Ghostrunners - 522 - Kicking Down a Door

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

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We survived. The F-0 tornado. We are survivors. We're here to tell the tale. Listen. Can you say that a tornadoes has gone over your house before? Yeah, we can't.

I feel like the more I looked at the path, it was a lot closer to yours. It really might have went over your house. Wait, you could see that specifically? They don't like to make it to Republic. I feel like most of the paths are like very zoomed out, but I saw one. Calvin showed it to me.

I was like, that's Brad's house. But wasn't your house? It was like that. It was like, it was just north. of 50. Yeah, yeah. It has that ability to like find that.

F0 is pretty small. Wow. Dude, yeah, wild. Kind of just nuts. We can talk all about it. Yeah. But yeah. Just,

the main thing to know is we survived. We survived. The F0. Which the F.0 is kind of like if you take like a big, a bunch of air in and blow it out. I think that's what an F zero is,

but we did survive it. Yeah, what is the, is it the intensity of the wind? I think so. I think I saw like 75 mile hour wins. Okay. And so like an F1 is 100 miles an hour? Maybe.

Okay. Yeah, I have one of my buddies is a meteorologist in town, you know, and he called it QL, time and look it up, QL something. QLCR, maybe, quasi-linear something. I've heard of straight line wins before. Yeah. Linear. Yeah, almost, almost linear. It's a quasi-linear convective system.

It's a brief, often weak twister. I don't know what weak. Come on. Come on. Let's try to best. Hey. Hey. But I don't want to say we survived it.

It's saying here that not many survive. Not many survive. We did. It's saying, yeah, only the strong survive is what I'm saying here. Quasile linear convection. Convective system. QLCS. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. System. That's what he called it. It was like 70 or 60 miles an hour like going super fast. I woke up in, you know, to my phone blaring. Did you wake up to that? we had a we had two different phone blairs this week like the type of like amber alert type phone blairs yeah we don't

need one for thunderstorms can i say it can i say it everyone survives the thunderstorms it was i think it was because of the size of the hail though oh like the bottom of the notification was like we're expecting three inch hail it was said something funny like if you are a human or an animal you will get hurt it's like well the humans are reading it i can promise you sparky's like rut roll we gotta go inside If you're reading this and you're a human, take shelter. Yeah. It's basically what it said.

But that was, yeah, that was the second Amber Alert. When was there hail? How did I miss the hail? It was like two nights ago, I think. Two nights. Yeah, I didn't really, was it, did it hit our house? I don't know. No, it just went a little north.

Was it the same storm as the, as the, separate than the tornado. Do you LCS? Okay, different, different. Tornado, we got the sirens. That's what woke me up. Really? You woke up from the sirens? Yeah.

Before the alarm? Early before your phone? I didn't even know. I knew about the phone. I was all siren. Really? I think we're closer to the sirens. It felt like it was back here. Sometimes it's so funny, dude. We live. Literally, we can see each other's houses. 82 steps. And every once in a while when I'm driving to your house, I'm like, I should probably take a different route. I'm going to Jake's house. I'm like, why do I think this way? Like, you're like, I think we're pretty close to the sirens. I'm like, we are a stones throw

away. What if it rained at Brad's house too? Yeah, did you get hail? I got some hail. How warm is it at your place? I'm looking to hang out outside for a bit. I, I learned, I learned, I learned, So I learned all these things from my buddy, Nick. Apparently those sirens were made back in, like, the Cold War. And they were made to, like, their intention was only to, like, if people were outside or dogs or animals were outside, to go inside. Like. This was a go inside. So they're not meant to, like, wake you up in the middle of the night.

You're supposed to be outdoors listening to it. Yes. Like, it's more like, hey, the Russians are bombing us. Go inside. Like. If you're a human or an animal. And they're like, you know what? We didn't need those very much.

So let's just use them for, uh, let's use season 14. tornadoes since we still have. That is a fun fact. And so he's like really big on like you need to get some kind of like some $30 radio thing in your house that's got a blast at 80 decibels or something. And I'm like, I don't know if I want one of those. What if it's a false alarm? Yeah. You know, thunderstorm. Oh yeah. I mean, so I was I was, I was solo. It was me. Um, with, you know, the four kids. And so I, and I had known that there was supposed to be tornado, you know, potentials. We'd been under a watch. like all night.

Which I didn't even know that, honestly. I should be better at that. I just, I don't know. I just don't see it. I don't follow it. I'm not scrolling the news. You know, I'm not on my TV going to KCTV 5 or anything. So I wake up to like a bunch of rain and this,

ba, ba, and I'm like, oh, crap, you know, and so I wake up and Haddy's already outside my door because she woke up from the sirens.

And she's like, I can't sleep. And I'm like, good, because you need to go downstairs. I'm trying to freak them out too much, but I'm like, this is serious. Like if it's like a tornado warning and our like cell phones going off, it's like we got to do something about this.

It's probably worth. So yeah, I run and wake up. I don't know who I woke up next. That's funny. I should think about that. I think I woke up, Bo. No, maybe I got Rosie for it. Maybe I told Haddy.

He doesn't matter. But I remember I woke up Bo and had to like physically stand him up out of his bed because it's 1130 at night. So like physically stand him up. And all he did, he just got up and stood up and just like, fell right back into bed. Oh, wow. I was like,

boom, you gotta wake up. I'm like, try not to freak them out, but I'm like, I don't know the severity of this thing. Yeah.

But yeah, by the time we got downstairs and I pulled up, you know, the broadcast, like the TV, it was like already past us. It was like,

yeah, 60 miles an hour, so it was like going so fast. Oh, we're going to go play catch downstairs. Yeah, it was funny. Midnight catch.

I'll send you a picture time and you can, you can post it. But, yeah, they were just like chilling. They all brought, like,

their blankets. And, uh, yeah, it seemed like, like eventually was like, okay, this isn't going to be that big of a deal. But yeah. So do you tell them tornado? Like, how do you know tornado? I didn't. I think she eventually cut, they kind of figured it out. But luckily I could kind of tell by the broadcast. I was like, okay, this is not that. I don't think it's going to affect this anymore. We're still under another warning for like 20 more minutes. So I stayed down there. Because like, I don't know, man. It was like one of those things where I was like, what if, what if something terrible happens, you know, like these. tornadoes can come up out of nowhere. So I'm like, maybe there's, maybe they know there's

another one come in or something. Yeah. Let's see. Second shooter. Exactly. Here you go, timing. You can, yeah, you can see Henry in the back. Henry's just waddling around. Of course, Henry like, poops. And so it's like, gosh, it stinks down here. Like, don't worry about it. I got the twister poops. Yeah. Nervous. So anyway, it was, it was wild. But we survived. Survived. We woke up to the sirens. If like half asleep, Rachel and I were, like having like a risk mitigation conversation. Like those are tornado sirens. And then I'm like checking the radar and like eyes are barely open.

Like it looks pretty bad. And then Rachel's like, don't they always say like tornado survivors always say it sounds like a train? And I go, doesn't sound like a train to me. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that doesn't sound like a train to me either. A little Midwestern.

Then just wait back to sleep. Oh, man. I hear no train. I hear this annoying siren. Yeah. Yeah. I don't hear a train. You fell asleep with the siren on?

Because yeah, the siren was on for a while, even after it was like, it passed us. Like the sirens like came back on. And I was like, okay. I guess, I guess I don't know. The sirens are so ominous though. It's like, middle of the night. Because it's like, it sounds windy. Yeah.

And there's sirens and it's kind of raining against our window, but no terrain. And I feel like I was surprised it was pouring down rain. How often can you remember like, did you grow up going to the basement every once in while? Like, oh yeah. Like, how often do you remember there being like a pouring down rainstorm while it happened? You're right. I don't think pouring down. I feel like it's like almost like a calm, like, oh, this is eerie. It's a weird, weirdly warm spring day. It's warm and there's like black clouds here, or black sky here and blue sky here. Yeah, you're right, but not pouring down like,

no. Floodwatch and tornado warning. But yeah, Nick was telling me that, uh, yeah, some people have yeah, not woken up and like died because of the tornadoes at night, like, because the sirens don't wake them up. And so good for you for waking up. I'll wake up to the siren and then I will fall asleep. And then I'll be like, nah, we're fine. I remember back in the day,

I was such a scaredy cat and my dad would always like go outside and be like, yeah, it looks funny crazy. Dude, get inside dad. Come on. Like, do you think you could see it coming enough to like jump down your stairs and get

inside if you had to? You know what I mean? I mean, not at night. And you're staring far away. We got a long way to go. You might have to go laundry shoot. I think that's why I went back to sleep.

It was like, laundry shoot. You could jump. Would you, I mean, if worse comes to worse, you jump down the laundry shoot? I don't think I could shoot it. I could get, like, my, I could get one leg down the laundry shoot. Oh, it's not bad enough? And maybe wrap it around a pipe to keep it grounded.

Like, I'm an orangutan or something. But, no, yeah, I think it's like, oh, we have to go up to the garage and then go down to here, so our unfinished basement. Yeah. I'd rather see Jesus. And it's pouring down rain and you guys have all that leaking water in there. Yes, we do. Yeah. Yes, we do.

You don't really want to do that. No, so we went back to. but still fun. Well, I noticed, or I heard from all these other people like, yeah, we didn't even, our phones didn't go off because we weren't in the, like, area of it. I was like, really? Okay, interesting. They're like, their sirens went off, but their phones didn't go off.

The only issue I even heard about was someone's like, someone had like an electrical fire or something related to the wind. I think everyone, I think everyone survived. I heard an account that one guy's shed, like, jumped into another person's yard. That's all out. Oh, okay. Who knows that. Is a plastic shed, though, that they just cleaned out.

So there's nothing in there. Kansas City's strong. Yeah. We will rebuild. Well, sort of go fund me for the shed. Yeah. Go fund me for the shed. Timon, what was your storm life like?

I didn't even know this was happening. This was, so, okay, wait. The hail? I really don't. I don't know. Hail day was Tuesday. Is that right? Does that sound right?

Okay. Yeah. Hail Day, I remember what I was doing. I was in the Lenoxa library, working on editing. I was like, pretty stormy looking outside. I don't know if it even ever rained there. I don't think that was like the main... Tuesday was like crazy warm, too.

Tuesday was wild. It was so warm. It was like getting your car and it's hot type of day. But then it was like, it was colder by the evening. It's like so weird. It's like getting your car. Well, it was notable. I was like this stuff, but the first time that I remember this happening.

Yeah. The car and it's hot. Yeah. Spring must have sprung. I don't remember hearing anything about it. tornado weather. So I don't know. I don't know if I'm just not told about these things or if I was out of the strike zone.

You were out of the strike zone. I mean, definitely out of the strike zone. But like, you're struck out. Yeah. I give Rachel hard time. The closest thing she has to a boyfriend is her, her weatherman app,

Luke. Look to Luke. What? She loves looking to Luke. Is that what it's called? I think whatever news, I don't even know what news station is, but Luke is the chief meteorologist.

And so he, when you click on the app, like the loading screen is like Luke. Like a suit. And it's always like, look to Luke. Okay. So she's always referring to, you know, I'm like, is he supposed to be warm Tuesday? Yeah, Luke told me. Oh, come on.

Everything is Luke. We got to get Nick Bender in her life. He's the man. Nick, Nick's my guy. All right. Luke's got his teeth in her. But I will see if she can, like, move on from him. She loves Luke.

It's been pretty fun, like, getting to know him because he is like truly like, he's obsessed about weather, like we're obsessed about sports. You know what I mean? Yeah, like he can't stop talking about it. It's like his, like he is, yeah. Like, if you had a comedy podcast, he would always kind of end up talking about the weather. Yeah. It's like, all right, yeah.

But it's amazing. Like, he is so knowledgeable. Yeah, it's really cool. So that's fun. It's good to have a weatherman in your life. I almost texted him and I was like, probably not right now. I bet he's up to something. He's probably in a chopper or something.

Tracking. Yeah. He's still out Dorothy. He's trying to catch the, you know, some information on the tornado. Look to Nick. It doesn't sound as good. Nick at night. Nick at night.

That's not taken. He's a morning guy, though. I've had a lot of, I feel like Rachel and I have woken. up a lot in the middle of the night recently. Two times. Well, there's a massive thunderstorm. Sorry. Yes.

Go ahead. It rumbled. Did it rumble your house or rumbled my house? Like, I'm waking up and being like, my window is moving a little bit right now. Wow. That's a serious thunder. Kind of like reverberating like that, you know? Yeah.

And then aside from that, just general Rachel issues last night. See, I wrote it down in the Rachel sleeping. note. How long is that note? It's getting pretty lengthy. It's pretty good. Yeah. She'd only, she had told me good night and then 15 minutes later, I hear, like, next to me in bed, I kind of hear her like rustling and then I hear her like hitting the nightstand trying to find her water and then she takes a couple of tips of water. So in my head, I'm thinking, oh, she hasn't gone to sleep yet. Like she's just still awake. She's in the process of falling asleep. And then she rolls over and she goes, whatever happened to the cat in this house? I was like, okay.

Okay, well, she's clearly asleep. She was asleep, and she's still asleep. Yeah. She's been awake 15 seconds getting a drink of water, and she's still in this dream-like state. She still doesn't know where she's at. Like, she can hydrate in her sleep. That's impressive.

Took two sips of water. And went around with a cat in this house. I was like, the cat? Didn't we have a cat right here? And I go, I don't think so. He's like, I thought we had a cat in here. And then she went back to bed. You never tell her, like, hey, you're asleep.

You just go along with it for a second. she just stops. You know in the notebook, when they go back to, I guess, present day, like, I think James Garfield, you know, it's like, and he's trying to read to her to, like, almost, like, cure her dementia, to remind her of the old days. Every now and then she will come back, but it's only for a little bit. Okay. That's kind of Rachel under sleep.

Like, we only have her half awake, half asleep for 15 seconds, so just enjoy it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't try to convince her or anything. Just, like, get the most out of those 15 seconds you have. Because it's like, it's really interesting seeing someone. you know so well, just be kind of a different person, half awake, half asleep. All her ego. She woke me up, not tornado, not storm night, but another night this week, she woke me up and

said, hey, there's, I think there's a mouse, like, behind our bed. And she wasn't really, like, dreaming here. I think she was just like, she heard something. And I was like, oh, I doubt it was a mouse. And she's like, well, I heard something. I go, we have a giant oak tree. There's like a million squirrels in our yard. Like, it had to be in a squirrel.

She's like, maybe. like it was a mouse. And then the next morning she's like, sorry, I woke you up about a mouse. I don't know why I thought you needed to know that right then and there. But so, um, yeah,

sometimes you just get like irrational when you're like half asleep, half awake. Totally. Like what, why do I? Yeah. What's going on right now? There's a mouse.

And you just become obsessive about it. It had to have been a mouse. There's a mouse in my pillowcase probably. Do you ever just like wake up thinking about things or like, I guess stressed in some, Like, it's like, I can't go back to sleep now. And then you get up and you're like, I didn't need to get up for that. That's not that big of a deal, actually.

Go back to bed. Yeah, I'll get new windshield wipers and I get new windshield wipers. It's not that big of a deal. I don't think I need to change them at 532 in the morning. Yeah. Speaking of squirrels, we did, we'll roll the intro music eventually. We did, uh, I think Rachel got home from something and we were going to leave in like 10 minutes. So she just leaves the garage door up 10 minutes later.

We go to leave. Squirrel has gotten in our garage. Oh. Kind of fun. I thought it was a mouse at first. I go, that's a bushy tail. We got a squirrel in the garage. So we went out.

I forgot where we went. But out to dinner or something. And so I was like, he's left there? I guess just leave the garage door up. And hope that it's like, there's nothing good here. Find his way out or whatever.

Right. Okay. But then, I mean, the next five times I'm going into the garage, I'm always like, I'm going to meet this squirrel and he's going to be mad. He's territorial now.

What kind of like squirrel fight him going to have? So I decided to like leave some food out there. That's my way of seeing if the squirrel is there or not. Oh. I don't like living with the uncertainty of there could be a squirrel, there could not be a squirrel. It's interesting because I would feel like if the squirrel has moved out, he's going to come back and bring his friends. That's what I do. The squirrel is get in is if we leave the garage door off.

I see it. This one is closed now. Yeah. I don't know if this is a new home for him or not. Yeah. Is he down in the basement? Yeah. He's got a lot of room to go down there.

He's got a whole second house. But food is untouched. I think he found his way out. I think we're squirrel free. Good. That's like so terrifying. The, like, indoors animals that aren't supposed to be indoors. Like when a bird gets into my shop every time, it's so spooky.

It's so like, you probably just ignore it. Just ignore it. Just get out here. It's not good here. There's nothing here. Foods across the street. Who's in that garage over there. Yeah.

Ha! Get out of here. We've talked about before, like, different animals if they were in this studio. Yeah. I don't remember that conversation exactly, but I remember us going over it. Like if there's a bird right now, I wouldn't take my eyes off it. Also, wouldn't know what to do, though, if it came. I wouldn't have enough reflexes to smack that thing.

Yeah. I don't like when the bugs are just so obsessed with the light. You know, they want to get outside, so they just ram into the window over and over again. I wish they were smarter. The window's open on the other side. Just go over there. Yeah. I have a good story to tell, but should we roll the intro first?

Go ahead. Roll the intro music. Uh, uh, oh, oh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts in white meat, too. Then West Best Friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's a ghost from a podcast.

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Yeah, I was going to ask. wait I bet I check your location every morning you're still there last night I think I know why because you hung out with Zach yes dude we had an adventure

being Zach so I just needed I asked timing last week I was like do you have any friends I think I use the word you have any friends are just like unexceptional that would just be able

to just like help me move I feel like so many of time in friends are like yeah you know they're they're just killing it at this and so yeah they're probably not willing to help you at that but I'm like I just need somebody

I just need a second set of arms that can help me move some couches into this Airbnb house. Zach rang the call, unexceptional Zach. No, I was kidding. He is exceptional in so many ways. But he was free. I saw him on Sunday. We sat together at church. That's fun.

Yeah. Cool. It was great. I know so much about Zach all of a sudden. I'm best friends of Zach. But Zach and I had an adventure. So we go, I ran out a U-Haul trailer. We pack it with stuff from my storage unit to bring over this flip house.

And we get there and I go to unlock the door. I have one of those like smart pad keypad things on there. And I had just finally figured out how to like make it work with my internet. Because I got internet in the house now, whatever. It's all. And dude, it wouldn't, it wouldn't open. It's like, what in the world? Like it's not, I programmed a new code.

And I was like, did I forget the code? I was like, I'm not going to do a code that I use for every, like all my stuff. I'm going to hide this where only I could find it. It was, it was thinking. It was like. It's such a good high-in-fun. I swear I did this one. Maybe I did it the other way around.

Like, because I just used two numbers back and forth, you know, whatever. Maybe I did the other way around. And so I tried a few times and eventually got like locked out. And so I had to wait a while. And so we're like, Zach and I are like scoping out like, maybe I, maybe Zach can like jump through a window or something, but all the windows wouldn't budge and all this stuff. And so then we found one door that was not like, what do you call it? Deadlock, dead bolted.

It was just like a it was locked, but it was like one of those just like locked from the punch on the inside. And so we go to Home Depot and we get those like things where you like pump it up. And like opens up the door a little bit. We're like that'll help. That'll do it. And so we start like pumping it up, pumping it up. And it's not budging at all. And so we're just trying to figure it out.

We're like, I don't know, man. And I'm like trying to figure out like this is like my opportunity for somebody else to be here to help me out. out. This is precious. This is precious time. And so I'm going to send you guys this video real quick. Let's see. But you got to put it on the screen timing. Great.

You're going to have to edit it because I kind of start out vertical and then went horizontal. It's fine. So kind of amateur hour. But, you know, Zach and Zach's low voice is like, I've always wanted to kick in a door before. And I was like, really? He's like, yeah. I think it would work. I'm not going to say anything until I see the video.

I'll let me can talk about it more. And I was like, go ahead. So let's watch this video. You guys see it? Yeah, I'm going to click on three, two, one. Boom! First try, dude. He looks, I mean, he's on cloud nine.

He loved it, dude. Just, I mean, that is a valid, like, I've always wanted to do that, too. So that's amazing. And I was like, there's no way you're going to do in the first try. He nailed it. He broke the glass a little bit, broke the wood frame a little bit. But that's what I was going to say. I was like, I think this is like pretty damaging.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It was like, it was like, one of those things. We've got to do it, though. Whatever was like. And you know what sucks, dude? Okay. So then whatever.

I don't have to get into all the details. It was awesome. It was like, it was just classic. Like, Zach's a strong dude. And he works out. all the time. Yeah. But even that, I was like,

he's not going to get, he's going to miss. Like, like, not only you have to be strong, we had to, like, be accurate. You have to hit it in a solid spot.

Hey, time and smash that button because we got a, on the podcast. All right. Hey. I'm going to sing a song. Enough joking around.

You can tell everybody. You can tell everybody. Go ahead and tell everybody. Go with K.m. Go with K. Go with K. Yes, you am, yes you am, sir and ma'am, sir and ma'am, sir and ma'am. Green and eggs and ham, ham and ham, ham, ham and ham.

Jim and Pam, Jim and Pam, would go with Cam, go with Cam, go with Cam, go with Cam. He's the man, he's the man, he's the man, he's the man. But who is Cam? And how do we go with him? How do we go with him now? You know what's funny is for some reason I imagine that Idris Elbow is the one singing that song I can't get it out of my head It's been like that for eight years

Yes Just deep voice I guess And I think the real guy's name His last name was black Okay And I think that gets mixed And I just it's Idris Elbo singing that song to me every time Just wanted to share that

I was nervous to say it during the ad reads So it's buried a little bit I think we should, yeah, do some lip-dub of Charles Minor, put to that song, put it out there for everybody. Anyway, now that I've been vulnerable, let me share some truth with you. Over the past three weeks, Brad and I have been meeting with a financial advisor who is now looking to sponsor, or is sponsoring the podcast. Yeah. His name is Cam. His name is Cam. The name is Cam.

Name is Cam. Name is Cam. And he's great. I've never met with these guys where, honestly, I have avoided this a little bit. And I even let Cam know this. I was like, I have, I don't know if it's like a bad taste amount out there. The bridge has been burned a little bit with me of like being baited and switched on like, hey, we should catch up.

I want to manage your finances. Dude, let's hear all about your life real quick, man. Yeah. Really? Okay, it's been 45 minutes that we just like are good friends and just genuinely nice people. I do. It was good seeing you. Hey, but have you thought about this?

Have you thought about rolling it over into this account? Oh. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, okay. So I guess we're not going to hang out ever again. I was just going to get sunflower toast and get out of here. Okay. And so I let him know that. It's like, yeah, people have kind of burned me on this,

and I don't like the way I'm normally, like, treated when these things come up. Yeah. But I've been loving Cam. Yes. It's not, I mean, he really knows this stuff. I think that's what I've been impressed by, because I know nothing. So I have a lot of questions to ask, and I feel like they're like somewhat difficult and this guy, you talk about a guy who knows acronyms.

Oh, yeah. He knows numbers. He knows acronyms. I mean, he's telling me all sorts of things. You know, I'm not technically an accountant, but you may want to look into a 401, C. 315B19. And then I'm like, dude, that's not even your area of expertise. You're like, you know all this stuff. I'm not a Star Wars, uh, officiato, but I know that's a robot. But no, it's been cool. It's just like, it's nice to kind of like have someone else to talk to

about like, I have a wife who doesn't really care about finance. You know, it's kind of just me steering the ship and everything. So it's nice. Like, here's everything I have and here's what I'm planning on doing. How does this sound? And can you help me? I have nothing in retirement. I have nothing, you know, I have no like investments out there. Like I need, I know that I know that I need, I could be doing wiser things with money. Right. And so it's great to have someone to lean on. Yeah.

Absolutely. He, uh, yeah, it just, it just feels like we know the right thing with when it comes to this stuff. And both of us are just like, maybe we should just ball out and just try to make a bunch of money and hopefully that'll be good for retirement. It's like that I don't think that's probably the wiser thing to do. That's kind of what I'm doing. Like we both know about compound interest and we're like, duh.

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Good guy. Great guy. But we get in there and I go and manually unlock like the smart lock door. and I get a notification on my phone that says door unlocked. But it was a different app than the one I was trying to use to like troubleshoot it. And I was like, what? And so anyway, long story short, it was like connected to another app as well. And it was on privacy mode, which means that even if you get the code right, it doesn't work.

What kind of lock? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, if anybody's looking for smart logs, I don't recommend the Yale lock. All right? That's a name brand. It's a good one. It's a very good one. So it says.

Yeah. I've heard of it. I had to. I was not expecting to know the brand of Locke, but I've heard of Yale Lock. Let me go ahead and just get on my high horse about Yale Lock real quick. You're a Harvard guy. The only way, yeah, exactly. I'm a Cornell guy.

The only way that I could like connect it to my Wi-Fi is first I had to find or get my friend Peter to come over. I used his mobile hotspot to connect to that first because my Wi-Fi, it wouldn't talk to it. And like there's all these like forums online. It's like, yeah, I don't know. It's really weird. But the only way you can do is get a second phone and connect via that hot spot and then do it. A second phone?

It's so dumb. To get in your home. It's so dumb. It's, yeah. So I'm like, what in the, you know, whatever. So it's all good now. Like, it's set up the right way now. But for the lock for three hours, I was like, this will take five minutes to set this up.

I know I do tech. Anyway, so I don't recommend it for the user experience. Maybe it's going to be really good eventually. If you got a door kicker with you, then yeah, yeah, yeah, lock is great. Yeah. That's fine. Circumvent the lock. Anyway, good times of Zach, though.

Good video. Speaking of Harvard real quick, I won't say the crew of guys that I was around, because I think all three of them might listen to this podcast. But we were talking about something the other day, and I go, isn't which one of the major colleges is in Cambridge? It's like one of the, like, the, like, really good ones. I can't think of which one it is. And I'm not on my phone.

They are on their phone. And so I kind of, I just trust their research. And they go, oh, it's Cambridge College. I'm in my head I'm thinking Cambridge Massachusetts is that right? Yeah yeah like the city came in there like yeah Oh yeah it's Cambridge and then yeah Oxford is in Oxford it's the same thing

And I just kind of like huh Boy I had that wrong I'm glad you guys looked it up I'm giving him flowers Oh my gosh yeah yeah what am I thinking Yeah you dummy And then not even like trying to prove something like Comes across my screen the other day

And then I'm like oh yeah let me look at it Let me just double check Sure enough MIT and Harvard. Yeah. Both in Cambridge. I knew it. I knew it.

It's so ironic too. I'm like, aren't there really smart people in Cambridge? And all four of us don't get the right answer because we didn't go there. How did they? Yeah, exactly. What did they, what did they Google to?

I was so curious. Did they think they use chat GPT? I don't know. I don't know what they did. But it was like, it was like two of them looking at a phone. They probably just looked up Cambridge College. Yeah.

Cambridge College came up. There is something there. There's like a small one that's left out. that's also there. What's that huge school in Los Angeles? L.A. Tech. Yeah, that's the one. That must be the one.

I thought UCLA was there too, but I guess not. No, it was L.A. Tech. L.A. Tech. Downtown. Yeah. Great nights. No, I knew it. Why did I let them convince me other?

I knew that like one, maybe both were in Cambridge. I didn't really know my T. was there. Yeah. That's kind of crazy. Yeah. That was the thing. I was like, I was pretty sure Harvard was there. And I was like, I want to say there's something else there.

I don't know what it is. You know so much more. about that stuff because you did all the like did your tour up there like you know uh what's it called new don't tell me guns waving new haven good job yeah yeah yeah yeah that was Yale okay yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah well um okay uh okay you that's that's what that's the whole thing in uh social network right it's like you i go to be you i go to harvard yeah she breaks up with them uh what about what about cornell Where is that?

Yeah. I do not know. I think I only know that because of the office. I think it's Ithaca, New York. Oh, you're right, because of the office. Yeah. What about Brown? I don't even know what state.

I don't even know. Me neither. Still Connecticut, another bone, maybe? Okay. Sure. I was going to guess Delaware for fun. What's the, what's the green one? Dartmouth.

Where's that at? Dartmouth is New Jersey, I think. Okay. I'm not sure, though. What about? No way of knowing. What about Penn? what state do you think that's in?

Yeah, Pennsylvania. Is it in Philadelphia? I don't know. No way of knowing. Glenn's hide. We could try to look it up, but it sounds like we just got a straight. I don't have my computer today.

I'll up Cambridge College or something. Is there some like Ivy League school that, let me look it up, like Ivy League school that no one thinks is, like no one, like all those, I'm like, it's like the Rudolph or I guess the,

you know, it's like the, the vixen, yeah. You're saying that no one like knows his Ivy League? No one remembers that one. Like, like, I didn't know, like, Like, I would not have recognized MIT as like, oh, that's a huge, like, smart school, but my friend's going to, like, hopefully learn. Oh, really?

You didn't know that. It's not Ivy League, but it is, like, it's even above Harvard. Yeah, like, I, when you Google, like, best college, it's like the two or three best ones that's like MIT is first. Oh. It's above? It's like, it's like the college. Yeah, I mean, like Harvard can specialize in, like, Harvard law and stuff.

But MIT is almost like the STEM version of Harvard, the science and technology, you know, all that where it's like it is just more difficult to be at MIT than it's Harvard. Yeah. I mean, yeah, so I just looked at Ivy League. Columbia. I didn't think about that one, but that one's pretty popular. Like Columbia and Penn are kind of like. Yeah, you're right.

In the bottom. We forgot about Princeton. Princeton. I don't know where Princeton. Princeton is, is that the name of the city? Yes, it is. Sorry, I looked at. There's a city in Illinois.

It's probably there. Could be there. Central Illinois. Oh, man. Dartmouth. What did you guess? I said throw Connecticut a bone, I think. Hanover, New Hampshire.

New Hampshire. And then Columbia is in New York City, New York, Brown University, capital of the state. Yeah. Rhode Island. Providence, Rhode Island. Is it? Yeah. Oh, wow.

Nice. Yeah, sure is. Oh, cool. So anyway, that's been Ivy League talk. Cool. Dave Ellis would have known them all right away. You look at them on a map. They're all kind of in a line on the coast and then Cornell, kind of a weirdo.

I mean Cornell's the ugly duck thing So inland Could be dude How much do you think that Cornell Well no Did Cornell love or hate That they had so much publicity on the office I wonder if they initially hated it

And then now they're like They're still seeing the benefit Of like being on the office Because like obviously like They made Annie Bernard look like Not very smart Yes Even though you went to Cornell

Undeserving of going there Right But so much brass Yeah I don't know. It's just one of those things where it's like all press is good press

or, yeah. It's like, no, now we're the laughing stock of the Ivy League the Nard dog. Nard dog.

Who it does. Anyway, how was the concert, timing? It was quite good. Did you say that at the time? Wow, this is quite good.

This is quite nice and pleasant. It was, um, Hudson Freeman. It was like a very small artist I didn't really know. I knew like he went viral for one like guitar riff song that like

all these musicians were like, this is so good. John Mayer did a cover of it. And like, that's like what he kind of, I think that's kind of why he's able to do this tour. Like it kind of, he's big now. But, yeah, it was like a full band type concert, like folk and rock kind of thing.

I loved it. I was like, every time I see live music, I'm like, why do I ever listen to music on Spotify? I just should go to concerts all the time. It's so fun. So, yeah, I recommend, I mean, I don't really listen to his music on Spotify, but I really recommend if you ever,

if Hudson Freeman is coming near you, Go see him. It's always kind of a, I don't know about a bummer, but like, it's like, man, you listen to it afterwards. Like, I want to listen to this song right now. That was a really great concert. It's like, it doesn't hit the same. Yeah, it's like, oh, they add all this cool stuff and like, it's just, it's louder and hits better. And it's like, yeah.

Yeah, but it was great. Quite good. It was quite nice. You guys were there. Wow. This is smashing. Yeah. This was a jolly success.

You don't ever yell. You're just like, good job. Good song. but you didn't know his songs very well like going into the concert no i mainly knew there were a couple that i recognized kind of because um zach knew him better than me zach had sent a playlist and so i was like i think i shoveled that at one point so i kind of recognized some but um mainly just new one and that was like the crowd kind of went nuts for that one you could tell yeah yeah yeah why so it was the one but yeah how far into his concert does he put that one was about six songs in

about yeah i'd like about exactly six songs in i get them warmed up but you can't just like leave him hanging forever. Yeah. Okay. Because I wondered if he was going to save it for the end. But it was like also, yeah, he probably has songs he likes better than the one that happened to get big. So, do any covers? I love covers. Yeah, wild horses. I didn't really know that song, but I know it's a cover. But that was one of wild horses. Isn't that's what it's called? Wild horses couldn't drag me away or something like that. It was good. It was good life. But I think that's, I don't think that's an original. It is Shania Twain. You're right.

Yeah, Shania Twain feet, Martina McBride. Yeah, both Dartmouth credits. Zach and I was this is a good old, like, folky, like classic rock last yesterday. It was great. That's fun. America, you know, the band America? Yeah. Of course, no name.

Yeah. Anyway, Ventura Highway is like, I was like, what's, what kind of music are you into right now? He's like, really like the song Ventura Highway. I was like, okay. He was playing that for me, like the day before that. Really? Yeah. That's fine.

I think I'm going to hit up Zach to maybe, you know, you just said, Like he's just, he's maybe not getting as much work because he was opening. He was kicking down doors. I think I'm going to just like pay him to film the like our boys thing and payola or whatever this year. It's like it just be fun to have someone there and just like take some memories of it. It'll never get posted, but it'll be sent out to the group chat afterwards. Yeah. Could be nice.

Also, I saw you the night of like the draft. I thought you were doing it again this year. You're not doing it. No, I'm out. I had no idea. Yeah. I went to draft you. Oh, you did.

Dang, dude. Like he's not. He's not in this year. Hey, you can undraft. That's funny. Okay, there goes the whole draft strategy. All right. Yeah,

I don't have my bruiser now. What are they call them the goons? Like the people are just like fight. Yeah. Yeah, kind of my gunner and you kickoff. Yeah, right. Your enforcer.

That's funny. Yeah, because I saw you. I was like, yeah, the draft is not yet again. I was like, oh,

I didn't know you weren't doing it. That's too bad. Yeah, I don't remember what I have going on. But is it, it's like coming up. It's a lot earlier this year. Yeah,

we got, March is, crazy, dude. March, we got all these birthday parties. March Madness, dude. It's mad. It's a mad, mad, dude. It's a mad, mad month. Yeah.

So, uh, what was I going to say, Zach? Oh, do you hear that Zach is opening for Trey? Yeah. What's the background on this? What? You don't know? Oh, crap. Did you know he was going to surprise

timing? I didn't know it was a surprise. Dang it, dude. Sorry, Tymer. Yeah, he texts me, but I don't think he texted me. It was a surprise. Dang it, dude. It's okay. Ah, I hate that.

I hate that. Dang it, dude. Let's just assume Zach would have, he would have ruined it anyway. Dang it. Let's assume. Yeah, we can assume. Yeah. It was an idea that he was going to surprise time.

I don't know if it was like, like, he kind of threw it out. Like, I'm thinking about just like going and just like, like, they're going to call me up and I'm just going to go up on stage and Typer was going to be so surprise. Dang it, dude. Ah! Gosh. Do you know the story behind it?

I'll still be surprised because last I talked to Zach, he's like, dude, I need to start a note in my phone for stand-up. Last time I talked to Zach. I was like, yeah, I've got some thoughts. I got some ideas. He's like, have I ever told you about how my grandma, we thought she was a witch for a while? I was like, no, but it sounds like a good idea. I'm intrigued. That's a good hook.

Dang it, time it. No, it's fine. I'll forget it by then. That's like a whole month away. Yeah. This is nothing to timing. He has a ton going on. Oh. Yeah, right.

Dang it. We've obviously talked to the podcast. that they, Tyman and Zach of like, maybe we would do stand-up, maybe we do improv or whatever. And so I've talked to Zach a little bit about it.

And then I think Derek is in the process of hiring Time and Zach and Nathan Coley to shoot some stuff like Trey's special. So I think Derek, that's why Derek and Zach have already been in communication. Trey has this idea,

like on a somewhat regular basis. He wants to test new material in Kansas City. I see. Like sell some ticket. I mean, not much and, you know, try to get 100 people there or whatever

and Trey's going to try to do. 45 minutes or something of like brand new material. And he's like, maybe I should still get a host or whatever. Okay. One thing leads to another. Somehow, Zach gets the call, even though he's never done it.

So that's all I know. That's how I understand it. Okay, that makes sense because he's like, yeah, it's like a smaller show. And I was like, I don't know.

That's interesting. So it's like, is he going to publicize those shows or is it going to be more like, I guess he's got to if he's trying to get people. Yeah, I think like, I don't know what he's done this. Maybe it was an email or maybe it was just like an Instagram story.

But I think he's already sold enough tickets to be like, all right, we're good. I see. I don't need to say anything else about it. But I think it's going to be very casual. Like, I think Trey is playing on going up there with his phone. You know, to like, this, the next 45 minutes, I don't know. He's like, I'm going to try three different punchlines for this one. That'd be pretty funny. He's split testing. All right, forget what you just heard from the top. All right. All right. My grandma. So remember, though, yeah, she's racist. Okay. So, you know what I should do? Because I haven't heard anything about, like, even these little shows. I should wait for Zach to bring it up and be like, I can't. And then see if he, like, persist.

to be like, He doesn't come if he's, but he doesn't say why. He's like, no, you really should come see this. Then I can know like, just be like,

I don't know. Yeah, like, like, don't even say you can't. Yeah, just like, I would say like, I'm not really into it. Why would I?

What's, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I just got a lot going on. He's like, I just have a feeling it'll be fun. And you're like,

Jake was telling me he's, he's got to have his phone up there. It's like new material. Like, I'll just wait until he like, hones it in a little bit. Yeah. Like,

I see him on tour. Like, yeah. Zach's like, I really think it'll be funny. No, seriously, come on.

And make Zach spoiler for himself. Yeah. Gosh. The good thing is, I don't think Zach listens to the podcast. No. So when he does, it's like two and a half speed.

So he could easily miss all this. It's true. Zach shows up to my house yesterday. No idea. This is, like, Zach shows up at my house at like 9 a.m. yesterday.

And he's like, he walks in, you know, introducing him to the kids. And like, Rosie comes, like, and Boer sitting there. Rosie comes around the corner and then like three minutes later,

Henry comes around their corner and he's like, dude, didn't realize that you had so many kids. Dude, I'm exhausted. I was like, you know nothing about me, bro. That's so fun. There's quite a few kids. Whoa. It's at least three by my count. You got one more back there or something?

That's really funny. Yeah. So I'm like, oh, you really don't listen to the podcast. Like, you know, it's not like, oh, he casually listens every once in a while. He's not super into it. Yeah, it's like he's lost. No, he's, yeah. You got so many kids.

Speaking of your kids, Rachel and I were on a walk when you and your family was on a walk. And so we kind of met up and talked for a little bit. Two things that I noticed and loved. One is that Bo is into basketball where he's like kind of shadow playing basketball. Like with no ball. Oh, yeah. Kind of like doing his moves.

Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. He's like doing that. So I think the next step is like between the legs dribbles. Yeah. Maybe behind the back. But yeah, he's like he's shooting like a shadow ball.

It'd be funny. I love seeing that. did it even more accurately like he really played basketball. Like, because he has a hard time dribble. Yeah. He just like a perfect representation of how he does triple, like looking down.

Yeah. Looking down, like running into the cars. Yeah. That's fun. That's fun. I didn't, I haven't really recognized that too.

Like sometimes when he talks about like, yeah, we squirt. You know, whatever. His left-handed shots. Oh. I just thought it's

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Oh, man. I had an idea in the moment, but I don't want to, maybe it's a surprise or something, but she loves, you know, Dude Perfect has this series called Overtime. And in that, they have this segment called The Wheel of Unfortunate or something. Yeah, wheel unfortunate. I have like a giant colorful wheel that I use for content. like if you want to do something like some fun like we're going to do our own wheel of unfortunately yes i've got it in the garage i love that squirrel was running around on it the other

day have a squirrel wheel wheel wheel yeah i thought it's like that could be fun if you want to you like oh that's great no we got to do that maybe for a birthday coming up a couple weeks just have it be dude perfect themed oh i know man overtime themed i love dude perfect like like i'm having more fun watching stuff with them right now than i've ever had before like like like they kept me like, you know, I told you, I was like, I'm just thinking about spoiling them. Like, just what, what's going to happen to guys? And I didn't like spoil them rotten, but like, you're talking about with Catherine, without Catherine for four days. Yeah. Like, but in our standards, we definitely were like, it was like, let's just watch dude perfect while we eat dinner. And, you know,

and we watched four of five, you know, it's like, can we watch another one? It's like, yeah, we got nothing. They got plenty. Yeah. We got nothing tomorrow. We got, you, we do it right now. Like, you know, whatever. It was just great. And it wasn't like we, like, spoiled them crazy. But, yeah in that regard but we didn't watch a movie or anything we just kept watching dude perfect over and over i mean and bow then was so funny because like he just kept referencing different things like there was one time we were driving home from my parents and it was late uh that night and so i put on like a playlist called chill disney songs uh-huh and had he's like i don't really know why this is on there it's not very chill it's not very chill enough uh and so then we would play different songs and i'd be like

thumbs up for chill, thumbs down for not chill. And then Bo's thinking it's kind of like cool, not cool. Chill not chill. We're playing chill not chill. And then we all put our thumbs up. You'd be like, it's super chill. Because it's, you know, and like there was one time where they tried like the world's hottest hot sauce, like crazy, crazy hot, even like a tiny little bit on their

not chill. Toothpick was like, yeah, super spicy. And so Bo sees a toothpick in my truck. He's like, hot size. So anyway, he's getting into it. They are inundated. Yeah, all of a sudden it's like, oh, we got to get all the merch. We got to do all this stuff.

It's just funny because on one hand, like we're watching these overtime clips or overtime episodes that are from like 2020 and 2021. So they're not like new. Yeah. But there's new to us. You know, it's like it's just an era phase that you go through. I'd be like as a kid more than it is like, oh, we have to watch the latest videos and stuff.

But I don't know, man. It's fun. It's been so much fun. Just watching that stuff. and Rosie loves it, you know, they all love it. I should have, you know, when we were at Dude Perfect's warehouse, whatever, November, December, whatever that was, they were like, hey, coming back, take some merch if you want. Right.

So we were like, that's going to be so cool. And then it's like, this is like kind of the merch he's on tour. It's like mainly in kids sizes. I should have taken a bucket for you guys. Next time. I wish they were into it then. Yeah, next time. Dude, there was one part of the episode, like, they do like all these different segments.

One of them was basically a prank segment where they converted like the front door of their headquarters into what looked like a bathroom. And so they were sitting on the toilet. And like there was this girl that was her first day on the job, like pushing in the code and opening the door and opening somebody going to the bathroom. That's nice. I was like I love that, dude. But they made it look like sometimes people just show up at their headquarters and just try to see if they can see them. There are old headquarters. When I went to shot with him in 2017, people just drive by and just take pictures.

outside of it. Really? I think the address is public. Yeah. They're just like hoping to get a glimpse. Maybe someone will be walking in. Yeah. I think people are waiting for them to like leave work basically too.

That's so interesting. And you said like they're pretty legit. Like pretty like normal guys. Yeah. Yeah. Everything I've ever seen or interacted and everything in person. Yeah. They're a real deal.

That's awesome. Especially the twins. Yeah. Yeah. Those are your guys. Did they have Kana connections? Yes. I think K1 and K2.

Working or? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Nice. It's awesome, dude. Yeah, it's fun. So anyway, really into that, really into just watching all these different things.

We watched about one minute of the bottle flipping thing, and I thought, we're not getting into this. I did not like that youth group trend. Oh, no, it was just so annoying. Because they acted like flipping a bottle right side up was amazing. I was like, we're not doing this. So I was like, I don't think we need to watch this one. And luckily they were like, yeah, this isn't very good. Yeah, let's do ping pong trick shots three.

Let's do things that we could never do instead. so. Derek and Trey were all, speaking of like, kind of guiding your kids. Spider-Man, where are you guys at with that? As far,

I mean, not, Bo likes Spider-Man. Yeah. But we don't, I don't think we've watched anything, really. One time when Bo got a haircut,

the barber put on, like, is it into the Spider-verse? The cartoon? Yeah, yeah. You don't like a little cartoon. Yeah, cartoon anything.

Like, the kidy thing. Yeah. But for the most part, like, we have, um, we have superhero books.

So we read like some of the stories of like the Avengers and Marvel. I'm sorry if that's the same or different or whatever. I don't know. But we have a bunch of Avengers stuff and we have DC. I don't know. And so yeah, we read some of that, but that's about it. Gotcha. Derek's son is just like absolutely obsessed.

He sent us a picture last night and it was like Spider-Man pajama tops, Spider-Man pajamas pants and Spider-Man sandals. Oh. We're wearing sandals to bed. I love it. Yeah. And Trey is like doing everything he can to shield Thomas from Spider-Man.

Really? Just... I think just Trey doesn't like like Spider-Man. He's like, it's like how my dad treated me with soccer. I don't like it.

You're not gonna like it. Spider-Man's gay. Interesting. Spider-Man's like one of my top two. I like Spider-Man and Batman. Those are my two favorite. You like kind of the creature-based superheroes.

Yeah. What I think I... What I think it actually is, and I'm sure there's others that would fit this category. But I like ones that, like, live in America. Live in like a normal city.

You're the Patriot. I don't want the people in like a different galaxy that come from there to the America. Immigrants. Stay on your land, right? Superman? Nice try. He's from Kansas, but not. He's from Krypton.

You're not a Kansen? Captain America. I haven't said I've never seen it. Probably throw him in the top three. We can assume. Captain America is. We can assume he's from. American America's probably good.

Black Panther. Oh my gosh. No. I'm just kidding. Yeah, I don't know. But I like Spider-Man, because it's like, his origin story is just New York City, you know? And he just goes and fights people in New York City. That's cool.

I know so little about Spider-Man. Never seen any of it. Oh, really? I know. He's the best, I think. That's all I know. You think he's the best? I've seen very few super-frily movies at all.

But Spider-Man is like the one. I've watched like the ones with Toby McGuire. Yeah. Love those. Those are great. Me too. Yeah. They're fun, Jake.

They're fun. They're like. Great, man. Yeah, they're just like cheesy, but they mean to be, and they're just, like, fun to watch. Yeah. Yeah. Iron Man's pretty cool. I did.

I've seen Iron Man. That's my only Avengers I've ever seen. Yeah. Iron Man's cool because he's, like, not a superhero. He's just super smart. Yeah, he got stuck in that cave for a little too long. Did he get stuck in a cave? Well, he's like a POW, I think, in a cave and then came out as Iron Man, right?

No, that's Captain America, I think. Oh. I've only seen Iron Man. P-O-W? He got captured? I have no idea. He was in a cave. He's in there, he's in there tinkering, and he comes out as Ironman.

Oh, P-O-W. I don't know what I was saying. I was like some sort of person. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe. Sounds like you remember it. Yeah, I haven't seen Captain America. Maybe they both have cave origins.

No, Captain America somehow, I don't know. I don't know very well either, but I think he was from the book, from the two-page book that we have. The two-page book. It's like every hero has like a couple pages of like their dots. Yeah. I think he was, like, frozen in from, like, World War II or something. And then he wakes up in present day.

Yeah. I don't know. For the truth. Who? Gosh, people are going to hate us for this. America? America? Yeah, I don't know.

It's like I've seen clips of, like, he was skinny, and then they, like, put him in a machine, and now he's jacked or something. What machines is that? I don't know, but I need it. Yeah. Anti-Ozimic. I don't know. I think Steve Rogers, frail young man, was rejected by the,

Army during World War II. He was rejected? But selected for Project Rebirth. Oh, he's rejected and selected. Project Jacked. Yeah. It sounds like what I was saying. Due to his courage.

Wow. That's all it takes. Yeah. Desmond Doss was number two on the list. Yeah. Anyway, so good job. Okay. But yeah, Thor doesn't do it for me.

No. Where's he from? Ragnarok. Is that right? Or is that his... Could be. I don't know. Something.

Ragnar Rock is something. Yeah, where would he be from? Godland. Incredible Hulk. Eh. I don't know. What's his power? He's huge.

Anger? I think he's strong. Okay. I think. I don't know. Huh. All I know is, I do think Spider-Man is dope.

I agree with, is it Otis? Otto. Otto. Otis. Otto? Yeah. Okay.

I agree with Otto. Me too. Okay. We're a spider pod. Yeah. I'll have to get around to watch. I think so. Yeah.

People are going to tell you the different, I've seen a lot of them actually now that I think about it. Cool. The Tom Holland ones are really good, too. Okay. They're really fun. Andrew Garfield? I didn't regret it, but I didn't.

I won't watch it again. Okay. You know what I mean? Like, I think every Spider-Man is pretty good. But out of all of them, he's my least favorite. I think a lot of people say Toby McGuire is their least favorite. That's sad, I think. I love them.

But I haven't seen enough of the others. Yeah. Diamond. Yeah. Yeah. I hate to ask you this publicly. It's okay. What are you wearing?

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Or is that all already part of the plan? Yeah, I'm going to have to fix it somehow. I don't know how much I need to fix. I mean, I got the glass broke. So I think I'll just, it was an old door. anyway. You have contractors on. Yeah, dude. It's just money. It's just money. You always make more of it. Can't take it with you. Dude, I hired a guy. Let's just get out of the way right now. I'm a gambler. I like to gamble. I like to gamble in whatever I do. I hired a guy to redo my driveway in this house.

And I decided to go, I decided to gamble and go with the cheapest person. Do you think it was a good idea or a bad idea? What ethnicity is this guy? That doesn't not matter, Jake. Okay. Golly. Well, Konda forever, dude. No, I think if he's just like, if he's a white,

if his name is like, Derek, then you messed up. I'm going to need something a little more. All of them, all of them were not named Derek. All the bids I got for, for people.

Okay, Derek was never an option. No. Derek was never an option. Derek, Connor, Blake. You don't want that Travis. No.

Doing blue color work for you. No, no, these guys, these guys use Google Translate when they text with me. That seems like you're on the right trick. Miguel was the wrong choice

He it's it's been After the podcast last week You called Miguel Yes that's right And what did I do? Off the podcast you expressed I don't know about this guy But I'm going to give him another chance

I Because he likes to be on that darn cell phone That's what it was dude Yeah That was what it was last week And it's just it's just red flag After red flag I'm convinced dude

That this guy Is trying to just get fired and just like, be like, well, I did, I've already got paid some. And that's, and I'm like, I'm not, I'm not letting you off the hook, man. Yeah. Um, whatever. I could get into a lot of things, but it kind of came to a head a couple days ago. And I like, as, as much as I will ever probably yell at somebody, I kind of yelled at them. Probably three different times. Like me in the Keynes drive-thru and there's a storm. Dude, help me. Help me. That's the most I've yelled in my whole life. I think this is, this is probably how it sounded. I'm trying to like, this is realistic.

I'm Miguel. Careful. I'm kidding. Well, the thing is, dude, he speaks fine English face-to-face, but he texts me. I'll read a text real quick from him. And you tell me what... Dude, I have someone like this in my own life. Who is it?

He's definitely voice texting in English, I think. I don't know. Oh, yeah, it's this Vietnamese pickleball player, I know. Yeah, talking to him, I was like, oh, dude, your English is pretty good. Instagram caption? Big, not good at all. Okay, ready? Hey, comma, my guy, comma, a couple guys is on their way.

They gonna help me. Well, my guy's gonna wait for me, period. I'll put what we need right now so it's not too much, but I have to make it ready, period. And then another, hey, comma, I got to grab with me, period. I said that traffic in Parkville because they fixed the freeway, but we got a two guys on the way there. The game begins in three, two, one.

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Yeah. I mean, it's just, it's just wild. Like, that's, I'm intrigued by that. But speaking,

he's fine. He's fine. He's fine. But yeah, man, I had to call him multiple times and just be like, what's good?

I mean, this is, this is as extreme as it gets. I was like, what's going on? What are we doing? Like, this is getting ridiculous.

That's what I said. I think I said that multiple times. This is terrible. This is terrible. This is getting ridiculous. You need to, you've told me so many times you're going to get done today and you're not getting done. That'd be kind of fun to feel like the gloves are off.

Like you don't even have this like this voice in the back of your head being like, maybe he deserves a benefit of the doubt. You're like, no, he's had his chance. I know, man. And then, but what happens, honestly, is I do then try to be like, you know, I get like spiritual. And I was like, he's a child of God and I need to be kind to him. I wonder what his parents are like.

I need to be compassionate. Yeah, what else is going on? But I'm like, dang it, dude. Just like, I'm trying to hire you, you know. is the loving thing to be like, I've eventually been like, this is not a good way to do business. You keep telling me that's going to get done

and it doesn't get done. Yeah, go sit in timeout. It's wild. So anyway, he told me today, he's like, yeah, we're going to pour concrete today. It was supposed to be done

on Monday of last week. It is now Thursday of the next week. And it's still not. That's a long time. Yeah. Like, I think most people would say it's a one,

maybe two day job and this guy's taking. It's like 10 days. It's like, no wonder you don't have. And then he keeps, he'll call me out of nowhere and be like, hey can you send me $300?

And now I'm just like, no, dude. I'm not paying you anything else until you finish the job. I've already gave him like $3,000. I'm like, I'm not giving you anymore. Jeez. I know. That was the cheapest guy. Yes, dude.

Cheapest ombre. Anyway, so won't be using him again. But I can't tell him that now or else he just be like, well. You keep being like, dude, this is great. Let's get a momentum for the next job you do. I try to say, I'm like, listen, man. Like, I would love to use you again. But you're not making me.

want to right now. In my head, I'm like, no, not unless the next job is half the price. But even then, I'd probably be an idiot and be like, why'd I do that? So maybe the next job for Miguel is he manages your Airbnb. Sounds like he's good at asking for money. Dude. So the tenant's like, hey, give me $300 for the Airbnb. Oh, then he's like, you could tell, obviously I'm mad at him. And so every time he sees me, he's like, he's like trying to figure out a different way to like get on my good side. Like, like you could tell it was kind of like this awkward side. I just like, Go chief, son. Yeah, I stopped, I stopped, like, being, like, fun.

Like, like, or even, like, very friendly. Like, I'll, I'm not mean to him, but I'm just like, okay, sounds good. Okay, great. Thank you. You know, whatever, whatever. But, like, the other day, there was, like, an awkward silence. He just goes, uh, you like, tamales. You like, tamales.

I'm like, uh, not really, you know, in my head. I'm like, sure I like tamales, but I'm not going to poison me. My mom, I make tamales. My mom make tamales. I can bring them for you. I can bring them. Six, 12. How many you want?

Tomani's. I'm like, no, it's okay. In my head, I'm like, just do your job. Like, and then again, he's like, he like sees all this trash that Zach helped me pick up. And he's like, I can take this trash for you. I'm like, I just want you to do your job. Concrete. Do you? Yeah. Concrete. Stick with your job, man. Anyway, it's just. I have a tamale guy. I have a trash guy. I don't have a concrete guy. Do you know one? It's like he's never done it before. That's what it kind of feels like. He's Googling it. Anyway, it's fine. It's fine. just, I've just learned. It's like, okay, I probably should have spent another thousand dollars on somebody else, but. It's part of the gamble. Exactly. And that's what I kind of live for.

Deacons can't, you know, gamble on sports anymore. So I gamble on contractors. Anyway, do you have more money to pay them or are you all settled? Yeah, I have some more money. So, yeah, I do. I do. I, yeah, whatever. I'm blacklisted from paying timing on Venmo. Every other Venmo goes through. Can't get a Venmo to time and to go through. So why? had a good run. Just paid him too much, I guess. Really? He's like, he's 19.

He lives at home. He doesn't need more. What is the error? He just says, cannot be, cannot happen at this time. Really? Yeah.

What'd you do, Tymond? I guess I work too much. I don't know. Yeah. It is interesting because it's like, Benmo probably isn't that used to being like the method of monthly payments

for like an employee of some kind. So it's like, maybe it doesn't like bigger amounts. I don't know. But that is. I have a question for you. Okay. Just a second.

It's about Venmo. So it's relevant. So I paid Zach Midget yesterday. Yeah. Zach underscore Midgett, if anybody wants to just throw a bone his way. Okay. He paid you on December 31st,

which is New Year's Eve of 2023. And the caption was this. I would like you to explain it. Sure. My doggy, your face is hot. So hot. Like, my goodness, you hot. want to lick the ear of you.

And then five pizza emojis. Hot mama, mama, mama. What's period? Daddy, daddy, daddy. Probably for pizza.

I don't know. That's just what you say when you get pizza. Right. Just two bros eating pizza. Pizza. Yeah, it's just,

classic Zach. Yeah, I don't think there's like, I don't even remember that. That's, I think that's probably how, that's how normal is. Jesse,

M. Sh paid Zach Majet, December 22nd, 22nd, 23. Finn to eat a cake. All right? A cake. That's fun. Let's see. How old is Jesse now? He's 17.

Nice. Yeah. He's taller than me. I don't like that. Good job, Jesse. Yeah. Sorry, there's one I shouldn't read on here, but pretty funny. From Zach to you.

Timon, you paid Zach for photographs of your feet. This is pretty fun. I'm not going to keep doing this too, but... Any midge action in there? I learned that midge is still in the picture. Midge was at the concert last night. Yeah. I was like, I thought Midge was in college.

She was dead and gone. No, she's a home. It kind of does seem like that sometimes, but like, I don't see her much, but she's at the concert. That's fun. That's great. Girl knows guitar. Yeah.

Midge is still in the pig. That's nice. Yeah. Anyway. We can wrap this episode up. I just want to say thanks for all the nice words about Steve Coop. I mean, it's like, obviously, I like him, and I thought he did a good job of the podcast, but you never know.

I don't see a lot of podcasts where the father-in-law is involved, and you guys were so nice and seemed to like him a lot. So it meant a lot. Thanks for all the kind stuff and the memes and the political campaigns and the $50 bill and everything. It was just great to see all that. I laughed out loud, listening back a few times. In your heart, you know, is so good.

Talking about trans pinball. In your heart, come on. In your heart, you know. In your heart, you know. You know. The way he says, in your heart, you know. Oh, man. Just amazing.

Yeah. I don't think I saw anybody. Not that anybody would, but no one even was like, kind of like, it was a fine episode. It wasn't my favorite. They were all like seven minutes in and I'm laughing out loud. Or like, I woke my baby awake because I was shaking laughing. It was hard. Unreal.

Two minutes in. Unreal. Yeah, it was good. So good. Thank you, Steve, for being on. Yeah. My parents also came into town that day to surprise. them so I couldn't talk about it.

But my dad was like, how was it? How was it happened to Mahan? I was like, well, we got into trans rights about three minutes in. It went pretty well. It was pretty amazing. It's so funny, like on one side of the coin, like, like certain people, if people think our podcast reaches so many people, and it's not like it doesn't reach anybody. Of course it does.

But sometimes, sometimes it's like, hey, you know, let's be like a little bit sensitive about certain things. and he's like, hey, let's just talk about trans rights right away. Okay, no problem. And then like an hour into it, he tells a story about some guy in his hometown. He's like, oh, geez, what if he listens to this? It's like, what? He's not going to.

Yeah, I think you're fine there. Yeah. I think you're fine. So anyway, I'm excited for Wednesday's episode. We've got a fun schmores. Yeah. Shout out to that kind of was inspired. I mean, we've already done a version of this.

But Nathan Coley the other day was like, hey, when you guys, did the movies version. He's like, I was listening that recently. That was so funny. Okay. Yeah, that is a pretty funny idea. Yeah. So, Wednesday we're going to do the shores of TV shows we haven't seen. So good. It's going to be good. All right, I got to review the week. You got a review the week?

I don't. You go ahead. I think we only have one new one. I like this name. L-O-E. Thanks for the Joy. Five stars. I stumbled on this podcast when I was at a low point due to a broken foot that took far too long to heal. Miguel must have put the cast on. With every episode, you guys really show what it means to have the joy of the Lord.

It's amazing that three friends just chatting can have such an impact on thousands of people. Thousands. I am one of those. Proud to call myself a ghosty. I think she wanted to use millions, but, yeah, Tyman's in. Yeah, Tyman. Yeah. Time is present.

I love that still. I thought millions was a cuss word or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, LOL. That's so fun. I think that's the only new review. that I've seen at least.

On the podcast app. I'll do one for, should I do it for, whoa, that's good from Sadie Robertson Huff. One of her reviews. Yeah. Review of the week comes from. It's just a good review.

K&P 4L, 1, 2, 31. Key and Peele. Love her, five stars. Sadie is a beautiful soul who creates wonderful and personable podcast shows. May God continue to bless you and your family. That's a good review. I think we need to do more reviews of the week

that are not ours, you know? It's not always about us, Jake. Here's a review of, yeah, just made sure roasters. That's what we should do. Gosh. They're one of their Google reviews. That sounds great to me. Yeah.

I might make sure make sure it's for the Wednesday episode. That sounds nice. It sounds nice, dude. Who's got a jingle? Timon. Who's got one? Give me a song. Any song that I know.

Give me any song in the world that I've heard of. Give me any song in the world that's ever been written, that I would know the words to right now. I'm going to look up karaoke songs, and I'm going to start singing, and you're going to know it.

All right. Let's see. Listen, baby. Ain't no mountain high, ain't no valley low. Ain't no river wide enough, baby. If you need me, call me, no matter where you are,

No matter how far, don't go, baby. Just call my name. I'll be there in a hurry. You don't have to worry. Because, baby, there ain't no mountain high enough. Woo. Ain't much to keep me from getting to you, babe. It seriously, I want to focus on the river.

I don't care how wide it is. Not one nor two rivers that are wide enough. You can make two wide rivers. I'm still going to get to you. Okay? What about? I don't know. I don't know the words very well, dude.

Don't you wish you any words? That's a good. I hear the rains that go in the night. River wide enough. That's a good song. What song was it? Oh, that's Africa. Okay, I thought so?

Positive. Good job, guys. Good jingling. Thanks. Good jingling. Okay, we're back Wednesday with fun schmores. Got a few other fun things to chat about. And I want to talk dinosaurs.

Sure. Finally. Love you guys. Ghosts from a podcast. Getting ready for a game means being ready for anything. Like packing a spare stick. I like to be prepared. That's why I remember.

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