Ghostrunners - 504 - Miss Debbie Went Home

Episode Date: January 12, 2026

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Five, six, seven, eight. We're back. It has been years since we've last podcasted. You ready? You were saying? You was a hit, Jake. To you since last year. Dang it.

I didn't mean to set up that joke. Wait, wait, wait. It's been forever. Let's count how many states we've been to. Collectively. This guy. Every time I text him. Find my iPhone.

Timon's in Bend, Oregon, or wherever he is. I actually think the last. four times at Texas time and he was in a different city and state every time. I wasn't sure what you meant by that because I don't think I've been that many. So city is like a smaller version of a state. Oh, true. I think I went four for four. I think it was like Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Oregon. Okay. So that's four. Is that true? Did you go four for four? I don't know where you got Indiana from, but the other ones, I guess, yeah, like for sure, like St. Louis, somewhere Illinois. St. Louis. I thought you were in St. Louis. All right. No. I want, I want to count how many places we've

stepped foot on and since seeing each other last. So what happens? Kansas, for sure. Yeah. Kansas, stepped foot. Missouri. Missouri. Oklahoma. Step foot. Oklahoma for me. Illinois. Illinois. Illinois. That's four. We have that. Put me down for Iowa. Iowa. Texas for me. Okay. Oregon. Oregon. I'll go Florida. I'm out. I think. I think I'm out. Layover. Yes. Hand me, Georgia. Yes. Step that foot in Georgia.

Yeah, I did. Nine. So we got nine? Yeah. Not bad. That's pretty good. Nine states. That's almost 10% of the United States.

Yep. Almost. Not bad. Since the last time we recorded. That's crazy. We've been jet setting. Setting, jetting. So much to talk about over the last three weeks.

But the main thing is an email I got three minutes ago. Yes. From the PPA tour. Hot off the press. The, the. Big pickleball league. I've registered to play in a tournament next week. Okay.

And they just sent an email. It's called, so this is going to look bad. This is their email. This is not mine. Okay. Let me just read you the first sentence. Jake Triplett, comma. The PPA Masters is an all-whites event, period.

Whoops. Whoops. Whoops. Whoopsies. Hoopsies. They getting away with that. It's the Masters. The Masters.

I was called the primaries. What? Oh my gosh. I immediately was like, whoa, that's what we'll start the episode with. Oh, my gosh. So I knew this was a thing that they, you know,

I think they're just like, pickleball is still trying to just, it's just taking stuff from every sport. So I think golf has masters. Yeah. Why don't we do one? Golf was pretty exclusive for a long time. All whites, all male.

And I think they, they're like, hey, Wimbledon's kind of fun. People like to wear white a lot. Yeah. Let's do that. And then the problem is, then you end up sending out an email that says for the PPA Masters, it's all whites. It's whites only. Was that the first sentence? I'm not kidding. Jake Triplett, PPA Masters, don't be black. Dude. It is the first sentence. Immediate podcast. All whites. Podcast material. All whites. All whites. All whites, guys. Hey, leave anything else at home.

or in the, you know, second rate bathroom and water fountain. Yeah, for whatever reason, let's go ahead and dissect this a little bit more. The S at the end of whites It makes it racial. Is why it's racial. If it was like, if it was like,

if it was orange, like everyone's supposed to wear orange, they would say all orange event. They would. That's a good point. All navy. All navy event. It wouldn't be all navies.

For whatever reason, it's all whites. All purples. Whites only. Yeah, you would say all purple. It's a whites exclusive thing. It's like, no, you wouldn't say that. So, yeah. Well, you're going to be just fine.

Should be. I'll be fine. We will be fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Honestly, it's good for, it's good for chances of winning. Yeah, what state? This is in California. They're not going to like that.

They're going to have some hard times with that. Even aside from, like, the racial kind of jokes with this, it is kind of an insane dress code now that I'm reading through this. Just like, whites does not include off white or cream. Oh, wow. They want like pure bread.

Why do they say whites then? As if it's like shades of white. That's a good point. If it's just white. White. White. It's an all white event. Yeah.

It's not a cream event or an off white event. Nothing about this will be off white. Oh, gosh, dude. Yeah, people are going to, you should purposely like push the envelope and see if somebody says. something. With, like, with my dress code.

Yeah. Like, like, let's say you wear a white shirt, but you purposely, like, change a tire before you come. And so you're, it's a white shirt. A space tire. Change. Oh, yeah. Change a tire.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, you're, you're, uh, you see somebody on the side of the road. You're trying to be a good Samaritan. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry, it's off white now. I have some lubricant on me. And then you have a speech impediment.

You're like, listen, guys, I'm all white. But I'm not all white. No, I don't have a two in the backhand. I'm all white. I'm all white. Yeah. You could really push the envelope and go like robe. Yeah.

Yeah. Or get like a black friend of mine there and have him go white face. Have him push the envelope like, you sent the email. There you go. Yep. Have him kind of push that. So yeah, competitors who addressed, it's suitable, pickable attire. One word.

A tire. Change attire. That is almost entirely white. Almost entire. No solid mass or panel of coloring. Geez, color. Close. No colors.

You say no color, it's fine. Gosh, dude. I mean, it's pretty specific. Get to wear white shoes? A single, we'll get to that. A single trim of color around the neckline or the cuff of the sleeves. It's acceptable, but no wider than 0.5 inches. Wider with a D.

No whiter in the wide. This is what's crazy. Caps. including the under bill must be completely white. What? This is very exclusion. Caps?

What is this going to be used for? Headbands? Yeah. You're like, you're unknowingly agreeing to be in something you don't. Pointed caps are just fine. I'm going to sign a release

and it's like, I'm going to look at the fine print. Like, this is get out too. This is California masks are okay. You can even put a mask over your eyes. Just put a couple slits in the, eyes still be able to see a little bit yeah right geez right a horse to get there yeah no problem just make sure it's a white horse it could get chilly light of fire

dance around it it's community uh uh oh oh oh i do i think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and 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 ghostrums podcast everybody's Wow So White's old I got that next week So you yeah

You told us that you were Needed to We're recording four episodes this week Because you're going to this event I'm gonna say maybe you shouldn't go bro Yeah now you're like Hey I rearranged my schedule For you to go white

To do this dude I'm enabling you to do this In California no less You're gonna get killed And worst part is I had time in going through the ringer Just to try and get there yesterday He was on the phone

With a travel agent I think you were on an airplane while on the phone. Yeah. Oh, that sounds miserable. I'm sorry, I put you through that. Yeah, no, it was fine. Gosh. Are you going?

She was just the sweetest old lady trying her best. That's nice. It's like an hour phone call. Whoa, whoa, whoa, okay. Huh. Let's talk. First of all, into the story, are you going or not? I am.

Okay. Yeah. Second of all, what are you wearing? Yeah. Truly. I mean, I was mainly hired. That's off white, right? I was mainly hired from my, like, white power, like, real.

Yeah, that's right. My resume really qualified. qualifies me for this tournament. That's a guy we need there. Jake didn't invite me. It was the PPA themselves. They were like, we really loved your work in at nationals. Yeah, at nationals. That's great. And third of all,

you are a very competent user of technology. Why are you talking to a travel agent? Okay, so. I'm just curious. I'm not saying the travel agents can't do anything, but. So the Palm Springs tournament, it slightly overlaps with a church trip. I already have planned like and a church weekend in L.A. Oh.

Like what I did last year. Nice. Yeah. And so I already had tickets to go to L.A. from Kansas City. But now I'll just go from Palm Springs to Kansas City. So I was like, and I didn't get my own tickets for this, I think. So my friends that got the tickets got it through a bank or a travel agency of some kind. So that's on the... Well, okay.

Hey, yeah, I just need to do a quick cash withdrawal and like 17 airline passes. This is why I was confusing. Because I... I swear it was called Chase, which is the name of a bank, right? Well, yeah, there's also a credit card. Yeah, it's maybe through, like, they had acquired, like, points. Or maybe, like, Chase, I don't know. But I think that would be awesome.

Dude, you find first class? Yeah. Wells Fargo. I just went into ATM the other day, and there was passing out airline ticket. So I didn't really know who I was talking to, but she was nice and she was doing her best. But it was kind of funny because I ended up not actually using her to, like, do any ticket. Because, like, we got a really good deal in LA tickets. They were, like, $94.

And it was $99 as, like, a base price to even switch tickets. So I'm just getting new tickets. Okay, got it. Yeah. It is too bad. I feel like that Ron Swanson scene when someone comes up to him at Home Depot or whatever, if someone is, like, trying to, I guess this scenario specifically, I came with traveling.

I could, I know more than you do. Yeah. See ya. Yeah. It would be tough. Yeah. Especially when it's like, hey, this is Gloria. I know more than you do.

Sorry. Yeah. Like, I wonder how long the phone call could have been. Yeah. But have you heard of Scott's cheap flights or whatever? I'm about Sky scanner. Remember Sky scanner? Yeah.

I was obsessed with SkySkinner. I was obsessed with Sky Slag. I probably talked about that on some old podcast episodes. That was fun. You should get into that, timing. Try it out. Great. Try it up.

They'll do. There was a moment where I considered, I didn't actually consider it, but I kind of did. It was like 25 bucks to take the train from Palm Springs to L.A. Yeah. The problem was it was 2.30 to 5.30 a.m. And I was like, that doesn't sound like worth it at all. But I think,

Rachel and I are going to do a train ride, just for like a fun weekend. Take a train to Chicago or something. Dude, I love taking the train. Yeah. Amtrak. It's a fun time. I don't know what brand we're going to do. I'm going to have to go to my bank and get a ticket. I'll take a cashier's check, and do you have a brochure for trains? Dude, I went into a fiscal bank.

I was home for just like, I've barely been home for three weeks, but I think it was the day after Christmas. I was briefly home for like a couple hours that morning. And so I went to a physical bank. I done that in years. Dude. Yeah. I've been a few times recently. Yeah.

What are you been up to? Been paying Tino and cash. Oh, in De Niro. So the other day, you have to go and get your money. The other day, yeah. This bank is completely silent.

Sorry for interrupting. No, I want to know what you are doing at the bank. Completely silent. And they're like, all right, how much do you want to withdraw? And there's like four people behind me. I'm like, $13,100 place.

he's like all right cool yeah yeah wow yeah that's what you pay him here you go ben wow stacks on stacks that takes me back to the book buying days though because that's how i was you know finals week i'm like 20 years old backpack with 10 grand in it really that i'm going to pay students with but it was scary on monday before i like paid it out it's like hold this gosh you hope you count it right yeah uh yeah anyway but that place was so soul-sucking. Was your soul-sucking? Mine was soul-neutral, I'd say. A little give, a little take. Really? A little suck. You got a new bank. I did. This wasn't, yeah, I finally, shout out to the ghosties, especially some of those on the ghost owners getaway who are like forcing me. They're like,

holding me down, waterboarding me, like, get a savings account. Get a savings account. I was like, I'll do it. I'll do it. So I've finally done that. But it's so fine. So they don't even have locations. Their only location is where the chargers play. So I think that's where you have to go there. Yeah, if I need cash, I have to go catch a Rams game. Time's like, oh, they have tickets there too. Yeah, they take care of it for you. I like most banks.

This was me trying to shut down some of my Bank of America accounts. Like, hey, I'm a SOFA guy now. Okay, good. So Bank of America is my bank. Okay. Where'd you go? Down south on Quivir. Okay, because there's like...

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. where's here the queer wait i thought that one was closed there's so many of our closing they are closing a lot spent on money on air airlines you know they signed a bad deal they really went in all in with the the pilot strike really killed them uh yeah i just feel like i'm bank of america and i'm like i'm going to change banks solely for the fact that there's no locations it's hard to find him and sometimes you get tricked you're like oh here's one oh it's just an ATM outside of a Walgreens. So often I need a check or something.

Recently people have been like, I don't take Venmo, I just do checks. I'm like, all right, my checks ran out, so I have to go to a bank to get one for you. That sucks. Yeah. Anyway, this one was just down, Quiver.

But I went, because everyone used to, this is an old ghost earners joke, but when I got my first LLC, I was told, well, don't make it your name. People could find you. Or no, I guess I didn't know that, whatever the joke was, but I named it JT operations.

Yeah. I don't know. I think I spazzed. It just like quickly came up with something. JT operations being shut down a little bit. Wow. End of an era. End of an era.

Yeah, it was beautiful. It doesn't really make money anymore. Everything that was going in there is stopped. So I'm like, let me shut down the S corp, the bank account. But boy, it's tough to shut down an account. Can't do it online. Can't do it over the phone. Got to go in person.

There's only one location in Kansas City. There's only one. Yeah. So I went in there to do that. I figured that would be easy. And then what I've also been doing since I got the savings account, is I've slowly been sucking money out of my own accounts. Yeah.

You can't do it. It's so tough. It's like, max you could do is $1,000 a week. So I'm like, all right, well, just every Monday. Okay. Let's just do that or else there's like a fee. Okay. Well, we got pretty close to the end here.

I'm like, what happens if I go over? Stop, stop. And I'm like, I'm doing the like metaphorical like panic stop all over the app and the website. I'm like, I can't get it. I got two more weeks left and I can't figure this out. But I mean, it took like 10 years to get to that point. like, oh, I've been doing this forever, forever. Yeah, I'd been doing it about four times.

I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop. I thought it'd be easy to stop. It's Zell. It's a modern, it's like VINMO. Wait, is it automatically doing it? Yes, it was a recurring payment. Okay. And for the life of me, I can't, like, it's Zell.

Yeah, it's like, this is like cash app or VINMO. Like, this is so advanced. It should be no problem. I have issues with Zell, bro. Yeah. It's, first of all, it doesn't really even have an app. Yeah, it doesn't have its own. It's like, you know,

you and download the Zell app and you click on it and you like sign in and just takes you to a browser. Yeah. Like your Zelle. They don't really have anything that belongs to them other than my money. Other than millions and billions of dollars. I can't get it to stop. So like December 26th, I got to go in there. I got to shut down the account.

I got to stop the Zell payment. Right. And then it's kind of like a travel agent thing where I'm like, can you help me stop this? And like, all right. It's through the glass. They can't. They're not allowed to touch the phone. So I'm holding it up to the glass.

Like, all right, can you show me the app? Wait, are you in the drive-thru? No, I'm inside, I'm inside, but still big glass. Okay. Use the app. All right, click, click settings. I promise I've clicked settings. Okay.

Yeah, yeah, good idea. All right, click pay and transfer. Okay. Obviously, I've clicked through pay and transfer. That's like the main thing. Yeah. Okay. All right.

I'm not seen it in there. And so, yeah, we just do this for 30 minutes. But I will say there's an aspect of it that made me, I appreciate it. It made me feel like I was 95 years old. And I have to go to the bank to help that me solve a problem. Can you help me with my cell phone? Yeah, I don't know how these things are doing. This darn do hickey is not working. They're saying double click and I don't really understand that. Every time I do, it just zooms in. Makes it bigger. But I was in there for a long, long time. What was the solution? End up getting to the top. I'm running up the chain of command and I got

to the head honcho and I said, I'm actually flying to Florida tonight. And so then we had a long conversation about alligators. Okay. And she told me that they will honk at you. Honk at you. I said, Gators? Oh, yeah. You've been to the Everglades?

I said, I'll give you that. I've not been to the Everglades. So yeah, you look behind you and you're like, what's a honking sound? It's alligators. Not geese. I was like, this is the woman who's helping me. Yeah, this is the highest. They shut down eight branches, but we're going to keep this girl in charge.

What, so, yeah. While they were looking for it, I found my own workaround. and it was like go to the, actually it doesn't even matter. Go to the Chrome version of the app, you know, on my phone, click around, this, that, and the other, figured it out. But anyway, alligator's honking. Alligator's honking on the list. They had me teach them how I did it.

That felt nice. Yeah, good. If someone else comes in here with a recurring Zill payment, we need to know how to stop it. Can you show us what you did? Yeah. And you're the master. They're going to call you now.

Yeah, I am going to be. You're like, FYI, not all all alligators honk. You're in there just, you have spout and knowledge. Wow. She was pumped to talking about alligators. Yeah, I'm going to one of the more tourist areas of Florida. Look out for gators. They honk.

Got it. Got it. Okay. You bet. Do you have a story? It sounds like you do. Yeah. Please ask me one more question about the gators.

I have a good one for you. What you go up to? Man, just celebrating Christmas, went down to Texas for Christmas, which was great. Was there for like six days? Did the old. this is the first time we've done it, left at 4 p.m., like left later on in the day to go down there, hoping that the kids would fall asleep.

You dog. I would say the experience was an 8 out of 10. Really? You would do it again. Catherine would say 10 out of 10. Me, though, as the person driving the whole time after living a whole day, got a little tired. That was the only negative. It was like, honestly, like the first,

I think we left at like 4.15 p.m. And it started getting dark at like, you know, 5.30. And all of a sudden, I was like, oh, oh, no. I was getting tired quick. You're checking Google Maps. All right, about six and a half more hours, and I'm falling asleep now. Okay. Oh, boy.

You know, like, you know what you could just feel it? It's just like heavy. And I'm sure in your scenario, if you're by yourself, like, I see to get out and wake myself up a little bit. Sure. If they're starting to sleep, you don't really want to stop the car. It's completely quiet. Yeah, completely like everything. And, you know, do you guys like when you drive at night, like, do your mind or your eyes just like play tricks on you?

like, yes, out of the corners. I think I'm turning right here, or I think it curves, but is it curving like five miles or like, you know, five feet up there? And so, yeah, it was just, it was less relaxing for me. But yeah, the kids fell asleep. We got there. Kids went right to bed. It was pretty good.

On the way back, however, I would say instead of an eight out of ten, we go five out of ten. And by that, I mean, kids still end up falling asleep, doing all right. but Hattie, when we started leaving, she was kind of complained about a stomach, stomach ache, not doing too well. And then I think it was just car sickness because no one else got sick eventually,

but all of a sudden she just was like, I'm gonna get sick, I'm gonna throw up, I'm gonna, you know, and Catherine, dude, to Catherine's credit, Catherine, Mama the Year. This is kind of gross, sorry guys, but we had just eaten pizza at Catherine's parents' house and Catherine's dad, you know, orders five times.

times too many pizzas. And so he's like, here, take a whole bag of pizza with you. And so we had like one of those like massive Ziplog bags and

Hattie's about to get sick and Catherine just undoes the zip block throws all the pizza on the dash and just turns around in perfect time just like catch all the throw up in the bag.

Dang. And so she caught it? She caught it in the bag. And so it was like could hand eye cord. Honestly like very low mess, very low anything. That's awesome.

Yeah. And the other kids just miserable for Hattie. Yeah. And Hattie was like, And Hattie was like, Hattie, every time she gets sick like that,

she like cry. It's like hysterically hard for her. She's like, I don't want to do it. I don't. And Catherine's like, throwing the peat's pepperoni. Like,

just do it, you know. And then there's Rosie, literally two feet away. Just, it's locked out. Wow. If this was like a Disney Channel movie,

it would be like, Catherine and Hattie both like, oh, we did it. It worked great. And then the camera pans over to you. And you've got pepperoni and sauce and all your face. Like,

yeah. Good job. Dude, you can judge me on this all you want. But I genuinely, after, you know, let's go 90 seconds, maybe two minutes, I was like, hey, do you mind passing me one of those pieces? You've got the de-frost going, so it's kind of warming up the piece on it. It's like, steamed up a little thing. Yeah, that's pretty good.

That's pretty Disney Channel, too. That's perfect. Catherine goes, seriously now? I was like, yeah, I'm fine. You zip-locked the bag shut, right? So. For whatever reason, it wasn't that gross to me. I think it was because it was such a clean,

you know, clean happenstance, and I didn't see anything happen anyway. So this isn't much of a story. I really wasn't going to bring this up, but because it's so similar, what Catherine did to Hattie, Rachel almost did to me on a flight two days ago.

I just started feeling really sick. It's just like one of those like, man, I'm trapped in the window seat. We're about to take off. And I'm like, it's happening. And also,

I am wondering, what do you do if you have to throw up and you're not allowed out of your seat, an airplane? And Rachel had the bag. I was like, oh yeah, they give you these little back. So I had the bag ready to go. And boy, I'm praying.

Yeah. I made it through once we got up to 10,000 feet. And then I escaped to the back and didn't go out of my mouth. But it was feeling it. Yeah, new experience for me. Bummer. Yeah. Yeah.

You feel like that? Yeah, I don't know. Huh. I think it's one of those things. We've talked about it before when you have a, I had a big shoot the day before, you know, and I think it's like a lot of stress and built up. And once you get through, you're like, I'm done. Immunity system, take a day off.

Go ahead. Yeah. Seriously. It's something. That's just what happened. For the longest time, like every single year on our anniversary, we were supposed to go to a melting pot and we always had to cancel it because I would be leading worship and Christmas and all the crazy stuff of Christmas.

Then it was over and it was always like, I'm sick. I can't taste anything. So I'm not going to spend all this money on melting pot when I can't taste. Exactly. Wait a week. I feel like it's such a sure sign that you're sick when you look down. and it's 4 p.m. And you're like, I haven't eaten anything.

And I don't want to eat anything. Like something's going on inside. This is weird. Yeah. I've never felt that. But I was kidding. No, Texas was awesome. I'm trying to think of anything specifically.

I mean, it was just a good time. I mean, it's like 20. I think there's like 28 people staying in this house, you know. And granted, it's a large spread out house. And so it's not that crazy. Luckily, it was like beautiful weather. I feel like that was just a, theme everywhere in America, but like it was like 80 degrees. And so the kids were out running around.

We, we swam on Christmas. I called the Christmas pool club CPC. Because it was still freezing. The water was freezing. The water was freezing. It was 80 some degrees. So it was like 24 through the 26 for magical days. Yeah. For the Midwest. I like everywhere. It was awesome. It was just like amazing. Yeah. It was just so it was almost too warm. But then again, it's like, don't complain. Like this is fine. Like this is good. Uh, so CPC happened. Christmas pool club. There was a thermometer in the pool. like 50 degree water. So it was like cold. That is pretty cold. It was kind of fun like, you know, Haddy Bow and I all jumped in together and then the kids like sprinted out of there. That's fun. Bo jumped in a few more times and all that stuff. I, oh, I have a few different

funny story, I guess. One of them was with you actually, this is not that funny, but it's more of a normalized, normalized texting people versus looking it up. Oh, that's fun. Yeah. So somehow, Catherine's brother and I, he's only a year younger than me. So he's your age, basically. He grew up the same time we did. We were talking about Halo somehow. And we're talking about those swords that you have in Halo. We're like, what are those things called?

Yeah. And I was like, don't look it up. Like, let's figure this out. So often these days we just look up every single thing right away and just figure it out. I was like, don't look it up. Let's figure it out. And we tried to think about it. We couldn't figure it.

I was like, all right, don't look it up, but you can text somebody. But you have to tell them not to look it up. So I texted you. I texted Scott. And, you know, you text to me, you're like, dude, I don't remember exactly. And then like an hour later, you're like, dude, what is that sword call? And then I get a text like four hours later, like 1250 at night, like in the morning. Energy sword?

Two question marks. Like you've been thinking about it this whole time. So I love that. I love the idea, though, of like, hey, let's just more for a game than it is for like, obviously, you know, convenience you just text or just search it every time. It's like, hey, that's a fun way to text somebody something. Or like, I don't know. Do you ever do this? I saw an Instagram real yesterday. It was like two podcasters and they were trying to name chiefs players of this, that, or whatever. And like, instead of watching it, I would like pause it

it before everyone. Like, all. Yes. I can do this. Yes. But then, boy, I end up frustrated myself. Like, you should know this, dude. Really? And the temptation to just let my finger off to know the, it's like, it's a split second away. If I was like, no, think about it. Figure it. out. Yeah, I do sometimes do that. And I am pretty impatient with myself when I know the answer is right there, though. I think that's what it is. Just let it off and find out. I don't know. Go ahead. Yeah. Yeah, what did I watch the other day? And I was like, I could figure it. Oh, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, uh, what current NFL coach has more rushing yards than Bojax? Oh, I did see that. That was fascinating. And I was like, I, they were

guessing a few and they couldn't get it. I paused. I was like, I could figure this out. It's like, and then I, after like 20 seconds, I was like, no, I can't get it. So. So. See if you can get real quick what I paused on yesterday. It was the Chiefs leading rushers every year of the Mahomes era. Okay. 2018. Okay. And I'll say, I didn't do that great.

This is harder for me than it should have been for a massive chiefs fan. Yeah, I'm bad at this. 2018 would have been Kareem. Good job. Okay. 2019 was also Kareem? No, he only did like half of 2018. I just didn't know if he was still just doing all right.

Yeah, rushing wise, because we didn't rush that much. Sharkandric? No. That was one of the only names I could think of, too. I was like, who was even around? Williams was 2019 or was he? I think it was Damien in 2019. 2020.

Also Damian Williams? Or did we? 2020 and 2021 were the same person. Okay. And it was. Yeah. Okay. Don't tell me.

Give me like 20 seconds, dude. Chill out. 20. Let's see. Who would have been? I know. Isn't it? We're like, dude,

I watch every game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm just going to, Jerich McKinnon's not the end. sir, but I'm just thinking I'm out loud here. Yeah, he was around. Remember Daryl Williams? He was not

the answer either, but I'm just, you're just proven and you know some stuff. Yeah, exactly. Larry Johnson, maybe, Priest Holmes. Dude, I don't know. Give me a, do you remember your number? Of course. You're going to hate that you don't know this. Yeah. Is it, it's not like Tyreek or something. No, no, no. It's like our running back. Oh, Clyde. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Clyde for two years. Yeah. Then Pacheco, no? I think it was, I think Daryl might have snuck in there somewhere. But yeah, then Pacheco.

Okay. Anyway, that was kind of my, my breath I paused on. No, I would have, I would have struggled through that. But all that to say, what was I talking about? Texas. That, it was good. CPC, Christmas pool club. Funny story from Texas that I was like, ask Catherine.

I was like, can I tell that on the podcast? podcast. She's like, yeah, you definitely should tell that of the podcast. All right. So Catherine grew up with this woman, Miss Debbie. Miss Debbie was their house cleaner. I love the setup to this story. This is great. I'm all ears. Ms. Debbie was her house cleaner. Sweet lady. She came to our wedding. She's awesome. And probably older, like older than Catherine's mom. So I would bet she's probably in her mid-70s, maybe now 70s. Yeah, now. And Catherine the other day, she's like, Hey, I just got a text for my mom. Miss Debbie died.

Okay. Oh my gosh. That's terrible. Sorry, you hear that. You know, yeah, it's kind of sad. You know, whatever. She was older, but she wasn't that old. Like, you know, we were talking about it.

And, um, and then a couple days later, Catherine's like laughing. She's like, you're never going to believe this. Debbie's alive. I was like, what? And so Catherine's mom got a text. from Catherine's cousin. Hey, Debbie went home. Debbie went home tonight.

Lowercase H versus capital H. I think maybe with an emot, like a sad emoji or something like that. Debbie went home tonight. And, you know, Catherine's mom was like, oh my gosh. Like, thank you for letting us know. And then a couple days later, like, hey, has there been any announcements about Debbie's funeral in like the timing of that? her cousin's like, what?

No, we don't really do that. She's alive. Debbie went home. And so we told me, that's so good. Apparently Catherine's mom tells Debbie, and she's like, that's hilarious, you know.

But Debbie went home. She's in a better place now. She's in a better place. The comfort of her own home. Her bed, her pillows, her routine. Because even if you're like reading that

being like, does she mean literal home or heaven? Yeah. Should I really, am I in a place to question? the person delivering the news. Yes. I'll just wait a couple days.

Debbie went home. Debbie went home. Debbie made it home. I'm titling this episode. Miss Debbie went home. Miss Debbie went home. That's great. Write that down.

Oh, yeah. That's a great story. From the recollection that I have, maybe there was a negative emoji in there as well, which, what would that be? It's like sad. Debbie went home. Or teary-eyed?

Well, no, you use that if you're like, hey, she was sick and now she... Like maybe an emotional teary-eyed? I think that sometimes there's too much left up to the interpretation of an emoji these days. Yeah. I think this one, I... Do you guys ever, like, type out a word and then use the emoji when you type it out? Like, are you ever like, hey, I don't know if we can do that, embarrassed. Oh.

And then I click the emoji. Yeah, to get this one? I type yikes. Me too! You do yikes? Wow. Yikes. AKA like this is a bad.

Yeah. I don't know about this. The noise implied is. Exactly. I think some people with this one, they do, they do more like, that's like a big smile to them. No. I think. Yeah, that's not right.

It's not right. That ain't right. So sometimes I'll do emotional for the one tier coming out. Yeah. Welling up with emotion. So maybe it was that one. Like Debbie made it home. Debbie went home.

They went home. One tier drop. I'm so happy. She's finally home. going home. Yeah. Yikes. Anyway, I thought that was amazing.

That was such like a Texas thing, you know. They're going home. No, that's beautiful. Brad, did you happen to see what was out in front of my front door when you walked in? Yes, I did. Okay. And what analysis do you have of what you saw it there? What analysis do I have?

It looked like you door dashed some cozy earth. That's a great description of probably what it looks like. Yeah. We got back from all of our traveling. families for Christmas and I'd gotten Rachel a pair of cozy earth pajamas because I believe in what we sell around here. Yes, dude. There's stuff is top notch. I even got my grandma a pair of cozy your pajamas. And these weren't even like freebie gifts. I was like, well, it's kind of a girly color. No, I paid for two different sets of like, you're like, I don't look great in lilac. So I guess I'll

give them to my grandma or the same size. Yeah. I paid for a full set for my grandma, a full set for Rachel. Rachel's were a little too small. Okay. So go take it back. Last night, I'm like filing the return. They're like, do you want to ship it or do you want to leave it on your doorstep. I was like, that's an option. I've never seen that from any company ever. So if you needed another reason to go cozy earth, get the wrong size on purpose. Just so you feel the convenience of just throwing it out your window. You literally, I saw you open up your screen. Like, you open the window up and then you opened the little screen, just chucked it out to the, to the front car. It was throwing a bird seed. Yeah. I was like, oh, they'll be half. They can smell it. You were like a

reverse paper boy out there, just throwing it out there. Like, you take it, man. So, I don't know if they've taken it yet. That was last night and this morning, but oh, I tossed it out. Yeah. And apparently they're going to come by and snag it. So I think that's kind of fun. That's amazing. I saw that and I was like, I need to bring this inside.

And then I saw that it was like, it's like a shipping label. Maybe he's returning this. But we're not returning return and returning. We're just returning for a better size. Exchanging. Which is great. You can do that, obviously, very, very seamlessly, very easily on gaujordier.com.

As I was packing Rachel's like pajamas back into the bag to reverse door dash them, I go, man, man, I need, what? I need to start wearing your pajamas. I think it was a sentence I said. And Rachel said, have you done the exchange yet? It would be a gift to me if you wore these pajamas. I said, I'm not doing that. And also, yes, I just went, I just like exchanged it.

Like, it's done. I just put it off the shipping level. It's done. Right. I'm not going to go back in. But I did just touch you. I was like, kind of want to wear something like this to bed. Dude.

It's soft. It's good. Do you ever have those moments where it's like, um, both A, you love this thing so much. So every time you get it out of the, like, it's clean in the laundry, you wear it. But then B, you struggle because you try to like not wear it right away because it's like, dang it. I can't wear it. It's always dirty. Dude, it's, that's exactly like I, I wore cozy earth joggers last night to bed.

And then I wore them today to go on a walk, got a little sweat sweat. I'm like, dang it. Can't wear them tomorrow. So I put them in the dirty clothes. And I thought to myself, I don't know if I'll see those again for a while. I'm not going to sleep as well. So they are, they're going to go at the top of your like depth chart. You're like your winter clothing depth chart.

A hundred percent, dude. Honestly, this is not even just for the ad. We love cozy earth. I truly. I have like a closet in my, no, I'm sorry. A like laundry basket in my closet that's just like exclusively cozy earth pajama stuff. Yeah, you got a little area. And I just, I just go in there.

It's like, it's like, I don't care what it is. But if it's cozy earth, I'm putting it on to sleep in. They just do it right. Whatever they're doing, they're doing it right. And you get 20% off sitewide with our link in the description. or you can use the promo code GRKC. Either should work. But try both.

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I bet Brandon Faulkner has a way out there right now that's like, hey, like here's something that can automate you clicking the link 18,000 times every day. Yeah. I wouldn't hate it. I wouldn't hate it if all of a sudden Ghostrunners, you know, clicks go up one million clicks every single day. Yeah, I wonder how they automate that. Brandon.

Brainless. Hack into the mainframe and figure it out. Cozierth.com slash ghostrunners. That's right. Do it. That's great. On New Year's Eve, I got some interesting messages initially that I didn't know how to respond to. Okay.

It was like, yeah, I'm in Florida with Rachel's family. At like 10 p.m. New Year's Eve, I see a DM pop up from John Chris that says, my brother. That's it. That's it. No follow. Just my brother. Okay. I was like, hmm, what do we make of this?

All right. Sitting around the Settlers of Catan table. Everyone have a turn. What do we think is coming next? You don't have any guesses? It's New Year's Eve and kind of odd. I take a couple turns, build a couple cities. I look back, all right, let's see if John's responded yet.

Go to the Ym's. My brother has gone. My brother has gone home. My brother went home. Oh, he, he unsent my brother. I'm like, now I'm looking way too into these two words. I'm like, is he man? Yeah.

My brother. We can't be doing my brother. This, this. What would I even possibly done? I'm like, it's an option. Uh-huh. I don't know. Yeah.

My brother. My brother. I don't know what happened. Time goes on. Everyone around the table. Everyone's got theories. About 30 minutes passed by. And then three more DMs come through.

Now it's getting close to midnight. John Chris is DM and me. Okay. And he said, hey, I just checked my Spotify wrapped. and I think he insinuated from like a podcaster standpoint and he was like my listeners listen to Rogan

Nate Tucker Carlson and you he said not sure what that says about my audience but I think it's a good sign you're welcome to come on the podcast anytime you're Nashville

and he didn't say ghost owners but I feel like it was insinuated that it was us or else he just would have texted Trey yeah you and Trey or y'all and the fact that he was like surprised I feel like it makes it seem like it was Ghostrunners. That's fun, yeah. So it was cool.

That was a nice little happy New Year gift. It kept me in the dark for about 30 minutes. My brother. And they took it out. He took, there's no, there's no, there's no need to take it out. Dude, I would be stressed out. Like, if I unsend something, I am, I like have to send something else. Just like, they saw it.

Yeah. 30 minutes, like, he's just a chill guy, I guess. That's how you know you've like gotten famous. That's the biggest thing I notice is like, you're done worrying about these little things now. Yeah. Us, us little people, we weren't. worry about the nuance. Is that too many periods?

I don't know. I do a lot of commas, maybe. Dot, dot, dot. Yeah, once you've like done stuff. You're kind of, you know, just aloof, like three and it's like you're assinuating something. Yeah. Once you're on Netflix, you'll unsend stuff and go make a pizza. Come back and finish it later.

You don't even care. Yeah. That is interesting. Like, no care in the world for it. Yeah, I saw my brother, dude. And nothing. Anyway, yeah, you're positive. It was there.

I saw it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's so funny. Like, I don't know. That's very interesting. We'll dissect it with those if we ever, if we ever get on there.

That would be a great material. Yeah. Like, why did you unsend my brother on New Year's Eve? Ah, dude, dude. Ah, da, da, da, da, da. You know, whatever. I'll work on my impression. Oh, yeah, that's funny.

Yeah. That's pretty funny. So that was mine. Okay. Yeah, it's gone, dude. It was there. And it's gone. Yeah.

our listeners top-by-paws are rogan Nate Theo Tucker Carlson and yours all caps not sure what those stats say about our podcast that's fun though I mean it doesn't surprise me honestly yeah that's cool I would assume more like the opposite or it's like obviously people that listen to us

are probably also going to listen to those like correct opinions Nate Land John Chris but it's crazy like yeah we're higher up on that adjacent list to him than correct opinions then correct opinions or Nate Land or whatever it is Or no, he said Nate?

He said Nate. Okay. Yeah. That's pretty cool, though. That's fun, because I don't hear about that kind of stuff often, you know. I wouldn't have known that. Yeah. My brother.

My brother. That's fun. What did you guys do, New Year's Eve? Yeah. Did you win Settlers? I've played with Rachel's family. You better have won Sellers. Have you played the game?

Angie took a long time. I just remember that. It's where it would be like, just say yes or no to the trade, Angie. here's what God introduced this Christmas, Cities and Nights. Okay. I'm obsessed. Okay.

We all are. We have it and I've only played it once because I remember being like, this is more complicated. I would say probably nine times over the last week. I looked Tim and Steve Coop in the eyes and was like, I can't believe you guys learn this yourself. So thank you for doing that.

Like they just read the pamphlet like it was like the daily newspaper to learn how to play this like new game. Would you ever? No. You wait till. someone tells you. Because then they kind of explain it how you need to know it or whatever. You can ask questions.

But yeah, they just read the brochure. Would you ever? I don't like either way. I don't. You don't want to learn anything. Kind of. But not history. Definitely would prefer an explanation.

I was curious. Like a person that, yeah, you know. As a homeschooler, I was curious like how much more. Because Catherine, homeschooled and she, I think she could do that really well. That is not the way I learned. I either learn like audibly or like video. something like yeah i'm so much more like yeah somebody explains to me i can figure it out i got it i can absorb it and also like a hands-all like show me as you're telling me that's much easier to digest

and it makes me sound it i honestly like there's times where i'm like am i just stupid or like do i have a dd or whatever because it's like i read like one paragraph and i'm like whoa what do they talk well let me let me let me okay the battery can sometimes turn off and you just got to charge it let me absorb make sure i understand that before i move okay okay okay And they have like a diagram. It's like, I'm not reading the diagram, you know, whatever it is. A red light indicates it's stop charge. Yeah.

Okay. How will I remember that? Okay. Red means stop. I need like a pneumonic device. Okay. Okay. Got it.

And then, yeah, it's like, I'm not reading all this. Whereas Catherine can do it and like, or like instructions to like put something together. She'll read it. I'm much more like, let me YouTube this thing and watch somebody else. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't think there's a, well, I was going to say there's not a right and wrong, but I do feel

inferior to Catherine. Like. She can. read and understand it. Yes. So maybe there is a right and a wrong or a better and a worse. But like for whatever reason, I completely agree with what you're saying. I'm like, thank you for taking the investment to learn this for our sake. Totally. Law school's paying off for Tim. That guy knows how to read and comprehend it, you know? Quickly too. Yeah. That's impressive. Yeah, I would. Hope cities and nights is on the bar. Yeah. It's going to do just fine.

But it is fun because Southerst is already a fun game and then to expand on it where I think we all agree like never going back. This is so fun. Yeah. It feels like there's more parody or like it's got to be close almost every time. It's harder for one person to run away with it. Okay. It's just like it's, there's a lot of different ways to win. So, okay.

Anyway, did that a lot. Won my very first game. Didn't get back on the, didn't get a gold the rest of the time. Does it take considerably longer? Yes. That's what I kind of remember about it. I remember I learned it for like an hour and then I had to play for another like two or three. And I was like, yeah, it is long.

This was an investment. and then, yeah, the people that taught us how us taught us how nice is that? And we have not, I don't think, opened it yet. So, Andrew, if you're listening to this, thanks, man, that was nice of you. We will play it someday when we have more free time like that. Yeah, it was fun.

I tried to think, I asked this on correct opinions yesterday, let me ask you a question this, if Steve Coupe rolled a four and then said, man, fours for me or a hot cabbage. Without looking to the board, What do we think that means? Hot cabbage. I guess that's a good thing.

You say good? I was thinking bad. I was thinking like nothing about hot cabbage. No. So you got to have a second layer of knowledge towards Steve Coup. Steve loves, oh, he loves beats. He loves like,

he loves that kind of like, shoot. Yeah, hot cabbage is his favorite food. Hot cabbage is his favorite food. That stuff is nutritious. Yeah. This time of year especially, it helps them stay like,

oh yeah, the hotter the better. Healthy. Yeah. I think hot cabbage is good. Yeah. Great. Great answer. Well done.

Really? Yeah. I mean, we're all just kind of like shaking our heads. I mean, like, looking, where is brown? Okay, he's on a lot of force. I guess hot cabbage is good. All right. Never heard that before.

Yeah, whatever reason, man, there's like, cabbage. I really am like intrigued by, we'll call it Iowa, Minnesota. Maybe just those two. I don't know. I'm sure there's more. All white. So to speak. Maybe Wisconsin, you know, slips in there every once in a while.

I don't know if Nebraska. I think it's mostly Iowa, Minnesota, though. Like, it's like this subset of, like, Dutch people or something where they have, like, all this food and all these preferences and all these, like, random things that I've never heard of before. Evil skeevers. And, like, yeah, there was this guy I was talking to at church the other day who was like, yeah, we had this, you know, thing.

One of my son-in-laws brought this sweet pork, something or other. And the word for it was like the nastiest sounding word. It wasn't even like a word. It was like, it was like, period. or something like that. I don't know. I was like, what is that?

That's not a word for food. I don't know what it was. And he was like, it was amazing. I've never had anything like it. And I'm like, it is fascinating. There's something up there.

Yeah, there's some, there's some, there's some, there's a different, like, original culture up there. That every once in a while,

there's places like that in Kansas. Not in Kansas City, really, but like, I'm very intrigued. Every time I like, hot cabbage. Hot cabbage.

Hot cabbage. And I bet he loves hot cabbage. Like, I bet he, There's some recipes that Steve has that's like, yeah, I grew up with that and it's so good. Oh, it's so good. Beer rocks. Have you heard of beer ox?

No. I think that's like got cabbage in it. Huh. Let me see. Like my sister makes those every once in a while. I don't know where she has heard about it, but let's see. Beer rocks, a German dish of sweet dinner rolls stuffed with ground beef, onion, and cabbage. Mm.

Oh. Doesn't that just sound like something Steve would like? Yeah, it does. A roll with ground beef, onions and cabbage. Oh, yeah. Salivating. No. Just like, yeah, that Irish, German, Dutch, whatever it is, like that, that European style, not super like, doesn't have a ton of like herbs and spices and stuff. Just beef on the cabbage. Yeah, it does sound good for him. So another phrase I heard from him around the Southerz of Catan table. I'm only going to say it once. And then we can just think about it in our heads afterwards. But I, you know, someone happened. Someone rolls a seven. They go, oh, that's tough. Steve, it's not. tough for tea. He goes, tough titty said the kitty when the milk ran dry.

He just keeps going. What? Whoa. Do you think he's always said that or is that like a, hey, once my youngest kid graduates from college, I'm going to start saying. It's time to say that. Yeah. Yeah, we never heard it before.

And then, but I've been thinking about it a lot. And it's like, I get it. Yeah. The kitty wants its milk. Uh-huh. And it ran dry. And they're tough. Man, that's tough.

Yeah, that's tough. Ah. Shocks. I guess just whatever rhymes with kitty. Yeah. Tough kitty said the... Yeah. Scriti.

City. City. City. City. When the nights ran dry. When the nights ran dry. Cities and nights. That's been stuck in my head.

Feel free to say that next time something... I will. Tough happens to you. Yep. Over under nine and a half times since then. For you. Did I've said it? Mm-hmm.

I haven't said it, but I haven't said it, but I've thought it a lot. Have you? Do you ever like kind of rap to it? Yeah. Every once in a while just like, it's got a good flow. Yeah.

Hey, turn me up. Yeah. That's. So learn that. Yeah. That phrase is hot cat. I've heard the first two before maybe. And I guess it's a shortened version of what actually happened to the cat.

Right. It's the full story of the cat's struggle. It makes it a lot less inappropriate. Yeah, it is. It's like. It's still, it's still not something I would say in front of my mother. Yeah.

But I would say it. front of my father-in-law. Oh, interesting. It sounds like the type of phrase, like, was that word ever let, like, just super innocent? Like, because it sounds like it'd be maybe like an old phrase. It seems like within the context of like an animal with milk, it seems a little more okay.

Yeah, it's like, oh. Well, but you'd say, you'd use, you'd use the hard E. You'd say teets, right? Hmm. Tough tides. Yeah. No problem. I'll say tough tides six times right now.

Tough tides. Tough Tidis, tough Tis, tough Tis, tough Tidis. I will not once say, Tough Tidis said the Kitties when the milk ran dry. I think that sounds awesome. That sounds good. Yeah. Does it not?

That sounds fine. Tough Tite said the Kits when the milk ran dry. Oh, even better. That sounds good. Yeah, now we're talking. Wow. Yeah. All right, so maybe that's more what it should be.

Teet does sound just fine. That seems more farm. That's agricultural. That's in textbooks. Yeah. That's what they want us to say. Yeah. What else is it?

It's an utter. Tough Utters said the mutters when the milk ran dry. That's not bad. Okay. Because the mom wants him to have milk too. Sorry. I got them all out. Hey, I'm sorry.

Get the formula. Go warm up the baby breza. Oh, man. Time, where are you been? What have you done? Who have you seen? Do you kiss midgette night? Oh, yeah.

I actually had the most... Oh, yeah. The least hype New Year's I can remember. But that's not a bad thing. You're growing up. It's what's called. I think so. Like, well, it was also like there was just less celebration.

It wasn't just like, oh, it's just not the same. I'm getting old. It was like we just, there was really no, just hanging out with cousins. I was in Illinois for New Year's. Just kind of no real buildup. A minute before it was like, oh, we're getting close. And then it counted down the last 10 seconds. Yeah.

And it was like, here we are. There we go. Yeah. I think that's my ideal. Oh, yeah. I had a great time. I think I do love a good, you know, like big friend get together where it's like a party is surrounding it. But it's not like, I could take or leave a big, making a huge deal about it turning midnight, I think.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I was about to say when I said, that's my deal. And I was like, actually, I'll take that back. My ideal these days is like if you celebrate with, you know, fill in the blank city that just celebrated at 9 p.m. Or something. You like, find a live stream of, you know, Lisbon. And they're counting down.

It's 5.30. We're almost done. Lishboa. Lishboa. Yeah, I agree. For whatever reason, I think New Year's Eve is the most overhyped holiday. Oh, I like it, though. I think it's fun to get together and have some kind of social something.

I'm not saying, like, I'm just going to always stay at home and never do anything. But it's like, eh, I don't know. You still like it, though, like the actual. Oh, yeah, for sure. Like, I didn't mind how non-hype it was, but I wouldn't have minded it being more hype. Like, I didn't... Okay. I like some excitement around it.

Okay. Yeah. There is... Now I'm convinced to myself the other way. There is something like kind of crazy about like, it'll never be that year again. Yeah. It's over. It's over.

That was the end of that year. I don't know. Yeah. Maybe there's something emotionally charged about that. But we went to my parents' house. I just took Bow and Haddy, or, yeah, Bo and Haddy only to my parents' house because the little two were a little bit under the weather. And Kevin's like, they don't need to stay up late. And so we went over the...

there. We shout out to ghosties. We played bank. I taught my kids bank over Christmas break and Bowen had your obsessed with it. Bo never banks. And I didn't even teach him that. That's like my whole thing. It's like I never bank and Bo like Catherine one time basically had to force him. Like Bo you need some points. Like you could lose it all if you don't bank. And if you do, you would be in first place. And you'd be like, okay, fine. But to his credit, he's won three out of the four times we've played. He gets it. So is it a roll of the dice. Yeah. but we played bank and we played Bunko with my family. Oh yeah, Bunko's nice.

It was chill. It was easy. Bank and Bunk. Then we just like found like a one minute New Year's countdown on YouTube like and watched it and, you know, said happy New Year at 824 p.m. Then went home. It was great. So it was, I don't know. I do like New Year's and like reflecting on the year and also planning for the next one.

Like, you know, thinking of. ways that you can, you know, evaluate your life different and make it better and stuff. Yep. Anyway. I watched, I think the last time we recorded was the night I was going to watch a movie in the single file line. Oh, yeah. And he'd give an update on that.

The housemate is great. Single file, even better. Tell me more. Love said single file. Yeah. Rachel. Hand me popcorn. Oh, that's fun.

You went, yeah. She's like, I'm getting thirsty. To hand her a drink just straight behind me. Yeah, it just felt kind of funny. Just truly me, Rachel, Molly, Calvin. Just four of us. Single file line, far left side. Fun way to watch a movie.

It's hilarious. And if you passed her things, you chose to go straight up behind you rather than around. You didn't do the wrap around. No, because, I mean, she's like elevated. She's like, she's up there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I only had one option. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You've been got to kind of lean into it. Take it, take it. Take it. Hurry, hurry, hurry. Yeah, it was great. Yeah, good movie, good book. Recommend them. Afterwards, we got giggling at this.

There was, so we're just like debriefing the movie in the lobby afterwards. You know, compared to the book, what do you think of this character, whatever. There is a woman, a girl, going through something. You know, it's one of those where you, you know, she just wandering around and dressed kind of strange

and is like giggling to herself. It's one of those where it's like you feel bad. You don't know if this is like a mental health issue or if she's just like maybe on the spectrum or something, but she is wandering around by herself all over there. So we're kind of aware of her. And then all of a sudden she gets in our circle. So now she's with us and we're trying to like include her.

And she's not like. Oh, this is like a real person. This is a real person in the lobby. I thought this was a person in the movie. I'm sorry. No, sorry. This is just like a person meandering around the lobby, this woman. Okay.

And so she has made her way into like our circle. And so we're like, hey, what's your name? and she's not responding to that. And did you watch a movie tonight? Not responding to that. We watched The Housemaid. It was a good movie, you know, but she's like, she's in our group, so we wanted, like, include her.

And eventually we kind of run out of just, like, things to say to someone who's not responding. There's about a two-second pause. And Molly just goes, happy holidays. Molly is maybe the sweetest person in the world. Yeah, yeah. We made fun of her so much. Your go-to, like, freezing is not even Merry Christmas.

You went happy holidays? This girl clearly struggling? What are you scared to evangelize? You went happy holidays to this woman? So, uh, Kwan's is crazy, huh? Right? Oh, yeah. It wasn't really that she said something.

It was the fact that it was happy holidays instead of Merry Christmas. It's like, why are you taking a stance on this woman who's under responsive. It's just say Merry Christmas. What are you scared of? Did she ever? Like, never really responded. And it just kind of like, so before we left, I went up and talked to like an usher. I was like, hey, maybe you're aware of this. Do you know about this girl? And okay. I guess it was fine. He was like, oh, yeah, we know about her. She came with a large group and she can't sit still. So they just left her out here. I was like, I guess that's okay. If they understand. I'm a little worried about their supervision abilities, but I guess if she's taken care of.

But anyway, yeah. Happy holidays. If you get stuck. One year older. Happy holidays. I used to just think happy holidays was Christmas and New Year's. Now people are politicizing it saying we're saying all the other happy holidays. You know, old crash champion sent Rachel a text about a car a couple weeks ago and said,

you can expect your car back after the holidays. She's like, which one are they talking about? Oh, sure. Christmas comes and goes. Yeah, no car yet. Okay, I guess they're talking about New Year. January 2nd rolls around. No car yet.

Well, maybe they knew your birthday was the second. Maybe you'll get it tomorrow. It's January 6th when we're recording this. No car yet. So it must be the Chinese New Year. She'll get it in March. That's wild, dude. Is that really when the Chinese New Year is?

Yeah, it's pretty much all in February. Dude, they take out for so long. Don't get me started on the Chinese New Year. It's hard. Hard to work around. They really do, like the whole country? Oh, it's like at least a month. Yeah, they don't work.

Really? I don't know how. I mean, at least manufacturing doesn't. Or maybe just our manufacturers line to us. No, yeah, it's like four or five weeks. Don't look it up. It's just us. Yeah.

The whole country just like parties. I don't know how they do it. I mean, some people have to work. Right. You know. The society has to run. Someone has to sell you the fireworks. You got to eat.

Got to eat. Interesting. Yeah, the fireworks. They just go off for. five weeks straight. Yeah, but maybe it's like largely like manufacturing. They all take off, I guess. If somehow you use a VPN and you're listening to this in China, let us know.

Let us know. Sounds like people that are listening to us in China might have a VPN if they're also Theo Vaughn and Joe Rogan. That's, yeah, happy holidays. Housemade was great. Good movie. Okay, good. Do you get you stubbs? I didn't stub it up.

Man, I'm disappointed. I thought of you, though, because I think I was in line. for the concession stands. And it was like, normal people or stub hubbers or whatever. It was like the VIP side of the line. And there were people over there. They didn't see the sign. I know they're not stubbers.

And they were cut in front of me. You just kind of tell. But whatever. Yeah. You can tell the people that are there all the time. I mean, I looked different the day I got it. I was like, oh, I belong in that line now. This is what it's like.

Looking in the mirror. Yeah, I'm stubborn. Get my popcorn quicker. Yeah, that is a fun. Subtle flex. Yeah. I'm a stub guy. You guys have a New Year's resolutions.

Happy holidays resolutions. Oh, thank you. Yeah. Um, yes, I do. Well, yes and no. My, my main idea, maybe I've talked about this before,

but like, the idea of like rhythms more than goals. That makes sense? Yeah. So like, tough teeth said the keep when the milk ran dry. Yes.

Stuff like that. Just, yeah, I just want to freestyle more. Um, and so like, yeah, just getting back on like healthy.

rhythms. And so I actually, I made like a little whiteboard. Well, I found a whiteboard and I put it on our refrigerator and I put dad's streaks on there. And so I'm basically just trying to like keep a streak of like all these different goals. Yeah, essentially what I was doing in the past and I just kind of have deviated from it. But it was like, you know, I just wrote down one word, but the ideas are like, yeah, drink a gallon of water every day. So I just wrote down water. You know, read my Bible every day. So I just wrote down read. Yeah. See if you guys can guess the, words I wrote I walk 45 minutes every day I wrote down well 45 minutes dang it no one word only okay just just from now on time it's good 45 would have

counted as a one word wait did we do this during the me and Catherine episode when time was in Ohio wait a second how do you guys get in news uh what else did I say oh I want to like spend intentional time with Catherine and the kids every single day with that's a tough one this is the hardest one and the no I didn't even use the word right then. Family. That's a good one. I just said love.

So Catherine's like, what's the love one? Yeah. It's like, every day. Oh, I said, yeah,

just eat healthy. That's more generic, but I said eat. And then what's the other ones? Maybe those just five. Visual streaks a pretty good idea, especially if your kids can see it too. You don't want them to see a zero.

I don't want to have to start over with them and be like, like, yeah, I didn't do, oh, sleep. Sleep's my last one. Sleep at least seven hours a day. Night, actually. However you can get it. Yeah. Yeah, true. Thank you. Just opening it. Day night. So just trying to be like, just healthy as a whole. Those are great rhythms. Yeah. That's really good. And then I guess a resolution, I felt convicted this past week at church about generosity and just not feeling like, I mean, it's just, yeah, just not generous, as generous as I should be as a Christian. It's like, hey, if we recognize how much grace has been extended to us and how much love and generosity through Jesus, why are we not more generous and trusting that he can provide and stuff?

Like financial generosity? I think that's obviously the main thing that I think of, but beyond that even, just like time or. Yeah, that's good. You know, whatever. Or just like holding so tight to like, I got to have all this time. Like, even like sleeping. Like, I got to get this many hours of sleep. So I can't help out with that.

or I can't wake up. Yeah, I'm not going to do the bonfire in my house because I'm not going to get the sleep I need or whatever. Right, whatever. So just be more generous. So I want to hear your resolution real quick. I did have this thought as like literally I'm just like fighting my own flesh. And this story is going to make me sound really bad.

So just a quick preface for you there. Literally right before I came over here, went to McDonald's and got a drink. Just to eat. Yeah. That's in there. and the total was $1.63. Okay? So I did the thing,

and Timon, hopefully you're not too young or stupid to understand what I'm doing here. I did the thing. It was $1.63. I didn't have my phone on me. I've been trying to, like, limit phone.

Uh-huh. And so I got $2.13 for a $1.63 total. Do we understand why I'm doing that, Timon's an idiot. He doesn't get it. Shoot. I'm thinking. Timing's been rich his whole life.

He doesn't know. $1.63. You got $2. I'm sorry. Sorry. Yeah, maybe I didn't phrase it right. Sorry. Maybe I'm the idiot. Let's act it up.

I'm too stupid. Okay, hi. Can I just get a large drink, please? That'll be a dollar six. The machine doesn't work. Sorry? Sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hi. Hi. Por favor? A dollar 63. Ah, si, see, see, see, see, see. This guy is right. Okay, gotcha. All right.

Uh-huh. Yeah. Primero window. Yeah, very good. Ventana. Dollar. Okay. The total?

You had the Diet Dark Pepper? Yes. That would be $1.63. Perfect. Okay. Now I'm going to get $2.13. Pay attention. Okay.

$2.13 in cash, and I'm going to give it to him. Okay. Thank you. This makes it easier for me to give you change back. Because instead of, how much this many nickel dime penny? How about two quarters? Thank you.

We need to go from the top. From the top. All right. All right. Bring, bring, bring. I didn't turn on the car first. He didn't understand I was in the car. I just, for some reason,

both ending in three is throwing me for a loop and I don't. It should throw you for the opposite of a loop. It's convenient. Instead of, so the alternative is Brad paying me with $2 because that's convenient for him on the front end. Like, here's two bucks. Well, now I have to give him, you know,

37 cents back and change. Yeah. Or he could dig around, spend a little extra time with this $2 to, 13 cents. So now he gets in an even 50 cents back. Less change for Brad. And if he goes through a toll later, egg on your face. Bling. Yeah. I'm just, I'm just too rusty at like, no, no, no, okay. subtraction. For some reason, for some reason, like, I'm not thinking deeply about it, but like, both three plus three, for some time, I'm thinking three plus three. And so I'm like, oh, it's going to end in six. It's not going to be even, but it's three minus three is zero. So it's going to

end in. Yeah, let's just do it quicker. Let's just say, hey, it's a dollar 70. Okay, great. I can either get 30 cents back or I could give him $2.20. Yeah. I would get 50 cents back. Yeah. Hey, it makes sense. Yeah, that's easier.

So I give him $2.13. A.k.a. $2.1 bills, a dime and three pennies. Yeah. He hands me back 40 cents. And I look at it. Oh, I was working at McDonald's. Honestly. I was the employee.

I didn't know. And this guy is, like, it has to add up to six. This guy was kind of giving me some weird vibe. anyway. I don't know. He was odd dude. And I was just like, okay, I think you need to give me 10 more cents. And this is one of those things was like, Brad, just shut up and take your money and go. Who cares? And he goes, no, I just didn't add the, I didn't add the dime. I didn't count the dime. So I just gave you the dime back. I'm looking at it. The receipt says I paid $2.3 and he gave me 40 cents back. So he's like, no, I just went ahead and took your dime.

and paid you 10 cents less. And then, so then I go, oh, no, I paid $2. I don't, I was like, one of those things are like, Brad. And this hopefully is not a reflection of generosity as much as a reflection of like, I don't, some other thing in me that I need to correct it myself. But I'm like, because I'm like, he's not going to make 10 extra cents today. I don't think he's going to make that money. Anyway, I was like, no, no, like I gave you $2.13.

And he's just like, you'll have to just take it to the next window. Take it the next. And I go, what? And he shuts the window. I said he goes taking the next window. Sorry, going under a train. I might lose you. I was like, oh, okay.

And so I went to the next window and I was like, hey, he didn't give me 10 cents. I was like, why do I do there? You brought it up for the second window. I did. I did, because he told me to take the next window. And then this is like, once again, just makes me look like an idiot or just a jerk. Because then the manager hears about it gets 25s, gives me a quarterback instead of 10 cents. and then I hear him like basically yell to the guy back there,

give him the right amount of chain. And I was just like, oh gosh, that guy's going to spit in my next thing that I get from him or whatever. So I don't know. Trying to be more generous, but at the same time, yeah, like, I don't know. But then I saw a homeless guy on the way here.

I gave him $20. That's more generous than 10 cents. Yes. So it's a little bit of like two sides of my mouth. Two sides of the same dime. Yes. That you're still owed. Hands and tails.

Wow. Yeah. I don't know. I'd rather be in your shoes where I'm like conflicted about what I've done than just not being able to do math. I think I still like I see where you're like your conflict is. But I'm like, I would rather at least be in a spot where I like can comprehend the situation. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm still thinking about it. And I'm like I'm an idiot. Like I can't. You genuinely still don't understand it? You can barely get it. Yeah.

I barely get it for some. reason. That's funny. And I wonder if that's just like a thing like we grew up in a pre-credit card area. Like we paid in cash a lot in high school. And so that was on my mind. Like, oh, I don't want a ton of nickels and quarters and stuff. But two quarters is nice. I'll do what it takes. And I get rid of some change in the process. Yeah. I did that all the time in high school. Yeah. Yeah. You feel like a gangster when you're like. And if like I'm getting reps with math. Yeah. Yeah. 267. I did. In my head, I was like, did I do the math roll. It was like 2.13 minus 163 is 50 cents, right? I was struggling with it for a second. So

anyway, that's a little bit of a tangent. New Year's resolutions for you guys. Timing. I really want to take some time to write things down. I just like in my head, I'm like, just definitely keeping up the habit of like my phone and computer being like super far from my room at night where I just like, I'm winding down with reading the Bible and a book. Like, it's so much better. Yeah. So yeah. I'll keep. that going. That's huge. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, there's been a, this is my third day of doing something similar. And all three times honestly have been unintentional. So don't, don't praise me too much. But literally, I will be charging my phone in the morning because I never charge my phone at night. I don't

know why. I'm weirdo. I haven't charged it at night in. Neither does Rachel. And I thought she might be the only person on the planet. Honestly, Rachel and I, yeah, every once in a while, it's just like, I just chase a charge all my life. So does she. And I don't know why, but doesn't kill me. I think please get them in the car so much that it always works out. Yeah. It never completely dies, but like often it's like 18. 18% is like what I feel like that's where you live. Yeah. That's crazy. And so anyway, I was charged it this morning and I get out to my truck to leave and I realize my phone's still in the car. And it's like the third time where I've like realized it, which that says something about me that's probably similar to Rachel too where it's like you don't realize it

until you're already basically driving away. Yeah. But then I'm like, no, I'm just going to keep it at home. Yeah. Every once in a while, I'll pull out my computer since I'm still connect to Wi-Fi and I'll text, Catherine. FYI, I don't have my phone, so I'm not going to be able to see your text for a while. Nice. And then show the computer and go. Yeah. And honestly, it's been good.

I mean, because I do have like just issues with like always wanting to be productive while I'm driving or always wanting to do something or have connection with somebody or call somebody or, you know, listen to something. So I'm learning more or whatever. It's like, I just don't have enough time to just think or or even like, the, you know, the other day, I had to go to like three different locations all around Kansas City, retail rebel. And it was like, which one should I go to first? Chad GPT would know the most efficient route. And I was like, I didn't have my phone.

I was like, I'm just got to figure this out myself. Yeah, I'll just drive. Yeah, I'll just, I guess I'll just do it. And there was one, one of them I'd only been to one time and I could not figure out how to get there. I definitely took another like 15 minutes of like time. I was like, I think, I think it's farther north maybe anyway. Yeah, this is like, I don't think. I would like drive somewhere without my phone.

Like mainly because it's like I have conditioned myself way too much to just use maps all the time. Yeah. And it's like I would like to get better at that. Maybe I should I should challenge myself more. Like at least I can still have my phone, but just not map it to the place. Like yeah. And just see what happens. I mean, I just second guess myself.

I mean we talked about before the podcast. Like I'm just second guessing like, yeah, I'm going to get there this way. But is that the best way? Yeah. So sometimes I'll even just be like, I'm turning here. And then I'll be like, why did I talk? turn there. That was dumb. Anyway. So yeah. That's cool. That's my big one though. That's good. I think the only like concrete one region I have is that no desserts, no treats for this year.

Okay. That's a big one. I was laughing that like, yeah, four days into it. I'm like about to throw up on an airplane. Like, is this how it's going to be? I mean, that had nothing to do with not eating chocolate or anything. But right. Yeah, so far it hasn't been crazy difficult. But I'm already like noticing stuff though. Like when we were still in Florida with Rachel's family, they got snacks all replace and we're playing games like it would have been so easy to grab stuff but it's like you know it's definitely going to pay off over time like all this is just extra calories extra sugar that you don't need yeah yesterday i kind of had a headache and i'm going through the chick flay drive-thru and getting stuff and i think old me would have like we get a little coke zero or

something to like even then that's not that bad for you but still like over time i think this is going to be a really really healthy thing no extra treat i was going to say yeah what's like the definition of like, like, is it somewhat vague or is it like, no, these are the things that are like absolutely like ice cream off limits. Yeah. Coke zero will be off limits. Rachel and I have decided that it comes down to your like personal discretion. Okay. Just like, yeah. If you want to get healthy, you have to want to get healthy. So you have to hold yourself accountable a certain degree. Yeah. Like last night, I went to go throw away the Trader Joe's like peanut butterfilled pretzels. I was like, I think if I were to go for

these it's because I want a little yeah I want a little snack I want a little treat okay and Rachel was like interesting she's like I have some on my nightstand right now that are like grain free gluten free almond butter like ones she's like I feel okay about that I was like that's fair I don't think I can have those I think for me that would be like uh okay I need a little snack I need a little uh-huh little something so yeah healthy snacks obviously are still on the table yes yeah I think like um just depending on what you define as healthy like a protein bar that It's giving me protein and caffeine. It's like that is more like, yeah, helpful than it is like, I need sugar.

I'm going to have this. Right. So. Okay. Yeah. So that's the main thing. But yeah, in addition to what you're saying, too, I feel like I get that too where it's like screen time. I don't know if I, most of I think I'm on my phone, it's somewhat productive.

I don't find myself scrolling a lot, but I do find myself not letting myself just like even go to the bathroom. Yeah. Without picking up my phone. It's like, let yourself think. for a second. Just like, yeah, yeah, I need to take more showers or something. I need more time away from my phone. Right. Yeah. Yeah, I had a buddy the other day asked me if I wanted to do like this, like, he's like, I hate goals. He's like, I hate goals, but I do this retreat. I've started doing this thing, you know, once a year with some of my friends or whatever. He's got a team of people

that he works with. But, uh, and they just go for like basically a day and a half. He's like no phones. Like, no, like, you cannot bring your phone to this thing. And it's just like, basically one day is like pretty much silent. Like, you're just by yourself. Oh, it's like an Aaron Rogers retreat. Yeah, kind of, yeah, a darkness retreat. You do ayahuasca and you're out in the middle of nowhere. I'm in.

I can't wait, dude, it's going to be sick. No, but, but yeah, part of me is like, that sounds awesome. Another part of me is like, that's going to be really hard. Or really, like, what am I going to do eventually? You know, I think I can have thoughts and go through things for an hour or two, probably. but then I'm like, okay. I'm right out of stuff. Right.

But yeah, I'm excited about it. I'm excited about it. Because yeah, 100%. It's just these days, I think there's just such a feeling of like, I don't want to, like, I don't want to limp while everyone else is sprinting around me. Like, in whatever way it is. I guess I got to use, I got to learn how to do this tool on my, like, AI, or I got to learn how to do this thing or else everyone else is going to just get way better

than me at stuff. It's like, we got to slow down. I don't know. Yeah. So I just now had the thought I was like, a reason that I'll be like, oh, I don't want to go this like without my phone somewhere.

It's like, what if I had to take a picture or a video? It's like, I should just get like a little digital camera or something like that. Sure. And then it's like, that's kind of a vibe anyway. I have like,

it's not a phone photo. I don't know. Polaroid would be fun. That'd be fun. Yeah. Or just don't take a picture. Yeah. I mean,

uh-huh. Just go without it. You know, obviously it's like pictures are awesome and so special. But it's also like, yeah, you don't remember the pictures you don't take if that makes sense yeah it's a good point because you have no memory of them how could you remember argument for pictures in some way but like also i don't know

you just kind of remember there's a good day or whatever you know so yeah like we didn't take a single picture i like pictures do you remember when we uh well you might take a picture honestly knowing you but the first time chiefs were in the super bowl it was beautiful weather outside oh yeah catch outside yep i have videos of that day do you okay listen that was a great day and I remember that day well and I didn't have a single picture of that that was an unbelievable day yeah yeah I drove over to your house and we were bumping uh welcome to miami yeah dancing around the yard yeah great times I doubt the chief's end up in the Super Bowl this year it's gonna be tough this year this year yeah 26 yeah like this up like here in like a month

we'll see man sports you know yeah sports are crazy yeah it's COVID you know they've might have medical exemptions and stuff for some of the teams. Tamara Hamlin, like a whole team of it, I don't know. Maybe. You don't know. It'll be tough. I'll say that. It'll be tough.

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Oh, I see what's going on here. Oh. When he said it was a 30-minute surprise. Wait, is it actually 30 minutes? Yeah. Oh, I thought you were joking. No, it actually is. Buckle up.

You know what's sneaking up on us? We need to figure out episode 500. It's kind of coming up. Oh, my. Where are we right now? This was probably like $493 or something. Oh, wow. It's like here.

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Hey guys. We're making a video for Jake and Brad. I hope you can hear us. I just now found out how to reverse the camera. We've been holding it. So we're kind of up with it now.

So we're doing really, really good. So hope you can hear us. No. Hey, guys, congratulations on 500 episodes. We didn't know what to do, so we thought we'd just be stupid. Congratulations, you guys. We're so proud of you. We appreciate everything you guys do.

We appreciate you guys sharing your faith, that you guys are brave in that, that you guys stand behind what you believe. Mom and I, we feel like we have made friends through this podcast. We love coming to your events. So anyway, we just want to tell you guys, thank you, and we love you. The moment of Ghostrunners that made me laugh the hardest is a controversial. version one, and that is Dr. Ben Miller's poop story. I'm sorry, it cracks me up every time. I know what's coming. I've listened to it multiple times, and I still crack up every single time.

Such a funny moment that I love from the podcast is when Brad and Jake pretend to role play at an urgent care. The improv is so great. You guys are hilarious. Thank you so much for all you do. Happy 500 episode. What makes me laugh the most about the ghost runners is when y'all do like super random obscure office quotes. For example, I've not seen this, or he was a tall guy. It just kills me every time y'all are goaded and miss you. As one of your older listeners, this is a little difficult for me to admit, but dong for dong, I think the V-Dong episode is the one that had me laughing the most, both in real time

and after the fact, proving your theory that a little dong does go along. episode. Kidney! Let me laugh and this was just trying to get my snoop booped. Very proud of you guys. Very happy for you guys. Five hundred episodes. That's crazy.

Who did this? Early on in listening, Jake, you could not say the word rural. And just the fact that an adult couldn't say rural and the way that you said it, rule, one of many things that have made me laugh over the years. So I really appreciate the uplifting things, the things that just help me get through my day and through my week. So thank you so much, guys. It will always be when Jake can't pronounce things. And it's so funny. It's so funny. But my all-time favorite is when he can't pronounce rural.

And it's a weird word. I get it. But when he so confidently says rule, rule, it's the best. Well, I love you guys. Happy 500. Amish jams. That is one of the OGs pre-timing. Sorry about that time in, but it is one of the funniest and most clever pieces of content. on the internet to this day. Congrats boys on 500 episodes. The episode that made me laugh the most is episode 250. The moments of ghost runners that make me laugh the hardest are any time that Brad has to be bleeped out because he's pertaining to curse and when he makes fun of Scott and Tybal. I'm going to say one about each of the guys, but the top funniest moments have been Jake's toothpaste and Topeka story.

It's hilarious. Oh, man. Brad saying Ola to Jake's white clean lady and Tymon's DJ. AI impression. You guys are the best. The hardest I've laughed during a Ghostrunner's episode that I can remember is the Coldstone crematorium riff. And it ends with Jake going like it, love it, got a habit.

And Brad laughed so hard. He said he got a headache. I died laughing. Every time I think about it, I laughed. So just thank you guys for everything. And congrats on 500. What made me laugh to heart. Right.

Is when Danny Woffel and Joe Tyson got on. your podcast and wish me a happy birthday and they call me Dino. That was really funny to be. I can't quite remember what made me laugh the hardest, but I remember it was something inappropriate that Timon said and he didn't realize that it was. I just am so thankful for you guys that you're in my life and happy 500. One of the stories that has made me laugh the hardest was when Brad was recounting the story of Gate, C-U-R-B.

I have laughed at many of the stories the guys I've told throughout the year. but that one had the tears rolling. Scotty Peck here, aka Scotty P's hamburgers. Congrats on 500 episodes, boys. I'm going to answer question number one, which or what made me laugh the hardest. Whip your cannon out when I was present on the pod in the O'Athe House.

I went back and watched it again, and it made me laugh just as hard today. Love you guys. Way back when Jake and Brad talked about commenting on each other's Facebook friend updates, and tagging each other and their friends in random girls' Instagram photos. That made me laugh out loud on my walk home from work. Ghost Runners is so special, A, because of Jake and Brad,

and B, because of the consistency. It has brought so much joy through so many different seasons from singleness to marriage to being a parent now. And I am so grateful for this podcast for Jake and Brad. Thank you guys, and congrats on 500. I ever laughed during the Ghostrunners podcast was actually the roast of Jake Triplett at Rendez-Boo. I don't know

if it was all the caffeine in my system or how badly Timeman was roasted by Catherine. I just want to thank you all for making us laugh all these years. We look forward to more episodes and events in the future. Thanks. Hey, Jake Braden-Tyman. My name is Jensen Harper.

He's the Home Alone guy. I'm from the Omaha airport. Oh, getting a little emotional. Ghostrunners has changed my life because it's given me one of my best friends, Brad, and that comes from a real place. I think Ghostrunners is so special because of the community that Jake and Brad have managed to cultivate and how it's one big friend group instead of just people who listen to a podcast. I think that's really cool and really attests to who they are as people, and I think that's awesome. The Ghostbreners podcast is so special to me because even on my hardest days and my work, worst days. It always brings a laugh and a smile to my face. You guys have always just been so special in

making me laugh through hard seasons. And I just can't thank you guys enough for your creativity, being able to go to events like F12 or Grande boo and just having an absolute blast, just laughing. You guys bring so much joy. So thank you guys. So what makes Ghostrunners special, I think, is how well Jake and Brad riff off each other and how quick with it. and funny they are. It is just unmatched. I love listen to them whenever they get going. Jake Brett and Tyman have such a gift for making you feel that you're just in the living room talking with old friends, catching up. They're so authentic and genuine in the way that they do their podcast. It's never feeling like a show or a performance just very down to earth. And that's really

special. Ghostrunners is special because it's a community of believers. Ghosties are people who not only love to laugh, but love the Lord. We encourage each other and pray for each other. And as a ghosty, I know that I have a place and that I belong. What, um, it makes that's a special for me was to witness different people with different background, just uplifting each other up and with one thing in common, Ghostrunners, Jake and Brad. Cheers for another 500. episodes, okay? Love you. What makes Ghostrunners great is that Jake and Brad really love people, and I can't think of anything more Christ-like than that. I love the community they've built and all the people

I've gotten to interact with, and I hope to meet them in person someday. Thanks, Jake and Brad. They actually care about their listeners, and they provide a space for us to connect to each other, and I've been able to foster friendships through this. community because of two guys, two best friends who decided to start a podcast. And I think that is something that's so, so beautiful. What makes Ghost Riner's podcast so special is how it genuinely feels like you are sitting in a living room, hearing your friends talk, and laughing alongside them. It's funny, wholesome, and intentional. You can see and feel the love for Christ that Jake, Brad, and Tyman all share in the way they show joy, treat people, and their light shines bright

for faith. It's rare to find something that is funny yet lifts you up at the exact time. Bigger and broader than that is the community of ghosties that they have created that is second to none, where you can go to lean on for prayer and encouragement, get a book recommendation, but also share a laugh. I am so grateful for all you do, Jake, Brad, and Tyman, and for finding this podcast in 2019. I know that if I need a prayer, if I just want to share something on, like, the Facebook group, I know that I'm not going to get judged or bullied, and that's going to be full of positivity. I cannot imagine a community like this from a podcast. It's just amazing to see. What makes it so special is the way Jake and Brad model friendship and community.

They just inspire the rest of us to do the same with everyone in the group. Honestly, it is the way that Jake and Brad can take some of the most mundane and simple things in life and bring so much joy and delight to it. And it reminds the listener to do the same in their own. this podcast special is obviously the community that you guys have built and the impact that you guys have made on so many people's lives. It's been so cool to see firsthand. You guys never put yourself on this pedestal, whether it's in person or online. You always love and listen to others. And yeah, it just says a lot about you guys and who you guys are as people. Obviously, you guys have impacted me individually as a friend for the past 10, 11 years. And it's been so cool to see you guys do that through some silly little podcast. It's kind of weird. Honestly. but it's really cool and it truly does show the love that you guys have for others and you guys reflect Jesus in a lot of ways. So keep it up. Here's to another 500. Brad, I actually just got off the phone with you.

And I want to say Ghost Runners has meant so much to me and my wife that we've been able to have a community that feels like family. Thank you guys for that. I think what makes the podcast so special is that Jake and Brad and now Tyman have been able to make the community feel. so intimate and that they are able to make everybody feel involved with the podcast. It's not just their podcast. It's everybody's podcast. So thank you very much. I love you guys.

Happy 500. I think the most special thing about the podcast is just how good nature and kind and fun Jake and Brad are. And I feel like that's kind of resulted in this really unique community of also really good, kind people. I mean, I've seen lifelong friendships happen in this community all because of this podcast that Jake and Brad do and the type of people that they bring around. What makes Ghostrunners podcast special to us is that it reminds us to find joy in the ordinary moments of life.

And reminds me that I'm really rich in the things that matter. Even when we're driving through the mountains with two cranky toddlers. What is special about the Ghost Runners podcast is that it is my son. I am so proud of him. and all that he's accomplished with the podcast, with his friends, Jake and Hyman, and also with his family and his business. Congratulations on 500 episodes. Love y'all.

Congrats on 500 episodes, you guys. I just want to say what makes Ghostrunner so special is the community that you've built. Truly, it is unlike any other. I started listening to you guys in 2019, right before moving halfway across the country right before COVID. And you guys truly are what got me through COVID. We went on lots of walks together. And even now my husband and I just love listening to you guys and you're a common name in our household. So thank you for being such great friends. It's been so fun to be a part of your guys' history. What I think is the most special about Ghost Runners is that it has been a constant

in my life for the last five years. I laugh every single time that I listen to it. And I feel like I'm catching up with old friends. I feel like what makes this podcast the most unique is the community that you guys have built around it. The ghosties are truly the best. I think any of them will drop anything for any other ghostie out there. And that shows a lot about who you guys are. And you guys lead by example and just have built the coolest community.

It's unlike anything out there. The best podcast award goes to you guys. 500 episodes is insane. And we thank you every single week for what you. You do. What makes the podcast so special is how relatable it is. I never knew how many sheltered, 30-something-year-old were out there, just like me. But I'm so thankful for a group of people that have so much in common. And I'm so thankful for all of the friends that have made along the way. Just having all of these people from different walks of life coming together and bonding over

this podcast is just a testament to what Jake and Brad have brought to it. And I have been to so many different events where I've met amazing ghosties. And every single time I've walked away, with great friendships and relationships from meeting all of these incredible people that have been brought together by this podcast. What makes Ghostrunner so special is that I love listening to stories from other people. I love hearing the different stories

that Jake has from his adventures and Brad has from his kids having a three-year-old myself. One thing I learned from Ghostrunners is to merge later. One of the really early episodes, Brad was talking about merging, I guess, and he said,

you should wait to merge onto the freeway. And so every single time I merge, just wait a little bit and I take longer. I think about Brad every time I merge. I also learned I should never go on Shark Tank. What is up? Jake Brad and Tyman, congrats on 500 episodes. Today I'm going to be celebrating 500 episode anniversary

with a Dusty's Top 500. So let's get into it. It's kidding, just kidding. But really, at number 500, we've got... You guys have been such a blessing. I've been listening for two or three years now. Congrats on 500. Thank you so much for everything,

but especially for creating such an uplifting and supportive community. Don't let this gray hair fool you. I will be the number one survivor on this episode of Survivor. You picked me. What? 500's episode? Jake and Brad?

Video? Jake and Brad are my favorite. Ghost Runners is the best. I laughed the hardest when Jake and Tyman sang the dentist song for the first time. It was hysterical. And then it got even better when I went and watched it on YouTube and watching Jake and Brad react. It was hilarious and joyful. Now it's Mariah Ster.

Oh. Hilarity and Joy are good words for the podcast. One of the ways that Ghostrunners has changed my life is the, infectious joy of especially Jake and Brad, but all of the people that you surround yourself with and the people that you chose to marry are just very joyful and happy people. This podcast has given me lifelong friends, and it only takes one episode to really know that you care about each and every person that listens, as well as your friends. Your example translates to this community of ghosties, and I'm really thankful to know you.

Ghostrunners podcast has personally changed my life. because of the book Habits of the Household. Brad mentioned it on one episode, and I picked it up, I read it, and it's totally changed how I see family discipleship. It has really helped me to set a foundation for the children's ministry at our church and family ministry at our church. So I'm thankful for the ways in which Brad talks about family discipleship, and I'm thankful for this podcast, for this community,

and congratulations for 500 episodes. When I started listening, I had no idea that a podcast would truly change my life, but I am so thankful for the amazing community. you guys have been able to build and how many new friends I have been able to make. Being a homeschooler, you know, I didn't have that many friends growing up. And so it's been such a beautiful experience for me as an adult to get to go to go see events and know that I'm going to make new friends and be part of this awesome community. So happy 500 episodes.

That's amazing. So thankful for all that you do. I would say that the podcast has changed my life. Simply put, that it has kept my positivity levels, even in hard times. emotionally, mentally, it's increased the positivity on those hard days for me. So thank you for that. To foster such genuine community and friendships is unlike anything I've experienced in my life. I am constantly texting and calling and planning vacations to meet up with ghosties.

I can say, because I've listened to the Ghostrunners podcast, I have been changed for good. How has the Ghost and News Podcast changed my life? I would have to say in many ways. One of the rooms in my house is a podcast studio. I get a lot of free meat every month, specifically only chicken. And my grandmas have a great way to stay updated with my life. And my marriage came from it. So thanks, Ghostrunner's podcast. My life truly wouldn't be the same without it. I'm so thankful for it. Jake and Brad treat us like friends, not fans. And, That permeates through the entire community. And it's just amazing having it with people to laugh with, to pray with, to be encouraged by,

to be able to encourage. And it's just really cool to be a part of that. So thanks, Jake and Brad, for what you built. And happy 500 episodes. So the Ghostrunners podcast has impacted my life through the ghosty community. Just to be able to have friends across the country when I really needed it that most, was life changing. So thank you, Jake and Brad, for all that you do and for just your Christian faith and how you show it.

The way that Ghostrunners has changed my life is it's just provided so much joy in my life. I'm a mama. I'm an ER nurse. And so my life can be pretty crazy. But having your podcast has been such a blessing. Jake, Brad, Tyman, y'all have just been such a blessing. And what you guys are doing is kingdom work. Whether you know it or not, the Lord is using you guys.

And I just want to encourage all to keep going. We so appreciate you. Jake and Brad, congratulations on 500 episodes of Ghostrunners. That's amazing. Sweet. We've been a fan of here, guys. It's a long time. You've been with us today one out here in La Naxa.

Will and I are so grateful for your friendship. Congratulations again. They're standing so close together. The lights on with this place. And I remember Jake years ago, you said, yeah, Bradenauer about to hit record. We don't even know what's going to happen after that. And look at what you guys have done since then.

I texted you about 30 minutes ago. I just got different from the time of watching this video, but said you guys are out here changing lives. Nathan, who's taking this video, that's one of them. I can't confirm that that is one of them. I mean, talk about changing my life. Like, I literally wouldn't be living in the Olathe House in Kansas City, if not for the ghostrunners.

I mean, one of the main reasons I'm here is because of the community that you guys have built and just how supportive it is, how supportive you guys are of your listeners, in general, how supportive the listeners are of each other. You guys have fostered something really special. So just keep it going. Another 500 episodes, another 1,000.

Yeah, it's amazing stuff. So just keep it going. And we'll get back to Drew and Will here in a second. That's one of them and countless others. Pride of you guys. Can't wait for what's in store. To your biggest fans. Congratulations.

Love you. Hi, my name is Brooke Oberhof. I've been listening since 2021. And I wouldn't say that this podcast has changed. my personal life a whole lot. I did listen to them basically 24-7 when they started, and I still listen twice a week, every week. And I did go to Indiana and meet them and a bunch of other cool people.

And I happened to all Jake's shows in the area. And then I did go to get everybody back together to get that in Indiana a year later. But, you know, I don't think it's been happy influence on my life. It's not like my kids know the jingle and who Jake and Brad are. want to talk about them, which obviously isn't allowed. So anyway, congratulations. 500 episodes, and I hope there's 500 more.

That was great, Rick. Just kidding, I think I know more about you guys than I do about most of my actual friends. It's changed my life because now my brain is entertained while I'm doing boring tasks in the evening. So thank you guys so much because I can't get the dishes done or take out trash or do laundry. without someone talking to me. Thank you. The Ghostrunners podcast has personally changed my life

because Jake and Brad are really good about just finding ways to make the mundane things in life very fun and playful. And so I've learned not to take life too seriously and just to find the humor in anything in life. Ghost Runners is amazing. It's awesome. It makes me laugh.

You guys are like my best friends. I never even met you. And it's great. And here's to another 500 or 5,000 episodes. Thanks. Have a good day. Tell your folks that says hi. I've been listening since 2023.

And even though it's been a few short years, I feel like you guys have just impacted my life so much. I mean, going from like a comfort podcast to like an interactive podcast, you know, going to the getaway was pretty life-changing and wild. I just, you guys are awesome. And here's to another 500. Love you guys. I can not imagine a world without the Ghost Runners podcast. I've met some of my best friends through the community. Ghosties have just been there for me, for me, for.

everything. They've mourned with me. They celebrated with me. I've received more support than I could ever imagine from a podcast of all things. I think Jake and Brad just attract the best kind of people. And I'm just one of many people who have benefited from me. Congrats on 500 guys. I'm thinking about Andy Bernard's quote from the office finale when he said, I wish there was a way to know that you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. And I know for certain that the ghostrunner's podcast is only part of my good old days. I love that I can share it with my wife, my kids, my best friend. Random strangers in the Coles dressing room.

Freaking A. Well, here's the 500 more. Love you guys. 500 episodes. Wow, that's a lot of episodes. We're calling it the 5th episode. No podcast has actually

made it that long. We don't think they have so. What a record we've said. We're so proud to call the Ghostrunners podcast. The greatest show of all time. Thank you. I've listened to the Ghostrunners podcast is all about 16 years old,

And that's about the amount of time that I went from a high school kid until like kind of an adult. And they've been such a good example of how to make people laugh while showing them the love of Christ and doing that in a clean and God-honoring way. And that's just been a real inspiration to me. My mom introduced me to the podcast and we both listen to it weekly and even go back and listen to the old episodes together. It has grown my relationship with my mom so much. It gives us something to talk about each week and connect on. And we just have so many inside jokes and share so much laughter together because of the podcast. One of the things that Ghostrunners has taught me is to look for the humorous and positive side of all the things that happen in life, even in the most mundane moments.

So thank you to Jake and Brad for helping me to have a more positive outlook on life and for bringing joy to the lives of so many people around the world. Ghost or this podcast has changed my life by showing me how to appreciate the small things in life and has made me laugh a lot, mostly because that's why I met Tyler Tolton and his laugh makes me laugh. So, yep. Ghostrunners podcast has personally changed my life because of the live events and getaways I've been able to go on. Through this, I was able to get out of my shell as an introvert and get to, experience a lot of core memories and make a lot of new friendships with people I wouldn't have otherwise met if it weren't for Jake and Brad. Ghostrenners has been a constant in my life when

everything else has continued to change. And so throughout all of that, including moving across the world, you guys have been something that I can count on to consistently be there. And I'm so grateful that you choose to show the love of Jesus this way. Hi from Germany. I want to just say thank you for the podcast and for the community that you have built. It's been a massive blessing to me in a season of really loneliness and traveling and feeling like you just need a break. And you guys have been a very therapeutic and hilarious podcast. And I've met real friends, both on the internet and in person. And I have a little outlet for my silly little raps that I make about the podcast. I'm hopeful for you guys, love you guys, and would love to see you in person sometime.

For the past five years, Ghostrunners has given me something to talk to and connect with my husband about. He is a Missouri-born boy who cheers for the chiefs and so I've always felt more connected to him because of the podcast. During an unexpected season of loneliness, you guys were honestly a big source of light and joy and comfort in my life and I will forever be grateful for that and I owe you guys a lot. I would say that just learning that it's possible to do the kick flush in a public bathroom has really changed my life. Honestly, just, you know, because germs are gross.

I've been doing the kick flush everywhere. It's the urinal, even for the sinks, you know. Some of those sinks have germs on them too. And using the same kick flush method, I've been able to just turn the sink on and off with my foot. And it's really saved a lot of hassle rewashing my hands after I turn the sink off. Hi, guys. It's Tia Robinson. Been listening to the pod since 2020.

Been to a couple ghosty getaways. Most random thing I've learned was this week that being bricked up is not, in fact, simply just being bricked up. Thanks for everything you guys do. Love you much. What makes Ghost Run's podcast so special to us is having the privilege to listen to Jake Brad and timing. He's so genuine and having the opportunity to get him in person and see that they are. are just the same funny, wholesome, genuine guys. And it's amazing to have the community that they've built along with Ghostrunners.

Congratulations for 500 episodes. We can't wait for 500 more. We love you guys. This podcast came into my life at the perfect time, bringing so much light and laughter. Ghostrunners has also given me some of my best friends. And I'm forever grateful for the three of you, as well as the community that y'all have created. Thank you for everything that you do for creating the most wonderful memories with and for your listeners.

Here's to 500 more, at the very least. Something that I love and really appreciate is how the podcast has kind of become like a time capsule for different parts of our family's life, which is really fun to be able to listen back and on just special moments in our family's life or just little funny stories about my kids. They have been growing up and hearing Brad get to talk about those and has been really special and a really neat thing that was a very unexpected. You know, if or when this season of Ghostrunners ever came to an end and only the Lord knows if that would ever happen, I will always, always have a special and dear place in my heart for the Ghost Runners podcast and the season that that was for us. Romans 828 says, and we know that all things work to.

together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. Jake and Brad, I think it's safe to say that we are all absolutely blown away by the amazing things that God has done through you two in this podcast. We just can't even explain the impact that you've had on each of our lives. So from the bottom of our hearts, we want to say, thank you. And congratulations to 500 episodes of the better podcasts in the world. We love you guys. What do you say now?

Yeah. that was quite the surprise timing that was like I think everyone it was Nathan Coley Caleb Willis Caleb Sullivan yeah there's a lot of people

that you don't have to say every single that was like the main yeah the main four that headed it up say it again sorry Caleb Maddie Caleb Maddie

Caleb and Nathan wow yeah dude that's amazing man praise God honestly that's like the thing that I I don't know yeah I don't know if I can say much right now because I'm going to cry but like at the end

the end of the end of the end. I think people are putting us probably higher of a pedestal than we need to get honestly it's just like praise God praise God for what he's done through the podcast kind of what mattie said it's just like yeah it's just the Lord has done really cool things through it and I don't know sometimes I'm like yeah some of the things people said it's like so kind but also like I don't know I don't know if I deserve that I don't know if I deserve that praise I don't know I don't know if we do as good of a job as people think or whatever it is, but it's like, at the end of the day, the Lord's hopefully glorified through it. So that's amazing and special.

And it is cool. Yeah, I don't think either of us had any idea of like, let's do something special for 500. And it just happened to be on like a recap episode anyway. So it's like, all right, let's just keep going, you know. Yeah. So it is fun to just reflect because I don't think we do a great job of doing that without forcing it like this. Yeah. It's crazy.

And maybe that's a takeaway. is like, yeah, we don't feel like we're doing anything that special other than show up. Show up. You know, and kind of like God do the rest. Just like, just be consistent. Just, you know, yeah, we show up here. Right. Twice we gave a week.

And then the rest is not really up to us. Yes. Yes. And we've talked about so many times of like the idea of like just how indirect all the impact is. Like we talk about a story of my father-in-law who says some inappropriate term, you know, about cats and drinking milk or whatever. And then all of a sudden people are like, you know, you used me in a really hard time. and the Lord's like glorified through this.

Yeah. I don't think that's us, guys. Like, let's just be very clear about this. You know, like, you know, so often, yeah, people will say, you guys helped us through these hard times. It's like, we don't know. We don't know the hard times you're going through. We're just here and showing up.

And we have a few words written down on some notes on our computer and we just talk about them. So just the sheer amount of people that were in that video. Yeah. It's kind of wild. Yeah. That's what I was how to wrap my head around. It's like, sure.

I don't know if that many podcasts could gather that many people. and we are still not that big of a podcast. It's amazing. At all. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's just, yeah,

it's just cool. It's humbling. It's, uh, encouraging. I don't know. It's just one of those things where it's like, we just don't have all the words to say.

Everything that you feel for that kind of thing. It's like, oh, holy cow. That's so sweet. Yeah. Thanks, Caleb and everyone else who helped make that happen.

Seriously. That's pretty cool. It's cool to see when people started listening to. Yeah, that was fun. Fun to see. Yeah, because some of the guys that,

I mean, obviously when you come to a ghosty getaway, you become friends with that person instantly, you know, and deeper. But like, Jesse Plattner's only been listening since 2023, it says. Yeah. That's crazy. Lily Rice's been listening since 2019. I wouldn't have thought that. There you go. Yeah.

It's just like, wow, it's just, it's awesome. I don't know what else to say. Timon, what do you have to say? I watch every once in a while, I never looked at you because I was watching this, but I would kind of look over at timing. Timon didn't stop smiling the whole time. It was great. He had a soft smile at least the whole time. I'm just so grinned.

It was cool realizing how many people, like, there's so many people that know each other in that video and that we know. That was so cool. Yes. Yeah, we don't think that's super common. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

And it was just, yeah, really neat. I think extra for me, I'm like, I'm not, I'm just, I'm, like, if you live more, I'm just here. But like, yeah, right. It's really cool. Yeah. What's going on. Yeah.

It's so cool, man. Gosh. Living in this day and age is fun. I think that's the takeaway. we get to like connect with people and they get to connect with each other like internet's great yeah like it is great that we get to reach people where they are completely alone and we were rather alone at the time of filming this but we're able to like reach them wherever they're at wow in the sense that like we don't have an audience in front of us timing that's it we have we have

time and kind and i've barely we have time in when he's paying attention he like he like laughs but quietly. He never really laughs hard. Well, half time he's over there trying to figure out what 13 minus 63 is. He's like, gosh, don't talk to me right now. Oh, man. I don't, yeah, I don't have all the words, but I have a lot of feelings. Is that fair to say? Like, yeah, I, I, anything that you're like, I wonder if Brad loves that. I promise, I love it. I promise that was so special. It's so meaningful. I just don't know if I could say it all right now because it's just, I don't know. I'm, I'm surprised. That was a surprise, timing.

You're right. It was a surprise. Especially the first 15 seconds when I realized, oh, he wasn't joking. This is 30-minute song. Wait, because you know what I thought it was going to be? I thought it was going to be the song, the jingle that you made.

Oh, yeah. At the end, I thought it was going to be ghosty sending in like an almost music video of that for episode of 500. That's what I guessed it was. So all of a sudden, I'm like, wait, it's not that. Wait, it's 30-minute song. Why is my dad talking in that? Yeah.

It was very confused for 10 seconds. And I was like, all right, I see what's happening now. So, so cool, man. Wow. That's amazing. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you for listening always.

And thank you for submitting those and giving us that feedback. I think that's, we've said it so many times. Like, that's what makes, obviously it's fun to record for, you know, however many hours a week that we do that. But then it's really fun the rest of the week to also be a host of this podcast because of all the other things that. Oh, yeah. The interactions. That's what makes it so wonderful and special as you guys. So thanks for contributing in so many ways.

Yeah, it's a two-way street. Yes. Content creation. Totally. Because I don't know if I would feel comfortable or not, not feel, I don't know if I would feel as excited about everything if we're just never getting any feedback. If we get the comments turned off or just people didn't have anything to say. Yeah.

Yeah. It's really. So, wow. Kind of awkward timing. Brad and I were going to end the podcast. We were only going to do this for like two more weeks. But yeah, end it with the jingle. After that.

I guess, yeah, a little longer. Wouldn't hurt. A lot of people in there said 500 more. So who said 5,000? That was great. And then they're like, say hi to your folks for me. Yeah.

Who was that? Yeah, who was that guy? Dude, I want to hang out with that guy. Yeah. Tell you where folks I says hi. That was great. Was that one of the, maybe I'm down boys?

I don't remember. I guess it could have been. Simeon texted me the other day. He said he's in Kansas City. I said, I'm not. Dang it. That was it. Nice.

So fun, man. So fun. I don't know how to end it except for just say thank you again. Yeah, thanks to those who submitted things. Thanks, you know, Koli and Caleb and the other Caleb and Maddie, you know, how'd you guys get this past this? Yeah, that's true. As I was watching, I was like, did they do like a Facebook post where they excluded certain people?

Yeah. How'd they do it, timing? I don't remember exactly. I think it was. Or do you don't know. Time was, it was a surprise of timing too. I was, yeah, I hadn't seen it. I was a little involved in like, who did I?

I texted Catherine and Rachel. Okay. Like for them to send theirs in. Okay. Nice. I was like mildly involved. Okay. But I don't, I think it was a lot of reaching out individually for some of the like,

like the cameos like Isaac with the hairnet, whatever that was going on. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Honestly, that's a great question. Yeah. Because they reached. I mean, that was an incredible amount of people. A hundred plus people.

That's crazy. Wow. That was sweet. Yeah, what was up with the hairnet? I don't know. It's probably an inside joke that we've forgotten. It's probably from the podcast. Yeah, we've probably played a game where we all had hairnets on.

or even yeah like something with Isaac I don't know that's so cool man wow

all right 500 more starts now yep every day we're gonna do seven days a week let's get to 500

quick uh huh episodes are gonna get a little shorter but yeah that feels like a good place to end the episode um we'll be back Wednesday got more stories from break

um win of the week yada yada. I am a coach of basketball now. All right. Let's talk what defense you're running on Wednesday. Let's hope they learn what defense means. We love you guys.

Thanks for, yeah, thanks for listening and being awesome. We'll see you guys Wednesday. Ghosts from a podcast.