Ghostrunners - 464 - Sweet Home (full of Ghosties) Alabama

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

Session 1 of the 2025 Ghostrunners Getaway was so fun!! This is such a fun episode recapping the first half of the week with a live audience from the living room. We talk about all of the memories we've made, check in on how bears are doing, and get really sidetracked talking about balancing a checkbook. Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YUCheck out Cozy Earth and get 40% off site wide with this link: http://www.cozyearth.com/ghostrunners 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. We're here at Gulf Shores, Alabama. Ghosties, make some noise. Yeah, yeah. Very agreeable bunch, these people. Third year doing this, third year podcasting in the living room in front of people. First time, no microphone. Oh, sorry, Jake, what he called? Sorry, no hands. That's not what I wanted to start with. So, Brad on the way down here. as a trooper you drove like 15 hours straight you didn't even really stop

Catherine Pacti launches and everything yes and you were extremely productive I think everyone everyone in the group me like doesn't really want to ride with you because you were so efficient while driving I got there and Gabe like had a decently serious talk with me like dude you're way too much on your phone while it's like I know how to do it right you made some really good memes while driving one of the things you did while driving is you're like hey to you know open invite to the group me um i want to give my kids uh some things for for when i'm gone so if you have anything that you would like suggest a scavenger hound a game or riddle or whatever

and gabe apparently honest to god was like wow brad's already thinking about life when he's dead yeah and like does anybody have any ideas of like bible verse i can send him while i'm gone dude that's let me check into those real quick and then Brad was like well I thought of this one thing this is before we knew Brad's like I thought of this one thing where like um however many years old you are that's how many laps you have to do around the house and Gabe's like if you're dead I don't see why that's maybe had he's like 48 years old she might be having some knee problems by then oh uh oh oh I think this tight beat means that it's going down with Some random thoughts in white meat, too.

Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's a ghost of a podcast. Everybody in morning morning who are taking ground. Ghost on a podcast. Go for a podcast. One, two, three.

Be cool. Okay, clap, be cool. We'll do clap, be cool. So we're talking about being cool today. That has been the theme. That was one of the unintentional themes of the week. Yeah, I remember that came from. We were just laying some rules down and just kept coming to mind.

Hey, just be cool. That kind of covers all your bases. Honestly. And like anytime somebody's not cool, we're just like, Jason, come on. What are you doing? Be cool. But no, it's been a fun few days so far. A good amount of returning faces, good amount of new faces.

Yep. Yeah, it's fun. I was thinking about this, just, yeah, I was trying to brainstorm some notes. I just wrote down, I wrote down literally coast to coast, and then I wrote down some things that are not on the coast. California, coast. Minnesota, not the coast. However, like, literally, like, I feel like we're on, like, all the ends of the United States

more. Like we got California, Minnesota, Maine, Florida, Texas, anybody from Texas? Anyway, but it kind of crazy, like just the variety. Yeah, of people coming from all these different sports. spots. So, yeah, it's been really fun. It's great. Even same faces we went to Lamberts last night had the same waiter. Yeah, kind of. He was pumped. Yeah. He was ready to see us, ready to hang out. He was the one that like last year, we met him the first time we went to Lambert's and then session two, we were like, hey, let's mess with the people that come and, like,

let's have a game that we do with him. And I don't remember them thinking it was that crazy, but it was kind of fun for us to, like, see him again. We had to, like, tell everyone that we were pranking like hey pay more attention like we just pranked you successfully yeah like oh cool I mean I don't know how you want to do this take but transitioning from that fun it wasn't even a prank but we played this game on the beach yesterday psychiatrist is what we call it yeah and it's basically like you explain it you're so good at explaining things and then I'll come back to the prank okay psychiatrist it's a great game for like 15 or more I feel

You're like, where one person or maybe two people are in the middle, they are the psychiatrist, and they were trying to pick up on a pattern that everyone else in the circle is doing. Like, there's a way that they're answering the questions. So the psychiatrist is to say, like, hey, you know, looking at Brad, like, what's your name? And he'll say, sometimes it's Brad. And you're like, why did he say sometimes it's Brad? Is it because there's three words and every answer is because it has to start with an S? Or, you know, sometimes he'll say his name's Steve and like, why do you say Steve?

And so, like, one time, like, the thing that made people say yes, or, truth or lies, gosh, was like Lisa's feet were in the sand or whatever. Sometimes it was like depending on what kind of word they said, we would like raise our hand or something. And then one time, I believe it was Emily and Jessica. Is that right? Yeah, this is great. It's like dramatic irony playing out in real life. So it's Shakespearean. So first of all, we have a bunch of amazing helpers. One of them being Justin, who just got in yesterday. Justin was our old editor. used to look like a kid now definitely looks like a man

just long hair big old beard just amazing and so people hadn't been that familiar with them yet he was just hanging out on the beach we're like all right we had these four different tints and we're like whatever tent Justin is under whoever else is under that tent

tells the truth but if Justin's not under that tent we tell a lie and that's like the psychiatrist thing and so I don't know if this translates very well but in the moment it was one of the funniest things I ever watched because we tried to like eventually like if they were having a hard time like hey come on in here and help out just it wasn't it wasn't jessica it was okay thank you um yeah it was like

justin you're you're out in the sun man come on in like come in justin just come in the 10th you're part of this man come on in someone made a really funny joke they're like man this round is intense yeah like you're trying to like throw everything at them and uh eventually like we kind of convinced them like Justin you might need to help them out like oh yeah Justin help us you're part of this dude get in there like literally he was like just following them around like yeah I don't know what's going at one point and it was like Justin you're not helping just go to the side like no he's literally the help he's literally the trigger so that wasn't a prank but it was kind of kind of one so it is fun it's fun as long as you're you're not the

psychiatrist and you have to pay attention to Lisa's toes any other scenario You know, it's really easy. Really fun. We struggle with that one. But anyway, yeah, it's been a great week. I don't know. It's hard to start. Where do we start with all of this stuff?

Oh, well, we've had fun, and everyone's been cool. One new thing we did this year was we made everyone, in like groups of five, give a fake Shark Tank pitch and really got to see some personalities there. I feel like, yeah. Alvaro, who we're starting to get to know pretty well. I mean, he's in my close friend story on Instagram. I might take them off. up. He got, he was in a group full of girls and it showed and he got a little zesty, I mean,

right in front of my face. It was so funny. I compared Alvaro, like, you know the Oscar, whatever, Nunez, I don't know his name, but I, the Oscar from the office, but his character in the proposal. Like, that is exactly what Alvaro is the kid or, like, especially like, yeah, So the product that they were pitching for a shark tank was called You Got This Mama, and it was all about like when you're pregnant, which we have a few pregnant women on the, well, I'm not going to shout them out just as a case, but it was like when you're pregnant you have cravings, like you got this mama like delivers whatever cravings you have to you. And so every once in a while they would try to in sync say, you got this mama.

And Albro was always like a half, what second half behind? But really emphasizes it, you got this mama. It was so good, so funny. Other highlights from the Shark Tank? I really enjoyed, so Dom and his group took a, because the whole thing was like, come up with a new business, a new product that doesn't currently exist,

and their whole thing was funny because they just told us what a spork is and tried to pretend it was this new thing. I would gaslight us and be like, this is not a thing. Yeah, like Jake, you love eating, Brad, you love gardening. Which, other way around, brother.

Yeah, if anything. And so like, we combine. mind a shovel and a fork. Right. It's called the shake. And Dom said he's like, I don't know why we didn't think twice about it. It wasn't until we asked them. He's like, wait, that doesn't make any sense.

Why we called it the shake. So I think he was like, shove. So then he was like, no, it's an acronym or whatever. Shovel, have a cool evening. Yeah. You got this, mama. Yeah. The one who stole the show is the one.

group of four. I mean, Janelle was kind of the, you know, the one leading the charge, but then... This is a technology-based software, you know, like, there wasn't a physical product. Yeah, so it could be tough to explain. Luckily, they did a reenactment. And that's where you learned that Hannah Warner's got a career in comedic writing, and Tia's got a career in comedic acting. It's unbelievable. Brad cried laughing. There's certain, yeah, there's certain things that we keep in-house, and that's going to be a, that's going to be one, I think, oh, but my gosh. You're just like, because the whole product, the whole software, whatever, was like, you know, whenever you're in an argument and you just wish you had that comeback, but then you think about it later, and you're like, oh, I wish I could have said this.

And this is like a time machine back into being able to say it. And so they're like, for instance, let's say somebody says something rude to you. And I knew like, okay, they're going to say something, but it's not, what it's going to be? And man, did Tia bring the house down? Just our right foot. Oh, my gosh. Oh, dude. I cry laughing once every 10 years, and that was it.

I thought it was so funny. Really? Everyone did such a good job, except for one group. Which one? I'll demonstrate. Yeah, we watched a video of an old one. This team was clearly not going to win. They were having a good time.

Having a good time. Being cool. Yeah, Jason was like, hey, actually, like I made this old YouTube video where I invented a new product so we could just show that. So he turns on the TV. He scrolls all the way to YouTube.

He gets to the YouTube search bar. And then he goes, what if we just showed it on Brad's phone? So literally, I'm just holding my, yeah, holding it up there. You guys hear this? And no one's laughing because they're trying to hear it.

So therefore it's just like, all right, this is, yeah. I turned it off about halfway through. I was like, that would you got it. They pivoted well. And they pivoted and they had a backup business. Which I'm sure everyone's already thought of this, but it's just in case you haven't. It's where you have a glass blown mold.

Three printed glass blown mold of your hands where you can also drink a bunch of wine out of the same bowl. And then you don't get to keep it though, you smash that bowl. Yes. And it's genius, right? They did not win. They did not win. I debrief this a bit with the team, and Emily and Courtney, who are on that team, said, I now know what it is like to completely bomb.

And I said, I'm not going to try to convince you, you didn't. Yeah, that's what it feels like. There are certain times where it's like, yep, that's fair. That's pretty much what happened. Yep, we have been doing our currency, you know, playing our game throughout the week. We've had some good moments with that. First memorable one for me was Caleb Sullivan, Mr. Ghosties on second. And he trapped, caught a dragonfly the first night, and he said, how many bucks?

We have, like, our currency is dollars, like play money this year. How many bucks if I eat this dragonfly? And here's the fun thing, and I can say it now. I don't know if I want to say this now, because Caleb's also going to give for the second session. But I'm pretty loose with the bucks later on in the week. I'm pretty tight with him at first. So I'm like, he's going to do this for nothing. It's like, I'll do it for 20, you know, if you just eat it, but I'll give you 35 if you put it in your mouth.

You have to just let it fly around for 15 seconds. And that dude did it, and it was very entertaining to watch. But we're about to let some bucks just fly here. Those 35 bucks are not going to be worth as much as he thinks of those. I was sitting next to Gabe, who this is his third year coming, and he was just like, oh, that's not going to be worth anything by Tuesday. He was like, I should tell him. It's not going to be worth anything by Tuesday. don't do it yeah eventually we're just like just here's a hundred just for fun yeah

it's got my face yeah that was fun uh somehow maybe was Caleb again somebody suggested last Liseber's hanging out by the pool like 1145 like oh maybe I don't know somebody was went down to the beach came back they're like those crabs are fast man they're impossible to catch I was like all right you got timids whoever can catch the biggest crab wins went down there Isaac and Caleb both Isaac Brace and Caleb both like caught these crabs about the size of you know sand dollar small little guy and they're like all right we got it and I was like you got more time you know because I think Caleb was a little bit bigger so Isaac goes down there again

Isaac comes back with this like substantial crap yeah you could boil that thing and eat it like that's a crab alaskan bull crab I was I was fired up for him I was pumping them up like let's go dude that's amazing and seven seconds later bracy comes with a bigger crab what was that well it was fun while it lasted for you Isaac so that was cool he won some bucks for that And for those not in the living room, yes, this guy's name is Bracey. Bracey, yeah. Yeah. Probably heard every joke in the book.

Bracey. Yeah, all the different things. And shout out Maddie Deerley, a very popular jingle writer. She'll do anything for a chance at winning some money. She was asleep. And then I think she was like, hey, you go hunt for crabs, which is not something I would think her personality would enjoy. That's right. She sprinted down there in pajamas and ended up winning.

She took the finder's fee. Her and Bracey. brace they were they were team that was smart i i actually really appreciated that gamesmanship of like you know what we can work together we can split the commissions you know so yeah mattie deeterly is the only underage person on this trip and i think we're going to kill her potentially you know just just like i'm just i just didn't go to bed till like three a m last night i was like that's a bad idea you're gonna you're gonna eventually break but she's didn't great it's been fun one thing i thought of uh like right before this trip there was rain in the forecast every

single day which is kind of a bummer if the most part hasn't rained but when it did rain oh it rained listen I've never been to war I was chanting USA in the tent holding it I really did we I think we all had a little patriot it for like Iwo Jima just like digging my feet in the sand because we have these like four pop-up tents and they're heavy duty I paid a little more for them but you know they're they're still gonna fly away if it's the wind's high enough so we like yeah lowered them down and everyone was just a hunched down I did not participate in that I participate in just playing catch out in the rain

you kind of went lieutenant Dan yeah you're kind of out there is that all you got throw me the football yeah we were like yeah played football at everything but that was awesome and then when it kind of cooled down a little bit we're like all right let's play a game out there while we were well I was just pouring down rain good games great games one of them was called balls hot balls hot see ya see you in a circle yeah yeah after this had all happened Dom couldn't find his phone and he told me later he had just fully like you know been at peace with like I guess it blew away he just like fully believed like I mean it was pretty windy I

mean those things are aerodynamic he was like yeah that's okay you know he had a good run and that's what you do when it's windy your phone blows away I mean imagine a phone blowing so far away you're having to chase your phone like it's a napkin you know you can't step on it yeah you like almost get it uh found out that Clay Zimmerman, a couple of things. One, an actual authentic Minnesota accent, which is fun to be around. It makes me feel like I think that guy's about to drink a lager every like five seconds. I mean, just like, yeah. Soda. Oh, you know. Oh, it's unreal, dude. Yeah. And also, the guy knows his way around some Spotify. Yes, he does. Yeah. Well, good, I mean, just unlimited.

We're just playing, I don't know what you call it Shazam, basically. It's, it's DJ Clay. putting on music he can never run out and then it's brad versus everyone else brad versus the field yeah so on the way to the cruise last night and lambert's everything i was blessed to be with clay and katrina uh in the car on with jason and stephen and we were yeah we were like like they said like you just scroll the radio right is how you play it like you would just like just scan the radio and try to guess the song and the artist and it was truly impressive like how every single song was like we went from barlow girl to like, I don't know, Rage Against the Machine to the Sleeping Beauty soundtrack, like all these different things.

And the best part was that Clay could not help himself. He loved prefacing every song like, Katrina, you're going to love this one. You're going to love this one. And then when he couldn't get it or when I get it before him, Katrina, how can I get that? Oh, Katrina, I sing you that song. Whatever. Yeah, it was you in the front row versus the back row. And Stephen very much thinks, like, well, the sound was getting to you first.

So it's not really a fair fight. There's a delay, yeah. There's a little bit of lag. I'll tell you about a fair fight for three minutes. We came back and played in the pool with everybody. For like three minutes, all we did was, like, Broadway show tunes. Whoa, yeah. There's a world I don't know about.

I mean, golly. I feel like it's probably how the Broadway show tunes people feel every time we talk about the chiefs. Correct, yeah. What are they talking about? It's like, oh, Beetle juice. I'm like, I've never, yeah, sure. I thought that was a movie. Yeah, I don't even understand yet, like the play is six.

I thought that was a show in Branson. I guess it's a musical. Maybe so. Yeah. I couldn't even understand them. They were yelling it so loud, but. Pretty talented. Yeah, that was a great time with, and along with that, so the specific story in our car as we were driving back, I was pretty good at this game.

I'm not trying to boast, but I was doing pretty well. And Jason Rommel, not Rommel, I learned. Jason Rummel at one point Clay plays Genie in a bottle by Christina Aguilera and within a

half a second Jason who doesn't look like the most like you know avid Christina Aguilera fan just screamed out

Christine Aguilara Geneet a bottle and I've never Clay disappeared like he transferred into a different person for 15 seconds he laughed so hard

he cried laughing at that like he died laughing at that like the fact that Jason this like you know manly man just knew Christine Aguilera. I was just like, he's like, he didn't know any of, but he knows Christina

Aguilera. He's amazing. So it was a blast. So much fun. What's up, Ghosties? I am back in Kansas City. I got a full night's sleep. You got a full heart. I got a full stomach. Thanks to Good Ranchers. Good Ranchers.com. There, America Meat Delivered. They sponsored us on the trip, and they sponsor us every episode of the podcast. It was fun on the getaway. in Gulf Shore is getting to hear people say things like good ranchers wow you know it's it's actually good and you're like that's kind of a backhand compliment but I'm glad you like it no a lot of people got to try it for the first time a lot of people being like all right I'm in I'm going to get good ranchers I've been needing to this is the push I needed so let their testimonials

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Do you want to sprinkle it in? Thank you. I appreciate this. In trimesters. So the game is this. You mentioned earlier, I had this idea as I was driving down to Gulf Shores to send these different boys. memos to my kids every single day for when you're gone for while I'm yeah when I'm

gone so hey kids me I'm still dead hey it's your dad dad dad dad you know whatever did all these different things like Bible verses the day challenge of the day encouragement of the day whatever you know I don't know all these different things and one of them that I thought of later was like I'm going to do a riddle but every single day I'm going to make it a little bit easier so it's like It's an ongoing riddle, and, you know, can they guess it on day one? Can they guess on day two? So the way it's going to work for us, we're going to play for bucks, all right?

So the way it works is I'm going to give you a clue, and we'll sprinkle them in, and if you guess the clue right on, and you only get one guest total, okay? One guest total? Everybody gives one guest total. Every house has it. Every house has one test total. Okay. That's not all I guess it.

You only need one. One guess total. So you can take a risk. Now all that's what you're here. You can take a risk and go early, or you can play it a little bit safer. Because the way it's going to work is if you guess it right on the very first guess, the very first clue,

you get 250 bucks. That's 10 dragonflies. You know what? 500 bucks 50 dragon flies oh man that's a lot of dragonfly but if but how many guesses do you have total every house has one guess every house has it second guess you would get 250 points if you get on second guess third guess 125 say with me fourth guess you guessed seven and a half no 60 62 now yeah 60 then 30 then 15 then

Seven. You'll get it by then. One. Yeah. Thank you, Michaela, for clarifying that. Third clue. So, because how many guesses total do you get? Every house has them.

Yes, thank you. Does that make sense? Does that understand? So you'll just text me, text me your name, text me what clue we are on, so I can keep track of that, and then what your guess is. So you'd say, you know, whatever. Mariah Garrett, clue one. Jake's backpack, something like that.

So, okay, so the riddle starts out like this. Riddle, whatever. We have more than one of these at our house. Anybody that wants to guess, based off that, for $500. We have more than one of these at our house. Only one guess, $500. Everyone has it. When you say we, you mean the LLB.

This is me to my kids, so yes, it would be me to my, yes. My house has more than one of these. Brad is no longer with us, but his house. Yes. So, yeah, be thinking, some, yeah, think about, okay. In other news, let's see, it was Isaac, McDonald, Tyler, Stoltzvist, and Bracey yesterday went to go get a little workout in. I don't know if you heard about this.

The boys. Yeah, it's got a quick pump in, and they wander into this room. Isaac can't find the other two guys. He's like, where'd they go? He goes to this room. Do you hear about this? Oh. They have a pose room.

Oh, yeah, they do. And it is currently up on the screen right now. Yeah, I think Isaac went in there. They were shirtless. He snapped a quick pick. Got out of there. The boys, yeah. And I've said that Bracey and Tyler look alike.

Yeah. So it's like, yeah, it's just two brothers just posing together, man. Also, the waiter last night looked a lot like Tyler. Yes. Maybe Tyler's just got a recognizable face. I don't know. But, no, that's amazing. The pose room.

Pose room. Mike Posner room. You're such a pose. Is that what it's called? Pose room? Showroom? What kind of pose you go with? You go with like a, you know?

That's amazing. I hadn't heard that. Yeah, it's what I wanted to know. I didn't know about that. Something I do know a lot about, you like that transition, is how the bears are doing in Alaska. I sent Rachel a picture of the living room with no context. context and she just said why bears amazing yeah so Michaela we one of our loyal maybe I think you've you bought more merch than anybody in the in ever

Michaela which thank you we appreciate that yeah apparently loves bears just I think you go ahead and take off apparently loves bears yeah and apparently there is a live stream of this national park in Alaska where you can just watch bears all day every day and even when the live stream goes down

they got highlights instant replay night beige bloopers everyone do they ever have bloopers I love some bear bloopers but I'll say this when she said all this

I'm obsessed with watching these bear videos I was like all right kind of weird but I watched them a decent amount yesterday every once I'd be in conversation I'd just find myself, like, veering over to the bears.

Like, oh, I almost got it. Oh, there it goes, you know. So, and it was amazing how many bears there were. Good amount of bears. Like 14 bears in the shot at all times. Do you know that Michaela made her own quiz? Because a good amount of us have taken what type of bear are you, a quiz? Oh, she made one of the quiz.

Not like, not like grizzly, like black bear, but like, of the bears that are in this national park. Yeah, they're named. I was, what was I? I know I hold up my L for it. Lefty. Lefty. 775. 775.

Oh, cool. Isaac McDonnell. What's 775? That's like the number of the bear. You know, it's like it's his jersey number. Yeah, it was also amazing. Like, as she was watching, she was like, oh yeah, that's, you know, sawdust. I don't know where they're name.

You know, that's sprinkle. And I was like, how can you tell? Most you have more blonde in her hair, whatever. Yeah, I got this guy here. Isaac McDonald took the quiz and the first sentence is like, Congrats, you are the small, young female. He's like, I think I did this wrong. 9-10.

Another thing I just learned, I'm kind of nervous to talk about the bears in front of, like, the world's leading bear experts. I know she's probably like, you didn't quite say that right. Yes, 100%. I just learned that every fall and, you know, show our hands made, if you guys already knew this, Fat Bear Week. You know what's coming up? It's coming up. This is like a March Madness-style bracket. Yes.

Every fall where you are making your best guess on how much weight. these bears gained over the course of the summer yes and just voting between two bears in the bracket not not not you don't have to give a number you don't have to give yeah yeah just choose a winner yeah so oh is it oh it is based off of like weight gain though it's based on either that or resilience who really resilience so it's it's objective it's subjective okay okay okay subjective thank you i mess that up either way yeah be looking for that to be posted in our facebook This fall, everyone's getting in on Fat Bear Week. I'm ready for FBW, yeah.

Yeah. I need to study up. You know how they have like fantasy football, like cheat guys? Cheach, yeah. Well, yeah, where's my FBW cheat sheets? It's fun they do that. The biggest non-loser, the biggest gainer. No, that was like a huge, like, one of those random highlights of like,

I didn't expect to be watching bears this week, but here we are. So, so much fun. All right, clue number two out there. Some people already entered in. I love that. Good for you. And no one got it. I'm not going to say that.

clue number two i can be many different colors what could that be Corey i don't know we have more than one of these at our house i can be many different colors all right kensie why kensy submitted hers already she's like crap um anyway so think about it uh anyway uh i have a fun little story please the day before you guys all got here Another ghosty who you've maybe heard of before, his name is Braden Parsons. He actually designed one of our logos. It's probably on like a lot of your merch right now.

Anyway, he's like, hey, I've got family in Alabama. I'm really gonna be there. Can I hang out with you guys this week? And we said, no, not for free. But you can grab dinner with us Friday. And I've hung out with him a handful of times before. But we, I mean, he got to like this other air movie we're saying he'd been there four minutes.

All right, that's one side of story. I don't know the story. They kept, like, alluding to it, and I was like, I want to know so bad. Okay. Now, let's pause that. Let's go to a different timeline. I'm in Asia with my friend Isaac McDonald. And this one girl is, like, replying to a handful of stories always when Isaac is in them.

And I've known this girl for a long time. Isaac kind of already knows this girl. And so, you know, I'm telling this girl, hey, why you're applying to me? Reply to Isaac. I'm kind of, I'm kicking things off. I'm trying to get things going. And so she does. so on and so forth

you know there's a little chatter here and there now bring you back to present day Braden walks into our Airbnb hey what's your name Isaac nice to meet you sits down on the couch and he goes we'll say this girl's name is Mariah

he goes Jake I want to get something out of the way early you have got to set me up with Mariah which is the same girl that Isaac has been chatting with. And so... An alarm set on his phone

to make sure he didn't forget to bring this up to Jake. Get an alarm set on his phone. Yeah. I was like, Jake, I need you to put a good word in me. A cold time. So the mic might not have caught that, but Isaac said... He said, I need you to put a good word in me. I just put my hands in my face.

Yeah. It was a real test of who's going to be the alpha male here. I mean, I just met Tyler. He's in the mix now, too. I think we all didn't know what to do. So Isaac went into the Poe's room and he's like, I can do this. You got this. Yeah.

I'm the bigger bear. We started talking timelines of when things. Yeah, they started comparing. Comparing who's, yeah, who's, yeah. Yeah. Wild, though. That's kind of crazy. It was crazy.

None of them live anywhere near each other. and he's like, you have... They're just beef in the rest of the night. That's so funny. Yeah. Man. That's awesome. Okay.

Another thing we learned about Maddie Deterly is that she has never been in the ocean. Is that right? And not only has she ever been in the ocean, she is deathly afraid of the ocean, which I was like that's irrational. I said we're going to get in the ocean. And so we're getting ready to psych her up. We got this. She's like, how many bucks?

I was like, zero. It's just a normal thing that people do. And when we're getting ready to go out there, you know, all of a sudden, Emily Brace comes in. She's like, I got stung by a jellyfish and it hurts really bad. And Maddie's like, this is what I'm talking about. So we've been a little bit nervous about the ocean ever since. I learned about the purple flag.

I did too on the way to, yeah, me too. It means dangerous marine life. Okay. Kind of cover their bases. They probably put that up every day, but either way. Yeah, there's jellies. And Maddie's like, see, I told you. But Maddie's fear was that she watched some Dateline episode where a body washed up on shore or something.

I was like, that doesn't happen that often here. Yeah. You're thinking of Florida. Yeah. Third clue? Third clue, thank you. Okay, we have more than one of these in our house. I can be many different colors.

You use me outside more. than inside ooh no one's that intrigued okay very good no one guessed on the second clue they really got skittish oh so now we're down to 125 hundred 25 we did the little sunset dolphin crews last night yes we did and it was hot it was nice I don't know how much attention you paid to the dolphin fun facts this guy was rattling off but oh well a bit of a downer just one after another yeah no I didn't notice the dolphin fun facts I did notice as we were going out there he's like it sounded I think I said to Mariah Garrett I was sitting I was like I think he's making these up like he's

driving past a island he's like and this guy's you know season vet past his prime you know 55 60 years old so you see that aisle right there with all them birds on it we call call that thing bird island that's all you got and then later on he's like there's none over there used to have goats on it so we called it goat island he's like all right this guy's just really bringing it tonight i at one point he said every whale in the world lays their eggs here and i was like that can't be true and someone this morning was like oh yeah he said later he was just kidding so i don't think the like cruise director should like throw in Fake facts.

Fake facts. Yeah. Because then every fact after that, I was like, he's joking again. Yeah, he just got on a rhythm where he's like, you want to hear how sad dolphins lives are? Let me show you about 10 facts in a row. Right. Most mothers try to drown their baby.

They like pin them against the ocean floor. It's tough for me to imagine them pinning that. How do they pin them? Right. He was a cool guy. He was a really cool guy. Yeah. Your vibes were up with him.

Be cool. It was fun time. We saw some dolphins. I love. the people like there were you know obviously plenty of people there that weren't with us a lot of them older people that were so intent on getting a video or a picture of these dolphins like I'm like just enjoy the moment here I mean they had their phones out the whole time you know the dolphin be over here and they'd be over on the other side they'd be like ah missed it I'm like

just just watch the dolphins so anyway great times with them we've had a great time with Ortencia and her family, Ortencia and her husband and daughter have been here with us. And, man, they've been awesome. They've been in the kitchen. And I just love Ortiz. I, you know, I haven't spent that much time with her in a long time. And it's just like every time I'm with her, she makes me smile. She's just this little pint-sized Mexican woman that just, you know, just brings joy to everything.

So we've had great food with her. We were going to play pickleball one day. And she's like, I was like, are you coming? She's like, it's going to be a party. I'm going to be there. And, you know, I kind of, like, tried to tell Oratinsia about how this is all going to work and what this, we have this podcast. You know, she doesn't keep up with my life and all this stuff. And I was like, I just promised her, like, she's my, she was the cook for us back in the day at Cana Cook.

And I was like, I promise, it's like Canna Cook, but for adults, you know, I was like, I promise you're going to love it. But I don't think she truly understood what she was getting herself into. And, like, a day and a half into it, she just kind of looks at me. She's like, I have a lot of questions about. about you he's like I need to interview you after this like she's just like amazed at how I'm like awesome you guys are how wonderful this whole thing is gone like she can just tell like immediately she was just like oh this is special like what you guys are doing here is so fun so anyway just sweet to

have her I heard I can't remember who was telling me this maybe was her daughter Elizabeth but I guess she kept referring to Tyler Stolzbest who's a young looking guy he goes to the pose room she was like hey will you hand this to the boy She's like, Mom, he's an adult. He's a man. Hand this to the boy. Can you see if he can go get some grocery?

Do you have your license yet? So good. Oh, man. A couple of just fun things that people brought. The Jennings brought their own espresso machine. Been the baristas of the trip. It's been very nice. Shout out.

Most of roasters. Yeah, so good. Maddie Dieterley made her own version of Ghostrunners, Guess Who? Yes. Incredible. I mean, like, my. dad's on there and like all of our family basically yeah I say it to Catherine just now and she just responded with those big eyeball emojis like what in

the world is this it's just so unbelievable yeah that was great okay clue number four I'll recap we have more than one of these at her house I can be many different colors you use me outside more than inside I think this might be where we get some no no no correct guesses so far clue number four I move but have no legs. I move but have no legs. Got some whispers. So 500, 250, 120. This is 60, 60 bones, if you get this right. 60 bones.

Yeah, just shout out, shout out some, just quick while they're thinking for our sponsor, specifically Main Street Roasters and Good Ranchers. Obviously, we'll do ad reads for them, but we had so much meat. Literally, they sent us 430 pounds of meat for this trip. Unreal and we've just been buzzing on beans all week. Everyone, let's start to keep on. No, Hannah and Odette Jennings from Louisiana. I just, caffeine is like, I think like, they literally have caffeine in their veins, dog.

Like they drink it, you know, morning, noon, night, and it's just so fun watching them do their thing. And we've been having some good coffee. So shout to the sponsors. Yeah, plenty of companies who aren't even sponsors who gave us free stuff. But also Cozy Earth gave everyone a $100 gift card. That's pretty fun. Amazing. Yeah.

So good. Okay. Any, oh, I wrote down, I just wrote down Cubby. It's a big thing on night one. Stay out of everyone else's Covey. Right. I don't think you were here for this, but I just feel like you should know. Caleb Sullivan, like, borderline got caught listening to Ghost Runners at full volume out of his phone speakers in a Cole's dressing room.

Oh. Just feel like you should know that he's doing that. Okay. He said he's listening to it constantly. Normally he'd have an AirPod in, but he had to take a shirt off. Let's focus on Coles more than anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're using Cole's Cash or no? So did somebody say something to you about this, Caleb? I thought I was alone in the dressing group. And then you, I was listening back from the beginning day, so I went to like six or seven, and you had mentioned Dave Ramsey, and you're like, I know I mention them every time. And then I just heard like a couple stalls down a little,

all right so you're converting people everywhere man that's great dude yeah on the on the cruise last night some oh neil neil yeah some random dude comes up and he's baby strapped to his chest and he's just like hey man heard about your podcast here you had this table-sitters pot he's like i'm like who are you brother apparently people have been telling him i think caleb was yeah spreading the good news so thank you for that hello again me back in the car just real quick uh here in here or here to tell you goodness gracious i'm my name's jake triplet born and raised a christian home and i'm here to tell you about mason roaster's coffee there we go perfect intro uh you know everyone in this in this podcast is looking pretty pretty energized uh having a lot of fun and i'll tell you why hannah brought an espresso

machine mace roasters in there odette brought a big old coffee maker mace roasters in that uh the Airbnb had a coffee pot mace roasters in that we're all buzzet for beans Vains, Mainsry Roasters and that. Most of our throat, stomachs, and toilets. Macy Roasters and that. So they kept us energized and they could do it for you too. So if you're looking for coffee, grounds, beans, if you like making lattes, if you like just the simplicity of a little, you know, cake cup in your, what's it called?

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All right clue number five? Yep, day number five. Last one was, I move and have no legs. Day five. I need your energy to go anywhere. Some people are like, I think mine could apply to that. I need your energy to go anywhere. Was that five? Yes.

Please respond with what clue you're guessing with as well. Think about it. One random nugget. It's nice to see somebody else showed up here with some compression on their lower body. Shout out Stephen. Appreciate it. Got compression brother. Compression.

Absolutely. Good, guys. Thank you. This is good. People are starting to maybe get it. I'm not saying too much. I'm trying to think there's anything else. Any other big things?

Anything you guys could think? Anything we need to recap that we're missing? We also just going to voice memos, live voice memos. Yes. Let's see. People are pregnant. Lindsay got stuck in the elevator. No, it's literally all of it.

Oh, I did write down, like, just in general, you mentioned it, like, yeah, I drove a long ways. And I was kind of nervous. Like, I don't know if it's going to be hard. It was, I mean, I love you guys. It might have been the highlight of my trip. I mean, no, I loved, like, time by myself. I don't know what that says about me. I don't take enough time by myself.

But it's like, man, it was great. You drive here more often. I know, I'll just, hey, Catherine, maybe I'm back. Yeah, but yeah, just gotta, like, listen to podcasts, called some people, had some time just listening to music or in silence or whatever. So, maybe that's just my thing. Maybe I'm a driver. I think I like, I like, I like driving. Yeah, just you in the road.

I think I might, yeah, just be like, no, I'm not flying anymore. I'm going to be like, John Madden. You guys get it. The Broadway people in the room get that. Right, famous director. All right, so yeah, let's do some. Oh, clue number six. I think we're narrowed it down.

This is when it's like, okay, the kids need, you know, we're ending the trip here. Clue number six, I have two wheels and you sit on me. Go for it. What could it be? What could it be? How much money is left? Is this the $30 one? Is this 15?

I think it's 500, 250, $1.2560, 30, 15? Yeah. All right. It's not nothing. Caleb's like, man, I put 15 seconds of Dragonfly for this, man. Anyway, somebody had a funny guess. Let me try to find what it was. I think it was Jason Rumble.

Let me see if it was. Was it borderline inappropriate? Yeah, it was. Never, never. Between you and me, brother. Yeah, I was going to be a couple of Christina Aguilera lovers here, you know. So, all right, yeah, voice, voice questions. Voice questions.

Anybody have anything? Anybody want to be the brave first soul? Before I just single out Alvaro? No, okay. There we go. Clay, show off the accent, DJ Clay. DJ CZ. I'll just give you this and you can pass it to the next person.

Double it, give us the next person. Thank you. Okay, I've got a kind of, which would you pick? Which would you pick? Would you rather always get eight hours asleep? Always have a good sleep. have a good sleep but you have to get eight hours so you have to plan your life around getting eight hours sleep can't sleep less can't sleep more okay obviously

or would you rather always have all your meals planned for you for the rest of your life but it has to be the same meal but the food's provided for you it's all there ready to go that's fun real quick well I think this over can you just say like Minnesota real quick into the mic Minnesota thank you thank you I want everyone to get to hear that. What are some good cities in Minnesota, you know? You're from Hermantown. Hermantown?

Yeah. There's some, like, quirky ones. Duluth is pretty. Duluth, yeah. Duluth. What are some of the weird ones? There are a lot that, like, people don't. They would, like, look at the word, and they'd be like, oh, that's...

Wysetta? Yeah. Yeah, why Zeta? It might be one of them. There's a couple of people, like, it's going to say this, but it's not. Yeah. I know, that's kind of putting you on the spot. Hey, what are some weird-name cities in your...

your name cities and your state, I would. The meals are prepared for me, but it's the same meal every time. Correct. I don't like that. I don't like that. It's the same meal. I like to pride myself in like, I don't think it's that big of a deal. Like, I had pizza yesterday. I can have it again today. I don't understand why people freak out about that. But if it's like, I have pizza the last eight years of my life, I'm kind of getting tired of it. I understand that. And I already do get a lot of my meals prepared for me, which is pretty nice. Eight hours to sleep, but you have to get it.

You're leaving for a flight, and it's at 4 in the morning. Well, now you've got to go to bed early the morning before. But maybe you'd stop booking those 4 a.m. flights, you just see to see, you know, just like easy circumvent. Your kids are sleeping, and it's somebody's got to get up with kids. Can't be you. Oh, it can't be you because you said yes to Clay's thing. Gavin's just cussing me out. Well, it's Clay's fault.

Sorry, at least you get to eat whatever I want. Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, okay, here's a question, like, it's good at eight hours of sleep, you said. Is it, am I able to fall asleep quickly? Because, like, sometimes I go to bed at 10, but I don't fall asleep until 1045 or whatever. And I'm banking on it being 10 so I can get up at 6 or whatever. You know what I mean?

Like, how quickly could I fall asleep? Yeah, you can fall asleep. It's right away. Right away. That's the benefit. It's kind of a benefit, right? Like, one's like, I never have to think about meals ever. It's always just prepare for me, ready to go.

never have to go out and buy food no groceries yeah but it's the same meal which is not that's true i forget i keep forgetting about the same meal how big is this meal like how well-rounded six six courses it's got everything like pick it ahead of time like it's obviously if it's like pizza it's like well i'm not getting all the nutrients but i can you get everything hit my macros no snacks you could pick a snack in there sure oh okay i'm shooting sleep i still i think i choose sleep as well okay fun question a bit of a thinker yes you know that's my kids love would you rather so I'm gonna save that one for them what did you call it pick pick one of these I this is a pick of it what it came up I froze oh I froze oh that's fine

you can use that one mr. YouTube clue seven real quick in case people are still confused I was like well make sure my kids get It did it. Day seven, I have handlebars and pedals. Got it. Yeah. Yes. Oh, crap.

Yeah, $7. So I had a question. Is there a conspiracy theory that you actually kind of believe? So for me, I'm like on the fence of several, but one would be that dragons actually did exist. dragons are coming up a lot this week like it's the bears are on TV and here we're talking drags yeah you're on that Alvaro fire breathing dragons uh potentially honestly because like you know the bombardier beetle has those like don't don't do that too much don't act like no be cool be cool don't say you know the bombadier beetle like you've got an extensive like not just beetle you have

extensive beetle okay have you heard of the bombadier I'm not okay it's like this beetle that has like two chambers with different chemicals in it and it will literally spit fire at like a predator to like get it like fire explosive chemicals that kind of yeah yeah and like god can do that why can't you do a fire breathing drain oh yeah i have no doubt that guy can do it i just like what happened to him right right you know a lot of people believe like the the environments of certain areas changed over time after the flood and everything if the environment's not great Environment is probably more powerful than God is. I was going to evangelize, but you know, it was raining out sometimes.

But if you had anything that you were at least entertaining, not that you actually believe or anything. I think if I hang out with Tyler Tong or Katrina any longer, I will have a few more for you. Yeah, for a former biology teacher. Well, I'll just say I know why she's a former biology teacher. I don't know the first one I'm thinking of and I don't believe this but it was fun to hear like this theory is that pandas are fake. Have you heard about this? You've heard this? No. Like something about the fact that like you, yeah, it's pretty rare to see like a panda being born in the wild or like and it's like some like Chinese propaganda or something like

I don't know and so they think that there's like just people inside these panda bear suits it's like another kind of bear with new fur it's like no these are humans correct yeah yeah I don't know yeah there's also a bear called the sun bear you know the sun bear really I was getting I was going to explain it but it literally does look like someone in a bear suit really it has like this weird time and pull this up you're seeing it on your screen right now but yeah nice yeah do more of that yeah and now it's on the top right top left now oh it's on the bottom left um now now now jason is the sun bear yeah but it's the way it's neck looks it looks like it could be like a foam head like could be over a costume

really it's like so weird but yeah pandas are fake that's that's new to me i don't i don't know Yeah. Anything about sun bears? Did you in fact exist? I'm sorry. They do exist. But are they, well, of course they exist, but like, real? What do you mean?

I didn't hear what you said, sorry. I was like, are they real, though, or are they just humans inside of a... I mean, I'm not saying every sun bear that has ever been in a zoo is, in fact, a sun bear. Okay. I'm saying that there are a sunbear. I can't vouch for all zoos. Okay. I will say, uh, time in back when we were talking about the bears, make sure you put

with that, you know, screenshot of workswals in there. Time and slash Koli, who ever gets to it first. Yeah, whoever gets their week. Yeah, you have, you're a moon landing guy. Yeah, I think I've talked about that on the podcast before. I heard about a new one yesterday. Do you know that we didn't kill Hitler in Germany and that he retired in Argentina?

Oh, yes, yes, Argentina. Never knew about that yesterday. Yeah, I know there's like a whole, like, yeah, just like area of Argentina is all these German people. Yeah, Aryan. Area. It's all airing. Yeah.

That's pretty fun. Learned about that. My favorite low-stakes one is that Stevie Wonder isn't blind. There's a couple clips of him, like grabbing a microphone stand when it's falling. Yeah. I don't know. Be cool. You know, Glyde's wife is Stevie Wonder's friend, you know?

That's cool. But he's like, yeah. So every once in a while we're like FaceTime with Stevie, and I'm like, what are you doing? FaceTime with Sky. That's called Ear Time. It's on FaceTime. You know?

He just puts it up to his ear. Yeah. I think Lauren's dad is friends with Stevie, so therefore he's hanging, whatever. I didn't know that. And I'm like, is he really blind? I did it? I asked. No, he's black.

So why is he FaceTiming? Yeah. Yeah. Good question. You got one? I do. So you guys obviously have a ton in common, but your lives have been very different for a long time. You were single for so long and you've been, you have now four kids.

you have now four kids so like you were so long of the podcast so over the years of your friendship I want to know what is one thing that each of you have learned from each other that's fun okay quick answer I don't think I really consciously learned this until kind of recently because I've been kind of thinking about in my own life I don't know how much I've talked about fear on the podcast table setters sure short plug I think I've talked about something But, like, the idea of, like, God did not give us a sense of, or a spirit of fear, but of power, love, self-discipline. And, like, what am I letting fear control my own life and how am I, you know, I have fear

of, you know, doing too much and not being around enough for my kids, or fear of doing the wrong thing or doing, you know, not enough things, or fear of failure, whatever, all these different fears. And I've been kind of, like, talking some of my friends about it, and I think we just realized, like, Jake doesn't really have much fear. And maybe you do, but you're like, you just go for things. And I think that's a really valuable thing and a really cool thing. So I have just, I don't think I ever like, I think I knew that about you.

And of course, it's a little bit, I use like this caveat. I'm like, well, yeah, it's easy when you're, you know, friggin' Jake with no kids or whatever. But it's like, no, but I think you would do it no matter what. Because I remember you even asking like, Jake, what do you think about this? And you're like, dude, I've never even thought about fear. Yeah, I know. It's like maybe it's present. I'm just not aware of it, but I don't think, I don't know.

But it's just like, hey, that's a good idea. Let's do it. Like, and that's why we're all here is because Jake's like, I mean, we're kind of funny. We should start a podcast. And I was like, okay, you know, like, but I would have probably overanalyzed it and been like, well, what kind of, how should we do it? What should we, you know, whatever, whereas Jake just goes for it. So I think just learning from him and his example of like, no, if you have an idea,

go for it. And if it doesn't work out, that's okay. Like, what's the worst case scenario? You just have a massive truck in your driveway for it. Yeah, that's it. You know, like, but seriously, think about all the things Jake's done and think about, like, I don't know, I don't think, for better or for worse, you don't overanalyze before you just go. Like, it's just like, the Econa Lodge looks fine.

Let's just go in there, you know? But like, nine times out of ten, it works out. And so therefore, it's like, why are we over-analyzing trying to over-prepare? We're not going to ever be fully prepared, so let's just dive in kind of thing. Thanks, dog. I wasn't thinking of my answer because I was being an active listener. Thank you. That's probably what you learned.

Yeah, I learned from Brad to how to listen. No, first thing I thought of was like, I just had a front row seat to watch Brad be a dad for seven, eight years, whatever it is, eight years. So I mean, you can't help but like pick up on things and just like, oh yeah, that's cool, they do that. Oh, yeah, that's cool they do that. Oh, I like this. Oh, I would never do that.

Okay, no, no. But I think there's a lot of just like things you can't help. I mean, I've been thinking about being a dad price since I was like a, you know, middle school like counselor and you start to see all these other boys and, you know, like, what's mine going to be like whatever? whatever so I'm sure there will be more to come of like even it's like asking you for advice thanks to advance for the advice you bet buddy yeah cost you but thanks for the question yeah yeah yeah yeah but you go first are you sure keep the mic that's good I'm going to swing a

little honey real quick no problem go ahead a few weeks ago I'm quick so I'm going to do this the whole time that you're tight got it a few weeks ago Instagram. No! A few weeks ago on Instagram, you asked for questions, so I asked you what's something funny you believed as a kid and you said something about Captain Hook in your bathtub and I'd like to hear more about that and what's something funny you believed too, Jake. Thank you.

No problem. So pretty simple. I don't know how much more I can explain about Captain Hook in the bathtub, but I literally believed And this is what I guess is irrational about it. Maybe I didn't. Did I just answer it in the Instagram? Is that what I said on there? Okay.

So I believe that Captain Hook somehow had levitating powers. I don't think I've ever said this out loud in my life. Had levitating powers where he was up on the top of like my ceiling and he was there. And every time I looked up, like the way I looked up, like he could go down. And so I couldn't see him because he's down here now. And then I looked down and he's not there anymore. So I go like this. I think he's here.

I just can't see it. So, I don't know, that was one of the, that, and I think I believed, I don't know if I believed, but I had the fear of, like, what if my parents are aliens? And every time I walk into the room, they change back into humans. So I had that belief for a second, a little bit of a worry. So, I don't know, I watched some Disney movie probably that was like, you know that Disney movie. That Lee Lois-Tish? Is that what that is?

So. I don't know if having anything quite, like, levitating Captain Hook. I think there was a part of me that when Toy Story came out, I was like, I mean, I guess that could be happening. And so I'd rip open doors every now and then and see if I can catch them. I think Toy Story might have affected us more than most movies in our life. I kicked down and broke so many doors. My parents hated it. No, I think about that low with like inanimate objects all the time, like you just feel bad for like a cardboard box or something that you rip up too hard or something.

Like, sorry, man. I think about this land. How long? Is this a lamp on for four straight days? Dang. It's like that lamp is tired. It's hot. Yeah. I also went through a short phase.

It's kind of weird to say, but I was like, what if I'm severely mentally challenged and like I don't know it because I was, I was like, do they know that they're mentally challenged? Like, who's to say I'm not? Yeah, what if we all are? Yeah, Jerry's still out. Yeah. Did you have one? Thank you. Oh, you're welcome.

All right, bear, ready for this? Bear girls. Any bear girls? So this topic came up a day or so ago, but basically my question is, and I'll explain, what is your white whale? So like, I get irrationally upset about the book Moby Dick and the fact that it was, the plot was plagiarized from a journal story called Moka Dick about a white whale and the captain who's coming out. captain who's coming after it.

Not a fan of the book. However, the question is, like, what is the thing that you could just go on a full-on rant about what doesn't actually matter? Like, in a negative way? Yeah, yeah. Like, something you're, like, opposed to. I've heard White Whale described as something differently. Yeah.

That's what he meant it to be. Oh. Yeah, that guy. What can I go on a rant about? That's a fun question. Let's see. Rachel and I sometimes will go back and forth about how just like modern,

like American society is set up so well for people who like the temperature really cold. We're like everyone has to adapt to like the cold temperatures. Like rarely is it like adapting to people who prefer it warm. Okay. That's placeholder.

That's placeholder. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm trying to think. Negative. I don't know about negative. I could rant. I think I've talked about this point. I'm a firm believer in Aldi and how wonderful it is.

I'll get fired up if you say Aldi sucks. So maybe I'm just ranting about the people that just think they're too good for Aldi because they're wrong. So Aldi's awesome. I do get frustrated about things, people. Dennis. Yeah. Dennis on thin eyes.

Yeah, I don't know. I'm sorry. That's a... Sorry, we're too positive. I know Jake. You know mine? Yeah, like I'm fired up because when people think that the NFL is right. Yeah, I did get a little fired up.

Yeah, just say anything negative about Chiefs and this guy. Yeah, I was like, man, that's too bad this is happening. Oh, well, whatever. And then once it became in the ghosty community, I was like, well, we can't have that in here. Ghosties are cool and normal. We can't have ghosties thinking the NFL was scripted. It's like, yeah. Yeah, I was like, well, that's actually, now it's not cool.

If I think of anything, I'll come back to it, but, yeah. But, yeah, driving, just drivers in general? Yeah, you're fired up about drivers sometimes, left-laners. Well, I've been barely paying attention to the road, so. It's like all these drivers are flipping me off. Missouri, you know, whatever, yeah. Who else? I wish I could think of something.

Sorry, Michaela. Yes, sir. Samuel. Being someone that loves games, obviously. I'm actually curious, what games were banned for you as, children or Brad, what games have you banned for your kids? Banned games. For me and my family and my brother, Dirt Clawed War was banned because we were throwing dirt clouds.

Oh, you're talking about like, there was a rock in one of the, yeah, so what game was banned? I was trying to imagine no longer can play this game. A naughty board game. I was like, I don't know. No, just like, Clod War. Just childhood games that you play in the backyard. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, my ball, or my mom, like my mom would always get mad at my dad and I have no ball in the house. house, no ball in the house. We still play ball in the house sometimes. I remember I put a hole in my bedroom wall with a baseball one time. When you're the youngest, you kind of play by yourself and so you're kind of like throwing it up and dive in and stuff. And I think one time I was just pretending to throw the ball and just went out of my hands. I went into the drywall. So sorry about that, Mom. I don't know if we had any band games. I bet if I was a loser and played Magic the Gathering. I don't know.

I don't know anything about it. I'm sure it's fun. I could see my parents being like, don't do that. Yeah, if there was like a Harry Potter game. Yeah, sorry? Step on your punch. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, my dad. The Simpsons, we weren't allowed to watch The Simpsons. How about that? Other things that were banned. Yeah. I can't think of a band game. My dad taught me how to play poker and I was like 10. So I think it was like they didn't really care.

Games were fun. Yeah. Also, we didn't have dirt cloth, so I don't know how we would have felt about that. Yeah, I'm trying to think. I think being the youngest, they were pretty chill on most things as far as they trusted me. I guess, like, some video games, maybe that's what it is. Video games, like, they were more strict on, like, like, Grand Deft Auto, you know,

wasn't one that I was supposed to play. I remember we had one that was don't hit that Hornets Nest with the bat again. Again. Yeah, I couldn't play that. Was anything, like, were you allowed to watch WWE? No interest. Really? What's the point?

Oh, I thought it looked cool. Really? And my parents were like, no, you can't watch that. The Simpsons, I felt like that was the worst show in the world. Every time, like, the clouds came on the screen, it was like, turn it off, get out of here. That's how we were with Days of Our Lives. It would come on after Andy Griffith. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, you'd sprint to the remote. I don't know what was going to happen. Color on the screen? Get out of here. Yeah. So, all right, one last interruption. I'm back. You know, we've been talking about the bear cam.

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As an example, a toothpaste cap so that their toothpaste is always dry. What item would you choose? I think I would leave all the phone chargers but none of like the, the, you know, the, you but none of like the adapters to actually go into the wall. It's just cords. It's just cords everywhere. I would actually give them more cords. But take out the actual plugs that go on the wall.

That's good. Zepuria, you have to be like in your car next to your computer to charge. Yeah. I cut off the, like the back of their sandal. The back. Yeah, you're falling off, your trailer's dragon. I didn't have a thought,

and I don't know if this would apply to the question, but like all of their right. shoes or something like that. So it's like, you can wear two shoes if you want, but they're going to both the lefties. Lefty, shout out lefty. Or, yeah, maybe it's like a reverse thievery where I'm in the house, so I'm able to do this.

I just figure out what their keys look like, and I just put thousands of keys in there. And they just, they can't ever find their keys. They can find keys. They just can't find the right key. What if just, like, I'd go to someone's house who's lived there 25 plus years, and I'd go in there with an electrician, a friend of mine, Isaac McDonald, we'd go in there and just switch what all the light switches do.

And so they have to, like, retrain their brain, what does what. That'd be annoying. Yeah, they still work, but you have to, yeah, you have to go to, like, yeah, your kid's room for the garbage disposal or something. And, like, the main thing that used to turn the main lights on now controls the fridge. It's like, oh, gosh, or, you know, something. And so, yeah, you have some, like, yeah, whatever, strange. come in your house and they're like trying to work it like they might spoil all your food

this is a fun question so this you can get behind this like this is a good this is good I take off like the hot water knobs of everything you still do it easy pliers that's a good thief right there good question yeah who else yeah Betsy so food has been a big topic of conversation yes what is one food combination that you just just can't get behind like pregnancy for pickles and ice cream or maybe french fries in a frosty or okay i mean the pickles and ice cream thing is objectively disgusting uh yeah for sure because that's one i don't feel like that's like a super common one for most people to did you in your pregnancy did you have that did you have anything weird in your pregnancy i just craved fried food okay yeah yeah just in

general um weird come can you guys think of any weird combination or like I don't know yeah Courtney doesn't like ketchup which is same Rachel hates ketchup what is that about um let me think here eggs and a plate yeah eggs and a bowl yeah Hannah Warner has been shooting two raw eggs every day yeah that's kind of wild got the liver queen with us Pineapple and pizza. Thanks. Yeah, perfect.

Just, why? What are you doing? Like, I mean, I don't think it's like the worst thing in the world. It's delicious. Calm down, everybody. Hey, be cool. This is my podcast, my podcast. JBC.

JBC. JBC, dude, yeah. PEC. I don't think it's terrible. I mean, I'll eat it, but no. There's so, there's like, it's like, there's a million better options for pizza toppings than pineapple. Like, are you really, you know,

you would have excited about pineapple on pizza? Really? Look at her. Look at her. I mean, look at the girl. I think my, Rachel loves this. I eat asai bowls all the time, love icey bowls. I don't want peanut butter on it.

I'm like, that's like creamy, savory, I'm in fruity, acidic mode right now. I like to keep them separate. Okay, okay, okay. On that vein, did you ever grow up eating peanut butter banana sandwiches? Peanut butter banana sandwiches are awesome. Separate. Okay, what about manning's banana sandwiches? Mayanies banana sandwiches.

Stop it. Oh. Oh. Too far! My grandparents would make that for us and we would just blow through them. You said you want to know about conspiracy theories. I think your grandparents are talking to what you are. They might be aliens.

Yeah. Yeah, they might be aliens. We don't know, dude. Because I don't like, I said that's the pico de gall and hot dogs? I could get behind. That sounds all right. Wow. I mean, a hot dog is basically a taco, right?

Yeah, it's hot dogs and tacos are simultaneous, simul synonymous, yeah. All right, who else? I have a question, but it's more so for the whole group, especially if you're a millennial or older. I'm looking for validation because I don't know if it's a saner psycho or anyone else segment, but back home with all my friends who are above the age of 30, they joke that I have boomer tendencies because I still balance a checkbook

and last year was balancing on a ball this year's balancing on a checkbook and I feel like that's a really normal thing to do but no one else my age I personally know back home does it so I was just wondering if anyone else actually does or if it is me

Corey from the back psycho yeah show hands does anyone else here balance their checkbook? I write checks for two of my bills. That's what I was going to say. Can we go back one step and say, how often are we using a checkbook? Yeah. Balance a checkbook or write a check?

Right. Okay. I have. I haven't. Alper. If one of the bills I pay, if you pay my credit cards, the fee every month is $9. If you pay it by checking. Fire me up, yeah.

Okay. Third of a dragon flying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think it's psycho. I just think it's one of those things where it's like, sane or psycho, I use my house phone to call my mom and check up on it. It's like, that's not psycho. It's just like, there's stuff out there that makes you not have to use a house phone unit to.

You know, there's technology out there. I think that's better than... Is it like therapeutics? One last question on the balancing checkbook. Is it like fun? Like, oh, nice, they match. Well, I'm, like, always been a numbers person with being in medical coding and stuff, and I was a teller for four years, so I think it's just been ingrained in me, and I actually taught my dad how to balance a checkbook when my parents separated, like, 20 years ago, so it's just like, I don't know. I, I'm anal, I guess, about that kind of stuff, so. You write in cursive?

Sometimes. Yeah, I knew you did. Dig it. Sometimes. Sorry, I was... Just before. Stand up and let's see it. You got this now.

It's all in the head movements, you know? It's like, yeah, yeah. The ladies taught me well. Yeah, right. Let's see it. No, I don't have a question. I just wanted to validate maybe the concept of balancing it. I work at a financial institution.

It's really important to, like, you know, balance your accounts. accounts, but like we have the technology to balance your checkbook electronically. Well, yeah. Well, how? One friend is always is always overdrafting her account, and she makes fun of me for balancing my checkbook. Oh, no, no, no. That's my rant, right there. Tia's friend.

I would run. I would run some of that too. So I was just like, okay, well, if you balanced your checkbook, though, you wouldn't overdraft. 100% And you'd probably save a crap ton of wood C.T. C.T.

Also true. Right. I'm just saying you can't... This is great. I don't like to make large purchases unless both my available and current balance

match. Oh, you don't like to make large purchases unless they available and current balance by that's fair. So sometimes you're just like I can't buy anything for a while got an air fryer coming up my question is how different is balancing the checkbook from like having a really good budget set up like an Excel sheet is there a difference or is that pretty much the same thing I mean I have a budget but there's always times where like things

come up that you're not prepared for so it just helps me to like visually see like this is what's going on do I need to move money over from a savings account and stuff. Similar, yeah. Dave Ramsey, baby. Quick comment back on pineapple on pizza. I have converted people to become ghosties, but I've also converted people to become pineapple on pizza people with this very specific pizza. Dominoes, thin crust pizza, garlic parmesan sauce instead of the red sauce, bacon, pineapple, half of it, jalapeno, so the spicy ones can be spicy. And that was bad. Oh, that was bad. That's like my family, all the kids, everyone loves it.

And every time that people come over, we order like multiple pizzas and they try that one and then that's the first one to go. Cory, can you? When did you stop listening to that? I'd rather balance a checkbook. That sounds fun. He paid a lot of money to be here. Yeah. Oh my gosh.

I'm getting hungry. Getting hungry thinking about it. Oh. Watch out, he's going to have one delivered. Yeah. Domino just comes up the elevator behind us. Oh, it has bacon on it. Yeah.

All right, anybody else? Anybody else got a question? That's not, you're supposed to say, who else has a question? Back to the checkbook thing. Oh, yeah, we're going back to checkbook. No, it's great. The more that it's talked about, the more that it's talked about it sounds more like what we do anyway. Like, like, going back through the month and, like, making sure.

sure that we're not overspending and kind of evaluating yourself okay I think that's a different question right that people do that right how do you do it though on paper yeah Lena explain I don't have any part in it I'll admit that but yeah basically we have a meeting like every month that's just like yeah this is how much over our budget we're spending like this is what we can improve about like we don't really need this streaming service or whatever. You don't need all those tinfoil hats for you.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. The dragons can't get you. Are you doing it on paper? Are you writing things down? No, Google Sheet. Thank you. Just make sure. Google Sheet.

Yeah, Google Sheet. Careful. So you're just to ask who has a question, not does anybody have a question? Who else? Or, yeah, who's next? Something like that. Rather than anybody else,

because then it's like, oh, I can sort of stop. No worry. Okay. Continuing with the money, is a sane or psycho? to have two savings accounts. Same. Because I have one that has like...

Oh, here we go. What's a rhyme with? A substantial amount of money in it. Substance? Oh, okay. She's here the whole week. Like, I never touched it. That's for like, you know, house improvement, new driveways, foundational work.

Go off. Can you want to beat four savings accounts? Four different accounts. And then I have another one for things like, you know, smaller like new tires on my car like it's you know it's a rotating okay so I don't no I don't hate that I don't I don't do that but I like budget and like save I have different like funds kind of thing but they're just electronic like it's like I know how much is in this fund that I can yeah it's very different fun it's 100% the funds yeah

Sainer Psycho I have zero savings accounts I okay but these days Alvaro talk to us you're You're Mr. Money guy. You wore a monocle on the way here. But I mean, savings accounts these days, I make like four cents a year on them. So I don't think it's that psycho. Yeah. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

I mean, they're screaming high yield at you and they are correct. I've heard of it. What kind of percentage? I was going to say, how high is this yield? Yeah. It's like, it's like 0.05, depending if you have a good credit union. You go to a bank, why would you? You're like .001.

I mean, you're really good. Bank's bad? Bank is bad. Bank bad. I thought bank bad. Credit union, good? Credit union, yeah. Credit union, yeah.

Credit unions are good. Everyone knew this, and you guys never told me. It's all for to be here and we have to host them. Yeah, no, I mean, but a savings account is really just to like, you need to park your money for a little bit somewhere to move it around. Use your savings, but. Gotcha. Credit.

Do you want to make some, make it. make it make money for you all right we'll be rich okay maybe we're talking too much about money but is anyone else financial use love treat treat cash as if it's free treat the cash as if it's free yeah yeah it's gone from the account it doesn't affect your account anymore so that's just free money my dad almost primarily uses cash so that it has the opposite effect so like he like physically sees his money leaving yeah yeah I use no cash so that I don't overspend if I have it in my hand like well I might have it might as well

have it might as well spend it so yeah it sounds like Jason yeah doesn't hurt interesting all right I think we want to talk Roth IRA we haven't covered everything I'll get you a membership if you want that's good all right oh I think we're gonna wrap up let's wrap it up yeah I'll find a little review here you connect to the Bluetooth My review of the week is just an indirect review coming from Ortencia. She just gave me really, really kind feedback. She's like, people here just said the nicest things about you guys.

Like, I don't know, it's just cool to hear her. I mean, I've heard it before, obviously, from reviews, but she's like, it's cool to hear how much they respect and appreciate you guys. And so I always get excited when it's like somebody you respect, like Ortencia, I'm not going to cry, but I'm going to cry. But like, hearing her be appreciative and respect me, it's just cool. just fun. So thanks for saying nice things about us. That's all. My review of the week is going to come from the ghosties I've had like individual conversations

with about like right now we're driving back to our other Airbnb yesterday and I was like it's so funny what this podcast has brung us like it was supposed to be a comedy podcast and it's it has so many different byproducts and one of them now in the last like year is like are we kind of like fitness influencers? Like it was never meant to be this I guess maybe credit to Rachel who kind of got it all kick started but I've had so many individual conversations like it's so funny hearing you talk about what you're going through health wise fitness wise whatever it's made me want to do this change this change we got a lot of goes he's doing like you know 100 sit-ups a day or

you know walking a mile a day and that's kind of fun so it's one thing to just like entertain you for an hour distract you for an hour but it's like hey you're getting healthier I guess because it's something we said so fun fun fun feedback Brad in this episode of the jingle would you want to I would love to can I borrow your phone Maddie to look at the lyrics I realize I need to use this for the. Maddie Dieterly, he's been working around the clock, just cramming in lyrics. Got the perfect song for this trip.

And she did send the chorus to everybody, if you guys want to sing along. I don't know if this is going to sound better. Let's get one of these mics. Matty, or yeah, one of your hand that. Let's get one of it near the speaker. Hey, Brad, good one. The riddle.

Oh, yeah. The answer was bicycle for the riddle. riddle if you guys didn't know oh no pedals I thought it was flower um use it more outside than inside more not you can ride a bike inside you learned to ride my bike thank you um I think you got it first Michaela let me see it's on now three Odette guest people A lot of people guess people initially, children. A lot of shoes on Clue 3.

A lot of shoes, hats. Somebody said bicycle, I thought. Maybe Clue 4. Clue 4, Katrina Zimmerman. Hey! I think she's... Clue 4, Mariah Garrett as well. Very good.

Clue 7, Maddie Dieterley. A lot of people got it by Clue 5. Yeah, Samuel, Cassidy, Big Dom. And then, yeah, Clue 6, it was there. Okay, shucks. Sorry. No, don't apologize. That's classic.

You apologize for, like, your phone locking up. Isaac Brace and I played pickleball together, and the amount of times he apologized after hitting a good shot, but, like, it could been either of ours was so Midwest of him he's like I'm sorry sorry it's like dude you're playing well right here we go turn it up I listen this song as I was going over the border you know 11 hours in the drive it's like new live here we go coming home Our wheels keep on turning, shuttle me there to see my friends, jingling songs and getting so

Tim, or Burr, Ghost is a band me once again and the whole week is a win. start of fire Well, I heard them Yale hasn't drowned Well, I hope Jason's We'll remember We'll play many See ya rounds

Anyhow, see ya! Gold Shores, Alabama The Ghosties hanging with a view I guess I have my phone The Gold Shores, Alabama. Lord is making dreams from a truth. Oh, guitar saying here, yeah.

Feel it, Jason. Feel it, boy. Hey, whoa. Oh, is that a sun bear? Sun bear shredding. I was like, stop. Got the bear cam. They all got numbers.

Bear cam. Now we all took the bear quiz, too. You're elected. Lambert's Cafe's got rose for me What fly dopras thrown to you tell the truth Here we go Gold Shores Alabama Ocean waters are so blue

Gold Shores Alabama Making bucks and being cool So Jason, Joe Jason. Sun Bear. Yeah. The Sun Bear! The Sun Bear! You're going, baby. It's not over?

Corp. It's a long one. Yeah. 360. It's a long one. Keep going, yeah. Charity crowds, sir. It's long. You're doing. Yeah, he's still going. No, he's tired, he's tired, yeah. Bucks are in play, chaos.

Good solo, good solo. I hear ya. Bucks are in play, chaos occurs. Caleb's eating dragon fire too, my bad. Oh, the guy's bedin' so much. Grabbing big crabs in the ocean blue. Just be cool, here we go! Ghost's Alabama

Ghost he's taking with the mute. The Ghost's Troy's Alabama. Gold Shores, Alabama The Lord is making dreams come true One more time, we know The Gold Shores, Alabama The Ocean Waters, hey! Ocean waters are some blue

The Gold Shores, Alabama Making bucks and being cool Piano, piano, piano. Piano Sun Bear. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Give it up for Maddie Dealer! Yeah!

So fun. Awesome. That was great. Your voice sounded good. Good job. You know a little rasp in there? Yeah. That's the move.

Just scream, you know, songs to Clay's DJ in for three hours last night and it's all working. makes it all working so yeah that was great good episode thank you guys for being here when we're recording obviously being here the whole week I was thinking about you guys in the shower and as one days I it's just fun I think there's like almost a hang with me it's like a reverse bell curve of like when you first start a podcast I mean like you're on like cloud line like you can't believe that people are listening to it like this is unbelievable people care about us those things and then you kind of like get used to it a little bit like yeah we put

on episodes and people listen to us whatever and then now I'm to the point where I'm like this is crazy they want a vacation with us for the third time and they like it's just it's really cool so I really really appreciate you guys taking off work or spending money whatever sacrifices you had to come to be here it's it's fun I just we're just we're just friends hanging out absolutely it's a good time amen all right that's an episode oh yeah hundred bucks for the jingle Maddie good try give her a buck yeah it was great though oh yeah yeah in the episode with that

way sure sure so Maddie truly was just just I mean always asking buck hungry Brandon Falk she gets the Brandon Falkner award for how what can I do to get a buck because Brandon Falkner the last two years has been that shout out Brandon we miss you man but she was like you know definitely afraid of the emily gets stung by a jellyfish she's even more than whatever and she's like brad how many bucks am i get stung by a jellyfish and i was like no i don't want you to do that i was like well 20 and i was like but but if you get stung by jellyfish or your foot or anywhere but if you get stung by jellyfish on your face 200 and your reaction like so then she comes

she's like no that's not what no and so she's like basically trying to get mom and dad to compete against each other yeah got us fighting Yeah, comes to Jake and was like, hey, Jake, how much would you, you know, give for this? And your reaction? I was just like, oh, come on. We're not going to do that. And I stopped her. I was like, right there was like, you're going to pit us against each other like this?

Come on. Like, I already answered how much it would be. And your thought was like. I thought we were both on board. Like, obviously, we're not going to incentivize people to get stuck by jellyfish. Yeah, it's irresponsible. And Brad's like, yeah. Sting him in the face.

You'd be getting money. Brett told me he'd give me all of the money if I got a ghost tattoo Whoa So what do you think mom? I think I did say that But then I definitely said like But don't do that

Yeah I think 20 for the leg And 200 for the face Oh that's what we're We love you guys Thank you both of course! Ghosts a fuck man

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