Ghostrunners - 519 - Just Drinks is Happening

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

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Okay, the last time we recorded was, you know, a couple weeks ago. And I think the day after we recorded, I went to go get a haircut. Looks great. Thank you. Figured it was about time. As I'm getting my haircut, this is at Lifetime Fitness. The one is telling me about, you know, we ran this little promo for Valentine's Day. And, boy, it was the most popular one we've ever done, you know.

We're doing this couples, couples massage kind of thing. Like, oh, that's kind of fun. Just kind of like being nice. Oh, because she told me, like, but it's sold out. And I'm going, oh, man, that's too bad. We would have loved to do that. That's great.

And then as I'm checking out, she goes, a spot open up. You and your wife can actually do it. And I go, oh, my gosh. We have to. What time is it? Yeah. And so the people please are in us,

I mean, just fully committed. So we, I booked a haircut, and I'm getting like a $200 massage. So then, yeah, we get this like, couples massage. So it's like, you know, same room, two tables. You go do this thing. And pretty good massage. I was like, look, as light as tissue can be light tissue, just let's just relax a little bit. It feel good. Yeah. For the first 30 minutes, it was great. And then I'm pretty sure I fell asleep last 30 minutes. I kind of noticed myself twitching a little bit. So is that money well spent.

Is it a win or a loss if you fall asleep? Yeah, I don't know. It's like I still enjoyed it. Yeah. It's very much relaxed. Yeah. Hmm. And they get like rubbing your fingers out. I don't know I feel about that. They rubbed your, you know, like they've got the lotion. And then, yeah, they're like doing like a hand massage and rubbing the fingers. Anyway, um, I don't know. I like, I like this right here, dude. What's this?

The base of the thumb. Kind of that meat of your thumb. Thumb meat. Thumb meat. If they, if they rub my thumb meat, you can have me forever, man. So not only do you get this massage, you each get some roses. Uh, you get some champagne. You guys love champagne.

We love champagne. tell you what else we love is desserts because you actually get chocolate covered strawberries. And so we're like, do we ask for like no chocolate? No, don't be annoying. We'll figure it out. It's what we say, they say in the chocolate covered strawberries. You're actually in the bonus, the bonus room, kind of the couples room that we have. Okay. We're like, what is the bonus room? What are other couples doing in here? Okay. So we get in one of those odds and then, yeah, they escort us to what it's just like, I'm pretty sure it's someone who's recently been fired. It's like their office. So they've renovated their.

office in lifetime where they've just like done the bare minimum and there's like a couple balloons there's some like decorations on the ground and apparently they couldn't quite commit you know we were promised dark car strawberries we got just like um wrapped like golden wrapped chocolate you know like just like that nice chocolates and like yeah yeah like a dove chocolate or something like stuff like that and i kept referring it to because when she's telling us about this like so we'll do your massage and later we'll take you to the bonus room and i go whoa sounds like a little bachelor fantasy suite And I kept referring to it as the Fantasy Suite.

Well, this happened on, I think it was on Valentine's Day. It would have been a Saturday. There's a PPA tournament going on. Our sponsor player, Rachel Warbacher, she is playing in like, oh, a really big match. And it's on right then. It's live. And so as we get to the Fantasy Suite, Rachel's like, well, let's put her on. Let's watch.

And so we're in there. I don't know what we're supposed to be doing. I don't know how long our session is in here. But we've just pulled up professional pit. We're sitting next to each other in office, Jerry. watching professional pickleball. Their office chairs, they're not even like comfortable.

Just like the office chairs like this. And I kept joking with Rachel, I said, if someone were to walk in, because you can hear people walking by constantly, I said, if someone were to walk in on us, I said, it is more embarrassing that we're watching pro pickleball than like if we were fooling around.

Like this is the most embarrassing it can be. Is that what it looks like? Yeah. It's her first tournament with the fever one or two. The previous edition wasn't a UPA proof. Oh my gosh. gosh. But it was very odd. Like, what happens in the bonus room?

We were in there 30 minutes. No one came knocking. I mean, we could have had an hour in there, I guess. They never, like, they didn't say like, we'll be back in 20. Well, he will come knock or whatever. I don't know what it's for or what other people do in there. Yeah, massage. And then, like, you come, you know, a wall shared with Terrence's office. Yeah, right. You hear on the other side, like,

so we're going to have to let you go. Oh, geez. Just watch the game. Just watch the game. Just watch the game. Just watch the game. But I did get a massage for Valentine's Day. Oh, Happy Valentine's Day, man. Thank you.

What did you do for Valentine's Day? What did I do? Um, oh, nothing. I mean, yes, we went to Bose basketball game.

And then, uh, that night we had Andy's, when got some Andy's. How is Andy's doing? This is my first time in a long time. We've been like pretty strict on like, we are not spending any money out right now.

Yeah. Like we're in a, you know, we're in a deficit. So we're trying to tell the mold's gone. So are the, yeah, the M&Ms.

Yeah. M&M stands for mold and mediation. Good. That's good. Yeah, but Andy's great, man. We just shared a single jackhammer. Oh, that's good. It was awesome. It was a great time.

I think we watched Extracted, maybe. We watched something like that. That's a pretty good Valentine's Day. Yeah, pretty easy. I just was like, Catherine, I'd like to take you to Andy's. And by take you to 80s, I mean, go and get it and bring it back. And she was like, the thought that you, the fact that you thought that is just sweeten enough for me. So I was like, okay, great. So what would you do for Valentine's Day?

I had a fun bachelor party with my friends. Really? Yeah. It's the first time hearing of this. It was great. I played paintball. You heard about that, right? Paintball? Oh, yeah. Because the effects lasted a long time. That one went pee balling. Uh, it was like paintball, then dinner, then top golf. It was a great day. So it was an actual bachelor party? Yeah, it actually was. Okay. Yeah, for my friend Cole. Um, and paintball, I'm not good at it at all. I think I realized I was a lot of the group was with definitely, like, the majority of them have either, like, genuinely just, like, hunted and shot a lot of their life and played a lot of video games. And so I'm like, I'm at a, I'm deeply like. Yeah, they're using terms that you don't even understand. Yeah, I have a

disadvantage here. Um, but it was still a lot of fun. I, I was glad that when we switched to, like, I don't know, not last man standing. I don't know, we switched to some different method where it was like teams where it was like, okay, it's not as embarrassing when I'm the first, one out every single time, you know? Team Slayer. Team Slayer, yeah. And so. His red squads.

Yeah. But what I didn't expect was then for the following three or four days. This was Saturday. We left for Phoenix on Sunday. And like I just, I couldn't sit down, stand up, go up and downstairs. Like it hurts so bad. Like the exercise aspect of it? I think it was all the quilts.

Yes, it was all the crouching. I never do. The joystick and crouching. I never do anything in my life. life where I'm like crouching up and down like for two hours straight. Yeah. And it hurts so bad for the days after that's great. Yeah. It was like and I tried not to, like a slight just decline in time. It's like, oh, how are you guys doing this? Wait till you get older. Five percent grade. Truly it's like any slight downhill was like. Time is like starting to crawl. Steve Coop's style.

Here we go. All right. Yeah. That it works there. Yeah. That's funny. It was great. That's like Catherine, uh, came and played basketball. It was like, like Catherine Hattie versus Bo and I one time in the driveway. A couple days later she was like, I am so sore from basketball. Yeah, I just don't, I don't exercise. It's those muscles. Yeah. So it's just like, I don't, these muscles don't get used.

Yeah. It was like, yeah. And some wells or some pain, but like is mainly the legs. Yeah. Never have I ever paintballed. I just done it once. I'd say, do it. I think it's too much of a weenie.

I'm too worried about the hurting of it. I mean, it hurts enough to where it's like a good deterrent to not want to get shot. Yeah. You know, it's like mimics real life. We were talking about that. It's like a good, just like one percent taste of probably how it actually feels like be in a battle where it's like, I don't want to stay hidden. Like, I don't want to get shot.

It hurts. Really? But I think that kind of adds to the rush. It's definitely, it's fun. It's probably why I've never done it is because I'm like, I don't think I would care enough about not getting. I mean, I think I would, but not enough to like crouch and hurt my legs forever. So I'm like, just hit me.

It's fine. I might have crouched less had I known what was coming. but I've known the storm that was waiting. Yeah, it is like, I enjoy adrenaline and I enjoy thrill-seeking things, but I don't think I want it in the realm of like, you're trying to shoot me and I'm trying to shoot you. I'd rather it be something else.

Let's go fast down a hill. Yeah, yeah. Let's jump off something. Let's do something together rather than against each other. Where, like, physical pain is 100% going to happen. Yeah. I definitely, it's part of not having brothers. Maybe.

You don't like roughhouse. You don't like fight and stuff. It's like, I'm like, I'm okay. Yeah. When do we do this with in Catan? I was just a worried. I was, I was kind of a timid boy. Like, I've never been horseback riding because I'm like, I don't know.

That sounds. I don't know. What have they buck me off? Horsets is the fear. I can smell the fear. You probably can. You know? Yeah.

Something like, yeah, I'm okay. I think it took me a good 20 minutes to be like, I'm going to have fun, then I had fun. Because it was like, I think it's like, I think I'm with you. where it's, that's not my natural, like, first choice of activity, especially where it's like, yeah, let's team up against each other and shoot each other. Just like, I think it's probably a lack of, I don't know what it is, but I just like, not my favorite thing, but then I had fun. Did you go to the, the caves? Yeah, that's cool. It was so cool. I've heard, I've heard awesome. Jagers or whatever? Yeah, Jagers. It was super cool. Did you guys ever get into or played Nerf, like Nerf?

not like they like some people these days are like they have a hundred nerf thing like I mean I had some Nerf guns but like no I never played like that that's one thing too I need to be educated on that because I I've always filled to see like the draw to that you got to pick them all up it's hard to know even if you've been hit like what's the honor system with a Nerf battle I don't know I just it's just a gateway I feel like kids Bose age would probably be into that but like older you get the more you're like we don't need a new nerve and I feel like maybe that's what I was seeing a lot like people more in like middle school youth group high school youth group hey Nerf battle this weekend oh really like when you were in youth group they were doing it maybe not in high school but yeah it's like

that word Nerf was being thrown out a lot like is there something I'm missing or I'm not seeing here with the nerve who knows man maybe they make some CO2 Nerf shots these days they're pretty fast pretty cool there's a guy in college it was like right when I moved in I was like what is college about to be like showed me his Nerf collection I was like geez all right on right on that's cool man you know how to dribble of basketball or? Yeah. He did not. I just got a text from your dad.

I texted your dad and Rachel a question. I'm going to do later. Well, that's fun. He had a good answer. I got permission to talk about something. I've been under embargo for about a month or so now. Okay. Permission to speak?

Yes, please. Probably three or four weeks ago on our podcast. It was fun. It was we were talking, we were having time and rank how security was for different phone calls. You know, it was like, oh, this person asked for, you know, this type of phone call. It was crazy time. The next day after that, Parker Teal, one of the gas boys, oh yeah. Remember, he texted me, do you have time for a five-minute phone call? I'm like, this is perfect. This is great with our ongoing theme of people are giving you nothing,

and you have to just call them blindly. Yeah. And so I said, yeah, of course. And so give him a call, and he goes, hey, so I need to, I need to ask your permission for something. I was like, what is this about to be? It's like, Park and I are friends for sure, him, Gavin Christian, awesome guys. Like, but I don't see him a ton. We don't talk a ton. He's asked my permission for something. Long story short, he and his dad are going to start just drinks officially.

Whoa. It's going to be a real business. No way. In Longview, Texas. Amazing. Yeah. But he was like, I don't mention it yet. we still got some like legal stuff to figure out whatever and I text them I was like dude come on

let me tell people let me tell people no way yeah that's awesome yeah so he was like I just he's like I've been working this other job and I I had this entrepreneurial spirit and like I'm working for myself now but even while I'm doing this job I find myself daydreaming about wanting this job you know I'm like dude I get I've been all this year and his dad's in a spot where he's ready to take on a new project so they're going to do it together and he goes dude it's been a probably four or five months and I can't think of a name better than just drinks. He's like, I actively didn't want to take your name. He's like, I can't think of anything better. Just drinks. Yeah, he's like, I mean, I've thrown around so many names and I just always come back to Just Drinks.

And so that's why. Anyway, I just wanted to ask for your permission. I go, dude, I would be honored. I was like in some day down the road, I would love to be involved. I was like, I don't want to be just given something, but I would love to earn the opportunity. Like, if you do franchise and you need someone to invest, like, I would love to be a part of it. via, you know, earning my way in, but no, you can have the name. Yeah, just drink in the city. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's so fun. I think the ghosties will think that's so cool. So who knows? I mean, it'll be probably minimum six months before it's actually up and running. But yeah, that's fun. Somewhere around Longview, Texas, there's going to be like a

just drinks, either hut or cart or something like that. I love that. Yeah. Yeah. I've been fired up for like a month basically. Like, I want to tell people. Just drinks. Just drinks. I remember where I was leaving Meadowbrook Park being like, oh, McDonald's sweet tea would hit. Yeah. But then I got to go through the line. And they're ordering hot food and the fries aren't ready. And that was my life back then. Time and ask. Ask if Just Dr. Rinks has something.

Do you guys have like a burger or like some kind of like savory food? Uh-uh. No, it's just drinks. Oh. You know what would sound good right now? Like a Dr. Pepper and like some pretzel bites. Could I do that? You could do Dr. Pepper.

Yeah. But pretzel bites, no. Just drinks. Oh. Just drinks. Okay. So. What about like in the morning?

We do like a little coffee, maybe a little latte. Ooh, ooh, yeah. And then like a sourdough toast or something that was fruit. Ooh, no, just drinks. It's just drinks. What I thought was like a nice refreshing water with lime on the side? Good question. Absolutely.

Well, wait. Lime on the side? Or lime juice in the, like, we'll squeeze it in there. With lime. How are you going to consume the lime? Lime along the rim. Where it's like kind of on the rim, where it's sitting there. Like a solid.

I guess it's a lime. There's a reason to ask this question. You're throwing me through the blender on this one, Tymond. Oh, blender. Oh, yeah. Just drinks. Timon, we have to squeeze it for you because it's just drinks. Yeah, you have to drink it.

We can't risk. But there is a lime in the cart or hut. Get the bleep button ready. I don't think, I don't even know if I. Oh, we don't have one. Have one. Maybe. What?

It's just freaking drinks. Like a milkshake. Could I order a milkshake? We'll see. Malt. We'll see. Try to find these hybrid. Plasma.

We'll see. We don't know if that's a solid. Just drinks. So if it's drinks, it's there. If it's not there. Just drinks. Yeah,

I'm happy for him. He seems really driven and yeah, he's going to take it on with his dad and they're just going to get to dominate it. That's pretty cool. He's told me I was,

because in it right away, I can't help. I'm not like Pokedos, but I'm asking questions. Okay, how many people live here? Okay, what's the market? Like, you know, And he's like, there was like 85,000 people here and we have nothing like it.

And I go, oh, dude, Joyful Java is crushing it in a town that barely has, you know, infrastructure at all. Yeah, you know, you're going to be, you're a plenty of people. Like they filled out their forms on a, like, piece of paper and had to like send it in with a stamp on there. Like joyful Java is doing just fine. 80,000 people. Yeah, that's fun. Oh, yeah. That's so, yeah.

Longview. That's near Tyler. I think, yeah, it's like even Easter. Okay. Easter Island, Texas. East of Texas. East of Dallas. Let's go.

Just drinks, dude. That's fun. Happy for Parker. That's crazy. Hey, if you're happy and you know what, roll the theme song. 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.

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to know, just in case. Anyone can call or text for free confidential support from a train responder anytime. 988 suicide crisis helpline is funded by the government in Canada. I do have a question. And I think this is a fun who are we presented by? That's my question.

No, masonroasters.com. All right, what's your question? Okay, extracted. This is a little bit of a spoiler. Do you mind? I don't mind. It's not that much of a spoiler. I love talking extracted.

I barely even seen the show, but I love talking about it. Okay, it's not that much of a spoiler because it's not like we're going to tell you who is in this portion. But near the end of the show, near the end of the season, they have basically a final competition. So it's not like whoever is the last one standing. It's like there's three people left. Okay. They all go to this. It's a big one.

It's four people. And, they have this lockbox that contains the clues to find the final like prize okay and the lockbox is a code a five letter five letter code

and the code is created by the code in HQ this is so fun for this person in yeah in the wilderness to try to guess the code And obviously the faster they guess the code, the more likely they are going to get the clues to get to the final prize. I have five letters. And my dad has to like telepathically figure out.

So I want you to, I think we should try to do it. Maybe we could do it so many different ways. But I texted your wife. She hasn't responded yet. I texted your dad. And I said, here's the deal. And you cannot use the clue.

Well, no, never mind. I'm just going to say that, first of all. There's no other parameters beyond that. Just like, I enter in five-letter code. You have as many tries as possible, so it's not like you have to nail on the first try. But he just has no clues.

He has nothing to go off of right now. Right. Because I think they gave them a few parameters in H-Q, but I don't think they said those same parameters to the people. So my dad gets a shipment from this guy. It's like, hey, your son is giving you a code word, try to figure it out. Yeah, but let's say for this instance,

you are the one in the wilderness. Oh, my dad has chosen. I texted your dad. I was like, what word would we say together? And it has to just... Oh, wait, you and my dad are working together to give me a code. Correct. Correct.

Because that's what, I mean, because he chose the code already. If it was numbers and it was just me and my dad, I think we have enough, like, weird family numbers. Let me see. What else I said? Five letters. I have one guess. Okay.

First one, if it's you and my dad doing it together, ghost. Good guess. Not. But that's, that, I talked to Catherine. I was like, what would you do for? Uh-huh. Like if it was, and that was one of the things I said. It was like, ghost.

Anyway, yeah. Hmm. I know. It's interesting that not a ton of things are coming to mind that are like exactly five letters. Timon. Try to think of one for you and me for Jake. Oh. And text me.

Yeah. Besides ghost, obviously. Because I'm trying to think you and my dad working together. For some reason, that makes it tougher almost. Yeah. What word would you guys do? If it was just me and my dad, we would, I think I would figure something out. I think I have one for you and, or me and

Rachel, but I want to see what she says first. Yeah. You and my dad trying to give me a code. Dude, what are you guys thinking of over there? I'm in the wilderness, dude. What's that five letter code? I just get talking about great answer. Scott. Good guess. Steve. That was, yeah, that was what I was going to say for Rachel. Like Rachel and I would say, Steve. Yeah. Like names are good. That was the parameter I was going to say at the beginning is like, we can't say our own names. Okay. Yeah.

Jakey. Yeah. Hmm. This is a fun game. I know. Oh, man, if I was in the wilderness, I'd be stressed right now. And everyone else is right around you trying to do the codes at the same time. Yeah.

And you just have no clues other than like, what do I know about Brad? What I know about my dad? Trish, I think would be pretty good. He didn't say Trish. He didn't. I did say it has something. I gave him the parameter like the description of. it would have something to do with all of us

slash something we have in common and we couldn't give them any clues beyond that. It said it can't be any of our name so Steve is obviously out. So we all have in comment. I mean something about that old baseball team. I'm trying to think of any five better words with the old baseball team like John is Johnny.

Yeah, coach is good. Coach is good. Weren't you the sort of speed, you know, speed? Yeah, speed. Sluggers. Slug with two Gs. Any guess is timing of what Steve? would say. What Steve would say is you and Steve for Jake. Five letters. This is tough. This is a fun

game though for like families to have to figure out. I know. Catherine had her first thought was K-Life for us. I was like, oh. I gave her so many other options. I was like Rosie probably. She's like, oh, yeah, that's good idea. Kay-life is good. Henry. No, shoot, you're right. There were so many like people in my family. Yeah, bow hat. Yeah, that's good too. Yeah. Hat bow. Ellis. Ellis. Oh, no. Okay.

For some reason, the first thing I think of is when at Grande Bu, he, like, wore shorts on stage. And so I was going to, I just thought like shorts, but shorts is six. A short. Horts. Or shorts. Yeah. I think it's. Beast.

It's so much, not so much easier, but like, I don't know. I don't want to give you the wrong clue and steering the wrong direction. Chief. Uh, chief. Uh, chief. Maho. my home my ham

ball balls with z what if it was with the z got it yes we don't do this forever but I'll say this this he said he said his answer and then he said blank blank not my sheet rock guy

what what does that mean. How about, how about, I give you one other word, my blank, not my sheetrock guy. My blank? My, floor? Is it a part of the home? Not sheet rock? I don't know. Who is this? Jesus. Oh. My savior, not my sheetrock guy. My savior, not my sheetrock guy. Jeez, is that bad that that never crossed my mind? Never crossed time either. I thought it was going to come up, like, maybe what do I think my dad or family would put?

And I was like, I think Jesus would be that. Yeah, he didn't say it. It did. Didn't cross my mind that far. Didn't cross your tongue. I couldn't think of anything for me, me and you for Jake. Besides, like, funny, I guess, or just like, that's a five-letter word. Ghost.

Joke a lot. Jokes. Jokes. What about? Jokes. What about? Three. There's three? I don't know.

That could work for anybody. Any three-person. Yeah, that's tough. I don't know, dude. I'd probably say Steve. I mean, Steve is a good. Like, just like, hey, go through your family. Steve, Trish.

Yeah. Maham. Maham. Yeah, Maham. Staff. Elvis? Not my sheet rock guy. Oh, Elvis is good for my dad.

Yeah. Dang, that is good. You're better at all this. My family. I don't want to give it away, but there was one team that did a terrible word. Like. Really? Yeah.

A lot of people thought, like, let's do a family member's name. And these people just did a random word. Just frogs. It wasn't that random, but it was like, yeah, he says this word to us a lot. So that's probably what we're going to say on there. He says this word to us.

Dang, that's tough. Anyway. I love so like that. Pretty fun, like, yeah, pretty fun thing to think about with your family. Like, hey, try to think of a word and what would that be for us? Yeah.

Huh. So that's fun. So, yeah, you and Catherine even struggle a little bit. Try to think of your, I mean, I had some great answers and she was like, that's pretty good. I should have thought about this more. K-Life was her initial thought with it.

I don't know if, I think it was just the two of us. I don't think it was like a third party. Anyway. Yeah, I mean, it is fun that there is some prep you can do for that show. Like you said that one guy, like, learned Morse code to be able to tell his family, I'm okay. Yeah. You can, like, learn how to make a fire.

Got to get on a game show. Dude. Johnny Yusuf is, have you heard this? He's applied for a few game shows. Really? I lunch with him the other day. That's funny. I just love Johnny.

He's, he's, what was it called? 99 to 1. It's some like British game show. That somehow somebody has a connection to, but hearing him say it, you know, he's, he's Egyptian, he moved here when he was eighth grade, so he's still got an accent. So he's like, oh, no, it's called 99 to beat. 99 to beat. I don't know, have you heard of this game show?

99 to beat. 99 to beat. He's also on his second interview with Trader. Is he really? I'm like, dude, that one's huge. That's a big one. Which Johnny, from what I know about him, would do terrible on that show

because he's so nice. And Traders is all about being like deceitful. Yeah, backstabbing. He would get so sad. He would be like, they didn't tell me all the truth. Thought you said you want my friend. Anyway.

So we'll get on a game show, Jake. You guys have to. Hey, you're part of Nate Land podcast. He's doing a game show. Easy in. I'll get in touch with him. Just text them real quick. Yeah.

You have his number? You guys are boys? Yes, we are. Anyway. Also, Valentine's Day. We went on a little double date with Sam and Ashland. Sam Hinnaker is a, you know, he's been on the podcast when Timman left us for a season. Yeah.

Yeah. Sam was great for the Air Bud episode. Had some Zingers in there. Made the Instagram clip. Anyway, Sam's great. We love them. Rachel and I kind of like took charge of this double date. We're like, we're going to go to dinner, and then we're going to take you guys to a KC improv show.

We've been to a few of these over the years, and it's actually like, it's better than you'd probably think we're not known for our comedy in Kansas City. Because even at dinner, Ashton's like, I'm already getting nervous for this. Like, I'm already secondhand nervous for like these guys are going on stage. I'm like, I promise you, like, it's good enough to where like we're not going to laugh at them. Like, it's entertaining. Like, you don't need to feel nervous. You don't need to feel bad. Like, they're good at what they do.

Like, we've enjoyed it. It's been a couple years, but we've enjoyed it. and when we get there shows we start at 7 we get there at 7 and there's no one in the audience and I was just quickly

Valentine's Day should we bail should we bail Rachel's like no we're not bailing come on I was like a couple more people trickle in where is KZ improv

it's like in Westport basically flea market no but you know generally around there it's in the parking lot of was it sun fresh it's near great clips

okay got it it's in the back of a bar Okay. Real nice. Real nice part of town, you know. Yeah. Not this classy, but, you know. Yeah.

And in the past, there's, like, usually a crew of, like, eight of them that go up there. And, you know, you've got kind of your favorites and you've got some people, you know, but a guy comes up there. Hey, what's up? I'm going to be your host. And he's in, like, um, chocos, like a ripped shirt and some scraggle. What? Ripped shirt?

What do you mean? Like, his shirt was just, like, ripped, like, the sleeve, just like. Okay. You know, just like, okay, that's different. You know, you're also just, like, anyone ever on a stage of, like, shorts look weird. Uh-huh. You're just seeing someone's legs. I've just never used pretty much pants exclusively on stage.

And then behind him are only two other people. Okay. That are going to be doing this. So immediately, I whispered asht and I go, time to be nervous. Yeah. Time to be nervous. Yeah. And I'm judging a book by cover a little bit, but I'm like, this is just, this is already different.

I don't recognize any guys from last time. Oh, boy. and it was a rough hour and 15 minutes. I mean, it was, it was really bad. I mean, it was, we did have some, we enjoyed ourselves when like me and Sam were contributing things. You know, they said, give us, give us a piece of furniture. And Sam goes, Armour, and the guy goes, say that again?

And Sam immediately, like, crumbles. He goes, I don't want to say it again. I think he got so self-conscious that maybe he mispronounced it. like the fact that this guy didn't know what he was talking about. He's like, just the one, I'm not really prepared to say that to pronounce that a second time.

That's so cool. Zach cracked us up. I don't want to say it again. His voice kind of cracking. We also kept reiterating to Sam and Ashna because they were like, I don't want to get brought up stage. Like, no, we've been to this three times.

Like they don't bring people on stage. Like you give suggestions, but you're not going to, they're not even going to do like crowd work with you. Like they are doing it. Well, we get about 20 minutes into this suffering. And they go, all right,

game we're gonna need people from the audience to join us on stage like oh gosh oh boy and then they're all elbow me shake you have to you have to take because there's not that many people in the crowd because they're like all right if we don't get we're gonna get people uh you know volunteering we're gonna start picket people and then they're all kicking me come you have to sound like how many people in the audience you think uh seven what yeah i thought you were gonna say at least 20 no we were like half maybe nine no that's nothing though yes how how big is how many people could be in the audience. You could fit, oh, I mean, you could cram it with seats. Yeah, I mean, you could cram 100 people in there. Oh, seven people is almost as many as what's in this room right now.

Yeah. Or, you know what I mean? Yeah. So, oh, you all have to volunteer. Yeah. I was like, Sam, do it with me, dude. Who else is going to do this? So I volunteer. They're all like, thank you. And I go up there and the whole time I was on stage, I could help but think I was like, me and Brad could do this so much better right now with zero prep. I was thinking of you while I'm in the middle of the scene. I would Brad would crush this. Me and Brad, I wish Brad was my teammate for this.

Oh, we would crushes. There's just some things like you can only take so many improv class. Like you have to just, you have to have it. Yeah. You have to just like be born with some of the stuff. And the improv game was, um, all right. So me and time were the actual performers and he brought someone up with him and you're my

little helper with me. And we're doing a scene. and when I point at you, you have to say a word. Okay. So it's like maybe like, and then I told the guy, I looked him right in the eyes and I said, Buster? Yeah, exactly. Okay.

Got it. Unfortunately, my guy basically didn't let me contribute. I mean, I'm up there for five minutes and I said like six total words probably. Like he's just like monologing and every now that he throws me a bone. And I was just like, there's so many better ways you could be doing this. Like do every other word like fluster me or something like, you know. Either make it hilariously good or bad. Like, yeah.

And to establish the same, they're like, all right, we need just like a relationship between two people. Sam suggests he goes, a mechanic and the guy who needs his car worked on. It's like, oh, that's kind of fun. Sam is killing. Sam's great.

Armour is great. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, immediately, I'm ready to go. And so, unfortunately, the guy, my partner chooses to be a literal car. So the entire scene, he's like hunched over,

pretending to be a car. not the route I would have gone. No. So then I'm like, I guess we are a car in this scene. Okay. So he points to you every once in a while and you was like, so yeah, I had that thought. I was like eventually I should,

I should act as a human for these first three and then one time I should just go, brim. You know, so I did that and like that got a laugh. I carried. I got a laugh out of the three people in the audience at this point. That's murdered.

I heard a slight chuckle and I was like, oh, I'm crushing right now. Dude. So Rachel's taking all these pictures of videos and every picture, this guy's just next to me like this looking down at me and it was just miserable

and eventually like I was like this is dragging on like crazy and so I the next time he pointed at me I just did a call back to the previous scene and then they were like oh that's good that's good and then I was like you're welcome

you're welcome for ending the scene for you that was oh my gosh but it did get me excited I left that night voice moving time in and Zach and I was like forget stand up we should do improv classes together. This seems way easier.

Yes. Way more fun. That is something we can truly do together. Yeah. And you would get better at it. And you're not suffering through it. I think immediately we got to be in the advanced class. But yeah, I was thinking of you a lot.

I was like, oh, Brad and I would crush this. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I told this son of a, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't know how. Yeah, right. It would be so fun. I wonder, yeah, I would like to learn more about improv. Because obviously I think we have it naturally in us.

But like, I've never, tactics probably. I've never, yeah, I've never learned the science behind, which I feel like a lot of people do. They learn that kind of stuff and know ways to get around something that you don't know or whatever,

whatever it is or like ways to generate ideas or I don't know. But like, I think you and I just kind of, just whatever comes out of our brains is what comes out. But, yeah, I know, you guys would kill it.

I know a few people that have taken improv classes through Casey Improv. Oh, cool. So I wonder if it's just like, it's just whoever just graduated can, now go do this thing kind of thing. I wonder if it's that more than it is. Like I've been to the one at Westport Flea Market. Maybe it's not even there.

I've been there a long time ago. But it was like comedy sports is what they used to call. Oh, cool. I think now it's called Comedy City or something like that. But it's like two different teams competing for who did this, like who was the better. I like that's great. And I always grew up. It was always like a all ages kind of thing that you could go to.

Like there was like an adult show later, but like anybody could go. and if you ever said anything inappropriate on stage, then you got like this like paper bag put over your face. That's fun. Yeah. And so that was pretty fun. Like so even as a young kid, I was like,

this is awesome. So I would love to do it. It would be fun. It seems so much easier. Like this is, it becomes so much more innate than stand up does. Because, because like you have some sort of direction.

Whereas stand up, it's like just talk about whatever you want. Whatever you think is funny. Go for it. Yeah. Like even if somebody were to say, I want you to do stand up, but only,

you can only do. stand up about pickleball. It's like, okay, at least I have a lane. Now I can think of some specific moments that are funnier. It's like, we're looking for pickleball specifically. Make some jokes about the relationship between dogs and cats. Yeah.

Okay, I'll take it something at least. Sweet. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm a male cat and I was in a relationship with a girl dog and that turned out she was a punk. Turned out she was a point to you. That's pretty funny, though.

Seven people is wild. on a Valentine's night. Gosh. There was one, I'm trying to remember it. Like, there was one kind of of improv game

where it kind of was like joke telling, like on the fly, whereas like, um, oh, I think like, give us a number.

And there were, someone said, 180. Okay, great. This game is called 180 walked into a bar. Every round, you're going to tell us a new,

like, type of anything. And the joke will have to start, 180 blank, walked to a bar, and then you have to deliver a punchline. Okay. So it is kind of,

you know, I guess, a little bit of stand up. and someone said like, all right, next round, what he got? Someone's, it was minions. So a guy walks up there, he goes, all right, 180 minions walk into a bar. And then usually it's just like immediate pun. That's like what the format has been.

So for instance, 180 dogs walk into a bar. Can you see some ID? Whoa. Pause. Yeah. That would be the joke. Okay. This guy goes, 180 minions walking to a bar. Bouncer outside looks at the,

the um he he he checks the first minions ID and he like he scans it over and he looks at it and then he lets him in and then the second minion comes up and he looks at his ID and then he's going wait I can't tell any of you guys apart and then he just like walks back to the back of the wall like all right someone else's turn what's rachel doing during all this is she i mean she is so sweet so kind like is she pity laughing like yeah she's being a lot yeah she's like smiling She is a good audience member, I guarantee you. And I notice I'm a bit more like, I am still polite, but I do notice like there is some squirming. Like involuntarily, like can't look at them.

Scrunch your nose a little bit like, ah. Yeah. Rachel's like, sit still. I'm like, I can't. Oh, man. You can't sit still. That's tough. But very enjoyable.

That's fun thing about these shows. Yeah. No matter how it goes. You got stories afterwards. Oh, absolutely. It's great. It went on stage. So I'll probably go back.

That's fun. I mean, I just can't get over seven people in the audience. Yeah. That's not enough people. Next time you see Sam ask about improv night. Dang, I saw him today. Armour, I don't want to say it again. I love his voice, man. He's got a great, like, his, he sounds just like his dad. He's growing into his dad's voice. Got that low voice. So I'm sure he's like, Armour. Sam today, so he came to table setters for the first time. Will is Sam's cousin. So, Will's kind of introducing him. And, you know, Sam's always, Sam's a fashionable guy.

Like, he is, because he used to work at. Oh, yeah. Spindrift. That's it. In Dallas, he worked at trunk club or something. Yeah, I knew some compound word. Whatever it was. Yeah.

Yeah, trunk club. Um, but he was, he was looking cool day. And Will's like, what do you call this thing, man? And he's like, a cardigan. And so that I just like kept like, like, and those things that like, fastened together. How'd you... Butt? Buttons?

Holy. What are those things on your feet? Shoes? All right. And those things that envelop your entire leg all the way down your ankle. Fashion guy. What is that?

Pants. Okay, pants. Pants. All right. Spell that for me. Cardigan. Anyway, it's a great time.

He looked like a nice... Yeah, kind of like one of those like cigar lounge cardigan. He's a cool guy. Sam is a cool guy. Shout out Sammy. Oh, cozy. Time and harmonize.

One more time. Cozy. Jake added one more part. Just kidding. It sounds much more Native American with the second harmony, I would say. Well, my first attempt made it sound like a whole different key and I tried again and it was not better.

Oh, we should have talked. We're in the middle of an ad read, but the national anthem that we heard Saturday. Oh, I forgot about it. It was like one of the worst ones I've ever heard. And we got to hear it in person. Okay, let's pivot. Real quick. So cozy earth is super comfortable. This sounds like it was super uncomfortable.

Uncomfortable. These people probably could have used some cozy earth bed sheets. If you want a cozy earth crew neck, I bet you have seven or eight options. This national anthem had seven or eight key changes. Oh, really? What else, timing? Oh, yeah. I mean, it was like every time you'd hear like maybe five seconds at a time, it's like, maybe she has a decent voice, but the next five seconds were in a different key. Like, oh, say, Can you see by the dawn's early light? What so proudly we held at the twilight's last gleaming? That's pretty accurate.

That's kind of impressive that you can do that. Yeah, that was pretty good. Key change and just like some creative choices on the melody. It was awful. Similar to the creative choices with the bed sheets you have on cozier.com. Oh, there's some fun colors out there. There's some fun sizes. Did you know there's something called a twin size bed?

Yeah. Yep. Fun size. I would say the National Anthem went on about 20 seconds too long, and luckily for you guys, you're going to take about 20% off. Wow. Anything you buy at Cozierth.com with the promo code GRKC. Yes.

USA. USA. They are a USA company. Yep. Bisco's friend from bamboo. Yeah. I recommend anything that has that as the material. Yeah.

Cozierth.com. Yeah, all-time nationally at them. It was awesome. Yeah, it was great. Did you have tears? Because if so, you can wipe them up with some cozy your towels. Good point.

Cozuret.com, GRC. Knock your Cozyerk socks off. Hey! I thought of this earlier today. Oh, first of all, I said, great answer to your dad. And he responded, Trish and I played that same game

a couple weeks ago. Oh. About the five letter. Did not work out well for us. And I said, what did you guys say? He haven't seen the response. but, all right, this is, I don't know if this is, I don't know if this is good or not, but I had this idea to rank these from least respectable to most respectable, okay? And I have a lot of things on here.

So I'm going to text you these just so you can have them for reference. Basically, it's like a ways, ways to pass time. Let's see. Paste. So I said least respectable to the most respectable. Reading a book. Oh, that's great. Reading a magazine. Watching YouTube. Watching a TV show.

Scrolling TV. scrolling your phone. And then I was going to say reading fiction and reading nonfiction. So I guess that's like reading a book. It would be either, let's take out reading a book. Let's do reading fiction, reading nonfiction. How do you rank these?

Reading a magazine. Yeah. Watching YouTube, watching TV show, scrolling TV. There's something different about scrolling TV versus like, What is... Scrolling TV. What does that mean? I haven't settled on anything.

Are you joking? No, I was... That's a jimsy thing to say, right? Yeah, what do you mean? I figured it was something like that. I didn't know. Yeah. Well, back in the day, I mean...

Oh, channels. Yeah, like, changing the channel, just like trying to find something to watch. That's on me. Like, TV guide. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or even just go on channel by channel. That's like hotel vibes.

Yeah. People don't do that as much anymore. No. Turn it on and Cassidy's ready to go. Reading book, reading magazine, watching YouTube, watching TV shows. scrolling TV, scrolling your phone. Is it all in a living room setting?

No, no, not necessarily. Just like you're past, you're, you're, you have free time and you're choosing to do this thing. What's like, what's, what's, what's most respectable, least respectable out of all these? I think I'm ready to lock in most respectable. Okay. I'm going to go with reading nonfiction. Okay. I would heavily agree with that.

Heavily agree with that. Okay. Yeah. I would say my instinct for least respectable is scrolling your phone. that's like, because that's what I do. And I'm like, I would rather be doing any of these things. Okay.

Like on a respect, in the standpoint of respectability. Yeah, respectability. How do you? Scrolling TV is tough, though. Scrolling TV is like, I've really, I don't even have a reason. I guess that's the same way with the phone,

though. It's like, I don't have a reason to be on this. But maybe scrolling TV is like, I can't even get when I want on my phone. I guess I'll just scroll the TV. Yeah. That's like you've reached the bottom. Yeah.

I'm going to, this may be not a popular opinion. I think I want to put reading a magazine as least respectable. Yeah? It's like, dude, we live in a world of modern technology. Have some respect for yourself. A magazine, dude, it could be so much better than a magazine. What did I? I was looking at a magazine.

You're so limited. Sometime recently. And it was unbelievable. I bet 90% of it was advertising. It's like the magazine and the radio are the same thing. Like they're barely hanging on because they have to squeeze it. Yeah. Even like some of the,

articles were like, is this, this is another ad. I read it for a second. I was like, no. It's just an ad mass as an article. It was so bad. Oh, I've seen a magazine a while. I like read. I like reading a magazine. I think that's pretty respectable. Like, yeah, I think, because maybe like three weeks ago, I was at home and I found like these old magazines I loved as a kid. What are they? Nature, nature friend is like nature magazines. I think it's like a Mennonite company. I don't know what it is, but like these just like Christian nature magazines. And I read through when I was like, this was a way better use of my time than my phone.

Okay. Okay. It's not least respectful. Yeah, it's a little bit vague because obviously magazines can be a lot of different things. Yeah, there can be. Yeah, it's true. I'm thinking of like pop culture magazines, I guess.

Right. Yeah. Even like a good housekeeping, though, I'm like, I bet you can get a more curated type of content on your phone. That's something's fun about the analog. Yeah, but there's something about, yeah, just like physically holding it versus, yeah.

Smelling some. perfume in there. That's not bad. Oh, I loved those. Yeah. Cologne smells pretty good. Shove it on your neck. I think I might put watching YouTube as second... I thought I was confident, but no, I was going to say second least.

Really? But actually... This guy hates YouTube. I think that's... I've been watching these educational, deep-sea wildlife YouTube videos. Look, pretty good use of my time. Yeah? So, I'm not to put that there.

They get huge down. down there. In the deep parts of the sea, like normal animals just, like, get bigger. It's like deep sea gigantism or something like that. It's weird. Really? And there's some weird.

Puffer fish is the size of, you know, small boats? Not quite like that, but like, even just like the giant squid that you've probably heard about. It's like the size of a school bus. It's like, yeah. What? But there's no, there's like one like little, a couple little clips of it that had ever been filmed

because it's like, how do you find it in the, in the pitch black sea? It's crazy. I think I also talked about this recently. It does make sense why it is easier to explore space in the ocean. Yeah. Because there's light in space. We have sun and stars.

We don't have light in the ocean. We can't get light down the ocean because the pressure. You can only, yeah. It's like an unexplorable. Whatever you get. Explain that. What do you mean? Just like it's obviously you get below even 20 feet of the ocean.

It started gets pretty dark, you know. So you run out of light to even see things. And you think about how much ocean there is and how deep it goes. Like that's a lot of square footage. that is completely dark. And because of the pressure, like it's very hard to send people down there to see things. You can't even send technology down there to see things.

You know, it's hard to get light down there. It's hard to get a camera down there. And these animals live in this pressure. It's crazy. Yeah, that's interesting too. And like, that's why they get so big. It's like, most of them don't have like real bones.

It's like that's how they don't like get crushed. Yeah. It's, I love these videos. Watching YouTube might be up there. Because, I mean, it depends. But it's like, when I think about that, it's like, that's made me appreciate the world more. Okay.

Dude, yeah, these, like, there's these fish that just give off their own, like, it looks like LED lights. Oh, the ones for finding Nemo. Yeah. That's a real fish. That one with the light in front of it? I always thought that was like a Pixar. Even more than that, though. Move magic.

There's these fish that will look like they're an LED strip that's, like, cycling through RGB. It's insane. But these are, like, fish that are just giving off their own light. That's, like, different colors. Red, green, blue. Yeah, or just like... Like an LED strip. they're cycling through the colors of the rainbow.

Really? It's insane. It is insane. There are a lot of crazy fish. What? Like, once again, like, I know we're not going to worry about it once we're there, but like, when we get to heaven, are we just going to be able to be like, check out all these things you've never seen before in the ocean? Like, I want to know. I want to know everything that I don't know.

Like, tell me, like, show me how, how amazing you are, Lord. Like, did the OJ do it? Also, I got to know. Curious if the glove really did fit. It was because he had that latex one on underneath. That had to affect it, right? Right? He's like, why don't you hear from yourself? It's like, OJ's here?

Okay. Okay, sorry. Go back to the big squid. Yeah, yeah. This is a lot. School boss. Yeah. I have not heard about this giant squid thing.

I don't know anything about this guy's stuff. Sperm whales. I watched a whole thing on just sperm whales. They're these, like, they have these huge heads. Their brains are the biggest brains in nature. They're like, scientists think that they, might have an actual language. Like there's these like these series of clicks

that have different dialects like based on where they are. And there's like speculation, it's like it's really hard to study it and obviously like try to translate clicks. But it's like some people think they might have a language. That's amazing to speak to each other.

I guess I thought that was already like understood with the clicks. Well maybe so. But it feels like animals that like communicate with each other. not like they're talking to. They're not using words. They don't have sophisticated brains, but it's like sperm whales have pretty smart brains.

Wow. But anyway, they like fight. The people find sperm whales with like huge suction cup scars. From like they got cubs. They eat these giant squid, but they have like battles underwater. That like not never like it's never been captured like a full battle on camera like but this just happens in the deep pitch blackness of the ocean. It's wild.

Wow. Yeah. Back to heaven. Okay. You're a deacon. What? What's going to happen? Do you think like,

yeah. Will we have, yeah, will we even care to know about the world we used to live in? No. Probably not. No. Yeah. I mean, everything you read is just like, oh, yeah, you can't even fathom how much better it gets. This will seem so insignificant.

Everything we did down here. Yeah, I'm not a theologian. I don't know. I'm not trying to act like I know. Deacon. deca logan that that dude that's that joke has gotten

abused by Sam Severs he's hitting I mean every time they every time they need anything not truly but like hey you're a deacon now so can you help out Etowana

Deacons probably got it yeah I can hey you're a deacon now so you have to say yes look at Brad the Deacon helping up no I think I don't know

I just don't think we're gonna we're gonna have any worries we're not gonna have any like if we don't have any worries, then how can we have super significant interest in this? Because it's like, this is going to pale in comparison. So therefore, why does this matter compared to? But I wonder, the glory in front of us. Like, do you think that we'd be able to explore? Yeah, we wouldn't care. But like, because there'll be, it'll be like the earth but restored, right? I guess it's like,

yeah, like, will we, there still be oceans that have like wildlife to explore? I don't know. I don't know. I feel like maybe. There's going to be some guy that's like, there better be fishing in heaven. Yeah, if the Lord's built me a house, it better put a pond out back. They better have a few reels back there.

Yeah, I'll be baitcasters either. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. I don't know. Good question. Yeah. Okay, so. Oh, yeah, back to.

It's okay. We don't have, I mean, no, I was just more like, I've been watching a lot of YouTube tutorials. I've been getting really, into mold removal. Golly. Honestly. Everything like that. Honestly.

Thanks for bringing that up. There's a random thought I had. I don't know. Just like mold removal. But I've been doing a lot of like very, very simple to the people that know what they're doing, but a lot of electrical work on my house. If you need any electrical work, I'm helping you. Right now is like your peak knowledge of like, I know so much. I got it.

I think I'm ready. I think I got it for at least like, oh, from what I know. Like anybody that knows electrical is going to be like, is nothing. But I changed out every single outlet in this Airbnb house, every single light switch, every single overhead light. And so like, I'm just more comfortable with that than I've ever been before. Can I talk to you about some electrical stuff? Yes. See what you know. I know when ever the generators went out in the Bondi truck, I wanted to power them via just like an outlet on the inside where it's like the generators are giving me like 30 amps or something like that.

Okay. But my inside outlets are not like 220 volt or anything like that. that that would be enough power. But so like the ones are the outlets are on my kitchen weren't powerful enough. But there's one over here that is powerful enough. It's still like a little three-prong outlet. But that area. It was 30 amp. I think. You think? Yeah. Like that's what the generators are giving. You know, they're like the big plugs. Right. Tesla plugs. Let me just preface this by saying maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. Yeah. And I don't know enough info from two years ago to remember. But I do think you can go down and look at your breaker box. And a lot of the breaker boxes will either be 15 or 20. I don't think most of them are 30 though, unless it's like oven or something like

220 volt. But yeah, you can see on there. Like you can go figure out what light goes to what breaker. Usually it's either 20 or 15. And maybe that was the difference where like most of the outlets in your house are only 15, but I had a couple outlets that were 20 and 20 was enough to still power the truck. I see. I was like, that's so interesting. Why are they different? A lot of times. Yeah, the ones that are on, you know, have you heard of GFCI? Yes. Okay. So that's like. It's got the reset button on it, right? Yep. Usually it's like you have to have those near water so that you can't like electricate yourself with a, yeah, with a hair dryer that falls into the water or something like that.

And I think usually those are more often on 20 volts. I don't think always. Hand up. I don't think always. But I learned a lot about that because it's like you need the GFCI outlets, but you don't necessarily need the actual like press button for every single outlet that just needs to be on the same line. Like it needs to go downstream from this. So like, anyway, so like if, if this gets tripped, then it will all trip out. Or whatever, anyway.

Are you prepared? Are you knowledgeable enough to be a like test the charger installation guy? No, no, no, no. Run the copper. Not, not. 2.20 is scary. Because like, if you get, have you ever gotten like, have you ever touched like a live, like regular water, like 15?

I've been electrocuted twice by touching stuff. Yeah. And like, that's like, woo, whoa. Yeah. Like it kind of just like makes you go like that. And you're like, oh, I didn't like that feeling. If you get electricuted by a two. 220, you will be dead.

Like, you can, you'll, you'll, you'll fly across a room. It's that much more powerful. I believe so. From what I understand, like, don't mess with, like, I would, like, I know Isaac's done it, and I'm like, I would not mess with that. Yeah. Personally. Like, uh, but I don't think it's that scary.

I just, the, what, the risk versus reward of like, okay, I'd rather pay somebody to pay someone to do it. $300 to do this one. I don't know how to, I've never looked into, like, how to, like, get new power from a breaker. how to do that. I just know how to like replace what's already there basically. Good for you. A little electrician. Dude, I've been, I've been learning stuff lately. Because on this Airbnb house, the guy that's

working for me on it, it's just going slow, man. And I'm like, we got to get this thing done. So I've been working on all this. Time is De Niro, my friend. Pretty much. He gets there like 11 o'clock every day. He doesn't, he only stays like four. It was not like he's like, he's 11 to 8. That's fine. It's like, no. Why is you doing that? I don't know. I am not. I'm not. I'm not. confrontational enough. If you show up early, I'll pay you more. Tell me, tell me if I, dude, let's talk. Let's air some grievances. Um, whatever. I don't, I, if you ever listens to this, I, I love this guy. Truly like, and that's, that's what's so hard about this dilemma that I have. So basically, I told him at the beginning of February, I said,

hey, long story short, every month, like every first of every month is when I have to make a big payment for, like, my loan. So, uh, I was hoping to have it done by, March 1st so that we can change it to a different kind of loan and not have to just burn money every month, basically. And so I was like, hey, if we can get this thing done by February 21st, I will pay you $2,500 more, which is February 21st, whatever that was, was Monday. Great. A little performance bonus. Yes. Dangal the carrot a little bit. I'm like, this is already taking like 10 weeks instead of like six that I was expecting it to be, you know, this cost me money every month. I'd rather pay you than pay this company. Can we do that? And,

that way it'll give me enough time to like refinance into this thing. And he's like, yes, of course, we'll have it done. He doesn't have it done by Monday. He claims he's going to have it done by Friday. And he,

and I've already paid him all the money I owe him. But I haven't paid him for the, you know, like the bonus because he didn't get the bonus. He didn't do it in time. And he asked me the other day, he's like, and can I get paid either Friday or Saturday for the final payment?

And I'm like, I like, I like this guy. a lot. I would say his work is average. Like he's not like above and beyond doing great job. He's not working super. Like it's like one thing. He's like man, he's been busting it every day. He just hasn't, he just had more than he thought he was. It's like no, you didn't get like one day he didn't get there to 1 p.m. He left at 4.30 and he had a lunch break in between of a little Caesar's pizza. Yeah. Doesn't matter what he's eating. But I'm just saying. He kind of does. He's a nice, nice guy. That's the thing. I'm like, I like, he's like a friend of

That's why I'm like, ah, do I, do I say, hey, man, you didn't get done in time? I'll give you half. Do I say, hey, man, you didn't get done in time. I'm on a budget. Nothing. What would you do? It's so much easier to like, especially play hardball when I'm not in your shoes. Also, also especially knowing like, hey, this other house is not selling and costing me more and

and more and more and more and more. And so it's like, is this the time where I stand up for myself? Is this the time where like, is it really that big a deal in the grand scheme of things? Maybe it's just pay him and like not feel. bad, I don't know. What's the like, I guess, supply and demand of like contractors and workers? Like, do you have another guy you could go to? Yes.

Oh, okay. Then that. But, but I still don't like having bad relations. Or I don't want him to think like that guy's not fair. I'm like, I don't, there's nothing on paper that would make me think I'm not fair, except for just feeling sad for him. I don't know. Yeah.

I mean, it's tough to say what I would do if I was in your exact situation because I would probably be really nice. but from the outsider, I can act like I would be like, hey, dude, I wanted to pay you. And I feel like I laid out clearly, correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like I laid out clearly what needed to happen for you to earn this bonus and you didn't do it. Like I would like, we could set up something like that in the future the next time I need a project done expeditedly. But right now, right. I can't do it. And yeah, you know, I know, man.

That's kind of, I mean, of course, I talk to Tate. It's like, do not pay. And I'm like, ah, I don't know, man. mean the same thing happened with this Leewood house though where like they ended up doing like because they messed up they had to do a lot more work and he's like so I need an extra I mean I think he was trying to ask for 20 and I was like I know dude but I think I eventually paid him whatever it was 14 or something more and so it's like oh it's just hard because now it's a fortune one of those things that like you're new to this I'm new to a lot of this you know business stuff that

I'm doing like we haven't been hardened yet to where eventually if you continue to flip houses for the next 20 years. This is an easy decision. You've been through this conversation so many times before and you do see it more as business. But right now it's like harder to like, we kind of done with that. We recently had to let a guy go that, Scott, but no, excuse me, we had to let a guy go that was working for us and it's like a certain point, if you don't do what we're paying you to do, like it sucks. We're such a small company and, you know, but it is personally. I know details about your life. Yeah, yeah. And it's like I'm probably making it more personal than he even is. Like, this is a job. He's going to get another job

and he's going to be fine and, you know, you have to just trust it. Like, no, you've treated him really well. It's not going to tarnish everything about your character if you don't give him a performance bonus. I know. We've talked about this. And I'd be curious to hear what ghosties think, Tyman, you can fill in the blanks of what you think, too. But like, the idea

of, like, being nice, it's like, I don't think that as a godly man, we just have to be nice all the time. Like, I think there's a difference. Obviously, there's, like, loving and kindness. But, like, I don't think it just means, like we're just going to get walked all over in the whole like grand scheme of our lives. Like yeah, I don't know. I said this thing. He agreed to this thing. Like that's basically what

I'm saying. Like I just want to be nice to the guy. It's like I don't know if Jesus was always like, I don't know. You're not not I don't know if it's like a godly characteristic to just be nice. Like above all else. Like just be nice. Just conform to whatever people. Yeah. You know, just lay down to this. And I'm like, but also their godly characteristics are definitely to be gracious. And like, it's like, man, maybe I should give this guy grace of like, he's, he's got a family too. You know, he's got, he's got a pregnant wife. It's like, okay. So it's tough. There's so much nuance. Even just too much, there's so much. There's so much. There are biblical qualities that you can see from the

Bible and use in business, like being a man of your word and like, you know, let your yes, be no, but that doesn't account for a miscommunication. Yes. Or expectations that, you know, weren't properly set. You know, and then it's like, well, where does grace go if there is a miscommunication. So that is difficult. Yeah, do we just err on that side of your side? Just give grace always. The Bible didn't give us enough about Jesus's carpentry business. Like we need more business specific help. How did he, did he find tax loopholes? Was he doing meta ads? Yeah. Was he based in Puerto Rico for tax reasons? He likes tax collectors. 4% capital gains. I wouldn't blame them if he did. Oh, man. Okay. Anyway, thanks for, thanks for giving me

that advice. Give me your thoughts on that. I do have some responses from Rachel Coup Triplett. Fun. Just, uh, if you and her. Just a nice stream of consciousness here from her. Um, okay. So she said, do I have any ideas at the very end? I like, uh, okay, uh, give me some. She, she has three different answers, uh, that she has thought of. One of them we've already said, which was ghost. Oh, she did. Okay. Great. and this is if you and her are teammates alongside me, sending me a code word. Yes.

For whatever reason, what came to mind? I'm like, what's our Venn diagram? I was thinking, Sean, like, Shawnee. Oh, no. S-H-A-W-N. All right, hear me out. Nothing thing you just popped in mind. Bondi.

Oh, no. That's fun. That's good. It just popped in. By the way, it's going away. By the time of this is listening, I think it's no longer in my driveway. Emily and Isaac Braves are coming this Saturday.

Oh, really? Yeah. That's fun. Okay. I was waiting until there was a murder on our street to invite them in. Come on in, the water's fine. The white tents fine. The forensics are not.

All right. Would she go one of your kids' names? Would she go, Rosie? She did not go. No names are here. No names. No names? She did it.

The first one was, embarrassed to admit that blank was my first thought. So, geez what is what is her brain thinking because i've said before my perfect date would be she gets kidnapped and i get to do the michael and holly thing where i got to follow around you don't think she'd go this way when that smell of that bread you know that bread store but what would she be thinking in a code word situation um if she i'll just say this if if she proposed this word i would say not that word let's let's think of something else i'm trying to think of like a place of business

this or something like uh but it's like mclean's isn't five letters uh chick fillet um on the restaurant kick right now i'll say this i got one timon oh good answer no dang that it's fun okay it's no names you'll be crap how about how about something that you're your obsession pee ball no but but on that she said i hate that only pickleball words are Let me do mine is what she first said. Just another company, Yola. Friday. Six.

Friday, no why. Friday no way. Friday. Friday. Only pick-a-ball words. The first one was it? Duh, net. Dennett.

Nett. It's a shot in pickleball. Drive. No, it's a multiple of shots. Oh, geez. Dinks. Dinks. Dinks.

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Stuff. I don't know. What's the verb? Laugh. Oh. Oh, that's good. Yeah. It's a covert thing is tough.

It's harder than you think. There's a lot of words. Yeah. Anyway. That is fun. No. Thanks for thinking of. That's, that's, that's,

fun to do. Yeah, I really, yeah, anyway. Ghost. It's nice to know, yeah, we maybe could have gotten ghost. Oh, yeah. It feels like that's the best one. Thank goodness. That's five letters. Thank you. That's not too bad. So I'd probably do reading fiction as my second most respectable. I go read, read, read, read at the top. I think so too. Read, read. Not a magazine, though. That is at the bottom. Great. Thanks. That's good enough for that. I got a couple just quick hitters from the airport heading to Phoenix. One, a guy stopped me and we chat for about five minutes and I see Isaac at the gate. He goes, who is that? I go, so funny, that was either one of my best friends from college or his identical twin brother, who I don't know nearly as well. And I couldn't figure it out in the five

minutes we chatted. Is that that that guy? Is his name Noah? Uh, close, very biblical names. Micah. Good. And Steve. Nathan. Nathan. Which was the one, I think I know Nathan. Which one, he lived in Kansas for a second. They both did is a thing. They were both here. They're both kind of from here. Like, it easily could have been either one of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. By the time I walked away, I was like, I'm pretty sure that was Nathan. In the moment, I was like,

this could go either way. Which one's the one you were friends with? Nathan was the one that we were pretty good friends in college, and I just don't talk to much anymore. So it's like anything he's telling me is pretty much all new information. So I don't know. See, I think the guy that we hung out with some

was the one that you weren't as good friends with. Correct. Yeah, Micah was the one who was like, it feels like we're such good friends because you are identical, but I don't know, technically anything about you, I guess. Right. And so yeah, I see this guy.

So yeah, it's just a funny situation. Like, it was either one of my absolute boys or a stranger. And I actually don't know which one it was. That's wild. So I had that interaction. And then just a quick observation, I saw, I sat next to a guy at the gate who had a neck pillow and had written his phone number on the tag of the neck pillow. Initial thoughts are, if I've lost my neck pillow, what are you going to call me and say like, hey, I found it or, oh, can you mail that to me? How much could that possibly cost?

You need it that bad thing? I'll leave it on the seat. Maybe he found just like, he's been through 50 neck pillows. He found the one that he sleeps the best with. Oh, and they don't make it anymore maybe? Yeah, yeah. He can't find it on retail rebel. This is like one of one.

Yeah, he needs that if he loses. I like that situation. I do think we've kind of lost the art of writing your phone numbers on things. That is nostalgic. Write it on a basketball. Yep. 100%. Totally tarnishes it.

It's like huge letters now all over the ball, but you know it's his. That's mine right there. Oh, yeah. Water bottles, big time on the water bottles. I thought about, I have the same brand of tools as my contractor. I thought about writing, because everyone's one's like, is this my drill or his? Yeah. I think might wrap my name on this thing.

Brad's drill. Yeah. Brad's bit. Might do it like Andy on the bottom. Write one letter backwards. Uh-huh. Write the R backwards. Oh.

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like the dot of the eye was like very big and filled in and it would be like I feel like I remember and I could be wrong but I feel like I remember a time when it was like Alice why did you why did you this

it's like that wasn't me I don't know It's your name. Someone else was writing my name. Yeah. If anything, learn how to write your siblings name. Yeah.

Yeah. That's so funny. Oh, man. It's so funny. Like, Rosie just knows her name's letters. And so anytime she sees any of those letters in anything, she says, Rosie. Because she says,

R-R-N-N- there. Rosie. Yeah. R-O-S-I-E. I did. I helped out in her O-W-A-L-L-A-C-L-A-L-L-A-L-L-A- other day. I'm a deacon. And, uh, I told her that night at dinner before we left. And you would have thought she won the lottery. Like she freaked out. Really?

Dad, you're going to see cubby bear. But she's like, you know, she has a speech. So she's called tubby bear. You go see tubby with me. It's like, Bo thinks I'm tubby. So talk to your figure skating brother about. Yeah. It was electric. And so every time something that happened, like, like there, there's at one point during a one where, like, like, like five classes are in one classroom together to see like this puppet, this bear puppet named Cubby Bear. And every time somebody would come out, like everyone's supposed to be quiet. She would just look at me and go, dad, it's Tommy.

Are you seeing this? Dad! I'm like, I know. That's cool. Yeah, cool. That's awesome. That's fun. Last week on the episode,

I mentioned like how it kind of works, the workflow of getting these episodes up. So like, hey, whenever the episode goes live, ghosties started texting me and messaging me good night. Good night. of when the message of Caleb Sullivan text, you know, getting DMs. Good night, Jake. Don't forget to brush your teeth. Sleep well.

So thank you, Ghosties, for that. Your toothbrush is the red and yellow one. Yeah, it's the gross, gross big orange red one. Hot Wheels. Yeah. Hot Wheels is good. That's funny. I had a funny interaction yesterday at UPS.

UPS.S. UPS store. Guy there, I've become friends with them because I see him a lot when I deliver cutting boards or return Amazon stuff. And anyway, he had some pictures of, his babies on the wall or I assume they're his and so I was like those yours and he said yeah those on the right are this other this is my brother's over here it's like oh cool uh how old your daughter and oh nine months I was like okay she's sleeping well that's like the class that you got

asked that yeah or that's what I always ask he's like no not really not yet and uh this woman behind us she's a mom before apparently she hears this and she goes um have you tried taking care of babies yet and he goes sorry yeah Have you tried taking care of babies? I would, I'd recommend taking care of babies. And if you're a parent out there, you probably know, or you might have heard. I think there's a website or a curriculum or something called take. I think it's even spelled different, taking care of babies or something like that.

It's a website. But you could tell this guy had not seen that and was like so like somewhat offended and also like, have I tried taking care of my baby? No, I've been a very present father for the first three. Yeah, I mean, I work here, but. But yeah, I've tried. And then I felt it and I was like It's like it's like a thing that you can like I think you can buy it like it's like a curriculum on mine

Or a book or something that's so funny Are you saying rabies? What do you cute? Yeah spell for me what you're saying Have you thought about just like putting the child in like a dark room? That would help it sleep You tried taking care of the baby? Ooh, you should do um what is it pillow pillow Pillo is something we've done with each one of our kids and that helps pillow and blanket

I read about something that comes out of women called breast milk have you tried that yet Huberman was saying something about, I'm going to say naps. I want to say circadian rhythm. Have you tried circadian rhythm yet? You tried taking care of babies. You can tell. I think UPS story, you're just like, I guess I got to all translate for you, man. Oh, you could just tell he was, he didn't know how to respond to that.

Like, have you tried being a good dad? Oh, it's a, it's a book. It's a, it's a webinar, like a masterclass you could take. Steve Martin does it. Yeah. Have you tried? try to take care of babies oh

that's pretty funny speaking of babies I went down to Stratford this week just three hours there three hours back and one day to see my sister's new baby

little baby Jane yeah that's sweet cute little baby yeah no eyebrow hair yet but extremely like expressive eyebrows yeah like they're going

I mean yeah looks like you know waveforms or something oh that's so fun was that it was nice Parents' first time meeting or two? I think Katelyn had come back like a couple weeks ago. Actually, I think my mom went down there to Birmingham. Yeah, right away.

Right away. So I'd seen her before, but crazy. Yeah, everything's healthy, going well. Is it wild? Like, Caitlin's a mom? Yeah, it was awesome. It's like, this is so cool. Senior years of mom and even see my mom as a grandma, you know?

Crazy. Oh, yeah. I guess this is. 45-year-olds can be grandma's trash. That's what I was trying to do the subtraction. That's amazing. You tried to take care of babies? have I tried what?

That's amazing She reminds me We were looking at like You know my mom showed me What Caitlin looked like As a little girl And I'm like oh wow That does look like so much like Jane

And then my mom was like Also have you ever seen this picture of you And I go wow I've seen a lot of baby photos of me I've never seen that Let me text it to you guys right now I can't leave this is me I can't believe this is not an Asian American child

I just text it to you This is apparently me This is what my mom is saying. And I show this to Rachel, she goes, oh, that's so you. And I go, that's offensive. You're like, oh, that's clearly you. That's so you. She goes, oh, my gosh, that's, yes, that's your face.

It's not. Yeah, no, I could never, if you told me, what person that you know is this a baby photo of? No clue. It's amazing how different we look as like newborn children. Yeah. I was fully Taiwanese at birth. I'm trying to find any part of you in there. Oh, you're a cute little guy.

Your nose is so buttony. It was. I really grew into the nose. Anyway. That's a cute baby. That's great. See what it says here. Best pa.

Best pal maybe? Best pals. Best Paxton's. Best Paxton's maybe. I was a big Chicago Bulls fan. John Paxton, big shot. John. Anyway, Caleb's doing well.

James John. That's great. I'm an uncle now. So, congrats. I think the last thing I was going to mention is we'll go potential anti-winn of the week, a new condition, just add it to the list of all these weird things I've got, you know, the tick bite and thyroid. I woke up two nights ago in the middle of the night, I shoot out of bed and just gasping for air.

Like there's no breath in my lungs. And I'm just like coughing like crazy, so loudly for like 30 seconds, trying to get my breath back. I'm about to throw up again. Wake Rachel up. She goes, what's going on? I was like, I don't know. I just couldn't breathe. You know, like kind of sweaty.

I'm like, ooh, I think I'm fine now. Oh, that was weird. Go back to sleep. Next morning, I'm like, throwing out these symptoms in there. And Chad Jeep T is basically like, all right. So first of all, it was like baby me. It's like, okay, I'm going to explain to you calmly and clearly what happened. Like, just tell me.

I don't need it. Don't doll it up. It was like, so this could be maybe because you've been gaining weight lately. Maybe you had some alcohol. Maybe you're extremely tired. Like, oh, for three so far. Or you're developing sleep apnea. I was like, oh.

This is what it sounded like. Yeah, it's like, I could remember the name of it, but. I really don't know anything about it other than like it seems like this like old man stereotypical thing. I know a lot of young people have it, but still. I feel like it's getting, it's getting quickly diagnosed these days. I'm going to have to wear this bane mask to bed every night now. Dude, you should. Well, I don't want to.

I don't want to give you bad advice. But my first thought was you should try mouth date. I should. Because I think I'd rather do that than, yeah, all the CPAP mouth cards and stuff like that. So we'll see. Have you had any more instances of it? No more outburst. Hopefully that's nothing.

It was a one-time thing. Hopefully it's just a weird anomaly. I mean, how often do you ever just like have a weird tinge in your neck or something? It's like, what was that? And then it goes away and you're like, oh, cool. All right. That was weird that I, my finger just randomly like really hurt and then just went away. You know?

It is always nice when that happens. Like, man, my ankle's killing me. You go to bed. All right, I'm good now. Yeah. That's the best, actually. Like, ah, ah, ah, I'm good now. Oh, sweet.

Sweet. Anyway, so to be determined, maybe I'll be tubing my side of the bed up or it was one time thing. A fighter pilot style. Yeah. I feel like these days the CPAP stuff is not nearly as extreme as it used to be. But I remember Scott's dad, it looked like he was like a, like in top.

Really? Yeah. And I think that's all I've seen. So I have this like probably poor stigma of like, oh, it's going to be so detrimental. my livelihood. I think maybe my... I don't think my dad has

sleep apnea, but I think he has some kind of mouth guard or something to help him snore. My mom's like, yeah, it doesn't work. But anyway, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, try mouth Dave. I should.

I got some light around here somewhere. Also, I just have tape. Yep. The mouth tape's good because it has a little bit of breathability if you ever need to breathe out of your mouth. That's nice. But while we're

melinting, lamenting about sleep stuff. I've recently kind of gotten this weird habit of like sleeping kind of on my stomach, kind of on my side. Yeah. And so like I'm basically like stretching like this for like a large part of the night. And I've like the last two days had like a excruciatingly painful like not all like I'm not in pain right now, but if I bend the right way, it hurts. Like your back?

Really bad and like this weird muscle on my back. That does stink. And it's like it's because I slept that. way one time. And so now I'm trying really hard not to sleep that. It's like, oh, it's terrible. I don't know when I'm sleeping when it's happening. The sleep is good. Yeah. It's the aftermath. It's terrible. That's kind of I feel too. It's like, oh, well, you should try not sleep on your back. I'm like, but the back is great because nothing's in any weird spot. Just cough and style. You go on your stomach and your neck, your side. And the sucky thing right now for me is like when I sleep on

my back because of this thing, it hurts when I'm just flat. And so it feels better when I go back on my side. But I know in the long run, it's negative. So just be praying for me, man. Getting old. Yeah. We're all getting old. It's the pits. Yeah.

Anyway, I looked at my eyes the other day and I was like, your eyes look kind of old. That's okay. I am getting old. I don't care. You must have been trying to take our babies for the last eight years. Oh, almost nine, dude. He's coming. Wow.

Coming up on nine years. April? March? March 21st. That's right. April was the due date. She came like a month early, right? April 20th, 420.

I remember that. Yep. So that was crazy that I mean there were like it was crazy I don't know how scary it actually was But I mean there was all visiting in the hospital and everything and I think it would have been scarier if I understood like ignorance is yeah kind of nice I mean I was like it's like whoa this is early but I don't think I realized like oh this could be really hard yeah you know But it was nice that we were in the hospital for so long because then we weren't so yeah like at least it was like if something happens right here Yeah where else would you rather be yeah but it was scary. once in a while you just wake up and Catherine's like having to get like there's like five people in there all of a sudden like getting monitors on her and stuff and I'm like gosh crazy they're

sleep happening yeah god god's good you know so eight years later um oh somebody commented on this uh is this cross stitch timing crochet knitting i like how you assumed i would know it have no clue i would guess knit i mean you're in fine arts yeah diamond you're in college come on uh Caleb's wife knit this for us. All right. Oh, cool. And it had been, Rosie had been using it to sleep with for a long time.

And last week, as I was leaving to come record over here, she like ran me down in the driveway. She's like, Dad, don't forget your ghost. Like it was like a thing that I always take. You never record without it. And so shout out,

shout to Rosie and Shelby for allowing this to be here. So very cute little, little ghost. Good knit job. Great knit job. Best I've ever seen. Pretty cool, though. So impressive. That's cool.

Yeah. I like how it's, I like how the limbs are floppy. Yeah. It's endearing. This was on accident, but it looks kind of just like, that leg over.

So, uh, Wednesday of the week. Who's got him? Oh, baby. I got some. I feel like I've talked about a lot of them.

The main win, well, the, the win was going to be selling this house. And, and the overarching just like, oh, just so many people in my family,

my friends, my, you know, church family, my, you know, ghosty family were so awesome. And they still are. So win of the week is still just a lot of support in my life. But had he made a basket, that was awesome. Yeah. Like I can't tell you just like she's playing with these girls that have played for

four or five years sometimes. And she's brand new and she's gotten, she's still not a great player. But like the fact that she even did that was just like amazing to me. So that's definitely like number one for me. So yeah. that's my answer. And then like, oh, one of the week. No, I wrote this down because it's so good.

Oh, yeah. Catherine makes this sweet potato soup, dude. It's unreal. I'm not, I'm like pretty picky when I have my soup. Sweet potato soup. Like I need, I need like, like Catherine will be like, uh, we're having soup tonight. I'm like, it's 55 degrees outside. It's too warm for soup.

But if you said, if she says we're having sweet potato soup, I'll be like, I don't care if it's 99 degrees. I will have four bowls of that stuff. It's unbelievable. It's like, it's like, it's like, Thai, it's really like Thai chicken soup, but it has like peanut butter in it, sweet potatoes. It's so good. Yeah.

Dude. Wow. Nice, dude. I can't tell you how good it is. So, and put some cilantro on there. Oh, it's maybe coconut milk. I might be making that up. I might be making that up.

It's unreal, dude. So good that I wrote it down in my notes. Wow. Like I would kill for some of that soup right now. I would say my win. was going to a concert last night with Alice and Jesse. It was kind of last minute. The Grey Havens,

or like a smaller Christian band. But Alice is a huge fan of them and was like planning to go with some friends, but then they kind of bailed. And so I was like, maybe I can take you. But very glad I did. I feel like it was a good show. And I think she felt loved that was like,

we all went together. So yeah, she wrote her name on the walls of the concert. Yeah, it was all over. Alice was here. that's her thing. Yeah. That's her calling card.

I have one of their songs saved in my... Oh yeah, they are good. I think you maybe have told me about them before. Yeah, they're great. Like, I was hugely into them when I was like 15 or 16.

Kind of forgot about them. But I'm like, I will be listening to their album more now that they like performed a bunch from it. So... Where did they play? Life Connection Church in Independence.

I had never been there. It was like a small... That's where my cousins go. Really? Yeah. Yeah. It was cool, though. It was like...

I like to go to a concert where we're sitting in pews. It's kind of fun. Yeah. Cool, man. It was great. That's sweet. It might have been where I went and saw Michael perform when he was a kid city. I thought that was off four three years.

It doesn't matter. Could have been. I have a vision of where that was. I could be wrong. My one of the week is going to be the ghosties who came and showed support in Arizona. Because it's fun. Like, you do, like, it's human nature. You get a little used to the amazing support in community we have.

But it was very fun to see. Matt and Andre trying to comprehend the support and the loyalty that we were feeling. Because, like, we did this exhibition on Friday night. Two ghosties show up. And afterwards, Matt and Andre just can't believe, like, so they paid just to come watch you guys? Did they play against you? And we're like, no, no, no. They just came to watch.

Like, do they play pickleball? No, I don't think so. But they said they have paddles. Yeah, yeah, they have the paddles. Yeah, they can watch us. Yeah. No, they don't play. they're just here to hang out. They're like, that's amazing. Like, yeah, it is amazing. I love when

people get the vision. Yeah, like, that's really cool. Because it's really hard to explain it. I remember that same feeling with Or Tenska this summer. She, after the first day, she just came up to us. Do you remember that? Or it came up to me, she's like, who are you? What's going on here? These people are nuts. Yeah. What is, what is this? Like, I was like, I know, I told you. You know, but you can say it all you want, but until they, like, experience it. Yeah. Like, there's nothing like it. And then two other ghosties come on Saturday to watch us, you know. All four, I think, came Saturday. You know, so it was just fun to get an outsider's perspective.

What were the girls' names? Well, that would have been, of course, Danny, Talissa, Shannon, and the fourth girl. Shout out fourth girl. I'm so sorry. Shout out, horse girl. Shout out fourth girl. I know exactly where you look like. Oh, man.

I just can't remember your name. But three and four. But now it was really fun. So shout to them. Yeah. And just bonus one of the week. at that exhibition Friday night there was a guy who showed up in overalls

in like a straw hat in a frying pan in his hand like full in character I had seen him before because he had gone viral playing pickleball in this outfit and then he just shows up to the event I think not even knowing

that we were going to be there he must just be local and he's like oh what's going on here does he always do this so it must be I've tried to like in hindsight learn I think this is like a character he's trying to build online his name is Jebediah Strings

and he goes and tries to just clip people get really good clips because it seems like he definitely used to play tennis like the strokes look good enough to where he's got some history doing something

and just tries to get at least one solid clip playing his regular people in this outfit with a frying pan is it like pickleball specifically or does he do I think he's doing pickleball

pickleball with frying pan so we met him and of course Isaac right away he's like dude this handle what is this oak or you know like he knew the exact type of handle and this guy was like

oh yeah it is actually you know you would that was kind of fun that's great It was a fun little show. What about comments of the week? Yeah, what about them, Timon? I've got mine.

Please. Fezic. Oh, wait, that actually wasn't my comment. Hey, but I already said your name. Fesick is a new listener. It's their birthday, and they got hooked. Listen to every episode. Shout out to you.

But this was my actual comment of the week. Kinsey Shipman, as a barista and Christ follower, who doesn't cuss. Great one. The concept of toasted coal. brew, maybe want to say swear words. And then Renake replies it. I came to the comments just for this.

Dutch bros makes me so irritated. I'm glad that wasn't just me, someone who still doesn't know a ton about coffee, but the idea of like heating up your cold brew with syrup or whatever it is. Yeah. Seems odd. I listened back to that and I was like,

that is dumb. Toasted cold brew. Like, yeah, just don't call it that at least, whatever. My comment on the week goes to Meg Babchik. Oh. She's from... Eastern Europe.

She's from... No, she's from Alabama. She's a Southern Baptist. Oh. After spending way too much time on the internet, the last couple of days, I'm even more grateful for Jake, Brad, and Tyman and how God is using them to bring my perspective back down to earth slash to trusting in him. Who knew that a conversation about hand versus feet,

vents, and cars would be so soothing. I love it. There's a fun discourse about that. So we were like, oh, I'm all in on Jake's version. Yeah, heat rises. And other people were like, I'm with time. I don't even touch the steering wheel. Yeah.

hands out. Somebody said they got a $20 like Amazon extension or like Amazon steering wheel heater or something like that. Really? Yeah. Do you see some commented like, I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life. This is the first time hearing of steering wheel heater. Someone said that. Someone replied like, yeah, same. I didn't know you could heat up your steering wheel. It's it's kind of a game changer. We're an educational podcast. Yep. There's certain things where it's like, I didn't know that existed. Now that I do, it's hard to go back. Yeah, squid the size of a school bus. I can't go back to regular. We have a lot of bells and whistles on our van that I'm like, I don't care. We never use the shot back in the back.

I don't. But man, is that adaptive cruise unbelievable. It's unbelievable. I've been trying heat rising method. Okay. Trying the floor. And? I mean, it hasn't been quite as cold, so it's like, I don't really know.

But it's definitely like more mild. It's nice. It's like, it takes longer to feel the heat. I would say that's probably fair, but it's not as extreme. Yeah, it's like, when it's, when it's, you know, 10 degrees, I'm going hands. for sure. But like, yeah, I don't mind the heat rising because it's like, it's gradual and it's not going to like, man, I'm sweating. Because I forgot that it was blasting. Because Jake, I would say you like, you feel stifled. It's in my face. He's in my face. Either open the window or shut this off.

I remember. Every once in a while, like, Jake is so nice and he's never going to like say anything out loud. But it's like cold and all of a sudden, Jake's just like, I reach my breaking point. And I'm like, you okay, dude? He's like, I'm just super hot. Man. I'm like, okay. We can turn it down. I think it's just stifling to you. Is that fair? Yeah, I just have this narrow range. That's funny. I've learned something recently, you know, we've talked before, our range and I keep our house so warm and, you know, it's always at 74. I recently got a carbon monoxide detector, just figured that's probably smart, safe, and it's got a thermostat on it as well. So in our bedroom every morning I see it. And most mornings, our bedroom says it's 68 in there. Got an idea. Ready? Ready for me to solve it? Or do you know this solution? Oh, I just think

it's not that we like it warm, it's that we have an old house. It's that you're cold. Yeah, it's a hold, okay, so you have an eco-be thermostat. Yeah. You can buy these things that are like room sensors, okay? Oh, that's nice. And so you put it in your bedroom and it'll know if you're in there because it'll like sense that you're like movement in the bedroom. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm in here.

Going to bed, I just upload a podcast. Every once in a while, you just, you know, wake up screaming, like, and breathing really heavy and they know you're in there. No. All right. In here. No, it has motion detector on there. And it will know if the room is occupied and it will sense what that temperature is.

And then it will bump that up. Yeah. So we have a few of those around our house. That's nice. And so it'll mess with the... So that way it's like, okay, it's set to 74, but the room that you're in is only 68. We'll crank it to 74. Yeah.

Crank you temp. If you want it. If you want it. I'll talk with Rachel. We don't... We have to have a conversation anything over $5. Okay. We're seven. You guys are?

It's amazing, dude. I'm not even joking. And I'm not looking for this, I promise. But the whole six, seven thing, I noticed, no, listen to me. I noticed at least three times today at table setters, people said seven or eight. And I wonder if they're scared to say the other one. I wonder. So word on the street, which is from my wife who works at elementary. entry school.

Out? We're past. Okay. Yeah. Good. What is it now? 2.6? Something?

Doesn't matter. Every week there's something new. 41? Really? I don't know. I, yeah. I mean, I knew it was over when someone's mom, one of like the young, young, like, junior, really good players of the pickleball.

Score was 6'7. This, like, you know, 45-year-old when she's like watching her kid, I think, and she's just like, like, and she's like doing it multiple times, like, looking around. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm like, yeah, it's over. Yeah. Yeah, the choir, the choir guy doing it.

Oh, that's so funny. What was I going to say? Dang it. I found myself saying six or eight or like, yeah, that's not, yeah. That's nice. I don't know if there's something about it. Man.

Dang. I wish I remembered. You said something. Frank Pan, the thermostat. Carbon dioxide. No, it's about the trend, two six. Every week it changes. Dang it.

I hate that feeling, dude. It's at the end of the podcast, too. It's not like we can come back to it. Nope. Let's just keep it going until we figure it out. Riffing. What else? Some about a minivan,

shop back. No, no, no, no. Go back to the first, the six, seven. Keep jogging it.

Yeah, it's out. It's, uh, people are moving on. New numbers. Oh, remembered.

Hurry. Got it. Uh, this past basketball practice that we had for Bo's team. There's a kid on the team. He was the one that had the Scott Sterling incident where he got, he's in training. A bunch of times in the face,

whatever. I think I've just learned. my assistant coach who's in, who's nicer than I am, sweeter than I am, he described it as he goes, I think it's just a trained response in him at this point.

In other words, I bet the last practice he cried seven times. And one of the times it was like, as we were walking over to do our devotion, he's just like, he's just crying. I'm like, what's going on, buddy?

He goes, they keep saying six, seven to me. They keep saying it six seven. They keep saying it. Six seven. And I'm like, what?

What's, I go, Okay, that's not, they don't mean it, they don't mean it. That's what I said, they don't mean it. They don't mean. They don't mean what they're saying. I know it's mean, but they're joking. They know not what they do.

He's a sweet little kid. They don't mean it. And every time I give him like a compliment, like it's, he's one of those kids that like, he can cry and then he'll just have the happiest face. So really? His sweet kid, but anyway. I love that. We don't need to worry about it.

They don't mean it. So anyway, it's not, it's not over yet for five-year-olds. For the Cowboys. on upward basketball. That's good. Dude, Oh, Bo's last game,

I don't know what happened to him. It's 8 a.m. so I have to give him some grace. But it was like he just didn't want to try. He was just like, I was feeling it. I was like, Bo,

you guys right there and he would just look at me. Like, he wouldn't even like kind of try. It's defiant. And I eventually would go, do you want to play? He's just standing there,

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I don't know. It was like, it was weird, man. It's like, this is not your personality. Just completely, at least if you're not going to try, you have to like, be like, dad, I'm, I don't want to do it or something. Like, he just like wouldn't really respond to me. Like, am I, am I a terrible coach right now? Yeah, you got to get the best out of your players.

Oh, can I tell you one more story about Bo, Bo's game real quick? I've always said, I won't be the, I won't be the, how in the world would you be the guy that yells at a ref in upward basketball? chorus, course, never, never. I did it.

I did it a little bit. I said two words, and I said them, and I felt it. It probably was more a heart thing than a expressive thing. Like, I didn't yell it that bad,

but they, the refs are these, these younger kids, like high school kids, and they just don't blow their whistle very loud. And so the kids are confused. They're trying to keep playing,

whatever. The ball goes out of bounds. They're like, clearly you know it's out of bounds. so we're not going to blow the whistle at that, or we're not like the assumed. Yeah, they're not, they're not like saying, like it's yellow ball or it's black ball.

They're just kind of like holding it for a second and then just standing there. And then really, it would actually annoy me. Yeah. It gets old after a while. This is like the sixth game of the year or whatever. You don't need to always make the right call or even be,

you know, you're a kid, but like. And so let me just. Throw a little gumption. Let me just tell you, I'm embarrassed to say this, but there was one point where it was probably the fifth, six time it happened.

And, uh, Close call. And they didn't say anything. And I just go, I was getting annoyed. I just go, call something. Call something. That's what I said.

And I probably didn't even say it that loud. I was probably just like, call something. That's pretty much the same. Let me hear you. And so then, you know, that was right before the half. Then we come back from half. And I was like, I kind of felt like, I probably shouldn't have done that, whatever.

And so I talked to the other ref. I was like, hey, can you just like tell us, like, whose ball it is when it goes out of bounds? Because sometimes it's like, the kids run to the other side of the course. court because it's out of bounds. And then it's like, that's bad, whatever. And so he goes, this kid goes,

yeah, sorry. That other guy, he barely speaks English. He's our foreign exchange student from Brazil. He just learned how to play basketball like three weeks ago. And I go, well, I feel like a jerk now. Then again, is this the best job for him? He doesn't speak English or no

basketball? He needs community service hours, he said. So it's like, he's not being paid for this. Like it's 8 a.m. on a Saturday. Whatever. I was like, that is too bad. Okay. But there's got to be something better for him. If he doesn't know the sport or the language, don't be in charge of communicating it. And so then all of a sudden I was just like, man, but I just felt, I felt so I, I apologized to him later, told him, obrigato. Yeah, told him in Portuguese, of course. That's the one word I know. Obrugado. But man, I just felt dumb. So anyway. It's too bad that that was the scenario.

because I don't think you were that in the wrong to say that. No. Hey, you don't, I'm not going to get on you from making the wrong call. Just make a call and communicate it clearly. That's what you're here to do. Yeah,

exactly. I wasn't like, I don't care if they get every call right. Sometimes the kid will dribble out of bounds. It's like, don't call everything because these kids are going to. Yeah, just make it clear.

It's a more enjoyable experience for the kids. Yeah. If you speak English in this country. Pretty much, dude. Oh, boy. That is too bad, man.

Oh, it's too bad. Yeah, he's our family's foreign exchange student. I was like, dang it. He doesn't speak English, and he just learned the rules of basketball. Yeah.

He's like, I don't think you're supposed to do that. I'd be a little tentative too. Yeah, 100%. If you're trying to like ref cricket or something. Yeah, in India. Like I, uh,

yeah. In Kansas, where basketball, like reigns supreme. Yeah, it's tough. Tough job for him. So all,

all good times. So tough that he got here and immediately needs community service hours, too. Putting this guy to work for free. Welcome to America. Jeez.

So good. That's a pretty funny story, though. Yeah. That's great. You need those learning lessons, though. That'll stick with you enough. Yeah. That's good.

You just assume everyone's Brazilian. I should. Yeah. Yeah. Until you know, don't, yeah, don't assume. Great. All right. Well, good stuff.

We're back on Skedge. Feels good. See you guys next Monday. Yeah. And hopefully with no Bondi truck. Hopefully that goes smoothly. Wow. It'll be fun.

I'll be able to see if you're home now. That'll be nice. Kids will be creeping. That'll be nice. It'll be almost like weird, not seeing it there. Oh, it's been there way longer than it has it been. Two, going on two years, I think. Wow.

Yeah, probably. Have you started a month? Yeah, a couple weeks ago I started up. I needed to look at the odometer for Emily. And I was like, first of all, I just went out. I got out of bed in the cold to go start it up. by the way, started up just fine. Oh, yeah.

And here's the readings. But, no, I mean, honestly, there is part of me that, like, is like, oh, I hope it works for them and everything. But also it's not like I put two years of, you know, work into it where it's like wear and tear. It's like, this is exactly how I bought it. I haven't done anything. Just sat here for two years. So you're getting exactly what I bought. Is it diesel or is it unleaded?

No, it's just regular. Okay. Yeah. Premium probably. Nothing but the best. that hog. Get however many, 100 miles of the gallon is hog.

Yeah. What does he say? Yeah, I get 70 miles to the gallon on his hog. So funny. So good. All right, Ghosties, we love you. We'll see you Monday.

Yes, sir. I love you guys. Adios. Ghosts from a podcast. Everybody in the morning who would take you.