Ghostrunners - 456 - Do I Date My Wife?

Episode Date: July 28, 2025

Our good friend Will Severns joins this episode to talk about Lifetime fitness, Chick, and the best 90's baseball players. Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Check out Signature Pest Control if you're in the SLV area and tell them you're a Ghostie! www.signaturepestpro.com Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com 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

Happy Monday, ghosties, and welcome back to another fun episode. Today, in lieu of Tymon still being gone with the Amish, we have a new guest producer. He is the man who I met at Canna Cuck in 2013. He is the inventor of the three heats. He wears high-waisted spandex occasionally at the gym. Yeah, one of the funniest people I know will severance everybody And that's my only camera shot you can go back and pause if you want that's it That's the only time oh, you're never gonna get back on nope. No, that's it That's the one that's the one camera for you all are getting wills embarrassed of his shirt of his shirt What's wrong with his shirt? I'm just kidding. My wife buys

My shirts for me. Uh, what do you think of that Jake? Uh Well, that's interesting. I told him I was I don't know if I used the word jealous But I was like my tone was like I don't think Catherine's bought me Maybe she brought me like multiple like twice in my life. She bought me something for a gift I would much rather my wife clean and dry my shirts than buy my shirts. I'm talking about laundry.

I'm talking laundry boys for those because she's a layman launder. She's offered to. And I'm like, I don't need to delegate laundry. I think I don't need to delegate buying the shirts. But I'm a pitch me pitch me.

Is it fun? She doesn't buy all my shirts. There was a sale at H&M and she took advantage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a one time deal, boys. Oh, yeah, that's fun. Yeah. No, I'm not. Your slack has been cut. I'm cutting your slack.

I'm cutting your slack. This is going to be a fun episode. Here's what I let me just lay out some context. We've had this podcast for over six years. And for every episode, 457 episodes, something funny has happened to me every week. That is kind of the nature of the podcast. I'm here to say first time six and a half years, whole week, nothing funny happened.

Nothing funny. Not a single entertaining funny thing. I can't extrapolate humor out of it. I got nothing. We're gonna figure it out. So we have Will will instead good luck I've been waiting for this day. All right Now this is an honor times a sweet boy. I've can't remember last time. I was a sweet boy, so I got a channel

Have you met time? Oh, yeah over a chick a couple times. Okay. Yeah, I've seen him over a chick Chick chick it don't feel like you need to be Timing you don't have to be like a sweet boy Or I don't know maybe Brad is having a cuss words Yeah, do you feel like the the chick-fil-a people love call it chick like if you've worked at chick-fil-a you don't call it Chick-fil-a really that's pretty common. Um Yeah, I don't know it's a dick you guys might as well Like Isaac's mom this point Kathy McDonald. She always calls it chick

Really? She never worked there. So I guess that kind of hurts the theory a little bit These are just people who like son worked there forever. Yeah Your brother call it chick Whoa what a question, okay, I was expecting some softballs early. No, it's it's the corner at this point the corner sliding over to the corner Baby, really yeah, yeah, okay wait he calls because there's a booth On the corner of a block Brad. Oh, I thought you were talking about the quarter booth No, it's on the corner of the intersection. This is why it's confusing don't call your chick-fil-a store the corner No one knows you're talking about right. There's a little inside baseball there. Yeah, dude inside baseball is a term

I just learned two weeks ago and learned it from Trey wasn't expecting that. Oh you guys would be the ones teaching me I don't know if I've ever used it in a sentence. No, what was the inside baseball? I Don't know. No. No. No. What was the what led to you learning about it? Oh, I think you know, we're Topic he's like in for you know, this is a little insider baseball, but most pharmaceutical drug and I'm like, whoa back up Okay, and we're a baseball podcast. We are the Ghostrunners Yeah, go ahead and be honest. I kind of understand from context what inside baseball is but can you explain it a little bit better? I'm gonna pass it over to my friend. Yeah. Well, I will say one thing So my son starting to get into baseball big time and we are

I'm staying away from camera for over go for There a couple times I've hovered No, I said it I'm sick it now. We have to actively listen rather than like looking at our nose Yeah, she's never had a producer. All right, fine camera for here. We go That shirt. All right. Yes H&M on sale go ahead and hop online and so my son getting a baseball we're in We're in the backyard and we've started to use Ghostrunners Yeah, I'd be curious from your listenership how often it ever comes up like in its actual usage because it's a beautiful

Yeah, the notion of an actual Ghostrunner is a beautiful thing. What do you mean? Just that you can carry on a beautiful. Yeah, the notion of an actual ghost runners a beautiful thing. What do you mean? Just that I can carry on a game. Yeah, literally two people. Oh, yeah. Yeah, like baseball you can do that. Yeah True. I I don't just kind of ballpark it, you know, it's like that guy on first probably on third after that Right, you know, oh we always had did you have a rule? It was always like you had to force them to go to the next space That was our rule for Ghost Runners It wasn't like you got a single and the Ghost Revers on second. They got to advance the third It was always like no no one at a time. Yeah, what would you do? Let's say you just hit a double All right, we got ghost on our second no outs ground ball the shortstop. I think I sure thought he's got to look him off

I look him off and then make the play an endovini. I gotta yeah That's good. I like that really respect the Ghost Rider Yeah Anyway inside baseball is a phrase referring to the intricate details or specialized knowledge of a subject that are primarily understood by experts It's just so funny that we throw in baseball there. Why don't we just call it like this is insider knowledge Inside this is a little bit of technical jargon, but instead certain people just say inside baseball baseball Yeah, will it's got some good good phrases. I Feel like I've learned a lot from him in that yeah

You guys have your own little podcast here and people ghosties are chomping at the bit They want to know when when Brad you tell me oh, we're looking for that button. We're looking for that publish button I forgot right now you're turning over rocks. Whoa. Whoa, whoa, I forgot to tell you I declared on the last Week of I like from the top from the top Edit please I declared on last week's podcast episode for Ghostrunners that we were releasing our first episode Friday Oh This is Monday this this episode's coming out the episodes been out for table setters for three days now It is I know to be oh, we're talking the future. I know it's confusing. It's like when I watch Interstellar

It's like how old is Murph the horse's name is friend or some inception stuff You guys remember inception the scene where he's like picture an elephant. He's like now. What do you think about elephants? Yeah, there are things like that that happen in those movies that like I have no idea what they're talking about But it makes me feel like No, dude the fourth dimension who here understands it But the fact that we're like watching in and are a part of it is like there could actually be this There are some movies out there that I watched I'm like no one understands this I've watched it I've watched it multiple times. I'm always like this part

No one gets it and they just kind of are like I get the general name one name one movie I mean inception maybe no we've already give me give me one that hasn't been named out No, I'm genuinely That's a good question. Let's say any other Christopher Nolan ones called them on it Maybe just like Batman like even like there's part just not the bat bitum dude nights darkest before the dawn I thought about that quote for five years before it actually landed It's not That's not true

Before the oh, let's go like yeah put that above you know slap it on the way to a football game, right? You know one night locker darkest at like 3 a.m. Probably like when the Sun and dollar that's three oh one. Yeah, like right before dawn. Oh, when the sky starts to get kind of bluish and light. Yeah, the night is ambient before the dawn. The night's always ambient. The night is. Yeah, it's like a nightlight in the living room before dawn.

Anyway, what are you going to say about Batman? What confuses you? I don't know. I care. I can't bring about a specific. No, no, I'm with you. And Hathaway. Did she get bit by a cat? Yeah, give me an origin story for every single person Commissioner Gordon and via via bite. Why do you want to become a cop in the first place? So was his dad a cop who did Superman get bit by? Was yes who did they're all bit like that's the whole thing for all the yes exactly Captain America. He got bit by

America Douglas Frederick Douglass in the comics Tubman Yeah, Frederick Douglass was a freak so he just Oh, I do I think this type means that it's going down with some random thoughts in white me to Midwest best friends Eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet Cause this is a ghost from the Spock County Every Monday morning we're taking back ghost from Spock County Oh Bo loves Bo's got like these uh Like five-minute stories you have any of those five-minute storybooks. That's all we have really Lauren and I are our kids Yeah, right your kids. Do you have the kids don't have any dude? I'm very anti five-minute storybooks I don't like them. They feel the five-minute. I bet it is five minutes, but it feels like

28 minutes for a story right there. Just they're never good thrills. Oh, no. I see you know what you're saying Yes, the fight like the prince it like the cheap. Yes princess princess princess story five minute 15 minutes minimum It feels like that and it also never feels like they're very good stories It feels like hey, let's just put eight stories in here and we can call it like a collection, bro You want to make a five minute story real quick? You just that subtle? You know I'm going you grab you go to make a five-minute story real quick you just that subtle, you know, I'm going you grab pages All right, we're going through dude if you can slide that on your kid. Oh, whoa dad dad dad. Hold up. No, no

Yeah, this is where it pays to have some sleight of hand as a dad a little bit I have a career in magic behind you right you're flipping pages. No one notices your car But it's kind of a double whammy because you're pulling a fast one at the same time if your kid doesn't notice the plot gap from here To here. That's also kind of like it's like maybe they should be ready Anyways got five minutes stories with superheroes, and he loves Captain America really into Captain America and spider-man There is a guy who will come down for like high level pickable tournaments here in Kansas City. Whenever we have one. I think he's from like Omaha or something. I've seen him in real life probably five times. Every time I've seen him,

he's in a Captain America tank and he's a grown man. Dude. What are our thoughts on this? I don't, I don't know if I necessarily have like strong like that's wrong thoughts but I also have the I do have a strong thought of I would never. How about that? Yeah I think I just I want to see him in something else. I want to see what else his wife gets him. Because listen it's a brand it's there he's excited about this loyalty of a team and that his team is superheroes. Like I think a lot of superhero people aren't necessarily sports people and so therefore they

Probably think it's ridiculous this guy right here. He's wearing chief stuff every time I see him It's like yeah, cuz he loves the chiefs You know that sounds like comic book energy like if that guy in the 70s and 80s, you know, yeah And then this many years later, it's like let's go like my childhood obsession I can finally geek out cuz now all society's on board. It is interesting that he's playing pickleball high in or high level though I mean, how old is it that kind of changes the 29? Oh, then he should take that off. Okay Really? Yeah, dude a 29 year old rocking the captain. But bro, give me a 45 year old and it's like respect. Oh really? Yeah, we're back. Yeah. Yeah 29 year. No, just go throw on a Nike

Yeah, and the tank is a little bit of like a tanks another thing that I'm just like I Take a lot for me to rock a tank these days. Did you guys rock? Thanks in like 2012, huh? Oh, yeah, that was a big love with these bad boys Thunder lightning right here. Wait, that was a big camp thing, too I feel like I'm going to thrift stores before camp loading up on tanks and retro NBA, you know, yes, you see McGrady. Yeah. Do you have a go-to? Go to tank. Yeah, I had this tanker jersey I guess either

Yeah, either I remember getting to Cantercock and it was like I had been homeschooled my whole life to get there. Now I'm learning bro all the trends and everything. So true. Chocos never heard of chocolate. Yeah, Chocos, Nalgene's and tanks. My eyes were opened. Okay, I had I had it. I was exposed to Nalgene's.

I'll say that much. Boxers showers brushing your teeth. I had all this was new. There was one guy that came my first summer as a staffer and only brought shirts that had his sleeves cut off. that came my first summer as a staffer and only brought shirts that had his sleeves cut off. And it was like a rule that there were like like the days when the parents came, you had to have a nice.

And so he's like, I don't know what he was freaking out. He's like, all my sleeves are just cut off on my shirts. All right. So tanks were like 2012 or so. Let's go back four years. We're all in high school. The cut off with like the huge, yeah Like the deeper the better Yeah Well a lot of that is because you could take a you could just take a normal shirt and you could cut up

You could make a cut off out of your favorite shirt It looked significantly cooler though when you went deep cut than just like a cut right here on the pit You know what? I went moderately deep. I tried to look cool deep But there are some people I think they were proud of like It's like hanging on by a string at the bottom. Those guys are Cody's get out yourself. Yeah, right I well I had love handles still do so I was like stop. I'm not trying to love handle it up Let's stop short. Yeah. Yeah, that's how I knew where to go with it. You know, I'm good mom I'd be talking about this something about inception is confusing. Oh, yeah, let's trace it back Hey, but no table Inception's confusing? Oh, yeah, let's trace it back Hey, but no table says that's exciting. Oh, yeah, that's

Coming out on Friday. Yep. Yeah, that's a Friday pod. That's exciting All right, Jake last week or this week. Nothing fun. How what are you excited about? What's coming up? That's a great question I love asking people that question. Yeah. hey, everyone is entitled to a bland week Thank you guys out of the way for 2025 also, but if you have another but if you have two in a row We're gonna extrapolate some stuff something probably did happen But what am I excited about I'm going to the big city see Manhattan. Yep, the big one Manhattan actually Yep, the big one. Manhattan. Actually Brooklyn.

But yeah, go to New York City next weekend for some pickleball stuff, which would be fun. Kind of like a high stakes thing. I don't think I've talked about this on the podcast, but I get to, I'm like kind of going back in time a little bit where I am mainly like, I'm going as the video guy. Like I'm not even really going to be in front of the camera. I'm like, I think I'm like rent gear. It's like, I'm in 2015 again, freelancing.

But Scott and TJ, we have basically put up a bounty. So let me backtrack actually. I pick up all facility in Brooklyn. Think of like a chicken and pickle or something like that. They wanna do a co-branded like Friday fever paddle with us. So we gave them like, we designed our own colorway that they're gonna have exclusivity on.

That's cool. And we're gonna go there for like the launch of it. And so we're like, well, let's get some content out of this. It's what we brainstormed up is like a one night only event with the paddles. We said, come one, come all. We had an inspector Gordon, the signal. It's a big F in the sky. Yeah. And it's a dollar sign.

If anyone could beat Scott and TJ, anyone in New York City, they're going to get a thousand dollars. And if that happens, the facility is going to get ten thousand dollars worth of free paddles. OK, so we have nothing to gain and eleven thousand dollars to lose. OK, so is it like you've got something to gain? That is an awesome that you get some eyeballs. Hopefully so. I will say it filled up like that. Yes. Is it first team that beats them gets a thousand or is it any team that beats?

I think it's like, yeah, the once the bucket at the amusement park falls over. We're not filling up the bucket Yeah Little great little flage you step in the door and just your eyes go one place one place The big old bucket. Hey kids. Why don't you go stand? Well, you you work on the pool pool appeal twizzers I'm gonna go stand in the bucket dude. That's my version of the five-minute story We're like oh, this should take five minutes, and I'm down there waiting for an hour like how who's filling this up? Take you forever. Oh my god. Yeah, that'll be fun. What is a quick word on?

NYC pickleball scene I have no idea from what I know The one thing I know, the one thing I know is it's we are so blessed to live in the Midwest, like we just go to like Meadowbrook Park. Right. Yeah, that's kind of what I'm thinking. They have to pay to play outdoors in New York City. You don't have like like Central Park doesn't have pickleball. That's just free.

You could probably find some. I actually did one time I played in Brooklyn underneath a bridge for free and it was like avocado pit and I was using a plunger yeah we had Ghostrunners it would be like kind of playing on our driveway where there's like cracks and you just think you know what this is still technically it's still pickable. Cracks heads. So, you know, I think maybe not technically like you But I think if you want to like and okay maybe dedicate a core to like nice courts It's just cool. Their parks are just the demand is so high that they just charge for it That's wild. It is wild then

Yeah, I guess I just assume everything in New York is like decent like when you're like, what's the pickleball scene like? I'm like, I'm sure there's some good competition there's gotta be they're just in numbers 13 million people there like it's always like people are always Kansas City you know love our barbecue do you remember when they did you see that trend of like Brooklyn barbecue restaurant one time was like no one does it like Brooklyn barbecue do you ever see this picture I think I believe you I believe you all right it's just like this really mediocre looking like picture of barbecue. And of course people freaked out like in Kansas City like, Oh, look at

them think they know how to do barbecue. But I was like, I guarantee you there is a place in New York City that's as good as Kansas City barbecue because there's that's just how the free market works. There's probably 4000 barbecue places in New York City. One of them has got to be really good, right? Yeah. Yeah Yeah, it's like same thing with pickleball or anything or any food Yeah pizza like I'm sure they have something better than everywhere else does yeah, because they have the numbers So the law of averages City fun fact for you. I was on the phone with Matt our CEO and he's like, hey hang tight

I'm about to hop in my car and Bluetooth password I was like how does that curiosity how many people in New York like drive and he said 95 percent don't drive. Okay, and I said how many have a Driver's license and he said like probably 10 to 15 percent don't have drivers licenses. So most people do they just don't drive Yeah, they just like don't have a car interesting I guess because if you ever go anywhere else, you would want to rent a car Yes, and like know how to drive got it at some point. But yeah, he was like no most of a license He's like if you're like 30 years old and no other drivers license like you'll get made fun of

Oh, you should have that because does he drive. Mm-hmm. Does he live in the city or does he live out? Uh, I don't know. Okay Great. I mean that's like one qualm people some people have about Kansas City Is that like too many drivers you're driving like if you want to get somewhere you're driving the lack of walkability Not unlike going to walk around your neighborhood But like right to the grocery store or whatever and that at some point like if I had a if there was a list of you Know what are negative things about kit? That is one thing I think would be cool to like utilize

public transit or like is that just America's general I don't know you're in New York City or Central America I mean right no I I mean there are more walkable cities out there like but can we be fair probably like four in Kansas in the United States Chicago probably don't know we haven't lived anywhere else. Oh But I visited yeah I don't know think about it. I'm thinking hard Like if you lived in like downtown Kansas City you could probably walk everywhere if you live in downtown Dallas, right? I see okay, okay

Yeah, I would be curious from y'all's listeners on where they if that's something decide But it kind of gets back to like the Beth key thing of like cars ruined you know XYZ as relates to community or like walking down to your barb or whatever and Yeah, I don't know Artification yeah I said episode one comes out Friday. Yes Is what we're talking rad found the button. It's already out if you're listening to this. Oh, that's right All right. I want you guys to think wait. What's it called tables in our pocket? Yeah, that's right

I want you guys to think in your head how many people are gonna listen to the first episode and what you say it I'll allow in the counter three. Let's see if you guys are close or not All right, how many people will listen in the in the first weekend? They have Friday Saturday and Sunday Oh, not very many people listen on the weekends, I bet. And the three, and the two, and one, 12. 117. What a way to count that down. Three, two, one, 12.

All I can see is the Last Supper. And the 12 faces that do, we're gonna find you, and we're going to put you on. Superimpose you on the Last Supper and The 12 faces that do we're gonna find you We're going to put you on Superimpose the last the found the founding listenership Who's we're going to frame you huh? Who's Jesus you or me? It's gonna be a sign I am Isis I'm each to I saw come out of your mouth I'm each a two. I saw it come out of your mouth and I beat you. Oh, I am.

All right. We're here to talk about Maine Street. Roe serves Maine Street Roe stirs. Thank you. A little slower. I know. I know, you're right. That's my bad. You're right, you're right. Hey, my bad. You know what, I do go slower every once in a while in the morning. Oh no, then what?

And then I drink coffee from Main Street Roasters and I feel better and I am not so slow. Then what? And then I run a marathon and I realize I got the runs. Yes, and? That's right. That could be you. Yes. Do you feel slow could be you. Yes. Do you feel slow in the morning?

Yes, and. Do you feel tired in the morning? Do you feel tired in the afternoon? Yes. At any point in the day, get a little pick me up, get your buzz on. Yes. Kinda.

No, yeah. Get your caffeine up. Get your buzz on. That's like, they're like, hey, can you do an ad read for us? Just make sure the main catch, like, messaging tag is get your buzz on. It's just besides buzz. We're having this new mascot.

His name's Bert the Bumblebee. And get your stingers up. Yeah, we're buzzing for beans. Buzzin' for beans. MaceRoaster.com, the official coffee provider of the Ghost Runners podcast. They make high quality coffee at an affordable price, and you're gonna get 10% off with the promo code GRKC.

They're a small town, family-owned coffee shop. So consider supporting them. Thoughts? Nope, mainstreamroaster.com, promo code GRKC. Well, it was fun to see you this morning, lifetime for a bit. Yes, I want more of it. I haven't seen Isaac as much as I thought.

What's the cadence? How often are you there? How often is he leading leagues or I don't know? Have you? Is infiltrated that place? He's got the inside scoop. I mean, yeah yesterday. I got the funniest text from Isaac He texted me and said I just got done talking to a cute girl and saluted her. What is wrong with me? I Can salute beauty. You can't cut. Well, you can kind of flirtatiously salute. Yeah. Show me how just like, all right, Brad. Just like an objective like you're like. All right, Brad, it was nice talking to you. See you later.

No, no, no, no. All right, Brad. Hey, we're a cut off again tomorrow. See you later. You know, I will. Kind of nice. You got you can't you can't like hard Salute right if you do if you do like a lazy two-finger, you know I will yeah you bet and you go straight on You're not going like high and no no the high and outside It's the lazy salute. It's the lazy salute. I think casual. I don't hate it

I think she might have liked it. You go casual, straight out, you go 12 o'clock and you go nod. Good luck working on those arms. Maybe I'll see you in the hole punch later. Just a nice, loose... It's loose. Yes. It's loose and there's a little neck movement. The fingers get heavier the farther down they go.

Like it's a nice... It kinda looks like a 12-6 curve ball a little bit. It is. You're kinda throwing that out there, Autumn. I think that's subconsciously what it is. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your- Happy Turkey Day. Enjoy the cornucopia.

Lazy salute. Extra gravy. Yeah, that's right. I don't know, I might start doing it. Will, what are your thoughts on the salute? You could salute beauty, you're on record saying that. Gosh, it's been years since I would ever need to pull out the lazy slew Wow, you don't still date your wife. Wow, you'll still date your wife kiss dating. Goodbye. Yeah. Well, I lazy slew once a week probably Twice if it's a good week

I'm glad you had I'm glad the lifetime pickleball is have you guys I mean what what no I'm you want me to talk nor know how you got me hung up on the lazy slip when I could use it around the house I feel bad now do you have something to say or should I say something just get back to pickleball just when in doubt Just go back go back to New York go back to life I don't care just we're moving on from the saloon. You were stalling or if you like we're trying to get somewhere. No, I'm legitimately You guys you know, do I date my wife? I Right, no, I say crap honestly Sorry

I'm just getting back to the pickleball see have you enjoyed it? Have you enjoyed your time at lifetime you mentioned three heats at the beginning of this episode ever since then I just I want you To have a good lifetime experience is that's fair I will say I have I did a little contrast therapy without Someone like one of you guys like pushing me to do it I did it on my own once I did with Rachel once steamer sauna. I go cold plunge hot hot hot plunge well Yeah, who's in steam and sauna? What do you say? Oh nothing tell bread?

That's the blender the cold hot That's the blender, the cold hot. The cold hot blender. You pour like cold milk into a blender. Yeah, it doesn't really make things hot. That's why I haven't seen your Isaac on the pickle. Brad and I are just we're just we're plunging. Yeah, we're just submerged. We're like, yeah, we're in the water.

We're just water world. Like 30% of your time in lifetime lifetime would you say you're submerged in water Ma or a guest sauna. I'm counting sauna too. I do I do like I do like the warm-up and recovery Yeah, yeah for sure It feels like like and this is probably not as true as I want it to be but when I sweat I just feel good. Yes. Just in general, like today in the wood shop,

I was drenched at the end of working like this morning. And even though I'm not like acting like I was, you know, burning a million calories, it's like, But still more than you would be if you're inside. So like sitting in a sauna for like 10 minutes, right? When I get to the gym and get a nice sweat going before you go like lift, something just feels like you're on first base already, you know, yeah, so yeah, I do like the sauna a lot I have not ventured back into the steam room since you forced me there. That's fateful day forced you but I love

And but I man I hated that steam room someday. I'll get back to it though. I'm I'm probably like a Be minus on this as far as I my feelings towards the steam room someday. I'll get back to it. I'm I'm probably like a Be minus on this as far as I my feelings towards the steam room like I like the sauna a lot Steam is more of a fun thing to do if somebody else like if will is ever like you on steam Well, yeah, of course steam rooms a man's game or if you have a cold like the eucalyptus in there Clears you out real nice, but you steaming every day really oh it's my happy place yeah yeah it is meditation is silence it is retreat yeah yeah Jackson Holmes in there with you not lately no yeah mostly just see him a chick just give him a quick lazy salute of you in there

Not lazy sleuthing Jack's bones Jake Think about Wednesdays. What do you think of when you think of Wednesdays on? Our streets specifically trash day, correct. Oh See I hope it's the same thing that happened to me. No, I meant to tell you this last week, but also maybe it's a good thing that I didn't because who knows if he's listening. Tuesday night, Tuesday night of last week, Catherine and I went on a little date night, came home.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I get it, pal. Yeah. Just throw it. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't too lazy that night.

Scrap two or three pages over there. Yeah. I got the plot holes. Yeah. Just wasn't too lazy that night. Scrap two or three pages over there. Yeah, I got the plot holes Yeah, just something we do, you know grabbing three pages on me pal bi-weekly basis No And the other days we always have like intentional conversations intentional questions. We okay Yeah, we're gone. And yeah, I wake her up every single morning with a Bible verse And then when I'm done with that I make my micro coffee And then she always not have done that well say we're not going to stop talking until the coffee is completely finished

So that's how I intentionally date my wife. I don't know about you Willie, but well that is interesting about trash day So we're parked Tuesday night in our front driveway. Just talking a little bit nice time, you know, just intentional time and We see Across the street neighbor Dennis. Okay, okay who? Will just a little background on Dennis He is just like the most diligent like classic like keep your lawn Perfect like cares about his house a lot. Last week, his like grass got high and Rachel and I were legitimately like, should we do a wellness

check on Dennis? Because that's how like, it's like military about his lawn. Okay, let's talk about this architect. Oh, is he? Yeah. Okay. That kind of explains city planner. It explains why he was so like, he cared about telling me the grade of my driveway. So we see dinner, we're just sitting there in our car. It's dark. I don dinner. We're just sitting there in our car. It's dark. I don't think he knew that we were in our car and I had backed into the space. You guys are in the back seat.

We're in the very back seat. It folds all the way down, all the way down. They never talk. We're in the front seat, but the cars backed in. So we're watching the street. OK, I'm trying to paint you a picture I got I got it. Yeah, and here comes Dennis. Here comes Dennis

It's like 10 o'clock at night coming your way coming my way with a bag of trash What come in my way with a bag of trash? Turns the corner and goes up the street with this bag of trash Just kind of aimlessly walking almost to the point Where was like is he like an insomniac or something? It's like it looked a little bit like I don't think I've ever really seen him walk, so I don't know me That's just his walk But eventually mo but it that he's encumbered by the yeah

Yeah, he's got extra wheels So he walks up like past the next house, up to like the corner of the next street. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And just kind of is standing there with his garbage bag, just kind of looking around aimlessly. Like looking a little bit shady. And then all of a sudden goes across the street to those other neighbors, lifts up their garbage bin, throws in this garbage bag and walks back to his house. No.

What? Catherine's like, oh, he must just had too much trash, and so he's throwing it away in somebody else's. I was like, that's the most Walter White thing I've ever seen in my life. Like, is there a conspiracy going on with this? Okay, I have something else. This is kind of fun,

because this week I would full disturbia mode I'm saying stuff going on and I'm trying to put the pieces together And maybe this is related. Maybe it's not Dennis laid out in his driveway. I don't know what this means He had probably nine suitcases opened up laid out on his driveway saw this what does that mean? Are you guys taking pictures and you guys not sir. This is not like a weird guy. This is not a guy who's like oh, yeah He's always doing weird stuff. He's always fixing his motor cross by you know now I think about it there was one time

I watched him pour a bunch of polyurethane down the sewer drain, and I was like hey. How's it going? He's like just pouring some of this stuff down here. It's fine that I'm doing this though All right, no problem. I'm a woodworker. I got it dude. That's uncle Eddie. I just got just out in his room Okay So the there's just a bunch of suitcases Yeah, it looked like he was trying to dry out like um like Native American leather He was like trying to make hide out of his suitcases. Like, oh, it's gonna be 98 today. I show up in suitcases.

Was it after the bad rain? Like, do you think they were flooded? Maybe. Why is the only thing in his house flooded? Nine suitcases. Maybe those are the only thing else touching the ground. I don't know. That's a good point.

I was like, it rained a lot last weekend. I'm like, why only the suitcases? And why does he have so many? He lives alone. Nine suitcases. Yeah. is that related to the dumping? No, this is this is the shovel guy from home alone. You guys are looking out your window going. What is this? Check it out old man Marley. Yeah, and then there he is. No just trying to watch his daughter Sing in the church choir, but it's kind of man. I'm playing the trash. You're over here creating these stories

Before you know it the neighborhood gets a hold of it and everyone's given Dennis a side eye. Dude, I have only one other thing to add. I know when our road had so much construction happening, Dennis, like the trash wasn't coming. And so he was moving his trash up the road. Okay. But it sounds like he I mean, first of all, there's not construction. No, I've seen his trash bins out in front of his house. Yeah.

Maybe his body's just in a rhythm. He's like, this is what I do. I go up the street, throw my trash construction. No, I've seen his trash bins out in front of his house. Yeah, maybe his body is just in a rhythm. He's like, this is what I do. I go up the street, throw my trash away. I can't help it. That doesn't even make sense. Or maybe it's like a human head in that trash. Or maybe it's a human head. I don't know.

So I don't know. Old man, Marley. I totally resonate with the kind of look over both shoulders. You know, it's like you pick up a piece of trash, that whole idea of like throwing someone or like at a dumpster. I'm like, I've had this stuff, you know, that's so convenient, right? When someone has a dumpster in their driveway.

Yeah. And you can like the big one. Yeah, exactly. And you got some big items and it's just like, is that frowned upon? Here's another detail of the story. So as he turns the corner and walks up this street to the next corner, he walks past a neighbor rolling out his trash bins. So he's like, Oh, can't go there. Well, if it's nothing, then why wouldn't he say, Hey, do you mind if I have, you know, just too much trash? Do you have any extra room? There's no way he's going through that much trash. He lives.

He should not be overflowing the trash that's exactly right Jake wills like believe in people and I'm like no dude this guy sir you gotta start doing it man you gotta try it just try believing in someone I pulled my trash in it out it had been taken and as I get up to it the lids open and I saw something for the first time I never seen full of mags maggots Gross I never seen those in there

You guys throwing away loose trash Well that yeah first thing I did was I google like maggots in trash Yeah, and of course I get on this reddit thread and the first one's like Yes, this can happen if there was just like food. I was like, oh good. Because first I was like dang it, I don't wanna look, is there like a raccoon in my trash can or something?

But no, I think it was probably just like just food that got out, no problem. But of course like the internet isn't scaring you like, are there maggots in your trash? All right, here's what I do. I make some of my own antibacterial stuff, I pour this in there and then I let it dry out and then it's like holy, hell, you got to do all this

to get rid of maggots. Because yeah, then they'll turn into flies and they carry disease. And then the next comment just says, wash your hands and don't eat them. I was like, that's more what I'm looking for. There we go. I could do that.

That feels like more how I was raised. Yeah, I'll just don't, I won't eat the maggots. That is a microcosm of the internet, right? Yeah. It's like, there's some people that are like, here's all the perfect things you can do to make sure you never get these again other people like don't worry so much yeah they're outside you're not living in there yeah have you ever had them in yours willy I don't think so but

I am intrigued the idea of cleaning your trash cans yes there are businesses on that I have a clean I'm like that's actually fair okay okay I have a a friend who's gonna start it a start a business doing this like this is actually happening Yes, by this Friday sign me up brother. Well. He's not he doesn't live here He was saying he's like been looking at different areas, and he said that there's certain People that spend $40 a month for trash can cleaning. Trash can cleaning. Does that seem crazy to you? It seems too frequent. It seems like getting your car detailed once a month.

Correct. That's how I felt. I was like, I don't think, how does that even work logistically of like they come and you have stuff in your trash when they come? You really got to sync up your schedule. You need to come Wednesday at 9 a.m. That's right. Once a month.

That would be inconvenient. If it's like once a quarter, I understand like, okay, great. Take all the bags out. We're ready for you. Once a month, it just feels like that would always come at an inconvenient time. He said 40 bucks. I was like, wow, if somebody's spending, what's that? Four times 12, $480 a year on trash can cleaning to have their dumpster less dirty. Yeah. Place where they throw trash. That's trashy. Yeah Apparently I mentioned this to Catherine that he was starting this business and she's like, oh, yeah

We've had maggots before too. So hmm, I think it's maybe probably more prevalent in the summer but Gross dude talk about New York City hot trash. No, seriously you ever walked down the streets and it's just oh dude Yeah, where's the walkability? Seriously, you ever walk down the streets and it's just oh dude. Yeah, where's the walkability? City in that that's right. That's what you get for trying to walk your city. You don't smell that in a car Yeah, it's walkable for the mice too. You got to remember that. Oh the mice love that trash in the street, dude Yeah, seen him scary doesn't it? Yeah That's what I get a little bit overwhelmed with like New York is like there's so many dirty

there's probably dirty pockets of so many buildings and people like just like oh Yeah, you know like everyone's well. Yeah, everyone's well here you go into a building, and I'm like this place is crazy dirty It's like I bet there's a million spots like this in New York have you ever thought that I know it's on the random I went and picked up a like a cabinet from somebody I know it's on the random. I went and picked up like a cabinet from somebody on Facebook marketplace the other day. And it was an old, these apartments, but they were converted from an old Wonder Bread factory.

Pretty cool. Kind of fun. But like I thought to myself, yeah, what was this place like before? Was it super nasty dirty? Yeah. Anyway. Glad I don't live in New York. Same.

Be kind of cool living though Yeah, I just go back and forth all the time just that big city feel I don't know if you're ever there like Chicago. It's just like I couldn't live here. But at the same time world's your oyster Yeah, 100% I don't think I used to think that I was like big city guy and now I've realized more and more I'm like, I think I would rather live like big city guy. And now I've realized more and more, I'm like, I think I would rather live five miles away in the country.

Yeah. That sounds awesome. Like honestly, where you grew up. Yeah. Sounds pretty nice. It's pretty ideal. Like so close to Springfield. Yeah.

If you need something. Yeah. A lot of room. A lot of room. A lot of room to have an electrical fence that doesn't work on your dog. Perfect. Dag nab it. Oh, it's a matter. You just hit your. Yeah, it did kind of hurt. You okay? I'm okay. What's what matter you dag nab it?

I saw I found some maggots dog gone it I found a time I It's about as good as anything I can think of. Why oh why do we have so many flies? Hey, I just wanna have a Dorito. Everybody's got bit by a mosquito. Now I'm not trying to be a whiner. Where's my whimeriner?

I didn't plan that one out. Didn't know where I was going with it. I pretty sure that's a dog breed That's one there's so many bugs out here. I'm I feel like I'm lost My is my face all puffed up, I think I just got stung by a wasp I think I just got stung by a wasp. Hey, hey, if you're not feeling good, call me. And I'll send my border call lady. Why do you keep going with the dog? It's the only animal I can think of. It's all I have. I know what it should be and it's all I can think of. You go again.

You're doing great. Okay. Call Signature Pest Control if you please. They'll help your Weimer Reiner's and Border Collies not have no more fleas. That's a good way of doing it. All right. Let me try again. All right. What up? What up?

You don't want chiggas? I'll take it from here. Go ahead. Um, a dirty house creates no laugh. Yes. Instead, get rid of a giraffe. Dang it. I did it again.

I can't do it. Giraffe! That's not what they offer. All right. Hey, I know that outside it's like, it's hot, so it's like a lot of heat-les. But that doesn't mean you gotta have beetles. Dang, you're good at this. You're good at this.

Oh, a clean house, man, that would be amazing. But too bad, it's full of Asians. Dang it, dude, what's happening? I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. Sins of your father. I don't know how you're doing. Dang it, dude. What's happening? I can't do it. Just pulling in your, like, sins of your father. I don't know how you're doing this. No, dude. I'll tell you how. It's because I have a clean house because of pest control, my local pest control company. Just like signature pest control can do for you if you live in a very specific area of Salt Lake City in Utah.

We're talking the valley, the SLV. SLV, yeah, you know me. The 304, I don't know your area code, but it's probably around there. Yes, it is. It's probably around there. It is. The SLV area, Signature Pest Control. Man, I got hair in my mouth.

SPC in the SLV. Yeah, you know me. Yes, I do. If you would like to use Signature Pest Control as your pest control provider, that would be awesome. Yep, you're gonna get a little discount, actually pretty significant discount. Talk to him.

I think it's 50% off your first service. Talk to him. So, Mitch and you're a ghostie, go to signaturepestpro.com, check it out. See if it fits your demands, your needs, but we would highly recommend using them. So Mitch and you're ghosting go to SignaturePestPro.com check it out see if it fits your demands your needs but we would highly recommend using them they're ghosties they're great and they're supporting us. Yeah so go to SignaturePestPro today yeah 50% off initial service for service plans or 25% off one-time treatments. Okay there it is. We think that once you use them you will trust them and you will come back again and again

you'll tell your friends about them so once again go to signature pest pro comm check them out Should we do our schmores? We're no Monday schmores gills, ain't he let's do it Make it happen will which one would you like to do you guys tell me all right? You didn't respond to my text which yeah, I didn't like it. Sorry. You didn't like it nice to to Pigeon hold he wanted to chick-fil-a items. No, I was I would like seven items from chick-fil-a I would just be surprised. Yeah, and let's do it real quick you verse me Spicy chicken sandwich. There's one strips

Okay, you know you disagree with that don't you strips are good but I do disagree with that a little bit yeah see I'm sorry I was texting you that I would have been surprised if you guys hadn't done that I think we did a fast food something like a white girl okay a girl pepper jack cheese yeah yeah breakfast spicy breakfast burrito. That's what I mean sir. There's four See, but this is why I think it could be hey honestly Lemon pie like you know going out of turn but sure also never knew that was a thing exactly I was in st. Louis and they were testing out a new product. It was like smokehouse barbecue

Nuggets. Oh like glazed nuggets like mac and cheese I was in St. Louis and they were testing out a new product. It was like smokehouse barbecue nuggets. Oh, like glazed nuggets, like mac and cheese cookies, milkshake. No, like, no, I'm just making a point that this would be a good conversation. No, but no, it's moving on. No, let's move on to solid extra grilled nuggets. Oh, see, there's a lot. There's more than seven items for a scramble. I'm beyond the Mount Rushmore. I'm literally just hung up on why than seven items for a scramble. I'm beyond my rest

Well, I'm literally just hung up on why you think that is a bad idea. It was a terrible idea It wasn't terrible. I like I like I like the ones we chose I cannot wait till you guys come back to this someday think of me when you eventually one day do the Mount Rushmore Yeah, I see both sides. Yes. It's fun, but I think we we tend to go to the really open-ended things Yeah, it where there's not a finite amount of them. Yes, it's fun. But I think we we tend to go to the really open ended things. Yeah. It where there's not a finite amount of them. OK. OK.

I didn't even understand the rules. No, you're I know me some slack. I know. Honestly, I didn't respond more because I was just busy and working away from my phone than because it was a bad idea in my opinion. But then I realized like, well, I should probably give Will at least like an hour heads up. So I didn't explain everything else was like FYI here the spores topics for doom So I'm excited for these two guys way to work it out. We're gonna do the baseball. Thank you for mediating Jake

Yeah, I wasn't pretty but that's how therapy works. That's how it works. That's that's how brothers get past 90s baseball players. Yes, let me put mine in a numerical list real quick to see I'm going I'm going off the dome I have 24 written down Wow Don't take mine I've already got mine Do I get to go first sure sure thank you because I really want to go first okay? I'm gonna go with Arguably the coolest athlete of all time definitely the coolest baseball player of all time King Griffey jr. Is on mine too great He was on my list was he one one?

King Griffey's the coolest thing Griffey's the coolest. King Griffey's the coolest. The coolest! It's, I mean who else is up? It's King Griffey, Michael Jordan Tiger before- pre- You know. Pre-Tiger. I don't know if you've heard. Pre-Ringer Tiger Tiger. Yeah. Tiger, Jordan, Griffey, Ali. Oh, I thought you, I didn't know where you're going. Nine, I was like, sorry, sorry, sorry. It just coincidentally, all those guys were in the nineties

and it's like, hey, Muhammad Ali. I just don't know who else is. Iverson had a cool factor to him as a kid, as like a middle schooler. He like really influenced culture. I feel like everyone wanted to wear the sleeve and the issues and everything. Got tatted up and everything. Yeah, I Don't know what else coolest athlete. That's kind of a fun thing to think about. Yeah, I'm saying yeah like cool factor. Yeah

Anyway, King Griffey. He's got my dad loved oj Simpson. Okay, that kind of like Tiger Woods. It's exactly like Tiger Woods He did the same thing Tiger Woods did He's cold-blooded all right yeah I mean King Griffey has two different video games or multiple video yeah multiple video platform or a video game platform I mean in 64 this question when I think of this question 90s baseball but my reference point is King Griffey baseball in 64 and who I'm playing with you right yeah okay good keep going I like your list Oh, no, so so we do a draft so we go around the room. There's a dress. So it's like a snake draft

So we'll go me Jake you chick. I would have been terrible It's a terrible idea. So you don't get to choose King Griffin. He's off the board That's why we were like currently chiseling him out of rock. He's on Mount Rushmore now. All right. All right counterclockwise Correct no All right fine go well all right go there's one counter clock you got to think about that one every time Yeah, schmores of ways of clock can go schmores of first clockwise schmores of clock hands Go big if I'm looking at a clock does anyone just like instantly no one does yeah, no one knows when you're right All right, let's go counterclockwise the whole room will go yeah

Yeah, all right, so you go first. Yeah, all right. I'm rolling with the big unit. I'm going Randy Johnson Oh good answer dude big unit. He was on my he was on my list in my head mm-hmm scariest picture Yeah, honestly like he felt he feels like the best pitcher of all time to me I don't think it's true, but in my head Dude when he hit that bird Cool he put it in that bird It's the craziest thing that will ever happen in sports

Truly like it's future proof Yeah, all those like crazy shots that like the Halliburton shot that bounced up really high went in pretty awesome But like recreate that correct with enough attempts correct you can't dude perfect should try to do that Pigeon tricks oh My gosh, dude Perfect Do you think if they got 500 birds and just had them fly through that it would work or anything?

Dude, perfect. Could do it. Yeah. I, yeah, I don't think you guys could do it. All right. What's up? Release the birds and just chucking baseballs, trying to hit them. Open season, like Steven Swick with the safety off.

Like, I think even if, even even if so even if somebody hit the bird I don't know. I would explode like yeah, like you're just like like poor Yeah, you would like a tail wound it. Yeah, he exploded. I'm dead. It was like that bird on track it went away Yeah, yeah, or um Was a little big league when they're playing the Mariners and the scene where Randy Johnson comes out of the bullpen? Like even just that like it was just an icon of the of the 90s I feel like so but specifically that scene in the way that portrays him of like the big bet like the final boss On a video game. It's like when kind of like Madison Bubbengarner

You know game seven when he comes out of the book and it's just like like what that was to the 2010s Like 2010s Madison Bumgarner is Randy Johnson from the 90s. Okay, so good Who was the villain in rookie of the year? This was for mommy Licking his chops See a professional player is he just an actor I think just an actor professional players he just an actor. Was he a baseball guy? I think just an actor.

What's for mommy? What's for mommy? Put that in, go leave. What's for mommy? Mommy, mommy. What does he say after he hits the home run? Woo! He's like trotting down first base.

I remember being like kind of mesmerized by that. Just like the bat looked so small in his arms. I've never seen anyone look like this. That guy was roided up for sure. Absolutely. All right, I think I've got enough options here. I'm gonna go, my list is gonna be based off of my favorite names. I love that.

Because my names of the 90s. So back to back, I'm gonna go Edgar Renteria and Chuck Knoblack. Oh, Chuck E.K.! Two of my favorite names, two of the only names that if this says anything, two of the only names that if this says anything to the only like 90s baseball players that my sister probably remembers, because she's like, I swear, every time I walk in your room, like Edgar Renteria was up to bat

and she knows him and like Chuck Knobloch, I think Chuck Knobloch is like they were such funny names. He played for the Royals for a second. He did. Yeah, he did. He got the yips, didn't he? Oh, I couldn't throw to first from second. Yeah. Can't crazy crazy can't talk about it Edgar went to Ria is one of those guys. It's like I

Don't think he was that good, but man it seemed like he was awesome like I think he was good like he was playing like a top 25 player Yeah, MLB, but it was like I think he might be like my favorite player I don't even know if he's top 25. I don think he was that great. Really was he an all-star? Maybe once or twice. I'm pretty sure as a rookie he played for the marlins and might have had the walk-off hit in the world series Really? The fact that we don't know it maybe sounds like that's not true But I think he played like one year for the marlins and the rest like with the cards either way

Edgar and chuck back to you. We snake it back. All right. Um, yeah, we can get into it Barry Bonds Yeah, you know I so I'm telling my son about McCovey Cove Why I was trying to explain how incredible it is. Okay You guys never been I've never been but it'll never been a yeah top of my list and I'm just trying to explain how incredible it is. Okay. You guys ever been? I've never been, but it looked never been a yeah, top of my list. And I'm just like, yeah, dude, like, and if you hit out far enough, like goes into this

thing called McCovey Cove and it's like it funnels in the Pacific Ocean, pull it up on YouTube. And when the giant stadium opened, they had the like the splash counter, you know, is how many balls went into and so if you go on YouTube There's like the first 100 splash hits Has them all it's Barry bonds number one Barry bonds until like number 14 or 15 And then it's like some random dude JT snow I'm not sure it is but I don't know man. I mean thiss baseball player does get it because you know, then you go, uh, um Roger clemens same so some mark mcguire. It's like

We'll get there but I'm just curious you guys thoughts on the matter. It's a it's a hot topic talking about some of these Well as a 90s, I'm talking steroids. Yes as a 90s kid I loved baseball probably because I was a kid but also because I think steroids just made it more fun to watch more narratives There were fun things happening like McGuire versus Sosa beating this old record right and Barry Bonds five years later Also, I think Barry Bonds was the best hitter in the game. Yeah, right regardless, right? And that is why I mean he is Yeah, yeah, I agree. Okay. It's really not something I've thought about that much but just just right now thinking about it's like a lot of people on steroids and a lot

No one has many home runs as he did. So correct. Probably got some talent, correct I will go ahead and I don't know Can I say one more Barry Bond story? That was just fun. I went down to spring training when I was in sixth grade got his autograph At a Houston's restaurant, you guys remember Houston's So we went to their spring training because fun fact shout out Billy my dad played in the giant system But it was like his last year or two and so we went to the giant spring training and then that night we saw Barry bonds Well, we're eating at Houston's waitress comes over hey let's see that guy it's Barry Bonds I said what you know I'm in sixth grade I don't have

anything for him to sign my mom goes go get the program or no no no no no that that wasn't it it was um I took over my menu okay like the Houston's menu yeah it was like saw him at Houston's so I go over it's him sitting in between two small white dudes, you know, his agent, whatever. I said, Mr. Bonds, Mr. Bonds. He looks at me and he goes, Hey kid, I don't do menus. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. Kind of the, yeah, totally.

I come back and my mom was like, go get the, go get the program from the game today. So I went outside and he signed the program. Okay. So we have a Barry bond sign program menus Disney kind of an Like what we're trying to say he has the reputation of being really rude He was like terrible to reporters and pretty terrible people. I mean you don't ever hear from him anymore So probably yeah, dude. I think he was not known to be super HGH man the side effects. Yeah, it wasn't him Big ego small well all right my next pick is going to be Sammy Sosa. I Love right for whatever reason we didn't really have cable growing up, but we had WGA

The Cubs played so many day games and so I have great memories during the home run race of Watching after school watching Sammy Sosa and it felt like every time I watched it, he had a home run. And he, once again, hitting it out of the park was so fun and wriggly, like hitting it. He cut to the shot of the street and people scrambling to go get it. I love the way he swings.

It's awesome. And then, I'm just gonna keep on the slugger train. I'm gonna go Mark McGuire as well. Okay. I think another one that's like,, of course. He was roided up. I think allegedly But also like he was still so good at hitting home runs. Yeah, so He was huge. I watched the replay of his like like record-breaking home run the other day and he's so top heavy. Like he's so funny that like most professional athletes playing a sport with a ball don't look like that. Like that's like what power lifters look like.

Or like people who do slot boxing. They look like that. Right. So funny that he played baseball. All right. Well, yeah, we're back. I'll say Greg Maddox on my list. He was, yeah, he was a pitcher's pitcher. And I think if you go back and watch some of the highlights of Greg Maddux like He just he didn't throw 95. He just wherever he wanted it to go That's where it and I think that that is a lost art in today's Baseball guys just throw it as hard as they can and then they burn out

But I he's I mean he's like a like a Seth Lugo, you know, it's yeah, he's just painting it. So I go Maddox All right, my last two favorite names Pokey Reese, oh Good one and Hideo Nomo. Oh, yeah, I am he would like turn around. Yeah, right Have his back facing the batter dude. If we're going fun names. I got right. I know this is this adds a completely different No, I like it. We'll talk about him later. No, no, it's great. I'm just now I'm wrecking my brain. I'm like, you know, Jay Buhner You know, it's like oh, yeah Mike Sweeney. Yeah, that was Mike's weenie classic. Yeah people love doing

The right pokey Reese and Hideo Nomo. Yeah, good names great names. All right, Willie. Oh man I'm now just totally thrown off Don't throw will off no, I know I'm in a blender again. I'm in a blender. Yeah Right Pedro Martinez. Oh Kind of forgot about Pedro for a second Mm- second. I Watch live that fight the Yankees Red Sox fight where he throws down Don Zimmer I'm really watching that and being kind of horrified. Yeah, like you're not supposed to see the heck old of a guy fall like that Yeah, or bleed

That was wild, but Pedro's yeah. Oh my gosh home, Brad. And last for me is going to be the shortest slugger until what's his name for the Astros? Wait, wait, wait, shortest slugger. See if we can guess it. Who's the shortest slugger? I don't know, well, go ahead. But yeah, he's just like a short guy. Who's the short slugger?

You'll know and you'll be like, oh yeah. Let me give you a hint yeah let's just say he's squatty Jeff Bagwell yeah he was short right I don't know but he was squatted that's for sure dude so squatted and just mashed that ball yeah he had some quads on him. I think he was short. Okay. Honorable mentions of fun names. Most fun name, both in nickname and actual name, the big cat, AKA Andres Galarraga. I almost heard that. He's on my list. Great. Very fun name. What about Byung Young Kim? Remember him? Byung Sung, his from Kicking and Screaming. Jeff Bagwell is six feet tall. I think he just squatted. He's got low

He was trying to make a small strike zone Really good for him Hey Rod was another one I was thinking of Roger Clemens. I forgot to put a Tony Gwyn yeah Tony Gwyn the game. Yeah, Ray Langford Raul Aban is famous royal famous royal, famous royal. You know who I loved as a player? Omar Vesquell. Remember him? Oh, yeah. Quick hands.

Loved him. What about the Rafael Fricall? Oh, wow. I've heard that. Yeah, they were first half a second together. They were so good. You know who I loved? Andrew Jones. Yeah. On my list. Andrew Jones was awesome. What about Chipper Jones? Also great name. Yeah great

One we haven't mentioned Calric and jr. Yeah, the Iron Man thought about it Kenny Lofton was another fun one to play with and Ricky Henderson. Yeah, I think this guy snuck into the 90s Ozzie Smith Yeah, maybe I don't know. Yeah No wizard. Yeah baseball is back flip. Yeah, I don't even think we've brought up Wade Boggs I mean we brought him up before the show. Yeah, there's just so many that's a beauty of baseball And again another thing when you guys mentioned this topic is did you ever read the top the baseball top 100 by Joe? Poznanski I've read part did through the athletic. Why are you laughing? You guys both laugh now it's probably to be one of the best suggestions you ever know.

Just by chance. He's a legend. Yes, he's a legend. He's a legend. Right. And literally when someone brings up COVID, I because it's when he it's when he released that baseball top 100, not 90 specific, but it's just the top 100 baseball players of all time.

And now it's in a book that you can buy. And that thing is like legendary and just the way that it dives. And that is one thing that I think baseball has on a lot of different sports. It's just like, I mean, literally nation's past time, 100 years, the stories behind the guys. Yeah, just like how they got to the bigs and. You know what I think so fun about baseball, I guess golf has this too, is that the dimensions can change. Yes, it's so funny. I think it's not talked about enough. Just wait. How do you mean like it's really hard to hit a home run at? The Royals yeah stadium, but it's really easy to hit it and Denver Stadium

I mean if you're a lady at the plane the plane the plane field as opposed to like football field also even the mounds Do you know the mounds aren't consistent? No way. Yes I was listening to an interview have to be the same I think they're supposed to be but like they're like, yeah Arizona's mounds are pretty flat and so they like they not recruit but they like sign pitchers that are better on flatter mounts in Arizona never heard of this. Yeah, I want to look into that more. That's interesting Yeah, cuz I like the conditions of a mound for sure, you know depending on how the grounds crew takes care of it, but No, I saw a stand-up act on the like yeah, you can just change the dimensions of a baseball field

That's so funny. Yeah, the green monster. That's insane. Just like one team was like what if the walls, but it's awesome 70 feet don't know it's incredible you guys been to Finland no oh What about the one is it is it Houston that has like that massive hill in Center? Yeah? I'm a Jim Edmonds made like a diving catch on it Jim Edmonds was on my list A lot of Cardinals I loved back in the day JD drew for Nino Vina Scott roll about Ron Gantt remember Ron Gantt was a beast dude Yeah, Minamate Park has that hill you ever when you were playing like MVP baseball 06 back then you ever play on um oh I just lost a bit. It's the huge field where it's like polo grounds polo grounds 480 to center. That was a blast. Yeah

Others are mentions move on move on good name great name guy who shares a birthday with me Jim told me oh dude Jim told me I don't know how he was just a solid yeah just a solid what the big hurt Frank yeah I was gonna say Frank Thomas yeah yeah that's great yeah I had Darryl Kyle r.i.p. shout out well you know Henry Rosen Gardner yeah he was in there rowing God now Those are all great Dante Bichette great name That's a good name. You guys are impressing me with your baseball. We were big into baseball. Yeah, they're growing up. Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome Alfonso Soriano

always had his Socks pants. Yeah pulled up Carlos Delgado. I wasted. Oh, yeah, I had his showdown card. Yeah, it's holographic Never cared for the Canadians couldn't get into the Toronto guy and they were I was never You know, it's like this America's pastime. Nice try Rome on to see You know, it's like this America's pastime. Nice try, Rome, Odyssey. That's right. Anyway, good shmores.

Good shmores. Jake, Rebecca Spring-Judd, seven hours ago on our Facebook page said this, brought Good Ranchers chicken to my family vacation. We made shish kebabs with the Italian seasoned chicken. My sister couldn't stop talking about the consistency and texture of the chicken, and my dad said, you'll have to tell mom where you get that chicken from.

To which I replied, I know a code, it's on me. Heck yeah, Rebecca Spring Judd understands. Do you? Rebecca Spring Judd. Rebecca Spring Judd. Rebecca Spring's life. Rebecca, Rebecca Spring's discounts. Rebecca Spring's hope eternal.

Rebecca, Rebecca Spring's, ah, we said them all. Yeah. We love Rebecca and we love Good Ranchers and we love Americans and Rebecca is Rebecca Springs. Ah, we said them all. We love Rebecca and we love Good Ranchers and we love Americans and Rebecca is an American. It's a circle, circular, there's no points. If you want to support Americans, American farmers, American companies, American podcasters, and support yourself and your family,

it's convenient, it's affordable, go to GoodRanchers.com, find a subscription box that fits your needs, that looks tasty, and it's gonna show up right at your door. It's not gonna have any antibiotics, any added hormones, any seed oils, all organic, just good meat. And with our promo code, you're gonna get a free add-on for life.

Whoa, that's good. Rebecca springs it. Some people love to just like go online and browse for shoes, browse for handbags, browse for limes. I go online and just browse the meat. I could have just the boxes at Good Ranchers dot com. I'm talking the better organic chicken, the home cooked box, the essentials box, the seed

oil free chicken nuggets. They're all so good. So kid approved. Everything about it. It's just better. It's high-end quality No antibiotics no hormones all the good stuff So once you go into the lake this weekend and you're providing all the meat and they are gonna be well fed boy Am I jealous of that lake? I?

Am the whole lake that's amazing. Yeah. Yeah, no we are we're bringing down a ton of good ranchers chicken I can't wait for one have it. It's gonna be awesome. So good ranchers.com is American meat delivered. This past weekend, Saturday, Catherine and I were on a panel for a young adults dating conference. We were like, that's awesome. On a panel. What do you guys do? Right? Yeah, exactly. How'd you guys lose your way? I don't know. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Bob, military Bob. He,. He has a young

adults ministry. Like basically, people that have just graduated college, like the first couple years out of college. He's actually starting to work at our church. Kind of fun fact. But he, yeah, he got this thing called ROMCON. Romantic Conference, I guess, what they called that for.

And they wanted me to be on a panel with Catherine. That's fun. It was fun. I don't know what I expected. No, I do kind of know what I expected. Did you guys get in a fight on stage and say this is what it looks like? We did a little bit. Let's just show you how to do this real quick.

That's a good idea. It happens a lot more than you think. No, but I guess I expected us to be like average to Below average as far as years married and instead we were by far the old couple. Oh It was real finding old people. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how I don't know I don't know who all he asked or what but it was like all these like quote-unquote kids at this conference like 75 kids And there were two people there that were single Two people on the panel that were newly married like eight months, and then there was us And so again the questions were really have some authority then I know and some expectations. I know I was like

Oh gosh, I mean we definitely like he like gave us some some of the questions beforehand So we had talked about what we were gonna say But if I would have known we were like the wise ones, I would have thought a little bit harder about these things. Yeah. How was it? It was fun. I enjoyed it. It was like 50 minutes and it felt like the time flew by. I had some good zingers. People laughed. I bet that was good. You crushed. Remembering him. Well, right. Tell us. Sure. Yeah. I guess I have to bet everyone was introduced themselves. And one of the girls is like, I'm from Chillicothe, Missouri and like half the room just goes crazy? I was like, what? I was like, okay, so they're probably like, they were just an excitable crowd.

And so I was like, okay, they're probably going to at least like give me a little, somebody's going to be from Olathe and give me something. So I'm like, I'm Brad Ellis. I'm from Olathe. And it was silent for like three seconds. And then of course everyone went crazy because I was like, all right, all right. I went to K-State. And then of course people got excited about that. Always wanted to visit Chillicothe. Yeah, I have friends from Chillicothe.

I've driven through it. Yeah, I know people in the prison there. I'm trying to remember exactly. Okay, there was one thing. So there was this guy, the newly married guy, he was talking about like, you know, the idea of like being friends with your spouse and like how important that is.

And he was like, you know, my, I just wanna call her on the way home even because I just can't wait to talk to her. But earlier in the conversation, he talked about dating this girl. And he's like, you know, back in the day, we would when we were dating, apparently I was on speakerphone sometimes or like, no, he didn't say that. He said, apparently, my girlfriend's roommates would be watching like on the ring camera,

you know, whatever, and all these things, because they always just want to know everything about us. And so I kind of ruined the joke. But basically, he's like, so I just want to call her as soon as I can every single day to like see how she's doing. I was like, yeah, and you're, she probably puts you on speaker so her roommates can listen.

From Aletha? It was better at the time, all right? I read yeah, yeah Long walk for a quick drink of water there, but yeah It's a great phrase Yeah, and insider baseball, but and lead a horse to water, but it's gonna be a quick sip, but it's gonna be a quick sip Put it on speakerphone Anyway, but yes, it's fun and easy. I like talk about that kind of stuff

Yeah, for the most part there were questions you had like had real-life examples you could like point to or you're stuck Yeah, there was there was some like there was one question. It's kind of open-ended of like. What do you think? What was your general feeling or any any advice for people that are single right now. I just don't obviously know that game very much. It's been a long time since we've been single. How long have you been married, Will? Coming up on 10. I was going to ask you this. Are you guys 10 yet? We're 11. Yeah. OK. Coming up on 12.

Yeah, I hear you. And so it's like, yeah, when we were dating, Snapchat had just started being a thing, but online dating wasn't really relevant. Now it feels like that's the main source for a lot of these people Right swung the other way you got to put on that in the class Yeah, I should just really dove into like these people think I'm agent So I might as well you put on your nicest suit draw the top hat you and you go out on the town Yeah down to local five and down

Take it to the sock hop I take it to the sock hop She'd have her pearls on and And have my cufflinks and have ourselves a nice time. They call poodle skirts, maybe Stuff like that, so I don't know so that was kind of that kind of tripped me up a little bit So I was like, I don't know exactly what to say to these people about being single tripped me up a little bit. So I was like, I don't know exactly what to say to these people about being single. But anyway, yeah, that's always been tough. It was also hard.

There was a few different times where I kind of disagreed with somebody else on the panel that was single. And so it's like, you're going to have to stop you right there, Brendan. Not so true. It wasn't like extreme disagreement. She. Yeah, what was it? Well, OK, The general idea? I think and I think we probably she probably would agree with me

I probably would agree with her too, but like she was talking about how like she's like oh I'm trying to remember she had some phrase and everyone was like that's good. That's good. It was like I don't know It's like wasn't that good of a phrase. It just like had like alliteration Yeah, it was like this keep this long, but this short or something like keep your standards high So it was basically like you're in your skirts short No, I guess essentially like my feeling is like No, I guess essentially like my feeling is like without knowing everybody is like dating tendencies. It's like, I think so many people have this idealistic, idealistic form or view of like

dating and marriage and finding the spouse that's going to like be perfect. And I'm like, at the end of the day, Jesus is the only thing that's going to fill this void in your life. Like, and if you try to put that on a spouse, you're a you're never going to find somebody. And B, if you think you do, you're going to be disappointed in them. And so she was talking about like girls don't settle for another like a less than guy. And I'm I'm like, of course, you shouldn't settle. I don't think you should. Let's make this a little more realistic, but also like take down this husband from the pedestal. We are all. Yeah, we're all like, of course, there's people out there like you should not be

dating that guy. Like you are incompatible. He has a Snapchat and his Instagram bio immediately. Probably not. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Probably. But like the rest of the people, it's like we're all incompatible, you know, by definition, we're all sinners. And so it's like in that regard, I'm like, I think the people it's like we're all incompatible, you know by definition we're all sinners and so it's like In that regard. I'm like, I think we can all just like understand that we're gonna have flaws. So don't expect this person. That's perfect. Yes So anyway, people did not give me the same affirmation. They gave this girl

And I didn't say it like back-to-back like that. I like waited but anyway, I'm not from Chilikathi I get that kind of respect Chilikathi was something else That's cool. Oh, yeah, that's fun Speaking of marriage. I have a I have a situation. I'm gonna get your guys thoughts on it something Rachel and I Disagree on are you guys coming up on two years? Yeah, we're a little over two years a little over two. Awesome We need you to help settle this When you let's think you've got your your dirty clothes hamper, okay This is high-stakes stuff. Here's a question since you guys don't do each other's laundry. Do you do have two different hampers?

Yeah, okay. We're pretty separate. We still have separate bank accounts. She still has her old last name Are you guys I don't know who she is. You guys would not get on a panel. I like you're not paid already, like legally, or she like like public facing, she'll still use her. I mean, I think Rachel will be the first to say she'll have any take any reason to procrastinate, you know, so legally she has not changed it because I think when he first got married, was like well about to go on our honeymoon

I don't want to change my passport and I was like well We're gonna cruise with our parents about to leave the country for that Yeah, like there's like this thing always six months away where she's like It would be way too inconvenient to switch my name now. So so did but I told her this is the year I was like you have to go do it this year. Do her change your color. Mrs. Triplet the last school She was at it was coop but new school this year Yeah, she went in yesterday on the board mrs. Triplet. Okay, so we're starting to start to switch it. That's good. Okay Separate laundry bin. Sorry. Yep

Your dirty clothes hamper you take it down to the laundry and you unload the dirty clothes you know yes you wash it yes would you also then take your clean clothes when they're done and put them back in that hamper to bring them back upstairs thousand percent there one argument says don't put your clean clothes and what was just holding dirty clothes yes the other argument says who cares yes what how else are you gonna get him up there? Okay, good arms with your or have multiple hampers Psycho some people are and one of the one of the people in this conversation. You don't know which one I'm on I don't either no I know okay. You know which side I'm on you're right. You're right. I Tried to paint it neutrally. Oh, please

I'm on you're right. You're right. I I tried to paint it neutrally. Oh, please You did paint it neutrally, but I just know you well enough you do you think you know Well, I guess maybe not the fact that you're like thinking I don't know This is one of those things like people did not like that I said I did not shower very many times and just went in the pool. So like People are gonna judge me for this too, but I don't care like For whatever reason I kind of believe that germs just kind of go away a little bit after a little bit of time you get them a little time just like those maggots Okay, I don't it was me commenting that like just go wash your hands get out of here

There are times where it's like no we got to fix that other times where it's like Get out of here. There are times where it's like, no, we got to fix that. Other times where it's like, no. Yeah, those were dirty clothes, but I don't think it's making the whole hamper smell dirty. I will say, if it's like, recently, I've been sweating profusely. And so I've been-

You got some nasty clothes going in there. Nasty clothes touching that bin. I would think twice about it. Or I'd make sure it's dry. I'm not saying I would clean it, but I would I'd make sure it's dry. I'm not saying I would like clean it, but I would at least make sure it's dry. Catherine cares about this, I think a little bit more than I do,

but I'm totally on the side of who can, yeah, same. Same way. As long as it's not like there's mud in here, or like something crazy dirty or sweaty. Dirty germs. Fine. Who cares? Nope, don't care And that's you agree so much, so I've never thought about this conundrum. I

It's it's fun to think about oh, yeah, but in something worth considering, but to your point You know if I go for a run It's like those clothes are going straight from me like I will take them off and insert them into the washer Yeah, they're not touching them or sometimes your washer is not in the unfinished basement Yeah, I can tell yeah, I lay mine out outside and let them dry first and then maggot style Maybe wait hold on our washer is in an unfinished basement. Oh it is yeah good for you Oh, it feels like I got a travel year. Oh, yeah, no totally. I'm with you on that shout out to the

the laundry chute No, totally. I'm with you on that shout out to the The laundry shoot Jack you use it you guys have a laundry shoot Yeah, it goes those things are so nice and fun the previous homeowner just cut a hole in our bathroom It's not an actual shoot. It's just like there's a hole in the tile. Oh, there's no shoot though. No, let's make a shoot We could make one and we can make it like where's make a shoot. We can make one. And we can make it like, roll the coaster. Roll the super shoot? Yeah, it'll go right into the hole, right into the like, washer. Would you love that? I would love that.

Pretty nice, actually. More things need a shoot. Like, you could do a hole in this wall. Trash shoot, yeah. Kitchen shoot. Snack shoot would be awesome. Dude, a snack shoot. You seen the Costco closets?

Yes. Wait, what? It's like you unload your groceries straight into your pantry? You know how Costco they don't have like bags most of the time because everything is like So large that you can't put them in bag and so you can back your car in And then this these doors open into your pantry. Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah more shoots more shoots What was I gonna say I Don't know. Thank you for What was I going to say? I don't know.

Thank you for your thoughts. I will say like the slip, the slope gets slippery pretty quickly as far as like all of a sudden you might need six laundry baskets if you really want to commit to this, especially if it's like because because I mean the more kids you have the more like laundry you have. Sometimes you get clothes out But you don't fold them right away, or maybe you fold them and put them back in there So like it gets it gets slippery all right. Thank you. I'm assuming you are Clean and dirty yes, I'm opposite of you guys. Yeah, I'm like I

Think we can afford a second laundry basket since when the budget how long have you been this way I? Don't know when it started Our different point, but you've all you've done it your whole yeah Yeah That's like always what's made sense to me is like you take your dirty clothes out of this dirty thing Yeah, clean them, and then you take a clean thing and put your clean things back You know just like keep the clean and dirty center like your upbringing like your parents. I guess I Yes, it was probably modeled for me that way. I have no clue.

OK. But I don't have any. There's no judge. Of course like zero judgment. If anything I think that yeah no one's going to judge you everyone's going to judge us in this situation. You know yeah. Rachel's the other

way and she was one who told me she's like I get her saying but I think most people are doing it my way and you guys confirm that. Most people are like just put them back in it You're you they're in there for like 60 seconds Who cares like is there like a very distinct difference between your two laundry baskets?

Or is there a chance that like it could get switched at some point? You know my hampered really getting into the weeds here is like a fabric material I feel like that can hold bacteria a little better that can hold stank a little better Okay, but I like to put them in the clean one is just like straight cheap plastic. Okay, like Guys, you can't even live on plastic you ever wash your fabric You don't you guys see it the theme we're talking washing trash cans, baby No, it is it's the same conversation like how often should you clean the thing that right dirty thing clean the thing that holds the dirty Thing it's cyclical. Yes. What else have we talked about clean the thing that holds the dirty thing?

Yeah, yeah, right, okay, well, yeah, maybe I'll come up again, but What do you think about I? Went to the bathroom before church the other day talk about cleaning things I went to the bathroom before church the other day. Let's talk about cleaning things That holds the dirty thing and this guy next to me went number one and washed his hands without soap for two seconds I feel like that's kind of a thing that people do sometimes you guys yeah, you see it in public bathrooms Wait, or just not wash your hands. I'm a big I'm like a freaking surgeon at every time I go to the bathroom. But you don't take a shower after you go to the pool. Correct. OK, Sarge.

Unless I'm at lifetime, I do it at lifetime most of the time. Do you go surgeon mode because you're in public or just at all times? You go you go number one in your own house and you still are scrubbing up. If you're asking, I'll be honest. I've been on a little bit of a streak probably 60% of the time I will not I will wash my hands after number one at home. That's amazing. Good for you. Yeah, we have really good smelling soap. I Like you like smelling soap is good. Yeah, what about?

20 degrees you're out of arrowhead bathroom for you know 40 dudes you got gloves on Number one. I'm just going to case study here here I just want to would I take off the glove would you wash your hands yes that's the dumbest oh I feel like that's like the dirtiest 20 degrees yeah it's literally yeah it's 20 degrees you're wearing gloves you're washing your hands over here look at him look at him guys what it you believe this guy? Look at him, look at him. You guys wouldn't?

You had this extra pair of gloves this whole time. Yeah, it's Arrowhead. And the Rockies. We're in the nosebleeds. Yeah. I would, yeah. And that's okay. I think it's good that you care so much about that.

I just, I'm not up to those standards. It's good you care about the cleanliness out of Arrowhead next to all your friends. And I'm not like a germaphobe. I don't think I don't think am I I'm not I think you care about good So I think I just like having clean hands specifically so Anyway, I just know like like some people like literally like one hand under the like just a quick Don't don't even like like Dry it. Just just quick quick wash and get out of there.

I'm like, I'm shaking people's hands at church. You know? That's fair. Let me ask you this. How dirty did that hand, not even hands, how dirty did that hand even get? Well, I'm just, yeah, I don't know. I opened up a door at church. Who knows who else is touching that door? I don't know. Maybe I'm a germaphobe

Don't think I am. I think you're normal. I ate food off the ground in the airport one time. We talked about that on the podcast, so I'm fine. Sometimes you're hungry. You're not a term or phobia is hungry Let's wrap this up. Will, you're donating your time to be here today. Tell everyone about your business. We're back at number four and we're back at one. I was on the phone with Dimcheck yesterday actually and he was telling me about how you got a new domain.

You heard about this, Brad? No. Tricky question, if you're okay with this. How much do you think it cost? To buy the domain share your story calm okay, this is okay to say yeah them check Just he just he just let her fly on we talked numbees. Yeah, okay, we're buds You do you want us to let her fly? He doesn't know no no you can go yeah, it's a fun fact. This is interesting $10,000. It used to be a good guess Well, that is a good guess

Dude, don't me is all it's the Wild West. You have no idea. It is you know, sure your story co could be five cents I know. Yeah, okay before we get what because you guys have always been ghost runners co right or go sir's dot life, baby Yeah, like his life. Did you was that much of a conversation? Did you try to get create? You know, it was a brief conversation It was like we looked at like 20 options like dot store dot life all the ones that were not dot-com cost a dollar I doesn't really matter. Yeah, they're gonna be clicking on a link anyway, correct? They're gonna manually type it Yeah, I would never spend that much money on something like this Hold on. Are we live right now? Live? No. OK.

Tani Under just said, are you potting right now? Potting podcasting. I was just like, how would he know that? Potting. He must mean podcasting. I texted him. Oh, OK. All right. Yeah. Cell phone.

Dude, I do text sometimes. Carry your hands afterwards. All right. Sorry. $10,000 is my guess. Carry on. All right, sorry. Ten thousand dollars is my guess. Share your story dot com, baby. You want me to tell? Up to you. This is a weird thing. You're right there. That's basically what it costs.

It's pretty much. I couldn't believe how much that cost. Oh, me neither, my friend. And yeah, so we've been right. My books are calm. So Alex and I started a publishing company about three or four years ago, and that has now blossomed into share store dot com, where we help people with books, media speaking. So, you know, if anyone out there could be a crazy uncle, could be a grandparent, people told me all the time I got a I got a book and me. Yes, we help those kinds of people share store dot com is kind of us Pushing all our chips in on story and the power of story kind of a three-headed monster instead of just a book writing right exactly So Alex I like this the book is the hook, you know reward of authority as author

So a lot of people that's where it starts But then media helping them share their story on a regular cadence and then speaking which is obviously always been kind of more Alex's Bent and I like speaking too But just kind of that whole industry. He just has a better beat on. So yeah, we're really excited about that shift Yeah, I'd kind of I'd call maybe more of a brand refresh than like a rebrand because stream on books still exists But we're really excited about it And that's good guys start So we so I had a content marketing company 2019 2020

That's around the time that he and I reconnected He's like will you know people ask me all the time how to do a book? He had his public speaking, and then we just kind of just mesh the two 20 July 21 was author number one this week we signed our 182nd author Let's go yeah that we've worked with that's what question was gonna ask you how many books have you written? Yeah, we actually just kind of this theater so We're at 101 published gotcha But we have probably like 65 to 70 in the pipeline right now that we're working on how many do you think you personally?

I know now it's growing you have a lot of people ghostwriting how many you worked on yeah, so I don't write the books anymore I've and In that first, you know two to three years I would say it was largely Alex on kind of like the business development sales And then I was a lot of the production so I probably ghost for it like our first eight to ten books For different authors, but then I've edited and served as project manager And that's just kind of startup mode You know it's just like you roll up your sleeves you do it and this idea of going from in the business to on the business is really where Alex and I are at now so we have a team of about

seven to eight W2 employees and then like 40 to 50 contracted writers editors designers which should maybe be cool for 40 to 50 oh yeah which it may be cool for your audience of if anyone out there has any writing or design or editing experience You could go to share your story calm. We take submissions on a rolling basis, but it's cool because I've told some people talk in Exodus And God's kind of made it clear. We serve two audiences We serve like Moses's, you know people that are a little bit older that 45 to 75. It's like why me God? You know, you've because a lot of people they're really me who would want to read my book It's like you can you know, you're because a lot of people, they're really me. Who would want to read my book? It's like you can, you know, you're brilliant.

And so we help the Moses's. It's like, well, the locusts close, um, you know, but there was a lot of that. Call it imposter syndrome. Moses going, why me? Like, I can't talk good. God's going, I know that you knucklehead. It's your brother, Aaron. He's going to help you. So we serve Aaron's too, you know, so it's these people that help these people and

The pairing of the two is very powerful like building a team around these people to help them share their story so now Dim chick laughs, you know It's it's kind of like when you buy a Honda Odyssey and all of a sudden all you can see around town is hot Oh Honda audience policies And it's kind of it with story. It's just leaning into the power of story. Like I even think of, I've thought about it on this podcast.

Like you guys are brilliant storytellers. And I tried to make a joke about the Ron Khan. Yeah, well, it's just, but that's it. And so that's just something over the last number of months. I've been thinking more and more about could get as deep as you guys want it. And so I that's just something over the last number of months. I've been thinking more and more about Could get as deep as you guys want it, you know But before the written word even like that's generation to generation like that's how stuff was passed down was their story You know our stories about baseball players from the 90s, you know our stories about marriage all these things, you know, it's just See ya share your story comm

That's ours, baby Love it. com. That's ours baby. Love it. Congrats. Yeah. That's fun. Everybody hit them up if you want to book or want to work there. Yes. Yeah.

I would say if you if you know a Moses or you want to be an Aaron I would say are probably y'all's listeners. That's probably the best. Yeah. And we'll send we'll sling gift cards all day long for referrals. Come on. Mm hmm. You name it it you name the gift card chick chick

What was your fast food one that you did Mount Rushmore? Okay, I bet it's like build your best Fast-food like yeah, I had like Panda Express chow mein with chick-fil-a nuggets with I was gonna say like breakfast lunch and dinner Like a build the best fast food day McDonald's Coke Fire Yeah, I'd say high sea orange also fire. Oh pretty that was Wednesday's episode that would probably tell my list Okay, I don't know how it works. Yeah, you said here till 430. I was like, I don't know Have you ever listened to an episode before? Yes full. I think so. Okay Just curious then you know what we're about to do now then

Okay, go ahead. You guys do testimonials at the end testimonials. That's right. Yeah, it's your testimonial You I'm gonna pull mine up you pull up your testimonial first I'm going to pull mine up. You pull up your testimonial first. All right. My testimony of the week comes from Mac Macer says attention. Mr. Ellis is the title of it. Isn't this the one that you read last week? Get to Toronto's main venues like Budweiser stage and the new Roger Stadium with Go Transit.

Thanks to Go Transit special special online e-ticket fairs, a $10 one-day weekend pass offers unlimited travel on any weekend day or holiday, anywhere along the Go network. And the weekday group passes offer the same weekday travel flexibility across the network, starting at $30 for two people and up to $60 for a group of five. Buy your online Go pass ahead of the show at go transit dot com slash tickets. I don't remember the one that talked about how we need to do the table service podcast. I read this one last week and that's when I was like all right that's what inspired me to be like table setters coming out Friday. Here's a question for the audience That's it. That was a good testimonial though. What's wrong with me?

You just had too many fun things happen in your life recently. I think it's the love of thyroxine. Maybe Well, um, here's my testimonial of the week, please Lots of people in our group me are getting really excited for the Ghostrunners getaway Yeah, we have a call tonight with them in one and session two. Yes, so Their testimony is excitement. That's what I'm passing along to you guys. What's your testimonial of the week? My testimonial comes from The Ghost Runners getaway We sound like a group chat going. Wait, what'd you say for yours? No, that's not what you said. No, I said tables other spot. Oh That's right. Um yeah, my testimonial is coming from

Just like the general excitement for the ghost runners getaway in August 16th to the 23rd all right go to go stars that life Where is it? Where is it? Yeah good question go to go stars that life travel you go stores, Alabama, baby What? Go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to Missouri like Sykes to Missouri and then was it Daphne Alabama or something like that Foley Alabama One of the siblings just said I'm take well, I'm taking this Paul Lambert. Hey, I'm taking it What you say we could throw rolls in a step. I'm taking Lambert No, you're not. Oh, yeah. Oh you think the heck you are. I'm taking it to Bama. Yeah They're gonna love it there. It's a Springfield thing. Mark my words, one year from now Sabin will be catching these rolls. Taking it to Alabama. I'm thorough Nick Sabin. Heck you are. I promise you I'm gonna hit you on them rolls with Nick Sabin. You turn back.

Bear Brass is gonna come out of his grave and he's it's just like at the end of the driveway. Hey, hey All right, Nick they get money roll I need Okay, I need you guys to decide right now One two or three I want you guys to decide together no one two or three all right wait decide together decide together Hey, hey decide together You guys doing this lazy salute It's got to do all right, so here's the background Bo and I have been lists or sorry reading Charlie and the chocolate factory anybody read it. Oh, yeah

recently Ronald doll, baby. No not recently Ronald rolled. Oh, yeah, that's a common name that we all remember Rowald row out. Oh, yeah on the cover Rolled all do also wrote Danger, I piece Matilda say it say it wait really yeah, dog. Yeah, Moby Dick no Just kidding all right Bo, and I just finished it his name is Roald. I don't think I knew that rolled all yeah That was a mistake by the birth certificate office was a mistake by the guy who writes books So in this book Charlie talk factory Multiple probably four different times the Oompa Loompas sing songs on those always get stuck in my head

I might leave the room for this no no no that's the thing is that are they like crazy songs? Well, it's it's in a book so you don't know how they sound and so that's the thing is that as I was reading this book To bow I had your making us a melody dude. This is I'm reading through Lord of the Rings For the first time all the way through and it's it's like half the book or just Oh really? Oh dude just these songs okay and so I'm in bed like at 11 o'clock at night reading on my Kindle and I'm just like okay so maybe okay so here's the deal I was picking between so here's the jingle for this week is this one of you is going to have to make up a melody to this song from Charlie and Charlie factory and sing it.

It was either going to be one Jake, two will or three. Both of you singing stop. You just made that. No, I didn't. I promise you. I did for we're back on screen for cause I got, yeah, no stop. I promise I didn't. So it sounds like will you do this all the time though with Lord of the Rings.

So here's the song. I chose one of the shorter ones for you One of them was three pages long and I just had to sing this song five minutes to worry correct So this is the jingle it's an Augustus Gloop original. Okay. I feel like this was I know this tune It was in the movie. Okay, fine. Then we're picking a new one. No, no, no, come on perfect for this role You want me this gloop? Augustus gloop the great big greedy in come

It's it's along those All right. Well, let's hear it pretty similar. Give me another one. I like this game. I want to come up with a new one, okay? It was it was amazingly hard to like continue to Continue to sing no you're good dad for committing. Thank you. Dude, okay, copy. All right, here you go, Willie slash Jake. This one's from Mike TV.

Yeah, I don't know this one. All right. Can't wait. Go ahead, Willie. So I have to do it? Well, you've chose two. I was genuinely going to have one, two, or three. Okay.

I think three would have been best case scenario. You could have popcorn back and forth. but now it's just you Willie the most important thing that we've ever learned the most important thing that we've learned as far as children are concerned is never let them near a television set. You gotta keep going, that's the hard part. Yes! Or better still, just don't install the idiotic thing. Never never never never never let them.

It rots the senses in the head. It kills imagination. Dead. Dead. Dead. It clogs and clutters up the mind. It makes a child Dolan blind. So Dolan blind. So Dolan blind. He can no longer understand a fairy tale and fairyland. His brain becomes as soft as cheese.

His thinking powers rust and freeze. He cannot think he only sees. He sees regarding little Mike TV. We very much regret that we regret shall simply have to wait and see and see. We very much regret that we shall simply have to wait and see if we can get him back to size, but if we can't it serves him right it serves him right hmm Good job, Willie so I bet the one in the book is Five times longer than that. It's yours reading this book. Yeah, so what did I just that's not in the book I don't know. I just tried to find Mike T. I googled Mike TV lyrics So I don't know if that's the one from the movie

because the one with Johnny Depp is like the book version of the movie if that makes sense the other one's like a little bit different, but Anyway, it's so Katherine's like yeah, I'm just listening to in the other room try to sing this Oompa Loompa song Oh, dude. Yeah, I mean that what I just tried right now is like a That's a hard thing to do and it just makes you wonder what was going through the author's head. Yeah, like They want me to sing this so Frodo's walking through the shot Anyway, thanks for all the testimonials. Thanks for the jingles Willie and Willie's coming back on Wednesday whether he likes or not No, there's more. See you guys then