Ghostrunners - 448 - ¡Hola!

Episode Date: June 30, 2025

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I need to get some paddles from Scott for some people. I'll give them things away too. And so Rachel was like, will you do the podcast? Let me go like meet up with Scott. And she was like, should I bring him a coffee? And he just texted me, dude, the lavender latte, this emoji. Oh my gosh. Of course, of course lavender latte is like,

Scott finally figured it out. Like dude, the pink drink from Starbucks. Oh yeah. Give me a break Scotty. Come on. He's still texting. Dude, it's slapping. I'm layering it on a, on top of a Celsius. It should have me buzzing. It's so great. Scott, it's just so funny. So Monday of this week, we went and shot a video for a brand deal that Friday Pickleball is doing with a separate brand, Stratosphere Gen. Yes, I heard about this. No, I heard that you had a brand deal with them.

Yes, so maybe when the deal is done and the NDA is up, I just had to sign that yesterday. Yeah, should you have said? I will talk all about this. But it's just so funny, like Scott is so excited just to be making a cocktail, just to be mixing it. And they were even like, I mean, you just make it with water. No one watching an Instagram video is gonna know.

And Scott's like, I really wanna make it though. And then he was like, do you guys mind if I take all these ingredients home tonight, I really wanna make one tonight. I was like was like this is six months ago. You had your first coffee Yeah, now you're like, I really want to make cocktails. Let me let me yeah, I got a melon baller I've got my watermelons and anyway, he's all in is he really doing all that? Is that what it takes? I don't know anything about making cocktails either. That's what that's somewhat what they required. But I mean, he's all in yeah Yeah, how much how amateur are you with making cocktails? I don't know anything. Me neither. I don't even know what constitutes a cocktail versus, like is a Jack and Coke, is that a cocktail?

Good question. How many, like how many ingredients, does it have to be like four or more ingredients or something like that? Yeah, if I make a Shirley Temple and then splash in, I don't even know what I was splashing. I was gonna say, we're so amateur, it's like, what would go well with that?

Maybe gin. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don splash in, I don't even know what I was splashing. I was going to say, we're so amateur. It's like, what would go well with that? Maybe gin.

I'll just do the tonic. Just tonic tastes pretty good. Tyman, what do you think? I don't know guys. Cause I slept in and we're recording without me. Les Mis. Yeah. Sound of music this. Les Mis. Sound of music this. Cats that.

Is that musical? Yeah, it is. I don't know. Roll it. Uh oh. Oh, I think this type means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat to Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along, let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet Cuz it's a ghost from the spark The cats out of the bag

We're recording this one solo. Sands time. You know, even though he's gone credit to time and he has been our producer for two plus years now, first time he slept in. First time. He's only lived by himself now for like two months. So that's a good point. Maybe he should be judged differently. Yeah. Based on how long he's been sleeping in. Like there was a while where I would lead a Bible study for kids in junior high. They never missed when their moms drove them every time. Good point. Same. Yeah. My middle school Bible study. But once it hit high school, it was like, there's two people here today. Like they missed. Yeah. They missed plenty. So once time, his mom stopped driving

him here, he started missing. What if that was like something we never talked about the podcast, but it was true. Like, yeah, we didn't want to make fun of them, but time and mom was always in the living room for every single one. Like just dropped them off, did some work. She's like, no problem. I'll just do my work here. I'll just be in the living room. Yeah.

Kids are at home. So every time we talked to anything awkwardly about, you know, any kind of awkward subject, people are like, Oh, time is just so innocent. It's like, well, he actually talks really freely when his mom's not around. Yeah. But it's so funny because I feel like we have a big announcement to make about time in today. And I guess I guess we'll wait till Wednesday. Maybe. I don't know. We should see.

Do you think? OK, just call him. Yeah. Like, I don't. What were you going to say? Like, do you think he's going to make it here by the end of the episode? So it's eight fifty three right now. So it's not that early. He's been going to bed late. Yeah, he's got to make it here by the end of it's 8.53 right now. So it's not that early. He's been going to bed late. Yeah, he's gotta make it here by the end of it, right?

In the next hour and a half, he's gotta wake up. Because like you, I feel like you can go to bed at 4 a.m. and wake up at 8 a.m. I go to bed at 4 a.m. If I don't like hit my alarm, if I like snooze it, I could go till 11, like easy. In those days you feel bad, but you also kind of feel good.

Like I got some good sleep last night. So all right, let's see here. Speaker. It's been forwarded to voicemail. The person you're trying to reach is not available. So maybe he's doing do not disturb, so we go twice. That's a little- Is that how that works?

Industry secret for you guys. go twice. That's a little is that how that works industry secret for you guys. And it's not good. He fell asleep on do not disturb mode. Yeah. Yeah. Because it would not be do not disturb at 850 for naturally. Right.

I don't know. I don't go on do not disturb ever. I put my phone on please just to disturb. Like give me updates on my team. Update me about anything you got. Wake up. Anyway, we still got stuff to talk about. Yeah. I went to bleed in San Diego. Oh yeah. What'd you do? I went to bleed in San Diego as well. I was there right next to you the whole time in spirit, buddy. Thanks. What did I do? Nothing. I'll remember in a second. You tell me what you did. I want to hear your time. Remind people what you were doing there or maybe didn't even tell people. I think I told

them. Okay. Anna Baffini, she's known as horse girl on correct opinions and here. We first met here. I don't even fully remember. I want to say like she left a voice memo or review three or four years ago and was like, Hey guys, love the podcast. I'm an Olympic home fool. And we were like, what? Someone who might go to the Olympics listens to our podcast. This was our, this is our Broadway star of, you know, 2021 or whatever. Yeah, really?

I think it was something like that. Don't you think? Yeah. I'm trying to remember because there's so much different like crossover between this and correct opinions with that. I feel like I don't know which was which or like yeah, I Remember I was looking back at sorry. I'm chewing ice People love when I chew ice on the pod Yeah, I remember one time she like DM'd me when I was going to San Diego and she's like

If Bo's with you because he loves horses like come on out and I if, if Bo's with you, cause he loves horses, like come on out. And I was just like, Bo's not with me. So I'm not going to answer this. And then later I was like, oh my gosh, it's the same Anna. I would have loved to like meet her anyway. I'll bring Bo with me next time. Yeah. Anyway. So somehow some way we get connected back in the day. I remember, uh, she was thinking she would like wanted to come on a golf, a ghost harness getaway a year or two, probably two years ago, couldn't make it because of training. And her dad, who's like the number one

real estate business coach in the world, was like, hey, if there's guys out there doing something where my daughter wants to like go on a trip with these strangers, they must be doing something right. He gave us like a free like hour long, like phone call consultation. It was really cool. We talked about it on the podcast.

Yeah. He's Irish and he's the word bleed in a lot. Bleed. Yeah. It was really cool. Well, Anna's 30th birthday this past weekend, she flew out me, Rachel and Isaac just for like an extravaganza. It was a surprise party for us.

Yeah. Because we didn't know who is coming or what we were doing. And I tried to have no expectations because I didn't want to be like, I bet Matthew McConaughey comes over and he brings. Yeah. Surely Maya Angelou's gonna be around for at least making her famous scrambled eggs.

You know, like, she's not gonna be there the whole time. Gordon Ramsay will make a supper. I could, I'm not positive that they know, um, cold play, but at least like, like the drummer, I think might come by for a little bit and just drum along. Like to the pitter-patter of the horses. Yeah. That's kind of his thing. Stump, stump, stump, stump, stump, stump, stump.

Yeah. Something like that. That would have been beautiful. How do you have no expectations? Cause I think that's really hard. That's a fun thing to say in theory, but that'd be really hard for me not to have expectations. You think you would have concrete expectations? No, I don't know.

I bet we'd play Spikeball late afternoon. Yeah, I think I would. Just in my head, I think I'm... Even just in your packing, you have to have somewhat of expectations of something. Like, but depending on what you pack, like is based on your expectations. That's true. To truly have zero expectations is kind of insane.

I would say my expectations were to be outdoors and to be like sporty. Maybe you should say you had low expectations rather than like no expectations. I expected very little of her. Low, not no. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Just expect very little of everybody. Low, not no. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just expect very little

of everybody. Yes. That's my motto. Like I expected to have very minimal fun. Is that what you're saying? Like, yeah. I expected to like no one else be invited and it's like a prank and it's just me and her and Rachel and Isaac. Got you. Yeah. We don't do anything. Okay. That's what I expected. Okay. But I brought a suitcase full of active clothes. It's a pickleball paddles gave out a bunch and classic. Let's see. It was a, I don't have this written down in order. Let me just try and think here's one thing I did not expect us to ever get near the horses because these things are worth a quadrillion dollars. Genuinely though, did she say? I'm curious, or could you give a wits to wagers, like number, like.

Dude, wits to wagers. I brought that. Isn't that the word? No, it is. I brought that to correct opinions yesterday. Cause I was like, this is going to be fun. Let's do it for Patreon. Let's see like Katie's insane guesses.

Trey was actually the one with the most insane guess. I said out of the adult, like adult population of the world, how many are literate? And he said 30% every three people can read and write. So like one guy in Africa, one guy in France, one guy here, we're the only ones who can read and write. 30% correct answer was 86%. And so yeah, that gave us ammunition for the rest of the episode. That's amazing. Um, I mean, I would say a fully trained taught notch. Yeah.

Like a million dollars dressage horse. Yeah. Right. Seven figures. Crazy. Uh, it's always like, Oh, you don't have to like let me near them. Definitely don't let Isaac near them. Yeah.

Isaac's going to accidentally saw off one of their Definitely don't let Isaac near them. Yeah, Isaac's gonna accidentally saw off one of their legs or something. He's a woodworker. Yeah, I don't know. He just saw his thing, that's what he does. I don't know. He's back there with a pickleball paddle just withering under their horseshoe.

This is what I do. This is what you, you know, you get a lucky horseshoe. I'm trying to get it off of him. But they let us see their horses. That was one thing they do. I think it was, I don't know if this is tradition or just for the sake of like content they were getting, but they were like, all right, Rachel, Jake, Isaac,

you guys don't know anything about horses. We're going to have you, I think it was tack up a horse. Oh, I've heard that. Got my horses in the tag, both of them in the tag. That's how I learned that word is from Old Town Road. Little Noss. Yeah. So we tagged up a horse

and they didn't give us any instruction. The whole point was like, this is supposed to be funny, how bad you are at it. Okay. And I just, I wouldn't say spooked, but I don't like getting near the back of a horse. I've seen too many videos. That's what they always say.

And they can sense your fear, I always heard. They could smell it. That's probably why I wasn't invited is because if I am in the same vicinity of this horse. They would be spooked too. Yeah, that horse is flying around. So, I mean, they first had us like wrap these, here you go, like they look like ankle braces.

Like here, put these on them. Ankle braces. They look like them. I was like, I don't know where these go. And so we had those in the wrong spot. Yeah, padded. These padded things that looked like they would go somewhere around their legs.

Like underneath the foot and like, did they, are they in an L shape? So we all thought not quite L shape, more of like, you know, like a- Like leg warmers. No, I'm trying to think of like a player who would have done this. A baseball player who wants to protect a foul ball

going off their left ankle, like a right-handed hitter. 100%. They look like that. Yes. So they weren't L shaped. So that's where I put it on the horse, like right above the shoe. I don't want any foul balls going off of it.

Correct, yeah. And apparently these are just keep the legs from hitting each other. So you put them a little higher up. You put them closer to the knees. Oh. So you don't knee knock yourself. Yeah.

I'm getting this wrong probably. No, no, they're called knee knockers. Okay, knee knock tacks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, Buster getting this wrong probably. Okay. Neenuck tax. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Buster's here. Come on in. Say hi to Tymon. Introducing TurboTax business, a brand new way to file your own T2 return all while getting help from an expert who actually knows small businesses. Got a tattoo studio, toy store, tiny but mighty taco stand. We've got someone who gets small business taxes inside and out.

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Vanilla latte. Get over here a little bit. Sorry. You're blocking me. Put closer your taste you said. Okay. Close to. Look at the color though the Conno with vanilla. Close to your to lavender. You go lavender for him to. Okay. You got it for Scott. I heard. Yeah.

He loved it. Do you want to sit down real quick? I'm talking about San Diego. If you have something to do, you can, but it would be fun to have you help talk about San Diego. Yes. Yes. That would be good. You on your own.

Test the mic. Make sure it's on. Oh, yeah. I turned it down. It's not. No. Test the mic, make sure it's on. Oh yeah, I turned it down. Test. It's not. No.

Test? Yes. Yes. Do you want to link back? Oh sure. Put a headphone on if you want. Relax, relax. No problem if you don't.

Put a headphone on. You're not on camera, so don't worry about the lack of makeup that you have on. Actually accurate. In my hair. I was just talking about tacking up the horse. Oh yeah. Did you tack? The boys did most of it. All I did was put on tacking up the horse. Oh yeah. Did you tack?

The boys did most of it. All I did was put on one of those ankle things. Okay. And I thought I did pretty fine. Oh, so there's more to it than just the ankle things. So that was the start. And yes. There's something, oh, I did do something wrong actually.

There's like, you put something, a harness on of some sort. You're putting it on their face? Well, I did and they was supposed to go back on their neck, I think. Oh. They like let us do it wrong. And then they fixed it all. OK, OK. And then you put the saddle on.

They're like, this is not a dressage saddle. This is a Western saddle. Yeah. We're like, oh, thank goodness. OK, what's what's the difference, Rachel? Well, Western cowboys use. Yeah. Bo would love them.

Yeah. It's like Pony Express. You need to get there quick. There. Bo would love them. Yeah. This is like Pony Express. You need to get there quick. There's gold. Come on. Ha! Dressage. Dressage is more.

It's a little bit finer. It's fancier. OK. You need to act. You need to act, really. They still have the, what do they call? Yeah, I don't know what I'm doing over here. Turn the front of the microphone. The base. Yeah. Yep. You got to make that parallel to the

rest of it. That'll help equal it out. I just, I was looking at Brad through the computer. Sure. We get it. Yep. That's how it's always been. Um, I think dressage, uh, saddles don't have a horn. That's where I was a shoe. Is a shoe horn? Could be. That could be horse saddle horn. Saddle horn sounds probably most right. Shoe horn. What is a shoe horn? I think a shoe horn is like what helps you. Yeah, you get. What things do horses wear? Horse shoes. Horse shoe horns. Horse shoe horns. It's all one. They hang the horseshoes on the shoe horn. Maybe. Okay. Now, it's probably Sal. I always thought that that's where you're supposed to hold

it. Like that was like your grip for you when you're holding. You know, I thought the same thing, but then. That's that's stupid when Isaac was doing that all the girls were like look at him holding the horn Look at that Kansas boy. Yep, that's a horn holder. Yeah. Hey Rachel. Someone's here timing. Hey Is someone cleaning our house? Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. I forgot about that. Do you wanna go say hello and maybe explain what's happening in here?

Hola! She's white. Ah, frick. That's so bad. She's so white, dude. That's somehow worse. I know, I know. That's worse. Oh. I know. I know.

No, it's not. They think I'm Hispanic. That's right. She can't see you. And that was a spot on impression of someone who speaks Spanish. That was so, I thought it was Molly Becks. I'm just like white blonde girl walks into her house, Brad. Oh, so good. Just kidding. It's a joke. Oh, that's so funny.

Man, Tywin, you're missing out today. Yeah, Tywin. Okay. So you're talking here. You're telling me Isaac's a horn holder. Yeah. Born and bred. I got to turn the air down lower. It's hot in here. That laughter got you going. Hola. Gosh, I didn't know she was coming today. My room's a mess. That's what you want. That should be like, you should always schedule them for when you don't know they're coming.

Because then they really will clean. Now that's a good life hack. Should we try the door? I don't know. Yeah, I got it. Sorry. Because then yeah, like it's like, let's surprise each other with when they come. That's a great point. You should surprise each other with like all sorts of like upkeep things like that. Car detailing dentist appointment. Yeah. Like, ha, now you can't get ready for it. Yeah. Unless they're going to charge you twice as much money now because it's like well

I had a lot they might I tried to have it planned because we switched. Oh, yeah, I'm more non-toxic Oh good, and what she means by that is she means non-hispanic clean heart maids kinkade cleaning Okay, I don't know there's ghostie. There's a work. Ah also white Nontoxic. Yeah Toxically nontoxic toxic femininity What if that's Just lead into like yeah, we will

We use roundup indoors, yeah, we don't care Anyway, anyway Isaac's a horn holder we tack up this horse and, and then they let us ride them. Okay. Which I was not expecting. And so how many horses were there for y'all right at the same time? No one at a time. Cause Anna is like with you, like guiding the horse. Okay.

She's talking her own language over there. The horse. Yeah. Yes. Is she doing that? She's being so encouraging. Yeah. She must be a very verbal, what is that? Words of affirmation. She's given the horse good feedback and us and we're just sitting here, but thank you. Yeah. She was really encouraging. So who got to go first? Isaac went first.

Of course. And it was awesome. I mean, it was just, I mean, I guess I didn't really know what it's supposed to look like, but I was pretty sure it wasn't that. Okay. Did you guys have any gear on? Like, did you wear the long boots or the big helmet, like the round helmet? Yes, helmet.

Okay. One of us had boots and all of us had a helmet who had the boots on. Rachel had the boots on. Yeah. Cause she was the only one to fit into the boots. Yep. Yeah. Rachel had the boots.

Makes sense. And Anna's leggings. Really Rachel just wore. I wore a lot of Anna's clothes this weekend. Okay. I didn't pack well. Were they equestrian leggings? Yes, they were. They were like sticky on the in their inner thigh. Well, what do you mean?

Oh, like really grip to the core. I see. I see. I see. Like on the outside of the inner. Yes. Okay. Yes. Oh, cool. Yeah, they were great. They're very comfy. Actually, it looks she just got a brand deal with them or something. I saw her post yesterday. I said, best riding pants I've ever worn.

Whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But so Isaac goes first and I'm just like laughing. It's just funny. Like Isaac's on this horse and this is great. He's probably in his like, you know, five inch inseam shorts and, you know, like athletic shirt, right? Like they did tell us, they told us to bring jeans. Okay. So we had, he had some like, shirt, right? Like they did tell us helmet. They told us bring jeans Okay, so we had he had some like oh work and Jake and Isaac next to each other in those outfits was so funny It was like this is what you guys would look like if you were insurance agents, but not working that day It was like weird fitting khakis and then like hokas. I had like jeans You look like Jake from State Farm. Yeah Yeah, it's just funny just cuz Isaac's just he looks humongous on this huge horse and like Hocus. I had like jeans and Hocus on. You look like Jake from State Farm. Yes. Yeah.

It's just funny just cause Isaac, he looks humongous on this huge horse and then all the girls, cause Anna had like other equestrian girls also there. And so they are just laughing like, look at him bouncing. And then you're looking at like, he is kind of bouncing.

Which has to hurt. Anna. Anna showed us like what it looks like to ride the horse. She did it first. It's graceful. And it's so graceful. So first she was seated and then she was like, you know when the horse goes faster, you can kind of bounce with it.

It kind of gets you into the groove. And Isaac really did that. If you could somehow block out the horse, it would look like Anna is just like on an escalator. Yeah, she was steady. She was so smooth. She was a gimbal almost. A gimbal, yes.

She was like a... Rooster's head. Yes, Tymon would love that job. Seen those videos? You can like move a chicken's body and the head stays in the same spot. I'm not making this up. This is what they model.

Oh, I thought that was like a camera term. A rooster's head. Tymon would love that. I did, I was like, Tymon would love that job. Oh, he'd love, like a camera turn. A rooster's head. Simon would love that. I did. I was like, Oh, time would have loved that job. He loved the smell of it. F stop rooster's head. I heard that's what they modeled. Like these like motorized gimbals after as a chicken to always keep their head in like the same spot. Cool. That's what we'll pull it up later. But timing gets here. First thing he does. What were

we talking about? Isaac bouncing. Isaac was moving. He was, he loved that. So what do you think he was bouncing too much? Yeah, yeah. He said it didn't really hurt, but I think it was just like. It's probably exhausting. But the idea is like, especially for guys,

in order for it not to hurt when you're riding, I've watched Yellowstone, that's the only thing I really know about all this stuff. Yeah, I've literally never ridden a horse in my life. It's my second time ever. I hadn't before. Really? Yeah.

Okay, I think that's probably pretty uncommon. Like I feel like most people have ridden a horse. Like at a fair or someone's birthday, you did pony rides. YMCA camp back in the day, you know? Yeah, yeah, but like I've heard like, yeah, in order for guys not to get hurt with the crotch thing, A, don't hold the shoe horn shoe horn B. Yeah. Yeah. Jump up. Like get in the groove. Feel the rhythm. Yeah. Feel the rhythm. Feel the rhyme.

So then Rachel goes next. And I think Rachel does like a considerably like better job riding the horse. But they were obsessed over though. Like even like Anna's mom is out there. Man, look at those heels. obsessed over though, like even like Anna's mom is out there. Man, look at those heels. I was like, what? My heels were down. I guess that's like, oh, that's like top notch technique. Heels down, top notch. Something about, I think it's just human nature, I guess,

to want to stand up and you like, you stand up in the stirrups and you, your toes are down or your feet are even just like flat. Makes sense. But a rider knows heels down. So you heard that? You're like, oh, I didn't. I heard, well, yeah, they. They didn't tell us to do that beforehand. Rachel you heard that you're like I didn't I well Yeah, they they didn't tell us to do that beforehand Rachel's just doing it and they just can't get over it

This is a natural athlete heels are down Which I was actually very nervous to get on this horse because any balance sport Yeah, I'm so bad at being terrible rollerblading disgusting actually like Yes, dear eyes so bad disgusting actually. Like Bambi out there. Like, yes, the deer on ice. So bad. So it's like, this isn't going to be good. And this is such an expensive horse. And you could fall a long way. Okay. So you were, I mean, I was tense. So maybe that's why my heels were down. Yeah. You were just like, just, just get me around this thing. Catherine. I call that stressful fun

when it's just like, uh, I enjoyed it, but I'm glad to be getting off of it's going to be nice. Yeah. Okay. I would say something about these like thrill seeking things. I never get nervous. I don't get nervous to bungee jump or something about the horse. I was like pure excitement.

Okay. Couldn't wait to get on it. Um, it had a blast. They were very complimentary of me to the point where I thought they were messing with me. Cause when I went like a hundred yards away, no one had said anything. And when I came back, they were all like clapping and oohing and owing too much.

I was like, Rachel, like, were they messing? No, they were, they were obsessed with Jake's riding skills. Really? Heels? I don't think I was that- I didn't hear any heel comments. Heels, horns?

No horns? So I went no horns. No horns. So I went no horns No horns heels down I Just like I think I caught the rhythm so to speak very easily cool It was just like I was just in rhythm with the horse. He got to do tricks that me and Isaac didn't even get mentioned What what kind of tricks? We would like sign up stand up like on our hind legs What kind of tricks we would like sign up stand up like on our hind legs

Like lightning struck it was like this crazy scene. Oh, yeah, we did a ring of fire one time I Jousted Anna on this other horse We did a little bit of everything it took an hour and a half. No What I mean, there's one where I don't know what it's called, but like the horse starts to walk sideways or like an angle. Oh, yeah, I called it drifting. You did like the crab walk. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen those. What about the ones where they're like doing? Did you do those? That is dressage. Wait, I think that's a pee off. You pee off? Did I pee off?

Yeah, you did pee off. I don't think. That's so dope. It is so cool. It's that Rice Piaf. Zom, zom. And they usually have like really cool music with it. Like.

What will people say when they hear that I'm Jesus? Zom, zom, zom. That's awesome. That's a really cool song, dude. I don't think they heard Tobi in that. It's gotta be Tobi in that. I said, hey little girl with the precious other world on your shoulder.

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we were like in their living room, and we were just like taking turns, showing other people's content on YouTube, on the TV. And we're all miserable. You know, it's like, let's look up Rachel Coupe volleyball highlights. Let's look up Friday pickleball videos. Let's look up Anna Buffini this. And so, up Friday Pickleball videos. Let's look up Anna Buffini this.

And so, you know, we all kind of feel the same way about that. And so I think she was a little like, I don't know if I want to do this on my birthday, but everyone was like, Anna, you perform, you show us. And I'm really glad she did. So she did like her, I think it's the freestyle. Piaf?

So it's, you know, it was the backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle. Yeah, so the horse just swish. Yeah, the horse swims through the dirt. She did the freestyle, this is like what she competed with. So they have speakers out there. And so they like played the actual song. It's a Top Gun themed.

That's right, I think I knew this. Yeah, it was like when Top Gun Maverick came out. So she does the routine to this song. And what was nice was that we were next to Brian and he is like narrating what's happening because you need that. You need to, it helps you appreciate it. Yeah, because you just don't know,

I know nothing about horses. I don't know. So this is what was so cool because I just asked a million questions. So this horse is doing all sorts of crazy trots and gates and everything is to the music, it's to every beat. And so I, maybe it's a stupid thought, but I was like, how long does it take for the horse to get this memorized? And they're like, no,

that's the whole sport is the horse doesn't have this memorized. Anna is T is telling it what to do in real time. The horse is just responsive. Amazing. I was like, well, that's insane. Why don't you find a horse with good memory? Yeah. Just do that. Like, are some horses more tone deaf than others? Like, like,, if you get a course from an intercity, are they better at the rap songs? Yeah, can you turn off the horse's mic? I'm not hearing you. And so that immediately became more impressive.

That is cool. I would have assumed like, okay, the horse hears this song and it immediately knows like, okay, we're doing this. Yeah. Yeah, and it's like, well, that's insane that Anna has to do this to the beat and all these different movements. So it was the Top Gun.

Duh, duh, duh, duh. It was. Yeah, I know my phone by me, but yes. That's sick. It really was, it was awesome. And then one part of the, like once the Top Gun part got over, then she started singing a song.

Like she recorded herself singing a song, and then that's like what played for the rest of the routine. It was cool. It's some Lady Gaga song that's also in Top Gun Maverick soundtrack and us saying the Lady Gaga parts. It's like, that's cool. I mean, if you could sing, why not?

I think she's the only one recording her own music at the world championship. So it was just sweet to have it like narrated and Brian's making all these like football analogies that are really helpful for us to understand. Like, so right now she's riding the Brock Purdy of horses. Like no one bit on him. No one wanted him. We got him for only $8,000. Now he's a world champion. You know, it's like, sweet. That's cool. More football. Yeah. Yeah. This is helpful. Oh yeah. It helped me so much. Yeah. Hey, Brock Purdy,

you understood that one. Yeah, I knew that. I knew that. Yeah. It was Iowa theme for Rachel as well. It was Brock Purdy. So this is like the Tyrese Halliburton of course. It's like this is kind of awkward game, but it gets the job done. He's about to tear his calf for the next whatever. That did terrify me. Cause you know, he was playing on a calf strain. I immediately thought of you.

Yeah. I was like, Jake's going to see this and be like, well, I can't do anything anymore. Exactly. I'm laying real low. Hard to lose weight when you lay low, by the way. Yeah. You know what I did try to do? I went, I swam laps for the first time ever.

Yeah. Actually, we'll talk about that later. That's why I say, you know, while Rachel's still here, but I did swim laps, Rachel came and visited me. Well, yeah, it was great to see the goggles. Oh, you went goggles. I'm not going to swim straight if I don't have gugs. That's fair.

As long as I never go speedo, I think it's fine. You didn't go speedo? No, I don't need to shave down seconds. Dude, sorry. Let's keep talking about this. But you said that story about Will Severus last week. He's not doing himself any favors. He's hiking that those like swimming jogger things up like, like halfway up his tummy.

Like what's he doing that for? I noticed that during the paola thing. I was like, what are you, why are you wearing it like that? Anyway. Yeah. High-waisted on a guy typically does not look good. High-waisted jammers, whatever they're called. Swim jammers. Anyway. All right. Dressage. That's basically what it was. That's awesome. It was awesome. I loved getting to ride the horse, especially when you get complimented like that. It's like, I'm a natural. This is, I have these jeans.

My dad rode bulls. I've got it too. Yeah. Why didn't I do this my whole life? Yeah. So I'm ready to get on like a mechanical bull or something. Or get on a horse, dude. Yeah.

More expensive, but yeah. Yeah. But it was fun. What else did we do? I mean, maybe, maybe this is an insult to Anna, but maybe my highlight of the weekend was before her birthday party. I think it was Friday night, game night.

Oh, games were fun. Just playing, like not all of her friends had come over yet, so it was really just like us three and her like entire family. Okay. And some of the horse girls. Oh yeah, that's true, some of the horse girls were there. Just a really good environment for game nights.

We did scat-o-gories. We did... All right, I need to show you a picture. So we did a game. What was that first game called? It was, I don't remember what it was called, but it was like a mix of... It's like Fish Bowl.

Pictionary, charades, and yeah, fish bowl. So how fish bowl has like, yeah, the three categories. Like, yeah, catchphrase, charades, and drawing. This was that, but you would pick up one card that told you what act you were doing. Like, all right, you gotta be drawing. And you'd pick up another card that would tell you like kind of your handicap or whatever.

Like what makes it tougher. So that was a fun little element to the game. I unfortunately had to go, first time through, it was like, all right, you get to do catchphrase, you get to talk, but your, your mouth can never close. Hi. Hi. Hi. And Rachel was like, I can't look at this. She's like, as a license, it turned you off. Like, I'm not marrying that guy. Yeah. She's like, that is so like, it looks, what do we call it? Ableist? I mean, it looks just like offensive. It looks like

I'm making fun of people. Just because you could not close your mouth. And so, Yeah, how'd I get? Remember that game back in the day where you did the big palette expanders? Yes. Yeah, COVID.

So it's like that, but you had to force yourself to keep your mouth open. So it was a rough look. And after I one time threw like, all right, whoever got the most, you're going to do the tiebreaker. That was me. So now I got to go again. This time I draw a card and it's like, all right, whoever got the most, you're gonna do the tiebreaker. That was me. So now I gotta go again.

This time I draw a card and it's like, all right, you get to catchphrase again, but your tongue has to stay outside of your mouth the whole time. And this is equally as bad. This one was even worse. The first one I recorded, this one I couldn't record. You really, it was like that bad.

But man, I was flying through. I made seven, eight in a minute, no problem. We won. Anyway, what I want to have you guess right now, I'm going to text you and Tymon, he'll put it in later if we ever see him again. And so this is a picture of two things. This is Alicia Buffini.

I can look at it. Yes, you may look at it. This is Anna's sister. She was doing Pictionary. I want everyone to come to YouTube right now. I want you to look at this picture. I want you to zoom in to YouTube right now. I want you to look at this picture. I want you to zoom in, Tymon, and I want you to look at what's on that piece of paper.

And I want you to try and guess what she was trying to draw. Because this is all we had to work with. She drew the first thing, crossed it out. Okay, can I ask this? Can I ask a question? Was the first thing intentionally crossed out or was it like she was trying to explain it with that and she's like, forget it, cross it out.

Yeah. She's like, okay, I'm starting over. Okay. And then drew basically the same thing the second time. Waterslide. Great guess. Oh, what is it? It does look like that.

Yeah, it could have been my next Burger King guess. We were guessing like, yeah, worm. Okay, okay. Waterslide. All right. That would have been. That's too good of a guess. Yeah. Okay.

For people that can't see it, it's a curved top with these, we'll call them double H's on the bottom. Yeah, that's good. Is that a horse? No, there's no way. I mean, there's four legs on it. Not a horse, but you're in the right category. Really?

I am? Yes, you are. She didn't think we should put eyes on that thing. She did put the hair up top. Oh, hair's up top? Something that's very similar to a horse. Cow? Even closer. More similar to a horse. A pony? Less similar to a horse. Cow? Even closer to a horse.

Even more similar to a horse. A pony? Less similar to a horse. Zebra? Yes. So she draws that little worm for some reason, maybe because I've been watching a lot of Oz the Mentalist, I go, Zebra.

What? I get it right. The place goes berserk. Brian Baffini loses his mind. He stands up, he starts banging Friday paddles together. Which he calls clubs, right? There are no bats. Bats, bats. He calls them bats, and he goes,

what's the biggest order you've ever had? I'll match it. That's the craziest thing I've ever seen. He was losing his mind. I was like, no one's ever ordered 100 paddles before. Consider it 200. What? How'd you?

Never did get that order, but there was a lot of electricity in the air. Holy cow. I don't know what happened. I truly can't explain it. So you got it on the top thing. Had she done the double H's already and you didn't get it? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's, that was what I had to work with at that point in in time, I guess Zebra got it right. It was like the highlight of my life. Yeah, that's almost suspicious. You know sometimes when they're trying to do charades and they're just saying the words,

is everyone like, I'm being a baseball player. It's like, you baseball player. Star is being a fan. Ho-ruh. Star is being a fan. Ho-ruh. Yeah. Coffee. Like you baseball player, like, yeah. Stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars,

stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars,

stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, stars, everyone was like, oh, Alicia drawing. Like she's got a history with this.

Well, first of all, now that I zoom out, the drawing is one inch large. Like why did she do so small of a drawing? What was even the handicap? Was it just Alicia has to draw it? Wait, that might have been. Was her off hand or something? No, what was it?

Cause some people had to like draw, but only using circles, draw, but only using dots. Hers was just, just do your best, Alicia. That was the whole thing. I mean, I'm terrible at drawing and I could do a zebra so much better. That's what I told her, I said, every day of your life, you look at a horse, you couldn't get-

Oh, she's always- Or they were just make a bigger body with stripes. Yeah, throw the stripes on there. Can you still do the thing like when you turn it this way and draw? And it like straightens it out for you? I'm gonna draw a zebra real quick. Okay. While you guys keep doing.

Great. Yeah, so that game night was really fun. Yeah. Oh, I remember, I finally looked at my notes. Anna kept complimenting my, she says, you have very supple hips. Oh yes, yes, I heard that term. We've always said that about you.

I was like, are you guys, I came back around asking like, do you guys get the supple hips talk or is that just me? What do you think? Zebra. Not great. Zebra with a chicken head. Yeah. Yeah, duck's head, five legs.

Love the tails. Yeah, I know. Or is it two tails? Okay, let me, let me. No hair up top on the the tails. Yeah. Two tails. Okay. Let me, let me. No hair up top on the head though. Yeah. I tried. I lost my words.

No, that was good. It was just, I think the whole thing, just learning about this whole world that you don't know, being like horses, equestrian dressage was fascinating. Literally next door to them is Bill Gates and they also ride Equestrian. That's crazy. Oh my gosh.

Yeah, I was like, let's go and say what's up. Say hey, yeah. Send him an iMessage real quick. Other fun facts. It was just fun learning about the business of horses and buying and selling. Sometimes you get these horses at auctions. Brian said regularly he gets outbid by the Germans.

Like, oh, which Germans? He was like the German government. I remember. Whoa. Really? That's crazy. You have to compete with him. One time he said they got outbid by Glock, the Glock family.

Yes. Like the family that makes Glocks. Yeah, it's like Volkswagen Glock and this real estate. Brian. Brian. That was crazy. Yeah, just fun to learn. Anyway, that was Thursday and Friday, getting to see their place, have fun.

But Saturday was the birthday party, so we rode horses that day. Then we went and like played beach volleyball. What else did we do? Jet skiing. So then they took us jet skiing, which I was so pumped for it's like well I rode the horse already. Let's you know become the master of my domain on the whereas you Once again, I was stressed on the jet ski. You're like I'm gonna fall off. Yes

Really skinny. Yeah, why do you have to be going the speed limit? Like they're like you can't go past. What was it 45? Yeah, we were at 46 They're like, you can't go past, what was it, 45? And we were at 46. Do you remember though? It was in kilometers. We were not going that fast. It was in kilometers per hour. We were.

So we were going like half max speed. Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake, slow down, slow down. That was me on the back. And I had some self-awareness where I was like, I'll do one more lap, then you can have your fun. Drop me off and you can go. Yeah, credit to Rachel.

Well, first of all, one step backwards, she was not as fun as I thought she was going lap and then you can have your fun. Drop me off and you can go. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Credit to Rachel. Well, first of all, one step backwards. She was not as fun as I thought she was going to be riding the back of a disc. My dad's not going to be surprised by any of this. Oh no. She's always been scared of that.

Yeah. She's not good on the jet skis. Great zip liner though. Sets the volleyball like a champ. I don't know. That's bleeding Brian. That was a bit more Irish than Iowan. But yeah, Rachel's great. She's like, I gonna get off you have your fun and all I had my fun

Yeah, it's what I'm just riding around. I'm standing up on it. Have a good time But you're in a lagoon. You're not in the middle of the ocean. The waves don't ever get that high Okay, so it's not like you can even really get that crazy Okay, and because you're going in such a tight circle, you can't ever really get to top speed. It's like a track almost No, it seems like they've just like, I don't know. They're trying to make a whirlpool. Rachel was there. Big circle.

Eight jet skis going. And she's like, how long would it take for like a whirlpool to develop? Stressful fun. I get it. Yeah. 100%. It's so I say, I say all that to just set the scene.

Like it seems like pretty risk free. Everyone's just like. I see where this is going. I did see, I think like Alicia and this other girl, I saw them earlier, like at two miles an hour, kind of like hit a buoy and like they're trying to navigate. They were going so slow. So slow and turn, turn, turn.

It was hilarious. Uh-oh, uh-oh, hit the buoy. And so I come around the corner one time and I see two people are in the water. And I think, oh, that I would bet a thousand dollars that was the two girls who hit the buoy earlier. And I get closer and I see it's Isaac McDonald and world-class horse rider Anna Buffini.

Isaac has thrown off an Olympian somehow. Who balances on things for a living. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, I don't know what happened. I come up on the scene and Anna and Isaac are 15 feet apart. They're jet skis 60 feet away. Like, are you guys okay?

And they're just giggling and laughing. And Isaac said he was nervous though. He's like, I just threw off this like professional athlete. Like is she okay? And she was though. He's like, I just threw off this like professional athlete, like is she okay? And she was fine. He was fine. I was like, dude, how did you do that? He Isaaced it.

Yeah, he just found a way. Yeah. He found a way. Man, I had a good laugh. I was just by myself, just laughing out loud. I couldn't believe that they fell off. So what did happen? He said he was just going way too crazy

and like actually did get a bit of air. And when they landed the things like the, what is this? Steering wheel? Steering. Yeah. Handle handlebars. Handlebars slid out from them and they just went flying. Oh, but she was okay. She was okay.

Oh, she had a blast. Okay. She didn't have a blast. Brian's seen it. He's like, well, the Glocks are gonna be outbid me for a while now. Oh seen it. He's like, well, the Glocks are going to be outbid me for a while now. Oh, it's crazy. That's, that's so Isaac though. Like, of course, good times, good times. We're having fun. Let's crank it up a notch. Gas pedal. Like, why'd you do that? Too much. Too far. Too

far. That's so fun though. But really fun day. Went back, had lunch, hopped in the pool. Oh, it was a great grill out. Yeah. Man, they had so many things going on. Okay. It was great. And you're eating it by the pool and the pool was heated. Real heated. Which was actually great because outside was like 75

and a little bit windy. Okay. I was cold. Yeah. Get in the pool. It was like hot tub. Okay, very good. That night we took a shuttle bus like up to like, basically LA, like Anaheim went to medieval times Really? Well first of all LA that is that close to San Diego? I mean, it's like an hour and a half two hours, probably

Okay, medieval times. No, I have not but I've seen people have gone. It's basically like the Dolly Parton stampede. Yeah, it's like interactive show while you eat kind of thing and horse-based. Yeah, it's a lot of it's like the exact same thing Really? I looked it up medieval times was first Dolly Parton. They just didn't be they stole it from me Really? But it was like it's like eat with your hands. The seats are the exact same the arena the rain team Yeah, yeah rooting for one of the sides. Yeah, everything's the exact I should say the exact same ones Western ones medieval. They have Skeeter. They didn't have they were missing kind of a jester They didn't have a comedic relief. They need them.

That's the Branson. Yeah. Also Branson, Branson goes North versus South. Medieval times is like red versus blue versus green. You know, that's probably a little better. Yeah. But we did that. It was just a really, really fun day.

It was amazing, yeah. San Diego was awesome. We missed our flight on Sunday, so we got to stay a few extra hours. Uh-oh. Not our fault. Really? The worst part about the trip was as I try to protect, I'm trying to rehab my calf is

I discovered via chat GPT and also my own body. It feels really good to have a compression sleeve on it. And so I've been wearing this calf sleeve and it's just so embarrassing. Every video of me, every picture of me. You've been wearing it the whole, everywhere? Oh, that's rough, Jake. It's so embarrassing, but I wouldn't wear it

if it didn't help so much. You think it's like considerably better? Yes, that's what I kept telling Rachel. It's like, if this didn't help, I promise you I'd not be wearing this. There's so many cool pictures of us golfing one day. You didn't want to wear pants? That's hot.

75? San Diego. Okay, all right. But I did try to wear pants as much as I could to cover it up. But yeah, the calf's sleeve was embarrassing. And I'm jet skiing with it. No, not right now. It's getting wet.

It's just the worst. I keep telling him that I think he likes these little injuries of his because- These little injuries. Classic wife like, oh, these these little injuries of his because Classic wife like oh these these cute little injuries. Yes stitches on my eyes Literally a little injury And it was embarrassing that was embarrassing another calf it does it defines them a little bit Yeah, I know for 32 years nothing ever happened to me

Well, I guess it just all starts with a tick bite really. For 28 years, nothing happened to me. I don't remember exactly when it was, but at one point, kind of recently in the podcast, you're like, you know, people in their thirties complain about getting injured too much. We're still in our prime. And ever since then, I think that was like your jinks. That's probably what happened.

Yeah. Something like, I don't remember exactly. It was something like that, right? Like, I don't doubt I said something like that. People act like, you know, we're, we're getting too old and we're getting hurt. It's like, I don't like that. Like everyone should be able to do X, Y, Z. Have a calf strain for you. Yeah. Calf strain. So was it still messed up? Just a little bit, but it's just now that I know what a torn Achilles is possible. I'm like, I better keep really being careful. Yeah. I would have torn Achilles as possible. I'm like, I better keep really being careful. Yeah.

I hurt my calf. Genuinely sounds so sad, but like walking one time. And it was like, I was like, what? How did I do this? Like, I deserve this. Yeah. I mean, I was walking up a hill at some points of the day, but like, okay.

And yeah, it was kind of debilitating for like weeks. Like, cause then you think it's good. And then you're like, oh, I tweaked it a little bit more. So. Yeah. Good luck. I got, I gotaked it a little bit more. So yeah, good luck. I got a couple of weeks, two or three weeks until my next big pickleball tournament. Oh, I didn't think about that.

Iowa for 4th of July, I probably won't be able to play pickleball. Yes, you will. Yeah, you think I have a crick in my neck or something. I could tear my Achilles. No, I really don't think this is how we make money. You're not going to tear your Achilles. I don't think so. What if I did though? This is like the seatbelt thing. I would feel really bad for saying. Yeah, that's fair. You can break that news to my dad, but you could tear your Achilles at any time. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Like I bet, I bet Tyresus was

pretty bad. He's, he's like put a lot more like. One, he's a bit more explosive than I am. A lot more explosive. Two, I bet his calf strain was worse than mine. Yeah. He's also trying to like lunge much more than you were playing pickleball versus playing in an NBA finals game.

Probably. Probably. Probably. Probably. So. Only other I think San Diego story I have is, of course, very buffini of them. I mean, this family, it's great to be around

because they're such high achieving people. You know, this dad is this business champion. The mom played for the US Olympic volleyball team and she's only like 5'10". You know, she had like a crazy vertical. Yeah. The oldest brother, I don't think I'm supposed to know this. Yeah, I know.

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Gambling problem? Call 1-866-531-2600 or visit connectsontario.ca. Please play responsibly. What? She got so serious. Don't hey, hey, hey. Well, you started by saying, I don't think I'm supposed to know this, but. You like the way she impersonates me. It's unreal what I sound like in her head. You guys, you guys are no longer in the newlywed phase. Oh, every little injuries and like, I don't know if I'm supposed to know this or... Rachel is, you know, in literature, they call it an untrustworthy narrator. I am. I admit. I admit.

Rachel's an untrustworthy like pass along of like what happened. Bro. Like here's, let me tell you what Jake said happened. Hey, here's what happened earlier. Do not trust Rachel to convey properly what happened. Are you saying words as well or like tone? Tone for sure. Cause Catherine sometimes, Catherine sometimes I'll be like, I don't know.

Like last night, sorry. Like last night though, like she's like, we were at this place getting dinner, String Hall. And there's all these different food options cause it's like a food court kind of thing. She's like, I'm thinking like soft pretzels and beer cheese. And I'm like, you can get that. You can get that anywhere.

Let's go for something better here. Yeah. And she's like, and then Tate, our friend, Tate and Hillary get there. And I'm like, you can get that anywhere. Let's go for something better here. And she's like, and then Tate, our friend, Tate and Hillary get there. And she's like, yeah. And Brad was like, oh, we can't get the beer cheese and pretzels. And I'm like, that's not what I said. He was friendly.

Yeah. I was like trying to encourage you to go for the crab rancun. Beer cheese and pretzels is everywhere. That's funny. Catherine makes you sound like deeper and manlier, like more, like it's still bad. Yeah. But Rachel makes me sound like way more effeminate. These little injuries and you're all like, Oh, I don't know.

I don't know if I should say this. You can't see the camera. Rachel did do a little form of military. Don't you said he's in the military. Sorry, Jake, sorry. So what's happening here? I was just trying to explain, they're all awesome. Where am I going with this? Oh, and they all just are really into like fitness

and everything, so Friday afternoon, they were like, hey, we got a little time in our schedule. We're going to go to like a workout class. Oh yeah. And it was like this lower body station workout. The class was so full, like we're not doing rest. There's no rest periods. You're just like working out legs for an hour.

So it was fun, good workout. We get done. You did it? Yeah, yeah. With legs? So the calf is only like when it's like flexed. So I just didn't do anything where I like pointed my toe. As long as your feet are flat,

your calf isn't that engaged. Yeah, you're more hamstring glutes. Yeah. Got it. So yeah, I did all that. We're hanging out afterwards. We're on the sidewalk of this strip mall. We're trying to decide, do we want a smoothie? Do we want ice cream?

Let's get a little sweet treat after this. And spatial awareness queen over there, she's in this. She's in this guy's, this guy walks by. It's like a police officer's outfit, but it's brown. Okay, almost like Park Ranger vibes. We're in a big group and we're talking, like you said, sorry. But this always happens to me, we've talked about it.

Somehow I'm always the one in the way here. Like it's a big group, but I happen to be the one on that side of the sidewalk, in this guy's way. Okay. And so he kind of like bumps into Rachel, oh, excuse me, excuse me. And then he starts to keep walking, and he kind of turns around and says to me and Isaac,

hey, you guys should really get out of the way so people can pass through. You're like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Which he could easily pass through. Yeah, okay, yeah. So we're like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. And then we just kind of. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Oh yeah, for sure. And then we just kind of go back to our group. Maybe one second passes.

He goes, don't yeah, yeah me and just keep standing there, move. Whoa. He took it, just cranked it all the way up. I just sat there like, we're not built for California. Yeah, really. Get me back to kids, that's where I could have my heels however I want.

Medieval times is cool, yeah, but like beyond that I'm out. Yeah, really get me back to kids as I could have my heels however I want Medieval times is cool. Yeah, but like beyond that I'm out What the lemon trees are awesome here, but that's it. That's it. Like I like the Sun but like people aren't nice at all Yeah, it was crazy. I don't think he was a real police officer I he was just like probably security for the strip mall and that's the one thing he's in charge of it almost seemed like he was Off-shift and he was going to one of those stores to buy things Some kind of power trip but it was like okay and imagine like the strip mall of like where black dog coffee is Not the nicest not very busy. Okay, that's like this one. Yeah, that's a good comparison. Thank you Similar-sized sidewalk to I'm like, thank you. Similar size sidewalk too. I'll get to you. That was a perfect comparison. Same color building.

Just like this is so unnecessary. The person who was called black dog. Yeah. But yes, that was a courageous foundation. Just inside jokes. Don't yeah, yeah me. Don't yeah, yeah me over you. Don't yeah, yeah the horse.

He understands that. Don't yeah, yeah the horse. That's crazy though. Just really, yeah. Was so mad at me and Isaac. Don't yeah, yeah me. Also interesting that that, do you think it was for the strip mall? Like the security was for that strip mall? I guess, yeah, was so mad at me and I was like, don't yeah, yeah me. Also interesting that that, do you think it was for the strip mall, like the security was for that strip mall?

I guess, yeah. It's also kind of crazy. In Kansas, we don't have that. Yeah, that's a good point too. I don't know what this guy's, what his jurisdiction is. I do not think he was on duty. Okay.

Well, he was wearing. I think he just got off duty. Okay. I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, that's funny. That was great. Yeah, that was a good inside joke the whole weekend. Don't yeah, yeah me.

Don't yeah, yeah me. Yeah, that was a good inside joke the whole weekend. Don't yeah yeah me. Don't yeah yeah me. Okay, go ahead. Okay, here we go. Okay. Rachel went to Iowa for a few days, and so I was left to my own devices. What are my devices? Cell phone?

Sure. Smoke alarm? Yeah, I guess. Obviously. CO2 monitor? You wish. King size bed. All to Wow you bet you go in the middle I Didn't mean neither. I never do I always think I think I'm gonna try the middle

And then you think my phone's so full I'm literally left without my devices. I Was gonna say I was so lonely. I felt like a baby bird in a big nest and all the other baby birds had fell out the side of the nest. Gosh dang it, I hate that. You know that old scenario.

I've seen that happen a million times, yeah. But I felt comfort. I took solace in the fact that I'm wrapped up in my newly washed Cozier bed sheets. Yes. And that's when all the pain went away. Yes. It is nice though. I mean, I'm wrapped up in my newly washed Cozy Earth bed sheets. And that's when all the pain went away. It is nice though. I mean, I'm sleeping good.

I'm sleeping good. I don't care if you got a king size, queen size, twin size, single size, triplet size, whatever it is, get your bed sheets from Cozy Earth. Almost went mainstream roasters there somehow. I don't know. Combo. What if we did something where like, hey, go to Main Street Roasters, give them a sizable tip

and say, please order me something from Cozy Earth. Little combo. I bet they would do it. I bet they would do it. What color did you guys get for your sheets? What was it called? Oat, I think? I think it might have been oat. Or maybe oat's what we did. It's oats what we did. Oh, it's cream pearl

It was cream shiny white c-r-e-m-e Creme creme creme de la creme very good. Okay, that's what we got. It's like off-white basically Okay, but I mean Rachel really loves them. We love them get 40 off msrp. Mm-hmm. Very good Some people were saying that the promo code isn't working. The link is working. Keep trying. It will work.

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See what happens. Guess what daddy's got on them feet, dog. How do I get those? We got some for you. Cozy Earth. Dude, those look nice. First time wearing them. How do I get those we got we got some for you cozy Her dude those like nice first time wearing them. I like the was that periwinkle No, Jake. Oh my gosh. This is all like is that periwinkle? What do you think Rachel's that would you call it royal? What do you think Rachel would you call that royal? Why you think that's funny? I don't know why you think that's funny

That's why right? Don't know why that would be funny to you, bro. I know why you think that's funny, Brad. Like why in the world is that funny? It's not funny. I get it now. Still water on the laptop, guys. Hey, dad's gotta pay for this stuff, all right guys?

Dad's gotta pay for this. Yeah, you think money just grows on trees around here? Cozier.com's like- Be more like Bo, all right? You can see the? Cozier.com. So it's more like bow. All right. You can see the value in things. That's okay. Let's work harder. Cozier.com slash ghost letters. Huh? Anyway,

well, it sounds like he's awesome. Yeah, they were so nice. It like leaving felt like you couldn't say thank you enough. Like how can I show you that I'm so thankful and you were so generous? Just like you, we couldn't do enough to thank you for them. It was so fun. It was just great. The whole family was great.

We laughed a bunch. They're huggers, you know, that's nice. Yeah, the parents are great. Anna has a girl who she hires to like do her content for her. And so that girl was like there the whole time. It was just really fun to get to talk to someone else who does content, you know? So it was great

Great trip glad we went that's fun. Really glad we went San Diego. So I feel like perfect. Yeah, San Diego seems awesome Oh in the night before we went saw Paul Shira. Oh, yeah, he's got a pickleball corner his backyard Oh the guy that's your dad's age, but way younger looking You know what he actually does look really good he's been on a health kick Your dad loves when I say something. You know what? He actually does look really good. He's been on a health kick this year. Rachel, don't say that.

You're just giving, adding fuel to the fire for Steve. Steve's going to be doing 200 pushups. He has a pickleball court in his backyard. Yes, they used to have a skate park and or like a half pipe. Okay. I got the half pipe put in a pickleball court. And so we played with them a little bit and Rachel and Paul played singles together.

That was a great matchup. So that was fun. They curled out for us. So it was good to see them. Good to see the Buffinis. You know, the whole time Rachel is just such a great person to take along. She'd never been to San Diego before.

Hasn't been to California that much. So everything about the whole trip, she's like, California, oh, that's such a California coffee shop. Oh, that's such a homeless Californian. Look at him. Of course there's a guy holding a surfboard crossing the street.

Yeah, she's loved everything about just the vibe. They do have palm trees here, I knew it. I knew that wasn't just a movie thing. So they loved how much Rachel loved California. Brian's like, I think your wife's gonna stay here when you go. She's not gonna be on that flight with you. And so we kept saying, we need to take you guys all to Missouri

and show you Missouri things. Because I was talking about how I'll burn some trash occasionally and the Californians cannot believe that we would burn trash. Well, burning anything probably. Yes, just the concept of fire. They couldn't believe that. It was like, okay, we need to take you guys,

not at kids, I think we need to take you to Branson. Yeah. Slash Stratford and we'll like burn some trash and we'll like weed eat, you know. Hit some golf balls on the lawn. We'll do everything we did there, but the Missouri version. The hillbilly version of it. Yeah.

Yeah, what else would, instead of medieval times, it'd be Dolly Parton stampede. Yeah, I told him, I was like, don't even like look up Branson, we just need to take you to Branson and let you look around. Branson's so fun, dude. Because I went to Gatlinburg, which is like, everyone's always like, oh, it's like the Branson of Tennessee. From what I saw, Branson way better.

But also Branson's so funny because it's like, there is super nice buildings and tourist attractions. But then a half mile down the road, there's buildings that look like they're falling over. Like a vacant hotel, I think, but they're still operating. And so it's like, I don't think that real estate is like super hard to come by and Branson like, I think anybody could probably start a business here if they wanted to. Yeah. I don't know. Anyway. Uh, what are you about to? Um, I was trying to think whenever you were like, what'd you do this weekend? I genuinely couldn't remember. I do remember Saturday we did, we, uh, went to my sister's like subdivision

pool and just hung out the pool like most of the day, which is so fun. Great pool. Um, it was a little bit of Datterday slash, but Catherine, the whole family came. And so, um, it was so much fun. The, uh, I dunno, like nothing crazy happened. Rosie finally, she'd been for her whole life had just been like, I don't really like the pool. Like I'm not like with the water, like has been very consistent. Like every time we put her in the pool, I don't think I talked about this last week. I took Bo, Hattie and Rosie by myself to the public pool down the street. I tell you about this. No. Um, apparently after three or no, after six o'clock, it's $3 per person from six to eight. So I was like, great, let's do it. It'll be fun. They have a little lazy

river there. They have diving boards, waterslides, whatever. It was chaos. Like I got home and I was like, how was it? And I was like, every single one of the kids, like they had fun, but it was not very fun. Like in my head, it was super busy there or it was super busy. Yeah. It was a $3 thing. Yeah. Slash. Maybe just public pool in the summer. I don't know. Yeah. It was super busy. The clientele was not dressed the way I would wish they'd be dressed.

Like, Bo, look away, you know, like, but it was like not people you even want to be looking at like that. If you like, it was like both both negatives. Yeah. And now then you go to those public pools, you see a girl wearing something she shouldn't be. I mean, her, her butt looks like mud flaps on a semi trailer. What in the world? Her butt looks like mudflaps.

Yeah, exactly. That's what they would say in Missouri. In California, they would say, uh, she needs a BBL. Yeah, I've got's what they would say in Missouri in California. They would say, she needs a BBL. Yeah, I've got a guy. Yeah. You should go to my plastic surgeon. Anyway, like to the point where I was like, worried about putting my phone, like I found one chair that we could put all our stuff on, like worried about like, is my phone getting stolen? Yeah. I can't really save it with my phone. I mean, just like whatever. And so, and then it sounds like if you took the people currently at a CC's pizza and put them at the pool. Yeah. That's a good, that's a good thought. Yeah. Something like that.

Like CC's pizza. It's good. Honestly. It is good. And to be fair, I like CC's pizza. So I did, I belong to this pool. I'm not above these people by any means. Like I, I loved going to the pool. Like it was like, there's something nostalgic about like, you know, those public pools, they always have like, they always have like the outside like border, but then they also have like that metal, like gutter and inside of it. You don't talk about, you don't see that anywhere else. Anyway, it was just chaos. Like the lazy river, they didn't let Bo, since Bo had needed a life

jacket. He had to have me like adult with him at all times. But Rosie was screaming the entire time she was in there. And so I had to come out with her and then like the like flag bow. They like whistled at Bo. Oh, that's so scary. Had he hated getting the whistle blown. Oh yeah. She's like, I do not want them to do that to me again. So how do you got a blast? She just went all over the, um, water slide and everything. But anyway, all that to say Rosie was just like literally barely in the water at all. It was like, this is a waste of $3. Um, anyway, but it was a win cause this next time she did enjoy the pool and we've been doing a lot of pool stuff. You know, our backyard, we've been pooling

it up in the little inflatable plan. I've been, I've been playing a game with them where I just throw a ball at him and asking questions while they catch the ball. And they think it's great. And then there are different levels to it. Like, all right, you know, whatever, all these different things. But, um, the big, the big news of the day from the pool though, was I think the day or two before Catherine had taken the kids to Barnes and Noble and was like, all right, we're just gonna, if you want to bring your money, you can bring your money and you can buy whatever you want here with your own money. And you know, we don't do that very often. Like so often the kids are like,

can I buy this? I'm like, well, you don't have your money. So I guess not. Um, so it's a big deal for them. Bo bought this Paw Patrol watch. Okay. Okay. Like a plastic Paw Patrol chase Chase's favorite Paw Patrol character got a chase watch and, uh, accidentally left it at the pool. Uh, and we didn't realize it till we're like 10 minutes away. So we're like, we gotta go back and get the watch. Couldn't find the watch anywhere. We don't know if we got stolen. We tried to find a lost and found, couldn't find much there. So the watch is stolen. So it was like this big thing of like, what do we do? We, is this a lesson? Like, is this an opportunity for a lesson? But he also bought

it with his own money. I know. And so it's like, ah, like I spent so much money on Rosie at the public pool. I don't know if I can afford to get another one. So anyway, but like almost before we could even give him a lesson, like we were trying to find it and we're like, sorry, buddy, I were trying to find it right. Sorry, buddy I just couldn't find anywhere. He's like, that's okay I'll just I'll just work harder and buy another one whenever I can get the money. I was like that's amazing He gets the lesson. Yes Like he wasn't like can you go get me another one or anything like it was like good for you

That is such a good surprise. He's like, well, we do live in a free market and I'm pro capitalism Yeah, so I'll work harder individually buy surprise. He's like, well, we do live in a free market and I'm pro capitalism. Yeah. So I'll work harder individually. Buy one. That's even nicer to me. I'm going to get a Rolex. I will say later on, like he did have a little bit of a meltdown with something else. And then all of a sudden he goes, and I miss my wife. So he's human.

He's not. There's emotion. Yeah. That's so funny. I had a kindergarten group this year that something similar happened where I was So he's human. There's emotion attached to it. That's so funny. I had a kindergarten group this year that something similar happened where I was like, okay, I'm going to teach him a lesson in this group. Like they were going to learn about resilience.

So I was like, all right, the only thing you guys have to do today is you have to complete Candyland. We have to have one winner. And I was like making the rules so nobody was going to complete Candyland on time. Or and it was like, if you guys complete it, you get your cupcakes. And so they could see the cupcakes and the whole time I wasn't going to let them earn the cupcakes. And so they'd have to practice like resilience and like, okay, I can try again next time.

And then I was going to walk around the hall, turn them around and be like, you got the cupcakes because you were so resilient, whatever. And so they didn't finish the game. And I was like, I'm sorry, guys. You've got to go back to class You don't get cupcakes this time and every single one of them and these are kindergarteners who would like need social skills help like this Yeah, they're like that's okay. There's always next week. We don't need the cupcakes and I was like, okay I guess you earned them immediately I didn't deserve it actually.

They're like, no, we don't need it. I'm just going to give it to somebody else that's in need more than I am. Yeah. Yes, wow. It wouldn't be right. You know what? And I hope that they take that cupcake

and turn that cupcake into five cupcakes of their own for other people. Yeah. Think about it. You guys know a lot more than I do. That's amazing. Yeah. It is fun to mess with stuff like that.

It is. Rachel just heads up. There's not a leg on that corner of the table that I'm leaning on. Yeah. Just so you know, it's never fallen on Tyman, but I am always nervous. I'm like Tyman, just put the leg on it. And he's like, it's good. It's behind you. So just, okay. Just, you know, be careful. Oh, we got to talk about the camera angles from last week. What? People are like, we got pranked again by Jacob Brad with those camera angles. It's like, yes, we got pranked. We paid him money to come out here and do something that had he could have done better than him. Did anybody else? Did you see him? I did see. Oh my goodness. How did you,

it was a wide angle. How'd you react when you saw it the first time? I said, that is shocking. It is shocking that you could see what we normally do and think that is the same. It's probably the same, yeah. That's probably how they wanted it. All of it. I mean, you looked like you were on top of the mountain.

Like you were so far away. Like, there's Jake way over there. You go back to our thumbnails from last week on YouTube and it's like, Brad, Zach and little old Jake in the corner. Hey, I don't know if I'm supposed to say this or not. It really exposed a lot of the clutter also. Some people were really upset about that. Yeah.

Yeah, I saw someone post about like Do they need to clean up their? Studio and other people were like it's their studio. They could do what they want and other people were like it's not that serious Which I agree all of it. Yeah, we always we always need to clean it up in some form or fashion But but that's why the cameras have zoom lenses on them. Correct. So that we don't have to clean. Yes, that's what we've got. You just crop it out. Yeah, and then you hire somebody else to clean it for you.

Or you pay another producer to come in and just sleep in. And not be here. Yes, I'm gonna call him again. Yep, good. Is he on his way or was he still sleeping? We think he's just sleeping in, I hope. Has been forwarded to voicemail. First call always voicemail, is this guy crazy? Oh, sleeping in. I hope. Has been forwarded to voice mail. First call always voice mail.

Is this guy crazy? Oh, I'm sorry. Don't do this to her. I see. I see. Man, that zebra picture is so funny. Alicia's the best. 953, for those wondering.

Local time. Oh, exactly an hour later. Every hour we're going to call him. I think he's with Jesse. Jesse. I saw his location. He's at his apartment. Mm. Could have Isaac go by. Man. He's really sleeping. Well, I can't think about what he's going to feel like when he notices all the missed calls. I'll text him real quick. What should I text him? Rachel has somebody I would feel bad to, but do you have anything that there's nothing you can say time and there's nothing I can say to change what's happened. I was going to say I did text him at eight 30 something time and wake up. So maybe I should text and then you text him this random picture of this girl with what is a zebra.

Apparently time in don't freak out and feel bad. That's nice. Yeah. Yes. Hey, I'm covering for him. Don't freak out and feel bad. You're fired anyway, but you are fired. Rachel's covering for you from here on out love you man what a great ride and then some kind of emoji what kind of emoji should

we do a balloon balloon yeah yeah a balloon and we'll see if he accepts it or if he's resilient and he pushes back. Yeah. If he is, we'll give him a cupcake. Okay. Good. You deserve the cupcake, buddy. Oh man. Rachel's been in Iowa the past few days. I've had the house to myself.

Oh yeah. It's been quite nice. Yeah. Joyful job opening. Yeah. I was on the live. You were on the live. I've been on Bricks for a couple of days these days. Wait, was that same live that I was on? Yes. were on the line For a couple days these days and wait was that same life that I was the first one on

Very intimidating because oh great plan going into it. It's like these are two professional lot Instagram Brad are two of the eight people on Don't be a timid we're your friends Why I'd be intimidated. Yeah, come on. We're buddies We're your friends. Exactly why I'd be intimidated. Come on, we're buddies. But yeah, Joyful Java is a coffee shop in Iowa, not a competitor with Main Street Roasters. But opened by my mom and her friend Laura Dove.

And they've been working on it for like a year and a half, and it's finally open. And it went very, very well. Really? Yeah. I didn't hear hardly any, I don't think I heard one complaint. It seemed like drinks were coming out fast like they already had systems in place

And it was just so fun to see my mom like thriving and just like knowing that she created this company or this business without even like a Like a format that she like I like a franchise where you've got like the bones and then you do what you want with it Right. She just she researched my dad was like she sat on that part of the couch every single day on her iPad doing all this. She created this. Yeah. Yeah. Now it's finally come to fruition. It's going well. That's great. It was really fun. I, for like half a second thought like we should drive up there. I've had a really adventurous bone in my body. Like, like have no concrete idea, but I'm like, we should just, like in my head, I'm like, we should just go on a vacation next week.

Like just go. Yeah. It's summer. You can't. I think that's what it is. It's summer. Summer unlocks a different like adventure in me. Kind of like, yeah, why not?

Did you guys see Emily Madison's story? Yes. Josh Madison, for whatever reason, he got an adventurous bone and he was taking their probably three year old, three year old? Two, three year old? Shepherd, they're doing a 20 hour road trip to Montana together, just them two. And Emily's doing hourly updates.

Yeah, and I think by hour two, he already said, what did he say, like, I'm going crazy. Yeah, yeah, something like, what have I done? Already? Like hour two or three. The first two hours were nice, it was like, he's asking a lot of questions, the second one he was hugging his teddy, the nice. It was like, he's asking a lot of questions. The second one, he was hugging his teddy.

The third one, he was like, what have I done? Oh, because I will say like, for whatever reason, and this doesn't, it does make sense, but it doesn't make sense. To me, it sounds almost easier to go on a road trip without Catherine. Like I will take all four kids without Catherine. And maybe there's not a lack or there's not this like

division of responsibility. It's like, it's on me. 100%. That's what it is. I think that's, it's not because she's not helpful. It's not because she would think about, honestly, she would think about almost too many things that I don't think about. I'd have to suffer the consequences later for not thinking about those things. But like, like, do you remember we almost, I almost took Bo to Cincinnati to go see your show. That was, yes. And Catherine's like, that's such a long time in the car with this little kid. Like I think he was three at the time. And I was like, I, I'm fine with that. I just got a new truck. No it was when I had my old truck. Honestly, my truck probably would have broken down.

She was like, I don't know. That's not very reliable truck. I was like, it'll be fine. It'll be fun. It'll be an adventure. Yeah. For whatever reason though, like when you're by yourself, like so often with Catherine, it's like, well, should we stop at this stop? Or she's like, oh, Taco Bell. I don't know. I don't kind of stick a Taco Bell. Like, all right. She has it all the time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I guess we can wait till Edmond and get Panera. It's like three miles off the highway, but I guess it's better for us. And, you know, whereas me, it's like, no, we're just gonna stop at this gas station.

Bo, you want some orange crackers? Four minutes. Yeah. We're back on the road. Yeah. Orange crackers. The orange crackers. Yeah. He's excited.

Orange crackers and we'll pee on the side of the road later. A hundred percent. It'll be awesome. So I don't know for whatever reason, but then again, like I have driven by myself and when things go bad, it's so much worse. Like Rosie, I think one time I drove to my sister's house, like six hours away and she, it was like, I was like, we might not have to stop at all.

And then all of a sudden she pooped like a blowout, like so bad. And it was like, I can't believe this, this is awful. And then I all of a sudden had to go to the bathroom and I was like, well, what do I do about that? I'm gonna have a blowout. Yeah, I was like, I have three kids. I'm not, you know, whatever.

So had to figure this all out. So anyway, good luck to Josh. That's wild. Hey, let's talk about good ranchers for an ad read. All right. And let's do it somewhat silly, but somewhat serious where we drive home. Let's also be honest because we do love their meat.

All right. You start with honesty and then I'll be silly. My name is Brad Ellis. I live at one, just kidding. And that's the silly part. You're doing my part. We did both. I love Good Ranchers meat.

It's the best meat I've ever had. That's honest and that's true. And I get excited every single time Catherine makes any recipe that has meat in it from Good Ranchers and honestly I Get a little sad when I know that somebody's making the exact same recipe, but it's not made from Good Ranchers Yeah, you hear about hey, where'd you get this price? Don't say that That's the silly part

Also, the honest part. Oh, I don't know. I just this chicken because it comes at like, have you seen their like chicken breasts? They're huge. I just get them from a high V. Ugh. Huge because you're throwing in gunk in there. Hormones and antibiotics, unnatural stuff. Gunk. Gunk.

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That's what that other chicken says. Oh yeah, I'm GUNK in here. So when you buy from Good Ranchers, you're supporting Americans because the whole thing is done right here in America. American farmers, American vendors, American suppliers, American packagers, American shippers, everything. Come on. And it's all done, all organic, you know, no, no added gunk.

Yes. It's tariff proof. Tariff proof. And probably the best part right now, they're still doing their promo where if you subscribe to a box, you know, they've got, they've got salmon, they've got wagyu beef, they've got chicken, all sorts of stuff. If you subscribe to your box, you get an additional box for free every single month forever in perpetuity, as the legal team would call it. Yeah. As long as you're subscribed. So two boxes for the price of one for life.

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where you're going to end up? So Joyful Java though, was awesome. Joyful Java going great. Yep. Iowa people will stop by. It's in Dyke. Yeah. By the chainsaw museum. Is it really a museum? It's actually a museum and it's going well. They're building on to it. You've been?

No, never. Chainsaw museum. It's like a chainsaw store and then there's a little museum in the back. Okay. It sounds like what they can't sell. It's just like leftover inventory. Like it's a museum now. Yeah.

That's reframing. It's like outdated. Yeah. Like by one year it's like, well, this is ancient stuff. Yeah. I couldn't buy, get anyone to buy us a 1978 used chainsaw. I guess it's a museum. Have you ever been to the farm toy museum? Heard of it? No. Uh,

we went, uh, when we went to field of dreams and it was awesome. Actually it kind of sounds familiar. I feel like maybe they would have taken Tommy it's in Dyersville is that where we're feeling? Yeah, that's where field of dreams. So it's not that close to you guys, I guess, but it was awesome. Like, it was one of those things where I was like, should we go to this? And then we went and I was like, that might've been almost as good of a thing

as the field dreams for both. National Farm Toy Museum, 4.8 stars on Google. Not handicap accessible. They do have stairs, so consider that. This seems very Iowa. It's right across the street from a Dairy Queen. It is very, yo, that is very Iowa. We love Dairy Queen.

We do. And we're proud. I do too. It's good and pretty cheap for ice cream nowadays. Like Catherine the other day, I was like, I said we should go Dairy Queen. I don't think she, she didn't like shut it down. Dairy Queen, I'm so sick of Dairy Queen.

We just went to Taco Bell. Okay, but what's good about Dairy Queen is they have the crunch topping. Like, not just sprinkles, but like's good about Dairy Queen is they have the crunch topping. Like not just sprinkles, but like the candied nut and sprinkle. Candied nuts? I'm pretty sure that's what it is. It's like, Jake, can you pull a picture of it? Go back.

Crunch like a crunch bar? Ice cream topping. No. Not like a crunch bar. No. It's like, it's like tan color. Okay. I'm pretty sure it's like, it's like tan color. Okay. I'm pretty sure it's candied nuts and sprinkles.

And it just gives it like a little bit of a sweet, crunchy. Peanut brittle crunch coat. You like put this on your crops in the off season. That does, that is the like, yeah. Looks like Milo. Peanut brittle, is that what you said? It does taste a bit like that. Oh, interesting.

It's just like enhanced sprinkles. I like Dairy Queen because they use real M&Ms not mini M&Ms Because the real M&Ms but they're they're crushed up and so they're harder, I don't know they're better Nice and their chocolate ice cream is like chocolate ice cream not vanilla ice cream is like chocolate ice cream, not vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup. Yeah. I remember when the McFlurry first came out, I was very excited and almost chipped my tooth

on those frozen M&Ms. Yeah. They do get tough. They get tough, they get sharp, they get cold. And so I always go Oreo. The M&Ms are so hard. Oh yeah, you would not like Dairy Queen M&Ms. I don't think so.

They're hard as ice. Oh yeah. Stick with the crunch. Cassidy Miles, Dairy Queen Gala.. I don't think so. They're harder size. Oh yeah. Stick with the crunch. Cassidy Miles, Dairy Queen. Yeah. Yes. She's going to love this.

She's going to love this. She might say that you guys are completely wrong or maybe they don't have crunch. Cassidy, you better have crunch in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania seems like a crunch place. Yeah. Yeah, they got Hershey up there. Yeah, they got Hershey. So they're using M&Ms.

No, M&Ms are not Hershey. Mars. Ooh. I bet they still use M&Ms though. Cassidy, answer. Cassidy, let us know. I'm excited to see Cassidy next because she just worked at a summer camp for the last week or two and I want to swap stories. Yeah. You know, she'll have driven 30 hours straight without sleeping.

To get there. Yep. Yeah, she's awesome. I'm getting really excited about Gulf Shores. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Let's play some of those games you played in Gulf Shores. Yeah. Sorry. But yeah, we can, we can, we can. Like I was thinking about like Scattergories is such a simple game, but such a class. It's so

fun. It's so fun. It is. It's great for debating. Yes. Oh, it's a great group game. I do get a little bit. I need to check myself every once in a while. I guess I bet I could see that. I could see that I could see you and Catherine. Yep. Not probably should not play at the same time. Correct. It's like, well, yeah. Yeah. A horse flight is an animal.

An insect is an animal. Bottle cap. Well, it's a cap. That's a type of hat. Yeah. Yeah, a horse flight is an animal an insect is an animal bottle cap It's a cap. That's a type of hat. Yeah Yeah, it's category is fun. It was everything was fun. Like Brian and I really bonded over game night. Yes You can really bond over with with someone over game. Oh, yeah, especially I mean one I think we were just like the two main like joke tellers there we were just like Griffin and having fun, but But also the letter was M and it was clothing or women's clothing. Oh, yes. Might have just been clothing.

Yes, yes, yes. It was women's clothing. Either way, I couldn't think of anything. Let me think. M. Yeah. Women's clothing. I think it might've just been clothing.

It might've just been clothing. Think of anything. Mittens. Yep. People like mittens. Yeah. You would've been crossed Think of anything. Mittens. Yeah. People like mittens. Yeah. You had been crossed out. Yeah.

Mitz. That was actually a debate. Okay. And that would have been canceled. Thumbs down on mitts. Muddies. Like they're hoodies, but they don't. For men.

Yeah. Men's hoodies. Let's see. I'm just going around the body real quick. That's about all I got. Yeah. It was tough. I couldn't think of anything. Mom jeans. Oh, that was, that's one that I would absolutely like be like, no, they're

jeans. No, no, they're a style. I would have given that. But I was pretty generous with giving answers. Yeah. Shocker. Oh really? Rachel was nice and agreeable to everybody. But me and Brian Baffini both had the same answer, which was midriff, which is apparently a body part. I just couldn't believe that we both put it. There was another one like that, where we both had a weird answer that no one accepted and we both had it. You have some midriff.

I was like, I can't believe that he also said this. Yeah, cause you only ever talk about a woman's midriff. That's why I think it was women's clothing. Well, let's get to the bottom of that. I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, because you only ever talk about a woman's midriff. That's why I think it was women's clothing. Well, let's get to the bottom of that. I don't know, I don't know, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you're all like, no. No, it was all clothing. Oh my, that's so funny.

Anything else about San Diego or Iowa? Anything else you want to talk about? It was just great. My dad gave me a rain gauge to bring home. If you go to the Butler County Fair this weekend, you can also get one for free. What? That was it.

They paid her to say that. Oh. Yeah, you need a rain gauge? We might. Or do you just use the weather app? I don't, or do you just not care that much about how much it rains? Yeah, you're just not a farmer. I'm like, I don't think I have ever checked on how much it rained. Like every once in a while I'll see on Twitter, like we got record, you know, rainfall six inches. Like that's cool.

If I want to see how much it rained, I just go to the basement. Yeah. Honestly, kind of truly been out of town and when it rains, let's go to the basement. Oh, not too bad. Oh, it's pouring in. Got it. Like you've been out of town and when it's rain, let's go to the basement. Oh, not too bad. Oh, it's pouring in. Got it. Oh, not too bad. Oh, nice wrinkle. Oh, a little bit. But yeah, that's probably just one day's worth. I'll just wear my Crocs down there when I do laundry. That is wild. Just so much rain coming in. Yeah, there is a lot. Where are you going to put your rain gauge? I don't know quite yet. Probably just on your picture counter for a while. Yeah, always. Buy those picture frames. Yeah. You guys have 18 picture frames.

Okay, so I bought them all to narrow them down, but Catherine came over and she was like, they're all cute, you need to keep them all. And then my other friend came over and said the same thing, keep them all. So now I have, I've thrown away the receipts. Now I have kept them all. Okay. But I have bought what I've thrown away the receipts. Now I have kept them all. Okay.

But I have bought what needs to go in them. I just need to print those out and put them in them. Okay. It's been a long, long process. Sometimes simple things take a while for whatever reason. They do. They really do. And then you do them. It's like, why'd I wait? But you never learned. You never learn. Yeah, I get it. It took me a long time. I finally cleaned out like this one box in my garage that I needed to like clean out for a long time.

Just one box. And to be fair, it took me a little, I had to go through things or whatever, but like, man, it took me an hour maybe. Like, it's like that. I could have done that a long time ago. Why did I wait so long? Yeah. So anyway, uh, let's, let's wrap this one up and we, I have more to talk about on Wednesday's episode. I have some embarrassing moments from Topgolf. Can you not wait? Can I stick around in this? Great. I'll talk about a swimming a lifetime on Wednesday's episode. Perfect. Yes. And we do our schmores. Yeah. Yeah. Rachel be thinking, cause I don't think time isores. Yeah, yeah, Rachel, be thinking, because I don't think time is coming.

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Oh, darn it. Rachel knows how much I love the, where she like narrows her eyes and looks at me. She does it all the time now. Hey. It's like the evil mouse in a cartoon. Yeah. She looked at me one time and I was like, you just look like a, you look like a mouse. It's like a villain. Yeah. Like the bad mouse. Yeah. You don't like a good mouse.

I know the look. Anyway, okay, let's do our reviews of the week. And then Rachel, start getting a jingle ready. Yeah, Rachel. Since you're replacing Tymon. Let's just play Anna's song. Oh, I would, I'd listen to that. That'd be fun. Maybe we should send it.

Send it? Let's see here. Let me pull it up. LJMore4321 said, I actually work in the testing facility that certifies pickleball paddles for USA Pickleball. And every time I see a Friday paddle, I think of old Jakey Tripp.

Wow. Wow, what do you think about that nickname? I like Jakey Tripp. Love it. Great podcast, love how you guys keep it light while keeping God at the center. LJ, that's sweet. We got an inside man.

We don't need an inside man. They're all legal. Or woman. LJ. Yes. Lisa Jane. Thank you, Lisa. Liza Jew little.

What are you doing here? You little Jew little. All right. Let's see. I'll do this one from Lynn's Haney. Perfect comfort and comedy podcast. What are you doing here? You little Jew little. Um, all right, let's see. I'll do this one from Lynn's Haney, perfect comfort and comedy podcast, a five star review. It's taken me months, far too many of them to finally sit down and write this review. But here we are.

I've been listening since unsolicited advice. The episode where a girl gave Isaac her number on a golf course in hindsight, a pretty random entry point, especially having no idea who Isaac was or what was going on. But it didn't take long before I felt like I was right there with you guys picking up on the inside jokes, the ever growing lore of Jake and Brad. And of course the evolving brilliance that is time in. Well, the brilliance has slept in. Yeah. The brilliance is snoozing these days as a fellow people pleaser. I had a moment that immediately made me think of Jake's story about apologizing to an inanimate inan. Oh, yep, the dryer.

I was walking a trail in Tennessee when a man and his $2 stopped me to ask where a certain path led. Nervous and clearly not thinking straight, I blurted out, I'm sorry, it's my first time walking. I meant walking this trail, but alas, she said, that's my first time walking. I don't remember much after that except that I thanked him.

Yes, thanked him and walked away. Thank you for the conversation. Thank you. I'm not sure exactly where that goes, but thank you so much. God bless. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anyway, you guys have gotten me through countless 12 hour shifts at the dog kennel. Yes. It's a comfort podcast, but I will not downplay the comedy part of it. I could barely drive all this near time and wrap the buster rhymes part in drummer boy and hearing Jake passionately explain how good of a song it truly is. I also love how often you reference older jokes. It makes me really feel like I'm being part of a tight knit community.

Brad, your intentionality for fatherhood makes me much more excited to be one day, be a mom. Jake, you have such a passion for what could be in life that it makes me look at things in an inspired new light and timing. You're asleep. Yeah, you're asleep. So we're not going to give you your time. Praying for abundant blessings for all of you. Thanks, Lenz Haney.

Lenz Haney. I don't remember, what was the story of Isaac getting a phone number on the golf course? That's exciting. I can't remember the details of that. Yeah, I don't know either. Also 12 hour shift at a dog kennel, rough. Oh, you did it, you went there, dude.

I was not planning on saying that. I bet at the end of it, her feet are hurting, right? Her dogs are barking. I bet. Like, do you think she gets a lunch break or does her boss have her on a tight leash? You think every now and then maybe for lunch, she eats collard greens? Dog collar.

Got it. Collard collar. Do you think what she eats? Yeah, they're all eating. She takes big bites or like little kibbles? No way. Snibbles. No way. Little kibbles. Snibbles. I'm out.

Do you think when she plays bingo, she's like, Ooh, K9. Cause bingo you spell it B-I-N-K-O. Bingo. Bingo. I got a bingo. That's good. All right.

Thank you, Lilins. Is that her name. How do we want to do this jingle? Do we want to do a jingle? Trace text Anna for her song? Um, yeah, let's do a song. I did have a jingle, but I don't want to do it. Not with Rachel around. It's uncomfortable. Not with the, uh, Oh, limpy are going on. Yeah. Limp beyond though. Limpiar going on. Yeah, Limpian though. What's a cleaning lady? Hola! You must be non-toxic.

Well, once I heard she was non-toxic, I should have known. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just kidding. That's so good. All right. Thanks for listening, guys. Hey, we do have one more single mail spot open for the second session of Gulf Shores

Ghost Surrenders Getaway. So go to ghostsurrenders.life.life.travel if you want to go for it. Single mail spot. Which session did you say? Second. Second session. So it's a little more affordable. It's like three, three and a half day.

Three and a half thousand, three and a half day. Yeah. No, I was kidding. Yeah. Yeah. 49 days. Oh yeah. I'm excited. It's just so fun. Every year just gets a little bit more fun with that stuff.

So come on out. All right. Great, great crew. So come on out. Thanks for listening. See ya Wednesday. We love you guys. ["Someday Tonight"] Don't you let go of my hand You can cry every night, yeah

I won't leave till I understand I promise you just hold my hand