Ghostrunners - 499 - Our Favorite Things

Episode Date: December 24, 2025

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Start rolling. I'll turn off my mic. What? Just kidding. You'll turn off your mic. You'll go ahead and turn off your camera. Why don't you face the music and be a freaking man, ra? Man, bro.

You think he wants to be a man, bra? Yeah, bro. Dude, no, no, no, no, no. You think he wants to be a man, bra? Yeah. You don't have to, you know. Just, you know. You should give a new rhyme.

No, this is just, just like anything. From the top, from the top. You think he wants to be a new, mate? All right, sorry. Say that part. Let's establish the ground rules. You said, do we want to do a rhyme battle? Mm-hmm.

Maybe we would lay down the ground rules. We've been doing this every meeting each other, James. We've been doing this for years, man. How does the rhyme battle work? Is the score, are we going by ones and twos or twos and threes? You have to ask the score? Once and twos, two's, two's and threes? Go ahead.

I'm supposed to rhyme with you saying, score or threes. This guy's first time playing Ryan Ballad. We kind of breezed over the rules. 800 episodes in and we still haven't figured out the rules to rhyme battles. One's in twos or twos and threes? Come on

dude. It's not hard, it's ease. Yeah. ABCs. That would have been good. You know, Timon, I'll give you a pass just this one time. And that's how you... Timer, are you going to talk? Are you going to

to rhyme oh mr. homeschool with his hat and his snoopy open your eyes and a bit droopy oh i'm timing my whist willie hurts um oh i'm timing look at my new cool shirts i went to mississippi Ohio and Boston If you need anyone to work on a movie You can give me a call, son And that's been Ryan Battle You're the loser, Tyman.

Time and loses. Merry Christmas! Uh-oh, uh-oh, ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down. some random thoughts in white meat, too. Then West best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's a ghost from this podcast.

Man, Tim, you got torched in the rhyme battle. Step off, dude. Oh, that's great. Wow. That was something. That was something. That's a muscle I don't really flex ever. Quickly rhyming.

What? I used to a little more. I was going to say, out of all of us, you're definitely the best. But still, I mean, I don't do any of that anymore.

Maybe in like 2014, yeah. That was a long time ago. Yeah, back in 2014, maybe. Yeah. What, what a, what year doesn't feel like that long of a time to you?

Does that make sense? That's kind of a random, weird, I think 2020 is the cut off. Is it? Yeah. Oh, 2020, yeah. 2020 was yesterday. 2014 was a different Jake.

Yep. Okay. Yeah, I know. That's what I'm saying. Like, I got married in 2014. It doesn't feel like that long ago. But then again, I'm like, we were doing different things back then. You and Catherine?

We were doing different things. We were doing it more often. Just like going out and seeing our friends more. You were talking about, yeah, going shopping or things like that. Yeah, we were shopping for different things. Yeah. He doesn't shop for those things. I was kidding.

I don't know. Oh, hey. You know, that's a stupid transition. But here's the punchline. I'm going to say at the beginning. Okay. Make a rhyme. Oh, no.

No. I made out with the closet this week. Really? your interest peaked yeah it's been a while since kathen i've been married you had figured i'd try out closets in the closet no um the how do i how do i sum up so basically flip house still hasn't sold we're we're whatever it's fine we're all right my i think i told you a couple weeks ago like hey maybe the strategy is like take it off the market for these winter months when no one's really interested put it back on in spring but obviously there's carrying costs holding costs every

month that I have to keep it. And so I told Tate the other day, he's my real estate agent, my buddy. I said, if they don't, if we don't sell it by Monday, like let's get it off the market for a while. And so he's like, dude, crazy, you say that because there's like somebody that came and looked at it yesterday and they're really interested in it. And I have somebody else coming today. And he texted me this while I'm like knee deep in like building these shelves for this walk-in closet for the flip house. Dang, their shelves got it pretty high. Very, very knee-deep. knee deep. Yeah. I was knee deep in them. Yeah. Um, and I'm like, they're just showing this afternoon. Like, it was like 9.30 a.m. like, it's like, I have, look at, look at the house right now.

Yeah. I, I, I asked him, was like, please tell me if there's any showings coming. And he didn't tell me. So I was like, I guess we're good. I'll just assemble these things. All of a sudden, dude, I'm flying around for the next however many hours, five and a half hours, putting these cabinet like shelf things together. Luckily, I'm a woodworker. I got it. I can do it. I have assembly line and everything. But I'm sweating. the flip house has a speakers in the ceiling like Bluetooth speakers and so we're bumping yeah bumping music like it's like it's like a Santa's workshop in there yeah but just Santa no else kind of thing so it's just me going to town in there um and I'm feeling pretty good about it and I'm like I'm gonna

my my goal is to have it cleaned up by two o'clock they were coming at 3.30 345 whatever um and so it was like two o'clock and I was like still kind of struggling I wasn't quite I was a little bit behind and I was kind of doing the finishing touches on these closet shelves because that was one the main issues feedback that people have said about this flip house is like the walking closet is not finished out yet and my thought was like it's not a huge space so therefore don't finish it out let them customize it the way they want but I think a lot of people are just like we want this done okay we want it done if we're going to move into this house we want it to be moving ready kind of thing great just fair so I'm doing it in like

All of a sudden, it's like getting crunch time. And I'm trying to add these closet, like hanging rods for your hanging clothes. And I'm having a hard time. And I'm like, I'll just use one of those, what do you call them? Like the little like pegs that you do for like those like shelves when you like adjust them. Okay. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah.

I'll just use one of those as like an anchor point that I can help screw it in and like align it, whatever. So I put it in there. But I put it in backwards. And so long story short, it was reverse pegs. I reverse pegged and so that's what that means got it I reverse pegged on this thing and I realized I cannot get this peg out like and I didn't have any of my tools with me okay I didn't have like you know I would have used like a flathead or something I was like I don't know how else to get this out and I'm at this point I'm irrationally freaking out and so like imagine

this is the peg I just go and like it's like an awkward angle you would beaver on the pet yeah I bet yeah I did I just like chewed it. I like, like, bit it and like pulled it out. But like, the way I had to do that is I had to like get into that closet. Yeah. Honestly, pretty like, pretty good ingenuity. Because our teeth are strong, but I wouldn't have remembered that. I think in the moment. Like, I'll use my teeth. I was, it was short enough where I couldn't like get a good grip with my fingers. Yeah, it's just like two fingers. You know? Because it's like, it's like, it's like a half an inch. I mean, it's nothing. Did you go like on the side, like get the molars involved or just the front too? I think I went front,

dude i think the way like imagine it was like like the the wall of this thing is like right here and so it's like right here and so i don't i guess i could have but it feels like i can't got too big of cheeks to bite down that way and so it felt like i had to be like and so i'm like if people knew the the lengths i'm going through to try to sell this darn house yeah you're like siphoning the wall out from itself that's great yeah so i don't know i don't think i've told Catherine, that story, yeah. I don't think I ever will. Yeah, yeah. I know why you didn't tell her. This is the Christmas week episode, so, you know, no one's going to listen. You're like judging everything that needs to happen. You're like, I can't get it. I think it's got to come from my mouth.

Yeah. Take off the wedding ring. You shut the blinds. Okay. You lock the front door. Shut the picture of my family. Yeah, the family goes down. Turn off my phone. Yeah. It's only going to happen once, all right? It's not a thing. doing your location yeah i came back the next day and i was like stop your timp stop stop it was one time i'm not i know i see you there anyway it was but all that to say we have not gotten an offer yet but there's there's a warm lead we feel like okay they're interested so i think leave it on the market yeah is there a huge benefit to like taking it off just so you could put it back on I think there's there's uh was optics I guess you would call it or perception but can you just do that like

hey March 15th we take it off March 16th we put it back on and now it says zero days on zero again oh really there's like yeah there's like rules that you have to have it off for a certain time or it won't trigger be triggered as new that makes sense okay and so like and if it's not true as new then it doesn't get like repushed out to all the people that maybe have a like a push notification or yeah right for this kind of house so I know it's a little bit of like whatever back and forth Because, yeah, maybe somebody in January 2nd, once a house. But it's just, yeah, it's just a back and forth. Yeah.

But anyway, warm lead. Warm lead. So we'll see. I don't know. Actually, the real estate agent, I think, is connected to a K-Life girl. Connected. Last name of Gannon. So therefore.

Hey, we know one family. Yeah, we know one. And so I'm like, throw that. Throw that. Yeah. See if that makes a difference. It's a real estate agent to the person by now. But anyway.

That's fun. This is going to be a fun episode. Maybe, I don't know what you had in mind for it, potentially a gift guide. It could work in a way. Yeah, mine's a last minute gift guide. I like that you went that route. I don't think mine's quite that way. Okay.

It should have been, though. Well, not a lot of mine. Some of mine. Okay. Yeah, I just had the idea of doing, yeah, Blank's favorite, the ghost runner's favorite things. Yeah. That's two things written down. You have two?

Three. He had to like recount because two was hard. See, it's tough. Oh my gosh, I missed that one. That's actually three. Start from the beginning. Yeah, you're right. It was definitely inspired by Catherine's party thing.

Why didn't I, I didn't even like, I thought I was like kind of being original by thinking this. See, I thought it was like directly inspired. Like three days ago called. Yeah. Yeah. The last few years that these girls have done like a favorite things party where it's like the same as like a white elephant Christmas gift. But it's like the idea is that you bring your favorite things for this. year and give it to everyone else yeah i kind of like it because sometimes it's like very practical

i think rachel brought deodorant like i've been loving this deodorant i think that's what katherine came home with was and all the girls like oh great i want like fun deodorant yeah like or like stuff that's like that's like that's too expensive to just try without knowing if it's good yeah but you say it's good so yeah yeah i'd try this out yeah yeah katherine brought like some like super heavy not heavy-duty stain remember like blood and like chocolate and like stuff like that that whenever our kids have like blood on their shirt or something. What else did she bring? She brought like this skin something, skin care or something.

Okay. Some relight. Okay. And some thing else. That's fun. Yeah. I don't know. I haven't even seen Rachel since Thursday morning.

So I don't know. That's crazy. Yeah. Because you just got home and then she's still at work. Outworking. Mm-hmm. But yeah. That's 100% where I got it from.

But I didn't. I kind of reverse engineered it from a different perspective. there's a new thing, a new website that I'm obsessed with right now. Start us off, baby. Okay, okay. Ghostie's favorite things. Yeah. Okay, so I talked about how Facebook marketplace is like, I love it.

Yep. You know, like, it's kind of like, hey, I love, you know, find this awesome pickleball paddle, like, deal. And it's like, why go for the deal when you can just go straight to the source? and you know kind of thing back and back and back so basically i found this website called retail rebel have you heard of this no dude have you heard of this timing it sounds familiar so there's also some stores at least one store in olatha called retail rebel yeah but it's basically like amazon return kind of things um but you go on this website and it has thousands thousands of like

items for auction on like online auction so the the cheaper things yeah look up retail rebel Retail rebel, the cheaper things started a dollar for a bid, and the nicer things start at $10 for a bid. And you don't have one of those sketchy sites you have to pay. No, no, no, I made it sound like it. No, no, no. It's just straight up. But, wow. It's like stuff like that it's one of those things where it's like you got to somewhat have a purpose because you could find yourself like, oh, I could, I mean, why wouldn't I get that?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I'm kind of liking some things here. It's, it, the caveat to people listening is like, it's only available in certain cities. You have to go pick it up in person. So like, yeah, this website is a little sketch, but I kind of like it. Oh, yeah.

You find the good deals. Like, like, the search is terrible on it. Like, if you search king bed and it's not, those words aren't next to each other, you can't find it. So you're search bed. And then there's things, there's a ton of things that don't really have anything to do with the bed, you know, whatever. Like, um, this is great. Oh, yeah. I went to town.

I think on Saturday night. is when I, my brother-in-law, they're really into retail rebel, my sister and brother-in-law, but there's also a store in Kansas City, at least one, where they start with, like, I think on Saturday, everything in the whole store is $10.

And then every single day, it goes down like $2 or something like that until the last day before, I guess Friday or something like that, it's everything's a dollar. And then they restock everything. So it's like these bins, and it's just like these rifle through bins of stuff for a dollar.

I've been to one of these places before. I'm just not realizing, but I think it, there was one in Olathe, like off Santa Fe. I think that. But it's shut down. But maybe it's replaced with a different, similar thing. Or maybe,

yeah, maybe it's like more Western or like this retail rebel, but. Okay. Too much rebel. Not that retail. That's right. Um, so anyway, dude,

I'm like, actually like the, uh, the auctions that I've bid on will end at like five o'clock, which is in like an hour and 15 minutes. So maybe while we're on the podcast, I'll get, because like you get notifications every time you get outbid by somebody.

Wow. And I'm like, it's crazy how your mind shifts from like, like, let's say, let's say I find this really nice brand new coffee table on Facebook marketplace for 75 bucks. It's like, that's a crazy deal. I look those up and it's a $1,000 coffee table for brand new. But when you're bidding on it and you bid $15 and then it goes up to $21, you're like, I don't know. Is it crazy to go up to $30?

You know what I mean? Like, it's like this weird like change in perception. of how much things cost all of a sudden. Because everything else on that website is like nothing. So, you see one thing that's 50 bucks. Yeah. Like these TV mounts where I'm like, oh, man, that's a dollar for a TV amount that's normally a $25 TV mount. And then somebody bids and now it's $4.

And I'm like, oh, is it worth it? I think they're just overpaying. I got eight TVs, but at the same time. So I'm, and what's kind of fun about it is it is kind of like a treasure hunt because the search function so bad. I was going to say I clicked on one like auction and it showed me the top 36 results of a thousand results. Yes. You can you can go through 144 per page if you want to, I believe. So many pages. But there's a search bar on there. And then what I, what I did the other day was I started sorting by like highest bid item. So like, oh yeah, show me the goodies. Somebody's got, you know,

$200 bid on this. But sometimes the highest bid items, you can just tell these people are buying these to try to flip them most of the time. I see. Like sometimes it's just like, well, that was a really expensive item. So let me buy it for less. But anyway, man, I, I'm, I'm somewhat, like, obsessed with it right now. But I'm also going to be so obsessed with, like, after this auction ends, surely that means another auction.

Like, more stuff's coming up later today or tomorrow or what. Like, that's going to be brand new other random stuff. Brand new crap. Truly. Like, yeah. And it's like, okay, yeah, it's crap. But, like, a dollar? why not?

I know it is kind of fascinating. I mean, just the range of things I'm looking at right now. Pineless moisture meter for wood walls. Drywall digital moisture. Like that very special instrument is right next to a vanity mirror

which is right next to like handcuffs. How much is the vanity mirror right now? $10? Current bid is zero. Minimum bid $10, yeah. That's what I'm saying. It's like... It ends at four hours.

You could have that mirror for $10. And you can obviously, like, go on there and find, like, justify, like, all these dumb things. But if you're like, I need a mirror, and it's like, well, I could either try, like, go here first or just go buy one for $70. And maybe you already said this. Where are they getting this crap from? I think it's mostly Amazon. Okay.

It's just returns. Okay. A lot of times you can read on the description. It'll say, like, you know, slightly damaged package or no pack, it doesn't have a package. Yeah. Slightly visible wear, missing or damaged package. right um and apparently like if you pick it up and it's worse than you thought or like you think that they you know gave you misinformation about it you can you can contest it and not have to pay

for it and so huh i don't know man the more you know all i'm saying is that tonight's like tonight's my first night we're finalizes some i'm genuinely i bet i'm like winning in like 30 different things right now i made the mistake the first night i was going a little bit rogue it was getting a little bit late. And you can search. So there's all these different locations. Most of them are Kansas City based. But there's also one in like Georgia,

Council Bluffs, Iowa, Omaha, Nebraska, some different places like that. And I made the mistake. I searched for dining table, but I just searched overarching to all of them. And I found one I was like, this is a crazy deal. Even if I don't end up using this dining table for my Airbnb,

I can resell this at least, for $200 at least. It's a $2,000 table. And so I'm like, okay, the winning bid right now is $50, but I'm going to, you can like add your maximum bid on top of that. I'm like, I mean, I spend at least $100 on this thing. And then I like make my maximum bid. And then I look at the page and it says it's Omaha, Nebraska. Okay. Oh. Okay. Factor in gas. I could make this work. Oh, no. So luckily, I got the notification. today that I was outbid. Good, good, good, good.

Yeah, a little bit higher than that. But I was like, what am I going to do? I had the thought of, like, I'm going to ask a ghosty if they want to go get it. And if they don't get their money back for it, then I'll pay them. And if not, they can take whatever profits they want. Megan Carlson, you know. Megan Carlson, Kvujunich. Others in Omaha.

Nearby. You know, you can come down from South Carolina for it. Yeah. So, anyway, I love retail rubble, though. It's pretty fun. Yeah. I don't know. I'm just saying, check it out. The most bidded on item right now is like a large outdoor decorative deer.

I saw that one. It's like checkered. Yeah, it's got like a chessboard pattern to it. It looks so ugly. But it retails for $1,100. Current bid, 229. What a steal. Five and a half hours left. I bet you could find my username on there if you look hard enough. BLS 30.

What's your name at Topgolf? Nellis. Nellis. I should have said Nellis. Oh, Nellis. All right, that's a good website. I don't think I have a website on my list. Timmy, do you have a favorite website? I have something that's kind of close to a website,

or it has to do with the website. Okay, one of the three, here we go. I recently got an AMC Stubbs, A-list subscription. Whoa. Which I always, I think I had looked it up before and been like, this is unreasonable, but I had misread it. This is like cash back.

And it's actually kind of awesome. AMC, A-list. AMC Stubbs, A-list, or just AMC A-List. I remember people having some Stubbs. Stubbs, I think, is just like a basic rewards thing. Oh, I remember when Stubbs was all the all the rage for a bit. No, Thomas Cole, the guy that worked at K-Life before Jake. He was a big Stubbs guy?

Yeah. If you get like, of course, Peter. If you get a drink or popcorn, they'd be like, do you have Stubbs? And I always always like, no. No. I don't want your cash back, dude. I'm not a millionaire. I'm not falling for that scam.

Yeah, nice try. But basically, you just pay 25 a month, and you can see as many movies as you want in that month. So all six movies that come out every year, you can go see. If you see two movies that. already easily pays for itself. I've seen two movies already this month. It's kind of great. Wow, you're getting paid for stubs.

Right? But it also... What are you doing Friday? Can we loosely commit to watching Avatar? Lusely commit. Come on, loosely. I don't think I can't Friday. I just got it.

He's rubbing his stubs in my face came and loosely commit. I also might be... I'm already loosely committed to seeing with some other friends, but I would see it with you again, though. It's a short movie. You don't think Jake...

I'm busy. Jake wouldn't vibe with your friends? Actually, You wouldn't stub? I'm old, dude. You wouldn't stub with your bubs? Hey, stubb buddies. Hey.

Hey, stubby, hubby. What are you doing Saturday night? Yeah. That was the night we talked about filming the pickleball Christmas reaction video. Oh, yeah. At the theater. Good lighting. We'll figure it out.

Good lighting. I asked a quick pause. I asked Chad GPT because I don't know if I talked about this. Lifetime Movie Network is coming out with a pickleball Christmas. Oh, yeah. soon by the time you're listening this already came out so it's like we have to like watch this it's going to be so cheesy it's going to be terrible we should film one of those videos as you've seen where it's like navy seal reacts to war movies one of those like pickleballers react

to cheesy whatever movie pickleball movie so i want to do that opening weekend and i thought it'd be a good idea i was like why don't i just hit up lifetime and see if we can get like early access to the digital like version of the movie to give commentary on it like i don't know this is a thing i've heard of people doing and so i'm like chaty ptie hey i'm about to go perform I'm, let me put you an agent mode. Find me an email. Fetch me an email. Yeah.

And go ahead and start drafting it up for me too. Like find the right person. I do the whole thing. Spen all this work on an email. Send it off. Get off stage. Like, oh, they already emailed me back. Let's see it.

And it's from someone who works at Lifetime Fitness. Oh. When you said Lifetime, I did think that. Chat, GPT, kind of getting worse, I feel like. My Gemini usage has kind of been going up a little bit. I need to clot it up. I've been GPD in. Really?

I recently I need to try AMC Stubbs B-T Yeah Stubbs B-T I'm afraid it's a scam I've been using chat GBT To like help me with kind of design things Honestly like the thing that I don't think I Registered initially was like how much it can just remember

Like and I That's nice And so I've literally just been like telling it as much as I can That's nice FYI this is the this is the fixture I'm using for this Here's this color that we decide lock that in. We're going to do this for that. That way I can be like, hey, I'm thinking about

this fixture here. Is that a good idea? And they're like, well, you already have this here and this kind of thing here. You know, and the size of the room that you said, you know. Yeah. And so I'm really enjoying it. I'm starting to really rely on it. Yeah, you find the right tasks and it'll change your life. But every once in a while, it'll say something.

I'm like, wait. That's not a Tom Hanks movie, dude. You're wrong. Don't lie to me. I'm really upset about this. I'm really like, why did you get that? And then I'll like correct it. And it's like, you're right, totally. And I'm like, wait, were you wrong about so many other things I, like, decided?

Because they're always so confident. They're so confident and they're so affirming. And so it's like, I don't, I don't know if I should really trust this as much as I do. Like, I'm like picking out colors of walls based off what they're saying. I'm like, maybe I should think twice about these things. But anyway. All right. So it's basically just like a flat rate.

Now you have free movie theater access. Yeah. And I only got it because I was like, I had been seeing at least two a month. Yeah. So I might as well. And they throw in a bunch of like fees without the thing. And I, yesterday. Tubbs and Stubbs?

A couple days ago. Saturday night. I went and saw a movie and I was like, I got a large drink, which is usually like insanely expensive. And they were like, it's free. I was like, cool. Wow. I didn't know. That was going to happen.

You ever go to Chicago, Wrigley Field? Yeah. Yeah. Thinking about it. Maybe after you win a big game, it's like, yes, dude. Dubs and Stubbs. Yes, dude. You ever go with Lieutenant Dan?

I mean, just, it's too much stubs in one night. Nubs and stubs. That's fun. Yeah. Did you ever give away soap? Bubs and stuff? Suds? Suds is sorry to answer.

You're like bubbles, bubs. I see, I see, I see, I see. Okay, real question. Do they give stub still, like physical stubs? oh like they rip it really rips dubs true they have it depends i don't think they do it at amc i don't think i've been to some theaters where i mean it's not anything fun the texture's not fun it's just receipts texture like it's not i feel like there's the retro like the like a thin paper rather than like a harder like hard not like a ticket yeah yeah like there's the classic like

clip art ticket i see that that's not like like hard stock some places still to give you some like they'll rip it off and give it to you. But it's just like the thin receipt paper that's like, yeah. But not the company that has the program called Stubbs. Okay. Have you gone to enough movies where you like kind of preferences? Like, oh, Cinemark, they always do this weird thing with the previews or whatever, like. Because I think that's kind of fun if you are like that dialed in.

Not really enough. Yeah. Yeah. Dude. You'll get there. 2026. I, Stubs.

I hope that theaters don't die completely because, man, they're fun. Yeah, dude. It's, oh, it's kind of a bummer. Because it might happen. Because you see Netflix just bought Warner Brothers or did something with them, right? They'll fight right now, Paramount and Netflix, or... Tell me more. And there's so much, the numbers of the money is insane.

Yeah, it's kind of hard to... Like, when you think about how Instagram, Instagram's huge, and it's a tech company. I mean, those are so valuable. That's sold for $1 billion. And it's like Warner Brothers has got to sell for $85 billion. It's kind of hard to, like, it's worth that. The IP of whatever they own is worth that much, I guess, over time. Yeah.

I don't understand it. That's so much money. It's like more than, I'm just kind of spittling, but I'm sure that's more than most countries, like GDP will ever be. Wow. Probably.

I don't know. That may it sound like I've seen some fun fact online. I haven't. That could be wrong. That just seems like a ton of money. Yeah. Either way, it's a lot of money.

Most countries could be crazy, but yeah. Maybe not. Yeah, I don't know, man. There's like something, it's one of those, maybe it's just a childhood thing too, but it was like,

man, it was special. Like going to the movies, walking in, smelling that popcorn, getting the ticket stub ripped, figuring out what theater you're going to. I don't know. Everything about it was just like so fun. Seeing all the old, like the other, not the old, the upcoming movies like either in the little cases or like the cardboard cutouts of them and stuff.

Oh, new airbag. Dude. And like you just see like a, like a toy, like Woody's hat and just says three. And it's like, Toy Story three. It's like, you know, coming out in six years or something. It's like, oh, my gosh. There was a subtlety to it. Like, they definitely wanted you to know, but like, we're not going to come around and say it,

but there will be a robot and a cowboy and a little wiener dog in the number three. You guys fill in the bulls. Figure it out. It could be anything. Yeah, man. I don't know. There's just something about it. Good nostalgia.

Hattie and I and Catherine. We are taking Hattie to the Aztec Theater where we did the live podcast and Shawnee. They're showing It's a Wonderful Life. on Wednesday. And Hattie's never seen it. So we're going to surprise her and take her to that. That's amazing. Fun surprise.

Yeah. Not the same theater experience as a movie theater. They might still have tubs at least. They may not have stubs, but they get chubs and chubs. I hope. Yeah. What were those? Like just like chubby people.

Yeah. They'll be there. Hey, come on. Yeah. Scoot over. We'll be there. We'll be there. Anyway.

I was close to seeing, I was close to getting tickets to it's a wonderful life with a live orchestra, it's a wonderful live. Didn't end up getting it. Yes. I want to do that with Homeland sometime. Kinsea Symphony. Be so fun. How, how, uh, scale one to ten, how how Christmasy are we feeling right now? I felt pretty Christmassy abroad this week. By abroad, I mean east. Yeah, yeah. I just, like, I found myself in like, like Thursday was the show in Nashville. And then Friday, we had a check of our hotel by 10 a.m. But we weren't going anywhere yet. The bus didn't come in until midnight. So I'm just b-bopping around Nashville.

Oh, yeah. Like, kind of going to, like, this diner, drinking my black coffee with, like, a ton of cream and sugar in it. And then I'm, like, bopping in here and just, like, appreciating the, like, Christmas decor everywhere. It's like, everyone's going all out.

It was fun. Yeah. That's awesome. I'm feeling it. Yeah. Are you guys listening to Christmas music right now? Not a ton. No.

Not real. I listened. There's, like, one couple songs. Chris Renzema has a new Christmas album. Okay. Listen to that sometimes. Okay. But not a lot.

Okay. Yeah. I don't know. I'd say for it being 10 days before Christmas, well, this year. Yeah, 10 days this year. I feel only like a 4 out of 10 Christmassy right now. Yeah?

Yeah. Okay. Like I caught the bug this weekend. Not with my years, but with my eyes. Really? Yeah. It's like Christmas is great. And there is certain things like America.

Like we talk about like America goes so hard for the 4th of July. Right. It's awesome. Right. And we kind of do it with Christmas too. Yeah. I mean, every business will have garland and stuff hung, you know, like, I think it's what being married will do to you.

You just start noticing, like, decor all of a sudden. Like, they put a lot of work in a hang out there, you know, like, you just notice things like that. Yeah, you realize the work that goes into it. You realize like, oh, my wife did a lot of work. Dude, yeah. I love Christmas trees lit up at a car dealership when you're driving by at night. Have you noticed this?

That is specific. No. Go down 35. Okay. All right. I'm talking. Yeah. seven o'clock at night and just look at all those dealerships and there's a big old tree and they

for some reason they look really good because it's usually like a big glass window or something i love i love christmas trees that you can see from a window anywhere like driving down the street or whatever anybody's house or whatever but like yeah specifically really appreciated those this week we went uh christmas tree christmas light uh hunting whatever looking last night uh with the kids that's fun uh what was i going to say about christmas Oh, I've been like, what's the word? I've got to sink my teeth into, what's he say? What does Scott say?

A peg in the closet. What does Scott say? I mean, they got their teeth. He always says Lulu Lemon has their teeth in me. Yeah. Forrest Frank's Lo-Fi Christmas album has got their teeth. It's got its teeth in you. Yeah.

Have you listened to this? I forgot he has that. I listened to it when it first came out and I was like, this. Oh. I hated it. I did not. I was not like feeling it. Yeah.

I remember specifically listening to it in Hawaii when we went to see you perform and I hang out. It was like, it was warm. It was like, this isn't, it's not Christmas feeling here. And now, man, it's hit, hit delayed effect. Yes. And I, and so I'm like, okay, I really like this like jazzy kind of slow, slow jam Christmas. So I've tried to find other comparable things. I can't. I'm sure there are, but I can't find them. And so I just keep going back to playing Forst Frank over and over. And it's funny that it's, it's the year that he does have an actual Christmas album out. Right. But you like the old one. Well, because I like

I like original Christmas song's fine but I really just like play the hits you know I don't need to yep I don't and it's more

it can be more backgroundy because it's not it's just instrumental right no no no no I bet it's uh

lofi for some reason I thought wouldn't have words for some reason it's fair cool it's fair yeah

but it's just like that that like that's fun slow yeah kind of you know methodical whatever

it's we let's do it yeah while we're you know while I'm making lunch for the kids we listen to it all the time you know whatever so yesterday

this will piggyback into a favorite thing I was in a little Atlanta diner just by myself for breakfast and I'll throw one thing on my favorite things list a nice just like thick double-walled mug just like a boring mug it's like this might this might have more material than like area

that the water or the liquid can go in on this but it's nice yeah and I bet it wasn't this color when they got it like this has been stained a little bit over years. They're kind of grayish beige. Yeah, really like just a crazy, thick, boring mug. But I heard Mariah Carey's all I went for Christmas is you. And I was like, you know, this is good.

I think this might be the first time I'm hearing it this year. It's like December 14th. And I'm like, we've probably hit a nice happy medium. Because I feel like, I don't know, 2014 to 2024 is like it had this huge resurgence and you just couldn't get away from it, at least personally. And now it's like, we found us a middle ground where we're occasionally hearing it. Right. This is fine.

Are there songs that you don't like Christmas-wise? Felice Nopi-Dodd. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe we've talked about this, maybe. Like, worst Christmas songs. Anyway, that sounds right. I think we did talk about it.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't like that one. Mainly because it's Spanish. No, we're just kidding. Yeah, don't say that to them. Don't you, no, have you seen the, like, whatever? It's on the algorithm. I feel like it's like a punchline is like Last Christmas by Wham is like.

Oh, it's like the worst Christmas song ever made. Yeah, everyone's like acting like, that's like, everyone can agree. That's terrible, right? I don't, I've never hated it. I don't mind it. Last Christmas. Wait, that song? Yeah, I don't mind that one.

I feel like that's, people love that one. Oh, really? I just feel like it's everywhere. I guess it's just, just because it's played doesn't meet people like it. Mamo number five.

Seems like a famous. You didn't like Mumble number five? Well, that's like considered the worst song of all time, but it's like still very popular. Oh, yeah. I think like, if you know music, then you know that this is ridiculous song.

It's terrible. I don't know any better, though. I'm like, this is fun. I love Mabo number five. Yeah. Great. I don't think I know what that song is. One, two, three, four, five, everybody in the car.

Come, let's ride to the soda shop by a rona. A little bit of Monica in my life. Oh, yeah. Forrest Frank does a version. A little tag on one of his songs. He does. That's considered, like, one of the worst songs ever made because of something I don't understand.

Really? Interesting. I wonder why. my Santa baby is my is my like oh yeah that one's off I hate that song yeah I hate that song and blue Christmas I love Elvis Presley but I would say I think my dad agrees he's like he loves Elvis more than the in the one in the world Gabe tell us how you say anyone in the world going a little too fast there. Even he's like,

oh, great, yeah. Dude, I think, sorry. Now we're just talking anyone in the world. Have you or your dad watched any

or seen any clips of red clay strays? No, I have no idea what they look like. You need to like show, like he's like, he looks like Elvis. Yeah. Like, he's like,

he's like the closest thing to like modern day Elvis, I think. Like he even like kind of dances like him sometimes. We listen to him on the way down to Dallas. Yeah. Thought of you?

I'm kind of, I'm kind of, yeah, once again, infatuated by them. Are you into them? Not really. Okay.

But I've heard them and I've seen live performance like on YouTube. So I know what they look like. Have you noticed like he sings like three different ways? That's what I'm kind of

attracted by. Like, because I know he has some, yeah, he can have some gravel to his voice. Yeah. And it's wild. Yeah.

That's wild how different is, anyway, into it. Cool. What was your favorite thing? Sorry. Oh, big, big boring mugs. Yeah.

That was it. Yeah. Just mugs, man. It's a mug season. I don't know how many things you have in your list. I got about 20 things on my list. So I don't know if we want to, yeah. Go ahead.

Time us two. Wait, no. Three. I did add one or two more if it comes down to it. If it comes down to it. If we need to settle a tie. If we need to put the camera back on me, I can say those things. Yeah.

Mine, I also wrote down, I wrote down, Spode mugs. Spode is like the brain. that Catherine loves. Spode. Spode. S-B-O-D-E. Cool. But that's what I've been having every morning. He's just coffee out of a Spode mug to go. So right now there's three of them in a truck. Don't talk about it.

But yeah, love them. Favorite things. I brought just a couple things for show and tell. I'll get them out of the way now. First, Rachel have been obsessed with these automatic salt and pepper dispensers. That's what she brought to favorite things. Was it? Yeah.

It makes sense. Yeah. That's good to know. It's both of our favorite things. Yeah. Yeah, you just press this little button, and it makes a fun sound. It grinds it for you. It goes all over your plate. Dude, that's nice that you press the button, because I have some that are, like, gravity.

So you just turn it over. But I think I'd like it better if you could. USBC charging. Nice. That's nice. And a little flashlight. Let me demonstrate. Goes pretty hard.

Huh? Can you adjust the coarsness? Yeah, we got to, I believe you can, although I've never. needed to or wanted to, and that would have never crossed my mind. There's like a nozzle or a knob. I love those. Knubs. It's done. Yes. Very good.

Wow. Pepper. Smells pretty pungent. Next, bird dog shorts. Okay. I've tried to find like a cheaper alternative to the shorts that have like a liner built in. And I think there's a reason they must charge so much. So I don't like how expensive they are. But bird dog shorts are my favorite things.

I like the liner built into the Shorts. Have you ever tried the pants? They have like khaki pants. Yeah, I have. Like they don't look like they would have a liner in them. Yeah. I have like a pair of those. And that feels kind of strange, actually. I don't recommend the pants with the liner. But the shorts feel great. I can't find anything better than I like when it comes to like men's athletic shorts, bird dogs. Love that. You got any more? Oh, plenty. No more show and tell. Oh, no more show and tell. All right. My next favorite thing is a song. And I might have mentioned, I don't know. I might have mentioned all these things already. honestly, but the joy to the world by Andrew Rip might be my favorite song of all time. Okay. Every year I listen to it and it is just, obviously it's not like the perfectly like Jacob Collier written song, but it is like the perfect song. I don't know. Like it's just like, first of all, I think joy of the world is amazing on so many different levels. Yes. But also like it's like

this cleanish guitar, like bluesy guitar. I don't know. It just, it's, it's my. It's my. it's exactly what I love. I love everything about it. He's got a nice voice. He has a little bit of soul to him, but not like to the point where it's like, okay, dude, it's hard to listen to this kind of thing. So anyway, love it. I'm going to listen.

Yeah. And Bo loves it now. That's like joy of the world in his eyes now. And so, I mean, we listen like three times in the road the other day. That's great. Yeah. So I have a favorite thing song as well, just the last two weeks. We actually kind of talked about it off the podcast last week,

but this song has been around for years. I like me better by Lau for every say his name it kept coming up this weekend I couldn't get away from it I was like man that's a good song I wait for a dorm time yeah for a long time I thought

there was just like it was like a violin in the chorus and then you know like you realize it's a guy's voice and it's just like oh it just hits oh it's nice that's fun time and do it

I've listened to a couple times I've listened to it a couple times since we talked about it and great yeah I'm really liking it right now just recent favorite thing like that old song that's a good one it's on i feel like it's either like on my spotify radio mix or i hear it all the time as well i don't know yeah it's a good one

yeah heard in the airport i have a song um just like more of a recommendation because i don't know if you guys would have heard of this uh a guy named john van dozen dozen he's like a very small christian artist um dozen listen and i like his music a lot he just very big range of sounds which is cool like it'll go from like you know super catchy rock style style song and then to like beautiful gentle like poetic lyrics like i don't know a lot of variety but i like his song whatever makes you mine okay so give it a listen okay yeah and then give all his other music a listen oh he's got a christmas album and it has songs i've heard of it's always exciting sweet uh one more christmas song for me go come now long expected jesus the version

version is by Marcy Priest. Write it down. You're going to love it. Once again, probably one, I don't even know Marcy Priest. I don't even know if she has. It was like one of those like, my sister back in the day

when she lived in Oklahoma City went to Life Church, I think. Maybe they had like a free Christmas CD that they gave her. It was on there. Like, this is amazing. Let's see, Marcy Priest. 3,000 monthly listeners.

That's crazy. Oh, wow. I thought, yeah, my guy, John, is 40,000. Yeah, I said he was small. Timing, you have 2,000. Yeah. Monthly listeners, I checked. Cool.

I asked Chachapitian, and they said that I might make $25 to $40 off my song. No way. So worth it. I'll do more. Then you say, actually, I haven't made any on it yet. That's right. That's my bad. You'll actually lose it.

Yeah. I mean, that's like a couple hundred hours for that. It's just fine. Rinse and repeat. That's great. Do you know what song is, like, wildly on pace to be the, like most stream song of all time. We were talking about this last night.

I would have had no clue. Okay. Do you think I know it for sure? You've probably heard of it. It's got to be hard to pool, though, because it's like, dude, that one? Is it blinding lights by the weekend? That one seems like it could be huge.

That one might already be the top song, because the weekend is crazy. Is this like a newish one? Yeah, newish. Last two years, I think. Is it birds of a feather? No. Good guess.

Okay. I don't think I'm going to know this. Do I know this artist? Oh, yeah. I mean, I probably do it. Taylor? Nope. Okay.

Oh, most of all time. Is it, uh, what's the song that I like? Is it like multicultural? No, that's why I, I mean, it must be getting international popularity, but it's not like Selena Gomez or Bad Bonnie where it's like, oh, yeah. Luzzi Jagger? No. How fun would that be if it's.

Lady Gaga's involved. Hint. Oh, um, die with a smile. Yes. What's that one? Die with a smile. If the world was ending. I listened to that when it first.

about, and I was like, this is pretty good. Feels like it'll be a classic. So I feel like maybe I called it. Sing a little more of it. If the world was ending, I'd want to be next to you. Oh, man. It's good singing. It's a nice song.

It's Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga. Okay. And it was the fastest song to $1 billion, $2 billion, and 3 billion streams. Okay. And it's just on this crazy trajectory to be the most stream song of all time. That's crazy. and it just doesn't really add up to me

both in the quality of song and also the artist I mean those artists are both like massive but like it's already more popular than any of Bruno Mars's other music that seems insane that's wild what yeah and you said their metric is streams on Spotify or yeah

because I always wonder obviously with stuff like that it's probably relatively organic like people going and listening to it but there's also so much like hey let's put it on this playlist let's put on that playlist let's push it out to this new music or whatever like all these

different playlist that maybe could affect those things a little bit i've heard that like a song being successful it's like kind of if you just have enough money you can to push into it you can i don't know i heard about this recently kind of like things are not as organic as they might seem or right something like that i don't know but yeah that's what i'm saying like i'm sure some people are like going and listen to that other people are yeah i'll listen to this playlist and it oh yeah i listened several times when it came out. I liked it. I don't want to talk about Red Clay Strait's the whole time. Hey. But I saw

that they won the best country, like the CMA for Best Band of the Year or something like that. Oh, cool. And I saw some guy breaking it down of like basically like proving that radio is not dead but like not that consequential to these things anymore because only two radio stations

in the entire country even like logged that they played them on the air at all. Like country radio. Like radio. Country radio. Yeah. Because I think like Old Dominion was like the one that was supposed to win again or something. And Red Clay Stray's won, even though no country station ever plays them on the radio. So I don't know exactly if that's connected or not. But I just want to add right now. It's cool. You don't think we'll collab. Double add. Cheers. What? Can we do that? It's Christmas Eve. We can do whatever we want. That's right. Jake doesn't realize it's Christmas Eve

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I've got a few life hacks in here. You rattle them off because I'm pretty much done. Having multiple deodorants throughout the house. Okay. I like that. I like having one in the bathroom. One in my little room where I, you know, got my clothes at. Heck, I have one on the kitchen island.

I like it. I think I got one in my backpack. Yeah, have one in the bag. It's always ready to be traveled with. Yeah. I like that. Similar note, piggybacking off that. One of my favorite things is having too many phone chargers.

I live too long in my life, not being able to find a phone charger. About six months ago, Rachel, I said, we'll rebalance a checkbook. We'll re-budget whatever we need to do. We're getting more phone chargers in this house. Yeah, we'll be intermittent fast for a few weeks. I want to be drowning in phone chargers. But we never have to look for one again. And that's nice.

It doesn't cost that much money. Have phone chargers all over your house. Yeah. Each backpack, each bag, it's got one just permanently lives in there. That's never be without one. Oh, here's where I get worried is you have a wife who's like me. And that one, she's going to be like, oh, the living room one, I'm just going to take that real quick and put it in my backpack.

All of a sudden she has seven in her back. But hopefully we're drowning in enough. Yeah. No problem. I have on the couch. Well, yeah, you have to have one in my pants right now. I have six in reserve that you're not even having to use for anything. Oh, yeah.

You got to have plenty. You have so many cabinets in there, you should just have a phone charger cabinet. Yeah, a cord cabinet. Core cabinet. Yep. That's good. What else falls into that category? One of my favorite things is using my Apple Watch as an alarm clock.

Fasten that baby on tight, you know, find like an alarm app, and wake up via Vibrate rather than loud, annoying alarm on your phone, especially if you're sleeping in the same room with someone or maybe you're waking up earlier than someone. Also, it's way harder to sleep in when your arm is vibrating. That sounds awesome. That sounds so much better than getting woken up by a some... Even it's a nice sound.

It's just like, yeah, especially when you're married and you're like, I'm worried about... I may not wake up to this first alarm. Catherine, it takes her... Not that long. 15 seconds to, like, register that her alarm is going up. And by that time, I'm awake. You're awake.

What are you doing? Press a button. Snoze. Brush bar. I like that. It's pretty much better in every way. I've got an app. I think it's called auto sleep where it's like it's tracking my sleep, which at this point,

I don't really like look into that much anymore. But what it is useful for is it tries to feel out your cycle. Your cycle. Yeah. And you can give it a window. Like, hey, I want to wake up between 6 and 6.30. Find the optimum time. Love that.

Kind of nice. It works or not. It's cool. It works or not. But I like to believe in the science. I think you believe in it and you mentally feel better. Oh, yeah, that was great. Six, 17.

I never thought of that. Oh, no way. Yeah, okay. That's so random. There's no way to just, like, pick that. Optimized. Yeah, now doing it on a tour buses a little. I mean, it has no idea.

It's like, you slept awful last night. It's because I was driving 80 miles an hour. Quick, just side story. You know, I'm talking with Justin Orm, who's like, lives the tour life as a production guy. And, you know, he's like, we're swapping stories about buses and beds and comforters and he's like so yeah tonight's your first night sleeping on the bus in a long time he's like yeah about a year and a half so they slept on a bus and he's like well you know

probably gonna take about a night to get used to it I was like yeah I probably will but I'm looking forward to it next morning I wake up you know and it's just like just darkness just so much darkness and you're like oh yeah I'm on a bus I'm on the road check my phone and it says 1101 I was like how did my phone get the time wrong Didn't Isaac have something like this, too? Or Isaac texted me, what time is it? Dude, being on two of us will do that to you. It's like, I haven't slept that long.

I don't even know when I slept, the last time I slept to 11 was. Just being in the dark and I was like, holy cow, I slept amazing while we were driving. And then later that night, we're kind of talking about we're all debriefing. Tray's like, do you know what time I woke up? I was like, no. He goes 1245. Dude, you. I don't feel bad then.

Holy cow. What time you think you went to bed? I don't know. I feel like we all went to bed between like, I don't know, midnight and one probably. I don't know. I tried to check his room to see if he was asleep and the night before. Because he doesn't even have like a bunk. His is like a... He's got like a room to himself. And even that is better. Because I understand like the idea of like a bunk. You're like enclosed. It's got to be super dark in there. The room even you could sleep in, I guess. I guess so. Yeah, I think you have a little lightning in there. But yeah, boy, we slept good.

Wow. Are there three levels to the bunks? so that is a coffin style right we don't have enough people to need that so we do condo style so there's only two levels so you got a little space you can't all the way sit up in bed but you can you can you for sure be on your side sleeping if you like that so you got a ladder up there no not that high if you're like on the second story so the first story's on the ground though yep i see okay got a roll out on the ground i'm a ground guy are yeah always have been ground just so grounded ground coffee Yep. Black coffee. What else? A couple items. Hocus. Obviously they're popular.

I'm not going to be the first guy to recommend Hocus. But I finally took to plunge about a year ago when I started running on those miles. And I'm not going to come on here and say hokas are like so comfy.

Your foot's kind of, oh, it's going to be cozy in there. But I want to say is you will never be uncomfortable in the hokas. That's more what it is. Kind of like when you're like saying you forget that

how good it is to be healthy until you're sick kind of thing. It's like, oh, yeah, I guess my feet just feel fine and you don't think about it. Exactly. Okay. Yeah, it's not like, oh, you want to feel better than you already are. Throw on a hoka. It's like a hug for your foot.

Yeah, yeah. It's like, well. I would say it's more just like you could be on it 12 hours and still not. And be fine. Yeah, be in discomfort. Okay. I think hookas.

Good. Even though they kind of screwed over Matt and Andre and the guys who helped start Friday, I sure do like verb bars. I love them. You have supported the new owners quite a bit. I know. Those are good, dude.

They are very good. They're good. They're good. And it's like, yeah, you get like 70 milligrams of caffeine. It's like, it's a good idea. I see why it works so well. Right. I do like some verb bars.

Some of my favorite things for sure. I take them when I travel. That's almost always what I eat in between recording episodes. Yeah, get a little snack, a little caffeine, hit. Yeah, those are good. Also, I have no, like, standard for milligrams, grams, all that kind of stuff of most ingredients. Like, caffeine, I don't know, what a normal cup of coffee has versus anything like that. That might be one of the only things I somewhat do know. My guess, grams of sugar. I don't know what's crazy. Is a cup like 90 or 100 or something?

A cup of what? A cup of coffee. Oh, I think it's like around 70. Oh, really? Oh, really? For caffeine? Huh. Yeah. So energy drinks really ramp it up, because I think I drink some that are like 200. Yeah, there's like the, yeah, like Celsius and stuff is 200.

Yeah. Throw it on my list, Bubbler, it's like 69, which is nice. Feels like a moderate amount of caffeine. Okay. Takes the edge off. Yeah. Without going wild. Have you ever seen Jake?

They're super caffeined up, dude? Oh, I get so hyper. That guy's wild. Yeah, that's good. I also wrote down on my list just recently my favorite thing is drinking water before bed, which I know is like so simple. But I had kind of gotten out of the habit. And I've done it now.

And it makes it so much easier to wake up. One glass. Because you have to pee? No. Well, yeah, basically. But if you drink just one glass, you don't have to pee in the middle of the night. That's, I think. You got to find the balance.

Yeah. Because I used to think it was great to go in the middle of the night. I did because I was like, it's like you get two sleeps. Yeah, you get to go back in a good. I thought I was like hacking it. And I'm like, I think I wake up better and like more well rest. if I just sleep through the night. So one cup, yeah, but don't drink it to,

like if you drink it like right before bed, you're good. But if you drink it an hour or two before bed, you might have to go then and then you just waste it all. So, yeah. And if I, a lot of times if I would wake up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I would not feel the need to like as urgently go right when I wake up. That makes sense? Yeah.

So therefore one cup. Okay. Just enough to kind of get you out of bed in the morning. Hey, can I get to go. Right. And then mouth tape, dude. You still mouth taping? Yes.

I, if you have any sort of, even if you don't, I think you should try it. Like, it is so much, it makes you sleep so much better, my favorite things. Huh. I'll ride off a couple, oh, up, back. I have kind of a niche one. Yeah. A cahone. If you, if you do any kind of like music or like jamming with friends or any kind of, yeah, it's just you have a drum set, but it's a box.

Yeah. It's awesome. It's worth it. I agree. Yeah. They are sweet. And it's like a whole drum set. Because, yeah, there's like bass, but there's also a snare. Yeah. And other stuff probably. You get some variety. It's cool. Jake's a cahoner. Gohoun big time.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. We've gone together. I got a few food and beverage favorite things. I already mentioned the verb bars, but if you're looking for real tasty, healthy, gluten-free mac and cheese, look no further than a little brand called goodles. You've had goods? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's good. A lot of protein in them, too. It's good. Yeah. Yeah. They're gluten-free? Yep. Okay. Yeah, my kids like them. Yeah. I assume maybe it's where the G, it's like

gluten-free noodles, g-goodles. I don't know if that's why they named with that. That's what I like to think, though. Maybe it's just good. Shoot. Maybe both. Could be. Guten-free. If they did gluten-free, it would be gloodles. Glutles. That's a good idea, too. With your glutes. I think you already mentioned this because I gave a shout out to Molly Beck, but Walmart family, Better Goods Chicken Sausage rocks my world every morning.

Man, that's good. And then as I've been playing around with my black coffee order, I found that Splenda is my sweetener of choice. Oh, I thought you're Stevie a guy. Not anymore. That was the old me. Oh, okay.

The new me, who's been abroad. In the South, they take everything with Splenda. I'll keep experimenting here and there, but I think I'm a Splenda guy. It's my favorite sweetener. Really? You used to be a sweet and low guy.

Oh, yeah, for sweet tea. Have you tried sweetenlo? No, actually, I haven't tried it in coffee yet. I'll try it. I love sweetenlo. It's unbelievable. Okay. It's cancer causing, but what isn't?

Okay. What isn't? Right? I think that was an old study. See? That's what I'm saying. It's an old study. It's fixed.

I like that as like, if you're like big, big artificial sweetener, you know, like, I'd watch out for Aspartame. Just say it's an old study. I think that was a old. That was an outdated study. No, that was in the 90s. No, I don't worry about it. They didn't know about stuff as much. People that said that are dead now.

So. A couple just easy lifestyle choices. Favorite thing, for sure for me and Rachel right now, we brought a TV into our room. Never ever done that before. We thought we were so against it. And then as the

temperatures drop and we're just getting cozier and just kind of don't want to, you know, just being anywhere not warm. TV there, we don't have it mounted. It's not on anything. It's just resting on the ledge of this fireplace thing we have. And, boy, it's nice. Yeah. I think it'll just be a winter thing.

Okay. Just be a winter thing. Oh, yeah. Speaking of Benjin, I can't wait. I didn't think of this. All her fault on Peacock. Oh. Maybe my favorite show of 2025.

Is that the one that Caldwell told you about? Yes, I couldn't remember who said that. Yeah, I think it was Caldwell. I was like, it has somebody in it. I was like, no, I don't know who is in it. I just know this got Caldwell. It's got Plop in it. Oh, okay.

From the office. It's got Dakota Fanning. And apparently some girl, if you watch Succession, people have told me. Okay. But yeah, one of my favorite shows of all of 2025. Wow. All her fault. Synopsis?

Quick one. Missing child. Who done it. Oh. Great synopsis. Thanks. Yeah. It is fun.

Yeah. Catholic is going to hear this and be like, that's fun. like we need to do that Brad because every time that like we have a new baby we like bring the TV in okay and and we always get into something yep really with Beau every kid's got a show yeah kind of there was there was somebody that was shark tank another one was amazing race another one was some other like the office or something like that but yeah that's so fun yeah TV in the room it's been nice just for the winter I think okay summer we'll come back out sure yeah I love that hopefully uh TSA pre-check

It's one of those things, once you get it, you think, why in the world did I not do this? If you fly even a few times a year. Every time I've flown with you, I'm always like, dang it. That's nice. It's such a, like, quick meeting, and it's, like, to set it up, and it's good for five years. It costs, like, $70 for five years. That's it? Yeah.

In my head, it was, like, so expensive. I mean, not that $70 is nothing, but for five years. Yeah, five-year pass. I mean, that's so good. That's $14 a year. That's, like, a dollar a month. I don't know I have Stubbs A list

That's true That's that like subscriptions base The cost for TSA pre-check Very slightly by provider Depending on I guess Which government you want to go with I chose American But generally costs around 70 to $85

For a five-year membership That's so much better than that Yeah You look at all those People going through You're like those are the richest people in the world They like to cash back Yeah they must cash back

Or those people are Yeah they don't know what they're doing They're wasting their money Yeah jeez those the richest people are stubbornly standing there for an hour yeah i'm glad i'm not like them they're probably giving their information away to their government as we like seeing our ideas you know who doesn't let his picture be

taken to the airport tom tom yeah yeah what you can just not let him yeah you just you can just hand them your ID instead what no you have to you hand them the idea then they take your picture yeah i thought it was both you handed the ID this guy he's so out of touch dude what do i know but he just says like i refuse He's one of those guys. No, thanks. I'll just do it the hard way.

He's not go through like the scanner. He like goes to the maldetectors. Dude, he actually scans them. Yeah. He checks the pre-checked. Nice try, buddy. What are you hiding? Yeah, what do you have in your pants?

Yeah, a lot of pockets there. Really? It doesn't take his picture. Yeah, you can decline. I wonder where else. I know that Catherine, whenever she was pregnant would decline going through like the, the scanner.

That's another TSA pre-check thing. You zoom through that thing. I don't even know if it's checking. anything. I go through my watch every time. No dings. Like, no metal in this thing. How's... What? I don't know. Never dings. Go through my watch every day. I'm getting frustrated at the way that it works now.

Like, why do they make the rest of us do all this stuff then? Yeah, I haven't had to... I'm going to have to pose for a few years now. Really? Okay. I always kind of like seeing how different airports do it. It's kind of fun to, like, because they have to change it up all the time, right? To like not... This is what I've heard.

It's like they have to change it up every once in a while in a way of like, depending on what they make you take off or just keep. I guess that would make sense. So people don't like memorize what they do. This. I'm not getting quite the reaction I was hoping. Well, no, I think that makes sense. I haven't heard of that. I'm feeling a little bit uncomfortable than more I'm talking about this.

You guys are like affirming me. I've never said this out loud before. Kind of figured. You keep saying I've heard, but it's really just a theory you're testing out. I've heard right that they probably make it up ever know. What you're saying? Like, time is planning something. Yeah.

How often they switch those out? You think they switch up, but they don't switch them up, like, Kansas airport's the same way every time, pretty much, right? As far as I know, yes. Yeah. Let them believe. I thought, it's a season of Christmas.

Like, some of the doors are facing north in one airport. Yeah. Or even like, I don't know, for some reason I feel like even Kansas City Airport has been different for me. I'm making all this up. And like,

what aspects? Where are we talking? Like, like, maybe this is just like dark outside. This might be old airport versus new airport. I don't know. Yeah, those are different.

Yeah, maybe I've never had to take my shoes off in the new era of Kansas City. I don't know. No, I take them off. If there's a dog there, you typically don't have to. Oh, I haven't. I feel like I never know what to expect. Like, I think that it's been a little bit different. Really?

Sometimes hoodie off, sometimes hoodie on. Like, all this stuff. And then I, but I was mainly referring to different airports have different ways of doing it. I see and I and I like I just kind of have fun seeing what I don't know it's kind of it is funny I let me back you up a little bit here I don't mind going through the non TSA precheck to just like I don't I don't know I have a good attitude about it I'm not like take off my thing it's funny that it's not more standardized like this is a government thing like yeah like you're saying every airport does do it slightly differently like today in Atlanta add one of those bins where you put

your stuff in it and then the machine takes your bin back for you like you there's no conveyor belt for you to touch. It's like a series of machines. You have a slot. Come to slot three and you put it in there. Everything in one. Laptop stays in. The more I think about it,

I think in one of my flights I took, maybe it was even to Gulf Shores or something from Ohio. I think I was in some smaller than average airport and I heard some, like, agent working there talking to somebody. And I think he said something like that. I think that's where I got that from. Come on what I think about it. I think he was like, and you know,

we can't keep it the same all the time, you know, because people could try to, what that sounds that maybe it also sounds like something that like they're sarcastically like you know we only have two more days of this system no i think it's more like uh you know we got to keep them on our toes like you know kind of thing like yeah they just mess something up and they're just joking right hard yeah oh yeah we got to switch it up somehow you know i don't know anyway i haven't thought about it much but i would be interested to know if that is at all the case like could be if they do switch things up i've also heard and i don't know if i don't know if i buy

this or not, but people are always like, oh, if you wanted to get something in there, it'd be so easy. So easy to get past TSA with stuff. And I'm like, are you sure? I don't know if I buy that. Yeah. Rachel's family always tells a story. Steve Coop got stopped at TSA. Like, is this your bag? He's like, yeah, opens it up and it's just full of bullets that he had forgotten about. Oh, no. Oh, no. A ton of bullets. 12 gauge. I don't remember enough of the story to know why or like what happened but I remember that's like oh gosh yeah just full of bullets he doesn't see anything wrong with it well there's no gun no gun who's to say yeah that's funny man even sorry even the last time I wear I wear jeans a lot yeah there's

I wear a belt yes all the time you can keep your belt I've never had my belt beeped in the thing in Kansas City till the last time I was going through that thing and it randomly beat So are they adjusting things? Was it more medley that day? Same belt? Yeah. Huh. That's fair?

You tuck it in? Tug in your shirt? Were you wearing like a flannel button up tuck in? Belt exposed? Nope. How much you love those? Huh. So I don't know.

That's fair? I think I just feel like things do change sometimes. Okay. It's good evidence. Hmm. I don't know, man. Who knows? I do agree with you.

And then they make you almost feel like silly about like, hey, belt stays on. It's like, well. Yeah. I didn't know the last time it beeped at me. Yeah. You guys ever been privately, had your phone swabbed? Phone swabbed. That happened to me.

No. Three out of four flights in a row. I was like, what kind of like list? How does this keep happening randomly to me? Huh. But yeah, you go through and it beeps at you and they say, if you step aside, Sir, if we get your cell phone, and you hit him your cell phone, and they just like swab it with a cloth.

And they say, all right, you're good. Huh. You just look like a packer. My cast. I had my cast swabbed for sure. Sure. Ew. Catswob.

When I have my cast on. And before I noticed that they put the little swabs into a machine, I was like, are you messing with me? How is this little piece of, how is this sensing anything? But I was like, oh, I guess they're like scanning. Later they run it.

Yeah. Yeah. No. I don't really understand the cloth swab. Okay. TSA pre-check. Yeah, I have one last like tangible thing and then a few other just like actionable things.

My favorite thing is cheap, yet polarized sunglasses, a big fan of those. I don't like spending money on sunglasses because like, oh, they got a little scratch, throw them in this bag, throw them on the floor, whatever. We're WMP, people. Yeah, we do have the same glasses. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know, $25 on Amazon or something is probably what they cost. They're like 40. Jeez. For you, it's all, it's all just one protein shake away. But yeah, just like not bawling out on sunglasses. Polarized is important. That's so nice.

Other than that, just cheap i remember as a kid thinking polarized sunglasses were like a diamond ring it's like oh my gosh those are polarized panoramic polarized yeah did you ever like go online back in the day and like look at stuff like that like like like i would just look at cars like just cool cars really on like BMW's website or i remember this is a random car that i loved you'd never get to guess you know what pt cruisers are of course i love pt i would just look at like different color combinations you can, like, customize the PT crews. Or, like, same with, like, shoes.

I'll go to Air Force ones and, like, try to figure out with, you know. I think I definitely, like, idolized just, like, sporting good equipment that my parents said we couldn't afford. Just, like, the brand-new D-Marini, the brand-new stealth, the stealth composite, the X-O, oh, this new color way, any glove, any basketball shoe. Like, oh, yeah, I love checking that up. Yes. Yeah, East Bay catalog was, like, so fun just looked through.

Yeah. Even though I bought maybe one thing ever on East Bay. Yeah. It didn't happen often. No. Even just Under Armour, when it came out, I wanted name brand Under Armour so bad. Like the cold gear,

the turtleneck and the long, I wanted Maroon Under Armour so bad. And it felt impossible. It felt like there's like no way. There's no way we're going to get that. And when they enter the space in a name like Under Armour, there was almost a mystery to it like, what's it going to protect me from?

Yes, the cold, but what else? And the cool gear, is that for when you're cold? Is that what you're trying to cool down? I remember always being like, I had to like, really, that's like the counterclockwise thing. When it's cold, I wear cold gear.

I was like, okay, honestly, I still don't to this day, no for sure, which one's which. I'm pretty sure. Oh,

I'm, dude, you got me really, I thought I knew it. Now I don't know. I actually don't. No? I thought I knew.

Yeah. It's, when you have it in person, it's obvious because one's like three times is thick, but dude, just label only,

I don't know. Gun to my head, I wouldn't know right now. What would you guess, timing? Is the cool gear the one for cool weather or to cool you down? I think it's...

The opposite would be heat gear. Is that to wear in the heat or to keep you warm? Holy cow. Under Armour, long sleeve, heat gear. I know. It was kind of terrible, terrible name. I have to look this up. Heat gear sounds like for the cold.

That's initially what I thought. And then I second guess myself. Huh. Under Armour's heat gear is for keeping you warm cool no really yep wow the fact that any of us guessed the opposite is yeah that was a bad name i agree huh huh there you go huh all right give us rattle out the rest okay a few more um my favorite things uh sending a short email with periods oh that feels good yeah like if someone's like you have a good reason to be like not enthusiastic in your email like and just like firing that off

thanks talk soon periods and that that is that is as mean as you get right there oh yeah they definitely earned it too they deserved it whatever they did what's worse they had it coming no no punctuation or periods periods periods so mean i agree i agree like no punctuation is like oh he's just rattleing off real quick yeah just sent by sent for my iPhone he's like he pressed that he could depressed exclamation point just as easily like some of those hulu people they're like hey the brand is wondering what music you used in the background of this there is no music in the video thanks why'd you even send that watch the video dude what are you talking about thanks thanks yeah that feels good when they've already been so annoying um my favorite things a perfect

callback okay hard to engineer it hard to get it but when it happens oh it's fun what if you forget the first joke and then you try good luck would that be considered a perfect callback or not quite oh man yeah perfect callbacks are great yeah um my favorite things improvement when i was really looking in inwardly i'm like the day i'm not obsessed with improving something in my life i'm probably depressed or something i think there will always be something i have to like see myself improving on um my favorite things spending money on hobbies okay i feel like i had to give my dad at talking to like a year ago because he's like, I don't know if I want to get this,

this golf membership. And I was like, how much is it? And he goes, $400. I was like, oh, okay, I mean, every month, that's pretty pricey. He goes, no, that's for the year. I was like, what? This is your favorite thing.

This is the only thing you do. You go to work, you go to high school basketball games and you golf. You mow. You mow, yeah, you mow on the lawn. You know, 15 lawns every week. Please. Into the dark. Please go get the $400 a year membership.

to play unlimited golf. This is a golf course for $400 a year? Yeah, it's like on the outer skirts of Springfield. Steve, I'll drive to you and do that. Let's play, man. So I'm always pushing people. Like, if you have a hobby you truly love, you're not even like on the fence about it.

Oh, I love it. I'd play it every day if I could. I don't know if I want to make the financial investment. It's like a dollar day. For my favorite thing to do. Yeah. Time and taking voice lessons. I don't know if that exactly fits in that category,

but that's the thing. I think that's fun that you do that. yeah yeah that's hobby i tell so many people that talk to me about my voice lessons i'm like just you should do it i mean i tell them i don't know about the other teachers but i'm like take him with dr smith yeah it's like also falls in the category of improvement yeah it's fun yeah last thing my favorite thing is um fake well like being fake angry and punching our bed really this is a very specific thing very specific bit i've been doing um um How hard you punch it?

Hard. Yeah? And it's kind of like I'm throwing a tantrum. So I'm like double punching the bed out of frustration. And I think the smaller, the thing is, the funnier it is. Rachel will be like, we're like in bed. It's 9 o'clock at night. Lights are all off except for one lamp.

She goes, hey, our double date tomorrow with Sam and Ashton, I think it's going to have to be at 7 instead of 7.30. Oh, no. That's not even a real example. to think of something on the spot, but, um, yeah, like, that's one of my favorite things. Doesn't she do that in a Friday pickleball sketch? Like punches a pillow? She's punching the pillow. Yeah. It's really funny. I think, yeah. That was like, that was like, that started with me, like, oh, like, I don't know what character that is. I don't know who punches bed. Okay, so I love punching bed. Is your technique? Do you get out of bed and punch down or you turn over? Sometimes I'll sit up.

You're, like, on your stomach and just punch it. Yeah. Sometimes I'll, like, sit up on my knees and just I can get my, mm-hmm. I want to sell a 30 dinner. Gosh. such a classic, like, example of, like, we are all so weird and, like, you're the weirdest you've ever been when you're married, like, with your spouse. Like, that is, that is weird and random. Yeah, I think about it. I don't know. Obviously, I like being funny. I like entertaining people, but I never could have predicted who I turned into once I got married. I mean, all I care about is making her laugh. I mean, that's all I spend my time doing. New, I'm always working on

new material. Got to keep it fresh for Rachel. I mean, it's all that matters. Oh, yeah, I love punch in bed. Wow. That's great. Anyway, I think that's my list. Just going to town. Pretty exhausted.

Yeah. Dang it. Well, I mean, we could still like, yeah. We could get there early if you want. I don't want to get there. No, I want them to be there. That's ridiculous. You would have had a tantrum last night.

I was already in bed for like an hour, but I got distracted on my phone, to be honest. Okay. Yeah, it wasn't very bricked. And Catherine comes in, gets in bed for seven seconds. and then goes, oh, can you go outside and turn off the Christmas lights and then go put a blanket over Henry before you go to bed? You were just up. You were just so up.

I was like, I was incredibly up. So cozy. And I did it. I did it very quickly. I had my mouth tape already on, so I didn't even talk. I was like, uh-huh. Went out barefoot in the freezing cold.

Wow. Oh, love you, Kath. The thing that always makes me laugh about Rachel is just like sometimes the lack of thinking even just one step ahead. Like she will like, we just got that eating dinner. We're going to watch a show on the TV now. And she's like, ooh, okay. She goes and puts her dishes away. And then she goes and like gets underneath all these blankets and everything.

And it's just like ready to watch TV. And the remote's just like, who knows where. That is so real. Rachel, I'm with you. It's like you sit down. You're like, oh, I didn't think about that. Because I was fixing it on my drink or I need a blanket. Yeah, like I brought my hot cocoa over and I got my blanket.

I got my pillow. All right. I guess hopefully it just turns on on its own and goes to the show I want in the episode I want. Always. She's like, hey. Can you get my water? Yeah, my water bottle. A water bottle is a classic.

Where is it? It should be here. It could be in the bathroom. It's not. I hope it's not in my car. I hope it's not. Could be in my car. Could I just do like a glass of water?

really like my water ball. Yeah, because if it is in the car, it's pretty cold. It'd be good. That's good. Time, you got any wife stories? I actually do relate to some of this with sharing about with Jesse. Really? Growing up.

He is, yeah, just the master of like he gets into bed when he was just, just making me do stuff. Oh, keep you out of the light. It's like, bro. And I always eventually do give in. Yeah. Because, yeah, he would never do it. He would get into bed with you and then ask you to do something that could have been done when you're standing up.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Gotcha. Are you all particular, like, OCD about anything before you go to bed? No. Not all. I don't think so. Maybe that OCD, like, like, is there like, like, like, let's say, like the flat sheet under your comforter.

First of all, do you have one of those? No. I've learned that some people don't. You don't? Wait. Under. Like, like, you have the comforter and then do you just have like a finish sheet? I always did, and I just haven't for a while.

Okay. So you're just straight comforter. Yeah. That's psychotic. That's what the cheer bus is. Really? No sheets, just comfort her. I'm just, I'm just, I confidently

said, no, I'm not, holy cow. I'm not OCD up on anything. I confidently said, oh, I said anything. That's why I confidently said that. I confidently saw me he gone. There's the reason I'm going to say, I, yeah, I don't care about much. Okay.

But like, uh. I do like a noise machine, though. But the flat sheet. Like, I don't know. I want it to be tucked in at the bottom. Oh, I don't like that.

Hotel last night. I'm ripping it up. You don't want it tucked in at all? Uh-uh. I don't like it tight. The hotel ones are always like a straight jacket. It's got to like tear my Achilles in my sleeve. It's crazy.

You can't turn over in that thing. Yeah. I like how the hotel does it. I don't know. Do you? Yeah. Nice snug hug. Yeah.

Snug hug with your stub hubs. What about like, we have like just like small little closet, like sliding door. closets in our room and if mine is not completely shut every once while like one of my hanging clothes will like stick its little sleeve out and I have to get up and like really yeah like bothers me same with like if my pajamas if I'm wearing like pajamas sometimes I'm just going pretty pretty nothing but stuff but if I'm wearing pajamas and they have to match like not like not like not like not

like no no no not like monochromatic but like like if I'm wearing something, if I'm wearing like red socks or something, then I got, I don't know what, orange shirt on or something, it would bother me. Huh. It would be, I wouldn't be at peace. Wow. I don't feel that.

No, I, I, get what you're saying, but it does not, it doesn't bother you, affect me. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, night time's pretty chill. You have sound machine people? No, I am. Once you go, you don't go back. Yeah, it's like an ankle brace. Yeah, it's awesome.

I was raised on it. It was like a curse put on me. Really? Yeah. Interesting. I wonder if my kids are going to say the same thing. Probably. Ooh, I've been outbid on something.

Let's see what it is. Yikes. Okay, let's see. Oh, not the arched mirror. $13. Do I do it? Arched mirror. Yeah, it's like a gold arched like bathroom mirror.

Oh, that's huge. Yeah, dude. That's amazing. Quick bid, $13 to see. we do. I got to log in. I mean, if you're already going to go to Aletha or Liberty, wherever this place is anyway.

That's what I'm saying. What's another little mare? And I need a mirror. Quick bid. $13, yes. Quick bid. Bring it on. I hope they see that they bid and then I'll bid right away and they just give up.

Oh, this guy's a maniac. He's not going to let this die. He's not giving up on this thing. Man, this guy's something else. Any other favorite things? Do we miss anything? Um, I don't think so.

So, nope, not really. Okay. Win of the week. What about that? Oh, yeah. What about it? Fine. Fine.

We'll do that segment. I had a fun, fun time. I don't always know how to, like, enter into the house after I've been gone all day. Kids are always so excited to see me. The other day, I just went full on, like, monster, like crazy. Yeah, well, I'll be a villain today. Bring the energy.

bring the bring like you know i want these kids to go to bed tired kind of yeah and so i just went in and just like i hope that they enjoyed it as much as i think they did because i tickled the heck out of them yeah and when you get tickled you're laughing no matter what i want to make sure they really enjoy it so i'd stop everyone so i'll watch them laugh and like you know whatever but i just went and then i put them all in jail which was henry's crib and then i said don't try to get out there if you do you're going to regret it and then beau of course tries to get out and i take I took him upside down and just put him in his, like, close hamper upside down. And they thought that was the greatest thing they've ever seen in their life.

Like they all, and so then like... Just his little feet sticking out. Yeah, thanks to our church, honestly, like all our kids now, like chant everything. So they're like, in the hamper. In the hamper! And so they all wanted to get in the hamper. Even Henry wanted to get in there. Like, so they're all getting, I mean, and so I'm sure it was like somewhat quiet before

I get there and then I just walk in and just go like just obliterate that in the house basically. So it was just fun and that's great. Fun time and they they slept well that night so slept well. Yeah. Put the kids in the hamper. Kids in the hamper. Yeah. That's fun. My one of the week comes from back in Nashville

Braden's girl, Braden Parsons girlfriend. I got to meet her Kent City Girl, K-West Girl and everything. We talked about last episode. Did she work there with you? No, I can't believe. Braden was like, you guys might have overlapped. I'll introduce you guys tomorrow night. I was like great. And so I was like, hey, when was the last time you worked? She was like, 22. I was like, Raina, how old do you think I am?

Dude, we missed each other. She was too young to even be a camper when I was there, too. No, it was fun. Just swap it stories, mutual friends, yet, yada. But they're in the front seat. I'm in the backseat. And I'm rattling off some sort of, I forget. We were talking about, oh, we were in an area called Germantown of Nashville, and that leads to one thing.

And then we're talking immigration. And I go from that to the other to talking about the soil in Iowa. I don't know. Riveting conversation. And then she goes... I can see why you want to hang out with him, Braden. She goes, what else does it say? And I said, sorry?

She goes, what else? Like your phone? And I was like, that's all me, baby. You talk of what else does my brain say? Oh, yeah. Yeah, jacopedia over here. Jake GPD. Yeah, so that felt good.

What else does it say talking about my brain? Thinking I'm reading off of a phone. That's amazing. So shout out Kinsey for making me feel real. real smart about agriculture about soil yeah yeah german town yeah that was great germantown nashville i always thought germantown there's a germantown memphis area i think that got brought up you probably you pretended like you were looking down at something and german town's actually really nice area in memphis staying gang or die that's it timing you got one that's great yes i

cleaned out my car for the first time really cleaning it out since before oh Ohio. Like, I've been, it's mainly like, I've gone through some phases where I'm like, okay, it's a little less messy now. It just gets, you know, random stuff in it and sometimes like trash from fast food and stuff. And I just was like, enough's enough. I'm going to like really get it clean. So I, uh, you know, got all the trash out, got all the, there was some like clothes in there, a bunch of stuff. A lot of just random things in the trunk that piled up mainly while I was in Ohio and like some of it I didn't know where to put. Figured all out. Went to the car washed vacuumed it all out got a car wash it felt i i've never felt better in my life did you find any shorts

i did i found one pair of shorts we got in a situation recently where it was like timid do you want to be in this video i forgot what it was but he's like dude i can't find shorts what your house just couldn't not an active guy i guess like you don't have i i now i think i have two or three pairs that like now that i've like since then but that day when he had a heads up like hey we might need you. I don't even know where it was. Didn't you run like every day for a long time? Yeah.

Were you running like khakis? No. I ran in shorts. Yeah. It was probably just like the same pair most of time. Hmm. I don't know. Wow.

But yeah. Couldn't find shorts that day and found some shorts. Yeah. Dude, it is a great feeling. So since cleaning out your car, have you tried to keep it clean? Yeah. Yeah.

Yep. That's nice. Just gotten into habit of, If there's like a can of something or I'll just bring it in and put it into the trash instead of just leave it in there, which was a habit of mine for sure. Huge fan of the, let's see what I can take with my hands to the, you know, public trash can out in the business that I'm about to walk in. Yeah, I love that.

Huge fan of that. Yep. Huge fan of that. But spode mugs, those can't throw it away. Yeah. So you got to wait until Catherine's not home and then you take all six in at once. Pretty much. Wow. You had a lot of coffee today.

Make sure it's that good. I have a comment of the week from Rachel Cannon 26. Your pod is the only pod where I genuinely look forward to the ads. As a gal who prides herself on fast-forwarding through ads on every podcast, there's no higher praise I can give. Dude, that is awesome. I love that. And someone replied to that and said, I couldn't agree more. They're the only instance of my life where I don't skip the ads.

It's definitely a skill of theirs. So thank you, Rachel. Thank you, JT. I love hearing that. Are we screenshots stuff when I see that? Like maybe someday we'll want to send this to, and then I never do anything with it. But I've got the screenshots.

Good to know, just in case we need some things. Good to know. I do have plenty of screenshots as long as I can search and find them. Yeah. Dude, one of the best inventions of the new iPhone. When it works, unbelievable. And it works pretty, I mean, like, the text always, or pretty much always works.

Like, if there's text in there? I wonder if I have too many photos or something, because mine doesn't work as good as I hope it would. Oh, really? Like, I know, I'm trying to find an old thumbnail. I know we put this word in there. Why doesn't find it? Really?

Yeah. Like straight up. Yeah. Do you ever find it eventually and like, it has that word in it? Yeah, yeah, I found it. I'm like caught it. Like, see, I knew. I'm sad now.

Maybe I'm like. Maybe it's device to device. But yeah, I love the feature. I want it to work a little bit better. Yeah, it seems like it would, it shouldn't be device. Especially if you've had a little AI in it. If you could say, could you find a screenshot of every time, you know, like you could talk to it a little bit.

that's bad AI, and maybe the new ones have, like, Apple AI that's better. Like, Siri is awful. Yeah. As far as, like, things that have advanced go, like, I asked her something recently, and it was, like, very simple, and she's like, I can't do that, or I don't know how to do that. I think I asked her, like, how to calculate something really quick. Siri can only... What, 70% of 100? I don't think it got it. Siri can only set reminders and alarms that I know of. It's good. It's got those down. And I love her for that. For those things. Thanks.

I text with her. Oh, yeah. I don't. I don't. I use her to call people all the time. And when I say her, I mean, it's an Indian man's voice. Oh, you're Indian man. Really?

But it's a series still a girl, though. Okay. Yeah. At heart. That's true. Yeah. That's good. All right.

I'll also say something nice about the ads from Dr. Andrew 04. He said, The Mary Did You Know Remix during the ad read had me dying while working out. Almost dropped the weight during my overhead tricep extensions. And then listen to this, hot take, Tyman can sing. Dr. Andrew. Speak for yourself. I haven't heard it recently. So Diamond can sing. Congrats, Simon. Thanks. Time can sing. That's fun. I think this is the last last episode until Christmas. Or last it, eh, what is it? Let me look at a map. And when I say map, I mean calendar. Holy cow, rough ending to this.

Let me confidently say it isn't a man. This is the last episode before. Yes, this is Christmas Eve. Oh, so no one's listening to this. I just realized that. That's what I said earlier. I was like, this is Christmas episode, we're fine. Yeah.

They'll listen to it on their way home. We should have said, we could have said way more wild stuff. I didn't have to worry about not pronouncing my words. We're way past like the part that most people have listened to this. So just say something. There's not a single person that's going to be. Just say like, just roll off every, pick a slur. Yeah.

Pick a slur and you slur? What was the Spanish? word for what? Too far, Jake. Yeah, I didn't totally realize that this episode comes out on December 24th. I was like, maybe a gift guide of sorts. Well, for New Year's Eve. No, dude, there's some people out there.

Okay, relatable or, maybe I already talk about this. I went to the grocery store on Thanksgiving morning. Did I talk about this? I don't know. There's something like, there's like a camaraderie. Like, there's like a fraternity of people every once in a while. Like, if you go at things last minute together. Yes, dude.

like February 13th, you're like all getting like flowers at like 1130 at Price Chopper or something. Oh, excuse me, I cut you? No, man. Of course. Hey, we're all those together. We get it, man. You and me, man. There's going to be people out at the stores on December 24th. And it's like, it's like, we're in this together. We're both those kind of people and that's okay. I might be that guy. Okay. So. But yeah, this episode comes out the 24th. So then next Monday and Wednesday are our recap episodes. Mm-hmm. Yep. Merry Christmas to everybody out there. So, Merry Christmas is something we'd like to say formally.

We went Christmas lights looking. What do we call that? Hunting? You haven't. There's a good house, actually not too far from here. Tons of stuff in their yard. And they had the word joy. We were doing this thing.

So I took all the kids out without Catherine. She was doing some errands or doing some stuff around the house. I was like, we're going to go out and then we'll come back and get you. And then we'll go out far or whatever. And so the hunt was for seven. nativity scenes. We had to try to find seven of them. And we found this house that had so many things in their yard. It was like a big old house. And we're like, I, yeah, you know, they have joy in there. Sure, they're going to have a nativity scene. They have all these different things.

They don't have nativity. And Bo just goes, doesn't seem like they know the true meaning of Christmas. And I was like, whoa. That's right, buddy. So he's like, it does have joy, but, you know. I think they're missing part of it. I loved it, man. I was like, good for. for you, man. It's like a little trimmany of Christmas. And then we went back with Catherine to show him that house. And he said again, yeah, it's a cool house, but it doesn't really seem like they know a true meeting Christmas.

You look in the driveway, they've got a cyber truck park there? Oh, no. This is why Bo hates his house. I hate cybertruck. So good. Oh, that's funny. Yeah. Anyway, I don't know.

What were we else going to say? Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Yeah. Thanks for listening, guys, as always. It's always so fun to have y'all listening and just being a part of our weeks. Thanks for all the comments and kind words. Truly is like such a special opportunity and such a special thing to get to do this. So thanks to Coley. I think Coley's going to help edit some of these upcoming episodes. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Shout out to Coley. Yeah. Shout out to Coley for time and probably. He's in town right now. You know that? It's coming down today. I heard he's coming, coming. How are you all in the know about them? Maybe I know things too, Jake. I don't know.

You're a thing or two. Got a few friends. Dude. Sam Severs knows everything about everybody. Does he? That's all I'm going to say. I mean, that sounds like Sam is. The whole airport's changing.

Sam knows about it. Honestly, he'd probably be like, yeah, I know somebody who's involved in that. Yeah, this is where they live. Every time I say, it's really about our church in general. I'm like, yeah, I'm thinking about this or, yeah, I talk to this guy. Oh, yeah, he does this. Oh, yeah, he stopped tithing about six months ago.

He went to check up on him. Sam, you know too much. They lowered their tides by 18%. They must be kind of struggling. That's funny. Anyway, all I have to say, Sam and everybody else, Merry Christmas out there. Merry Christmas.

We'll see you. In 2026. Time is going to be 17. It's going to be almost. Almost old enough to vote. Yep, that's right. Yep. Make the right choice, David. All right.

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