Ghostrunners - 429 - It’s Good to be Back Home

Episode Date: April 23, 2025

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I did it again. Oh, you have something to talk about? You have something to talk about? You have something to talk about? You have something to talk about? No, I can't believe you did that again. I did it again. Huh, soaking wet?

Please don't ask that question with the next part that I'm gonna say. Oh, okay, yeah. I had another dream about a ghostie. That is kind of funny. Yeah. What happened? I don't remember anything about it except for this. All I remember is the name Gina Purcell.

You know that name? I don't even know what you look like, Gina. I don't know anything about you, but I know for a fact I had a dream that had your name in it. That's all I remember. That's awesome. And I think- And that's it though.

But like, just like she was in there. Yeah. We don't know anything else. I don't know anything else. Like truly. Like, not like a was in there. Yeah. We don't know anything else. I don't know anything else, like truly. Maybe there was something like it was kind of a dramatic, dangerous situation. That's all I can really remember.

Ooh, dramatic. But just wanted to let you guys know, you guys are officially in my dreams. I'm trying to find it. How do you spell it? I know I've seen the name, but I can't figure it out. I think it's P-U-R, like Purcell Farms, like P-U-R-S, or noms, like P-U-R-S,

or no, C-E-L-L. Yeah, it might be C. Gina Purcell. Truly like, is she real? Maybe it's like a Instagram or a YouTube comment name. Jane. Gina, comment below if you're real or not. But yeah, I just, I dreamed about her

and in some form or fashion Kind of like I dreamed about Alvaro's birthday So it's I did I've done it twice now dreamed about ghosties. That's pretty fun timing. Who've you dreamed about? Um, I don't really remember my dreams No, honestly, I don't remember very many of them either that was like but I remember waking up and thinking Gina Purcell was in a dream Actually last night I dreamed there was some kind of war happening, but it was like kind of olden times and I like I think I shot someone with an arrow Yeah, that's actually podcasting with Theo Vard

As me because I I don't remember my dreams Except for the time where I was Robin Hood. I mean, there's really not much to say. I was in part, I was last night, his dream. I was like in this native American civil war. I got caught up between on this horse and I shot him, but it was like, fine. Yes, I'll do it. They called me squanto. That's it.

I don't remember my dreams though. Like it just barely. Don't ask me if I remember anything. Cause that's like as many details as I remember. There were 17 feathers on the arrow. Yeah, Gina Purcell was soaking wet. That's all I remember. Uh oh, ooh I think this tight beat means

that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat to Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along, let's have some fun and go ahead, get on your feet, because this is a ghost from the spot. We're back here on Wednesday. Happy Wednesday. Hey, happy Wednesday. Thank you so much for listening to our podcast. Because of the trips about to go on, this is my eighth one that I'm recording this week. And I'm feeling fine.

Yeah? No problem. It also would be, I would be self-conscious if I were to complain about, I'm just having to talk to my friends so much. Yeah, you're like, I'm- You have no idea the toll it is to talk to your friends. I had to talk to you eight times this week.

You don't understand. Like, I have to talk for a living. None of you guys talk ever at your jobs. And they're all well-oiled machines, so we just monetize so easily. So yeah, I'm getting paid every single time I talk. Ugh. Oh my gosh.

But for real, I know it's like you feel self-conscious, but what is it like? This is your eighth episode. It doesn't. You've parsed them out. This is your fourth day in a row of doing it. Yep, Monday two, Tuesday two, Wednesday two, today two. Yeah.

And it really doesn't feel that bad, maybe because I've been doing this five or six years, but I could do this every day. I mean, the amount that I just talk to Rachel on a given day, she just sits there and just, she just has to listen to me. Really? I mean, I think I talk, every month I talk to Rachel

more than I talked to her the month before. So really it's like, it's just, yeah, compounding. I do not shut up. Does she talk as much? Like I don't let her. You think that you're definitely like the, like more talkative one? Yeah, I always have been.

I mean, even when we were dating, I was just so just like, I don't know, communicative. And I was just expressing everything I was feeling, probably a little too early, but it's like, this is awesome, we're so compatible. And you know, like I'm gonna marry you. It's like, what's your name again? Yeah, I've always kind of been the talkative one.

And yeah, sometimes like I'll ask her like, hey, how was like, oh my gosh, today you had like this, this at work, how was it? It's good. What else happened? I mean, it was just like, it was a solid day. And then I'll like ask again and then Rachel will kind of get like bothered.

She's like, is my answer like not good enough? I'm like, no, I guess it's fine. I just, we need to spend a day in each other's brains. Cause I'm like, oh, I would have so much to tell you. I do nothing in a day. And oh, I could write a book every single day about what I do. You should see like, oh, I would have so much to tell you. I do nothing in a day and oh, I could write a book every single day about what I do. You should see, like Rachel, I both journal

and we don't look at each other's journals, but I know the length of them. I've seen it from afar. Right, she's on page six still and you're on page 24. Oh yeah, Google's like you ran out of storage. And I'm like, there's not even images in this, this is just text. So yeah, I think it's just the way I am.

Plus I think podcasting exacerbates it a little bit. I've become long-winded. Well, yeah, I think I have too, but like at home, I think Catherine's definitely the more talkative one. Really? You're like, I'm all done talking. Kind of, yeah, I'm like, you can, if you want me to talk, I can, but,

and I think she's like the opposite where she's like, I have been talking to, you know, toddlers all day. So I would love to talk to an adult. Like, yeah, I have heard that a little bit, like in moms of like, you're desperate or even just like elementary teachers. She's like, I'm desperate to talk to an adult. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, and in general, she talks more, she's more talkative than I am anyway,

like more long winded, I think. Obviously, I can turn it on for the podcast. But yeah, yeah, she's more talkative than I am anyway, like more long winded, I think. Obviously I can turn it on for the podcast and everything. But yeah. Yeah, it's bad. I'm already getting so long winded. I'm like 30 something years. I'm like, when I'm old, I'm gonna be a nightmare. Oh, they're gonna have to lock me up or like,

I don't know, put a shot collar on my neck. All right, that's it grandpa. That's good. That's good. That's so true, dude. That's like. Talking about the good old days too much. If we think these really mundane things are interesting now,

like think about what we're gonna be like when we're 80 years old. Oh, Rachel will like stop me. She's only done this a few times. She's very patient. She'll listen to anything. But there was one time where I was telling her intricate details of my phone call with Google Fiber.

Okay. And she had to say, that's it. Oh, really? I'm good. What was the, do you remember like? I mean, just nothing probably. I mean, there was something interesting to it probably. Like there was a reason I was telling her like,

can you believe he told me this? And then the app he told me to download, like that app doesn't even exist or whatever. And she's like, I think we're good. It was probably good. You know, you've been telling me about Google fiber phone call for about seven minutes. Like, oh my gosh, this is a wake up call.

Oh wow. You're right. Thank you for stopping me. If not you, then who? wake up call. Oh wow. You're right. Thank you for stopping me. If not you, then who? So I needed to hear it. That's fair. Thank you. So yeah, that's kind of a thing.

Like if I get going on something, she's like, Google fiber, getting close. I'm like, you're right, you're right. That's like your code word. Like yeah. Yeah, it's been about nine minutes about sand. So. Well, Catherine is so good at like,

I think she is so good slash maybe it's, maybe it's not a good thing. I mean, like it's a, she's her, she thinks about things linear linearly. Gosh, it took me a hard time. Took me hard time. You be in there. Like I think so, like probably the same way, like you would tell that story about like, well, I got to tell you this part or this part wouldn't make sense or you know, It's a beginning, middle and end. You got to have all three parts.

Like, you know, you'd have, you have all these issues and therefore you're telling this culminating thing. In my head, I'm just like, I had issues with the Google fiber guy. It was an annoying phone call. The end. What's up with you? Yeah, right.

Like she'll always be like, you know, my dad and I will go to a basketball game. How was your time with your dad? What'd you guys talk about? It's like, we talked about stuff. I don't know what they were. Girls are really good at recalling specifics of a conversation. I'm better at like recalling action.

Like here's what I did today. Here is the actions I did. Here's things I did with my hands today. Yeah. Where it's like, yeah, what did you guys talk about? Oh, we talked. We talked a lot. Yeah.

Let's see. I think we talked about tariffs. No, that was with Scott. I don't know what we talked about. You know, it's see. I think we talked about tariffs. No, that was with Scott. I don't know what we talked about. You know, it's like I eventually just come up with nothing. Yeah. I don't know. It was English the whole time though.

We had no problems. Yeah. I remember that, like we understood each other. So anyway. But that's it. Rachel is good. She's definitely more of a morning person though. Like Rachel's ready to talk at like 7 a.m.

And I got to get the old work truck lubricated. I got to get fired up. I don't really ready to talk at like 7 a.m. And I gotta get the old work truck lubricated, I gotta get fired up, I don't really wanna talk the first 30 minutes. I remember our first date, I took her to the airport and I was like talking to her, it was like an early morning flight, she's like, okay, so you're a morning person, and in my head I don't think I am,

but I think I was just excited, cause it was her. No, we're dating. I was like, yeah, just trying to be talkative to you. Yeah, I'll do anything for someone who's dating. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know. I can, I can probably turn it on pretty quick. Like boom, let's go. Let's talk. Yeah. But time. And what about you and Jesse? You guys like, good morning, Jesse. I mean, you guys do that in the morning. I assume they just harmonize right away.

Deeper, deeper reverb. Yeah. We do the like the morning song and then after that it's not much talking. It's kind of like we just get through that and then we're like, I mean, that's all we needed. I think. Yeah. Yeah. Is it like a full song or is like a nursery rhyme? More of a jingle. I'd say it's like, okay, 20, give me a break. Give me a break. It's Tuesday morning. So give me a break. Yeah. It's kind of, it goes, it kind of fluctuates. It's a bit based depending on our energy. It's like 20 seconds, sometimes 25. Yeah. Yeah. And do you know what it's going to be like the night before or is it like an impromptu thing? It's been the same thing for 18 years. Oh, it's just the same song every day.

18 years. Yeah. Ever since they were like, you'd sing to your mom's stomach for this first three. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Yep. That's fine why is it to the tune? I don't it's I don't need to sing it. No, okay. Okay. Yeah See, yeah, they say AC. Yeah, and no instruments, right? That's fun. Oh Yeah, anyway, tell me guys about what we're talking about. You guys went to a concert. Tell me guys. I know I'm sorry Tell me guys about the concert. Tell me guys. What was it like? You guys been doing you guys have been out of the house lately What's the psych out there? They got speakers at the concert these days

What kind of amputations they got? Huh? We had a good time. We had a good time. It was an exhausting weekend. I was out of energy. Then it's like 7 p.m. feels like midnight. Oh yeah. But no, Graham, who was a former Kanaka camper when I was there, really, I don't take a ton of credit

for it, but he got to see me perform about pancakes, brisket and gravy. This guy turns into a professional musician. It's hard to say where exactly your inspiration from, but I'm not gonna take zero credit. Yeah, I would say definitely. Sounds like he was very formed by you. Thank you.

And I'm pretty sure he formed me too. Yes. Can I cook away? But no, he was great. He was opening for a guy named Connor Price. You guys might know him. Connor is a guy, he kills the content game. I mean, he's just as much an influencer

as he is like a musician, I feel like. He's leveraged social media well. And so, yeah, Tyman and I showed up. We parked, we paid guys who definitely don't, I mean, they were just in it right place, right time. I don't even know if these guys knew there was a concert. I just drove up to a guy, hand him a $10 bill, he's like, great, yeah, you park there if you want.

I know what he's doing with that. And didn't get towed, so it's all good. Where was the concert? The Truman. Okay. You ever been there? No. Dung.

Dung. Dung. Dung. Dung. Dung. Dung. Dung. Dung. Dung. Dung. Dung. It wasn't as bad as I made it sound. It was kind of funny.

I think I was going to say like, maybe I was going to say something else like, okay. But it kind of sounded like a D. You already had the D sound. Yeah. You've been there? D. You already had the D sound. Yeah, you been there? Thunk? Thunk? Thunk, yeah. Thunk. I had never been.

And it was, so right away they were like, oh, you under 18, we got to put big black Xs on your hands for Tymon. And Tymon was kind of doing a just like ongoing bit the whole night, just pretending like he was so embarrassed to have like the X's on his hands like what if Graham sees? I gotta go wash them off in the bathroom. So we were practicing time and show them a couple

like your moves, like how are you gonna greet Graham? For clapping I was just kind of, I was trying to be more like this, like, toward the, I was like, yeah, like just, I don't know, in the blurred like through the lights, you probably couldn't tell it wasn't a normal clap. I was like, I guess he's probably like, yeah, like just, I don't know in the blurred like the lights. You probably couldn't tell it wasn't a normal cloud Uh-huh. I was like, I guess he's probably like it's like a chill cool guy like I'd app him up, right? So I'm like how I think I'm going like under palm up. Yeah

Why do this one behind me? Yeah, I was kind of my plan. Yeah, we were doing a lot of practice. So you don't look weird Yeah, so I don't well, he can't know that it's so embarrassing. I can't like or alcohol. Yeah. Yeah, we were doing a lot of practice. This is so you don't look weird. Yeah. So I don't, well, he can't know that. It's so embarrassing. I can't like, order alcohol. Yeah. Yeah. So embarrassing.

So embarrassing. Dude, love the concert. Yeah, dude. Great job. And where are you from again? Dude, get it? Bring it in here. Put your hand in the middle.

Yeah. Where is he from? Oklahoma. Oh, Oklahoma, dude. Oh, Oklahoma, dude. Oh, Oklahoma. Oh, Oklahoma, dude. Oh, Oklahoma, dude. Oh, Oklahoma. Oh, Oklahoma, man. Boomer. All right, man. So good to see you, man. See you guys. All right. Raise the roof on that. I'm out. Yeah. You're doing that a lot. What other we were goofing around. Oh, you know, just like

when musicians like they will replace one of the words everyone knows, but instead of saying whatever, then they say, Kansas City, how we feel? Tymon would just act, no. How is he doing that? And we were just doing that. Like, how long did he take? What does he do when he's in Tulsa?

Because that has different syllables, I can't see. How did- You gotta find the difference. These guys are geniuses. Man. This is insane. These guys are proses, man. This is insane. This is, these guys are pros. We are lucky to be witnessing this right. Improv master, Wayne Brady up there. Wayne Newton, Wayne Newton up there. It's beautiful. Yeah. Okay. So it's fun. We're goofing. Yeah. What did you, what,

how was the concert as far as like, did it live up to how he sounds on the recordings, stuff like that? Yeah, I thought so. I don't know him at all. Like I know Connor Price, but. You would like Graham. He's worked with Forrest Frank and he's behind the scenes guy for a lot of these people. So.

Well, that's what I was curious about. If he was like, from my understanding, he's like adjacent to them. Forrest Frank seems like one that I don't know if I would want to see in concert because he's so much electronic stuff. Oh, I would love to see Forrest Frank in concert. I'm there's so much electronic stuff. Oh, I would love to see for us. Frank. I'm seeing for a string concert. Yeah. I was going to say when he comes, cause I've seen like based on Instagram clips, can I go lots of instruments, dude, pick me, dude, I'd go with you. Come on. I go. Yeah. I have seen the instruments.

I think, yeah. For us, Frank, like, I think after the Graham and Connor price, I enjoyed that a lot. Like, yeah, like to answer your question, I thought it was great, but I was like, I kind of miss the live aspect of like, oh, they changed it up that in the instrument. Like, mm-hmm. Especially Graham. I mean his was just, he did great, but it was just like pre-recorded like background. It was just him like kind of up on stage. Yes. And then, which is pretty opener, I think, Ask. Yeah, you only have 20 minutes. Connor Price had a bit more like, you know, screens are really involved, but it was again like still all like pre-set up. Yeah. Like cues and stuff. Okay. Which that's why bit more like, you know, screens are really involved, but it was again, like still all like pre-set up, like cues and stuff. Which that's why I'm like, I think I'm excited for the next concert to be like a little more

instruments and stuff. That way you can do an acoustic version of something or you can do like a, yeah. Or it's just going to sound more different than like, I think what's kind of fun about a live performance is like, oh, this is the same song, but it's like, it has a bit of a twist to it. Cause it's like, yeah, I is the same song, but it's like it has a bit of a twist to it because it's like, right. Yeah. Or it sounds more. I don't know. Like what's the word? Like organic maybe. Yeah. But yeah, I'm still good. Different type of thing. But yeah, it was fun. You know, they make upbeat fun music. It's a fun atmosphere. Yeah. That energy was good. Yeah. Connor did a good job. It was very creative. You know,

he's got a small stage to work with. You with. There's not much, but I think he squeezed the sponge dry as far as what you can do creatively on the stage. He's FaceTiming himself. He's doing a skit on stage and asking the crowd what song they want. He had a couple creative things. So. Did you feel old there?

A little bit. There was a very wide variety of people there. Like I saw friends I haven't seen since college, I saw some pickleball people I knew, I was like, oh, good to see you guys. They're like, oh, our kids are in there, they're obsessed. And so there were a lot of little kids. Little, like little kids?

Yeah, six, eight, 10. Seriously? Yeah. Oh wow. Yeah, a lot of little kids. Yeah. Cool. But at the same time, there was a guy,

I got like a water from the bar and this guy next to me is talking about how Coors Light ain't what it used to be. So that guy's there too. Just the concert goer that just goes anything that's there. There's a guy, I got like a water from the bar and this guy next to me is talking about how Coors Light ain't what it used to be. So that guy's there too. Just the concert goer that just goes anything that's there. Probably. Yeah, he's got like a subscription to the Truman.

He's got a punch card at the Truman. Coors Light, what did you say to that? He wasn't telling me, he was telling the bartender. And I was thinking like bartender is a job I could have done in like my early twenties, I think. Like, oh, I'll talk to anybody, how fun is that? I think now I'm like I can't talk to these people. I can't have this conversation.

Really, it's not what it used to be? Terps man, I don't know. Yeah, the water's not as pure as it used to be from the Rockies. But it was still fun. We got to say what's up to Graham afterwards and yeah, it was fun. it was kind of a family show. His mom was the one who like took us back there.

I don't know if she's like managing or what. His wife works the merch. It was all kept it in house. That's sweet. Yeah. Is his wife a camp girl? Not that I know of. She would, I guess definitely could have been.

I don't know. I didn't talk to her. Oh, okay. Married. Good for you. That was kind of fun. Graham and I got married like two weeks apart and his wife also played college volleyball.

Oh wow. Yeah. Okay. You guys are one in the same. One in the same, same stage of life. I just thought about this with merch. Are you still doing the no clothes thing? Yeah.

How's that going? It's not too hard for me. Rachel's dying. Really? Yeah. It's like really? It's not too hard for me. Rachel's dying. Really? Yeah. It's like really hard. Like I just want to buy something. Anthropology is doing a spring sale and what's, you know,

so that's one issue in itself. And then the other issue to be like, this is, should be like, Jake, you're never going to believe like, what's like about to be in style. And then she'll explain it like, I've always loved that thing, but it's never really been in style. And now like this spring it's in style and I she'll explain it like, I've always loved that thing, but it's never really been in style. And now like this spring it's in style

and I can't get any of it. And this is one of those instances where I'm like, I think you wish you would have married a woman. I can't have this conversation with like, I'll try my best, but I just don't, I can't even relate to this. Yes, Catherine will always be like, which one of these looks better?

I'm like, listen, I'll give you my answer, but like ultimately, do you really care how much I like? This should be a weighted test where you have 90% of it. It's like, I'll tell you my opinion, but I don't know. I don't know if you need to listen to it very much. Yeah. So much that I can't even like regurgitate what Rachel told me. I forget what it even is, but there's a certain style of like artwork that's coming back in style and she's obsessed with it. I'm like, Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, this does suck. I'm so sorry.

Wow, that's tragic. I did tell her, you know, so this Saturday, I'm playing at two pickleball tournaments on the same day, but it's rare for someone at my level to get to play in a tournament and possibly win money. I mean, those are normally for the big dogs. But this guy is putting on all these tournaments where you can win, there's like a thousand dollar prize pool.

It's me and Isaac are playing in the morning, me and Molly are playing in the afternoon. So I told Rachel, I said, somehow, if I win some money this weekend, you can buy like a outfit for like Florida or something like this spring or something like that. So she's fired up. Okay.

But for the most part, yeah, it's not too bad. I have enough clothes and it feels like a cool way of saving money. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I just remembered that. Cause I have enough clothes and it feels like a cool way of saving money. Yeah, absolutely Yeah, I just remembered that because I was gonna make the joke when you're like, no, I'm married I didn't talk to her. I was like, oh Mary means you can't buy any new clothes And I was like wait, that's actually what you guys are doing So that's a cool hoodie, but that married, you know, it looks like it'd be a little tight on me Tight on the boys tight on you know, ever since I got this ring on my finger. Yeah, man

That's funny. Yeah, we went to a concert had a good time Good any other thoughts from the concert timing? I don't think so. I had a good time. I liked it. Yeah wins for us Frank I think it's May 7th. Maybe. Oh wow. It's our gravity get back and like independence. I think Yeah, When's Forest rank? I think it's May 7th, maybe. Oh, wow. So grabbing to get back. And like independence, I think. Yeah. That's nice. Old Forest. I have a really simple joy.

A little story is I was working in the shop the other day, doing some cleaning, doing a little bit of work, woodworking and Bo comes out and he's like, all right, dad, I'm ready to work. And I was like, okay, what are you, what are you thinking you're going to do? And I tried to like put them, you know, to work, clean and stuff. And he did a great job. And then eventually said, can we build something? All right. I said, what do you want to build? And he said, I want to build a little bed for my teddy bear. And I said, wow. Okay. And so we worked and it was one of those times where it was like, this is not as easy as it should be.

It's just taking longer than it should. I'm getting frustrated at times, but at the end of the day, we built a little bed for his teddy bear and it was awesome. That's fun. Yeah. How easy would it be to make a garden bed?

That's just like a rectangle, right? Yeah, easy. Yeah. Rachel wants some garden beds. Yeah. Maybe I'll pay Bo. Yeah. Bo, just make a big teddy bear bed. Yeah, you. Yeah, Rachel wants some garden beds. Yeah, they all pay bow. Yeah Well, just make a big teddy bear bed. Yeah, you could you could do it. I mean it'd be really easy It just be like little like four pieces of wood that you just screw together

four pieces I can handle that you can handle it. I'll help you Could be a funnel project. Yeah. Yeah, are you trying to, cause you're trying to plant stuff. Yeah, Rachel wants to get into, I think gardening. I think gardening is the word. What's it called when you like do stuff in a garden? Gardening?

Garden, yeah. I'll look it up. I'll help you guys out. Yeah, she's wanting to do a little something in our side yard. So we went on a little walk yesterday and she was pointing out a lot of garden beds she saw. I think I need to get her some garden beds.

Yeah. I could bring one back from China. Ooh, a Chinese garden bed. Terafree if I could fit it in my suitcase. Smart. It's not a work around it. Yeah, you can make one. Do a little Saturday project.

Yeah, it could be fun. Oh, I just wish I were a little more comfortable on a day-to-day basis. Jake, how about you? Well, I don't have that problem because I podcast in Cozy Earth. And I sleep in Cozy Earth. And sometimes I've napped in Cozy Earth.

I've driven my car in Cozy Earth. Showered? I showered one time, I had the socks on, I forgot. Showered in that comfortable. I didn't want to take them off, they were going to be cold. Yeah, Cozy Earth's great, we could talk about them for hours and maybe we should, I forgot, we have talked about that. Don't give it away, don't give it away.

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I officially got the South Dakota woodworking order. I figured it all out. It's a huge blessing of an order for the pheasant hunting lodge. And so huge win for the bottom line. How many tables? It's two massive tables, but then it's like 26 chairs or something like that.

20 some beds and like. Wooden beds. Wooden beds, yeah. That's cool. Dude, how long is that gonna take you? However long it has to brother. Like did you give them like an ETA like Christmas? No, yeah, it'll be done.

They want it delivered by August. So I'll be yeah, be'll be done. They want it delivered by August. So I'll be rocking and rolling. That's great. So you won't be on the podcast for the next few months probably, right? Probably I'll have a quick hiatus for a few months. I can't imagine doing podcasting and woodworking at the same time.

It's impossible to do both. It's too much. Yeah, I'd rather podcast 19 times in a week. Yeah, so that's like the financial win. And then the, yeah. And then I guess a small other win is even though I'm not feeling 100%, I was feeling so bad earlier.

And it's one of those things where like when you're sick, all you want to do is feel healthier. And I feel I have some energy now compared to before. So getting healthier. Thank you, Lord, for a body that, what's the word, progresses, gets healthier. Yeah. Isn't it fun when you can actually see it,

like when you see a scab slowly turn into skin again? It's crazy, dude. It's pretty sweet that that works out. Yeah, like remember like times, like yeah, your fingers where it's like Scott's thumb. Yeah, he showed me it yesterday. It looks great. It's like, dude, you remember like times like yeah your fingers where it's like like Scott's thumb. Yeah, he showed me yesterday looks great It's like dude. You remember how bad that hurt and now it's like you can use your thumb again completely. Yeah, it's amazing. So Yeah, it really is. I guess my one of the week would be platelets platelets, dude. Yeah, that's a great

Yeah, no, I think my one of the week was gonna be, me and Rachel, I took her on a little date Monday night and afterwards I said, what do you wanna do the rest of the night? And she said, I wanna watch Forrest Gump with you. Fun. It's my favorite movie, Rachel loves it too, but we never just like sat down and watched it together. And when you watch something you've seen before, I kind of almost expected like,

this might be a movie we kind of watch, we're kind of on our phone, for whatever reason, it was locked in, I was like, I was bricked. And it's the movie I've maybe seen the most of anything else. I don't know why, but it was great. But it just got you. I was just like, this is a good movie. What a good song.

Every line, it's exactly how I remembered it, but still good. So it was just a great night. Dinner at Forrest Gump. Where'd you go for dinner? We went to, we were gonna go to the mix, and Rachel said, if we're gonna go healthy, I'd rather to, we were gonna go to the mix and Rachel said, if we're gonna go healthy,

I'd rather just, we went to Enjoy in Lenexa. Yeah. It's great. Yeah. Loaded up. I got a, I'm a whole new man. I got a soup, then I got a salad, and I was still kinda hungry.

So I got a acai bowl. Healthy little dinner. Oh, they got acai bowls there. Kinda. Yes. Yeah, so somewhat. Not the best acai bowls in town. Nope.

Nope, nope, nope. Okay. So yeah, that was fun. And tonight we're going on a triple date. Oh boy, the spot we're going tonight, I'm gonna eat before I'm gonna have to eat afterwards. It's called Of Course Kitchen, I think. I took a brief look at their menu.

You don't think it looks good? Didn't really understand what I was looking at. Had to copy and paste it in a chat GPT. I said, I think I took a brief look at their menu. You don't think it looks good? Didn't really understand what I was looking at. Okay. Had to copy and paste into chat. GPT. I said, I'm a picky eater. Like, what am I looking at and what should I order? I've never done that before.

Um, and even what chat GPT said, I was like, oh yikes. Really? It's, uh, it's not just Indian food. It's South Indian food. Of course. Of course. Really? Yeah. I didn't realize this. food. Of course. Of course. Really? Yeah.

I didn't realize this. Okay, go ahead. You've heard of it before? Yeah. It's like a hotspot right now. Is it really? Yeah. Well, I don't know a darn thing about food.

I didn't know it was Indian though. That's what someone said. I couldn't tell you the difference in Northern Indian, Southern Indian. That's fair. Or maybe it's South Asian, which is Indian. Okay, that's what their Instagram says. It's all the same thing.

I'm gonna be ordering some sort of naan with butter and cheese probably. Sounds nice. Yeah, sounds good, yeah. So yeah, that'll be interesting tonight. I'm gonna go straight from here, time to shoot and stuff, and then yeah, triple date with some other couples. Who you going? Sam Integer, his wife. Yeah.

Lindy LaMaster, her husband. Nice. Yep, they know each other from Markets Off. Whoopig. Whoopig. Ty, what's your one of the week? I passed my drone license exam thing. Yeah, let's talk about that. Yeah, It's honestly been so long coming. I think it was like three or more years ago that I like was somehow put in contact with guy that does like a bunch of drone like filming in Casey and like someone sent him a drone video I made and he was like, Oh dude, like you have like your natural like getting good drone footage. You should definitely get your part 107 once you're 16. I was like 15 at the time.

So I was like, okay, great. And so then ever since I turned 16 and then like almost three years after that, I've just been procrastinating getting this thing. And so I finally scheduled my test for right after the movie shoot week. So that was a great timing. I think they recommend like 15 hours of studying before it.

Like I think it's, it's, yeah, it's a definitely pretty intense test that you have to know a lot of stuff for. I probably studied, I probably ended up with like five or six hours of studying in and I like, I knew, I know it was like, I knew going in though. I was like, I'm not confident at all. I was like genuinely just like, I was, I think I was like praying beforehand,, God, I know I should have studied more. So like, I get it. I get it if I fail, but like, if you could help me like think clearly and like make logical guesses and stuff. And that's great. It was like, I hated that two hours of like in there, it was like a 60 question

test. I tried to like take my time, think through everything. I would like, you know, you have the bookmark question in case you like kind of like accidentally learn something about that later. Cause I'm just like, I definitely the regular regulation side, there's all these regulations with drone stuff. And I like that was, I was pretty good at that. So that helped, that helped carry me. But there was so much more airport charts and maps that I, than I ever thought there would be. You're a homeschool. Yeah. It didn't, didn't do airplane charts for some reason you didn't learn that I don't know dang I thought I prepared you better. I was just like I was so sure I knew there'd be some of that

I was like can't be that much so I didn't study for that that much but man It was like 50% of the test just wow all this airplane charts and what did you need to pass? How many a 70% okay? I got a 73 that a boy. Thank you. God. Yep Shout out to God. It was yeah, but I'm excited cuz now it's like the goal of it is like now I can Legally make money like with drone footage and stuff like I can Do because you're not like technically supposed to use a drone for like paid jobs Unless you have part one in seven. I'm hoping like I can get, you know, like smaller, oh, like an hour gig, like in getting this

like real estate footage and like all this stuff to like kind of add onto my typical things. So is this like, is this like as high of a certification as you can get or can you like, like does the FPV drone need like higher licenses and stuff? I don't think you need higher for FPV. I think you just need to know a little more specialized stuff but I think it's the same license.

Okay. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Cool. It'd be nice just to have the peace of mind knowing like, it's like having your tags renewed. Oh, for sure. Yeah.

Where are you going to pull me over for now? Exactly. You know, it doesn't matter. Cause I was looking, I haven't flown my drone in four years, probably, but I was like, maybe I should take it to China. And as I was starting to research it more, it's like, there's a lot of regulations. There's it seems like it's easy to get in trouble.

I was like, not, not worth it. Yeah. Who cares? What? Yeah. How bad of a fine is it getting? Yeah, I don't remember, but it was enough to scare me away. Yeah.

So even I yeah, it was like even just as obviously like if I had failed, it would just be like embarrassing. I'm like I it was fully my fault if I failed, but it was also like I think $150 or 175 to like even schedule the test. And it's not like refundable. If you don't, you have to just take it again. So that was also a good thing that I, but yeah, you were close. I know. I know that's wild. It's in some ways it's like, maybe I should have failed. So I didn't learn to like, cause it's a bummer. Cause now I know that if I do the bare minimum, I technically kind of can still do it, but I don't think, I don't think that that's, I'm not going to like take

that away from it. Yeah. I don't want to like think I can just barely get by and do it, but it worked for this. So I think everyone should have to take some sort of test that they have to study for once a year just to remind us of how awful students have it. Because tests are just the worst. I just don't like that aspect of things at all. And it's just annoying.

And it's just like, this is just a test. It's not a big deal. It's not going to ultimately fly a drone for you or not. And so sometimes I think we think like, oh man, I would love to be a student again. It's like, but don't forget about those tests. The tests are stinker. That's a fun idea.

I should like make Rachel a year-end test. I'm just like things we've done this year. So it's like the material is things you should know. Okay, that's not bad. And yeah, so you don't have to study for it because you already lived it. But yeah, I do not envy people who still have to take tests or just research papers.

Those were a bummer. Because you can't just go into it and be like, well, I'm logical, I figured out, you have to do it. Yeah, what sounds like the worst is when you have to do continuing education. Because it's like, you already know what you're doing and like a nurse has to take classes or do continuing education or whatever. It's like, they already know how to be a nurse. They're

nurses. Yeah. And then so like, so to like have to learn something that you already know is even worse sounding to me. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like if you have to sit there and watch a video about how to make a YouTube video, it's like, I know how to do this. Yeah. I'm not being challenged or pushed or anything. Yeah. Congrats time. Thanks. That's great, man. You got a drone gig lined up? Not necessarily, but I think I, and I need to get a drone. I'm like, I think I'm getting one from a guy that I know. I don't currently have a drone that works.

Hey, one thing at a time. Right. But I think once I have that get kind of get like back in the groove of like, how do I even like get good footage with this? I might start reaching out to people. We'll see. Cool. Yeah. Would you guys rather speak every language or communicate with animals. Did we do this last week? Last week? Did we not have this conversation? I thought we already covered this. Jake has done eight podcasts.

You guys are messing with me. Are you joking? No, yeah, I thought you were joking, going along with you, I'm so confused. Yeah, we've never talked about this. Really? Speak every language or communicate with animals. Last week? You talked about with Hattie?

I didn't listen to that whole episode. Maybe I'm misremembering something. This is from Fluffy Pancake Club. I asked that question at Fluffy Pancake Club. I asked that question at Fluffy Pancake Club. I was like, guys, we've talked about this. I like listened to myself talk about this. Last week? No, not last week, a long time ago.

I would rather- Well, it's already been covered then. I didn't know that. Well, by eight year olds, you know, but- That's so funny. I was like, you have to be messing with me. We've definitely never talked about this. I was like, I know I've heard this prompt before.

Well, what'd you and the kids decide? I think they decided animals. I also, I think animals would be really fun. It would be nice to form a bond with your dog that way. And like, you know, white barking. Yeah. All of a sudden you're, you're speaking to people that everyone else can't speak to. Yeah. Do you then have to kind of become the ambassador to all

the animals? You come this like Greta Thunberg, they're shipping you off to Greenland and Antarctica. Like, all right, go talk to the penguins. It doesn't sound terrible. Antarctica. Yeah. But if you're like the one guy, they'd pull out the red carpet for you.

That's true. Heaven almighty. Animals would be fun. I mean, you could, yeah, it depends on like, do animals, I don't, yeah, it's like, do I want to, I don't want them to just like become my subjects, because that feels like I would lose their respect. So it's like, I think I just need to, cause my first thought was like, Oh, I could just like

have animals like run errands for me and stuff. Like, you know, I don't know what it was. My boss around you pay him. I'm like, like this Eagle is going to go like, like get me a package or whatever. But then I'm like, I feel like I have to compensate him probably. Yeah. But it wouldn't have to be money though. You could get more. It's true. Or like a mouse. Yeah, you could. Well, but then you'd under, you'd hear what the fish sound like before you let them get. That's a good point too. Yeah. The fish is like, dude, come on. Not me.

I'm like no choice, but to hear, but to also like, you can't like turn it off. You have to like screaming in agony. Like you go, you go into a park. Oh, imagine just eating anything. Oh yeah. You go into a park and. Oh, it's dead by then. You didn't kill it. Like you go, you go into a park. Oh, imagine just eating anything. Oh yeah. You go into a park and. Oh, it's dead by then. You didn't kill it.

Yeah. Maybe fine. So sushi is a kind of a great area. If I could communicate with animals, I'd probably pretty quickly become a vegetarian. I bet. Cause I bet like I'd hear the. You know what a chicken sounds like.

It's a little harder to eat one now. Yeah. There's humanized. You're like, well, there's so much more emotional than we ever thought. They form close family bonds. Yeah, does this mean that animals become smart? Or like, because I feel like animals are still

not as smart as us. Yeah. Unless like they're like an octopus or something. They just still talk in instincts, but it's English. Yeah. You know, like, hey, hungry. And they say, food, food, food, food, water, food, scared, scared to hump, food, scared.

Well, if that's all they're saying, I don't want to speak. I'm going to change my mind. Yeah, that is a good question. Like, do they become more intellectual? I really like hiring out the hawk. That's a great idea. Yeah.

Really delegating out some past the animals. Yeah. Yeah, now I'm thinking about, if I walk outside right now, would I hear a million voices? Oh yeah. You know, like all of a sudden, You go to a zoo. There's no peace anywhere.

You feel schizophrenic at a petting zoo. What would you say? Well, at first I was gonna say people, but once I'm back from Vietnam, I mean, I don't plan on traveling ever again. That's gonna be it. It would be so convenient when it is convenient, but everyday life though, when's knowing all these other languages is really gonna help me.

I don't come across that many non-English speakers. I could get more respect at Chipotle. I can't even think of a follow-up. That's it. If I needed sheet rocking done, it would be a more pleasant experience. Would you rather get more respect at Chipotle or communicate with any animal? That's where we're at. Would you really break it down? It's like dang though, dude, they would really slap that queso on there for you. Yeah. And it's so hard to learn Spanish for Chipotle. Like they're, yeah.

Yeah. Pollo is a really hard. Oh yeah. I can't, I'm not going to memorize all that. And you probably would speak English anyway. Like even though you could speak Spanish. Yeah, probably would. Animals can get your tone of voice like dogs. So, yeah, Chipotle.

Dude, no, it's not dogs. Like you gotta think way beyond dogs. We're talking, we're talking gorillas. My first thought was like whales and stuff. We're talking whales. Oh, you go swim in the ocean. You better put headphones on. You're gonna hear everything.

It's true, sound travels, yeah. But then again, I mean you're only hearing Well, cuz you're not like reading their mind, right? That's good. Good point. Yeah, they don't want to talk to you Yeah, I was picturing like yeah, maybe meadows don't talk very much. They're not very talk right I was thinking Brad was like, oh I walk outside here a bunch different but it's like well only like in proximity Yeah, they're talking to each other. Yeah. Yeah. They have to want to talk to you. Right. We don't know how loudly squirrels talk though. Yeah. How close do you have to be? And you'd be, I'd be fine. I mean, you could just be the ambassador to all animals. Yeah.

You'd be like, you guys have to take my word for it. Like squirrels are so rude. Like they look cute, but like they're, they never talk to me. That's the thing, squirrels, they pretend they can't hear me. Don't understand what the blue jay is saying. Yeah, you're the Rosetta Stone for everything. That's a lot of power and I want it. Yeah. We did not talk that much on the fluffy pancake club. I was so tripped up.

The way y'all smiled at each other, I was like, they agreed at some point, Jake brings something up and let's gaslight him and thinking he has a memory loss issue. I was like, we did this. I don't, yeah. This just in, local podcast listener, 34 year old, matching the description of yes,

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Any more Fluffy Pancake episodes coming soon? Not yet, dude. I've just been just getting by right now, but I would like to. Like, people want it. My kids want it for sure. Bo really wants me to do one with a pirate character. Yeah.

So. Pirate theme right character. Yeah. So. Pirate theme right now. Yeah. So. So yeah, do you think you would ever release them publicly? Yeah, of course. Oh. Yeah, that's the idea.

But I mean, just gotta get a little bit of a backlog going. Yeah. What have you thought through, like daily, weekly? I don't, I think daily is probably a little ambitious for after, like I recorded a bunch of them really quickly and it was like, Oh, it was easy. But it's like getting sitting down to record them is the, what's so like tedious, I guess. Um, so I don't think I want to do them daily.

Maybe Monday, Wednesday, Friday or something like that, like three times a week or something sweet, at least to start. And maybe eventually it's like five times a week, like Monday through Friday or something. But yeah, I don't know. It's one of those things where it's like, sometimes you go through this where it's just like, sometimes it's like, I am all about it, gung ho, let's go. And then it's like, oh, I lost,

I'm fizzling out a little bit. Not fizzling out completely, but it's just like, I'm not as much in a production mode right now. I'm more of in a, you know, this kind of mode or like whatever. So especially when you do anything by yourself, I think it's easy to be like, I'm into this. Well, I'm not held to do it. You know, I was like, I have no like, yeah, like, like constraint of like, I have to do this by Monday because it comes out every Monday.

There's no expectation. Yeah. 100%. So right now it's still, I still like it. It was a fun thing to do, but it was like, OK. I just have to organize my life a little bit better and just be like, all right, every Monday from 2 to 4, I just record these things.

And I can record 10 of them. And if I do that twice a month, then I have plenty. No problem. It's a lot of pancakes. A lot of pancakes to flip. So anyway. twice a month, then I have plenty. You know. A lot of pancakes. A lot of pancakes to flip, so. Anyway. Timon, can you let me connect to the road caster?

Of course. I have something to play. I don't think I'm connected right now. I'll go ahead and connect then. Remember Clint, Clintonius? Yeah. He's actually in my phone as Clintonius. Member of the I'm Down Boys,

he sent me a voice memo on April 8th, and it said mediocre life update for the pod. I haven't listened to it. I don't know what this is, but I thought, hey, could be fun. That's exciting. See if this works. Yo, Jakey, Brad, and Tymon now, huh? Clint Walker from the I'm Down Boys here.

Thought I'd let you guys know what's going on with the boys, eh? So I'm graduating college, studied finance, going into youth ministry, following those footsteps from the old Jacob Triplet there. And let's see, we got three of us are married. Nick, he's having a kid, he's got one in the oven. Old Campbell is playing with dirt and a little landscaping there.

Got a couple of engineers, civil, chemical, mechanical, all boys looking for jobs. So if you know anyone in the Northern Michigan area, let us know. Connect us. But I wanted to connect with you guys, let you know how we're doing, and ask you a question. As you grow up and you move away from friends and friend groups, how do you stay in touch? Do you call? Do you do a trip? What's your guys' strategy for staying in touch with the boys as they grow up and go? Well, that does it for the I'm down boys. Holler back if you want to keep this conversation going. Have a good day. Bye now.

Keep the conversation going for sure. We got to. That's very great to hear his voice. How much of that is a character and how much of that is how he talks? I think he's he's hamming it up a little bit., but I love it. May it's great good ham as far as I'm concerned. I Love a good trip There's a way of reconnecting. Yeah, once you're out of each other's lives. It's gonna be hard to stay connected on a regular basis Yeah, I've heard the analogy of like Social media text messaging whatever is like a snack, but like in-person meetups is the meal.

Like as far as like, like yeah, you can kind of help hold yourself over with snacks, like with text message threads and stuff like that. Like my friends and I do that pretty regularly from camp. It's fun, but it's like when we get together, that's when it's like life-giving. Yeah. That's when it's like another level of it.

So yeah, you've got to almost just force yourself of like, hey, we're doing this weekend kind of thing. We're going this place and just hang out. And sometimes we have excuses to get together, like fantasy football or something. But back in the day, it was just like, I don't know, the new Star Wars is coming out. Let's all go see it together. And I could not care.

I don't care about Star Wars at all. But I was always like, I'll come. Like, why not? Like, we're all doing it. Like, teach me what happened in the last movie. I don't even know what's going on. Which one is Darth Maul? Yeah, he's still around or he turned into Anakin?

Luke, I am your Darth Maul. Yeah. What's the phrase? Just whatever it is there. But like, yeah, I think trips are always the right answer or just trying to intentionally like set time and then just like, all right, great. Like this is the time we're all getting together. If you can make it, that'd be awesome.

And people always can't always make every single time, but it's always good. Tyman, you're about to move out in a week or so. And people always can't always make every single time, but it's always good timing. You're about to move out in a week or so. How do you plan on ever seeing your family again? Uh, and how do, and if so, how do you plan on connecting with them? See? Yes. You text me, we'll text.

I might show up to some stuff. I don't know if I'll ever see him again. Yeah. Going to miss that lullaby. Yeah. Or jingle. Maybe me and Jesse, it kind of do phone calls in the morning. Yeah.

You have your alarm and then your alarm to sing right after it. No. Yeah. I hope I can. I mean, yeah, it's nice that I'm just, it's moving like 25 minutes away. No problem. Tyman, I would love for you to record a video of you and jesse just two inches away from each other waking up and singing a song in perfect unison and then just rolling over and getting out of bed that'd be so funny

who's on the top bunk uh they share bed yeah me and jesse share a bed so just like a double or queen or whatever but my little Jonas are in a bunk. Jonas is on top. Melon a bomb. All right. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. I was, I was wanting to imagine it differently, but that's fine. Yeah. So you could just, yeah. Be in bed. Just like you're each on your side, looking at each other. Yeah. Bye. Yeah. And then just sing your little song. Yeah. If you had to choose, would you go top or bottom but uh? What would I choose who am I sleeping with no it doesn't matter Bottom yeah, yeah bottom bunk yeah, no ladder. I think I'd say bottom pretty quick easy access Yeah, dude when I was seven years old top bunk all day

I mean, that's the coolest place you can so fun, but I'm just I'm close to the ground. I like it There's something so crazy cozy about that top corner though. You know what I'm talking about? Like that, like, I don't know. Like you get like a nice little lamp up there or something. Okay. Maybe I just haven't had the top bunk experience. I picture top bunk and I picture waking up and hitting my head. Like that's kind of like, it's not the most ideal of places to sleep. I just don't swing myself up so fast. Like you do. We're not ready to sing. That's true. How are you getting a lamp up there? Do you have like a tall nightstand? Listen, you can do a few different things. You can do the clip on lamp.

Oh, I forgot about those. Remember the clip on reading lamp, maybe a little floating shelf up there or something. My gosh, you're right. Those are the two things I can think of. Two more than I could think of. Maybe like, I've seen it where there's like a shelf next to the bunk bed. Yeah, Hattie's got a little clip on. Or she's got like even just like a tiny little Amazon these days.

You can find anything on there. Tiny little lamp. But man, it's a cozy vibe up there. Everyone's well, I'll crawl up there. It's awesome. I think especially if I'm like the one getting to the bed later than the person already sleeping, I want them to like already be asleep on the top and I can just like slide into the bottom and I'm not having to get up on the ladder. 100%. Yeah. That's yeah. Especially like if it's a rocky. It could be. Could be. 100%. Yeah. That's yeah. Especially like if it's a rocky.

It could be. Could be. It could be. I'm pretty proud of ours. I built it myself and it is the most solid bed does not move one iota. South Dakota is going to be in good, good hands. They're going to be just fine. Dude, 26 chairs and 20 beds. More. Yeah. More than that. Some 24, maybe something crazy. Sure. Why not say yes, you know, so rich. That's awesome. So freaking rich. Yeah, right. Time and I would see you or we haven't been on the podcast enough to talk about this. The time and learn to pump video is so good.

Shout out to whoever found that. Oh, yeah. Good. It's been a classic, like among our family and like extended family for so long. And I'm glad it's reaching more people. If you guys don't know, time we talked about this video a few weeks ago, there's this old home video. It's great that your home videos are on YouTube too.

But yeah, go find our Facebook group or just search time and learn to pump. She's probably on that many on there. And you know, yes, you like nail your sibling while swinging, but I think your sister steals the show. It's so funny. Yeah. Three years old. Can you believe that? Yeah. Do you guys quote that to this day? Occasionally? I mean, yeah, it's, it's a classic. Yeah. Three years old. Only three. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's just something Hattie would have absolutely said. He's pumping on his own. Yeah. He's only three. Yeah. So just shout out time and learn to pump. Shout out to the imps. That's a great. Yeah. So

is that where you kind of got your initial like desire for all this stuff? It was like your dad posted this on YouTube. Like, like he's posting videos. Cause like, obviously the, the timing of when that video ends is perfect. Like it's like, you just punt your brother and then it's like the video's over. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe that's part of it. I mean, yeah, just like, I think it was more so just kind of a storage place for like random videos. And then, yeah, I don't know. Maybe that's where I first had the gleam in my eye for fame yeah no I don't know what can we expect

time when's it when's the next like post from you coming we got anything in the hopper there's something that might be in the works in the future because I'm I got like a little, like a little affiliate thing with like some color grading thing. I might like test out, make a little video about have a little code for people. So what are they paying you? Nothing. That's why, that's why it's kind of more in the future in the hopper. It's like basically, but it is, I am like getting just like free access to this, like software you'd pay like 500 a year for. So that's nice. You'd pay like 500 a year for okay

That's nice, and it's like I'm not gonna put the most effort into it But it's just like I've been using it off and on and I'll just like make a little video and compile some clips and stuff All right, so yeah, let me nice Brad. What's your next post? Good question been trying to I have no idea. Let's see. Any updates with you and Will? Willy Boy, we're recording again tomorrow. I think we're trying to get like three or four, like as well, I kind of in the hopper before we put it out there.

Is it going to be like episodic, like season one, and then take a break and then season two? That was my initial thought was like, get like 12 solid ones, maybe, you know, and release them or something. So we've recorded two so far. I kind of told him, I was like get like 12 solid ones maybe, you know, and release them or something. So we've recorded two so far. I kind of told him, I was like, I'd be willing to record multiple of these at a time

if that would be helpful. Just because, yeah, we haven't gotten into a rhythm of meeting every week and everything. But I felt like the second episode, the first episode was good too. But the second episode, I felt like I at least talked a lot about passionate things. Like, you're like brought it. Yeah, I was I was like But like I think what I'm trying to figure out now is like, where do we?

How do I like stay in a lane like cuz sometimes it's like I'm talking about this for a second and that makes me think About this and you know with us. It's just like that's fine With something like that. I'm like, do people want that? Or do people want it to be a little more focused in on, hey, this time they're talking about how to start a business and the physical steps to starting a business or something like that. Yeah, who is this podcast for?

What do you have in mind? I think the target audience would be you and I essentially like, well, me specifically, but like young, well, eventually you hopefully, but like fatherhood, eventually time and hopefully, I think ideally it would be a men who are Christians and wanting to start their own business or have their own business and our fathers. Like, you know, that's kind of the main idea behind table setters in general. But at the same time, like, I truly believe

that almost everyone, I wanna say everyone, but almost everyone should own their own business or can own their own business or like, I love the idea of people owning their own businesses. And so I'm like, just cause you don't own a business now doesn't mean you shouldn't listen kind of thing. Same with fatherhood. I'm like, I think such a calling on our lives is to be dads.

And so even if you're not a dad yet, you can listen. So it's like, and also it's like, you know, maybe a wife would listen and get something to then pass onto their husband. I don't know. So, but the ultimate, like if we have a target audience, it would be me basically. Cool.

Kind of thing. Great. Me and Will and our table setters group kind of thing that we've gone through, but we're still trying to figure it all out and yeah, I don't know. It's another one of those things where it's like, I'm glad that he's pushing it. Cause it's one of those things where it's like kind of

on the back burner for me. Not because I don't care. You have 75 tables to make. Once I get there, I care about everything I do. But so often, it's like, just get me in the room, and then I'm into it. You know what I mean? It's like, when I'm not physically

recording the podcast or thinking about the podcast with Will, I'm not thinking about it. You know what I mean? Compartmentalizing. Compartmentalizing, and yeah, just like, there's too many other things like vying for my attention right now. So, you know, when you're with your kids,

you're not like, let me think about this podcast and like brainstorm on how it could be better, you know? Yeah. So, Main Street Roasters, Main Street Ghosters. Put them together and what do you got? A sponsor of ours that sells coffee to people that love the Ghost Runners. Ooh, clever. Yes, dude. Main Street Roasters. Right? All right. All right.

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The nose is half the fun. Right. That's what we've always said. It's kind of a half and half situation. Yes. Both are fun, nose is half. And you know, Tymon, we could even say it's half the fun. Right. So we've always said it's kind of a half and half situation. Yes. Both are fun. No, it's just half. And you know, timing, we could even say it's half and half. That's a, that's a coffee. It related relates to coffee. I can't keep up with you guys. All gold. Wow. Wow. I'm, I'm way funnier than I even thought. Okay. So however we end up doing this

mainstream roasters ad, I think all three of those ideas are really good. What do you guys, do you guys want to pick one or just? The nose bag one was the most complex one. I think we might lose them on that. It was too confusing. We might lose them a little bit with the nose bags. Let's do yours. Yours rhymed. Okay. Listen to this. From the top.

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And my mom is officially finally retiring this year. And she told me a few weeks ago, and the very next day I had texted her like 10 different things that she should do with her time. Because I can't help but think that way. Like, oh, what a blessing. Now you have all this time. You gotta start something.

You're still young, you could do this. And my dad would give me a hard time. He's like, so you're pretty worried about mom, huh? You're afraid she's going to be pretty bored. I was like, nah, I think she'll just be, I don't know. Still got a lot of time. Yeah. Really? Figure something out. So that's exciting though, that she's retiring, I guess. Yeah. Right. Yeah. No, it is great. She, I think it was going to retire last year and just like, um, it was like, ah, you know, as people please her, like there wasn't really a good time to schedule a meeting. I'll do one more.

He's really stressed right now. I'll just work an entire other year. No problem. Have I told this to her in the podcast, Rachel dated a guy in college for a really long time to finally decided I'm going to break up with him. And it was the day Kobe Bryant died. She's like, well, I can't do it today. So she did it like next week.

And then dated him nine more months. My mom did the same thing with retirement basically. So she finally doing it. And yeah, I had the idea. I was like texting my sister. I was like, we should do some sort of, wait, when's this? Yeah, by the time this comes out. It's like, we should do some sort of wait, when's this? Yeah. By the time this comes out, it's like, we should do some sort

of retirement surprise party, something in Florida. I don't know. It's hard to plan something where you don't live, but we'll figure something out. So it's exciting. And yeah, we'll see what she comes up with. And yeah, also I, Rachel and I were just on a walk yesterday and you walk around kind of these like weird parts of Shawnee and some of these businesses. It's like, if that can be a business and they're paying rent and they have at least a building, we all should be starting businesses. You know, you just look at some of them

and you're like, that is so either gross or disgusting. Look at that font. Well, how are they open? You know, there's a place right by us. It's like, we sell records and toys. You know, it's like, and they, they're retre, they're taking up a pretty big building. It's like, surely we can sell some acai bowls, right?

If they could pay their rent. Yeah. I mean, we should all be doing our own business. For so many different reasons, I think we should, but like, yeah, a large part of it is like the freedom of doing your own thing versus having to worry about what somebody else values you at. Like, yeah, talking to somebody the other day and they're like, yeah,

I'm just kind of like, I'm getting more hours at work. Like they're wanting me to work more not, but they're not hourly workers. Like they're wanting me to work more, but they're not paying me anymore. And I don't really feel like I can go any higher in this job. And I'm like, that would be, that would be a rough feeling to just be like, so what do I do? Yeah. It'd be hard not to phone it in and just lose all interest in your job. Sure.

And then what kind of life is that? You know, like, I don't know. I just don't really care about my job. I don't really feel like I'm doing anything for the majority of my day or, you know, whatever. It's like, okay, that's a bummer. You know? I was thinking about this this morning and this is going to be now we're just doing

the tables headers podcast, but you know, you think about nothing about to say is it's all been said before, but I was like, man, I'm only 33 once and that's obvious, you know, but it's like, holy cow, I got to take advantage of this. Cause then I'm 34 and then I'm only 34 for like one year. And then I'm only 35 for one year. Not that I feel like I'm wasting my time,

but just like an encouragement, like, oh my gosh, we gotta, gotta get after it. We don't have that much time. We talked about it a little bit. It's about to be gone. Yeah, in this second episode, that was really good. And part of the thing that, I think Calvin said it the other day,

we were having like a table setters, kind of strategic meeting. I think it was Calvin. It doesn't matter. But like the idea of like, we are old enough now to where we have a little bit of experience, not obviously a ton. We're still young in a lot of ways, but like a little bit of experience. However, we are young enough to where we have enough energy to like go after it. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like it's like, and so it's like, we're kind of in this sweet spot right now in our thirties, as far as like, we aren't just like stupidly like, let's just do everything, you know, whatever. It's like, no, we've kind of learned some things along the way,

but also we're not so old and tired yet that it's like, I just don't want to do that. That's just sounds too hard. My knees hurt. Right. Kind of thing. Even though I said it was too hard to press record on a podcast for kids, you know, earlier, but yeah, but like, yeah, something like, like the sweet spot. And you can always probably justify that wherever you are in life is you are in the sweet spot in some way or another, you know? So yeah, I, I agree with what you're saying of like, Hey, yeah, this is, this time is fleeting. And so therefore it's like, go for it. You know, like, why

not go for it? Why not? Seriously, like, why not just live your life thinking like, Oh, we went for it. Like we tried. Yeah. And even if we didn't sell very many records and toys, at least we had the storefront. I had a real business there for like six months. Yeah. It was awesome. I had a door. But I mean, like, think about all the things that you learn, even if you do fail at something.

Like, I, that is a something I'm trying to remind myself with everything Bondi. Sure. I will, I will take whatever happens here and take it into my next business. I know I will. I've heard this, this term, have you heard of the gap in the game?

No. Dude, I like this one. I heard about it recently. There's a book called, I think it's called The Gap and the Gain. Basically what I think it means is right now, like let's say you're having a hard day or a hard time or whatever, you're focused on the gap, like the valley that you're in right now,

rather than like if you look at your life over a five year span or whatever, there is gain. You know, and whatever, you can call it like the dip or whatever, whatever, stock market. Like, oh, we have a small dip right now, but over time it does continue to go up or whatever it is. Like, and so like, rather than being like, yeah, you know, life is really hard right now.

We're kind of cash poor. We don't have money to spend on this or whatever. We're having a burst pipe in our house or whatever it is. Like we're in the gap right now, but it's like, yeah, but overall think about what your life was like when you graduated college versus what it's like now. Like you are, you are progressing in life. It's just feels like you're having a small setback right now. Kind of thing.

Rachel always tells me that I have an abundance mindset And I never heard that term before six months ago. Okay. Yeah, I slipped it up So I could actually define it since she's not here. It's a belief that there are enough resources opportunities and possibilities for everyone Yeah, I think that's all yeah, no matter how bad it is. It's like hey at least we're in America. Dude That's what I'm gonna be way worse That's why I think everyone should start their own business Like I think if if someone had a scarcity mindset, it's like, dude, I can't tell somebody else

to start a woodworking business or else there's going to be not enough people wanting tables. It's like, no, no, no. There's plenty of people that want tables. There's plenty of people who want pickleball paddle. You could literally, like, that's Bethke's whole thing, his abundance mindset of like, he can tell you exactly what he's done in all of his businesses because he's like,

I'm just confident that you can do it too. Like there's enough to go around. Yeah, it's not like every single person is tapped right now, you know, like. Yeah. Yeah, if a thousand new people buy or start pickleball companies, then yeah, maybe eventually.

It's a good time to do it. You're important from China, I'd recommend it. Yeah, but. Timon, if you had to start a business tomorrow, you had no other income. You couldn't work for Friday. You're not going to work for Ghost Runners. Not your, I was going to say drone license. You could actually do the drone license, but no other income. You have to start a new business. What would it be? A new business. Like as in, I guess I would just be finding new people to do videos for,

right? Is that kind of a bit, I think I would just like really start networking and like shooting my shot with people. I think no, you kind of already do that though. Give us a new one. Okay. Industry. Okay. Well, I do like the drone idea because like I could do that now, but sort of do business

tomorrow. I don't know. What else am I? Am I good at anything else? Lighting guy. Yeah. Maybe I just, I don't know. What else am I? Am I good at anything else? Lighting guy. Yeah. Maybe I just, I don't know. Maybe I would try to make content.

I don't know. Like maybe I would use that and just like, it would be kind of a slow burn. Like it wouldn't be like I'm super quick back to making money. I feel like, but I think I could try to like, yeah, start doing YouTube and Instagram and then like try to get sponsorships or something. I don't know. Dude, you know what business I'm intrigued by?

I recently had to get a dumpster, like one of those like driveway dumpsters. Oh yeah. Like when you're moving or something. Dude, uh, $400 for a week with that thing. All they do is drop it off and pick it up. I'm like, what? And like, I like looked around cause I was like, that's a lot. That's how much all of them are.

And I'm like, what in the world? How do I get into that? Like, just like those things got to be so cheap to like buy, transport them, just get a truck, rent a truck for that. I'm looking into it. Not really. But like, I got one in my backyard. Every time I like look at something, I'm like, that's so easy. All you do is pick that up and go dump it somewhere. I don't know. I don't know what the economics on something like that are.

He's got to get a fleet of dumpsters. Just some sort of truck to drop them off, pick them up. Yeah. Yeah, I saw some, was it some boring business the other day? It's like, that is the most boring thing I've ever seen. I bet they crush it. Literally, like those guys, sometimes the most boring ones are the best ones.

A lot of these tennis clubs, they put up bubbles in the winter time. I'm like, I bet some company has a monopoly on that. I bet they do all the bubbles. Yeah, the bubble guys. Someone needs to come in and shake up the tennis bubble industry. Purely speculating, but it just feels like one guy does them all probably.

Break the plastic ceiling on this. Yeah. I know they're like, once you start looking at life, like everything is a business. So it's like, how do those people make money? Oh, you know, you see like a car drive by, you're like, is there any, is there any business or any money in that pest control? Like, should I do that? Yeah. You know, like, like, okay. Lawn care. How hard would that be? Hire out some boys to see. Maybe I just do my smell. I don't know. I just like fully 180. Just like the type of thing. You just do a bunch of mowing and then I could promote my stuff

with like high quality. I can, you know, film and edit it well and like. Yeah. There's a guy on. Yeah, I can mow. Socials who will do like lawn renovations kind of like power wash your sidewalk and edge. Those are great videos. Yeah. And he's got a great formula.

He'll go up to like the nastiest house you've ever seen and like, can I redo your lawn for free? I sure. Yeah. Yeah. And then I guess he just gets a ton of business from people who live locally. All right, so time to start a lawn business. Yeah. Yeah. And then I guess he just gets a ton of business from people who live locally. All right. So Tom is starting a lawn business. Yeah. Tomorrow. Impsh's edging. Impsh's, Timon's

turnips. Yep. Timon's turnips. And they'll be like, why do you call them that? It's like, I don't know. Sounds good. I don't know. We're just vibing. All right. Anything else on your guys mind? Anything else you want to get off your chest? Not off of my chest off of any other body part. Yeah. I'll get something on my fingers here. Okay. No. Okay. This is a dumb thing. I wrote down, uh, after getting home from like all those filming days of the movie and also a couple of days, a couple of nights in a row of staying at Zach's house because like not necessarily he's not much closer but it's just like a place we can carpool together you know it's just fun but I so I got home to my house like everyone was gone doing

something else the house was empty I just got like just did this dumb to myself I have no idea why I was like, it's good to be back home. I was like, I was suddenly in like a super cheesy movie. I think I was like, I think I even like walked, and I was like, man, this place hasn't changed a bit since it's been gone. You said it out loud. I did, yeah. I don't know why. That said it out loud. I did. Yeah.

Oh, that's so funny. The still baking those brownies. Yeah. Yep. Evergreen falls. That's so funny. The already accessing that like really weird part of your brain by yourself. Yeah. It was a strange moment. It was funny though. It's good to be home. That's so good Why did you do that? Why not? How often do you do that? You're in the car? I think that's the first time I've done something like that Wow It might have been the hallmark influence. It could have been yeah Yeah Not so bad, huh

Good for you, Tyron. I've missed this place. That's great. This place is like a home to me. Which is beautiful. Last thing I'll mention, just because it might build into a story next week. So like I somewhat already mentioned,

I'm going to play in two pickleball tournaments this Saturday, one of them with Isaac. The other one is like, it's technically a men's tournament, but the rules are just like, all right, if your duper is 8.5 or below between the two of you, like you could play in it. So I was like, hey, technically me and our friend Molly,

like we are below 8.5. How fun would that be? It'd be great content. I entered her into a men's tournament. Can I carry her in a men's tournament? Something like that. We know we're not doing anything illegal or unfair. We've been signed up for four weeks.

The tournament director calls me like two days ago and was like, hey, I just noticed that you're playing with a girl. Didn't you ask? And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I don't think I asked, but you know. Oh, I thought you said you asked. I don't think so, but no one had said anything.

I figured they just knew I'd been signed up for three, four weeks. And I was like, yeah, yeah, I know. He's like, well signed up for three, four weeks. And I was like, yeah, I know. He's like, well, it's a men's tournament. And I was like, yeah, I thought it'd be fun. We're kind of the underdogs and let's just see how it goes. And he was just like, well, I think we're just going to have to refund you the money.

And I was like, why is it so hard to sign up for tournaments? Why do I keep running into this issue? And so I fought for us a little bit. And he was like, well, the problem is like a month ago, this guy asked me if he could play with his wife. And I told him no. Oh. And he's like, so what do you think I should do?

I was like, sounds like you shouldn't have told that guy. No, I mean, it's up to you. I don't know what you want to do about it. And I was like, I just, from my perspective, we're not doing anything unfair. We don't have any kind of advantage. She's a 3.8 girl. Like, how does it look if you don't want her

competing in your men's tournament? He's like, I know. The thing is, it's not like you're gonna win it, so maybe we just let you in it. And when he said that, I was like, you know, I wasn't too competitive going into this, but when he said, it's not like you're gonna win it, I texted Molly and I said, we have to like you're gonna win it, I texted Molly

and I said, we have to win this tournament. So we'll see, that stage is set. He got back to me and he said, I am gonna let you play in it, and I'm choosing to remember, he said, I mean, obviously it's not like you're gonna win the whole tournament. So like Molly, we have to kick it in gear.

We will win. So we'll see. That's great. We'll see. Technically, it'll be kind of interesting. I have the highest rating of anyone playing, I have the highest rating of anyone playing. Molly has the lowest rating of anyone playing. OK.

So who knows what that will be like. OK. Who knows? Sweet man. So next week, I'll talk about it. I'll be back with some Florida stories, pickleball stories. Tariff's probably gone up 200% by next week. And we'll talk about that too.

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to this podcast and teaching us so many super cool facts. That's a great, that was well worded, your unique sparkle. Yeah. Mine is similar from Mike Harris. Ghostbusters is in great hands when the boys retire. Hattie will take over. Just give her some LaCroix and she'll be set. Love it, dude.

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