Ghostrunners - 487 - Morning Onion Rings

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

Jake and Brad talk about underrated Office episodes, the public opinion of Hardee's, and Saturday Night Live. Donate to Healing Waters International here! https://give.healingwaters.org/campaign/734554/donate https://mainstreetroasters.com/?utm_campaign=healingwaters&utm_source=shareable_link Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC: http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com 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

Good morning, Ghosties. And to those who don't listen to this podcast, good morning. Good. And if it's a different time of day, hello, ghosties. Can I stop you right there? Yeah, go ahead. I didn't like where I was going anyway. Permission to gas up, my boy.

Me? I like that green on you, dude. Rachel oftentimes compliments the green on me. Wow. Feeling things about you, man. Just one to tell you. I like that green. That's a nice, that's a nice, like deep green rowback.

KC 20 Dude, yeah I kind of forget Unintentional But that was not Me trying to promote Our 20% off Roeback

Well, we haven't talked about That in a long time I kind of forgot about To be honest What color is your green? Is that military? It's like Army green Yours like Forest

I think I'm looking at my green Thinking what the crap am I doing I would love that green Dude looks great When you said Army green I think you said Arbys Which reminded me of Hardies

Which is not what I was going to talk about at the beginning but that is where my brain went. I told you this, we watched a Chiefs game together Sunday, but Rachel made a pretty funny comment. We were just talking, we took a weird way to get home from church the day,

and we just passed by Hardee's, and I hadn't seen or thought of a Hardee since so long. No. And I was like, Rachel, have you ever been to a Hardee's? Like, that just seems like pretty much the opposite of who I know you to be. And she's like, oh, my gosh, no. And I'm thinking, like, yeah, because it's like greasy and it's gross and it's fast food. It's like the bottom of the fast food chain.

And I wouldn't expect her to go to long-drawnovers either. But she said, and I quote, going to Hardee's as a kid would have felt like going to a strip club. I was like, what did you just say? I was like, go back a few steps there. Are we thinking of the same thing? Hardys. Yeah, I was like, now that I mentioned it. Hardees.

Yeah. Are you talking about it? Like something? And she's like, no, like the restaurant. And then she reminded me, Hardys went through a weird phase where they had girls and bikinis. Like eating frisco melts or whatever. I don't know what was on the TV. You were noticing the food.

I wasn't looking at the food. And they were eating their, you know, sub sandwiches. I don't know what it was. Their pizza. They're a financial firm. Who knows? Uh, uh, oh, ooh, I think this tight. Beating means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too.

Then West 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. Yeah, that's so funny, yeah, they were definitely petering out. No, pun intended. I didn't. I didn't mean to, I did it. I did it. I really did it. They were, um, I don't know, whatever. I don't know, whatever. Petering out. No pun intended. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I really did it. They were, um, I don't know, whatever. out's a crazy kind of phrase. Unintentional like Freudian slip kind of thing. Yeah.

I mean, it's crazy that it's even allowed to say. Oh, were you getting tired? Yeah, I was getting petered out. Ooh, dude. Where do you think that goes from? Yeah. Zip your pants. Yeah.

Stop getting so petered out. They were, they were struggling as a business, whatever. They were kind of. They were kind of going downhill, so we're like, let's just, you know, throw out a, let's see if this girl can get the job done. A couple of Hail Marys. And so. yeah I mean and it definitely like because they had like these big burghers I think and I remember being like I don't know mom should we try them out see what's going on at Hardee's uh I don't think I've ever I don't think I've ever been to a Hardee's no maybe once I don't think I've been there was a Hardee's across the street from our church and so we prayed for him every week no I was kidding and so I think a lot of missions workers there was there was one Sunday where there was like two people at youth group like so

Sunday school. And so it was like, you guys want to go to Hardee's for breakfast? We could we could take, you know, the youth pastors corolla. We could go with them in the Corolla and like go over there. So I think I had hash browns from Hardee's. That's all I can remember about. Okay. That's, I kind of thought it was breakfast too. I think my grandpa used to get like coffee from there. So it's like, oh, this is just a breakfast spot. It feels for whatever reason, it feels less weird for like to hear like older people going to get coffee and like read the paper as a group. It's like oh it's safe. Yeah, that's fine. Then all of a sudden it's like, don't go to Hardee's. after three.

Yeah, yeah, that's a good point. But yeah, I don't know anybody that's like, I am such a fan of Hardy's. Oh, dude, wait. Yeah, I have the app. I have the app. I can get 10% off drinks. Like you hear about fanatics of Taco Bell, Chick-fil-A, McDonald's Coke, you know, all these different things like, you know, Trapulte.

Like, no one, never have I heard anybody be like, you know, where I'm going to stake my claim, where I'm going to peter in. Hardish. Yeah, you don't hear. Yeah, there's like huge McDonald's fans. There's not like a, you know, they come hard hats. Hard hats. Hardheads.

If they just love Hardie's. Hardy boys. Hardie boys. There's one connected to a truck stop in Stratford. So I think that's why I'm just like, oh, gross, nasty. Correct. And I forgot about the commercials. Me too.

And then there's the Carl's Jr. aspect of things. It's like, who's who here. Oh, yeah. Did they do similar commercials? Well, I think they're like owned by the same people. Same exact thing. It's like Trader Joe's all the people do that.

I don't know. Panera Bread, St. Louis Bread Company. Yeah. Or other things like that. And then so on and so forth. McDonald's and Burger King, I think do it. So on and so forth. fourth I don't know there are a couple examples like that I can't think of right now

anyway army green I hear that jack in the box is now just called jacks really another place that I have no opinion on curly fries really yeah okay see I've heard I have I have that jack in the box has like everything oh yeah dude tacos milkshakes I mean they kind of do it all and I think they have like Catherine grew up going I think after church on Wednesday night sometimes with her friends and she's like they have every the whole menu is available all day like that's kind of fun that's kind of like it's like well if we're heating it up either way like that's all we're doing let's just have it ready morning onion rings go with your milkshake and your coffee so yeah first time everyone it was with peter in southern california it's like an orange county it's like it's

kind of nice okay it's california kind of a local spot this is cool newport beach uh what do we know about cookout i don't i don't like it or i don't but i don't know anything about it i just know it's a thing it's one of those like when you go to texas your friends who are not from texas are going to be hyping up like we got to go to in and out into the people who live there are like eh i mean y'all go but there's better spots cookouts like in like southern east coast i feel like i only have it in like north carolina yeah i feel like i've had it in south carolina a good handful of times had it with celia one time maybe the night of met sue yeah but yeah it's probably a great spot you know if you just need a good milkshake they also have a ton of things on the menu would you

compare it to sonic not in vibe or style but in menu probably oh okay it's not a drive-in drive-up No, it's just like a normal fast food place. Cool. I remember Sonic or cookout is where stopped there once or twice on the limo trip. That's how I know about it. Oh, really? Yeah.

Yeah, we ran into some fans there in the middle of figuring out how to get rid of our fourth guy. That was where like the discussion happened. So you think, yeah. Or maybe it was where the debrief happened. I remember just a very serious conversation. Did you talk?

Was it open with him at that point? He was not there. No. Yeah. I was like, how does this happen? happen yeah okay um good no anyway yeah cookout's great it's great if like you're from out of town you're like oh i forgot they have cookout here we should go and that was great you can a call someone trying to buy your house no i just texted so kirsty swick is uh raising money for oh yeah always so

great to do that yes our i i don't know if it's compassionate international or world vision one of the um organizations there and i just screenshot of stephen swick's uh comment on it because she made this AI version of Jake and Brad, the two of us, with our arms around these kids that we've sponsored. And I was like, hey, this could be Jake and Brad someday, you know, when they meet these kids someday, you know, whatever. And Steven Swick, I just texted him. I said, I laughed out loud at this.

He commented, he said, Brad Ellis taking this photo right before announcing his congressional candidacy with his conservative slogan, anticipate the yellow. And I was like, do I love this? He said, I'm glad it landed because I almost deleted it after cursory. Christy's text. Then she just said, I don't understand your comment. And he said, he looks like a politician. I don't understand.

Anticipate the yellow. Anticipate a yellow light is a conservative approach to driving. I think it's just like, hey, troubles ahead if you go with this other candidate. Yes. And I'm anticipating it. Are you? Hey, let's be, yeah. Come on.

Yeah. If the kids were from another part of a region of the world, that comment doesn't fly i did see it i was like let's be careful no we're good let's not go down that path but yeah african kids i think we're fine yeah yeah yeah what can brown do for you probably not the best like yeah yeah that's not your slogan right but uh anticipate the yellow is pretty fun funny people i i will say i didn't understand the anticipated yellow light is a conservative approach to driving i didn't think of that when i saw it i just thought that's a funny tie

it's just a funny slogan yeah so anyway thanks thanks to all the ghosties who are just like always so consistently funny. I feel like I don't thank you guys enough. Yes. Sometimes will shout them out, but I mean, there's, it's hard to just so people,

just like who have good sense of humor in our community. So it's just great. I mean, whether it's in the fantasy football group chat or the, you know, Gulf Shores group me or,

you know, whatever, or just the Facebook group. The guy, Spotify comments everywhere. I'm sorry. I think it's Colin Rowley. I'm not going to double check.

Countdown guy. Yeah, count down. Countdown guy. Without fail. Always count down. Hey, Brad Ellis's birthday coming up 10 day.

Whatever it is like, like, If we're, when this comes out? No. 11. 13 is my birthday. I think this is the 12th. So wish me a happy birthday tomorrow.

Tomorrow, buy his house for his birthday. That'd be fun. I'm driving to Texas on my birthday. So I'm going to be in the car with my four kids and wife for seven hours. You got to drive to South Dakota and drive to Texas this month. Yeah, big time. And then driving Texas again. We're going to a little ranch weekend with our friends.

What do you think of when you think of a ranch? Besides the dipping sauce. I think of like a one story at home. Yeah, it's fair. And then after that, I think of, I don't know,

how big is a ranch? I know what's like, horse cow. It's like, is it the same as like a, like a farm where it can be like, yeah, it's a five acre little,

you know, plot of land that we have a farm on or like a thousand acre farm or I don't know. I feel like it's like a thing that wealthier people in Texas have like a ranch home. Gotcha. Anyway, so her friend from college,

we're just getting together with all, all of Catherine's, four of her friends from college and like their families but yeah it's a little bit of a drive it's like I don't know exactly where it is I think it's down near Houston so it's like driving down to sherman where captain's from staying the night there and then driving the rest of the way eight hours plus four hours four or five I don't know yeah it's a little bit of a and like like back to back kind of yeah okay no problem it's fine it's great yeah so and she's like yeah we're driving the first leg on your birthday I was like oh okay I didn't know that she's like I told you I was like

I bet you did. I probably. Do you ever have those moments with Rachel where she or maybe it's honestly you to her if I know your personalities very well. But Catherine swears every once in a while that she tells me things. Like she's like, I'll say it again. I know I've said it like five times,

but I just love how good those windows look. I'm so glad I clean those windows. And I go, this is the first I'm hearing of that. I'll be honest. I don't think you said that to me at all. And she's like so adamant. Like I know I've said it to you.

And I'm like, I. That's where it's really crazy where it's not like I said it once. but it's like, I know I've said this five times. And then you're thinking, I've heard it zero. How did I go over five? I love you. And I truly do try to listen to you when you say thanks.

But I don't remember you ever saying that. Maybe you said somebody else. Yeah. You know, maybe you said to Hattie a bunch of times or whatever. It's more so me reminding Rachel that I already told her that. But that's normally just because she's like distracted. She's on her phone or something. And then, you know, she'll say, should we get dinner?

And I say, that's a good idea. I wish I would have said that 30 seconds ago. Did you just say that? I go, yeah, that was the most recent sentence that I said to you. And you're pretty confident in that. It's like, I know I said. I just got done saying that sentence, actually. But no, it does happen to us where Rachel loves giving me a hard time.

This is like one of her just like a little joke she does with me. Like if I ever bring up anything for a second time, she loves that she'll do it to her dad too. Like, oh, you're obsessed with that. Just if I like tell the same story accidentally twice. Like, oh, yeah, you're obsessed to tell me that story. I'm like, I'm not obsessed with it. I just forgot I told you. I just don't know who I talk to every day about this stuff.

And especially, I mean, she has a good memory. Like she'll remember like if I just, I won't an example be. just like my biggest regret in college is that I didn't turn fly leaf textbooks into like a cereal bar if I would tell if I would mention that now she'd be like oh yeah you're obsessed with that like I know I haven't told you that at least two years though you think about that all the time yeah that's the joke like you're always telling me this man and there was one recently where we were on a walk and I tried to tell her that um so a girl we've talked about kind of recently Madison Hannah McKenzie Hannah Kla family yeah their mom at one point was involved

like the sign gypsies yeah yeah yeah yeah did this and you know have these signs up and i go to tell rachel you know i know a woman and she's like i'm gonna stop you there you're obsessed with this i was like i've mentioned this before a third date we talked about it one time you talk about it all a time i was like there's no way i've ever brought this up and even then maybe one she's like oh you brought this up multiple times i was like i've told you about the signs in people's yards for the homecoming multiple times that's so embarrassing but like it's hard to even like believe it. There's no way I've been. This is so insignificant. I barely remembered it myself. That's how did I tell you? Right. That's what it's hard is when you're just like,

I'm very confident. Like I take pride and like I remember things pretty well. My brain like functions well. Like I know what things are true or not. Right. And so when I'm so confident that she hasn't told me and she's so confident she has, it's like I just got to suck it up and just take the L basically of like I'm sorry. I don't I guess I want to fight you on this. But I don't know how we're ever going to prove anything one way or the other. So I'm just going to put my hands up and say okay you're right it is too bad when you start to see your body i mean just get older it's like yeah the memory could be one thing but even if i go golfing with isa and he's like oh you're little short of the green i'm like no i'm on the green he's like you can't see that like crap oh really

yeah really um or even just like uh like line calls and stuff like right now i'm like man i'm i'm the guy who calls everything in like let's just let's just be safe but people are like dude you guys start calling those out those are out and like i don't know well i didn't know I'm here to play ball I don't like my body breaking down like this not hearing things yeah hearing is bad for me I can't I don't know where things are coming from

I hear it but I'm like where like where is that is that coming from under the couch or in Boz's room you said that thing about the I the vision thing Sam Severs our boy got LASIC recently

and when he was in the office he's like yeah my friend Brad Ellis told me to come here And so I got a check in the mail today for $50 saying, you know, like a referral check. Thanks for telling Sam. So if you want to spend like three grand on LASIC, I'd make 50 bucks, which would be kind of cool. Sounds like you need it really bad. That's nice to they give that to you. Yeah.

My uncle John, your coach. Yeah, coach. Would never, I don't think he would let anyone in our family get LASIC. One, I think he might have been like Agent Zero. He might have been the first or patient zero. I think he was like the first person to get LASIC. So they messed up a few times. But even further than that, he's, his big thing is always like, why's your doctor, why's your eye doctor wear glasses?

Why aren't these eye doctors have LASIC? And he's like, he's like really serious about this. Like they won't get LASIC. They won't risk it. Eye doctors wear glasses. But eye doctors aren't LASIC doctors. Sometimes. Still.

But still. Yeah. If I doctors are getting LASIC, then it's like, well, yeah, our whole business is going out. Yeah, that's a good point. I guess. That's pretty funny, though. Yeah. He's big on that.

We have, we randomly talked about it in Colorado and Rachel said that like there's a direct correlator between getting LASIC and like suicide or like depression or something. Yeah, because I guess if it goes bad, it's just the most miserable thing to try to live through. Is that all it is? I think just like the pain, whatever is going on with your eye, you know, the pain along with not being able to see or just the irritation, it's just like, I don't want to be here. Wow. Yeah.

Crazy. Which is crazy to think about like a pain induced suicide rather than anything else. mental health going on. She's like, no, it's just it's so bad. I just can't handle that. Yeah, at least that's how I understand it to be. Maybe I'm mistaken. That was the correlation that was like, if it's messed up, that's when they would. If it goes wrong. Okay. I thought it was just like somehow people are bothered. Like people are more, you know, they see too well and they start to see into other people's lives and they start comparing themselves and all of a sudden you realize every reaction that somebody's given you. It's like, okay. You see the

slightest eyebrow rays and yeah, your vision's so good. I always thought he was just squinting. Apparently he's like glaring at me. It's like, okay. Yeah, we should follow up with Rachel. I don't know the exact. Yeah, that's interesting, though. Let's see. What I want to talk about? Quick sports corner here.

You know, fast forward if you don't like sports. We had some close calls in fantasy this week. Oh, man. I got kicked out last week, so I'm out of all the guillotine leagues. Chopped. Brad last night, it came down to the wire. I thought George Pickens was going to do it. He had such a good game.

But Brad lost by a point. Yeah. So Brad is now out in the Tuesday league. Did you see all that that happened? I read about it this morning like it was less than a point, right? Yeah, so you know, so what happened sometimes in fantasy

I've never been a victim or a beneficiary of this but I've heard of this like sometimes like when all the games are final they do like stat corrections like oh in real time we miss some stuff. That's what it was. But final, okay, here's what actually happened. So like the game, the clock goes to zero. All right, looks like Ethan Wolfe was going to pull it off.

Wow, he won by 0.36. That's crazy. 10 minutes after the game is over, it switches. he now lost by 0.04, like four yards went away. 0.04 is what he lost by. Oh, my gosh. And so he's freaking out. I was like, dude, I was winning.

Everyone was congratulating him. And I was like, maybe it'll change again. And then 0.04 is wild. I went to bed. I woke up this morning and there were more messages from him. And he's like, I'm back, baby. Apparently it switched again. And then it snips snapped back.

So he's back to losing again. So his players are gone. He's chopped. Oh, really? It's snip snapped. Snip snapped. So, yeah, he went from okay to bad to okay to bat. Oh my gosh.

Poor guy. 0.04. He's out of the league. And from, yeah, stat correction. I mean, that's so minuscule. It's almost, it's too bad. I mean, it's all automated. I can't really do anything about it.

But you always hear about the stack correction thing. And I always like, yeah, do they ever, what are they going to correct it by a couple yards, maybe if that? Yeah. Or like, yeah, it seems like difficult to get it wrong in a real time. But I guess it just yards or who knows what. Do they always, like, I guess they always just round up to the nearest yard for every run, though. And so, like, if you get like a six and a half yard run and then you get another six and a half yard run, does that mean you got 14 yards or 12 yards?

Yeah, maybe that's what they go back and decide. Oh, it was second four. So I guess we have seven yards. I guess there's only six yards. I don't know. And then my other sports thing is, um, why is it the NFL rigged for the chiefs this season? It was so rigged the last few years. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Taylor Swift has a new album coming out this year, or, you know, like, it's a big year for her. Oh, it's already out, though. That's why. And Travis Kelsey, it's, I mean, it's maybe his last season. Why wouldn't the NFL rigged the games for the Chiefs this year? Because they were doing it last couple years, and it worked. And it worked. Now they're rigging the Broncos somehow.

The Broncos and the Eagles are kind of being rigged. Oh, yeah, the Eagles. You know. Well, Taylor Swift, where's she from Philadelphia? That's a good point. And I don't know. I know that seems tiki tag. I'm just, I want to complain about it.

I want the NFL to go back to rigging games for the Chiefs. It was fun when they rigged him for the chiefs. Yeah, and the officials ran on it and like all the other owners ran on it. And like it was fun. Yeah. We all knew what was happening. And now they just decided even though like the same team is intact and Taylor Swift is still very much a part of the team. She's actually engaged.

Yeah. To a player. Yeah. They just stopped rigging games. It sucks. Yeah. How do we talk to about this? Hockily.

Chuck Grassley. Oh, yeah. I got an in with him. He's only going to be here for a few more years probably. 0.04. Let's get in while we can. dude you know he's like a couple people die and he's president he's like that's crazy third or fourth in line i can't imagine just an old senile dude being president what would that be like i don't know dude

it'd be like what's he gonna do now we don't know that would be a crazy people would not respect america be a crazy 12 years yeah if that were to happen really yeah i forgot what the house or you know whatever like he's a senator and he's in charge of the senators and so yeah he's like third or fourth crazy okay well let's hope not like or maybe we hope i don't know he rachel named him have good relationship she saw him last time she was in iowa all of a sudden new hartford is like yeah just completely under security all the time joyful java just you know their main clients are secret service what if all right all right all right all rise all rise oh all rise all right all right all right go ahead and take your seats yeah because we need to talk to you about something

Are you sitting down? Are you sitting down? All right. Now slowly open your eyes. The meat you've been eating probably didn't come from here. What? Now look back down to your plate. Now up at me.

Unless it was good ranchers. Oh, thank goodness. It is good ranchers for me always. Look in your freezer. Double check. Come back to me. What did it look like? Good ranchers.

Yellow bags? Yellow bags or red bags. Red bags. Oh, that's true. I don't get the red bags. I get the beef, baby. Beef bags. Beef bags.

Yeah. It was near your little beef bag. I go to your house. I want to see some beef bags. Come on. over. I'll show you a bunch of beef bags. Catherine's not home. Come on over, baby.

We love good ranchers. We eat it all the time. I brought it to a chief's watch party this week. And I think Gunner said, what are we eating here? Yeah. It's noticeable. It's noticeable. It's noticeable every time, dude. Every time it's like, because Gunner had some too. Gunner had the smaller wings. You brought the

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Welcome to the tape. My dad one time has a story about there's a barbecue place in an airport down like Spring Hill, like which is like a small town in Kansas, south of, you know, south of Kansas. Looks like a great town though. Suburb of Kansas. But like on the outskirts, but there's like a little like municipal airport. And one time he was at a barbecue, at lunch with some guys at barbecue there. and yeah like secret service

I don't know if it was a president but like somebody they confirmed they were secret service that's all the story I have about it but kind of cool still pretty cool kind of cool what does FEMA do FEMA does I think that's disaster relief isn't it oh okay good job I don't know I think they're like the ones

that like let's say Katrina hits that happened already but Katrina hits they go in they come and yeah give them meals or like that's my guess I always hear like FEMA FEMA kits or FEMA meals or something like that. That sounds really accurate. It's either that or like they protect animals from PETA. FEMA versus PETA.

I was watching a movie that Scott recommended to me. I'm going to go ahead and say, I think Scott's over his last two with me. So I need to talk to him about that. I think normally we're on the same page. What did he recommend the first? Anyway, he recommended a movie called House of Dynamite on Netflix. And it's like it is the first third of the movie.

It's like a really good thriller. Uh-oh, missiles coming to the U.S., what are we going to do? And then the second third of the movie is the exact same story that you just saw, but now from a different perspective. And then the last third of the movie is now from the president's perspective. Just not enough new information. The first third of the movie was like, awesome.

Okay. Let's keep this going. It's like, what if we round it back? Yeah. And then the third time, what if you heard that third line of dialogue again? I know what's about to, yeah, what's about to happen again? So I didn't really like it. But, you know, it's all this, like, the FBI and the military, we're trying to shoot down this missile.

And there's just these FEMA people that seem really involved. And I was like, should you be here right now? The disaster hasn't happened yet. Yeah, how do they know? Or they're always just ready. Yeah, I don't know. I just, I just grow out of FEMA badge. I was like, I feel like you should wait until the missile hits.

And then you get involved right now. You seem like you're an extra cook in the kitchen. Yes. Why don't we let the military deal with this? Get out here. You help deliver the meals if this goes bad. Yeah, FEMA, federal emergency management agency. I guess they manage emergencies.

That could be pre-disaster. Pre-dissaster. I have a buddy who works for Convoy of Hope. You hear that? Yeah. Springfield. Yeah. And, yeah, they're just like always, basically always having to be prepared because

they don't know. Yeah, if a disaster, if a tornado hits, they got to go or a hurricane hits or whatever. It's like, we got to deploy these people and deploy these systems right away. So you got to think about those things, I guess. I remember Scott, and maybe this is like, let me see, Rotten Tomatoes has 80% on this movie. So it is a widely liked movie. That could be me. I like the idea of like storytelling that way.

It's like, oh, now it's from a different perspective. No, no. This is not your movie. Sorry. Oh, okay. What was your movie called? House of Dynamite. It was a fun idea. Didn't do it for me. 76% on Rotten Tomatoes. But I remember Scott raving about the movie with Ryan Reynolds called Free Guy.

It was like, it's the funniest movie I've ever seen. I remember watching it and never laughing once. Seeing why it's supposed to be funny. he'd mean like it's fine but scott was like you didn't love that movie it's a great movie so i don't really trust scott with he likes everything too much he's the he's the bethke yeah i can be that way too but he was so fired up about mr beast the uh beast games remember he was oh yeah he was like he could not believe that one guy he's like i my jaw has been wide open for two minutes i'm yelling at the tv right now it's like okay dude he does he

goes all in he gets very invested well i do love edris elba though he's cool from house of dynamite yeah he was president charles minor do i've been watching as we've been puzzling this past week we just had a lazy weekend and just put the office on haven't done that a while took a break from sainfield i have some some thoughts i think previously well we watched a lot of season seven get to the end michael leaves so good so emotional just as good as i remember it yeah that is so well done the way you know this gym's goodbye well at lunch tomorrow I would have said this

and like the tears in their eyes like you tell it's so real yeah it's cool yeah but the Will Ferrell episodes the the first couple of them are worse than I remember it's like oh we were like laughing

I feel like Rachel and I were laughing out loud on a regular basis and then once Will Ferrell got here it was not stopped but then I feel like the last couple Will Ferrell episodes better than I remember okay can you remind me which ones

or which last night I mean I'm not going to be super great at this, but last night, I mean, it's like, Michael's finally gone. Will Ferrell's leading his first ever meeting. And he's not even really making any sense. I mean, he's talking about how we're going to put a pinball machine in the break room. And it's not going to have quarters in it. All right.

I don't want you guys complaining about quarters. Don't think me. Don't think me, guy. Yeah. He keeps saying really good things in a mean way and everyone's kind of confused. Right. Kevin's got to be pegged. That's it.

Yeah. So Kevin's like, these seem like good things. and I like it but it sounds like you don't want me to like it and Kevin just doesn't make any sense goes to talking to Wilfiro keb's got me picked

it's so funny and I feel like when Wilfurtle makes Andy stop on the way to a sales call at the dog clinic and he's like give me that dog yeah it's really funny

I mean that was like cracking us up so I'm just revising probably some previous statements I've made where I think in the in the moment like high school Jake

was like oh man And I had way too high expectations of Royal Farrell. And then more recently I was like, no, they're great. Now I'm like, some not that great, some great. Yeah. So you, yeah, the Dundee's one I remember not thinking was very funny. Yeah. Like when they did the King's speech bit or whatever, I was like, I don't know.

Yeah, those are the ones that weren't that funny. But here's the thing about Will Ferrell is that I think his four episodes are very quotable for me. Like, yeah, everybody, yeah, everybody, everybody, pal. Or like the, like I say it's all the time. like somebody will say hey you got a minute and he'll be like I got a ton of time or whatever this job's a joke I say that I say this job's a joke all the time yeah stuff like that I'm trying to think or like don't think me don't think me guy yeah there's some good lines in

there Kevin's never liked Will Ferrell she's never thought like a lot of people in the moment were very like I hated Wilfarrell in the office I was try to defend him a little bit but yeah the episodes I think once Michael left Will Ferrell is pretty funny I think it's good that he wasn't around too long. Yeah, it's great. Because I think Robert California was that for me of like, come on, this guy. But now, looking back, watching it again,

you know, I'm like, ah, I kind of understand why they thought it was pretty funny. Uh-huh. But at the time, I was like, this is weird and bad. It's like, but it's so weird that it's like, that's pretty hilarious. I'm excited.

I don't know if I've ever rewatched season eight, but I think this will be my week. watch it watch superfan i think we are yeah yeah yeah because i think if you just watch it regular you're like i've seen all this and it is there's nothing good here but like superfan at least it's like oh it's a surprise the superfan episodes are so good it's more of my favorite thing it's so great what about do you think maybe like you didn't love the first few episodes of will feral because it almost like overshadowed michael like his last few episodes you know what i mean it could have been i think in the moment it was just wilfroll was the king of theater

you're just movie comedy. It's like Taldaneonites, stepbrothers, and we're just like, Will Ferrell is running the office. This is going to be the funniest thing I've ever heard. And it was like,

oh, it kind of is the same or worse. Right. So maybe just too high expectations. Maybe so. Yeah. Yeah, it is like one of those things

where like if you don't let the person, what are you, flounder. That's not the right word. Flourish. Yeah. That's what I'm thinking of. Like,

I know that Rachel really likes, what's her name? That's on SNL now. Oh, yeah, Veronica? Yeah, she's not getting like any, rolls. Right. And that's, I, I remember feeling the same way about Kyle, good neighbors.

Yeah. Let him do his thing. But it's like, how do you, how do you, how do you, how do you turn them loose without like, just being like, I don't know, just tell us what you want to do. Yeah, you've got control. Because I don't think that Veronica's like videos would translate as well if they just straight up did them on SNL. Yeah, probably similar to Kyle. It's like, you're so good in your own lane and you've grown a following. Clearly, you know what you're doing. Right. If it's like a network show with a laugh track, I don't know. They do those like weekend update things like where they like interview somebody. I think she could be funny with the character out there or something.

We've tried to watch a little bit more S&L and I try to always go into a good attitude and boy, I don't laugh. I don't laugh. I was like, you had all week. All week? What else do you do? It just feels like, go get another job. Seriously. It feels like they just settle so much.

Yeah. It's like maybe one of these is kind of good and then let's just do the rest of them. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. maybe it's because I'm like jealous of them and I want that job like part of me is like I could I could have done that yeah done way better than that you know but yeah it's never it always hurts me to watch it but I still watch it yeah there's something about it it seems like late night talk show monologues are kind of down the same pathway like it's a lot of quantity what

if we did quality what if you did three jokes in your monologue instead of like 35 yeah you know where it's like I probably write one right now Now, Donald Trump, no, I'm not going to try. Dude, well, that's all it is. Like, I watch everyone swallow it, like, very rarely, but like Seth Myers, that's all he does is Trump jokes the whole time. It's just like, okay, even if I didn't like Trump, like, this would not be fun if this is all we listen to for the first 20 minutes.

It's like, make a joke about like a random, do an observation. Make a joke about Hardee's and like, make a funny thing about that. Like, that's way more like entertaining to me than just, uh, let's do one more joke about this okay but um let's go back to sports real quick yeah get the NFL rigged again get the NFL rigged again baseball season's over watched game seven of the baseball yeah that's crazy with gunner gunner had a little fire pit at his house the other night and I didn't I was torn on who to root for because we got Canada the blue jays clearly the underdogs but then we got LA Americans but also the people that spend a million billion dollars one at last year

won it last year. So initially I was just kind of rooting for a good game. And then eventually I kind of landed on the idea of like, I'm a casual baseball fan. And in sports, if you don't win championships, your legacy is not cemented nearly as much as if you do. And so I'm like,

and I think Shohei Atani is like unreal. So therefore I'm kind of rooting for the Dodgers just to like squash any future argument of like, well, show Hey Atani, you know, really that good. It's like,

yeah, he won it twice in a row. Like he's amazing. so yeah that's a good take I was rooting once it went into extra innings I was like I want to see it go 20 I was just rooting for a tie my dad just because you heard that happened right like went to 18 a couple games ago yeah my dad stayed up the whole time did he really he was like I was falling asleep near the end that's awesome but yeah I think yeah that would have been fun to like it also was kind of a bummer that the home team didn't

win because it's not nearly as like electric yeah but man yeah it was a great game it was so Yeah. A Game 7 World Series is, I mean, so electric. That's literally, yeah. Very cool. Like, yeah, it was awesome. But I had a little saga. I don't even know if it's that interesting, but it was a fun thing I did. Sunday.

Catherine, whatever, Sunday afternoon, I knew we were going to go watch the Chiefs game. Knockout. And so I was like, Catherine was like, yeah, I think I need to go to Costco and all the, at some point. Sunday afternoon, I'll just go after church. We get home. we'll have lunch and I'll go. I'm like, I don't know if there's that much time, do all this stuff. And she's like, okay, well, what if I take the kids to early service of church

and then you meet us for the second service and you go, you go to Costco and then I'll go to all the, you know, afterwards. And so they left. Daddy got a little idea in his head. Why do one trip when you can do two, when two do trick? Yeah. And so I made it a mission to like, basically I had, let's say an hour and a half to go to all the Costco home to drop off the cold food back to church. And it was fun. I was just flying around.

I'm sure these other people were ready to like grocery shop slowly on a, you know, 945 on a Sunday. Not me. No way. I'm flying around. You had AirPods in. You were listening to the raw sushi playlist. You're just like, I should have had some music in. Then I could have like really seemed inconsiderate and people be like, well, he's got AirPods. Oh, he hasn't known any better. Yeah. Dude, don't beat music will make you do things faster. Yeah. Do the dishes faster, drive faster. it's true yeah i eat faster yeah so all these nice because you can you don't have to have as much of a strategy because it's such a small store that like it's like oh shoot i forgot spices i need to go right there get the curry powder over here it's like right there and their employees are kind of like

judge on how quickly they check you out so you know you're out of there quick so good uh Costco on the other hand obviously is huge and so as i'm driving there i i made i marked every single uh item with a number like okay this is this is zone one so i was putting ones next to all these this zone two whatever um and there were a few things was like i don't know where kiyobasa sausage sausage is i got a so i'm texting katherine where's kielbasa what zone yeah um and then i'm very glad i did that because zone one went swimmingly i did did just fine grabbed them all was heading to zone two somewhere along the way lost my list and so i had to go from memory and just and there were some random things on there, ramen, flour, all these different things.

It was like, no problem. Got it into my head. I think I got most of the things. Made it to church. Church second service started at 11 o'clock. Made it there at 11.14. So did not win. Right on time.

But got there right before the songs were over. So, you know, the importance. You got there for the meat of it. Yeah. No. So anyway, it was really fun. I was like, like I get there and I'm like, kind of sweaty. You know, like, hey, I did both.

She like, you did. both. Yeah. I did Bo. I'm gonna get both. Let's pray. When I got to college, I remember having an idea for an app because this is now my first time growing grocery shopping for myself.

And so I just, I go to this huge bolivar Walmart, but I just don't know where anything is. And so I wanted to make an app where I would put in my grocery list and it would tell me the most efficient way of doing it. It's a great idea. Didn't know how to code an app. Didn't know anyone to talk to. All my friends were a theology major. So then didn't go anywhere.

But I remember almost like floating around or telling people and people. and people told me they're like, you know, these grocery stores actually may not want that because they almost want you to get lost and then the impulse buys happen and then the classic target joke where it's like, I went in for one thing and my cart's full. And now like basic guys on Instagram make that their whole personality. But I think it would be great for Costco. Yeah. But Costco, it would be, but it wouldn't be because Costco, it seems like there's not set. I mean, there's certain things that are like mainstays. But sometimes you ask an employee or Catherine, I'll be like, where's this thing?

She's like, usually it's here. But Costco kind of is like, it kind of has a lot of seasonal things or a lot of like, oh, just for, yeah, temporary. Let's see if this maple sugar bacon sells and if it doesn't, it's out kind of thing. But it would be nice, though. It's all on the app. You put in your list and then they build like a holder for your phone in the shopping cart. Yes. And so it's like turn by turn navigation, like Google Maps within Costco.

Like here's this, here's this. You should see this here. Right. Do you want to stop and get the same? The sales pitch from... Yeah, they can still upsell you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You need a new roof?

What about a big screen? How about some nice, sharp knives from Cutco? We've got inflatables. Yeah. For your pool. That'd be so efficient. I would love that. I like that idea a lot.

Or maybe you just, like, that's the task rabbit. It's not necessarily like, you know, hiring them to actually go shopping for you. But here's my list. Just tell me the path. Yeah. What's zone, man? What's going on? Whoa, dude.

You look mysterious. You look like, you look like you're hanging out in dark alleys. You look like maybe you need a, you look tired. Whoa, what was that little neck or tongue thing you did there? That was a character I was playing called Rodrigo Sanchez. Oh. And Rodrigo Sanchez was born in Colombia, South America. Uh-huh.

And Rodrigo Sanchez has an addiction. What? Cacao beans that are made into sweet coffee clusters. And so he meets people in dark alleyways. He says, can I get a sniff of those beans? Wait, does cacao make, that's what makes coffee? 40% sure. Double check me on that.

Use chat GPT though, so it probably like reemphasizes my bias. I'm looking, oh, here's a Reddit thread. First, what I saw, is it possible to make coffee with cocoa beans? No, cacao beans are chocolate. So he's got a problem. I got to do a different character. Yeah. Oh, here he comes.

Whata! Who's he? What's his name? Sorry about that. That was a brief character I did called Chaz. And Chaz was born in Southern California, and he has an addiction. What is it? His addiction?

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Mastroaster.com, healingwaters.org. slash ghosty 2025. Woo-whoop. Sometimes, dude, I think AI could do that. and then I ask them, and they don't do a good job. Like stuff like, like, not that specifically, but that's what made me think of this. I'm helping our friend Justin Jordan.

He needs help with some built-in cabinets for his house. And so I kind of made plans for these things. Like here's all the cuts that we need to do with this plywood. And, you know, a sheet of plywood is four feet by eight feet. And I'm like, okay, I made like a, just a nice note on my notes app. Here's all the cuts we need. Here's the quantity of them. And then I copy and paste it.

that into AI and just said like maximize the efficiency of each four by eight sheet of plywood. Yeah. And it's suck. I was like I tried it in multiple AIs too. I was like try it with chat GBT. I try it with Claude. Claude all of a sudden was like like I needed like 48 and a half inches of a certain thing. And it just like just like bled off the 48 inches to like 48. I was like well that's not going to work. We can't do that. That's not how it works. You don't just gain that. You know, whatever. We're not making new wood. Yeah, you never talk to it with yours.

Like, I did mine. Hey, if you don't know, just say you don't know. Just don't lie. Yeah, just don't do it. Like, that seems like something that would be great for AI is like, here's all the different dimensions. Here's the sheet supply what I'm working with. Make it work.

This is good. We're finding some gaps. Sports trivia and maybe like spatial, you know. And it was like, would you like me to make a diagram of this? I was like, yes, please. Oh, that sounds awesome. Just not even close. Yeah.

It's kind of embarrassing. I was trying to make a chat GPT image of my Aunt Angie because it was her birthday. I was going to make a little joke. And I said, make this, this and this. And it said, I can't do that because it involves a real person, whatever. But I could do this instead. Would you like that? Sure, that'll work.

Okay. Great. Works for 60 seconds. Unfortunately, I cannot do that either because it violates our terms of service. I said, you suggested it. This is your idea. Gaslighting enough. Terms of services here?

Yeah. And I say, so in the future, if you, like, suggest something to me, now I have to, I'm going to have to go check your terms of service.

Don't suggest it to me if it's not going to work. You're just ranting on your keyboard. Just be a good computer. If you're a human, I wouldn't treat you this way. But like, here's just zeros and ones.

Like, don't be wrong. So, they said, they said, whoa, why don't you take a walk? Calm down.

Yeah. Touch grass, pal. There's smoke coming off your keyboard. Why don't you chill for a little bit. I will. Yeah, I still sit the image to our family group chat, and I think people were like, eh, kind of funny. I was like, yeah, I know.

What was the joke? So it was originally for, I've been doing this for just all of the family birthdays. When John's birthday came around like earlier last month, I made a cheap, chat, GPT image of people saying, happy birthday John and like a rainbow arch outside of O'Reilly Auto Parts because he couldn't get a job there. I was like, happy birthday, John, too bad. This isn't what your life looks like. You know, your life almost looked this way. and I made him one that, you know, he's a Missouri State football player,

and I had to make it look like he was going into the Hall of Fame for Most Improved or something. And anyway, for Aunt Angie. She got asked, she was doing some, like, interior decorating for this wealthy couple in Kansas City. And they have a recording studio in their house. And while she was there decorating, you're like, we actually need a female. They were, like, working on stuff for, like, some background vocals. It's for some, like, new, you know that Chief's song got, like, outlawed? got commanders

there was a chief song that they used to play I forget what it's even called now but like we're gonna be oh yeah yeah yeah they stopped playing that now rock and roll part two or something yeah I think because the artist was problematic what yeah total creepo

oh I see total purple not like not the artist was saying hey I don't want you to play this anymore I think just personally I think most of this could be wrong either way they were trying to find a replacement so I guess my aunt Angie was like a part of that who knows

okay this is recent or yeah like two weeks ago oh wow okay it's just like in someone's basement yeah they were recording the new fight song song called fights if you hear a chief song called fight maybe my aunt's in it anyway so i was trying to just make fun of her i was like created an image of like this woman in a recording studio and have a sign in front of her that says taylor swift want to be or something like that and it good man it did a bad job bummer but still but she had some vocals in this i guess she hopped in the studio it did some background there's like hey we just need a bunch different people yelling fight or she was she singing i don't know what she was doing that'd be awesome if she's like so badly singing in there something something that happened to like elaine on

but yeah i'll do that yeah i'll do it um that's great so anyway um daylight saving time was this past week as we're recording this and i'll tell you we haven't changed our oven clock and we love it okay it's It's one thing to like, I'm going to set my clock 10 minutes early so maybe I don't run late. Then you just always are doing the math. But something about the full hour ahead and with it getting dark earlier, you really believe it every time. Dude. At least for the past week.

It's like, gosh, it's 930. It's only 8.30. Yeah. That little joy, I mean, twice a night is awesome. I, for the longest time, yeah, like with daylight savings or like if I go to different time or something, like I keep my watch at the wrong time for that reason. because that little spark if it were the opposite where like wait it says 530 but it's really 6 3 that's a bummer but like you wake up in the middle of night you check your watch and it says 430 or or 630 even like

oh it's pretty much time to get up I got to get up oh no I don't dude wait I forgot it's only 530 yeah it's a great feeling so I respect that yeah I'm okay with that so far it's been a week no it's been like three days but we keep forgetting so we'll see how long this last I hope I keep forgetting because boy it's fun i think either you're going to forget or you're going to feel grateful like either way it's like you know what it could be 10 30 it's not it's a good 30 it's all perspective we could have like i know we wanted to go to bed at nine we're trying to get up really early tomorrow so we wanted to go to bed at nine but it could be way later you see that see that number yeah that's what it used to be right now yesterday was monday and so rachel was like you know

i said i wanted to go on a walk today but i forgot it was going to get dark at 515 and it's five o'clock now and we're like we're going anyway it's still warm out don't let the sun tell you yeah good needs to walk that's good anyway yeah daylight savings is a wrecker of a home man i don't know i bet a lot of divorces happen because of daylight savings if you have kids ben franklin had a lot of like STIs and it's probably because he was the one who started honestly i had that thought i was like did ben franklin have kids because i bet he did if he did this thing it was like there's no way like kids are so messed up after this like Like, no way.

Yeah, he couldn't. That's a funny bit. Okay, extrapolate that. All right. Ben in Franklin, daylight savings. No kids. Kidds. L-O-L.

L-O-L. So you remember, it's supposed to be funny. That's good. Tomorrow night, I fly to Dallas. Oh. And then in two days, we have an hour with dude perfect. The whole dude. The twins.

the whole well that's two fifth yeah yeah yeah they're shooting with the savanna bananas at nine a m so i said you can be there from eight to nine oh cool i say can we get there at seven 30 they say get there as early as you sweet i sleep overnight dude yeah is that like a is that is that is this like breaking news or do people know about this yet i don't remember i feel like maybe you've commented something or somebody commented about it in the facebook group okay i didn't know if you had like officially said that's crazy yeah it is kind of crazy you know it still hasn't happened yet but you know it still hasn't happened yet but You know, hopefully we have some good stories next week on the podcast to talk about it. But yeah, we made it happen.

We've got a shoot lined up with Dude Perfect, The Twins. And it's, is it like, is it probably only on your channel or is it for both of them? Okay. Yeah, it's more just like they're doing us a favor. They're like, yeah, we'll give you an hour of our time. We'll play a little pickleball with you guys. They have a court in their, you know, warehouse. So we're just going to show up there.

We have an hour. I think that's realistic. Probably get two videos done. Yeah. Yeah, trying to coordinate, you know, we've, time is in Mississippi with the crawl dads. You know, he's out of town, so we got a new videographer coming in. We never met him before, you know, six microphones and let's get there early. Let's get set up.

Isaac, you know, we're still kind of brainstorming the videos we want to do. Isaac had an idea yesterday because we're filming with the twins. He's like, is there a way for us to dress up as twins? Oh, that's fun. And like surprise them. Yeah. So that would be one option. Like talk to my guy on the inside of like, hey, is there any way to know what Kobe and Corey are

wearing tomorrow? Is there any way like you could hook us up with the exact same outfits? You should like dye your hair. like not like permanently but like you could do like a temporary dye yeah that'd be pretty funny and you have your hat on and then you just reveal it on camera that'd be awesome dude i know i you know a moment of wonder yes to get their reaction because what's your connection to them um i one of them worked at kut right or yeah i think the twins spent some time at k2 i think uh they also i think here and there listen to correct opinions the brand manager he's my main point of contact i like

have his phone number. Yeah, he's a fan and just a really good guy and he's got to talk to. So he's the one kind of making it happen. Okay. I met him just in person when Mikel hooked us up with tickets like last year when Dude Perfect came to King City. That's how I met him. I just sat next to him and got his number.

He was just a cool guy. Yeah, really cool guy. Awesome, dude. Shout out Chad. So yeah, not only it will be cool to like shoot with them, but also it's like, well, it sounds we're going to rub elbows with his fan of bananas. You know, maybe there's something there with Pickaball. Yeah.

You know, try to get their info. pickles bananas similar shapes similar shapes that's a great point I didn't think about the shapes you're welcome I asked Kyle

Kazuda you know I was like all right if you were shooting with dude perfect what would you shoot and he's like if I now are a dude perfect I don't even know if I'd turn on the camera

I think I would just explain to them my business my I was like I don't want that answer I don't want that answer enough yeah congrats you think outside the box now tell me some video ideas that's amazing honestly yeah

I probably just wouldn't even I would just stare at them stare at them for an hour just try to absorb their harness give me a break their success so yeah that led nowhere but anyway

yeah hopefully that's going to happen here in a couple days and should be a good Dallas weekend that's so cool man all three of you guys going yep the big three TJ's going to come down

I think actually it's Rachel to come down She won't be able to come down until the weekend, but she might come down for Saturday and Sunday. That's this weekend. Yep. Okay. Come watch the boys play. We're going to win gold.

It'll be fun. That's so fun, dude. That's crazy, dude. Dude, perfect. I hope you just kill it and then they'll be like, hey, it's kind of fun. Come, come be on our channel. Because that's when you're just like, yeah.

I have to just, like, explode. Leave all this behind. Or, no, no, no. I'm saying like, no. Oh, like for a feature. Feature. Yeah, yeah. Like Tom Brady is or whatever.

Yeah. Yeah, you're on the same page, Tom Brady. Yep, it'd be the same. Or get them on the podcast, we'll help you out. We'll get them on here. We'll just really have one other mic, though. Like, because we have to have time in. Timon's obviously going to be here, and we have the one extra.

So you guys figure it out. Just, yeah, take turns, going back and forth. They would never know. No one would know who's good. That's so fun, dude. Yeah. Yeah, it'd be cool, an hour with them and then. You've met them once?

I guess you met them at the show, but also once before that yeah a couple of times i they're old headquarters way back then like 2017 i shot a video in there for cana cacuck so for canaac yeah it was like i the k1 programs guys um we're living in dallas they were going to dallas baptist at the time one of them was in my cabin funderberg in retowns yeah so i was just a freelance videographer at the time so like hey would you want to come just filmed i just filmed i wasn't even in front of the camera wow yeah how the tables have turned um tell the story I think this is such a fun, interesting story about,

I think it was when you were there for that. But there's like something like never again. Oh, yeah. I think that's such a cool thing. Yeah, I think it was Kobe Cotton was giving us a tour, just being so nice. Anytime I'm an interact with them, it's like, you were so nice and so successful.

This is like blowing my mind. It just generous with his time and give us a whole tour of the facility. You know, this is like a warehouse that they've made like, you know, a guy's playground, just so many sports, so many things you could do and so we're going all around and then we get into like kind of some of the offices and this is where the guys edit and yada yada and there was a framed a huge framed

just a huge frame on the wall but with a tiny little SD card in it you know how big those are and yeah I think the words above it said like never again or something something like that yeah and I was like what's what's the story on this and he was like you remember the do perfect fire episode I was like do perfect fire

he was like fire trick shots that was the whole thing I was like, I don't, I don't remember seeing that. And he's like, that's because it doesn't exist. He was like, we didn't, we just learned our lesson that everything was shot on this SD card. One editor thought it was transferred over the other. We formatted it. We wiped the SD card clean.

And we just lost all the footage that day. Like an entire week of shooting all these trick shots just never made it to YouTube. Just, you know, who knows, 30 million views just like down the drain. So we framed it as a reminder. We've got much more better. Process is in place. This cannot happen. Right. It's kind of impossible for it happen again. So we learned our lesson. Fail safe. Yeah. Yeah. A lot more things have to go wrong than just one SD card. Just one miscommunication to So yeah, that was kind of a that kind of stood out amongst all the other fun toys and the drift carts and the put putt put. It was like this is cool that they

They were the biggest YouTube channel in America at the time and like they're still deleting entire videos and making mistakes. Crazy. Crazy time. They were getting so many views. Oh, sure that just killed. I mean literally thousands. of dollars and yeah probably yeah multiple like 45 50 hours worth of their work or their time just down the trade probably a year later is when I was doing the limo trip we're coming through Dallas we hire the dude perfect videographer to come shoot with us for a day so he's in a limo and I was talking to him about that I was like I heard the story from Kobe what you know I want to hear from you he'd only even working there he only been full time there a few weeks when that happened he's like I thought for sure I'd be fired that was in 2017 and he's still there to this

day it was his fault yeah yeah wow eight years later same two guys so dude they're doing some right i'm not saying that those guys are perfect dude perfect uh i didn't meet too petered out not saying this guys are your dudes it just does feel like they are the real deal though doing it the right way yeah yeah like you said like they're so successful and so kind i'm like there's a correlation there like they're just yeah above reproach you know just like hey we're just going to give people good experiences all the time yeah you know not just like yeah actually that guy's a jerk and i didn't know it until I you know whatever and I'm not saying maybe whatever they're centers so therefore they're not perfect but yeah they just seem like they they handle their business the right way

which is encouraging to see so in my experience most people who are very successful especially like very front facing public figures they treat people well I think it's it's hard to be super successful and appear on camera while also not being a good person it can happen I mean actors and musicians that's kind of a whole other thing but like to have an audience and to have a fan base you typically are a well-adjusted adult. Makes sense, yeah. That's awesome. All right, let's do some wins of the week, comments of the week, yeah?

Good idea. My wins of the week, I got two. One of them is, yeah, Facebook Marketplace purchase, Eco-Tank printer. Or wait, no, I forget which one I'm such a huge fan of. Dude, I'm a huge fan of this one. I don't know. It's Epson.

I think it's Epson, I think. Do we say Epsilon? Epson? Do we say Epson? I don't know. Epson, Echotank. What are the two types of printers? Inkjet and? Laser Jet. Okay, I think laser jet's what I'm obsessed with. That's because you said yours only does black and white, but boy, does it do black and white. That's what I thought. Catherine found this printer and she's like, and I was like, oh, it's the same one Jake has, but I was like, she's like no, it prints in color. So dang. No, but it has like these, like instead of having to get like the actual cartridges of ink that you had like, you just get like a squirt bottle essentially. squirt it into these different compartments. So you're like, oh, we're running a little on black.

No way. Yeah, dude. You're combining like liquid with a printer. That seems so funny. It's just like there's only these like little compartments that you put them in. Then you can literally see like how much black, how much cyan, cyan, magenta, whatever yellow. It's just like a milk bag. It's just the school cafeteria. It's 100% like a milk bag. He's got flat milk bag. Yeah. And so you can just like, yeah, we bought $15 worth of black ink and it was, it's going to last us forever. It feels like. It's Dude, that is great. And yeah, we bought it for 60 bucks on Facebook, even though it's like a $200 printer. So highly recommend.

That's a good win. Second win is deer hunting season is back. And what I mean by that is like me taking the kids on a drive throughout like the, you know, neighborhood like back neighborhoods trying to find deer in the, you know, thickets basically in the forest. And we went last night. And even though we didn't find the, it was just so. peaceful because it's like I try to like convince him like we got to be really quiet and so we're

just like driving like 10 miles an hour on this small little neighborhood road that no one else is around it's just quiet and dark and I love it so it's one of my favorite and it like gives katherine a little bit of time with the kids away and everything and so deer hunting season we're back we're back i only have the one win but that's okay maybe maybe someday i ran into some uh some great ghosties at church a couple days ago. Mom's name was Deborah. Dad was kind of hiding behind the pillar. I think he was a little embarrassed

who didn't get his name, but shout out to you, dad, you seem cool. And then the one side I meant, I think his name was Will, but his older brother is now in college named Cam.

I think I have that right. Okay. And it sounds like, you know, we gave Caleb Sullivan the missionary in the wrong field. It sounds like older brother, Cam is like all in on ghost runners.

So shout out to you. Like his hall, he's trying to get his whole hall to listen. it's like his life's work to like grow the podcast. I love that, dude. Shout out to the brothers Will and Cam. I love the idea. Cam, get a watch party going. Like get it on the big screen. Like have everyone around send us a video. That'd be awesome. That's so cool. Do you want us on the big screen? Oh, yeah. With college guys. Oh, yeah. Bring it. Bring it. We look great in our green. Come on. Arby's green. Arby's green. Forest green.

With the, with the other green in the back. And then a little bit more green. Just a lot of different greens here. Oh, yeah. I want it. I won it big time. Here we go, Crusaders. Come on, Sades. Yeah, were they just visiting in town or are they Kansas people? The younger brother is still in high school.

So, yeah, I think they just live here. Gotcha. They just go to church there, but older brother went off to college. Awesome, man. Shout to them. I hate to do this, but actually just found something in my notes. It could be another win. All those ghosties got together up north like a couple weeks ago

and did their own like little pickleball event. Caitlin Kano flew in for it. So awesome. Yeah. Gozzi's hanging out without us. Lindsay, sorry, message me on, group me. I was like, I swear you know, you're invited. And I was like, this is so fun.

I was like, I can't make it. I think that's, I was like, we're going to Las Vegas for that weekend for a pickleball tournament. I would maybe try to squeeze in, but it's just, you know, I give all these reasons. She's like, this is so funny. I just got to listen to you on a podcast talking about how you always give reasons. I was like, yep, I'm consistent. I will never just tell you I can't make it. You need to know exactly why I can't make it.

So that was fun that you guys did that. Dude, you're better than I am. texted me and I don't think I ever responded. I'm sorry, Lindsay. We get a lot of inbound stuff. I mean, just in the time that we, it takes to record a podcast. I mean, I've, I missed calls and someone wants me to write a acknowledgement for a book. Oh, Chad GPT will do a good job of that. I'm kidding. No, I'm sorry, Lindsay. You know, yeah, it's a lot to respond to. Dang it. It's like, I can't do it. And so therefore, I don't respond. I don't want to say bad news.

I don't know. Yeah. Anyway, all right, comment of the week. Mine is coming from Beverly Martin P2M on YouTube.com. No, I'm going to change it. Sorry, Beverly. You can read that one if you want. I forgot there was another one that's really good. Not that that one's not.

That one's really good, too. Oh, where to go? Oh, no. Now I'm just making Beverly Martin look bad. There's one that somebody literally like left us a review on YouTube. Where did it go? I'll go. You try to find that one.

I'll do Beverly Martin. This is so good. This is by far my favorite comment, Beverly. Hello, Jake Brad in time. I was introduced to Ghostrunners by my sister, who's a big fan, but became a little overwhelmed by the amount of episodes

I needed to catch up on to be in on the inside jokes. However, I soon found that a good, lighthearted podcast was just what I needed to get through the stress of college and life in general, so I began listening

to the most recent episodes only. Gosh, every time I read for too long, it like messes with my... I get it. It wasn't long before. Twice a week wasn't enough. and I decided to make my way through the old ones as well.

Y'all have mastered the art of making everyday life interesting which I have learned to apply myself. I appreciate what y'all do and find myself laughing out loud all the time. This podcast is really special. He gave up the good word. Thank you, Beverly.

Woo! Come on. I got a few Spotify comments. Okay. I couldn't find the review. I know. Maybe they, you deleted it? Sarah B. said, I need you to know there is actually a character

in the newest Hunger Games book called Panash. Yeah, who knew? And then Christy Teague said, Timit is preaching. As soon as he said he couldn't put stuff out there for so long because it wasn't perfect, I was nodding along. I'm watching a podcast, a new business, but I kept re-recording content,

the balance of excellence versus perfection. Wish I could have learned that at 18. Amen. What about 19? Perfection is the enemy of prophets. Mark Cuban once said on Stark Tank. Good. Panash is the enemy of

Petering out. That's what Jake's Trivel said on Ghost Run. Great. I gotta blow my nose. You gotta go blow your nose. Just in this frigging thing. Okay.

Hey, this has been Wednesday. Tomorrow is Thursday. And next week, Tate Unruh is joining the podcast. Wow. Hopefully. Hopefully. We'll see, I guess. All right.

We love you guys. Thanks for listen. Thank you. Oh, you're taking grandkids for this podcast.