Ghostrunners - 513 - Merry-Go-Round Membership

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

Brad and Jake have been waving up a storm and Timon sings about it. Also the boys answer questions from the Ghosties! 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

You know what I'm getting tired of is Twitter or X, as the people call it these days. I somehow got on the algorithm of, hey, let me only see things that don't actually explain what they're talking about. That is the new meta on Twitter, I feel like. Look how it's making me feel right now. And every once in a while, it's like, I don't think any, they don't ever even figured out in the comments. It's a mess. I know exactly what we're talking about. it'll be a

it'll be a picture of Jeffrey Epstein holding out a glass towards Andy Reid Yeah And the capsule will say I guess he knew what he was doing Yeah

And then you go What is I don't even care about I guess I do care a little bit about Dude is this a real photo You click in and all the comments are like Don't don't look in my description Some honey Honey

Some honey saying that Some lady And then it's just everyone's saying, Grock, what is this? Grock, what is this? Grock, what is this? Grock, explain this. And then they explain it. It's like, I don't think that's it.

Well, it's not that. Yeah, Twitter's a mess. Dude, I'm looking at one right now from Andrew Lokenow when you realize that over 70% of licensed realtors didn't sell a single home last year. Dot, dot, dot. And then you remember what that actually means. And then it's a clip of Leonardo DiCaprio and inception waking up and looking around. And at the very end, I'm like, oh, maybe there's like a punchline on this or something.

There's not. It's just bait. It's all bait. It's all bait. I fell for it a few times, and now that's all I'm getting fed. Let's keep coming off with these. How do I eat more? The image is a, it's another.

I don't have to come up with him, Jake. I'll just do it. I'll just look at it. A gif of Leonardo DiCaprio when he's like cheeringing the martini glass in the, what's the great Gatsby? That's the gif. Okay? You can imagine that? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And the caption is, uh, there's a reason no billionaire owns a home. Yeah. You think, oh, I want to know what? none of them do? All right, I want to go. I wouldn't know about this. Why not? Explain this. Grock, explain this. Grock, explain this. Grock, tell me. Here's one. She's teaching him a lesson early in life. And it looks like this mom gives this kid like grape juice looking stuff. And then like pours it all over the table. And then that's all. She's teaching him a lesson early in life. Or here's one of Scotty Schephler just says, this is so sad. I'm sorry. It's not. Skyy Shephyler. I'm racist. It's John Rom, I think. But they all look the same.

Come on. I don't know, man. It's just like everything these days. I have a friend that bought a couch for $5,000 and is asking $2,000 on Face of Marketplace. Who's going to tell her? Yeah. What? This one, Darren Peterson's jump shot is genuinely poetry in motion. Then somebody responded, I don't want to say who he looks like right here. Just say it. Why? You want to say who it looks like. Dude, if I say he looks like Michael Jordan, then everyone's going to give me such a hard time. It's like, come on, man. Or this one, Elon Musk drinking some water bottle or something, it just says no words.

So I'm just like supposed to interpret somehow. No words. No words. I don't know, man. Yeah, it's just killer. So that's Twitter for you. Timor, what are you upset about? Man, don't even get me started on.

I hear you. And here's something I'm getting sick of. Thought this other day. The sign, it says seven letters. P-E-D-X-I-N-G. Ped-Xing. I hate ped-Xing. Pet-Xing, dude.

That is the worst just use of like shorthand ped-xing. Ped-Xing. This is how we communicate humans could be walking. The picture's-ed-Xing. The picture's just fine, by the way. Ped-Xing is so dumb. Yeah.

It's one of my least favorite things about America. I think. The more I think about, the more mad I get. Yeah. Ped-Xing. This is the best way we can communicate that there's a human walkway here in this parking lot. Crossing is just fine. Don't have to put X for crossing, by the way. X is not, I hate that. Like, what sport do you play? XC. What do you mean XC? Oh, it's cross country. Cross country. We don't do that in English. No, do I don't, we don't say cross. No.

It's an X. Merry crossmas. What, way, hey, hey, why. I don't like that an X means cross. I don't like that ped means pedestrian. Yeah. I think we can splurge a little on signage. People might walk here. People walking here. People walking.

People may walk. Now, I don't want G. I want people walking. Human walk. I want walking. Elephant walk. I'm not going to bud on walking. There's going to be a fraternity doing some hazing.

Yeah, right. But yeah, I hate ped-xing. I fired up about that. That's so dumb. I don't know if you heard there's a leak, or not a leak. this government came out with a bunch of ped-exing. That's right. 3.5 million pages of pet exing. Exsings Island. Nice. Nice. Thanks.

There it is. Wednesday, baby. Uh, uh-oh. Ooh, I think this type beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's a ghost from a podcast. Is my backpack? Oh, I'm going to go get my water real quick while you guys start the episode. Sure.

Okay. Okay. Sure. We got this. All right. Okay. Oh, Brad. I bet you're having FOMO in here.

Yeah? Wait for the good punchline for me, bud. Okay. Wait for the good one. Here I come. And I told him, no. He was a shortstop for the Carls. His name was David Eckstein.

Oh. Yeah. Man, that Angels team was good. Yeah. Was he? He was a utility player. Was he? Was he?

I remember he was clutch in the 2011 World Series. I'm talking, I'm talking, didn't he play for the Angels too? Yeah, he did. He did. Well, Tim Salmon. We're talking Tim Sam and Troy Gloss. Troy Gloss. What's his name?

Gary Anderson. Yeah. Weaver. Yesterday I was leaving Tray's house. Tray lives in a nice neighborhood. Everyone's constantly walking their dogs there. It's just a big dog walking neighborhood. And I go, you know, you're driving slow.

So, you know, I like to wave to the, to the pads around, you know. Yeah, yeah, pedax. And as I go to lift my arm and wave to a woman walking her dog, she starts to look down at something. So she doesn't see me jesh her at all. But oddly enough, the dog is, like, making perfect eye contact with me. And so I just, like, waved at a dog. And the dog, like, he didn't wave back or anything,

but he was like, I feel like we just acknowledge each other. And it felt, like, weird. Really? Waved to a dog. And the dog and God are the only people that. that like know about this. But the dog definitely saw you. Oh yeah.

I mean, we had amazing eye contact. That dog was like right there in front of me. A nice looking guy. He said. I just waved to a dog. It felt like, oh, I shouldn't be doing that.

That's weird. That's wrong. No, it's not. I think if anything, wave to the dog first. If it's, if I'm walking, dude,

I, for whatever reason, I think this is just, I don't know, like, we've been trained these days. So like, men are creepy and like,

if I'm walking and a girl's walking up to me, I'm scary to them or whatever. And so I always, So I always acknowledge the dog first if they have a dog. I'm always like, or the baby. I'm always looking for a baby first. It's a female dog. You address that thing.

Hey, you're bad. I'm talking about the dog. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the best, that's the most polite way to do it. Trey's neighborhood is very adjacent to the neighborhood I did my flip house in. Oh, nice. Right? A lot of dogs?

Just a high in wealthy neighborhood. and I wave at every single person that I would drive to. Yeah, and waivers. No, opposite. Oh, really? You feel like Prairie Village is waving? Yeah, they're waving. No, dude.

I wave all the time, always. Anywhere I go. I'm a waiver if I see somebody walking. Waiver to the walkers. And I felt like in Leewood, they never wave back. They were not very friendly. They weren't looking for the wave. I don't think they were like staring at me, like waving at them like,

what's this guy doing? Timmy, can we hear a quick chorus, dear Evan Hansen, wave into the walkers? waving to the walkers oh i try to wave but nobody can see they're in oh wow no one's looking at me so i'm wave wave wave waving at the dog waving to the walkers oh nice nailed it i love when jake sets up the improv like that i'm satisfied you gave me about six times more that i was expecting good job thanks yep

really good job congrats on waving to a dog yeah it was very funny yeah About 24 hours ago, I was like, ah, only the dog saw. I'm embarrassed. Man, felt good, though. If I, if I recorded everything that I did by myself in the car, that was weird, I would. Yeah, you got a book. I'd have no friends. You really?

If they, I don't think that's true. But like, yeah, you guys get a little weird in the car. It's just like, I don't know. It's a little strange. I don't know, man. And it's like, it's like, I think it's genuinely funny. Like, I kind of crack myself up every once in a while. Same.

Like, I don't know. Like, like, hey. we got that spot, huh? Okay. You know, like, yeah, I'm just going to go here instead. You know, I don't know, stuff like that. We're just like very mediocre, weird things. Yeah, just stuff like that. I do like those little things.

Of course, I can't think of them now, but just like weird things. No one would never know. But like every time I get a shopping cart out, I quote this thing from this one thing because it reminds me of this, you know, just like, I'll never share that out loud. No one would never know.

But yeah, these little quirks of this, like, funny personality things you do. Dude, I, a few times recently, I've had to check myself. I'm like, oh, that might have been weird because we have a new neighbor across the street from us over by you kind of over here.

Young people look cool. I haven't met them yet. And every once in a while, I'm outside and like songs in my head, I'll just kind of belt it out a little bit too. Waving to the walkers. And right now, I introduced my kids, dude. Shout out Corey Dial, Alex Payne,

in the car when we list of steady love. and Gulf Shore, there was a moment for us. The live version of study love, I like introduce it to my kids, and I was like, feel how it's building. You know, I was trying to, like, you know how they have Peter and the Wolf, like the different music?

Do you know Peter and the Wolf? No? You do, Jake, though. Sorry, I'm kind of going on all over there. Yes, and? Yeah, yes and time and also knows. I don't know. I learned that as a kid.

Maybe you guys didn't. It was like this story, but like every instrument represented a different character in the story. So you kind of learn like, oh, this kind of character, or this kind of music sounds kind of ominous or this kind of music sounds a little more playful

or whatever. Anyway, so I'm trying to like Peter and the Wolf Steady Love to my kids. You hear how it's kind of quiet right now? It's just like one guy kind of playing. And then you hear how it got a little bit like bigger? That's the bass guitar coming in. Here it comes.

The drums, do you guys hear any like a second person singing? That's called harmony. You know, whatever, all this different thing. So anyway, steady loves in my head a lot. And there's a part in where he's like, steady love. Oh, oh, oh. and I probably sing that

louder than that in my driveway and then I realized there was somebody walking across the street and they're probably. That guy's weird. Yeah, that guy's kind of on. Steady love. Whoa, oh.

Yeah. The other day, I can't remember what I was singing, so it's not thinking of a story, but in some kind of parking lot, like getting out of my car, you know, I'm probably singing along to a song,

and I was very loudly singing part of it, and I'm like, oh, you're someone getting out of their car like right next to me. Yeah. I don't have to do that. Yep. Yep. But we do it.

Yeah. And we acknowledge it and we're okay with it. It's all right. This is not that valiant of me. It's more honestly probably telling of like when I'm not very valiant. But you mentioned shopping carts. And I am very, very like, for whatever reason I've decided like steak in the ground or whatever the word is flag. I will never not return my shopping cart to the stall.

Yeah. I'm always surprised when I hear maybe a store on Facebook or on Reddit or. something like guys no one's putting their carts back I didn't even really consider that an option I didn't know I was allowed to not put my cart back where else would they go yeah I might did that big of a role follower or just like that obviously you put them back sorry for me a broken record but retail rebel this the people that shop there are not the highest class okay and usually they're in like these kind of rundown uh parts of town rundown parking lots where there's like one shopping cart stall for the entire parking lot

Okay. And sometimes it's five degrees outside. And I think, I understand what people are just throwing around here. They're just like putting them up on the curve or something. But for every reason, I'm like, I am, this is the thing I will never compromise on. I'm always putting it back there. I don't know. Even like Home Depot, like, like, I don't know, people do it a lot there too where they just don't put them, put them back.

Especially like the big carts or something. I don't know. I'm like, yeah, you got to put them back. So I don't know. we asked our Instagram audience. I said, ask us a question or give us something to talk about. And about half of them or about my hair, give it a rest. Someone, I can't tell where the first name starts and ends, Nicole, maybe Nicola.

I don't know. I want to hear your best South African accent. She's our biggest South African ghosty. No, you're not. Yes, you are. Um, there's a one of Rosie's teachers for Sunday school, they're South African. Okay. Um, she moved here when she was seven years old, so she sounds American, but his name looks like

Lawrence. I think it is Lawrence. Okay. And he sounds like, I thought he was French or something. Really? It wasn't like British? No, I thought it would be. South Africa is just, who knows, I feel like they're ambiguous over there.

Yeah. Yeah, little, Ernie L's, Elon Musk. Know how I would do it. But then they got black people there too, right? Not many. Really? Yeah. Mandela?

He was South African? No idea. How he was? I don't know. South African's like surprisingly white. Yeah, I knew that. Okay. I'm trying to remember exactly that.

He basically is like, yeah, Rosie was very good today in class. That was terrible. I like it. Rosie's great. She's such a good, such a good girl in class. She's always listening. That's terrible. That's not even what he sounds like at all.

A lot of Super Bowl questions. Okay. Why are your Super Bowl party plans? None yet. I got none yet. I might not. I might just watch. I don't know what I'll do.

Yeah. I don't know if I want to. I just want to like sit and watch it by myself. I don't know what I'll do. No plans. No plans. Is Brad going to do push-ups for the football game like last year? Oh, that wasn't at Super Bowl, but.

maybe I should because that is like Super Bowl is more fun when you have something pretty unhealthy to eat while you're watching it and like a copious amount of like buffalo chicken dip or something like that and so goat cheese biscuits dude Catherine makes those every once in well nice St. Nick Martin said I need early date ideas need something playing for a second date coming up early day oh I see like early into the relationship or the first thing in the morning am I am I crazy to think that the early date? the relationship dates are the easiest ones because you have so much to talk about. Yeah, I think, and that's a good thing to piggyback off of. Set yourself up for good conversation. Don't go to the movies. Yeah. Yeah. Right now is such a fun time.

Yes. Give yourself an opportunity to talk easily. Like dinner or some type of like sit down thing. I think a sit down in an activity. It doesn't necessarily have to be dinner. You go get ice cream and then go play four hours of ax throwing. Ha! winter time, you know,

that's what I do. I think, yeah, it almost is like, almost a rule that you should have like less things to do early on. Because if you're already using a crutch of like, well, I don't really want to talk to this girl, it's kind of hard to talk to her. Yeah. Well, then probably she's not the right one.

Like, you know what I mean? Yeah. Second date, because I'm tempted to get a little creative here. I don't think you need to get too crazy on the second date. You want to save some of those good ones for, all right, we're in month three now. Right. Because you don't want to do chick filets or tag with every.

girl you date. Yeah, you can't. It's just too early. But if you like, if you already know that she loves to read, then like a coffee in Barnes & Noble Saturday date could be really fun. There you know, meaningful. And you could still chat and you get to know each other. Yeah, go to the mall and just see what happens. Oh, I'm serious. You can go, you can go get some, like some, some, you can weigh some candy, get some candy, figure out what kind of candy you get? I think you need to communicate to the girl like, hey, I very much like am happy to and plan on like planning dates for us. The plan for today, though, is to see what happens. Yeah. All right. I don't want to be indicative of like, I don't have a plan. The plan is to wait and see. I think the plan is just intentional time and

conversation. Yeah, that's good. Like if you can tell like, oh, that guy actually is asking some good questions. That he's, he's thinking about me. Like, or he wants to know more about me. That's, I don't know. Maybe there's a little surprise. It's like, no, we're just going to go to the mall and see what happens. Well, that's not all that's going to happen. Yeah. Merry go round membership. I'm a Stubbs member at the merry go round.

That's right. Got to fast pass. I was to say like almost like a mall bingo card or some type of like game that is like, you know, prepared. Good. Play. Yeah. Like merry go round membership, though. That's pretty fun.

Just kidding. We're getting more ammunition for my gun. This is an errand for me. Yeah. go somewhere they know, like, pull a prank on them and like, hey, I'm going to act like, I go here all the time. So

my name is Brad. And when I walk in, I want you to say, hey, Brad, how are the kids? And it's just like somewhere that's so inappropriate for me to be like more than once a year. Like, why do they know you here? Amber said, what kind of deodorant does everyone use? And why? How to cover work about this?

Dr. Squatch. It's mine. I think it's somewhat, healthy, you know, natural stuff, whatever, charcoal, something. I don't know if it's charcoal. Good for you. Deodorant's kind of my last stronghold.

I'm like, I'll go, I'll start to go all natural on a lot of this stuff. You put tin foil under there, basically. Yeah, but the odorant. You got aluminum in that bad one. I just have the classic teenage boy, bright blue old spice. I think that's exactly what I have. You got the bright blue one. You know, bright blue.

Mine, like, it doesn't have a, not flavor scent. Yeah, it's just old spice. Yeah, it's like natural. I don't know what it's called. So it's red. Sport? No. The odor itself is blue.

Oh, yeah. I might have some of my backpack. You got kind of the jelly kind? Like, jelly. I like, if I'm going old school, I like the, like white, like the cakey stuff. I've never liked dry cake chalk. Uh-huh. I always like the gel.

I use pure sport. Yeah, yeah. That stuff's great, dude. Good times. Let me smell that. Can I get a whiff, dude? Quick huff. Yeah, boys.

That's my stuff, boy. That's my stuff, boy. Oh, let's go, boy. That's nice. I mean, he was Pierce where I got one called Captain, but then I swear I'm big on that deodorant. What's it called? Like when your body gets used to it, you got to switch every now.

Fatigue or, yeah, deodorant fatigue. So I just recently switched. And now those new ones used to be working better. So I'm big on the three to six months. Get a new guy in there. What do you define as like working? Like not sweating or not smelling or both? I think it's not smelling.

I think sweat like, I sweat when I. It's inevitable. Yeah. the tell-tel sign is like at the end of a long day, does it feel like I need to put deodor on before I even go to bed? Because I stink. Or it's like, deodorant's working great. No, it truly is once every 24 hours.

Really? Okay. So yeah, I guess I have different standards because I think my armpits smell the end of every day. No matter what. Try out of something new, maybe. Maybe I should. Try a little pure sport. I just thought that was like, that's kind of how it goes.

That's how I lived. Most of my 30s, Brad. That is how I lived. Brother, I thought that it was the same as you. Man, that's good. Man, axe, back in the day, dude. Axe. Well, you know about axe, Simon.

Never really been an axe guy. It's inappropriate to wear it, honestly. Not an axe man myself. You ever go, axe throwing? No. I mean, half a bottle every, it felt like it cost, first of all, it felt like it cost $100. My parents acted like it was so expensive.

Yeah. And so when I got it, it was so special. But when I could bum it off somebody else, even better because mine last, Let it fly. Axe kilo. There was something special about that green bottle.

Remember that stuff? You were a Phoenix guy. Dude, I think I had one at one point that was called like dark chocolate or something. That's like the next iteration. I feel like they had like a chocolate. Yeah, sounding one. I love there's these memes that are like

when someone says, what's that smell? But I know it's not me because I have three minutes left on my 72-hour endurance guaranteed deodorant. I have three minutes left. That's pretty good. That was the thing. Axe was like, at least in my school, was used more as a cologne than it was as a anti-perseprint. Like, yeah, they put a little bit on the body.

Yeah, you just, you just cake your shirt in it. A big, big X. Yeah. Cross the chest. Right. Across your six-pack. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I had.

Patrick Drayman, who I was just thinking about this morning, I promise. I almost texted you. But I was looking at a menu of something. And I saw chicken and waffles. I thought, man, the best chicken waffles I ever had was with Patrick. in Spokane. He took me into this little like renovated train cards in a restaurant and boy, we feasted that morning. Anyway, that's fun. He said, tell Brad I started reading The Anxious Generation. Let's go, boy. Fun. I don't agree with everything, but it's really good. So good.

Amber. Hey, same Amber from earlier. Asked, this is Deodorant Amber. Best gifts to get a guy for Valentine's Day. Do guys care? No. Well, do you care? I don't care. We don't. We don't, Catherine the other day was like, hey, Valentine's Day, do you want to do anything? And I go, nope. She goes, oh, okay. Yeah, I wouldn't, I think most guys probably don't care. I don't know your man, though, Amber. I don't think, well, can I say this?

I don't think most guys care. I think the guys that do care, I'm talking for myself. If I had one iota of care, it would be towards a gift at all rather than like the perfect gift. Is that fair? Sure. Like, is in like, oh, you. thought of me and you got me something. That's so kind.

Yeah. You took some time to intentionally get me something. Thank you. That's all it takes for me. The older you get, the more it's like, I don't care about that. But maybe as a young pup, I was caring about that more. Yeah. A good gift.

Best gift to get a guy. I'm a fan of consumables. Deodorant, pure sport. Probably deodorant, toothpaste. No, I like, I like food. I mean, just like some good old jerky. Maybe. I got enough stuff. I think the older I get are like if you are, you know, maybe in your 30s, 40s, whatever service-based stuff are like good gifts.

You know, for people who have a job and could, you know, so to speak, get themselves whatever they want. Yeah. Get them a car detailing thing. Get them a massage. Get them a car, one month of a car wash membership. Yeah. Mary go-round membership. Yeah, that's what. And maybe that's similar to what I'm talking about.

Yeah, consumers, things that are like not going to last forever. but like, or, you know, I also do that clothes. Like if a girl that I want to look good for says, hey, I think this would look good on you. I got this winter jacket for you. Thank you. Oh, cool. I wouldn't have bought that for myself. Yeah.

Anything. I get in a bag of jeans, I guess. And then once he wears it, just be super complimentary of him. Yeah. Because that's what he wants. He doesn't care that. I don't care that much about exactly the clothes, but I care about if Catherine says, dang, you look good.

It's like, okay, boost me up. Andrew Compton said, this is a two-parter, what are y'all's five-year plan? Or funny church stories. Huh. Five-year plan is the thing I... Which question's harder? Which questions harder? Yeah.

I can't think of a single funny church story because I'm thinking about my five-year plan. Five-year plan, I think I would like to do more real estate than woodworking for sure and do, and have it more established than it is right now. How about that? I think it would be fun to have, in the next five years, have five to six properties that I'm renting out in some capacity. Five years from now, would you have liked to have sold the Leewood house or is it still on the market?

Yeah, it'll appreciate in five years like that. They'll appreciate more than I'm burning every single month on that house. Yeah, I'd like to sell it. But, okay. I don't know. I don't have to. I'm kind of the point now. That's a bit of a bold.

like, yeah, the market's looking up. So it's fine. Funny church story? Or what's your five-year plan, Jake, or time? Didn't we just talk about, like, you guys were asking me, and it was like, who the heck knows what I'll ever do? So that's kind of still where I'm at. It'd be fun to do more music things, though.

Yeah. Hence, I'm going to college for music right now, accidentally. Yeah, that's right. Surprise, I guess I'm in college right now. Hard to know. None of us have consistent jobs. No. funny church stories. There's got to be some good ones. I can't think very well right now.

I try to think. Surely with Ryan. Oh, buddy. You know that one? The Facebook post one? Oh, yeah. We've talked about that before. We've talked about it on the podcast. Yeah, yeah. You know that time? A little typo. Head pastor of a church. That one was borderline like, wasn't a typo or was he like, surely. Shirley. That was a bad one. Funny church stories. I don't know. I'm trying to think of any like bloopers that I've had leading worship or I'm blanking. I know Sarah said I'm going to sorry no go ahead I was saying I was while you said your thing I was saying go ahead and say that. Have I told you this ever probably in the last 600 episodes we've done?

We played a youth group game first of all hindsight 2020 shout out my youth pastor aka my brother-in-law at the time at the time at the time. At the time he's my brother-in-law. Sorry you guys are going through that. hindsight's 2020 but I think Forsyte should have been 2020 on this one too got it

we played a game called blindfolded kickball I believe is what it was and there were two What are the aspects of the game? Yeah yeah there were two bases

and you kick the ball and then you had to you could run to first base which is straight ahead and you could run back home but you didn't have to run all the way like from first base back home right

Does that make sense? Yeah. And so somebody was at first base, somebody else was kicking the ball, and they collided so hard that this girl had to have like 20 stitches or something like that on her face. Geez. Yeah, shout out Becca. Just, first of all, just she, Becca went out all out every single time for everything. And so like Becca was awesome.

She's like one of my best friends growing up. But yeah, hindsight was 2020 of like, yeah. We could have seen that coming over. Maybe if they're blindfolded and they're both running straight towards each other, they might hit each other at some point. Hard to have 2024 sight when you're blindfolded. When you are blindfolded and you have stitches all over your face. There's blood covering your eyes.

So that happened. That was a classic one. That's a good one. Youth group was fun. Church is fun. I had a great church upbringing. Sorry, look at the... Sarah said, I'm going to Kauai in April.

Best Beach. Also, is Jake going to cut his hair? No. To spite you all. Never getting a haircut again. Best Beach, I'm pretty sure it's called Honolet Bay. It's on the north side. It's like probably 270 degrees of mountains around you.

Waterfalls, beach, everywhere. It's fun from what I remember. How you been to all the islands? Never been to the big one. That's the Hawaii island. That's the only one that you can have go to, you haven't been to like whatever the Molokai or whatever that one is. Yeah.

Haven't been to the like wind turbine one. Yeah. When you can kind of see from Maui. Yeah. What is that, Lanai? That sounds right. Yeah. But you've been to all the tourist ones.

besides Hawaii. Hawaii, Maui. Oahu. What is your first memory ever? I imagine Jake's is probably yesterday. Oh, kid, Kurti. Mine, I do have a memory. It was when I was like, I think I was three maybe,

and I was at my sister's track meet. And I, I pretended like I was a rhinoceros on my mom's purse. Yeah. I'm using my mom's purse to, like, ride on like a rhinoceros. It's a fun memory. She was a discus thrower. One of those.

I'm pretty sure. Maybe it was my fourth grade, or not fourth grade, geez, either four-year-old or three-year-old birthday party and it was train themed. I remember just like,

just sensory overload. Like this cake was this like, you know, primary colored, like big train. And then they'd surprise me the wallpaper in my room was that same train.

I was like, I freaking love trains. This is awesome. Oh, everything's so trained today. Trainy. I think it was my three-year-old birthday party. Diamond?

I have no clue. Nothing's chronological in my memory, nothing. What's in your head? Do you have to have an answer? I, okay, if I was to have an answer, I just thought of a childhood memory. No clue how old I was. But me and Anna were in a fight,

and so obviously I was talking age. It was older than I should be telling early memories, whatever. But she was like, we were both really, mad in my threat to her, there was like this rock that I found. And I was like, I'm going to instead of saying like, I'm going to throw this rock at you. I threatened, I'm going to throw this rock at that window and throw the glass at you. I remembered like that as a threat as your threat.

And it was like, man, I'm clever. I'm so creative. But yeah, I was probably like six. So I don't know. Yeah. I can't think of anything else though. That's good. Yeah. That was fun. I mean, that's fun to think about. Mm-hmm. There's like certain things. I remember like, hey, tell me about preschool. It's like, I don't remember much. I remember crying for joy when I finally got to be the one to like take home the, like, whatever the bear was or something. Like it was like, we got to pass this bear around.

I remember like, that was the first time I ever remember crying, like in a good way. Yes. It's like, oh my gosh, I'm so happy. And then I remember my friend Mike Schneider had a Japanese grandma and she came in. And was like, does anybody know any phrases in Japanese? and I had just seen Space Jam and I go, yes I do. Uno momento, por favor.

She goes, that's not Japanese. That's all I remember from preschool. Sure? It's like there was a million things that happened at that preschool. You're about that? But that's all I remember is those two things. That's fun.

Lydia asked, how many weekly listeners does Ghostrunners get? No, we can't. We can't. Whatever you're thinking? Triplett. Triplett.

Millions. Nice try. Lydia. Nice try, Big Brother. I was kind of looking into it because I'm like, I don't even know. I don't even check this ever. YouTube is public. Let's just round it off half a million.

Let's just round it off half a million. If we round up, it gets to half a million. We have 4,000 people on our Facebook group. Let's just round it up to half a million. Do you think if you are super ticklish, you could still make it in the army? Yeah. Do they tickle you? Yeah.

Is this a thing? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, they do. Then no, no, no. But it's not like, just like, hey, if you can do a lot of pull-ups, can you make it in the Army? Oh, is they make you do pull-ups?

Yeah. Same thing. Yeah, I think you could. I do think it'd be kind of tough on those certain tickle days. Yeah, what is it? Tickle Sundays, I think. They do tickle days. They do feather days.

Or it's just all feathers on your feet. I think, yeah, it's typically laundry day. So it's like when you're kind of stripped of, like, clothes to kind of, like, hide behind. Right. It's laundry day, which means it's tickle Sunday, guys. Come on, spread them. Tickle Sunday. Catherine's really, what's the word?

She's just adamant about like not tickling our kids too much or too intensely because she has a memory with her dad. We're like, when you get tickled, you laugh, but she's like, I hated it. Yeah. But I was laughing so hard. And he didn't stop. And she was like, it was like torturous. But I definitely have very early memories of that for sure. Yeah.

Like, stop is one of the only few words I can say, but I can't say it when I'm laughing. Right. So I'll always like, like, if I tickle them, and I wrestle them pretty good. But like I tickle them for a couple seconds and then like wait for a time and see if they're like, they're going to, you know, go back at me or if it's like, okay. That was actually kind of traumatic. And I've heard cats say one of the only reasons she didn't end up serving in the military is from the tickle trauma. Yeah, she enrolled in the seals but never went through with it. And funny, same with timing.

Got took a lot as a kid. Just wasn't cut out to be in the Army. That's right. It's too bad. Man. It's tough for our boys. Mm-hmm. It's okay, Tim.

Where does Catherine find the school songs for the kids? Oh, it's all like through the curriculum, I think, through Ascold Conversations. I don't know if they're like public or not. Some of them are, dude, if I let Jake, if I let Trey Kennedy, honestly, if I let trade Kennedy hear all these songs he would be able to have a podcast five episodes on this like he would make fun of him so i mean some of them because often they're like common theme or common tunes that they like change the words to be all these different things i'm trying to think like like we will rock you but instead of we will rock you it's like latin you know roots oh wow or but it's

like all sorts of random songs timon can we hear a dear evan hansen waving through the window remake and this is about different shapes. Yeah, of course. We start with stars in our eyes. Real lyric, stars. We start. Stars is the shape.

We circle squares and we triangle. I'm just kind of name them. Yeah. That's like more of the length that you wanted for the first one. So I'll just end it. Great, great, great. Good, good. I love that.

Thanks. Yeah, it's called classical conversations. I don't know if I think everyone But like that's the thing is like it's a national thing And some of them sound like they're like record on like a voice memo Like a phone Like is this like their full-time job? They did and this is what they

They need a roadcaster GSNYO2 says all caps big daddy look in slam Whoa that's kind It's the black, it's slimming Jake told me Josh Katz is it weird to comment on someone's smell? You smell good.

Where are you wearing? And then he sent a follow-up thing. I do not do this, but I know someone who does. I always make fun of him for it. His name's Rob Lowe and he was on the floor with me. I added that in. It's not, I don't know. I was going to say it's not weird.

But then again, I think people smell good all the time. And I don't think I've ever said it to him. I think for this to be appropriate, you got to go guy on guy or girl on girl. For sure, for sure, no doubt. Yeah. That's the first step. But yeah, I think even then for whatever reason I don't do it, but I don't know if it would be weird if I did. I never smelled another man, smelled good enough to where I also wanted to mimic his scent.

So even if I did like a good friend, like, dude, you smell good. Give him a quick compliment. I don't need to know what it is though. No, you're right. I never like, oh, dude, you smell great. I got to know what it is. Well, because almost always, if nothing else, it's like, I don't, I can't smell like you. You're, you're taken.

Yeah, exactly. Since taken. Since taken. Yeah, that's a good word. There's all that. Natty Hope said, uh, Epstein files. And then she sent another one that said, just kidding about the Epstein files. Oh, okay.

Then she said in another one, I'm scrolling up as I'm seeing all this. I can't remember if these are anonymous. Now I'm a little embarrassed. that's great. I didn't even like, I didn't even plan that. I didn't even seal that. Dude,

Natty Hope. She's always been flying. Natty Hope, dude. I don't know if you're... Shout out. That's amazing, man. Sean Thomas said, you go back to 3,000 BC,

Mesopotamia. What are you taking with to conquer the world? Combine. Yeah. What'd you say? Thunder and lightning right here. Combine.

I don't know how big the portal is. I'm going to actually think about this. Wait, the question, sorry, repeat one more time. You go back to the year 3,000 BC in the land of Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent history. What are you taking with you to conquer the world? Oh, I mean, it has to be just some kind of like, maybe just like a phone. So it's like you might get worshipped or something or like, you know, it's like, oh, this guy has this, this device. It's incredible he can.

I'll follow him anywhere. He can draw something instantly. Things like that. Like, I feel like I'd probably go. Yeah. But what if it's going to run out of battery pretty quick? That's a good point. It's only one thing you could take

because, like, I could take just like a generator and a cord. The word is trying, the objective is to conquer the world. Yeah. I feel like, yeah. I'm saying by this. I feel like I don't become like the ruler.

Why don't just get a gun? I thought of that too. That's not a kind of. violent for the nice, wholesome pot. See, I keep thinking ag for some... I'm thinking of like, should I take like an oil rig or seeds, seeds? Or like crops or something to like add value. Man.

Sickle. There's always a good thought of like, man, I'm pretty, I'm pretty dumb because it's like, I don't know if I could do... I don't think... Just like, I think it's a burghetti bit, but it's like, I don't think I would make that big of a difference. He was like, I couldn't even prove to him that was from the future. A temperate bed could go a long way back then.

Could it? I think it'd feel nice. They were sleeping on rocks. Man, I don't know. I thought about something like wheels. Just like a bunch of tires. Matches. Matches would be all right.

I don't know, man. I think 3,000 BC, like, what is that? I don't. Like, do they have bow and arrows back then? First of all, if I... If I could bring a bow and arrow, I wouldn't bring one of those. I'd bring a bow and arrow machine maker. I'd bring that factory from Wardogs that has a million rounds of balls.

A million rounds of Chinese. Yeah. AK-47 bullets. Right. Let me ask the internet what this would be. You guys keep brainstorming. It would be. Man, I don't know.

Wheel. An airplane would help conquer the world because it would help explore the world a little bit easier. but I wouldn't know how to fly it. Squawking. Squawking rooster. Yeah, I still like my idea of some kind of technological thing, but I don't know, like,

maybe it should be able to also invoke violence. What about just like a calculator? That would blow people's minds back in. And you know what? It could be solar, you can do one of the solar-powered ones that you get for free at like an expo. Now we're talking.

Retail Rebel probably has not. Retail Rebel would have plenty of them. this is not going away anytime soon. Or just a phone with a solar-powered phone charging case. Could also work. I'd bring a cell tower. Chad GPD says, you don't win by bringing a gun.

You win by bringing technology and knowledge that looks like magic. Point for time. I'm so smart. What matters most in Mesopotamia? It says food production, point for me. Flood control? Maybe we bring some sandbags.

All right. Trade. Catan. Yeah. Writing such accounting or religion slash authority. Whoa. Anyone who improves those,

the king. Hmm. Yeah, pretty crazy. If you're like, hey, check out this, it's the Bible.

It's just like this one book. Dude, what about just like antibiotics? Wow. By foals. Shoes,

you said? Yep. Yeah, shoot. I mean, like, I feel like they would have, the Nike logo, they think that was cool.

I mean, even just like how, yeah. Because the way, that they couldn't craft shoes like that. No, yeah. Shoes would go a long way. Yeah.

Water for shoes. About just a sink. A sink? Not that sink in. Think about it. Fosset. Like a faucet sink. And I'm just like, watch this.

Want some water? There you go. Who's next? Who's next? I made a working sink back then. Who's next? Bring your friends. Yeah.

Bring your friends. Tell them. Bring your friends and enter my kingdom now. That's right. That sounds blasphemous. Fun. Fun conversation starter. My bad.

Enter my kingdom. I'm the living water. Enter my kingdom. Okay, buddy. Hey, we've talked about it once. We'll talk about it again. This is our first and final time to talk about on this episode

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Smell alone. Smell it, baby. I didn't even think about that. That's too bad. People know when to stop. I think you kind of, well... I wouldn't even know how to find the toilet paper. You kind of notice like, you know, friction.

Sometimes. Yeah. Sometimes I've been tricked. I bet they use a lot more. I bet they have to budget just a little bit more. Yeah. Probably one point three times as much as us. Yep.

Wow. How do deaf people know what? What do... How do deaf people know if a... Yeah, that are truck's coming. Yeah. If their eyes are closed. Yeah. How do blind people like wake up to an alarm in the morning?

Good point. I bet it's super loud. Yeah. Wait. Are a lot of questions that are going to lead us down a bad path, I feel like. I'm going to dodge those. Those are pretty funny, though. I know the answer to this, but it's a riddle for you guys from Brittany.

Riddle, forwards I'm heavy, backwards I'm not. What am I? Fords, I'm heavy, backwards, I'm not. Got it. You? Nope. Come on, college, boy. Fords, I'm heavy.

Backwards. Backwards. I'm not. I'm literally not. I'm thinking not like a rope knot. No, no T. Backwards, I'm literally in OT. I got it.

All right. No one, just for the people at home. Yep. we know it we'll keep it open you can google it if you want yep all right brittney also here's a here are two questions at once two people don't tell me which one you're answering okay favorite pizza toppings next question ask brad potty training tips for boys get the sausage out i don't want sausage uh pepperoni um pie training tips for boys ah there's a lot of things i could give a lot of tips on in parenting, I think, that I've learned. Polytraining is one that I'm like,

you just got to try and it's going to be hard and you're probably going to fail and just go for it. If it were me, my polytrain tips are this. Give them a lot of liquids so they have to go and then put them outside, put them out in the back, if it's warm enough. Like, hey, and let them just, let them, and if they pee, they pee. And every once in a while, they're going to be like, oh, snap, I'm doing it right now. Like, yeah, dude. Like, But, but, I mean, we thought Bo was potty trained one time, and then he literally pooped on my parents' floor. So, whoops.

I'll show you. All right. So I guess he's not quite there. Sorry about that, Mom. Have you ever heard of the elimination something? Elimination method or tactic or something like that? Tell me more. I don't know.

I was hoping you would carry it. No, I've heard, I've heard, I mean, some people, like, try to potty train their kids almost immediately. In the womb. No, but it's like. six months. Like, I think they, like, literally, like, really can't even, like, stand on their own yet.

They just, like, prop them up to the toilet. It's, like, a Pavlov, like, this is where you go. You, yeah. Oh, really? Is that what you're talking about? And they shake it out of them. Yeah, I don't know. Dude, Catherine is convinced that Henry, like,

should try to get potty trained. Now, I'm like, it's not, no, he's not that smart. But, like, he, like, shows signs of, like, wanting to go, like, he'll, like, go point to the toilet or something. Oh. That doesn't mean he needs to be potty tray. He's thirsty.

That's where he gets all his water, yeah. As much as Henry's eating, yeah, maybe it is time to let him know. He's crazy, man. He's so fun. What's it like out there, guys, to put something somewhere in your house and then come back and it's in that spot. Oh, yeah, do you just kind of lose that? With Henry, I did. I mean, the rest of the kids, they kind of understood.

It's like, my AirPods could be anywhere right now. Yeah. I got a little bit of that with Rachel. I got a little bit of a little taste of that. It's like, dang. I thought I had bought 10 phone chargers that I would never be looking for one. And here I am about to leave for Palm Springs. And boy, I can't find mine.

And it's never like, oh, you put away my clothes that I, like, should have, like, put in the dirty clothes and they're on the floor. And they're where are they go? It's like, no, where are my keys? Wow. Yeah, my slides were in your purse. I guess I should have looked there. Good point. Yeah, Henry's a big fan of putting stuff in our laundry hamper,

so we've got to be really careful when we're doing our laundry. I lived with Zach for a month, and I experienced this. So I had some texture powder for my hair. This was last week. And I keep it in my car. So I keep it like in my little, yeah, just like in my little consulting. And I was like, in the morning, I got in the car and I couldn't find it. And I was like, oh, I went back inside.

I was like, maybe it's inside somewhere. Couldn't find it. I thought that it's so strange because I keep it in my car. Come to find out, Zach, like, couldn't find his. Yeah. So he had to leave in the morning. I've been this guy. He found my keys, unlocked my car, stole my tuxter powder, didn't tell me a thing about it.

It was probably in his bathroom, I'm guessing. Just, wow. I'll be honest. I've been Zach plenty of times in my life, and I apologize for my kind. Uh-huh. But also, I'll say this, that's a best. friend move. Like, you don't do that. You don't do that to somebody you're not completely comfortable with. Yep. And, but man, it did throw me for a loop. Oh, yeah. I was like, what happened? How could,

how could it not be my car? And then it all came back when I was like, I also had a hard time finding my keys this morning. They weren't where I thought I left. Oh, yeah. I was like, all adds up now. All adds up. Um, timing, just a, just a quick parenting question for me. Yeah. to you as the case study for this to an extent. Yep. You are the second oldest of eight. Yes. Therefore,

you had a lot of younger siblings in your life growing up. Still do, obviously. Yeah. Do you remember slash, is there any advice that you can give me of your younger siblings, like ruining your stuff or like messing up? So basically, we live in a small enough house. Yeah. That, you know, Hattie might be working on a project, working on building this thing or doing

X, Y, Z. Yeah. And like, to the point where she's like, I can't get it all done today, but I'm going to put it over here. And then one of her younger siblings will just destroy it. Or like, she has this diary, dude. I felt so bad. Like she's been working on this diary. I mean, she writes in it often, you know, for the last like two or three years.

She's been doing little things in it. And Rosie just out of the blue the other day, like got up in her bed, like, to her little like nook that she has this little shelf in her top bunk and ripped out every single page of her diary. Didn't like rip them up, but like ripped him out of the spiral bounds. It's just the most younger sibling move of all. And it's just like, I don't know, I don't know what to do about that. It's just part of probably being the older sibling. Yeah.

But I'm like, A, did that happen to you a lot? Oh, yeah. B, did you survive or is like, do I need to somehow? You could put a horse's head in your siblings. I try to always be like, Hattie, listen, like you get benefits from being the older one as well. not just the, you know, brunt of it. Man, I mean, I wish I had some kind of like, we found this way to not make kids do that. But it's like sometimes it truly feels like they have a more adult brain than they do where they're like, how can I like most ruin this?

Like, yeah. Or you're just like, it's just interesting how the, like I, I love to draw as a kid. So plenty of times, like I'd have a half finished drawing like fan art. I'm drawing Coyote Peterson. And this might have actually happened with Coyote Peterson. I think so. Or maybe it was, whatever. Like, halfway through this drawing,

I'm really happy with it so far. And it's just like, yeah, they'll find a pencil and just like scribble all over it. And it's like, was that fun? Yeah. And Rosie specifically seems like she's got that streak in her. It's like, yeah. Let's just see, let's just see what kind of reaction I can get from this.

Create a little chaos here. Hey, mom, look at all this pink crayon. I just put all over the wall. React to that real quick. You know, like just stuff everywhere. I really don't. I mean, definitely relatable, but... Really? Okay.

I don't know how to fix it. I know, man. It's just like, I don't know what to tell you. It's just part of being the oldest. Yeah. So... Story comes to mind. This is the opposite of something being ruined.

As an adult, me and Kevin Smith, K. Smitty, we were K-Life, you know, staff conference. We had gotten like 90% of the way done with a puzzle and then went to dinner and came back. And these girls had finished it for us. So it was like, yeah, they ruined, I guess, the element of like completion. But I was like, hey, hey, yeah. Hey, don't do that. Hey, we go out all the way through it. You must be a younger, you must be an only child, actually.

What are you doing? Don't finish a grown man's puzzle. The audacity that it would take to do it even like without them being present. Yeah, just came back and it was done. Unless they thought like, oh, everyone's been working on this. Everyone do their part. Everyone pitch in. Yeah, I've been seeing people do this all weekend.

It's like, no, Jake and Kevin have been doing this. That's too bad. I saw Brad coaching. Upward Basketball Saturday. His team was playing against my granddaughter's team. I was a little Starstruck. Who was that? That's from Ellie Mae 315. What? Why didn't you say hi? Oh, you didn't interact with this person? No. Oh, wow. That's fun. Granddaughter's team? Yeah. Granddaughter's team. No, it was a, that was a rough one for us. Oh, granddaughter. That means, I mean, there's not that many girls on the other team. They whipped us, though. Good job. Good job. Josiah said,

Tyman, please sing something magical. So I think he wants the Benson Boone song, Mythical Magical. Moonbeam ice cream, taking off your blue jeans, dancing at the movies. That was really good. I got to get the magical.

You should be more bit to boot covers. No, no, go for it. That sounds really accurate. Magical, oh baby, because once you know, that'd be fun, actually. I would do that. Yeah.

You sound a lot like him. Thanks. Everyone seems to like him. I think he's a guy we should root for. Everyone seems to like him. Yeah. Millennial take, I think. Really?

I mean, that song... Got you, did it? Like the entire... Do I just have 6-7 all over my face right now? Yeah, what am I doing? The entire summer, like, that song was just being brutally made fun of all the summer last year. Really?

Yeah. But then it kind of did, like, it was kind of simultaneously the song of the summer, so... I don't know. I mean, that's how it goes, right? If it's popular, it's going to get made fun of. Yeah. Jake, you kind of just lost some credibility for me because I think I listened to you about all my pop culture stuff now

because you're kind of my link. I think people maybe are coming around to him though. Like no time and he embraced it. He was like, oh yeah, my darn writers. Like in a funny way. I think he was funny about it, but I don't know. Yeah. Is there somebody that you do feel like is like pretty universally liked out there right now?

That's in the mainstream, like pretty popular? I don't know. I think there's a lot of girls in music killing it right now. Sabrina Carpenter, Tate McRae, Dua, like, Addison Ray, you know, there's a lot of ladies.

Not a lot of dudes in pop music right now. True. But are those like, are those ladies universally liked, though? Universally. Right. Universally. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know if I like any of them that much. Yeah. I do like Benson Boone from the four songs of her of them, though. I think people, people are saying he's like, insane talent held back by his like kind of songs right now.

Like he hasn't really had, I don't know, people are saying like his songs, especially recently you're kind of cringy, but he has an amazing voice. Like he'll cover songs at his live shows. And like videos of that, it's like insane. I'll cover Adele and like her key.

It's like crazy. Well, I mean like, it's not the exact same, but John Mayer for a while was like very poppy, very like, you know, cutie John Mayer guy. Yeah. No, no, way before that.

Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. like your body is wonderland and then like all of a sudden he came out with better albums that were more him when he was bigger and like could do his own thing I heard at least with John Mayer it was like every other album was like his album and then the studio's album where it was like you have to make because like he did that one like he did continuum and then he did one that had like Katie Perry and Taylor Swift featured on there like like back and forth and but that one's good too if like battle studies or whatever it's

Yeah, battle studies. They're all good, though. Julian said, what should I give my husband for his 30th birthday? Also, can you give him a B-Day shout-out? Shout out. John Crowsdale, Zabel, B-day, February 7th. John Zobel. I would get Zobble, say you pronounce it?

Yeah. Him a... Back-go-a-no gift card. That's what I would say. Yeah. You just can't go wrong. Yeah. When gift card there.

Best spot in Palm Springs. I think you'd appreciate this. I was really trying to think through the psychology in the consumer habits of a gift card. Like what should the gift card? I'm thinking like for Friday stuff. Like what should the gift card amount be based on the already average order value

to try and like up the order value? Yes. Like this is up your alley. You know, trying to figure out the math on it. Like the average is $120. Should we give a $30 gift card, you know, or whatever? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the average is 120, give a gift card that would help them get to 110.

Yeah. Or something like that. Yeah. Like, well, I got to get one more thing. Oh, just go get another thing. Yeah. Yeah. Are you giving, like, for prizes, gift cards?

It's not really the thing we've done previously, but I was something I just thought of it was like, what if we started, like, throwing these out there a lot more? Yeah. For people, giving gift cards away. Anyway, what should she get for John for his 30th birthday? Car. Car. Probably like a Mustang, Mustang Corvette.

I don't hate the idea of like a weekend rental. That's fun. I've seen that. People have done that. I thought I just thought of it. Dang, dude. Jaron Myers did it for his girl. Who?

Jaron Myers. You're a best friend. Your mentor. For like a weekend. Just get like a range rover or something ridiculous. That's cool. Would you rather have like a, yeah, tricked out bigger car like a range rover or would you rather have like a convertible?

What would I rather? For like a week? What's climate? You choose your own. Choose your own adventure. Yeah, C-Y-O-C. Let's say, let's say it's a nice climate. Spring.

Spring, 75 degrees. Just perfect weather. If it's only one weekend, I'm okay with, like, maybe looking like a bit of a bozo. Like, it doesn't need to be a cool looking car. Like, let's get some weird, like, new Hummer EV that I can take the top off or something. I don't know. Let's just see what's out there. It's only a weekend.

Okay. I don't own the thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My stinking wife got it for me. I would get, I would get like a fast, sleek car. New or like old? 67 chival. New, probably.

I don't know, though. Either way. No, probably new, because I drive a truck, obviously, and it's large and, like, you know, doesn't have great turn radius, stuff like that. I feel like those old muscle trucks don't turn nearly as well as it. Yeah. I like the idea of, like, let's fly around, you know. I feel like every week I get more and more.

I feel like I start, I have some wandering eyes. You know what I'm wandering at? Trucks. I was like, dude. I want to drive a truck again. It was my first car. I love a truck. Why don't I just get a truck?

They're awesome, dude. I kind of want like an old one that I only can listen to the radio on. You should get, you. I want that. I mean, let's be honest. You have enough, like, disposable income to where you could buy like a cheap truck on the side. and have what if trade the bondi truck straight up for it's like what if you like had a

had a had a vehicle that like you don't use very often but just like is there and like my wife has to park pretty far away from the house because it's parked so close to the house and you have to park close because you have to charge your tv and the parking in the garage is not really an option there's a you're pretty sure it'll start when you turn it on but just in case there's three generators and no yeah it's an old farm truck you any farming no no Just fun to buzz around the city in. Dude, it is nice to just have it on, like, at your disposal.

It's like a snow truck. If you get an old truck, dude, they got the one solid seat. And so you and Rachel go on a little joy ride. She sits right next to you, dude. Hold those hands, dude. Hold those hands, brother. So, Jillian, yeah, I think we answered your question.

Honestly, Jillian, yeah, get them a $3,000, you know, truck that's going to break down on them a bunch. Yeah Katrina Zimmerman Winner of the One of the consolation prizes That's right Bedsheet winner

Yeah Do you have a skill or hobby That you're casually looking to approve on In your free time Yes Time's going to college for it Called music I would like to get more into

The grilling slash smoking Meats of the world I don't know how to do that very I know how to grill fine But like I could get into that I think someday down the road that's in my future too. Yeah.

It would be nice. I'm trying to think of anything else. I've talked about it before on here, like 3D printing. I don't think I'll actually go through with that right now. But like that could be another fun one. When Bo gets a little older, maybe, or had it. If some kid shows interest in that, I could get into that with them. Yeah.

I don't think I've talked about this, probably because it's a little embarrassing. I've been playing some Catan online. Yep. It fits in the category of trying to improve, I guess, technically. I've been playing a little, Katana, it's against the computer, so the games go quicker. But yes, I've been playing Katan on the iPad. Kind of fun.

Does it kind of make you spoiled to like when you play in real life? It's like, there's whatever, dude. Come on. You either know what you want to do or not, Angie, let's go. Why are you thinking? Yeah. Luke Koglin knew what you were playing. Yeah, he knew he's at Catan universe.

Yes, sir. It's great. How often are you playing? I would say it's usually just one game before bed, probably five nights a week. And how long is that game take? About 30 minutes. Okay.

You know, my new, I found out that you can select the computer skill level. I didn't know that for weeks. I just thought, I'm not that good. So you can go anywhere from master to rookie. My new kind of fun thing to do is I turn, I only play gets two people, and I turn to rookie mode, but I have to get to 17 victory points. Okay, versus. Build an empire.

And I try to get to 70. You can't select theirs, but I try to get to 70. before they get to 10. Okay. Oh, I see. You can choose how many is like the winning points. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

Got it. That's fun. It's just fun because, you know, they don't make all the best decisions. So it really stimulates my economy. I'm picking up cards. I've got a lot of decisions to make, you know. Yeah, but it's like,

the harvest is plentiful. Got a boat race them. Yeah. Yeah. I got to stick it to them a little bit. Right. Um, I guess Olympics are on the brain for some people.

Uh, people ask questions about curling. What do we think of it? Would we ever try it? I think it looks fun to sweet that. Of course I would try it. Yeah, if I was in a position where I was available. Yeah.

I don't understand it much. Is it basically shuffleboard? I think so. But with it. More active with the ice. Able to manipulate it. Yeah. Oh, we'd get into that.

I think it sounds fun. And they got these little code names. Ho, ho, ho, heep, he! They're like saying weird things that means like more or less scrapage. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Apparently the kids watched a video about bob sledding.

recently. Oh, you see that U.S. bobsled team, they didn't make it in the cart. Apparently really dangerous. Catherine told me this, yeah. But apparently once you, according to them,

I was a little bit confused, but Bo was saying, yeah, once you get in there, you have to keep your head down the entire time because you can't get it up. Oh, interesting.

I'm like, is it that you can't get it up or that if you get it up, it messes with the drag of the bobs, like, is it such force that you can't lift your head up? I bet it's a physics. It's aerodynamics saying like one person

keeps it up to steer and the other. the three years down? That's what I figured. Yeah. Anyway. Someone else said, what is one winter sport

you think you'd have a chance in? Remind me some of the winter sports. I mean, maybe bobsiding. If I was in a weight division of like, all right, we're all like the same build guy here.

Yeah. Let's try bobsetting. I can push and hop in a cart. Okay. And then the other guy steer. I'd steer. Heck. Winter does seem like so far in most of those sports.

Tell you one I didn't want to do is the cross-cut X. Mm-hmm. skiing? Skiing. Any of the skiing. Anything long distance in the snow I'm out on. Well, any of the skiing.

Would you rather, I'd rather do that than the high jump on skiing? That's terrifying. Yeah, that is. How high do those guys get? 40 feet? I maybe do. I mean, if I was better at skiing, just the one where you just kind of slalom, you know, just like go through the gates.

It's kind of fun. It's kind of how I ski anyway, because I'm not good at breaking. I'm trying to think of any sport that would have. aside skiing and the other ones are mentioned. Speed skating? No. I do the short distance one. I do want to wear those gloves that kind of look like a frog. Got kind of the bulbs on them. Yeah.

I would try that for sure. It's got to be curling is the only one I could maybe figure out. Maybe. I mean, and even that Olympic winter sports. What about the biathlon? You're kind of a marksman yourself. Yeah, it's true. That's summer though. You sure? No. They ski and then they shoot. Biathons that one. Oh, what's the No, maybe it's just shooting in summer.

You're thinking of DeCatherine. What's the guy that? Yeah, just like, oh, that guy, the Turkish guy. Yeah. Yeah, what was that sport? Just rage, just built up aggression. Maybe, honestly, this is so American of us, but like maybe everyone else is going to be so bad. Isn't flag football this year or is that summer?

Oh, when is that coming? That's got to be, that's probably 2028. Is it? That's going to be fun. Yeah, surely it's not. Can I just see a list of sports, please. Gosh.

All sports. Oh, let's go. We got alpine skiing, biathlon, Bob Slay, is what they called it. Okay. Cross country skiing, curling, figure skating,

freestyle skiing, ice hockey, luge. Oh, yeah. Luge is awesome. Feet first, skeleton, face first. Skeleton?

Yeah, it's like the same thing, but you head first. What in the world is Luge? Anyone? Dude, it's like Bob sledding, but I think it's one person. It's like you're going down to water. slide like you lay on your back what but then you have you have a vehicle yes I think you're on like a

little like sled that you can steer with you go super fast jaketon in Australia on your feet yeah it was called luge where we were just in like go cards street luge Nordic combined short track speed skating skeleton ski jumping ski mountaineering snowboard speed skating yeah I don't I don't think I can do any of these I see why less people talk about it too I don't know none of this is like I really want to watch that summer's way better because in America Yeah, these dishes are not common sports for most of us. Yeah, summer I get to watch disc. Summer we're going to watch the Americans dominate.

That's, let's be honest. Like, we get a ton of medals for basketball. Anyway. Yeah, Bob Sludd could be fun. Yeah. Thoughts on Ohio. Skibbitty-Riz, dude. Oh, nice.

Thoughts on Ohio. My dad was born there. My grandfather was a captain of the Ohio. University of Ohio football team. My dad was born. My grandma and grandpa got married, and my grandma had him when she was a senior in college.

Best semester of grade she's ever had, other thoughts on Ohio. That's good. I've been there. Go on. I'm just seeing like really good questions in here now. Rachel Henry, your wives were kidnapped. You have to drive to rescue them.

Music on the drive or no? No. No. I might throw a little mumbasa from the inception soundtrack. Let me play it for you guys if you think you don't need music. Oh, yeah, it's good. That is the exact song you need to go rescue your wife. I don't need a single ounce of motivation for you.

Get in! Where is she? Okay, it says you're going to take a right out of this parking lot, but I don't know if it knows which direction we're going. It's always weird with parking lots. Shucks, dude. I am a weirdo and probably listen to music or listen to nothing more than I listen to anything in the car.

Yeah, nothing is probably the right answer. Anna Webster said, if you could rename the podcast, would you and what would it be? We might have different answers. You'd like you would say yes. Like if we could go back in time, maybe I'd rename it, but I don't want to rename it now.

No, I love it. I obviously it's like the only thing is like oh you have to be like it's not about ghosts which is a big deal there was a guy trying to get in our Facebook group this week and uh something about his name and his profile looked a little interesting so I was like let me click on it before I just like auto accept and sure enough he was a member of 85 groups and they were all like ghost hunters ghost hunters northeast Tennessee ghost club ghost ghost ghost ghost cyclist goes you know I was like whoa guys in the wrong part of town no I I think I love that it's unique and like nothing like it.

But also I know that like once you learn what it is, it's hard to forget what it is. That's true. It is a unique name. Yeah, I don't think it's like this massive misstep we made or anything. Right.

Yeah, every now and then people think it's about ghosts. For sure. I'm trying to see if there's a part one to this. Lexington just said, owning a business, about to apply for a big loan, but scared. I wish we knew more. I don't see like a part one or a part two

Maybe like was the problem like, what do you want us to talk about? Talk about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think I want us to talk about. I think fear is okay sometimes. Like, it's like, hey, fear motivates. Fear puts your back up against the wall. Yeah.

Just make sure. Make sure when your backs up against the wall, you're not just like, well, I'm scared, so I'm paralyzed. You know, like. Yeah. I don't know. Neither of us. Well, obviously, I've taken up a big loan for this house. but like neither of us started our businesses with like a huge loan like yeah both just like

worked from the ground up kind of thing um and so there's a little bit of a difference there but there's benefits to both i think you work harder when you take on that debt initially yeah you feel it yeah if you just like i think i want to like kind of start this thing on the side and it doesn't take a lot to start it up and so you don't have to take out debt you're going to work way you're going to be way less motivated to work on it rather than like, all right. Took out 30 grand to do this. Let's get moving. Better get after it.

Yeah, I think there's definitely benefits to it. Use it as motivation, Lexi. Good word. Can girls and guys be friends? What does it look like after you're married? Nope. I was so big on this in college, freaking SBU, all the homeschooled Christian dorks where I was like, I just, I don't know if I want to go on a first date with him because I really value our

friendship. I'm like, don't we're putting the friendship on a pedestal here. Go on a date with the guy. Also, his name is me. Come on, take a chance. I'm not going to be friends with you after this anyway now. You're kind of weird. Please go on a date with me.

Yeah, people on SBU were terrified to go on a first date. I just respect our friendship. I was like, you're being honest right now? I feel like there's something about me you just don't like. Yeah, just to be real. Yeah, yeah. That's really what it is. But yeah, no, I wouldn't value that too much.

Obviously, it, like, depends on what you're defining as what a friend is. But, like, like, I'm friends with Rachel. I'm friends with Emily Duckworth. But it's like, I'm friends with her in the sense of like, hey, if Catherine's having a hard day, I might text him and be like, hey, FYI, this is going on. Do you mind like, you know, doing X, Y, Z or, hey, I'm trying to plan something for Catherine. Yeah. And I need your help. But it's not, it's like, it's never like, hey, it's been a long time.

How are you doing? Like, you and Emily don't. I just like get coffee and catch up? We have not. No. I don't know about coffee. We get beer. get a couple drinks.

This is a stout IPA every once a while. She's a beer brat, so only does blue moon. Yeah, so I just think it's just not appropriate. I mean, it's just not, yeah, it's just not how we're designed. Yeah, like I'm friends with, still like a lot of my, like, female friends from college, we are friends, but it's because like they married their college boyfriend and we're all friends still and it's great. Sure.

You know, but yeah, as far as just like, oh, I have to retain this female friendship. Right. It's so important to me. Or yeah. It doesn't matter. Oh, like one of my best friends in college, Aaron, this girl. And Aaron, great friend of mine, but like also became friends with Catherine.

So like when Aaron comes to town, she's like, hey, can I come see you guys? And it's not like, hey, Brad, can I hang out with you? And yeah, if Catherine's there, I was okay, I guess. You know, it's like, they've become friends to the point where like they text without me, you know, all that kind of stuff. So do you have any conspiracy theories or rabbit holes you've gone down lately? Twitter tries to feed me a half of a rabbit hole every other day. Let's see.

Sorry, I'm running late. I was down half a hole. This isn't that much of a conspiracy, but it's very interesting, this whole thing with KU's best basketball player they have right now and how he's like just mysteriously getting cramps. That's like the narrative that they keep saying, but it totally seems like he's just at KU

because he can't go straight to the NBA, but they can't just say that. But like, if they publicly, like, criticize him for it, then they're not going to get the best recruits in the future because they're going to be, well, they don't care as much about their future. They just care about them. They don't want to say they're doing load management for college freshman, which is weird.

Like, he just dominates for a half. And then all of a sudden he just sits there with like these, like, warmers on his legs because he's having cramps. It's like, what? And then the next game, he can play the whole game. It's like, what's going on? So I don't know. It's kind of an interesting, like, thing to, you know, whatever.

speculating about that. Rachel and I were at Billy's grocery about a week ago. Great spot, Kansas. I think you voiced me to me. You're like, dude, I just saw your Billy's grocery. Almost went in there. It's a great spot. If you guys want to, you know.

Great neighborhood. Great neighborhood. A lot of dogs. Yeah, beautiful. People don't wave at you. This is not the Billy's grocery where my laptop was stolen by pajama pants girl. This is a different part of town.

That was in Missouri. This is in Kansas. Better part of town. Anyway. Whoa. Choked on my own spit. I coughed it up. I got it back my eyes of water a bit, but we're back.

Ooh. I got to tell off for a series. Rosie would have done, dude. Oh, my. Holy cow. So how was Billy's? A fan came up. I'm saying, what's up?

Super normal, super great. This was like right before winter storm fern hit. And it's funny that we went down this path with just a stranger who likes the pickleball content. But one thing led to another, and she was like, oh, yeah, I mean my husband of this conspiracy theory. We think the local weather, like the local news outlets are in on all this with the grocery stores. And I was like, I've never heard this conspiracy theory. I kind of like it.

Like, over amplifying the severity of winter storms so that people go buy all this milk and buy all this bread and buy all this peanut butter and all this stuff. And it wipes the supermarkets out every time the newscasters say, you better stock up. Yeah. do you ever do you ever see those things that people are like do you know like like if you just trace everything back to like they're all owned by five different yes like uh yeah time warner yep and uh viacom sure like whatever like all the all the networks are all owned by the same people who also are like a shell come or whatever that is for they all own all the grocery stores or own this or own this bank or whatever yeah even just in pickleball i i remember across my mind a little bit ago is like

why is carvana the title sponsor for every single ppa event I've ever seen. Like, there's no way they're recouping that money. Sure enough, president of this, on the board of that. Oh, okay. This is not a real sponsor then. They're not paying anything to do this. It just looks good. Yeah. Yeah, it's all a wash. It's all. It's all fake. It's all. Yeah, it's all fake. So, yeah, the news is owned by big grocery. Conspiracy theory. I'm trying to think of other ones that are fun and not just like. Timon, you got a rabbit hole? I don't think so. I feel like I'm surprised. I don't have an answer, but I think lately, hmm, I'll find one.

Maddie Oliver said, what game showed do you think you would have the best chance of winning? Winning. First thing comes to mind is family feud because you only have to beat one other team. Yeah, family feud? That's a great thought, dude. Because I feel like I win that like fast money every time. You'd be good at fast money. Yeah.

Who would you pick out of your family? You and four. Keep in mind, the females might get kissed on the lips. We don't know who the host is. Yeah, that's true. honestly, I'm just first reaction. Definitely not my dad. I love you dad.

I was thinking you would say something ridiculous. Me and a Jesse, maybe my mom. I think my mom would do great. Because it's like it's kind of pop culturey things. Right? Yeah. Sometimes it's like situated like name a time where you, you know,

or name somewhere that you would like to have a blanket. When you're cold in your living room. Stuff like that. Yeah. Okay. So, okay. Full transparency, you haven't seen much family feud. So I was kind of assuming it was a little more.

But still, I don't think is very many neat pop cultures. Yeah, what type of questions you'd like you would not trust your dad at? Let me look at some of these. All of them, dude. Well, I would trust my dad for the first two answers. You know how like... And then once it gets tougher, he's not going to come up with them. He would say like something ridiculous.

He'd be like, uh, when you're, when you're at a high school football game. Oh my gosh. My dad, the exact same thing. My dad would... And then you're like, coach to be like, good answer. Good answer. He would answer it so slowly, and it would not be on the board at all.

All right, I'm going to do some family feud questions, and you guys tell me what your dads would say. All right, love you, dad. Name something many kids seem hooked on. Oh, unfortunately, though, the top two answers are already on the board, which is cell phones and energy drinks. Okay, dads, you may buzz in.

Yes, name something kids might be hooked on. Dean Ellis. Tate players. Tate players in headphones. Let's check it out. Tate Players is not on there. Okay. Mish family.

Name something you made the kids seem hooked on. Yes, Brandon. Not paying enough attention driving. Not. They're hooked on it. They're hooked on not paying enough attention driving. That's not on there. Great answer, though.

Great answer. Good answer, Dad. Good try, Daddy. All right, round two. First, name things that are hot. The first three answers. are on the board, which is fire, an oven,

and stove. Ding, ding. Oh, yes, Brandon. Hell. Yeah! Great answer. Good answer, Dad. Oh, sorry, I'm your family. Ellis family.

Name some things that are hot. Dean, your turn. Fire. Oh, that's already on the board. Where? Oh, gosh. Number one, dang it. Thought I had a good one there.

Hell! Are you guessing or are you frustrated? Are you brainstorming? Ah, heck, let me think. That was funny. So you would have a female-led team for your family, you think? Catherine would do great at this. Yeah.

My mom would do great at this. My sisters would both be pretty good. My brother-in-law, Anthony, would kill it. Catherine's family would all, I think, I'm not going to be mean to them, so they would all do great at it. Yeah, but all the spots are already taken, though. Sorry, spots taken.

I might put Hattie in there, honestly. Sometimes. She knows things that are hot. We went to, I took Bo and Hattie out to Panera the other day just to get them out of the house when it was snowing. And I just found, like, I just looked up, we didn't have anything with us. We didn't have any games.

So I just looked up like kids games on, you know, apps on your phone. And there was one that was like the top five answers for this. Kind of like that. She did a good job for the most part. Like things that are sticky or something like that's fun. That's fun.

And kids would be better at that. Yeah. So I think she would do just fine. She would have a different perspective maybe. Yeah. Do well. That'd be good. And Steve Harvey would love her.

Thank you. She was great. Maddie Oliver, great question. If you, it's great. I'm trying to think of any other. Amazing race always seems like the most fun. Yeah. I mean, but your chances of winning her.

Wheel of Fortune. Seems. That's true. You only be two other people and most of them seem dumb. Also, so much of it depends on your spin. Your spins. And don't buy so many vowels, guys.

Fill in the blanks yourself. Yeah. Trying to think of other games like that. I don't know. I think those would be fun, though. I feel like I haven't watched Josh on the floor, to be honest. But I feel like the little I've watched on the floor, I'd be like, I can beat a lot of people at this.

Yeah. So. If I could find a way on Teen Jeopardy, I'd feel all right. Those questions aren't too bad. Yep. I've got to beat two people. Yep. You can pass for a teen.

Get growing this hair out. Speaking of a teen, maybe this last question, Anna Webster. One word. I'm going to redo her question. Okay. One piece of advice, you could tell your 16-year-old self

as a warning from current you. I need a piece of, yeah, just advice to your 16-year-old self. Let's see. I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've done things or the way I've treated people, but I think I would just like, I don't think there's a lot of emotional maturity or emotional intelligence in a teenage boy. And so I would just try to instill that a little bit, like, just know that like, not even just women, but just like people can be so sensitive.

So many people are going through things. Like I know you're nice. You're a good kid, but like continue to really empathize with what people might be going through or why they're weird or why they're, you know, doing that, you know, like be incredibly kind to every person. person you interact with because you are very fortunate with your family. Yeah, maybe so. That's a good word. I still understand that.

I think it was nice to the kids, but still I'm sure there was a lot I could have done better at. Yeah. I can't think of something. My advice I always give high school kids, like not really jokingly, but like just straight up as like, be nice to your mom. That's why I tell people all the time, like, be nice to your mom. Like, I feel like the older, like the older you get in high school, it's always like, the more you and your mom clash or whatever.

And my mom and I had a great relationship, but it did feel like senior year it was like, oh, it's time for, time for Brad to go to college now, you know, kind of thing. There are times where I was like, I should have been more forgiving of, you know, whatever, our relationship or something. So I asked your mom.

Bonus advice, like, hey, start looking into protein, fruits and vegetables. You're not going to know about these for another 15 years. Honestly, that's the word. The sooner the better. Yeah, just like, don't have nachos for lunch and vegetables. Try to get ripped now because it's going to be a lot easier to maintain it than to get there. Yeah. Start building healthy nutrition habits now. Yeah, that's a good word. I seriously, I didn't look at the, like, I didn't know what calories were until I was 33 years old.

That's crazy. That's too late. Not too late, but I mean, I would be nice if I looked, if I knew what that was earlier. Yeah, I heard you say that you've lost some weight just by eating better. Yeah. Like, yeah. It's great. Yeah, just no desserts. I'm not eating that many desserts. Maybe it just wasn't noticing of it. Yeah, I think I've lost like six pounds in January. That's awesome. Dang. Just playing pickleball and not eating cookies.

Yeah. Pickleball is a good. Good cardio. It's good. Yeah. About 1,000 calories in two hours. My watch doesn't really know what's talking about, but that's what it says. No, it does.

You don't know. Cool. Those are great questions. Thanks for some video ghosties. Come through. I mean, we literally like asked it five minutes. we were going to record and they still provide all that. So that's so fun. Win of the week. Win and comment of the week. I'm going to do my win of the week. It's a,

not retroactive. It's a, like I'm, I'm, somebody else's win is my win. Can I say that? My buddy Jordan Algy, ghosty, listener to the podcast called me yesterday and he is also in some really good healthy habits right now and has lost a ton of weight. That's awesome. I was proud of him and just wanted to shout out to him and just say, keep going, brother. Yeah, he's just, he's doing carnival. and just killing it, he said. He's just like, really?

Yeah, meat and eggs and just, no carbs and just, yeah, just doing really well. So he's, yeah, he's well on his way to his goal for the end of the year, and it's just awesome.

So keep going. Keep going. It's motivating. It's really cool. It was motivating. Yeah, I was like, good for you, man. I need to get even better.

I've been trying to stay on my streak. I haven't broken a streak yet. I forgot to tell you, like last week when it was like real cold outside, I was up early and I saw you get after a walk. Did you? It's like, dang,

Really. Yeah, it's probably just like 7 a.m. I mean, there's a few times where I've gone real early and it was like, this is dumb. Why didn't I wait for the sun to come out? Is there part of you that wants to like jog a little bit just to heat up? Like I would get like mad. I'm scared to jog in the ice like in the snow. You have no footing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The other day I was going downhill and I was like it's like almost it was easier to jog than to walk because it was like I'm putting so much pressure to like to stop. Some of those hills are so steep. So. Anyway, yeah. Yeah, that's funny that you saw me. Yeah, a few times. Like, before Bow's 8 o'clock game, I went out and did a walk at like 5.30. It was awesome. It was also so cold.

Like, literally, literally, I think I had six layers on, like, my top. Like, I had so many shirts and jackets and stuff. But it's like, I'm not going to be cold. That's not going to be the reason I'm going to not do this. I want to say early last year, when Mikel lost, like, 50 years, 75 pounds or something, he would just go on like, I don't know what he was doing nutrition-wise exactly, but he was just like going on two walks a day. Dude, I think that's such a hack.

Yeah. Because like you're raising your cardio level, like your heart rate. And if you do it for a sustained period, it's so good. It's so good for you. Even post meals was supposed to be pretty good for you. Gun health, fart walk, you know. That's right. It's good.

I got to win. Great, if I may. Went down to Georgia to hang out with some friends at the church on there and see John Van Dusen, Jorgen. Van Dusen, John. How was that? It was really good. He was just the opener for...

And like... Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that. And but then like... There's anything wrong with that. Came back at the end. Like with the... There were two openers.

Came back with them and like they all did songs together. It was Jess Ray, John Van Dusen, Taylor Armstrong. If anyone knows. They're a pretty small Christian artist. But he was just... I mentioned something about solo with just a guitar. He was incredible with like just that. It was great.

And like a couple pedals. to like some songs needed some electric guitar sound like so it made the it made the acoustic sound electric it was great it was he was so good it's fun when you find a guy like that's like he's my guy yeah not everyone knows him yet like he's not just big name yeah but he's my guy yeah and it's like when i can be an even bigger fan now it's like he's just he's super great live sometime i'm gonna see him with it like full band hopefully that'd be sweet and it's just like yeah i'm just in a in a state of life where i'm just blazing this guy to everybody. Yeah. Like, I, even, yeah, just so much variety.

Like, he has this one album that's like Anthem Sprinter that's just all, basically all just like, harder rock, but it's all so good. Then he's got like,

his most recent album. It's just like all like beautiful, worshipful, like, check him out. Dude, I got it. You're,

you're, the more continuously passionate you are, the more I'm like, all right, you must be really good. And yeah, and I'm sorry if, if,

if you check him out out there and you don't like him. But don't be sorry. I do. That's okay. Van Diversity. Yeah. So that was great.

That's a big win. I think my win is going to be, you know, secondhand win. Just all, everything that I have heard from the boys going to Asia just sounds just so. I think they had a blast for a business standpoint. I think they did a lot of really helpful things for us. I'm thankful that they kind of took the burden of the long flights and a long travel. Got a lot of stuff figured out in China because there was an aspect of like, all right, we took a massive swing on this new paddle.

It took us forever. It took us way too long to develop it. We probably spent too much time. Made sure it's perfect. They're finally here. Oh, boy. These don't play how they were supposed to. Did all, you know, are all of these bad?

What happened? They went there. They solved it. We're going to be good. We're going to be fine. Yes. And then, yeah, it sounds like Malaysia, which is insane.

And they have a big fan base there. So very pumped for the boy. and can't wait to see them soon. chat with him. And we'll have them on next week too. Yeah, that'll be awesome. That'll be electric. And then I've got a comment here to share it.

J.D. Kola Kooliganski. Kala Kahliginsky. What level of sponsorship? What major racers have to hit for you guys to change the name of the podcast to Main Street Ghosters? Oh, you know that? Do you know what this? I've been like talking to them like, we need to do merch. We need to collab on merch.

Oh, yeah. Like have the fans of both. That's a stepping stone. That's great. So it's coming. Yeah. The merch is coming. Kalaginski, it's on its way.

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Man. Bonus comment, Danny Parker, did not realize how much I miss Monday jingles until I heard that beat drop. Right. Oh, that one sucked. Thanks, though.

Man. Don't say sucked. Sorry, you're right, actually. Jonas, I'm sorry. Don't say that. Bonus comment from Neil. Loved the impersonations of Ty Pinnington and Tyman's Trump impersonation.

Definitely need more impressions. Good job, guys. We had Scott on to do the Christopher Woggin impression. That was very good. Jake Scott. said, Boone rectangle is Benson Boone's side project making math songs for kids. That's nice.

That's good. Those beautiful shapes that I've drawn. Square! There's only one comment about this. Log 1162 said, wow, this hair we've seen from Jake. That's the only one that I think I've seen, though. That's crazy. Huh.

You saw a hair comment about me? Uh-huh. Well, thanks for passing that along, but. Nothing on the Facebook group. That's it. Wait. Oh, here's, no. No, no, never mind. It was the one. It was the air, like H-E-I-R, like the air apparel. Oh, cool. Yeah, I'll pass this down.

It's a syndrome. Yeah, the genetics. That's how it works. Yeah. Anyway, lots of fun comment. I didn't. That's my comment on the week. So support Main Street Roasters, please. We are, we are sponsored by them. We're presented by them. We love them. Yeah, once again, go to their website. Did we do the theme song this episode? Yeah. Cool. surely. It will be in it. I'll find it. I'll find it. Yeah, did. Did we ever have like a breaking point? Yeah, I think we did. I don't know if we did. Yeah, we did. We could put it in right now.

This was the intro. Dude, dude, let's get into it. I'm a big fan of how I met your mother. And there was a few times where like they didn't like hit the theme song until I don't know how long. It felt like 10 minutes or more. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of funny. So we're just trying to do that. Last thing I'll say about TV shows, I love Seinfeld. Rachel, I've been watching a lot. We finished it all. So we just start over again. I don't think I've ever seen seasons one and two of Seinfeld.

Have you? Oh, really? Not good. I guess I've seen a few of them. And yeah, it's like awkwardly different. Yeah, it is. I had no idea to start off. I'm like, how did they get renewed?

This is so slow. It's filmed poorly. Thank goodness they got renewed because it got so much better. But yeah, it's a rough start. I didn't, I had no idea. So, gosh, I got some. Yeah, what are you doing? I thought you were winking at me.

I thought you were flirting with time. Yeah, you watch some Seinfeld Rachel, huh? I don't know. No, like, I'm not a Seinfeld officinato. So I should not start seasons one and two. Because I, when you mention that thing about the episode with George and real life Frogger, I was like, that's hilarious. There's so many things like that that people will reference.

I'm like, I should try to like just watch more Seinfeld, like be more intentional about it. Like, where would you start then? I don't really have to start anywhere. I think season three, it's like when it's like the normal sign film that everyone knows and, you know, is familiar with. I think it's season three when it started.

But yeah, we're just like painstaking, making our way through it right now. It's like, wow. Because the nice thing about it is like you can start wherever without having like this. Very little running threads. Yeah.

Yeah. But then again, it's like, it would be kind of nice to actually like just intentionally start. Because that's why I haven't watched more. It's because like, I'll just pick an episode and watch it, I guess. I'll pick another one.

So. Yeah, it's so good. You know, it was funny. It started last week. I accidentally called Scott George on the podcast. And I didn't even tell Rachel that, but as we've been watching it, she was like, you are Jerry, Scott is George, and Isaac is Kramer. She's like, you guys have to do a video. Isaac is so Kramer.

Scott is so George. Built like Kramer. Yeah. That's great. And so somehow we need to do a spoof. Probably not a full 20 minute episode, but it would be great to do a little spoof of that. Oh, man. That would be fun.

George's character is so good. I have like the clap track when Isaac comes into the room through the door. Just busting in. Yeah. That's good. I feel like Seinfeld is going to be, or the office is our version of Seinfeld where it's like, we're going to quote that to kids who are 15. Like when Hattie is 15, we're going to quote that to them.

And she's going to be like, I don't know the office. Yeah. I feel like people that are 45 love to be like, you know, that's like that thing in Seinfeld like this. What's his name in math? She always said that thing. Come on, I know you know it. Alan Alda, right? No, I've really seen it.

You haven't really seen Match? You don't know the thing? Everyone's seen MASH. Yeah, it feels like they always are referencing Seinfeld. And I have to just play along. I think I remember, yeah. Remember that office episode where the, you know, that Scott's Tots thing? Totally.

Yeah. Yes, that was so funny. Yeah, they got laptop batteries. Batteries aren't even, like, aren't even required on laptops anymore. All right. That has been the intro to this episode. All right. roll the theme music and then roll the outro music. Love you guys.

See ya.