Ghostrunners - 560 - Churchill Downs

Episode Date: July 27, 2026

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Happy Monday, Jake, happy Monday, Ghosties. I recently had a little bit of a mouse problem in the Airbnb. All right, one of the Airbnbs got some feedback. Hey, no problem. They actually were from like small town Missouri. So they're like, we see mice all the time, not a huge deal. Just FYI. We saw a mouse.

Also, there's, yeah, and there's some droppings here. And of course, I'm like right away, get pest control over there, get it figured out. they came over it to their credit the next day but they did send me an email that said FYI you're more than likely to see increased mouse and pest activity within the next three to seven days I don't like that I've had the same talk that ain't right that ain't right like that that's that's why we hire you to do your thing and so then guess what happened next another little mouse dropping by the coffee coffee bar first forced to Star Review. Dang. Presented by Main Street Roasters, though?

Yo, yeah. Yeah. Presented by Mace Roaster. Yeah. Super host status in limbo. No, we're still good, but I'm like getting scared all of a sudden. But hey, no problem. I mean, maybe the mouse had a little too much coffee and it was just dropping dropping some. Yeah, I can see why the mouse was lured to that part of the house. But I, I'm pretty sure. I haven't even talked about. I mean, this is probably only like four or five months ago, but like, yeah, we had a spider problem. Pest control comes and they go, you're going to see a lot of spiders. Oh, that does kind of sound familiar. Is that the only way we can exterminate them by bringing them in?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, keep them out. Like, they put the mouse stations on the outside of the house. Yes. So therefore, there should be decreased. I think, I think I'm hiring you for the opposite of what you just told me. That's why there's going to be increased pest activity. And what I wanted.

So pest control, maybe. maybe that's too like, you know, broad. I would like for you to kill all the mice and don't let me see them. Yeah. Pest. Please. Pest Holocaust? Is that too extreme of a word?

I think at least you would know what I'm wanting. Listen. Yeah. I'm not advocating for one thing over another. But let's just say, if there's a gas chamber outside with a mouse on it, I'm okay with it. Yeah. It's like I did, I called pest extermination. not pest bring him in and later hopefully we'll kill the queen yeah yeah this isn't this isn't

this isn't past party this isn't like pest yeah this isn't past hey welcome to pest party where we give the best party for your pest party uh uh oh oh oh i do i think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and 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 from the podcast It's like, no. We do the best for your pests. Pest Mart? This is any?

Pest mart? Pest hearts. Or you just hang up, hang up all the hearts of the pests you kill. I was just talking to my dad this morning about pests, kind of. Well, for one, he said, he's like, tomorrow, it's, you know, it's your mom and I's 37th wedding anniversary. And we're thinking about setting off a bug. bomb. I was like, oh, that's right. 37 is the bug, isn't it? That's right. 37 is poison. Yeah.

Yeah, he was like, we didn't even realize it. We were like, all right, I think Wednesday would be a good day, do the bug bomb. And then I guess my mom was like, honor anniversary. And he's like, all right, fine. We'll do bug bombs another day. I guess I'll, yeah, take you for a night out, night away, you know, while we're bug bomb in the house. Say it'd be gone to three hours. But don't say that romance is. isn't dead, you know, bug bombs and stuff. Because every time I get more than one bug bite on my leg, Rachel asked if we have bed bugs. And I have to assure her, I've had bed bugs. These ain't bed bugs.

Yes, we had them in the Stratford house when I was in like middle school, had them for a long time. Like we didn't have friends over for years just because like scared for them to like get them. You know, they're just, they're menaces. They're, they're the worst. Okay. A bug bomb can't kill them. but so you had them and you couldn't get rid of them or you did you get immune to them though

no I remember going to school I had a ton around my like waist band area itchy annoying you can hide them the second location I still remember was like a six by four area like rectangle on my neck it looked disgusting are you sure you know you got bed bucks it's very linear bites that's very big yeah it was huge it was like a four nicotine That's your whole neck. Bed bug, yeah. Wait, so did you? Okay, yeah, keep talking. I want to hear more about the bed bugs. Well, I even asked my dad this morning. I was like, how did we end up killing them? Because I remember it being a long process. We tried so many things like, apparently bedbugs are nocturnal. They only come out at night. So I mean, I'd go weeks going to bed with the lights on. And that was my way of not getting bit. Just every light in my room. That's how you can sleep so well all the time. Yeah, you can sleep through anything. Yeah, I'm like the opposite of, is it Bain? It's like I was born. in the light. Yeah.

I trained in the light. I sleep in the light. I am bedbugs reckoning. Yeah. And I think, yeah, a typical, like, bug bomb thing won't work on them. And so we tried a bunch of different stuff. And eventually, my dad,

you know, his buddy told him that you can get a certain type of, like, cat litter. And if you agitate it, it will then, like, release this gel that apparently is poised. to a bed bug might. So my dad took a hammer to a bunch of kitty litter and then spread it everywhere all over the base boards and all over the base of the mattress. And so when the bed bugs would crawl up, they would like, I think it would dehydrate them and they would die. So I think you have to do that.

You have to kill them. And then you go burn all the mattresses and start over. Exactly. And then you get, yeah, I love the idea of every time you wake up, you have like a kitty litter box next to your bed and you feel biting you and just start punching the kitty letter box. Not tonight, boys. Not tonight, boys. Drake, what are you doing over there? I'm taking out the bed bugs, dad.

I'm agitating the gel. Yeah. I think that's why I didn't have friends over her because I had kitty litter all over my bedroom. Is there a chance? Is there a chance, Jake, that your parents, that you were just kind of a dork and your parents were trying to use the bed bug thing as like, hey, that's why no one is able to come over. Like, in reality, you just didn't have any friends

and they're trying to like, hey, let's spread a few bugs in his bed to say that we have bed bugs here. And then he's like, hey, I had a friend that told me I just need to punch, you know, just smash up some kitty litter. It is hard to explain the kitty litter part, but it is possible that they planted those bugs or planted the bites or something. Make me feel better.

Because, yeah, Kenan had a lot of friends over. Caleb's friends didn't yeah didn't seem to mind it they said that they were immune to girls so I don't know I don't know I guess that's why you know huh that is weird yeah well I can just hear your dad anyway all right Jake sleep tight the bed bugs are gonna buy there's nothing we can do just FY the bed bugs are going to buy by the way can you hear all that hammering going on

is that what it is some some some Isaac McDonald hammering today is actually the carpet cleaners, the carpet pad guys are upstairs getting the urine out. Okay, okay, very good. Very good. Thank you guys for doing that. It might be walking through. Yeah, you're going to hear. No problem.

Did you tell it? How did you preface? You say, hey, FYI, doing a podcast. We're going to talk about bed bugs, among other things. I said, if you need anything, don't be afraid to interrupt. I'm going to be on a call. I said this is a call. Oh, you went for the call.

didn't want okay yeah how far away are they like like how well can they hear this conversation there you got a visual there we had a perfect like a big foot blurry just like walk through the frame really quickly that way can't pass or you just you're happy to see me uh i miss roy roy was good roy was good man right how's uh how's how's how's how's everything how How are the folks? How's the, how's the life going over there? Folks, folks good, life good.

It's monsoon season. I don't know if you heard. Oh, you get like a, what, 0.01 inches of rain down there? It is funny. Your weather app, like, if you're in Phoenix, at the top, it'll say flood watch,

big red bar. And then you go down for expected rainfall. It's like 0.4 inches. So. Okay. Watch out. I don't know how both could be true. But, yeah,

pretty much every day at like 6 p.m. It just gets like cloudy, windy, and might rain a little bit. So it's kind of fun because it's different. But now it's humid here. Isaac and I went to drill this morning. Drill as in like train as in like practice. As in like training get better. As in like cars and trains and automobile.

Yeah. Yeah. And we were both like it was like both of our pride was battling the humidity. It was like normally we'll do this for two. hours. And I mean, we were like 45 minutes in. Hey, I'm, I'm still good. If you're good, he's like, yeah, I'm good. I'm good to keep going. And it was like, it was like just so humid, just so like not what we're used to. And we've gotten soft or whatever. It felt like we were just like, this was like Malaysian, like Vietnam weather. So. Well, because it's still as hot, but the humid, because it's always like,

it's not the heat. It's the humidity. But now it's like, it's kind of both. It's both right now. It's both right now. Yeah. Both and. Yeah. But that's tough. So that's how we're doing. So that's how we're doing. still doing great though. Yeah, good. Yeah. Is it like you said it's rain season? Is it kind of like, you know, like when Atlanta, Georgia gets like a half inch of snow and they call off school for like a week and a half? Like, is that kind of like what happens?

Like it barely rains and people are like flash flood warnings. Hey, you know, don't have to water your plants for a year. You know, like. It might be. I don't have a good pulse on how they react to rain. but I know when we had that dust storm last week, me and Isaac and other people are like, this is awesome, this is so cool.

We went the other way, and then all the locals are like, hey, you can get lung cancer if you're outside too long during these haboobs. Okay. Apparently. Yeah. So I'm sure, though, if we got any type of snow,

it would be hilarious how quickly this whole town shuts down. Oh, yeah. They don't know what to wear, how to drive in it, all the things. Yeah. What's our, what's our version of that? Hurricanes, we wouldn't have anything. No, I, like, if there was a hurricane watch, I would drive a thousand miles away. Right?

Like, wouldn't you? Like, that sounds, like, ridiculously scary to me. Yeah, I wouldn't know where to go. We never had, like, hurricane drills in school. And I feel like that's how you learn where to go and what position to be in. Yes. Earthquake, you are protected by a small desk. Tornado, you're protected by a hallway and the crouch position.

Earthquake is one you can't really predict beforehand, right? It just kind of randomly happens. Is that true? Yeah, so I would just sit under the desk. Because earthquake would be terrifying. Like, I'd be terrified of an earthquake as well. But yeah, hurricane. Where do you go in a hurricane?

I feel like a basement. That's the first place where's got to get in. Yeah, you get out of there. You flee. Too high. It's windy. Fine. Where do you think is like the safest place in America to live?

Not St. Louis. rule that out. Uh-oh. You freeze? Oh, no. So anyway, where do you think the safest place in America would be? I feel like I started to hear you ask that question before you cut out, and I just said not St. Louis. Yeah, fair.

But I don't know what you had in mind, like, to survive natural disasters. Yeah, like, because Kansas, I feel like, is where I live is very safe, except for the fact that think there's tornadoes. And there are in places in Kansas, but like I, we've never really experienced a tornado in Kansas City too much. But it's like,

where, there's somewhere that's like, you don't have any threats of anything, really. Maybe like, this is gonna sound crazy. Okay. What about like Vegas? Yeah.

Vegas is safe. Like they're like a true desert where like, I don't even think they get monsoon season. It's just, just dry. It's just safe. As long as you have like running water. you know, you're safe.

Okay. Vegas is the best. You heard you first from the ghost first podcast. Vegas is the best place in America to live. Safest city. Best place to raise kids. Best place to start a family. I would say so.

Well, if you care about their safety, it is. Yeah. That's for those who care about the safety. Oh. Las Vegas. Mm-hmm. There you go. Anyway, dude, about 10 minutes before we started recording.

I got a text. that put me in a bit of a panic. Not too bad. I'd say six out of ten panic. I hate those. It's worse when you get them while recording. Yeah, luckily this is before. It's like, uh, try to keep with the conversation when you just see this text.

It's like, I got to worry about that. Dang. You know, I'm even going to knock it down. This was, this was like a three or four out of ten panic. Not too bad. But basically, probably like a month ago. Panic. Yeah, three out of four panic.

But it's still panic. Yeah. I mentioned that I went to the Nate Bargetti show in Phoenix. And afterwards, I was so impressed by Andrew Stanley that I just DMed him on Instagram and was like, dude, you crushed it tonight. That was awesome. We're going to come see you when you're in town next month. He responded and said, dude, why don't you just go ahead and open for me? I said, that sounds awesome. I had since completely forgotten about that until like two days ago. And then I will say Rachel reminded me and was like, you're still doing that? I was like, holy crap. I forgot about that. I was just going to like make plans and forget, I guess. And so then, yesterday I texted him and said hey dude so excited uh for Wednesday let me know if there's anything I need to know and then all day yesterday he didn't respond woke up this morning no response yet so I had mentally moved on like okay I don't need to prep it's not happening oh you thought it's all good yeah okay okay okay I moved on and then yeah about 20 minutes ago he was like dude so

sorry yes can't wait tomorrow night's gonna be awesome I was like okay okay okay all right tomorrow night It's tomorrow night. Oh, yeah, because you said Wednesday. Okay. Holy cow. Okay, no problem. Four out of ten. Is that how,

that's how prepared you are right now, four out of ten? Yeah, four out of ten panic at four out of the ten minutes. No, it won't be that bad. It'll be like an ideal audience for me. It's going to be fun. It's, you know, it's going to be a hot crowd. It'll be great.

I just need to prep. Is there any part of you that, like, I don't even know. Oh, how to phrase is, but like, would there be any part of you that would be kind of excited if someone said, hey, go up there right now for 10 minutes and just, just figure out what to do. Like, if you had a one minute head start, like, you might have a few like jokes under your belt of like, okay, I know I could just say this to at least get things going. And then I just feed off the room.

Yeah. I think if everyone knew I'd been pulled up from the audience too, then I would enjoy that challenge. Oh yeah, because then the standards are a little bit lower at that point. Yeah. It's like, okay. But I think it'd be really fun to just like free flow a little bit. I think you could, you're not quite as tight probably, but there's no time to be nervous. There's no time to be nervous till you get up there. It's not like the WMBA, you know, pluck from the crowd idea. Like talk about it again this weekend, dude. Yeah. It got brought up. Dude, that idea never dies. That does not die. I want to hear about your weekend because I heard a little something about Jensen the day that you were going to his bachelor party.

I got a call for somebody else. So I don't know if you want to talk about that or if he's good with that being out there. But I'm very curious about the whole weekend. The whole weekend was wonderful. I think you're referring. I mean, yeah. So Jensen is looking for a new job. He's just trying to figure it out.

And he's looking for a new job because of the employer's decision. one hour before he's supposed to leave for his bachelor party. And I was like, dude, he had such a good attitude about it. But I was like, I'm not trying to like, you know, add fuel to your fire. But that sucks, dude. That is a real bummer of a move to be like, hey, letting you go. As you know that you're like leaving on a vacation like a day early for your bachelor party. Anyway, okay, you're not going to hear Friday.

We'll go ahead and let you know now. Don't come. Okay. Don't come on Monday either. Yeah, yeah, exactly. you know, Bourbon Trail help you drown your

drown your sorrows a little bit. No. When I got told, for some reason, I thought it was so funny. But I think it's because Jensen is such a like high achieving, like guy,

it's like I'm not worried about him landing on us. He's going to be successful. He's going to find something. So I just thought it was hilarious. Like, wow, that day he's like on his way to the airport for his bachelor party.

Yeah. He got fired. I mean, just like, are you kidding me? Like, I was fired up for him. No,

no pun intended. But I was like, all right. Um, You know, whatever. Honestly, I kind of forgot throughout the weekend. And then every once to a while, we'd be like betting at golf or something. And I'd be like, I got you, man.

You know, whatever. Like, just kind of. Jansy, you want to go double or not? Nevermind. You're good. Dude, you're good. Yeah. No, dude.

It was so, it was so classic Bachelor weekend. It was a really fun time. I think I counted there were six different states represented. Seven, if you count a guy's home state, but he doesn't live there anymore, which let's not get technical. Um, can you guess? I'm going to give you, I think you can, you can confidently guess at least three states. And then I want to see if you can guess four.

Get 100% on four. Can you do that. Oh, four states. Yep. Okay. Kansas. Yes. Tennessee.

Ohio. Yeah. Kentucky. Mm-hmm. Alabama. Not Alabama. But you got four, though. That's good.

Come on. His sister went to Auburn. And he's a Samford guy. I know. Yeah. None of them live in Alabama now. um okay there's another one that's wait where is it Missouri Illinois that oh oh I'm Georgia's one I'm trying to think of because Kentucky obviously Louisville's right there and then oh

Indiana Indiana man and it was it was both a eclectic group of different states and personalities I mean that's that's what a that's what a that's what a bachelor party is you know what I mean like It's like, hey, let's invite, you know, let's invite the in-laws. Let's invite the guy from college. Let's invite the guy from camp. Let's invite the random podcast guy. You know, let's invite all the different guys. And so-

I want you to tell me who was there by comparing them to like archetypes you would see in a small-town high school. Oh, fun. What types of people? What types of high school kids were there? Yeah. So there was the teacher who's too friendly with the, the students.

His name is Jacob. Jacob is 84 years old. He's, I don't know how old he is, but he's been married 26 years. So he is like significantly older. Yeah, yeah,

so it's like, it's like, hey, it's the gym teacher that like still plays basketball, you know, after school with the team kind of thing. Like,

okay, which I'm all for, I had four old people at my bachelor party. Yeah, he did. Yeah. And oh,

and there was the, uh, yeah. Yeah, the dad that's in the stands who, you know, was like, I wish I could still play. He was there, Jensen's dad. Let's think of who else was there from. There's the guys that pull up in the trucks that they definitely souped up themselves. And they let you know every single day when they're in the parking lot because they're revving up their engines.

Okay. Like made some poor financial decisions, but they're proud of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like they, like their trucks came with mufflers. and they voluntarily took them off, like those kind of guys, you know? That was, that was- Cause right there. Kyle just bought a new car.

And so people have been like telling him like, dude, congrats. And he like made the point. He's like, it's funny. Like, everyone's trying to be nice. They say congrats, but you could have made the worst financial decision in your life. And everyone's like, dude, where to go? Yeah.

Because they don't know. Good job on the debt, dude. They just assume it. They just assume it was a good decision for you to like make. It's like, yeah, you could afford, like I could go afford to put a very small down payment on a million dollar house right now. And people would be like, wow, you guys are doing amazing. You guys must be really rolling in it.

It's like, I don't know if I'm going to make next year, next month's mortgage. I just made the worst decision in my life. Everyone is so happy for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've ever told you that old story about the mouse who fell into a bucket of cream? I'm trying. Oh, no, you haven't, but Christopher Walken did one time. Is it your story?

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They got it. Mastri-R-R-R-K-R. All right, who else is there? Let's think here. I'm trying to reverse engineer all these different things. Any theater kids? Any male cheerleaders or anything? No.

There's one guy who seems like he's like he's in AP government class. Like he's really in, he's a third year law school student and wants to go into like government, you know, of some sort. Like once be in politics. It's just like what's his name from Parks and Rec? Ben. he's got a little bin wide on him yeah i can see that um there's one guy there's one guy's his name's mac mac uh i really vibe with mac i compared him to adam kosh actually um and uh but mac oh dude okay so here's so mac's starting to listen to the podcast that that's what's fun

but he is like my ocd is making me listen to it from the very first episode so he is texting me like live texting me like scott used to remember how scott used to be like dude that was hilarious what you said in episode 48 And I'm like, we don't know what we said last week, dude. What are you talking about? But anyway, so Mac is going to hear this four years from now if he keeps listening. But Mac is the guy, and he's going to be a fit, he's going to be a fit no matter what we do right now. But Mac is the guy who is the manager of the basketball team.

Didn't quite make the team, but like should, like is one of the boys kind of thing. and gets all the free gear and wears it all the time. Because Mac, and this is where I compare him to Kosh a little bit too, Kosh is a big, like, like Kosh went to Baylor, and you know he went to Baylor because every third outfit, there's something Baylor. And Mac loves the University of Tennessee, go Vals. And you would know that because when we went golfing,

he wore a Tennessee polo. But you'd also know that because when we went golfing, along with his polo, he wore a Tennessee. And you would know that because when we went golfing, he wore a Tennessee polo in a Tennessee hat and two Tennessee long socks. And so the guy, the guy went three for three. They weren't all bright orange. They weren't all bright orange.

The shirt was actually really cool. It's kind of a powder blue with a Tennessee orange tea on there. But anyway, so he's the guy that's like school spirit, big time. But he was on the Tennessee golf team. He's like a scratch golfer. Correct. Yeah. really good for the intermaral softball team that they played on. He was like the 19th best

player on that team. So, um, so good, Mac. So good. So good. So good. Um, let's see. Jensen is like the, yeah, the guy that like develops late and is like a jock, but also like, you know, leads worship on Thursday mornings for like the, you know, like the youth group kind of thing. Yeah. Every girl you have a crush on has a crush on Jensen. And so it makes you hate this guy. And then you get to know him in a movie. And you go, he's awesome actually. Like, dang it. That guy's my bro. Yeah. Um, okay, then there's Eli. What would Eli be? Eli would be the guy that like used to bully kids. And now is like, dude, my bad. I shouldn't have done that back. Dude, like, like, like, Eli is like strong and yoked and he's in the Air Force. Um, but he's also like really tenderhearted now. Like he's

really sweet in his own way. Tattoos. Trying to think. Oh yeah. Tattoo. Big old like thigh tattoo. Okay. He regrets it.

He regrets it. He, yeah. That's from a past life, you know. And then there's a guy, Brad, who's also just a beast.

He used to be a flight nurse, which is really crazy. Which is just like he would fly in a helicopter to remote locations and just like, do emergency nursing stuff right there. I don't know what he would be. A flight risk. We were pretty worried about him for a while. Yeah, he might be the guy that like, he's like, hey, did you, did you have any contact with

Brad, you know, before he, you know, and it's like, well, yeah, we talk some, but like, we weren't close or anything. Yeah, no, he didn't talk about any plans or anything. I'm trying to think of anybody. Oh, and then there was Tim. Tim is awesome. Tim's a finance bro. So he would be, he's one of those guys that's like, I think he was probably president of the

calculus club, but then eventually learned. how to like kind of get fashionable and is really cool now he lives in austin so like he's like both smart and you know cool like um so anyway all around oh and then nathan this jensen's cousin nathan uh Nathan Nathan's the guy who uh played offensive tackle even though you would assume he's like a wide receiver type wow you know what I mean like just one of those guys it's like he's just going to surprise you all weekend you know like like the way he like he's like stood when he was about to swing a golf club was like, this isn't going to go well.

And then pretty good. You know what I mean? So I think that's about it. But yeah, all together, it was a great weekend, man. We had a blast. Louisville was cool and

and scary all at once. Have you ever been there? You ever performed there? Yeah. One of our first year's over was there. In my time there, I've loved Louisville. Yeah.

But maybe I didn't see the scary parts like you did. We just stayed. We stayed in one of those houses, like, sorry, can you hear me? No, freaking A, dude. Anyway, no, but no, we stayed in a house that was, was one of those houses that, like, you could reach out and touch the house next to it, kind of house, you know? Oh, wow. So, and it was one of those houses, like, every single time I went to my car, I said,

hey, FYI, I'm going to my car. Like, I told people, just in case. Like, just, just wondered, like, where was Brad last C? Well, he said he was go to his car about 9.36 p.m. And he didn't ever come back kind of thing. I don't know if that was valid or not. Because you can't really tell when you're in a new city. Like, is this a rough part of town or is this an old part of town?

You know what I mean? Yeah. Is that a guy just, you know, having a nice stroll? He just went and got groceries with his cart. Or is that guy, you know, trying to find somewhere to mug me. So, yeah. But yeah, Louisville was great, man. I, have you been to Louisville slugger?

Louisville, I think it's Louisville slugger. I got to say Louisville. No, I saw some ghosties definitely recommending that you go there, though. Yeah, we weren't necessarily planning on it, and we did end up going. We kind of like split up. There was like the bourbon lovers trail, like people that wanted to go to the bourbon things, and there wasn't enough spots for both or for everybody to go. And so I was like, I was on the museum lovers track.

And so they're like, do you want to add Louisville Slugger to it? And I was like, sure. And I'm really glad we did because, yeah, it was cool. The wood shop side of things was really fun because it's just like, I'm nerding out about how it used to take them 30 minutes to turn this bat, you know, turn this plank into a bat. And now it takes like 38 seconds or something like that. Oh, yeah. But then, dude, what the baseball lover in you is like, this is the coolest part.

And gosh, I'll be mad if this is not true. And they're twisting my, pulling my leg, twisting my arm. Twisting your bat. Yeah, messing with my femur. I don't know. But like there is, there is like this spot where you can go and you can hold all these bats that are like game used by iconic players. And they have, they made sure to like represent each team.

But dude, I held the same bat that Babe Ruth held. See, I was expecting like, like recent legends. Correct. The Royal's version was Alex Gordon. So I was like, let's see. Alex Gordon or Herman Babe Ruth. Let's think about this for a second. Yeah, dude, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, King Griffey.

Like, all these, like, just to be like, that's kind of crazy. I mean, it doesn't really matter, but it's like, my hands touched where his hands touched. On a bat. Baby Ruth. Yeah. So that was crazy. That was really cool. And then you got to also see, like, hey, this is, like, they also had modern players.

they had once like little like cubby for each team like at least one player on each team of like this is the exact specification of his kind of bat this is you know whatever uh Ronald Ocuna Cunia's bat like this is the exact bat that we make for him

this is the exact bat we make for Vinnie Pasquentino for the royals like all these different this is Bobby Witt Jr's bat like and so you're like hold it and you're like that's exactly what he feels when he swing so that was cool just because like my love of baseball comes and goes, like to an extent,

like I don't consciously think about baseball very much anymore, but the love of baseball is just a different, special kind of like romance compared to other sports. You know what I mean? Like there's just something special about it. So, um,

that was really cool. Yeah. That's fun. I went to a baseball game. Oh yeah, that's right. Debex in the Cardinals. First.

Yeah. Baseball game in, I don't know, maybe two years. I don't know if I went to a rose one last year. Um, in a dome kind of cool yeah okay you ever seen a big sporting event in a dome oh big sporting event no Tampa Bay raised versus the Yankees where there were there more New York fans than raised fans there

yes I have what what led you to why were you in Tampa um I think on vacation one time uh yeah my aunt and uncle live in Tampa uh and there was a while where my dad and I our goal was to go to a different baseball stadium every summer and so it's like hey, let's knock off Tropicana field while we're here. Let's see Wade Boggs before he retires. Come on, Fred McGriff's there. We could check him out. So, and yeah, it was just like the Yankees fans were so much louder than the race fans.

Yeah. But, yeah, Dome was kind of weird. It is. I've also been to the, I went to the Metro Dome. I went to a Twins game one time. Okay. Yeah. Good twins.

I think I've only ever been to a Vikings football game with the Coupes. couple years ago. Yeah, I feel like me, Isaac, and Nathan spit the entire first thing. Maybe not Nathan. Nathan's a pretty diehard Cardinals fans who was watching. But me and Isaac, for sure, I didn't even see the first inning. I mean, I'm just looking around like, what an impressive structure. And it's retractable roof.

It's what trying to figure out, where does it, how long does it retract? We're looking up videos. I mean, we did anything but watch the baseball game. It's just so impressive what they've done. This is massive because to play baseball indoors, it has to be humongous. Yeah, and connecting, like, like it's one thing to just like throw a tarp over something. But you have to like have poles connecting all that

and know how to suspend those bad, but that's what kind of gets me going. Doesn't, am I correct in saying that often the Diamondback Stadium will have the dome closed until right before the game? And then they'll open it. Do you know if this is true? I don't know that to be true.

I would say during most of the season, I doubt it. Okay. Because I remember my father-in-law, and maybe it wasn't Diamondbacks, but it was somewhere that they're like, it's 75 degrees in here, but it's 100 degrees out, you know, out there or something like that. And they would open it up. But maybe it's not that one. Maybe if they make it to the playoffs, like if they're playing in October,

maybe they're like, let's open her up, you know. Get a little sunshine. It is retractable. Yeah. So, yeah. I, surprise, surprise. I'm kind of a purist. And I'm like, no, sports should be played outdoors.

Like, like football should be played in the elements. Baseball, that's what, that's half of what makes it so fun because not every venue is going to be the same. You know what I mean? I do love that about baseball, that your fence, length, and height can be whatever you want. Awesome. What other sport is like that? Or just like. None.

Your call. You're calling the specifications of the field you play on. Yeah, you can, can we just do like a big jut out? like we're we're in Texas can we just like make the outfield the shape of Texas basically yeah sure no problem yeah hey um had a buddy up in boston who had an idea instead of the normal you know left field foul fence it's like eight feet tall what about like 45 giant sure sure sure wall and i can i have to do i probably have to paint it like you know wide or black or something no in the right field fence whatever you want like three feet players will regularly kind of like 17 inch

hop over it. Yeah. That is so, so funny, dude. Oh, man. That part is kind of fun,

especially as a kid, like playing baseball and being, like, what field do you want to play on? Like, it actually matters. Yes. And you're playing Madden or NBA live.

It's like, which arena put me anywhere? But which field you play on was like a fun game to figure out on video games. Wasn't, um, polo grounds just like 800 feet to dead center?

or something like that. Like, it was like a mile long. It was crazy. I love playing there, though. There was one MVP baseball edition. Yeah.

Yeah, I think it was like 480 to the corners because it was like an actual polo-sized field. It was massive. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. But like imagine you're an architect like, or whatever, like the person designed the field and you just designed like a regular outfield. It's like you're, you wasted. You wasted it.

You blew it. Yeah, you just go a perfect semi-circle, 330, 400, 330. I think, oh, man, now I'm getting excited about this idea. I think that people should, that we should give a little bit more flexibility or creativity to home teams in the way they design their fields for other sports. Not necessarily like, I don't know if football should just all of a sudden be wider, but maybe like, you know, the, like, like, like, like, like, Like, you know how usually like the first or like the last 10 yards before the goal line is like fourth and goal.

Or whatever, first and goal. They change it like, hey, no, no. We have a really good offense. But we have a bad defense. So we're going to do like anytime in between the 23 and the end zone is goal to go. You know what I mean? Yeah. Or even just like I like the word you said earlier, jut outs.

Judd outs. I would like to see more judd outs. Okay. I think in the end zone, you've got like. could jut out in the corner or just like random spots. We're like, no, actually that's, that is in bounds right there. Just a little jut out. Yeah, in different spots.

What about like, did you, you could even arrange it? Did you ever play NBA jam and, uh, you could turn on the hot spots or the, is that what they're called? Like, there were just random spots that would kind of show up throughout the game and glow. And if you shot it from that spot, you would get more points than normal. And so like, what if you could like create hot spots on the court, and like try to like cater those.

Obviously there'd be stipulations, like, but you cater those a little bit to the ability of your team. Like all the Warriors hotspots back in the day would have been back behind the three point line. But like the Lakers, when they had shack,

they could have done hotspots down low and just avoided all the hack of shacks. I like that. I think football you could have like hot spots to be tackled by like regardless of the down and distance. Like if you get tackled right here on the right hash of the 37 yard line, that's actually automatic first down.

it's our hot spot. Yeah, that's fun. Like, yeah, you get to this spot automatic first down, no matter what. Kind of like you have an automatic touchdown. Obviously, once you get past a certain line,

you don't have to get six yards behind the line for a touchdown. I'd like to see us get a little crazy with the uprights in football. Thank you. That is a great. We have plenty of leeway there. Yeah.

Yes. Right now, everyone's doing the same thing. Like maybe a jut out in the middle. Yes, exactly. Like, like, trapezoid. It's kind of like pickleball where the overall area of the paddle has to be so much.

But like you can technically like skinny that thing out and lengthen it. Like I think that's how it should be in football too. It's like, hey, it has to, you have to have this much air space for the football to go through. But you can you can do like a Tetris kind of thing back and forth. You can, yeah, you can wave it around if you want. That would be electric, dude. That would be fun. Like it's pretty skinny for like 20 yards.

And then once you go to 20 yards. yards, then it's like, hey, Bunker kicks it really high. Give him a wide girth. Yes. At the top, that's fun. So it awards people, yeah,

that can kick really high, like moon balls. Golf, I guess, is similar to baseball and the fact that like every, you know, instance is different.

But most sports not. Yeah, I don't know. I get kind of fired up now. I'm thinking about these things. Anyway, that was kind of fun. Back to your point.

I don't know if I am a purist, though. I think I, I think football is just more fun to watch. when like the quarterback can grip the ball. Although a snow game is fun every now and then. I just love, I think I'm with them.

I like the Super Bowl stands of like the Super Bowl's indoors. Like, come on. I'm okay with that. I get it. I get it. Kurt Warner, that's his whole thing is like, yeah.

Everyone should be, all football should be played in Dome. It's like there's something electric about like, like the other, like a couple years ago, Miami was playing Kansas City in the playoffs. and it was dog cold in Kansas City. Here come all these, you know, Florida boys, South Beach.

Like, and we dominated them. And I think it's a large part because of the elements. Like they just weren't ready at all. It was like the fourth coldest recorded game ever in NFL history. Yeah. Playoff tickets were down to like $15 because no one wanted to go. It was like if you could survive, you're in. Yeah, that was that game, wasn't it?

Yeah. Just absolute. sanity and like that's just the things that like lore is made up is like crazy times yeah it is better storytelling than every game was in ideal conditions um anyway game was good well game was kind of funny uh for one even with pitch clock it is baseball there's a lot of downtime i found myself i'm who i am now but i found myself having the world cup final on on my phone. I was watching soccer

at a baseball game. I was like, who's going to score first? Checking on pickleball as well, probably. Yeah. It was zero, zero in both games for a while. That's funny.

And yeah, so we went with Nathan. He's a huge Cardinals fan. They get out to like a 7-0 lead. So it's like, hey, this is kind of fun. His team's went in. We're getting to see a lot of runs scored.

They're up 7-0 in the sixth inning. And then a couple things happened. Diamondbacks come all the way back, they go to extra innings, end up winning in extra innings. And once again, I don't know why I just thought it was so funny. It's like other people's misfortune.

Nathan just going, how did we do this? It was the largest blown lead in Diamondbacks history, and we were there for it with a tired Cardinals fan next to us. Wait, and largest comeback in Diamondbacks history

or large blown lead in Cardinals history? Largest blown lead. Wait, wait, yeah, largest comeback. Sorry, I keep getting confused. Yeah, Cardinals were up 70. Wow. Max came all the way back in the 10th. So it was, I mean, yeah, it was like eight to seven.

So a pretty electric baseball game as far as runs, scored go. They had this whole section where the tarps are off, like all these guys, they take their shirts off and they start waving. It starts with five guys and then 10 guys and there's 50 guys up there, you know. So that was kind of fun to check it on. That's awesome. I love that. I love it.

I love everything. I'm trying to think if it's socially acceptable to go tarps off indoors. But I think it is. I think there's part of it's like tarps off. Yeah, you got to be a little bit worried about sunburn, but they're good. That's awesome, dude. Man, I, that was fun. My gift to my dad this year for Father's Day, which we haven't done yet, is to go to

Royals game with him and all my family. So we got to, we got to get out there soon enough. Brad, I have two questions for you. Please. First one is, how does it look from the back? Oh, oh, oh. baby. Dang. That boy don't got no parasite.

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Two? Two. Here's the real question, Ghosties. How many pairs on top of each other is Jake going to have to wear in order for you? Like if Jake comes in next week and he's got six pairs of Cozy Earth on, straight, in the Arizona heat, dead of July. Would you do it? Dead. Dead of July. Or do you need seven in the dead of August.

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Finish, fill in the blank of this for me as far as a number goes. Churchill Downs is a top blank sports venue in America. Churchill Downs? I love where this is going. Top. I mean, I want to rank it really low because who cares, but I don't know. It's in the top 75. Pretty close to 75.

I said top 10, dude. I was the one getting the ridicule in this right here. And it sounds like you would have been right there with flogging away out of me. Yeah. I'm down to be educated more about it. Maybe it's ignorance. I just think the Kentucky Derby is iconic. Like, and it takes place in the same place every year.

Like, it's like, I don't know. I just think of like large sporting events in America. Obviously you got like Final Four, you got Super Bowl, World Series. I think Kentucky Derby is up there. And then Kentucky Derby is always Churchill Downs. And it's like this different, completely like set apart atmosphere than other sports. I think it's interesting. Anyway, we went, we went and took a tour of Churchill Downs.

The museum lovers did all four of us. So it was me, basketball manager, bully turned good guy and Unabomber, Browman. Brad. And the four of us, and afterwards, Mac, basketball manager was like, I mean, yeah, I don't necessarily regret going, but I don't think I had to go. I was like, really? I thought it was so cool to see the, like, one of the, that's probably got to be one of the top 10, you know, venues and sports. And Mac, being an SEC football fan, he's like, I can think, you know, he's got this accent to him. I can think of 10 venues in the SEC alone that are better than that.

I'm like yeah Nick Savens house Nick Savon's Lake house That's right Yeah, Yeah, put on his jockstrap that one time It's like,

it's like all right man Come on Ricky Fowler's backyard Backyard Courts house I mean Yeah I guess I don't know Like where are like

What do you Is there like a definitive Like can we agree On like at least five Top of the top 10 sports venues Like is Finway Park definitive or Wrigley Field.

Square Madison Garden. Yes. The Madison Square. Yeah, that's fair. MSG, I think, would be up there. Okay, sorry. What did you say? We got MSG.

I said Finway. Finway. That's top of my list. Yeah. Rigley. LAMbo? That's where I was going to say, too. Yeah, I'm with you.

Okay. And then what? Like, I think Alton Fieldhouse, I'm very, I'm very biased towards like, Allen Fieldhouse. I mean, there's a lot of iconic college ones. Yeah. I don't know if there's like one. See, I don't remember. That's Michigan or is that Ohio State? So sorry. That's Michigan. Okay.

I feel like, was it Kyle Field? Like that one is like a pretty casual college football fan is like pretty impressive to me. Man, A&M people are going to be so excited that you said that. The swamp. What else? It feels like every college football stadium is correct. Massive and awesome. That's why people love college football is all the traditions and stuff like that. I don't know, man, Churchill Downs.

Put on the list. Huh? Just throw it up there for me. Yeah. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. I don't know what the rubric is, but yeah, it is neat. I get, I don't know.

Yeah. Unless you're just going to like, I guess, monopolize the list with one type of sport. Like, yeah, you could go college football if you're a huge college football fan and just put all college football venues. But if it's like, hey, you know, it's kind of like, what's it called like DEI if we're doing like DEI of you know it's like we need a little bit of everything here like we need we need a NASCAR track probably guys yeah we need an NHL stadium marathon

street right we need an NHL game or place probably should do like women's soccer if we're being honest you know like but I don't know yeah it's like Daytona 500 Bristol I don't know I I don't know. Where's the one that they kiss the bricks? Indy, I don't know where that is. Indy 500. I just think Churchill Downs was so interesting to me.

It was like, this is cool, man. Just like 150,000 people here for the Kentucky Derby watching these horses that are a million dollars each running around. Is that what it holds 50,000? No, it holds, it's got a huge standing room only. They call it the infield.

And they say it's like a combination of Mardi Gras and a country club or something like that. or maybe Marty Grawn a lake culture. I don't know. It's kind of like more party culture, but it holds 150,000 people. But some of them are standing, a lot of them are standing remotely.

Like I think the stands themselves are maybe like 30 or 40,000. But then there's all these other people in there. Just massive party, huge time. All for like two minutes. I don't know. I think it's cool. I was into it, dude.

I was having a blast. I think if I was there. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Neeland Stadium's probably way better than this. I'm like, All right, man, whatever. I think if I went, I would definitely geek out on it.

And I would love it. It's a national historic landmark. I'm like, that's cool. It's been around for hundreds of years. I don't know. I feel like once every three years, I do like come across a fun fact about horses or the Kentucky Derby. I go,

I don't make you think. Hey, every competitor this year was a descendant of, uh, uh, Secretariat. Yeah, I was like,

I know it's not C-Biscuit. Yeah, secretariat. That's pretty interesting. to me. Listen to this one, bud. Secretariat was the first horse, I believe, to win the triple crown. I think there's been three.

Do you know this fact? I did not know this. And maybe this is like, oh, yeah, everyone knows this. This is my one three years. Average, average horse's heart weighs how much, no, I'm just going to tell you, because don't, don't over guess it. Average horse's heart weighs seven pounds. Okay.

Secretariat's heart, 21 pounds. some sort of freak horse yeah what were they injecting in that bad boy or whatever so no wonder everyone's trying to get his seed you know what i mean like that that big heart seed um yeah want to get that big heart on and the seed and so it's like dude give me that thing so so yeah no wonder because like the whole idea of the triple crown is like usually there's a like like like you like the horses don't have enough time to recover to truly be great at racing every single one of them. And so a lot of horses, I don't think, are going in all of them because it's too quick of a

turnaround. But if you've got a heart, that's three times bigger than everybody else's, I think you can recover a little better or something. I don't know. Anti-grinch of horse racing. 21 pounds? That's insane, dude. So all I just say, I am now going to at least watch this year's Kentucky Derby.

You know what I mean? Like, I got to at least watch this. And then, let's go one more step on random sports. on TV this weekend, we watched the entire night of UFC fighting, and I enjoyed it. Now, there is something I have never partaking. I've been on bachelor parties when it's like gone on and I'll just go on a walk or something. I'll tell you, it's as close as we're getting to modern day gladiators. I'm like, we're all rooting for this guy who's like kind of clearly concussed, wobbling around,

like just beat him, hit him harder, get him on the ground. You know, like, it's like as close as I've ever felt to like objectifying a person. Like I just, I just want to see this person get obliterated right now. And then all of a sudden those guys that seem like they're like walking like a deer, like a baby deer like can barely walk, just somehow like get a 18th wind and absolutely rock the other guy at the ground and choke them out. It's amazing, dude. I don't know.

All of a sudden I'm like, I'm not going to watch it every time. but if it's on, I'm going to be interested in it from now on. It was crazy. Yeah, I've never, I mean, I'll listen to a podcast and they get started talking about UFC. Fast forward. I don't know why. I've never had any interest in it. But maybe they need a, I mean, I think they're doing fine as a business, but I feel like drive

to survive really helped F1. Yes. Maybe they need to like, I need to learn some storylines or some drama. I need to, they need to get other casual sports fans into UFC somehow. Yeah, fair. I mean, but yeah, I, I enjoyed it enough. I'm not saying I'm like the next UFC guy, but yeah, I enjoyed it.

You hear me? Cool. You good? Yeah, yeah. Okay, I was getting a call. I'm all, I'm all paranoid about my computer now. So it's like, oh, if one thing happens on it, is it going to die on me?

It's going to freak. So, anyway, UFC. I'm a, I'm a gladiator fan now. Okay. UFC. Yeah. I might have that parasite. It's been going around.

Just a little update for you for you and the rest of the ghosties. Oh, the one that makes you just a little bit itchy behind the ears? Is that the one the one you're talking about? I don't have the itchy ear one. Do you have the itchy ear one? Oh, you're talking about the one that

just like makes you twitch your fingers a little bit. I don't have the twitching finger one. Like when you're riding in cursive. No. Oh, are you talking about the one? No, I don't have that one either. Are you talking about the one where you accidentally put both your socks on the wrong foot?

That one? I don't have the switchy socks one. Which one are you referring to? No, I don't have any of them, buddy. I'm good. I'm clean. I have the one where you feel like a little weird, be like, maybe I just need to go to the bathroom,

and then you go to the bathroom and you look down and you go, what in the world is that? You go, I'm going to need an interpreter for this. You know in OASL right now? Really? You're in the club? Maybe. Maybe.

How do you? I just know I saw something yesterday that I've never seen before. But I feel fine. I don't know. I just feel like everyone's talking about the parasites in the lettuce, the parasites in the berries. It's, you know, only eat fruit with a peel and don't do this and that. So I guess it's a little more top of mind.

I mean, I've heard that people are going to the emergency room for this. So I feel like you're not really. dipping your toe in with this. I think it's either like, like if you're going to emergency room, so from what I hear, I hear it's diarrhea. And you don't have to confirm or deny any of this.

And maybe this is not the parasar you're talking about. Maybe you're more of the other ones I'm talking about. But the one that I've heard about is like diarrhea. And it's diarrhea and people that are in Michigan that are going to the emergency room for this. And I, without knowing everything about the great state of Michigan or those people, I would imagine those people have a,

enough diarrhea-inducing things in their life to where they've probably got a decent tolerance for the, for the, for the disease. So if they're going to the emergency room for this, it must be kind of extreme. So the fact that you're like, maybe. Yeah. I don't know. But, but that's like, I'm glad they're going to the emergency room. Yeah.

Then it means I don't have it. That's good. Okay. Okay. But you did see something that you thought that could be on a sci-fi movie. Yeah. Yeah. Some sort of men and black creature or something.

Sorry you hear it. But maybe I don't. I really, you know. Did you be honest, did you take a picture? No. Never been the type. One time. One time I did.

It was after I had an ACL surgery had been blocked up for years, days. I mean, multiple days. All of a sudden, just, I don't even know what you call it, dude, just a freaking, I don't know, boa constrictor. Yeah. And I was like, I've never seen anything like that before. Mount Vesuvius. Yeah. That was one and only.

Might still have it on there, though. I didn't do any kind of like visual capturing, but I did take some like mental pictures. And then this morning had a little chat with Isaac in person, you know, off the record. There's no paper trail of it. But just like, hey, let's compare notes real quick. Yeah, it's kind of like the guy. Yeah, you kind of, there are certain guys that's like, hey, he's not a drug dealer. But like, I know he's done a lot of drugs.

It's like, maybe I'll ask him if this is what it feels like to get a laced drink or something. Isaac's like, that's not it, dude. No, you're not. It's not it. You just had a double espresso instead of a single, man. You're fine. Yeah, I think you just had coffee on an empty stomach. You're fine.

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Rachel and I went to the Nordstrom anniversary sale. Have you taken advantage yet? I didn't realize. No. You're leaving money on the table. All the stuff you normally get from Nordstrom. Now it's like 20% off. Shee!

Yeah. And... Yeah, you don't understand. I know I spent, you know, I know I spent $800, but like this stuff really would have cost me like $1,300. Yeah. Like, yeah, classic. You got money.

And yeah, now I'm trying to remember the process, but for some reason the girl behind the desk wanted to verbally know the zip code attached to my credit card. I was like, oh, I don't know, Google Chrome normally just auto fills it. And I've moved a bit a lot lately. That's, that's tough. I've lived in like four different houses since I've been married. slash had a credit card. And I have a hard time every once in a while being like,

what was that zip code? You're all over the place, buddy. You also feel like it doesn't matter on certain websites? I've heard that about like when you get gas, just put in a zip code. Doesn't matter. I don't know. I think for a long time it was like quick, quick insert of the card,

zip code and you're good. And then all of a sudden it was like no zip code necessary. And now we're back. And it feels like now, like it's almost like when you're at the airport and it's like, hey you got to take off your shoes you got to take off your belt hat off and now it's like no problem keep it all on i think we're getting it's like it's like we're getting the equivalent of like shoes shoes back off kind of thing like we got a little too lenient on this stuff too many people stole some gas you can fit a lot in shoes yeah exactly are you tapping or are you inserting well this one was a

this one was zero tap optional like all of them i don't know that's another thing maybe they don't like tap out there, but I had to insert my card and I never insert my card. I'm an Apple pay till I die guy. I'm a phone guy. So yeah, maybe so. Maybe it's always like that if you have to insert. I don't know, but anyway, I just realized I was like, oh, sorry. I did you get new car? Yeah, I did. I saw some video of you and it was like that's a bigger car. Yeah. I kind of joked about it when I first moved here, but I was like, do I've been here three days?

And I'm already like, can I get a white car with white interior? It's so freaking hot. Oh, sure. Like it was like so, do you think it makes a difference? Like you felt you felt it? I at least convinced myself I did. Yeah. Good.

But no, I mean, I think I can tell a difference in like how hard my air conditioner was working compared to like how hard it's working now. Really? And honestly, shout out ghosty. Danny Perkhurst was like, hey, heard you talking about this. You should get your car like tinted, not like, and then I learned about it. It's not like necessarily the shading, but it's about they can put like clear, like I don't need to be driving around on like this super tinted car.

But you can get like heat, heat rejection tinting. And I think that helps a lot too. Hey, Zach. That guy looks like Zach. That's kind of cool. Oh, dude. Zach did send the playover video to me. Yeah.

And I haven't sent it to the group. When West Jet first took flight in 1996, the vibes were a bit different. People thought denim on denim was peak fashion. Inline skates were everywhere. And two out of three women rocked, the Rachel. While those things stayed in the 90s, one thing that hasn't is that fuzzy feeling you get

when West Jet welcomes you on board. Here's to West Jetting since 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us at Westjet.com slash 30 years. Just because you've been busy with the parasite stuff, probably? Just because I've been busy with the tinting. Did he have a song? It was, I'm a B by Blackhead Peas. Actually?

Yeah. And there wasn't much else. I'll send it to the group eventually. I'm like embarrassed to send it to. the grout. It's been like five days. I was going to say, did you tell anybody that you were going to do it? But he was there filming.

They all saw him there. So I don't know. Okay. So maybe, maybe Zach's more of a film or not an editor. You know? Just because you're a pitcher doesn't mean you have to be a catcher too. Yeah.

A lot of people don't, you know, bat and pitch. No. They have DHS for that. Interesting. Okay. And he did commit to I'm a B. Yeah, I guess so.

Because you told him you wanted it. No, yeah, always, I mean, even when that song first came out, I think it was just like, widely known as like an amazing song.

And it definitely holds up over the test of time. So just judging off of your reaction, it sounds like you weren't completely satisfied. How did you respond when he sent it to you? Um, I think like a week ago, I replied to one of your respond. Yeah. Like a week ago, I replied to one of his text from May that said, I'll have it to you by the end of the week. So I replied to that text and said, this has been the longest week of my life. And then eventually he just like sent the video over and said like, dude, I feel really bad.

I'll give you unlimited revisions. Here it is. And I said, thanks. I'm not going to ask him to re-ed it or anything. This is like a type too fun type. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We have this to look back on.

This is great. Dude, okay. More sports talk, not truly, but Jensen and his friends from Samford University, the smaller Christian school, Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham. Bowdo dogs, yeah. He was really into like intramural softball. Like he and his friends were like super into it.

And they had this foreign exchange student. From what I understand, his name was Stan. And Stan was like five feet tall. Like a small little Chinese guy for an exchange student Stan. Yeah, I don't know if he's whatever. He was there all four years. I don't know if that makes you whatever that means. He was just a Chinese student.

at Sanford. But Stan basically documented the entire thing. Like all of all of his, their softball journey and surprised them at the very end of their senior year and had compiled this amazing like, like wonderful video of them just like from their entire time. Like growing up and like all these videos, all these different moments set to a,

you know, McLemore and Ryan Lewis song. just it was awesome. I, we watched it kind of funny like that's so awesome. Eli, one of the guys there has a Tesla and we were waiting to like for the pizza to be ready one time we were picking up and this came up. So we watched it as Tesla and I got kind of emotional. I didn't cry but I said like when he showed you that did you guys cry a bunch? Like he's like oh yeah it was such a surprise and such like because you could tell this guy put so much time and efforted to it. I just know those guys well enough to know that they welcome this five-foot-nothing Chinese exchange student with like

open arms and just like made them one of theirs. And like it just looked, it was like, it was like as close to a sandlot-esque highlight reel as you can imagine. And this guy, I mean, imagine all the footage that he would have to go through to do this. It was really cool. It is cool. So I mean, like a Chinese foreign exchange student doing anything for you as he leaves is like an amazing gesture. And it's like this permanent gift you can always watch. That's pretty cool. It was. It was awesome.

It was so fun. So I was like, dang, where's my Chinese foreign exchange student? Maybe Zach is. Maybe it is. Anyway. Well, that's fun. All right. I think let's soon wrap up and get to our next episode because we have a very special guest coming in.

very, very special guest. It's going to be awesome. It's this guy right here. You can't hear me, can you, bud? Oh, there's two of you. Brothers, father, daughter, father, son. What's up, guys? Uniforms or just matching like similar shirts?

I couldn't tell. Just accidentally twinning today. Mm-hmm. Just too close. You know, whatever. Yeah, let's wrap up. We got some reviews. Let's talk about them.

Yeah. Thanks for asking for them. go see. Thank you for delivering. Shall we see? All right. Somebody did write a review saying, Jake is so dumb, just kidding, L.O.L. And then that was the title of it. And then the five-star review said,

Brad is so dumb, just kidding, L-O-L. Really a roller coaster of a review right there. But quite funny the whole time. Yes. All right, Joy Duff, five-star review. And this was one month ago. maybe the review app just took a second to cash. I thought so too. Yeah. You guys out of here? All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Oh, you bet. Say some like, say some really important

make it sound like you're very successful businessman. Like say something about like one point five billion. Have a good one. One point five billion in Q3. I think um Q4 you get those millions to billions. Yeah, I think so. Five-star review from Joy Duff. My favorite parts of the week, I've been listening to this podcast since COVID. I found it after listening to Do Less. God bless and correct opinions. I quickly love this podcast more. I began listening before I went to college and would listen to the Ghostrunners during opening slash closing shifts at various jobs, driving to my first job after college during wedding planning, and now I get to listen to Jake and Brad at night when my baby wakes up and I have

to put her back to sleep. The Ghostrunners have been a constant through a lot of change in my life. and they've remained the best part of my week. I got my sister hooked and I wear my ghost nerds merch out and about, hoping to meet fellow ghosties. Love that. Jake, Brad and Timon, have kept a smile on my face through my grandfather's death and through my miscarriage. This podcast has been a source of joy for so many years,

and it's about the time I wrote a review. This is definitely a five-star podcast. Wow. So cool. So cool to think, like, before she went to college, she's been listening, and now she has a baby, and we've never seen a review from her.

Like, it's just like, like there's just people like that, which is totally fine and like wild though. It's like there's somebody that has been that consistent yet we don't know much about it yet. You know, whatever. So thank you to Joy Duff. That was a really sweet and special review. This review is a bit of a different vibe. And I would say a bit of a thinker. So hang with me all my math people.

The title of the review is just the star emoji 20 times. You're going to want to remember that later. Veggie Tale is the name. Veggie says, you guys are amazing. Keep up the great work. Thumbs up emoji. Cheese emoji. I like to imagine star is worth 20.

So five stars, five stars is 100 emoji. End of math lesson. And end of review. So. Cheese emoji. Ooh, okay. That's algebra. 20 stars.

She, well, Veggie thinks each, star worth five. Wait. Each star with 20. Yeah, I was going to say that would be. So she gave a five star review, but then she ranked it 20 stars. Therefore, the multiplier is 100 stars. Yeah, I guess so.

That is kind of confusing. Yeah, there's a lot of stars in the subject title, but you can only give a five star review. So maybe that's the star she's talking about. Okay. Regardless, it sounds like it's a positive experience for her listening to this podcast, which is cool. That's awesome.

It's anywhere between worth 100 and worth. $4,000 per stars. So thank you. Yeah, thank you very much. That's awesome. Great. What do we think about people still come to the Ghostrunners Getaway? Should we let them? Come on. Remind me next episode. I'm not going to say at the very end. I'm going to say at the very beginning right after the theme, right after the theme song. We're going to talk about Ghost

Riders Getaway. It's getting close, but it's not too late. Go ahead. One more time. It's great. Come on. Come on. Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes. All right.

We love you guys. We'll see you Wednesday. Special guest. Special guest. There I say it. The other people, let's be honest. No, like not trying to have vulgar language on this thing. Peons.

Compared to this guy. Oh gosh. I tried to time it. It was my bleat button on Brad. Yes. All right. Go see you love you. We'll see you.

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