Ghostrunners - 493 - Slipping On Ice

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

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Hey, December 3rd is my dad's birthday. Hey. Happy birthday, dad. Happy birthday, dad. If you're listening to this on December 3rd, you should wish my dad a happy birthday. If you're listening to December 3rd, I went to the KU game last night, and I hope the KU won for my dad. That's nice. He would love that.

I just figured that's how we should start the podcast. No, that's funny. Talking about that. Yeah, that's hilarious. One of the most recent thrillers that I read and really enjoyed is written by your dad. That's right, Dave Ellis. Yeah. Yeah, it was really good.

He did a good job on that. Did you know that chicken noodle soup for the soul was written by M. Scott Peck? Scotty Peas hamburgers. Dude, no way! That's my name on the chicken noodle soups. I didn't know that M. Scott Peck. Let's double check. Also, authors, get over yourself.

Just say your name. Be David Ellis. Oh, my gosh. M. Scott Peck. J.K. Rowling. Yeah, there he is. J.R. R.R.R.R. Tolkien. Wait, wait. Maybe he's not chicken noodle soup guy.

He's M. Scott Peck's a guy. You're thinking of M.C. Escher. Chicken noodle. M. Scott. F. Scott Fitzgerald. We're thinking of Francis Scott Key. Francis Scott Key. Yeah. Did that make the blooper reel of the...

It did. Did it? I remember that from when you're shooting it. All of a sudden, I just became like Wikipedia for Trey. Who wrote this song? Like Francis Scott Key? He's like, why do I think Betsy Ross? Betsy Ross was the flag.

The flag one, yeah. I was wrong. M. Scott Peck is the author. guy, but not Jack Canfield. That may that's why. Hey, I believe you. Have you ever heard of chicken noodle soup for the soul? I've heard of chicken soup for the soul. Not chicken noodle soup for the you're right. Have you heard of chicken noodle soup? So what is this? Have you heard of chicken noodle soup sort on the side or peanut butter jelly time or ice cream and cake? I don't know the first thing you said. I know the other two. Yeah, it sounds like a you don't know that song. Chicken noodle soup.

chicken noodle soup, chicken noodle soup with a soda on the side. I don't know, that's not sounding super mirror. Huh. I've heard of peanut butter jelly time. Okay. Tutsi roll? The candy, not the song, if that's a song.

Jelly roll? I think it's going to be very interesting to see what kind of like old man I've become and I've said this before, but like even as a kid, like when I was 12 years old and I heard peanut butter jelly time for the first time, I was already annoyed by it because it didn't make any sense. Peanut butter jelly was a baseball bat?

yeah what was that about the whole out of left field literally what what do you mean peanut butter and jelly with a baseball bat and I would get so annoyed with it as a 12 year old and I have so much more life to live I have so many more things to be annoyed by

yeah oh it's gotta get bad that's why that's why that I figured it out why is why I'll get there that why that why that now why that birthday why that is why that is why old people are so bad at technologies because they have to be in order to blindly not know all that stuff. Say again? Oh, I will. That is why. Okay, think about this. That is why. Sorry. Oh, go

ahead. Old people are so bad at technology is because if they were good at it, they would hear about every single trend. Oh, they'd be much more in tune, much more to get annoyed by. So I think they're intentionally bad just because of that. I think they're wise. They're like, all right, teach me one thing to do on this iPad, because that's all they can handle. Yes. Just give me YouTube. Give me true crime. Because at one point in each of their lives, they're like, you know, grandpa, there's

a song called chicken noodle soup with a soda on the side. I don't, what are we talking about here? Just show me I take a picture. You know, something like that. Yeah, they get worn down. I think so. Yeah, I'm going to be bad. But anyway, I liked your dad's book.

Timon, how's your wrist? Eh, I hoped it would be better by now. I haven't made a boo-boo. Just for comfort, I took this off for a second, but like, I don't know. I, it was already healing kind of slow. And then, like, last week, I think, I was goofing off with some friends and did a heel click in a parking lot. It was pretty gravelly parking lot, and I just kind of landed on my wrist again.

But I had my brace on. It just hurt more than it would have if I hadn't broken in a couple months before. What's worse? So, like, injuring yourself initially on a playground set or reinstate, entering it, doing a heel click. Just two horrible stories to tell. Who are you, Willie Wonka over there? If you want to see, parent.

Ah, golly! Ah! Ah! Ah! Scrummed in a leumption! Ah! Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts

in white meat, me too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. have some fun and go ahead, get on your feet because it's a Ghost Rupp's podcast Oh man Oh my morning morning You're taking around

Ghost on a podcast Oh man Oh man Dude yeah, go ahead I was just going to say So it's like I don't think it's broken anymore per se

Like I think the bone is healed The bone is healed for sure But it's still like It's kind of sore and kind of weak. Yeah. So I just, I'll keep the brace on for as long as it feels like I should.

It's like the invisible line. It's just you're never going to get rid of that now. Yeah. But at least, I mean, it's the smallest burden of all time to just wear a wrist brace. It's fine. Like, I don't,

I don't care that much. The cast would have been tough. The cast would have been, yeah. So I'm, I'm, it's fine. Yeah. Right. I also, I, I ate it really hard the other day. Oh.

I was taking the kids out on Saturday morning for Datter days. and, you know, was walking out. It was early in the morning, and it was like, it's been kind of cold here. And for whatever reason, my deck closest to the stairs, I'm sure there's a scientific reason for this, but always ice is over more than close to the house. Maybe because it's wind or, I don't know.

But I wasn't being careful. And I went from the top step, which was just two steps, or like one step and then the sidewalk, but the top step down to the sidewalk and just ate it hard on my back. Oh. to the point where I mean, it's just like, I was just screamed. I just screamed. I just screamed.

Yeah. I was like, oh, oh, and dude, I had, I don't know if this, once again, I think we talked about this a couple of weeks ago, I like got lightheaded. I don't know if it's just from going from six foot one inch in the air down to dropping, you know, eight feet below that really quickly or what, but I just, I didn't. I hit my head, I don't think. Yeah. But yeah, for...

Do you go with a blue tent? I got up and I was like, nothing, I'm not, nothing's broken. I know nothing's broken. So I just got up and tried to walk as fast as I could to the car. And I like... As fast as you could. I tried to fall again. Beat the pain.

I sprinted to the car. Just limbs flying over. No, I just tried to be like, all right. Just get up and just go. Just do this. You're, nothing's like, like I was like, I'm definitely going to feel this later. but I don't think I'm going to like need medical attention for this. Yeah.

Concussion protocol. But I get in there, yeah, to the car, which all the other kids are already there, except for Henry. Henry witnessed the whole thing, poor guy. He witnessed me. He was just standing on the sidewalk, just looking at me. I'm like, I'm fine. Everything's fine.

And none of the other kids saw it even. None of the other kids knew what happened. I was like, dang it. I mean, it hurts so bad. That'd be funny to see. Oh, dude. Yeah, exactly. I was going to say, it's so not fun to fall,

but it's so funny to watch people fall. And you know it a half second before it's about to happen. Like, I am 100% going down. Like, what? Oh! Oh! And you're so mad. It's like, it's like, that was avoidable.

Yep, yep. I mean, I'm still hurt. Like, I still feel it right now. Like, it's like, dang it. I, there was a while where I thought my knee was actually like something was messed up. Like, I couldn't straighten my knee out for a while. Concussed. I mean, I get it.

Obviously, my injury wasn't avoidable, but yours was. So it's like, like, like I. You had to do what you did. I had to do it. I had to do a flip-up. Yeah. Duty calls. I had to do multiple.

Shooting a show. Yeah. Gosh, dude. Yeah, it was just like, dang it. It was rough. So I'm sorry. That's definitely been part of my week. But then again, it didn't stop me.

That was on Saturday. I went golfing on Monday. So I was like, it's fine. Yeah. I'll still be fine. I mean golfing twice this past little season. Late November. Yeah.

Getting after the golfing. Pure, pure time for golf. Wow. I haven't fell in a long time. I haven't golfed in a long time. you're living the life of my dreams trying to think of anything else I've done recently you haven't done

I don't know about it bought on Facebook marketplace when was the last time I haven't done that a while either yeah it's a good spot get out there well I'm gonna text you guys a video right now it's going through just my notes of my phone I forgot I wrote this down

we have it recorded in so long it's been a long time that there is a lot of things that have transpired and one of these was like 10 days ago the day I'm leaving for Florida. So so much is happening. Oh yeah, you've been to Florida and back.

Yeah, so much content. I'm flying up to Florida at night. So I'm just sending a text to like our Friday pickle, like our big group chat. Just like, hey, we're getting after it today. And I'm showing me and Isaac working on a YouTube video while time in is in the living room working on our short form video. Like we really were cranking out content. It felt good.

And I didn't even see timing. Like when I started this video, I was like, I'll just like paint over time. And what I found really disturbed me. And I think it disturbed Timon. You may click play on this video here on YouTube or Spotify. You can watch it. Okay. He's zooming in on Timon.

Timon's looking like a giraffe. Is that what's concerning? Yeah. Yeah. Timon's back. It's really. Really troubling. Timon, it's because he's blind.

Is it hard for you to see? Well, I have contacts, though. I should not be in that. I should not be in that position. How often? do you think you do that? Have you noticed? I think I do it concerningly often. Like I, since that video, and I, I've been caught with bad posture before, but I needed, I needed that reminder because I keep catching myself. It's, if I'm editing a video, so I, I don't know why. I don't

ever use, like, desk to edit hardly. Like, if I'm ever just, like, at home, I'm going to be on a couch or, like, a bed or something like that. I feel like, um, couldn't be more opposite. And so, Yeah. And so I, it's not like naturally that close to me. So when I'm like trying to see a little detail or like check out a like trying to crop something, I'll just like get closer to the computer. Yeah. And that it just the automatic position is just like. Yeah. Just get in there. Because I can't do it too. It's like at my like seat level. I think I do that with my phone sometimes. Like I'll like get closer to it. Yeah. So I don't know. It's pretty concerning though. I'm going to I'm trying to work on that for sure. So you would never you never lean in. Do you ever. Do you ever. bring it closer to you oh i don't think i have great posture by any means but like what he was doing was insane it was like sitting on a couch but your computer's resting on the coffee table in front of you like that's so far away that is far away to like ask your back to do all the work i'm just almost always like i feel like at the level of my computer like i'm sitting at a desk and you know oh yeah i've never edited from a couch man and i wonder how i bet i was in that position for a pretty long time

because i'm not like you don't see me go into it or out of it i'm just static in that just horrific position. Like, oh, my head, my ear and my shoulder, my ear is lower than my shoulder. That's not, that's how it's supposed to be. Maybe it just means you're flexible. Who knows? Somebody can tell us out there. Could be.

Yeah, we end up getting a lot out of that video. This time when it was like, oh my God. I can't believe this. And that was not the point of the video. That's great. Yeah, I, I think it's borderline insane that you don't use a desk to edit. If you edit as much as you do. Well,

Like, more than saying not to use a mouse. In my opinion, you use a mouse? I've told timing about the mouse. I've tried to tell them about getting a monitor and becoming more stationary. Second monitor, third monitor. It's tough because I just edit in all kinds of different places. I understand, but like. But I agree.

You got to have like a home, yeah, a home court. Yeah, yeah. You have to be able to like, yeah, you have to be able to play on clay. Like you have to know how to like edit on, like on the go. On the go, coffee shop. But you should have a home court of grass. Yeah. Or, you're right.

You know, whatever the other one is. it's not that expensive. You can buy like a Mac Mini for like 500 Black Friday. Facebook Marketplace, do you can get it for $5. You should. It's not,

all you have to do is offer $5. And make sure you meet up in a public place because you might get in trouble for that. You might want to buy a Mac Mini new, but I feel like the monitor, get like a 27-inch monitor on Face the Marketplace for $150.

You're so right. And I have no disagreements with what you're saying, but for some reason I just don't do it. I don't know what. I don't know. I do think, I guess you're saying Mac Mini

because that, So I was going to say, I do think it's a little bit annoying to, like, have to plug in and get it all set up again. But you're saying, like, it's already set up there. Oh, yeah, it's so nice. But then again. You actually might want more than MacMany. It might cost you a little bit more. What did you in doing?

Jake used to have that big old trash can computer. Trash can. Yeah, that was heavy duty for its day. By the time I was editing on it, it was still super slow and it didn't work. But it's all right. Yeah, okay. Talk to me about Florida. I forgot that you even did that.

yeah so you know what was it we recorded like early in the week Thursday morning me time and Isaac meet up to shoot a bunch of videos and then hurry and like edit a bunch of videos because I'm flying to Florida that night um trying to be in the noteworthy stories um got to the airport remind us what you were doing in Florida you're this was big guy big client yeah big boy big huge huge overweight sumo guy that were trying to sign yeah yeah um let's see he'd actually never heard of pickleball he actually didn't speak english so it was kind of a waste of me but no uh there's a couple like the top pro players in the world where their contract is up so we're meeting with them to potentially like woo them over and like sign with us

yeah um it is kind of a funny thing like this all happened very quickly where it's like all right new strategy for 2026 like investors and that's where we're spending this investor money we're again the pro game well then me and matt fly down there we had these meetings and then we're like watching our guys almost that we just like pitched ourselves too and then suddenly you become like it was just so funny like you look at what this company was meant to be when i started it which is like instagram videos and now i'm like sitting on like championship court of the ppa tournament and i'm like a scout all of sudden you know i'm like i'm like evaluating talent being like trying to decide if he's worth $250,000 or $225,000.

You know, it's just so hard to know any of this. I'm like, what am I doing? I'm so unqualified to be doing this. Also, this is one game. Like, who knows if he's this good or if he's on a streak or if he's usually way better than this? Yeah, you're just like, you're placing a futures bed on like a, on a stock or on a, you know, some team with a Super Bowl.

That's essentially what you're doing is like, do we think this guy could get way better? Do we like his trajectory? And then I'm like getting into the details. I feel like he, I don't know if I like what he's doing on the left side. You know, I'm like, all right, what am I doing? Like, why am I trying to scout this guy? But you do, you know, it's like, this is our money. We're spending.

We probably should, like, pay a bunch of attention to it. But the meetings went really well. The first 10 minutes, so this is a PPA tournament where we met, did all this. The first 10 minutes, it just me and Matt, we walk in there and not a single photo, autograph, nothing. I'm like, dang, a little bit of a dry spell. I was hoping Matt would kind of get to see. what it's like. And then the floodgates opened. And then one thing led to another, you know, lines are forming. Everyone thinks that Matt is Isaac. Oh, he's got his sunglasses on.

You know, like, underneath him? You think I'm Isaac? That's crazy. Yeah, because Matt even kept trying to, eventually you just like, you let them think what they want to think. But he kept being like, oh, I'm not actually the one in the videos. They're like, ah, yeah, good one, good one. Classic Isaac. You have gotten, Isaac. You've gotten so much better, dude. And, you know, he's just like, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's, All because of my Friday paddle. But it was kind of cool. There were a couple, like, clearly diehard fans.

Like Matt would say, like, oh, I'm not actually one of the guys in the videos. And they would say, no, no, no, you were in that one video where you sat on the bench and you told the story. And he looked down your glasses. Yeah. And he was like, oh, wow. Yeah, you're right. That is me. So those people were, it was, you know, it's always fun to meet people who, like, remember some crazy thing we said in episode six or something.

You're like, oh, wow, you're like, you're tuned in. Right. So had a good time. it was fun met a bunch of people um flew back in 24 hours ordered some chick flay at the airport they said order for jake and then some other guy took it so i had to like chase him down and say i think you grab my order turns out his name was also jake no way yeah so you guys in florida named jake crazy yeah we high fived i didn't really know what the appropriate response was like oh no way he actually did have my order so it worked

out so i'm like my name is jake so i think this must be yours then high five we're on our way All right, man. All right. Keep on jaking on. So that was a big story. Huge. What did he order? Some dumb.

Yeah. Veggie wrap? Yeah. One of those jakes. Yeah. Yeah, that was it. Just kind of the same name and Tyman's hunchback. Do you think that the guys are going to be sponsored or not?

Do we know yet? It's very hard to know. It's like they've kind of narrowed it down. But I mean, like every company is offering these guys money. Okay. Yeah. who knows west over there yeah so we don't know we're getting closer to figuring it out but it sounds like it was a good trip but it was good yeah it didn't feel like a waste of time by any

means it was like we jam packed our schedule we had a good time very uh very good time in florida and was scott there too no oh well scott was like 30 miles away from us the whole time because he had been at disney all week got it so we were in like lakeland florida and he was orlando so we were very close by um oh this is fun i just remember this this was the i mean i spent all my life or all my days nowadays with Rachel and this was the opposite. So we're sitting there, me and Matt watching pickleball

and Matt just dying in the heat. I mean, he just can't handle it. He's just like, man, dude, can we get some shade? Do they even have clouds? Do they have clouds in Florida? I mean, he's just annoyed by everything at all, how hot it is.

At one point, he goes, I truly think this is the max tolerance of heat my body can handle. Oh my gosh. Florida, November, dude. this is the max your body can handle you're going to regret saying that he's like dude this is like it is so hot wasn't he the one he always went to vietnam wasn't it like yeah i remember that picture of you guys just like drenched i should have brought that up i didn't think about that

but i looked down to my phone when he said this is the max tolerance my body can handle okay i bet it was i think it was in the 70s but it felt like 82 is my guess 707 was it a pretty good guesses. I don't know what they felt like, but the actual temp was 82. Okay. So it's like, yeah, it's probably a little humid because it's Florida. Oh, yeah. It's still 82. I mean, it's not like the heat index is in the 90s or anything. Right. Right. It's November. I mean, like, I'm not sweating. You know, I'm like, this is great, dude. So anyway, that was kind of funny. I would just, I love texting all the other guys. Everything Matt was telling me is like, you guys are not going to believe. Matt says this is the max tolerance. His body can't handle it. Yeah. That's great. I just,

that's one of those things. I'm just like, I'm not going to complain about that stuff. And cold, I can kind of understand. Cold socks. Because cold is just like you can't, like, it just comes out of your mouth. Like without you. Oh, cold. Golly. It does. We do a pinata every year for Thanksgiving. Do you know this?

Wow. Tradition. And yes, that was last night. And last night it was whipping around wind. It was kind of like what you're talking about in Iowa. Like and yeah, we go out to do the pinata. There's like 30 of us out there. And you start with the youngest kid you know, work your way up.

And so, of course, Henry's not breaking this bignata. And then eventually you're like, hit it harder, please. Let's go. Come on. Kind of you're teaching about rotational torque. All right. So really, you're losing a lot of power on your legs. You've got to push off the ground.

Go, hit it. So anyway, eventually, yeah, it was probably only like seven minutes out there, but it felt like after the first four, it was like, it's time to, it's time to break this. Just step on the dang thing. It's fine. Yeah, Bo, get the scimitar out. Bust this thing open. I know.

Bo did not break it, but he got a good swing. He swung right-handed, which I was a little bit like, what are we doing here? Let's figure it out. You got a little nervous, I think, you know. But, you know, when you're swinging a bat, you can swing it both ways. Yeah, a little stage fright. But anyway, glad Flora was good. Speaking of stage fright, how are you guys doing any urals these days?

Oh, great. Yeah, me too. Yeah, just fine. Okay. I kind of take pride in, like, you know, You want me to tell you how to do it? Oh, yeah. Sometimes I'll start paying before I even get my pants down just to show you how comfortable I am.

Oh, yeah. When you're crossing the threshold, you're good. Like when you're in the bathroom. Once I'm in the bathroom, I start paying. Just whip it out. Sorry. No, if you hold your breath. If you ever have a hard time, just hold your breath for a second.

It'll start coming. Try it. Try it right now. Try it right now. Told you. Yes, dude. Oh, my gosh. Some came out, yeah. Holy cow.

Change it. Change your pants. Dang. I'm just saying. I have a friend. Scott. Yeah. What is it?

I was actually not going to say his name. And you guessed it immediately. He's like, well, well. Because not very many people are telling you these things about themselves. Matt's not going to, Matt, I don't think you would matter close enough to tell. I don't think Matt's telling me about, you know, tales from the urinal. Scott is having some stage fright issues and we would try to work on it together. Like consistently.

Yeah. can't get the job done. Scott, hold your breath, dude. This is actually good. Because I have not been helpful at all. I feel like, dude, that sucks. Yeah. I don't know.

I've heard, like, I remember when Taney Como, which is the lake that's connected to Kanakuk, that's known for being freezing cold because it gets fed from this dam. It gets like the bottom of the dam water. Damn cold. And whenever people will jump in there and they want to go, that's what one of my friends told me one time is just hold your breath and then it's easier to go in the spring fed water in the spring fed water in the spring fed water yeah so it's it's good so it's the same it's probably works the same way it's the same damn trick I'll have to tell Scott to try that yeah I feel like we just

we just hang out all the time now and I think we're in public places a lot more and he's like that was tough dude I kind of love I I I kind of love the idea of bellying up to the bar next to him you know hey come on Scott you good yet and just like messing with them because I know stop I know he's just like laughing nervous he's like I can't do it I told you I have to go I know I have to go that's pretty good I did get it in high school every once in a while my football coach would come right next to me that will make anyone triple up yeah gosh this guy was five foot two big old like looked like he was a strong guy

back in his day. Yeah, Doorbuster. Probably, yeah, probably was 50 years old at the time, but man, terrifying guy. Yeah. Just tiny little bowling ball of a fearful man. And Stout Dyke. What did he used to say? What was this?

Instead of like saying G.D., he would say like, oh, man, that's going to be bothered me now. He would say something. Gal darn, heard that show last night. God bless it. No, I don't know if he said, God bless it. Lock Ness it. Loch Ness at us. That's what he would say. He was one that would cuss during his prayers.

I'd tell you that. We would pray before every game. And he'd be like, and Lord, we pray for the Eagles. So we're going to beat their play after play after play. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. I don't know.

I don't know. Huh. I mean, maybe it's in the Bible. Donkeys. That's true. Cory Dial. Corey Dial. That's right.

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Um, but one of them, I'm excited for time. Uh, yeah, Facebook marketplace is currently trending. Just, just going, just going wild on there. Just seem, see what, we just cast a wide net, dude. I'm like now. What do I want? I don't know. What do you want, dude?

Look around. You want a cool, free to look around. Cool picture for the studio. Just look up like framed art. I don't know. Um, and then just see if it's available and then just be like, I'll pick it up today. That's another thing. I'm a big, like, pick it up today.

I'll Vimmo you in advance. Yeah. Yeah. All those things. I'll make it as convenient as possible. I'm a real person. Look at me and go. Wow.

Today's picks is a hodgepodge of things. Let's hear it. Let's all go to today's picks. Today's picks. Because I don't really have an algorithm. I don't really search on Facebook marketplace. That's what you're saying right off the back. So this is random.

I have never served for any of these things. I promise. Whoa. These are fun. Go ahead. Okay. So top left, first result, just listed, free small sectional. Do we send this to you?

No. Okay. Is it good looking? Decent. For free? No. You're not at the top left. That's so terrible.

For free? Probably smells like cigarettes. Then we have 35-inch LG curved monitor. Timon. Curved. Send it my way. Then we have USSR. Mm-hmm.

35-millimeter camera. Does that mean a Soviet Union? Oh, yeah. It's USBC. Yeah. I don't know what USSR or 35-millimeter camera. I mean, like a Sputnik. type camera. I think there's a lot of, it's

when you're looking for like vintage cameras, a lot of them say like something with Russia or like Soviet lenses. Okay. They did it right over there. So this are my first three options. Then the fourth one. Stall lens. Nice. Go ahead. St. Shoot Petersburg.

Shutter. Sarah. Sarah Yevo. Go ahead. Fourth one is a 2014 BMW. Okay. 328 I. I say go for all four. I think, yeah, I just run the full gamut.

I like to take pictures of the BMW, edit them on this monitor while I'm sitting on the section. And then next up is a one-bed, one-bath house. Oh, okay. People are saying homes on Facebook marketplace? I do see them listed there once in a while. Huh. Just getting it out there.

If I click on it now, I'm just going to get a house. Yeah, probably just like a way to advertise. That's kind of nice. Timing you got in here? All right, what are today's place? Yeah, Jesse uses my account for his stuff, so I'm seeing a lot of three of these things, uh, four are mini bikes slash go-cart slash forward.

Wheeler-related. Because he has a couple of those and he's trying to, you know, he's looking for those. And then Birkenstock clog shoes. I'm kind of, I'm kind of those, dude. Dude, they're, Gen Z likes them. Yeah, I know. And that's why I, that's why I'm a little bit, like, leery about buying them, but I think I would love them. And I think I would rock them all right.

What do you think? You don't talk about? Yeah. What do you think? Are those, like, the potato shoes? Yeah. Yeah. Do you like the, like the brown ones?

Is that what? Yeah. I think you would rock those. As opposed to what? Like these right here look like almost more leather, black, shiny. Oh. Oh my gosh. But same style.

No, no, no. Yeah, definitely like that. Yeah. Definitely like suedey, like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A little fuzzy almost. Yeah. You've been an airplane on a face of marketplace.

$19,000. $1998, Audi A4, $1,000. Okay. And then a go cart. That's fun. Mine aren't very fun. Mine are just chair. Oh, this one's kind of cool.

Vintage Brass bicycle, book, end's kind of cool that's my coolest one then I got chandelier mirror bed frame dresser velvet blackout curtains set of four chiefs championship rings and display case that's cool looks got it looks like the real thing yeah maybe I should try this more it's fun dude oh here's a sponsor what if this is Isaac large double dog kennel crate console a lathe Kansas click on it I think it is. Come on.

Oh, Corey with an E. Oh. Oh. That's exactly like Isaac's dog kennels. What if they, sometimes I've seen people post my pictures on their listings.

Why? Just to be like, hey, I can make this, but I've, oh, really? Yeah.

I can fix that. I wouldn't be surprised if they did that with Isaacs too. Wow. Corey, not cool. Not cool, Corey.

Not a cool Corey move. That's one currently. So we're currently training facing marketplace. Another one that I said was fall golf. Fall golf. Yeah, where you've been playing? Talk to me about golf. Sycamore Ridge.

Oh, yeah, down south. Nice course. Nice course. Tough course. Played with two guys that were pretty good. Tate's not great, but another guy, one of my friends, bow. Very good. Bo good.

Not that bow. Different bow. Different bow. Oh, your son. Yes. Pretty good. Right hand and left end. And then played at Sunflower Hills with the church guys.

church guys that's an easier course that one's nice oh yeah we've done that in a tournament before yeah almost played at that uh course in de soto that's like known for how bad it is yes yeah i was kind of excited to play it it's like it doesn't matter i'm terrible no cares so but i've had a few few good shots jake watch out dude i would always get bothered when people are like are we play there that course is so short or so easy like we all suck yes why not i yes i i get less i get almost annoyed with the people that are like this is a thing 14th hole today, they've seen how good I am, and they still try to be like, so I'm playing like 136. I don't know. If you could go over this tree. I'm like, all I care about is if I hit it

well or not, dude. 136 means nothing. I could use my pitching wedge and hit it 150. I could use my four iron and hit it 60 yards. Yeah, this isn't about getting it close to the pen. This is about confidence. This is about like ball striking. Yes. I'm just trying to hit it straight, dude. Like, it's like one thing to be like, okay, it's early on the day. I'm talking like this to Brad. Eventually, it's just like, just letting me do my thing. Treat me like I'm six. I'll just use a seven iron every time.

No problem. Anyway, fall golf. Next one, I've been combing my hair. Cowing my hair. Okay, okay. I put gel in it, and then I comb it, and then I use my hands. We'll call it five minutes later. Just kind of kind of.

You found a little rhythm that works for you. Yeah, I just go back and forth on hair stuff. You know, that's what I'm doing right now. Nice. compliment me it looks unbelievable thank you i noticed the second you stepped in thank you i noticed it before that even yeah james yeah watching yeah watching me enter his house dang dude what guy combs yeah i don't know i kind of i like that initially i like i'll comb it and i'll be like that's too fancy looking i don't what are we doing i'm not a deacon you know every day of the but then you know

i think that gets a good base and then i just throw around from there so um and then the last one is I've gotten into two new musicians, fans, if you will. One of them, Red Clay Strays. Yeah, they're good. I like them a lot. You heard of them, Jake? Is that who did a song We Need to Breathe? Correct.

Hey, look at me, you know and stuff. Mama. I only know a few of them are songs, but they're really good. Okay, Red Clay Strasse. I'll give the precedent of like, I'm kind of a fraud fan right now. Like, I'm a fan of them, but I don't. You're entering. Yes, but they're kind of like old school.

Like, he almost looks like Elvis or Johnny Cash or something. Oh, I bet he combs. He combs. He comes with grease. or something. I don't know what he's putting on there. Motor oil. Hearing the songs, I thought this would be like a scraggly country guy, but it's like, he looks put together. Yeah, he's like very like clean shaven. So red clay strays. Red clay strays. Can I guess the other one? Yeah.

Cy. The Shadaleir? No, uh, Gondon style guy. Oh, yeah, that's right. See ya is the shaddalaire. Sorry. Uh, no. Is it close? It is not. But I told time and I was like, you're going to be excited about this. Jacob Collier, dude. Oh, you're getting into it. Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm, He's awesome. Dude, this is, this is, this is fun. I know. Like, I'm like, I'm like, ready time.

I'm ready. I'm ready. Like I said, I'm still a fraudulent fan at this point. Like I, if you said, like, what about this? I wouldn't know any songs. No, yeah. But I've been watching his videos like crazy. I'm, yeah.

I am, I'm a fan of the guy probably more than his music, even though I love his music. I am fascinated by this guy. He is a prodigy, or like a, he just, he just seems like he's a genius. Yes. Kind of like Charlie Puth, which I like watching him too. He's just like, this guy appreciates music in a different way than I can even understand. But he's like got this style that's like, we are not the same person at all. Yeah.

But like at the same time, just watching him talk about and play music and all these different things. I mean, he's amazing at so many different instruments. And I don't know, man. I'm kind of, I'm like, I'm like excited right on the precipice of like, here we go. So like, if he's ever close timing, you and I are going to his concert. Yes. Okay. Let's do it.

That's fun, you guys. That's fun. It's really fun. Yeah. I'm really. Yeah, I'm like, what's infatuated with the guy right now? I'm just like, this guy, what in the world? Yeah.

He's just amazing. So, if you're a fan of music, check him out. Cool. Love it. But then again, dude, it's like Christmas time. So I kind of feel like I need to listen to Christmas music more than those. He's got a three-track live Christmas album. See, I didn't even know.

Not a real fan. Just like piano vibes. Okay. Cool. Anyway, just, I don't know. I don't even, I feel like there's like. He's a fascinating guy. Yeah.

It's like, how do I. even get to the bottom of this. Yeah. You know? I've even like, just because I like the nerdy production side of things, I've watched, he does occasional like live streams breaking down his, like, project file for his songs. And it's just like the production is interesting, but he's just funny and enjoyable to listen to. Yeah, he's just a funny guy.

Okay. Can we just talk real quick, Jake? Please. Did you see that video that he did at Halloween? It was like a thriller. Like, it was like a piano. He like played the bass line to thrill. and then he played on this piano like spelled out Halloween on a oh yeah he he does I've seen that

for like the new year or whatever was that just like is that a gimmick or is that real like can he is he really like making that no he I mean he's just like have you seen this Jake he knows I don't think so it's like okay these are roughly the notes I'll have to play like make that but I'll choose the ones that'll make it sound good I think basically like yeah he like plays something on piano and it translates to a way of like making a line or all the notes are like highest to lowest and so he spells out happy Halloween or just Halloween or something like that. But like, and so like for the W, it's like, like, dude, like, cool.

It's amazing. But I'm like, is that just like, it sounds good and it kind of looks the same. So therefore, I think that's, yeah, like how real is it? Yeah. I'm kind of a Jacob Collier defender, so I'll say that's real. Okay. I think it's real. He's so talented.

That's what I'm saying. Like, if anybody could do that, it would be him, it seems like. Yeah. Anyway, just into it. Yeah. those two bands are pretty different but at the same time yeah I'd say pretty cool yeah so

that's great that's it I time and I have some fun plans ahead of us potentially okay and I don't even know if time and fully understands what we're doing so this is more of me talking to time in right now but great listen me

Scott nah let me start over me scary I don't want to yeah I was gonna say Frady Cat yeah I was gonna say Frady Cat and let me start over.

Stage fright, uh, tapeworm and myself. Okay. Are, are signed up to play in these, like, pickleball national championships.

Yeah. It's just like this three-on-three version where you're a duper has to be below 15.3. Ours coming at 15.2. It was meant to be, Brad. Well, don't play too much. Easy,

yeah, yeah, or lose a bunch. So it's perfect. So we are signed up to play as a threesome in his pickleball tournament. It's the national championships. It's down in Dallas. This upcoming.

Friday got it so if you're around come watch didn't they just do the world championships oh yeah so different like governing bodies but you know got it got it yeah EPA MLP you know um isn't there like a big beef between them or is that different i honestly US APA maybe well there's APP really yeah yeah APP is like the minor league like almost farm system into the PPA but they're different they're all they don't like okay got it okay go ahead anyway what's the one that cute has a team. That's MLP. MLP.

Yep. All right. So this is, anything else? This is the L-I-N-C. This is NCAA. Yeah. No. But it's a tournament we've had on the schedule for months, and I think we've all been

traveling so much. It was kind of like, do we still want to go do this? It's like, we have to go all the way down to Dallas and back. And we're like, no, let's do it. Also, because there's a $1,000 costume contest. So it's like, even if we don't win, surely we get into the costume contest. I was asking Rachel last night, was like, what should we dress up as? immediately she just goes founding fathers

and I have not been able to think of an idea I like more than founding fathers that's awesome not the funniest like truly I spent like an hour I try to brainstorm other like outfits and I my other best guess was like we all three dresses pit bull that was like as close as I could get to like a funny answer

no founding fathers yeah I think founding fathers is so funny weirdly it's amazing all three of you look like founding fathers like you're kind of Thomas Jefferson like Scott's got some Ben Franklin I thought Scott was Ben Franklin And, well, maybe, maybe Isaac's Thomas Jefferson. I don't know.

Isaac just, I don't know. You might be George Washington. One of us, but don't let it go to your head. I mean, even just the commentary, like, there's so much material to choose, like, to pull from. If you're dressed as a founding father. Four fathers, it has four hands. Yeah, four hands. Yeah, father figures.

I mean, the crossing the Delaware. One of us has got to be Alexander Hamilton, probably Scott. Sure. Sure. Yeah. Yeah, Scott could be rapping the whole time. So, really like the idea of dressing as the founding fathers and playing the national championship but the fun part of it is we've been kind of thrown around this idea of like right now

our youtube is in a really good spot people are loving it they're bought in but i think it could be even better showing off even more of our personality right um in making the videos longer like at the world championships in dallas like it was so fun like scott tj are out playing over here me and i think in hindsight we're like we should have filmed all of it all the selfies we took and all the funny fan interactions or just even the debrief like me and Isaac got done playing we come back to we called it base camp and scott and tj would come back and we were swapping stories how'd your game go how'd your game go like scott's telling us a story i think his phrase was imagine measuring the net before we play and then losing 11 zero yes that's the kind of stuff that needs to be in the

youtube blog a guy brought out a tape measure because he thought the net was too high or too low oh that's what this guy did like called a referee got a tape measure to double check the height of the net was so into it and scott and t j beat him 11 to zero you know like gosh we need to like that should be filmed so we want to like almost yeah just a more casual vlog style just like show all personalities more and so i was like hey these national championships could be an opportunity like let's do that it's it's not a big ppa tournament there's not as much going on this could be a good trial run so then we got talking about like what if we road trip down there even though it's an easy flight to dallas like what if that was kind of part of the experience yeah and then one thing leads to another

I'm like, well, if driving down there as part of the experience, I have an idea. So I called up one friend of ours. His name is Glyde. And I said, Glyd, remember that time we rented a cyber truck? And you said, oh, yeah, you can do this any time. I'd like to do that this week. And so I think we're going to be able to make it happen. Really?

So Thursday, we're going to, I guess record this podcast in the morning. Okay. Then go straight to the Tesla dealership, get a cyber truck, ticket to Dallas and back in 48 hours. Love it. And just show up to the national championships, dressed as founding fathers in the cyber truck. Yeah.

What an oxymoron. Yeah. So pretty excited. That should be a fun couple days for us. I can't wait. Yeah. That's so funny. Five of you in that truck?

What? Five of you in that truck? I think just four. Yeah. Just a three of me Scott. Oh, yeah. You're right. Me, Frady cat, tapeworm.

TJ's not going. And timing. And hunchback. Hunchback. Yeah, you'd be Quasimoto. So that's your founding father. That's wild. So even the next time we record, I guess it won't have happened yet.

But in two weeks, hopefully have some good stories from cyber trucking down to Texas and back. You have to wear the forefather stuff the whole time. You have to like method act. Sorry, I need this. Timon has to be one too. We should get a fourth costume. Yes, why not? Yeah, four fathers.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do it. Yeah, the more we're talking about.

I need to buy this right now. I need to get us forward. Oh, dude, you need to go hard. You need to, like, figure out, like, make it look authentic. I mean, stockings. Isaac's got his shave for it. Yeah, he does need to. Yeah.

They didn't have beards? I don't think so. I don't think so. Not in the paintings. I mean, uncivil. Wooden teeth. Get some wooden teeth in there. That's awesome.

It feels like George should have, like, a spyglass kind of thing. What's that called? Telescope? Yep. Seeing eyeglass. Probably so. We could get a glass cock. a gun

like a musket yeah we should I'm gonna founding fathers accessories like what else do they have um scrolls I think you just got to nail

you gotta nail the clothes like you gotta nail the wig Ben Rector Guitar Ben Franklin could have his bifocals or a kite god get a kite

kite key yeah just Whipping around. Oh my gosh, dude. Scots should be been Franklin. Did I say that yet? Yeah. Is that what I said for him?

Okay. Gloves, maybe? You think like white gloves? Oh, yeah. As we play. People play with those, don't they? I was going to say, like, old guys, they'll play with, like, Franklin batting gloves. Franklin gloves.

Franklin gloves. It's perfect. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, change your, like. We play with Franklin Ball? No. Dang it. Okay.

All right. That's pretty good. There's so much material to pull from. Yeah, I know. I'm trying to think of my Rolodex of, like, terms for the things I know. Because I don't know that much. Articles of Confederation, no thanks. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There's one. There's one topical joke. Independence Hall, love it. Meet me there later. Yeah, that sounds good. Yeah, I'm sure Hancock's going to be all big and, you know, braggy. Glasscock, no, thank you. We have Hancock.

Yeah, we have Glasscock at home. And then it's this guy. Uh, Aaron Burr. See, it seems like a musket and a scroller, a must, a must. A musk. Yeah, scroll is real good. You should have a scroll, like a personalized scroll that has like our dipper ball. Yeah. Yeah, something. You guys all sign it on the bottom in like ink. Not, you know, that kind of ink, like the quill. You need a quill. Good ink. Yeah. A nice stockings headdress. Yep. Yeah, the wigs will be huge. He's in his knickers. Yeah.

All right. As soon as we're ever quitting, I could buy all this. I'm glad you guys affirmed that because I was really liking that. Oh, yeah. Unbelievably great. Yeah. I didn't like Friday on the butt, but I like this. I think that's amazing.

Founding Fathers. Wow. And you got to get four. Give four costumes. Yeah. Making sure everyone knows Timons with them. Yeah. That's what you need.

Are you playing today? Who are you filming for? Yes. Take a guess. Take a guess. Take a guess. What's going to be a bummer is, you don't win the costume goddess.

It's like, what? For the founding fathers. This other guy just goes as Luca Donchich. It's like, that's not even, he doesn't even play there anymore. Yeah. The pit bull guys won?

Dang it. Yeah. Dang it. Shoot. Gosh. Nist opportunity. No, he should have gotten that. That's great.

So, that'll be fun. What are you in this week or this weekend? Um, I have no idea. Honestly. this is this is as far as I've gotten I feel like I'm just such like a okay Thanksgiving's happening we got to go through that I'm I'm finalizing sale on the house next Monday the house purchase the next house yeah I wish anyone wants to buy the other house still still there baby still ready for you waiting for the right ghostie to to buy yeah but this other one over the park so hopefully getting going on that which will be fun but that's that's kind of like the main thing is just like knowing the plan having everything prepared so that when it's we get the money or we get the house it's go time kind of thing so yeah yeah I don't know I had it in my notes at one point I was like maybe we should do a schmores of the most

rewatchable movies and I thought about it I was like rewatchable movies just might be just the best movie just a new is that fair describing it that might be true yeah or not I don't know what do you think the only caveat I'd say was like a movie like um there's some movies are great that you don't want to rewatch a ton of times or just like a movie like get out or maybe some movie similar to that where there is some type of like what is going on here what is okay big secret some yeah some of the best movies are amazing movies kind of be but you can't rewatch them like that's part of why the twist or the yeah sometimes surprise in it yeah you lose that anytime you're rewatch it okay so it's not so they're yeah i think there is a kind of yeah so i have the thought

of like oceans 11 man i can watch that movie a million times you know it's just so good every time. And I'm like, well, that just means it's one of the best movies. Yeah, I do you think all my favorite movies would be very rewatchable. But then again, like, Gladiator is a great movie, but it's not like a, man, I got to sit down and watch this one every time it's on. Right. It's kind of like a bit of a commitment to watch it. It is. Yeah. Yeah. Because you've got to go to the bathroom a handful of time. Yeah, right. There's ebbs and flows. Two hours turns into three hours. A movie like holes, though, it's so rewatchable. So rewatchable? I feel like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Holes.

National Treasure. Yeah. There's a lot of movies that are not the best. I think it stemmed from Sahara. Because I was like, that's a great movie that I want to watch

every time I see it. But it's not one of the best movies ever. Like catch me if you can is such a fun movie. It's like every time it's on, it's like, well, that's fun. Yeah, that's good point.

I'll watch 17 minutes of that real quick. Yeah. A lot of those Christmas movies, I mean, Home Alone. Yep. Oh, I've rewatch that. Yep. I just remember,

there was some great content on the Facebook group. Let me try and find it. I did actually screenshot one thing that we can talk about real quick while you find other things Anonymous member It's so funny when that happens

Sometimes I understand why they do it Other times I'm like I don't know if this one needed to be anonymous Maybe this is accidental Anyway, they, it looks like it was a woman This group came to mind When my husband and I had a disagreement Arriving at Thanksgiving today

Oh yeah The disagreement in some is as follows He thinks that when we go over to people's houses A large party or a small gathering that you always park in the street. He says, quote, I hate parking the driveway at other people's houses.

My opinion is that that is literally what the driveway is for. Parking the driveway, the likelihood the host will have to leave while we are there is very small. We went back and forth

about different scenarios for a while. I'm still strongly in favor of driveway parking. 29 comments on that house. People were into it. I have not read that many of them. I want to hear you guys' thoughts. I haven't read anything.

Are people agreeing with this person? I don't know. What do you, I want to hear, who cares if they agree? What do you think? I don't think I would agree with this person at all. You, I would. In the street? Maybe it's like, I don't know.

I'm trying to think of, I mean, there's people that I just am good friends with. I'll just park wherever. But if it's like, maybe it's just with how comfortable I'm with the people or something. Or like, if it's a. Because you park in Jake's driveway. Yeah, it's true. I don't know. Maybe I, it just, based on the post, I was like, oh, I'll just park on the street.

But then again, if it's open, you would never think about it. There's a, there is a feeling of like, hey, seven people, you get there a little bit late because you're an Ellis and seven people have already parked in the street. And there's a spot in the driveway open. It's like, I don't know about this. Maybe I don't know what I think. I thought I had a strong thought, but I'm like, ah. Here's something that I wonder if Jake thinks or feels as a man slash form.

boy who loves sports, I always got fresh air when people parked in the driveway when there was a basketball hoop there. Hey, that's my basketball. It's like, now we have to have a move if we want to play basketball. Yeah. Is that ever a thing? Yeah, that's a good point. I would agree there. That was the only time I didn't want people to park in the driveway. But I don't know. I Yeah, when I first read that comment, I'm like, oh, yeah, I feel strongly. And then I actually did read some of the comments and everyone was making good points. What did they say? Like, I think it depends on how closely you know someone um how how long do you plan to stay there when you you know are you blocking someone in or not right so we're going to block you in because i like the argument like if we're

the last ones to get here and we know we're not going to stay that long who cares parking the driveway yeah it seems like that's just like a principle for this guy yeah it's like no no no never but yeah people were back and forth about it people don't like being blocked in Yeah, someone else is parked first, so I'm not blocked in. Got to be able to leave early if we need to do a toddler. If with a toddler or a newborn, I don't want to have to ask someone to move their car. I also think if you're parking behind somebody, of course, it's a license to be like, please ask me to move my car if I'm happy.

Yeah, I don't want to be in your way. Yeah. That's the website that our founding fathers used to get their meat. Mm-hmm. We hold these meats to be self-evident. That not all pork is created equal. There you go. There you go.

Yeah. Article 1. There's no illegal aliens that are... Making this meat or shipping this meat. Inalienable rights. Or raising this meat. They believe in life, liberty, and the pursuit of medium rare steak. Yeah.

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This land was made for you and me. What other posts did you see? I'm having such trouble finding it because Facebook search is awful, but someone just asked about like, anyone have any, like, awkward social interactions?

Did you guys see this post? And then there were like some amazing comments, just like people sharing stories, basically just like what we do. Yeah. Boy, is it tough to find. I think it was from Jay. Jay's a constant. And in the meantime, Timon,

you made another song? Question mark? Because I... I just made a... If this is what you think, I made a cover to a 21 pilot song. Just like to the karaoke track

for fun. Fun. Because I knew, like, this wasn't why did it? 21 pilots is my right place strays right now. Okay.

But like more... I feel like I'm a real fan now. I don't know. It's kind of strange. It's like, I just... They released a new album, like,

a few months ago or something like that and I liked it and then I just I think they went from I have a little stats app where I can see my Spotify stuff like stats and then um I think they went from my number 20 of this year to my number two in like a month so I'm like okay yeah maybe a little obsession I don't know yeah yeah yeah but you find yourself always going back there yeah yeah I like I'm a lot so I just happened to have just like one of their songs in my head is like I want to sing this So I kind of produced it a little bit. And then people a month ago were talking about 21 pilots on the chat, on the group. And I was like, I'll post this.

Some people might like it. But yeah, it's not like an original anything. I didn't do any beat making or whatever. But yeah, people liked it. That was fun. Thanks, guys. I found the post, and I saw the comment that it initially caught my attention. So Jay just asked, like, what's the most embarrassing or awkward social situation you've ever been in?

Megan Doran said, I was once on. a jury for a case of drinking and driving in my town no injuries a few days after we delivered the guilty verdict i was at our local high school football game and saw someone i knew i had seen before but i just couldn't place him he seemed to look at me thinking the same thing this happens a lot so i figured i knew him from our church or the kid's school after about 10 minutes i finally realized who he was it was the guy we had found guilty a few days earlier that's rough um chelsea williams king this is a great one. Okay, strap in.

I don't think it's... Oh, yeah. Hold on, let me hunch. She gets in a lot, so I'm trying to... Chelees. Yeah, give her some... What's the word? Justice for...

Chalice? Cheese. Chees. Chees. Cheese King. Chalessie. She starts off by saying, this is my fault,

and I'm sorry for lying. My husband and his friend and I went into ultra beauty really quick to grab something. to grab something I wanted to buy. And when I went to the register, my husband and his friend stood off to the side, the cashier asked if I had an account

if I would like to make one. And then me, remembering you get something free on your birthday month, knew it was July, so I made an account and said my birthday was in July. They said, July what? And I took too long to think about it

because I was realizing, I didn't know today's date, and I didn't know if they would honor my birthday if it already happened. So I just, I randomly said 21st, and the girl at the count, I said, that's today. And I panicked and said, no, it's not.

She leaned over to her coworker and said, hey, is it today the 21st? And she's like, yeah. And they were like, you didn't know today was your birthday? And I was like, uh, speechless. I don't know how to lie. So then after one too many seconds, I pointed to my husband and said, he hasn't said anything yet. And I'm wondering if he remembers.

And then they both said, oh my gosh, girl, I'm so sorry. I hope he does. And they gave me two free birthday samples. Lesson learned. I still feel terrible about it. My husband was upset. I made him seem like the worst guy ever. Just absolutely throwing your husband out of the bus.

He hasn't said anything yet, so I hope he will remember. Oh, girl, I've been there. Kick him to the curb and, yeah, have some of this foundation. Greg Simpson said, hiking with a group of friends when we passed by a family coming the other way. The dad said, hey, go badgers. I said, Badgers, no, we haven't seen any. The dad just replied, okay, and the whole family just stared at me.

No one else said a thing. A couple of minutes later, I realized my friend behind me was wearing a Wisconsin Badger's shirt. Hey, go Badgers. No, not on this trail. They're not indigenous. Have a good day. Oh, my. All right.

You read this one from Page? Oh, first of all, Abigail Plowman, just said, shaking the hand of the coolest guy at co-op instead of high-fiving him twice. that's just simple but so awkward and so funny what's up because you have to you have to go up high and shake unless it's a low five yeah think it is um page doughty uh one of my not one of my embarrassing stories for myself but one time i was at a prime time put putt and gaming place in abling texas with friends and my boyfriend at the time ran off during the game to go to the bathroom uh we had eaten chilies earlier she said those restaurants really did have a choke hold on us, Brad.

And man, he was gone a long time. We waited and waited. Eventually had to go inside and wait. He sent a text and said he got sick and needed me to make up a story for us to go home. The smell was awful, and the drive home was an hour long. My friend's brother-in-law was the manager of the prime time, and he tells my friend that someone lost their underwear,

and there was crap all over one of the bathroom stalls. My friend and I still laugh about it to this day. That's awful. An hour? I don't care anything longer than three minutes is too bad oh my gosh

that's brutal hey make something up I don't think they're going to buy it geez I think that's all mainly the good ones but yeah

that's good thank you to the go sees who who left comments that's fun yes dude oh gosh Facebook group is popping as always

As always it's always Great thank you guys for Posting things there Thank you thank you thank you That's about all I got Catherine's still Pretty much every single day Running to Mint to Live

It's like her thing She's like on a kick Like I'm gonna go I'm gonna go on my walk slash run I'm gonna switch it up The other day she said Yeah I was like It's called switch foot for a reason

Left right left right The other day I think she did it with Rosie and Henry in a stroller. And I think she does it down your street every time. So you need to be on the lookout for Catherine the runner. Okay, yeah, I've been gone, but I'll be on the lookout. All right, we got to go, Rosie. Come on.

Songs going on. A game we played this Thanksgiving that I think a lot of families would enjoy playing, maybe over Christmas you do this, was a, this is Steve Coop's idea. But he said he wanted to play charades, but it's only the word bank or the options. that you could choose from are only the dumb things he's ever done in his life because there's 50 things to choose from. And so he would just act out all these just like ridiculous things he's done his life. And then we would all have take turns guessing. And then at various times you could go up and act out a dumb thing that he's done and forgot about. So really fun. I think we might do it for

like my dad and Uncle John or Christmas. That's pretty good. Like just like these inside joke stories that everyone should kind of know that in that group. Exactly. So it's like their whole family obviously knows them. There's a good handful that I don't understand. But then it's great, because then you get to hear the story. Everyone's dying, laughing, trying to tell you the story. Yeah. So, yeah, pretty fun of game. Do you remember any of the ones he's done that are ridiculous?

Uh, let's see. Rachel, are you around? Oh, she's not in there. Um, let's see, there was like, um, let's see, calling, uh, calling Angie the name of his ex girlfriend, um, there was the firecracker shrimp episode. Yep. Where he pooped on the bridge. Tim ran up, found him.

scraping it off with a leaf. I don't remember that detail. There was, I mean, gosh, what was? I mean, there's like just inside jokes as family, just all this stuff, like running over the checkbook with a lawnmower.

Yeah, just so many things that choose from. I mean, honestly, Mr. Glasscock might make his way into it years to come. Yeah. Helping, helping him up after he shot the musket. That's great. I love it. So, that was pretty fun.

yeah how are strategies with the house selling uh okay let's talk about it so i lowered the price a little bit more in hopes that maybe it'll sell from what i understand both now and like micro and macro it's just like the worst time of year to sell like dang worst time a year and then i was talking to a guy from our church he's like i've been selling for 15 years at real estate agent and he's like top 1% at Keller Williams, Kansas City. He's like very successful. He's like, this is my worst quarter I've ever had. I was like, that's cool. That's awesome. So there's a strategy of like pull it off the market if it's not, because no one's going to, not no one, but it's very unlikely it's going to sell in December or like December 15th or something. No one's. Okay. Pulled off the

market for a few months. And then spring is usually when it's hot. There's even like predictions and projections that like maybe it's even going to be hotter than normal. Like it's like hot spring. but every single month I have to spend money to keep it. Yeah, you have a mortgage. Yeah. And so I would love to just sell it and just kind of like not kill it, but just make some money on it and just wipe my hands of it and move on to the next one. But there's a chance I might have to just hold on to it for a little bit longer.

So that's kind of like the, what's the word, backyard baseball? Inside baseball. That's the Pablo Sanchez to it. but yeah, nothing too strategic. There's not like the hard thing is obviously it's the price is not quite right because no one's buying it. But also like they get these surveys, people that go and look at the house and no one,

one person I think is said the price is too high. So it's not necessarily the price that's too high. It's just like people don't want it or they'll say like, we're just starting out our search or whatever. It's like, all right, no problem. So I think I've kind of just learned that area. is tough to flip a house because there's less people looking for a house that expensive. You know what I mean?

So I don't know. I've been telling people it's like it's really forcing me to truly like trust the Lord rather than like, oh yeah, I trust the Lord. Yeah, I'm sure. You know, it's like, like do I really believe that God is enough or do I believe it's like God plus this successful identity I have, whatever it is? You know what I mean? So it's been a good test of patience and dependency and whatever for me.

honestly in this other house that I'm getting is a huge blessing because it's hopefully seemingly a win no matter what so and hopefully get it ready in time of the World Cup yeah yeah it should be once again it's like fingers crossed but it should be like two to three month renovation pretty quick it's not I mean it's not very extensive or anything this other one was like take it down to the studs raise ceilings move walls around this new one's like new new flooring new paint new stuff easy relatively so anyway yeah world cups coming to can't city time and you excited super yeah i know i am you got

your tickets yeah good yeah front row the day they dropped yep front row best place to see it yeah that some people believe it's you know you need me a few seats up nope not me not me i'm gonna see see those guys i've been seeing on the tv screen for all those years all those cards i've collected Yeah, you're a big soccer cards guy. Soccer cards? Yeah. Yeah. How much do you think a ticket to the World Cup would cost?

I don't know. Have you seen? I'm sure it's thousands, right? It has to be. Especially because, like, I mean, I don't understand how any of this works, but like, does Kansas City, are they getting, like, pool play games? Do they get, like, one of the big games? I don't know how any of that works.

Yeah, pool play. No idea. It's a training city as well. What's that mean? So like some of the teams might play in LA, but then they'll come to Kansas City to, like, practice in between games or something. Oh. Because I don't think they play, you know, they play once in a week or something. I don't know, something like that.

We really know ball. Calvin knows. Oh, random selection draw phase doesn't start until December 11th. Okay. Dang, what tickets die by then? Which ones do we have, timing? You get two, master? Step-up.

We got jipped off. Oh, man, I got jipped. jipped off is funny I get jipped off I don't even know when that happens summer I guess yes I'm June

something like that I decorated my house Christmas lights yesterday I thought to myself I'm gonna do this first thing in the morning you had a busy black Friday you bought all that stuff you Facebook marketed you emailed

and put up lights went to yeah family affair wow went and got a public storage uh storage unit bought some couches oh yeah you know no rest for the weary is that what they say some people say that ain't no rest for the local brokenhearted uh i yeah put up christmas lights and i thought to myself about seven minutes into it i was like this sucks i don't want i i'm i was in a bad mood i did it the first thing literally didn't even have my mainstream

roasters coffee yet i was like i'm just going to get up there i'm going to get it done it's And it feel great to be done with it. I didn't get done until like 11 a.m. Like it took me a while. But I had this thought as I'm up there. First of all, I had the thought of I'm glad that Catherine pushes me to do things like this that are like,

like she didn't tell me, hey, go put up the Christmas lights right now. But she was like, I think we should decorate the house for Christmas on Friday. And I was like, okay, great.

I'm glad that she pushes me to be more excellent than I probably would push myself. But then I also thought, I feel like people are not decorated as much for Christmas as I used to. too. You don't think. I don't think so. Do you feel like Christmas lights are like less popular than they used to be? I think you might have asked me this last year too. Really? And I don't know. I mean, I still think there's a lot of houses going pretty hard for Christmas, but maybe the

median house. I just get, I just get, I got a little fired up yesterday of like, we like as Christians, I think basically, I'm like, we need to decorate pretty like, we need to make a big deal about Christmas in whatever way that looks like. Obviously, there's like commercial worldly versions of, going hard for Christmas. Have a Coke with a polar bear. That's what I'm saying. Like, and teach them about, you know, whatever. No.

But like, you see all these people going crazy for Halloween and I'm like, all right, why aren't we going crazy for Christmas? That's what I'm saying. And so, if you're out there, go crazy. Go crazy. Hashtag crazy for Christmas. Do you think you should go crazy for Easter? I may be.

Yeah. But not, that's what I'm saying. I don't know if it has always be decorations. Yeah. Was it, yeah, decor or is it like passion? Yes, right. It's just like, yeah, reminding the people about the real reason for why we're doing this kind of stuff. Because, yeah, you're right.

I don't go, we don't decorate, we don't do, we should, maybe do lights for Easter. Giant inflatable bunny. Nothing says reason for the season, like a big rabbit. There's probably a divo that says the rabbit is equaling this kind of thing. But I don't have it. That Devo's not done you. I'm not. Chat GVT will make it for me.

But anyway, had the thought. It's like, because I don't think I would have done anything. If it's, if it's me, if I'm, if I'm a single dude at my house,

I probably put up a ironic Christmas tree. Like, and it'd be like terrible kind of thing. Yeah. So timing, go crazy. All right. Or just do something.

Yeah. Anyway. There was one year in the Adelaitha house when I live down there where I feel like me, Isaac and a roommate or two, we were like, let's go to home goods and let's just be let's just be little girls and just like grabbed a bunch of crap just wreaths and garland it we didn't even know how to decorate a home right but we threw crap

around yeah and it was fun yeah that is awesome you almost it has to be a group effort because no single guy on their own will be like man I'm in the Christmas spirit also you kind of be like questioning this guy like you just walk home and he's just like hey guys I decorated the whole living room got hot cocoa on the stove for you yeah sugar cookies in the oven all right bryly Good to see you, man. If it's a group effort, that's kind of fun. Yeah. Yeah.

That's all I have to say. Anyway, what was I going to say? So I'm not pickleball. Class. You guys doing a Christmas theme pickleball battle? We are not. Should we? Do we drop the ball in that?

I think you should do an American theme one for forefathers. For founding fathers. Yeah. Yeah, can we? But by Friday, can we get shipped a fully designed American flag one? You know, a lot of people in our email inbox would expect that. They would say, hey, we got a charity tournament this Friday. We like 25 custom paddles that have this boy with autism's face on it.

We say, no, we can't do that. And they say, I knew you guys didn't care about autism. Whoa. No, no, that's fair. Go on, defend it. I don't know. All right. Make an argument, then, if you actually care.

Um, but that's, anyway, um, I was gonna ask something. I don't know what. Have you seen Wicked 2 yet, Diamond? I haven't. Why not? Don't have the time. I guess. Nope. None of us do. Well, actually, I was bailed on. I was gonna see it with, like, um, it was gonna be kind of a funny group. Just like, just all these guys in my Bible study go to see Wicked part two. Yeah. We're straight. Um, we're straight. But, apparently like I thought that everyone else wanted to even more than I did I was like I'm excited to see this and then the day comes around I'm like so are we doing this tonight everyone's like well I don't know like who's still going

you're like oh so you don't actually want to go yep it's like Oliver would maybe he's about the only one I'm like well that's fine no it's fine I didn't even want to uh me and Oliver might sometime though that's nice yeah

yeah Well, if you guys go, don't text me. All right, I won't. Thanks. I'll make sure not to. I'll say, hey, well, can I text you just to say, like, we're going? Just making sure you're not, just like confirming you're not invited. Don't even confirm it, but just tell me that you're going.

Oh, just update them on your life. Yeah, just assume I'm out. Great. Right. You want to text, too? Um, I do. Okay, great. Yeah, but I text is when you go.

But not until you're at the theater, like selfie. I want to see a selfie. Okay, great. Yeah, so it would be nice. Cool. And that way, it's for sure, too late to join. Oh man. Selfie halfway through. Selfie that like really ticks off the crowd.

Selfie halfway true. I did get a text from a friend last night, like 30 minutes before they were going to the plaza, like Christmas tree or lighting, you know, whatever. Hey, we're going to this thing. And I was like, you know, way to come. Is that an invitation? I was like, either way, I can't come. But there wasn't the lighting. It was the night after.

I don't know. But I was like, FYI, I can't come. So you can say yes. It's an invitation. It was kind of an odd text. I was like, I don't really. Oh, congrats. Or I, thank you for the invite.

Yeah, it was just a statement. It was like, we're heading to this thing. Hey, we're putting on Christmas vacation. Like in a theater? No, no, no, our living room. My family is we're going to watch it. Right on. All right.

Have fun with that. Right on. I should start texting people random. Like something that they wouldn't actually care, but it's like, hey, doing this. Hey, decided to not grow my hair out. I'm going to cut it today. Dude. And just like, see what they say.

My dad is like the king of like, I've never seen this combination of group people, like in the same group chat kind of thing. Oh, just kind of throwing a few random people together. That'd be pretty fun to do it, but not have like a real reason. Like, just be like, all right, Jake, yeah, Tate, time in. One of your old campers. Uh-huh. Your mom.

And my mom. And just being like watching White Christmas tonight, hoping you guys are doing well. That's so funny. I got the fire going for the second time this year. Man, I would not hate like being that guy that's just. kind of like odd but in a funny way that you're like what is it i'm not so i don't think i could be kind i don't think i could transition to that but it'd be funny that's absolutely the kind of trend that i would do if i were your age like that i did do like yeah there was a while where it's

like oh it's like it's like way too late in the game to do facebook status updates and it's like let's let's go back let's go just do some status updates or like whatever yeah just kind of confuse my friends a little bit for fun but like there's one person like like i'd always make sure jake's in the in the chat so like jake is the one that is like Someone gets appreciated it. Yeah. Kind of like that time where I would always comment on your friendships or your friends that you would have on Facebook. What a blessing this friendship will be.

And I pray wholeheartedly that continues to be. And you throw a little verse on there. Yeah. Great times. I used to back, like I think college, out of college time throw, it'd be like throwing you and like some girl that Oliver told me about. I would throw you two in a group text. It'd be like time and this is her. just kind of see what happens.

Throw the grenade and walk away. Just kind of see what happens. Oh, yeah. I love doing that. Yeah, with a guy. Didn't you tell me about, or you've said on the podcast, like you go comment on an old photo of a girl.

Oh, yeah, tag him. Oh, yeah. Is this her? Yeah. Or be like, this is what you're talking about? I totally see it.

Oh, I get it. I can see it now. Yeah. Obviously. Brad and I used to our friend, Zach, where a hand. Or dude, dot, dot, dot, you're terrible.

Or I don't know, just all these different things. Dude, it's like a little vague, but I don't know. But not vague enough to not make him ready to coverable. Right. That's awesome. Hey, this is a 17 second ad to remind you that we're doing give. Dot healingwaters.org slash ghosties 2025. We're going 25K and 25K and 50K and 50 days, 25K from us,

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10 consolation prizes. Cozy your bed sheets. It's a good deal. Do it. Slowly been dawning on me that I have to perform a stand-up set of new material in like two weeks, less than two weeks. Nice. I'll be honest to say there's part of me that wanted to text tray and say, thanks for the offer. I can't do it.

Really? Part of me. I got so much other stuff going on and like now and I have to like prepare stand-up. Gosh. Jake. you get to prepare stand up. I get to prepare a stand-up. Amen.

I've had a mind-shipment. Wow, I always cost my thing that. It's not the first time. Did you try to say it by saying shipment? Mind-shipment. I got a shipment coming in of my mind. What is that? My brain gets ahead of my tongue,

and I know I'm going to say mindset shift. Mindset shift. Oh, I thought you were just trying to say mind-shift. I'm not trying to say mind-shift. I kind of say mind-shift. I've had a mindset shift. All right. Say it four times right now. Okay.

Not five. Mindset shift. Sorry, I second guess if I said it regret. Mindset shift. Mindset shift. Good. Nice. I'm back. You'll never make the mistake again.

I'm good now. You've had a mindset shift. I'm like, no. Do it. Push yourself. Do hard things. It's fine. This is a great opportunity.

This is Nashville you're doing it? Nashville, Charlotte and Atlanta. So that first Nashville show. Oh, boy. No way, dude. We'll see. I mean, it's just like I'm not having an opportunity to test this material, so I'm testing out in front of 1,800 people.

I feel like you just did one, not Jess, but didn't you do one kind of recently? The one at SBU, I tossed some new material in there, and it's like, in 80% of that works. So I've got some stuff that's not completely new, but over half it will be new. How long is it? I think about 10 minutes. Okay. It's not terrible.

You could play some hits at that point, too. You could play some of the greatest hits. I don't think everyone's seen a show. Yeah, and I'm trying to remember it's like, even my last tour, it's like I shifted stuff throughout the tour and like, what did they hear? Did I do that then? I don't know. It dawned me recently.

I mean, Robert Irwin just won Dancing with Stars. Like, granted, I was doing material on that four years ago, a little ahead of its time. But I could bring that back up. Yeah. I was thinking about opening with thank you for voting with me on Dancing With the Stars. Oh, good, yeah.

It's great to be here. Yeah. Thank you for the votes. What did I write down the other day? I can't remember in my notes, but I can just remember off my head. Is this relatable? Something about like,

I love my wife. So far. So far good? Yeah. Time in? No, all right. One for two. It's relatable.

I'm trying to trust the process. Yeah. You assume. I don't want to form my, I haven't even heard the punchline yet. I don't remember exactly what I wrote down.

But something like I, when I tell my wife, I loved her cooking, she responds with, I'm surprised because it's the worst thing I've ever created. Does Catherine respond to compliments that way? Actually, kind of the opposite.

But I think Catherine might be funny about, like, funny like that. Right. Like, you're saying, like, she's, like, more critical of herself than... And really, just when it comes to cooking. She's her harshest critic. Yeah, I'm like, wow, thank you for making all this. This is so good. Just say, I wouldn't make that for a pig.

I can't think you slopped it up in front of me. I'll say, wow. I can't believe... Sorry, I said that. Do the pig noise on... On stage, yeah. Yeah. Something like that.

A lot of times it's a new recipe. And so it's like, I don't think she necessarily sees it as a me complimenting her as she sees it like as just like, this is good. But I'll be like, wow, this tastes great. She'd be like, yeah, I really like it. It's like really good. Okay. Yeah, she's with you.

Yeah. I would say still funny. Even if not. For sure. Like my wife doesn't do that, but I. But you could see how someone could. Okay. Yeah.

We were in the newly wed stage. Yeah. Yeah. So something about that. I mean, something about like an exaggerated response from her. Like, really? you thought that was good. Yeah.

That's what I saw coming out of my butt this morning. I can't believe you like that. Rachel would love that. Yeah. That's good. I don't know. Honestly, Midge likes her cooking more than I do. What's your favorite thing Midge cooks?

Pigeon. Pidge. Not the clay kind. You should go to China, dude. You would love Pidge. Chinese Pidge. pig pig pig ear

yep yeah oh Matt did send a text this morning and said we might need to go to China in early January really and congrats Isaac said I'm ready so I didn't have to go I guess like yeah he's not going now but maybe January we might go okay

I don't know if I would go but Matt and Isaac might go you wouldn't go I don't think so you don't want to you want to you've seen China You're like, I got it. I saw it. I just think it's harder for me to do what I do for the company, mobily.

Like, you know, it's harder for me to bang out a voiceover or content, like, while in the back of a van being transported through rural China. It's hard for me to, like, get what I need to get done. Yeah. So, yeah, we'll see. Who knows? Maybe we'll all go. Maybe Pidge will go.

Get timing in on it. Founding Father there. Great. I'll wear the costume. I love China. You especially, dude. You would love it. I love China. But yeah, I'm sure the shows will be fine. It'd be great. There's so many ghosties coming to that Nashville show. My sister's coming to the Nashville show. Like, yeah, there's going to be a million people there. So I got to bring it. I got to really grind the next two weeks to write this and memorize this. You'll be, you'll do great. I'll figure it out. I'll figure it out. I have to work hard, but I'll figure it out. You've done how many shows at this point? Six. Yeah, this is your seventh show. Yeah. That's when. people usually hit their strides, so yeah, you'll be good, dude. How many show, have you ever counted it? I don't know how many have done.

200, 250? Yeah. Something like that? Pro, dude. 10 minutes is going to be like, I just got up here. Oh, come on. Not even sweating. Come on.

Yeah, let me get, let me get going again. Let me get to my max tolerance of heat. That's cool. Oh, yeah, I'll figure it out. Caitlin, she's pregnant. She's huge. Dude. Whoa.

Do you know a bored girl? Oh. Yeah, girl. It's all right. It's kidding. First, more girls, the best, dude. She won't get, we won't get to see her for Christmas. It's too close to her due date, so.

But she was just in town last weekend for a baby shower, so I got to hang out with her. Well, there's hospitals around everywhere. Wait, when's the national show? I don't see the problem at all. Natural show is like December 12th or something. And Christmas is late this year. Yeah, that's right. What day is it, timing?

Is it the 28th this year? No, that was Thanksgiving a few years ago. Shoot. When's Christmas time for real? 25th. For real? Yes.

You sure? Yes. Yes. At least the years I've been alive. Yeah. So far we have any anomalies yet. No leap year. Christmas leap year.

Christmas leap time in. Yeah. She's good though. But yeah, it was good to see her. Yeah. She was great. I mean, she's like, yeah, it's fun to see her,

fun to check in and just like see how Birmingham is doing or business is doing. They got like 175 paying members every month. That's pretty cool. Yeah, pumped for him. Does she still do classes? I think up until just a couple weeks ago, she was still like in there,

the 95 degree room. Yeah. Come on, ladies. He doesn't scream at him, but still, I mean, like, this is the most heat I could take. Oh, yeah,

Matt would die in there. That's awesome. Yeah, good job, Kaelin. You got this, Mama. Can I break down slash share a comment slash post of the week really quick?

Yeah. Please, comment of the week. Let's do it. Just some, might I say, diabolical behavior from Nikita Marks. Oh, yeah. What was it? So, I saw this. So she was at this, she was in Boston, at the conference I was at, at the session I was

filming in the front row. And she, she recognized me, but then, didn't think it could possibly be me because on the latest on the podcast, I was in Mississippi. she like and i just want to break like i just want to break down you see it's like that guy looks exactly like timon that guy has a brace on his left wrist he's holding he's holding a camera but he was in mississippi this is how good yeah how in the world would you have gotten from mississippi to boston so quickly i don't know i mean think he's a founding father he would have no bicycle no bike wouldn't be fast enough one if it would take one one day by land two by

yeah so i get it i I mean, there was, it was impossible. So, but it just pretty, honestly, a strange experience seeing a sniped photo of yourself from close range. Yeah, yeah, close sniper. Close sniper. And just not a word said to me. I even had the thought.

I was like, this is, it's like a group of 400 people,ish, like Christian people. I honestly wouldn't be surprised there was someone who knew of the podcast in here. Little did I know right in front of my eyes. Right behind the sniper lines. Literally couldn't be closer to you. Yep. So I saw that post. Great to meet you guys in Boston.

I saw the post. I didn't realize it was Nikita. No, not the same Nikita. We have two Nikitz listening. Nikita is a really popular name, Jacob. Did you say Jake P? Was there a P at the end? Jacob.

Jacob. Jacob. Jacob. I'm just teasing Nikita. It's fine. Just teasing. Just teasing. Okay.

Nikita next time, here's what you do. Pretty, pretty like normal talking. I'm talking, you're talking to your husband or whatever, and you just go, timing. That's all you got to do. How you go certain to find? Timing. On your feet?

No, like, if your name is not timing, you're not thinking twice about that word. What are those noises mean? What's going on back there? So we're playing Simon says? Yeah, they're speaking Swahili or something. Yeah. How charismatic is this church event?

But if it's timing, he's going to turn around. That's all it takes. Yeah, it's a good point. That's kind of how, I mean, we, we sauntered after Top Golf Rachel doing that exact same thing. Mm-hmm. Where's...

my name on. Anybody? Crossros podcast. Dot com. Anybody? Anybody? No? You're right.

Dang. Comes from real place. But don't say it like a question because then it might elicit a turnaround from the non-timim timons. Yeah, yeah.

Time in? Time in. No, it's just, hey, Diamond. Sorry, what was that? Timon. Oh, gosh. I was calling timeout.

Time and. Yeah. Time and. Yep. So that's, that's all. you to do that. That is wild. That's a good breakdown. Did you feel like, like moderately like, whatever, what's the word? Violated. What the heck? A little bit. That person knew me. That's pretty funny. I can't emphasize enough as, I mean, maybe Jake would, no, I don't think you would disagree

at this. Anytime anybody knows who we are, please say something to us every time. Yeah, even in like my worst, most chaotic moment, I would still like for us to get a quick interaction. I don't want it to be like, oh, Brad was with his kids. I didn't want to bother him. Like, you wouldn't. Ghosties are at the top of the food chain of people I want to be bothered by. That's a good word. Because you know so much about us. Yeah. Yeah. There's, I mean, obviously, you can bother us if you, like, get weird. It don't do that. But even then, try it out. See, like, test us a little. Do a slight bother and see how we respond. I just, I feel for anybody that's like, I just didn't want to, I just don't interrupt. I'm like, oh, there's no

interruption oh yeah we weren't talking about nothing unless i'm praying like unless he's cussing in his prayer if you're a waiter and they're praying like at the meal is that awkward to stand there would you come back i wonder if they get trained in that these days these days i don't know my comment of the week comes from betsy on spotify i've been making a lot of decisions at work lately so i don't want to make another decision for music listening enter dj x I hear, I know what you've been listening to. I see Time and Imch there. Guilty!

I love this song. Then after Time and Song played, Catch a Fire by Toby Mac started. What a mood swing. Man, that's probably in the top 10 songs I've listened to, like Jake Triplit streams of my life, Catch a Fire. I don't even think I know it. That might be the name of the album,

but it was just one of the CDs I had, I think, in my CD era. Okay. Just all the time, every road trip, Every, you know, does everything? Man, I listen to catch a fire a lot. Really? Is it a fast one?

Yeah. Oh, it sounds like it. It's Toby. Yeah. It's Toby for you. I like this comment, so I'm going to make it my comment of the week. Oh, interesting. Leslie F.

7435. Speaking of songs, time, it my family loves running home. Wow. It's excellent. You sound a little like Adam Levine in parts. Well done. And I appreciate that as my comment of the week because I definitely thought that same thing, but I could not put my hands.

finger on it. Huh. There it is. Adam Levine. Adam Levine, that's Maroon 5. Yeah. I'm still with the girl who said Bohemian Rhapsody. I think it sounds exactly like that. Well, yeah, the, it's the talent level. Almost indistinguishable. Almost the same exact thing. Freddie Mercury, Adam Levine, Justin Timberlake copied it. A little bit of force frank. Very good job. Uh, time. Thanks. Maybe working on another one. I don't know if it'll be any good, but something's, Oh, shut up.

Something's brood. Oh, shut up. Hey, shut up. Hey, just shut your freaking mouth with that crap. That's like a weird trend that I've been doing lately with Catherine. I'll just be like, shut up. Like about like something like that show like very like whatever, small give me a hard time about or sometimes with the kids even like under my breath to Catherine. Like the kids will be screened all.

I'll just be like, shut up. I don't know. Inside joke over the Iowa Thanksgiving break was early on in the week, Rachel just being goofy. I think we were like explaining to Rachel that Jamar Chase spitting incidents we're talking fantasy football

it's like no he spit clearly on camera but he still tried to appeal it it was this funny thing and Rachel is being dorky probably because she's been hanging out with me too much just like says somewhere like a guy use that logical brain of here

and whatever she's like doing something weird and her dad Steve Cooper he looks at me how do you live with this all the time so that was our joke for the whole week anytime Rachel do it anything. I go, man, how do I live with that all the time? Gosh. That's great. How do you live with that all the time? In your head, you're like, actually, I made her that way. Yeah, actually, I'm turning her more

into me. I actually love it. Yeah, this is great. That's great. Yeah, we're like, what did you say that for? She's like, did you laugh? You laughed, you laughed, you left. You all laughed in you. That's right. I have her performed next Friday. What if? She could do it. Cather could do it. Hey, if people raise enough money. for healing waters. They'd see what they can do. Open up the vault. That's right. I'm excited. I'm excited to see some of those vaulted. I'm kind of keeping it from

myself. Yeah. I clicked around a few things just to make sure we had good stuff to send people, but then I kind of wanted to stop seeing it. Give.org.org slash ghosties 2025. Link in the script. That's right. Check them out. All right. I'm ready to be done. I'm ready to go home. I'm ready to see my kids.

Shut up, dude. We have to do one of the week first. Frick. So I guess ipso facto, don't it up. Go ahead. One of the week. I don't know. I already said them all. I'm ready to be done. It's over. The podcast is over. Okay. Overarching was like making those weapons with bow, all those like CNC things. Centars. But before that, I, my CNC machine, which is the thing that like engraves and like cuts these things out, you can do all the stuff with the computer. We make pickleball battles with a CNC machine. Yeah. Yeah. C&Cs are like more than just wood.

It's like, yeah, you can do cut and carve. It's what's called? dude it's not your time you can you can ask questions once your way of the week I'm sorry I'll cut it up no I don't know what it stands for but it's not that okay sounds good sounds good that should be what it's called um it was not working it the proximity switch wasn't working on it so I had to order a part and I like basically took apart this machine and put it back together geez not that complicated of a thing in hindsight but I had to like problem solve it order the part get it to figure out where to put everything.

And it was like a win. Like it's one thing to be able to be like, I know how to use this tool. Like I think a lot of people could say that. But it felt it felt like you were more of like a like a mechanic or something that like actually like I know how to use a bunch of tools in my wood shop. But like this is like if it messed up, I'd just be like, ah, I'm like call somebody. Maybe I'll just order a new one basically. Get a new sandblaster.

You know what I mean? This was basically like, hey, a very small. version of a computer is messed up right now. There's like pistons and hydraulics kind of, I don't know, something fancy. Yeah, there's stuff. And so like, I fixed it and it works and it hasn't like malfunctioned or anything. That is a really good feeling. You're like, I guess I actually did what I sought out to do, even though I didn't think I would. And Bo was like really, really wanting to do this for his like maker's market thing. And I'm like, I don't know. Because Isaac has the same one. So in my head, I'm like at the end of the day, if it doesn't work, I can just go use Isaacs for the day or something.

but we got it and it's awesome I was really excited I told Bo the next day I was like Bo I got the thing to work he goes okay

alright kind of eating breakfast right now yeah dad I just I'm not in the mood talk to me after I've had my scrambled eggs

anyway that was my win was just doing that and scimitars with Bo Simitars we made all sort of stuff we made shields

we made all like yeah it was awesome it was so fun so I win. That's great. Shut up. Shut up.

Gosh, where is that text? Doesn't matter. Whatever. My win of the week is just, you know, as you guys probably know, like Black Friday is just like the super rule of like e-commerce. And it's like if you, are you doing the CEO, Matt?

Go ahead. It's just a really important time. So a lot of work goes into it. Anyway, we had a great Black Friday, Matt's in out of Texas morning that said the success of our Black Friday, he thought it was in the, you know, just his own brain, but he's like, I would put it in the 98th percentile of, like, outcomes we could have had. Just because I think Pickleball is just getting so competitive. Right. Our conversion rate on our site's been really down. There's been a few other issues, tariffs, yada, yada, like, been a tough year for a lot of reasons and haven't come out with, like, a really new paddle and like that long of it, you know, whatever.

Or just like, there were a lot of reasons where it's like, oh, this may be tough. But anyway, did better what we did last year. Really happy with all the work we did. So that's awesome. It made yesterday, it's all the day. Let's go. Very cool. That'd be, I'm sure, like, do you just wake up and just refresh?

Or can you see, like, live data and stuff? Yeah. It's hard not to always check and look, but especially we're in Iowa. I was like, I'll just wait for people to text me. Okay. Obviously, I started work to do on Black Friday. But, yeah, when you wake up, you're in Iowa, you come out to the living room and Elf is on. You're like, this is great.

It feels like it's Christmas time now. We had Thanksgiving, and I do love that TV stations do that. As soon as Elf was over, Christmas vacation came on. It was like, who cares about Black Friday? This is great. Who's got it better than me? This is awesome. All right, I probably should still post this.

It was annoying. I went through all this work, making all this content. And then our Instagram posts got, like, age restricted. All of our, like, sponsor junior players are like, I can't see the post. I don't know why you wouldn't be. There's anything weird or bad in there. Wait, the meme posts? The memes.

Those were great. I loved those. Oh, yeah. I felt so good about how funny it was and everything. And it got like 100 likes in 24 hours. I was like, well, I guess no one saw that. I saw him. Thank you.

On Facebook. On Facebook guy. What? Was there one that had like explosion or something in it? I was trying to look to it. I was trying to remember the closest thing I could think of was like violence when that old amazing race clip of that girl using like the slings shot on the water melon. Like is that what age restricted it?

I mean, there's not even any buzzwords. I mean, there's nothing in there. There is Bruce Almighty. Yeah. opening a file cabinet. That's kind of scary, Jake. That filing cabinet is way bigger. It's super naturally big.

Like, I don't know what's in there. Was it the whole page or just that post? That guy, age restricts? Just that post. No one saw it. It's obviously, not that big of a deal. But it's more just like frustrating. It's Black Friday.

Why is it happening? I don't have anyone to talk to. I don't know how to fix this. I can't fix my CNC machine. But, oh well. Well, yeah, let me know. I'm a fixer. I'm a fixer.

I'm a fixer. I'm a fixer upper. That's great. All right. Shut up. Timon, do you get to do a win yet? I did have, I thought of a win. So the Thanksgiving, same day I shot guns.

I painted a pumpkin. And I was like, I haven't done an art project. And who knows how many years, but it was so fun. I was like, I like doing this stuff. It's like, truly I think that is the one of the few scenarios where I would actually just take time and sit down and do that. But it's like, I have nothing else to do. I'll paint a pumpkin. And it was so fun.

So, that's a win. Oh, arts and crafts. There was a little pumpkin pinning contest, and I won Best Animal because I put a bear on mine. All right. Right. Surely, Jake, you would agree with the time has done art projects recently.

You were saying just speculating like, surely he's done art? No. No. Art is more than just using your hands and drawing something. You're right. this podcast physical arts and craft style art yeah crafts craft yeah yeah yeah that's a good

that's a good point about yourself yep shut up i've done art all right so that the kids here don't yeah don't start your kid listening don't don't say shut up a bunch of times don't say shut up to your parents and husbands probably not a good idea to say it to your wife unless she has a good sense of humor about it or if she's talking too much Gosh, that's so true So true All right Shut up

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