Ghostrunners - 571 - Teddy Triplett

Episode Date: September 2, 2026

Brad and Timon share some massive life updates and then towards the end Jake briefly talks about the birth of his first born son. Check out Cozy Earth and get 20% off site wide with this link: http://www.cozyearth.com/ghostrunners Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yeah. Hey, ghost days. Good morning. Yeah. It's a great day to be alive. That's right, baby. Since the last time I've talked to you guys, I am a father and also a nurse, basically. All right.

Yeah. Congrats, dude. Thank you. Usually those two don't, you know, Venn diagram up. But every once in a while, you see those male nurses. Good for you. Yeah. I think, and it's a good thing.

I think Rachel and I have showed a lot of competency in the NICU recently. it's now they're starting to pass off a lot of responsibility our way okay we're doing a lot in there like what what are you what are you talking about you name it i mean every day it's like a little inch of like less of like us asking them stuff and like one nurse will come in all right now were you guys doing 45 cc's of his feed um like you have this written down somewhere you know they're going

and is he doing the fortifier he's doing the fortifier right we go yeah yeah well she was but i i i don't know if he still needs it. I'm new here. I just started here. So I don't actually know. What's the computer say? Do that. I'm new here. This is my first time. She's like, let me check through the filing cabinet. I'm like, do you have it on a computer? I would really rather it be digitally somewhere. Sure. Don't look on pen and paper. Dude. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of wild. I wouldn't even, I would at least fake it of like, yeah, we know. Dang it. I'm not pressing record on the freaking. No.

Oh, best podcast segment ever, and we didn't record it, dude. Oh, my goodness. How old am I? Oh, you sleep deprived or something, bro? How does that happen? Oh, my. All right. Hey, let's do the exact sense.

Let's try to reenact the exact same. At least I noticed it two minutes in. Yeah? Yeah, really. Oh. I mean, they could hear us all. They could hear all of it. Me too.

Yeah. Yeah, they could hear it all. We could keep it in. Yeah. If we wanted. Hey. Yeah. Welcome to video.

Yeah, the video's here. We're here in person. This is how everyone looked even during that last part. Just imagine it and place it on top of that. That's right. Uh-oh. Ooh, 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 ghostrums podcast. All right. Anyway, that's what's new with me. What's how with you guys? Oh, man. I have some stories to tell you that are really important right now in your life. You need to hear them right now. Found my deodorant, so that's good. Yeah. Truck driving okay?

You know, it made a little bit of a weird noise backing up, but then once I went in forward, it was fine. That's life-altering. Yeah. Actually left my weighted vest out in the truck bed and it rained, so that's... That's kind of soggy and mildewy right now. There's some phrase on the American flag out front of the flip house, so I'm thinking, does that look bad? I need to think about that a little bit.

We just put our first old glory out front, trying to follow flag protocol. Do you shine a light on yours at night? Because I think technically you're supposed to. I try to. You know, I put in the rulebook of the guidebook at Airbnb. You can turn it off if you want to, but please respect the flag. Take it down.

No, that is a thing, though. You're supposed to have it lit up if you're, if you're, have it outside. So that's a big deal. Yeah. Timon, you have some. Yeah, I drove my dad's cargo van today. Yeah, timing. That's huge. It has a little bit of like a,

looks like a refrigerant on there. On there. On there? On top. What's that thing on top? Oh, I actually don't know. I wonder if it's, but I would like, but my dad does a lot of transporting of frozen stuff. So it probably is something that keeps things cold. Dude, we should use that for the Ghostrunners Getaway next year. I could drive that instead of my nasty truck. I'm down.

I love you guys are in the same room right now, by the way. I'm like looking at typing on there. Oh, dude, good idea. Yeah. Yeah, we decided that we were a little too close, cap to cap. So, you know, we didn't want to touch knees again. So we're here. We're in the flip house because no one's, you know, booking it.

So we're not financially freaking out. about it at all. But, um, I will say you look good. You got the old podcast studio fake plant behind you. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Time looks like crap. Yeah, no, this is just my computer. Timon was having a hard time with the, he was trying to do something with his phone and it wasn't working. We're on a little time crunch, so we're just trying to only talk about the important things here. Yeah, we're about 50 minutes. Yeah. Let's talk flag. Flagbrook all. So Catherine has to get a driver's license later. And, uh, uh, She had to get an appointment for it.

She went to vote last week, and they let her vote, even though her license was expired. And they called her later. She's like, hey, your license expired. She's like, I know. You're going to have to fix that before you can vote. And so all of a sudden, Catherine, Miss, every vote counts. Ellis is like, I think my vote didn't count. I need to work.

This can't be. No, I got to fix this. Anyway. So that's about all the important thing. I'm trying to think. Pretty windy today. pretty windy, but not too windy. Just a nice windy.

Put a little bit less creamer in my coffee than normal, but also didn't drink it black today. Kind of a regret. I wish I would have gone one or the other. Yeah, I think that's about it. How are you, man? I'm good. I'm trying to remember what even I last said to you.

It was like 1.30 a.m. Yep. gave you a hug, which is not a normal thing for us. We're not hugers. Together. I hug. We don't hug. Gave you the car keys.

I think you were hung out longer. Emily Brace was like shooing me out the door. She's like, you have to wake up in three hours. Go home. And I'm glad that we left those car keys because you had a little fiasco getting the airport, correct? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Forget all that probably feels like seven years ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, let's talk about the airport thing, huh? Dude, I'll tell you something quick about the import. Yeah. Two quick things. One, well, I kind of didn't really say by to time because we were now sleeping in the same room for the first night, sleep over. But I went to bed at 2.30, needed to wake up at 4.30.

So I just slept on the, like, couch. I used, like, three pillows as my blanket. I was like, this is going to be way easier to wake up in two hours than like a bed. Yeah, the next morning, me and Zach woke up like, man, how quiet was Jake's alarm? Like, we were going to say goodbye. And I was going to say goodbye to the night before. I just fell asleep before I could. It's kind of what I do.

I just kind of fall asleep uncontrollably. That's a skill. I had my Uber scheduled for like 4.45 a.m. I even got a notification. Brandy will be there to pick you up. Like I got a driver before I went to sleep and woke up. No one shows up. Luckily we had a little system.

So I drive the 15 passenger van empty to an hour and 20 minutes to the airport. And then just kind of fun thing. I've been in a lot of airports. Never had this happen before. I'm wearing my Friday hat to take it, you know, you put everything in the container and then you run through the little, you know, what is that? X-ray. X-ray? And bag comes out, phone comes out, wallet comes out.

Hat doesn't come out. Uh-oh. The struggle hat. I was like, I mean, obviously it's got to be in there somewhere. So I wait for like five more people's stuff to come out and like, where is that hat at? So then I like, ask someone, I was like, hey, I was wearing a hat and it's like stuff. stuck somewhere in there. And then like he stops and he looks in and he just goes, I don't, I don't know. All right. So I just lost my hat in the x-ray in TSA somehow. So it can just eat your stuff?

Yeah, it's like a dryer with socks. It's like, what? You just, at that point, you're like, this is not the important thing right now. Yeah, it was like, look, I wouldn't hate a little breakfast, you know, something before, you know, I'll just leave. But yeah, it is kind of funny. Like we don't even, that hat is like discontinued. It's like, I kind of wouldn't have hated to have that hat. But whatever. You can make a new one. Yeah.

But I do remember that happening. Yeah, I just lost my Friday hat. Somebody's rocking it. You know, it's good for the brand. They need it more than I do. That's right. Dude, that does kind of happen. It happened to me yesterday.

I was somewhere and someone who was a pickleball player and I'm just decked head to toe and Friday stuff. They're like, you sponsored by Friday? And I was like, it does look like it doesn't it? No. Kind of. I just love them. Right.

Oh, man. Okay, here's what else I remember. That last day, even though there was a little stressful and anxious at times, that holds a special place in my heart. I had so much fun that last day in Gulf Shores. That last dinner, Tyman was there, Alvro, Mitchell, Amanda Hutzel, Michaela, Jessica. We had so much fun. Yeah. And that was the last supper.

Yeah, the last day of the first day of the rest of your life. Yeah. Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. I think I came back and told Rachel that it reminded me a little bit of the office when Michael leaves a day earlier than he says he's going to leave. Right, right.

And all these things, I'm trying to get everything wrapped up that day, but no one knows why. Like that really was happening. Like Betsy, after pickleball that morning, she's like, hey, did you get a chance to watch me play? I was like, oh, no, no, I don't think I did actually. She's like, okay, no worries. I was hoping to get like maybe some feedback or kind of a quick little. lesson from you. But we can just do it later in the week. And I was like, I'd like to get that done today. I might forget tomorrow. You might forget tomorrow. And then it's too late. Well,

I'm also in session two. No, it. I will forget then. Trust me, I'm a really busy session to you. I think doing other things. But Betsy can confirm. I was like, let's let's chat about it today. I think today would be a good day to chat about it. And so while you guys were all playing pull volleyball. I sat on the chairs next to Betsy, and we just talked about her pickleball game for like 30 minutes. Perfect. Yeah, that's great. Wrapping up all these things. But great last day and golf shores. And I think next episode, I want to hear everything. Oh, yeah. We'll tell you all about it. Oh, yeah. We had a great time. Yeah. Missed you, of course, but also just the people that were there

made it so fun. So we'll tell you all about it, but it's, it's time for the Teddy Talk. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. Thank you for coming to my teddy talk. My teddy talk. You don't realize how like amazing Gulf Shores is until you're not at it. Sorry, I need to say that real quick. You said that. You're like, it's like being on a two four from camp and being like, oh, man, they're probably

dancing the dining hall right now. Oh, I know what time. Oh, man. They're doing Bubblebee. That's so fun. Dang, dude, that's so fun. You know what it really was is because I probably wrote like half the CQs and I was so proud of the ones I wrote, but I don't get the reward of like delivering the joke.

Oh, that killed me. Yeah, you're like, this is funny, I promise. Like, this was mine. I think I tried to give you, like, props a few times. There was one that was like, I had to ask Michaela. I was like, what does this, something about a cruise? What did you and Jake talk about recently? And she explained it to me a little bit.

So there was definitely ones I was like, Jake wrote this one. I think this is what it means. Yeah, like I wrote it confidently. Like, you can say this. You won't know it, but you can say this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, so rush back to Phoenix. It was great.

I mean, Angie Coop. me here. Rachel's mom, Isaac picked her up from the airport. That was cool. And then kind of the next two days are a little like boring, so to speak, of like rush back here, hurry, don't miss it. And it's like, well, there's no like contractions or anything happening. And so it's just me, Angie and Rachel getting to know the hospital. Rachel's on bed rest. So I have to like push her in a wheelchair everywhere. Oh, so you were able to move around though. Yes, but able to explore. They had like a chapel and we would go visit that every day. We'd read a little bit of the Book of Mormon, just see what's going on.

Just to see how the other half lives, you know. Enoch, huh. Who knew? Okay. And are you, are you Mormon now? No, still bat right-handed. Yeah. People are saying, people are saying, moved Arizona.

What's you doing there? Yeah, I've been Gilbert surrounded by whites. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I loved, and I think you guys would too, the cafeteria in the hospital was awesome. Let's talk about it. And I think it was awesome because my expectations were so low. Like, I just haven't spent a lot of time in a hospital.

But I would think it doesn't get worse. Maybe a nursing home. You know, I would think hospital food is just like terrible. Yeah. But fresh cook food every day, like good stuff. I had like chicken ricotta one day, you know, and they were like chicken. Parmesan another day and pasta and you get stuff from the grill. You can get pancakes in the morning and anyway. And it's dirt cheap. Dude, it's like you're in the 90s. I think that was like

the best part of it. Really? It was like confusing pricing. Okay. Anyway, yeah, you just get like a burger for like a dollar 50 or something like that. That's awesome. A dollar in a, yeah, coupon from the back of a cereal box or something like, dang, proof of purchase. Yeah, that's all I had to have for this. Yeah. That's funny. So the cafeteria was awesome. I was like, as much as I love it, I really can't wait for my dad to get down here. And he also loved it. I remember, yeah, when we were in the hospital for so long, they gave us, they gave me,

I guess at least a coupon. I think it was just once a day. I had a free, free, like, visit to the cafeteria. It was just like, whatever you can load up on. What do you can carry? Yeah. And I think I really became fans of like their grilled chicken sandwich. That was my go-to.

Yeah. It was nice, dude. Yeah. It was not a bad. And maybe it's just because we were at a nicer hospital. I don't know. Maybe not every hospital is good. I would love to go to a hospital cafeteria just for a nice glass of sprite.

Oh. Ice or no ice? Probably ice. Yeah. Put some ice in there, yeah. I mean, if they have it. Nothing like a cafeteria sprite, bro. You would love it.

Yeah. It's great. I assume all the night nurses are probably like loading up on caffeine to make it through the night. So they have the most unbelievable like Celsius and energy drink. like, vending machine or not selection is the word I'm looking for.

Selection, I've ever seen. Anyway, great cafeteria. Which also, yeah, you probably, we got to like briefly talk about this in Gulf Shores, but like you didn't spend time in the NICU, but Catherine had a bunch of like early complications. You guys were in the hospital a ton.

I remember visiting you in the hospital a ton. Yeah, I love that story of like, you visit us that one time. You and Crenshaw were leaving. As some woman was like, like giving birth. And like that was like we, I didn't hear that very often. Like even we were on that floor and we didn't hear that very often like that extreme sound. And you and Crenshaw were as single as single can be at the time. Like weren't even close to that stage of life. And you're like,

get me out of here as fast as possible. And you put your hand on that door handle to like leave the floor and go out in the lobby and you just hear somebody go, Jake? Dang it. Not now. I don't want to talk to you right now. I want to get out of here. And so like as this woman and behind you was just screaming and writhing pain, Allison, you know, guys like, hey, how's it going? What are the odds? Yeah, right. So, yeah, we were not, yeah, we were.

And Catherine had to, like, the whole issue with why she was there is because her, uh, haddy was having these heart decelerations. So like, beating heart really fast and then all of a sudden it would like slow down. And so if they ever slowed down for too long of a period of time, they would have to do like an emergency C section. And so Catherine wasn't able to like leave her bed. Like we, she, there was one. One time there was a tornado warning and we had to go in another room.

Thank you, God. Yeah, it was like, oh, sweet. How long was this going to last? Yeah, but I mean, genuinely in three weeks, she, like, stayed in bed. That's crazy. Unless she had to go to the bathroom. Like, that was it. Yeah.

She got beds doors? I don't think so. I don't remember that. Maybe she was able, I mean, maybe just because she was walking back and forth to the bathroom or whatever. But, yeah, I don't know. I don't remember that. Dude, speaking of, yeah, that memory of that woman, like, screaming in labor,

all I knew going into this about labor was, yeah, that woman screams and then what I've seen in the movies. And it's like now I can say that woman I heard nine years ago was not using an epidural. I've learned that. Yeah. There's a difference with the epidural. Yeah. And also, I can't believe Catherine has done this without. It's wild, dude.

She's a freaking animal. It's, well, in the most beautiful way possible, Catherine, you're an animal. Dude, she's a freaking pit bull. Dude, she reminds me of a big old heifer, dude. Dude, she's like a hyaid out there. She's a giant pig covered in her own, in her own poop. Just slopping around. She is, dude.

No, she's a beast. How about? She's just a, she's total hoss. Dude, she's a total monster out there, bro. She's like solely in Monsters, Inc. Yeah, she is. She's a, she's a machine. I don't know.

What's the right? She's a data center, dude. Yeah. Just suck it up all that energy, put it out. No, it is amazing. Like, you could tell. I'm like, there's no doubt that hurts. Like, there's no, there's no question of like, she's very tough, but my goodness is she.

Yeah, she's not faking it. Going through it. Yeah. She's not doing it for attention. No way, dude. That's real, dude. So anyway, quick story from the hospital. I, you know, pretty much went straight from landing in Phoenix to go visit Rachel in the hospital.

And then I didn't go home after that for like a week. Like I'm sleeping here. I'm staying by you. But I did make one request to Angie. I said, hey, if you're going to the house, bring me back my pillow, specifically the one with the cozy earth pillowcase on it. So that's a true story. Like one of the only things I did have from. home was cozy earth. I went two days without socks. I had a little, you know, inventory planning

situation go wrong. And so, yeah, just, just barefoot and shoes. That was stinky. But I did always have my cozy earth pillowcase with me. So that is to tell you, in a moment of need, in a moment of needing comfort and feeling like home, I had my cozy earth pillowcase. So if you're out there and your water is breaking. If you're out there and your water's not breaking, if you find yourself on one of the two scenarios, I would recommend getting some cozy earth sheets. I don't care what pillow you have. The pillow case alone is going to transform it. It's like having a really nice phone case. You go, wow, it feels like I kind of got a brand new phone. Your mattress may suck. Who cares? Get the sheet. Sheets. Get the sheets. Have a trouble finding the right word today.

Anyway, yeah, we love cozy earth. You get 20% off sitewide. CozyEarth.com slash ghostrunners. We'll give us a little credit. Make sure you use the promo code GRKC, get you something soft, falls coming up. And so, yeah, you really can't go wrong. Make yourself more cozy.

All right, back to the episode. Yeah, so, yeah, you saw that a little bit of like, okay, there's some, there's some reality there. Yeah, what did you, what was different? Obviously, the water breaking and not having the baby in five seconds, that's different than you see on the TVs. Yeah, the movie's always, which maybe that is more typical.

I'm still new to nursing, but if you're like full term and then you have, you know, your water breaks, maybe it's showtime right away. I don't know. Right, right. But not for us.

So yeah, then you're just kind of playing this waiting game of like, Rachel, you feel anything? You know? No, okay, I guess we keep going. And I think as things started to progress, I think it was like Thursday afternoon is when Rachel's starting to feel like

a little bit of like, at that time they weren't even calling a contractions. He was calling them like cramps. So it was like, oh, I don't know. That doesn't seem too serious. And so as I'm like updating people, you guys, Scott, Isaac, whatever, Scott becomes suddenly the biggest cheerleader for this baby to be born on a Friday. Oh my gosh. He was like, come on, Rachel.

You got this. You know, he's like, how much is she dilated? I was like, why don't you just keep? Yeah, yeah. Stay back. Yeah. Ask your own wife, that question. right, but.

So that was kind of a fun subplot this whole time of Scott just rooting so hard. Like, it has to be on a Friday. Sure. Sure. We'll get back to that later. Let me make sure I don't miss anything. So we were in like the antinatal area, I guess, whatever, you know, still in the labor and delivery area. Those nurses were incredible.

We've, like, become friends with a couple of them. I think we're going to go to church with one of them. They were awesome. Cool. And we thought, like, I think we're in good favor with these nurses. And it really became more, like, proven when Rachel finally was going into labor because then all these nurses that weren't even Rachel's nursing anymore, like, came in to, like, cheer her on and everything. And I was like, this is awesome.

Like, they loved Rachel. It was awesome. Cool. Yeah. That's sweet. That's amazing. Yeah. Just having that relationship.

Of course, they love her and you, I'm sure. Like, you guys win people over so well. And I'm sure you were being fun and goofy. whatever else. Dude, it is kind of an interesting, which you've been through this, I guess, four times, three times in a hospital. Two times in a hospital. Two times in a hospital? Where was Henry? Yeah, right there on the living room floor. Just no puddles this time. Yeah, a big old tub of puddle. We had it, we had a, we know, he's in a in a water. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just didn't burst this time. Mm-mm. Yeah, Catherine looked like a big old tub.

It was incredible. It was incredible. What do they call those one tubs with the claws for feet? You're talking about? Clawfoot, no. Is that one of a tub? Something foot tub. Like the old, like Victorian, like old fashion. I can picture it.

I think they're cloth foot tubs. Cloth foot tub. Yeah. The old claw foot tub. Not the bold ball and chains. The old claw and tub. Okay. So you've been to do this twice in the hospital.

Yep. And for whatever reason, I kept thinking of Derek Chapman. except like he was the one who really warned me of this. And this being, when you were the husband, the dad, even in these OB appointments leading up to it, it's like you are not in the room, which is fine. I've gotten used to it. But it is a little bit of like the Stanford prison experiment.

You know, it's like, I don't know how much longer I can take this. I'm feeling like a second class citizen. You know, they don't talk to you. They don't act like you're in the room, except for some of these amazing nurses like in, like before we have. the baby. They were awesome. But then, yeah, there are elements of like, I mean, the way some of them talk to you, I mean, I'm wondering if I'm mentally challenged. Like, am I giving off vibes? Like,

I don't know what's going on. She's explaining the baby's heart rate to me. Like, I haven't been memorizing this. Like, my life depends on it for the past four days. So see this top green one? HR, that's heart rate. And that one's for the baby. Rachel has her own I'm like yeah Yeah We had one nurse explained Now this was to Rachel and I both

One nurse explained to us how a shower works She's like all right so Your shower is in here I would take the towels out Before you shower Just so those don't get wet And then you're gonna turn it on And it may not get hot immediately

It's like yeah that's how a shower works Okay Do you always have to explain how the shower works to people? Which way's hot? Which way's cold? Okay red Okay not labeled, it just says red. It just have to be like super hot or super cold or is there, you can do it in the, okay, you can do both if you want.

And what if I just want a bath? Because my wife's a tub. Yeah. Sorry, I've got to go out of over there. I mean, on one level, like the charts, I bet, I'm sure it's like, hey, I'd rather, I'd rather know. I don't know. Maybe there's certain. Then all of a sudden they say something, you're like, oh, crap, I don't know what they're talking about.

Yeah. But the heart rate one, I think is pretty, that that, that's one that, like, everyone knows. like the beeps of the yeah and the specifically time I'm thinking of it it was like I've been four days I've left the hospital like I'm sleeping there and then on day four she's like so this is the baby's heartbeat okay so this thing right here is called a knob and it you twist it you can open the door okay got it thank you it's pushed now but it's not always going to be push yeah right so if I remember if I'm on the outside I push I'm on the inside I pull right yeah okay anyway going to the out of order. So Thursday, they're like, okay, cramps start. I think things are happening.

And so then all of a sudden, my parents are like, it's time. Let's get down there. So then my mom is like, I'm going to book a flight. I think first thing in the morning, I call my dad. And I was like, hey, are you coming down here as well? Like, I don't know what's normal. You don't have to. You can, you're welcome to, you know, I don't know what people do in the situation. And he's like, actually, I'm headed out here about 15 minutes. I was like, oh, you guys, Allegiant flies this? What did you find? He goes, no, I'm just, I'm loading up the car right now.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You're a drive guy. Fellow drive guy. That's what I'm talking about. What's that drive like? So I think it's without stops.

I think it's 20 or 22. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Just a quick, yeah. Loading up a few last things, you know, get some rations going. Did he know what you told me? He was like, I think I'm all packed up. I'm going to just, I'm going to load my tools up, and I'm a head out.

I was like, the hospital's built. And we have everything we need. Yeah, I don't really want to like, yeah, do any like home projects right now when we get home anyway. That's amazing. Oh, just in case, though. That's a good dad.

No, it was. I think he was like, the only thing I can do is like put together a bassinet. So I will do that, you know? And he did. He put together a lot of stuff. Love it. But yeah, so he, it's like 745, you know,

Stratford time. he's telling me he's like yeah i'm about to load up right now and i'm going to drive and i am just making logical point after logical point about why you should not do this i can hear my mom in the background being like yeah yeah tell him you know basically like i've tried i've tried to talk him out of this you know i'm telling him about driving in the middle of whatever there's just so many reasons just don't do this i'll pay for your flight down here just please don't drive he's like no no i got a plan i'm gonna

I'm going to drive till about 10.30. Figure that's what I'm going to get tired. Then I'm going to call Grammocks. I know she'll still be awake watching SportsCenter. Then at about midnight, I'm going to call Paul Shire. He lives at St. Diego. He'll still be awake. I'm going to call him for about two hours.

Yeah. Yeah. He's got this whole plan. And anyway, he drove for about an hour and started getting pretty sleepy, so he just turned around. Come on, Steve. And the hour? And the combination of, like, my mom found another fly.

that they could take that was cheaper. It's like, all right, if we leave it two in the afternoon, we save a bunch of money, we can both go. I think my dad was like, all right, sweet. I'm getting pretty tired anyway. So, yeah, I'll just come back. Dude, I will say this, Steve, the first part of the drive is always, it is tough. Like, so I get it. All right. But you got to power through and just the next 19 hours will be fine. Yeah. That's, that's great. He went that far. Like, my pride would probably kick in too much of like I'm already an hour in I can't turn around now I know I think it would be hard to turn around like where's the point of no return for you like I think 30 minutes I would turn around 45 I might be like I'm too far gone yeah an hour seems too much for me yeah like how far down the road let's say you're let's say you're going to somewhere that's 20 minutes away how far down the road before you're like we can't turn around and go get that we forgot our phone it's too late you know I mean seven minutes seven I'm like, I'm like a minute and a half. I was going to say, yeah, out the driveway.

Three stoplights, it's too long. It's like, no, we can't go back now. Seven's too long. But then again, time and that's far away from everything. It's seven minutes to 269 highway. Okay. So it's like once you're on the highway, it's, you're too far gone. But I feel like if you're still, if you haven't gotten a still well station yet, you can turn back.

Okay. Still well. Yeah. And I guess it is maybe a percentage of your drive. So an hour of 20 is like, I mean, we're only five percent. barely into it. Yeah. I kept trying to warm, though.

I was like, dude, a lot of this drive is through like New Mexico. Nothing. That's not going to be fun. No. That's the home stretch.

Yeah. So thankfully he turned around. But yeah, so what else do you, Thursday? Thursday is when I really became kind of the games made, the game show host of the day.

It's like as some pain is starting to sit in, I'm, I was Steve Harvey. We did family feud. We did real fortune. I did, hangman of like just local people in like New Hartford that I've heard them talk about before.

So it was like, all right, P.S. Oh, I think I know it. Is that Stanley P's brother? Yes, that's Stanley P's brother. Yes. Just like random people. Oh, that's funny. And then this is probably, you know, I guess how probably most husbands and dads go when it starts to happen. So really for two days, she's like slightly uncomfortable from what I remember. But for most part, we're able to have like a normal, you know, day. and everything. And then once her pain starts to set in, but before there's any pain killer, that ain't no fun.

You know, even for me, just like seeing her and I'm like, do you want to like, you want to keep playing and she's like, no, I just need to like, you know? And then you're like, do you want me to like distract you? Do you want me to talk to you or, you know, I just like. Survey says or maybe just like, yeah. We can do battleship, I guess. You can just got to say like a coordinate. Coordinate, just a coordinate. Like I'll let you go twice in a row if you want to.

Oh yeah, dude. It's so hard. Yeah. What do you want? Just, no, that's nice, but I'm just going to sit here. Yeah, dude. And sometimes it'll be like, oh, rub my back and then I'll rub her back and be like, everybody else's a bad idea. Just don't touch me.

Just don't touch me. Yeah. So to make it about me, that part was tough for me. FYI, like I felt a little bit bad and self-conscious or, yeah, whatever. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, it is. It's hard because it's like, you have, you have nothing but words at that point. Maybe some, a couple actions of like, you want some.

Ice chips or, like, I remember Catherine with Bo the first time she did no epidural. She was like, I think it'd be fun to like listen to a Ghostrunner's episode. Like that'd be, and we listed like a minute and a half of one. She's like, turn off. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. Put on my playlist. And we put out the playlist.

She's like, I don't like this either. Just. It's funny. It's so much pain that like music is annoying. Oh, just everything. It's just like, this. I don't. Please.

Yeah. Yeah. Did she have anything prepared like that? Like was there any like, hey, when it's when, you know, I want to listen to this music or anything like that. No. You know what about? Just family feud. Yeah.

That was still going on my laptop. I've got shut off. No, and I asked her, I was like, do we, obviously this kind of stuck up on us, but I think we have some time to prepare. Like, is there anything we're forgetting? Like, what are we not thinking of preparing? And I was like, do you want like a song playing or whatever? She's like, no, just do it. Yeah.

So it was just kind of a meat and potatoes, birth, you know. Sure, sure. Just, yeah, just how they did it in the olden days. Yeah, the olden days with like nine medical professionals in the room. Close to monitored. And me asking, and now what does HR mean at the top? What is that green button? Yeah, she's like going through it.

you're like, that is so cool that you could see that. Like, that's amazing. And down, huh? Wow. Your heart's really racing here, Rach. You're doing all right? Dude, that's one thing I wrote down. Props to Rachel.

You know, I hear a lot of people say, like, my wife was a rock star in there. Yeah. I've heard people say my wife was a clawfoot tub in there. Right. I would say Rachel, more than a rock star, was more of a librarian in there. Like, when it came time to actually give the birth, Like, I could see her heart rate. She's in, like, um, like active labor, so to speak, but it's like between pushes.

Her heart rate would get down into the 70s. And I was like, you're a freak. That's crazy. I would even, I was pointing it out. I was like, do you guys see this often? Probably not. Yeah. And everyone's ignoring you because you're the dad.

Yeah. Not right now, buddy. Do you guys speak English? I'll shut up. Dude, it is. I mean, I'm so self-conscious because, like, don't make this about yourself. And don't even like, like, Like don't don't say anything to bring any attention on yourself.

So I just yeah, I really did shut up. Yeah. Once again, I'm kind of going out of order again. But I didn't want to forget that in between pushes. Rachel's heart rate would go back down to just like resting heart rate. It was so chill. That's awesome. That's amazing.

It's crazy. Total librarian in there. Doesn't surprise me, honestly. Like she's just, I've heard that girls that are like, yeah, very in shape, just rock it. Like, and she's so like physically strong that it's like, she'll do great. But maybe. Yeah, I don't know what it is. Just her personality or what.

But yeah, she was great. Let me try to think. Yeah, I guess really, just to catch up to speed, or, you know, between Thursday and Friday, it's like, we're kind of moving the ball down the field, but we're moving it slowly. Scott's starting to get nervous. Scott's like, we got to have this baby on. You know. This fricker, just be like, shut up. I love it.

Honestly, I'm exaggerating a little bit. But, you know, Scott was just like, I think he said a text that it was like, at some point, Rachel just needs to look herself in the mirror and make this happen. and truly like 8 p.m. Phoenix time. I texted them. I was like, she's at this. I don't think it's going to happen, guys. Pack it up. And then suddenly things start happening very quickly.

And at 10 p.m., they go, you're full or something weird like that. I swear they said, you're full. And I was like, does that mean? It's full. Time to pour it out. What? Uh-oh, here comes the pitcher. I was like, does full suddenly? mean 10 centimeters.

I think this whole time we've been in a numerical system and now we're full. Don't me off a little bit, but I'm not going to ask any questions. Yeah, don't. You go, okay, you're full. All right, let's do this.

And then all these people rush in, I quickly fire off a text to Scott and Isaac that says, might have a buzzer beater on our hands. I did. That was an exact text. Might have a buzzer beater, boys. Yeah, I love the idea of you,

like, quickly over here, like, as all these people are getting it, I had to keep him updated And then that was it And then like phone was down Yeah yeah yeah And had we not moved to Phoenix

The baby would not have been born on a Friday Oh That's huge people ask why you do this Yeah There's your answer I'll tell you why Yeah it's right Wow

Wow Alright another quick story Not from baby Baby making But that's not what That's not really what we're talking about Baby birthing In the hospital

Back to the getaway I'm not sure if it's been discussed online yet. But one thing I got to see in Gulf Shrews, Alabama, was Maddie Deterly in session one cry because of the taste of the gluten-free chicken nuggets from good ranchers.

That's a true story. Was something else emotional going on in her life? No, I asked. No, this is not about anything else. She's gluten-free and sometimes, like, good tasting, especially, like, fried food. It's just like, you know,

just kiss a good. goodbye. You're going to be done with that for a while. And she was over the moon. And so don't take it for me. Take it from her. These gluten-free chicken nuggets could change your life. Could get the tear ducks moving. So if you're in that boat, if you're like, hey, I'll kind of try any gluten-free thing. Get you some good ranchers. Get a box. It'll show up right to your door. It'll be frozen. They do a good job of the packaging and everything. So yeah, get a little discount. Let them know you heard it from us. use the promo code GRKC at good ranchers.com. Yeah, things happen really quickly and you go, okay, here it is.

And then you can only, I guess, push when the contractions are happening. And those for Rachel are happening like five, sometimes seven minutes apart. So then we're kind of back to like chill in a little bit. Three quick push. We surveyed 100 people. Name your favorite type of footwear survey. says. Good answer, good answer. Good answer. Good answer. Yeah, you're like, you're like pulling all the nurses. What's your name? I don't know. McKenna. McKenna, get in here. No, I know you're thinking of something.

Sandals. Okay, sandals. Okay. Okay. Okay. So what it was, Rachel, I debrief this afterwards, but it is like, it has the feeling of intensity because a lot of people rushed in and like they're all got gloves on and they're in scrubs and like there's 10 people in this room. But truly it's like once the quick pushing is done, then we're all just like sitting there for like five minutes. And I couldn't believe that no one spoke. And I know better than to say anything because I'm the dumb caveman boy in the room. But I was like, no one was saying anything.

No one wants to say any, no one's going to no one's doing anything. This is crazy to me. Wow. Interesting. It would be just silent. It would be interesting to hear from labor and delivery nurses or doctors or whatever. Like, do they take the cue from the parents in that regard? Yeah.

Or is it like always like that? We're all business all the time. You know what I mean? Maybe that's the only reason they play music a lot of the time. Like, because it's so quiet. Like that's why your playlist is just to avoid the awkwardness. Yeah, it could be.

It's not even to keep you calm. Maybe. Obviously, I like couldn't help myself. So truly, I wasn't even really trying to be that funny. I was just trying to be friendly. I was just trying to show them that we are okay with talking, like you're saying. Like, we're down to chat. We like, it's weird if we don't.

And so the woman who's like, you know, playing shortstop, basically. Okay. I was like, are you technically, I was like, are you the catcher? I think I've heard some other nurses talk about they have to like catch. And she's like, yeah, I'm the catcher. And I was like, you caught many today. And, you know, she's like, I caught one other one. I was like, okay, good, good.

So you're kind of, you're losing. loosen up, you're warm, everything. And she's like, yeah. Like, all right. Didn't get, no vibes with the catcher. Yadie A. Molina was a pretty good catcher. Surely he's first ballot. It was just like, she shut it down.

I was like, okay, maybe we just need to be professional, so we just didn't say anything. So it's just pretty quiet, just library vibes. Okay. Five minutes? Is that a normal amount? I don't know. Five minutes in between?

It felt long. I don't know what's normal. I think I've heard, usually it's, Am I wrong that they usually wouldn't they get closer together when it as it comes down to the wire? Is that true? It seems like it should. It seems like surely by the time it's about to happen

it's like 30 seconds apart or something. That's what I thought to, but I don't know. And maybe this is a little bit of a different scenario since she's pre, what you call it preterm or whatever? I don't know. Full. Full term? She was full. Yeah.

Oh, she was full. Yeah, you were full. She was full. That tub was full. You're full. All right, we're full. Full. this is not on the monitor. Yeah, exactly. That's when you need somebody to explain it to you.

You don't need HR to you. You need a full. Okay. So it's just quiet in there. But are you, are you feeling like, like, I'm curious.

I remember Catherine being like, oh, so intense in there and like, I felt bad for you. And I don't know if it's just like my sports background or what, but I was like, I love the intensity aspect. Like when it gets intense,

I was like, this was not bothersome to me at all. Like, yell at me all you want. This is great, you know? Like, this is bringing back to football.

ball, you know. I don't know. Like, did you feel that? Like, was it like nerve-wracking to you? Was it, like, what were your, what was going through your mind? It was like, just so much less intense than anything I'd ever heard or seen in, like, movies. It was just like, pretty chill. Okay. I think Rachel was just like, epidural worked like amazingly, you know? She wasn't in like crazy pain necessarily or, yeah. And just like, you know, well, had a job to do. And, you know, had a job to do. got her done. It was like, it took a while, but it was just like very just like, like, I really didn't know. I was like, is she going to be like scratching and clawing at me and screaming? I don't know. That's what the movies make it seem like. Totally. Yeah. Not at all. No.

Not. Yeah. So she was he, well, we don't have to. Yeah. I don't even know too much. I was just, yeah. It was, it was great. A little Teddy Triplett was born at 11.30, 3.3. So we stuck it in on a Friday. Yeah. And yeah, it was pretty cool. Pretty cool feeling. It was just, all the nurses were like, they thought it was very cool that we were waiting to see if it was a boy or a girl. So they're like, dad, you got to call it.

And that was kind of fun. I'd also heard like not as easy as you think. So I did like double check a few times to like make sure. Yeah, right. And yeah, little baby came out. check. I go, it's, it's Teddy. And anyway, that was fun.

So, but then it happens. It's amazing. It's so emotional. Oh, yeah. And then this baby's born like seven weeks early. So like, we got to get after some stuff. And that was a crazy shove into fatherhood because they take the baby away from Rachel.

And our plan was like, wherever the baby has to go, I'll go with him. Okay. And you will stay back with Rachel. And so they take him to basically like a little crib bassinet looking thing already in our room. You know, it's got a little heater on it. It's got tubes. It's got oxygen or whatever. Okay.

And then so they're working on them. And, you know, they weigh them and he's four pounds, nine ounces. And they're like, dad, make sure you get a ton of pictures of this. I'm like, I don't know. This part, yeah. Clean them off a little bit. He's going to be embarrassed with this. Oh, that's great.

That's, yeah, that's so relatable. Make sure you get a bunch of pictures. They do love saying that. It's like, that's the one thing I can do. Okay. I'll get one or two. No, so I'm just kind of there monitoring. And so, yeah, they're doing what they need to do to him.

And then the woman in charge is like, all right, let's go ahead. She's like calling in for something. I think it's like this, you know, basically this portable, this transportable crib, basically, where he could be in like a controlled chamber of oxygen as they move him to the NICU. That is like what they bring in. And things start to like unravel. Almost in a literal sense too.

Like oxygen tank is like falling off of it. And then as she's putting it back on, she's like, I think this is empty. She goes, what do you mean you think? Is it empty? Why would you bring in an empty oxygen tank? And she's like, yeah, I don't know. You know, it was just like, oh my gosh, what do you mean?

That's the worst answer I've ever heard of. And so then the woman's, like, all right, well, bring me someone else. Get someone else on the phone. And then they're like, all right, this is her. What did you want? She's like, the oxygen tank. I don't want to hear her. I want her here with the tank. You know, she's doing a great job. Like, this woman knows exactly what she wants. And everyone around her is just like dropping the ball. I mean, two different women on different occasions came into the room and they were asked to do something. And she goes, I don't know how to do that. And dude, it was infuriating. It was like, this baby's been alive like five

minutes and no one, it seems like no one knows what to do. It seems like this, I don't know, just such incompetence in the heat of the moment. Like when I needed you most, I just couldn't understand how this could happen. It was like her water broke at 32 weeks. Everything I've been hearing, everything you would Google says like the lungs are going to take the, you know, that's going to be the issue is their lungs have not developed. Which is, sorry. so cool, the Lord, like the way that God does that. Oh, yeah. I don't know.

Anyway, sorry, go ahead. There's so many aspects of that. Yeah, I mean, just the fact, yeah, quick gospel break. I mean, the fact that I love this baby so much and he's done nothing to deserve it. You know, what a more beautiful picture. Oh, man. Yeah. Of God loving us.

It is crazy. But anyway, so it's just awful feeling of just, like, Like, one woman comes in and she, all right, this auction takes full. Great. Let's hook it up to this. I don't think we have the adapter. Who's to charge the adapter? Someone go get it, you know?

And I'm with this, like, whoever the head honcho is. I'm like, yeah. I like you. You know what you want. No one else needs to know how to do it. But anyway. That's scary, dude. And like all of a sudden you're like, have protective dad mode.

Totally. You're like snapped into it, you know, five minutes into him, you know, coming, being born. Exactly. I was not expecting to be. like this protective or have to have to like defend him three minutes into life. And yeah, I felt angry and frustrated and was on the verge of saying something multiple times. But thankfully, I wasn't too emotional. You know, I was like, that's not going to help.

Sounds like that lady was advocating for you pretty hard. Yeah. So she's like basically got her left hand on like an oxygen mask on Teddy's like mouth and nose. So she's like got him while she's like barking out orders. so it you know and then so he does eventually get rushed over and then that the next two hours was also like not super fun one thing i'll say is the woman in charge i think she was a nurse practitioner she pulls me aside and she was like i am so sorry about what just happened back there she's like that should not have happened that'll get written up i'm here to answer any questions you have so i was

like first of all thank you for saying that I that means a lot. I was like, you seem perfectly competent. I have no issues with you. I was like, but everyone in this hospital should know that the baby's going to need oxygen

when it's born. I do not understand how you're not prepared for this. And she was basically like, I know. I'm sorry. And so since then, even in the days and like weeks that have passed, like different like leadership people at the hospital,

like people not wearing scrubs have come and talk to us about this situation and like apologized, asked if we could do anything, you know, or if they could do anything for us, said it's like, yeah, it's being run. It sounds like maybe someone's, like, getting fired over this. Like, I think this is, like, big, big deal.

Wow. Wow. So learning lesson for the hospital, unfortunately, it was with our baby, but he's doing great now. Okay. Yeah, he's recovered, not even recovered, but just, yeah. Oh, man, it was scary, though. That was, that was no fun. There is one nurse specifically who is just not great.

Just. Oh. yeah, just coming in the heat of the moment, we can't get anything. And she comes in there, like, singing a song and humming. Just can't read the room. She goes back to the NICU with us, and she's part of the... So this, like, when I was like, the next two hours, I'm just like, I'm by myself in there just watching all these tubes and things get connected.

And you can't really tell if it's going well or not. It seems like it's not going well. It seems like they're not happy with what they're saying. and on top of the stress that comes with that was just like this one nurse who's just like so, it's just like old white woman who talks so ghetto

and it's just like not a care in the world. All right, we need some we're gonna do this surfactum so we need to give him some like painkillers. Let's get him some fentanyl. Huh?

I said let's get him. Let's get him 15 cs of fentanyl. Oh, I thought he said something else. Okay, I'll go get that. I'm getting old. I go, don't do any of that right now. Don't say, huh. Don't say I can't hear.

Don't say I'm old. I have some bedside manner. I'm 60-year away from you. Just, yeah. Come on. Don't just, yeah. Oh, that'd be so hard. Gosh.

Yeah, honestly, don't really like thinking about that. When I think about that stretch, I think about just like crying and praying and honestly not wanting to be there. They gave me an opportunity. Like, do you want to go check on Rachel? I was like, please. Yeah. And I just went back there.

And I was like, Am I a bad dad? Because I was like, didn't really want to go back to the NICU. I was like, that's, there's no fun in there right now. Yeah, wow. Yeah. That's hard, man. Crazy.

But just to fully catch up, now, you know, he's a little over a week old, doing phenomenal, doing really, really well. Good. Yeah, and it's fun. He's going to be in the NICU until probably October, even though he's doing well. I think it's just part of it. You know, originally he was eating. It's crazy. It was like, all right, it's dinner time.

Here's five milliliters. Which is just like... Crazy. I don't know. A little syringe kind of? Is that what they use? Yeah, yeah. I mean, nothing, basically.

Yeah. Like a sip. Right. And he's eating a lot more. His lungs are better. Yeah. But yeah, it's still hard. It was hard at first two because just so many tubes and wires and things connected.

You know, they couldn't get an IV in his arms. So they're running like his fluids and cathars into his belly button. So you got all these cords going into his stomach. and then he can't breathe on his own. So then you've got a CPAP machine on his nose. You've got this mat, this thing on his head to shape his head. So we didn't really know what he looked like until about day four. And the only reason we got to see what he looked like is because he ripped off the CPAP thing.

And I was like, sweet. Dad, you want to take a picture of this. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Seriously. We didn't get a good picture of him until day four because they happened to be there when the CPAP came off. Wow. Wow. But now that's off.

He's great. And yeah, didn't get to hold them until like, I want to say day five or day six, you know. And so just these very like little milestones. But yeah, he's doing great. Thank you. I can't forget to you guys and all the ghosties for praying. I really think, I know that that had an impact. I know God hears that and God loves that.

So thank you. I mean, we had hundreds, maybe thousands of people praying for Rachel and Ted. Not amazing? Yeah, it's so cool. I just thought that was so cool. So thank you guys. but yeah, that one nurse. I know it's too bad that like that's,

that's not the only thing you're going to remember, but like you do remember those times. It's like, dang it. Like I remember there was a nurse when we eventually like asked for her not to be our nurse anymore. Do you remember that? And it was like, I remember her name. I don't remember any of the other awesome nurses names,

but I remember her name, Carrie. I know your name, Carrie. Anyway. Yeah, when that like assistant director came and spoke to us. She's like, is there anything we can do for you? I was like, is there a way to request not having a nurse? And I didn't name drop or anything. I was like, there was just one. And she's like, what's her name, told her name? And she handled that so well. It was like so diplomatically. She was just like, yeah, you know, a lot of our nurses come very

well trained. They come from very high, you know, ranking colleges or a lot of expertise. And then we have some nurses that are here, you know, they've been, they've put in a lot of time. and, you know, basically. Just the way she handled it, I feel like it was like, yeah, we knew you were going to say her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got it. Yeah.

How's Rachel been? Yeah, how are you guys as far as, like, what's your daily life look like right now? Like, with him being there, right? So he has care time, they call it, which is like every three hours he eats. But if you're going to like, you know, essentially bother him to make him eat, let's wrap up all everything you need to do during like this five-minute window of bothering him. You know, so every three hours is care time. So it's like, let's check his temperature. Let's change his diaper. Let's do this. Dad, get some pictures.

A couple of pigs. And that's every three hours. So, yeah, one of us is there. I mean, a lot of times both of us are there. We're trying to figure out in we were, Rachel was asking me, she's like, I'm not trying to like compare ourselves. I'm just trying to make sure we're not being overbearing or we're doing it. There's like 10 of their babies in the NICU. I think we're not seeing other parents. Like, where are they? What's going on here? Yeah. I don't know, but we're there all the time. Obviously, Rachel's not working. My job is flexible. So we're blessed to be able to be there all the time. So yeah, now we've graduated to be able to do skin to skin and every nurse makes it seem like this is an unbelievable, almost like medicine

for the baby at this stage. So I'm like, if I'm as medicine, oh, yeah, let's get after it. So yesterday just held them for three straight hours, watch Moneyball in the, in Nicky one. Dude, everyone's watching Moneyball right now. Netflix is pushing it. I tried to say no for three weeks and then eventually they wear you down. Okay. I didn't realize, yeah, because I was like, everyone's talking about, yeah, watch Moneyball in the flight. Yeah, watch Moneyball twice. this past week. I'm like, what's happening with Moneyball? Okay. Okay. So yeah, watch Moneyball. Skin to skin. Yeah,

skin to skin is like, it's like this is, if this is helping, like, I'll, I'll take a nap with my baby. It's amazing. Yeah. We are not allowed nurses come to nap yet. Okay, okay. Moneyball it is. Yeah, very good. It's fun learning. Just one, how God created like man and woman and baby to work and scent is such a big part of everything. You know, like we, like, Rachel wears like a, this, like, kind of felt a little heart thing. I wear one.

And then we go visit Teddy, we like take it out of our clothes and give it to him so he can like smell us when we're not there. They say that the skin to skin thing that we're doing is like really helpful for him in a number of different ways. They say like, hey, don't have any fragrance on. Don't have, you know,

too strong of detergent. Don't use too strong of body wash. Like, you want your baby. to smell you. And I said, I'll tell you what I want my baby to smell. So what I do, I say, thank you, nurse, see you. Yes, me and Teddy, you're good.

I got them right here. Out of my pocket. I take a little cup of good ranchers beans. Dang it. I'm ruined the joke. Main Street Roaster's beans. How do we always do that? I take a little cup of Macea Roaster's beans.

Shake them around. and then I just, I kind of just dump them out all over my chest. Because I say, yes, science, the medical community, they think he should smell my skin. I think I know better. He wants to smell the sweet, sweet fragrance of mainstream roasters espresso beans. So that's pretty much his life now, just me swalling him and beans. And if that doesn't tell you how much I love mainstream roasters, I don't know what will. if you're doing skin to skin out there with anyone, adult, child, newborn.

I encourage to get some beans involved. Okay? Good ranchers beans, maceyroasters beans, just make them beans. Just make the boy smell the beans and take 10% off using promo code GRCC. All right, that's it. Yeah, it is interesting learning, yeah, just the stage he said, you know, he came very early. So he's, you know, supposed to be in the womb right now. So everything you do is almost to try to mimic the womb.

So like on day one we learn, you know, Rachel's like rubbing his arm. Hey, Teddy. And she was like, do not rub. Like, oh, okay. Like he wouldn't be rubbed in the womb. That's actually pretty irritating to him. The most soothing thing you can do is just apply pressure like he's back in your uterus, essentially. Just like apply, you know, gentle pressure to the outside of his body.

Okay. And so everything you're doing now is, yeah, just about like recreating the womb. Okay. And then suck swallow breathe. That's what we're working on. Okay. Those are the big three. Same, Teddy.

Same, buddy. Okay. Suck, swallow, breathe. Yeah. Like, those are our things. A couple other just quick hitters that I have written down that I forgot about. I think you'll love this. I think this is originally Steve Coop.

Maybe Rachel either right. They're one and the same. I've been spending so much time with them. I'm like you're the exact same people. But calling a newborn, like giving the newborn traits. So it started with like Rachel like looking over Teddy in the little crib and just going, oh, he's a good guy. He is a good guy. And then we just start rattling off just these like adult male characteristics of newborn Teddy. Like Teddy's kind of guy just shows first one there, last one out.

Right. Yeah. Firm handshake. Knows the value of a dollar. I don't even know what that means, but I've been saying that about him. We just go on and off. He does. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. He doesn't wait until his, you know, fuel tank is on empty to get more gas. Like, he's responsible.

Oh, Teddy? Oh, yeah. That guy, that guy knows the value of hard work. He gets his oil change before it's even like time. Oh, yeah. He doesn't count of chickens really hatch. That's Teddy. That's Teddy for you, though.

If I know Teddy. If I know Teddy, and I think I do, he always weed eats after he mows. He's not just, he picks up his clippings, too. Oh, yeah, of course. Absolutely. Flosses? Yeah. Love that about him.

Oh my gosh, yeah. The dental hygienists love that guy. Absolutely. Just a good guy. He's a good guy. Let's see what we got. Once we got to postpartum, there was a real drop in nurse quality. And I'm sorry if any of those nurses are listening, but there was.

Pre-labor, amazing. They should all run for president. Postpartum. I mean, we had a nurse legitimately throw away Rachel's breastings. milk on like day three, which at that point, it's like the most precious thing. You're getting like the most minusical amount. And I think she's just cleaning up, not paying attention. Just toss that out real quick.

Sorry, I thought that was coffee creamer. It's like, well, they don't keep coffee creamer in that kind of bad. How would you throw it away? Oh, no. Yeah, just throwing that. I mean, you ask for something. They don't bring it. Oh, this is the nurse who explained to us what a shower was.

Okay. Hey, they're trying at that point. Yeah, they were making an effort. The lactation consultant comes in, it is just so out of breath. It was like, what were you doing before? A lot of stairs, a lot of stairs. Come on, suck, swallow breathe.

He sucks while to breathe. Suck. We had the, this is actually the night of the birth. I mean, it's like now 5 a.m. We've been up, you know, pretty much 24 hours at this point. Just the longest, most emotional day of our lives. And we are finally like, all right, we should get some sleep. So it's 5 a.m.

we're getting walked back to our new postpartum room. So new nurse is pushing Rachel in a wheelchair, and I'm holding like the big, you know, almost like dolly, like the vertical rod holding the IV connected to Rachel. Yep. And first of all, the conversation is too much. It's like a classic like Uber ride where it's like, so early in the morning, what are you talking to me about, you know,

RFK for this early? And she instead. I mean, we just had our baby. We're exhausted. It's so tired. And she is like, man, you guys, you guys probably don't know what you're in for.

Like, heard that before. Yeah. Yeah, totally. And she goes, no, I mean, some of those babies,

oh, they'll scream and scream. My first one didn't scream a lot, but my second one, my second one screamed so much, I swear my neighbors thought I murdered my baby. We're saying, great joke,

great timing. For that hilarious joke. That's a good one. So that's kind of the conversation starts, we're going, what in the world? And it's just a pretty brutal walk back. You know,

I'm thinking how far away is this postpartum room? There's multiple instances where, like, you can see from 50 feet away that I have to stay, there's not a lot of slack in the IV. So I have to be next to Rachel. You could see, we got a decision to make. There's not enough room for us both to go. And this nurse is just full speed ahead.

You know, I'm going, oh, oh, oop, oop, o'oo, you know, like kind of banging. we can't divert the course of action pause a little bit let me move this thing out of the way she just go you ever just let it go you just let it go and let it let it get pulled and just like you're behind it for a second just yank out right to whip yeah and after our second bump of me grow like oh oh oh oh hang on hey hello about 10 seconds later she goes Sally's got big feet I go what So impatient.

So like, I don't want to do this anymore. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Sally's got big feet. Sally's the thing I call that thing you're holding on to. She's got some big feet. She'll bump into some stuff. Mm-hmm.

We should have known that. Duh. Oh, okay. I swear, I keep threatening her. I'm going to put eyelashes on her. I swear, one time she fell over and somebody thought I murdered Sally. It's just like, I'm sure all the nurses kind of like know the same stuff

and they are like the same quality of like medical care but you see a crazy difference in the way you're, you know, the bedside manner aspect of it. Oh and you were like, I mean, I'm assuming since she was there early, she was in like the high risk area. And so probably you have the top tier of nurses for that too. It felt like it. They were awesome.

Yeah. Yeah, pre-labor was great. What was your room like pre versus post? I remember post-labor, the room was like, oh, this doesn't have a good couch. Like, oh, this is, you know, whatever. Stuff like is smaller, I feel like. I would agree. Yeah.

Every room we were in had a window, which I liked. Yeah. Now, there's not a ton to see. It's a parking lot. You know, a couple trees. Sometimes there are birds. Sometimes there's not. Those are some of the things you could look for.

Uh-huh. Yeah, those outside, they have birds every once in a while. Cars will drive. At 6.45, a lot of nurses are walking in and out to their cars. Okay, sure. Yeah. That was neat. Yeah, very neat. Changing of the guard. Yeah, you see some nurses drive Mercedes.

You're like, I wonder what their husbands do. Let's see. What else? That same nurse that we don't care for one bit, I wasn't there. This is Rachel and her dad. She saw Rachel, you know, probably three or four days postpartum, first time seeing her since the birth. And she tells Rachel goes, well, you look like a human today. Yep. Pretty interesting thing to say to a woman who just gave birth.

Yeah. Huh. Is that supposed to be like a compliment? Like you look better? Is that what she's trying to say? Like you used to look like you were an alien. Last time I saw you, you looked like a freak. Yeah, right.

I was like, thank you. Good to see you. That's something. Yeah. Where would that rank on the? that like what's that game where you have to rank compliment oh like it was like oh yeah yeah it's like a neutral compliment is that a neutral one that's that's that's that's that's below neutral no i think if it's like zero zero is neutral no no yeah no it was like zero is negative or like 50 is neutral oh okay okay

sorry it was kind of like that um this game wavelength wavelength but we played it where it was like you had to submit the answer based off of your number yeah oh that would be that would be like a 50 like barely above neutral. I'd put it at 46. Would you really? I think that when you think about it, it's like, what I looked like before. Yeah.

Yeah. So you think it's a negative? I think it's, yeah, it might be even like a 38. Really? Yeah, I think it's more negative.

I mean, on the scale of insult to compliment, figures way more ways to compliment someone than you look like a human today. All right, Jake, I'm thinking, or you have,

give me a compliment, and I'll try. to tell you what number that is. 50 being neutral, zero being terrible, like very mean. Okay. 100 being very nice.

Okay. Not bad. Just straight up. Not bad. What's your number for that one? That's more than neutral. That's more than neutral, but it's not much.

So I think it's a... What do you... On three, on three. You have a number? Yeah. On three. One, two. time just so you can hear the tone. Okay, okay. I'm looking at you now. Oh, not bad. Not very,

not very jovial. It is not bad. Not very jovial at all. Um, all right, I have an answer. You have an answer, timing? I think so. Yeah. On three. Ready? One, two, three, 61. 51. 51. 51. 51. Wow. Dang, we're not that close. Not bad. What was your number, Jake? I bet. Oh, their correct answer was 55. You tied. They're time in one.

That's a pretty fun game. We'll talk about later. Okay. You look like a human today. You look like a human today. Thank you. Sorry, I know you've got to go soon. Okay, you're right.

Last thing I'll say is I'll tell you one joke that did not crush is on like day four. or so Teddy started eating a little more. There's like, for whatever reason, there's like three nurses in there. Oh, there's like a girl who just graduated from school, like a 22-year-old in the room with a, and anyway, with the target audience, which is Rachel. Yeah. Just fine. Crushed.

We'd already made jokes like this before. But in a room full of like four other women who didn't know our. Your style of humor. Rat tat, tat. The nurses are touching Teddy and they go, oh, you got a big poofy belly. And I go, just like a. mom. And they go, you can punch him.

You can punch him if you need to. You know what? Yeah. You look just fine for a human. Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh?

Huh? Huh? That's great. All right. Before we end, I want to give five different nicknames for Teddy. Okay? All right. Let's think of them.

I haven't thought of these yet. Okay, great. Teddy Wop, probably. Totally. Obviously Teddy Bear. Yeah. Some with cheddar. Tedder, Tedder, Tedder Teter Teter Tese.

Teddhese. Yeah, Tertre Tis. Ted, Tad, Tadishi, so Tadashi. Tadziki, Tziki, Tziki sauce. Ziki sauce. And. Teddy Roosevelt. Yep.

Got to be Teddy. Speak softly and carry a five milliliter stick. So I'm pumped for y'all. I mean, yeah, obviously this is different than you probably expected it to be, you know, but sounds like you guys are handling it amazing. Yeah. And he's such a blessing. And I know that's, yeah, that's the ultimate thing.

It's a funny kind of like shoehorned way into parenthood where it's like, well, he's actually not here yet. Right. and that's a little weird, but kind of a blessing. He has 24-7 medical supervision. Right. Yeah. Great.

Absolutely. Yeah. It's good. It's good. Cool. Yeah. Make sure you need anything else. I don't want to.

Don't feel like we have to rush out of here. I mean, it's just the driver's license. We got two more episodes later this week. It's true. All right. Ghosties. Thank you.

Yeah. Like Jake said, thanks for all the prayers. That's amazing. What a blessing of a community. And like genuinely, I know it's not just like thoughts and prayers, man. It's like, no, no, no.

People are genuinely. There was that whole thread like 200-something comments about comment where you're praying from. Yeah, dude. That's cool. That's power. That's crazy. In the words of Steve Coop, how could you ever stop doing this podcast?

Amazing, bro. All right. Teddy Triplett. We got a middle name? Oh, that's a quick little funny story. So yeah. Theodore Potter Triplett is the full name. Sweet. Okay.

Potter is a family name on my dad's side. It was my grandpa's middle name. It's a bunch of people's last names. But how do I want to tell the story? Basically, yeah. So we're telling my parents for the first time, like, all right, we had a healthy baby boy. Theodore Potter triplet. You know, my mom's crying.

I'm tearing up. And my dad goes, Potter. What made you choose Potter? And my mom is like, it's your family. He goes, well, I know. I didn't know they knew. But there was a split second. I was like, does he not know?

Or did we get it wrong? Yes. Yeah. Is it putter? Oh, so yeah. I now know, like, he knew the whole time. He just didn't think we knew. But it's just an easy punching bag now to be like, like, remember when you like didn't know.

Right. The significance of his middle name. I love it, dude. Theodore Pott. I was curious if it was Theodore just straight Teddy, you know? Yeah. Okay, we can think of more nicknames with Theodore next time. Uncle John's been just rattling off Theodore Roosevelt fun facts to us ever says.

The guy is amazing. Yeah. Uncle Johnny and Theodore Roosevelt. Just a good guy. Just a good guy. It's a great guy. He's just a good guy. National Park.

Love it, dude. All right, man. Congratulations. Seriously. The best. Thank you. You've changed since you've been a dad. I'll say that.

You've changed, bro. Thanks. Yeah. I cry way more. Do you? Yeah. Just yesterday? All right.

Seriously last thing. No, you're fine. We're trying to think of what to watch. We end up watching Moneyball. Rachel's like, should we watch Forrest Gump? I think Forrest Gump was on my mind. You know, he calls Bubba. Maybe it's Ginny.

I honestly, I don't know. He calls him my best good friend. And so that's something that Rachel and I, like, we use that term every now and then, like, my best good friend or whatever. And I was doing skin to skin. And I was like, I think Teddy's going to be my best good friend. And then I started thinking about it. And I was like, wow, how cool would that be if he considers me his best friend?

And then I'm like fully back. I'm crying. Dude, that's amazing. I'm trying to like get it out of my tear ducts. I got a little reservoir in here. Rachel, I'm going to need a washcloth or something. I was thinking about me and Teddy Forrest Gump and, ah, I kind of stinks. That really happened like less than 24 hours ago.

That's so sweet. That's awesome. That's so sweet. I love it, man. Best good friend. My best good friend. That's great, man. All right, man.

We'll debrief more about the gaze away on next, next episode, Monday. Can't wait. Love you, bro. Congratulations. Love to Teddy. Give them a little squeeze on his big belly for me. I'll give him gentle pressure. Oh, sorry, gentle pressure on my behalf.

Yeah. Time is taking suck. I'm taking swallow. What's the other one? I'll do breathe. Okay. All right. All right.

On three. One, two, three. Eddie. Oh, suck. I sucked in. My bad. Sorry, it was more... We'll get it next.

Okay, we'll get it next. Oh, love you, Teddy. Have a great week, man. I see you guys. Ghost from a podcast.