Ghostrunners - 511 - Calling Cheesecake Factory

Episode Date: February 4, 2026

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All right, happy Wednesday, Ghosties. Jake, Timon. I was randomly looking at our responses to Ghosties on a couch. We have an interact button on our website where you can submit different questions, different stories to us, all these different things. Ghosts on a couch is all about advice. Somebody, a while back, it doesn't matter when, but Emily asked, I'm pregnant with our third baby. I have a name picked out that I really like,

but it would make his initials WTF. Is it a big deal or nah? How crazy is that first name, I wonder. Yeah, yeah, how good is it? How good is that first name? She doesn't say if it's a boy or girl, but if it's a girl, you're good. You think? I think because, well, hopefully he's going to get married.

Oh, I see. And then WTF goes to WTOH. WTOH. What if, dude. WTOH. We're the halls. Yeah, I think WTF It's I've heard I've read

I think it was Wall Street Journal or maybe it was How to win friends and influence people? How to win? Yeah, Stephen Covey No, somebody said the F words actually getting phased out Like people aren't doing it anymore. Yeah, people are kind of just like, hey, like it's like 75 hard like You know like alcohol's out like people are like hey, we're abstaining from things

F words right on there. Yeah, I think F is out Um, R is in. R's in. R's in. Which one? Roarbocker.

Ah, what the Roarbocker, dude? Uh, uh, oh, oh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts in white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's a ghost from his podcast. Oh, man.

WTF. That's fun. It's fun to... Yeah, by the time he's old enough, people will have forgotten about that word. How often... Yeah, and how often are you throwing around your initials? Yeah.

What's up, guys? J-G-T. I think you need to worry more, like, if you're from the South, because they love monograms. Yeah, they love... Monograms was it become. Yeah, exactly.

F-W-T. Wait. Right? Is that how they do it? What is a monogrel? First name, last name, middle. F-T. No, no.

Gosh, dang it. This is so easy, but not. The last name would be in the middle, right? Yeah, WFT. For the sake of all the people listening, you don't know what a monogram is. Sure. Not, but I obviously know.

It's the thing Mr. Peanut wears. It's what happens when you, like, kiss too many girls. You get mono. Yep. Oh, got it. Monogram. Yeah.

Monogram. It is, like, something, it's just your initials, basically, but it's, like, often put on clothes. I feel like I've seen kids have it on, like our kids have them on their backpacks. And a lot of times it's like the last name is in the middle. So it would be like yours would be Ty and William Imps. So it would be T and W on the sides kind of smaller and then maybe the E would be bigger. Oh yeah. Because my mom, her initials are M&E, but she has a bag that just has

men on it. So that it kind of and now makes sense. Yeah. That's, funny is we call it the men bag. Yeah. There you go. Take the men bag. That's funny. Yeah, so I feel like... I always kind of thought that was just a mistake. But I guess a monogram is like the middle, the last name goes in the middle. You look at it through your spectacle, you go,

huh. No, that's right. Dude, man. Yeah, you said, I always thought it was a mistake. And we talked about Chinese funny things last week, or last, on Monday. My kids all have these rain boots, surely from Amazon, surely from some

Chinese company, and I'm sure that Catherine knows that they're pretty cheap and they're high quality or whatever. Everything's normal about them, except I'm going to try to give you, maybe I'll give you a little game. There'll be a game to see if you can figure out there's two words in the name of the rain boots. The first one is something outside,

and the second one is someone that everybody has. Something that, someone that everyone has? Yeah, a type of person. I'll say that. Can I say that? It's something that a type of, that every type of person has. No, sorry. A type of person that everyone has.

In other words, oh, cloud father. You're right on there, but not. Really? All right. Tree, uh, tree, uh, tree daddy. You're, what, tree? Oh, tree mama. Nope.

Tree, tree fetus. Tree umbilical. Tree friend. Tree friend. Tree aunt. I hope everyone has a friend. Yeah. Uh, yeah, it's tree mother.

You get a little older. Tree grandmama, tree grandma, tree grandpa. Tree grandpa. That's what it says on the boots. Yes. They're perfectly normal boots that you'd see like regular old galoshes, but then they say tree grandpa on them. It's a monogram.

It's a clue. Doesn't that feel like something that like Chinese people are like, this translates to this? Yeah, that's feel like that. Tree grandpa. It's like, what? It's like, that doesn't mean anything to us. I wonder what you are going for in your translation.

Some ghosty out there is going to be like, you fools. Tree Grandpa is a reference. reference to Winnie the Pooh edition four. In his boots. I'm like, sorry. But yeah, had no idea.

Tree Grandpa. Wow. So that's a monogram for you. Huh. Anyway, but yeah, I thought that was pretty funny. So Emily,

she submitted this question in October of 2024. So. Okay. It's probably had a kid by now. I would be curious to know what you named your kid. Winifred,

Timothy Fields. fields. Thoughts on this. I think I saw something the other day and I just thought to myself, this country's gotten so soft. Here's what it is. Do you do this or do you not?

When you need to cross a street, oh, hey, here's a convenient little button that the city installed where you can push the button so that everyone has to stop to watch your, you know, very little little body,

scoot across the street because you need everyone to look at you, everyone to stop traffic, so you can cross the street. Yeah. I think I present that pretty neutrally. What are your thoughts on it? My thoughts are this. If the street has an average of 40 cars or more in a minute, you should press the button. If it's just jam packed. Yeah, if it's a busy street, that's fine. Like, if it's like, it doesn't have to be like a really, really, really busy street, but I think 40 cars a minute both ways, You know, you got, it's just a nice thoroughfare. But if it's a, if it's a neighborhood street, just wait until it's, like, okay to go. Yeah, there is some nuance to it.

I guess if it's cold, yeah, you probably press that button right away. But I was like mid-voice memo with a guy there day talking about some stuff. And then I had to get stopped with this guy. I go, get a load of this. What happened in this country? I don't know where I was. I can't even remember. But I remember, like, we used to live in a country where you got, you got hit.

Yeah. trying to cross the street. You know, my grandpa, he would, he would, he'd wait until a semi was going and then he'd sprint across there, you know, just that's. Yeah, they made a video game about it. They did. I watched that Seinfeld episode last night. You seen that episode where Scott has the, Scott, geez, what do I think about George Costanza?

George has the high score on a frogger machine and, uh, he just takes it so seriously. You know, he's like, I don't, I don't have kids. I'm never going to have a wife. This is all I have. And so he buys the machine, but then he needs to keep it alive. He needs to keep the machine on because if you unplug it, all the scores erase. Oh, okay. And so he's got it on battery powered.

And he's got to get it across the street. And so it just becomes a real life frogger, you know, of course. That's amazing. Anyway, yeah, I don't care for the like, everyone stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Look at me. Look at me. You guys had to stop for me.

And I'm going to go really slow now. Yeah, I don't like that. I like that. You cross when you can. Sorry if your leg gets swiped. Should have ran faster. Yeah. It's not that hard to cross a street.

It's not that hard to cross the street. My kids can do it. Yeah. At K-State, I will say in college, people, like pedestrians expect you to stop immediately when they press that button. And like, and I always heard, you know, this is one of those classic college things, but like, if you get hit by an employee of the college, you can get free tuition. Straight A's.

Yeah. But yeah, I mean, people would like not even break stride. They just keep walking and press the button and walk. walk in the street. I was more nervous driving in that small town in Kansas than I was, I ever have been ever again. Like I'll drive in New York City before I'll drive in Manhattan, Kansas. Wow. Manhattan, New York versus Manhattan, Kansas.

Yeah, it's just like, I just feel like they just pedestrians are king there. Like you go, if that button's pressed, dude, you better stop immediately. It's a Manhattan thing. There's people everywhere walking. So maybe these people are K-State alum. Do you feel like maybe you've not experienced this, but when I lived in Texas for a year, I couldn't believe how much people were like obeying the school zone.

School, what I try to say? School speed limit thing. Yeah. They're like, yeah. Like around here, it's like, oh, yeah, maybe go a little slower. The lights blink or whatever. I'm scared of school zones. But in Texas, they were like going so, going under the speed limit.

Speed limit's 25 right now. Everyone's going 20. I was like, wow. They really are like nervous around here. Dude, if I'm in Texas, every time I'm in Texas, it feels like it's like license. to be on the auto bond. Oh, the highway's insane. Oh, it's like, bring it on. Like, no one's I always tell Catherine, it's lawless in Texas. Like, there's no, there's no police officers

pulling you over. They're going to pull you over in Dallas because the traffic's so bad. Where are you going to pull me over? There's no, there's no shoulder. Bring it on. Just go 95 miles an hour. Get behind the lifted up, you know, Chevy Silverado and let's go. So have you seen this new thing? And I'm sure you've seen it, timing. Jake, you see it too. But, uh, Kansas City on 69 highway where Tyman lives on, or, you know, he's from, they're doing this new lane where you can pay to, like, have, like, this, like, fast lane or whatever. I haven't seen this.

It's not open yet, but it's like a toll road. I wondered if that's what it was because I was like this is like L.A. where there's, like, the carpool lanes where you have like a TAV. Right, but it's not an HOV. It's like a toll road, but you have to, like, but yeah, it's like a longer. I think you're on it for longer, kind of like an HOV would be. But it's only like three or four miles long. I can't really understand.

I mean, they're putting so much. Really, it. It feels like they're putting so much construction in here to widen the highway, but then they're going to charge you for it. I don't know. You know better than I do, timing. 69 really that big of a deal? Like, I don't know.

Like, I definitely don't think that it's been worth all the years now of construction. We'll call it hubbub. Yeah, hubbub and hubbillab blue. A hubblebleu. Yeah, I don't know. Like, it was just never that bad on 69. Like, there was never that much traffic. It seems like they would expand at the,

It's like, oh, no one can ever get where they need to go. Yeah. But I don't know. It's kind of fun, though. It seems cool. Look at us, big city. It's like Kansas City's getting bigger. Yeah.

So it's just like a Netflix premium or something you can pay for. It's like, all right, I don't want any ads. Right. I want this lane. And I'm curious how much it's going to cost. Because if it's like 25 cents, I'm taking it every time. Like in rush hour. But if it's like $1.50, because it's all, I think it's literally going to save.

Like, it's like you're going to be on it for maybe five minutes max. I think. I don't think it's a very long. stretch that's, yeah. It's like four or five miles. So this is not like a monthly subscription. This is like, uh, it's checking your plates.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like if you're in a hurry and you need it. Right. And I mean, Dallas, they have the tollway.

It's like a whole highway of that. Yeah. Like it's in the city. But anyway, times are changing, Kansas City. Mm-hmm. I tell you what.

Um, I know that people love when we talk football. We never have the opportunity to actually talk about it. When it actually makes sense to talk about it. But since it's the Super Bowl coming up and we have a week in between, can we just talk about it for two minutes? Timon, thoughts? Sure.

I'll even give you two and a half if you like. Yeah, who's playing? One, two. Timon. Is that decided? Because I really don't know. Yes, it's decided. They voted and they've got two teams.

Huh, they figured that out. Okay. Democrat. I think that I heard that like a team called the Seahawks was in the final four. Good. Is that true? Is that a team called the Seahawks? Yeah.

I was worried that that wouldn't be a team. So, uh, and I can't remember any other names. Rams? Rams were who they, the Seahawks played and the Seahawks grew in the Super Bowl. Okay.

And then the Patriots played the Broncos and the Patriots won. Okay. Did you want the Patriots win? I didn't know who I was hurting for. Right? Although I'm starting to like Drake May.

Just being seen more stuff on him. He's getting more coverage now he's going to Super Bowl. He's been dating the same girl since he was like 12 years old. Really? He seems like a Christian. I mean, he's always like every press conference I see

he's always like first and foremost, giving the glory to God. Yeah, seems like an easy guy to root for. Yeah. Yeah. I, anyway, I don't know what I think about the Super Bowl

besides just want to talk about it because it's topical, I guess. Bad Bunny? Can I say I'm kind of bummed? I just, the, the matchup itself is like not very star-studded at all. Boating for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what?

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Concerned by your gambling or that if someone close to you, call 1-8665331-2-60 or visit comexonterio.ca. Yeah, I mean, I guess I'll... Yeah, I'm going to watch it. Of course. I guess I'll watch it. Of course. Yeah, I want to see the Avocados for Mexico commercial, but... But yeah, I miss Josh Allen. I miss Joe Burr. I miss Lamar Jack. I miss some stars, you know.

I think it's going to be easy to be happy for whichever quarterback wins, though. It's like, yeah, like we just talked about Drake May. Seems like a great guy easy to root for. Sam Darnold is like on a really cool career trajectory, cast away from multiple teams. Yeah. It's so funny.

The Vikings have got to be just in turmoil. Yeah, they could have had. Yeah, and who knows, like if he would have been as good, but I think he would have been, he was as good last year. So maybe I shouldn't say who knows. for Tyman and anyone else listening. So do Vikings, football team. They had a guy named Sam, who's her quarterback.

Just last year, they went 14 and 3. Amazing team, amazing record. Got to the playoffs, and then Sam, like, didn't play that great in the playoffs. And they drafted a guy, and so the new quarterbacks are like, see a Sam. We had a good run. And then this year, that new quarterback they drafted, not that good. And meanwhile, Sam Darnold is on this new team, playing amazing, go to the Super Bowl. All the while the Vikings are like still ready to go to the team, it's like,

man, if they only had a quarterback, man, it feels like they're just missing a quarterback. One piece away. And they had one. They just let them go. So it really seems to be a Vikings fan probably. Really the whole, well, I guess not the Packers, but that whole division is just kind of sad. You know, lions, Vikings, bears. It's just like, you guys get close.

Yeah, they're all good this year. Yeah. You guys had a chance. You guys always have a chance. Then not so much. But my prediction is Seahawks are going to win 24 to 14. It's my prediction. What's yours?

That's fun. Let's say 2831, Seahawks. Wow. Went losing score first. I did. Yeah. Fun. Also, I thought it was crazy.

And genuinely, I'm not online that much right now. So, like, maybe they talked about it a lot more. Did people not, like, go crazy with the idea that both coaches were, both coaching matchups for Sean versus Mike? Oh. Did people talk about that? I didn't see that anywhere. I didn't see it anywhere. And I realized it like after the games were,

I was like both winning teams coaches are named Mike. That's crazy. I was like, wait a second. Wait, they beat. Both of the people they played were Sean. That's even crazier. It's one thing. Mike is a common name.

Sean, though? Yeah, I didn't know if any, it was like just, you know, whatever grid iron. What's it's called? What's Scott's thing they love? Leach report. Bleach report. Yeah, just posted about it a ton or anything. And did the Patriots beat another Sean to get there?

Or was that the Broncos who beat another Sean to get there? Sean McDermott. Wow. That was... Who was that? I don't remember. I don't know. If the Chiefs aren't in it.

I've watched every game, I think. Oh, right? Oh, yeah. They've been great for the most part, but... Bad year to be a Sean coach. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway.

Crazy, though. Sean's? Sean. Also, what kind of name is Sean? Sorry, Sean's out there. feels like it's just like a part of a name. That reminds me, we had a call yesterday with the future podcast sponsor. Really excited about.

Yeah. Do you know who Sean Troop is? No, I know the name. Talks exactly like him. However, he laughs exactly like Rendell Weaver. I don't remember Rendell Reaver's laugh. Man, I couldn't stop thinking about it. I was like, dude, talks like Sean laughs like Rendell.

He's neither of these people. Cam laughs like when, Rip, yeah, Cam does both these things. Oh, interesting. So maybe you know, guys can hear for yourself. or Rendell, you and Camp Connect some time. I just laugh, laugh at each other. Probably the best piece of podcast content that never came to fruition

was when we talked to Rendell that one time, you and me time in. Oh, yeah. We had that phone call with Rendell right before he was about to go on his first date with that girl. And it was electric, dude. We were getting pumped up with him. He's like, I got to go, man.

I'm going to go pick up this. Like, I'm going to get out of my car right now to pick up this girl. Oh, and I wasn't rolling. There's something happened to it. Yeah, what happened? I don't remember either. Malfunction.

I don't know. Probably wasn't my fault. It was definitely my fault. It was definitely my fault. No. 5G wires got crossed. Yep. Anyway, that's guys pressing buttons. It's super cool.

Yeah. Super Bowl talk. It's just fun. It's fun, but it's also like, I mean, I understand people don't want the Chiefs to be there every year, but the product's not going to be as fun,

I don't think. Yeah. No, Taylor Swift. No, Taylor Swift. Elsie. Holmes. Bye, Bonnie. Elth die.

Yeah. Taco Babani. Cory Dial, you see that? Yeah, I like that. No. Gold Shores group chat. He's like, I was dying, laughing, reminiscing about, like,

times where I've done stupid stuff like that with my friends of inside jokes. That's great. The dog gal. So good, man. So last week, I think I told a story about how I've been training with all these kids playing pickleball.

And there's some other adults around. What are you doing? Doing. Primarily kids. And Rachel loves it. Because when we do go to these tournaments or whatever, I even saw them, you know, sometimes in the airport, I always call the kids by name, you know?

And like I, sure. It's just like camp counselor type stuff you do. You know, to build up a kid and make it feel good. Yeah, absolutely. Approach them and ask them how they're doing. And anyway, but Rachel loves it because she always thinks of the, she always thinks of Michael Scott in the way, like Scott's Tots episode when he's always like, Michaela, where's your saxophone?

Like, the way Michael treats them is like how I am treating all these kids. Like, oh my gosh, Maya, how are you doing? Yeah. how's your ankle? Is it okay? Did you end up passing that test? Yeah. So that's been our ongoing joke. It's just like, hey, I'm running late.

I just got done with Michaela's saxophone lesson, but I'm coming. Yeah. I got caught up talking to this girl about drama with her best friend. Yeah. So I was there yesterday. And yesterday, we're actually like kind of doing some like fun drills and stuff together, whatever. And then the guy in charge, coach, he was like, he said.

stops to like make an example out of me in a good way, which almost maybe embarrassed me more than make an example on me in a bad way. Because how many, give me the breakdown of all the people in this group. There are 13 people on one court. Like you are rifling through like this position. Like it's, you know. And three of us are taxpaying adults. Okay.

So yeah, probably nine or 10, like 14 to 17 year old kids for the most part. And anyway, he's like. Okay. so they're not that young. Yeah, they're not eight years old. They're young, but it's not like you're like towering over these people. It's like enough to it's like, yeah, I feel like we have like a real friendship. But you know, it's like it's not too weird.

Okay. Yeah, he like stops. He's like, all right, we need to. Are you all paying attention how Jake's doing this? And I am not the best player there by far. I'm like, I think you're forcing this. I think you're forcing them to look up to me and they know I'm not this good. But he was like, Jake is owning you doing like, and he's like talking about the specific thing.

And at first I'm kind of embarrassed. And I was like, you know what? Why I just lean into this? And then like we go next drill, I do the same thing on a kid. And I felt like Aaron Rogers, you know, that mic'd up moment where he scores on the bears again. And he's just yelling. I own you. I own you.

So then I just start yelling at all the kids. I own you. I own you. And I'm just like, it's this high energy fun thing. And then I'm middle of like, okay, this is actually really fun. And then Braylon, they've all got hilarious names, the most jinsey names. Jalen gets a. Braylin gets a highball that, you know, he probably should smoke at my feet, at my legs,

and it comes right at my eye and just smokes me, and that everyone just goes silent. And that's not good when like you're like, is it that bad? They're all quiet, but it didn't actually get me in the eye. It got me right. I mean, like half inch away from like being really, really bad. So very quickly I stopped kind of talking my talk. And I was like, I'll go to the back of the line. And it's awkward because I'm injured in front of his kids.

You own me. Good job. You own me now. You own me. All right. It's like, it's like back in the day with the Native American, I'll tell you guys later, actually. There's a history lesson in here, though. Just trust me. I used to own it. And then you, yeah, you drew blood with the pickleball. I never seen that before. Did he actually? Yeah, I mean, I was a good, like, it's pretty sore today. I was trying to look in the mirror. I think it's like a little bit. I see what you're saying. Like, it is a little bit like, uh, in flame, a little sore. Underneath there. Yeah. Yeah, he rocked my world. So. I'm like, I think this is the sign I needed. I'm going to be the goober who wears glasses, I think. Oh, I was about to joke. I was like, you're going to get glasses now? I don't know. It's just not worth it. Like, if I were, if I were, that was an inch lower.

Like, I don't know how bad it would be, but I think it would be bad. Really? Yeah. Jeez, dude. But it was a funny, just like, in three minutes, I went from like, gosh, what are you talking about? I'm so embarrassed. Like, no. So I'll make a memory of these kids.

Yeah. Come on, bring it. That all you got. You know, talking to, you know, Braylin and Braxton. and then yeah, smoked. Smoked in the eye. Do you have any inclination one way or the other if he went for you on purpose?

No, I don't think he did. He felt really bad afterwards and yeah, we hooked it out. Because I think it'd be kind of fun to like go for somebody's like leg or something. Oh, yeah, that's where I'm like, you don't need to apologize for hitting me in the leg. That's, you know. Of course he didn't do it on the face on purpose, but maybe like you said like normally he would hit at your feet. Yeah. I didn't know if he was like, yeah, I'll go for him here.

Um, that's amazing. So I was like, well, how much are these glasses? Annalie Waters, best pickable player in the world. She recently signed a new deal with like, uh, an eyewear company. I was like, well, let's see what this is all about. So let me show you. You got to go Friday, Friday, I wear. I'm not going to show you the, not going to show you the price.

Okay. But this is what we're looking at. This is a one frame, two lenses. Pickle bowl, uh, eyewear. Um, there looks like ones a pink and one's more of a yellow lens. First of all, don't buy those. I'm not going to do pinking y'all. Yeah.

You got to go clear or something. I don't know. I mean, maybe if they're like Oakley kind of, like, maybe they're like $100 or something. But like to me, I'm like, you can get woodworking ones that will literally like if a blade hits them, you know, they'll stop you from hitting your eye for, you know, $20 or something. Can you really? I think so. Like blade stopping glasses for $20. Don't quote me.

that tree grandpa glasses. I remember, I remember, yeah, like, whatever the 3M or, you know, whatever, one of those companies has something like that. And they have like, you know, videos of like how it can. Some guy just taking shots of blades. Yeah, fine. Shoot me with a nail. Dude, I dare you. So that's my guess. It's 100 bucks. And even that obviously is like stupid. But yeah, hopefully it's not more than that. Correct to answer. This is the Neptune two lens kit. Great answer is $675. No way. So is that two sets?

Just two lenses. What? No way. Are they prescription? No. I don't understand that this is a, this has got to be a tough sell if you're this company. That's one of the more ridiculous things I've ever heard of. Who's, well, because surely you can find, yeah, whatever you want to call alternatives.

Like, first of all, there's no, obviously, there's no way that anything that they do is worth that. But I would lose it. I would also, like, lose the glasses. Yeah, they're an easy thing to lose. Here's ones for 30 bucks that are, yeah, Tafosi Swick, Swick, shatterproof lenses with 100% UVA protection, dude. You'll be fine. UVA, that's good. I mean, you got to go Rexbacks, dude.

If you're going to do it, do it. Just full on gags. Yeah, you've ever seen Rexpex time? Look up Rexpex. Like I'm Horace Grant. Yeah. Go full horse grant on it. And then you're just like, you're just like cool.

Oh, that's a fun. Gogoggles guy. You can get rec specs for 20 bucks. Blade stopping. Boone rectangle acetate basketball glasses, transparency. Boone rectangle is the name of someone in Rachel's hometown. I'm almost convinced. Iowa's got the craziest names. There is for sure a guy. Oh yeah, Boone rectangle. He's our janitor, sophomore year. He was only janitor for one year. Yeah, he came in and out. I don't know what happened. Old Boone rectangle. He became the math teacher the next year. He can do it all. Boon rectangle is, that's got to be a skip character. name.

Boone rectangle is a great bumblebee name. What's up? My name's Boon Ractangle. Yeah. I saw a guy yesterday out of the baseball field. He had more home runs than Boon Racktangle. Yeah,

man. That's funny. Okay. I can't figure out what Rex Bex is or whatever you said. R-E-C-S-P-E-C-S, like spectacles. Recreational. There we go. I was looking up Rex Bex.

Rex Bex. Rex Bex. There we go. Horace Grant. Horace Grant was the the main one, I feel like. Sam Dwyer, though, rocked the rec specs for a while.

Anyway, maybe Scott? I think Scott was just a good old-fashioned glasses on the court. Glasses. Anyway, so it was yesterday. Could have been bad. It ended up being a fun little memory,

and maybe I'll get some glasses. I mean, yeah, you might as well just go all out if you're going glasses. Like, you've done the sleeves for a while in your legs. Are you still doing that? We're healed now. Yeah, we went mallet finger, calf sleeve.

Yeah, I think you go calf sleeve anyway. Just like decorative at this point. Just like Carmelo or Anthony or Alan Iverson. Yes. Yeah, do like whatever, like the shooting finger thing. Yeah, finger sleeves. Yeah. Man, those were dumb.

Those were dumb. Just made your fingers have less. Less grip. Less grip, just slippery. Yeah. I don't know why. I guess that made me think of when you said less grip on your finger. but is the best piece of technology of all time

always just going to be the human body. Dude, I was thinking about how just like... It's amazing. Cells just regenerate, you know? Yeah. They just, they come up with their own new cells to take away the bad cells. Thank goodness.

Like, like, no matter what we do, like everything, we're just trying to emulate the body. Like, yeah, you try to put something on your finger. It's like, you can't grip something as well as you can just grip it with your fingers. Yeah. Like the finger, like, Yeah. My friend's wife is having the liver issues and like they're going to do something, some

surgery, but it's like, but the liver is going to be able to reproduce it or whatever. Like it can like, I don't know. I don't know exactly what it is, but it's like it can heal itself essentially. It's like, that's crazy. The human body's amazing. Yeah, because I, I'm probably a little mistaken here, but I can't think of like inventions or things that have come about that are like, this does what the fill in the blank organ does, but even better. It's like no one's trying to make an improvement on how we were originally created. Yeah. You are trying to fix things to get them just back to normal.

Yeah. Like, it's amazing. I know it's so simple, but like, if I get a cut on my finger, we're just like, oh, well, that'll be fine in a couple days. Yeah. That's amazing. You're right. Like, if you cut a piece of paper, it's not like, oh.

It's not like, eh. It'll refuse. I don't know, man. Having two sets of teeth is kind of nice, too. One to try out and then one to have the rest of the while. Yeah. Yeah, it is awesome for like little kids. Like, I'm like, did you guys brush your teeth last night?

Like, no. Nah, you're all right. Just brush your gums then. I go gums and tongue only. Yeah, make sure you get that tongue good, but everything else you'll be fine. Yeah. I think about the human body a lot. It's great.

It's amazing. And we don't understand like anything about it as you and me probably compared to people out there. Yeah, we're not medical doctors. No. But every once in a while I just learn something. I'm like, that's wild. sometimes I'll freak myself out. Think about how all of our hearts are beating right now.

We're not having to think about it. Yeah. And they just never get a break. That's crazy. They just always go. And it's actually good if we make him go faster on a somewhat regular basis. But not for too long. But not too long, but still.

Right. No, run it up. Make him work a little harder. He'll be fine. I still can't believe Isaac with his heart rate. Oh, yeah. Those videos, yeah, that was like, that was just being him. We went out to Vegas together.

Like no time and no sky. You know, and I remember being like, I need to be his mom. I need to like take him to the hospital. Yeah. Is there any clarification? Like, is there any like theory for that? Like did you look it up and it's like, actually some really healthy people do have 200 heart, you know, piece per minute heart rate?

I don't know. I kind of expected like there to be a heart doctor in our comments. Like, hey, cardiologist here, yada, yada, yada. I haven't seen that yet. Yeah. It's just crazy, dude. Yeah, his heart was at, I think 150 in the game hadn't started yet. You know, after playing a few games in the desert, it's just crazy.

couldn't get it to go down. I mean, I guess sometimes, like, if I go to the sauna at the gym and then I, like, get on the treadmill and I just, like, do, like, the heart rate thing. Like, mine is, like, 1.30 maybe right away. So, like, maybe just being hot gets your heart rate. Yeah. But, like, still, crazy. Fun.

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I had a little segment here. Maybe we could, we could, anything you guys want to resonate with is, basically the segment's called Things I Wish I Were Worse at. All right. Okay. Basically, like, every single night, I go to bed as David Goggins. Like, I'm like, I'm going to wake up so early the next morning. Like, I'm going to be so disciplined tomorrow.

Like, tomorrow's the day. I'm going to set my alarm for 545. And I usually, like, give myself, you know, understanding, like, 545 and 6 o'clock alarms. Yep. And I snooze it until I've, I've, until all my kids are awake and Catherine's already in the shower. and I don't even know it sometimes. Like I, like, to the point where it's becoming dangerous of like, I don't. It's like, if I have something at 7 a.m., I don't know if I'm going to be able to make it because I'm getting so good at snoozing and not even knowing it.

Like I basically, once it goes off, I just bring my phone and I just put it right on my chest and I just hold my hand on the little like button. And so anytime I think it's just like almost subconsciously like I'll just click it. Wow. You are really good at that. I'm amazing at it, dude. And I wish I weren't. I need to just like put it in the other side of the room or something. Have you been doing that time in?

Yeah. I mean, my, I have an alarm clock. Like, as do I. Yeah. No, but I have a real one too. I have to stand up and to go turn it off. But even then, I mean, just I lose all sense of intelligence in the morning when I'm like, I turn, I'll like stand up, turn it off.

I'm like, okay, well, I'm going to, I'm going to stay awake, but I mean, I'll just, like, lay back down and, like, rest a little bit. Oh. It's like, idiot. You can't do that. Exactly. And it's like, any other time of the day, that's such a dumb move. But I'm like, I mean, this time I won't fall asleep, though. I'll just rest.

No, I'm strong. It's so dumb. Yeah. But I always, I like, I love the two alarms 15 minutes apart. I do that all the time. Do you? Yeah. Because you get a little extra bonus sleep.

Yeah. Yeah. And then every once in a one. well, I'm like, I wake up and I'm pretty fully awake, but my alarm hasn't gotten off yet. And I'm like, just get up, dude. Just get up. And I never, not never, but not as often as I wish I did. Yeah. I'll just, I'll just lay there and I'll be like, I'll wait until it goes off. And then all of a sudden, it's an hour and a half later. Oh boy. I snoozed way too many times. My cozy are too cozy. So wish our better at it. Which are worse at it. We're not bad at it. The first thing I thought of it is, I don't know how to categorize it exactly, but just like being,

too observant or being too aware of things. I think about it in the house. It's like, I know that like, I'm about to leave to go somewhere. Like, I'm pretty sure that bathroom lights still on. Yes. I'll go back and turn it off. Just little things like that. They're not that big of a deal, but it's like, I don't really ever forget trash day. Like, I'm always, I'm in bed and I'm like, ah, tomorrow's trash day. It would be nice if I wasn't aware of that. I could just forget that it was trash day and not have to get out of bed. Oh, so you would get out of bed. You wouldn't do it early in the morning? Yeah. Just in case. Yeah. Just get out of bed and just get it done right now. case they come early.

Yeah. So sometimes I wish I was less observant so I could be lazier. Yeah. You know, it's like you're aware of things when they're out of place and how to fix them. Like, I guess I got to do that. Yeah.

I know it. You care. You care enough. Right or wrong. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, dude. The light thing is my big thing.

Yeah. Did we just grow up where like we thought electricity was a dollar an hour or something? Like even it's like the sink running for too long. Like we don't need that while we're brushing our teeth. Oh. Yeah. getting on at the end. Yes,

dude. Every once in a while I'll do it. Could it possibly be? Every once in a while, I'll be brushing my teeth and it's already, it's like a sunk cost fallacy where I'm like, well, I've had it on for 45 seconds. I'd probably keep it on.

It's like, what am I doing? Yeah, just turn it off. Like. It's funny. Yeah, like water dripping or, you know, like not wanting my pipes to freeze. Yeah.

I don't even let it like be like a smooth trickle. I am trying to get the most minimum drip possible. I guess for money. I'm not joking. I'm not joking, dude. I went over to the flip house the other day because that would be the worst thing in the world if pipes can freeze there.

And I spent at least an hour getting all those things perfectly trickling. Because I was like, because one of them, I would like work really hard and then all of a sudden it was just like, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, and I was like, over time, that's probably like $100 a debt.

Those are big thunks. That's, you know, in my head, I'm like, that is so much water. And I'm like, and I know that it's probably not, but eventually it becomes a game. It's just like, I got to. And so all of a sudden, it's so satisfying. Though when you watch it, just like, oh, did I turn off too much?

It's like growing, growing, growing down. Maybe that was just left of residue. Yes. No, no, no, it's growing. Yep, here it comes again. Yep, like, all right, we nailed it. Nailed it. Yep.

And go on to the next one. At the same time, I have no problem taking a 25-minute shower. Exactly. That's why there's no logic. It's like, yeah, 100% to both. of those things. Yeah. Yeah.

Talking out of both sides of your mouth a little bit. Yeah. That's how I felt about the Patriots Broncos game. I texted all my friends and I was like, not all my friends. I never got this text. Just FYI. I texted a lot of my friends. Yeah.

Like 80% of my friends. And I said, I know this is talking out of both sides of my mouth, but it's ridiculous that they want to get rid of like snowy football and like just do everything in domes, but also that second half of football was terrible. Yeah. It was so, it was so awful. It's all memes online. They were like, this is like watching the JV game before the varsity game.

Yeah, it was no fun. Just get this over with so we can watch a Seahawks. It's the championship game, but it's like, man, snow football is awesome. Like, rain, like, the elements are awesome. Like, it's sad. It's like powdery snow. It's awesome. This was miserable, gross.

No one can move the ball snow. But it's like, I wish they would at least like fumble. Like, be slippery. Yeah. Like, have one person fall down and get an 80-yard touchdown because of it or something. Do something crazy. But, um, Other things I wish I were worse at, I, when I can smell, I can smell.

Like, I'm a smeller. And I can smell bad things. And I'm pretty sensitive to them. Like, within anything. Like, it's just like, oh, man, I wish I weren't so bothered by that. Like, oh, Henry pooped. Like three rooms away. Yeah.

He pooped. He pooped. Yeah. Blessing in a curse. Yeah. Really. So. wish our worst at that

I thought of this one isn't as bad but I feel like I'm expected a little more these days to plan a lot of trips I've done it I have some type A tendencies I can do it for sure

I can definitely execute a trip I love being the type B guy I would much rather kind of be just like just tell me loosely when to be somewhere and I'm great in that environment goes to getaway you're more type B Yeah, that is nice.

That is fun about our relationship. Because in most two-person relationships, I would probably be the type A person, but not with you. Yeah. Me and my barber were talking about this. Really? We're talking about, like, because I feel like I'm kind of in between where I will like adopt to whatever.

Yeah, find a balance. Because I've been in groups where I'm definitely the one that's like, I have to get this done. Or it's not going to happen. But I also love just going with the flow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, which one would you, you'd rather be the second?

Rather go with the flow for sure. Yeah. And you too? Like I didn't, I had to plan Like planning Graydon's bachelor party It was like, I can't I'm gonna do my best But it's not like very natural to me

But I think I was decent at it So it's like I can Yeah, I don't know, I can do either I think as long as somebody else is good at Planning it, I don't mind Then you can chill Yeah like Jensen's golf weekend This guy Jeff planned the whole thing

And he did a great job To the point where like everything was thought about Like you know Here let me I'll send you the link for this golf course you know, this direction, you know, it was like, great. But if someone, like, doesn't really know what they're doing and it's like, hey, we're going to go to this restaurant. It's like, it's like 45 minutes away.

Are you sure this is worth it? It's a sports bar 45 minutes away. Did we call ahead? You know, all this different stuff. Like, so, I don't know. There's a, there's a balance there. But things I wish I were worse at. Finding sweets in the house.

If there's, if there's something. This comes back to the nose thing. Yeah. Like, like my mom even growing up would, like, try to hide. the candy. Yeah. Mom, I knew where it was. You know, it was like up with like the cookbooks, like up on top.

And I was like, I found that. Nice try. I'll put the cookbooks. You know, like, if, like, we have a pantry in our house and like, if there's an oatmeal cream pie in there, I'm finding it. Right. Like, it's like, I found the Halloween kid. You know, it's like, dang.

I wish I, I wish I was worse at this. Like, you know, just wish I could turn that off. Like, Catherine's mom will give me a hard time. Sometimes I'll go to their house and all, like, find like these atomic fireballs or something. She's like, no one has eaten those in two years. I found them.

Yeah, I know where they are. I figured out. So, that's great. That's a good one. I can't think of any more. I thought of one. Yeah. I think I wish I was worse at skipping meals because I know,

I know that it's not good for me, but I'll realize like, hmm, it's like 4 p.m. I kind of forgot to eat anything, but I should feel bad. But I was like, I mean, I'm kind of hung up. but I'm like, I wish I was more affected by it, so I'd eat more.

How, like, is it usually the middle one that you forget? They call it lunch. Middle meal? Middle meal. Midmeal? I mean, because, like, it's very common for me to not eat breakfast. Okay. And then it's like, that's the first one.

It's too common. That's first meal. Yeah. So top of day, top of the day meal. I'll, I'll miss that, like, almost by default. Scottish. And then it's usually like, I'll realize. I didn't eat lunch either.

What am I doing? You know, it's like, this should be more obvious to me, I think. I shouldn't realize this at 3.30. What am I doing? So, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, often I'll get like distracted. It's like 3.30, but I never, I never quit. I never quit on lunch.

Yeah. I'm like, I don't care if it's 4 o'clock and we're eating at 5.30 for dinner, third meal. Yeah. I'll still, I'll still have a few, you know, a few calories here. Yeah. Yeah. No problem.

Have a little lunch. And you know what? I'll be just fine at dinner. I'll be, I'll be in. just fine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. You're worse at skipping meals. Worse at skipping meals because I feel like I'm actually pretty good at it. Yeah. Because it doesn't affect me that much. Yeah, I don't know. I wish I were worse at quick-witted

responses sometimes, specifically sarcastic responses, specifically to third-grade girls on a basketball team. Everyone's so I think, I could say something so mean to you right now, and it would really make me feel better. I don't. But in your head. But in my, and every once in a while, it kind of slips out. And then they realized, like, I was like making fun of them or something. I was like, see, I shouldn't have done that. I'm the adult here. I wish I were a little bit worse at that.

That's good. That kind of reminds me. I feel like there's some social ones like that. Like, I feel like the people please your tendencies to like, someone said something awkward in a group setting. I like quickly jump in and say something and it makes no sense. But it's like, well, at least we didn't like kind of dwell on that. Dwell on what he said, though.

And like, I'm being like, I have a savior. complex conversational and you chill a little bit. Yeah, I feel that. That's good. Yeah, it's kind of described, but stuff like that. I also wish I were worse at staying up late to make it work. In other words, like, this would be after third meal. After fourth meal, even, maybe. I call it bottom in the day meal. Bottom in the day meal, bottom barrel meal. Bottom of the evening. You always hear about top of the morning. You don't hear about bother the evening very often. That's when you eat the third meal. Good night. The evening. Um, yeah, like, To me, there's, to me, like, time, time always exists.

It's not like there's not enough time. There's always enough time. Okay. It's just a matter of, like, how much, how much sleep am I going to get? You know, it's like, I'll get two hours of sleep if I have to because there's enough time. We'll make it work if we have to. And I wish it were like, nope, you need eight hours of sleep to function, so you can't grind it out at night if you absolutely have to.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Just wish I were worse at that. But I'm amazing. Also wish I were worse at staying still. man do I like staying still sit here with you I'm very comfortable it's not like I got to get up and move around it's like no I'm good dude yeah you wish you had a little more I got to get up and move around oh yeah you always like gunner's always like I got Emily his wife love watching movies and gunner's like I can't even sit through a whole movie I got to

walk I could sit through three movies in a row just fine like sundays watching football it's like I am content here yeah every day obviously but like I'm pretty good at staying still. Sittin's nice. Yeah. Speaking of sitting, how does Catherine sit? This could be like in the car or on the couch, like watching things. I know what you're probably, you're probably getting at like the wild way that they'd like throw like crisscross applesauce on to like.

Yeah, Rachel does not sit normal. It's wild. Not ever. And my grandma when she was 93 years old did that. Like it was like, it knows no boundaries. Yeah, Catherine does. And it's wild. I don't know, I don't know if I've ever seen her, like, put her feet on the ground.

That's why I always tell Rachel. Your feet are never on the ground. Yeah. Yeah. So, Catherine will do this one, like, where she's, like, maybe got one on the ground and then, like, one up here. Like, eating, though, like, eating like this, like, this is comfortable for her or something. You know what I'm talking about? I don't know what I'm saying in the car.

That's a very easy spot to just sit normal. Rachel's sitting a shotgun. I'm driving her all around town. She can't just, like, sit like this. It's like, both feet her up or feet her. is on the dash. They love the feet on the dash. She cannot put her feet on the ground for some reason.

Your feet off my dash. What is that? Yeah. I just don't, I don't understand it. But especially just like around the house. Yeah, Rachel is never sit normal or like, we just got done eating. I'm going to sit up a little bit or maybe I'm on my computer and Rachel's always horizontal.

She's constantly horizontal. Yeah, she loves it. Just flat? Yeah, she's flat all the time. Really? Yeah. And I'm always sitting upright. I sit in the chairs of the house.

Rachel sits on the, lays on the couches of the house. What is, does she read flat? Oh yeah. Read flat, eat flat, drink flat. Is she like this? Or like she's able to just... She can go a little like this or side. Although we've, if she goes side to read, she's going to bed.

It's over. Yeah, she's going to bed. Side to read. I've tried side to read. And for some reason, my eyes want to go up. They want to go up right. And it's like, it's harder to read for some reason. If you have a physical book, I think side read is tough, but Kindle is doable.

Interesting. Yeah, no, I'm a sitter. Sitter-upper. There's like an improv game I've seen back in the day where it's like one person has to be standing and wants to be sitting and one has to be kind of like

in between at all times. You're kind of doing funny things. Like one person goes from lunging to sitting. And that's like Rachel and I are playing that game at all times. Like we're never at the same level ever. You're like feeding her dinner while she's lying there on the couch.

Yeah. Hey, hey, don't eat that. Don't eat that. Don't fall asleep. Yeah. that is how I feel like if I were if I were lying down I'd be asleep like I can't watch a movie on the couch like that I have to be in my chair yeah with my arm armchair I like this I like sitting up yeah same same uh that's all I got for things I wish I were worse at okay that's kind of fun Thanks, man.

Kind of fun. I have a life hack that discovered. Obviously, Scott does all Friday's customer service via email, but it's human nature. People still will, like, come to our Instagram where we post exclusively just, like, dumb, funny pickleball videos. They still come there to complain all the time about their... Anything paddles, you know, like, hey, this is supposed to arrive and it didn't, you know, and figure it out. What I've started doing, especially with the ones that are, like, easier or harder to, kill with kindness or maybe they're a little more frustrating.

I found if they seem to be millennial or younger, I say, dude, I'm so sorry that you're so frustrated. Why don't you just give me a call? Let me can sort this out. And they never call. Millennials do not want to be on the phone. Gen Z does not want to be on the phone. So that is my new hack is like, dude, here's my phone number.

Call me. Anytime. Call me in the next two hours. And like, let's sort this out. And they say, actually, I think it's, I think we're all good. I'm busy this afternoon. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone's busy. Yeah, they just got so busy.

It shouldn't take more than two minutes. Go ahead and give me a call. Yeah, we just like handle this really quickly. Just handle this over the phone. Oh, man, but I'd be scared they'd actually call me. And that's, yeah. I don't want to actually get called. There's an aspect of like, I know where I stand on this and like, let me just like explain what's happening.

It's not us. It's the customs at the Canadian border. I promise we want you to get your paddle. He's like, you know, these guys complain. Like, I knew you guys. guys were corrupt. These prices are too cheap. Like, hey, why you just give me a call? Why don't you just give me a call? And I'll explain everything. Yeah. Yeah, actually, it's fine. Let's do refund.

Dude, that, maybe I've talked about this before, but that is like a superpower to people, we'll call them 35 and younger, is like, if you can be good at just calling people on the phone. Yeah. Because I'm not. And I wish I were because you can get so much more done, so much more efficiently if you just call them. Yeah. Like, text is, it feels less, um, aggressive. than a call, obviously. And so it's like, I feel like you're really good at calling people. Like for some reason, I assume that.

I assume that about you. Oh, I was like, Tyler, I've never called you in my entire life. I'm not saying personal experience. I'm saying you strike me as someone who would be really good at calling people. I think I think I'm okay at calling people to talk friendly. Like having a nice, like, hey, just saying, hey, man, miss you, hope you're doing well. You know, whatever. I am not good at like calling and like, hey, can I, can I say?

squeeze in, can you guys come have this appointment? I have this, you know, whatever, all these different things. I'm like, if I can make an appointment online, I would love to reserve it online. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes, sometimes I'm okay. I can get, but, but like, it's like a muscle I have to flex. It's not a natural like, yeah. Oh, I'll just call them real quick. It'll be fine. Yeah. I think for me the only thing, the only thing in the world's scarier than getting a random phone call is knowing I have a phone call in the future. Really? For me. Yeah, because both things are very scary, but the second option, I have to be like, know about it and be thinking about it first. Let me give you some options and you rank like, how terrifying are these? Okay.

Feel free to provide some as well. I think one would be like, hey, we want to see if they have room for us tonight at cheesecake factory. Okay. Time one, you might call them and just see if they have room. Okay. So there's one. Yeah. Maybe just give us a scale. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One being in my sleep, I'll do that. Ten being, I'm terrified. Okay, that one. is a five. Is it? Because, yeah,

I don't know. Maybe that... Here's... Okay, I think what makes something extra scary is if there's not like a very clear little, like, single objective. Like, let's quick get this done. Like, if it's like,

let's call and catch up or something like that, for some reason that's even scarier. I don't know. Like, who knows what we'll talk about. Yeah. Maybe they want more than catching up. Prepare for this.

I don't know. Oh, you don't have notes. She's cake. cheesecake I'd say is a five. What about this? But the example I had last week with my, like part of the reason why I didn't want to, why I wanted to fix that water heater by myself because I was like, I don't really want to call somebody about this.

Gotcha. Yeah. Because I don't know what I'm talking about enough with a plumber to really say the issue. So how about that? Like if you don't know the problem to a technical thing in your house, you just know something is a little bit wrong with it, calling somebody about that. Eight or nine. Yeah.

I don't want to do, I don't know. It's, yeah, if I don't, if I'm not confident in what I'm going to ask, which like, cheesecake factory, I, I'd be somewhat confident, like, I mean, I know what a table is. I know what a reservation is. Yes, you do. So I think I can take care of that pretty well. But yeah, trying to describe a problem that I don't know how to describe. Okay.

I feel like for like, yeah, calling a handyman or something, that's where I don't, I'm not super millennial. I'm like, let's just get this done. Let's just get him over. Rather than, like, filling out a quote and who knows when they're going to email me back. But is there, is there something about you? Like, to me, I have to humble myself because it's a handyman that knows they're an expert at this thing. And I don't want them to view me as the biggest idiot in the world.

Yeah. Like, I don't want them to be like, this guy, like, there's no wonder his stuff's leaking. He doesn't always doing. And he didn't change this like he's supposed to every year or whatever. I don't know. And so, like, I feel really uncomfortable if I'm just like, I'm not really exactly sure. what happened or why it happened or what's going on. I do find myself in the spot on.

When's the last time you checked your ducks? Where are the ducks? We don't even have a pond. Like, yeah, like, you know, right? Like, it's like, you have to really humble yourself to be like, I don't know what I'm talking about here. But also, you have to have a little bit of a guard up. Because when you say that, sometimes you're like,

take for a ride. Yeah, take advantage of me and, you know, sell me all these things I don't need. So I think that's where I get a little bit uncomfortable with that stuff. You need to, you need to, it needs to be twofold. Oh, sorry, I'm not really good with that kind of stuff. I don't know anything that's going on. Because I'm so busy eating all my meals at the homeless soup kitchen because I'm poor. They go, oh, I can't really even take advantage of this guy.

He's poor. Yeah. That's what I like to say. I thought you were going to say you were a servant. Like you were serving at the homeless soup kitchen. And then they're like, well, this guy's a great guy. That would also work. That would also work.

What other scenarios for you? How about just somebody to text like, hey, we need to talk. Do you have a time in the next few days? Yeah, that's 10. Yeah, that's bad for everybody, right? We need to talk. What about is what's worse?

A chat? We need to have a chat or we have a chat sometime. Or we need to, we have it. Let's have a talk. Both are 10. It would take. Yeah, both are so easily tens. A chat feels like a nine.

Chats feel a little bit like you're not fired. That's 10. Chats to 10. But you're done. All right. I got a text yesterday. I just remember this. I have a phone call tomorrow.

Let me, here's the text I receive to get it to it. I'm so sorry. Hey, yes, punctuation. Hey, Jake. Exclamation point. Okay.

Hope all as well, comma. Y'all are crushing lately. Amper sand. I love seeing it. Imperson. Imperson. Yeah, she is a typewriter.

Amper sand? Amper sand needs to be a red flag or a orange flag, no matter who sit. Don't be sending ampersands, people. I'm going to ask her about that. What are you doing? Yeah. Your password actually slip in here? How did you,

how did an ampersand even get here? Does this, like, I don't know a single person in my life that's used an ampersands. Are there people out there who wouldn't have to like search for it on a keyboard? Apparently so. Or is this a chat? One hand up, I will say I used one yesterday because I was filling out our future podcast sponsor. He sent us like an intake form. And it was like, describe this thing.

Typing away, type and way. Ooh, we'll only get 20 characters. Okay. All right, got to go ampersand. So maybe she has a data plan. So that's why she could be a character limit. Yeah. I wanted to reach out to you to pick your brain on some things, period.

So we're going to be talking things. Well, yeah, that's good because you can, like, prepare and do some research on the things that you know about. So I have my folder of things. I got to prepare a list of things. Which one would you like to talk about? I feel like you have great experience in the industry, the industry of things,

and for Sam, wanted to see if I could hop on a 20-minute call. with you. No pressure. We wanted to throw it out there. I like that you give me a time limit. Because even though that's like somewhat lengthy, at least I know what I'm getting myself into. So I said, okay, great. I've got a 30 minute drive Friday. I'll call you then. That's perfect. She said perfect. How you feel, Taryn?

I feel okay. I think in the I feel the cheesecake rate. I think I'll be fine. I'd say in the last year I've gotten better at being a little more confident with like, okay, if someone wants to ask me some questions about the things I have knowledge about, I think I'll be fine and I can answer some things. Like if it's about things. If it's about, if we're in the realm of things,

then I'll be fine. I know some things. Yeah, that's still a seven for me for sure. Okay. See, I'd take that all day. But seven is pretty good for phone calls. Seven's not bad. Yeah. Yeah. Most phone calls are eight or higher. Yeah. I like that. I think that you, you seemingly are like the authority. Authority. Authority. Yeah. I was going to say superior person. That's not the right way. But yeah, like, she is asking a favor of you. Therefore, it's not like you have to, you know, do X, Z.

Like, if you don't know the answer, you just be like, I don't know. I don't know about that thing very well. Yeah. That's fine. And she said 20 minutes. So she has like, she has an expectation that it's not going to be super long or whatever. I personally welcome when people are like, hey, do you have time to talk about this? Things.

Yeah, this thing. Things or even we might get into stuff. I wouldn't hate if she had a little more specific, like, the industry. Even if it's like, hey, be thinking about these three questions that I'm going to ask you about. Me and my husband think about starting our own paddle company. I know you did this firsthand. Right. We want to ask these questions.

Hey, we were on Facebook. Because in my head, I'm thinking, gosh, in the industry, this could be about so many things. Yeah, true. And here's that word coming up again. So many things within the realm of things. Yeah. Right. But yeah, sounds like I'll have trouble.

No trouble answering him. Caleb Crosno, ghosty, interviewed me, gave me a list of like, it was like, like some things you might go over. That was great. Like, I can now be less scared. Yep. Because I know some of the things.

And that turned out great. That was fun. That honestly, what was it? Caleb, yep. Yeah. Were you there in Palm Springs

when that kid reached out to us? What was his name? What was his name? Champ Cranford or something like that? It sounded fake. Chap, Chap Cranford or something like that. It was like a skit character.

What's up, boys? It was such a made up name. like a 13 year old email. I'm here with Boone rectangle. His name was Chap. I'm Chap. He's Boone. You've been watching the Cranford bros.

Yeah, Chap. Chapranford or something. Chap Crout. I love it. Yeah, that was funny. Man. Yeah. So let's all call timing this week.

I do like that life hack a lot, Jake. Coming all the way back. That's... Dude, sorry about this. I think I explained better over the phone. Yeah. me. Man. Yeah, I don't, I don't hate that. And then if they call you, even that, like, that's a good experience for them overall and for you overall, probably. I know I can win them over

on a phone call. And it would just, what I want to say would take forever to type. So, yeah, for me, it's a win-win. Have you ever customer serviced voice memo? I don't think I have, actually. I don't know if I have. I wonder how that would, like, be received. Like, why that's Jake from the videos? I do, I do voice memos for, like, ghosties sometimes when they send me questions because it's like, they know who I am and I don't have to like be too professional. Type a certain way. Yeah, yeah. But yeah.

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Love it. Sawyer. You're a Southern Sawyer. That's how that's how Catherine's family says. It said what? Saulier. I say Sawyer. Oh, Soar.

Would you say Sawyer? Yeah, I thought you were saying Sawyer. Like I saw your keys. I thought that's what you were saying. I mean, phonetically, it looks like Sawyer. S-A-W. I think it seems more right. But Tom.

So-S-O-Syer. I think I would say Sawyer. Yeah, Tom Sawyer. I think I say Tom Sawyer. Catherine would say like, yeah, my brother's a lawyer. I said it too. Lawyer. I think I might say law.

Now say lawyer, lawyer, lawyer. Lawyer. Some people pronounce it money grabbing jerk. Yeah, I don't know. I think definitely sore. When I would have first seen the book of Tom Sawyer, I would have read it Tom Sawyer. Because I was homeschooled and I didn't get it told to me. I read it.

But then I was, I think I would, I think I, must have gotten corrected over the years. Because I think I would say Sawyer. Corrected or corrupted, bro. Dude. Real. Two schools of thought. Six, seven of that.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Winds of the week. Wednesday of the week. Got one? Mine, I got a few. They're always kids,

you know, family related for the most part. One of them is I got this new morning routine for the most part. I get up early. I make mainstream roasters coffee. I make enough for Catherine and I both. drip coffee. I read my Bible and I put on instrumental piano hymns. That's awesome. It's a nice vibe. It's over like our like nice speakers in the kitchen. So it's like nice. That's nice. It's not sharp on a phone. Yeah. And then Rosie comes in. Rosie's like our most, I think she's the most loving. At least she loves,

she loves me specifically. Like she's like a daddy's girl. And she just wants me to read out loud the Bible to her. And it's like, wow. It's this sweet. And I'm like, you don't understand. really what's going on here for the most I try to like explain stuff I'm reading through john right now and so I'm like isn't that cool rose you know whatever but uh and she's like can you read some more and so I just have I'll read to her for 15 20 minutes it's awesome so it's just a sweet way to if I can if I can get up and not snooze my alarm too many times and get up before everybody else have a little john time it's a it's a wonderful it's been wonderful so that and then the other thing is like bow is absolutely in his like play catch era oh fun he'll just come up to me

me he'll get a ball and uh he'll just like throw it to me and they'll just be like dad let's go let's go like he kind of like bow sometimes these days is like super goofy and like honestly kind of frustrating and like both stop talking like a baby like has all these weird things but when he's like in this like fun like boy mood he comes up to he's like all right dad come on let's go let's go dad and he like always puts his hands like this like dad's about to make a heart dad I'm ready for it Let's go throw it to me. Throw it to me.

Throw it to bed. That's so funny. Yeah. So Bo and I are, yeah, playing catch with anything and everything right now. It's a fun era. It's great. Wow. My winter of the week is probably just quite literally this week.

Rachel's mom stayed with us last two nights. Funny enough, my mom's coming down today. She's staying with us tonight. So we just got a little, you know, triplet bed and breakfast going on this week. That's kind of fun. So it's just, hey, didn't know either of those things were happening this week. And they both just kind of randomly happened. And, yeah, good to see.

the moms and also I'm excited because I don't have anything playing this weekend so I can sleep and recover. Recoup. You can light a fire or two.

Oh, get the chimney. Yeah, burn it out. Get the attic going. Yeah. Oh, yeah. For the hobo and time and time it moves upstairs

in the winter time. Yeah. He rises. Yeah, you're going to like it. He rises. You're going to like it. You're going to love it up there, buddy.

Yeah, that'll be good. Just get some relaxing. A chill weekend. I know. I'm going to take a guitar class. Whoa. So I'm excited for that. That's fun.

My friends, the Scots, we talked about. Oh, yeah. They are running like this art house, which is like a thing. It's in Grandview, Missouri, but it's like for the community to like an outlet for art and stuff. And they're also teaching classes and they're teaching guitar. So I'm going to take guitar. How proficient are you right now on a scale one to ten? No, none.

I mean, I don't even know any chords. No, I know some ukulele chords and those work on the bottom four strings. Okay. But yeah, like, I don't know how to play guitar. I've always wanted to. So I'm excited. Cool, man. I hope that I, like, I hope it's not just like a oh, one and done.

Then I like kind of forget. Like, yeah. I think it'd be fun to be able to play guitar. It's so fun. Yeah. It's so fun to like just unlock a new like, yeah. Holy cow, now I could just like go play this. I could learn this song.

Yeah, whatever. Yeah. That's fun. I'm excited. I'm sure you've heard, but your fingers are going to hurt for a while. Yeah. Yeah. I've tried like the times where I've.

I guess I have like kind of noodleed around once or twice. And it's like, yeah, it hurts. Yeah. But I'll be fine. They do make, they're called classical guitars. You know what that is? Like the difference. Yeah.

Like they're like nylon strings. Okay. So those are, those might be, if you could find like a cheap one on Facebook marketplace to learn. Yeah. They don't sound as sweet. They're more like,

they're not as full. Uh-huh. But they don't hurt as much as the steel strings. Good to know. Whatever that's metal. Cool. Anyway, that's fun though.

Yeah, I'm excited to hear more about that. Because I've wanted to, even for just like, trying to write music. It's like I love the sound of a guitar, but I can't make it. You can't really like digitally make a guitar.

Like you can't piano or something. So I'm excited. Sweet, man. Yeah, that'll be cool. As you were recording, I'm like, man, my nose getting stopped up. I'm just like throwing my nose in this and I cannot smell it.

It's kind of a crazy sensation. Oh, I hate that. I should be spelling something. I hate that. I'm getting nothing. Nothing's going through. Bro. It's no while.

I got COVID. You got the vid. All right, comment on the week. Man, I need to find it. All right, let me do a couple then. I don't know if I'm going to be able to find it, though. I like this one from Thomas Schuller. Shout out.

Great guy. Jason, gosh, it's at my knee, followed by Tyman. You have dry pants, Perv, was the one-two punch that got me uncontrollably laughing. That was a great part. Yeah. Thank you, Thomas. That was vulnerable by both of you guys. That was great.

Yep. And then I thought this was really interesting, a little more serious. Millie said, as someone who lost their home to a house fire, it's as horrible as you can imagine. What most people don't know about insurance is that you literally have to provide an Excel spreadsheet with all of your lost belongings listed when you bought it and how much you paid for. It's so re-traumatizing to do, not to mention incredibly difficult to try and remember every item, down to books, toilet trees, et cetera. It was insane. Sure.

Gosh, that is. Yeah, you don't hear about that aspect of it. That sounds miserable. I'm sorry, Millie. all right I can't find it but I'm just pumped Jeff McIntosh he worked with me at camp back in the day and he comments he's like I just found out about this podcast slowly it's quickly becoming like one of my favorite podcasts it's just cool because he's a he's a cool dude he's a worship leader down in Texas I believe and he is amazing at singing like Jeff if you wrote us write as a song sing it for us we'll play it man but I remember he was a he was like a he's probably

I think his first year working there was my third year or something wait did he do K-Life? Yes I knew this name sounds familiar yeah brother's name was Archibald Archibald yeah yeah wow Jeff yeah four Worth guy right TCU or

he went to TCU yeah okay and I remember he got there the first year and he's like every once in a while Jake do you ever remember these guys like that they say like they say they would say things and it's like I don't know if I believe you. Like there was a guy

it was a Juko that was like, yeah, I got a scholarship to go play football at Texas. And I'm like, wow. Are you sure? You're not anything special looking, you know. You know, did you ever feel like that? Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah, yeah, I was, I was like, I was all state, you know, D1. I could have gone D1, but I decided I just wanted to, you know, whatever. Even that guy,

I told you I met a few months ago, the guy at the pickupal tournament who's like, oh yeah, you know, we got Sequin and Baker Mayfield backing it. That's really in the middle of the season. Trump, too. Trump? Well, Trump Jr. Trump Jr. His last name. Yeah. So Jeff, I remember like somehow, I don't know if he said it in front of everybody or somehow people figured out like he went to Hollywood for American Idol.

Like he like made it to Hollywood as a singer. And we're like, dude, you must be amazing. And like for staff training week, it was always like, I would be the one leading worship. But he said he was a worship leader. So I was like, dude, do you ever want to lead worship He's like, yeah, I would love to. And he's like, I don't know if I want to do it in the morning, though. I have to, like, warm up my voice. Yeah. And I was like, this guy's a phony.

Like, this guy can't. He's backing out. Yeah, he went to Hollywood. Like, there's no videos of this anywhere. And then the first time he sang it was like, holy cow, he were unbelievably good. Whoa, that you warmed up. Yeah. He like, sing a need to breathe song.

And I was like, all right, I don't ever want to. It's kind of like with Tyvins say. He's like, I'm good. Yeah. Good job. You nailed it. Wow. I know Jeff.

But I didn't know that about him. I've never seen him seeing. Oh, it's like, it's awesome. Like, he's, yeah, beautifully, naturally talented. So, yeah, shout out, Jeff. Shout out, Jeff. Thanks for the comment that I can't find. It was on one, like, two or three weeks ago, I think.

Shout out to Julia G. She said, I can't stop saying, eh, that's the goal. That was the goal. I did listen back to that man, and I was like, I can't believe that Jake thought I was going to be on your side on that. that would have 100% been me. Yeah, you're right. The more I thought about it, I'm like, yeah.

Yeah, that was up, so up your alley. Oh, man, I loved it. Anyway, that's great. Can't find your comment, Jeff, but I know it's there, man. Jeff, we know, man, we know. We love you. All right. All right, cool.

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