Ghostrunners - 488 - Living in Hungary ft. Jensen & Tate

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

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Hey, good morning. Happy Monday. Ghosties. Maybe we got some fun special guests in the house today, Jake. Yes. Some tall legs. Some long legs here. A couple tall drinks of water.

A couple of guys who dunked in high school probably. Good boy, Tate. Got Tate on Rue, Jensen Harper, in the studio. Brad Ellis. Yes. Yeah, Jake got out too. Yeah, introduce me, dude. Jake Triplett.

Jensen and I just got back from. South Dakota and we have some stories from pheasant hunting season the first one is this so I can talk way more about all the setting of everything but the second day we're out hunting we get to this field and they tell us

like before we get to the field like hey you got to get in position quick because this field is known for these birds to just like jump out and fly really quickly quick birds yeah they're jumpy here for whatever reason I don't know why this specific field was just one field yes truly like it was the only time they're jumpy

in this. I know. It's like what what makes them more skittish here? I don't know. It's like crack in the milo or something. Cracking the milo. This is a crack field and and so we get there dude and all of a sudden like you know every single time you get out they you have to like reload your gun and everything so everyone's doing the awkward like pointing the gun down like trying to reload it. And then all of a sudden dude like yeah 10 how many birds? 12 12 birds just like fly into the air and of course that that's like a big deal and so Jeff our guide is just like run go run to them shoot the birds never been told that it's just panic and panamon is not one of the commands when we went hunting right here yeah run is not in there and so all of a sudden like we're all

just like you know because they hate when birds get away it's like such a sport to them of like get every and so we're like trying to run after it shoot these birds and and then Jeff just goes what's that guy doing in the middle of the field shooting the birds what's he doing and and this guy's like you know completely oblivious everything else he's just shooting and like reloading shooting some more birds because there's so many of a boom boom trying to get them all bird up what are you doing out of the field get up who is that what what that you know he's like whatever is this guy doing the field this idiot like and I'm like hey Bob you got to get out of the field get out of the field Bob military bob come back to the barracks military bob like was just in the middle and i and i i mean out of all the guys to get in trouble for being in the middle of the field just like getting after it i would never think military bob but someone yelled run at some point so at the end of this field jeff kind of like gathers us together like man that was a crazy hunt man we were there was i don't know if we were all together it was kind of kind of pandemonium and uh we got to be better man you know uh

you know we just you guys were just running out there blind and i was like and I literally out loud trying to defend Bob a little bit. I was like, you mean right after you told us run? We ran? He's like, okay, but not like that. So anyway, it was a great time, military Bob. And so then yesterday, Jensen, Bob and I are driving home in the truck and we're replaying the scene. And Jensen is like, man, that was crazy that hunt. Like, and by the way, who in the world was the guy in the middle of the field? What was he doing? We're kind of talking like, rehashing. Some of those guys, like, Jeff Myers, he could not shoot a gun. They were struggling. And I was like, and everyone was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, and who is the guy in the middle

of the Milo field? I was just looking forward in shotgun. And I could see Brad's sunglasses raise up because he's smiling so big. I was like, what's up? He was like, he was Bob. He's in our backseat. He's right there, comfort's right there. So all of a sudden, It meant for like, Jensen being like, that guy was an idiot to being like, maybe we should have all been in the field. If Bob was in the field, we were all doing something wrong. At first, I was dogging on him, but when I heard it was Bob, it made a lot of sense. He was there.

Anyway, last year, you got in trouble. Yes. But you were told, what was it? He was like, he knows what he did. That was great, dude. He knows what he did. Did Bob get that same treatment? I don't know.

I mean, it was one of those things where they were mad for a second, but just they just kind of got over it. Honestly, I think Bob was all right. But it was just like, they didn't. tell us anything about where to go and all of a sudden they just yell us run and so i didn't know if he did anything it didn't seem like he was doing anything wrong to me it didn't seem like this ridiculous thing but all of a sudden running through the crack milo uh uh oh ooh i do i think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts

and white me too midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet because it's the ghost from this podcast everybody's So, yeah, we're back from South Dakota. So, yeah, we're back from South Dakota. It was a great time. It was so much fun. It was different. You know, there's a brand new lodge.

New beds, nice beds. Great beds, dude. Yeah. Stained beds. Yeah, amazing stain on those beds. Stain. Good stain. Kate and I were just looking at the pictures.

It's really nice. Yeah. Super nice, dude. It's crazy. Yeah. So nice. Yeah, just some really cool amenities. It looks nice.

Did it feel nice? Yeah. No, no, no. Yeah, that's fair. As a real estate flipper, it's like, hey, is the picture nice or is the... Lemon Hat wants to know, like, you know. Yeah, yeah. Like, how lux is this?

Yeah. Like, would I be comfortable there? Is it like just like a normal person's comfortable? Or like you would think it's nice. Just like eight out of eight. No, it was like top, top of the line. I don't know how much. better it can get kind of thing like um just massive like super tall ceilings and beautiful buffaloes

on the wall like amazing food and the the the prairie was unbelievable like it was like in the middle of nowhere like the other one literally like you'd go out and like sit in the hot tub or be around the fire pit and you could like hear semis going by like on the highway this year it was like you are nothing there's no one out here within 30 miles like it was crazy more pheasins than people you'd like walk out and you would hear more pheasants in traffic yeah they're everywhere truly it was like yeah it was there were so many pheasants that was like why are we upset that a pheasant got away there's a million more to hit but yeah it was it was so fun so nice the the cast of guys that were there were just absolute studs and so it was just fun to get to know everybody and there were some dudes there

it's like, I don't think I can really tell you that much about them because I don't think, you know, that's kind of like one of those, you're not supposed to, you're not supposed to know some of the things they said, you know. Oh, don't ask, don't tell type stuff. Yeah. Like they were like, can we please sleep in the bunk beds? You know, no. It was one of those. I mean, it was crazy, dude. Like some of these guys, some of the stories they're telling them like, whoa, that's, that's wild. You know, you know that. You know that. You know that about the White House? Yeah. What in the world? Yeah. Oh. Oh, yeah. There's some really cool stories. And there's also some low moments, too, for people. Oh, yeah? Well, like, it's just crazy when you think about somebody so successful. You're like, you're bulletproof. Yeah. And then you learn about them. You're like, they're a pretty normal guy.

Totally. You know what I'm saying? They're just normal. One of them fell out of the bunk bed. Oh, my gosh, dude. Okay. Yeah, that's a good point. So, do you guys know?

Yeah, you don't know it. I don't think I told you guys just yet. Name the biggest Christian band. And the biggest Christian bands you can think of from our childhood. Audio adrenaline. You nailed it. Wow. Really?

Yes. Base player from audio adrenaline. Was there? Yeah, it was in there. It was, uh, yeah, Will. Awesome, dude. Fell out of a bunk bed? Fell out of a bunk,

get down. Get down. I missed the wrong. Get down. Had a bad dream. Yeah. Super cool, dude. You could just tell right away.

I was like, this guy was in a band. Like, it was a success. I could just tell the way. You grab his hands, calluses. Oh, yeah. Fingotips. Those are some bigger string calluses right there. Yeah, audio way, dude.

And so I slept in a bunk room with three other dudes. And so Will and I were both there one day taking a nap. I wasn't actually sleeping, though. I was just kind of resting there, closing my eyes. And all of a sudden, I just hear this. Boom. And he just goes, oh, sorry, man. I wake you and I was like no but what in the world happened he just he literally just fell like

I think you tried to kind of jump down like while he's climbing it all of a sudden yeah just just ate it and he's like I'm good man no problem I'm like all right no problem so hopefully I maybe I shouldn't speculate let's say late 40s late 40s is a nice is a nice estimate I would have oh it's old age to fall there it was fun know hearing them talk about like like I asked him one night I was like tell me about big house you know that's like the song everyone knows from audio draw tell me about talk to me about like like truly it was like I want to know where Michigan plays football yeah talk to me about it you know we were going there one time for the Ohio State Michigan game we're like we got a write a song

about this um it was just cool to hear like they said basically they were kind of come out going to come out an album they had like 12 songs on the album and they had a few extra songs big house being one of them that they weren't going to put out on the album and they brought brought the whole album to the lead singer's dad to listen to and he's playing them all he's like well that one right there big house that one's that one's your best song by far and they're like we're not even going to put that one all the album he's like you have you have to put that one that's and they're like I mean it's cheesy and I told him when he said that I was like I mean yeah it is cheesy it's a cheesy song but it's awesome um apparently will was in like

like has done a lot of missionary work in Haiti and so uh like I think there's like a song like a Haitian tribal song that kind of had like a tune that kind of inspired big house more or less I think is that what you kind of understood from it um so anyway just hearing him talk about like yeah that all of a sudden it got huge and big and I'm like that's what everyone knows your song yeah whatever but yeah so audio adrenaline you know talking to him he was he was he was hilarious man he was he was a little bit like there was a few times where he was just like kind of he wasn't swick but he was he was a little bit funny like yeah i didn't shoot those birds because i couldn't get my safety off you know dog yeah he was like the opposite of i guess stephen because

stephen last year never put his safety on yeah yeah so um but it was great man it was it was a lot of fun and it's it was way different than last year last year was obviously just nonstop laughs and energy and this year was a little bit more just chill you know meaningful yeah good conversations Really good conversations, yeah. Conversations. So one thing that was a great, that you'll appreciate this, Jake. And I don't know if he's listening right now, but if he is, love you, man. Wes Stafford is this guy's name.

Yeah, I know. Wes is the man, dude. He is pushing 80. I don't know how old he is. He's an older man. He is the president emeritus, which means like the former president of Compassion International. Compassion. Yeah.

Compassion. Compassion. He kind of says it. Compassion. just I it's one of those guys that's like just talk and just just talk I just want to listen to you man like you know one of those guys it's just so fun to listen to um and he was sweet and like trying to get to know me and and obviously my connection to everybody is the podcast from like that's how that's how I got to this thing is the guy that invited us listens to the podcast so um he's asking about the podcast he's like so if so if I want to listen to your cast how would I do that and I'm like I'm like there should be an app on your phone he looks and he's like no it's not there so I'm helping him it's not there. I'd hold them download the app and, you know, okay, now how do I, once I'm on the app, how do I search it?

And so I show him how to search it and he finally like finds us. And so he's looking at the, you know, Ghostrunners, you know, looking at all. Just like, okay, here it is. Okay. And he's just, he's looking at Ghostrunners and he's just reading all these titles. And this sweet man of, you know, 80 years old just like has helped a million, you know, third world country kids just just looking at and you're just going beefy five layer burrito Jake got cupped and then he looks at Tyman's bachelor party he goes Timothy's bachelor party

all these different things it was just awesome to be like oh Wes I hope you I hope you understand at least a little bit of why people like this episode you know podcast because you're you're looking at Jake got cups I'm like yeah it's hard to explain listen to it and Maybe you'll understand, but... He's talking about, like, saving millions of people every year. Compassion supports over 900 million orphans around the world. Like, what do you do, Brad? Beefy five-layer of burrito.

Jake caught copped. I remember that was the one that got me. Jake got copped. So he was there hunting with you guys? Yeah, he's a shot, dude. He can... He's not in the middle field. He grew up...

No, he probably didn't run there quick enough, but he grew up in... in Africa until he was 15 and apparently had like a like this kind of slingshot like a David style slings and would like kill baboons with it like had such a what was it something like he could throw it so fast it would break the sound barrier yeah that's what that's what the one of the ranch hand said is that they tried it yeah so one of the guys that worked there for fellowship a rock yeah a rock stone stone it's Africa you don't know those This gives David and Goliath a whole new movie.

Yeah, I've always imagined David throwing it slower, I guess. But keep going. It really arches. Yeah, yeah. He just had to lead him a lot. But Truman said that he grabbed a similar slingshot and tried it, and he broke the sound barrier with it. Like, he confirmed it.

Harry Truman? Who is this? Truman from Kansas City. Truman. Yeah, Truman, the guy that helped us with the beds when the first time we went, He's like one of the ranch hands down there right now. So in modern day, he took an old slingshot. He confirmed it.

He was like, yeah, he's telling the truth. I have a slingshot, and I broke the sound barrier with a two. Like, how many people are breaking the sound barrier? Everyone just knows this is a thing. But yeah, Wes was the man. So I don't know. Are you looking it up? Are you trying to figure out?

I was going to try. Because I know, like, you know the, if you take like one of those crazy, like, long whips and you whip it, it makes that sound. That is breaking the sound barrier. The same principle. I think That's right That's okay Absolutely

I'm not reading this article A stone Going through the air Like faster than an airplane Like eight times faster than an airplane It's just hard to imagine I trust I trust Truman though I mean who's dropped at atomic bomb

I'm Japanese so I trust him But I don't know I'll look into it Anyway so for David So all that to say Wes was a assassin out there like could could shoot just fine could hold his own i will say on that field that was so chaotic i for whatever reason out of all the times like to choose i chose to be like on the one of the wings

you know they kind of make like you're supposed to have like blockers on the end of the field in a straight line coming around but sometimes they make it like into more of like a semicircle as you're walking up and so like brad get on one of the wings and uh like a lot of times are like 20 yards up 40 yards up from everybody else this time all of a sudden Jeff just just wanted me to be like a hundred yards up and he gave me the bro that's when you know he's like a little bit frustrated he's like brad you got to move up bro and it was like this chaos of like it was this was 30 seconds after the run and yelling at bob thing so i'm like i'm not making jeff mad and so i'm literally like you got to move up bro i'm like i'm like huffing it with my gun down the line like okay

no problem uh and it literally felt like vietnam like we got out of the four by fours So we got out of four-by-fors. Yeah, it was Saigon. Thailand. We got out of the four-by-fours in Tim's like, boys on me. It was like the platoon forming around the leader. And he was like, look, okay.

You got Charlie all over there. That food plot over there is full of pheasants. What you're going to do, you're going to walk over to that tree, loop back around, and then wait for my signal. And we start walking pretty fast. And as we're getting close to it, yeah, that's literally the only directions we have. walk to the tree, loop around.

And we respected the pace. Like, we were like trying to go fast. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, tall grass, Vietnam, tall grass. And we're like moving pretty quick. And we get to the tree. All of a sudden, we see, I'm not joking, this means a lot to people that know pheasant hunting,

but it's like 12 birds flush just on their own. Yeah. And so we know it's full. And everyone else is stoked. Yeah. And so all of a sudden we're trying to walk to the tree and then we just hear, Run!

And we're literally like running as fast as we can through the, you know, rice patties. Running and we're chasing after the birds and they're flying overhead. We're trying to shoot them as we're running. The birds are speaking Vietnamese, you know, what they're organizing. Something bit me. But we don't know. And there's like a long swath of like food plots. We don't know which one we're hunting.

So we're just running. And they're like people are pointing and we're trying to get in a position. I'm like shooting as I'm running. Yeah. And literally. there was a point where Bibi, I heard Bibi's whizzing over my head close by.

I was like, I'm in a war zone right now. Yeah, it was wild, dude. It was nuts. But we mowed them down. Yeah. We got some birds. That is fun.

Field full birds. Oh, and then one of them, literally, he was shot so bad. Like he, it was like such a powerful shot. It literally blew him in half. Oh, Randy Johnson? It was like Randy Johnson. I witnessed it, dude.

Exactly. Yeah. I mean, was he on the end of the? the barrel? How close was he? Or just a direct shot? Not that close. Not that close. Closer than some shots, but like pretty impressive that it happened the way it did. Like, I don't know, 20 yards away. Like, did the dog find both ends? Yes, two different dogs. Yeah. When got him.

Dude, the more than what I talk about it, it was like Vietnam. It was like, the dogs got a head. He's like, I'm doubling down here. The best was one of the dogs was like a tiny cocker spaniel named Diesel. Yes, dude. And this little tiny dogs, like, run around with, like, heads of, like, pheasants. They're, like, blood everywhere. You have, like, golden retreat, like these amazing, huge dogs. And then, yeah, this little congressman, come on, Diesel.

Come on, Car, Diesel. Good boy, diesel. You know, good boy. Every time I heard good boy, I couldn't help but think of Kenny. Good boy. And then Shiloh. Poor Shiloh. Shil's gone.

Oh, yeah. Eli's still around. Oh, yeah. Dude, I still laugh. I laugh so hard remembering Stephen Swick on the trip last year trying to give the dog orders

like I remember I remember Stephen be like okay hunt him up hunt him up now hunt him up we're like Steven stop talking to the dog stop confusing the dogs and that was one of the literally every world Stephen was given

Bro don't mess with the dogs yeah hunt him up keep your safety on and don't talk to the dogs he's like they're joking about both these things yeah it's all made up so anyway oh man

there's a great time though it was so fun out of all of us Bob was one that got in trouble which was great hey it's time to talk about

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they had these massage chairs that I think are like $12,000 like super nice massage chairs. I barely fit in it, but like it was awesome. I have a photo. I can say post production. Because they're like, slide your arms in there.

It makes it even better. So I'm like slide my arms in like this. Like yeah, it's just so relaxing. No hot tub. So that was a, no bummer. We'll get there.

We'll get there. Oh, this is this is cool. the last night during the sunset. Oh, yeah. This is so like Jeff. And I know that since you guys have been there before, you can resonate with, like, who Jeff is. And he just loves, like, the theatrics and whatever.

So during the sunset, he's like, hey, let's all meet up, 15 minutes on the porch, you know, bring a drink if you want to. We're going to watch the sunset together. And so we go out there, and he's got the Bluetooth queued up with the last of the Mohicans, like soundtrack on there. And so it's just like this, I mean, 100 miles worth of, like, view in front of us. Like, we're on the top of this hill. It's beautiful sunset.

And the last Mohicans is going. And then all of a sudden, like, as the song climaxes, I didn't notice it. I kind of saw it over to the side, but he had this tiny little, I mean, it's 12 inches, I don't know, 18 inches cannon. But he just pulls it and it's like a firework. And it's like, boom. Just to like celebrate. Yeah. Yeah, just like the sunset's going down at the perfect part of the song.

He just pulls the, you know, pulls the cord on this can and I didn't see it coming. It freaked me out a little bit. I was like, holy crap, what was that? I had my earplugs. It didn't freak me out as much. Yeah, exactly. It all comes. The guy's name was Charlie.

Yeah. So, anyway, anything else you could think of from the trip. Tate, how you doing over there on the ones and twos? I'm good. Give us a little, give us a little mouth in the mic here. nothing like oh yeah i didn't see my mic is that better oh yeah you're on the podcast yeah but you're here you're here i'm good guys yeah hey good man my goodness um anyway great times nothing nothing to coffee canteen oh yeah went to the canteen again that was like isaac and i's place uh when we

went to south dako the first time i was like guys we got to stop here we stopped there twice it's the only only coffee shop that's also in a gas station and it has 45 taxidermine animals inside this gas station. That's kind of nice. Along with, yeah, a thousand rounds of ammo in this gas station. It's like,

what other gas station do you see that you walk in? It's got ammo and taxidermy buffaloes in there and stuff, but in the middle of nowhere, South Dakota. Yeah, we missed you guys.

It was a meaningful trip, really fun, but definitely not as fun. No, no, not as money laughter. Hype. It was fun. It wasn't as hype and exciting. No, and it's,

yeah, there's beauty in both. Totally. But it wasn't the same as, Yeah, given consequences to Will for telling the wrong, you know. Tell a bad story or bad movie quote or. Yeah, we did have fun last year. It was awesome. Didn't.

Like Tate and I last year were the ones who were like 100 yards up. Like we were next to each other, just kind of listening to the guys having fun. There was a stretch where we like walked that whole, whatever it was, field on the outside of the field. Oh, yeah. It was like we were Buckingham Palace guards where it was like, obviously, it's a lot of, not a real role. We're not actually doing anything. I'm holding a gun, sure. It felt like a varsity walk through and then like some JV kids are like, just go walk that way. We some warm bodies back here. We're like yelling back and forth. These are like, I'm left.

Yeah, I'm left. Yeah. Still here. I'm still here. You got anything. Oh, man. Any memories of yours from the hunting trip last year that stood out? Yeah, a lot. Yeah. What's like? Honestly, I think the, the talking to the dogs, didn't he draw that consequence? Did he? I thought he. Oh, I didn't know that was a consequence. Oh, that's funny.

Oh, that's funny. Yeah, because you were kind of the consequence, like, initiator. Yeah. That's why I was there. I thought that's why I was invited. Like, bring the vibes. Yeah. I kept going up to Peter and be like, hey, we need more consequences.

And after like, after like five or six, he was kind of like, dude, I'm out on this. I'm not like trying to get in trouble. Was one of the consequences, Jake, you know, putting black. Jake and Jensen You guys were the roommates That was awesome Full face Oh full face yeah

Jeff was so undeterred by it Nice guys Full face yeah The only consequences It probably crossed the line was like I think there's something with the food Like once they serve it Then you have to ask if there's a gluten-free option

Yeah yeah yeah that's right Yeah that's right You don't have a gluten-free option of this steak or whatever Yeah Like after they've completely prepared I heard the meal. FYI, I'm a celiac, and this is my fourth meal in a row that I've thrown up.

I wouldn't mind. Just, yeah, I mean. What are some of the other ones? I can't really remember them. Wasn't one of them you had to, I think I drew this one. I was like, I'm not doing that. Oh, take your shirt off. Take your shirt off in the field.

Like, you'll pass. Yeah, you didn't. Yeah, you didn't. You did draw it. Which last year we could have. This year, it was so cold. It was like 10 degrees the second day. Like, my hands were.

numb. It was really cold. But really fun. It snowed. It was cool. So. The crack milo. The crack milo.

Yeah. It was awesome. So how are you guys doing? Tate, what we do this weekend? How did we recap what we were up to? You had a fun weekend. Yeah.

We were kind of swapping weekend stories before you guys got here. And I was with Dude Perfect. And Tate's whole family threw up. And then it came up through his basement drain. No. Obviously. The end of this section. My weekend was.

Yeah. I think I went first, too, and you were like, oh, I was, you know, with the dude perfect. Trump, whoever else was there. Jake's had this amazing extravagant. Yeah, we're just getting out of the whole man. Most throw-up goes down. My throat was coming up. It was like four days of throw-up, all of us, all six of us.

And then we were like kind of back. And then it came up through the floor drain in the basement. We're like, oh, nice. Yeah, we saw a mac and cheese noodle. And I was like, no, no, down there, not. oh yeah like you're just like that that makes sense actually a great weekend though because friday was the day the basement was like back together and okay we're back okay yeah yeah we're just like I got in the basement all the you get hungry there's some back of

yeah leftovers we got to talk about do perfect i mean similar stuff to that i mean it was um no we went there i think we flew into dallas wednesday night first thing Thursday morning was we're going to do perfect headquarters um you know it's just like this massive like industrial you know building he's just like a side door should be propped open just come on in we're shooting with the savannah bananas right now but just like hang tight like okay so we just walk in side doors propped open side doors propped open yeah security tight yeah and we just walk in and yeah sure enough they're they're like all the lights are on i mean there's probably like 55 people all like a part of this like production it's like humongous and not counting like the dudes and the bananas and

oh really like just the camera and like yeah just the extra people around helping i don't even know what you do with that many people but anyway so they do that and it's kind of like hectic or whatever they're like hey we're actually we don't have time to shoot today anymore i don't think we got to go to smu's football stadium we're going to do like this and this thing with the bananas but honestly you guys already here you guys just stay here if you want just hang out it's hard to break anything in here. So just truly stay as long as you want. And so then truly everyone left. And so then just like me, Scott, um, Isaac and TJ just had the due perfect headquarters to ourselves. And we were there like probably three and a half hours just like doing one of everything. That was awesome. Like what?

Like what all? I don't, I don't know due perfect enough to know what all they have there. Yeah. So it's like a full size like, you know, NBA sized basketball court. Um, they've got, uh, probably half a football field. They've got uprights. They've got a pickleball court. They've got a rock climbing wall. They've got a golf simulator. They've got like an F1 racing simulator. Oh my gosh.

They've got as much body armor as a man could drink. Yeah, yeah. And they were like, please take something. It just shows up on pallets. We can't get rid of it. Wow. So drink a lot of body armor this week. Yeah, it's just awesome.

Oh, they have a put-put course in the middle of it. It's just everything. Every guy's dream. Yeah. They just have it all. How long were you guys there for? So Thursday. saying yeah we were there a total probably like four hours or so oh had a blast um and one of the

funnier i would say like kind of vanside jokes of the weekend was like it started with dude perfect because it was we're trying to get scott out of there like we've all kind of done everything and we're like all right we're starving it's like 1 30 in the afternoon like let's go grab some lunch and we'll go to the picklewall tournament and we're like all right i think we're all packed up wait where's scott oh he's up doing the golf simulator and you can is here. I'm just like just taking cuts or whatever. And we're like, well, we'll just let him have his fun a little bit. And then, you know, he gets done with that. And then we're like, all packed up again. And he's like, I'm going to hit a few pots on the pup putt course. And he does

that a little bit. And then, you know, he's like, well, I got to end on a make. Yes. He's out there at your basketball. And so we're like, Scott, come on. You know, we're like treating him like a eight year old. So that already kind of starts these jokes of like Scott's like eight years old, which is like a great quality. It's like, yeah, he's just like living it up. Like he's like, when the exact time I'm going to be here. I'm going to do everything. And then as we're going to lunch, of course, typical Scott fashion, he's like, oh, crumple cookie. I get a free cookie from the app. And we're like, dude, how young are you getting?

You're Benjamin buttoning in front of our eyes. Like, we couldn't get you away from the toys and games. And I'm like, my free cookie, my free cookie. Can we get a five more four months? Yeah, please. And then, so we're kind of joking about that. We eat lunch. And then as we're leaving lunch, we kind of forgot about it.

And then we passed by this place in Dallas. called Scotty Peas hamburgers and he's like guys it says Scotty peas hamburgers that's my name like Scott grow up it's so funny

yeah just all weekend just like hammering those like Scott is nine years old jokes just like anytime we get too excited Scotty peas hamburgers he has always like he was the classic like just one more shot one more shot dad like yeah it was I bet he could milk 20 plus

minutes on like like like he would literally like you like a busser beater because we would go to his church his church had a basketball court and so we'd go play there sometimes with his dad and you know he had keys to it and his dad would literally have to turn off the entire like gym lights and he'd still like be like I think I can make one in the dark yeah this is good practice actually it was like Scott we're leaving so I'm glad to hear that that oh yeah he still got it doesn't surprise me at all and so then we had a plan it was like all right Friday 1 p.m. in the afternoon we'll be on with the bananas make time for you guys then then the night before thursday at like 9 p.m. like hey so sorry change of plans I just got phone with the twins they really want to make this work

let's do 845 tomorrow so we got to rearrange the things we're like of course we'll be there yeah we get there and it's crazy like even once we were at dude perfect we got to the headquarters i bet our plans changed five more times like it's just not as like um well-oiled as maybe you would think it just I think the logistics of like the bananas are here it's a huge massive shoot day the type of like shoot they're doing is kind of like a I don't if you guys still watch or saw the first version of this squad games they did against good good golf where it's like there is 15 sports you could choose from it's like a best of seven so you kind of to secure locations for all the stuff you don't know what the other team's going to choose and it's crazy and so shout out to the twins

Kobe and Corey Cotton because they would be like in between shooting a scene or playing a ping pong match they would come over and like talk to me and give me an update hey i think we're about to wrap this up we really want to make this work right to try to get out of here by 945 and shoot with you guys wow okay great you know do what you got to do and then turns out or we're leaving no we're coming back hey we just got called we have an emergency board meeting at 10 a.m. like oh gosh now this is going to work because they kind of got oh can we come yeah yeah i'll trade you i'll do that and you come shoot for us um but all i'd say they like bent over backwards to like shoot with us they were so great. Wow. They gave us like we end up only having like 15 minutes that they came in.

They were super high energy. We got a video shot. It was awesome. Yeah. I think it'll perform well. And then once again, they're like, well, we're leaving. So you guys can hang out here if you want, you know, but Scott's like, yeah, I'll hang out. But no, it was awesome. And best part was is, turns out I forgot my wallet there. So we got to go back a third time later on that day. I didn't realize it's like three in the afternoon. And I was texting like, hey, anyone still at the office like and yeah of course side doors propped open you're trying to go so um yeah that's the one thing i heard in this whole yeah that's yeah that was my main takeaway is like everybody there is so nice so friendly they were awesome nothing but good things yeah that's

pretty cool to like how considerate they were of you while they're like trying to execute something else like every time still the back their mind like just want yeah just want to update you like thinking about you know like that's just so cool oh yeah like they're like head of production was like do you need me to set up lights for you guys do you need like new microphones or whatever it was like you got the banana focus on them yeah we're fine they were so everybody so nice it was awesome yeah that's great man that'd have been good things to say about them you love to hear it when it's like hey these people seem great and then it's like

they are great yeah they would like surpass what you would probably expect yeah really really good guys um so yeah I had a ton of fun uh to start the trip Isaac's my companion on Southwest we flew out there together and he didn't quite have pre-check yet so he went through, did you hear about this? No. Oh, okay. He went through this. He's a very like, very active listener. Give it to me. Give it to me.

We are flying out Wednesday night at like 6.30. So I mean, the airport is dead. It's awesome. I didn't even think much of it. It's like, yeah, Wednesday night, of course it would, seems like it would be dead. I even sent a picture of Rachel. Like, look, I've never seen no one else in here. Probably two minutes after I sent a picture

of what I thought was an empty airport, Isaac text me I go through this line he goes to this line he goes dude do you see that I was I was like what he was like I just got interviewed by the news I was like where did they come from I thought wait did you guys get interviewed by the news about the shutdown yeah oh my gosh me and Isaac the same person you are that's so funny so I should have clarified I don't know if Isaac was joking or not but I was like so then we meet up and I go how was the interview and he was like they asked me about a shutdown And I told him, I didn't really know what that was about. We had two very different perspectives on the shutdown, Isaac and I. So I'll leave that up to, I don't know if he was joking or not, if he knew about the shutdown or not. But anyway, I guess then they're telling him what it is. And then they're like, so what do you think about it? And Isaac's like, I mean, the lines are pretty short.

It seems pretty good to me. He's like, I don't see anything wrong with it. I got right through the security line. Oh, wow. So what was your interview like? Well, I was sitting out, I was taking a phone call and I saw this girl that was all dressed up with a microphone and she comes up to me.

Wait, where are you? I'm at the Omaha airport. Oh, that's where you were? Yeah. Oh, okay. Wait, you picked me up from there. I understand, but you were there. You went Cincinnati, Detroit to Omaha.

I didn't know which part of the leg. Yeah, yeah. In Omaha, I landed. I was on a phone call and this girl with the little microphone comes up and was about to say something and then realize that I was all in the phone because I had my AirPods in and she was like, and then turned around and walked away. And I was like, and I kept talking.

And then after I was done, I saw that they were just right around the corner. I was like, hey, did you need something? And she was like, we were just going to ask you about the shutdown and what you thought about it. And like, I'm used to public speaking. I'm used to talking. But as soon as I saw that big camera, I just, I blocked out. No, I sound stupid. I didn't freeze.

They were like, so what do you think about the shutdown? I was like, I think it's great. And I was like, oh my gosh. I think it's great. because it puts pressure on people and to make the right decisions. Yeah. And then they like immediately cut the camera, cut the lights.

I think we got it. So when will this be on? Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I think we were looking for kind of a different perspective. And I was like, so why did you ask me, like, why'd you ask my name? And they're like, well, just like put at the bottom of the newscast. I was like, please don't do that.

I gave you a fake name. So we're going to do that whole thing over Some barbers Yeah The local Omaha news people Yeah, I could Check it out That's amazing

I love that Yeah, I thought for some reason It was in Detroit I don't know why Yeah Omaha's even better though Oh gosh That's funny

Yeah That's how the trip started So it was kind of fun It was a good time though Yeah it was great It felt like I was gone forever But it was nice Rachel flew in on Friday night

Oh okay So that was great She was there for like half of it She missed all the dude perfect stuff but was there to like kind of watch us actually compete in the tournament. It was just a jam-packed weekend full of content. I mean, we're coming out with shoes. I should have brought them in here.

Maybe I'll go snag them. But our shoes are in. Friday's getting shoes. No way. So we were shooting with shoes and whatnot and trying to shoot with their people. And then Saturday we competed. It's the world championships. I know you like Vietnam and stuff.

You know, it's the whole world. Asia? Yeah, yeah. And anyway, there were 30. 25 teams in Isaac and I's bracket. We did men's doubles 4.5. Okay. Got the gold.

No way. Let's go. Yeah. So we just keep, hey, good morning, world champ. Hey, what do you want to do? You know, so that's all. What did you do when you want? Did you like drop to your knees?

So you're like, yeah. Or how'd you, did you jump up like he caught you and. The lineman lift? Yeah. All good guesses. I'll tell you what I did. I started running around. I broke the sound barrier.

I'm just running around celebrating, and I heard this pop. Slingshot or whip? It was the whip of my paddle. But no, I mean, it was like, of course, we just like tap paddles with the other team, and then we were just like, hey, we did it. You know what was funny is we saw Scott recording on his phone, and credit to Isaac, he went straight into an ad for the paddles. Like, we won eight seconds ago.

And he's like, we just won 4.5 mince doubles. We got a gold medal. I did it with the stealth fever. And I was just cracking up. I was like, go get it. Always close, baby. Yeah, go get a baby. Advertising, plugging.

But it was fun, though, because, you know, it's like the pro court is where, I mean, they set up grandstands and there are thousands of people watching that. But the amateur courts, I mean, it's just like throw you here, throw you there. And there's maybe a fence separating. Most times there's not even a fence separating the court next to you. So, I mean, it feels like how it should, which is an amateur competition. But for the championship match, they put us in like kind of this area with some bleachers. The other side had like a bench. Never had a bench before in pickleball.

So like Rachel and Scott, we're on our bench and cheering us on and whatnot. And anyway, I guess just word gets around. I don't know how, but like the bleachers were like full, like watching our match. And a DJ had just gone on. So the environment was unbelievable. I actually found that I thrived in that environment. Like I're like I've seen like when other athletes go to golf tournaments, I've seen them like they don't like the silence and I've seen other. That's kind of I felt too.

It was like I'm not a silent pickleballer. No. I want, you know, some Rihanna remix behind me, and I want, like, 75 people watching. Yeah, you get a little bounce in your staff. Exactly. Yeah. Some energy there. So, yeah, had a blast.

Got a pregame speech from this guy that I really enjoyed. He said, I was like, give me something. He was like, we came here to do two things, win gold and drink Gatorade, and we're all out of Gatorade. This is a random stranger or like a... No, we knew him from Kansas City, but it was. was like, you know, I didn't expect a pre-empt speech from, you know, and it was great. He was really funny. And so, yeah, we won gold.

That was super fun. Hopefully good for the business, you know, as we go into Black Friday. It actually does help a lot. And then later that day, so when you kind of know, like, within those gates, Isaac Scott and I are unbelievably popular. It's kind of funny. You know, it just like we get stopped constantly. Ask for pictures. Well, as someone is stopping us and like, oh my gosh, you got gold.

whatever, a woman pulls Rachel aside. And so then we're all like, wait, is Rachel getting stopped? Is Rachel getting recognized? Turns out, this woman says, hey, I'm writing an article on best-dressed people at the World Championships. I'd love to feature you in my article. Yeah, go, Rachel. Everyone's like, Scott was hyping her up and we're all like, no way.

And Rachel's like, this is my gold medal. Yes. So Pickleball Magazine, I think. I don't know who, we're never going to see it. Yeah. But she's in some article somewhere. What was her outfit? You know, I was giving her a hard time because she packed so much for a two-day trip

because there are multiple outfits she could wear. Okay. Which is like hard to process as a guy. It's like just, just, I don't know, whatever. It works. Yeah, whatever. And so, yeah, she changed clothes like three or four times that morning. And it paid off, you know?

She was like this mint dress with this like colorful sweatshirt and yeah, the ladies loved it. So love it, man. Anyway. Jensen, you woke up this morning at my house. Yep. Came upstairs. first thing I see is Bo go Mr. Jensen's already awake

I've already shot him a few times but downstairs now I was like okay buddy morning Bo but then shortly after all that you came upstairs we went out to the garage got us a nice little glass

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so good um so yeah just something we're always like yeah i'd love to feature you in my article just took a quick like iphone picture kind of sideways it's like i think we got it so it was a it was a huge deal big time yeah yeah everyone getting in the local news and the yeah big publications there um is like to call the news outlet could you put world champion yeah right When you put me up there. 4.5. Yeah. Oh, man.

Let's get Tate involved here. What do we want to talk about with Tate? Oh, gosh. I feel like I mentioned Tate a lot on the podcast. Like, oh, yeah, we're doing this with Tate, whatever. I don't know. I don't know what we want to talk about. But I do want to, we talked about.

Tate the volleyball player. Yeah. What was that kid's name that said, Spear Fingers? You knew who it was? Yeah. Avery Dinger. That's right. How did you know it was him?

Was he known? for that? Well, Brad kind of tipped me off. Something about another college basketball player, Branson. You know, there's not a ton. A couple. So it narrowed down my choices. Yeah.

Yeah, I can still see that happening. Really good basketball player and also just like a fun, loving, quirky personality, so totally checks out. Checks out. Spirit fingers. Wait, what is this?

I don't know, spirit fingers. Coach said spirit fingers. Yeah. A couple of weeks. weeks ago, Jake talked about, like, an eighth grade playing this other team. Oh, shoot, who's on the podcast? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jensen doesn't listen.

Jensen's a little backed up, you know? Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, Jake said, like, as they're at the free throw line, this kid on the other team, it's like, dude, put your spear fingers. And he ought to be this incredible athlete. It didn't matter. In our eyes, all we ever saw him is the spear fingers guy. That's the guy from eighth grade who did the spear fingers thing.

That was so weird. It's all we ever knew. I love that. And Tate, that was from my school. Really good basketball player. Really good, yeah, really good. Tall guy. Tall guy.

Tate is a basketball player as well. Was, Hooper. I'm not. Talk about it, maybe. Talk about it. He played in Vietnam, Bulgaria. You're joking. I think, Ivory Coast.

That's why I was like, dude, don't say literally Vietnam. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's from Vietnam. I want to say, I want to say the country of Prague. Where else? Slavina. Yeah. You're right. Yeah. Correct. No. Let's see if I can name. I was trying to actually think. I think there's three. Go ahead. You got a laptop from you. All right. Let's start from the top. Missouri. Yes, Branson. Colorado. Yes. Colorado State. No, Northern Colorado. Gross. Colorado State. Rams. Northern Colorado. He played at UNC. The real UNC. Yeah. I never thought about that way. He's unk. Yeah. Belgium is one of them. I know that for sure. Okay. I think that's the last one. I feel like when I've edited videos. I've made

two different videos that involved Tate that didn't go online. One for the boys and one for our volleyball group chat. And I feel like I knew it was B-E-L. I don't know if it was Belgium or Belarus. It's definitely Belgium. Okay. I think I've seen that on the scorebug. Beyond that, I don't remember the other two.

Latvia? Lithuania. Latvia. I just want to see what you guys get. Nothing that starts with an L. Nothing that starts with an Lovina or? Lithuania. We're getting this over with.

Finland, Hungary, Australia, Belgium. You said L? He was messing with us. Oh, oh. He was joking around. Finland, Hungary, Australia, Belgium. Wow. Okay.

Ballard. Pretty uneventful. Not wow. What was your Australian city? Melvour. Sick. Pretty cool. Eventful.

Yeah. Yeah, huge. Did you have any nicknames? Like, did the fans ever call you anything in their own language? Like, they call you, oh, a ball knobber. They give you, like, Branson nicknames and stuff. Yackoff over here. We got six seconds.

Let's try to get Tate of Yakoff. Yeah. They get it off? Yeah, you act off. That got me. No, one team, they, for whatever reason, when we got there we did you know like whatever medical testing media like they like what's your nickname i'm like i don't know i have a nickname like look at me like we have to put something in the

program yeah but like my buddies some of my buddies were like growing up my dad was rue and so i was like little rue and then i kind of just became rude so like some people called me rude in college like a lot of people called me rue because unru yeah unru it's my last name so and so you when you go down under exactly down unruh right Rue. More like Rue. A lot of Roo's down there. No, but this European team, they're like, what's your nickname? We need to know?

And I was like, I don't really have one. Just go with Rue. For the rest of the two years, I was there at this team, starting lineups, saying, Tate, the Roo. And Hillary's always like, just, why are they doing that? Like, that is not your name. The Rue. And you tell them that was your nickname, and I was like, sweetie, I didn't mean to.

Like, they held a gun to my head. I had to give him a nickname. Take, the Roo. room for three yeah you got all these like fans horrible yeah they call it time out and everyone the fans just you know you hit a big three in there you're on a run jump around yeah they have the Roo cam the Roo cam the first 5,000 fans get a three stuffed room yeah bubble bubble Roo stupid stupid nickname i love that what was attendance like in these different countries oh sporadic

sporadic it was like teams over there like i played like a mid-level european pro leagues every year so the arenas were like three to ten thousand it's pretty big and yeah some of them felt big some of them felt like legit arenas some of them felt like big high school gyps. Yeah. Do they feel like a step up from college? Yeah, kind of depends. You get, there's an import tax, so like, just give for context, you get a certain amount of imports. I'm an import. Like, I wasn't a Belgian national, so like I counted it as an import. And you get a certain amount of imports dependent upon, like, which league you're playing in. So, like, one of the teams I played on in Belgium, we had like nine Americans, just because they were either willing

to pay or they were allowed to up the Andy that year. Like, okay. And, and, you know, and, Are these pretty much all just division one guys who just graduated? Yeah, pretty much. Travis Rutherford. Travis, a teammate of mine, yeah. Ford. They would always call up Bill. Oh, Ford.

That was his name. The Ford. The Ford. What was his nickname? It was something. Again, he had something. He had something. He was like, T.

Rell. Travis, T. T. It would look like the Rue because they thought T-Rex. It was a very similar celebration. Travis is his teammate. Great guy. Lives in Kansas City.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, essentially. It was just like ex-college guys, didn't make the NBA, still wanted to play. I'd make a little bit money. What was your question? What was the salary? Yeah, enough.

Salary was enough. What tax bracket were you in? Yeah. Is it good, though? Yeah, it can be. Really? Yeah, I mean, it was. Because you said mid-level.

So there is a level where, like, are you getting like NBA money if you're top? I mean, like, a lot of the Euro League guys, like, that's, I would call, like, top-tier, like, they could go they could be done working when they're done okay I could not be done working okay and then there's like a lower level that's probably like I don't know 1500 to 4 grand a month you probably get paid within a week of you're supposed to get paid they usually get paid on time yeah but you might not the last paycheck you have the concession stands sales yeah some of those there's leagues like that that's like you don't want to be there um so I was in between

there so it felt it was fun like when Hillary and I got married we left for Belgium the next day wow that was like probably the most fun we were there for two years Bentley was born there like my daughter was born there so that was like a totally different experience in like the first four years which was just like me was single like I loved what I was doing but also just like really missed home and wanted to be back there so you did Australia Finland Hungary Australia hungry single yeah yeah I mean I was dating Hillary in or Finland but yeah I was just like solo.

So I was like, yeah, this is fun, but also it would be fun to share it with somebody. So the two years that we were in Belgium together were fun for me. She hated it. Like, we're done. You're going to be mid-level? Was there ever like a Belgium ESPN top 10 that you made? You know what I mean? What was the music?

Horrible. Yeah, what would do the sports center top 10 European version is sound like? feel like it'd be like a bunch of like baritone and bass players like trying to sing the same song like well yeah what would sports center normally dunna so it'd be like da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da so it's like just like these medieval yeah scary old gong do do do do do i can imagine it yeah scott been pelt but just yeah fatter and like yeah eating a lot more sausage while he's seeing it or you know Broadcasting. Das Rue.

Interviews, honestly, we're kind of fun over there because you can kind of just, like, say whatever you want. No one's paying attention. It's like, you might understand English, but probably not as well as me. So, like, I don't know. I'm not like the most well-spoken guy, but like I could throw in words to be like, yeah, you don't know what that means and it doesn't matter. Bye.

Did you pick up any of the languages you were in? Zero. Smart. What about Australia? I picked up Australia. Yeah. Did you feel fluent by the time you left Australia? Still am.

Really? Yeah. That's impressive. They say, just like you've got to throw yourself into the culture, so... Immerse yourself. Yeah, agreed.

Agreed, Mike. You can take the rue out of the boy, but you can't take the rue out of the rue. Agreed, Mike. Those people are just the best. Did you ever accidentally, like, speak in the accent? Like, I would imagine, like, if you're over there enough, like...

You do a couple mates around. Or start saying, like, yeah. And then it's like, hey, this is for us. They say it. Okay, so it's funny. We, like, love their accent, right? Yeah. They love ours.

Yeah. Really? So, like, anytime, one, they think it's hilarious when we, like, try to do theirs. Like, hilarious. You could say mate at the end of a sentence, and they're like, did you hear him say advice? Look at his blocky saying advice. Like, they think it's so funny. But, yeah, dude, it's just fun.

It's just fun to talk like that. Yeah. They ever call you a Bogan? Oh, do you know Bogan? Well, I am a Bogan. Yeah, Bogan. I mean, that's just kind of like a hick, like Hillbilly type, like, from where? No, I never heard of it, mate.

I'm like trying to describe Branson. It's like, Hillbilly Vegas. Ah, you're a bogan. Yeah. Wow. Okay. Who knew? You're boggian. You guys been in Australia? Fun.

I went in, like, 2019, for like two weeks. Australia and New Zealand's vacation. And then Tray Night toured there. That's right. Like two years ago, probably. Brisbane was our favorite city. Sick. I love Brisbane.

Rachel and I want to maybe go back. for the Olympics. It's like 2032, I think. That was fun. Whoa. Yeah, Brisbane was awesome. It's like forever down there. Do you ever go to Perth?

West Coast? Never went to Perth. You don't need to. It's too far. It feels like forever over there. Yeah. It is kind of funny. It's like most of the people,

I don't know what percentage, but I would, like, all the big cities are on like one corner. It feels like subsidiary cities up there. Do you get Sunburnt? I didn't. Okay. No zone.

No zone. This guy gets it? Yeah, no zone. You've been down there too? No, I just know about it. Just well read. Yeah, geography. Literally like Vietnam.

Yeah. You asked that with like a story. Did you get sunburn? Well, just what he said, like, you ever hear about the hole in the ozone layer? Yeah, it's above Australia. Yeah. Oh, you got torched. Yeah.

That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. Just making an Australian conversation. Did you, do you feel like you got better at basketball? Like every year? Or did your age catch up to you and you got worse this time when on? Man, that's going to pull on my heart, that one.

I was at the top of my game when I stopped. Definitely was getting better. Hillary? You get married, part of a team. Teams needs change for sure. But, like, I was definitely better than I was in college, getting better. I was 29 when I stopped. I don't know what average, like, prime years are,

but I felt like I was in it. Dang. Who knows? Now you play with us occasionally. Try to. Now you play volleyball. Try to, yeah. No, 100% probably more fun.

I was telling him this the other day. I just, it's almost like been there, done that. Not in like, I dominated it. Not at all in that way. It's just more like, what am I going to do? I try to find like a men's league game around here and either try and probably get hurt. Yeah. Or realize like this isn't competitive or fun or like, I don't know.

I think high level athletes are like that where Rachel has no interest in playing high level volleyball anymore. She's like I I was forced to do that for so much of my life and I'm good now. I'd like to try new sports or puzzle. From a time perspective it's like if I had a couple hours to go like do something active I'm golfing

or playing volleyball like I something I pick a ball like something that's just like yeah I'm not hooping I haven't touched a ball in a long time. Wow. What's your best experience? Jensen, for those listening? Minimal. Minimal, yeah. Well, recently, I realized, I think I would just rather play sports where injury is not really an option. Yeah, something with a net. Yeah, something with a net. And then, or like sand on the ground where it's like, if you land

funny, he just fall into the sand, you're okay. Every time, like my brother-in-law just tore his Achilles playing basketball, and that experience, terrible, terrible. And I watched him go through the rehab, I'm like, I'm out on basketball. If you ask me to play, I'll play. I'm not going to voluntarily play basketball. Really? You go, I'm out on basketball. You asked me to play? I'm there.

Would miss it for the world. I'm not going to pursue basketball, but I'm out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I'll play. I'll do it. I mean, I'll do it. I'll go super hard. I'm out.

I won't stretch beforehand, but no, I'll do it. I don't want to tear my Achilles. I went to Dr. Rieseland. He was asking me about pickleball because you know as I do that. And I was like, are you seeing a lot of people for a football-related injuries? he's like you would not believe how do people I see four pickleball injuries but it's mainly because they're 50 and up

yeah mainly but he told me everyone'd be able to look out these elbows is this way he told me he said the Achilles he said it's almost crazy at once you hit 40 your Achilles gets like so much weaker so is there any way to stop it while we can yeah there's no way to like I mean there probably is I'm sure but like he didn't say strengthening it

start stretching it now I'm sure that would help big time how's your castle it scared me better yeah played that crazy all weekend feeling good got cupped your sleeve cupped your sleeves I went sleeveless

no sleeves one gold metal wow correlation correlation causation I don't know I don't know I might

ever since you've been cupped you just win medals yeah you ever been cup tape you know what I'm talking like those

we define cupped yeah yeah you sure you guess yeah like what Michael

Feltz stand up get over yeah lay on his table you know Michael Phelps used to get

those cups like cups on his back oh yeah yeah suction yeah yeah you had it

yeah we're at shoulders point it jensen where you had it yeah yeah shoulders really okay yeah honestly i think the first time i did i was like yeah it looks cool it looks yeah i'm probably a little bit of a psycho like the deep tissue like i love that yeah yeah you're a psycho yeah it just helps it feels good at hell like it's a little bit painful but it's like you can feel the whatever is in there getting out yeah it's what's good right the juices you're a soft tissue guy 100% thanks man that's awesome dude you could never make it in my dude you probably love bubble bags yeah you'd never saved by the bell yeah you could never handle the rue bro

this is good is what you guys do this is good dude oh I know you man soft tissue yeah yeah dude yeah there was but yes I do I don't think I knew what a deep tip I think I was just like yeah deep tissue massage sounds nice and this 123 pound Asian woman wrecked me man like I was like I had to like sing songs in my head to get through it I was like just sing sing yeah by usher in the whole time I'm just like watch out my outfit's ridiculous in the club looking so conspicuous and she's just what a coping man I know I was like if you hold head steady I'll milk the cow and I forget about game almost but like probably 45

minutes into it. I was like, I finally let out. You're milking it too hard. Like 45 minutes into it. I finally was like, I finally let out like a, oh, and she's like, oh, a little too hard. And I'm like, yeah, a little too hard. It was like the least relaxing thing I've ever been through. Yeah. But what about 12 hours later? How'd you feel? I don't remember specifically feeling better or worse. So I probably felt good. So, but yeah, I'm sure I understand that the process is, it works. It works. but man is it it's tough it's tough to go through it whereas cupping it sounds like a little bit of a shorter process probably yeah it wasn't an hour long but maybe more intense I feel like it was because I had two cups on my calf and then while

their cup then we're doing stretches that was miserable that would hurt yeah yeah I got up from the table and like I left sweat marks I wouldn't even do anything I was just laying there I will say anything that's like it's not sweat buddy Yeah, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. Never had it. Yeah. Your back is different. If it's like your calf, I don't know, my calf is not like, my calf's pretty skinny.

Like someone was like digging into my calf, cupping or deep tissue, I feel like I'd be like, okay. Yeah. Your shoulder, though, that's not a ton of fat there either. No. But anyway, Jake got cupped. Oh, it was so funny. Can you imagine him saying that? Compassion.

Compassion. Jake got cupped. You know, with his, like, the biggest font you can imagine on this. Oh, I bet. Yeah. Drake, got, cup. Beasy 5-layer burrito. You're like, this is your, this is the podcast that you devote, like, a lot of your time to.

Yeah. This guy's, like, saving babies in the room. And then this guy's millions of people sponsored to college. Right. Beefy-five layer burrito. Did that conversation just end with, like, a bunch of unconnected dots for him? Or, like, like, how did that end? He was, I mean, I tried to explain to him.

I was like, because he was. asked, you know, people love to ask, like, what's your podcast about? What is it? And I do have a little bit of a spiel where I'm like, I mean, I use the Seinfeld line. Like, it's like Seinfeld, but not Jewish, you know, whatever. And then I try to explain to him like, it's me and my best friend, but we are in different life stages. He's married now, but for the longest time, he was single. You know, I try to explain, like, we get along and we relate to each other so well, but we also have such different, you know, lives in a lot of ways. And then I explained to him, like, some of the testimonials. And so I think he kind of understood like okay like the Lord's using this in a very indirect way but he said

he listened to it the other day and he was like I liked it man it was great it was fun I can see why people enjoy it's just it's easy to listen to so yeah it was it was kind of a funny conversation though just like okay this is because he literally never listened to a pod I mean he never download the app and so the one the one thing he's ever searched for is now ghost runners you know So I was like You should listen to some other ones too, Wes There's a lot of good ones out there That maybe you'd like more than this one

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Yeah, it's like we've all quoted that. But yeah, you kind of like disconnect from like, oh yeah, her name is something different. Anyway, she's just in town for a show. What she's been doing? Stand up. She's pretty successful. Stand a comedian. Yeah.

She has a podcast too. And a mid-level basketball player. She plays in Bulgaria. Yeah. The jaw, Angela. The jaw. The jaw cam. Let's get back to more international stories.

All right. So we heard about Australia. What was Hungary like you could see the Alps from there? Is it pretty? The city I was in in Hungary is not pretty I imagine Hungary as just being brown and gray like just like Russia like you got you got a fur coat on and you're just sad you're cold yeah with an AR in your hand I think of it as like James Bond basically like I can imagine the war dogs where they're repackaging Chinese ammunition yes a lot of that going on in Hungary is that right sure be honest did we know it?

but yeah no that's it that's hungry dark cold just a lot of big hairy hungarians yeah

yeah what city were you in are you ready yep I don't know if I could spell it it needed it chasa Jake was so ready Jack was like

yeah Budapest we were about a couple hours from Budapest some of my favorite teammates and best friends ever were on that team. So it was weird. That feels like a different life, honestly. A lot of those

other seasons don't, but that feels like a different life. Hungry specifically. It was a dark, cold town. I had this car that was about the size of this table and stick shift. And it was always, it was cold like the whole year. So it was like bundle up, get in my car, drive to practice, like stick shit. Like I'm just out here working doing this stick shift. Yeah, it just felt like a different life. That's crazy. Married, single? Single. how long ago was that that was 2015 10 years ago okay i guess yeah when i think about the k-life days that does feel like an extremely long time ago 2015 yeah what were you doing in 2015 for me a different life just got married yeah yeah we were still next to our neighbors though yeah that remains the

same that that that we yeah we knew each other at that point yeah two years in the k life Aaron craft wasn't really good boy yeah air craft Stephen swick loves to tell an aircraft story oh yeah that's him you heard that no oh wow You remember what it is? I don't remember. It's kind of inappropriate. He's like, Oh, tell it.

We're going to send it to him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He basically just, yeah, just said, I'm going to take you down, Aaron Kraft, or something like that, right? Who the F do you think you are? That's what he said, Aaron? Oh, yeah, yeah.

Because they were both rival schools. Like, Stephen was like shortstop, quarterback, and point guard. Aaron Craft was pretty much the redeemed glorified version of Stephen. And so Stephen was going to, like, go after him. And he was like, you're not good enough to play in the F and SEC. Because he's getting recruited by Tennessee.

And Stephen's just like, you're not going to score in the second half. Aaron pats him on the butt. Kind of like the Kobe Amon Shumpert video where it's like easy young fella. And then second half just drops like 27 on Stephen. Stephen holds him scoreless for the first half. Then like pats him on the butt, halftime, second half, buzzer beat her in his face to win the game. Just an absolute

He alphaed, yeah, he bodied Stephen in the emotional realm Yeah That's amazing So I looked up And I think I found it The city is known See if you could film the blank

Anyone Okay The city is known for its stunning blank Views No You guys cast Sorry Heck no

Do you guys You guys are thrown out What else you guys do here Fuck, no It's stunning blank It's rich Blank heritage And it's abundance of blank

Okay I'm gonna tell you right now Whatever it is Stunning is a stretch Stunning Mountain Would you stunning mountains No

Stunt no no Stunning Sorry No You haven't been there It's stunning Christmas markets It's stunning

So I want to buy these shoes. It's stunning architecture. Yes. Okay. There you go. Yeah, you got to get vague with it. It's rich. It's rich, blank heritage.

It's rich Italian heritage. You're surprised about that. Randomly, it's kind of a throwaway word, cultural heritage. That's what you say for a town that doesn't have anything. A redundancy. Yeah. And it's abundance of blank. Date.

What was it abundant in? A bunch of groceries for. Bunch of grocery stores. It's an abundance of markets. Outdoor activities. No. Oh, is that chat? Google.

All right. See, if you can get one of these three things, the main reason why anyone should consider visiting this town is to explore its attractions, such as the blank, blank, oh, there's four. So you can get one of them. Christmas market is legit.

I know you're all in on the Christmas market. It's not on there. I'm not budged on the market. It's there. Sounds like you kind of miss the Christmas market. They're sick. They're sick. What'd you get from the Christmas market?

Yeah, what'd you do there? Oh, they have these like a little hot chocolate drinks. You said you're single. Who'd you mean there? Are you the one they called the Roo? Would you like to jump in my sack? Because they call me the camera. This is legit.

They're just a good time. Like lights, cold drinks. drinks fun fun I have no idea there's nothing that is pulling me back to Niederjaza hungry for the rest of my life and other than the people there's a couple there's a couple of dudes I would go back and see okay I don't want to go there one Christmas market yep what about the near Hazza zoo no sucks been there that's what you know that's what you know you're pretty lonely in a city is when you've been to the zoo and you live there by yourself you know where I

have to the zoo I go for walks like I have to practice sometimes just like I don't know go for a walk where I would walk is a cemetery okay that's on here the Jewish cemetery it's actually kind of legit I see what I made in the top four I do yeah I go back for the markets and the cemetery that's so funny really what else is on there well I want to see if you walked by it the near has a castle yeah it's going okay and the Arasalani open air museum doesn't even know what that is yeah I didn't get around of that one. Maybe a couple more walks. Anyway, it sounds awesome, dude.

It was like gym, grocery store, downtown barbershop home. Cemetery. I love it. Cemetery, yeah. Barbershop. Get there, $1,300, fly there from Kansas City. That's it. Straight to direct? Yeah.

Just nonstop. Yeah. Kansas City didn't know how that. But with the shutdowns. I think the shutdowns are great. Shutters are awesome. They're sick. I think it puts pressure on the right people. and honestly what I don't know what would you have said I don't know what I would have said I would have fumbled the bag for sure yeah I don't like yeah I think you kind of did a good job of keeping it somewhat vague and just like you know there's people there's people on both sides and yeah yeah I would have said the shutdowns um I don't know they're what would you have said if you were feeling kind of like I don't care if this gets out I'm just going to make a joke of it and the people who understand it will know I'm joking and just gone in

right i think first thing i do you go accent well i'll tell you a couple things about a shutdown yeah start there and then see what comes out actually yeah if you go australian accent you're safe there you go you're a boge boge bogan i think i think you go like just super high class rich like finally all these pores can't you know go like it's only the ones you know like i'm i i can afford to you know buy six different tickets just in case one of them you know doesn't take off and and i'm i'm I mean, finally, there's not these people with nasty shoes coming in here. Yeah. Most times I fly private, so you don't even really need air traffic control.

So it doesn't really affect me. You don't need air traffic control if you fly private. Yeah, right? Clearly, you don't do this. Dude, that's kind of a fun way. Because then, like, obviously, there's somebody that's going to not get the joke and they're going to get triggered by it. But most people are going to be like, clearly this guy's not buying,

I don't even know if it's allowed to buy 10 flights on the same day. Like, it's kind of fun. But. going international as of 24 hours ago another trip to China might be imminent I actually don't think I'll be the one going but just like last night at like 7 o'clock

we all get texting one thing needs to another because we're trying to come out of this new paddle we're trying to come up with it soon it just takes forever just like just go China screw it let's just go China we're not coming back to a good ballot so I think we're going to try to send like

at least Isaac Isaac's our sponsor child that's what I keep calling him like the sponsor child Compassion. Compassion. He's your make-a-wish. Yeah. So Isaac, I think, will go maybe Scott and maybe Matt, but it's back on the table. Like, maybe in the next, like, two weeks.

They're just going to go to China. Two-do-two-two. Two weeks. Oh, deal-two, two, two. Yeah, it might have a crazy fast. This all happened in, like, the last, like, 12 hours. Really? We just go to China and just not come back until we have a paddle we like.

Maybe it'll, like, reverse Isaac's curse. That's what I said. Two parasites. Yeah. They kind of might fight each other. It's like beta fish. Every like six text in our group chat with each, I would just send a gif of a different kind of worm looking thing.

Like, yes, Isaac, you have to go go get another worm. Yeah, it would come back to its homeland and be like, well, I can be free now. I think that's kind of how it works. Animals all over the world know like what home is. Like dogs can get lost. They find their way back. Parasides no different. And yeah, Isaac ate all the food and hasn't been the same since.

And it's been a long time. Yeah, it was like April or May. Still isn't the same. Yeah. Don't feel too bad for him. He hasn't gone to the doctor yet. He's gone to the bathroom a lot. You guys go to the doctor?

You go. Yeah. You're soft tissue. You go. I don't know why we made eye contact and I was like, you look like a doctor. I didn't go at all. I feel like I've heard you be like I was at a doctor's appointment. Yeah, yeah.

No, you're fine. From like 18 to 32, I did not go. And now I'm making up for lost time. You're all over the place now. Like you have a doctor. You're texting and everything. Yeah. You're no doctor.

doctor guy, you're soft tation. I feel like I'm about to catch a stray. You're about to have a new nickname. Here's what Jensen said yesterday that I think is worth making fun of. There's plenty of things. I gave you our guy. Maybe it's not worth. Maybe this is a, this is honorable thing. Just say it. It's fine. He goes, you know, I would love for somebody to try to. What'd you say? Did you say bomb the U.S.? I don't know. Maybe declare war in the U.S. He's like, he's like, I think it'd be awesome to enlist. I would love to. Is this Vietnam Flash. I'm like you're saying like you saw Tate's outfit

yeah basically he pulled the time in like underground railroad thing like war would be sick it'd be awesome he didn't say all that but like he was like I would for sure I would for sure in the list

like you know what that is at least good for you it's not just like I watched a couple of war movies our boys will take care of him you want to be a part of it I just served yeah

I just served shooting them down yeah so I gave my heart I was like yeah you'd just oh it'd be awesome War, who, I mean, that'd be, that'd be so glamorous, so fun.

It's kind of like the government shutdown thing. It's like, yeah, it's a great thing. Yeah, it's going to be awesome. Yeah, time away, like a retreat. See in the world? Yeah. On the government's dying. What branch?

Air Force. Yeah. Air Force. Yeah, it gets paid well. Really? Fly high. Mm-hmm. I have no idea of what you get paid to be in the military.

I wouldn't even know there is different. nor i yeah and there's a lot of cross a lot of overlap it's like the air force has stuff with the marines navy how do you know didn't know that where do you draw the lines yeah i figured they were very separate no yeah like there's like marine navy planes but it's like you have the air force so why do you need the air force to fly planes and the navy the navy seems like they're kind of muddying the waters the navy gets in the water the navy gets in the sky yeah top gun they were navy yeah it's very confusing okay well should we talk about that yeah You go Air Force

I go Air Force Do they ever go on land? Because they stick to their own lane You don't see like Air Force guys Storming the beaches of Normandy They stay in their lane They stay up in the planes And I appreciate that about them

Yeah, yeah They know Always like that Stay in their lane, they're humble I heard the term Usafa this weekend For the first time We never heard that

You? What's that? Figured out Based on the context What we just said Usafa United States Air Force Academy

Yeah Actually? Yeah Pretty lucky guess. There were some guys there in Colorado Springs on the trip. Also a city and hungry. Also incredible. Yeah. Christmas markets and cemeteries.

Anyway, so Jensen would enlist. Yeah, I'm in. No, I'm in. If Jensen's in all done. That sounded pretty. I don't know. But I'm a soft tissue guy. So I'm like, I'm like supplying the ammo.

Like I'm not like out of the lines. You're like Desmond Doss? Maybe. Medic? Just give me one more. please god uh no i'd enlist i just wouldn't i just want to be excited about like jensen's like fantasizing about it over here yeah vietnam takes me back baby i think there'd be elements of like bonding with your brothers over like boot camp like how hard it is it would be cool to be on the other side of that

but doing i really like my life right now there's like i it's like i just say you do it just say you do it like you're never going to have to just you just got to say oh i'll be there Oh, yeah. Whoa? Who are? Just say it, dude. Just say it. No one's going to hold you.

Trust it. Tate, would you do it? Totally. Yeah, dude. Let's go. Band of brothers. Whoa? Run!

Okay. I have just like shaking my gun, run with my LLBin duck boots. It's hard to run in that environment. One, because you're so bundled up. And the Milo's thick. And you're carrying a... gun yep it was trying it was wild dude so fun great yeah yeah anyway you're

a way finland no i'm just kidding one by one higher countries uh yeah let's wrap it up who's got a review of the week tate you got a review the week could be about the podcast be about anything you seen or left any good reviews this week well you guys leave reviews yeah we leave we leave oh dude you guys you guys read your own reviews that you leave we have match me says 2,200 of reviews, and they're all me and bread. Every once in a while, Tate gets somebody who'll talk to him and say, hey, man, heard you got mentioned on the pod. I'll leave a review for you guys, just because we're talking about it.

But I don't think I've left a review on a product or a piece of content ever. It's like, it takes, I mean, we, we encourage our fans, obviously, to do it. But, like, yeah, for the most part, it's like, why I never feel passionate enough one way or the other to leave a review or I think it doesn't make a difference but these these make a difference so thank you for leaving reviews i think the only review there ever left was for uh when drew severance started the chick flay here he asked me if i would leave a review i did leave a review on there too and so every like every six months i'll get a notification like congrats your review is getting a lot of eyeballs i'm like oh yeah did you go a little like did you zig when everyone else zagged kind of thing oh i'm

sure say some of the ridiculous on there yeah probably did that's good that's my one review I favoriteed my first Zillow. Hey, thank you. Yeah. It's really hell. Oh, Tate, let me know. I will. Love to help you out.

Love to help you out. Lemonat. Yeah, thanks for favoring that. Big house, save it for Wednesday. Keep the people. It's a quick update on Wednesday. I'll tell you that. It's one word.

Sold. My review of the week is from Zeke Farnie, five-star review. It's the best Crohn's flare-up pod. So I've been listening to GR for a whole. while now and I'm almost caught up. I'm fearing the day I get caught up and that will that I'll feel lost without the endless supply of new Ghostrunners episodes. Apparently not endless. I have Crohn's disease and occasionally have a flare-up that will force me to sleep in the bathroom. That guy wants to enlist. This podcast has been the background to my life for most

activities but it's been the most comforting thing to listen to while curled up in a ball in the bathroom floor. Thanks for all you do. Love you guys. Zeke. P.S. I am Ty of his friend's cousin. That's really good friends with the author of Hank the Cowdog. That's good P. The Cowdog guy. A lot of value in that PS there. All right, Zeke. Thank you, man. Tywin's friend's cousin.

Zeke. Thank you, Zeke. See you on the line, Zeke. See in the barracks. See you back in the mess hall, Zeke. Let's all pray we make it there. This review says, new job, new phone, new review. I started a new job a year ago and received an Apple 13 as a work phone, in quotation marks because

drug dealer? I don't know. I'm a diehard Android user, and typically this would be a special. Spotify, but this phone gives me the opportunity to leave a five-star review on Apple podcast. Brad and Jake continued to make me laugh out loud week after week. Time is great as well. I'm amazed at his musical talents. My goal is to attend a ghosty getaway, but hope they continue the gatherings in KC as well.

Love you guys. Thanks for stepping out in faith day after day without being too Jesus-y, so the non-Jesus people still enjoy and maybe one day become Jesusy. Tate, thanks for keeping it not too jesus-y with your language, man. That's awesome. That was me, too. Perfectly toad the line. That's right.

We get it. Oh, man. Haddy's going to start saying it, dude. He's going to... What, hell? Or, fuck. Wait, which one? Say it.

Oh, Catherine is telling me, apparently not, I got Hattie saying a word. That's pretty awesome. You got to say this. And you guys have been super great about it, but I still can't help it feel a little bad. Because I, I don't know, probably nine months ago or so. I got in this little phase where it's like, I'm going to write a dumb little song every week. I did it for two weeks. About a story that happened to you.

Yeah, instead of telling us around the podcast, I'll make time and sing a song about what happened to me or whatever. And the first one was about how there was this mouse running around our kitchen counter and how I was trying to keep Rachel away from it. People ate that song up. Loved it. Played all the time. It's got like thousands of plays on Spotify. So then next week, something happens to me where I went to the UMKC School of Dentistry to get dental work done. And it's because it costs like $20 to do it.

and so part of the song is about how like what I saw in the waiting room because it's just like a different type of people and one of the lyrics in the song is like it had every crackhead and Casey in it well this song someone put the song on Spotify and it's had his favorite song all my kids love it if you show your kids they will listen to it over and over again take it's amazing it is a pretty funny song yeah um because yeah just hey listen to it um the dentist but yeah apparently she's Haddy's got memorized, and with that, comes memorizing the word crackheads. It's pretty amazing. I think, I don't think Rosie hasn't memorized, but Bo, I think is pretty close to it. Like, the other day, we were just driving no music on, and haddy's, yeah, left there feeling dumb and numb. Nothing would come.

And then she was like, bad dream, like, what is it, dad? I was like Inception. Yeah, Brad, bad dream, like inception. We're going to go in a new direction. I mean, she knows the whole thing. And then, yeah, every crackhead and Casey in it. what's it called the dentist and it's by ghostrunners tight beats um but yeah i mean and so yeah katherine then at one point was like hey haddy like that's kind of that were we on saying crack

heads one like i think they were walking into like some homeschool thing like hey you probably shouldn't say probably i mean crack hand is kind of just like a a crazy person it's like a silly if they're being extra extra silly but she still says it in the privacy of our own van you know he's listening to it right now my kids are like like that oh just wait just like a yeah i think it's a bluegrass melody and yeah come to find out bearing the or spoil the story but if you have kind of like redheaded genes there is like this gene where like you are very immune to anesthesia and i found out that day so they just keep lighting me up with anesthesia and going back in i'm like i can still feel it and so then they just

it's like five times a normal dosage and then coming out of that is what the song's about and how i couldn't speak it's awesome it's a it's a fun like you tell the story really well in this song like yeah give it to me one time and it's like it's honestly I need to get wait is it a is it a bluegrass or is it like a rap it's it's it's jake rapping to a blue grass can't sing so the crossovers sweet it's kind of like that like it's almost like you know like a square dancing like let me do a doceido oh yeah and so that's kind of what Jake's not really singing time it takes care of the fun parts he does great oh it's so good Man, your kids, you've got to listen to it.

I'm going to genuinely commend you for going to the dentist. Thank you. Yeah. Big doctor guy. Obviously, yeah. Good job. Thanks a ton. Yeah, send me back $22.

Yeah, I think that's, I don't know if we should end it with the jingle because we've been getting struck left and right. Yeah, guys, this might be the end of an era. If you listen on Spotify, you probably notice all these episodes keep disappearing. It's because we're using copyrighted music, almost 500 episodes. It's finally catching up to us. So that's probably fair, you know, at a certain point, we probably weren't allowed to be using all this copyrighted music

and monetizing it, but we had a good run. We had a good run. Potentially. We might find a workaround, but as of now, we had a good run. We're going to end it without a jingle. Wow. End it with a rhyme. End it with a rhyme, Jensen.

You start and we'll just go around. Yeah. Feasant Hunt. Just right there. Just those two, three syllables. Fesson Hunt. When I play baseball, I never bunt. no new ride

new ride you start oh Vietnam Vietnam Kinkong working on my shoes

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