Ghostrunners - 546 - Isaac's Diagnosis

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

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Hey, hey. How are we doing? Good morning, dude. I'm doing great. So a million things have happened. I love it. What have you been up to? Oh, I've been playing a lot of pick.

I play pickleball three days in a row. That's what's been happening to me. I just, I'm like, hey, once Jake's gone, I'm going to say, someone's got to fill the void. To Jake's so hard. I'm going to get football and start my own pickleball company. No, dude, been playing, played last three days because Catherine and the kids left on yesterday no Tuesday they left Tuesday two days ago so yeah ever since they've left i've just been a pickleball fiend dude where are you recording at right now this is my new house

you here later so i'm like i might as well just come over here but my head or my all i moved all the podcast stuff into this uh garage anyway so i was like all right let's just go here and the internet's up and running looks great everything smooth google fiber's doing just just fine here, bro. Yes, 100%. I'm a little bit warm, so let me just turn down the, uh, thermostat out on my phone, dude. No problem, man.

It's all set up through the Google Home app, dude. I want to hear all about you though. No, or, hey, we, we should usually do something like to start it with like a cold open. So go ahead and do the cold open thing. Okay, this is hilarious. Um, I was just gonna ask, does Google Home still have like six apps that are all like very adjacently named? Yes.

Um, so probably. I had a really hard time with my first house. I think I kind of told you this a little bit. Like there was some really dumb things about like how to do the unlock thing. Like the wireless, you know, like they have like a smart lock or whatever. And there's like Nest, Yale, Yale Nest, Google Home for for Google Nest partnering with. And I'm like, okay, so I download Yale app. Do I download the Nest app?

Do I download Google Home app? And then like I, it took me four hours. probably to finally connect this thing and the only solution like from reddit from like all these different threads was just like you need to get somebody else over to your house with another phone and connect to their hot spot on their phone and that's the only way you can then connect to your internet and it's like that is excuse my language asinine that's assing like that's ridiculous by this house i got a slag law big slag no assonines Just all good.

So all that to say, yes, the Google Home app, I have one app for everything, but you still have to have like, that's not true, because I have a Schleg app that I change the lock. Of course. If everyone unlock it, I can just press it in the Google Home app. Anyway, it's a thing, man. So I'll have to say, I'm a little bit warm. Schleg it up. Oh, yeah, it's set at 82 right now.

Come on, we can't. Slag it up. No way. It's making fun of me this morning because my shirt is a little crop. Let me give you a little demonstration right here. It's, uh, this is my shirt. So I'm where I've been like, dude, yeah.

Oh, you can't see. Yes, dude. Yes. Go, go Brooklyn pickleball team. Go slug up, dude. It's a bit cropped. Yeah, it's a mid-drip. It's like, hey, for the, you know, it makes my, it makes my waist a little bit slimmer, you know,

with the shorts hiked up. If my arms are down, it looks great. Rachel says it makes my. legs look longer, but my arms are up. That's what girls say, dude. That's what you're... Anyway, that's been the cold open with the Schleg app. Schleg, yeah, cold open.

Go. Uh, uh-oh, ooh, I think this tight. Beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white. Me too. Ben West Best Friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because this is a ghostrums podcast.

That's really funny. shirt and you're going for it. Yeah, if you remember. Once I saw that, I was like, okay, I've seen guys wearing shirts like that. That's like a thing. That's like a Gin Z. You're just a cool guy. I'm just a cool guy.

It just really like stops like directly at the waistline. So there's no room to to go like up with my arms. So yeah, do you like, are you conscious of that all the time? Like somebody's going to go shake your hand right now. Like what's up dude? Like maybe even just a quick dab. Even a DAP, you're getting, you're getting about one and a half, two inches of your stomach showing. What's up, dude?

Oh, it's up, man. No, right here, dude. That's why it's my podcasting shirt. Okay. No one needs to know what happens below. That's a good color. I like that. Thanks.

You know, I'm actually in a really fun Airbnb right now, but unfortunately there's like a desk set up with a light right here. Like, it's a pretty perfect setup and just the most bland background behind me. But I've got a pretty cool Airbnb everywhere else that you can. can't see right now. Who's the one choosing the Airbnb's? Are you the Airbnb guy? More often than not, yeah, I'll do it. And yeah, I don't, I don't know if I put my best foot forward, but typically I try to be like,

let's not, let's not slum it up. Like, let's get something that looks nice-ish. And seems to work out. Dude, can I tell you right now, I don't know, sorry, you brought to say some, I don't know. No. This is a well-known thing. And I don't know if I should be giving out these secrets. to people as an Airbnb guy myself now.

But you can you can basically just like you everyone should do that. Everyone that's not you honestly. Like you would not like this because you're like I just want to get it done fast. But you can go on Airbnb and private message or like do like special requests and just basically say, hey, can I get a discounted rate for this? Like we're looking to stay here for five nights. Can we make it like somebody did this the other day and I actually said no to him. But they're like, we're looking to get this for five nights.

we do it for a thousand dollars even and it was going to be like $1,300 and I said no but I guarantee you like in my head as an Airbnb guy I'm like I know there's a million places they can stay so like I mean there's there's 25 different options that probably fit all they need is one person to say yes and so it's like you can you can kind of negotiate and like and sometimes it's like if I was desperate enough or like what you know I'd be like yeah sure thousand bucks is better than nothing. So people don't do that enough. I think look into that. So, so I mean, just try it out. Yeah, seriously. That's good to know. I, I've enjoyed this Airbnb because it's the only place I feel safe in this city. What's the year? Are you in again? I'm in St. Louis.

St. Louis and that's in Illinois? No, I'm on the Missouri side. Oh, you're on the Missouri side. Okay, okay, okay. So St. Louis, Missouri is a little bit sketchy. Dude, you have bagged on St. Louis consistently for six years, and I'm seeing it now for the first time. And I'm really seeing it. Really? It's unbelievable what's going on in this town. We came in from like, where we come in from? Oh, the airport.

I think the airport is like northwestish of the city. So we're coming into the city. We need to go get groceries for the Airbnb. be. And so Rachel's like, let me find a target. Oh, wow, there's not that many targets where we're headed. Okay, there's one. All right, great. We get off the highway and I always thought east St. Louis, like, oh, you stay out of East St. Louis. The Illinois side is like rough, I've heard. Yes. So I was like North St. Louis, I don't know. I haven't heard anything. I assume we're in the clear with North St. Louis. We got off the highway and for six miles, we drove through, I don't know,

Haiti. There's just, there's no six miles, six straight miles with no lines on the roads. I'm not kidding. Someone in St. Louis, take a picture, put on the Facebook group. What? There's, there's not, there's not markings. It's anarchy. There's just abandoned building, abandoned building, anarchy in the street, just asphalt, as far as the I could see. I mean, there's like stoplights. There's a bunch of those like little like like bikes that have people on the back, like little tuck tucks or something. Tuck tucks. The third world country over there. It was just crazy.

I mean, for miles and miles and miles, just no, no lines on the street. I don't know if there's this new asphalt. Maybe they're planning on putting lines on the street. Got to be. But six miles is a long time to just be like, they'll be fine. They'll think they'll make. I think they'll know if they're on the other side of the road. Yeah.

It's like a self-governing system, I guess. Highway? What? Was this a highway? No, this is like I exit off the highway, like taking just like a normal road into the city. And, oh, it was unbelievable what we were saying. I was like, dude, Brad's been right all along. This is crazy.

I love when people tell me I'm right. Who doesn't? But I revel in it. So thank you. I need that. Also, I would love for you to imagine. So a fun little thing that on a somewhat regular basis I do and enjoy doing is not telling anyone else what car I rented.

And it's usually making it some sort of surprise. It's funny in some sort of way. Maybe it's like a really weirdly. colored car or it's a it's such a weird van or this time specifically i got a dodge ram big horn you familiar with the big horn model yeah the rams okay so all the trucks have ridiculous names for their like nice like like upgraded packages i think i think ford i'm biased but i think fords are the least ridiculous there's are like king ranch there's the raptor which i think is I think people that drive Raptors look insane.

With the little like Raptor things on the back. If you don't have the things on the side, you're fine. But like Raptors, but then I think Chevy has something called a trail boss. And you know, so there's the big horn ram, but then do you know what like the nicest ram is called? I'm sure you don't. No. I don't think I'll give you, I'll give you five hints before I tell you. It's power something.

And it's not cool. Power horn. Nope. It's a, it's an old thing. Power bonnet. You're actually very close. In the same era. What do you think with that era?

Power bonnet. I don't know, power polio. Okay, maybe. Older era. Go back. Laura Ingalls. I don't know. Power butter, power leather.

Power. Power wagon. Power wagon. I was kind of close. Is that the truck you want to spend $100,000 on? Is that power? Like those things are so expensive. Like, I don't know if they're $100,000.

But they're like the top of the top RAM truck. I can't, hey, I sprung. I got the power wagon, babe. I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't have. Hey. Okay. So you're riding in the big horn.

Yeah. It's. I don't know what the big horn is exactly, but I just know it's a type of ram. It's all black. It's like slightly lifted. Is this true? Yeah. It reeks of cigarettes and weed.

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I was like, hey, yeah, we got the car. The gas tank is like a little less than half full, and it reeks of weed in here. and he was like, darn it, I had a cold, so I wasn't even able to smell it. Oh, man. I was like, I'm a cold for all these cigarettes. I'm heating up, you know? I'm like, I've been on nothing but day quill for three days straight, and this is blasting right through me.

There's no way you didn't smell this. Oh, that's a bummer, dude. Just like, okay, we, yeah, we got this cool, fun truck. And you don't know. Yeah. There's no way it's, it's not his. Right? And there are downsides.

I think Turro is like pretty easy, pretty convenient. You know, you don't have to wait in this line. Like, it's so nice. But also, like a rental car would never, a rental company would never rent out something like this. Like the whole, like the back cover that goes on the tailgate, that doesn't work. It's like all ripped and like doesn't roll out. It doesn't attach. And I let him know, like, hey, what do you want us to do?

Like, this doesn't work. He's like, I got another truck. I could trade you. I'm like, I don't want your trading truck. I'll stick with a big horn. Yeah. Bummer. Okay, so you're just riding around that big horn.

How are you doing it? You're comfortable with it? For the most part, I was trying to figure out. I was like, is this St. Louis or is it the big horn? But I'm not fully comfortable driving. I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's like the area of St. Louis for any, it's just like, it's not super great around here. And the streets are small.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's tight. Like every house is next to each other. So you feel like you don't even fit in the driveway. I don't know if that's true or not. But like also a lot of brick in this town. A lot of brick. Okay.

St. Louis is trying to be. Brooklyn so bad. Really? It's a brick oven place, you know? There's so much brick in St. Louis. But, um, no, honestly, I've just never sat up this high before. So it's like, I'm trying to find a parking spot. And when it's time to pull in, the lines are gone.

Really? Yeah. Like, I just can't see the lines anymore. I'm like, has anyone ever park a big horn? You got to, everyone's small. You got to pull the old, you know, it's still, it's still in reverse. You know, you got your foot on the break and he's open up the door a little bit. And you said, yeah, we're good.

Where am I at here? Like, I think I'm here, but, dude, it's amazing how bad I am at parking every once in a while. Sometimes I'm like, I nailed that. And I go out like, I am, you know, at a 15 and a half degree eight. How did I do that? So I need to appreciate how good I have it in a sedan. What do you say? Are you backing in?

You got to start backing in. That's the answer. I probably need to because that's where the camera's at. Oh, dude. Yeah. That's, you got to start backing in. It's way easier, easier turn radius for a big old truck. That's the way to do it.

It's not like a sometimes I think like, oh, truck drivers back in because they're just truck drivers. And they got it's like, no. It's like it's like. Yeah. It's like way easier to do it that way. So. Oh, but yeah, it was been fun. I mean, yeah, we got in a couple days ago and just couldn't believe how, how rough it was in the daylight.

And yesterday we're like, let's go eat somewhere for lunch. And so I, I navigated us to ballpark village, kind of that area right outside of Bush Stadium where they, you know, it's kind of newer and whatnot. I have something to say about that when you're done. Go ahead. Here's my analysis of St. Louis. So we're leaving like whatever area of North St. Louis we're in to go downtown. And as we're going downtown, we're going, hey, this looks a little nicer. St. Louis is the only place in the world where you go to the inner city to get safer.

You go, oh, this is nice being in the inner city. This is great. We're finally in the heart of it. Yeah, that's good. I mean, it's unlike anything I've seen. And I've been in every major city and every major market in the United States. I've never seen anything like this. I from, okay, this is one of those St. Louis people are rolling over in their toasted ravioli graves right now.

They may not like this part, but it's north St. Louis. I'm talking north St. Louis. This is, this is something that my friend Sam Sievers told me. And he's like, I'm not really sure if it's true or not, but I'm taking this fact. Sam Severs is from outside of St. Louis on the Illinois side. I forget what's called now, but it's over there. Maybe starts with an F. Sorry.

Quincy. Ferguson. No, I'm just kidding. And no, I know. That's the Missouri. And anyway, but he says, once again, this is probably not true, but I like to think it's true. He says that the area that the Cardinal Stadium, Ballpark Village, is so dangerous that people will refuse to go there. Like people coming into the games will refuse to go there without care.

like carrying on them like carrying a firearm on them and so at the cardinal stadium there is a there are lockers that you can put your firearm in until you come back because they're like we don't want to park our cars out here or else we have to you know whatever like we have to be armed we have to be strapped and so I think you might it might have just been a nice looking part of town but I don't know if it's that safe I would say what does that tell you about my experience at st. Louis like a park Village this ain't bad whoa we're good here yeah let's talk let's talk Jake let's talk about the stroasters the main street stroasters all right title sponsor they're my favorite yeah they're the best stroaster strudels uh my little stroasters my little stroasters

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I love it. Hey, Drews, I don't know, man. So, yeah, all that to say, St. Louis is, well, St. Louis shock, though. You guys had a great experience with St. Louis Shock. Right? Well, good to see them this week. Okay. Got to see them yesterday a little bit, actually.

Yeah, so you're, are you playing in a tournament? Or what are you guys doing there? We are, we are not competing in anything. It's just, um, yeah, pro pickleball is, basically split up into two different types. One is like the PPA, which is like everyone's competing is, I don't know, it's like tennis or something like I'm signed up for this tournament. I'm going to see how good I can do. I'm playing doubles at times, but it's, it's an individual sport. In the, they take a break and in the summertime, everyone gets split up into teams. And for just

two and a half months, it's like the NFL or the NBA or things like that where like there's 20 top teams that all the pros are on and they play against each other and there's leagues and their standings and whatever so it's kind of a fun way to break it up and um i think the crowd gets more into it it's it's easier to like maybe choose who to root for other than just kind of like being there and just like taking it all in so um do you have cool uh logos like should i get some merch of like any of um honestly the team that rachel roerbocker's on is like by far like the cleanest like team name and like branding so that it's kind of clutch that worked out but there's some bad names even like uh last week we're like across the the house of each other i'm in the podcast

studio rachel's in the living room and she's like looking up major league pickleball stuff and she was just like appalled at some of the names i just hear her out of nowhere she goes the la mad drops oh called the mad drops okay yeah i was just about to say i think it is really really really difficult to like come up with a new good name that's not already like a name you've heard before. It is. Mad drop like I was I was about to like kind of fend whatever you were going to say. You know the Houston the Houston mad. I don't know what you were going to say, but I was not expecting mad drops.

Like that's that's bad. There's a few that are like, you know what? That's actually not bad for like, yeah, a new sports team. So like the team that Rachel's on is called the Brooklyn pickleball team. that's it like it's clean and the brand it's all black and white branding and it like it's you know it looks cool um st louis shock is it bad um Orlando squeezed they're like kind of like an orange like figure it's like that kind of makes sense hey that's not bad and then that's about it and then the other 17 are like pretty tough um yeah the socal hard eights hard eight such a heartache

breaking hard eight. Yeah, maybe there's something something in SoCal that we don't know about with hard eights, but I don't know what that means. Yeah, I think if you're gonna name something a new thing,

you should go with the plural that doesn't have an S at the end. Kind of like magic. Jazz? Yeah, yeah. Jazz. Like something like that's kind of, that feels safer to me.

I don't know what those words would be off the top of my head, but like, deer. Yeah, chaos. or oh yeah yeah shock is good like stuff like that like whoa awe just the atlanta awe Atlanta oh yeah bewilderment come be wilderness they have any like uh let's go bewilderment be wildermit you say be i say a wilderness bit um is it like small and i know pickleball it's so small

And I mean, it's big and small in different ways. Like, do they still have, like, uh, like the parents come to the matches and stuff? Like, do you know, do you know whose mom is like watching and cheering for their team? Uh, that's funny. Um, no, that's typically only for like the, the kids. Like, if there are any, like, 18 and under kids who are like playing pro pickleball, it's like, oh, yeah, there's Thomas mom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just love the idea of like the, like, just the amateur sports, like, you know, the, the mom makes their own shirt kind of thing.

Like they go to the little different shop and like have their own like, you know, ironed on shirt kind of thing made. Like there's stuff like that for come on shock. Let's go. Shock. Like pass it out. All the people. The booster club for the shock like with little clap hand. Take a cowbell.

Take a cowbell. Pass it on. Yeah. We want a whole section. Come on, guys. Yeah. I do like the idea though of like almost doing the opposite of this like going to an NFL game and kind of like nudging like a woman next to me. Like so which one is yours?

And acting like it's upward basketball. Like obviously you were here because you're related to one of these men. Are you playing for a while or yeah. So which yeah, how do you, how do you take? Yeah. Maybe maybe that's going to be my thing is I just get like ridiculously into a pickleball team. Like just just way like like on all the forums like they call me like give me some of the other. There's mad.

What was it mad dinks? The mad drops that. Mad drops. Um, the hard eights. there's the New Jersey fives, just the number five. What's up with these fives and eights? I don't know. I don't know if you can just claim a number.

Okay. Who else we got? Right now, so I'm missing today's action. Brooklyn is playing right now against the Las Vegas night owls, I believe. Okay. Don't hate it. I don't hate it. I don't hate it.

Yeah, an animal is never a bad route to go down. I think I might just go. have an alias i want to have an alias with the starting letter m be mad drop like should we go max should we go mason should we go manatee you know mad drop manatee and you're just all in on the mad drops and i'm i'm just following the mad drops who the heck what it was okay no way okay so there's like this like okay you know the the park right behind this house yeah yeah I don't know if that was a coyote or a dog that just walked by. It kind of looked like a coyote, and I don't see a person around,

but also it looked like maybe it had a leash, or not a leash, a collar. Oh, here, come. Oh, it's like, okay, dude, I don't know. I don't know if I try to get this on it. I saw some coyotes a couple days ago. Really? Pretty up close. You light?

Yeah. At a resort in Dallas, saw two coyotes. Oh, yeah, dude. Okay, yeah, we got too much to talk about. We don't need to worry about the coyotes. No, that's okay. Give me away anyway. It looked like a wolf, though.

Like, it was like a big old thing. Just at your door. No, no, no, no, no. It's like far away. It's like, so there's like my backyard and then there's a fence. And then there's, I think it's called a spillway is what I'm going to call this thing. The concrete slabs. Yeah, I call it a concrete sewage area earlier.

That's a, that's a poorer way to say it. I think it's called a spillway. And then on the other side of that, there's grass in a bunch of trees. And it's back there. And beyond that is the coyote land. Yes. That's where he lives, I think. That's his lair.

So anyway, what were you saying? Anyway, coyotes, pick a ball. I don't know. Yeah, so we're not even playing this week. It's just Rachel's team is here in St. Louis. So let's get some content. We did all that yesterday. And then we've never been to an MLP event before.

So it's like, well, let's just hang out and watch and cheer. him on and just hang so it's uh it's me scott isa rachel my wife not roerbocker she's here nathan coley um good crew you know yesterday like the whole reason we're kind of here is like to get content like that's why i flew here everyone drove here the whole reason nathan's here is to get content we shot two videos yesterday and the first one is camera overheated and the second one the file got corrupted. So, I mean, he was just going through it. And I was like, dude, none of this is your fault.

We'll figure it out. It's okay. But I felt bad. He apologized nine different times. I was like, dude, it happened. This is a rite of passage. Everyone goes through this. Yeah.

And there's times where it actually over here. And there's times where you just lie and say you have the file somewhere. And what happened there? Do you remember that? Do we ever talk about this podcast? Maybe that was a private conversation. You know what I'm talking about? The guy with Trey?

I want to say Vegas. Maybe it was in Vegas. Somewhere. Yeah, I think we did talk about this publicly. What was his name? It doesn't matter. It was Jonah. Salt Lake City.

Doesn't matter, Jonah. Okay. Yeah. And he just claims he lost them or no, claims me. Yeah. I think he was from Salt Lake City, but Trey flew him down for like this kid got the best tour weekend ever because it was like we did TPC sawgrass.

we, Trey rented a boat. It was like this massive Florida run. It was like super, super fun. The only time we've ever rented a boat on tour and this kid was on it. Yeah, I just never saw any of the footage that he filmed the entire weekend. Just had excuse after excuse. Yeah, that's right. So you're fine, Nathan.

Don't worry about it. Yeah, it's part of it. We'll figure it out. You know, the camera, we played a game to 15 and the camera overheated once the girls scored 11. So it's like, easy fix. It was a game to 11. Yeah. Movie magic.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Edit a few things and you'll be great. Okay. Yeah. So we're having a good time. But yeah, I do feel bad for Rachel because like all the boys went to the pickleball tournament. I got to do this podcast.

Rachel's like, I don't know if I need to go watch more pro pickable. Like I was like, hey, big horn keys right here. You know, if you need it. And in any other circumstance, I think she would love to go on a walk to a coffee shop, whatever. And she just like lock the doors. and charge up my Kindle. I'm staying in here.

I'm not going anywhere. Dude, sometimes that happens with Airbnb's where it's like, it looks like a nice place. And then you realize, like there needs to be some kind of ranking on Airbnb of like how nice of a neighborhood is this. You know what I mean?

That's a good point. Like safety score. Yeah, safety score or walkability or schools nearby score. I don't know. So I don't know what the easy, I mean, crime. That'd be an easy statistic to make it work. Mm-hmm.

Um, because yeah, every once while you see houses in Kansas City that people stay in. I'm like, why are you staying there? It's like, well, the pictures look fine, you know, so two nights ago, Scott and Isaac got in at around at 2 a.m. Have you seen the video on our Instagram of Scott dancing with Palmer? Yes, dude. It is it. Amazing. Yeah, we got to put that in.

It's so hard. It was kind of a remix, but it was, uh, do you remember? That was part of it. He did great. He was, I mean, He crushed. Of course he did. Yeah, that's him.

He was front and center. I mean, that's, yeah. Or a pro. Get the crop up. Yeah. Okay, so he was doing that. So he had to dance until, you know, 10 p.m. And then they drove over.

And they said when they got to the Airbnb, they said there was a guy on the street who was wearing a t-shirt. Okay. But then just underwear. And then he was just holding a basketball, just walking down the street. And they were like, where did you come from? Where are you headed? Scott and I Joe? Where are you going to?

Yeah, dude. Okay. Just that those are the kind of neighbors that you have. Yeah. Maybe this is just a through street for him. Dang, dude. He's on a long journey. I saw a Chappelle stand-up clip.

I think it's like, he's talking about like going to the hood of DC at like 3 a.m. He's like, you know it's bad when you see a baby just wide awake at 3 a.m. just on their porch, just looking at you. Look at you. Not even like there's nothing wrong with this baby being out on their porch by themselves at 3 a.m. You know. And so yeah, kind of that save vibe. Like, yeah, there's just a guy just going to go in his, in his drawers at 2 a.m. Maybe he's just.

I guess so. I don't know. Yeah. Maybe he was sleep walking. Anyway, what are you up to? How are the houses? Yeah, the houses are good. I, uh, I, I feel like, I guess we'd recorded a long time ago, didn't we?

Uh, have I talked about Hobby Lobby? I don't think so. How I ran into the sliding doors of Hobby Lobby? No, I didn't. I feel like that was so long ago, but it was in my notes. I think I talked about this already. Yeah, long story short, you know, I don't know what I'm doing with decor in this house. But at the same time, I mean, Catherine would do such a better job at all this.

But A, she's got way too much, you know, on her, like on her plate with kids. I mean, she's just so busy already. and B, she would do such a good job because she would take so long to figure everything out. That's not me. I'm like, we got to make a decision on this quick. And so there was one day where I was like,

I'm just going to go, like, I have some of the artwork already and some of the decor. I'm just going to go to Hobby Lobby or anywhere. I'm just going to go look around. I look at Home Goys. I was like, that's too expensive. Hobby Lobby. I love Hobby Lobby now.

I think I've been to Hobby Lobby five times in my life, like a couple times for crafts as a kid, you know, for school or whatever. Hobby Lobby's awesome. dude. I mean, the aisles are kind of like, you never really know what's around each corner. But I bought all, like, I think I bought like eight different pictures. And like some of them were kind of big. So like imagine my, and they, they don't have any variation in the size of their carts. And so it's just like, oh, it was a pretty small cart. And so I'm trying to like kind of, you know,

Tetris these different like like slideable picture frames. So some of are kind of falling off. I'm kind of like walking with them like this, you know, like trying to like walk them into the checkout. And I'm like, sorry, I know I got a lot of these. And the guy was really nice. And I get ready to pay. And Hobby Lobby, I think is the only place I can think of right now that still does not accept Apple pay. And Walmart. You're right.

Walmart. But Walmart does have electronic pay. You can use their app. Yeah. Yes. Hobby Lobby did not have that convenience. And so there's people behind me. I don't want to have to like recheck out.

And so I'm like, I'll just go get my wallet from my truck. And so I hoofed it a little bit. I didn't like sprint, but I went fast enough. I'll be our back. I'll be our back. I'll be here back. I would show courtesy to the people behind me. And so I walk pretty briskly. And then I'm like, I'm going to start jogging a little bit.

And I start jogging and the doors didn't open. Like they. And then so I didn't like straight up just like, you know, bird like into a window kind of thing. but it was kind of like, like, like, Josh, because I was like, you know, everyone's small, like you're pulling up to a red light that you know it's about to turn grain. You're like, it's going to turn green. I'm not going to.

Yeah, I kind of. Like, that's how I felt towards these doors. Like, they haven't opened yet, but they're about to open. Yeah. How long could it take? Longer than you think. And so I just nailed these doors a little bit. And I just kept running out there and grab my stuff.

But, yeah, I mean, we have our first booking here tomorrow. Andre and his family. There's 10 people coming here tomorrow. Okay. Yeah, hope it's ready. Can I ask about the aftermath of slamming into the doors? I mean, do you kind of look around and give everyone the all clear? I'm not glossing over that.

That's fine. You're right. I should have. No, I just kept going. I don't. I think it was one of those things where it wasn't like, it wasn't like a bull running into, you know. Slide glass door. it was like it was like a man running into sliding glass

it wasn't like so so ungraceful like I kind of caught myself like it wasn't ridiculous but it was definitely like if someone's watching they heard it or they saw it I don't know if somebody wasn't watching if they would have heard it if that means it like I don't think it would have like probably turned their head but it definitely was like awkward and ridiculous and so I just I just jogged out to my truck and of course it was like the one time not really I've been trying to do this more but it was like

I decided I'm not going to try to get the farthest parking or the closest parking spot. I'm going to park kind of far away and walk. It's nice out. And of course I'm like, of course I got to go get my credit card out of here. So it worked out fine. I just nailed a, you know, nail the sliding glass door for a second. So anyway, yeah, that's what's going on. I'm excited about this house.

I'm really proud of it. And I think it's really cozy. I'm really excited for somebody to stay here and tell me how it goes. and if I feel like Airbnb I either price this one a little bit too high or Airbnb it takes a second for it to get like on the algorithm. Okay. First house all of a sudden I got like three bookings in like a day or two. And this one I've only had one so far. So hopefully once somebody stays here and leaves a good review, we'll get more.

But anyway, yeah, it's good. I mean, it's peaceful. It's like in this little, you know, like I said, there's like a forest basically back here. And so it's so peaceful. And so I love coming over here and just working outside and just on my computer or whatever. So anyway, yeah, is your future podcast studio just whichever Airbnb is not being rented out? I thought about that. I was like, should I just like block off one day every week to like happen?

I was like, no, I shouldn't do that. I had that thought, though. I was like, maybe. But then that's a, that's a risky game because it might not always come to fruition. If I, I guess maybe if I get enough, if I get 10 of them, then they're probably a good chance at one of them. Yeah, I guess eventually that's pretty possible. But I'd love for it to not be possible because that means we're doing better. Just 100% occupancy.

Yeah. Across all at Airbnbs. I also thought like the barbys right now are like the garage is locked and like not accessible for people. What if I just like record while they're here still and just record in the garage? Hey, I just have something to do in the garage with that this morning. I hope you don't mind. It's a shared space. I feel like have you ever done an Airbnb like that?

Like I know that was a thing. I'm sure it still is to an extent, but like you can just like rent out a room in somebody's house. I can't remember if I've done it or not. I probably have at some point where you don't realize the backyard is shared or something like that. But I can't really think of an example. Yeah. I feel like you hear about that. Or yeah, you're like in Europe, I'm sure it's more popular all apartments or something.

But like, yeah, it just seems ridiculous to even that. Even like every once in a while, I'm like, oh, there's something in the garage that I need. I can't, I can't do that to them. I can't. Yeah. I can't. I won't even see them. I wouldn't, I would open the garage from the outside and go through, but I'm like, I don't want.

It's kind of like you said when you had that, uh, that you met the guy that was buying your house. It's like we, I'm not supposed to. This isn't right. You're not going to do that, you know. I'm pretty sure Nathan Coley's place he's living in Arizona for two months is like a, uh, just like someone's guest like, almost like mother-in-law suite or something. like guest house in the back. Casita is the Arizona term.

Casita. Ohana is what they call it in Hawaii. Really? Nope. Yes. I think it's either. Oh, I know Ohana also means family.

So don't tell me that. Lilo and Stitch. But then there's a little, I think Ohana is that thing. And Lanai is like a covered ports or something like that in Hawaii. I'm okay with that. You sound good about that? Yeah.

Casita though. So he's, I mean, why not? Like rent that out. They call that. In the real estate world, they call that an ADU. I believe it's something dwelling unit. Adjoining dwelling unit. Additional?

Maybe. I don't think so, but maybe. ADU. So he's in the ADU. Hey, I'll do me, ADU. ADU. Let's see, ADU meaning. Accessory dwelling unit.

Okay. It's an accessory to the dwelling. Yeah. Anyway, I think he told me he's staying there. So I think he'll share a backyard with someone. And I don't mind that. I don't mind like a large property or like, yeah. Kind of like what Kyle does it sounds like.

Yeah, compound living. I just, I just don't, I don't want to be able to hear you go to the bathroom. Like I don't want to be able to hear if you are doing the dishes. I just don't need to know. I don't want to hear any kind of running water coming from you. Correct. Yes. No, yeah, it's a it's really all comes back to running water. Yeah, what TV as long as as as as you want. I don't care. Yeah, I can hear a TV going. That doesn't bother me. But if I hear water, it's like what are we what are Brooklyn nine nine. I knew it. Hey, um, I have I this is a true story. Dude. We're talking about cozy earth. True story. I believe that there's there's a little scandal in the Airbnb world, uh, in over the park. Can't. Um, it's, uh, and over the park. Can't. Um, Kansas backyard bungal, homebase getaways.com of cozy earth.com's amazing sheets. I have cozy earth sheets on all my beds.

My cleaner told me one of the levels in the sound system, dude. Nobody move. I'll just talk quiteer. My cleaner told me that somebody stole king-sized sheets from our Airbnb. Already? Yes, dude. And guess what brand they were? cozier.com's brand.

And guess what city those tenants were from? St. Louis, probably. Yeah, 100%. They were. Yeah, I bet. Yeah, I'm like, that's crazy. But also, I can use it for an ad read. That's what I thought. It gives you something to talk about. Yeah, so good, you'll steal them. So good. Yeah, you'll compromise your morals. You don't have to compromise your morals, though. You can basically get them for free.

If you go to cozy earth.com slash ghostrunners. and use our promo code GRKC for the best sheets in the world. They are truly so comfortable that you will, you'll be like, they're not going to notice that they're gone. I wish we were also sponsored by like a safe company. That way you could put your price possession, the Cozier's Bedsheets, in the safe to protect them from thieves.

That's a good idea and just put them on every single night. Did you do that again? I just, I feel like I'm just sitting here. We said if Cozyer, earth is good enough, then they need to have some static in their ad. And there comes. Mission accomplished. Yeah, it's true. Cozier's the best. Truly, truly, truly, truly. I was actually talking to Cody Terrell. No, I'm going to save that for next ad read. Next week, next week, next week, next week. Who knows how Cody Terrell feels about the Cozy Earth? Clothanger.

Cozyorty.com. slash ghostroarer. promo code. G, RKC. Um, so yeah, that's been going on. Um, honestly, it's, uh, it's weird not having you guys here. It's, it's funny. Like, I don't know. Like I'm not, I'm not like a, I can be reflective, I guess. But like when people, I have so many people were like, how you doing with Jake leaving? I'm like, fine. I don't know. I mean, I think people wanted me to be like depressed or something. I was like, I really am good.

I think I've known about this. When did you start talking about October maybe? Yeah, long time. I'm a lifetime. So it's like, yeah, we've, I've, yeah, I'm fine. And I'm, I am totally fine. But at the same time, it's funny. like I always knew that you were like if you you were you were either there or like it was like

oh they'll be there at some point there's this there's this car there's Jake and now it's like he's not ever there he's like I come back he's like literally never there like you know and it's like so obvious obviously um but yeah it's funny like Catherine on it I think is taking it once again she's not like crying over it or anything but like she probably talks about it every time like somebody else is just living in that house Somebody else is there. That's not their house anymore. And I'm like, like, yeah, I know.

I was just living there. You know, it's just so funny. But have you gone over there? You met Max yet or anything? I haven't. There was a few times where I've like walked by or driven by. And it seemed like they were doing, they were on a mission kind of thing. Like he, classic, like, I think this guy's young.

Like, I think he's like Isaac's age, um, is. And it was classic, like they had so many friends over helping them move. And like it looked like maybe their mom was over there helping them. You know, it's just like, oh, this is sweet. So I'm excited to meet them. They, it's funny. So once again, so normal, but also not normal because I'm used to you. But like they leave every single morning and they come back at the like in the evening.

And it's like they have jobs in an office like probably, you know, I'm just so used to like seeing people over there. every once in a while during the day. Random times. Yeah, not ever like that. So I got to say goodbye to Isaac on Sunday night. That was funny. He came over and had pizza with us. That was sweet.

Another time there was like, yeah, I guess. You know, I didn't, it still hasn't like sunk in. I talked about that sometimes with like Christmas where like it's like January 8th and I'm like I still want to listen to Christmas music. Because I didn't like, I didn't really, I didn't really absorb it until it's too late kind of thing. So maybe I'll have that same feeling towards you guys. But right now I'm just trying to play pickleball as much as I can and just forget about you. That's so fun.

Did Isaac tell you his medical update? A little, but you seemed like you were pumped about it. And I was like, maybe there's more to it that I don't know. I mean, he did. He went into some detail. At one point, I was like, Catherine, do you want to hear? Or I think I said, Isaac, you don't have to share all this with me if you don't want to have. No, we're good.

Yeah. Um, but from what I remember, he did get like a stool sample and he had some results from what I Yeah, that's yeah, I think we know the same thing. I just couldn't believe it because I talked about last week like yeah, he was not feeling well during this whole music video and yeah, I went to the doctor and he has three different types of E. coli. Yes and honestly it was like insane but also like not like that's like So like it's China and he's got issues with his digestion. Like something's got to be in there. Yeah.

We were talking to him just last night about it. Like when did you start feeling bad? You know, yada yada. And he was like, it was like kind of on my way to China is kind of where I first started feeling sick. So then we were like, oh, you didn't get this from China then. You got this from when we were all together. How did you get it?

None of us get it. It was pre-China apparently. So I don't know. Right. Or it's just. something aggravated what was still in there from before. Yeah, Parasite made some friends. How long ago was that first China trip?

I mean, it was a long time ago. About a year ago. Was that it? Okay. Yeah. I don't think it was longer than that even. Yeah. E.

And honestly, it's probably like not that, like I didn't have as strong of a reaction because I don't even, I don't understand any. I'm so bad at science. I'm like, I've heard of E. coli. And I've heard like,

there's an E. E. coli outbreak so you can't have the lettuce at Chipotle. But I'm like, I don't. I don't know. I just won't eat it. I don't know what it does or what it is or where it's from or how nasty it truly is. But like, yeah, poor guy is just, I mean, very, very subtly.

He probably excused himself to go to the bathroom at least four times while he was hanging out with this. I was like, don't worry. Don't. I'm not going to say anything. But, uh, poor guy. Isaac, he came over. Sorry. Now I'm trying to remember what the actual thing is.

The kids were talking about something. So we had dinner, obviously, and the kids were on one because, you know, there's a new, there's a new person to impress and show all that. You know, Bo, Bo did it at one point. It was so cute. Bo so into these Legos right now. And so he came by, you know, Isaac's talking to Catherine. And Bo just kind of came by with one of these Legos that he made.

And it was just kind of like basically like trying to subtly show him without like, you know, like saying. it like like pretend to play with it and kind of look to the side like is he see me you know kind of thing like does he is he going to comment on this uh which is cute um but that's so funny i'm trying to remember i don't remember what they were voting on now i think it was i think so so for beau's birthday we had bluebell ice cream and we had mint chocolate chip and strawberry i think that's what it was and we were trying to vote which one's better because we had more of it and we're going to have it for dessert that night and so you know had he and rosy are voting for

strawberry, Bose voting for mint chag chag chit, whatever, I'm voting. And Isaac hasn't sat down yet. And so Isaac sits down. And it's like we kind of voted, but then like, you know, conversation change or whatever. And Bo goes. And I said, uh, you guys need to ask Mr. Isaac some questions. Like ask him, like have some good conversation. Yeah, yeah. And Bo goes, Mr. Isaac, how do you vote? And I didn't understand what he was saying at the time. Like, I was like, what? Oh, you know, like, You know, you don't ask, like, whatever, you know, thinking like, wow, Catherine's really rubbing off the politics. And Isaac's like, what? He's like, yeah, you want strawberry or Mitch Hugga Chip, I think is what he said, you know.

And Isaac's like, oh, oh, you know. But for a second, it was like, how do you, how do I vote? When we make conversation? Okay. Who did you vote for? What's your stance on this? Yeah, whatever. So, but it was just like, it was a fun time with him.

And it's fun to like, I did reflect. to an extent. I was like, Hattie, when I met this guy, he was closer at your age, you know, than my, you know,

like, it's, it's fun to think about. And he's, and he's never left before. Like, you, you went to Dallas already.

So I'm, I'm used to you, you know, abandoning me. This is what I do. Yeah, exactly. But yeah,

it was, it was a great time with him. The kids were really excited to, to brag about. We had, we got a new toilet in our house.

And that's come up in a million conversations. Well, yeah, for Isaac, I bet. Yeah, Isaac was like, really? Tell me about this thing. We finally got rid of the, we'll call them the Woof toilets, the airplane toilets.

Oh, I like those. They were so loud, though. Like, they would legitimately wake kids up from their nap. But they worked. All of a sudden, one of them was kind of crapping out, no pun intended. And so it's time. And we replaced it. And man, the kids wanted to talk about it with anybody that wanted to agree.

Really? We got a new toilet. My neighbor's left and we got a new toilet. It's like we don't get very much new stuff, apparently if we're excited about a toilet. What'd you do with the old toilet? I threw them away. Okay. They're not even worth selling.

I don't know. Probably not. I mean, they were working okay. I'm sure you could have replaced them or fixed them or whatever, but I didn't want to go through that. I mean, maybe, you know, it's like maybe. But then in the meantime, I'm just going to have this toilet just sitting in my front yard until, you know. Did you ever sell your, um, did you ever sell your, um, shirts. Oh yeah, I got a fun update with that. I don't even know where we left off last week,

but, you know, I had Chad GBT do everything for me, find out the retail value. Chad GipT said basically this is worth about $6,000 if you bought these retail. Yeah. I would suggest you charge $2,000 on Facebook Marketplace. I was like, I don't know about that. All that's for $1,600 and people can negotiate from there. Well, for 48 straight hours. No one messaged me. at all. So then I was like, all right, I'm moving in like two days.

Like I need to get rid of this. So I raised the price to $9.99. And then the day that the movers were there, which is a whole other story. That's probably for Wednesday's episode. But I finally get my first message. And this guy was like, what's your best price? And I say, you know what? $900 if you can get it today.

It's all yours. And he goes, what about $700? And I say, you know what if you can get it today great it's all yours about an hour later he messages back and this is a great move i recommend everyone do it he goes oh i had a typo i meant six hundred dollars yeah i like it that's a great move when you're negotiating digitally chucks oh i had i had a yeah fat finger i had a typo in that last one i meant 500 Sorry, I keep fat, fat fingers, dude.

60. My bad, dude. $6.00, $6. And so it was just like a typo, dude, come on. Come on. How dumb do you think I am? You know, so I'm like, so I basically like was like, I don't know. I got some other people who said they would do 700, but you're the first one who

messaged me. So then he comes back and he goes, I'll tell you what, $600 and a. dollars and a beats pill speaker and i said perfect i was looking for one of those deal i got me i got me a beats pill speaker i need to see what this looks like i know i really didn't even know what it was i was just like whatever just like come take it those are sweet those you'll use that it was better than i thought it was going to be both at like size quality appearing was and um the retail value is like 100 I was like, oh, why didn't you want this speaker, dude? Yeah, that's awesome.

Okay. So $600 at a speaker. Okay. What a bargain, you know, for. Yeah. That's hilarious, dude. Yeah. He came over and snagged it all at like 9.30 at night the day before we left.

And I couldn't really, it didn't seem like he golfed, which is okay. I was like, oh, do you, are you like a reseller on eBay? You go, no, no, I don't do any of that stuff. So I don't know. I don't know why he wanted 89 golf apparel items. Aegis. I mean, that's a,

that's a corporate, corporate, uh, acceptable shirt. Yeah. Some of them are pretty like, tone the line as far as just, but,

you know, like these days, people wear that kind of stuff to work all the time. That's perfect. That's pretty good. Okay. Yeah. That was fun.

Um, what, uh, yeah, what do you want to say about Dallas? I want to hear, or Weatherford, I believe,

or wherever, wherever we were man it was uh i'm trying to think without even looking at anything i wrote down it's been a few days now since then and here here's what i'll start with am i a diva question mark you yes you are you are dude i uh to show for it yeah yeah basically i so go down there to shoot this but with Will Backy, you know, who Catherine knows from Baylor a little bit, and a guy who's done a bunch of other cool stuff, and Trey is also in this scene with me. So whole big deal.

You know, they fly us all the way down there. Then it's our hotel is in Weatherford, which is an hour west of Dallas, and then the actual shoot is in Poolville, which is another 30 minutes northwest. So it's like very out of the middle of nowhere. It's where they shot season one of the chosen. It's very cool. It kind of has very much like amusement park vibes. Like they're kind of like, there's like tours you can go on there.

But it's also like a, it's a movie set too. So what came first, the movie set or the chosen? You know? I think the movie set. They were kind of trying to explain this to me. It's like, oh, some old couple had this land and this was their vision. They wanted to turn it into like a biblical film set. That's so interesting.

Okay. It was. And it's not actually an. music park, but it gave you vibes of it where I'm like, I'm surprised nothing like this exist in Branson. Like a Christian, a biblical, you know, thing with rides. Yeah, and you can like tour it, you said. Like and yeah different like interactive things or is it just tours? Not necessarily interactive and I was pretty busy all day. This is coming from Rachel who like would go on walks all day and she was like, I did the walk. I did the story of the Bible walk. So I think they have things like

on the walls that you can like walk through and kind of. of like learn about interesting okay yeah all right we're talking about good ranchers today um father's day's coming up and katherine always claims and this is always crazy to me but she always talks about how fathers are like how i'm so hard to buy for i'm always like you can buy me anything and i'll be good good with it um but then she kind of breaks it down and i'm like well i don't want that i already have that i already have enough whatever uh one thing that i can never have enough of good old classic american meat am i right jake food yes because it it comes and then it go You know, it doesn't, it's consumable, right?

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Bada b'ababum Wigubi A biblical Amusive Arc would be fun to think of the rides though That would be great Noah's Ark water ride I'm just thinking of these now But like that's an easy one

Yeah easily David and Goliath Somehow getting slingshot Like you are the sin shot Like you're the stone It's like the flooded mine game Oh that's by dude Slingshots

Sting Boom Yeah, that's fun. Maybe fire in the hole. There's like kind of a scary ride. It's like Book of Revelation or something. Daniel and the Lions then could be cool. Or yeah, like the Shadrag Meshach of Bendigo.

Oh, yeah. You're in the middle of it, but you don't get burned, you know, kind of thing. Yeah. There could be like a new age, like virtual reality, like, you know, Genesis book or something. Or Genesis like ride.

Maybe it's with goggles. Maybe it's like. in some kind of like theater that'd be fun imagine how cool it'd be to like go on a ride that like somehow they figure out how to part the part the red sea kind of thing yeah and you just you just like shoot like they're coming for us they're coming for us and then you like zoom and you go through it and then it just collapses on them i do like the best a roller coaster there like the scariest one that you work your way up to as a kid being called the moses okay yeah that sounds cool that sounds scary.

Moses at eight years old, dude. Oh, yeah. Go upside down. Yeah, it goes upside down. Yeah, big time. Yeah. Anyway, the set was cool. It was awesome.

A massive production, I end up asking afterwards. Hey, how many people were on set today? And this is for a somewhere between two and three minute scene. That's it. Just a couple minute sketch. It's what we filmed all day long. There were 43 people. on set.

Wow. See, that's the thing I don't understand. I'm so unfamiliar with all that stuff. That's crazy. I think there's no way they needed all those people.

But of course not. It was very professional. I mean, I assume that's like very Hollywood. Like that's how you do it. Like everyone has such a specific role. Like there's someone in charge of everything.

No one does two things. Really? You know, it's just like, there is someone who's like we did a scene with a live goat. So I think there is like an animal expert on site, but then there's the Wrangler, and those are two different people. And I had like a almost like a handler just for me, just to walk me back from like scene to the green room. Okay.

I don't need that. They're handing me sunscreen. Here's a fan. Here's, you know, whatever. All of my sandal footsteps, you know, back. Yeah. Wow. You have like, yeah, some people pampering you basically.

Yeah. And there's people there. There's like a whole other crew there just to shoot behind the scenes content. And so they're doing stuff. They're giving me an iPhone and saying like, hey, if you want to shoot any videos or stuff, like you could do that. They pulled me aside afterwards. We wrapped.

I'm done for the day and like, hey, Jake, we want to pull you aside. We're going to do, I kept calling it EKG. E. EPK, maybe, electronic PR package. EK, it doesn't matter. Something like that. It's something they film while you're on set. They would someday later go in like a press kit, electronic press kit.

Maybe that's what it was, EPK. Okay. I don't know. What did you do for that? They would just ask me questions. What was it like working on set today? What did you think of your character? What do you think about Christian comedy?

You know, just like in a minute long interview. Okay. So I got the full experience. Now where the diva part comes out of play is. Oh, yeah. That's right. I don't know what I've said on this podcast. I assume at some point I've said like actors have it easy or that's got to be the easy.

in the world or I don't know, whatever. I just assume that's probably what I've said at some point. I'll tell you, my existence that day was hard. It was like, so I get, they put this beard on me, which was awesome. I mean, it like, they, like, matched the color of my hair perfectly. They ended up liking it so much that they didn't put a wig on me. They're like, it looks so blended and so good. Just, like, leave it as it is.

So huge beard, huge mustache. It's so scratchy. And the mustache is so long that it's like shooting into my nose. She was just constant agitation, you know, from... Itchy, a little bit like, yeah. Yeah, just like this a lot. Gosh, you don't want to scratch it too much. Anyway, I think my call time was 7 a.m.

So from 7 a.m., you know, until 4.30 p.m. I've got this, like, itchy thing on my face. And then I'm a shepherd. So it's like I'm wearing like this big tunic and then like more or less a blanket over the top And then like kind of like a robe like shawl thing over the top of that you know I look very biblical and no crop top no crop it was very long On top of that we're shooting outdoors you know I think the temperature got like like 91 that day but we're not necessarily in open air we're in like a closed off room outdoors like a stable area basically but it's like one tiny room with about like 20 people in it. Yeah, just lights and camera crew and everything. And then the top it off,

the scene required me to be on my knees, like on the concrete for like half the scene. So I spent half the day just on my knees, just scratching so sweaty. I mean, my knees were red by the end of the day. How many takes do you think you did of this? Or is it like they're working on lighting for it and setting that up? Or how does it work? It's, I mean, credit to this.

I'm like, I would think like, okay, the actual time that you filmed would be 30 minutes or whatever. Like, it's a little bit like NFL football. I think we're like,

if you took the actual time, we were on camera, it's like 10% of everything we did there. But there's a lot of like, can we get in position? All right, we hold. I mean,

there's so much it's like. So you're just holding it on the, on your knees? Yeah, like, I think we're good. Okay, sound rolling.

Oh, no, there's an issue with sound. Right, hang tight okay we got sound back on okay we're ready for the lightning crash lighting guys like it's not working all right we're ready all right then the the candle went out hey pyro where's our pyro tech guy can't find he's the order to be found a pirate you know it's like the pyro guy brought in just to light a candle you think do we really need that yeah I can do it yeah I have a match

and this guy would be in the room with us I kind of enjoyed watching him he took stuff very seriously but like a whole scene is going on and he's just locked down like the two candles he's in charge of just like making sure everything's good with these candles. And you know he like kind of like put his head. Yeah. It's like, okay. We got it. Just like very intently.

At the same time, this room is covered with hay and we have fire in it. So I think he was just like, I need to be very aware of something goes wrong. So yeah, it's probably okay. But yeah, there's just so much happening.

And they're like, hold for this, hold for this. And see, I was like a shepherd who got scared. So I like hid behind my cot and I'm like on my knees for like, you know, half of it. So yeah, I was just like, saying I was in a bad mood is probably too extreme. But just like this undertone of just like agitation.

I was just like, man, I am so hot and my nose is so itchy. I feel like it just like took away from like the jubilence to like really be funny and just like really just like, I don't know. Like I'm sure it'll turn out fine and I still did have fun and I still like. Honestly, Trey and I had a blast. Just like you have so much time between the scenes that like, I feel like it was 2019 again. And we're just over here like writing a video together. Like we basically wrote an entire script that didn't get used because we're just thinking of like

jokes that could be said. Okay. So if nothing else, I hope the show gets picked up just because we have so many jokes ready to go. Yeah. You know, like we're still sticking to the script for the most part. But I threw in a couple. Honestly, I probably threw in too many lines that like weren't. on the script, but I'm like, I've already said this six times.

Like, let me throw this in there. Let me throw this in there. Like, try it again, Jake. You're like, got it, but I'm going to do the same thing again. Got it. Okay. Like, do you need a new version for me or do a new version for the camera? Like, um, but according to the director, because he went fast.

Yeah. I remember every once in a while when we would film Gene Shorts. I would like try to improvise. And like most of the time, it was good. And every once in a while, Tray is like, just say it this way. Just, just say. Got it. You don't like my improvisation on that one.

So, um, yeah, we had fun. I mean, I would have loved to improvise even more. But I credit to the director, because I think he's like, if this gets out of hand, this is going to take even longer. It's like, all right, we got it. Move on. So it's like, all great. We're moving fast.

I don't hate that. But, um, so you were in one scene though, or is it like? Just one sketch. Just one scene. Cool. And when they have any kind of like timeline as far as, oh, it's going to be ready to hear, you know. I think he said early. all okay that's pretty Septemberish maybe and when or where do you think it's going to be available

or how's that going to work do you know I guess just this pilot goes on YouTube and you just kind of wait and see people's reaction and then they try to shop it around I think that's so hard that's so hard like like YouTube half the battle is people seeing it or not yeah it's like the title and thumbnail regardless of everything you did with 43 people just for one day right that's cool man that makes me it makes me think of two different things one of them it may it feels adjacent and probably a lot more extreme version of when we went to the cheese game and you got barbecue sauce all over you and like and how you I mean you you did not think that was funny like you were so like in a bad like you were just like this sucks like this is that was miserable I got barbecue sauce all over me

and I think you tried to like have as much fun with it as you can But like you were done. You were ready to be, you were ready to be done with that. I will say that day was hotter than Dallas was. Was it? Kansas City. That day was hot. Yeah.

Yeah, it was like the first was it August or something. And then also, yeah, the thing where you said like they had 43 people on set. I've had the same thought about like sports with like productions for sports and like even like statisticians for sports. Like I'm like, is there one person that's taking all the stats or is there a person that's just in charge of rebounds? Because sometimes I'm like, there's like five rebounds in one play. And then there's an assist. And then there's points. And then they're going down the next like side of the court.

I'm thinking basketball, I guess for that. But like all these different stats. I'm like, how do they do this? Because in my head, I was like, maybe it's like, oh, they do it later on. But it's like, no, they have stats right after the game that they show you what everyone did. You know what I mean? That is a thing. I wonder who's doing that.

Are you assigned to a player or to a metric? Shot clock? Like, how do they do the shock clock thing? Like, yeah. Yeah, I don't know, like stuff like that. They have to be like so good in professional sports. And it's so I'm sure there's plenty of people that we don't realize that are out there doing stuff like that. But that's pretty cool that you got that experience.

It was cool. Yeah, you got to wear that beard. It did look cool. Too bad you didn't get to keep it. Yeah, it did look fun. I finally adhere it. They use like some spirit gum or whatever. I don't know.

I mean, she, like, painted my face with some, you know, some type of adhesive. And it had, like, a strip that also had adhesive on it. And then so it was like, I couldn't like smile really big or like, I was like less expressive because like my face is all like taped together kind of. Right. But it was fine. So crazy. They catered a water burger for breakfast. That was kind of fun.

Hey, you don't like water burger that much. 15 seat. Wasn't that your 15th seat? Oh, wow. Might have been. Um, that's pretty fun. The little HBCVs. Yeah, that was kind of fun way to start the day.

Okay. That's good. How far away from civilization is Poolville? It was pretty far. I couldn't, uh, couldn't get an Uber, um, to get back out of town afterwards. So I had to like get a ride with one of the like producers. That's kind of funny. Yeah.

It was her birthday too. I felt bad. I asked the one girl, it's her birthday and she's giving me and Rachel a ride in the town. No, it's fine. I wanted to do this. That's funny. Yeah. Also, her name was, we'd been texting.

texting days leading up to it. She's like, hey, this is Evan. I'm one of the helpers. And as soon as I met her in person, she's like, hey, Jake, we're the ones who texting? I'm Evan. I go, oh, I texted you that you're the man. I'm so sorry.

I immediately remember it. That's not your fault. Evan is not your fault. EVA.N. No. Evan's not your fault. I think what else would not be your fault? Travis, probably.

We're like, hey, I'm an engineer. and a good driver. Have a good day. Thanks. You're the man. Thanks, dude. You're the man. Oh, thanks, bro.

That's huge. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, my wife's pretty hot. You're going to love her, dude. Like, what else you'd say to this guy? But that's pretty funny. You're the man.

You're like, you addressed it right away. You're like, I got to get a. It was the first thing I said, because I remember it was like last night. I said, you're the man. I'm so sorry. Evan is a new one. Evan's a new one that's going both ways. Yeah.

Like Evan, I don't know, Kelly. Kelly's kind of coming, creeping its way into the boy world. Kelly Green, top hundred colors. Kelly Green, baby. I love that. If people loved listening to that as much as I love doing it, I'll do it every week. Yeah, I think we can do that way more. Unfortunately, you said some things about cats that kind of overtook the discourse,

post episode. Listen. I didn't say the cloth thing. You said the club thing. I don't remember what I said. What I say? Just like ask if you're going to get a declaw. That's all you said. And I said, I don't know. And they go to the ghosties. Get them off. I don't know. Maybe. Like would that, I think I said like, would that decrease their ability to hunt for mice? I think that's what I said. Probably. I was like, I don't know. That's all. I didn't say like, yeah, yeah, for sure. We got to. Oh, people lost their minds. Okay, let's talk about it real quick. Update on all this. I will say this.

I've got some very concerned ghosties in my DMs and in my, people, people like, like, went to, they're like, I found your number to text you personally about this, man. Really? Like, don't do. Oh, really? Privately, they're saying, like, don't. Passionately, like, do not do this. And I'll say this. It's working.

It's working on me. All of a sudden, I'm like, so Catherine and the kids. are gone for like a week maybe maybe like they're not sure exactly when they're coming back week plus week and a half i'm like i guarantee you if i get a dog kathar's not going to be like well we have to get a cat now too like we have to add that to our so i'm like do i just do i just get a dog that's so funny i'm looking at all these different first of all i learned that you can't buy dogs on facebook marketplace that's not a thing which i'm kind of whatever i don't know why not

I don't know. Truly. But you can go to like Facebook like groups and look there and you'll like get information about, you know, finding different things. Man, there's some cute dogs out there, bro. It's crazy. And some of them are free. Some of them it's like, hey, we're just, we're moving apartments and this is free dog.

And I'm like, I could take, I could take that dog off your hands. So what's the play? You get a dog. Kids come home and you go, what? Oh. Oh. Oh, shoot. You guys thought this was a dog?

This is a dog named cat. His name is cat. It's cat. We have a cat. We have a cat who we shortened to cat, and then we have a dog that we call cat. That's not terrible.

Dog named cat. Dog named cat. I don't hate that. You know? That's a good workaround. I didn't know. Yeah. Yeah, it's per confusion.

There's a... Oh. Oh, no, I didn't have it. It has four legs. I thought this. I literally, I knew I was going to do this. I always get them confused. I'm so sorry.

What should we do with them now? Just keep them. Dogs have ears, though. Cats have ears. They're both ears. Tails. How do you tell? They make different noises.

I'm deaf. Yeah, dude. Have you heard that Ron Swanson quotes? It's like, all dogs under 30 pounds are cats and cats are useless or something. Yeah. And so yeah, I, I, uh, anyway, I don't know, man, I don't know, man. I don't think I'm going to do it, but I did mention that to Catherine. I was like, I can't, I can't just surprise Catherine.

I can surprise the kids. Yeah. And I mentioned it to her. And she kind of, she was receptive. I don't know if she was such a good mood at the time, but I was like, hey, I'm going to send you some pictures of dogs. Found a St. Bernard, dude. Oh, yeah. It would be fun.

A little Beethoven, it riding around, dude. It was one of those like adoption dogs. Adoption dog, whatever. And its name was Rosie. Six months old, though. We can change that name. You can change that. Yeah, to dog or to cat.

To cat. Or catarina. Katrina. Anyway. So that's the latest on the saga. Man, people, I mean, there were lots of people that are pro cat. I'm not. And they're very passionately pro cat.

So honestly, it's like one of those things. I don't know if we should even keep talking about it at this point. Because I'm like, I don't, we're going to, people are going to get personally, you know, fired up. But man, there were some anti, not anti like, hey, killed the cats, okay, for the record. But just like anti, like, you don't want a cat in your house, bro. Trust me. But then I had other friends. I had some personal messages from friends.

And one of them was like, listen. And this is where another whole subset of people are going to get fired up. But he's like, my stance, this guy had some cats. no longer does, I believe, but heads. Oh, dude, coyote's bad. Coyle's bad. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I got it.

I got it. We're going to be just fine. Look at this, dude. Is this the best way to show you? Huh. Oh, yeah. Good work, dude. Thank you.

That's a coyote. Now I'll put my coyote video that I took in Dallas on the screen. Have a coyote off. Vote for your, favorite coyote in the comments. Who do you cash your vote for? Hey, how do you vote? Hey, how do you vote?

I'm talking about coyotes. My friend who had cats said, he's like, I think dogs are generally, a good dog is better than a good cat. However, most dogs are average or below average dogs. And he's like, and I think a average cat is better than an average dog is what he said. And then I had other friends that said, I'm kind of on the. on the team like after after after you know this dog's no longer in our family team no pet i was like yeah that's not a terrible life i don't of course it's fun but also it's like wouldn't

hate just i mean like it just adds another level of inconvenience to your life so yeah going out of that's the main thing i feel like and then my neighbor who was like obsessed with dogs just left just moved on me, which I haven't really processed yet. But I don't know if Max is a dog guy or not. So I'll figure that out. I like you on Facebook referring to me as your former neighbor. Shout to my former neighbor, Jake. It's funny, dude.

So this house that I'm in the new Airbnb, homebase getaways.com. I have a website. I like homebase getaways. Homebase getaways.com. I bought the URL. The domain is what they call it. I bought that yesterday.

Will you actually try it real quick? quick and see if it works or if it's like, this is not a secure. Homebase getaways.com. This new house that's on homebase getaways.com has our old, our two old ferns from our podcast studio. Oh yeah. It works.

Wow, this looks great, dude. Great landing page. Thank you. It looks better on desktop. Are you on desktop or are you on? Yeah. Yeah. Your old house had whatever those air fresheners were.

They're pretty pungent air fresheners. So every once in a lot, like I have one of these, one of these ferns like behind this. this chair that I've been sitting in the last couple days. Every once in a while, I just smell it and I think of you. All right. Stick it around. Smell what the podcast studio smelled like.

Come check out these ferns. That's fun. Yeah. Facebook reminded me just, yeah, you calling me a former neighbor. I tried to tag you in something this week in the Lenoxa pickleball page. And then I went back to check on it and you were like grayed out. So I don't know if you're not in the group or if you've been kicked out or what. Oh, I don't know if I'm in, there's, isn't there kind of like two groups?

There's like one that's like a fan page and one that's something else. I don't know. Let's see. My next up pickleball page, that's what's cool. I found it. I'm following that one. Wow. I wonder why wouldn't let me tag you.

The next of pickleball page I am in along with Isaac and who's this guy? JP Stewart, shout out JP and timing. So, But I'm not... This is what I tried to tag you in. Just a super AI generated, I don't know, scene where... Wait short again. There's two pickleball players in the background, and it looks like there's like a paddle

and like some sort of case in the foreground on a table. Okay. The case says kitchen vault. It looks like, I don't know. It says secure your legacy, and it looks like, I don't know, it could hold a handful of forks and knives in it. I don't know. That's the shape. Okay.

The caption says, crypto does not... need to feel chaotic. Oh no. The kitchen vault is being built for pickleball players who want security, simplicity, and confidence without all the hype culture. Quiet confidence, premium feel, long-term mindset. Coming soon. I'm about to comment, ready?

Oh, you found it. Yeah. You see it? I just couldn't, like, what, what are you selling? Is it a premium feel like you could feel it? Or is it crypto? What is this? No, well, what do you mean?

It's very specific. It's for people, it's for pig ball players, first of all. Who want security, simplicity, and confidence without all the hype culture. I'm tired of it. It's quiet confidence. It's premium fields long-term mindset. Do you see my comment? No, it's not pulling up for some reason.

But are you able to see my comment? So I tagged Brad and said, Brad, hey, this looks exactly like what you were wanting. Oh, no. I wonder why. I'm looking at the exact same thing I just I just commented in capital letters so so excited for this oh my gosh

I mean literally no one eke I can't wait oh my gosh this guy I might I might it might be like a hobby of mine like just get into this and just like basically wait and like just try my best to get kicked out of it Like I just become so ridiculous in here.

I mean, it's just there's something here. Like everything's getting pretty ridiculous, but that really caught my attention. I'm like, what, what is this? But it says coming soon. So hopefully there is more. It is on the kitchen vault. It's like, it's like, man, this guy that that runs this page is clearly older guy. Yeah.

And he has, he has found AI. And it's like, dang it. Because like we've all we were all using it We all tried it we've all messed with it This guy's like I'm gonna I'm gonna take it to another level I can't wait for this since Literally so many different things AI it's like this old old flyer looking thing

And he's got a picture of him with like these cool Glasses on he's got the classic like baby Like edited thing AI Premium fail Yeah what in the world Without all the hype culture I mean, whatever. Anyway, I mean, I want to meet this guy in person, honestly, is what I need. Yeah, special, special cat. Maybe you will. Now that you're playing all the time.

I went over to BDA last week and played in the rain. So, wow. Yeah, it was literally just us playing. Who's your crew? It's just different guys from my church. I feel like Sam is often the guy that's like kind of leading the charge. I might need to find somebody else to play with, though. Like we're just too close to friends to where I can get I can get mad at him and he the hardest part so whatever Sam you know I love you this is all love He listens to the podcast but he He will make mistakes which is fine we all make mistakes every every point somebody makes a mistake And it's fine I don't I don't I try to sometimes like teach them like hey FYI like don't don't run up like that's a big

Yeah yeah Just stay back you know whatever got to let it bounce. Remember, you know? And then I make a mistake and he wants to take me. And I'm like, I know what I'm on. Or, you know, he's like, hey, you did the thing that you told me not to do. It's like, I know.

I made a mistake. But I don't know if you knew that you were making this, you know, whatever. And so we just start, like, arguing. You know, it's like. And so then either we play together and we argue with each other or we switch sides and we like have pent up aggression towards each other. And then we. That way.

You know. So it's fun. There's different guys that come and play. Like Tuesday when we played, often the pastors at our church, we had a lot of younger guys that are pastors. And on Tuesdays, they play basketball at the gym at church a lot.

But the gym was being used for something. And so there was like 12 of us that went and played pickleball that day, which was fun. So it just depends on the day. And who's available. Glide's coming sometimes. Just fun. Let's go.

I mean, Sam brings it out. most people but glide's starting to like trash talk more which is really fun because he's like kind guy but he'll kind of get into it with sam too which is great so anyway it's fun so that's fun you know promoting friday you know promoting friday yeah yeah or uh correct ideally yeah whatever you want yeah yeah up to you all right so anyway but yeah fun times fun time cool we want to wrap this baby up Wrap it up, baby. You want to do a little review of the week? Yes.

While you find yours, I want to give a shout out to Colin Bryant. It's his birthday, I believe. 16th birthday. You know what they say? Sour 16. Mm-hmm. Happy birthday, Colin.

First they're sour, then they're sweet. First, the colon, then they're Kobe. Bryant, happy birthday. Okay. I don't know if we've read these yet. They're a little bit old. Have we read? Oh, here's one.

Phoenix. Yeah, I think these are all new. Okay, okay, okay. Make sure no one's saying anything inappropriate on here. There's a few cuss words, but I'll... Tom Wilton B, five-star review, Phoenix, for three years of listening, I finally caught up and have listened to every episode. My wife and I saw, my wife and I,

who? My wife and I saw, my wife and I saw Jake open for Trey Kennedy, in Denver twice and regret that we never suck around after the show to meet Jake. You guys have been a constant for us the last few years to get us through loss, moves, job changes, celebrations, good times, bad times, and the birth of our daughter. Hearing that Jake and Rachel are moving to Phoenix, bum me out at first because the podcast has been part of our routine

amidst all the change we've been, we've seen since we started listening. I'm looking forward to Brad's announcement that he's moving. family to Phoenix next April Fool's Day. Love you guys and appreciate how you're a light in the darkness. That's fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Thanks, Tom. My five-star review is from Mr. Corn Sweets. He says, title, I'll pass. And then says, hey, girl, I got a passerby. Sorry. Mr. Cornsets says, these guys have a great thing going, shining the light of Jesus through their antics, observations, stories. telling, friendship, shenanigans, humor, allergy to run meat, games, mint, thievery, community,

musicality, laughter, and the best ad reads this side of the equator. Thank you, Mr. Corn Sweets. Thank you. Is Afghanistan on this side of the equator? Yeah. Great. Yeah, he's accurate, then. He nailed it.

Did it. Let's go. Great. Timon, you want to end this episode with the... Oh, timing. I don't think Timon's here this episode. Time has been quiet this episode. yeah guys i've been uh no i don't know that is that's not him it's more who is that

i don't know oh that's my friend cookie cookie talks like that do i even seen time and or talk to time and like since you probably lasted that's like that's like rare for you because you're usually in communication with friday yeah he's like in jamaica and i don't even know if he has a cell phone he might just gotten rid of it that he felt convicted and he's like traded it some corn rows. These things are not good enough. Haddy, okay,

I'm starting to get to the era now where Haddy is like becoming not only a listener, but like a fan. Like Haddy the other night he was like, did timing get cornrows in Jamaica? I was like,

what? Again, talked about on the podcast how time it might get cornrows in Jamaica. First of all, you're listening. Second of all, you know about the corn,

you know what cornrows are? She's like, yeah. I was like, okay. So I'm like, all right. You know,

record like Haddy's listening to all these. Okay. That's good to know. Uh, anyway. So, uh, yeah. Let's just do a quick, uh, jingle about Tyman's cornrows. Timin is in Jamaica. Timin has cornrows on his head. That's it. That's not bad.

I don't think that's terrible. I don't think that's the worst one we've ever done. I don't think it is. Howdy, I hope you like that one. Oh, they were like, can we listen on the way to Texas? They're like, mom, can we listen to say the word on the beat podcast? And mom's like, or Catherine, you know, I don't know. There's a lot of words in there that you're not supposed to say because I think I yell frick like 25 times.

And then, and he goes, ah, we know, but we won't say those words, you know. Okay, fair enough. So maybe we need to bring that back sometime too. Okay. All right. Whatever you want, Addie. Yeah, Haddy's in charge at this point. So hey, we love you guys.

What's that noise? Is that you? I don't know. Good thing at the end of the episode. We'll figure it out for Wednesday. That's right. I love you guys. We'll see you on Wednesday.

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