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Episode Date: February 16, 2026

Timon has gone viral, Jake had a stand up show in KC with Trey, Brad does a new segment called 'I'm not sexist but I have opinions,' and everyone shares their Super Bowl thoughts. Check out Cozy Earth and get 20% off site wide with this link: http://www.cozyearth.com/ghostrunners Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yeah. I love that. Good morning. Happy Monday. Ghosties. It's a great day here in Kansas. And I don't know if you saw the Boise's Star. No.

Tell me. Harmonizing with the air compressor. To the moon. Really? For some reason? Yeah. To the moon. It's my second most viral reel of all time.

Let me. You need to try. Harmonizing with the. air compressor. So the most. I'll go ahead and aim low, because it's always more fun to aim low and be impressed. Great. What, like 50,000 views? Dude, even more.

75,000 views? I feel like it's almost even a little bit more. 50,000 likes. 50,000 likes. It actually is almost 50,000 likes. Yeah. Wild. How many views time? I think it's 375,000. Wow, dude. Kind of crazy. That's pretty fun. And it is like,

yet again, it's, it feels like it's always the low effort thing that goes like I just happened to be in my dad's warehouse. I was like, this kind of fun. I guess I'll post this. I don't know. I got views. It still doesn't mean, it still doesn't mean anything because I'm not making any money or nothing's happening. No, no, no, no, no. It means fun. You're going to be on Ellen any day now, buddy. Yeah, you're right. What do you say to people who say, Tyman, this was great, but you don't want to be a one-hit wonder, what's next? I'm thinking toothbrush is next. Electric toothbrush. That's next on the Yeah. Okay.

Good. After that, anything is possible, I think. Because, yeah, toothbrush, toothbrush will double this in views. And then it'll kind of be like, you know, exponential. Okay, okay. What if, though? What if you make zero dollars for the next year? Yeah.

But you're consistently getting over two million views per video. Would you continue to just be like, I got to keep doing this? Like, you go like, honestly. go like some commercial buildings roof and find their air conditioner, they're like, uh, uh,

this is my life now. This is what I do. The exasperated side is like, yeah, all right. Yeah, because eventually the company who's air compressor I'm recording,

they'll want to put their logo in it. Like, that's true. We have our logo on our compressor. Yeah. Get that in there. Yeah. Harmonized with our stuff.

Our stuff. Yeah. Our electric toothbrush in F sharp, most aren't. Like, it's a new opportunity. Like, you're like the Charlie Puth of, yeah. Charlie Puth-Rush. Yeah, oh my gosh, dude.

You don't think. Charlie Pooth, brush. I can just see him do that thing where you just like, he just knows every single note. Oh, yeah, that right there is this note. It's crazy. So you're going to do that. I saw him doing a thing for the NFL.

Super Bowl. Yeah. Think, was that the joke? No, no, it wasn't a joke. But yeah, like they would just, show him like, you know. He would sing the national anthem. That's what I thought you were going to go with it. I saw him do this thing for the NFL. So like the beginning of every game, they sing a song for the big planes. They played him audio of like football things and he would tell you what like note it was.

So like a football hitting the crossbar, a doink. He was like, whoa, that's like an 808. So I mean, I guess that's this. Oh, cool. And then they would play like a referee blowing the whistle. Yeah. He's like, that's actually two notes. That's why you kind of don't like the whistle. That's why you don't like a fire alarm because it's two notes at once. And then they played him, Dak Prescott doing his cadence. Here we go. He's like,

oh, I don't like that. A lot of minor court. I don't like that. Yeah. Yeah, he was like, why is saying, here we go like that? Why is he not excited?

That was pretty good video. He's actually not excited. He's been struggling, you know, but he's kind of in hell and Dallas. So there's that. What are you going to do now, timing?

You're thinking toothbrush? Yeah. I'm, I can't think of many other. It's like, is there a car that kind of idols like in a loud enough. Oh, there's tons,

you can do tons of different cars. You can do like a diesel. You can do like a, you can do a nice 18 wheeler. Like an electric car or a hybrid card that's in reverse. Those make a nice tone.

Like an angelic, ethereal tone. And you have to go to the driveway. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Great. I know what I'm doing after this.

What do you say to people who say, this is the end of the road for you. You'll never go viral again. Unfollow me. Oh. Get your hate out of my, this is my thing now.

Yeah. No, I want to go back to what phrase you were going to say. Get your hay out of my comments. Get your hate out of my, hate. What'd you think I said? Hey. Hey. Hey. I thought it was like some farm reference. Stop making hay in my comments. Yeah, I thought I was like, get your hay out of my bar. Get your hay out of my sickle, bro. Yeah. I was like, oh, come on, give me the farm. That should have been the phrase. Don't stop yourself. I never heard of hate. Get your hay out of, well, you know, I'm just saying like, you know, follow me. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa. Come on. That might go bar right there.

Get your hay out of my theme song as we play. As we play. it now. Five, six, seven, eight. Uh, uh, oh, oh, I think this tight 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 spot down. Oh, man. That's pretty exciting though. Yeah. Does it go viral right away? Or does it like, sometimes it takes time? It's been of a slow burn because I posted it, I think at least a week ago or something like that. Have you gotten any hateful, get your hate out of my comments?

Have you gotten some like, what do we waste our time on in this generation? I don't think anyone that I've noticed has been mowing hay in my comments. Mowing hay. Hey, you've been mowing lately? Yeah, just hey. I thought for sure I would have the top comment because as soon as he posted it, I left kind of funny comment. I'm getting, you know, hey, a thousand people like your comment. and all these music nerds, they're bailing hay in his comments, and so they're taking over. Oh, that F major, dude,

I can't compete with these comments. I don't know what you're talking about. You know what you should do. You wouldn't necessarily get the top comment, but you get the most engaged comment is if you're like, oh, that A flat, and they'd be like, that's not A flat. It's not even close to A flat.

Oh, that would be good. Just troll the music guys. Yeah, a lot of people, a lot of ghosties in there too. Well, it's great. Making hay. That's fun. Yeah.

Congrats, Tom. Thanks. What is just good, Dobamine. Like, every time I open Instagram, like 30 new comments. Yeah. Yeah, it says 99 likes every time you open Instagram. That's kind of nice.

Wow. Fun. I have been up to cleaning up puke from my son's bed. Why was there puke in his bed? Because he put stuff in his stomach earlier that night and decided, what's that doing there? Okay. It should go on my pillow.

and on my bedspread and on like seven of my stuffed animals. I just throw it all away. I'd buy a new house. You know, there's thoughts. Once it gets on to like more than two things, it goes pillow, bedspread and some stuff, just burn it, sell it. Yeah.

He would notice. He would be like, hey, where's my Jayhawk? Jayhawk's been compromised, Beau. Yeah, this Friday night was a rough. night he woke up he came out of his room and he's just he had throw up on his and like oh buddy no and then he like started showing signs of like the appendix thing again oh really and so then it was like oh he's not just like got a stomach ache maybe he's got like you know you know then all are this like goes through our head of like we got to be we got to be extra careful we don't know about you know so i'm chat gpt

in which katherine just loves you know she loves what i just consult AI on this stuff you guys motherly intuition no no no chat says this But we did take him into the urgent care at like midnight that night. And just like just in case like emergency kind of thing and kind of crazy. Didn't have any appendix issues, but they tested him for strep. Okay. Complete the sentence. Strep blank.

Strap. Throat. Strap throat, right? Yeah. I guess apparently there's also like sometimes you can just be like a stomach issue. Like he had no throat issues. Like he had. Okay.

Nothing in his throat, but he had strep. Because strep is short for something, right? It's probably short for some virus. Strepichurie. Strepola caucus. Yeah, it is. Yeah. So I don't know exactly how it happened or whatever, but he's fine.

Like he was totally fine within 12 hours. Like he just didn't find. But because of that, it kind of threw off our weekend. We didn't have his basketball game anymore. Oh, dude. But we had a basketball game Friday for Haddy. I might be done coaching. This is it.

It was bad, dude. it was bad. And like, we couldn't wrangle the girls or what? No, man. We've been practicing something called motion offense timing. Good for you guys.

Yeah. Is it though? Because after five games, literally, literally my friend who's the head coach, he's like, and he has a great voice. He's like,

so backstory of my friend that's a head coach. He married this woman who is from San Diego. Hubba, hubba. She is. She's a great looking gal. She looks like she's from California. She is. She is, she is a piece of bubble gum. She, but, and she's like blonde and she,

Haba, haba. She is the stereotypical, at least to Kansas people, the stereotypical California person. Okay. In the sense of like, they get to church 15 minutes late and there's not a, an ounce of hurry to their step. They're just, hey, how you doing? Here we go. We're here. You know, that's how he talks. He's like, I was your weekend. You have a good. And it's like, that's great until you try to yell at a bunch of, you know, third grade girls in a gym with a hundred other people. Pass and screen away. Pass and screen away. So we're going to run the motion offense. You know, we're going to, you know, whatever. But after the fourth or fifth game, whatever this was, practice last night, he just goes, hey, you know that offense I've been working on for the last six weeks.

It's dead. We're not doing it anymore. All right. So, anyway, we got whooped. did the score, like the scoreboard on us where like after they're up by 25 points or whatever, it's like, kind of cover this. Just don't, we just won't, we just won't add any more points to the other team. It's fine. And so, uh, it was frustrating. And the girl, the, it's fine to lose. I'm fine losing.

I'm fine. Except I've lost plenty of times in my life. I do not like it when the girls just don't care. It's like, you got to feel it a little bit. You got to know that you lost and you got to know you're a loser and you got to try harder next time. Like, they didn't have any care in the world. They were running around a half time. just being silly and tickling each other. And I'm like, stop tickling each other. Listen to coach. So anyway, it was bad.

And I don't think I hit it very well. My body language on the sideline of how I was very frustrated with the girls. But the other coach was tickling you and you just weren't even laughing. Like, stop, dude. I'm only ticklish on my toes. Don't take off my shoes. All right. Anyway, but our weekend was derailed after Bo got sick.

And so he didn't go to his game. I didn't go coach. But we did, win of the week was watching Air Bud as a family for the first time. That's fun. Great time. Yeah, you have some pudding cups afterwards?

We should have. Catherine was like, oh, those snack packs look so good. Yeah, they always look so good. In that movie? You ever seen that movie time? No? Do you know what it's about?

Yeah. Dog playing. Oh, I think there's a bunch of them. But I feel like original is basketball. Yes. Okay. Dog playing ball. It's awesome.

It's awesome. Yeah, first one's solid from what I remember. I don't know if I ever saw the other ones. Oh, yeah, the clown. There was a few times where I was like, hey, he's going to be mean. All right. I had to, like, warn him. He's going to be a mean guy.

He's not going to tickle anybody. He's not one of those clowns. Yeah, anyway, but it was awesome. I mean, I probably saw that movie twice ever, and that was, you know, 30 years ago. And I still remember he's over there with his newspaper. Come on. Come on. Blue.

Come on, Blue. His name's Buddy. Buddy, please. Please. And I do the thing, dude. I've talked about it once already on here. And I cannot help myself. It drives Catherine crazy.

But I have to, like, narrate how the kids should be reacting to things. Like, like, he's upset. So they get a new coach. Yeah, they get a new coach halfway through the season. It's this old black guy that used to be a professional NBA player. Hey, what's going on? Hey, what's going on? I used to be a janitor.

Now I'm your coach. And for the first practice, they don't even use a ball. They're just dribbling. Yeah, Coach Carter style. And then all of a sudden, the next. game, they're passing wonderfully. And I just have to be like, I can't help myself. I'm like, do you see that?

They're better at passing now. I can't help it. Or like, you know, they'll be like, hey, do you know who's going to replace the old coach? I'll be like, oh, sounds like the old coach got, you know, fired or something. And then, yeah, the very end when the dog chooses Josh, I'm like, yes. I just can't. I want them to have like the positive feelings that I have. for that. I'm like too scared that you don't understand. I have to explain everything.

Yeah, you're like an emotional interpreter. Yes. Let me kind of explain to you how to feel and what he's feeling. And I think it's, I think it's more for Bo and Rosie. Like, Haddy, I think I can trust her to understand what's going on. But yeah, anyway, it was, it's a great movie though, man. It's amazing. That dog just all of a sudden just plays in the championship and wins. And dog can hope. Come on. You never got to see the dog on defense too much from what I remember. But he still a few times. But yeah, he didn't shuffle his feet very well. Yeah, I didn't see a lot of defensive. I don't remember. him dribbling much.

Yeah, when he tossing that ball, you'd boink it in the hoop. Pretty good. He was boinkin. So air boink. Air boink. That's fun that you watch that. Yeah.

Watch so many old movies probably. You know, and Hattie is like so conditioned by Catherine to be like, you know, Dad, the best movies are the ones that were made a long time ago. Like she even, like, we had like an argument about the other day.

And I was like, hey, there's some really good movies from my childhood, too. it's not just like in the, if they're in black and white. Like she loves, you know who Haley Mills is? No.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Actress back in the day. Pollyanna. Parenthrap. Yeah, all these like old movies. Classic.

And he's like, my favorite actress is Haley Mills. I'm like, I need to introduce you to Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Or, you know, whatever. There's some great 90s movies.

So when we show her airbud and she loves it. I'm like, it's, once again, it's hard for me not to be like, I told you. What do you think of color TV?

Pretty nice. Exactly. So, anyway, yeah, it's been, it's a chill weekend. We watched the Super Bowl with some friends, but that was about it, um, beyond just time with family. So do you actually think you're going to be done coaching? No. When the season's over?

I don't know, dude. Because last, so last night, last night was, uh, you know, our practice night. No, I don't. I probably won't. I might only do one, uh, team or I don't know. We'll see. Um, but it's getting to the point in the season where the kids are getting comfortable. And so the practice.

are worse. It's like when you're campers at camp, they stay, you know, it's the very end of the term and they're getting pretty comfy. It's like, oh, I know that I can do this. And he might get a little mad, but like, he's not going to do that much. He's not my dad. And so last night, it's just getting increasingly to the point where I'm getting frustrated at the kids. Last night, my other two coaches, one of them never, like he, he works a corporate job in our practice starts at five, so he can't get there to like 535. And so he's like never really there. And then the other guy, his kid was six so he was staying home. So it was me by myself. And I got fresh. I mean, I was, I don't know if I was visibly frustrated, but I was internally like, this is,

this is really hard. This is, I don't like, like, everything that you do for these kids. You have to like, like, do you remember as a kid. You probably do. I or do at least remember like being like moved by my shoulders like go places. Do you remember that? Like when you're doing drills or like, okay, Brad, you're going to go over here. Come on. Go over here. And I would always be like, gosh, that guy's kind of forceful. it's because kids don't understand anything. Like I'm like, all right, make two lines. You go, you, you four, like stand behind Bo and you four stand behind James.

They can't do that. And it's like, just stand behind. I'm like, okay. And I'm like having to move them or it's like, let's make a tunnel like where we were going to pass back and forth. And yeah, these kids were just not doing it right. And I was like, okay, it's fine. This is fine.

They're having fun. Sometimes I know is that even an adult. I don't know if you guys see this, but like when it's like, actually before we get going, let's take like a group photo. And then seeing where other adults choose to stand for the group photo, I'm like, what is wrong with you? Really? I mean, you kind of see the line that we've started a forum and then you thought

there's a good spot. Do you think I have a thousand dollar lens on this camera? I mean, that doesn't make sense where you're standing. Yeah. Why would we look that way? We know she's taking the picture. Right. Oh, yeah.

So I will say, and this woman probably will never, no, never hear this, but there's a woman that was a mom on the, like a team on the other court. As she was leaving last night, she's like, I just want to say, you're a really good coach. That's what I did. I started doing that. I, but I was, she was like, you were, you were doing such a good job of teaching them. And I heard you doing this and that. And I was like, honestly, I was like, I needed that encouragement, you know. Thank you. I was about to shove one of them down. I didn't shove anybody down. I did. Tell me some different things that I should have. have done instead of these, well, or alternatives to this, because I can change it up every week.

For punishment, at some point last night, I had kids running laps. You know, we were about to do dribble drills, and I said, you guys had to hold the balls, and if not, then I'll take your ball away. And at one point, I had a ball already in my hand, and I said that. At one point, let's call it 28 seconds later, I had four balls in my hand. Okay. While I'm trying to teach a drill. So probably not the greatest, like, so remember, you want to dribble, yeah.

Go over there. to the wing. Yeah. Go over there. Over there. Yeah. They're like, following them.

I, at one point, like, we were doing shooting drills from the two different blocks, like right by the basket. And if the kids acted up, I was just like, just go sit at the top of the key

and sit down on the floor. Sit down on the ground. Just go sit on the floor. Yeah. And watch everybody else do this because you're not listening. And I had them run laps. I had them just go sit on the chair.

Bo, Bo is the one. I hope that people know that Bo is my kid. Because if not, they're going to be like, that coach might be a little bit too harsh. Yeah. That's good though.

That's the, if you're going to go one way, that's the way to do it. I, and this one, hand up, I don't think it's too far, but I think it's very borderline.

So please judge me as you will and tell me if I'm borderline. We were doing drills where I was passing the ball on the block and they would shoot it. And if it was their turn and they weren't looking every once in a while, I just passed it to them anyway.

Yeah. And then if they didn't catch it, I'll go, oh, you lost your turn, go in the back of the line. What do you think? I didn't throw it, Yeah, I was going to say, no, I think that's fine.

Right? I think that's how you like... I mean, depending on what their behavior has been up to that point when like a harsh word isn't getting the job done, maybe they need to... Their behavior corrected with a little like, oh man, I lost my turn. And to be fair, it wasn't ever. Hudson.

Hudson's... If Hudson's a little bit like, hey, hey, Hudson, here you go. But if, you know, some of the other ones... They were there tickling. They have said something to you six times. What else do you need? You've already sat out. How do you think a kindergartner

boy would favor with some wall sits. Could you make him go do that? Great idea. Great idea. I thought about doing wall sits. I thought about doing it. We call them down and backs. We don't, you know, we don't, yeah. Did you try planks?

No, I should. I think all the endurance stuff. That's miserable. Here's the deal with planks is that I would have to, uh, show them how to do the plank first. Just come on. Just like, just do the, you know, planks.

Put your position. Just whatever you think a plank is. Like walk the plank and Peter Pan. Yep. So somebody's going to have to step on you. I'm going to step on you. Yeah. That's what a plank is. I did sweat a lot again last night, just like I did the first.

Is every parent watching you coach their kid? No, I don't think so. I think most of the parents are there, but a lot of them have headphones in. Some of them have their computer. Some of them will watch, you know, sporadically or something. But I don't think their kid, I don't think they're, I think it's like, hey, it's an hour off. I'm chilling. Yeah.

So. But yeah. Planks would be good. It made pushups. Have you considered going into practice one of these weeks in character? Oh, now we're talking. Like in a Kansas Jayhawks suit or in a Harlem Globetrotter suit. Or even just like a ridiculous skit character.

I haven't yet. Could be the mid-season boost they need. Pick me up that we need. Yeah. Ricky Bobby. No. Hey, guys. I'm cheeseburger.

It's me. Yeah, I just have a massive hot dog suit on. Hey! I'm Hot Dog Larry. That's your name. They would love it. They'd remember it. I guarantee you that.

Be a memory maker. But no, it's fun. My name's Boone Rectangle. Me, B-reck. But, yeah. What are you been up to? I wrote down Pizza Slicer.

Great invention. Great invention. What else are you using a knife? I'm surprised we don't call it like a circle knife. Circle knife. Knife circle. Because that's what it is.

They took the knife and they made it an entire wheel. Didn't get talked about enough. Very underrated invention. Yeah, it's like a mini saw. Yeah, analog saw. Yeah. Just a nice. I just, I like a good pizza slicer.

Is that the only thing that you can really do with it? Maybe that's why it doesn't get talked about more. Yeah, you're not, maybe bread. I feel like sure that you could. Like a pan of brownies or something. Couldn't you use that for that? Pana browns? Dude, great call. Why not?

Panda Brown. Yeah. But you want to... Boy? What's up, boys? What's up, Isaac? What's up, dude? Hey.

Hey. Good to see, man. Good to see, man. Excited to record with this? Oh, I'm so excited. All right now right now. Thank you. DJI mics.

Oh, Coley's in the house. Wow. What's up, dude? All right. See you, man. Have fun, boys. stuff X stuff X

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Probably gets a job done Yeah Here's a Irrationalally strong opinion I think you're going to like Well I'll just start with the opinion Is that my Google Maps ETA shouldn't get faster

when I make a wrong turn. Oh, sure. You know what I'm saying? Absolutely. Where it's like, this thing is programmed to get me there as fast as possible. Is it? And I choose to take a ride on Kovira instead of Neiman.

And then goes, oh, it bumped up a minute. I go, you should have known that. Dude. Don't wait on me to make those decisions for you. Let's go back. Is it truly there to like make it as fast as possible? Or is it there to like make traffic as good as possible for everybody else? I know.

I know this is a theory of yours. I have trouble kind of buying into this one. Yeah. See, I think there's something about like, oh, I don't know, you know, we're shooting some people this way. Let's shoot this guy. Because if not, why in the world wouldn't it know that unless it's like just computed like this is how it's going to work? This is the route you always take for this, you know? Because sometimes does it change up the route?

Yeah, sometimes. Yeah. Right, I think I'm up with you. Really? I might be on your side. I mean, based on this. Thanks for taking a strong stance on that time. Of course.

I think I may be. I think. I think, hey, I think maybe today. I think I think I think. I think I'm on Bradside. But yeah, it's like, if it is give it kind of like deceiving you into going a slightly slower way,

why is it, I mean, why not Brad's theory? You know? I think my theory is, Google Maps is just not that good down to like minuscule minutes. It can tell you the quickest way to get to San Francisco for sure and give you four different options with tolls without tolls, avoid highway, you know, whatever. A lot of programming involved.

But like it's a few. 15 minute drive. There is a path for me to get there in 14 minutes. And they don't even freaking care. Okay. Let me, let me, let me, you're on the, uh, whatever the two different sides of debate are. You're on the against debate, anti, defense attorney. I'm on the affirmative for, for Google, I'm defending Google Maps here.

Right? That's what we, okay, great. Great debaters. Offense and defense. We're masturbators. Um, I think that, well, Yeah. What if,

what if it's like, hey, yeah, you could technically shave one minute off of your time, but you're like zigzagging through a neighborhood.

That's probably not as good of a user experience for Google Maps users. Okay. Right? And it's like, because there's times where it's like,

yeah, I bet I could shave off, especially in rush hour cutting through here. And so I cut there myself, but I bet if your Google Maps is telling you to do that, some people are going to be like,

what in the world? I don't want to. I'm not doing all that. Why are they taking me this weird route through? Like, I was having to do like four-way stops in a neighborhood. I'm now coming around on your theory a little bit because it can't do this for every single person because they would cause traffic in these neighborhood areas, so to speak. Right. But yeah, I've just noticed it like every now and then you go to a certain spot from where we live where it actually wants you to go south on this road instead of, you know, out.

And I don't realize that. I've already backed out of the driveway. Oh, it wanted me to go that way. Oh, well. thing two minutes faster. I go, what the heck? Yeah, yeah. Oh, you got to tell me these things.

I don't, you shouldn't, yeah, I shouldn't tell them to you. Maybe, how hard is it to do both Google Maps and Apple Maps at the same time? Maybe, maybe Ways as well. Throw ways in there. Just go all of them. Maybe what, maybe old-fashioned map quest, just see what they would say. Bonus, piggybacking this, which I think backs up my theory of Google Maps sucking, is, we got to, we got to factor in trains.

Because where we live, it's, you have to cross a train to get on the highway often. And it does not know a train is there or a train is coming. It's like, I know you see eight cars using Google Maps backed up at this one spot. And you still think that's the way to go? You know, I'm stuck down to train. Also, they should probably have some kind of ability to have a train schedule. Exactly. Don't even rely on the cars.

Surely trains aren't just accidentally like, hey, I'm just going to go here. If no one else is there, cool. if somebody else is there, I'll just wait for you. I'd like to think the trains are on a schedule. You don't see traffic dams with trains? The train people could talk to the Google Maps people, and it could let us know when not to go there. Yeah, but then they'd have,

I guess they have to electronically submit that schedule. That would be kind of hard probably. That seems tricky this day and age. I bet they're not doing that already. Dude, uh, it drives me. I hate the anxiety of like, all right,

it wants me to go Johnson drive because it is a little faster. And I think, but I'm already kind of running late. What if there's a train? I think that six times a week. Yeah. I hate having a wonder if there's going to be a train.

train there. That's how growing up, there was a couple different train tracks on our way to church. It was always like, that was the excuse if you were late. It's like, sorry, I hit the train. You know? Really? I came out. Mine was like a weird. Just for a second. It was a fast one, but it was a flash train. It comes up. Yeah, let's keep, let's keep dogg on Google Maps. I wish it's not, it's not very easy to like, let's say I want to search advanced auto parts, whatever. And there's 16 options, 16 locations. It's like if I click on one of them,

like as I'm searching advanced auto parts, it's like here's the location. I click on that one. It's like, ah, that's not the one I want. I want to be able to go back and look at the list.

Yep. I know what you're saying. Yep. That's frustrating to me. Also, sometimes randomly does this happen to you where it's like, it thinks I'm in New Jersey or something?

Yep. How'd that happen? Yeah. I don't have anything on my phone. I don't think that's like indicating like VPNs or confusing anybody like that. I'm trying to think, what I searched recently where like the words weren't that crazy.

I don't know what I would have typed in, but like, paddle house is like, oh, I think there's a facility called paddle, you know, and it's like you want the one in, in upper New York, I bet. There is one. No, I'm here. Paddle House that's spelled without an E at the end that's seven minutes away, but you probably want the one in Brooklyn. But let's give you the one that you spelled.

You're going to love that one in Dumbo. You're probably on a flight there right now. We'll give you that one. also frustrating and this is I'll understand okay Google Maps for this one but it's still frustrating I like using Google Maps sometimes as a like a search engine

for like okay review engine go to a restaurant menu is this place good what's the menu yeah whatever and if I already have it put in there I cannot do that anymore let me let me have like two tabs open in Google Maps wait if I already have that put in there sorry if I have five advanced auto parts directions in my phone.

I can no longer go to Mainstreetroaster.com and figure out what kind of Panini I want for lunch. You can't have multiple tabs. Or I want to call Main Street Roasters or I want to whatever. It's like, I can't do that. While you're still navigating the advanced auto parts.

Right. That's a good one. That one's frustrating to me. I think it's a little too tricky and they've gotten a little bit over the years to like search along the route. That is like now kind of a function, but it's still not how I'd like it to be.

You know, like, hey, I need to go. I need to go home and I need to go to the Midland Theater because it's a Saturday. I'm pretty freaking stressed out about what I have to do. But I need to eat lunch at some point. Help me. Help me figure out the best way to do this. Lunch along the way.

Lunch along the way. Fast food drive-through hurry. I need fast. Yeah. One other quick critique on Google Maps, unless you have more. My son, Bo, is frustrated that the 3D map is not live. you know like not the 3D map but like the the satellite map where you can like see all the oh when you can like see grass and stuff like satellite version yeah oh that those those people

down the road I didn't even know they had a swimming pool look at that uh he's like dad it's night time why is it day on the map he doesn't like that he's frustrated he's like he's like why can we see our car on the map it's like well it's not like they're just watching us all the time or are they i 3d map i'll tell you who does do that is apple maps okay they do 3D especially in like downtown areas. They'll give you exactly what the buildings look like. Oh, that's good. Okay. Do we need that? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what the benefit is of like saying like, whoa, that's the Tim Oval Center. And that building next to it's taller than it. And that building next to it's taller than that. Who would have thought? Okay, I don't, I need to find parking. I don't care how tall the buildings are.

That's a good point. Yeah, I'm still, I'm still ultimately as much as I complained about Google Maps. I'm a Google Maps guy. Yeah. But there's there's ways to make it better. There was like 2% of me, for whatever reason, an Apple music commercial, probably something around the Super Bowl, that they were like, try it out, 90 days free, take your playlist with you. There was 2% of me that was like, can you do that? I wonder what it's like. I didn't know you could take your playlist with you.

I think they figured out a way to do that now. It's got to be helping migrate people over. Really? That's kind of the new advertising and messaging is take your playlist with you. With my recent, you know, shortcomings with DJX. I wonder what Apple's got. Yeah, does Apple have some AI? 98% of me is taking him as Spotify, though.

Apple has, you know, Mike Tyson on there. Hey, what's going on? Sabrina Coppenter. Miley, Thyron. That's pretty good. Dude, I gave DJX one last shot, and I kid you not, I should have filmed myself. He played I Just Might by Bruno Mars.

And I was like, what do you guys have going on together? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like this song. I was, but I did skip it. So I was like, I don't, I'm guessing the algorithms now, no, like, retention and watch time. So I'm like, I'm going to skip it so you don't, so you think I don't like that song anymore. Yes.

Do better. What is, where are your songs like that time? Mine are, Ring the bells by Johnny Swim. They want me to, they want to listen to that one every time. Ring the bell. That's good. I'm just going to look right now. I know one of them recently,

uppercut by Graham. Okay. I like, rainily listened a couple times when it came out and they just think that that's the only song I like. shoot well now this time of course I are opening up and it's like a good selection of stuff I haven't learned what is the big what are the big things I listen to

I can't think of any I get golden by surfaces and also living all right by services which is like I played that song a million times this summer so that's fair to say that one's mine every time I'm like yeah I'll listen to this it's good what's going on hey what's going on yeah I went through a face similar to that with Google Pixel,

where I was like, maybe I'm going to get up. Maybe I'm going to be a Google Pixel guy. That's kind of cool for six days. Yeah. I don't know. It'd be kind of annoying. Yeah. Yeah.

I recently got my phone updated. Okay. Finally. And the only thing that I'm really noticing that's the difference is the new text, like to create a new text on your I message is down at the bottom right now. That's it. top right. And it has thrown me for a loop, brother. Mine's all about it. I mean, mine's got to be updated. Oh, oh, yeah, a lot of things are at the

bottom. Yeah, yeah. This is like, that was one of new things. I was 26. Yeah. A lot of things at the bottom. That took a good while to get used to. Thank you. Yeah. Because I'm like, okay, I'm a little bit frustrated. I know that eventually it's going to be, you know, I'm going to get used to it. Then I'm going to go to Catherine's phone. It's not updated yet. I'm like, oh, it's not the right place. Right now it's like, why, why'd they change that? I know. I like, I like, a feels like a lot of things should start in the top right. That's where you create a message. Is that where the notes is too now? Like the notes? Because I've been stubborn. I haven't updated. I don't know. I've been stubborn too. And then all of a sudden I wake up one day and it's there.

Shoot. It's coming from me next. I bet. Yeah. You better create a note bottom right. What is this? What is this generation of Apple? It's rough, man. I think I got one of the little updates. You know, iOS 26.3 or something truly last night. Because when I woke up this morning to my alarm, instead of just like pressing to turn off my alarm, it said slide to stop your alarm. And I'm like, brand new to being awake, but I'm like, I think that's new. I don't hate that. I don't remember slide to the. Yeah.

I'm a big, uh, sidebar, side button turn off her. You kind of just, just press it all and hope it stops. I'm just like, stop, stop. Oh, we are presented by mainstream roasters. We always forget to say it, Jake. Well, it's implied. You guys know it. The logo over there.

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Your neighbor will love it. Hopefully we've been to that part of the episode. Hopefully that makes sense. If not, you'll preview. Yep, you got a little something to look forward to. Can I give a challenge to the ghosties? And I want to hear your... Your stand-up experience.

That's a great call. Didn't even have that written down. Wasn't even going to mention it. Oh, that's right. I did perform for like 2,000 people. You never written down. My challenge to the ghosties is any ghosties who wants to win $100 from me. Got it.

Medes. By the house. You guys were... Yeah. Please. Yeah, that's fair. I'll do $100 to you by my house. One little game.

Medis, if you remember, we had that thing for like a year where the ambassador program. So every time a new meddies opens, you can apply to be an ambassador. And then you get $40 every week to go there. It was a blessing for our family. It was awesome. Those potatoes. Those garlicky potatoes are nuts. I think that is the best side created.

Wow. Yeah. What's better than those garlicky potatoes? That's good. I was going to say, oh, little bit of Joe's fries. good. Uh, yeah. I recently had Kava fried, fried pita or whatever, like the pita chips are for the first time.

Insanely good. Really? Yeah, yeah, I've had those before too. They were so good. I'm not a pita chips guy. I'm just a pita guy. So I'll have to try it. The pia chips were crazy.

Kava's awesome. Kada's awesome. Medi's is awesome. I should go there even more than I do. Medes is awesome. And so anyway, every time they open up a new location, you can become an ambassador for that location. They're opening up one in Overland Park. But they don't really post it.

very many like places that they're doing this. So I think the main way, I don't have Instagram anymore. I have Facebook every once while I'll look on Facebook. I'm trying to look on there every day. Because I think once they open up the applications, you don't have that much time. And so my challenge to the ghosties is if you can see that the applications for the Overland Park location for ambassadors is open before I do and you notify me and I see yours first and I, my text or my phone number is everywhere on the internet.

You can find it. All right. I'm not, I'm not shy with my phone number. if you text me and it comes to me from you before I see it myself and you're the first person, I will Venmo you, PayPal you, Zell you, send you $100 in the mail, whatever you want. $100 with a pennies. We're going to take off money for shipping probably for that, but I will send you money because obviously that's a huge return for me, $40 every week.

And my family gets to like, Catherine gets to take a night off of dinner and we get to, I teach my kids how to eat at a restaurant and like behave in public. Did you already say this? The next one ran out. That was only a year or something? Yeah, it's like a year. The ambassorship is a year. So you're feening.

So Catherine was, Catherine was an ambassador. Now I'm like, it's my turn. Yeah. It was, it was awesome, dude.

It was just like, we get $40 every week. And $40 is like the perfect amount for my family. Like if it's, if it was like, you have to spend 50. It's like, I don't know if we can do that.

If it's like, you have to spend 30, it's like, dang, I'm going to have to spend a little bit of my own money. And all Catherine had to do was post on her personal Instagram story? Yes. Yeah.

So if you're in Kansas City, you should also apply for the ambassorship program. But when you do, text me as much. Make your hundred bucks. So anyway, it's amazing. It's an amazing perk. And like if you don't, if you can't go, you can give it to somebody else to use their, like, use your code. And they can post on your behalf or whatever.

That's nice. So anyway, check it out. So that's my, that's my call to go. Okay. Tell me about stand up. It went well. Yeah. I had fun. Good. Sold out show. So I think it's like, you know, 2400 people there. Yeah. It was great. Good temperature that day. You know, that's nice. Good. Good. One too hot. One too cold. Thanks for, thanks for telling us about the temperature. Yeah. That's the first thing I wanted to know. Apparently, Trey and Lucas made bets on what I was going

to wear and apparently they nailed it. I haven't, I guess they did that on the podcast or something. So I wasn't aware of all that. So outfit was predictable. Got to see timing and Zach. They were the first people I saw when I got backstage. I thought you looked good, first of all. Thanks. Yes.

Thank you. New shirt? I got this at an H&M in New York City when I podcasted with Joe Sanagado back in the day. Yeah. I just know like anytime I have a white shirt, it's like I'm not having that shirt very long. It's wear it while we can. You know? And so I saw it was like a lighter colored shirt.

I was like that goes through the wash wrong one time and it's over. That white shirt had me stressed. for you, Timon. I forgot to say this. So Tyman comes out to take pictures at the end of the show, just like a, let's quick snap some. And one, I'm already stressed because you know, like, you can't even really get your camera ready because you don't know

what the lighting's going to be like out there. And then even as you start to make adjustments, then they put the spotlight on us. And on top of that, I'm looking, I'm like, I got a white shirt. They all got dark clothes. That's tough to expose. Yeah. It was fine, though. It was fine. It was fine.

I was definitely way overexposed, but It's a raw photo. So it's kind of magic. So you can just kind of do whatever you want. There you go. But yeah, that was fun. That's funny. Like in the moment you thought that.

I kind of smiling. What have I done? Oh, that light, that's got dumb. That's, if I were me, that would suck. This was fun. Good tip, though. Yeah. Yeah, that was great.

That's fun. How did, uh, I saw somebody comment that, um, gosh, what's his name? Benny, it's not his name. Lucas. No. Mikey. Mikey. How did he do?

just like open up with because it wasn't a DJ it was him performing. I thought it was great. I was like I was the only one like side stage as Mikey starting to close down. So I was texting the group. I was like guys Mikey is crushing this. This is awesome. And so yeah, I thought he did a very good job warming up the crowd. I mean like when I went to go get Rachel, I walked by side stage one time and I heard him kind of doing some jokes in between and I heard him just like make some reference to like zipping Trey's dress up for him. So like oh, okay, that's fun. He's like talking a little bit about his job, whatever, and then he had this loop pedal going while he was playing any, uh, I feel like a woman. And if like the crowd was like loving that, he had like, you know,

done some like percussion stuff on his guitar. That's sweet. Yeah, he's good with the loop pedal. It was cool. Yeah, I was impressed. I was like, this is great. I'm a sucker for a loop pedal. Like, I've never seen Ed Shear and live. So this is all I have. Yeah. Yeah. I liked his ongoing bit if you noticed like, yeah, any song to like intro it, he would be like, I wrote this song about whatever. And it was always just a cover of a popular song. That was awesome. That's pretty good. That's funny.

And I honestly explain some things. Because side stage, Midland Theater, gorgeous, beautiful, huge. But the monitors are not set up well. Like, it's very hard to hear.

Some theaters are not like that. And so, yeah, you're getting bits and pieces. Like, did he say this is an original? Like, why is he closing with an original? But that makes sense. Yeah.

At one point, like, towards the end of the show, we were both side stage, and you laughed at a joke, and I was like, how did you hear it? I was like, I would have been fun to know what that. And that's what Rachel was to me.

I feel like, she was hearing every word. And I'm like, I'm like trying to read lips from the side to hear. Yeah, it's like speech jammer. I was going to say, yeah. Yeah, you're getting one and every four. And you're like, I, I think I got enough of the premise and I think I probably know where he's going with the punchlines. That's pretty funny.

Because it's echoey. Is that what you mean? Or like, just like, distorted. I don't know. Just like can't. It's just like no other speakers are facing you. Yeah. So you're just getting.

It's like a mix of muffled and echoey. Like it's coming for different sources. and it's like, yeah, it's interesting. Could hear great from the crowd, though. Yeah. Crowd loved it. Yeah. No, but it's a great show.

I mean, like we talked about last week, it feels like it's, standard goes from hard to at least like medium mode when you're in Kansas City and I can make specific references, you know. Yeah. I just knew this joke I wrote about, you know, Josh Allen missing out of Super Bowl.

Like, you just know that's going to work well here and there are certain stuff like that. So you're more confident with the city-specific jokes for sure. And I honestly had a blast. It was like 30 minutes before the show in Lucas and I were just catching up and having a blast riffing on stuff. And he's like, I got to explore the city a little bit today. I was like, oh, what do you think? He was like, what are, what is with the badminton stuff?

I'll go, what? And he's like, there's like this field where they have giant badminton. I was like, oh, I was like, dude, say exactly what you're saying to me on stage because like, we don't know either. Yeah. I don't know. He's like, do you guys, are you big on badminton? I'm like, no. it's just like an art museum he's like so why do you have like shuttle cocks like a hundred times

i'm like i don't know i don't think anyone does i said you should say that and then at the same time if they like get rid of them people would riot hey that's our thing so then i was like oh dude why haven't i prepped you i should give you so much more can't city material and so then very like right before the show lucas and i are like writing kansas city jokes for him and i talked to him about um oh well he was talking about how this city's not built for him because they're known for their barbecue and football and he doesn't like sports and is a vegetarian. So he's like, I'm sure a city's great. I was like, what else do we like here?

I said, oh, you should talk about Quick Trip. And he goes, what is Quick Trip? I was like, this is great. Yeah. And so, you know, he's, you know, Jake was talking about Quick Trip and why do you guys like it? You know, and someone's like, you know, I love the layout. The layout's the same.

And he's like, I'm sorry, are you guys getting confused in gas stations? Are you guys getting lost in gas stations? and just like was ripping on that. So I really enjoy Lucas's Kansas City jokes. Because he's so like, he's so sarcastic and like. Yeah, he's just, he's just funny. Lucas is funny. Yeah.

He was like, he was kind of like David Spade vibes. It's what I, what I kind of got. Like, yeah, he was, he was great. Yeah, I think he's been, he's growing more and more like,

theatrical a bit lately and moving around and almost like scampering around the stage more. And yeah, Rachel loved as well. So, yeah, it was so good to just hang out with Lucas and see him. Yeah. So yeah, great show.

But yeah, the morning of there was this big pickleball tournament. This girl in Kansas City, it's her birthday. And every year she puts on, like, her own pigwell tournament for her birthday. Okay. And years past, I've always known this is happening. This is kind of a top dogs tournament. Oh. They do a closed draft.

Invite only kind of thing. Yeah. Okay. This year, Isaac and I got the invite. That's awesome. We're in. Yeah. So it's like, oh, I got to do this.

And anyway, so it starts at 8 a.m. Down to Elite. So, you know, I'm waking up at 6.30 on a Saturday. get ready to be down there early. And then like, it's probably two o'clock in the afternoon in bracket play just now started.

So I'm texting Rachel like, hopefully we lose here soon. I got to get, I got to get going. I have a show tonight. About an hour later, I text her, frick,

we won. All right, I got it. Now we're in the quarterfinals. Were you like tempted ever to be like, I might hit this one out? I never like intentionally

tried to make my body do anything that would cause an error. But I was like, if they score a point on me, boy, am I not disappointed at all. If something were to not go well for me, you know, it's just like the stakes were extremely low. And then we went again. And then eventually I just had to be like, guys, I have to leave.

Like, I just have to go. Isaac got a funny video of me like, in between games. I was like, I don't know he's got to film me, but I was just like pacing in there, like rehearsing my set that night. I don't think people really believed me. No, I'm performing. No, seriously. and a half hours for 2,500 people.

I mean, I didn't necessarily say it like that, but still, I think they're like, oh, Jake's got this little. Yeah. And how ready did you feel pre-tournament? You know, I felt pretty good. At the end of the day, it's a 10-minute set. It's in Kansas City, but it's more than pressure you put on yourself. Like, I have it all perfectly right now.

I don't want to forget even one sentence. I don't get to do this a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, like, I want to do a good job. Right. And in the end, you know, you get off stage and you go, I think I, I think I said everything I wanted. And then you go through your notes and you go,

Yeah, I'd say like 99% accuracy. Okay. Satisfied with that. Yeah, that was great. So, yeah, I had to dip out of the term early, but it was fun. Yeah. I felt like Isaac and I, we got in, we're in the 5-0 group chat now, you know. Let's go.

Yeah. So it was fun. But it was great. Yeah, so that was my first time seeing Scott and Isaac who are going to be joining on the Wednesday episode. Yep. They're working on Friday Pickable stuff on the living room right now. But yeah, that was my first time seeing Scott and Isaac since Asia. And so it was fun to see them reunite and also.

all be on different teams because like the girls draft their teams and so it's kind of fun and scott has a permanent accent now you said yeah yeah he does he's stuck he can't see can't help it i did even though it was my own joke i was so proud of my own joke because i i took a video of scott and isaac like sitting next to each other and like talking like from a large distance away so i mean you cannot hear them at all you can just like see them like talking to each other and i just put down our instagram story and i captioned it like, I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure they exclusively speak in Chinese when I'm not around. And it really did look like maybe they had their own language going, whisper into each other. But yeah, I'm so pumped to talk to them on Wednesday's episode.

I know. I don't know almost anything about it, which is great. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just going to, I was going to sit back. Sit back and yeah, I'll sit back. Love it. Time and you sit back. Great. Let's see, a few other things, just just different things my kids are doing right now that are kind of funny and weird. First of all, Henry is just pointing at people. And if you, if there's anything more intimidating than pointing at somebody, let me know. Pointing at like family members or like people of different races? Anybody. Anything, anybody. And and there's no reason for it. Like, I could, I could stare at you and that's, that's intimidated. Like, if I'm just like, if I come up to you in, in public and I'm just like, looking at you, it's like, what's going on with? What are you doing, man?

I just keep staring at you. But if I come up to you in public, just random stranger and I just go, that is more intimidating. I don't even have to look at you like this. I can just be like this. Looking away might be worse. Yeah. It's like, dude, stop.

It's like they, it's like they're, it's like they're doing something to you without doing anything. It's like, why do you stop it? Dude, stop telling everybody I'm here. And that's what Henry does. Stop showing them me. Yeah, the looking around is like, get a load of this guy. It's like, that's the vibe I get. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. You do it with your thumb too? Oh, no, yeah. I mean, and so he's getting away with it now. Someday he's going to get punched for it, I think. Like some strange going to be like, what are you doing, kid? So he's doing this.

Rosie, I want you to be aware of this, Jake, because it pertains to you. Rosie is lying through her teeth all the time about she makes up stories all the time about her neighbors. Oh. That's all she says all the time. It's like she has an imaginary friend named her neighbors. Okay. It just makes up all sorts of stuff. Yeah.

Did you ever see like the S&L skit of Debbie Downer where basically somebody that just one-ups to everything you do or like relates to everything and like makes it even worse. Like Debbie Downer's like, oh yeah, you like this. Let me tell you about this. Oh, you have cancer. I, you know, have my head cut off and I have cancer. You know, whatever. It's like, you know, we're talking about, oh, yeah.

you know, we had, we had tacos for dinner. Rosie would be like, I went to my neighbor's house and we had tacos for dinner, too. They love tacos. And it's like that for everything. Like it's like, have you guys ever seen AirBud? No, no. My neighbors love AirBud. We've watched AirBud like five times with my neighbors.

She's obsessed with neighbors. And for a while, I was like getting frustrated. I was like, Catherine, we got to tell her it's not okay. We got to point at her until she stops doing this. And I was like, it's just, she's just being a kid just talking about, you know, it's like imaginary frank i was like okay that's fair but i mean like like she says stuff about her neighbor and like sometimes it's like elaborate i wish i could remember more of like the the accounts or like yeah uh my neighbor had a dream and they did this and this and you know they had monkey bars and you know i'm like

what are you talking wow you're creative yeah so anyway either that or you guys are hanging out with rosy all the time i don't know about it we're having tacos yeah we put some monkey bars in the back my neighbors yeah everything you're saying i'm like i've done all that Are these neighbors? Yeah. My neighbor started a Pickabawall channel and it's actually really good and really successful. And they're having this new panel called the Aurora coming out. Oh, how about guy?

Anyway, dude, that reminded me. I went, I got to tell you about my Friday, but I'll skip to the end. I went to go take Rachel's car into Toyota. Oh, no. Yeah, it said maintenance required. I'm like, oh, boy. Okay. Well, earlier that day, I had spoke on the phone with our pro player, Rachel Rohrabacher.

So, and we're like trying to figure out her paddle for this next tournament. So she's like on my mind. And then I go drop Rachel's car off. So I'm just sitting at a late to Twitter. Oh, I met a guy who went to high school with you. Adam. Yeah, kind of Asian. Kind of Asian.

Yeah, you know that. Yeah, my parents also go to. That's what he said. Yeah. I see Brad's dad in here a lot. He's a good dude. Yeah, he was. He helped me out.

Yeah. But anyway, I'm in the waiting room. I've been there 45 minutes. And the guy who's been coming in, you know, he'll say Nelson and he takes Nelson or whatever, he comes in. And he says Roerbocker. And I, I didn't fully stand up, but I was like, oh, that's, like, that's not my last name, dude. I haven't told anyone that.

Wait, wait, wait. Okay. But it was like, I mean, I'm like, there was somebody else there named Roerbacher? Yes, I'm like texting about her. You know, we're texting. We're like figuring this out. Like, it felt like it's just so like, yeah, she's part of team Friday now. Like she's, like, we're one now.

Oh, wow. I thought you were going to say. Oh, this is mortified. You like, felt like you cheated on your wife for a second. And they're like, no, get this off of me. Oh, geez. Oh, that ring almost went down your vint. You know what?

Way too big for me now anyway. That's right. I thought you were going to say, like, when you were signing in, like, okay, who's, whose car is it? Rachel? Okay, last name. Roerbocker? I mean.

That's what I thought you were going to say. That's so, that's wild, though. Somebody else's named Roerbock. And now that I'm saying, I'm like, it had to have been some. similar to Rohrabacher? What are the odds of it actually being the exact last name? So whatever it was, maybe it was Orobacker or something. I think that's a little still. Whatever it was like there was part of me. It was like, I see what they're going for.

It was somebody, no, this guy just had a big plate of popcorn. They're like, Redenbocker. Orval. Orval Reddenbocker. Whatever was it was close enough to where I was like, yeah, I know what he's going for. Yeah. That's, that's who we are now. Rosie's neighbor was Rosie was telling me about her neighbor who had a similar experience and they're not divorced

so just be careful but yeah Rosie heard all about this it is kind of fun like Rosie will never not have something to say about what you're saying she'll be like yes and my neighbors did too my neighbors do that

I know about that my neighbors yes and my neighbors did that exact same thing but they were monkey bars while they did it oh my neighbors play basketball and they made like five shots in a row so you making four shots in a row is like not they're good that's crazy

That is a common thread about what happened to me on Friday. I just kept making goofs Friday morning. I went to play pickleball at this facility, and I'm talking to a guy afterwards, and he's come up and just so friendly. And like, I just got into pickleball, but I've been, like, binging your content because I'm so new into it.

And then I learn you guys have paddles, and I need to get me one. And I go, dude, let me just, let me give you one. I go, in fact, dude, what color do you want? I got so many of them out in my trunk right now. And so we're, you know, I think I got like a red one. I got a purple one. You like blue?

Okay. I'll get you, I'll get you a blue one right now. On my way out. Guys, like, you leave in? No, I'm just getting a paddle. Oh, his lucky day. What color are you like, man? Who gets you one, too?

So I've got two paddle orders. I'll be right back going out to my car. Because I'm going to Elitha Toyota in Rachel's RAV 4 instead of my car, I get out to the parking lot, realize I don't have my car. I have zero paddles. So you peel out of there. Skir! I hope I never seen them again.

And so I come back just like empty handed. And I'm like, guys, I'm so sorry. I forgot like the one time ever my wife and I have like switched cars. I don't have any paddles for you. I'm so sorry. It really worked out in their favor though because then I've given them like the aura paddle that like is unreleased. And this guy's three months into paperwall. He doesn't need this paddle.

And I'm like, take it, man. Enjoy it. Yeah, it's yours. So they got a good deal of that. Yeah, really. And then fast forward probably six hours later. I am driving home down our street here. I could see, oh, just down the hill, oh, there's a FedEx truck in front of my house.

And so I'm texting like, Scott and Isaac, our Friday Pickle Group channel, like, oh, look at the cinema video. I think these are the big bags. We put in, like, we have like these, like kind of bags. We want to make some huge, like, you know, just bigger pickleball bags. Got it. And we wait on these to arrive for weeks and weeks. And I've been checking the tracking.

I know it's FedEx. And so I'm like, sweet. And right when I'm getting home, he's getting there. the guy pulls out the biggest FedEx box I've ever seen like sweet it's got to be the bags so I'm getting out of my car and I'm like dude what great timing this is great you're here I'm here and uh he's not really like saying anything I think there's a chance I missed an earbud in an ear or something he's just kind of like one ear butt in one ear butt out smiling and like and what what a beautiful day for it I mean I'm on cloud nine I guess about these big bags and you're like

recording it yeah without still like not speaking he just continues to kind of smile he turns around, it was Dennis's package. Oh! He just goes to cry. Like, you parked on my side of the street, though, dude? Oh, I'm like an idiot. So then I said a follow-up video to the group text. Like, it's just like sitting on Dennis's porch.

I'm like, I guess Dennis ordered big bags from China too. Because why did he get this massive package? Yeah, really. Oh, but yeah, I goofed that day. I just kept like minorly screwing up things. And you were like by yourself, which is a bummer to like not really be able to share it. Like, okay, it was all me. It was pretty funny.

Man, I really thought that was my package. That guy, gosh. I don't think I goofed with a stranger the other day, but I think it's worth talking about on the podcast. And I'll say if I was time in's age, if I was time in age, Brad, I would have done things differently. But got coffee with my friend Scott Johns. He's a buddy of mine from church.

And we went to MAPS coffee. You ever been? No. Downtown Lenoxa. Pretty cool little spot. We met at 2 o'clock. They closed at 3 o'clock. We didn't know that.

And so we're outside just like hanging out outside. And there's an ice cream shop like two doors down. And there was this woman. She was a squatty little lady. Heavy set. Heavy set. Getting out of her Dodge Dakota truck. I love the term heavy set.

Yeah. She was more horizontal than she was vertical. Got it. Libero. Yeah. And she gets out. I'm just trying to paint a picture. It doesn't matter what she looks like.

But she's a little bit of a rougher looking lady. Okay. And she goes into ice cream shop. comes back later with this ice cream cone. And it looks awesome. Extra tall. You know, I'm with my buddy.

We're friendly people. You know, I'm like, wow, that ice cream, that ice cream cone looks amazing, you know, just like trying to hype up.

Like, how fun is it to get ice cream? Come on. Yeah. Oh, good for you, getting some ice cream. And, you know,

she's got like a little bit of a smoker's voice. She's like, yeah, you know, uh, like, if you like root beer floats, this ice cream tastes

exactly like a root beer flow. It's the best, it's the best ice cream in all of Kansas city. That sounds good. And I go, wow, I was like, can I have a lick? And she says, I don't give a rip. You can do whatever you want. You want to lick. You can have a lick. And I'm like, no, I was just kidding. I'm not going to lick your ice cream code. That's a great response of her. But I guarantee you. I don't give her rats. Yeah, she did. And took to my friend who's a youth pastor. I don't. And,

I guarantee you, though, if I was Tyvins' age, I would have. I would have licked it, and then I would have bought her another. But for the, for the memory, I would have absolutely did it. And so Scott texted me out of the blue the other day. Scott, John, my friend, I can't believe that lady was going to give you a link. And then the next text, out of context, a hard one to explain to the wife. She was going to give you a lick. Dude, but I would have probably taken it, though, like root beer float already flavored ice cream.

That's awesome. Yeah. But, like, you can't, you can't borrow a lick. Like, like, you can get another spoon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, like it feels, it feels like you now have my lick in your entire cone. Yeah, I don't know. If she was down, I was down.

I think. Yeah. See? Because, like, you know, you know, it's a funny thing to throw out there. But if she's actually game, it's like, well, she, it's, she said yes. I don't need to. She, it's not ruining it for her. I don't know.

Let's see, but I don't know, like, I will say she was flustered for the first two seconds. And then I could tell she was like, I'm not going to let these, these two guys, like take, like, be laughing at me. Yeah, you want to lick? Yeah. Yeah. I don't give a, I'm like, okay. I was joking. I was joking.

I was just joking. Enjoy your ice cream. But let's talk through some things that are like best and worst case to share. So, like, I think ice cream is like a lick of a cone is pretty, um, uh, uh, uh, sorry, I just hear Isaac screaming out there in the living room. That's like a pretty intimate thing to share with someone. I would put sucker even above that, though. Yeah, like to put a sucker in my mouth.

I don't think I would share a sucker. I don't think I would even share it with the Catherine. So this is what I was going to ask. Yeah, sucker is maybe too much. What about an apple? For whatever reason? Well, because an apple, it's kind of a lot of like. Okay.

Give me the exact time. Because my answer is different depending on if there's still skin on the on the apple or not. I would say, yeah, we're in the second inning of this apple. Meaning no skin or no, there's still skin on the outside. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think if once again, this is a related, like a family member only for me. Like, I'm not, I don't want to share an apple with you. No offense. Yeah, no, I don't. But like if, if Hattie or Catherine or whoever has had four bites of an apple and there's still, you know, a third of the skin left, I'll go skin.

but for every reason I'm not, but once the skin's off of there, it feels like you've touched it all now. I don't know if I want that. You have because with every apple bite, there's kind of like a, like, you know, some like juice and some saliva kind of left.

Let's get that back in. Yeah. Let's rein that in a little bit. How about cereal? Oh, for sure, share cereal. Really? Yeah. Timing?

I don't know if I ever have. It's like a bit of an interesting situation to be sharing cereal. I'm pretty sloppy when I do my cereal. Sure. Sure. I am. Like,

I've never been... Some of that milk went back in after it was kind of in my mouth or something. You know, like... I've never been on the far, like the extreme, clean, germaphobe end of sharing, like, a spoon of something. I feel like... No, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, like a blizzard? Oh, yeah. I'll share that all day. Cereal, I'm okay. Like, I have a hard time when my kids are like, I'm done. And I'm like, you still got cereal in there. I'm eating that. I can't, I just waste cereal.

It's like 28 cents right there worth a cereal. especially if they're eating the good stuff. Like, you guys don't know how good you have it. I say that to my kids all the time. Yeah. Haddy's like, can I have another avocado? I was like, listen, I don't think I even knew an avocado was until I was 19. Yeah, you're way ahead of it.

You got playing room in the budget. Take an Oreo. Yeah. Bose, you know, complaining about bone broth. I'm like, listen. Or hummus. Can I, I can't have a carrots without my hummus. I'm like, shut up.

Best I got was. You know, luck, we peeled this carrot. That was ranch as a kid. Did my carrots and ranch? Hummus? Yeah, I had ranch and no carrots. I just had ranch. You just drank ranch.

Yeah, some of the things my kids, kombucha. I'm like, who are you guys? Combucha. Kids want to drink that? Man. Yes. Have you had kombucha? I think I've tried it once.

It was disgusting. It's not disgusting. It's not disgusting. It is, it's good. If you have, like, there's, of course there's like, if you have like a plain kombucha, it's probably. gross. Okay. But they have flavors. It's like soda. Like, like, really? It's carbonated. It's, it's like, it's like, yeah, that juicy soda. Cool. It's good. You'd like it. All right.

Try it sometime. Cool. Anyway, yeah, my kids are all spoiled with things. All right, hand up. Today is a day that I'll be honest, I do not have my cozy earth on. I was today years old when I realized Brad didn't have his cozy aerathon. Dude, I'm actually, this is not even just for the ad rate. That is true. And I am less. comfortable than I would be in cozy earth. I was warm last night. It was unseasonably warm yesterday. Unseasoned. And so our room was warmer. So I didn't wear my cozy earth stuff. And I'm not saying it's 100% because of this, but it's absolutely correlated. I had the worst night of sleep I've had in at least 30 days last night. Really? Yes, dude. I was your earth. I didn't realize that until just now.

But I mean, I still was in cozy or sheets, but I was hot to throw them off of me. So I wasn't sleeping as well. So. it. And I'll tell you this, I wish I was in my cozy earth last night, similarly, because yesterday it was so warm that I turned off the heater. I said, let's open up the windows, enjoy it. Yep. And then I forgot to turn it back on. And I was a little cold this morning. Dang, dude, we should have switched. A little cozeeers in my life. Yeah, it's the best. So if you go to cozy earth.com slash ghostrunners, you can see all that they

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Deacon Brad. Oh, yeah. Can't. No, I didn't. There's a few times, and I know this is probably like so wrong of me to even feel this way, but I want to text my friends and be like, if anybody else wants to bet on anything, I'd probably bet on KU tonight. and I'll take that bet for you.

Like, KU last night was playing against Arizona, and they were underdogs at home. I was like, KU never loses at home. Come on. Like, just somebody, somebody pay me that they can't bet in their state and I'll bet for them kind of thing. And? No, I didn't bet.

I didn't. Did they win? Oh, yeah. Dang. That's awesome. Left money on the table. But no, yeah, I didn't even look at prop bets. Were there any good ones?

I didn't look either. Really? Caleb Sullivan did text me like the afternoon of the Super Bowl and he was like, hey, think about putting a little parlay together today. Who do you like? What do you think? And I go, hey, let's do it together, brother. I said, I'm in.

Whatever you do, I'll match it. Let's do it. And so he's like, all right, how do we do this? You know, and I'm like, all right, I think a fun, like kind of parlay to put together. It's like, let's not worry about who wins or loses. Let's just do like anytime touchdown scores. Just bet on a couple people to score touchdowns. Not parley, though.

Yes, parley. Just like two people. Got it. And that ends up going up to three people. Corey Dial gets involved. And, yeah, the worst Super Bowl of all time to bet on people to score touchdowns. Yeah, I was going to say, unless you just nailed it. No, yeah, pretty much didn't score.

In fact, yeah, we were joking, like, what a great Super Bowl to have a Hispanic halftime performer, because the whole game was just kicking. They loved this. They probably, this is the best Super Bowl outcome possible. This is football Yes Straight through Via via via

Yeah all the Patriots did was punt All the Seahawks did was kick fuel goals And so yeah it was a very Hispanic night I think That's a good joke But yeah so we went over three Objectively awful Super Bowl Can we write?

Yeah like the game Like I kind of lost interest by like the second quarter Like obviously we're sad And like not as interested Because the chiefs aren't in it but like, it just, it was, like, no one had fun watching that. Seahawks fans were like, I mean, yeah, we won, but like we saw we were going to win the whole game.

It wasn't like a interesting game at all, was it? And I don't want to, there's no, there's nobody out there that's like, you got to appreciate defense and special teams. It's like, no one is excited to appreciate defense, like, unless it's like a big play, right? It's harder to appreciate. There's just like, there's like star power on offense. It's like, dude, Jamar Chase changes.

games. Josh Allen took over this game where it's like defense is more like the unit really came together and stunted this blitz. It's just harder to like appreciate or like really get fired up about like a well-timed blitz. Right. Throughout the course of four quarters that had Drake May, you know, looking iffy at times. It's just not as exciting. He was just dumping it down for three yards at a time. He couldn't really get going. It's like gosh. Yeah, I went like I said, I went to some friend's house, uh, didn't anticipate them being big football people, but knew pretty quickly that they weren't. I can't remember the exact phrase that this guy used, one of my friends, but I was like, uh, yeah, you don't, you don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, you don't,

you don't watch this often. Yeah. And, and honestly, what was hard for me is like, he acted like he did a little. Like I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like that. I'm okay with people being like, so what's, what's the deal with the Patriots this year? You know, and I'm like, let me tell you. Yeah, they won a four games last year. Yeah, yeah. They're, they're, they're, they're, they're, new coach that was actually a player there when Tom Brady was winning super goals. Let me talk about Sam Darnold. This guy. This is a crazy story.

But like one of the first plays of the game, you know, somebody, I can't remember what it happened. But it was like, man, he's doing, he's always doing that. And I'm like, oh, no. I can imagine it. Yeah, you know what I mean? Or even like rooting for the wrong thing. Like, let's say a guy doesn't catch a punt because it's inside the five.

Catch it. Dude, why don't they catch that? Yeah, like when you, it's not that hard to catch those. I don't think you show your colors by rooting. like opposite of the optimal strategy. Right. Yeah, they didn't take it out of the end zone. It's like, well, I don't know if you know

the kickoff rule. There's new rules to share. It was fine because I was like, okay, I can at least watch the other commercials. And then, you know, commercial will come. So you guys plan on traveling any time soon? What do you guys got going on? Not, let me see.

Not too much. Is that Pinnathe. Backstreet boys. Oh, that's crazy. Oh, I wonder with this going to be. Coinbase. Wow. Okay.

Yeah. I did wonder the, the karaoke one. I was like, if I'm, I wonder where it's like at a house party. Because I bet this is crushing if you're at a house party. I bet, but I wasn't. Yeah. I wasn't. So I don't know.

A lot of AI. What does that tell you, Jake? I thought a lot of AI, I thought a lot of, like, serious commercials. Like, kind of like more like heartstring, like emotional commercials. Yeah. Yeah. We like the farmer or the daughter one, you know, lays. Yeah.

Lays really went into like, we're American farmer potato people. Steve Coop texted Rachel and said, we should, what did he say? We should grow spuds together. After the Lays commercial, it was like a father, yeah, passing off the family potato farm to his daughter. Yeah. I mean, yeah, we missed, we went home at halftime. So I missed the halftime show, both of them.

And then I missed like half of the third quarter. And so I don't know if I missed, like, good commercials, but like the best one I saw was the Duncan one. Yeah. I like the Duncan for like entertainment value. And I liked Budweiser. In the first three seconds, I see, I see a horse starting to take care of a bird. I go, I'm going to like this. This is up my alley.

I don't even know what it's about yet. I'm going to like this. I don't think I saw this one. Just a little, it kind of looked like a pony at the time. But, oh, this poor little duck or something's caught up in the rain. Oh, no. And the pony's kind of sniffing it. And then he's standing over.

this little guy to protect him from the rain. Okay. Yeah, this is it. This is it for me. And then you come to find out, oh, he grew into a Clydesdale. Oh, they grew up best friends. And then this wasn't just some duck, some bird, it's a bald eagle. It was the Geico lizard.

It was a bald eagle. Yeah, it was a bald eagle. It was a Budweiser commercial. It looked, the way they had shot it one time, this horse in the beginning of the video, he had trouble jumping over this log. and then he finally conquered it, and it looked like he had wings, but it was just the bald eagle flying behind him.

The way they shot it was kind of cool, actually. Brins, yeah, that is kind of cool. So I like that one. But Duncan was great, just all the stars were in it. And it was cool, like, that's kind of cool how they did like the, whatever, de-aging thing on their, like the effects on them and stuff. Yes, Ted Danson looked unbelievable. Yeah, yeah.

And yeah, just like the catchphrases, how you like them apples and how you doing? Yeah, we're going to break. Yeah, all these different things. That was good. That was nice. Tom Brady was in there. Yeah. Anyway, overall, though, I think it'll be better when the chiefs are back next year.

It'll be good next year when we're back. Yeah. Super Bowl parade interview. I just thought of one thing this morning, Rachel woke up. So, of course, as predictable as anything, our extended family group chat with the coupes, with the full brights, you know, I think John fires off the first text. It's like, anybody else understand what's going on in the Super Bowl? Half-time show.

Anybody else understanding this? Yeah. Have you had to put money on it? Yeah, I was like, oh, of course. Yeah, this is how it starts. I'm not really understanding this. And there's a little bit of discourse. There's honestly not a ton of texting.

But Rachel woke up this morning, which is Tuesday. It's been, you know, two days now. And she woke up and she goes, I should have texted back. You guys can't understand Kid Rock. And I was like, that's such a George Costanza side. I was like, that's what I should have said. That would have been funny. Why would they have?

I should have said, kid rock. And then spending the rest of the episode trying to set up that exact joke so you can say the kid rock punchline. I was like, that's so good. But yeah, two days later, she woke up, just like, that's what I should have said. Realizing what she's done on.

You guys can't understand kid rock? That's amazing. That's so good. That was pretty funny. I did like those memes that were like Americans turning off bad bunny because they can't understand them. And then Kid Rock is saying,

bar with the bar to bang to bang to bang buggy buggy you know it's like oh yeah this is lyricism right here this is it this guy speaks to me oh that's amazing um i have i have a quick segment here can i do it thank goodness this segment and feel free to add in i bet you won't this segment's called i'm not sexist but i have opinions all right i have three three opinions all right uh opinion number one, girl drivers, follow too close. Oh, okay. Just in general, there's times where I'm driving and I'll think, like sometimes people are aggressively on my tail. And sometimes it's like, oh, I'm going too slow in the wrong lane. I need to get over, whatever. And then, 100% of the time that this is the situation, it's a woman, they're just following close. And I look

back and they're not mad at me at all. They're just following close. Just out for a drive. And I think you're you're asking for an accident to happen if we just if something happened like you just just just back up a little just back up a little I'm not sexist but I have opinions I time you're pretty you're pretty right I there's no sibling in my family who has a history of any vehicle accidents really and she didn't rerend anybody yeah yep I mean yeah just like just like in my anecdotal evidence, that's what has happened. And it's, but it's never like intentional, aggressive. It's just like, oh, you're just too close.

Like, especially in my trucks high enough up. Like, I know when someone's too close because I literally can't see their headlights. Oh, yeah. Like, they're like underneath you. They're underneath me because I'm high enough up where it's not like you have to be like literally next to me to be, you know, unseen, but like close enough where it's like, I have a gauge for this thing.

and you are too close. You're too close. So get back a little bit. My next one. That's good. I'm not sexist, but I have opinions. Those socks, I think they're called no-show socks, but they're like the ones that are like oval. Oh, I know you're talking about.

Those are exclusively for women. All right? Surely, right? No, dude. Dudes are wearing them. Oh, those are like ballet slippers. They look like flats. They look like the flats of socks.

You as a man should not wear that. punishable. You will lose testosterone when you put those on. It will come out of your toes. Yes. Yeah. I'm not sexist,

but that's my opinion. Oh, that's good. I'll go ahead and say it. TJ, TJ, stop wearing those socks. TJ wears those?

Yes, dude. If anything, the Hawaiian would be like, no more socks. Probably why it's like, well, if I have to wear a sock, I'll wear one.

It's a thong of socks. Disgusting. I take so much joy in like having socks that are pretty long that I like fully stretch up when I have like pants on like it feels nice. Yeah. You're keeping your testosterone in is what you're doing.

Good. Yeah. Of your calves. Good. Contain what little I have. That's right. I can't afford anything else. Then I have one more.

I'm not sexes, but I have opinions. No one can care for a child like a mother can care for a child. I try so hard, dude. I try. I am so nice to my children and so caring. when they get hurt, doesn't matter, dude. Moms win every time. That's just how they're designed

and they're made. And therefore, we just can't win. So you can be nice if you want to as a dad, Jake, but I would just be mean if I were you. You know what I think it comes down to? Milk. Yeah, dude. We weren't there. No, dude.

They were there. Yeah, they were 100%. They get such a leg up. They get a lot of things up. Yeah. Yeah. But... Anyway, I'm not sexist, but that's my opinion. Guys, you can care for your children, of course, but not like, not like your wife can. So. And not with milk.

And mom's out there, your husband can care, but not like you can. Yeah, I've heard Trey expressing some disgust lately that his kids are very much in a phase of like, there's nothing he can do in the morning where they're just like, no, get mom. What are you doing? Yeah, like it doesn't matter how softly, how coldly, how quiet. quietly. It's just me. Ew. Ew.

Mom. Get mom. All right. See you too, man. All right. I will say. Like, Rosie, I am, like, Rosie is a daddy's girl, 100%. That's fun.

But when she needs, like, comfort, it's still, you know, 90% of the time. She, like, runs. Like, it's just, just something about her. Like, Rosie, for sure is, like, the most, like, there's times where I go through, I go through phase with all my kids where it's like, oh, dad's the man. I love dad. Yeah. I got, dad's my boy.

But like Rosie has like stayed there. Like I think Rosie and I have like a different kind of connection a little bit there. But even then it's like no, when you're when she's sick, she's going to Catherine. You know. Yeah. So anyway, shout to the moms out there. But just as if you're a mom and you're listening to this while you're driving, just take a couple, couple, you know, spaces of cars back. All right.

And then take yourself to a little Starbucks because you earned it, Mama. Yeah. You got it, mama. Can we talk about, um, gender roles and femininity, just a little bit more? Yeah, please. I feel like it's fascinating,

like women are just built biologically to be mothers and it's like really cool how it happens. In the same way, I forget who I was talking to recently, but they were like, you know, our daughter is two and is maybe not even,

and has been exposed to so little, yet she gravitates, she wants the pink toy, she wants the pink this, and it's like, she's not in school, she's not watching. Right. cocoa she's not she has no like stimulus that tells her that girls want this but it's like

biologically it's just like there are just feminine aspects of our world i think it's fascinating yeah i agree i'm like very intrigued by that yeah why does a why does a one-year-old boy play with the tractor like why like what is it that's like that and they and girls want the dolls oh yeah oftentimes henry's a big car guy he's yeah and beau wasn't really bow was more like, I don't know what boated puzzle, whatever. And Henry's just, you know, always, moving cars. Yeah, doing that, whatever.

So pretty fun. But yeah, 100% like dolls. Rosie's always got, Rosie has one of these, like, you know those like carriers that adults have where they carry their babies like on a backpack kind of like thing? Oh, sure. She has one of those for her baby dolls. She just like carries it around.

She's like, it's better for Lumbar. My neighbor's got me this. My neighbors got me to this for my birthday. She'll say her birthday over. It's always a birthday. I got it for my birthday. It's like, well, you didn't. I thought you that.

Yeah. But the idea of like boy, girl, like twins, you can really study some stuff. That would be amazing. Like, they are exposed to the exact same stuff. And look at what they're gravitating towards. Yeah, true. Oh, that'd be great.

It is wild, like, watching just boys and how aggressive they are. You know, just like, like, Bo just, like, like, Catherine the other day, like, taught Bo. Like, hey, if you have, like, feelings of, like, want to, like, hang on somebody or, like, push, you know, touch, people just go punch. She's like, she's like, go find a couch or, uh, uh, uh, your bed and you can

punch it as many times as you want. And so the other day I was walking and Bo's just going to town on our recliner. Like, boom, what's going on, buddy? Nothing. Just getting it out. Hey, dad. Hey, dad. Like, all right. Basketball's canceled because I puked. I'm just getting it out. Hard to figure out why your stomach hurts, you know. Dude, when I was little, I'm pretty sure, one of my friends had one of those it was like a punching bag but a ton of weight in the bottom so it would always come back up very bottom heavy what might really take a like into something like that we just punch over and over i saw one recently that was like um kind of like uh on the wall like it was like it was like touchscreen

or not touchscreen but like they could tell where you're hitting it on the wall but it you could also like sync music up to it yeah i've seen some of like kung fu panda ones of those like a david buster's okay yeah hitting the bongo drums yeah yeah that's fun it'd be kind of fun too. Yeah, part of me is like, just be cool, man. Just don't, just learn how to not be so aggressive all the time. Stop needing to punch. Anyway.

So yeah, I'm not sexist, but those are my opinions. That's a good segment. Timon, do you have a segment? I don't. No same way from timing. I don't think so. What about anything on your heart or mind? I had one thing that I wrote down that was a random thought. Okay. That's kind of part of this podcast. When you guys are eating chips,

do you usually get your, is your thumb usually involved. Oh. What? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Got to be. What in the world?

Great. Is yours not? Not usually. It's usually these. Whoa. What? And I was like, I wonder if that's strange.

I just think, because like, yeah, it's strange. Yeah, yeah, you're using scissors to get chips. Yeah, because I realized I was doing it.

And I was like, I think this is maybe, I don't know if it's because like, oh, maybe I have to use my thumb for like my phone or some kind of like, I don't know why. But I don't like my thumb.

My thumb is one of the last things I'll get crummy. I'm trying to imagine. But I really am just like... I mean, I understand every once in a while, I guess. I might do both. I might double layer. I don't think my middle finger is involved. Interesting, timing.

But yeah, just a random thing I thought of... Is there anything else that you just don't use... Like, you just boycott your thumb? I don't think so. I don't know of other things, but it's like... I just was eating chips and I was like, huh, my thumb is staying clean. and I wonder if that's like a normal thing. If we were to do the draft,

this is a slippery slope, so just, yeah, let's just acknowledge that off the top. If we were to do the draft of body parts, like a schmores of body parts, where would thumb rank in your draft? Pretty high.

Yeah. Like how high though? I don't know, because I mean, body parts. I know. We go in like external or like organs. And we can do,

no, let's do, uh, probably just external. Yeah, that's probably easier. You have your organs. You have a brain.

And it's a pair. Like you can't, you can't just do left arm or right thumb or something. So you get the eyes. Yeah. You get the nose. You get the mouth. You get both ears.

Yeah. I mean... I think you have to go eyes to start. Okay. I think I would. I think I would too. Yeah. That's probably the best sense.

Or mouth. You get the whole mouth. You have to go lips, tongue teeth. Dude, if you don't have a mouth, you're done. Yeah. You can go, you go nose. You can. go nose through the mouth. Like you can still taste through your nose. You get used to that, I guess.

I think eyes and mouth have got to be one and two. Okay. And then where? But isn't I go hands before arms. Like if I lose out on the draft. A hamburger helper is like floating hands. Yeah, timing takes arms. Oh shoot. Well, at least I got hands. I don't know where you're going to put them, but at least I can eat chips. Isn't the nose a big part of like tasting though or something? Yeah. Yeah. Tones. Oh, my thing about talking. I don't care about eating as much. talking. Sure. Does the tongue, is it, is it a package with the mouth? I think so.

You get lips tongue teeth. You do? Okay. The mouth is good because that's a lot of, that's a lot of, that's good at all high value. It has a retail rival. That's right. High dollar purchase. Yeah.

I mean, thumbs though. Yeah, thumbs are up there. Like you need those things for everything but chips apparently. Yeah, thumb is huge. But if you can, if Jake can go hands. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, I really wanted to bunch. Ghosties out there, try to, let's do the thumb challenge.

We'll call it Thumb Challenge, and you get to choose one hour out of every day for the next seven days to not use your thumb. See how it goes. Yeah, yeah. Walk a while a mile on my shoes. That's what I do. It's how I live my life. Seriously, though. Thumbs are amazing.

Yeah, they're awesome. Chips, barely. So it'll be fun. The Mount Rushmore, or, yeah, the draft of body parts. It's been decided. All right. You want to do a review of the week? Yeah, we got some good ones.

I've got one from Bryce. It's spelled with an eye. Oh, yeah. Breece. Cool. Breaché. This podcast is amazing. Should have written this years ago.

I got to work lawn care for a couple years during school, so I had a lot of podcasts and audiobooks on rotation. Ghostrunners is the only podcast that I kept at 1X speed over the years, and now as I get to rock my kids to sleep, anytime one of my friends becomes a dad, I send them a DoorDash gift card in episode 152, Puddle City. Thank you all so much for bringing me back to camp, loving the king, and being funny. Shouts out, Tootin Brothers.

Oh. Cool. I like that review. It had a lot in it. Yeah, absolutely. You think he's a Tootin brother himself? Not that I know. Tudan Brothers still doing things?

I don't know. Okay. I don't know what they're up to. We should do a little reunion concert for him. Yeah, I should. I got an email. I think I'm going to read it to you and then I'll say, hey, is this a good thing to say their name? I think it's one of those things where it's like now that I say it's like, well, why would I be embarrassed to say?

There's nothing. It's just personal information. This woman said, I've listened to this podcast for about three years. Around the one year mark of listening, I've been talking more and more. It's the man I had a huge crush on. Nathaniel. He said his name. We trade music and podcast suggestions since Ghostrunner is such a personal podcast.

I didn't tell him about it for a while. But one night after being talking until 20, 12 a.m., then 1 a.m. I gave it. Told them about it, not expecting him to listen because I didn't think he liked me that much. Well, to my excitement, he started listening because he did like me and wanted to have something to talk to me about. From then on, we had something to chat about, Jake, Brad, and Timon. We started dating and carried our love for the pod throughout that time. We're married now, and we still listen to every episode and discuss each one. You guys have played a huge part in our journey. With both of our lives on display, we have learned so much from you both,

your conversations that we get to listen in on, have affected us deeply and helped us grow, from learning about each other to falling deeply in love with each other. Thank you for your consistency, wit, positivity, and love for each other. We appreciate you guys, Brad, Jake, and Tyman so much. That's awesome. I think he's that name. From Julianne.

Julianne and Nathaniel. Proper names. That's really cool. Julian. Yeah, we are like one of the common denominators. That's sweet. Yeah. In their early relationship.

I still know. I do love those like accounts where it's like, yeah, we text about the episodes every week. You know, I rekindled my friends over this person because, you know, whatever. It's like, that's cool. So awesome. That is fun. It's awesome. All right.

Go Chiefs, man. That's right. Hey, it's college basketball season. Congrats. Hawks are cooking. Feel free to get on that bandwreck. Really, college basketball in general right now, I'm not, if you're a casual person out there, but you want to like, you've ever had love for college basketball, this is the year to get back to in. Oh yeah. There's a lot of good teams,

including some nice white teams. So if you're a racist out there, look for Nebraska, look for Illinois, they'll be right up your alley. They're really good though. Nebraska's amazing this year. Speaking of whites, I've been watching more Winter Olympics than I thought I would. Yeah, dude, it's awesome. Just find myself watching it. Slalom? With the drone that's going as fast as they are. It's 75 miles an hour. Really enjoying the FPV drone footage we're getting this year. Yeah, I don't know why we can't mute the audio on it. But yes, loving that they introduced the FPV drones and all, pretty much the only events I've watched are where people are going like the speed of sound down a hill. So cool. Women's downhill skiing, men's down skiing. The men got up to like

90 something miles an hour. Really? I haven't watched that. Imagine going 90 in a car, but not being in a car and being in spandex going down. Just hoping that your knees don't give in. Yes, and hoping your meniscus has enough cushion as you go around this corner. It's like, I think I understand why Lindsay Vaugh got hurt. It's like, yeah. You watched any ilia? Ilya. What's that? Oh, he's the quad god is what they call as a friend of figure skating. No, I haven't. I don't watch it. They don't go fast. Dude, they go kind of fast. No, I do want to see the backflip. Yeah, this is when I out loud, I was like, you know you have an eight-year-old daughter when you're watching figure skating on Super Bowl Sunday. Like before, like instead of watching pregame, I was watching figure skating with

having. I kind of, I was kind of into it. Yeah. I got more into curling. I know that's not fast at all, but I was more into that than I thought, U.S. versus Estonia, pretty close match. Really? And there's a spot, it's in Blue Springs, so it's a little farther away, but the Kansas City Curling Club, you can go play. Okay. I might. You think about it? I might this week. Yeah, I'm into it. Sure, it's packed. Yeah, right. This is the time of year. It's like New Year's solutions. The gym's always really busy on, you know, January 1st. Every four years. Every four years, Casey Curling Club sees a bump. Packed. Yeah. The Olympics have been fun. My family loves it. Oh, that's another thing. We got to talk about this real quick. Um, my kids love. Well, I'll give you a hit.

I'll give you a guess. Can you think of somebody that's a character in the Olympics right now? Character is in like a, he's not Snoop Dog. They love Snoop Dog. It's hilarious. It's hilarious that they even know who Snoop Dog is. Wow. But like every time, you know, they're on, Bo, be like, oh, that's Snoop Dog, I love Snoop Dog. Snoop Dog is awesome. I'm like, Bo, you don't know anything.

Who is Snoop Dog to you? All Stoop Dog is to you is. What does he know about? Walks through Italy saying, hey, man, this is going to be crazy up in here. This is about to be so wild up in here. It's cold up in here. It's really cold out here, man. It's not like Compton up in here, you know what I'm saying.

Back to you. Back to you. That's Snoop Dog. Like, Bo, it has Snoop Dog. Maddie both. And I think even Rosie, I heard her say to Snoop Dog the other day. Yeah, my neighbor knows Snoop Dog. Yeah, my neighbor is Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dog is down the street from me. He's my neighbor.

So it's hilarious, though, like hearing them unironically talk about Snoop Dog. Oh, yeah. Snoopaloop. Yeah, he's cool. Yeah, Snoop Dog. Oh. Hey, Bo, will you let me know if Snoop Dog comes back on, please? What is this, man? It's a fun name to say. I get why the kids like that. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, it probably is just the name itself. It is wild that Snoop Dog is just everywhere now.

I know. I was comparing him to like minions. Like how have they permeated culture where they've stuck around this long? Yeah. Snoke dog and the minions. He somehow made the decision of like, hey, I'm going to be safe enough to go anywhere. Like before it was like careful what Snoop's going to say. Yeah.

It's like I can be on the Olympics and be just fine. He's earned it. Job Snoop. Anyway, that's been Olympics talk. Go USA. Go US. Cheers for you guys. See you guys.

Wednesday for a fun episode with The Boys. Asia episode. See you then.