Ghostrunners - 551 - Heavy Sleeper or Considerate Husband

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

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Hey, Ghost days! Oh! Big Daddy has figured out the Roadcaster. Yeah, that's right. That's right. We're so dumb. I'm so dumb. That's right.

We figure out the Roadcaster, baby. I'll tell you what I haven't figured out is when it, it'll just flip sides. Like Monday's episode, I was on a different side of the screen. Now I'm on this side of the screen. I don't know why it does that. Oh, yeah. But it's all good. I was filming a video this week

with Kyle on his court and he was talking to the camera and saying things like, when you go out and play rec play, you should focus on one thing. Like, all right, for the next two hours, I'm only going to work on my serve returns. And I'm going to focus on that.

You know, you don't want to go out there and try and boil the ocean. He's like, Jake, you heard that? It's kind of a corporate phrase. Like, don't boil the ocean. And I said, what? No, I've never I don't hang out with the types of people

who would even If you say by you saying don't boil the ocean It implies that you think it's on my mind That I am considering trying to boil the ocean I would never I can't believe that's a phrase I don't think it's possible for anybody to do that In our lifetime unless it's the Lord

Don't Boil the Ocean is advice for yeah, a type of person I've never met. I don't know who would even think to go about doing that. It's a dumb phrase. I don't even think about boiling a hot tub. That's too hard for me. I would never know how to do that. Don't boil a subdivision pool.

Wouldn't even go that far. No, that seems hard. It's literally impossible. Like you'd have to get all the energy and the resources from the entire city to do that, I think. I just don't know who that phrase. is for. Who is the person who I guess they do go they go into work on Monday? All right guys. Yeah, first things first. Let's get a Pacific on high. Yeah, Atlantic on on high. Let's put a lid on Indian. It's get a lid on it. Let's go. Yeah, let's go ahead. And yeah, just it'll help if we if we use gas

stoves, I think is going to make it go quicker. Where's this, where's the stove? Ocean size stove. Ocean size stove. I just don't think it's a good phrase because I would, it's too illogical from even to consider doing. There's too many other phrases where it's like, like, don't lead a horse a water and try to make him drink. I could see myself doing that. I logically, you lead horses. I could see a scenario where I am leading a horse to water

assuming he will drink it. But boiling oceans. That just makes it unusable. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Okay. That's something I can see myself doing. Wow. Thank you for the heads up.

Yes. I was going to do that later. Oh my gosh. And then I dropped a bunch of eggs. I wish I had been two different baskets. I do have another basket. What am I doing? You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Okay. News to me. Oh my gosh. I was planning on doing that. Wait, I don't understand that one. Those are helpful phrases. That will mean, though. I think it's like don't crapper you eat.

Does it? Don't bring your birthday cake to the bathroom. Oh. Don't boil the birthday cake. It's an ice cream cake. That makes sense. You can't boil a birthday cake. It's like, shoot, you're right.

Good call, that pickleball guy. Hey, it was Scott's birthday yesterday. Don't boil it, Scott. Don't boil that ocean, Scott. Don't boil that cake. Don't boil the ice cream. It's not going to taste as good. like hot chocolate.

I don't know. It's going to be like hot. It's going to be like hot. Dang it. Just roll it. Just roll it. Harder than it looks, isn't it? Huh?

Uh, uh, oh, oh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts on white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's a ghost. Oh man, I have heard that phrase before because I hang out with the guy named Will Severn's sometimes. Really?

And Will Severn's is, he's like one of those guys. And there's these people in every aspect of, or every, every, every like niche of life. And his niche is the business intellectual reading side of life where he's like, you've never heard this book. You don't know this book? You don't know this? You don't know this phrase? You don't know this whatever. I'm like, no, I don't do this as often as you do.

I don't read as much as you do. And yeah, I think he was telling me the other day about, you know, this book that has, you know, you want your salesman to be humble, hungry, and smart. You know, you've heard that, right? And I'm like, no, I don't know idea what you're talking. No, but that makes logical sense. Yes. He's like, you haven't, you haven't, that's the basic. I mean, I'm like, don't act like everyone knows it.

Like, go ahead and comment below if you know what book I'm talking about Ghosties because I think three people will be like, oh, totally. Yeah, of course. But it's not like every single person is reading this book, especially if somebody who's trying to run a, a woodworking business and a podcast and house flipping. Like I don't think I don't think I'm the C-suite executive reading this book, Will, let's like look at for salesmen everywhere. Like at this, Will, at this point, just assume I know nothing about any kind of salesman, any like pneumonic device with salesman. I don't know what. I don't have salesmen. Right. He'll, like, throw out these, like, have you heard of this book, like traction? You heard the book traction? No. People love talking about traction in my circles. And I haven't read it.

But I feel like I have because I feel like enough people talk about it. But yeah, he throws out like traction vocabulary. Like, it's like, you just normal vernacular. And I'm like, no, just talk to me like a normal human. Once they boil the ocean. Anyway. But I do like, my phrase like that that I like to use, which is a little bit, like you said, like I can imagine leading a horse to water.

I can imagine eggs in one basket. The one I use a lot, which I've never done, is how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time? But I've never eaten an elephant. But if I was hungry enough, that would be helpful advice. Correct. And it's also like, that's overwhelming. But I think don't boil the ocean implies that you're saying eventually you are going to be able to be hot enough and get enough to boil the ocean. But you just can't do it.

You've got to go one step at a time. I don't think okay now now I'm thinking about it more can can you theoretically take all the water out of the ocean and in small bits

boil that water and maybe that's what the phrase is trying to say maybe because I'm like we're all technically boiling the ocean when we're boiling water right I don't know I think it's a dumb phrase it's a dumb phrase we hate it we hate it we're, we, we disavow that phrase.

Because the phrase is meant to tell people to take things. It's like the elephant phrase. It's meant to tell you to take it step by step. But I don't, boiling kind of seems like an all or nothing thing. What do you mean take it step by step? One at a time. Yeah. Yeah.

It's dumb. Kyle's, Kyle's a dummy. Yeah. That school's got a crap. The other thing is not going anywhere. Oh. All right. I have some, I guess coincidences I'd like to start the episode off with. Last week, we talked about Rachel and I having a competition of who can meet the most friends,

who can get the most phone numbers. You suggested a weighted scoring system where a pickleball guy is like a fourth of a point. Naturally, Brad makes it more complicated than it needs to be. And I think we agreed on if I can meet a straight man at Barnes & Noble, that's where 25 points or something. Well, it dawned on me after the fact that I ran into a ghosty in the parking lot

of Barnes & Noble this week. There you go. I come back and tell Rachel, I go, hey, he said he had a daughter. I think I met a straight man of Barnes & Noble. At least at one point a straight man. Is there any stipulation for parking lot

or interior? year. Yeah, and that was like we didn't even actually exchange numbers and he knew me from the podcast. So I don't know if any of this counts, but it was kind of funny. It was like, wow, we just talked about meeting a guy at Barnes & Noble. And sure enough, we did it. So yeah, shout up Mark. Yep. It was right when we were leaving. He was in his car. I think he kind of like, was like, well, hey, Rachel, and Jake, I was, the ghostwriters. You know, I think it counted by surprise. So he got out of his car. We chatted for a little bit. I feel like, Jake just move here. Maybe I'll see him. It's like, there, there he is. That's him.

that's the guy. It's so fun. That's cool. So it was fun. I think. Okay. Branded some other people at church this week. But anyway, on the coincidence train, that's the first thing.

Second thing, this is great. And this was on the Friday and Seram story. So I might have spoiled it. But Rachel and I last week were driving around our future neighborhood. Okay. Checking out the scene. Just having fun. What's her coffee shop going to be?

Where's our grocery store or whatever? And pretty much across the street from our neighborhood, there is a kind of a strip mall, there's a grocery store, there's a Starbucks, and in the strip, you know, there's one unit where in big red letters,

it just says pickleball. Like, pickleball is the store. You know, it's like when it says spa or donuts, where it's like, just, you know,

this is what it is. We're like, we have to go in there, right? And so it's like a very small space. They sell tennis rackets and pickleball paddles. And so we're just kind of walking in there

and I'm not going to say anything to him. You know, just like, just check it out, looking at its selection. And then the employee gets a call on their landline. And so he gets up from behind the desk and he's kind of next to me, also looking at all the paddles. And he goes, no, no, it doesn't look like we have any Friday paddles.

It's like, what are the odds of this? You call the store on their landline while I mean, so many things had happened for me to be in there during that five-minute portion. and I truly am not kidding. Like for a split second, it crossed my mind that I was on an episode of some sort of like impractical jokers

or something. I was like, how is this possible? Yeah, yeah. Like I know that I'm remembering like the big red pickleball. I'm like, yeah, of course, that's not a real store. They just made that up. Nice try. Yeah, no normal person would just call it down.

Of course that suckered me in. Like, I don't know. I think it's because I watched the Truman show last month. I was like, this is set up. Yeah. Totally. but it was real. And so then I'm like, well, I have to say something.

So I go up to a map for me as I go, hey, I couldn't help it over here that someone was asking about Friday panels. I'm one of the founders of Friday. It's crazy that you're on the phone. And this is like an 18-year-old kid. And he's like, cool. No, he didn't.

Seriously? Luckily, he kind of called over someone else. Like, hey, Jeremy, this guy said he owns Friday. You know, he kind of yells it down the store. I'm like, don't make it seem like that. And that guy thought it was a little cooler. But in the end, they both just gave me a different guy's phone number. Like, call Mark and he can tell you.

Okay. So these guys weren't like the owner types. No. People. I mean. But the coincidence was insane. Yeah. Like for you to, you guys don't understand.

I'm a normal guy that just coming by here. We just happened to choose this area to stay in. And we're just driving. I just moved here. We're just, we don't even live at that neighborhood yet. We're just driving by today. here's okay silver lining here's why here's why he didn't think it was that crazy of a coincidence is because people call him 18 times a day asking for friday pickleball paddles they need it they want

they they he's not he's not surprised because like oh yeah friday you're such a big deal of course you know i don't know maybe something like that i'm like that's crazy the one time somebody calls maybe maybe it's not maybe it's the 18 times a day but my head it's like the one time somebody calls You just happened to be standing next to this guy where you can hear his phone, like, phone conversation. And he, like, repeated the question. No, we do not have Friday pickleball paddles, you know. Yeah, we just a really bad actor.

We don't have Friday pickleball paddles here. No, the Aurora, or the ORA pro is not in stock. No, they're not getting sued for half their earnings. No, we do not have Friday panels. That was him being a robot. That guy seems a little bit like, yeah, you're going to be true. Yeah. That was the second coincidence.

That was crazy. And then last one, this really has nothing to do with the podcast other than like, who doesn't love a crazy coincidence? This is a voicemail. We're only going to listen to the first sentence, basically, of this voicemail from my good buddy, Stu. We have a voicemail-only relationship. I did programs with him at Canacuck back in 2013.

and we've stayed in touch ever since. So this is what he called me and left a voicemail yesterday about. Arizona, and I heard it a girl who was a camper at K3 when we were running programs together because she is buying my house because I'm moving to Denver, Colorado. What are the odds of that? He's like, I don't have social media. I had to find out you're moving because the girl who bought my house used to be a camper. We were there.

Happened to be, yeah. I'm most, I'm most enamored by the fact that he called a K3. That also threw me off. We've never internally called it K3, he and I together. Yeah, what is this, a stew, you know, 55 years old or something? Yeah, K Holiday all of a sudden. But yeah, I was like, also this former camper. also, I guess, follows me on Instagram, knew what I was doing in my life and then felt they

need to share that with Stu. I was like, that's a heck of an opening voicemail message. That's great. Obviously, you have however many 40, 50,000 followers on Instagram. So maybe you understand this way more than most people. But like, I don't think we understand how many people see our stuff that we post on social media. I still don't. Yeah, get it. Like I saw this guy the other night at that like sports camp, church like, cookout thing and he had gone with his son to the world cup event in kansas city like the game the night before and i go hey what was more fun tonight or last night like jokingly because of course

it's going to be you know world cup he's like i'm trying to remember what last night was and i was like looking at him he's like oh my gosh world cup oh yeah of course and and he goes how'd you know i went to the world cup i was like you posted about it and i saw you posted about he's like that's crazy you saw I mean, I'm like, yeah, like, and this guy is not like a, it's, it's a Zach Carson. Like some guy that's like, oh, yeah, not like a super tight friend of mine by any means, but like, we went to K State together. Yeah, we're in similar circles for a little bit after college and like, yeah, I follow you on it's or, you know, Facebook and social media, whatever.

But I think he was like so surprised that somebody would see his post. Yeah. Doesn't follow him like faithfully, you know what I mean? It's not just the seeing, but I'm always impressed at like the memory. Even like, yes, you saw that last night, but you remembered, you connected that that was this same Zach who was there. I think that's impressive. Right. So you think it's oppressive by me?

Yeah, yeah. You do? Yeah. No. You think? Sometimes it's hard for me. It's like, yes, I saw on Instagram that so and so got engaged. But the next time I see them, those two things are like kind of disconnected.

Like I need to kind of hear it from you that you're engaged for me to process that it's real. You know what's funny is you say that. And he was like we were catching up here. You know, he's what are you up to these days asking me doing woodworking podcasts? But now I'm also doing this like house flipping thing. He's like, oh man, somebody else recently is doing that. I saw try to remember who it was. And I was telling some more stuff.

I was like, yeah, we have some Airbnb's in Overland Park and just flipped a house in Leewood earlier this year. he's like, oh, the person that that I was thinking of was you. I was like, oh, there you go. So got to start putting your face in those pictures. Yeah, I guess so. I don't know. I guess so on one hand, I was like, I'm not impressive for remembering those things. Everyone remembers those things.

I'm like, I guess Zach didn't remember that about me. Yeah, I think it's tough. Maybe I don't consume as much. I don't, I don't feel like I'm consuming so much less than other people, though. I don't know. I'm not like I'm not as off social media as I wish I were. The other day I thought to myself, ah,

just get rid of your phone again. Like I just had one of those feelings again of like, I don't know if anything that I'm consuming is really beneficial to me. Like these days I'm more consuming out of entertainment than like, it's not like anything like I'm not like consuming anything that's like making me compare myself to other people and like feel bad really. You know what I mean? But I'm also not consuming anything.

It's like, oh, now I'm going to be a better businessman because I'm consuming. would take Kobe's chair. Exactly. I'm consuming all this. That's what it is. It's just like old MBA stuff for the most part. Like so much MBA on T&T stuff. Like so much Charles Barkley,

it's Keel O'Neill's stuff. Like that's all I'm like, and it's just, it's good every time. But I'm like, I don't, what am I? What's the point? Like if I didn't watch this, there would be nothing different about my life. You know what I mean?

I wouldn't be happier or less happy. You know? Yeah. Maybe I would be happier. Anyway. So that's my social media. tuck um those are crazy coincidences though shout it's stew in my head he lived in indiana or something like good job you got a you got a nagging on you i there's something about certain memories like

are attached because i know you did some event with stew we'll call it don't tell me was it d now or was a c i why it was either c i or like youth for christ maybe okay you did something like that with him and in my head that memory is attached to the eastern like east of us you know know what I mean. That's funny. I think it was Fort Wayne, Indiana. Uh-huh. Where we went.

Yeah, I don't know. I have like, which is so funny because, you know, me, map tap, I'm not, I don't know exactly where Indiana is. Like, I kind of do. I know it's east of us, but I don't know exactly where. Like, it's not like I'm like, a savant at remembering everything. Yeah. Like, but in my head, I'm like, that's just Indiana over there somewhere.

I don't know. So. Hey, good job. Thanks, ma'am. Yeah, let's see. what else I have written down here. The World Cup in Kansas City was pretty cool. Did you hear about it at all?

I didn't hear too much. I saw people complaining about traffic. I saw some clips online where I go, that's Arrowhead Stadium. It doesn't look like it at all. Because for the most part, no. Indian people, or what do you mean? Yeah, you couldn't even see a red seat.

Nothing was red anymore. It's obviously not a football field anymore. It was hard to imagine. Hey, it's a football field, okay, man. Football. Yeah. it. So the main thing.

So first of all, I saw this post. This is like the most, I understand people are doing stuff to get engagement and attention wherever. It was like a local news station posting this. I was like, you can't,

you got to be better than this. If you're local news. Even though it's like, I understand you're a Facebook account manager for the local news, whatever, but they posted this video of a stadium that was

15% full. Okay. Like it was like it looked like maybe some people were warming up on the, did you see this? I think I know what you're talking about. Keep going. Okay. It was like very few people were in the stadium. There was definitely people on the field, but they and they posted it and their wording was

at the time of posting this video, the World Cup game is about to start. Argentina and Algeria. And then they posted this video of like, you know so few people there making it look like either a there were issues with like transportation like almost like building this narrative of like we didn't handle the security lines very well or we didn't handle or like I guess this world cup thing was overblown or or like something like I guess the fans weren't prepared enough but in reality everyone was there like way beforehand it was completely sold out it was crazy packed people were going insane for it

but they posted this they posted this video of like at empty stadium basically, but they said, at the time of posting this video, the game is about to start. I'm like, what? Is this the one you saw? Mine was similar. It's not quite the same thing. Mine was a guy on Twitter, and he posted a like 10% full Arrowhead Stadium. And then in quotes, he put, America won't be able to handle World Cup crowds and then showed

it four hours before the game and it's empty. So people in the comments are just like, hey, no, it was packed. Hey, it was sold out. And then he's like fighting for his life. You know what you could tell people are getting defensive? He's like, why is everyone so pressed about this? That's not what I meant. And everyone's like, it kind of seems like that's what you meant.

He goes, no, I meant people were worried about American stadiums. And I'm showing how many seats American stadiums have. It's like, well, you didn't say that at all. Yeah. You were totally trying to like, yeah, fire people up about this. Yeah. The internet's in a bad place. Like trying to make it sound like it took four hours.

to like walk from like the shuttles into arrowhead stadium and all this stuff and my buddy was like it was it was the worst part was that there weren't enough shuttles from the parking lot of the shuttle area to the stadium there was only like five buses running at a time or something there should have been 20 or something like that but like he's like no it wasn't it wasn't bad like people act like it was so anyway Jake how about about main street of the roast of the stirs All right. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something I learned the other day about coffee. Okay. K-Pal. You see this? PayPal? No, K-Pow. It's K-Pow. It's a Korean version. They do not accept K-Pal at Mainsteroosters.com. They do accept credit card, PayPal, Venmo, maybe cash. If you have like a cash, like, reader on your, on your computer, do you do that? Like, kind of like an old school of any machine. That'd be pretty cool. a cash reader.

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and Argentina is the team that Leonel Messi is on, who is like, arguably the best of all time, and he scored a hat trick, which is three goals. Did you know that? Three goals?

You knew head trick, right? I knew a hat trick. Catherine had never heard of, like, even when I said, like, something you wear on your head, like your hat. It's like, yeah, do you not know what it could be?

I was like, hat trick. She's like, I've never heard of that in my entire life. I was like, really? I thought it was more common knowledge. But he scored three goals, which is crazy because this is his sixth World Cup, which means he's, this is like 24, you know, every four years. Wow. So he's, he's an old dude and he still scored three goals and, like, pretty cool to see,

like, I think it was his first time he ever scored a hat trick in the World Cup. And it, like, made him score more goals than anybody else in World Cup history, maybe, or maybe Ty. Anyway, it was just kind of all this crazy stuff. And people were going crazy. our friend Calvin was there, of course, just said it was like the best night of his life. He's like, amazing, dude. It was perfect.

So it was just to happen at Kansas City. That is cool. Because on the other hand, Scott, for his birthday, he went to Houston, I think by himself to watch the Portugal. Didn't really? Yeah, like to watch Ronaldo. And he said the game was kind of a snooest, but, you know, it was still fun to be there. But nothing like the, you know, the show pony scoring a hat trick. But I was going to say, did you see?

The stat I put in our chiefs group chat. Yes. Lionel Messi has now won more games at Arrowhead Stadium. He's 2 and 0 than Derek Carr has, who's played 10 football games at Arrowhead Stadium, which is great. Which is, yeah, pretty awesome. But also, I like Derek Carr,

and so it's like, oh, I think he's a good guy, but he played for the freaking Raiders. He's a good guy who's always on a bad team. Kurt Cousins on the Raiders now, and it's just like, dang. Oh, that's odd. I don't even know if I knew that. I'm almost sure that he's on the Raiders.

Isn't that who Mendoza got drafted by the Raiders, right? Yes, he did. Are they together? I've seen pictures of them like, buddy, buddy, like take your pictures. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, yeah. So. But yeah, it was, it was pretty cool to, I don't think I'm going to watch.

I'm definitely not watching every game of the world. I'll watch like some of the American ones and try to watch what I can. I don't know what it is, dude. Why does it seem so much harder to watch TV now than it used to when we were kids? Does it feel like that? You know what I mean? In the wrong way. In the accessible, like, I know it's literally, it might even be faster than it used to be,

but it feels like one to three extra steps to get there that just make it to where, unless I'm very intentional about watching TV and, like, know for sure that I want to watch it, I'm not just going to turn on the TV and scroll around for a little bit. Like, like back in the day, you turned on one TV that had one cable box or whatever, and you just scrolled those channels. Now it's either like, I got a, what the heck is this? Do you hear this? Weird, dude.

Sorry. Some, okay, never mind. It doesn't matter. Um, nowadays it's like, like, I'm not just like, I'm not,

I'm not ever fumbling up, like, I'm not stumbling upon a sporting event anymore. Like I have to turn on something and like, find it. I don't know, which is kind of what we used to do too. But like,

I would like scroll through the channel sometimes be like, oh, Cardinals and Cubs are on. Okay, I'll watch that. Whereas now it's like, before I click on it, I know the Cardinals and Cubs are on

and I have to choose to watch it, which I almost never do. Yeah, nowadays it's very much like um i don't know if this is the right term exactly but like appointment viewing like i have an appointment with the chiefs game like i know exactly what i'm turning on the tv for outside of like when i'm at a hotel and then it's just we're back to 1995 baby exactly what is gonna be on here to catch a predator okay kind of fun i kind of do that too i kind of miss that and so yeah i don't know like i keep telling myself like i'll just turn on the world cup and then i like

I guess I will. Got to get the remote and get the app and figure out which game. And I don't know. And that's like, do I really care that much about this? I don't know. It's like, it's like harder and less admirable.

No, less respectable to have it on the background for me for some reason. You chose less admirable. I don't know. Back in the day, it was like, yeah, turn on and just like have it on in the background and just like,

that's fine. The TV's on. Of course it's on. And now it's like, you intentionally put this on. I don't know how to explain it. because it's kind of the same thing as before. There's something different about it.

I want I want GOS to either say, I don't understand what he's saying at all. Like, I just casually watch sports so much less than I used to. And I think it's, I think there's something to do with this like multiple apps, know where you're going, choose how to get there.

I, like, I don't know. I don't know what it is. But there's something there for me. That's funny. College football. I don't watch college football very often anymore.

And when I do, it's like, I know what I'm getting myself into. Versus like, before it was like, I don't know, it's Texas Tech and Iowa State. Kind of a close game. Let's watch it. You know, I don't know. Anyway, that's me.

I agree. I'm not watching the World Cup as much as I thought I was going to just like have it on the background. Yeah. It is harder to stumble on things, especially sports now. But we do have plans. I'm going to watch my first ever soccer game. As of recording this,

it's last Friday. But United States plays Friday night. So I think we're going to make an event out of it. We're all going to get together and watch. And I'll try to stay awake. You know that you, no, stay awake. I was going to say, you know that you live in Arizona when you said Friday night. Because I think they play at 3 p.m. our time.

So it's like 5 p.m. your time? Maybe. Is it really 3 p.m. your time? That would be one in the afternoon for us. You're right. What time they play? They play tomorrow at 2 p.m. So they play at noon your time.

Noon. Well, we're going to miss it. You're not scrolling every, like, you know, how you're scrolling? That's so funny. I just blindly trusted. I don't even know who I'm trusting. I don't think any of us watch or know anything about soccer,

but someone said Friday night. We're like, yeah, it's do Friday night. That's funny. We would have been seven hours late to the game. Is that potentially just American ignorance of like, well, of course we're prime time every time. It's America. I think knowing that the games are in our time zone,

ish it's like it should be but I guess you probably need to cater to other countries yeah but maybe if you cater to other countries utter other countries you got to the outer countries you would think that they would probably want it to be at a different time well I guess what you're saying is like if they play at 11 p.m. Central Europe

can watch it at 10 p.m. or something. Yeah I don't know. Okay but they do play turkey. USA plays Turkey Thursday June 25th at 9 p.m. Okay. So that's 7 p.m. your time. Okay, thank you. The time changes before then.

It's 8 p.m. Because doesn't Arizona like adopt one but not the other or something? I think we got a couple things going on. I should double check all this, but I think Native American land is different than the rest of Arizona. And I think Arizona is technically in mountain time, but we do not do daylight saving time here. So we are two hours behind Central.

So at some point you will be only one hour behind. I believe so. Okay, that'll be fun. Maybe that'll be for football season. That'll be nice. Dude, it's crazy how much I'm already talking about football season and talking about the time zones. Like, Isaac and I are both like,

what's a 10 a.m. football game going to feel like? Luckily, the chiefs don't play during the day that much anymore, but that's going to be weird. Yeah, I know. It's like, do you go to church after the game? Like, do you catch a late service at, you know, 2 p.m.? Do I turn into a Saturday service guy during football season? Early service.

maybe. Maybe are you just a stat watcher at church? Extra prayer requests. I've got those new like augmented reality glasses. I got the game going on in my eyes. A little update from last week. So on Monday's episode I talked about like we're back. Like I got the nice mic again.

I got the roadcaster like everything's better. Just much higher quality mic. This is kind of how it's going to hopefully sound going forward. and maybe even better. But remember last week, I tried to make all this happen by throwing together a studio from buying things at Guitar Center

the last second. Oh, yeah. And they told me, they're like, we only have one of them, but this is all we have. But hey, good news. It's on clearance. It's just no returns.

Well, I couldn't get that thing working last week. I think technically it would have worked, but I would have had to run it off of like double A batteries. What? Yeah. So that's like, yes, technically I think it was functional, but like there's only one like USB port. So I can either run it to electricity or to the computer.

I would like to run it to the computer and then it's have the power of batteries. I'm getting into the weeds a little too much. But basically I was like, all right, I would have actually used this if it like was better. But I'm going to return it. I'm going to get the roadcaster. And so I had to go to guitar center. And ahead of time, I was like, what's my thing here? Like, could I lie and say it's not.

working or and I was like no I'm just going to be completely honest hey look I I podcast for a living I need to rely on it I do not want to rely on double a batteries I'll just tell me you're gonna ride the roadcaster from them and I wanted and I said like hey I'll still support you yeah and they said we don't carry roadcaster and I go I'll figure something out I don't have Amazon so that's where I did maybe feel a little bit but no at some point you might need something from guitar center you might need a cord you might need a mic something like that. That's true.

This might cost $500 and I bought that from a guitar center. So they're fine. Did you? Yeah. There you. Okay. So I was just honest with them and the guy who had sold it to me was working there again, which is too bad.

He's like, you know, I told you this is on clearance. I go, I know. Yeah. I know. But it just doesn't work for me. It functions fine. You can resell this. Someone else will buy this.

It just doesn't work for me. And then he has to call his manager over. And then his manager is talking to me about it. We really don't like to do stuff. like this. And what was the issue again? I'll take the design issue. So anyway, he kind of makes me a deal. He's like, I'll tell you what, I'll make you a deal. We'll return this. Full price. You get your money back. But we are going to have to flag your guitar center account. Is there somewhere to get like half credit if I can still stay like a guitar speaker?

I knew you're going to have a good reaction to that. I don't know, man. How will people know if I know how to play crazy train in public now. Oh, guitar center account. Never get a discount on strings anymore. Great. Just moved to town, already blackballed from guitar center. Great, you have to go to the Scottsdale one. Bad boy.

Dang. New city, same old Jake. Same old Jake. Not allowed in guitar center. Where am I going to get my amplifiers now? Guess I'll go to. a musician's friend. Yeah, that's a, that's, and I'm sure that was so hard for you to like keep a straight face,

be like, yeah. Okay. I think it's worth it. You had to call my wife for a quick and just ask? Yeah, if I, if we use, can I, can I just put under her name? She doesn't care about guitar center. She doesn't understand the legacy that you guys hold in people. From, from those jack wagons at Radio Shack or Best Buy?

No, you guys are the best. I'm a public facing figure here and I can't, I can't have this on my record. please dude don't flag it this isn't like an old tweet that's going to get dug up or it isn't going to help me the rest of my life is it how long how long is it going to stay on my record is there any way to get it expunged can i get a can i get a sponge in here five years of good behavior at guitar center can i get it expunged please please i'll do anything i'll i'll twirl the sale sign out on the phone humble hungry and spinning spinning spinning Please.

Just anything. Anything to keep this. I've worked really hard to gain this status. I got a clean record. You don't understand. There's been times where they threatened me with this before, and I knew, I knew this would happen. I got out of it.

Not now. Please. So yeah, I accepted the deal. I got $470 put back on my account, but my account has been flagged, whatever that means. Yeah. So you have credit right now?

They put it back on my credit cards. Like I got the money back. But there's just some sort of thing in my... I think next time I return something, if I want to return something at a guitar center, they're going to say, eh, we heard about you. Nice try, buddy.

We're not, yeah, not through with your schemes yet. I think that's it. I honestly don't know. I'm kind of scared to go back. But it was funny. That happened last Friday. So that was the day that Isaac and Nathan got here. And so I'm driving.

We're all going at our first dinner together. Isaac's dad's in town. And anyway, it was kind of funny because Isaac is telling us all the story of like, yeah, I'm blackballed from U. You Hall and yada, yada. And we get about 20 seconds before the restaurants. I'm like, all right, well, long story short, I'm not even going to explain it.

But I got black ball from guitar center today. So I know what you're going through. And they're going, what? I don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Same thing, man. Same thing. I needed to go back to the idea that this thing that could only be powered via USB was $480.

And it was a way to connect it to a computer. Yeah, it was like Zoom brand too. It was like, you know, those little mini recorders that are like pretty popular. Trey and I used to use it all the time. Like it was at least a brand I'd heard of. Yeah. And I wonder if since the roadcaster came out, they've stopped trying to adapt. And this is like an old version or something.

yeah i mean like that's that just seems crazy like it seems like there should be a workaround around around that or yeah whatever that that's more of the bothers something to me is like that thing's five hundred dollars and it's like that what's the what's the point yeah the only port on the back was wow that scared me wow wow was it him big k and big in. Big in. Ninja. No further questions.

Yeah, I guess you can't hear, Brad. Why do you guys? You guys kind of smell like McDonald's. Okay. You guys have some hash browns? Little meat. All right. That'll meet.

Got to smell like McDonald's. That's a bold thing to sell somebody. Wow, it really smells like... Smell bad. Hey, guys, good to see you. Smell like garbage. You smell like an Indian restaurant. rot in here, man.

Jeez. Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but you smell like Indian food. Don't take this the wrong way, but did you have spicy curry today for lunch? No? All right. Hey, no disrespect, but check your pants for dog crap. It's got a funny sentence.

Like, check your own pants for dog crap. Did you mean my shoes? No, no, no. Check your pants for dog crap. Oh, dude. This is one of those stories. I'm like, I don't know if he's going to want me to tell this because he's not going to be six forever. But Bo the other day, was I pick him up from I pick him up from that sports camp he goes dad got bad news I pooped in my pants a little bit I was like

every once in while he like gets too like fixated on something it like he's like oh shoot I got to go I like I mean it was like barely anything but I told I tried to tell him I was like hey man just make sure like you know you try to wipe wipe that out of there you know because you don't want your friends to smell you and you're smelling like you smell like poop or something right yeah i know dad i tried i tried to get it all out you know whatever so it's like hey man do you mind checking your pants because you might have poop in there like that's kind of what it felt like with him that was the first thing he told me you know had he's like i had a steal i got a basket dad got bad news put my pants a little bit

you go oh were they played shell shocked or something what's up buddy I get it. Like father like son. I get it, buddy. We've all been there. Got a little too excited. So anyway. Okay.

Guitar Center. Okay. Dude, did I say this last week that I've heard that guitar center you can negotiate? Did I tell you that? I don't know if I'm already saying that. That's interesting. Yeah, I've always heard that. And so that's kind of the interesting thing.

Like, I don't know if you can negotiate products like that. And I don't know if they still do. But like back in the day when I was buying guitars more often, people would say like yeah don't just get whatever price it says like say hey would you take this much for it because they're willing to negotiate with you wow i don't know and who knows if i haven't heard anybody that's like really personally done that so i don't know if it's truly a fact but that's what they say so it does seem like a potentially annoying place to work because so many people are coming in there to test out musical instruments yes oh 100 percent do you know there's also

with something at a guitar center that's like there's like a list of band songs you're not allowed to play inside of a guitar center you can't play him yes like i think they will like literally like flag your account you know like unplug your guitar like if you play stairway to heaven uh seven nation army like all the classics like crazy train do dum do do know don't know don't know because the employees are so sick of hearing it or what good question let's let's look it up I mean, and maybe this is all the band songs. Yeah. Stairway to heaven, smoke on the water,

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it's purely ear fatigue from hearing the same songs played poorly and loudly while you won't be physically removed from the store you might get a few groans or dirty looks from the staff i've seen people like literally get like their guitar unplugged so what i was there it's a combination of yeah people playing guitar loudly a couple different people playing different songs and in someone practicing a drum set but on headphones like a plastic drum set. So just like... Visit BetMGM

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as a guitar player being like this is too much for me i don't like this i didn't hate it when like like like did you notice probably not but like there's like in a well at least the our guitar center there's like an acoustic room like they did have something in the back yeah that's like that's like my sanctuary back there that's nice and peaceful and like it's like more like noise cancelling door or whatever like deafening doors um and so you can't really hear outside you can hear a little bit of the you know but not nearly as much and then you open up those doors it's just like these guys absolutely wailing on these guitars just absolutely you know ripping them to shreds um when we were there uh i i was at a guitar center and i was just like messed around electric guitar and this guy was like

Hey man, I want to hear how this guitar pedal sounds. Do you mind like plugging it in and like turning on this amp for me? And it was like one of those moments where it was like, is this going to be my big break? Like if I play it, you're going to like discover me. Like, you know, just just play something. Just play anything. And I didn't know what to play. I don't remember what I ended up.

I think I just messed around on the water. Yeah, exactly. Simple man by Leonard Skinner or something. But anyway, I just remember being like so nervous that this guy just like, hey man, you plug in and play something. I just want to hear how this guitar pedal sounds. This is how it happens. Rachel kept joker with him. I think when we first went in there,

it was when the heavy metal, everything launched. So she kept being like, you want to try on any bass guitars? Or you want me to tell them that you play bass? Kind of your thing now. How did that, out of that reception go for that video? Oh, did it play on the commercials yet?

Oh, that's right. Well, you can watch Pickawall like a couple different ways. Anyway, we were watching through Amazon Prime, and we spent two days, Like we haven't seen it, but I guess Amazon runs their commercials through somebody else. We only advertise through pickleball TV, which means like either their app or their like desktop site. So anyway, so yeah, still I think it did air over the weekend. Okay.

I actually never physically saw it, but Isaac said he saw it. Isaac's dad saw it, Scott saw it, you know, and everything. Anyway, that was fun. Good reaction. People loved it. And yeah, on to the next one. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you got how many more drops?

Two more, like limited edition things this summer. So don't say too much. That's all I'm asking. Yeah, it'll be fun. Yeah. Love it. I've got a life hack of the week for you. Yes.

That I think you will like. And the Gossese would like to. I was buying something yesterday. I was looking around for like, there's got to be hats that like don't show sweat marks as much as all these other hats I'm wearing do. So anyway, I'm just looking around. I find a hat that looks good online. And I go to buy it.

I go to the checkout page and it says like enter a promo code. We've all seen it. And I've never done this before. But just a hope and a prayer, I typed in Welcome 10. First try, 10% off. Boom. And you're like, did you go back and be like, welcome 15? I actually didn't.

Really? I should have. But something subconsciously, I must have like noticed. that in different places before that that's people's first time buyer promo code. So when you're buying something, you know, direct from a company's website, try out, oh, welcome, 10. You're probably going to get 10% off.

Thank you, 10. Yeah. Hello, 10. Yeah, all these different. There was one time somebody, and this is, I feel a little bit bad now. I'm saying this out loud. But somebody's like, hey, thanks for contacting us. Since you're friends with this person, take 10% off with promo code thank you 10 and I thought to myself does thank you 15 work I only thank you 10 worked but I tried I tried the other ones just in case like what

what if thank you 50 works and you know that's pretty good though hello 10 yeah and so you felt like first of all you probably felt like king of the world for you know guessing it and also it's just amazing like promo codes are so amazing to me because it's like if I didn't have this promo code, I'd just be paying way more. But also, I've not. You know, I just saved all that money right away. Every once in a while I like return something on Amazon, I'm like, I just pay for my lunch, you know? Yeah, that's nice.

I believe that's what they call girl math. Girl math. That's girl math for it. What's boy math mean then? Boy math is, hey, if I, if I buy this tool but I'm using it to save money on our house, like I'm creating value. Is that boy math? Yeah, boy math.

I'd be like, I hired a task rabbit because I'm going to be doing this other stuff. Yeah, I'm putting together the coffee table. Okay. That's boy math. We did a Mootsmings video on like golf math, which is pretty funny, where you kind of just make up these excuses. Like, I shot a 95 today. But you had that one unlucky one, like where we know you hit it in the fairway and we

couldn't find it. So like take a stroke off for that. Yep. You normally don't blade your chips. You blade like two today. That was weird. Take two off there. So really, you basically shot a 74.

Yeah, exactly. Brad, I have an email to read you. I love it when you read me emails. It's a story time with Jake. Jesse said, good morning, guys. I want to introduce you to a term my physical therapist introduced to me. Hercl Durkle is a 200-year-old Scottish phrase that means to lounge or linger in bed long after it's time to get up. Oh, I've been a cozy.

That's like no lame. Brad Hercl-Hercl Ellis. It's the intentional act of staying out of the cover, stretching, doing absolutely nothing before I finally face in the day. That's the end of the description. Last night, while climbing into bed after a long day, I was telling my wife, I'm so glad we got these cozy earth sheets.

And that is when I had a light bulb moment. The guys need to use the term herkel-durkel in an ad read for cozy earth. Love you guys. I listen every week. I grew up in Keynes City in the 90s, and I was homeschooled. So I listen to you, I feel it's some way our paths crossed at some point. Now I live three months.

miles from Main Street Roasters in Indiana. Sweet. How fun is that? Hercl my dirkle. Hercl that dirkel. Hercl, Durkle, okay. How should we best incorporate Hercl Durkle into this whole, you know, thing?

I remember when I first got married. Yes. Rachel and I went on my honeymoon. Your honeymoon, not hers. You would expect a lot of Hercl-Dircle. Yeah. There's hanky-panky and there's Hercl-Durkel. But there was not.

And you know why? Why? You want to answer that? Because the, well, we had, I think we had sand fleas in our bed and it was flooded. And we didn't have cozy earth sheets. We didn't want to be in that bed any longer than we had to. It was purely functional. Great.

I did my sleep. No Hercle-Durkle for me. No. spicy with a sand fleas I'm going to get all of my day. Yeah. Since we got back Oh yeah. If she's herkin, I'm Durkin

and the other way around. Yeah. Hercnavitsky. What about if this were the 90s and Cozy Earth was trying to promote Hercl Durkle, they would incorporate an ad read with family matters. And

Steve Erkel would be doing the Hercl-Durkel in the sheets and he just go Did I do that? Did I dirk that? Cozy earth Cozy erkel Urkel d'urkel

Erthal Durkle. Hercl Durkle, man. I can't stop saying that. And it's Scottish too, so we're probably not even pronouncing it right. Herkidanker. Herkled erker. That's such a bad Scottish accent.

Let me get it. Ah, with that Elas. No, is that Irish? That sounds pretty. pretty good. I mean, Scottish is almost like incomprehensible. It's Kirharney. It's right here in Kirkhirney with the Herkle-Durkel. That's pretty good? Yeah, you snapped into that pretty quickly.

Kosierat.com slash ghostreaders. Is that Irish or is that Scottish? Scottish might be a little more like this. And the Herkle-Durkel. I don't know. Cozier.com slash ghostroars. GRKC gets you 20% off all the Herk-List, Durk-List things you could think of. the most comfortable sheets,

the most comfortable clothes, the most comfortable everything. You say Dirk, I say on who? How much? Goesgirt.com slash ghost runners. I'm playing a golf tournament for church next week,

and I'm playing with our friend Justin Jordan and he played college somewhere for a year or two, like community college in Kansas. But he's like very calm. He's like, we're going to win the tournament. I guarantee you.

And I was like, bro, he's like no the other two guys that I'm playing with and you like we'll win and I was like you've never played with me and I'm not going to do anything if you think these other guys are that good he's like no I'm a scratch golf for this other guy he's a scratch golfer and the other guy is like probably better than both of us I was like okay I guess we're going to win then need anybody to sink any puts yeah need anybody to hit it straight and give you give you a line you know yeah that's always they get a line I haven't played golf when was the last I haven't played in a long time so we'll see how it goes

but yes this no it's next week next week you're a pickleballer now I'm a pickleball guy I play basketball sometimes baseball out in the yard dude this we got this thing I actually bought on retail rebel but it's this it's this little thing it's like a popper um but it's a savannah to bananas thing did I tell you about this last week does this sound familiar no it's like uh there's a player on savannah bananas named his initials are racy Robert anthony cruise maybe or something like that. Okay. RAC and his like thing is coach RAC RACC.

And so it's like his brain. It's this little thing. It's literally like you push it down and it's like it's like on the ground. It's probably like eight inches tall. You push it down and you put a ball on top of it. And after, you know, four seconds, it pops up and the ball pops up and then you hit it. Cool. And every single one of my kids, including Henry, like loves it.

Like Henry even has hit it a few times. Like push the ball down. Get it. And then like it'll pop up. but he'll just swing and he gets contact and gets a hold of it. It's a really fun little thing. Does it pop up pretty regularly? Like, is it consistent?

Yeah, yeah. I would say the more inconsistent thing is that the ground is not completely level. So sometimes, like, Innery's actually got popped at the face a few times. He's just, he like pushes it down, but then it just pops the right back. I mean, the wiffle balls aren't hurting them that bad or anything. But that's been a pretty fun little little toy for the backyard. is this little popper and they all just, yeah, love it for different reasons.

Co-track. Co-track. I don't know. Yeah, I'm not a Savannah-Bananas guy. I mean, I am, but I'm not. You know, I think everyone kind of likes them. Maybe that's another one of those things, like, wasn't a dude-perfect guy for a long time,

and then, like, once your kids get to a certain age, you're a Savannah-Banas guy? I don't know. Yeah. But I don't know if, I don't know, you think Savannah-Banaz is going to be a fad? Like, how long are they going to stick around? They're not going to be around in, well,

it could be like the Globetrotters? Yeah. but right now they're killing it like they're selling out stadiums i don't think the harlem globe trotters are doing anything close to that right now right you're right yeah that'd be interesting to see what happens to them maybe they can keep it up i hope so i think they're they're doing something right but anyway anyway i'd to say yeah i'm a i'm a all-athlete guy we have been we on sunday we officially committed to a lifetime gym, like membership at lifetime for the entire family. Wow.

Or the pool mainly, like for the summer. And I think we've gone every single day since then. Wow. Because I basically like, like Catherine was the one that really wanted to have some sort of pool access this summer. She was just in Texas and they have a pool down there and the kids swam like twice a day. She's like, it was awesome. I really want to have a pool here. And the lifetime was expensive.

And so I said, I basically was like, I'm willing to do this, but you got to promise me that you'll make it worth it. And she has stayed true to her promise. They're like going all the time, which is really fun. And watching the kids do their thing at the pool has been awesome. So anyway, yeah, I'm a swimmer now. I'm a basketball player, pickleball player, golfer, baseball, do it all. You know, so he's an active guy.

Speaking of golfer, just see her a quick story. you know, I sold all those bad birdie Sunday smacker polos to that guy on Facebook marketplace. Yeah, they got, oh, I'm in 600. He messaged me like three days ago. I'll pause there.

Any guesses what he would have messaged me about? You know, three weeks after a sale on Face of Marketplace. He finally tried on. Some of the stuff doesn't fit the same as the other stuff. Like Sunday Swagger's a little bit tighter on him and so he's like, actually,

I'd like a discount on the Sunday Swagger ones because I'm not going to be able to wear them. I'd like half my beats pill back, please. I forgot about the beats pill. I know. I found it in my trunk yesterday. I was like, I forgot. I got a beats pill. Like after my stuff was packed up. That's hilarious. That's one thing. I think he might have also just been like, hey, you want to golf? Or do you have any recommendations for golf places? I'm looking for a partner for this church tournament that I'm in. We should win. Yeah, we should win. I'm a scratch golfer.

I mean, those are the main ones I can think of. He messaged me. He said, hey, man, maybe this is a little weird, but what kind of cologne do you wear? These shirts smell amazing. And I go, I think I know what you're talking about. That's actually a detergent and it's called diva. That's great. Which shows you how long it's been.

I mean, Rachel's had me on the like organic detergent for like two years now. So I watched those things like once back in the day and that was it. if it even touches the same air as diva it smells like diva for a while oh yeah well i tell you like the the ferns in the house and maybe that's not diva maybe it's just your air freshener but even like these cords and stuff smell like your house like every time i get out like to like yeah like this microphone smells like your house so shout out you're welcome amazing what kind of dude there was one have i told you this story this is oh this is kind of awkward whatever. So there was one time where there was this girl at camp that smelled like Diva and smelled

really good. And I was like, I was like, oh, I just love, I love that smell of that detergent that you use. And I think somehow, I don't know if she told Catherine or whatever. At some point later I learned that the only thing that she had washed so far, like she was wearing all these new clothes. The only thing that was washed in Diva was her underwear. It's like, oh, I just love the way your underwear smells. Oh, I'm pretty sure I've heard that story before and it's still shocked me. Of course you can't be like, oh, yeah, that's. Oh, fun fact.

I just got these at this tangor outlets actually. These shorts are brand new. Wow. That goes to show, though. In person. I don't think she told me in person about this. I think I learned later on or something. But yeah.

Oh, it's just it permeates. dude. You want, yeah. You put one sock in that stuff and your whole house smells amazing. So. Oh, that's so great. Yeah. Anyway.

Happy for you. Kind of a recent, I don't know if this is a challenge or a temptation or whatever this is. We were talking the other night. So Catherine was like really tired one night and she's like, I just got to go to sleep. And so I intentionally like let her go. to sleep first, if this makes sense. Like, I let her go into the room by herself first and, like, fall asleep and, like, get asleep before I went in there.

Okay. That makes sense. And she came in, like, she came out of a room of like 11 o'clock. She's like, why haven't you come to bed yet? She hadn't fallen asleep. I was like, I thought you were sleeping. I thought you were tired. What are you doing?

And she's like, well, that doesn't matter at all to me. She's like, I am such a heavy sleeper. I never am bothered by you, like, getting into bed. I fall asleep and I fall asleep. and I fall asleep so hard and I'm so asleep. And in my head, I'm like, that is not true. That is every time, like I try so hard to be stealthy when I get into bed. And she's always like rustling around moving when I get into bed.

And so now, now that she's claimed this and like pretty adamantly told me that she's a heavy sleeper, part of me is like, I'm going to show, I'm going to show her just how hard I can get to bed. I'm going to jump in the bed and see how heavy of a sleeper she is. I haven't done it yet, but I'm so tip, like, I'm like, you know, you're not as heavy of a sleeper as you think. You just got to really consider a husband who's being real careful not to ruffle the feathers and ruffle the bed sheets too much. I don't think anyway, I just, I kind of got like, like it was almost like, do you not know what I've done for you? Do you not know how much I care about you? And like, you know, not true. I wasn't like offended. But now

I'm, and when I get into bed at night now, I'm tempted. Like if she's in there already, I'm like, I'm going to show her. You got to test it. Is this the chicken or the egg? Is it the deep sleeping wife or the very careful husband. I'm telling you, man. I don't know. I don't know. I just think I'm, I think she would disagree with this. But I think I am so much more like gentle to her in the mornings or at night than she is to me.

Oh, you too? I would agree. Even dare I say, flashlight placement. Dude, I've slept in the same room as you. You are unbelievable. You are so, you are a 10 out of 10 at this. I can attest, dude. Like the way, I mean, like, like, like, even like, I think, I think the level 10, like,

whatever they call it, final boss of, of, like, impossible not to be woken up is the hotel door. Like a hotel door that's like seven times heavier than a normal door. And like the lock is like just like this hard latch in and out. There was that one time I'm trying to, I think it was when we went to Main Street Roasters. And, yeah, we stayed at that hotel outside of Apennie. and you got there way later than I did. I drove and you flew or something. And I remember just being like, holy cow, that guy levitated in here.

Like, you were so quiet. I slid under the crack of the door. Yes, dude. It was like, yeah, use your invisibility cloak or whatever. I don't know. We got through right. And I'm like, that was amazing. So like, like, Catherine, like, I mean, she'll, she'll just, she'll shut doors.

She'll, you know, whatever, like close a, close a drawer. hard or whatever. I'm like, I would never. I would never do that. Even when she wakes me up, she's like, hey, hey, the kids are,

we got to get up, we got to go. And I'm like, I would never, I would never do that. I would never have woken you like that. Even if we're in a hurry, I would have,

I would have come up to you and be like, hey, I'm sorry to do this, but we got to go quick. We got to go quick. We need to get out of here. I know it's kind of an abrupt way of waking up, but please,

it's time to wake up. And I kiss her on the forehead and I'd be like, and I'd be like, Hey, Brad, let's go. We got to go. Running late. What's late? Can you please come out and help the kids, please? Henry Poopped.

Do you want to do that or do you want to do the breakfast? I'll do both. Okay, okay, do both. No, she's great. I'm not, I'm just getting her. That's great. It sounds like you and I need to sleep together. I think we'd be great.

I had a great sleep in Napani. I slept wonderfully. Oh, yeah. The whole thing was great, man. Yeah, I mainly notice it with, because rarely, I feel like is Rachel coming to bed after me or you know, whatever. But most of the time it's like it's completely dark in the room. I've got my flashlight like on its like lowest setting, kind of like pointing it at the ceiling almost so it can bounce off the walls. You know, I'm really thinking like,

you know, Scorsese in this room. Yeah. And I mean, when it's Rachel's turn to look around, you know, it's just like, just like this. Just like, hold, oh, hey, sorry, did I wake you up? Sorry, I'm just looking for my water bottle. is it is on your forehead? It is in my eyes. Well, it's not on my face. So you look somewhere else. Man, that's great.

No, Catherine, I will say, I'll give her credit for the light. She does pretty good, because sometimes she'll read after I, after we turn off the light. She'll have a little book light on. She'll be, she'll do pretty good,

like angling that away from me. But anyway, just the, I don't know. I just give her hard. And who knows? Maybe I shouldn't be so stealthy. Maybe I should be a little more.

Bull in the china shop. Bull, bowl in a china shop. I think before my dad got a Kindle, he would read like physical books with a headlamp on. Mm-hmm. Like, and not even the white light because it's too bright,

the red one. See, that's what I'm talking about. That's considerate though. Yes. That's good, Steve. It's a real strain on the eyes, but I was a big,

I was a big headlight at camp guy. Did you do that a lot? I was explained. I needed to people the other day about like what it used to be like and pre-air conditioning and we had it hard and, you know, you'd come out of the shower and you couldn't even tell if you dried off because it was so humid. And they were like, when did you shower? And I said, honestly, if it wasn't like a day off, a lot of times it was at night after

the campers went to bed with a headlamp, you would shower via miners lamp. Would you put, you would wear it? Sometimes. Or yeah, you put it in the corner and like facing it. hanging around the rod of the shower or something. That's pretty funny to imagine you were. Oh, I missed a spot. It was kind of nice.

I think during the body wash portion. Yeah, maybe keep it on the forehead. That's pretty funny. Yeah, those were pretty bright lights, though, and I think we just thought they were not that bright. I don't know. Yeah, that's what I would stay up late and write letters to Catherine, my little headlamp on.

A little half yellow legal pad kind of paper. Dear Catherine. Dear Catherine. One more day. Then we get to see each other outside these walls. My heart can barely take it. Right. How is your leg?

Oh, my mom's trying to make sure. My mom's texting me. Did you see this post on Facebook? It's about Ghostrunner Getaway questions. Yes, Mom, I will take care of it. Don't worry. Mom's looking out. Should mom come on the ghost runners get away?

Should we get a triplet Ellis family room going? Oh, that'd be great. There's a lot of red lights in there. Oh, you got something? I was going to say something I hate. I don't want to ever do this, Jake. Don't make me do this. The whole, this is also on my algorithm right now.

Start, bench, cut. I hate that. I hate that. I hate that. Do you hate it? Who are they doing? Like, anybody. Caitlin Clark, RFK, or Bluey.

How do you choose? I haven't seen that one yet, but just like so dumb. I hate it. Whether it's like, even they'll do it like with Reese's Snickers and M&Ms. And I'm like, stop. I don't, I don't like it.

Stop, but it's Star Reese's. I just don't. And people take it too seriously. And I know that we are a. podcast of taking dumb things seriously all the time. But for some reason, that is where I draw the line is the start bench cut of of random things and people and like scenarios like that. I just can't get past it.

Yeah. Bench cut Kobe LeBron Jordan. Oh, you got to make me do that? You're going to make me cut one of those guys? Oh, man. I don't know if I could do it, man. Oh, okay, okay. You know, it's like it, none of this matters, bro.

Don't act like you're actually cutting my. Michael Jordan. I'm with you. What, what is it about that? Like, other guys doing the exact same thing we're doing, taking that seriously compared to like us being like, I feel like yellow lights have gotten quicker. Like something about that is like way more entertaining and like, I don't know, just funnier than like taking another dumb thing seriously. I don't know. I think it's because it's so definitive. Like it's less, it's less of a conversation, conversation even than like, I don't hate it when people are like, who would win one on one, Michael Jordan or LeBron James? It's like, that's kind of fun to talk about for some reason. But when you say, who would you rather

have on your team, LeBron James or Michael Jordan? No, not even that. Who would you, who would you rather cut? It's like, I don't want to cut any of these guys. They're like the all time best. Yeah, who else is on this team? Obviously, I'm not going to cut one of those three. I'm not cutting M&Ms. I'm not cutting snickers. I'm just putting it in the freezer for later. Anyway, I just get fired up. So I just kind of like to like kill one. Yes. Kill one, marry one, bench one. Go, yeah, go on a two-fourth one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, bench one. Yeah. Anyway, I don't like any of that. I don't like that either. I'm not going to kill any of these people. I don't know how to do that. I don't think I would know how. Speaking of killing.

I got some for you to watch. I got two things for you to watch, potentially. Is it rush hour one or two? Because I just watched those. recent. It's not Rush Hour. They're awesome. Just want to say it right now.

People, Jackie Chan is unbelievable. All right. That's all I'm going to say. Just watch Rush Hour and be like, that was amazing. Jackie Chan did all that himself. Anyway, speaking of killing.

Go ahead. Good job, Jackie. Yeah. Two very different things. One, speaking of killing. Watch maternal instinct on Netflix. Okay. Whoa.

Okay. Give me a synopsis. Or is it like, yeah, I was trying to think how much I should say. Yeah. The very opening scene is police body cam footage of a police officer pulling a woman over who is, she has a newborn baby on her lap, and she's trying to get to the hospital.

And she claims that she just had the baby in the car while she was driving. It's clearly a newborn. She has the placenta. She has the umbilical cord. But don't believe everything you see. Whoa. Whoa. This is one of those, like I watch this documentary and, you know, you learn most has happened in 2019, 2020.

And you go, how did it take six years to make a documentary out of this? This is the craziest thing I've ever seen. Let me guess. Give me, is it America? Don't tell me where. It is in America. All right. Let me guess.

Give me five guesses for states. Let me try and remember where this took place at. Oh, I know where it took place. The first guess is Florida. good guess but no second guess no offense Tennessee no I'll give you a hint it's on the border of two states Cincinnati no

dang it's on the border of two states um like Charles Louisiana I don't even know if that's really on a border is that on the border no warmer though is it El Paso no El Paso no El Paso that's Mexico two different states of

democracy um that is that all uh spokane russian no it was uh texas and oklahoma really where yeah it's a tiny town with like 4,000 people called new boston wow seems like it the pioneers had big plans for this and it didn't quite turn out like new york or new jersey did they're like well yeah you'll you'll you'll know this one it's like we oh it's the new boston yeah new boston yeah new boston this. Wow. Oh yeah, way up there. That area, Oklahoma is interesting. I'll say that. That like south-sastern. Yeah. Huh. Yeah. Crazy documentary. Wow. Look at this. Perfect. We are just about ready to do the good ranchers ad read. And look what's coming through the door right now.

I can't really turn the, oh, look at that. Just a just a plate full of food. Wow. That's awesome. Good rancher's chicken nuggets, watermelon, Caesar salad, Rachel Triplett. Wow. All the best thoughts. Yes. What's good timing. Rachel values healthy things, organic things, natural things. Healthy things. Yes, healthy things.

Organic things. Yes, I think that some of the best versions of that come from Good Ranchers, American thing. She values Americans. Yes, she values farmer things. Oh my gosh. Of course she does. She knows a couple farmers, at least two, right?

Yeah, we've gotten, she values a lot of this stuff. And there are some things we are going to cut back on. Recently, I've said, we gave the non-toxic detergent a good run. Okay. Clothes are getting a little stinky. Yes. I'm ready to go back. But where we have not turned our back on is the back's, is the backbone of this country,

which is American farmers. The breastbone of this country, chicken breastbone. That's right. The backbone of our country is American farmer. Truly it is. It's amazing just how much meat is imported into America that we think is truly from American farms.

It's not. Good ranchers is trying their hardest to put a stop to that, to sell only, they are selling, only American-made meat. And they're freezing it. They're shipping right to your door. frozen you can either get it and make it right away or you can freeze it and wait for it to be

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Sure. I don't have anything to add to that. Great read. Perfect. Goofranter.com. But then the other thing I watched was Nate Bargotsie's movie, Breadwinner. And have you heard much about this? No, is it good?

I've seen clips of it or like a preview. Obviously, it looks like it's probably not quite your target. You're not quite the target demographic for it. Not saying that you wouldn't like it at all, but like it feels like more of a family, like wholesome comedy. Yeah, I think it could be something that you could like take maybe. Henry and or not Henry just take Henry to

Bow and Haddy too and they would like it yeah if you need a night out yeah at times for sure yeah definitely it's only rated PG honestly I don't even know why it's rated PG but super clean okay there were parts of it they were kind of funny

Colin Jost is in it he was probably my favorite really character and I thought he was probably the funniest there's a shark tank scene that I thought they did really well and that was like pretty funny but for the most part it's like

you know who Nate is at this point we all know Nate Bargotsam, we know his schick, we know how he talks, everything and in the movie he plays a character who's like this cocky, outgoing exuberant salesman like used car salesman. That's like, that's not who you are.

Like he's got this air horn as a prop or like, I know you're not an airhorn guy Hmm. Okay. So it's like, yeah, and how much of it that is like him not being a great actor of that character and how much of it's like I know too much about you? Like sometimes I watch things that like you and I've done and I'm like, gosh, that's bad. We are so bad at this. Like that that's such an awkward like unnatural version of us. Yeah. And then I'm like, is that just because I know who we normally talk like? Yeah. You know what I mean? Like do you think it was like? Because I've I've watched him do Saturday. and he's not a great actor. You know what I mean? I'd say you nailed it being a combination of both of like,

he's probably not in his wheelhouse acting and also we know too much about him. Or we've only seen him play one character for 10 years. And this is very different than that. Because I wonder how like true, obviously there's actors out there that you've seen do crazy variations of different characters. So it's like, okay, they're actually good actors. But I wonder how many actors are just like more or less playing themselves. and they just got casted really well for this stuff you know what I mean like doing the same character

because they're good at it like Vince Vaughn or like um Nick Offerman the guy that's Ron Swanson yeah like I think maybe he's just kind of a little bit Ron Swansony in real life I think Amy Poehler was in Parks and Rec as well yeah great point like you see her interviews now it's like you're not that different like you're you're obviously acting a little bit more bubbly on this show but like you're pretty bubbly in real life too you know who's the My homoves' voice kind of sounds like him. What's his name? Danny McBride.

I think he, from what I've seen of him, I think he's kind of always playing himself. Yeah, yeah. Or like, what's that guy's name? Adam Devine. I don't know. I don't know if he's actually like that, but he's just like kind of a squirly guy. And so it's like, yeah, play the squirrely guy character. Don't play the, don't play the, you know, super serious, like romantic guy, you know?

I don't know. Yeah. So, okay. So, okay. So you watched it once. Maybe once was enough. Is that what you're trying to say? Yeah, but I think like families like it is something to do.

Okay. Which these days, man, movies are just hard to find, hard to come by. At summertime. Take your family out as a little treat. Like, hey, you guys were great. Let's go get popcorn and watch a nice movie. Yeah, that's fun. Okay.

That's fun. I should do that. Huh. Okay. So you went out and saw it. Yeah, we did. You're getting out. Getting out in the open ways, open airs.

Are you solo at the house now? Yes, the family has left, which has been nice for Rachel and I to like spread out for kind of the first time since May 28th, you know, and have more than one room. Yeah. For just for both of us and our suitcases. So it feels good to spread out to be able to get groceries for the first time in like three weeks. And we're like getting closer to having a routine and a rhythm.

But it still kind of feels like we're on. vacation. You know, like I really don't think it's going to feel like we moved here until we get into our house. But honestly, we're loving. I mean, the compound life is awesome. Because right now it's it's only me and Rachel, Kyle and Ashley. So I mean, we, I'm playing pickle all the time. We're all hanging out all the time. Yeah. It really is awesome. Does Ashley work or she just solo? She does work. She has a remote job. But she is going to be done working to kind of help out the business and everything we're doing. everything Kyle's doing in like three weeks or so like early July she's done so it's fun

yeah like me life days where it's just like yeah we're just all right right there next to each other just hang out yeah that's awesome yeah it's pretty special it's pretty fun so far I bet you're hot though crazy dry heat no one no one talks about that but it's hot in the desert yeah just a little bit have you gotten burned by seatbelt yet no haven't got burned by seatbelt haven't even really got sunburnt yet. It has been kind of nice to use the heat. So the place we're staying in, either they don't have a microwave

or we can't find it in the five days we've been here or whatever. They're super natural. They don't have microwaves. So we, Rachel, needed to heat up some butter. And so I was like, they have an outdoor table that's black.

Why we just put it on this table? And so we did that. What else if I used the outdoors to heat up? That's hilarious. I forgot, what it was, but yeah, I mean, these surfaces are like 130 degrees probably. So I remember this is like a like probably the only memory of this movie that I have is a national Lampoon's Vegas vacation. I don't remember anything about this movie. But I'm pretty it was either national

ampun's Vegas vacation or Independence Day because I think both of those have scenes in the desert. And I probably watch both of them the same stage of life. But I remember one of them they like cooked a steak on a like rock out in the desert. Oh yeah. That's cousin Eddie. Yeah, he's throwing things on a rock. Yeah, yeah. And of course, I'm sure that's obviously over-dramatized. You can't really do that. But, like, kind of fun.

Kind of fun to think about. I would like to try, like, some experiments with it, like dashboard of your car where you've really got kind of an oven, like cooking a little bit. I know what it was. They had their peanut butter in the fridge. I like a nice room-timp peanut butter. So much easier to spread.

Okay, yep. So I was like, I'll just throw it out on the pickleball court for 10 minutes. And it was awesome. I really did. No, it's totally fine and totally right, but it's just a funny picture to like watch you, like walking out in your slides.

I was home by myself. And come back in, sit around on your computer, like, you know, update some emails and stuff. That's probably been 10 minutes. Ready?

Okay. Ding. Treating it exactly like, oh, warm up something like this. I'd go 10 minutes on the court. Yeah, it's preheated already.

Like, yeah. That's so funny. Just putting it, did you open the jar? Like it was a open. No, I didn't. I didn't know. I was worried about bugs. That's fair.

I don't know bugs would find it. So I kept it. Yeah. Dude, Nathan and I were talking about this last night of dinner. But we saw a comment from some ghosty last week. There was like, you're going to love Arizona. It's awesome. You just get into little rhythms.

For us, it's checking our pillow every night for scorpions. What? checking your pillow every night for scorpions. They said something like that. It was either my bed or my pillow. Like you get used to it, but you always take a black light and check for scorpions or something like that.

I'm like, man, I don't think that's going to be part of my rhythm. That's how God wants to take me so be it. We're in Arizona, not Africa. Yeah, we're not. We just check the mosquito nets every night for scorpions. You know, it's like, I don't think we need to do that.

I don't, I don't, there's certain things I don't think I've ever seen in my life in scorpions is one of those things. Yeah, never. I don't know how big to expect them. How many times in your life, you don't have to tell me the exact number you can guess. Would you say you've seen a snake in the wild? How many times have I seen a snake?

Probably only, I'd say between 15 and 25 times. I would put my number for sure in the single digits, if not maybe five or less. Okay. I don't want to see very many snakes. Like I still scared of him? Of course. Who wouldn't?

They're snakes, dude. They're like one of the most understandably terrifying things in the world. They don't have any legs. You don't know where they're going or how. Yeah. It's a scary belt. But I don't think I, like, I just don't think I've seen very many of them in my life. I kind of vaguely remember seeing one one time in our yard.

Maybe. It was like one of those tiny ones. That's the only time I can really remember even like having a true memory of seeing one. Anyway. Man, I don't care for him. Yeah, me neither. any reptile I don't know if I've seen a cockroach

I don't know if I've ever seen a cockroach if I have I didn't know that's what it was yeah I mislabel it probably called it a beetle I don't know the difference we didn't have a fun like what's it called memory making night kind of like a monumental fun night the other night like a lifelong

memory it got kind of it was kind of stormy outside last night or last week and so the the sky got darker earlier Like it got dark at like 7, 45, 8 o'clock. You know, because normally in the summertime, it doesn't get dark until at least nine.

And so the fireflies came out early and our kids had a hey day with them. Did they? Yeah, we caught so many fireflies. All four of them were still awake and like we were running all around getting them and getting them in the jar and everything. So it was awesome.

It was fun time. But I hit, and you call them fireflies? You call them lightning bugs? Yeah. I don't know. Regional. If I've always called them that or if I just, after I tour with Alis City if I change.

You got your big break at guitar center and there's an Al City guy in there. I think maybe I've called him lightning bugs. Maybe I've changed, bro. Maybe Catherine calls him fireflies. I grew up saying pop and now I say soda, so it can happen. Whoa, dude.

I know. Take your roots. I know. I'm a pop guy. I don't know. Lightning bugs does sound familiar. Now you're really getting me questioning. Sorry, I'm badgering so much with this.

Yeah, please just let it go. Lightning bugs, fireflies, firebugs? No? Firebugs is kind of cool. I really truly don't know the answer to your question. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'll think about it.

I'll get back to you. I'll pray about it. Fire bugs. You still lighting bug guy? You're not changing. Yeah, as of now, we'll see. We'll see how Arizona changes me. They got the L bugs in there?

in Arizona? No, I haven't seen any. Okay. I think they're maybe too hot. Around grass, yeah. So, that's too bad. Anyway. All right, wrap it up. When of the week? Comment of the week? Start, bench cut of the week.

Yeah, let's find a comment. I'm going to go on YouTube for my comment, Jake. Okay. I will go to Spotify. Let's see. Brad hitting the bleat button, having too much fun, and can't hear the bleep is hilarious. He was having so much fun. I was, dude. I was, I was sad. I was sad that they didn't get in there because I think it was funny. Hopefully it's a bleeps. Maybe we should, can we do like a, uh, we'll call it role play real quick. Don't, I have a friend here actually, Jake, if you want to talk to him. He gets a little vulgar. Do you, oh,

okay. Let me go see if I can get him. Hey, welcome to the podcast. What the fuck you want. this is this is a family friendly podcast so if you could try not to curse oh really we got some little here my man an opening comedian like that too

you're like oh okay gotcha gotcha gotcha and then his first sentence the next show would be something like yeah let's go ha

this is a good crowd there's a good crowd Yeah. No, no, sorry. Sorry, sorry. This is, I'm not trying to tell you what to say. You can do whatever jokes you want, but just like, we know our audience. It's going to help you to be more family-friendly.

That's what they are expecting. So go out. Have fun. Kill it. All right. So I'm not saying all girls are, but I'm just saying my girl that I just went on a date with last week. Just one of the worst. Right?

So I would. Dude, real quick. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry, guys. Hey, I don't know. You are a bunch of bs, man. Come on. Maybe I wasn't clear. I'm talking like, maybe that doesn't seem like a cuss word to you, but like no cursing at all. Like PG rated. Okay.

Not even like the maybe words. Maybe words like like that would that would that would be a cuss word. Yeah. I mean that it's in a pretty, you know, disrespected people group. So yeah. Don't say them either. Okay. like are all of them like even like something like that yes that would also that would also count do not say that's that's like a syllable basically I can't say that what if it's like not necessarily like a one word but more of a long sentence like something like that they would not respond well to that especially the arm motion you did I didn't get bleep though You didn't get blurred.

All right. All right. All right. All right. I think I'm picking up what you're... I got you. Okay. So dumb.

Can I do this? Hey, what's up? Little high pitch. Little high pitch for my bad... So dumb. Regular. All right. So that's been bleep.

That's been bleep noises. My bonus comment of the week is Abigail says, Brad, what does jumping on it literally and figuratively mean? I don't know. And then Madison McCullough replied, in your heart, you know. Oh, my. Let's see. So many good comments.

Goliath would go 1-1 in the fantasy draft, listening to two guys who have never made a grilled cheese talking about making grilled cheese. All right. All right. um Nathan I'll have what she's having Coley is funny um

that was from high surf let's see oh wow this person said love that you're in Arizona Jake saw you and Gilbert outside of San Tan Mall the other day

oh man you could be too oh on Rachel right now wow hope you're a straight guy Santam Mall a lot of people just coming into your your defense about the

it sounds like it sounds like we're exposing that moving companies are real bad yeah I guess these things don't go well most of the time. I have a buddy, Mike Banford, you know Mike Banford, like, yeah, he would have

dominated your move, which I'm sure he would have charged more than this guy did, but sounds like it's worth it if you, like he would have done such a good job. Caleb Sullivan, I've heard of him, seven minutes in and Brad has me dying of laughter when he says that Tom Hanks was his favorite actor from the B movie. What a suddenly hilarious joke. Thank you,

Caleb. That's pretty funny. Comment of the week. My of the week is so, I don't expect anyone to care about this, but this is just for me and me only. About two weeks ago, I don't know if his Instagram update, meta, change things, but my, the Friday pickleball Instagram got disconnected from the Friday pickleball Facebook page. And in place of it, anytime I posted even a story or a post or a real, it would then go to my personal Facebook, which is kind of funny and like a little embarrassing at times, whatever.

but I couldn't get the reconnected. I spent the entire like last seven to eight days trying to figure this out on the phone in email, customer support, trying to fix this in meta. I mean, you know,

you've seen the back end of Facebook. It is such a mess. It's so chaotic. And eventually I just stopped trying to work with people and just tried to figure it out of my own. And it's not even that important to our business as a whole, but I've got them connected. And boy, it feels good.

Let's go. What was the answer? In so many words. Poking around. Resetting everything, like just turning it, like disconnecting all of it or poking around? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, truly just click in enough things where I couldn't tell you how to do it again, but I clicked the things in the right order one time.

But man, it feels good. It's so helpful. That's it. Win of the week. Feels amazing. That's where I see the stories most of the time. So I'm glad you got them back. Thanks.

Happy to hear it. Yeah. I'm a Facebook guy, unfortunately. Win of the week? I don't know. I can legally have an Airbnb even though my neighbors hate it.

Lifetime. Lifetime has been the win of the week for sure. It's been really fun to just, I don't know, have that time with my kids. I feel like right now I'm kind of in this lull of like, I'm not doing a ton. I don't have a ton to do,

you know, but I'm trying to just embrace it and just be like, that's okay. because I can spend more time doing stuff with my kids. And like, sometimes I feel just guilty about not working harder in certain seasons of my life. And I'm like, just be cool with this because eventually you're going to get more work

and it's going to be crazy. And it's like, it's going to ramp up again. So just embrace these times. Brace the times where it's like, yeah, I'll meet you at lifetime at 2.30 today. Like, that's fine.

So it's a blessing to be able to do that. And sometimes I view it as the opposite. So I need to be like, when of the week is having the time and like being able to spend that time with my family. So shout out. Shout out to that. That's fun. Nothing like the summertime. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. In like three months, this is going to be gone anyway. Like we're not going to be having these opportunities anyway to do this. So, yeah, trying to embrace it while we can.

And it's just fun, man. It's fun. Fun to be out there. And all the kids love the pool so much. Henry loves just like Henry, Henry's fearless in the pool. Like he would, he would go in the deep end if we let him. It's like, dude, calm down. But anyway, just so fun. Yeah, great times. I love, I love warm weather. It's been fun to just be around summertime. So, win, win, win. Cool. All right, ghosties. That's all we have in our script for you. Word for word. Yep, that's it. Start bench cut this podcast. So, start it. We love you guys. Oh, come to the ghosty get away. Please do it. Ghostrunners.com. Live slash travel to get more information about it. We have some spots open.

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