Ghostrunners - 542 - The Airplane Episode

Episode Date: May 25, 2026

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Yeah, boy Yeah, boy, beach bod, boy Beach bod, boy Come on now We just spend a couple minutes Like normalizing your mic And then immediately it's like too loud again So you have to turn it out

Shoot Woo-woo Woo-woo Woo-woo And we were just like talking so normal And then like when the recording starts I just flex on them

How about now? Any better? Now it's probably better How's how's family drama it's good it's fine we don't need to get into it it's just uh it's just it's just it's just a lot of like you know there's just it's just all I mean how many people 25 people in here I think there's 13 kids you know and so it's just constantly like who's doing this

where are we going with this who's on first you know yeah all of a sudden Henry's like Henry Henry's turned into a little flirt to his cousins and I'm like Henry like he's just like coming up to this little girl juliet some family drama yeah juliet's probably i don't know three months younger than him for i don't know something like that and he's just like touching her swimsuit and kind of like hugging her and stuff and i'm like okay henry where's this coming from bro he's kind of got some he's got some moves honestly but uh no no everything's fine it's honestly the biggest drama of the entire time so far has just been like truly i think every like 100% of us have

gotten sunburn pretty good including a few of the kids Like unintentionally, of course, got like real burned, like bad. Like one of the one of the girls, Sloan dog millionaire. Yeah. She's had to like sit out for a few days. So poor girl is just going through it and had a good attitude about it. But like. Sloan's got to sit out now.

Henry's touching her swimsuit all day. Henry's like, let me check that out. So no, it's been, it's fine. It's just a lot of a lot of people under one roof. And, you know, then like some kids sleeping. And Henry comes down the hall with his lead feet, just boom, boom, boom, just yelling stuff. And it's like, Henry, you got to be quiet, man. Come on.

So, no, but overall, it's been really fun. Bow's been, like, really fun in the water. He's, like, 90% of the way towards swimming. Like, I would say he could swim, but not really, really swim. You know what I mean? Like, I wouldn't trust him out, like, by himself in the deep end of a pool. But, like, he wouldn't trust himself either. So, but he's, he's been a blast.

We've been, like, playing a bunch of, like, little games where we're throwing and catching and, I don't know, it's just things where it's like, oh, this is fun to have a boy that wants to do this. So, anyway, yeah, we're getting after it. We just went to the beach or went to the ocean yesterday. There was some decent waves, and we got this inner tube, and I took Brooks and I took Hattie and Bo out there and would just, like, try to ride the waves and, like, try to get over the wave before it broke. and there was one time we got over the first big way before it broke and then we kind of looked up but there was another huge one and we held onto the tube but bow did not like it flew off and you

could tell he was like he was it was what i'm just learning about bow just like the roller coaster thing where it's just like oh like he like right immediately he's like i want to go back i want to go back and it's like of course you do dude yeah go back you know it's fine um but then we're back for like five minutes he's like all right I'm ready to go back out it's like okay he's he's not like he's scared like he's just a scared guy but it's like you're not letting that stop you from ultimately getting back out there which is awesome something fun you should do while while your kids still weigh like 50 pounds yeah is uh maybe you already do this i remember my dad would take me like I would be on top of like a boogie board but I'm small I'm not really like boogie boarding what we would do is like my dad

would have like my heels in his hands basically. Okay. So we are both facing the waves. And when the wave is at, it's like crest, it's at its highest, but it hasn't broke yet. That's when he would shoot me up it. So then I just go flying up the wave and just like get air and then just like land in the ocean. And so you would be separate from your dad at that point, correct? Yeah, yeah, I would go flying away from him.

Okay. I like that. I think it would take some convincing for my kids to do that. They're both like, dad, dad, hold on to me. Throw some floaties on them. No, the ocean's scary, though. Oh, yeah, they're wearing life jackets for sure. Yeah, the ocean, water is one of the most amazing things in the world.

Like, just the vastness of it, how much it can affect every, you know, whatever. It's just amazing. So, yeah, yeah, Rosie calls the ocean the pool, the cold pool, because there's like a heated pool at our house. So she's like, we went down to the cold pool already. Can we go with the hot tub? I'm like, it's called the ocean, Rosie. So, big cold pool. Big cold pool over here.

Big cold puddle. Anyway, but yeah, we're having fun, man. I asked my father-in-law, first of all, it's one of those things where it's like, I, I know if we, if we figured out the right questions to ask or the right prompts, my father-in-law would be podcast gold. Like that guy, he knows how to, he knows how to work the room. He knows how to be entertaining. But I could also see him being like a little too, too, too. you know, too into it or two whatever. But I asked him, I was like, what should I talk about today on the podcast?

It's just been a normal week for the most part. It's just like, I don't know, you can talk about how we had steak and shrimp last night. And I was like, yeah, yeah, we could talk about that for about five seconds. That's a good idea. Okay. He's like, he would talk about. What else did he say? Going down to the beach.

I was like, yeah, yeah, I could talk about that. So, anyway, it's just been a good week. I did notice yesterday. We did like the classic, oh, just kind of like what we did with the schmores back in the day of movies we haven't seen. I basically brought up that as a conversation. I was just like, you know,

what movies would you be embarrassed to say that you haven't seen? Or would people be shocked to see that you haven't seen? And of course it just turned into what movies is Brad not seen? Like no one else really got into it. They didn't love the game. Well, because one of Catherine's second cousins or whatever, I don't know, her mom's cousin's son, whatever that makes you.

I'm terrible at that stuff, but he is like obsessed with Lord of the Rings. And so I said, I said, Trey, I don't want to go down the wrap. Like, I don't want to open up this can of worms too much, but I just want to let you know right now. I've watched like one and a half Lord of the Rings and those tree things are ridiculous, you know, and whatever. And Max, his dad could not believe. He's like, you need a trophy for being the only person in the world that's never seen Lord of the Rings. And I said, no, no, no, no. There's plenty of us out there.

And then Josh, my brother-in-law, I was like, I've never seen it either. I was like, yeah, see, we just, we dated girls in high school, you know, you know. And so then it just went down this line of all these movies that Max, the cousin of Catherine's mom, has seen and loved, but that I've never seen, like, alien and Terminator. Like, all these movies is like, yeah, I'm not that guy. I'm like, I've seen The Natural. I've seen The Ruma Titan. I'm not watching, you know, I don't know, all the apocalypse now. I haven't seen it.

I'm sorry. So I don't know what it is about even even a trailer for a movie like that that like initially gets people to watch it. It must just be a different personality than what we have. I just, I think it's, yeah, I think it's a little bit of like, you know when you sit down to watch a movie what you're kind of getting into, right? Like, and I want to get into something that's going to make me feel good and laugh. that's the main the main and no slime i think all the alien movies have slime my gosh and like it's dark and it's it's confusing like don't tell me you always understand every ass like if you took a test at the end of every movie like that you're not getting 100 percent you know what i mean like like

those movies are confusing like i'm not good enough at keeping track of the character's names all that stuff and so i'm just really i'm just an idiot is what it comes down to and so i'm just not well if they're aliens they're from some other planet i feel like that's harder to i want to watch friday night lights where they're from midland and i think oh i don't know a ton about midland see the permian basin what's that what's going on over there yeah exactly that's easier to kind of conceptualize than you know oregon oh dude her family they did get into a i would say an hour long discussion on the beach the other day about aliens and i kind of listened for a while and I genuinely fell asleep like chose to fall asleep about halfway

through but apparently Rogan had some guy on recently that or I don't know if it was recently they listened to it recently about aliens and UFOs and this guy was like working in area 51 and like he's one of like one of these like people that if if they if he combined what he knew with this other scientist who was also working on this stuff with aliens like they could create instant nuclear warfare and all this stuff and I was just like well. that's crazy and then they're like well how's that tie into biblical like what is that you believe that but you like how's that tie into the biblical aspect of it and i'm just like all right i jesus died for my sins and i can praise god for that you know jesus died for my sins gas is getting expensive

gas is wild huh yeah crazy how much the cost here man chiefs wide receiver's sure do get a lot off-season trouble what's new with you guys at one point gary my father a lot did say like you see what happened to rishi rice and i was like yeah he's an idiot I was like, we can talk about that for a second. So, yeah, gosh, that is crazy. So anyway, I don't know. I just, I'm just not, I'm not that, we've talked about this before, but I'm not that into the alien discussion.

I also don't, I'm not worried aliens are coming for us. Like, and so therefore it's like, great, if you exist out there, that's fine. I don't think you're coming for me in the next 200 years. I think we're fine. And if you are, I bet we'll win. Have you seen independence? day. I have. That's one of the movies I have seen. You know? It's not even something I've like ever let myself think about like I don't even have an opinion on aliens. I wish I did because I'm on a

comedy podcast right now. But I actually have like nothing to contribute. It never even crosses my mind to like go down the the the thought, the stream of consciousness of like considering aliens and they want to come here and what would have. It's like I don't know whatever. Okay, they come kill us. I know where I'm going. Get it over with. I know. Exactly. Or they, we never ever see them. Okay, that's also sweet. I'm not going to spend my time thinking about it. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, it's the big deal. And they're like talking about like, well, you know, there's these things like can go so fast. They use the time, what they call it, the time, something continue. Flux capacitor. It was in back to the future. The time, space continuum of like, they can move throughout these universes. And I'm like, maybe. Maybe.

And then I close my eyes and like, force myself to fall asleep. You kind of let you fire off a few before you go to sleep. Yeah, yeah, and the microplastics. Good night. Microbacinate your kids? I don't know. Good night. You think aliens have vaccinations?

Yeah, just give them some stuff to talk about. How do you think they respond to COVID? That's pretty funny. Just every once in a while, just pipe up. Yeah. So anyway, that's been alien talk. Yeah, they love all the aliens. I'm trying to think of what.

movies he was just he couldn't oh he couldn't believe that I hadn't seen the shining it's like I don't that that's that's one that I'm like I'd watch the shining I've heard good things about the shining I'll be interested in the shining but like I haven't seen it and I'm not going to sit it's it's hard for me to like forcefully choose like all right we can watch this movie that's going to scare the urine out of me or I could watch this movie that's going to make me laugh a little bit and make me maybe feel good at the end of it I think there's so much good stuff coming out right now It's very hard to choose a horror movie from like, what, the 70s, the 80s when it was like, this brand new documentary that everyone's talking about just came out. Yeah, true.

Like, I'd rather watch the good one on the airplane, by the way. The crash, good. Crash. On the street? They didn't touch on that, but I assume it was part of their lives. You know, back in 08. Oh, real estate. No, this was about a car crash.

No. was it is it like a is there more to it obviously it was it just came out honestly I haven't seen anyone talk about it but Netflix recommended it I was in like I was downloading this in the Japanese airport so it was one of the only like things in the top

10 that was in English you know because you're on like Japanese Netflix I was like seems really good and it was it was like a high school girl crashed her car into their high school with two other guys in the car

with her, but she never tried to, like, break or anything, just, like, drove as fast as she could into the brick of her high school. Well, it was a girl, so. And it might have been Japanese, so. A little bit, you know, double jeopardy. But it was just, like, there's a lot to, like, peel back of, like, who she is and who her boyfriend was and looking into the data of the car. And I thought it was pretty good.

It hooked me. Okay, okay. But not a ton about the marks. crash. Can you read this? Yes, I can. It says, it says, it's naeem street. We know it's backwards. It's backwards. It's backwards. Try again. Oh, oh, it says, there you go. Turn it that way. Now it now it's forward. Main Street Roasters. Good. Coffee. You can't read it that way. Yeah, I got some clear coffee today. I love clear coffee, dude. Yeah. Um, this is something I do.

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like American shows that aren't available in America. Because I thought that was interesting when we went to Trinidad. All of a sudden, Netflix had Brooklyn 9-9, and it did not have that in America. And I was like, what? It's amazing. Did you notice that at all? I didn't notice anything.

Mainly because I, every night I was actually in Asia, like every night I'm going to bed in Malaysia. I mean, I'm so tired. It's not even an option to, like, watch anything. So I was like, I'm in the airport very quickly, download a few things. Patriots Day. Yeah, I've seen it a couple times.

but let's just have it in the hopper just in case that that's a good safety school yeah the martian i'll watch half the martian if it comes down to it yeah martian's good i've seen that one that's because there's no aliens it's just space no slime i was going to say why is that one good for us but the other ones aren't it's yeah because it's like realistic i don't know because it's so realistic he farms potatoes out of his crewmates poop for three months that's right it's realistic oh man it's cool anyway all right all right Brad, I am prepared to do an entire episode about airplanes and air travel.

Would you like that to be today's episode or Wednesday's episode? I think this is the air travel. Yeah, this is it. This is it. Okay. Let's do it. Okay. I wrote down a few things.

This is before I even, I mean, before we even get on the plane, just a few things that, I should say a few things before you even take off that caught my eye. Okay. One, I've heard plane announcements. hundreds and hundreds of times and so I don't know if they always say this or if this is just my first time noticing it but I heard an announcement

you know you're sitting in your seat on the airplane and they're going over some safety instructions but you haven't taken off yet and they said this is in America in the event of an evacuation I think this is like oh we landed on some we crash landed but on some water

and we're going to have to slide out or something so in the event of evacuation please remove high heels because they could cause damage to the slide. That sounds familiar, but I don't know if I've heard that in an announcement or I've just seen like image it, like the cartoon of that. You know how they have like the comic strip? The Calvin and Hobbs did a version of that. Yeah, it was Garfield that hated Friday or Mondays, right?

And he also hated high heels on his evacuation. slide. Yeah, I've heard this somehow. I never have that really caught my attention. You know, you kind of open up the headphones. He go, that's interesting. We just crash landed a plane, something that happens once every few years to one airplane in America. And you're worried about your precious slide. Well, and let's be honest, like that announcement, that thing must have been made. Yeah, it only happens every once a year or whatever. And also, no one's wearing high heels on airplanes anymore. That's that's 19706 like like people so true it's like hey you got to be more worried about somebody's yoga pants than they're like high heels these days you know like if your sweatpants

get caught on this thing like no one's no one's taken to the skies in a suit and tie anymore unfortunately if we have to evacuate and we go down the water slide please dampen your yoga pants because the elastic could catch fire right there's so much friction on the way down they are not flame retardant yeah Um, honestly, dude, I think we've talked about this before. Wouldn't hate going down that slide. No, especially in the water. I know.

Well, yeah, I guess only in water water. I don't know if they do it on like a dry landing. All the options in my head were like a really, really perfect landing. I don't even know how you would do it on a dry landing. You're saying just. Oh, no, they could do it in like a dry landing. Let's just say, okay, ideal situation. Well, two ideal situations.

one of them. We land well, we go to the tarmac and they, you know, flight attendants prepare the doors. And they can't. The doors don't work. And they say, guys, we got to go out. We got to take the slide out of here. Taking the slide today. Code blue.

And so they pull up that little cart that has all the luggage in it. And it's like, you know, a teddy bear, like corduroy back in the day into the like laundry chute. and you just get to go into the like ball pit of luggage. Sounds pretty fun. Please take one. Don't take anybody else's. That's right. That would be ideal situation number one.

I don't say situation number two would be something with like, yeah, you land. You know how they have a pool in the outfield at. I think it's the diamond backs? I think. Yeah. Where it's like, hey, that shouldn't be here, but it is. I think there's an airport. I want to say, help me out.

if you remember Tulsa Regional is it Tulsa I was thinking he was either Tulsa or like yeah one of those yeah it's either Tulsa or Little Rock one of those like ones down there that's kind of like ambiguous like is it sounds is the Midwest you know whatever um it is Tulsa regional yeah there's a there's a pool right there and I bet that's why is just in case yeah you know once a year and get to slide into the pool yeah they even have like judges like they have like numbers like interactive numbers for people waiting for the airplane, you know, inside, and you can score how well the slide goes. Like you can do style points into the slide.

Yeah, yeah. Really awesome. Take a basketball on your way down. There's a hoop at the bottom. See if you can do a dunk. That was pretty funny the other day. This was a good exercise in improv. Uncle Brooks, you know, my brother-in-law,

who's been the private chef for our getaways a few times. He was sitting at the pool. There was a night the other couple nights ago where the girls all went to a movie. They went to go see Devil Wears Prada, too. Captain's like, it wasn't very good. But they all went, they wanted to go see a movie. So it was the dads, the dudes, dudes at home with the kids.

And so classic dad move, we had early dinner so we could go back out and swim, nights with, you know. And Brooks, Brooks is not a dad himself. So I think every once in while he takes things on that he thinks, oh, shouldn't have probably done that, but I didn't know any better, you know, kind of thing. But he basically just sat on the edge of the edge of, the pool and these kids would just jump in and do the exact like literally just jump like no no kid is skilled enough in our family or old enough yet to like do anything cool into the pool and brooks

every single time would be like all right beau just did the tornado twister good job beau i mean and it was like it was constant like one person after another all right jack just did the luggage twist you know like just making up the most random things and every once a while he would say something and all the other kids would be like oh tornado twister that one's awesome dude and like after like i don't know 10 15 minutes brooks was like all right i got to take a break all right scorekeepers getting tired we just imagine trying to like come up with nonsense for that long just like all right let's just figure this out so i thought you're going to say he just had to come up with scores when they were just jumping into the pool over again but he was coming up with the names of tricks

Well, and then what would happen was like, Boa jump again, and maybe he couldn't think of anything else. He's like, Bo just did the tornado twister. And Bo would be like, that's not the tornado twister? You know, like, dude, we're even paying attention? Bo, all you're doing is jumping in the pool. Like, you're just doing a pencil dive every time. Like, that was the tornado twister. I promise.

That's funny. They're not even twisting, but half of them have twister in the name. Yeah, whatever. Yeah, it's just so funny. So, classic, just like, ah, this will be a fun thing. I'll be a fun uncle. And it's like, yeah, good luck, man. That is a fun improv game.

Yeah. All right. Another thing that I noticed on one of those, like I probably heard this 100 times, but just I noticed it, is they make an announcement of like, please, you know, if we've got the seatbelt sign on, you know, like, wear your seatbelt. No smoking. You know, it's just like some of these like general rules. Right. And the one that caught my eye this time is it said, do not tamper with the smoke detectors.

That's a federal offense. Don't do it. And here are my thoughts on this. There's probably a lot of things you could do on an airplane that are like, yeah, technically illegal. But why do they choose to like verbalize that one? Aren't there a million things? Like do not grab the flight attendants by the rear end. Right.

Like do not bang on the cockpit door and say, hey, I just want to give you a back rub. Like why? What is the smoke detector? Who's going to tamper with that? That seems so unlikely that you would need to announce. it yeah you have to sit butt first in your seat you cannot turn the other way when you're seated it's like like there's a lot of rules that we just don't say because it's yeah maybe that one's just one that like enough times people are like you know what i'm going to take my flyhead to this thing

and tamper with me also like if there's smoke on an airplane if you if somebody farts 18 rows in front of you you smell it i think people are going to know you don't think you need smoke They start smoking. Yeah. Yeah. People are going to be like, uh, that dude's smoking, FYI. Like, you're not, you're not hiding anything on an airplane. Like that, that air is is damp.

Like, you know, it's just or just like, it's all getting like recycled back to you. You're not going to hide. Yeah, dude. That's so. Yeah. Don't tamper with. Yeah. Somebody along the way caused them to have that, um, announcement.

I don't know. I mean, smoke detectors in general. As you get older, at least in my, I don't know, maybe I shouldn't say it. Somebody seemed like, I had a terrible experience with fire or whatever. But like, I don't know. I mean, I feel like they were such a big deal. Like, make sure your smoke detectors are working. Now that I'm adult, I'm like, pretty sure they're working.

I don't check them every year or anything. Like, I should. You know, like, you did like fire safety back in the day at school. Like, at least we did. Like, all these, like, did you guys have an evacuation route for your family? Great news. The federal EV rebate is back. eligible customers get up to $5,000 with the federal EVAP rebate on select 2027 volt and

26 equinox EV models visit your local Chevrolet dealer today for more details oh for our family no for our school yes but no not for our family I remember like I think the firefighters would come in and be like you guys need to practice this you know you need to go check this out if this happens you guys need to do like a drill in your own house and I think I went home and told my mom like yeah we need to do this. And my mom said, oh, this is what we'll do. And I'm like, okay, cool. But we don't, we don't have that for my family.

I'm not a good, good leader, apparently. Yeah, I don't know. I think tornadoes were always just much more prevalent and happening way more. I never knew anyone caught up in a house fire. Yeah. But I knew to go to the basement for a tornado. Yes. Correct.

Correct. Tornado detectors. Yeah. The announcements are great. You know, once again, my kids just, This is her first time flying. And so I, and the flight attendant chose to be right outside or right on the like center aisle by our kids. And so, yeah, our kids like got the show.

Like, and every time, every time they would do like the, you know, life jacket thing and they'd be done with it or whatever that thing is like the inflatable and they pretend to blow on it and put it down. Like they would give it to my kids like, you know, or they'd show how to do the seatbelt and then they'd be like, can you hold this for a second bow? So they thought that was kind of cool But it's just one of those things That you get so used to it I still Maybe it's the Midwesterner in me Maybe this is just the whatever

But I can't not watch them when they do their thing Like I just Oh yeah I just I'm like this is This is so disrespectful for me not to look at you Right now I think it depends where I'm out in the airplane

If I'm like an aisle seat And they're right in front of me Oh I'm locked and loaded I'm like yeah Interesting interesting okay myself and then and then okay yes you know knocking along like a crazy person but if i'm like window seven rows back i'm like they got it no you guys listen for me that and that's that's that's a hundred percent right because if they can't see me i'm not watching but it's like

it's like i don't want you to know that i don't care what you're saying right now yeah yeah yeah but if they if they can't tell if i'm if i'm there or not no problem i'm just i'm just leaning against the window. Anyway. Let's see what else I wrote down. Okay, this is the very first thing I wrote down starting my entire journey

to Asia and back. Very first observation. Here's what I wrote down. I said, there are people who don't care what anyone else thinks of them. There are reality TV stars. And then there are the people in the airports who

drive the carts. Those people are insane. They're maniacs. the uh like the employees driving the carts for somebody else or yeah who drive like the elderly and the overweight you know the people yeah just like they're just like going crazy on their horn and just like swerving in and out excuse me excuse me yeah yeah i'm convinced behind you behind you it's so rude that's so i'm convinced that's good jake i'm so convinced that like part of their job description is like you got to get at least one fight a week like like they're like they're

they're pre-aggressive towards me like yes it's like a microaggression i was filling up katherine's water bottle i was out of the way this person was like i was clearly waiting for them to go past before i was and i mean they were like coming up excuse me and i'm like uh i was like i'm not i wasn't mad i was respecting your distance but like what are you you're trying to get me mad you're trying to make i'm glad you got to experience this yes dude oh Oh, and you know they're coming from 16 gates away. It's wild. So loud.

Yeah, it is like a job requirement. Like if you don't have one altercation per week, you're probably, you probably don't want it bad enough. You're probably not doing your job right. That's how we know you're doing your job. Can you imagine like some super sweet, like, you know, yeah, just little girl just driving. If you, if you were to get out of the way, it'd be awesome. Thank you. I would be terrible at that job.

they found the right people for it though because they're all mean they're all so angry well it's just people at the airport pretty much you know like no like how many how many amazing baristas are you meeting at the airport like i just feel like if you if you choose to drive all the way to the airport to work you're probably not just like super psyched about it yeah you know at least not like the service workers maybe like the gate people I like some of those people. You got more experience than I do. All right, hey, I got this book here.

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While in the refrigerator, you'll realize a lot of this crap is processed and made in other countries. You'll look at your meat drawer, your meat locker. Yeah. Then what? And then you'll see, that's not good meat. That's got antibiotics in it. Oh, no. He'll ask for some solutions.

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What about, like, do you feel like that? Same rule applies to Asian, Asian drivers of these carts. I don't know. They have carts over there. I didn't see people getting like lugged around in carts. They're healthy enough. They don't need them. Yeah, Blue Zone.

That's right. I don't know if that's true or not, but I never saw people getting like driven around. Yeah, probably is they're way skinnier. Yeah. Must be nice. This is not as much an observation as it is just kind of a fun little story. getting to Asia I had

like going into it I knew I've got like a one hour and ten minute layover in South Korea like this is going to be tight you know it's all international yada yada and we're a little late getting to South Korea it takes us a little while

the taxi we finally get to our gate I'm in like 57F so it's like all right this is going to be hopefully we're in like the same like term I get off the plane and there's a woman waiting for me at the start of the jet bridge and she's got a piece of paper that she printed off

color print by the way Okay, must be nice And it says Jacob Triplett on it On a piece of paper I was like, hey, that's me And she doesn't speak great English But I just, she just starts leading me And so we're just like walking together

And I'm like trying to figure out like are we running really late? And she's kind of like smiling and I'm like I don't I'll follow you. And basically I get a private escort to my gate from her. We went like a different version. It was interesting because it said like the signs were saying like terminal ones back this way. And we're going this way. It's a part of me is like I don't even know if we're going the right direction. But she knew and I trust her.

And so that's a bold thing to trust. because if she's wrong, you're stuck in South Korea. I know. I mean, she was waiting on me. She knows where I need to go. And sure enough, she knew the shortcut. I was trying to take videos of it because I wanted to post on my Instagram where I was like, this is so fun. I'm just getting like a one-on-one private escort to my gate.

Yeah, backstage pass. And we got to one area. Like she took me to a private security area where I'm the only person in security like having to like get read like, you know, throw my bags through or whatever. And so I'm like, this is kind of crazy. Like I'm in Korea. there's no one else here and so i'm like taking a video of this they did not like that they yelled at me uh i the translation went through there i i didn't know exactly what they're saying but i knew it was

bad yeah they they knew the right words uh in english and he made me um pull out my phone and we had to go to photos and he made me delete that video whoa dude he didn't make me delete it from recently deleted so i think it still technically is on my phone but that's an amateur move from his Also, I was not trying to post that to Instagram. I was like, it's not worth it. I don't know what they know or what, like, could happen to me. No way. They're just like, delete it.

Wow. I wonder why. I mean, it's a public, I guess maybe that's a private area. Also, yeah, I'm very curious how you never got to the bottom of like, like, did Matt sign you up for some air travel where you had some special privilege of like, the. this thing or like maybe they just like have a there's like did you see a lot of people with signs there was one other name on that piece of paper but as soon as I said hey that's me she just took me so I don't know what happened to that other guy I don't know if he like is behind me just waiting or I don't know there was one other name I forget what airline I was flying

but basically I talked to someone else at the gate and it was talking to them about like oh yeah I got this private law escort they go oh yeah that's what they do that at whatever was they're like really they they are aware of like a quick layover and they'll make sure you're taken care of i was like that is so nice man interesting i uh i learned from katherine's sister this weekend she she flew breeze airlines you ever heard of breeze briszie yeah the bris no i don't know about breeze i'm like how many airlines are out there that we just don't know about like i just assume these days especially in america it's kind of a or whatever we would call it oligopoly of American Delta Southwest United maybe like and obviously

their spirit was around for a while but like I don't know like frontier in Alaskan and then that's about it maybe Hawaiian or something Allegiant Allegiant heard of that like for the most part it feels like never heard a breeze they must fly out of Tulsa regional primarily yeah it's like how many how many airlines are like that that we just don't know about especially like a European airlines that we don't know because you're like yeah I don't know what airline we were on we're just going from one to another and that's how they do it there that's how they do it in luftanza or whatever yeah Scott and Isaac had the same exact like flight pattern that I did like we booked the same stuff but they just booked it four days later so I was giving them a heads up like hey you're probably going to get a private escort like you know it's going to be fun and then they didn't get it I maybe their flight arrived too early or something but it's just me oh really they yeah maybe they had a little more time Yeah. That's pretty fun though. Also, like, I would have a hard time not second-guessing out loud when I saw her going the other way.

Because it's like, we have no margin for error. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Like, I'm triple checking like, yeah, okay, my printed ticket says Terminal 1. My boarding pass says Terminal 1. And all these signs say we're going the wrong direction. But she knew. Interesting.

That's awesome. Another funny thing about that. I mean, it's very quick. We take a shortcut. I spend all of 15 minutes in South Korea. Really could have used some lunch or, you know, caffeine, anything. And I don't get to. I have to go gate to gate.

I've been in Malaysia now about 36 hours. And I think, I haven't seen my Apple Watch in a little bit. I wonder if it's somewhere in my bag. Maybe I took it off. I was trying to sleep, whatever. Can't find it my bag. And I look up, find my devices. And it says, seen 10 minutes ago in Seoul, South Korea.

I go, huh, that's, that's a new one. Somehow in my very quick, I mean, I'm assuming maybe I left it on the airplane and not actually the terminal. But I don't know what that means. I just took it off in the airplane seat and just chucked it somewhere. I don't know what I did. So no more Apple Watch for me. Do you think you were like asleep? Did you sleep?

Like you sleep take? Sleep, sleep, sleep? Maybe I sleep took. You sleep strip? No. That's too bad. So are you going to be done? Are you going to?

I think that's it for me. Yeah. Because I think that was your second one. Did you lose another one before that? Yeah, I left the first one in an Uber in Australia. Okay. So it's always, it's always a broad. It's always when you're off your game a little bit out of your rhythm.

Okay. You're just going to go, you're going to go just raw dog or you're going to analog it? I think I'm just going to go. I did Google the other day. I forgot what I searched exactly, but like, what is the point of really nice watches is basically what I googled like why are these people buying ten thousand dollar Rolexes like is there something I'm missing out on are these investments and Google is like figure out like what like how social like you know culture works like now why are

these people driving shiny cars when they get this this beat up one from the 80s works why would they put something like shimmering and shiny around their neck what is that is that for breathing now Why do they put that like tight thing? Yeah, yeah, around their neck when they put on a suit. Like, what's that about? Why not just, why just wear a T-shirt and shorts? Yeah. I was just making sure I wasn't missing out on anything.

I'm like, do Rolexes appreciate 10% year every year? I just want to make sure. And no, they don't. They don't, they don't, uh, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case, but, uh, maybe not 10%, but Google told me, um, it's got to be a pretty rare watch for it to actually be an investment. And I said, I don't know. anything so i'm out on this yeah don't don't be that guy you there's no way there's no way you could there's that's not you at all that's like the opposite i don't even know if i'd wear it exactly like

you'd look ridiculous wearing it oh yeah yeah especially with all your pickleball stuff it's like big ball stuff with this this is all i'm wearing cozy earth right now right no anyway that's funny um so no more watch for me i yeah apple watches are nice because you never miss a phone call bring an Apple Watch. And you know your heart rate. Yeah. Every time I call you, every time I call you and you don't answer,

I think he saw it. And now, now if you don't have an Apple Watch, it's like, I don't know, maybe he just missed it. Like, he like chose not to answer my call right now.

Like, you know what I mean? I think that a little bit. So maybe there's a little bit of a convenience both ways. Now people don't have to just like, be frustrated with you. And not that I'm really frustrated with you.

You know what I mean? Yeah. So I think I'll just go, No more watch. We had a good run. Yeah. You know, now I'm remembering, speaking of run, that was convenient when I was going on runs to know how far I'd gone. Okay.

But I'm not going on runs anymore. Oh, you're going on streaks, though, boy. You're going on streaks of dominating pickleball scenes left and right, boy. Streak strips. Yeah, dog. Sleep strips. Okay. Other airplane story.

So I think last Monday's episode, you know, Matt, CEO Matt told us like, hey, if you're like doing so poorly when we get to Asia, maybe we just need to fly business class. That's right. This becomes like a big conversation with everyone there. We all call it BC. We're all talking BC the whole trip. Like, you know, Kyle and Ashley are like, we're thinking about going BC for the flight home. You know, we're just talking about constantly. it's kind of this running joke.

And so I'm like, why don't I just, my just look into it. Yeah, I'm flying Japan Airlines. Let's just, let's just look into it. And Japan Airlines will not let you upgrade to a seat.

What you can do is bid on an upgraded seat. I've never seen this before. So it's late at night. I'm by myself in my hotel room. And I'm trying to figure out like, what should I bid on a BC seat home? Okay. And it gives you a little tool as well,

What were you going to say? Oh, I was going to say, tell me about the bids. Like, is it like, is it, is it free to bid? Or is it like, hey, every bid cuss you. Is it like, is it like a auction where it's like you can see the running total? Or is it just like a blind like whoever gets the highest wins? Yeah. You pay that.

And if you don't win, you don't pay anything. Yep. Yep. It's like putting an offer on a home. I do that every time. I do that every time. I, I, I've never seen this. I think maybe it's not that common.

Or I don't know. I just never look. into it. I love this. There is a minimum bid though. So for me to go they know they know they know the Brad Ellis is over the world they're like just put five dollars every time you never know you never know That's what I would do I would just be like why not try yeah but okay so to go from uh what was it manila philippines to japan and then from japan to seattle was what I was bidding on like two flights, you know, over the ocean. And can I ask some questions along the way?

Yeah. Do you remember how much that flight in your normal seat was price-wise? Yeah, I want to say getting, getting from Manila to Japan to Seattle to Kansas City costs like $1,100 total for three flights. Okay. Okay. So, you know, you could say approximately 300, 300, 400 or something like that, 400. 400 for 300 um anyway 900 minimum 150 50 if you want to the minimum bid was 800 and now there's almost like a it looks

like a speedometer almost that's like shows you how likely your bid is yeah you know it's like red yellow green okay and so it starts off at 800 and it says poor it's like calling you poor you're broke you're I just not thought of that. Yeah, it's saying your bid is poor, but it's basically like you are poor. You can't do this. Right. And so it'll let you go all the way up to like, I don't know, $6,500. And then of course it's like, great, rich, rich, rich.

Amazing. Yeah. You're going to love that. And so it's like, I mean, I don't, I don't need this. This is completely a luxury. I'll, I, yeah. But I've worked my butt off. You know, I've worked hard for the first time of my life the last 10 days.

It would be cool. And I have the thought, you know, I put up to like the middle. And I go, what am I doing? No. And then I think, hey, if I was a business, what I would do was make people feel like their bid wasn't good enough. Correct. I'm not going to listen to the speedometer. Don't look at that.

And so I go barely above the minimum. I go 900. Yes. And I think, all right, that's still a lot. They're making me feel like I barely bid anything. That's still a lot of money. Are you a lot of money? How do that would I be?

Yeah. Are you able to see how many are available? No, I don't know anything. Okay. Okay. That would be nice. It's like, hey, we got four seats and we're opening those up to four beds. I bet there's a way, like, maybe if you go and like book a new ticket or something, maybe you could see that.

That's true. I've had another tab, you know, incognito tab open. I could see what we're working with. That's a good point. Get chaty p.t to run agent mode or something, but like, yeah. Agent, not Asian mode. Asian agent mode, maybe. Yeah.

Could be nice. Because that's, obviously, that supply of demand a little bit there. Totally. Okay. So I just bid 900. Yeah. I think like, I mean, yes, that's definitely like a lot on top. The 1100 is getting paid for by the company.

So this would just be like out of pocket. I spend 900 bucks. Yeah, yeah. But I get to fly a long ways in like the laydown seats. This would be pretty cool if we were to get it. I don't want a bit more than that. And when do you learn if you get it or not? 24 hours before your flight.

All right. We got some, yeah, we got some action. Yeah, so a few days go by, you know, kind of talk about, you heard anything from BC? No, no, you know, I'm a minute. in the dark of BC, you know. At this point, Kyle and Ashley have booked theirs. They're on a different airline.

They just straight up upgraded. Okay. They spent four grand on theirs. Okay. Something in, wow. If I get BC for 900. That's how well. All right.

Yeah. I wake up last day. I got BC. Let's go, dude. Got the email. Oh. So it was pretty awesome. Yeah.

You're, you're street. immediately. Yeah, yeah. Screens Chilis to the group, B.C., B, C, B, C. Okay. It was kind of like, it was one of the more life-changing upgrades I've ever had in my life. There's like, oh, I went Uber Black instead of Uber.

Well, that's kind of nice. Yeah, it's a nice SUV. Right. Or, you know, whatever like little upgrades you could think of. Like TSA Pre-Chack, like that's pretty nice. This is one of those things I think I may never do again. And I think I've flown on an airplane so much the normal way that I've really knew how to appreciate how much better this was.

Yes, dude. At the same time, I would really recommend everyone do this at some point. Like, just place your bids and just get lucky once. It was so awesome, dude. There were so many upgrades or like, um, just like, add-ons or what am I trying to say? Just like luxuries, I wasn't anticipating. Like, I get to the airport.

I'm flying home by myself, you know, so I got to navigate as Asian airport solo, flying internationally. And like, you know, at first I get, I'm like, holy cow, this is so busy. I hope I got here in time. And then I see to check my baggage, business class has their own row just to check your bags. I'm in a row or like in a line by myself.

I got straight to the counter. Boom. How high was your, how high was your nose then, dude? He was like, oh, you guys were checking over there. No bad. I walked you out like this.

I thought it was funny. Auction winner. Auction winner over here. Auction winner. Yeah, I used to be on eBay when I was a kid. That's probably why. I sold some stuff. You were a,

buy it now kid not me not me i went for it so getting like to the front of the line to even just to check my bag that was awesome it was like i mean that's maybe 30 minutes probably this is great and then they give me a printed off boarding pass and it says sakura lounge on it and so i have to ask her i'm such a newbie i go what is is this is this and how is this and how is this and she's giving me directions you up to this floor it's right here the lounge was nuts actually just it's empty there's all these Asian women

who you know they keep putting their hand over their heart and bowing at you that was the first time I'd seen the hand over heart bow that was new to me and did you bow back dude I actually wrote this in my notes I am a bowing fool now

I bowed I have no idea of what the what the right thing to do is is that the right thing? Like a maniac in Asia and it's still it's still with me I bowed at first watch yesterday not a fool like I didn't like

Give her like a samurai. Like, thank you. Thank you for a chicken sausage. But I just like, I'm doing like my upper body is kind of like, it takes a posture of humility towards pretty much everyone. It's not just a head nod. It's a little bit in the shoulders and chest as well. Like I would say, yeah, like the back of the neck.

It's not, it's not here. It's not just the chin. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. It's like when you come back from Hawaii, you're always like doing the shaka. it's like you come back from Asia you're bowing everywhere

in Jamaica whenever it says hey man exactly yeah I'm a bit of a bowing liability right now and I wouldn't know is that is that the right thing to do like exchange bow for bow

you're blow for blow I think you're allowed to go bow for bow regardless of race okay yeah it's not like hey hey we can do that you can't do that yeah it's like can I get the bow pass

am I allowed to bow with you okay The lounge is awesome. It's just so just nice and private. And she has to give me a tour because it's so big. She's like, this is the breakfast area. This is the buffet area. Here we've got our own coffee shop that's all free.

You know, just order whatever you want. We've got snacks in here and everything. Here is the toddler play area. Here's like the baby nursery area. Here's the golf simulator. What? I went to town on that for about 20 minutes. Did you wish you had, you know, did you wish you got there earlier?

I should have spent all night in there. I should have slept in there. Yeah, I had probably an hour and a half. So it was not bad. Golf simulator. Yeah, they had a golf simulator. Some little snotten-nosed kid came in there, took it from me, though. Of course I let him.

He's six years old. He never, I was like, it might be a golf prodigy. Let's see what he's got. And he's holding the club. I mean. Yeah. Like a loser. Like a loser.

You're not going to be, you're not a golf prodigy. It was not Michelle we. So you're like maybe. Yeah. Okay. Did the golf team there? They had an entire virtual reality like room or like, yeah, basically, virtual reality room. What does that mean?

Like it was kind of like, like just like this play area. There was like this big screen. You put on these goggles. Like you just like go have a blast being like a kid in there. Wow. Like you could like, it was like obstacle course almost? No, it's like you're in just like a big open room, but you've got like, the goggles on playing all sorts of games and stuff.

Sweet. Did you do that? No, I kind of would have. There was another couple there and I almost joined them because they looked fun and young and I was like, is that weird if I joined them to play their games of them? But I didn't. It's like it could be weird or it could be awesome. It could be a great memory or it could be like, yeah, I should have done that. That was the wrong move.

Yeah. Were you going with a building excuse? Hey, I can only join for five minutes just in case. It gets weird. Smart. It was just so fun. And then like when your flight is boarding, there's like women walking around with iPads. They're just like showing you like which flight is boarding just in case anyone needs to know it.

And like that's my flight. Oh thank you. Yeah, I'll go down now. Yeah, you're like completely lost in this amazing lounge. Like you lose track of time. You don't have your Apple watch anymore. It's like, all right. Okay.

That's awesome, dude. Look what I'm wearing. Okay. Can you hear me still? I can hear you still. I'll be honest it's pretty unbreathable down here it's pretty hard to breathe

this fabric whatever I have on does not breathe very well how about you oh we're doing it really see mine feels amazing and to be honest probably works as a nice kind of sound muffler

like uh it probably helps with plusive sounds like the purple people porcupines I bet that sounded great I really hope my father is so soft It's so thick Because it's cozy earth

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He would say he needs it. Yeah. He's got one shirt and it's a white undershirt and it's got barbecue skitsaws stains all over it. So let's be real. Are you still doing the shirt thing? Yeah, I think he's going to need it. Yeah, bud. He's going to want that.

My shirt's backed out now. Frick you, Jake. Cozyert.com slash garriswriters. Dot com. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So like does that mean, well, tell me, tell me about business class once you get to the airplane.

I want to hear more. Yeah. And then obviously getting to the plane, it's just like so nice. I mean, I get it for two flights. The second one was like the really long one. So that seat was even nicer. I mean, you have just like, it feels like a living room. You've got to got two areas.

So it's like, I'll set my stuff down over here. And then I will like, I'll really hang out in this area. You know, it's like L shaped. You could fully lay down. It was just crazy having options of like, how do I want to fall asleep? I think that's my biggest takeaway. It's like your chair could go in so many configurations that you almost feel like, I don't know, it's like analysis paralysis.

It was like, do I want to go fully flat? I'm fully flat. I don't know. I think it's like almost like a recliner almost. Yes. I kind of feel that way at like movie theaters with those reclining seats. It's like it's a cool idea, but I don't know if I'm fully, I don't know if I'm fully enjoying this like I should. Like, am I missing out on just a little bit higher up, you know, like, and then all of a sudden, you're like, I just, I just got to choose one and just go for it.

Yeah. Just get used to it. Flown this way enough to know what's optimal. I've got to figure it out now. But it was crazy. I mean, you just have enough space. Like, I, I fell asleep for a good amount just completely on my back. And then one time I felt like rolling over.

And so I slept like on my side for a while. Like, I used to have so much room. How, how padded is it? It's okay. Okay. Yeah, I would say it's okay. It just they treat you so well. I mean, early on in the flight, they're like,

sir, would you like a complimentary cardigan? Yeah, I'll take the cardigan. A complimentary cardigan? Yeah, so I put the cardigan on. Do you have it? Did you keep it? It might be in some dirty laundry or luggage somewhere. Oh, that's, for whatever reason,

the fact that it's a cardigan just fires me up. Yeah. I don't use it as a blanket, but. That's awesome. And then I just felt like I could kind of get whatever I wanted, so to speak. But like they brought me some pasta. It was really good. And I was like, can I get a refill on the pasta?

I'm like, of course, sir. Of course. Of course. Why wouldn't you? Later on the flight, I had brought like a protein bar with me. So I'm eating that. And I'm thinking, man, a glass of milk would go good with this. I wanted some milk.

So I asked for some milk. They brought me some milk. It was awesome. That's awesome, dude. So yeah, I mean, they were probably laughing at me because they keep offering me out I'm like, no thank you. And they're offering me. Would you like the caviar?

I'm like, no, thank you. Just cold milk. I'll take some milk. Milk and pasta. Yeah, they're like, this guy, yeah, this guy's costing us no money at all. Like, yeah, we'll give you more pasta. And he won't stop bowing. What's this guy's deal?

How secluded was it? I had a guy kind of to my left and back a little bit, but there was a divider. He put it up, not me. I was okay with the balance we had struck. but he rose the divider up. So by that point, it's very private. Yeah. And then like when you were sleeping,

did you hear them come and like check on you or anything? No, I don't know what happened while I was sleeping. Okay. Yeah, that's what I would be curious about. I was like, because sometimes my, my biggest fear on an airplane, you know me,

love my drinks. I don't want to sleep. I don't want to miss it. I don't want to miss the one opportunity I get for a good drink. But I'm sure you have, obviously, you have as much milk as you want, brother.

Yeah, I remember my father-in-law actually just last night was talking about he used to fly all the time from Dallas to New York. I think he did it like once every other week or something. So he had all these miles and flew first class and all this stuff for business. And he was like, yeah, right when you get on the plane, they give you a bowl of hot nuts. And I was like, you want that? Oh, yeah. It's so good. Really?

I got a bowl of hot nuts. You did? Yeah, actually did. I actually did. Did you try any? From one of the flights. Yeah, yeah. Hey, y'all, it's Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair. Ever order furniture online and wonder what if?

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I don't know. Is that just make it like it's just more rare to get hot nuts? I don't know why they were warm. Yeah, they're like slightly warm. It's mainly just almonds and cashews. That was just the money ones. Yeah, it wasn't bad. Good little milk.

There's peanuts in there. And then, oh, he said he got a hot towel at some point. Did you get a hot towel? I didn't get a hot towel for like my face. They gave me like a warm towel, I think, to like wash your hands before the meal. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe that's what it was for.

And then, but he said at the very end of every flight or like, you know, to kind of top it off, you always got a one like warm chocolate chip cookie. I was like, that's awesome. That was not even awesome. offered to me. With the milk, they should have been like, that's coming with it. Okay, so I can't keep track. Are Scott and Isaac, yeah, Isaac's still in China or now, right? Or something like that. Yeah, as of when we're recording this, Isaac is, I think, spending his first night in China right now. Okay. And Scott, I think, is maybe in like Denver. He's on his way back home right now.

So did Scott auction it off? Did he go for it? So I haven't seen him. I feel like he would tell you. This is what was cool is by the time I got back to the United States, Matt was like, hey, Jake, I'm going to reimburse your business class tickets. You, like, crushed it this week. Yeah. And Scott and Isaac, same goes for you. You guys can upgrade too if you want. Let's go.

So I know that financially they were given permission to, but I think Scott had the same airline as me where it's like you can't just upgrade. You have to like bid appropriately. So I don't know if he got it or not. You would think that he would say something if he'd got it. Yeah, you're right, though. I'm surprised you haven't just. just had communication with them about that in general.

Most of these flights, you know, as much, they can throw out as much business class as they want, but they still don't really have good Wi-Fi. We're still like a ways out from that. Really? Technologically. I was actually pretty impressed with Southwest's Wi-Fi on my flight. I thought, like, I watched some videos on it,

which is kind of impressive. Like, yeah, YouTube videos. So, anybody wasn't great, but I feel like usually it's like, you're not doing anything like that. So yeah, I think once you get out of the ocean, it's not as good. It's a picture on a text immediately delivered. So I don't know.

It was a new Southwest flight. It had the USBC chargers. I was like Southwest, you're not allowed to do this, I don't think. This is too high tech for you guys. Pretty nice. Yeah. Dude, that's sick. So you got done with the experience and you said,

everyone needs to do this once in their life, you're not saying, I don't know if I could ever go back. Because that's the hard thing for me is like once I know, it's just hard to like imagine not having it. Yeah, there is definitely a little like tug towards that.

I was like, man, that'd be nice to do that every time forever. And yeah, if I could afford it, absolutely would because I think it's an amazing like upgrade. But no, I don't need it. Also can't afford it. And also I fly Southwest 90% of the time so it's not even an option.

Hey, you can get that front row leg room or wherever it is exit row leg room on Southwest more often. But yeah, definitely super cool to do it once. The more Asian places you're going, you might have more opportunities. Yeah, maybe. That's sick, dude. I'm proud of you. Proud you for winning the bid. Yeah, I couldn't believe it.

So, yeah, maybe there'll be more. Who knows? But that's my airplane stuff. I love it, dude. I don't have any airplane stuff beyond that. maybe honestly maybe we should wrap up this episode and do another one we're going to record two here so that because i i can't spend all day not at the beach when the beach is calling the waves are calling you know the cold pool is calling yeah no i don't feel bad yeah you've had to record three

episodes while on family vacation at the beach don't feel bad it's fine it's uh yeah it's part of it it's just like if anything it i think i said this last week it's like it shows my in-laws that I actually do do some work every once in a while. I think they're just like, Brad just does nothing all day. No, it's totally fine. Honestly, Catherine's been really supportive of it. But yeah. And the kids, Bo heard that I was recording.

He's like, can I, can I be on there? And I was like, I don't think mom wants you to, you know, not be at the beach, you know, kind of thing. Yeah. Go get sunburn with your siblings. Exactly. Dude, one thing that's really fun is, this is just like classic, like, little boy kind of thing. brother-in-law Sam is so good at thinking about these things but he just bought like

$20 worth of army men like just a massive crate of army men and just brought down to the beach and they're making all sorts of like sand forts and like set-ups with the army men and battling each other with them and all this stuff and so Bo's having a blast of that. I'm sure he's in heaven that's so fun it's so fun dude that I mean both yeah they're all just loving love in life it's it's been really great so Yeah, overall, can't complain. But, yeah, let's wrap this one up. That's all right with you, Jake, unless you have any other air travel.

That's great. I'm all done with the airplane episode. This has been the airplane episode. Still have more Asia stuff in the hopper if we need it next episode. In the hopper. It's a grasshopper. It's a moulon. That's cricket.

Hi. All right. We did reviews of the week on Wednesday's episode because I think we thought it was a Monday episode. he did didn't we so should we like just get off just do a comment now or should we i don't know even what what the right reaction man you're right we're all cattywampus i tell you what man we you know we go to asia and go on vacation for a few weeks and all of a sudden we don't know what we're doing we don't have timing honestly that's the big issue we do need timing i don't even i don't even i don't even hear from timing anymore these days hope he's okay i text him for his birthday

That was about it. What do you say? He said, thanks, man. That meant a lot. No, here's exactly what he said. Let me be specific. I said, I'm not going to lie. It was a pretty nice text.

And he said, dude. Oh, okay, so I started it by, it was a voice message, you know me. And it was, I was like, time in, man. And I kind of just did like the Grewd and impression. I was like, that's why I explained. I was like, listen, you don't know this. guy. There's this guy John Gruden and you say man all the time.

And, uh, you know, and so I just kept being like, it's your birthday man. I love you, man. You know, all these different things. And, uh, and then I was at the end, I was like, happy. How old are you? 20? You're 21? No, you're not 21. You know, at the end I was like, we're going to get so drunk next year and your birthday, man. And so he texted me. Dude, thank you so much, man.

appreciate all the very kind words man this time next year we're going to be so drunk together man and I just said you kidding me man forget about it man so anyway that's it but happy birthday of timing shout out

happy birthday to timing we miss you buddy we'll be back next week I hope so next Monday next Wednesday in studio we're all back at studio one last time next week we better make it awesome Jake

we should we should really plan on doing that thing that we've been talking about doing forever. Finally, we'll have an opportunity to do it. That's right. Oh, that's fun. Well,

I mean, surely we'll record again in person another time. Surely you'll be in Kansas City. Yeah, I think I'll be back this summer. Yeah, I think I'm back.

Yeah. Anyway. Let's just do comment of the week then because we didn't get any more reviews than the last 48 hours. Fools. Mine's from Jim,

Jindromarski. I don't know when The first name starts and ends. But when Brad asked Hattie if she could tap anywhere that has better coffee, I immediately was muttering, please say no, please say no, please say no. That's awesome. Oh, that joke will never get old. Let's see here.

Pulling up a, pulling up a comm. Internet slang for comment. Let's go from this latest episode. Imagine four wet wives. Out of context quote of the episode. That's pretty good. Yeah, there's just some fun ones here. Talking about styrofoam.

I'll say it's styrofoam. I looked it up years ago and found the styrofoam is recyclable, but you have to drop it off at a styrofoam factory. Says So Cal, Gal, Thrift. See, I knew you could do it. Yeah. That's like saying everything. recyclable.

I found out that you can run your car on French fry oil. Turns out you just have to make it run that way. It's like, well, yeah. You have to build it that way at the beginning. So, sweet. All right, Ghosties. We will see you again on Wednesday. Thanks for listening.

Thanks for, I mean, supporting us when we record from obscure places all over the world. And we'll see Wednesday. See Wednesday. Love you guys. Uh, uh-oh, ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts And 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 it's a ghost from spot now.