Ghostrunners - 454 - No Shoes, No Lights

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

Isaac joins for a fun episode to talk about shooting videos with pro pickleball players, interviewing a man who never wears shoes, and ordering a sandwich Mike's way. Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Check out Cozy Earth and get 40% off site wide with this link: http://www.cozyearth.com/ghostrunners Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, what's up, Brad? Hey, man. How are you? I am tired but thankful that we get to do this today. Amen, brother. I could not agree more with both those statements. I often will start the podcast. We always were like, hey, do you have anything to start with?

And then you say, what did you just say? Because I didn't understand what that was. And I'll say, did you have do you have anything to start with? And one of us will have a fun, you know, a quip, a hilarious hijinks, hilarious. I think maybe a nice anecdote this time. Quirky observation, quirky observation. This one's a quirky observation observation.

OK, but a little bit of a conversation started on the quirky observation. And if you're new around here, this isn't the norm. Do not get used to quirky observation. No, no, no, no, no. Hilarious hijinks. We're doing norm. Do not get used to quirky observations. No, no, no, no, no. It's normally hilarious hijinks. We're doing something called Quirky July. And if you're not new around here, don't touch that dial.

You won't believe who's our producer today. So are you ready for my quirky observation? QO, go. Well, the quirky observation is more of a conversation. Is there anything that you should absolutely throw away that you have a hard time throwing away? Um, uh, well, the quirky observation is more of a conversation starter is, is there anything that you should absolutely throw away that you have a hard time throwing away and your phone box? Okay, good.

Here's, here's what I noticed in my shop today. My woodshop. Good question. There's, there's a million things out there and then you're going to notice them more and more now that we've had this quirky observation. I'm already thinking of so many. I'm in my wood shop. I'm doing work and I look over at my area where I have all my stains and my paints,

which honestly that all could get probably thrown away. There's half those things I'm never going to use because they're like rusted out. But then there's also a probably three quarter, three quarter full bottle of motor oil. What if? What if? But also like that was from my old truck that like needed it and like Needed it regularly like needed to have it. Yeah, like like if my new truck has problems I'm just taking it to the dealership or like

DIY motor. I'm not gonna do oil. I'm not DIY a 2021 car like that. Just seems like you're just Too liable at that point. This is like I can't throw it away cuz I that was probably I mean, that's good. Oh $18 for that oil Somebody might need it Yeah, but there's gonna waltz into the wood shop and be like hey got any motor oil any emo Yeah, I think a lot of minor I mean I could justify anything of like I mean you might need it like the iPhone MacBook have moved on everything's USB C. Oh, but I'm like, I still hang on to those lightning adapters. I would love all your lightning adapters. What if I ever throw them away?

Because I'm still in that regard. Yeah, like they're completely obsolete in my life. But like every time I'm looking for an iPhone charger, I find those, but I don't throw them away in my frustration. I think that's not the right one. Put it back in the drawer. We might need it later. It feels really weird to me to throw away shoes. Dude. Just like a nice solid piece of, they're not even solid, they're like gross now, but still it's like, this like has a structure to it.

This has weight to it. Great answer, dude. And where do you throw them in your trash in your kitchen? That feels so weird to throw away shoes in there. But also like, do you take them to Goodwill and they're like, I don't want your garbage shoes. These smell awful. You've weeded in these for 10 years.

Where do you throw away shoes and feel good about it? No joke. So I have my hookup. My cousin is New Balance employee. And so we get huge discounts. So every year at Christmas time, I just go nuts on New Balance. And there's been a few times where I'm like, I didn't ever wear those.

But I'm not throwing them away. So I like four pairs of shoes in my garage of like, if I ever need like if I'm desperate for shoes, I'll use these shoes for mowing the lawn. Never have I ever taken them out of there. Never gotten to that. I mean, the closet in here is like old, just like pickleball paddles, maybe prototypes or maybe just like first generation paddles. We came out with it, come back, used or returned and they're nasty. It's like, yeah, I can't throw those away. But I will never do anything with him. It's firewood. But my chimney doesn't work either. So I can't do that. You know, who would be great to ask this is my mom, because her

answer would be everything I've ever bought. Yes. She has not used a trash can in her life. She doesn't. She's like, what is that thing? What are those people want those things for? I don't see the value of trash can. But at the same time, she's got a she's got a brain on her. I mean, just like, hey, do you think you have that second grade assignment I did? Of course, where I you wrote that poem to Mr. Schultz. Yes, I have finished her sentence and knows exactly where it is in the basement. Yeah, it's under it's like multiply filed like you can either find under Schultz second like poetry, haiku, baseball, worried about you having a learning disability. Let us go and down with some random thoughts and white meat to Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet because it's a ghost

What are we gonna talk about today Jake hey, it's our podcast We can do what we going to talk about today, Jake? Hey, it's our podcast. We can do what we want to. Was is that a song? Oh, oh, you're it's my party and I'll cry if I want to cry. It's a bit of a hybrid. I started things talking and decided to sing. I was like, I don't know. That must be a new one. All right, you try it.

OK. Brad, what do you know? Anything? what do you want to talk about today? just Genuinely, what do I talk about see it's tough? It's tough to start go half-sentence half-song I want to start out right away giving a shout out to the ghosties specifically first off Caleb Willis We talked about a little bit last week. He did it dude. He did it you. You did it. The ghosties did it. Caleb spearheaded it. Call him the the the

hunter in the jungle with the spear. The arrowhead. Yes, he was the arrowhead. He was Pocahontas's dad. We've always said Caleb Willis reminds us of Pocahontas's dad. Yeah, he helped raise five thousand dollars,

along with so many other ghosties, towards St. Jude's and Ryan Trahan, influencer, YouTube influencer, and just kind of an amazing, I saw him do that, I was like, whoa, that's amazing. And then like, I think I saw it initially, and then all of a sudden it was like, we did it. I was like, what, they did it? Yeah, shout out to Caleb, the persistence to continue

posting in the Facebook group, to offer up his own challenges, he was like, every donation we get, it's now being matched. I found a donor. Also, I'm going to do cricket. Yeah. Do just slam and crickets for St. Jude's just slip. Yeah. Slam and crickets.

Another thing I learned through this whole process is it's not St. Jude. It the hospital belongs to Jude. I was saying singular Jude St. Jude. It's the who's the saint. Oh, that's Jude. But I think you always say St. Jude's did I say Jude's you said you did good Yes, I've been saying wrong, but st. Jude does sound right to me as well, so I don't think maybe it's a little bit of like

you know Buses or buses you can have one s or two correct. What's the other one like that that? Whom or who yes made up words to trick students gosh I can't canceled maybe cancel can have a few hours or one yeah maybe that's not what I was thinking buses there's a couple other ones be knownst be known you don't even have to spell that right you just get close be knownst unbeknownst to me be knownst and rhythm you just just get close and everyone's pretty like chill with how you spell it. I just couldn't believe that we, I didn't contribute, I honestly missed it and then all of a sudden it was gone and I was like holy crap.

The ghosties, the collective community did their part, it's just amazing, it's awesome. And I think the day we're recording this is when he might give a shout out on his video as people have seen I don't know enough about it to know That's amazing wait so well are a million new listeners listening to this episode Oh, baby, we didn't even start hilarious hijinks to quirky observation though. It was alright They're gonna be like I have things I have a hard time throwing away, too These guys are really great. They really get it Wow they really relate holy cow These guys are really great. They really get it. Wow.

They really relate. Holy cow. What if dude? What if what if the the thing that like the straw that broke the camel's back as far as going from us to Rogan, you know, status? Yeah, was St. Jude's Caleb's crickets. St. Jude crickets. Speaking of ghosties, Rachel just texted me just now and said, just ran into some ghosties

from Hawaii. Whoa. She's in Asheville, North Carolina. Okay. How'd they all get there? Do you think that they, when they met her, did they say, yeah, we're from Hawaii? Do you think they said it like that?

Yeah, they do like kinda saying it that way, don't they? I low key really enjoy when they say it that way too. If they're truly Hawaiian. If they're a little darker. Don't give me a TJ Macias saying Hawaii. Yeah, TJ Macias is also like, hey, I'll take the chips and queso and maybe margarita. You're either all American or all not.

You don't get to go in and out. Hawaii? Hawaii. You know who gets a pass who might be a white guy to say Hawaii is the road to Hana shocker guide Shocker guy. Hey muchachos. Welcome to Hawaii He gets a pass he sounds pretty white he sounds whiter than I am Chachos, it's one thing to sound white

But then like live in Hawaii your whole life, but if you're like a transplant there, don't don't have I don't go don't go V on yeah you can't be a traveling nurse and be like yeah, so I did three months in Annapolis three months in Cleveland and then about six months in Hawaii And then it got really tiring I did do a little bit of a stint in Ann Arbor thought about going to cost so man There's a brief said I was I was like are they about to ship me off to Shenzhen? And then I had a Mormon friend of mine who did a mission out in Borda so I thought about going out there but ultimately just stayed home in ended up in Birmingham, Birmingham, Birmingham, Birmingham. But actually, it's been really fun. Rachel is flying to her cousin's wedding today, and the only people

going from her family are her and her dad. And so they met up in Des Moines and they're flying together. Nice. And I'm just getting all these random updates. And it's so fun. For one, this is a recent update we just got. You remember us talking after the cruise last year that we went on with our family? Steve Koop couldn't stop buying hats from the local,

like Honduran men. So he was wearing one today, just on the flight, of course. And where is this text? Oh, one of the cruise hats. Yeah, like the beach. Bought one at the airport in Des Moines. Like, man, they were just looks the same. They were pushing for me to buy a hat at the cruise hats. Yeah, like on the beach. Bought one at the airport in Des Moines. Like, man, they just looks the same. They were pushing for me to buy a hat at the souvenir store.

So this is he bought this for $16 on the beach and, you know, Roatan, Honduras and a guy on the flight just offered him one hundred and fifty dollars for his hat. But dude rocks it well. I mean, he's the you know, is it the strong hat one? Yeah, it looks like something. Rice fields. Who's rice fields? Oh, who's rice fields?

Who's rice fields? In my head, I was like John Legend or like, you know, like Bruno Mars, maybe. And you're like, what about rice fields? I was just fully on people. Rice fields. Rice fields, what positions he play? Oh, he's the Ivy league guy.

I don't know. Like he says that like a trust fund baby. I thought he was like a designated hitter for the Mariners. No, he's like the coxswain for the Harvard rowing team. Hey, it's me, Ricefields. What's up Ricefields, my dad does private equity. That's right, exactly.

So that was a fun text to get. And this one also is pretty cool. Hopefully Rachel doesn't mind that I share this. But she said, my dad called me to see how close I was to Des Moines and we just chatted for a bit. He said, the song, Here Comes the Sun came on while he was folding laundry and he got thinking about walking Rachel down the aisle to that song

and how much he loves it and how much it meant to him. And when they got done with the phone call, he actually didn't hang up. And so Rachel kept listening. And then he just like kept singing to himself, here comes the sun by the Beatles. And Rachel's like, this is like the coolest thing. That's sweet.

So I'm jealous. They're having the blast. Yeah. I'm over here with you talking quirky observation. Sorry. That is fun. Asheville, North Carolina. Shout out Scott Bass, our buddy.

That's where he lives? Uh-huh. I performed in Asheville once, my second show ever. That's actually where I said, thank you, Charlotte. Because for six months I'd prepared for the Charlotte show every time I'd rehearse because I was the first show on the tour. I hadn't prepared to go to a new city. Yeah.

Second city of the tour, Asheville. Thank you, Charlotte. Did they react? I can't remember that story very well. I think it was like as they're applauding, like I succeeded 20 minutes. Yeah. You know, climax. Great. They're like as they're applauding, like I succeeded 20 minutes. You know, climax. Great. They're all clapping. Thank you, Charlotte.

I know I'm in Nashville, you know, like recovering. But like as I'm like leaving and like give it up for Trey Kennedy, once again, I do know you're Asheville. You're like, you're like leave like out of the out of the like, hey, how we doing tonight? Seriously, guys, Asheville was great. I truly do enjoy it. BILT MORE! Alright! Thank you, Jake. Thank you. Alright, so my name is Trey Kennedy and I'm gonna... No, seriously guys! I know you're not Charlotte. Charlotte! I don't want any part of Charlotte! Go, Ashville, go! Everyone, go Asheville, go! Come on guys, go Asheville, go! Thank you guys!

I am Jake Triplett, see me soon in Hawaii! On August 1st. May I speak freely? I prefer English. The Naked Gun is the most fun you can have in theaters. Yeah, let's go! Without getting arrested. Is he serious? Is he serious? No. The Naked Gun, only in theaters without getting arrested. Is he serious?

She's serious. He's not the naked gun only in theaters. August 1st. That's so funny. I love the physical comedy of like my body's not even fully on stage. I'm just like my head. My neck is out from the curtain. Asheville, go floating head. But Asheville is great when I've been there. I hear it's like the Austin of the. Like a blue dot kind of thing.

Yeah. From what I remember when I was there, me and Trey, Katie went downtown Asheville, got some coffee, and this monk came up to me and tried to sell me books and told me I look like Val Kilmer. That was Asheville, okay, I remember that story. Nice town.

Yep. And look who's here. Somebody just walked in. Don't touch that dial. Our producer has just entered the house. Great, I gave away his pronouns. And, sounds like he's filling up some water. Okay.

Dude. He's peeing in my sink. Either way, impressive. What's that cool contraption of water? Here he is. Come on, come on. Hey, come on in. Come on, come on. Have! Come on in! Come on! Come on!

Have a seat. Have a seat. The cool contraption of water. Hey, Isaac McDonald, everyone! Hey, guys! Hey! Get those headphones on. Sure. And then I think it's one, two, and three for the different cameras.

You just figure out which one's which. No, we have four. Wait. One, two, three. Yeah. Double Brad? Double Isaac? Yeah. Wait, one, two. Oh, three. Yeah. Double Brad. Double Isaac. Yeah. Wait, Jake doesn't get double Jake gets double.

Oh, OK. Double Jake. Hi, I said, oh, what up? How are you guys doing? We're doing good, dude. And takes me back to the basement of the Riggs house. Yeah, it's just like the Riggs house, baby. It's exactly like it. Teens to answer your question, Rachel got a, uh, she said, I want to get something called reverse osmosis. Okay.

I was like, where do I go in that one? Yeah. Did you say that to her? Um, no, but I did write it down. Yeah. You're like, got it. Dude, life hack. Let's talk a couple of life hacks really quickly. Isaac B. Brayton with some life hacks.

All right. I've really locked it on the camera. So fun. I've got like a life hacks. All right, I've really locked in on the camera. So fun. I've got like a keyboard. I'm like, yeah. Now, do I go to Jake? Yeah. Do I go to Brett?

When do I double it up? Whenever you want. Yeah. I wonder the whole time you were talking, you probably could have been on yourself. I wasn't even, I wasn't paying attention to anything you guys just said. I'm just locked in over here.

First of all, I did add a lime to my Amazon cart. It was so fun. I haven't even used it yet, but it was so fun that a lime arrived in two hours and it cost 20 cents and I got the three waters. You got the three waters. The three waters is an insane life hack. You're so right. OK, potential caveat. First time only. No, nothing. Nothing with that. Molly Beck said, well, do you know that they charge you a delivery fee for groceries on Amazon?

I did not see this, and I have not looked into it. Maybe I'll look into it right now. But if it's like $3 for the delivery fee, then all of a sudden everything becomes pretty expensive. That makes sense why they threw in three waters, 20 cent lime upcharge. But I mean, I was ordering so many other things that it's like, well, yeah, you get a 29 cent lime, no problem.

I don't think there should be a delivery charge charge because they were already coming to my house. Correct. That's the whole point. Like just add these literally throw a lime in. So that's why I'm not I'm not for sure that this is true. What Molly's saying, I believe that there's a delivery charge if you only order groceries from them or if you only get a lime, you should charge me quite a bit for that. Let's see, though. But yeah, life hack. Were you excited about it? Did you put on some watermelon?

I didn't do anything with it. You have to say it's just fun that I have a lime. It is fun to have a lime. Limes are so personal, dude. I've got a lime this weekend. Like Rachel's out of town. I don't know what will happen. Oh, you could do so much with that lime.

Is it a singular lime? Yeah, it's like when you go. Have you ever seen that on Amazon Prime? Like you're ready to check out and a screen pops up and it's like want some like want a red onion. You're like no Happen to me actually like two weeks ago I was ordering something and you know if you order like $25 or more, it'll get you same-day delivery oh, yeah, and so it's like, you know check the qualified items to get same-day delivery and

All of it was just grocery items and And I'm like, well, I could use some milk and some heavy whipping cream. And it just I had to tell a roommate, I'm like, I want to be gone like, oh, oh, I'm on Brad right now while I'm talking. There we go. And it just never showed up. Oh, canceled my order straight up. Straight up. Interesting. It refunded me. That's too bad. I was really sad. Anyway, dang. All right. Let me let me screenshot my order summary here. It's got my address on it. I'll just item subtotal 29 cents shipping and handling

75 cents free shipping minus point seven five dollars 35 cents prime savings nine cents minus dollars, 35 cents, prime savings, nine cents minus total before tax, 20 cents. OK, estimated tax to be collected. One cent grand total for the lime. Twenty one cents. Twenty one cents.

Boys itemized breakdown. You're welcome. That was good. Yeah, it got me excited. What's he going to say next? Twenty one cents. So even the 29 cents is a misnomer for me. I got a prime savings of nine cents. So I think we can lock it in, truly a life hack.

You can get three bottled waters and one lime for 21 cents. Correct, that's right. I don't wanna hear it. The reverse osmosis, right? I just stumbled on another life hack this week. I went to the gym, AirPods were dead for some reason. I got more done creatively while working out than I've gotten done in a long time.

I don't know if it was something I ate that morning or the way I slept, but I think it was the no AirPods. And all of a sudden, like I wrote down so many, like standup comedy jokes and I don't even do that anymore. Granted I have a gig like next Friday, so that's what I was thinking of it. Reverse osmosis. But it was one of those where like,

even when I went back and looked at it, I'm like, that's still funny. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes thinking of it. Reverse osmosis. But it was one of those where like, even when I went back and looked at it, I'm like, that's still funny. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes you write it down, you feel good, and you go back, like, what was I thinking? 100%. And I might be a no bud boy now.

Dude. No pod. Can I encourage the next step? No phone. We'll see. My phone tells me what to do. Oh. I got a little workout plan on there.

Is it not like a cyclical like every Monday you do this? Well, I do the same workouts, but it's also like I'm not doing the same exact reps and the same exact weight and not it's like GPS. Like if you never make yourself memorize it, then like I would get in there and have no idea like how much do I do on shoulder press? If no one's telling me, I don't know. Well, just do like the classic GPS where you print off like, you know, MapQuest. I want to print off your workout and be like, all right, next, it says to do. Yep. All right.

Three sets. You trying to tell them to get bricked up while he's working out. Trying to get a bricked up while he's working out. Did you hear the story about him already using his flashlight to get bricked up while working out? No. Yeah. Am I, you know know like the decline?

Crunch thing kind of by the dumbbell set basically where you do it upside upside down. I Had my phone like this and my flashlight turned on and just look like I was filming these girls in front of me So that's why we put Jake on like So that's why we put Jake on like a watch out for this guy. I lifetime I saw his name and it was like, yeah, red flag by it. Yeah. Who is your eye out for this guy? He takes his camera out again. We got to kick him out.

Yeah. This is all going to work out where like they actually won't let me have a phone. Yeah, maybe. So you have to print off your workout. You sort of film the girls. I'm telling you dude, it like unlocked something, at least for me, the few times that I've literally been like phone in the car, just be with my thoughts. I know that sounds like so simple,

but like it just unlocked something. Like where it just like, you get past a certain barrier. Like, cause so often it's like, I'm not thinking of anything. Let me pull up my phone and it'll give me things to think about. Yeah. And it's like, no, like all of a sudden you just start thinking

and then it's like, oh snap, here we go. It's the, I see it, foresee it being kind of like the shower where it's like, I'm doing my best thinking in here but I also can't write anything down. Yeah. And then it's like a race to my phone when I get out of the shower

to remember everything I just thought of. Yeah, it's tough with like standup and stuff because it's like, like on some levels it's like, if you don't remember that well to write it down, then it's probably not that big of a deal. But maybe with standup, it's like, that was a pretty quirky, like witty levels, it's like if you don't remember that well, the right down, then it's probably not that big of a deal. But maybe with stand up, it's like that was a pretty quirky, like witty thing. I just found out, but I just didn't write it down in time.

So what do you think of this one? This is something I wrote down because I was prepping because I think I'm going to do that show with Trey in Nashville. I don't know if it's going to be the whole weekend or maybe just one, but trying to get new material. I'll say something like this is my first show with Trey and over a year, you know, I've stopped doing stand up maybe maybe earlier instead of mention pickleball It was hard enough when I first started doing comedy to explain to my grandpa and he was like that's nice

You're doing comedy, but you need to get a real job And it got way harder when I tell him I stopped doing stand-up to start a pickleball company He's like that's nice, but stop being gay I like self-deprecating stuff like that. That's good I like self-deprecating stuff like that. That's good I'm married great. Yes, come on grandpa Hey guys, it's us talking about good ranchers dot-com Isaac you like meat. Oh, I love me. Come on. What kind of meat you like chicken beef. I like it all Yeah steaks steaks. I got steaks. They got some steaks. Let's go to good ranchers calm

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You can get a whole steak box. You can get a steak and chicken together. You can use the chicken steak. That is deep. I don't think so. Rectangles, not a square. No, I don't think so. I think chickens are chickens. Steaks come from cows. I'd like to put us. I wish I had steak and chicken. Wow. Stake. Oh, you. Yeah. You wish you had stock. Yeah. A future on chicken. Well, buddy, you can if you go for a good ranchers.com and order some, some of that food today. If you all out there use promo code, Jira Casey, you're going to free expedited shipping. You're going to get $40 off your first box and you get a free add-on. Add-on. Additional meat.

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Come on. It's on us. American made delivered. Speaking of Isaac at Lifetime, did I tell you he was able to get to the bottom of his pronouns a little bit? I was able to get to the bottom of his pronouns a little bit? I was able to get to the bottom of my pronouns a little bit. It was because I think when I was filling out The things there's an option, you know, like hey select your pronouns little drop-down menu

And I'm like, well if I have to I mean I will they are he him his right? So I'll select it. Turns out I could have just left it blank. It wasn't like a required thing, but I wanted to let them know. Technically I am he, him, his. I probably would have done the same thing though. If you're gonna ask me, I guess those are it.

All the other things near it were like, hey, you gotta fill this out. I would have done, I'm with you. I think I would have just been like, well, I, because you wouldn just been like, well, I Because you wouldn't assume like well, I'm just gonna put it on there and then it's gonna be on my name tag But it was there are you still he him hising I am but I am just like not wearing my name tag at all Really? I am NOT at all. There's a couple times I get kind of self-conscious about it when I have it on I'm talking to another guy like

You know and I'm like, does he think I'm gay? like you know and I'm like does he think I'm gay that's all I'm thinking about does he think I'm gay how am I talking how am I presenting myself because it doesn't he think I'm gay I hope he doesn't think I'm gay you might think I'm gay but that's not it's not saying he him his is what you prefer to also kiss it's like like it just because you have no that was another drop down menu. Yeah. If I would have seen that on your name tag, it's been like, oh, I guess that's what lifetime does for everybody.

Oh, this guy's like super masculine. Yeah. You see every other guy that doesn't have that on their name tag. I'm like, holding my arms up here. You guys did today. Yeah. You come around here, Mar dude. It's good to see you It sets Sets Yeah

We got to hang out at lifetime a bunch. We recap that I really enjoyed my we had a good day Saturday Yeah, let's talk about it really good day. I There's a chance that back in 2020 I talked about a guy that I as a guy met playing pickleball who never wear shoes I don't know for sure, but there's a chance we talked about that back in the day That does kind of sound familiar now that you say it But we met him again, and I've seen him for years and never really talked to him And we shared a pure intimate setting with him for a good amount of time. It was awesome I okay just to paint the picture of this guy. I described him for a good amount of time. It was awesome. I OK. Just to paint the picture of this guy.

I described him as a certain movie character and I want to see. I'll try to give you some hints. No. Hold on. It's no. I can't. No way. No. I can't picture it first try. No way. Who is that guy? I can picture it. I don't know who he's from. Is he from.

Is it from a Christmas movie. I don't think so. Not the one I he from is it from a Christmas movie? Um, I don't think so Not the one I'm thinking of gosh just say it. I said he's like the guy that says inconceivable on Princess Bride I think that's who I'm thinking of but a different movie. I think he's like in Christmas vacation or something Inconceivable. That's his price. Yeah. I mean he looks like that actor. He's so Interesting. Yes. Yes. That's the same guy. He looks exactly like him. I don't know. I exactly like that guy.

For better or for worse, I don't know if you guys like this bit, but I was I was entertaining myself every time he laughed. I laughed hard back. Did you guys notice that? Sarcastically or like genuinely at first, it was sarcastic. And then eventually, I think I was kind of enjoyed laughing with him I mean, so this is we're going to do a Contrast therapy. This is after my pickleball tournament. Mm-hmm, and

He's like already they're kind of waiting on us. And so that's how we get into this with him He's just like already in the hot tub And I think you were the first one to bring it up like talking about this no shoe this no shoe thing. Yeah, it was great. We just drove with questions for 35 minutes. Yeah, I would. Were you guys getting tired of it? Because like I was genuinely interested and I think I can't remember who looked at me like, stop egging this guy on.

And I was like, I want to know more about it. Yeah, it was I mean, it was kind of interesting. It's like this is my one shot to talk to a guy who hasn't worn worn shoes in 15 years. Yeah, he says everyone get mean, it was kind of interesting. It's like this is my one shot to talk to a guy who hasn't worn shoes in 15 years. Yeah. He says everyone get your questions in years old. Yeah. I mean, I was telling Catherine about this guy later. Apparently, like he's like, I was like, do you ever get in trouble for not wearing shoes in public Vegas vacation?

I said Christmas vacation. He's in Vegas. He's a dealer in Vegas. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Very good. Yeah. And he's like, you can go and I can go into grocery stores. No problem. One time I even had my cat on my shoulder the whole time with my shoes on. They never said anything about my feet. We're like, well, back up, back up. Why do you have a cat on your shoulder?

And they just died laughing. So I'm like laughing with it. He's just like, yeah, that's just what I do. And I'll's just like, yeah, that's just what I do. It was interesting, though. I mean, I think we all got like, like, what's the snow like? And like when you do put on shoes, what are they? I tried I tried to ask him, I was like, yeah, what kind of shoes if you have to wear shoes, are you wearing?

And he's like, I just like basically carve out everything inside my shoes. So there's nothing in there. Yeah, I Learned that like yeah If he's like on like a hundred degree black top like he can be in the same spot for ten minutes without it He's like after ten minutes or so it kind of starts burning, but I just move around Which is hilarious to think about him just standing still Yeah, that's the same point. On pavement just to see how long he could be there. He said at first he would walk on the white lines though.

Oh. Which I think is a nice life. It's like line tag. Okay. Like can I get to the price shop or door only using the parking lot lines. He also mentioned that he had hiked the Grand Canyon. Yeah. A couple other like mountains in Europe or something like.

We were just like rapid firing like places that we thought would be weird to wear no shoes. And he was pretty okay with like Home Depot grocery store. Home Depot is actually like one of the best. It was great actually. Yeah. He's like a hospital. He's like hospital. That's just gross. I'm not trying to get whatever they're getting. Yeah. Those floors. I was like, yeah, way to have some standards, man. But that was fun. Talk to him for a good time. And we just, dude, I don't even know.

I mean, there's so much to do. Dude, you're an animal in that cold place. I mean, there's no one, and an animal in every sense of the word. Like an animal, like, wow, you're a beast among boys. But also it was very animalistic, the way you treated that. I mean, it was like a polar bear, polar bear, like getting off the iceberg.

It was. I'm going to take a dip. It was like, look at those polar bears just having a blast, like recreationally in there. Yeah, just like jumping in. At one point we went from the cold plunge over back to the hot tub. And there was this god of old, old man, 75, 80 years old, just kind of sitting there like. Eyes closed, eyes closed now water up to like his chin. I just got to know the cold fudge. We're all having a good time. And there's like five of

us like you, me, Isaac, Scott and Kyle, like we're just being goofy. And so I just like basically like my very, very minor cannonball into this. Like, like just kind of jump in like. And I mean, the waves start going up to this guy's like chin and stuff. I didn't even recognize that. Like when I first did, I was dying laughing at the guy just trying to survive and as it goes, what are you doing? Isaac goes, you're acting like me. Oh, he's fine.

He's here with a bunch of boys. He likes it. He likes it. Yeah. He misses this. He's like drowning. Oh, man. Had a blast, though, in the cold plunge. Scott was hilarious in there. Very serious, like did not

want to be messed with. I would like touch him every once in a while. He'd be like, stop, dude. Trying so hard to breathe. It's funny that you guys all did it with us because you two were the only two that didn't play in the tournament. Yeah. Well, that's that's like if I can

tune our own home real quick, I think that's just Isaac and I do a tee of like, we're not going to not do it. Yeah. Like I was talking about Isaac to Tate. I was like, Isaac's the kind of guy that like, he could have a broken back and he's still going to try to, you know, jump outside the gym.

Are we all doing backflips? All right. I'll try one. Exactly. My back was pretty messed up this morning, but it feels all right right now. So I'm going to go for it. Just regret it tomorrow kind of thing. But yeah, that was fun.

Tell us about the Pickleball tournament. Oh, I had a blast playing with Kyle. I mean, Kyle was like the best player in the tournament. I came in like kind of towards the bottom half. So it was just like, how is this going to be? But first game of the day, I wasn't completely like drowning like the old man was in the hot tub. And I was like, all right, I think I can like somewhat hang and you know, the thing is we played seven different teams in this tournament and none of them were ever Scott, which is a bummer. We were in different pools and different sides of the bracket. So we never got to play against each other. But Kyle and I lost in the semis Scott and his partner lost the semi. So we

kind of both tied for third. So never got to play only only games I watched were the two that you guys lost. That could go into we lost. I was like, all right. But it was fun. Isaac got roped into like working it. was the tournament director as a go-to guy Yeah, what is that? But in a way you got paid to be there. Which is nice. I did Yeah, I mean the night before there's this guy He's ran a handful of these tournaments before and he texts me. I mean probably 10 p.m. The night before he's like Hey, do you want me the guy that everyone reports their scores to and I'm like Shouldn't you have had this figured out a while ago?

Well, I saw from afar what this guy looked like. Doesn't surprise me that 10 p.m. the night before. Typically he's got a drink in his hand early in the morning. It was kind of funny seeing like lifetime fitness, like this place where these people are all like working out and getting fit, like just guys with like mic ultras in their hands, just watching a pickleball tournament inside.

Anytime I would step out to like go to the restroom or get a drink, you could see the confusion and like lifetime fitness members just like what's going on in there? Yeah. This can't all be for pickleball. Why is it so loud? But yeah, Isaac was the go to guy and you were the go to guy. There was one point I said like, where's the closest water fountain? You're like, give me your water bottle.

I got it. I got you. I was like, no, no, it's all good. I got you. I'm the go to guy. give me your water bottle. I got it. I got you. I was like, no, no, it's all good. I got you. I'm the go-to guy. Give me your water bottle. You need electrolytes? I got you.

He didn't, water, ice, electrolytes, it was great. He knows where the good water is. So I had a blast. That was such a fun day playing. And then we all got a ton of time together afterwards for shower and cold plunge and hot tub. And then even after that, you left, but the four of us kept hanging out.

And then we all went to dinner together, hang out on the patio for hours. Where'd y'all go? Got some Pepsi zeros Pepsi zero, let's see Pepsi zero Medis no, but in Lenexa Pepsi zero Lenexa We're talking patio. We're talking red door. Nice. Are you so good at this? That was just a guess. You said patio, LenXL. I was like, you're not going to go Jersey Mikes.

I don't know. I don't know if they're Coca-Cola or Pepsi people. Have you seen that TikTok trend about like Mike's way? I know Mike's way is like a way that you can order it there. For whatever reason, it has became this trend, which is like one of those things like brands would kill for these things, but you could never do it on your own. For whatever reason, it became this trend, which this is like one of those things like brands would kill for these things, but you could never do it on your own. It just has to like organically become a trend,

but it became a trend to like get really weird with the way you ask Mike to do things to your sandwich. Like it started with like a guy, I think it was just one TikTok, a guy just rehearsing in the mirror, like I'll take a turkey sandwich and I'll take it Mike's way. Oh, I'll take a turkey sandwich and have Michael do it his way.

It was like pretty mild at first, and then people latched onto it, and then it just got insane. Like, hey, I'll take this ham and cheese, and tell Mike there's no safe word. Tell Mike he's got full custody. You know, it was like unbelievable stuff. Well, then what happens next is all these Gen Z kids

start going to Jersey Mike's filming themselves being like, hey, I'll take the turkey and ham and tell Mike he can use whips. These poor hourly workers like dude, just what do you want? Just stop. Jersey Mike's though is loving it. Yes, corporate is is like this is amazing

Yeah, so much publicity unbelievable for us Little question for are you Gen Z? Oh, yeah, okay thick of it Little question for our Gen Z our old Gen Z guy. I was at McLean's the other day And there were some people there that seemed like they were on a first date or something somewhat uncomfortable, but also like Opp sex, having a good time, good talk, whatever. More the two sexes. Isaac is into this kind of stuff. Yeah, I would say he is he him his she is a she.

Girl, she girl, she girl pretty. But let's just say this, the guy kept using the word bro to the girl in the body language, looked like an early date. Yes. What do you think? What is it saying? I'm sorry. But is that terrible? I agree. Yeah. But also, is that a thing? Oh, really? No. Like it wasn't. Let me tell you, that is not a thing.

It was it was like he was getting excited. Like, yes, bro. Oh, bro, it's so good. Whatever, stuff like that. Bro, you gotta get the hummus. That's so corny. Kind of like that. Bro, you gotta get the hummus. I think it's maybe just word for word.

I don't know where you're at. I've heard that. McClain's, yeah. As a girl, you gotta hate that, right? That's what I thought, but I didn't know if it was like, hey, this is kind of just a thing that people are accepting these days is like, yeah, guys say bro for everybody. No, I've never, I've never heard a guy, especially on a first date setting, say bro, maybe if they're like friend zoned or something. Yeah. Maybe she even then it's like, why? I don't think they are friend zoned, but say bro, Because you could tell they were getting into know each other a little bit. They were talking about, yeah.

Honestly, they were talking about like ministry stuff. Do you have a family? Yes, I have some bros. Bros. Maybe that's where you heard it. No, it was about the hummus. I told you already. It was the hummus suggestion.

Anyway, I didn't know, yeah. You don't know like, Briley's not calling girls bro. Lord, I hope not. Like Parker. If Parker is, it would make sense that he is. Have you been watching quarterback? No, I haven't. I, Rachel, I've been really loving it. But on the note of like first date. It feels like Jared Goff and his wife are kind of like always on the first or second date.

Oh, really? Yeah, that's like kind of like Arben like Interpretation of it and granted they've got these like giant cameras around them, you know, maybe it's just harder to be natural But it just seems like like do you guys yeah have chemistry or do you have it off camera? Yeah It seems like they're always getting to know each other. It's like just like so just like super like shallow I don't know. Yes, but I like what were you like when you when you were growing up, like how was how was your childhood? How's my we've been married for ten years? Oh, you always have crazy football plays and I can I can never remember them it's bro ears and I still can't they're all so crazy and oh Jared It's like oh man. That's this

So it's a golf Jayboro. What'd you say? Jacob Hey, that's what Rachel and I think Catherine both unironically called bro. It's Jacob They drafted him three years ago and all that sleeper the app would tell him was the first initial the name So they're like, oh, you know like a dig off do So they're like, oh, you know, like a J. Goff do Someone snag J. Goff we wanted him so J. Goff J. Burrow k cousins k cousins. That's it. Yep. Well pretty white Yeah, pretty main a statement. I guess but it's it's great again. It's such a good show

Really her cousins like jumps off the screen even more in season two. I feel like oh really he just he's just such He he's got such a good personality. Have they gotten to the part, like has he gotten benched yet? No. I guess is the whole season out yet? Yeah, I think it came out at once. As I've been watching it, you know, I'm kind of thinking to myself, like I remember certain things from last season and half of the season, I'm like,

Kirk's playing pretty well, I can't remember like why he got benched in the episode I just finished, he got injured. And I'm like, oh yeah, maybe that was it. Oh, he did? Yeah. Yeah, I've seen it all just to let you guys know it all that's it oh that's it so far I've seen it all by the way how'd you think like what do you think of it compared to because obviously we loved the first one because of my home and also Kirk Cousins was so fun in it yeah

but Mariota was a dud and Joe Burrough is kind of the dud in this season. Yeah. Is that is that like a general consensus or is that like a hey, we're all Kansas City bias. We hate Joe Burrow consensus. I would say to Joe Burrow is having a lot more. Well, I was going to say success, but the thing will start like one in five. But Joe Burrow's got a lot more talent than Mariota. So maybe there's a little bit more built in like entertainment value there. But no, just kind of like just kind of bland. Yeah, he's a dork Yeah, you did call this year. Yeah But yeah I mean just like I can't believe that they even left this in the edit cuz you got to think Netflix follow this guy around

For eight months and so you've got a lot to pull from and I just can't imagine I don't know why the editors left this part in it just just makes him look so bad and so entitled and just so boring. He's talking about chores. And I haven't seen anyone post about this online. So maybe I'm in the minority here, but he's like, yeah, I, um, I just don't really like doing like laundry or like dishes. Like, like, I know, like, I know how to do them, obviously, but like my mom never like made me do them. And so I just like, I know how to do them, obviously, but like, my mom never like made me do them.

And so I just like, don't do them that much now. Like, what? Edit that out. That's so boring. It makes the producers like wash out the edge of their seat, like, get a load of this. Yeah. Isn't that wild? He's never done a chore in his life.

And he's admitting it. It's crazy. And people are going gonna love that. Yeah, just like stuff like that. He's like, I think he's trying to be like, like zany dorky and he's talking about fossils and that part drives me nuts too. He's like, yeah, I went to this museum

and like fossils are just like so sick and that goes in an interview and they're like, how often do you think about fossils, Joe? And he's like, when do I not think about fossils? They're a million years old, like fossils are sick. And it's just like, I think he knows the type of guy he's trying to be where it's like, I'm this jock, but it's cool that I like, I'm into this nerdy stuff,

but he can't pull it off. Cause he's a dork, he's trying to be somebody who's not. Yeah, exactly. That's my diagnosis. And maybe I am a little Biased but I think he comes across as like the most boring one in the show dude like and that's the thing is like as far as like Goofiness goes Kirk Cousins is probably the goofiest one out of all of them, but he's himself so therefore everyone loves him for it

Yes, just be yourself stop being a somebody you're not mm-hmm Anyway, and it's fun to see Jay goff because they were obviously so good last year. That's right. It's fun. That is cool. Yeah. Is there any good Dan Campbell moments? I don't think anything insane that I could think of like,

oh, I didn't know this happened last year. I just like Dan Campbell. All right. The one thing I could think of was there was one game where Jared Goff went like 18 for 18 300 yards I had a truly perfect game Dan Campbell gave the game ball to like the linebacker Postgame press conference, you know, he's been asked. What do you think about Jared golf going 18 for 18? He goes did he really? She's I just gave the game ball to somebody else. I didn't realize that that part's kind of funny. That's good. That's pretty funny something else I had in my notes from our Saturday at Lifetime is there was a guy there

who was watching pickleball who's, you know, I think we all know a guy like this who's like jazzed up, he's working in finance. We all are debriefing afterwards that we each individually got hit up by this guy to potentially have finances. And we're all debriefing it. I think it like dinner that night at Red Door, because this guy even hit up Kyle. It's where each debriefing it.

And Scott's like, hey, you didn't hit me up. Who are you guys talking about? Yeah, he's like, you know, you sounds like you're doing pretty well. Yeah, I would love to like manage you if you guys get a little more money or something. And I'm like, yeah, it was one of like manage you if you guys get a little more money or something I'm like yeah It was one of those things where it's like we all we all had a background well a lot of us had a background with This guy we knew who he was and we were just like yep I'm sure you're just killing it like you say you are buddy, but uh yeah Scott felt left out

Hey, what about me? He hit me up. Yeah, I'm gonna manage my money. It's like that meme Is it we are the millers that teeth or that movie Oh, yeah eyebrows get thousand you're getting 50. I'm only getting 10 you guys are getting paid for this Got the same thing like we've had some good times with Scott lady we've hung out With him a bunch we went to st. Louis and back. Yeah this week. How much we want to talk about st. Louis How much you want to talk about st. Louis? Well, I didn't know. I know you don't like St. Louis. We don't have to talk about it. Well, it sounds like we have fun, fun times to bash on St.

Louis. Is that true? Or are we not? Are we bashing? No, I've been going back and forth on like how much do I want to like publicly say about this? But that's right. That's what I was trying. Okay, gotcha.

Gotcha. Basically, I think we last episode with Kyle. We talked about like going into this. Like there's a chance that the dynamic is off because these pro pickle players are like maybe being told they have to shoot with us. And it's the day after they had like a pretty devastating loss to this other team.

But I'm like, also it's pickle ball. Also they flew on a private jet to get there. We're the ones who drove four hours. Like you're able to recoup. You're able to be okay. And what we assumed might happen kind of did happen where I don't think we need to name the names. If you know, you could figure it out. But three of the four people there

clearly did not wanna be there. And it was just really awkward vibes. I will say there was one girl who was like, we came away being like, that girl was awesome. Like, she was so nice. Like, that was so cool that she was that great. And then the more I get thinking about it, we're like, I mean, she was nice, but I think she just like was the only one who smiled. I think the bar is pretty low actually. It's like, oh yeah. Like she just was a decent human.

Yeah. It was just like normal. It was like baseline polite. And we are just like, man, Kate Fahey just got a new fan. I'm gonna be rooting for her. Throw out names now. Yeah, the positive. You know, endorse publicly. Yeah, so if you need someone to root for at ProPig, well, Kate Fahey treated us very well. She was very polite, very nice, and very normal.

So what kind of stuff were you filming with them? Just like- Long form YouTube videos. So it was like- Usable stuff still I usable stuff Yeah, though as far as like on screen It was like yes Would love to see quite a bit more personality from them to would like seeing a bit more effort from them

Because we had Scott and TJ go against there are two guys who are like two of the top ten guys in the world Okay. Yeah, and we like we're brainstorming beforehand I'm like hey Let's do a video where you guys start down zero to seven and you have to come you have to race them to 11. Like, yeah, hopefully trying to get them a little motivated.

They're like, I think I read you said eight. They're like, oh, they're pretty good. Maybe like six or seven. So like, OK, maybe they're into it. And they just didn't try. The video was over in three minutes. It's got DJ one just whooped him. I mean, they tried, but not really.

I did see that one Instagram story where they just like I Did I noticed that it was like but they won the point and so I was like, yeah, okay So maybe they just dominated cuz they're better. And so then we were like, well, let's just go to 15 Let's go to 15 give him more time. Yeah, and then Scott TJ continue to whoop him like the final score If it started zero zero was eight to four Scott and TJ beat him really so that one may not be that great of a video but yeah otherwise it was fine Isaac had a front row seat a moment that will be hard to like fully describe but it set the tone for the day or at least showed me what the tone was

gonna be so it's one of the it's the other girl who's a big deal with Impeccable and ready to get mic'd up. And she's like, hey, they said you needed a mic me too. Cause there's a documentary crew also following them around. Oh, that was another thing we were debriefing. Like it's not just our little YouTube channel, but like you're in a documentary, like kick it up a notch. Like, do you have a people pleaser gene?

Like, are they just exhausted? Like, do you think they have a documentary crew all the time or is this like a rare thing for them? The documentary is following pro Pickleball. So it's not they have a documentary crew all the time or is this like a rare thing? For them the documentary is following pro pickleball, so it's not like it's following them all the time Which is like this is their day with them But She's like you you need to Mike me too, and I was like oh, hey Well, I'm realizing in real time like she's wearing essentially just like a sports bra and a skirt

And I've got a mic pack with no clip on it because we always just put it in our pocket and like this wire and I, you know, above reproach, I'm going on the super respect. I'm always just like, I don't even like clipping a girl's like Mike on her shirt. I'm like, even if it's wrong, you do it. You know, like that's just kind of, yeah. And now this girl's like instructor. All right. Can you Mike me?

And I'm just looking like, I don't see how this is going to work. I don't know how we're going to do this. Oh, it's so uncomfortable. And I just watching it. You ought to be respectful. So I'm going to close my eyes. Yeah. Are you crushing your bills, defeating your monthly payments? Sounds like you're at the top of your financial game.

Rise to it with the BMO Eclipse Rise Visa card, the conditions apply. Okay. That would have been better probably than me just like struggling like, so do you have like a pocket or like your waist? Maybe a shirt you can put on. And then she like does a little spin for me and I'm like, Oh, okay. Yeah, maybe I could put it. So then I'm like trying to tuck it in like the back of her like. Did you see it?

Did it look awkward from your? Oh yeah. But then it's like, I don't think this is gonna stay. And so then we're kind of like moving it and we're like, yeah, that's kind of jiggling. Yeah, yeah. Shouldn't have said that. Shouldn't have said that.

Okay, back up, back up. You used the word jiggling? I don't know. I mean, it's something like that. Like that's too much. It's just the whole thing. And I mean, it's something like that. Like, that's too much. The whole thing was like... And she's just like, standing there, just like offering no solution to the problem. I'm like, maybe we could just throw it here or maybe we could, you know.

Yeah. And oh, it was just so awkward. It's hard to really describe what was happening. I was like, get in there. So she went un-miked. Oh, man, I hated it. Oh it that's that's rough dude it was too bad oh bad mainstream roasters in my cup I love it that was that was great you really um you got their attention I did mainstream roasters is coming to Gulf

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With the boys but Just last night Scott and I got asked to play former chiefs player Garret Deter asked Scott night to play in this charity pickle ball tournament that he put On there's a few other chiefs players there. Just crazy. Yeah, I know they were just walking around like Mike Pannell was there Jordan Hicks We didn't know they were gonna be there fun Travis Kelsey's backup So the Chiefs backup tight end Noah Gray Who would be a starter on a

lot of other teams. Very solid. Very good year last year. Yeah. Got paid a huge contract. Anyway, it's his charity too. He was there and he's, I mean, people are taking pictures of them the whole night. I'm like, I'm not going to bother him, whatever. Towards the end of the night, he comes up to me, he's like, dude, I've been meaning to say, what's up to you? How's it going, man? I was like, no, great. I know who I am. What do you know about me. What do you think I am? So right away, that was awesome. Scott and I end up winning the tournament. Also, no great was awesome because he kind of announced it. And he's like, all right, you know, everyone bring it in.

We're going to the championship game. Everyone gather around. And then he did his own like Bruce Buffer. He's like, and he was like, it's time for the championship. Hey, that's a personality. And then afterwards, because we won, he was like, all right, guys, So I feel bad like the winning team was supposed to get like this other company's paddle Obviously like you don't want that. So I feel bad Like I want to hook you guys up like you guys should come out to training camp and only you guys to come to a game this year, too

Okay Scott did not what's about what paddle what paddle is it? Yeah. All right. We'll do the game. Scott was probably just pretty underwhelmed with that. You know, it's funny is I told this to Rachel last night. She goes, how did Scott react? I was like, Scott, play it cool. We both actually, I think we're so like overwhelmed by the like gesture

that we were like, yeah. Yeah, that's cool Weeknight against the bills My night football, maybe that'd be awesome. I think I'm getting red. That'd be great We we play that we play the lions on week seven. It was Saturday night. That'd be fun, too See some jaycobs Thank you, Noah, thank you. Thank you. Thank you Noah. That sounds great. That's awesome. But it really was great.

It was like, I feel bad about this. Let me give you something a hundred times better. And I, we were texting Isaac like, dude, and Isaac's like, can I come? I've already been like, so how many tickets do you get? But it was just awesome because Noah was like, genuinely like interacted with us and like he seemed to get a normal sense of humor.

Like I was like making him laugh a bunch and he was like, hey, I'll have to get you guys to come to a game. Maybe I've got there's a game where I don't have a ton of people going out. I'm like, oh, he's going to have a week 18, you know, just simmer against the Browns. You know, he's laughing about that. And but anyway, I mean, he thanked us five times, you know, and he's laughing about that. But anyway, I mean, he thanked us five times for coming out there. Like, person, kept shaking our hands like, hey, this means so much.

You guys came out and did this. We're like, well, dude, thanks for the tickets in advance. And he's like, no, this means a lot. Like, he was just so nice. And later that night, I texted the guys, I was like, isn't it crazy how differently we were treated by a Super Bowl winning football player compared to like the number seven rated pickleball players.

You know, it's like it was unreal. And Scott has texted me like four times. He's like, I can't believe that observation, dude. That's such a good observation. Like it's like every four hours on the dot since last night. He's like, that's an unreal observation. It's just a dichotomy of how we were treated by pro athletes. If you're down to earth, you're down to earth, I guess.

I've heard. So here's the few things. I know is no a great Christian I don't know didn't ask I want to say he is I don't know for sure about that I do know that he lives or lived at least in the same neighborhood as Jess Eggleston ghostie. Oh, that's right They were do a little send-off for him do a little send-off for him and so they like film it and she'd post it and he was always every year that I'd seen him driving like a We'll call it a 2005 Lexus sedan like like just a pretty You know older like a nice like a Lexus, but it's like from 2005 like nothing

Yeah, like this guy could probably afford any car he wants at this point and he was just driving a normal car So maybe he's just like a good normal guy. Yeah, I mean I came away with it being like dude I I need this guy's Jersey Yeah, like so if you're out there anyone like if you need someone to root for Trav, skill sees backup is actually like maybe the greatest guy on the future, you know, I think I I Whenever you meet somebody like that's how I felt towards Stephen Curry's Chapman. I was like, I think I whenever you meet somebody like that's how I felt towards Stephen

Kirst Chapman. I was like, I don't know. I didn't I didn't really have if anything, I had like kind of some like, yeah, this guy's a cheesy Christian like CCM artist. But then you meet him and it's like, I think I might love this guy. Like, I'm a huge fan of him.

Yeah, I might be in love with him. He is. I think sometimes when you meet like public figures, the bar does get lowered where like it doesn't take much like dude. I was so he was so great, right? He like when the waitress brought his food. He said, thank you, right? Isn't he such a nice guy? You know, you start like kind of reframing some things, but this is like no I think like objectively like he is like treats people Well, he's just a good guy. Yeah speaking of Whatever. Did you meet the billionaire?

We talked about that. Oh, I met the billionaire's son. Okay. He asked us if we had done $10,000 in sales yet. Okay. Sorry. Just going for metrics right off the bat. I mean, right away.

Prove your credibility real quick. Yeah, which Hunter reminded me of like, the really rich, like, mom in Arrested Development, who's like so out of touch. What's a banana, the $5? Yeah, how much could a banana cost? $10, here, go buy one. You know, it's like maybe that's where he's at,

or maybe all he thinks about is money, I don't know. We honestly didn't interact much, but it was funny. Like third sentence was like, how's the paddle sales doing? Oh, they're great, they're great. No, numbers. I was like, oh, well, we don't normally, I think I looked at Isaac, like, we don't paddle sales doing? Oh, they're great, they're great. No numbers. I was like, oh, well we don't normally, I think I looked at Isaac like, we don't say this to people.

Yeah, sure. Who is this guy? I didn't know who he was at the time. Oh, he didn't even like tell you his credentials right? No, he was just like, what's up man? How you doing? I didn't know who he was. But anyway, yeah, he asked, we done 10 grand. We have.

Yes. Anyway, yeah, yes, we've done ten grand We have Yes Try think anything else back to st. Louis Who was it? Oh so Isaac Joe Isaac he drove us the whole way there and back in the truck Not a boy and one Scott sitting shotgun the whole time cuz he's got a work Now he did but why does he have to work in the front seat? Wait, good question. The back seats of those trucks are as big. If you think about that, why was he sitting in the front all the time?

It's a great point. I don't know. He's like, ah, I got to work. I'll take a shot. I think about that. Did he have calls? Yeah. OK, I guess the reception is better. You he have calls? Yeah. Okay. I guess the reception is better. You have more windows up there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The reception gets good. I didn't even think twice about it till just now. I'm like, I mean, not that it mattered. But at one point, I mean, we're in like probably hour six of eight of this, we're on our way back and Scott goes to Isaac, he's like, big speed limit guy, aren't you?

And me, I was like, are you trying to safety shame him, dude? Chill out, let him drive the speed limit. We don't have anywhere to be. Were you really going straight speed? Six over. Yeah, not even, he was like still going like five, six over in Skyfall. And I'm like, what do you go?

He's like, like nine over? I'm like, three mile per hour difference, dude, relax. Shut up and work. Dude, that's wild. That's wild to To like even if it's not even a shame just bringing up the conversation of like so you're only going six over 75 and a 70 I Guess man, okay, I guess That's that's hilarious

Speed limit guy. It's like actually not like by definition. I don't know. Not even close. It's the interstate. I'm going five over. I feel like that's fair. I think the older I've gotten, the more I've been very comfortable just like going a few miles over. Right?

That's Isaac's on this kick now. Right? Like it doesn't even say that much time. It is just more relaxing when you see a cop and you're like, bring it on. I waved to the cops. I'm going four over. I'm like, thank you for your service. If I'm going under the speed limit, I'll flip them off. How much they will come after you for other things. Is it purely age that made you do

that? Or did you have an incident that was just like, I'm just going to chill out. I don't, I think it might be, I don't know if it's age or if it's just the truck or just like. I don't know. I never once while I'm in a little bit of a mood to go fast, but like, especially when it's like a long road trip or something, it's just like inevitably, there will be a police officer on this highway. Like some point going to Texas. And I am going to be stressed the entire time thinking about that or I can

just go a little bit slower and not have to worry about it at all. That's a great word. You know what I mean? Like I not because even if even if you don't see him until our seven it's like you have it. I've been thinking about him the whole time. Exactly. Yeah. Or you can have a stress free seven hours. Yeah. Eight hours. Eight hours. Yeah. So I don't know. I'm not trying to act like I'm like Mr. Safety by any means, but I don't know.

You guys agree it's hard to speed when you're listening to a podcast. I think mine is more like a music induced. Next thing I know, I'm like, oh, I'm going like 50 and a 35. I didn't realize it, but it's because there's a good song on great, great observation podcasting. I don't think that happens to me as much. Great observation. I'm going to say it 10 more times like Scott. I also notice if I'm like maybe a little bit distracted on my phone But like a little distracted on your phone or on a phone call and you're just like in the moment you're focused on something else Yeah, speed always drops. Oh

Always drops always drops. That's the good and then I'll like look back up at the road. I'm like, oh wow I'm going ten under. Yeah. Yeah, I am big back up a little grandpa ten under a wild amount The other thing from st. Louis that I wrote down This is a great just bonding moment for me and Isaac. We had gotten, I think we did the shoot in the afternoon at this facility. We go across the street, get the pizza, we're like, let's just go back to the facility at night,

play some more games. Well, we did a number on this pizza place. We ate a bunch. Isaac specifically had about 5,000 calories. And so we get back to the facility and we're like, we gotta go to the bathroom. Isaac and Isaac and Irene, there's only two stalls right next to each other. We were in there pooping so long that the lights. Oh, that happened to me recently this week too. That's the woodworkers guild. Did it really? Yeah. And it didn't work. Did it work? No, it didn't work. No, I'm in the

emergency or like not emergency kind of like emergency. I'm in the handicap one. So I've got some room to move around and still you're kicking your legs up. Your bicycle kicker. I'm like, come on, come on, come on, come on. I took my phone from my cell, turned my flashlight on and put it under the stall and was shining up. He's like here you wipe and then you do it for me. my flashlight on and put it under the stall and was shining up. He's like, here, you wipe and then you do it for me.

You scratch my back. I'll scratch yours. How long do you think you were in there? Because mine was a quick turn off. Yeah, I don't know if we deserved it. I'm going to say five minutes max. And ours is probably 10. You were you were doing these, dude. Do is is so good. Yeahwey's is so good.

Dewey's is so good. I couldn't decide between a salad and a pizza, so I got both. And then Isaac ate half of it. Along with his whole pizza. I love going to restaurants with Jake. It's awesome. Yeah, I don't know if somebody else is in there with me, I think I'd be quicker. I don't know, something's embarrassing about like, because they can hear you when it's happening.

Dude. Ha ha ha. This is yesterday, right? My lifetime, finishing up like a lesson. And I'm about to have to stop the lesson and go to the bathroom. OK. And finish the lesson, go straight to the bathroom. It was unbelievable.

The noise? The noise, just constant. It was unbelievable. The noise? The noise just constant. I was like trying to hold it back, but I couldn't. And I'm like, what are other people thinking right now? Yeah, they're calling the two minutes straight of just. Does this happen to you a decent amount? As of, you know, since China. Okay, because whenever I saw Isaac at Lifetime

the other day, as I was walking out we had the Top five worst daps of all time. You remember this? It was bad. It was bad And then we tried to like well I think I went in for a hug kind of and you kind of dap and so we had a weird hug and we had A weird dap anyway, but you're like I'm in the middle of a lesson So I gotta go and he was like run to the bathroom. Is that similar thing? Yeah, I think or you in between lessons. No, I think I was just paying that time. OK, yeah, just quick pee.

You're saying I got to go. Yeah. Anyway, it was fun. They also I mean, we were having a nice time in there. We were had nowhere to be. They had magazines provided, which I haven't seen that in 20 years. Really? Just random magazines. I even where they pick a ball. I remember. But it's like three magazines on like a little like nightstand

next to the toilet. What? There was a nightstand next to the like, I don't know, just like a stool. Yeah, like, yeah, like a place to put like a waiting room. Oh, because it's like a locker room kind of bathroom. Not really. No, I mean, just like two urinals, two stalls, two sinks,

but a story magazine. You have a stool? No, I don't have a stool But there's also like behind the urinals like a little like bench not a full on couch, but like a cushioned bench interesting I sat there for a second. Yeah, just for fun recovered recoup. Yeah, let it air out Yeah, that's nice magazines, but no it was fun. We had a good time San Luis's anything else I'm missing anything else happen big speed of a guy We everyone made fun of me because we on our way out we stopped at Starbucks in st

Louis to get coffee, and I didn't get anything Wow and then about two hours into it We stopped to go to the bathroom at some place called like Stuckey's You know like gas station. And I got a coffee from there. Everyone's like, what are you doing? Gas station cappuccino, come on. Oh, you would like those.

I love the cups. Those like, yeah, triple walled cups or whatever. Yes, and it's always like, make sure you. Three quarter. Yep, three quarters. And then so it just lets like the muck run down. Life hack, move your cup out of the way. I don't want the muck in there.

Oh, but that's like the foam. Doesn't look like it. Looks like bath water. That's kind of what those guests have to say. That's what cappuccino is. I used to be into those, yeah. It's a new kick I'm on. Really?

Matt and China guy, I've never had a cappuccino before. I thought it's something just like only moms are allowed to drink. And then I got into cappuccino. Do you know what a cappuccino is? I had one this morning at Black Dog. Oh yeah. Tell me. Oh I mean it's like a latte but what's the difference just foam here foam here yeah okay like really foamy

so it's still a sweet just like when you like froth the milk or whatever uh-huh different way of throttling froth frothing it okay let more air bubbles in or something gotcha I think correct me if I'm wrong Comments, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah ghosties people listeners. So even cappuccinoing Oh once every three weeks in the gas station or like yeah sometimes But actually had one today. I got coffee with a guy remember AJ who almost lost his leg and payola How could I forget? Yeah, we got coffee this morning at black dog and I froze got a cappuccino I think they gave me something else tasted weird. Did they give you a massive like wide cup? Yeah, so I asked for an 8 ounce to go and I got like a 12 ounce in a mug

I don't know whose it was big old wide cup mug. That's a normal girth Okay, cuz you know, sometimes those cappuccino mugs I feel like are like those like a soup bowl. Yeah, almost like a bowl So I didn't get the bowl. I think that would have been a little embarrassing. Right? I don't know, for whatever reason. It's like a huge thing of cap. I don't know.

Cappuccinos make me think I went to, when I studied abroad, I went to Edinburgh, Scotland. Okay. And I went to this coffee shop where J.K. Rowling used to write Harry Potter, and she got this cappuccino and I got the same one. Good for her. So they claim on the cappuccino stores, you know, front door. And so I was like, yeah, I'll do that. So I was vibing. Had a little sprinkle of cinnamon on there.

It's a nice little cappuccino. I think I'd like to have cinnamon and more things along with my lime. Separate, but still. Maybe. There's a certain amount of more things like cinnamon in the protein shake. I think I'd like to have cinnamon and more things along with my lime. Separate, but still. Maybe. Cinnamon and more things like throw cinnamon in the protein shake. I don't know. I bet cinnamon and lime would do all right together. On what? Maybe like a chicken. Maybe. No. What would it be good on? Like a taco.

I don't know, dude, but it's going to be good. I don't know. I feel like have you seen maybe it's apples and cinnamon for sure. That's a thing. But like almost like roasted apples or something like that cooked apples. And then you put some cinnamon on them, like country apples. Is that what they call country? Like, like, I feel like you can see if like Cracker Barrel or something. All right. Like you could do the same thing with lines. It's probably never happened. Just let you know. I'm just letting you know. I might try it for myself

You want to talk about anything I've been rambling on today, um, yeah, I've had Yeah, just a few different little busy busy times last yesterday morning two nights ago poured down rain oh yeah well post on my Instagram story was loving it for a while I thought this is great I love this love a good summer rain and it just didn't stop I bet it rained for nine hours straight I haven't went back and looked at what the radar did but it felt like the storm wouldn't leave it felt like it like this storm wasn't moving it was just like staying above us when I was like looking at the radar It does feel like it's like we were caught in a hurricane

Anecdotally, yeah Shawnee seems like it got worse than most but filled up my rain gauge Okay, Catherine was like I'm sure rain gauges are overflowing and I was like, how would you know what everybody's rain gauge size is? She was right. What does yours go up to six inches the The Butler County Fair one I have only goes up to four. Really? Yeah, I heard eight to nine inches. Yeah. And so- Luckily our houses are brand new and they can withstand stuff like that.

Luckily our houses are doing just fine. I walked out to the shop, you know, as I was like leaving for the day, like going to get ready to go do some work in the woodworking shop. And I go out there and there's a decent amount of water out there. You could tell at one point like the whole floor had been under, like had some water on it. I was like the only other time that's ever happened was like right when we moved into our house when we got a ton of water in our basement. So I was like I better turn around and go check out the basement real quick. Go downstairs and

there's just, yeah, standing water in there. Not like crazy, crazy amounts, but like enough to be like, Oh yeah, I remember all that hard work I did on that basement. Ah, it's all wet now. Yeah. And so I just, luckily like, I don't know, I give credit to Catherine and I, I bet, you know, we've been married now 11 years, I bet even three years ago Three years eight years married Brad would not have handled this as well 11 years like I didn't get mad at the kids I didn't get mad at Katherine honestly was probably the Holy Spirit in me because there was a few times where I was about to Yell at Bo for no real reason except for just he was being a little bit whiny

And I was really frustrated with the the basement, but I didn't I kept it together and We sucked up all that water I bet we I used like a shop vac that held like three gallons of water I bet I dumped it out ten times So I bet there's 30 gallons of water in our basement at least and so now I don't know I don't know what we're gonna do with all like how to how to fix it all or whatever But I think a lot of it was just just bad storm. Like I don't think it's like oh your foundation's messed up I think it was like no house is supposed to be able to withstand that much water

So basically something wrong with your sump pump Sort of that's part of it as well I don't know if that was like the main reason why we had our house flood though But yes The sump pump might have like a clog and like the thing that shoots it out into the yard. So I'm working on that. I'm going to get snaked. Let's make some drains if you know what I mean. Okay. Um, so anyway, it's just, it was just like, okay, one more thing. And you know what I,

the indication for how I knew it was going to be kind of a crazy rough day was I went to go fill up my coffee my nitro and after like a quarter of the way up it's sputtered because it was out. That only happens once every not very often. Yeah. A couple months maybe. And so all of a sudden it was like a storm. Yep. This is the indicator. Today's gonna be a rough day. I'm gonna be less caffeinated than normal. Don't have my cappuccino and go to Stuckey's. So anyway, that was, that was something. Our house right now is just deconstruct. I got a living room. It just has a bunch of stuff from our basement in it. Yeah. So it'll be all right. I keep being like, we're blessed. This is a good house. It's all right. We have good kids, but, um, Hattie's been gone. She gets back on like on Sunday.

So she's been gone like the whole been out of Kansas for all of July. Like she hasn't. Have we been in Texas since July 1st? And so I describe it to people. I'm like, it feels like when Michael Jordan retired from the Bulls for that season, he went to play baseball. It was like Scottie Pippen and the Bulls for that season, he went to play baseball. It was like, Scottie Pippen and the Bulls were still a pretty good team,

but they weren't winning any championships without Michael Jordan. That's what it feels like our family's been without Hattie, which on one hand, I'm like, I love that. Like, I love that. It's like, Hey, we need all of us in order to make this a wonderful family. But also, it's like, Oh, I wish you were a little bit more like Michael Jordan sometimes He's kind of stepped up his game a little bit I've seen him he's been better with Henry and leading but Bo and Rosie just fight all the time right? Yeah, just I mean just like I just think that they're at that age like five and three where

Rosie's just starting to learn how to push Bo's buttons and Bo can't let it go. Like he's just too old. He knows, like Rosie will just disagree with Bo and Bo will be right. And I saw the same thing happen with Hattie and Bo. Where like Hattie would say something like, Bo, you know, this is a purple plate.

And he'd be like, no, it's not, it's blue. And she couldn't, couldn't let it go. Just like, Hattie, we know you're right. It's purple, okay. Just, she's like, but he's saying it's blue. It's purple and she couldn't couldn't let it go just like Hattie. We know you're right. It's purple. Okay, just Like but he say it's blue. It's purple bow. No, it's not Hattie. It's blue No bow. It's purple Hattie it's blue And now it's like now all of a sudden bow is in Hattie's situation. So

they're a little bit off and on with their they're playing but Anyway, I'm excited to have Hattie back. I've missed her a lot good. When she come back. What do you say Sunday Sunday? Yes, so Be good to get her back and put her to work, you know getting all this Flooded snake the drain well Hattie snake some drains. Oh Isaac you sleep ever love to sleep. Yeah. You sleep guy. Big sleeper. Ever heard of like comfort? I like to be comfortable. Same dude.

Yes. The most comfortable sheets I've ever used for when I'm sleeping are cozy earth bed sheets. When Kyle Kazuda was staying at my house last week, I made sure that he had brand new sheets, made sure they're cozy earth sheets. And when he was all said and done, I had to pull him out of that bed. I had to push him to the airport. He didn't want to leave. He's like, please let me stay here. Yeah, he liked it a lot.

And you're like, dude, go to CozyEarth.com slash Ghostrunners and get some for yourself. Yes, they ship to America, which is where he lives. So it's convenient. They do. And he's like, yeah, but I don't want to spend full price. And you're like, you idiot. Go to CozyEarth.com slash Ghost full price. And you're like, you idiot. Go to Cozier.com slash go stars.

Use our promo code ghost runners. Get up to 40% off at Cozier.com. Yep. And he's like, OK, but I'm not sleeping all the time. Is there anything else? It'll feel like you're sleeping. You put on their lounge wear lounge wear. I'm talking towels, socks.

I recently changed out some of my bath towels for other towels. Catherine did. Let's be honest. And the towel that they gave us is the size of 17 regular towels. This thing- King size. I tell you what, I haven't tried to wrap Catherine and I both in it, but I think we could. Let's just put it that way.

All right. So CozyEarth.com slash Ghost Riders for towels, bed sheets, clothes, whatever you want. If you want it cozy, they got it, CozyEarth.com. Isaac, how has lifetime been? I told them last week of the year, the in-law magnet, how's it been teaching old folks, beginners, and kids? Pretty much everyone. Dude, the kids, I do a kids clinic on Wednesdays

from two to three. They bring in 25 to 10 year olds at a time. I don't even have enough paddles to give them all, and it's just chaos. This week there's two or three kids specifically that can hit the ball pretty dang hard. One of them definitely plays baseball because he's just trying to hit it hard and far and they don't have much control. I'm standing trying to hit with this girl that has Down syndrome and dude just smokes one. I mean drills me in the eye.

So that's how kids clinic goes wait because they have like a summer camp kind of thing right or like summer like child care kind of thing yeah summer yeah they're there like so is that what it's through yeah that's what it's okay so like just Wednesdays I get them for like an hour by yourself or they have like they're like counselors or whatever in there, but they just take it as a break, which I don't blame them. They just kind of sit down and talk amongst themselves.

Oh, man. It's chaos and you can't tell them like what to do or what not to do because they're not going to listen. Yeah, they're not going to listen. They're just that you give them a paddle in a bowl. They're going crazy. So I'm always so I'm like, how's it getting? I got.

Yeah. What kind of a are you doing games, drills? Try to start the first time I did it. I was like, all right, we're gonna have them start by just like bouncing a pad or a ball up and down on their paddle and then bouncing on the ground. No, no, no, didn't work. No, it did not work. They just started running off and just crushing balls. So now I kind of just let them do their thing. Oh, really? Just like a free for all, basically.

Yeah, I try to get them to like hit the ball back and forth over the net. Yeah. I mean, it's tough. Like, there's only three courts. So even Max, yeah, you know, the courts are full. Nine kids are still sitting out. Yes. Yeah. How do you do that?

It's just super congested in there. And yeah, you literally have 20 to 24 kids running around with paddles and balls trying to play and some like spread out a little bit, but there's not that much 20 to 24 kids running around with paddles and bowls trying to play. So I'm like spread out a little bit but there's not that much room to spread out. Make sure no one gets hit. Are any of them just like I don't want to do this? Oh yeah there's a handful of kids that just like sit in the corner.

I'm like great yeah stay in the corner. Great. Please. The older women and men they're fine. It's not like the most fun thing to teach, but they're all really sweet. They like me. They try to set me up with their daughters. Yeah.

If they have them, which always just uncomfortable, right? Yeah. One day you'd have his daughter Snapchat specifically, right? Yeah, that was, that was weird. I just didn't respond to that. Like put me in an uncomfortable position. Yeah. Then Snapchat my daughter a week later.

I didn't do anything with that information. A week later, we're like landing for we're coming back in town from wherever we were. And as soon as we land, I have a text come through and just a random number. And it just says hi. No capital H, which I don't know if that tells you anything, but it's like that's like some I don't know. That's like a high school thing. For some reason, people thought it was cool to like not capitalize the

have you guys ever experienced this? Be like that high school. Yeah. Youth group kids. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, who is this? And she goes, my dad plays pickleball. Great. Who are you? I mean, obviously, I kind of knew. And I was just like, oh, don't think the dad likes me too much anymore.

Oh, why? I've gotten two texts from him and he's very frustrated because he plays in these like duper duels tournaments on Tuesday nights and his duper went down 0.04. And he's mad at you. He sends me a text, these tournaments are pointless. I want six and one and my duper went down 0.04. And he's mad at you. He sends me a text, these tournaments are pointless.

I want six and one and my duper went down and I check it and it literally went from like a 45 to a 4.47. He sent me a text. And this is your fault because you're in charge of the algorithm and in charge of lifetime. Exactly, exactly.

So. I kill you, you're having to do customer service. Yeah. As the like assistant pickleball pro. I'll start with that, it's been great though. I'm like finally starting to get to meet a handful of people and maybe like join some open plays or hit around with them and they're like, oh, you're pretty good.

I'm like, yeah, I do lessons. Yeah. So, yeah, I've had a handful of people that are like starting to want to take lessons on the regular, which is what I would want to do, prefer to do. Have you ever I know you and I've talked a little bit because you and I both were like, how much do we even really know about pickleball? And you were like, once you get with these lower level players, you're surprised how much you know. Has there been any like situations where like, and that stumped me or like, I don't like this or like you don't have answers or questions or anything. That's a good question. So far, no, not really good coach, but also some questions are kind of

irrelevant. So you kind of just BS your way through them, Brad, but kind of what Kyle said to you. Just like sometimes you're taking a lesson from Isaac, asking irrelevant questions scene. Okay. So if I'm right handed, is it okay if I like just mainly stay on the right hand side like and he's on the left side of the court? He's like right-handed but he also does left-handed stuff sometimes. Good question. Thank you. He's talking about me. Yeah. Yeah, so when you're right-handed and you're playing on the left you want to take the majority of the balls in the middle because it's your forehand.

And if he decides to try to use his left hand, even though he's not left hand in the middle, then just say, get out of there. Say you're an idiot. Stop doing that. You're an idiot. Stop doing that. OK. And you had a question about kind of the apparel you were wearing. I was curious, like, well, I know it's not technically illegal, but double knotting your shoes. Should you double knot or should you just like really tightly tie one time?

At least at least at least the trip, at least a double knot. At least don't just tie it once really tight. Okay, you're going to cut off all your circulation and you might have a situation where you lose your leg. I don't know if this story was told, but you might have that clotting. Yeah, you might have some clotting or something going on so there's a story there double knot very somebody AJ yeah yeah yeah oh sure sure sure I didn't want to bring something up if it wasn't shared or

weren't supposed to share it can you remember what like some of their irrelevant questions are like when you're getting a pickle lesson or is it about like double-hottie did Brad come of know? I can't like how do you do the perfect lob like in the very back corner it's like buddy just work on your dinks first you were not there yet yeah yeah he said okay so Isaac and I did an Instagram live yesterday for a while together I was in there yeah you hopped on yeah yeah dude I loved the title it was like very Michael Scott. Some businesses still know what was it.

Tell me what was the title. Do you remember it? I think I said like Brad puts together 24 daddy or puts together daddy chairs at a storage unit while wearing a weighted vest. Let him watch. Parentheses, let him watch. I just know like that people are like, where are you? What are you doing? Why do you have that on? So what is that? So I'm just like I was gonna put all right in the title guys Yeah, everyone just check out the title you'll understand But you said in your when we were talking that a lot of your clients will want to work on their serves a lot

Oh, yeah, especially the older folks. They love I mean, that's the main So interesting like we should probably work on something else like You're probably not gonna get to the point where you have a killer sir So if you're getting it in great, let's work on something that you really need to but I mean also give them some tips on their serve, but they they really care about their serves a lot of them are concerned about lobs And I'm just like, just because they're old, they can't move very quickly. So it's you know, they get you get

lost. It's a good lob waves a white flag. Try to turn around like turn your hips and run backwards. Don't try to back pedal, you might end up killing yourself. You fall one time and it's over. I'm calling the ambulance. There's things like that. There's one time specifically. A lot of them when they hit their serve, they like to take three steps in to the court. Oh, they're in the mid court. You don't want to do that because you have to let the next ball bounce, right? Right, right.

And so I told them, I was like, hey, after you, because there was one instance where a ball, you know, a return landed deep and they couldn't hit it because they couldn't take it out of the air. And so I told him to stay back. And then after I told him that, the very next shot was like a bad return that like bounced in the kitchen. And they're so old, they just can't get to it. They're like, oh, they're like, you told me to stay back.

And I'm like, you got me. I don't know, take a couple steps forward if you want. Like I actually understand why you guys would do that now. So things like that. It's like, well, that's not what you're supposed to do, but go for it. I need to find a video. My dad played in his first Pickleball tournament

this Saturday when we were all together. And their very first game of the day was against two people, both in their eighties. Combined age was 167 of the two people that my dad and John played in their first game of the day was against two people, both in their eighties. Combined age was 167 of the two people that my dad and John played in their first game. Oh wow. And like not the four people playing combined. Yeah, the two people on the other side of the net 167.

83 and 84. And they said they were like kind of friendly. Like John was breaking a lot of rules. So they were like, it was good for them to speak up about it. Like John just kept being in the kitchen. But one of the rules they told John was like, hey, when your partner is serving, you need to be behind the line, which is not a rule.

They, it doesn't, you'd stand wherever you want. Well, for whatever reason, that was still tough for John to, it was probably best practice to stay back. Like you probably just should, but you don't have to. I can't find the video right now, but my mom has a video of like, my dad's about ready to serve it and then John remembers He's passed the line and so he does this extreme Reverse broad jump to barely get back and he's on his tiptoes and then his momentum takes him back again

I mean just stumbling over the court. Meanwhile, it's 3.0. My dad was like barely serving Yeah, just putting so much effort in to you know follow this rule that doesn't exist They sent me a lot of videos I mean John like fell to the ground multiple times, but everyone ended up like no one got hurt They got third okay out of six teams okay, and But my dad said he's like it's one of the most fun days. I've had in a long time I was like that is so fun. I was like you feel like you caught like the pickleball bug and he's like I it's one of the most fun days I've had in a long time. I was like, that is so fun. I was like, you feel like you caught like the pickleball bug? And he was like, I don't think so. I was like, how not why?

We had fun. Same with Rachel too. Rachel and Molly played in that tournament, got gold, their only tournament ever. And I was like, you think you could get into it? No, that was just fun to do one time. Yeah. How do you not?

Yeah, it's funny. How are you built so differently? Yeah, not their favorite. Yeah, Are you built so differently? Just yeah, not their favorite. Yeah. That's fun. Hmm. Go somewhere else. Yeah, that's fun. Yeah. Had a lot of fun on the live yesterday with Isaac. We just had a good time.

I got this weighted vest and I've been trying to wear it. I've never like actually just worn it to do work in. I've just been wearing it on my walks and stuff. And man, people thought I was parachuting going on. Oh, you skydiving, Brad? Whatever. I'm like, I don't think anybody's ever seen a rucksack before. But yeah, I don't know.

I have so much woodworking to do these days that's like somewhat quiet, I think like that's nice Like eventually I'm just gonna be assembling a lot of beds And so it's like I'll do more lives with that so that's great always fun to have the ghosties on there good to see people Isaac and I eventually when Isaac joined we just talked to each other. I didn't even look at the comments I was in there. I was like this is great for them. Just chat it up. Yeah. What did we talk about when you were there? Do you remember?

I mean, something I think it was about wood. I don't know. I didn't even really understand it. That's what you guys are talking about. Isaac, how, how weird do you get the wood shop by yourself? Oh, I get weird. Do you honestly? No, not get weird. Do you? Honestly? No, not that weird.

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Every now and then yeah I sing to myself I got some AirPods in I'm singing and then every now and then I'm like wait do I sound good? Wait am I crushing this? Do I sound good? Wait, am I crushing this? Do I sound good? Maybe, maybe quick record it? No. All right. Do you ever kind of get, yeah, like just in your own thoughts and your own head a little bit, like, like in a good way, like so a few different things. First of all, love this band. I discovered this might be my one of the week on Wednesday, but it's also gonna be right now Caleb Sullivan ghosty told me we were talking about Ben Rector whatever and he's like, have you heard of Ben Rector's secret band?

Oh, it's like what he's like, yeah, he mentioned on a Q&A one time. It's called Norman like Norman, Oklahoma and He's like they just he made it with a few of his friends to like try to make songs I think that we're gonna be be on movies or TV shows. Oh, I see. And dude, it's like my favorite band growing up was Mute Math. Okay. And it's like Ben Rector meets Mute Math, like the style of music. And I've just been grooving to it.

You love it? Like literally just dancing around my shop listening to these songs. It's so fun. Just really enjoying them. Uh, so that was one thing. Like there was one time Katherine came out, she's doing all this like school prep for next year and she's so bad at like formatting things on her computer and stuff. So she always asked me like little questions.

So she came out and like I had just like gotten ready to start dancing and I turned around and she's right there. I was like, Oh, hey. I had just like gotten ready to start dancing and I turned around and she's right there. I was like, oh, hey. But I mean, I'm like doing like, sometimes like 20 seconds of dancing in a row. Like just like, dude, I've just been feeling good. It's just been like fun out there.

How do you dance? Mainly upper body? No, dude, whole body. Whole body's moving around. Shoulders or whatever? I mean, probably within like- How much ground are you covering? No, I was gonna say body's moving around shoulders, or I mean probably within like much ground. Are you covering? No, I was gonna say probably like a three foot square Three foot let's say five foot square probably something like this like I'm just I'm grooving around

Your arms are kind of the main character. No, they're the legs are the legs are spinning. I'm going for it, dude I don't know every once a while But then I was kind of feeling it. I was kind of grooving at the woodworkers guild the other day Isaac's been I Wasn't dancing by any means that the woodworkers kind of like I got worked there for I think I got there at 11 Left at 4 so I got worked there for like five hours straight and so I was With my like safety headphones on that have music attached to them, Bluetooth. So I was in my own world basically working and doing all these different things.

And there was one point I was just getting I just get goofy sometimes. And there was one point where I was like, I had to go get some clamps. And I think I was like, I think but I think I realized later I was like, I said it out loud but I was like, just had gotten this weird voice I just go and you get me some of them big old squeezy's Y'all get weird. Yes, I was thinking about I Was thinking about Cliff. I was just being goofy. I was like, oh I gotta give me some big old squeezy and goofy as I like I gave me some big old squeezy.

I didn't say it like super loud and there's like, you know, power machine power tools going on. I don't think anybody heard me. But like if you were within this close to me, you would have heard you request squeezy. And you gave me something big, old squeezy. You were meant to be a skit character. I think so. Like, yeah, because sometimes I think I get in these like goofy, yeah, like phases where I am being somebody, you know, goofy, whatever.

So getting some of my big old squeezy. That's so fun. So doesn't get that weird for me. Never mind. I take it back. I don't know. No, nothing like that. Take off my shirt every now and then because it's hot.

That's about it. You ever play like games like almost like competitions with yourself of like how long is this gonna take me or how? Yeah, oh, yeah, I've ever grabbed and like screws out of a bin or whatever I'm guessing how many I'm grabbing every time and then I'm counting. Yes I'm really good too And I don't know if it's just a quint like how hard is it to grab eight? But almost every time when I grab eight, I grab eight. Yeah. That's how I got with pizza rolls there for a bit.

I could dump out between 29 and 30 every time. Really? Yeah. Just stop. Yeah. But that's 29. I know it. Yeah. Yeah. It's off by one. That's impressive. So anyway, we're all smart in our own ways, guys.

Should we do our reviews of the week? Yeah, boy. Let's do them. Well, all right well All right. Well, all right. Let me pull up some Sometimes it's hard. I see one that says attention. Mr. Ellis. Oh I saw that one Let me read it. Yeah Mac Mazerer says attention mister. Oh, it's five stars obligatory You got a list of this just one episode, and then you'll all be in The real reason I'm leaving a review is to let Brad know that there are people out there excited for the table setters pod

This is his sign to hit publish on just one episode I've been needing some encouragement lately as someone trying to make it with their own product and from listening to you on this pod for A couple years I trust that you'll have good and helpful things to say. Inspire me Papa Ellis. Anyway, thankful to be part of this community. Everyone should join the Facebook group. It makes everything better. Should I just like speak into existence and then I like have to somewhat, you know, keep

myself accountable? Like should I be like, we're posting our first episode on blank? That is probably a good way of going about it. Let's see. I have so much going on this upcoming. Yeah, it's pushed off to next year. Year, yeah. Friday.

This Friday. If your list is on Monday. Really? Sure. How hard is it? I mean, at the end of the day It's not gonna take me more than 45 minutes to do this right Truly like how I like to like post its audio only to create I had to create the podcast

Yeah, not more than 45 minutes. Yeah, I already have it upload on my Google Docs I'll send it to you right now Mac. It's in your link You should do a podcast that's like email only. Like subscriber based podcast. This cannot be discovered any other way. Just like, yeah, it's like not a paywall, but like you have to give me your email. Yeah, it's like you just read a book about

an email newsletter and how important it is. Sweet, I'll do a podcast that way. That way you're not like bound to like Spotify changes their terms of service. You know, like, no, it doesn't matter. I send MP3s directly. You have to doubt, you can only like listen to them on CDs. Like you have to burn it onto a CD first.

Oh yeah, Friday. We have a logo, we have things. I just need to like sit down and do it. And it's just never on the top of my priority list. I get it. So Friday, I think is when Catherine's gone all day and I've watched the kids. So I'll just let him watch a movie. Bo do it.

Yeah. Ty said the pausing of an era. Hello, Jake Brad Tyman. All right, P. It's been a pleasure listening to you boys. I was a young freshman in high school. I'm now a graduated senior headed off to the military next week. Throughout my high school career, the Ghost Runners podcast has been with me day in and day out, motivating me, encouraging me,

and giving me a laugh when I need it most. Each and every episode keeps me entertained, and this pod even inspired me to start getting into shape, which then led me into pursuing a military career. That's dope. Wow. You're welcome, America. That's dope, dude.

We'll do what we can for this country. That's right. I can't say that all my life decisions have been based on this pod, but I can't say that without the motivation to get shredded, I probably wouldn't be on the path I am now. Thank you so much for all the laughs, and I cannot wait to catch back up on all the amazing episodes once I get back, once I get my phone back in two months. Best of luck to you boys and the rest of the ghosty community. Thanks Ty.

Thank you, Ty. And hey, what's it called? It's on us. It's on me. Hoorah. Hoorah or hoo-wah. Or hoo-wah. Depends. My life be like.

Hoo-wah. Yeah, hoo. That's right. You wanna end this episode with a jingle? I sure do. Mattie Deeterly wrote us a jingle 14 hours ago Oh fresh fresh because it the theme of it was based on the Instagram live that I have with mr. Isaac McDonald yesterday. It's go is it really so I'm trying to think of any inside jokes in here

You're probably not gonna be on to understand it anyway cuz I don't know the song super well But yeah, I was wearing a 30 pound weighted vest the whole time we talked about context I'll turn up that that's pretty much it and I was doing woodworking and Isaac was there also doing woodworking at his house and Isaac is a pickleball instructor and that's all we need to know it's like you know all right tell me how this sounds. Started at 15 seconds. Maybe I've already listened to this song before. Maybe you're just always rocking it.

Perfect. Hey! Oh! Hey! Blah Blah Blah! Got my rucksack! Here's a new song glad to be back Yes I'm letting loose No very sure what the comments talking about I've been looking at the sky cause I can't go die

Forget the live cause my phone might die I've got a face, no live, Dragon Devil days, put my music to the wild, New Roxie Oh, I'm out of fire, couple seconds Energy's there though Ready? Yep New Roxie

New Roxie New Roxie New Roxie Rocksang! Yeah, Rocksang! New Rocksang! Yeah, Rocksang! Got on Rocksang! Rocksang! 30 pound Rocksang! 30 pound Rocksang! Parked in the back, ready to hump ass Big daddy's got the drill, the dog, tool pack Guess I'm one working with my gang They gotta guess a lot that they wanna come back

Rocksang! Rocksang! Rocksang! Rocksang! Rocksang! Rocksang! Rocksang! Rocksang!

Rocksang! Rocksang! Rocksang! Rocksang! Rocksang! Rocksang! Rocksang! Rocksang! Rocksang! Rocksang! Park to the back! Ready or I'm back! Big Daddy's gonna drill the dive to a pack! Guess I'm, one working with my gang! They gotta guess the lie that they wanna come back! Get on the track!

He hates standing still like I can be a brother's nestle cap! Gotta go to work now, help all ladies play! Pickleball but just practicing surf the whole day! Oh, wrong side! Yes, wrong side! No, wrong side! Yes, rock sing! Yes, rock sing! Yes, rock sing! Go on! Rock sing!

Dirty pale rock sing! Dirty pale rock sing! Dirty pale rock sing! Alright, you can probably get out from there. I got it. Well done. All right, you can probably get out from there. I got it. Well done.

Well done. Here's a little word of advice for anybody out there. If you're not very good at something, just try really hard and people will appreciate that. Yeah. Make up for maybe use a volume to accompany confidence. Yep. 100%. Just go louder and bigger. 100%. for maybe use his volume to accompany confidence. Yes, 100 percent. Go louder and bigger.

100 percent. You can't hit the notes. Just try anyway. And people will be entertained by that. I think. Yeah. Both literally and metaphorically. Nothing bad. That's a great piece of advice. Thank you, Matt Dieterle, for that fun song.

At first, I thought you were singing about Roxanne. And I was like, I guess I needed the context of who Roxanne is. Oh yeah. It's Roxac. Roxac. So, thanks for ruining my voice for a couple weeks, Matty. It's awesome. All right.

That's Monday's episode. We'll be back Wednesday. Isaac will be here for it. Come on. It's his dad's birthday. Is it? Yeah, right. It's his dad's birthday. So I got to. Is it? Yeah. Right. Scott's today. Yeah. Holy.

Not on Wednesday, too. OK, that is going to be part of the theme for my schmores is sort of that. What's your choice? Wait for Wednesday. Just wait for Wednesday. See you guys Wednesday. Love you. from the spark town. Every Monday morning we're taking round bus from the spark town.

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