Ghostrunners - 508 - Drinking the Kool-Aid

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

Ohhhhhh the boys have stories to tell! Jake and Timon spent a week in California, Brad shares an update on his house, Jake has stories from middle school, and the boys also discuss season 2 of Beast Games. Check out Cozy Earth and get 20% off site wide with this link: http://www.cozyearth.com/ghostrunners Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, let's just start the episode. Great. Sure. Let's just start it right now. Let's just start it. It's Monday morning. Why wait? I feel like I've lived a lifetime since last seen you boys.

Wow. Yeah, how long has it been? What? Week in six days? Weekend some change. Weeking some change. Weekend some change. 213 for $1.603.

That's time and what the change is. So if I give you a week in three days and it only costs me three days, how much would I get back? You get a full week back? Two quarters, I think. that is convenient. Yeah. Oh, wow. Okay. Two Aldi quarters. Overwhelmed. Just thinking about it. Can we not say a week and some chance? I don't know how far that is. Dude, I saw somebody comment about the whole $2.13 cents you get 50 cents back.

They're like, wow, $2.13 for a McDonald's drink and two Aldi quarters. That's a pretty good deal. You get a drink and two shopping carts. Yeah, I love the idea of like equating a quarter to an Aldi quarter. Like, whoa, two Aldi quarters. Hmm, AldiCart, big Dr. Pepper. It's great times. But yeah, I feel like recently, Scott has been a focal point in a lot of the episodes. Yes.

I feel like today this could be Timon's episode. All right. It could be. I don't know, maybe a little Scott, maybe a little Timon. Who knows what else we'll get into. I wasn't there for this, but one of my favorite texts I've ever received. There were a couple of them last week when we were all together. there. I was never there for the fun text is Isaac sent a text to our group chat that said

Tyman just got IDed trying to buy Celsius. What? I don't know. It's kind of what happened. I personally not asked the story because like I didn't know they ID'd for that. It's not pseudofed or alcohol. Yeah, there's nothing wrong. It's just caffeine. And it's the same caffeine. I mean, I've never heard of a teenager getting asked about caffeine. Timon, you care. Was it was it, was it Celsius heart?

Was it like Mike's, Mike's, Mike's H-Seltious? I think it was soft. It was a Sells-heavy. Cells heavy, dude. Well, that's what it is. It's, I don't know. I was trying to figure out the joke of like, well, it's in, you know, you think it's 32 degrees Celsius, but that's actually really hot.

That's hot. In California. So that's like really heavy Celsius. I don't know. I don't know if it was California. There was something there. Yeah. We'll get there.

We were theorizing. It was like, is, okay, so what happened is everyone. in the group, which was at this point, I think just, yeah, Isaac Scott, T.J. and myself, they all get Celsius as well before me. Where are we at? They go through, we're in Palm Springs. At a gas station? At a gas station. Right at a gas station.

Yeah. At a liquor store? And they all go through no problem. No, no hiccups in the situation. And also, like, they, um, no hiccups buying Celsius. It was a normal, it was very odd. They just like checked out and paid. And they didn't even, they didn't even accept the cashback scam. They just said, no way. Nice try about.

It went suspiciously smooth. Yeah. And so I'm like, well, something has to go wrong. So I was last in line. The last of the boys were out the door when I was still checking out. So no one else witnessed this. Okay. But I, um, I'm just like checking out like normal.

He goes, ID please. I was like, sure. He, like, what he saw was me just not questioning it. Because I was like, and I kind of didn't. I was like, I. guess that things work differently around here. I don't know. But it was interesting because, like,

my conclusion was that maybe he just thought it was alcoholic because of, like, I guess the can, the white on the can is like, maybe it could be compared to like a white claw or something like. Okay. Maybe that was white. What do you thought? Yeah.

I don't know. But I did notice, I think this guy was kind of in training. And the guy, the old guy that was... Is that your way of politically correct? He's in training? He's in training. Yeah, yeah.

Hey, this guy, let's just say he's in training. I truly don't even know what you mean by that. That's why you keep it vague. Like, hey, is that you being like politically correct to say it? Hey, you're trying to be nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me describe. These jabs are making people get really in training a lot, you know.

Yeah, I don't want to like describe him too, you know, harmfully, but he was in training. Okay. Yeah, don't use a pejorative term. Let's just say he's in training. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Good for you. This older guy who appeared to be trained.

training him. Oh, wow. Jeez. In front of me. Out in public. Yeah. He did, like, when I was walking back to the car, I didn't think that he kind of gave a little bit of a strange look.

So I think he realized what was going on. But in the car, we were kind of theorizing, like, maybe you have to, like, they have to make sure you're over 18 in California. Because I think there are some energy drinks that you're supposed to be over 18. Really? There's like, yeah, because there's like two, like a dangerous amount of caffeine. But I've seen that on the can. Like the Panera thing.

Yeah. Yeah, that whole thing charged. I've seen that on the can, but when I was like 15, I bought a bang, and I think that says 18 and up on the can. I don't know if they enforce it. Hmm. I just, it was a great text, though. Yeah, I was like, what's going on there?

Man, I'm missing out. I googled like ID Celsius underage, and the top thing is just a Reddit post from a guy saying, I just ID'd someone who bought Celsius. And they're saying that I wasn't paying attention. And I think they're just like, yeah, they either used to do in White Claws or whatever. like OID. Yeah. And then probably somewhere along the process, you realize,

whoops. Oh, he doesn't need to be 21. I'm going to pretend to look at it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thursday? Yeah. Six days ago, basically. Hey, I'll let you through this one time,

but it's just because I'm in training. Uh, uh, oh, ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts in white. Me too Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's a ghost. Okay, well, so how was the Celsius?

Did it give you a little buzz? I haven't really felt anything from a Celsius before. Okay. I think I, just for fun. Yeah. Yeah, it is kind of just like, I was going to say for the flavor, but I've never really enjoyed a Celsius flavor before. I keep on trying new ones because people are like,

Celsius is one of the better energy drinks, and I don't like it every time. So it wasn't even worth the hassle. That's one thing I don't think of, ever had a Celsius in my whole life. My whole life. A whole entire life. Nope. I don't think I've ever had one. I've always just been like, I'll just get coffee. Yeah. But you know what? Dude, sometimes hot stuff, even if it's coffee, makes me tired. Just because it's so cozy. It's, yeah, it just warms you up. And then I think your body changes to a different state or something.

That's a fair point. So sometimes I'm like, I don't know if this is doing what it should be for. Like, early morning coffee, I'm like, it feels too good. I'm too cozy in my, couch, you know, like reading. Yeah. I don't know. That sounds like some like snake oil you could sell as cold caffeine. Cold caffeine. And just don't have any science to back it up, but just like just what you're describing to me, it is kind of like, oh, that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, warm caffeine. Ooh, snugly. Mm-hmm. Warm showers. It's not like, like, I do go to the morning, but like they don't wake wake me up nearly as much as a cold shower. Cold shower. Yeah. Yeah. Cold caffeine. So that a can. What about like iced coffee? Now there's. Is that a good idea?

refrigerated coffee. I could see that taken off. I think that we do all right with that. Yeah. Or just like frozen cappuccinos. We call it a frozen napuccino. Even shorter? Napuccino.

Add the frozen back? For a cappuccine. Wait, no, frozen nappuccino. So close. A little shorter. Frappich. Yes. A frappage.

That is what I was going for. Can I get a mocha chip frappitch? We are on to something. I think there's something there. little frapich frapich dude can you imagine all the basic girls

yeah that's hot frapich but it's not it's cold frapich that's cold frapich oh man I listened back to the episode

on Wednesday and I laughed again at the Janus stuff that was so good I wanted to talk about Extreme home makeover for 60 seconds and boy

did we bite off a lot in that episode good. Oh, yeah, we bit off more than we could chew. Did you see people comment like, hey, my dad was on, like he was a member on like the crew for one of the extreme moment. Multiple people have like firsthand experiences with or I think somebody said, yeah, my friends, I don't know, we should try to find it, but my friend's house was like the one of a friend. Yeah, they did it. And of course, like all the rooms were like these extreme rooms. Yeah. After a year or two. Butterfly room. I think she said that they had to, or he, I don't know, they had to come back

and like fix stuff too because it was like oh yeah it was done in four days yeah cut some corners i bet i bet so so that's fun everyone has all these yeah familiarities with the show um on the same topic of reality shows have you watched any beast game season two yes actually it's about it's about the only thing i've rachel and i've consumed lately i know me too really okay i have enjoyed it do you want do what do you want to talk about do you want to talk about spoiler Spoiler alerts. Maybe a loose debrief. Yeah.

Let's just say, first episode, dude. She's back. Oh, Catherine audibly made a noise, whenever they all came back. She's like, oh, man. I was like, yeah. Ready for this.

Ready for this. Have you watched it, Simon? No. Have you watched the first season? I watched like four episodes in the first season. Okay. Yeah.

But yeah, I was on the phone. my dad last night. I was telling him, I was like, Beast Game season two is that. You guys should watch it again. It's like, it's more the same where it's just like, it's great to have someone to watch it with so you can talk. Like, oh, that was a good decision. That was a bad decision. Yes. I would have done this. Oh, he shouldn't have taken that bribe. What's dumb? What do you think about like, well, this is spoiler alerts. Can we do some spoiler? Quick spoilers. Just if you want to fast forward three minutes, you can. What do you think about the idea? Like, in the first season, they did like, hey, I want to choose one person to go up and you're going to

get bribed for a bunch of money and you have to say no and they're like I promise I'm going to say no and there was like 30 people down below and if if they accepted the bribe then all those 30 people would be out this year they did the same thing but it was only like four or five people down below and they were all going to be out and you could stay in if you take it I'm taking that money maybe maybe it's way easier with five people down there that it doesn't seem like they even really knew each other that well at this point what it's a million dollars it's a million dollars. I think Mr. Jimmy, I'm going to say Jimmy. I'm going to humanize the guy. At one point he's like, you will never in your life again get an opportunity to press a button and make a million dollars.

And part of me is like, I don't know if I would, I would probably struggle with like disaudest gain or whatever, this feeling of like, I didn't deserve this at all. But also it's, it'll change your life forever, you know. I don't see why they don't, especially in a group of five, they don't say, hey. Yes. that's what if it gets above a million i'm taking it i'm giving you each 50 000 yeah or something something like that i would say like or just split it up five ways yeah like hey are we all good for this like if we do this like i'll split it up with you yeah that's i had that thought like assuming somebody took it i would have been like don't worry guys you're getting six figures each as well yeah

have you watched the survivor episode yes i've watched i didn't watch last night's episode but i've watched okay yeah that poor kid who got manipulated down the pole. That sucked, dude. Which that sounds like sexual harassment when I say it that way. The kid who got manipulated down the pole, but that is what happened.

He got robbed down the pole. Yeah, bad, like, bad summary description. A little kid got manipulated down a pole because of his brain. He, dude, yeah, I'm sure Scott, if Scott watched that, he was screaming. My jaw was on the floor. Scott already has a pretty big disdain

for one of the guys. But yeah, that was terrible. That was too bad. Yeah, that was, yeah. I don't like how they're doing it. It's like so time in this season, they have a hundred, last season was a thousand people.

Yeah. This season, I think, starts with 200 people. It's 100 strong people and 100 smart people. Oh, okay. I feel, Jake, tell me if I'm right or wrong on this, I feel like almost every single competition is, is catered to physical abilities over mental ability.

That's what Rachel says. She's like, it's pretty like athletic challenges every time. And so, you know, Jimmy's always like, let's see. Could the strong people? It's better be strong or smart? I don't know. Let's see. And it's like, let's hang on a pole for as long as we can.

It's like, I don't know who's smarter. Then again, the smart guy did seem rock solid on there. And I think all the people with a ton of body weight couldn't hold themselves up. I think that one's more about like your weight than it is. Yeah. Because he like he could like put his feet on the little bridge thing. But no, for the most part, it is like physical. challenges. Yeah. No mental challenges, really. Even like the ones that are like smart are like put

together a puzzle. It's like, I don't think you have to be that. I mean, I think you can probably be like a, I don't know, I don't think like that kid's a genius. I bet he could rock that puzzle. There was a girl in the show or something. Yeah, or some crazy math equation. There's a girl on the show who has a, the IQ that's like similar or even better than Albert Einstein's. Well, wanted to get to know her more. And she got knocked out by like episode two or three or something. Oh, they're getting rocked. Yeah, not a lot of smart people left. Anyway, but I'm enjoying it. Catherine fell asleep during the Survivor part at the end,

like the Tribal Council. She's like, what happened? They all voted for them. Oh, good. Good for Ian. I thought that was interesting, though, the whole tribal council. I was never a survivor guy, though, so, like, Jeff Probst does not like some,

you know, legend to me. Yeah, no. Jeff Probst. Something I can't help but notice, just like, I've seen every Mr. Beas and and I, you know, just make so much content is I feel like Jimbo is setting things up for so much drama and backstabbing and everyone is being so nice this season. I know that's got to drive from crazy. Yes. There's been multiple opportunities for like some really cool moments or yeah,

just like I said, I guess drama or backstabbing and no one's lying to anyone. Yeah, there's a part where like you're supposed to tell other people what colors they have on their headbands or something. And yeah, like it would behoove you like if they got out and so you could lie to them or Yours is blue. Here's blue. And then for two hours straight, 15 people just tell the truth over and over and over again. He's like,

no one's leaving until someone tells a lie. And then he has to just like kick people out, which that's not good TV. And then what else was there? There's another opportunity. Oh, where he's like, you guys get to pick your partners and only one person's coming out.

And, you know, I think they're just like, they're all pairing up with like their good friends. And he's like, you guys want to be together? He's like, yeah, you know, I just figured if I'm going to lose, I want it to be to a good guy. And I'm sure he's like, dang it.

Yeah. Be meaner. Yeah. You want to backstab anybody? I think they all know that it's a long game. And so it's like we can't backstab people or else people are going to get back at us, I guess, you know? And that's a little bit how Survivor works just from what I watched in high school. Like, yes, you can get voted out eventually.

But in the end, you get voted in to win. And the rubric is like, how well did you play the game? Right. So, yeah, you are trying to, like, score points through the whole season. So what do you think of the, there's a love story in it? it. Yeah. Rachel hates these two. I was going to say how, how annoyed. I could see you just being so bothered by these people. No, Rachel really can't stand them. I, uh, I mean, it's pretty annoying to me. But, uh, yeah, it is pretty, yeah, it's pretty, yeah, it's pretty annoying.

Okay. Just like, I mean, I think they drop the L word by episode two and you're talking about, yeah, building a life together. And, and really, it's the PDA. Very, yeah, very just openly kissing, like, yeah. So yeah, they do a boyfriend girlfriend. Like they're official after at the end of episode one. Yeah. Also it's like I never thought I'd find my future husband on this show. It's like you might. But how interesting, you know. Yeah, it might even be him. And they're both strong. They're just like lifting together. Like I just never thought this. This is going to be great. So she's quite the athlete though. You know, she was like the first one down and up for that very first challenge. Okay. She's lean. Lean. She's a gymnast. Yeah, I could talk about it for a long time But some people haven't seen it yet So let's talk about things that everyone can understand

Okay, pickleball, master's term, nursing. Yeah How was the whites? How are the whites? How are the all whites? Yeah. Well, it's pretty all white. You're living all white?

Yeah, I am living all white. Alt white. It was, yeah. That'd be funny. I thought you said it was alt white. I thought it was alt white. Shoot. No, but we, uh,

As Scott would call it, we drank the Kool-Aid. If we ever dressed in white, he would be, like, you'd be, like, you'd be drinking the Kool-Aid, huh? Because, like, technically, amateurs didn't have to dress in all-wide. I don't know, everyone's doing it. It's at this nice country club. Yeah, it's doing it. Yeah, I got the email.

Yeah, I got the email. So, yeah, very hard. Scott. LDS Scott is giving you a hard time for doing the Kloid. Just clarify him. But it's very hard to find your friend at an all-white tournament. everybody looks the exact same. It's like hard to know what court people are playing on or like who is that.

I will say the purple bags we have pop. Oh, yeah. Those are helpful. The flare. The flare. Yeah. So we dressed in all white. It was fun.

Everyone we played against not drinking the Kool-Aid. No. A lot of colors. A lot of colors. I don't like that. A lot of cherries. No. Get your own cord is what I say.

You're like, hey, this is all white tournament, dude. What are you doing? Yeah. To Marcus. Yeah. Yeah. So, like, did the pros, like, were they pretty, like, everyone was truly in all white. Oh, yeah.

Really. And even, like, probably 80% of the amateurs, everyone who just kind of buys in, like, yeah, just, like, dressed in all white for this tournament. Not to be a time in, but was it pretty sick? Like, did it, was it like, did it, like, accomplish, like, the goal? Yeah, because it's like, I mean, Palm Springs by itself is beautiful. I mean, you're surrounded by mountains. It's so pretty.

And this venue is at a country club with really, nice golf course and like grass tennis courts. I mean, it's nice. So there is an aspect of like, I don't know. High class. Sheik to it. Sheesh. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Yeah. It's nice. Yeah, you would like look at the sea of courts. It was just like white everywhere. Yeah. It was pretty cool. Okay.

Yeah, it was super sick. Hitler's a dream as far as the eye can see. Mine serve. You're a server mindset. It's mine. all right 9-9-1 but yeah

I mean so much to talk about and debrief I mean I think the main thing is like we had a blast Timon was there like Monday through Friday

yeah you had a blast question mark I had a blast yes yeah we had fun it was fun just crammed a ton of us

into an Airbnb and it's just I think there's just aspects of just like dudes on a trip that well always happen. I don't care like who's there. It's just like we got two air mattresses out in the living room. Timons out there. You know, there's this the first night I think they're like, wow, we need way

more covers. I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. Let me give you, let me look at my closet. Oh my God, I have all these covers. You take mine. And then I realize, oh, those are supposed to be my covers. I didn't look at my bed, you know, so then I'm the one sleeping like with a pillow as my blanket. I'm like, you know, balancing a pillow on me and a beach towel. Oh, you got a weighted blanket with the pillow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That felt very just like guy,

just like, we didn't plan ahead for this. Wait, did you guys buy air mattresses to, like, or did they provide those at the Airbnb? Kyle brought one. I think I saw him the one Kyle brought. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. There was a guy there at Kyle's men's partner. He was also a 19 year old homeschooled guy. So him and time and shared the living room air mattress. And I feel like this is like weirdly a staple of just like dudes dynamic. but like if you get a crew of eight dudes or more

and spend considerable time together, there will be one guy who I feel like just has like a side project going. It's hard to describe. I just feel like that's a thing. Anyway, that was the telescope in the living room with our new friend Elliot. It's just right at the foot of his bed. And I think he's just like, see what this telescope's all about.

I can't really see out of it. And it was his life's mission the next four days. Like, I'm going to figure out this telescope. Let's figure out the telescope. Every time I saw him. I'm like, Galileo. Good morning. How we doing?

Would you know how to use a telescope? I would not. Definitely not to fix it. Like, that's a thing. Like I could use binoculars. I might have briefly looked through it and then I immediately gave up. Like I was like, oh, too bad. And he was like, no, I'm going to figure it out.

Yeah, he's got that kind of Isaac in him a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've got to figure this out. Okay. Home school. I feel like sometimes homeschoolers, sometimes it sounds like time. Sometimes. What, as far as like, I don't know, like, you're meeting a new homeschool,

a fellow homeschooler. You had to do the handshake? Yeah, like, what are like the commonalities? I should have talked to Elliot more because I didn't even know that. Oh, you didn't? No. Wow, no pillow talk.

No weighted blanket talk for you guys. Yeah, you guys didn't have any pillow talk, huh? No. We were too far away, I think. I think if we'd have been like in the same orientation, like side by side. But we were like far away

and like my feet were where his head was. Oh, yeah. That's like night one, your feet to head. Night two, you're like, let's go head to head. Let's move in a little bit. Dude, what if we just did one massive air? There are mattress. Get in mine.

Yeah, dude. So cozy. I got Jake's comforter. So wait, did you figure out the sheets situation? Did you go buy some? By the next morning, I didn't even feel bad about it. I was like, Tyman Elliott. I was a little too charitable last night.

I'm going to need some of those blankets back. I was a cold night of sleep. Yeah. I overgave. I'm going to need some blankets back tomorrow. So, wait, you didn't have any sheets? I had just like a top. sheet and I'm like I'm going to get in bed.

I mean, they've already been asleep for a while. I'm like, huh, I gave away everything. It's all right. There's a beach towel around here somewhere. You didn't have a comforter. Yeah, correct. I just had like truly just the top sheet to go to sleep in. So I was like, ah, whoops. Dude, so I had two closets in my room. One was just like, yeah, bedding in the hamper.

The other closet, you open it up and they've put a shelf in there with an iMac. It's hard to describe how like, odd this look. Because it's not a walk-in closet. It is just like a rack of what should be closed. They took the rack off. They put a shelf and they just put an IMA in it. No plug in, though. So it's a decorative $5,000 IMac desktop in there.

How old is it? You're here and it looked like within the last year. For real? It's like a nice IMAQ, yeah. I think they're like, hey, we use this when we come here, but other times we're just stored in here, no one's going to check. Yeah, maybe it's just storage.

I don't know. I don't know where I was supposed to use it at. No plug in. What? or they run an extension cord from the kitchen. That's not where they use it, though, obviously. Yeah. Keyboard?

Keyboard and printer. No plug-in. It was nicely set up in there. It seems like they would use it in there, but how did they power it? Yeah. That was kind of fun. That was my favorite game to play to the point where people were making fun to me. Every time with someone come out of the house, hey, let me show you in my room.

All right, guess what's in this closet? Nope. Wrong. Wrong. Dimeck. Anyway. All right. What are you doing?

So what else, like, what other trends or things that dudes did? I was obsessed with the synergy of just all of us working alongside each other. I think because it is our own business, we're already, like, motivated to work hard on it. It's not like, all right, we're clocking out, but it's like, not only is there at that aspect, but also because we're together, it was just electric. And you can imagine, you know, you've seen a chief skin with me. I keep not shutting up about it. Guys, isn't this awesome? You love to, like, vocally process it.

Yeah, yeah. Like, guys, what's better? Like, guys, can we all just take a moment to appreciate this moment? This is pretty sick. I just don't, no one said it yet. I just, I want to make sure it doesn't go unnoticed. Guys, this is pretty cool what's happening. I love you guys.

I love you guys. Thank you guys. Yeah. Just, I did that about one tonight. And. This is awesome. I can just hear you go. Yeah.

This is awesome. That was what I was. Yeah. It's awesome. This is awesome. We were all here doing this. I mean, I agree. It was, it was, it was, I told my dad about it.

I was like, it was great. Yeah. Yeah, there were also other aspects of just like, they had renovated, this Airbnb had renovated the garage to be, well, a few different things. They had a slot machine. They had a bunch of arcade games. It was like classic Airbnb. And then a pool table.

Okay. And then extremely nice sound paneling on one of the walls and a karaoke machine kind of built into the garage. So what do you mean by like, what are we talking? Time? Just like, I only know that these are expensive because I've like thought about redoing this room and they'll lay the house to be like a studio of sorts. And it's like this paneling that like keeps sound from bouncing around, very expensive.

There's like a whole big wall of it. It's like wooden slat. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Retail rebel. They're on there all the time. Awesome. But there's kind of this bar there where I think you're supposed to perform your karaoke at or whatever.

Yeah. But Matt and Andre kind of set up like office chairs out there and they'd stack books and they've got their laptops working and it just felt like it's very start. It's like we're working out of the garage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kyle walked in as like, dude, I got to get a picture of this. You guys all working here in the garage, you know, a little bit later, Andre comes out, hey, we're doing nickel back power hour if you guys want to join.

Which I never even really heard that term, but I can assume what it means. I think just for one hour, we're going only nickel back. Oh, really? We're just playing nickel back while we work. I thought it was something with the slot machines. No, it's just you play nickel back for an hour while you work. Power hour. Nickelback power hour.

Yeah. Classic term that everyone, you know. uses the nose. That's awesome. Yeah, it's that scene in social network where they're like ziplining off the roof into the pool, but also like working inside. Yeah, Justin Timberlake comes by.

Whatever. Or maybe it's Wardo. What's the name? Gordo. Eduardo. Eduardo. Great times. Wado.

Mark! That's a good impression. Better lawyer up! Booty man! Elliot. Galileo. He looks like Andrew. Garfield.

Does he really? Yeah. It was funny. He made a breakthrough one day where, you know, we're all to sit around the table doing stuff. I can see light! But it's also noon. So I gave him a hard time.

I was like, hey, we all can, buddy. Oh, man, I've been in here for a while. I think I need some sleep. Oh, it's morning now? Yeah. Oh. I can see light. And obviously, once he explained to me, like, you know, you couldn't see anything.

And like, he had fixed something. you could see half, I could finally see light come through, but it's just funny when it's like daylight out. It's like, if you're looking for light, just like off the window, dude. Did Isaac get all this at all? I think, Isaac is still an amazing asset to have on these trips

because it's like, this fire pits, Scott comes back, I know it's not working. Isaac's like, to heck it is, dude. Let me, let me dig a little bit, literally, get into the gas slide. We'll crank this up. Give me a hand shoveled some kerosene. It's working.

It's working. sure enough you got it working and sure enough the next day smelled a lot like propane in the garage but it was the day we were checking out so it's fine yeah I think from the propane tank it had leaked in there or something

we were checking out we sent him a note that sounds like propane just FYI we're out of here don't light a match we'll see you think we'll back power hour out

what else was I think there are all sorts of things it was just like so nice Oh, just trying to, one paddle was acting a little funky. We're like, let's cut this open. Well, we don't have any of our tools. Isaac's like, guys. We have tools. We have me.

I got scroll saw and reciprocate saw right here. So, yeah, Isaac's a great person to have. How did he open it up? I'm curious. I think, I think, originally he was like trying to find some pliers. It couldn't find pliers. Next thing I know to turn around. And he just got, maybe it's like a kitchen knife and his own claws.

Yeah. I think that was it. It's good. What else did he fix? It's great. It's funny how often, like, having just like this handyman woodworker, problem solver type skill set is coming handy for pickleball paddles and the engineering that comes along with it. He is, I do like how he's just like, he'll get in there. Like, like, when we went to Gatlinburg for that golf, like, whatever, weekend with Jensen's friends,

somebody put a spoon down the garbage disposal or something so it wasn't working. I was, I can get that thing to work. He's like literally like plumbing. this thing, like underneath the sink. And, yeah, eventually, like, got to work. Or no, it was, it was, somebody broke a glass, and it went, like, the glass went into the garbage. That's what it was. And so, Isaac, I think it was literally bleeding, is it?

Like, I think he had some, like, cuts on his hand. He's like, yeah, should be working now. At Medcan, we know that life's greatest moments are built on a foundation of good health. From the big milestones to the quiet winds. That's why our annual health assessment offers a physician-led, full-body checkout. that provides a clear picture of your health today and may uncover early signs of conditions

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I think he just has enough logic to be like, like, well, we can figure this out. Right. Probably something stopping it from spinning or whatever. Let's figure out, okay, this thing must twist off or whatever. Yeah, he has kind of an engineering mind. He can understand how things move and, like, work together very quickly. I don't have that.

I, it's, you know, you always think about this with your kids, like my kids are geniuses or whatever. But it does feel like Beau is more naturally inclined that way. Yes, that way. Yeah, it feels like, or he at least notices things or thinks about like, how does this thing work? And they just went to the library the other day. and they both, Haddy and Bo both got like these books kind of talking about what we talked about last week, but like it was like how to build a fort, how to like do all these different things. So Bo's got this book with like plans for like 15 different types of forts that you can build,

like jungle forts and, you know, all these different like, like, I don't know. And he's like, dad, can we build this one? Can we do this next? Can we do a pirate ship? Jungle fort. I'm like, we need trees for all these, dude. We don't have any trees in our house. He's like, yeah, that's true.

Can we move to a place with trees? I'll need some more money for that. He's like, I got money. Well, we could sell one of the forts. He goes, I got money. I was like, okay. Do you want to go tell mom that you'll be willing to spend some of your money on the house? Yeah, it goes like, mom, can you help me find a house with the money I have?

Really? Yeah. Well, what are you looking for? Three bed, a ton of trees. A ton of trees. I also tell you how he, like, he's been thinking businessy recently. And it's all, it does seem like he kind of, his life revolves around trees, maybe.

Maybe he's just a woodwork, right part. Because he, like, Haddy was trying to talk about fixing, you know, flipping house. I always try to, like, explain to the kids what it's all about. And Bo goes, what if dad, what if he just bought a house and just sold it right away for more money? And I'm like, okay. How do you, how do you, what do you think about that? Daddy, of course, is like, that's, you can't do that. It's not going to work, whatever.

And then, uh, Beau was like, what if he just bought a house and planted like, thousand trees and then sold it. I was like, all right, not a bad idea. At least he's thinking. Yeah, curb appeal. Thousand trees. I will say one of the things I love about your parents' house right when you drive in. Trees are nice.

Tree lined driveway. Yeah. They did that right when they built the house, right? Before we had the house, we had trees. Yeah, we had the basement foundation and then like 30 trees lining the driveway. People were like, what is this leading to? What is this windy? Just trust us, all right?

Yeah. In 20 years, it's going to look awesome. I still remember being out there. We would just go to the property. Just like, we'd go play catch and just like look at like the kind of, you know, what it might look like. You know, just like they had dug it but hadn't laid any concrete. And yeah, I remember my dad going out there and you cut a little hole in the bottom of a bucket filling it with water. So it like slowly like watered the tree.

Oh, I see. Yeah, like on each tree. Oh, interesting. It's like slow trickle. Slow trickle. that's cool. Trees are doing great now. Yeah, they are, dude.

So, yeah, Bow's all about trees. Bo's all about tree. Bo's all about just inventing stuff. Like, it was really cool. It kind of unlocked something. And then when we did all those weapons and stuff for his maker's market, I think now he thinks that I can build anything. And it's like, man, I can't.

You know, I can't even. I'm not even close. Yeah. But he's like, Dad, can we do this? Can we do that? Could we build a treasure chest? I'm like, I think we could probably figure out some sort of chest. I don't know if I can do all the,

complicated stuff that this book wants me to do here. Yeah, I remember about like the curved lid. What if it's just like a box? Yes, that's what I said. I was like, we could just do a box of some sort. So, yeah, he's all about it. So it's great. That's cool.

Yeah, can make me an iPad pro? What kind of trees that? I, Cypress. Nice. Yeah. Good. I tried. That's good.

Anyway. You know, actually, the more I'm thinking about it, you should come on one of these trips with us. I know it would make no sense. You'd have to leave your family. Nope, they wouldn't care. They wouldn't even know I was gone. You would have so much fun, I think.

Just the dynamic. Of course. I needed you on my side because there were parts where Tyman and Scott got going on stuff, and I couldn't stop him. I couldn't stop him. Where Timon is egging on Scott doing his dumb stuff. Scott thinks he's the funniest guy in the world, and he's just not going to stop all week.

what's he doing? I actually didn't even write you that down. I'm just not remembering it. How did this inside joke get started? It's some Mexican restaurant. Yeah, it was just like when we got there to the airport, we're like sitting in the rental car, like, where should we eat? We should find a place to eat.

And Scott's just like looking up restaurants. He's like naming some. There's Mexican one. El Taco Ogarado. He's like, he's like, El Taco Egarado. And then. Classic Scott. Making things Portuguese.

Okay, kind of fun. Kind of fun. Honestly, wasn't even really brought up for a couple days, but then the last, like, three days I was there, just, it was like our voc, just like our thing we would say. It was like, like, like, Scott was driving down the road. And that's got to quiet. And no one else says anything. Me, Isaac, TJ, silent. And you hear timing.

Scott's like, yes, dude. Dude, me and Scott were doing it all the time. Eh, got to get the, eh. You gotta get the eh, like really long. They would just go back and forth, just saying the same Mexican restaurant back to each other from the backseat to the front seat.

It's awesome. And then someone made the point, I think Tyman, maybe you brought up, you're like, or no, TJ was like, dude, it sounds like those, like, those noise makers do the sound. Like the air, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So then they iterate on El TACO Guard, and so then they start doing it the noisemaker way. Let's hear it. El T'Ogolado. It was pretty funny. But it was just great. They were too contributing.

Like, no one else is contributing. No one else was in on it? Just them going back and forth. And then they would move on from that. And then they would both just go Donald Trump at each other. They would just, they would have a trump off in the car for this 15 minute ride home.

And that was actually pretty entertaining too. But yeah. Like what time? give us a little preview? A lot of people are saying our impressions are annoying, but they're great. I think that we're going to win this tournament. And it was just going on and on. Everything.

Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I don't know if I'd be on your side, Jake. I ate 10 minutes. I think I would be part of the El Taco crew. Oh, it was so good. Because there's two different ways to be funny. There's the way where it's just like, boom, first time you say it, that's hilarious, good job. And then there's another way where you just wear them down. And sometimes, like, if you,

if you do it well enough and enough times, but not too many times, it's hilarious. Yeah. You can definitely go too far in too short of a time or just too far in general. I feel like me and Scott had a great balance. I think if you just bring it up every once in a while and like funny moments where people are already kind of happy and then you just throw that on top. Like it hadn't been said in a while, like Scott and TJ are coming off the court. Like I'm filming. They just won like one of their matches. I mean, Scott both just in sync. Eh. It's like how Hawaiians use Aloha. They would use it for anything.

Well, have I told you about that's what Scott Knight, I mean, Scott and I did this in high school with quarterback. Yeah. And like, and the fun thing is, yeah, yeah, you kind of kind of switch it up. You can't just always do the exact same thing. You can go slower. You can go fast. You can go high pitch, low pitch. But yeah, for whatever reason, like a lot of guys in my high school for whatever reason. We're like, what's up quarterback?

What up, Coda back? And then, of course, it changed Cota Bo. Cota, you know. What up, Cota, Joe? And so, I mean, to this day, like, Scott and another one of my friends, Logan, like, I'll, like, send a voicemailer just be like, Cota, Joe. And it makes no sense at all to anybody else, but it's funny to us.

You know, one thing Scott does really well is he is not afraid to send a four-second voice memo. that's a Scott staple. And especially if you have a bad typo that is spelled in a funny way, Scott will then give you how that word is meant to be said. I feel like I did it recently. Instead of saying afternoon, I said like after go. And then, of course, I typed that out and I go, that's rough. Three seconds later, text from Scott, this aftergo.

I feel like Scott was always and still is probably the best like voice like, like voice, like he was always the funniest with like funny voices. Yeah. Like growing up, I thought he was always so, so like, that makes me happy that you guys are going back and forth on that. Dumb Mexican restaurant that we never went to. Yeah, right? We decided on a different one.

Hey, free publicity for them though. If you're in the Palm Springs area. Yeah. Go to, what's it called? El taco el gado. What is the second word? It's like el and then taco elgado. Taco Elgado.

Elgado. Taco Elgado. Taco Algado. I think there's an L in there. Okay. Taco, Taco Algado. Okay.

I don't know. We could be saying it wrong all the time, but I don't care. Oh, that's amazing, dude. Yeah. That was a fun part of the trip. Yeah, it just made a lot of memories. All right. Jake, I have something to announce.

Go ahead. The announcement is this. I have been toying with it for a while. I'm still on the beginner circuit of this. this, but I want to officially announce that I am classifying myself as, I'm reclassifying myself as a coffee snob. Okay. I'm there. Snob it up. I, but I'm a beginner coffee snob. Okay. Okay. I just, I've, I've cared enough about coffee for enough time and how it tastes that I, I, I know, I think, like the other day I was at a coffee shop and I literally was like, hey, I've done this twice,

actually, last month. Hey, I don't like the way this tastes. Can I get something else? And I would have never done that before. I would have been like, whatever, it's coffee with just put a bunch of cream and sugar in it's all going to taste fine. And now I'm starting to be like, no, there's good and there's bad coffee. So you let them know. I let them know. Stage one of snob. I said, excuse me, this, you said this is dark roast. It tastes like toilet. Can I get something else? I've never had that problem with Mainstree Roasters.com, though. Mainsture Roasters. Correct. Is where you need be getting all your coffee. Yes. Because it's consistent. Yes. Good. I'm drinking it all the time now. Yes. It's awesome.

It's just great. Do you know what blend you're doing? Or what, I think it's the one that we gave away at the Ghostrunner's event. Okay. Oh, oh, the Ghostrunner, like the Getaway? Yes.

Oh, yeah, I think that's the Miller blend, maybe. Yeah, I couldn't think of it. I was like, it's not quite house blend, but it's something like that. Yeah, I think it's either the Miller or the main, I don't think it's Main Street. Yeah, but yeah, but yeah, one of their classics. Yeah, one of the classics.

Yeah, dude, I've been, I've been going, I've just been enjoying coffee right now. I've been grinding my own beans. I've been, I've been, I got this new, thing called a mocha pot. I'll talk about that more later, but anyway, I'll just say, the main difference in good coffee and bad coffee, I believe, is the beans. And so, therefore, if you get your coffee from Main Street Roasters from a fellow coffee snob, you will enjoy it. Snob approved. Knob approved. So Mainsteroaster.com, promo code GRKC. We love them. You'll love

them too. You get 10% off with that promo code, GRKC at Mainstree Roasters.com. So you played in the tournament. Yeah, we were there all week. They're Monday to Monday. day. I only played one day, though. You did clinics? Yeah, we did some clinics. That was where we sent Scott, Isaac, and TJ to do the clinics, and then me and time in were either filming or editing or getting

content stuff done. I would say the boys learned their lesson a little bit on clinics, especially like doing a clinic in the desert, especially like doing a clinic in the desert for six hours a day, two days in a row. They were little beats afterwards. Yeah.

Scott requested a bucket hat. two hours in, never heard the man, could someone please bring me a bucket hat? Which I was like, oh, that's not good. It's not going well. A bucket hat. No, I think the guys, I mean, we've already gotten reviews back. Everyone who came, I mean, they were like, I got so much better. I had so much fun.

I mean, like, amazing reviews. But I think it was just like, all right, now we know. That was a lot. That was a lot to ask. We're never doing it out in the sun that much again. Was the, each person was like each person being clinicized. Yes. Each person in training was not there for six hours, correct?

Or were they also there for six hours? I think there was one woman who bought all four three-hour sessions. So they were three-hour sessions. Yeah, four total sessions. Got it. But yeah, most people just did one. Yeah. There were a couple people who did two and a woman who did four.

Yeah. But yeah, Scott and Isaac, TJ, we're out there the whole time. Yeah, it was just fun. I feel like for most of the week, I was always getting amazing text. I was never there for what made the text amazing, but I was at least on the receiving end of it. One was like, Isaac,

you know, I think I'm checking in. How's Clinic Day 2? You know, how are we doing boys? Isaac, not good. Shoot, what's it called? The, not ringworm, the parasite's back or something like that. He's like, parasites cooking in here. I go, what's the bathroom situation?

Not good. He goes, port a potty. Oh, port a potty in the desert. Oh, Port-a-Ponty in the desert with a parasite. Oh, that's hot. That's hot. Oh, that's just thick, dude. That's just thick.

Oh, that's heavy. Not a lot of airflowing. And to take it just one little step further, um, Isaac's in there for who knows how long, battling, fighting. Yeah. Bleeding. Bleeding.

He gets done. And out of a movie, our friend Kyle's ex-girlfriend is waiting to go in there after him. Bab boom! Got her! So, that'll teach her to break my friend's heart. Because Isaac was live texting me like, dude, this is visual. This sucks.

Oh, God, someone's knocking on the door. And they'd come to find out, Scott's on the outside being like, dude, that's Kyle's ex-girlfriend. Knowing Scott, dude, Scott has like a terrible filter sometimes. I could see him like literally going up to that girl and be like, hey, FYI, that's my friend in there. He's been in there for 30 minutes. He's got terrible. And we know Kyle, FYI.

Yeah, yeah. And by the way, we know who you are. Yeah, we're friends with Kyle and he's told us everything about. So that's wild. So that was fun. So did she go in? As far as I know. Yeah.

I think she entered. not to be seen again I do you do you try to intentionally time when you come when you're going number two in public I try to intentionally time not coming out at the same time somebody else is out there yeah definitely like a normal bathroom but if I know somebody's in the urinal I'm not I'm not hustling out to wash my hands with that oh yeah yeah they don't know why why like it's like they know what I'm doing in there but same time we're public figures I can't be seen pooping he poops too yeah do you feel that though like like there's some

Some people are just like not a care in the world. I'll get out whenever you're. That's what I'm supposed to be doing in there, of course. But it's like, for whatever reason, I'll stay in there plenty, plenty longer until I know. Yeah, I'm with you. Yeah. But how can that apply to a porta potty? Because once they're there, where are they going to go?

Port-a-party stuff. I guess I don't know how busy this tournament. It sounds like it was pretty huge tournament, but like... This is just the clinic. This is like a small gathering. Yeah, I don't, so you don't wait right in front of it. No, yeah. You give them there.

That's the common currency side. side. Like go sit on the bench or something next like with an eye side of the yeah go buy an air freshener and come back. Yeah you don't want the person that was just in there to know that you're going next. You want them to like walk away then you're like okay now's my chance. Yeah and I don't want to know who's in there before me honestly. And I want to walk away like knock. Okay, just check in and then walk away loudly so they know like all right I've got my space. I'm also don't knock. Don't knock. If it's closed it's locked. Yeah. There's a there's a color coded thing on there even. Yeah. It's very simple. Yeah. There's got to be etiquette involved. Yeah. So that's funny. I will say at the actual tournament, I did get recognized at the urinal.

Not my favorite way of doing it. No. You know, these pickle tournaments, everyone knows Friday, so it's fine. The urinal and the five-banger thing? What word do you say? The trailer of bathrooms is called a five-banger. Trailer of bathrooms makes sense.

Okay. Safe search on five-banger. I don't even know if I should. Who told you this? It's like on film set. Wow, I've never heard it called that. For like a remote location, if there's not like a bathroom nearby, they will like a trailer of bathroom.

Drive in a five-banger. Huh. This is not, I'm just going to let you know, just for future references, it's not a common term. Really? I think there's a lot of different things that, like, a five-banger, yeah, on Gemini at least, it could be tactical gear, fishing rod holder, flashbang pouch, automotive slang. I have heard that

if it's like a four cylinder car, it's a four banger or whatever. Yeah, the number one at five guys menu. A dabbing or smoking equipment. A high five e-nail banger. Music slang. Oh, a banger. Revolver accessory.

Timon. Okay. Interesting. A banger is like a production trailer. I don't think that a five banger is a common word at all. But a five banger might have been like if there's five bathrooms.

got five bathrooms. Or five, like, rooms for the actors or something like that. Mm. Yeah, I don't know. We all learned a little something. Yes, we did.

I learned. That's more of a film set thing. And you guys learned what a five-banger. Yeah, we all learned. And that no one really calls it that. Those trailers aren't too bad, though. Yeah. You were gone to the bathroom and five-banger?

Only at a, when I went and watched you play pickleball at one time at, um, which one? Like here in Kansas City. 143 or whatever that is. Elite. Thank you. Yeah.

had one there for the tournament one time. I only went. I only went once. And it was like, I had a poop. And I went and I like finally sat down. I was like, there's a break. And I sit down like to go and I get a text, court 18.

And I'm like, that means I have to go set up a camera. So I was like, I could just, I don't know. I just like basically just like speed did my business kind of stopped halfway through. Did you? To get the camera set up. Then I just like two and a half. Got the camera set up. Went back and finished the job.

Oh, did you? Yeah. Good for you. Oh, I don't know if I would have gone half and half. That's tough. Good for you. It wasn't my, yeah, it was fine. I was doing my job. I didn't want to miss it. All right. Well, while we're on this topic, I have a story. All right. Thank you. I didn't even know if I was going to say this story on the podcast. We're just guys talking here. But here we are. So, been trying to do my dad streaks, you know, trying to be healthier, trying to do walking every day, trying to eat better, trying to drink a gallon of water, trying to, spend more time with my kids trying to get good sleep like all these different things read my Bible every day um what's the other one maybe that's it um and so yeah uh because of that I I've just been drinking a lot of water obviously more water you drink I'm trying to drink a gallon of water every day and what I do most of the time is I'm not like craving water I wish I were and so I

kind of have to force myself to drink water so like right when I wake up in the morning I drink one of these 32 hours things good for you and then then like I fill it up and then I'm like I should drink more water so I just chug another one. So I never like I'm not like this is honestly like the slow as I drink water on the podcast. I see healthy. But so so often the urge to go to the bathroom comes in waves. I think I've talked about it before where like if I have to go, like I go once and then all of a sudden I have to go again in like 20 minutes.

But like I can hold it for three hours and then all of a sudden once you break the seal, it's like time to go. So I'd already gone on my walk that day. I was doing good. but I had some extra time in the afternoon. And I was like, I could use some good old time to think. So I was like, I'm going to go on a walk again. I'm going to do a little afternoon walk.

And I went to that park down the street and like 50-50, you know? Yeah. And they have like a nice little walking trail there. So I walked around the trail once, like around the park. And I was like, eh, this is fine. But maybe I was to go to the neighborhood and just like walk around the neighborhood. I shouldn't have done that because what happened was I was, I was probably a mile away from my truck at this point.

And I just got the urge to go to the bathroom. Okay. And I was like, I can hold it. That's fine. I'm, I, whatever. It's not that bad. I just went to the bathroom.

Like right before I got to the park, I went to the bathroom wherever I was. And I was like, I'll be fine. So I'm walking around. And then it's just mind over matter at that point. And my mind is done. It's over.

It's just like, you have, I have to pee so bad. And so I'm like, maybe I should run. And so I try to run. Yeah. Terrible idea.

Okay. Because, I mean, the belly is just like pushing down. It just feels like I'm just getting pushed down. Run in reverse. And so then I just start scouting out spots. Yep. I'm like, okay. And it's like, I mean, I'm in like a nice, quiet neighborhood.

I'm like, well, what are your options? They have like one of those little like half brick walls where they put their, you know, trash can. But I'm like, if someone comes out, I'm arrested. Like, I'm, It's over. Also, like, if someone's looking out their window and they see me peeing next to their trash can, it's over.

It's over. And so I'm like, I mean, you're a public figure. They're going to recognize you immediately. Yeah. Know who you are. And so I'm walking through this neighborhood. And then all of a sudden, I'm like, it's not a huge downhill, but it's enough of a downhill to feel like I'm like, you know, just like holding it in every step.

And finally, I just said to myself, I was like, I think you just got to pee. I think you's got to pee your pants. What? I was like, I don't think there's a better option. I'm not near, I'm still probably. 15 minutes away from my car. Yeah. Yeah.

And so I'm like, I think I got to pee my pants. I didn't. I didn't. Okay. I didn't. But what I did do is I found a house that had a relatively large evergreen tree, tried to get around it. But I was in like the side yard. I wasn't even like backyard.

But I was like, I don't think very many people would see this. And I just, I went right there. Yep. I went right there. And I pretended like I was kind of looking up. checking out a tree and just pure, clear water basically coming out of me. I bet that felt good. It was great, dude.

And then I got back to my truck and I had to go to the bathroom again. It was like, I still have to go. Wow. I liked it. I didn't, I've only told two people. And now I've told a half million. Can we see on Google Street View? Can you find it?

Oh, I don't know if I can retrace my step. I want to see this tree. I really want to get an idea of like how. visible you were. Yeah, yeah, that's tough. Looking up with the tree. I love that at one point you did make the decision, I'm just going to have to pay. It was, yeah, because it felt like it was, it was, it's, it's, yeah, there wasn't too so bad. I wanted to pee so bad. I was yeah, I got it. There wasn't a place of privacy

enough. So you're like, it's my only option. There was no option. There was no like, like, obviously like if you go into somebody's backyard, that's even more invasive on their property. I don't know, dude. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's wrong no matter what. Because if you're caught, it's an emergency. If you're caught, if you're caught pee, it's still not quite as bad as caught peeing also on someone's property in their backyard. Right. Like that seems like you're intentionally going to that person's house. Yeah.

Sending a message. And these days, dude, I think back in the day, even like 10 years ago, I wouldn't be as nervous because I'm like, everyone's at work. No one, everyone's working from home these days. You can't tell who's here, who's not. So I was just like, I think, I think I'm okay here. But even if they're, if I'm not, I'm just going to be like, listen, here's the deal. I'm sorry. I'm trying to be healthy.

Not a per ball. Yeah. Oh, I have no. how you have to find this, but I'm going to, I know the neighborhood, so I can try to at least find that. Wow. It was something. That would be, I mean, that is a tough spot to be in. It was. Got to go a bathroom. And yeah, you're just in a neighborhood. It was. It was like, what am I supposed to do right now? If you're going to keep drinking this much water, you need to be on house arrest. We're like, I can't get too far away from home. It could

strike at any point. It might be this house. Let's see. Nah, I don't know. Oh, some people on Google Earth have like blurred out have you seen that like yeah i don't know where who you talk to about that yeah really i think it might be that house anyway um i don't know that it was wild though i'm glad you got the job done thanks man i needed to i had to there was no other option you guys ever had those times were like the way i was talking about it and i said i think i just had to pee time and agreed quickly so it makes me think that yeah i mean maybe time and speed his pants before I... Yep, I know.

Yes, fully relate. Oh, you also decided to pee your pants? Great. I... What was I going to say? I just definitely relate to, like, you drink a lot of water quickly, and then, like,

you don't just one and done pee it all out. Like, you start the cycle, then you have to go a couple more times. Been there for sure. Yeah. Yeah. I guess while we're talking about this... Yeah, please.

Everyone, your turn. Your turn. There was... Like, just came back to me. There was, like, a similar situation where in Mississippi, filming the movie, I had to pee. We were at this abandoned mall where it's like,

they don't really have bathrooms. Five banger was too far away. Dang it. So I like, we just went outside. There was a very, there was a pretty secluded area where it was like behind a bunch of stuff. Great, just perfect peeing spot. So I'm,

I'm peeing and I just, I think I hear someone coming. So I like try to like get done really. I'm like, freak out, try to get done really fast. Panic, pinch. Panic,

yeah. And then, um, like, I'm like, I'm like freaking out. I'm definitely not quite done when I pull my pants up.

And I'm like, I spent the rest of the day with a little too much, a little too many drips of me in my pants. For sure. And it was too bad. Like, it was like,

oh, like sometimes there's a little dribble. But yeah, yeah, this is, this is like, more. This is like a little vial like in there.

Yep, like a man, I hope it doesn't start smelling. Hope there's not a dog around. I'm going to start sniffing at it. Thank you for sharing time with that's good. Of course. I'm sure I've shared this years ago on the podcast

because this is just a, I don't know, a very memorable part of like my upbringing, but I remember like being told by like maybe he was the upper classmate or maybe a guy's older than me or even just guys my own age. Just like, you know, once you start getting in middle school

and you're in urinals and whatnot for the first time, there's a lot of just like insecurity or uneasiness. You know, whatever. Okay. I remember being told the phrase, if you shake it more than twice, you're playing with it. Right. I was like, yes, sir. Okay.

All right. Those are the rules? Yeah, Roger. But I shake it hard for those two times. I'll tell you that. Do you say yank it or shake it? So I was like, okay, dims the rules. Yep.

Not going to break the rules. Don't you dare. And yeah, from seventh to ninth grade, anytime I peed publicly. Oh, yeah. I basically just wet myself when I got done. That's not enough shakes. But I didn't want to get caught playing with it. So I'm just like, yep, I'm done.

I'm done. I'm done. I'm like, gosh, that's at my knee. Oh, dude. Gosh, it's all the way down there. Oh, just to avoid the shame. Yeah, you just have like this massive pool on your jeans. And it's like, hey, but at least I'm not a loser like this guy.

At least I'm not, I didn't get caught playing with. You guys have dry pants, purves? Yeah. Oh, you must be a three shaker. Yeah. The shaker of the five-banger. I can't buy this house. I'm looking, but...

Hey. Anyway. It's all right. Speaking of walks, I learned one of the guys we do Friday with, Andre, learned from him on the last night. We missed you at the time. Last few nights. We had a little...

I missed you guys. We had a little taco night the last night. Had the string lights going to the backyard. Just a nice little... Back. like, I'm, and we kind of got done eating,

and Andre was like, all right, if anyone wants to join me, going on a fart walk. And I was like, oh, I've never heard that word before. This guy brands his stuff.

Uh-huh. Yeah, Nickelback Power Hour, fart walk. He's like, yeah, me and my girlfriend, we, uh,

pretty much every night for dinner, we just go on fart walks. It's like, I kind of like that. It's a nice name for it. So he tries to fart? Yeah,

they just got done and eating dinner. Yeah. She's like, I will walk around. It's allowed. Yeah, get the gas out. It's encouraged. It's a far walk. Nice.

I have heard that like, yeah, it's really good to go on walks after you eat, just in general. That's what it's like 15 minutes. Yeah. Rachel told me, I forget why now. Digestion or gut health, biome, something. Sounds right. Didn't even think about the like, you know, the gaseous aspect of it. But yeah, I guess it just, you know, it's a 15 minute portion where, hey, it's the purge.

Yes. Anything goes. Did you guys get it out? indulge? I think a couple people joined Andre on a fart walk. I was still eating. Sure. But yeah.

I like that. Yeah. Pass it on. Everyone else is done. Jake's like just getting like situated to eat. Yeah. Oh, okay, guys. That's awesome.

Dude. Yeah. One other thing from my week is I saw a massive turtle at the bottom of your street. Massive. Cool. Massive. Like it was, it was. it was, I don't know, I think it was, maybe you're still, no, I think you had just left.

It was like nasty weather last week. Foggy, rainy, just gross. And I remember thinking, like, it'd be pretty nice to be in California right now. So it was, like, kind of hard to see, whatever. And I get down to the bottom of our street down there across from, like, the castle kind of area. But, you know, I'm talking about. Yeah. And I see this turtle.

And it's like, it's like, massive. It's like when you see it, like, on the beach in Hawaii. Sea turtle. Yes. Like, like. and I'm like, what am I supposed to do with this? Like somebody's gonna run this thing over. And you always hear about how turtles are like a hundred years old or whatever.

Yeah. I'm like, I think I, you know, I'm not an animal guy, but I'm like, I think I got at least like check this thing out and see. Because sometimes turtles will just fly. Like, they're not fly literally, but like they can move pretty quick if you push them. Yeah. Like at least get on to the sidewalk or something. And so it's like raining.

I get out of my car. It's not a turtle. It's a Persian looking pillow. It's like a throw pillow. And I was ready to like, you know, save this turtle's life. Like I was like, you got out in the rain to look at a pillow. A massive turtle. Like why like afterwards?

I was like, why would that size turtle just randomly be so far away from water, first of all? Second of all, in Kansas City, like, surely we don't have wild turtles that look like that. I was very curious. I'm like, I can't wait to hear the end of the story. Yeah. I was like a turtle. Like a turtle. Yeah, like that you would see on finding like.

squirt or what's the other half the size of the table sea turtle size yeah yeah yeah you're riding it dude has an australian accent i'm like i guess i need i guess this is my life's calling right now i'm i'm in this place right now turtle man you need to go help this turtle and i get out yeah it's like got the frills on the outside like it was it was foggy though i couldn't see very well it looks exactly like how a pillow looks so i didn't touch that pillow so i didn't save it turned out the pillow it was from the ming dynasty it was that old preserved what if time I'm in, all right? What if?

Dude, that's so funny. Yeah. That's too bad. That's nice you got out in the rain to save the turtle. Yeah, I've been trying to help people these days. And so far, it has not worked for me. Yesterday, I drove past somebody's house. It's been really cold.

It's going to be crazy cold in Kansas City this weekend. Drove past somebody's house. And have you ever seen what happens, like, if someone has like a burst pipe, like a frozen? It's pretty cool, honestly. It's pretty sick. Look up like, four. frozen pipe patio. Is it similar to like a frozen waterfall?

Yes. And honestly, maybe that's what I was looking at. But whatever it was, yeah, look up frozen waterfall. Frozen waterfall. Oh,

now that I have seen. It was basically, I drove past this person's house and their whole backyard was like this ice rink. And like, but like there was like, there was like a pretty solid like

icicle, you know, pipe or whatever, coming down from, like their hose spicket and like it was like solid ice on their deck and on their patio. And I'm like maybe these people are old. Maybe they don't know about this. Yeah.

And so I like I like turned my truck around like made sure I was like not just seeing something. And then I went and like rang their doorbell like five times. No one ever answered. So when it took a pee in their backyard. So try to get some of that ice melted. It's now yellow waterfall. But anyway, I was trying. I was trying to do the right thing.

I was trying to help out. You're ringing doorbells, saving pillows. I wonder if there's out of town or... Dang. Or maybe it is just like truly a waterfall. But it was like the whole backyard. I mean, it was a large... It was at least this large of a room, like worth of ice all over the ground.

That's cool. It was really cool looking. But also it's like, I don't think this is how it's supposed to be. You bring their doorbell, I'm like, hey, can I help you? Like, I love your backyard. Yeah. How did you do that? I want to do the same thing with mine.

It looks so cool. It did look pretty cool. It does, yeah, I just looked up frozen waterfall and it does kind of look like that. But, wow. Anyway, dude, speaking of weather, it's funny, just like a week in Palm Springs. It doesn't take much before, you know, you start getting a little picky with the weather. You know, it's like perfect during the day. And I'm like, I don't know if I love how it gets down like 55 at night.

Like, it just gets chilly so quickly. Like as soon as the sunsets, you just, you need a light jacket and I don't know. That's just kind of annoying. And then you get back, I landed at the kids here. It was 11 degrees. And I was just sitting in my car. I was just mad. It's like, why?

Oh! Oh, it's cold! I hate this. Every bone is cold. I hate this. I was so annoyed at being 55. It's all relative, man. It's all relative.

Yeah. Catherine yesterday, it was 44 degrees. Sunny. She had the windows open. I drove with the windows down yesterday. Did you? Yeah, 47? Sure.

44 degrees windows were open kids were running around outside barefoot I was like what is happening I understand it's not that cold out here but like I was like okay if the windows are open we're cranking the heat down to 60 degrees you're not just getting both ways here

yeah windows open in the house feels like that's gonna not be able to good long term play because now when you're done playing you're like well it's pretty cold in our house it's like 56 degrees yeah So, yeah. Good breeze, though. I think it was just like getting good airflow going,

getting the germs out, whatever. So anyway, but I was proud of my kids. It was nice to be getting after it out there. Yeah. Yeah, go be on that tree, guys. Look up at it. Make sure you're looking at it. Have you guys seen everything?

I mean, by the time this comes out, I think America's in the thick of it. But like, this storm is like half of the United States. The radar is kind of crazy. I've not heard of this. For real. Yeah. Okay.

No, for real. I feel like it's like the talk right now. It's like a tin banger. It's at least a tin banger. A Richter storm. I got ID'd one time when I had a Celsius, but not a tin banger. Bang energy. Nice.

I tried. I tried. I tried. What was like I said? I haven't seen like the map of like how many people are affected, but I have heard Minnesota is supposed to be like negative 55 degrees. Oh, it's like the day after tomorrow. I was like, that's Antarctica, right?

Yeah. How can that be in our country? We're not even that north. Yeah, we're free here. Wait, yeah, what's going on in Canada then? Or dead. Seriously. All people are going to die in Canada.

I don't know. It's crazy, though. So. Yeah, I've just like seen maps and it's just like, you know, green is like some rain and snow and then like, you know, it's just like most of the Midwest and East United States is like the deepest purple of as far as like snow, cold, everything. Shoot. I think it's one of the biggest winter storms ever. Wow. As far as like covering like two thirds of the U.S.

That's so interesting. I know. Not to make it all about me, but great timing. I put my house back up on the market today, which is great until there's, you know, three days in a row where no one's going to come see it because it's negative 18 degrees outside. Well, yesterday was 47. So that's nice. Yesterday when I didn't have it up.

Okay, house back on Mark. House back on the market. Very exciting. 92, Belinda Road. Get it while you can. Get it while you can. It's, it's, market's hot, but it's freezing outside. Not going to be here long.

Yeah, that's right. Okay, so how are we feeling about that? I'm always optimistic at first. It's easy to be optimistic at the beginning. So I'm using indifferent. I was using my friend Tate, and I, he, Tate's like a house flipper that's a real estate agent on the side. And now I have another friend, Delaney. We know Delaney.

I'm using Delaney now, who's like a real estate agent. And so he's done things and, like, thought through things way differently than Tate. And so hopefully that will help us. Like we did like this, we call it like a pre-inspection where I paid this guy to like come and inspect the house beforehand. So I hear all the things wrong with it. And so we're like, all right, let's just fix all those things. That's kind of nice, I guess.

And so then somebody can come and see like, okay, here are the issues with the house. They fixed these issues. The other issues aren't that big of a deal. So really there's no issues with this thing. I think that would move the needle a lot if you're a potential buyer. Like, oh, it's been pre-inspected. Not only I know exactly what I'm getting myself into, but I know what's been fixed. Yes.

They seem like, they seem like good people. They're already fixing stuff for me. Right. Like we had a roof inspection and this guy's like, yeah, they'll need this and this and this. We're like, okay, let's fix those things. Okay, now you have certification that the roof is good. Like, put that in the Zillow description. Brand new roof.

I didn't say brand new roof. Brand new roof inspection. Roof inspect. Yeah. Your chimney connected? Yeah, had the chimney inspected and have a thing for that. Okay. Because that's one thing that will slip through the cracks, I've heard.

Even if you get inspected and hire a chimney sweep to come and look at your house. they can both miss it. That's crazy that the chimney sweep missed it. Yeah, felt like I was doing my do-dil. Guess not. Yeah, I was actually one of my friends at church. Did you meet him? No, you weren't at the bonfire at my house.

But he's a chimney sweep. And we were talking about your house the other day. It was like, yeah, crazy. He ever heard of that? I don't, he didn't seem crazy surprise, but also he's like, yeah, that seems dangerous. Like, yeah. Yeah, probably.

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They were just like, let these barn animals in. Let's just sleep with them. We get so used to it. But like having a fire in your home is hilarious. It's awesome. And having miniature versions of a fire, calling it a candle. Yep. Or a stove.

Or a heater. Or a heater. Before you left, did you see there's a fire down the, the street from us. You hear about that Saturday morning? Like house fire. Not like anything crazy, but like yeah, right down the street, like on Monrovia. Huh. Down here. Yeah, there was like, like four houses down from us. There was one. Wow. Yeah. They're like, they're not living there right now. They're like having to like, it's like in, in inhabitable. Inumable. Dang. That is sad. What do you do? I like, I didn't know anyone like super personally,

but had acquaintances who were like part of like the, the palisades like California fire and all the stuff. It's like, what truly what do you do if everything burns down? You have a car. Yeah. Yeah. You have a car and insurance claims.

No, insurance. They don't even insure it anymore, right? What do you mean? I think like, well, I don't know. I don't know that much. There's one of those times where I was like, put my hands up. Sorry if I'm wrong about this.

But I think some of the insurance like didn't get, it didn't cover it. Oh, like in California. Yeah, and now you can't get your house insured. Gosh. From fire in California. Why live there? I would move out if I were you guys and we can move in.

Why live there? It's like cold at night, 55 degrees. Yeah, why live there? No fire insurance, cold at night? I'm out. Hot or cold? Make up your mind. Yeah.

Which one is it? Mountains, beach. Both? Choose one. Geez. Come on. Get off your. eye horse.

Dude, Monday of the tournament, I won't get into all the nitty gritty, but end up being a very, very stressful day, just due to, yeah,

whatever pickle stuff, paddle certification, yada, yada. And so we're just, like, scrambling. It's a very hectic day. And while that's happening,

um, T.J, who's, you know, he's more of a sponsored player and not really like in the inner workings of Friday. So he is just like taking this time to like,

you know, we're in California time. So he is like, FaceTiming his family and his young son and like, all right, I miss you, buddy, night, night, love you. And I would tell time it amidst the chaos, like, film everything. This would be like a video someday. And we're like stressing or whatever. But, you know, then time is pending back and forth of like, T.J.

being like, love you, buddy to the like us freaking out. So it's like already kind of funny. But then on top of that, I'm like pointing at T's like, that is so annoying. This guy just like, can you have recognize the moment? Dude, we're some respect for the situation. Like, are you part of the team or not? Yeah. I'm stressed about my carbon fiber pickleball bottle, dude.

Do that somewhere else. But probably won't upload that. I don't know if they, I feel like there's just not worth people losing that in translation. But yeah. That's so annoying. Hang up with your family. Hey, dude. Just get some rage bait in there, though.

And just get some engagement. A lot of people like to do that. Yeah. That word is big right now. I'll post like a normal video. Is this rage bait? What, no. It's just me being a bad person, I guess.

Yeah. Whoops, no. I was trying to be funny. I was trying to. No. This is my attempt at humor. Yeah, I thought it was good. Dude, not rage rate though, I guess.

What else were I talk about? Saw a guy at the airport a couple days ago. He had his small dog in a bag. You know, he's going through security and he gets talking. He almost forgets to take his dog. out of the bag before like the dog's like in the x-ray machine oh whoa oh hey oh sorry on that that was just a great just like five-second moment like I wish someone else is around that was funny that that guy just sent his dog through the massive x-ray machine almost all of a sudden the dog comes

out the other side what what would you want it can speak English now yeah what was that that was weird yeah whoa Not bad. Wharf. Yeah. That was fun. I had the genius idea to, hey, Palm Springs is not an easy airport's getting out of, no direct flights. But Rachel had flown out there for the weekend, and she didn't have school on Monday because MLK Day.

I'm like, let's enjoy the extra day out here. I was like, why don't we, here's what we're going to do. It's actually cheaper and quicker to take a direct flight from LAX to Kansas City. so even if we just have to we will Uber all the way to L.A. and then take the direct flight, we could change it that's still, yes, yes. Well, how far is that? I'm a genius.

It's like two hours into L.A. But then you get a direct flight. Because all the layovers, I mean, it was like three hour layover plus the, you know, whatever. Okay. Didn't feel like a genius when we got in the, I even paid like 20 bucks extra to take an Uber comfort.

You're familiar with Uber comfort. Typically, they're a little nicer cars, But what I like about Uber Comfort is that you can select two things to give you preferences. Temperature, so I go warm. I mean, Rachel, like that. And also, it says,

conversation preference. This is mood-based. You know, maybe if I'm feeling a little chipper, I say, talk it up, baby, chat me up for this. You know, it's like, I said, quiet, preferred. A woman shows up, and two things stick out right away. One, she's got bright blue, bedazzled cowboy boots on. Okay.

Second thing is, it's some sort of Kia electric vehicle. and so comfort she talked our ear off for that entire first hour of the drive just talking about you know anything and everything but unfortunately she kept having to pull over

because she's like ah yeah this car is not good driving through the mountains they say best thing is is just to pull over turn it off and back on again so we did that no way about three times on the freeway just like the Los Angeles freeway just, you know, the car's shaken while our car is just off, sitting off.

She's like, yeah, you just got to turn these things off back on. I let her do that three times. And then I said, I think we're good here. I think that's good. Can you just drop us off like anywhere? Really? Yeah. And you got out of like got her drop us off.

Yeah, dude, it was like stressful and felt dangerous. I was like, her car is not going to make it. I don't know what this is, but it's like, it's not working. Was it a tiny car? Or was it like midsize? yeah some mid-sized EV Scott is not here for the Kia slander I know that right now

well yeah a lot of electric cars have some catching up to do Scott's gonna be like listen she probably just wasn't driving it right dude so that that was sketchy and then on top of it she made a couple of like funny comments she was like a woman in her 50s

and I don't think she made anything bad by it but she sure did love compliment Rachel's body. She said beautiful things about it. Just like, I am carrying a lot of the, doing a lot of the heavy lifting conversationally early on this conversation. Now, who's this?

Who's this pretty lady back here? Is this your wife? Like, she can't speak English. Yes, this is my wife. Rachel's like, yeah, yeah, we're married. Yes, I am married to him. Met him at the attack, okay? And she continues to talk to me about Rachel. Well, I don't know where you found. I don't know where you found her, but she sure looks, she looks fit and active.

Yeah, yeah, you know, because we've been talking about pickleball earlier, I guess, you know. And then when we do get out and get dropped off, she's like watching Rachel walk around. How old are you, 21? Rich is like, actually just turned 29 with that rocking body. Like, is this my fantasy? Do I need to step in real quick? Would you punch a woman? Honestly, like, how far are you willing to go for your wife? I grabbed your collar one. more of those. I've had it. Oh my gosh, dude.

But yeah, that whole drive home, I was like, I'm not the genius I thought I was. This is a little too difficult. I thought it was crazy. I should have. My guy, my guy, Stephen. Uber, me to L.A. Oh, I forgot you did that.

Little Toyota. I think I like Corolla or camera or something like that. Older car. He was nice. Super chill. Went through the drive-thru, Jack in the box. I got something.

That's great. Did you tell him? to do that? Or he was like, hey, I'm going to... He's like, is it okay? Like, is it okay if I get breakfast or whatever? I was like, sure. Oh, please. Yeah, it was great. That is nice. Yeah. How, I genuinely I have no idea. How much does it cost for a two-hour Uber ride? Take a guess. I'm guessing yours was a little more than mine, probably, because comfort, yeah. I mean, it's got to be, in my head, obviously, I'm sure it's a little bit cheaper the farther you go. I think my ride was two and a half hours. Okay. Yeah. I thought you're about to

ruin the game. I think my was like 249. 47. Oh, before you guess, let me tell you my number. I am going to guess. My thought was like $300. Is that crazy? I mean, because I feel like a normal I don't know. I could be wrong. I don't Uber very often. But like, in Kansas City, if I go from here to the airport,

it'd probably be $30, give or take. So I'm like, okay, that's, so I don't know. I did pick the cheapest option at that. Okay. So it was less than that. It was? Okay. Yeah. Maybe $200. Mine was $1.75.

Really? For two hours? It was like, I probably paid like $1.85 or $190 or something like that at the end of it all. Okay. Yeah. So it was like kind of great. Because I, at first I was like, so I had the pickup a tournament that I had already planned like I was going to a church weekend in L.A. Like I did a year ago.

And so I was like, I was going to fly from Palm Springs to L.A. But then I was like, Uber is faster, cheaper, easier. It's like, I'll do that. You did? The old gate C-U-R-B. I did. C-U-R-B. Yeah.

Yeah. It was fun. Is that how much yours was? Yeah, my was like a little over $200. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I guess I just assume for that long of a trip, it'd be more expensive. Yeah, I think up, like the options, there's like the luxury, more luxury.

The top I saw was maybe $800 or something like that for like a, I don't know what all they're doing in there. Uber black or whatever. I don't know what. I don't shave your face. I don't know what. Yeah. In one's. Okay.

Last thing I'll say, just because we talked about my fighting fantasy, Gunner text me, who listens to the podcast, and he said, I've never resonated more with something than your fantasy. Gunner's ready to touch anybody at any time. Gunner's fantasy is a bit different than mine. I guess his is not about standing up for his wife. He said, I was having that fantasy once I started, you never really know how to, like, say these things in Gunner's X actually, was having this fantasy. What did he spell right and wrong, by the way? everything looks spelled correctly actually um so i think he's saying that oh well eventually he talks about todd haley and that's spelled wrong um when gunner started wrestling in high school he started having the fantasy picturing himself making the kansas city star newspaper and they would say

teenager stops robbery and chokes out villain and then he said that was right before todd haley was fired by the chiefs i think just to give me a time of like when that was happening I don't know. But I was like, dude, that's great. I said occasionally a bad guy will slip in my fantasy as well, but typically it's a pervert hitting on my wife. I was like, I think I need the adrenaline of him doing something to Rachel. If he's just like robbing a bank, you'd be like, dude, dude,

they're after I see insured, but like stop doing it. They'll get the money back. Yeah, I don't have enough adrenaline for just like him committing a crime against someone else. Like, ah, you shouldn't. Like, don't steal that car. Don't steal that car, dude. Seriously. All right.

I'm calling the cops. I'm calling the cops. They're going to be here in like 16 minutes. Yeah, not enough to fight. Yeah. I saw a little story yesterday. I don't know if it's true or not, but this guy tried to steal a car, like, while this couple was like out to dinner or something like that.

So he steals her car, realizes, oh, my gosh, there's a baby in the back of this car, returns the car back to the restaurant, drops off the baby, and then, like scolds the parents for leaving their baby in the car, but then continues to steal the car. That's what the story he said. I don't know that's true. I don't know how he was able to scold them. But the story was basically like, he's a criminal, not a monster. That's what they were trying to say. I have a heart. But I also have your car keys. We'll see you later. What? They can't believe you leave your baby in a hot car. You won't be able to do that because I'm taking your hot car. Yeah, what? Yeah, that's... Wow. Yeah, it's just like something.

You know, Facebook story. So who knows if it's true or not. You've been reading a lot of these new stories? You updated me on one here locally. That wasn't funny. But like right before we recorded. The Facebook algorithm's a funny little beast. It's like I go on there for Ghostrunners and it's like, hey, do you see that Selena

Gomez said this to Sidney Sweeney? And now, yep, Tio Cruz is involved. Like, Tyo Cruz, the guy from Dynamite? Yeah. Huh. Really? What did I do to deserve this content? Yeah, I get all sorts of Facebook is just a random garbage pool of like I I don't even really know that much about Seinfeld and I get so many like Seinfeld like AI generated like pictures of Seinfeld if they were Gen Z or like I'm like what why do they think?

Maybe in my Facebook bio a long time ago I said I was I liked Seinfeld or something. I don't know. It feels like Facebook is such a wide net of things that they might show you like it could be like just a fun. fun fact about, did you know, this island is the only island that's above water and underwater? You know, and like, why am I reading this? This is like halfway interesting, but why did you even feed this to me? And then the next one is like, curious about Martin Scorsese's real last name? You're like, I guess. It's just enough to like, I guess, take some curiosity, but it's like, none of this is why I'm on here. Dude, there's a book that I just started reading called Scrolling ourselves to death. There's a book that like 40 years ago called Amusing Ourselves to Death. It's

crazy. This guy like 40 years ago was like, hey, the TV is really bad. Like people are going to get addicted to watching TV. And like, it's like, dude, that that guy only knew what was going on now. Anyway, but they talk about the idea of like how we, we are probably not wired in our brains to like consume news randomly. Like in other words, like, we're scrolling through Instagram and I get a Charlie Kirk video where he's fighting this, you know, whatever, verbally like debating this guy. And then the next thing is like a fail video with a dad and a baby. And the next thing is like, you know, sports. And the next thing, it's like, I watched a video talking about this.

Really? You're scrolling emotions is what this guy said. And it's like, we're not supposed to see this emotion, then this emotion, then feel, oh, then laugh, then be sad. Then like all in this like, and that's what's addicting apparently. Huh. Oh, that's what makes it like. Yeah, like the insatiable.

Because it's like super. It's like super stimulating. Yeah, you're like maxing out on your emotion every time you're on Instagram. nothing about our brains was made to like feel like go from this to this to this this so fast. That's what I've heard is like part of why it's so addicting because you're scrolling emotions. I've also learned like it's like, well, I don't know if it's like fully fleshed out, but I think the whole. So like, let's see. Basically we don't brain or daydream or like just like sit and just think anymore very much because of our phones obviously.

Yeah. And so like, but I think the science behind why sleep is so good is because it kind of. subconsciously does that for us. So that's like why, that's like part of the reason that we need sleep so much physically is because it literally like, helps our brain like,

not turn off, but like, chill out. Chill out. Yeah, not like be like, like inundated with all these different things. Yeah. Anyway, but yeah, when you said that, like yeah, like Facebook, you're literally like, you never know.

It's Russian roulette. I mean, that's how all of them are now. Just go right now. See what it shows me. I'll, recently, dude, on YouTube specifically, and don't take this personally, Jake,

but I will watch Friday videos on incognito mode because I don't want my whole... I don't want my whole algorithm be pickleball stuff. Like, I still want to, like, support you guys. I still want to know what's going on with you guys. But I don't need Zane Navratil being like,

did you know that Selkirk just did this crazy deal with these people with Annal E Waters? It's crazy times. So... What's Facebook got? A lot of winter storm warning stuff right now for Missouri. And then

just Sports Center saying Indiana's band playing Lord of the Rings music goes so hard. Fire emoji, fire emoji, fire emoji. Then the very next, this is three posts in a row. Three things from pages I don't follow. The next one is from Level Up with Laurel.

And it's, oh, pickleball paddle talk with guest Wayne Dallard. Who is that? Yeah. How is that getting on my feed? It has zero likes. Wayne Dahl. It was posted two days ago, I was zero likes, but it's like at the top of my feed. You'll love it.

Level up with you, Annie. Nice. Thanks. A little joke. Bleacher report, a paid partnership with Jeep. It's WMBA players telling me how many alarms they set each morning. Oh, watch that one. You'll love that.

The next, yeah, it's just, it's just crazy. Just insane. Yeah. So it's like you never know. Yeah, I need like the Ghostrunners. podcast Facebook group to be its own app. I don't want to have to go through, you know, this journey to get there. There's got to be a way to like a shortcut widget on your iPhone. There's got to be. Yeah, you can like technically make like a clickable app for a website or something. Yeah. I think there's,

yeah, you can make a shortcut. We'll figure it. I'll look into that. Yeah. Anyway. Anyway, thanks to everyone that's posting on Facebook. Thanks to everyone that's commenting on Spotify. Yes, dude. Should we end this episode with some reviews and some other things? Let's do it. Whoa, now this is interesting. Never seen this work. I went to our Apple Podcast app.

Host and guest, Jake Triplit, Brad Ellis, Amar Zinholm. As a guest. Who's Omar? Who's this guy? Why, I don't have that on mine. Why is he a guest? Let me go back and see if it updates. Whoa, there he is.

Omar's in him. Omar. Okay. that kind of makes me think, like, are we getting our stuff hacked? Oh, is it the guy from that thing that, like, we get the ads on the Podscribe or whatever? Oh, maybe it's that. Oh, because look, he's the one that's being advertised, I think, right now. Oh.

So check out Omar. Thanks for the money, Omar. I think that's it because I just looked up him on Google and that was the same picture. Interesting. Uh, let's see. Let's do a little review. Um, I thought I saw another. We got, we got a lot of new ones it looks like.

Oh yeah. I'm just kind of reading through him. What? For real? These, I mean, this one says like over a week ago, I haven't seen it yet. Emerson shut, said, Jake, I know you see this. Five stars. I've been watching this since 2020 and have bought every Friday paddle.

On the Fever 102 Wide Body, I got a bad batch. And the edge guard comes off. and digs into the paddle. Scott wants me to send my paddle back for him to be able to get a new one. Fixed for free. The problem is I'm playing in a tournament in a couple weeks.

And even more in the next couple months, please help me. So do something, Jake. It was your moment. Emerson, I think you got to decide if you want to paddle for free or not. We will give you a paddle for free.

Hey, soon enough, maybe. Dick's sporting goods? Yeah, March. sometime of March. Take your... Yeah, when exactly, but... Okay. Emerson, I'm sorry about the bad batch,

but we'll make it right. We'll give you a free one. I was trying to think of a pun for Emerson. Couldn't. Something about something, son. Who goes on? All right. Caleb Krosno. Brad, you're still my celebrity...

Celebrity crush. Five-star review. This is fun. I'm 15 years old and I've been listening for years, but recently I had the opportunity to interview time in for a school project. Oh, yeah. And it was generally one of the coolest and most fun conversations I've ever had.

Let's see that interview, Caleb. Yeah, post it somewhere. Yeah. I feel like we're friends now, which is crazy to say. Now having the privilege, now having had the privilege of now meeting both Jake and time, and I can truly say that these three are there. Genuine, authentic selves on this podcast. Whoa.

Stop, Brad. They've been amazing role models for me in my life since I started listening in middle school and I've continued to do so throughout high school. God has truly been working through this. podcast and it's an amazing community. I'm truly thankful for it. They say never meet your heroes, but clearly that does not apply to the ghost runners. Brad is don't. Don't meet Brad. Yeah. Yeah, it sounds like Timon's okay. Stop there. Yeah, just Brad's the one that's the phony. Brad, you're next on my list to meet and I can't wait. Thank you, Jacob, Brad and Timon for being constant source of my

gosh of joy in my life. Love you guys, Caleb Crosno. Thanks, Caleb Crosno. Couldn't have said it better myself. That was nice. Really cool. Emerson. Emerson, I just sent your review to Scott. I'm going to tell him you don't need to send one in just to give you one for free. Okay, problem solved. That a boy. I'm solving it. Thatta boy.

Full time, Scott. Thatta boy. Hey, I get health insurance soon. Do you know that? Yes. I don't have it this month. You live on the edge. Yeah.

Have you been having it and then it lapsed or something? Yes. Okay. Rachel canceled it on me. She's like, you seem fine. Really? No. But, or I mean, yeah.

she did it because it was really expensive. And so, yeah, just for January. I'm back in February. You're going hard? You guys want to do anything. Yeah, what do you want to do? What do you want to break? Nah.

Hell the jerds feels like a scam until your appendix bursts. And then you're like, oh, I'm glad I have that. Dude, picking out insurance. I actually can't think of a more boring thing to talk about on the podcast. So I rescind even bringing it up. Oh. There's certain things where I think. Can you do that one time?

Peking health insurance? I don't know. The camera wasn't fully on you. I just didn't make sure Maddie could gift that. Oh, yeah, that's a gift. So cumbersome and boring and lame. Confusing. I love Connor Kelderman,

but I'm glad I don't have Carter Kelderman's job. He's a CPA. Yeah, we think, yeah, we talk about that sometimes. Every time he says me, I'm like, you're a nice guy, dude,

but I don't want your job. I don't want anything about this. I value him so much. Because of how much his stuff that he does is terrible. And it keeps us out of jail, and it keeps us in good standing. But yeah, I just get stuff in the mail. I don't even know what I'm looking at.

I just send him a picture of it. And every time, 80% of the time, I get something in the mail, and the IRS is like, it's like big red letters and it's scary words, like, you know, I don't know. Yeah, we sure he's keeping us out of jail at this point? Yeah. But every time I sit at the Conner, he's like, oh, yeah, you don't have to pay that. You're good.

All right. This is from the IRS, and they seem pretty mad. He's like, oh, yeah, they got the wrong year. on that. It's fine. So I might go to jail soon. It's been nice knowing you, dude. Yeah. But it's nice having them. I'm glad about your insurance. Thanks. It's going to be exciting for you. Yeah. What's the first thing you're going to do? Break my arm. Which one? Left. Smart. If you had, yeah. If you had my hero. Yeah. Yes. Love it. All right. Thank you, Brad. Thank you, Jake. Thank you, Omar for this episode. It's been great.

we'll be back Wednesday I got more time and stories don't worry leave us some reviews buy some merch support our sponsors all the all the fun stuff yeah that'd be nice buy some paddles

that'd be nice uh Isaac going to China Isaac Scott and Matt whoa all going party they booked flights all were in Palm Springs they're going to China Malaysia and maybe India

I think Scott's got to come home early he's got a family but Isaac and Matt who knows when we'll see them again Malaysia is like are they trying to like expand their reach? What's that?

Yeah. This is actually pretty cool. We, we, I don't know what we did. Maybe we sent out one email to one facility in Malaysia, like, hey, I think we're going to come by or whatever. And then it started this wave of like all this inbound stuff, even just like DMs, like, Jake, what the heck? Why aren't you coming to Malaysia?

I'm like, dude, the amount of stuff that was out was like, are half of our subscribers, Malaysian? I just wouldn't have thought that we had this kind of like reach or international. Yeah, just like, I don't know. We got people in Columbus who don't care about us this. But, you know, like people in America who probably aren't this like into it. So are you hosting a tournament there? So, yeah, we partner with his one facility.

He's like, hey, maybe we could come by and play. And guys like, yeah, we could put together a little two-hour event. There's 56 spots. Let me put it out there. And it filled up in an hour. Nice. Like, dude, Malaysia's nuts. Interesting.

So I told Isaac, don't book a return flight home until the parasite leaves. Like, you stay there as long as you need to. Smart. Yeah. You come home, book a one-way ticket for one person. I'm packing one soup. That's good. That's good.

But yeah, all three were going. It'll be fun. Can't wait for the stories. Seriously, dude. Yeah, you're going to get some texts from that. Yeah. You think time and getting ID'd for Celsius was crazy. Oh, Scott eating freaking pig neck.

Oh, that's kind of a great turkey foot. I can't wait. I can see it going one of two ways. Either Scott is like, dude, this is actually amazing. Or Scott literally three. throws up on his plate or something. Yeah, and he's like me, like, I need McDonald's. Can you please, like, get me McDonald's.

Yeah. Either way. All right. Hey, we'll see you on Wednesday, yeah? See you Wednesday, yeah? Yep. Love you guys. Ghosts from a podcast.

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