Ghostrunners - 543 - Light Housekeeping or Lighthouse Keeping?

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

Jake talks about a massage he got in Malaysia and Brad thinks he might've lost a sensation in his mouth. Check out Cozy Earth and get 20% off site wide with this link: http://www.cozyearth.com/ghostrunners Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I like the countdown the app we use I don't know why but the difference in a three second countdown and five second countdown is massive oh three seconds I would never get goofy I just be like all right I guess we're going five everything's a three second countdown five yeah you got all this extra time

it's like I'm not going to be goofy and then about two seconds left I'm like let's get goofy so sometimes being in control of the record button again you know time out of town. You know, I'm not, not looking over. Are you going? You're not going. No, we don't know what's going on here. We're live. That's how it should be. People are saying all these positive things about timing. I think, let's be honest, like behind the scenes, we do see him as a net negative, right? Like, we like, we like him.

Like, it's not like he's like the worst guy in the world, but like he's not amazing. He's not doing things that like we could never do. He's not hitting notes that I can't hit. Every time we need him to sing a song live, like in Branson or Grande Bu. He's sick or has a sinus infection every time. Yeah. His voice is fake. It's all AI. It's all AI.

It's, it's, I mean, you noticed like what he did, uh, equine one. He like, took, it took him months to like produce that. Was anyone around when he made that song? I've never seen it. He went home. He came back. It sounds exactly like Justin Bieber. That's a little fishy.

Yeah. Nice try. Just, just time. Bieber. And speaking of AI, remind me again the very first piece of content we ever saw from Tyman. What did he go viral? What was the, what was that video?

Was that even Timon, dude? Because yeah, that was him saying, you need to try Adobe's new AI software. A-A-I-I-I-I-I-I-A-I-A-I-M-O-N. T-A-A-A-A-M-O-N. Ta-A-A-A-M-O-N. Timon. Ta-A-A-M-O-N. For whatever reason in Asia, I kept using a Jamaican accent.

I just thought that was kind of funny. like you know whatever like jai would hit a good shot on laying and I'd say big time big time that's awesome

that's kind of my joke of the week I like that because it's not like what are they going to do they don't notice that you're probably it's a third party accent we can all appreciate it it's just a fun

yeah see as long as it's not one of the two races you can go after that third race is that what you're saying yeah They're not there. Yeah. They can't defend it. It's fine.

Yeah, I said that a lot for whatever reason. Oh, big time. Big time shot. Big time. I like big time. Just any, any Jamaican thing's fun to say. And I think it'd be tough once you're into,

like I remember, I think it was my first year at camp. We had a Jamaican party. And man, the, the, the accents were flue. and throughout that entire summer because of that.

I re. We said I re all the time. I reman. About all these different things. So time is going to Jamaica. Allegedly. Yeah. His family is.

Maybe they're bringing along their device with him on it. Yeah. I don't know how long we have time and back. I think he gets here this weekend. I know I'm shooting a music video with him on Monday. I think we're recording Tuesday. And then he might go to Jamaica pretty soon after. You're shooting a music video?

You know, coincidentally enough, it's an AI song now that I think about it. It's not with time. It is just like filming it. Okay. Basically for a Friday pickleball thing, you know, we had AI make us this dumb song. And I actually went to Journey Bible Church yesterday. I saw Luke Hoagland there. Okay.

Because we're going to borrow their stage. Okay. to do like pretend that we're like performing a concert basically what's the song about so every this one spoiled too much whatever it doesn't matter every two-ish weeks this summer Friday is coming out with a new colorway of the aura pro which is like you know it's just like it's selling really well let's give you know let's make more splashes and more marketing moments and i think each iteration is probably going to sell out without even posting to social media. You know, I think we, just with our email and current customer base, we could probably sell out.

But what it does is it gives me an opportunity to really run in these lanes where it's like, I have an excuse to really like make cool content, basically. It kind of reminds you of Kanakukuk, where like there's themes to each launch. Okay. And I love it. So like, it's come out by now. But tomorrow when we're recording this is our first launch and it's cream sickle. Love it.

So it's like an orange paddle that we redesign it. Like the logos are. kind of like dripping like they're kind of like melting in the sun um and so we made some cool content around that and then well i like that one a lot that's fun that that's i don't care what your other ones are that's my favorite in two weeks um the theme is heavy metal because we're replacing like the edge guard instead of like a mat like just very plastic looking edgeguard with like a shiny like perolescent like metallic edgeguard all the way around the paddle so they look really cool.

But the theme is heavy metal. So we made this heavy metal song. I bought us a bunch of fun outfits like rockers. It's like 80, you know, Black Sabbath or Guns and Roses, you know, type like song. That's fun.

Another one I'm excited about. We're going to do one kind of in collaboration with Kyle. He's got that whole online course, you know, that pickleball school. So we're going to make him a paddle with his logo on it. You know, if you buy it,

you get a subscription to the school, yada yada. I want to title this. theme summer school. You know, I want us to all dress up, like we're going to school, maybe we rent a school bus or something. But one other thing I really want to do, because on Kyle's YouTube channel, he is like going through a series with me trying to like help me become better and win a pro match with him. Okay. So his audience is very familiar with like me being his student. So I'm kind of imagining like I assume my parents will come down to Phoenix pretty soon after

we move there. They'll be there right before the launch of summer school. I want Kyle to have a parent teacher conference with my parents talking about my progress as a player. That's funny. I think that would be fun. So yeah, it's just like, it feels a lot of camp. It's like, you give me a theme and then I can think of so many different, like, fun things to do with it. It's almost, yeah, isn't it easier almost when you narrowed down?

Yeah. Once you're narrowed down, you can get more creative. There's, there's a divo in there somewhere. The difference in writing mood swings videos versus Gene Schwartz videos. It was so much easier. Gene Schwartz is like, okay, we could do this. We could do teachers be like. but we can also do mechanics be like or we could, you know, it's like, I don't know, we could do windows be like.

It's like, oh, windows? Yeah, I don't know. We could try it, you know. Blue collar versus Jin Z. Does that make the sense? Yeah. Versus like, all right, let's just keep it in the vein of, yeah, summer or keep it in the vein of pickleball or whatever it is. Like once you just have a little bit of a whittled down thing, like even if it's just like, let's just do a series of 10 videos like this. Like that makes it so much easier to expand. That's great. It's fun. Yeah. I was telling Matt, I was like, this whole thing, I feel like I am in running in my lane. So thank you for this. I want to do more of this. This is fun.

Catherine, I use the term, operating your strengths. That's a big thing. Like, it's operating our strengths, you know? Yeah. Like just today, like Henry, it is like diaper, like swim diaper and like swimming suit and shirt put on. And we also need to clean up all these tiny bits of Play-Doh, like on the ground. And Catherine's like, can you go do the, you know, swim diaper? thing for him and I'll do the unless you want to do the

Play-Doh and I was like nope let's operate in our strengths I'm not I'm not I'm not good at getting on the ground and getting all those tiny bits of play-doh like I would not I would try I would try to do it okay and I just wouldn't see every one of them like you you know so anyway operating strengths operate in strings that's fun I so what other color I'm thinking of but I'm sure that you have great ones like some kind of like watermelon color way I think that'd be pretty fun we've looked into that before Um, like almost like that coming out with right away, but lighter green and pink kind of thing.

Yeah. Yeah. We've tossed it out there. What other colors? You got some banana or something? Our last one is kind of, uh, it's a similar color to what we've done with the fever, but, um, it's going to be called Miami Vice and it's kind of look really cool. And, uh, we've talked about actually going to Miami and like dressing in like full linens,

uh-huh. The fake cigars, you know, everything. And it's like being Cuban, basically for a Photoshop. I think it would be so funny, like on Muscle Beach or something, you know, like, Isaac would be great. All of you would look fun. Isaac would pull it off, though. Like, yeah, I think he could.

Isaac almost has a little Miami look to him. Like, just his fade of his hair and all that. I don't know. I could see him rocking. I saw him wearing some bad buddies sunglasses or those, you know, whatever those are called, the oras. Oh, yes. Or frame.

That's why I'm wearing those the other day. I was like, Isaac's looking. I look good. He looks good in those. So. Wow, it kind of hurts. Too much, too much on the ears. It was too much, too much.

I, do you want to try to do the speech jammer thing? Do you think it would work on here? We could try it. It almost like, yeah, we could try it. All right, we just got to take our headphones off, right? Yeah, I think so. Unplugged the headphones. Check, Mike.

All right, I can hear you. You talk? Check, check. Yeah, yeah, I can hear you. Okay. So then what's, do we both do it? Do we just do it to each other? Can you hear an echo?

No, can you? Dang. Dang. You can? No, I can't. What I haven't, but you can make, you can mess with the, let me do this. Oh, it says echo cancellation can't be changed while recording. Yeah. Hey, so that's been speech chamber.

That's fun. Well, we try. Hey, we're trying things. Do you want to do something else instead? Yeah. I got a massage. I got a massage in Asia. Really?

Yeah, I tell you not to, but I did. I got it at the hotel. It felt safe. And it was. It was pretty normal. It was all good, except for the very beginning. Now, this woman didn't speak great English, and that's fine. I don't speak great Malay.

I don't expect everyone to speak English. It's fine. But she was like, okay, you know, like, towel and towel you know lay down hanties and I didn't catch that last part and she like held up this thing it's like

it's almost like a folded up like wadded up napkin in in like a plastic wrapping and I didn't hear what she said and then she left the room and then I'm realizing like it's how she said anti

auntie and then I I'm so we piecing it together. I'm like, I think now she said panties. I think she said towel on you and then these are your panties because I open it up and sure enough there's like two leg holes in here, it just looks like underwear. So I'm like, yeah, she definitely said panties. So I'm like, I guess I'm supposed to wear these.

But I'm looking at them. These are so much more revealing than my own panties. I'm like, I can't put this on. It's see-through. You want me to put this on? I'm wearing normal panties. We're doing just fine down there. Oh, no.

I didn't plan on taking off mine at any point, much less to put yours on or whatever this is. So that was a little weird. No, I hid them and just like played dumb. Bah. What? No Malay. Yeah. Yeah.

Just bow. Just kept bowing. Good for you. Good for you. Yeah, that didn't feel appropriate. That felt weird. They were like, they were going to be so see-throw. Yeah.

It was just like. thin paper it was like um almost like a like a hair net or something almost it was or like i don't know it was not something i've seen in america i guess i guess they're just saying like that's cleaner than just being fully naked or something but yeah maybe like then just keep your underwear on yeah wow yeah that was i guess a close call i don't know the rest of stuff like that before and yeah especially like foreign like i think all includes i think on our honeymoon Like there was some like weird thing they wanted us. I was like no.

We had a couples massage one time. I was like, I'm not wearing that thing. You're wearing that thing? Like, cool. Dude, couples massages reminded me. So that was me and Kyle did that together. And afterwards, I couldn't wait to debrief with him. You know, do you wear the panties?

No, I didn't wear the panties. Debrief, yeah. Debrief, it's good. A few days later, Isaac gets there and now he's dying for a massage. So he's calling places. He can't get in anywhere. So he calls this one place. And what we understand is this place only done.

couples massages is like kind of what it sounds like they're saying and so Isaac goes oh no no that's fine and he's like looking at like Scott or me like do it it's all like yeah sure and he goes and is it okay if um so he's not on speaker anymore so we can't hear them which is perfect so Isaac goes um yes no I'll have someone else um but the second person has got to be a man and then there's a pause and you just hear Isaac say again And he goes, the second person is going to be a man. Because I think they were like, what? And yeah, we didn't get that massage books.

Two dudes. Two dudes. I'll put it, you guys like fruit, right? Two bananas? Two bananas. Yeah. That's amazing. So Bill didn't work? She said no.

They said no. He eventually he called around and the next day he got one by himself. You should have, you should have mess with them and like, yeah, they like, they like force you to put these things on. You know, you have to. They won't even let you have to. They say don't use the towel. Just use that. But yeah, but everything went well. I don't know how to stay awake during a massage. It feels so good. I, I fall asleep during the back half of every massage. Oh, really? Yeah. It's so relaxing. Never have I. Good for you must get the ones that don't absolutely. excruciate your body then i do i ask for swedish oh okay yeah that sounds great i i'm always like

trying to i'm i'm staying awake i'm i'm staying alive though i'm like barely alive at the end of it um yeah i i i that would be tough though because you're like do i fall asleep is that good or is that like wasting my money a little bit oh totally it's hard for me to even like justify a massage anymore because i'm like just take a nap at home Just yeah, yeah, or do a shorter massage and then go take a nap. Every 15 minutes, yeah, can you just kind of hit me, wake me up, make sure I appreciate this. But if it's a deep tissue massage, I'm not going to enjoy it, at least not in the moment. Not, not ever.

You never, like, you just sore afterwards. It's like this is, and I thought deep tissue was like, I don't know why I thought that was like a nice relaxing massage. Of course it's not, but at the time I was like, that's, that's just what that's what. that's what I've heard. That's what everyone says. Yeah, do that one. That's what you're supposed to do. Bad idea.

Bad idea of jeans. Don't do it. That's pretty good, though. You texted me this morning and we're like, hey, you down to record right now? And I was like, hey, just be honest, I just now woke up. Yeah.

So something kind of funny. So we recorded on Tuesday, which is like I'd only been back. You can't see like 12 hours at that point. But I was feeling pretty good. I was up early. I felt 10 hours. I slept 10 hours.

I woke up. recorded podcast. I was like, I'm back. I'm back on a normal schedule. And then that afternoon, I was like, man, I have such a crazy headache and I feel exhausted. I hate like giving in to like take a rest day. Take a, take a recovery day. Those things are things millennials invented because they're soft. I'm like, ah, I might have to. Let me take a quick nap. So then on top of sleeping 10 hours on Tuesday, I slept from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Oh, oh. That's not good. Safe to say I got a little J-lag going on. A little J-lag.

And then I stayed awake, of course, all nights. I can't fall asleep. And then I went to bed from 4 a.m. to 9 a.m. So, like, I have now found myself at some sort of weird numerical polyphacic sleep cycle. I'm just only 4-9 now. That's like 4-9. You try in college. No, dude, just do 6 to 10 twice a day.

Trust me. Yeah. No, I'm on a 4-9 sketch right now. Yeah, I can't. I'd never eat dinner or breakfast. I just eat lunch and a midnight snack. Did you ever go through that phase in college? I could see you being like one of those guys that tried.

Yeah, like three hours, three, three hours sleeps or something. 100%. Actually, I never tried it, but I was researching it big time in college because this is what I learned about these sleep cycles and like, yeah, Kobe Bryant does it apparently. And there's no long term data on it. And they say the first 10 days are miserable, but you can't find yourself in a state where it's so easy. All right. Let's do it. But not.

I never had the discipline to do it because it does have miserable. It's like it's like sleep 30 minutes every six hours or something. Dude, those, uh, I remember every once in while, my roommate in college, like, waking up when it's pitch black outside, but not like waking up from a nap at that time is tough. It's a tough feeling. I remember my roommate Greg in college. He would come out of bed every once in a while.

In wintertime, you know, it gets dark earlier, but it was like a Sunday afternoon. He goes, takes a nap at three, comes back out at like, 630 and he's just like, you know, dead to the world, you know, what? Oh. It's like, I don't know if it's a worst feeling of the world, but it is like a, uh-oh, like I might have messed up my night now. Yeah. You're extra groggy if it's, if it's night out.

Yeah, I don't, I mean, is there a, is there a solution? I'm sure you've looked into this a little bit like to the jet. Is it even if you force yourself to stay awake, is that really going to, all, ultimately help or is it just like you just got to wait a few days for the for your body to like re you know apply the new iOS kind of thing of like this new system update of this like this like this new circadian rhythm of the life that we see outside the lightness and the darkness and stuff I could be wrong but I feel like if you go to a place like when I went to Moscow or when I've been to Southeast Asia it is like a 12 hour difference like that is a complete opposite yeah I think

that's going to be hard to combat. Like that's just so hard to have a brand new circadian rhythm instantly. Right. I think it's almost inevitable that you're, you're going to have like an adjustment period. That's a lot to ask in the body. Yeah, it is. Yeah, because I was like, what if you just, you said you went from four to nine, woke up, like, what if you just took a bunch of ZEquil or something at midnight and just slept until eight or something like that? That's a good point. I'm doing this all natural. Totally. Of course you are. I can tell. baby and uh but like but yeah would that have ultimately truly changed it or is it just a matter of like it's just going to take three days no matter what you do no matter how much you force yourself

either stay awake with caffeine or to go to sleep with this sedative kind of stuff or whatever i don't know that is a good point i wonder if like if i took melatonin when i was supposed to be sleeping if it would correct me faster i don't know yeah i don't know either i mean or would it mess you up even more because it's like your body's not naturally producing it now because you're I don't know and I'll say it I'm scared of drugs don't do drugs they told me in school in college I mean anything like that is like terrifying it's like I don't know a lot of people you just become relying on it I don't really have an addictive personality like that but it's still not I'm not trying to try I'm trying to do adderol even once oh so you yeah fair you've never taken melatonin even

never taken melatonin never taken out of anything like that things that aren't even they're like very regular if I'm like still is adderol natural I feel like melaton is quote unquote natural like we we produce that already I see it probably is more not a vitamin but like yeah I don't know but if you take too much of it then your body relies on it yeah like TRT you know you hear people getting on the oh yeah yeah but if you get on it you can't ever get off I think yeah it's like an ankle brace turn to a woman so anyway yeah ankle brace It's on there. Yeah.

So that's that. Okay. So you're J-Lagging? No, I feel like today's the day. I feel a little better now. It just takes a lot of sleep to recover. But I'm fine. Which is not the worst prescription in the world, you know?

Yeah. Hey, take some rest. It's like, all right, cool. That's like when I had LASIC surgery, they're like, you have to go home and take like a three-hour nap. It's like, yeah, you know, twist my arm. I'll get to speed this massage before. Yeah, that's what you should do. You should have gone for a little 10.8, 10 p.m. massage.

Just get a nightcap. I did do something kind of funny a few nights ago. Just my sense of time, which is a little off. So I would say somewhat regularly, I will. I don't quite make it through the night sleeping before I have to like use the restroom. Like I just, you know, bladder gets full about 6 a.m. You got a visitor? My beautiful wife and her cool visor.

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So what I do, Pradoff, it's like, all right, I woke up an hour before my alarm at 6.30 a.m. Life hack, I'm going to take my levothyroxin now because typically I have to wait an hour until I can eat. So I looked it up.

An hour? Yeah. So it's fine. I thought it was 30 minutes. An hour's too much. So I got an hour. habit of like, hey, if I got to wake up, not the worst thing. You know, wake up at 6, 7 a.m., whatever, take my level, go back to sleep.

And then when I do wake up, I'm ready to eat breakfast. Yeah. And anyway, a couple nights ago, wake up, middle of night, got to pee. I think it's level time. I can't find water anywhere. I go to Rachel's nightstand. I know she's always got a water bottle. And I end up actually waking her up.

She's like, what are you doing? I go, I'm just taking a levo real quick. And she looks at her phone and she goes, it's 12.30 a.m. I go, oh, is it really? I thought it was, I thought the sun had was basically on the rise right now. You were, yeah, you were like, I should, I could get up, but maybe I'll just stay sleep. Yeah, you know, I'll go back to sleep for 30 more minutes. Sorry, I don't have an Apple watch anymore.

I don't know what time is. Yeah. I truly thought it was maybe 7 a.m. and it was like 12.30 at night. So it took level a little early that day. Well, that's what I was going to ask. I kind of blame my bladder. Like, when you got full at midnight? Geez, grow up.

Have some, have some restraint. Yeah. So do you take it twice a day? Levo? No, it just wants every morning. Typically, just like when I wake up. Why not just take it before you go to bed? You can.

Do you need to eat like quickly after? No, you're just supposed to take it on a completely empty stomach is like best. So that's what they recommend the morning. Okay. So depending on how empty that stem is. Yeah. Yeah. I get so nervous about the empty stomach thing and the vice versa.

Like take it with a meal. It's like, what are we considering here peanut butter and crackers is that does that work and like how empty do like my stomach you to be like i haven't eaten in two hours is that an empty stomach but i don't know how quickly it goes out of there yeah also i all i ate was a nerds rope like surely like that's that's not last more than 15 minutes right yeah i'm with you i like to be a rule follower it's like they printed these instructions on here i'd like to follow them but i wish it would give me even more info um you know what yeah well first of all i remember i had like to take something without dairy like

you couldn't have dairy for like three hours before or after something like that i can't remember and that was harder the harder for me like i just gave up on that drug whatever that was i was like i don't need this that bad like dairy is just such a i like it all i i can't not have you know whatever dairy it was back when i was drinking creamer with my coffee and so it's like i'm not going to wait that long to not drink coffee. Yeah. And then you, or you can like do it after your coffee, but that's three hours later. And it's like, I'm not going to bring these with me to my day.

You ever, like in the wintertime, you know, you start to get sick. You take the X-CAM, Z-boys. Z-boys. Like a lot of those are, you know, either gummies or dissolvable tablets. And those are big on like no water for 15 minutes afterwards and no citrus for 30 minutes afterwards. Yes. Yes.

Something about that instruction. man I want a lemonade so bad for some reason now that I can't have one you want what you can't have 100% yeah it always is like yeah no citrus it's like I just want to squirt an orange right in my face right now uh Sam Catherine's brother has brought all these like you know classic he's from Austin and so he's cooler than everybody else now he doesn't act like he's cooler than everybody else he just is because he's from Austin um but he's got these like locally made candies that he orders, you know, 10-pack. He's not like a subscription service for this candy that's like, you know, like whatever, just like a small business candy company. Okay. But it's all these, I think it's called Sour Boys or something like that.

And I could be wrong. Maybe it's not an Austin brand, but he's just an Austin guy. So it feels like he would. I'm learning that I am pretty immune to sour stuff. You've built up a tolerance. I, like, well, first of all, they have like these, they have like a meter on the back of like how sour these things are, none of them tasted sour to me at all,

which is fine. It's like, oh, this isn't sour. This isn't that bad. But then other people would try it and be like, oh, oh, oh. I was like, what? How did I do this? Something you could blame on COVID.

I think people love blaming new things on COVID. Like, yeah, I got COVID now and think nothing sour. Nothing hits the same. I don't know. Maybe so because it's like, I don't, I'm not, all I taste is the fruit. That tastes delicious to me. and yeah

Catherine's sister was just like could not barely finish one of them she's like that's so sour I was like it's a 56 out of a hundred sour rating what they gave it a full 100 scale it yeah it does

yeah the one we tried one last night that was 86 out of 100 and I was like this one tastes like the 56 they gave it like Madden attributes how is what's your like spice tolerance I can't remember I would say I am definitely a

above average, but I'm not like one of those guys that's like the hotter, the better. But I do really like spicy stuff. But it has to be like good, flavorful spice, if that makes sense. Yeah, not spice for the sake of spice. Like Catherine's dad, like, like some people are like, oh, I'll eat a raw jalapeno for fun. It's like, no. But like hot sauce. I like hot sauce a lot on stuff.

I would say I'm, if, if hot ones, if that guy is a, uh, 10 out of 10, I would say I'm like a 6.3. You can hand. And I would say, and I would say like most, yeah, if 5.0 is average, maybe I'm a 7.7. But like, there's plenty of people that are better than me with spicy stuff. But I'm also like better than most. For a white Kansas boy, I think you're doing pretty good. Yeah, that's fair.

Like, like, yeah. If I go to like Thai food restaurant, you know where it's like you get the chowm, pad Thai. and it's like you can get like Thai food spicy is like pretty spicy I usually go for the there's like mild hot hottest blazing or whatever I think I usually go for hot yeah I'm not I'm not trying to kill myself you know it tastes good I want to enjoy it yeah but because you're you're you're you're pretty soft with that stuff not soft I shouldn't say so I should say is the right word okay like Catherine's mom you put pepper on something she's like oh Whoa. 100 out of 100. Like she can't eat Chipotle. Like the chicken's too spicy for her. I'm like, calm down.

That makes me feel less soft. That's nice. Yeah. Yeah. Southeast Asia, pretty spicy over there. One of the first meals, you know, someone's ordering for us. You know, me and Kyle are the two soft guys. We're going, no spicy, no spicy.

And I think they messed up the order and eventually did bring us spicy. And so then that would just give us an inside joke for the rest of the week. Like, all right, what are we doing for drinks? Can I get an orange juice? No spicy. No spicy. That's good Everything

I'll just take like the non No spicy No spicy on the non No spicy spicy You want non or non And you want a spicy You want two nons Non non spicy

Yeah No non No You ever tried wasabi Yeah It doesn't take much Yeah Do you like it

It's not guacamole That is like Pretty crazy How like potent it is. I mean, it's such a small little amount. I don't really like it. It's intense.

I love that. It does. It shoots through you, though. It shoots through your nostrils. The sinus is, I feel like it just takes over your entire mouth. Like, I can't taste anything else.

Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah, you do a little wasabi with a nerd rope, dude. That's like a Theo Vaughn. Like, do a little savi and nerd rope

in the bag of the school after school, man, I'll get you gone. I tried to listen to an episode of him the other day when I was working. And I was like, is this what every episode's like? He's just ridiculous, man. Some of the things he says, you're just like, oh, that is so funny and so like, there's no way you had that, like, in your arsenal of written down stuff. He just made that up on the spot. That's always been my take of, like, he is an exceptional improviser because it is crazy what he says.

Yeah. So anyway. Yeah. Spicy stuff. Good. I don't know. Catherine's brother for Christmas, there's this hot sauce that's really good from Baltimore.

I don't remember what's called. But he like orders it by the case. And I've always enjoyed it. And so he got it for me for a stocking stiffer. And he's like, hey, I'm about to order another case. You guys want some?

And I went through that hot sauce so fast at Christmas time. And I was like, yes, I would like six, please. So I do like hot sauce a lot. But I don't know. It's called Rubens. Maybe I made that up. Let's see if I can find it.

But, yeah. Rubens. Here's something I wrote down. Let me have your thoughts on this. This also could have been on the airplane episode because I think this came from an airport. But my take is... Rubens. Sorry.

The children's size urinal, I think, should be the standard urinal size. Tell me more. And ladies, sound off in the comments if I'm wrong about this. I want to hear from you guys too. But I don't think I need a urinal at my level. If anything, it is more likely to splash where I'm exposed currently. Okay. Like a children's urinal, it's so far to the ground.

Is it splashing? I don't know. I can't feel it. Maybe a little bit on my ankles and my pants. Who cares? Okay. It's so far away. Are you willing to, it sounds like you're pretty passionate about this, yes?

Extremely. Are you willing to, let's say you go to a cheap? game. There's 30 people in line. There's one children's urinal. There's three kids in the children's urinal line. And there's, you know, 29 other urinals. And there's an adult urinal that opens up, but there's also the children's line. You're like, nope, I don't, I don't think so. Would you be willing to stake your claim and stand behind the kids in the line? I might. I really might. I really, like, I don't say, I don't discriminate. I see an open urinal. I don't care which one it is. Now, if it's clearly kids are lining up to

go there, I'm not going to cut them in line. But yeah, open urinal. I mean, I'll hit the A gap. And I'll hit it hard. Sure. Yeah. Would you say there is such thing as too low, though? Like, you're not, you're not, you're not, you're not, you're not, you're not going

catcher stance on them. I don't think you can go too low. Two balls one strike, you know. Yeah. low and outside curveball Got him Yeah the slider I don't think you can go too low

Because I'm not I'm not going lower Yeah As long as you give me like ample like I don't know Surface area There was one time we Okay you actually You're gonna know exactly what I'm talking about

The gas you're gonna know this dude No The gas station We're driving to we're driving to Stratford We're driving to Branson wherever the gas station on 71 highway 27 that exit right okay

what I'm talking about it's like sap bros or something like that's like that big you know I'm talking about they're always still fireworks there and stuff yeah yeah yeah black cat thing they have a family restroom there that is truly a family restroom like Bo and I had a moment where it was like like they have they have it like they have all the things you need for an adult

but they also have like a children's height in a children's like size urinal. And so Bo and I just simultaneously in there just had our time. And so, but like even like washing hands in the same height and everything, like the right high for them, right high for us. So,

um, but it was low. It was like, you know, you're getting six inches off the ground kind of thing. Wow. I'd like to try that out. I mean,

it worked out pretty well for them. They also have this thing. Maybe this is what you do, Jake. And you just, you just, this is your, new personality in Arizona.

I think for potty training for kids, they have these like urinals for boys that you can like, basically they're just like portable. Like you can just like suction. I don't know how they go to the wall, but like somehow they adhere to the wall and then you can like dispose of whatever. However, I don't know how it works exactly,

but I just know they have them. Maybe that's just your thing and you're like, no, we have a urinal or a house and it's going to be the right height for me. My optimal height. yeah once i find a place to live i'll look into that okay well that's the thing is you can take it anywhere so you can have i don't need a place to live no you don't yeah what's have you given that much thought oh yeah i mean every every every night in malaysia i mean like i'm working non-stop during the day then at night i am like hounding realtors i mean every i'm on zillow okay yeah i mean i'm trying

i'm getting after it uh yeah the desert's drying up a little bit as far as summer rentals goes but it'll work out yeah that's tough when you're not there and so you see pictures but you're like the pictures do it justice or whatever and honestly there's a lot of just um bad AI like um AI agents responding to me you know and they'll say like thanks for your interest in in 521 you know whatever uh we'd like to set up a tour and I say no I live out of state do you have a video walkthrough I could see and they say um no we don't have a video walk through I could see and they say um no we don't have a video walk through, could I sign you up for a tour? And I say, do you know, remember what we just talked about? Give me a call. Yeah, call me. Oh. And some real estate agents are are super responsive, but a lot of them,

shockingly are not in the business of making money, I think. I don't know. A lot of them don't respond as quickly as you think. I wonder how much money. I honestly, I don't think you make much money on rentals. That could be it. Yeah, they're not in the interest of communicating 17 times to make $100. I don't know what's going on. Um, Yeah, I don't know. I don't know that the financials of it very well, but I know that you'm sure you make more money off of a sale than a rental. But I actually did get get kind of far yesterday on a potential home they were kind of excited about. And this was kind of great. You know, they think it could be an option.

They say, hey, you know, you're, we got your application. There are five other applicants, though, who all really want this house. They're all in Phoenix. They've actually been hounding us. They keep driving by the property. Like they really want this house. Anything you can do to help your case, you know, would, we would accept it. And so I, I start typing up a little something.

Click, click, click. Click, click. And they get back to me and they say, wow, the homeowners loved what you typed out. That sounds awesome. You know, you and your wife and pickleball. What a full circle moment, you know? And I sent him a picture of us. And I really could have gone on.

What do you say? Does this feel like AI to you too? I don't think it was. No. Wow. Incredible. Yeah. Wow.

You're not just a family. You're a dynasty. I'm like, okay. Now you're a chat chippy tea. The beginning of it's like, here's a nice, warm, professional response. It's like, dang it. Would you like me to polish this up a little bit? Yeah, exactly.

Okay. And so they say, hey, you got bumped up to the front of the line. They really liked you. I was like, okay, great. And they say, now and one of the things I said is like we would be willing to do an 18 month lease and pay the first six months right now and I guess they really like that it probably had nothing to do with the picture of us or whatever it was strictly financial sure yeah but they say actually the homeowners don't want to do an 18 month lease they want to do 12 or 24 and so I was like huh I don't know I never really thought about a two years it'd be nice to like my okay my rent can't go up for two years. I don't know.

That's kind of a long time. I don't know what Phoenix is going to be like. So I get in there and I say, I'll tell you what, I'll sign your two-year lease. If you would be willing to go out of pocket to put in a Tesla charger in the garage, if I'm going to be there two years, I'm going to need to charge my car. Then they call me. We hadn't talked on the phone yet.

They call me right away. They go, Jake, great news. We forgot to tell you, there's already a Tesla charger in the garage. I was like, you got to tell me that. I couldn't negotiate it differently. All right. In that case. Hey, okay, put me down for 24 months then.

Okay, so do you think that's going to be the one then? Or not, maybe. It's, I, the lease agreement they send me, it's like, there is some serious penalties for getting out of this 24 month lease early. It's like, and I don't plan to break at least early, but I'm like, heaven forbid. Some sort of family emergency. I think that would be the reason we would need to move back somewhere. Parents get sick. Someone gets, you know, we move back somewhere.

What is the penalty? So on top of a potential family emergency, you have to pack up our stuff, move out, the stress and the chaos of all that, I would be $15,000. I would be out like $15,000. That's just like the, no matter what, that's the penalty. If you get out at 23 months, it'd be $15,000? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, it's so. Dang.

I pushed back on that. And then they were like, uh, that. That is non-negotiable. And I was like, oh. Well, I guess I can't negotiate it then. My wife's also thinking about getting a Tesla. Yeah. Sorry, autocorrect.

I don't even have a Tesla. I meant cold plunge. You throw a cold plunge. Swimming pool. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's funny. So, yeah, just trying to decide. Because it's also, it's like, this area looks nice.

Yeah. It's like in a nice suburb. It's close to a target. It's close-ish to Kyle. But I don't know. What if we end up going to church way over here and Kyle moves and whatever? All these variables that you come up with in your head are like, I'm not going to happen at two years.

So I don't know. Yeah. Have you had Kyle like drive over there for you yet? I might. I mean, they kind of just got back from Asia too. But yeah, I might have them go check it out. Yeah, just to at least get some ready for this. Boots on the ground.

Bs on G's on G's? I need some bees on G's, Kyle. No spice. Bees on G's. No spicy. No spicy. All right. Hey, I'm here with Rosie Ellis. Oh. And at one point, I had a dream that... That's not the joke. That's not the joke.

Wait, wait to laugh. Wait to laugh. Wait to laugh. At one point I had a dream. She's going to get a kick out of this. I woke up and the entire earth had a bunch of Rosie Ellis is on it. And I called it Rosie Earth. But it was just a dream. It's just a dream. But did you know what's not a dream?

Cozy Earth. Rosie, do you like cozy Earth? Yeah, my neighbor do. Oh, your neighbor does. Yeah. I don't know. Daddy neighbor. Yeah, your mommy is daddy's neighbors?

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baby pillowcases. Catherine, real quick, you're not gonna get on the screen. What's your favorite cozy earth thing? Joggers, probably? Joggers? Joggers are amazing. That's actually made sure roasters. Java.

Java. Yes. Yeah, the bed sheets of course. Owls are great. Did you tell them we gave some of those towels to my dad? No, I didn't know that. Yes, for Christmas, do you remember? Oh, oh, for Christmas.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. My dad really likes fluffy towels. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. My dad really likes fluffy towels. Wow. He asked my mom for a long time. He was like, please, will you get us some new bath towels?

I want really fluffy towels. He didn't grow up on a farm. My mom had got some from who knows where. And she was like, online, they looked so fluffy. And then she got him in. And she was like, these things are paper thin. So anyway, so we got her some cozy earth ones for, or got my dad some for Christmas. And he texted me like two weeks after Christmas and was like,

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Yes. 20% of it. Yeah, for the criminals in your life. Yeah. Kliar.com says, whatever I talk about growing Friday in Asia, I always mention bees on g's. Do you?

Yeah. We take a BC flight and we get some bees on gs. On g's, dog. Bees on gs. Bees in the trap. Got some bees on my gs. Yeah. Or why don't you just do 12 months?

And then you can always do more. I think that will be the next iteration of me trying to negotiate. Dude, it's not negotiable. I'll say, oh, yeah, you're right. Yeah, I'll try to go for that. Yeah, sometimes, I don't know. I genuinely, I don't know why I'm even talking. It's my podcast, I guess.

But sometimes it's like they do 12 months and they do month to month after that. I don't know. I don't know if that's a thing. What if it's like a rookie contract? Could I do that? Like a fifth year ad on. Yeah, yeah, you get incentives. Like if you, if you hit this many, you know, uh, cleaning cycles, you know, like,

yeah, if I commit to never missing a trash day for a year. I've thought about doing something like that with my cleaners at the Airbnb is like, just incentivizing them of like, yeah. If you don't get a single negative like review for your cleaning for a year, then I'll give you an extra X amount of dollars, you know, De Niro. De Niro. That's right. They're all white for the most part.

Are they? There's your problem. Honestly. I'm like, okay. Tension to detail. Not the best. No, they're fine. I have a ghosty stay in there right now.

Shout out Deanne. She's staying there with her family. D. And? So shout out Deanne. Hope it's going well. If it doesn't, that's the hard thing about being away like this. It's like, if she says like, can you fix this?

I'm like, I can find a guy. I'll come check it out. later, sorry. Yeah, he won't look a ton like me, but I'll be over there soon. Yeah, exactly. So, anyway, fun times. I have been task rabbiting some while I've been gone, and there's a task rabbit option. So I just, like, I hired some guy the other day for, uh, to come over and just like, do very like general electrical work. Like, yeah, we just ran through like light switches and outlets and all these different things. Uh, but on his profile, no, I already talked about this. didn't I? Dang it. Waiting in line.

Did I talk about this? Waiting in line? Nope. Never mind. I've talked about it. Here in the beach. I talk to other people besides you. Okay, Jake. Okay, fine. Yeah, in his profile, you can look at, like, his reviews and, you know, all these different things. And you can see other options of things that he would be willing to be hired

for. And one of the options on TaskRabbit is waiting in line. Like it's like Black Friday in 09? I don't know. Exactly. I don't know exactly what there would be a need for that. Also, Maybe it's like a ticket master thing. Ticket master or like a release of a new phone or I don't know if it's like a hot restaurant that, you know,

Chili's is bump in on a Saturday night. I don't know. You get in line for me. But I think his waiting on line is his hourly rate for that was like $29. It's like, all right. That's good to know. Somebody would need that at some point. Yeah.

Waiting in line. So I asked him about it and that's kind of what he's. said he's like i mean i've never gotten hired for it but i it's an option on task grab it to put i would do it yeah he's like he's like he's he goes i have a lawn chair in my car at all times just in case i'm like okay i keep that thing on ready he keeps that thing strap boy uh so yeah he's he's willing to wait in line um salvador shout out salvin i like it i want to find a reason to use that yeah not bad what do i need to be all i can think of is like yeah taylor swift concert tickets. What else do people like what else is like a

point really wait in line that's what I was thinking yeah ticket master okay you wouldn't need his launch here but well yes it's somewhere um I see we don't want to stand the whole don't assume this guy's just got a home with with seats yeah I don't know that's the thing these days we're pretty streamlined we're doing pretty well yeah I can't think of any no you don't know you don't know you're going to wait in line at least me I'm I'm waiting in Lai Chipotle sometimes but I don't suspect that I'm going to do it or not

Here's where you'd hire a task rabbit You would like He is tasked with like Just Kind of just meandering about That is the hire Would you mind meandering about Meandrum

In Greenville, North Carolina Where Mr. Beast lives I feel like because he's always doing Little giveaways And little games and little videos To just people in the area Yeah The other day he shut down a supermarket

With whoever was in there Like it was these people were not like vetted. They weren't cast members. They're just like whoever's shopping right now. You're in a YouTube video. Leave whenever you want. Last one here gets a half a million dollars. Really?

I would like to pay task grab it to just be, be out and about in the city. We split the money. I like this. Like when when does the sunk cost sink in? I suppose as far as like like because if you're guaranteed like we could potentially make, we'll call it. $500,000. Yeah.

So, yeah, we split this money so I can make $250,000. That means if there's meandering about, I bet that's about $33.75 an hour, give or take. You know, so that's a lot of hours that you get before it's like it's not worth it anymore. Yeah. Yeah. You can have them going around for days just five. Oh, yeah. Months?

I don't know. Do that math. $33 an hour. How many months could that get you to get up to what? Let's call it $150,000? give or take. He's got a new launch here. That's, is that 50,000?

No, that's 5,000 hours. How many, how many days is that? That's a lot of days, dude. Yeah, that feels like a lot. See? Yeah, that's what I would hire them for. Meandering around, about. And then you see that Jimmy's in, you know, Dubai or something.

You're like, well, probably not going to happen today. Go ahead just go wait in line for me. Anyway, yeah, saw that on there, task rabbit. I was like, okay, we're waiting in line. that's kind of cool some random this is I don't know why this is one of those things

where it's like if it wasn't for this podcast I would never write this down I just wrote down a funny premise for I don't know what this is a podcast whatever something talking about someone who's confused about

it's probably from TaskRabbit someone who's confused about light housekeeping versus light housekeeping like you get some guy with like a sailor's cap and a long beard coming to your door. I thought I was supposed to be the lighthouse keeper.

Like, no, no, we hired you to do light housekeeping. Just some general, like a broom. Just a nice, like, refresh of the room. Yeah, just do you know how to use like a dust mop? You know, like any, I don't know. I just randomly had that thought the other day. I was like, I guess I'll write this down in my notes. That's funny.

Lighthousekeeping versus light housekeeping. Lighthousekeeping. It's like the pet smart thing. Yeah, exactly. Or the opposite. Yeah, you show up with a broom and, you know, I got a Swiffer. Dude, we don't need you to clean the lighthouse. We need you to keep ship's safe.

Just keep it. Yeah. Just keep it. Just keep it. Cherish it. Keeper of the lighthouse. That's good. That's good.

Yeah. Yeah, whatever. Like, it's not, I don't think it's a stand-up bit. I don't think it's a, I like, I'm not, I'm not going around to my in-laws being like, let's talk about this real quick. Do you hear about the lighthouse keep, you know, good? but i always wanted to talk about it right now so if you enjoyed it comment below if you didn't shut up um dude speaking of like oh housekeeping yeah when i was in the third largest mall in asia

allegedly i'm having a good time walking all about i saw my first ever like brick and mortar dyson store okay it was awesome it was like the the immaculate vibes of an apple store but instead of very white, clean and minimalistic. It was black. The walls are black. The floors are back. The shelves are black. Oh, wow.

And just their products. Okay. It looks so cool. I walked her. I almost bought a vacuum. I almost put in my suitcase on my home. I was like, this is so sick. Yeah.

The ice store is great. Did you walk in and say, you all suck? I'm just ribbing you. Boom, boom, boom. Hey, working hard or are the hard? Lighthouse keeping or lighthouse keeping? We keep your lighthouse or we lighthouse keeping Really? Okay Dyson vacuum

Dyson's the one we have that's the one that we have Like the purpleish one The handhelds The one that you and I have yes Yeah yeah yeah we share We go we go have these on a Dyson They had they had vacuums They had a lot of those like bladeless fans

And then they had like um like blowjivers and stuff The heck does that mean You know those fans that are like just The heck is that dude Oh, hey, maybe you can't hear me. The heck is that, too. Sorry, maybe we're on a delay. The heck is that, dude.

Have you seen those before? Just like a big circle. Oh. Somehow blows air out of it. I don't know if I have. Oh, they got ovals. They got circles. They got a couple ellipses in there.

Yeah, a lot of bladeless fans. Oh, oh, oh, oh. We're talking like one that you put on your floor. It could be floor. It could go on. I was thinking like it's not a ceiling fan. Not a ceiling fan. Yes, I know what you're talking about.

Yeah, those things are. help. Yep. Wanted to buy one of those. Okay. Had hair dryers. It was awesome. Dyson's doing fine. They're doing just fine. Um, another random thought for you. This one's a little bit, this one will hit a little bit close to home for you, Jake. Um, I said, relatable or not, dude, I get very intimidated every time someone says that they grew up on a farm. Like when they say that, I think, okay, you look, you're, you're better than me. You know more than me.

Yeah. And they know, they know that they know more than me. Like there was this woman, TaskRabbit girl, I hired her to do wallpaper in my new house. And she goes,

yeah, I actually grew up on a farm in Florida. And I was like, oh gosh, if I, if I mentioned one wrong tool, you're just going to think of me like an idiot.

Like you just, yeah, I don't know. There's just something about people that grow up on farms that are just intimidating as crap to me. There is something about a florian

Florida farm that makes me go okay I don't know you don't trust you don't like it's like it wasn't that hard it was just hot down there yeah it's hot all the time sure it's very humid sure I guess I don't know what they farm exactly in Florida though orange back oranges gators a little grape fruit yeah

caymans Guyman um yeah I don't know I there's just something about like when people say that I'm like, oh, crap. I got to, I got to keep my guard up around you. Yeah. Like, don't say the wrong thing to them, or they'll still, they'll, they'll, they'll silently judge you. They might not always out loud, but they'll be like, make sense. I was just complaining about the rain. Did they hear me? Don't complain around the rain and around the farmers. They need it. They need it. I feel bad. Yeah. I don't know if it's my, my time at K-State. That's probably most of it. It's just like, those guys, those farmers, they look down

upon the city folk. And to be fair, guys, city folk don't look down about no farmers. All right. We like the farmers. So just like us back, all right? Because our hands aren't as calloused as yours. Yeah.

Doesn't mean we don't, you know, have some hard times. Sometimes our neighbors are too loud at night. We don't know anything about that. Okay? I feel like, hey? I will sometimes do the opposite where someone's like, you grew up in Missouri. Yeah, actually, I grew up on a cattle farm.

I didn't work it though. Like immediately like don't get the wrong idea. I did a couple things every now and I didn't work it. My grandpa's farm. My dad worked it. I played baseball. You're right. I don't have,

I don't feel like, I don't feel like you are, you grew up on a farm. Rachel grew up on a farm. Actually, now I'm thinking about it. But Tom, Tommy,

her brother also grew up on a farm. Tom grew up on a farm. Yeah. You grew up on a farm. Tom grew up on a farm. Like that, boy yeah like you're you have a spare tire you're like i better i better figure out how to do this i better figure i to do this because if not tommy's going to do it in five seconds and i i i don't want that

i don't know i don't know what i'm doing but i would say there's four levels to growing up on a farm okay i would put like tim coop and rachel coop as level one okay i'd be willing to put myself in level too. Okay. I bailed some hay. I bottle fed a calf. I just did, I, you know, I had to weed eat an acre of land every time I mowed the law. You know, it's like I was, I had to do some stuff. But there are levels above me, you know, and then there's people who Tommy who moved out of his own house to live in a machine shed, his junior year of high school. That's level four. That's, that is so far above what I did. Right. Right. Like there's people that will go to a farm show in, And just be like, well, nice green tractor.

Huh. And there's people that will go to a farm show and know the 18 numbers after the green tractors, you know, like model number and exactly what they're looking at. Yeah. And be able to talk about it for more than one minute. Like to me, I'm just like first-hand experience. Those are pretty big wheels. Bigger on the back than the front, I see. I like the big, I like when the two tires are next to each other.

technology's come a long way, huh? Yeah, GPS can do a lot of that. Yep. Is that before or after the swath that you use this thing? You upgraded it? Okay. Yeah, yeah. It's like, I don't know what I'm doing here.

You and I would be great at a farm show for 90 seconds at a time. We could really connect with people. See, that's what I'm saying, though, is they would smell the fear on my, like the sound of my voice immediately. those guys in there in there perfectly like they they're wearing their nice farm hat you know the farm show like they got their nice one like they have four iterations of the same hat but this is like the one that they don't wear very often yeah it's the nice like uh what's like one of the seed companies that i feel like oh liquid grow liquid grow yeah what am i thinking of uh there's like a classics i don't know anyway i see these different guys wear these different things liquid grow sure um yeah but they have these different hats and they're they're wearing those and they would they would know immediately they would know immediately and i would think i can't talk to you right now they would stiff us out oh yeah oh yeah tell me i i can talk about sports that's about it anytime we anytime we get into the or i just like have to just admit right away like listen man i don't know

what i'm talking about here let's be real so anyway if you grew up on a farm congratulations me right away and you will have the upper hand for life yeah just tell me right away yeah i just need there's certain times like or like if someone says they went to if they're homeschooled even like sometimes i feel like all right where you win you win that you win that side of the battle you don't win every battle i got some i got some things on on here that i can i can teach you as well but like yeah you win the intellectual battle i bet i bet i bet you win that 10 times out of 10 yeah so speaking of sports i feel like I haven't really talked about the pickleball aspect of like my entire Asia trip. Yeah.

Really just try to talk about like the funny stories with food or trash cans or travel or anything. But I do want to take a moment to say like it was so cool and crazy. Like just what we are building and what we have there. Did you see any Instagram stories about the Times Square thing in the Philippines? I think I saw. Yeah, I did. I saw something, I think. I kind of had high hopes.

And it was even better than what we thought it could be. I mean, it was crazy. That was like, because we spent all week in Malaysia and I think I talked about a little bit last Monday or seven. And that was awesome. Like it was just like every event we do is sold out. And I sign 100 autographs per event. I take 100 selfies per event. You're like, this is just crazy.

I'm in Malaysia. Everyone knows my name. This is crazy. This is crazy. And then we go to the Philippines that first night and we are on the street. They shut it down. It's the biggest street. in all the Philippines.

It's just like, it's a brand new, like the business district there. It's so nice. And that was a night where I, in my hotel room that night by myself, I mean, I'm just laying there and just like asking God, like, what did I do to deserve this? Like, why me? Like, this is so crazy. I mean, I don't even fully know how to use the word surreal. But I think that was what I was feeling.

I was like, this is crazy. This is probably not going to be like this forever. I need to really soak this in. Why are you giving it? me all this, God, this is crazy. So it was really fun. It was that the first time you would say, I mean, that you felt that extreme,

like that was at the most extreme you felt that in your life? Definitely with pickleball. There was a moment to like, I think the first time I got on the tour bus and it like clicked that I'm going to be living here and performing stand-up comedy. That was like a moment of like, how did I get here?

This is so, such a crazy opportunity. But yeah, you know, it's like things we talked about before, even with Ghostrunners, like, you get a little numb to like view counts and comments and things like that. And then you meet people in person and you really get a sense of like what you've built. And I know you would get it more than most people because of what we've done with Ghostrunners. It's like that first event and the first F12 or even the first ghosty getaway. You're like, how did we get here? Like we don't even fully know what we've done. You know, it's just like we ended, we landed here.

And that's kind of what Pickaball feels like. Just like, man, I've never felt more like, we're trying to raise some like fundraising. You know, so I've like hit up some people. Hey, if you want to, you know, feel free. And now I feel like, hey, you really should. I'm like, I'm feeling good about what we're doing right now. You're confident.

It's in your best interest to get in on this. Yeah. It's like you can do it if you want to, but you don't have to. Yeah. It's like I'm just feeling fired up about, yeah, just the company as a whole. This is the last thing I'll say. This is a text that Matt said all of us yesterday, in addition to him texting Andre, just being like, dude, you really need to come to Asia next time, just the sense of accomplishment of what we built. But Matt texts all this yesterday.

Guys, I just sat in my room for 15 minutes thinking about how I could not even dream up a better group of people to represent Friday than you three, talking to me, Scott and Isaac. You're able to bring joy to anyone in the world wherever you meet them, and I can't stop thinking about how many people you made laugh or smile on this trip. we must have cumulatively met cumulatively cumulatively met over a thousand people in person and millions of people over here have now seen your faces on social media I know these trips are exhausting

and take time away from your families but our in-person time here is creating so much love for the brand that simply couldn't be replicated if we weren't here. I seriously can't thank you enough for bringing positive energy to every interaction on this trip, even though, or even at the end of 15-hour days. And I genuinely can't believe how much we've managed to accomplish in these last five months. So just, I'm a words of AFGai.

I love, I love the appreciation. And we're just fired up right now. It's just really, really cool. To the moon, baby. To the moon. That's sick. That's awesome. All right.

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Back to the episode. What was, so the Philippines you'd say was, or the, what was the Times Square thing? What was that called? They call it BGC. BGC was that the pinnacle of like, Like as far as pickleball play, that trip went? Was that your favorite time?

It was probably the coolest moment. Now, the quality of play was terrible. Okay. The Philippines is like very, they're, they probably only been playing pickleball for six months. So we kind of learned that early on. We were trying to do this exhibition with like the four of us who are all, you know, pretty good at pickleball.

And we'd have a really crazy rally and a crazy point. And the crowd just dead. And we're like, okay, I don't think they even know what to look for. I don't think they know what a good rally is. And so then it became more of like educational type stuff. And man, I wish you could have seen Scott because Scott was in his element. I mean, me and Scott both. Like Scott's just really good on the microphone.

I'd like to think I'm also pretty good on microphone. So we were just like working really well together. And, you know, there's just people. It's just a, it's the most popin area in all the Philippines. So a guy rolls up and they're introducing us to him. And they say, this is the Bernaldo of the Philippines. I don't know if that's true. I'm not fact checking him.

But yeah, he's like this soccer legend. So we're like, get him in here. It turns out he's never played pickleball before. So we're explaining it to him. And we're over the loudspeaker. And Scott and I are just having a heyday making everything a soccer comparison. You know, oh, you do this at one time. That's yellow flag.

Now you do it again. Or yellow card. Yellow flag. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, everything's a corner kick. Yeah, Scott was just great on the mic. We had a blast together.

And we had little catchphrases that we came up with. You know, like every time. Someone would play against us to every point they scored, got them a higher discount at kind of like the Dick's sporting goods equivalent there that we had like launched in that day. Okay. And so at the end of every game, you know, I'd be like, all right, give a round of pause. They did great, you know, give up for Stacey and Kevin. And this guy would say, now get in that store and like point real big to the store. And then that became like a big like Scott, Scott, look around, look around.

Where do they need to go? Get in that store. That's funny. That's good. We were having a blast together. I love it, dude. So you think you're going to, I mean, obviously you're going to go back. Do you have, like, are you already like scheming up the next trip?

I think so. You know, you just, a lot of it's about the people you're with and who, who handles logistics really well and who has local influence. And so I think we'll take our big signed pro, Rachel Rohrabacher. We'll take her again in like October. And so, yeah, we've kind of written down like, oh, yeah, we need to go here, here and here. and Philippines is behind the list and yada yada. So whether she flies BC or not, I don't know.

Oh, she'll be BC in. She'll probably be BC. By that time. That's sick, dude. I'm happy for you guys. Thank you. Yeah, just thankful. It's fun.

Fun to get to do with people you get along with and good friends. Seriously. I feel like that's, I think that's obviously a testament to all of you guys, but obviously I feel like you have never had issues with, like, getting along with anybody. So that's probably a testament to you as much as anybody. but like yeah it's fun to do it with people you get along with it's like well Jake always gets

along with people so therefore it is maybe a little both but yeah anyway or you know that or you just choose the right people always yeah you know that's the case so who knows that's awesome bro yeah yeah it's good just this dumb little sport the plastic ball like this is sports done a lot for me meadow brick park rachel i would say so bro bgc all all of all it took who who Who was the first person to invite you to pick a ball? I don't know. I don't know how I ended up there. You guys maybe?

I might have. Could have been. Yeah, also randomly played with the good good guys back in like 2019 a couple times. Now that would go nuts. I mean, you talk about. Dude. Did the dude perfect one? Did that go any extra viral?

Maybe slightly, you know, maybe performed 15% better, but I don't think there's anything insane. Okay, yeah. Nice guys. Man, I love Dude, I love Dude, Bo. Like, you know, I'm just like, a little bit more lenient on, it's a vacation. So, like, Bose got his quiet time. I'm like, we just watch Dude Perfect for your quiet time. So we're watching Ultimate Fort Battle.

We're watching, you know, Cody played in the All-Star game against Taco Fall. You know, we're watching all these different things. They're awesome, dude. They're just fun. So I'll be in Friscoe next week. So I'll keep a lookout for you and Bo. Yes, please do. That's, that's my meandering task rabbit.

It just needs to be dude perfect. Just wander around frisco. Yeah, yeah. Until you see him. Cool. Oh, hi, buddy. You come over here? Oh, you're real sandy.

Real sandy. You come over here a second once you're done to be in Sandy, okay? Big, big Henry boy. Come here. No, you want to come talk on the microphone? Yeah. You do? Yeah.

You want to come to? Have you been crying? Oh, mom says not right now. Not right now. I got to get you in the bathtub. Got to get the bathtub. Does you say hi? Bring it on.

Come here real quick. Come here. Come here to say hi to Mr. Jake. Come here. Can you get up there? In my hand. There. One, two, three.

Come on down. Here. Say hi, Mr. Jake. What? Hey, neighbor. Hey, Rosie. Hey. Rosie, have you been at the beach? Yeah. Is it a hot pool or a cold pool?

A hot pool, a cold pool. We got both. It's both. Which one's your favorite? Hot tub. Hot tub. Hot tub? When we take a lot of time, when we get in it, it's so hot.

So hot. Maybe because you're sunburned. Are you sunburn? No. You're okay? Oh, Rosie, that's one thing she says every day. To me, she goes, Dad, I'm going to need you to put on some sunscreen today so you don't get sunburned, okay? Yeah.

Can you show them your chickie? Yeah. Okay, real quick, go. She was excited about that. It's white. Oh! It's got chickens on it. It's got chickens on it.

Chickies got chickens on it. on it. And he's white. Oh, it's like her pride and joy or chicky. Can I trouble my chicky? She's coming right back to, yeah, yeah. I think. We'll show and tell.

Yeah. Oh, Rosie girl. She's Oh, she's euphoric. Shut the door. You shut the door. Come here real quick. All right. Let's see that thing. You help again. You got it. Here, take my hand.

Come on. Big bed Cool over here so Mr. J can see you All right, let's see it Ooh It's white It's white

Whose is that? Anybody else's Just yours? Okay Okay Two One at home Okay

My baby My baby My baby My baby She calls Henry my baby My, Bo, Bo, he told her elephant that he had. Um, Tiki, told him.

You get that? I have a doggy on his shirt. I have a doggy on my shirt. She loves the roebuck doggy. You should have Bo has an elephant. Yeah. Yeah. Very good.

What do you want to tell Mr. Jake about what we've been doing here? Um, the hot tub. Oh, we try a face. Yeah. We saw Aunt Bear. Yeah. And if we had birthday today, and she went home. Oh, she went home.

Yeah. And you missed it. I missed it. Okay, sorry. And you missed her. You met it because, um, we had to tell her because she just went home. She's went home. Yeah.

Yeah. What do we go to the rest of the day? What are we going to do the rest of the day? Um. Let me some quiet time. Oh, give him some muffin. Yeah? Yeah.

But when I, the baby, um, deep he did it, then he ripped it. Yeah. He ripped it. Yeah. Ripped it. All right. Rosie sigh. You threw your chicky off the bed.

All right, all right, all right. We, uh, calm down, Louie. You all right. Finish it up. All right. Anything else you want to say, Jacob? Winds of the week to finish it up. Wednesday of the week.

Oh, my. My win of the week is hanging out with Rosie. Yeah. We have fun. We've had... I still have sand on our bottom. You still have some sand on our bottom, so that's something. Yeah.

Yeah? I don't know. Win of the week. Did you have fun... I really had fun at the airplane with you. Yeah. I like when we landed on the land. You liked when we landed.

Yeah. Yeah. We landed. There you go. Did Rosie get a sucker for takeoff or no? Yeah. You did? Yeah.

Was that good? My mom did. We got some pretzels. Yeah. Got some pretzels? And we put off water. Bo got water, yeah. What was Bo thinking?

Water? What did you get? Um, I... And you got like sparkling water, so you really, you went crazy. I got parsley water. Whoa. And I got a touch of water and I did it. A stick.

What? On the airplane? A sticker book. A sticker book, yeah. Yeah, it was awesome. And it was a long way to the beach. Long way of the beach, yeah. Here, let me fix my computer so we can see you better.

All right, what's your win of the week, Jake? Mr. Jake. My one of the week, call it serendipity, call it a little quinky dink. Mm-hmm. One day at the mall. I'm just shopping. I'm looking to spin some ring it. Ring it up.

Uh-huh. I have a guy, we were just talking about this, how you know, it's nice to have someone else put your screen protector on. I don't have a screen protector for my phone. I'm like, yeah, put it on. And I got a nice one because everything's so cheap there. Later that day, I have to take my phone case off because we're making a little video on a tripod. Isaac knocks over the tripod. My phone with no case on it, falls onto the concrete, but it falls screen protector first. And the screen protector just like perfectly protects everything. And I said, Thank goodness, I guess. Isaac, don't get it in a habit of doing that.

But one day I put a screen protector on my phone, he knocked it over. Did it break the screen protector? Yeah, shattered it. Okay. Okay. Would have shattered my phone. Dad. That's a little crazy, right?

Yeah. My home at P. Oh, her other chicky. She wants to talk more about the chicky. Okay. And I'm sure. And she's one. One of the one at the beach is,

white, but the one at home is pink? White and pink. And what color are your babies? Um, I got up. You forgot? Yeah. Hmm. Blue?

Do you want to sing some Mwana in the episode? Oh, please. No. Oh. I don't even... I've been... Long as I can remember. really knowing why.

It's my Milana paddle. It's waves. I've been. I've been perfect daughter. But I come back to the water. Matter how hard I try. I can bum, bum, I can. Yeah.

Yeah. So I can something dang dappo-ding dappo-ding. What is wrong? It's up Pa-pah-pah And find me What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me?

And what does she say? What's the other? Yeah, nailed it. All right, good job. All right. I agree. Let's go. Rosie, thanks for being on.

You want to say Ghostrador's podcast? No. Okay. Oh, you do. Ghostrunners podcast. All right. Get out here. I'm just kidding.

Great, great episode, Jacob. We did it. We did it. Thanks for listening, guys. See you Monday in studio. We'll be back in here. We're back for another episode. Thanks for listening, as always.

We'll see you. Yeah, I already said all that. Bye. Love you. Say love you. Bye you. Uh-oh. Oh, I think this.

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