Ghostrunners - 548 - The Sober Bartender

Episode Date: June 15, 2026

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Ghosties, I love you. And I'm always, I'm always looking out for it. We posted Wednesday's episode yesterday. And I'm seeing, you know, about 50, 50 of like great episode versus Jake, you're driving me crazy with your noises. I'm like, oh, boy, what did I do? What are my noises? And so I'm looking into it. And I'm like, all right, I need to upgrade microphones, you know, well, let's go back. The reason I don't have a podcast microphone is because, the moving company does not know where our stuff is. No. Really?

I've actually got that in writing. We do not know where your stuff is. What? That's like literally what they said. Yeah, let's find the email. But yeah, I called them Monday, no answer. Left a voicemail. I called him Tuesday, no answer.

They called me back yesterday. I said, I'm so sorry, but it's just up in the air. right now. And anyway, I couldn't, I'm summarizing, couldn't get to the bottom of it. So I'm like, I don't have my stuff. Yeah. It's not a huge deal. But the ghosties didn't like me with a cold with the cheap microphone. So then I go to guitar center yesterday, like 45 minutes. This guy's definitely get paid by the hour. And trying to like piece together a makeshift podcast studio. I mean, you could see like I've got remnants of it. Like there's a really fancy mic. And I've got like basically a cheap man's version of your roadcaster and plug it all together this morning

and it doesn't work. What? It's just not it's what is it's not turning on or what's I mean I should have known even before we left the store this guy was like opening the box to show me what was in it which I was like oh I just would have assumed it had everything in it and he's like well this is this is actually clearance because it was a return so you can't return it. And I was. And I was I was like, can I pay full price so that I can return it? Yeah, right. Like, you have another option for me, please? Yeah, but it was, it was the only one in stock, and they didn't have other options.

And this is yesterday. So I was like, well, if I want to upgrade the studio, so to speak, this is kind of my option. So, hey, rumor has it. Kansas City's guitar center has a million roadcasters. I bet they do. So I just kind of like bottle this, plugged in this morning. and could get it to work. So we're back to the Blue Yeti.

What do you say? Did you get the clearance one? Yeah. So it doesn't work. Hopefully we'll make it work eventually, yeah? Yeah. Yeah, maybe by next week. Well, hopefully I'll just have my stuff.

I don't know. I don't know. Just stuff. Uh, uh, oh, ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts in white. Me too Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. Come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's a ghost from a podcast. We're here, though. We're doing it. Hey, we're back.

We're back, baby. This is the first time I've recorded a podcast in my own house in a long time. Like, I think maybe the last one I remember was re-recorded in this, I mean, like the dining room area of our house, like the front door area. and we recorded a podcast right after you got home from Tulum, Mexico. Toloom. That's what I was saying, the Christmas episode. Yeah, that's right. It had a little Christmas tree, like a little lit Christmas tree in the corner. And you took a picture of it, I think. It was a good time. We like brought in a, did I bring in my desk from the garage? Whatever, we were stupid. We were just like, yeah, why not?

Catherine's gone. Let's do it. So that's what we're doing again. Catherine and the kids are gone for the, they're coming back today. Finally, dude. I'm so pumped. How long have they been gone? Like a week plus. Let's call it a week in two days. So I think that's nine days total. And yeah,

and we're not like big talkers like when we're away from each other. Yeah. You know, like we talk some. Like I try to call her most days, but she doesn't always answer and it's not like, I'll always be like, you don't have to call me back.

Please don't feel like you have to call me back. Because usually she'll call me back, but it'll be like three hours later when I'm not ready to talk anymore. You know, yeah. Like, a lot of times I call her in the car. Like, hey, just I got 15 minutes. Just wanted to say, hey, miss you.

How's it going? And then she'll call me back. And I'm like, I'm playing pickleball with the boys, babe. Sorry, you know. Yes. What have you been up to? Have you been pickling like crazy? Dude.

Yeah. Like unintentionally, Glide is like my new best friend, I think. Oh, hey. We just, like, I think we've hung out like six or seven times since she's been gone. Wow. That's awesome. And he's a yes man. He's just like, yeah, I'll do it.

Because his, he's got, his two oldest kids are in California for like an extended period of time this summer for like just to hang out with their grandparents in California, Lauren's parents. And so he's a lot more flexible. Like he's got a little one year old, but it means she goes to bed early. And so last night we watched the game four of the finals. Did you watch any of that? No.

Catch me up on it though. I've seen like, I've seen Tom Hanks reaction, but I haven't seen any of the, footage. Oh, Tom Hanks had a reaction. That's funny. No, wait. It was Jerry Seinfeld. You corral. No. One of those likable guys. I don't know. One of the sitcom guys. Well, it was likeable. Getting Tom Hanks and Jerry Seinfeld confused is pretty, pretty all time.

So I believe the Knicks were down. I don't know if it was at half time, but at one point it was 29 points. Like they were getting walloped. And it wasn't even like the, okay, so backstory for the non-sports people of the world. The Knicks obviously are from, or they're from New York City. So they're huge, you know, people love them. New York, obviously massive. But they haven't been in the finals since we were young, like 98, 99, something like that.

And even then, they haven't been very good. They were pretty good in the Michael Jordan era, but never really won because Michael Jordan is amazing. And so they finally got back to the finals. It's a huge deal. And they won the first two games against the Spurs. They're playing San Antonio Spurs. They won the first two games in Texas.

And so they're going back to New York to the Madison Square Garden where it's like the Mecca basketball is what they like to say. And they're going back there and they lose their first game in Madison Square Garden. But it was like the who's who. It was like the most celebrity. It was like more celebrities than the Oscars. You know what I mean? Like it was just like so many fun people there.

You know. And I can't imagine. what it would it be like to be the spurs and like look over as you're like whooping some like whooping your you know opponent and you look over in your favorite rapper like j z's just like vehemently like staring you down and like mad because you're beating them like that'd be hard dude it's like dude tom hanks is my favorite actor i don't want him mad at me i loved you in the b movie tom hanks come on uh yeah so it's like um they're getting i mean so they lost game three and they were getting spanked in game four it looked like it was going to be a two to two series

Madison Square Garden. I think I heard like $100,000 for a floor seat of these games. Like just absolutely insanity. All these guys, Timothy Shalameh. Just, you know, everyone's just like dead quiet. They're down by 29 points. This is crazy. And I was watching.

I was like, hey, just FYI, I've watched enough NBA to know that like NBA is just a game of runs, man. And so they might come back. Like I don't think they're, I didn't think they were going to like win necessarily. But I was like, it's going to be a closer game than it looks. And Glyde just goes, ain't no. way. And so then, you know, third quarter comes about, Nick's score a few, like, three pointers. They're down 22. And I'm like, getting closer. He's just going, ain't no way.

Ain't no way. And, you know, it gets down to 15. And then I'm starting to mock him a little bit. Like, oh, sure, ain't no way, right? Ain't no way, right? Yeah, ain't no way. And then it gets down to nine points. Oh, ain't no way, dude. Ain't no way. And I mean, by the end of it, you know, the Knicks come back and win in this miraculous fashion with this tip in to go up by one point. And after this other guy, I just completely missed a wide open layup. Anyway, and it was just wild. And I was, it goes, I got three words for you, Glyde. Ain't no way.

It was awesome. It was one of those times where, you know, there's this fan base that is very passionate about their team. And they've been waiting for like 20 years to get back there. and they've been kind of disappointed at home for like these two games and then they come back and win this game and it was just like it was electric it was like one of the best basketball games I've watched in a long time so I bet it was awesome so yeah I haven't seen a single play from the game but I saw Matt Friday CEO who lives in New York and he was just sending us videos from his apartment he's like the streets the city's on fire he was like they will actually burn this place to the ground if they win the finals he's like it's bad like all they did was go up three one in the series and they're like shaking cars over. Seriously? Well, I saw clips of after they lost game three, like harassing Spurs fans. Like, like, violently, like, attacking these Spurs fans for just wearing a jersey to the

point where I watched some guy be like, you just got to take off your shirt, man. You got to take off your shirt and run. And this guy did. He's like scared for his life. And so I'm like, is it better for them to win or lose at this point? I don't know. Yeah, it kind of give him the Philadelphia treatment. Truly.

So who knows, but it's pretty, it's pretty awesome to see Madison Square Garden, you know, just so rocking and all these people via Jerry Seinfeld. I mean, you name it, dude, Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Fallon, Timothy Salome. Who else was there? Kirk Herb Street was there. He saw him. Like, it's like, let me flex. Let me flex how much money I have. I can, I can afford to have, you know, court sites. Wow. That's so fun. It's just you and glide. There's no dog in the fight, just boys. It was fun, man. So, yeah. I got to hang out with him. And yeah, so we've been playing a lot of pickleball lately. We played some basketball together. Yeah, and then watched this basketball game. So it's just like, he's just down. And I'm like, sure, man. I don't have anything.

Like, out of all weeks to do it, this is the week to do it, you know. Did God tell you I texted him yesterday? I mean, probably talked to him while he was on his way over to your house or something. But I was texting him. I was like, dude, I, this is hilarious. But I've been here three days. and I'm like, how much more is that white interior in a Tesla cost? Oh, really?

What if I could get the whole thing white? What if it was one big mirror and it just kind of reflected the sun? Yeah. There's got to be, yeah, can you shut that? Obviously, you can't shut the window, but do you have like a cover to go over the window, like the top of it? No, I don't know if they make anything like that, but that would be another good question for Glyne. He works at Tesla.

Because that's how my truck, it's not nearly as like, your whole top is a window. basically. Yeah. Mine is like two sunroofs, basically. But it has a cloth that, I mean, like a button that you can press and it'll shut. Because yeah, I'm sure it's crazy hot. That's been the main thing. I think on one end, I'm afraid people are not going to believe me.

When I say like two nights ago, it was like sunset. It's already a pretty dark. So no, eight o'clock at night. And we go, wow, it's actually, it's perfect outside right now. This is actually really nice. Yeah. And I looked down on my phone and it was 98 degrees. Really?

And I think people are like, you're just kind of convincing yourself if that feels good, but like, two nights at our, we ate dinner last night on a patio like at a restaurant and it was like 99. It's like the dry heat is like confusing. It's like the Midwest mind cannot comprehend how this feels nice. But it actually does. Yeah. At night, not feel bad at all. But it's during the day, it's not even humans.

It's like belongings, things, devices. It's like cameras overheat like crazy and cars are getting so hot. And that's like where the adjourn. trustment to the Phoenix heat, I feel like is going to come into play. Yeah, it's just like, okay, I got to figure out, yeah, what do you do with cameras? Like you have to film, you have to have a fan. First thing in the morning, basically. Okay.

It's just like nothing during the middle of the day is possible. Because, I mean, even first thing in the morning is at 95, but it's like, it's pretty nice out. Yeah, it's like, it'll start off at like 92. And you're like, oh, this isn't too bad. It's a little shaded. It's not too bad. And then, yeah, by 10 a.m., it's pretty warm. Yeah, but like here when it's 78 degrees, it can be so muggy and just like like every dude.

Okay, so the other night, tell me, tell me how you feel about this. The other night we're playing pickleball and it's hot here too. Like it's crazy. I mean, it's obviously it's June. So I think it was probably in then high 80s, low 90s, whatever. We're playing pickleball at night. And I feel like it's more muggy at night. And you know me.

I'm a sweater by nature. Yeah. And should have brought two shirts, honestly. that was my first downfall. But I was getting really sweaty on my paddle. Like I was having a hard time gripping it. And there were a few times where I didn't, I don't think we ever ultimately lost,

but I was like the paddles, it's making a difference. I'm losing grip on this paddle. And so I switch paddles. Like, you know, because my friend Jake works for Friday, so I have like seven of them. And so it's like, all right, let's just switch to another. Your former neighbor. Yeah, that's right.

And so I switched and I'm doing all right for a while. And then that one's getting soggy. So I think I literally use four different paddles throughout the night. And eventually, like, probably at, you know, in between one of the games, I realized I had some armbands in my bag. Yes. And so I put on some armbands and, man, did people make fun of me for that? Really?

But I was like, I don't, I mean, this is function, dude. This is, this is functional in form at this point, bro. I promise. I promise it's making a difference. I promise I am losing grip because of this and it is making a difference on my play. I will, next time, if you ever need to, FaceTime me or call me, I will vouch for you if it was giving you lip. I bought wristbands for Malaysia, like foreseeing like the humidity being a problem and kind of got used to it to or now.

It's like I kind of wear them all the time anytime I play. Really? Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, I loved it. And I, yeah, I feel like I played fine with them. I don't know if it really made that much of a difference like in my performance, but I think it definitely made a difference with my panel. So anyway, I'm also let's just talk pig ball real quick. I'm a, I'm a wide body guy, I think.

which always have been you know nothing new but uh i kind of like i i lit one of my like aura pros to somebody you know that was just coming that needed a paddle and then i was like i'll just use the wide body one you know because i'm playing against these guys scrubs you just i could i could beat him with a freaking scrub bodies you know uh no i'm just kidding no i'm just kidding they're they're they're just fine they're i'm acting like i'm good i'm just a good i'm just as bad as they are. But, yeah, I lend them my good paddle or what I thought was a better paddle. And then I was using this wide body and all of a sudden, I'm just, I'm Ben Johns with a wide body.

I'm wide body Johns. That's a great name. No, that's my, that's my shape of choice as well. I love it. It's like it kind of reminds me of like golfers out there. Like you can buy different types of like iron. which are like the majority of your clubs are irons. And I'm simplifying, but basically there's like two types.

It's like you can get forgiving irons or you can get blades. And like blades are like thinner and they're less forgiving. And apparently they have like better feel. Like it feels really good to hit with blades. And like if you're a pro, you can shape your shots a little better with blades. And I'm like, why would you whatever? Even if you're a pro, why would you not want like it's literally the most forgiving like way that physics can help you hit a golf ball. Why would you not want that?

And that's kind of feel about picklewall. It's like there's an option with a bigger sweet spot or a smaller sweet spot. Yeah. Maybe there's a maybe there's a video there where you're talking about wide body versus like I want I want it tall and slim or whatever. And then your wife is like, what are you talking about? Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, what are you doing to do lately? Dude, I'll tell you that. I got embarrassed to admit, I bet the big ones got to got my attention. Honestly, dude, you can just you can you can, you can, you can, you can, you can, you can get to more things there. You know, it spans for, I don't know what you would say.

That would be funny. Yeah, I like, I kind of like the bigger, thicker ones. And like, sure, some things are like out of reach. But like when you like when you really connect. Yeah. And you tape? You're losing me, man. Yeah.

What kind of grip? It's like, okay, calm down. But anyway. Yeah. That's funny. That's funny. Yeah. it's been great and we've been we've been kind of doing a tour of the city because we're playing with all these guys from all over and so

Sam's got a little honeyhole in Edwardsville City Park that no one ever goes to that's far out there and so then we're going to two trails we're going to bow dark we're going to you know meadow brook whatever so we're kind of just you know making the rounds yeah does it feel like quarantine again a little bit because like genuinely it was kind of a joke but I was just like I would just text this group chat at first it was it wasn't even a joke but it was like I'm acknowledging how ridiculous it is, but I'm just like, hey, surely we're not going to play three days in a row, right, guys? You know, like, but I had nothing else, dude. I was like, because like, I worked so hard to get these Airbnbs going. And now all I have to do is kind of like make sure they don't like nothing bad happens. Make sure the cleaning crew shows up. Yeah, pretty much. It's like, it's like I don't.

And so I'm kind of like finding work for myself rather than like I got so much to do right now, you know. And so I'm like, and my kids are gone. My wife's gone. And I was like, house is clean. You know, I don't know. I, you know, anybody want to play pickleball? You know, and of course, like one of the other guys, Scott, he was like, dude, my wife's like, how does, how does Brad keep having all this time to play?

Like, I think she was like, you know, idolizing Catherine for, like, how does Catherine let him play? Yeah. And he's like, no, no, no, Catherine's out of town. So anyway, it'll probably be one of those things where I don't play pickleball again for another two, three, four weeks. But right now it's been fun time. But right now, yeah, you're. living it up.

Yeah. Anyway, what's, you're, you're in Arizona. You're settling in. Yes. So I'm trying to think where we left off,

but basically I said, hey, we've got a spot eventually, I don't know, I'm sure if I said there's not, but I signed a lease

for a rental home. Let's go. And I'm going to move in June 29th. So we have a house. Good job. And this whole time, we knew that we had a backup option.

We could live on the compound where Kyle lives. taking the place in one of the families here. Well, one of their kids broke their arm and now he's got a couple doctor's appointments. They're not quite leaving yet. So anyway, we are now living in the same home as a family of five for like this week only.

Oh, really? And then they're going to head out for the summer. So yeah, it's kind of just a fun little patch before our next temporary spot before our rental. But the boys are really into sports and chess. So I played a lot more chess than I thought I would in the first three days of moving to Phoenix. Do you whoop them or did you kind of go easy on them? I lost the first game, had to, you know, shake the rust off.

Wait, which one goes diagonal? The horse goes where? Sorry, you didn't call it the horse. Now we're back. Now, I'm on about a seven game winning streak and we're testing the boys' resilience. How do they do? Are they sore losers? How do they do in the situation?

They got that dog in them. They got that bishop in them. Yeah. Okay, good. Yeah. I go back and forth on how I want to, how I want to approach my kids and how, like, competitive to be with them. Yes. Sometimes I'm like, no mercy whatsoever. Like my aunt growing up, my aunt Cindy, she would always say if you beat her at tennis, she would buy you a new racket. And if you beat her at, I don't know if it was like, I don't think there was any incentive, but like she was like, I will not let you beat me in checkers. Like, I will, I will always try in checkers.

I'm never going to let you get me. And I kind of liked that. But I don't know if every, if every single person in my life was like that, if I would have liked it so much. You know what I mean? And so. And of course,

like with whatever, physical stuff, like playing basketball against my kids, I could dominate them if I wanted to. But it's like, where's the, where's the boundary there, you know?

Yeah. But yeah, so far it's fun. I mean, we flew here on a Sunday and woke up the next morning at 6 a.m. To play pickleball, like I walked outside to play pickleball.

And it was, It was just awesome. It was like, wow. I mean, immediately this was the, this was the point. This was the goal. And we filmed it and we got clips out of it. You know, it's just like immediate ROI, it felt like, but also just like kind of interesting like, because that was the first day. And then yesterday did the same thing. Let's wake up. Or let's pay pickleball slept in a little bit yesterday. It's crazy to go that quickly from like truly unconscious to then playing a sport at a high level because there's no drive over. There's no like slowly kind of wake up and like let me grab this or whatever. It's like, I slept in and up. We're like, oh, I got to walk out and

I was just asleep and now I'm like stretching. Because you were filming. Like you were like doing it like for something what like like like official or was it like you're playing for fun. Yeah. Kind of just like playing games but like let's go ahead and get the camera up in case anything happens. You know. That's awesome.

Yeah. So that's really fun. But also the back half of the St. Louis trip. We had a blast and I found myself thinking of you all the time because I was like, man. Like Scott and I are having a blast doing this, but I think next time we need to bring Brad. And so what I'm specifically talking about is, you know, we were there to shoot with our sponsored pro, Rachel. She's on the Brooklyn pickleball team.

We talked about that last week. Well, by like Saturday and Sunday, I guess it would have been Saturday. There's some big matches. And the arena has like poster board and markers provided for you. Like here you go. make your own signs. Oh, really? It was like, yeah, a craft area of the, of the people.

Yes. And so TJ went up and just like smuggled a lot of them. It just brought them down to us. Like, here you go. I got you guys a bunch of poster board of markers. You know, Jake, go crazy. And in a perfect world, we would have a whiteboard. Okay.

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BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming Ontario. Tag along? Hey. Can you figure out what that beeping is? Oh, yeah. Sorry. A whiteboard would have been great so we can really rattle off some jokes.

Uh-huh. We got the timer in the back. Bring it over here. Let's play something with it. Just a random stopwatch set to go off at 10 a.m. Arizona time. Thank you. Yep. But here's what I'm going to do.

We're going to play a little game. Okay. I'm going to give you basically what we were working with, some team names and some player names. And see what kind of posters you can make. Yes. Okay. Okay. So, um, we've got, uh, of course, we've got Rachel Rohrabacher.

You're going to hear her roar. That's good. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. I think we had, um, let's roar. Okay. Okay.

Let's roar. And then Isaac got a sign that said, let's roar. And in parentheses, he said, scary. And I kind of just let him play, you know, show that. And then like, after the game, I was like, was that like an inside joke from like, you guys were in Utah together or something and he's like no no I just wanted to make sure they knew it was scary no I just skip parenthesis scary I was like oh no but hey that's so cool I just thought I missed out with something okay uh okay so yeah let's roar that's a good one um let's see they were

playing um a guy an an Indian fella um probably seen a handful of tribal walks in his days okay Okay, okay. His name is Armand Batia, B-H-A-T-I-A, if that helps. And we don't like him? I actually know him. He's a nice guy, but we are playing against him. Bum-dog Millionaire. Bum-dog Millionaire.

Something about Bollywood, but Bolly could, but can't. No. What was his name? Armand Batia? Armand Batia. Batia. Bottia. Badia.

Badia. Um, I don't know. Something about potty. Body. Body humor. The best thing I could think of. Oh, Bati bag. That's good.

Bati bag him. That's good. Armand. Armon. Armon. Armand. Armand joy. Almand joy.

Arm. The one. that I remember thinking of at the moment arm on a leg arm and a leg to get past us yeah yeah I I we didn't actually write this down but something along the lines of like good cop bat cop it's hard when you have poster board because that means you're kind of committed like like I'm gonna show this 15 times yeah if it's a whiteboard it's like I'll try it out but it's like I don't know if we should go all the way for our mona leg um our arman arm and hammer put arm and hammer down. Another thing was that it was freezing cold in this arena. That was actually a sign I made that

got a pretty good response. It's kind of like doing comedy a little bit. You like test material and see if anyone laughs. But I just wrote a sign, forget the puns, forget the players. I just wrote a sign that said, I'm freaking cold or something like. It's freezing in here. And everyone was like, yes. They're like waving their hoodies. Like, yes, it is freezing. And so you would even notice that the players who weren't playing yet, they're like on the bench about to play are like their body language is like so cold. Armand, you know, he's from. Mumbai, India. He's over there, like, shaking his, like, his knees are bouncing, you know?

And so we thought about just making a sign that said, Armand looks cold. Yeah. Because he's, like, directly, like, Armand, you look cold. I got one. Na, nah, nah. This will be a long one. Na, nah, nah, nah, nah. Hey, hey, hey, Mumbai.

Goodbye. Goodbye. That wasn't too long. We could get that on the poster board. They'd have to make sure you have the right gnaz, though, or else it wouldn't make sense. Yeah. Okay, so it's freezing cold. That's good.

Yeah, add more, add more things to this. St. Louis. Yeah, we're in St. Louis. Our team is Brooklyn that we're cheering for. It's too bad that they didn't have like an actual mascot. I think that would give you so much to work with. It's just Brooklyn pickleball team. So we didn't have a lot there.

We mainly went players last names. If they ever swept, you could say, no no let's say they're down to oh and it's best of five and then they win you would put up a sign that says no sweeps from brooklyn oh hey what do you want to talk about first which which one of our podcast sponsors why don't you tell me okay oh check them out hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey that's cozy right That's a guy who had Main Street Roaster's Coffee this morning. Why else would I be dancing that way? You get excited about caffeine.

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Timers going off again. Sorry. That's, you know, a lot of the families here are really into daily rhythms and I guess that's part of it no matter what. I wonder what it could be. And why didn't he go off for so long and all of a sudden? Maybe she snoosed it or something. Thanks, Rachel.

Thank you. We got two men on the team that you could work with, although I do like. Okay. No sweeps. Christian Al-Shahn, Chris Hayworth. Okay. Al-Shahn. Christian Al-Shan.

I watched a video of him when you guys. We're posting a video tomorrow. Well, tomorrow we're recording this. And it is so funny. I would actually encourage you to watch it. You know, it's just, it's only seven minutes. It's Isaac playing Christian in singles. He gets beat 11-0.

It's Scott and I are just laughing the whole time and cracking jokes. It's so good. Okay. Christian Alshan Alshwitz Al Alshan We had trouble with

Christian Alshan There feels like there's stuff there for sure though Alshan Al We found easier ones I've like with Chris Hayworth Something about like we're not hayworthy It's Hayworth it's Hayworth it

Heyworth it Chris Hayworth this is kind of a fun uh just extra thing uh chris is married to a man so i said i'm gay for chris hayworth would that work i didn't get that one approved by the committee but that's what i wanted which one of you is in the kitchen uh you would say something like that i don't know that's something okay all right Chris um yeah yeah leave with that no it's good um

Christian yeah I don't know all right last one I'll give you is so each team has subs Chris Hayworth is actually a sub a guy got injured he has to step in one of the last games of the weekend

like all right we're clearly going to win this let's throw in the lady sub her name's Hannah Blatt this guy goes oh anything for Hannah Blatt I go oh yeah oh that's easy like a one syllable just like easy right timing word yeah yeah yeah what up with blatt um blatz what's up um blatz what's up is good i didn't

think about that attack uh once you go blat you can't go back that's good that's got to love this whole segment black lana i think because we were kind of like bringing her in at the you know 11th hour to come close this game i wanted like like the blat signal or something like that like black girl black girl yeah uh Yeah, where's Rachel? And you're like, you're like kind of upset. And it's like, well, you're the black man, but you're the black girl, but where's Rachel? The one that I ended up coming up with that worked out really well is I said, um, we wrote down,

I can't control my bladder. Okay. And even though it was like somewhat a meaningless game, she ends up like playing really well and coming back and it's like nine to nine. You know, it's nine nine nine two. She's all this time, but come back. And Scott just got the sign. and everyone's loving it. I can't control my bladder.

This is crazy. It like made it into like people's videos and people who took pictures. Yeah. Blat cat. Blats have nine lives. Never dead. Brad regrets saying, tell his wife he would let them get a blat. Don't declaw your blots.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Flats a great one. Yeah. because you just think of all the things that rhyme with it. Yeah. Cat, cat, fat, Matt, yeah, Blathieu,

Blathie McConaughey. Oh, I just remember my favorite one. They were playing, when we were really in the thick of the sign making, they were playing a brother's sister duo from Vietnam. Their last name is Trong, T-R-U-O-N-G. Do you see where I'm going with? Brother-s-sister. a right two trongs exactly two trongs don't make a right okay yeah i was like that's perfect

there's two of them yeah two trongs uh that trong to trong trong trong trong trong tronged um trong songs um yeah song yeah there's all sorts of stuff with that too probably song song songbird trong bird trong bird two trongs don't make right perfect though that's great just bring it over here we'll figure it out take out the battery there's an episode of friends where Phoebe the smoke detector just keeps going off even after she like takes out the batteries and everything eventually she like takes it out to the gut dumpster it's still going off she's freaking out so anyway did you hear about uh isaac and his u-hall experience he was actually texting me yesterday i felt so bad and then i talked to peter on the phone last line he was telling me

about it. Do you know more than I do, though? Like, do you know how he's able to get one? Yeah. So I think his, the long story short is that his dad's going to get, uh, rent it for him. Okay. But, uh, yeah, Isaac, I was, I was picking up some stuff from his wood shop back yesterday, uh, real quick before he left. And he's like, actually, uh, I'll be a little bit late. I got to go pick up this U-Haul real quick. And I was like, oh, I don't know, man. Like, I kind of, I was worried about it for a second anyway. Um, and then he's like, just got this notification and it was like you cannot rent a u-hull until you call this number uh basically from the u-hall vibes uh time where i's at rinds at you hall and then we got in a like this guy teaboned us

basically and this guy didn't ever take responsibility for it or ever so i think is still technically like oh like u-hall is owed from isaac and isaac's like i didn't do it even though this guy like i wish i wish so badly i would have just like took it taking my phone out right away, even though it's like such a like new culture thing to do is like record this guy. But he definitely was like, it's my fault. Anyway, so poor Isaac can't rent a U-Haul until he gets this thing resolved. And so yeah, his dad's going to rent it. But Isaac's like, dude, I'm not letting my dad drive.

I'm not letting my dad drive that you haul. So anyway. You know, when I texted him yesterday, he was like, dude, this thing is like still haunting me. I can't read to you a hall. This place won't let me put it in my dad's name because he's. connected to me. Oh, really? Try another place or maybe I need to put on a disguise.

That was like his last text. And then 30 minutes later, he goes, got the U-Haul. I go, dude, way to go. And then he texts me and says, those founding father's costumes really came in handy. So I actually, that's why I was like, I don't know how I actually got the U-all, but I'm glad he did. No, I don't know the details of all that. I saw him because I had to go pick him up from the U-Haul place whenever it wasn't,

whenever he's like, well, I need, I need, uh, I need you pick me up because I was planning on getting this U-Haul and coming back. But see, I don't know. I don't know what ended up happening with that. But it sounds like he's heading there probably right now. I think it's like around this time. He's getting ready to go. I just talked to Scott today on the phone.

He's like, just played my last round of pickleball in Kansas City with Isaac McDonald. Yeah. I mean, he'll be back, you know. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, but yeah, poor guy. But I told him, I was like, I picked him up. I was like, I, it's got, I mean, it has to be an adventure.

Like that's, that's just part of your life. Like, it's just more fun that way, right? You know, like, come on. This is just part of our lives, bro. It's just, we've, we've been through some stuff together, you know. Yeah. So. And I'm excited for Isaac.

We were just talking about this last night, but like, Isaac never went to college. Isaac's never not lived in Kansas City. Like, this is kind of a fun moment, opportunity in his life to go off. And so is wild oats and, you know, come back. Exactly. So we were already talking about opportunities to come back or like maybe we, fourth of July, do we go back? Do we go to Branson?

Do we go to Calveth's Lakehouse? I don't know. And then I was like, I bet they can't even shoot off fireworks down here. I bet it's so dry. It's so one of my roommates, Iver, five year old. I asked her, I go, Ivor, have you ever seen like fireworks before? And then she wanted a great detail about this guy who she had seen work a fire before, like at a Renaissance fair.

Like tell me this elaborate sort of. guy like he was these sticks that he was juggling and they had fire on him. Listen, there's metalworking. Yeah. There's woodworking and there's fireworking. Fireworking. Yeah. Is she like foreign?

And it's like she literally just takes the words as their, you know, firework, you know. The fireworking, yes. You ever seen fireworks? I was like, oh yeah, I've seen firework a lot. Like put some eggs on top of a fire one time at firework well. I mean, that you were saying firework? It depends how you define work. But yeah, gender reveals.

Yeah, I've seen it work. Yeah, that's funny. I'm excited for Fourth of July. I'm going to my sisters for Fourth of July. And she lives in a small town, Southwest Kansas, and her husband, like, orders every single year, like just classic, like small town, like orders an entire semi-truck, like load of fireworks and like does a fireworks show for their small town.

And I've never, I've never been to it. And we're going to go. And then we're going to go from there to, to drive to Colorado for a few days. And I think it's going to be awesome. It's going to be so fun. I'm so sorry. I'm doing it outside.

Yeah. We can figure this out. Let me see it. Brett said, let me see it. I think just throw it out the front door. Give it to the cat. Take the batteries out.

Surely there's some batteries in there. That's crazy. That's crazy. I want to know what she's pressing. Yeah, yeah, it's classic. Yeah. Anyway, that's funny. What else has been going on?

I mean, obviously, do you still feel just like nomad, nomadish? Yeah, because right now we just, we're very much overtaking this family's home in the sense that they're very much still living here and they have everything going on. So we just try to stay in this one little bedroom and just try to sneak away to just to stay out of their way right now. So, yeah, our stuff is still in, you know, tiny little areas and, um, Yeah, I don't know if it fully feels like we've moved yet. It just feels like you're on the next step towards moving, probably. Yeah, or even just like, yeah, it's summer break for Rachel. Let's like, let's go visit Kyle and Ashley for a week.

And that's kind of what it feels like now. I don't think the ghosties are going to understand this because they probably didn't know your living room well enough. But it's kind of crazy to me how similar like you're like you, you, you showed up on this on this live stream. And I was like, what the? I had a thought of like is this like some old recording that I'm able to see that he haven't joined yet like like it's not it's obviously not the same like I could have I could have reasoned it after a few seconds but like like you're I mean really this area though and the and the yeah the the the TV right above it um and then yeah that's about and then you I mean

just like the the color of the walls and everything but like it's not that similar but it's like similar enough to where I was like, what in the world? What's going on here? I don't blame you. I didn't even think about that. You're right. I was in just pure guitar center mode before this. Yeah, it was crazy.

I was like, what in the world? It's just a weird feeling of like, I know, I can see your house from here. Like, I know Jake's not there. But also, is he? Like, how is it happening? So what if you would have like taking a picture of like your background? Oh. and then set it as yeah yeah yeah that'd be nice anyway um you made you made any ground with max yet

neighbor max no no ground i don't know man they they seem like they're ready to just be be by i mean i'm sure they would talk to me if i go talk to them they wouldn't just stare at me but they don't seem ready to be neighbors like that yet but they're okay give i give them credit they're like they're like moan it a lot which is good hey you know some people in this neighborhood they just let their grass gets super high, you know, to the point where, like, the van will, like, detect it as, like, an object or something, but not those guys, man. They're, they're doing it right. So, um, Facebook still thinks I live in Kansas City. So I still get, like, random stuff in my feed that's like another tornado headed to Kansas City's way and everything.

So thinking about you guys, it seems like it's still storming every now and then. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, just, it's just, yeah, Catherine actually was just texting our meteorologist's friend today like hey what time do I need to be driving to like be safest. It's it hasn't been honestly hasn't been bad at all. But it's been a lot of like imminent like tornado watching and stuff. So I was really yeah, kind of nervous last night watching the NBA finals like, are they going to break away from this for a dang tornado? They didn't.

Don't worry. Yeah. Anyway, but no, it's been it's been fine. Yeah. Dude, speaking to Max, I just thought of something you would have also love this from the pickleball tournament in St. Louis, there is, you know, everyone's on team. So not everyone gets to play with who they would typically play with in a tournament. You have to play with whoever's on a team. So for instance, Ben Johns doesn't get to play with his normal partner,

his, the second best player in the world. He has to play with who they can afford. You know, it's kind of a salary cap situation. Like, you'd be great if Mahomes could throw to Justice Jefferson, but that's just not, right. It's not going to work that way. So he has to throw to, I don't know, DeMarcus Robinson. And so the DeMarcus Robinson of pickleball is, is a fellow by the name of Max. And I'm trying to even word how I want to say. They were like, it's like gentle parenting. They were like gentle, gentle teammateing him.

I think, I don't know if this guy is like a mental, just like head case or something, but I'm sure there is a lot of pressure that comes with playing the best player in the world. And just knowing if you lose, it's your fault. But this guy would get the ball over the net. So good, Max. So good. Yes, Max. Come on, Mad Max.

These were his teammates or these were like the people and the fans. It's like their bench. So not necessarily like the other pro players, but maybe like the team coach or some of the team ownership that like sits on the bench. I mean, it was so much so that like Rachel was like, what's this Max's like what's the story with Max? Why are they treating him this way? Like I didn't know this is make a wish weekend with pickleball.

Why are they acting this way? And they were doing the same thing for Ben. Like they were only doing it for Matt. They weren't doing it to anyone. I never was anyone to get treated this way as a professional athlete. Yes, Max. So good. Max.

Keep your head up, Max. It was hilarious. This guy's a grown man. This guy played Division I on tennis. He's like an elite athlete. It's like he's like an atomic bomb though, like way to go off. Like maybe. He handled the bomb very kindly.

Just. Yeah. I've always. Go ahead. I wonder if he talked to them because I, after the first day, it really backed off by like 80%. And I wonder if he's like, you guys got a cool. You're embarrassing me out there.

Like I don't need this. This is too much encouragement. Right. I remember there were a few times where I, like, we were talking about baseball last week, like where I was like having a hard time like throwing the ball over the plate. And I was like walking like multiple people. And I remember at one point, I think it was my dad. It was either my dad or coach.

just being like all right just three strikes in a row you know and i'll get one and then i would get two and then the guy would get a hit or something you know because every time they're like all right just two more strikes there's one more strike and yeah it just felt like patronizing it's like i don't yeah you know how baseball works you don't have to tell me how many strikes i need to get nine strikes will be out of this inning it's like i understand okay don't need to tell or like they see you struggling they're like you get the next one yeah you're out of on it. You're fine. It's like, I understand it's not going well. Yeah. I don't know. I really, I like, I've always subscribed to the idea of high challenge, high support. Like, I want,

I want support. Like, I definitely want you to believe in me. But I also want you to be like, hey, come on. You can do better than this. Let's go. Pick it up. Like, yeah, I don't know. Like having the, having the balance is like so important to me. So anyway, yeah, just don't baby me. Because then it makes me, makes me think you think I'm a head, like, you think I can't control this if you don't say anything but nice things to me. And I can, okay? But I'm going to lose it if you don't say anything. If you don't say mean things to me.

Like that's almost worse. It's like that's almost like you're treating me like I'm worse at everything. If you're just like, hey, it's okay. It's like you don't believe that I'm any better than this. Like this is the best you think I am. Yeah. You know. So.

Yeah. I feel like any time I've, like Nathan Coley has been sending over so many files lately. Yeah. the heavy metal music video or pictures or whatever, anything he's doing. And every time I respond is go, so good, Max, so good. These pictures look so good, Max. It is a great, like, balance. Like, I've been playing pickleball with guys that are athletic, but just aren't pickleball players. And so, like, I'm trying to learn, like, hey, I got to get some relationship before I just, like, teach them the very little strategy I know. But like, they don't know what you care until they

care that you know, Brad. They don't know that. Yes, exactly, dude. That's perfect. So I, yeah, I just, I'm like, okay. So there's a thing called the third shot drop. It's really effective. You know, if you don't get it, then you better stay back.

Don't just run up just because. I mean, that's very fundamental. So if they don't know that, it's like, I don't want them to play too long before I tell them that. It's fundamental. And it's like, okay, I told them once and they didn't do it. Or like, hey, it's just good. Like, when, when they're serving to, or when, when, when I'm serving.

like just stay behind the line. Yeah. It's so much easier to go up than it is to go back. And then they'll step up a few times and then get like shuffled back. And I'm like, yeah. So you see how you should be, you should remember just stay behind the line. And then eventually it's like, you know, hey man, like we got to stay behind the line. Remember?

Like, you know, you just kind of kind of just ease into it a little bit. But then just be like, bro, like I promise it's going to be better if you just stay behind the line. Yeah, you need to almost tell them like, oh, it's a rule. You have to be behind the line when I'm serving. That's good. I don't know why they came out with it, but yeah, you just have to. Yeah, it's just a weird thing. I don't know what they call it pickleball either.

All right, what do you want to do next? What do you think we should do next? Let me show you something. Hey, oh, hey. Let me answer your question with this. Hey, oh, oh, Ivor. Oh, baby. Come on.

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So good, Max. That's pretty funny. Just in general. Hey, so good. So good. Jake. So good. Like don't treat me like,

Max. That's a good like this thing to say, hey, please don't treat me like Max. Don't. Don't. Don't Max me. Yeah, but that happened early in the trip. So that was a great inside joke. Just yeah. Someone does the most bare minimum job on like refilling my water. So good. So good. Scott. So good. Scott. Thank you Scott. Thank you. Scott. Thank you. Scott. So good. Crushed ice. Good. Crushed ice. Thank you, Scott. So good, Scott. That's pretty funny. Dude, we had so much. much fun with Scott. I told Rachel, I need to tell Scott this too. I think I am at my peak enjoyment of Scott Peck. I've never just appreciated, loved, enjoyed spending more time with Scott. And of course, it's like at the precipice, it's like when I'm moving halfway across the country.

Maybe there's something mental about that. Like it's like, maybe, you know, I know that I don't have this as much coming up. So now I'm going to miss it. Yeah. I don't know what it is. But man, we're, we're having fun together. Scott, you'll, you'll love this story. So we, I think we played pickleball until 10 p.m. one night, but we hadn't had dinner. And so we're looking around. What are dinner options? Okay, there's like a kind of a grungy, I don't know, it looks like a sports bar place, but they're open late. And they got a pretty legit bar.

And I think to Scott, he was like, all right, these people know what they're doing. I know so little about alcohol. I'm, you know, nine months into this, basically. I'm going to, I'm going to ask them. So Scott goes, oh, I think, I. trying to remember. I think he knew he wanted a whiskey sour. He wanted to try that.

But they asked what whiskey. And that's when he was like, oh, I trust whatever you think. And so then the bartender goes, he goes, you know, I'm glad you said that. I would think about a couple ideas.

I actually, I don't drink myself. But I was sick in the other day, which is already such a red flag right there. Like, what do you mean? You have ideas, but you don't drink. I don't like that. You have no idea how this is going to go together. The idea.

Yeah, yeah. I don't play baseball, but I do saber metrics. So I know how to choke you. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I don't drink myself, but I was laying in bed there night. I'm thinking to myself,

what if he did this and this and this? And so Scott's kind of going, yeah, yeah, go for it, whatever. Well, this guy and Scott's whiskey sour, which I guess is typically like whiskey, maybe with like lemonade. and that's kind of the sour part. I don't know. I'm kind of pieced this together too.

But this guy puts peanut butter whiskey in it thinking it's going to be like, oh, this is going to blow the roof off the place. So Scott takes one sip and goes, whoa, that's interesting. Isaac try this. Isaac tries it and goes, dude, that's the worst drink I've ever tasted in my life. What is in there? And then Scott tells us a story. We're like, what? Don't let him put peanut butter without asking for peanut butter.

That's an insane addition to a liquid. Scott did finish the whole thing. It goes, it's not too bad once you get used to it. But that was also early on the trip. So that was a great inside joke. Scott, you want to throw peanut butter on this pizza? You know, just do you want peanut butter? And I called it the whiskey savory.

It's got a whiskey sour. You're the only person who's ever ordered a whiskey savory. That's a good name for something, though. That might make people try it even though they don't really like it. That's amazing. I mean, what's a restaurant doing saying, hey, you should be our bartender. You don't, you don't drink at all. Like, it's like one thing if it's like, hey, you don't drink very often or, you know,

but you got to know what stuff tastes like before you just throw things together and think, this will be good, you know? Yeah. I mean, a bartender has, you're not a waiter. Like, you are, you're making, you're, you're a chemist, basically. You really need to know how this stuff goes together. That's, yeah, you're either, you either follow the recipe blindly or you, don't do it.

Like, don't, don't, don't, don't just be like, you know what? I'm just going to get innovative today. Like, that's not a, not a good idea for anybody.

Just thinking a little peanut butter and lemonade? Yeah, what in the world? And Scott said, no problem. That's a good idea. Sure.

You know. Well, I think they just said, like, is screwball okay? Scott's like, I, sure, I don't know. And then come to find out

that is a peanut butter whiskey or whatever, but. I've never had peanut butter whiskey. I don't know. it sounds fine, but I don't think I would want it with anything else. I think I would just want it by itself. I think I would just want the peanut butter.

Yeah, I'll take a whiskey jiff. Yeah. Hey, now we're talking. Now we're getting somewhere. So that's pretty good from old Scotty. I didn't know he was dabbling in the mixed drinks, but. Right now and then. another pretty funny thing from this trip this started right before i left can't city when we shot

the entire music video that day at journey bible church you know i think i had rachel grab us all chick fillet for lunch and so we're texting in there like what do you want scott text a massive paragraph of everything he wants like i want this you know hold this add this toss in this coke zero light i you know whatever i can i just stop you and say i guarantee you scott wanted something beyond just a normal sandwich i'm guessing he either wanted. Do you remember what he wanted? Do you remember? I'm guessing. I'm guessing he either wanted, like he definitely wanted a sandwich in a box if he wanted a sandwich. Like one of the ones that like comes in like the, with the tomato. I think you're right. Rachel, do you remember what did Scott get

at the heavy metal shoot when you went and got chick filet for all of us? Do you remember what sandwich he got or he's ordering? It was the new jalapeno ranch one. Yeah. Yeah, which comes in the box. I just I know I was trying to guess. I can also see him having an opinion because he's had the chicken salad multiple times, which is ridiculous to everyone with the chicken salad there. I've had it once when they came around and said, hey, we actually made an extra of these. Do you want to try it? I said, sure. But why get the chicken salad there?

And I guarantee you, Scott's gotten the chicken salad. Maybe I can also see him, like, figuring out some way to customize an actual salad to be really good. And definitely has gotten the wrap a few times as well. This spring, denim gets a softer, lighter update. Introducing Old Navy's drapey denim wide leg. A new fit that moves with you.

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So I was like, oh, that's kind of funny. Yeah. But then since then, I mean, we spent five days of St. Louis together. At first I wasn't realizing what was happening, but we would go around dinner or whatever. And Coley would always wait for Scott to order. And every single time, he ordered exactly what Scott did for five days straight. It was like, at first I didn't realize it. Then it was hilarious.

And it just kept being hilarious. So, yeah, he's all in. And he doesn't seem to mind. He just all have what Scott's having. Scott. Scott's a, he's a foodie. I mean, he, like, he has, he knows what he's doing with food. So I, I would probably trust him for the most part.

Scott does have, like, he's got northeastern roots. And so every once in a while, he likes stuff that I'm like, like, he gets excited about roasts. And I'm like, don't get excited about roasts. Roast every once in what you want to. But like, that's not, you know, like, he'll go to a restaurant and like order the shepherd's pie or something. It's like, don't do that, dude. Not, not a, no. Don't get excited about that.

Don't worry about a shepherd's pie, man. But yeah, that's just the, that's just the Massachusetts in him, I guess. Yeah, Babs. That's pretty fun. Yeah, I was, yeah, talking to him today for a while. I feel like we talked for 15 minutes or something, but I don't even know what we talked about. You talked to Scott today? Yeah.

He's called me up. He's like, Bradley. That's what he always does. Because there was one of our friends, Keegan is his name. Kegan Knight, his dad growing up. up, Kirk had this low voice. And every time he saw me, he'd always go, Bradley.

Every time Scott calls me, Bradley. And yeah, we just talked about life. I don't even know we talked about what's going on. So good dude. That's great. Yeah. Anyway, let's see. What else has been going on in my life?

A lot of pickleball, a lot of basketball, not some basketball. Dude, I played maybe the worst basketball I've ever played in my life. yesterday actually. Okay. And I contribute some of it. I have two, I have two excuses. Excuse number one.

And this is, this is both of them are legit. There are reasons on excuses. Legit reason number one is that I have been playing some basketball in my driveway, a decent amount, honestly. Oh, yeah.

On an eight foot goal with a like tiny little kids ball. And I've gotten pretty good. And, but, but it was like, it was like almost like, cartoonish how I looked at this hoop yesterday. Like it looked like it was 13 feet tall.

And the ball felt like it was, you know, a shot put. Like, oh, yeah, just so heavy. It was unbelievable. Like usually I'm like pretty, what's it called? Like muscle memory from free throw. Like I can make free throws very easily because I think I just, I know exactly like my arm just is perfectly, you know, whatever. And so I was like, all right, I'll just calibrate on the free throw line. And I shoved that thing up to the hoop multiple times.

And like the first couple times I think an air balled it because it was so short. And it was like unbelievable how bad it was. And so anyway, that was bad. And then I mean, 15, 20 minutes into the game, I'm sweating so much that my hands are so slick. And so it's just game. Like I, like, it was like, I can't shoot anyway. And then my hands are just so slippery. And so it was just bad.

It was a rough, rough outing. I feel like getting used to the small ball and eight foot goal is worse than not playing for five years. It sets you back. I can't tell you how weird of a feeling it was. It was almost like, are they pranking me? Like, is this goal 11 feet tall and I just don't know it or something? Like, this is unbelievable how different this looks and feels. Like, have you seen, you know, me, dude perfect guy.

They have like a 15 foot hoop or whatever in their. Oh, yeah. Like, it looked like that. It felt like that. It's like a county fair hoop where it's like it's so tall and so skinny. It's impossible. It's a scam. Like, there's no way this is what the hoop used to look like. Like, it was so weird, man. I have a distinct memory from probably 2022 when I was playing a lot of golf and still dabbling at pickleball. There was one day where I went from golf to pickleball. And that's all it took. Just like, it's crazy how quickly your brain like rewire things. But that pickleball felt humongous. It was like, whoa, we play with this. It looks bigger today. This is crazy. Or ping pong, you go ping pong to pickleball or whatever.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. We were playing, though. And so I invited Glyde to come. You know, Glad's off on Tuesdays. He's like, hey, come play basketball. And so there was a guy there. And Glyde didn't know this at the time.

But it was like this guy who was an intern at the church for the summer. So he's a young dude, 21 years old or something like that. And this has been his second day at work. Because most of the guys playing are like church staff members. And then it was like me and Glyde, I think, and all these church guys. anyway, and this guy comes and he was actually decent at basketball. He was pretty good.

But he was a smaller dude and he played in like these kind of like not jeans but played in pants like like like kind of athletic like Lulu Lemon type like ABC pants kind of things. So like you know already kind of funny already giving him a little bit of a hard time.

You know he walks in with his like guitar on his back and puts it down and just playing basketball. And then. about an hour into it, you know, we take a quick break in between games and he comes back. And he's been gone for probably like 10 minutes. We thought he was like done playing. He comes back and he's in shorts now. And so and so glide like he walks up to the court.

Like we're all like getting ready to play. So there's like we all see him walk up and glide getting a little comfortable at this point. Glad just goes, oh, short guy. I'm like, what? He's like short guy. I was like, dude, he's like, he's wearing shorts. I was like, it's, it just looked like he basically called this guy out for just like being a short, like a small dude. Like he's like, oh, short guy's here.

Hey, Pipsqueak. Hey, short guy. And it was, it was like, dude, like, you know, this guy's probably, you know, been small his entire life. And all of a sudden glide this like tall athletic, you know, dude just like, hey, short guy. I looked at it. He's like, no, no, because he's wearing, he's wearing shorts. I was like, dude, that is not what it sounded like you were doing. Hey, little guy.

Welcome to the big leagues. Shins are out now. Anyway. Did you find out why he played a full hour in pants if he had shorts this whole time? Well, no, I forget what is. He kind of mentioned it. It wasn't a very good excuse. It was more like a, I don't, I don't know.

I just didn't know if we were, you know. I was running late. It was one of those. This is my second day. I'm not comfortable asking for, I think it was. was like, hey, we're playing. You ready to play? Yeah, yeah, okay, great.

I don't know. Something like that. I'm not sure. I, yeah, I definitely had sympathy for him, but I was like, oh, how, yeah, why are you wearing pants? Anyway. Come on, short guy. Join us.

I was like, dude, because Glyde's like the nicest guy ever. So it's like, what are you doing saying this? Short guy. Hey, corner pocket. Remember that? Quarter pocket. That was great, too. Yeah, I didn't remember Sarah.

Sarah Lavel's name at the Getaway. He's like, he's like trying to guess who like, we play, yeah, we played that game. It was like, everyone put a song on the playlist. Yep. And then you tried to guess who put it on there. He's like, uh, corner pocket. What's your name?

It's so funny because there's 20 people in the pool. You could have just like, all right, whoops. I don't know her name. Let me guess someone's name who I do know. Totally. I really want to win this game. And I really think she put it on there.

But man, I don't know her name. Quarter pocket. Oh my gosh. He wrote me a card before I left Kansas City and actually just found it again yesterday. And I was rereading it again. And I remember that he had said something like, you know, a bunch of nice stuff. We'll miss you. Enjoy the corner pocket of the USA.

Oh, man. That's good. He's awesome. He's a good inside joke guy. We played pickleball the other night with one of my, our friend Justin. You know Justin Jordan. He played, or he went hunting with us. and Justin, I think, has been worked, like, he worked like 60 hours last week.

So he's like, he came right from working to play pickleball at like 8 p.m. And he's like, I hadn't eaten dinner yet. And so I have this pizza pizza. And so literally he was like warming up while eating a piece of pizza from QT. And so, yeah, the entire time for like three nights after that even. Glad kept being like, being ready to serve. He's like, all right, eight, eight six one pizza time. And then you know, it was just all sorts of inside jokes of glad, which is always fun.

he's got a podcast. Did you know that? He and Lauren do a podcast every week. Yeah. You ever listen to it? I follow the clips. There you go.

Okay. I didn't even know that. I just, one time I saw him, I was like, oh my gosh, there's a, there's a clip,

or there's an episode every week. They're doing it. Yeah. There's a future studio for you, maybe if you need it. Now we're talking. Now we're talking. Gladwell basement.

I missed that one, what's his name? the theater kid that used to be on the podcast. Like the singer? Zach's friend? Zach's friend. Yeah. Yeah.

No, Oliver was the other friend. Dang, dude. It was something biblical, but it was like a random biblical name. Yeah, it was like,

it was like biblical, but like no one knows it. Um, what was it? Saul? It wasn't tall, was it? Was it Paul?

Was it Peter? No, people know Peter. It started with a P. Pied though. Pymann. Pymann, Peter, one of those that like double names. I miss Pymond. That guy was cool. I wonder what he's up to these days.

He was a cool guy. He was, and he was pretty tall. All guys. Yeah, he was getting, he seemed like he was peeking and all of a sudden he's just out. I don't know. I don't know where he is. I don't know. trying to get a touch to his brother or something maybe get him on jesse his brother's name is jesse

your brother's name is jesse that's it's michael or alice alice is a girl got it we could get her on though she'd be on she'd get she'd get on yeah pymann he's a good dude miss you pymond all right i think i know but just in case what uh what which what's company do you want to do last here for that Let me answer your question by showing it. Oh, here we go now. What is this due for you? All right now. All right now.

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Wow, I missed that. To Pinstagram. Do you see he's got a Puzz cut? Yeah, he pussed his pair. Yeah. I like it. I'm into it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it'll grow back. I like it because it'll grow back. You see my boy Johnny Yusuf. He went to Turkey and did a little transplant action. And, but honestly, I think he looks pretty freaking cool with just his buzz cut.

Is this why you did it, dude? To get a really good buzz cut? I don't know if you even know the answer to this. But when Trey did it, Trey looked like he got beat up by 15 mobsters. He did. Johnny didn't have that as far as I could tell. Maybe that's why everyone's going to Turkey. How did, seriously?

How did that happen to him? Like, do you have any idea why he was so swollen? I don't know. That is a good question. Like, he was so swollen. I mean, it looked like he got bit by 16 bees right in the face. Yeah. Right? And he was allergic. Yeah. I actually can't even piece together. Like, why? What would make you so swollen from that? I mean, I just, I don't know. I don't know anything about hair transmits. I don't know. But yeah, that was crazy. And I guess Turkey doesn't have that. I was very intrigued because Johnny was like, I'm just going to post the whole thing on the internet. I was like, okay, cool. We'll get to see the crazy picture of you, like, looking rough. And he just looked awesome with a buzz cut. I was like, you should probably just buzz your hair.

So. Oh, Piman. Yeah, I have been, uh, last two days. So not like a ton. But I've been kind of hunting for the next house and trying to figure out what the next steps are and everything. And I've decided to just kind of, I don't know what, like just put myself out there. Basically like not cold calling, but kind of like, like shooting my shot a lot with some like listings on zillow and stuff where I'm just calling people

and I don't know how people do it that just go every single day and just call and just get rejected. Like yeah, I did it for probably like three hours yesterday. And it was just like I had like like there was one guy that was kind of rude to me like kind of like, no, I'm not going to do this. This is ridiculous. Why would I do this? I wanted to make, you know, whatever. And in my head, I was like, I still believe that I'm doing the right thing and I would do the right thing for like.

better thing for you in the long run, but you don't understand it. And I'm probably not explaining it very well. But I don't know, I don't, I don't know how, how people just deal with this every day. Like, just go to go to work and just be like, I'm going to get rejected 20 times, but on the 21st time, I'm going to make a lot of money from this, you know. That wouldn't be hard. That's why you need glide. Like, I need someone to say yes to me. You want to say, well, glad? 100%. Oh, yeah. It was just like, yeah, it's just like, you got to keep. And, and I, and I, I talked to him because he was a solar salesman for a while.

He did like door to door. Yeah, that's right. He's like, I mean, it would take 60 to 100 doors before maybe somebody would say yes. He's like, it's a good day if you just even got like a decent conversation with somebody. Wow. And I'm like, how do you do that over and over again? You've become numb to it. And he's like, you've got to make sure that like the last interaction you had doesn't spill over into the next one.

Like in other words, like, if that guy's a jerk to you, don't just like be in a bad mood for the next one. You got to reset somehow. Partmentalize, clean the slate and just keep going. So what is kind of your pitch? What are you trying to get them to do? Yeah. So there's, I mean, it just depends. So the main idea is called creative financing.

But it's basically like, like let's say, let's say for instance, so Scott bought his house in 2021. And Scott, in 2021, there was just unbelievable mortgage rates. Okay. It's like, you know, like he's paying two point something percent for his mortgage rate. And nowadays, the mortgage rate is way higher than that. 6, 7%. 6, 7%, dude. It's just way higher.

So if I buy the same house today, like, if I just like buy Scott's house and have Scott's low, I'm going to be spending way more per month because I have a way higher interest rate. And so there's possibilities of like, hey, what if I just take your mortgage from you, like, and pay your mortgage off and then give you. and then give you money over time for it. Like I give you some money now, but instead of getting, you know,

all the money now, you get way more money over time, basically. And it's the same way with like, if you own your house outright and you're trying to sell it, you could make, you know, $500,000 today, or you could act like you're the bank

and make $800,000 over 10 years or something like that. And some people are like, yeah, I don't know, it's just, just talk to my realtor or, you know, I don't, like, I talk to, to a realtor yesterday. She's like, I've been doing this for 25 years. I don't understand what you're

talking about. I was like, I know exactly what it's hard to like explain it well. Like, she's like, I don't, I don't understand how this works. And I'm like, I don't know if you're very good realtor if you don't understand how this works at all. But I kind of that like as you're telling me like, I understand what you're saying. But I bet it is hard to quickly and effectively communicate it where it doesn't seem like I'm trying to scam you. Like, no, like I'm a good guy. I'm just trying to make this a win for both of us. Here's how it works. It's going to take 50 people before we get the right person who like understands it. Yes. And it's like how do I, yeah, how do I explain this well without making it seem like it's only good for me? Because it's like, like the main thing

that I try to like tell people is like usually the bank is like the big winner and all this. Like the bank is so much like because you buy a $300,000 house. You're not paying $300,000 over 30 years. You're paying $600,000. You know, because you're paying all this interest or whatever. It's like, rather than getting the banks rich what if i helped you like and i paid you like you're the bank and i think sometimes that makes sense to people but anyway so i'll have to say i think i'm going to and i don't even know if i should publicly say this because whatever i'm not i'm not committing anything but i'm trying to like record my calls like i'm trying to like record some of them and like document some of them maybe a post about my journey but i don't know if i will or not i don't

know I'm kind of scared to do that but at the same time it's like be kind of cool if I documented my first one that somebody said yeah let's do it you know you'll never regret at least filming it and if nothing comes of it so be it but like what if just who knows what could happen and like you're going to be so glad that you had this footage yeah that's the hope so I found an old Samsung galaxy at this uh flip house that I did like they just had an old one and so I'm like all right I have a camera here and so I'm just using that one while I called somebody on my phone to like record it. So it's like my my third phone, I guess. That's fun. Yeah. Well, hope it works out. And if you want to go down to 157th and Alatha and get creative

with that one, you let me know. Dude, I, uh, I had that thought the other. I, for, I never ended up looking into it. But maybe I should. I'll check it out. Because I saw it's coming for sale soon. Yeah. We got another pre-MLS offer, but also on Zillow, even though it's still coming soon. It's got like 115 saves. Dude, the whole coming soon thing is a, that was a genius thing for Zillow to do. Yeah. I even thought, I saw that and I was like, are these the saves from when it was on the market when I bought it?

I was like, there's no way 115 people are interested. It's not even available. Yeah. I don't know. It's a seller's market right now for sure. So, yeah. And that's the other hard thing is like, I'm trying to compete with people that are like, well, people are already interested in this thing.

I got all these saves or I got all these showings. I'm like, you don't have an offer yet though, you know, so. Ha, ha. Yeah. But yeah, there was this guy yesterday that was pretty hard, like pretty, I mean, whatever, he was fine. But I was just like, you don't know what you're talking about. And maybe I don't either, but I don't think you do either, man.

And like, like, anyway, I had to just like stop text. Like, we texted back and forth a few times. So I tried to, like, explain it a little bit better in a text. And then he was like getting feisty with me. and I had to just be like, even if I show him, even if I show him the right thing, this is not going to work out. Like, we're not going to see this through to the finish line. Yeah.

I need to stop texting him back. Just move on to the next door. It's so hard. Yeah. It's so hard not to be like, I'm going to prove myself right to you, man. I know what I'm doing. But yeah. Yeah.

Cool. Well, we went to our reviews of the week. So we've got some new ones. Let's do it. I think there's two more here. Mine comes from Emma. she says it's five-star review passes the Philippians 4-8 check

I adore this podcast I laugh out loud every episode and I mainly love the while it's very lighthearted and funny I can also put this podcast in my mental basket of Philippians 4-8 things I need to look up what that is

let me let me oh she does elaborate a little bit the content we consume has so much impact on who we are and who we become and I'm trying to be more intentional about what I listen to and watch. This podcast makes me laugh, but also encourages me to love and worship Jesus.

Nothing else needs to be said. Thank you, Emma. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Philippians 4-8, whatever's true, whatever's honorable, whatever's right, whatever's pure, whatever's lovely, whatever's of good repute. There's anything, any excellence, and if anything worthy of praise dwell on these things.

So that's sweet. Yeah. I feel like I saw a really good one on YouTube. Do you know what I'm talking about? No, I'm talking about it. I'm talking about it. There's a couple, maybe like a week and a half ago. Let's see.

It was a really sweet one. You'll find it. Ghosties, soon I will have, hopefully, my belongings, hopefully a microphone that's way better. And I'm sorry if the, whatever, mouth, nose, throat, snot noises are in your ear, in your car. For the most part, I can't help it. crazy, bro.

We're figuring it out. I just realized about five minutes into this thing. I was trying to record on the roadcaster. The SD card's completely full. So I'm not going to have good microphone either. I'm going to find this at some point. Maybe I'll do it for next. What do you think is that?

Oh, okay. I don't know why we have this as the username, buddy. but his username is if Y-O-U-R, if you're hard one. What could that be? It's like Ethernet cables, like if you're hardwired in, your net's going to be really good. Oh, yeah, yeah, if you're hardwired, you're number one. All right, if this isn't common review of the week,

I don't know what will be, he says. It was a good comment. I quietly followed Trey for years, and when Gene Shorts popped up, I quietly became a fan of Brad and Jake, although obviously knew who Jake was from Trey. I've always been stringent. We like that word?

I don't know that word. Stringent. Stringent. Stringent about who I subscribed to. So although I watched every single JSC video, I was never a subscriber. Sorry about that. Probably part of the reason about the channel being dormant.

It says, when it was mentioned on the channel that y'all had a podcast. I quickly dismissed it thinking not everyone needs a podcast and wrote it off. It wasn't until I started seeing your YT shorts. YT stands for YouTube. and y'all's permission to go viral segments

of playing games and joking and laughing, you know, the games that y'all later discuss is a failure to convert people to his listener. I watched enough of those segments and dove into the Ghostrymns podcast right before you went to the ghosty getaway two years ago and was shocked to hear about you going on vacation with listeners.

I was hooked and had to listen more. Like most others, I'm working my way through all the past episodes while keeping up on current episodes and I wish I ignored my not everyone needs a podcast sentiment on you guys. Love to be in a silent ghosty. you for all your last inside jokes sharing your life with us and being men of faith i'll meet you

you guys someday at one of these events or getaways ghost friend's podcast is the best i could go on about how great this is but you get enough of that in each review and he says also where is episode 41 i don't know about don't worry about it you don't want to know that's the one where jake calls you don't know a short guy so that was nice i think his name is brad actually this guy comment It was me. I just said it myself. But shout out. Shout out to if you're hard one.

Bradworth. Bradley. Oh, and he also, he has multiple comments and they're all about episode 41. Where is episode 41? What is episode 41? I don't even know. I mean, it's obviously before we started on YouTube, so maybe it's one of those weird ones that Spotify, even though there's copyrighted music in every episode, it's just one

of the ones that they like took down. or no. Yeah, Spotify got kind of cutthroat. It's like you got to give us a warning. Yeah. We were having fun with that. Yeah. Oh, well. Anyway, shout out. Thank you guys. Yeah, always fun. We'll be back Wednesday with some voice memos from you guys. Yes. Yes. And some fun questions, hopefully. So we love you guys. Thanks for listening. five-star review is that what you're doing oh we're saying we have five spots over for the ghost to get away we have five spots over for the ghost to get away come on with it please please come if you're on the fence uh it's way more fun to be on the beach not on the fence yep right hop over that fence yeah get over

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