Ghostrunners - 465 - Credit Card — Session 2 of the Getaway

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

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Hey, happy Wednesday, Ghosties Up Day! We are here live for our second episode here at Gulf Shores day before we're leaving. It's Friday morning here, and Jake, we attract a certain crowd. We know that our Ghosties have a certain brand to an extent. I'm not saying that every single person that listens is sheltered kid or Christian, but we did experience quite the extreme Christian. sheltered kid expletive yesterday we were you know we're doing this game throughout the week this competition for dollars that they can redeem later for

this prize room and we're out in the ocean there's been a few jellyfish out there this week and we see a decent size one in Isaac just being Isaac said hey I'll give somebody a hundred bucks if they picked that up like no one's gonna pick that up but our boy goes he's on second host co-hosts Caleb Sullivan says with his swim shirt on he just starts by the way swim shirt swim shirt yeah he he knew his way around to VBS with the swims shirt I just kind of laps it up and just he's so proud of him so he's like you didn't say I couldn't use my shirt and he's just like wiggling the jellyfish around and stuff and he lets it go back down but all the jellyfish

like tentacles is that the right word I think the correct the proper term is goo all Yeah, all the jellyfish goo is still on his shirt. And man, if your kids are listening to Caleb, tell him to turn it off, skip this part. He just goes, oh, frickin' A. Freckin' A. So that's the kind of week we've been having. That's a good time. Uh-oh.

Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts in white. Me too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. Come along, let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet, because it's a go. Oh, freaking, hey. Oh, I'm going to tuck my skin again. Oh, what's my .

Oh, freaking is. We're here, we're back. It's been a great second session. You know, sometimes, whatever, may I shouldn't over, what's the word, analyze, express all this stuff? She gets a dollar. Oh, crap. Oh, crap.

Okay, so Emily Braggis last night pointed out that I do this thing where I say whatever, and then I explain it still. So, you know, so there'd be more time for, you know, like, whatever, like, whatever, like, you know, playing pickleball. And she's like, you do that thing where you say whatever, but then you still explain the whatever thing. I just did it right there? Oh, no. I hate the fact that you're going to point that out. That's crazy. crazy what was I even saying oh I just sometimes you're wondering okay is

session two going to be a letdown after session one was so fun and session two has truly been a such a joy and so much fun this group is so fun I think you said last night you're like I don't know if I've been around this many funny people yeah collection of yeah yeah and they were like yes you have you hang out with stand-up comedians like not 35 of them yeah yeah you're not in the Justice League for stand-up but yeah session two's but awesome you're hilarious like every like 20 minutes there's like some like new like inside joke or something like that we're doing last night we were i mean it was 1 a m we're having a

blast realizing the different ways you can say yes and no at the same time but you know what someone means right yeah it's because there's there's yeah no yeah and then there's no yeah no and those are different oh it's totally different like but then sometimes if you're like hey do you mind if i uh Do you mind if I steal a piece of gum? Oh, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead. No, yeah, no, yeah, no, yeah, no, yeah, no, yeah, no, yeah, no, we actually don't have any gum. So, yeah. At 1 a.m., that was hilarious.

It is tough when you have a very live reaction to all the things. Okay, I guess that one was, can translate. It was, it was hilarious. Yeah, Caleb's jellyfish. That was funny. One of my, okay, just, this is a little bit of a story, a little bit of, some people are going to be like, oh, but just trust me, it's so funny. So, one of my favorite people in the world is on this trip. His name is Jesse Plattner.

He's awesome. And Jesse, I think I've pinpointed it. He's like the real version of, like, in the Christian version of Theo Vaughn a little bit. Like, he just has these stories that he says. So, matter-of-factly, it's like, will you just record all your stories, please? Jesse's like nobody else, and was telling me a story on the way to pick a wall yesterday. We were talking about how he used to have a pet raccoon, which that's a story in and of itself. And so I think Elizabeth was like, oh, I would love to have a pet raccoon.

He's like, just FYI, they smell pretty bad. And Gabe, I think, said something like, oh, yeah, raccoons, way better than possums, which hot take, Gabe, of course, Recoons are bad. But you know what? I actually like raccoons better than, yeah, whatever. I didn't say it. I didn't say it. I didn't say it.

I didn't say it. Anyway, gosh, darn it. It's like earth shattering. Okay, so Jesse, though, was like, well, I got a story about possums. And this is where it's like, hey, if you love possums, maybe skip ahead 60 seconds or so. Um, and let me, sorry if I get it wrong, Jesse, but basically that was on the side of the road, these possums. It was in your yard. It was in your yard. I didn't really close to the chickens or in the chicken coop.

Oh, that's right. Yes. It was close to the chickens in the chicken coop. Anyone would have done this. Yeah, every, yeah, every house does this. Uh, so you find this possum dead. No, it's still alive. Thank you. Okay. So it's still alive, but you killed it? You killed it? Because it was eating the chickens. It was either me or like my dad or something. It was threatening the chickens.

Yeah. Somebody in the family killed it. And then you realized that possum was pregnant. Marsupials. They had their babies in their pouch. Okay. So they had babies in the pouch. And so Jesse just very nonchalantly, it was like, yeah, we killed this thing.

But they have babies in the pouch. So that was kind of, but we played with them for a couple days and then just fed them to our dogs. I was like, I love, it wasn't even about the days, it was like 20 minutes. Oh, 20 minutes? Maybe, maybe you, a couple days sounds better. I, oh yeah, I just love the idea of these babies being like, New Life, these people are fun, oh, they're treating us so well.

Here comes sparky on the other side of it. And then Gabe was like, dude, like, they, your dogs eat possums? And he's like, well, yeah, if you train them, right, a dog will you in? And it's just, yeah, that's just Jesse. So we've had some great ties with Jesse on the trip. There's nobody like him. Yeah, pretty unique. I've got some more, something else we'll talk about Jesse later.

But one exciting thing, I think the ghosties, not in this living room, will be very excited to hear from Mr. Tyman Imps. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Diamond's back from his rum springa. That's right. How you doing, bud? Doing well.

What's going on with your arm, dude? I don't know. Oh, what happened there? I'm having too much fun here, I guess. Yeah, okay. I'm trying to think of like a cool story to start telling people, but I was just doing something dumb. You were skydiving.

Right. And you land on your feet. Yeah, like I caught myself fine and just like fell over. Yeah. That's super cool, yeah. Right. No, it was lunchtime on set. Some people were like goofing off on a swing set and doing backflips off the swing.

I was like, well, I love doing that. I might as well join in. And so I was doing way too high. Did a backflip, over rotated, and caught myself on my wrist and just snapped. And that happened like 18 hours before you were supposed to fly here. Yeah. You texted us like, hey, boys, I probably broke my wrist. Might still come tomorrow, though.

Yeah. It's like, we'll see. And yeah, I showed up. So yeah. Yeah, we got that text from you, and then we got a video from Zach, your friend, being like, Timon just may have broken his arm doing a sick backflip. Yeah, it did look pretty cool. It sounds like the end.

It was impressive. Yeah. You almost like got vertical at one point. Yeah. There's like a freeze frame where I'm just like fully upside out, which is kind of fun. Pretty cool. Yeah. It's been fun.

I feel like even before you left, we figured you were probably going to come on this and we weren't going to tell anyone that's going to be a surprise. It's like as you started working more and more for the Amish, they took you in, you know, warmer and warmer and they loved you. And you texted us like a week or so ago. I think you were like, hey, first of all, I should have bought flights way earlier. It turns out they go up. Yeah. Yeah. If you wait.

They knew. I figured I was like waiting for the discount. Yeah. Happened, but it just kept going up. And then I think you were like, hey, and also like the guy who hired me to film this as, you like saying really nice things about me and saying I'm like invaluable to the team and we can't do it without me and Brad was like you're fired if you don't come yeah I did say that here I am got the ticket no matter how expensive

come we're all excited time's here though yeah yeah you haven't let the the the the is it the wrist right is that what it is yeah okay you haven't let your wrist injury slow you down too much we play pickleball oh yeah we dude time we can play some pickleball yeah pretty pretty athletic for a guy who's not athletic you know it's actually yeah that's that's great yeah that's what I think of myself as in pickleball like you you run a sub six sub below yeah six minute mile you can do back flips off swings and you can play I think you're an athlete and you just don't play sports maybe so yeah so yeah I caught up with you a little bit but I think

the ghosties want to probably hear some updates too. So first thing was you sent Brad and I one photo from your whole two months being gone and it was of you eating a bowl of cereal and watching a pilot episode of the office. Have you watched any other episodes? I'm happy to say we're like almost

done with season three. All right. Good summer, good summer. It's getting real good. Any predictions, obviously, don't react, don't react. You're at the precipice. No, actually, overreact every time. Yeah.

Overreact. you're at the precipice of Jim and Pam and Karen that's all coming to what is your prediction I mean I feel like there has to be more with Jim and Pam oh

guys you stop but I don't I don't know I also feel like it's been around so long it's like you see clips it's like I haven't seen this happen yet I don't know there's like there's spoilers ever

but I also don't know the full story whatsoever so I'm like excited to see what's I think, yeah, Jim and Karen, it's not gonna, I don't think so. Boo! Boo! Do you have, like, obviously there's like a first tier, like Michael, Jim, Pam, Dwight. Do you have, like, some favorite secondary, tertiary? Oh, whatever.

Toby is so funny. Like the whole, like, I just think like Michael hating Toby. Yeah, like how Toby's always just like, kind of the voice of reason, but no one listens to him. but no one listens to him yeah you're our toby i think you know yeah i think yeah like time and just be quiet yeah yeah i don't like yeah right i don't know do you like the toby character yeah just phyllis cracks me up okay i don't know i it's all it's just it's a really good on something yeah like is this the first time zacks watched it too yeah oh fun yeah that's been great so fun yeah what a memory okay how okay let's be honest how has it been working with zach and living

in a hotel room with them. It's been awesome. Yeah. Sometimes it does feel like we're like bigger sometimes and like we're just like a married couple. Yes, 100%. Yeah, but like we've just gotten closer and it's been awesome. That's great. You, uh, you decorated your hotel room a little bit, right? You wanted it to make your own. Yeah, a few weeks in, I went to a thrift store and got just like random wall decor and then we were like, well, we don't have a way to put it. We're not going to like nail, put nails in the wall of the hotel room. So we just like got gaff tape from set and we're just like taping picture frames on the wall. Didn't you say you like purposely tape them like crooked because you're like, I don't know, we're bachelor guys.

Yeah. Oh, it's messy. We like put one like a foot from the ceiling, like just the worst like weirdest looking spot. That was a lot of fun. I know when I first saw you, I had a lot of questions about it's like what you've been doing. The Amish culture, I thought it was really interesting. At all times there is like a legitimate Amish woman on set to like fact, like fact check everything that's happening yeah a decent amount of the time there's like this lady named

Cindy she's great but she like will call out like that's not how they would pronounce that or how like we would do this thing and it's great it's like saved us a lot of the time that is fun yeah are you learn i mean you have to be learning quite a bit about the Amish culture right a decent amount yeah i mean i feel like i knew some before but like yeah i'm realizing they're pretty good at like getting around their own rules i feel like just like i mean they're all riding like electric It's like, is that allowed? I don't know. Feels wrong.

Yeah, what's their justification for that? No idea. I don't know. I feel like they have refrigerators. I feel like they are kind of cheating. I don't know. Yeah. You're not a real homage.

Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, but they're cool. Like there's an Amish guy named Tim, who's 16, who like is on set sometimes because he's taught, like, actors how to drive the buggy and stuff. Okay. And he's a lot of fun. Yeah? Tim.

Tim. That's great. Sorry, would it matter if they did it right or not? Because you're not going to be watching it anyways. That's a fair point. That's a good point. Okay, that's a great point. Would it matter?

Yeah, because they're not watching anyway, she said. That's a great question. I don't know. I mean, I guess it's the people who are like nerds about the Amish that are watching or like... You know, that's a big target. Yeah, yeah. Huge subculture of people.

Huge target demographic. Yeah, this is not going to get picked up for a season two. That's a great point. Yeah, or maybe like ex-Omish people would like watch, I don't know. Yeah, if you're ex-amish, you're probably consuming a lot of bollish content So sure. You want to just be surrounded by it. Yeah, you love the culture, just didn't like the location. Yeah, Yeah, it's been so cool, though, like, learning ton. I I probably mentioned, like, before I left that it was supposed to be every other week, me and Zach alternate, like, I run B-Cam, he's in lighting, and like, I'm in lighting, he runs B-Cam. But I kind of since he just was randomly in France for like the first two weeks of us

shooting I kind of like accidentally established myself as the B cam guy and so I've kind of felt bad because I like him but alpha male yeah that's what everyone says on set yeah so that's what I feel kind of bad it's like I'm glad like stuff like this I'm gone Zach can can have his chance to run B cam yeah poor guy yeah and I mean now I sure can't so you can finish it off yeah you're going back after this right just got more days a couple more days of work okay so I don't know what I'll do exactly but I'll something one-handed I'll figure it up we were driving to the cruise last night time was in our car and was it I don't know we were just talking

Alex and the May and me and Corey talking to timing about everything and like his schedule he's 12 hour days six days a week most of the time five days a week thank you was really listening hard but no but like and just like all the crazy things sometimes it's from six to six, sometimes just like random times because they have to be at the mercy of all the different sets and schedules and stuff. And I go, you know, like, does this make you appreciate, what did I say? Like, does this make you appreciate everything so much more? And I was meaning it to be like, you know, like every time you watch a movie, every time like, like, man, this must be so much harder than it looks to like do the production of this. I think Alex was like,

oh, I thought you were saying, like, don't you appreciate me and Jake more? Like, Yeah, we only work like four hours at a time. We're easygoing compared to this. That was really funny. So that was a good time. But, yeah. Well, yeah. Isaac hit the dog back there.

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get back to the episode uh last question what are like we didn't really tell you anything we're like dude come on the trip yeah it'd be fun yeah expectations reality new friends people you don't really like i feel like based on you know like listen to the episodes here in the past or whatever it's like it's been just how i wanted it to be and thought it would be like just everyone here is really fun yeah like you can just talk to anyone and have a great a great time um yeah it's been sad not to be able to swim and stuff get some of my jellyfish like i'm missing out i feel like what would be your cuss word of choice if you get started by i feel like it i feel like it would be frick i think that's like the instinctive one yeah

yeah yeah that's good pickle ball though was like a fun surprise that i was able to still do that i was like that felt nice because i i've missed pickleball even like in ohio haven't played like at all So I, like, really felt like I needed that. Wow. Yeah, looked over one point yesterday, the sling was off. Yeah, I realized. Looked over another time, there's a plastic bag over it. It was evolving.

Yeah, it started raining at one point, so I was like, I really shouldn't risk this getting wet. So Elizabeth, shout to Elizabeth. She, like, found a bag immediately somehow, and I just was able to keep playing. Honestly, yeah, Elizabeth has the answer to every problem on this whole trip. It's been amazing. Yeah, yeah. I think I realized, like, after the first few games, I think, Part of my subconscious muscle memory involves where my left arm is, like, hanging.

Because I felt like I couldn't play as well with this just, like, up here. And so, I don't know. It affected my get, like, I got better once I took off the sling. Yeah, you did. You kept beating me. You didn't see him you'll whoop Thomas and I three times in a row. I kept thinking, why am I losing the timing? Yeah, that was a lot of fun.

Yeah, it's been great, though. Good, man. Good job, guys. Hey, thanks for coming. Thanks for a lot. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you.

Should we just keep talking about Jesse? Honestly, I just... Yeah, so... Yeah. So there's another personalized trip, Amanda Hutzel. This is the third year in a row that she's come. I feel like I know her pretty well. Dolphin girl, Amanda.

Dolphin girl, yeah. But the onion continues to be peeled. About every four hours, there's something new that's, like, peeled with Amanda. This is her third time coming on a trip. And yesterday at lunch, it was the things that this girl has eaten. I don't know if you've had the pleasure of getting to know Amanda, but it was amazing watching Amanda and Jesse just go pound for pound for each other

on like the crazy stuff they've eaten. Like, Amanda's like, oh, I grew up on squirrel. Jesse's like, nothing wrong with squirrel. Oh, yeah. It kind of tastes like groundhog. I mean, it's like, oh, yeah, nothing wrong with groundhog. And they just keep like, they're not laughing, and we're all like, what's happening? Yeah, Amanda said, she's like, and now I didn't care for raccoon on pizza.

And, you know, that makes sense. And Jesse was like, yeah, I never tried my pizza, I didn't even try it out. And then it was just funny. We were kind of like playing this game on the beach. It was like, will Amanda eat it? And so it's like you just throw out kind of a strange animal. And even if she won't eat it, she's got like a perfect frame of reference. Because she's eating, she's eating like every other animal.

Really? So it's like, will you eat an iguana? She's like, well, probably taste like gator. Yeah, I'd eat it. And then it's like, would you eat a prairie dog. She's like, oh, it would be just like a big squirrel. Yes, I eat it. And Jesse's like, yeah, prairie dogs are actually, you know, kind of fuzzy.

I don't know. I tried. My dogs love them. My dogs love them. we did another dolphin cruise last night speaking animals and perfect night perfect night perfect night you know what was great is that everyone was there yes everyone got to experience it everyone came yeah it was awesome it was great that's what I liked about it was every there was you know people who were still at both sessions like it didn't it didn't

matter they're like you know I'll come for the people because I care about people more than You know, I'm not going to stay back. What am I going to do at home? Play video games? No, they're going to come. No. No, yeah, that would be no, Bueno. No Bueno.

Oh, what's up, Alvaro? It was, it was... It was... It was... genuinely the perfect night. Like, I... Yeah. It was not cold, but it was not warm.

Perfect. It was just perfect. Good sunset. Nice little wind. Nice sunset. I feel like to do. dolphins were a little more lively oh yeah they were they were pumping some of those in they they were yeah there were an animatronic or something there was something like yeah what was it those

there's a shrimp boat that what that guy was saying i don't know i love i can listen to that guy read a lot of books like if he just like i could pay him like a dollar for every kid's book that he like recorded for my kids to be like yeah it's going on the shrimp boat over here with the thing I was loving it. And so, yeah, these dolphins were, like, chilling by the shrimp. But, I mean, there were 20 dolphins. Am I crazy for saying that? No?

So many. And every once in a while, they even, like, did the thing where they, like, really flew up in the air. Oh, it was awesome. It's a great time. I tried not to, like, continually compare session one, session two. But somebody was like, somebody said this one's way better in session one. I was like, that's correct. You are correct.

Yeah. 100%. Correct, though, right? A couple other things from the crews. One, how do a little wager come to mind? Do you want to tell that story? Yes. Okay, so, yeah, once again, just always having fun with the wagers.

People really like to try to earn dollars, and they always are like, hey, how much do you do for this? So often it's like, oh, that's ridiculous. Of course you're not going to do that. So Emily Brace, this is her second session. She's a veteran by now. She knows that the Treasury Room has quite the good stuff in it, whatever. And she said, hey, Brad, because they said, don't jump off the boat. If you jump up, in the random instance that somebody falls off the boat, we have these life, you know, rings, whatever.

And so she said, how much? And I said, I'll give you a thousand, you know, fake dollars for this, thinking there's no way. And she was like, not even like thinking about it. She was like logistically planning out how to do it. Yeah, she kind of like gave a couple like practice falls. hanging on to the railing I saw she started texting kensie like go into my room get me closed bring them i'm going overboard yes she was like i'll do it right at the end so it's not a big deal and i'm like i i really had a dilemma at this point because i was like i don't want to

just go back on it but also i really don't want you to do this for everybody's sake and she was she was like luckily isaac i think her husband was like don't do that uh oh that's right found out later yeah and then you talked to the captain or some of the some of the people on there and they said yeah you might go to jail for this we have to like ride it up to the Coast Guard she's like so two thousand bucks she was she was not when we put jail time on the table so but that was pretty hilarious yeah she was just thinking about it this is kind of a quirky thing from the from the cruise but I walked onto the boat like session one with Gabe and Matt

And one of the like guys, one of the crew ship boys. Crewman. Crewman. Like, Maddie's wearing sandals walking on the boat. And he's like, hey, shoes are untied. And she looks down, like, good one. And I was kind of joking. I was like, Gabe, you're going to let him talk to your wife like that?

And then boarded the boat session two guy, hey, shoes are untied to Maddie again. She's like, you already got me on that. And it was a different guy. was a different guy. This is like company policy, I guess, to, like, flirt with people's wives as they get on the boat. It's very strange when we realize that. Like, what, is that in the manual?

Yeah. They each have to, yeah, hit their quota. Shoes are untied jokes. Anybody else get a shoes are untied? Really, multiple. Both girls, too. That's crazy. Okay.

Huh. Wow. married women too they could tell that's funny so then we were all it was like me Gabe and Isaac Brace having a conversation like how much is enough for you to like

feel like you need to stand up for your wife like that would be strange if Gabe just pushed this guy over I don't think that qualifies and Gabe was like saying he's like there's been other times where like maybe it feels like a guy is flirting with Maddie and you know Maddie's like are you going to do something

and he's like I don't need to right if you're not yeah yeah you're not gonna do something it it's not working isn't it right that's great that's a really good point yeah I don't need to yeah yeah I shouldn't have to that's a good point Gabe gave is a pretty simple mind a thinker like that yes simple in a good way Gabe is pretty good a speech camera we'll just put that way I don't see him. It's fine. You say whatever you want. He's over there somewhere. He won't listen.

Looking out in the crowd, I do want to give a shout out to my boy, Ben Miller. Dr. Ben. It's his birthday today. Birthday boy. My goal is to sing him happy birthday five times today. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Pleasant. Do you want to tell the story of you got a, you got a frantic phone call from your wife this week?

Yes. I haven't communicated a ton with the family this week. Catherine and I just don't communicate that much. She isn't. I'm like, do I need to communicate with you more? Yeah. Should I be worried? Are you like sandals?

But she did call me and it sounded almost like she was crying, which she doesn't, I cry way more than she does. So I was like, what's going on? And she is like truly terrified of mice, like truly so scared. And she called me and she's like, there's a dead mouse under our kitchen sink. like yeah in the cabinet she's like freaking out she's like what do i do she's like i was gonna call she goes i thought about calling jake you know she's like so irrational at this point

but then i realize he's with you and he'd probably be too scared to do it too uh and uh and uh and i'm like like okay i was like okay so she's like i text a tape but the mouse is dead the mouse is dead the mouse is dead she's like i She was calling me from the backyard. She was like, I'm outside, I can't be in there. Like she had smelled, she continually smelled like we had bad smelling trash because it's underneath our sink. Kept taking out the trash, kept smelling this thing,

and finally sees this mouse in a glue trap underneath the sink. And so, you know, this is like where I get pumped as a dad to have boys because I'm like, these are like watershed moments. Like it's time for bow to become, you know, a little bit more of a man. Just little pieces every time. So it's like first you take out the mouse, then you eat the raccoon. and then you go groundhog or something. So I was like, put Bo on the foe.

And I felt like, you know, the scene from Taken where he, like, is like explaining all the logistics to Bo. Yeah, going to this bedroom, get under the bag. You were about to be taken. Yeah, you need to do this. You need to describe all the different things. I feel like, inadvertently, I kind of did the Liam Neeson. I was like, Bo, I'm not home right now,

so you're the maid of the house. Yeah. You are going to take this mouse out and you're throwing the trash. I was like, in order to do that, you're going to get a plastic bag. Make sure the plastic bag doesn't have any holes in it, and then put some gloves on, go under the sink, find the mouse, put in the plastic bag, take it right to the trash. I was like, if you do this, I'll give you $5.

This is where I'm feeling like, I've just been throwing money, you know, bribes out to everybody this week. So I'm like, I'll give you $5 and I'll take you to any ice cream place you want. And he's like, okay. He, like, didn't seem that scared at all with it. Funny enough, Catherine was actually, like, really nervous to let him do it. I don't know. Like, I think she's that scared. I don't know what it was.

So eventually, because she was like, I'm just going to have Tate, dude. I'm like, you can have Tate, but Tate couldn't make it. And so eventually, like, 7 o'clock that night, Bo. Catherine's videoing this whole thing. I should probably put some of it somewhere, but videoing this whole thing while standing on top of a bar stool in our kitchen with gloves on. I'm like, what are you thinking is going to happen? Like she was so irrationally scared of this.

I was like, it's dead. She's like, well, what if its friends are just hanging out there as well? And she was really worried that, like, she made Bo use some of my pliers to, like, clamp it because she's like, what if it gets stuck on, you know, the glue trap gets stuck on his gloves and he's trying to, like, hit it off, and then it just flies and hits me or something. So Bo goes in there, you know, it, like, takes him a few, like, almost like a minute to kind of, like, pop himself up, goes in there, grabs it with the pliers, takes it out, goes to the trash can, dumps the whole thing with the pliers just straight in there and just goes

crazy he's so excited about it uh that was so pumped and like katherine was like you should be so proud of your son right now i'm like yes we got a boy so i yeah i had to like pump up captain know like this is what boys do boys protect their you know their moms and their sisters and not that this mouse is dangerous at this point well think about his friends there might be buddies yeah stewart little could be around so uh i was pumped for that that was like you know i think that was the day that everyone know maybe it was the day right before y'all came but Anyway, pumped up for Bo. That's funny.

It became a man while you're gone. It's like time and again. Yeah. Well, and it was funny. Like, I think this was, I think this was after we recorded the podcast. But yeah, for last session. But there were a few people here when I was talking to Catherine on the phone. And I was kind of worried later.

I was like, did this sound like I was really rude to my wife with this? Because I was trying to be like, he needs to do this. I was like, this is going to be like a defining moment in his life. He's going to remember this. She's like, I had defining moments like that in my life where I remember traumatic things like this where i had to go get a frozen squirrel out of the horse trough or something i was like and that's when i got a little bit sarcastic i was like okay so so are you a girl or a boy i said i was like i was like he's a boy he needs to do this like i could just i was like because i think

elena morse was in here who's like the sweetest girl ever she's like listening to me like be like are you a girl like so anyway just pump for bow Popper bow. Nailed it. Hey, ghosties. I'm standing in front of Rachel's new rental car because she got re-arranted to tell you about something permanent in your life and that's called

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coffee falls coming get cozy majorrosters.com uh i do this is going to be a good crew just like for the moment the first night we we did a big game night and for one people brought their own games Haley brought upside-down glasses, which I'd never seen before, and that was a hoot and a half. I would say, yeah, yeah, guaranteed fun. Guaranteed hoot. Yes, guaranteed hoot. I will say, yeah, we were like, hey, let's pivot, like, our plan a little bit. We got upside-down glasses now.

Brad, let's, like, test this out a little bit. And we were having a blast over here in the corner. We're trying to draw stuff and write stuff, and we're not getting any of it right. This is hilarious. Yeah. We have to do this with everyone tonight. This will be the first game we play. it's gonna bring the house down everyone's gonna love it the hoot tone no hoots were had it was like

okay you know try to guess what they're drawing and like three seconds later it's like that's a house it's like yes it is very good let's make it a little harder boom christmas tree yeah it didn't matter yeah so that was awesome one thing that did work well which is also kind of a last second thing is there's like this tic-tok and instagram real right now going viral about people doing like reverse singing on this app. And so some ghosties sent it to us. We saw it. We have to do this.

And that has been hit. We've been doing it in the girl van quite a bit. Have you? Yeah. Can we do it now? We should. Time in. Yeah.

Yeah? Come on up, bud. I'm coming. So explain to people how it works, Jake. Okay. And then I will leave, and I can be the guesser. Oh, okay. You want to do the guessing and everything.

Okay. Sure. Let's do you have the app? Yep, let me get there. Brad will sing a song, the short snippet of a song, in forward motion, and then this app will play it back in reverse motion. Timon has to listen, memorize the tone, the pitch, and the syllables and everything, and try to sing it back, and then it will play in reverse back to me, and we'll see if I can get it. Because it'll sound hopefully similar. Yes.

Hopefully. Yeah, that's the goal. We'll go from easy to hard. Bob okay all right what's on you run okay let's do uh let's see any any suggestions for songs yes oh fun should we do like the hard part yeah we got time we got we got see your weapon do whatever you want all right theme song she said oh this is gonna be crazy this is gonna be so hard okay uh uh oh oh oh oh Ooh, I think this tight beat.

Okay. So, yeah, play it again. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to go a few more times. Okay. I'll try one more time and then I'll just like go for it. beginning now, hold on. Yeah, it's not neon, ua, uh, oh, uh, oh. All right, Jay.

All right, Jay. All done. I'm nervous. That was a scary one. We started up with hard. Okay. Oh, you've already done all that. already done all that yeah oh wow it's it's getable no it's getable it's

barely getable i believe in Jake oh oh oh oh oh what is that song oh oh it's just my sea lion impression yeah I think that should be the biggest hint what is the case man uh-uh-oh-o-oh the first three noises what a song is that listen to the very beginning yeah yeah all right uh-oh-oh oh no ain't that uh-oh oh oh what song is that uh uh oh oh oh o'rily's no i thought that was that once a week do I really yeah how do you know what I listen to I know somehow we know play a good deep song yeah yeah nice all right go okay oh oh oh any other suggestions that's a fun one that's great you guys okay go for it Down by the bay where the watermelons grow.

That's so many syllables. All right. All right. All right, slam it all with her weep without my... All right, all right, come on, Jake. That's tough. Playing some music in there. I was trying to get prepared. I feel not confident on the cell. I'm like the consonants, but the tune I think will be okay. Okay. I think. Oh, down by the bay. Yeah.

That's right. That's good. That's good. Who no must? Yeah, yeah. That's good. Oh, oh. So whatever you want. Any suggestions? Okay. This is awesome.

He took his hiding spot. Oh, see you, Toby. Uh, eat too easy. Great, great suggestion, but too easy. Throw them off for the Christmas Christmas. Oh, sweet home Alabama. What about Christmas shoes? Oh, nice.

Mouths in the house. All right. We'll do mouse now. Great, okay. Was it mouse in the house and the stay in the night? There's a mouse in the house and the, oh, it's just ain't right, something like that. This ain't right, okay. Yeah, okay, here we go.

There's a mouse in the house and he's stay in the night. There's a mouse in the house and this ain't right. Okay, this might be the hardest one. Yeah, yes, and this one, the sun's are the underlies. This one is... Sounds kind of like African or something. That's so long. It's so long.

I'm going to listen one more and just go for it. Yeah. Oh, it's so long. Oh, it's so long. No, no, I like it. Swansi we are, da, da, da, da, da. There's no, there is no way. Earplugs.

Perfect, perfect. The only time I've ever seen earplugs in the bathroom was exactly when I need... Ear plugs in the bathroom. That's so serendipitous, that's insane. And you get this one, it's a miracle. All right. Well, you like listen back to it and... No, I just...

just, it's pretty clear. The word mouse, there is a mouse, there is a mouse, let me know, that's good. Is that mouse in the house? The word the word mouse came through.

It's just the word mouse was in there. Nothing else really helped, but mouse was in there. That was fun. I'm feeling we're going to be playing that a lot more on the podcast. I've been playing it by myself. Really?

It's fun. Yeah, totally. It's great. Oh, wait, one last thing. I kind of nailed one yesterday, and I have a screen recording. Yeah, we're having so much fun. We're doing this on the beach,

and then it's like, all right, that's probably good. We're good on reverse singing. Time is over here. That is pretty much how it was. No one else is playing. It's just time in his little chair, in his little sling. Yeah, so this screen recording,

It plays the, like, what I sang first, then I'll play the reverse, so. So that's... Oh, wow. He's got it perfect, right? It's just the most I've ever nailed, like, the pronunciation or something. That's good. Yeah. So that's been fun.

Cool. Thanks, buddy. Yep. Okay. Actually, I actually, I actually did. just thinking so many time in real quick you stay standing i think last ghosty getaway was maybe where the beef started is that correct with time and amption Courtney miller correct and now we've got him in the same house my boy it's tense the tension has been palpable if you're if you're a newer

ghosty or don't remember uh we were doing a bunch of miles last year running and um time was like yeah i'm just like in the woods with my phone but i think i'm running like six and a half minute of miles and Courtney Miller was like I don't buy it yeah and then we kind of like we did a live stream we proved it timing ran like a 559 mile yeah and how are you guys doing now we we did end up shaking hands yeah respect I think I think we're good we're good right we're good we're good we're civil with each other yeah Courtney claims that she thinks that the your broken wrist is fabricated so that's fair it did like coming a convenient time to like get out of work to come here so yeah i do understand that yeah Courtney though I mean

based on talking to her last night she can run really fast too like she is very you can tell by the handshake yeah I was like oh you pumped those like oh sub seven sub seven at least yeah all right just wanted to follow up I've got you shook hands yeah that's beautiful we're good yeah beautiful shake shake Kind of. Kind of. What else? Alvaro skip the cruise.

Give the jellyfish. I loved so much. We've got, like, I feel like there's, the ratio is like way more female than male in session two, and so it's just more to observe, which is fun. The game wavelength, which we've played on the podcast before. Have you ever seen an all-female group play wavelength? It was entertaining. I did that.

At one point, I just sat back there. I was going to watch. these people play. It was great. If, you know, if me, you and, you know, the boys were to play it, I think we, you know, full game, 18 minutes. The girls last night, their first game,

it was about three and a half hours. The deliberation is insane. It's like kind of fun and you have to like step away for a little bit. It's like they're never going to get to the end of any sentence of any point. But yeah, they had a good time. Yeah, they were going back and forth. So it was, it was fun.

Yeah, it was fun to watch. Let's see, what else? This just really made me laugh. I'm talking to Alex last night, and I said, what was it like, Alex is black? I said, what was it like living with a white family? And she said, all good until January 6th. Oh.

And didn't pause for a split second. She had that answer ready to go. Dude, if we're going down that route, can I tell another story? Is it too far? this is a joke this is a joke all right oh timing I don't know what the story so okay so really small world Amay so May and Alex are best friends they both came here from D.C. Amay is from really small town Texas near where Catherine's from

huh no way and so Catherine on the podcast last week just like mentioned something offhandedly about this woman and Amay's like oh my gosh I worked for that woman, homeschool, you know, connection, whatever, crazy. And this woman, like, made her own curriculum. It was, like, super intense homeschool woman. And so I texted Catherine all this, like, hey, this woman on the trip, woman, sorry, I'm a girl, lady, lassie. Is it weird to be called woman at 30 years old?

I don't know. I'm going to stop thinking about it too much. Hey, this girl on the trip knows Jessica Holsey, whatever. And Captain's freaking out. She's like, oh, my God. And so Catherine's connecting the dots, like, Jessica was the one that we did the saw cop with and the U.S.O. something, I don't know, USO show and the Underground Railroad thing. And I was like, and I remember her, like, describing, like, they basically did, like, a re-enactment of the Underground Railroad where they were getting, like, they were trying to escape and people were coming after them. And I was like, and I remember Catherine talking about all this.

And I was like, that sounded amazing what they did. Like, it sounded like a very intense, like, impactful thing. I was like, it sounds, I don't know if I used the word cool initially. Man, she's so lucky. So then, yeah, so then, so timing goes, like, as we're talking about, he goes, I mean, like, where do you do this? Because that honestly sounds kind of sick. And Alex is like, are you saying slavery was cool? So that was the joke, the rest of the car ride was like,

I mean, yeah, maybe we should go. So anyway, that was, I mean, I heard more about this. Where do I do this? It sounds kind of sick. I heard something else from this car ride is that Corey said, you know, I learned I'm 0.5% African-American. And so you go, say it then. Prove it. Prove it.

Oh, dude. Yeah. Because Alex was like, yeah, my brother. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not quite as a special for that. Yeah, yeah. You heard that. That's funny.

Oh, man. Say it, dude. All right. We all knew it. We all knew what was going. And time was like, oh, that'd be so sick. Time was just back there shaking his head. This would never have happened if I just stayed with the Amish, you say.

Anyway, yeah, that was wild. Yeah, but yeah, I mean, that's session two. I've been great. We've only been here for like a day and a half, two days. On some levels, it's like, oh, I remember when we got here, that feels like forever ago with these people, but also it's like, holy cow, it's almost, it's, yeah, it goes by so fast.

Time flies, we're having fun. Have you heard that? Time. Time flies. Whatever. We're having fun. Whatever. Yeah. Beautiful. Let's do some voice memos. Let's do some voice memos. Anybody have any questions for us? Any thoughts? There's a microphone near the chips.

Yeah. You want to hand that to whoever's going to talk? Come on. Thank you. This is just an observation. Oh, you don't have the microphone. Yeah. I'm sorry. Observation. I don't know if it's in frame or not, but right here I see the podcast being recorded. And over here, I see Braden just housing ribs. it's like not even 10 a.m and he's just eating rims come on here brim come on down

get down here so hey it's 9.45 how is breakfast it's winning a clock baby it smells pretty good actually do they're fire lamberts lamberts ribs you got to go for also hack if you have haven't been to Lamberts. If you finish your entree, they'll bring you more. So I got a full rack of ribs and they brought me a half rack. And then she's like, kitchen's closed. We can't do anymore. And I was like, okay, okay. Like ribs would be nice though. And she's like, I got you.

And she just brought me another half rack. And so just housed them. He sold 954 ribs. That's great. No bad time for ribs. Braiden has been a wonderful addition to the staff here of session two. And I learned that he is, first of all he's got the most beautiful voice in the world second of all he can catch food from anywhere in any time in his mouth it's pretty amazing pretty impressive that's it and

third someone on this trip has been working on a Braden impersonation maybe this would be a good time just to put it to the test my hat okay come on here sit right here oh he's getting him he's in the character here Braden, remind me again, where are you from?

Yeah, I'm from somewhere a little farther south than you've probably ever been. Two things I can't live my life without down there will be. Baby back. Women. Wow, are you, sir, you're dating someone then? It's a bit of a sore subject. I tried to take Isaac's girls. But by the act of God Almighty.

I am still single. I like running. I like running. Yeah, that's smart or you. That's so hard. That's good. Good job. Oh, man.

It's just a good crew here, guys. It's just a good crew. Thank you, Emily, for that question. Question. All right, who's next? Oh. Think about it. Well, I guess just the ribs thing.

I have a question. So we recently did the schmores of Jean Shorts comedy videos. And people have kind of been coming up this week and being like, oh, wish you guys would have said that one. I wish you guys would have said that one. And specifically this morning, Emily Scott had one. So I thought maybe anyone who might have, we missed one of your favorite Gene Shorts videos. Jean Shorts videos. Can you think of one? What was yours, Emily?

Well, the first thing I said was types of guys around girls. Because how could you forget the Imagine Dragons? Yes. Classic. And then between the two of you who knew Trey Kennedy best because of the Searsucker suit debacle. Yes.

Searsucker suit. Sears. Thank you for reminding me. Three of the four words you put down. I would, yes, thank you. I was, I don't know what you guys are talking about. I don't remember that. I think I answer with that, the answer, what, that he, he said it was suit with no tie. I think my answer was Searsucker suit with no tie.

And he was like, that's not even close to what I'm thinking. And you said, like, jeans and a shirt or something like that. He's like, I give it to Jake. I don't know if it was that exactly, but it was, it was, I was so close. Text him. Text him. I'll text him right now. Hey, man.

I can't. My phone's not working. Oh, yeah. Brad's phone, just no more screen. What do you all think? I mean, yeah, so I'm driving back tomorrow, 15 hours, give or take. The part of me was like, oh, fun, this is a new challenge. The other part of me is like, I kind of, I don't know how to get home, though.

I took a lot of, like, country roads to get here, so. Could you have some MapQuest directions? Yeah, maybe you get a little MapQuest. I have my computer still, so I'm like, maybe I could somehow pull them up on my computer and just scroll through it. but there's no way I don't miss at least four turns on the way. That is such a bummer. So I don't know.

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Anyone else got a question? Oh, right here. What is one sentence that best sums up your philosophies in life? Wow. Oh, that would be easy to do. Yeah. Somehow I managed. The first thing I thought of, sorry if I was in your way.

that's like that's just kind of how i was sorry i'm sorry i'm not thinking of a very fun one one this is not my phrase for life i like the idea of keep chopping wood you ever that just the idea of like keep going like even if you don't know like you're sometimes you might have to be preparing for a season that you're not ready for yet. It's like, like sometimes you don't need firewood right now, but it's like keep chopping wood, eventually you might need it. Or you don't know what else to do, go chop wood, I don't know, like metaphorically. How much wood shop? How much wood could a wood chop, if a wood chop, keep chopping wood? That's what I would say. Something like that. Thanks, buddy. A little setup. Thanks buddy. Thanks buddy. Thanks, buddy. What's your, do you have an answer?

Oh, do I have an answer? Um, one sentence that sums up my, I was not prepared to be a question but this is fair yeah um i guess i would say um there's lots of seasons in life nothing will last forever there you go yeah that's good it's biblical so keep chopping Chop of wood. Yep. Yeah. Keep chopping wood. Yeah. Dr. Ben? Birthday Ben? Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear. Dr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Ben!

I walked, I walked right into that, didn't I? That's one. Yeah, there you go. So Brad and Jake, just kind of getting to know you all a little bit more because, you know, this is fun experience. If you were to get a tattoo, what would it be where? Why? Oh, wow.

This is going to be on you for the rest of your life, by the way. You can't remove it. Oh, that's what I'm just saying. Oh, tattoo is permanent. There you. If, I mean, maybe, I mean, I'm not saying anything, sorry. I just kind of made noises from it. I just kind of made noises for a while.

Do they make ones that are completely clear that no one can see unless they... Blacklight tattoos? Unless they glow in the dark, yeah. I would do one on my whole face. It would be a Spider-Man mask. But you can only see it at night. Every night.

Every night, Catherine gets a little bit of the spider-since. Yeah, yeah. Anyway. That's a pretty good answer. I have no interest in getting a tattoo. I think, I was talking somebody about this session one, sorry, guy, about how I just, I'm too much of a dork. Like, I would be, I would not, I'm not a tattoo guy.

I would not look natural with a tattoo. They'd be like, that guy's a poser. So, people that have tattoos, I'm not being like, you shouldn't have a tattoo, it's just like, you're cooler than me in that aspect of life. You know what I mean? Yeah, I think it would take something, Because I do, Ben, do you know I do have one tattoo?

Prove it! It's so high up his thigh. If I'd prove it, it was on accident. I jumped out of the ocean pretty quick, I guess. But it was from when I did the, like the limo, yeah, trip. So maybe if I went on some other, maybe a Friday ball. Yeah. Where would you put it?

Where would you put it? This reminded me, maybe we need to talk about one thing that happened last night. I didn't even write this down. Yes. One thing led to another. Okay. Try to translate this story. Yeah. This is, this was, and I'm sorry for the person this is about, but we were talking

about, how do you start? We were talking about what's the appropriate amount of, like, affection and attraction for people for like male-on-male-on-male relationships where like female-on-female and then someone brings it up like is it gay to like credit card

your bros? And so this starts to... So credit card, that's basically just when you swipe up, you know, through the crack in the back. So we're having a good discussion about it. People are making very sound points and, you know, we're going around. and I forget what led to it exactly.

I was just like, I don't know if I, that might be too far for me. I also, I just, I've never even done it. I'm nervous I would start too low or I know. I was like, yeah, I've just never done it. And then sweet, just Caitlin Ramirez, just, Brad, you want to reenact it actually? She goes. So I was like, I've never even done credit card.

She just looks at you, she goes, well, do you want to do it for the first time to know? I just stared at you for 16 seconds. I did not say for the first time. Jake's like, Mom, you need to come get me. I said, do you want to do it right now? Oh, do it right now. But I met with another guy.

Do you want to do it right now? Yeah. It was wild. It was awesome. I forgot about that. No one said anything for like two, four. anything for like two full seconds like edit correct stop looking at me and then there's all burst out laughing but yeah it's not what she meant oh that's great that was fun

all right who else got a voice memo before we wrap this bad boy up come on jesse pizzie's been digging a hole how long you dig that hole yeah brought his own shovel tell us about the tell us about the hole digging real quick yeah compared to last year's hole well compared to Last year's hole, I've got very much improved equipment. Good. Yes. And so digging hasn't been that hard. The project, though, is building a sand castle out of the product that I pull out of the hole.

Excavated sand, yeah. Yes. And so that's been a little bit different project, getting the right water to sand mixture to be able to have something that will stay standing and not just fall out of the bucket. Okay, yeah. Otherwise, hole is great. If he does keep improving his equipment, he will have a back on here in four years. He's like, he's like, okay, how would that legitimately work? What size trailer would that be?

You can bring a mini-ho. Yeah, mini-ho. No jokes about that. Speaking of which, what advice would you have for a freshly married couple? married couple as like I'm looking at Jake specifically because you're more newly married than Bradd is you obviously have more advice right yeah it is cool last year Jesse came on this trip not even dating Becca and now they're married which is amazing so it's so fun yeah so cool so God works quick that's right come on how long he's been married three months on Sunday

three months on Sunday so don't correct your wife that's my That's a wise about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just kidding. I don't know if I have anything, like, groundbreaking to say. Jake's super reflective guys. You think we're this kind of stuff all the time. I mean, I just, this isn't, like, advice that'll work for everyone,

but Rachel loves surprises. I learned that very early on, and so it's easy right now. We've only been married two years, no kids, whatever. It's cups are free. But I hope that that's a constant thread in our marriage forever is that never stop surprising her, because that's somebody she likes. I know some girls are like, please don't surprise me. Like, I don't like that, so don't do that to them.

But finding that, like, the little thing, like, you know, in Rachel's perfect world, like, I would, like, dress her in order for her. And, you know, it's like, if she just, like, doesn't have to make any decisions, and it's all, you know, so she, you know, has no brain left. So, I'm scared. That was the first thing I thought. I love leaning into that and surprise them of stuff all the time.

Love languages. Sure. That's a thing. Fresh. Yeah. Surprised me with the credit card for chip. Surprise me with a credit card, the chip way. Yeah.

There's like different versions of credit cards. There's like the gas station credit card. It's like the super, super quick one. There's like, yeah, chip reader. Yeah, there's like some that's like, Tap to pay. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Like, put it in, remove when you hear the beef. Yeah, yeah. So that could be fun. So newly married's fun, yeah. I'll try to give any other answers for that. It's a good question. Thanks.

I thought you had something. No, I got nothing to say out with that. Are we good? Any other questions? Any other thoughts? Any other speak now? Yes, Alex. Come on.

Bring it on. After this, we could do a win of the week. Okay. If you want to be thinking. Okay. So obviously the podcast is, grown so much from when you guys started and like having F-12 to now doing like ghosty getaways and I assume your goal is to like continue growing your audience

so like how do you think about staying connected to like ghosties as like hopefully you know there will be like thousands or maybe millions of ghosties like how do you guys think about what it means to like maintain this type of community as like you continue to grow your brand and hopefully like bring more people into the fold. That's fun. She asked good questions. That's a good question.

She was asking me questions about my hair. No one's ever asked me questions about my hair like this. That's a good question. I think about this a lot because I think like we couldn't do this if the podcast got too much bigger, just because I think you would lose a little sense of like who's in our audience or like, you know, who's going to show up, you know? You guys know, we didn't vet any of you guys. You know, we didn't know, like, be cool.

And so, yeah, you definitely lose certain aspects of the community, for sure. Like, I think when things go wider, they go shallower, typically as well. So I think about a lot. And part of me is, like, am I just reframing this, being like, no, I'm glad our podcast isn't super successful. This is a good thing. But no, it really is. It's like if it stays the size that we can keep doing ghosty getaways forever, that's obviously

really incredible. And for whatever reason, we do blow up someday, and it gets really huge. And, like, we get to have a bigger impact, and it just changes how we meet and get to interact with their fans yeah I was kind of when as you're saying I was like I don't know if I yeah I don't think we're trying to become millions I don't think I mean yeah if it somehow happens we don't even have a TikTok account like we're not you know like yeah we're not strategically trying to go wide as much we are trying to go deep intentionally and I think yeah if the Lord is like oh here's a million people that listen all of a sudden because Jake said something super

controversial and now we're in is that the way that's how it goes um but yeah I I think, I don't know, I, I think it's just naturally not going to be possible if it's just Jake and I. So it's like almost like, it's like an MLM, kind of, like, you know, you find some people and you become friends with them and you deepen your community within the go, like, it's cool. Like Jesse, you know, like I said, got married this past year. And like Alvaro, who didn't even know him, like literally like slept in the same bed as him last year on a whim, like came to his wedding. And like, there's like success stories like that all over the place of like Janelle. and Courtney and Ben have hung out in like at Courtney and Ben's house and like stayed overnight I think even like all these crazy things where it's like that's the ultimate like sign of success for me is

like we're not going to be able to reach everyone super deeply unless they come on stuff like this we can get to know them better but it's like if you can connect and we have all these subsection subcultures of ghost runners like we have like the readers and the health and fitness and whatever all these different things I think that's a that's a cool way to I guess expand it but yeah my initial reaction and maybe it's just like a cop-out answer but it's just like I don't I don't think we're trying to be too big so if we're trying to be big we would do things differently we tried to go viral a few times you know yeah we went viral and it was like well

I didn't really grow the audience yeah at all this point you know but it's like these are the times where it's most meaningful or the most like fulfilling for us I think is just like having these times where we get to truly, like, say we are friends with you guys, not just fans, you know? Like, it's like, no, I know Corey. Like, Corey and I are buds now. We're boys. Hey, buddy.

You know, stuff like that. So, anyway, yeah, good question. Good question. Good question. But if you know somebody that can get us to a million listeners, I'll throw it all the way for more money. No. That's fun to think about that. Yeah, like hypothetically, if Joe Rogan invited us onto his podcast, it would probably be dumb not to go on.

probably we should probably go on but it would be crazy it's like well there goes yeah what goes starters used to be because I mean yeah back in the day I made it a point almost unhealthily I was just on my phone all the time trying to make sure I respond to every single DM that we got on Instagram and that like yeah it was exhausting and now if we try to do that to be even harder and so it's like just realistically we can't do that the same way so I think it has probably to some people lost some of that already but it's just consciously figuring out it's not going to be the same forever we're always going to be adapting and i think if we

were to grow largely we would adapt in a different way and we'd figure something out something yeah some other way to keep chopping the wood maybe it comes back to the wood ellis customer gracious dot com yeah so anyway fun question who else who else See how I do that? Who else? Yeah. Who is next? Yeah, who's next?

No one is next. No one is next. All right. So I've got some wins of the week. Wins of the week. I mean, of course, overarching win of the week was this whole getaway is just, yeah, like I said, so fulfilling. There's no reason I should not be dead tired every single day when we wake up, when we go to sleep, and I'm not. Like, it's just fun.

It's so fun. because you guys bring me energy and bring me life. So that's the overarching one of the week. One amazing moment that I really enjoyed last night was driving home from Lamberts. We're all in a food coma from rolls and fried food. And I talked to Alex on the cruise about how I love the live version of Ben Rector's steady love song.

And we rolled out every window in my truck and turned it up very loud and just listed to it. and it seemed like it was well received from everybody. Like, I think timing goes, that was a spiritual experience. And so it was fun not only to like just chill and like listen to this song as we're driving slow down the beach boulevard, but also like for them to all be like, that was awesome. Like to share my joy with that was awesome.

So, one of the week. One of the week. I have three wins. Is that, is that okay? We'll allow it, right guys? I'll be cool. I'll be cool. One, on, like a week ago, like on Saturday, I was wearing a shirt and Isaac told me, he's like, dude, something about the way that shirt, like, you look jacked in that shirt. Oh, right. So I've thought about that every day since. Yeah, I made sure to do laundry.

10%. Yeah, credit card. Yeah. Hey, oh. Second one, this is exciting kind of business announcement, but Friday Pickleball is going to go into Dick's sporting goods. Whoa. Probably. There's a good chance.

So, yeah, just like Bandai Bowles is up and running, we will be in Dick's sporting goods. You can count on it. That's crazy. No, if anything, they kind of approached us, so we feel good about it happening. It's not to, like, next year, but that's kind of fun. And then third win, it's actually something that you said. You know, Tyman got here the first night, and we had him sing for us, you know, dance, monkey, dance, you know.

And he sang this whole tune, and you just go, Tyman is so bad. Yeah, yeah. So just Timon being back in our lives. Yeah, it's a blessing. That's awesome. It's fun. It's great. All right.

That's it. Thank you guys for being here. We did it. uh we're gonna go play some pickleball now and have some more fun uh anything whatever whatever just friggin be cool um yeah thank you to all the people helping out this week you guys are awesome yeah very good okay all right we get we'll see you guys we'll see you guys love you guys all right we did it that was podcast you guys yeah ghost loves podcast Remember the morning we're taking ground

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