Ghostrunners - 490 - Comes From a Real Place

Episode Date: November 24, 2025

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Hey, boys are back. Boys are back. Tymon, put it on yourself. Hey. Hey. Put it on yourself. Diamond, tell us all about Mississippi shooting a movie. Floor is yours.

Floors yours. Okay, wow. Starting hot. I really enjoy myself. That's awesome. That's awesome. Let's roll the theme music. Uh, uh, oh, ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random

thoughts on white meat too. Midwest best friends eating faster. on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet because it's a ghost of a podcast. Yeah, but then I was like, ghost on the podcast, time, time and people are going to mess with time and people missed you, man. Time and people missed you, man. That's nice.

I actually, I haven't had the chance to listen to anything that happened when all was gone. Really? So like, feel free to fill me in it. There's interesting stuff. We had to bleep tape. Oh. Did we bleep?

Yeah, I think you're just, um, I told Cole I was like, a bleep is kind of harsh. Why don't just like a quick mute? And I'm like, oh, that was weird. The audio just like cut out. I don't know what happened. He just said H. I think that's all he said. Yeah, he was really upset about something.

Yeah. H. Uh, time. Yeah. One episode we did was just, Jake and I. Okay. Which Steven Swick texted us.

He's like, felt like classic ghostrunners. Like this conversation. We talked about, uh, Hardie's fast food. It's like, this classic.

This is classic Jacob Brad right here. This is what we all fell in love with. That's fun. And then yeah, last week was Tate and Jensen for the first one and then just Jensen. Um, we need to connect, who's connected to the Bluetooth? Because we need to,

we just, we don't have to talk about this right away. We can talk about Mississippi, but I'm going to send you something. that we need to talk about. So, sure. Tell us about Mississippi time.

Okay. All right. So Jake, how are you doing, man? Just kidding. Okay. Like I was going to say,

it was like, I had a great experience, but I was told by a couple people like, this is not how you make a movie. Like, just FYI. Not really supposed to be like this. In what way?

Just a lot of kind of disorganization and like on set, very like slow moving. Like compared to, it was a different director. Like, The only guy that was in common with the Ohio shooting was like the DP, the cinematographer, were good friends, like it was fun being with him, but like, director was different and it was like it showed.

Like, in Ohio, the pace was like 10 to 12 pages a day, like super fast. And on this one, we got like, we would get like four or five pages of the script done in like a day. Yeah. And like, it was, it was interesting. But I had a great time. Okay. Compare it to a very merry cherry Christmas.

Well. What was the cast like? I actually that's a good question because like compared to a very merry chair I mean like there was like a legitimate say the whole thing please okay sorry compared to a very merry cherry Christmas oh now I know what you're talking about it was like I mean way it was like a way more legit you know casting crew like there's all like people that are professionals in this thing or whatever but it was like kind of the um the thing that made the difference was like the people that were like the most in charge and like because of that because of it not being

great with them it was like I mean productivity wise not much different I mean it felt like director is pretty important yeah yeah interesting the news flash but so how you were there for two weeks but it's it's not done or it is done it today it was this Wednesday today today is their last day filming okay so like three weeks total yeah or had they started before you were there no they started a couple, like a day or two after I got there. Is that a normal amount for a movie or is that pretty quick? Like, I don't know anything about that stuff. I also thought it was quick. I was like, this is like, and this is like pretty short for a movie. And he was like, no, for movies like lower budget movies like this is very typical. Like 15 days. Like a hallmark movie. Yeah.

How long do you think it took to film Sahara? I don't know what's like a high budget, like awesome movie. How many different locations are there in Sahara? Oh man, thousands. Really? I don't know. count the sand. I mean, they go, they walk through that big city at one point. Yeah, they go through all this sand. They're on the, on the water a few times. Yeah. Oh, they're on that big boat. Okay. So this sounds like a multiple month movie. Okay. It seems like it like the way I mean, what a movie, dude. You never seen it? No, I don't think I heard of it. For real. No what you're talking about. I know Steve Zahn's in it. Oh, wow. You don't know Sahara though. I assume sand is involved. Yeah, dude. It's an awesome movie.

Yeah, it's a good movie, of course, they're saying it's not, it's not gonna, it's not gonna win any awards, but it is like a classic like, this is just a fun movie intense like Matthew McConaughey action with, you know, sleeveless shirt. Compare it to a very merry cherry Christmas. I would say compared to a very merry cherry Christmas, it's less gay. It is more African, probably more Africans in it. Okay. Probably. Probably. I don't know.

I haven't seen very much. For the record, I haven't seen very merry cherry Christmas. yet. So I don't know. And you haven't met Trey's new assistant. Yeah? What does that mean? Oh, African-American. Is that what you're trying to say? I don't know. I don't know. It's hard. I don't see that. What if it's just Mikel? Like, just. Oh, yeah, he's just quietly been in the background for like six months. It has not been on camera once. But yeah, he handles all of his meetings. Yeah, Sarah. Anyway, okay, so I recommend it. It's great soundtrack. Sweet Home Alabama is in there.

Okay. heard of it yeah yeah yeah awesome soundtrack it's got like you would love it's got classic rock but it's also got uh you know like african children's choir esk like african like tribal music i would like that this sounds like a good movie it's great dude it's it you i i would i would challenge anybody to watch it and say i did not enjoy it i'm not i don't think anybody's going to be like new favorite movie alert but there's no one that's going to be like that movie stunk yeah steve zon's hilarious dwight shrewts in it rain wilson's a small character character in there. Yeah, that's great. That's cool. Okay, sorry. No, I, it's like, I'm thinking,

I don't have all that much to be like, this is all the things about it, but like happy to answer questions. Okay, that's what I'm better at it. Yeah, yeah, that's fair. Tell us about Mississippi. Where exactly were you in Mississippi? Yeah, we were. What were the girls like? Wow. I mean, actresses. Yeah. No, the, we were like a little north of Jackson. Sometimes we would film, like, more directly in Jackson. Okay. Um, but, but, but did you, did, did you ever do the, um, uptown funk. Jack, no, Mississippi. You know that? Yeah. Halom, Hollywood. And then everyone together, Jackson, Mississippi. Yeah, as a cast. Yeah, that would be huge mystery. Yeah. Maybe they did once I was gone. Okay. Maybe they did today as they wrap. They probably saved the partying for the not,

for the non-homechoolers. Okay. So like, are you in like, I, I genuinely have no idea about any of this. Like, yeah. Are you in a warehouse filming this stuff? Like, like, with a green screen? Or is it like, are you in the middle of the woods? I have no, in my head, you're in the middle of the woods the whole time. That sounds awesome. Okay. No, no woods were involved. Okay.

We were staying at a house that was kind of in the middle of the woods. Okay. So that's fun. Yeah. No, so one of the main filming locations was this, like, one of the main locations of the movie is this abandoned mall. And we filmed it in an actual, like, like, disgusting, ransacked abandoned mall, basically. Okay.

Which was pretty, it was like, I mean, it looked good on camera, It was like, yeah, it's like actually pretty gross in here. And was it because it's like a, not a just dystopian, whatever, like post-apocalyptic movie or something? I honestly, I never read the full script. But. That's funny. You like don't really know what's going on in the scene. Honestly, I am just like figuring out the story as we film it out of order.

I'll hold a camera. That was kind of what I did. But I think like the aliens in the movie have like taken over this mall kind of. They're like living in this mall. Okay. And these people are trying to like, they're like, they're, these people are kind of, they used to be ghost hunters, but now they're like, apparently aliens are real and they're in here. Okay. We got to find them and get proof or something.

What? So there's, did you see aliens? Like the people dressed up as aliens or is that like CGI? I think that would have been really cool. But it was like, I think it's switched to now. If you, if it's a low budget, it's just going to be all CGI. Instead of like in the past, I feel like it was low budget, you're, you can't afford the like visual effects and you're just going to make it yourself. But like, okay.

Didn't see any aliens. Dang. But I will. Okay. Yeah. It seems like a really low budget. It's just like there's this idea of aliens that you just like hear them and never see them. Yeah, you get like slime on you.

It's like, oh, the aliens did that. That's how we would do it for gene charts. Yeah. Oh, they got away. I couldn't see him. Yeah. I feel like maybe this movie will have been better off if that was the case. Okay.

But there's pretty bold amount of alien shots. Okay. They will have to be CGIed in. Yeah, lots of CGI aliens. Pretty bold amount of aliens. Honestly, more alien shots than you want. Well, but I'm just like, I'm sitting there filming an empty space and I'm like, I hope that this is going to look okay. So interesting.

Yeah. Does, now that this is like your second, sorry, third said, I forgot about a very merry cherry Christmas. Oh, yeah. You can't forget about very merry cherry Christmas. Yeah. I think about very merry cherry. Does it like, inspire, are you like, hey, making a movie is actually not as hard as people think it is? I'd like to do this.

I'd like to make a short film, yaddi-y-y-y-a. I'm definitely inspired, like it'd be fun to make. make a short film, but I'm not necessarily, the first half, I don't think so. It's like making a movie, it's like you can have this many people and it still can be hard. I don't know. Like, but it's... What would you call your short film? A crinkle, wrinkle, Christmas jinkle? It's got to be Christmas thing. Yeah. Probably a very scary alien Christmas. A very scary alien Christmas. Missile, thistle, because now I only... I only know how to make Christmas movies. I only know how to make Christmas movies, Amish movies, or alien movies.

So it has to be kind of that one of those three buckets. I haven't learned how to make the other kinds. You're such a stereotype, you know, homeschooler that only makes Amish Christmas alien movies. I'd love to do Western. Don't know anything about it. So couldn't do it, dude. Oh, man.

Yeah, I don't know. I definitely, I'm inspired to do more stuff because I had a lot of fun. Yeah. But it's like, I think I'm also realizing it's just, it's really hard to make a good movie. Like, I don't, I don't think this. movie will be that good. It'll be entertaining, I think. Yeah. But it's like, and I think

I was talking to Isaac, and he was like, a good movie, it's always the writing. Isaac is the director. Isaac is McDonald. The cinematographer. Cinematographer. Okay. Yeah. Cinnamon. There's too many Isaac. Cinnamonstographer. Yes. A very merry

Sin. Sinfulness. Sinfully. A cinnamon Christmas. Hello. Watch out. It's scandalous. The horse's name was cinema. Yeah. It is a western. We're back. I feel like I couldn't, I don't know if I could make a great movie because I don't know how to write movies.

And apparently that's like what makes it good. That's so true. A really good, I mean, obviously it has to have a good story. And it's like and the dialogue has to sound like people are saying it. Like real. Yeah. I don't know. I remember the first time I saw a movie envy with Jack Black and Ben Stiller.

And I was just like, this is going to be a great movie. It's got Jack Black and Ben Stiller. Yeah. I hated it. And it was like, how in the world is this possible? It's like, oh, writing matters. I've never heard of it so that's a good sign

Right Yeah And maybe it was like I watched it when I was 13 And it was probably for An older audience or something But I was like This is not good at all

But Yeah Same with like I remember Timen you're too young for this But the writer strike Back in the day Like yeah

Remember and like The office wasn't as funny It was like this is clearly different Like without the writers What episodes were those? I want to say like It was I think they were the episodes

when they were really long. Do you remember those episodes? Like three or four, seasons three or four? When they had a couple like 42 minute ones or whatever. Fact check me on that ghosties because I'm not sure. I just remember being like, it's not quite the same. And maybe it's like mental, but anyway. I'm glad that you're home.

Yeah. I missed you. Same. Yeah, I like got home on Sunday. And then I had to like quick turnaround and go to Boston for a day. Oh, yeah. half basically to film like because I already had a filming thing. And I was like, man, I just want to stay home. I'm going to get on the plane. And I'm going to go. Jake felt that way a few

times. Yeah. Like, all right. Let's go again. Yeah. Yeah. What did you do in Boston? It's the thing that I've probably talked about on the podcast in the past. Like I've done two years in a row filming for this theological conference. A very theological. A very Christian alien. Did you do it in California last year? Yeah, San Diego. And then San Antonio the year before. So it's all over. It's always been my first time in these cities, which is kind of fun. Like it's, I'm not doing much besides, like, filming a thing and leaving, but it's cool

to see the cities. Boston, I know it's a big city, but in my head, it's like walkable. Like, it's like, I bet you can. It's Fenway Park, the train, and Dunkin' Donuts. Pretty much. Yeah. And then down the street is like where the projects are that been, been, uh, Affleck's from. And then they, yeah, they say, yeah, Matt Damon, he's from over there, been

Affleck here. And this is where the, they run the marathon right through here. Oh, wow. That's awesome. That's pretty short. Yeah. That's the whole city. I know. It's like it feels like since it's old, like since Paul Revere's walked the streets, it's like, well, Paul didn't have that good of a horse.

He's trotted those streets. He's just fine. He's yelled on those streets. Have you ever seen National Treasure? Yes. That's what I think of when I'm in Boston. Yeah. See, can I just say?

Speaking of well written. I mean, I don't know. Just like a good story. Just a good situation. The Sahara, National Treasure. Those are like Vin Diagram. Like, if you like one, you like the other. Okay.

Yeah. Just like. Just fun movies. It's a nice hour and half movie. Like, what Oscars did National Treasure win? Zilch. But everyone loves it, right? Like, it's like, it's just a good movie.

Just a good movie. So, um, so Boston was good, though. Yeah. It was, I mean, it was very, I mean, it was kind of boring, but it was like, I just, I just got there. And it was like, the only thing I was actually filming was like two hours worth of this event. And then I just like stayed at the hotel, kind of did nothing till I, like, did nothing till I, left in the airport and then came home last night. Sweet. Yeah, you filmed two hours worth on Monday. Yeah. But you didn't fly out until Tuesday at like 9 p.m. I didn't book my flights.

I'll just say that. They were booked for me. Yeah, I would have fled out first thing, but I was wondering that. I was like, man, got people to see in Boston. But I got some editing done. It was fine. All right. So let's, let's transition from the flights thing, because you said flights and that made me think of the shutdowns and everything. So Jensen, last week, timing, he talked about how he was interviewed in Omaha for this news story, local news story about the like government shut down and how the flights are, you know, getting canceled and stuff, you know.

He heard about this. Yeah. And he, you know, Jensen is hard on himself sometimes. And he was like, man, I just said like, yeah, it's great that they're doing this. And I don't know what I said. And I was like in my head,

I was like, I'm sure it wasn't that bad, dude. And in my head I was also like, they probably didn't even use your sound bite. Like his Isaac McDonald also got asked to be on the news. and he, I don't think his did air. Okay. So, Timon, will you please, if you have on, if you're on the Bluetooth, will you please play this, play the actual, oh, I don't know if the link ever went through.

I'm going to see if I can send it again. Did I send you the link? I don't see it. Weird. I'm going to see if I send it to you personally. Ford was built on the belief that the world doesn't get to decide what you're capable of. You do. So ask yourself.

Can you or can't you? Can you load up a Ford F-150 and build your dream with sweat and steel? Can you chase thrills and conquer curbs in a Mustang? Can you take a Bronco to where the map ends and adventure begins? Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right. Ready, set, Ford. It should be under a very... That's weird.

I said it's a very cherry government shutdown. in, but then I send it straight to you. Do you get it? Yes. I see it now. All right, here it go. Some travelers are choosing to think optimistically. One man coming from Ohio believes the flight cuts are a good sign. I think that it's going to force some decisions to be made. I mean, whenever you put pressure on

people to make decisions, I think that it comes from a real place. So I think at the end of the day, it's like, this is going to produce something. Why did they use that? I think when people have to make decisions, I mean, that comes from a real place. And the smack halfway through, you know, I think, you know, I sent you just the soundbite.

Can we just listen to just Jensen a few more times? And if you're just listening, he is in Ghost Hunter's merch. Yeah, he's in a good boy hunting club. Okay, here we go. Cuts are a good sign. I think that it's going to force some decisions to be made. I mean, whenever you put pressure on people to make decisions, I think that it comes from a real place. So I think at the end of the day, it's like,

this is going to produce something. Yep. I can't even like listen with my eyes open. I cringe so hard. I was like, there's got to be some good memes that we can use that sound like for. I mean, it's like if you have a vice presidential debate or something and they don't, they don't know the subject that they're asked about. Yeah.

I think it's a good thing. It comes from a real place. And, you know, decisions, it's forced to be made and it's going to produce something. Just saying a whole lot of nothing. A word salad. Yeah, just, oh, I texted him. I was like, you sound like if a fortune cookie were a person. That's what I think of when I think of this.

Yeah. Just like absolutely nothing. And the fact that they're like, like they're watching the clips that they get from all these different people. And they're like, that's our guy. We're putting, he's the only one that's interviewed in that whole story. They didn't even use anyone else. No. Yeah, she got in there.

This girl. Yeah. Yeah, I got my interview. Let's get home. Played a good time. It's just unbelievable. Let's, Jensen, the Republican from Ohio, how do you feel about, you say you want lower taxes, yet you want to pay teachers more, how is that going to work? It's going to force some decisions to be made.

I mean, whenever you put pressure on people to make decisions, I think that it comes from a real place. So I think at the end of the day, it's like, this is going to produce something. It was like, like, I kept being like, oh, that's not, that's not great, but at the end of the day, you know at the end of the day it's going to produce something something will happen here there oh my goodness just unbelievable uh yeah speaking of the shutdown this is a little embarrassing to admit but and for some reason in my head i kept getting confused truly so ABC or like Disney and ESPN had all that like yeah yeah I kept thinking that was also the government shut down yeah yeah YouTube and Disney like I kept thinking when they were like oh really oh the government shut down

mine in Tuesday. In my head, I was thinking, sweet. That makes sense because dancing with the stars is on Tuesday. I bet they were getting a lot of pressure. Like, we can't keep forcing people off ABC. I would like do that in my head. You idiot, those are separate things. Well, why wouldn't they do it Sunday morning or Sunday evening so that Monday night football would also be on there? That would make sense. Well, then the Saturday, though, is SEC football. They used to do a Friday. The government's got to figure this out. Yeah, dude. They got to get back to work. Those government contracted cameramen. Kirk Herb Streets, yeah, employees, a 1099 with the government.

Yeah, they would say like, all right, it looks like, yeah, we are back. NFL football will be back on YouTube TV. And I was like, that makes sense. I saw Trump tweet this thing earlier. That makes sense. Trump said it was going to happen. Yeah, okay. This is aligning now with me.

Yeah, they happened like twice where I caught myself being like, these are separate things. Yeah. So basically what I'm saying is like I can't handle more than one thing, like being off at a time. Or I'm just going to assume it's all the same. So let's ask Jensen about what. happen with YouTube. So Jensen, you know, it seems like people really want to watch ESPN on their YouTube TV subscriptions, but they're not able to. How do we fix that? I think that it's going to force some decisions to be made. I mean, whenever you put pressure on people to make decisions, I think that

it comes from a real place. So I think at the end of the day, it's like this is going to produce something. It comes from a real place. Jensen said he talked to his dad, like explained this whole situation to his dad, and his dad said, good job, Kamala. So pretty good, pretty good. Anyway, so good. I also was like, yeah, when the youth pastor is trying to give you advice, but he doesn't read his Bible.

And so he just, like, you know, God is, God wants you to make a decision. God's up there. and he knows it. I don't need to say it because God already knows it. You know, up there, heaven, he comes from a good place. At the end of the day, where, you know, he made the whole thing in six. So he's going to produce something. Preach, dog, preach, preacher. Yeah. Let's go. Comes from a real place. It comes from a real place. It comes from a real place.

Oh, man. I couldn't, I couldn't believe. Because, like, I think sometimes you're like, dude, I did such a bad job. And it's like, I'm sure it wasn't that bad. You're your toughest critic. You know, like, people like, do like public speak and they're like, or like stand up or something. You're like, yeah, I don't know. That was weird.

Oh, what did you say the other day was like, I looked the wrong way? Yeah, if I'm driving, I would look right to look at my wife, not left. You're so critical of yourself. I'm sure Jensen wasn't that bad. And then I see that clip and I'm like, oh, you did freeze. Wow. How have you worked in ministry the last several years? I think you woke up at like 3 a.m. that day.

So I think he was just dead tired. Anyway, so good. But in Omaha, you know, it's like, that guy's a genius. Wow. Yeah. This guy is educated. Yeah, right. Yeah.

This guy comes from a real place. Hey, ghosties. Don't fast forward this or else you'll miss something big. Hey, ghosties, don't sleep on this or you'll miss something big. Hey, ghosties, if you don't listen to this, you're dead to me. Can I just say that? Yeah, that's fine. Okay.

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go donate $10. Hey, does it? Every, every bit counts. Yep. So, decay, 50 days. Got to get the D out of Dodge. I don't think I've been on the news. I remember one time when we had like a playground near us, have a grand opening. There was like, the news was there. And I was like, this is my moment. And so I would like, I would, you were swinging so high. I would walk by in the background of every shot. I was like, and then I was like, we didn't have a TV though. It was like, I was Googling like, still well playground open. I was like, I want to see if I got on there, but I never found it. That's great.

I was in the newspaper when I was born. Oh, that's right. For a different name, right? Or for like a, like having an original name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and that was the year of the Jacob. Jacob was the hot name. Yeah, it's like he could have been a Jake or Miles.

I think that's what they said. For years, I've been hearing about how popular of a baby named Jacob was, but I rarely run into them in the wild. Really? Yeah. You don't have, Jake's? I don't have a friend named Jake. You don't?

Do you? Yeah, you, man. Oliver Kelly, remember that? Do I have Oliver Kelly in my phone? Like, dude, Oliver Kelly is a guy. Yeah, I got some friends named Jake. I don't think I'm, now that you say it, though, I'm like, maybe I don't have that many Jake. And especially if it's like, this was the most popular baby name from 98 to 06 or whatever it is.

You know, it's like, I feel like I'd be seeing more of them. Yeah, I got quite a few Jakes. Jake McDonald. We know Jake. Okay, there's one. I have Jake Allen in my phone. Jake Syslow. That's it.

Besides you. Jake Allen. Who's that? It's not like a country singer. AI guy. Yeah, the podcast. Go see.

Thank you. I was like, I know Jake Allen's name. You have his phone number? Yeah. Send that my way, dude. I want to text Jake Allen. Sure.

That's a fun contact to have. Jake Talber. Oh, I got tons of studs in here, man. Jake's grandma. I don't know who's that is. Oh, that's your grandma. That's amazing. I was like,

it's a 417 number. I think that's Bo. Yeah, it was her birthday a few days ago. Because we were supposed to text her updates because she wasn't able to come to the wedding. Wow, that's awesome that you have her, yeah, yeah. So it's just Jake's G-Ma. Jake's G-ma.

She's probably saved my phone as G-ma. Because I was, you know, 14. That's so fun. I love, every once in a while, you get these texts from people that you haven't heard from a long time, but there are only one name in your phone. I got one from Tori the other day.

High school. High school. She was like three or four years older than me in my youth group and she was hanging out in Grand Rapids Michigan and she's like, Brad, I was just hanging out with some people who listened to your podcast. And I was like, I know him. She's like, you're like actually famous. I was like, I'm not famous. You made it to the Rapids, dude. Yeah, right. I was like, that's awesome. That's so cool. She's like, I don't even know if it's your number anymore. I was like, it's my number. It's me. It's Brad. It's one word Brad. Yeah. Anyway, oh yeah. Anyway, um, speaking of phone numbers. Yeah. that you do or don't have. I actually, I don't want to tell the story. Let's back up. I've said too much.

Whoa. Crap. I did all that out. Just mute it all. Yep. Mute it all. A subtle mute. Settle me, thanks.

I think three months, over three months ago is when Rachel got rear-ended. Dude. I was going to bring this up. I was going to be like, is that, sorry. Go ahead. Yeah. Yeah, you fired up. I'm fired up.

I, yes, dude. You got to do something. So I want to hear what you're doing. There's been a couple. If not, put me on the case. Efforts of me doing something. So she got re-ended. I'm going to say August 7th, August 12th, sometime around there.

So it's been over three months and doesn't have her car back. And at the time, it was like, I think a guy was going probably like 20 miles an hour. It rear-ended her. But his car was totaled. They said, no, Rachel, your car is not total. It's fine. So we take it to the shop. And anyway, it just been a long process.

I think since it's a newer car, they had to get like original manufacturer parts. And I guess that took a while. So then our auto body shop, they haven't actually been able to work on it that long. They're giving me this, you know. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. We haven't had time. Did they cry on the phone?

We haven't had time to work on it. Their tears are flowing through your mobile device. Like, dude, you get my ear wet. Come on, dude. Stop getting my ear wet. I hate when they do that. Yeah. I keep calling them.

Yeah. Um, and I feel like recently just like, this is why it's such a bummer. Like, even if it's completely someone else's fault, it's still so annoying to have to do with this. And I'm learning that now at the age of 34, just like dealing with their insurance, dealing with the rental car, you know, like, it's just hours and hours of our time that's been taken up by this. And then more recently, we've been charged, like, we keep getting charged $37 a day by

enterprise. Okay. Like, stop it. But like, and theoretically you would get that paid by the, well yeah up to this point they're this guy's insurance has been covering all of it we haven't had to do anything it's great and so now they're starting to charge us that's great and that adds up dude yeah and for three months like this should get reimbursed but so i'd rather than just pay it now and us not have to deal with this come on to keep doing what you've been doing step you have to like

just submit every single one of these yeah and so then every now in the week it calls for state farm either way bottom line is this rachel just keeps getting like hounded by this three-headed monster of state farm crash champions enterprise and so what's nice is if it were me i would not be able to be mean enough on the phone and if it was just me i would just be like hey can i get my car back totally but because it's on behalf of my wife i get to give them the business every couple weeks you you they cry through your phone you stick the middle finger through theirs yeah i can poke them yeah you poke your middle finger right into their ear you give a wet willy

with the bird yeah it is there's something different about like going to bat for somebody else versus for yourself dude I got got gone to bat for in Mississippi

got gone back for like yeah two second story I my flight back was like they had they booked it for like landing at 11 p.m. or something like that and it was like

I have this insane turn around to Boston like yeah that doesn't make sense and so me and Isaac were like Isaac the guy from there whatever, we were like,

Mary Cherry Christmas. Not the one from Very Merry Cherry Christmas. Yes, not the one from Very Mary. We were like, we should like, you know, talk to them and ask them to re, you know, reschedule it. And then this guy gets back to me. He's like, I'm sorry, we just can't pay that $300 to get it.

Like, because they had like booked it for where you can't change it and all this stuff. Who would this be the producer? Yes, or the production manager or whatever. Gotcha. And so he says that he's like talking, comes to me in. like says it to my face and I'm like, man, that's, like, I was kind of just like, man, it's too bad, but you know, whatever. In my head, I was like, you can't do that. Like,

that's what I thought I said to him. Like, my, me being like showing a little bit of disappointment on my face. That's so good. Being like, yeah, okay, I get it. Totally. That's fine. With me being like, you can't, you have to do it. You have to reschedule it. That's, that's a gene short's, like, what I thought I said. Nice people being mean. And just like, yeah, okay, if that's what you have to do. Yep. I was basically exactly. And then you come back, dude, what'd you tell him? I told him he could, I told me, yeah. It's like, showed him where you could shove it. It's like guys telling their guy friends, like an interaction with a girl, like how that went basically. Yeah. How to go, dude. Yeah, it was awesome. Yeah. So I, I'm like, man, I guess that's it. And Isaac's like,

no, like, they can't do that. It's like, he, like, fought for me and like, got them to reschedule it. And I was like, thank you for, because I would not have been mean. Right. On behalf of yourself. And he was like, I wouldn't have been mean for myself. But like, I'm going to fight for you. so it's interesting how that works psychologically yeah that's why it's so nice to have like a they always tell you to have like a manager someone to represent you and negotiating anything look you know i don't want extra money for this it's just my agent for free but listen he's got to eat so yeah anyway that was my i was i was i was went to bat for so you're so i think i first picked up the old louisville slugger about two weeks ago

when i was winning this bad boy down and you ever bite a on it? All the time. Yeah. It's why I have a breakfast. I love when they take pictures biting the trophies. No, this is here. I was filming some ads in here. Oh, I was doing some arts and crafts. Did you see the ad? Yeah. I was like, better grip. Hello retention. Better grit. I kind of got it from T.J. Macetus, because he would do that. He would peel off things. Yep. For his t-shirt business. Better grip. Better grip. Same performance. J.G. Wentworth. Well, wasn't that what it is?

Yeah. I remember the ad. Good job. It was, it was effective. Good job to you. new grip new oh new grip new grit same performance oh i didn't even look at them i promise i remember yeah you had it off the dome so yeah like two weeks ago whenever that was in dallas i'm like in between matches and i'm like i'm going to give me a piece of my mind so i called them once then um it basically just like very firmly said y'all need to figure this out yeah we're done taking phone calls don't call me don't call my wife you call state farm you call enterprise you figure it out basically this is to Crash Champions. Yeah.

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Crash Bandicoots. And since then, they've been calling my wife a lot. And so it's been annoying. So then... They're like scared of you. They're like, let's talk to the nice thing. Oh, geez. Yeah.

Oh, that reminds me. Remind me to tell you about Good Cup, Bad Cup. Okay. So it's a couple days ago and Rachel was like, hey, I'm at school right now. They keep calling me, doing me voicemails. And so then I'm like leaving Trey's house as I've seen these texts. And I'm like, I'm gearing up in my head for like what I'm going to say to them. Yeah. Yeah, what I'm going to tell them. And as I'm gearing up, I get a call from an unknown number. And I'm like,

oh, just made my day. Just coming to the slaughter. How'd you know? They come to me now. Yeah. I'm the one who knocks. I answer the phone. Hey! It's not them at all. It's a guy. Have you ever thought about, you know, fixing your roof? We'll come and give you a free estimate. Hey, this is Healing Waters. We're, uh, oh, hey, guys.

Hey, buddy. Hey, you caught me. I'm thirsty. Sorry, sorry, I poked you. Yeah. Sorry if that hurt a little bit. I thought you were someone else. So it's, uh, do you know the name Cooper Wagner?

No. If you know Watermark Church in Dallas. Todd Wagner, it's his son. They're a Canacuck family. From Gunner. I saw his sister, Allie at Gunner's mom's funeral. Yeah, it's like, there's just a Cana Cook family that I'd like barely know. Okay, Ali Wagner, I feel like I've heard more about.

Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, it's just him. Just wanted to hear how you were doing, man. Yeah. No, I actually, I mean, I answered the phone normal. And he's like, hey, man, this is Cooper Wagner. I want to like book you for something.

So I was like, wow, what a turn of events. Yeah. It's pretty cool. what he wants to potentially do. He was like, hey, we got to this event in Dallas at February. It's at the American Airlines Center. Yeah. Force Frank's going to be there.

Yeah. Tim Tebow might be there. Jonathan Becluded, like JP's going to be speaking. You're in a headline? Would you want to, he said open up the night, but he means headline. Yeah. Well, that's what, what's, open up. What's the first?

You start with the headline. What's the first thing that comes through when you're birth, your head? Open up. What's at the top of a newspaper? Headline. Headline. Yeah. You open up the newspaper with a headline.

Yeah. Where does the crown go on your head? Head. What shape is the bottom of it? A line. Right? So you're headliner, baby. That's how I interpreted it. That's fun. That's so pretty cool. Yeah, American Airlines Center. That's an arena. That's for the Maverick's play. That's crazy. That's like as big as you've ever done. Oh, yeah. You're going to be 360 in like Nate Bargets. I might do it in some sort of motorized cart or something. They can spin.

Oh, you have to, dude. Yeah, I think that's common. On a hoverboard. Coverboard's good. Put it in your rider. It's just a slow rotation the whole time. It just a little bit, just 55% of my weight on my left foot. And I'm just, yeah, that would be fun. Do you a big joke on that? Yeah.

That would be great. Yeah. That's so fun. So that's what he calls me about. And I make one comment to him where I say something about, I was like, this would be great, dude. I'm still doing stand up here and there, you know, for the most part, you know, just pickleball and podcasting. I think that's all I said about pickleball. And then I'm like, dude, I got let you go.

I got a lunch right now. I'm meeting up with Alex Dimcheck, friend of the pod, friend of mine. You guys probably heard me talk about him. He is a public speaker, author, but also just like the most connected guy I know. He's in Kansas City because he has a business with your podcast co-host, Will Severance.

Oh, yeah, Table Sars podcast. Uh-huh, yeah. So I know I'm throwing a lot of names at you guys right now. But basically one of the reasons I'm meeting up with Alex, in addition to him being one of my best friends, is that Friday Pickleball, we've kind of recently decided that 2026, it's time to throw a little gasoline on the fire, so to speak. And that is by taking a few just new kind of paths.

And one of those is like spending money for the first time. Like we've just been very lean up to this point. Like Scott's not full time. Isaac's not full time. Like there's five of us running this company with a IMessage group chat. And it's like maybe it's time to expand a bit. So one of the things that helps you expand is getting money in, investor money in. And so it's like, we should, maybe let's like explore this a little bit and see what it would look like.

So that was one of the reasons I met with Alex. Like, you know people. Yeah. And of course, I said it to Alex and he's like, could I get one percent of the company if I go raise you three million dollars? I'm like, you could do that? And he's like, yeah. Like, great. I'm just like eating a slice of cheese pizza.

Like, that sounds good. Oh, that's awesome. You think you could do that? The cheese kind of burned my mouth. I don't know people like this at all. um as Alex and I are talking about investors I see down on my phone I still haven't saved his number it says uh maybe Cooper Wagner okay and he sends me a text I look down and see it says let me know a Friday would ever want investors you're like is this too easy or like guys raising money

is so easy yeah you just have to think about doing it and in five minutes yeah you have three million dollars yeah and so then next thing you know we get on the phone and he's like, yeah, I mean, we could, uh, we just did a deal with Scotty Schaeffler last week. And I know he loves pickleball. So I was like, yeah, this is easy. This is so easy. Okay. Just like, just kidding me with Scotty. Put me in an I message group chat with Scottie, and it'll be, uh, yeah, we'll get it done. So all that to say, coming back to the, the phone numbers. I'm glad I screamed at Cooper. What do you want? Scottie Shephler and American Airlines Center? Okay. Just want to see if you want to go golfing with Scotty.

Anyway, that's all kind of crazy. Pretty cool stuff. And part of the big 2026 kind of new initiatives and push and everything is that our CEO, Matt, who was on the podcast back when we were in Vietnam, he and I, just us two, are flying to Florida here in a couple days just for, like, one in-person meeting. Which when I say that out loud, it sounds like I'm in the mafia or something. That's not something someone like me does. I order cheese pizza. I do Google meets and Zoom calls. And isn't it like literally like this guy's got a layover in Florida?

Do I make that up? Matt is going to come to Kansas City afterwards. So essentially he's like making it a layover. He's like, I'm going to reroute my flight like New York to Tampa to Kansas City, basically. The guy lives in Florida that you're going to. Yes. Okay. Yeah, we're a meeting.

And now that we secured one meeting, it's like, all right, I guess we'll do a few others. But anyway, it's kind of fun to feel like. That's pretty cool. I don't know. Matt and I are there to like pitch ourselves. Bring your briefcase. That's a good point. Just looking fancy.

The meeting is out of pickleball tournament, but I should probably still wear a suit, right? Pickleball suit. Like don't they make a pickle suit. Just like, uh, kind of just like pickles all over it? No, no, no. Just like, uh, made out of pickleball. No, literally, like, literally something tacky and gritty. Yeah, like recycle, uh, like, make it a conversation starter.

New grit. New grit. Yeah. Just all over me. How did you get those things to stick? Was it just double-sided tape on both sides? Just tape on the back. and then the white piece of paper covering it

was only taped to the paddle and not the paper because I could. You're a genius, dude. I'm an arts and crafts boy. That's so good. Through and through, always have been. I love crafts. You always said that.

I've always known that about you. Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, one, two, Cozay, earth. Dot. This is like one of my favorite websites just browse. You just feel comfortable looking at it. They have a million things.

And they're all. so good, dude. And they got these new sheets. I don't even, I don't even need them and I'm going to buy some. They're these like striped bamboo sheets. Why not? It's like, I think I'd sleep better with stripes. The boy in the striped sheets. That's what it's all about is cozyearth.com. Yeah. CozyEarth.com slash ghostrunners. If you don't know, Cozy Earth does bedding, bath, home decor, you know, clothing for men, clothing for women, kids, whatever. My kids just recently, we had like one of those leftover $100 gift cards to Cozy Earth from the, getaway my kids got some cozy earth matching sweat sets and so bo's got this like cozy earth

like sweatshirt and pants he's like yeah it's cozy earth he like loves it dude yeah not a huge deal yeah not not a big girl so dude i just thought of something i think maybe me scott and isaac we were having a debate one day like if you could have an unlimited like gift card to one store which one would it be and i'm not realizing it would 100% be cozy earth and i don't think like i'm not even just saying that but the fact that you can get your betting and get like the coziest like softest clothing. Right. That might be the store that I would actually choose.

Because you could get so much from there. True. Like blankets, towels. PJs. Bath mats. Bath mats. I, oven mats.

Hand up. I got ready today in the dark. Okay. You don't have your cell phone. I don't have myself. Honestly, I got ready in the dark. Catherine was still asleep.

You woke up at 4 a.m. I had no idea. I went into my drawers. Dore. Not my drawers. I put my drawers on. Put my drawers on and then went into my drawer. And I knew for a fact when I felt these, they're the Cozy Earth pants and I have. I was like, oh, those are my Cozy Earths. Like, no problem.

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discounts. I don't know if you know, but this time of year a lot of companies do extra discounts. So, GRKC is our promo code at cozy earth.com slash ghostrunners. Rachel was not able to go to her Bible study on Monday night, and she was so sad because they were making a craft that night. And I was like, that's so funny that like even

like an adult woman, it's just like, they were making the cutest, like it was going to be this garland craft. Oh, it's so funny. I just can't even like imagine being bummed that I missed. It was a pine cone, then we were going to put peanut butter on it. There's going to be a bird feeder. It's the perfect time for bird feeders. You guys ever do that one?

No, that sounds like you just made it up. I know, I know I've heard of it. I know it's a thing. Do they sometimes put like seeds in the peanut butter? I think so. Yeah, because it's to stick to it. Yeah. Because the peanut butter stick to it.

Yeah. That's so fun. So yeah, I'm excited to like gear up and like, I don't know. I've ever since I've been doing content, I'm always the one getting pitched. things or whatever. It's like for the first time. Oh, yeah. It feels like I work in sales all of a sudden. I'm like, I'm getting together my sales pitch. That's a rush. It is a rush. Just go, yeah, go in and be like, it could go great or this could just be another day. Like, you know? Yeah, could change the entire scope of our company in my life. Right. Or maybe I'll just fly back and have a good weekend.

Maybe we're just, yeah, go into the next one and just find another one. So. Yeah, so maybe I already probably said too much, but hopefully there's more to, more to say, more to come in the future. it's exciting. That's very cool. New grit. Very cool. New grit. Same performance.

Same guy. Same good performance. I haven't tried out the new grip yet, so I need to feel it. We'll get that in your hands. Yeah, get me one of those. Show me that. I went to Texas this weekend. It was a great time.

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No. Timon? I'll give you what it's like. It's like a country house. That's all it is. It was awesome. But it was, like, as we were driving there, I was like, I'm trying to figure out

what the point of this place is. And I think it's essentially just literally, like, if you have money in acreage, And you, like, basically it's just a house, like a retreat away from the city. Like people that live in the city. So ranch is used a little loosely compared to what we might think. So I think actually for it to technically be a ranch, you have to have some sort of agriculture aspect to it. So I think they have to either like they had some hay bales there.

I think maybe they have to have like some kind of living creatures or something. I'm not sure. Is this like a legally recognized like this is a ranch? I think so because I think you can get tax like ag, ag exemptions. they call it. Yeah. Huh. I don't know exactly how it all works, but... Because I picture definitely like a ranch, you have to have like several acres where all the longhorn live. Yeah. And then horses. You definitely think of cows as a ranch, right? Yeah, for sure. The way you were describing it to me kind of sounded like a country song. And now I can't

stop thinking about a country song that's more informative than anything. It's a country song talking about the definition of a ranch. Yeah. Buy me a ranch. You got to have money. Money and flat ranch. And acre. And a It just kind of lays out what it takes to have a ranch. Where you can see the trees from your front porch. And then I think the second verse is about the tax benefits once you're zoned as ag. Well, I thought I was paying a lot of property tax, but I didn't know. Whatever.

You get a great country song. Educate some farmers out there. Country songs are informative. That's one of the things are known for. Did you see that someone made some, I don't know, TikTok or Instagram real this week, where they took the term cold beer from like 35. different country songs and just put it all in a row. Cold beer, cold beer, cold beer, cold beer. And it sounded great. Yeah, that's great. You could, you could listen to that all day.

It was great. Yeah. I'm a de course. I commented on it. And like, I'm freaking love this song. We had this rant, dude, we drove, had he, honestly, I was kind of impressed because I didn't even think, like, consciously think about this. She goes, we were gone for five days. And she's like, we've been in the car most of the time for four of the five days. I was like, wow, when you say it like that. Okay. Because we drove down to Sherman on my birthday, which not the most fun thing to do on your birthday,

but I'm 35. I can get over it. Which is sweet. We had a little, Chipotle waiting for us for a birthday, which is always what you want. Don't answer that. Oh, dude, on the way?

This is crazy, actually. So take a different route because construction, whatever. And so normally we pass by this city, McAllister, Oklahoma, which is, is a budding city. It's growing. And so it's got a Chick-fil-A now,

which is pretty exciting because, like, yeah, that's budding. Yeah, for our drive, it's like, oh, we can stop it in McAllister, Chick-fil-A. Because there's one in McAllister and there's one in Muscogee. But Muskogee sometimes is either too far or too close,

not right time for the meals. So if one doesn't work, the other one does. But this new route takes us too far south. So we had to, like, double back around to go to McAllister. So, like, it was a little out of the way. It wasn't crazy, though.

It's like, it's worth it for Chick-fil-A for the kids because it's just a safe meal. And as we're pulling into this McAllister, Oklahoma, Chick-fil-A, we're pulling in, and Catherine goes, oh, my gosh, that girl kind of looks like Laura Gabriel, who's like one of our best friends from, you know, the K-Life Days. And then she's, like, driving a little bit more.

I'm like, that is Laura Gabriel. Laura Fakes is her name now. She lives at Carlton Landing, which is like 30 minutes. No, yeah. I thought it was Oklahoma. McAllister, Oklahoma. Carlton Lundy, yeah, yeah, yeah. But still, it was like, if we hadn't gone the weird route,

double-backed, yeah, like, it wouldn't have made the right sense with timing-wise, but it was just unbelievable to see this girl, like, that was like one of Catherine's best friends, you know, 10 years ago, and they're obviously still, like, close when they see each other. It was just like, oh, my gosh, like, Laura's in this big old SUV with their three kids and just wild. It's like, what are the chances? Because, like, she was pulling out of the drive-through as we,

were pulling into the parking lot. It was like, if we would have been even 20 seconds different, this wouldn't have happened. I love when coincidences happened. Right? It was just like wild. So, so pumped to see her. But can I tell a quick story about Laura Gabriel? Yes.

I wonder if you'll remember this or not. Okay. I don't think she'll mind me telling the story. It was 11 years ago. Let me try to think about what story you're going to tell. I have a few. I have one in mind. Go ahead.

I don't think she'll mind. I'm going to, this is a good thing. This is a good thing. So from what I can remember, so this is probably like late 2014. Like I just graduated college and I've just moved to Kansas City. So I'm working in full-time ministry for my first semester ever. You know, I'm living with Peter Casey, working with Peter. Catherine and Brad are my next door neighbors.

Life's good. Three months into ministry. And Laura, who was, yeah, like very involved and like she's over at y'all's house all the time. Catherine's good friend. Yeah, they let a Bible study together. Yeah, she was like one of our volunteers and, like, one of our, like, best ones. Like, we can always count on Laura. She asked me to coffee, like, three months into it.

And so I was like, huh, I thought, I thought she kind of had this, like, I think I've been hearing about this, like, guy named Cole. Right. But maybe they're on again off. I don't know. I guess I'll go to coffee. Geez, I don't know what's going on here. So we go to coffee and she sits me down.

I feel like, she was just like, hey, so I just wanted to like, I need to apologize to you. And I was like, oh, what the heck is going on? For something that you probably didn't think five seconds about. Oh, 100%. She was like, I just feel like, I've been really cold and like maybe it's sometimes like rude to you the entire time you've been here. because, to be honest, I wanted Cole to get this job. And I feel like I've been, like, harboring resentment because you got the job and not him.

Wow. And I thought it was incredibly mature of her and, like, respectful. But I just had no idea. I thought Laura and I were great. I thought we're on a date right now. I was going to kiss you when we left. Yeah, right. You're, like, scrolling through her Facebook profile pictures.

Yeah. Cold? Yeah. What is cold? This is cold. I can't wait for hot. Yeah. that's amazing dude so yeah i don't even know if i told anyone this because i don't think i've ever heard i just like felt bad that she felt bad and then you know i'm like oh my gosh you're totally fine

i i promise i didn't notice i have no emotional intelligence right now i'm 22 years old so i promise she's so sweet man that's so yeah very kind and like respectful of her and right we went on to yeah be good friends and never really thought much about it but i always thought that was like it was really nice of her to say that but yeah boy did i not notice no that's so good i had no clue so did you ever feel that from any like can you remember any time back then where it was like that person doesn't like me no i think my i'm not wired to think that way even if you know i'd be like yeah i just i i don't really like yeah i don't really reflect well in general so i would never like cling to an interaction let me think about that dang just all the conversations i had

yeah yeah that mom used three words for her answer instead of seven like she could have she must hate me yeah i wonder if something yeah yeah And maybe it's a pride issue, too. I'm like, no, they love me. No, of course. Why would they not like me? They're sending me down to Florida to have this in-person meeting. Yeah, but they like me just fine.

Yeah. Right. They're pretty warm to me. That's crazy. That's why I'm in a suit. Yeah, hold story. This wasn't that good of a story, but I remember back in the day, Laura and her roommates invited you over for dinner to, like,

feed you healthy things. Do you remember that? They're like, Jake, we're worried about your poor eating. So we're going to, like, make good vegetables and see if you like them. And I think you were like, this is ridiculous. What am I eating right now? I kind of remember that, but I don't know you remember exactly who I was there,

but I remember it was Lauren Dodd and Laura. Yeah, that was nice. It's amazing. It's like an intervention of sorts. If you have a problem, we're going to make you stop. I mean,

it was kind of amazing what Jake used to eat. Oh, yeah. I mean, my metabolism didn't catch out to me until I was probably 29 or so. Like, I had a very good run. Right. And I was like,

go for it, man. Live it up all you can, bud. I did. I did. It really didn't matter for a lot. long time yeah but so good dude do you remember that other story from back of the day so this time i won't say her name but there was a girl at the tail end of our k-life days who became a volunteer and similar to this was like i think she was older she was like i saw her as like a more mature version of

me or any of us or whatever okay but single girl and i'm gonna forget some of these details but basically she was also a volunteer for us okay we end up at some like you know k-life you know gift exchange Christmas party. Somehow I end up getting in her. What was it? I don't know. Basically, I remember. Are you talking about this? Is this girl? Yeah? No. I don't remember spirit finger girl. I remember a spirit finger guy. Or, or this? Is this one? No, no, no. Not her. Okay. Got all these hand signals for girls. I barely remember this girl's name, but for the record, we don't just like, dude, what about this girl? What about this? You know, like, this one girl. Not on camera.

What about this girl would just like, she worked at a school where she would like have all these different like sign language. Like I agree. And so she would do it to us sometimes. Like yes. Yeah. Totally. We would be playing a fishbowl. You got it.

Yeah. Anyway. No, this is a, um, whatever. I'll just say the only part of this is where I do remember is somehow we ended up in the same parking garage of her apartment, like maybe post party or something. And I, I, I, I, I will say, she invited me up to her. her apartment. And so I'm going, okay, sure. Is there like another gift that you forgot? We get up there and I am having like digestive issues where it's like, whatever we're doing, we need to wrap this up. Like show me what you need to show or whatever. I like, I have to get

to a toilet so quickly. And I just remember like I can't even like sit down straight. I'm standing up. You know, yeah, it's just bubble got. Oh yeah. And eventually, you know, I work my way out of there in like 15 minutes or whatever and I get home and oh I've never been happier yeah well word gets around where then Catherine is asking me so I heard uh you were in so-and-so's apartment the other night and uh so-and-so told me that apparently she was like trying to get you to leave and I go whoa that is I refuse to let that story be the story that is being told I could not wait to get out of that apartment there is no way I'm going to let her go around telling people that I invited myself up there, and then I took forever to leave. Not a shot in the world. I should have taken

a picture of what was in my toilet that night. And you tell me, I wasn't excited to leave. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Honestly, I don't know if I ever saw that girl again. But yeah, I still think about it. I'm so curious who this could be. That's so fascinating that you would behave that way. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Be careful, Tyman. Yeah. It's a he said, he said, she shed world out there. It's a very merry cherry she shed world. And they believe the ladies, all right? So just... Yeah, rule of three. Yeah, it's right. But approach. Not just with kids. Do it with the women, too. Well, what was... Do you just like,

up there just like, all right? I mean, it's one of those... Like, just like, awkward? What's going on with you? Not much going on with you. I really don't remember that exactly, but I remember just kind of an intricate conversational dance of like, why... It's that and you have to poop super bad. That's horrible. Just like, how much longer... Just put Gladiator on. Let's go. Yeah.

Oh. dude just put glad to her on yeah honestly i can't remember her last name but i'll i'll tell you after the podcast but man that that oh it still bothers me like how many other times in my life did i let someone else just retell the story that's too bad man i had to poo i'm so intrigued by who this could be because i don't even know i don't i don't have any idea um she wasn't around long ranch weekend was fun there's not much to like say about it the ranch is cool dude it's just like this this property it's been in this girl's family it's one of katherine's best friends from college made of honor in our wedding and um yeah her her like great grandparents have had this land

and so it's just like really cool old land like we went to like this like creek that was like it was all dried up but it was like kind of crazy was like where are we right now like the kids were just like siphoning through the sand and this like dug up creek kind of thing it was like it felt like a scene from a backwoods you know backwoods scene from Finn. I did. I told Bo he's like Huckleberry Finn. He's like, I don't know who that is.

I was like, we'll get there, buddy. But, um. You start calling him Huckleberry. I'm your Huckleberry. I bet Bo loved the Creek. I think so too. I mean, or yes, he did. Sorry.

Um, they, they, all my kids did. I was really proud of them because this house, this house is like probably three or four years old. Like it's beautiful, beautiful house, big, made for like the grandkids to come to. So like they have, uh, upstairs. They have a few of those like, like, arcade games old school. So like they have an X-Men arcade game. And then like a Gallagher. One of those like, yeah, Galaga, Pac-Man, all those things all in one. And of course

my kids played them. But like compared, I feel like the other kids were like, definitely like, hey, let's go play outside. My kids were like playing outside and every once in a while, like probably once a day would play at these videos. They would prefer to be outside rather than Pac-Man. Like they were, they were crying the second day we were there because they didn't get to do all the things they wanted to outside. They wanted to explore this area. They to go, Bo called this one area that was like, they called the tree hole. He's like, I wanted to go to the tree hole. I was like, yeah, Bo, but remember we did this thing instead. They had this awesome tree house. Like you could tell it was like professionally made like really well done

treehouse with like multiple levels, trap door. And so Bo was loving that. It was just a, it was just a great time. And it's just really fun and sweet to be with your friends and their kids and their spouse. It's just like kind of a rare thing to be with friends that knew you before you had kids and now you're all together. Completely different lifestyle. Like the few times I've gotten to do that with my friends from Kianakuk. It's always the same like feeling of just like, this is cool. Like you know this stage of me and now you're meeting my kids in this stage of me. And so it was great. But yeah, we we drove like, I think it was like 13 hours down, 13 hours back. stopped in Waco, showed them, Baylor.

Treehole. Have you been to the silos in Waco? Never have. They're fine. Okay. Yeah. Worth going to, but not worth like making a destination.

Yeah. But then when it went on campus and showed the kids some of Catherine's old stomping grounds and whatnot, common grounds. Common stomping grounds. Common stomping grounds. Yeah, it was fun, though. I'm trying to think of anything. It was funny.

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She's like, howdy, don't say dope. Is dope an inappropriate word? Is dope in a probe? Definitely not inappropriate, but my parents would probably be like to my younger siblings, like, I don't say dope. Basically, she was like, it means, it means marijuana. Like, don't say dope. Wait, what? Oh, I don't know that. Marijuana specifically. I think it means drugs. Maybe. Yeah, well, I think, well, my mom's going to be like, what? If she listens to this, it's like, I just feel like it could be one of those things where it's like, just because it's like kind of slang or like even, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, it'd be like that. That's swell. That treehouse right there. It's really neat.

That tree hole's sick. Probably. But I was just like, okay, dope, dope. And, huh. And Hattie goes, what did you say? And Catherine goes, don't worry about it, Hattie. I'm like, what? Dope?

We can't say dope? It comes from a good place. It has to come from somewhere. So I looked it up and there were all these different, you know, doping like for horses or steroids or whatever. Yeah. It's like, yeah, it's like a bicyclist. It's like what Lance Armstrong did.

Everyone was doing it. Everyone was doping. Thanks. So you're on like an anti-doping list right now. Anti-doping, yeah. So no PEDs for me. But, yeah, started driving home, yeah, from Catherine's parents' house, whatever that was, was that Monday?

And about an hour and a half into the drive realized I don't have my phone. Realized I left my phone in Texas. And I told you this already, but like one side of me is like pretty important. of like, what do my in-laws think of me? Like, what kind of idiot is my daughter Mary that can't even, like, keep track of his phone? On the other hand, I hope they think, well, he's just so, you know, into his family. So unplugged. So, like, oh, he just, he's not tethered to that thing. He's looking his kids in the eye. So he must not even realize, like, because I didn't. I didn't realize my phone was missing for until we were literally in Oklahoma. So it's like, well, too late

now. So I've been phoneless for the last two plus days. I'm getting it back this afternoon. And I'm, of course, everyone knows, but like, I hate how reliant I am on my, like, I just need it. Like, there's times where I'm like, I got to make a phone call. I got to take a picture. Like, I have to take pictures of things. Yeah, that would kill me. Yeah. We got a can of power shot you walk around with or what? So I think, so, so fun news in my life. Still haven't sold the house, but I have another house that I'm buying. I'm going to do Airbnb. be, I think, for this one. And so in order to, like, secure the loan, you have to take these pictures.

So I think I'm going to take my iPad over there, pull like a, you know, HVAC style, just like. They might give you a lower rate on the loan, though, like this guy. Poor guy. You can tell it's like shot on an iPad, you know. A little blurry. It's hard to hold those things steady. So I'm going to go over there today, I think. They could just take these pictures on the iPad, just on the exterior of the house, just, all right?

Should be good here. that's so funny I loved the text that I got from Catherine Ellis at like 8 p.m. a couple nights ago and it said brother and immediately I knew this is not good

there's a reason that Brad is texting me from Catherine's phone and yeah I was like so it turns out I left my phone in Texas also left my car or left my truck somewhere else can you help double dingus move for us

like I was like I'm a dingus and left my phone in Texas turns out we're a whole family of dingoes and got home and realized, oh, yeah, you met me, you know, at our homeschool co-op before we left for Texas. So that's a hard thing to remember. After a ranch weekend, that's a thing. Remember you met up?

Just like the phone thing. Like, I remembered where it was, but then I got distracted with 15. Like, we remembered halfway through the trip, like, oh, we need to go get my truck on the way home. Yeah, of course. Don't forget. Don't forget. I do this all the time.

Yeah. Like 95% of times where I'm like, I have to remember something for like either stopping somewhere on a trip or like, or, you know, it's always like, I'll remember it up until I have to. And then not at all. Like the first 90% of the trip. Oh, yeah. Don't forget. Don't forget.

Yeah. I just, I guess, I don't know. It's so strange. Yeah. It's funny. I would love to, I think you even text this time and like, I would love to leave my phone somewhere someday because it means I didn't need it. I just feel like I could never.

I would need GPS to leave my driveway. Yep. So the fact you got an hour and a half down the road. Dude, I was talking to, um, cinema. photographer Isaac about like he he was telling me you should stop using your maps for stuff he was like this guy's he's 50 it was actually super funny and fun just like it was just me and him hanging out like for two weeks straight yeah yeah uh like every every evening we go get food somewhere and it was fun um i always imagined him a younger fella no hey 50 dude we're getting we're getting closer to 50

every day did you know that every day i never thought about that way all of a sudden we're gonna be like 40s and 50 is like in the same. Everyone I know was getting closer to 50. Every day. Except for Scotty P's hamburgers. That's my name. Hey! Scottie's hamburgers.

Maybe I could make a hamburger there. Dallas Stories time in. We missed you in Dallas time. And you got to start coming with us to these tournaments. It's so fun. I should. Scott was just such a kid. The whole dude perfect weekend.

That's amazing. Only three. Can I get my free cookie? Do you think the last have these shirts? Dude! I can't wait to listen to these stories. So you think, yeah, don't use maps as much? Oh, yes, I can't remember what I was talking about.

Yeah, he was like, he was like, I had a friend who would come to my house like all the time for two years straight. And then I asked him like, do you know how to get to my house? He's like, no. For real? I just put in my maps. Wow. But it's like, I don't think I'm that bad. But I am like, yeah, I should do it less.

How often do you do it out of curiosity? Like maybe there's a better route this time of day. 97% of the time, I feel like. So you don't think you're that bad, but you do it 97% of the time. Well, I'm saying I think that a lot of these places, I could totally get there without a map. Yeah. It's just so instinctual.

And it is nice to know, like, it's a faster route and all this stuff. And I love to know exactly when I'll get somewhere and try to beat that. Do you feel like sometimes? Sometimes these days, like they'll give you a route. and then you go a different route and it'll get faster. The shape two minutes off? Yes.

I think maybe they're like figuring out like, hey, we're going to help out the traffic by telling different people to take different routes. Oh, that's interesting theory. So I like that theory, actually. That's kind of cool.

Because everyone's all right? If we have the maps, we have the people. Yeah. Control the traffic. Yeah. Because there's two pretty parallel like common roads near us

that both go east and west that are both pretty fast. and sometimes I'll take one of them and it's telling me to go with the other one and it's like oh that one actually shave time off I'll tell you what maps need to figure out it drives me nuts we've got a very popular train on one of these streets

you're talking about how come maps don't know if a train is coming in we got to get that integrated where it says take shining ocean parkway because there's the biggest train you've ever seen currently on Johnson Drive and it's going three miles an hour yes like why can't they tell me that information

Yeah, you're right. And if they don't talk to the trains, they would know that, like, hey, 14 of our cars using maps are stopped right here. Yes. Go there anyway. Right. That's a train, dingus. Yeah, dingus. A bunch of dingoes?

I agree. I don't know. That seems like we should be able to get that done. Yes. Pretty easily. And maybe somewhere that's more important than Kansas City, they do it. Maybe like New York. But I like your theory.

It's like, hey, we're kind of a lot of traffic here. Let's reroute this guy on. It feels like it, doesn't it? Gladwell Street. Nathaniel Gladwell. Anyway, so yeah, ironically, left my phone, you know,

not addicted technology by any means, but the night before went on Best Buy.com and ordered not one, not two, but eight televisions for this Airbnb. I was like,

it was, it's unreal. how cheap TVs are these days. If you're not buying TVs, you're losing money. I mean, it's the best investment you can do with your money, I think, at this point. Yeah. Like, real estate is fine. Eight, but TVs, eight TVs.

It's a lot harder to buy eight homes. Yeah. I bought 40-inch TVs. So, you think this is 40 inches? Probably 40. Give or take. Yeah. $85.

That's a cup of coffee these days. That's nuts, dude. I was like, yeah, put them in every room. you know i was thinking about this as i was driving you to your truck you told me you had eight TVs and then we talked for like five more minutes and i was like wait why are you getting ATVs like we just kept talking about everything that was going on like we went five minutes without you explaining why you're getting ATVs don't worry about dude i just need more TVs they had that's football season yeah i got 75 inch tv big old thing for 350 dollars that's gonna sell

the house yeah you're not going to stay in a tv or a That's like redoing a guest bathroom. That's like finishing a basement. It's wild. That redefines the place right there. I'm not going to do any other renovation. I'm just going to mount TVs everywhere. Before, after.

Yeah. TV Haven. Just have a great, like, wireless internet. Just land parties. What kind of Zillow lister are you when it comes to TVs? Because some people like to have the TVs blank and some people like to like graphically impose the most fake looking like image on the TV possible. Um, I think I'm, uh, I think I'm okay with it being blank. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, whenever I did the photos for, I just hired somebody out, obviously to do the photos. But if I had to choose, I would choose blank. Yeah, just black screen. Less stage, less like you're trying too hard, the better. Yeah. Yeah. But, um, anyway, so I got eight of them though. Wow. Catherine doesn't know. I, I don't think I've ever, I, not, not because I'm like, afraid to tell her. You're a little afraid. All of a sudden, she's going to be like, why do we have, like, because they're getting delivered to our house.

So it's just going to be a stack of TVs. Just show up. Don't worry about it. So anyway. That's going to be awesome. What are you going to do with them? I mean, I think there's going to be like... In the short term and long term.

Oh, the short term? Yeah, that short term's a little bit more. I don't know. I think eventually I am going to just like... Plug them in? Push is going to come to shove and I'm going to just take, get a rental like a storage unit or something for... Because I'm going to have to, like, for this Airbnb, I need to furnish couches and beds.

Yeah. So it's like, and I feel like in the short run, usually you get like a month free with those things. Oh, that's nice. Storage unit. So I'm like, if I play my cards right, get them in there for two months, you know, something like that. But all right, I sometimes it's like just, I just want to like just be just talk about mainstream or thing. I do want to talk about majorosers, but sometimes I just want to talk about good ranchers. Like the ad reads, it's just like, I'll just tell you what we eat.

The floor is yours. But it's all it is like last night we had something, new recipe, egg roll in a bowl. And it's just like, it's all these things that honestly, most kids shouldn't be mushrooms, cabbage, onions, like kids don't like that. I don't like that. But when you throw something called Wagoobee into it, all of a sudden, it's unreal and my kids love it. That should be the new slogan. You've heard, you know, it's American Meat Delivered.

welcome to the table. Their next slogan should be called, you won't even notice the cabbage. Yeah, dude. Seriously, though. It's that good. Yes. You won't even know that you ate cabbage just now. I had to go to Aldi to get the cabbage. I didn't even know where cabbage was stored. I would thought you need a guy for that. Do you think it's

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Plinko would be great, Jake. That's fun. Yeah, all those things. So. We were talking to Planko before the pod a little bit. Yeah, we were plink potting. Plank storming. We were plink storming because it seems like we might not be able to end it with the jingle anymore.

Yeah, maybe you heard last week, but our Spotify episodes keep getting taken down because we're singing too much. We're having too much joy, is what they said. We're so used to being the bad boy. and so we were trying to brainstorm all right well for six years now we've ended every episode you know we say end it with a jingle we don't want to stray too far away from that yeah brad suggested end it with a crinkle and that i would just eat a granola bar to end every episode that's how it kind of nice do that again end it with a crinkle what do you think timon how do i hate it i'm a fan i'm a fan and what's this a different brand or is that the same brand

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less nice yeah and then i think brad said end it with a planko in slam rhyme yeah um so then we said end it with a sinkhole end it with a sinkhole which i don't know exactly how we would but maybe just a picture of a sinkhole every time end it with a wrinkle yeah and it's just like a little End it with a sprinkle. Okay. Eat like a quick cupcake. I can't guarantee that I'd have to pee every time, but end it with a tinkle. Let's not expose that.

Well, no, like in the bathroom, but like that's, it'd be implied that after the podcast, we would take our turns tinkling. Okay. End it with a pringle. Once you pop, the fun don't stop. Because we. Now that's a good rhyme, too. That's like perfect. Yeah.

Now that we're rhyming. Into with a pringle. End it with a shingle. Okay. Just slowly remove your. roof. Or get shingles. Oh, that kind of shingle. That's like, isn't that something, uh, bet, no, not bedbugs? What's the thing? What are shingles? I think that might, uh, that sounds right almost. No, but it's not that, but it's some, like, childhood thing that's like,

chickenpox? I actually don't know what you guys are talking about now. Is it chickenpox? Shingles is a thing. Like, it's like under your skin. Yeah. I thought that, like, bedbugs sounded right to like somehow have to do with that. Oh, really? I don't know. I can't tell if you guys are brainstorming different types of bugs. or you're trying to end it with a stingle. Just find a different person named Stingle. I'm trying to figure out what shingles actually are. Like, isn't there like a common term for it?

Is it, is it not chicken pox? Wait. I thought chicken pox, chicken pox. I thought you guys were just raffling off things that could happen to someone in their lifetime. I thought that... What about Ex-Ongles and chickenpox is not the same thing in my, but are they?

Shingles is a painful, blistering rash caused by the same virus as chickenpox. Oh. same virus so bedbugs has nothing to do with either things um shingles bedbugs shingles or bedbugs shingles versus bedbugs there's there's google searches out there shingles and bedbugs bites are distinct conditions no but shingles chicken pox maybe a little overlap same virus same bye what does that mean though chicken pox you get when you're young and then you're embarrassed to have it when you're older so you say shingles yeah maybe yeah i know what i'm thinking of scabies that's what i was

thinking of. Scabies is, uh... That's, I think, what's something like under your skin. Oh, really?

I don't know. Skabies, I thought were scabs. That's why they call them scabies. Scabies. You're thinking of Hades. Skabies.

Scabies versus bedbugs. It's all. Scabies. Scabies is an itch mite. Oh. That's funny. I don't like that. Is it out of that.

It sounds like you're describing the symptoms. Intensive itchy pimple-like bumps. Red rash. Itch might. It's a bit of an inch. mite? Yeah. Good of an itch, might. Whoa. A parasitic mite found

in all parts of the world that burrows into skin and causes scabies. Okay. I don't want to know anything else more about this stuff. I hate the whole, like, it's all bedbugs. I hate the whole, like, there's millions of mites in your, in your eyebrows thing. Do you not know? Itch, might. Eyebrow, might. I don't want to know all that. I'm happy to remain ignorant on all the mites that there are. So we have a

bunch of stuff in our eyebrows. It's right here. Jensen. Can Jensen tell us a little bit about how we could get those out? Timon. Jensen is gone. He's gone.

No, it's not, Timon. It's coming back, though. Stahl. Stall. Stinson. Jensen. A quick question. K.Y3, Jake Triplett, news here. My name's KW33. I work for the Jake Triplett News.

Is it true that humans are harboring at any given time thousands of mites in their eyebrows? And if so, what does this mean for solving the Middle Eastern crisis? It's going to force some decisions to be made. I mean, whenever you put pressure on people to make decisions, I think that it comes from a real place. So I think at the end of the day, it's like, this is going to produce something.

Thanks, Jensen. That last punch gets me every time. It's going to produce something. So sounds like those mites. Man, he just said nothing. It is way worse than what he told us. He was like, I froze, and I said it was a good thing. That would have been better than what he said.

End it with a twinkle. Just a nice shot of somebody's eye. Twinkle in that eye. Finkle. Ray Finkel? Just a cringle? Like just in just a different picture of Santa. Flamingo.

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Or just a mingle. Just go, end it with a mingle. Go. Yeah, kind of past the piece. Like a church? Yeah.

Yeah. Past the piece. Past the piece pipe. So all those things. And more. Winkle. Inkle. Inkle. Intermingle.

Stinkle. Mink. Mink hole. Mink hole. Just figure out where minks live and just show a picture of that. Into with a minkhole. Lingo. Lingo.

Ended with a league. A league. Tow. League pole. I don't know. Bingle. End it with illegal? We just like it with a legal

commit a crime Or just confess Okay End it with a confession I kind of rolled through a stop sign Texas You That's yours

Mm-hmm In it with illegal I called I called ice on my landscaper Did you? I'm joking I don't have a landscaper I'm joking

He was my pool boy all right so probably just the Planko thing probably just get a Planko board stay with Blinko I think Plinko be fun and then figure out some prize or game or it means nothing

maybe it means nothing maybe it's like oh I was hoping for the oh blue one all right if you had blue you win this week yeah just like keep track of who wins and maybe at the end of the Plinko League

yeah you have to like stake your like what team are you and you could like at the end of the year. We get some merch for Team Blue, Team Pink. That's great. Have you seen these TikToks? No. I was going to let you answer then.

Unless it's a real and I'm on there every, you know, once a month. I will also say I've also not seen these TikToks. I've seen other people talking about these TikToks and now I'm going to pass it to time and the different groups, Group 7, all this stuff. No. Got it. It's not. It's just the new Enegram.

New Enigram. New New New Neatigram. There's some. So you don't know. I don't know that much. I guess there's some, like, someone started this thing on TikTok, whereas, like,

I'm going to separate humans at, like, seven different groups based on, like, characteristics, and I'll make these videos, and then I'm going to kind of let the algorithm show it to people. So if you swipe and then you see a TikTok that says, congrats, you're in group three because you're this and this.

Now you're just stuck in that group. All that to say, okay, we should make our people a group. Because people are really clinging to, like, I'm group seven. You wish you'd be a group seven, but I saw the TikTok talk first, I'm in group seven. So yeah, I think we just have different colored groups for our

Planko League. And you get a choose, but you do not get to deviate. No, no switching. It's kind of like a hot dog races at baseball. Ketchup, mustard, relish. Who do you always root for? I usually go mustard. He seems like kind of an underdog. I wish I went mustard. I wish I were a mustard guy, but I started out ketchup. I have to stay loyal to ketchup. It feels like ketchup's kind of the Yankees, you know? Yeah. But it's like, well, I like ketchup. I didn't like mustard as a kid. So I've always been mustard or ketchup, but mustard seems like it wins a lot, but also is like respectable, like underdog, like you're saying. Coach's favorite.

Relish, relish, there's a certain personality that likes relish. Now, that's Coach's son, I feel like. You probably shouldn't even be in this race, but you got here. But you try hard. You have a good work ethic. Planko League just reminded me, I saw a thing, these guys started something called the Spider League. You know this? If you...

If you ever just, like, see a spider in your home or your bathroom or something, you take a picture of it. And there's this app that'll tell you, like, this spider versus this spider, who would win in a fight. Oh. And so basically you get to pair off your spiders against each other. Okay. So it's a way of kind of being like, oh, I'm actually excited I saw this spider. Yeah. Because now I can input it into Spider League.

Okay. And, like, see if anyone can beat me. So it's like, you would upload your spider in your house and I would upload my spider. That's kind of cool. Yeah. I'm kind of into that because I saw a nasty-looking spider at this ranch. You might do all right. and I was it was me we were down at this like creek area and it was like you'd like walk through

like brush and like just nasty stuff I had a spade spade a big shovel scabes scabes with me because you know the people that own this they were kind of scaring me about snakes so like yeah just bring just bring a weapon maybe bring this just in case to see a snake I'm like I don't do snakes I don't I'm not I'm a city boy but I saw this big old spider and it was like me and like seven kids like and i was like like they because because david went to go get the rest of like the crew because we only had one little side by side like buggy kind of thing and so rosy and this other kid cooper who are both three were just like right there by the spider and i'm like i missed like three times kill you didn't go spade did you go we went shoe i went true for the spades yeah

spade would be uh but all that to say i think i could have won some won some fights with the spider in spider league but also do spiders fight each other Or is it just like this one's more poisonous than that? Like this one looked like, I don't know. It looked big and bad, you know? I can see a spider fighting a smaller, weaker spider, but no, I don't think that's what the webs are for. They don't cannibalize each other.

I don't think so. Okay. But in Spider League, they do. Inspire League, all right. Let's wrap up. All right, shall we? We ended it there with illegal, with the Plinko. Into with illegal.

Do you want to do reviews of the week? Yeah, I guess we end it that way, too, don't we? I usually do. all right let's go ahead let me find my shows here on my gotta use my computer

because I don't have my phone you get it back this afternoon so they say they told my father-in-law is the one that shipped it and he said yeah they said they'll either have it in two days

or it's free I'm like well I don't I don't care about it being free I'll anyway all right sweet one man there's a good

There's some good ones here. I'll do just a simple Weezerino, five-star review. Brightens up a bad day. My go-to pub when I'm having a rough day. Love you guys. That's nice. Weizorino. That should be a good reminder.

If we ever see the podcast numbers tank or something, you're like, well, people aren't having as many bad days. Yeah, Wieserino is doing all right. Yeah, this is good. Yeah. Mine's from Kim C, five-star review. I wholeheartedly. I don't know why. Man, that was tough.

End it with the sinkhole heartedly. It was two words, and that threw me up. I wholeheartedly enjoy listening to the pod every week. I found myself hoping I'd catch Monday's episode Sunday night. It's so refreshing to hear you chat about life, faith, and friends. My only request is a surprise night pod more often. As soon as I hear that at the beginning of the episode, I know I'll be laughing extra hard. Keep up the awesome work.

Thank you, Kim C. I whole heartedly. Appreciate that. Appreciate it. Yeah. Review. That's fun. That's fun.

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