Ghostrunners - 494 - Little Women Christmas

Episode Date: December 8, 2025

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Roland, Merry Christmas Ghosties! Wow, we're here. Unless, of course, you are not watching on Spotify or YouTube, then we do not wish you a Merry Christmas. Well, how could they watch on Spotify these days? You know, Spotify's just always having issues. Right? Yeah.

We're getting stuff taken down on Spotify. Oh, yes, yes. What was it, Wednesday's episode? Wasn't being posted on Spotify for a second? Oh, was that just... That's just me. Oh, Spotify's working fine that day, unfortunately. Got it.

But my, my press release was very, but hey, we're having trouble getting the episode uploaded. Yeah, because all the press release, we are aware of the problem. We understand the problem. We are getting him figured. We were getting it figured out. We're trying to wake it. The problem is sleeping. The problem is we're struggling with the problem.

It's a sleeping giant. And, uh, I didn't realize that. Sorry, time of it's fine. All I saw, to be fair. Yeah. I woke up to, like, and checked my messages and it was on there. I didn't know. I didn't know anything.

So Jake was the only one that knew. It was just me. Yeah. No, it was great. The Ghosties and I, I thought we had a nice little inside joke going. They kept suggesting places to go. And I kept saying, let me look into it. And I did that about 18 times in the comments.

Kind of like the Dwight, like it could be four years or could be four months. Could be five months. Could be six months. I could, that's a very realistic expectation. 11 months. You could check on MySpace. You could put it on MySpace. All right.

Hang tight. Hang tight. let me check we could do uh what else they say like could you mail it to me like an old school netflix yeah i can look into it we could see we could see if you put it in it in their last remaining blockbuster in alaska sure yeah i can look into it i'll call them see what they see what they would say about that someone said vimeo how zango zango heard vimeo messed up vimeo was the worst he didn't like it anybody i never had to use it i i only know vimio is like occasionally people will put their video work on there.

Here's a video in my space. Here's what Vimeos. It's higher resolution videos that take 18 times longer to load. Wait, you're right. That's all it is. It's like amazing videos. It's like, oh, it's on Vimeo.

This is going to be a better video than on YouTube. But I'm maybe not ever going to watch it. Yeah, too bad I can't see it though. Derek sent me, when I had to record a little ADR line for a very merry cherry Christmas, I was like, you slashed my tires. I couldn't watch the video. He was like, and here's,

a link to Vimeo to like see where it is in it. I was like too, too bad. I'll just hope that I get it right because I can't find. Yeah, it's like unless you're like Ethernet plugged in, you're not watching Vimeo. Yeah. It just feels that way. I don't know. I haven't been on Vimeo very much recently, but it always just feels like a little more inconvenient. Vimeo, I feel like had a day day, at least for me, in my freelance videography days. It was like, I need to give you a wedding video. I don't want it to get like, I don't want to have ads on it because it's got a copyrighted song. Okay.

Vimeo doesn't care. Oh, really? So I don't want to put it on YouTube. It's like, here, Vimeo, this is just for you and your family anyway. Got it. That's the only time I've ever used it, just watching or uploading a wedding video. Yeah. I don't know.

I just, uh, it just always felt, yeah. And it, but it does feel like kind of pretentious. Like, I got my video on Vimeo. It's free, just like, just like YouTube. Yeah. If you have like a Vimeo, like, pro account or whatever they're calling it, what are those guys up to now? Yeah, yeah. Crypto billionaires, probably.

They're doing quite well. But anyway, Vimeo, Spotify, it's all working. I think I'm going to talk about Spotify later, where there's so many comments to react to it. I got an email and said, you have 75 new comments from Spotify. What? Slow down, guys. Can't read all these. Yeah.

No, it's actually awesome. I don't know why they're coming all the time now, but I love it. I know I'm going to react to them later. Well, look at us on YouTube or Spotify, roll the theme music and watch some Christmas cheer. Wait, what's the order? Look at us on YouTube. I don't remember my side. Well, if you could do it all over again,

what order would you put it in? Roll the theme music. Uh, uh, oh, oh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts in white, me too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's a ghost from this podcast.

this is great tell me tell me the process of setting up this studio have a wife yeah boss her around just kidding this was all her she could be like stressed out like I haven't decorated the studio yet to here I was like I promise it's not an expectation no yeah and then she went like kind of buddy the elf I mean both desks this is incredible desk which has a lot of crap on it I should I should make my camera wider just so you can see all I'm my desk is wrapped like a present yeah yeah there you go now what kind of oh it's all the way out yeah there you go this is my desk guys how you seen it just handheld all right all work time in's camera great that looks centered but yeah rachel did great man it's amazing um yeah it's fun in the test of time is the question

yeah maybe but maybe But we're jam pack at some episodes. I'm we're recording two more next week, so it could hold up. Yeah. We only got to get through like 10 more days. That's right. Is next week the big week? Actually, like eight more days.

Yeah, next week I got asked to like fly out to Colorado do some stuff. And I looked at my schedule and I was like, I'm podcasting every day of the week next week. I can't, I can't leave. What were you going to do in Colorado? We're going to use this guy's P.B. Core machine. Oh, yeah. Just to see how hard you can crush it. Crush the core.

yeah classic pb core yeah peanut butter peanut butter peanut butter core like the army it's like an army of peanut butter lovers it's uh george washington carver put it together yeah that's right one of his lesser known yeah military and dude i got dressed up as george wretched a couple nights ago just to make sure the outfits fit oh really yeah when we're recording this it is the day that timon and i and i and scott leave for our you know to cross the delaware to go play in our founding fathers office so we haven't we haven't done it yet but they arrived a couple days ago so i tried it on yeah and felt pretty good i was trying to get a sense of like what movements will we be capable of i think the wig and the hat combo is going to be quite warm oh sure

but i think we can move in the outfit i think we can still play as george washington because obviously i'm sure it's indoors right yes it is yeah it's tough i was i was i was going to say but it's outdoors outdoors could be nice if it's like 55 degrees we're a little bundled up i was hoping it was outdoors but now it's indoors um yeah like so you you warmed up or you like you like moved around

just in the house yeah your living room yeah were you doing were you doing just like generic like let me see how far I can move my arms or were you doing like did you have a paddle in hand I didn't like paddle on hand

like overhead smash like doing every like I got to make sure I could do everything I do normally every single movement that is potentially it was like all the Pickable movements without a paddle. And I was doing a lot of squatting. I was like, the lower body I feel great about, we're going to be just fine in lower body.

Upper body, I don't know, certain torque, maybe. But it might, like, accidentally make you have a great shot. Like, there's times where it's like, well, it keeps your swing, like short, short swings, you know, and like, we're not taking too big. This could be a training tool. Everyone, a year from now is going to be dressed as the founding fathers because it makes you play better. Yeah, forehand, forefather.

I remember. Um, this is kind of the same thing, but. That was timing. I heard something. That wasn't you? It sounded like it was from behind me or something. Then I think it was you. It was Spotify.

Let's just have time's code name be Spotify now. That must be Spotify. Um, there have been some shows I've had to perform with Trey over the years where my voice was like basically gone or just like hurt so bad. And I guess I was performing. Not only like did my voice sound different, but I think my mood was also different while performing and I remember Alan I would come off stage you'd be like dude I love when you have a sore throat he's like you just like deliver things like yeah in a way that's funnier to me

he's like because it seems like you're just like annoyed in a way he's like maybe it's because I've seen 80 shows at this point um but that is now my founding father's thing it's like for some reason yeah he just plays better as George Washington I don't know wooden teeth in and he's nuts yeah what if what if it's just like if you just play twice as good this weekend would you consider it yeah I'd have to like I have to like I'm to throw the stockings on every Saturday. And like, I think the first couple weeks, you'd be like, no, no, no. It was just a lucky streak.

And then you're like, I mean, I should at least try it again. I got to go back. Yeah, like limited movement type straight jacket thing. Like you're just like drilling at Lifetime with Isaac and you guys are both just, just rocking that. Da, da, da, da, da, da da da da da da da da da. We got an old McDonald playing. There's not a camera around.

Right. It's just you have to do it now. We had a, like a team FaceTime call it, like 9 p.m. last night. Isaac, like, made this discovery while he was opening up a paddle, whatever. And I was like, well, the things just arrived. This would be a good time for me to put on the outfit. So I've got the outfit on while we're chatting as a company. And then at one point, they're like, well, hopefully this is like a small issue,

knock on wood. And so then I, like, knocked on my teeth. And I went 0 for 5 in the group. Everyone, no one got it. I had to say. George Washington had wooden teeth. Do you understand? I mean, it's not that fun.

You don't have to laugh out loud, but no one understands what I'm doing. There's a problem with the paddle. We are Delaware. Do you guys know why I said that? Anybody. And since then, I feel like Scott is very nervous that he's like, I don't know like that kind of history that way. Like, I don't know if I'm able to like make references.

That's what Time and said. He said, I can help. I know a lot more than most people. What, I mean, to be fair, I think, I think it's kind of astonishing probably to a lot of people how, just, just how we have, how many gaps we have in our knowledge. Like, mine is any song for a mnemonic device. Oh, that's right. President states, nothing.

Because I don't, I mean, I know some American history, but I think some people are like, you didn't know that. You didn't know what we were fighting for in the Korean War. It's like, I'll be honest. No. That's a good. Not at all. That's a good one.

I have no idea. And my grandfather was there. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I don't know what Vietnam was doing. I don't know what, like, I know we were, we kind of unofficially lost, but we don't admit it. Yeah. Nixon was part of one of them, right?

I brushed up on Vietnam just because I went there. I feel like I had to. I guess we need to go to Korea and maybe we look into it a little more. That's what I'm saying. Or we need to go to Desert Storm, which I don't even know where that's at. I've seen that country. No, it's, no, it's in America. Oh, it is.

It's Roswell, New Mexico. That's what they're always like, hey, you've been to. Roswell, pay your respects. I want to see a salute. Fighting the aliens, dude. It's an Independence Day thing. No, Desert Storm is, it's a nice time a year ago. If you're going to go, this is a good time.

Now or just any time is a good time? No, no, no, right now. Like December, it's, it's like comfortable. They have some nice resorts there. Okay. Desert Storm. We were talking last night about the history of Hawaii. Sorry, Hawaii.

Hawaii, machoos. Dude, I know that. I know that anybody's from Hawaii loves to. to say it that way. I meant like the background. I don't know that much either. Gunner and Emily said they're watching a show about it. Oh, first of all, don't watch the show.

They're just propaganda. Nice try. I get my source from the local, local vise. Do I know that much about it? I mean, when I went there, I learned some during that moucho's tour with like the kings back in the day. Not that long ago, I think. King Hamea, Mea.

That sounds right. King of Macho Chacho, Chacho. But like, no, not really. I know that, like, Pearl Harbor was a big deal. Pearl Harbor was a big deal. And we didn't have Hawaii yet at that point. That was the nudge we needed. We're like, all right, we got to, we kind of need this, like, as a state now.

That is interesting. So, yeah, maybe it was a U.S. territory or something, but not even a state. They bomb us. We're like, that's it. We got to get involved. Yeah. It's like looking after our adopted son. I guess.

It's like, come on. Like, I don't love them as much as Texas, but you can't do that. You can't, yeah. Do it to Texas and see what happened. Do it to Desert Storm. Yeah. I, uh, I don't know. Like George, like I know enough in most things to like win the first three questions in

Jeopardy. That's kind of my like. Yeah, 100, 200, 400, probably. Fine. And then after that, it's like, I'm not going to get a daily double on George Washington. You know what I mean? Like, uh, like I know, Wooden Teeth, Mount Vernon.

Mount Vernon. First president. He's one of the Declaration of Independence guys. Yeah. I think. I'm not even positive about that. One of the fellas. Like I'd put $1,000.

I would not put $10,000 on that back. That's a good point. I think we would be shocked. I bet there's one guy who's not on there. And history of us like, oh, yeah, of course. You don't know the story of James Wilver being late that day? Oh, yeah. No, I forgot, I guess.

Right. same with like ben franklin what are your what are your bullet points on him dude was he did he sign it oh yeah you think for sure oh yeah he was a philly guy he's a philly guy so he wouldn't miss a big event in philadelphia yeah he's like oh the cater and cheese steaks yeah he's a ticket holder at all the games he was going to be at uh town go birds town you want to say town center independent's hall yeah i got that yep um timon oh no do you know no give me some bullet point like There's got to be at least one thing you know about Ben. Let's go around.

All right, all right. I mean, he invented bifocals. Boom. Boom. He love flying that kite. Dang it. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Oh, come on. You got this from the office. Well, I know. That's, oh. You keep it in your back pocket or should I say your front pocket? What is that?

He's in his knickers. He wore knickers. Okay. Pantaloons. I, did he help invent the printing press or just used it a lot? Whoa, Gutenberg. That was good. Yeah, that was, like, a hundred years beforehand.

That makes sense, yeah. But he, he had an almanac, didn't he? Probably. I think so. Count it. See, you're getting there. I don't know. That sounds good to me.

I think he had like something, poor, poor Richards almanac. There it is. I want to say that was his thing. Poor Richards? For real? I think that sounds right. I think Ben Franklin like had a, like, what you call it, pen name, almanac thing. Yeah.

Really? because poor Richards is the name of a bar in the office. Huh. But I bet they spell poor, P-O-U-R. I was going to go with, he was known enough syphilis. That's what, when you said the front pocket, that's where he kind of threw me off. Front pocket.

Okay. It's what they used to call it. Beyond that, I don't. Don't slip with him, see, he's got the front pocket. Okay, of course, $100 bill. Dang. Nailed it. That's what he's known for.

I've been in his day. I feel like I heard recently he was just a bad guy. Okay, bad guy. Okay. Well, that's not a fact. we're not doing that on all these things. All right, George Washington, go. Pretty good guy, I think, I've heard recently, maybe.

I don't know if I can think of more. I mean, according to the cartoon, he had a mouse that lived with him. I'll count that. What's crazy? Yeah, this is the great thing. Is what's crazy is like, you're just doing like, well, according to the cartoon, this, Jake's like, according to the office, this, we were going, we were about to do George Washington. And I was like, well, according to Shane Gillis's bit, this.

It's like, I know I learned stuff in, in his. history cards. Anything but the history books. But it's like, man, I don't know. I don't know that much about it. Because, yeah, George Washington, wooden teeth. Cannot tell a lie was George, right? I don't know, actually. I think he was the one with the apple tree. He cut down the apple tree. It could have been any one of those white-haired guys.

Yeah. If it's not George Washington, it's not many of those other guys. Honest George. That's what they call them. Huh. What else about George. Washington? I mean, I feel like, He was tall. Okay. Cool. I didn't know that.

He was above average height. Hmm. Cherry tree myth. Is that what we're talking about? Cherry tree. Gosh, that's embarrassing. The myth is that as a child, George received a hatchet and used it to chop down his father's cherry tree and then confessed by saying, I cannot tell a lie. That's a myth?

The truth. The story is not supported by any historical records from Washington's time and was fabricated to promote his work. So he could tell all of it. So maybe I would say he's a bad guy. Bad guy. I would say that's a bad guy territory. I'd count that as a fact. Okay.

So Scott doesn't know that much. Yeah, you got more? Oh, George. I think he was, like I think we do a lot of stuff now because of George. Like I think he was like a Steve Jobs visionary of the founding fathers. Like what? I think he was big on like, hey, if we say we're going to not be like Britain, we can't have like kings and we're not going to do that. He was big on like the only two times.

terms thing. Okay. Okay. And then somehow FDR slipped through the cracks. But I think there for a while it was a rule. And George was like, we can't do this for too long. They were like, what about like extreme circumstances? Like a guy can't walk. Like give him double. It's like, yeah, sure, whatever. That's never going to happen. So is there something. I think I read a book as a kid called George Washington socks. I don't know if that means that his socks mattered or there was anything to do with them. But I read a book called that. That's a myth. I don't know if they were just a myth to promote his legacy. It was really cold on the Delaware, and so he wore two pairs of socks crossing over. Christmas Day, by the way. I know that. Really? They crossed the D on Christmas Day? 1776, I believe.

I did sing in special chorus in grade school. It all comes back to the songs. Truly, I think it's on Christmas Day, 1776. Washington was up to his tricks. Something, something crossed the Delaware. Something, something. in their underwear. I think... George. Either that or I made it all up. So the book I read was George Washington's underwear?

I'm forgetting... I did just look up that book. It seems like a little bit of a magic tree house-ish. It's like these two kids go back in time. They're in 1776, and they're in a rowboat with their friends. Okay. That doesn't sound familiar. Yeah.

Yeah. I like those historical fiction type books where it's like, hey, all of a sudden you meet this guy, they call him G, tall guy with wooden teeth. It's mysterious. And then it's like, you know, end of chapter six. You know who that is, right? No, who? He stared at him in amazement and said, that's George Washington.

George, mother. Yeah. I love the children of books. Yeah. Got something in my throat. Articles of Confederation. What do we know about it? What?

Nope. Nope. Sing the song? This last 17 minutes, Hannah Jennings, super fan of the podcast, is dying right now. She loves history. And specifically, I think she's World War II, maybe. But man, I just know. I'm just imagining people like her just being like, I cannot believe how little these people know about this country and how it made it so great. Our country tis of me.

Yeah, I know that song. I'd like take a good look at Hannah Jennings. Spotify wrapped and see what her listening age is. Because I bet it's higher than... She posted it. Oh, did she actually? On the ghosty group, like, uh, Gil Shores. Uh, any guesses?

The oldest I've seen so far, it's also on post 68, which I was like, I was like, I didn't post it. But I, I was like, that doesn't seem to make sense at all. I listened to a little bit of Fleetwood Mac. You listened to Graham was your top artist. Yeah. That doesn't feel like 68 to me. Doesn't at all.

Graham would have worth it. Anyway, yeah. so I'm going to put her at 74 dude I think it was absolutely in the 90s I think it was like 91 I didn't even know that that's so great it's crazy because we did it

we know we did that like game at Gulf Shores where we'd play those old songs oh my gosh and Hannah dominated the old stuff yeah she like could we go back to 60s music no one knows this but you we haven't heard this song why are you listening to so much 60s music and you know Bonnie

Ray really well yeah I can't really think of any artist like from the 60s really maybe the Beatles slipped in there Andy Griffith sing sometimes Andy Griffith theme song Andy Griffith whistling You could think of people from the 60s

Like between Elvis and like the disco era Like who was that? Beatles for sure were there Okay Beatles Yeah, okay I was gonna say if that's one thing I could think of Rolling Stones Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney was there as well Ring of Star George Harrison Who are some of those got Billy Joel Holiday Oh maybe Yeah

That's a girl Is it? No. I'm just trying to think of other just references. Dude, she's a chick, bro. Dude, that guy's a chick that you're talking about. Teddy Geiger, 91, yeah. Her listing age was 91. Since you were into music from the early 50s, there's history in your headphones.

Early 50s, they had music back then? I don't buy it. I was, I think my number was like 20-something. It was definitely the 20s, 26, 23. Really? Young guy. My top artists? Any guesses? some like a pirate or something like some children's pirate no this year wasn't as dominated by the

kids stuff is in the I don't think I had any kids in the top stuff I think my top did surfaces make top five I feel like you yeah yeah good I think it was I think no I think it was forest and then Ben Rector I think it was like but then it was like Norman like Ben's other band that I love oh nice and then maybe surfaces like it was like basically Forrest frank Menrector. Oh, and then it was number five. Shout out Mariah Garrett, sight and sound. I lied. The sight and sound did get in there for the kids. We'd listen to that a lot. QR.S.T.U. V. W. X. Cozy Earth. Take it away, Jake. Now I know why I'm cozy. Get 40, whatever the discount is off with GRKC. We should probably know the discount.

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Really? I was thinking, man, you take the 45% off there plus GRKC. Makes sense, but you can't just stack codes like that. So I had a tough decision on my hands. Well, if you go to... 45% off.

No, but listen, if you go to cozy root.com slash ghostrunners to browse, you're giving us credit even with that. Yeah. And you can even say in the post-survey, Hey, we heard about it from Ghostrunners. He heard about it from the guys.

We love Ghostrunners so much that we almost paid more for this. I did. Yeah. You did? I did. Team player, boy. That's awesome. What would I get?

You know, if this was like the difference in them signing up for more ads and not, I'll pay the extra $40, I guess. Yeah, so hopefully that comes back for us. So we went PJs, though. Yes, for my grandma. She's going to love them, dude. I figured, yeah, yeah. I don't know somebody who's not going to love them. It's like getting the bed sheet.

It's the bed sheet material, but just like, now it's on your arms. Yeah. Now it's cool all around your legs. No, I've been, and I'm not trying to, this is not just for the ad. This is true life, dude. I said earlier on the episode that I woke up to see that text about Spotify, not being good or whatever. It's because I've been sleeping in every single day because I've been sleeping in my ghost, sorry, my cozy earth hood. my cozy earth sweatpants

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Great gift. Great gift. Great gift. Did you guys see that Angela Birdwell's top artist was Ghostrunner's tight beats? It's amazing. I'm guessing based on like the data that was in there, it's like, you listen to 48 minutes. Yeah. I think she must be Apple Music and it's like, all right, I'll get Spotify to listen to this.

Oh, is it only on Spotify? It's not on Apple Music. Actually, yeah, I have no idea. but I bet it's got to be something like that because it seemed like the only music don't listen to a lot of music at all so maybe it's just like she's like I'll make an exception for this yeah that could be it that's funny um yeah they were her top artist timing you stuck in to someone's top five right yeah that's awesome oh yeah I was uh Curtis Smith's top song and it's like I was like three weeks I dropped that there's no way even like that it was tracked in the last like three weeks so it had to be probably in like a week or two which is pretty funny. Did you send out a, did you make a video? If anyone was in your, I did. I have no idea if anyone saw it. I didn't like see anything about it. So I'm guessing not. This is all on really Curtis then, I guess. I think so. Yeah. Curtis saw it or not. You should just text to him. Yeah. That's amazing. There were some, there was some posts on Spotify Rapp that I genuinely

was like, is this photoshopped? Like, there's no way. The amount of minutes they listen to our podcast. I saw two different people, Tucker Hamilton. I got to figure out the other person's name because it's too impressive not to, but I think she, I think was a girl, had 130,000 minutes. Tucker Hamilton had 120 some thousand. Wow. This person had 130. Yeah, you texted us yesterday. You're like, look at this. I did the math. Yeah. You said, let this sink in. And I did. I like put my phone down. And I was letting it sink in. And I thought about it for like two minutes. And I texted you guys back. Yep, that's insane. Yeah. Let it sink. Wow. That's crazy. Crazy, dude. Like, Yeah. Yeah, what was it? It was

22,000 minutes. And then, so I said, I did the math. 122,000 minutes is literally, I had to put literally in there, 23% of an entire year. So I think if I did this right, then, if it's 23% of an entire year and we sleep for eight hours, which this guy is high schooler,

maybe college at this point. He's sleeping at least eight hours. Maybe not. But that would mean that 35% of his waking hours we're spent listening to us. That's where it gets crazy. Like, I don't know if I forget what I texted, but I was like, we are such a part of this guy's life. If you are consuming us 35% of your waking hours. I think even his caption was like, I listened to Ghostrunners more than my own thoughts

this year. Amazing, dude. I mean, yeah. Talk, you're going to go, exit here, exit here. We need to be his thoughts now. We need to, you're getting a little hungry. Yeah, right. Consider a high-protein, low-carb snack.

Just like, yeah. You can just be as in their monologue. Yeah, what do you think? Yeah, you should talk to that girl. You're interested in her. Yeah. Go after her. What's the worst thing to happen?

You're not going to be friends with her, you know, after you get married anyway. Yeah, I don't talk to any chicks anymore. Nope, never. I honked out of a girl the other day. Yeah, she was looking hot. I can't respond to that because it was your wife. Yeah. Yeah, was she fine, dude?

I really thought you said, like, a girl wouldn't go at a red light, so you hooked at her. Man, I thought I knew the joke. No, no. I drove past Rachel and I gave her a quick little honk. She's in a new car. Gosh. I got to hear about the story, dude.

Can I, what? Set me free if you want me to. Set me free. I'll score. Take the dog off the leaf. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know, I don't know if I could make a difference at all, but I'd at least make them make them know what's going on. It's something Rachel I talk about.

It's like if we had different personalities, if we were more of a Karen, I guess we could maybe get this done quicker. But the thing is, do you really want to annoy and put a lot of pressure on the guys like working on your car? No. No. It's like, it's like getting mad at the Chipotle worker before they make your burrito. It's like, why don't we let them do their thing? Totally. At least Chipotle is a bad example because you see them making it.

Hey, stop. But I'm talking about like the waitress at Chili's, like don't make that. person that is a good example yeah yeah so because there's been a few times we're all get fired up pre phone call and you can give peace of my mind and then it's a super nice guy I mean like man we've been working on this all week this project is huge I know it's taken a while you know it's like what can I even say it's like he knows this is inconvenient they're working on it and then I just say like well we sure appreciate it let us know it's like I don't really know what I can say um so are they close enough where you could go in and like look at the car

I kind of stand like this. Like, can I just see what the progress looks like on this thing? Can I kick the tires? Metaphorically, but I'll still have closed-toed shoes. Like, it's like completely disassembled at this point, it sounds like. Like, it's just, it's just in 1,800 pieces. Yeah, I will say he gets pretty jargon heavy when he does talk to me. And that kind of like, I don't know, de-escalates things because I don't know what he's talking about for 30 seconds.

But, you know, T-frame. ADR phrase earlier, I was like, I'm out. Yeah, ADR. Trust him at that point. No one knows what it stands for. Oh, really? But everyone knows what it means. It's that really good band.

He saw in L.A. one time after the Jimmy Kimmel show. Good. Yeah. Good. Yeah, anyway, so he just jargons the heck out of you. So, yeah. Enterprise has been annoying us. Not only charging my credit card $37 a day, but then calling Rachel a lot, like, hey, we need the car back.

You've had it for so long. We need to do routine maintenance on it. It literally needs an oil chain. Yeah. And so... They just need to give you a new car. Like, I know that's, like, insane, but it's like, hey, whoever mess... I don't know.

I don't know who's in charge here, but, like, that's just wild. Yeah, now you're firing me up again. I might call State Farm today. So we go, and, of course, like, they're like, we really need this as soon as possible. So Monday, the day it snowed, like, crazy. It's like, all right, after school, Rachel, let just go. And it is chaos and enterprise rent a car. It also smells like cat pee.

We couldn't figure it out. We were, like, both getting ahead of it. Like, dude, what is that smell in here? Really? It smells really bad. Yeah. Cap-y smell. Even the worker was talking about it.

He's like talking about her customer. Yeah, I understand. If you want to wait outside, he smells like cat piss in here. Like, just like yelling it. He's just like absolutely admitting it. He's like, like, you know. Okay, so this was the day where it was snowing really bad. Like Rose is bad.

And this girl's like, hey, I'll come in, but I have anxiety if I don't have my cat with me on stuff like this. It's like, golly, a cat. Okay, whatever. fine cats kind of take care of themselves and then this cat just freaked out the cat had anxiety in this door in the shop it was bad that's wild and so once again we go in there thinking like no i'm gonna get my wife a car with heated seats with remote start like she's getting a grand cherokee wagon ear like made something yeah nice or at least like equitable to what she had um four-wheel drive on that batty and this poor guy i mean he's so just like soft-spoken and

and just seems like a nice guy working his first job potentially. It is immediate sympathy for the situation, how crazy it is. And this guy's like, I could go check. And you're like, all right, thank you. You know, and then he comes back. And he's like, we have one car with remote start. We have no cars with heated seats. Like, we'll take it.

It's a burgundy Nissan Ultima, which is fine. Yeah. But the check engine light is on. Rachel texted me this morning and said this dump cars, tire pressure is low and the remote start doesn't work oh okay yeah so anyway

we're just sucking it up and making it through but yeah she's in a maroon car now oh yeah well that's what she was walking out of your house and at first I was like oh maybe that's one of her friends because her friend Lindy looks pretty similar they do look similar tall blonde and so like at first I was like I don't know if that's Rachel then I was like oh that's Rachel get into a new car it's like honked.

So she's driving away, she's honking back. Even the horn sounds rough. Have you heard the horn? No. It sounds, it's, it's, it sounds like an aftermarket horn. It sounds like, oh, we, we crashed this car. The horn's messed up. We'll just put this little guy in there.

Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. So, yeah, new car, pretty exciting. Always fun to get a new car that's worse in the snow than any of the other ones. That's crazy, man. It's fine, because it was August, yes? Yeah, I think August 7th, August 12th, something like that. All of August, September, September, October, you're coming up on, you're going to have a six-month anniversary soon.

Yeah, we need to, I'm going to call in between episodes. Yeah? Why not? Let's do it. See what's up. Throw it on Patreon if we need to, you know? So good, dude. Okay, I have a thought-provoking discussion for you guys.

I want to hear your opinions on it. Cool. There's a guy at our church. Gosh, dang it. I'm just going to do this right into the microphone. Get it out. There's a guy or church, pastor. Pastor Luke, he's about our age.

Okay. Good, dude. I wouldn't call him a friend. I would call him somebody who I like and I've talked to a few times. Play basketball with them. A younger guy, our age-ish. And I was asking him a couple weeks ago at church. I was like, I just said hi to him in the hall, talking to him.

I said, what are you doing for Thanksgiving? And he's like, we're actually having a baby. it's our third baby they're at you know whatever and it's like they had two girls already i said boy girl or boy or girl he said boy and i was like that's awesome do you know what you're gonna name it and then right after i asked that i was like i shouldn't i shouldn't ask that i feel like it's like kind of an awkward like thing to be like i know but i'm not telling anybody or whatever so i just was like actually don't tell me i was like but here's the deal if you don't know you should name it brad and i just jokingly like said that to him and he's like okay yeah good idea whatever he's a funny guy

And then I said, I thought about for a second. I was like, how much money would it take for you to name your kid, Brad, after me? And he goes, I mean, he's a funny guy. But he's like, I mean, honestly, I'd do it for $5,000. Whoa. And we walked away. And I thought to myself, I don't know. I don't.

What do you think? Should not right now. It's not a good time for me. But someday, if I have more disposable income, I have. I absolutely am making that bet. Also, it's like this guy, like, I like this guy. I'm not trying to act like I don't, but he texted me the other day about something church related and he had to say like, hey, Brad, this is Luke.

Like, we're not friends. Like, we're not, we're not unfriendly, but we're just, like, I don't know where he's from. I don't know anything about the guy besides just like he's a fun, nice guy. And so to be like, you know, why'd you name me, you know, Robert? Oh, Robert was because, you know, we call you Bo, because you know, we call you Bo, we'd call your grandpa's name, the name was Bo. Why am I Bradley? Well, there's a guy at church that gave us $5,000. Oh, wow. Is that Uncle B? No, no, this Brad, I don't know where he's at anymore. We were barely friends even at the time. No, yeah, I worked at a church for a while and, uh, yeah,

just left it for greener pastures somewhere else. But I don't know what he's up to. Uh, got his five grand, though. I think the most shocking part is that he would do it for five grand. He must, Brad must already be in the top ten for him. That's what I, I did. I did say, I was like, in my head later, I was like, okay, it's not like, Brad, whatever, it's a very stereotypical white guy name, but it's not like a bad name. Like, if my name was, I can't think, like, Lyland or Jonas or... The price goes up. I don't know. Yeah, it's like, okay. Okay. Yeah. $30,000 for, you know. At least. Uh, Jesse, though, no, normal name. Sure. I knock a little off. Anna. No, no problem. But, uh, I thought, uh, I thought,

about like kind of as a joke kind of like you and I used to do back in the day where we would send each other like texts do you know that we did this time i think so via vimo and for a while it was like one cent at a time like hey man what are you doing not a whole lot you want to get lunch yeah sounds good and then one time i think i just sent jake like as a response like three thousand dollars like all right how about chipotle at 1230 knowing full well that obviously jake's going to give me that money back in the next text but like what if i just sent this guy five thousand dollars as a joke but he didn't realize it was a joke and he so he names his kid legally names him bradley and he's like yeah man we did it like we say true to our bet and i'm like oh dude

that was a joke oh dude i was just kidding um name it i don't know actually what you do i named it oliver okay i think i would charge a lot more if i'm him i would charge a lot more yeah to names one's kid that's why when he said that's why when he said had $5,000 I seriously thought about like, Catherine, FYI. I know money's tight right now, but I think this is a must. We have to take advantage of this. Right. Yeah, I don't know what my price would be as the, as the, as the, as the, as the giver of the name. It is nice when you know the exact name. Like, rather than like, hey, how much would it cost for me to just name your kid? It's like, oh, that's, that's scary. Yeah. Because then all of a sudden, yeah, you're, you're, you're

getting called like Tyron Matthew Ellis it's like well I don't want my kid to be honey badger I think it would be fun to have someone named after me but I don't know how much I would spend I want them to want it yes of course you know I want them to want it that's that's that that's option one that's that's that's first priority but like yeah let's be honest no one's wanting it yet so hasn't happened yet I'm going to them at this point like Gunner's got a name or a kid named after him it's awesome does he Connor what's Wagner does Connor Wagner oh really yeah his car baxter yep who's Wagner Wagner Wagner oh Todd Wagner good backsters related to Wagner right uh yes so he married a Wagner yeah yeah so

Connor Connor Wagner baxter yeah his son's name is gunner because of gunner how cool is that what about getting a dog named after you I think the price goes way down like what if I was Like, Tyman, Rachel aren't getting a dog. We want to name it. Actually, it'd be weird if we named a timing right now, I feel like. It'd have to be like after Timon's like gone from the podcast. Yeah. Naming a dog.

I might need money for that. Like, it's almost like kind of a disrespectful thing to me. Hey, we're going to name our dog Brad unless you give me $1,000. Yeah. So you're just, you're just yelling at Brad all day. Yeah. I got to Cannock and the dog's name was Jake. Ooh.

Actually? I was sitting and fetch. and whatever word said. Jake does sound like a pretty good. Jake's a great name. It is a good dog name. But also a good dog name. Like a good,

just ranch dog. Jake's just a good name, dude. Little, little cowboy kid named Jake. Writing the dog. Yeah, come on, Jake. Yeah. Come on.

Over here, Jake. Jake, the cow dog. I don't know. Yeah. This sounds good. Yeah. So anyway, Oliver is this kid's name. So now we know another Oliver in our lives. Man, what a shame.

But it's not too late to legally change. No, never. One of my friends, Scott Johns, shout out Scott. I was telling him a little bit about this because he works with Luke. And he said he had a friend in high school named Ezra. Okay. But when he went to go get his driver's license at 16, they gave the people, the birth certificate or whatever, and they're like,

your name is Erza. They spelled it wrong on the ERZA. No. He spelled it wrong on the thing. And so for, you know, 15 years, he was legally Erza. And so he had to change his name to Ezra. Erzza. That great.

There's a pickleball friend of mine, and everyone calls him Micah. Like, I was introduced to him, hey, this is my friend Micah. And so now I've known him for a couple years. But on Facebook or, you know, anywhere, his name is spelled M-I-K-A-R. Okay? Looks like my car. But he's British. So I was like, well, they drop the R.

yeah you know every now and then yeah and so eventually like truly like two weeks ago i found i was like hey man i think it's time i got to get to the bottom of like why you spell your name that way and then you know he's doing his thing you know oh yeah it's because you have time for a quick chat it's like i can't understand what you're saying oh just be a moment oh right so what do you say uh He said, you know, me mum, me, me muva. My mom, me muv. Quite the, quite the, uh, I don't know British terms super well. Quite the, I know.

The only one I can think of is the W word, and I don't think that's a nice word. White. Mm-hmm. That white, me. Quite a white, eh? She, she, she, she spelled it wrong. For real? Yeah.

It was supposed to be an H? I don't know if it was, uh, I actually can't remember a story because I can't understand this guy. But I don't know if it would, like, the H looked like an R or if it was just truly a misspelling just got the got the letters wrong but yeah he's like no my name is micah it was supposed to be an h yeah sometimes you know they talk about no they don't talk about i i get annoyed with the scantron where you have to like put the letters on top and then you also have to fill in the bubbles for the letters you know i'm talking about or the numbers especially recently i do it all the time when was the last time you just i was doing it for urs just the other day for my taxes

every year obviously yeah but that's why they probably you know let's double check let's let well two-step verification that's that's what it is two-factor so rachel and i were talking about like scantrons and stuff recently it just like for whatever reason it was on my mind about um standardized testing like when you're a kid even as a high schooler it's like man they're making a huge deal about this like we would have pep assimilies they would pull us out of school to do like yeah like prep our middle school teachers would come and do like skits like they would like do a whole skit about filling in the bubble all the way you know like it was just like pounded into our heads and I think we did pretty good on the testing so maybe it worked

but then now I think maybe just like being married to Rachel or just being older in general it's just like you understand how the world works a little more it's like oh wow that is a bit I mean that affects like the funding the grants the teacher's salary in the future and everything yeah no wonder they went so hard but when you're a kid you're like I know it's a it's a test right what's the big deal dude there were some people out there well first of all let's take step back timing yeah yeah you have any clue we're talking I think Catherine had to learn about Scantron is not like a, oh, that's obviously this. But like filling in the bubble all the way for like some kind of test, that's familiar to me.

Like the word Scantron is like fishy. Yes. Have you taken in the standardized? Did you ever take the ACT? I took the ACT. I've taken like a while back some kind of SAT thing. Like I've taken. And that was still pencil and paper like fill in a bubble thing.

Oval or like kind of brackets and a rectangle? I had both. I mean, it was over six months ago. So how am I supposed to know? He doesn't have memory for that? He's cached. I want to say circles, though, or ovals. The brackets?

What are you talking about? No. Brackets. They weren't, like, closed in necessarily, but it was just like, you know, right angle, right angle. Okay. And like, you would make the rectangle.

Definitely didn't know that. Wasn't that? We would have that ever now. That sounds kind of familiar, too. Dude, there were some people that made it, like, like, they were like doing an art piece on that Scantron the way they were filling in those bubbles. Like, I need more time.

I got done so much faster than some people. I looked over at them. It's because they were, were taking 19 seconds per bubble. Like, getting that thing... They're cross-stitching. I'm like, what are we doing here? Like, yeah, they needed like three pencils just to do

it all. That ain't. And you had to have the right kind of pencil. Yeah. That was a big deal. Couldn't use mechanical. No, you could not. Yeah, a lot went down there. Yeah, I don't know. I, it's crazy how like cold those tests felt, like, like, emotionally.

Like, it was just always like, these are just mean people that do these things. I don't know, like the state testing and the national testing, I was just like, these people have no personality, no, like, these people are not fun at all. Yeah. You know what I mean? We were orphans and they were running the orphanage.

It did. It felt like we were Matilda over here. Yeah. Queens Gambit. I, yeah, because every once in a while, like, you know, there's a hard test, hard math test, but at the end, they might do an extra credit question or something or like a fun. You ever do that? Like, yeah, but not with the Missouri advanced placement.

Exactly. Never. Mm-hmm. Just do one for fun. Even if it's like, here's a, here's a, you know, example question. And it's like kind of a bad attempt at humor even. It's just like, okay, you guys are normal people. Yeah.

We're trying to. Show me a little life, a little personality. Yes. Like even if it's like, yeah, let's do it like Missouri. So therefore it's like, Albert is on first base. Edgar's at bat. Isringhausen's pitching to him, you know, whatever. Yeah, that would be fun.

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No. I've heard of that, but I don't even really know what it is. Okay. Yeah, I don't know how cutting edge it was at the time. We were behind, but it was just this program, this organization, where every book had a point value assigned to it based on its reading level and the length of it. Okay. So you would read it, but then you also had to take, I don't know,

maybe an eight question quiz on it to make sure that you read it, you know. And then you would get points. And at the end of the year, oh, you'd go enough. Is this like it was something that like you did in class like they told you like to do it or was it like an advanced thing or was it a I feel like yeah everyone was doing it yeah but some people really liked it and other people they're like and don't forget AR at the end of the year there's some really good prices at the end of the year personal pan pizza maybe because I was gonna say we did book it like the pizza hut like personal pan pizzas but it was never I think it was more like a optional like if you want to do it great you get book it or like yeah there was a time this is So Brad, dude, like, there was a time where I figured out, like, oh, you could take quizzes for these books, kind of like what you're saying, and you get points for them. And so I just, I just took, I was like, I read that book like five years ago. I could probably pass a test on it. Or like, I kind of saw the movie on that one. I could, like, I just took all these quizzes. I read the front cover and the back cover. Yeah. Honestly, I was like, I think I kind of get it. Or sometimes it was like, these questions are pretty obvious. Yeah.

This one's always all the above. Like, just, I think I could at least pass this quiz. and then I would just stack up the points and probably it was probably worth like $3 in like eBay money or something like that. I don't know, but I remember at the time I was like going to work on it for like a good day where I was just like, what books do I know?

What books can I take a test on? Yeah, I used to read that crazy back in the day. Accelerating was helpful. It was a good little program. I was having a flashback to it this week because Rachel's theme just for I guess herself, maybe slash the house, is Little Women Christmas.

I'm sure if I said this on the podcast. You didn't say it, but I walked in and thought it right away. There's Joe. There's the other ones. Yeah. Joe's the main one. Yeah, I know.

I got it. I got it. See? You got a $100 question. Got it. Yeah. Amy is one? Yeah.

Amy's Florence Pugh? Yes. Anyway, we, yeah, we watched the movie. Kind of. I was reading and doing my own thing, but a nice little movie. Watch the movie. Well, honestly, I mean, I kind of did.

But because when she said I watched Little Women, I thought this was going to be shot like black and white and it wasn't even going to be a talkie. Oh, this is like, oh, this is like 2019. It's Greta Gerwig. Yeah. Yeah. And got my attention a little bit more. But in the middle of it had a flashback.

I was like, I know what Little Women is. It was the book in AR, because they were reading, everyone was terrified to read. It was the biggest book in our library. And I remember that. I guess maybe I could have my memory wrong. But I remember it was like, that's where I know about little women.

everyone was so scared like what's in that book why is it so big it's like the size of the bible it is it is intimidating like what's what's the perfect number of pages for you like as far as books go because like a book that's 500 pages it's like gosh all right i guess we can but 500 seems like i read one kind of recent i mean whatever two years ago that was like that long and it wasn't that bad but like i don't know why i started reading i was like i'm just going to give this a chance and it was like, well, this is pretty good. I'll just keep reading. And then it kept going.

Who's that Native American? Poca. Poka, her last name, Poka Hauntus. He was an athlete. Oh, okay. Jim Thorpe. Jim Thorpe. Nailed it.

I was in a bookstore the other day, and there's like, here's a book all about Jim Thorpe. And it was like 1,100 pages. I was like. There's no way. There's no way. No way anyone's reading it. No one's liking this.

No one even wrote this. 1100. wild my dad does love biographies my dad'll my dad'll read the biographies like it's nobody's business really oh yeah um he'll he can tell you anything you want to know about john wooden uh other guys probably and some other one and some other ones try to remember who he just said he's reading one about right now but 1100 pages is wild i bet my dad's read one on jim thorpe but i don't know if it's actually 1100 by me everything this is too much but it's way too much this is too much for jim thorpe um yeah i think I would love, I think you need, you need to get 250 pages or so to really, like, invest in a

character maybe. But anywhere from, anywhere from 250 to 350 sounds like a good number for an adult. Yeah. It's good. Just finished Hardy Boys last night with Bo. Nice, nice. We just kept rock. We, we read five chapters in one night. It was, oh, wow. It was big time. That was a couple nights ago. Yeah. But he could not stop talking about the five chapter night. Dad and I just kept reading so late. Because it was. It was like, I don't, I don't want to stop reading. dude. You want to keep going? The gang's up to no good. There was one point while we were reading where Bo just goes, yes. It was awesome. Just getting so into a book. But yeah, I think that book was like 160 pages or something. It was great for a kid, a great number for a kid. Yeah, that's nice.

Haddy, I think, you know, I give her a dollar for every chapter book she reads. And she said, she keeps a log of all of them. And I think she's read 38 pages, or 38 books this year. Wow. So I told her if she starts getting to 50, she gets a, extra money per year fun yeah so starts over january one conveniently but oh she's all about it so that's cool i'm i'm still knocking out a book when rachel and i did our black and white night like i got a book read it and then we swapped so i'm i'm in the middle of the swap um i was with calvin and molly our friends last night and they're reading a book that i oh the one by your dad yes look closer yeah and boy it's fun when you've read a book and someone else is in the middle of it especially a thriller

I'm like, tell me all your theories. Like, what are we thinking? What's going on in the book right now? And Calvin's kind of like me where he's like, dude, I just read it and kind of wait to see what happens. You know, just like take me for a ride. But it was fun hearing like Molly's theories and whatnot. Yeah. Not even go long.

Oh. She's in for a shock the last few pages. I'm so much like you as far as like, I don't want to try to figure it out. I want to be kind of surprised. I'm also like 0 for 12 on figuring it out. So I'm kind of burnt out and like I'm not smarter than these people. Yeah. I just, I want to be the dumb audience member that like, oh, this guy did it.

No, he's a murderer. He hates his why. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to be. Oh, what? I want to be fooled. Like, yeah, I'm, I'm exactly there too. You know what I mean?

I'm, my, my brain's not turned off, but it's turned off enough to where I'm like, that was the villain. Yeah. Like, and I like that because it's how I'm supposed to be, I think. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I'm not, if someone's in peril, I'm not like how, like, this is how they should get out of

this situation. It's just like, I hope they figure it out. I love a movie about a smart protagonist or someone that's like outsmarting people. For the first time I watched Catch Me If You Can Last Night. I was like, no, no, no, no. This is just fun. This is just like a, this is a smart cookie. He'll figure it out. Yeah. I don't know. I like that. Frank Abagnale Jr. Yeah. Knock, knock. Yeah. I remember I first watched that and my dad skipped over that part. He's like, I can believe what Tom Hanks said. We never heard him say anything like that up to this point in his career. So he, You skip past that. Knock, knock.

That's a good movie, though. Yeah. Yeah. They're always looking at the pinstriot, whatever they says about the Yankees. I just slipped right off your neck. Yeah. That was my introduction to Christopher Walken, I think.

That and more Calbell, I think. Yep. Both ends of the spectrum. Yeah, I don't think I've really seen many movies he's been in. I grew up on the movie he was in a very, like, low budget, very homeschooled. Like, it was an adaptation of Sarah Plain and Tall. like a very old school I don't know he was in that he was the dad okay and like so I was like I love this actor and so then I would occasionally see him and stuff I was like oh he's like done more

stuff than this tiny it's like oh he's a huge actor oh he's like pretty pop oh he's like super famous yeah but I think in the in catch me if you can it's like he's a similar age definitely in this like this kind of nostalgic seeing him because I like grew up on the movie he looked like this in right yeah yeah it's such a good movie so you're playing tall dude do you remember much about that I think Catherine read that had he recently I read that as a kid. I'm like, what's so good about this? We read that book so many times. I read the movie is, I watched the movie so many times. There's like multiple movies that I watched many, it was a big part of childhood. Yeah. I mean, I watched it. I watched the first

movie recently with my family, kind of again, it's been a long time. I was like, yeah, it's still pretty good. Okay. I don't love it as much as I did as a kid. I still remember much about it, but yeah, it's kind of just like this guy's wife had passed away and then it's like just he puts an ad in the paper for a new wife kind of and then she comes there she is and it's glen close oh corolla de ville yeah that's nice your coffee smells unbelievable it's doing it's doing a good job i know it's just like permeating the room it's amazing and what about these mugs cups oh chalice chalice is that it i don't know if that's how you pronounce it don't know if that's what it even is um but i felt

confident saying it before we started recording. Catherine loves this brand called Spode, Spode, S-P-O-D-E. And, yeah, like, and so every year for Christmas, I feel like she gets something else, like Spode-related. So I think we have, like, three or four of these chalices,

mugs, glasses, whatever, and it just feels more fun to drink out of. Yeah. You know? Looks more fun, too. I make her coffee every day and then give it to her more of those bad boys, a little ice coffee.

You figure it out? A goblet is more elegant with long and thin stem. Chalice has a heavy base and thicker walla. It must be walls. So this is not a trustworthy source. But Chalice is at least a drinking device, it sounds like.

I nailed that, yep. Okay, yep. Chalice? C-H-A-L-I-S. C-H-A-L-I-C-E. Oh. I think I got this from some Dan Brown books, maybe.

That looks good. That does look similar. it looks like a, yeah, more like a king medieval thing. Sure. Something that simitops. Someone will get this. In the first Narnia movie when the witch gives Edmund like hot chocolate, that's definitely in a chalice. Definitely.

Definitely. That's what I picture. That's the next book, Bo wants to read with me is Lying the Witch in the Borgroom. Oh, he's going to love it. Dude, I don't know it. Like that's what you're going to love it. I feel like I'm like a fate Christian for not knowing Chronicles of Narnia. I have one memory of reading those books, and I think we were in a time of our lives

where my mom was making one dessert a lot, one little Christmas snack, and it was there was like pretzel sticks that you cover with like icing and like sprinkles or whatever, frosting, whatever is? Oh, yeah. I was eating a lot of those while reading language. That's kind of all I remember. It sounds like pretzel, the most ideal possible. Yeah, it sounds great.

You're reading a great book and reading a great snack. It came into my life at the same time. white chocolate we're talking about it was white yeah it's always it's winter they put some sprinkles on there too oh yeah yep sure dude i went to uh i thought all these were out of business i went to like a froyo like peach wave last night it wasn't called peach wave it's called something dumb but they they're still out there Missouri no really Kansas where where was I down down down down down down down down down down down down down down not down really down nice is what I was I'm going to say, down in a nice area.

Okay. Like 127th. Yeah, because you went to that, yeah, we weren't able to go to Calvin Singh yesterday. Oh, yeah, craft putt. How was it? It was, uh, pretty, not very busy. Pretty, uh, sure, you know, we had the place to ourselves. Cold night, you know, tough to get out.

And anyway, yeah, so it was great, actually. Okay. Really good dinner. Um, really fun put putt, and then, yeah, we're like, loser buys ice cream. We went to, uh, the place was called, it sounds like, it sounds like, like two streets. Fifth in harmony or something. I was like, what is this? And then it's just like an old school, just like yogurtini or something where it just like all these crazy flavors, put it in the can and weigh it. I was like, man, I haven't weighed my ice cream since 2011.

That is wild. And I got the sprinkles. I was like, I know it's got to cost me. I know it's going to cost me. For your, for your dollar though, there's nothing better. You could get a whole, you know, cup of sprinkles. What would be some of the best bankier buck? Probably Oreos. like sprinkles, that's a good bang for your buck. Oreos would be good. Any candy topping, you know, butterfinger topping, Reese's topping. Anything that's crushed up real good, real fine,

because it adds a lot of flavor for not much weight. I got the cookie to a bite, and those might have been a bad bang for your buck. Those are heavy. Yeah. Brother, those are dense, yeah. These are heavy. But were you paying for it?

You're a loser. Yeah, I was the winner, but I still paid for it. Good for you. Okay. Dude, have I told you about the time? you're right uh have i told you about the time when i yeah took all the k life kids to the peach wave no i think i like it was like one of the first times i was like leading this bible study for those like peter coring and all his buddies i think there was like eight of them yeah there was

enough where i had to borrow peter's mom's van and it fit eight people so i thought there were seven kids in me and then i did something where i was like hey if we do this then we can all go get you know peach wave, whatever. And these kids got the biggest, like, I think it was genuinely, I think, I think I paid $75. I had not very much money at that. Like, it was like, holy cow. Like, that's like $10 a person, basically. I mean, I remember the one kid, like, just filled it up.

Like, there was the, the, whatever, the bowl. And I bet he filled it up twice as high as that bowl went. I mean, and he didn't eat out. Like, that's the thing. they didn't eat it all. Yeah. They just like, it's just fun. It's like, oh my gosh.

But I didn't want to be like a buzz kill. No, stop. Don't put it out. Yeah, try that one too. Yeah. We were doing our little samples at the beginning, which is kind of fun, you know, all sorts of different flavors and got to one that said like salted caramel.

I was all right, to try this on for size. And I take a little sip of it. And I go, whoa. I think they, I think that's the Mikkelob Ultra of ice creams right there. Right. He's just like, you don't even know you're talking about.

You never even had one. I was like, yeah, I actually don't know what I'm talking about it. I was like it just tastes like what beer smells like. Oh, okay. And then Gunner and Rachel tried at the same time, and they both have a reaction that I think something other than the ice cream is wrong. I'm like, what, what is happening? Rachel is spitting it back into her sample cup,

which is an accurate thing to have to do to yourself. Like, you have to be desperate to do that. Gunner's spazen out. Like, what is it? What is it? And they're like the salted caramel. And I was like, oh, yeah, it is bad. And they're like, no, that's fermented.

That's like nasty. That's disgusting. Something is like growing in there. And I was like, oh, I mean, I thought it was bad, but I ate all of mine. I can barely finish it, but that's amazing, man. It's like right away, like they told like the people working like, hey, something disgusting is growing in your salted caramel. Yeah. I always wonder when you go to like the gelato places, you know, it's like they have all those like big,

vats, like, where you can, like, sample. And some of the weird flavors out there, I'm like, how long's that been in the tub? You know, like, like, salted caramel probably isn't getting much use. Hasn't been getting churned as much. Yeah. And so it's like something's messed up in there.

Whereas, like, the peanut butter chocolate, like, combo. That's fresh. That baby's, yeah, all day. Dude, I can think about that sometimes, like, I'll get like a Snickers bar from Ace Hardware. And, like, it's probably actually been on the shelves for a while. Pretty crumbly, yeah. Yeah, like, I try to be healthy when I go to a gas station.

So, like, in South Dakota, I'll get, like, a protein bar, and I'll eat it. And I'm like, this thing seems pretty easily disintegratable. Like, it's like... No one's had those. Yeah, or even just like it tastes weird. Like, Snickers has tasted the same way for the last hundred years. But the Snickers from A's hardware has been on the shelves for too long. I don't know why that tastes weird.

Gosh, that's not right. I kind of got a little headache from that. From the throwout? From the yak, dude. You know when I always get headaches is when I don't have caffeine in the morning. really really yeah if i don't go to mainstream roasters.com every single day and at least like consume caffeine with my eyes you can do that these days google google google lenses that's what google linses are google chrome you get the google lenses and you go to google chrome and you look at caffeine

online and just absorbs in there straight into your veins yeah dog got my patch on my forehead dog got it right here dog come on dog it's main tree roasters dog it's the small batch best blends small batch best blends good song yeah it is a great song shout out Claire she's engaged she's engaged I guarantee you she's gonna have a bad marriage if they don't have Main Street Roasters in their house correct cut to a scene of their marriage without Main Street Roasters absolutely ding dong yeah come in hey hey we're married so you don't have to like bring the doorbell when you come in you would think but it's it's over why you feel like a stranger in your own house?

I feel like I don't even exist to you anymore. It's like you're not even present. It's like you're just like out of it or something. Like you don't like you don't have any joy in life. Like when I met you like you were drinking that other stuff. Why are you, why are you sleeping? Sorry, I fell asleep. You should ring the doorbells.

It wakes me up. Ding dong. Knock knock. And scene. That could be you. Slippery slope. It comes quick. caffeinated slope.

I'll tell you right now, it'll be here before you know it. So coffee is such an easy gift. Stuff your stockings and stuff your heart. Can you imagine how good that Christmas morning is going to smell? No. He neither. I'm a cold brew guy.

There's a lot of other smells going on. Oh, go to macea Roasters.com. Use our link and get 10% towards the Healing Waters promotion, which is exciting to see. I, yeah. so yeah do that too intrusers.com slash s slash healing waters thanks bang anyway i sorry no i did you have some yeah i have some but it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a derailment

a little bit all right so i thought about it please stop fighting on fire you want to go time time it sounds like you have something to say time go ahead please stop fight uh comfortable famous story funny inside joke in my family is my brother-in-law anthony big guy we're all a lot of a lot of us are big guys and in my family but told the story about this baconator back in the day. Back when baconators were like a brand new thing. And he was and my dad just likes, he thinks it's the funniest story because Anthony's like,

yeah, I mean, it was huge, like so much, you know, I could barely finish it. And like, and my dad just thought it was so funny.

Like he was basically talking about how negative this burger was. See, it's so greasy. It's way too much bond. It just made you feel awful. The bacon tastes a little weird. I can barely finish it. And so my dad just love that.

And so I was talking to Anthony at Thanksgiving this year. because Anthony's all about kind of similar to me sometimes like finding fun deals, finding fun new things you haven't heard of. Yeah, can I get a tall ice cream cone for McDonald's? Yeah, and so what does he call this thing? He calls it, it's like some app

that he found called Hot to Go or No, that's a Chaparone Food to Go or something like that. Anyway, but it's basically like you can go on this app and it has all these different restaurants that are local to you

and it'll say like, it'll say, hey, welcome. Okay, I'm following. What's up? There you go. What's going on? It'll say this place, like, for instance, this place down the street, it's a Chinese restaurant, you can pay $7 and you can get what, and they'll say you get $20 worth of

food. And a lot of times it's like the leftovers at the end of the night, I think that they're going to throw away. Slop. Yeah, more or less. And more or less, but like, hey, we can, we'll give you like, we'll give you this. There's only so many people that can get this value, you know, $7 for $20 with the food. Yeah, what's that website that's like Hotel Tonight or whatever?

It's like you snatch up the hotel rooms at 10 p.m. But you, yeah, but you don't know. It's called dinner tonight. Yeah. Dinner right now. But like, yeah. So he's like, so I went to this Chinese place and they gave me, you know, egg drops, like a big thing egg drop soup, a big thing of some other like sweet and sour soup.

And then like these, what other, this is kind of food or whatever. So he's, like, bragging about it. And I just, I'm hearing, I'm like, my dad's going to die at this. Like, he's going to think this is so funny because the next line, Anthony goes, is like, yeah, they actually encourage you to, like, bring your own Tupperware to the place if you want. And I was just like, oh, my God. Dude, you're going to a soup kitchen. Yeah.

You're not taking advantage of a restaurant, dude. You were going to a literal soup kitchen. Because on one hand, it's like, that's kind of fun. Because they pass out coats and gloves and it's getting cold this time of year. Dude, and even like, if you get full and you can't, like, walk home, you can just sleep in the back. It's awesome. Anyway, I mean, but he's like, like this one specifically, I think was like mystery. Like you don't know what you're buying. Like you're just going to this Chinese place and they'll

just give you whatever food they have extra of base. Which on one hand, I think of the, the motivation behind it is like not wasting food. Like, hey, we can give people food. Because yeah, I'm sure that Chipotle at the end of the night doesn't keep their, you know, stuff the next day. like their chicken or whatever just throw it out um but it's like it's just the it cracked me up yeah at what cost the guy who's already got a reputation for finishing and eating everything and they they say like they really encourage you to bring your own Tupperware of like oh my gosh like that's hilarious so yeah those that's a good family story that's something yeah your family's got to talk about for yeah they're the same ones that like they do the have you seen the

promo sometimes at movie theaters where it's like any bucket you want will fill up, you know, the hopper for $5 or whatever. It's like, yeah. So they bring like these massive containers of- Bring a trash can. Yeah. So anyway, he would, yeah, he would have every bite of, you know, that salted caramel and just be like, yeah, I could barely finish it.

Yeah, that tastes weird. But free samples, free sample. Froyo, man. Yeah, it was not good, but it wasn't. It was pretty bad. Yeah. But it's all good. Anyway, what were you going to say?

Do you remember? Well, I remember, I mean, it is true that the coffee and the chalice smells good in here, but I was going to bring it up because I'm a bit of a new man. Tell me. I'm turning into a, like, a black coffee guy with a little extra. Okay. Not just black coffee, but I think I'm going away from the latte and into the black coffee. I've just been trying it out more, you know, a black coffee, two creams, two sugars.

Oh, wow, that was quite a bit. Okay. coffee two cream one sugar okay okay okay black coffee one cream one stevia oh hey so you know a couple visits to first watch you know why not i'm all in first watch is awesome i love first watch so fun yeah he used to make fun of kyle so kyle my friend pickball friend there's an amazon prime documentary where he's like in episode one and it shows him building his business but they were filming him in a first watch and i love making fun of him i'm like businesses aren't built in a first watch oh yeah good meetings can happen in a first watch

watch bat and whatever it's just an inside joke and then I said I text him a couple days ago I said if nothing else comes with our friendship you're welcome for your girlfriend and thank you for letting me know that businesses can be built in a first watch because I love it the big snow day that we had here yeah I just cozyed up at a first watch you go solo yeah no way I like this I like that a I like that a lot actually yeah yeah like we yeah I feel like bring your laptop to first watch chick flay Lenoxa has already turned into kind of like a people can work here like different I feel like more more so than maybe other Chick-fil-A's, like, to me, personally. I don't know, but it's like, I like the idea of bringing your laptop to somewhere.

I've done it a few times now. That does seem fine. Yeah. I was turning me, yeah. Work at a first watch and keep the coffee coming, brother. That's what I tell them. That's fun. Yeah.

And their food's great, too. Oh, yeah. They got some good chicken sausage. Do you think it's, like, people don't know first watch everywhere, right? Like, first watch is just like a breakfast lunch kind of spot in Kansas City and beyond, maybe. It was in, so when I went down to Florida for one of those meetings, one of those meetings, One of those meetings was at a first watch. And this is like a big meeting, like one of the best pickle players in the world, his agent and then his coach.

And then I'm there and we're at first watching this before I knew about the sausage situation. I said, what kind of like alternative sausage do you have when we're ordering? And they said, we have turkey and chicken. And I kind of froze and I said, I'll take both. Yeah. And everybody laughed at the table. Protein up, baby. I was like, sorry.

Yeah. This isn't a thing that happens that often, okay? Okay. I'd like both. Yeah. But the chicken's good. Chicken sausage, good. Dude, they got some good chicken sausage at Costco, if you ever want some.

I found some. Rachel and I are turning into a Walmart family. Okay. Just a couple things we really like from Walmart, better goods. Better goods is the brand? Is the brand of chicken sausage? Okay. Hot dog.

Hot dog. And Bloom. It's a fun drink. That's it. Walmart family. Bloom. And I'm a black coffee guy. I've had that with you before.

Okay. Is it a Walmart specific thing? That's the only place we know how to get it. Okay. Walmart family. Dude, Walmart's one of those things where it's like, if you've grew up on Walmart you'll never leave Walmart completely yeah you get him as a child you have them for life yeah like everyone it's like it's like you you'll come back to your first love kind of thing like it's

like hey you know you'll have to go to Walmart randomly for something you'll be like oh my god they have everything here for like half off yeah it's like going to silver our city again like oh my gosh I forgot how many memories I have here this place is amazing why did we why did we make fun of this place like unbelievable I want that t-shirt yeah 699 what did I get at Walmart the day that like yeah you could kind of find it online for like oh it was like an inflatable tube for like henry to like put it like to be in the water in like just like a little toddler tube and like online it's like 12 dollars 14 dollars walmart dude 99 cents why not and it's like of course it's nothing like this is just a little plastic tube it shouldn't cost any money it's like too good to be

true almost at walmart sometimes that's so great and then yeah you got all the different sections of Walmart. You could, you could build a house and, you know, be fat enough to tear it down after going to Walmart. So true. Yeah. But anyway, I'm changing. I'm drinking more black coffee. I messed around with some black coffee in Mississippi a couple days. Oh, yeah. One time it was just straight black. And I was like, wow. This is not, I'm not there yet. As horrific as I thought as a kid. Like, it's like this, I kind of, I kind of see it. But definitely wasn't every day. Like, that was one day. and then yeah I would have a couple days a cream and a sugar to lighten the load

and it was like this is warm it's a cold day I didn't hate it but then I stopped once I got back I was like I don't know get back into the black try to try the black take try try to go a little creamer first just cream only yeah because then it'll like kind of like cream without sugar is like why am I doing this like just go black like it's not that much different I see but I went to Starbucks yesterday

this is my first time ordering from Starbucks and boy we all had trouble me and the girl taking my order because she asked me what kind of roast I wanted I didn't know the options just say just say whatever you think so that was a bit of a you'll never care right yeah I'm not at a place to be picky right now right it's on major rosters it's crap exactly that's what we say and so that takes a little time and then I said two cream and I said you guys have stevia great let's throw a little stevie in there and then I think we've pretty well established the two cream one Steve and then afterwards she goes so just a medium amount of cream so i'm thinking i hate that so is medium mean two or she mean like a medium amount of the two

boy i don't know what this means and so i yeah yeah mediums good yeah i don't know i'm like i thought you guys didn't like the word medium i thought you guys were all grande vinty yeah now we're doing mediums 20 ounces of cream yeah i don't know what the answer is because like Back in the day, you were saying too cream because they were in the little pet. Like at first watch, it's two cream because they give you little things. Yeah. But, yeah, I don't know. So I didn't know.

And then I got to the window and she starts off by saying, I'm so sorry about that. I'm brand new. So I was like, hey, I'm new to ordering black coffee. We're all in this together, girl. That's what I said. That was my first time ordering black coffee from a drive-through. So I don't know what I'm doing either. And so we're kind of laughing.

She takes my credit card, whatever. and then a few moments go by and then she hands me the machine and so then I go and get in my wallet and I go gosh sorry I can't find my credit card and she already gave it to me I said I'm brand new to paying for stuff I guess wait the machine why did she give

oh to do the tip I think it was tip first gonna ask you a question yeah but to me it just seemed like time to pay and I have a four second memory so like yeah real quick I'm my credit card you're brazzled I don't have a credit card she's like you already gave it to me idiot I was like sorry I'm brand new to earth I guess so Why don't I just leave? You take the credit card and the coffee.

Just, I don't know. I'll come back around. I'm more of a dunking guy. Sorry. I'll come back around. Let me think about this. Put myself a time out for a little bit. So I think I'll do better next time.

We'll see. Yeah, I think, I bet there is like a hard thing if you're a barista at Starbucks to like, there's different, different people using different vernaculars for the same thing. It's like probably being a doctor or something. You've got to know everything. Right. No time to look anything up. Like, because there's probably some people that are like, can I get, uh,

you know, half of the amount of syrup? Or can I get one pump? Yeah. Or can I get, you know, can I get just a light amount or whatever? It's like, quad shot single pump syrup, you know. I think you eventually just learn how to just like, be like, I'm going to do it how I'm going to do it and hope they like it. And if they don't, they're going to say something.

They're just going to suck it up. Like, right? Like, it's like, we got to, we got to go. I'm going to get pretty close to your order. Yeah. I'm going to pay $9 to be here. I'll get pretty close. Yeah.

At McLean's, I learned that if you say half, half the amount of syrup, they charge you half. The upcharge. Like, because normally like, you know, vanilla is whatever, $1.25 more.

But if you only do half, it's half of that. Do they, does Maintier Rochers have decaf beans? Uh, I believe so, yeah. Rachel was asking about that.

My wife. Yeah, she has been lately, especially like at night, little women at Christmas, get a little mug and the saucer out and have a little decaf night coffee.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Rachel's getting old. I love that. Actually, yeah, I told her, I said, I love your affinity for all these, like, old things. Yeah. It's a nice old bag. It's an old time of year.

It's an old time of year. Like, young people thrive in the summer. Yeah. Winters for the oldies. Yeah. It's like, we can just sit inside and just look outside and just judge people. My blood work came back. My functional or my biological age is 27.

Spotify said, my listening age is 28. I feel pretty good about where I'm at. Okay. I can have an old wife. Yeah, you can. It's still be young. You probably feel good that she's old because, you are older than her.

Yeah, kind of, yeah. And so it's like, you're trying to, like, almost, like, encourage, like, that's fine. Come on. You want some pudding? Jello. So. Anyway. Review of the week?

Review the week. Let's do it. I want to do that? Yeah, I think there's only one new one that I saw. So you want to do it together? Great. Sammy Sosa, 81.14. I got a lot of Spotify comments pulled up.

Okay. Sammy Sosa, 81, 14, said, best theme song ever, five-star review. started listening in August and quickly became an avid listener, even going back and listening to old episodes, which is kind of the mark of a great podcast. My son's one and a half and he's obsessed with the theme song. If he hears it from the other room, he stops whatever he's doing to dance. It's probably the cutest thing ever. My sister, Emily and I have been quoting Jensen's interview for the past week. I'll text her and she'll respond. It comes for a real place. It makes me laugh every time. Thank you guys for making this podcast. Truly such a fun highlight of

my weeks. That's awesome. I love one and a half. That's basically the same age as Henry. And so understanding, like, he is like so, yeah, like, when he hears music, he starts to dance and kind of do a little groove kind of thing, gets down low. So I love imagining basically Henry, but in your house, you know, doing the same thing. So Sammy Sosa, thank you. Samithotha. Samitha. A lot of good Spotify comments. The episode that is titled comes from a real place, Hannah says, this is the hardest I've laughed at a podcast episode in a long time. Our most recent episode. Someone said, who else got Ghost Runners is their top podcast? And then all these

responses, some of which saying gang gang and same. Gang, gang. In four years running, Top Pod. Malcolm Forrester. Shout out. But seriously, yeah, shout out to everyone who listens to this podcast so much. It was fun. It was always fun on Spotify Rapp Day. But my actual review the week comes from Callie. Calla Rashley. I wonder what her name is. Probably Ashley. Sorry, I called you Callie. I was debating leaving a comment. Then I saw the title I knew I had to. My fiancé and I decided to run a mile a day this year, and little did I know it would save my life. Early on, I slipped on ice and fell, which led to a long six months of doctors' appointments and test, finding out I have a rare vascular condition. Lots of driving to specialists out of state,

always listening to Ghostrunners. In ER visit, emergency surgery, and recovery later, no wonder Ghostrunners is my top podcast on Spotify rap. Thanks for all you do. So, yeah, Caller Ashley. Keep us posted. I hope, I mean, it sounds like you've had surgery and you've recovered, I guess. But yeah, hopefully you're all good and all set. Wow. Look out for ice. Rare vascular condition.

That's scary. That's crazy. Those stories are always cool, though, and it's like, I went in for this and they found this. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Would have never happened if this other thing didn't. Yeah.

Like Meredith getting, you know, rabies. Yeah. Yeah. I found Hannah Freeman was the one who has 137,000 minutes. Wow. She said, I listen that night to fall asleep because I can't sleep if it's quiet. So I guess she's like listening throughout the night. Maybe that's the hack.

So if you want to beat 137, beat it, Oscar. Beat it. Beat it, Alvaro. You know, I think there is a sleep mode you can do on Spotify, but I like our listeners not using it. Let it play, baby. Let it run. Come on. What was the noise?

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