Ghostrunners - 533 - The Single Most Thing We Have in Common

Episode Date: April 22, 2026

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Let's do it. Say something. Make sure your mic from works. Check, check. 1-2-1-2. Sounds like it works to me. So let's start the episode. I just got a text from my wife.

She's at school today, working. She was voted teacher of the year at her school. She just texted with that. That's pretty fun. All right. Miss Coop. She's like, peace out. I'm leaving.

Yeah. Was this like to get you to stay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, you were the best. No, you were voted teacher of the year. We do it every year. Yeah, we do. No, we voted without you.

Or when we all take a unanimous or I mean anonymous. Trust us. You want. You're in. You can do it. You can stay. You're in the big, you're in the big time teachers club.

Yeah, it's a thing. It's a thing. You haven't heard of the big time, big timers? BTTC? Yeah. It comes with big,

big breaks on your second year. Mm-hmm. Big breaks. Big breaks. Big breaks. How was your guys a tax day? You know, an extension was filed.

It came and went. It came and went. Yeah. Time. My dad is a hero. He knows how to do stuff. And so he, like, taught me slash did things for me. He does it solo. He actually, like, this year, like...

Pin and Pape. He is an accountant, so he knows how to do stuff. Or, like... Should I have known that? He doesn't currently do accounting. Oh, yeah, but he has an accounting background. Yes, he does. So, like, he worked at Cernor as an accountant before.

Anyway, whatever. But, like, shout out to him. He, like, this year... someone else did his taxes, but he, like, did mine for me. So that was kind of nice. That's cool. Yeah. For him.

But yeah, not, I have friends that it was a lot simpler for. Like, self-employed. Yeah, but, but, do you want to be self-employed? Or do you want? Yeah. It's worth it. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Until it's time to pay taxes. And you think, man, it'd be nice if these were kind of taken out little by little. Yeah. Yeah. True. A lot of wants. Yeah.

Hey. Hey. Hey, cost to doing business. That's right. That's cost. It's not easy being teacher of the year. Congrats, Rachel. That's huge.

Rachel Coup, triple. That's amazing. Teacher of the year. Who thought? That's fun. Yeah, that is great. That's so nice. I wonder how they decide.

It doesn't matter. Probably just the best teacher. Yeah, probably just probably easy. Criteria, best teacher. End of story. Yeah. Boom. You did it.

Congrats, Rachel. That's awesome. I have something written down. I think you're going to, relate to this. You're going to like this. Wait. You're going to like this, Jake. And by you, I mean, Strafford, Missouri, Jake.

All right. It's nice to meet me. Stratford, Missouri, Jake. Long and story short, I had the country radio station playing in my car for a little while recently. I don't know a country radio station guy, but it was there. And I, for whatever reason, just did never change

it. And I wrote down in my notes, don't listen to country music unless you want to do something. And you say do something, not something. But every country music like song, first of all, you understand exactly what it's about. Yeah, you know. It's easy to get the lyrics.

And it just is like, life is short. We got to do something. We got to live our life. We got to do this better. We got to go for it. You got to take chances. 2.7 seconds. Yes.

You know that song timing? No. Live like you're dying. Oh, I'm a bold name Fu Man, too. Tim McGraw. it's one of his friends. Okay. Yeah, there's songs like that everywhere in country music.

Yeah. It's all over the place. It's like, I got to do something. I got to. I got to go. You know, buy dirt. By dirt. Yeah, what's that song about?

Buy dirt. That's always like, oh, man. Good job. Thanks. Anyway, just do something with your life. Huh. You got, you got to, don't listen to country music unless you're ready to go for. Yeah.

Something is coming to mind right now, speaking of lyrics to country music. I've never. check this, but that one classic song that's very, um, um, it's very linear. It's like rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey, yeah, so on, so forth. Sure. Does corn make whiskey? I've never looked into that. Yes. Obviously, I don't think he'd be wrong. Why would they make a song about it if they don't? Yeah, it's like, I'm sure it does. Corn makes a lot of things, but I just, I've never heard it any other place than that song about, oh, well, well, you know, the, you know, whiskey's so expensive, because it was cold in Iowa this year.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like, I don't know. Let's go ahead and explain it to everybody that doesn't know. Okay. People are going to say, you guys don't know what you're talking about, and that's fair, because I'm basically making this up. All right, ready? Got it.

Ever heard of the word mash? Yes. Like corn, like, you mash up, or you got a bar, malt. You're a malt beverage. Yes. So that's wheat and corn, corn mash. Okay. That's how you make, and you just put it in a,

water and then just let it ferment. There you go. You got whiskey. That's how it works. It's how it works. You put it in barrels. It's that to be white oak. Yeah, you do have to put it in barrels. You got to let it age. You have to let it age. You have to invest. I actually know some people that my pheasant hunting trip. You heard about this? Yeah. They invested in a bunch of whiskey or bourbon. And it's like, yeah, just like every year it gets more valuable. Like they just like they're not going to make any money for five years. And then when it's time when they are of age and they can sell them, then they will make all their money back. Pretty cool.

Uh-huh. Yeah. You know, be patient to do that. That's cool. But yeah, rain makes corn. Honestly, even just going back, rain makes corn really kind of does a disservice to the farmers, I feel like. It's going to take a little more than just a little rainfall to make some corn happen. Yeah, like if you're a kid and you see some rain coming down, the next day you're like outside looking for it.

Yeah, I don't see any. There was a huge pile right here yesterday. No corn. Crazy. Yeah. That's a good point. wait, even just scientifically, even take the farmer out of it. You need sun.

You're going to need some sun. You're going to need some soil. Seed. Yeah. Yeah. All that. All that. Anyway.

Country music has got you fired up to live life. I don't even know what songs I listen to. Maybe one of them, till you can't. You heard that one? No. I don't know if that's what it's called, but they say that over and over again. Okay. Till until you can't.

It's about plowing. Till you, yeah. No, it's about not being. able to plow. Till? You can't. Uh, uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too. Then West best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's a ghost from a podcast. Country music, man. Does you listen to the country grown up a lot? Yeah, I didn't think I did that much.

but anytime now where I listen to 90s or 2000s country, I'm like, oh, I know quite a few of these songs. Really? I think we did listen to a lot of 94-7 back in Springfield. 94-7. So, yeah, you know, a lot of, like, you know, Alan Jackson and stuff like that, whatever was popping in the day. Okay.

Martina McBride. Okay. Yeah. The Dixie chicks. Yep, yep. Thank you. Careful. But, yeah, like with every month,

I get more and more into the idea of driving a truck around. Like, oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. Country would hit a little harder in the truck. It does, dude. And I especially this time of year, rolling down the windows.

I roll down. That's the sound it makes. Surely. Sometimes you're in the mood. You just roll down the windows even when you're on the highway. You're just in the mood. Can't help it.

I can't help it. I cannot help it. My kids right now are so into, I mean, and it's because I instilled it in them, but they want to listen to the music as loud as I will let them. Oh, Scott and Isaac. style. Yes, dude. Oh my gosh. Isaac is the worst. It's like, do you know, ever want to talk to me?

You feel that? No, I mean, Isaac, like, booked the rental car this week. So he did. He was like the driver all week long. And I thanked him every ride for driving. But I was in the backseat every time. And I couldn't hear most. Yeah. It's too bad. Yeah. Even like had things to say and wanted to contribute. I was like, I would have to yell. I just, I won't say it. Yeah. It's not worth it. And then they're going to make me repeat it because I didn't hear it. And I'm going to have to yell twice. I did at one point, probably day two. I was like, Scott, I have a genuine question to ask you.

Like, I'm not trying to be funny. I'm actually curious. Like, do you ever listen to music that's not this, basically? Like, is there ever a time where you go, I need some soft? And he's like, that's a good question. I need to think about that for a while. So, yeah. No.

He's like, I really don't. He's like, it's either like, edium, upbeat regatone or like podcast. What happened to you? Scott. Why did he used to listen to that? Oh yeah. He never used to listen to that stuff. I think I found a hole in Scott's story or maybe I just, we were listening to John Mayer a bunch in Palm Springs. And like, Scott knew the words. He was like, I love this album. I was like, okay, so it's in there somewhere. So maybe it was just not, not these days. He doesn't. Yeah, maybe not anymore. In that case, go back to John Mayer. But he did bring up, he goes, I did really enjoy

when you guys showed me Olivia Dean. I do like her. Yeah, it's like, she's great. Yeah, There's a lot of music out there. Yeah, there's a lot more things that you like. You know, there's other music. Rachel told me that Olivia Dean's a Christian last. I think I've heard of her anyway. I don't know. Now I'm going to like her more.

That's cool. I don't know, are there anything about her? I don't follow her or anything, but that's nice. Yeah. Cool. I don't think I could tell you anything. What kind of music is she? Poppy?

It's very like top 40, but I would say it's like almost R&B. Or I don't know, slower pop. Yeah, it feels like more... It's just like easy listen music. Just like... Give us a little bit, timing. I make it so easy to fall in love. So come give me a call and we'll fall in us.

I'm the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Any one with the heart would agree. Wow, on command. Yeah. Wow. Thoughts? I like it. Easy listening.

She's great. I like Tymond singing it. I didn't. Yeah. Who's the, who do you think is the original easy listener? The listener? No. When I think of easy listening,

maybe not truly. Yeah. Okay. When I first heard the term like easy listening, there's, there's one artist that I think of. All right. What decade are you thinking of? Like, more recent. Like, coffee shop, like.

Jack Johnson. Oh, good one. That's a good. Jason Maras. It's a girl. John Mayer. Alicia Keys. Nora Jones.

Oh, yeah. She's a girl who I go, I can't think of her music. And then when you play, like, her two biggest songs, like, oh, my gosh. Yes. She's easy. I don't know if I do. That.

yeah. She's easy listening. Yeah. She's about as easy as it comes. So, Jack Johnson's a good answer to though. Thanks. I love Jack Johnson. Anyway, my kids, there's a song in Moana called You're Welcome. Timmy knows it. Yep. He's five years old. And there was one time where I was just in a goofy mood. And so like we were almost home. There was like a minute left. So I like took a circle around the block and just cranked it. And now, you know, bro. Rosie, Bo, and Henry, all of them except for Hattie. Hattie's is this responsible one that's like, that's too loud. We got to talk about.

All right, guys. All the rest of them. Our ears are precious. We're like, we want it loud. We want it louder. Henry is like every Friday goes over to my parents' house. Henry and Rosie do while the big kids do school. And my mom has an Alexa.

And so Henry, you know, is starting to talk more and more. So you hear him say, La ha, loud. That's why they'll yell at me. Alexa. Laugh loud. Daddy. La ha loud Music at full volume

It'll be Or like he calls The end of this Your Welcome song Dwayne Joe It's like the rock Is the one time And he just goes

And thank you And so Hinrials go Leha Thank you So Anyway Fun times

Just cranking it up I don't I'm more of a 7 or 8 out of 30 As far as volume goes Every once a while

I feel good people probably think you and I have a lot in common and we do but that might be the single most personality trait that boy we're on the same page with really yeah volume yeah control aware of our own volume aware of other people's volume definitely aware of the TV volume commercials and non okay yeah yeah we're on the same page yeah but also DJing a party yeah what do you always say like uh volume creates energy exactly yes I'm with you there thousand percent or or even just like a vent like a restaurant if it has too much too much too much too much guys it's like what what kind of of what kind of vibe we're going for?

Are you with me on the fact of like you're okay with driving in silence? Oh yeah. Okay. Just making sure. So I would say, I would say probably primarily drive it in silence for me. You are more than anything else. Well, let's get technical. Driving in silence, but my phone is connected to the Bluetooth and I might be looking up a video or something like a tutorial.

It's like, I'm watching stuff, quote unquote. You know, I'm like, you're watching a YouTube tutorial while driving? I don't know you're talking about. I don't know. I'm like, I'm like, okay, not absolute silence. I'm watching a tutorial on how to do like a complex woodworking project. I'm playing words with friends. No, it's like simple stuff.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you count background like Clash of Klan's music? Like this is the natural music that happens during gameplay. Does that count? If you do that while driving. Does that count? But yeah. but I won't.

I'm just like, it's too much work to like decide what to play. I'm just not going to play anything right now. I feel that way. Maybe if I'm just like, I've got the house of myself, I'm making breakfast in the morning or whatever. I've got like 10 minutes worth of task out in the kitchen.

I'm like, I should put a little something on the speaker. And sometimes I go, boy, it seems like a lot of work. Yeah, I got to connect to the Bluetooth. And then from there I have to choose,

I have to choose the genre. What am I in the mood for? I don't know. And then from there, do I even like the suggestions are giving me? Yeah, like the first song. I'm going to try to listen to Olivia Dean every.

Every time, yeah. It's a lot of work. I know. Just chill. I'll just be chill. I'll just be chill. I'll just watch how to, you know, use plumbers epoxy. That's what I was doing today.

I don't know how to use this stuff. I would say I wish I was more that way, but I'm very much immediately getting the car, find some music, and it's like going most of the whole time. What about if you have somebody in your car? Same? Somebody in my car. I like to have something playing,

but I like to try to. be very conscious of like, especially if we're having a conversation. Like, I'm, I'm down to like, if we're just, obviously, it depends on the relationship or the like vibe with the person, but it's like, if we're just driving, I'll have the music turned up where we can hear it. And it's like, we're listening to the music. But if we're talking, it's a baby just, oh, it shows it down. I'm trying to think if I've ever been a passenger while you're driving. Have we ever had the pleasure? Have we ever rode with time in for anything? I would never. I don't, I will say, I don't, I'm never like the first person to develop.

volunteer to drive. So it's like I don't actively try to put myself in that situation. So I don't think so someday. It'll happen. Someday will make it happen. I went to Stratford right before South Florida. It's hanging with my family for a little bit. I think it's to see him for Easter's came a week later. Yeah. Had a good time. I know everyone probably thinks their family is very fun and very funny, but man, I mean, just being there an hour with Angie and John and my dad and my grandma. I'm just like this, oh, we should be filming all of this. This is just unbelievable what's

happening right now. I mean, just making fun of John. I mean, it kind of the same way you say, like, who's the best, who's the initial easy listener? You know, you make one slip up and the whole family just goes after you. But especially John, because he's like, he, he, I got recognized on the pickleball courts. He has such a tough time, like, comprehending how that's possible. Yeah. which it's like at a certain point I'm like do I need to you keep backtracking you go well Friday we have a big social media presence and he goes so they they knew you're they didn't know you're going to be here today and you go okay maybe I need to explain Instagram or like I don't know what he even know maybe I need to explain yeah the internet you got

you got to use you got to use old media you got to be like it's like I'm on TV but everyone has a TV in their pocket now right right right right so far And so they watch my channel, right? Like TV channel? They have a pocket channel, right? Right. And so then they know what I look like because they have it on there, right? I'm on Johnny Carson every day.

Basically that. It's a talk show. Right? Right. And so then as we're talking about social media, then he's like, I will say one thing. You know, you watch one YouTube and all you get is just more YouTube. And I go, break that down for me.

what you just say? And then everyone starts to pile on because they've heard him not understand anything I've said for five minutes. And I think that's the final straw. And remind everyone what John does for a living? He has worked in like, he's like a senior level computer programmer his whole life. Like he's not like he's like, yeah, I manufacture paper at a steel mill. Yeah.

I'm pretty sure a hallmark solely depends on John Fulbright to keep their business alive. They've tried to let him retire, and they're like, we actually, no one knows this language anymore. Like you were, like, one of the few people on Earth who knows how to do this. Cobalt. Cobalt. Yeah. Like, it's just so archaic, I think, that no one else knows it. So he knows that.

But he works with computers every day. But he's never fixed our Wi-Fi when it's gone out. I remember that from back in high school. We should call John. That's different gigahertz. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, oh, we gave him a hard time. We're like, so what?

If you get on YouTube, they show you more YouTube. man. You know, I never make it fun of them. I'm like, you get on, if you turn on the TV, what do you see? More TV. Yeah, you turn, you turn TV off? No more TV.

No more TV. I don't know how work. I push button, no TV, no more. That's amazing. What else happened to Trafford? Yeah, a couple of those guys who knew me, they were like, hey, would you mind playing the game? I was like, I'll play one game with you guys.

I'm kind of here with my family and everything, and I'll play one game. and the guy hits me with the, you know, a couple months ago I got to like, you're skinnier in person. It's like, thank you for the most part. And this time I got,

you're way better in person than you look like you are at pickleball like in the videos. And I was like, thank you. I'm playing against five old players there. Yeah, you're like, three six.

We only kind of post the highlights, so that's not good. You know, like we usually, we cut around the fat. We just post the good stuff. So that's too bad. I don't have to make that look

better. Did you guys beat them? Well, I guess you were playing. I just mixed in with these like Springfield locals, but nice guys. I think I think it's a lot. Obviously, people, everyone thinks they're better than they actually are. And so then you play at somebody that plays all the time like you do. And it's like, oh, they're actually really good. Yeah, and pickleball doesn't translate super well on TV on the TV Pocket Channel. You're actually way better than I thought you were. Thanks. Thanks, man. I sized you up. and knew exactly how good you were going to do I saw you. So I hit one serve and I'd be fine.

Yeah, what is like the equivalent, like for guitar? I know how well somebody plays guitar by how they strum. Yeah. Like what's the equivalent and pickleball? Yeah, I mean, I could see you kind of feel like, I could feed you one ball and see you hit a ground stroke and at least be able to tell if you have a racket sports background and get a pretty good idea of your mechanics right then there.

Like, there was a guy at this event who told me he had, he moved to Boca Raton to join this club that we did a vet at because he wants to go pro and this guy's in his 40s and I saw his form and there's just no physical

like there's a physical limitation on what the human body can do you will not ever go pro as much time as you put into this you know just like you just don't have a baseline and same goes for me too yeah I just didn't grow up playing a racket sport it's never gonna happen really

you think like it's like everyone that's pretty much pro is like pretty season into it either tennis or you played another sport at the division one level. Okay. Like Kyle. Yeah, athletic. Yeah.

Next level. But I'm having fun. You're a professional pickleball player. You get paid to do pickleball. Thanks. I got an iPhone face. What can I say? I would say so, brother.

YouTube face. Random thoughts. Sign the other day on the highway. Wipers on, headlights on. They love that one. It's the law. we sure really positive why are you know hey what's up man julian hey brad how you doing what are you for i i killed my mother-in-law what about you it's raining pretty hard into my headlights on

huh you're gonna go with the blacks or the mexicans nazis are up and coming uh it's like like there's no way cops are like I got into this. Hey, that guy. I don't think so. The guy didn't have his headlights on. Like, I understand it's a good idea. It's helpful.

I don't think you need to, you need to legalize it. Legalize it. That's what that means, right? Legalize it. In Missouri. Yeah. They love that sign.

You know, I think that sometimes, too, like you can display anything. You have my attention on the highway. You have everyone's attention. And that's what we're going with. That's the biggest thing you could pre- right now? Headlights on? I know. Those signs do feel underutilized

or like poorly. Throw a joke in there. Do something cool. Sell it to congressmen. Sell it those ad space. Hey, vote for Zach Warrahan. We didn't naturally get it in there again. Yeah. He asked for it. Yeah, I don't know. Like, I was just like, it's the law. Like, I don't think it's, sometimes it's not that big of a deal. I would say like, if it's nighttime, headlights on. It's the law.

It's the law. yes, that would be helpful. That I really need. It's hard to see you. Yeah. I just, yeah, just, we're going to get a ticket for that. We're giving out tickets. Yeah. For that. Maybe it's one of those like, what do they call them, like secondary offenses. Like, they can't pull you over for not having your seatbelt on, but once they pull you over, they notice it. You can still get a ticket for it. Oh, okay. It's like, hey, your license is expired. And while I have you pull over, I notice you killed your mother-in-law. Yeah, that's how it always happens, man.

That's funny. Yeah. I don't know. You're probably right. It's probably, it's the secondary law. Wipers on, headlights on. It's the secondary law. It's a tertiary law.

I just trust my car. It's always on auto. So like, totally. I shouldn't be expected is my take because I happen to have auto on my car. I shouldn't be expected to do things past what my auto does for my headlights.

Because I don't know better. Do you all have like an auto-sensing wipers? Yeah, I do not like it. Me neither. No. I do not. You're not missing anything. Face model sportage.

Yeah, I never have it on. Wait, it starts raining and it just kicks in however it wants to. It always over like does it. Oh, I think you're enough. That's so embarrassing if you have it faster than the rest of the people. I'm like pulling into all these parking lot going five miles an hour, all of a sudden just goes, do-dom, do-dom, do-dom. I'm like, I, I, I,

don't know what's going on here. Oh yeah, you look like, you look like a Mr. Bean or something. You look like a clown. Yeah, I don't like that one bit. Yeah, anyway, so don't, don't, if you're looking at upgrades or new car someday, you're like, oh, this goes auto. Steering wheel cover before. Steering will cover. I would. The only time I would ever turn my headlights from auto to anything else is like, I've pulled into a medis and my headlights are shining into this restaurant, but I'm not necessarily getting out of the car. Yeah, I got, I ordered this to go. Yeah. I'm, Right. I'm waiting on him. Yeah.

I'll turn the headlights off for you, for the patrons. Fair. Otherwise, auto. Auto. My whole life. Yeah. Yeah, it's awesome. I love that.

Jake. Yeah. You got to pee? Yeah. Okay. We'll make this quick. Great. Street Roaster.

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I have a shout-out to a ghosty. My parents and I, we were in their kitchen. We were talking about, I don't even know, something about Ghostrunner, Grand A-Boo, Gulf Shore, something, you know, my dad's going, who is that one ghosty? I think she was at Grandebu, or maybe she was at Branson.

Maybe she wasn't there either. I want to say she went to the getaway. I don't know. She definitely runs, though. She's a marathon runner. And she's mom and she's got a kid, maybe three or four kids. It's like, all right, let's figure out all this information. A lot of things here.

And so we're trying, I mean, we spent 15 minutes trying to figure out who this ghosty was. By the end of it, we did find it. Shout out Kelly Campbell. It was you. Oh, right. We finally go, all right, we got it. It's Kelly. And he goes, does anyone remember why we were trying to figure out her name?

All right, we got to the end. What did I need? That's amazing. What did we need that for? But shout at Kelly. We spent a lot of time thinking about you and getting to the bottom of you. That's awesome. Yeah, just really, like, doing all the research.

Yeah. He's like, like, the U.S. are looking at different alternate uniforms for the NFL. This is a niece joke. Are you guys ready? Yeah. Neat joke. You see where I'm going?

No. you got it? And you're like, man, yeah, the Rams, those are all right. But the ones I really like are those eagle jerseys. Like, they're sweet, dude. They're like, like this light green, almost like sage, but not really sage. I don't know what you would call that. Like, what kind of green would that be?

I try to think, oh, what's that girl's name? Does the marathon. She has kids, maybe three or maybe four. She did it. Kelly, dude. Kelly Green. Kelly Green. What were we talking about?

What were we talking about? I think we're talking about the Rams jerseys. How did you know that that was going to be the answer? Kelly green jerseys are sweet, timing. Look them up. Great. That's all you didn't know. I think we've talked about Colise Green podcast before.

That's pretty funny, though. Just like, what were we? I think I could think of so many ghosties that fit three of the four. I was like, oh, Courtney Miller. That was my thing. Yeah, I threw her out there. But he's like, no, I think it's at least three kids. You know, I'm like, I don't think she's a marathon runner,

her, Cursie Swick. I know. I can always give one. That one girl named Hattie who came to Branson, but she was a day late because she was running a marathon.

I'm like, I don't think she's a mom, but still a marathon. Yeah. No. Finally. Kelly Gamble, yes.

That's great. Does anyone know what that means? What's she up to? Yeah, that's funny. She's coming. She's coming to getaway. Come on.

Getaway? We got some spots, we got some bunk room spots. I think those are usually like the ones that fill up the most. Okay. But a few people that signed up for bunk rooms are now in non-bunk rooms. Like they wanted to, like, join in with some other people.

So we switched some stuff around. People, there's bunk rooms available. If you're single, there's... You're a solo sleeper. Solo sleeper. There are bunks available. The phrase, hey, don't mention it. I think that's kind of funny.

It's kind of like threatening. Like, hey, thanks for lunch. Hey, don't mention it. Local news is in decline across Canada. And this is bad news. for all of us. With less local news, noise, rumors, and misinformation fill the void. And it gets harder to separate truth from fiction.

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Hey, dude, thanks for the heads up that the radon guy came by my house. Pick up the garage door. Hey, thank you for texting. Don't mention it. Don't tell Catherine. That's a good observation. Hey, don't mention it. Yeah, it's just like.

Oh, sorry, dude. I was trying to say thank you. well stop yeah quit don't mention it it's really aggressive stop for what you're trying to say yeah yeah yeah you're if anything you're trying to be like chill about it but it's like kind of a mention it kind of aggressive way to be chill hey dude thanks for the thanks for the candy bar hey shut up about it don't mention it you mention it again you owe me bro yeah it's the last time I'm gonna do this if you're gonna keep mentioning it I have another little thing like that I thought about the other day, when people say, like, he's not necessarily book smart, but he's, like, street smart.

Like, street smart is not a good, like, definition for what we're talking about. Okay. Like, street smart feels like the guy who's staying in your Airbnb. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, street. Like, you know things that you can only learn on the street. On the street. Yeah.

We're like, when we're using street smart, we're talking about, like, I don't know, he knows how to negotiate with a used car salesman. He's got EQ not IQ. heard that equalizer yep doesn't washington emotional quotient not in electrical oh interesting yeah like emotional intelligence yeah yeah yeah got you i yeah emotional intelligence yes that but we that's what we mean that's what we mean but we called them street smart like they would know where to get you know drugs yes yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah he's street smart yeah that guy that guy that guy buys his ibuprofen from from o block yeah yeah

he's not necessarily the most like he doesn't know math or English or whatever but like he's in a gang yeah yeah yeah so I guess that doesn't he's that's just a fun fact it's helpful he's a good team member he's yeah he uh he had trouble um once we got to calculus but he did get into the latin kings so we're all pretty proud of him yeah he's doing quite well yeah street smarts that's Street smart. Yeah, it's like there needs to be a new term for what we mean by street smart. He's not book smart, but he's people smart. Maybe that would be the.

Or is it just more like logical maybe or just like he. No, but I think it doesn't mean like something about like you know how to deal with people is street smart. Okay. Yeah. So I don't even know. Right? I think so. It's like you could.

You're going to do just fine in life. Even though school wasn't for you. Like you don't go well. You're going to figure out. Yeah. But you change your own oil. Yeah. And you're good with people.

Okay. Yeah. Street Smart. Yeah. It just means like Jeff Bezos is your dad. Did you ever, did you ever watch The Apprentice back in the day with, sorry to get political,

with there was like a season, or maybe there was multiple seasons, like basically that book smart versus street smart. I never watched a single episode of that show, not to get political. Good. You boycotted that show, not to get political.

It was actually a really good show. Right. Yeah. And that was a really fun, like premise. Book Smart versus Street Smart. Yes, exactly. Yeah.

Well, I'll edit this in before that. It's going to get a little political for the next 30 seconds. Just thank you. And I'll put that up ahead. Thanks, timing. So if you're your warning, if there's kids around. Thanks, buddy. Okay.

I only have one thing to say on this segment. I have a new segment, but it only has one subpoint. I got a segment later as well. So I want you guys to think about maybe adding to it if you want to. You got it. It's called okay or no way in parentheses, Jose. Got it. Okay.

basically I was at Target the other day returning some bedding okay because I got cozy earth betting yeah I'm not using this target crap um and there was a guy there was there was there was like these people there like looking like kind of corporatey but not for sure I don't know whatever uh that came up to somebody else that was working and uh they were like hey FYI um I was just in the men's bathroom and I did change out the soap dispenser like The soap was really low in there. And so we really had to change that out. Like they seem like very serious about this.

Okay. And so then I go into the bathroom after I exchange or like return the stuff and this guy's in there working on the soap dispenser or no, he's done it with the dispenser at this point. And this is like a quirk of man, I guess or whatever. Like when I know that this guy once like is like passionate about something, I'm like, I'm going to, I'm going to like lob them up for them. Yeah. Like kind of.

So the idea is okay or no way. basically egging this guy. So I get done going to the bathroom. I'm like, man, these soap dispensers, you just never know if they're going to work. It's just me and this guy in the bathroom. And he goes on this like big, I mean,

he just like talks all about it, like gives me all the details of all this stuff. Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, this one was fine. This one's like, you can feel the pump. It's a little different on this.

Good propulsion. Yeah. And do you think it's because it's like it goes from liquid to foam that maybe makes it. happen like that or you know like i don't know everyone's watched it's like let's just have some fun with somebody that's great i was in a walmart the other day nothing like nothing like this yeah so okay or no way for me to okay okay okay okay gas him up yeah that's fun yeah now we need to

think of some okay's there no ways if you want to hmm oh i'm getting there okay okay no way does you kind of like you're leaving at chipotle you see someone with the arms full coming up on the sidewalk you kind of hustle to like open the door for them they don't look at you they just walk in they don't say thank you you say you're welcome oh boy okay or no way no way Jose I was just trying to think of that scenario you're welcome no no way Jose unless they unless they're mean to me unless they let me let me try to you know Yeah. Sorry.

Oh, my bad. Unless they're, unless they're aggressive, unless they're like, finally you open up the door. Yeah. You're welcome. Even then.

If it's one-on-one basketball, would I just open the door for you? Yeah. You're welcome. Okay. I'm going to, you decide who, who is the no way? I think someone in this situation is, deserves a no way.

Okay. But you tell, you tell me. So it's after an improv show. 15, 20 theater kids go to a waffle house. Yes, and? Yes.

I like the waffles. Yes, and scrambled eggs. The group is being, I mean, how you'd expect the volume of a largeish group of theater kids

after an improv show, just laughing, joking, doing bits, talking about stuff, whatever. And it's, you know,

we've been there for probably an hour at this point. Okay. So you guys just, really quick, just be the noise of the, of like the people there. And I'll be... Regular people or the...

No, the improv people. And I'll be the woman working there. The fire defying gray biscuits and gravity. Oh, that's funny. And I love you... Could everyone just be quiet? I'm trying to tell...

I'm trying to give him orders and call out orders and you guys are just, you're just so loud. And you just, I'm just trying to, we're just trying to do our jobs. And you just, you're so, just, can you please just be quiet for two seconds? All right? Thank you guys. And that was a scene from riding in the car with Isaac and Scott.

Oh, whoa. So I just had to resolve the melody. Yeah. It feels like a sneeze. I hold in. Dude, that's so awkward. Who would you say? Oh, I would say no way to that lady Jose.

Yeah. Yeah. No way. Yeah. No way. I think that's part of the job. I thought I would do so too. Known for like the viral videos of people like getting in fist fights.

Yeah. Like they're going to complain about it being too loud for all these kids that are probably very well behaved. Yeah. Just were you guys well behaved? Are you guys defaming property? Do you have any spray paint? To be fair. We were being quite loud.

Was there a lot of other people there? Not a lot. No, it was like any, like we were on one half of it. Like anyone else was kind of just on the other side. We were not being, nobody was like yelling. I don't know. It was interesting. Can I ask another question?

Yes. And this is going to sound racist. I'll say the next part. Let me preface it with this. When I was in Spain, it was so obvious who the Americans were because Americans are so much louder than Europeans. I'm everything in Australia. May I ask the same question?

Now in reverse, was this person American that said this to you? Yes, indeed. Okay. So I get to understand, like, if they're like, hey, I'm used to, my waffle house in Spain is not this loud. Yeah. Like, fair. These people are being much louder. Yeah.

And then it's a good question. It was like, you know, obviously something like that happens is like, afraid to make a peeper. Just like, okay. And we can't use. But then it just, you know, it's going to slowly, naturally kind of rise back up. And she doubled that. She like yelled at us again. Again, guys, really.

She yelled you again? Somebody, I can't remember who, I think my friend Chester was almost like, Oh, Chester. You said two seconds. He was like, he wanted to be like, you said two seconds. I thought you meant. I thought the agreement was, we'd be quiet for two seconds and we're fine. Yeah.

I mess up. I was, it was wild. I've never, that's the most, most violent confrontation I've ever seen. Not violent, but like, yeah, yeah, most aggressive confrontation I've ever seen in public, I think. Wow. It was wild. Dude, speaking to two seconds, you're about to hang out with Derek the next couple of right for this special.

Oh, he loves two seconds. Yeah, if you know, if he'd spend enough time around him. That's his, like, favorite thing. Like, I mean, I see it every time I record correct opinions, but, you know, Trey be like, all right, we ready? He'd be like, two seconds. It doesn't matter if he's got 60 seconds left. He's got five minutes left.

I mean, like, I've got to, I still have to reset him all the camera. All right, two seconds. Two seconds. I think he just can't help it. It's like this like compulsion. Oh, that's funny. Everything is two seconds. You've noticed it too?

Yeah, during the movie. Uh-huh. Yeah. Oh, two seconds. Derek, are we good, line and good? Two seconds. I can imagine it, but I didn't, I didn't never notice that. That's pretty funny.

Yeah, it's been his go-to for a while now. What's your, what's your metric? Hang tight. Okay. Not yet. But if you're like, hey, Hey, Jake, you come here? Just a.

Oh, yeah. Hang on. I don't want to commit to any time. It's going to take me. I don't know. I'm a second guy and Catherine's a minute, girl. In a minute? Okay.

She's like, just a minute. Just a minute. I'm like, just a second. Do you ever go just a sec? Just like, well, like, I never, I never, spice it up. Do sex.

Okay. Isn't the word Google technically like a, you know, nanosecond or something like that? Oh, I thought it was like way, like the biggest.

I thought it was the biggest number. Like, you're having a fight as a kid or like with another kid, you're like, well, I, I have Googled that.

Oh. Google or like Google plus infinity plus one. I've never done that. But trying to get the biggest number. I think it's like a massive number. Never done. I think it's like a million zeros or something like that.

Yeah. Look it up tonight. All right. Google it. Dang. Exactly 100 zeros. 100 zeros. So a million zeros.

And there's a decimal point before that. And this is in time. Point. Yeah. Maybe there's like a, there's like, you know, it's like a one-oneth. One-one is the Googlers. One-one-goal-th. Yeah, that's fast.

That's super fast. One-one-one-go-old. Google. Just a Google. Just a Google it. Tybin, what do you want to talk about next? Oh my gosh. Clothing?

Please. Let's do it. Please. All that stuff. Please. Okay. I guess not telemarker wouldn't be the right word. I had someone cold call me the other day like, hey, our record shows that you are this person.

You live on this street. Just like kind of a invasive way of starting a conversation. But I go, yeah. And they go, it looks like you've had some hail damage. Could we potentially take a look at your roof? And I go, this is going to sound like I'm making it up. But I'd like, but I'd literally just got a new roof.

And they go, well, I mean, how long ago? A year ago, two year ago, I'd go like three weeks ago. So I don't need a new roof. Yeah. Now let me spin zone this for you. If Cozy Earth were to call me and say, when was the last time you had new Cozzer stuff? I'd say, I got a couple, a couple of crew necks a couple weeks ago. They would say, OCR probably set.

I'd say, no. I wouldn't hate some more. I wouldn't mind, I don't know. I can cut some up and wear them as calf sleeves. Yep. Cozy Earth calf sleeves would be nice. They don't make those yet. Not yet.

We got to get on that. You got to come up yourself. Yes, dude. You can never have enough of it is the point I'm trying to say. That's the truth. So where do you find Cozhearth? Dot com. I find it at Cozheert.com slash Ghostrunners.

You have a nice little landing page. It says, hey, what's up? You must listen to Ghostrunners. You, Gucci. We do. And then you're going to... We'll get it to you ASAP Rocky. You'll enter in promo code GRKC,

and then you're going to see that promo or that price go way. down. That's high. A lot of percentage off. Get a bunch of stuff because the more you buy, the more you save. That's true. The top percentages work. You can't save $1,000 if you don't spend $1,000

or more. Right? That's math. That's how it works. So, codejure.com slash goes first. G-R-K-C. I have a game for, I would love to see you play it, Brad. Time and I don't think you do too shabby either because they're improv. All right. Clap. Clap. Chap.

Chap. Boom. Boom, ba-boom. Chap. Chap. I saw a clip of this on Amy Poller's podcast. She had Fred Armisen on. I don't know if she does this all the time. I'll listen to her podcast, but she called it like 60-second expert. Oh, did you see this?

I love that. Oh, really? I think Fred Arnison's so funny. Yes. So what it is is basically, just for 60 seconds, you have to pretend to be an expert in something. So I will give you a topic.

And then just for 60 seconds, you have to just like ramble about this topic. I almost wish I hadn't seen it yet. because Fred Armisen He did it so funny. I know I kind of wish you done neither. Oh my gosh. I don't know how to find this.

I think I've probably mentioned it before on the podcast. Fred Armisen one time once he came back and hosted S&L did like a monologue by himself. Like a like they always do a monologue, you know, but like he did a monologue in the sense of like he did a whole play by himself kind of thing. And it was so pure funny. Like it was just so like anyway, I just think he's really funny. So Rachel and I did go on a deep dive of just like some.

of his best characters on S&L and everything. And yeah, he is so funny. You should watch Portlandia. I think you would enjoy that a lot. I should watch that. Yeah. He has one character on S&L. I think he would come on a weekend update and play this character.

Have you seen this? I forget the guy's name, but where he'd get so fired up where he would never finish a sentence. Have he seen this? You know what I'm talking about? So he would like, he always comes on and he's like, all right, so my name is so and so. I'm going to be reading news headlines and giving you like, fiery hot taste, it's of crazy opinions.

And then basically he never has anything to say. So I won't do it justice, but it's essentially he was like, all right, so let me tell you about the war and Iran. So basically there's two schools to thought here. So basically on the left you have, all right, well, I guess it goes back to, you know, ancient times. And ancient times are crazy and obviously like, I don't know how much you read. I don't know, let's take a poll real quick.

You know, it just continues to go backwards and never says anything. But he does it 10 times better than I did. That's so funny. Really funny. Okay, Brad, I'll give you a topic. I'll start a timer. I hope I do all right on this. I think you'll be hilarious.

Thanks, buddy. Your topic is traffic lights. I'll give you. Dude, that's seriously? That's perfect. No, I was just at the hospital. Dude, seriously? Yeah, go ahead.

I was just at the library with the kids the other day. And I noticed this book, and I actually checked it out about traffic lights. So this is so perfect that I know this. So the original traffic light was not a light, actually. Really? It was candles. So one candle meant stop, two candles meant slow down, three candles meant go. Wow.

And it's like, how do they do that? They had what's called traffic light conductors. Oh. Like, you know, conductors in electricity. Yes. Where do they get that term from? Now it is. Traffic light conductor.

Yeah. Wow. And so. Well, yeah. The prolog. It just was off right there. So, oh, wow, I'm going real fast. Yeah, so traffic lights, they came here and they actually tried to do a different color-coded system.

At first, at first it was, it was, no, no, no, sorry. Well, but they used red for all of them. There's different shades of red. And then eventually they thought that's too close. Maroon is too close to magenta is too close to beat. And so they changed it all to red, yellow, green. And that is how people conspire that it's because of the Federal Reserve that they put green as go. Which is crazy, but I might use to be beat.

Beat Red. Yep. Yeah. Beat Red was go. Which is a farmer saying that we don't respect farmers like we used to. Yeah, corn makes whiskey. Exactly. Thanks for asking.

I'm so proud of that. You did great. Tommy, would you like to give it to go? I will try. All right, improv. Brad, you can give them a topic if you want. Oh, dude. Can you tell me more about the slave trade?

Please. Just kidding. Timon. Tell us about Velvet. Velvet. Yeah. Okay. So Velvet Teen Rabbit, you've heard of that book?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, yes, yes. Velvet was not, that book, you know, 17, 1600s is when that book came out. Velvet was not, it was all a fictional concept until this book. And then they wanted to make. You know, people wanted, they're like, this rabbit, this magical rabbit. Like, I want, they wanted the products of it. Like, you know, make merch for every, all the big hip books.

Yeah. Especially in the 1600s. The merch. Like, and so the, basically the idea came. So the idea came before the thing. Okay. So basically when they were selling these rabbits to people, they were like, let's, we have to do justice this velvet that's in this book.

Yeah. And so that's how velvet started. Okay. And then eventually, you know, everyone's wondering, like, how people thought it didn't taste good. Okay? Because, you know, really? Oh, it was an edible thing. Well, toddlers, you know, you have your stuffed animal.

You're going to be, like, sucking on, you know, the fur and stuff. We all do. And so they were like, well, I mean, the velvet rabbits selling so well, let's make, let's put it in cake. And so they, that's how the origination of cakes, the red velvet cake came out. Oh. It was actually because of, because of the velvet. Ravit actually is how that happened. That's good.

That's good, Taman. That's time. I kind of wanted to just see how long you'd go. If you landed the plane there with velvet cakes, I'll stop you. Yeah. That's what cakes. That's what cake. That'd be velvet cakes.

That was a minute 20. Jake, would you tell us about something? Sure. You guys did a good job. No, you put my glasses. Yeah, you should. Well, I'm just curious. I know you're a history buff.

Can you tell us just, was it Luxembourg? in the 40s? Can you tell us about that? Oh, yeah. And just their role and everything. All right. So, Luxembourg, what do we think of

when we hear Luxembourg? We think of Hamburgers. Right. That's silly. Obviously, they have nothing to do with hamburgers. Wrong. It's so funny.

Sorry. Not a history boss. Hasn't even taken a class. You're right. Lux is the previous name of this country. One of the smallest countries in the world, but one of the mightiest.

They used to be called Lux. One of their biggest imports during the war, which war? The one in 1940, talking World War II. They start importing all this Angus beef, all this cattle. They start making these burgers. Okay. Eventually, they become Luxemburg. Oh.

That's where we get the name from. The people, okay. A lot of people would attribute, you know, the Axis, no. Access was bad. The allied powers winning the war, they would attribute to a couple of things. You know, we take down Hitler dropping the bomb on Japan. Yeah. What do you think Robert Oberinheimer was eating for supper that night?

Hamburgers from Luxembourg. They played a pretty big role. That was great. Who knew? About the exercise. Yeah. Especially when you got those glasses. I kept my hands like this the whole time and just under the table where no one could see.

It was performative and just for me. Yeah. Man. That's fun. I like that. Speaking of silly things like this, I was texting my friends this morning. I've talked about my friend on this podcast before. Noah, who's just very funny and went on a couple trips to them.

I just checked out. I'm like, dude, I haven't talked to you while. What's going on? Have I mentioned this on the podcast that he has started? He just created a fake character on LinkedIn. Like he's just, he's not posting to social media about this. He's not doing this for any, like, likes or attention. I think he does it for fun.

Purely just enjoy it. Just for the love of the game. Yeah. So he's made an entire, like, fake alias, fake profile, fake pictures, and just messes with people on LinkedIn. Just, like, loves, especially messaging, like, like, kids fresh out of college or kids, like, in an internship with Northwestern Mutual and just telling them that he sees a lot of himself in them. and just like just hyping up these like LinkedIn bros and um just this morning i mean it's one of the first things i saw to start my days he just he just i think finds people who take themselves pretty seriously and just like loves messing with him so this is a message he sent to just a random dude who's

like you know some real estate mogul dude you are the total master of lincoln post i always learn from you and how much business you're doing thanks the guy says thanks Noah responds. What would be your biggest piece of advice to a young, hungry, aggressive, but nice, easy, sorry, but nice, eager, good listener, sales, patient, never quit guy like me. I love you. Sales is one of your adjectives. Like an eager, hardworking sales patient guy like myself.

And anyway, he's just been sending so many screenshots. And like, I guess me and Grant Heuterberg, who are in this group message. Like, we are the audience. That's it. It's for no one else. Maybe his wife is clued in. But yeah, it's just us. But I'll try to give more when I see it.

But, yeah, it's a fun thing. Just like, these guys need to chill a little bit. Yeah, I just don't know anything about the LinkedIn game. I don't really know either. I've never been active, never had a profile. I'm going to go through our screenshots. This is kind of funny. Noah's fake profile, you know, his previous experience goes from, well, most

recently he was at Berkshire Hathaway is a real estate consultant. That's where he's at full full time. But before that if you dig deep, he was a food delivery driver for Uber Eats and then an assistant store manager at Domino so he like ascended really quickly. Now he's killing it.

Yeah, that's pretty funny. What are we going to say? Oh I'm trying to find it now. I randomly bought a broom from a guy for this Airbnb I need a broom. I was like there's one on Facebook marketplace for $5.

Why not meet up with this guy? And I'm trying to find it now. So, oh, here we go. All I did, I sent him a $5 and said, broom.

And my buddy Casey just commented on it. It said, Curtis, do you have another? I need one too, which is stupid or whatever. But I texted him, like Casey,

I texted him a screenshot. I was like, all right, game on. And he's like, didn't even think about the fact that you could do it back to me. And so now I haven't,

done it yet, but I'm like, I'm going to go in, I'm looking at now, like, if there's any, like, good, you know, especially if you can tell that their Facebook marketplace or something, anything like that. Like, he paid some guy for a ton for tundra. That's got to be a car. Yeah. I mean, it's got to be a truck. Like, maybe, I don't know. I'm trying to look at anything else here. That's pretty funny. I love a good, just a little harmless messing around. Yeah. It's a good time. And I, like, I want to comment on. one, like he was the one that back in the day we would go back and forth a lot of like, uh, almost acting like, like, like, oh, was this the girl, was this the picture you're talking

about? Oh, yeah. I see what you mean now. Yeah. Totally get it now, bro. Yeah. You know, and so I kind of like the idea of saying something like that to him. But now I'm looking at his stuff.

It's not, not as good as, not as obvious as I'm seeing. I'm just, oh, here's a girl, Vicki Hill from Pied Piper handmade calls. Oh, he's a. Duck Hunter. It just says refund. I don't know. Is this the company you were complaining about? Something like that.

Are these the guys that gave you such a hard time? Yeah, right. Just the crap company that doesn't, the calls were bad. Rachel and I went on a walk last week and happened to walk by your house. You know, when you guys were already in dinner, so we like come in, you know, the kids are freaking out. And I talked to Haddy about the egg drop competition she did. I kind of had a good time like hearing about that and whatnot.

And then the very next day, I had a. egg drop in my own, I went to order more iron pills from Amazon. And it says, would you like drone delivery tomorrow? I was like, we have that? Yeah. I have no idea that had gotten to the Midwest. I thought like that was Seattle only or something. But yeah, so first time I've ever seen it as an option. It's like, all right, we do drone delivery tomorrow by 2.30. I really wanted to like be there to see it. But there's no live tracking. I wanted to like see it. Like, where does it come from? Where does it start? So I didn't see it I didn't see it until it was like on the ground

But sure enough Oh you saw it Not to your house but to the street next to us Really? Yes it saw it It was cool and weird Do you think it was Hamas or something? I don't know what I thought

I mean it's hard to Gage how big something is When it's up in the air you know And so I was like I mean it's clearly like not a regular drone It's big How big that's what I was like I can't tell But yeah it like

It like hovered for a while and then it went down and it came back up. But I couldn't tell, like, it didn't, it wasn't like, let's say you had iron pills or whatever. It's not like the iron pills were just out in the open. It must be in some box in the drone or something. Like, it just out of it or something. Mine, I mean, it seems so, obviously Amazon knows what they're doing.

I mean, but it seems so impractical, right? Like, Amazon is already like, you're kind of crushing it. Like, I don't need anything more than what you're already doing. It's getting here the same day, next day. That's great. and now to like deliver one item at a time. I don't know where you're starting from, but there's no way this is better

than like loading up 500 things on one truck. Because it is a little bit of a, you pay five bucks or something for it, right? I didn't have to. Oh, it was free? Yeah. Oh, every time I've seen the option, it's like, I thought it was more.

Same day, drone. So I was like, it was the next day. Okay. Like you wanted to deliver tomorrow afternoon by drone? I was like, sure. But I mean, tiny little, obviously it's a thing of pills. It was a massive box with a ton of, like, I think packaging, like cushioning in it.

But I'm like, once again, it seems so impractical that the drone probably lost a lot of battery having to carry this big box. Does somebody drive that drone? I would assume it's automated. Really? You think like it just knows the GPS coordinates that well? The night before they told me where they were going to drop it. It showed the satellite view of where it was going to drop. I see.

Because it's got to avoid the trees and everything. See, I bet it's automated. So it wasn't like on your doorstep. It was in your yard or what? Yeah, it was in the backyard. They got pretty close in the neighbor's fence, to be honest. It was in the backyard. It was a windy day.

Yeah, because we got trees in the front yard. You know, they have to avoid trees. I guess only certain things are eligible for it. Like maybe stuff that's not as breakable or. It's stuff that's probably, it has to be a certain weight where the parachute is not going to drift it into someone else's property. True. But not too heavy where it just like shatters or breaks or whatever.

Yeah, they've got to test all this stuff. It's only iron pills. These are the only things that fit the weight capacity. Yeah, I was out in the yard the other day with the kids. I thought it was crazy. And they were all, like, this is like the sign of the times. The kids were like, not that phase by. I mean, they thought it was kind of cool.

But I was like, this is nuts, guys. Like, this is wild seeing this happen. So you'll do it again, maybe. It's kind of cool. I just, I hope they're not spending too much money on this. Guys, I don't need it. I mean, their trucks are all Rivians. So I think they're spending money either way.

Yeah, that's good point. It's either a Rivian or like a 1998 Nissan Ultima that says Amazon on the side. And a lot of times they don't even say Amazon. That's fair too. Just like, whoa, the male woman looks different. Oh, no, that's just like an Amazon. It is funny, they're willing to do that. Like sometimes it's like, oh, clearly Amazon, they're so professional.

They got this down. And sometimes just like a random guy in between Uber each shifts. We're booked. Yeah, we've got to go for this. Yeah. And I know, I'm okay with Amazon. Well, the other day I award something. It was like, we'll get it to your tomorrow.

And then it didn't come the next day. And it was like, estimated delivery date tomorrow. I was like, that's a bummer. I'm okay with you taking two days, but just say two days. It was kind of a bummer. Yeah. I remember Domino's found, I read this in a book that like,

um, I forget a lot of details, but basically Domino's was like getting destroyed and like maybe the early 2000s by like Pizza Hut and maybe some of these other companies. And one big thing they did was like the pizza tracker. Yeah. It's like such as little thing, but they found like they didn't change anything about their pizza.

They didn't change anything about how quickly pizzas were even getting the customers, but they adequately told them how long they could expect. And not like changed customer, you know, just like happiness. So it's like, great, you said 35 minutes. Okay, I can wait 35 minutes. I see exactly, okay, it's in the oven or whatever. Just don't tell me it's going to be here in 15.

Yes. Yeah, I think hostesses do that at restaurants, too. I've never worked in the restaurant industry, but that's what I would do if I was in. It's going to be 15 minutes. Yeah, it does feel like that. Yeah. All right, it's lunchtime.

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Come on. Maybe it's along the same lines. because I'm like, all right, we're talking about drones getting delivered to our house. Do you think, well, it's probably a little bit of both, but do you think we're living wealthier than we used to? Like, is my mindset shifting or seeing things different because I just have more money than I did maybe growing up or whatever? Or do we just have more access to things?

Background on why I'm asking you this is because I was at Bose baseball practice the other night. One of the other kids on Bo's team is a friend of ours. His name's Clay. Clay's turning seven soon. Clay, what are you going to do for your birthday? He's like, I really want to have one of those airhouse thingsies. You know, bounce house basically. He's like, and this time, I really want it with a slide or whatever. And part of me is like, it's becoming more and more normal. Like, I've heard of people just owning those, like in their house. Like, whereas like, if you owned or even had a bounce house as a kid when I was a kid like you were a millionaire it is kind of unheard of thinking about like our childhood and then then this guy talked about like uh we were at baseball

practice and there were these there was this kid and his dad um there was like a little batting cage kind of thing which is cool but like uh this dad that was with me was like oh yeah so and so has one of those in their backyard and i'm like if you had a batting cage in your backyard as a kid you were jeff Basos. Like you were and you had to go to pro and nowadays it's like I mean I could probably afford to do a bad in cage if I really wanted to. Yeah. I bet it's not multi thousands of dollars.

It might be $500. Like it might be expensive. It might be an investment still. But like it just feels like is it because we're, is it because of my, my, my mindset has shifted to like I can afford $500 or is it like no, back in the day it was so hard to find those things because we didn't have an online marketplace that. you know, that they were $5,000. It's like no one, it's not about if you can afford it.

It's about where do I even buy a batting cage? Yeah. You know? That's a really good question. I mean, the answer is probably a mix of everything you've said, but that is a good question. It's like, are we just like in a stage of life where we have disposable income for the first time? And so it seems easier to justify some of these purchases.

Are millennials spending more money on their kids than other generations? That could be part of it. Is overseas manufacturing making everything cheaper in the United States? is it Amazon making things more accessible? Right. Like I can find almost anything on Amazon. Right. Besides like, what, cars?

You can't probably buy a car on Amazon yet. They'll probably do that eventually. Yeah, a car in a house? Yeah. Stocks. But I bet I guarantee you you could buy a shed on Amazon. Yeah. You buy a bar.

I bet you can buy a barn dominium like kit on Amazon. You might be able to buy like a semi-trailer on, like the trailer on Amazon. It's like maybe not the car, no engine. Yeah. You get a flat bed on Amazon. I don't know. Who knows, dude?

That's what I'm saying. Amazon's going to get crazy. You're going to hire everything from there. You're going to find your orthodontist on Amazon. Have a video call with them. No, that's a good question. It's kind of fun to think about. I like stuff like that.

Yeah. Like, I'm not trying to like see the world. Like I'm like trying to acknowledge. Okay, we are blessed. Somebody's here. Rosen lasagna. Medium power, 15 minutes. Sounds like Ojo time.

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Teacher of the year? Yeah. Oh! It is her. Home early. Are you home early from the storms? Yep. I can't do that.

What for real? Yeah. Is it? What's it like right now? Really? But they're like scared of it that much? Oh. It's just you.

Wow, you want teacher of the year with no kids around? What a waste. Rachel said that was a waste to give to me. She's leaving. But you're the teacher of the year. Teacher of the year. Not even a teacher. Like the woman of the year on...

Yeah. Ron Swanson, woman of the year. Yeah, like, what's more, like, insulting? Like, giving you teacher the year when you're not a teacher, is that more insulting to the other teachers? Or giving you counselor of the year when you're the only counselor? It's like, okay, you don't even need to give me a certificate. Thanks, anyway.

I did bring Chick-fil-A. Wow. You didn't reply. I didn't. I was locked in. Fun! Three piece, tray? Yeah. Wow.

That's what happens when you don't reply. All right. Thank you. That's kind. So down here I can bring it in whatever you want. You don't have to have any also. 30 nuggets. I don't know if we need 30 nuggets.

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So yeah, I think we're richer than before. Just a. Third account like it's nothing. Oh, man. Anyway, just a random thought I had. Yeah. I've been having similar thoughts like that too, like trying to understand my own relationship with money.

Because as a kid, I feel like I had natural instincts to save. I never spent money on anything. And I think that obviously comes from like seeing my parents like, we can't get that. We can't get that. You know, we were just quote, quote, cheap. You know, just like we did no extra spending on hardly anything.

and so I'd get money for Christmas. I'd just save it. I don't know. I'll need it someday. You know. And then now I'm definitely still a saver, but I also like, I find myself feeling this like pull towards like, what do I work so hard for if I'm not going to enjoy it, so to speak, I guess? Like spending money on things that make life more joyful and more fruitful and more like memorable. I love spending money on memories.

Yeah. But then also, if you're not going to be. feeling the tug towards like, am I materialistic by doing this or am I, you know, like, you know, whatever, the sinful aspects of loving money, you know, like, I found myself thinking about money more than I used to. But I think that's fine. I'm not stressed out about it, but, you know. Totally. Huh. Yeah, I have those same thoughts of like, why am I working so hard? Like, I get home from, well, I get, I mean, sometimes I get home at like two o'clock. and it's like I got stuff to do on my computer or whatever.

But Bo's like, can't play basketball with me? I'm like, I really can't, buddy, I got to work. And I'm like, why am I working so hard if it means I don't have an opportunity? But it's like, I'm working hard so that we can have more opportunities. Like your wife doesn't work. It's very important that you work hard. But also, yeah, it's like, where's the balance of one versus the other? I don't know.

What was your dad like? I mean, was counting, so he's probably boring. But no, like, like, Because did he work in the office, like in his like fact, not factory warehouse most of the time or was he ever home? My dad, like, I mean, it's still a case in growing up like worked from home most of the time. He was like most like in the basement or wherever his office would be at that time. But you could always go like ask him something or yeah. He was usually home.

Yeah. But just like not around or like the day or whatever. Right. Yeah. I don't know. Our house isn't big enough for me to really go anywhere. except for the basement was kind of nice at some points, but you put those water heaters in. I wouldn't have done that.

Yeah. It's not decode. But yeah. Yeah, I'm just trying to like, it's just hard because I'm like, on one hand, I'm like, man, I just want to be around them. But then when I'm around them, they just want to play. And I'm like, well, I understand. I understand you don't probably want to come work with me, but that's what I got to do right now. So trying to try to figure it out.

Yeah. The chick-fil-a smell is starting to seep into the studio. And I bet I could eat one or two. I bet I could go for a few. You guys have one of the week? Not to brag, what I sure do. Yeah, go ahead. Yamin.

Yomene. Yomim. We've often joked over the last couple years that, like, you know, people will ask us like, hey, we'd love to get a Friday t-shirt. I love what you guys were always wearing in your videos. Like, oh, we actually just, like, screen printed that ourselves. like we don't have t-shirts and like you have this entire supply chain you're you're manufacturing battles in china can't get a t-shirt like i know i don't know how to do t-shirt i see it's it's it's tough it's everyone everyone's just easy to figure out how to do paddles it's it's

i've no previous experience doing t-shirt um so it's kind of been a running joke of like why it would not sell t-shirts but we are trying to do this the right way and like really when we launch apparel like really do it well and we got to meet with our uh hopefully apparel plug in South Florida and we were just very nervous. So like, we're really hoping this works. We were looking at like the pictures he sent us. They didn't really look like the colors we asked for. But he's like,

lighting's weird. It took a weird picture. It didn't really look like the material we asked for. Anyway, we got there. We see the samples in person and they are so great. They're like very performance feeling like shirts and then like the shorts and even like skirts for like a women's line. Like everything's like very exciting.

It's like on par like a pretty. sure we might be using the same manufacturers like Lul Lemon or something. Hey, don't say that though, dude. What if it's like... Like, it's going to be very, very nice stuff. And so hopefully, maybe by the end of the summer, like we've actually got Friday, Fred. Scott was so excited. He gave his guy a hug. Pricking, man.

We're doing it. Doing it. So Scott's really fired up. Yeah. About the shirt's everything. You know, he's just going, guys, this looks great. Could we make it more pink? No, not actually. But it's not bright enough pink for me. Yeah. But that was a fun win.

something I'm thinking of. Just finally. Someone could buy a t-shirt from us. That's good. I'd say my win was like, it's a fun improv show and the first hour of Waffle House before the incident.

It was my way in the week. Just a fun time. Yeah, I don't know. Fun time. I didn't do that much this week, so yeah, I don't know. Good. My win would be the second half of Waffle House

when the kids were finally quiet. Just give me two seconds. I mean, the Airbnb being live is a huge win. I think Waffle House. I also had a Waffle House recently. Catherine had made a bunch of waffles for dinner. Like breakfast for dinner is the best meal, like our favorite meal as like our kids. And she had like made a bunch more waffles and froze them.

And then Bo made waffles for the whole like all the kids and everything. And it was just like you could tell he was like pumped about making him. Pumped about being able to use the toaster. and like getting the, you know, he had it like up and mid on to like fish out the waffles from the toaster. That was a fun day. I don't know. That's a fun little win of the week.

I'm trying to push our kids to, yeah, take more responsibility over stuff like that. Like you can make. No, you can't do this. You like, often one of the staples for breakfast at our house is like yogurt, we call them yogurt parfaits, but like just putting a bunch of different things in yogurt. I was like, you guys can make those. Like mom does not have to make these for you. Rosie's like, my neighbors make perfos.

pretty much. She hasn't done the neighbor as much. She's off the neighbor. She's still doing it. But, um, oh my gosh. Rosie is amazing.

She's so funny. It's so wild and so loud. Yeah. But like so good. Anyway, um, fun. Yeah.

That's great. So my comedy week comes from Spotify, our most recent episode. Um, that's not true. It was, Jeff says, this bit is wild.

Sellers disclosures. Lawsuits. Time in looking at church. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. That's funny, Jeff. I do like that. Also, just, I think I just see the word timing so much in the comments. The people love the boy. Let's see. Emily Forrest said, wow, had no idea a dog could do that. Oh, this is fun. Kinsey Noel 124. This week I was getting to know my brother's new girlfriend, the topic of podcast came up. She mentioned a couple. she liked and then I geared up to explain to her exactly what my favorite podcast Ghostrunners

is about. Then she says, I listen to Ghost Runners too. My jaw dropped. Instant bond. That would be fun to be like, okay, so there's this podcast. It's going to sound like, I don't know why anybody would like it. It's called Ghostrunners. Oh, this is that too. Yeah, that'd be fun. That would be fun. That would be fun. So shout out. Shout out. Shown at Kinsey, Noel and her brother's girlfriend. but his girlfriend. Honestly, pretty much every comment mentions one of you two from last Wednesday's episode. We talked about the Burr method. Ellie Jennings said, Brad.

I do like that. That's fun. Someone else said, Brad, isn't this the reason Dave Ramsey went bankrupt back of the day? Details, details. I will look into that. Maybe make sure. Kira said, Timon, are you even going to be on the pod anymore? Yes, Tim was on the pod.

Yeah. A bunch of people freaking out for you. that you are even just visiting Phoenix, timing. People are very excited. You're not allowed to visit Phoenix, timing. Yeah,

the first time I stepped foot in Phoenix, I should have my bags with me of all my stuff. Classic joke. That's it. Okay, good. That's it. That's all we got. We got chick-fil-a-in-the-brain.

Any other thoughts? Is your last chance, guys? Last chance for five more days. No thoughts. No thoughts. Just excited. Just happy. Happy for life.

Happy for the Ghosties. Thank you for listening, as always. Thank you for listening. If this was one-on-one basketball, would you guys keep listening? Would you wait until Monday? Would you ask for another episode? All right. We'll see Monday, Ghosties.

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