Ghostrunners - 549 - The Perfect Grilled Cheese

Episode Date: June 17, 2026

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Yes, sir. Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir. How are you feeling? I'm sweating these days, dude. I don't know what that's about. I'm not drinking as much water. Shouldn't it be the opposite? Maybe. It seems like people will tell you there's a reason you're sweating no matter what. You sweat so much, oh, you dehydrated. That's what happens. I mean, sweating a lot. Well, you've been drinking a lot of water? It's got to go somewhere. That's what I'm saying. I don't know. Yeah, I just, I know. I know. need to drink more water just in general. But I've been doing some, uh, LaCroix, some, there's a, there's a new one in town,

new sheriff in town called, is it Radler or Rambler? I think it's Rambler. Love me some Ramblers. Rambler sounds like a silver dollar city roller coaster name. So it was Rattler. Let me see what it's called. But man, yeah, there's, there's something, they got, they're at Costco and so I'm, I'm, I'm into them.

Rambler sparking a lot. Yeah, dude. Rambler. They have one? Yeah, dude, I don't know. Rambler goes upside down. I don't know. Okay, this is, I don't like it when LaCroix does this.

And now Lambor's, Rambler's doing the same thing. They're throwing out a flavor name that you don't know what it means. You ever heard of a satsuma? Oh. I thought you're going to say like it was called like Summer Burst. And you're like, I don't know what that's going to taste like. Sorry, I'm talking like Pamplemoose for a, just called a grapefruit. We don't need to, no one ever, no one's,

says Pamplemoose. You know my first experience with that is, um, Sasparilla, is that's what it's called? Yeah. And there was like, oh,

it's just root beer. Say root beer. What do you mean Sasparilla? What are you talking about? No one, no one in their like self-respecting self is going to say Sasparilla, unless it's like you're at an old timey like Western place or something. You're in line for the Rambler.

Yeah, yeah, you're in line for the Rambler and you're watching a reenactment of like, yeah, Jesse J. Robin the. bottled sasperilla. Yeah.

So what was your flavor called? It's, I'm going to spell it and then I'll say it out loud. S-A-T-S-U-M-A. Sat-S-U-M-A. Sat-S-S-S-U-M-A. Hey, Sat-Suma. What do you think satsuma is? Orange chicken sauce.

I will say this, it was kind of nice. I tried the flavor and then I looked at what it said on there. And I was like, it almost made me, like, think about what the flavor was. myself rather than it telling me the flavor. Like I was like, oh, it's kind of grapefruit. And I was like, is it? Turns out it's a type of like orange, I think. Orange chicken?

Pretty close. Not bad. Yeah. The chicken was off, but, uh, orange part was right there, buddy. Satima. Sasuma. Yeah, because I think that was an old correct opinion of mine is like I can't stand like smoothie places and energy drinks where the flavor, kind of like a blue blast thing in

the office, but like. She says blue. Can I, I'll take a guy. Alexy vibe or I'll take like a yeah school's out for the summer smoothie you're like what is that what's in that I probably will like it but do you mind telling me what that I love summer yeah right that's pretty funny yeah Satsuma Rambler try it out guys try them out um Satsuma uh Satsuma I like I like getting into it like that Satsuma uh oh oh oh I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts in white meat meat to

then West best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's a ghost from his podcast. I watched Rush Hour. Just for fun? First half of it, dude. And Jackie Chan is awesome.

Like, you know that he is, but then you haven't watched Rush Hour on TVS and, you know, 15 years. And then you watched it again, you're like, oh, Jackie Chan. That dude knows what he. he's doing. So you watched the first one by yourself? Yeah, I was yeah, I was, I've watched a couple of movies, uh, watched that, um, just by myself. I don't know. Like, somehow it was like a suggested thing. Um, and yeah, watched half of it or whatever and like, was like, this is awesome. I need to watch the other half. But, uh, Jackie Chan is just doing all his own stunts, hanging off of light poles,

doing all this crazy stuff with Chris Tucker. I mean, there's just so many great lines there. Do you understand the words that's coming out of my mouth? Like, all these different things. So I watched that. And then I also watched Timothy Salome, Marty Supreme. Have you heard of this? Oh, watched it? Yes, I've heard people say very good things about it. Yeah.

Go look at that cat. Sorry. Can you hear that cat meowing? No. The cat just came to the door. It's meowing so loud. It's got like a mouse in its mouth or something like that. Sorry, I was really distracted during your rush hour stuff.

Turn it around. Let's see that bad bad bad. That's why you don't declaw your cats. Why are you opening the door? Oh, too late. Is it their cat? It's the house I'm in now, which is the third family of the compound. I guess it's their cat, but I think they just stay outside and I guess you've got to catch mice to eat.

I think cats like showing off a little bit though. Like, yeah. I don't know this cat, but it wants to show me what it did. In private, yeah. It's showing off a little bit. explain to me this compound a little bit who's who's owning it who's staying there how do they all know each other it's like a pickleball centered like is that the origin of all this stuff Kyle and Kyle has a business partner named Tyler okay Tyler's got a family of six

okay and they used to run basketball camps together I think that's how he knows Tate Unru yes they've done like real estate kind of stuff together and they also do that pickleball school together where Kyle's the front facing guy Tyler does stuff more or less on the back end of it so yes okay they want to live close together because they're so involved from a business standpoint you know kind of me and you yep and so he owns I think most of the compound and he's in like the main dwelling which is where I'm at now but he and his family are gone for the summer and then the garage has been renovated and that's where Kyle lives

Yes. There was a court in the backyard for pickleball, and then there was like a huge, like, barn, you know, that I guess at one point stored, you know, barn type things. I don't know if it's a tractor or what, but that has now been fully gutted, fully renovated. And that's where a third family lives, which is where Rachel and I are currently staying, J.T. and Corey. So there's three dwellings here, one pickleball court and two nasty cats. Okay. And JT. and Corey, they don't do anything pickleball related. They're just friends of somebody. Correct. They just live the closest to the court. But yeah, nothing pickleball related. That's pretty cool. Okay. Sweet.

So yeah, that's that's the, that's the pound. That's the, that's the word we're living in. Do you have any other things we want to talk about before we get into some? I, I asked the ghosties, I was like, hey, I miss voice memos. I miss answering questions. I think one thing I'd like to get into right now would be the theme song. Oh, sorry. I thought we did that earlier. Oh, did we? I'd like to hear it a second time. I think this type.

Just pounding the sound effects bar. Just whatever happens, it happens. Wait, why isn't that going down? Oh, it's this one. So you can hear all that? Oh, yeah. All right. Ready for a remix?

Watch this. Wait, how do I start over again? I want to start from the beginning. How do I do that time in? Tyler if you can hear me. No, I'm just going to wait until it's done and then I'm going to start it again and then I'm going to remix it.

Watch this. Okay. No, I'm not yet. It's not ready yet. Okay. Ask me again if there's anything I'd like to hear. All right, just a second. So Jake, is there anything else I like to hear?

Can I hear a remix version of our theme song, please? Oh, sure. Uh, uh, oh, oh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts on the last. White meat. Yeah. Midwest best friends Yeah.

Fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some funny dough. Let's have some funny dough. What do you think? La, la, la, la, la. What do you think all that? Joke landed.

That was really good. I like, Oh, I could have done record scratch. Should I do it again with record scratch probably? Yeah, let me, let me. Oh, I need to mess around with the roadcaster more. Add some more effects on here. We should get our own sound bites on here.

Maybe get some of Rachel and Catherine saying some things. Saying, okay. That's not how it went. Okay, that's not quite right. Yeah. You boys are being too crazy. Getting a sound effect of Rachel saying joke after joke after joke. And if we're funny, say that.

Yeah. So that's the theme song. Um says the theme song. Yeah. How about we do some voice memos? Yeah. Do you have it? Do you have any?

It's be fun. No, no, no, no. I think voice demos would be fun. Okay, great, great, right, great. Um, and a lot of times in the past, we kind of like, so I, I feel like one of us screens the voice memos. No screening this time. Not today.

So not tonight. Uh, let's go to Dan Harding here. He's got one voicemail question, he says. Hey guys. This is Dan for asking. I have a serious question for you. If you were able to make a grilled cheese with any cheese available in the whole world,

what would that cheese be? Please take this seriously. Okay. It sounds like he saw your post on the Facebook page. Like, hey, send in voice moments. It has to be right now. He, like, snuck off at work. It was like, he's, like, really hungry right now.

Talk about the cheese. Talk about that cheese real quick He didn't even sneak off He's like in his cubicle So Hey guys Talk about the cheese

Just uh Just want to just want to hear about the cheese real quick Uh Yeah Q2 K2 shaping up well Talk about the cheese Just tell me Just what kind of cheese

Um Well you You care a lot about food So you're gonna have a passionate opinion about this. And so many cheeses are coming to mind. Ooh, name 100 cheeses? How many cheeses do you think you can name, honestly? I don't know if I could get to 10. No way. Yes, you could. Try. All right. Parmesan. One. Prove alone. Good. They don't have to start with a P, FYI. They don't, okay. No. But you could. Um, American. Good. Cheddar. Good.

Swiss. Okay. Five. Blue? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Six. Goat? Yep, seven. Bree? Eight.

Ricotta? Yeah, nine? I couldn't remember if that was like a boat race or maybe a cheese. You're thinking of regatta. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, hey, it is really close. There's probably one more basic one. What's the, I said, mozzarella?

Nailed it, dude. Easy. You can do that. we go we go farther than that i don't we could not do 100 it'd be yeah in my heart of hearts i could i mean i could maybe get 12 my favorite cheese on almost everything is pepper jack i'm a big pepper jack there's also colby jack there's monterey jack oh my gosh all the jacks the jack family yeah you got you got to get you go one jack you got them all um you got goat cheese you got feta cheese you got um sure barata that's a fancy one um um um um um um um um um barada that's a fancy one um um um um um

What is typically on grilled cheeses? What is like the orange colored cheese? That's American is like the classic. Craft American singles. I don't know how I'm not a comfortable, I'm not comfortable making a grilled cheese. I don't think I would do a very good job. I think I could try.

I don't think it's like impossible to do. But I'm, I've never really done it very well. I've always had it made for me. I'll be honest. It seems like a lot of gourmet grilled cheeses, at least the ones they're like at restaurants, they're always combining the cheeses.

It's a three cheese grilled cheese. It's a hamad cheese, quattro cheese or something. That leads me to believe the best grilled cheese is a hybrid. I think we're focused too much on the cheese, not enough on the bread, if we're being honest. I don't know if that says. And you're talking to Dan when you say this. Yeah, Dan.

I think the cheese is good, but like the bread is really what's going to ultimately change the landscape for me more than anything. Obviously, if you're going, like, crazy with, like, blue cheese versus American, that's way different. But, like, sourdough versus, like, a really soft white. I love sourdough. I mean, I mean, that's way different.

Faccacacia. What to? Whoa, what? Yeah, you ever heard of facacha bread? It's like herbs, herbs and spices in there. It's nice. Okay. Yeah.

My first meal here in Phoenix, first lunch, I went to Chick-fil-A. and nice that was funny for a couple reasons one is like I have my computer I got all these cords I got headphones I also have a hoodie because maybe it's going to be cold inside of there and then I go to this chick-fil-a and it's a patio only one and so I just kind of like turn around and I texted Rachel's like this city's going to eat me alive that's kind of been my joke just the most minor inconvenience I go this city is tearing me apart this is not but Rachel has forbid me from she's like all right for the next week you cannot go to our restaurant that you've ever been to before. We're in a new city.

That's fun. Yeah. So where have you gone anywhere since then or is it just like made you not go anywhere? Yes. And I'm just fasting. You know, uh, yesterday we went to a, uh, I went to a place called wildflower. It's basically just a panera, but just with a different name. Okay. And I had a sandwich. And I really enjoyed my sourdough bread, except I feel like it gets really crunchy. The crust gets so hard that then by the end of your sandwich, you're like, boy, the roof of my mouth kind of hurts. Oh, really? I would like to avoid that. It's too crispy, too crunchy.

So maybe American cheese would be softer. Yeah, you need, or maybe you just need a lot of cheese in there so that it kind of breaks up the hardness. Yeah. Yeah. It's a cushion. Yeah. I think a grilled cheese is awesome. But like, if you're really trying to make a perfect grilled cheese, it's way more than just grilled cheese. It's like you got to get the right bread and you got to also find like I would love some, some nice meat in there.

you know, a nice, some kind of crunch or maybe like some kind of spice, whether it's like saratia mayo or, you know, something like to add some zest to it. So this is making me think of, you know, when Dwight is interviewing Andy in the office and no matter what the question is, Andy keeps bringing it back to Cornell. Oh, yeah, what's the capital of Vermont of something? And he goes, it's Montpelier Vermont, which is near Cornell. That's how I want to so this question. Everything I could think of is just like, oh, the best grilled cheese is actually a chicken pesto panini. You know, that would be my best sandwich. I like that. Okay. Yeah, just bring it back to something like that. All right. Thank you to Dan. Dan Harding. All right, let's go on to our next one here. Madeline.

You think is Madeline or Madeline? Oh, that's just Madeline. We've just got a recording and a, okay. Whoa. Okay, let's read this first and then let's look at the recording. Okay, okay, okay. Let me... Hey, Jake and Brad and Pymond, too, I guess. She knew. I used to listen all the time from the beginning of the pod. I love you guys.

I never missed an episode pretty much until my son was born in July, 24. He was diagnosed with Down syndrome at birth, and we were both... and we were just super shocked slash life has been pretty crazy ever since. He's in a bunch of therapies and is doing great, and it isn't... And it's just such a joyful kiddo. And he's probably just such a joyful kiddo.

We have so much fun with him. Unfortunately, this has made it so I really don't have much time to listen like I used to. That being said, I think it would be really funny to have you guys just do a quick 30-second update each on everything I've missed in the last two years. Wow. It can be kind of funny and you can just make it be totally silly if you want. But I know that's absurd, but you have 30 seconds to recap me on the last two years. Wow. Okay.

Okay. You want to go first? July of 24 Wow Okay So Madeline Don't I would not use names

I would just go right for you 30 seconds It's crazy bro Can you see this? Ready? Go Hey what's up Madeline A month ago June 2024

I spent so much time Working on Bondi bowls Forget it Forget all of it I've sold it all to another amazing ghosty family. They're now running at Michigan. And in the meantime, I've quit almost everything that I used to do with Trey and I was still enjoying no more standout, no more correct opinions, no more mood swings,

no more jean shorts. I'm all in on Friday pickleball so that took me and Rachel down to Phoenix. Stop. Oh, nice, dude. Pretty freaking good. I was thinking I was a pretty professional up there. But you kind of nailed it. All right. All right. 30 seconds. Jeez. Okay. I don't even know when Henry was born, but he was born in 2024. Hey, relatable or not, every time I try to pull up the clock or something, I find my way to the calculator first. I'm always hitting the calculator. I just wish it would say clock. I know that it looks like a clock and I know that I should know, but I just wish it would also say it or like, like, like it used to be so obvious and now kind of, kind of relatable. I, yeah, I just struggle sometimes

every once in a while. I don't know why that's so hard. That doesn't look that much like a clock, but it does, but it doesn't. I don't know. All right, go. Ready? Three, two, one. I have a son named Henry. I flip houses.

I have a podcast still. It's going great. My kids are awesome. We're homeschooling, doing classical model. I like mouth tape. I have a friend named Glyde, and I sold a house and now I have other houses. Airbnb, go.

Ding, ding, ding. Good job, K, man. Thanks. Let's see what this recording is and see if it's the same thing and just in a recorded form. I'm not sure. That is fun. I honestly, I have no idea. Do you think about your life chronologically pretty well?

Can you do that? I don't think I could do that at all. Yeah, so, so. Like you could tell me what happened in 2023, do you? Yeah, got married. Okay, that's a good one. What about 2020? What about 2019?

2019, that's when I got the tick bite. Yeah, that was dating a little lassie back then. And it's pre-COVID. I was living in KC. Mo. This is the last year before Isaac and I were roommates for the next three years. All right. No pickleball in my life yet. Yeah, the only like years I can remember

are the years that I was in school. Like, I can remember those years pretty well because I can, like, remember where I was. You know, like, I remember 9-11, 5th grade, you know. Like, I remember that year. You've had a lot more stability in your life, too, which I think helps. Like, you haven't moved that much, you know,

where it's like, mine can be pretty easily marked by, like, which house I was in. Yeah. Yeah, I've been in the same house, the same wife since 2017. Old bag. Anyway. But let's see what this recording says.

Hello, Jake and Brad. I am a avid listener in the past, but then I had my son, and he's almost two now, and I've missed so much information as to what the heck is going on in both of your lives and the pod and everything. And basically, I just only know what's happening based on the Facebook group at this point. It seems a lot like the email. Yeah, yeah. Hey, thank you.

Thanks, Madeline. That's fun. All right, how about Rochelle Gray? I see her all. She's a Facebooker for sure. Hey, guys. Happy birthday. Wait, today's not your birthday?

That's so weird. I thought that we shared the same birthday. Anyway, on that note, I was just wondering what some of your favorite birthday. memories were, whether it was a party that was thrown by friends and family, or if you, like me, like to see what different stores that you frequent have birthday freebies. Oh, yeah. The best one was. Anyway, hope you guys are doing well.

And thanks so much for all that you guys do. Bye. Rochelle, happy birthday. First of all, it seems pretty cool. Come on, guys. I'm going to delete all these real quick, just in case. Happy birthday, Rochelle. Happy 24th.

Yeah. That's awesome. Okay. Favorite birthday? This is one thing. I don't know why, but I don't have like solidified, like amazing. Not that I have bad memories at all of my birthday.

But I don't think I'm like a, oh, this birthday was unbelievable kind of guy at all. Like I don't think I have one that's just like, I think my birthdays are always, I have a good life. And so it doesn't take. take my birthday to like be like this especially amazing day to me I think yeah like this is the one day of the year I would get celebrated yeah I think yeah um can you think of one that was like amazing

for you specifically I think I don't know if it was my third or fourth birthday but we had one that was trained themed and that is like my oldest memory okay okay so whichever year that was I remember that just like vivid colors the cake had this train logo on it and that same train was a wallpaper in my room. It was like the same day. It was like, whoa, I'm getting a lot of this train. I remember that.

And then we moved out to Stratford by this point. So I don't know if it was 10, 11, 12. I don't know what year, but we did a summer Olympics themed birthday party. My birthday is in August. I'm sure the Olympics had just got over. And so my dad made an entire track and field extravaganza invited friends over.

And I think we were different countries. That's fun. Had like an Olympics birthday. that was pretty fun. Yeah. And then I think there was one with you in probably like 2019 at a Dave and Busters. That was not too bad.

Do you remember that one? You kind of got stood up that day. Do you remember that? I remember being kind of mad. Oh. Do you remember that? I think you're right. I don't want to,

I don't want to like bring up the sore memories of that. But like, I remember being like, who is this freaking girl? She's not, she's not sticking around. That's how I felt. I would have given her the, fill it out if you really liked her. But like, I'm like, all right, what the heck? Like, yeah, I might show up if I can, but oh, I don't think I can after all.

It's like, all right, cool. Hit the road. See you later. Last. That was the day as we were leaving there that in the parking lot that we told Gunner and Emily that we were pregnant with Bo. Wow. Yeah.

So that was a good birthday for me. I don't know, man. I mean, I loved. my surprise party at your house. That was not this past year, I don't think, but like two years ago. Casino night. Yeah, that was really fun. Obviously, that's kind of recency bias. I'm trying to think of other ones. I did feel like my mom, like back in the day, maybe mom still do this a lot. But man, my mom would always, like work really hard to, like, make like a custom cake, like a, like a custom shaped, like Sesame Street cake or something, like Power Ranger, all these different

things. That was cool. Thanks, thanks, Mom, for doing that. Thank you. You know, I try to like, yeah, answer these to where, like, my parents don't feel like they worked all this hard work for nothing kind of thing. But yeah, some of my favorite, like, my favorite birthday parties were just, I was, my birthday is in November. So it's like football season. It's cold out. And so we would, we'd either play, like, just like have a big sports party where we just play sports and eat pizza. There was one year I remember my dad, especially loving that.

Like, because after we all, I think we just played football like my backyard or something. And then afterwards, we ate pizza in my living or my dining room. And we just went back and forth as like fifth grade boys for an hour talking about fart stories. And my dad just like, it's like the most boy thing ever to just like die about like, oh, do you remember this? Oh yeah. My brother did this one time. You know, like all these different things. And we're all just dying laughing.

And my dad, I think was just like, this is this is boyhood right here kind of thing. This is awesome. It's probably so many had a son at that point. It's like this is what I'm missing out on. Finally. Yeah. I don't know. I can't think of any like just perfect.

Like I remember in college, you know, Catherine was a year ahead of me and she was working at K-Life in Kansas City and drove to K-State and brought me Oklahoma Joe's fries. That was really awesome. Even though they tasted awful by that point, it was like a really sweet thing. Nice gesture. Yeah. Yeah, man. I just feel like birthdays are. I try not to get my hopes up too much on birthdays

so that way it's not like, I didn't get celebrated enough. I'm like, it's just sweet no matter what. So, I was talking to someone recently. Oh, I think, maybe I talked about this on the podcast,

but I, when I was leaving the biblical show that we shot, had to get a ride with one of the producers. It was a girl named Evan that I had already misgendered, and it was her birthday that day. And so, you know, sorry, it stinks just your birthday.

But then we were kind of like, you know, in your 30s or maybe at any age, like, it's not the worst thing to have to go work on your birthday because at least it gives you something to do and you have people around you to celebrate you. If your birthday is on a Saturday, I feel like it kind of gives you this like, I got to go, I got to go do something or I need it. This needs to be like pretty special. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's on a Tuesday.

It's kind of like, I mean, I'll just have like a nice dinner that night. It's easier. Like we can't do too much. It's on Tuesday. Yeah. Like I have to do stuff. Yeah. I know.

Yeah. It's like how much. especially my life like the flexibility I have is always like what what's the precedent here for a birthday for all of us for me and for like my kids and Catherine stuff like I could spend all day with you but I probably shouldn't you know like I have stuff to do but also I can and I'll just make up for it later I guess so anyway hey while you're we're going to talk about mainstream roasters I'm going to go pour a cup of nitro and I'm going to come in here so quickly that it's still going to be coming. It's still going to be float. Yeah, I'm all foamed up. So you start, you start,

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Maseyrocers.com. All right. Here's one from Patience. Shout out Patience, Axman. Voice memo about flipping a house. This one will be probably for you. Great. I'll listen.

Okay. Hey, hey, how's it going? Happy podcast day. My husband and I have invested in real estate before, but we have never flipped a house to sell. And one week ago, we started on our first house flip project. We're trying to do most of the work ourselves. We're trying to get it done in less than a month.

And I would love to hear from both of you guys what your best advice is on house flipping. What are the hacks, aside from being a Medi's ambassador, which, by the way, is like the ultimate life hack. Yes. And getting us through this tight, money season. Yeah. What are your best house flipping hacks, advice, wisdom, anything you want to share? I do love that she's a Medi's ambassador. That is huge, huge for the program.

What's your, yeah, you give us some tips first and I'll kind of piggyback off of you since you're the expert. Yeah, a lot's coming to mind for me. And while I talk, this kind of probably gives you time to like think of something. Yeah, just filibuster. I would say there's going to be a lot of things you need to feel like you, you know, we need to update this. We need to, you know, put this in. I would say go ahead and just saw that chimney in half and leave it exposed in your attic. That's going to save you some time and money.

Don't worry about that. It doesn't show up in the inspection. Just exclude everything from the seller's disclosure. Just say, hey, you can't inspect that. Don't worry about it. Chop off the chimney about halfway through. What else would I recommend? A industrial-sized dehumidifier in the basement.

Good. That way. It'll come up. Yeah. Did you really have one of those? Yeah, I got a big in. Yeah. And I, it conveyed.

I left it with the house. I was like, Max, you need this more than I do. I'm going to a dry heat, you know. Not a lot of water where I'm going. Oh, man, that's great. All right, patience. Let's see. Things that I would, it's so hard because it's all so relative.

Because it's all relative to your financial situation. Are you trying to go as fast as possible? Are you trying to do it for the cheapest amount of money? Are you trying to, whatever? Like, that's what you're trying to. what's so fun about it is it's like never like one size fits all. It's always like, how do we get creative with this? How do we, how do we stretch the dollar to make it look as good as possible, but not, you know, you could, you could spend tons of money on things that people

don't really care about like dehumidifiers, which are important, but also it's like, all right, how much, you know, how much is that going to move the needle for people? How involved do you want Miguel to be? That's a, that's a question you have to ask yourself. That's a great, like, just microcosma of some advice, though, is like, hey, listen, there's times or you should you should be like, I bet, I bet we could hire almost anybody for this job. And there's other times where it's like, we should probably value this job a little bit more and just spend some more money on it. Like, like, you don't want to skimp on somebody. It's like, yeah, I could probably do the plumbing. It's like, and then all of a sudden you have,

you finish all this stuff around the shower and then something's leaking and you have to bust open tile. You know, like, that's a huge mess compared to like, let's just spend a little bit more on this guy. But I think, I don't know. First of all, I really hope you get it done in a month. I also would hope, I would just say have realistic, maybe not even realistic expectations. Have like borderline pessimistic expectations as far as timeline goes. Not really pessimistic, but like, patience and like understanding that if it takes longer than you think it's going to take, it doesn't mean it's a failure. Because I think I have a buddy right now who is flipping a house for his first time.

And he was like, yeah, I think we'll get it done. And we can probably rent it out for the World Cup. And I went over there the other day. And I'm like, he's not even close. And he's like, yeah. So we probably have like, we're a little bit behind the schedule. We probably have like two weeks left. And I was like, brother, you're not even close.

Like the last 5% takes, you know, so much longer than you think. Because there's all these little details, especially if you're trying to sell it versus rent it, you know, all these different things. I would say advice in general is like, I think. I think for the most part, fixtures, like light fixtures and stuff, you can't tell if it's like a,

what's it called? Off brand, what they call like the nice brand, like a good brand versus like an off brand. Name brand? Yeah, yeah, I guess so.

That's not the word I'm thinking of. But like, like you can, you can buy it from a place that's going to cost $400 or you can buy it from Amazon for $60. And I don't think most people are going to tell the difference. But I don't think you should skimp on plumbing fixtures,

like a shower. and stuff like that because if that messes up then you're you're in hotter water hot water um uh try to think of anything else i would just try to like get really good at making decisions as quick as possible because that's i think time is money in so many of these things and it's not your own house so you don't have to make it all perfect and also like i would encourage people to like go and look at a house yourself and realize all the things you don't notice in a house. Like I used to be like so concerned. Like what kind of door knobs do we get?

Oh, what if the door knobs and the hinges aren't the exact same color, you know, and all this stuff? And then you go to somebody else's house and they're like, actually I just noticed they have some pretty crappy doors. And I don't care about this. Like that's not a, like something like I. Yeah.

The knobs don't work. That's a big deal. But like if it's like, hey, you know, like stuff like that. Like I used to be so concerned. I tell the story like the example,

a lot of like the stopper in the sink in the kitchen. I was like, that's a different color and people are going to think that's not good or they're going to know that we skimped on this. And like it's just like stop thinking so much about those things and just like make quick decisions because I think time is so valuable. So anyway, I've done this. I'm excited. Yeah.

So correct me if I'm wrong. But I think what's nice about even trying to sell a house is like you only need one person to really like it. True. But yes, that, yes, 100% that's true. That's also sometimes hard, though. It's because you want to make it like super fun and original and like different. But also you have to play the game of like maybe we should keep stuff more neutral versus go like fun.

You know what I mean? So it's like, yes, on one hand, you don't want to go so neutral that it just looks like a prison. And then you just have like, you know, just white walls everywhere and no character at all. But you also don't want it to be like, whoa, I really like this room or this house except for that bright red. room, you know, like, I don't want it, I don't want this house now, you know, whatever. So, I don't know. That's the fun thing about Airbnb's, though, is that you can get a little more creative and fun and not have to worry so much about that stuff. So, um, I don't know. I wish, I wish she asked more specific questions, because I'm sure I have lots of opinions on different things,

but I, I, I've really enjoyed even this task rabbit thing. Like, I've learned that there's some things that you really need skilled guys for. And there's other things where it's just like, I just need a set of hands that I can explain this to and then they can do it. and I can be doing something else. So task rabbit's a good thing. What I do a lot of times, and I think you mentioned this to me, I think I got the idea from you,

but I hire them for one task, and they might charge like $50 an hour, and TaskRabbit will add another like $20 onto that, so you're paying $70 an hour. But then I'm like, hey, can I just get your phone number? Like in person, I'll say, hey, can I just get your phone number, I'll hire you directly next time.

And I save myself money, and they save themselves money, because I think TaskRabbit gets a cut of that. and then you you become you know friends with them and then they're just coming over all the time to do stuff for you little things so directly from the rabbit's mouth yeah exactly uh so um I don't know I mean patients text me you have my phone number let me know what other questions you have but I I love talking about this stuff it was so fun kind of reflecting on my past year and like what I've learned and still got plenty more to learn but who's your friend flipping his first house

right now uh just Jordan pizza man pizza time yeah yeah he's getting after it right now which is awesome he just he jumped in with two feet and he's going for it and yeah he's he's I think he's like worried about it taking too long um and I'm like taking too long in that sense of like it's got going to be ready to like November I'm like you're going to be fine it's not going to take that long but also it's not going to be two weeks from now I promise you

that I didn't say that to him but I was like good luck man because ever I think everyone's always like it's kind of like you hear about with childbirth where it's like I forgot how painful it was, you know, so that I'd want another baby kind of thing. It's like, like every single time I start a new project, I'm like, yeah, I'll bet I'll be done in like a week or two. It's like, why did I think that? Why am I not smarter this time and just understand that it's going to take longer? So, but yeah, I think it's, yeah, I've seen a few of her videos that she's been posting some documentation along the way, and I'm excited for him. So, shout to the oxman.

Burr, right? Yeah. Burr, baby. Burr, bur, bur, bur. That's fun. Okay, let's see. Do we have any more, I don't know if we have many more voice memos,

but we have lots of questions. Here we go. How about this one from Madeline Mills? My 10-year-old son is obsessed with Marvel superheroes and villains. Right up our alley. He frequently asked me this question. I wonder how you'd answer.

If you had the powers of any Marvel villain, who would you choose and how would you use those powers in your daily life? Wow. y'all are my comfort podcast villain powers Marvelville yeah please look that up because I don't know I okay Marvel villain is that like is is a Spider-Man Marvel sorry to all the people out there Marvel villains

list Bawanna Beast famously has the ability to merge any two animals together to create a being with the characteristics of both okay Can you use those for your own power, you think? Like if I created a lion shaped with a hyena, like what I then say, okay, no, go get that, go get that boy.

Go eat that kid. Or, whoa. Okay, what about super school? I'm in a really nerdy Reddit thread. I don't think anyone else has Ghost Rider's Pennant's Stair. Spawn could read minds and show videos to his victims. I need like a buzzfeed list. Here's Galactus.

Okay, galactus is a devourer. That's a tough word. Do not try it, Jake. Devourer of worlds. A cosmic entity who consumes entire planets to survive. Do I think I read about that in Revelation? That is like, that might be, well, I guess to survive, though, so he needs to eat them or else he dies. Here's one.

molecule man capable of altering the molecular structure of anything Okay, I like this Reshape reality space and time I think that's too many options I think I wouldn't know what to do Really? You you it's too much I don't know enough about molecules What about Kang Kang the Conqueror a time-traveling warlord

Who manipulates timelines in history to establish dominance Sounds like butterfly effect I could go wrong Um man these are all so dark and scary i see why they're villains radioactive man you guessed it he can manipulate radiation you guessed it now here's one i can magneto seems like he just has a good sense of magnets he can he can switch magnets around okay that sounds fun that's like jesse pinkman yeah magnets yo what about harvey rupert elder which we all know he's better known as say it with me mole man

the bitter outcasts who rules over the subterranean realms and commands hordes of monsters I don't know if I want to command hordes of monsters I don't think I need to do that I don't think I need to do that I don't think I got a lot of my plate

I don't need to be the leader of the monsters because then like let's just say you want to night off and you just want to like watch the finals with your buddies you're telling me you're having a monster party a monster bash where do we go what do you yeah I don't think because like yeah if that's all you're hanging out with

It's like you, you hang out with your coworkers. I don't know if I want to do that. I got it. Super adaptoid. An Android created by AIM. Oh, they can flawlessly copy

the power, skills, and physical traits of any hero. Oh. No. It's kind of like Kirby and Super Smash Brothers. Yeah.

Wait, who'd you say? What was his name? That was super adaptoid. I really like this guy. Taskmaster. he's kind of similar he's a mercenary which first of all cool word how cool it'd be to say i'm a mercenary mercenary uh he's a mercenary capable of perfectly mimicking the physical movements and fighting

styles of any hero he observes that's kirby he's kirby that's fine yeah he gets to mimic some other things so i'm i'm locking in taskmaster if i have to go villain um but i would probably question and maybe give a quick divo of like, hey, we actually want to be the superhero, not the villain. All right? So then teach him about the greatest superhero of all. Yeah. He could, he was in charge of a little more than just magnets. That's right.

Man, I just drank a lot of good mainstream shrewish coffee. I don't know if I'm going to be able to sleep tonight. Oh, are you sleeping on the ground or some sort of? No, dude. I don't know. Oh, my gosh. You're right. Mill Target bed sheet set?

I just had a thought. Yeah, if I were sleeping on some regular sheets, I would have a hard time sleeping. But there was one time somebody smacked me in the face mid-sleep, and I did not wake up because I was in cozier sheets. So you actually might sleep just fine tonight. I think I'll sleep just fine. I can have six more of these cups of Mainstereau's coffee. But if I have cozier sheets, I'll be sleeping just fine.

Just sheet the bed. I actually don't know. Do you know, can you buy just the pillowcase? Or does it come as a cell? You absolutely can. Oh, you absolutely can. I've bought some extra pillowcases before. I was going to say.

I've even bought a silk pillowcase, Jake. Ever heard of that? Ever heard of those two words? Put them together. Guess what it is? It's one thing. And, yeah, I bought those before. Good for static on women on their hair.

Fresh after a show. I think that could be the gateway drug for all these ghosties. And you could take 20% off your pillowcase. Just, I mean, seriously, though, like kind of joking, but not really. Like, just get the pillowcase alone and get a feel for, like, what this material is and then think, do I want the rest of my body wrapped in this? Correct. Yes.

Yes. 100%. The mummies back in the day. Yeah. The kings and the queens of ancient Egypt were mummified and wrapped to be preserved for the afterlife. Correct. And in what? What were they wrapped in?

Garbage compared to what we have today. Can you imagine how much longer they would have wanted to live and would have lived? Point being, wrap yourself up at Cozy Earth every night just in case you, you die in your sleep. That's what we've always said. Yeah. Cozyert.com slash ghostrunners promo code, GRKC. Yeah, so good. But don't spend full price, you know, if you're about to die or not, I mean, still, just like, be consider of your family.

Yeah, leave more money for Susey. 20% off. Okay, how about I look at some more questions on here. Let's see. Grace Verkler. Hello, Brad, Jake and Pymann, but mostly Brad. I got married last year and we're still deciding when to have kids. Okay, when would you say is a good time?

We're still working on some communication things. And my husband does not want us to be weak in that area before kids. how would you say you know you are ready? Thanks. Don't they always say that there's like a perfect time to have kids and you just wait until you feel like now is the perfect time? That's so wild. Like I've read that or that's what makes sense to me. Yeah.

Like people are like, there is a perfect time. There is a perfect time. There's always a perfect time for everything. There's perfect time to propose to get married. Yes. That's exactly. Actually, I was going to say the opposite. of that. I was going to say there's no perfect time. Yeah. Sam. Okay. Okay. Which, let's let's let's let's let's let's

dive into each theory and see which one's smarter. I think there's no perfect time. Um, and it's mainly because you're always going to you be forming. Yeah, you're going to, you're going to learn how to communicate and then you're going to have a kid and you're going to be like, I don't know how to communicate at all. You're going to learn how to be selfless and then you're going to have a kid and be like, whoops, I am still really selfish. Like it's just you're, I think you're just constantly being refined in this life. And to act like you're ever going to be completely ready is, is,

is, not true, not real. However, I do think there's like, I think there's value of like, hey, we should probably at least learn how to like communicate our feelings or,

you know, I don't know. Like, there's probably times where it's too early to do it. But I think, I think more people take this posture of waiting longer than they should. And I wish more people would take, the posture of jumping on it, literally and figuratively.

So, yeah, I don't know. I don't think, like, we waited, I think Haddy was born, howdy was born 2017, we got married at the beginning of 2014. So I guess overall we married, we waited three years. And I think that was perfect. I don't think I, like, I don't wish we waited longer. I don't necessarily wish we jumped right into it. But I think people that do jump into it, I'm like,

I love it. I support it. So I'd err on that side if I were, if I were you. But anyway, but I think sometimes it's like, oh, we're still in school. Oh, we're still doing this. Like they're in grad school, whatever. I understand that kind of stuff. But there's always going to, like, there's always going to be excuses, right?

Like, there's always going to be like, oh, we can, we have this, we have this big thing coming up or whatever. But it's like, you don't know, you don't know what it's going to be like. You don't know if you're going to be able to get pregnant right away. You don't know. all that stuff. So anyway, that's my advice to you. And what are your thoughts on using like a child as kind of like, hey, like a band-aid.

Like, hey, we don't, we don't communicate well. Hey, our marriage is on the rocks. Hey, let's have a baby. And now we have more to worry about. Well, I would, I would say, at least one baby. I would say have a baby, foster to adopt, and then also adopt. just like straight up. And then while you're in the process of all that stuff,

yeah, I was going to say get a cat and a dog, I would say. Declam both. There's no way. There's no way that's going to hurt your marriage at all. Yeah, I would say, I would say, Band-Aids are famous for a reason. They help. Who doesn't like Band-Aids?

Yeah, you can't see your wounds anymore. And they heal eventually because of the Band-Aids. Yeah, fine, in a swimming pool. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, just soak in the Band-Aid and then you'll be fine. Just come off. No. Yeah, hopefully that answers your question to an extent there.

But I don't think there's like one-size-fits-all. You never know if you're going to be ready. But it's going to be awesome and it happens, Grace. Andrew Landon asking for dad advice. So Jake, this will be good for you. Hey, Jake Braden-timam. I'm a big fan of the pot. I've been listening since 2022.

And y'all helped me get my busy work done quicker. at work. Oh, busy work. Done quicker at work. Although I'm American, I listen to every episode from Marbeja, Spage. They all are my source for keeping up with American pop culture. Oh, gosh. Well, in that case, we might need to step it up a little bit. I bet it's pretty accurate. But I just want to say, I love the parts of your episodes where you give a glimpse of your life, of your life as a dad. As a young dad of three, I said, I'm 30. It's great to hear your perspective on being a new modern dad. It's refreshing to hear that even you and Catherine are still going through the tough moments of parenthood for sure. Jake, your story is extremely

motivating as helps me keep my dreams alive, going from an influencer podcaster and now also running your own pickleball company. Hearing your stories and seeing how you've grown throughout the years keeps me going and chasing my dreams of giving my family the best life possible. Timon, as he says in Spanish, uh, your one-liners and quick wit at a special spice to the show. I know we'll be seeing more and more of you and I'm sure you'll be in a Broadway show someday. You got this, mamas from Andrew. So I don't think he really asked a question. Yeah, thank you for the question, Andrew.

That's awesome. Dad advice, it says, I don't know if he got there. They said really nice things. Dad advice. What do you think he would have asked? He probably would have said, what's like, what's something that you want to do now to, like, traumatize your kids for the future? Oh, yeah.

Tickle them. Tiggle them. Yeah. Get, like work, you know, you do a finger exercise to get those fingers

really strong. Fluffy fingers. And then just figure out how deep is too deep on the sides of their, um, other their stomach to just stick in there before it's, it's,

yeah, traumatizing. Either that or, um, sometimes we play hide and seek. And I will see if I can, see if I can make them wet. wear their pants.

Just like, like just come out and just act like the biggest monster in the world and see, like that'll, that'll scare them a little bit.

So we'll do that. Sometimes we'll, uh, leave one of them at home and just on accident. We'll just say, whoops, forgot about you.

Um, and go to like Paris or something? Or what do you guys do? We've done Paris. We've done Miami. Um, both times around Christmas. Okay.

Both times the house, I mean, to his credit, he kept the house pretty clean. There was one time I found this weird gold piece of gold. But besides that, I mean, we got home and he even had milk, eggs and fabric softener right there ready for us. So yeah, just a, yeah, honestly, it's helpful to him. And now he's hanging out with this pop star all the time. Seems like a really good guy.

So things are going well for us. Dude, do you know who he's married to? Macaulay Culkin? Yeah. No. It's, um... This is pop culture. We're helping him.

Yeah. She was a Disney star. I actually forget Hillary Down. Which one she was on. But she was the, like, the attractive Asian girl in the social network.

If you remember that, I think she was like dating, Zach and Cody. That's what it was. Brenda Song. Brenda Song. Really? He's married to her.

That's word on the street. That's cool. We should do, we should do some pop culture quizzes sometime and see how you would you would win I think but I think we'd both be pretty bad dude I don't know I wasn't even quizzed and I said that tom hanks was at the nix game last night i offered up that information just completely wrong I was saying I was saying I was saying stevers the other day he's like who's the who's the guy that had the baby oil parties

like you don't know did he's name it's like did he that's right I was like you got to everyone has heard about this like he's like No, no, you go puff daddy. No. Sean Combs. Sean Combs. Yes, that's her was. I know him as Sean, yes.

I was reading the affidavit and it was Sean Combs. So there's your dad advised, Andrew. Let's see here. Oh, I think, is this the one that? Yeah. Very red, Madeline. Lois. That's my grandma's name.

Lois van Vlitt. Hey, Jake and Brad. My husband and I are welcoming our second baby in July. What are your favorite intention? things to do with your spouse, especially when things are busy and chaotic. Love from Canada from Lois Beelzma. What are your favorite things? She did favor with a you in there. Favorite. What are your favorite behaviors? And let's be honest. I'm not like, if Catherine's listening to this, she'd be like, you're, you're lying if you're saying that you're intentional

all the time. I wish I were more intentional. They're like, you know, I wish we were better disciplined with that kind of stuff, but sometimes life just flies by and we don't always have those intentional times. So, but I guess if I, I mean, the older you get, I feel like, or the more kids you have, the more intentionality just means like just having a dinner that's uninterrupted and just talking. Like it doesn't have to be like anything insane or even just as simple as like going on a walk together or something. I'm really excited for the age where our kids can like just stay home for an hour by themselves. Yeah. And we just go on a walk. You know, I think that's going to be awesome.

But I don't know. Do you have any intentional things to do? I don't know. When I compare like what our communication prayer looks like compared to you and Canada, it's like we have just so much more time on our hands. We don't have interruptions or distractions. So I think it just comes easier. Did this guy say they already have kids or they're on their,

they're about to have their first? Not they have their lowest is a girl. Welcoming their second baby. So I don't know, man. Yeah. I also think I always have to like whatever put everything with the grain of salt put everything say everything listen to everything salt everything yeah salt everything with a grain of salt um obviously I know that we we communicate and see each other so much more than most families

because of the schedule I have and all that stuff so so maybe it is like more necessary for people who aren't seeing each other very often you know because like there's times where I'm really really busy for the most part I'm like I see my kids every morning for a long time and sometimes I eat lunch with them and I'll be here for dinner. Like that's pretty rare compared to a lot of families. So anyway, I wish, favorite intentional things. Let's think. Probably we've done a play together.

Like we've both, we were in, what play was that? Legally Blonde the musical. She was Elle Woods and I was Tree Three. I was the briefcase. Yeah. We've done that. We've done this. sewing class together.

I dragged her to it, but by the end of it, she loved it. What else have we done? We've done, I don't know if you did martial arts. Which one was it? I was going to say, I don't know if you technically call it Krav Maga or if you was like the Jiu-Jitsu slash Krav Maga, but we've done some martial arts stuff together a little bit, which is always fun. Because, I mean, let's be honest, you get a little physical in there.

You get a little bit hot and heavy. Yeah, yeah. All of a sudden. Hey, all my, you tie. That's right. So we've done that. Yeah, I would say those are the main ones. We have, we've done a marathon together, which was fine.

It was, honestly, you got kind of boring near the end. It was pretty easy. Marathon. Oh, we did Iron Man. We did Iron Man marathon. Yeah, speaking of, that one thing led to another there. We're like, okay, we're going to do this. We might as well make it hard on ourselves and do an Iron Man.

One thing I wouldn't recommend going back to martial arts is Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, just because you hear BJJ and it's not what you think. Yeah. No, I'm actually, I feel like I'm just not good at giving advice. Everything is so nuanced or so contextual. You know, it's just like, I know Rachel really well. And I, you know, it's just like there's just so much like I would treat her differently than everyone else.

Yeah. You have to understand what she, what fills her cup, you know, like, like words of affirmation. I know your words of affirmation guy. I love words of affirmation. I could write cap, I could spend two hours, like soaking my tears on this letter to her, you know, like, and give it to her. And she would just be like, I got, she would appreciate it, of course, but she'd be like, thank you. That was really nice. Cool. Whereas like, you know, the other way around, I'm like, oh my gosh. Like this is amazing, you know, but whereas like prize possession.

Sure. Or if, but if I'm, you know, she's a much more quality time, acts of service kind of idea. So, yeah, just got to, it is nuance. But. Rachel's all quality time. So that's why I got a little tag along with me. Tag along, baby. I love it. Madison McCalla. Classic Madison. Shout out.

Good afternoon, Jake and Brad. A few questions for you as my written out voice memo. One, as we head into the second half of the year, what's something or multiple things that you're looking forward to? And two,

are there any plans in the future to have other ghosty events like Branson or Grande Bue? Fun questions. I have a lot. that I'm looking forward to just because our life is changing. I can't wait to see the new rhythms in every sense of the word like what are the new places we get breakfast from and what the new Costco layout that we occasionally go to and when do we go to bed? When do we wake up? Like we have a new house, you know, in two weeks. You know, there's a million little things that's that's fun to

look forward to. And I think overall it's like fun to see. It'd be cool to see like, this is kind of an experiment moving to phoenix for the sake of business you know it's like no one asked us to do this no one forced us to do this is kind of just like let's see so um the next three to six months will be very telling of like are we on the right track or am i going to say max you want to change your mind and i'll take that house back from you i'll find a house for you buddy don't worry yeah um yeah so you don't really have anything no i'm coming up blank you go. Okay.

Man, I'm so bad at like thinking of the future. I know we're going to Colorado in July. That'll be fun. I'm really excited about the ghost to get away. That's like as far in the future as I get, honestly. It's like August seems forever from now. But it's like, it's coming up. Super excited about that.

And I think at the end of that, hopefully I'll get a few days. I think my family might come for the last couple days after the end of the ghost to get away and spend some time at the beach, which will be awesome. I don't know, man. I honestly don't know what the future, what the rest of this year holds for me. So it's kind of fun. And I get excited about that.

I excited about like, I don't know what's next. The unknown. Yeah. It's kind of, it's fun, but it's also like, whew, some days it's not fun. Some days I would love to know exactly

what I'm supposed to be doing today. But other days it's like, let's figure out, like what could happen today? What could we figure out? So the unknown is fun. It is fun. It is fun. It is fun.

As long as you have some, things that are known. As long as you have like some givens and then you can figure out the unknowns, you know, which I do, you know, which is really great. So as far as other events in the future, we don't have anything on the calendar yet. I don't think. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I'm never opposed to it, but also I think the main thing that we're focused on right now is the getaway. And obviously three sessions, baby. Yeah, you have a ton of other stuff, other other extracurricular events going on. But I don't know. Maybe. I mean, if anybody has any suggestions as far as like, this is what we'd love to do, let us know.

Just organize it for us and we'll show up maybe, you know. We'll put our stamp on it. No, but I don't know. Nothing official. I went back and forth, like, there was a, really every year after the getaway, I'm always like, we got to do a million events because this is so fun and this is so relatively easy. Obviously, it's very draining, like, energy wise, but like, it's not that hard to, like, logistically plan this out. And it is fun. Like we enjoy it. It's a fun way to make money. It's still

work, but it's a fun, fun, fun way to make money. It's like, we should do this a million times. But then there's this reality of like, it's just, it's just time away from our family. And so it's like, how do we, how do we figure out that balance? You know, I'm sure you feel that way, even with just Rachel of like the, the pull, the push and pull of like, all right, see ya. You know, I'm sure you felt that way a ton for your, your comedy tour and stuff. It's like, all right, I'm home for two days. Totally. Even right now, like it would be like quote unquote good for business if I was gone. Yeah. Every weekend. Like if I was a single guy, I mean, Isaac and I would load up a van. We would wrap it in Friday gear and we would just go around the country constantly putting on events. And it would be awesome. And that would be way better for the brand than anything I'm doing now. But it's like that's right. It's not going to happen. I don't want that to happen. Right. Yeah. Exactly. So I'll say, Madison, maybe. Maybe. We'll see. We'll figure it out. Yeah. Maybe.

I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I would love to find a reason to come to Branson again. You know, fall seems soon, so maybe it would be spring. I guess there's a world where, you know, Phoenix in the winter, you know, now I'm just thinking like, oh, that's going to be the best. But I don't know anybody yet. Rachel and I are going to start a competition of who can get the most phone numbers of friends. Good.

Yeah, I say that at the end of it. Make sure you say that. And pickleball doesn't count. I have to meet people outside of pickleball. Where are you going to do that? I don't know. That's your thing. Barnes and Noble.

Right now, Rachel's winning one zero. Like a point system of like you get more points if, yeah, like if a guy meets another like guy at Barnes and Noble, you should get more points than if Rachel meets a girl there. Right? Yeah. That's like expert mode. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, you should get like double points if he is, you know, athletic and loves board games, you know, or whatever. Like you should have a ranking system for this. Like if I mean a guy playing pickleball, I get, 0.25 for that. That's that's easy. Yeah, you should get something for that. Like, it should be something, but not everything. Yeah, Rachel meets a girl at like a workout class. You can have, you can have one point, but that still feels like is easy it's going to get. If I meet, yeah, like a straight man at Barnes and Noble, I get 10 points. I think so. Yeah. If you meet him and get his phone number, because that's the

next thing. Like, you know, you not only have to, you have to have a decent connection with somebody to get their phone number. Like, that means you want to hang out again. Yeah. Um, yeah, I think, I think that maybe the workout class for Rachel should be almost equivalent to pickleball for you. Maybe a little bit more because there's probably less interactions, but still, not much. Yeah. So really check your heart on that one, Rachel. Um, all right, how about some good ranchers? Let's just, let's just go through the points real quick. We love good ranchers. It's the, let's hear it for good ranchers. No, don't know.

Hey, let me hear you. Hey, I love this meat that says product of the USA. Where was it made? Like, Idaho, maybe Wisconsin. No, this is actually from China. What? Let's try that again.

Are you kidding me? That sounds pretty good. That sounds pretty good. That was really good. What else you got? You're telling me some of this product of the USA chicken is actually from Brazil. That's what I'm saying. That is absolute complete bullshit.

Do it look like it? Yeah. Yeah? Okay. Where the, you get, I, I, I, chat, American, mother. Dude, good ranchers. I don't know if this is good or bad for our podcast at the funniest moments are coming

during the ad. Oh, that's good. Dude, Bleet buttons are so funny. They're so funny every time. They're so funny. They're so freaking funny. Yeah.

Every time. Every time. It's like, why? Oh, that's good. I think it is funnier, too, among, like, Christians, too. Like, I don't think Dave Chappelle's audience would find this as funny as we do. Correct. They're like, why don't they just say it?

I don't get it. Keep it in. Yeah. No. Man, that's good. Just like the good quality meat that comes right here from the United States and it's all organic. It's clean. If you're crunchy, if you're trying to get a little crunchier in your life, this could be, I'm big on gateway drug today.

This could be your gateway drug into like saying goodbye to, you know, seed oils and then eventually fragrances and then eventually. Yeah. Who knows what you do in your life? Yeah. But this is the start. Clean meat. priced really well. You get a lot of add-ons and just like benefits by using the GRKC promo code.

And it's just convenient because it shows up your door every month and you can obviously mix and match when you need to. It's just easy. It's convenient and it's good for you. This always goes on so much longer than you think it's going to. Shout out good Rangers.com. American mean deliver promo code GRKC. Ooh.

Get some now or else I'm going to remind you. Mom. Got it? That was funny. Because it looked like you said, like, maybe two or three words before mom. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. That's the thing is if you just bleep it enough, like, it's just funny no matter what. I'm going to, your mom.

I don't know. Literally not even making noises. I'm just, yeah. Well, back to the boring episode. That's right. Yeah. All right. Dylan Cram. Hey, Brad and Jake, super thankful for you guys and all you do. I'm a Christian who enjoys comedy and finding something clean to enjoy is so difficult. You guys have pretty much become my only source of comedy entertainment as I catch up. And I'm currently on episode 133. I'm also a youth pastor and have been for the past eight years. You'd be surprised how many helpful youth ministry things you guys have shared over the years. There have been a couple of times when I'll have to stop and write it down. All right. Using pen and paper. There's been a couple of quinkin kinks along the way as I've listened. The main one is that you guys had just started doing that.

Wait, the main one is that you guys had just started doing that and it was on a Memorial Day episode. Oh, saying quinky dinks, I guess. During the episode, Jake talked about playing Kattan on his phone. While listening to this, it was 8 o'clock a.m. on Memorial Day and I was playing Catan on my phone. That's actually really cool. What a quigone.

What a coincidence. Overall, you guys are awesome and true examples of glorifying the Lord and enjoying. life while doing it. My question is, if the Bible characters entered a fantasy football startup draft, who goes one one? I'm going with the fastest disciple in John. Love you guys. Can't wait to see what's next for what this next step in the pod leads to. Okay. So, Bible characters draft. John's fast, I don't know though. I feel like a lot of fast guys are susceptible getting hurt and then all of a sudden, what are they good for? What do you think of a lot of? What are they good for? What do you think of Samson. What do we think about pre-cut Samson?

I think of the disciples. Bible characters. If the Bible characters... That really opens it up. Yeah. Yeah, why do you choose John? Samson... Samson's not going to get a bunch of yards, but he's going to get all the touches down on the goal line. Yeah. Like...

Yeah. Like, but then again, if he's got long hair, they can drag him down by that. So he never get to break a little touchdown. Yeah. Samson would be dope. I feel like, um... a lot of professional athletes, at least in individual sports, they all had kind of like a psycho dad, like, you know, Andre Agassi or, you know, a lot of people, they write memoirs later.

Tiger Woods, he realized, oh, they got so good because their dad was insane. Give me Isaac. Okay. Even though we don't know a lot of like what happened, we know enough that like that probably traumatized him a bit and he, and he was stronger because of it. Well, maybe take a step back. Why not Abraham?

Like if a guy's able to do what he did at 85 years old and produce all those offspring, what else is he capable of? You know what I mean? What else he got inside of there? Yeah. I don't hate, hmm, I don't hate Zachias as like a camp scataboo type like scatback. You know, does Zachias get him a motion into the slot and let him run a quick, you know, slant route for a touchdown? But he's not one-one.

I think obviously Jesus would be pretty good. Yeah, he would, he'd kind of be like dashed in the Incredibles for your like, come in second place, come in second. You don't even, you know, like obviously you could do whatever you want. Maybe, you know, Peter's the Rock. Maybe, I don't know, Dwayne has had a pretty decent, decent career. Probably could have been a pretty good football player.

Hmm, trying to think back. I don't know. Saul seemed kind of crazy, but sometimes crazy's good in football. I was just to say, yeah. I mean, Ramesses put up a pretty good fight. I mean, he did not let their people go after like nine plagues. That's a guy who,

that's a guy who's like tough. He's got grit. Yeah, I'm trying to think, I'm trying to think like outside the box here, but I can't quite get there. That's a fun question, though. Like some of David's Mighty Men, dude, let me just look up David's Mighty Men.

because it is one of my favorite. Why don't we just go Goliath? I think he's injury prone. He's missing ahead. He's in concussion protocol a lot. Yeah. Let me find David's Mighty Men. Second Samuel 23.

I mean, these guys were nuts, dude. Let's see. Okay. Josiah Bashabath, the Takmanite, chief among the captains. He was called Adeno the end. because he had killed 800 men at one time. Give me him.

Yeah. And after him was Elie Azar, the son of Dodo, the Aeoite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel had retreated. So he was right there with old Goli. He arose and attacked the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand stuck to the sword. So that guy didn't give up. Like he was literally like right there.

He went out swinging. Yes. Who was the first guy? Joseph Bat. Adino the Esnite. Yeah. Josiah Boshibeth the Takamonite,

chief among the captains called Adino the Esnite. Adino. To kill 800 men back then? I mean, that just had to take some time, too. You weren't killing people two at once.

Yeah. Let's see. Who else? Yeah, there's this guy, Abashai. a son of Zezer... Listen, I know that it's all like God breathed, but come on, God. Like, just make it a little bit easier to read, and maybe we could like, really...

Was chief of another three, he lifted his spear against 300 men, killed them and won a name among these three. This guy's killing 300 guys. Another guy killed two lion-like heroes of Moab. I don't know, man. Oh, and then he went and killed a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day. I might choose. I'm Beniah. Beniah, the son of Johida.

I think I'm going to him. I'm thinking I'm going the guy that kills a lion on a snowy day. That's like, first of all, I don't want to fight a lion ever. Definitely I'm like, hey, I'm a little cold. Can we wait until it warms up, lion? And he's like, nope, not me. He's going to the action. There's that verse in like Second Kings that's like,

and then the bears came out and mauled the 42 children, give me those bears. It just said Bible characters. Yeah, I didn't say people. I take the bears with my first pick. I love it. I love it. Let me see.

Let's just do one more here. This one's basically asking about future plans as well. I want to know about this one, the skipping kids baseball games. Let me see if I can play it on just old school. Hi, Brad and Jake. My name is Lauren, and this is my first time sending in a voice memo. My question for you guys, since you're both into sports, maybe you can answer this.

Just pulling from your memories as a child. How bad of the parent am I if I skip some of my son's baseball games? So for context, he's almost nine. And I am nine months pregnant, and we have two other kids. and it's really hot and I'm really tired and it's just a real bummer at the end of the day to go and sit in the heat and watch a long baseball game I try to make as many as I can

but there are some days where I'm just like exhausted you can hear my children scream by and so but I feel like when people reminisce on having good parents like a common thing I hear is like oh my mom never missed a game she was always there for every game no matter what and I am not meeting that standard and I try to make as many as I can.

My son doesn't seem to mind if I don't go to every single one as long as I'm going consistently. And he's not like a huge sports kid. Like he does it for fun with friends and cousins and stuff, but he's not like die hard about it. But I want you guys to be like super straight with me. Don't worry about hurting my feelings. How bad of a parent am I on a scale of one to ten.

Just be real with me. Give it to me straight. Thanks, guys. I think based on what I heard in the background, you don't need to go to another one again. Stay home. You got a lot going on. Yeah. Yeah, it's hard to, it's hard to like shoot her straight when it's like she just explained all that and she's tired and she's about to have a baby any day now. Like, yeah, you should go to every single baseball.

That's like, no, you can't. Yes. We're too nice of people to just say. that. I will say as a, what's the word, as a principal, Catherine and I did have this conversation. So it's less about me answering it for you specifically and more about me answering it in general. Because Catherine is kind of on team. I don't have to go to every game, right? Like she's kind of on that train. And just relatively, like just different, the way we were raised, I had two sisters that were significantly older than me,

aka I was kind of, by the time I was playing a lot of sports, kind of an only child. And so it was, my parents went to everything. Like my parents read every single game. And so that was my expectation for like, Catherine,

like, because Bo was playing basketball at 8 a.m. on Saturday morning. She's like, I mean, I'll go to some of them, but like, some of them,

I'll just stay home with the rest of the kids. And I was like, really? Like, I wasn't like, ultimately I kind of came around to it. And I was like, okay,

it's probably not that big of a deal. But initially, I was like, I think you should go to all the games. I think he would really want you there. So I think that's probably part of it for you is just understanding. Like it sounds like your son doesn't care necessarily that much about that. And maybe if he voices it, then you change your tune or you at least talk to him about it. But I don't know.

What was your initial reaction to it when you, I guess maybe that. But like, I guess in your experience and slash like when you think about it like in the future, or when you're a parent? Like, what would you think about that? Yeah, before she even got into most of the details, I was already thinking in my head, like, my experience was like, yeah, my parents and grandparents were everything,

but it's because sports were a huge part of our family. And she ended up answering that question. Like, I mean, he's kind of in a sports, but so I'm like, oh, right away, I think expectations drop and it's not a big deal. If dad's going, that seems great. And then to find out, yeah, you're nine months pregnant.

my mom never had to go to it had to choose between going to a game and while also being nine months pregnant you know so like oh yeah i think yeah stay back it's all good no sweat and i think it does depend on like age of kids like if there's a 10 year old with a baseball game but you also still have a one year old well that's going to be hard to always make it to every game probably right I even think like Bo, his baseball games were an hour long. But baseball games, like when you're nine, they might be two hours plus, you know, that's a long time. Like she's saying, it's hot.

You're standing out there. You're probably not even watching the game that much because, like, you're worried about your other kids and maybe your husband's a coach. And so he's not around to help out, you know, whatever. Like, I understand. I understand both sides. I don't think that your son will say, yeah, my mom went to every game. I hate that.

Like, I don't think he'll ever be mad that you're at the game, but also, I don't think it's, I don't, yeah, I don't think you need to. I don't think you need, you need to go crazy on it and, like, overextend yourself to the point where you're, like, frustrated about that, you know, so. Yeah, I get her side of it, though. Like, I hear all these stories. I mean, probably from you and I, too, of like, yeah, my parents never missed the game. She's like, that's the expectation. But we, our family dynamic allowed that to happen. Same with yours.

Much easier. Yeah, just it's all relative. Also, these days, I mean, don't even get me started on youth sports, but like I don't know what this kid's doing. It doesn't sound like he's like travel team or anything. But that's just, you like decide that's your entire life. If you're getting that super into stuff like this. And it's like, that makes it so unrealistic to make all these games.

And, you know, like, because what are you going to do with these other three kids when you have them? Like, are you going to go to every single game for every single person and just completely dedicate every aspect of your life to this? You know, so I don't know. I just, I'm giving her the, um, ability to not feel bad. That's what I'm saying. Don't feel bad about it. You're free.

Definitely don't feel bad. Yes. You're free to not feel bad. Yeah. Rest, mama. Just rest. I think that's good. So.

Fun questions. Thanks for, yeah, submitting them. I appreciate. We had some other ones too, but we'll, we'll stop it there. Um, always fun to, to hear from the ghosties. Um, you guys are awesome. Yeah. And it's just fun.

Just fun to know it's on your mind. Seems like a lot of it's the future and parented. Absolutely, man. Wait, let's just, Caleb Sullivan always send in the map taps. And there's a GIF from a new girl of Jess, Jessica Day saying, I don't care, but yay. And that's why I want to send him every single time.

He sends me his map tap, but I don't. But he just said, he just sent us his score, which is 9.58, very good. And he said, new strategy I've been using is opening Google Maps and cramming right before I play. That's pretty funny. Cramming. You don't know what's on the test. Exactly.

Just like focusing on every area for a second. I mean, I thought he was going to say strategy I've been using is having Google Maps open while I play. I'm like, well, that's cheating. Quite the strategy. Cramming. Anyway, that's kind of fun, I guess. Good job, Caleb. You're the man. Can't wait to see you in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Alabama.

Alabama. I went up to Spotify to look for a comment of the week, and the top three comments are all about my mouth. So just go, I tried. I spent 45 minutes at a guitar, so I tried to alleviate this problem. But the real issue is I have a cold and are moving stuff. It's 14 days, and it's not here yet. That's the main problem.

What was the promise? Like, what did they, what did they ask? Or what was the estimate of like how long it's going to take? It was, it will arrive between June 1st and June 8th. And it's now, as we're recording this, June 11th. Yeah. But I saw something in the contract. I get $100 for every day.

It's not here. So you might make money on this by the end of it. That's the goal. That's the goal. At this point, I hope it gets fucked up in a tornado and then all the insurance covers everything. Do they have any kind of like tracker? You should have put an air tag in one of them. or something.

I know. That would have been so fun. Dang. Okay, next time. Next time. Ooh, next time. But anyway, the comments complaining about my mouth are pretty funny and clever. So shout out to you guys.

Oh, dude. Sorry, go ahead. Alex said. Man, I missed time in, but Jake's tonsils are filling in as producer today. That is pretty good. I'm so much more conscious of it today. So I'm trying to make it better. But yeah, there's just kind of like constant drainage.

I'm just constantly swallowing. I don't notice this when you're just going about life. Right. I'm like, man, I need to up the medication or something. I definitely still have a cold. It's been like 10 days now. I need to figure this out. So I'm sorry.

This guy said this podcast, Kai Bess, shout out Kuy Bess. This podcast always feels like hitting the steak patch in my burrito. Mouth sounds felt like the patch of only sour cream. Yep. Well done. Well done. I'm sorry. All right.

My favorite, this was pretty funny. I thought CCT Spotify, he said, can't wait to book Home Base for my honeymoon. Pretty funny joke. Homebets getaways.

At first I was like, sweet, yeah, you can stay at my Airbnb for your honeymoon. I was like, oh, home base. Got it. Shout out.

That's pretty funny. So that's a, that's a Braden Parsons kind of joke right there. Yeah. He's good. Yeah, that's nice. Anyway, shout to CCTV Spotify.

CCT. Cool. Anything else before we wrap this batty up? What is your win of the week this Wednesday? My win of the week is preemptive, but in about an hour and a half, I get to see my family again, and I've missed him a lot. I just, I'm not as good of a man. I'm a bum without him. I just play pickleball all the time. I just, yeah, it's not nearly as fun. The house isn't nearly as fun. I'm excited. So, win of the way. week is just getting to hug all of them and be their dad and be their husband. Well, my wife's husband.

So, well, yeah. How about you? I actually just thought of this. And I'm so glad. So tomorrow, when we're recording this, Friday, June 12th is when the music video comes out, heavy metal drop, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's going to be very exciting. I had this idea popping ahead a couple weeks ago. And it's going to happen. That 30 second music video is going to run as a commercial. on TV during the pickleball tournament this weekend. So it's going to be like a nationally like syndicated commercial of us in, you know, leather and fishnet. How did you do that?

Like on ESPN or whatever? Like how is it? It's going to be ran through. I don't think this weekend is it's not going to show up on ESPN or CBS or anything. So it's it's not huge. It'll be. But I think they guaranteed like a million impressions or something. So.

Wow. A lot of people watch this stuff apparently. dude that's awesome that's pretty fun so yeah it's kind of been fun even though time is like getting back from jamaica he's going straight to ohio he's on set every day unfortunately it's like hey we need you to finish this edit and also it's going on tv yeah so no pressure exactly 30 seconds it needs to be this this and this also we're getting a lot of feedback with people we're sending it to that no one knows it's us whoops oh so we need to figure that out and anyway time and crushed it nathan crushed it it's

So, yeah, this weekend, which is after, you know, five days later that this comes out. But yeah, it'll be a commercial running all weekend long, just kind of fun. Like multiple times? Yeah, I think it's like until it hits a million impressions or something like that. Dude, that is so fun. I love that. So that'll be interesting to see what the response is. I mean, I'm sure there's a handful of people would be like, get this dumb AI song out of my head and off my TV screen.

This is so annoying. What is this? But it'll be pretty fun. That's so fun. I can't wait. I can't wait to see it. I saw the preview. you and it was like this is unreal like just the doom doom do yeah the teaser dude yeah oh

it's so fun love it man love it um one of the week always is ghosties i can't wait for the ghost to get away anybody that wants to come should come because they can come because there's open spots can come can come should come can come will you come please come yeah so cool that will be done that will be done That's right. All right. We love you guys. We'll see you on Monday. Thanks as always for listening.

Peace out. Peace out.