeah, what's a brick a brick good thing or bad thing? Uh, it's a good thing. It's like oh that like That thing just like switch right into the hoop. That was a brick Yeah, bricks are known for just switching through Good. What about Al youp? I'll loop is like you I don't know if it's specifically I don't think it's specifically bouncing it off the backboard Maybe it is but like assisting someone in getting a dunk.

Very good. Okay. Yeah, good job. Okay. What about a fast break? Oh, no idea. That's, that's well, that's like the team is like gathered, go team. Let's fast break. Get out of there. Very good.

Yeah, it's like, all right, here we go. Painter's on three and we're doing a fast break. All right. Get this done quick. All right. One, two, three, Painter. What about an air ball? Doesn't hit.

Doesn't go in. Doesn't even hit the rim. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Technically it could hit the net and people would still consider an air ball. Okay. What about or backboard even, right?

Would you consider that an air ball? That might be more brick. That's a brick. Yeah. What about starting fiveboard even right? Would you consider that an air ball? It might be more brick. That's a brick. Yeah. What about starting five? Oh, the best five of the team. Okay. Very good.

Pretty much the people that start the game. This should be good. Euro step. It's like it's originated in Europe. Yep. But it's like the three step turn to like go a different direction. Pretty close. Crazy wrong.

All right. How about the wing? Well, this is like just people love like the flyovers at basketball games. Exactly. And so they're like they're just referred to as like the wing. It's like the basketball version. Yeah. Yeah. And home. Oh, check out the wings. There it goes.

Yeah. That B-2 bomber. How'd they get that in here? What else can a back door cut What in the world yeah, I it's a part of the airplane again prison move I was gonna say not a lot of talk about that one back door cuts kind of hard to explain even as like like to it non basketball player So yeah, if you don't know that much about basketball would be hard to kind of Explain it jump ball. Oh good because you're the one who knows bass line, you know, there's ups I know there's ups and there's jump balls and and they

That's just oh, it's at the beginning of the game you throw it up and you try to like get it on your side Good. Yeah, how about a buzzer? I mean, kind of. Oh, you're talking about like, oh yeah. Well that's, they called it, oh no, that's the tip off, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. They do jump balls. You want to quiz Brad Diamond? Well in the NBA, they do jump balls like that. Which is fun. Yeah. They should do that always. I know. Even though I would have never won one in high school, I was like, I'd still like to give

it a try. You would have won one though that you weren't supposed to win. Yeah, it would've been fun. That's all it takes is one time. And to do it at the free throw line, that's pretty cool too. Like if you and I did a jump ball together, you might win. That'd be fun, we should try that sometime.

Let's jump ball sometime. That's the only part of basketball we do. We just do that over and over. We meet at the park and run. Go do some the balls. So normally what happens with jump balls is when two different teams both think they have possession of the ball,

the ref will blow the whistle and say, neither person has obvious possession. So it's called a jump ball. And in professional, in the NBA, they will literally do the tip off like you're talking about. In college, or high school, or wherever wherever else it just goes back and forth between which team gets it on this jump ball, which team gets on the next jump ball. Gotcha. What about buzzer beaters?

That's like you score, right? Like maybe you like, uh, I think this is maybe right. It's maybe like you let go with a ball and then like the buzzer goes and you score. Very good. You're doing great. Yeah, thanks All right. Last one triple double Just when the score is three to two, yes Triple double I didn't know we're having a triple double today. Yep started off strong with the triple double Thanks time for that. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Good good improv exercise for time

You can do the same thing for us some time timing with theater terms if you want Yeah, thank you good good improv exercise for time. You can do the same thing for us sometimes timing with Theater terms if you want yeah letterbox terms whatever you're doing over there Timing your your monitor is in the way of where I don't see your face. It's fine You might my cameras all wonky it took a while for you get set up today So I'm not telling you to move you just kind of remind me of like mr. Wilson from home improvement I just normally you could see time and fine and today. Yeah. Oh, that's interesting Yeah, yeah doesn't look any different. I moved around things a lot of things around and I don't know if anything's better Like I'm like I do experience I might even go back next time like I moved everything but the Christmas tree today

Everything else got moved. Yeah So less on YouTube and Spotify Does it feel less weird to keep up a Christmas tree when it's literally a record breaking cold day outside though? Yeah, it is cold. Right? Is your Christmas tree in the living room still up? No, that's our role.

The chief season's over. Christopher tree goes down. Okay. Podcast studio. We don't have rules. No rules. Yeah. Doesn't matter.

But yeah, it is crazy cold. Rachel's out of school purely just because of the cold today. This is this like we've recorded two times of podcast to two sessions of podcasts in the time that Rachel has not been to school yet. Yeah. So today is Thursday, February 20th. The last time she had school was Tuesday, February 11th. That's wild. I'm pretty sure she got fired. Maybe she just won't just doesn't want to tell me there's no way she hasn't been fired. I'm pretty sure she got fired. Maybe. And she just won't just doesn't want to tell me There's no way she hasn't been fired. I'm getting these emergency alerts saying no more school. Yeah

Yeah, it's crazy. I think like Wednesday and Thursday conferences Friday. They were just like it's valentines Oh get out of here. Wednesday, Thursday were no Wednesday was snow day Thursday Friday You're probably right. Good for you. Yeah, Wednesday might have been snow day Thursday Friday conferences Monday Presidents Day Yeah, okay Taft we're not we don't need a day for Taft and then Tuesday snow Wednesday Cold Thursday Wednesday just soft. We're getting soft for Wednesday being off. Yeah, it's just the temp. I always heard that that was like a threat when I was in high school and we never got off.

So either it's- Oh, global warming, Bren. Way colder now, yeah. Or they're just getting soft. Like the roads were fine. Like has it gotten significantly colder? Cause I think even just three hours South of here where I grew up, I don't think it ever got this cold.

But I don't know, you know, kids, they got buses, you gotta stick, that's what we always heard, like, well, not only like kids sitting around at the bus stop, they're cold, but also like the diesel fuel itself, like can gel up when it gets cold. Yeah, maybe that's it. Maybe it's literally like,

cause just to me, it's like 12 degrees and six degrees, still feel the same when you're on a bus stop. Like, I don't think they're gonna be like, well, it's 13 degrees today, so let's go ahead and send those kids to school. But maybe if there's literally scientific, it will not, the buses cannot run in under five degrees. Today was some of the coldest I've ever been in

while still being in the Midwest. When I went to the gym this morning, the real temperature was negative eight. Yeah. Where you breathe in and your nose hairs kind of freeze. I kind of like it for a few breaths. And then you quickly get into your car. It's like you lose your breath a little bit.

Like I walked here, 80 some steps, whatever we say it is. And yeah, it was like hard to breathe kind of. Like not in like a, I'm panting way, but just in like a. I'm panting. Like not in like a, oh, I don't know how you get used to that, man. That's crazy. You know, but just in like a Brad got over my house and he started drinking out of a bowl. He was just panting. Yeah,

right. A belly scratch. I just laid there on the on the kitchen, kitchen floor. Just scratch me. It's funny because I'm flying to Phoenix later today and it will be a 90 degree difference. Wow. Just like quite a bit in one day. I gotta let my body know what's about to happen. So is it worth it to you to then just like suck it up for the 20 minutes,

depending on where you're parking, 20 minutes of getting from the airport to the terminal, like inside the, you know what I'm saying like, in other words, like, because then you won't have to, you know, pack your coat, pack your long stuff. Yeah. Are you going to do that? You think? Or are you going to point? Yeah. How much warm stuff do I still pack? Cause you can pack so light. Yeah. That's what's nice about flying South. Right. See why the geese do it. I, you know, traveling with train, having my expenses covered kind of ruined airport parking for me. Because once he started covering it, I was like, Oh, I'll do garage

parking. Which is how much do you think? How much is that? I don't know. $20 a day maybe. But so it's hard to have to go back to economy in the winter. Yeah. Economy, economy, because you have not only does it take a while once you get in the bus, but it takes a while for the bus to get there. They may not be there. No bad system. Yeah Well, Rachel also said she would drive me which is I was gonna tell me about what you're doing in Phoenix Like is it I'm assuming pickleball stuff pickleball. Yep doing that. This is originally we were gonna do like I Was like I mean months and months ago I was like, alright

We need like a winter warm Friday retreat for all six of us. And we're gonna do Naples, Florida, because it's kind of just like a big pickleball hub. In the weekend that we were gonna do it, we realized, hey, there's a PPA tournament going on in Phoenix. Oh, let's just do that instead. So we got an Airbnb with a pickleball court. I've spent a ton of time actually the last couple of weeks

coordinating and organizing with, who are the two types of people we film with when we go to these tournaments? Oh. Quiz for ya. Kids. Kids. Women.

I mean, that's a good guess. PPA, like professionals. Yeah, kids and pros. So it's a lot of just DMing kids or DMing parents of kids, trying to find them. And then, okay, the parents don't respond, but the kids do. I mean, like, and I'm happy to talk to your parents

if you wanna give me their number. You know, I'm definitely like, former camp counselor-ing, this whole thing of just like, and once again, happy to talk to your parents. Like include them please. I would really prefer to, no, but just trying to maximize our time there. So I've got a whole note in my phone of just kids

of just like when they're coming over to our house. Like 9 a.m. we got Ariana and Jada. 10 30 we got Kyle. Noon we might go to the courts. That's where we're gonna shoot with some of the pros. Michael, Elise, Tyra maybe. Tyra, sure. Then 3 p.m. come back.

We got Jaden and I think Andrew coming at three. And then at five, we got Rex and his partner. Rex. Yeah. Is that a kid or a kid? He's like one of the best like 15 year olds in the world. Interesting. Kids Rex still. Yeah. Asian Rex too. Oh, well, I got it. Yeah. That makes more sense. R-E-C-H-S. Yeah. That's cool. So yeah, it's a lot of like planning and coordinating and, oh, here's one fun thing. I hired from within being Ghost Runners. Yeah. Hired a ghostie named Caleb to be our videographer.

Nice. Come to find out he's not local to Phoenix. So at this point it's like, oh, I guess could have just hired Timon at this point, but whatever. So it's like someone else is flying in to Phoenix. So at this point, it's like, Oh, I guess could have just hired time at this point, but whatever. So it's like someone else is flying in to Phoenix to shoot with us. But whatever, I'm excited to meet him. And I think our fights are going to land around the same time tonight. And he's going to like shoot with us all day for like two days. So, so you're staying Friday, Saturday, come back Sunday. Yep. Okay. Fun. Yeah. Got the pool heated.

Got a pickleball court in the back. Nice. And so yeah, it'd be a couple fun days in the desert. That sounds like, yeah, Saturday we're actually going to like play in the tournament. So, okay. It'd be fun. First time bumping up to 4.5. So is it you and Isaac playing together and then Scott's playing with somebody else? Scott and TJ are going to play together and TJ's coming to you. Okay. Nice. So yeah, good crew. It'll be really fun. And then you're going to South Dakota next week and it's South Dakota next week. Yeah. So yeah, good crew. It'll be really fun. And then you're going to South Dakota next week. And it's South Dakota next week. Yeah, a little comedy game.

Wow. So you're going far South this time, far North next time. Yep. The guy texted me a couple of days ago. I was like, pumped to have you next weekend. We've already sold 1,100 tickets for Thursday and 750 tickets for Friday. Jeez.

And I was like, dude, that, I just did a gig for 60 people. So that is awesome. 1100. This might be one of the best private gigs in the country. I mean, this is, it's going to be awesome. Are you, do you know much about like, yeah, the event itself? Like, is it just you performing? Like, I think someone is going to be opening for me who's like a pastor. And also someone I think after me, who's like giving the message.

So it's like a date night thing for a church. Still, that's huge. I didn't know there were that many people in North Dakota. I know. That's wild. Sioux Falls. Wait, did I say North Dakota earlier? South Dakota, either way, same.

Maybe I said North Dakota. I said, you're going North. It's confusing when they call it South Dakota. But so far North. Yeah. Fun. So that'll be really fun. And yeah, and he's like just do 30 minutes and I was like, oh A packed full room of 1100. That's no problem. Yeah. Okay. So tell me you want to talk about the chicken pickle. Sure. Yeah, um Just as a whole last friday valentine's day. Yeah

Great day great day just a just a great valentine's day. Um Woke up and mean from what I remember, I remember, Rachel and I went and worked out together. So that's always fun because she got fired. And then she's got plenty of time on her hands these days. From there, my dad and uncle were in town, which I'll talk about this a little bit later, but my grandma passed away. So that's why they were in town. Oh, sorry, dude. It's okay. were in town. Oh, I'm sorry, dude. It's okay.

That's crazy. Yeah, it was crazy. It was my mom's mom who was like, she was extremely healthy. Whoa. Yeah, it was like very, very sudden. I'm sorry, man, that sucks. As sudden as like an 82 year old woman can pass away.

Sure. It was kind of crazy. I mean, she was like making dinner that day. She was like super active. This was kind of crazy. I mean, she was like making dinner that day. She was like super active. This is kind of a funny story, but so she, she calls my mom and I was like, Hey, I'm not, I'm not feeling too great. Yeah.

At night, my mom was like, you want me to come over? She's like, yeah. But it's on my mom got over there. She already called 911. Ambulances there. They're having trouble with like the stretcher. And so my grandma just walked into the ambulance herself. I got it. I've seen how to, wow.

Yeah. And then ended up, dang dude, going into cardiac arrest and passing away that night. But so my dad and uncle come up to Kansas City because that's where the funeral is gonna be. Gotcha. And they have come up because they're gonna be, they have to sign some stuff, I think, with funeral home

and they need to drop off some clothes. And they had an appointment at 10 a.m. And so they off some clothes and they had an appointment 10 a.m. And so they're like, all right, hey, 11 a.m. Let's go to like Oklahoma Joe's or something. Yeah. It's like, oh, this is great. Rachel loves ribs. And so.

Yeah, Rachel can eat everything on the menu right now. They drive all the way up to Kansas City. The woman doesn't show to the appointment. What? The funeral home woman just doesn't show up. And they'd already kind of had some problems with the funeral home. They were not happy. Spin zone. Yeah. Spoo. That's a tough one. All right, let me let me cue you in again.

So days after my grandma passed away, my dad and uncle drove all the way to Kansas City together to meet with the woman at the funeral home and she did not show up. There's nowhere to be found. Spin zone because Brad's spun around in his chair by the way. Spin zone. At least they have some people in Kansas City they're excited to see and they get to see them. And you know what? Now they're not pressed for time. Great spin. Great spin. Thanks. That's a tough one. I was not expecting to have to spin.

That is a tougher spin. Yeah. I didn't ask you to spin my grandma's death, but you know, that would have been tougher. Yes. I can do that later. She lived a great life. Yeah.

So yeah, I guess it was like, well, at least we can all hang out. And it was fun. So me, Rachel, my dad, your coach, we all just go to Oklahoma Joe's together and John eats the most ribs I've ever seen a human throw down. We have a blast. He swears up and down. He's done eating He's promised he's like no seriously like yeah like after this I'm done eating Like what kind of place is that? Oh just at the end of the meal? Yeah, I think he was just like no seriously

Like I had a good run. Oh, I'm all good with you. It's over And saying it like no seriously like I had a good run. Oh, I'm all good with you. It's over And saying it like really seriously. Yeah Yeah, it was fun. I'm glad this is my last meal, but I think I'm good on eating That Oklahoma Joe's Joe's Casey, whatever will do that to you. I guess just like man I don't need anything else for us my life. This yeah, this is it. This is the pinnacle dude I hadn't had french fries in a month. So my goodness, the seasoning there, dude, we're good. So yeah, dude, Hattie and I like Hattie is started to really share my love for Joe's fries,

which if you haven't had them, I think they're genuinely the best french fries in the world. They are. They're underrated. They're so good. They're almost as good as the Bart, like the meat, like I think, and Hattie has really developed it. So now like we like dream of days where it's like we could just you and me sometimes just go out and just buy French fries. Just eat them. Like that would be our that would be our whole thing. It's like we just talk to each other and eat French fries. That's amazing. How great and she was and now she's like so excited about that idea. And the helpings are massive. So you really could share a bag of fries. Yeah, you can easily share between two people. So

That's great. Okay, so there we go straight to our Valentine's day festivities. We only had like the little time in the afternoon. And, uh, the thing I was taking Rachel to was right next to Joe's. So we just went there, three story bookstore. Um, was it the one that I was thinking of across from, like on 39th Street? Yeah, I think so. Okay. Right next to a liquor store where there's a guy kind of screaming, like at all times. Yeah, like in like a weird accent.

Yeah, it's across from Blue Koi, I think. Okay, yeah. Yeah, it's really sweet. I mean, it just looks like they need to shoot a movie in there. Yeah. It's really cool. And then from there, it's not that that was nice. I don't know Rachel would like that.

Man, she one-upped me. It was not a massage, but that was a good guess. From you last week, she took me to Petland and she had called ahead, that's what the appointment was for, she had made like an hour-long appointment for us to pet a golden retriever. That's awesome. It was awesome.

Yeah, a whole hour. It was like one of those things where I was like, wait, did I say this? I didn't say this out loud to you. I was like, I don't know how she knows me so well, but probably just like a week ago, I was specifically cleaning up, doing something in the garage and thinking like,

I could go for a little dog time. Even as like a single guy, I never really felt that need for companionship. I was like, yeah, I need to get married someday. But I did pretty good with loneliness. It wasn't some hole I needed to fill. But for whatever reason, that does come up with,

kinda wanna just wrestle around with a dog. I never had that with a girl. But not like I need a dog. I just want it every once in a while. I need my fix. I need a fixed dog. Yeah, while. I need it my fix. Yeah. Yeah. I need a fixed dog Yeah, oh that's around with okay. Okay. Yeah as your dog fixed. Yeah, but yeah, Jake just pet him last week It's fixed all the time whenever Jake's in the moon a month over at Jake's house.

It gets fixed all the time whenever Jake's in the moon. Dude, that's awesome. So I was like, I don't know. You read my mind. Just last week I was like, I need to pet a dog. So they're puppies, I'm assuming. Yeah. So it was like, I don't know how well I'm not good with babies or dogs looking at them and being like, oh, your age is this. Me neither, dude. So there's, there's some babies out there that are huge. Yeah. And they're three months old. Yeah. Like you're bigger than Henry. So I don't know. There's other ones. That's like, there was one time, dude, I'm not gonna say who it is, but you and I both know who this person is. And I asked how old their son was. And he told me, and I laughed out loud because I thought he was joking. There's no way that huge kid is that age. So, and I, it was before I had

kids and I was so embarrassed. I think about that. I thought about that like last week of like, Oh, that was bad. I shouldn't have done that. That's like in your highlight reel of like bad social moments. Like that was a mistake. I didn't know him very well at the time. And so anyway, and Jonas isn't that big. That's the craziest part. And so anyway, and Jonas isn't that big Yeah, I barely even knew his kids parents like yeah So, I don't know but definitely a puppy. Okay, and

Yeah, just a perfect just golden chamber puppy. Just the the color you're imagining just amazing And yeah, we get in this little just like booth with it May I spin zone complain they must It must be some sort of Also, I challenge you next time to spin around without making contact with anything else in in the studio They they must Doll up these puppies with some type of like chemical before you pet them. I don't know if it's for the puppy's protection or for my protection, but this thing stunk the high heaven.

So it's like, here's your golden, have fun for the next hour. And then your hands wet and they smell bad. Spin zone. They make really good smelling soap that you got you have some of your house that can take away some of those stinking to high heaven things. Decent smell. I know it was tough. That's a tough idea. Like this is all around bad. Okay, maybe I didn't get worms. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, either. Yeah, what would smell worse on your hands that those chemicals or ringworm ring Hard to say. Yeah. I also have trouble believing that pet land is like doing whatever has the pets best interest

Yeah, all right. That is a good like I don't know if it's there do it benefiting the dog Fair I'm glad that you already like kind of feel that way towards pet land Oh cuz we're gonna get into this pet stores in general are like these like rough back and forth any Just found a any building with a roof on it at all that has more than two dogs in it Yeah, I don't care if they're the best breeder in the world. It's just like I don't know I just feel like they're not totally happy. You're not totally happy. You know something's off. It stinks in here Sorry, let me die grass real quick. There was one time I've, I don't know why I've never talked about this. I don't know.

Maybe it's cause it's not that like great of a story, but like I was walking around over by Von Maher. You know where that is? Von Maher. Von Maher. Yeah. And, uh, over by Busters over by Dave and Busters over by dog Topia. There's a place called dog topia over there. Oh, that's near beef jerky warehouse. Isn't it? Dog topia sounded like the most dystopian place I've ever heard of like dog topia.

What goes down there? I think it's like a doggy daycare, but it sounded like it was, they were, you know, one stage away from mustard guests on these dogs or something. Or like a dog sort of dog brothel. It was kind of red light. Maybe dude, but it would sound like they were not having fun. So you were, you could hear. Yes, you can hear them like screaming, screaming and yelping like,

how close is dog? Yeah, not that close. Where were you going? I was walking around. No, this was like, uh, where I was in the stage where I was like trying to walk every single day You're gonna be Turkey world. I was on a phone call. It was actually like it was on the phone call with the woman From sycamore Creek right before Branson like okay sure enough details. So you're just walking by storefronts Walking by your outdoors so you can hear the yell

I'm like walking by like kind of in a back alleyway. So like, I don't think you're supposed to be able to hear this from dogtopia. Oh, they sound proof the front. Ha! Ha! Yeah, I was busy fixing a dog at the time. What is happening? Sorry, Lisa, you're gonna have to,

I'm gonna have to be on mute here real quick, but. Yeah, what goes down there? I don't know, dude, but it was something. I'll tell you that much. So this isn't the exact same thing. Now I'm digressing from that, but. I have a scam call. Yeah, go off.

Yeah, who is it? This says it's gonna be a scam. You better not be scamming me. Hello? I'm just kidding. Hey, how are you? Are you there? Thursdays, huh? Cold work. All right. I

Never had a me brought up the weather and then he got out of there. Yeah, maybe he's like this guy this frickin guy Anyway, sorry Not it's been so cold that I for whatever reason our friends It's just been so cold that I for whatever reason our friends Do I have a complaint are you did you sense a complaint coming on mr. Spin Okay, sure, you know we can yeah Say you're like Twana, oh we're doing're doing a game? This is my sweet spot. Give me a spin.

It's been so cold that for whatever reason I started thinking about our friends who have chickens. Ah, Sam Hinniger, his wife, Ashlyn. So I just texted me yesterday. I was like, how do chickens do in the, in the cold? They live at just the middle of suburbs, but they got chicken coop in the backyard. And he was like, I looked online, I guess they do fine. He was like, I covered them.

He sent me a picture. He covered it with tarp, and then he barricaded it all with hay and everything. He's like, they're warm and cozy. And from the look of it, when you see snow coming down and it's bitter cold, I was like, dude, it's kind of a dogtopia. I was like, what some people call warm and cozy. Other people call reminds me of the Holocaust.

I mean, you got other people call cruel and unusual punishment. They'll be skinnier when they come out. Yeah. Lean meat. Okay. Yeah, I got it. It did not look warm and cozy. Are they in like an enclosed like they have a roof? Yeah, I got it. It did not look warm and cozy. Are they in like an enclosed, like do they have a roof? Yeah, they have a roof. Okay. Look like you put like a little tarp over it to keep the snow out. But yeah, there's barricades, you know, they're just like some hay bells. Yeah. You know, cozy for a chicken, maybe. Yeah. Catherine's parents have gotten chickens kind of in the last year or two. And they said the same thing. They're like,

we thought we needed like heat lamps and stuff, they're like, no, it turns out they'll be all right in the cold. But it's real cold here, so I don't know. It's really cold, yeah, this comes back to the horse leg conversation we had. It's like they just don't have, yeah, I guess chickens are mammals, so who knows how they work.

Horses are amphibians though. I think they can swim. Yeah, that's true. Horse boat. Yeah, horse boat. Valentine's Day, Pat Land. Yeah, that's true. They're horse boat. Yeah. Valentine's Day. Pat land. Okay. So yeah, right away, just the whole building kind of smells bad, which that's probably unavoidable. I don't place with 20 dogs in it. Spin zone. At least it's heated. At least you're inside. True. I was warm. That's right. And then the dog smells bad, but it's all good.

We're excited. I'm like, this is the cutest thing. I can't believe you did this. This is awesome. It's we're just having a blast. We're petting the dog. And right away, kind of the handler, the guy comes over. Handler.

I don't know what to call him. The dog drop offer. And just like very serious. Like, I guess my expectations of like an employee at Petland would be a little more bubbly, a little more smiley. We saw no smiles from this guy. He kind of reminded me of Xerxes from 300.

If you want to kind of imagine that kind of got it. Very stoic. Yeah. Very serious. I think he had a nose ring. Okay. Those things. And just like, so what brings you in today?

Oh, we just love dogs and you know, you never know, you know, or I'm not trying to act like we're not completely not here just to pet it. And anyway, okay, we'll have fun with the pup. And let me know if you need anything. Love calling it the pup. Yeah. And so we are we're having fun. And of course, Rachel's all of a sudden just like, should we like

to feel like, I don't know, he's like really serious. And I think she just enjoyed the dog. She's like, I don't know, maybe. I'm just like, yeah, maybe. Even though knowing we're not going over this dog. But yeah, I don't know. Yeah there it is great Kind of interrupt and ask do you know how much it costs? We will get okay. Thank you. I'm like glad you asked I bet it's so expensive at petland. Yeah, we'll get to that Um, I think guy comes over a little bit later. It's just like hi guys Are you oh, can you can you put the dog down put the dog down off the bench? Were you more those like cubicle things?? Yeah cubicle things little like pony wall You know four foot tall thing like a petting zoo type thing. Okay. Yeah, what is that from the office reverse petting zoo?

animals pet the humans Yeah, it was like worst boat. Yeah, we were in there Um, and I guess i'm not so to have the dog on the bench even though we're both on the bench Doesn't seem like a great place for the dog., whatever. Oh, yes. I'm sure I'll bench in basketball Well, it's just your warm-up. It's it's like Well, it's when it's like a celebration you you're like, oh you're Yeah, let's bitch and they kind of they kind of do like a bench press and then sometimes it's like the strongest teammate in like the lightest Team and it's like he'll just bench him oh yeah

surprise yeah okay dogs on dogs on the bench you got a dog on a bench and Put put the pup down please. Oh, sorry okay. He's very familiar with pet lands um you know who knows what it's called renter protocol Program No, I'm not. Pulls out a binder. And just starts going page after page of this binder.

While we're trying to pet this dog, whatever, we're kind of taking turns being nice. You know that when it's like, I'll be nice for a little bit, and then I'm gonna go back and pet the dog. Now Rachel's nodding along for a little bit. Whatever. Skip ahead a little bit,

and it's kind of fun having a dog that's unnamed because every 10 seconds I just gave it a new name. That was kind of fun. Hey, hey Mugsy. Mugsy would be a good name. That was what came to mind. Bogues. Yeah, Bogues would be his friend.

But Mugsy starts peeing on the ground. Yeah, you know it's gonna happen eventually. Yeah, that's fine. Well, he doesn't see it, so then he steps all in it and really spreads the scent around pretty quickly. Pretty hilarious though, because it's so slippery that he can't walk anymore. So it was actually kind of cute,

even though urine's getting everywhere. And so we're like getting the guy to come over, hey, I'll clean him up, I'll be back, you go into this cubicle next. Okay, go over there. And then, I'll clean them up, I'll be back, you go into this cubicle next. Okay, go over there. And then, I forget how it happens, but he's like, would you be interested in seeing some payment options?

And we were kind of curious how much it cost, I was like, sure, yeah. He goes back and he hands me, it looks like he's handing me the bill at a restaurant. Like it's got the pin in it and it's got the receipt. And he's like, it looks like he's handing me the bill at a restaurant. Like it's got the pin in it and it's got the receipt. And he's like, here it is. Like expecting me to just like sign for it right there.

I look at the price for this one dog, $5,700. No way. From Petland. No. Like if you look online, it's like, yeah, a nice breeder. You might spend three grand in my head. I was like, it's going to be a high, high, crazy number, like $3,000. That's like the highest in that would be insane.

Like a California in my head breeder. Maybe there's people out there. They're like, yeah, we've spent that much on our dogs. More power to you as somebody who doesn't know that market. $3,000 seems insane to me. So basically twice that. Because we even looked it up, there's like a breeder in Iowa. It's like $2,000 for golden retrievers.

I think that's like the going price in the Midwest. What? But this one's got chemicals all over it. Yeah, and likes to pee. So $5,700 for one dog. We couldn't even believe it. Is it like one of those like iPhone things where like, I don't pay forever.

You pay 5,700, but yeah, it's dog forever. You can just take it in every two years and replace it. I didn't ask about that. Yeah. It can get like a, yeah, Apple protection on it or something. I'd like to get some type of like a highway protection on it.

Apple care. Yeah. Kind of thing. That would be nice. Screen protector. Like if his, you know. Yeah. Do I need a case? little bit of a protection on it. Apple care, yeah, kind of thing. That would be nice. Screen protector, like if his, you know. Yeah, do I need a case? Do you need a case? How waterproof are they?

I said water resistant, what's that mean? How do you charge it? Yeah. So it's like 5,700. That's nuts, dude. The receipt comes with a pen that is already uncapped. This is important because Mugsy gets his little tongue on it. I don't even notice this,

but I think he licks the pink pen like twice. I don't know what this ink is made out of, but it's just like expanding all over the dog's tongue. And now the dog licks its nose, and so now it's on his nose. So now anything like the front of his mouth touches or he licks, pink is getting everywhere. It's on our clothes and it's on the bench

and it's on my shoes and it's just all over. And so then we're kind of like, I guess we tell him he's making another mess now. And while pink is getting everywhere and we're trying to like scramble to this, then he takes a massive dump in there and dude, a dump out of water, oh, it stinks. Golly, golly, because they're probably not feeding them, right?

So yeah, who knows what? Oh my. It's so very quickly. It was like, this is so fun to like, yeah, get me out of here. Right. This is awful. It went from dogtopia to dystopia. It did. It did. It was like this dog made three messes in 30 minutes. We do not need a Seriously, I mean in a contained area made three messes 30 minutes fifty seven hundred dollars So we're like, let's just get out of here. Let's just go right now

Yeah, I would just if the guys like so everything I mean like I mean look around What do you think we're thinking basically so he So he so we're like, hey, dump. He comes back over. What's the problem? Look, that wasn't from my wife. Like it's from your dog. And so we're like, I think so. I mean, we are like scooting out of their space. It smells awful. So this guy is standing in it, talking to us now outside of it.

And he's like, were you wanting to purchase the pup today? No, I think we're good. Thank you,, but no, I think we're gonna head out. Oh, what was, what's holding you back? And I'm like, wow, he like really wants to have a conversation while he's standing. Take a few guesses, bud. He's standing like in the poop. That's the most shocking part about all this.

In the pee, right? Or how do you already clean that up? Different cubicle. Oh. We moved. I just can't believe how he's standing above this poop. Like, ask him more questions. He's gotta be AI or something. Yeah.

So what's holding you back? And it was like, well, to be honest, we were not, I think the price is a little much. He goes, well, what price were you expecting? Kind of like condescending. I was like, all right. I was like, well, to be honest, we both grew up on farms. We've never paid for a dog before, so we didn't even really know what to expect.

Yeah. And he's like, well, we have a, we have payment plans. That's something you'd be interested in. I bet you do. $5,700. I said, well, I mean, that's still the same amount. A payment plan doesn't make it cheaper. Sometimes it makes it more.

And then he counters by saying like, well, our interest is only 5.9. And I was like, so that's even more money. Do you know how that works? That's not good for me. It's so I mean, I just, you just negotiated in the poop. It was awful. Wow. It was hard to get out of there.

That's yeah. I mean, also who does, who does serious business for $5,700 with a pink pen? Like that's what I'm saying. Like bring it, bring a nice black one. If you're like, you know, like if you're doing like a signing day for your5,700 with a pink pen. Like that's what I'm saying. Like bring up a nice black one. If you're like, you know, like if you're doing like a signing day for your house, you're not like, do you want the pin that has 16 different colors on it that you can press down on gel pin day? Yeah, right. It's like, no, no, no. You bring that heavy black pin, like a fountain. That's a great point. So 5,700. I couldn't believe it.

Is that crazy to you, Timon? Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. I would have nothing I would guess maybe higher and yeah, two three maybe right like if it was like I would never pay that much for a dog but then 5700 is Absolutely wild I went to that pet store. I think I talked about the podcast had the monkey inside of it Yeah, and they had dogs there that were tiny little dogs for multiple, like maybe $2,000 or something. And I was like this, and they weren't even like, they were like tiny dogs that were going to stay tiny. And so when you said, I went in my head, I was like, it's

going to be more than 2000. I know that much right now, but like 5,700 is, that is a, that is a solid reasonably mild Toyota Camry. Yes. Yeah, like dogs are great in that a dog or a kid Take me to Washington and back like Yeah, you you could take a family of four on an African safari. Yep. Yeah, you get a used car Yeah, or you get a dog that could get sick get hit. Yeah, who knows what could happen? You don't really want to spend a lot of maintenance on a dog. That's wild, dude. Well, don't tell Rachel's mom this story because I'm still holding that hope that someday they're going to have more labs and they're going to give them away for free

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Oh my, that's great though. Okay, so all that to say, Valentine's Day was a good time. Yeah, that was fun. It gave us a good story and a fun debrief. And then from there, went home, showered, and then straight to the comedy show. I think we filled it up, and there was like 60 people there that night, which was fun.

Tymon's friend, Zach, came and filmed a little bit. All right. I tried to, so I was the one checking people in. So I would find their name, I'd give them a wristband. And I loved getting that time, because I'd be like, where'd you come in from? And like, how'd you find out about it? I was so curious how they found out about it. Yeah. Probably 40 to 50% were ghost hunters fans. So that was cool. Cool. Um, I don't know what I expected, but that was great. People that you'd met before or mixed. Try half and half. Okay. You know,

some, some household names. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hannah Warner, of course, a curse, a curse, uh, Joan, her husband, which Hannah Warner, course a curse a curse Joan her husband which Hannah Warner I should have thought this beforehand our last ghost runners getaway She won the prize was like free tickets to come see Jake live and then it was like hey I'm not going on tour a train anymore and then you know, we like renegotiated and then I didn't even think I should have got Her just free tickets to this to see Jake live. She sees you at volleyball Are you in charge here for that? Yeah. Yeah. Bummer. So I felt in hindsight, I was like, oh, that's bummer that she paid for that, but

we'll figure something out. Yeah. And then it was, I mean, there were probably 11 different ways that people ended up there, which is kind of cool. Some people were like, oh, I just got an email from chicken and pickle. Cool. And that was kind of fascinating too, to think about like, the place you go play pickleball at emailed you that there was going to be a comedy show on Valentine's Day for a comedian you've never heard of and you're here. Like thank you for like believing enough in me. Like if I got that email, I'd be like, Oh, that guy's probably terrible. You know, if you just haven't heard of them, you know, maybe that just a sinister view

of maybe they have heard of you. Did they seem like they had like at least known friday? It didn't feel like it Reading emails from their pickleball Local pickleball place. Maybe they're at least a little into pickleball There were some like good signs like um, there were two women who came and they said they were there because I posted In casey pickleball's Facebook group, but they didn't know about Friday Pickleball yet. I was like, now that's interesting. That's actually good.

That means there's more audience to capture. For sure. Yeah. The people who are really into Pickleball in Kansas City still know about us. All right. We there's a lot more subscribers out there. Interesting. So that was another one.

One guy was like, my mom told me to come. Okay. So I think his mom must be a big fan. I think so, yeah. Yeah, a few different reasons. But it was really great and trying to think what else. Oh, one, there's a foursome there, all ghosties. I was like, where'd you guys come in from? And they were like Des Moines.

I was like, oh, I gotta bring it now. Yeah, really? Came in from Des Moines for this? Yeah. That's fun. A couple other people, they're big Friday fans. They came from like two hours away, Marshall, Missouri. So it was like, I was like, it felt like a real show. It's like people are driving in for this. Yeah. Awesome. That's cool, man. Um,

yeah, it was fun. Uh, you know, it was my first time like selling tickets. I don't know if I want to get in the habit of selling my own tickets. I kind of like to pay me upfront. Yeah. Pay me upfront. It's nice. A little bit less stressful, less. Uh, yeah. More, more just like guarantee. Yeah.

But I will, people are great. The, the joys were their last name. Okay. Cool. One girl's name was Betsy. I heard Benson called her Benson a while. Not her name. Benson.

Okay. Let me guess. Beautiful things. Your favorite song. Yeah. Name was Betsy. That's okay. Let me guess, Beautiful Things, your favorite song? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, her name was Betsy. That's okay. Scott brought me up, Scott did great, had a few, cracked a few jokes.

What did he say? I don't remember now. What was it? I think one joke was something about like, when we sat down to start Friday Pickleball, we always said, we want to be performing, you know, at Chicken and Pickle or something like that. So, and yeah, it was a great show. It was like their roof. So there's not a stage or anything.

I'm just on like the ground floor. Oh, you were up at like where we did the VIP thing? Yes. And that's like open air, right? Was it cold? No, they, they, uh, They closed off. Yeah. Like the, the inside of where we did the VIP thing.

Oh, you know, So 60 people in there is like good. It wasn't bad. Yeah, like the the inside of where we did the VIP thing. Oh You know they do 60 people in there's like it wasn't bad. Yeah, it felt foolish. Okay. Yeah You're just like ground level with them. They did have some string lights up. So I was able to turn off all the other lights I think that helped a little bit. I didn't help out Zack, but that probably helped a little bit They had a wireless mic setup speakers not not enough amperage Like if you talked to any kind of volume it would uh it would peak so i kind of performed quietly that's a bummer you know just or else it would get distorted so was it just too loud of a like you think the microphone the speakers were turned up too much then yeah i don't know if it's like the gain on the mic was too high you know there might

have been some adjustments but it was like ah i, I'll just like, I'll just go be really dramatic. And then I told her that's not dry shampoo. Yeah, maybe that maybe you're like, maybe you're like developing a new style of comedy. Like you're gonna be the quiet guy. I've, I've done shows before where my throat is hurting really bad. And Alan has told me, he's like, I really like your like sore throat performances. He's like, you have a different like delivery to you. It's kind of like, yeah. Uh, John Lennon back in the, like twist and shout, you know, the song, is that John Lennon?

Uh, yeah, no way. Yeah. The Beatles sing twist and shout. Yeah. You're like making me. Sorry. Well, no, I don't know who sings it. That just blows my mind. I don't know. They, wow.

I think he, I, Timmon, you can look this up if you have time over there. But I think he was like sick or something the first time they recorded that. And so he kind of like just screamed out, shake it up baby! And somebody does it live. He's like, I can't, it's hard to mimic that.

People are like, I kind of like you when you were sick kind of thing. What song am I looking up? Beatles, Twist and Shout? Twist and Shout, origin story, John Lennon, Sick. Scratch, Muse and X. Screamo. Anyway, so yeah, you're just being a little more dramatic

with it. So, my bidet. Yeah, that was true, man. Has four settings. Is that it? Yeah. Okay, cool. Not bad.

And then just to wrap it up, it was, oh, I know what else happened that day We uploaded a YouTube video there was crushing one out of ten and we posted the shark tank video the time and edited people are also Loving that so it's just there's a lot of dopamine Yeah, it was like just like man what a day and afterwards when I played pickleball. Everybody was great Really long day got home at like midnight really great day good valentines. Yeah long day long day. Got home at like midnight. Really great day. Good. Yeah. Long day. Long day. That's great. My Valentine's was not like that at all. I'm trying to remember what we did. We did do the heart shaped pizza. Okay. And we watched the love bug. Love bug. Herve it. Herbie. Fully. Yeah. Herbie. Fully loaded. The original one back in the day is called the love bug. I didn't know that. You're seeing it timing. No, but I've heard of it old movie. It's pretty awesome. Actually, I mean we watched it because how you thought It was an appropriate name for Valentine's Day. That's nice. Even though it's not really I don't know why they call it a love bug Cuz it's a VW bug I guess like bug anyway, that was fun and then

Katherine has been sleeping poorly for a while. And so she just was like, I'm gonna go, I got like, we were not romantic at all. Like it was just like, she's like, I'm going to bed. So I'm like, I'm gonna find a movie to watch that I don't think you would wanna watch. And I'm gonna watch it downstairs. I'm gonna turn it up pretty loud in the basement, you know,

with the, we got the surround sound, you know, whatever sound bar thing. And I texted Ty about this. Have you ever seen the movie baby driver? No, is this the don't put baby in a corner? No, that is dirty dancing. Got it. This guy's name is baby though The main character that's so good. Why is every name baby? Why is there there's all these babies, man? I don't like it. I I was enamored by it. I was I have thought about it every day since I've watched it. Is that good? I, so I texted time and time was like, dude, that's funny. I just watched it on Wednesday or whatever. Right. And time was like, it was good. It wasn't great. Like

it wasn't my favorite. Correct. Timing. Yes. Like I enjoyed it all the way through, but it was like nothing. I don't know. Like, I don't know. Like I think very valid and can see why you would like it a lot. Yeah. Maybe more. I don't know. Like, I don't know. Like I think very valid and can see why you would like it a lot. Yeah. Maybe more. I don't know. Like I just, I just liked it, but didn't love it. So the thing that makes it like really cool and unique is that I think it's got like 35 total songs in it, in the movie. Okay. But every single song is like perfectly synchronized with the movie. Oh, what came first? I always think about that watching it. How do you plan that?

How do you do that? How do you like really impressive? Like because like the whole idea is that this guy who's like a getaway driver for these heists needs to always be listening to these songs and synchronize. So like the very first scene is like this bank robbery car chase scene and the whole time. Like it's just for I mean, it's just a cool movie.

It's not like Oscar award winning kind of movie, I don't think. I don't think so. I don't know. But it's one of those movies that's like, I am jealous that I can't ever watch that again for the first time. Really?

Like I watched it again the next day. It was when I was like kind of back. It was like in the background of when I was cleaning up that bunko party. But it was like, this is so cool and so interesting. I like the cast a lot. I like Kevin Spacey and Jamie Foxx and like John Ham is in it anyway. But I don't watch that many movies like time and does.

So I really appreciate time being like, actually it was just all right to me. I probably like it. I think. I want to watch it again. Also where I'm like, I can be fully enveloped in it because it was like with at Zach's house, like TV wasn't turned up all the way. Oh, you got to. I know that's what I'm saying is like, I think it's music experiences. Definitely. Like I would not hate just like watching it again where I can fully be in it. Yeah. I love watching movies where I can just like, even just like with AirPods alone, like just true. I can. Yeah. I'm in it. What's going on with Zach's volume? Why can't we get that turned up? alone like yes true. I can yeah, I'm in it. What's going on with Zach's volume

Why can't we get that turned up? I don't know I didn't I didn't want to bug him about it Yeah, it was it was fine volume. Where do you guys where do you guys think you fall in the volume spectrum when you're watching stuff? Good question. I like saying well out pretty like Pretty loud if I'm by myself like I think it's the same as like listening to music in my car I'm just gonna have it pretty loud really I think so I Was next to time in his car one time when he was jamming. It's pretty loud. Yeah, yeah I think I'm pretty pretty average to maybe

Slightly below average volume on a casual watch like a TV show or something that I've seen before But if I'm like watching a movie, I love lights off and I love sound up. Yeah. If I can. Do you like all the lights off or do you like a little vibe you want to lamp on? You want some string lights going? If it's Brad Ellis by himself, all the lights off.

Okay. If Catherine is around, she's still eating dinner from three hours ago. And so she's like, can we have, can we just have this light on? I, you know, I got to reheat my cava. I'm like, okay, fine. But in my head, I'm like, I would love every light,

every, every, every knee. Or was it every eye closed and every knee bowed? Nope. Was when they, yeah. You got this. I see that hand. What is it? Every, every head bow bowed every eye closed.

Yeah. Okay. You bow your knee though. If you're a mass every knee bowed. Bend the knee. Anyway. Yeah, I'm a big like, because because sometimes that one light over there in the corner glare. Yeah, there's the glare on that thing.

So Rachel is big on vibe when we're watching stuff. Okay. Like, and there's different types of vibes. Like the, the overhead lights are always off, but then like we might do big lamp on big lamp and twinkle lights are on. And she's like, let's go Christmas tree lights and the lamp next to me on Christmas tree lights. Huge fan. Yeah. First thing I turned on in the morning every single time during Christmas season. Rachel really appreciates a good vibe and I appreciate it too. But, and she, she always says this and she's right. She's like, if I didn't live here, you would never set a vibe. And I'm like, yeah, you're probably right. I wouldn't go out of my way. Yeah. Sometimes you would just keep all the lights on until it's time to go to bed and then turn off the lights.. Exactly, yeah, zero, 100. Yeah, yeah, I'm with Rach, like I love a fire. Fire sets the vibe like nothing else, I think. Nice fire.

If the fire light is there, that's perfect. That's good ambient light. Yeah. I won't stand for a glare. If there's a light reflecting on the TV, I'll get that off, but for the most part, I'm like, I'm watching something because I wanna watch it. So I'm not gonna try to like be halfway asleep or like start getting ready for bed.

Let's stay awake. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I also love me a drink while I'm watching something. Mm hmm. I love drinks in general. You do love drinks. TJ gave me a hard time about that. I talk about that. Yes. Like how you're. Yeah. You're always taking a drink to go. Like, oh, yeah, I'm going to go. I'm going to run to the garage fridge real quick and I'll meet you in the car.

That's why I love gas stations. I will always get a drink from a gas station. Oh, they know what they're doing. It's so fun. Yeah. Let's talk, let's say a scenario for each of you. 10.30 at night, your wives are both at town. Okay.

There's something you've been wanting to watch. It came out a week ago. You've been waiting all week to watch it. It's finally time to watch it. And you've got an endless amount of money. What's like your snack you're bringing with you? What seat are you sitting on? Oh, are we going to the movie to watch it? No, no, you're watching it like at home, like a home snack. Okay. What's your snack? What's your drink? What's your seat? Wow. How healthy am I trying to be? No, I don't think you are. I think this is like a guilty pleasure. Go crazy Scorsese. Yeah, this is like crazy with Scorsese. Go

crazy with. Yeah. Parchase. Yeah. I was trying to think of an alcohol. Bacardi. Yeah. No alcohol. I think we're going crazy. First of of all when you say snack. I'm thinking snacks multiple lot of snack good call. Okay. Okay. I mean Andy's has to be involved Wow Interesting. Okay. I don't like anything my hand cold. Well, then get some napkins and throw it around there This is your own thing throw it around there get get three cups on there. I Never thought about triple cup triple cup do a triple double on the cup Or a milkshake or something just something nice. Okay. I love ice cream ice creams my favorite

Kind of food in the world and Then ice cream is maybe a Dr. Pepper. Maybe some nice chips Jalapeno while you go from ice cream say first thing jalapeno cattle chips. go from ice cream. Say first thing, jalapeno, cattle chips. They're so good. They're so unbelievably good. Unbelievable. Order will you go?

Will you lay a base of ice cream and then Dr. Pepper? I don't know. I was going to say I couldn't ice cream and Dr. Pepper. Two cold things and like, I don't know. It's a long movie. It's a long movie.

That's true. It's true. A three part documentary. I don't know. Gabby Petito. Who knows? I don't know who that is. Oh, she's a girl from Stratford

This is a The documentary just came out of Netflix. Okay you remember that girl like Grant Tetons like 2021 like disappeared her husband or boyfriend named Brian Laundrie. Remember that I do remember her here I barely knew about it. So I had to watch the documentary. Okay. Got downloaded for the flight tonight. Okay. So yeah, I don't know. I don't know where I'm going. I'm I mean, the frozen custard melts quick. So it's almost like Andy's is in my house, ideally or something. Or maybe I throw in TVs and yeah, well, we have unlimited money.

Jake said, so for me, I'm renting out a theater, like an actual movie theater. No, no, you're in, you have to watch in your house. Home snacks, unlimited money, home snacks, home snacks, dude. I could smash some jalapeno chips right now. Yeah. I told Bo the other day, I was like, Bo, let's smash some chips. And he took it literally and just boom. Okay. Oh, that's not really one of it. Yeah, so good. So at my house, am I allowed to like bias good sound system, though? Yeah. OK, then I'm doing that. I'm going to I'm buying a huge TV

and like that's your snack. Dolby Atmos sound system. OK, getting it professionally installed. Nice. You know, we started quick sidebar. We started watching Severance, which is on Apple TV plus. And on screen there'll be an overlay that says Dolby Atmos. I'm like, doesn't that have to do with my speakers?

You don't know what my speakers are. Yeah, I think that would only, that would only affect a select few people because like, I'm guessing it's just maybe most TV shows aren't mixed for that. Yeah. But it's not going to really change anything unless you have that. Go on. Me when I have unlimited money. I'll watch Severance. Yeah. Wait, so what's your snack, so? really change anything unless you have that. Go on. Me when I have unlimited money. I watch

Severance. Yeah. Wait, so what's your snack? So, Oh, um, jalapeno kettle was my first thought. I think like sweet tart ropes. Is that different than a nerd rope? Yeah. That's a sweet. I'm not even sure. I've never heard of sweet tart. This must be a Bucyrus thing. Dude, what about? Oh, those are not nearly as good. Sweet tart rope, like the small, they're like cut into pieces and they're like sour. You psycho. Yeah, no, I gotta get you a nerd rope.

Nerd ropes are wild. Yeah, nerd ropes. Nerd clusters? Your brain's gonna blow out the back of your head. Maybe a cheese pizza. Oh! Good answer! Good answer! Good answer. Wow. Maybe a cheese pizza. Oh, good. Pizza is never a bad idea. I did that a lot when I was single.

I would Sarpino's carry out. You know, avoid the tip. Yeah. Yeah. They never close. Yeah. And then, oh, it's in your lap. It's warm. He says so good, dude. Great answer. Could smash the pizza right now as well. Yeah. And then, oh, it's in your lap. It's warm. Pizza is so good, dude. Great answer. Could smash the pizza right now as well. Yeah. Pizza a month.

Wow. Sounds good. Good answer. Yeah, good. What about Twizzlers? Oh, yeah. Pull and peel or original? Not pull and peel. Just whatever the normal. Oraninal. I like Twizzlers. I think Twizzlers are more of a road trip snack than a movie snack though No parent no specific reason. I'm just going crazy with it. So Twizzlers for me have to be consumed at like a water park Oh interesting. That's like the only spot on the way to the water park maybe but yeah, like your mom brings a cooler, huh?

It's about 11 o'clock. You say let me see those twizzlers Yeah, I'm gonna head over the wave pool. But real quick. Let me get it. Let me get a twizzler. Yeah twizzlers. Yeah, I'm gonna head over to the wave pool, but real quick, let me get a twizzler. Group with some, yeah, twizzlers, huh? My, I think I gotta have milk involved in my perfect world. This is a lot of my late night snacks. And if all the glass of milk is something that makes me thirsty, so. Straight milk. Yeah, so it'd be like Oreos and milk,

Hot Fudge Sunday Pop Tarts milk, or the Crescendo Puppy Chow milk. Okay, that's a snack. What about chocolate milk? Sure over regular um a Little more prep, but I guess a little bit of money. I have a butler So yeah, I would have him make it oh you'd make your own chocolate milk not like yeah We didn't really buy it that much, but it's so good when you buy it. It's so good when you buy it You're right though. We didn't we always had the chocolate syrup Man, it's so good the way buy it that way. It's so good when you buy it. You're right though, we didn't do that. We always had the chocolate syrup. Man, it's so good the way it just comes out.

I should start having my protein shakes with chocolate milk. See what that does. See if it does anything for you. I don't want that. Yeah, and then cheese pizza. Cheese pizza start and then like act three of the movie. It's probably child milk time, I think. Wow, dude, I'm hungry.

That sounds awesome. That's a good snack time. you ever dip graham crackers and milk Uh, you have to like time it exactly like three three seconds, and then it's like it's not any later milk Yeah, and it's also gonna be like nice and soft. Oh, that's a good snack. I like that Snack was graham crackers and icing yeah, that's really good. That's and great glass of milk. Dude. Let's just let's just And icing. Yeah, that's really good. And great glass of milk. Dude, let's just let's just kind of throw in a tub of icing.

Tomizing crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Do you know chip in there just to see you could figure it out? Yeah. Wouldn't taste terrible. I'll tell you that. Yeah.

Couldn't taste that bad. No, tub of icing is nice. Yeah. A good tub of icing. I'm talking all the dyes and the seed oils and the whatever. Just go wild on that. For one night. Just for one night.

Just get me fixed. So that's a fun question, fun thought. How was your heart shaped pizza? Speaking of pizza. Oh, I got two this time. Oh, okay, 30 count. Went one cheese, one pepperoni and it was all right. It's really hard to figure out how to cut those bad boys.

Really? How would you? I mean, well, I say it was hard to figure out, but then Catherine came back with a slice for me later, and it looked just fine. So I don't know. Maybe just like two people get bad slices, and everyone else, it kind of works out.

I cut the first one, like the cheese one, for the kids, and I was trying to figure out how to do it and it didn't look good. And then Catherine came back and I was like, that looks like a piece of pizza. Figured it out. So I don't know if she like just went straight down the middle first and maybe from there

it's easier to go triangle. Yeah. Do you guys have one of those things, like one of those looks like a guillotine blade? No, I would like one. I think you have to like own a business. Like you have to be Pizza Hut to own those. That's like one of like, I feel like,

you know, I'm pretty into my pizza oven. I haven't gotten into it. It's just so stressful, but it's so fun. But they have like that company sells one of those. Yeah. And I can see like, eventually if I don't know what else, if I run out of things I want for my birthday, I'd be like, I could take one of those.

Take a big pizza slice. Yeah. Could make the heart shape a little easier. Yeah, but got a heart shaped pizza and watch baby driver. It was a great night. That's fun. Yeah. Could make the heart shape a little easier. Yeah. But, uh, got, got a heart shaped pizza and watch baby driver. It was a great night. That's fun. Yeah. Solid night, dude. Yeah. So, and then the next night was a bunko with the girls and it was the girls and the dads. And it was so much fun. It was really good. Um, that was Saturday. Yeah. Saturday night. And we decided, Hattie and I decided, or I decided Hattie was good with it. We were going to go to Dollar Tree beforehand and get all

these different like small prizes for, uh, like anytime anybody rolled a bunko, if the dad rolled it, then her daughter got to go. And if the daughter rolled, she got to go herself. All these like, I mean, I think we got like 12 prizes from Dollar Tree and Hattie helped me pick them out. So she did a good job, apparently. As we're picking them out, I'm like, I think, are these gonna be, are these- People are gonna like this. Like, you know, I don't know about you.

Kind of like you're saying about like, I don't know how old a baby or a dog is or whatever. Like, I don't know when girls, you know, stop thinking certain things are cool. Like, and that's kind of intimidating. But I think it's good that you don't, if you're like, oh yeah, eight year olds, yeah, they just got into Barbies.

Yeah, right. Well, that's the thing is like, I know that we like probably quote unquote, shelter Hattie from certain things. And so therefore, maybe things that she would like other kids might not, you know, like, oh great. You know, Tate's daughter, she's public school, man. She's way done with this.

Seen it all. Yeah, right. She's not going to want to play UNO. No, yeah, she wants to go to prom. Yeah. She's already saving up for a car. Yeah, so like, but these girls thought those prizes were amazing.

Like they thought it was so much fun. You've got a good pulse on the community. You know, we just did it in my basement. So I like tried to shuffle things around, like push the bed all the way to the corner, like move this ottoman into the entryway. And so we put all the prizes on the ottoman, and I branded it. I call it the ottoman of awesomeness.

That's great. And so the girls were like, I heard one girl at one point say, all the other girls have gone to the ottoman of awesomeness, and I haven't gone yet. And the dad was like, I just, all the other girls have gone to the Ottoman of awesomeness and I haven't gone yet. And the dad was like, I know, sweetie, it's okay. You'll be all right. And literally the next game, it was awesome. Next game, she rolled a bunko.

She got to go to the Ottoman of awesomeness. Who were the guys that came over? So it was kind of a random hodgepodge. Podge, Tate, Military Bob, and then a couple guys from CC, the co-op that we go to. One of the guys I had never met before. Bob was like, he would be a fun guy. Hey, happy Valentine's Day. And then a guy from our church who's like,

his daughter is one of, had his best friends at church. Pretty full basement. Yeah, there were 12 of us down there trying to figure out where to put the tables. And I reconfigured a few times throughout the day. Full basement, fun basement. And yeah, the way Bunko works is like every single game, you switch partners, right?

Yep. And so you're moving up tables, you're moving down tables, whatever. And so it's kind of fun, because then you got to have fun, play around and joke around with other people. Yeah, life is a lot like bunko. There's ups.

And there's down. And you switch tables. There's bunkos and there's games. Missed three pointers. Yeah. But in my head, I was like, is this mathematically possible to have a table where it's only the girls like only these little Girls because you have to have somebody keeping score. Yeah, and it sure was it sure was possible

And honestly the girls did pretty well I could their own score like there were a few times where I was like looking over and yeah Some of the girls would be like no you didn't you didn't get that one. Well, you're going too fast It was pretty funny governing. But yeah, overall, it was just a really sweet time. We did little like $10 gift cards for the winner. Like most wins, most losses, most bunkos and most like half and half 12 and 12. Oh, that's great. And yeah, did these little gift cards. And apparently as they were like pulling out of the parking lot, Tate's daughter was like, can you text Hattie's dad and see if we can do that again tomorrow?

Oh, great. Sweet. You want a baby driver yet? Yeah, yeah. Trying to teach Hattie how to like, yeah, be hospitable to all these girls that like, like Bentley, Tate's daughter like didn't know anybody there. Yeah.

Some girls might just know Hattie. So I'm like, make sure they're included. If you notice that some of the drinks run out, you can say, hey, we have more drinks upstairs. Can I go get you one? You might need to serve them the popcorn because that's a little bit tough with this scooper. You know, all these other things.

She did awesome. So it was really fun and a fun thing to do with her. And yeah, I don't know, just a sweet memory. Hopefully all the guys enjoyed it. But that's great. Yeah, it sounds like you got to do that more. Yeah, and it was like relatively easy. Give Hattie hosting practice. Yeah, but that's great. Yeah, sounds like you gotta do that more. Yeah, and it was like hosting practice yeah, relatively easy relatively like casual, but also like we try to be intentional with certain things about it and

Yeah, anyway, it was it was great. So you guys see military Bob always a good time to see Bob So, you know Tate Unruh his name was on the list He bought two tickets for the comedy show Friday, but then never showed up. And I kind of forgot about it till just now. I'm like, maybe he was just supporting. Maybe he just bought tickets or maybe he meant to come. I don't know. That's a funny.

So will my buddy, Will Severance and Tate, we're all we're all just buddies together. And Tate just recently joined Lifetime. Oh, we're real pumped about that. Yeah, I'll be there in a week. Let's go baby. Is that true? I've been looking. Yeah. I've been looking at their website. They got a great pickleball program. They got a lot going on with pickleball. Yeah. Very much so. Yeah. Got me excited. So wait, wait, Tate just joined Lifetime. Will and I were

planning on meeting on Valentine's Day at Lifetime. Just happened to be on Valentine's Day. Also got lunch with Peter that day, which is kind of funny. Like just Valentine's day dates with my boys. And Tate respondents, like actually, you know, I can't come to hang out with you guys. Thanks for the invite. I'm doing all day Valentine's day. And Will's like, dude, are you doing something like that? I'm not doing anything like that with my family. And I'm like, no, we're not doing anything like that So I think yeah Tate just set the precedent high I think he did stuff with his kids throughout the day and then did stuff with his wife at night And maybe they were supposed to come and got a little carried away all day Valentine's uh-huh so

Anyway, he's great dude though. So anyway. Yeah the whole bunk when I was absolute blast That's cool. Yeah, that's fun. Funny. You did that timing you went to Iowa yeah, how was it it was good? Nothing crazy. Yeah What do we do went to the mall one one one day go off? I got a Lego set oh I haven't done in I haven't touched Legos in seven years probably. And I just like, uh, it wasn't even in, there was a Lego store at the mall, but I just bought

it from a Barnes and Noble. What a story. Yeah. So I just like went over to graded the other day and was like, you want to build a Lego set? So we like, we built like half of it so far. It's very simple, small. Like I didn't want to spend Legos are so expensive now. They're crazy. And so I paid like $25 for like this, like Lamborghini like car thing. So yeah, that's pretty sweet. Yeah. There's like Lego land or you've been there in no, I haven't been there, but I've heard of it. Yeah. And outside of it, we were outside of it one time and just looking at all these different things,

they have like a huge Harry Potter one, and a huge Lord of the Rings one. Have you seen that time in Rivendell, I think? Yeah, I've seen some of the crazy ones they have. Part of me is like, that's going to be a collector's item someday. Yeah. But I'm not going to spend $500 hoping

it appreciates the value. But that's fun. Hattie told me the other day, she listens to this little mini podcast on her yodo player called Yoto Daily. It's this British guy. Okay. And it was all about Legos the other day. And she said, you know, there are more Lego people, like Lego humans in the world than

actual humans. That's crazy. Really? According to Jake on Yoto Daily. Okay. So do you feel like the number of humans in the world is going up a little too fast? Oh, really? According to Jake on Yoto Daily. Okay. Do you feel like the number of humans in the world is going up a little too fast? No, I think it's the opposite.

Really? I think that's like the whole idea is like, we're becoming whatever, like our, whatever the word is, depopulation or whatever it is. Yeah, maybe I could reword it better. Cause it just feels like it was that long ago that we had like you would hear people talk about, you know, six billion people in the world and I'm still single. And then a few years ago, I felt like we made the jump to seven.

Oh, colloquially, colloquially. It was like, oh, now these tweets and these jokes now are saying now we're saying seven, I guess. OK, I guess we got up to seven. That was pretty quick. And then just recently, I've been here in eight. I have like, oh, yeah, I think we're in seven, I guess. Okay, I guess we got up to seven. That was pretty quick. And then just recently, I've been hearing eight. I have, really? I'm like, I don't think we're up to eight. Oh yeah, I've been hearing eight for a while. Yeah. Oh wow.

I never heard six, grew up on seven. And now I hear eight. That's what I'm saying, I think it's happening really quickly where I'm like, I don't know how this can make sense because high school was six, it took 6,000 years for us to get to 6 million and then we jumped up 2 billion in the last.

Oh, this is very interesting. Yeah, just a real quick Google search. Looks like in 1960, we were at like 3 1⁄2 billion. Oh, so we are jumping up like crazy. Yeah, it's like a steady curve or like a steady incline. Huh, yeah, I haven't looked into this at all. This is just anecdotally what I hear. 2010, 7 billion.

2020, yeah, was, or I guess just now, 2023, we got to 8 billion. 2020, it's tough that the census falls on 2020. That was a tough time to get data from people. True. You get to try to go door to door and you're not allowed to. Yeah, when we were born, 5.2 billion, now 8 billion.

Okay, so what I'm hearing is actually correct. It is just moving fast. It was going up. Interesting. Fertility rate, 2.27 births per woman. So if you know a woman, she might have 2.27 births. What part of the world do you think has the most kids and the least amount

of kids? That's a well, isn't China like you're not supposed to. Oh yeah, they still have that law. You can only have one. I don't know. Utah is probably the most right? Utah. Utah is doing all right.

Yeah. Or like Lancaster County. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if there's some like European country that's like we strongly believe in large families. More kids, more better. Yes. We think it's better to shovel our driveway within the snow and the Swiss Alps. That's what they say. I don't have any idea. I'm sure we could look it up, but maybe. I'm good with Utah.

Utah and China being like the ends of the spectrum. Yeah, it just feels like China. It's like known for not being very populated, China. Yeah, it's tiny. It's tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny. That's what they say. Yeah, little China, Chinatown. Oh, Chinatown. Oh, Chinatown.

It's just like one little town. It just feels like a small knit, closed knit community in China. Yep. Yes. Largely agrarian. Michael taught me in the office. Agrarian, yeah. What does that word mean to you?

Like mainly farming. Yeah. Mainly ag, aggro. They're aggressive. Agroian. I have a few quick hitters, they're aggressive agro in. I have a few quick hitters, quick things from the ghosties here. Quick responses from the Facebook page. Just responses from our past episodes. Bella Stevens Johnson, she wrote the day after the Super Bowl should be a holiday.

We're talking about that. I think they're working on that like 18 week season. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's 100 percent like that's one day that no matter what I don't I I am very content Just like not doing anything that day Yeah I think if the NFL adds a week to the season it keeps the Pro Bowl Then the Super Bowl will follow the day before Presidents Day. Oh Interesting, so it's just like ipso facto. So it might yeah Yeah, that's yeah, it might just actually happen here in a few years. Okay, I

support that. I also support the idea of two buys in an NFL season. I Think it was that too if they bump up to 18. Okay and then Alicia Jonker That how we're saying it. John her she commented weighed in on the frozen ice pops and man did people,

this was another one that people had some different answers for. She said, you're trying to tell me these aren't called freezies? And then people said- That's what Rachel called them. Otter pops, which I've definitely heard of. Otter pops, no way.

Put a finger down if you've heard of something, one of these. Otter pops, no way. Put a finger down if you've heard of something, one of these. Otter pops. Freezies. Cool pops. Icy. Popeyes. Yeah, I think that's technically what they're called,

but who calls them that? Freeze pops. That sounds right. I'm going second hand. Freezy pops? Sorry Tammy. Popsicles? We haven't heard of popsicles.

I haven't heard those things be called popsicles. Ice juicies? Ice pops? Somebody said that right? Chup chup? Chup chup. Oh, but it's pronounced shoopy shoopy. What?

Oh, she's got a different country on there. She must be from China. Flavor ice. I've heard of that. I think I've heard of that too. That might be the brand. That was the brand. Yeah. Freezies, freeze pops, otter pops, freebies.

No. Anyway, I just started from a typo, I feel like. Yeah. Yeah. It's supposed to be freeo. I feel like, yeah. Yeah. Just be freezes. Yes. Penguin pops. I mean, there's all sorts of different things for these. So melted freezes, dippy eggs, dippy.

Yeah. These were also dippy eggs for some reason. Three eyed sailor. And then one more just piece of reactions, I suppose, from the ghosties is Rachel Dornick asked the poll that Jake asked last week about would you rather watch a one hour opera or a two hour ballet? Overwhelming majority, 81% said they would rather watch a two hour ballet than a one hour opera. There was one funny comment you ever pulled up or is like, my cousin is a classically

trained opera singer, yada yada. And with that in mind, I would definitely choose the ballet. Something funny like that. Let me, yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine. I think I'm still one hour opera. Oh, that's page. It was page. My cousin laws, a professional opera singer, big vote for two hours of ballet. That's amazing. Oh man. Oh, and then Rachel Dornick said, I studied music at university and the opera majors in the program or something else. That's what I mean.

There's not really a stereotype of an opera singer. I wouldn't know what there probably is. We're just not in that world. Diamond. As time time. What's that? I really don't know. For some reason, I picture them kind of overweight

Like I picture an opera singer like Italian and over I'm like a lot of helping with the operas I don't know some girth. What's it called cummerbund? They were a cummerbund and it's like pretty it's a big one Yeah, good fit around a redwood cover buns are the worst for big guys. They just accentuate the wrong things. I Don't know if they're good for anybody too. I mean who's yeah, no one's lazy. No even like the hottest guys miles teller Who I can think of? Like I don't think I don't think he looks better in a cover, but no, I don't think so He looks fine in it, but like that's not not his, that's not like, Oh, now,

now he's going somewhere. I see what you were making noise about earlier. Like to get him fixed. Yeah. Speaking of miles teller, do you guys watch SNL 50 at all? I did not. Nope. All right. We'll talk about it. Another time. Anybody want to, everybody watched it? Let me know. I what happened? Do you know what it know what it is? 50 year anniversary? Yeah. So it was like, uh, it was like their last, their 50th year anniversary show. Um, and so it was like the star studded everybody in the crowd was a celebrity. Yeah. Like they had, you name it. They were in the

skits and sketches and stuff. And it was kind of an all star game. It was like an all star game, but you realize like half the people are getting pretty old. Yeah. And also the same people that have been writing for SNL the last 10 years are still writing these skits. I was going to say, I feel like if something would have been good, I would have seen it. It's too bad that like, like there was definitely some good parts.

Like there was like, oh, we're so close right now. But it was never, it was almost like just left me wanting a little bit more. Like there was a Eddie Murphy was in a few skits and it was hilarious. Really? So funny. But then there was one skit, they did black Jeopardy.

Have you ever watched the Tom Hanks black Jeopardy? Yes. Oh, it's so funny. So good. And so they did black Jeopardy without Tom Hanks, Black Jeopardy. Yes. Oh, it's so funny. So good. Yeah. And so they did Black Jeopardy without Tom Hanks in it. And then Eddie Murphy was in it as Tracy Morgan. Okay. But then Tracy Morgan was also in it as just like a random black dude. Okay. And so it was just hilarious watching Eddie Murphy impersonate Tracy Morgan right next to him. And then all of a sudden Eddie Murphy just was off the stage and Tom Hanks, his character came in.

It's like, it wasn't funny. Like it was like, I was enjoying it. How it was. It was great. How it was, they did like a little like, you know, it was like Jeopardy. So they're like, and now we're from our sponsors and they talked about an app that they're sponsored by an app called, I think it was W A G B T and it stood for who all gon be there. It's like an invite, like event planning app. Like if you don't know who all gon be there, get on this app,

you know? So anyway, it's just, there were great times. Honestly, the best part in my opinion was Paul McCartney was like the very last like musical guest. They had like Sabrina Carpenter do a duo or duet with Paul Simon. Okay. Simon Garfunkel. And then they had little Wayne do like a montage of some of his hits. That's interesting. Very interesting. And then they had Paul McCartney like in the night. And I like, you know, we talked about last week, like operas and ballets don't get me like this emotional response. I had an emotional response. You liked Paul. I was like, as I was watching, I was going like this. Like, yeah, let's go.

Like he's 83 years old, 84 years old, and still can rock it. That's really old to be performing. I mean, and like, he sounds a little old, but like compared to like, even like Steve Martin was on, I did a monologue and it was like, Steve's lost a little bit of his. Getting older. Yeah. Tom Hanks even. Like, I don't know,ologue and it was like, Steve's lost a little bit of his, yeah.

Tom Hanks even like, yeah, I don't know, man. That's like, it's crazy. You hear Bob Dylan is like still doing shows. He's coming to Kansas city. It's like he's 83. I think, yeah, I don't know. It's like, I, he seems, first of all, I keep thinking he's dead, but he's still doing music. I don't know.

Yeah. Yeah. But I mean like they had some great skits that were like, Oh, that was so close to being great. He's still doing music. Performing. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, like they had some great skits that were like, oh, that was so close to being great. You could also tell, and I'm sure this is because it's a bunch of A-list celebrities, but it felt like they hadn't really rehearsed very much or like, you know, because it's like, how are we going to get all these people together for a week at a time beforehand?

Yeah, it's not going to happen. So, you know, so it was like, sometimes you could tell they hadn't really read the lines very many times, so they didn't have good pods. Even like John Mulaney, who's like a stand-up comedian and knows how to pause. I love John Mulaney. There were a few times where you could tell he was just

reading off a cue card. Anyway, so it was awesome, but also hard to watch. It was like this weird feeling of back and forth. Because I've always been enamored and forth. Cause I've always been enamored by SNL. Like I've always thought like, even, even though it's like there's so many fun avenues of, you know, watching comedy these days, SNL still like, seems like a wonderful tradition to me, even though it's so bad now. You know what I've been enamed by is Keenan Thompson. Okay. And him like not ever leaping off of SNL. I'm just intrigued by it.

There's nothing wrong with like, a lot of people stay with the same job they have, but there's something about entertainment. You expect and you kind of want to see someone like move on and go to the next thing. Even if it's not totally entertainment, but even just like Vanna White doing the same thing over. It's like, man, are you fulfilled continuing to do the same thing over and over when

you like, when you know they have money, when you know they have other opportunities. It's not like I think about a construction worker doing that. Like, oh man, I hate that for them. Well, guess how many seasons he's been on? 20. 22 seasons. And sit on for 50 years. That's what's crazy.

It's like, I know he's had other opportunities, right? I don't know, dude. So he's not very funny. It might as a thing though. So like, let's say he doesn't have other opportunities, then why is he still on the show then? If he can't get a job anywhere else, why would they keep him on? I don't know. Cause he's like, he's a solid, in my opinion, five or six out of 10.

Like he's not like unfunny. Like he's like the black Jeopardy host. He's pretty funny, in my opinion, five or six out of 10. He's not unfunny. He's like the Black Jeopardy host. He's pretty funny as that host. But other times it's like, you're the same character for this skit that you just did there. Yeah, I've seen him do some bad impressions, or just bad character work. I can't really tell it apart.

But that's kind of how SNL's been lately. So it's like, I don't know. And now it's almost like he's the legendary style. You can't fire him after 15 years on the show. Yeah, maybe. They kind of like handcuffed. I don't know. I just have never really laughed out loud very much at him. Yeah.

But also like, I don't know, he started off so strong, like knuckle puck in D2 Mighty Ducks. Oh yeah, you're right. He did start off there. He was so good at that. I never watched like Good Burger or all that or whatever he was on, but like he was a star He was in movies and yeah and shows and now he's like not even getting movies or shows or anything

I think he's on commercials every once in a while But yeah, so many of like intrigued like the Tina Fey Kristen Wiig Andy Samberg Yeah, like all these will fail of Sandler.. So many, the countless stars have come from SNL. Keenan Thompson's like a star of SNL, a mainstay, but also is he, you know, or is he just a cast member that's been there a long time? Just intrigued by it. I am too. Yeah.

I'd like to- You want something more? That's what I'm saying. But dude, also it's very interesting. Like I went on Twitter, you know, anything that's live like this, I'm like, that's a fun. Like I went on Twitter, you know, anything that's live like this. I'm like, that's a fun time to be on Twitter to like follow along so many positive responses. When I was like people surely they're going to hate on this.

Oh yeah. It's the internet. And like everyone was like, that was so good. Oh, I almost cried seeing Martin short back. And I'm like, really? I almost cried because I felt bad for the guy, you know, whatever. I was so not funny. So anyway, I just think there's some people are just very like just diehard SNL, Kenan Thompson people. Like nothing's better than nostalgia. Like no matter what the content is. I guess so. Anyway, all the same, Miles Teller was in the audience, got pulled up on stage at one point. They did a skit. It was Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph.

You know who that is? Oh yeah, she's funny. So funny. They did this skit they used to do back in the day called the Bronx Beat. Okay. Remember how on Jeans Shorts we did the gossiping ants a few times?

It's kind of like that, where it's just like a talk show with these two New York women just kind of talking. And they see Miles Teller in the audience, and She's like, you're pretty cute. Come here. Come here. What are you? You know? Yeah. Who are you? What's your name? Miles teller, you know? Well, how, how will we know you? How are you in some kind of movie or something? I was in top gun Maverick and they're like, Oh, top gun too. Good movie. Top gun too. He's like, it's called top gun Maverick. They're like, no, no, no, we're going to call it Top Gun. Anyway, so that was kind of funny, but also like, it was like almost hilarious.

Yeah. So maybe you, if you were to spend a little more time writing this, like you could have had something like viral. There was one thing, sorry, I know we talked about all this stuff that you've never watched, but one thing that I do think would be worth watching is they did this skit called Scared Straight. OK. Which there were multiple. Based off the old show? Yeah, there were multiple things in there.

I was like, is this like. A spoof. Well, but also like, did the office get it from this thing that got it from this thing? Because they did that. Whatever. I can't. Some of the things I don't want to say on here.

But like Scared Straight, yeah, where it was like these high school students that were like, you know, criminals or whatever. They had these. Yeah. It was like an old show back in the day. They go and just scream with these kids. Yes. And so that's kind of what it was. So it was at first it was Kenan Thompson, Eddie Murphy, which Eddie Murphy killed it again. Yeah. Kenan Thompson was funny too. Um, and they kept like trying to like make up these stories, but people would be like, that's that's Harry. That's the, that's the plot of Harry Potter.

And then Will Ferrell came out with these super short shorts on. I mean, it just looked ridiculous. And you could tell he like messed up his line at one point and everyone just started laughing. That's fun. It was great. It was so funny So I think that one's worth watching just because will ferrell doing anything is hilarious so he's the man anyway, yeah, I would love to I would love to talk to anybody about this because I enjoyed I enjoyed watching it and I also But it was like this weird feeling of watching it. So if anybody wants to talk i'm all ears. Okay

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Bo got sick, and then he kind of got over it. But then he's like, he's like, had to sleep it off. He's been ear infection. And then all of a sudden, Rosie and Henry and Hattie have fevers and back and forth and back and forth. And it's just the worst. So go ahead. Spin zone. Rachel's been sick so they could all hang out. Oh, okay. To at least it's cold and miserable outside. So it's not like they're missing out on any like opportunities. What else are they going to do? Yeah, stay home anyway. True. In three antibodies, it's making

them stronger. They're they're they're growing from it. Yep. Good. Spin zone. My next one, or my my spin. Brad, I, I pay for YouTube premium,. I really enjoy the service it provides of not embarrassing YouTube ads. But sometimes I click on a video and realize, why is, oh, I'm on the Friday Pickleball YouTube account. Oh, I'm on the Ghostrunners account. And now I'm seeing ads.

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Good spin. Yeah. Spin zone. Every, every week something else is just hurting on my body this week. Yeah. You got diagnosed with tennis elbow in the Facebook group. Do you know that? Really? Yeah.

You have it. I think I do. I don't know. It's also like kind of gone up my arm, like my biceps kind of sore sometimes. I don't know. It's just, it's gone. It's, like my biceps kind of sore sometimes. I don't know. It's just it's it's gone It's gone away and then come back a few times. So it's kind of miserable But now recently I was wrestling on the bed with bo and hattie

And now my shoulder is like pulled or something. I don't know what's going on. My shoulder hurts Go ahead That wasn't really a spin. Spin zone. Thankfully, you have a gym membership. Yes. Maybe this is an opportunity to use some new exercises you you haven't done before, some new parts of the gym you haven't experienced. Maybe you get to meet a friend who's like a physical therapist to help you through your shoulder pain. Okay. That friend, good ranchers farmer.

Oh, or Garrett Gibson or Garrett gives it. Yeah. And you get to use the rubber band, like the, the band, the resistance bands. Kind of fun. Yeah. Garrett, if you're listening to this and you're like, I don't want to like be that physical therapist. Like gives unsolicited advice.

I'm all ears, brother. Yeah. It's been helpful to me in my shred journey. Uh, spend zone two weeks ago, we recorded an episode and, um, I got a couple of math tricks, uh, incorrect on the podcast and I had about 65 people tell me that I got it wrong. It's been some,

we have really smart listeners that are also committed to us and want to comment because they're invested in the podcast and we have 65 people who listen. I remember when we had our first episode come out, I think only 64 total people listened. So now we have at least 65. It's been, that's pretty good. Also, the reason you knew any of those math tricks, even though you got them wrong, 30 plus years later later probably was because you were in gifted class. You have a good brain. God's blessed you with a good brain. Good spin. Good brain. So it's really cold here in Kansas. As it is, I know all over the globe right now, the U S um, and for whatever reason,

I love my truck, but has this defect or something where when it gets really cold outside, like really, really cold, like only like zero degrees and it gets windy or something. Somehow it has a defect in the alarm system. And so the alarm will just go off in the middle of the night. So it's gonna be tough. And not only is it kind of awful, because I wake up and I scurry to turn it off. And like, I have a fob, so I can turn it off that way.

But my car, my truck is parked pretty close to where my neighbor's house is. Yes it is. And they are indubitably waking up. It went off twice last night. It's been some. One, potentially this is an opportunity to find out, hey there's been a recall on your truck for this stupid alarm thing. Maybe. You go in get a free tune-up. Hey while you're at it, boys, rotate the tires. Give me a little tire rotation. There's one spin. Second spin.

Let them let them wake. I say, oh, wake up the neighbors. Wake up Marco the dog specifically. Fight back a little bit. Yeah, Marco's barking at my kids. Barking my trucks and bark back at you. There you go. Now you now you've started negotiations. OK, She comes over. Hey, your truck's been going off. Oh my gosh. Yes. I'm so sorry. I that yeah. Reminds me a lot of your dog's alarm going off at my children to the fence. Your $5,700 peace treaty. Yeah. Okay. And then she'd be like, okay, so my dog doesn't bark anymore. Your car doesn't go off.

And I'll be like, honestly, I have no idea when it's going to go off. I'll say, I'll talk to God, see if we can get it warmed up a little bit down here and then it won't happen anymore. I just felt so bad. That's a bummer defect. I slept with my fob.

Like, like I was holding it. Like just in case it went off there once while. Yeah. Just like wake up. up like is it going off? That's a bummer. That's a weird defects only happened three times total Well, I guess last night happened twice but like three nights total sucks. Oh, thankfully though We live like two more days of winter like it's like basically spring when I get back in town Have you seen the forecast? I knew that's supposed to be warm next week is that? Forever. Okay, no more winter the forecast? I knew that's supposed to be warm next week. Is that forever?

Okay, good. No more winter. They'll never come back. Yeah, so that's nice. That is a blessing. And 50 degrees compared to negative seven. Big difference. Gonna feel great.

It's gonna feel like 80. Speaking of sleeping, last few days, I've kind of woke up damp. And at first you get scared. You think you wet yourself. But what happens is I go to bed and we're so cold. So we're under every blanket we own in the house. And I guess at some point in my sleep, I do regulate. But instead of like waking up in the middle of the night and like throwing

off some covers, I think my body's just like, just accept it. Just just sit in it. So I wake up kind of wet. Easy spin zone. You, first of all, you woke up. Be thankful for that. Blessing. Second of all, you have a shower connected to your room, even. Thankful for that.

Third of all, your body didn't wake you up. Therefore you slept really well and you probably woke up refreshed even though you were wet. Thankful for that. That third thing actually is a good spin zone. Yeah. You know what? Maybe it's better. My body is prioritizing better sleep over slide inconvenience Yeah

Boy, I'm what that's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, it feels like I broke a fever every morning. Yeah That's how Bo was a couple days. So maybe did dude maybe Rachel's been sick She was throwing up yesterday first time I've known her to throw up. Didn't know she had it in her. Yeah, you get fired though. You get stressed. Yeah, right. Affects your body in different ways.

But see a new stage. See a new side of somebody. It was the first time Rachel's been sick at home, which there's your spin zone. It was like, hey, last time she got really sick was on the flight to Australia. That was a bummer. And then the other she got really sick was on the flight to Australia. That was a bummer.

And then the other time she got sick was on the cruise. So she's been in like kind of some tough environments to like feel really sick. So I was like, hey, aren't you happy you're at home? She's like, oh my gosh, I'm overjoyed. No, she has a job interview today. So no, we weren't worked out together, but then now she's, I think she's at summer mood

and just like doing computer stuff. I gave her a task, yeah, she's feeling better today, to make me some appointments. I said, but surprise me, I don't care what they are, but it's like, it's time I saw my first doctor. Because I haven't since I was in high school. So, little doctor on. Yeah, stop.

So I guess nevermind, but yeah, I don't really have a doctor. Haven't been. She's got some moles picked out of my back she wants me to look at. So we're going to go to the skin guy. It's official title. And then maybe see like an allergist. She had one other professional picked out. No, no one hurts.

Gotta be psychiatrist. Oh, I drive her crazy. That's good. No one hurts, it's gonna be psychiatrists. Oh, I drive her crazy. That's good. One weird thing I've been doing to her, which maybe is driving her crazy, for whatever reason, yesterday morning, I just got out of bed, she's still laying there,

I look back and I go, women should learn history, then write it. And so since then, I've just been giving her all these really pro-women phrases and saying them really just like. Oh, I see. What are the other ones? Just like, hey, I've been thinking,

rarely behaved women rarely make history. Say that to her. Rarely behaved women rarely make history. Or wait, yeah, what is it? Well behaved, yeah, I said that wrong. Well behaved women rarely make history. Rarely behaved women rarely make her wait. Yeah, what is it? Well behaved? Yeah, I said that wrong Well behaved women rarely make history really make history that feels like something that would be tough to say in speech class back in the day Well-behaved women rarely make history. Yeah Yeah, so just been spouting those off in her. It's kind of fun and she's not loving them Um, I think she says like what she's like, I'm fired. I just want to be a housewife. What happened?

I don't know. I started saying those today, but yeah, love them. She didn't break the rules. She made new ones. Are you making them up? Sometimes, yeah, pretty easy. That's pretty good. I'm not able to think of any off the top of my head right now.

That's good She wasn't born to fit in She's born to stand out And you say these non sequiturs just yeah the most random time I can think of That's been the new trend. Just Really revving her up So who knows what? Who knows brother what she's signing me up for now. Here's some I just got a text Hey last minute char bar 12 today lf1 is this how people abbreviate looking for one?

I've never heard of that before that seems like the best answer. I've never heard of it either though I'm pretty sure that's what he means, but I've never seen lf1 coordinates I've never heard of it either though. I'm pretty sure that's what he means, but I've never seen, LF1, he's sending me coordinates? Could it be the court name? Surely that wouldn't care. Left field one. Left field one. A softball tonight, we're on LF1.

Yeah, LF1, looking for one. Yeah, it's gotta be. I think it's looking for one, but that's. How old is this person? 27. Really? Yeah. Like younger than you yep Lf1 save time is efficient you heard of Lf1. No

Let's wrap this baby up yeah, you got anything else yes, uh I Want to talk about my grandma real quick because this is is, I didn't even write anything down for it. But this is the most I've ever been affected by someone's death in such a cool way. This is how I think, if you live your life the right way, this is probably how you're supposed to affect people once you're gone. It's been really cool.

Even people that I've been maybe even closer to that have passed away, haven't left the same effect as my grandma. It's been really cool. Like even people that I've been maybe even like closer to that have passed away, haven't left the same effect as my grandma. It's just, it's great. She was always an amazing Christian woman. And always just like really sweet. So just the sweetest grandma, so many texts. Me and my dad kind of did the funeral.

And so it was very fun to like share stories. I don't even know if I said this on the podcast. I think mainly because I think she listened and I didn't know if she would even know. But there was a two year stretch where she, I think she couldn't see her phone super well. And so she thought she was sending me the thumbs up emoji, but it was the hang loose emoji.

And so it just completely changed the context of so many texts and it was so funny. So I had a good time with that. But anyway, what's cool is what she left behind. And it's been really inspiring. So, like, I knew she was a devout Christian and prayed for people, but we had no idea the extent of it. It's like going through the ancient pyramids and finding, you know, all these archives and what they believe. Like, she has so many journals, and they're full of just prayers for people, like handwritten prayers. She's

been praying people her whole life and writing down every prayer. On the left side, she'll write down the prayer request and when it started, and then months later she'll go back and like write down when it was answered. In between these like prayers are like verses that go along with it. I mean, it's just, it's crazy. And she has, and she has like prayer journals, she has real life journals. We found her diary when she was a high school girl, which is like, I think everyone was a little nervous to read it.

It's like the most pure, innocent thing you've ever seen. It's like, did she ever go through a phase? She never talked bad about anyone. It's kind of wild. So, and even in addition to that, she was like 82 when we found her schedule and it's full. She was taking, so she was in like a senior living like community, not even like a hospice house or anything,

but just like, you know, apartments. And she was taking harmonica lessons, Tai Chi. She like volunteered at all these places. She, so I was just like, man, I'm fired up. So I've started a journal. I'm like, what a cool thing to, I guess one pass on, but two even just like to look back on for yourself and to keep track of prayer requests.

I'm like, man, this is, this is cool. I was not expecting, I mean, my parents have still not gone through everything that she's like left behind. So it's pretty cool. I've like thought about her every day since then and like been inspired. It's like Rachel's journaling more. I started my own journal.

Like, this is sweet. Wow. This is how you're supposed to like pass things on. Yeah. It's really cool. That is awesome, man. I'm just like, how much, just like thinking about how much she loved the people around her

to like write down every time she prayed for him. Like, this is cool. Wow. Seriously. Yeah. Just so intentional, so consistent, it sounds like. Yeah. So like, yeah, just devout, I guess is the word. Yeah. Use like, it's just like, I am going to continue with this. I'm confident in this. I know this is making a difference. I know that the Lord will answer these prayers and like, here are all the promises that

back it up in scripture. And like, yeah, man, yeah, it was sweet. So it's been done. Yeah. A lot of good things to come from it. Right. Absolutely, man. That's, that's why I did not know that man. That's, that's so tough, but that's so funny. Like not knowing that your dad, I thought it was so random. Your dad texted me yesterday, a picture of your mom when she was a baby genuinely. It said, I may be way off in my memory might be fading, but Trish and I were going through old photo albums. This was Trish. And I think she looks a lot like bow. Is there any truth to this? And in my head, I'm like, what a random text at 1139 on a Wednesday morning to get from Steve Triplett. But I was like, that's sweet. They're going

through old photo albums. Okay. Yeah. And I, I think it kind of looks like Bo. I think it also looks a little bit like Rosie. I was like, I definitely think it looks like Jake, but it was just such a funny like text to get from your dad. And that makes more sense now. My wife might look like your son and I don't know. Maybe like your son. And I don't know. Maybe they're just kids. I don't know. Blonde kids.

Yeah, here's my wife as a newborn. She kind of looks like some of your kids also is a newborn. I don't know. Her eyes were closed, but so were your kids a lot. So anyway, yeah. That makes more sense now that they're going through this stuff,

but that's so sweet, man. Yeah, thanks for It was inspiring. I'm like, let's just keep the legend of Sharon Miller going. It's cool That's what I spoke about the funeral. I was like, yeah I think everyone wants to leave an impact and like she really did like holding up her prayer like this is an impact This is cool. I had no idea at the extent. I think yeah just in general something I I regret not doing better with my grandparents is something I want to be more intentional with my kids towards my parents is having my parents and Catherine's parents

tell their stories. Tell any and every story they have. 100%. Because I think that it just feels so easy these days or whatever to be like, man, old people don't know, they don't know how to use a phone. So therefore they're, they're dumb or whatever. Yeah. Or there's limited conversations we can have. It's like, and I've heard that like as simple as like having a family dinner and like a

show and tell night where it's like, they just bring something and they tell a story about it, whether it's like from their childhood or whatever. And it's just like, and we we've done it a few times, but I want to do it more. Um, this is amazing what Hattie can remember about stories that I've told her. Like, she remembers details that I don't even remember very well. Like no dad, you said you were in the, in the tractor that morning too. Yeah. Really? I didn't. Oh, okay. I, yeah, whatever. Like it's like, it sticks with her, but that's how your family legacy continues through documenting

and through passing down stories. And like, like it is cool. Like Catherine, her relationship with her grandmother was so strong. Like, and so Catherine has so many stories from her grandma. And my grandma too, like was just an amazing woman. And so, yeah, you hear all these stories of like, yeah, all these times where she, yeah, they moved around so much because my dad, my dad's dad, my grandpa was in the army. And so, yeah, anyway, it's just like, yeah, just being intentional with like writing things down or, you know, passing your notes even like letters and stuff like that. So sweet. And I think, yeah, some of our current day of just like, well, I texted them. It's like,

that's sweet. I bet I've texted you a sweet text or you've texted me a sweet text before that is either gone or lost. Like, you know what I mean? And you keep your letters most of the time. So anyway. My dad made the same point.

He's like, as cool as this is to find all this stuff from her. He's like, I wish we would have known this existed. And we could like cross-reference like, okay, here's this story in your diary from your boss at the bank. Like, yeah, tell us about that. Like, what do you remember about that? Right. Yeah. It'd be fun to like extrapolate it a little more. So man, that's cool though. Yeah. I appreciate the sharing man. Yeah. No, it was Sharon. Her name was Sharon. It wasn't Sharon. She was. I mean, I know her well because she was around. She was at everything.

She came to things and she was so soft spoken. So, so often I was like, what are you saying? Oh yeah. We're in this room with 300 people. My dad hasn't heard her in five years. Even at your grandpa's funeral, she was there and it's so great to see you. Thank you for coming. Absolutely. Yeah's so great to see you. Thank you for coming. Absolutely.

Yeah. So good to see you too. So it was really fun to go back through some of the texts that she sent over the years because she did watch the podcast occasionally. So she knew who you were. There were a couple of funny texts of like, Hey, Jake, just listening to your podcast. I found it on accident, but you're doing a good job. I'm not getting the thing done.

It's like, that's nice. nice. Thanks. That's amazing, dude I love it, man anyway, uh We move on to our reviews of the week. Yes We didn't have a ton maybe not any new reviews. So I found a review from three years ago That's fun. And that's my review of the week. It is coming from somebody I read the review first and decided this is gonna be my review of the week. It is coming from somebody. I read the review first and decided this was going to be my review of the week. And then I saw who it was from. So I'm going to, the title of it is be a ghost. You won't regret it. Five stars

says ghost runners. There's so much to be said. I've been working my way through the old episodes whilst keeping up with the recent ones. And it's been a blast. These guys are genuine and fantastic dudes to feel like you're hanging out with. I've gone through the four stages of culture shock While going through these epi's or so does Jake would say honeymoon stage of enjoying every single moment of the pod to being increasingly frustrated that we couldn't just have have Jake and Brad and the fam over for a game night of riveting catchphrase to just adjusting and accepting that they are strangers who Feel like friends and life is still great that way. Although still a little sad

anyway, so grateful for all the laughs I look forward to seeing what more is to come. And then I looked at the name of the person that posted this and it was Celia M. O. Oh, Cecilia M. O'Brien and who's become a friend of our, who lives in Kansas city. Like she's come to these events with us and like, uh, we are friends with her. Like I saw this, I screenshot it and I had her phone number. I are friends with her. Like I saw this, I screenshot it and I had her phone number. I texted it to her. I'm going to use this. Like, and I looked back at our old texts and it was us going back and forth about good coffee shops in Kansas city. Like it's like, we are friends and it's a cool blessing to be like three

years later, time flies. And here she is. Look at us now. She, she's been in New Zealand recently. Pictures looked awesome. That's cool. Yeah. But yeah, it's funny in New Zealand recently. I did not know that. Pictures looked awesome. That's cool. Yeah. I'm sure. But yeah, it's funny you mentioned that. Rachel, just a couple of days ago was like, I was in Sicily a while. I need to go to Sicily. Yeah. And speaking of vacations. Oh, maybe we have a little something. We say it now or we say at the end of... Is it locked in? Locked in.

Might as well. Might as well. We're going back to Gulf Shores, maybe. Same place, same house. Same place. Brad's been scouring the internet and he says, there's no house. Like you never forget your second. That's right. And so we forgot our first one in Destin, but the second house. Yeah. You never forget your second house. Yeah. We're going back to the same house. We're going, it's not for a while. We're going to go in August, August 16th through the 23rd to the same house. We're going to do two different sessions like we did last time. So it's going to be a Saturday through Wednesday session,

a Wednesday through Saturday session. OK? And yeah, I don't know if it's live by the time that you're listening to this or not, but we will be posting more about it soon enough. We're excited. I can't wait. It's going to be awesome.

It's just going to be like, we're going to take what we did last year and just fine tune it and make it even better, more fun. So yeah, still trying to figure out. It was so good. I don't even want to fine tune it. It's just exactly the same. Seriously. But part of what makes this house so good is because of that huge common like living room and the giant tables, whether you're playing bank or bunko or just eating meals together. Yes. You sit with new people every time. I mean, it's just so fun. Um, all the games that we played, we got to play more, you know, whatever, all the different things. So really, really excited. Grab a seashell on your way to the ocean. Right. Come back. You know, yeah. That's, oh dude,

you forgot your seat. No, I can't wait. So market calendars, August 16th through the 23rd. We'll get more details soon enough, but it's going to be awesome. And if you're a true OG, not even OG, if you're a true ghostie and wants to get crazy, come for the whole week. That is an option. We will give you a discount if you come for both sessions. And I think the people that came for both sessions last year,

Celia being one of them, did not regret it. So anyway, yeah not regret it. So Anyway, yeah shout out it gets me so excited. I know cuz it's so cold right now. I'm like, yes the beach Yes, all I want to do. Yeah, so we were trying to do it like the last couple years We did like late April early May But this house gets booked up so fast. Yeah, and I kept I was like, maybe we can find a different house It's comparable and like you said there's just nothing like it So there was there was I was like, maybe we can find a different house. It's comparable. And like you said, there's just nothing like it. So there was, there was some that were like, maybe we can make this work. But I'm like, I just don't feel comfortable. I want to, if we're doing it, let's do it. Yeah. So in mid August is like, it'll for

sure be warm. It'll definitely be warm. We haven't really had to worry about that, but I think there was a day where it was at least a little more dreary or like the ocean was kind of rough. It was really windy, but I think Florida was like, definitely like dreary. Yeah. But we'll have a nice summer day. Yeah. It'll be great. Summer week. So fun. So man, that's fun. August 16th through 23rd Gulf Shores. We're making it happen. Running it back.

Lamberts. Lamberts, dude? I thought we got to go to Lamberts again. Lambies, yeah. Like sunset cruise, maybe get some feedback from people. Like maybe they liked it. Maybe they didn't. That was pretty fun though too. Feeding the seagulls., feeding the seagulls.

Feeding those seagulls was wild. With the dolphins, yeah, pretty frigging fun. So I don't know, man. Maybe we just keep that on. Yeah, we don't need to change that much. I know, right? The things we do at the end, which is a surprise. So fun, yeah.

If you come. Yep, so I'm gonna say it one more time. August 16th through the 23rd. Yep, it's good. Mark it on your calendars. I marked mine. Come on I work mine. Oh Tywin times gonna be so jacked by then to do that is a good goal. That's a good goal each season Yep, get shredded by getaway time. Mm-hmm. I'll try Gulf shred golf shredding go shreds

Gulf of America. That's so dumb. I don't care about that at all. People are really like having opinions on that. I'm like, who cares? Whatever. Yeah. Golf of Mexico sounded fine to me.

That was good. Anyway. My review. We get a lot of comments on Spotify now because we throw a little video up there. GT Giffey said, I don't know where to leave a review. So here it is. Five out of five, 10 out of 10, 100 out of 100. It doesn't matter how many stars there could be. This pod will always get the highest rating. Love the pod and all that you do. You guys brought light into a dark time for me. So I really appreciate that. Thanks, boys. You're welcome, GT GT. Giffey.

No problem. Are you sure it didn't say Griffey, dude? Is this? He's like, I used to play baseball with my dad. We hit home runs in the same game as everyone done before. Love the pod. That's sweet. G.T. Giffey. Cool. Would you like to end this episode with a jingle? I would. Gabriel Oliver. Some people call him Gabe Oliver.

He wrote one? Gabe Oliver wrote one for us. I think Timon's going to sing most of it. Sure. But it's kind of coming from the POV of Jacob Garland Triplet. Oh, fun. Thanks, Gabe. What's this going to be about? Oh, geez. And it's to a song that we couldn't find the instrumental to. Oh no. I'm just going to try to sing over the song. So we're going to try to sing over it and not get copyright stricken from it. Okay. For sure. I guess either way. No, it'll, we'd get copyright. Right? Yeah, you're probably. Yeah, I would think, but I guess we'll just take it off the YouTube version. I'll try. Yeah

So this will be fun to listen to. I will try to I'll do my best I might sing the choruses with you a little bit. Great. I think that's kind of more gang vocals anyways Gang vocals. You can sing it too, Jake. I'll do gang. Yeah gang gang. All right It starts right off. Here we go Oh, tell me do you feel me? I've been in the gym with the weights getting shreddy Stronger than I was yesterday, still no red meat Used to run a mile, now it's weights on the daily This that Saturday morning protein inside my cup Looking at my visceral, can't believe I'm not throwing up

Timing's getting bigger if you just let it be Forget about his shirt, Let me sip that protein please Yeah we made it Yeah we made it Decided not to fake it Diet's not been the same since From the chicken to the protein All the way up, watch a govix translimation Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo We ain't getting no younger so let the muscles recover so let's keep lifting get tougher and maybe still be a runner

If you find the work hill time come on lift the weights real high to the sky Yeah, we made it Yeah, we made it Decided not to fake it Dietists have been the same since From the chicken to the protein All the way up, watchin' boy, it's generation Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, Good job, Gabe. Well written. That was great, Gabriel. What a weird way to do a jingle. He matched the syllables so well that it wasn't that jarring.

Yeah. It was pretty spot on the original. Timing killed it. Thanks. Good job, everyone. Good job. Good job. Good job. All right, Tommy, you got anything for us to spin? Close us out. Oh, yeah. My MacBook charging cord busted. It's not, doesn't work. Busted? They make more of those. Gotta buy one for 50 bucks. Do you have $50 in your bank account? Yeah. Boom! Spun. You've been spun. Consider that spun. Consider yourself spun.

We did it. Consider it fixed. Yep. It's fixed. All right. We're all fixed. Hey, have I said yet? August 16th through the 23rd.

What? Ghost Runners Alabama. I'll do it. Ghost Runners getaway. Fun. It's going to be awesome. Yeah. We're not going to have to wear beanies fun. It's gonna be awesome. Yeah, we're not gonna have to wear beanies anymore It's gonna be sick. Let's do it. All right. Thanks for listening you guys

See ya next week. See you Wednesday. See you this Wednesday. Yes There among the morning wind taking ground, But it's from the spark, yeah! Go for a spark, yeah!