Ghostrunners - 492 - The Jacuzzi Episode

Episode Date: December 1, 2025

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And also did a turkey trot. Yes, you did. First ever turkey trot. You couldn't find the turkey, though. Yeah. Did we enjoy that Instagram story? I didn't enjoy it as much as a lot of people did. I thought I was like, that's pretty clever, Jay, good one.

And man, people thought it was the funniest thing they'd ever seen. Thank you. Hold on. There wasn't really like, you weren't looking for like a fake turkey. I didn't know if that was a thing. It's a turkey. No, no, no. That's a turkey run.

This is a turkey trot, if you know what I mean. Turkey runs are like 5Ks. If you know what I mean. And then a turkey trot is like a almost like a pin the tail on the donkey. But everyone is like looking for like a fake turkey that's been like in this like field basically. And there's there's a, there's a, they call them a head gobbler. Take it. I knew if I stared at Braddy crack.

A head gobbler. How long could we have gotten? Oh, my goodness. When we both realize that Scott doesn't know what this is? Oh, my gosh. We should make foot makeup stuff in front of Scott more often. I didn't know if that was just like a different tradition for this turkey trot. It's like you're supposed to find like a hidden turkey.

Yeah, I thought that could really be a thing. There's a head gobbler. I would have loved her at the end of that sentence. He was going to have a costume so you're like, no, like, he's all in red so you know, like, to follow him. Oh, man. Uh, uh, oh, oh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat.

So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's a ghost from his podcast. Everybody in the morning who would take you around Oh, so this podcast. All right, happy December Ghosties. Hope you enjoyed that little throwback intro to the head gobbler. The head gobbler.

Did you do a turkey trot this year? We did not. Actually, one person in the family did. Who do you think it was? Steve. Steve Coop. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy.

It was like so. so windy. And they were kind of all used to it. I seem to be the only one freaking out about how loud the wind was. I mean, just for like hours, there's just a constant like, oh, like even in the house. It just did that from like six to midnight. Yeah, are we confident that in the flexibility of these trees outside? This is unbelievable. Really? And anyway, so yeah, I had no interest in doing a turkey troth the next morning. And I woke up, Steve was gone. And yeah, he ran one. When they come back, though, don't you just respect the heck out of those guys? Oh, my, come back.

And they're cold. Their, their, their, their, their faces red from the cold. And, like, they've been running. So they're kind of hot and cold. And, like, he's got the stocking cap on. It's like, dang it. I wish I did it. I know.

Because they come back with endorphins, too. Like, I'm like, oh, good morning. How was the run? And he's like, it was great. You know, I got a donut or whatever. Right. They earned their donut, dude. It's like, and you just feel bad about eating the cinnamon roll.

It's like, I don't know if I should. Rachel and I did. When we heard that Steve went out to run a turkey truck, we made predictions. We're like, all right, let's guess on like what he's wearing, what his time was, and like maybe something. We know something insane probably happened. Like, what is that like crazy thing? It's what we were guessing. And anyway, came back and yeah, sure enough, it was like he was dressed in a, he had a DeWalt hoodie on, which is Power Tool merch. Yeah, yeah.

What is it black with yellow or yellow with black? It is yellow. Oh, really? Yeah. He's like a traffic going out there. Yeah. It is yellow. Okay.

Respect. So DeWalt merch with like, it was hard to tell if they were gardening or like welding gloves. Heavy duty for some sort of laborer's job. Not running gloves, but just heavy gloves. Yeah, heavy gloves. Like quite literally heavy. Like have to like make your wrist sort of run out of these. Not aerodynamic gloves.

They're wide. And then we asked him, we're like, what was your time? And he goes, oh, I, you know, I ran 3215 or whatever he did, 3115. but I think I could have got it under 31, but when Matt Glasscock fired the gun, he fell over, so I had to help him up. Like, we knew something insane. What?

What kind of, first of all, is Glasscock, I don't know, 85 years old, or is the gun that he's using just? It was a musket. All right, runners take your marks. I've got to load it. Hold on. Just like John Smith and Samo Set in the first Thanksgiving. he fired a cannon

what was his name uh i think matt or mark glasscock mark glasscock that's a name for iowa that's a every name in i was so interesting but yeah anyway so he said yeah he like fired the gun and like knocked himself off balance fell over whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa and so then steve like helped him up and got him ready and then like that was how he started his 5k so he's like i think i could have shaved 15 seconds if i didn't help glass guy. Yeah, I was tired after picking this guy up. I'm so curious about how this guy fell. Was there something in his way? Did he not, you know, have his legs far enough apart? Was he going one

hand or one foot up? Just a quick like, boom. Here's what I remember from the story. Steve said he tried to fire it the first time and it didn't go off, which in my two, so every now and then we'll go to Webster City, which is where Grandma, Graham, Flory. Okay. Grandma Flory lives. Okay. And my two turkey troughs in Webster City, the gun has not gone off the first time. So this is very common that it would not. You don't even have to take your marks when he fires it up the first time. You know it's not going to happen.

So I think he fires it once. It doesn't go off. He fires it a second time. Maybe it spooks him a little bit. He wasn't expecting it to go off. And he starts like backpedaling, losing his balance. And then he hits a curb, I think. Like, then his feet hit something.

That is so. I just think it's so funny. Like, all that is funny. Because how many people are. in the crowd. Like, how many people do you think? It was good turnout, you know, maybe 70, 80. Okay. Yeah. 70, 80. So enough to where, like, people are kind of quiet listening for this thing. And then the guy just like, nah, it's not working. You know, like everyone can hear him say that. Ah, just second, guys,

just a second. Like small enough where everyone can like have a conversation with them, like, oh, I used to have a gun like that too. Yeah. I know. It's this tradition. It doesn't work. I have a video probably somewhere on my phone, but one year running this. Steve false started, because he does give you a little bit of a countdown. Three, two, one. And then he jumps ahead and then the gun goes off. That was pretty funny. Just saying like, all right, come on, dude.

Be like the rest of us. That's amazing, dude. Yeah, there's a bit of a countdown. One. Hang on. Just a second, my caps are off. Remember cap guns, dude? Did you have cap gun?

Yeah, it had something like that. It was pretty sweet. Yeah, made a loud noise these days. Catherine's mom tried to get some caps for Bow's gun, and they're crazy expensive. Like, I want to say $20 for like three rolls of them. Wow, you got to use those preciously. Correct. It's like, don't mess up the cap gun.

What are they made of? Helium? What's in demand? I think it's just the caps are in less demand, so therefore they're not making as much of them. Probably it. Yeah. Crazy. It's a Saturday morning when we're recording this.

Saturday Pod. Saturday Pod. That's what we're doing. And it is a rainy morning. This is kind of a gloomy day. Yeah. I have five people at my house right now. They're the normal five.

Okay. Yeah. Like the people that normally live there, minus me. Two of them are still in bed. Can you guess which ones they were? When I came over here at 10 a.m. on a Saturday morning. I don't think it could be Catherine because that means at least three other kids are awake. Unless Catherine's in bed with,

Catherine's in bed with Rosie and Hattie, Bo, and Henry are all playing. Hattie, Bo, and Rosie are all awake watching a movie right now. Catherine and Henry are still asleep. I like went in there, like brought her coffee thinking like, oh, she's probably just being quiet in bed, you know, dad or days. That's kind of what we do anyway. Like I'm in charge of the kids. I like brought her coffee.

She was like not awake on her phone. She was just straight up asleep. And Henry, too. And I'm like, good for them. I just left the kids. I was like, hey, when the movie's over, if mom's not awake, just be quiet, I guess. If you hear Henry, go get them. Like, the movie's over.

I watch the deleted scenes or I don't know. I left some food for Henry and his little like on his plate. Trough. Yeah, pretty much. So we'll see when she wakes up. Kind of wild, though. I mean, it's a perfect morning to sleep in, though. Oh, yeah.

The Saturday after Thanksgiving, just a rainy Saturday. It's been nothing but precipitation since Thanksgiving, I feel like. Yeah, it's gloomy. It's been gloomy. Luckily, we've had a fun Thanksgiving or else it would just be like, these are kind of sad days. And we need to, Tyler made the point. We are recording this right before it comes out.

So I think rain is very topical. Is there anything else topical we're talking about? December. December's. What do we think of that? How's that going? How's that almost going? I'm excited.

We're getting close enough that we can tell it's probably going to be good. What do you think about the Macy's parade? Huh? I saw a video. Chiefs suck. No, they don't. I'm still, I'm still a believer in the chief.

Hey and him last night. Can you believe that? Man, I don't know what else is going on. I don't know either. Mitch McConnell probably froze again. Black Friday was a thing. Black Friday was recent. Did you guys, I mean, I'm sure you made some money Black Friday.

Did you guys spend any money Black Friday? Oh, I spent. Yeah. I didn't really. I was going to get some jeans from Old Navy, but then I kind of forgot. Okay. Jake?

All week and long and prior doing deals. Yeah, I bought Rachel a bunch of Christmas gifts. Do you want to just cryptically tell us? Just,

no, no, no, don't tell us. Just tell us like in syllable mumble form, like this. Like if it were,

if it were a subwoofer, you would go, hmm. If she can figure that out. Just the low tones. Just the low tones. So, I went.

No, I got it. You can do this. There were a couple things I got that I like know she wants. Which are? Oh, so that's like... Right. She could never have too many of those.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And I knew the size and the... Right. But there were a couple other things. One of these leads to another. I'm like, maybe she would want to... I don't know.

Okay. So I got two of those. two of them. I was going to fit in the house? Well, they're deflatable. Oh, right. You take the air out of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But that was basically just a few Christmas gifts. Okay. I, first of all, I did order some stuff last minute. I wasn't sure that you just said, like, I'm sure they're going throughout the weekend. Because I wasn't sure. Yeah. Honestly, dude, you're right.

Cyber Monday. I forget about that. I just think it feels like, November is just a deal month. Oh, yeah. Like once November 20th, yeah, even before, actually. Yeah, mainly just November.

Like, that's why I bought all those TVs because it was like door busters or whatever. Oh, I think the term door buster. And we use it, but I think it's so funny. It just sounds a little bit too much like David Busters, I think, to me. I don't know why it's so funny. Or Blockbuster.

Could be. It's just a good word. It's just so emphatic. A buster's never like, like, you can't take a buster series. Yeah, Buster is so funny. Hey, door buster. Hey, door buster.

How's it hanging? Yeah, but I don't know. But there was a part of me that was like, maybe I'm going to regret not getting these things right now. So at like 1152 last night, I bought some stuff on Amazon, which is the dumbest. I mean, it was your last chance. Out loud when you said Cyber Monday, I was like, I'm the biggest idiot in the world. Of course, this is still going to be a thing. No, I also was thinking like, oh, I was too late for those jeans.

I'm definitely not. Also sold out. Old Navy, probably going to be pretty affordable in the middle of July. No, but that's the thing, dude, is like, yeah, they're affordable, but it just kills you because it's like, well, they're not as affordable as they're not as cheap as they could be. Yeah.

That's the thing. Like, I wasn't buying anything insane. I'm getting three pairs of jeans for 40 each is a lot worse than like 20 each. Crazy. Yes, exactly. Current events. That's right.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly, dude. So what did all you guys get for Black Friday? I bought a ring camera. I bought a bunch of stuff for this upcoming Airbnb, basically. Got some mattresses, bought some ring doorbell, ring or like the little like code thing for a door oh yeah door door buster door buster so we don't have any door busters anti door buster nice try door buster you'll talk you through the ring

camera hey i see you door buster nice try door buster better luck next time um let's try and guess what else you got for the Airbnb okay no it's not that fun there's that many more things you should give for your Airbnb please uh backyard fire pit okay matches Matches? It comes with matches. For sure, backyard fire pit, but also, I, like, think about all the liability things. Like, what if they burn my house down on accident or something? Hey, Firebuster.

Hey. No, thanks. Yeah. But, yeah. Definitely thought about it. Hot tub. I thought about going hot tub. Wow.

Hot tub, yeah. Current thoughts. Tubbuster. You know how much I love a tub. You do love a tub. And I think other people would, too. It's a nice Airbnb thing to have, I feel like. Yeah.

Okay. What's the difference in a hot tub in a jacuzzi? Could you call it a jacuzzi even though it's a hot tub? Yeah. It's kind of a C-Dude Jetsky thing for me. It's like a square and a rectangle. Like a hot tub can also be a jacuzzi. No.

But a banana isn't a, but a strawberry isn't a berry. That's what it is. Yes. I think it's like a bathtub can be a jacuzzi. A hot tub can be a jacuzzi. But a bathtub cannot be a hot tub. And it feels like a jacuzzi cannot be a bathtub.

Well, I guess you throw soap in it. No, I think they, I think that, yeah. I think inside sometimes, like, they have jacuzzi jets and stuff in your tubs. Jakuzy jets. Oh, yeah, they do. Is jacuzzi just the jets? Is that what makes it a jacuzzi? Good question.

Let's go ahead and keep saying the word jacuzzi. We're going to get excited about saying it. It's a lot of fun. That's a fun word. Yeah, that's better than Buster. Jakuzy. Door jacuzis. What is that?

I don't know, dude, but that's wild. That's wild that's just like a normal word that we say in a matter. Hey, I didn't think twice, but like, jacuzzi? Jukuzzi is awesome. If it wasn't, it's, it's spelled in the better words we have. like a pretty sophisticated way. That makes it, you can take it seriously. Yeah. Because it's like if it was J-A-K or something. J-A-K-K and like O-O-O-Z-Y. It's like, well, that's what it sounds like when you look at it, oh, it's a sophisticated word. Yeah, spelled that way, jacuzzi. That's like,

that's like a brand of like, I don't know, like a kids like off-brand like slushy makers. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. Or you shake it up to make the slushy. Yeah. Hey, one of jacuzis. The jacuzis in the freezer. You guys have slushy makers. You guys have Sleshy Magic? No, but we have jacuzis. Oh, jacuzzi's a family. Oh, it's like the last name. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, Winnebago's. Yep. Is that the same thing? I don't know. I feel like Winnebago is like a brand, but people say it for like kind of generic things.

All right. So, yeah, kind of Kleenex, I think, is the name brand for what we're supposed to call tissue. Jakuzy is the name brand for what we're supposed to call this two-worded term. Can you guys get it? Jet bowl Get no frills delivered Shop the same in-store prices online and enjoy unlimited delivery with PC Express pass Get your first year for 250 a month Learn more at PCExpress.C.c.a.

Jet propulsion. Jet ball. Jet ball. You think the chiefs can make to jet pole this year? We're bowl eligible with bowl, the jet bowl. Okay. So it's, it's not bowl, but that's like kind of close. The first one's fun. It's an adjective and a noun. Adjective and a noun. Something basin. Ooh, I like that. No? He doesn't like basin. Say it again. The, the thing. The family who were Italian immigrants, originally had the surname Lucuzzi before it was misspelled at the U.S. border. That's a fun fact. That's such a convenient way to like have a cool name.

Yeah. I think I'm just going to do that sometime. Nellis, like a top golf. Yeah. It was misspelled at top golf. That's my American border. What do you want to say it again? Just the, like, fill in the blank.

Just say what you said earlier. Like, what's the clue? I think he gave some context or something. Yeah, I don't know. The word jacuzzi comes from the jacuzzi family name, which became a brand name for a blank blank after the brothers developed a hydrotherapy pump. Hydro therapy pump. a a warm spa okay now you've gotten some letters in the right spas the first letter

w or okay w is in the right water tub water bowl wind spa wind spa wind spa it's wb water basin wind basin i don't know why i'm on wind because it doesn't make much sense it's not basin and it's not wind is it water no it's not even water Uh, wait. How would you describe the shape? Wush is good. Wush is warmer. Wishy Washi.

Wishy Washi is actually kind of warm. Not the way it sounds, but the way it describes, like, look at the way that water's moving. Uh, that's, oh. Whoa. That's, that's, whew. Wave, wave, wave, waves in the ballpark. Oh, wave felt good.

Oh, wow, that water is. That water is. Whipping. No. Whirlpool. Whirlpool. Oh, whirlpool. World pool.

Whirlpool. Basin Whirlpool is this the first word Old pool is the first word Whirlpool Pub Whirlpool jet It was still B

Oh yeah sorry Whirlpool Table Whirlpool Bin Ben Whirlpool bin Whirlpool bin

Whirlpool Bha Bha bang Bang Bangkok Mr. Cosscock Whirlpool Boing

Boing Boing Bowie, Bowie, Bay, bass, Whirlpool bin. Did you take a whirlpool bin out? Have we said bowl yet? It's whirlpool bath. Oh, duh. It's like a word we pretty much talked about.

Dang it. Bathtub. Okay. Oh, that's funny. So I guess that's what they used to be called. Oh, you over to the Johnsons. So a jacuzzi is definitely a bath. I guess it is.

I guess they're all baths. Yeah. They've got a whirlpool bath back there. Actually, this has like a showdown, showcase showdown. Yeah. The original price is right. So good, dude. This is New Lexus and an at-home whirlpool bath.

Ooh. Okay, okay, okay. Calculating my head. Okay. So all that to say, I did not get a jacuzzi. Okay. But I'm thinking about it. Okay.

Dude, you want to talk about the Black Friday every day of the year. It's called Facebook Marketplace. Oh, yeah. I was with old Tommy, and he was telling me some legends. Yeah, tell me more. What does he say? Yeah, I think you'll like this. I'll do. I got to the table, and someone was like, do you hear about Tommy's Facebook sale? What did you do?

And he goes, I made $3,000 on a snowblower today. I said, just today. And I said, what did you do? He said, I bought a snowblower on Facebook Marketplace for 2000, sold it for $5,000. I was like, what did you do to up the value? And he said, set it out by my street. The trick is buying a snowblower in August, selling it before the polar vortex gets to Iowa. Just the desperation.

So easy. Yeah. Just buy winter things in the summer. Genius. And just have a place to store it. Yeah. That's awesome. He literally didn't do a thing.

Yeah. I was like, what did you do to it? I set it up by my road. Like, no, but like what parts did you change in it? Like, what was wrong with it? Did you like polish it at least? I just sat it, set it down. Yeah, I've been like, there was a while where I was like, I need to figure out.

everything I'm going to buy on Black Friday because it's like the best deals for everything. And then I looked at more and I was like, okay, I could buy a couch. I don't even know what it feels like online right now for this much. Or I could go on Facebook Marketplace and just there's a million listings. Bounce around a little bit on these couches. Well, there's just so many listings out there. And I just, so I literally, I had a strategy and I just, I just basically flooded it, flood the inbox. Like I sent 100 messages to people and then all I said was, hey, and I use their name.

Hey, Jake, this looks great, period. Has anyone claimed it yet? Okay. Basically saying, is it available without just saying, is this available? And then they respond. You know, and they hopefully, they see them a little bit of a personable guy. I'm already interested in it. And they respond and they'd be like, no, not yet, whatever.

And then I'd basically offer 50 to 60% of whatever the listing is. It's Black Friday. And just, I would do it on 100. I only need two people to say yes. And just, yeah, did that for a while. And it was kind of fun. I'm kind of addicted to it now. Like I've bought some couches already, and I'm like, I don't need any more, but I kind of want some more.

Dude, this is what my brother Jesse does all the time with shoes. Yeah. Just like, I mean, it's low-balling everybody, but like 5% of the people are going to be like, sure. And so then he resells the shoes that he gets for like crazy low. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't, I don't. Addicted to the grind.

I don't, I'm not offended if somebody's like, get out of here. That's way too low. You know, whatever else be like, I understand. I'm just on a budget. You know, whatever. Say all the different things. Sounds like Jesse is almost like a little protege. Yeah.

need a little understudy to do this. Jesse's been training. Okay, Jesse. Shadows. Does he know, does he have some good taste for, uh, you know, nice mid-century modern, um, decor? I'll ask him. Okay. I think it's mainly shoes. Well, maybe we have a shoe area of there, be a shoe rack. Yeah, shoe rack, maybe. Anyway, so yeah, I'm like, like, I was like, why am I trying to like find everything perfectly good on line when it's like,

Facebook marketplace is way better for it. So many things. Yeah. Of course, like, electronics and stuff, I'm probably not going to find a ring doorbell. Maybe I could, but like, I'm not going to try to do those kind of things. But I'm like, a couch, you don't have to pay any taxes. It's awesome. It's fun. Yeah. What else are you going to buy off Facebook? Oh, probably some rugs, mirrors, bed frames. I don't know. I'm looking at bathroom vanities there for the bathroom. I'm thinking lamps. I'm 100% thinking lamps. Floor lamps, table lamps, dust lamps. Here's the deal with like Facebook marketplace, though,

is if like once you search something once, they just flood you with lamps. They're like, do you want a thousand more of these? So I'm waiting on lamps. Okay. I'm trying to get the big things first. I'm like,

I don't want you guys to give me those $20, like, suggestions yet. I want the big ones. Okay. And then we'll figure out along the way as we go, the smaller like lamps and light fixtures and stuff like that. But yeah, everything, dude. What are you going to do?

I think TVs, we've got to have a Chromecast, Roku or just smart TV? What brand did we go with? Good question. I think it's Roku. I think they're Roku's. Roku TVs. I might have bought, I mean, I bought eight of them. I don't know if I told you that. But I think, uh, basin. Some of them might be Amazon fire ones or whatever. Some of them might be Roku. I'm not sure. Uh, because some of them are just smaller and bigger, whatever. Eight TVs is still so funny. I know, dude. So many TVs. It's a lot.

It's a lot. For one house. For one very normal size house One could be out by the Whirlpool Bath One is going to be out on the screened and porch Yep And then yeah we got a couple living areas You got four different rooms That's seven

Where's my eighth TV? Oh I don't know where the eighth one's going Bathroom Master Bath Where is he? Not Whirlpool Bath I don't know we'll figure it out Just throw it up on a ceiling How cool would that be? Watch TV as you're going to sleep

anyway yeah it's not a big house but like one of my buddies i was talking to him about Airbnb stuff because he's done a few of them and he was like you need to make sure you get a tv for every room that's like non-negotiable and i was like done i already did that yeah easy i was like okay all right it is officially December if you're listening to this right now and what do you think of when you think of December you probably think of cold you think of the trees you think of Do you think of trees? Apple pies. You think of Jesus is the reason for a season.

You don't think of a mouse crawling in and being baked into your apple pie. But it's happened before. It's happened before, I bet. I bet if you Google it right now, you could find something about it. Mouse and apple pie December. You think of sleigh bells, right? You think of jingle bells. You don't think of owls flying into your house.

and hooting all over your fruitcakes. But they do. There's happened before, I bet. It's happened before. I'll tell you where it's happening a lot. Where? Salt Lake City. That's why you think it's called that, Salt Lake City.

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Ruin your Christmas lights displays. Have you heard about that? And worst of all, getting your outlets. Exactly, dude. I'm looking up some Salt Lake City influencers right now. Kevin Love. Kevin Love. Really?

The Kevin Love? Yeah. I just looked up Utah Jazz roster. Oh, perfect. Yeah. DM the Jazz. Andre Kirolenko is still probably around. Yeah.

Carl Malone. Honestly, I'm pretty out of touch with the NBA because I don't recognize a lot of these guys, but wow, the NBA got really like... Isn't there a KU guy on? European. Is Svee on there? Kyle Filipowski.

Oh, yeah, he is. I do recognize him. Philopowski's a Duke guy. Wow. Yeah. That guy. Yeah, he's on there. Sveh McIuluk.

Yep. He's on there. Yeah. So he's a Kansas. That's the connection. He's like us. Yeah, he's just like us. So everyone has spiders.

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Rugs. Yeah, I get some rugs. I know, dude, but not online, not on Facebook marketplace. It's like everything's cheap. If you go on the line, way cheaper. And some people just,

want to get rid of stuff. And like Airbnb's, they're going to use, they're going to be used and abused. So it's like, okay, they don't have to be perfect. Yeah, that's a good point. Brand new. So anyway, that's that. How's the, how's the temperature feeling here, boys? I'm comfortable.

Yeah. I didn't notice anything. You? Okay. What do you think? I'm good. Reason I ask is, uh, when we went to Iowa, I was trying to figure out how to turn our thermostat to vacation mode.

Okay. That's something I've done before. Yeah. If you have, if anyone out there also has the smart thermostat, EcoB. I don't like it. Oh, no. Why? The app is troublesome.

Okay. Poor navigation. I can't find anything. Granted, I was driving and also trying to navigate this thermostat app to set on vacation mode. I'm like, forget it. I'm just going to turn it off. I'm just going to turn the thermostat off and I'll figure this out later. Smart.

I'll tell you when I figured it out. About when we got home last night and the temperature had 51 degrees in our house. I was like, whoa, we got cold in Kansas City this week. So what does it say right now? It actually got, I think, overnight. It did, it climbed back up. But because this room, typically I have the vent, closed, and the door shut.

When I got in here this morning, this room was still about 51 degrees. It was freezing in here. So, yeah, I felt so bad, you know, just like the long, like, journey home. We're leaving Rachel's family. at least we get to come home to our warm. Well, at least we can put a fire on the fire. Yeah, it was cold. So, yeah, I just swaddled in blankets.

Dude, I actually had really had to go to the bathroom. Two things. One, that seat. That seat was less than 51 degrees. I guarantee you that. Porcelain's not the warmth that you want. That was so cold. And then, too, this was like,

I feel like I became a man in that bathroom. must. Actually, no, I think I might have, like, declined as a man. I would say you probably shrunk a little bit. Yeah. It took me, like, five minutes to, like, work up the courage to, like, start the bidet. So, like, it's just the air is cold, the seat is cold. My pants are, my legs are cold. Everything's cold. And it's the thought of this, this water that's never warm anyway. I'm like, man, how cool are these pipes? Oh. And there was no thought of, like, just don't use the bidet this time. It was like, I waffled. I was like, it's fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll just hop in the shower like I always do. Exactly. Just wash off there.

Yeah, it was a tough, tough homecoming last night. But I'm glad you guys feel comfortable today. Yeah, it's great. I feel great. Yeah. Yeah, 51's pretty cold. I remember there's a time in the K-Life house where the heat went out when me and Peter were roommates. It got down to 55. And I remember that feeling very cold for like a day or two. Yeah, for whatever reason. and inside, the warm temperatures feel way warmer, cold temperatures feel way cold. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what that is.

There's Devo in there somewhere. But we're fine. I'm glad to hear. Yeah, poor Rachel, honestly. You can suck it up, but she's the one that, like, loves the warmth. Yeah. You know what we used? Cozyered blanket.

Absolutely. So that was nice. Just like the big, cuddly one. Cozy, heavy. It's a daily driver for us right now. It is. Usually just on Catherine's side. for nighttime, but, like, that's what Bo and I

we read under it every single night. We have a tradition right now. I don't know how long it's going to last, but we're reading the Hardy Boys. How I told you that? Hardie Boys is great. It's so good. I was listening to what you talking about that. I was like, I loved those. Yeah. End of every chapter. It's like a cliffhanger. It's so fun. Yeah. But we turn off all the lights

and then we turn off just the reading light and throw the reading light on the bed. So there's like just a little bit of light in the room. Kind of a Devo style of Cannock a little bit. Yeah. And then we we call it, we're Plunge Bros. is what we call ourselves. Pludge. Plunge.

And we just start by my dresser and we both run up and just jump like Superman style out of the bed. Sometimes we do it at the same time, synchronized plunge. Other times a little blobbing happen. It's great. Bo loves it. Haddy's done it a few times with us. And then the other night, she's like, I don't know. I don't think I'm going to read with you guys tonight.

I'm going to read with mom. All right. You're going to miss the plunge. You guys are like, oh, maybe I should. Cal is like, don't do it. Just read by your seat yourself. I missed the plunge. It's great.

Do the Hardy Boys books ever get, like, scary for Bo? Yeah, 100%. Okay. Because I remember being, like, I was probably 11 when I was really into those. I remember you kind of scared sometimes. Honestly, I think they'd be even scarier if he truly understood everything that was going on in this book. Like, this is the second book.

And as I was reading, like, the first chapter, I was like, I don't know if this is a good idea. Like, it's like drug smugglers. And I had to explain to him what that meant. Like, all right. But he's really, like, he just kind of latches on. to a few facts from the book. Like, he knows that there's a gang.

And so he's like, every single person's like, I think they were part of the gang. I think that's part of it. The gang probably. But there was one time we were reading with Hattie, and he just goes, I'm scared. I'm scared right now. I was like, hey, it's okay.

And it wasn't even that scary of a part. I think they were just like going through a house that was, there was nobody in it. And so he was scared of that. It's kind of cool that a book can still evoke emotion like that, like, without, like, moving images or, like, noise, but just, like, just reading. Right. Like, I go back and forth, man.

I'm like, am I reading too hard of a book to this kid as a five-year-old? Like, there's words in there. I'm like, there's no way he knows that word. I don't even know that word. Yeah. I think I saw, like, the copyright on it, this might be wrong. It looked like, I think I saw it, like, 1930 something. Like this book.

I don't know. The 30s, depression. I would have guessed, like, 50s or 60s, maybe. I don't understand how copyrights work for the record. Maybe it was like copyright for that publishing company or something, but there was a, let's see. Or maybe they were just ahead of their time. They copyrighted it in the 30s, like someday, someday. We're going to write this book.

Hardy Boys Book 2, Copyright. Is that a good? The 1927 original version. Wow. Okay, but it made the test of time. It looks like they like updated it. However, later versions of the book and characters are still protected, for example, a version from the 1950s.

so same story different book or same it looks like different version different whirlpool bath they took out some of the racial slurs it says no I'm just kidding no they left us in no those are still there I don't know but yeah he's definitely scared sometimes

I have a pretty distinct memory it was not the original Hardy Boys it was like a rebooted version but still same characters like but just modern day or something like that and I was reading it by myself in my room and I was probably 12 and I was like I had to go downstairs really where my family was I was

so scared it was like some some like conspiracy i think it was called the red arrow they were like popping up all over everyone's doors and like oh i don't like that i don't know it freaked me out yeah like like this book like the dad gets like kidnapped basically okay um these like two days like they go and visit this abandoned house the hardy boys do and then they leave and then they come back like two days later and there's these people just like very like civilized people just like living in this house. The house is completely, like, cleaned out. Uh, they hear, they hear what they think is a ghost at one point. Somebody yelling and screaming for help. Uh, they find somebody like, like, uh, tied up and gagged at one point. Like, I think I remember this book. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. House on the cliff. And they

find this like cave underneath the cliff. And they go in it and there's this guy with a gun saying, get out of here. It's private property. We're part of a gang. Yeah. I think he's part of the gang. What else does he cling on to? He, he knows there's a gang. He, The word smuggler, he thinks everyone's the smuggler. I bet they're part of the smuggler. And then there's also a character in it named Pretzel Pete, which I think it is a pretty big character. I hope that's copyrighted.

But the very first, like, you know how sometimes, like, as you're opening the book, there's like a preview image or something. There's an image of Pretzel Pete saying, I think I know where your dad is. And so everything, everything comes back to Pretzel Pete as well because that's the first, like, character that was introduced to him. So, anyway, he's into it. Pretzel Pete.

He loves it all. Those books are so good. Yeah. I don't know. We'll see if he's continuing in it. But he, like we were reading that book, Mr. Popper's Penguins,

maybe one other book. Oh, Hank the Cow Dog. And he kind of like petered out on Poppers. Petered out on Poppers. No gang. He was like, it's fine. That's a great book.

No pretzel. I think he'd listen to the story on like audio. So I don't think he was as interesting because he knew what was going on. Yeah. But he's, yeah, he's into it.

Dude, here's a word that I'm going to send you first. And I'm going to ask you if you know, it, and then I'm going to ask you if you think Tyman knows it, okay? Because I have the, this is, this is a word that I had never heard before and then all of a sudden I heard it

45 times in one day from Bo. Whoa. And I thought to myself, I don't know that word, but I bet Tyman knows that word. Maybe. Okay. Do you know it? No. This is in English. Is it? Okay. Yeah, it's an English word. It does

look like it could be like a verb in Spanish. This looks like a game of drones character. You're not far off. Timon, do you know what a scimitar is? It sounds like it would be some kind of mythical creature. Or something you play with strings. It's because a centaur is like a horseman. This is a...

Gang man. Man cow. Man cow. He had tons of udders. No, you're wrong. Yes. I can't think of Bo saying centar. And then you're thinking of sitar.

Cematar? Cimitar. Cimitar. Cimitar. I have no idea what that is. It's a type of like, like imagine like a sword in Aladdin, like an Arabian, curved, weird tip. Yeah. That's what it is.

That's what it is. Huh. I love a lot. I love a lot. I was really into listening to the Chronicles of Narnia right now. I think they talk about cimitars in there. That's why I thought maybe you would like have gone through a phase. I'm kind of surprised I didn't because of that fact because I read those books all the time. you know, whatever. Mr. Tumnus.

And I'm like, I don't know. Chronicles and Arneux, dude. Anyway, but Bo and I made a bunch of wooden weapons for this maker's market. I think I told you about last year, like this co-op thing that we do where basically everyone can sell different goods. And he wanted to make all these like swords and shields and like daggers. And he's like, next I think, oh, let's make a scimitar. I was like, what is that? A scimitar. It's like a curve sword, you know, okay?

So anyway, we've been using the CNC to make those and really fun. But I had never heard it. And then all of a sudden he's like, that's not the kind of scimitar I want, the kind of cemetery I'm thinking. And I'm like, I've never heard this. Like, I had to look it up at, you know, Google was like, did you mean cimitar like this?

He's like, yeah, December's a pretty good month for the scimitar market. I think we've got to get this out soon if I were you. Cimitar Saturday is December 6, I think. use the hashtag dad um speaking of scary i watched the first wicked last week be proud of me good job thanks and the like first five minutes like the opening scene i was like is this rachel is this for kids this seems so scary i agree it's not necessarily for it's pg not necessarily for kids it's a rachel's like i think this is for millennials it's people that yeah love the Broadway show I feel like yeah but it's kind of scary I can't what's like the opening

it three times how do I not remember there's like the hat shot right it's kind of like you're scared of hats oh you hear oh I know what you're talking about it's like ahead of time and then she's like let's go back whatever so it's like they're celebrating that this witch is dead and they're like chanting and circles there's fire going and there's like this huge like 10x you know 10 times bigger than real life to scale like witch just like going through the village whoa boy great song But yeah, I saw the movie and hear my thoughts. Out of tin.

I actually like watching musicals. Here's why. Because you know exactly when to get on your phone during the movie during the songs. I could still hear them just fine. I could still like take in the music, but it is a nice little break of like, this is great. I can kind of catch up on some things for about 90 seconds. Okay, now we're back.

All right. Nothing happened. all right they paused the story did a little bit for a second the first half of the movie from where I remember has a lot of songs where it's like let's get through some dialogue here and in the back half of the movie

I feel like there's not as many songs from what I remember and the songs in the back half aren't as good anyway I feel like really I think there's some songs in that that does like oh it makes that offends me come on like they're great they're like great to watch too but it's some songs and I'm like this

could be skipped and whatever I think the only two songs I'd ever heard of were on the back half. Okay. Define Gravity, obviously. I think the only time I've ever heard that is you singing a version of it. And then two is, I mean,

maybe on commercials and stuff, but I've never just like put on Define Gravity and listen to it. Something with the word popular. I recognize that little melody. Yeah. I was like, where have I heard that? Something with the word pop.

Yeah, it's like the name of the story. Is that the whole thing? Yeah. I've heard this. I will say Define Gravity coming on. It did remind me, I think I was a senior in college when I finally watched Frozen. I've been hearing let it go for years. I finally watched the movie and I was like, I'm kind of into this now.

Okay. There's a lot of momentum going into this song. It's good. And let it go. It's like, this is pretty sweet actually to put a face to the song. Defying gravity is. It's so good. I haven't seen the movie, but like I've seen the musical a few times and yeah, it's like,

ho. Yeah. That's that kind of like makes the musical. Yeah. Yeah. It's a sweet song. Also, kind of forgot that it was part one. I'm like starting to get into the story in the end and then it's just like it's over.

That's a bummer. So I don't have to wait years. Are you going to go see the next one then? I have no plans to go see the next one, but I'm sure at some point in my life, I will see it. Okay, yeah. Yeah, what, you guys were just browsing? You said, it's time for Wicked.

Rachel knew she was going to watch it with her. She was going to watch the second one, like that last weekend with her friend, so she's like, I need a little recap. You want to watch it with me? Actually, I think what it was, I was like, Rachel, what would be the perfect, like Saturday night? Like, if we could do anything in the world,

what do you want to do? She's like, I want you to watch Wicked with me. I was like, oh, easy. Okay. Can be on my phone during the song. Yeah, you said easy, and then you started watching. You're like, uh, not as easy as I thought. I have a lot of singing at the beginning.

But no, I don't remember a ton of, like, concrete thoughts. Yeah. Pretty good movie. Yeah, they did a good job. I see why it's popular. Really? Yeah. Popular.

Is that it? Yeah. Is that it? I remember it being pretty long, a little too long, but Ariana Grande is really funny in it. Long for a part one. Yeah. Really funny. Did you laugh out loud once?

I'm not, I'm not a laugh out loud guy unless it's who's in anyway. Never. Rarely. I laughed out loud watching that very merry of cherry Christmas last night. Did you? Did you? You watched it? Yeah, I did.

I was like, I haven't seen it all the way through. It's out. I might as well. And it's the best scene in the thing is when you guys are like naming the dead relatives. Oh, really? That's what I laughed out of it. Yeah, it's so funny. Oh, that's the one scene I, I like fast forward to try to find a spot with Jake in it.

I'll be honest. And yeah, the one where they're like, your nephew. Or something like that. Oh, yeah, I missed my son. Yeah, it's so good. That was funny. I didn't know everything that was going on because, but is your name, Ian and his name is Ethan? I think my name is Keegan.

Okay. His name's Ian and our last name is Ethan. Gotcha. That was just like a dumb joke. Like the reason for the season and my name's not Keegan and Ethan. Yeah, that was the scene. That was the very first scene we shot. I like showed up.

I was running late, stuck behind a train, get there, and then shoot that scene. And that was all unproblem. It was like, just say a bunch of family names. just say 30 of them. I have no idea what made the cut, but... It's pretty good. That's fun. That's current events.

Yeah, current events. It just, it's new release. Yeah. What's that sound? That's the sound of the coffee train, leaving the station. What was that thousand-foot crush song? Throw up your coffee fist. If you're feeling that when I rock this,

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Timon. So do you know that timing actually had to fill in for a role? I saw somebody post that, yeah, you were an Uber driver and air traffic controller? I don't remember what that credit is. But Zach, I remember Zach and I during the show, during the filming, we were making a list of all the roles we took part in. I'm guessing I did something. Is it maybe drone?

Maybe it was drone. I don't know. Okay. Anyway. Yeah. So yeah, go ahead. And then the, what's the older guy's name that Trey always uses for stuff? Oh, Scott.

Scott. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, he doesn't want Tymann and Trey to get away, basically. And so he like slashes the tire of Tynman's car. You know, he's like, oh, come on, dude.

And then he like comes back for more. He's going to slash another one. He's like, you already slashed right to slash him. He slashes the second one. And then he goes around the front of the car. And I was like, do you don't have to slash my slash is the third one. Dude, I'm not going to go anywhere. You just stop.

He slashes the fourth one. So timing had some speaking parts. I didn't realize that. Yeah. I think it was just audio. My voice, yeah. Okay. Yeah.

That's all. It had some speaking parts. But yeah, that part, just the idea of that is really funny to me. But I haven't watched it yet. I like read through the comments and seen what like ghosties have said on Facebook and in our ghosties group me and whatnot. People said really nice things. Oh, yeah.

Watch it. That's fun. Yeah. I haven't seen it yet. Fun times. Your roommate here Christmas. Will there be more retirement? I don't know.

I think Derek said maybe. Yeah, probably mainly depends on how many views this one hits. True. Yeah. Yeah, I texted Derek last night. I also heard rumors of like a premiere maybe. I don't know if that's going to happen though. Like a Kansas City premiere.

Oh, yeah. I was really pushing Trey to do that. I'd be excited about that. I thought it'd be a good idea. And then I think he changed his mind and wanted to just come out with him on Black Friday, but he's still thinking about doing a premiere maybe sometime in December. That'd be fun. So I guess premiere is probably not the first.

right word but just like live showing yeah yeah meet and greet sing along sing along is there is there is there actually yeah yeah national anthem i think the full national anthem uh-huh and then i want a hippopotamus for christmas what yeah yeah i think i want to say mikey had added background tracks to them or composed to try singing or something it's kind of fun the scenes that i did see with mikey ann he did a phenomenal job yeah playing the character he plays yeah he did a really good job yeah he's like the tool ex-boyfriend okay he nails it it's really talented um but yeah wicked very mature at christmas uh what else i saw nothing what else what else happened at thanksgiving for y'all i shot guns whoa don't pass out why you're doing that was fun uh where

my dad's side of the family just very classic country people and so they just had uh I don't know if that's the right. Whatever. They just had some clay pigeons to throw up in the air and shoot at and a bunch of guns. And so it's like, yeah, I'll try. Yeah? And it was fun. I was by far the worst shot of all my siblings.

Okay. How many siblings shot? All of them? Most. I think. Wow. Oldest five. I think Jonas on me.

Okay. I want to say. But yeah, Jonas was a great shot. Jesse hit 95% of the thing. I got like three out of 25 maybe. Were you shooting a shotgun? Yeah, I think so. You got three out of 25?

Maybe. Tommy, you could do better. I know. I didn't want to try. I was like, I don't want to try something that I know I'll be really bad at. Because this is the first time you shot anything? I think so. I think I had shot a gun a couple times, but never actually at a moving target.

Okay. But it also was like, I got to a point where I figured out what I was doing wrong, then got like the last three in a row. Yeah. I think I could have kept going. Yeah. I hope. Cool.

But Jonas just hit his first one and just kept hitting him. It was really fun, though. How old is Jonas? He is 10-ish. Yeah. Wow. That's so bad. I don't know his exact age. That's impressive.

Yeah. And these, my young second cousins, Jonas's age and younger, they're just, they do this all the time. They're just hitting every single one. It's so fun. Like they're a second out of the, you know, they're barely in the air and they hit them. So that's fun to watch.

Yeah. But that was a fun. Never done that on Thanksgiving. It was great. So did you just go out? Do they have some property that you could just... Yeah. So it was just the house that hosted the Thanksgiving was my...

I never know when it's past first cousin's area. No idea what these people... Just call them your cousins. Or your aunts and uncles. They feel like aunts and uncles. I don't know. But yeah, their house hosted it. Painted pumpkins.

It was a great day. That's fun. I love that. Painted pumpkins. Shot a gun. Yeah. Eventful day. I would say yes to shooting guns anytime anybody asks.

especially when it's clay is like that. I think, I think a stationary target, not that fun. It's, it's okay. But, like, if someone were like, hey, you want to go clay, like clay shooting? Yes, every time. I think it's so fun. Yeah, it was great. That's fun.

I think it was last, I guess it wouldn't have been Thanksgiving, but it was before our pheasant hunting trip last year. Steve Cooper's like, hey, I got some clay pigeons. I got like a thrower. I got a gun. If you want to come out to the cornfield, let's, you know, let's get you ready. Let's do a few. and then one of the first ones he ever did

like the Clay Pigeon got caught in the thrower and it went about six inches in front of my face thank goodness I didn't like spas or like try to shoot that one or I mean who knows what could have happened but yeah he's to the right of me and you know kind of like throw it and it just like gets caught and just goes 90 degrees I think we got on video somewhere but

that's what they're fine farming accidents that's a farming accident right there is what they call that you hear that like what do you mean you know just those those small town like You know, he got hurt in the farming accident. It's basically, probably usually clay pigeon related. Braden's finger. They say farming accident.

It was a clay pigeon. It was definitely that. Yeah. My uncle had like a machine to shoot them off. That's nice. It's pretty cool, like a slingshot type thing. Those are sweet. It was pretty cool.

Yep. Yeah, the place that we go for pheasant hunting, they have like, it's like a whole like set up of like six different machines like that all around the field. Remote control. Yeah. Awesome. And so, like, yeah, they come from different areas. And sometimes they'll shoot like two at once.

And so if you get one, you can get the next one to you. Yeah, I never get that. Never? Never? My cousins were playing knockout. Like, if the first person in the row, like, misses it, then you can try to get it. Oh, that's fun. If you get it, then they're out.

Wow, gun games. Took the pigeon from. That was fun to watch. Because these tiny kids are such good shots. It was so entertaining. Yeah. Yeah. It is really fun to watch somebody that's good at it.

Like, it's like, dang, that was impressive. Yep. Where were you at? Gridly, Kansas. Gridly. Tiny town, two-ish hours into Kansas. Off the grid. Yep.

Really. That's good. I was laughing. Sorry. Go ahead. No, no. You go ahead. Or just when you asked, like, how were your Thanksgiving?

I had a flashback to probably like last, I don't know, Saturday or something. I hadn't seen time in a couple of days. And Tyman came to like film stuff for us And I go Hey good to see you Tyman What'd you do yesterday? I don't know

I don't know man I mean it froze him He gave us nothing So I was like hey don't worry about it man It was so bad Tough question sorry Yeah I was like sorry I did kind of just threw that on you

I mean at least like text me That you're gonna ask me that on the way here Yeah that's how am I supposed to know Like you have to contemplate that for a little bit Yeah it took a really like times. I was like, dude, I get that I kind of just surprise you with that. Sorry, that won't happen again. And so then we

start playing pickleball. Like 30 seconds later at the time, and it's like, I went to the library. Thank you. I knew it. That's right. Yeah, that's what it was. I knew, I knew it. That's great. What was it actually that you did? It took forever and then you remember. I can't remember again. I, well, I'm bad at that too, Diamond. I think I kept thinking of things. I was like, I actually had a pretty

eventful day yesterday. And I just couldn't think of, I think, I think I went to Bible study that night. Then I went to some kind of art, art house, gathering, hung out with some friends. Like, I did some things. I just couldn't remember any of them. So are you, Jake, is it easy for you to remember stuff like that? In comparison of that, yes. Yeah.

But sometimes when I watch those true crime documentaries and they're like, what do you remember about last Friday? Like last Friday? Yeah. That's kind of like, if I didn't like take a picture or have anything to jog my memory, that's going to be really hard to remember what I did. Okay. Yeah.

Like yesterday, no problem. Yeah, I feel like yesterday's got a while. But sometimes like when I'm like trying to remember stuff to talk about on the podcast, I'm like, I got to go back. I look at my text a lot. Sometimes I look at my photos. Yeah, like you're saying, but like I don't know what I did. And it's like, oh yeah, of course. I went, I did this thing.

That was big like. Yeah. So I don't, I don't blame you timing, but also I don't know. I think that's a good thing. Maybe. Yeah, I think that was one of the worst it's ever happened to me. But it is fairly consistently kind of hard to think back. Like, yeah, I've never, it's never immediately, this is exactly what I did.

I don't know. It's kind of like, yeah, I don't know what I ate that day or what I, much of what I did. I don't know. Can you remember things from your childhood pretty well? No. Interesting. I have a, I have, I think I have a lot worse than average memory. I'm pretty sure.

Which sometimes makes me sad. I'm like, if I can't remember, if I remember this little from my childhood, like when I'm older? Is it just going to get worse? I'm like, I don't know. But, yeah. So I was a joke with Rachel that she's got kind of a Kevin Malone type brain where her memory is extremely good if it revolves around like the food we ate that day. Right. Oh, yes. I remember that Saturday in the park because afterwards we went to Medi's and I had the garlicky chicken, you know, like if she could tie it together with food, she's remarkable. But if you don't eat, if we don't eat. What's the point? No, in general, Rachel does have a much better long-term memory than me. Like, she could, like, she could

remember a lot more about her childhood than I can or just like, yeah, just in general, just like emotions or even just like logical, just like literal things that happened, I'm beat. For me, I'm just like, thank goodness for pictures because in videos. Like, there's things that yeah, I do have pretty good memories of that because they're kind of helped with pictures in videos, I think. Do you think that's a learned skill or is that just like natural one way or the other? Like, yeah, how much is genetic versus like, uh, you could train your long-term memory or trauma made you have a bad long-term memory? Yeah, or like, how, yeah, like, if I, if I try to teach my kids, like, this is a big deal, what we're doing right now.

Remember this. Hey, Thanksgiving is huge. All right. And maybe you need to do something traumatic so they remember it. Yeah. Like that Dane Cook back in the day, I remember that bit where he was like, sometimes it'll just smack some kids ice cream cone out of their hand and just say, remember this. And they will. Like, that's exactly it.

Yeah. Like, this is an awesome day. Yeah. I need to just flat bow around a little bit. I don't know. Yeah. Like I do feel like the weight of like I remember feeling the weight of things as a kid though too. Like Christmas is a big deal.

This is a really special event, whatever. And so I'm like am I am I, do I need to vocalize that more to my kids? Do my parents do that or was it just like in general? Yeah. I don't know. Just out of curiosity of this is a while back. But Rachel was asking me like about the girl I dated in college. Like you guys were like pretty serious.

You guys dated for like over a year. like yeah yeah we did and she's like did you guys like you guys talk about marriage or anything and i was like i don't i don't know i don't remember she's like what was you guys relationship like i'm like i don't know no further question she's like you date this girl for over a year oh yeah yeah pretty much only girl dated yep sorry a lot uh i don't know what we talked about she's like did did you guys go on dates i'm like once again you got to stop i don't know what we did i don't know what happened you don't remember anything i don't know why i can't i may it just sometimes they chalk it up to like in college I just didn't sleep a ton maybe that like hurts your like memory storage or you know doesn't help it can't help yeah but I'm like boy I don't remember a thing yeah interesting I don't know I feel like I'll have that with if it's a person I haven't seen it a while I'll kind of sometimes forget how to pick back up where I was with them because I'll kind of forget I can have a lot of memories with this person that I've like hung out with them a lot but I'll kind of forget about that and it will be more awkward for me that it has to be I feel like

You're like a brand new person. Kind of. Like, oh, yeah, we have all these memories together. It's like, wait, no, I've hung out with you a lot and laughed with you and done stuff with you. So, yeah, like, Rachel quizzing you kind of is like, I, I'm sometimes overconfident in how much I remember about something. And then somebody asked me more details.

And I'm like, shoot, maybe I don't know that much about this. Yeah, like, camp. Like, when we worked there, like, I feel like I knew everybody. And I remember this thing. And I remember that thing that happened or this guy. I'm like, oh my gosh, I completely forgot about that guy. You know, and I thought I was like, so sharp. Like, yeah, that was such a core memory in my life, such a big deal that I know everything

about camp. I remember every detail. Yeah. Things that are like outside of like the literal are very hard for me to like recall from like long term memory. Just like, was I having fun? Like what, what goals did I have at that point in time? Like, what was I?

Yeah. Who was I? What was my personality like that? It's like, gosh, I don't know. I remember like a specific story that was funny or I remember. remember this night where we chased this and this happened. Yeah, I remember just things that happened. But I couldn't tell you like really how my personality changed from middle school to high school

to college. Like I can't remember any of that stuff. People ask me a lot these days forever. I don't know why I'm having these conversations more these days, but like, how did you know that Catherine was the right girl for you? How did you know that? Yeah. Yeah.

How did you know, like it was like you were ready to marry her? Hot white. Hot white conservative. wants to be a stay-at-home mom. No. Yeah, but they were like, how'd you know, Catherine was, and I'm like, man, honestly, like, thank you, Lord, for giving me the grace in this, because I don't think I thought about it as much as I probably should.

Like, I don't know if I took it. I think I definitely took it seriously of like, we're getting married. There's a big deal. But also, I don't know how, I don't remember. It's fun. Kind of like you're saying, like, I don't remember, like having, I'm sure I did process it at the time, but I don't remember specifically like, I remember I was thinking about this and I talked to my best friend and then I prayed about it for 60 days straight and then

we did this like I saw a dove and I knew I don't know man I just I just felt peace and I felt like like I was talking to Catherine yesterday I was like thank you so much for being a good wife because I don't know if I thought about it as much as I should have like I'm glad we kind of got lucky that we're like having this good marriage here because I don't know if we thought about as much we should have I don't know but yeah I'm totally with you like I don't remember what I was thinking about like like what made you what made you do woodworking like instead like what made you like questions like that what made you choose to like go after that and not do corporate life anymore I'm like I don't remember that well I think it was just like going pretty well and I could do it so

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Jake, haven't you said that you, you kind of want to be sometimes randomly stopped and asked why you did the things you just did or something like that? Is that? Yeah, yeah, you are remembering that right? I'm like, I feel like I'm not like that at all. I'm like, I kind of, in my day-to-day life, I just kind of do stuff. I know what you're referring to, I think. And that's on like a very like small, unimportant scale. Like I can tell you.

Keys right there. Yeah, I could tell you exactly why I took the route I took today or like why things are arranged the way they are. Like, there's a purpose of everything. But as far as like, stop me on the street and ask me why my relationship with my dad is different than my relationship. But, you know, it's like, oh, don't ask me. I don't know.

Yeah, I think I did remember it was more for the small things. But yeah, it's still interesting because I think I'm very different in that way, too. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. He also 19. True.

He used to pass out a lot, so. Yeah. Yeah. What were we doing at 19? Who knows? Running from SB security. Really? That was a blast.

What were you running from? Were you getting on top of buildings? A little bit of buildings. Sometimes just running. Just for fun? Yeah, they'd chase us. It was like a game? I mean, they didn't think of it as much as a game.

as I did. But why were you, they were, like, it was their job to, like, be campus security. And it would be, like, you know, Friday night at 12, 30 at night. Like, hey, when security drives by, let's just take off running. Just to look like you're guilty essentially. Yeah, yeah. And just, like, we'd split up and just, like, meet back at Landon at 1 a.m. And, like, swap stories.

That's great. No one ever got caught. Yeah, you remember. Jared Jansen did. Chris Perry did. Jared Jansen. Oh, yeah, you know. Like the South alum, baby.

Yeah. One of the only friends ever knew who got kicked out of. SBU but boy we had a fun freshman year together man he was the most fun guy that guy we had more fun than anyone else did he was awesome though that is so funny missed him yeah yeah good times running from security that's how I was doing at 19 I was doing that I was playing women's basketball for the college and I was the mascot a time or two would you do at 19 um being the mascot sucks by Sorry, I'm, I got stopped at women's basketball because there's all these arguments about could an eighth grade like boys basketball team beat the NBA right now?

You heard about that? Like Michael Porter Jr.? Yeah, it depends on these eighth graders. Michael Porter Jr. Have you seen clips of him as eighth grader? Yeah. I mean, if you're an eighth grader going to the NBA someday, yeah. Yeah, that's not fair.

You're not a real eighth grader. Crazy. Yeah. I'm like, I think I, I would, I don't know if I totally am like 100%. Michael Porter Jr. would beat them, but I would absolutely watch it. I'll say that. I'll pay money to watch that. It would be a great game. It'd be very interesting because it's just like those girls are so good. I mean, yeah, I played Division 2 basketball. I'm just like the quickness is like pretty on par, I would say. I mean, some of those girls were super quick. But just the

strength and height. I was going to say literally just like strength and like speed. Or not the intangible. The literal tangibles. Yeah. Yeah. I think I've said before like half court, we're like washed up like high school basketball players like even half court it was uh or sorry half court they could beat us if they're running set plays it might be pretty close but then if we ever did a full court scrimmage we would beat them really yeah just too too quick off the yeah i think just like yeah stronger taller yeah uh 19 was that freshman year yeah ish i also was friends with the jared jerry jared zirker uh he was my roommate my freshman year that's fun we He's the first person I've ever seen that didn't care about sports.

And I still, to this day, can't believe it. All right. That's what we were doing. I remember I was watching the Chiefs game on Sunday night. I remember it's the Chief Steelers specific. He was like, this is a big game. Steelers are good. Ben Rothensberger, and he did not care.

Just sat right next to the TV and didn't watch a single thing. So. That was like his musical. He's like, oh, I can have my phone out. Yeah. Truly. Like he was like, like the TV was like right here. Like he wasn't even like,

like able to see it. He was at his desk right by the TV. I was like, dude. Like you're not even a little curious? Yeah. We got really into, uh, the old, the original Xbox my freshman year. That's fun too. That's tricky, uh, top spin.

This, uh, oh yeah. I think that came with the Xbox because so fun though, had it. Yeah. Halo, of course, of course. So anyway, good times. My thanksgiving was fun. Um, we were in Kansas City, but it was all. also like it felt like we traveled more than we would if we were in Texas kind of thing.

Like not truly, obviously, like we have more hours down and back from Texas, but we went to one, two, three, four, four different, like we like took like four different trips of 30 minutes there, 30 minutes back kind of thing. Oh, I see. And so between those, it was like, it felt like a lot of like going, coming and going from the house. So we did stuff Wednesday night with our family. We did stuff Thursday.

we went from Olatha all the way up to Liberty Thursday and then we went up back up to Liberty on Friday. So it was just a fun time. But it was good. The kids had a blast. It's always fun with my kids get together with our extended family that I was really close with growing up that we don't spend as much time with now.

And so like them getting to like spend more time with them and shoot some gun. And you never know, yeah, you never know if Rosie's going to be like super clingy or she's going to be super fun. and she was loud and fun and whatever and Henry is just like Henry's such a fourth child man he's just he's a ham he just walks around just saying hi to everybody and like yeah yeah no no fear no not shy not shy but also not like annoyingly whatever like he was just great he was just fun and all the

everybody loved him and so yeah it was fun um the kids on thanksgiving we did it at my sister's house shout out to Julie she did a great job hosting but um hady and some of the other Watson and Bo and all these people they made these like photo booth cutouts like so you put like a mustache on and go take a picture and so and so they had us all like come do that which was fun but yeah overall nothing too crazy from Thanksgiving it was just a good time with family and um chief's lost which was a bummer we watched it all of us like you know 25 of us in one room watching it and it was just kind of a bummer uh my dad's my dad's my dad's always been a little doom and gloom, you know, chiefs wise. And then, and then Uncle

Liddell gets in the mix with my dad doesn't help. Fire coach Reed. Yeah, I don't think they ever thought like that, but they were just, and I think everyone, every sports fan is entitled to do this. And I'm, I probably do it to an extent to, but they were just really second guessing everything Patrick Mahomes is doing it. And I was like, can we just give them the benefit of the doubt? Like, why is he, why is he just throwing off those checkdowns? Why are they throwing those like short passes? Why does he go down field? It's like, probably because no one. was open downfield. Yeah, it's like, can we acknowledge that none of us have a clue what it takes to play NFL

quarterback? Right. There's so much that goes into this. And then, and then this is when, this is when, like, you know, it's like falling off the rails for my dad is he always, like, basically pines for the other quarterback, like, wishes, like, Dak Prescott, you see how fast he gets that ball out? He just gets that ball out so quick. And I'm like, Dad, we don't want Dak.

We don't, you don't want Dak over Patrick. He's having a good game. Don't, Doc. He's playing well. But I promise we love Patrick Mahomes, right? Like, what are we doing? I'm like, I know. Did he turn a corner on that like miracle play moments made where he basically got

tackled twice? That was the thing, dude. Is I had to like kind of do the Jake Triplett like vocalized. This is great. I was like, he's the best quarterback of all time. That was amazing. Let's get excited for this, guys. We were down by like 10 at that point or something, weren't we?

And so it's like, guys, come on. Let's go. Come on, Ladell. Yeah. Let me hear you. At that point, I was, I was watching. from the kitchen, you know, kind of scrounging around, little, little apple pie here, a little Hawaiian roll. Yeah, a little leftover turkey here. And, uh, yeah, and I had to go from the kitchen

into the living room, like, come on. We got this. We can do this. It's not over yet. So, anyway, we lost. It's, it's okay. It's okay. I don't know, though. I think, no, you, you will definitely know if this is true or not. Have we been to the playoffs? every year since I've been married. Since you've been married? 2014. Since Andy Reid has been there, have we missed the playoffs?

Oh, I don't think so. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. I think the second Andy Reid got there, we became a playoff team. I know. Yeah.

I kept, like, I told Catherine, I was like, because as we were driving home, I was just like not talking. I wasn't like in a terrible mood, but I was just a little bummed about the game. Well,

Del made some good points. Like, you think about the Chiefs game? I was like, a little bit, yeah. We just have, we go to the playoffs every year. And I don't, I don't think you understand.

We might not go to the playoffs this year. Like, I think Catherine's still in the mindset of like, well, we're the Chiefs. We're going to go to the Super Bowl. And we might win and might lose. I don't know, Catherine. We might not this all of a sudden. So I think surely everyone wants to at least see the Chiefs in the playoffs, right, guys?

Like, no one wants to just like have them completely out of it. I understand people aren't rude for the Chiefs these days, but. I just, we need the rigging to come back again. It's no fun when it's not rigged. They're rigging for other people, though. I know. It sucks. I choose a team every year.

That's right. I hate that part. This year feels like the Bears, maybe. Bears won last night, guys. Bears one that's new and topical. Yeah, topical. Timing you watch. Time, you know.

Check it out. Me neither. I know. You expected me to. Caleb Williams looks pretty good for a feminine guy. My Thanksgiving was in Iowa. And it was great. There was a good time up there.

Some notable things. Oh, yeah, Glasscock fell over. We got, we were playing a lot of Nintendo Switch. It's like, it's always me, Rachel, Tim, and then Steve Coop. Okay. And it's always like, it's great because one of the controllers started like kind of malfunctioning. And so now the teams are very even.

Like a controller that doesn't work versus Steve Coop, neck and neck. Could go either way as far as who wins. And, oh, we had a good time playing that. What are you playing? Mario Party. So it's just like all sorts of, you know, 200 games you could possibly play. so that's fun that's fun is a teams usually or is it yeah usually two on two every now and then there's three on one game's kind of fun or maybe free for all but uh one fun thing early on in the week so

as we said before kyle kazuta who's on this podcast pickleball guy which is pickleball guy uh that one okay we set him up with my rachel's old teammates and our friend from volleyball they're going they're doing really well together and so kyle did the same trip that i did four years ago which is fly into waterloo iowa to meet the family all right so we were like hung out in iowa together i was like i can't this is great yeah if you were told me a year ago that we're hanging out at joyful java like what's happening um that is crazy like what's joyful java what is where are we at he's like what's waterloo yeah uh so not only do we get to hang out and like prepare some content he's flying back tuesday this week to shoot some stuff together but i think i've

told legends and stories before about sid's barn there's this old farmer yeah up in iowa who like Yeah, good memory, dude, who has this barn, and it's got a really nice into our pickleball coordinate. So, yeah, I guess word got around that, like, me and Kyle and then this other pro player who's, like, from the area was going to be there. And so we all played this, like, extremely high-level game in the middle of the cornfield in this barn. And so Rachel and my dad were like, Rachel and her dad were like, we're going to come watch.

Okay. You know, and Angie Coop's like, Steve, you're going to go watch your pickleball game. He's like, oh, yeah, I think you should shut the store down for it. I think everyone should come watch. Yeah, bring joyful job of pastries and sell them there. So then Sid comes to watch, and then the game starts. We got three people watching. Well, then someone else comes through the door.

Someone else comes through the door. We get up to a point where we've got nine people watching this game in a barn. Six of them farmers. Word gets around. They do like a little, they do Morse code through like a cowbell. I thought it was like a Vatican City thing. They raised smoke based off of like how high level the games are. people flock from all over.

So I don't know how they found out. I would have loved to see the text that got sent. Hey, you got to check this out. You got to come down to Sid's barn. Crazy pickle action. Crazy pickle action. So it was kind of fun just having nine people watching your just like pick up game.

Wow. It felt like I had to put, you know, put on a show a little bit. It's kind of like you, you remember that when the dream team was talking about like how they had these like super intense practices. Yeah.

In Barcelona or wherever that was like, yeah, for nobody, like in this high school gym. Yeah. That's what it was like. It was like in the middle of like, you don't understand, like the best pickleball game that ever happened. No one.

Nine people saw it. Yeah. Stout, Iowa. Just east of Dyke. Stout and Dyke. Yeah. Neighboring cities. Oh.

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Mm-hmm. I think it's a solid middle. Yeah. I think almost always it's like everyone just hipes up turkey. I don't know. I think turkey, there's a direct correlation with how much I enjoy it based on how wet it is. Correct.

Like a dry turkey is brutal. But you give me a nice wet turkey you know, seasoning. I can call it wet, not moist. Yeah, or what else you call it?

Just like, just like spray water on it. Like, that's good turkey. Hose it down. Yeah, I think then it makes it way better. I agree.

My brother-in-law, the last two years, has made a smoked turkey and it is amazing. But for the longest time, I was like, turkey is the worst thing on the,

on the counter for Thanksgiving. Yeah. One of the, I think it's one of the, it's just so uninteresting to eat the turkey I've had. And it's like,

I go, go to a Thanksgiving. My dad started the family. They're all super good cooks and like all the stuff is really good. But it's like the, I'm going to, thank goodness there was ham because that tastes great. That's flavorful. I love ham. It's like, it's like sweet and savory and yeah. So much better than turkey, in my opinion. Yes, agreed. I've kind of ruined it for any Thanksgiving I'll attend for the rest of my life. They're going to have to have turkey there. We can't just have ham. Have you ever been to a Thanksgiving that only had ham though? I'm pretty sure we used to do that because we all agreed. Growing up, like ham's way better.

I agreed, yeah. I know it's like, let's just force ourselves to do the turkey thing again because that's the thing. Ham's better. What else do you get excited about on the counter? Deviled eggs for you. Yeah. Double dating inside of a roll. What kind of rolls are we talking?

It really doesn't matter. Just like warm butter. We have these herb bread is what we call it. It's like it's so good. There's some kind of seasoning on there. Okay. Nice. But you get excited about rolls.

I get excited about mashed potatoes for sure. Yeah. Anything white? Yeah, anything white, brown. Kind of gravy colored. Have you ventured out in your old age? Yeah, I had Brussels sprouts this year. I had a salad this year.

Okay. You go sweet potatoes, yams? Sometimes we didn't have them in Iowa, but yeah, sweet potatoes is nice. We always have this sweet potato and marshmallow dish. That's a grandma special. It's like, I'm not going to eat that at all. But my brother loves that stuff.

I just don't like sweet potato. Have you tried it? I think so. I think back in the day. Get it again, dude. I always used to be like, I'm not tried that. Yeah. It's nice.

Maybe, I bet the marshmallows do help. Yeah. They help a lot of things. I feel like I'm marshala. Yeah. You're right. We do these like cinnamon, candied cinnamon apple kind of thing. They're like, they're like soaked in something.

I don't know what there's like. So they're like soft apples. And they are something to behold. They're so good. Those are good. Catherine, I used to never care about dressing, right? Like stuffing, whatever you're going on? Oh, yeah, yeah.

Catherine makes this dressing, and it is unbelievable. Okay. I'm, like, more excited about that than just about anything. What is it? It's just, like, different types of bread that she puts together and puts herbs and stuff on it. Yeah, that's nice. Like, it was, like, cornbread, sourdough bread, all these different things. And it just tasted nice, dude.

I don't know. Like, growing up, I was always like, skip that one. That's just nasty, I was going to say, I feel like I used to have it, and I didn't like it. But what you're describing sounds like, I would like it. It was nice. Try to think of anything else. So many good stuff.

Yeah, mashed potatoes. Hattie, I want her to like match potatoes. So, like, just try them. Just give it a chance. Oh, she's out on mash. She thinks she, for the longest time, potatoes was like her least favorite thing in the world. And I was like, Hattie, I guarantee you someday, I'm going to make, like, I'm going to tell you, you didn't use to like potatoes. And you're going to think, you're crazy.

Yeah. I was crazy for that. You don't hear of people not like him potatoes. I don't know, dude. It's a weird thing. The kids are kind of weird about potatoes. Now all of a sudden it's like, she's starting to get it, but mashed potatoes is still like, I'm out.

Everything else, like garlic, like the smash potatoes. Smash potatoes are unbelievable. Loves them. Things are great. Like, everything's great. Not mashed though. So. Anyway.

Yeah, I just think turkey is just fine. But this smoked turkey. Smoked. Smoked and wet. It's way to go. It was smoked and wet. That's what we always say. we can wrap this up soon um time when you said marshmallows reminded me late last night probably

about 830 i stop in bethany missouri charge the car go inside the gas station get something i'm like i'm in the mood for a nice little rachel always makes fun of me because i've i've been getting into gas station cappuccino she's like i'm begging you to stop getting gas station cappuccino has she ever had them oh i think she knows she just like knows like it could be way better like let me take you to a coffee shop or something dude those things are good though The French vanilla, the ones that it's like, hey, fill it up, three-quarter full. Yeah. Because it's going to keep going.

I used to love those, dude. French vanilla. Anything. Yeah. Yeah, I love that stuff. Dude, don't let her. Don't be proud of those things. If you like it, you like them.

I keep getting them. Yeah. But last night, it was like 9 o'clock at night. So I was like, I'm just going to get a hot chocolate. Because I still want the feeling of just that, like, foam. Yes. Like a hot cup. I just love that feeling of a gas station cup.

Yes. And so I got the hot chocolate. And I go to checkout. And this one, woman, you know, just don't judge a book by a cover, because this woman behind the counter had one tooth that I could see. Sweetest woman on the planet, though. I mean, just looked so rough. That was in Missouri. Okay, Missouri. One tooth in Missouri, got it.

And just like. But she was sweet. Yeah, she was like, now how, now what color did that hot chocolate come out at? Oh, it looked pretty brown to me. Was that Swiss myth? Is that Swiss myth on that chocolate? What size is that? Small? at one point she said i was like i don't know why you're saying this word you have a list but she said suffer and suck at i can't believe you just to say suffering thuccatan just going overboard and above and beyond how what was it dark let me see take off the lead let me see let me see it that may not be we've had some issues with the powder in the mix you you could try it once it

cools off because i know it's hot right now once it cools off and you let me know if it's not up to your standard if it's not chalk enough you come back in we'll get you another ones. We set our standard super, super high. Yeah. And so I go out, it kind of worked out. You know, I had to wait like 15 minutes for the car to charge. And, yeah, hot chocolate cooled off. Sure enough. Took a sip. She was right. That thing tasted like pond water. Really? Just like not much in there. And so even though I'd been given full permission by the sweetest woman in the world, it still was like, do I go back in there and say something? I was like, yeah, I really liked this hot chocolate. And so I did. And she was like, you know, I. I thought about it. I thought I might see again.

And came in and she was like, she's banging on this machine and getting the mix going. And then, dude, when I pressed the button, powder came out, not even a liquid. So I don't know what she did banging on it.

I did this do the trip. And, yeah, powder comes out. She's like, oh, yeah, that's what you want. That's the good stuff. And anyway, I made my hot chocolate. And then she was like, and I don't forget your marshmallows. And so then I just dumped marshmallows in there.

And we were just bonding over marshmallows is really nice what if you had to choose we talking what what's ideal marshmallows for hot chaga for you tiny middle like small but like substantial or one large one i go middle how would one large one work it works oh yeah i've seen it yeah i just don't like it though huh does it kind of dissolve yes that's probably what you want out of big because you can't you can't like really take a sip and get the marshmallow you're saying if you have a lid on it or even if it's if it's in a mug. I feel like that marshmallow is humongous. Or you're like bobbing for our marshmallows or it's way where you're kind of just like

nibble on it along the way. I don't know. Take a little bite. I'm with you. I think a substantial amount of the small ones, but small like you can like pick it out. Like not like the tiny little like. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. This guy's just had the tiny rocks like pop rocks. Just fine. Those are just straight. I don't hate those too. They're like, aren't they kind of the texture of Lucky Charms? Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Any chance I can get those, I'm happy. Yeah, they're all good now that I'm thinking about it. They're all marshmallows.

Try out the big one. It's kind of fun. It's a different experience. All right. Yeah. We have to dissolve, then eat. It's kind of like, you know, you enjoy a cookie that's, you know, in the milk. It's kind of the same idea.

Yeah. True. It's good. Did you know that Catherine? I don't know. I'll say 78% of every single day of the year. She has a hot chocolate at night. Does she really?

that's probably too high but it's high it's like majority of the time huh but it's like you know she has some healthy hot chocolate it's not like swiss every single night but yeah she like makes it on the stove every single night with milk and this powder and i don't know what i wonder she got rachel in that last winter because rachel started making us some like bone broth protein hot chocolate yes i think i don't know if hers is bone broth for that but yeah something like that's like not as sweet but it's like pretty good pretty good and it's like okay edge off. But you, yeah, and you don't feel bad about having it as often.

You see the protein in front of it. All of a sudden, it's like, oh, well, I have to. It's like, doctor said I need this. Some of those protein bars are like candy bars, but it's like, oh, it's got protein in it. Well, it's got eight grams of protein instead of the usual two. It's like Snickers has 17 grams of protein. Don't worry about it. Those aren't the real kind.

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Having a nose. Heaven knows Oh, the services God only knows Heaven Heaven Falls Heaven Falls Dang it

What do you want to do time I don't know Didn't we do some Acapella Christmas songs At one point You could do one of those That's nice A whole 30 second Christmas song

Can we figure out Some kind of like Yeah garage You're familiar with Garage man I am Can we do like a synth pad or something in the background Just a nice, a nice one, one note in there.

I just make a little, for, for a simple beat every week. No, you don't have to do that. I mean, sure, yeah. What's on you think for today? Yeah, yeah. Use YouTube, just C-pad. We find one. Do you know, Tim, that's copyrighted.

You're young enough to probably know this better than Jake. Maybe you know this too, Jake. Have you seen the new Grinch? No. New is in like, let's call. A few years ago. I watched my family. A couple days, a few days ago.

I don't know. Catherine gets such a kick out of those carolers. I think it's a pentatonic song. You know what I'm talking about? I was like, that's pentatonic singing that. That was a pretty funny scene. Yeah,

she thinks it's hilarious. That's funny. Like basically these people are just like caroling. I can't remember super well, but like they're caroling while he's trying to talk or something. Like they're distracting him or something. Yeah. I don't know.

That's about. Yeah. And she just thinks it's so funny. Yeah. That movie was fine, but I was like, I think we've talked about Keenan Thompson, haven't we? I recognize his voice. He's like some side character.

I was like, his voice is so annoying to listen to when he's voice acting. I don't know why. I was like, this guy's just yelling the whole time. Kenan Thompson was awesome once, and it was in D2 Mighty Ducks. Ever since then, ever since then, he's been so six out of ten. He's just been like, it's never like, oh, he's the worst. But it's like, there's nothing super excited about Keenan Thompson. Yeah, he's a role player.

yeah right like yeah poor guy I mean he was off knuckle puck though remember that what's knuckle puck d2 do you don't know that was his name no that was his like signature shot and uh oh yeah I don't remember that movie super well the knuckle puck that was like his shot it was like a crazy shot and he was like from the streets and he like made fun of other guys yeah yeah he's he's funny you find something uh this says warm synth pad ambient music free background music. Free background music. Free background music. It happens.

So what do we do after this? We'll figure it out from there. Okay. I'll just play this. I'll let you take the lead, Brad. Oh, okay. Oh, great. Is it going to stay on theirs?

I don't know. Oh, that's tough. That's tough. Okay. maybe it's that in a loop this last no it's pretty unpredictable it's kind of hard okay should I find a different one

what if we just did a song what if we just made people absolutely hate listening to this and just sang a normal song with this with like not even in the same key as this classic yeah I was hanging out at a coffee shop that was connected to that Meadow Brook Hotel you know I'm talking about

oh yeah market yeah Whatever that. And I could hear two different songs going out at once. And I was like, this is torture to me. I can't be here. Hey, I need my headphones on so I can hear third one. Yeah. This feels like when the pastor's like, the band starts playing as he's finishing up.

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