Ghostrunners - 528 - Clogging The City

Episode Date: April 6, 2026

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I'm just trying to notice new things on your house. Yeah, I was like, yeah, just like, I don't know if this is just me being more observant, but did you, like, paint, like, your gutters and trim black or something like that? Because I had never noticed it before. He was wanting, no, I didn't. Oh, okay. He was wanting me to come in his hair. Hey, I noticed something.

Did you change anything towards the top of your house? It's like, it's like, I noticed the high. Are you recording? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. We get that whole story. It came in like halfway through.

Yeah. Well, you guys can piece it together. We're just goofing here. We're goofing. We're goofing. New roof goofing. There you go. We're going to be just fine today, boy.

We're going to be just fine. New roof goofing. It has been a lot of new roof goofing on our Facebook page. Oh, my gosh. Anyway, let's talk about Paola. Yeah. It was a really good one this year. Yeah.

We missed you. Yeah. And I invited you. Zach to come. I hired Zach to like make a little video. Yeah, I'd love to come. And like clockwork, he did fall asleep on the job. Really? In, in what context? Like, uh, because I mean, it's an overnight thing. Sure. No, it's probably like a, like he just missed a shot. He was like, oh, sleeping out. Like, it's a metaphor. Sleeping on the, he wouldn't have actually fallen asleep. Wait, what? For real? Where we? Yeah, that's a good guess. It was overnight. We slept two nights there.

Yeah. That's what I'm referring to. Yeah, like you hired him for the entire weekend. That makes sense. Like, you have a couch for you. Listen, you have high expectations of your workers, but I think it's realistic overnight that they should be able to sleep. If you're asleep, they don't need to stay awake. You can sleep overnight. Yeah.

Time and any other guesses besides just sleeping on the job? I don't know. I mean, it was, was there some amount of outdoor stuff or was a lot of indoor? I was going to say you maybe found like a nice, like, tree. He was trying to get a shot up in a tree. But there was a better. like a little branch. It was especially cozy. It was a cozy branch? I think maybe Adirondack chair. I could see him just kind of perched one leg up, just kind of gone. No, it wasn't it wasn't too

bad. It was more the fact that he did fall asleep. I was like, of course you fall asleep. But no, we broke for lunch. Everyone's inside eating. Okay. Back found himself a pretty nice recliner. Okay. Inside. Inside. So there was nothing to film. Gosh, he's, that's impressive, though. Oh, yeah. 20 dudes in basically one living room. Sliding doors. Yeah, opening and shutting. People pop it open, you know, cans. We had the TV on.

I don't know what we were watching March Madness or something, maybe. I mean, there's a lot of stuff going on. And he is armed. He is a bear. Yeah. The dude's a bear. A real life, just Winnie the Pooh. 20 minutes later, he, I'm throwing my trash away.

He comes to the kitchen. He's, you know, kind of like waking up. He goes, hey, just FYI. Sorry. Just, uh, uh, just, uh, Just that by that. I, uh, I wasn't napping earlier. Uh, uh, oh, ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts in white.

Me too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because this is a ghost from a spot. It's like, if you have to say it. Yeah, right. Oh, goodness.

Timon, have you witnessed Zach doing that? Like, is this like a normal thing for you to understand? Like, or, or is it like a newer thing? I don't know. I'm, it's interesting because Zach has historically had trouble falling asleep at night. So I don't know why he can do it. Oh, yeah. I don't know why he can during the day.

But that always cracks me up. Catherine struggles with like, sometimes she'll be like, I just couldn't sleep last night. So I took like an hour nap today. And I was like, well, just don't nap. You're repeating the cycle. And just, yeah, you're just, you're making it harder on yourself later. Mm-hmm. You know, but she's like, well, I was so tired, you know, after all the kids went to take their nabs.

I wouldn't take it, you know, whatever. Yeah. Funny enough, the only other instance I can think of Zach doing this was, I think Jake was there. It was, yeah, during Trey's movie. Right. Oh, yeah. We were actively filming. And he was over in a chair.

Did he fall asleep while working? Like, was he holding something? Yeah, this was where he could have, not while holding something, but this is where he could have been used. This is the day we brought in like 25 extras. So the set is popping that there. There's a lot of people there, maybe 40. And, yeah, that could have held something, set something up. He was just napping a chair.

It's almost like he needs people around in order to sleep. That's why he can't fall in the night. Like, he needs to go live, like, you know, you see those movies or those, like, videos of like, this is my New York City apartment. The subway, you know, the, or the Chicago, the L train is right there. Right there. Like, that's what Zach needs in order to fall sleep. It's something like just so loud around him.

Like, construction going on. Like, or, you know. Yeah, just go like rent an apartment in the back of like a construction truck. Yeah, where are we at tonight, boys? All right. Like lights going off. That's amazing. Yeah.

But anyway, I have a lot to talk about playola in payola, a lot of fun things. But I want to hear what you have to say. You do? You've teased this. Okay. All right. All right. All right.

I'll just say this. Can I say this right up front? It's a doozy of a story. Okay. It's a doozy. Okay. And I don't use that word lightly, Jake. I'm nervous.

Here's, here's, I have a theory and I'm nervous. Do you? I don't know. Fun. Okay. I mean, dozy. I'm trying to think of other stories in the podcast lore of our history that have been doozies. You've, you've told maybe one doozy before, and I'm trying to remember what it was.

I mean, Puddle City was a doozy. What did you say? Puddle City was a doozy. I had one doozy that I broke up into four parts. I remember that. Diomedes or whatever his name was. Oh, right. Diomedes was a doozy.

I don't know, man. Yeah. Ghosties can comment more doozies that we've had. I think maybe that chicken story back in the day. That's, that's doozy adjacent. That was a doozy for the chickens. Yeah.

Do you remember that one, Timon? I don't. If you don't remember, then it's not a doozy. Oh, I don't know. Yeah.

Do you have like babysit chickens or something? I babysat chickens and they all died. They all died. Yeah, but he's hurt it. I do remember that. Yeah. What other times were just. just doozies in our life where it's just like that was a that was a dozy I feel like

Miguel if this is about Miguel then he's not Miguel he's in doozy territory it's not Miguel Miguel Miguel was right there on the dues but I don't want to give him the bulldozer You know like uh all right let's hear it but let's be all in one part because I've shut my laptop listen we can do it in one part we can do it in 18 parts I'm ready to listen all right no laptops close no notes um I'm just gonna it's I'm gonna it's I'm gonna it's I'm gonna it's I'm Make it a doozy. I went no notes on the Phoenix announcement. You might want to go notes.

Okay. You might not give enough details to really sell it. So today's Thursday, April 2nd. Is there anything? This is going to come out on Monday. Yeah. And be aware of when it's coming out. Uh-huh.

Yeah. Oh, bro. We could get into that more. Yeah. Okay, okay, okay. I'm going to elongate this story out. I'm going to let it, I'm going to let it breathe a little bit. All right.

A good listener. So here's the context. Real quick. Well, let me just back up. to this weekend was playola playola playola you know fun time with the boys i decided you know what i'm not going to do it this year i have uh i'm speaking at this conference for the social media you know thing and and anyway there were there were talks like gutter text me like hey f y i you know tate will brad if you guys want to just come hang out for a night you can i was like i don't it's far down there

just coming he did yeah did you know that no okay so do you know about what happened friday night with me and him. I know about what almost happened. What didn't happen? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so Tate, the whole time, like, you could tell, like, I think Tate was like, man, I wish I what I got, you know, like. So Tate texts me like Friday afternoon.

He's like, hey, uh, you know, I don't have anything better to do at 5 a.m. on Saturday morning. You think we, you think somebody keeps their keys in their car in Paiola and we like, pull a prank and move some cars around? Yeah. And, uh... Tate's such a prankster. I mean, he's already coming in. He's like, you know what we should do next year for Pala.

there's one mole on every team. Dude. The mole is like they're trying to drop passes and miss shots, but you can't get caught. If you get caught, you go home. You're out. That's what he said. You go home. You can't go back next year.

We excommunicate you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're out for two years. But if you get, if you don't get caught, you win all the money. Like, there is no money. Yeah. I don't think you understand what's going on here. So he texts me like, hey, do you think, you know, whatever?

And then he's like, yeah, I think we go down there. I was like, oh, it's a we thing now? I have to go with you? I don't, you know. cars? Like, how old are you? Um, and he's like, dude, I need, I need a second driver. Like, I can't just do this by myself, you know. And, uh, I was like, oh my gosh. I was like, I'm, I'm not the guy that says no. Like, if you want an adventure, I will do it for your sake, but I want to be clear. I do not have a huge desire to do this. I will do this for you. I don't want to do this for anybody else. Like,

I was like, I even said, I was like, Gunner, out of all people, Gunner will get retaliation. If we get caught, Gunner's going to get retaliation and then probably like a inappropriate at like extreme like gunner might accidentally break my leg out of retaliation you know like like he might just be like that's hilarious dude that's hilarious and like do some wild thing that's like I wish I would have never driven you know somebody's car anyway so we're scheming he's like okay I'll either pick you up at 1 a.m or 5 a.m. you choose I was like all right 1 a.m. I just won't sleep very much that day. So like 10 p.m. rolls around. He texts me. He's like pulse check. I was like I'm alive. I'm ready. You know, let's do this thing. And he's like,

like, dude, what if no one has their keys in their car? And I go, you're just now thinking that's a possibility? That's always been an option. I was like, that, what, what do you mean? Like, that's definitely an option that we get there and nothing, whatever. And he's like, dude, I'm, I'm bailing. Like, and I was like, great. I'm not, I'm not going to fight it at all. I was very relieved. Go to bed. But anyway, I had, so in my head, I could throughout the weekend, I was like, man, honestly, just like grateful that I wasn't there just for not because I didn't think you guys were having fun, but just like, I'm okay. And so anyway, Saturday morning rolls around, got great dad or day time with the kids. And then did this conference thing. It went really well.

Your talk. Yeah, the talk. It was like a live pod. It was just basically an interview, like live podcast. Okay, great. The first, like they had, they had the option of like three different breakout room session things, and I was one of them. And the first session, I bet we had eight people in there. Okay. So it was more like a, I mean, I was more like polling them and asking him quite, we had quite a few more the second time.

But I think everyone the first time just went to the AI talk, which I wouldn't blame them. Yeah. I mean, it was all automated, you know. They didn't know if you were on your phone. No, but, yeah, vibes were high. Everything's fun. We're having a good time.

and I go home and this is great because I don't know where this story is going. I don't know if this is. No, you don't. It's not about my go. I go home and, you know, yeah, everything is good. And, you know, I'm telling Catherine, I'm kind of, you know, just feel a little bit like hot, not high, but like you have a high of like, oh, that was a good time. You performed, so to speak. Yeah, people were nice.

They had dirty sodas there, which was fun to have. Cool. What's that? Like, two and one. Different sodas with like cream and syrups and stuff. Just like Mormon cocktails basically. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was like, you can, you know, so I was mixing coconut with Diet Dr. Pepper and Lyme. That sounds good.

We were having a blast. So get back and, you know, I'm telling all this to Catherine, feeling good. Rosie's birthday's tomorrow, so we're scheming about that. And Captain's like, oh, I should tell you, we did find a little, like, had he told me that there's a little bit of water. down in the basement again. And if you remember, I don't know, maybe a month or two ago, there was a little bit of water and I fixed it all myself. I remember, yeah, I was like, I could have been way worse,

not too bad. Yeah, it was like a $40 like cat GPT fixed this little nozzle thing. And I was like, all right, no problem. I'll go check it out. This is kind of annoying. This one was a little bit bigger of a puddle. And like, not anything crazy, but just like murkyish water. Not like, like, not like clear water.

The first time I think it was mainly clear water. Anyway, and so I was like, okay, chat GBT says, yeah, you might have a clog in your plumbing line, get a plumber over here, snake the main line, you know what that means? Like, just basically. Ew. Snake the main drain tonight, baby. And so I, do you know what that means? I mean, it just means like basically take a long cord. Snake the main line is so funny for the reason. Drain the main snake line. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This episode is brought to you by FedEx. These days, the power move isn't having a big metallic credit card to drop on the check at a corporate launch.

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Um, so I have a few different plumbing contacts of different guys that have done work and are good. So I contact them first. I don't hear anything, uh, from them. And I'm like, I want to get this over with. I don't want to like live with this. Cause every time we would flush our toilet or something, that water would just get a little bit higher. So it's like clearly clogged up. And so I don't hear anything for literally probably 45 minutes.

Like it's not like I'm waiting a ton of time. Okay. But then I just am like, well, I'll just find someone on Facebook. Like this is where people are like, why are you just finding something on Facebook? But like, to me, it's like, I think this is the most simple plumbing thing. I could probably have done it myself if I had the tools to do it. Okay.

I think it's a pretty common, normal thing. So I find this guy, Jose, is his name. And he comes out. Or he's like, yeah, I can be there in two hours. I was like, awesome. Cool. Jose, my guy. And seems like a nice guy speaks very little English to the point where like, but every time, like, he'd be like,

well, say in Spanish. and I would say it in Spanish. And then he'd just start, he would say stuff to me in Spanish. I'd be like, what, Monday? Which means like, tell me more. Like what? Dima, you know.

And then you just start speaking in English. I was like, okay, you do speak English, bro. Yeah. Like, I'm not as good as you are. You know, whatever. Anyway, but he's set to come at 6 o'clock p.m. In the meantime, I'm just sitting there on the, on the porch, dude, like, reflecting on, you know, this day.

I'm watching Bow and Haddy shoot baskets. in my driveway. It's a beautiful sunny day. I got Rosie just like playing on like drumming on the trampoline. Henry's like moving his car all around. I have a cup of coffee afternoon cup of Main Street Roasters in my hand. I'm just sitting there just like watching it with Catherine thinking like I said out loud. I was like, this is this is what I want in my life. This is my dream right here. This is wonderful. Like my kids like sports. I'm just chilling. It's relaxing. It's a beautiful day. And I like say that out loud. And that's we're all in the first part of the story.

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Okay. It was, it was just fun this year. I feel like we learned our lesson. Have you got to like debrief with people who went? No. Okay, great.

I knew that some of the plans, but I didn't know. We did learn our lesson a little bit on, you know, we tried to do some things different this year. And for us all being, our mid-30s. Like, we crammed too much in one day.

Okay. No severe injuries this time. No one went to the hospital for emergency surgery, but a lot more like, just like, hey, I got to step out. And you know, like, this is hurting, you know. What kind of here? Harrison's knee is like feeling weird. Okay.

Hey, don't, don't push it. Really? Um, who else? Oh, Nick Hagamon's quad was like really act up. He's icing that. Now, I will say when it came time for Nick Hagman to play football and I was guarding him, he did just fine. He was doing very.

very good against me with an injured quad. That was the joke. And yeah, I was like, everyone who was injured during soccer is doing phenomenal this whole afternoon. Yeah, dude. It's like that scene in the office where Pam's like pretending to have, what does he say, pretending to be on my period to miss swimming, you know, to miss home at, like all these different things.

Yeah, everyone. What's an injury? No one's had yet. Let's see. My ribs hurt for soccer. Anyone, anyone claim migraine yet? Just seeing stars out here, bro. I'm a migraine.

I've a migraine for soccer. Yeah, I've, uh, yeah, I just, I'm just tired. I just go sleep for a little bit. Uh, okay. Yeah. So people are just kind of, just a lot more banged up or whatever. I think Garrett Gibson got hurt. Well, one of the mini games we did this year, you know, last year we did,

send one person to ping pong, one person to spike ball, whatever. We did the 40-yard dash this year. Um, and now what I was worried about just like, an Achilles popping on like when you start. Essentially because it's like in the field. It's like grass, right? I will say we went to pale of high school to do some of our outdoor stuff. So, but anyway, yeah, everyone gets off the box.

I'm doing it, Calvin, Johnny Lambert, Brad Tippin, and we're running. And I'm like, all right, good, we made it. No one popped in Achilles, 10 yards, 20 yards, 30 yards, almost to the finish line. And on the corner my eye, Brad Tippen just like goes to the ground. I don't know if he got shot. I didn't know, I don't know what happened. And he like pulled or like strained his hamstring. Oh, dude.

Been there. That stinks. He's done it once before, and he's a physical therapist. So, like, immediately he knew exactly what happened. He's like, I'm done sprinting. I'm done sprinting. This is, I did this once before. I should have known better to do the 40-yard dash.

And it often is when you pull up, like, rather than like when you're running, right? Like, well, I know, he was sprinting. Because I was asking about that. I was like, how does that even work? And he kind of explained it to me. You're in our hamstring, like, elongates. And it's elongated right when it hits the ground. And so for some people, I was just like, I've just never had an injury sprinting.

But you do see it in football all the time. people just like collapse or just like go to the ground, you know, slowly because they popped their hamstring. So I pop that was kind of scary. I happened to me at the K7 slip and slide one time. And it stunk. Ah, and you just slide all the way down. A thousand percent because that's what happened.

I was running, running, running, running, running and getting ready to like stop to like slide and slide. Or maybe I was diving forward. This is a massive slip and slide. I mean, it is like, it's like everything you would want a slip and slide to be. It's like probably close to, you know, No, I don't know, not a full football field, but it's big and it's downhead. Wow.

That's amazing. So if you were to pull cams drink at the top, and then you get to a big puddle at the end, like a big puddle. Oh, yeah. Quick side. Like, Brad, get up. So the next person is trying to go. Like, okay, dude. Yeah.

We, uh, I think this is one day, like, on changeover day, so no camper. So it's like, just like, just staff. Like, that's, you guys from her up to the upside and just like, get after. it, so we're bringing some dish soap up there with us. We're going as fast as we can. And there's this one technique, because typically friction is bad. So you want the least amount of skin touching the mat as possible to go as fast as possible. So there was a technique where really only your stomach would be on it. Oh, yeah, yeah. Your head would be up and you would be holding your feet behind you. I can picture it. Yeah. I forgot what we called this method. But so basically just your waistline is

kind of all that's touching. Kind of like a turtle. Yeah, kind of a turtle. Yeah. I guess turtle will be on the back, but yeah. And then, you know, what happens is there is just a pool of stagnant water waiting for you at the bottom. Yeah. Never really been a huge deal. Buddy of mine, Joe Gilliland, maybe I shouldn't have said his full name. Now that I'm thinking about what the story is. Buddy of mine, Schmo Schmilla-Land.

It's all good. End up becoming our manager for mood swings. We kind of get to reconnect later in life. But anyway, he goes down there and his waistline is not the first to hit the water, but just below. the waistline is what kind of like takes the impact. And I'm not going to say exactly what happened, but he did, he had to be rushed to the emergency room and he was given the nickname, Twist and Shout. No way.

Whoa. Twist and shout. What's up, buddy? How are you walking? Just on a separate note, you know how like sometimes you have a bag of bread and you just, bag of marbles? You just kind of like twist it. Just like, because you don't have the twisty tie, you just twist it up.

That's just a random thought I had, you know? Unrelated note. Uh-huh. Yeah. Just like a random thought you have. Let me think of an unrelated note really quickly. Do you ever like, do you ever just like, like, you don't need like a whole suitcase, but you're just like, I'm just going to bring my pillowcase and I'm just going to put a few things in there.

And I'm just going to like twist it up so that I can make sure that I could just hold it better and just like throw it over. Like gunny sack it. Unrelated note. Yeah. How weird would it feel? If you got to your bed last night, or tonight, and my pillow is in your pillow case, and your pillow is in my pillowcase. Boy, you're just swips now.

Swapped like that. Just switching? Yeah. Unrelatedly, wouldn't that be funny? Boy, that would be, that'd be wild. Yeah. Joe went on to have two beautiful kids. Oh, really? Yeah.

Hearn and Nia. I don't know. Yeah, okay. So hamstring injuries. So that's Brad Tippin. the 40-yard dash. Hey, did you win? No, I don't think you won. I think- No, Calvin. It was a race for a second. Calvin won first. Calvin's stacking the deck a little bit here. Let's play soccer. Let's do 40-yard dash. Well, I had to kind of negotiate soccer in

to get swimming in the Arctic pool out. You won that battle. And when I told my team that, they were like on their knees, like praising me. It was getting sacrilegious when I said, hey, I got us out of swimming. My sons, my sons. Kiss the ring. Yeah, that's good. Peter actually did kind of collapse and like hug me. It's like, thank you. So you're saying even, even without the 100 meter swimming dash, people are still dying out there. Yeah. That's probably a good lesson to Calvin and Gunner, aka the psychopaths of the group to kind of chill out a little bit. They're not psychopaths. They're just in really good shape. And so I think they're in really good shape. Everyone else will be fine. Or like, it's just mind over matter. It's like, there's a little

bit of matter in there, bro. A little bit of matter. But yeah, it was. really fun, but it was just jam-pack, just more, more high-intensity stuff this year. So I think we learned, like, we saw, I had a blast this year, but next year, it's like, I'm thinking, let's put it up into two days and let's do, there's one idea that Gunner threw out. He's like, what if next year there's two events, football and fishing? That's it. That's kind of fun. You have to draft a team for only football and fishing. It's like, it's like, it's more of like a social thing. And anyway, I think we'll end up doing some sort of, you know, me in the middle somewhere. I think you'd be a strong football and fisherman.

Not knowing you, but knowing you grew up with a pond. Surely you have some fishing experience. Yeah, I mean, it's been a long time, but we never... It doesn't leave you, though. It doesn't leave you. We never fished that much on our pond, but we used to have a bass boat and me and my dad would go out to Palm to Terre Lake all the time. See, if you have a bass boat, yeah, that's half the battle.

And whatever you're imagining, it's worth 10 grand less than what you're imagining. It's not a brand you've heard of before. Yeah. It's called, yeah, scooting on the water. Yeah. Motorsports. For every Iron Man, for every Tony Stark that made Iron Man in a cave, there's another guy who you don't hear about, who, like, made his own thing in a cave.

We had this boat that was made in a cave. And his famous line is, no, it'll run. It'll run. It should run. Yeah. No, it's just fine. No, the trolling motor still works fine. That's the slogan.

Give it a nice trim. That's all I got. But I'm trying to think what I'm, else. It was just, I think what else funny happened. One thing that I implemented into this year, one of the mini games was putt pass and kick, time trials. That was my favorite thing of the day. Okay. And we weren't even good at it. I had fun just watching other people excel at this, because we're all average athletes, I've been pretty much everything. But like all three of these other teams, they're going from goal line, you know, punting, one guy catching it and throwing it, one guy,

getting the hold down and kicking a successful field goal in like nine seconds. Oh, it's like a, it's like a, as fast as you could pop past a kick for your team. Oh, that's cool. It was really fun to watch. It was like, yeah, you're covering the whole field in eight, nine seconds, not our team, but all the other teams were doing a really good job. I was like, this is pretty sweet. So the strategy, we're not that good at this. The strategy was not just boot the heck out of the punt. The strategy was kick it to your teammate, basically. Yeah, you don't want it dribbling on the ground. Like, you need him to catch it. I'll tell you, underdog, one-legged AJ kind of found a little hack. He would like just line drive the punt. Okay. So if you can, if you know how to line drive a punt, it was great. Because hit and Harrison

getting it in two seconds and he's firing. Harry's got an arm. There was one time Nick Hagamon was already, I'm giving so many details of things most people don't care about, he was already on a knee waiting to hold the ball. And Harrison just puts it right in his chest. That was beautiful. Yeah. That was awesome. It is one of the most satisfying things in the world when someone just

perfect, like in baseball, when they just like the outfielder, yeah, just right there to the catcher. Just gets them out, whatever. So that was really fun. Soccer, a lot of people complained about soccer because they weren't that good at it. And honestly, it was way more physically demanding than I think we thought it was going to be.

But don't say that out loud. I thought it was kind of fun just to be, it was something weirdly humbling about it. I was like, you know what? This is good. I am so bad at this. I'm unable to help my team. I'm trying my best to play defense. But this is nice.

Let's see some other people. Let's see their skills. Garrett Gibson did a move on me. I don't know how to describe it. I was like, what was the basketball equivalent of what you did to me? That was unbelievable, dude. It was kind of fun to see the skill that these guys have. in soccer.

Yeah. Calvin and Garrett's people. Yeah, you felt like it was very, it wasn't just like, oh, they're, they're smoother with it. It was like, no, no, no. They're like way. Yeah, these guys are different breeds. Really?

It's very top heavy, though. It's like there's four guys who really know what they're doing. And then there's the rest of us. Anybody have like a lucky awesome shot or anything like that? Oh, yeah. Rust and doubt, I mean, we somehow came in third and soccer and had no business doing that. Russ and Dow had a couple lucky goals, you know. Was he on your team?

Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah, we had a blast. It was. Yeah, so we have to play the third place game for soccer. Is there anything less fun than that? And we're, the other team has Garrett Gibson and Brad Tip and they've got the soccer guys. We have no one.

And so we're like, hey, let's just do a shootout or something. We're trying to find any like a way to like not play a real game of soccer. And we were playing for five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes. The score is still one to one. We're like, all right, let's just do a penalty shootout then. That was so fun. One, because we were just like somehow scoring. Two, Gunner is taking very interesting approaches as the goalie.

He's just charging the guy shooting the PK. And Calvin's like, stop. No, you can't do that. You can't do that. Wait, Gunner and Calvin are the same team? Oh, no, no. Calvin is like, I'm just watching. I see.

Oh, yeah. What we wanted to do because you could just tell how bad we were is just me and Gunner one-on-one. Just everybody watched. Just one-on-one soccer, golden goal, first-person score. It could take a while, too. but oh, we just so bad. That's like an Oklahoma drill for soccer, basically. Yeah.

Put the ball in the middle and just whoever gets it first from their goals. It would have been pretty entertaining. We were both just liabilities. But it was fun. It was humbling and, and humbling in a way, Rachel and I always talk about this. You ever notice like someone wins an Oscar and they're like, this is just so humbling? Rachel and I always like, are they using that correctly? Like, I don't understand.

I really understand what that means to like be told you the best at something and then say it's humbling. Like, I feel like it's the opposite right now. I've had that same thought. I was like, yeah, I don't get it. Like soccer about humbling because I was like the worst dad. I was like, this is great. Like, I'll be fine in the other sports. So this is humbling me as an athlete.

Yeah, explain how getting an award saying you're better than everybody else is making you feel less better than everybody else. Yeah. Like, yeah, you know the examples. They win MVP. They win anything. Like, this is so great. You know, I just shout out to my teammates. It's just very humbling to be able to accept this.

And maybe, I don't know. People always like, humbling is not thinking of, thinking less of your self. and give yourself less. So maybe it's like that. I think they want to say like... It's humbling. Like it's not really about me. It's about so many other people,

but I'm the one getting this award kind of thing. I think they're really thankful. I think they're really grateful. But they're saying humbling is my theory. Yeah. I think next time, if you ever get an Oscar, just be like,

this shows to me that I'm the best. I'm going to be humble later. This is not humbling right now. I'm very thankful. I'm very grateful to you. I'm not humbled. Maybe just maybe just go on a quick rant about like, people always say they're humbled.

Do not say that tonight. Show that you're the best. Brad Pitt, you've said you're humbled. Yeah. Jennifer Harrison, you've said you're humble. Yeah. Jennifer is. Who are you?

You've said you're humble. What's your name? That's good. So, but it was humbling for you to play these sports. To play soccer. Yeah, it was humbling. But I'm trying to think anything else. It was fun.

My team kind of ended up dominating. We kind of won all the afternoon sports and we weren't even close. You had a basketball player and you went to a basketball gym. That helps. Yeah. I'll tell you what we were most dominant in was dodgeball. I was like, I don't know if we could repeat this. Dodgeball just feels so random.

It does. But we won every single game, you know, every pool play game, every bracket game. We just kept winning dodge balls. Like, I don't even know the skill set. I mean, I guess dodging. It'd be pretty fun to get pretty into dodgeball and like start having strategy and plays and stuff. Like, you know, like decoy around back and then you got two guys flanking, you know, like something like that.

But I don't think anybody's ever doing that for the most part. Yeah. This was kind of funny. So dodgeball is our very last event. and every time we'd go up against a team, we'd get ready to start. Three, two, oh, wait, actually, you guys have to sit one, we're down to four.

That happened every single year. I'd be like, where is everybody? And everyone's down a man by the end of the day. We're like, oh, we got to sit somebody again. Sorry, we're so healthy. People, yeah. We were the only team with five people's stormy. You never lost a troop.

Never lost a troop. Maybe that's how we won. It helps, probably. Yeah, I'm trying to think what else. I mean, people are just died. I mean, like, Peter. I saw text about Peter. Like, how's Peter do it?

Is Peter okay? Crazy alive. Peter was the MVP. That's something I want to do next year. He was on my team. Okay. Is I want to do more things that involve like tradition. Yeah.

Like I want to give maybe there's like a trophy that, you know, the winning team gets for the year and it goes back next year. There's an MVP that gets a green jacket or something like that. Like I would have loved to give him Peter that he was our quarterback. He was our goal. He just did such a good job. He's the oldest guy there. And I mean, he pretty much, we only played forward for basketball. So Peter just like sat out most of basketball.

And basketball is finally over. And he's like on the ground on the other side of the gym. And someone's coming to me like, wow, Peter went pretty hard in basketball. I was like, what if I told you he didn't really play? He's just dying. Peter is amazing, dude. He's one of my favorite, like, he tries to be funny sometimes. But sometimes it's just like he's whole like he's one of the funniest people I know that's not always trying to be funny.

If that makes sense, like, like he is, he is a skinny person. but man does he like sometimes just have fat guy tendencies. I'm just like, why are you still tired three hours later from this, dude? We finally got back to the house. He took a shower. He comes back down the stairs with a comforter on. I mean,

we're all like still very hot and like, I don't know, we're all in T-shirt shorts. He's got a comforter on and just lays on the couch and just watches March Madness. At one point, he bribed someone to go get him a burger. See?

Like, they brought him a burger. And then a different guy was his ketchup up a mustard guy. And then he fell asleep right there in that comforter. Amazing. Yeah. Amazing.

Just, yeah, there's, there's, he's, he's one of one kind of guy. You know, just, there's so many good memories just of him just being like that. Like, just, you never know with Peter. Yeah. Also, he could, like, he's also the guy that's like, you know, almost on his deathbed. He'll be like, I can do it. I'll play. I do one more.

Yeah, yeah, no problem. You know, like, he's never fully healthy, it feels like. No, never. So. But it was just great. just had just had a blast and that's awesome it was fun time did when tate said the thing about the cars did anybody say yeah i had my keys in my car he only told there was only like three of us around when he told me so i don't know okay i don't know if it worked he told me he thought about

trying to get an inside man that's i i told him don't do that what do you think was that a bad idea i probably would have gone along with it calvin said he's like oh if you would ask me no i would I would have like not helped. Yeah, Calvin, he's like, we could do Calvin. I was like, I don't think so, dude. I think Calvin, if anybody, he's going to like reverse it back on us. Calvin's the kind of guy. I think that's like, yeah, I think that's exactly what Calvin would have done.

Yeah, I was like, no, I think that's risky. I think no matter what, eventually some, like the mole, because he's like, we got to get a mole. I was like, eventually they would let it slip or they would say something like, hey, guys, I know where all the cars are. Because Tate has a, he's got a property like two miles down. Yeah. So that's the idea was like, he was just going to park there. Yeah.

I was like, they're going to tell them or else people are going to like file police reports or something about these stolen. I don't know what would have happened. But like that is kind of funny. Anyway, yeah, I can be like, yeah, this, um, this, you know, whatever car, you can go in that one. And they mean, while there's like a raccoon in there waiting on. Yeah, exactly. Gotcha. Yeah, we, yeah, we, we, we caught a raccoon.

It's rabid, by the way. AJ had to go get shots. But, uh, yeah, I said, I did say, there was one person that. I would have been okay with being in the mole, and it was Isaac, but he was not there. He was not there. I was like,

I would trust Isaac. That's the only person out of all the people that I would like fully, I was like, Peter would have been my second probably. Like, because Peter would have done a really good job, like getting the,

getting the keys, I think. But I don't think anybody else. I don't trust you. And Peter loves a good prank. The whole morning, the first morning, we're all about to go play soccer

first time. Garrett Gibson's going like, dude, I guess only brought one cleat. How dumb am I? I brought one cleat. I mean, he's going around. And when we see my cleat, you know,

and Peter Ritz is gone for five, ten minutes. He whispers me, he goes, I took his cleat. Got him. And then when Garrett wasn't looking, he put it back in his bag. And so we all just got to watch Garrett go sit down. And like no one's like, he's outside. We're inside.

It was beautiful. It's like a zoo exhibit. When the tiger gets over, like, oh, he's going. He's going. He's going. And then Garrett just like holding two cleat, just looking like this.

How did I not see? Just like, Yeah, kind of like, am I crazy? You were both here at the same time? Gosh, that's annoying. He's probably sleep deprived. He's just had a baby, you know. So he's probably sleep deprived, not.

He's like, I swear I look here five times. That's pretty good. Okay, ready for part two. Act two. All right. So as you remember, it's about 5 p.m. at this point. I'm looking out at this idyllic, you know, setting. All my kids are happy.

We're having fun. I'm just getting to chill with my wife, beautiful day. Yeah, there's a little bit of water, you know. pooling up in the basement, but we're going to be fine. It's all good. Got Jose on the phone or got Jose called. Jose shows up. I like Jose.

He's probably 55, 60 year old Mexican dude. Okay. Speaks English like a savant. Okay. Yeah, could have been an English teacher. Like, why weren't we speaking English the whole time, bro? Anyway, Jose's wife is in the car. No problem.

Okay. I think they're just on like a little Saturday, you know, just doing a few He's like, yeah, we're going to go get some groceries after this. Okay, great. So yeah, it's just down here. I'll show you. And he's looking around downstairs. I don't know enough about plumbing.

I've learned a lot since. I'll say that. But basically there's like the main lines, what they call it, the main stack. Like that's where everything flows into and flows out of your house and goes and connects to all the other, you know, city sewer and all that stuff. And he's like, I don't know where the main line is. Do you know where it is? I was like, I don't.

you know, of course, there's possibilities it's behind a wall or whatever. I always feel bad when they ask you a question about your house and you don't know. Yeah. You know where shut off valve is? Yeah. What?

You can just like, it's like a master switch. Yeah. That is a good one to know for the future. Yeah. I don't know. I have Alexa. Maybe is that. Would that help?

You think it's set up to that? So anyway, he's like, I don't know where it is. So the, the area that it's like, backed up just a little bit is this floor drain in the basement. So every basement will have a floor drain that like if you can imagine your AC or your heater or your water heater. It runs a little tube out to it. Yeah, yeah. Runs a little tube out to this floor drain and then that drains from there into the rest of your main stack area. Nothing wrong. Everybody drains. Everybody drains.

Everybody drains. Everybody drains. Everybody drains. Everybody drain. Everybody drain. And so it's right down in my basement right next to our little half bath that has a toilet. And so he's like, well, I can't really figure out exactly how to get in there. I'm just going to take off the toilet and just snake from the toilet. Like, okay, fine, you know. And so at this point in the night, either right before he gets there or right after, Catherine has a decision to cut Bow's hair, which is like probably top three least favorite things for her to do. She just gets stressed.

She hates it. She just, she is so unsure of herself that I have to like sit there. Like she's like, I need you to sit here. I'm going to ask you. And every time I'm like, I don't, I don't know more than you. And so we pull up the same video every single time she does it. And I'm just like, look at the video. This is what the video.

It's like, I know what the video does. I've watched the video 20 times. And I just don't. You guys are torturing yourselves. And yeah, she's like, you know, because it's, haircuts can get expensive and whatever. Boys need haircuts more often. Did you get haircuts growing up from your parents?

Yeah. Yeah. And so Catherine's doing fine. Just got one. Hey, it looks great, timing. Thank you, dude. Maria did a good job. Thank you.

I don't think she probably did it. That'd be impressive if she did that. Yeah. It's Rosie's birthday. You got to get a new haircut for it. It's Rosie's birthday. Yeah, the next day. And Catherine, if you recall, last year,

cut his hair on Good Friday, like afternoon right before we were supposed to go to church. And she was like, that was a bad idea. I don't know why. She's so stressed. She's like, if it looks bad, it's going to look bad for Easter. You know, all this stuff.

So she's like, this year, I'm doing it a week before. A week before, good Friday. So she's already like just higher strung. It's starting to be like 6.6.15 p.m., which is like dinner time, obviously, but also just when kids start unraveling. So there, there's all of a sudden kind of some whining, some crying. And, you know, she's, you know, she's stressed. I'm trying to, like, patrol Catherine, patrol the kids, think about dinner a little bit alongside Catherine, uh, and handle Jose downstairs. And so, uh, eventually like, Jose comes up. He's like, uh, excuse me, sir. I was like, yes. He's like, do you have a stump pump downstairs? I was like, uh, yeah, yeah.

do. He's like, can you come show me where it is? I was like, yeah, sure. And so I go downstairs with him. And this, this is when my, when my life changed forever. It was less idyllic. It was not quite idyllic. All of a sudden, yeah. So we've seen Titanic, right? Uh, where the, where you see the water just all of a sudden, like, start coming up. I go downstairs, dude. And I'm not joking. And I'm sorry for people that are not in a good state to listen to this. The darkest brownest water you've ever seen is absolutely flowing out of this toilet tray. Like, and just, or toilet hole and going all over my basement. No way.

And I'm like, I, this is the second time in a couple of weeks that I've yelled at a Mexican guy. I just go, what do you do, man? I just started freaking out. Yeah. Because it's going everywhere. It's like it's going all over, you know, this basement that I renovated for a month, you know, it's going, it's going all over that, like, front room. And then we have, like, this concrete.

It's just getting, and I just yell, Catherine, I need a towel. And I asked for one towel. And in hindsight, I was like, what? Catherine napkin. Towel! Give me a Kleenex, Catherine. She throws one, you know, old beach towel down. I try to, like, stop it from, like, going into this, like, are we called our tornado

room, the concrete. I mean, it is just going. and, you know, obviously, disgusting, Disgusting, Mount Vesuvius is kind of what I'm saying. It's Pompeii down there. What you do, man? Yeah. That's why I kept saying, what did you do?

Oh, and I think I just go, oh my gosh. What's the Spanish version of what you do, man? Kpa's so, man. What happened? Oh! And he's like, I don't know, I don't know. And at this point, like, he has a snake, and the snake is already a hundred feet.

Like, he just kept running it towards, like, he's thinking, like, it's clogging. it's clogged. It's got all this pressure. But if we just keep pushing it out, it'll eventually like slow down and stop. And so he's continuing to run the snake 100 feet that way. And it's still after it gets all the way to the end, it's not stopping. And so then he has to like bring out the snake, which takes a long time. It's 100 feet long. And so in the meantime, we're just helpless. We're just sitting there like, what are we doing? Like there's nothing. I'm trying to like lift things off off the floor and like, you know, just trying to get all our belongings that I can.

away from this sue, like just absolute sue, dude, just tons of sue. And so, and just like the whole time, you're like, whoa,

my gosh, oh, this is terrible. What did, you know, I'm, you know, and he's like,

I don't know, I put it 100 feet. It's 100 feet. It's still, still coming. And, uh, and finally,

like he goes and runs out to his truck. Luckily, he has like a cap, I guess, like a, like a, like a, like a,

something to like, plug, plug that hole. I mean, but the damage. it's done. And is this, is this smelling bad?

Yeah, dude. I would imagine, yeah. There's about six months worth of the crap coming out. Well, that's what,

that's, sorry for everyone that's list of this. Don't, don't listen while you're, while you're eating. Or, or don't be that kind of person.

Cheers. Let's hear the rest of the story, this dude, you know, he goes, I mean, that's so far out, that's not even,

that's not even your sewage. That's like from the city. Oh, okay. That makes it way worse. He's like you smell that? that's your neighbors. You know that podcaster you talking to me about? That is his third.

That is his shit. I'm just kidding. He didn't say, I'm sorry. I don't know if we should edit that out of time it or what, but it was too easy. So anyway, I mean, and so at this point, this guy is literally just like shot backing up, you know, five gallons at a time, these buckets. walking them outside and like dumping them down into the sewer and just trying to clean it up. And so then it's like, all right, we got to figure out what to do. I mean, oh, I bet that stinks.

Literally was awful. Just just terrible. And so Catherine's like, all right, we're going to take, you know, luckily we have parents in town. So we, you know, my parents are like, yeah, come stay with us. So Catherine, I mean, is this, this is Friday? Friday night. No, Saturday night. Saturday night.

Gotcha. After, yeah, after a great time. You know, what's crazy is. is in my head, I'm like, what if I was in Paola? Catherine texts me, hey, FYI, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, okay, great. I just found a, I found a guy who's going to come by and he should fix it and it should take him like 30 minutes and she calls.

She's like, br-h. You know, like, just freak it out. What you do, man? Anyway, so we get it, I mean, cleaned up is not the right term. We get it more like removed, extract the water, whatever. I mean, but it's still just, it's a, it's a, it's, a crime scene down there, dude. It's wild. And so, at this point, I believe it was

not until the next day that I called somebody to come clean it up. And that is where we'll leave the story. I'll come back to it. Jeez. All right. You know, it's funny. During Paola, someone's like, Brad couldn't do it this year. What's Brad up to? And I go, you know, I actually don't know. Boy, did I not know. I text them.

Hey man, missing you. Oh, yeah. Hope you're having a good weekend. All righty. Hey. Hey, hey. Can I be honest? I wear my cozier socks all the time.

Can I also be honest? They say cozy on one sock or earth on the other and I make sure it's in the right order. Yeah, you never go double cozy? Every once in a while I actually get two earths and I get a little uncomfortable. I'm like, I got to find my cozy. So if you guys don't know, we're sponsored. by Cozy Earth, and we love them. Yeah.

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I mean, and then that was like four days ago. And then last night, he texted me again at 10 p.m. and said these cozy earth sheets are unreal. Yeah, he's like, unsolicited. Like, you're not like, hey, can you please give me? I just don't know where. The content for the ads. He's like just sending you these things.

I said, next step, we got to get you some cozy earth joggers and we got to get Ashley some Cozy Earth PJs. Yes. And he said, what's discount code? Yes. So he's all over it. GRKC. Yeah.

So go to Cozy Earth.com. Check them out today. Do you guys want to see a picture? Yeah. Jake. Tim and does. I do. I think I'll be able to smell it once I see it.

I'll just send it to both of you, Jake. Feel free to look at it when you want to. I'll send you a picture of that night. We'll just preview the... Well, I'll send you a before, and then a little... Anyway. A little after. A little after shot.

Gosh, I think I only want to see the after. Well, before is like what the puddle was before. Oh, just the puddle. I think... Let me see what this first picture is. No, that first one that I'm sending you is the after, after the guy cleaned it the first time. Anyway.

So yeah, what's been going on with you, man? Let me look at this real quick. Whoa, gosh. I clicked off that pretty quickly. That is really dark. Dang. Yeah. Yeah.

I think, yeah. It might have been yours, bro. That looks so familiar, dude. We might have shared it, bro. Well, I think over time it probably gets darker, is my guess. I guess. Like, it's not new. It's not fair.

rat. There was no solid, whatever, I don't have to get it to it. Anyway, what's going on? Hey, Facebook was wild. Slash just responses. Yes. Once again, I have no notes about this. We'll see where it goes. No. Should you just go ahead and just relieve everyone's worrying? All right. I thought about, can I just interrupt you with that? I thought about starting this episode like, hey, we may, you know, April Fools. We titled one of the, you know, an episode last week. something and we should probably come clean. I haven't actually officially sold the house. You know, something like that, but I was like, I don't think people would, like, I think the emotional roller coaster that would go on for people if I started the episode like that.

Yeah. Dude, it's funny. I had an idea coming to me yesterday. You know in the office when Michael Scott's like, if I was broke, would I do this? And he just wads of a $1 bill. And then, no, it's a, yeah, and but it's a $100 bill or something, but then he just like puts it back his pocket. Yeah. He doesn't do anything with it. I had the idea when all the pandemonium was going on to do, if I was moving to Phoenix, would I do this? And I was just going to like throw my pickleball paddle in the yard. Would I be doing that if I was moving to Phoenix? Prove it. Yeah. And just other things like, or put it in a put in a suitcase, but also, but put the suitcase back in your closet. Um, like just I have this giant

depths or just throwing weird things away in it that I could obviously just go back and get. would I be doing this if I was moving to Phoenix? Yeah, or like, or like placing it in the dumpster and then like kind of like panning off, but just like having enough in the shot still to like show that you put it, like took it back. You didn't actually drop it in. Yeah, it's like I could do so many things. I'm like, if I wasn't moving to Phoenix, would I be doing this? I was like, I have people can't handle more.

So here's the deal. I wanted to announce this as soon as possible. And just the way the correct opinion shook out. The earliest we could do it was, you know, two weeks ago, but that wouldn't come out April 1st. I was like, dang, that is too bad. But I would rather announce it sooner and just hopefully I can give enough details where people believe me. Yeah.

And I don't want to announce it on Ghostrunners two days before, correct opinions. Like, I want everyone to find out at the same time. So, I've learned my lesson. I will never, ever do that again. But it's not an April Fool's joke. I mean, I talked for 20 minutes about it last week. Houses I toured and I don't know. Time in.

True or false? One percent of you yesterday was like, did Jake fool me? I had it. I was like, it's like, I was like, I know it's, I mean, what an elaborate, whatever. Like, I had the thought of like, I know that Jake was seriously thinking about it. But what if, what if he did this whole thing on April 1st? And it was like, yeah, dude, I did it. You know, like, oh yeah.

Because we even had the conversation when we recorded last week of like, like, like, it's going to come on April 1st. I was like, we could do it Monday. And you're like, well, I want to do it. You know, and in my head, I was like, is that, is that? Dude. Yeah. Like, I was like, I don't, I don't, I didn't, I mean, literally like, maybe 0.1%. But there was like, yeah, a tiny tinge of, don't blame me. Or you're like, he could. That would be the best joke ever. Like, yeah, because I don't know if you saw Isaac and I both put on the Facebook group, like, that we were like, yeah, huh. Yeah. Got us too. Yeah. He made us move out of our house.

Yeah. Yeah. That's so good. Yeah, but it was just like, because I mean, yeah, we talked about it. It was like, oh, it's going to come out of neighbor first, but like, you know, yeah, it's like, you're right. We talked about it for so long. We talked about, okay, we can reveal this now.

Like, yeah, things make sense. Once again was like, this is amazing, dude. Well, he needed a new roof anyway. It was leaking through. Him and Rachel did go to Phoenix. Well, but that's a fun spring break. They know people. Yeah.

They're friends there. Yeah. Chaos started. serious is like, let me get ahead of this. Let me make a video right now in front of the dumpster. If you were like, I mean, a dumpster's where you put shingles. Like, not five days later. They take the dumpster. They took it away, run away. They have another job to do. They don't have. Yeah. Plentiful dumpsters. It was wild, though. I couldn't believe. Yeah, what was I going to say?

We talked about, yeah, some people might not believe it, but most, I feel like most people were like, no. Obviously not, though. Yeah. I do apologize for announcing on April 1st. Pretty funny. But, yeah, it's for real happening. Yeah, what would have funny if this was a prank? Because there's been a lot of, like, Kyle, the guy who lives there, is so desperate

trying to get Tyman. Okay. Because he loves timing and looks how good of a worker he is. So, I mean, Kyle, like, will just go grab time. Like, how much money? Name your pride. Like, how much you need? Yeah.

And if that was all fake, then that was good that Kyle was also. Right, yeah. Yeah, you got Kyle too. Yeah. What if, dude. So you're one of, officially say it's I'm not

I mean this is all going on like Scott is in Phoenix looking at houses while everyone is like this isn't true Scott is too yeah really okay yeah him and Sam and Palmer are down there all week okay just going along with the joke I was going to say is he then like committed or is it like he's like he yeah

he believes it too that's yeah yeah yeah I got Scott well that's easy to get Scott yeah turkey gobbler of course we got Scott so is Scott like committed now too Or is it like we're going to see what's happening? I think they're feeling it out. Okay.

Okay. Yeah. I think Sam had never been to Phoenix. So he's like, let's take her down there. Let's ever see it. Yeah. So she thinks. And anyway,

so they're figuring it out. But yeah. Sorry about the pandemonium that April 1st caused. And I texted you yesterday. I was like, I would just probably stop like looking at comments for a while, man. Yeah. That was actually good advice.

There's never been anything that's happened on the internet where I felt like I needed to log off until yesterday. Really? No, actually, I need to like not get on Facebook. Really? Yeah. Because I see comments to people are like, there's just no, there's, it makes no logical sense to go to Phoenix. I'm like, it's killing me. Yeah. I promise I've thought this too. There's been so much work put into this.

You're like the most logical person. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I could tell you exactly why I took the route I took to everywhere I've ever driven. You know, it's like, a little too logical. But he's just probably just hoping. I just wish you would have thought it, thought about it before. we decided to. Yeah.

You know. But it's all real. It's wild, bro. Rachel, are she okay? I mean, I think we both here some disappointment,

you know, some things, but overall, yeah. No, it was fine. You know, in the end,

I'm like, I think, like, this is the, it's all a good thing. This is the repercussions of having an extremely loyal audience.

Yeah. It's a testament to what we've built. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. People aren't.

I haven't seen one person cry about jean shorts. Nobody's ever come up to me. Like, we just need more millennial versus Gen Z stuff. Right? Yeah, I think I just expected less sad next because I was like, nothing is changing with the podcast. We're still going to do it. You know what's hilarious, dude?

Is like, I don't think this was even subconscious. I truly just, I laughed about this in my head when I read this email. and I wrote down to my podcast notes for this week. But I got an email from Google Fiber, you know, because I'm a Google Fiber customer. And it was like, hey, FYI, Google Fiber was just purchased by Google Fiber is an internet provider. Sorry. Yeah. Google Fiber was just purchased by this company. We just want to let you know nothing, absolutely nothing has changed.

You're still going to have the same price as the same great fast internet, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I just wasted three minutes of my time reading this email. And so I wrote in my notes like, why do people even tell us? If nothing has changed, then why do people make a big deal about it? I should have not said anything. What's hilarious is like, is like you basically, like, I heard you like, or I saw so many times you're like, nothing is changing. Everything's the same.

We're still doing this. Nothing about your weekly rhythms is being thrown off. It just cracked me up because I was like, I was just annoyed with somebody basically being like, hey, sending you an email to let you know all this stuff, but nothing is changing. So why are you like, you know? I should have just one day just been. Like, I'm location in Phoenix.

Oh, awesome, dude. Yeah, how's it going? It's good, man. Yeah, we're just unpacked. We got a house here. Anyway, I just, I thought it was so funny. That's a funny parallel. And yeah, it truly, like, and I wrote that down five days ago.

I bet maybe the same day that we recorded, but not like in my head thinking like any, any connection to that. Yeah. You're like, yeah, I don't care who you're owned by. As long as I get my internet, I'm fine. Yeah. I do not mind at all. like what's changing absolutely nothing

and then like write in another two paragraphs I'm like okay why do I care I'm not gonna read this why do you even send this maybe and maybe it's a legal thing because every once in a while you get emails are like our policies our updates have changed updates to our legal policy of this

I'm like I don't care a ring doorbell legal policy yeah no one's reading that but anyway it's so yeah nothing's changed you know it's well things have changed but not changed, right? Yeah, it's just another era. It's like if we're like, hey, we got this kid on,

he's 17 years old, he's homeschool kid, he sings really well, but nothing's gonna change about the podcast. It's like, or you can be like, or things are gonna change for better. Like, you know, like, just a pivot, man. So anyway, just cracked me up. Yeah, that's a funny parallel, but no, it's all still.

Yeah, moving along, we're gonna, yeah, I got the dumpster that I got to throw stuff away in. Oh, that brings me to our game today. Oh, okay. I told Brad about this. It's time for, time I do the jingle, dibs or trash. Dibs or trash. Can you guess which one? Correct. So, everyone knows that this game is played.

Not the jingle singer, but. I will say an item that I no longer need because I am moving to Phoenix. Phoenix. Yeah, aka Reefixt. We have. For the most part, yeah, I'm having fun. Like, I'm throwing away everything. You know, it feels good. I went through that closet.

You know, I'm going through every room and the house just throwing stuff away. And for most part, it's pretty easy. It's like, this is definitely trash. There was some things in the garage where I thought, hmm. I don't know. Yeah.

So am I trying to pawn some things off on you? No, I could easily throw in the dumpster. It's an opportunity to earn something. You have tons of room in the dumpster. The dumpsters got plenty of room. I told Isaac, come on over. Yeah. I told Dennis, hey, whatever you're dumping in those trash cans, go ahead, dumping in my dumpster.

I was looking in there. I was like, some room in there. So I might look around. Everybody's invited. Yeah. Anyway. I'm going to say an item. Okay.

And first person to say dibs gets it. But if you both say trash, I will throw in the trash. Okay. Okay. Okay. You understand time? Yes. Let's start small.

This is just an unopened. Wait, can I say? If you say dibs, you have to take it. Yeah. There's no, like, there's no. There's no, like, actually, now I look at this, like, you are committed to taking it and then you have to dispose of it. It's like, this better fit in my car. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Great. All right. We will start small then, because that's what they say. When you fill the jar up. Yep. That's what they say.

Big marbles first. Yeah, big marbles. And then the sand and the water. Okay. Yeah. So we'll start small. Okay. Pops of that.

Just a case of, like, a 12-pack of pompomous lecroy. Dips. Okay. I had you in mind for that one. Thanks, man. Good. I don't know why it's in our garage fridge. Okay.

I'm like, we're not really drinking this. Rachel doesn't like it. I don't know why we have. Yeah, we don't drink liqueurie. Really? You can have that if you want. Thank you. Next.

Just a small, just a bag of firewood. Dibs. I thought you might like that, too. We don't have a fire any more, fireplace anymore. Suck it, timing? Yeah. I remember.

One man's dibs. Yeah. Fire purse. Burn that by the end of the night. Little thing of firewood. The, I have two, this is for Bondi, two 32 gallon trash cans. Big divs, dude. Actually?

Yeah, time it! This is great. I could, yes, always use more trash bucket. Those things are not crazy expensive, but not cheap. Okay. Yeah. I don't need to move cross-country with my trash bins. Well, unless you're, you're not bringing a Bondi to Phoenix? Bondi

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And now we get into more just, like, realistic, seasonal thing. Uh, electric weed eater. They don't really have grass in Phoenix. I don't think I'll need that. I, this is like where it's like, my dad was here.

You might dibs it. I don't know. But you're trash. Yeah, you're not throwing it away. Dibs. Okay. Yeah, dives. Okay.

I don't know. I currently have, uh, somebody that mows my lawn, but not, not round for it. What electric meaning corded? It brings you to my next item. Wait, take that. Electric weed eater battery. Okay. Dibs.

All right. I'll take that one. What brand are we got there? It's green. Ego or Ryobi maybe? I think ego. Okay. No, I don't have any of those.

Fun. Okay. No, none of those in the arsenal. Good. Yeah. If it ends up just sitting in your garage. I'll ask Jesse. And he might dibs it from you.

If you don't use it. He dips. For a price. All right, we've got a large snow shovel. Dips! Time! I don't know, dude. This is tough.

Yeah, I'm such a non-homeowner. I don't think I'll need a big snow shovel in Phoenix. You never know. Follow up. Regular shovel. Are you going to do anything? This is tough. I don't know, dude, because it's like, this is just, if my dad doesn't want this, it's just going to fill up our garage more.

You don't need it. Yeah. Can you give me a little more information about this regular shovel? How long is just a run-in-the-mill, ace hardware? Three foot, six foot. Stanley Yelnats, five to six foot long, just standard shovel.

Yeah, dibs. You're going on with a hall today, yeah, dude. All right, and then our last item, because I learned that I have two of them, a like a travel case for your golf clubs, like a golf travel bag.

Yeah, dips. All right. Right in the house. I've used one once. I had to borrow Scots. And so I was like, well, I ever need it again.

Okay. Big old D. I already got the travel bag. in the trash can, so you're set there. I thought those would kind of go together. Man, I should have been quicker on. I should have been quicker on my dibs. What would you have really wanted all those?

Maybe the weed eater in the little croix. All right. But we'll see what's in your trunk at the end of the day. Yeah. And I will let you know as I start to clear out more of the living areas if there's like any Airbnb things. I was like, hey, don't throw away like it like it's crazy when you think about what, I mean, Airbnb is just a house.

a furnished house. So it's like, yeah, I got to get in tables and lamps. Honestly, maybe something like these. Yeah. Would you want these in the airbus? Yeah. Or maybe for the future podcast studio that we have to figure out somehow. But yeah, yeah, I have tons of fake plants in my Airbnb. I'm saying once we're done with this, yeah, you should just take these. Stuff like this. I'm very, I'm going very minimalistic when it comes like, as I think through like, I would. Everything we don't keep, we have to pack up and ship. A hundred percent. You're going to. We don't need this. We don't need this. We don't, I don't need this. I can't pack a laptop

One of the best exercises in moving is like you realize like Man I got a lot of stuff Man I got a lot of stuff I don't really want You get rid of a lot of clothes every time you move That part's nice Yeah I helped family from our church move A couple months ago maybe

And there's a kid Yeah he's a young adult But he has lots of Legos in the basement And all of a sudden he was just trying to pawn him off Like to the point where I was like I'm taking advantage of this kid if I buy this thing. He's like, yeah, I'll sell it to you for like 50 bucks. And I'm like looking it up. I'm like that thing is $500.

Oh, wow. You know, like these completed like, you know, Star Wars, Starship, Lord of the Rings, X, Y, like all these things. I'm like, wow. And I, you could just tell he's like, I don't want to move this stuff. I want to, I don't want to worry about. I'm like, dude, I, I can't do that to you, you know. So I'm sorry to all the clothes I'm going to donate. And, you know, for two straight years, I gave away, uh, golf pole. maybe three years every time the chiefs won a game I would give a golf polo away and I still have like Probably 50 or 60 golf polos. I was like I shouldn't just give these to like goodwill or something I was like Gunner would it be would you want 40 new golf polos or is this like becoming trash?

And he was like no I'll take him. I'll give him out and like two days later he was like You think you ride a moped in Phoenix? I was like wait are we trading a moped for golf polos? And he's like no I got two of them really borrow it you or isaac that's pretty I was like oh Isaac will definitely I love that thing. Just got to get it there. Just got to get it there. I guess you can probably load that up on a U-Haul, though, if you're getting a U-Haul anyway.

I guess you can just drive it there. I get 60 miles to gallon on this hog. What's the actual number? I think you said 70. 70, yeah. I'm too hungry. I swallowed a Junebug. Oh, man.

That's been dibs or trash. I've been trying very, very lightly to find somebody to buy your house. I appreciate that. Someone else. Oh, Alex Dimchad. was like, hey, I'm out to dinner some of your area. Some of the details. Yeah.

Do you have, are you, can you be a buyer's agent? Can you make like money off this? Oh, great. I mean, I wouldn't, I'm not legally licensed to. Like, no, no, but you don't have to be. Like, you can just, it's like, this is like a finder's. Like, you can do. Like, they have, no, like, like, I almost, yeah, they call it broker a deal.

Whatever you want to call it. Like, I, it's like any, you can have anything in a contract. You can say, right. We want to buy this house, but we want you to leave this desk. They're like, all right. Or whatever. Like, people do it a lot with, we want to leave a refrigerator or we want the, we really like those curtains. Like I think Gunner just bought a house and he's like, we love the curtains.

And they're like, nope, curtains are going. He's like, curtains can't stay. Curtains are non-negotiable. No. Yeah, absolutely. So, yeah, I found, yeah, I've been trying. Because obviously it's like, I want good neighbors. That's what I really care about.

I was like, like, yeah. I don't want just like, you know, some, we can't have two serial killers on our street with Dennis. So, anyway. Yeah, that's fun. Hope they like it. I don't know. We'll see.

So, all right. You ready for another? I forgot. I'm ready. Stories. Sorry, it's not over. So as you remember, yeah, just crazy, crazy amounts of crap. just coming through our basement.

Cleaned it up. Kind of, you know. But it's still obviously the remnants down there. So I then go to chat GPT. I can't emphasize how good, how nice it is to have AI in this situation. Okay. Like there's plenty of times where I'm like,

I don't know if you really need AI. We could have, you know, survive with Google. This would have been so much longer of a process if I didn't have like, this is my specific situation. Yeah. What do I do? How do I talk to these people?

You know, whatever. and they were like, day. Chat, chat was like immediately get a remediation company over there right now. Mediation. Remediation, aka somebody that's going to make it better, like clean it all up.

Great. So I call this company, and I learn like these people are like 24-7 on call because it's emergencies a lot of times. All right. And so this people are like, yeah, we can come over tonight. This is on Sunday.

This is a Rosie's birthday. And so we're staying at my parents' house for Rosie's birthday. You know, whatever. we're just, Catherine had all these plans for Rosie's birthday and they all shifted. She said, oh, I told her I'd make her muffins.

We don't have muffins. You know, whatever. Rosie didn't care. She loved the whole day. She kept saying, though, it was cute.

She just turned four. I was like, Rosie, you're four years old. She's like, uh, I'm not, I'm not four yet because I haven't opened all my presents.

It's like, well, okay. You know, I kind of went along with it for a while. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. And then the next day,

I was like, you're four. She's like, I am not for yet. I'm like, yes, you are. You got to, you got to, anyway. It was fun. That's so funny, she doesn't want to be four.

It's like a lot of times kids are like jumping ahead a little bit. I know. I'm three and three quarters. Because parents, a classic parent move is like, no, you can't do that yet. When you're four, you can do that. Oh, yeah. Like, I remember, I think when Hattie turned five, she's like, we can finally watch Lion King. I was like, what?

You said we hadn't watched it until I was five. I was like, okay. All right, timing. We need to do an ad for Good Ranchers real fast, and we're going to do it with a little bit of a country twang. All right. So I want to, I'm going to make a little Johnny Cash style song for you,

and you're going to start singing to it. Okay. And it doesn't happen. We're going to do more information about cozy earth. All right, time. We need to do a more information. You're strumming the whole time you're talking.

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Don't worry about, you know, the promo code, GRKC for free protein for a year. Yeah, we'll talk about that later. We can talk about that. You are freed up to just like say. Let's just do the jingle part and then we'll add in like it's good ranchers.com. Anything else that delivered, tagline, GRCC once again, make sure we add that call to action. We'll do that later. So, okay.

Don't worry about the slogan either. Like the welcome to the table or meat madness, anything like that. Don't worry about that. We'll say that all that. There is a meat that exists. Oh, man. Is there anything else that I can say? It's made by Americans.

No, that was... Yeah, we already said that. Okay. Is there... What can I... Just meat. Just a ton of meat. All right.

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Thank you. And you said everything that needs to be said, I think. Yeah, so we don't even, is there anything else we need to add? Think jiz.gis, good ranchers.com. You get, yeah, free expedited. shipping. It comes right here door. You guys know the deal. So, pretty mean. Best meat. Anyway, so yeah, Rose's birthday's fun. We're at church.

We're having a good time. We go to spin pizza. Then that night is when the remediation company comes. And then I also have my plumber that I think I like more than this other plumber. More than I got Juan now. I've heard great things from Sean Troop actually told me about Juan. Shout out Sean. He's like, dude, this guy's amazing.

So Juan's over there. Remediation company's over there. And the remediation company just puts my mind at ease. He's like, Oh, and earlier that afternoon also just wonderful, huge blessing is I have sewage backup insurance on my home policy. Good job. And I remember very, very vaguely when we first bought our house, our insurance agent called me. He's like, hey, I would consider adding this. It's 50 bucks a year or whatever.

And I don't, it kind of was one of those things that went in one or year out the other. And I was probably like, okay, yeah, if you think it's worth it. Because like, as if this happens, like you're not covered. and man, am I so glad I was because this is just a very expensive fix and obviously really messy and so for them to be like, oh yeah, we'll know how to talk to the insurance company,

we'll know how to document all this stuff, we can do this. It was just like, it put my mind at, as easy as it can be for having... Remediated your mind. 100% dude. And so the plumber's like, I think we can fix this.

I have a way bigger snake. Careful. he's like, I can come out your first thing in the next morning. It's not the length that matters. Listen, it's really, it will only go down maybe 60 feet versus 100. But man, does that, is that thing have,

yeah, it'll get all the tree roots out. Yeah. You know. That's important. And are there tree roots down there? Well, that's often a common, like, thing that like, yeah, kills, yeah, it can. That's like a big thing for plumbing is, like,

the tree roots can go through the pipe and crack them and stuff. Strong. Crazy, dude. Water's crazy. Really, the whole, the whole sewage, like, I'm so glad that we live in a society that has, you know, a sewer system, but also, like, when it gets even, like, this inconvenience, it's like, that's crazy inconvenient.

It's, like, imagine if we didn't have any of this. Yeah. Shuttle stuff that's going on underneath us at all times. 100%. Yeah. All, yes, absolutely. So plumbers, like, I can come out tomorrow with my massive snake and, you know, get after this thing. and, but he's like, but when we open up this, you know, this plug, basically,

it's going to do the same thing it did yesterday. Oh, no way. Until, until it eventually, like, until we suck enough with this water out. God. And so he's like, he's like talking to the remediation guy because they're there at the same time. He's like, you guys could come over here tonight with a hose and just like open it up slowly, open up this plug slowly and just suck out the water. And eventually it will like stop flowing.

Like that's the, that's the theory. Like a good plan. Like great. And because he's like, because I can't run a snake down there if it's just gushing out. He's like there's a very expensive machine. High powered.

If it gets water or it gets sewage in there, you know, whatever, it's nasty. So all right. So plumber leaves remediation guy, schedules another guy to come in with the hose and like start cleaning it up more. Latrell. This guy,

this guy's awesome. He said he did a remediation for Coach Reed's house, Andy Reid's house. Oh, really? Yeah. It's also interesting. Like, these guys have all these stories. Like, you think this is bad? I just got, I just came from a house that had four inches of sewage throughout the entire basement.

I was like, all right. That's disgusting. We're better than them. Like, it could always be worse. So anyway, LaTrell, awesome, dude. He's cool, dude. And he starts going and he has this massive hose. Careful.

And it goes down, it goes out to this 90 gallon tank. Okay? Seems like a lot. 90 gallons? Yeah. I think about it was that was that drum that a 50 gallon drum that you have out there the barrel? Anyway, like those big barrels. Oh, yeah, yeah. Probably twice that, you know, big old tank and he's like, all right, I'm gonna get started. I'm gonna start sucking this out. So he starts sucking from he doesn't even like take off the plug. He starts just sucking from this other drain where like the water's also starting to pool up again. As he's doing that dude, the plug starts like, like coming, coming. And then the plug like pops off. No. Because there's so much like pressure or something like built up. We have lift off. And so dude, I'm not joking.

Like later on the trail was like, I'll be honest, man. I was freaking out a little bit. I was like, that's never what you want to hear from the guy that does this for a living. At least he's told you afterwards. Yeah. Like, I mean, it was wild. He's like trying to like plug it back in, but it just keeps popping up and everything. I mean, he dumps that 90 gallon.

I bet he did at least six. times he dumped that thing. I mean, so what, 540 gallons of water just continued to come out. That could have just gone in your basement. And I'm like, you know, I'm calling my plumber. I'm like, dude, this is. And he's like, I know it's crazy, but like, I think there's a lot of water built up. I think it's just going to just have them keep suck.

Because like, LaTrell's like, dude, this isn't, this isn't working. Like he wanted to quit. And I was like, you can't quit. No, we're going until there's water water. There's no other, you know. We're not going until Kansas City is a desert. And so for, yeah, for whatever reason, I don't know. how or maybe somebody told me this or maybe I read this or whatever.

And maybe in hindsight, I probably should have done this first, but I didn't know. I don't know any of this stuff. I contact our Johnson County wastewater. Like you can contact them and just let them know like, hey, this is what's happening. Because I think that guy initially,

the first night that went all the way 100 feet and still wasn't cloggy's like, I think it's a city problem. And so maybe in my head I was like, I'm a lot of options at this point. Maybe it's a city. problem. So I call them. They once again also have this emergency protocol of like that's an emergency. We're going to get somebody there. I'm calling them at like 930 on a Sunday. They get out there like 11 o'clock at night and they assess the situation. They come up and talk to LaTrell. Wait. Oh, just wait, brother.

Wait, wait. You got it. Wait. You're there. You're there. You're getting there. Oh. You're getting there, bro. I can't believe I'm just not putting it together. Yes. You're the reason. Yes. You're the reason. Just wait. Just wait, dude. So I can't believe I'm just now putting this together. Oh, I won't spoil it. I can't believe it's you. Oh, dude. So, oh my gosh.

So this is so good. This city guy comes out. He gets, he talks to La Trell. He's like, you can stop sucking up all that water. He's like, it's not going to do any good. It's just going to keep coming until it's like, he's like, it is so, the sewage is so backed up. He like pointed. He's like, he's like, it's backed up all the way down.

this like our street like to like three more houses down like uh and he's like we're we're gonna have to like run this thing and figure out where the where the blockage is and get this thing going so they get I mean they have this massive I can't believe yeah yeah yeah yeah so they have this massive truck at 1130 at night you know all the lights all the this massive hose massive snake and they are I mean it's like this big old like six maybe eight inch saw looking thing that like is just going through this manhole covers. And so at this point, A, for insurance, B, for like curiosity slash just like, I want to make sure this gets done.

I'm no longer like the polite, like, I'm not a mean homeowner by any means, but I'm like an invasive. I'm like, you see those commercials of progressive. Like, we can't stop you from coming your parents. And they're like, so what's going on out here? Yeah, that's not going anywhere. Yeah. I went and talked to one guy.

I was like, so how, can you explain to me how this is working? Like, he's like, yeah, it's backed up. Look at this. and he's standing over this manhole cover right out here and looking. I'm like, yeah, there's the water. It's backed up. And so then there's also another truck down at the next manhole cover. And they're like talking via walkie-talkie.

Like anything coming down yet? No, I'm nothing moving yet. All right, we're going to move the snake, continue to try to get this unclogged. And so I go down there to that manhole cover. And dude, that was when I realized, holy cow, this is backed up. Because the first manhole cover I looked at, I was like, I could probably reach down and touch that water if I wanted to. the next manhole cover, I swear, I didn't realize those things are like 20 feet deep.

Like, wow. That water, that, it's like, it was so far down there. I was like, oh, my goodness, that thing is so, so far. And I was like, it is so clock. And so they're running this thing. And eventually you start seeing water start flowing. And the water goes down. And they're like, we're going to have to run a camera through this tomorrow and see what caused this.

but I think I believe what happened was whenever all that construction happened in your street a long time ago, some company accidentally put a pipe through the sewage pipe and clogged it up. So for the last year? Maybe. Yeah. Unofficially it's like, and I don't think it was like completely, completely clogged, but it seemed like it was completely pretty close to it. For the last year, yeah, like all this area was clogged up right there. And so the next day, we'll say, uh, sorry, um, we'll say 20 guys.

I mean, a massive construction crew closes off our entire street. Shut down the city. I mean, Brad clog the city. Literally like this hole, they cut this hole out of the street that I know was legal to cut that big of a hole out of the street without it structurally imploding. Like it was like, I don't know. 10 feet by 20 feet. Like it's a massive hole.

There were like multiple guys like inside of this hole like looking around all these machines going. Uh, it just just absolute chaos like that's happening because of. And honestly I was like, A, I was like that's kind of cool that I that I like found out this thing and like alert this people and look at all these people working for me. B, I was kind of like proud of like, if I didn't notice this, it could have gotten into all these other people's houses and it could have been even more of a mess for

everybody. And I noticed it. I took, I took the crap on me so that everyone else didn't have to. And that's humbling. It's very humbling, dude. So, anyway, so yeah, I mean, so now it's just a matter of like, I'm calling insurance, I'm documenting everything.

I'm, yeah, talking to all these plumbers. We just got new water heaters because the old ones had, literal had stuff in them, you know. I made this joke. I'm not going to make the joke exactly the same way on here. But it's funny. It was like the four-year anniversary of Rosie, aka Puddle City. And this time it was puddle poopie. So anyway, just kind of a, I mean, just because, yeah, that's second night when they started to extract and it started coming.

I mean, it was just, that was the picture I sent. It was the second night, the nastiness. But that's what it looked like the first night, too. It just, it was like, this is, this is nuts. This is crazy. I didn't show Catherine for a couple of days. I was like, I'm not, you don't need to know. I can't believe it was you.

I know, dude. Because yeah, I'm like, I'm like, Jake's probably like, what's going on? Why is the city, I mean, they literally shut it. It wasn't like road closed it through traffic. It was like, I can't get in my driveway. Yeah. Like, it was like that bad. 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. So from my perspective, Sunday night, Rachel and I get in bed and I'm like, I'm reading. But I know like before I go to bed, I'm going to go move my car out of the driveway because the dumpster is arriving tomorrow.

I don't know how early they're getting there. So I want to make sure. Oh, the dumpster. the big dumpster, like the trash dumpster. Fake dumpster I hired to show up. So good. You're like, the prank won't work without it. I got to get a few days in advance for the prank. I was like, they're probably going to be here in the morning.

So I'm going to move my car tonight just to make sure. And so it's like 11 p.m. And then I get one of those like notification, like a ring doorbell notification. I've got the proximity fence on that for my notification so small. So if I do get a notification, it is within. It's there. yards of me. And sure enough, I mean, the fence, seriously, you can make it so tiny. 100 yards. Okay. 100 yards doesn't seem that tiny. Does it? For like, I know, for like a

neighborhood alert, like rather than like all of Shawnee or like, you know, East Shawnee. You're talking about, I thought you meant your. Oh, sorry. I was like every time someone comes within 100 yards of your camera. Not the sense or like the neighborhood alert, like the social media aspect. It has to be so close to my house. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. To hear it or to know about it. And so I get one. I don't know if that's even ever happened. And it says, it said like, anyone's smelling a weird smell at that,

da, da, da, da, like our streets, like our two streets. And I was like, huh, all right, we got some action,

got some late night action. I don't know what this smells all about. And I don't think much of it. And then probably an hour later, I'm like, I'm falling asleep. I need to go move my car.

And so I go out to move my car. And now there is like this huge machinery. There's these guys out on the street. I'm like, I feel weird doing this because I didn't tell Rachel about. I'm like, I'm going to go invest. investigate. I'm going to go, like, figure out what's going on. So I got my car not to move it,

but then to go drive around and, like, kind of roll my window down and see what's going on. And I'm talking to AI, like, yeah, a trash truck size vehicle is digging in a manhole cover and whatnot. What did they say? Did they, did they said sewage? Yeah. They're like, it's probably. Yeah. That's funny because at some point, if you would have done that, I would have been out there. But that's what it sounds like, like we were both out there. Like you would see my truck. I just like, I just parted my truck and just talked to these guys. What if I'm Hey Brad

What are you doing? How's it going? You doing well? I'm doing all right. I'm like crap all over your face. Hey, buddy. Oh my gosh, man. I mean, because yeah,

they considered a biohazard. You know, it's like, it's not just like water. Like it's like, no, this is like next level. Wow. And yeah, the next morning I sent Rachel a picture, our road was fully shut down.

And I say, well, we had a good run. We're back to back to what we know and love. Yeah, exactly. The road closed. Crazy. Dude. I mean, it was like, I don't, maybe your project on that street had that many people, but it was more spread out. It was just like wild. How many guys were there working on like this little air? How many supervisors were there? Like, it was like, this is, I did this. Like, you know, like, yeah. So just absolute insanity, dude. I, I mean, let me see if I have anything else on my notes. I forgot for some reason. Let's see. I called it a poop storm. Oh, that's.

That's what's also crazy is that, dude, earlier that day, not that it was like, I mean, it was just like, it was like a great precursor, I suppose. It was dadder day. We just spent it at home, you know, trying to save money. And so it's like, yeah, let's try to save, just, you know, have a fun breakfast at home. Let the kids watch, they watch the laden. And Henry's just a romer these days, dude. You got to, it's just, he's just crazy.

And so he's walking all around. And Catherine and I, we're just getting good time, just like, chilling in our room. And we hear the, like, beeper of the refrigerator, which means it's been open for a while. I was like, you should probably check that out. And we're like, yeah, we'll check it out a little bit. Henry has, like, gotten into the, like, organic, natural nighttime medicine that we have in there for the kids.

And who knows? I don't think he drank very much, but he definitely had some. And we're just like, and even if he had three times a normal amount, that's a lot, you know, for a little baby. It's like, crap. So we're, like, looking at it into that. And then I was going to take the kids to the park. And so as I'm taking them to the park, I'm like,

lift up Henry and Henry just yacks everywhere all around the driveway. I mean, five different times. I'm like, dang. That makes sense. Makes sense. I mean. Yeah, get it out of your system, buddy. And so, you know, at the talk, at the talk that day at church for the social media stuff,

whatever, Scott, my friend brings up the idea of filthy rich and the things that matter. I'm like, you know, I have this idea of like, even in the hard times we're blessed and you can see like perspective and like right before I came here like my son threw up on my shirt and I had to replay but you know what I'm blessed I'm blessed in this way little that I know I would literally be filthy

and the things that matter later like yeah filthy comma really so anyway man it's just like it's just like oh here's a win and it's like but a few more punches along the way you know for all these different luckily a the city it was the city's fault so I think it's

going to be like, even if insurance doesn't cover it, I would have had it by the city. But yeah, I don't think I'm going to be out like crazy amounts of money, but it's still, you know, plumbers and all this stuff. So, wow. I'm glad that in the end, it wasn't the Facebook plumbers fault. Yes, 100%. Yeah, like, that's the thing. Like, I think no matter who aggravated that area, it would have just aggravated more. And people, people like, I wonder why it only happened to you. It's like, well, I think we're on the downward slope of our street. And I think we're one of the only streets or only houses in town that has a basement. Not in town in the area because we had like that half of our house was like it added on the

70s or something. So a lot of a lot of them probably would have if we didn't notice it eventually it would have like built up into their houses. But they just didn't have to deal with that. So anyway, man, it's just one more like I always in hindsight, not always in the moment, in the moment, just like this is awful. This is terrible. this is crazy.

But later on, I'm always like, I'm just going to take this experience and be able to now give someone advice next time I hear it happen to somebody. Like, oh, dude. Well, or you bought a house. Get the, get the sewage, like the backup insurance. And maybe don't finish your basement. And think about it. Think about like if it happens.

Yeah, whatever. All these different things. But anyway, so I've been trying to view it as like, overall, it's going to be good. So, wow. Did you notice the next night? We also had some action around our street. I'm laying in bed 24 hours later. It's 11.30 at night.

And I can't believe that Rachel is not waking up to the amount of sirens, like zooming by our house. Do you know about this? Yeah. So I looked up. Well, that's where I wrote down. Back to back midnight. Did you go see it? I almost did.

And then I was like, I actually don't want to. Like, an entire house caught fire right up our street. And because it was so windy, that fire blew into another house. So in like two houses caught fire. crazy. But I mean there were so many sirens and yeah. Yeah, I read about it the next day. That's how I heard about it. And yeah, there was like they had to employ all these new or all these other engines like or all these other stations. Like I think it was like three alarm, four alarm fire or whatever. Oh wow. Like because yeah, it was like we can't. But then I went by the house. It didn't look. I mean, it looked obviously like it was on fire. But it wasn't like the whole house was, yeah, gone or anything. So I'm like if that. If that. Because I saw a video of it. Did you ever see a video? Yeah.

It was like if that fire did not burn down a house, I can't imagine a fire that would actually do that. Yeah, I was like, what's that house made out of? Cement house. Wild. So crazy. Yeah. It was like,

I said that to gather. I was like, oh, look at this. You know, all this stuff's going on around here. Yeah, I'm getting out of here. I'm going to somewhere where there's no fire. It's not hot at all.

Anyway, that's been our, our time. That is a doozy. That's a good one. It's a doozy, man. Definitely dozy. Dozy worthy. Hopefully everything is going to be on the up.

The other thing is like crazy is like the insurance can't come out for another like two and a half weeks to come look at it. So you got to keep it nasty for two weeks? I mean, it's cleaned up and it's like the, there's air filtration going and all this stuff and it's getting dried. But yeah, I don't think I can like I can't fix it, fix it until after they, you know, assess everything. everything.

So, yeah. Because I think the idea is eventually, like, we will redo the bathroom and redo that front basement room and all that stuff. But anyway, that's that. Wow. Puddle poopie. Puppie. Poopooey city.

What are you doing, man? That's what I can't remember that. What you do, man? What you do, man? Wow. Um, if we do our reviews of the week. Let's do it. and then, Tyman, you're going to take charge Wednesday episode.

Sure. All right, you're going to take the lead. Yeah, I better have something to say after all this. My five-star review is from A.J. Allen, 1298. Longtime listener, first-time reviewer. If you want a podcast that brings joy, makes you laugh out loud, and somehow makes you feel close to total strangers. This is the podcast for you.

Jake, Brad, and Timon, parentheses, TB, and Jay, are incredibly entertaining while always pointing back to the love of Jesus in their faith. this podcast has become my comfort in every season. I listened all through my pregnancy in 2023, so much that my daughter would calm down any time I turned it on after walking through two miscarriages this past year. This podcast has brought light to some really hard days and kept my focus on God.

Now I'm pregnant with our double rainbow baby, and it's still such a gift in this season. JB&T, thank you for the joy and for sharing Christ so faithfully, much love from a Tennessee girl. Wow. AJ Allen 1298, thank you for the very kind words and very happy for you. That's the only new review we got.

We got a really sweet email and I'm not going to give details. They said not to. They said not to. But just know, we loved your email. Yes. I said that? The one from far away. From far away.

Not like Pennsylvania far away, though. I'm talking. Even further. I'm talking R.I. Rhode Island, dude. Talking Providence. I want to give a preview, speaking of emails, preview for Wednesday's episode.

Apparently, I must have said something along the lines during it, we kind of black out during some of these ad reads, and you don't really realize what you've committed to. I think I said if someone makes a big enough order, I will wear Rachel's pajamas, allegedly.

Suit up, boy. Alex came in and sent in some receipts, and his order was $1,200. But then he used the GR-KC-Discount. So we save $470. on his order. That's pretty cool, actually. That is, those are real numbers.

Significant savings. Shout out Alex. His kids go to the school that Rachel works at. Met him at the documentary premiere. Alex, it's N-E-B-E-L. So I think it's Nibble. Nibble. Probably to go the logical route.

Alex Nibb. Nibble. But he's coming to Gulf Shores. Yep. And off to change clothes. Yeah. Yeah. If that's not a guy that's still committed to the podcast, I don't know what it is.

Nothing's going to change. Nothing's going to change. I'm going to be in a little more silk than normal. Jake's going to get a little bit trans. Thank you guys for this today. It's fine. It shapes my jawline nicely, honestly. Yeah.

It's European cut. All right. Yeah. Any last words, boys? Can't wait to hear what time and has to say next week, or next Wednesday, this Wednesday. Oh boy. This coming Wednesday. Oh, boy.

Oh, boy. All right, we love you guys. We'll see you Wednesday.