Ghostrunners - 440 - Hiccups From Laughter

Episode Date: June 2, 2025

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Happy Monday, ghosties out there. Happy Monday, happy June. Happy Pride Month. Hey, Pride Month episode. Pride Month. Your voice is struggling. And you know, that's something I want to get into because I, holy cow, holy cow. It was not struggling that much two seconds ago. Is, I think I have maybe too much pride in where my voice can get me in life. You know, I talk on the microphone, I talk in podcast studios, and I'm realizing now, as I lose my voice, check your pride.

So maybe you're thinking like, yeah, like Pride Month. That's what this is all about. Biologically, that's the pride made you lose your voice. I didn't choose this. No. I was born with weak throat. So that's how you're celebrating Pride month is losing your voice.

Is losing my voice and also. So that others can gain theirs. Check. Is that so generic? So the words right out of my voice box. Yeah. How are you celebrating Pride month? You know, I struggle

with pride. No, I love pride. He wants to pride. But honestly, I love it too much. I'm prideful. You're prideful about your pride. Exactly. I'm like, I'm the most prideful of all the priders. I'm a pride pride pride holic. If they had a pride parade, all you'd be, you'd be in the front. Brother, every parade's a pride parade for me. I'm proud of, I'm macro proud of everything. I'm micro proud. I'm macro, I'm United States proud. Kansas proud.

Kansas City, more proud. Shawnee, proud. Oh, I was about to say our address. No, of course not. Proud of our, proud of the house we built. Yeah. Yeah, my family, proud. I just have too much pride so I just need to celebrate all my pride without

Struggling through my pride this month. Yes So I mean you guys you joke, you know you jest about About pride month. I just I don't know. I just want just wanna kinda like switch the tone a little bit. I... Oh, no, this is just a joking, we're just just doing a bit. Jake's pretending to have his voice struggle. No, I understand. I just, I think that I just have something,

just kind of in the theme of the conversation to kind of get off that chair. I just try, it's a comedy podcast time, and we talked about this briefly. It feels like we're not on the same theme. Yeah. No, I think if like, I think if you guys know that the ghosties as a whole should know it's just a joke At the same you don't stop the pot if you want. I don't need to say it's all the ghosties at once

No, I think this is this is the platform and this is when I'm gonna Yeah, you know, you know what? I've been thinking about this for a long time. Here goes. I'm just gonna kind of for a long time. Here goes. I'm just going to kind of, um, so a pride is a social group or family unit of lions living together in a specific territory. We don't talk, we don't talk about it enough. Man. I thought you were going to tell us about the conversation we had a couple of minutes ago about you being gay. Uh oh. Ooh, I think this type means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet cause it's the Ghost from

the Sparkans. But Jake and Grandpa's fun game Go for a vodka? We're back here. This could be an issue actually, Jake. You were squeaking like a seventh grade boy just then. I just have to find like the right, I don't know if it's a speed thing or just the right pitch. Right, the right, yeah, like zone. You can't go too high or too low. I can't get too excited. I gotta stay calm man

Stay cool. Stay cool, baby. Stay prideful. Good boy. Yeah, I think if I go deeper, it's it's good. It's good It's good. It's good. It's good for your voice. Let's just be a deep podcast today That being said time and feel free to talk plenty this episode to cover for me. What'd you guys do moral day weekend? time I Took me and Jesse took a last-minute trip to Fort Scott for fun see church people. All right It was like that's a sit town and kids. Yes our away from our south from where we live And it was like Saturday night. We were at like a church potluck and Jesse's like, we should just go to Fort Scott for church tomorrow. I was like, that'd be kind of fun.

And then we have these two friends from like burn Kansas, which is like Northwest kind of just like two hours away from us. Okay. What are their names? Cole and Weston. Cole from burn. Yeah. Coal and asher. That's crazy. First of all, never heard of this town. So they're like probably founding members. I don't think they had any stoplight. Like it's very, very small. Timber lives there.

Who else? Branch. Branch. Matchstick. Kindling. Kindling. Yeah. But so they, they like, we all have like, you know, mutual friends in Fort Scott. Yeah.

Jess is like, shoot them a text. See if they want to come like the next morning, last minute. And they were down. So it was just a fun trip. They like picked us up on the way. And we were there. Yeah. Sunday morning through like Monday afternoon. It was a lot of fun. That's fun. Wow. You ever explored the fort in Fort Scott? No, I mean, you pass it every time you go into the town,

but I've never actually been there. Not to be missed. It's pretty fun. Okay. Yeah, what is it? Is this like World War II? Good question. Civil War? Man.

Ravo? That's the kind of stuff, I don't know why, but my brain, it's as in one year out, the other kind of stuff for me, honestly. Like I've read the plaques and like, like for whatever reason, I really struggle understanding and like, uh, like internalizing or not like whatever, like consuming history. Like, it's gotta be civil war, right? Like it, it's older than World War II. I don't think they're having forts in Kansas for the civil. I don't know if Kansas was super involved in World War two I don't think there was big forts like we need a fort in the middle of this country for World War two

So it's gotta be farmers. It's gotta be Civil War. I mean, I should know more than you to it though I feel like I've been there decent amount but I I'm clueless I mean, I've been to that fort probably four times. Oh, OK. OK. Four Scott. Four Scott, yeah. For whatever reason, it was always like, oh, let's stop in Fort Scott for a nice little break, either down to Texas or on the way back from Texas.

And it's like, Fort Scott's not that far. It's like, let's just power through. We don't need a break at this point. Yeah. But yeah, we've stopped there. And you can run around the fort and and go inside like those buildings and stuff It's kind of cool. That's cool Civil War era gotta be the fort was initially established by the US Army to protect settlers from Native American attacks

But it served as a key location during the bleeding Kansas period. All right. There you go. I don't know about that Bleeding Kansas. Yeah big fight There you go. I don't know about that. Bleeding Kansas. Yeah. Big fight. Once again should know more. I know it's civil war for sure.

It's definitely like a big aspect of Kansas and Missouri, like hatred towards each other, I think back in the day. I think that's where it all started. But okay, I don't know. I'm embarrassed to not know more. Catherine was like, when we first got to know each other and stuff, she was amazed with how much I didn't know about the history of Kansas.

Cause like, we did take, did you guys do like a, or a Missouri history unit in like school growing up? We might've, I don't remember it though. I don't think we did. Cause you know, Texas, of course it's like ingrained, like they tattooed on the back of all their kids. Like they love it. They love it. And so she knows everything about Sam Houston, Sam they tattoo it on the back of all their kids. Like they love it. They love it.

And so she knows everything about Sam Houston, Sam Bowie, all the Sams. Yeah. Stephen F. Austin, Jim Bowie, Sam Bowie. I don't know. Yeah. John Belushi, John Booshi. Yeah. Uh, all the Beyonce, you know, from Texas, Kelly Clarkson. Uh, they know all the history of the singers. Oh, wow. They did teach them a lot. Wow. Yeah, that's big time. And she kept asking me questions. I'm like, I don't know. John Brown's a big thing, but don't know much about him. He's got the big mural with the Bible and the gun. You know that?

No. Sorry, I shouldn't say that on YouTube. The G-U after M. Unaliving tool. Yeah. My Memorial day was fun. We, the weekend itself wasn't anything crazy. But then Memorial day, like the actual day, if you remember last year, we had a bunch of people over, it was so much fun. And so we were really hopeful we're going to be able to do that again. But the forecast kept looking like it was going to rain. And so we kept kind of waiting, like maybe, you know, the forecast five days out, you're always like hopeful that it's just going to change all of

a sudden, but it kept being soggy and nasty and rainy or whatever. So we're like, I don't think our house is not good for hosting people inside for sog, not a soggy house. We've always said that. Unfortunately, that's one of our house rules is like, we are not a soggy house. And so we are serial right away and we don't host people on Memorial David Reigns. So that's what we've always said. Uh, and so we did host actually one family. So we hosted just Tate's family. Tate also has four kids and, uh, they're like right around the same ages. Like, I feel like they're like six months behind us on every kid more or less.

Uh, and so Bo even pointed out, he's like, every single one of us has a, I forget, I don't think he said a special friend, but like something like a matching friend, they even, their mom is even, they have a mom just like we have a mom, you know, every one of us has a special friend, just like Mr. Timon does. Just like Mr. Timon got picked up by those two guys from nowhere, Kansas, three years old. And so we had them over and it was rainy and chaotic. And it was so much fun. Like the kids are there. So there's eight kids running around our small house and it's

raining. And one of the kids is like, I want to go outside and play in the rain. And I think Hattie then was like, yeah, let's go play in the rain. And then all of a sudden all like six of the eight, you know, we have two little babies, but six of the eight kids are just out there running around the rain, having, it was like a perfect, like it wasn't pouring down rain.

It was just like a steady rain. Like if you looked at the radar, it was green. Yeah. Like if you squint, you're like, oh, it is raining outside. But it wasn't like obviously pouring down. But like by the end of it, they have grass clippings all over their feet. And they got, you know, bows drenched and, you know, all this stuff.

And they're running all around. They got mud on their shoes or mud on their feet and all this stuff. It was just like childhood. It was just like, that's awesome. And it was like, and the whole time, I was grilling chicken wings from good ranchers, never had them before, never done them before.

And so I was coming in and out of like using the grill, like while it's raining. And it was taking a lot longer than I thought. And I was, I would have been stressed if they were in the house, just like screaming and stuff, but they were just having a blast. Yeah. Your shirt was off. I mean, it's, it's hard to be stressed when your shirt's off. You can't, yeah.

When nips are out, you know, so are your stresses. So, uh, I always like to imagine that every time you're grilling, it's when your shirt's off. Yeah, when nips are out, so are your stresses. I always like to imagine that every time you're grilling, it's like your shirt's off. Your shirt's off and you're having two beers in your hand. And all of a sudden, you have a hairy chest. Like, I don't have a hairy chest any other time when I grill. But it was awesome.

Anyway, it was just so fun. They brought dessert, and so they brought ice cream sandwiches and just classic. How often do you have an ice cream sandwich these days? Very rarely. Man, one of the best things in the world though. Like when you get them, I don't know what that material is for those like cookies of the sandwich,

but you don't experience that anywhere else but an ice cream sandwich. Yeah. You don't talk about it, that's a good point. Oh yeah, that was one of the first like, I remember always telling myself, you know when I have a house I'm gonna like always be stocked with ice cream sandwiches And I only did like get them once but like that was like in my first Walmart run for the apartment I got a little box. Yeah, that was me with chocolate milk. It was like the second I got to college

It's like life's too short to not have chocolate milk in a fridge at all times. Like we gotta have this I can afford it Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so ice have this. I can afford it. Yeah. Yeah. So ice cream sandwiches, I mean, like after they left, we found an ice cream sandwich, like glob and had his bed. No problem. We were just having a blast, man. It was so fun. It was just fun to be with another family that like their

kids all got along with our kids. It wasn't, it was rowdy, but it wasn't like so rowdy, you know, like it was like, yeah, we had ice cream sandwich in the bed, but it wasn't like, rowdy, you know, like it was like, yeah, we had ice cream sandwich in the bed, but it wasn't like they were just disrespecting us and doing that. It was just like, they're just kids being kids and have a little in bed. Yeah. You know, it just, it melted because they didn't need it fast enough. And so it just globbed onto the bed. So anyway, it was just a really sweet time with them. And beyond that, oh, and early

in the day, we went to my parents' house and had breakfast over there, which was great. And what kind of breakfast food? King of breakfast. Thank you. We had, have you ever heard of omelets in a bag? Probably not because you're not a naked guy. Oh, Tyman, you heard of him? Never.

You know, normal days, right? Yeah. So like, I think my mom would just, she just, I've done this a few different times. Like it wasn't like a tradition to my family or anything, but I think on like vacations and stuff, we've done it before, but she's had a big pot of boiling water. And then you just take Ziploc bags

and you throw a couple eggs in there and then any ingredients you want in your omelet. And you like, and you, and you, yeah. And you, you tighten up the Ziploc bag and then you just like smash up the eggs and all the ingredients. And then you just put it in the boiling water and after like 15 minutes you take it out and it's an omelet.

And Ziploc can survive boiling water? Apparently. I'm sure the microplastics are running wild. The crunchy moms love listening to this. Catherine, Catherine, you know, no, she didn't say anything, but I'm just like, she was just, okay, I'm eating like half of a bag here. We can do this once. You know, you hear like you eat

16 credit cards every year. It's like, well, that's 17 right there. You know, 16 credit cards, but we had an omelets in a bag. I got points for them. What's the kickback? Yeah. Right. You get triple points. If you have an omelet in the bag. We had that we had some granola parfaits. We had a sausage balls. my sister brought some sausage balls that Rosie kept calling them meatballs, which is kind of funny. I want another meatball. And then Catherine made unsifted lemon blueberry

poppy seed muffins. They were nice. They were nice. Oh, and then my mom had pancakes. It was a feast. It was a great time. I have a breakfast word to ask you about. Okay.

Have you ever heard of, wait, Rachel, are you still out there? What? How do you pronounce that breakfast food that Sid and his wife are always making? Able skeever. Dude, I love evil skeevers. Oh, baby!

Who's Sid? He's this- Sid Childers. No, Sid Hayes. Man, I would have loved it if it was Sid and Childers. You know another Sid who makes able skeevers? No, I just knew that you've been to camp. I was like, what if your friends was Sid? Cause he is a camp guy. I think it's like a, it's a German food, maybe a Danish food. Don't know the country of origin, but I can tell you. Have you had them? Did you have them with Sid? Oh yeah.

I had them all the time growing up and then Jake got to have them with Sid who was a pickleball farmer in Iowa. A pickleball farmer is a funny way of describing it. Oh you okay. So you had them all the time growing up at Sid's house. At our house. Oh sorry. And then Jake came one time to make pickleball in Sid's barn and his wife always makes something

for his breakfast and he made all those fevers. Oh my gosh. And then Jake came one time to take a ball in Sid's barn, and his wife always makes something. Okay. It's early in her breakfast. Yes. And he made Abel skeevers. Oh my gosh. Abel skeevers. Yeah, so I've heard them pronounced a few different ways,

probably because my dad keeps pronouncing them, and he's like the least foreign person in the world when it comes to words. So I've heard Abel skeevers, evil skeevers. Abel is funny. Yeah, how do you say it? I've heard Abel. Abel, okay. It's spelled A-E-B. I had a tough time Googling it, because I was like, how do you say it? I've heard obel or abel. Obel, okay.

It's spelled A-E-B. I had a tough time Googling it, because I was like, how? Oh, is it really? A-E-B. Okay, so my, have you heard of them, Timon? No. My experience with them.

Really? You didn't have them, right? If you don't like them, Jake. You like them. Okay, here's my definition of them, and they might, maybe you guys have different variations, but there's no way Jake wouldn't have liked these. Right, right, he's my definition of them. And they might, maybe it's, maybe you guys have different variations, but there's no way Jake wouldn't have liked these. So once a year, once a year, the Elrich's from my, my, my family. Okay. Here's, here's all the background.

So my parents were best friends with, they call, they call it the beef group. There was the Blatchley's, the Ellis's, the Elrich's, the elders, and then it was a food group. B-E-E-F group. So they would like meet like once a month and like either have people over to the house or go out together or whatever, beef group. So the Elrich's once a year hosted anybody they knew for Apple skewers, whatever you would call it, once a year for breakfast. And it was these, I mean, it was like pretty,

like labor intensive things, like they make these little like donut pancake ball looking things. And then at every single table, like they'd bring them out to you or whatever, and every single table they had butter you dip it in. You do this? I think we had some like-

They had jam. Yeah, some jam. Okay, see we didn't have jam. So what they would always do is they would dip it in? You do this? I think we had some like a jam. Yeah. Okay. See we didn't have jam. So what they would always do is they would dip it in butter and then the butter acted as like a little bit of a coagulant. I don't know if that's the right word, a paste. It helped. Then you take you dip it in the butter and then you dip it in white sugar. Like you dip it in sugar. Holy cow. It's like a powdered donut kind of thing. And you eat it and it is unbelievable. It was, it was like one of my favorite days of the year, every year. It was like, I don't know if it was summertime maybe, or I don't know, but it,

but it was like one of those things where it was like, this is hard enough to do that. I don't think they're doing it very often. Like did you guys, like it was kind of like a, yeah, intense thing, but, Oh man, I would love, I would love cause they, they moved to Florida. And so we haven't had it in a while. I think Catherine's had it once. Um, but yeah, man, it was awesome. And they always had sausage, like the patties of sausage too. That was the only time I ever really had those. Yeah. And just as much orange juice as you can imagine.

And back then I thought orange juice was good for you. So I was just going to town on the orange. Get it while you can. Yeah. So that's funny. Yeah. Anytime I am playing pickleball in Iowa, it's probably at Sid's barn because he took, well, as far as the government knows, this is where he keeps his seed or something.

But he does. There's probably some seed in there. He does. He keeps like two bags of sea. It's an ag building. But he just like made this building just for an indoor pickleball court. It's cool. And it's great.

And so yeah, there's been one or two times where it's like, because anytime I play, I'm like, I'll text his son, Dustin, like, Hey, I'm in town this weekend. You want to play? And he's like, Oh yeah, we can do it. Five 30 Sunday. Okay. Okay. PM. And so it's always crazy early. It's all I've never driven there in the daylight. Yeah. And every now and then yes. His wife will have oval skewers for us. That's fun. That's so fun. Yeah. They're a great family. Did you figure out where they're from? Like what the country Danish, Danish, Denmark, got it.

Danish, Danish. That's so fun. Wow. What a trip down memory lane. My family's going to love that. Oh, a pan. Yeah, that's right. They had to have their own like pans and everything. Yeah. Rachel, I would love it. I would love it. It'd be great tea, by the way. Good tea. Good tea. Good tea. Anyway. Good tea. How was your Memorial Day weekend, Jay? Great, we went down to Branson, and it was awesome. It was, I don't think I did a good job of writing down

everything that happened, but the first night got like rained out, so we just went to the Civo Gym. Who's the wind? Instead of anything, K. Instead of anything, like everyone was like, hey, it's raining, go to the gym. And we went upstairs to try and get some food before we get to the food. Like we get stopped and then we stayed in that spot for three hours.

Like never, never even got to the food. Just like more people coming up, coming up. Friday night was actually crazy. I mean, as far as like, like Rachel and I just couldn't blame it. Where like it feels like we're at one of my shows. It feels like we're in the lobby of one of my shows. Where like every single person here just saw me perform or something.

It was just, it was very, just like the amount of people who knew who I was, I was not expecting. That you didn't know. Yeah, but it was really cool. I wrote down their names, Evan, Halle, and Liza. And that's just three people who I personally talked to are all at camp because of the podcast.

What? Yes. So that happens like when I first get there, like I meet Liza and she's like, hey, I gotta go run and do something. I just wanna introduce myself to you. I listen to Ghost Runners. I never heard of Canna Cuck before the podcast.

And now I'm here working at K-Kawaii. Wow. Like that's crazy. And then, you know, some guy would come up and say, Hey, Friday Pickleball, what are you doing here? And then some other counselor will come up and like, dude, are you a stand up comedian? It was like one of everything. I was like, are they messing with me? By like the fifth time I said, are you messing with me? It was like Weston Weeby is like messing with like, hey, go up there. Yeah. Because this guy, L.M. We bought a limo, dude. And this I'm skipping ahead, but it was like two hours into it. And I'd heard one of everything. And then one guy came up and he said his name was Branson.

And he was like, you're a comedian, right? And I was like, you're messing with me. Your name's not Branson. You can't live here if your name's Branson. You don't recognize me, but they all seem legit. And then, yeah, Evan would come up and be like, hey dude, yeah, I just want to say hello. I listened to the podcast and I'm here because of-

That's crazy. So at least three people, and that's just KKWY staff. So who knows the other- Really? Camps, how many more people are there? Was KWY staff working there? They were like working the Friday night thing. Because I guess is staff training week

already happening right now? It's happening. Oh. While we were there. I see. Oh, that's crazy, dude. That's so cool. So alumni weekend's happening, while staff training's happening, it were there. I see. Oh, that's crazy, dude. That's so alumni weekends happening while step trainings happening It was kind of that's right. But Yeah, that I didn't think about that was like how did they do that?

Because you're supposed to like go the next day you went to the camps and I was like, okay I guess staff training weeks not happening yet, but it is happening. Yeah when we actually went to K was that morning They were doing like activity training like co training and stuff. So like we saw them do like deep water rescues with the canoes. Not jealous of that. The one. Wait, which one is that? Is that the one where you just have to like trudge in like like if somebody's like drowned in the water? I don't know. Drowned. We didn't do drowning protocol.

I think if they drown, it was like just call their parents. Like, ah, what can you do? Now there was one where you had to like, it was like maybe like shallow water. I know what you're talking about. It was like you, they would hide a tire and you have to like be armed arm, like you're searching for like a kid. Right.

I see what you're saying. Yes. This was canoe specific. Okay. This is like, we flipped our canoe in deep water. Gotcha. Oh my gosh. That was, I was talking to Katherine about that the other day.

Because how he's going to camp, you know, on Saturday. And I was like, that was my nightmare was was canoe like flipping a canoe in the middle of the lake with these six year old kids like I'm not getting back in that canoe by myself. Not enough counterweight. I was like, we're we're pushing that thing to the shore. I don't care, I don't care. And you get a Doc Daddy to bring you in, then you get a free ride, that's fun.

And I could probably get the kids in there, and then I think I would just, yeah, I'd just doggy paddle along with it the rest of the way. And these kids, I don't know, those canoes felt like they were really, really unstable back in the day. You have no weight in it, it's tough. Like at staff training week, I think I did tip a canoe

with one of my friends because he barely moved one way and I wasn't ready for it. And so these kids, I was stressed the entire time with these little six graders or six year olds just standing up or looking out, oh, there's something over here. And I'm like, stop, stop, stop. Sinner your mass.

And they don't know how to paddle, so you're paddling the entire time. Anyway, so. So they're doing staff training during the day, and then at night, they did like their all staff day with us, we all went to the same place. Oh, interesting, at K2? Or where'd they go?

I think it was supposed to be at K Country. Maybe K Quiet, either way, rained again, so it got moved to like a theater in Branson. Interesting, a theater inside Branson. Interesting. A theater inside. Theater, yeah. My sister gave me a hard time for the way I say theater. I noticed it too.

There's like no A in it. That's what she said. She's like, you sound like a hillbilly. I'm like, I do. I think that's a two syllable word for me. Is that you're rhyming it with like skater. Yeah, a hundred percent I do. And she's like, that's not how you say it.

She's like, we grew up in the same house. You don't say theater. I was like, that's how I say theater How do you say it time theater time? Got a little a in there theater? Yeah Timon says it proper Yeah, oh see a proper show so I say it I say it wrong see a proper show. So I say it, I say it wrong. Edward scissor hands. Perhaps out of all the shows, I thought it was just a movie. It's definitely just a movie. They should make it into a musical. Oh, I was pictured. Yes. Picture in stage. There is in the office. Do they not? Scissor hands. Scissor hands. Sweeney Todd. Dang. That is a show. Johnny Depp. Is that why I'm connecting them? It's all theater to me.

The theater. Johnny Depp. That's the connection then. I think somebody's going to be like, you idiot. So embarrassing. He's in both. I can't believe I said it. You guys coming to my theater in two weekends?

Totally. It's on my calendar. Totally. Rhyme me when it is, Tyman. June 6th and 7th. Sound of music. Show up. Show up. Show out, boys.

Actually, yeah, you should. I think it'll be it'll be fun. It'll be better than I think sense and sensibility. I think it'll be I think it'll be a step up. That the camp is 7th is Eid Al Aida. You say that weird, dude. That was weird, dude. You're missing it.

Talk. Don't talk like a hillbilly when you say it say it normal listen the exact date of this holiday is difficult to predict Precisely by notes say what is this? Somebody look up I'll look it up Alright time what time on the 7th? Yeah pitch us great question I think and the ghost I think on both of those days. There's an afternoon evening I'm guessing it's like 2 30 and 7 I get that type of range for shows for shows total. Yeah And one of the bigger venues we're doing so like oh Yeah, we need to sell some tickets decent theater

Wait, what is that like give us the actual like rundown so ghosties can like feel invited if you want them What no yes, absolutely theater with it's at Avila University, Goppert Theater. Avila University. Goppert? Goppert. I believe is what it's called. Goppah? Yeah, no, it's-

The Goppah! Oh, that's good size theater. You can get tickets at greenleafstudio.org. Please show up and it'll be fun. Yeah, I mean, hopefully I can talk to you after. If you like a random person showed up. That'll be awesome Yeah, how many seats is it? It's I've got to get least it might be 400. Okay? ish But yeah, it's like a fun 450 kind of like half circle stage, which is cool

The guy yeah cool, okay Yep, it's not music. Yeah, I want come. See me play a 14 year old boy? How do you... Oh, that's nice. Yeah, not that far off, buddy. Yeah, how do you... I'm picking her up from camp on the sixth. So, seventh maybe?

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All right, so more about Branson So yeah a lot of rain apparently yeah rain the whole time yeah But it I shouldn't say the whole time, but it didn't completely run the week or anything like It was great. I just saw so many people that I wanted to see their Weston, who is known on this podcast as Dean Weeby. Yes. It was funny. He was like, he's like, first of all, I just got to say like, I've, I'm not a Dean. I've never been a Dean. You got to stop calling me Dean Weeby. It's just like, it's just like Dean Ellis. Like, it's Dean Weeby. It's just like Dean Ellis. It's Dean Weeby. We have two fake Deans on this podcast.

He was like, at the same time, if someone calls me Dean Weeby, I know that they are a podcast listener. So he's like, it's kind of nice. It's like, I don't know this person. Why do they know me? Oh, they called me Dean. Okay, they listen to the podcast. Dean Weeby.

Dean Weeby does sound just good. I think you should pursue a deanship. He's not already. And so he was like, it is kind of fun because if they call me Dean Weeby. Dean Weeby does sound just good. I think you should pursue a deanship. He's not already. And so he was like, it is kind of fun because if they call me Dean Weeby, then I'm like, Hey, what's going on with Jake? Right? Like you're, you're in touch. But turns out I didn't know what he's like, uh, six. What is your title? He's like, Oh, I just help out with like some, you know, so I'm like, just tell me like, what are you? He's the CFO of, Oh, that'll do. The entire university. Yeah. I was like, just tell me, like what are, he's the CFO of the entire university. I was like, oh sorry, I called you the dean.

Yeah, right. Yeah, what is the ranking of, I mean, CFO's gotta be higher than dean. It feels like one of the top VPs of a organization. Do they have deans of the deans? Sub dean. There's like a dean of students. That's, dean of students is the one who I got on performing

He goes whoa, I think we need to get on our knees and pray Because of how thankful you are that Jake came right Still here dude. I can hear you. Yeah, you're talking in a microphone. Yeah, that's one thing if you sent an email afterwards I Can hear you Also, you're fine. Yeah, they're fine. So I think it goes in presence number one Who knew there was even a CFO? I go president you think president. Maybe there's a CEO, right? Is that different than the president and who's the owner? Who's the yeah, who's the operator? Yeah, who's the founder? Maybe mr. Ozark mr. Ozarks. That's pretty cool though Okay, so CFO we be CFO. We be doesn't know Dean Weevy

That's good CFO CFO, maybe that's just what he said I work at CFO and I was like dude, you're a CFO That's amazing. Yeah, what if yeah, I've got his title wrong this time, too. Oh, I'm not a CFO dude. That's insane I said I work at C. Here's a terrible listener I've got his title wrong this time too. Oh, I'm not a CFO, dude, that's insane. I said I work at CFO. You're just a terrible listener. I don't know what he is. That's fine. But I got to see Mike Weeby, I hadn't seen in a while,

AJ Weeby, who's got two kids now, you know, so that part was fun, just catching up with people. And I can't keep track of all of the weebs. I know it's tough for Rachel, not only is she thrown in this whole world, but everyone's got the same last name. And I don't know who's brothers and who's cousins and who's uncles and yeah, who's who.

Is AJ funny? Was he a programs guy? He did programs with me one year. Yeah. The only person I've ever known to go head of maintenance, programs, back to head of maintenance. He's like, I'm more of a maintenance guy. I didn't really like the mic in my hand.

I'd rather have a weed eater. Yeah, right. That's amazing. So yeah, we were laughing about that. And it was just good to see Ward too, who's the director of K-West. And I mean, right away he was like, Jake, it's good to see how she's doing staff training stuff

yesterday. I gave the staff probably 10 things what not to do. And I swear, eight of them were things you'd done. And not like things I purposely did wrong. Like, I think I've talked about, like, I got electroc them were things you'd done. And not like things I purposely did wrong. Like I think I've talked about like I got electrocuted before I could camp. And so he was like, I told them how that happened and how not to do that. And I told him that you wrecked the golf cart on the slack line and how not to do that.

And I was like, that's so funny. Like when you say him back to back, like I'm not like injury prone. I'm not like prone to accidents, but there was a period there where I got into some mission, some hullabaloo. Yes, you had some legal documents written about you to the camp, like, hey, just like, you know, it was a voluntary risk activity, so we're not on the hook, but just FYI, a kid did get electrocuted earlier. And technically it goes down as hilarious hijinks.

But we're gonna stay away from it. Check the box for hilarious hijinks. We're fine. So it was fun. I was like, oh, you know, and that's the impact I've left on camp. Yeah, right. It's like how not to get electrocuted. But how would you break down?

I think we talked about Ward a little bit. I don't know Ward one iota as much as you do, but like, but I will say your director kind of like he was understood. Yes, he's definitely a word. A theater term. A Dean Weeby's disciple. Yeah, Ward's, Ward's disciple. Like how would you, if you could bottle up Ward's

like greatness in a few, a few attributes or a few like bullet points, like what makes him, like even like Catherine, who's like had like, she's had more experiences with him. Cause I think he's come to k life uh and like Hung out with you guys before and he but she just like felt so loved by him or like so like I don't know like Yeah, he's just a special dude

If I had to summarize it, I would say it's indescribable. No, I'm just kidding. Um, I would just say it's like intangible. You can't How was Thailand, uh, it was indescribable it doesn't even't, you can't. How was Thailand? It was indescribable. It doesn't even ask them, like, do you guys know anything about Thailand? Yeah, I wasn't, Ryan. It was indescribable. Oh, you gotta watch that show, Tymon.

Gotta watch that show. I will, I will. Someone suggested, it was a pretty good idea there, like you guys should, for Patreon, like do a live showing of time and watching it But at the same time, I don't want you feel pressured back Right. I'm enjoying it. Right. Yeah, this is good for me. I think it's more of like that would be tough Yeah, cuz it's like you don't want to just if it somehow like just does not hit for me at all

I'm just like sitting there like cuz that's why that's not entertaining to watch Yeah, like it's also takes a lot for a show Especially if I was if I were by myself to laugh out loud, it's something like it's really funny. Yeah. Dude, I was, I laughed out loud the other day. I was shooting hoops at Lifetime, listened to a podcast, not our own. Oh, I'm not that conceited, but, but like, like my, my ghost podcast. Um, I, I like my form.

Like I couldn't even shoot because I was laughing so hard. Cause podcast. Yeah. Uh, that's the best. Yeah. And honestly, it was, it wasn't even like that funny of a thing, but they were all laughing so hard at it. That does help.

And so I thought like, no wonder people think Scott, like the times with Scott are so funny is because Scott just dies laughing the entire time. Yeah. So, uh, but Ward is great and is hard to describe, but I think he just has a lot of like, probably like, like biblical qualities that are not like instantly perceived, but like, you just know, he has my respect. Just being quick to listen and slow to speak. A guy, I think you immediately have respect if you're older than me and don't talk a ton. I was just like, oh yeah. Okay, yeah. I just like that he doesn't waste people's time, he doesn't waste words. Whether he's

speaking publicly to a lot of people or to you directly, it know, he doesn't like, doesn't waste people's time, he doesn't waste words, whether he's speaking publicly to a lot of people or to you directly, it's like, he told me exactly what I needed to know. That's good. I got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But also as a former programs guy himself, and like, can, like, once you break the threshold,

it's like, oh, you can cut up with Ward a little bit. I know when he's joking, which I might be one of like seven people on earth, or I feel like everyone would come to me like, Hey, Ward said this to me earlier. Was he joking or not? I'm like, well, translate it. What was the context? What was he wearing? Was he in his cowboy hat? Because that's different. Yeah, he's great. So yeah, Friday night was just fun seeing people. Saturday, we actually go to camp.

And kind of like what I predicted last week, I was like, there were not that many people there. I mean, maybe like 20 cars, like at K-West specifically. And so, I saw some old friends, some counselors, but for the most part it's a ton of current counselors who are like, hey, you were on programs when I was here as a camper. Ty Gatewood's little sister, or just people who are like, hey, I've been here, I've seen your name tag up in the leadership cabin.

It's nice to finally meet you. I was like, that's fun. More than just the electrocution legacy. My name tag. Got a name tag. There were parts of it though that like, I was like, oh, I wish Brad was here too. I wish you were here for a couple of things on Saturday.

One was I talked to some of the current programs people. Okay. And they were telling me, so K-West just got a whole new indoor building, it's air conditioned, and they were talking, first of all, they were just like, we have so many lights, I don't even know how they work or how to program them.

I was like, oh, what I would have done to have programmable lights. I was holding a flashlight up there, like it's crazy, right guys? It's like you're at a real life concert. You guys were like behind the times, I was holding a flashlight up there like it's crazy right guys. It's like you're at a real-life concert You guys were like behind the times I feel like hey West we were yeah 1700 You guys were like yeah, you're like the wild west camp or whatever We were the last to get everything words very budget conscious. Yeah

But the other thing they were like, oh, I did programs last year, how was it? Oh, it was great. We discovered Chad GPT last year. And they're like, you say I wanna do scavenger hunt? It knocks it out in five seconds. You take it, print it, I just made a whole scavenger hunt. And I was like, that would be nice.

Yeah, yeah. I was just like, how many scavengers, how many things we did just like with our own brain? Right. And they were like credit to them. They're like, and shout out to any programs, people who came before us because wow, we use a lot of chat GPT. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you could probably say that for all of us, like in some way with technology of like shout out to the guys that didn't have microphones or shout out to the guys that had, you know, didn't have wireless,

uh, you know, capabilities on their microphones or shout out to the guys that had, you know, didn't have wireless, you know, capabilities on their microphones or shout out, you know, whatever, like there's all the tech, like I feel like we were like right on the cusp of like technology stuff. Like we had wifi at camp, you know, like I bet. And so we were able to like, yeah, move around with our laptops and edit something

like on our garage band on something like, but man, how awesome it would be now. I also really struggle with like the chat GPT aspect of like it, it obviously helps but also it could like just squash squander school, swivel, uh, your creativity as well. Able squabble. Yeah. Like it's like you never have to think of, you don't have to critically think about like the scavenger hunt. And some of those times were like where we got the most original, ridiculous, creative off the wall. Like, is this a good idea or a terrible idea? It is not being the best idea ever. The kids loved it kind of thing. And you're

never going to probably go as higher as low probably with chat GPT. That makes sense. Yeah. I, you know, just being around camp all weekend, I was inspired. I like went back and found my old like Google docs. I'm just like things I'd done before. And I found an old scavenger hunt that I'd made. And I'm going through the clues. I'm like, you know what?

This probably took me forever, but Chad GPT could not have made this. Just like inside jokes about camp or specific counselors are just like, it's behind the barn. or, you know, just like something where like, this was probably your first time seeing it because no one signed up for it this term or something. Just like specifics to like, yeah, yeah. You just can't do that with some AI tool. Right. Um, obviously you can get a head start with AI, but it's like, you can't ultimately replicate everything. But it would be nice for certain things where it's like,

I don't know what characters these need to be, or you know, whatever, stuff like that. Yeah, it could be really helpful. Yeah. It'd be nice. I just remember programs though, like I had such a finite, like, imagination when it came to so many things within programs when I first started.

And there were other people that did not. I think they were old campers, but they just always thought so much bigger and crazier than me. And I don't know if I would have ever gotten to the point where I can think more ridiculous if it weren't for that pushing of that. You know what I mean?

Like compared to like, Oh, let's just put it in chat. Cause chat GPT is never bad, but it's also just never like, like if you ask like, Hey, write a funny joke for us. It's like, that was not very funny joke. It's not that funny. I can see why it's supposed to be funny, but it's not that funny, you know? So yeah, I just remember thinking back in the day, like, I am not that good at this yet because it's like, I just, thinking back in the day like I am not that good at this yet because it's like I

Just that's unrealistic to me. But then of course we like make it work It's like oh that was awesome like, you know Sparky our director was engineering guy And so he made the biggest foam foam machine thing I'd ever seen like it it produced more foam than I'd ever could imagine Yeah, and in my head I was like, well, that's that's not possible. And he made it possible. Like he made it like six feet tall foam and you know, whatever. I I would have never thought I would have been like, uh, I guess we could just what have we just got?

Like, I don't know. I just shook up some shampoo bottles and threw them out there. So I don't know. I'm with you. That doesn't make sense. And also it can't help but being around it this weekend. And everyone's saying such nice things about like, oh, it was so funny when you're here.

And I'm just like, there's no way it was that funny. I was 22 years old, how funny could I possibly have been back then? I'm like, if I could go back now, oh my gosh. Now I could really crush, you know, with the skits or with the parties. I'm just like, there's no way it was that good back then. That's very nice of you to say, but in my head,

I'm thinking, what did I, I, I had nothing. It would be fun to look back on those things and just see what we did and what we thought. Cause so much of it was just like, it was hilarious and fun because we were all there together. Like I remember Michael Sloan would do things and it was just the funniest stuff ever. Everybody was like, was it really that funny or was it just funny? Cause it's

him and his personality is not always funny, but then he gets in these funny moods and we're all just friends with them. So we all think it's hilarious that we see our friend doing this other personality kind of thing. You know what I mean? But man, I mean, yeah, I still look back and think like those are some of the best memories ever. Yeah, I did go back and find the notes for like these, all these skits I did with Ty Gatewood. And I was like, this holds up, actually. This stands the test of time. Yeah, they got it.

Summer of 2016, you got a treat. We made something special for you guys. So Rachel, all weekend is just hearing about like, skits this, skits that, you know, like, oh, I love your old skits, whatever. She doesn't even know what to really imagine. Like, what is a Kana Kuck skit? We get into the theater, yeah, Saturday night.

First thing we do when we walk in is, I don't know what was going on. We missed like the introduction to this guy. There was a guy on stage by himself. Music is blaring, a music video is also playing behind him and he's up there by himself just playing bass. Bass? Yeah, it was very odd to like a track going on throughout the whole. For sure.

Bass. Yes. That's ridiculous. Not upright or anything. Just electric. Just like electric bass. Just playing bass. I was like, what is, what does this mean?

That's, let's stop right there for a second. Oh, he was old too. Okay, how old? Like- 60s. Okay, like that's gotta be the worst instrument to play by itself in upfront out of any instrument, unless the guy is just absolutely,

even if he's shredding it, I don't even know. I mean, I've, that's wild. Like I'm trying to think of anything else I would even compare. Like a timpani maybe, just, what would you say, Timon? Like, like a one, like you have a backing track of whatever, but you're just watching one instrument played. I don't know.

Tambourine. Tambourine. Yeah, some kind of percussion is just kind of silly. Well then it's better than bass I feel like. A man playing a flute could be up there. Pride month. There you go. Pick a low.

Yeah, I feel like, like is piano the least weird? Or is that still weird? Piano is probably the least weird. I mean, all of it's weird if you consider there's a track playing the full song anyway. Yeah. Anything is. Like it's like, I don't even know what you're providing to the song.

And you said that the track was Bring Me to Life by Evanescence? Yeah. Wake me up! No, it was stripped down. Wake me up, wake me. Yeah, no strip. It was stripped down Wake me up wake me up Yes, no words Okay, so you just walk into this guy play a bass You're like, welcome, Rachel, to this camp.

I don't know what this is. I would love to have known the context of why we're listening to this. Just to remind everybody, I don't think we ever said, maybe said this last week, but this is a 100 year camp reunion for staff. So it could have been, this guy could have been on staff a long time ago.

I feel like the vibes that we're getting was like, this guy was Michael W. Smith's bassist, or something like that. but it wasn't Michael W Smith's song. So, you know, I don't know sure But yeah, it was just hard to figure out. What's this guy doing? And then after that, I can take your seats In an outcome to skit characters like oh, here we go. Here we go. Yeah, right. So it's to finally see it young guys Didn't look like it. Okay mean, we were very far back. Where was the theater? Sorry for- It was called the Mansion Theater. It's a huge white building.

Rachel and I were pretty sure we saw Magic Show there a few years ago. But good-sized theater. Okay. And I would come to people like wearing like, kind of like track suits. There's like, they're wearing costumes. So you can't really tell what they are,

but it seemed like they were like, been at K-Kawaii for a little bit. All the K-Kawaii people screamed. And it was the worst kid I've ever seen in my whole life. Why? I was like, I know this is not me being like, I've been a comedian now. Yeah. I'm gonna be critical of this.

I was like- Was anybody laughing? Well, that's Jerry Seinfeld as a quote, or like I saw an interview one time, like he got on Perform Comedy Comedy, and someone was like, well, how'd it go? He's like, you hurt, they were laughing. Yeah.

Don't ask me how it went. They are the jury and the judge, like, the judge and the jury spoke, and it was just bombing. And I was like, on all staff day, on the 100 year reunion, Rachel's here. Yeah. Man, this is too bad. I mean, all staff day is hundreds and hundreds of people.

Yeah, I mean, there were probably, I don't know how many people were in there. Like. A thousand people? 700, a thousand people. I don't know, it was two stories, huge theater. A thousand people probably. A lot of people, yeah.

It's not like, oh, let's just throw something together real quick kind of thing. It's like, this should be like your top dogs here. Okay. And so they came out there. The guy has a Northern accent and the girl's accent is loud. Okay, so it's a guy and a girl.

Yeah, guy and a girl. Okay. Girl's accent is loud. You know, sometimes we're just, the accent is just like, louder than just loud. Yeah. And I don't really know what the,

I don't know what the vision was, because basically they would just like, they would say like a Laffy Taffy type joke. But we were taught like, all right, this is like a call and response thing. So like, as we get up here and talk about the week and everything, like, if we say a classic joke, you guys will then respond,

now that my friends is a classic joke. Okay. Pretty wordy calling response. Yeah. So that just, I mean, that fizzles out after two of them. Now that my friends is a classic joke. Yeah, eight word, yeah. And so they would just like say,

just like laughy taffy jokes. I mean, just like, just work them into whatever they were talking about. How do you get a Kleenex to dance kind of thing? Yeah. Now, oh, now Barb, what's your favorite cereal? And she'd say, or what's a cat's favorite cereal? Oh, it's gotta be mice krispies.

But oh, shh. Now that's a classic. No, no, say that, say now that my friends. Oh, now that my, now that guy is my friends is a classic joke is a hilarious. Good one. That's tough. Just like bomb for like 10 minutes. 10 minutes. How many really long time too many.

I don't know. They did probably 14 classic jokes. Yikes. How did they memorize them or they have a phone on them? They memorized them. Good for them. At least they memorized them. They did have that. That does remind me though, after that they brought up a kid to do spoken word and he had his phone. Spoken word. Spoken word with his phone.

Serious spoken word? You got to memorize it. Yeah. This sounds like a beat so critical, but it was, after we saw the spoken word, I was like, okay, this is actually a great audience because I was like, they could have crushed pretty easier. Because all the spoken word was, it wasn't like super important. It was like, I was like, I'm not going to do that.

I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. But it was after we saw the spoken word, I was like, okay, this is actually a great audience

because I was like, they could have crushed pretty easily. Because all the spoken word was, it wasn't like super like, like most spoken word is like, oh, wordplay double entendre. Oh, I wouldn't have thought of this. This was like, whatever written well, it rhymed, but people would just clap when it rhymed. It's kind of funny. It was like. Was it supposed to be funny or was it serious? No, it was serious. It was just like about, you know, can a cuck a hundred years, think about the lives, the joy and the tears.

Yes, yes. Like that, you know, where it's like, it rhymed, but people are going crazy. It's a Christian audience. There is grace abounding. There'll be very encouraging. People are wanting to laugh, but it's like, the one time you're giving us to laugh,

you're wanting us to actually just yell something and say. That's what's done. You should ask someone like, I don't know who you would know, like Garrett Perkins was there. We should ask him what he thought of that skit or someone else. We should call him. Should we call him? Yeah, call him right now. Okay.

He already thought of it. Because maybe, hey, maybe it's just me. There's no way. There's no way that if you're critical of it, that Garrett was not critical of it. Man. So this is Garrett. Garrett was a director for a while at one of the camps. We know Garrett. Yeah. First guest we ever had on this podcast. Well, great. I'll say call us back podcasting and want to hear your thoughts on the reunion. Hey, cozy earth dot com slash ghost runners podcast. Nope. Just ghost runners. Hey, let's start again, but let's keep all this in there just to show that we're authentic. And this, this is a real ad read. Hey, cozyearth.com slash Ghostrunners. That's the website that you can go to right now to get high quality

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So yeah, I I didn't go into that trying to be critical I went into it so excited and I was like, that's too bad Rachel's one and only skit is Just brutal. I mean all staff day in general was kind of a Just not that fun of a day for me. Yeah ever like by the end of it. I started knowing people at a camp So I was kind of fun but like Initially was just like awkward for two hours and then then they did like some kind of program or something. Were you there?

This might've been my first summer, which I think I started one summer before you. But there was, that might've been my second, doesn't matter, sweeter than a honey on the honeycomb. Does that make any sense? That sounds familiar. There was some band. How do you remember this?

Oh, because it was such an inside joke later. There was a few different inside jokes that always come from all staff day, I feel like. And one of them was there was this band. I think they were KAA band, AKA they were black. Like they were just like, and they were just grooving, jamming, like kind of worshipy.

I mean, it was definitely worship band, but it was like not your kind of like classic worship, like slow corporate. Yeah, it was, and they, they sang this one line a hundred times. It was unbelievable. It was just, and it was a, it was a little bit of a call and response. All right, time. And so it was, it was like this, it was like, sweeter, sweeter, sweeter, sweeter than the honey on the honeycomb. Sweeter than the honey on the honeycomb. Sweeter than the honey on the honeycomb.

Sweeter than the honey on the honeycomb. Sweeter than the honey on the honeycomb. I said sweeter, sweeter, sweeter, sweeter than the honey on the honeycomb. Sweeter than the honey on the honeycomb. Do you remember that? And it was like, I'm kind of buying for this for a second. And then it was like 15 minutes. Oh, shoot. Yeah, it was, I don't know how long, but it was like, I'm kind of buying for this for a second. And then it was like, it went forever. 15 minutes.

Oh shoot. It was, I don't know if how long, but it was, I mean, yeah, that long. Like it was fun for a second. It was like, oh, sweet honey on the honeycomb. You know, we got all these like white people from Auburn university going nuts. Like, oh cool. It's like, oh, we're doing this for a while now. That's so funny you remember that.

Yeah. My first, so a couple of my first memories of all staff day, my first summer on camp, one is like every college makes her a Canna Cuck t-shirt. You bring it to all staff day and then you're like, you trade shirts. It's like currency, yeah. And if it's like currency, the SBU t-shirt was the dong.

Yeah. Yeah. It was brown and yeah. Not worth much. Oh, hard to trade. You know, it's like that Arkansas shirt looks cool. It's got a sunset on it. Dude, do you remember the Auburn?

Are you K-State? Oh. No, Auburn was my first summer. It was like a tiger with all these letters that were all the tiger. Oh, I've seen that shirt. Oh, it's so cool. Yeah. Yeah, you get all staffed.

They're like, oh, KU did baseball three quarter shirts. That's cool. Yeah. No, it's so cool. Yeah. Yeah, you get all stacked up like, oh, KU did baseball, three-quarter shirts, that's cool. No one else is doing that. I have a V-neck from SBU. It's got a cross on it. You guys went V-neck on them? Yeah. Like, no, V-necks are still cool, guys, I promise. Yeah, you wanna be pink?

No, I can do a better V-neck. Yep, that's so good. So that was a tough part. And then I also remember it was like when they had all the camp together, this is when they did like their big like child protection strategy. Yes, very serious.

And did a very good job terrifying me. Scaring the daylights out of you. Yes. It's like, don't look at another kid. I was like, I could still remember being like pretty nervous for kids to show up. Yeah. And I had nothing going on to make me nervous. It's

like, I don't want to screw this up. Oh yeah. They make you feel the weight of everything. Yeah. It's just like, you cannot be caught with a kid one on one. You have to be in a rule three at all times. And I was like, I just hope I don't accidentally like one kid still tying to shoes. I'm in there like, I'm going to get fired. I'm going to go to jail. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. It's I told you about that kid that wanted me to wipe them. Oh boy. I need you to wipe me I think about that every single day with Bo I'm like Bo you are not gonna be that kid when you go to camp You're gonna wipe yourself. You're gonna wipe yourself. You're gonna have nastiness in that but I don't care either way I'm in the lake. Yeah, just just go yeah the pool. There's plenty of fecal matter in there

I Can't do it. I'm like Jackson of fecal matter in there. I can't do it. Jackson, you got to do it. Jackson. I can't. I will go to jail if you don't trust me, man. I'm not allowed. Even if I did, I don't think I would have had the ability. I don't know. Oh, man. Anyway, I've never like third person wiped. I don't think I'd have the form. I do it every day, brother. But not back then. I didn't. Nowadays. Yeah. Bo just gets he just he comes and just puts his like buries

his head right in between my legs. It just like straddles my legs. I'm standing up in front of the strat. Yeah. And then I just and you know what? It sounds like you've done it before time. Yeah. Kids don't really need to wipe it very often.

At least mine. You're they're clean. Maybe so. I have not done a much. It's been a long time. Yeah. Kids don't really need to wipe it very often. At least mine. They're clean. Maybe so. I have not done it much. It's been a long time. OK. Yeah. But it's they just they're sitting on the toilet and they just. They give you a nice access point. Need to go to town.

Really? Yeah. So I have to ask my parents about that because I could see my dad just being like, no, figure it out out you do it Yeah, it's always like you hear him yelling from across the house somebody white me and Catherine always make eye contact or like Yeah, I'll do it. Whatever but anyway Saturday was was too bad and I was like I think if you threw me and Brad up there right now,

no plan, no nothing, we would have so much fun. Oh yeah, we would be doing lots of interaction. Yeah. With a better catchphrase than, now that my friend is a classic joke. And if we did do that, we would lean into how terrible it is. Say it, say it.

Yeah, all right. Canna cocks, hundred year reunion. The laughs just keep on coming. Yeah, I think I think we would have fun with it. Yeah. So I mean, it was cake wise programs that sounds like, come on. I mean, if that's compared to basketball team, Washington Wizards, I don't know. Just not, I mean, they're a professional team.

They're not getting too far. But they're professionals. But they get paid, so. So hopefully Garrett calls us back. We'll see what he thought of it. But it was just like, I felt like even just objectively, like, oh man, I don't even know on paper how this would be funny.

Right, yeah. But anyway, what else is going on? What else is going on? Let me look at my notes here. I was getting down to sweeter than a honey on the honeycomb. Bo and I watched some last dance. I think we talked about last dance the other day. And yeah, on Sunday afternoon,

I think we were just all just chilling. He was with me in my cozy earth, big old like, you know, weighted blanket. We were watching and he falls asleep on me. It was awesome. But he kept, it was funny, like he was enjoying it, but even like, a lot of times there's not even basketball, they're just talking.

And I had to mute it quite a few times because there's some language in it. I was gonna say, yeah. I was like, but I've seen enough times where like, I'm pretty sure, and I had the subtitles on, so I was like, oh, here it comes. Okay. But. Here they come.

Pretty consistently, every time John Paxton came on the screen, he would go, there's Michael Jordan. John Paxton's a bald white guy. And he also like pointed out when he saw Michael Jordan, like on the screen. But every time John Paxton was up there, he goes, there's Michael Jordan. I'm like, how does that compute to you?

I didn't know how like,'re just not I mean just bald Maybe maybe that's the main he sees is bald. He only looks at the top of people. There's no hair. That's Michael Jordan He's like bald basketball bulls. Yeah. Yeah, it's Michael George Jeff Bezos Michael Jordan Mr. Clean. Yeah favorite bulls player It was it was funny though like Yeah. Favorite Bulls player. Yeah. It was, it was funny though.

Like, uh, anyway, but it was like, I want you to like this, but also it's just, it's got some language. That's the only thing in it that's really inappropriate. Eh, that's not true, but it's, it's not terrible. It's awesome. Michael Jordan's so awesome, dude. So that documentary is so awesome. He's so bald.

So bald, just like John Pax. I watched the first 20 minutes of that new new like Osama bin Laden documentary on Netflix. How is it? Good. Yeah. Got me really into the 11. Yeah. Okay.

You and Kosh talking Taliban recently? Every other day, usually. Yeah, you do a catch up. Were you Taliban one day and then, what is it? Fantasy football. Fantasy football the other day. Yeah. Well, fantasy fill in the blank, whatever season it is.

So right now we're doing fantasy baseball. Paul Skeens, really good. I don't know if you've heard. Is he having a good year? Yeah. Tarek Scoobel, really, really good player. Oh, Obel Scoobel. You heard about him actually?

No. He threw a complete game and on his very last pitch, I think he threw 103 mile an hour. Wow. Fastball. And it was a fastball. Curveball. Yeah. I never was a curve ball. Yeah.

That's impressive. American Manhunt or whatever. Yeah, he said it was good. I don't know, just randomly in the group chat that I'm in with him and all those other guys, he's like, you guys should be watching this. It's pretty fun. Yeah.

I think anything when like, just anything, it's just well done. It's just like, wow, just well done. It's just like, wow, so much about 9-11 or just like how much Osama Bin Laden had done before 9-11. Like he was already this type of guy and we knew he was gonna do this. I saw some preview for it and it was like,

they had some tracker on them that could tell how tall the shadow was or something like that. That's the only thing I saw. And I was like, that's crazy, dude. Just pretty much everything it's told me so far, I didn't already know. It's just like all new information. It's really interesting.

Do you think that, what's his name? Gio Rainbolt? Do you think that he should get hired by, maybe he's already hired by the government? I had that thought while watching it. Either he's a fraud or they should hire him for everything. Because they talked about like, after 9-11, Osama would like put out those tapes.

So you probably remember that from this. Yes, great. Like they would show it on the news like Osama bin Laden has put out another press release and everyone's investigating like, where is he? And like, if we had rainbow back then, it would have been awesome. Then again, he probably just would have been like, oh yeah, it's an Afghani mountain. It's like, we know that we know that. But sometimes like I saw one video of him that like it was literally just like a piece of like a piece of ground or something like a like a. There's like a map. It's like the yeah. Like the roads only you get to look down.

He's like that's Tanzanian dirt. That's crazy. I know. Yeah. He's a whiz. Also like does he do it live. Yeah. He's the real deal. OK. OK. He's like legit. Yeah. I subscribe to him. I'm a viewer.

Are you? Not of his live streams, but just like of him on YouTube. Yeah. They've made like AI tools that are still not as good as him. Like they can't, a computer can't do what he does. That's what I'm saying, dude. We're the programs to his AI, you know, whatever. Yeah.

What else? I'm kind of in a rut with YouTube? Yeah, you got any suggestions for me on what I should watch you watch mark rober. I don't watch anything That's what I'm saying. Like I don't okay. I really truly mark rober is a good one. He's like a I know he's a nice clean You know, yeah dad. Yeah, sciency He's still putting out stuff regularly still putting out stuff Trying well start watch on YouTube? Friday pickleball videos. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm in a rut. That's all I watch

I'll tell you I I got a weird rut we Drove across the like Table Rock damn this weekend. Yes, like I gotta learn more about those things Yeah, I just went more about those things. I just went to youtube.com, the top suggested video to me is another like dam video. Oh really? It's another. So yeah, I went on a little dam kick this weekend,

just like, how do these things work exactly? And how do they build them? How do they build them? How do they get the waterway up? Pretty amazing. So you could watch dam videos. Okay. things work exactly and how do they build them? How do they build them? How do they get the waterway up? Yeah. Pretty amazing. So you could watch damn videos. Okay.

That's one thing. Yeah. I think I like almost Friday. They're really funny. They put out really high quality sketches. That's what I think I want more like humor or not even humor but like stories rather than educational stuff.

I think that's where I'm like. And I'm like how do I even search for that? You don't want educational stuff. I think that's where I'm like, and I'm like, how do I even search for that? You don't want educational stuff. I don't mind that kind of stuff, but that's not these days what I've been like. I've been like, okay, I don't want to watch a show on Netflix, but maybe I could watch a little 10 minute version of something similar, scratch that itch on YouTube.

I feel like I find myself watching a bunch of stuff that couldn't even tell you the channel. It's just like, like I just went through my YouTube history. Yesterday I watched a video, eight minutes, the title is Comedians Most Intense Interviews. Like, oh, let's see this. And it was just like a compilation of comedians, like in like a late night or radio show,

like kind of being pressed about something and watching them like turning on someone else. And I was like, that's interesting. That's funny. I do love, I do love that guy. Yeah. Yeah. It was a great video. Like the Seinfeld one. You seen that one where you're with Larry King, maybe. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. What's it about though? I know exactly who you're talking about. I think it's about the last episode. Yes. He's like, you got canceled. I didn't get canceled. Right. Yeah, Jerry Seinfeld is one guy that I would not want to be sarcastically like he's going

to be sarcastically mad to me. Yeah. Please don't. Please don't. I feel uncomfortable. Do you does like CGI or VFX interest you at all? Like you have like a childhood movie. You're like, how did they do that?

Is that interesting to you at all? Because I watch VFX artists react. OK, every Saturday there's like 100 plus episodes you could binge. It's pretty good. I 20 ish minutes per video. Maybe. I think I think I would have to get it would have to get to me pretty quick, though. I think I don't think I'm very patient. Yeah. With it, which I don't know. Just like go through and just react to like, you know, four or five different like movies. OK, like scenes from them and just like, oh, this is how they did that. How did they you know, do this trick?

Whatever. I like it a lot. I do enjoy like anything where you can appreciate the craft more after like I like when people break down like Classic rock songs or something like like this is way more complicated than people realize, you know, whatever. Yeah Thank you. Can we get into it. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Cool. Friday fever review videos. Hey, some people love those from what I hear. Isaac's dad. We talked about that. Some people do love those.

Oh man. Um, okay. I have other things or you can talk. Last thing I think for just Saturday night and then you go is, you know, all staff, they always ends with a concert. Guess who it was? Guess who it was? Thizzle.

Close. Tadashi. Yeah. Really? He's still doing it. Let's go. We left before T.DOT got on stage, but we did get to see him perform.

So Joe White spoke, he gets done, he's like, all right, next up is, it was so funny hearing him describe what like pop music is. He's like, next up is, we got a girl up here, let me fast forward, last night I get home, Catherine's at my house talking to Rachel, we found out that this girl was in her cabin 15 years ago. Oh wow, okay.

But Joe is like, next up, we've got a 100 year theme song for you guys and it's, oh, it's nutty. It's nutty and it's dancey. It'll knock your socks off. And it'll have you jumping around and moving all about. So anyway, give it up for Mary Claire. And so yeah, this girl comes out and does this song And it's a happy jumping around and moving moving all about so anyway Give it up for Mary Claire

And so yeah, this girl comes out and does this song and then to the she joins her on stage and okay Yeah, Catherine's camper. Yeah, I've heard of Mary Claire. I think she's doing some stuff. Isn't she like she's like a musician No, her dad was mercy me's manager. That's right. I remember this. Yeah Shoehorned so was pretty easy for her to get in Okay, that's fine. So you heard that song? Yeah. It was nutty. It was nutty. Yeah. I heard that Joe White did like led the square dancing. Yeah. I wasn't there or I didn't partake in the square dancing. This is when I was like

catching up with people Friday night, but I guess that was going on. Okay. Yeah. I missed out. Okay. Yeah. That was like in the gym or whatever? That's chaos, dude. Yeah. It was only K Kauai staff down there doing it. No alumni was square dancing.

Did they have the old people there, like the square dance people? I didn't see old square dance people. Did you guys ever do that for staff training week? We always had like the square dance club of Branson come. And so there were, yeah, it was like half staff, half of like the young college staff, half these old people in every Square Dance like circle.

And it was a blast, man. That's great. We did not do that. They were all dressed up and stuff. It was great. So yeah, that's funny. I, on Sunday morning, once a month now, I'm trying to do it once a month. It feels like it month now I'm trying, I'm trying to do it once a

month. It feels like it hasn't happened as consistently as I'm trying to do, but I'm leading worship for the third through sixth graders, third through fifth graders. Sorry. Let me please. Thank you. I don't want to, I don't want to have people fact check me on that. And Hattie is now in third grade, like for... What? Yeah, for like, she's going to be in third grade next year. And so, she's down in that group. And so, this was the first time I did it in front of her. And I didn't know how to treat her. It was like one of those classic...

Coach's son. Yeah. Or even just like, when they first get down there, they're just like able to play any game they want and roam around. Some kids are playing four squared. Other kids are playing whatever blocks. I don't know. It's not blocks, but you know, some kids are just talking and then I'm like, do I talk to Hattie? Do I ignore Hattie? Do I, you know, whatever, like does she, you know, I didn't want to like bother her, but at the same time she's still young enough where she doesn't care about us anyway. Um, but I tried to like give her her space and stuff. Um, but it was a sweet time. It was, it was fun to do that with her. I told her we were going to sing waymaker

and then they didn't have the slides ready for waymakers. So she's like, so I was like, how do you, how was it? She's like, I kept waiting for waymaker and it never came. Besides that you did a really good job. Uh, but know, it's, it's, it's an interesting dynamic, obviously, to sing worship and lead worship for third through fifth graders, like these eight to 10 year old, 11 year old kids. And, and then you got Sam Severs, our mutual friend from SBU that is just a goober. I mean, he's just a classic goober, just fun. He's a great, great children's pastor, you know, but every once in a while I'll be singing like, uh, I'm trying to sing like somewhat serious songs, like, or whatever. I'm not trying to just do like, you know,

waves of mercy, you know, something like that. Honestly thought about it. No. Uh, and there was, well, uh, Sam will start like, be like, all right, everyone clap their hands. Or something like that. Like not trying to like be annoying, but like just trying to be. Yeah, energy or whatever. And so honestly, that was like out of all the difficult things I've ever done musically,

man was it hard to try to keep a rhythm with third through fifth graders trying to clap there? Cause I mean, it's just constant, just clap, clap, you know, like the whole, and they don't stop. Like I feel like a lot of times a church, you know, it kind of dies out pretty quick. These kids are, they're clapping for a while. And I mean, it's just caught. I can't hear my guitar that well. And I'm just like, I think I'm doing whatever. It's just me up there by myself. Inner monitors for the fourth. Yeah, exactly.

I mean, they were just they were clapping. They were going for it. But it was just all over the place. I don't know what I'm doing here. No, no. Let's let's let's let's workshop this during the mainstream roasters ad. OK, we're going to do you can do that if you want. Here, no, no, let's workshop this during the Main Street Roasters ad. Okay.

We're going to do, you can do that if you want, but I'm going to, I have an idea of something else. Oh, we're going to do, you remember the episode of Breaking Bad, the fly episode? So we're going to do, we're going to do it where you're really paranoid. You're going to be Walter White. You're going to be paranoid about this buzzing noise and you're going to be like, what's that buzzing noise? And I'm going to be Jesse. I'm going to be like, yo, Mr. White, don're gonna be paranoid about this buzzing noise and you're gonna be like, what's that buzzing noise? And I'm gonna be Jesse. I'm gonna be like, yo, Mr. White, don't worry about it.

It's like, there's a fly in here. And I'm gonna say, it's not fly, it's buzzing. Okay. Someone else I wanna talk about from this weekend. Zzzzz. Zzzzzzz. Sorry. I'm getting, I'm getting so distracted by the buzzing sound.

Yo, Mr. White. Oh, did I say it? That was good. Yo, Mr. White, don't worry about it. No, that buzzing sound is bothering me. I can't focus on my work with all of that buzzing. You gotta focus, yo. You gotta get your mind right, yo.

What is that sound? Yo, Mr. White, it's just me. It's just me buzzing, yo. I'm buzzing on beans, yo. I got it in my veins, yo. I got it in my veins, yo. It always comes back. Dude, I bet at least once a day,

I bet at least once a day, Hattie now goes, yeah dog, yeah dog. Catherine hates it. I gotta say that to Hattie next time I see her. Yeah dog. Hey, good to see you neighbor dog. Yeah dog, oh yeah dog. Hey, you know what makes us get excited and say yeah dog?

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Oh, Jesse. Was that good? Yes, perfect. Jesse, when will you learn? Can you say, I'm the one who knocks? I am the one who knocks. Honestly, the voice thing kind of helps. It might be helping.

Yeah. Maybe Brian Kranz had a voice thing. Skylar. Is that too much like Batman? He's got a deep raspy voice, though. And now do now do while Junior impersonating to go. No, I was almost. All right. Vastoros.

I got that. Just remind me something else that upset me Saturday night I was almost, all right, maceroasters.com. That does remind me of something else that upset me Saturday night. While they're doing worship, instead of clapping along, all these white kids start doing some sort of weird clap that they are not ready for. Oh, there's a weird way to clap these days? Yes. Let's see if I can replicate it.

Sing a worship song that's like, I don't know. Yeah, just medium, medium tempo worship song. This is amazing. This would be normal clapping. This is unfailing. We think how they would do it. Sing it a little slower. This is amazing, great.

This failing love. Okay. Do you take my place? Let you bear my cross. So that even took me a little bit, like let me find it here. Now imagine 800 white college students trying to get on that wavelength together.

The blinking. Now you're getting it. I forgot about that. But yeah, that's great. It's like, I see. I see what the rhythm is supposed to be. Yeah. But why, why are we trying to go advance clap? Oh dude.

Worship night. The KU basketball, like their, their fight song. Have you, have you heard this? Like I don't think I know you've been to the game maybe one or two times, but like, like they do the fight song once where there's clapping along normal, J, J, J, J, you know, whatever. And then the second time it's like, cause I'm a J, J, J, J, J. And it's like, it just sounds like no one, like half the people know, half the people don't. So it's just like, you know, I love watching my dad during that point. Cause he's just, he's not trying that hard, but he's definitely like, you know,

they're just doing the whole thing. It's yeah, it's like one of those things where it's kind of cool, but it's also why are we, why are we going so crazy here? When we do the jingle later, I think we should all clap in our own special way great Remember those people that would like clap like like that crazy thing. Oh, yeah, I can I can clap faster than anybody. Yeah That's a great SBU welcome week like straight of skill I guarantee I can clap faster than anybody. Yeah, whatever. Never I've ever lost a hand clapping contest. Drink your chocolate milk if you lost, you lost. That's funny. Anyway, thanks for bringing up the clapping.

That's funny though. Hey, why don't everyone clap their hands? I think worship's going perfect. It's fine, I mean truly. It stopped your feet. Apparently later, Haley Harrison, military Bob's fine. I mean, truly stop your feet. Apparently later, uh, Haley Harrison, Bob, military Bob's daughter, military wife. Yeah. Sent her whatever her mom sent a text to Catherine Haley love the live music. So I was like, all right, cool. Fun. We're in it. So it

is kind of fun to be like, yeah, you're older now. You get to do live worship. But that's a special treat. It was, it was fun. It was fun time. It was fun time. It was fun time. I have some other questions for you guys. If you, if you would like me to, you can ask us one. Oh, just one. Oh, it's only going to be one then. Yeah. I'll just get to, okay. I'll have to, that'd be a good one. Okay, this is a new segment called regular things dash how do you do them? Okay, so I'm gonna say regular

and then you're gonna say things. I'm gonna say how and then you're gonna say do. No, I'm just kidding. You're gonna say how do you do. Regular things. How do you do them? How do you do them? How do you do them?

How do you do them? How do you do them? How do you do them? How do you do them? How do you do them? All right. First off, just how do you brush your teeth? What's the process for brushing your teeth? Rachel and I do this very differently. I'm very stationary. Rachel's moving all over the house, which is brushing her teeth. Dude, I've always wanted that power.

I truly like, I don't know how to. No, no, no. I don't know how to do it fully no mess Like and I've tried I just you're foaming I don't know if it's what about my something about my mouth, but I just like I can't hold everything in it's gonna start dripping Yeah, like I couldn't like the foam is gonna start like it's gonna have to go somewhere. Let's take a step back He's got like a deluxe car wash in his mouth. Yeah Let's take a step back. First of all, what kinduxe car wash in his mouth. Yeah. Let's take a step back.

First of all, what kind of toothbrush? Are you using like electric or? For me, very basic. Basic. It's bamboo. What do you, manual. Yeah. Analog.

Yeah, analog. And then how much toothpaste do y'all put on there? A little pea size? Catherine gives me a hard time because I put on too much. I put on larger than a pea for sure. I wonder if that's part of the problem. That might be. But I feel, I feel, it's not, the job's not done

if it's not like a good amount, I feel like. Yeah, yeah. I, every dentist I've ever been to has told me I produce a lot of saliva. So maybe you got some like that too, or it's just a lot of combustion going on. Could be, yeah, lots of things hitting each other. I can't talk when I brush my teeth, but Rachel could just like have her, it's like she's in a movie. Just like have her toothbrush to the side and just like have a whole conversation with me, you know, like while she's brushing her teeth.

Where is all the liquid? What's going on? Yeah, she's swallowing it. You're not supposed to do that. People do it. Yeah. Comes out seven years later. That's right. It's just like gum. And are you putting water first or toothpaste first? Jake you first water on brush Really and then the toothpaste maybe a little bit more water on top of that. Yeah. Yeah, I need all three

I need I need cold water on brush hot. I'm sorry. Is that an option? Just just asking questions boys because this segment is Regular things. How do you do them? Brush my teeth with hot water reminds me of like just like the limo trip, like having to brush them in a Chick-fil-A. It's only hot water, I guess.

Yeah, it reminds me of like traveling. Okay, yeah. Yeah, I go cold water on brush, toothpaste, gotta get water on it after. Yeah. Oh, you sandwich as well? Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I go well cold water on brush toothpaste got to get water on it after yeah Oh you sandwich as well. Oh, yeah, okay, we brush our teeth very similarly Yeah, same my face. So wait, you don't you don't move around. Could you if you wanted to like could you keep it all in? Yeah, I can keep it all in you Was your agent I can now so okay, I'll get there. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what that is

Yeah, I was curious. Because I sometimes will brush my teeth in the shower. You ever do that? Yeah, not that often. Jesse loves that. That's the only reason I ask about hot water versus cold. Because if it's in the shower, it's hot. It can be hot.

I don't do that. I've got an electric toothbrush recently. I really like it. And you can do that. I've got an electric toothbrush recently. I really like it. And you can do that in the shower too, no problem? Yeah. I've dropped it a few times in the shower. No problem. Sonicare makes a nice $25 toothbrush.

Good. Doing just fine. All right, how about putting on your shoes slash socks? Regular things, how do you do them? I don't think I have a great routine for that. I'll put on socks, fully standing. Sometimes though, you're like, let's take the load off here. I'll sit down and put some socks on.

Yeah. Yeah, are we talking like, yeah, it's not like I have, I don't know if I did the same every time. Then again, I bet if I like, watched a video of myself doing it like a week straight, I'd probably be like, Oh, I have like very. Yeah. 70 30. I have pretty repetitive things, but I don't, I don't know. I'm asking because Catherine has encouraged me recently to try to put them on without sitting down.

She says that it'll help my balance later on in life. Yeah. Oh, I like, I like doing that. Yeah. And so I said, okay, but just FYI, sometimes if I'm up before you and I topple over, you know, because sometimes you're like put on a sock You kind of deep water rescue boom, you know, and all of a sudden it's like cuz we got a basement below us So everything's a little bit hollow and you stomp down on it Yeah, I like give myself just like self-imposed made-up challenges. I'm just like you have to like

Get both socks and shoes on while only standing on like, you know, like this like piece of area and you can't do it. You're going to suck when you're 70. You will not be like a fun old man. You can't do this right now. She's like, you're going to, you're going to thank yourself later. You're going to have better balance, whatever. I was like, okay. But the long socks are tough. You know, you see, you got to sit down for a long socks. No, I've been, I've been standing. Yeah. Good. Yeah. And trying to, it's just one of those things where it's like, this would be easier if I'm sitting down, uh, but yeah, I put shoes on in all kinds of, like I've, I've, I kneel sometimes, you know, one knee, one knee, if I have to, and then I'll do stand, I'll do sit, you kneel to put your shoes. I think I've seen that.

Yeah. I maybe have, maybe I'm thinking of tying them, but I feel like I've seen that yeah, I maybe have maybe I'm thinking of tying the Reteying, but I feel like I'm I've I don't know I'm just I've probably changed it up enough to like yeah Maybe I've knew well how would that even work? No, I don't know man. I've seen you kneel I know what's happened you ever seen time a kneel you can imagine. I don't forget it You'd know we all need a meal and pray after time and yeah, you know It's it's pretty jarring you would remember it yeah it kind of burns all right and then last one uh regular things how do you do them um if you laugh really hard for an extended period of time what do you expect to happen

anything afterwards and they will repeat and say now that my friends is a classic joke and they will repeat and say now that my friends is a classic joke laughing What do you mean I I try not to like give my bias towards the answer but like what could this be if you laugh really hard for 30 seconds if you get if somebody's tickling you or if someone's just making you like just die laughing. Oh Like tears will form if you're if that's you're talking about. Okay, I will I think if I'm laughing really hard for a while, I'll definitely start crying a little bit. You ever tickled timing? You would remember it. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You know, with the Burbrows. Yeah. The Fort Scott. No. Okay. The thing. So Catherine the other day was like, yeah, how does this thing where if she laughs too hard, she gets hiccups and Henry has it too. And I was

like, that's what everyone does when they laugh really hard. And she's like, I don't. And so I'm asking, it sounds a marriage and you guys just discovered this. It sounds like you guys are, is that, is that a familiar thing? Never have I ever gotten hiccups laughter really no, how do you get hiccups? That's I thought that was like the thing that's like like monos the kissing disease hiccups from laughing too hard That's what I was I've never noticed a common like denominator for like hiccups It's just always random and I like these are annoying. Yeah, I've never it's never come from laughter Interesting. Oh, yeah, that was like if I laughed too hard and Hattie too. Like if I get her going sometimes. Genetic. Yeah. Interesting. I have a similar one. Okay. Regular things. How do you do them? I just got out of a nice long hot shower as I exit.

What happens to me now? What happens to you? This is my hiccup. Um, what happens to you? This is my hiccup. What happens to you? I mean, you shake like a dog before you put the towel on. It sounds like something biological is happening. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You get the shivers or something like that? Or I don't know what happens to you. Happens to you. I'll say this.

I don't have a clear cut answer yet. It really, it sounds like really you're fooling us all brother. I don't know Tyman you have. Well I got nothing to what happens to you like as you get out of the shower. No. I'm starting to dry off. What you get dizzy. Huge burp. I think it's no with the steam. Huge burp every think it's only with the steam Huge burp every time I like texted my sister. I was like, this is probably a genetic thing and she also is a burper She seems like a burper no offense. It just I could you know, some girls are like that's a burper like You know what I mean? Like Rachel mustang burper. Yeah

Kate and triplet burp, right? I's- Like she's okay with burping. There's a direct correlation between how funny of a girl you are and how likely you were a burper. Yeah, that's probably it. I think that's what it is. Either way, Katelyn was like, can't say I've ever experienced that. I burp a lot, but never.

She's not in the shower, but yeah. A decently regular thing, like a nice long shower. Interesting, and it's like probably because of the steam? I guess, because I don't know, it's not like I just had a root beer too. It's like, I haven't eaten anything in three hours. All I've done is shower and then just have this crazy, just like all air.

Urge to, yeah. You know, like sometimes you get those farts, you're like, that was great. Like nothing even. Right, I promise it's not gonna smell. Yeah, it was nothing. It's like one of those burps. It's like, I just burped out nothing but noise.

I guess it's steam. That's interesting. No, I haven't heard that one. All right. So hiccup, burp, diamond. Tell us your weird thing. Oh, I don't know. After you kneel.

It's something I do ever. You get older to be a little more in touch with your body. Dude, I had to let you guys know what? Yeah. Once I can successfully like brush my teeth, make a mess everywhere. Yeah, that's the thing. You guys are brush your teeth and you have to get a rag every time? Take a shower afterwards.

Yeah. I had a friend recently, I'm not going to say who it is, in case it's whatever, but he says once or twice a year he wakes up and he just has this urge, he feels like his whole body is super dry and he just has to like throw lotion on like all parts of him like he's like like anxiety almost or something like he freaks out yeah it's like yeah like on his lips and everything huh yeah it's just like but not very up because we're talking about mouth taping I was like dude it's awesome you know whatever he's like do I ever once while I have this weird day

that happens to me but I'm sleeping I love getting to the point with friends where you learn about their weird thing like dude That's a great suggestion. But once a year. Yeah, I actually I Have to howl at the moon on June 28th, so I can't come okay. Hey, everyone's got their thing Everyone's got their thing Yeah Regular things how do you do I? Have one more but yeah, yeah,, but it's off the podcast.

I can't. Oh, Patreon one. It's a little, a little inappropriate. It's natural, but it's inappropriate. It's natural. Anyway. Yeah. I just, I was really convinced that you guys would just absolutely know the hiccup thing.

Like I thought that was like common knowledge. Like I thought crying was good. I made him laugh so hard that he hiccups kind of thing. Man. Maybe you just have a gift. I'll tell you, if you ever want Hattie to like really laugh, be pretend frustrated. She really gave me an example.

Okay, so yeah, the other night Catherine was gone. So I think I might do this with Rachel. It was me with all four of the kids at dinner. And it was mildly chaotic, you know, whatever. They were doing fine. But Henry, especially, he's just the fourth child. And he's just whatever. And so he stands up in his seat that we

have for him all the time. And someday he's going to fall over and crack his head open. But like, and it's always like, sit back down, sit back down. And then, you know, he'll stand back up. And it's funny because he doesn't have any emotion to his face. He's just like this. And I'm just like, what is this guy doing? What's he doing? I just told him to sit down and Hattie just, and I'm like, sit down, sit down, you know, whatever. And then Bo is saying something else or Bo is being goofy. I was like, I'll just look at him. Or I'll look at Hattie and be like, can you believe this guy?

You know, whatever. Oh, she thinks it's so funny. You know, that Rosie does whatever she's doing with her role, eating it weird ways or something. I'm like, what are you doing? You know, whatever. Hattie just like, it's so funny. So yeah, she just likes that kind of frustrate or like, we've been playing a lot of Uno after dinner recently. And Henry's the card monsters, what we call him. He just comes around, just tries to grab every card or whatever. Here comes the card. Oh, oh,

what, what? Come on, you know, whatever, stuff like that. She just thinks it's the funniest card monster. Yeah. So having a dog around. It really is. Playing cards with dogs. Henry's that point now where he's just so curious. He loves taking things from one place, putting them in somewhere else. And so he's fine thing is random spots and things get taken out or any, anything like this height or lower is just fair game for him. So he's got to be real careful. Like put all the. Put all the glasses in the middle of the table. He's crawling and crawling up on the table.

He's just wild, John. Fun, though. Guard monster. Guard monster. Would you do the same thing with Rachel or it's different? I'm trying to think. Not exactly like that, but just like, fake, like frustrated each other.

I don't know, just like just doing jokes or whatever. It's like, I can't even think of an example. Just like, all right, I'm headed off to the gym. Yeah, I actually can't even think of anything. I was like, I'll think of something. Oh man, now that my friends is a classic bit. That's funny. I got nothing.

You got nothing. Sorry, should we wrap this puppy up? I think we should. Let's get our reviews of the week going. Okay. Okay. Let me find one. I don't currently have one. How do you guys feel about this is like the lamest podcast conversation ever, but would you rather podcast when it's

rainy like this? Would I rather? Oh, I don't know. Cause I think I, initially when I was walking over here, I was like, I like that it's rainy cause then we're not wasting a nice day. But then it also makes you feel a little gloomy walking in. So didn't know if you guys felt this way. I don't have a strong preference.

I can't see anything. Yeah. I wasn't really like thinking about it because there's no like this windows like the blinds closed like there's no Indication looks the same as every other I see no right now All right good conversation though good stuff Good, Chuckie t49 said five stars That's good, that's good. ChuckieT49 said, five stars. This is a review about the guy who gave us a low review. Mine is as well. Really?

Said, Arthur7 is a bum. He made the thingy go down to 4.9 instead of five, which is so unsatisfactory to me. Relatable, question why two stars that's such a weird rating. Mm-hmm I guess that's what we can expect from fools like him or her And what is average if this pot is below average? Also, if it's too loud, couldn't you just turn it down? Like what the flip? I? Think he got the extra strength levothyroxine and didn't go down well. Thank

you, Chuck T. Thanks, Chuckie T. I like Chuck T. Chuck T 49 like what the flip. Mine's coming from Emily brace. Yeah. Five stars. Are you freaking kidding me? I said that the other day to Hattie and I was like, I shouldn't have said that. She's going to start repeating that. I was like, are you freaking kidding me? Like, when I was pretending to be frustrated. Anyway, five star review. Not sure what sign I was waiting for to finally review, but hearing someone is bringing down

the much deserved five star overall rating with a dang two star just grinds my gears. Yeah. These guys are the best. I can write a novel on why this podcast and these guys are five stars, but I'm not going to. If you need more info, email me. Ghostrunners.pod.is.the.best.five.stars.apples.podcast.duh. No at.

Duh. Duh. Duh. Thank you, Emily Brace. Can't wait to see you in Gulf Shores in August. Yes. Yes. It's going to be. It'll be so fun. Metal. All right, shall we jingle? Jake, would you like to end this episode with a jingle? Thank you, or yes. Thank you. Thank you. Now that, my friend, is a classic mix-up.

Ready? Tell me when to start. I will see if I can help you out. I don't know. Tell me how to do everything. ["Dance of the Sugar Plum everything. Here it comes. Yep. Now this is a story all about how my life got air turned public somehow and I'd like to take a second just take a knee. I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Chunning.

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Hey! I, oh, no, I, yes? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Seven or eight, I said to the driver, thanks sir, see you later. I looked at my kingdom, I was finally free to sit on the throne. Thank you. Thank you, Dungy! Hey!

Oh! Everybody clap along! Hey! Hey, everybody clap along. That was great. Perfect. I tried to pull up the lyrics, I couldn't find them all of a sudden. So I messed it up, man.

You get a lot of emails. That's right. Get a lot of emails. That was from Gina. Gina Purcell Carow. Yeah, a couple names in there. Appreciate you. Yes, thank you, Gina.

Thanks for everybody. Leaving the five star reviews. Coming you. Yes, thank you, Gina. Thanks for everybody. Leading the five star views, coming to our aid, coming to our defense, that's kind. Yeah, that is nice. Thank you for doing that. So. And we'll see you Wednesday. Maybe we'll get on the phone with Garrett.

Yeah, that'd be fun. Jake's voice will be back. Totally. Totally back by then, probably. Yep. We love you guys. We'll see you. See you then.