Ghostrunners - 414 - Blackout

Episode Date: March 3, 2025

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Hey, happy Monday everybody. Yes. Last week we quizzed Tymon on some basketball terms and people seemed to like it. So we're gonna do some more sports terms. We all learned a little something. So first of all, Tymon, we're gonna give you a term and we're gonna ask for the sport of origin, okay?

For this term. And then if you just wouldn't mind explaining it. Okay, cool. We'll start out easy, double play. Sport of origin football. Yep. And then this is where it's like both teams. It's the only time that two footballs are involved and it's like just throwing like

from both started on either end of the field and like you throw them to the other side and then whichever catches it first, they start the next one. That sounds like a double play. That's so fun and so right That's why it was it was the first one. It was supposed to be you know Yeah, yeah, I'll you if you will Chinese checkers, and then they're like that just called double play double play Yeah, four cents all right time in next one need to know um sport and definition, okay? Corner blitz corner blitz that's soccer Corner Blitz. Corner Blitz, that's soccer.

And that's just like, you've heard of corner kick. Yep, corner kick. And it's just like Dutch Blitz is involved. Yes. Yes. Exactly. I can't remember exactly how, but I know it's involved somehow. Yeah.

There's just a, there's a, there's one corner that is kicking and the other corner is playing Dutch Blitz. Yeah. Very good. Thanks. All right. There's just a there's a there's one corner that is kicking and the other corner is playing Dutch Blitz. Yeah Very good. Thanks. All right. What about this one? Let's let's go Let's go ground ball ground ball a ground ball. Okay, uh Ground ball. I think this is rugby This is rugby and it's just where you like have to roll on the ground when you're wearing while you're holding the right yeah only women's rugby I think okay yeah it's

a special role for them yep because they can do it easier let's just let's just not get into the the physics of it but let's just say they can do it easier okay right that's right that's right all right and a sport and definition icing. Now this this is baseball. Yeah, you would think you would think it'd be something that has ice in it. No, this is baseball. This is baseball because this is when like this came from Babe Ruth. He would he would like, what was that thing he always did?

He put spit on the ball when he was he would pitch. Yeah, he was a pitcher. Yes And it was like that that is sweet like sweet like icing Now they call it that every time you put a spin on the ball When you spin the ball, you put a spin on the ball You put a spin on when you cast a spin on the ball. Yeah, you take your one you say expin amas very good for me ball Okay You want me to keep going time actually I was thinking I could quiz you guys okay on

Baseball sports terms. Yeah, well, you'll see it's it's actually something. I know more about theater terms. Oh, okay Well, yeah remind you've been in a play or a couple thespians ourselves Yeah, I was Charbonneau for the Lewis and Clark play in fourth grade. Yeah, I don't know the exact numbers But I think I've talked about before I was narrator like number 9 17 26 34 they didn't have it just all be one. I have a role of six narrators. Those are the important ones Yeah, they want they want people to think like narrator one's important It's like no no those people are just like get them out of the way so they forget about them. So

Okay, I'm ready. We'll start off easy house house. Yeah house So in America, it's just a place you live in a place So I guess in a theater it just be like the whole thing like the whole plate if someone like there's there's one person for every Play that like has to live, live in the theater, right? Like that's, you said that even like touring, there was always a guy that was like, he would, he would, you would like do a secret knock on the side door and he would come with his pillow in his arm. Sometimes there's a riddle, not every time in the older theaters. You say password and you'd be like, X spinny arm X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, Who's this? You're like, I'm the house guy. Yeah. I live here. House guy.

Don't bother me. So. Yeah. I shortened it to house, house guy. House guy. Yeah. Typically it's the more like professional term, but Greenleaf just called it house. There was a show when we were growing up called house

and it was all about, I believe. This guy lived in a hospital. I never watched it, but yeah, I believe it was, yeah. A theatrical hospital, right? Yeah, yeah. House MD. Yeah. So easy. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. House MD, yeah, so easy. Yeah, thank you.

Yeah, thanks. For lobbing it. Blackout? Super drug. This is something, oh. No? Were you? Blackout, I think this is something.

Stressful job. It could be, yeah, it could be. Blackout. Blackout, this is like a certain type of like, like performance where it's like, hey, we're doing like, stop is coming to town. Oh, okay. White people aren't really gonna be able to like,

clap and rhythm. I see. We might just wanna do a blackout. Just do a blackout. Yeah. Got it. And just only let them. Oh, just watch. Exclusively them.

Yeah, because the white people won't be able to enjoy it as much. Hey, Blue Man Group is coming to town. Should we just do blackout? Just blackout. Let's just do blackout. They blew out. Yeah, the performers aren't going to enjoy it enough. We got white people back there snapping and clapping their best and hooping and holler.

It's not the same. Let's just do blackout. I think I would understand what blackout meant. If I went to a show recently that was truly like completely dark on the stage. But the last show I went to was time and sense and sensibility with the candle doing the thing. Wasn't a full blackout. I think that's supposed to be when it's black.

Let's say, Hey, okay, scenes over blackout. But I could still see that candle clear as day. Spell the armist. Yeah. So. Yeah. Okay. I'm trying to like get a slightly harder each time.

We'll see. Quick change. Quick change. It's kind of the easiest one probably. Yeah. What is that? That's like, oh, it's a, it's- I thought it was motor oil.

I was going to say, I thought it was like a NASCAR term. Yeah, but okay, theater. Do you guys have a pit crew too? Yeah. Or a pit you guys have lug nuts. You have a pit. Yeah Yeah, a quick change pit All right. So this must be something where in audience like if you're having trouble selling tickets So you're like hey, we need some of the cast go fill some seats Oh, you go sit in the audience and like hey your scenes up you quickly change into a performer You do your scene or put in an audience member you mean well, they sit in the audience and like, hey, your scene's up, you quickly change into a performer. You do your scene.

Or an audience member, you mean? Well, they start in the audience. And then, hey, my scene's up. I see. I'm a performer now. And then when you're done, you go back in the audience and you put butts in seats. That's a good idea because sometimes I'll go to a play

and it'll feel like that wasn't that funny. And there's people in the audience that are dying laughing I'm like they must be quick changers. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay You guys would get that one. Yeah, that's great. Um this one This is more voice Head voice head voice head voice. You could say head voice or head voice Yeah, it's just like listen the theater is a mental game and you got a lot of voices in your head You got a lot say head voice or head voice. Yeah, it's just like, listen, the theater is a mental game and you got a lot of voices in your head.

You got a lot of head voice, right? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think it's like a type of kind of like a theater based anxiety. Oh gosh, I'm in my head voice right now. Hey, break a leg. Thank you, man, I needed that. My head voice is heavy.

Right? Yeah. Like you're doing prayer requests at church that week. Honestly, guys, like I could just be praying. If you guys could be praying for my head voice, I got a 10 pound head voice this week. I'm narrators 18, 19, 44, 65 and gosh, I know this one's crazy, but 78. Yeah. This week, massive head voice. Is that good? Yeah, that was it. I got two more for you guys. 78 this week. Massive head voice. Is that good? Yeah, that was it. I got two more for you guys. All right, thank you.

Downstage. Careful. Yeah, this isn't good. Yeah. Don't want you knowin' about this. So downstage, how do we say this to not give it away totally, because it is kind of inappropriate? Rapunzel would let her hair mm-hmm down mm-hmm, but then who was her kind of a love interest was it I

Want to I don't think it is but Tasmanian Devil I Don't think I think it's someone like was it Cartoon network, I think so They were then invited to also go down stage. That's all I'm gonna say. Shame on me, Simon. Yeah, sorry, I shouldn't have gone there. One more. Tasmin. One more. Glottal stop. Glottal stop. Okay, that's a percussion instrument. How's that sound? Gottal stop, gottal stop.

Like that, right? And now let's say it was a blackout. Now how would it sound? Bzzz, ka, baa, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka, ka Thanks for trying. You're welcome brother. You always will. Oh my goodness. on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet because it's a ghost from the spot cam every Monday morning we're taking grandma to the spot cam go for a vodka

who you texting over there? volleyball team I feel like people are trying to bail tonight I'm like hey I got a flight at 6 a.m. tomorrow I'm still going tonight that's crazy dude that's crazy people are trying to bail tonight. I'm like, hey, I got a flight at 6 a.m. Tomorrow. I'm still going tonight That's crazy, dude That's crazy, man Like trying to audition while I'm playing do no way dude. Really some people don't want to play. Oh wait, dude. That's wild, dude that's Wild dude might be down like a guy or two Really dude, okay, no problem It might be down like a guy or two. Yeah. Really, dude?

Okay, no problem. Sure, I also had to play basketball just in case. Huh, huh, dude. Okay. Crazy, dude. Crazy, dude. Oh man, are you guys still undefeated? Yes.

Yeah. Yeah, I sent a text undefeated? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I sent a text to the guy a couple of weeks ago. I was like, what can we do to get a little bit of competition? And he was like, we can try next time, maybe, I don't know. Also the team we're playing tonight isn't playing at all. Or like they bailed or whatever.

So we haven't played in like three weeks. Oh. So you're wait, you're not playing, this was last week? Yeah, last week, yeah. But, yeah, tonight's a 930 game. Rachel and I, we got in bed last night at 830. Watched an episode of Severance, so probably fell asleep at like 915.

And we woke up this morning and we're like, Rachel, we play a game tonight once we were already asleep last night. That's insane. Yeah, then flying to South Dakota first thing in the morning tomorrow. Where does that go through? Chicago? Minneapolis.

Okay. Yeah, isn't it funny to like, that's just such an adult thing. Like Tymon heard that you went to bed at 9.15 and he rolled his eyes. And I'm like, heck yeah. Like, let's go. We don't normally do that, but it was awesome.

Yeah. Cause then I woke up at what, 6.15, but I had slept nine hours. Yeah, it's crazy. It was awesome. I was still running late. That's what's really amazing. Well, it's just simple math,

but I try to explain it to Catherine all the time. Like, listen, if you go to bed at 9. 30, you can get eight hours of sleep and get up at five 30. Like, it's like, everyone knows the math, but like you have to say it out loud to like make yourself convinced. Like sending with the temperature. It's like the difference in 40 and 70 is the same in 40 and 10. Yeah.

But isn't that something's different it? Something's different here. Weird though about it. Yeah, man. That's, yeah. I remember, do you remember in college, like a lot of these case dates, intramurals, the latest slot was always 1130. No way.

Oh, they wouldn't let Baptist be out there. That wasn't allowed for us. Yeah, we wouldn't do that. What was curfew at your school? First semester, freshman year, I think weeknight had to be back in your dorm by midnight. Okay, that's not terrible. It really wasn't.

It's like not the worst thing to like build decent habits. Right. And then weekends, 2 a.m. Okay. Back in your dorm. And it was never coed in the rooms or like? I think every other Thursday Hello, you could get crazy social Thursday and let me tell you how crazy we got

Girl signs in yeah Hot oh yeah, you're man how she signs. Oh, yeah, she signed then yeah I'd like to visit Landon from six to eight Landon being the dorm and maybe the person Oh sure, and then you go up and I think the rules were door has to be open and all four on the floor. Four on the floor. Which is like your hands and knees. At least one of you always has to have four on the floor. It's like an improv game. It's like Twister.

Like, I don't know. We have to play Twister the entire time. Yeah, something. But yeah, so like all four feet had to be on the floor. Okay, yeah. And so that was enough to make me never do it. Really? Or just like, I don't want a girl seeing my room.

It wasn't like I had any kind of crazy interest or like ulterior motives. It was just like, no, I'm 19 years old. My place is a slum. I don't want a girl seeing that. I'll go hang out with her I don't know actually I didn't do a lot of hanging out with girls at all It was like do you want to go run from security with me? She's like no, I was like our else go do it with Chris

No problem. Yeah What was your dorm room like? Because I know you post college and I saw your room. Was it like that? Was it just like You know close strewn about? I feel like most men are a lot like liquid or gas. You know where I'm going with this? We fill the shape of our container. We're like, if I lived in a three story house,

I would still find a way to make that messy. Like on the slightly messy side. If I live in a small dorm, I will make that small dorm slightly messy. Okay. Like if it ever gets extreme, I feel like you clean it up. But yeah, I will always have a slightly messy car, a slightly messy room. You're saying like six out of ten messy. Yes. So yeah, like there were things like never like dirty, never just like an old, like some guy dorm rooms you walk in and it's like, what does that smell? Oh, that's my old shaker bottle.

I really need to wash out. You know, it's never anything like really gross. Never had like silverware rotting in the bed or anything. Yeah, like, oh, that's my clean clothes pile. That's my dirty clothes pile. No one else knows the difference with me. Yeah, yeah, more clothes than it is like, oh, you just have a pizza box over there

from four days ago or something. It's like, no, throw that away. So yeah, somewhat messy. And the it's like no throw that away. So yeah somewhat messy. Um, And the dorm I lived in was sweet style Oh, yeah, shared, uh, you know two rooms with a shared bathroom in between it Okay, so you share a shower with three dudes you share a bathroom Toilet with three dudes must be nice living the sweet life Yeah, it's pretty sweet. Um

Did you have any I'm gonna guess no, but did you have any decorations in your dorm room? No, not at all. We had like cement walls. So I mean you couldn't even like do anything if you wanted to. Yeah, I think cement would be the right word. Cinder block? Yeah, basically. Yeah, that's what ours were. Yeah, and we just had... I used like command strips to put stuff up. Oh, that's nice. And I put stuff up I think I bought a, there was like a poster sale in the union one time. Where it was like, you know, it was one of those things

where you think you're getting the best deal ever on these posters, cause it's a sale at the union. And I bought this massive Beatles poster and that was my decoration. The closest we got to decorating was, I hid a bunch of things above the bathroom. Okay. It's like in the shared bathroom, it had ceiling tiles in there. And so I hid a bunch of things up top in that dorm. So that was kind of like

decor. So three 29, three 31 land and third floor, third south. You think they're still there? Surprises up there for you. Do you remember what you had up there? No, I really don't. I mean, I think I wrote like a note, almost like a time capsule kind of thing. And then much of other random cred. You were kind of Walter Whiting before that was a thing.

I was, yeah, there was Methylamine and much of other cool stuff. I haven't watched it yet, but you mentioned Severance. Are you into it? Yes. Yeah, it's great. It's very interesting because it's, Rachel said this last night, I 100% agree.

She's like, if other people weren't talking about it, I don't know if I would have kept watching. Oh, interesting. Because it's a little slow and it's just like, they don't tell you anything. Okay. I mean, you're just confused. I mean, we're on the season finale now.

Oh, wow. I don't have a clue what's going on. Oh, wow. I don't even really have any guesses. Okay. Like you're very in the dark nada, but I do think my my expectation my prediction is that this is a show that is Subtly giving you clues the whole time you're a first watch through you just don't know what to look for So I I would expect this is a show where you can watch it again

It's still really enjoyed the second time gotcha because it's very original. I'll give him plenty of credit They're very original very cool. And yeah, we are definitely hooked. Okay, but we don't know anything really it's odd to feel that way Yeah, I feel like it came out what two or three years ago maybe in my one of my cousins who's always Ahead of things like that. He's like this show was so good You got to watch it and of course I have not, but that was my Valentine's gift to Catherine. I was like, we're gonna watch a show together and it's gonna be Severance. Like we have not watched an episode yet, but someday.

Do you know the kind of the premise of it? Yeah. Yes. Like there's a inside or sorry, whatever, inner any. Yeah. Any. There's like your work life and your work self, and then there's like an outside of work self, right?

Yeah, like your brain, I think, is kind of like severed. Severed from the two, yeah. So, it's pretty cool. It's an interesting thing. Yeah, it's like thought provoking of like, yeah, all right, you created this other person, kind of like, what kind of rights do they have? Like, do they deserve to be happy?

This is kind of what the show gets into, but it's more of just like, I think for you to talk with whoever you're watching it with. Like, yeah, what's fair? What's right for this like copied and pasted version yourself that is only there to work? Yeah, I'm interested to watch it. Cause I'm like, okay, does that mean,

are their personalities the same or their personalities similar, but not the same? Or are they completely different? You know, is one guy a jerk and then he's super nice outside of here or whatever, like, so I am interested to watch it. But I am trying to, do you ever struggle with this, like with Rachel, like, I'm trying to like wait for you,

but sometimes it's not convenient for you to be around, or you know, I'm ready to watch it now, but you're not really ready right now or whatever. It's pretty easy for Rachel to be on the same schedule, but I would imagine with kids and other things. It's like yeah way harder But there are times where I give Rachel heads up like I think a week ago I was like hey just get this out in the air right now new Gabby Petito documentary just dropped I got a few flights coming up Maybe you watch this on your own time and I'll watch it on the flight good

We shook hands. Yeah spit on it shook hands right it's set. It's we're good. Mmhmm, but Severance is our show together right now, so that's good. Yeah, it's cool It's nice good Good you went to Arizona you want to talk about what Arizona went to the desert, baby It was fun. I feel like I came back telling Rachel I was just like I it was like two days later, like I can't stop thinking about it. It was like summer camp where you're like, man, that was awesome. I mean, that just went about as good as it could have.

Cause the whole team was there. All six of us plus Scott's playing partner, TJ was there, plus another guy. So it was just the whole crew and the other guys who are part of Friday, they had never been to like a PPA big tournament before us I think they loved seeing it They couldn't believe how often we get like stopped and talked to at these tournaments

Which I've kind of talked about in here before like It's very unique and I'm not even used to it because like within those borders We are the most famous people in the border, You know, it's like you can't walk, you can't get places, everyone wants a picture, it's really cool, and they couldn't believe it, it was fun. Isaac and I did end up going with the denim outfits,

which I think was the right choice, it was a hit. So I was wearing Rachel's Forever 21 shorts, and length was solid, breezy, you know. Loose? Loose. However, there were button flies. I think they had five buttons. And I could only get two, sometimes three buttoned.

So I kinda had a little flying V open down here, but I wore a belt. Okay. And most of the time Scott could not believe that. He would be like, show me again. And I would lift up my shirt. He'd be like, I just can't, you've played all day with only your belt holding your shorts up.

Also just the fact that you're playing in a belt in general. Yeah, if you're running around in a belt. Yeah. But really the shorts were the least of my worries because Isaac got the shirts from a thrift store. And I think they were like size XL, like originally long sleeve denim shirts that he cut off. They were the length of my shorts.

And I just couldn't figure out all day how to wear it. And you can't tuck in because you got a belt with only three of five buttons. Yeah, and you don't, I mean, all day long you'd have my phone on me because girls' pockets, why don't they make them normal? Like I couldn't fit my phone in my pocket. So I just didn't have it all day.

So I was doing kind of the, TJ called it the French tuck. I think that's where you only tuck in front. Oh, okay. Catherine always just says front tuck. Front tuck. Yeah, but TJ's more into fashion than Catherine. So I was trying different stuff all day. I tuck it into the pockets.

Maybe just tuck the back. So I'm like, man, I'm just getting caught on my own shirt all day. Oh, really? It's so baggy. But it's fun. And then I'm mic tucked it back. So I'm like man. I'm just getting caught on my own shirt all day. Oh, really so baggy But it's fun, and then I'm mic'd up too. So, you know, you got a cord running down all things considered. It was still really fun So this was new and unique to this tournament. We've never had people like Well people stop us like hey, you're the Friday guys. We get a picture or whatever but that's the end of it. No one ever is like, actually watched us play

just because we're, you know, just amateur players. Who cares? I'll go watch the pros. This is the first time we ever had like a crowd like, hey, which quarter you guys going to? We're going to 25, come along. And then we would have like the entire fence lined with people cheering for us, which is really fun. And I think about 25% of them didn't know who we were.

I think it was just the denim. I'm like, well, this is kind of fun. These guys are playing denim, 4.5, that's kind of hilarious. So yeah, the outfits were just a hit. And I think it might just be a thing now where it's like every PPA tournament, let's wear something ridiculous.

Not too crazy, but. But enough to like, yeah, be like, those guys are fun. Yeah, that's fun, they're not taking it too serious. I think next we might go like John McEnroe, like vintage, like short shorts, headband, tennis player kind of thing. So yeah, we had a blast, that was all day Saturday.

Isaac and I do really well. Scott and TJ, out of 44 teams end up winning first in 5.0. It's insane. They've never done that before. Didn't cry, that I saw. I didn't see anything. That's amazing though.

But that's awesome. It was crazy. I mean, 5.0, I mean, it's the closest you can get to professional pickleball. And they won gold doubles. And one with Friday Pals. So that's huge for the marketing coming up soon.

I mean, just like, we already posted kind of on Reddit kind of a recap about it. People are responding really well to that. I mean, the emails, the texts, the ads we can make from like, Friday paddles are not just for beginners. We won 5.0 gold. You know, I think this is a garners some respect. So I will say we were all, we, Isaac and I

had to play so many games. My Apple watch at the end of the day said I had played pickleball, cause I would pause it when I wasn't playing, six hours and 20 minutes. What really? It was a lot. Cause we had 32 teams, you know,

I think we made it to the semi-finals and then lost. So then we had a handful of losers bracket games as well. And then we make it to third place game. Now we're back to two out of three again. So it we had a handful of losers bracket games as well. And then we make it to third place game. Now we're back to two out of three again. So it was just a lot of games. And we felt that we, that was one thing I was glad that, I'm glad it wasn't just me being really tired or it wasn't just Isaac.

Like we were both so gassed at the same time. Like at least we're in this together. We called our first time out. Isaac and I have always for four years, anti-timeout like it's pickleball. I'm not gonna call a timeout to slow down momentum or to like, cause I need a break. And this was like, use every timeout we have,

use every second of this timeout we have. Yeah, we were just exhausted. Cause the day before we had shot all day long in the sun, we were sunburnt and woke up early, had a couple of grapes for breakfast. It was our own fault. This was so dumb. I prepared so well.

I'm like becoming this like good mom of the group. And I had prepared electrolyte mix. I had plenty for all of us. I brought protein bars. I brought turkey jerky, 12 pack of Gatorade. Left in the trunk. It was in the car all day long. But in Arizona, it's probably still staying cold. And that's the trunk. It was in the car all day long, but in Arizona

It's probably still staying cold and that's the thing. Yeah, you just pop in and grab it. Oh, yeah it was that was a dingus move, especially when we're like so depleted of energy, but Every time that Scott and TJ had a game. We also had a game We didn't get to see them play a single point all day. Luckily. We filmed it So it's all good, but we got done with our like semi final game. We see a text that says like 45 minutes ago, Scott said like going to court 25. And so we're like, all right, let's go.

And as we're like getting there, there's a huge crowd around them. It was like a New Testament story or whatever, because we're go up and all we see is Scott and TJ like high fiving and people are cheering. And we're just like, what's happening? What's happening over there? What are they doing? Was that let me get up on a tree real quick. Yeah. I need to climb up and see what's the, what's the miraculous thing that we're all plotting. Yeah. You know, is that game one was that

game too? Like, no, that was, that was it. They just won gold. They were like, crap, we missed it, but that's awesome. And so we like hopped the fence and like go hug them. And it was really, really fun. But yeah, didn't get to see a single second of it, but man Yeah, I'd say about since Saturday every like four hours It'll just come up in my head and like I can't believe they won gold. That is insane. Really? You're really good. Is that like one of the biggest tournaments of the year? Like I would say it's like it's up there Yeah, probably top five. There were like 1400 Total players playing in this and there were yeah

44 teams playing 5.0 and they came in first. That's crazy nuts. Yeah What like did they were they just like we just played amazing like or was it just like I think what their breakdown was I think they were like To be honest one thing that did help them and this is like we're gonna figure out how to craft this messaging, but they were using our new paddles. Like actually, not just trying to promote the paddles, but they just recently got like USAP approved.

This is the new like power paddle we're coming out with. And yeah, I mean, they've never come close to winning before. We could give them a little more power in their hands and came in first. So that could have been the difference. Yeah, which is really fun. I experienced something that I've only ever seen Andy Bernard experience before.

Can you guess what it is? The Rooted-to-Do thing? No, so it's something he experiences in the Fun Run episode. Oh, you chafed? No way. Chafing. Yeah, is that what it's from?

The front? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Really? From the denim. Yeah, we were like throughout the from? The front? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Really? From the denim. Yeah, we were like throughout the day slowly experiencing more and more symptoms. We were like, because Isaac kept being like, dude, my eyes are like burning. I don't know if it's sunscreen or sweat or maybe just all day long, I've had to wipe

my eyes with denim. And I think they're slowly just like, it's like rubbing the skin off my eyes. Rub me raw. And yeah, my left one, I mean, by like hour five, I was like, man, I'd do anything for like a dry fit t-shirt right now. Or just shirtless. I was like, I don't know if that's allowed.

That would feel so good. Yeah. But yeah, just having to like pull it out for myself. Really? Yeah, denim will do it to you. But overall, it was such a net positive. People loved it. I've never been tagged in so many stories

by people who didn't even know who we were. Like, these guys are playing in denim, this is fun to see. Yeah, it's a good way to, I don't know, promote easily. Just be like, who are these guys? Oh, they're, it's kinda like Red Bull. Red Bull's brand is just fun. You see a Red Bull truck, it's like, oh,

something fun's going on. Something cool's happening. Yeah, it's like, oh, you see these guys? Oh, they're just being fun. Like you see a Red Bull truck. It's like oh something something's cool is happening Yeah, it's like oh you see these guys like oh, they're just being fun. Yeah, let's be a fun brand Yeah, so I think it was a massive win very fun, and I think at the end of the weekend I think we have like nine YouTube video shot that's amazing so timing get those fingers ready Yeah, yeah, so it's great. It shout Caleb. Caleb was the ghostie who filmed for us. Oh yeah.

He was top notch. Top notch Caleb. Haven't seen any of the footage he edited, but I saw him. You could tell. And it was like, dude, it looks like you're crushing it. Yeah. It looks like, no, he was though.

I mean, like, cause we were on a big group text. We could like, you know, hey, I'm on this court. I'm on court 36, whatever. And I swear Caleb would be there before we got there. Okay. Yeah the tripod set up I mean he was just on it and microphones always roll it and like he was just all over it So really enjoyed him his wife Yeah, just good weekend I feel like so much of what I appreciate about the Caleb's of the world the timers of the world are there just like

Well, first of all if you can like anticipate needs, like rather than like always having to ask it also just like not seeming overwhelmed with things, like not being like surprised, which I guess is kind of the same thing as anticipating needs. But like, yeah, like, I feel like time and took, took initiative right off the bat. That was like one of the things I remember time and being like very impressed with you by cause like, yeah, like I remember you just like we're moving stuff around without being like, do you mind if I do this? Or like, can I adjust this a little bit? Sorry, guys. Sorry. You know, it was just like, oh yeah, let me do this thing. Let me do this. Like, I don't know. It sounds like Caleb maybe the same way, you know?

You know, another good time quality is he'll send me a thumbnail for a Friday video and I'll be like, dude, looks great. Perfect. And then like 30 minutes later, he'll like send me another one. That's like new and improved. Like even after dude, looks great, perfect. And like 30 minutes later, he'll like send me another one that's like new and improved. Like even after I already said it was perfect, if I can make it a little bit better, I can make it pop a little bit more. That's a good quality. And you go to the bathroom real quick.

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Okay. It was fun. Yeah. I got back in town and spring had sprung. Yeah. It's 60 degrees every day now. That was great. You ingrained singles, skater singles? No, me and Jesse and then Graydon and his brother Edwin. I was Edwin. Edwin. Yeah. Is that a homeschooled name? I don't know. They were public schooled for a lot of their public school name. Public school name. It's a good compound word to where do you guys play at? Spring Hill courts, spring Hill court. Yeah. They were kind of like, we had to clear a little bit of ice off of them,

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Yeah, you got your muddy voice on muddy buddies. Yeah. Hattie and Bo, it's like, Catherine, I think encourages it, like loves the idea. Like she grew up in the country, so she loves the mud, but I'm not a mud guy. I'm like-

She loves the mud? I don't think she loves it. I think she loves that our kids are not like too scared of not afraid of the mud I'm a little afraid of the mud. I'm afraid of the mud. I'm not afraid of the mud Yeah, they went and I think I don't think Catherine loved it But like we went on a well, I think you you came outside to say hi to the kids the other day They're on a walk. Yes, that was fun. So funny. I was driving down your street and I saw you going back in your house and I like was honking

and didn't get your attention, but I didn't know that you were going out to say hi to them. And then all of a sudden I see my family. I left. So I slam on my brakes and my hey guy. Anyway, the phone when I was saying hi to them, probably what it was. Um, but at the end of that walk, Hattie like rides her bike straight into the mud, like straight into the, the, your neighbors, like, like caddy corner from you on the corner of the street and uh, like literally put her bike in the mud and then she was barefoot

and just two feet right in the mud. She's not afraid, but she didn't like it. And then all of a sudden we have to be like, we have to face the repercussions of like washing her off. And like, because it's winter, we hadn't screwed on the hoses yet. And so we're like taking spray bottles to her, like spraying off the mud. Like, what do we do into this thing? Spray bottling the mud.

Dude, it was a mess. Cause like, and you're probably thinking like, why don't you just use the spigot from the hose? And it's like, well, the spigot's kind of like underneath our deck a little bit. It's kind of confusing. So you can't really access the spigot. Can't really access it very easily. So I feel like homes are like, you look on Zillow and houses and it's like beautiful mud room. I'm like, I'd rather have like a better, I don't need a mud room. Sounds like maybe mud rooms are valuable. I would love a mud room. I've I've tried to talk to Katherine about like the front

We'll call it Three feet four feet of our like garage Which is already a small garage like putting making that into a mud room or something Because back in the day with woodworking and stuff I would be so messy and dirty and dusty and I'd want to be able to come inside and like Disrobe without you know getting stained and paint and sawdust and everything everywhere. Anyway, it's always that are there like other uses for a mud room or is that like what it's

for like to to undirty yourself? I think something indoors. It's probably a little bit of a generic term, but I feel like sometimes you can like it can be where the laundry is. It can be. Yeah, I think those are like kind of the main ideas behind it or like a little bit more of just like a, just a dirty room. You might have a dog shower in there.

Dog shower. It's like where you take your coat off. Yeah. You might have like a shoes off there. We'll call it a utility sink. You know, like one of those like plastic, like basin sinks that you can get. Yeah. It's white.

Like, Hey, go wash off the paintbrushes in the utility sink You know sounds nice. It's kind of like just stuff like that. You know, maybe you have some some I don't know some cleaning products in there. So you were spray bottling Hattie's feet That was the only water we could it wasn't terrible. Honestly, I let Katherine do most of it. So she had a fun time I picture a spray bottle just kind of adding some mist and making the mud like worse. Eventually Catherine just took off the top and was just like using the water on it. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I had, I have a spray bottle in my shop cause I use it for random things. And so it's like, great. Well, Jesus. But yeah, just mud. And like they went to like

this park, there's a park kind of down towards Henry's house that has like these trails behind it. And of course the kids like are trying to be imaginative and fun and like go on these trails, but they get so muddy afterwards. And so it's just like, it's like this double edged sword to me. And I think Catherine, Catherine, Catherine's also a double edged sword viewer of it, but also just thinking like it's a better on this side of the double-edged sword. How many edges of a sword could you have? I think you can have eight nine. So yeah, there's nine dimensions, right glass half full. At least it's only two edge That's right. Yes. Thank you. Yeah spin zone spin zone Like spin zone good. I'm glad to hear it. I have to do that more spin zone

Yeah, I've been I've been kind of struggling. I finally got a little bit of the sickness that my kids have been having just like this feverish, flu stuff. I don't know. Nothing terrible, but it's like, it's just a bummer. Cause just has like made me less energetic. Like there's just things I want to do. And I'm just like, I want to do them in my heart, but in my body, I'm like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just like, I'm not going to do that.

I'm just like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just like, I'm not going to do that.

I'm just like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just like, I'm not going to do that And I'm just like, I want to do them in my heart, but in my body, I'm like, I'm not going to do that. So that's that spin zone please on that. It was not expecting that curve ball spin zone. Something to relate to with your family. Hey, now next time Hattie says she's like feeling tired or achy. Now you maybe believe her a little bit more.

Be like, suck it up. Like I had this too. I kind of know what you mean. I still made you breakfast when you were, when I was tired and achy, okay. No. Um, yeah, that's a good point. Just, yeah.

I also have chapped lips just like you do Rosie. Yes. We have chapped lips together. Fun times. But my, my highlight of my week was Monday morning. I was sitting in my truck, psyching myself out, psyching myself up. Yeah. I'm not psych. I'm not psyching myself out. So I get myself up to go into a mainstream roasters West. Okay. Okay. McClain's and, um, I'm in my truck just like, all right, get some work done. Let's go. Let's get this thing going. And then all of a sudden I look up and there's these two people just

waving at me. Three people, technically there was, there was a little baby. They had a little baby with them and I, they were not people that I was like, Oh, there's a definitely XYZ. And so I get out of, I was like, hi, I get out and they're like, we're ghosties. We listened to the podcast and it was, it was Evan and Taylor, AKA Evan of wild yam creams. Uh, Evan Coleman, Evan Coleman. Yeah, he was in town. He was in town for a hot second.

Evan and Taylor were in town. They're awesome. They were awesome. And so yeah, they're in town with their little baby, Hosanna, I think she's six months old, sweet little girl, buying a car from Indianapolis, just buying a car passing through and we're gonna get McClain's

and then leave later on that morning. And so they're like- They were buying a car in Kansas City? Yeah, found a great deal on a Tesla. It's a dope Tesla, It's awesome. Um, So people are buying the yam cream. It sounds like people that they were like they said the same thing They're like, ah, I don't know if people are gonna think I was like, yeah Because I was telling about golf stores. I was like you guys can afford golf shorts just fine

A few more months of yam sales. Yeah, right there um Anyway, but I mean, like they would close the sale and they come to Gulf Shores. I hope so. I did not close the sale, but I think I sold it pretty well. Hey yam. Hey yammers. Hey yam guy. Hey yam boy. He, but yeah, I mean, we probably talked, I don't know how long, over an hour at McLean's, like just a great conversation over breakfast and they're awesome. Really, really kind hearted, wonderful people like Justin Herbert. I could see it for sure. Yeah, absolutely. Justin Herbert. Just, yeah, just a good dude. Like I kept one. I mean, I did ask questions about them,

but they just kept asking me questions. Like they were just so kind and like inquisitive. And I'm like, well, I want to know about you guys. Like where, what's your story? You know? Um, but yeah, definitely. The highlight of my week was just hanging out with them for sure. Like just, oh man, it was just so unexpected and so fun to just get time with them. And, um, yeah, they're just people that are like, I mean, both of them, but like, it was fun,

especially like seeing Evan, he's a first time dad, like his heart for fatherhood and like his heart for being a good dad to his, to his, to his little girl. And, uh, just being able to like resonate and like, let's talk about that. Like, let's say, oh yeah, that'll wear off like, Oh dude, just wait, man. They'll, they start getting muddy and it's just like, it's miserable. And you got a spray bottle and you're gonna need one. Yeah, exactly. Keep it up. Keep them at bay. Like keep it far away from you. Just spray them off with that thing. Yeah. You're gonna be wiping off Brown stuff for the next 10 years. It's not usually mud, buddy. Yeah. It was, it was awesome though. It was so much fun and so unexpected.

And like, not that I was in like a terrible mood before that, but like, you have to psych yourself out. Certainly, certainly psych myself up more from that. So it was a sweet moment. I'm trying to think of anything like worthwhile, funny, hilarious, but it's just for the most part it's just, it was fun hearing his story about how he got started with wild yams because he was like, he just had his job got started with wild yams because he was like he just had his job and then

He quit his job because he was hating it and then like I forget exactly the timeline but like within days or a week Or something she was like I'm pregnant and so he's like, all right gotta figure this out Figure it out. Yeah, and you know back against the wall He you know rose up to the occasion kind of thing and just, pump for him. So those are always kind of fun. It's when things like that happen, it's so scary in the moment, but like nothing motivates you like, yeah, fear of like having no money. 100%. That'll make you figure it out pretty quick. I was talking to Catherine about that the other night. I was like,

I am so thankful that God has blessed us in these ways, but like I'm trying so hard to like get psyched up even though I don't need, even though I'm not scared, but like feeling a little bit of like, how do I find a little bit of fear? You know what I mean? Like, yeah. How do I, or how do I find motivation that's equivalent to fear? Yeah. Like where do you get that when you don't like, it's like, thank you Lord for providing for me, but I don't want to like, you know, take those things for granted or like think those things are here forever and like become too comfortable. Like I want

to keep being good stewards of the opportunities you're giving me and stuff. So anyway, it's fun to, I've had the same conversations like with myself and with Rachel's like, cause I've talked about before, like we want to buy some land. Like if we like stretch to buy some land, we would no longer be comfortable. But I'm like, so is that dumb? Is that dumb financially to bring yourself out of comfortability? Seems like it, maybe.

Flip side, spin zone. Now am I more motivated? Am I gonna work harder? Probably. Respin zone, triple edge sword. Am I, is this coming from a place of lack of contentment? Do I need to always be doing something? I don't know.

Why don't I just chill? Great questions. The mortgage costs like nothing in this house. Why don't I just hang out and save some money? Great questions, great thoughts. Quad, triple, edge, or? Yes, that is a quad edge, maybe a pint edge. Catherine and I really go back and forth on the contentment thing. Cause like, I think we even have like different definitions or

different versions of it. Like, cause Catherine's always trying to improve, always trying to think about and dream about. And like, on one hand, I'm like, that's great. Like, like good for you. Like even with our house, she's like mud room. Yeah, mud. Like we need to, we should redo our floor. We should, you know, whatever this carpet is getting old. And like, in my head, I'm like, we need to be content. Like we have enough, we are okay. And she's like, I don't think that's me being discontent.

And I'm like, I think it is. But I like you go back and forth on that kind of stuff. Or like, yeah, I don't know. I've been, let's just get into the Devo portion of the podcast here. There's shadows in the fence. Dude, but like second Timothy one where it's like, God did not give us the spirit of fear,

but of power, love and self-discipline. And I'm like, I am so fearful, right? Or like, I am so like, man, I don't want to do too little. I'm scared of doing too little. I don't want to do too much. I'm scared of doing too much. I don't want to do the wrong things. I don't want to waste these opportunities. It's scared of doing too much. I don't want to do the wrong things. I don't want to waste these opportunities.

It's like, God doesn't want us to be fearful. But at the same time, I'm like, I kind of want God to make me a little scared. You know, I don't know. And also it's like, it probably comes to the place of like, nothing about our income is set. Right. We are not W-2 employees.

We don't have a salary. Good Ranchers has left before. They might leave again. It's like, he's got the sticker on the mic. He's, yeah, come on. This is, this is per I've cemented this on here. We can't, you can't leave. Yeah. So it's just like a hundred percent. Like I think there's part of that aspect. Yeah, whatever. So I'm just trying really hard to be like, like, like I've, cause I've

thought the same thing of like, let's stretch and like buy a house that we, we, not that we can't afford completely, but like that it's going to be a little bit scary of like, you got to keep grinding at this initial down payment. Yeah. It sucks no matter what house you're buying. Sure. And it's like, okay. Like, but it's like, I don't want to be stupid, but I also don't want to not trust the Lord

that he can provide. Like, especially if it's like, let's use these things for God. Not just like, let me just have this thing. And maybe that's where the contentment is. Yeah, we've vaulted ceilings, so I want that. But it's like, no, what if we can have more people over? Exactly, maybe that's where the contentment is like, hey, are you doing this for your own good?

Are you trying to improve this house, Catherine, for your own just peace of mind and whatever? Or pride of like, I don't want people to be thinking of us one way when you come into our house, or is it like, no, we have the right intentions behind this, or we're trying to take this blessing that we've been given and be good stewards

of not letting it just get moldy basements and just be like, well, it's moldy, who cares? Oh well. It's a basement. You know, so I don't know. All I have to say, I don't know if I have any wisdom in any of that, but just, just thoughts I've had. Yeah. How'd you get talking about this? Oh, I'm trying to get the motivation to work at McLean's. Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to Evan and Taylor

cause Evan, Evan's like go. I always telling them some different thoughts I've had recently. He's like, just go for it, man. I was like, I know I'm going to, I want to, I'm trying to. He's like, do it. Like, I know. Okay. I'm talking to you right now. It was awesome. You keep motivating me. I'm going to have to leave this conversation because I'm so fired up right now. So hopefully we see Evan and Taylor sometime soon. Gulf Shores. 16th to the 23rd. Yeah. Yeah. That's fun. It's fun to think about all that. Cause I'm like actively doing less this year. I've like told Rachel,

like just heads up, like I'm going to make less money this year and I'm doing it on purpose because I want to have less things to focus on. Right. Right. But the goal would be more fulfillment, more success, less travel. Yeah. Pinto sword. more fulfillment, more success, less travel. Yeah. Pinto sword. I know it's an interesting, I think you and I are driven similarly where it's always like, what else can I be doing?

I could, I could always be doing more. But it's also like- Trivia podcast. Yeah, but maybe I should do less and just do it better. And then you do that and you're like, well, I can still do more. And then it's like, well, yeah, I don't know. You just go back and forth.

Like I just have this vicious cycle of like, I'm doing too much, so I need to pare it down. I pare it down and I'm bored or I'm not doing enough. So I'm gonna do way too much again. I'm crushing it so much. Now I need something else to push me. And then it's like, well, I pushed too far. Pushed too far, I bought a stupid food truck

that sits in my driveway for a year. Too far! Dude, the marketing on that thing, now that your street is fixed and people are just driving up and down that street all day. If nothing else, the Ghosties, I feel like this is an unintentional launch strategy where you just talk about something for a year.

When it does finally open, they're like, finally, now I gotta see it. We gotta. I gotta support him, this poor guy. Oh man. Go see Getaway though. Yeah. How are we feeling?

I'm feeling great, dude. Yeah, just in general, we gotta iron out the chef thing. I gotta iron the fire for that. I'm not gonna go too far and give you too many teasers yet, but we have a potential chef right now. She's interested. We got some soft, some soft commitments from previous soft, soft attendees. Yeah. Alvaro texted me the other day and just said, I cannot wait till August. So wonder what that's about. Yeah. Maybe so. Yeah. Commanders feeling really good about it though. It's just going to be so much fun. And I, it's already like, we have so many of the logistics ironed out from last year.

So it's just like, like I've already thought about like, how can we make this year? How can we do this? Like, should we do a beast games type thing? Should we do this thing? Should we do that? That's fun. Should we like, like last year we did like the live podcast, but we had people door dash in.

Like that was really fun. I've already had multiple thoughts like that of like we could do this This year or you know, whatever Lambert's thinking about things we could like games we could play at Lambert's like all these different things The beast games idea is awesome. Like what if we actually could like yeah, we'll get like a sponsor and roll like we're giving away $2,000 to one person to come to this trip like your trip is paid paid for. I've had the thought like, cause like in the past, I bet we've had, I mean, with the money we've spent plus the money that sponsors give us, I bet we have 4,000, $5,000 worth of prizes maybe.

Yeah. Maybe not quite. I don't know that, but like a lot of money. Uh, and it's like, what if instead of, yeah, giving those money to prizes at the end, we just have like financial prizes throughout the week something like a psychological game show. Yeah, I don't know So anyway, it could be really fun and could bury it in the sand And just try to see how much we find we had that thought last year doing a metal detector Yes, addition and then it turned out either metal detectors are hard to find hard to find like good ones

They don't rent them out. I called a bunch of places. Yep But how fun would that be like just because we were like what if we just hide something in this fashion treasure hunt That's awesome. Yeah, so yeah ideas are not the hard part. Yeah, that's fun. Clear your calendar August 16th to 23rd 16 through the 23rd, baby. Yep. It's gonna be fun. God did your Lambert's again? We're gonna do two sessions August 16th to 20th 20th through the 23rd if you really want to get specific Come for the whole thing. I saw shout out Becca Fields. She's thinking about the whole thing Alright Becks, so come on back Becky got a couple airport options. I think down there Pensacola is that we prefer pens, but if you want a shuttle to the place come

Yeah, you don't want a shuttle to the place come yeah You don't want to not be on your own Yeah, you can fly in a mobile if you want to fly down or drive down from there or whatever, but it's gonna be awesome Speaking of that area of the country we had a we were looking into it yesterday We had about a 10 minute span where we were really Really confused. Yeah, I was on I was on a walk and I got the AirPod notification thing like the, dun dun, text message from Jake Triplett.

It's three hours away. What? So I was in between, I got to the gym and saw your initial text about like, hey, so what we're talking about is a future event with Good Ranchers. It's gonna be really fun. They've got this IndyCar race that they sponsor.

It's down in Alabama. And so Brad had texted me like, hey, maybe we could stay with Kaylin and Brayden. So I was like, great. I text them, go in the gym. And now I'm like in between sets as we are now texting back and forth. And so I feel like I was like really quickly

not totally focusing and paying attention, but I look up the city. So previous emails, she said, yeah, we got this race in Barbara, Alabama, right outside of Birmingham. Great, oh my gosh. I look up Barbara, Alabama, I'm like, oh, this is three and a half hours away from Birmingham.

And so we're like, well, that's not gonna work. And then I'm like double oh, this is three and a half hours away from Birmingham. And so we're like, well, that's not gonna work. And then I'm like double checking the email, like, no, no, no, it says Barber, comma, AL. No, it is for sure. I mean, that's the state, a previous Alabama, right? Yeah. But then Brad's like, I just searched Barber

and there was like a racing sports complex right outside of Birmingham. Like, yeah, I guess that's it, but do they not? And so this whole time though, that I'm texting you, I'm also texting Caitlin. So I text her, hey, can we stay with y'all this weekend? She's like, absolutely, we've been wanting company. And then 30 seconds later I go,

oh, nevermind, it's three and a half hours away. And then you text me, Barbara sports complex. I'm like, nevermind again, we're back. And then I'm like, wait, no, look at this email. I'm screenshotting the email for Caitlin. I'm like, no, it says Barbara, Alabama, nevermind. Nevermind that. We're back. Yeah. And then I'm like, wait, no, look at this email. I'm screenshotting the email for Kayla. I was like, no, it says Barbara, Alabama. Nevermind. Yeah.

Yeah, we were given- Nevermind again. We were given our contact at Good Ranch. We were in our heads. We were giving her our time because there was one time she was trying to figure out what the best race to go to would be for us. Cause they also do Indy 500.

Yeah. And she's like, I think Alabama's probably closer to Kansas City than Indianapolis, right? And I was like, in my head, I'm like, no. She's like, you could probably drive to Alabama, right? I was like, you can get there that way. Legally, yes, we can. And so we're like, you know, giving her a hard time.

She thought this was outside of, technically it's outside of Birmingham. Yeah, I think she thinks Alabama's St. Louis or something. I mean, it's a day trip, right? Or Kansas is the South. Yeah, I think she thinks Alabama's St. Louis or something. I mean, it's a day trip, right? Or Kansas is the South. Yeah, I don't know where she thinks things are. Yeah, I wonder if anybody, which she's from,

like they live in Houston, so it's not like they're in the North, but does anybody in the North think that Kansas is the South? Like I wonder. Oh yeah, Kansas, Texas, it's all kind of one. Like are people in Vermont thinking like those Southern states out in Kansas?

Like, cause Catherine, I remember she like described like we live in the North and I'm like, we don't live in the North. We don't live. We literally live in the middle of the United States. We are exact Midwest. We are the Midwest. But I wonder if like, does Minnesota think of us as the South or, you know, Idaho, they're they like, some do.

Yeah. Some probably do. probably is probably really close to Alabama. So at the Josiah Queen concert, he came out wearing a cowboy hat and was like, and like yee haw and stuff. And he was like, is that, is this like Kansas? We're like, we're like, no, not really. Okay. But there's cowboys in Kansas. That's the thing. I think that's like, I don't ever think of like Kansas as cowboys, but it's like, that is kind of Kansas. But it was like, he was just like the Southern draw, like, and I'm like, that's not Kansas. Yeah.

The cowboys in Kansas are different than cowboys in Texas. Like, yeah, like there's like, there's like rodeo, like I'm bull riding cowboy. And then there's like, I'm a person who herds cows. Yeah. Boy, me and my border colleague, like they might not even be wearing cowboy hats. They might just be wearing a nice, like trucker looking hat like car heart trucker pioneer on it or something like More like their tractor brand on the hat Yeah, like there's plenty of like country boys in Kansas, but they're not like yeah

I don't know Trey was just saying that he he swears like the last four shows He's been to a comedy comedy shows, concerts, whatever. They're always in like a theater in Kansas City, Missouri, and they're always like, Kansas, how we doing? And there's just a whole back and forth where the performer is just straight up wrong, but he doesn't believe the audience. And the audience is trying to tell him,

you're in Missouri and he thinks it's a joke. Yeah, he's like this, he saw a comedian this week, Aziz Ansari, and said the opener was just like having a rough time. Like couldn't get it through his head, like we're just straight up so confused. Really? Well, obviously we're in Kansas, like they're messing with me.

Yeah. Everyone's like, no, you're in Missouri. He's like, ha ha. It's called Kansas City. I've been to Oklahoma City, it's not in Texas. Nice try. Is there any other city like that? Like that's like a-

Where the name almost Arkansas. Arkansas City? That's not in Kansas. Yeah, true. Like that's like a where the name almost Arkansas, Arkansas, Kansas. Yeah, true. But that's like a small I'm talking like in like big towns. That's like why in the world are they called that? Texoma, Texoma. OK, sure. I'm just I'm feeling the silence with things that are quite the correct answer. OK, Las Vegas. Right. I think like Texoma is right on the border of Texas and Oklahoma. Quite the correct answer. Okay. Las Vegas. Right. I think like Texoma is right on the border of Texas and Oklahoma.

It actually makes a lot of sense. Yes. I don't know. I probably would be confusing to people, but I think every time I've ever performed, I mean, it's your tour manager's job. Like they let you know, remind you right before you're on stage where you're at. And you know, there's signs. Today you are in Iowa City, Iowa. Today you're in, you know, like they make it pretty clear.

They should also- They should also dummy proof like where you are. I'm about to sneeze I think, but they should teach, I'm gonna work through it. They should teach people to just say Kansas City. Cause like if someone walked out and said Missouri, I wouldn't love that either. Cause half the people there are from Kansas City. Cause like if someone walked out and said Missouri, I wouldn't love that either. Cause half the people there are from Kansas probably.

Yeah. Like I, there's an instance of this. I feel like where I was in a city there, I feel like, well, I think it just like, I was performing in Los Angeles, but I was certainly performing in like Rancho Mirage. And it's like, so this is kind of Palm Springs. I'm not going to say Los Angeles. I don't know if I, I'm not going to say Rancho Mirage. How are we doing? Right. But Palm Springs. I'm not gonna say Los Angeles. I don't know if I'm not gonna say Rancho Mirage. How we doing?

But Palm Springs isn't technically where it is. So I would just, California, how we doing? Choose the safest option you have. Like, did you go Joliet? Joliet, what's up? What's up all my Jolietters? No way. You said Chicago.

Yeah, I said Chicago, how we doing? Yeah. It's like, don't do that. Yeah. Community who mainly works at the Joliet prison. How we doing? Yeah. Maximum security. How we doing?

Yeah, it's either prisoners or yeah, casino members. How we doing here? Like Memphis is right on the, like Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi. So better say Memphis than to be like Tennessee. How we doing? Or I don't know. There's I think our show on Memphis was technically in Mississippi. What if I was just like Mississippi, how are you doing? Exactly. Exactly. Yeah.

You see a city like Cincinnati. You might be in Kentucky. You're not saying Kentucky. How are we doing? And they say boo. You say no, technically, technically might be in Kentucky. You're not saying, Kentucky, how we doing? And they say, boo, you say, no technically, technically we're in Kentucky. Check your geocache, my dear. We're here. Yeah, just like say Kansas City. Casey, how we doing?

I just got a text from Casey Crew, the Rec Sports League. Reminder, spring leagues are open. And then there's a link for individuals to sign up. And that just reminded me, we need to figure out somehow some way to do a competition. I really want a consequence to be the loser has to sign up as a free agent. Oh, really? For something for KC Crew.

Like find the worst league and make them sign up as a free agent in it. I don't know what that would be, soccer or like esports. Yeah, I think it would- And you're required to like give us an update every night. Like that's part of it. Like you have to tell us how it went. It should be more of like a,

once we know who the loser is, then we pick which league it is. Don't you think? That's not a bad idea. Cause like soccer for- Garrett. Garrett, okay. Okay, you're gonna have a blast. Your team's gonna love you. They'd probably be like. Cause like soccer for Garrett. Garrett. Okay.

That you're going to have a blast. Your team's going to love you. They'd probably be like, great. We have Garrett soccer for me, Sam Hinniger. Great. We have Brad. Yeah. Like, okay. You'll be playing goalie, I guess. Like, all right.

All right. Here are some of the leagues I have. That's I'll give you a person. You tell me, so this is for Gunner. Gunner came in last, we have to choose a score from. Fowling, that's the top of the list. What? Fowling maybe.

Wait, I think I've seen this on the news. I'm so in touch with the news because they are always playing it when I'm working out. I'm pretty sure it's like you throw a football at bowling pins. Pretty sick, huh? He might hate that. Yeah, no way this goes about like

the axe throwing industry does and is done in three years. Okay, so that cornhole, pickleball, golf, softball, mush ball, that has not been on the local news. I don't know what mush ball is. Look it up. Flag football, shuffleboard, man, good for Kansas City. Darts, volleyball, basketball, kickball, sand volleyball. Man, darts sounds brutal.

Mush ball. I played. This was like what we called Chicago ball at that when we went to Branson where it's just like a like a softball, but soft and so you are like, oh, it's not like you can play without gloves. I see. I see.

So you just need the ball in a bat It says a larger ball that gradually becomes softer the more the balls hit I don't know how much that matters Gunner throw him in golf or I think golf would be rough just in general Because if anybody's like signing up for golf. It probably pretty in a golf. Yeah. And Gunner I will say does not make great first impressions. Like I have so many, like I respect Gunner

about as much as I respect anybody in the world. He made good impression. He did with me, I met him by the dumpster and I said, I like that guy. Okay. Most of the people I know have been like, I don't know about Gunner And I love Gunner. I think Gunner is amazing, but it could be his name. They were expecting to meet a German Shepherd

Oh, okay. Sorry. I got it. Like it is an interesting. Yeah, you're like, okay. His guy's name is Gunner. Yeah So and you know Gunner is not just gonna like wear a black shirt and khakis golf course So he's gonna be awful and be wearing this thing And you know Gunner's not just gonna wear a black shirt and khakis to the golf course. So he's gonna be awful and be wearing this thing. He's gonna be wearing Sunday Swagger. And he's gonna do so many things that are not golf etiquette. This sounds like.

He'd have fun. Maybe this is like a movie is what this is. The movie premise is like, loser has to join a league, ha ha. And then they become best friends. Yeah. Or you find this untapped talent. Gunner is nasty at darts or shuffleboard. Yeah, foaling.

Or darts is always playing the bar and he develops some type of alcoholism. Or just addiction Dr. Pepper. Can't get off the corn syrup. Can't get off the syrup. Yeah, the sizzurp. Yeah. The scissor. Yeah, that's probably it. But I do think it'd be fun.

I mean, just like, yeah, if you sign up as a free agent and you're on somebody's kickball team, you know, that's a great debrief every night. What do you think? What do you think Scott's worst one would be? To have to throw Scott in? I mean, it might just kill him to have to play pickleball. I like to have to play like 3.0 pickleball on a gym floor. Maybe that might slowly kill him. Yeah. He might also complain that it's like messing up his

game. He's like, Oh, I'm just, I'm getting too used to the bounces in the gym. That's kind of funny actually. Or he develops like a taste for, he's like, man, the gym, it, you know exactly what the air quality is going to be like every time I'm tired of these outdoor courts. Yeah, that's a good point. Like pickleball, shuffle. I don't know if Scott would just like all of them. Yeah, he would stop a good time.

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It's so squeaky. All right, cut. I Squeaky I've really dialed in a couple things. I got to say about my my gas to what first I Brought this is my first time traveling Phoenix was since I've been a little shreddy boy. Yeah, so I'm kind of high maintenance I'm bringing my creatine powder. I'm bringing my protein powder. Don't wanna skip a day of any of this stuff. So on the counter of our Airbnb, I've got my creatine, I got my protein powder. And it's probably like 11 a.m. the first morning,

Scott comes out to me just giggling. And he's like, dude, I loved your setup on the kitchen counter. I'm like, oh yeah, I had to bring the stuff. And he's like, dude, I look over there and I see the creatine. I see the protein powder. And then right in between it is the gas X. I go, that is not me. I said, someone is framing me.

But yeah, I was like perfectly set up. Like someone, I don't even still don't know who it was. Someone brought some type of like gas X for whatever reason, but right in between the two things I bought. So maybe that's a good idea though. I know I was like, that hasn't even crossed my mind to like fix myself. of like gas X for whatever reason, but right in between the two things I bought. So maybe that's a good idea though. I know I was like, that hasn't even crossed my mind to like fix myself.

But that was kind of funny. And then I have there enough time has passed where I've been able to nail it down. It's not the milk, it's not the case. And it's the factor meals, whatever they're putting in there. So I guess I have it fully narrowed down, but it is factor.

They're doing something inside of me. Maybe it's all those veggies. I think it's something with the veggies because they taste really good. And I think it's like some kind of butter, some kind of fat. Oh, you think maybe it's not just the veggies by themselves, it's like.

Yeah, I don't think it's just the fiber that I'm getting from the vegetables because I can have other vegetables. Rachel will make me vegetables. I'm fine.. It's it's those something they're doing so buyer beware the gas you're gonna get from factor Also buyer beware when I switch companies I went to metabolic meals. Okay, it's not fully a scam, but it is sketchy Okay, it's not a scam because they are giving you food But I sign up for the first week. And before my meals were delivered, they had already signed me up for the next week.

Like I hadn't even get to try them or anything. I went into like adjust my meals, like, sorry, it's too late. And I was like, it's seven days out. They're like, it's too late. And they signed me up for the first week. I selected, I wanted eight meals. When I didn't select my menu in time, they signed me up for 12 meals the next week

and charged my credit card. And I'm like, that's not, that shouldn't be allowed. You can't like up my subscription like that. Yeah, yeah. So and their website, very sketchy, or not sketchy, bad, just a bad website. Navigation is bad. You click on FAQs and it takes you to like contact us.

You click on like our menu, it takes you to like contact us. You click on like our menu It takes you to FAQs. Like I got to memorize your Yeah, back-end menu here. They're not they're not polished. Not a good company. Okay By everywhere they take good pictures. Don't let the pictures fool you. They did great pictures of their meals Did you check their reviews? I'm a big reviews guy. I found a new website where I should start taking or Looking at reviews trust pilot. I've heard new website where I should start taking or looking at reviews. Trust pilot. I've heard of trust pilot. Cause in the aftermath, I looked up metabolic meals on trust pilot real bad. Okay. Should I see it coming? My bad. I thought the pictures

get to me. Yeah. I will say you are marketing like guys target market. Yeah. I will make a decision in 10 seconds. Yeah. Oh, I love you. I used to say it to Catherine all the time. Like I remember she would sit there and try to like, I w it was when we were dating and I even then as a nice like in love, infatuated boy, I was like, I'm so annoyed with this. Like, but she would sit there. I remember on our two fours sometimes and like she was trying to pick out what shampoo or I don't know what it was, something like that. And she's like, well, this one says it's going to, you know, volumize and this and I'm like, those are just words, pick out some shampoo. Like I would like, like I would love you as a marketing person of like, she's, she's one

that's like, well, if it says it, then it's probably good. You know, she's, she's moved away from that to an extent now, but for a while. It was just like well, look at the picture. It looks great. This is gonna be yep Just like it. That was so me convinced of anything. Okay I have a few valid or get off my high horses that kind of are related to what you just said, okay And so I first of all, I want to know if you Did you? Contact whatever this company was and say like, Hey, you charged me for 12 instead of eight.

I want my money back or I want something like. Yeah. I emailed them and tried to be like, I wouldn't recommend running a business this way. Yeah. I tried to like be their dad for them. Like, Hey, if you want to, you want to have longevity doing this, you need to like respect and treat your customers better. Valid or good office high horse timing.

I'm so sorry. I just got an email and so I was reading that it was about moving in with Graydon. So I was like, application update. What's it say? Screening, screening us for like making sure we're good to move in screening. Just like TSA. What do you call it? Like a background check type thing.

You have to send all picture of all your tattoos. Yeah, that'll be awkward. Yeah. Yeah. I can take it if you want me to. When do you move in? Official date now, I think May 1st. So, yeah, fun. That's fun.

Not that soon, but not that far away either. Yeah. So I'm excited for you to move in time and same I Think is valid I think And why I say that is because especially with businesses It's like and that that's just like not even justified like it's one thing to be like, oh, I'm frustrated that they Recharged me before I could do it like the other other day I didn't return an Amazon thing in time. It was like, you're three days too late. It's like, that's my own fault.

It was 90 days. Like I think I had plenty of time. I can't be like, hey, you should have warned me. But if it's like, okay, I haven't even received my meals yet and you're already like, you know what you're doing. And they sent me like beef and pork and stuff. When like my first meal, it was all chicken. Yes.

And now they're sending me stuff I can't even eat. Yes. Annoyed. So that's bothersome. So along the same terms, not exactly the same. Let me give you a history behind it. Well, I'll say Valor get up my high horse, but then I'll give you some numbers

behind why I'm motivated by this. Valor get off my high horse. I should, it is justifiable and it's right for me to contact my trash company and ask for a credit because they did not take my trash last week. I saw your bin this morning and it was full. It's a double decker out there for both.

I mean, it's just like, and so, you know, last week, you know, terrible cold, snowy, uh, yeah, whatever, somewhat justifiable. They didn't come. I don't think it was like the whole week. He couldn't come like, because normally it was postponing today. It will come the next day. It was postponed a day. Like it's a thing they do sometimes.

And the reason I'm asking Valder to get off my high horse for this specifically is because when I first started with this company, so like there was another company in town that you use actually. Yeah, we kind of use rival companies. We do. And a lot of times, like my parents in Olathe, they just have one gas or a trash service through Olathe.

Like it's just like you just pay Olathe, they're kind of monopolizing it. There's an oligopoly here in town. And yeah, like this other trash company was like, hey, we'll do your trash for $18 a month. I'm like, that sounds great. I think I'm paying whatever it was, $80 a month for this other one.

And so I called my company and was like, hey, FYI, I'm canceling. These other people said they'd do it for $18 a month. And this company that we have, Defenbaugh, Defenbaugh was like, well, we'll do it for $14 a month. I'm like, okay. Oh dude, yeah, you keep playing this game, they're gonna pay you.

I know. I was like, this is great. And now all of a sudden, like the price is back up. It's $114 a month for trash. Whoa, how did that happen? They just so expensive. Yeah. But I think that's how much you're paying too. I asked you, I was like, how much are you paying? Like, you know, hoping like, okay, maybe I can leverage that like KC disposals paying less. I think you said you were like paying $120 a month or something like that.

What's wrong with me? And so my invoice account, it's one thing if I'm paying $14 a month for this thing, it's another thing if I'm paying this much money to be like, okay, you can't just, and then all of a sudden, maybe a year ago, they changed recycling with Deaf and Bought, they gave us a bigger bin and they only come every two weeks now. So imagine the-

I don't like that. Imagine the stress if you're out of town on week two. Or, you know, like whatever you forget. It's just like all of a sudden we got, we got to go burn your trash bins. Like you- Yeah, so- For Hillbilly.

Yeah. So they've raised their prices. And so therefore is it valid for me to be like, listen, can you give me my money back for not having the service that you said you were going to give? And last week was a recycling week. Do you, do they not take recycling every week? That's what I'm saying. It's every other week.

The trash is every week. Oh, okay. Recycling is every other. That stinks too. I'd ask my money back just for that. I was frustrated. I got too much cardboard to be going every other week That stinks too. I'd ask my money back just for that. I was frustrated. I got too much cardboard to be going every other week on recycling.

Did your trash company come last week? This is my own mistake. The Wednesday, let's just really get into trash. Yeah. The Wednesday before we had a ton of snow, trash company was like, they call me, hey, we're gonna come Thursday. Week goes by, and they did come Thursday,

week goes by, Tuesday night, another snowy night, another wintry day, so I think, well, they're not gonna come tomorrow. Zoinks, they did. They did? They came on Wednesday and I didn't put my trash out. Guess who's using that as leverage? Big Daddy.

I'm gonna say KC Disposal picked up trash on Wednesday. You're welcome. Why were their trucks able to get out? Yeah, so we had a big load this morning. Yeah, yeah. Also I looked, $60 a month, it's 180 per quarter. That's how often they charge. Oh, maybe I'm paying 114 for two months

or something like that. Perhaps. All that to say it's not $14, and I know it was $14 at one point. And I remember thinking that is a steal. All that to say, valid, give them a it say valid. Give them a call. Yeah. Give them a call. Just see what I can do. Be like, I'm canceling for Casey disposal. I'm coming for it. I love those guys. Those guys are incredible. They have like, they

have like brighter colors in their bins. My kids love their trucks. Yeah. They always wave at my kids. So, okay. Valid. Yeah. Valid. I agree. I like calling out like a company that promises something. I like calling them out if they don't. Yeah. I think that's, I think that's, that's like valid. Also, do you feel like I go back and forth on like, it's not like a black and white thing for me. It's, it's definitely a, how big is this company kind of thing for me? Like, like Defenball is owned by waste management Management. Waste Management is huge. Like, I don't feel bad asking them for $40. Whereas like, you know, maybe it's just my own like, sensitivity of like, a custom furniture builder

or something. Like, if someone makes me, like a small town coffee shop makes me a latte, it's not the best. I'm not gonna be like, give me my money back. Hey. Yeah, hey, you need it. You need to toughen up. Huh?

Something like that. Yeah, we wouldn't do that. We wouldn't do that. Because we're a smaller company. Right. So, okay. I have another one. Valor get off my horse.

This is my only other one. Also, it's been hard for me to say that today. No, I have two more. Talking about a bigger company. I was at Chipotle the other day. I opened up my app to pay or to like scan for rewards. And it said on there like today or this week or whatever it was free queso with any order.

I was like, oh sweet. Well, let's back it up in line. I was like, can I get some, like just a side of queso? And they're like, oh, that's only if you order online or through your app. Oh, I don't like little bylaws like that. You should always, I mean, make the customer happy one and make it as frictionless as possible.

It just feels like- You don't confuse the customer. And once again, this is one of those gray areas because it's like, I would not get mad at, you know, the salty iguana if they said something like this, but I'm like, your Chipotle, you can afford to give me $2. the salty iguana, if they said something like this, but I'm like your Chipotle, you can afford to give me two dollars. So funny. Worth the case. So for free, what a terrible name for a restaurant. That's so unappetizing. But is it like one of the nicest parts of like, oh yeah, there's like a chain of salty

iguana. I'm not going to get mad at salty iguana. No, they have a terrible name. They're, they're already up against it. Yeah. Right. They're, they're, they feel it. They felt it at COVID like Chipotle did just fine. Yeah. And they're like, I didn't push back or anything, but in my head, I was like, I'm frustrated by this. They should be able to give me. Yeah. Queso. My take on this is since you like use their app and saw it on the app, you should get the case. So I think if someone like doesn't even use a Chipotle app and it's just like going through, it's okay if they didn't know about it, like just to not, but I think if it's, if it's like you use the app, you're like a customer enough to

sure know about it. And it's like, if you bring it up, they should give it to you. That's what I think. And like, I could have technically, I hadn't paid anything yet. I could have technically like gone on the app, ordered everything on the app. And then they would have been like, okay, I see your order. Here's your case. And it's like, do we really want to go through that game? Like that song and dance for this thing? Anyway. And it's like, also like, there's no, there's no way they're measuring,

like, there's no way anybody would know if they like just put some queso in a cup and gave it to me. Like they're not, they're not like inventorying out their queso. Weighing at the beginning of the day, end of the day. Yeah, or if I asked for a side of rice, they would put in one of those cups and they wouldn't be like,

hey, you need a mark down that we use one of those cups for a side of rice. Like it's not like they're, anyway. So valid or get off my horse for that one. You think it's valid time? I think it's valid. Yeah, it's annoying. Okay. Valid. All right. Last one here. And this one is one that I want to be very sensitive to people on because blackout valid or good off my horse. We should, we should, we should bleep out blackout. My aunt called me, it's in either day. She's like, some people weren't really like, and

that you were bleeping out that word. And I was like, I know people don't like the bleeps. What can I say? Or get off my high horse. I the overarching thing is like people complaining that they, that, that they can't afford something that's reasonably priced, but just a little bit more expensive. Okay. The specific example that got this topic going is TJ told me the other day, he's like, did you hear that? We, like we have a reel that has like 5 million views. Wow. And it's this reel of his newborn

baby compared to just things around their house. Oh, have you seen that? Yeah, I think I saw it. Yeah. And like one of them is like, because she was born like a month early, so she's, you know, extra tiny. And so it's like her versus the apple mouse. And it's like, you know, not that much different anyway. And it's, it's her and then our place, cooking pan, which is like a non-toxic, nicer cooking pan. And in the comments, of course, when it's something goes that viral or just so ridiculous. And so one of the people was like, you know, Oh, must be nice to be able to afford an our

place cooking pan. Like gosh, you guys are so whatever. And I don't know. Let me check. I did buy an Our Place cooking pan for Catherine for Christmas. I know they're kind of expensive, but they're not unbelievable, I don't think. OK, I found the real 5.9 million views.

OK. Wow. That's crazy. So this pan, to be fair, I don't know how much you guys are thinking a pan costs. But this one is a whatever, like non-toxic, to be fair, I don't know how much you guys are thinking a pan costs, but this one is a whatever, like non-toxic blah, blah, blah kind of pan is $125. So that's a lot of money for a pan. Yeah.

We can acknowledge that. Yeah. But is a high quality pan, are you going to use it for 10 years? That's the idea, right? Like by month. Yeah. A dollar a month. Sure. It's a lot of money, but it seems reasonable for a great pan.

Like I think. Like, I don't, my, I understand that some people live paycheck to paycheck, some people live super tightly. To me, it's like, I think that you could probably afford this pan, maybe not right now, but maybe if you really want this pan, you could save up. What if you're like, well, I have a pan budget of $10 a month. It's like, okay, you can afford that pan in a year. Like, like, I don't know.

Like it's one thing to be like, Oh, all your clothes are from Lululemon. Like you must be so rich. Must be nice. But it's like, Oh, that person has a Lululemon shirt. They must be loaded right now. It's like a Lululemon shirt might cost a hundred dollars and your budget for a shirt is $25 a month. I spent on clothing. It's like, okay, great. Then wait four months and don't spend any money on clothing and buy one nice shirt. Like, I don't know.

I just don't like it when people are like, Oh, I can't, you can't afford that. Like that's crazy. It must be nice to be that rich, whatever all these different things. So valid or get off my head. I don't know. On one hand, I understand. People are like, whatever. It's like, if it's a habit,

if you're buying a new pan every week, yeah, you can't afford that. But there's certain things that are investments and certain things are like, oh, you're splurging every single day going to Chipotle. That's a bad idea. Not everyone can afford that. I understand that.

What do you think? I don't know if I have a strong thought about anything, but I have a bunch of different thoughts about like, yes, annoyed by any kind of negativity on the internet, annoyed by any kind of negativity towards a stranger on the internet. That's so bothersome. That's so just weird.

Another thought, I've scrolled through so many comments and I can't find a single negative one about the pan. I will say I found a pan comment and it's positive It's like it's like it starts out. Were you just trying to flex on us with your our place pan just play and she's so sweet Congrats. Mmm That's I'm probably 30 comments down. It's like this second to top for me. Gotcha. Are you seeing all the other ones that are like Worried about her crying or something like They're all very positive except for yeah, like I'm like 30 comments down and I finally found a negative comment. It says she's hungry. Poor thing. Yeah. To comment that about somebody's baby.

It's crazy. But for the most part, everyone's very positive. Like, oh my gosh, she's so tiny. She's so cute. Please do more. She's precious. So whittle. Um, she is. It is a tiny peanut. Oh, she's a little loaf of bread. I can't even afford a loaf of bread. What else was I thinking about? Just like, I think any type of like judgment on someone else's like finances when you only get a glimpse of something is like irresponsible to do.

Just like you get a look at someone's house and you think they're a certain type, yeah, you get a look at someone's house and you think they're a certain type of person. You get a look at someone's car and you think they're this type of person. Like I think that's maybe they, maybe that's what they spend their money on or whatever. Like, oh, that person has a nice TV. He must be rich or he just loves watching TV. Yeah. So that's what he spent his money on. And he shops at Aldi and he never eats out and you know,

doesn't spend any money on clothes like goes to thrift store, whatever. Like Rachel was telling me a story. So one of her good friends at Northern Iowa, she played volleyball with. She went on to she's either engaged or married to think his name is A.J. Green. White guy who plays for the Milwaukee Bucks and is like getting good minutes with the Bucks and like has a what's it wasn't there a receiver named A.J. Green for the Bengals. That's Milwaukee Bucks. And is like getting good minutes with the Bucks and like has a. What's the, wasn't there a receiver named A.J. Green? Yeah, for the Bengals.

That's why I'm like, I think that's still his name, but no, NBA contracts are crazy. It's public knowledge how much money this guy makes. And she was kind of like telling Rachel just like, it's kind of uncomfortable. Like I end up like paying for more things now than I used to. Yeah. And like, rest like with like, is that okay though?

Cause we do have a lot of money now, but like other, her friends are just like, obviously we're not going to split it. Yeah. Look at your life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can afford this more than we can. Like you're like, yeah, we'll all go, but like you're going to pay for more of it than we are.

Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I think I would, I would lean towards more of the like everyone, if you can eat. Yeah. I think I try to be sensitive to like the big, like big numbers or big numbers, regardless of whatever. Like, but to me, it's like, if something's $60 and you're like, Oh, it must be nice to have one of those flexing on us with that, you know, yeah, that's a good fire. It's like, well, that's just how they've chosen to spend their $60. Right. It's like budgeting.

Like you can easily like not me, not easily, but like I can find ways to save people of $60, probably a month. Yeah. You know, I don't think any, not very many people are having to live this like super, super tight style. Like maybe some people are, and I'm not trying to be insensitive, but like, I feel like it comes down to budgeting. I feel like, I feel like the people that are commenting those things are probably not More than more than likely not doing it. So yeah, because there's probably things you could look at me and Rachel's life of fill in the blank Oh, it like Fritz. I just got her a

You know new rap for whoa, but also must be nice. We are not paying for coffee Ever anymore. We're doing a thing where we don't buy clothes this year. I don't know if I've talked about that on the podcast, but it's kind of a fun challenge. I don't know why not. Like there's a number. It's just, you know, sedation and subtraction. It's like, yeah, there's a lot of things that you probably think about that you're like, I am kind of slowly spending money on this.

Sure. Yeah. All the subscriptions you have. Yeah. I'm paying for two terabytes. I only have like 1.1. But that Lululemon sure must be nice. Yeah, dude. Sheesh must be nice to just like be comfortable in your shirt. So anyway, those are my valid or get off my high horses. That's fun. Yeah. What was I going to say? I had something about,

oh, this isn't necessarily valid or high horse, but I just want, I feel like I'm always in this situation. Yesterday I was up in North KC and I was like, oh, I could go for a nice, like, I just gotta run, plant pickleball, like, find a little protein shake, find this one spot, and on their menu it says they have vegan protein, perfect, go in there, and they're like, yeah, we don't have any vegan protein. I know it says it on the menu. We just, we haven't carried it for a while now. Oh, there's some out. And I say, all right, that's why I came here. That's the whole reason I'm here. Yeah.

Bummer. So if you're a small business out there, you can lose customers pretty easily. That's good. If you don't, like the time has said, if you don't like have kind of what you've kind of promised to have. Sure. It's like, this is what what you're this is what you say you have

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You're telling me I should wear mediums? Is this how? I think we found our shirt size for the whole studio. Yeah. Yeah. So this is fun. This is our first time doing an ad read after we were all shirtless 30 seconds ago, but it feels good.

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Before we wrap up, should we talk about this next episode that we're gonna record? I hope it's as good as I want it to be. We're loading up. We're loading up the studio. We're throwing in Brad's truck. Yeah. Just like that. Yeah. We're doing another episode on the road. Yeah. We did it like episode 13. Yeah. Time to bring it back. Yeah. Should be fun. I don't know. Like, do we want to brainstorm? On one hand, I'm like, I think we'll just be able

to find things we talk about on the road like we did last time. Yeah, probably won't have an issue, but yeah, I think one of the elements is going through the Chick-fil-A drive-through. Gotta. Over and over and over again. Yes, that's the idea is like,

we went through the Chick-fil-A drive-through once, people remembered it. What if we went through it 10 times and just became friends with the people that did it? Maybe do we have some sort of like running joke or a riddle that we asked them and we give them a clue every time? That's fun. Or do we do our own beast games thing where it's like unroll one of these windows and whatever window you roll down, you know, you either have to give us something for free or we give you something of ours.

One thing I thought of, I assume you're in the driver's seat. You know, you'll be talking to them. I give you a new personality every time you come through and you have to like become that person. You are an auctioneer or you're just an overly confused customer. Oh, yeah. Or you're in the middle of an ASMR video. Fill in the blank. That's good. I had a thought where you just one time you go to the drive-through and used to refuse to you refuse to quit doing this,

but you're convinced there is a secret menu. Okay. And so you're just trying all these different combination of words, trying to order something from the secret menu. Okay. I'll take the flying cow. Yeah.

Come on. Come on. I know you have it. Blackout. All right, I'll take two strips of holy chicken. Come on. I know you have it blackout All right, I'll take two Two strips of holy chicken Come on. I know you got it. I know you got it back there check the back All right, what do you think about this idea? Okay a lot of people pay it forward we're gonna pay it backward

It's not what you think though We're gonna say hey, we'd like to pay for the car behind us if There's a contingency only if their order includes Polynesian sauce. OK, OK. Just I don't know. Kind of fun. And just like, and then we'll go back around like, did they order it? Or do we experiment? No, I was thinking when you said pay it backward, we would be like, we'll pay for them if they pay for us and see if they're willing to take that risk. Like we order, we order like, uh, you know,

medium Dr. Pepper. Yeah. And so our, our bill is $2 and 50 cents and theirs is 16 45. Yeah. But they don't know kind of a social phenomenon. We load up the car with eight people. We're like, we'll pay for years. If you pay for ours, it was It was a trick. We just got dark pepper. Got him. Or we, we hide you guys. It looks like there's only one person in the car when they agree. And then we, we all pop up and like, thank you so much. Thank you. We get time and all his, uh, get time and all his siblings to come in. They're all in the back seat. Yeah. Someday can we do a jingle with time and all his siblings to come and they're all in the backseat. Yeah. Someday. Can we do a jingle with time and in the whole sip, like the whole family? Sure.

That'd be fun. Somebody write us a jingle for time. It's family. Go down to be Cyrus, make it happen. Or just time and have time and record it or yeah, something bring them into the studio. You guys have to be there. We have to be there. That'd be so fun.

Yeah. Oh, I love it. I like pay it backward though. Or like, yeah, if they say a certain word, like if they say, like, Hey, how are you doing today? We have to make sure like if they say something besides good, or if they ask you back. Okay. Yeah. That's rare though. I'm good. How are you? I think people just get into it Which is why they should be rewarded. I wonder or do you think some people's response is good you? Like that's nice. That's it. That's asking back to an extent. Yeah, do you ask back? I?

think so I Think so really I've just I Not Hawaiian bros though. I get so tired of Hawaiian bros. They won't let you go. You know I've talked about it before. They ask you a thousand questions that don't matter. Can I get a name for that order? No, it's me.

I'm the one person in line. They do ask for a name. They always ask for a name. And they always ask. In the drive-through. In the drive-through, yeah, you're the only car there. Can I get a name? And they have a glass window that faces you. So I mean, we were making eye contact

while I went your name. And they always ask if it's gonna be cash or card. Always silly. What kind of prep does it take? Mess with them. You'll find out in five seconds. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure yet.

Okay, no problem. My name. Judge McCall. Rather not. My name is rather not, I guess. Yeah. Nice try. Nice try, big brother.

But no, yeah, Chick-fil-A, they're always so friendly. Yeah. Hey, thanks for coming by. How are you doing today? Good, how are you guys? I think it's pretty friendly. Yeah, I think maybe if they say something besides good, if they say, we are doing wonderful.

Wonderful. Maybe try to encourage healthy habits. Hey, if they get a salad, it's on us. If they get a water, it's on us. If they get a water, it's on us. Okay. If they don't get ice. If it's $4 or less, it's on us. Yeah.

Yeah, all these things. Pay it backward. That's fun. Maybe we just park and we just ask people questions as they're going through the drive-through. Yeah, we're stationary. They pass through us. Mm hmm.

We could do that. We could. It's gonna be fun. It's like 60 degrees out right now. The vibes are gonna be high. Yeah. Yeah, I think it'll be fun. I think it'll be great.

It'll be a good time. I should probably text Drew and say, hey, we're coming. But that's okay. That's fun. I gotta pee so bad. You do? I do. Okay.

Do your thing where you pretend to have to go pee so bad. I do? I do. Okay. Do your thing where you pretend to have to go pee so bad. I'm sorry. Let me read the review of the week for the both of us. How about Jake? While you do this, Jake, he's going to the bathroom. He's pretending he's doing this thing. That made me think of the, there's a friend's bit time.

I know you're not a friend friends guy, but where Ross moves in across the street from the other people. And so they can see Ross's apartment. And he's doing all these different like funny, like going down this, like the fake stairs, like in the window and going down the elevator. And then they're like, Oh, I think he's doing the bit where he pretends to watch TV. And somebody's like, no, I think he's actually just watching TV. And he's literally pretending to watch TV. Anyway, it's a funny time. Thank you. I am going to read this review for us. It's from Apple podcasts review section. It is a five star review and it is coming from AIO for life. It's kind of a funny thing. It's kind of apropos to what we're doing here.

Our next episode on Wednesday. So review is called storytime five stars. A few months ago, me and my sister and a couple of my friends went to Chick-fil-A in Springfield, Missouri, where Jake's from. When we were pulling out of the parking lot, we saw a Tesla pulling in. I turned to my sister and said, that looks like Jake. I was so confident that that was him because his hair and the smile was the same. We ended up turning around and pulling back in. We saw the guy getting out of the car with two kids. And I said, that looks like Hattie and Bo. Turns out it wasn't Jake. It was just a random dab with his kids. Needless to say, we were disappointed, but hopefully we coincidentally run into him at Chick-fil-A someday.

Love the pod. Keep up the good work. I love the idea of them thinking this. I also love the idea of Jake taking Hattie and Bo to Chick-fil-A someday. Yeah, it's kind of fun. Equally funny things in my head. That must be Hattie and Bo. That must be Hattie and Bo and Jake.

That's probably it. And Springfield, of course. He kidnapped Hattie and Bo. So shout out to AIO for Life. AIO for Life. I like the simplicity of this one. From Emerson, shut. I don't know anybody that hasn't liked this pod

when I showed it to them. That's a great review. That's it. That's a compliment right there. It's just like, hey, basically, like if you're thinking about listening to this podcast, I'm batting a thousand with showing it to my friends. Yes Okay, it's nice. Do you guys want to end this episode with a jingle? I have a jingle somebody please yes

So Matthew Braun we think it's broader Brown br a UN seems like Braun. I do Braun He wrote he gave me an email where he recorded himself singing a jingle. Great great little recording. We'll play that the very end time. And he said, I wrote and sang a jingle for you guys. Hope it's podcast worthy. And then I feel like, I mean, this was the sweetest thing. My nine year old daughter also wrote a jingle and keeps pestering me to send it. Nine year old daughter is awesome for writing this jingle. Pester away. So, Tymon, I'm gonna send you this and you can put it up on the screen while I sing it.

I'm just gonna sing it acapella here, but it says on the top, Tarzan, you'll be in my heart. Recreated for Ghostrunners. She just kind of wrote the entire thing, he or she, I think it's, my daughter. But she didn't really delineate her lines. So I don't know exactly when we're supposed

to sing which part. That's okay. But it's a fun little thing. Let me send it to you real quick, Tom. Great. And then you can- Good song. Yeah, you can sing along with me if you want. Let's see.

Jake, you too. If I with me if you want. Let's see, Jake, you too. If I want, if you want. In the meantime, I have a quick currently trending if I may. I on letterboxed someone that follows me. I like figured it was a ghostie because like random person like and it's Joshua Schmitz and I found in his like letterboxed bio, he has a podcast, a movie podcast called movies unboxed. And I've been like loving it.

I'm listening to it. Yeah. Like I'm a fan now. I think I'll keep up with it. So yeah, movies unboxed. Cool. Yeah. So I'm like excited.

I like have a new podcast. Would you enjoy, uh, I I'm curious about people that listen to movie podcasts. Do you ever listen to the episodes where you haven't seen the movie yet? I think I did that a couple of times with like maybe one yesterday. Okay. Yeah. Like it's, if I don't care, if it's not like, Oh, I have to avoid spoilers for this or like, I just am curious about the movie.

Then yeah. Okay. Cause I know, I know some people are really into movie podcasts and I'm like, I just am curious about the movie, then yeah. Okay. Because I know some people are really into movie podcasts and I'm like, is it only the ones you, because I every once in a while find one and be like, okay, I'll listen to this episode because I've seen that movie. Yeah, they did one on Baby Driver, good episode.

A lot of people came to my aid about Baby Driver. Oh yeah, people liked it. I really appreciate it because Timon crapped on it. I'm sorry. No, you were complimentary of it. But yeah, I was encouraged by that. I was like, okay, maybe Jake will watch this now, you were complimentary of it. But, um, yeah, I was encouraged by that. I was like, okay, maybe Jake will watch this now. Uh, so Jake, watch it. Yes, sir. Okay. Um, here we go. Cool. Come stop your whining. It'll be all right. Let's just go

back and forth. Great. Equine one. The fun and laughter goes on forever. We're listening here. Here we go. Together now. Ghost runners podcast. Yes. The ghost runners podcast. We'll time and go to university. Oh, ghost runners podcast. They're coming on Monday. Yes. Ghost runners podcast, Kansas city. Yeah. Thank you. Matthew bronze daughter, nine year old. That's great. Youngest jingle yet. I think that we, that we can remember. So shout out to nine year

old jingle writers out there. So fun. So sweet. Um, thank you for letting us be a part of your week here on the ghost podcast. Uh, Oh, real quick. Thank you for letting us be a part of your week here on the Ghost Runners podcast. Oh, real quick. This, this shouldn't be something that's real quick. Let's, let's take time. Scott via Joan reminded us of this. I, I have been going back and forth about how do we address this and whatever. First of all, just, just, just not shout out, but what's the word? Just like acknowledgement or thoughts. Yeah. Prayers just there, there are people in the ghost arts community going through hard, hard things right now going through just, yeah, just absolutely just heart wrenching things, dreadful things. And while

we try to be light and breezy on the podcast in so many ways, reality is life's hard and we're glad to be a comfort podcast. So many people out there, but specifically want to give a acknowledgement, a shout out a, yeah, just, yeah. Tribute, I suppose to Shailen Lumsden. She had bladder cancer. She posted a few times on our Facebook group initially when she got diagnosed and you know, through treatment when ended up passing away. And yeah, it's just a hard, hard thing to deal with, hard

thing to come to grips with knowing that somebody that cared about you got cared about us, you know, went through this and how much, what can we do? But the ghost race community did rally around her family raised over $2,500 for her family. You know, people were like watching her funeral service online, um, all these different things. And anyway, it's just a cool, as, as terrible and hard as some of these things that people are going through are.

I also saw, you know, another acknowledgement tribute, whatever, Jennifer Vorpahl just going through some hard times right now. And I know others, you know, we could name countless people. I think all three of us have lost grandparents in the past year. Like Jake's lost two. I mean, it's just hard stuff. Like life is hard.

But to see like the ghosty community rally behind people and say like, I am praying for you. Like, I am so sorry. Like, what can we do to help? Like, once again, it's just one of those times where it's just amazing to see, the hands and the feet of Jesus, like working through this podcast where we sing Tarzan parodies from nine year olds and then, you know, but, but there is something deeper going on and something deeper

affecting this all. And so, yeah, I know that Shailen was a, a listener of the podcast, a supporter of the podcast, a big fan of ours. And so, yeah, I hadn't seen that she had passed away and then got that text. And I was like, Oh man, that's, that's really tough. And I don't, I don't know exactly the right thing to say or the right thing to do, but just know that we care and we are, we are here for you guys as much as we can be. And we appreciate all of you guys being there for each other. I think that's the main amazing thing is like, that's the encouragement I think is if you are currently going through something,

know that the ghost is care about you. It's amazing. Even if you look at YouTube comments where somebody's like, Oh, I'm having a hard time with a cold. Somebody will be like, I'm praying for your cold. Like it's amazing. Like, like how much people are caring about each other through this community. And, uh, I know that's not why everyone listens, but I know that that is a wonderful byproduct of this thing that we have. So yeah, that's, that's all I don't say. That was really well said. I don't want to talk just to talk. I don't really think I have anything

to add. Great. Better than that. Great. Well, yes. Once again, we love you guys and we'll see you on Wednesday, Wednesday from the truck, truck from the truck taking away Matthew Braun acapella, baby, I Could wait all week just to hear ghost runners Listen to Brad J. Kent. I'm a Talk of all the things that they've done Then when Monday comes, I am so elated I just load up the new podcast and listen And then I settle in for a whole new adventure

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