Ghostrunners - 426 - Old as Dirt

Episode Date: April 14, 2025

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All right, Timon, we good? Yeah. Hey, happy Monday, ghosties. Brad, I'm having a chaos day. I think your words, your made up term, I think I'm experiencing it. Just, you know, you go into a day with a plan of like, oh, I'm gonna get this done.

I'm gonna have the morning to get this done, record the podcast in the afternoon. And I wake up to a call from my mortgage company, which is just, you know, not a good start to the day. A call? Yeah. That seems too extreme. Yeah.

So, trying to call them back, figured out, well, they need to verify who I am. I'm like, well, it's me, you called me. Did you know who you were calling when you called me? If so, then it's still me. Yeah. I'm dealing with that. Because the plan today, I have a show tonight.

I'm performing at like your uncle's church. Yes, that's right. And I was like, it'll be good to have the morning to prep for that. But I've, you know, we're doing home insurance, liability insurance for the Bondi truck, you know, calling back the mortgage company. I was on the phone with the Chinese consulate

of Kansas earlier today. Where is that located? I don't know. I'll tell you, it didn't sound like here. Didn't sound like close by. Called him and Ni Hao. I was like, oh, boy. Oh, really? Not not.

Yeah. I'm not used to too many gringos calling Chinese consulate. Yeah. Gave me the old Ni Hao to start it off. Did you did you Ni Hao back? I will. Yeah. Oh, you did? Appropriate. Ni Hao. Oh, and Ni Hao to start it off. Did you, did you Ni Hao back? Oh yeah, I thought it was appropriate. Oh you did? Ni Hao, oh and Ni Hao to you!

Oh, allow me! Uh oh, ooh I ooh I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet cause this's a ghost from the sparkans wait so what are you you're calling them just to get like a work visa or something or what's yeah so as you guys know me Isaac and then CEO of Friday Pickleball Matt us three are going to Asia in a couple weeks to do some pickleball stuff and

I just got a text from at about two hours ago that said boys. We have a problem Gosh, because we've already a stay we've already ran into some issues Just not a lot of people go to China, and I think for a good reason. It's hard to get there. Visas are tough. Our manufacturer said they could get us a visa. It now seems like that's not really happening. But we found out there's a,

this is what I call the consulate about. This is so just like boring, whatever. If you're going from like, from somewhere to China, and then somewhere else, like A to B to C, you don't need a visa. Don't know why.

Only that, like, but if you're going Kansas, China, Kansas, you'd need a visa. Yes. I wonder, you don't know why though. I don't know why. I mean, when I was talking to Ni Hao, she said, yeah, you get 240 hours of transit time. I love the name Ni Hao.

I was talking to how she was. Let's say hella cab. I hope our drivers knee how he how over here over here. Knee how. OK, so 240 hours. So basically it's like 10 days. You're acting. Yes. Thank you. You're acting like you are just traveling through. Passing through. Passing through passing Just passing through. Just passing through. We have a long layover, long how over. Long knee, long how. Yeah, okay.

And so, cause originally we were gonna go to Hong Kong, up into China and then Hong Kong to our flight to Vietnam. But it's like, that's A to B to A technically. So the way to work around this is like, all right, well now we got to redo our flights. Fourteen hundred dollars, non refundable, though. So we lost some money today, but it's all good. Just a little bit of a chaos day. But I think we're going to work around with the visas.

You kind of war dogs in it. Yeah, we are. That's what they do in war. Yeah. Like they buy all that Chinese ammunition and then they repackage it. You're right. Romanian or whatever that place is. You're right. You know, like you're you're you're the new war dog. Dude, with all the stuff with the tariffs, everything's on the table, dude. I know it's about to get real war dogs up in here. It's very interesting. It's crazy.

OK, do you want to you maybe don't want to talk exact numbers, but I'm so curious like how much it is like like what is the difference for you guys? Let's just say let's just say normally it costs $1. How much does it cost now? Or something like that. Can I ask that question? Yeah, cause we can talk about this a little bit cause it is relevant, but also sometimes I think like

people probably listen to our podcasts to get away from like the local news cycle, but I'm just curious, like genuinely Friday pickleball, like how much of a difference does it make when Trump first announced, Hey, we're going to put what was it a 20 25% tariff on China? It was like, Oh boy, this is going to raise our cost of goods by a half a million dollars. And now that he is said it's 125%, you can do the math. That's going to cost us an additional $2.5 million just in tariffs that we were not planning

on spending this year. So, yeah, once again, you're right. We probably, this is all political. I don't, I haven't been following any of this stuff because I don't know. All right, some crazy stuff has been going down. Well, yeah, tell me more, but also like, why are you as an American paying for the tariffs,

not the Chinese? Isn't that what the idea is? Like the Chinese people would be paying the, like penalizing the Chinese basically, but I guess they then take that and they penalize you. Yes, so it does allow for some negotiation. Yeah. So like rather than, so we have talked about

trying to negotiate rather than just a flat tariff rate. Hey, can we kind of blend this in a way where you guys still get your money, but our cheaper paddle only still costs this much and our intermediate paddle costs this much and our new paddle costs this much. That way it doesn't feel like we're losing money on certain paddles.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's also complex. And shout out to the guys who are running the business business. I mean, they're the smartest guys I've ever met so to this day. So I'm like, thank goodness. I still feel like we're in good hands Yeah, but it's gonna be a bumpy three months. So by the time this episode comes out We might be in a dust bowl. I might be working in a factory. Yeah by Monday. I think it sounds fun You saw Tommy boy, right? I think it'd be fun to work in break parts. Yeah, Cali Cali had auto Sandusky, Ohio

Yeah, I think a coal mine could be interesting October sky made it look real. I was fun. My dad always liked coal miners daughter. Listen here Homer Homer You don't understand. You're a coal miner. Come on Homer. You don't need to be up willy-nilly in the skies knee-haw into your teacher Yeah Leave the leave the math and science to the Chinese and get down to the coal mine, Homer. Yeah, you wanna do math and science, I'm gonna start calling you Ni Hao.

All right, Homer. Homer was a great name. Ni Homer. Homer and O'Dale. O'Dale, yeah, Homer Hickam. But yeah, we'll see if I work in the gold mine. It's fine either way. But so last week is when the market was crashing, terrible.

So people, so here's what's sad is a lot of people probably lost some serious money last week because what's happening is like, if you like are been saving up for retirement, you've got a million dollars in your retirement savings and that's in the stock market, it's spread out across all this stuff. And you start to see that money go down by 20%.

Now it's at 800,000, you're probably thinking, I better pull this out now before it gets worse. So you pull all that money out. Well, yesterday at the time of recording this, Trump says, hey, you know what? Pause all the tariffs. Stock market booms. S&P 500 goes up like 9% in a day.

Everyone who pulled out their retirement just lost $250,000. Do you think a lot of people pulled them out? I bet people who have knee-jerk reactions to things like this do. And who knows the amount of insider trading that probably went down. People made some money off this.

Nancy Pelosi made, and I don't know if she did this time. But she's- You see the app for Nancy, like you just follow whatever Nancy Pelosi does. No, that's really fascinating though. Yeah, cause she just makes all this money. She's one of the best day traders of all time. She always knows.

And so you can literally just follow whatever she's investing in and just do this. Like it will automatically invest in it for you. That's a genius. How did people find out like her accounts and I don't know the details of it, but that's pretty cool. You know, it does feel like an invasion of privacy when we do things like that. But when there's like apps for like Taylor Swift's plane or things like that, it's like,

that's kind of neat that we just know someone figured it out. I don't know. That's kind of cool. People. I know someone figured it out. I don't know. That's kind of cool. People, oh, that's such a, like a sports, like a message board guy, like loves tracking planes. Whenever a coach is like, oh, we might be getting Bill self, you know, a plane went from Lawrence to Stillwater. It went from Lawrence to Stillwater.

I think he might be coming home. That's really fun. Yeah. Kevin Durant's a free agent and you're tracking flights out of his hometown. Cause often it's not going to say it's Kevin Durant, a free agent and you're tracking flights out of his hometown. I don't know. Because often it's not gonna say it's Kevin Durant, but it's like, there was someone from-

A chartered plane. Yeah, right. From where he's from, his little town. Right. Or even just like plane types out, when like the NFL playoffs and there's bad snow. It's like the Chiefs left a day early. And that's like news.

Yeah. They flew out a day early because of the storm. Yeah. And then interesting. Buffalo's still grounded. If you were like, if you were rich enough, well, you already are. Thanks. Filthy rich. But if you were filthy rich monetarily in the things that matter, would you be more likely to get a private jet or a really dope house? If you could only choose one, like you'd have a nice house in a, you know. Good question. Nice house with a private jet or like a ball in house with like, you know, status on an airline kind of thing.

You know what I mean? My first reaction was like, how much more time are you spending in the house? You gotta go house. But the more I thought about it, it's like, once you have that plane, how much more would you use it? the house? You gotta go house. But the more I thought about it, it's like, once you have that plane, how much more would you use it? I would use it all the time.

I'd use it to get to your house. Yeah, just fly down to my parents real quick. Yeah, or just even just drive with it. Don't even use the wings. I would just drive it to your house. Just cause it's nice in there. Yeah, it's got good cup holders. Real nice cup holders.

Yeah, just like a lot less bumpy. That would be nice. So you can fly down to your parents or fly to Iowa in 30 minutes. That's a great point. That'd be awesome. Yeah, that's a great point. I feel like you guys were neighbors.

Dude, you're kind of selling me on the airplane thing. Cause what I would do is I would take the nice house close to the private airport. And then it really does feel so convenient. I know. How do you, how do you get a pilot? You just get it. You call them?

No, yeah. There's, you just look up pilots. Oh, I just use the app. Just go pilot apps. Honda pilot. That's on a pilot. Anybody that's in anybody that drives a Honda pilot legally has to be a pilot. And you say, come on over.

He's got the Learjet Hummin. Uh huh. So yeah, I don't know how you'd find it. But yeah, like if you had enough money, but you could only choose one, I think I would choose the plane too. Like if the house is normal and good enough, not like if you're like living in a shack

with a private plane. Yeah, it's still gotta be nice. I think I want banisters on the stairs. You got stairs. Yeah. I'm just kidding. Whoa! Oh, and my dream house, it was just ranch style. on the stairs. You got stairs. Yeah. Whoa. Oh, and my dream house, it was just ranch style.

Dude, I grew up, my parents have a ranch and I always thought like people's houses that had a second story, it was like, they live in a mansion. It was when you're 10 years old, there's a few different signs that someone's like the wealthiest person you ever met. Yeah. And yeah, like stairs going up

rather than like down to an unfinished basement. Stairs going up, plasma screen, plasma pistol, like if they just had a halo and an Xbox. Yeah. What else? I saw my cousin. Really?

They were just like name brand snacks, probably too. Like they have Oreos and Gushers and Twizzlers. I know they like Twizzlers. Thank you. Thank you. I'm trying to include you in this. I know you're a Twizzlers guy. I'm kind of losingers and Twizzlers. I know you like Twizzlers. Thank you. Thank you. I'm trying to include you in this. I know you're a Twizzlers guy.

I'm kind of losing you at Twizzlers. Yeah. That's, or just like, I even thought like, if you had a Costco membership, you were rich. Like that was a, that was a thing. Or like the goal Rilla. I think we've talked about this before. Yeah.

Goal Rilla basketball goal. Or just like goal that was like cemented into the ground in general. Yeah, just stationary. Yeah, that must be nice. Dude, I don't know if this is relatable, which my sister is 20 feet from me, so I can see if she thinks the same thing,

but yeah, my sister and Braden are in town today. When I was a kid, we didn't have Costco, but I would hear murmurs of Sam's Club. Yes. Sam's Club this, and for whatever reason, I thought it was like, I don't even know if I knew what an MLM was at the time, but that was my view of Sam's club. Yes. Sam's club this. And for whatever reason, I thought it was like, I don't even know if I knew what an MLM was at the time, but that was my view of Sam's club

because you needed a membership to get there. And I was like, this is like sketchy. This is weird. Yeah. That's what I used to think when I was probably like 14 years old. It's like they're doing something off. Yeah. If you're a part of Sam's club,

you're like, you're throwing money away. You're just helping the person above you. I think, I don't know how it worked. You have to get invited from somebody else. Sam can invite you if you know Sam. I wonder what led to that. Because I'm sure there was, we used to have a past bite to get to my grandparents' house.

And I remember that the gas was always cheaper. I'm like, why don't we get gas there? And my mom, like, we're not a part of the club. I'm like, oh yeah. Dang. I don't know if I want to be, that's weird. We chose private jet over Sam's club. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah.

Interesting. Yeah. So anyway, um, how's your day going? You talked to any Chinese? No Chinese people. Um, yeah, my day, it's been a little bit hectic around the house recently. We've, I feel like Catherine always is like self-conscious. She's like, there are people that are gonna think we're sick all the time. I'm like, we're not sick all the time,

but like we have all these little kids. So we get sick more often than not. And so there's a little sickness going through the house. And so Thursday mornings are normally when we do our co-op, our school co-op, homeschool co-op. And Catherine will go with the three oldest kids. And today I went with Hattie. Because the rule is if you take your kid to this, then you have to have a parent stay.

Okay. It's not a drop off time, not a drop off time, but at the same time I did zero. I contributed zero to this. Like it could have been a drop off. I whatever it's fine. I, but it was like one of those things where it's like, I am completely out of place. I, after I dropped Hattie off just now, I told Catherine, I was like, thank you for doing this because I would not want to do that. What did you not like about it?

Everything. No, no, uh, kids, my kid. Um, what did I not like about it? I think with stuff like that, What I don't like about it, I think with stuff like that, it's like those kids were out of order too much for me. Like it wasn't like complete chaos. Like if it's complete chaos, like camp is complete chaos, organized chaos. It's like, I can embrace that. But it was like, it was like, they're trying to kind of have some rule, but it's also homeschool kids that aren't used to being in school. And so like there, there's just like a constant murmur. And there's like three year olds and two year olds and little newborns and all these moms. A little noisy, a little too much. And it was just like a little too like just consistent.

I don't know, just like chirping and murmuring and all this stuff. And I didn't love that. I also didn't know like the protocol. Like I walk in with Hattie. The first thing they do is like this little like assembly thing and the sanctuary of this church where we meet. And I thought Hattie was going to sit with me. And so I just followed Hattie and all of a sudden I realized she's going to go sit with her like class in the front row. And I'm like three rows from the front realizing the only

people around are kids. So I have to then like turn around in the center aisle. We're like three minutes late, turn around the center aisle and like find a place to sit by myself. Yeah. And then I was like live tweeting the whole thing to Catherine, live texting her, all my thoughts and everything. She was like, I'm loving this.

But they did like a little music class at one point. They call it orchestra. I don't know. It's a bit much for what it is. Calm down, Miss Tiffany. But she just had like each class was like a representative of a different instrument or something. She was talking about all of it.

But then at the end, it was supposed to be like this song where it kind of layered on itself. So like, I think both class apparently sings the brass part and then- They sing the brass. Yeah, exactly. It's all just like, all right, we are the brass, we go, ting, ting. I don't know what it was.

Yep. And so she's kind of going through every single one and then she's going to like the percussion kind of near the back. And she's like, hey, Tom, if you want to come over here and help out with the percussion, that'd be great just to have some extra help. And I'm like sitting there just like texting while they're doing all this stuff. And she's like, and you dad, I don't know your name. What's your name? Like in front of everybody. I was like, Brad, you want to help? You don't have to help, but if you want to help,

you can help. And in my head, I was like, I don't even know. Did I get in trouble? Am I, what am I supposed to do to help? Was I not helping or are you saying starting now? It's like, I couldn't tell if I was like supposed to go and like kind of like You know enforced like with these boys over there. They didn't seem that like Misbehaving I could be a woodwind and so then I think I realized she wanted some more like low Singers for this for this percussion part and so at the end whenever everyone was singing together I noticed this dad started singing and I was like, all right, I'll sing with you, man. Yeah. So I just made up something that sounded good alongside. Yeah. I heard that there was words one five five five one or something like that. So I

just sang that a bunch of times. One five. And I like saying loud enough, but not too loud, you know? And then yeah, I went down to Hattie's class with her, and I'm supposed to be like a helper, but like, I didn't know. It's so uncomfortable as a dude to, as a man to like enforce kids that you don't know. I feel like, like Catherine can just be like, Hey, you need, you guys need to go back. Hey, come on. But like there was a little boy, probably Rosie's age that all of a sudden just like walks in this room and just like starts going down the stairs. And I'm like, I should, I should probably do something

about that. I should probably like, and so I was like, Hey, uh, you're not supposed to be going down there. Are you? You're supposed to, you guys are supposed to be outside right now. He goes, yeah. Yeah. I'm like, okay, well go outside. And then he just kept walking down the stairs and I'm like, do I grab this kid? I don't know that seems wrong And so I'm just like come on you gotta and he didn't listen to me Luckily a mom eventually came and like they listened to the mom, but he could sense my fear. I Didn't I didn't know I did I added no value to this thing this morning. I was just a warm body I asked Rachel yesterday. She got over my school. I was like, how was your day today?

She said, I got to sprint today. A kid just started booking it out of the school. Really? So she had to chase him down. Yeah, it kind of reminded me of that. But when you're a girl, you can just chase down a kid. She tackled him too. Right?

Yeah, you can literally skin their knees and you'll be fine. Like, as long as you don't need stitches, like those kids are- Then you don't have to report it. Yeah. It's all good. But no, there is a big part of like Rachel's job.

I think most people in maybe administration or even education, but restraints, you have to learn the right restraints and like how to use them and all this stuff. And you kind of don't want to use them. Sometimes you have to, and it's awkward. Yeah, I think she went to like some workshop for that, didn't she?

Yeah, Dwight Trute led it. He was in charge. No, I, um, some guy like that though. Yeah. It, it's all very, you know, it's one of those things like, yeah, you learn all this stuff, but in the heat of the moment, are you really going to follow like, right? It's exact policy on how like, and under the arms and scoop, we do spoons off forks. You know, you're like, probably just like, stop freaking out. and scoop, we do spoons off forks. You know, you're like probably just like, stop freaking out. Well, and this kid was like, he was just misbehaving. He wasn't like being a, he wasn't like freaking out. You know, he was just like. You still laid hands on him. I didn't touch him.

To send a message. Yeah, that's true. Like a high fastball. I slapped him. Is that okay? It was open hand. No stitches. He's fine.

Yeah, you can see my fingers on his face. But besides that, no, it was just like, but it was like, you're doing the wrong thing. And you know you're doing the wrong thing, but you're also such a tiny little kid. Yeah, it'd be one thing if like you're if it's like, oh, maybe in your house, it's OK if you eat that. But this is like you're clearly doing the wrong thing. I can't intervene. Yeah, it was like I was just trying to be a buffer until somebody

that actually felt comfortable. Think twice about that. Yeah. Think about it. Say it loud enough where other people, hey, I don't think you're supposed to do that. Are you bud? Be careful. So anyway, it was fun to go and to see Hattie and her classmates. It's always fun to like, since I don't see Hattie around other kids that often. I mean, I see him at church and stuff, but like, like some of these kids are so much taller than her or so much like, you lose track. You look way bigger than her, you know, way taller. Um, yeah, you just lose track of like how old she is or whatever, but, um, it was, it was great. It was fun. But yeah, I once again, just did not get any

sleep last night. I don't know. I had a terrible headache. I can't remember having a headache that bad to the point. I think I was just groaning all night. It was, I, I hurt that bad. Yes. Migraine. What do you, when you say migraine, what do you mean by migraine? I don't know. Were you having a migraine? I don't think so. For me, migraines, I see like spots. Yeah. I think really intense. I'm like, I'm like, uh, like lightheaded and stuff. So I, I don't know if it was, it was just a terrible head hurt. Yeah. It's weird. And I mean, like the sickness has gone stuff. So I don't know if it was, it was just a terrible head. Yeah, it's weird. And I mean, like the sickness has gone around.

So I'm like, is this just me starting the sickness? But like no amount of like Tylenol or anything could take it away. Well, if I took it, it would have probably, but I literally hadn't. Yeah, I couldn't, I couldn't get out of bed. I didn't want to get out of bed because it was like hurting so bad.

I was like, that sounds awful to even like move right now. So I eventually took time out like seven a.m. And now I feel fine. So good. Well, people liked no sleep, Brad, last week. So, dude, I listen back to it. I'm sorry about the jokes. I know everyone liked them. I was like, golly. You know, you read these reviews are like, I love listening to this with my 11 year old. I'm like, oh, geez. OK. It was a joke, but yeah.

What did I say earlier with Caitlin? I just messed up my words. Gulf shores, yeah, you being there? You thinking being there? Maybe? And it was, it was like, I know you're saying the wrong thing, but it's like, I'm just gonna go for it.

And she is thinking about being there in there. Yeah. Thinking, being there, thinking, being there. You should be in there. We're all getting an Airbnb in there. There you go. It'd be fun. Right now, Gold Shores, we have one room left. You see someone bought like how long ago was that? 52 minutes ago. No.

Yeah. So maybe it's gone. Who was it Sarah Smith? Sarah Smith, that's a made up. Yeah, nice try AI Guest named Kenny Smith. How do you think Kenny's spelled? Hey Kenny? What good guess what what if what if it was Kenny Smith? Kenny Smith That's his name. No Kenny Smith from NBA like inside the NBA. Oh Kenny That Kenny Smith. Well, yeah, how do you think this Kenny spelled? I

Don't know You're saying it like it's it's something weird. It's something. Hey, I in in why Kenny Kenny good guess This could be pronounced Kennyene if it was pasta. K-E-N-N-E. Oh, okay. Kene pasta. Kene. Kene.

Maybe it's French, Italian. Kene Rosa. Kene Smith. Okay, cool. Bonjour. Ni hao to you. Anyway, so you think that's the last bedroom? It might be.

Oh, that's a four person room. Two king beds. Two king beds. Two king beds. Kenny and Sarah splitting up for the weekend. That's fun. Awesome. Well, okay, then maybe it's all full. Or maybe it's all full.

I know that Amay and Alex Payne are looking for two more girls in their foursome. Yes. So they had a couple people take the bait, I saw. Speaking of take the bait, that's not exactly, um, Tate Unroom. I'm becoming good, better friends with Tate. We've been hanging out a lot lately. Uh, and he has been giving me a hard time about some of the phrases I say. Really? Um, he, I, I use the words or the phrase grasping at straws and cut bait. And he's like, how old are you?

Are those like, I was like, listen, I don't act like I'm like the coolest guy in the world, but I don't think those are like super old man phrases. Are they? And maybe that means we're losing it though. If we both, I don't know, grasping at straws feels totally fine, but maybe we're out of touch.

Maybe it's an old man phrase now. Cut bait, I think I had to ask you or someone about that a couple years ago. I didn't know what that meant. You know what it means now though? It means cut your losses? Yeah, just get out. Like cut your fishing line.

It's stuck on a tree, just let it be stuck. Just get a new line, or yeah, whatever. I hated having to do that. I'd really rather just untangle it. Really? Yeah, you gotta re-tie the- That says something about you, man. I don't like retie.

Yeah. What do you think about cut bait and grasping it? And to be fair, I gave him our time like he wears like denim vest jacket things and calls himself a hooper. I'm like, yeah, you're right. Compared to you. Sorry, I have a vocabulary. If anything, I thought he was going to call you like, like a hillbilly or something like cut bait. When's the last time you even went fishing? But he's just saying you're old. He's like, he said, how old is your soul is what is the exact words. Cut bait, grasping

at straws. I was like, I think those are valid terms. Let's ask, let's ask AI. He asked already. What did it say? I feel like he kind of led the question though. He was like, is cut bait an old man term? Oh, well, yeah, you're And you know what? Objection, leading the witness. Exactly, and you know what the AI's response source? Yeah, taking the easy way out.

Kinda. All right. Are these real? No, they are. Okay. Once it got further on the list, I saw that these are real. A shot in the dark, chasing your tail, running on fumes.

But the first two, I've never heard of. Wait, wait, wait, see if I can complete the sentence or like give me a blank or something. All right. Throwing blank at the wall. Wait, wait, wait. See if I can complete the sentence or like give me a blank or something. All right. Throwing blank at the wall. Oh, throwing, I don't know. Toilet paper? Throwing spaghetti at the wall.

Spaghetti at the wall. That was the number one on their list of other phrases similar to grasping at straws or cutting bait. No, yeah, I don't think I've heard that. All right, next one. Give you a million dollars if you get this one. Rearranging blank chairs on the blank. Got it. You get a million dollars. You owe you a million dollars if you get this one rearranging blank chairs on the blank

Got it. You get a million dollars. You owe me a million dollars crap rearranging. Oh, I don't know something on the Titanic rearranging What is it boat chairs, that's not boat chairs, it's rearranging something on the Titanic Right for three million dollars. What's your final answer? Yeah, rearranging, lazy boy chairs on the Titanic. Man, that was close. I almost lost a million dollars, deck chairs. Ah, deck chairs! I can't believe you heard of that.

Yeah, I was like, oh, whoops, I must have asked him to make up phrases for me. Throwing spaghetti at the wall, rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Do you understand that? It's like, in other words, like, okay, this is clearly a lost cause yeah But they did that on the Titanic like as it was going down. Yeah, or the guy like the quartet you know yeah like

Yeah Anybody the other is more normal barking up the wrong tree Maybe these are old man phrases to say Yeah, I don't know no when to fold them that feels like an old man phrase because it's Billy Nelson I think you got a you got to know when to fold them Kenny Rogers. Is it? Yeah, how do you spell Kenny Kenny? Kay, you know why? Good boy. Good boy. Like the bullet pull the plug abandoned ship a lot of things with water Let it let sleeping dogs lie. That's a new one for me. And I was like, all right, what would you use instead of these, Tate?

And he goes, I mean, I would just say bail. I'm like, all right. Sorry, because that to me, if anything, that's almost worse, because I feel like we said bail in like 1996. You're going, you can't when we were kids. Yeah. It's like that. That was cool back when Tony Hawk Pro Skater was a thing. Yeah. You're like, oh, I just bail on that. Dude, I just cut bait.

I'm going to bail. We got to, we got to bail. I can maybe see an argument for cutting bait, but grasping at straws. That one's a classic. That one's great. Yeah. That's the thing. Like, I think it's just like any phrase is, is an old man thing, I guess, maybe some of these, I could, I could see an argument from more old man thing, I guess, maybe. Some of these, I could see an argument from a more old man. Like, call it a day. That seems like something your grandpa says. Yeah. Or even just like, all right, well, better call it a day.

Yeah, I think we should call it a day. And call it a day. Yeah, better throw in the towel. Yeah. I seem fine, though. You know what? Maybe we're just getting old and that's okay. Yeah, I was not too bothered by it.

I'm more trying to put it back on him though. I'm like, no. No, you're weird. You're the loser. You're too young. Yeah. Freaking everyone out. Yeah. You're saying bet and cap too much. Hooper.

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Dude, I actually took a screenshot of your kids during Friday night movie night. I thought it was so funny. I don't even know why or what I planned on doing with it. I just thought it was so funny. You let them watch Space Jam. Dude, yes. And Rosie and Bo's face specifically,

I screenshot on them, because they were, I mean like, bug eye, just so into it. It was like, I don't know. I don't know what it was like. They were watching a natural disaster. Yeah, when was the last time you watched Space Jam? Oh, forever. It is awesome.

That's the nice part of having kids. You rediscover all this stuff. And like, I don't know if you've never seen it. Like I wonder, I bet Tymon, you know, known Tymon, probably never seen Space Jam. Like I don't know if it's like, if you see it for the first time as an adult, if it would hit the same way, but it's kind of a masterpiece dude, right? Cause it's like definitely a kid's movie obviously, but it's like, there's plenty of like cool, funny things

for adults too. Like, yeah, they did a good job. They have a good soundtrack in there. Like I believe I can fly, you know, like, it's awesome, dude. And so yeah, Catherine, uh, went, she had a little like staycation, oh, with Rachel and the girls on Friday night. And so Friday night movie night, I was solo with four kids and I was like, like Hattie, Hattie had already chosen. She's watching some Lucille ball movie. Yours, mine, and ours is what she's chosen. And I was like, what if we watch Space Jam? And of course, Bo was all about it. Yes, let's do Space Jam. Let's vote. I'm more Nike. You know? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And we voted. It was two to two. Rosie, Rosie sided with the sister, she didn't vote. And, and I said, all right, sorry.

It doesn't matter if we're doing space jam. I'm the dad, dad, leadership, you know, whatever. And they loved it, dude. And it was one of those times where I Catherine's like, I don't know if they should have watched that. There's some, you know, these monsters are scary. Yeah. There's some sarcastic things in there, whatever. Daffy ducks got Warner brothers on his butt or something.

I was like, Bill Murray, they didn't pick up on that. They loved it. So, but it was an awesome, awesome experience. How'd he loved it? How'd he loved it? We paused it halfway through. They were all kind of quiet. You know, they don't usually like laugh out loud the first time they watch stuff. And so I paused it to maybe give them some snacks. I don't know what I was going to get dessert. And I asked, I was like, are you guys liking this? You wanna keep watching or should we go to bed? And how he goes, this movie is so ridiculous. It's so funny.

I was like, yes, okay, good. How do you loved it? Bose, his favorite quote from it is, you've heard the dream team, well, we're the mean team. You like that? That's all. He'll just come up to me and say that and it'll just tackle me. You heard the dream team, we're the mean team. You like that? That's all. He'll just come up to me and say that. And it'll just tackle me.

You're the dream team. We're the mean team. So yeah, overall, it was awesome. I already bought Bo for his birthday in May. I bought him a Michael Jordan Toon Squad jersey. That's such a good gift. Yeah. He is going to love that thing.

Yeah, it's going to be awesome. So that's so good. Anyway, you're saying Tate and you have been hanging out. Yeah. Tate, you're being there together. Hey, man. Hey, hey, hey, being there. Tate. Yeah. So Saturday morning as well. Catherine is still gone. And so Tate and I planned on doing a little dad Olympics kind of thing. And it was one of those times where like we tried to like plan it out like program style. And then the kids all came over. all came over, like, cause he has four kids. I have four kids. They just came over and they started playing. It was like, like they don't need us. Yeah. Why did we try it? Like we had like all these like, uh, different objectives written down and like we had, uh,

we called them dad bucks, but really we call them papasos, but the kids couldn't remember how to say that. So we're like, we'll just call them dad bucks. And so we did end up doing like some scavenger hunts and stuff, but we really over-promised. We're like, and the closing ceremonies are gonna be at Chick-fil-A later. And you know, so we went to Chick-fil-A, but then we didn't do the closing ceremony. So Bo's still asking like, dad,

are we doing the closing ceremonies next week or is it a week after? When you put out the fire and do the national anthem. Exactly. And Tate I think even was like, you could win prizes. You could win real money even. And I was like, okay. And so I think they're expecting to like pop up a so hot pesos.

Yeah. So it was great though. We, we did like the scavenger hunts, um, all around the basement in my house and, uh, they each had to make their own team name. So like one time it was the girls versus the boys and like Hattie was so strategic with her team names because we would decide which team had the cooler name and then that team got to get like a 10 second head start. And so Hattie's team names were the Chiefs, the United States of America.

For team names. Yeah. And maybe though I can't remember the other one, but it was like, she just knows that Tate and Brad, like the chiefs. So we're going to name our team the chiefs. Whereas like Bo's team was like the crazy pirates or something like that. That's perfect. So it was really fun. It was just fun. I don't know.

Tate's just great and he's easy going. You know, it, sometimes when you're with all those kids, it can be like, I don't know, Tate's just great and he's easygoing. You know, sometimes when you're with all those kids, it can be like, I don't know, you're just stressed. You're always looking over your shoulder, like what's the kid gonna do? What's going on? And I think we're both just like, hey, they're crying, okay, we'll fix it.

They're fenced in. How much could go wrong? Come on, yeah, they'll figure it out. Yeah, the fence is nice. Let them roam like rabbits. Yeah, the papayasas. Papayasas. And Bo found some the other day that he hasn't redeemed yet because we haven't redeemed anything.

So he's like, dad, what do I do with these? Can you hold on? I was like, nope, that's your responsibility. You got to hold on to them. So anyway, it was fun. Fun times with them and fun times having Catherine. Hopefully she had some good times with Rachel and the girls. Yeah, that's fun. Love a good little Olympics. Fun times having Catherine. Hopefully she had some good times with Rachel and the girls.

Yeah. That's fun. Love a good little Olympics. Are you getting excited for this weekend? I am, dude. We're going to have a lot to talk about ghosties next week. Yeah. So if you don't remember, this weekend coming up

is our Paola weekend. That's what we keep calling it because that's where it is. Paola, Kansas. But yeah, we're doing like this weekend long tournament hanging out. It's like 20 dudes, a bunch of sports, all sleeping over in one house together. Yeah, I don't think I register how many people, 20 guys,

like how many people are truly coming. That's a lot of people. You know, me and Gunner and Calvin, you know, have been like kind of planning this. And we've slowly been trying to think through everything. It's like, we need to make sure we have toilet paper for 20 people. It's like little things like that. It's like, we're going to run through stuff that you probably don't think you're trying to think through everything. It's like, we need to make sure we have toilet paper for 20 people. It's just like little things like that.

It's like, we're gonna run through stuff that you probably don't think you're gonna run through because we have 20 dudes there. Yeah, yeah. It'll be interesting. Whenever we go on family vacations with Catherine's family, her sister will be the one that buys a lot of the groceries and toiletries and all that stuff.

It's so interesting, like the things that sometimes she anticipates we're gonna use a bunch more of, or like, yeah, like, oh wow, they drink a lot more water than we thought they would. Yeah. Aw, you guys didn't like the jelly beans. Like I thought you would. Shoot.

I've been on a jelly bean kick. Yeah, so who's in charge of all that stuff? I mean, me and Gunnar and Calvin have sat down in person a couple of times now and I've got a whole document where I type everything out and we've got a whole shopping list and we'll budget. It's so funny. Me and Gunnar both like planning this though, because we just spend money the exact opposite way.

Like really today we're trying to figure out like, do we, does anyone have wiffle balls for the home run derby or do we need to buy them? Josh Madison's like, I only have two. It's like, all right, we need more wiffle balls for the Home Run Derby or do we need to buy them? Josh Madison's like, I only have two. He's like, all right, we need more wiffle balls then. Gunner's like, I think I have some old pickle balls that I doubt will break. We can just use those.

And I was like, so every person paid 50 bucks to do this. And so I was like, Gunner, we have $1,000 to work with. We can buy some wiffle balls. Like it's one of the main events. Like why would we not spend $6 on Wiffle Balls? So I've been like kind of keep pushing him to like, it's all good. Like we can spend it cause it's gonna be like,

Jake, how much coffee can you like bring? Like, do we need to buy some? I'm like, coffee is so cheap. Like, yes, I'll bring some, but like just buy a bag. Just like, so because I'm shooting Trey's movie this Friday, I'm going to miss out on the Costco run. So I won't be there in the moment to encourage Gunner to spend money. So, um, we'll see. But I think Tate is going with Gunner. Okay. So they're going to go make a Costco run. He's got the shopping list. Um,

so we'll see what we end up with. Tate's going to throw a few extra things in there, but Gunner, Gunner is the kind of guy that it doesn't matter who it is Gunnar will say take that out of there and we don't need that. Yeah, I don't need a 30-person apple pie We're gonna get there and there's gonna be yeah five gallon jug of water Three Three like sleeves are cold cut like meat. Yeah, and like a couple muffins. You guys are like, alright This is all we have for food, but the prize pool's $800. All right, so you're welcome.

Hope you had dinner before you got here. It's gonna need to hold you over for a while. Dude, okay, you're getting shreddy. Have you thought about like bringing your own stuff? As I was loading my like Temple meals into the fridge last night, I was like kind of planning out my week and I was like, should I bring any of these?

And I was like, no, I mean, that's the whole point. Like we're going shopping. And so, no, I'm not going to bring anything. I think I might bring some protein just because I'm trying to be better. And I'm like, all right, I don't want to just be like, well, there's only saltine crackers here. I guess I'll just eat those all day. That's a good idea. I should bring protein and creatine. Just keep, keep eating that. Yeah. It brings some granola bars, but yeah, we should have stuff. We're going to buy a ton of food and probably won't have like prize money, but at least everyone will be well bars, but yeah, we should have stuff. We're gonna buy a ton of food and probably won't have prize money, but at least everyone will be well fed.

So yeah, it'll be fun. I'm excited. Yeah, there's been some trash talk. So Calvin, who played college soccer, definitely just like a soccer guy, just looks like a soccer guy, without being Hispanic. He's the definition of a soccer guy just like looks like a soccer guy, you know, he's not being Hispanic He's the definition of a soccer guy. Yeah. Yeah, he starts popping off in our little like captain's group chat yesterday Like if any one of you guys can beat me and spike ball give you a hundred dollars

I go dude I even play spike ball and Isaac and I will gladly take a hundred dollars from you come to find out in 2015 He was ranked 68th in the nation. I said I did not know that Yeah, I was really confident who's his partner he's claims is gonna be Garrett Gibson now you'll be fine I don't know getting Garrett's head Dude, I mean to a 2015 though. That was before spike ball was how many people were gonna play? 150 and how many people were in the duper first? You'll be fine

That's great. That's a high stakes game right there. Yeah, I also just gave away my partner to you We're supposed to keep that all secret, but whatever Now, you know Wait is Isaac on your team? Yeah Anyway, so yeah, it's kind of fun We've all drafted our teams and we're all trying to figure out who's going to do what sport. Cause you know, some are team sports, but then some are like, you only send one person to do a home run Derby. Oh wow. I really wanted you on my team for home run Derby. Really? Oh, I didn't get you, but I had you in mind. I was

like, if Brad's still available, I gotta get Brad from run Derby. And someone snagged you. I don't know if I would have really, I feel like just any lefty. I'm just like, Oh yeah, they, they hit dingers, dude. They're left-handed. I hit dingers in my day, but it's been a few minutes. I have tendonitis in my elbow now scared of reaching out to I forgot about the tendonitis. Yeah.

But yeah, I'm trying to divvy up like who's going to do what. Who's going to be our ping pong player. Yeah. Gunner said that we need to bring cleats. Do I really need to bring cleats? I don't have cleats. If you don't already have them, then it's not a huge deal. You take small steps anyway.

I'll be fine. You're agile. Early morning dew? Yeah, I might slip a little bit, but I'll be fine. He texts Calvin. How's the dew and Paola? What kind of dew points are we doing here? How earlier are we going out?

Kentucky bluegrass? That's Dewey. Dewey, pretty Dewey. Yeah, I don't know. I saw cleats and I was like, ah. It's just a suggested packing list, you know? Yeah. Like if you want a lawn chair, bring a lawn chair. If you don't, just stand.

Yeah. When you're not playing. That's class. Like I've kind of like skimmed the text for that stuff, but like I'll do it right beforehand tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be so fun though. Yeah.

It'll be fun. Cause there was a time a couple of weeks ago where dudes started dropping like flies. And at a certain point I was like, do we even need to do this? Oh really? But now that it's here, I'm like, dude, this is gonna be so fun.

It'll be so fun. And you gotta expect that people are gonna drop, drop every once in a while. Like, that's just kind of the nature of it. Honestly, like with this pheasant hunt thing, I kept expecting somebody to be like, actually I can't make it. Yeah.

You know, and so it's just part of it. But we got a couple of dudes in there who we don't really know. There's a guy named Brad, we keep calling him Brad Three, cause he's the third Brad. There really is a third Brad. There's three Brad's And then there's AJ.

We don't know anything about AJ. I think Gunnar texted him and said, do you play basketball? And he said, I'm more of a Excel guy. So he got picked pretty far at the bottom. If we don't know anything about you, except you like Microsoft Excel, it's not good for the draft stock.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's one of Will's friends. Oh, you know him? No, I don't know him personally, but Will was talking about it. I think Will, when Will realized he couldn't make it, he was like, I's one of Will's friends. Oh, you know him. No, I don't know. Okay, but will was talking about I think will When will realize he couldn't make it he was like, oh, I need a fight find a replacement place me. He's younger Which is always like there's something about just like oh well

Yeah, if you're an under 25 years old like you just have more endurance than me just almost because of that Yeah, you know the time at six minutes miles. It's like, well, I mean, if I was 18. Dude, I think Tymon, I saw that video of him pumping on the swing. Dude, it was so funny. I think he might've been like a freak athlete and just not gotten in the right lane. Just wasted.

Yeah. Just the wrong family. Cause remember last week or two weeks ago, whatever, he was talking about how he could do back flips. Yeah, he was talking about back flips. It's like, what are you doing, Tymon? Yeah. Singing? Yeah.

Acting? Filming? Yeah. Tyman's already, yeah, he's done backflips and ran a 559 mile. Things I'll never do. I've already missed my window to do those things. I'm not even gonna attempt either of those things. Yeah.

And he was doing them, no problem. So he can still figure it out. Oh yeah, but AJ's young. AJ's young, but- I also thought he was black because Gunnar kept Oh yeah, but AJ's young. AJ's young, but. I also thought he was black because Gunnar kept spelling his name A-Y-Y, J-A-Y-Y. I know.

I've never seen this before. Of course he thought he was black for that. I was like, cool, we got a black guy. Yeah, I was about to draft him first. Yeah, but not anymore. Yeah, not anymore. Oh, white guy who likes Excel, gross. Gunnar, like it's getting it's, it's getting the point

where I think it's a bit with Gunner. It might be just like a 10 year long joke. Like this is like his Dax flame, but I can't, I, yeah. Let me see if I can. He asked me yesterday if I wanted to do a campfire workshop this weekend. I was like, I literally just get, what does that mean? Yeah. What does that mean? And he said, you a guitar, a couple of worship songs on

Saturday night. Oh, he meant worship. Sure did. Workshop. Let me find some other texts from dinner. Your workshop, dude, you should do a workshop of how to build a campfire. That's what I thought. I was like, I mean, I really am kind of passionate about like gathering people around the fire. You're like, well, I have an old guitar that probably go up pretty quick.

It'd be good kindling. I could probably do a campfire workshop with a guitar. He also texted me listening to goasters today. G-H-O-S-T-I-R-S. Ghosters. T-I T I R S. Oh, weird. Go stairs. What else did he say? There's I mean, I just so often I'm just like, what are you talking about? I've tried. Yeah, I'm looking at my text to trying to find it. Back when Gunner and I used to play chess, you'd always spell a pond, P-O-N-D, like a pond of water. And I was like, I think he's messing with me.

I think he knows. I hope it is just a bit he's doing. Because somebody's like, your phone would correct it. Right. Like to spell Chief's wrong over and over and over again. Wouldn't your phone correct Kansas City Chi-I-Fs? Yes and over and over again. Wouldn't your phone correct? Yes. Kansas City Chi-Ives? Yes. He finds a way.

I know. It's like he turned off auto correct on purpose. Let us know if you guys have friends like that. Yeah. Doing a 10 year long joke on you. Anyway, this week it's gonna be really fun. I'm sure we'll make some memories. I hope so. Hopefully no one gets hurt.

And if anyone complains about me bringing up the fact that someone might get hurt, I'll have you remind them our God's better bigger than your jinx. Yeah, sir. Yeah, our God's being here. All right. We're two or more gathered. God's being there. Yeah. What's up? Yeah, what's up? Oh, yeah, we As we gear up for Asia the you know, we're trying to get Vesis for Vietnam. We're trying to put on like a little tournament Maybe an event in Vietnam with one of these like pickleball clubs there And so Isaac is like heading that up. So Isaac's been hitting up all these pickleball clubs There's been this one They're like directly 12 hours opposite of us

So very hard to get in touch with them like Isaac tries to call them at like 9 p.m. Like right when they're starting their day. Last night he texted us at like 4.30. He's like, all right, just got off the phone with him. I was like, oh jeez. 4.30 a.m. Holy cow. But so they sent over, so for like a week,

it feels like they're ghosting us, but they keep saying like, we just need more time. We just need more time. And so we've like moved on. We're like, all right, we need to go somewhere else. This is not working. They sent an email last night and all of a sudden it was like, okay, I see what they needed more time on. They sent like an itemized like invoice essentially of everything this tournament is going to have and how much it's going to cost. And we put it in a chat GPT because it's all in Vietnamese and trying to understand it and the conversion rate of their money.

And I don't know what exactly are they're planning. It's hard to imagine it, but itemize in there was 59, which is a funny number, 59 banners. Oh, so they're going to make 59 different banners that said Friday, pick a ball on it. And I guess just hang them up everywhere. Jeez. It was like, that's very kind of you to start off with that. Like we could probably go a little less on the banners. Yeah. 56 max.

Let's not do more than the Superbowls we've had. Right there. But right around there. Do you know what a Superbowl is? Yeah. Just make it even harder to talk to. But dude, the funniest thing, I just thought this was so good. Uh, is that we started saying like, okay, they're charging us for water. Okay. Bananas. Okay. I guess they're going gonna have bananas on site. Okay, maybe that's normal. They cultural, I don't know.

Never craps. Never craps. They're gonna have a ref on every court. Okay, we don't really do that in America. Great, I guess. And then it says eggs. Eggs? Eggs.

So we don't know, it's gonna cost us about $300 for eggs. What? And we don't know what this has to do with anything. This is a pickleball tournament. You know, we're going, Isaac, what did you tell them we wanted? Workshop? Campfire workshop?

What if they think it's like a pickle festival? These are just different foods. They're like, yeah, pickles and bananas. Jars, vinegar. Yeah, yeah. You need banners for every single different food station 59 tables 59 banners 59 pickles. Holy cow. And so that was just so funny. We're going like alright Maybe it's a chat GPT air. Yeah, but let's take that word Maybe eggs was balls or something like that directly into Google Translate. Nope still eggs. Okay still like several hundred eggs

So that's just such a big mystery. So Isaac was on the phone with him last night. We're trying to like renegotiate, like, hey, we don't need all these banners. We don't need all this. And keep the eggs. Let's just see how they show up. Like, is this a- You're curious enough.

Yeah, do you eat one before each match? You looking at it? Yeah, I just looked up, are eggs common in Vietnam? Which is such a random. Yeah, I just looked up are eggs common in Vietnam, which is such a random. Yeah, what do they do with eggs there? Table eggs are popular food in Vietnam. Table eggs. So maybe they just have eggs on the table for you.

Maybe it's like hard boiled eggs. Or yeah, maybe it's just, what would it be the equivalent to? Just like hot dogs? Granola bar, it's their granola bar. Oh. Gotta have some eggs on hand. Don't do the image search for this. There's some fetal duck egg.

I dare you. How much, if Calvin beats you in spike ball, you have to have a heel duck egg. Fetal duck egg. Oh man, this looks like something I tried in Australia. This looks like something you're not allowed to eat in America. Oh wow, no, that's messed up.

Fetal, that's, oh my gosh. Correct. It's what it sounds like. Correct. You can see like the sack it's in. You Oh wow, no, that's messed up. Fetal, that's, oh my gosh. Correct. It's what it sounds like. Correct. You can see like the sack it's in. You can see the beak, dude. Yeah, ni hao. Ni hao.

Oh, I don't think I'll, I don't think I had that in Australia. Yeah, don't worry about bringing your protein to Paola, but go ahead and bring it on to Asia. Oh man. Every 37 minutes, something happens in this earth, in this world. Every 37 minutes, I'm trying to think.

I looked it up. Every 37 minutes, a fire department responds to a fire involving an electric vehicle. Really? Every 37 minutes, a new species is discovered. Every 37 minutes, an aircraft is struck by lightning. Really? Every 37 minutes, a new species is discovered. Every 37 minutes, an aircraft is struck by lightning. Really? And guess what else?

Saddest one of all, every 37 minutes, a family farm shuts down in the US. Wow. What are we ever to do about this? I know one thing we can do, support them. Help them. Help them. Eat them or eat their- No. Well, well. Eat something. Support them help them help them eat them or eat their no well well

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anywhere besides your own hometown is hard. We never even done one. But like our first tournament ever is. Doing one in a different country, in a different language, in a different, you know, culture. Like everything about it, that's just so, there's so many opportunities for it to just have miscommunication. Oh, this will 100% be a fire festival situation.

It will not go, because the whole point, initially, was to get fun, cool content. So we wanna do an exhibition where it's like, we wanna bring our player, like me and Isaac, against some of the top Vietnamese players. And what they told us is that top players won't come unless there's a tournament with prize money. It's like, I guess we need to put on a tournament now.

It's like Bondi, it's like a storefront. Like the only way you do it is a truck. And I say, okay. All right. Figured out. Had some Bondi calls this week, calling the city and talking. I called a woman from the business licensing department

and I don't wanna exaggerate, but it sounded like she was a hundred and seventy five years old Really? Yeah, just like that's not exaggerating though. I don't think so. No, that's what it sounded like right on you Yeah, very sweet woman but Man, I can't believe she's still working good for her. What was the conversation about? It was like getting my city of Shawnee business license and just make it sure I'm all approved.

And I've been on a roll lately with like, you just know when you gotta go to the DMV or you gotta fill out a form. I'm just not the type of person that like, I'm gonna nail it on the first try. I just never do. Luckily I've been nailing my forms though. Yeah.

Been feeling good. All my forms, no problem. So she's like, the form looks right. I see you talked to you about some things. She's like, it sounds like, I looked at your website and like, you don't need a fire department check because it looks like you're just making breakfast food. I was like, yep.

Yeah, if that means the fire department has to come, yeah, just breakfast. She's like, now I do have to ask, where is the truck parked when it's not being used? And I was like, right now I just sit in my driveway. And she's like, that is not allowed in Shawnee. I'm thinking, well, it's been there for a year. And there was a guy, I used to run my mile by a guy

who had his food truck in his driveway. Really? So I'm hoping as more things come up, I just kind of don't acknowledge him. No, I think that's fine. Like The ass forgiveness kind of thing. Yeah, like it's Shawnee. It's not Mission Hills. Like yeah, you're right We're kind of the bottom tier of Johnson County. Whoa You think?

What else is Gardner? DeSoto Yeah, I Don't know De Soto? Are those in Johnson's County? Yeah. I don't know. I haven't really been to Gardner. De Soto seems fine. You're hurting my feelings. No. But yes, we are Shawnee.

Shawnee. We are neighbors. Shawnee, our neighborhood of Shawnee is pretty bottom tier. Maybe that's more what's, dude, something's going on across the street. I know I sound like an old boomer, or like these kids. Your neighbors next to Dennis?

Yeah, something's going on. I think one of them just got his first girlfriend. They make out on that car a lot. How long? Really? I give up after watching about five minutes. Yeah, sure. Really?

They're just out there. Well, all of a sudden, so I mean, school is very much in session. It's April, it's the're just out there. Well, all of a sudden. So I mean, school is very much in session. It's April. It's the middle of the day. And there's like multiple teenagers outside all the time. This sounds like such a neighbor thing, but I'm just home all the time. So you just notice all this stuff.

It's like Disturbia. Like, what's going on? Why aren't they in school? Yeah. And they run a lot. Is this too complaining now? They just run a lot. What do you mean they run a lot? They'll just take off running.

Where? Down the street. Like for exercise? I don't know, they're wearing jeans. It's very confusing. What? I need a video of this. Because I'm trying to tell Rachel about it.

You know, I'm like, these kids just, they run sometimes at night, but a lot of times during the day, they just run. Tell me more about running. Sometimes they will get out of their car and they will run to the front door. Sometimes they will get out of their car and they will run to the front door. Sometimes they will get out of the car and they'll hang out for a little bit.

They'll sit around on their phone and then it'll just run that direction. I don't know where they run off to because I don't care enough to watch them. I just see them like go by the window. I'm like, oh, the boys are out running again. It's 1 p.m. on a Wednesday. I mean, you know, Bo and Rosie run everywhere,

but like Hattie's kind of gone out of that stage. Maybe those kids just never got out of it. Yeah. They just like getting there quicker. How, how accurate do you think your age guessers are these days? I don't know if I've ever been that great at it. They're not good. Cause like, yeah. Are you sure these people are high schoolers or like, could they be? Sure. They could be. You know, like I would think I'm so bad at that now. They can be out. I think I lost it about four years ago, where it's like you could be in high school

or you could be 28. Yeah, that's a good point. I could be off, but they just, it's like they came out of nowhere. It's like they bloomed. In the last two weeks, I never saw these boys in this girlfriend. And now they're just, they're in the yard.

Interesting. Who knows? I saw hummingbirds are migrating towards us. So maybe they're kind of like the hummingbirds. Where'd you get that information? Facebook. Yeah. It's like April, right on schedule.

Hummingbirds should be arriving to Kansas City any day now. Hummingbird season. Yeah, they're coming. I didn't know they ever left, but I guess it makes sense. Where do they go? Seems like it'd take them a while to get anywhere they wanted to go.

I would assume so. Yeah, that's the kind of stuff that kind of blows my mind, honestly. Like, they just all die and then they just kind of respawn or something. That's what it seems like to me. How do they not? Most hummingbirds that breed in North America, mine do migrate to warmer climates in Central America.

That's that's some ground to cover. Is that true? How long does that take them? Good question. By the time they get there, it's like, we got to turn around. We got to go back. And then people are like, Costa Rica was pretty nice, why don't we just stay here? How long for a hummingbird to migrate from? Yeah.

I will know NA means North America. Even if they're going 50 miles an hour, which I don't think they are right For instance the ruby-throated hummingbird often undertakes a non-stop flight. All right What of approximately 500 miles across the Gulf of Mexico completing this journey in about 18 to 22 hours? Really? Wow, they can't stop just over the Gulf. Maybe you land on a boat real, get on a seagull's back. Yeah. Oh, that'd be nice. That's first class. That's the private jet of the sky.

Oh, seagulls back would be nice. Oh, it's nice and cushiony, not like those hard oil rigs. In contrast, species like the Rufus hummingbird travel over land, not as strong as flyers, covering distances up to 2000 miles from their breeding grounds in northwestern United States to their winter habitats Hummingbird travel over land, not as strong as flyers, covering distances up to 2,000 miles from their breeding grounds in Northwestern United States to their winter habitats in Mexico. Though those take several weeks.

Wow. Daily flight distances are on 23 miles. Oh, so you could beat a hummingbird to Mexico, like if you were biking. You could beat a hummingbird to Mexico if you're biking. Yes. Running would be a tight race. You'd have to be an athlete.

Timon could do it. Timon could do it. You and I, we would struggle. We would need bikes. Yeah. Oh, there's a reality. I get tired. I get tired.

Oh, I've never biked in my life. That's not true. But sometimes you hear of like the distances bikers are doing and it makes it seem so easy. What do you mean you've never biked? I've like never been on a cycling bike. I've never done it for distance. Like I've never been on a cycling bike. I've never done it for distance. I've never, yeah. I rode from the K Life house down to my parents' house

in Olathe one time. Oh, see? You've biked. That was a bike. It was at probably 15 miles. I bet. Yeah, that's impressive. Yeah, it was a feat.

I was tired. And you got to do about double that to stay ahead of the Rufus Hummingbird. Yeah, I don't think I'm going for three weeks. Not eclipsing Rufus. My dad used to do the bike across Kansas every summer. All right. He could he could do it. Dean versus Rufus coming to HBO Max. Dang, dude. That's fun.

I've been watching HBO Max because I've been watching White Lotus. Maybe I've already complained about this before. but the fact that HBO Max changed their name to Max really infuriates me, because HBO is already perfect. Home Box Office. They could not have predicted a better name for their company when they started one. Home Box Office is perfect for a streaming.

That's exactly what it is. Oh my gosh, it's amazing. And now they just Max? Max is already a kid's name. It's a dog's name. Yeah, and why they change it? What made them change it at all? Why not just make it the HBO a kid's name the dogs. Yeah, why they change it what made him change it at all Why don't you know why I just make it the HBO app like that would be great also?

I have huge beef with the app Apple TV. What's going on? There's a product called Apple TV. Oh, yeah Apple TV plus yeah, they change it to plus an Apple TV watch It's like just call it Apple watch. That was, oh wait, you can't do that either. It's like, yeah, why'd they do that? I don't know. For as smart as they all seem ill, the magic mouse, you have to charge it by laying it upside down and plugging it in the center of it. Is that still true? Yeah. Oh my gosh. They need to have like a wireless charger on the mouse pad. It's stuff like that. It's like how'd that ever get approved? So annoying. It's like we only have to charge it once every six weeks. So no one's really gonna care. Yeah, that's a good point

Where are you watching that? Oh, I have an Apple TV. Wait, sorry I believe you have an Apple TV or you're saying I I have a login, right? Cuz it's like just friction. Yeah, Yeah, we have a Roku TV, but we downloaded Apple TV app on the Roku TV. Dude, Roku is a word. I don't even mess with Roku. I don't know really what it means. I don't really.

Don't touch it. I stay, it's like poison ivy. Don't even get near it. Really? What is it? What do you mean? All right. Cause it's not its own streaming platform.

Like you can't watch like, it's like, Oh, Roku has Seinfeld now. Okay, this is another great point. Yeah, because I think initially Roku was like a cheaper substitute to Apple TV. The product. This is terrible. Yeah, like the product Apple TV.

It used to be like a Chromecast. Like a way of making a TV a smart TV. Correct. Okay, that I can comprehend. But now the smart TV, like some of the TVs have a smart TV. Correct. Okay, that I can comprehend. But now the smart TV, like some of the TVs have Roku built into them. Yeah, it's like a Servet. Yeah, just like you have a smart TV that has whatever,

Google Play or whatever. Okay, okay, so let's say my TV right now has Roku built into it. Yes. I go into Roku, what is before me? What do I see? Just to say, I don't know, apps, like all the different apps.

Oh, so within R Roku I would find Netflix Yeah, oh So they're like probably not doing well as a business because you don't really need I think they pivoted though cuz now I think they literally Like the brand of TV is Roku good for them. I think Maybe it's TC. So that's already in there. I don't know how I liked my TCL TV, dude I'm this is one of those things time is probably gonna disagree. You probably might disagree I'm so fine with like whatever the standard like high-definition TV is that's My father-in-law bought an 80 inch TV

Massive TV and it looks great. And I think it was like a TCL or something like that for like a really reasonable price I can't remember less than a thousand dollars me like it was not expensive and it looks great to me But I know some people are like no I need like I need the blacks aren't as good I need 4k and yeah all these different things. I'm like if it's a new TV It's probably just fine for me. You know, I mean and when I say the blacks aren't as good careful. Yeah Yeah, I've heard like cinematographers talk about like oh, it just has deeper blacks. Yeah is what I'm that's what you mean. Sorry. Yeah Yeah, it's like oh the colors are different Yeah, I used to I've bought a couple TVs last few years and you're in Best Buy and you're comparing all these like ah

That one looks a little crisper and then once you buy it in your in your home. It looks amazing It looks amazing. You don't think about it again. Right, and so it's like, I'll take the cheapest one that's pretty big. I know, the last TV I bought, I was like, I am basing this 100% off of, well, the screen size. That's important. But also just like the user interface.

I think that's so important. I did not like Samsung's user interface. TCL, is that right? Yeah, I love it. You can click the homepage and it, no, I'm signed in on everything. So it'll recommend a YouTube video to yeah, I love it. You click the home page and it know I'm signed in on everything So it'll recommend a YouTube video to me that I might like it'll recommend a Netflix show to me I might like it'll recommend a Hulu like and I can I have access to all that on the home page

Yeah, it's how I should be. It's great. And there's like yes, I agree That's the one thing I'm also kind of particular with it's like Roku is fast like that's nice Like we I bought a TV one time at Walmart, just like the cheapest TV we could find. And it was so slow, like going from one thing to the next. Samsung would stick. Yeah, fast forwarding or something. And I'm like, we have to take this back.

I can't, this is driving me crazy. It was a Google TV or something like that. I don't know, Google Play. So that's my TV tour. That's Roku. Remember Quibi? Remember it, never experienced it. Yeah, I think they went. Google Play. So that's my that's Roku. Remember, Quibi? Remember, it never experienced it. Yeah, I think they went out of business. I heard of something recently like someone else to be maybe.

It's called to be Fubo. What are these things? Fubo was like a brand of clothes that I wasn't allowed to wear. Those rock aware. Tubo, T. Fubo, I think T T Fubo. I think it was a bow to TV. Like occasionally a game you want to watch is on Fubo.

How? Yeah, there's all sorts of things. Props to the people who are like, it's 2024 and they still want to like come out with a new streaming. I would be like, all right, look, they've already accomplished it. I'm not going to try to disrupt this market. I, I completely agree. Cause it's like, I would, I would feel like, all right, look, they've already accomplished it. I'm not gonna try to disrupt this market. I completely agree.

Because it's like, I would feel so defeated. Like there's no way we're going to beat Max in Apple TV. We're not gonna get in there. I've also heard there's two schools of thought. Some people will tell you, yeah, the riches are in the niches. Like create your own wooden tie company. Or like, hey, go into the healthcare industry.

Yes, it's super intimidating, but enter a $10 billion industry. And then if you take a percentage of the market share, percentage of a percentage. Yeah, you have so much money. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, I don't know. We should make pharmaceuticals.

Yeah, okay. Let's make pharmaceuticals that like, yeah. Niche. Let's do niche ones though. What? Micaela, pharmacist. Oh, Micaela, yeah. Yeah, ice cream.

Yes, very good. Iowa. Iowaska. Catherine told me the other day that I'm having, I have gray hairs. Do you see any? Where at? Head?

Careful. I don't see any. Where they at? I don't know. don't see any. Where are they at? I don't know. Your hair looks brown. She's like, yeah, you're getting some grays. Oh wow, you have a decent amount of grays. Decent amount of grays?

Do you see any? Not with, not right now. Every once in a while I look in the mirror and like the side of my head looks, I couldn't tell if it was like just lighter or if it was gray. I don't think it's gray. It looks fine. I'm not worried about it, but I was like, I guess I'm getting old

Grasping at straws better cut bait get a haircut. I Got my haircut a lifetime. I really liked it actually. Oh good. Yeah. Yeah, it was the day before the movie Shoot, so we got to roll in the dice a little bit. Yep, and they emailed me afterwards We are so sorry. You were supposed to get a 20% discount on your haircut. Oh, that's nice. It's not too late, you could say. I'll go back and get another one. Cool.

Yeah. But anyway, yeah, it was nice that they have a haircut place in there. They got it all, baby. Yeah, her name was Harmony. And I was like, I'm sure you've gotten this all the time, but like the last few weeks, but is everyone comparing you to like the Severance character?

She's like, you were the first person to say that. I was like, Oh, wait, which one's Harmony? Oh, Harmony Cobell. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe a little too into Severance. No, she had no idea what I was talking about. Didn't even hadn't even heard of the show. She had Apple TV, but not Apple TV. So she couldn't watch it. Yeah, that was embarrassing. Oh, it's just this show hour right now. It's called Severance. You've probably heard of it. No? Isn't it so funny? It's such a popular show within the right pocket.

I thought everyone was talking about it. That's the most amazing thing about what we, the world we live in now is so segmented like that. Back in the day, it was like, if it's a popular TV show, everyone's heard of it. Because there's- We're all watching MASH. We're all watching MASH. MASH and Dallas're all watching mass mash and Alice, shine, fell, shine, frowns, friends. Yeah. And now it's like ER, you know, yeah. Yeah. It was big. And now it's just severance is huge to the right people. But other

people are like, I've never even, cause you don't just stumble upon severance one day, you know? Yeah. Maybe if you have a TCL TV. It's suggesting it. What shows were your parents into back in the day? They loved ER. Yeah, I think my mom liked ER. ER, let's see, they've always liked The Amazing Race. I'm trying to think.

I think maybe this is more recent, like since they've had DVR, which is like not that recent, but they love all the like the voice and the, Oh, some of those reality game show. Yeah. I think they like those. Um, I don't know. I don't know what else I'm trying to think. What other ones? I mean, they loved loved ER. ER was like, that's the main like 90 show they were in. Like we got to get home. We didn't tape ER. It's back on. It's back on.

That was always a classic. Like you go do something in a commercial, not going to yell out. We didn't tape ER. It's back on it's back on Yeah, that was always a classic like you go do something in a commercial now ready to yell out. Yeah, it's on That's great. I was a big Walker Texas Ranger fan You're watch that it would like come on I think in the middle of the day. Okay, right? I think it was like during daytime and it would come on by I wasn't interested in like action I always remember I seen him kicking people. Yeah, it was all I don't remember that much about it specifically now But I should remember thinking was awesome Danny Glo Yeah, it was awesome. I don't remember that much about it specifically now, but I just remember thinking it was awesome. Danny Glover, right? Nope.

Chuck Norris? Yeah, I thought Danny Glover was in that too. No, that's just a different black guy. Really? Not even close to Danny Glover. I'm just kidding. Crap. I don't know his name, but I don't think it's...

Dang, I wonder what his name was. I'll take my million dollars back if it's Danny Glover. I'm sorry, whoever was I Don't think it was this popular over guy. I think he was kind of yeah, you're right. I don't know what I'm Clarence Gileard CBS couldn't do to like really famous. Yeah, they're both too big Love that love dr. Quinn. Oh, yeah medicine woman. Yeah, good pool. Yeah, I forgot about that Yeah, we watch that every now and then. Little House on the Prairie, this is like during the day when my mom was home.

But I think my dad's shows were like Cheers, MASH, Married with Children. I had a bonnet. And then yeah, we got on a Survivor from season one. Amazing Race was a good show too. Yeah, I don't know. What was I gonna say? You know, this has been a good episode.

I didn't have much to talk about. And so I asked AI this morning, I had a fun idea. I was like, I said, I've been podcasting with my friend for six years. Give me a list of topics that we've probably never ever talked about. It did a terrible job. All that to say, we don't need help.

We're doing just fine on our own because we've covered some ground today. Yeah, the topics were awful. Really? Not even close. Oh, I love coffee. Really? Yes, dude.

Every day I have coffee. You know, yesterday I was getting out some coffee that I'm gonna take with us this weekend to Paola. I was gonna like donate it to the boys, to the cause. And I pulled out a bag of mainstream roasters and I was like, oh, I wonder what this one smells like. And I smelled it. I was like the boys, to the cause. And I pulled out a bag of mainstream roasters and I was like, oh, I wonder what this one smells like. And I smelled it. I was like, wow, that was good.

And this is actually kind of funny to admit, but I'm in my kitchen by myself. I mean, I was like huffing it. I mean, I was just like, I smell good. And it smelled really good. I can't stop this. It's like, what else do I wanna do? All it is is smell this coffee.

I just kept smelling it. I just sniffed it over and over. A solid three minutes of sniffing. That's all I wanna All it is is smell this coffee. I just kept smelling it. I just sniffed it over a solid three minutes That's all I want to do is just keep selling this coffee. Hey, I don't blame you when it's mainstream roasters. It smells amazing It's so good. Yeah, I wish I remember what blended is doesn't matter came from ain't your roasters. They're all good They're great Yeah, if you don't know mainstream roasters are coffee sponsor on this podcast and they are wonderful Small town indiana, family owned business that sells high quality beans, high quality grounds,

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game. Oh, you mentioning like watching stuff in the daytime, like there's a difference between daytime TV and nighttime TV, like as a kid, you know, and, uh, I don't know, there's just something, something different about like when you get the opportunity to watch TV in the day. Uh, but Bo, like, I think Bo is convinced that being sick is awesome because he gets to watch so much TV. What are the downsides of this? Like we're kind of conditioning him in the wrong direction with that. Like I think he's like, yeah, I'm sick. Can I go watch Paw Patrol for three hours? And it's like, no.

So yeah, I need to. You don't make it miserable. But like if you're sick, you got to lay in bed a little bit. Yeah, lay in bed. We'll come take your temperature in an hour. Right. Like prove it. Prove that you're sick. And to be fair, when I was over there earlier, he was asleep at like noon, which he never takes naps. So it's like, all right,

he might really be probably not feeling great. Yeah. But anyway, Paw Patrol sounds pretty good too. Cause yeah, we were like, Oh, we were, we were at dinner or eating dinner and whatever. You know, one of the things that we always talk about with like eating good food makes you not get sick, you know, and everything. And does he like raise your hand here? You know, I'm like going around trying to like kind of be sarcastic with the kids. I'm like, I mean, anybody here like getting sick? Anybody raise your hand if you like getting sick. Bo's like, I like getting sick.

I get to watch Paw Patrol. If you're asking. Yeah, I kind of like it. So anyway, here are some of the terrible ideas that chat. You gave me. Okay. How modern skyscrapers are designed to sway in the wind. Okay. That's a six second conversation we could have. That's so that's what all of them were.

It's like, I don't have previous information on it. The unexpected rise of adult sleep away camps. What? Why Iceland doesn't have mosquitoes. The history and science of vending machines, after about 20 of those, I was like, we need to be able to talk about these instantly. Like no research, just ready to go.

And then it said, when people say, let's circle back, but never do. Okay, yeah, it's a good gene shorts video. back but never do. Okay. Yeah. It's a good gene shorts video. Saying bless you after someone sneezes in a long sneeze streak. Replying K versus okay versus okay. The why. Okay. It just didn't. I don't know. It didn't do it for me. Let's talk about the bless you one. I have thoughts on that How when when you when you say bless you after the first one? Are you pretty much committed at that point or are you committed to like I'm good. I've hit my you know, I'm here

You know, I've acknowledged you we're out. I treat my bless you's like I treat my thank you's when someone holds the door open for me I'm good for one after the second one bless yourself thank yourself. Okay. Let's say like we're going into a doctor's office there's a little vestibule so they hold the first door open for me and they also get to the next door before me. Okay. I kind of say thank you for both of them. Okay. Like as I'm in the middle. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Sometimes I hold the door open for both of them. Okay. Like as I'm in the middle. Okay. Thank you.

Yeah, yeah. Sometimes I hold the door open for people twice or they feel like they have to say thank you twice. I stop them right there and I say, that's too much. Please quit. Don't, I'll shut this door on your face. Stop that. Stop what you're doing.

So one bless you is one good one though. One good one. Okay. And I'm covered. Yeah. Every once in a while, you know, if it's like a sneezing attack, yeah, I might after a three or four from somebody.

Woo, bless you. Bless you, bless you. You know, it's getting more and more intense. So. That actually could be a funny sketch. It's like the both of them get more intense. Yeah. It starts off.

Cause Catherine's been having these like sneezing attacks every once in a while, like first thing in the morning, she'll sneeze like eight times in a row. Wow. It's fascinating. I'm not blessing that many times girl. You know that you knew that when you married me. Yeah.

That's true. One blessed kind of guy. I mean the husband wife bless you dynamic anyway is like, do you need me to bless it? I don't think so. You're fine. Right? Yeah. It's more just like acknowledge.

It's more like, Hey, you woke me up and I'm kind of passive aggressively saying it by saying bless you Rachel woke me up last night said whoa I Just had a dream the basement was flooded Wow, oh We're back sleep all right bless you bless All right bless you later. Oh Speaking of water,

I should play the audio of my toilet. We don't have to talk about this forever because I've already texted you plenty about it. No, but the people need to know, Catherine absolutely loved this. She thought it was so funny. Oh yeah. So I was just sitting in my living room yesterday

and I'm starting to hear weird noises. I'm like, man, the ice machine's really kicking today. And then it gets so loud. I'm like, I gotta go check this out. And as I stand up, I'm like, this is actually coming from our guest bathroom. And I get in there and I see what looks like seismic activity in the toilet water.

And so I started to notice there's water everywhere. I pull out my phone and start recording and I'll just play the audio for you. So what'd you think of that? That was great. It was completely silent. Bluetooth? Hey Bluetooth guys? Turn it off. Like are you connected to Bluetooth? My laptop is, but you wouldn't think, hey, somebody calling you? Yeah, Tate Underwood's calling me. Well, have them on, see if your audio works.

Hey, I'm recording a podcast right now. Yep, call me after. Hey, come on, talk to us. Hey, hey, hey, don't just be like answering in the middle of the show, am I on right now? Yeah, you're on right now. Also, we talked about how you gave me a hard time for grasping at straws and cut bait.

And Jake thinks that those things are totally valid. That I'm not normal. Why don't you guys talk about it and take a poll cause I think you guys are old as dirt. Old as dirt. Old as dirt? Kind of an old man phrase. All right, I'll tell you later.

Tate, real quick. Prediction, what sport are you to perform the best in this weekend? What do you think? What are we playing? Oh yeah, you probably don't read the text either. So football, volleyball, and then one potentially ping pong or spike ball or home on Derby? I mean, the answer is yes. So I mean, we have a bunch of footballers, right? So I'll let them do that.

Whose team am I on? I need to, I don't know, before I answer this, I need to know whose team I'm on. You were trying so hard to get that information. It's supposed to, we're doing open ceremonies That's right. Yeah, okay good. Well Calvin kind of I don't know he was like dude. Do you play golf? So either I'm on his team. Oh Golf and it's yeah other golfers up. Yeah, that's great. So maybe golf you are good at golf. I Well, I play golf. I don't know if I'm good at golf. You look like you're good at golf.

How's that? Tate, it would tell you you kind of got a swimmer's body. Are we swimming? I do have a swimmer's body, but I'm not swimming. I'll tell you that. I know. I was thinking about your body. Yeah. Oh, cool. Yeah, we can talk about my body.

It sounds good. I'm going to get my mustache in peak form just thinking about your body. Yeah. Oh, cool. Yeah, we can talk about my body. Sounds good. I'm gonna get my mustache in peak form here in about three hours. Jake's starting to grow one too. Yep. You're starting now? Good. Yeah.

And I'm also in a movie tomorrow, so I have to shave it. So I actually will start Friday afternoon. Oh, that's gay. All right, see ya. All right. Check out the Freedom Lab podcast with Tate Unreal. See you mate. Straightest one in town.

That's so funny. Oh man. What were we talking about? Trying to get this freaking toilet video to work. I'll play it on mine. How about that? All right. Yeah.

Anyway, I'd never seen anything like this in my toilet. I mean, I was about to start believing in ghosts for a split second. I was like, what is the word poltergeist? Cause I think it's happening to me. I'm gonna look this word up real quick. How bad are you at finding like text conversations? I'm pretty bad at it.

All right, ready? It really gets going towards the end. Yeah, don't tell him that. All right. Ready? Really gets going towards the end. Yeah, don't tell him that. OK, we just listen to it out of context. It sounds like I recorded myself on the toilet, but no. Yeah, we'll put the video in post.

We got to put it in. Yeah. But if you see it, yeah, we'll put the video in post. We gotta put it in there. Yeah, but if you see it, that is the sound of water spewing upwards. Upwards. Out of the tank, out of the hole. Yes, wild. Never seen anything like it. When you first sent this video,

I was like, okay, that's a little burbly. Okay, bubble. But all of a sudden, it was like. Old faithful. Yeah, yeah. You have a geyser coming out of your toilet. Dude, I'm just home by myself. dude. Just just it's kind of quiet. And it just went for a while. Can you imagine if you were on the toilet when that happened?

It's bubbling like a snake is coming up for a bull. Can you imagine if you were on the toilet when that happened? It's bubbling like a snake is coming up, a bullfrog is under me. Yes. What's that? I think it's the Goonies, some movie that happens to them, or they have like the pipes all get messed up or something.

Oh, it's scary. I don't know, like it's an animal under, is an animal breathing into my toilet right now? Where are these bubbles coming from? What's about to happen? I'm like, I just spent all this money at the freaking DMV. I just paid taxes. I'm gonna have to pay a plumber now

for who knows what's happening. Because then when I get out of the bathroom, I'm like, man, that was crazy. It kind of smells bad. I'm gonna clean it all up. And then my kitchen sink pipes are making crazy noises. And so that's when I was like, hey, maybe something's actually wrong

or maybe there's a reason for this. And go back to my master bathroom and there's water on the walls all over the ground and then I started looking it up and it's like, all right, there's probably a reason called the sewage company. And they're like, yeah, we were cleaning out the lines on your street today.

So it's over. Just let me know next time. Yeah, so they're like, he was very, he's like, thank you so much for reporting this. I was like, it's my, ni hao, it's my duty. I live. So they're like, he was very, he's like, thank you so much for reporting this. I was like, it's my knee. How it's my duty. You know, I live to serve my pleasure. Yeah.

Yeah. But didn't affect your street. No, not that. No, it's coming. I know we're going to make sure I always shut the lid anyway on the toilet. Oh yeah. Definitely be shutting it down. Yeah, for sure.

I never shut the lid. I think that was my way of being like, listen, if I have to put the lid down when I'm done going to the bathroom, you got to touch it too. Yeah. It's like, it's like we listen, if I have to put the lid down when I'm done going to the bathroom, you got to touch it too. Yeah. It's like, it's like we're all we're going all the way down. You know, I don't know. I've always just done that.

Yeah. Lid down would have saved me some trouble yesterday. Gosh. But my kids, man, they don't even flush. You just come in there, everyone's swollen. It's just like, what in the world is that? That's too bad. Well, that's not true.

Bo never flushes. Right. Hattie's about half and half. that's not true. Bo never flushes. Really? Hattie's about half and half. Rosie is too much of a flusher. Really? She's gonna ruin our toilets the other way. Cause she'll flush it once and then like maybe a little toilet paper won't go down.

And so then she'll just keep trying to flush that toilet paper down. And I'm like, that's gonna ruin. Wait, wait. Yes. And she just can't get it through her head. So it's fine. Kids are, kids are worth it, you know?

Kids do the darnedest things. That's right. Anyway, drop this puppy up. What are you saying? Let's do it. I've got a review of the week somewhere in my phone, screen shotted. Good for you for screen shotting.

Yeah, when I see the good stuff, I try to. I'll do one while you're looking for it. I screen shot it too much this week. Did you? All right. My, um, my review is from March 19th, 2025, my go-to listen, five stars greetings from Washington. This podcast is amazing. I started listening to you all back on December 23rd of last year. I was having a really rough day because I had discovered a dead rat in the dryer vent of my old rental. I started with that Monday's episode and then jumped back to listen to the glossary episode and I've been hooked ever since. I'm also very thankful for your Christmas episode and encouraging those who are listening on Christmas because last year was the first time in a couple of years I

didn't have Christmas with my family back in Kentucky. It's great to have a podcast where the hosts are absolutely hilarious and also willing to talk openly about their walks with Jesus. Brad, Jake and time And thanks for all you do that review is a five-star review from Devin Nelson F. I love that one I love that one. That was good. That one's so nice. I could listen to that one again. I think so So good. That was a good choice. You took mine Okay, sorry. I've got one. This is a post in our Ghost Runners Facebook group join it if you're not in there It's poppin

Emily Burke said she posted a picture a little selfie at the playground. Oh We got one, this is a post in our Ghost Runners Facebook group, join it if you're not in there, it's poppin'. Emily Burke said, she posted a picture, a little selfie at the playground. She said, my first ever ghosting meetup in Charleston, South Carolina. When Brad shouted out my post about restaurants in Charleston, Michelle Huntley joined the Facebook group so she could find the post because she lives here too.

Never have I ever met up with a random stranger I met online until now, but we met up at a park with our four kids and had a blast. Brad and Jake, you have fostered such a unique sense of community through your podcast. As a new ghostie. I've been amazed by the way this group of people values authenticity, respects one another, and even provide support for one another despite distance and differences. It's so rare to find a group of people that show respect to

each other, especially on the internet. That's a good point. Thank you for creating a culture that celebrates respect for each other and being real along with the amazing laughs All of this is so refreshing to the soul. Thank you, Emily Burke And we'll see you in Alabama. Yeah you be in there Also, I just saw this from Caleb Sullivan he is posted on the Facebook group He is starting apart. He texted me about this. He's like, is this okay? And I was like, I don't think you need my permission to do this, but he started a podcast where they review our podcast. No way. So this is called ghosties on second, the unofficial ghost runners podcast debrief.

Yeah. He said premiering later today. So if you're listening to this right now, go to go check it out. Ghosties on second. Wow. Is the first one he's going to review your late night pod? Maybe. I don't know. Wow. is the first one he's going to review, your late night pod? Maybe, I don't know. Wow. I think it's he, Caleb and his wife are doing it. So pretty fun. Wow, that's so fun.

Kind of puts the pressure on a little bit. It's going to be reviewed. I know. All right. Also, like, how much, what are you going to talk about for, I mean, how long are these things going to be? Yeah. Is it like a highlight reel, or is it pros and cons?

Or is it just a, maybe it's just a summary. Yeah, they should do like fact check all the things that we say wrong. Fact checking could be a, that would be a fun segment of their podcast. So Jake said Nobel Prize is only a. Yeah, so that was wrong. Yeah.

Jake said it was a 12 hour time difference. That's when daylight savings is not in effect. Ooh. That's funny. Yeah, anyway, that'll be awesome. That's really cool. I'm excited to listen to it. That's so fun. Yeah, Caleb, you gotta be careful

what you say, we're gonna be freaking listening. So will my parents and so will Rachel's parents. Brad, do you have a jingle you'd like to end this episode with? I do if we have Bluetooth. Do we have Bluetooth? I think I'm in Bluetooth. Okay, let me just look up Jeff Moore, home run.

Also shout out Malachi He already wrote time in a jingle to hello. So I forwarded that along to time and oh so did it has been Quiet this episode. Yeah time now. He's a he's shooting Trey's movie right now. We'll talk about it more on Wednesday's episode Let me find this Instrumentals the word Let me find this. What am I looking for? Instrumental is the word. Wow, the karaoke version of this has 160 views.

And it was only made two years ago. That's actually more rare. Someone decided to make an instrumental in 2023 for this song. Maybe it was Jeff himself. Let me just make sure this is... That sounds good. Yeah. All right. Turn it out, baby. You got the lyrics? Uh, yep. I haven't practiced this one yet. Let's be honest. Let's be honest. That's tough to do if you don't practice. We'll see. Uh, let me send the, the lyrics to you in case you want to, you know, sing along. Big one.

Copy link address, find Jake Triplett, command V. Dude, my computer is going slow these days. Not syncing up real quick to the iMessage for my... Oh, crud. All right. Just the things that we... Hey! Ho! All right. Just the things that we have. Hey! Ho!

This one's for you, Jeff. Come on, Jeff. Good song. Ho! You do the good boy part. Okay. The party's on another Monday I couldn't wait

These guys are so great It's called the Ghostrunner's Pod They bring such joy Good boy! There are so many Joey Riverblood's members Step out of a ship You're on the moon

What would be the first words to say When you step on the moon? Not best So you gotta get on your feet and tell me your blanks of the week. Don't be afraid, it's not about ghosts. Woo! But your spirits will be lifted.

God has given them this great gift. Well, it's time to wake up. The party's on. You're gonna laugh and have fun Watch it live and bring ya, bring ya, bring ya bands Ghosts, ghosts, ghosts We love the Ghost Runners Ghosts, ghosts, ghosts, we love the ghosts

We're filthy rich and the things that matter All the ghosties love Jake and Brad's friendly chatter And time and him to join don't get, get much better We join this pod for the community They're going strong until they're 90 We got some friends in KC where they call home So you gotta get on your feet and tell me your blanks of the week Don't be afraid, it's not about ghosts

But your spirits will be lifted, God hasn't given them this great gift It's time to wake up The party's on You're gonna laugh and have fun Watch it live and bring ya, bring ya, bring ya best! Ghost, Ghost, Ghost Runners! Ghost Runners! Ghost Runners! Ghost Runners!

Ghost Runners! Ghost Runners! Ghost Runners! Ghost Runners! Ghost Runners! Ghost Runners! Ghost Runners! Ghost Runners! For Ghost Runners! Ghost, Ghost Runners! Yeah! They are not the first to do this thing, to join the podcasting game.

to join the podcasting game but they are surrounded by a million fans they're like one big ghosty clip on the feeding clap in their hands singing bring bring bring your best here they come here they, they've done it. Jake and Brad have won the amazing race. That baby is gone, gone. How's your mom? Ghost, ghost, ghost. Ghost Runners with Jake Brad and Tymon. Ghost, ghost, ghost runners. Monday and Wednesday, ghost, ghost, ghost runners.

We love the Ghost Runners. How fun is that? That's gotta be a favorite. Yeah. People are gonna love that. That's great. Who wrote that one? Noah Schwapy.

Shout out to Noah. Noah Schwapy, huh? The old Schwapes. That was great, yeah. That was fun to keep kind of the, those are the best parodies. When you keep like the same vowel sounds the same, like home running, ghost running, like that sounds. That's next level. That sounds great. That's fun to keep kind of the, those are the best parodies. When you keep like the same vowel sounds the same, like home run and ghost run, like that sounds.

That's next level. That sounds great. That's next level. You did a great job too. That was fun to hear you sing that. Hey, thanks. Dude, you should do some like singing workshops. Dude. This weekend.

Workshop, yeah. Yeah. You wanna just lead some workshop? You should do some home run workshop. Workshop leader. That's such a bad one. You should do campfire workshop. I was like, wait, did you mean worship?

He's like, oh my gosh, yes. Oh, that's so good. Yeah, well great singing. Yeah, shout out Ghosties. We got a good thing going with you guys. You know, we got you and I, we're not so different after all. That's right.

Thanks for always listening and being so consistent to support us and our sponsors and just all the posts on the Facebook page. Don't want to take it for granted. Yes. It's not a given that we have an active community. So appreciate you guys. Absolutely.

Can't say enough great things about that. I agreed. We got a few more normal episodes coming, but a little teaser. I think the tail end of me being in China, we're gonna get creative and there might be some new people on the podcast. Me and Brad might be split up for an episode or two. So.

I have a special guest next episode. We'll see. That's true. Yeah, a lot of things up in the air. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. Tell your friends. We miss Timon.

Timon, we miss you, brother. Timon. It's too bad your voice is gone. We'd love to hear from you this week Yeah, it would been awesome to hear uh what it was like filming boy meets world all those years, buddy All right, see you guys wednesday