Ghostrunners - 526 - Brad Sold the House!

Episode Date: March 30, 2026

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Okay, we've been recording the podcast for six years, seven. Almost seven. Six years, 10 months. Six years, 10 months. Six years, 10 months. And we're still, you know, we're still fighting new things out about each other, Jake. One of those things is I personally would not schedule a roof replacement for the same day as recording the podcast. That's where we're different.

And that's why we compliment each other so well, buddy, you know? Like, I was like, yeah, I've had a couple years to do this. Let's do it all in one day, the day we're recording two episodes. One fell swoop. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, they knocked on my door earlier than I had set my alarm this morning. Honestly, good for them.

I'd rather them get there. Early bird gets the shingle. That's right. Early bird gets the warm of shingles. Trust me, Jake. It's nice when the people come. I'll just say that. It's nice when they do their job.

Yeah, no, it really wasn't that bad of a thing. And yeah, it's just a guy just out in front. He's got his trailer, or more or less the dumpster, you know, hooked up on the back of his truck. And he's like, you might want to move your cars. And I was like, oh, yes, I was planning on doing that. Sorry, I didn't know how early you were coming. Do I need to move them like right now, right now?

And he's like, I mean, he like looks and says, it'll be here any minute. I was like, okay, okay, I'll do it now. Dude, it's like, like when I was walking in here, you know, first step, obviously, is just take off the old stuff. And so they're taking off all the old stuff thrown in the big dumpster. And then this guy had a, like a blower, like an air, yeah, blower. And he's just blowing off all the little remnants and stuff. And so it's like minimal, but it kind of sounded like I was in like Iwo Jima or something. Like Steve Cooke Crawling.

As I'm like walking in, I'm like head down. And I just hear like this like, T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T. Like all around me, I'm like, gosh, trapnels fly everywhere, no problem. Just get in there, get into where it's safe in the barracks. And that's what a waterfall shower also feels like. Just like, gosh, give, let me breathe for a second. I can't look up.

I did see a funny comment on today's episode that we just posted. It was like, yeah, I've never understood waterfall shower. It's not fun to be in the rain. Oh. You're just mimicking what it's like to be in the rain. No one likes that. I was like, yeah, it's a good point. If rain just came from a 45-degree angle and hit my chest,

rain would be awesome. And it was warm? Maybe that's what we do. We get like a... I should move to Venus. Oh, Venus? I don't know. Or Venice.

I think it's pronounced Venice. Italy? Italy? Oh, shoot. Yeah. Venus Italy? Is it Venus Italy? Venetian.

I know it's Venus Beach in California. Venus Beach. Some reason I didn't think the city with the canals was also Venus. I'm trying to think it's Italy, right? It's not Italy. Venus Italia? Rachel does pronounce the cuisine, Italian. That is so northern, dude.

Is it? I didn't even know. Like, is that just, are you have something wrong with you? Or is that an accent? There's no way anybody in Huntsville, Alabama says Italian. There's no way, dude. There's no way people are like, hey. I could go for Italian.

Yeah, welcome to Columbia, South Carolina. We love Italian food here. If they do, I think it's very hubbilly. Yeah, go down to an Italian spot. Italian. Yeah. That's fair. I tell you what you say, yeah, when you get a little accent in there, it does sound like something

I could hear. Go for a little Italian. I like me some Italian. Macaronian cheese. I'm like, that's not bad. Anyway, so yeah, we might be interrupted. Not interrupted. We might, you might hear some things if you're listening loud enough on the speakers, but I think

we got good microphones. It's going to sound like your roof is being redone today. I think once the nail gun comes out. I'm kind of excited. We will see. Yeah. But yeah. man it just sounds like

it sounds like where you it sounds like they want to get in it sounds like hey come on amigosos please I was wondering I was like I should probably talk to these guys in Spanish you know me yeah yeah yeah I was like Jake and time it are probably

gonna make fun of me if I talk if I if they hear me like hey ke on da Coz it is a trapnel ah uh oh oh oh I do I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some Them 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. Everybody's morning. Oh, anyway. So yeah, you're getting a new roof? Just completely, you got any, you changed anything up? Did you make any decisions? Or is it just like, just do whatever?

I said, new roof, please. Yeah. And they said, what do you think of this color? And you said, of course. I said, that one looks great. What color was it? Yeah. Does it dark? Black? Gray?

Gray? Let me see. Let me see what I picked out. Because one I have now is, it's almost a little red to it almost. You did have a little, yeah, like clay looking. Like you're on a clay court. Looks like we went with, yeah, weathered wood color. Oh, weathered wood. Weathered wood. It's just a classic gray shingle. Weathered wood.

Weathered wood. Cool. I don't know anything about those things either. I know that black is like, people are like, yeah, black roof, nice. But maybe weatherwood is kind of like grayish black. I don't know. I think I did the cheap version. Black might be more expensive.

Oh, really? I don't know. I don't know. If that's the nice version, then maybe I got the cheap. Yeah, just got a little crew. They said they could do it one day, which is awesome. You know what? I've heard that a few times, Jake.

So be proud if they can, all right? Honestly, when he was at my door and he had a Spanish accent, I was like, we're in good hands. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is maybe how you felt with Miguel, but I feel like there are certain things that I would truly prefer a Mexican crew to do, sheetrocking and roofing. Yeah, dude. Food. Food?

Baseball. Boxing. Are they good at baseball? And raising pit bulls. I don't know if Mexico. Those are my big five. I mean, Hispanic people, great baseball players. Mexicans?

Yeah, I guess Mexican as a nation, are they good at baseball? I can't think of very many, like, great Mexican baseball players. Why is that? Why are they all the other. Hispanic countries. Well, Mexico's pretty small compared to like, you know, Venezuela. There's no opportunity. Dominican Republic is huge.

I mean, it's like, you know, twice size of China. Cuba is. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's a good point. I'm going to look up Mexican baseball players. Yeah, everyone, yeah. Because maybe we don't know. But like, genuinely, I think most of them

are like in like training academies in Venezuela and stuff. Yeah, Puerto Rico, Dominican, Cuba. Mexican baseball. Players. Just a second. We'll be there a second. Just a second. We're looking up your, your, uh, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, I don't know, man. I mean, that might be a cousin or yeah, or something. Oliver Perez was a pitcher for 18 years. I know, nobody compared to.

No. All right. Take off baseball. Fernando Valenzuela heard of him. Pitcher back in 18, 1981 rookie of the year and Sy Young winner. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's a really, that's a really, that's the best picture in baseball time in Ty Cyan. It's pretty good. Top Mexican home run hitter in MLB history, Vinnie Castilla. Never, never really even made heard of them. Yeah.

Bobby Avila, 1954 AL batting title winner. So, so, yeah, we're pretty slim piggins. Alejandro Kirk, Blue Jays, All-Star. All-Star. All-Star. All-Stars. Okay. Those are my five.

Famous makes, do you want me to look that up, or do you just? I feel good about that. You just know about putting the top five. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so sheetrocking, roofing, drug smuggling, boxing, and raising pit bulls. Perfect. That's your go-to.

Those are the ones I, yeah, that's what I want them doing. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. But yeah, a pretty standard roof. Cool. From what I know. Big time. It'll be, like, even though it's a simple thing, it'll make your house look way better, you know?

Yeah. Yeah. Weatherd would. Whether it would. Actually, kind of reminds me, I, uh, this week and Friday, pickleball, I came to the boys and was like,

hey, I feel like it would be important if we establish some, like, core values. P-quarter. As a company, as we start to,

like, we've brought on, like, an executive assistant to help us all out. We're hiring a director of Asia. Like, as the team gets bigger,

it'd be easier to communicate, kind of what we stand for, you know, be able to onboard them easier. And so Matt's like, sure dude, like, go for it,

you know? And, of course, Scott is like, boys gone corporate. man. It is a pretty corporate thing, but it's also like, makes sense. Because then you can like, hey, we're thinking about doing this thing. It's like, well, that makes sense for what we're.

Yeah, we talked about doing this kind of stuff. Does that make sense for that? Yeah. Yeah, I feel like it's like I know how to act and behave and post and product launch. You know, I know how to do everything the way we want to, but it's like maybe we are not set up to articulate that well as someone else comes in. Like we should have things in place. And you want to make sure that everyone else agrees.

too. Yeah, we all the same page that like bring joy as one of our core pillars. I think we are. Anyway, with that in mind, I wrote down some core values of Ghostrunners. It's been about I don't know, 90 seconds doing this this morning. Gosh, this guy's gotten so corporate. Open to interpretation.

Core value number one of Ghostrunners. Abs. Tartiness. Tartiness. It is not expected that you are here on time. If it is, it's going to throw me off a little bit. A core value is tardiness. Like you need like Yeah. Like, it's almost like, we have to be tardy.

Yes. Like, these guys came early today. Didn't like. And you're like, what is this? Yeah. I don't operate. I don't, yeah, that's not. I was here five minutes early today.

Yeah. Time. All of a sudden texted 8.56. I was like, whoa, timing. Like, timing's like, yeah, it's really loud here today. I was like, does time have a satellite, you know, camera on his phone? Yeah. If we recorded at your house, I would never be there right at nine.

We've always done. And I would, I would do that out of respect. Yes. I think, yeah, 100%. I do feel bad about today. because I was one of the, like, I helped, like, extra implement the tardiness, like, value, I think. Oh, 100% you did. Yeah.

I really helped it. 100% you did. Yeah. And so I feel bad for not, like, holding to it. That's a good value. Yeah, you're kind of changing the goal post on us a little bit. I thought you wanted this and now five minutes early. I don't know.

100%, yeah. Going on with him. That's so good. Yeah. I think even today, like, I, so I often will wait until timing gets there. So that's my excuse for being tardy. Yeah. I'll be like, okay, time's over there.

I should go over there now. So today it was like 857. Time it gets there at 856. So I'm like, all right, I got to go. And Kevin's like, why are you going so early? Yeah. Isn't this one of your core values? I was like, time's there.

So. I would answer it, but there's refers to. It's crazy. Too much noise. Too much noise. We're already locked in on this. So core value one is tardiness. Core value two is adaptability.

Yeah. Because I think one of us, why do you say that? Mainly me. Yeah. Has changed the schedule of when we're recording, like maybe four weeks in a row. Yeah, so we record on Thursday mornings generally,

and we've recorded on Thursday mornings about 26% of the time. Yeah, I don't think we've done that a single time in March. And it's like, sure, we'll make it work whenever. We all are blessed enough to be flexible. But yeah, that's kind of why we have. As long as you let me be late,

I'll do whatever day. As long as I can be 10 to 15 minutes late, I don't care. We are always like so kind. Like I don't think we've ever, genuinely like, I don't think we ever even thought in our heads. Like we're mad about being late.

But like every time somebody texts like, hey, I'm running late. We're like the rest of us are always like, no problem. All good. Oh, great. Sounds good. You know, like.

You know what now I think about it. Back to Core Value 1. I'm late in my own house all the time. How many times do you guys come in ready to record? And I'm like still on the middle of like breakfast or making a turkey. Yeah, you're like, like turkey. Hey, dude.

What's up? Hey, what's up. Make yourself home. Yeah, I'm brush my teeth real quick. Yeah, sometimes you can tell Jake, like, just got out of bed. I haven't really done it yet. Uh-huh. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm late in my own home. Making coffee, making whatever. Yeah, yeah. There's a number of different things that I could be late with. But yeah, that's good. So adaptability. I have said before, and I'll say it again, I truly believe that we have recorded every single hour of the day.

I think we have. I think we've literally recorded any, like, every single hour throughout our time. Like, because we've had to be like, Hey, we got to record this time. Hey, we got to do this. Hey, we got to record three episodes today. Yeah. And so we're going to record from 10 to two, you know.

Any hour that the sun is out, we have definitely recorded. A hundred percent. The only ones I think maybe we haven't is like three and four. I think we recorded one time in like 530 one time. That time where you drove all night home from Oklahoma. Oklahoma. And I had to drive that day to Texas. So I was like, we got to record before.

That day sucked. I remember that now. Because you didn't sleep at all. You were like hanging out with your friends. Yeah. At an engagement party or something. Yeah. I think Grant had proposed.

It's like adaptable, you know. Yeah. All night or straight into podcasting. Morning pod. Morning pod. We've recorded in how many different states. Kansas for sure. Missouri for sure.

Florida. Alabama. Arizona. Good memory. Technically. Oklahoma. We recorded on the way to Texas. In Texas, probably.

Yeah. That's it. Oh, no, not Indiana. We need to record sometime. We get up there. We didn't. So, yeah, we record in multiple states. Several states.

And not like virtual. Like, we've both been in those states while we record it, which is nice. Yeah, you've recorded with Rachel virtually. Down and I. Portugal? Oh, Australia. Yeah. It was Portugal.

I think it was, I don't know. Maybe with both. Hard to remember. It was Australia. Right? When would? For sure, Australia. I don't think you were recorded on your honeymoon.

Did you? Not for us, at least. What if? It was Patreon. Yeah, yeah. There's a fourth tier of Patreon. Patriot after dark. Third core value of Ghostrunners, I put, uh, tripods.

Okay. For two reasons. one, we use them. One, every now and then I will go film a pickleball tournament and I will take a camera, I'll take a tripod, timing has to set them back up. Okay. But I feel like 90% of the time,

that's not the case, but the tripods and cameras always will still be situated and reconfigured and redone because that's one of our core values. Even though nothing is changed in this room. Time is just a pro. Nothing, yeah, this is an untouched room. The other 20, or you know, whatever,

at the other days of the week. Yeah. You have to touch it tripods. Yeah. Are you distracted by the amount of days of the week because of the roofer? I don't know. The other 20, how many days of the week? How many guys are up there?

It's what we do. 20 guys. I think it's seven days in a week, so six. Okay, that's good. Tripods. They need to be adjusted every time. Timon has to make sure he's got, you know, some, like, I think Timon's realizing more and more when he was gone.

Time doesn't do that much. Like, we could just get in here. and press record it's all pretty much set up. So I'm like, no, no, no. You have to adjust the cameras every time. They might be a little off. Fourth and final core value is, uh, I wrote uncut gems. Sorry, can we go back real quick? I'm reminded of the time when Timon was gone and Zach filled in.

Yeah. And did so bad on the cameras. Like you guys, yeah, as long as I'm not here and neither is Zach, you guys are fine to record without me. What was it again? Like, was it your, you were so far away. Is that what it was? Yeah, that camera was like all the way zoomed out.

Like you can barely see yourself. Sorry, okay, uncut jims. See everything. Uncut jims. This is a movie that I haven't seen and also wordplay on the fact that we haven't, I don't know when the last time we have cut something out of a podcast. Yeah, true. We're providing just live gyms for people.

It's raw. Yeah. Yeah. Um, that's a core value. Okay. I really don't know when it would have been. I don't know, 20, 21. Yeah.

Last time we cut something out. There was a few times. Like, I remember when we were first starting, like, and, and I think this was fair. And like, maybe we could entertain this again. But like, I remember there were a few times where it was like, we were riffing on something. And it was, and it was like, you know, that's pretty good. Let's see if we can think of a few other ones. And we would, like, kind of sit there for a second.

Like, and like, we'll edit this part out. You know, like, let's think like a few more. you know, funny things to say about or something. But yeah, we never really cut anything. I mean, Timon says he doesn't know how. Yeah, it's not in my... That was Jake, Jake and Justin. Job description.

Yeah, we could do that. Yeah, I'm trying to remember anytime we've actually cut. Full transparency. Sometimes, if there's a long pause, I will shorten it. Do you? Sometimes. It's happened. It's happened. It's happened. So if, if someone's out there like, hey, I know I've seen it cut, nothing was said.

Okay. Nothing was said. Okay. Yeah, that's good. Uncut Jim's. Also a good movie. I want to watch it. It's Adam Sandler? It's an 18 plus movie.

It's got some language. Okay, okay. Yeah, Adam Sandler and Kevin Garnett, actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kevin Garnett, Tyman. He went to what college? Trick question. Didn't go to college.

Played basketball, though. And he's actually a pretty good actor in that movie. Is he? Like, good for Kevin. Especially for, like, who he is. he's a professional basketball player. Does he play a professional basketball player in the movie? He plays Kevin Garnett, yeah.

Oh, great. Yeah, so he's like himself, but still. Great. Anyway, uncut gyms. Other, those are all your values. Those are my four core values of ghost runners. Yeah, tardiness, adaptability, tripods, uncut gyms.

I don't know what else you need. I mean, that seems like you kind of nailed it, nailed on the head. How it covers it? Let's think. It's so much. sound coming from. And what's crazy is it's pretty far away still.

That's what's like, like, I don't think we're even in the middle of the house yet. Like, we're not even. It feels like they're on the corner. Yeah, they will get directly above us. I do kind of, like, I think Catherine said, Catherine, you know, she'll do anything for free entertainment. So like, earlier this, remains last year, the neighbors next door to you cut down their tree. You kind of remember that? Yeah.

And they just sat outside and watched the tree cutting down all day. like, I think I might just have to sit outside and watch the roof be built. And I am kind of curious, like, what's the process? Like, what are they doing right now? Because they're not, they're not putting up the shingles right now, I don't think. They're, it sounds like they're jails, like, nailing something, but not like a, I feel like shingles. They use the gun. Yeah.

You know, you hear them, like, go super fast with those. I think they're just analog guys. I don't know. So you got to put that, like, that seal, that paper down first. Okay. I would think you would do all of it with a nail gun. I would think you could just remove the hammer from the world once the nail gun comes out. I think that all the time.

Like so often when I'm using an analog screwdriver, I'm always like, I should be using the drill. I should be using the drill just a little bit of shorter, shorter intensity right now. What am I doing? Yeah. Also, dude, can we just talk about how terrible flatheads are? I know you probably think this all the time. Yeah. Timmy?

Yeah. I don't know. I wouldn't say that they're that bad. I'm sure somebody out there is going to have some physics answer for why flatheads are actually necessary sometimes, but my gosh, they're the worst. And they used to use them all the time. So all the old houses have flathead screwdrives. And my gosh, they're just hard to grip compared to Phillips. Right? Yeah. What is the purpose of having two? Two types of screws? I don't know. Do you know? I think maybe.

there's like leverage or maybe you don't strip them as easily with flat I don't know what it is but it feels like some some applications use flathead still and my gosh do I hate those applications like it's like oh we could do this so much better with the Phillips anyway just wanted to just wanted to get that out there also talked to him about it uh recently experienced have you ever heard like lead-based paint you know yeah yeah a lot of old homes not supposed to do not supposed to sniff it and what do you know about it. Do you know, like, you know that? Do you know why kids? Like, it was like a thing that kids would like lick the walls back in the day. Oh, no. Tell me. I think that's true. Um, because it tastes sweet, lead-based paint tastes sweet. And so the other day I was like, uh, replacing hinges on a

door. Like, so it was like unscrewing the old hinges, putting on new ones. And so I unscrewed one and, you know, just put a screw in my mouth from the old hinge that had paint on it. And, and it was like, and it was like, it. And I was like, that's kind of nice. It tastes pretty sweet. And then I immediately like, because I'm just like learned like lead based paint is like the worst thing ever. And so I like spit it out and then like like spat every piece of saliva I could. I'm like out. Pull trig. Just fully vomit. Genuinely. I like, yeah. Yeah. Search. I like what do I what do I do with this? I, you know, I don't think I had it in for very long. But I tasted, you know, like thinking like, am I got to die from this? tiny little trace of lead-based paint in my mouth. But it tasted amazing.

I understand now why people are like, yeah, kids lick the walls. Really? It tasted like flowery, like goodness. I don't know, like kind of like lavender or something. Interesting. You just wouldn't think lead would make something taste good. Amazing, dude. Like it was like that feels like you could add that to a latte and it would be amazing.

Just a few lead screws. That could be nice. Yeah. There's a popular like pickleball. accessory and it's to put lead tape around your paddle in different spots and it makes you do different things. Oh yeah. And, you know, everyone's always warning you like, now lead is toxic, whatever. And I think the first few times I put it on there, I did. I was like, all right, now apply it and now wash your hands. And now I'm kind of like. Just don't lick them, dude. Yeah, just don't lick my

hands or don't lick the paddle. Yeah. But trace amounts of lead sounds fun. Also, dude, like, did you worry back in the day there was the classic mechanical pencils, right? Like, pencils have lead in them or whatever, right? That's what, oh, yeah. You're right with. And did you do back in the day, like, where you pretend to take your mechanical pencil and, like, shove it into your skin and it, like, but you pressed on it first so it would not go in? And people always like, don't do that. You get lead poisoning. I don't think that's what lead poisoning is. I don't think you get lead poisoning from just, like, getting punctured by a pencil. And not even punctured, just, like, resting it on your forearm.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but people were like, hey, if you shoot that in, because some idiots in my school were, like, trying to do it to each other. It wasn't me. I was never that kid. I promise. Mom, I promise. I was a good kid. Yeah.

But Jake Bird, Jake Bird came after me a few times. Old Jail Bird? Yeah. Yeah, he was up to no good. Anyway, oh,

we got multiple, we've got multiple hammers now. It just never stops. It's got to driving me crazy. It just never stops. I may not be that loud to you guys. I think the headphones help. Yeah,

yeah, so we should probably put on it. Feel free. Yeah. I can feel it more than I can hear it. right now. Vibrating the floor. Check, check, check.

All right. Headphones are on. All right. Hey, hey. Ooh. Anyway. Yeah. So that's been lead-based paint.

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Cam's way. That's it. I have a movie for you guys to watch. Okay. Great. Did you guys like the social network? Yes. I did.

I thought it was going to be funnier, and it wasn't very funny. Okay. I remember the preview being like, what was the social network? The scene where it was like this really great, you know, back and forth, rat tat tat in the, you know, what does he say? You guys remember the social network very well? Like, I feel like the beginning with his date with that girl or something.

No. I saw it once a long time ago. Okay. The Hawaiian party. There's some like snarky comment he has like in the in the, in the, whatever, the courtroom deposition thing. And I was like, that's pretty funny. Yeah. And then you see it and they're like, oh, this is pretty serious.

Same with this movie. Netflix tells you it's comedy slash drama. Not comedy at all. Okay. But still a good movie. Very similar to social network. It's called Blackberry. It's a movie about like the rise and fall of the Blackberry phone.

Oh, has this been out a while? So yeah, I think it's been out for a few years. But I don't know if it just came to Netflix or just got suggested to me. I've never heard of anyone seeing it. I'm in my own little spot just shouting. I love this movie. Okay. I don't know if anyone else likes it.

I heard about it. Cool. But I love it. a while back, and they said they liked it, but I never watched it. So it's similar, like, it'd be fun because it's like, we remember the Blackberry. I think that's what I'm like, because I was telling it other people. You know what the Blackberry is, timing. It's a type of, it's a brand of phone. I don't know any, like, I'm assuming there was some kind of drama or just like interesting story about it. I don't know the drama behind it. No drama. Just interesting story?

Probably some drama. It, the movie is a drama. Okay. And comedy. And a comedy first. But yeah, I was like, I think it's good regardless, but especially if you, you grew up our age and you remember the specific phones they're talking about. You just remember what it was like, like, I coveted a Blackberry. I was going to say, I was going to say the exact same thing. I was like, if you had a Blackberry when you were in high school with me, you were a millionaire. Like, we did not have. I wanted you.

Like, you knew you were doing pretty well. Your parents were doing pretty well if you had a razor. And then like one step up was Blackberry, unlimited texts. Stratford is, the Blackberry Pearl was as nice as Stratford. got. Now, there were some girls at like Springfield schools that the sidekick. No one in Stratford could afford a sidekick. Oh, sidekick in your head was more than, oh no, wait, sidekick was like, yeah, there were multiple like it. Like swivel out into a screen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Nintendo DS. Sidekick was higher in than Blackberry. In my eyes. Okay. Just because

I never really, I never touched one before. But I had touched a Blackberry before. Okay, okay. Yeah. I think a sidekick was in step up to the streets as well. That's probably why it was so highly That one nerdy kid was his name Moose or whatever. Moose is wearing it. Worm, whatever his name was. Worm sounds good. Never seen that movie. Worm seems like a good dancer. Yeah, I really enjoyed BlackBerry. I feel like people should watch it. It's just a good story about entrepreneurship and business and just like how they grew it and their ultimate downfall. You know, like when the iPhone comes out, it's funny seeing like their reactions to it. Like, this is the dumbest thing. Really? They didn't like believe in it. People want the click. They love us

of the click, the plastic. Right. Yeah, this is in the closing credits, but not really spoiling anything, but like at one, I think in 2011, I don't know, some year, Blackberry owned 45% of the cell phone market share. It's like a crazy, crazy high number. And now they own zero. Like how quickly they just like completely fell off. Yeah, that's wild.

I wonder how much iPhone is now. because in in white America everyone has an iPhone you know but it doesn't feel like everyone in the world has an iPhone like Samsung I feel like is dominant in other countries globally yeah I wonder what that would be I have no idea but it's very rare these days to see a green and that's back in the day I think Blackberry had I think it was called BBM yeah Blackberry Messenger they kind of talk about like inventing that yeah and it was like it was fast texting you text really quickly on it Yeah, and encrypted. Yeah, oh, really? Okay, very good.

See, that's all I remember of Blackberry in recent years is like, I remember Obama was still using it. Like, the White House was still using it in like 2020. Really? Wow. Okay. Yeah, it was definitely like the business phone. Yeah. Like, it wasn't as like entertaining of a phone.

Yeah. As of early 2026, Apple holds a leading position, the global smartphone market, roughly 31% worldwide market share. Wow. and they had 45. They had basically one and a half times that. Yeah, that might have just been U.S. I don't remember, but Market Share, USA.

See what iPhone has. Ooh, over 60% market share in the United States. Wow. Wow. Crazy. Yeah, I like those kind of movies. I haven't watched this one, but there's one about, like, Nintendo. Have you seen that? Like, with, like, Tetris?

I think maybe it's just Tetris specifically. I don't know. Anyway, that one's interesting to me. I would like to watch that. I've seen the one about dumb money. You seen that one? Oh, yes. I think I did watch that.

The GameStop. Yeah, yeah. Pretty interesting. Another other 18 plus out there. What else? Yeah, just fun movies. Like the Big Short, even we talked about last week.

Like, just fun. This is why I like BlackBerry. It's filmed like the Big Short where I remember. Like. Kind of casual and. Like crash zooms on stuff. I really like the way it was filmed. Okay.

Makes you feel like you're in the room. Yeah, yeah. It just, yeah, it feels raw. Yeah. You're saying on the right things. Blackberry. Cool. Blackberry.

Go watch that. And maybe Uncut Jams. I've been just watching extracted lately, dude. And it's, you gotta watch. Okay,

so I saw... You gotta watch this season. The discourse on Facebook last night. Talk to me about your friend's family. Dude. I want to hear all about it. Did I mention this a while back when I talked to Luke? He's like,

yeah, my brother's like, they did some pretty shady stuff. And so I don't know, man. Like, like, come out to be bad or whatever. It's wild.

How, how, like, whatever the word is, manipulative, uh, deceitful, just mean, bad. Like, I mean, but like, I definitely don't think I would do this. But at the same time, I think it is good that they're like recognizing this is a game and we're trying to win. Like, yeah, where's the line? Like, this is a game show. Should I be trying to win?

So it. And it's like, is this, is this illegal? No, it's not illegal. Then why shouldn't we do it? Yeah. So this is a spoiler alert for anybody who hasn't watched this, I suppose. Do you want me to tell you the spoilers? Yeah.

Okay. So basically the two brothers who are in HQ planted this, like, because every once in while there's different things in HQ. Like maybe there's a sign. It's like, break this or, you know, take this sign and you get a free supply for your person. Like there's like little clues and stuff around the room every once a while that if someone finds it. Oh, awesome. And so these brothers, Luke's brothers, planted this fake clue. Okay.

Like they've put a book, they like published like a legit looking book that had a fake clue in it, that if you deciphered the Morse code that they like interpreted on here, it would say, forfeit all of your firemaking capabilities and you will get fire, food, and water, you know, like a supply of that or something. Oh, this is great. And so then they like figure out who the best. competitor is and they basically like help their family find this book. Oh.

And then like they're like, don't, don't show anybody. Take it, take it back and figure out what it is. Like, you know, like trying to like encourage them. Yeah. Do it. And so this family finds it. They send, they get an opportunity to send a message to their competitor out in the wild and they say, hey, you need to get rid of all these things.

And this guy does it. Dude. And at no point are they ever like, are they setting us up? Like, it's not even on their mind that this could be. No. dude. And it's even crazy. What's even crazier is like, so they set them up.

One other team knows that they're doing this. Wow. How do they know? I think they tell them. They're like, here's what we're going to do this to these people because they're, he's our biggest threat, whatever. Which I don't know why. What's the benefit?

Told them that. Anyway. But then there's a third, we'll call them, whatever, fourth team that sees that they have this, this clue book and that might like provide an advantage for them. And so they take the clue book and try to like,

sabotage the clue book and like mess with the code and stuff. And so then all of a sudden these other teams are like, you shouldn't have done that. That's terrible that you sabotage the clues. And they're like making these other people look like these terrible people, even though it's a fake clue book the whole time. And it's like, you're actually accidentally saving this guy from losing all his fire.

You know, his fire is everything in, in this game. Anyway, it's just wild. So they, so. And there's no remorse whatsoever from these brothers.

Like they're just like, I mean, I think at one point they're like, I feel kind of bad, but like also I feel amazing about it. So have we seen did it work? Like the guy that's out in the woods, he just like extinguished his fire. So that was like the end of the episode was like, yeah, he like took all his fire stuff and like put it by the lake to be picked up. And so I don't know if they're going to pick it up. Catherine's like, I don't think they're just going to like pick it up.

Kevin's like they should have told him to throw it in the lake. Yeah. Like, okay, maybe. But I don't know. We'll see. Throw it in the lake. but it's definitely going to like spark some some you know entertainment next episode too and then if they do get you know confronted about it they just have to play dumb like what

what do you mean fake i don't know we're trying to help yeah exactly i don't know why they didn't pick it up but then there's going to be this other team it's like no you told us yeah you know so i yeah it's going to be very entertaining damn very interesting that's good yeah so um anyway Catherine, Catherine, like internalizes it so much more than I do. I'm watching, I'm like,

man, that's, that's too bad. They're getting rained on. Catherine's like, oh my gosh, they're getting so rain, you know,

just freaking out. But anyway, yeah, somebody said, we got to get Luke on this podcast once it's all over. I'm like, that'd be awesome.

That would be awesome. It's also crazy, dude, like knowing Luke, I mean, he's been on there, I think on the show now for 15,

18 days, something like that. And I mean, like, what I know Luke to look like and what this guy looks like on the show, he looks half as, half as much weight. Like, he looks like he's just like lost all his weight. Like, it's crazy. Like, his face is just like nothing compared to what

I'm like, that doesn't look like Luke. That looks like a like a caricature, like it looks like an AI version. Like, hey, make me look better than I do, you know, or like skinnier. Like he just looks skin and bones. It's only been like three weeks. Yeah, we got to talk to him. Yeah. That would be fun. Do you and Catherine have any additional thoughts on like what you would do in these situations, like who would you send out in your family or like what the teams would be? I don't think we've talked about that too much.

I don't know, man. Every time it's so easy to watch it from your, you know, ivory tower basically and just be like, I would just not break. I would never, I would just never be frustrated. Just be strong. Like every single time their supply drop comes,

I would just always expect there not to be anything in there so that if there isn't, great. You know, like mentally I'd be fine, but I'm like, I think I would break. Physically, I think. I think physically it would be so hard. So I don't know, man. But yeah, we haven't talked about it too much.

Anyway, but it's a blast. It's fun. Seems like a lot of ghosties are into it too. Yeah, dude. My parents are all of a sudden, my dad can't stop talking about it. Oh, really? Like, every time I see him, he's like, you know, we've been really watching extracted.

I'm like, dad, you told me this six times. But also, let's talk about it. So anyway, should be fun. Should be a good time. So we've been watching that. I've been watching my Jayhawks get. Just. Hocked.

Heart broken. Yeah. Hawk broken. Hawk, Hawk, Hawk, Hock, two and out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I did it.

Anyway. Yeah. Do you know watching the basketball? I saw that game. So the end of that game. Yeah. You guys got to play some help defense there. We can't let them just drive the basket.

Unbelievable. Give up the three. You got to play the offense. Please give up the three. Yeah. The whole thing. Yeah. I was like telling Rachel was like,

this actually works out. great for KU. They have so many fouls to give. They might not even get a shot. That killed me, dude. Yeah. Yeah. This is going to be great. And then what, they have three and a half seconds of downed it still scored. That sucks. I've thought about it because the guy that let them score, like the guy that was like, he is the one guy. There's all every year, there's one guy on each team that I'm like, I don't really like that guy. You know, it's kind of like the, uh, parks and rec thing where it's like, you know, Jerry leaves and there's going to be a new Jerry. Like there's always going to be like somebody that Phil is just a spot.

Like, even if you just love this team, it's like, I don't really feel comfortable when he has the ball. And this guy, El Marco Jackson, has not been playing the whole game. And they put him in as a defensive guy for one play. And he just, oh, of course it was El Marco. And the guy who scored, they were talking about him afterwards. They're like, oh, boy, this guy needed it too. He is four for his last 33 from the three point line.

I was like, geez. Yeah. How's this guy still playing? He hadn't scored a bucket all game. Like, golly. Anyway. And white. And it's, yeah, March Madness is awesome.

It's so fun. But it's also so heartbreaking. That's sports. As it, when we're recording this, a lot of farming teams still in it. I'll tell you what. A lot of Midwest teams. Yeah. If you're going to go with our Midwest definition.

Would have been nice if KU is still in there. But yeah, I mean, was it, Nebraska, Iowa. Iowa State. Iowa State. The thunder. The thunder might be in it. The Wheaton Thunder. The Wind and Thunder.

City Thunder. Yeah, maybe those three. I'm trying to think of any other Indiana teams. No. Yeah. Ohio teams. Nope. Other places farm other stuff.

Yeah. There's agriculture in all 50 states. You're right. St. John's. They got some plants growing on the top of their buildings probably. Yeah. Upstate. Uh-huh.

Upstate. But yeah, I've somewhat paid attention. I mean, it's hard not to watch a little bit of marked madness. I'm trying to teach Hattie how to understand how to like root for the person that you picked on the bracket, but also like you got to root for the crazy upsets. Like, yeah, because she has Duke, I don't know if she has Duke winning or like going to the championship. And so Duke was losing by 11 points to Sienna, like a crazy upset potentially. And I'm like, Hattie, you got to root for

Sienna. Like, unless you went to Duke, you have to root for the 16th seat to beat. the ones like it just that never happens it definitely doesn't happen to duke it you know whatever like you have to root for this and she's like she should come back in the room be like oh good duke's winning i'm like shut your mouth so i played pickleball the guy the day after duke one and he was wearing a duke shirt the next day and i was like you get a little nervous yesterday and i forgot how he worded it but it was something like and you think i was nervous you should see my whole family because they were worried what would happen if they did lose. Something like that where I was like, what would you have done if they lost? You know, you were worried it in some way like that. Yeah,

my family was a lot more nervous than I was. They, they really hate when Duke loses. Yeah, they were about to. It's like they about to throw, you know, drive to Sienna and. Yeah, I don't know what happens. Yeah. I mean, some people, I'll take the shingles off the roof. Yeah, a lot of people, most people will like, yeah, go into a spiral. If some, their team loses, I feel like, especially like diehards. I've never been around that. Maybe I need to move to Philadelphia or something. I was like that as a kid every once in a while.

Like I remember when KU lost to Bucknell. I nearly cried. I had the feeling of like, I could cry. I could cry right now. Wayne Simeon's my favorite KU player ever, and he's never going to play for KU again. That stinks. I want to cry.

That was it. And I stopped. Yeah, and that's more about Wayne. Yeah. Yeah. It was Wayne. I was whining for Wayne. Yeah.

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Quick pickleball story. I took the tripod score value to go film a pickupball tournament. The Saturday Local 1 Moneyball tournament, I'm playing with a kid named Tennessee. I don't know if he's ever been mentioned on the podcast before, but... You've said his name. Okay, yeah. Because I'm like, his name is Tennessee.

Yeah. Where's he from? Lawrence. Dallas. It's like on Ford's come. Tex. I don't remember where Texas is from. But first of all, he's just a funny kid, never on purpose.

You know, just one of those. Just like, man, you say some funny things. Okay. Oh, maybe this is a podcast story I told. He was telling me he's like, yeah, I saw him at a PPA. determine. He's like, yeah, it's crazy. Did you see so-and-so's family? I mean, like, there's some people watching her, like, her, like, entire ancestors are here. I was like, what? He, like, is not trying to be funny. He's like, couldn't think of the word for

grandparents, I guess. Andcesters. He's, so he called, like, extended family ancestors. Yeah, man, he's got Ancestry.com over here. I thought that was so funny. Like, you have a good spring break, man, you get to see. Yeah. Yeah. Went and, you know, spent time with the ancestors. That is pretty good. It's so funny to me. I think about it all the time. Yeah.

Just like, yeah, if someone, just one person, not in your immediate family, that's your ancestor. It was good to see my nieces and nephews and, of course, the rest of the ancestors. Of course, yeah, the family line, you know, come from a long line of these people. Yeah, all of her ancestors are here. What is the definition of ancestor? Because, like, do they have to be, can they be just your living people? I feel like it's got to be like a hundred years extended or something like that. They can still be alive.

Okay. But they're over 100 years older. It says a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent from whom one is descended. Doesn't say dead or alive. Okay. But in the example sentence, it says, my ancestor, Admiral Anson, circumnavigated the globe 250 years ago. Yeah, he's dead. So Admiral Anson's dead.

I think he'd be dead. Yeah. Admiral Anson. All the ancestors are. All right, so you're playing with Tennessee. So, yeah, Tennessee. But this is, I guess, unrelated to that. That just took kind of a fun story about him.

We win the tournament. Nice. Okay. Moneyball. That means you win some money. Yeah, yeah, what's some money? It was, there were 13 teams in it, so we won $600. Sweet.

Total. Or each. Total. Okay. And I was like, I'm going to, the guy who was like, all right, hey, you won, go to the front desk. She'll write your checks. Cash you out. And this one, yeah.

It's like at the casino. All right, take your chips. Yeah. And this woman at the front desk was like, all right, can I have you guys each write your names on this piece of paper and I'll make out the checks to you? And I, and I say like, Tennessee, you take it, man. He misinterpreted that a little bit by saying like, you take both, writing both of our names for us. Oh, you get halfway writing my name. And I go, oh, no, no, no, you don't worry about me.

I meant like you take, you take all the money. Yeah. And as I'm talking to Tennessee, he goes, no, man, come on. It was a team thing. I go, no, seriously, you take it. And as we're having this conversation, the woman's like, doesn't even look up. She goes, nope, can't do it. And then kind of like laughing, like, what?

You know, like maybe she's drunk or whatever. She keeps looking down. Should have told me earlier. No, I can't do it. And I'm just like, you can't. Should have told me earlier. You can't, like, just write one check for $600. Yeah.

No, two checks. She's like so rude. I'm trying to do something nice for him. We can't rip up a check. It's a paper. Right. What do you mean? People write void on checks.

Just put a big old void on there. I feel like you can. You see this situation, right? Yeah. He's 14. I'm trying to give him money. Yeah, $300 at 14. That's what I was thinking.

I was like, this would be great. You can buy a PS5 and some games. Yeah. I get a couple extra joysticks. Yeah. come on, robo-packs. Oh, yeah, she was so rude. And I was just like, all right, we'll take the two, I guess.

And then I think I'm just going to send us up, like a paddle on a bag or something I've to treat him a little bit. But yeah, it was real awkward. And then Tennessee's dad is there too. He's like, what's going on? Don't bring it up to me. She's not in the mood to hear it right now. She's had a hard day, man.

What'd she do? Oh, she works the front desk at Apex Sports. Which one's that? It used to be epic. I feel like a lot of people grew up in Kansas City know it as that. This is like Southeast Independence, almost like Lee Summit Blue Springs. Okay. But I think it used to be completely soccer.

Oh, completely soccer. Now it's a little bit of everything. Yeah, wouldn't know the soccer spots in town. Yeah, that's okay. Yeah. Soccer might get added to payola, playola this weekend. Fun. Whose idea was that?

We found a replacement for Isaac McDonald, and he is a college soccer player. And so it's like, now we add to soccer. Let's get soccer involved. Okay, okay. Yeah. How would you feel about soccer? Like, when was last time you played any sort of like pick up soccer competitive or like tried to play soccer? Have you ever?

Yeah, in college, there was an intramural league and there was competitive and non-competitive. And I feel like we won the non-competitive one year. It was fun because everyone's screwing around and it was like a blast big time like large field soccer not indoor It was far from post to post yeah it was big I remember that I would just if I were playing soccer I would just be like all right five minutes on five minutes off but I'd stay on the court or the field the whole time But I just be like I'm just gonna chill back here for five minutes and just kind of get my breath Oh I see you never sub out no no no I'm gonna take five minutes off completely off yeah well just like or at least like I'm kind of parked in this spot if it comes to me good. If not, just know I'll get to it later. I would, you know, do not disturb

right now for the next three and a half minutes while I catch my breath. Either that or play like 20 on 20 or something like that. Where it's just like, there's plenty of guys out there to get the ball. They need me. Half court. Let's just do half court. Yeah, two goalies, one for each team to just stay in the goal. It has been funny in our captain's group chat as we discuss all these things and suggest something soccer, whatever. Anytime someone mentioned something about soccer, Gunner just reacts to, you know, you could react to it with an emoji, like crying, laughing, or thumbs up. Gunner just reacts to it with a rainbow emoji every time. Which I got to start doing that more. I think I just need to react to things with a rainbow

emoji. It's pretty funny. Because of Noah's, you know. God's promise. covenant. Yeah. Yeah. God promised us he give us the best sport ever. Two by two. Yeah. but yeah, Palo will be this weekend. So should have some fun stories next weekend. Gotta miss you and Tate. Yeah, Will. Willie Jay.

He wasn't there last. Well, he was kind of there last year. That was pretty funny in the group chat. So I'm still in the group chat. Kevin's like, why are you still in there? I was like, I don't know. I'm just in the like. Occasionally it's fine.

Every once in a while, dude, she asks questions. And I'm just like, why do you have to ask that question? Like, how are you? I think it was how are you still in that? How are you still in that? And I'm like, what do you think? What do you mean how? Like, I'm just in it.

I'm just, no one's going to kick me out. I don't know. Rachel asked me a simple question. I think it's just the question is how. That's the tough one. I think that's the frustrating question sometimes. Rachel put on, we're on our way to go, have a little date night, dinner on a patio. We're listening to some 90s country.

Okay. And I didn't know some country song. How do you not know this song? And she goes, how? Are you asking how I don't know a song? Yeah, dude. I think it even said, I don't know this song that well. It was one of those songs by her name is Joe slash D. Joe D.

Jody Messina? Yeah, there's one song. I love bye bye bye bye bye, my baby. That one's good, but I didn't know her like third most popular hit. How? Yeah, and I think my sentence was I don't know this one that well. How? How do I not know a song that well?

I don't know. I guess I just didn't listen to it 20 years ago. Yeah. dude, I got in trouble last night for like Catherine asked how. We were talking about some like, she's like, how are you going to finish that in time? And I go, and it was like, there was a frustrated like question. Like I was like either either I answer by giving you every single detail of this or I just say because I've thought about it and I'm going to do it. I have a plan that I will execute.

And that's the one I chose. And she didn't love it. She's like, I was just trying to get more information. I was like, like, how are you, how do you know you're going to get done in time? Because I just am going to work really hard to do it. It is a tough question to like answer friendly. Yeah, it just, I was like, it sounds like you're asking, it sounds like your past regressively saying, I don't think you're going to like, you don't have a good enough plan or

I don't think you can do it. How are you going to get that done in time? But I think she genuinely was just like, I was trying to get more information. And I was like, all right, sorry. I had to apologize. But, yeah, I was like, what, how do you mean how, how am I in the group chat? What do you mean? Like, I'm not going to explain how group chats work.

I was in it and I still am. That's the story. So anyway, I'm in the group chat, even though I'm not playing. I don't know how. Real quick, Jody Messina, the song I was talking about Heads Carolina, Tales, California. Heads Carolina, tells California, you might say, say that I own you. Not how the song goes.

No. You go, heads Carolina, and I'm going to care. California. That sounds pretty good. Let's pack up the heads Carolina. We got lots of friends in California. We'll do a jingle to that later.

Okay, yeah, yeah. Just like the words, Head, Carolina, but just different songs. Heads Carolina, tails California. Factor this in however you want. Like, yeah, just do a few back and forth. So, yeah, never heard that song. Maybe I have, but I don't know how.

I don't know it that well. Yeah. I don't know how. That is so hard. How do you not know this song more? Because I haven't heard it enough. I don't know. What are you saying?

Anyway, in this group chat, apparently people were giving Will a hard time about the brats last week or last year. And I didn't know that no one else had joked with him up to this point. Someone puts it in their intro video. You probably remember us talking about this last year. Every person's required to make a video,

which is kind of fun to get to see people who don't do this for a living have to like download cap cut. A lot of cap cut. A lot of cap cut like watermarks on every ending, every video. You know, so it's fun to see our friends like get creative and honestly just like walk a mile in our shoes. Yeah. And it's fun.

And one person this year, I think it's Josh Madison, did some kind of funny jokes and some funny material about how the brats could be way better this year. And Will Severans, who basically joined last year to come cook the brots. He didn't do anything but cook the brats. Like he didn't play. He just was like, I can't make it, but I'll come. And yeah, I can grill for you guys. And yeah, the brats were not good last year. Obviously, I didn't know.

I can't eat them. I was going to say, I didn't think I had one either, so I don't remember this. But anyone who had a brat, oh, they talked about it. And like, they mentioned it. They were awful, so undercooked. They were disgusting. I'm trying to hide. I'm trying to throw away.

But I guess along the way, no one said anything to Will. And so Josh makes this video about how bad the brots were. And Will's like going, what? What is this? Is this about my brats? Yeah. And it was like 10.30 at night. Last year.

It was like 10.30 at night. And I think he was just like, guys, I don't know. I'm going to have to sleep on this. I'm going to come back to this tomorrow. And somebody sent a picture of like a brat. And it was just, it was hot peek in the middle. Yeah. It was bright.

Oh, man. That is like a big responsibility when you're grilling for a bunch of a bunch of guy, anytime. But like a bunch of guys. they're just going to be like, they're going to, because if you grill it too long, it's like, oh, this is, this is. Dude. Yeah. Do you not know how to like do it right? But also it's like, oh, what is this? You clearly didn't check anything. That was a big thought. It was like a big slab of shingles going down. Oh, okay. I'm guessing. It sounds like an anvil.

Oh, Admiral Anvil. They have been, it's been a nice reprieve. We have 15 minutes. I mean, taking a lunch break, not on my watch. Not at 10 a.m. Not on my watch. Brunch break. Nice try, pal. Get back up there. Smoke break, fine.

Lunch break, no. Did you see they had shingles in the? I didn't see materials. No, you saw more shrapnel than I did. I was going to say, I didn't really, yeah, I kept my head down pretty much. Got my head down. Yeah, it should be fun this weekend. We got, we scrambling to find people because we're sent and Isaac to another pick-a-ball tournament.

Yeah, what's going on? Is he doing like a pickupball slash golf thing? Is that this thing or is this different? There is a PPA tournament this week at a resort in southern Utah. I mean, it would be odd. If we didn't have pay all, I would definitely be there. I mean, it's gorgeous. St. George?

Yeah. I heard of St. St. Gesey. Okay. Scott calls it. Once again, Scott's just right there with the times. You know, St. Jizzle my nizzle. Oh, I know he's laughing at that part right now.

But yeah, Scott, Isaac, and Matt are going to go to that tournament. Which is funny, none of them are able to play. They all got waitlisted. So they're just going to go and try to get some content, enjoy it. And I think like maybe just go golf one day or something. Just be boys there. That's fun. Yeah, it would be fun.

I am speaking at a conference for youth. The youth. I'm influencing the youth, timing. Cool. Maybe I should panel. I should, what's the word? Ask you. what's like better with a little market research yeah but like i should Zach's opening for you i should

pull oh what if dude i have you talked to him about this no i i i'm wondering gosh i feel i remember that again i was like gosh i'm the worst i can't believe that i wonder if he even remembers because i feel like if i were in his shoes i would surely have asked timon about going to this thing if if part of it is like he wants to surprise me but he hasn't he's not brought it up one moment so maybe he's just going to do it for himself. I don't know. Yeah. Well, but it's still like, I don't know. I think it's like three or four weeks from now still, isn't it? Yeah, it's funny. He's got the day, the morning of, he's going to be like, oh, do you want to, yeah, he's just going to think of it right then. That's funny. Yeah. I want to have Zach come to Paola and film it.

Oh, yeah. You told me that. Oh, yeah. Um, sorry. Youth open conference. Yeah, I'm like, I'm one of the breakout sessions. Fun. Uh, is, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's just like, I mean, it's just for high school at our church. And I'm talking about the idea of social media and how to use it healthily, I guess. And like, because Scott, the youth pastor, he's like labeling me as an influencer. And I'm like, I mean, jokingly, like Casey Media, you know, influencer, Brad Ellis. I'm like, whatever. But he's like, you obviously make money on social media, but you also, you know, like don't use it very much.

And so, like, finding the balance of that. That's kind of fun. So that was, I was trying to think of a core pillar of that. I was trying to come up with something about how, like, any given time, two of you guys could be bricked. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, obviously, you've, you've resonated to an extent with some of the stuff I've talked about. Oh, for sure.

But, like, what is it about that? Like, or what have you felt in your own self that, like, has pushed you towards trying to limit it? Uh, this sounds like I'm trying to be too deep. First thing that came to mind was, like, if there's, like, if, if a phone, and anything else, like something edifying, like, whether it's like, like, straight up reading the Bible, which is like a struggle. Like, if there's a phone versus that,

the phone always wins for my attention. Like, that's what it is for me. It's like, if I, it's like even just like keeping my phone and computer like downstairs when I sleep upstairs, it's like that, like that, then like it has to lose the battle because it's like, my Bible's right here. My phone's made downstairs.

Like, I don't know. That's like a, that is a, motivation. I don't know. And just like I'll waste time. Even just like throughout the day, it's like, what am I? I don't know. I didn't need to spend that 45 minutes. Sure. I guess that's another one. I don't know. That's like the big things. Yeah. I'm just trying to make sure like, like, like obviously I have opinions, but I'm also, I feel like I'm getting, I'm starting to get old, dude. Like I'm twice as old as almost everybody that I'm talking to. Yeah. You know? Like, and so like, like, like for instance, I was going to use the example of like,

how many times have you gotten on Facebook to look at something on. marketplace and just like forgot to even search on marketplace because you just get sucked into you know not not truly but i i had that thought in my own head like you open up the magazine how many times have you yeah gotten your password book out to figure out your password logged into facebook you can't find your password post it where did i put that thing where's my post note yeah you're sitting you're finding yourself scrolling through radio stations again how many times yeah and you just can't stop but scan doesn't work like how it used to scan AM FM.

Yeah. Just can't get a grip. Record scratch. Am I right? But I was like, no one has Facebook. I need to. Yeah. I'm trying to think of ways you can.

But my point is just like, there's plenty of times where I've gotten on social media to do something. Like, I'm like, I need to look up something for Jake. Like, I need to see what date did Jake post that thing or whatever. And I don't even get there because I just get distracted by the first thing. Yes. And I'm like, I'll click on this one real quick.

So, yeah. And then all of a sudden, you forget about it. Yep. And my point with that is like, I think, I think people do and can use social media for good things. But it's so hard to, like, accidentally get sucked into the bad things too or like the negative, like, whatever. Because without even knowing it, without even being like consciously like, oh, I'm going over here. I'm choosing to go over here. It's just like, nope, shoot.

I didn't mean to do that. I was on this app to post one thing. Like even like stuff with like jean shorts, it was always like, just get in, post and get out. It was like so hard. You know? It was like crap. What am I doing? Oh, like it was like such a chore to post not because it's hard to post.

It's hard to not do anything else but posts. That is the nice thing about these Friday Pickable accounts like the Friday Pickable TikTok is I follow no one. Yeah. Friday Pickle on Instagram I follow no one. So there's not really the suck in feed. It's a lot easier to get in and get out. Yes. It's my own Instagram.

When someone DMs me now we're. Oh, you're. But even like, but these days, I don't even see stuff from people I follow. Like on Instagram, it's just the explore or, you know, like, you can scroll and even not see things that like you're just getting suggest or you can click on one reel from Friday pickleball. And then the next one you scroll to, you didn't follow that person. You know what I mean? So it's like they're figuring out ways to.

Oh yeah. Because yeah. That makes sense. Like, oh, you're not going to be as interested in this random thing until they figure out that you like that one video and then they're going to feed you other video. Have you seen an Instagram now? You can tailor your own algorithm. Oh, okay.

It's like, here's what we think we know about you. Here's what your algorithm looks like as far as like your feed. Is there anything you'd like to change? Do you want more football? Do you want less tennis? You want more comedy? So that's kind of nice. Maybe what you do is you say it, you tell it all the opposites.

And so that your feed becomes less interesting. So you don't want to scroll. You're like, oh, yeah, I love Hinduism. Exactly. Well, that one, I don't. I wouldn't say. I mean, I like. Yeah, yeah.

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Almost April. Meat month. Meat month. Okay. Speaking of scrolling, I discovered something last night. Actually, Rachel discovered something last night. And I went down this rabbit hole and I saw that you have already liked some of their post. Oh.

Do you know about this improv group that's taking Instagram by Storm? No. Great. Timon, how would you like to explain it to Brad? Okay. So, yeah,

I think it's just like an improv group that decided like, let's film all of our games. And I think that... And I think there's no live audience. It's almost like there were... Yeah. I think it's just like improv practice, which is like,

that's a thing. That's very like improv. You still do improv to like get better at it. Like, not in front of an audience. But I think from what I, remember, they just kind of have this basically one game that they play and just like switch it up slightly and it's just not set up for the most humor. Basically, they'll say like worst something ever.

Is this what you've seen? Yes, world's worst flight attendant. Yeah. World's worst firefighter. And there's like a lineup of nine people and they can just come up one by one and say a line that the world's worst flight attendant would say. Okay, got it. Which is like that can be a good funny improv game. Who's line? That feels like one of the more. They do that. Yeah. It's like one of the more you can't bounce off anyone which feels like a little more challenging. Like this is like improv joke writing. Yeah,

this is more difficult version. This is your setup, you're kind of having an uphill battle like especially if you're a beginner improv. If you're not funny, it's not going to be funny. Like whereas like the other time it's like, oh, Jake said something funny that I didn't think of

and I can be funny because of that. Okay. So since we're talking about it, would you guess that these people are really, really funny or are pretty crap at this? That's a great rundown time. PC at this. They're bad?

They're pretty bad, yeah. But they're going viral because of how bad they are. It's a tough, tough watch. It's really bad. Are people commenting this is awful? It's honestly, like very quickly, at least from what I can tell, garnered a cult following, where now instead of like going viral because people are making fun of it, it's like people are like their biggest supporters now and they have their favorites and

they recognize their outfits. Like, oh, I see. big blonde back to the OG outfit, stuff like that. You can always hear heels coming before you see them, you know, whatever. So like the internet has really like, I feel like welcome to these people in.

But the comedy is absolutely brutal. So the one that went really viral was world's worst fitness instructor. Maybe. It's been a while, I will say it's been a while since it was in my feed. I did watch like a YouTuber reacting to some. I don't know.

I don't remember many specifics. And so, yeah, let me try and think of it. World's Worst Fitness Instructor. And so it is funny. You can tell, like, one of them gets like a joke in their mind. They will say it in regardless if, like, the other person already basically said that joke. Oh, yeah. So it's like, I did some.

Yeah, I contributed. Uh-huh. So World's Worst Fitness instructor. And one guy would be like, hey, instead of doing that bench press, you want a donut instead? Uh-huh. Yeah. And then, like, two people later, a girl will say the same thing. Like, doesn't a grill cheese something?

better than all this. It's like, we already did that. Yeah. We already did that hilarious joke. Yeah. One guy comes up and goes, do you even lift, bro? Oh, wow. Stuff like that.

Okay. Some of them will laugh at themselves, which is, which I like. It's fun. Like, because I mean, it's, I feel bad for them. It's brutal. The setup is brutal. It's like, I think there's one person, probably the like improv teacher or something, just like filming.

and then sometimes they'll let out like a chuckle. Sometimes they'll be like, I've heard, like I've seen somewhere they'll be like, like they make a sound like that one, which is bad, which is just rough. The very last line of the flight attendant, or sorry, the fitness instructor one, a girl comes up and goes,

hey, you can't, you can't do fitness. That's not even the proper footwear. Yes, I remember this one. So that's her joke. Okay. And the internet has like especially latched onto that line because now regardless of what video you click on theirs there will be all the top comments are like you can't be a firefighter you don't have the proper foot that is everywhere now and also

there were funny comments to the fitness instructor one they're like you know in a way she was the best fitness instructor being like oh those shoes aren't actually proper yeah you might hurt your foot yeah that's actually pretty helpful yeah you might get planter fasciitis the video that I was watching like a YouTube video of a guy reacting to these like she would pretty consistently just kind of give advice. It was like, she's just kind of doing her job. I don't think she understands. She's giving advice.

So you need to go lower on your squats. Next. And it's just funny saying, because the internet, anytime something goes viral, you know the comments are funny. Because if you let a million people have a crack at it, there's got to be five amazing jokes in something.

So that's what's really fun. Yeah. And now there's almost this subculture where like you'll see other people pretending to be them now. People are doing your own versions of this improv scene where they're impersonating them. So I thought maybe we could do our own today. Okay. Okay. Our own.

I don't like this. World's worst. Are we doing it? Are we trying to be bad? Yeah. Okay. Okay. World's worst roofing company.

You got one? Yeah. Help me out here. It's not where that goes. Alhandro goes on. On the top. Oh, man. That's what I was going to say.

Anyone else have too many shingles? Yeah, yeah. Wednesday, I thought it was supposed to be Friday. When Westcham first took flight in 1996, the vibes were a bit different. People thought denim on denim was peak fashion. Inline skates were everywhere. And two out of three women rocked the Rachel. While those things stayed in the 90s,

One thing that hasn't is that fuzzy feeling you get when WestJet welcomes you on board. Here's to WestJetting since 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us at westjet.com slash 30 years. That's a really good joke. I said bring a nail gun, not a real gun. And then he said, Como Cedisi Shrapnel? Up at me.

Tuesday? I thought it was supposed to be Friday. That's your character here. Just tardiness. Dude, poor value. They like that one? That does happen around. And they laugh at their themselves probably like.

So that's how it's done. That's pretty good. I mean, on one hand, I can kind of understand why like that's a good exercise. Because it's like it's not going to get any harder than that. Like yeah, it's not going to be worse than that. Like if you can withstand doing that and going up there and struggling through that, then you'll be fine on a. team game. Yeah. Yeah. If I'm in that improv class, though, I'm going, hey, film the other stuff. Don't film this game. Don't film the really hard one where it's really silent and really awkward.

Yeah. Film it where we're all in a scene. Are they editing or is it just like, oh, it's raw. Yeah, just silence in between. So quiet. I remember some that had like, like, ethereal droning music in the background for some reason. Yeah. Which just make it, it's just a different. I think because it was World Wars pilot. So they had like kind of interstellar music going. Yeah. That one was bad. The top comment on that was like shaking my SMH, not a single 9-11 joke.

No. How often are you putting shorthand in your text these days? I do LOL. Same. I don't do an ampersand. What else by abbreviating? What am I doing? I do IDK for sure.

I do that. Man, Zach is TMW? for tomorrow? What? Whoa. Congrats all the time you're saving, dude. Dude, he has a speech. Tomorrow?

He must have the R somewhere. Tomorrow? I would do TMR before I would do TMW. Let me make sure it's TMW. It was just like, what the world? What's up with that? I could be out tomorrow. I just texted someone recording podcast RN.

Oh, just try and keep it short. Yeah. What do I do? I'll tell you, uh, Isaac has gotten, pretty Gen Z, the older he gets. Isaac is throwing a lot of like OFC, J.S. Really? Yeah, yeah.

I gave Scott a hard time. The reason I asked is because Scott said something, TBH the other day. I was like, I just quoted him, TBH. Like, sweet, dude. Awesome. It was, oh, we were talking, it was after we had recorded last week, and I was talking to him about In-N-Out versus Colvers. Oh, yeah.

They're not even in the same category, TBH. Okay. TVH. Cool, man. That's funny. I definitely use TVH, I think, sometimes. Depends how. That's fine.

Much time I have. He did. I'm allowed to. Zach, TMR. Okay. I like that better. Do you? But still.

Yeah, TMW would be a problem. You guys ever throw around a little FWIW? Uh, I don't know. Every time I see it, I have to remember like, what is it? Okay. Oh, for what it's worth. I never remember that one. When I see on Reddit a lot, I've never personally used it.

I-I-R-C, you guys know that one? Oh, yeah. I know them all. You can quiz me on any of them. I don't use it. IRC. You know it? No, I can't think.

I can't think what it would be. If I recall correctly. ITT. Oh, I always thought it was if I remember. Oh, ITT. I think. If that, then. I think it's in this thread.

Oh. Wow. What's the one? I got some nerds for friends in my friends. Fantasy football group, dude. Whenever I see... Some Reddit guys. Another one I always have to think about is TFW.

That feeling when... Yeah. I'm always like, because it kind of looks like WTF at first. Are they cussing? Yeah. You know, H-T? Hot tabbage. A lot of times I do, yeah, H-slash-T for some reason.

They always do that. Like, Sports Center will repost something. It'll say H-T, this guy. Oh, high tops. Because he's wearing, you know, he's back to his ankles. Proper footwear. Hat tip.

Oh, is that what a... it is like like it's like giving credit like they found it first telling you it's from ian rapaport instead of s slash oh because i feel like i would use that one before i'd use ht that's annoyed me for five years maybe 10 years is like sports center will repost someone's like viral real like some yeah high school basketball player they'll take it from his tic talk they'll post it instagram and then they'll give him a little ht and then his ticot username yeah rather than ating his his Instagram username because they're on Instagram now. Why, like, what is the benefit of not shouting him out?

Like, with a clickable link to his profile. What is the benefit of that? They're always, like, gatekeeping shoutouts. Yeah. A lot of accounts do this, but. Interesting. H.T. It's like, you can find him if you really want to.

Yeah. I'm sure his Instagram is in his TikTok bio. You were just there. I am H.O. Amh. I like that one. Humble. Humble.

Wouldn't it be humble? Oh, is it? Humble, in my humble opinion? Yeah, it's definitely, it's definitely humble. I kind of want to see how many more I know. Can't think of. A-F-A-I-K. A-F-A-I as far as I can.

A-F-A-I as far as I know. Nice. I didn't know that one. I'm just so smart. E-L-I-5. This is one that I know. E-L-I-5. Yep, this is like a sub-redder,

but also you'll see this a lot in the comments of like, eh, got it. Leaving in five. It's like people that are tardy. Explain it like I'm five? Yes. Okay. Wow.

No clue. Timon, you's got to be smart. I know. I don't know these either. Just take some brain. T-I-L. Take some brain.

Tarty. I left, though. T-I-L. Today I learned. Oh, yeah. I should just like type these out whenever I, it's hard to think of what the, like, acronym looks like in my head to then be like, oh, I've seen that before. Oh, it means this.

All right. Last one. You should get this. This has to be smart. T-L-D. I see this all the time. TLDR. That one's been around

since we've had Blackberries. Dude, I see it all the time but I never, I'm just saying like, what does it look like? What does it look like? What does it look like?

What does it look like? What are those letters? Oh gosh, okay, so T. Okay, T, that's like the cross. Yeah, I don't. They sometimes put a little semicolon in between? They do. TL.

Simicolon. DR. Too late. Don't return. Yep. So library. Two? You got two, right?

Yeah. T-O-O. Two. To learn. Link the post at the bottom. T-LDR. I got caught cheating on my test. Oh, it's like an update thing, like...

No. No, that's iOS. I don't know. T-L-D-R. Too long didn't read. It's like summarizing something for someone. Like, if you thought this was too long to read, here's the T-L-D-R version. Oh, interesting.

New Roof. Mm-hmm. Hmm. Never. We're a world's worth or whatever. Just got to be smart. I just use that brain of yours. That's fun.

I feel like I know more of those than I thought I would. You did quite well. I don't think I got stumped, except for a humble opinion. My honest opinion, humble opinion. IIRC. What are some other ones that my friends say? I do use like IMO. You do, huh?

Sometimes. Okay. IMO? Sometimes I do. OFC. You say somebody's saying that? Isaac saying that? I've seen someone do that recently.

Of course. Yeah. I spell it. I spell it a lot. I've always. I think it's just as fast. These days? Yeah.

I can slide around on there. These days. These days? Guys, it's almost April. Seriously. Come on. Why are we waiting still? Come on.

Yeah. April's official sleep. Yes. Month. April slumbers bring May numbers. Numbers. Yeah. Hey.

Hey. Gry. Get on that grind. April slumbers bring May numbers. Yeah, that's right. And that goes for like single men or also just like entrepreneurs, whatever kind of numbers you're looking for in your stage of life right now.

You're going to be well rested to go out and get it. That's right. Time to get it. Time to get it. Do you even sleep, bro? Hey, bro. Yeah. You better get your numbers up.

No, you better get your slumbers up. You can't sleep in cozy earth. You're not wearing the proper footwear. And the footwear being cozyer socks. Cozure socks are awesome. Rachel actually did sleep in Cozier socks last night. I have been, mine have been all dirty for a few days and every single day. It's amazing.

Do you ever do this where you're like, you open up your sock door and you're like, maybe I missed it yesterday. Maybe I couldn't find it. I checked all day yesterday in my sock door to try to find some cozy socks. Today I did the same thing like, because I had one. I had one single kosier. I was like, maybe there's another one somewhere. Yeah.

Couldn't find it. I don't play now. Some in some dumb new balance socks right now. Sorry for that. Yeah. Cut that part out. Core value can't. Yeah, bleep that out.

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Oh, yeah, I meant to ask. Under contract. Yeah. Again. I saw that and I was nervous to. Fair. Wonder why. Yeah.

So it's looking good. Gunner just texted me. So that's good? Two handshake and said, congrats. And so I think that's what that's about. So I kind of, yeah, it's looking good. So this most recent offer, I think I lowered the price enough where it was like, somebody's going to take this thing at this point.

And so I had two different offers. And one of them, one of them, the one that I ended up taking was like, we waived the inspections. So at this point, it's like, we've done a million inspections on it. You don't need one. Yeah, I promise. Yeah. And so, unless, I don't even know what would cause it to not work now. I guess if they did, it doesn't appraise for enough or something.

But like, you're in the clear. Yeah, we're in the clear. So closing in like three weeks. So big time, praise God, moment. Yeah, just, yeah. I honestly, like, the first time I went under contract, I feel like I felt a lot more gratefulness. And this time, I think I feel more like an ask.

Like eight asterisk next to like yeah, it's sold but this, but the, but the, you know, and I didn't need to be just, I just need to be like, no, it's sold. Exclamation point, exclamation point. No asterisks. No, no ass. Trisks. Right? It's sold. It's sold. It's sold. It's sold. It's sold. It's sold. It's sold. It's sold. It's sold. We're heading, heading. Heading north. Did you come? close to breaking even. Honestly, I was talking to one of my buddies about, it's kind of confusing. Yes, I, yes, I hope so. I don't know exactly, to be honest, because like the money that I, whatever, just like the logistics of it,

some of the money that I had allocated as like a credit to use on this house, the Leewood house, I used to put it as a down payment on this other house. So I don't know, like, I'm going to owe X amount to this Leewood house, but I'm like, but I don't think all of that was used for,

that house. Does that make sense? Kind of. So like, in other words, like, yes, I will have more money in my bank account after we are selling the house than I do right now. Okay. That makes sense. So, yeah. But anyway, it's one of those things where it's like, it could have been so much better, but at the same time, those are just asterisk. At the end of the day, it's sold. And that's big. And I learned a lot. Yeah, that is the thing. If I was interested, I think I would be clinging to. It's like, yeah, I lost money. This took forever. I lost so much time doing this. But it's like, this isn't, at least when I look at like Bondi, like I lost money and everything that the time I put into it are not really skills that I will be transferring. Like at least the time and the effort and the work

you put into it will fuel you right down the road. Yeah. It's crazy. It's costing doing business. One of my friends, Justin, uh, pheasant hunt Justin, he just recently got his first flip out. He's buying. And I just downloaded everything I could to him. Like here's everything I've learned. And I probably sent him five hours worth of text. yesterday. Just like thinking of all these different things and like sending them like, here's this person I've really liked and here's what I think about this. And here's, you know, this is like the process like and I'm like, okay, if nothing else I've learned, I've learned a lot through this process. Like so I think there's something to be said that maybe

there's even a word to conceptualize this and like business or psychology or something. But back when I was really into golf, I swore. I was like, I know this doesn't make any sense. But as a like rising beginner, I feel like now I should. be giving someone lessons. Yes. I know that sounds crazy, but no, it doesn't. Once you've reached, like, two major like breakthroughs or benchmarks, it's like, all right, let me just cut through the BS. I could tell you exactly what you need to know because I was just there two months ago. Yes. And let me like speed your way through it for you. And I, I kind of need to evaluate that in my own life because I really like helping people with that. Like, yeah, I get excited

about it too. Yeah. It's like, dude, I was so lost. To me if I ever to do this thing, it's, it's not that hard. Don't be intimidated by this. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, uh, Derek Hostetler. Yeah. Ghostie. Yeah. He's going out on his own doing a woodworking business. So I've talked to him a few times on the phone. Like, it's like, I remember what it's like. Like, I'm not like some like, oh, like just just take a line of credit out for a million dollars and start a warehouse. And it's like, no, that's not where you're doing. You're working at these things one step at a time. You're not Grant Cardone on this thing. Like it's like. And so yeah, I love that. I love being like, man, I remember what it was like to not even know what a two by four was. Like, yeah. And I would

love to even teach like if you ever were like, hey, man, I, I need to have help on this. I'm like, I would love that because it's like, I'm not so far above anybody. Like, yeah, I know more than people, but I'm like, but I remember what it was like to not know anything about woodworking. Like, and so then I wouldn't, I don't think I would like really look down on people that are like, I can't really use a drill very well. It's like, I get it. It's actually harder than it look. Yeah. But you know what? It's not that hard if you do this thing and this thing and make sure you put your, put your hand over here. You might hit your hand, you know, kind of. Yeah. So, So anyway, yeah, that's a good point. Good board. Closing three weeks. Closing three weeks.

Yeah, things are, things are rolling. So we're, we're running. That's going to be nice. And then Airbnb? Trying to get that. Yeah. Just did a deep clean of it yesterday. Took them, I think it was five and a half hours to clean to clean it. Yeah, which is, which I mean, on one hand, it's like, that's good. I mean, I bet it's clean. Job, right? Yeah. I haven't been over there since then. They got there like three left at 8.30. So, yeah, it's getting clean. I'm going to get some pictures up, get some landscape, you know, finishing touches, get all that stuff. So it'll be up soon enough.

I'll definitely be posting about it when it's ready. Maybe send me some suggestions for names. Oh, you got to name it. Breezy bungalow? Breezy bungalow sounds cool. The bung. Bungleau. Breezy bung.

Breezy bung. Yeah. Yeah, dude. Good times. Breezy Bungalow was the name of the place that we stayed, like the staff house in Gulf Shores the last two years. Yeah. And it was rustic.

It was perfect for what it was, but it was not. Yeah, he's going to sleep. Yeah. Slept to foot to foot with Isaac there. Uh-huh. Slept foot to foot with Tai Tong and Jensen Harper there. Good times. Good times.

So that's fun. Yeah, come to the ghosty get away. We got spots. Yeah. Session three is open. We had a few people that switched from session one to session three, so there's potential that session one may, or some session one and two may be open as well.

So just let us know. Yeah, come on. Just make it happen. Three sessions. It's going to be awesome. Yeah, you can't wait. All right. I've got a review the week here that came via email from Emily Stern.

I worked at camp with a girl named Emma Stern. You guys related? Probably. I watched a movie with a girl named Emma Stone. You guys related? Emma Stern. Emma Stern.

That's how Australian people say it. Emma Stern. I'm not sure how to leave a podcast review. I'm too tired to figure it out. So here's an email instead. I like her personality already. I'm too tired. Just take it.

I first found you guys through Jake's involvement with Trey many years ago. For three years now, you guys have been a staple in my life. I'm a silent ghosty. I don't have social media, and I don't know of any friends that listen, but I still treasure this little community of mine. It's so fun to watch each of your lives unfold over time. My husband and I are new parents. It's been so uplifting to hear Brad's positive perspective on parenthood.

I know it might seem like you're just sharing mundane moments of your week, but I want you to know that those stories are encouraging to me and make me excited for the future with our family. We live in Tulsa, Oklahoma area, and every time I hear of the Ellis's traveling to Texas, a little part of me gets giddy that they are likely traveling through my little town. Holy cow. Little town of Tulsa. Little town of Tulsa.

Bixby. Anyway, three years later, and I'm finally letting you all know how much this podcast means to me. There was a certain season of my life recently that was extremely heavy and full of loss, but every Monday and Wednesday, I had a little joy given to me. So thank you guys. I hope to meet you all someday. With love from Oklahoma, Amy Stone.

Oklahoma. I was just in Oklahoma yesterday, Amy, Emma. Were you really? Yeah, I picked up Beau. He was, we went halfway to pick him up at prior Oklahoma. Went to Waterburger there. Yeah, near big cabin, went down 44. Didn't go all the way out to Tulsa.

Oh, easy drive. Saw some signs for, you know, Joplin, Montana Mikes and Joplin. Don't know about Montana Mikes. Really? Okay. I feel like Montana Mikes is like a, it's like a nice, like, kind of like Applebee's kind of, but like only seems like it's thriving in the mid-tier towns of the Midwest. Yeah, towns where Sonic is also doing well.

Like Emporia, Kansas. thrives with the Montana mics. But like Montana mics is not going to make it to Kansas City. Not over the park. Like Joplin loves Montana. I think Springfield might be a little flashy for Montana Mike's. Okay. But Joplin's perfect.

Parts of Tulsa that like Montana Mikes? I don't know. I could see them, I can see them doing okay in McAllister. Got it. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if they might be too,

too much for Tulsa to take on. So my five-star review comes from Amelia S. Brightens my day, five stars. I have been loving this podcast. It is one of those listens where you feel like you're in the room with them. It's relatable and I die laughing in the episode. I just got my husband to start listening as well and he is sold. Always fun to hear that.

Yeah. Heard that from the braces. Emily Brace. Yeah. Isaac. What's up, Isaac? My man. Isaac was cracking up with Steve Coop episode.

So we'll take what we can get. Oh, man. We should have asked, was Steve Coop on after we talked about Isaac and his ducks? that would have been fun to hear Steve Kup would have probably had some stories about similar things like that maybe too many stories but yeah we got to get Steve on regularly

that was a gift I'm gonna text Steve this week about Iowa State oh he'd love that they're going up to Chicago to watch the games oh that's awesome yeah that's awesome yeah I'm jealous that he has a team to watch man

anyway it's awesome all right all right in your jingle for heads Carolina, Tales, California? Wait, yeah, go ahead. Do you have the lyrics? I'm going to look up some lyrics. Sure, I can, I don't know what that.

Okay. Joe dash D. Messina. I see, I see. Jody Messina was like, my sister's definitely had her CD. Okay, I found the lyrics. So are you requesting a song that I put this to? No, I'm going to do a song as, like, we can just go back and forth. Okay.

Yeah, maybe some hymns again. You want me to start? I'll start. I'm going to do it. You can figure out the tune and then... Sure. All right. Dun,

dun, um, baby, what do you say? We just get lost leave. This one horse town like two rebels. Without a cause. I've got people in Boston.

Ain't your daddy still in Des Moines? We can pack up tomorrow. Tonight. Let's flip a coin. Dun dun dun. I don't know this song, but I'll, I can do my own. Is that what we're doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Baby, wait, heads California. Tales California. Both California? Just let me sing. Just let me sing. Somewhere greener. Somewhere warmer. Up in the mountains, down by the ocean.

where it don't matter As long as we're going somewhere together I've got a quarter heads Carolina Tales Carolina We can load What we own in the back of a U-Haul van A couple of modern-day Moses

searching for the promised land All right Fun coins We can go 400 miles before We stop for gas now We could drive for a day and then we'll take a look at the Map now Duh Dada da da da da da

Carolina Tales California Somewhere greener Somewhere warmer Up in the mountains Down by the ocean As long as we're going somewhere together, I've got a quarter. Head's Carolina, California.

Oh, hey, it's Carolina, tails California. Some are greener, somewhere warmer, up in the mountains, down by the ocean where it don't matter, as long as we're going. Somewhere together, I got a quarter. Hey, it's Carolina, tails California. We're gonna get out of here if we gotta ride a grey hound bus Boy, we're bunch out, run the bad luck that's tailing us. Oh, heads Carolina, tell us California,

somewhere, greener, somewhere warmer, up in the mountains, down by the ocean. Ooh, hey, it's Carolina, tails California, summer greener, summer, warmer, somewhere up in the mountains down by the ocean, where I don't matter as long as we're going somewhere. That's more of a speed reading challenge. Yeah, great.

That was fun. It's a good song. Heads Carolina. No. That was so laugh. That was a big one. That was a ride. 12 o'clock.

Oh, heads Carolina. Tales, California. Dun to, da, dunna. Somewhere greener, somewhere. Warmer. The dunna. Up in the mountains down by the o'-oh-oh. That's supposed to be.

You get it eventually? Yeah, I did eventually. Oh, hence Carolina, tails California, somewhere green or somewhere warm, up in the mountains down by the ocean, where it don't matter as long as we're going. Great. That seems like I, you're done? I have a... Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Somewhere green or somewhere, somewhere warm, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Up in the mountains. I forget where the rest of the It goes down by the ocean Where we don't matter as long as we're going Is how the rest of Rather B goes? He loves the melody. Sometimes it's kind of hard. Without the words.

Yeah. And the song I don't know that well. I know. And you're kind of focusing on the words And like kind of reading ahead of like Is this the one where I try to fit eight words into three seconds Or do I spread it out a little bit more? That is tough.

Not as easy as it looks guys. Try it out on your own. Try it out on your own. Send us some videos of you singing it. Facebook group. Yep. Everyone's on Facebook still, right? Gen Z.

Oh! Tim, how many of your kids? Your kids? How many of your friends are on Facebook? 50%. Okay. I don't know how many of them use it, though. But they have an account.

I think that probably 60% have an account. What do you think they get an account for if they don't use it? I don't know. I wonder if it's like, I don't know. Just in case? Just like feeling left out? of nothing. I think it's like an event.

Like, I guess it wouldn't be your friends, but it's like for grad parties, all the invites are kind of being sent. You don't have friends that go to grad parties? You wouldn't do. I don't know. Keep up with the grandparents.

The ancestors. Ancestors. Good so, guys. We'll be back Wednesday. Your roofers will still be here. Yep. And we'll still be here. That's right.

Love you guys. And everybody