Ghostrunners - 520 - Where You Coming From?

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

Brad had an amazing encounter with a police officer, Jake sold the Bondi truck to Ghosties, and Timon has more to say about Cast Away. Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Check out Cozy Earth and get 20% off site wide with this link: http://www.cozyearth.com/ghostrunners Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's going. It's going. It's going. It's going. It's like we just asked Timing off in the mic. Hey, how's it going? It's going. It's going.

You're working hard? It's going. It's going. We were just talking before timing and started it going. Hopefully you get good ranchers back soon. That'd be nice to have them. And I said, I'll tell you what needs to happen is yesterday in the mail, I get something from chicken and pickle, local pickle, local pickleball facility.

We have a relation with him. They give us free court time. Yeah. That's about the extent of it when we ask for it. Yeah. They sent us a check for $1,400. Okay. Yesterday.

I'm racking my brain. Parque. Is that how you say it in French? It's pretty close to Porque. Yeah, yeah, I know. Which is because. Or why? Oh, is it really?

Yes, dude. One of them, if it's all together, Porque is one. And I believe poor space K is why? Porque is because Porque? For what I remember from Spanish, that's about as confusing as it gets. Like if you learn English,

there's stuff like that constantly. Like, no, tomb and bomb don't rhyme. Unbelievable how hard English is. Honestly, I have no frustration when someone says something wrong in English. I get it. I stay stuff wrong all the time. Porque is about as tricky

as the Spanish-making. Or in Portuguese, I believe, it's parquechish. Porque. We've, we made a video last week where Scott pretended to be Italian. Oh, yeah, saw it. Yeah. Cooking all his fettuccini or whatever.

We've got this Italian buddy in town. And he can't stop calling Scott and, like, talking this Italian accent. Oh, yeah. He just loves it. He only calls Scott Nana, no. Nona. And so I've been brushing up my time, you know, like, Cha, chao, chau bella.

Chabella, yeah. Much a ben. Yeah, I don't know what I'm saying, but I know I've heard it and stuff. Yeah. Arrivederchi. that's something that means to the right yep exactly a leis gyrna olivirichi what are we talking about anyway i'm gonna cash that check and not tell them yeah yeah we looked because i performed on valentine's day of 2025 i feel like

you did something there that was the last time i've been paid and i went back in the bank yeah they paid us it was like around that amount you know they paid me $1,300 in february and then yeah that was one year ago in february maybe just like hey set up a record occurring paper. It's a little bit higher because inflation. Yeah, and add 4% to it. That's so interesting. It was straight 1400, like, even.

No, it was like around there. That's even more interesting. It's like a royalty or something. Yeah. What did we do to deserve this? Maybe it's all those sock sales that you're like promoting. They've reached out. They reached out in our Ghostrunners DMs, I believe.

Interesting. Okay. So anyway, that's what we need good ranchers to do. And you just be like, look, you guys have been great. Don't even worry about it. You're fine. Here's $18 million. Send you money.

That's nice. That's nice. Tax is coming up. Yeah, don't remind me. Sorry. Let's talk about mold instead. Let's talk about mold instead. Uh, uh, oh, ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random

thoughts and white meat, me too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. get on your feet because it's a ghost from the spotting. Oh, everybody's morning who would take your round. Anyway, happy Monday. Hi, Monday, Brian.

Happy Monday. Great to see you. We got some people out in the lobby. We do. We have some people on the four-year today. I love, like, people are always like, where are you guys record? Like, you guys have a studio? I was like, kind of.

Jake's spare bedroom. It's funny seeing people's reactions to it because some people are like, like, if Maddie Dieterly came to my head. house, she would like, no. Oh, yeah. This is it. It's way bigger in person. That's what they would say, I think. No, wait. I know. I know. It's huge in here. Holy cow! I think it's a lot smaller than people probably would guess. Yeah, like Jake could, Jake could probably give, could you guys reach hands right now? Oh, we should try. No, Jake, try a little. Yep, touched. Touched. Touched tips. Yeah, if I tried a little. Yeah. Yeah. Time and I could not. No. Well,

If you stood? If we tried, no, if we both lay down on our devices. Yeah, I got too much my way. Yeah. It could be done, though. I think I could come to you most of the way. That's true. If I kept my feet on the chair and just reached everything else out, roll a chair.

Yeah. Anyway, yeah, the coops are in town. Coups are in town. That's fun. Emily and Isaac Brace were in town. Yeah. So I was like, let me show you the studio. And I feel like they're like, yeah.

Isaac's a pretty even-keeled guy in general. I see him be like, that's cool. That's nice. Oh, microphones. That's good. Yeah. That's about how it looks. That's sweet.

Words are kind of stressing me out. I go, yeah. They were in good shape at one point. I think all it takes is one episode through the Chick-Fleigh drive-through, and then everything just gets thrown back into the studio and it's tangled. No problem. No problem. It all works.

I mean, what are you supposed to do with a bunch of cords? You can put a, like, cables or like zip-tie things around them, but there's still a lot of chords. You can't make all this wireless suddenly. We could hide them with a panel. Who cares? No one sees that. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, we let the angles work for us. Let the angles work for us, baby.

What does he say in the office? What does he say on the office? Like to announce that your pharmacist is now wireless. Once I find out where Moses hit all the wires, we'll get everything up and around. Gosh, yeah. So good. Yeah, Emily and Isaac.

That was a good time. Emily and Isaac were here. They got the Bondi truck. Yeah, we each got to hang out with him. Yes, it's fun. You had him over on the, Back Porch hang Friday night. Wanted to join.

Honestly, we were, Rachel had never seen making a murderer. Never meet. No, were I. Por quai. Why? Neither. Tampocco.

And then all of a sudden, I am so into her watching it for the first time. Probably too much. Probably a little overbearing. Yeah, that's one of those ones that's like, I've never heard anybody say something negative, so I should probably watch it.

Like, everyone loves it. It's like a sopranos type thing. Everyone loves it. No? Heard of it? Yes. Okay.

But just barely. That's all I know is the title. Okay. Yeah. People, Gossi, correct me if I'm wrong, but in my eyes, to me, this is like the godfather of true crime. Like, I think between serial the podcast and making a murder, this is what like started everything. Brought it all out. Because they were both so good, but they were just so new to the space.

So I'm like, you have to, you can't even understand. Yeah. My American murder, if you haven't. Making a murdered. Am I right in saying it's Murdo? That's a different one. Oh, it is? Okay.

This is Murdoz. No. Sorry. It's not something to fuck joke about. What? Let's see. This guy's name is, I can imagine his face. He's got a beard and kind of balding.

Yeah. Tubby, a little bit tub. Just slight tub. Slight tub. What is that guy's name? I don't remember. Give me.

Yeah, first name. Steve. Steve. Steve, Stephen, Stephen, Colbert. Yeah, he got wrapped up in that. Yeah, he did, dude. Yeah, the Epstein files. This was the first Fxie files.

Stephen Avery, Brendan Dassey. It's funny, this came out in 2015. In fact, this is in the K-Lap day. It's like, there are names that came up, like, the woman who was murdered is Teresa Holbach. And I go, oh, Teresa Holbach. I remember, like, putting that down as a fishbowl character. These names were, like, so huge, 11 years ago. That's funny.

do remember like making the murder, making a murder is kind of connected to that portion of my life, like the Kayla days or whatever that was, like, or shortly after. So it was like when I got a Netflix account, I think. Really? Yeah. A pivotal time in my life. Big time. Anyway, so we've just been cranking through that.

It's a great documentary. I had a great conversation with Emily and Isaac. I'm sure we had plenty of meaningful conversation. Here's the one thing that I can remember from it. Well, actually, there's a few different things. But the one thing, have you guys ever heard of, they were just like talking about, life in Michigan, they have this big, I think it's called Tulip Time. Oh yeah.

Hometown, like a huge festival. They said over a million people come to it, which is insane, first of all. How great are these tulips? But they're just like, you know, talking like it's casual and they just go, you know, this, this. And then people have elephant ear stands. Oh, yeah. And I look around, Catherine, I kind of make eye contact. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Can you go back? Like, I don't know. Catherine, do you know what elephant ear stands? You heard of this? No. Jake seems like he knows. Well, just because I hung out with him the next day. And they asked you about it.

I was kind of not part of the conversation, but I let the northern people talk. Rachel and the braces talk northern pastries. Okay. They all got weird names for crap up there. Right. Because Rachel and Joyful Java, they've got Dutch letters. Dutch letters.

Emily and Isaac didn't know what Dutch letters were. Dutch letters. Okay. Tell me more. Dutch letters. Dush letters. Van Duschen letters. Yeah.

But elephant ears, I mean, it's all, it's all bread. It's all just bread with stuff on it. Yeah. Which is great. Different, different nationalities of bread. They made it sound like it was, I shouldn't probably like oversimple. It sounded like it was like a pizza crust, pizza dough with like sweetness. Yeah, but like some cinnamon or some glaze on or something.

It sounded amazing. It sounds great. Yeah. And I guess it's supposed to be the size slash shape of an elephant ear, maybe. They were shocked that I hadn't heard of it. And I was like, not. Once. You two?

No, I'd never, ever heard of elephant ear. Timon? No. All right. No. Anybody south of the Mason Dixon line, have you heard of elephant ears? I want to know that.

Anyone south of Holland, Michigan, have you heard of elephant ears? Anyone who's not still wearing a coat while you're listening to this, have you heard of elephant ears? That's funny. That was a really impactful part of the conversation for them, too. Because they came in, they came prepared to lunch with that. Yeah. Another thing that they talked about was, I learned that they had lived on, like, they

just they're just moving into a new house, but they had lived on like two acres for a while. And they had all these animals. I didn't realize this. They had chickens. And they were telling me they had ducks. And I'm trying to think about how to say this tactfully for the children in slash time and of the audience. But apparently when ducks go through growth and they get extra excited. Male or a female?

Male. Just like humans. Okay. And they kind of will just force themselves upon the females a little bit and get really excited. Female ducks? From a vertical down to a, you know, ground perspective. So they'll just, they'll jump on them, basically.

And just, they'll go into town to get some food, maybe. They're going to town. So they're going to town with this woman, this woman duck. Anyway. And so Isaac heard like, yeah, if that happens, like, that's going to happen a lot, like for one year when these ducks get to a certain age. So I need to put these ducks, when it happens, you need to put them in water. and then they can't, like, bother these women ducks as much.

And so... This isn't nature. This isn't how the good Lord intended to be. We need to intervene with water. Sounds like a little bit of both. Okay. Okay. But I think this one duck was just, yeah, there was a lot of female ducks.

One... He was hoes down. Oh, yeah. He was going to town, you know, left and right. So he's going to... And so anyway, Isaac heard that. And I think this one duck, this is what happened. And I'm sorry if I'm butchering this whole thing, Emily and Isaac,

but I think one duck had an injury from it, this girl duck. It's like, oh, we feel bad. So we need to... put that duck in the water. And so this male duck came and they, Isaac and Emily said they came back that day and noticed that this duck had been drowned because this duck, male duck don't care about no water.

The duck was named, the male duck was named butter. He's like, yeah, butter just, I think, suffocated this girl like underwater. Gosh. Anyway, so making a murderer, making a butter milk. Gosh. Butter has got a real problem. So anyway, I learned about that about ducks.

I learned about elephant ears. I'm trying to think of any other animal things I learned about. But no, it was so good hanging out with them talking to them. What did I learn? I learned that during Tulip Time, so many people just like visit from India. From the country. Say migrate. It's animal.

It's animal theme. I don't know if they're like moving there. Temporarily visiting from India. Yeah. And he's like, I've never thought to look it up until just now. And then we looked up and it's like, yeah, Hinduism or whatever has a special connection to the tulip. But the tulip doesn't even grow in India.

So how does that make sense? Whoa, really? It's kind of like, there's probably stuff like that with America. You want what you can't have. Yeah. What would that be with America? Like, what do we value that we don't even have here? I mean, carbon fiber.

Carbon fiber. That's the first thing that comes to mind for me. Why did you think of that? You can't really get it in America. It's tough. I mean, oil. I'm thinking, I'm thinking immediately to Kansas. It's like, we value mountains and beaches because we can't.

It's probably a better one. Yeah. Just like a single palm tree. It's like, oh, that's not. Nice. Yeah, but there's got to be something where it's like, this is so American, but also we don't have that at all here. Like a bald eagle, but not.

Like, you know? Yeah. What do we value here? I don't know. Hot dogs. Hot dogs. Frankfurter. Anyway, yeah.

So they got the, they got the, I took a video of them back in the, or taking the Bondi truck out. Did you? Yeah. Gosh. So, yeah, they came Friday.

Friday's a gorgeous day. 70 degrees sunny Saturday maybe even more gorgeous than the most gorgeous February day of all time It was nice, yeah 72 degrees sunny

vibes are up and they're coming over we're taking them to lunch I'm showing them the ins and out to the truck meanwhile Rachel's like whipped up some balls on the inside you know let's have some bowls

and we're taking pictures oh it's fun yeah it's great and the plane all along was like hey we're going to do all this and then Sunday is when we're going to leave Yeah. Sunday, not so nice. Dude, it was, I mean, like, the worst February storm of all time.

I mean, if you believe that the Lord works through weather, like, it was like, this is so ominous. Aminous, ominous, ominous, ominous, ominous. I always think it's an omen, but that's different. Yeah, you pay homage. Homogenous. So God. Homogenous. It was very homogenous. It was very homogenous. Yeah. They said, as they're pulling up to the house, did you hear this? There was a black cat that ran across the street. And Isaac's like, I'm not superstitious.

but anyway, yeah, and it starts like, I guess the word is sleeting, like tiny little pieces of hail. Oh yeah, I got home hours later and it was still all in my yard. And it was like as they were like literally like, like they turn on and just like this like the weirdest weather like gloomy cold, almost freezing but not. And then freezing and like there they go. Oh, yeah. Stress me. I'm just thinking about it.

Just like during a hailstorm, thunder. lightning. They're taking this thing to Michigan. And they seemed so optimistic. Like they, they were, like the vibes were high. They're good. Yeah, they're great. They're easy to work with. I mean, I will also say, I begged them to ship it because I was like, this, like, I just don't know. I would go to feel so bad. I don't know if it can make it to Michigan. I've driven it around town. Yeah. Highway Patrol, Metabrook Village when I was told I could park there and then they changed their mind. You know, I've driven it, but I don't know if it can go to Michigan. Yeah. I don't know how good the interior tread on somebody's tires or anything about it.

Right. They made it there. They said no issues. Amazing. Yeah. It's awesome. That's crazy. What was I going to say?

Oh, looking over your house now, it's like a phantom limb. It is very strange. Like, it was there for two years? Driving. It's been there more than it has not been there. Like since, you know, we've been married since I've lived here. Yeah, it's been there the majority of the time. It looks very strange pulling up to the house.

now. Rachel's car was so close to the garage. That's throwing me off. Yeah. She, like, is so used to, like, walking a certain amount of steps, so she, like, runs into the wall as she's walking here. Yeah. Whoa.

How did I do this? It's funny. Yeah, we had, uh, I mean, it's stock of the town. Well, but Phantom Limbondi bowl surfboard's gone. Oh, yeah, it is. Wow, dude. Yeah, because you kind of did a straw pole with the ghosties. And most of them were like, I don't know the shape of Kansas.

No. So that was enough data for me to be like, guys, take it. Take it. Yeah. Take it. Yeah. $600 on Etsy, take it. I remember, I remember you, yeah, they're like, they may just get a surfboard.

And I was like, $600. Yeah, what are the highlights for you for the Bondi Bowles experience? Was it like calling that contractor? The day I sold it. No, I mean, even like prepping to show Isaac and Emily how to work everything, like just being in there, I was like, I really wish this were to worked out. Like, this is fun. Like, I love the idea of just like working in like a,

little truck and serving people, like, getting to see joy. I don't know, something about like handing them something. I think that would be so fun and I love Os Abel. So I loved the process of get it up and going. There's a lot of work, whatever that was, June of 23, I think. I feel like you talked to so many, like, agents and like landlords and like you finally found a few different spots and like, yeah, you're going to have to add electrical outlet there. It's going to cost 30 grand. You're like, okay, man, probably not that place then. Yeah. You know, some of my notes, I wrote all these, like, forks in the road, all these issues down. It's like, this will be a cool story one day.

Yeah. And I guess I knew you close out that note. Like, sold it. Sold it for less. It was cool, though. Yeah. Sold it for less. Hey, there's nothing wrong with selling something for less than you buy it for.

Oh, all right. Peter Casey and I raw the phone yesterday. And he was like, yeah, dude, dude, sometimes. Because I talked to, I was like, dude, the FJ, which is like the car he was trying to, like, put together for years and years. Sometimes he's going to say, you know what, $20 and it's yours. come get it today. That's right, dude.

He bought that truck in, or whatever, SUV, whatever that thing is, in like Montana or something. Yeah, it drove it all the way back to the K-Life house and took that thing down to the bolts. Oh, yeah. Like, it was completely gone. And I was like, this is, you've gone too far, Peter. Like, you've taken this too far down, man. But I think he ended up, like, trading it. Like, it was still valuable enough where he traded whatever it was.

The part. The parts for like a sequoia. Like he traded this guy in Branson for it. So yeah, I saw Peter yesterday too. That's fun. Oh, yeah. I talked to him. He's like,

I just saw Brad at Home Depot. Yeah. What was he at Home Depot for? Because I picked the worst time in human history to fix my gutters. He's also on his rain for five days straight as have gutters on his house. Oh, Peter. He's great, dude. Yeah.

It's fun to check in with him. Yeah, Bondi, good memories, but it's going to be weird. It's funny. It's funny. Everyone, like, we, you know, a girl came over yesterday to clean the house. and she goes, why have I door to your truck? The Scott came over also yesterday and was like,

dude, your driveway looks naked. As Scott leaves, you know, about an hour later, he runs into our postal woman. And Scott texts me, he goes, you guys ran into your post lady. She said your driveway looks naked also. So, yeah. Everyone says the same thing.

I mean, yeah, it was like a limb of your house. That's what I'm saying. It's like, it's still going to be there, even though it's not there. I'm still going to move that arm. I'm still not going to park in its spot. No, yeah. What if it comes back?

Yeah. Yeah. What if it's there and it's invisible? I drove up and I was like, whoa. I didn't even mean to like say anything. I was like, oh, it's gone. Okay.

I forgot it was going to be gone. So if you're in Holland, Michigan, or I believe Zeeland, Michigan is what, you know, Isaac said, just, or if you want to take the jaunt out there, they're going to be up and running soon enough.

Check them out. Two of times sounds fun. Rachel and I want to come visit this summer. That sounds beautiful. I love to see it. Yeah, we'll come work the truck. Oh, that'd be fun too. Love to get in,

get in there. Yeah, I bet they're willing to like take free labor if anybody's interested in just like working, like learning how to do it. Uh, anyway. Nice part is the truck has everything they need. So I told them, I was like, once you guys get health inspected, like you're ready to open. Yeah. Like all the bowls. You have merch. Yeah. I mean, like I was ready to start right this business. Yeah. Did you get health inspected? Yeah. What was that like? Um, I went one for two. Oh, you got you failed first time. Yeah. What did they fail you on? It was like, I didn't have pH strips. I thought they would provide them and they wanted me to provide them. So that was why I failed the first time. Oh, so you didn't fail. You just didn't come with a pencil. Yeah. Yeah. You didn't

fail the test. You just didn't like. Oh, I didn't know you needed. Oh, you have a, you need a scan tron for this thing. Okay. All right. I'll come back later. You have one. No, but you can provide one. Oh, yeah. Oh, so you didn't fail. Yeah, I think everything was like up to snuff. I just, you know, they weren't able to test the quality of my water and stuff. I feel good about up to snuff. Yeah, we need to say that more often. That sounds like in Cyclopedia Brown. Is that thing up to snuff? Yeah, I'm like, I mean, once you guys just like go buy fruit and you are ready to open and get health inspected, I guess. But that's easy. Just make sure you have your own pH trip. Or did you provide pH trips?

They're in there somewhere. They got to be in there somewhere, right? A little scavenger hunt for them. Yeah. Michigan pride does different. It's all good. I don't know what made me think of this. Two things, though. One of them is somebody commented about Ghostie Giddle away stuff. We're, we're going to start, uh, the sign up for that soon. That is, it's going to be in August. Kind of coming up. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, oh, we should probably get that going. So I'm going to give first dibs to the people that have been before. That's always what we do. That's the rule. We've always said that timing. Okay. Timon's pushed it. Time has said, no. I believe you. I believe you. Zach is begging for it. And I said,

Timon, Zach can come, but he needs to wait his turn. Um, so probably next week, if you're listening to this is when it'll be live for everybody to get into. So it's going to be in August. It's pretty much the same time as last year, more or less. Same house. We're going to Gulf Shores. We're just going to keep doing it better and better in Gold Shores. So beyond that, not a whole lot of details that I can remember off the top of my head. I'm going to find the dates as you say something else, though.

I was just cleaning out my podcast notes today. And I was just deleting that, deleting that. I thought, well, save this. I had jotted down getaway ideas, I think as soon as last year was over. And I think we talked about this on an episode. Yeah, we talked about some good stuff. I said new getaway ideas, beast games. There's a banker.

Digital scoreboard on the TV. Win bank, get pampered. Get pampered. Really just make this more of a reality game show. It's kind of like Survivor where it's like, hey, you can sabotage your team, but then we have brought in this masseuse and you get a massage maybe. That's so fun. You know, everyone else is eating hot dogs, but we did bring in the chef.

He's going to make you a steak. That's great. Yes. We're going to kill someone. We're going to make, yeah, we're going to make everyone else miserable. They are only getting beans for dinner, but you get this. And Hortensia is still going to make decent beans. August 15th to August 22nd of 2026, the year of our Lord.

All right. So that's where we're going. Sweet. Oh, it's got to be fun. It's so fun every year. It's so fun. It's so fun. Please tell us if you regret going.

No, no, publicly. I think I'm that confident that we make it that fun for everybody. And the people that did have fun say that publicly too, just in case someone does publicly say it wasn't awesome, just so we get like, you know, more, more good than bad. Because you always read the one-star reviews. The five-star reviews don't carry as much weight. But actually, you know what I'm saying it?

Just tell us privately about that. All right. Caleb Sullivan. I don't know if Caleb Sullivan had a good time. You think he had a good time? He texted me a good night every time I upload the podcast. I wonder if he had a good time.

He was annihilated that once. But yeah, I think it's like, yeah, same location, similar dates, same house. But even at the end of the last year, it's like we can make all the surrounding things like new and improved for sure. For sure. That's what's fun is like,

if we get systems more and more down, we can tweak systems from there. You know what I mean? there's a good amount of people who are probably like, don't change it. I loved it. I would do everything again last year. Right. I know that's the thing is like some people is their first time so they don't know anything about. They can't compare anything. Other people is like, this is their third time, fourth time now. Like I remember going in last year. We briefly talked about like, do people, are that many people even going to want to play pickleball at 8 a.m., whatever? And then it turns out like,

normally plays pickleball outside of the ghosty getaway. Like this is their chance to do it. Right. Right. I'm like, no, no, no, that I'm doing this. Right. So I can play the sport that I've heard so much about. It was sweet. People would be like, I don't even like pickleball. I just want to come and just sit and watch you guys. I have a paddle.

I'll just sit with it. Watch. Just look and take pictures. Yeah. So, anyway, Timon, you got to come.

Yeah, I want to. It was awesome when Timon got there last year. It was electric. Timon was so tall all of a sudden. Time was so tall. His arm was so broken. So broken.

That's right. And he just played pickleball with a thing, like a bag on his arm. Yeah, like a sort of raining bread bag or no it was a water bottle I think a Desani

like a water bottle case bag yeah like the thick plastic around a water bottle case oh but it did the trick man that was awesome that was so great karaoke session too oh yeah that's some real talent in there

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It's open. Okay. Let me hear about it. So I can't even remember. Did we talk about this on the podcast? Yeah. We did. Okay.

This is one on 69? Yeah. You're getting on that road a lot? Yeah. Cool. He's going to that. pickleball spot down at 143rd. Elite, yeah.

Yeah. I went there like three times this week. So, Kent City, you know, it's a decent size city, but it's pretty spread out. I feel like we don't have a lot of cool highway intersect. I don't know,

we don't have a lot. We don't have an HOV lane. We don't have. No, no, no. We have nothing exciting. We don't bring anything to the highway table. No. We've got about, I don't know,

four miles total. It's a pretty small stretch. Yeah. Where you can get on your, on private. It's like a Patreon highway. It's awesome. No one's over there. Is it, is it necessary? It's not even a busy part. It makes sense if it it was like closer to downtown or like, I got to get there, but like you're so far out of town. It's not busy. Yeah, there's not many people that drive on 69 highway. I feel like if anything,

I see more traffic going north every time I'm on 69. And both. Yeah, there's an express express. Yeah, both. There's an express lane both web. Oh, okay, good. Okay, there we're Yeah, both directions have it, but it's just, it is in kind of a funny spot. But yeah, took it once. It's only 40 cents. And they say pay by mail, that's free. Yeah, I'm not going to see that. Yeah, I'm not going to pay that on time or really notice it.

Okay. So it's free to drive on it, which is great. Yeah. And what I really like, it's one thing to, like, have your own lane. Like, truly, like, I've done it probably two or three times and no one's been in the lane with me. But you get your own exit. What? You don't even exit with the regular people.

No way. Yeah. But 60 and south. On to what street. Exiting to 1.35th, you go left while all the poor people go right. You go left and you go up and I don't know where you go, but then you do intersect right back with them. You just like briefly. You probably avoid a light though.

You might. I don't know even what you avoid. I'll only exit there once. Avoid the poor people. I just avoid the poor people. Interesting. Are they just look at their. Are they just looking at your license plate?

Is that all it takes? Or do you have that? K tag. It says K tag or pay by mail. So I think it's a license plate with cameras. But I took it one day when it was like really foggy and rainy, free again. Yeah, right? I saw my license plate that day.

There's no way cameras count for rain. It was pretty foggy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's awesome. So good for you. Just loving that. I love the express. Okay, so quick math.

Timing, you're going to do this. And then Jake's going to do it in about half the time. Great. It's 40 cents every time. Yep. If you go there and back every single day, that'd be 80 cents, correct? Yes, correct. So how many, how much would it cost if you did it every day in a month for 30 days?

No way of knowing. No way of knowing. I mean, I could calculate it on the calculator. No, you cannot. You're going to do this. Okay. I got it. It's eight times three, timing.

And then put some zeros in there. $24? Nice. Okay. Okay. I wasn't actually that bad. Because you also guess, like, oh, if it's 80 cents a day. I just give up too early.

That's my problem. Yeah. Yeah. That's deep, dude. 24 bucks? I mean, it's one of those, it's like, it's just another convenience, another amenity. It's like, I might spend 24 bucks to not have to wait in traffic as often. Yeah.

If there was traffic. Which I think at the right time of day, there is traffic there. Like, I don't think it's like, I agree with you, like, it's not the most heavily traffic, trafficked, heavily, like, busy area in Kansas City, though. Yeah. There's definitely spots where we could use it. Way more. We could use it more in other spots.

But yeah, there was one time where it's like, hey, there's a lot of cars on my right. Uh-huh. And just me over here. All right. So the hard thing is like, what if you get in that lane and you get behind somebody who's going,

you know, five under the speed limit? And you're like, and you can't cross back over. They're not supposed to. They're big on don't cross double white lines. Yeah. But is there.

Is there any cones or anything? Like, there's no, like, barrier. No. It's just a line. Yeah. Well, double. Double white line.

It does feel like, yeah, your extra strike. It's like a force field. I do wonder what the rules are, though. How fast can you go in the express lane? Oh, you can go as fast as you want. Okay, that's what I thought. The cop's not going to be able to get all the way over there to pull you over. Because he can't cross a double white line.

He would have had to enter way back there. Exactly. Test it out. See how fast you can go. That sounds fun. How fast, like, do you know anything about the auto bond? I don't really. Okay.

I know that it's... I've heard it's like... They drive fancy cars on it very fast. It doesn't really have a speed limit. And it's like scenic or something? Yeah. Right. Journey.

I just want to know like... Is it curvy? It's got to be a little curvy. I feel like if you go... If you have two straight of the line, it's super dangerous. I've heard that too. Like driver's fatigue. Oh, okay.

I hadn't heard that aspect. I just thought it was like, you just go really fast if you have a straight. Yeah, you're tempted to be more dangerous. I'm just wondering if you have the ability, like truly the option. to go as fast as you want. I wonder what the human behavior does. And that's it. Like how fast, how fast is like, I'm good here. Like, I think I would probably be going 90. And I'd be probably

pretty, I'd probably, the first time on it, I'd be like, let's see how fast we can go. But then, like, if I'm taking the auto bond to work every day, which I don't think that's that works, but I would probably max out at 90, just comfortably, you know, listen to my music. Yeah. You can't listen to a podcast at 120. Right? Right. Yeah, I don't think so. I wonder at like how many lanes. like how wide is it? That's a good question. I'm guessing it's wide. I'm guessing it's six lanes on each side.

You can't make that cool of a road and just be like, eh, two-lane highway. Pass on the left. Roughly 70% of the network has no fixed speed limit. But there are some posted speed limits, say 100 to 120 kilometers per hour, which is about like 60 to 70.

Not very fast, yeah. Maybe around curves or something. Yeah, let's go. some time. It's an interesting thing that like they have this concept and no one else has adopted it all as far as I know. If it's so good, why isn't it anywhere else to it? Maybe it's not. Maybe it's danger. I don't know. I don't know anything about it. It doesn't look any bigger than an American highway. Okay. It looks normal. But somehow we all know about it. Are you you guys more comfortable on like a big highway or a country highway? I like two lanes each

direction. Do you? I think that's where I feel comfortable. Trying to picture country highway. Oh, like either like a two lane. Like if you're getting behind somebody, it's slow, you have to pass them around you. Gotcha. Or maybe even, I don't even like two on each side. That still is like not very comfortable for me.

Like driving to your house in Stratford. Okay. It's fine. But like if you, if somebody's driving in the right lane slow and then somebody's driving the left lane slow, it's like this stinks. And then all of a sudden there's 16, 18 wheelers behind you.

Yeah. 16, 18. And it's like, it's just stressful. Three lanes. you don't have that very often. When do you start to get nervous? Like, this is a lot of lanes.

Like, I'm in... I love it. I'm in Austin right now. This is a lot of lanes. I don't think I ever get stressed about that. I'd much rather driving the city. Really? I think I keep finding myself recently on 435 going east when it's like pretty busy.

I don't like that very much. I think that my sweet spot, as far as like pure comfortability is driving like south on 69 from Bucyrus. Like there's just no one on the road. It's like, you can go 83 because it's a 75. Yeah. That's too late, I think. Yeah, yeah.

It's like, you can pass people. Too late on each side. They don't usually get stuck. Yeah. I like that. Very good. Yeah. That's all I want to know.

All right. We can end it in the episode. I'm going to try the express lane. I'm going to try it. Yeah. I'll report back. It's free. It is.

Yeah. It is. Yeah. It is, it like, to me, I'd be so excited to use it, but then I'd be like, bummed if I wasted, like, if I just look at somebody else,

just going as fast as me right next to me. Dang it. Shoot. I wouldn't be special. Like, I need it to be significantly more valuable than the other thing. You need a, you need, like, an accident. Wouldn't hate it.

Wouldn't hate just like a nice, you know, whoops, you know, hostess truck that spilled Twinkies all over the highway. Yeah, that's all that matters. Yeah, and anyway, people are speculating left and right about the white tent down the street. Hmm. We don't really know. No.

Yeah, we don't really know. It hasn't made, like, the news or anything. My city councilwoman said she's not in that role anymore, so she doesn't know that much. But she's like, sounds pretty dangerous. Sounds scary. Yeah, thanks a lot. Thanks. Thanks for keeping my neighborhood secure.

but yeah white tent it's interesting making a murderer uh this is kind of along the same lines actually i just wrote i forgot about this until i looked at my notes uh i was on a walk the other night we'll call it 830 give or take and i'm walking around this corner and two trucks like turn in both directions one turns towards me one turn like kind of peels out away from me we don't live in the nicest neighborhood so it's not like crazy to see like a kind of a loud truck driving fast. They like that. Yeah. Yeah.

It's like, okay, dude, cool. You drive a truck. We get it. Like, you probably work on it yourself. We get it. But then we'll call it one minute later. I'm walking. And I, like, I see these like lights, like headlights like driving behind me.

And like, I hear this guy go, hey. Hey, what are you doing? And I thought it was like, when he said, hey, I thought it was like, oh, it's one of my friends. Or I don't know. Who is this? like fun neighbor whatever I turn around it's a cop and he's like he's like he's like what he's like where you coming from I was like what and I had my hood on which not great but it was like kind of chilly it was like maybe a little bit rainy I can't remember but like so I had my hood on so I probably

looked a little bit so like suss well no a little no you're white yeah it's true it was a white hoodie it was my oatmeal hoodie yeah that's what I was saying was my quaker oats I go I was just I'm just on a walk I got a little bit feisty like Not like mean feisty, but like feistyier than I probably should have. I'm on a walk. I'm going to that white tent. See what's going on. Like I didn't mean for it.

I didn't even mean for it to be feisty. But my tone was like, no, I'm just on a walk. Like it was kind of like that. And then my head up this down. And then he's like, okay, did you see any trucks drive by? Mm. And I knew like, this is one of those times where one of your like headlights. Yeah.

One of your, one of your like hidden secret abilities like came in handy. I was like, slum dog. Yes. There was a ram 2,500 that went this way. There was a Silverado, 1500 that went that way. I was like, which one are you looking for? What else is he, boy?

Yeah, yeah. He's like, okay, it was a white truck. I was like, yeah, it was a white 1500 by Chevy, Silverado. He's like, yeah. Dude, that's great. And I, like, after feeling a little bit from the tone, I go, is there anything else I can help you with officer? That's amazing. And he goes, no, you're good, you're good.

And he kind of looked like, it was like, in a movie or something. He's like looking around. He's in his car. He had at this point, he had like, um, stood up out of his car, like, with the door open, kind of like looking, his head was above the roof, kind of looking around. Looking for cars. No, you're good.

Gets back in. Drives away, drives away, tries to find this. And so then, dude, I walk straight home. You start running. I walked briskly. Let's be honest. Let's be, let's be realistic about this. I walk straight home.

I go, Catherine, I need, I need to go. I didn't tell what's going on. But I got in my truck and I drove around trying to find it, maybe. The vigilante. And then, dude, and then like, I. Because I'm seeing cops like, I'm like, what's going on? It's my neighborhood. I got a, I'm a gruff out here, dude.

I got a, what night was this? I don't remember. Maybe, maybe it was Thursday. Because it was a, if we recorded on Thursday, I saw my oatmeal on. Yeah. That's probably the same night. I think it was the same night because I think it was like, Jake told me the story about this other thing happening.

Maybe it's connected. White tent week. Yeah, dude. Maybe it's all going down. And so I'm, and so then, dude, I see, I see a truck. I don't know if it's the same truck, but it's the same looking truck. Brad's eyes narrowed. I see the truck going this way.

And so I'm like trying not to like, like, you know, let that truck know I'm in on it, but also like trying to in on it. And so I see a cop and I'm just like, I'm going like this. And the cop doesn't see me. I think a guy got away. But I was I was loving it. Dude, I was driving all around looking. There was one part in a drive.

I was like, maybe that's it. I don't know. Maybe they're hiding in plain sight. So anyway. Something you've got a police scanner on. You've got a little notebook. Got my legal pad out. Uh-huh.

And what was he wearing? Uh-huh. Anything else we know about the unsub? Why are you talking like this? Here's my card. Let me know if you see anything else. Yeah, I've tried to catch this perp. Perp, yeah.

It's a perp ball. Purp ball. Anyway, dude. Dude, that's so good. That's awesome. I love... Where are you coming from? They can't know I'm in on it.

They can't know I'm in on it. They can't know that I'm like, on the case. You're not a little scared of like, these guys, these cops are like... No, I love that. Pretty vigilantly looking for him. So I'm like, this way this way I don't know

good how's your burger yeah because if not they think I'm one of them I'm a white truck guy yeah hey fellow fellow whitey they'll say right here hey hey hey wow

anyway that's awesome so didn't didn't help him solve it I don't think but who knows who knows search continues yeah dude that's pretty fun you got to be on the case

yeah This guy, like, was pretty aggressive, though. Oh, hey, where are you coming from? They really want to catch this guy. I wonder what he did. I don't know. So, that's fun. I guess speaking of driving, not a huge story,

but I was just turning left at an intersection, and there was a guy waiting to cross the street, but like, we very much had a green light. You know, it's one of those. I'm looking through everything I've done. Like, there's nothing I could have possibly done wrong. the guy waiting to like cross the street just watches me like turn in his lane

and just flips me off what did I do? Yeah, dude! I love that. He's standing there. The only thing I can think is because it's a Tesla, you know, he just has his like bitterness in his heart. Yeah, nice, what was he driving?

Prius? He was standing on the road. Yeah. He doesn't even have a car. He had blue hair, dude, I don't know. So that's the only thing I could think of. Really? Like, I don't even follow.

Like, I don't even know, is Elon back to being a Democrat, is he a Republican? I don't even know what side he's on now. I don't know why I'm getting flipped off. But that's the only thing I could think of. Like, I was first in line at the stoplight. It turned green.

And I just make a very normal turn left. And he's just waiting on me. And when I get close, just... Pretty aggressively. It's like he's starting a yo-yo. Yeah. Like, there was a little wrist curl. Sling!

Yeah. About to start walking the dog. I mean, knowing you, you're not aggressively driving at all. Oh, no, especially not for the car I have. No, it's very, very slow. Yeah, it was like, This is the most standard turn. Like going crazy thinking about to...

Okay, be honest with yourself. What'd you do to deserve that? Nothing. Be honest. Yeah, hey, come on. It's your fault. Look in the mirror. Yeah, bud.

Yeah. You know what you did. No, it's not like... Because it'd be different. This guy's like, Gene Shores is amazing. Why'd you stop it? Okay.

I need to look even more inwardly. It's not about the turn. We have pickleball videos that are funny, too. Yeah. I mean, there's other ways. Yeah. That's funny. I'm sorry.

That really tore me up for about 10 seconds. I was fine because I got the express line. I get, I get, uh, I had somebody honk at me yesterday, I think, two days ago, whatever it was. And I, I was, I was ready to make eye contact. That's my way of like, like, fingers sometimes. Like, yeah, it's like, like, they're, they're past me and I'm just, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm ready to stare at them.

I was like, I go, I'm, what? What did I do? You know, that's, that's my way. You flip them off with your eyes. Oh, yeah. Like, do you feel a little bit of time right now? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

What? Tricking back in my chair right now. That's how I get after it, dude. I like it. You can feel that. Oh, I was going the speed limit. We live in a nation's long. I'm going the speed limit.

It's good. It's hard to look at you. What? Yeah, it's the eyebrow shape, I think. It feels like they're a little bit of flared gnost. Yeah. Nosticism. What, dude?

come at me I don't know anyway that's good um Sunday morning uh had a little pickable tournament

in town um it's fun it's uh it's one of those team formats where it's a four person team event and these are always a little more exciting uh my team name

was Jake and the kids because I'm playing with a lot of the just the kids that I've been practicing with that we know whatever yeah yeah just like Caroline Tennessee and Cammy are my teammates. Tennessee? Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Tennessee's great. And it was just so funny. It's like our name is just like, just such as like, I don't know, I guess you could call like wholesome name. And the teams were playing in this event are just all like we had to play like dinking and driving. Uh-oh. We played D's Nets.

These Nets? In the semis. Dink's Nets? Yeah. You played another team that had Jake in three kids, but they were called statutory Jake. that's what I'm saying. That's crazy. That's ridiculous. That's inappropriate that they would not appreciate.

That's terrible. They even let that slide. That was not good. But we won the tournament. It was very fun. And we had some like contentiousness would maybe be the word. Like people just like. What?

Yeah. Flair Nash. That's what reminded me of it. Really? Yeah. Just people getting fired up. It's not worth telling the whole story. But it was fun.

Just like about what? Exactly though. Just line calls and score. and maybe, you know, targeting, you know, the heads of some players, you know, just like a little like chippiness, you know, pickleball version of it. Cool. And, you know, I'm sitting next time to Cammy and her dad and I go, oh, I'm not used to that. It's new for me.

And Cammy, who plays like at a really high level, you know, she's like, oh, that happens all the time and like juniors or whatever. I didn't like it. Interesting. I am like de-escalating situation. Like, it's pickleball. It's the weekend. You totally would.

It's pickleball. I could hear you saying that. Yeah. Guys, it's pickleball. It's good. We're good. It's a nice day, dude. You're worried about insurance Monday through Friday.

Just play pickleball. Taxes are going to be here before we know it. Can we just enjoy the pickle ball? Mold can kill you. Let's just enjoy pickle ball. I, yeah, I was watching the KU basketball game last night. I saw Bill Self. Yeah.

KU's coach got ejected from the game for arguing with the rest. which is pretty rare because you have to do it twice. And he did it like early too, right? He got ejected immediately, double technical right away. Whatever, it doesn't matter. But during that, I was watching the players of like, this is, like, if I was one of those players, I'd be like, dad, where are you going, dad? Like, and they're just like, all right, you know, this is happening.

Or like, you know, I watched like, there was a time where this guy like wrestled with this other guy for like a loose ball. Like they were like, it was a jump ball eventually. But it was like they were. about to kill each other. And then the whistle blew and they were just like, all right, we're good. And that to me is like, yeah, you're a different like experience of an athlete when it's like, oh yeah, this happens all the time.

This is just normal to have contentiousness. And I'm like, no, it's not. I'm going to live with this for at least three days. I'm going to hang on to this whole of it. Like there were a few times when we played rec basketball where I had to like text the group later like, hey, guys, sorry about my actions tonight. Because it like hurt me, like how much I got mad at the ref or like got mad at the other fired up something like yeah it got feisty i was like what am i doing and these other guys are like

oh yeah that happens every single game yeah people have very different appetites for these like little tensions their competitiveness yeah and they file it under the category of like oh i was just getting fired up i'm like i can't just file it away or that i file it under like you're mad at me yes i did something wrong why just put me off on the street earlier i cannot compartmentalize enough yeah i sometimes think it's okay to get fired up and be competitive but also you're like you're choosing if you're doing that to like then take it another hour or two after like if i'm playing you and i'm competitive and i get a little bit mad at you like i'm not going to be like oh i should never try i should never be mad like i'm like i understand i shouldn't have been mad but i'm like now that

i did get mad i'm not just going to act like it didn't happen after we play yeah you know like sometimes people get fired up and you know let's say a basketball game when they get they get they get so mad and frustrated i feel like the rest aren't calling about whatever they're frustrated at that they will now, you know, intentionally throw an elbow at the guy guarding them. And even afterwards, if they feel bad or whatever, it's like, you still like, you still did that. Yeah. You still threw an elbow.

Like, you can't ever lay to get to that point under the name of competitiveness. Yes. You do things where even afterwards, you're like, gosh, that was bad that I did that. Exactly. Yeah. Oh, man. There's a girl on Haddy's team that's pretty feisty. And every once in a while, it's just like, like, if she plays somebody else, it's kind of

physical, too. it's a physical sport like it can be physical and then every once in a while the refs like there's some refs that are like call it all the time there's some refs that like never blow their whistle for anything

and I'm like you gotta blow your whistle or there's gonna be a fight on this court gonna be a pubes and duck there's gonna be two nine year olds like throwing hands dude haddy on Friday when she played I was kind of proud of her first of all just the way that the upward works

it's a funny way of playing but there's six periods, like six quarters essentially. Yeah, weird, like six minute. But I think the idea is like that way people get subbed in and out quicker, but you still get fair amount of playing time. There's TV timeouts, basically. Yeah. And the way it worked, they only had nine players this past week.

And so the way it worked with like who starts and everything, they just change that every week. Haddy was the first one to like be in again or whatever. And so in other words, she was able to play four periods instead of three. like normal because of that. But then they also have a rule. So Haddy's already like playing the first two periods and then goes off and she's like so tired. And then this girl that's physical on our team gets two fouls in one period.

And if you get two foul in the same period, you get you're fouled out of that period. That's like the rule. And so Haddy goes in for her. And Haddy is like, she flipped a switch. I don't know what happened, but she is so aggressive on defense now. Oh, weird. Like she learned like, oh, I can just go get the ball. Like, I can go, like, if there's a loose ball, if there's loose ball, Haddy's, like,

getting on the ground for it and, like, fighting other girls, like, trying to wrestle it out of their hand and stuff. And so, Haddy goes in the game in the third period after being out two periods. And she's only in there for, like, two minutes of that period. And she fouls out of that period. Which I'm like, obviously that's not good. But also, like, good for you for being that aggressive that, you know, she's, she's valid. So, anyway, pretty hilarious that she's.

So she played four. five out of the six periods of that game. Just a marathon. Wow. And fouled out a little bit too. It fouled out. Briefly. So anyway, great times.

Good for howdy. It's fun. It's hard to be aggressive. It's one thing to be aggressive in the driveway. And then like these strangers. I know. I don't care that much. Exactly.

That's why it's like really hard to teach too. Yeah. I've learned. Like you can't, you can't just be like, just go get. I mean, I remember my dad always being like, drive to the basket. You know, get more aggressive. And I'm like, okay.

I don't really want to, though. Coach Usain's Mone's stuff. Yeah, you don't do that. So, anyway. Hey, before I forget, this Friday, Ghostrunners premiere, it looks like where it's going to be a live in-person thing. I saw this.

Shout out Coley, shut out Joan. They've kind of been working together, throwing this together. Yeah. Because Coley lives here now. So, yeah, it'll be the Ghostrunners documentary that he's been working on for a while, titled Unscripted,

Ghostrunner's documentary, will premiere live on YouTube. this Friday, but also if you're in the Kinns City area, it's going to be at a place called Gallagher's Coffee House. Never heard of it. Me neither, and it's in Shawnee. Western Shawnee feels like a different state, though, to me. Is that fair?

I wouldn't mind living in Western Shawnee. Really? It's nice out there, but it feels so inconveniently far away. No express lanes. No, I mean, there's highways, but not East and West very much. Not East and West. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I have a hard time.

Some of Hattie's friends live out there, and I'll go pick her up. And I'm like, it's Shawnee, but it's 25 minutes away from here. Yeah. So I don't know where Gallagher's is, but I'm sure it's awesome. I think it's near the nice library that's there on like Monacello or cello or however you stay. That's not too far from us. Yeah, that's great. Anyway, so I hope to be there.

I plan to be there. I told Cooley, I'm unofficially in. So I think I'm so bad at knowing what's on my schedule. but as far as my calendar goes, I'm free. So therefore, it's in my calendar. And if I don't find out about something that I did commit to that I didn't know that is not in my calendar, if that doesn't happen, then I'll be there.

So I should be there. My parents, I think, are going to come up separately. My aunt, Angie, your coach, his wife. She is coming up for, I forget what event she has in Kansas City. She was already playing on staying with us that night. Okay. So she's going to be in town. Sweet.

There was a chance I was going to be out of town. So Scott and Isaac, I think that Friday are doing, you know, last week we talked about Just Drinks is back. Yeah. What if I told you, U-Haul vibes is back? Okay. I think Scott and Isaac are going to rent a U-Haul and drive it down to Dallas, Texas. Okay. That weekend.

Okay. So as we've talked about before, all the returns, all the Pick-A-Wall paddle returns currently go to Scott's house and we don't really have a good system. We just slowly give them way to people, whatever. But we're going to try to set something up better than that. first step is gather all the paddles we have, take them to our fulfillment center, which is in Fort Worth,

and get them sorted. These can now be sent off, yada, yada. But also there's a PPA tournament in Dallas that weekend. So it's like great. They can load up a U. Hull, fill it full of paddles,

drop them off and play in the tournament on Saturday and film it all from, you know, inside of a U.S. That's fun. Just driving up to the PPA tournament in U. Hall. That's going to be so fun. Don't let Isaac drive.

I'll let him go through intersections. Yeah. That's cool. Still be doing that. But I'm going to stick around. I want to see the live premiere. Yeah, it's going to be cool. I'm really pumped.

Nathan has spent so much time on it. No computer today. You know, I... He's got the mug and phone. I've been kind of phoned in it last few weeks. The computer was in my truck, and I just said, I'm going to keep it in the truck.

You know, I don't use it too much. Sometimes it's just a crutch for me. Yeah. You know? So that's fun. of them to do the U-Haul vibes. It is fun. Sleep in the U-Haul.

Yeah, they gotta. The paddles are kind of soft. Brad, it's Saturday night, 11 p.m. Time and I are texting. What are we talking about? Probably at that point, it's like, dude, did you hear,

like, they didn't even use a boom mic on the island. Talking castaway. Audio tag. Yeah. No. Time would text me at 11 p.m. Saturday today to talk about cozy earth with me.

That's what I'm talking about, dude. That is what I'm talking about. Like, did you actually? Or is this just for the ad? No, yes, I did. Like, we're just BS for the ad right now. I can put the text on screen. I'm looking at it.

Yeah. Right now, I was in bed. Time goes, hey, what size you get for that cozy earth crew neck? Right. I'm kind of wanting one for myself. Because it looks good and it's cozy. My text to him. I go, ha, ha, I wore it again today.

Get in there with them. Get in there with them. The water's great. What was your answer? Just for people to size up. I said, I got medium. It's medium fits great. Medium fits great.

It's the men's cityscape crewneck. It's in the last chance area. Okay. Okay. They have other citiescapes, maybe as well. Yeah. Cityscape can't go wrong. Yeah.

Yeah. CozyEarth.com is a sponsor of ours today. And it's one of those things where it's like, A, obviously, you're in person with them. It's not just a camera trick that Jake looks nice. It's not just movie magic. No, it's not. It's like he actually loves.

loves his cozy earth. And he looks that good and he's that cozy. And yeah, we love talking about it. Like, that's a real interaction. Yeah, like, I want. Like, well, we were sponsored by this Hulu show back in the day. And yeah, we promoted it. But we still got the cooler down here.

Yeah, big into it. You know, it's like, no, no, no. We truly love and believe in all the products and all the things we sponsor here on Ghostrunners. So I'll tell you this. Timon is texting about this hoodie. I go, send me a link to make sure it's the right one. He sends it to me and I go, hey, got a few other colors here. So I bought another one.

And while I was on the site, I bought Rachel something as a fun surprise too. That's a sweet husband. Just can't stop spending money on cozy earth. Sweet husbands love cozy earth. If you're a sweet husband, you need to go to cozy earth. Slashireth. Now, can you still be a sweet husband without spending money at Cozy Earth? No.

Absolutely not. They go together. Yeah. Probably didn't put an expletive in there because that's how strong they feel about. If you were a sweet husband, you need to buy your white cozy earth. Yep. They're one and the same. Do it now.

It's better. Can I just say it's better for your health to sleep well, right? And if you don't have Cozy Earth's sheets, you're not sleeping as well as you can. Therefore, you are going to live a worse life if you don't have Cozy Earth sheets. GRKC, 20% off. Cozy Earth.com. Yeah. It's Hasco. I'm looking through some of these RSVPs.

Elizabeth Virgil, going. She doesn't live here. Clay Zimmerman, going. He doesn't live here. Yeah, does that mean, do you think that? People driving in. You think so? Like, they're coming to that, or they're like going to watch it on YouTube.

Going to be checking this out on Instagram later the next day. Going to hear about this on the podcast when you talk about it. Okay. That's probably what I meant. Is it premiering the same time the YouTube is premiering? Does that make sense? Like, do we get to interact on YouTube as well? Good question.

Nathan said in the description of this Facebook group, event starts at 7. the documentary will start premiering around 730. In parentheses, pretty casual schedule subject to change. That sounds like it's separate from the YouTube premiere to me. Separate, yeah, like he would use a different file, but I didn't know if it was like

the same time-ish. I don't know. I'm going to RSVP going to find out from Nathan. Okay. About that for you. That's good. That's good. Are you going to the mall later?

Oh, okay. one of the more frustrating things in my life right now. I'm putting together all this stuff for this Airbnb that I'm working on, right? ATVs. Yeah, I think it's going to be less. I've decided. I think it's going to be probably more like five or six. I'm not going to pull it outside.

There's too hard to get an electrical outlet out there. Okay. So, and then I didn't end up doing anything in the garage space. I just keep in the garage where it is. Okay. But I bought from Retail Rebel a bed frame. And this bed frame, like retail rebels, all these returns basically that are like in good condition, but just not done yet or whatever, or not, whatever, just got returned. But sometimes the, like, issue with them is that they just, they are missing parts or they're, you know, somebody tried to put them together and it's like, I don't want to.

So I'm sending it back. So I open up this huge king size bed with, you know, a hundred different pieces. Like IKEA style. and it all looks fine except it doesn't have instructions and I have I'm a pretty resourceful guy I'm pretty good on my computer

and finding things for the life of me I cannot find instructions on how to put this thing together and it's not simple enough of a build that I'm just like I'm just going to try to figure it out you know this is an Isaac McDonald task

maybe honestly he would he would figure it out you would at least figure it. And you would enjoy it. That's the thing. It's like, I think I could probably spend enough time to figure this out. But I don't want to commit to doing one thing one way. And then all of a sudden it's like, those are the wrong screws for that.

And I just wasted all that time. That is a cumbersome task. I would not want to do that. And it's one of those things where like most of the time instruction manuals are just online. I just figured like I could definitely find this online. No problem. I think it's some like, you know, manufacturer in China that sells only on Amazon that is like that. And like, so I sent emails to them and all this stuff, which I, and I'm never confident the email is going to work.

Right? Like, are you like, when you send a customer service email about something like this, you're like, they're not going to respond to me. Yeah, it has to be a decent enough size company where I think they will get back to me. They had a phone number. So I called that and it just said, this phone number is out of service. I was like, great. I emailed my little meal service the other day because every week I get six meals. Like when I go select and like, because Rachel makes dinner around and then, you know, six meals a week.

that's probably pretty good, just about every lunch. But if I ever forget to do a week, they send me 12. And I don't like that. Oh. And they charge me for 12. Oh, you have to do it every week. I have to like select my meals. Oh, yeah.

You should have like a way to like default. If I don't say anything, here's the six I want. Or do the same six as last week or something similar. And so I can email them. I said, I know there is an algorithm working because you know to always send me chicken because that's what I order. So like you know my habits. but it seems like you choose to ignore those habits

when it comes time to how many I want. Can you explain this? Yeah. No email back. Man. Bummer. But I tried. Yeah.

Because it's like, I don't know. It's not the end of the world, but it's like, I know you have the capability to do this. And you're choosing to charge people more. Sure. It's a bad customer experience. Yeah. It's like, do you want it for the short term?

You want a customer for the short term or the long term? Yeah. Make them happy. Don't try to get an extra $70 per week out of them. Yeah. That's a lot. Yeah. Dang.

And then 12 meals show up. All of a sudden, it's like, I got to go double turkey meatball for dinner, I guess. That sounds pretty good, though. Yeah, that turkey meatballs is pretty good. Yeah. Catherine's going to be gone. Catherine's heading to Nashville tomorrow for like three or four days. She's like Thursday through Sunday.

She's doing that singer-songwriter conference? She's doing the singer-songwriter thing. So she's brushing up on her guitar. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, plug in. I can't, I don't want to hear you. you play.

Yeah, yeah, put the headphones in. She's getting pretty good, though. That is cool. Yeah. What's the name of the honky talk? She's going to? Stirrups and, um, syrups and spurs. Oh.

Syrups and spurs. Syrups and spurs. That's what it is. Yeah. Syrups and stirrups. It's a brunch spot. Waffles and bridles. Um, I don't know anything about country stuff like that.

Why is she going to Nashville? For Singer, or? Oh, yeah, we just talked about that. Yeah. Well, do you think this is just a joke of a podcast? I don't know what I was thinking. we're trying to be funny. She's going to surprise one of her friends for her birthday.

We're best friends who lives out there. So I'm going to be solo with the kids for however many days that is while trying to do, you know, upward while trying, I mean, this is going to be a busy weekend. It's going to be fun. But one of the things we're definitely going to have is some frozen meatballs. Yeah. There's some chicken meatballs from Costco. They're like, those are definitely on the menu.

And good ranchers on the way. For sure. For sure. We got some good ranchers coming. And maybe. Good Ranchers on the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So to speak.

So to speak. That's right. Absolutely. So, yeah, chicken nuggets from Good Ranchers will be good. I'm kind of toying with the idea. Don't tell Catherine, I said this. She listens to every episode of just seeing how much we can spoil the kids and seeing what happens. Like I've kind of decided like, I've toyed with it.

I've like, what happens if I just say, yeah, let's watch as many movies as you want? What happens if I'm like, yeah, let's have cinnamon toast crunch for breakfast? Address yourselves today. Catherine, like, she was like making a list of all things she needed to do before she went to Nashville. She's like, I need to pick out all the kids' church clothes. I'm like, I can get them dressed. I might not wear exactly what you want. They will have clothes on.

They will be presentable enough, I promise. Like, you know. Yeah, you should be like the movie Big Daddy where it's like, do you even like your name? What do you want your name to be? Yeah. Frankenstein? Great. It's Frankenstein.

What do you want for lunch? A hundred packets of ketchup. And then eventually what is Frankenstein saying? He says, I want to go to school. Yeah, and he's like he's sick and he's wet in the bed. Yep. So, yeah, you go through that. I think so.

I want to go to school. Teach him a little bit. I mean, yeah. Obviously, within reason, but I'm like, why not just say yes to everything for a little while? Go to the park and throw some sticks at the rollerbladers. Yeah. So good, dude. Nothing bad happens in Big Daddy.

In the end, the right people got the right kids, I think. I would say so. So they'll go to a good home. No spoilers. I'm sorry timing. All right. Yeah, anyway,

though, I'm like, what's the worst thing could happen? A little extra Robin Hood one weekend, they'll be fine. Come on,

dude. So they're really intrigued by the movie. It sounds like you have three extra TVs you're not really using right now. We could put them in their rooms.

One for each. We could sync them up. We could do a speaker in the middle, in the hallway. Whatever you call it. System link. System link. Teach them Halo.

Yeah. Yeah, dude. Watch some stuff. two things my kids are really into right now. Maybe I said this last week. Sorry, but like Mike, did I talk about like Mike?

The movie? Yeah. No, this is news to me. I don't know. I'm particular enough about what my kids watch. I need to like make sure that it's okay to watch. So we've only watched scenes on YouTube so far of like Mike.

That's great. But there's only like a couple kids basketball movies out there. Airbud. Yeah, Airbud, space jam. Yeah. Like Mike. Like Hoosers,

but that's not a kid's movie. I was going to say Pistol Pete was great for me as a kid, but that's not really a kid's movie. And I watched the preview of that with the kids, and there was a racial slur in the preview. And of course, the Rachel Slur guy is bad, but I'm like, I don't know if the kids caught that. It was like a pretty low quality preview. In the preview. The guy's from Louisiana, so it's, you know. But Pistol Pete was, like, the Pistol was an amazing movie back of the day.

Yeah, like Birth of a Legend or whatever it's called. Yes. Wow. Yeah, I watched it so many times. Yeah. Anyway. Like Mike. Like Mike. This is the, maybe you've heard the song, the,

they're playing basket ball. All around the world. Oh yeah, we listen to the soundtrack a decent amount. Not ringing a bell. Really? Yeah, I think that one. It's pretty sick. If you were a little bow wow?

I don't think so. What about bow wow? No. He's not little anymore. Yeah. It's bow wow. You ever heard Brian Regan stand up bit about how we got bow wow to be a dog's name or a dog sound?

he's like, Roe, bow, wow, you're not hearing that? That's a bow wow. Yeah, B-O-W, W-O-W.

It's not even kind of what they say. Yeah, I mean, I forget exactly what he says, but he's like, how do we get

bow-wow out of that sound? That's good. Bow, wow. So yeah, Bow and Hattie really love like Mike. They love when he like goes one-on-one, like when he gets called down

and all that stuff. And then they're also getting, maybe they're in their dude perfect era. Like they're getting in the band. Oh, you didn't mention that. Yeah. And so Bo last night,

you know, he had, he had been inside all day. It's been a rainy day. And so Catherine's like, hey, when you get home, Bo needs to, you know, let out some energy. So we, I wrestle hard for 20 minutes before dinner with him. And then afterwards, he's still like, he's like, dad, can we just play catch for a little while before bed? And I'm like, the day I say no to play and catch with my kid,

that's a fail of a dad move for me. Because I, for the longest time, I was like, I just want to play catch with somebody. That's what you dream of, yeah. It's like, yeah. And so, Bo and I, playing catch normal for a while and then all of a sudden he gets in a dude perfect mode he's like all right this is the bow to dad pass he's like doing all this is like this is the jump catch and so he's trying to

like jump and catch it and all this stuff it's it was like crack and me up those are great the building blocks of trip shots this is the super fast throw so it's great yeah he doesn't have much to work with these are the trick shots at his disposal yeah he's trying to think of there was one time we accidentally made it into my shoe and he was like, that was amazing. Off the closet, end of the shoe. He's like, all right, we should just, because that I have an accident, we should film the intro now and act like we meant to do that probably.

This is the off the closet. And do we have a sponsor for today's episode? No, we don't. Okay. Okay. Anyway. So, yeah, real, real into due perfect. So maybe we'll watch a lot of do perfect this weekend, too.

Maybe at the Ghostrunners premiere, we flip one on. It's kind of get people warmed up. I think so. Yeah. Not as well. Yeah. Probably should. A lot of people are doing that.

They do it right. man. They do it right. So anyway, fun times with the kids. That's nice. Speaking of movies, I saw a Facebook post that said, so you wouldn't feel like Jake is bringing up Castaway pretty much every episode? And I just like to say, maybe I am.

And maybe I'd like to continue. I think it's in your DNA a little bit. It must be. There's a few movies that are like, very Jake. Castaway is one of them. I think of Goodwill hunting a lot when I think of you. Or vice versa. Not as familiar with it, but love it.

Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, no. Green Mile. It's another one that I feel like. Oh, yeah. Like you bring up. I think it's like watch it when I was a kid.

And maybe it's more amplified for me because those are movies I haven't seen. So these are, yeah. I've seen Goodwill hunting, but I, you know, only once. I know that you like that movie. I know you love Green Mile. Like, so yeah, maybe it's just a little bit of that. And maybe she hasn't seen it so it stands out to her. Either way, I'd like to talk about it again because Tyman made quite the discovery that we didn't talk about.

Yeah. He's still into the behind the scenes of castaway. He's still watching stuff. Well, okay. So context. I've been doing a lot of photo editing these past several days because of the aura coming out. Shout out Friday

aura probably sold out by now because it's so good. Missed it. But like usually I'm video editing so I can't like listen or watch to something while I work but I love editing photos because I can like have something in the background. So just video essay after video essay just like YouTube videos

and one was like something like this is why I was like some great catchy title about castway. I was like, I'm going to click on this. And so I find out that so so much this movie is on this deserted island or yeah, this island in the ocean, every single sound, every single sound effect, every single line of dialogue. Everything you hear on this island was fully not recorded there and just like made from scratch in post, including every line that Tom Hanks says. Wait, what? And I thought that was

crazy. Yeah. Every line. He's lip sync like, because, um, their explanation is like, yeah, it's, it's, it's so loud constantly with like the ocean just like churning in the background that like none of the audio would be clear so they're just like okay we're gonna have to create it all later so just every every breath every like footstep every it's it blew my mind and it's like the dialogue alone the dialogue alone is insane yeah to match how you said something and how you looked when you said something like just in a studio later yes it's crazy and i think it's like cool so truly just because they got the best sound people in the world and tom hanks is the best obviously he's going to just like it's crazy and I never once thought that could be the case

while I was watching it yeah that's amazing it's crazy because even like one time where you kind of notice it all of a sudden you probably are like yeah and you're looking for it more yeah so did they show like the I think they call it Foley is that what's called yes Foley is like breaking celery the environment sounds and stuff I don't know if they showed them recording them I would have love to hear that they were talking about like you know oh he's on his raft trying to escape and like we used, he's talking about all the things they used for like the wave sound, like a bunch of explosions of many kinds. Like, it's like, it just sounded like how it was supposed to sound. It's crazy. It would take forever.

It would take, yes. Thank goodness. And then you, you trim something up just or like make it, let's make that one to like five seconds longer. It's, yeah, we got to change so much. We can't add sound to fake sound to all that. I can't, I can't imagine how long it took. It's, it's one of those things I would imagine when you edited or like produced your song. Yeah. Like the more you listen to it, the more doubts and the more you're like, does this sound like super like produced or super X, Y, Z? It's like, how do you not when you know that it's fake? How do you not then be like, gosh, I don't know about that. Yeah. Yeah. Is that how that would sound like, you know? I mean, it was probably just years of that or just like not years, but so much of maybe like that sounds kind of fake. We have to make it not sound fake. One thing that was so cool for any lines where it's like that the match also kind of how far away he would. be from the camera, like make the audio sound like real. They would record him in a studio, play that on a speaker, like out in like a backyard or something, back up the microphone, super far away, record the speaker of him yelling like for Wilson or whatever. Then you hear that

in the movie because it's like, it sounds farther away. Stuff like that. I was like, that's so cool. Just so much effort. Yes. I could never make a movie like this. So now I'm curious, you know, every other like Jurassic Park or lost or how to, how do, how do all those other ones that do it on the island? Was this island just louder because it was smaller and closer to the water? Or like, I don't know. I bet there's people like, like,

that are more in the industry that would be like, oh yeah, that's, I know that, that, um, ADR, which is like automatic dialogue replacement or whatever, like recording lines over again is very common. And I think it's like you don't notice it very much. It kills me when I notice it though. Oh yeah. When it's, when you notice it, it's like,

if you're watching a movie with headphones for some reason, you're on play or something. I feel like that's, you can hear it. Like, oh, that was in it. was recorded in a different spot. The TV show, uh, suits. I noticed it so many times. They killed me, dude.

If anyone out there, whenever the Amish show comes out is watching it, oh, it's all over that. Oh, yeah. And it's like, it's not high budget.

They're just going to be like, hey, could you send a voice memo of you saying this? And it's like, you're going to be able to tell. Or they can use Adobe AI software. You send a voice memo. Um,

yeah, but that was so cool. I was like, the more I learn about this movie, the more it's, is this the best movie ever? It might be. Dang.

Yeah, I want to watch it again. Maybe the kids can watch that. Is it? Okay. It's traumatize them. They're not going to want to get on an airplane ever. Is that going to be an issue?

Not yet. They are going to want to go to the beach, though. Okay. Good. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Fair.

Yeah. Feral. Blood. He gets mad a couple times. Nah, okay. Never mind. Yeah. Don't teach you.

We're trying to teach our kids not to be mad. Good movie, though. Yeah. Love it. Love it. I accidentally, I pulled an Isaac this weekend. It might be a Brad. It might be a Brad move.

Tell me, tell me if this is a Brad move. But I was playing, we had the Dad Olympics with my kids and Gunner's kids and Tate's kids. So there was 10 of us there, whatever. We just hung out of the park and did different games, scavenger hunt, captured the flag. We went back to Tate's and we were playing dodgeball or kickball. dads versus kids and you know Tate's daughter is eight years old seven years old something like that and kicks it having a great time and but she just doesn't want to stop running the bases and so we like throw it and we miss her and they're like Brad get the ball and so I run down like I'm back

behind home plate I get the ball and I was like he and you know Tate's like get her get her you know whatever like playing it up and I was going to throw it hard but I was I was aiming for her but I wasn't like trying to, you know, whatever, mess her up. And I threw it not as hard as I could, but harder than I should have. And I missed her body and nailed that face of hers, dude. Just right in the face. I can see it. Is that a Brad move? Yeah. Is it? Dang it. I was like, dang it, dude, I'm sorry. Because I'm like, I'm all about like, okay, yeah, let's play hard, you know, like jokingly. She was shorter than I remembered her being. She squatted a bit. Yeah, she was, She was down in a nice aerodynamics squat.

To her credit, she didn't even cry. Like, she was fine. She was just like, yeah, I'm okay. I just like immediately apologized to Tate. I'm sorry, dude. And then what's crazy is that then I went to kick it. Like, it was my turn to kick. I didn't kick it hard, but I kicked it.

And it nailed Hattie in the chest, like straight in the chest. I was like, sorry. So kind of Scott Sterling initiator. Yeah, a little bit. I remember there were kids in high school. school dodgeball once the teachers outlawed head shots they'd start getting real low and they would just take shots to the head one of that's how they played defense those psychos with their head yeah quentin quentin quentin would do that quentin and then he just got to stay in no it's my head

get your head out of there i'm not aiming for it um is this okay this is on the same plane now now i'm thinking it really was a bad move because then i didn't really learn my lesson that was saturday then monday we had practice and this last it was last practice of the year we decided in both practices to do kids versus parents or kids versus coaches, whatever. Yeah. And so with Bo's team, it was like 10 on three, you know. And I actually kind of messed up my knee play with Bo. Like I like tried to jump and kind of like buckled on me.

It still kind of hurts. But Haddy's game, it was like five on five parents and kids and we like rotated out and stuff. But as we were like sitting on the sideline getting ready to go in, I look at all the girls. I was like, I don't know if you guys heard, but Dr. Blockenstein's here. like what yeah dr blockenstein and he's going if he if you shoot it next to me i'm going to block you so so hard like we're playing half court i was like i'm going to block you and it's going to go in that hoop over there's this one girl on the team who's by far the best player like or at least like

the most like competent dribbler and confident shooter like she shoots it a lot and she comes up dude and i block the daylights out of ben wallace i mean yeah i didn't i didn't go in the other hoop went into the other court. Like I blocked her into oblivion and yelled, Dr. Blockenstein! Yeah, how you should. And then I go, the doctor is in!

And the parents love it. The girls don't think it's as funny. They're really like, yeah. Yeah, but then Hattie, you know, I kept warning Hattie, I was like, Hattie, don't shoot it. Dr. Blankenstein's here. And she gets the ball and she kind of shoots it.

And I'm behind her. And I just kind of push down as she's shooting. And it kind of like pushes back her wrist. And she was like, you could tell she was a little bit hurt. I was like, I probably didn't need to do that. But I blocked this other girl that's not my daughter so hard. So I can't just be like, oh, you're good. How do you shoot it? Yeah. So anyway, Dr. Blockenstein. That does have fun. Just blocking a bunch of shots. Yeah. It's just fun to say Dr. Blankensstein, like Dr. Dinkinstein. Yeah. Like be anything. Like Dr. Stealenstein, Dr. Duncanstein.

So in golf, they call it Dr. Chipensky. Chippinski. Yeah. I've heard that from Josh mayor yeah yeah i think he made merch really yeah dr chipensky will see you know yeah anyway dr blockinstein was was active had fun uh jake did you ever see that s&L skit back in the day with jimmy fallon as like a radio jockey dis jockey that what we call it the like a radio personality DJ disc jockey yeah but no i haven't seen what you're talking about um there was a thing where like he would like take a break and like you know have like during a commercial and like talk to some or during a yeah commercial and they'd be like what's that what's going on here and then every time he would like come back and he just go and we're back oh I've seen that

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We're back. One last thing I wanted to mention, just for you to know, really. Gocies you can listen if you want, but just Barry, just Scott, we're talking to the guy who runs the shoe company who Fridays, like collaborated

and making shoes with and hey our shoes are selling well i think we're ready for like a re-up let's do a whole new order um all three colors of shoes that we already have you know i think isaac's like maybe we even do a maybe we do a new fourth color that could be fun you know we would get designing something scott goes hear me out burgundy shoes i said and this guy didn't even know i have a podcast and in the group chat just go burgundy shoes is going in the podcast news Burgundy shoes. I'm looking up, what is Burgundy even? Maroonish.

Oh, Scott. It's like, it's like, hey. Oh, man. Every shoe that's coming up is glisteningly shiny. Really? How a pickleball shoe should be, I don't think. Oh, burgundy. Isaac said, Burgundy colorway from Monta's shoes, gross.

Let me, let's think of other colors that could be on the same plane as far as terrible ideas as burgundy. P-green. No, I think that would be better actually. Plum. What do you call like a tan? There's another word for tan. Bege.

beige. Yeah, beige. Still better than Bergeny. I was going to say, that's not that. Like almost like a iridescent purple. Something reflective would be bad. I know, but even that's like fun. Burgundy is like bad and not even that fun.

It's like like maroon. Maroon and Burgundy would you say are somewhat similar. Like it's similar enough. I feel like Maroon is right there too where it's like it's not fun enough for how bad it is. Like at least like I can give Scott credit of like, hey, if it's lime green and pink, like people are going to notice that and it's going to say, hey, I'm a fun guy. What is Burgundy saying? It's just like I don't know even what that says, dude. It's like I shop at Burlington Coat Factory, which is fine if you do that.

but if you're going to, if you're going to like spend thousands of dollars on a new, like, style and color and order, there's a lot of colors that exist. Why, why, why try to reinvent so much of the wheel, Scott? Like, like, do you have a Navy yet? Do you have, do you have white or black or like, like, shoes that, like people wear already? Like a white with a nice light blue or something like that. Hear him out.

He responded, dude, I bet we could make them look sick. Oh. Yeah, like people, like, saying like that kind of looks like puke. Yeah, like a puke brown. Puk orange would also be up there. Orange. He then said, don't knock it until you try it. I guess I just, I've, first of all, I've never like black shoes very much.

Yeah, you look like a, like a referee. Yeah. I just, in my head, like, it's a pickleball shoe. I would, I would air towards the side of like, let's make these fun because they're not shoes that you're wearing to. Like, let's either make them like pretty generic or pretty fun. Like make them, make them white, make them look clean, or make them look like, oh, we're, we're doing something. We're playing pickleball. We're having fun.

Look at my expressive shoes. Yeah, I think most people don't have multiple pairs of pickleball shoes. So they're not needing to match it to their outfit. They just want something fun they can wear every day they play. And here's a spoiler alert, Scott. I don't think burgundy matches too many people's outfits unless they're also wearing burgundy. He did. He did say that eventually.

Burgundy and yellow. Then again, wouldn't really match anything. Yeah, that's wild. So, yeah, that is immediately got tossed in. Oh, burgundy. Shout out Jake Allen for the Photoshop of Us figure skating. Do you see that? Amazing.

That was special. So good. Oh, so good. Yeah, I need to look at it again. It's one of those things where, like, you never know what you're going to open up Facebook to see. Yeah. But you don't expect to see that of yourself.

Of yourself. Yeah, you guys get a kick out of it. Imagine it being yourself. That's me, dude. That's me and Jake in the flesh. In the mesh flesh. Mesh flesh. Yeah, that was awesome.

Tell me, what do you have to? I wrote down kind of just a lot of editing the photos and stuff. But I did think of something. My family's been watching Sugar Creek Amish Mysteries. I asked the guy and I was like, oh, it's not out. I was like, hey, could you like send me episode one? Is it like allowed? Like, if we wanted to watch it,

I need to send me the whole season within, like two minutes. I was like, okay. Right. Wow. So we're like four episodes in. I think it comes out in April though.

Okay. So you guys can watch it on Up Faith and Family when it's out. Yeah. Not good, but really fun to watch. Wait, wait, what do you mean by that?

No, I mean, I've always thought, I think this is what I've told people forever is like, it's not the type of thing I would ever watch. But man, like since I was involved, it's so fun to watch.

But I've just, it's, I don't know. It's just like, yeah, it's cheesy. And it's, it's kind of hard to follow sometimes, but it's like nice, nice family friendly show.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. I bet. Yeah, I feel like, I bet your kids would like it. It's amazing what my kids like, dude. It's like, they just haven't seen enough. So it's like, you like, okay, oh, this is whatever, poultry of the week, dude. This is my least favorite thing in the world right now. Thank you for reminding me of this about just how awful my kids are at having taste of things. once again my kids are really in sports right now and so we're trying to find anything sports related and so i just look up on spotify sport stories for kids and there's these stories they're called bedtime sports or something like that and so it's just these stories of kids that you know whatever

play different basketball baseball soccer whatever and and there's sometimes there's a talking squirrel or something like that but what's what the the dialogue or the the words are not terrible but it is 100% read by AI. Oh. And the way that this guy delivers it, because at first I was like, that guy kind of says it weird. And then I realized there's no way that this is real.

It's not a human. There's no way. It's not human. Like the way, no one would ever say that, especially someone that's getting hired to read like professionally, you know, like it's like a high quality audio sounding.

You know, it's like, there's no way this guy is going to say that. Or they're not going to be like, you can't say it again. Like, you know. and Bo loves them. Best thing he's ever heard. You should honestly listen to one of them

and just like sports stories for kids or bedtime sports or whatever, dream time sport. I can't remember, something like that. And every time we get in the car, he asks for them. And sometimes I'm like,

no, we're listening to songs right now. We're going to listen to songs. So give us an impersonation. How bad is the AI voice? I mean, the voice is not bad. It's the inflections over like stuff,

like certain things. Like, uh, like anytime there's like trying to make a joke or trying to, you know, he said, like, I'm trying to think of how they would say it, you know, summer was a good girl. Always quiet. Today was like any other day. Cold, wet, ready for basketball. Summer, it's time for breakfast. Her mother would say.

or I don't know, something. But then, like, it'd be like, you can't do that, I said. Or something like, it's like the way. There's enough of a robot, the hint. There's just certain things. It was like, that's not what, that's not the way that they meant it to be said. Like, and, and then I did hear on some other video that guy's exact voice. I was like, okay.

Yeah, yeah, got it. Like, I think I watched a YouTube instruction video. Like, oh, they bought the same AI voice guy. Yeah. Or something. I'm like, it kills me. Man. And so.

Like the guy's got a nice voice, but the way he says certain things, like, that's not, that's not how it's, and he doesn't change his voice at all when it's the talking skunk versus the girl versus the mom or whatever. What about summer? You need the shock a guide. I would love the shocker guy. Hey, that guy. Hey, summer. Hey, mu, sum, some, some. Speaking of my kids, we're really, Rosie right now, is obsessed with Moana.

Oh, great. She calls it Muwam. Okay. And she got a little, her birthday's coming up. So we had a birthday party with my family already for February and March. All the neighbors were there. She said that earlier day. She made coffee with me.

She goes, yeah, my neighbor has a coffee machine like that. So I know how to make it like that. But she doesn't have one like that. Oh, got it. So funny. Yeah, but she calls Muana. She calls it moo. She has her like a little like stuff like a Barbie figure of Muana.

Mooh. Mu. Who are you, mooh. Can we listen to moo? You know, she's listening to Moana all the time. which I haven't even seen it yet, but I know all the words. Or I know all the songs. I've seen it either, but how far I'll go, you'll go?

I like that song. That's one that I've, that's probably the song that I've listened to the most that I know the least amount of words from. Because they, every chorus is a different, different words. Yeah. It's, yeah. It is a little different.

They got some fun songs in there. I think I would know some other words though. Yeah. Anyway. Speaking of kids, having taste and stuff, I feel like my mom, as all of her kids have gotten older, it's

like frustrated her how like they have developed taste and now like my younger siblings, like when I when we were that age, we didn't care. If we got to watch anything, it was like, this is the best thing I've ever seen. I'm going to watch whatever we have to watch like whatever

DVD Christian like whatever and it's going to be amazing. Yeah, exactly. And so it's like it's frustrating because now it's like it's probably both because now us older kids we like have things we prefer to watch and not to watch that's like rubs off on the younger kids and they're just like I guess pickier and it's just like man she's just like I miss the days when you could just watch anything totally I could we could put on anything and it would just be the best thing it was the best yeah oh dude just this morning bo and I

watched the dude perfect overtime thing yeah it was star wars because he saw like the thumbnail was them like with their swords or something there's lightsavers and beau doesn't know anything about Star Wars. And so I thought in my head, I was like, he is seeing these things in this like world for the first time. Like, yeah. All of a sudden, like his life is different. Like, I had no idea this existed. What was this? Like, they had R2D2 come out at one point. He's like, in my head, I was like, what does he think of this? Uh-huh. Like, that's great. You know, whatever. Light savers fighting with lightsaber, all this stuff. So. Yeah. So interesting. Like, just broadening their horizons of like. Yeah. Of anything. You're telling me I was watching I love Lucy

when like Mike was here the whole time. Yeah. But I kind of like that idea of like, it's okay if my kids watch boring stuff or like super cheesy stuff because then it's like, then I can slowly introduce. Yeah.

Really good stuff. Yeah. And it's amazing like what their, yeah, what their standard is. Like I, do you remember the movie Flubber? I never saw it, but Robin Williams.

Yeah. Right. I remember thinking that was a sports movie because at one point, like they put Flubber on the basket. basketball. And so I thought, it's a basketball movie. But this crazy thing that, like, bounced up in the air. And so I remember

that movie the other day. And I was like, I bet if they watched that movie, they would think it's unbelievable. Even though it's, like, very average. Yeah. But it's like this crazy movie about this thing that they make that, like, flies all around and bounces all around. What more do you need? I know. So, anyway. Yeah. You letterboxed anything lately, timing?

Um, not much since Castaway. I've had a ton of time. Castaway documentaries. Not much since Castaway. Castaway. Castaway number one, two, three. All the times I've re-watched it. Fully won.

We watched the movie the other night, the darkest hour. You hear of that? No. Winston Churchill movie. Sounds kind of familiar. How dark was it? Eh, I didn't really finish it.

I was like, I'm, I think I got it. I'm going to go to bed. What's it about? It's about, like, Winston Churchill's life and, like, how, like, when he became prime minister,

and when he, he basically became prime minister, like, right as World War II was happening. Okay. And so you just kind of learn about him having to make these, decisions of like should we uh just what's it called like it's not settled but like negotiate with

hitler or should we fight hitler basically and like because a lot of people were like no you need to uh you know be okay like hearing him out and like having peace with hitler and finally he's like he goes down and like talks to all the like common people he like gets on the l or not the elevator the subway the tube whatever and just like sits there with all these people and he's like what would you do? What would you do? Like, pretty cool. So what's the word? Yeah, pretty much. Like, and I think he even said in the movie, it's one of those times where I was like, we need subtitles for this because I can't understand everything he's like, but I think he said like, I've never taken the subway before. So he goes down

there. Oh, I was like, he was doing it for the first time to get Intel. Tell me what you would say here, you know, so. Anyway, that was like the most, like artsy movie I've watched in a while. Yeah, it's Gary Oldman. Yeah, it looks. Has a good review. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. Gary Oldman is Winston Churchill, because Winston Churchill's is like large man. Huh. So that's crazy. Yeah, I think it won some Oscars maybe or something. Cool.

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in Canada. Cool. Anything else? Anybody got anything else on their heart or their mind? Wednesday's going to be a fun episode.

I think we got Steve Coop still out there in the lobby in the on-deck circle. Getting ready to crawl on in here. So Wednesday will be fun, but we can do our reviews.

Yeah. Let's see. I'll do this one because it has my name in it. You cutie-tooties. That's I'm Sadie MCB. I love to listen to the show.

Brad and Jake bring a smile to my face each time I listen. I love to hear the guys talk about family, friends, and faith. It's uplifting and we need more of that in the world. Thanks guys for bringing me up. P.S. Sorry about the house, Brad. Good things. Good things.

I kind of like that. Is that a thing that people say these days, Tudman? Good things. There's more to the review. Is it a cut out for you? Yeah. It says good things ahead. God's got this.

But good things is fun too. Where do you look at him? I just pulled up podcasts on my computer, the purple app. Yeah, mine also says what Simon says. What? Good things ahead. God's got this. Thanks.

I thought it was just good things. Sorry about the house, Brad, good things. Hey, good things, good things. Good things. Huh. You're just say good things. That's interesting. Okay.

Either way, thank you, Sadie McBee. say you snow my five star review the week comes from Caleb he said best podcast ever five stars the description says that's it five stars that's it

he said also read my DM on Instagram do we dare I tried to find it just now hi Jake Brad and Tyman I'm a huge fan this message is really for Jake wow Trim McDuffie is getting traded Holy cow, sorry, that was a notification. That's not the DM.

It's not the DM he just sent me. In exchange for round one, pick 29. Wow. Wow. Right, Timon? It's kind of crazy. Oh, gosh. Jeez.

Timon's biting his nails. You'll be okay, Timon. That's crazy. What do you think, Simon? Cap space. I mean, oh, gosh, I hope we'll be fine. Yeah. That's...

And how are we going to fill his position? It's in specifically, like, what the position he is. Yeah, I mean... It's just hard to come by a guy like that. A wide receiver like him. Well, yeah, he has to cover the wide receivers, you know, so yeah. Right. Yeah.

Who covers the wide receivers? You have to be kind of large. Wide receiver. Low. Smaller receivers. Smaller, less wide, horizontal receivers. Tall. Yeah, deep receivers.

All right, so pick 29. Who do you think we try and snag there? What position? Gosh, I mean. Still first round, but, you know. Alan Fieldhouse is a pretty good player. Oh, yeah. Alan.

He's good on the field. James Alan, Alan Fieldhouse. I think he'd be good. Never thought about that being a person's name. Drew McDuffie was drafted late first round, I think, wasn't he? I don't remember. I do. Yeah, whatever timing things.

That's crazy, man. He's really good. Trying to figure out when he was drafted. Dang. Well, Caleb, thank you for the review that talked about Dr. McDuffie. Thanks. That's crazy the timing of that. Your review said it, right?

As the news dropped. 21st overall draft pick. So we get another Trent McDuffie in the draft, maybe. Yeah, great. But maybe not. Rinse and repeat. He's so good. But then again, hey, we've done this before.

We've traded away a star before, and it worked out for us. So, yeah. Oh, what it works. Okay, jingle time. Muana or? See the line where the sky meets the sea. It calls me. And no one knows.

How deep it goes. Great. That's it. That's awesome. Spotify will take it down if it's longer than like eight seconds. That's what they say. Yeah. So we can't do a long jingle.

Good job knowing the words. Thanks. It's singing it good. Yeah, I don't know the words at all. Moo. Rosie goes and puts like this grass skirt she has on and just runs around the house. Awesome. All right.

We'll be crawling back to you guys on Wednesday. Going to be a good episode. Absolutely. Thank you. Appreciate you. Go by Nora or the house. Either. It's all we ask.

That's all we ask, guys. All right. We love you guys. See you Wednesday. See Wednesday. See Wednesday.