Ghostrunners - 498 - Cash Back is a Scam

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

Jake is back from performing with Trey for the first time in over a year, Brad accidentally said a slur, and everyone fights for their life to avoid yawning. Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Check out Cozy Earth and get 20% off site wide with this link: http://www.cozyearth.com/ghostrunners Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I went to Top Golf this weekend. Yes. This is where we start. You want to hear that you want to hear a crazy story. I've heard the end of it. I don't know the beginning. You guys weren't here some crazy. I mean,

you thought what Tyman said was insane. Yes. I'm with some ghosties. One thing leads to another. Braden Parsons. Emily Braise. You know, it's fun. And they say,

you know, I could hit this ball about 450 yards straight on a frozen rope. Yeah. My grandpa used to do it barefoot. Yeah, my grandpa just uses his feet and swing those out of there. We showed up on Saturday night without an appointment, and believe it or not, they said it's a two-hour wait. No way, dude. Can you believe that?

Top gold? Oh, dude. That's like, it must be a Nashville thing. Only top golf in Nashville is really busy, I guess. Or no way, it was Friday night. Oh, my gosh. Start with that, dude. Yeah, yeah, that's the, just blow my mind.

mine in general. Hey, oh, you were going top golf on a Friday? Yep, yep. And never went. That's wild. Or no, I was in the lobby. I was in the lobby. Time and calm down, dude. Sorry. He's in the lobby and I left. That's it. A little more reaction. There is more than just braided in it. Oh, dude. Dude. Don't just, I've never seen it's busy my entire life. I don't know what's going on here. We please be done with this Okay Uh-oh

Ooh I think this tight Beating means that it's going down With some random thoughts And white meat too Midwest best friends Eating fast food on repeat So come along Let's have some fun

And go ahead Get on your feet Because it's a ghost A ghost from a podcast Oh my morning Oh my morning We're taking around Ghost on a podcast

Oh my podcast Oh my podcast Oh my podcast Oh, my. Zoom Jake's camera in a little bit. Zoom, Zoom, Zoom. I do like that format, though. I'll try to tell a story in one of the worst ways possible,

and you guys just lose your minds. I think we should always, like, preface, like, hey, here's how I want you to react at the end of it. This is a hilarious story, so no matter what, please just affirm me by laughing really hard. And it's hilarious because of how funny it is. You'll see. This one's more the theme of this one is kind of a hijinks one.

I have a high jinks theme. story? I'm not. I'm saying that as an example. Yes. Um, anyway, I just got an email. Do you see that? No. Don't look at it. Look at it later. I'm not on email right now. I will, I will fill you in. Seriously, don't look at it. No, I'm serious. Whatever you do, don't look at it. Hey, how was, uh, the shows? Tell me about them. Uh, shows are good. The, uh, a lot of ghosts he showed up as, uh, I kind of mentioned last week. The Oliver's drove down. Janelle Binell drove down.

The braces drove down. Braden stayed put. Yeah. But he was there. Justin Orm, stayed put. Ty Tong. Tyler Tong, drove down. So, a lot of down.

Am I missing anybody? That's going to be a bummer if I am. Would you be confident that South Carolina is down from Tennessee? Timon? Down from Tennessee? Oh, that might be, that might be up. Is it? Yeah.

probably a little bit up. I trusted you, man. I trusted you and you failed me. Well, you know, because I'm not a geography guy. And so I was like, man, I thought it would just be over. It's, it's mainly over. Is it? I would say. Okay. He drove over. He drove over. Drove, drove to. It was really good to see everyone. That might have been the highlight of the day. I heard that the two days I was in Nashville, was just seeing everyone. Ended up not podcasting with anyone. Maybe I said that last week, but John Christ was out of town, a bunch of the other people we're out town. Nate was busy.

Oh, really? Like, not responding. And so he couldn't, he couldn't squeeze his thing. He was probably doing the cruise. He was prepping for the cruise. You know what's funny is the reason our show was on Thursday night is because Trachio was supposed to be on Friday night. And then he goes to look into things. He goes, hey, Nate Bargotsie's performing in Nashville on Friday. Why in the world would you have me performing the same night as him in the same city? Oh, wow. So that's why I got moved up to Thursday. So I see. He was in down just performing on Friday. Yeah. So, so.

That's probably why he didn't, he wasn't able to. Yeah, he's busy. Yeah. The show started at 10 a.m. I think. Nashville's a, it's a tough place to commute, though. Yep. You know, he's got to, the traffic. I got stuck on Broadway.

The Nashville traffic. I got stuck on Broadway. Um, the shows himself, what now, timing? My gosh, I can't get through anything. That looks right? Keep going. All right. Just rub your armpit all over the microphone there.

That's a good, nice sound. Thanks Shows were good It's funny I'm just like I don't know I'm still trying to process through How not

Maybe shocking or how not Strange it felt to immediately be thrown back into stand-up comedy In front of like 1,500 people It's like this should feel more Weird or different or unique But it felt like I was with them last weekend Really? Yeah as far as like even just like performing

I don't know That was something I'm still like figuring out Like, why does that not feel like I haven't done that for a year? Right. I don't know. Yeah. But I guess you just do it enough times, but you're just desensitized to it. So wasn't too nervous, you know, the public speaking aspect of it.

I'm long desensitized too. That's fun for me. It's fun to get up in front of there. Really wasn't even nervous in general. Maybe it's because I had it very well memorized or maybe just because it's like, it's 10 minutes for three shows. Right. And then I never do this again.

So who cares? But, yeah, I'm not going to come on here. here and say it went great by any means. But truly, are you just, are you just being humble or did it truly not go great? I don't know if it went great. Really? Yeah. Okay.

Would you say most of the time in the past tour, it went great? You know, from what I could remember, like, just being like objective. Like if Tim and I were there, would we have said, if, and if Tim and I were there watching the show and then we all went and you weren't there and they said, hey, how did Jake do? What did we say? I don't know if it went. You and Timin would have said. Great.

I thought it went good. Oh, yeah, but with a little bit of like an inflection. I thought it was good. I mean, it was, yeah, it was good. You would say, like, there was some adjectives you would use, and you're not using those. I thought it was awesome. I thought he was hilarious.

I thought, I thought he was good. That's what I think you would say. He was fun, yeah. It was good to see him up to her again. It was, oh, yeah. He was like my favorite one. Yeah, I had a fun time. I had fun.

I think he had fun. Oh, yeah. It was good for him to be back. I thought 10 minutes and I went by pretty fast. Yeah. I don't know, it's always a little hard to self-analyze, but trying to be pretty, like, self-aware and, you know, an honest critic. For one, I mean, right off the bat, it was like,

um, probably just like an acoustic thing. We're in a music venue, so it's, like, not as loud as what I'm used to. And it helped a little bit. I got offstage and Mike L was like, you know, that crowd is whack. Oh, really? Well, that's good at least. So he, like, acknowledged, like, yeah, he did all right. The crowd was back.

He even meant, like, for him. Like, he can get a pretty good pulse just DJing. Like, this crowd is not into anything I'm doing. I can't get him to clap. I can't get him to scream when I say, are you excited for Trey Kennedy tonight? And then once I got, like, situated to watch Lucas, I was like, okay, they don't seem that loud for Lucas either.

So that made me feel a little bit better. But what about what's the difference? What do you mean by like a music venue? Because some of the places that you've, well, a lot of places I'm assuming would be like music venues that you've done it before. But was like, like, music venues just typically have people seated a little further away from you.

This was like typically like a standing room only facility that they then threw chairs into. Um, so some of the acoustics are different. Um, yes, flat. Yeah. Um, there's something about that for sure. I will say this venue was built this year. It was nice. My dressing room had a balcony. It was like an apartment or something. A balcony on the street. Yes, onto the street. Morgan Wallin style. I threw a chair off. Yeah. You could throw chairs anywhere you want over there. Okay. So that was not. I mean, anything anywhere in there was like so nice. And I was like, man, I didn't tour. when it was like this.

I toured in the 1920s theaters. We were like, Harry Houdini performed there. But it was really nice. He did a magic trick through that little hole. They had some nice, like, John Wilkes booth seats on the side. They were, like, private that went. This would have been a great show to have, like, family or, like, you guys there. Because it was, like, you can go from these private seats on the side into the green room.

Like, you're kind of part of, like, our, like, lounge area. Cool. It was a sweet setup. They know what they're doing there in Nashville. Oh, fun. Yeah. But yeah, it was just like, it went how the first time performing a new material should go, where it shouldn't be in front of 1,500 people as part of a tour.

You know, this was like, this is how things go when Trey and I were like, we should go on a new tour. All right, let's start in Huntsville, Alabama. Let's do seven shows in one weekend. And you go, well, at least we got through it. Now I know. And unfortunately, I had kind of had to fail publicly in front of people in Nashville. No one knew you, though. No one knew me.

None of the ghosties came. They were just at the Airbnb. Yeah, I enjoyed. I had fun. I had fun. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, it's like, obviously there were parts that they laughed for sure. I didn't bomb for 10 minutes straight. But yeah, it's just like from what I, what I did previously, which is take six to nine months to build a set and then go perform it. It's like, oh, every time it's supposed to laugh, it's very loud. And I'm having to like, you know, pause for five seconds because they're still laughing. None of that. Yeah. And that jars you grow quick, right? Yeah. It's like, this is going to. quick this is going quick okay yeah you get a little bit uh you press a little bit like they say sports are like he's pressing you know but overall i felt felt confident felt good and you know we made some adjustments to halftime yep which is the next day in nashville before performing in charlotte and so then in charlotte i like opened up with crowd work i like rearranged some things charlotte you got the best show the weekend charlotte was great okay come atlanta uh i go i'm you know i'm checking the

clock like all right i got about two minutes all right that seems about on pace yeah i'm about to do my closing little thing here. And then I get ready to start it and I realize, oh yeah, this whole thing that ends in a callback, you didn't say the first part, you idiot. Oh, so. Oh, dude. So, I'm like scrambling on a set. I've only performed twice ever. Yeah. Trying to rearrange in real time. I've done the same thing and it's like, crap. And as you're like saying it, you're like, they're not going to, oh, this is crap. Crap. What do I do? Crap. Yeah. So that was like that, you know, I talked last week about getting interviewed about the similarities between the Boston Massacre and Pickleball for like an improv

exercise. That felt like I was improvbing. Really? They didn't feel like stand-up comedy, whatever that was. Like, trying to figure out the math of the clock and what I'm saying and what they know. All right, we got to go back for a little bit. Let me tell you guys a story. And then, like, as I'm telling that story, I'm like, I'm right out of time. I guess this is just a closing joke now.

Yeah. Not going to hit super hard at the end. Atlanta, you were fun. That's pretty good. That's kind of how it ended. Oh, I'll tell you, they definitely didn't know it was a closing joke. They did not know it was the last joke. Dude, I mean, okay, first of all, I want to give you grace for the whole thing. Because, hey, it's hard, what you're doing.

Like you said, coming into the whole thing, like you, yeah, it is an exercise. It's like a, it's a muscle memory thing. And so the fact that you're like, yeah, coming in cold, basically. And I think, especially in a large venue like that, the first person to go is, that's so hard because the vibe. I had been in a while. different and like I think it just takes like a little bit of like yeah whatever you like use the metaphor of like warming up like a crowd to get them going like to like oh yeah we're having humor now this is funny we're getting there and so like if you only have 10 minutes I think

you only have like in my I don't know I don't know the math truly but like four minutes of like actual time where they think you're funny like at the end like the first six minutes is just them like getting getting their muscles warm kind of thing of like oh yeah okay we're listening to jokes now, here we are. I was just in conversation that I had to wrap up halfway through it. You know, now I'm talking about it. And I think that's very true. Lucas said almost the exact same thing to me. He's like, when you go first, you got to realize, like, they need to be warmed up to like even hearing jokes. Right. Well, I mean, like, I'm trying to remember, I think in Kansas City when I saw you, there was a DJ, but in Hawaii, there was not.

It's cold. And so literally it was just like, I think it was Alan being like, ladies and gentlemen, welcome Jake Triplett. Hello. And it's just like, oh, like that. Like, that's just a tough, like, first thing to get out there and go. So anyway, I, and I think there's a huge difference between opening at a comedy club where everyone's, like, close and, you know, warm, I don't know, just like almost like on top of you versus, like, something like that. Yeah. I could imagine.

Thank you. That's good grace. I accept that grace. Yes. I think that's accurate. So, yeah, it went fine. I mean, I wasn't, like, coming off stage being like, oh, man. No, no, no, no.

Crap. You know, I was like, eh, it could have gotten better. I'm going to do it two more times then I'm going to go back to run in a pickleball company and that's fine that's great if you ask me again

great if not I also am okay with that too I'm sure he was kind about the whole thing I'm sure dude you crushed dude good work man yeah how'd they go

yeah you crushed man yeah I didn't crush bro yeah I don't know were you in the bathroom I knew like to go to the bathroom before you at the green room balcony thing but I had fun I mean I told the guys

I was like I'm excited to perform so that I can be done performing and watch you guys goes. Like, I haven't seen Lucas's new stuff. I'll tell you, this is what helped, is seeing Lucas do old stuff and then even seeing trade do a little bit of old stuff. I was like, I don't know this is allowed. I'm okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What's this? What's all this one in a million talk?

Yeah, that did help. That's probably why the show felt so better. So I was like, oh, I can pull a couple old things. Yeah, right. I just want to push myself a little bit, so I'm not going to do too much, but I just told the like the classic story that everyone loved on the podcast, the are we trending story? Because I think the tail into the last. to where I started doing that. So I really don't even know if these cities had even hurt it. So it's like, great.

That's a great way to start off. A lot of people ask how I get into stand-up comedy. Let me tell you the story. Right. And then it's a great payoff at the end and there's a few jokes along the way. So I was like, ah, I didn't know I was allowed to do this. That's great.

So that was nice. That's better than, yeah. Good. Yeah, felt good. It is fun. It's, uh, I'll tell you, there is a little risky, but pretty much the first joke of the night is racially charged. Oh, good.

And that was, yeah. Good. I felt like it was going to go okay. And thankfully it did, because that really could have set the tone. Yeah. Poorly. But I just said, Oh, honky.

Just bombing. If you do bomb that, that's such a, just like, everyone's like, who is this guy? Like, what are you doing to do? How long until Trey does the better stuff? But I just said, like, right off the bat, I feel like it's worth noting that I do not do stand-up comedy anymore. This is my first show with Trey in over a year. I know you're thinking, you know, they didn't get the right guy for the job, like a white cleaning lady or a Habachi chef, you know, named Trevor or something like that.

So, but thankfully that went well. I should have closed with that. Yeah. They laughed pretty good at that, actually. Once again, yeah. Thank you. White cleaning lady, Trevor, Trevor Habachi. Ah!

This is good. This is good, guys. Right. That's pretty good, though. But, yeah, so it was a good start. Good start. Yeah. Abachi named Trevor.

Trevor. Good start. What else will we put in their time in? Yeah, I figured two examples is enough, but yeah, you could, you could probably go down. That's like... You just do 10 minutes of those jokes. Right? The wrong guy for the job.

That's like, my roofer doesn't know Spanish. Right. That's kind of similar to the cleaning lady joke. Right? That's like the guy who's doing my sheet rocking doesn't know Spanish. Doesn't know Spanish. That's kind of similar to the other stuff. That's like somebody who manufactures my pickleball paddle, not a speaking Mandarin, right?

that's like that's like someone doing my math and not speaking Mandarin I don't know that's like that's like I don't I didn't have any I didn't have any that's that's like someone that's like someone that's like someone getting drafted in the NBA short short short that's good yeah a little misdirection so yeah um there are a couple I told the the I'm not a guy in a college just but I'll take a look I did that on stage that was kind of fun and that's another one it's like how many examples is too many examples of like you're doing, hey, you like the Bible and this. I stopped at three. I think that's the right, like, comedy number, right?

Yeah, two or three is probably good. Maybe four, never five. But more than one. You got to embellish one more. Yeah, yeah, I think two's good. Yeah. Maybe three. Boom, baby!

That's the noise. That's 50K and 50 days. We did it. We raised our $25,000 towards Healing Waters International. The ghosties did. We might have actually done it in exactly 50 days. It's got to be pretty close. That's pretty fun to think about.

Because the whole thing was kind of a joke. Like we're doing that it's not actually 50 days. 64 days to do 50K and 50 days. But it's only 25Ks is getting matched. Right. It was 25K at 64 days. And we did it perfectly. We got 50K and 50 days.

It's amazing. I mean, truly we are, I mean, it's humbling to just. You guys have doubled what you did last year. Crazy, man. Pretty much same listenership, too. So amazing. the donations became twice as much. I'm looking now, I mean, this is, we were recording this on December 19th.

We recorded an initial ad. You'll see on both Monday and Wednesday episodes, we recorded the initial ad back in the day. So whatever. You're going to be confused a little bit, but just no, yeah, this is what happened. Moustache grew. December 19th, currently, we are at $26,0.20. And so the $25,000 is going to be matched by one donor. But we have another donor that has stepped up to say, hey, let's keep matching these gifts.

Wow, type O type donor. Yes. Type O positive. Universal matcher. So when you donate a dollar to Healing Waters, you will get doubled. You have $2 now. Correct. If you donate $5, $10.

We have $10 now. Yeah. So, and if you donate into this until December 31st, through the 2025, you will still be entered to win the ultimate prize pack. The Kansas City experience where we're doing all sorts of things, Kansas City culminates with a fun time with Jake and I, maybe timing. There's also a non-ultimate experience. which is getting free cozier at bed sheets.

Correct. And we're giving 10 of those out. It's going to be amazing. So give.healingwaters.org slash ghosties 2025 to donate. If you don't remember healing waters providing sustainable water solutions all over the world, we're specifically targeting Haiti with this fundraiser. And if we hit another, I believe, 10,000 or sorry, it says every additional dollar raise goes directly towards completing seven new community water projects in Haiti.

bringing safe water to more than 3,000 people. So I believe that $10,000 more will, like, get them to that goal. So pretty crazy, pretty cool to think, like, you know, our small community is helping to bring safe water to 3,000 people that don't have it. I mean, it's just an amazing, it's an amazing gift and blessing that we so often just take for granted here in America. I can't imagine. I can't imagine what, yeah, what it would be like to not have those. So give.healingwilers.org slash ghosties 2025.

Thank you, ghosties that have just gone above and beyond to contribute to this thing. It's so wonderful. It's so cool to be like, we know that this community here is going to step up and do this thing. Frankly, I wasn't sure if we were going to step up to this extreme. Yeah, this is quite a bit. It's pretty amazing. There's been some large gifts, but then there's also been just so many like micro donors that just give what they can. And it's just been humbling and cool.

So thank you. Thank you. thank you. Give. Healingwaters.org slash Ghosties 2025. We're not done. We're not done. Dude, I want to talk more about comedy stuff, but I kind of racially profiled somebody earlier today. Yeah. No, not a profile.

I, okay. So I was... You're racist. Yeah. But, but, yeah. I mean, they were, they laughed about it, whatever. But the Hispanics in the listenership right now are going to get a little uncomfortable edition. Okay, got it. So, um, I'm at the, the Airbnb house.

Got a new, got a new crew there. Eight televisions. Yes. Ocho television. And Tino's, my new guy. Tino's got a cousin that works with him. Oh my gosh. Mani.

Mani doesn't speak any English. Nice guy, though. I mean, he like, maybe he'll say like a little phrase or whatever. So we're like walking around the house. I was like, actually, let me just show you up here real quick with something I want to do. And they're like, they're repairing the. drywall so they're doing like um like plaster on the drywall so obviously that's wet kind of liquidy whenever they put it on and it dries and so i'm like going past manny and tino's like be careful

it's like fresh so it's it's wet and i go oh yeah mojado mojado just means wet in spanish great apparently it also is like the worst slur you could call a mexican person oh yeah yep yep yeah oh no and so you know like five minutes passes and man he's just kind of laughing and he was like what are you laughing about and he basically said he called me you called me he walked past me and said this and we i mean he was laughing they were all out but i was like i had no idea i've just seen piso mojano stupido idiota you know i had just seen the like piso mojado like wet floor thing that's all that's the only way i know mojado that's a good point floor wet and he's like that is that you're right that is also that but like if you say that

if you're like mad at somebody if you pointed your finger and said it right it's like that's the same exact way you would say it apparently so you would say the translation for wet apparently so i'm not going to say it i wouldn't if i were you i would say not dry how do you i would just say dry maybe and then just be the idiot yeah i want to be as far away no no no not dry got it no problem you said no yeah i did i was like i said sorry like 15 times. They're like, we don't care. Truly it doesn't better.

That's good, though. That's good to get that out of your system a little bit. So it doesn't flare up on the podcast or something. No, can you imagine? No. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. Yeah, so anyway, just racially profiled somebody a little bit there. Yeah.

There's a Theo Vaughn clip where he talks about how I think he used to say the N-word because he grew up in Louisiana, New Orleans, and he was just all of his friends are black. And he's like, and I don't say it anymore. I have some flare-ups in traffic. Sheriff's in traffic, so funny. He's kind of unbelievable, like some of the things that he just randomly says.

Unbelievable is a good word. Yeah. I don't know what's going on. I don't know if it's drugs. It's funny because it could be drugs or the Holy Spirit. Yeah. I listened to his last episode. He, like, prayed on the podcast for his producer.

Really? We never do that for a time. Do you want to? No. No. Okay. Not okay. Pray for his top golf reservation.

I'm really intrigued. Just in general with like this, I don't know about revolution, but like it does feel like there's a lot of guys out there that are like, are you coming to know the Lord? Like seeking truth. Like I've seen Andrew Schultz have Wes Huff on there. And then I saw, recently I saw a clip of Tim Tebow on there, which I'm not saying like, that means they're converted to XYZ or like the Paul's even, Logan Paul. And those guys are like having Cliff connect connectically or whatever.

And different things. I don't follow it very intensely, but I'm like, at least they're like, intrigued by these things and, like, open to these things. Yeah, it is cool. Yeah, not closed off together. Yeah. So, anyway, all I'd say, the Yovan. Let's get him on the bottom.

Could we? Let's show Nashville. His producer, a lot like me. Yeah. We should. I was just in Nashville. I should have. Dang it, dude.

Texas. Other things from the road, you know, I was excited to see tour manager, Tom. You know, I hadn't seen anyone forever. He's still doing it. Yep, still there. And, uh, what kind of shoes he's rocking? Sandals. Yeah, same old, same old.

Yeah, kind of the chakos, basically. Are they, are they, like, kind of that kind of, I mean, he's in the exact outfit I saw him last time I saw him. He just keeps it, keeps it light. Yeah, it's like, like Steve Jobs in a way. Like, you don't have to think about what you're wearing. I kind of, I don't hate that. It's like these sandals, black cargo shorts and a black shirt that says something along the lines of, like, love the band, respect the crew. Oh, it's got, it's a graphic team.

Sometimes, yeah. Okay. It's faded, but it's in there. But I was like, Tom. You know, what a reunion long-time message? I don't know what I said to him. His first words to me, he goes, uh, porn stash, nice. Oh, all right.

Good see you, Tom. Love for the band. I expect to stash. Yeah, Isaac really appreciate that because he was like, I need updates. Like, what's going on here? So, um, is he like, lack of emotion? Like, is he just like, oh, you are? You're here.

The first night I ever met Tom, like Charlotte, North Carolina, five years ago or whatever. He's like, all right, I'm going to be your tour manager. A couple things you know about me. you cannot hurt my feelings. I've been doing this 30 years. I've got nothing left. But we've chipped away at Tom. We've found, not like annoyed him enough.

But yeah, we've found some. He's got a heart in there still. Sure, yeah. But yeah, he's pretty like, you know, desensitized, I guess, to everything. 30 years. That is a lot. But yeah, I was really good to see Tom, just be back on the bus. Mike Lowe was out this weekend.

So that was great. And he mentioned multiple times, just how much he loved being on the podcast. Really? He loves Ghostrunners. Dude, that's awesome. He kept being like, dude, I'm, he's like, you wouldn't believe the places I've been where ghostsies recognize me or the D-Perfect Tour

or my own shows. He's like, it's like, is this the biggest podcast in the world? How are there so many ghosts he's ever right go? Just deep, man. And probably three different times over the weekend. Sorry. Deep. And why?

Probably like three different times over the course of the weekend. He was like, uh, yo, I got to be back on ghost owners. I want to be back on. I was like, let me know when you're in Kansas City. He's like, oh, I'll fly out. Whoa. He's like, I just want to be on so bad. Okay.

I was like, great, dude. Anytime. We love to have you, yeah. Yes. You're a great treat to have on. If we're going to let Caleb Sullivan get on, we're going to let him get on. Any time, brother. Just any ghosty.

All you got to do is ass. So, yeah, he was super gung-ho about the podcast, which is fun. That's so interesting. I wonder if he is on very many podcasts. I don't know. I mean, he started to do his own live streaming, which I'm sure borderline feels like a podcast but yeah as far as being on guest

a guest of other shows I don't know but we talked about you time in a little bit nice I told me you've been popping in his stream and pay attention oh yeah he reacted to an early version of my song he kind of liked it it's good is that's good

it's all right it's fun six out ten no actually he did like it I remember I remember he like because when you submit this song, you put like your Instagram in and he like looked at my Instagram. He's like, I mean, he fits the description for sure. But that's a pretty good song. I was like, I don't know what that's supposed to mean. What's your description? I don't know. I guess just how the song sounded.

Oh, okay. I don't know. Does he tell backup? Because I don't understand exactly what you're saying. Does he like review songs live? Is that what he does? Yeah. He like reacts to people. It's a lot of like Christian hip hop. People trying to be Christian hip hop artists that will send in their songs. And so he like goes live and then plays them and listens. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Did you pay to skip the line? No. Oh, that's smart. You just tell me about this. Yeah, he's like, found some cool ways to monetize it. 30 bucks to skip the line.

60 bucks to like super skip the line. A hundred bucks? Super to eliminate the line. I love the super skip. Yeah, it's like, turns out a lot of people are skipping the line. Yeah. TSA pre-checks longer than the real lines. How do they do, and you guys aren't going to know the answer this,

but Disney World or anything? I feel like these days, everyone's getting the line skipping stuff. The pass isn't everything. Yeah, but surely if enough people get them, then it doesn't really work anymore. So is there like a super skip on those two, you think? I don't know. Or they just keep raising the price until not as many people get it. Right.

I have no idea. Me neither. Scott would right now. Yeah, he just went. He was just there. How do he like it? I think he liked it a lot. I think he was just like, by the second breakfast, he was like this, this organization's

going to bankrupt my family. But it's fun. Like Palmer's having a time of our life. Okay. Honestly, he sent a lot of pictures of him on rides. Isaac and I were like, is your family on this vacation with you? It would just be like him riding this Tron bicycle. Freaking up.

He's by himself. So the other, like the rest of his family is just like waiting, you know, at one of the benches. Just like, okay. He's riding Tron backwards now. It's going to be a while. But yeah, no, I think he had fun of Disney. So that was fun. I'm glad that DJ.

Michael's there. Yeah, it was good to see him. We hugged a bunch. How, like, just in general, or just like... He just, like, every time he sees you, yeah, it's like a little dog. Like, it's been 30 minutes. Oh, my gosh, good to see you, man. How's it been?

I haven't seen you all day. Like, we were in here 30 minutes ago. Yeah, I love that. I saw, pretty much right when we got to the venue, I was like, I'm going to go grab a lunch, pop outside, trying to figure out where I'm going, I look up. I see Andrew Therbush and his wife. He was there, drove in from Memphis. To Nashville.

Yeah. No way. Yeah. How's he doing? Good. Yeah. So I was like, I'm going to grab lunch right now. You guys want to come?

So then just sat down and had lunch for 45 minutes together probably. That's awesome. That was great. Yeah. Had a great time with him. Dude. So yeah, that was awesome. Just got to talk, you know, because he's, you know, very much a creator in his own right.

We were talking about, you know, posting stuff and being recognized or, you know, the nerves you have when someone says, like, I've been watching your videos. And especially for him, he's like, I don't know if they're going to like me or maybe they're, like, Catholic and they're going to hate me or something. thing. Dude, yeah, shout out Andrew Thurbush. I bet that guy's posted, I don't know, 500 videos. Yeah.

Like, he is just, he grinds, man. He just posts new videos all the time. Like, it's amazing. That's what I told him. I encourage him. I was like, dude, what you're doing, which is, like, pretty much full-time content creator, but while you still have a full-time job, I think that's harder than any other like combination.

Because when it is your full-time job, of course you're going to post on regular basis. You have to. What other income do you have? but when it's like this is kind of this extra thing on the side already worked a nine to five to still go and write film edit content that's the hardest route of going about it and he's been doing it for three four years now so and you can tell yeah he just likes it he likes doing it yeah he started to get brand deals now so it's finally like paying off dude that's awesome yeah good for him good job thurbush thurbush you know and he texts me after the show which

really meant a lot not that i was like super down to the dumps but still it was nice to see a text He was like, dude, you absolutely crushed up there a night. It looked like seeing Tom Brady and his prime. Oh. I was like, thanks, dude. I really appreciate that. Couldn't go Patrick Mahomes. What are you doing with your nose over there?

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this Christmas. Absolutely. Gosh. Nailed it. All right. Didn't get to see many ghosties. Uh, I think they were quick to kick those people out of the lobby at all the shows. I heard that report in Nashville. So, Max Walker wanted to see you. Dang, yeah, I missed so many ghosties. Max Walker and Emily Burke.

Mitchell Bowser, we were just talking about it last week. Oh, really? And he's, yeah, like texting me, we were like already on the bus, on the way to the hotels.

Like, dude, I had no idea you were here. Don't you live in, like Greenville? You came all the way down here for Greenville? I would have hung out with you beforehand. I didn't know you were here, dude. Thurbush?

No, we don't need to eat together. Come on. I would have done it with you, man. Yeah, bro. Yeah. Send my voice, I wonder, yeah.

I'm sure you battle that, or maybe you didn't, but like on tour and everything. Like, man, we should have like unofficial like spots that we go for after parties and all that stuff. But then there's also like the dynamic

of like, we got to go to the hotel. We got to go, we got to go leave on the bus to go to the next place overnight or whatever it is. And when I'm the opener, especially just for one weekend,

I'm not trying to mess with a plan whatsoever. Totally. You want to be easy. Yes. always be on time and whatnot. Other people I saw, oh, sorry, go ahead. I was going to say, that might be the worst kind of person in the world is the opposite of what you just described.

Like, where's Jake, the one weekend he's here, we can't find him? Well, just like, yeah, know your role within this group, whatever it is. Like, if you come into a group and you're the new guy, and I know you're not the new guy necessarily because, but like, you're the new guy on this tour and it's like, and you try to like give your input, just don't give your input ever. That's how I feel about it. I'm always just like, you're, you're kind of a part of this, but not really. Like, you're not, you're not in it yet, okay?

It's just be cool. You know what I mean? I'm 100% with, with you. Not like, like, even like, I remember, this is like extreme, but I remember my brother-in-law, the first year he got married. He was like trying to change all these traditions. I was like, this is how we do it. And you're, you're with us now.

But you're just figure it out for a second. That's a great example. You can't come into the fantasy football group or the, you know, film of black. right well are we sure we should be doing six points for a 45 yard field goal it's like just be cool everyone gets the same amount of points for yeah get a better kicker i guess yeah strategize differently draft earlier on a picker like whatever but whoa only two points for a safety those are really hard to get come on dude just just be cool and then maybe five years into it or however many didn't raise your hand for the first time FYI i got i got ghosties out here do you mind if i just meet you is that cool yeah yeah

Yeah, whatever. That seems fair. But honestly, yeah. And I'm not like mean, mean about it, but like I'm judging people in my head about that kind of thing. You came in hot and want to change things. Or yeah, like, we've all been hanging out for two hours and then somebody else comes in and they're like, hey, we do this. Let's get the music on. Hey, what are, yeah.

Let me, let me, no, dude, freaking Goner. Gunner got me. Not exactly this, but Gunner at the, at Glydes party. Okay. Muting the freaking TV. Okay, you don't like the mute on commercials. I don't, I don't like that it's. Glide's party and Gunners pulling the TV. That's why I don't like. I don't love the

muting of the commercials, but like Gunner's house, Gunner's Rules. Glide's House, Glide's Rules. It is Clyde's House, Glides's Rules. Yeah. Okay. Don't you? Yeah, I know. Yeah. Jake, so it's your house? So maybe you don't know. Give me plenty of examples. There's only two examples so far. So Tyman's House would be Timon's Rules. Got it. Okay, that seems just use the first letter, first word. No, use the first six letters of the first word. and it's going to be the next. Okay. Glides.

Tymonds. Jakees. Yeah. My mom's. Racious. And my moms, my dad's. Mm-hmm. Sisters.

Sister. Sister. Sister house. Sister rule. So now you understand. Now I get it. First six letters. Yeah, it did fire me up.

I literally like, so Gunner does this thing. And I think he has good intentions behind it. But sometimes I believe Tyman. yeah thank you for correct yes yep correct me if you're if you disagree but i think sometimes volume creates atmosphere okay and lack of volume you can hear somebody better with lack of volume i'm not i'm not disagreeing with this but sometimes lack of volume is like oh it's a little bit different conversation with lack of volume oh someone's about to make an announcement i guess so every single time we watch a uh chief's game with gunner and he controls the tv at every single

commercially mutes it. And so it's going from like, you know, this consistent background noise to nothing in the background. Oh, why? Because he thinks it's better for conversation. I think that it kind of kills the conversation. Yeah, I'm, I'm always like a, uh, as many people in a group as we can get guy. And like, I like background things because I, I don't know, like, yeah, dead spots or like awkwardness is like, yeah. I think if it was in the example you gave, Jakey's house, Jakey's rules. Like, I think if it was my remote, I would probably meet in the middle. Because I do think commercials can be...

Turned down. Yeah, I turn it down, exactly. Yeah, so, like, turn it down, I'm monitoring it. And I don't go mute, because mute can be a little harsh. Yeah, muting is abrupt. I, I 100% agree. And that's your house, your rules. Jakees.

Jakees. Bradd. Braddles? Bradd, Bradd, Bradd. Braddead. Brady. Brady's house. And so, so, and maybe this is too far, because this is also. Glides House, Gladys rules, I kind of took over and reprimanded Gunner, stole the remote and hit it from him. Too far? Timon?

You have to ask Glyde. No, I want your judgment. I think that's fine. Thank you. You hit the remote. I mean, I didn't put it like some crazy part or place, but I just took it, put it into like the other, like to the kitchen and put it there. I covered her peanut butter and throw in the neighbor's yard.

He's got a dog. I don't know. I mean, nothing that crazy. Get it back when the game's over. Yeah, he's looking clean. Clearly when he started. Anyway, there was something that happened Thursday night in Nashville. There was hard for me not to text you in the moment.

I'd like to share with you now. I'm excited about this. I haven't thought about how I want to tell you, I guess. Do you remember, all right, first let's go back with like, how good is your memory? Oh, okay. Let's go back to September of 2024. We got asked by the Chiefs to go to the opening football game. I remember this.

Okay. One of us had barbecue sauce dumped all over them. Yes. Jake's sauce. It was a hot night. We beat the Ravens by a toenail. Rishie Rice looked really good. These are a number of things that happened.

She Rice looked amazing that game. Not a real football play. Not a replay. Sat next to that girl who's newsgirl. Yeah. I think kind of like a TikToker, just like a sports creator. Just social content. Yeah.

Okay. And but wearing a bear's shirt. No, it wasn't, though. I think it was... Oh, I thought it was bears. I embarrassed myself, didn't I? You said something. He said, why are you wearing a bear's shirt?

And it was like... She's like, oh, this says BNamee or something. I was like, oh, well, still, it's gray and orange. Yeah, what was it? It was, it was. Interesting choice. She's like, no, dude, it's Creed Humphrey or whatever it was. Yeah, I remember embarrassing myself a tad there.

Anyway, okay. Sounds like we remember a lot about this. I remember a lot about it. I can tell you more. Okay, there's one thing specifically. I'm going to see if you can remember. this is pregame we're enjoying like the club level access so we're just like walking laps and this private area yeah there was one small thing that happened do you remember it during that portion

of the night i know you remember once i tell you i just want to see if you can think of it now uh okay here are the things i do remember that i bet you don't we don't see corey asbury that's it that's it yeah i remember you being like i don't know who that is yeah so we were walking here's how i remember we were just like walking about and we'd already probably been recognized a few different times That's who we are. That's what we do. Yeah. We'll take a picture here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And a guy, like, hits us on the arm and is like, Jake, what's up? And then keeps walking. I mean, it was like toped off Rachel, but five times faster. That was him? And I remember that night being like, do you know that guy? No? Do you know that guy?

No. And then you're like, do you know what Corey Aspery looks like? I feel like that might have been him. And I was like, dude, who knows? Okay. So, oh, yeah, what do you think? I don't know if I remember that. I remember seeing Corey Asbury.

I remember having that conversation, but I also remember we got split up at one point because you talked to somebody else outside of the bathroom. Okay. And so maybe he said this to you when I wasn't there because I think I would have been like,

dude, that was Corey Asbury. I think. No, I think this is all just from the quick pat on the shoulder. I don't recognize them all. You're like, go my crazy, but I think Corey Asbury just like, hit you on the shoulder. I think that's what he looks like.

Okay. So it's like pre-show some people, like Zane Callister is there and like comes to like, like he's going to be in the green room, you know, Trey got him tickets before the Nashville show. And this other guy that shakes my hand and he's like, dude, I know you.

I've met you before. I saw you at the Chiefs game against the Raven. Were you there? I was like, yeah, I was there. He's like, I was with my friend Corey. And I was like, you were the other guy. I remember this. I remember the being like two guys who hit me.

He goes, so that was me who hit you. He's like, because in a moment's notice, I just thought, like, from the internet, I thought you were a buddy of mine. So I just hit you go, what's up, dude? Of course he knows me. And then I freak out because everybody's, he doesn't know me at all. So that's why I just kept walking because everybody's, you wouldn't know me.

He's like, but yeah, they had me and Corey out there to do some like promo, whatever stuff. Okay. I was like, well, this is good to get some closure on it because I do remember that. And I remember being a discussion. Yeah, like, who was that? Like, why would Corey Hasbury be here? It was random. I was like, is he, because he's not that, I mean, he's a fine, fine enough deal, but not like.

Yeah, explain it maybe to the audience who doesn't know who he is. Um, he is a Christian musician who has one really popular song called Reckless Love. Yep. Um, controversial, theologically. Uh, I like their song a lot. But, um, anyway, and that's, that's about it. Yeah. I don't know his other song.

And now he's gotten popular again with Forrest Rang. Going on tour with him. Yeah. So, anyway, that's him. So yeah, it was like, Brad's like, that looks like him, but we're the Chiefs Ravens week one game. Why is he here in the club level lounge? Right. Anyway, so this guy, don't even.

really remember his name but you're just like yeah no that was me dude it was me and corey so was he a musician do you think or was he like a producer maybe with zane i mean he must have something to do with music and because if he's friends with cori and zane but it sounds like he we were actually talking about this at dinner and katie was like oh i i know what he does we're like oh what does he and she goes well actually he said he does um i remember him telling me he had to do something sound for a hotel and tray's like just say you don't know. I don't think you have a clue at all.

You don't have to pipe in. That's pretty funny. Because we were all talking about this guy. Like, yeah, does he do music? This is the same conversation. And Katie's like, yeah, I actually talk to him about this. Oh, really? What does he do?

You know those acoustic panels? Something with sound at a hotel. Okay, so you don't know it all. That doesn't sound real. That's not a full-time job. Whatever that gig is. I run sound for the ballroom at the Ritz Carlton. Maybe.

but it sounds like his wife is killing it he was like hey if you ever need anything my my wife friends uh claire voh i don't know if i'm saying that correctly but some nice uppity boutique in kansas i've kind of heard something like that i think he's involved with that he's in he's from kansas he's in kansas city he was just in nashville for the show i guess it's a mystery we've got to ask katie some more but yeah it was pretty fun because he started with like he's like dude you look familiar were you at the chief's game in 2024 i just just like that's a funny way to start no i know you week one september 5th it's so funny i saw you in a hallway yeah i was just talking to a guy at church yesterday who's a big k u basketball

fan we were you know you watched game yesterday whatever um and then uh we were like oh man and we went to this i had these great seats this one game it was against harvard a couple years ago i was like yeah it was like really cold us like crazy cold he's like yeah and we're and then you know this and that and you know his wife looks at katherine she's like it's amazing how much they remember about stuff like this. Like the fact that's like I remember exactly what happened that game. Yeah. And like I could tell you what happened. I mean, I don't go to that many Chiefs games, but like the ones I go to, I can remember pretty well. Yeah, they're rare enough to where they stick out. They're fun memories. Right. I think we've only been two together.

Just that one in the Colts one, which was also pretty memorable game. I was memorable in a bad way. Jeez, that sucked. Oh, that night was not fun. Multiple. Good memories, though. What? How do you think, okay, so Timon, do you know what happened in the Chiefs game yesterday? Oh, yes. I do. Go ahead. Torn ACL. That's right. Wow, good for you.

Star quarterback. Star quarterback. The biggest quarterback in the Chiefs. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, I saw a video, though. I looked up a video. I was like, oh, it was bad.

Oh, really? I mean, too bad. He's just running. He wasn't even doing anything like crazy. Yeah, right. Yeah. Are you a fan of those kind of videos? Am I a fan?

Yeah. Like, Isaac. You like, you like sought it out. Yeah, I did. Yes. I saw it out. I was like, I want to see how this happened. Oh, yeah.

I guess so. I mean, someone will like snap their knee and a half and Isaac's got to change your shorts afterwards. He likes it way too much. Cam Scataboo was too much. And I, I remember about you, as I get older, the less I have interest in ever seeing that stuff. I used to not mind it. I seek it out. But I watch it once.

I watch it once. I saw it out and I went like, and I went, ugh. But I didn't mind that I watched it. Yeah, yeah. I'm too curious not to like, especially when people are like, oh, man, that was terrible. You're like, I just need to see it once. What happened? It's like an insane pimple-popping video where it's like,

I hate this, but I'm not quite looking away, though. My body is turning, but my head's staying. Turn it off. You're like, don't seriously quit. Yeah. I hate this. Someone should close that laptop. Oh, there goes to get out.

It's reloading. That might be the biggest change in me from 20s to 30s is now I actually don't want to see it anymore. Really? I don't know why. Getting gross. Getting grossed out easily. The Kevin Ware one was too much for me. Maybe that's what it was.

That one was like compound fracture. You see the bone. That was wild. Look that up something. I will. Kevin Ware. Let me give you just like a quick top five time. Great.

Not top five, but just some good ones. Yeah. Kevin Ware. I'm going to write these down. Genuinely. I'm going to go find these later. Kevin Ware. I think Willis McGahey.

He's the original. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Willis McGahey, Miami. You just look up. The two that were like eerily similar. Let's go Joe Thott

Alex Smith. Oh my. Sure. A little combo for you. Sure. Um, let's see. Any other basketball ones that are crazy? I don't know. Uh, most of them are football. Most of them are, do you seem to be Jayden Daniels and Cam Scataboo both this year. This year. Oh, Tyree Kill. Tyree Kills this year was Oh, didn't watch it. You got it. Didn't watch it. I didn't watch it. I didn't watch it. I haven't seen it. Really? I've seen Jane Daniels. I didn't like that. Because I was looking at the wrong thing the whole time. And then you realize, you're like, is his knee? Oh, it's his elbow. Oh, it's his elbow. No. Oh, man. No. No. That one's like, oh, it doesn't seem that bad. And then, yeah, you look at the right body part and it's disgusting. Dude, it's wild. Um, no, Tyree kills a good one, though.

Great. So that's going to get you started. That'll get you. I'm trying to think of any baseball ones. I don't know. I don't know if baseball is quite as wild. I wish you could have been there in my high school game when Derek Wilson broke his arm throwing to home. You would have liked to see that. What? That was a good one. Yeah. He just, he always threw weird. Like, he was right-handed and everything, in everything, but threw a baseball left-handed, and it always

looked a little weird. And then one day he just snapped his arm throwing it. We're like, we told you, dude. That was wrong from day one. Isaac also has a good highlight video of himself just getting hurt. Cool. Yeah, he does. Remember that one? He's got some language in the song.

It's okay. Don't watch around Anna. All right. in the song. Respect. You wait for me on it. Anyway. Yeah. A lot of homework.

All right. Great. Bummer of the Chiefs thing. Oh, yes. You know about the ACL? Yeah, I do. What were we saying about the Chiefs? I don't know.

How late in the game. Was it pretty late in the game? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So wasn't necessarily the reason they lost or was it? No.

Okay. The Chiefs just suck. Okay. It's unexplainable. That's what's so that's what's, that's what's the, I'm okay with the chiefs not being good every single year for the rest of my life. But it's like, Why aren't we good?

We should be good. That's what was so like. Yeah. I don't get it. So that's not what I was going to say about the game, but I can't remember what it is now. I think we were on the topic of like really good memory if it has to do with sports or like live sports. Yeah. Yeah.

Colts game bad. Colts game bad. Oh, okay. That's, thank you. Got it. My friend, Mickey, shout out of Mickey. Lives in Branson. His son is nine years old, I think, something like that.

woke him up really early yesterday morning and said hey you know chiefs are having a tough season so they need their loudest fan at the game today uh and so they drove from branson up to kC which is like you know three plus hours gosh to go to the game first game and apparently like they oh he sent me like the video and and he like his kid is freaking out and he's like but you're going to be okay if they lose right because i think he like literally like cries sometimes like really emotionally takes these losses you're going to be okay if mom snaps his leg Yeah, exactly. I'm like, what a first experience, like, to watch the dynasty die, you know? And then that insult to injury by Mahomes just like getting carded, not carded off the field, but.

And we were talking about our group chat. It's just, it's a football thing, but it's just slightly funny that like, oh, wow, in a moment, the season is over. Mahomes is permanently injured and there was a holding on the play. Of course we helped. Of course, we have to, we stopped to put Minshu in and it's first and 20. Of course. And then, so I don't understand the context of this, but what was Gunner saying today about Christmas? Oh, yeah. So, um, I forget who and Gunner's family, but did a really nice thing where, uh, they got Gunner and maybe his brother-in-law Connor, maybe another family member, um, tickets to see

the chiefs play on Christmas night. Yeah. Um, prime time, huge game. Yeah. You know, great fun game. I just think it was something that Gunner was maybe just like, this is going to be tough like for my wife and

you know and our two kids that we have we're like now I have to leave on Christmas night right and you don't just leave it if the game you're like hey it's six o'clock I need to go to the game you know it's like a it's like a multiple hour before thing get there super early it's probably freezing cold and that was three weeks ago

and that was when the chiefs were like in contention and now we're mathematically eliminated we don't have a quarterback who knows if Travis Kelsey will ever play again you know just like oh man oh man that is real really too bad but you got to go it's somebody somebody's gift to you that's why it's such a brutal scenario yeah you can't sell your christmas gift on the secondhand market gosh bring a lot of hot chocolate i guess yeah some for your mouth and some to just dump

just keep your legs warm i need some more hot chocolate throw it on your head shoving it on there dude oh man that's great i thought i was being such a smart guy it's speaking of meeting cold. Me and Bo and Henry did this very merry morning. Kind of reminded me a very merry cherry Christmas or whatever. Our church's like children's ministry

had this like Christmas event where you could go and they like did like a little worship time and then it was like all these different fun stations all around the church. And I didn't know what the stations were when I came into it. But we parked. We're close to the church. I thought I was being a genius dad being like, take off your coats.

We don't need your coats. Like let's just walk in real quick. And then we don't have to lug around a coat because in the past we've like made gingerbread houses and like done paintings. You don't need a coat for all this. No, it's just one more thing that I'm going to carry basically. Genius dad alert. Hello. And then the most exciting thing that they had at this like these like these stations was a petting zoo. Like you'd go and pet all these like live animals. Two way petting zoo. They pet you. You pet you. But not it. It was kind of a dad fail at this point because I think a lot of I felt really judged out there with my one year old without a coat and it was like freezing this weekend I thought we were doing hands on I don't know

I figured the gingerbread stuff right huh so he was out there and the kids don't care I don't think you care about being cold until you're seven years old yeah they don't rosy ran out to me today with like nothing she had shorts and a t-shirt and no shoes on it and ran out to me and was like talking to me and hugging me. And I was like, are you not, it's 25 degrees out here. Got to be cold. Yeah. But I did have a, a funny moment at whatever that was, very merry morning. I think that's what it's called. They had this one station that was, like, supposed to be like a music video. Create your own music video. Okay. And so you go and you do like mad libs to a Christmas song. And so I'm asking Bo all these different, you know,

okay, Bo, give me a place. Give me this. And then once you get your, your, you're, you're lyrics you go to this other room and you can get all dressed up and do this like music video they got a backdrop that's great and so then there's like volunteers to help like record you you they just use your phone they record you doing it whatever like great sounds good yeah um and we go in there me beau and henry and immediately bow just is shy and he's like I'm out you know I'm just going to sit I'm not doing anything are you done the madlib but didn't want to see it through didn't want to see it through didn't want to just sing and stand there with me didn't want to put on the sunglasses that had, you know,

guitars coming out of them or the inflatable guitar, inflatable. So anyway, I put all this stuff on Henry, but Henry's just walking around, taking it all off. And so it proceeded to be like three minutes

of this guy just filming me because it was like, I guess we're just doing this and maybe Bow's gonna get on it. And I was just holding like these inflatable guitars singing like a mad live version of joy to the world. How involved are your kids? I mean,

I have a video. I could, like are they in the frame? Are they in it? No, dude. They're not around. Yeah. I mean, they were, like, it was in a huge room.

And so, like, he eventually pans over. And I think Henry has a, his sunglasses kind of on. And so he's like, Henry was the star of the show. And I was like, Bo, what were you doing? Like, because Bo thought it was hilarious. It was joy to the chick filet. Joy to the chick filet. The woodworker has come.

He was an occupation or something. And he thought it was so funny. then we get there he's like not doing it i was like come on beau i was trying to like get into it for him and instead i just looked like a fool i had two i had two inflatable guitars i was like trying to be like crazy you know if i if i do this well i will he'll be yeah he'll want to join and the next you know you just went the full three minutes i was just like like like we got through the verse ones i was like i guess we're is this cute because he kept filming me and i kind of felt bad for him of like i didn't want to be like a terrible dad and just be like hey we're done we're done

we're done delete can you actually let the people that run this know this was a bad idea and no one's gonna like this uh and so i kind of felt like i had to do it for his sake and he i think he had to keep filming for my sake yeah so we did take a picture that was kind of nice okay so that's sweet but man you just went just solo music video on your own phone yeah i thought it was like maybe going to be one of those apps that like maybe edits in a cool or does something add some like filters or something because I think if that was the case or and or beau could see the video maybe he would get a little bit into it yeah but I don't know anyway dude that's great I mean this guy filming you it's just like dude we can do this you and I some

other time but just like there's people in line I know he was really cool he was really kind and I'm just like yeah man there it was we did it let's see I wish that could drag and drop a little bit easier. Sometimes I drag and drop and it's great on Apple. Sometimes it just is, oh, there it is. It just sometimes it's not. What do you mean drag and drop? Just like from Finder? It just doesn't drop and not. This was from photos. My photos app? Oh, can't say I really find myself in the photos app ever. Seriously. Yeah. I don't use it. All the time. Wow. Okay. I mean, especially with all this flip house stuff, I'm like, okay, I have a picture of that on my phone. Okay. Let me grab it on my computer and drag it, drag and drop.

Okay. Big drop drop. Hey. Here, there I am there with Henry kind of rocking out. Anyway, it was it was something. I'll say that. Glad you got your music video. That's nice.

What else do I talk about? A couple, just a lot more from just little stories from Nashville. There was a, okay, the music video just came through. Did it come through? You do have. quite the guitar dude

I don't know if you can see bow in it or not you have two inflatable guitars dude this is oh gosh you're strumming along I'm going for it

you're strumming home oh man Henry looks great Henry yeah Henry's kind of a vibe you know Bose nowhere to be found what a backdrop

dude yeah man my kids are not I don't know they're not into that kind of stuff very well I mean the guy He can't even afford to pan over.

Can we see Bo? Can we see where he's at, time of space here? Give us some context. I'm making a memory. Zoom out a little bit here at this point. This is not going online, which is at least a proof of life for the wife and mom at home. Exactly, dude.

Hey, years. Really don't see Bo. There we go. We panned over to Bo. Yeah, he's over there. Yeah. Huh, he just really didn't want to be in front of the backdrop. I'm convinced that if that guy wasn't there,

like if it was just the three of us, he might have gotten into it, but I don't know. I think he kind of froze. That's a pretty funny video. Oh, I love, I love, I love what, dude? I was also just like, you go for a prop? Let me grab something.

You grab that. Let's try to think of things that we could drink out of this cup. That would be good ranchers themed things. Broth. Good, chicken broth. Yeah. Yeah, chicken noodle soup. Yeah.

Chicken little soup. Chicken little soup. Chicken little soup. With a baseball bag. With the wagoo on the side. Okay. Yeah. oh gosh yeah um what else could you sip out of there you could sip some um milk because it's the

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Like we would say, hello. They say bellow. Yes. And so we would say heifer. They would say beff. So beef is just, is just what heifers do. Now get all that Austrian talk out of your mouth. Okay.

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All right, two quick stories from the lobby of the hotel I stayed in Nashville. It was pretty nice hotel. I think I said it was like four stars. It's kind of downtown. They had their own sound guy. They had a guy come in to do sound speaker hotel gigs. And, you know, it's... Sorry, the other one, what, what did you say?

I was, I was too worried about the sound joke. You said, I was just, I was going on with that joke. No, but before that, you said something. Oh, I think it's like a four-star hotel. Four-star hotel. And it's like, uh, almost like a boutique hotel. Like, it does look like a normal lobby. I mean, it's decorated to the nights.

I'm just trying to pay the picture. It's like a nice, nice hotel. It's cool. Original. I, I guess the first store hotel is when I, I've been hanging out with ghosties all night after the show. So I finally get to the hotel. It's like 12 3 at night.

So it's one of those things where, like, you can't go in without a room key. Well, I haven't been to the hotel yet. And so I'm buzzing the little doorbell on the right, and a light comes up. And so I'm like, waving, hello, I don't hear anything. I'm looking inside. Okay, wait a little bit. It's cold. It's cold.

Yep. I'm cold. But, and then I buzz again. And then I'm looking and, okay, I think I can kind of see people. So then I start knocking, knocking on the door. Still nothing. I'm like, okay, well, you know, whatever. Maybe, you know, bad timing.

the person took a restroom break I'm out there for so long keep buzzing where does the buzzer go I'm knocking I can like kind of see people like I know they hear me oh why aren't they why aren't they coming

yeah I have luggage I look normal I'm not some crazy person on the street correct eventually I just decided to call the hotel wow and a woman's answers and I was like hey I uh

I met like the downtown Holston house outside can someone let me in be right there I was like oh great I guess I called the right place and then a girl just like opens the door I was like oh thank you

and I was like does the buzzer not work or whatever and she just goes checking in I was like okay I don't know if the buzzer works at all yeah check it in and then I'll just like skip to the

basically they can't find my reservation it's like yeah it's late in night everyone's gonna be asleep so I'm like I guess I'll just pay for hotel room and figure it out in the morning and she's like well there is this one because I'm like, maybe under Tom's last name, maybe under Tray's last name. She goes, there is one room that it looks like hasn't used the key yet.

I can see if it's used the key. And I was like, all right, well, that's probably my room then. And she goes, because she was under Tom's name. I was like, okay, that's got to be mine. If all the others have been used, that's my room. And she's like, oh, wait, no, it might have been used. And actually, it's under the name Kennedy. So it's like, oh, boy.

she's like but it might not have been used so I'm like all right oh wow here's what I'm going to do oh wow I was like dude why don't you

give me the hotel room key for that room I will pay I'll be right back down if that hotel room's occupied then I will come back down and I'll pay for a hotel room or I'm just going to go check it

and so at like 1 a.m I'm like going up the elevator being like it felt like a seal team mission where I'm going to go like with my gun drawn and my flashlight And, well, really what I was just scared of was like, I'm checking if, like, Trey's entire family, because Katie was out there and there were two kids out there. I'm scanning in. Oh, I don't think I would do this.

That's such a, ah, that's, because what happens? I was just ready to be in bed, dude. It was so late. I was so tired. I was like, this is my path to bed. I have to, like, see if this room is vacant or not. So, yeah, I'm just, like, very cautiously, like, scanning it. Well, honestly, I, like, put my ear up to the door first.

I mean, it's one, they're for sure asleep, but still. And I don't hear anything. Right, right. Yeah, maybe if you hear, like, a sound machine or something even. Like, that's good. Or if I hear, I don't know. But, like, so then I'm, like, looking through the people. Maybe it's a two-way people.

I'm not seeing a whole lot. Yeah, hotels, they just, they just, yeah, skip things like that. Everyone's while they don't see in. They don't worry. And so, yeah, just kind of a funny. scenario so yeah i'm just like i hit the thing opening the door so quietly and just like pushing my way in and then luckily i like see some lights on i'm like that's got to be a good sign right because they have kids and it's sure one a m sure and then yeah it looks like it was supposed to be my room the whole time

but boy that was a little little nerve wracking wow yeah yeah room says Kennedy they might have used it yeah she was not helpful that's scary yeah just in general like i i i mean yeah you imagine if you, what if it's like a small hotel room and there's two kids in there. So the pack and play is like having to like be shoved up against the door or something. And you just like very quietly open and just, boom, knock it. And then the baby wakes up. And then it wakes up. And then it wakes up his son. And then I shut the door and no one has to ever know that that happened. I don't know what happened. I got to hotel last night. I just paid for a room. That's all that happened. Abort. Yeah. But yeah, I was nervous. It's like it's one thing. It's like,

tray's room, but it's like, yeah, their kids are sleeping. I can't wake them up. I'm not going to come in with my flashlight. I'm just like, I'm just the door. Oh my God. That's so good. That was kind of fun, kind of exhilarating. And in the next morning, I'm in the lobby, and they've got a little protein shake. One of those just classic core power, 26 grams of vanilla protein. Like, great. I need a little protein shake when I'm on the road. And I go to check out a different lady, not that it matters, but she was like, okay, just a shake. And I was like, yeah, she goes, $10. And I kind of was like so taken aback because you need change you need you need small bills yeah i i feel like i don't normally read you like you like i was speechless good one i was just like

sorry did you say 10 dollars and i never say stuff like that but i was like my brain couldn't wrap my head around this like 16 ounce drink being 10 dollars right i was like this is sorry it's just this is it 10 dollars just one and she's like yeah and then i was just like holding it and looking at it and then like looking back at the fridge it came from I don't know what I was searching for answers I don't know where I thought it was going to find the answers I was like you're like did I get this from is it gold-plated or something I just can't I'm just holding it and it's awkward and there's silence happening but I just can't make it make sense in my head and you were debating basically like what do I mean yeah how bad do I want it basically like do I walk out

in the cold I don't know if I can get back in these doors if I find one at a C store down the street. It was an odd moment of just truly in the middle of not knowing what to do. Do I still pay for this? I'm not going to change her mind on the price. I just like I don't know what to do. This is so expensive. And part of the moment, I'm thinking maybe I just don't know how much protein shakes.

Maybe they are. Kind of expensive. Looked it up. Kroger, about $3. Yeah. Per one. Even if you're buying individually. So. Yeah, it just really rocked my world. It's like $10. Yeah. All right. Okay. did you see me like put in my pocket? You didn't see it? Okay. All right. So anyway, end up buying it. Supply and demand. I was like, I do want it. Truly. I'm in downtown. I don't know where else I'm going to find something like this. So all. That's pretty funny. Yeah, I couldn't believe that. Not in the same vein at all. Almost the opposite vein. I needed some cash for a Facebook marketplace purchase recently. And so, but I didn't have any cash on me, but I was already like out and about. So I was like,

I'll just go to this gas station and get cash back. Sure. How much do you, in your head, do you guys ever get cash back? I used to quite a bit, I feel like. I don't think I, I probably have done it like less than five times in my life. So I guess I don't know that much about it. But can you tell me how much I should be expecting? I needed $60.

Is that crazy? Oh, no. I feel like the options they give you. Is like, do you want cash back? You say like yes. And it says 20, 40, 60 more, maybe even 20, 50, 100 more. Okay. I think that's common.

You're in the same boat? I don't even understand what it means. Yeah. So when you pay, if you pay with a credit, sorry, a debit card, since a debit card's like

actual cash is on a card, basically, but you can, you know, pay $3 and then get cash back. And so your charge on your debit card would say, like let's say you got $100 cash back.

You get $103 charge on your debit card, but they would give you $100 cash there. You pay for like a thing of deodorant, and then they give you $100 in cash. So I'm not in like, I'm over by, What's that golf course that he played in Kansas? Oh, Painted Hills?

Yeah, I was over there, like at a gas station. So it's not like a super nice area town. It's not like the like worst place ever though. And, yeah, it was like $10 or other. And I go other and I put $60 in there. And it was like invalid amount, too high or something like that. I was like, oh, what's the most I can get out? He's like $10.

And I go, I kind of had this similar reaction, which I don't do very often. I just go, really? like I felt I felt very like like so so that area of town is Wyandotte County which is not as nice as the area that we live in I mean just whatever just subjectively lower income objectively and so but I felt like very Johnson County would be like you could only get 10 I don't know like but the same time I was like that doesn't seem crazy to think I I just need 60 bucks it's funny when you have those brief moments where you think am I out of touch do I not understand the world that's why I was trying to ask

you of like, you get cash back. I was like, I think this is not normal. And so I ended up buying, any quick trip in the world would let you have $100. So I was getting a protein bar just to like get something to purchase. So I paid like $3.50 for this protein bar and then got $10 cash back. Like I get like five more of those or what? So then I had to drive find an ATM. But like, I don't know. I felt very like, $10 is the max seems crazy. I think one, either we're just getting so cashless that they don't have that much cash or two, there's been robbed and they're like, we're not carrying anything. I know.

Yeah, maybe so. I don't know. It's not, like, like I said, it was like 2 p.m. It was like in the daylight, you know. That is a funny example. But. Max, we can get out as $10. Yeah. Ghosties, let's know if that's maybe different where you're at, but I feel like 20 is where it starts typically.

like if you spend this much eventually you get it's like I assume no I was signing up for some system if I see like every time he says I was like no I don't know what that means that's yeah it's good to know though cash back is almost in the same vernacular as like APR no money down zero percent financing where it sounds like points like in the future that's what I pictured it yeah that's a good point yeah like an e-bate or something yeah like I got to mail something in to get this no I'm not I'm not interested dude not today that's good to know it kind of turns something into an ATM yeah in a way Have you ever heard of a mail-in rebate?

I don't think so. You probably kind of deduce what it is, but yeah, back in the day, still to this day with Menards. Menards is big on the mail-in rebate. You buy it, and then you basically, like, fill out this thing and send it in, and then they send you money back for it. Like a delayed gift card.

Oh, cool. It's a weird thing that I don't know, I don't know why people did it so much. It's just like to see who will put the effort in. See if you're man enough. Yeah. Kind of. To send it sounds like.

Honestly, Menards got me the, like, last, like for this flip. house. Oh, it's easy to forget. It's easy to forget. And they make you print it off and then fill it out and then send it in in like snail mail. I'm like, yeah, I can't electronically do this. Of course I can, but they're not letting me. Yeah. Anyway, that's, yeah, that's been cashback talk. That's very cool. That's very cool. So. Time and I know you said you don't want to talk this episode, but is anything on your mind? No. Great. All right. That's awesome. Thanks for contributing. What did you do this weekend? A bunch of cash still in mind. I was thinking of all the cash. I missed out on. No, just debit. Yeah, cool. Yeah. That's awesome. That's fine.

You'll probably never buy a house someday, so. I doubt it, you know, hoping not to. When did you get your first credit card? Credit card was not until I got married. Yeah. Yeah. Yep, I got a debit card. I think my first week of college, so you'll get that timing.

Do you have an aversion to credit cards or, uh, I don't think so. You scared? You scared? What, you scared? Huh? Are you scared? No, they do sound. For some reason, a little wise guy.

It does sound intimidating for some reason. Like, it's not that much. I mean, a credit card is just kind of like a debit card, but if you really wanted to, you could spend more than you have, right? Yeah. And then you also get, you build credit. Correct. Which is like, helps you buy stuff.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think the aspect of credit cards that's intimidating is if you tell the wrong person you don't have a credit card, then they go, I know you can get points. I know you can get points. Capital one, capital one.

you know, the Chase, Chase Maxim premium ultimate platinum, you know. Like, oh, oh, Sapphire, Sapphire. Like, oh, dude, why did it open the can of worms with you? You got to be careful who you tell that, too. That guy's name is Samuel Jackson. You need the Venture one, capital one.

Or Zach Warehand. Really? Like he was a big points guy. Oh, yeah. There's even a guy, I think it's like, he's called the points guy. Oh, yeah, he's a popular guy. Dot com or something and tell you,

maximize it. I try to find a happy medium. Yeah, I'm getting some points. I could probably optimize it better, but I'm not stressed out about my credit card. Just whatever. I just do the Southwest one. It's great. Nice. That is a good one. Until Southwest, I don't know if I'm going to keep wanting to fly them as much. Oh, really? I am looking forward to not having to hunger games my way through these flights.

I know, but I wonder if it's a microcosm. An indication of things to come of like, they're just changing everything. Because they have a culture right now. I feel like Southwest is like my favorite. I don't know if it's the best, but it's like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. worry about them, man. New leadership. I welcome to change. Because if I fly Southwest all the time in the Midwest, it's just so convenient. And there's just a lot of micro anxiety I've noticed of flying Southwest if I was like, I got a 6 a.m. flight tomorrow. So I got to set my alarm. I got to make sure I wake up at 6 a.m. to check in for the flight. So if I don't check for a flight, I'm going to get

a middle seat. Okay, good. I woke up and I checked out on time. Oh, but I still got C-15. All right. Maybe I could pay for an upgrade. Or maybe if it's not a full flight, maybe I could see. You know, you're just always wondering where you're going to sit. just a lot. And then it's like, all right, my flight boards at 945, but I'm B15. So I didn't even make sure I'm there by 950. Or else I'm going to miss my spot in line. And then I'm going to be in a middle seat. You know, there's just a lot of little things that like this morning I flew in from Atlanta and I flew Delta. And I was boarding group six and I would see 25F. And I knew that. And I've known that for weeks. And it's so nice. You just have to get there by the time the plane leaves.

Yeah. Even if I'm late, my spot is still there. Yeah. So nice. I'm not necessarily worry about that. You're right. I, I, I just wonder if it's going to, if there's going to be other changes come along with it. The nice thing is, you know, bags are about to cost, but if you have the rapid rewards credit card, bags still free. So timing. Rapid rewards. Good to know. Rapid rewards credit card.

Yep. Let me refer you. I also can refer you. Okay. Open up two credit cards. Who am I supposed to pick? Okay. There's a hack that you can open up two credit cards and get like Southwest companion pass.

Yeah. Business. It's awesome. Person. Yeah. So, all right. Jake's business. Daddy's personal.

Jake Triplit Media. Yeah, that's right. Sounds great. Get you on the company card. Yeah. Just give them a credit card. I got, I don't know, Jake gave me one. Brad gave me one.

Sweet. Unlimited. Twice as much free money. Oh, I'm so comfortable. No, sorry. Start again. From the top. Wipe it.

Wipe it clean. All right. Oh, I'm so uncomfortable. Why, Brad? Why? Sorry. Huh. Really?

How come? Because, dude, I am not wearing none of my cozy dirt. there's your issue what the cozy d'ers you we should probably say it right cozy earth cozy earth dot com so what i'm hearing is that you feel uh some uncomfortability and that comes from no more cozy earth on my bavi and so what i'm what i'm understanding is that if you had more cozy earth you would feel more comfortable in your own skin. Right.

Yes, especially I sleep in cozy earth every single night. I'm never uncomfortable when I sleep. So what I'm hearing is you like to sleep and you like to be comfortable. Yeah. But in my cozy earth, I like to sleep in comfort. What I'm hearing is that you, if you wear anything other than that, you're uncomfortable.

Yeah. Right. Because it's a cozy earth though. That's what I'm trying to say, is it's the cozy earth thought, the, that's part I make me comfortable. So, and I appreciate coming to see me today. You're welcome. I know. It was tough for me to fit you in.

But when we look at our problems here, what do you think the solutions are? Yes, I see that. I think it's not having the cozy earth on my body. Yep. I think we need a body, body by cozies. Yep. Cozy bodies. Yeah.

So here's what I would suggest to you or anyone else who's listening to this session that's being broadcast to people or you're cool with that right yeah i see that hand i'm i'm okay with it okay great because because if it would help them also understand how good cozy earth is then that's all i if it helps one person that's all i want so here's what i would suggest okay i want you to wrap i want you to i want you to wrap your little body up and some cozy earth um joggers i want you to wrap your little arms up in some cozy earth pajama tops um i'm not taking questions right now And then I want you to lay down in some cozy earth bed sheets, cozy earth pillowcases. I want you to take some cozy earth socks.

And then lastly, cover yourself in a cozy earth cuddle blanket. And I want you to slowly open your eyes. And you try to tell me if you're in heaven or if you're still on earth. Yes. I see that hand? I was just going to say, okay. After the first thing you said. I was just going to say, I'm following.

So that's my prognosis. I went to school for a long time to tell you that. So I would trust me. Thank you. And I wouldn't pay full price if I were you either. Really? Use the promo card. What I'm hearing is you like a good deal.

Yeah? Sorry, yes? I like quality and good deals. Okay. So what you're going to want to do is use the promo code GRKC, use the link in our description. And that's going to give 20% off to get all those things I mentioned. Okay.

Okay. I'm going to go there right now. Great. This, this, this, this therapy session slash ad read, worked. Jake? Thanks for coming in today. Timon. Oh, sorry, you have a question?

No, just telling timing. Yeah, thank you. Just talking to timing the way you like. Goesy.com slash ghostwriters. Let's see if there's any reviews. There's a good one. Go ahead. Okay.

Go ahead. So we pull it up. We pull up this thing. And what I'm referring to when I say reviews, reviews of the week. Ooh, there's another one. There's a new one. Do you want the long one or the short one?

Short one. I've been reading, dude, out loud to my kids. I am a professional reader. You're ready for this review of the week. Do you yawn? I mean for this. Why are you asked, first of all? Because whenever I read out loud for a long amount of time, I get the yawns.

Dude. Yes. Really? But like, okay, I didn't know if this was like some like algorithm, like, trend or something that people are talking about like, you're either a yawn or a not. I was afraid to ask because I didn't know if it was a weird thing but no and I but I but it's not always sometimes okay it's like uncontrollable like I cannot stop yawning yeah other times no like yeah and recently I've been on a no yawn streak and now all I want to do is yawn right now everyone listening to this I want to yawn so hard right now there is 50% of our listeners right now are yawning up a storm I'm kind of yawning with my ears but I'm not I'm not letting it go to my mouth I'm I'm pushing through right now But yawns are a funny thing. We still don't know.

Man, I'm going to do it. I feel fine. Brad? Yon. Yon. You don't have to. I don't have to yawn. Yon.

No, dude. Stop. Get away from me, Satan. Oh, it'd feel so good, though. Open up that big mouth. Oh, just yawn and yawn. Pop those ears out a little bit. It's my right.

Oh, oh my. Dude, my right ear is like, Oh, it needs it. You would love this. Oh, my goodness, dude. Are you guys feeling it? Like, I'm feeling it like I'm feeling it. Normally, I don't think I'm feeling it quite as bad as you.

Normally, yeah, you just mention the word yawn and you're like, I can't stop. I think my eyes are watering a little bit. Do they look watering? Your body's shutting down if you don't yawn the next 10 seconds. I don't, I don't know. Oh, now I'm feeling a little bit. Dude, I don't know if I can do this. Okay.

How about you're still? Okay. Do you know that we still don't know why yawns are so contagious? Like, doctors don't. know why. Really? Yons, I'm talking about. It's fun to say yawn.

Yon. You know who my favorite basketball player is? Lo Yon James. Yonis. Yonis is good. That's what I was going to say. Leon James. Leon James.

Yonis makes sense. Magic Yonson. Oh, that's good. Yonie Bird. Hakeem Elijah. Yon. Yon. Nice.

That's good. Thanks. Steph Yon. Currie. Don Curry. Lonzo ball, yawn. You could have said yonzo ball, dude. You could have said it.

Yonzo ball. James Hard Yon. Kobe Bryant Yon. Yeah, that's good. Luca Janschich. There's a lot of yonzo. That's kind of wild. It's a common sound.

Luca Yonjich. Comment your favorite basketball player below. Dirk. Michael George, Jan. Leon James. All right, my review of the week is from Who's That Girl? See, who's that girl?

It's C. I realized I should probably give this podcast a real shot after I sleep laughed myself awake one night. Thanks, Spotify AutoPlay. Now I laugh until I cry. This is a review that kind of leaves me wanting more. Yeah, I haven't read this one until right now. It almost, it reads like a haiku.

Yeah, a little bit. It's a little disjointed in a good, way. And it feels like she's giving credit to like the Spotify algorithm for like, thanks for just putting this podcast on while I'm asleep. My subconscious brain was laughing to it. Now I choose to listen to the podcast is one way of interpreting this. Sleep laughed away. Sleep laughed myself awake. Wow. I can't relate. That's cool. That's really cool, actually. Or she was already a fan and were just like, it was still playing and I must have been listening and laughing and now I just listen all the time. Are you okay?

I'm really fighting it, dude. Can you see there? There's like some tears in my eye. You looked like my dog when he would like dig up a mole. He had a mole in his mouth and he was playing with it. That's what you were doing. That's exactly what it looked like. Just didn't want it to die. I'm too much fun with it in your mouth. Yeah, dude. I don't know. I don't know. A lot of people were saying, who's that girl C? I want to know what's going on with that girl C. How'd you find us that girl C? Yes. And how's that girl's that girl C?

Yes. And how's that girl's that girl. girl see how's that how's that work girl see uh i got on my feet for this podcast says mama cross gosh darn it right you need to yawn oh all right all right i'm a 47 year old mom not your major demographic but it's high time i left a five-star review high time because who thought who would have thought two midwest best friends would impact my life the way it has my ghosty origin story began in spring of 2021 when my then 15-year-old daughter Ella started listening from the John Chris Tray Kennedy Trickle-down. She asked for Ghostrunner stickers for Christmas and sent me a link to the merch site and I remember thinking, what is this ghost thing she's listening to? But I ordered

anyway, she reminded me that it was the podcast with the two best friends from KC who loved Jesus. Fast forward some months and she tells me her 12-year-old brother Caleb should listen or tells her fort, you got it. Then the two of them have this thing where they're always laughing about inside jokes. I wanted it in and they told me no, they wanted it for themselves. Following some, we were at a week-long baseball tournament for their brother and Caleb spent the entire week with AirPods in, catching up on GR episodes, cackling to himself constantly. My husband and I were like, turn that off already. Gosh, I got to do it, guys. Send it. He's yawning. I don't know if I, now it's like, now it's like, now it's like, now it's like, now it's

like, like, right when I, right when I like give in to it, it's like, you don't, you don't have to anymore. Oh, I felt it, though, dude. All right. My husband and I were like, turn that off already. And then she said, little did I know. I do the same. A few weeks later, I told Ella and Caleb, I'm listening and too bad if you don't want me to. As soon as I started, began with and kept up with current episodes, but also went back to beginning and listened to every single one. I 100% understood Caleb's week-long binge. My husband and other son don't listen to their own, on their own, but they know a lot of inside jokes, so it's really become a family thing. Not only have you guys greatly impacted my own life, but you've positively and joyfully influenced both Ella and

Caleb, who are now 20 and 15 years old at impressionable times in their lives. Thank you eternally for that. The three of us saw Trey and Jake when they performed in Reno. Rino. Rino. Rino. Rino. The Rino. We met Jake and Isaac after the show, and it will remain a core memory for all of us. Wow. Caleb even gave Jake a box with the Lego replica he made of your original logo, but we think it got lost in the carry-on bag Jeff left. Jake left on the plane. that trip. Wow, I'm sorry. We don't even know if he was able to open it.

Another highlight of Caleb's life was when Brad read his review on the pod that said, Brad, you're my celebrity crush. You want to respond to that real quick? It's not over yet. Gosh, I'm sorry. You need to yawn? I do.

I can respond. I don't. Oh. It's like, it's there, but it's not there. It's kind of like a sneeze now. It's like, I got to look up in the light. Can't leave out time. Can't. Thanks.

When they told me the 16 year old kid, were you 16? Wow, that's all good. Are you, were you 16 when you started? Yeah. Wow. When they told me the 16 year old kid joined the pot, I wondered how that could make it better.

But as soon as I started to listen, I realized Tyman does make it better. It's so fun to see how much you all care for each other and to watch Timon and come into his own. He's funnier and funnier each episode. Ella and Caleb follow him on Letterbox and get excited if he likes their reviews. Wait, I, yeah. Wait a second.

Yeah. Sorry, this review is so long, but I just want to let you know of another random ghosty family out in California who's grateful for the Ghostrunners podcast. Great review. Amazing review. Mama Kraz. That was awesome. That was, yeah, so sweet. I read that last night and, yeah, and cry, but I felt.

You might have yawned. Might have yawned. I did. I felt like, that is sweet, man. I think specifically when she said, you've positively and joyfully influenced both Ellen Caleb, who are 20 and 15 years old and impressionable times in their lives. Thank you for eternally for that. I don't know. That's just really cool to think about like,

I don't know. We had an impact on these kids and who they are and their personalities a little bit. I don't know. You're probably giving us too much credit, Mama Crosse, but it's just fun to think about. And I don't know.

That's really fun though. I can think of what those accounts look like that I follow in Letterbox that I like their reviews of. That's cool. Very cool. I, man, that's too bad. You gave me a gift.

It was the one weekend ever. I just left my bag. imagine listening to that podcast episode and be like he's gonna he's gonna talk about the gift yeah yeah yeah yeah a replica of the studio hey guys i uh love my bag on the plane there wasn't too much in there it was one pair of shorts i liked and some tiny little trinket box i haven't opened up yet luckily there was like oh almost nothing in there i had my backpack with me that's right it's mainly the luggage itself that i'm gonna miss yeah gosh i'm sorry that's that's pretty good pretty funny so I think that's it.

I think that's it. Any jingles? Any copyright-free jingles? Any... Um... Where were you guys? Where were you guys? We practiced for like 30 minutes before this.

It's on us. I honestly didn't know if I was supposed to add to it or to sing or to rap. I didn't know where we were. at, I thought about shazamming it because it sounded so good, but I didn't know what to do with my mouth. Are you shazammy right now? That was good jingle. That was a good jingle.

Good jingle, good jingle. We got to figure out something for the jingles. Anybody have any ideas? Yeah. Let us just make our own podcast hosting platform. Okay. That seems easy. The easiest.

Not a bad idea. Yeah. Oh my gosh, dude. The new episode's out on Google Drive this morning. Everybody go listen. Yeah. We'll give you the private link to download. Yeah.

Google Drive. like Vimeo, or... Yeah. Crap. Crap. All right. Hey, thanks to all who are buying merch. Thanks to all who are supporting us. Thanks to all who are donating

to Healing Waters. We're close, guys. We might have hit it by now. I don't know. Who knows? According to this week ahead of time. Yep. We love you guys. See you. See you Wednesday. Yep. At the Fanduilk, yeah.

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