Ghostrunners - 278 - We've Been Bought Out

Episode Date: November 13, 2023

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Brad, a couple nights ago, our friend Spencer mowing the lawn. Nice of him to do that. I mean, I pay him, but still nice of him to... Sure. You know how business works. Yeah. So, nice. He does it in a happy way because even if he didn't get paid that much for it. But he does. Bingo. And I come home and he's still mowing the lawn and I'm asking him like, hey, how appreciate being out here yada yada and he was like uh dude it's been fun he's like I will say I got a little spooked one time as I was

mowing your backyard there were two just like wild looked like wild like huskies like walking up on me uh anyway they were really nice end up petting them for like five minutes it was great I was like that's awesome how often do you see huskies walking around and then I thought about it I was like, that's awesome. How often do you see huskies walking around? And then I thought about it and I was like, you know what? Like a week ago, Rachel complained to me and swore up and down that there are wolves in our neighborhood. I'm starting to think that Rachel thinks like a domesticated blue-eyed husky with a collar might be a wild wolf. Yeah. Well, they have tags on them for conservation purposes. You know, like you can't shoot you can't shoot a tag one. Yeah. Like Rachel, you didn't see a wolf.

Yes, I did. And I would have shot it, but I saw its collar. But it had a collar that said, please don't shoot me. Property of Andy. It said, yes, I know. I only live in Southwestern Canada, but I'm here on vacation. I know I'm a wolf. Rachel's just from like the country.

So she just doesn't know like about pets or something like, doesn't know, doesn't know about pets. Doesn't know. Doesn't know. Like, Hey, like,

like normal dogs that aren't just hunting dogs can be like pets, you know? And maybe they get out. Yeah. Like, yeah, they're always out. Yeah.

They're wolves. Of course they're out. Yeah. Yeah. Rachel like comes up from, you know, doing laundry in our unfinished basement. The,

uh, Chihuahua traps are working. Rachel, those are mice. Those are tiny little traps. Man, I don't see why those Mexicans love those things so much. He stopped barking. I don't hear a peep out of him. He's dead.

Not a squeak. Yeah. Jake, I don't know. Has the water been tasting funny to you lately? The water's been tasty. I mean, no. I'll get it from this. Oh,

you're getting it from that spout. I was getting it from that one. Rachel, that's, that's a coffee pot. Like, what are you? It's not the same.

Oh, I don't know. Okay. The city life. It's too fast for me. I'm from Iowa. I'm from Iowa. I am an idiot.

Steve coop right now is going to, hey, no, she's not. No, she's not. No, Steve Coop about five seconds from now when he realizes we're making fun of him because he's delayed. Wait a second. They're making fun of Iowa. I don't think this is good. Rachel wakes up in the morning. Hey, can you turn off the smoke alarm?

What smoke alarm? What are you talking about? That's my phone my phone rachel every morning it's just my phone it's just my cell phone just a noise just any ringing hey the fire alarm's going off again every day 705 i don't understand the tornado sirens are going off it's not it's not the first wednesday i thought it was wednesdays they go off every morning what is that i'm from iowa i don't know i have to go return this uh this hoodie i bought this hoodie online huh I don't know. I have to go return this hoodie. I bought this hoodie online. I don't know. It's defective or something.

It's not working right. It's like, Rachel, you bought a crew neck. You didn't. There's no hood on it. I don't know. It just doesn't. I can't get the tat. It's not.

I look like Quasimodo when I put the hood on. The hood is so small. I just don't understand. It's not working quite right. Have hoodies started fitting weird for you guys? Yeah, maybe it's my head. I don't know. I'm not trying to act like I have the perfect head in the world.

But I was voted best... Best head shape. Yeah, best head shape in Iowa. Hoodies have always fit. I don't know. Brock Purdy likes them. He's from Iowa. Yeah, best head shape in Iowa. Hoodies have always fit. I don't know. Brock Purdy likes them. He's from Iowa. Yeah.

Jake, I've been driving. Have you noticed some of the stop signs near our house, they'll change colors when you get close. That's a stop light. Yeah, that's light. You really got to pay attention. Yeah, that's not a stop sign. Huh, really?

Well, Iowa. Yeah, that's not a stop sign. Huh, really? Iowa. Yeah, that's Iowa for you. I swear these couches are getting smaller these days. Rachel, that's a love seat, sweetie. Sweetie. Sweetums.

Love. Love, love baby. Be my little love seat. My little love seat. Yeah. Someone said Facebook, someone's sitting on the love seat. My little love seat. Yeah. Someone, someone sitting on the love seat. I could see Rachel complaining like, there's been a, there's been someone who, I don't know,

just like I need to tell you, like he's been, I think he lives close by and I feel like he's been around a lot. He's been like looking in our windows. Yeah. I think we have a pervert as a neighbor. Rachel, that's Brad.

No. I thought you were going to say Bo. Rachel, that's just Bo. He's three years old. He's innocent. He's obsessed with you. That's fine. Yeah.

Miss Rachel's making chicken tonight. 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 this is the Ghost Rubs Podcast. Everybody morning, we're taking ground.

Ghost Rubs Podcast. Ghost Rubs Podcast. No, Rachel's smart. She's smarter than us. She's way more schooled than us. Iowans are the smartest people I know. Yes. I was actually talking about Steve Coop.

Chuck Grassley. Chuck Grassley. I mean, just a lifelong learner. Steve Coop, I'll have you know, I was texting about you and your knowledge this morning to people who don't even know you. A little CRP. Yeah, I was talking about CRP farming.

So thanks for all that you tell me about. On that same note, while we were doing that, it kind of reminded me, lately I've been the one mixing things up. Lately I've been like, I feel like a lot of times I've been just leaving the house or just getting back to the house, and I'm seeing a lot of guys walking around the neighborhood with iPads, clipboards, NFL scout behavior. Yeah, they're recruiting. Yeah, it's that time of year

They're like Well the Chiefs are struggling A little bit at wide receiver Maybe wide receiver Maybe we're gonna run into You know some guy Just mowing a lawn Petting some huskies

And think That guy's got a pretty good Set of legs on him Maybe it'll happen I told Spencer He's like What are you doing in jeans Brody

You got a lot of people On iPads around here Looking for good legs Speaking of that Listen All Time Quarterback, our football podcast on Patreon only. Please. People are loving it.

I think the first 10 minutes of it were really fun yesterday. Not that the rest of it's not fun. The first 10 minutes were very Ghostrunners. We didn't even talk about the games. So if you just want generic banter that's somewhat centered around sports, check it out. Yeah, fun times. Long story medium, coming to find out these guys,

I thought they were like, I don't know, people trying to sell you stuff. Hey, you know, we can get a new roof on your house. Hey, what do you think about tulip planting? Whatever. Those types of people, door to door. The classic tulip plant. Yeah, I don't know why that came to mind. Pyramid scheme. I know it's that time of year, though. Is it? Because the coops inform me

of that kind of thing. Okay, sure. But come to find out, the city is redoing the coops inform me of that kind of thing sure uh but come to find out the city is redoing the street to get a new sidewalk get a new drainage new sewage they want to pay wait wait guess have time and guess yeah yeah yeah so other side of this street that we live on is getting a sidewalk our side of the street they're having to take away part of the driveway part of our property our lawn to build like a uh what's it called a ditch sewage yeah they're kind of widening the street has like a natural drain right now kind of yeah but they're gonna have like curbs basically right and they are taking away you know the spot in the driveway that's kind of the little offset thing i think we lose that what the

whole thing it they made it seem like that i don't how, I don't know if the whole thing needs to go, but they made it seem like we're losing that. That's my spot. That's my coach. Hey, you can't take away my spot. Time. And how much do you think, you know,

that I, how much do you think I'm owed? Well, what they, they offered Jake. Basically. Yeah. They hand Rachel a piece of paper and like,

Hey, sign this. We'll pay you for your lawn which is cool just in general that that's even a thing thanks for doing that thanks for just seizing the land that is nice oh this is just i i'll have nothing to base this on i would not have either i would have no idea two thousand bucks not a bad guess uh first offer eighty five hundred dollars wow i like how you say first offer yeah like we'll see if they Not a bad guess. First offer, $8,500. Wow. I like how you say first offer.

Yeah, like we'll see if they change their mind. We reject your first offer. Don't even tell me your first offer, because I'm going to say no. Wow. Probably just going to accept it. I mean, yeah, quite the stimulus check. Lose a little bit of lawn, but get to keep the trees. You lose your spot.

Yeah, I'm a little bit bummed about that. The big issue is they're going to be doing some street work on your house for a while. I guess you live on a corner, so you can just park on the edge, like the other side street. But you're not going to be able to park your car. Oh. Oh, boy. Charging. Boy, oh, boy.

Now you guys are. The rate just went up. Oh, I didn't even think about that. I didn't think about that either. And you guys are both electric, so you guys are. The rate just went up. Oh, I didn't even think about that. I didn't think about that either. And you guys are both electric. So you both need, you're going to like have to live at a high V charging point for like, like you're just going to have to have dates where you go. You got to require them to install something for you.

Like somewhere else. Yes. Oh, value your time. The rate just went up again. I would say so. Value your time at $50 an hour. And you're like, listen, every time I have to leave my house, I'm not getting work done at my house, which is where my office is.

Talk to my accountant. I have a home office. Yeah. And then my wife and I both have to charge our cars. Think about the marital stress. Yes. There's a cost on that too. It sounded like there was going to be a list,

but that was all I could think of for now. I'll get back to you on the other things. I mean, think about all the issues, marital stress, some of the stuff I said earlier. So mainly the charge, just in general, you can, you can picture it, dude, dude. Okay. But that is a problem. I mean, you're at least going to have to like install something at my house or something. Oh, these are good reasons to up your price. Fight. This is why we talk it out. This is good, guys. This is why we have brotherhood and accountability.

Yes, community. Talk it out as a community of men. If I can't park in my driveway, do I lose that? Maybe. Yeah. Price just went up again. What's that? What's that noise?

That's the price accelerating up. Nope. It's not mountain climber game on Price is Right. It's the price going up. Nope. It's not mountain climber game on Price is Right. It's the price going up again. Yeah, dude. That's an issue though. I'm glad you brought that to my attention. I do have just practicality wise.

I do have like a, I believe it's called a 220 hookup in my shop. That is like, I think what you need. And so if you can plug into that, it looks like the driver. Yeah, good. Is it near the front of the driveway? What were you going to say? Well, I was about to say I've never used it.

So I am, I am, I'm pretty confident it works, but I'm not positive. Did they used to have their washer and dryer there? Why do you have that there? Uh, cause he used to have a shop back there.

Like he used to have a business where he did something back there. And he, he needed for a reason that you don't need it. Let me tell you something. Okay. You're going to be excited about this. There's two of them. One's in the very back of the shop. Bummer. Not going to work. Oh, but where's the other one? On the outside

of the shop, brother. Right there by the door. I think it used to be like an RV charging thing. Wow. You got a good driveway for an RV. I got a great driveway for an RV or a limo. Greg Peterson one time parked a semi truck back there. That's wild. Yeah.

Bondi Bulls. In the middle of the suburbs. It's crazy. You could fit a semi, not on your street, but in your driveway. Yes. It was, it looked. Can you fit? Dude, Greg, if you're listening to this, I need $8,500 because after he parked it there.

Marital stress? No, not marital stress. My there's like indents in my asphalt from really, yeah. I'm not saying it's just from that Greg, but I'm not saying it's not just from that. So it's just like sinking in. It's just like, like just a little bit, not like obvious, like not terrible. If you look at it, you wouldn't notice. Yeah. But I, I'm as the homeowner, I i noticed these things i have an idea real quick i'm i don't think i'm gonna call him so all morning uh brian i've been texting steven swick one of our favorite people who listen to the podcast friend of ours a fan who became friend yes and he was the guy you almost surprised me with by driving to

ohio with bow yes jensen was there steven swick was there man i i think i think fondly of those times where we just even thought we were going it was like the greatest hour of my life dude like all three of us just like match each other's excitement yeah dude that is special and there is something to be said about like planning a vacation or like when the group chat for the bachelor party first gets started it's like this is happening yeah we're doing this look at the airbnb whatever that is hard to replicate. Yes. But Steven Swick,

I was even given a hard time in the text. I was like, because he has such a niche expertise, you know, and I was like, I can't believe you even provide for our family doing this, but he is a real estate attorney. Seems so specific.

But I was like, this seems so up his alley. And it did. He had immediate answers for me. And it was basically like, good luck fighting it. I would be surprised if they budge. And he gave other examples of times in the past where other people have fought it and won. But it seemed like a much bigger deal than what I'm facing with.

But new evidence has been brought to the jury, to the courtroom. Down the street, there's another Tesla owner. So you need to talk to them. We fight together. I think so. My brother. There's nothing that blue collar neighborhoods like ours love more than people who have EVs complaining about not, you know, being able to charge them. I think, I think that's going to resonate really well with Dennis across the street.

Who's running his gas lawnmower every other day to keep his lawn pristine. Nothing like, yeah, a zip code where the median household income is probably $60,000. Hearing privileged people talk about a slight loss of privilege. Listen, our two cars that are worth more than that guy's house. Oh, jeez. I don't think that's true, but you know what I'm saying. So instead of calling him, because I assume, busy guy, let's just send him away. Oh, it's going right now.

Hey, Swig, we're on the podcast now. So when you respond, know that you will we're on the podcast now so when you respond know that you will also be on the podcast new evidence has been brought to the court we have a thanks to timon and brad smart guys uh we think there might be an opportunity to get the city to budge consider this rachel and i both have electric cars when they do work on our driveway we will not be able to access our driveway we'll not be able to access our driveway. We'll not be able to park our cars where our charters are. We will not be able to charge our cars. Essentially saying we will not be able to get gasoline. We won't be able to use our cars the way they're supposed to be.

Do we have a leg to stand on? Can we utilize that to get more money? What else should we consider? Yeah. Appreciate your time. Bill me. Bill me. Fun guys. Bill me hey bill me i'm swick bill me i'm podcasting here bill me nice advice bill me right before we started recording i asked swick i said anything you'd like to say you're here discussed first thing i saw does timon know the three ships that brought the pilgrims to america he's homeschooled so i'm guessing he still learns that stuff but i don't think public school teach that anymore. He even edited the message, so that wasn't even his first go-around with the text. His second go-around, I don't think public school

teach that anymore. That's funny that that's on his mind. Tommy, do you know it? I know the Mayflower. No! That's not even the three! What's the question again? The Mayflower was a ship. You're right about that.

This is the three ships that brought... I'm reading this text right now. He's got some funny things on here. Yeah, I skipped over some other stuff. I think point public schoolers. Sorry, homeschoolers. Maybe you're the ones not being taught this. I don't know if that's a good assumption

or I just don't know this. It's a pretty inconsequential. I don't think it's. Can we talk about. Are we sure it's the pilgrims? Yeah, I think he's mistaken. Yeah, it's Columbus. The pilgrims came over in Mayflower.

Columbus sailed. On three ships. Yeah. Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria. Yeah. Did you know those? So I was right about Mayflower? Mayflower is the pilgrims.

Okay, that's good. Unless there's three of them from the pilgrims that I I, yeah, no one talks about in the other one. It's like the Mayflower is the Michael Jordan, but maybe there's some, you know, the Tulips that are the Tony Coo coaches. Was Steven Swift public schooled? I think he was private, private school. It's typical. He seems like he's got a little private school in him. I don't know if that's true

but i don't think i don't think i would have known columbus's you want to set sail from spain in three ships um the nina the pinta and santa maria 1492 is there a little in yay nina not or just nina i'm just genuinely curious. I wasn't trying to be like a D-bag about it. On Wikipedia, yes. Okay. Nina. Okay. I believe. Where I studied abroad in Spain was where

Christopher Columbus is buried. Kind of crazy. De la Frontera, Spain? De la Frontera, Spain. Yep. That's pretty cool. That's like the most Jose Pepper sound. Like Tex-Mex name. That's like the most like Jose Pepper sound like Tex-Mex name. Let's go to De La Frontera tonight.

Guys, they have the best Espinaca and Margarita deals. What was the name? There was a Oh, what was the name of the Mexican restaurant in Bolivar? El Rodeo. Perfect. Just the Rodeo. El Charro. Yeah. El Rodeo. It was very Bolivar um but we said rodeo instead of

rodeo so it was cool yeah is that going to la la or el nacho yeah oh you want to go to el nacho el nacho gracias for that idea oh gracias dude gracias um anyway that has been what have we been talking? Oh, that has been getting rich. Genuinely though, you need to figure that out because that's a big problem. Yeah. Like you either need to like get them, I don't know about get them. It may be, they're just going to be like, you're tough luck, brother.

Bill me. Yeah. Right. Bill me back. Um, I mean, that is a problem though. Like, I mean, and luckily i think you could probably i don't know how those things work like but you could plug into my shop and be fine that though that's irrelevant to the issue but if nothing else they have to like they i don't know about

have to this is like where i get feeling like entitled or whatever but like it would make sense for them to if if you said that, the argument would be like, okay, we'll at least give you a rental car while this is going on. Rental gas. Yeah. The old R gas. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Swick responded. Let's hear

what he has to say. Dude. Okay. So let's think about this. They are cutting off your ability to use your property in a way that you need to use it for transportation. Yes. What are your costs going to be to make alternative plans to be able to charge your vehicles? Are you going to have to go off-site?

Do you have to pay for that charging station? Do you have to use the backup gas tank? What monetary value are you damaged by them tearing up your driveway, number one, above and beyond the $8,000 that they're already going to give you? And number two, what is the inconvenience cost?

I do the opposite of object. It's more of a non-objective, easily able to quantify amount that they're not going to want to hear. But it is worth something to be mentioned when you're negotiating with them. Not only am I not able to charge in my house, it's going to cost me more money to go charge elsewhere or to use my backup gas tank and fill it up. Cause I usually don't have to do that on a weekly basis. I think that's for hybrids. So I don't know.

Maybe it works. Maybe it doesn't, but I like the thought. Cool. We got to, we got to talk about back. I back i mean he went he went nine for ten there i'd say 90 of the info really helpful like this guy really knows what he's talking about lawyers i understand why they pay him money wait wait go back to thinking about the backup gas tank backup gas tanks i love that i mean that's elon's thing like hey i'm trying to save the world here when it's convenient.

Well, yeah. 500 mile range plus your backup gas tank. Yeah. I mean, the easiest thing to do is make a car with two different motors, two different engines. One, fully electric. Another one also

fits in there, fully gas. Backup gas tank. Half-baked idea idea yeah that is what a that's what a prius is right is like yeah like hybrid cars the electricity like uh or the when the car is running it like powers the battery i think those are more backup electric though i think it's okay primarily gas but that's a good word. But some electric things like kick in. Sure. Yeah. Or something. Maybe so. Anyway, the old backup gas tank. That's pretty funny.

Well, at least it sounds like we got options here. Okay. You got to take action soon, though, probably. Yeah. Okay. It's good. I've been watching a new Netflix documentary about some court cases. I feel like I'm ready to fight.

Okay. What is it? I don't even know what it's called. Doesn't matter. Whatever like I'm ready to fight. Okay. What is it? I don't even know what it's called. Doesn't matter. Whatever. I'm ready to fight. It's called It Came Upon a Midnight Clear. Is that what it's called? I think It Came Upon a De La Frontera. That's right. It came up at El Rodeo. Just another,

just talk about Steven Swick some more. He said he was private schooled K-6, public school 7-12. He said he was private school K through six public school, seven through 12th. So we all know that kid. I mean, yeah. Yeah. One of those bummer,

bummer, bummer played against Aaron Kraft in high school. He'll, he'll tell you that. Oh yeah. He did. Yeah. He liked,

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They're going to come out. They're like a whole new team. Guys, what happened? You really refocus had the bye week. They're going to come out. They're like a whole new team. Guys, what happened? You really refocus over the bye? I mean, kinda coach just, coach has got a strike. Coach has shiked us.

Yeah. Coach has sent a strike. It said, enjoy the week off boys. Right. Yeah. Brock Purdy. Enjoy your shy week.

Enjoy your shy week. Yeah. Good. Coach is seven to one after the shy week. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I,

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on one of my favorite things from childhood went to our first KU Jayhawks basketball game together. And it was sweet. It was a, it was a great time. You've been to a few KU games.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I've ever. Yeah, I've definitely been in Allen Fieldhouse. I'm trying to think if it was just like a preseason exhibition. I don't know if I've been to like a regular season game. Yeah.

So, I mean, this one was against North Carolina Central. So. Okay. We all know how good they are. Yeah. Perennial. Yeah. Just they're going to be a tough out in March for sure.

I think. I would not want to see them on my bracket. But no, North Carolina uh, no North Carolina central, not North Carolina, not where Michael Jordan went NC state. No, not NC state. You would see Wilmington. I've seen it. Yeah. Oh, you mean a wake forest? No, no, not even, um, NC. Yeah. North Carolina central. Um, but my dad was out of town, you know, he's got season tickets. So he's like, Hey, would you like these tickets? I was like, I think it'd be so fun to take hattie this is a great you know first experience they're gonna wipe the floor with them you know um but so much of the enjoyment and the the

experience especially at a ku game but really any sporting event i think is the pre-game like okay like the the the the pomp and the circumstance beforehand got our both um both. Um, and, and that's what such, there's so many fun traditions that go on at the beginning before the game. It probably starts 15 minutes or so before the game. And so the game started at seven. I was like, I told Catherine, I was like,

well, we can eat at home, but let's leave. I want to leave at five 30. Cause it's like 40 minutes away. Yeah. Got to park. Got to get there for pregame.

Right. Um, and normally we just park off-site and just walk. Anyway. Sounds inconvenient if that's the way you lived. What? Having to park far away and then walk. Boy, what?

I mean, I have an actual price on how much I end up. So I end up paying for parking because, long story short, spaghetti night at the Ellis household. And we snarfed. We snarfed down. Sure. It was ravioli night for us. How about that?

How about that? It's a pasta night. And naturally, we left at 544. Just missed it. Yeah. Yeah. And I was getting a little antsy. You know, I had to go to the bathroom.

I swear that girl takes 14 minutes to go to the bathroom. So it's probably that. She deucing? No. Okay. She's just in bathroom. So it's probably that. She do some? No. Okay. She's just in there just taking her sweet time. On her phone? Sometimes.

Yeah. Sometimes I'll just be like, Hattie, you need to finish up. She'll be like, okay. And it's like, I think she's just sitting there just pondering life or something. That's interesting. It's very, I mean, not truly 14. I bet it's a solid five minutes though. Just tinkle.

I don't know what's going on. Maybe she's a solid five minutes, though. Just tinkle. I don't know what's going on. Maybe she's like, you know, we always tell her, like, hey, just try. Maybe she's trying to go number two. It doesn't matter. So we're leaving a little bit later. Still, like, we've got enough time, you know, in my head. I have a little bit of a buffer.

And, dude, we start going, and we are literally in standstill traffic on the highway. Dang it. Like, literally not moving. There's construction that takes it down to one lane. And so I'm starting to get a little antsy. I'm a little bit, honestly, and I shouldn't have been, or maybe even if I was, it's not something I should have overtaken me. But I was a little bit frustrated with Catherine because I was like, whatever, we could have eaten earlier.

I wouldn't have. Yeah. Like, oh. And in reality, it was as much my fault as hers. Cause we got caught up on a different house project for a little bit. So, um, anyway, on the highway and dude, I got like irrationally anxious. Like I, cause, cause like I, it was like one of those times where it was like, I want so badly for her to experience it exactly like I've experienced it. Yeah. Yeah. It's like secondhand,

I don't know, desire, secondhand anxiousness. It's like, you're not anxious to yourself. You've seen it, you've done it, but it's like, I want this so bad for this person. I want this to be the perfect experience for you. And so I, so like there was one time, even like, you know, we, we got through the traffic and it was looking like we were going to get there at six. I think that the map said six 42, I was flying down the highway. I was, I was, I was trimming numbers off that thing. Six 41, six 39. And I was like, Oh, we're going to be fine. Not bad. And I, I went and ordered a parking pass $36 for this parking pass. Okay. 16 of it was a convenience fee. Don't get me started. Sounds like an inconvenience. I would say so. So $36 every single day is how much you're owed.

Okay. At least. Minimum. Minimum. So, but then dude, once we get into town, we get off the highway, there's this one light. I swear it was six seconds long. You know, I had to wait. We were like six cars back and I had to wait three different times for it to go.

And so I was freaking, I literally was like texting Catherine. Like it was like me, me, me. Like she wasn't even responding. I was just like, I hate this. I'm stopped at a red light. This is terrible. Oh, I hate, like, I'm so anxious. Like all these things. And I finally just had to die to myself and be like, how do you doesn't know? She's not gonna, this is not going to make or break anything for her. She doesn't know what she's missing out on. She doesn't know. Except I kind of hyped it up to her. I was like, we get to watch them practice beforehand. We get to see them run out. They're going to play this song.

They're going to do this awesome video. These people are going to have a flag when they run out of the tunnel. It's going to be so fun. So anyway, we literally get to the game as the starting lineups are coming out. So we missed the awesome video,

but we... Sorry, scam call. as the starting lineups are coming out. So, okay. So like we missed the awesome video, um, but we, sorry, scam call. I'm, I'm not, I'm not a master like you. So I'm all good.

All good. Um, we, uh, but, but like literally I like picked her up and ran into the stadium to like watch this. Like I was like,

you're rational, dude. I don't know. I was just like, I just want so badly for you to think this is awesome. And she classic, like whatever she is, I don't know I was just like I just want so badly for you to think this is awesome and she classic like whatever she is I don't know 2023 kid we brought her ear muffs you know or ear not muffs but whatever those things are uh hearing protection so she threw those on and she was like you know just overwhelmed but like in amazement um the only basketball game that had he seen up

to this point he's been upward right so she went from upward to like Allen field house. Yeah, I think you're right. I mean, surely I don't think she's been to any kind of like a high school game or anything like that. Um, so yeah, I mean,

we get to our seats. She had a blast every time, you know, the crowd cheered, she would clap. She loved putting her hands up for the free throws. Yeah, that's fun.

She was like, my favorite part was probably when those people got to shoot it without anybody trying to stop them. And when they made it, we said, whoosh, that is fun. Yeah. I was like trying to explain to her, you know, some of the different things, but she was pretty into in tune with it. Um, but dude, you're just right before halftime. I took a picture of this real quick. Um, the score of the game, I mean, this is NC central. So like I said, powerhouse of a team one minute, five seconds left in the first half. What do you think the score was? 46 21. That would be crazy. 57 to 15. Jeez. And a college game, just 57 points in the first half

is crazy. 15 points in the first half is crazy. I don't care who you're playing. It's hard to put up that many points because you still have to make the shots. They need to be left open. You still have to make them. I was telling that to Hattie. I was like, all those shots they're shooting behind that line are worth three points

and they're making all of them. They're just crushing them. It was unbelievable. That's sweet. It was awesome. That's pretty cool. You got to see 57 points in one half. Did you stay the whole time?

No, we left pretty, like probably halfway through the second half. Catherine kind of was like, don't leave her out too late, okay? It's NC Central. It's NC Central. But, you know, Hattie's getting so dramatic, dude. Like, we got there, and she's like, I feel like that took us a year to drive there and one month to walk. And I was like, we parked in a parking. Yeah. I paid for that for $36. You didn't walk very far at all. It would have felt like a thousand years

if I didn't pay for it. And as we're leaving, she's like, I don't even feel like we're in Kansas anymore. We're so far away. I was like, you're so dramatic. Um, but overall she had a great time. We got soft pretzel. I love soft pretzels, dude. Yeah. And she had only had a great time. We got soft pretzel. I love soft pretzels. Dude, yeah. And she had only had a bite of one in her past. Like has not had many soft pretzels in her life. Welcome to the real world, Hattie. And she even remembered it.

She's like, I remember the time I went to the Royals game and I got cotton candy, but Hope or grandma or somebody had a soft pretzel and I tried a bite and I was like, that's really good. So I'm going to get one. And so, and then I got her a little Jayhawk doll. It just, it was a great time, man. What does Hattie do in the car ride? Is she reading? Are you guys chatting? A little bit of everything.

Talking peace in the Middle East or what's going on? Yeah. So we, we do like, we try to do like 25 to 35% Ben Shapiro. Okay. Uh, no, I'm just kidding. We do like a little bit of that. We do a little Al Mohler to get some theological worldview. Yeah. No. It just depends. Sometimes it's – I try to be intentional with talking to her, but sometimes she'll just ask, like, can we listen to a story?

Sometimes she's six. Yeah, sometimes she's six. Sometimes she wants to – yeah, we listened to 102 Dalmatians last night. Okay. The storyteller version of it. And we also listened to some Jayhawks music to get her excited about the pregame. Like, these are the songs. You know the song, yeah. So they're going to sing this song, and then they're going to do the Rock Chalk chant.

It's going to be so cool. You're going to miss the whole thing, but it's fine. You can imagine it, though. Yeah, it's going to be so not that – like, it's missable for sure, Hattie. That's cool. Anyway, the whole thing was just a cool like this is this is probably my favorite sporting event to go to out of all the things i love about sports and i got to experience with haddy so um bow already like the first thing he

said to me when i got home or when i came home this morning he was like what was the final score really he like wants to come and like yeah cool go go see it. And so, and then Hattie last night was so funny, dude. This is my last thing. And then we can talk about other things, but Hattie was so funny. She got home, told we rehashed the whole thing with Catherine. We're like, all right, go, go get ready for bed, brush your teeth, go potty for 18 minutes. And she came back in and I was doing my Bible study, like my last little Bible study before Tuesday morning. And then I had the Monday night football game on over on the side and she back in, and I was doing my Bible study, my last little Bible study before Tuesday morning, and then I had the Monday night football game over on the side. She comes in.

She goes, more sports? That's all there is around here. Catherine goes, yeah, you're learning. You're learning. I just had to look her in the eyes and be like, I love sports. I was like, I love you a million times more. You know, whatever. But she was so funny.

Who says these things, man? That's all there is. That's all there is around here. Dad, can we get a little ballet on the TV? Yes. Fine arts. 102 Dalmatians. History Channel.

Jeez, Dad. More sports. Oh, it's so funny. That's awesome. Yeah, it was a great time. Yeah, we had a blast. Let me ask you this. Hattie's still in diapers?

No. Okay. But if she was, which ones would she be in? You just thought I was an idiot. Six-year-old. Like, hey, no judgment. Hey, hey, hey, take your time. She would be in every life diapers, brother. Oh, well, that's cool to know.

I was just wondering. Yeah, out of nowhere. That's sweet. Are we sponsored by them? You're just asking. I don't know. I have a few things on my mind I'd like to say about that company. Okay. I mean, I know they're... It's a company created by parents and for parents. Yes.

Which are two great things. I come from a set of them and I plan to be a set of them my own. Well, by yourself? No. One half. Why did I say my own? And I plan to do some pretty interesting stuff. Yeah.

It's going to be wild. Pretty revolutionary. The science they have. Yeah. I'm going to get $8,500. I'm going to do some stuff. I'm going to go to the lab. Yeah.

And this company that was created by parents, the mission is to provide premium diaper products for every baby. Think about that. Okay. It's a ton of babies. That's a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of different races.

Yes. All over. Every baby. But's a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of different races. Yes. All over. Absolutely. Every baby. But they're great. I mean, I think the people who have bought Every Life diapers in our Ghost Runners Facebook page have been raving fans. Yes. They love them.

I know you and Catherine really enjoy them. Just changed one earlier today, brother. How was it? It was great. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's, it's, it's a quality diaper. There's not like, it's not like there's going to be gadgets coming out of it. It's not like there's something like revolutionary about these diapers. They're just good. There's quality

diapers with quality products, clean, you know, clean made. Um, and they're, they're, they're also very just clean when you get them. There's no poop in the diaper. They come brand new. Yes. That is nice. Yeah. I think ultimately, go-sees need to decide, hey, I'm already buying diapers. Do I want to support Johnson & Johnson, let's say? Do I want to support Big Dipe? Or do I want to support Little Dipe?

Which is Every Life. Great company, great people, great diapers. But you have to spend full price on your first set. That, that, that, first set that that that that that that i'm gonna stop you right there and i'm gonna stop you quickly okay real quickly real quickly i put a stop to that uh if you use the promo code grkc you get 10 off your first order gadzooks that that that that that that's good Everylife.com, G-R-K-C. Get them while you still have a kid in diapers.

That's right. Don't, hey, don't potty train and regret not having Everylife. There you go. Right? And don't be in a hurry to potty train. And you know what? If you're out there and you're like, I don't have kids. I know that most people know people that have kids who are in diapers.

Give it as a gift. It'd be a great gift. There you go. It's kind of fun. Introduce somebody else to Everylife. It is kind of fun to give someone a gift knowing it's extremely pragmatic, like getting someone like toilet paper or something. It's like, I know you're going to use it and they're going to think of me, dude. What if you got someone just like a gallon of gas for Christmas? Just like, dude, just whenever you need it for your backup gas tank. Here's

gasoline. Like, dude, great. I'll go to my weed eater with this. Okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'll keep this in the garage. The lawnmower's almost out anyway. Yes. That's a fun gift. I should get Steve Coop gasoline. I think he would really appreciate that.

He would love it. And with a new tank, too. He'd be excited about this new tank. Yeah, like a new jug, too. Oh, it's so clean. It's such a clean tank. Yeah. Thank you, Jake.

Doesn't he have, like, gas? There's certain words you say where it does kind of sound like him's so clean. It's such a clean tank. Yeah. Thank you, Jake. Doesn't he have like gas? There's certain words you say where it does kind of sound like him. So clean. But no, he doesn't talk like that. Thanks, Jake. Thanks a ton, brother. Mama mia. Thank you, Jake.

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and also as truthful. Hey, don't feel like you had to go too quick. This is a long-form podcast is what we're calling it. We've always said that we're going to be long-form.'re never going to do, you know, a little bite-sized five minute things. No. So, Hey, take a break. If you want to go get some coffee and come back for the store. You know what? Don't you dare feel the pressure to go fast. I always feel the pressure to go fast, but it's a podcast. So I don't, we just need need to. Maybe we should not. We took some productivity shot earlier.

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Relax. I'm going to sit back, bro. Once upon a time. That was my Steve Coop brother. Hey, bro, go into that car, bro. Yo, gasoline. Come on, bro. once upon a time that was my steve coon brother hey bro going to the store bro so the day is june 23rd uh me scott and isaac post our first video to uh our new instagram page friday pickleball i came up with this name i thought it was really fun i was i feel like i learned my lesson a little bit on ghost runners je Jean shorts. They're fine. They're solid, but I really wanted a company

that can spread word of mouth and just a good name, you know, just like, I don't need to know how to spell it. I don't need to ask if it's about ghost. I don't need to ask is your first name, Jean? It's just like, okay, I get it right away. That same exact week, we see that a company also called friday pickleball launched on instagram as well and we go holy cow what are the odds of this backfire yeah because i had a generic name i'd had the idea for probably three months leading up to that of like all right this is what we're gonna do it me scott isaac it's gonna be called friday pickleball just waiting for a few you know waiting to get married waiting to go on the honeymoon and then eventually let's do it like what are the odds of this my first thought was like you know what waiting to get married, waiting to go on the honeymoon. And then eventually let's do it. Like, what are the odds of this? My first thought was like, you know what? Hopefully this company,

like they go out of business in like six months and we just don't even have to worry about it. That's what I told Scott and Isaac, you know, cause they're like, oh geez. I was like, hey, we're going to be way bigger than they are. So let's just like, hopefully they fizzle out. Yeah. So we noticed that right away. right away occasionally we would see like their facebook ads we'd see some ads for them like dang it all right they're not really going away but in the meantime we're crushing it we're going viral we're getting all these followers and um in the meantime we're also getting offers from pretty much every paddle company in pickleball they uh they're reaching out they think this is so cool they They want to work with us.

Three weeks into this, into Scott being an influencer, the guy's not even on Instagram. He's on the phone with the CEO of Carbon Pickleball. He's on the phone with the CEO of Selkirk Pickleball. It's crazy. I'm trying to tell Scott and Isaac. I was like, guys, what we're doing, these conversations is wild.

I'd have a conversation with the CEO. This might be my first time, really. I don't know if it ever happened with Gene Schwartz, Mood Swings, anything. This is crazy a conversation with the CEO. This might be my first time, really. I don't know if it ever happened with Gene Schwartz, Mood Swings, anything. This is crazy what's happening right now. You guys are doing it one month into it. And everyone's just like, it's a bidding war.

Everyone wants us, and it's so fun, and it's so cool, and it's like, I feel validated. Wow, we made the right decision. Shout out Dusty from Vulcan. Started off as a, uh, um,

as a ghost, he's become a friend early, very early on. He was like, look, Vulcan, we don't have kind of the influence or budget to hire you, but I want to be like a helpful friend and an asset.

And he was, I would call dusty and get his opinion on stuff. And he was great. And so everyone's bidding. Selkirk comes in and not the best negotiators because they offered us twice as much money as the next closest offer. Yeah. Bingo. Sure. Okay. Thanks a lot. bidding. Selkirk comes in and not the best negotiators because they offered us twice as much money as the next closest offer. Yeah. Bingo. Sure. Okay. Thanks a lot. Yeah. And this offer, it was going to be bigger than anything I'd ever done on mood swings. Anything

Trey and I'd ever done together. It was crazy. We were like, let's sign this as soon as possible before they changed their minds because this, I think they put an extra zero on it there i think something's wrong yeah we gotta sign this asap yes right this is crazy of course i still want to do it the right way so i'm getting a lawyer involved and he's looking at it from our behalf and so he comes back with some notes selkirk takes a while to amend the contract they're coming back to us okay he's like's like, well, they didn't, they didn't totally amend it all the way. I'm the middleman. I'm going to sell Kirk. Hey, I promise. I, I want to do this ASAP, but I want to listen to this guy. She's like, totally get it. Okay. We'll go back and forth. Yeah. And it was like, it was September 15th. I believe it was going to be, you know, right. Halfway point in the month. Sell Kirk really

wanted to get it signed for accounting purposes at the halfway point. They were like, this is going to be easier for us. I was like, sure. I don't need, whatever. Oh, interesting. Okay. It's also Friday. It's the end of the week. I'm like, let's get this done by 5pm. I'm like hounding this guy. I barely know him. I'm like, can we really get this done? Can you sign off on this? The Selkirk guy.

Sorry, this is lawyer guy. The Selkirk had come back with the updated contract. At this point, we've been negotiating for two or three months. Like we're kind of ready. Let's start getting paid for this a little bit. You know, so Kirk was offering us a very large lump sum. And then they were also offering us a CPM bonus, which I talked to Trey. I talked to, uh, juggling Josh, anyone I knew savvy in the social media industry, Josh Mayer. I'm like, have you guys ever heard of this? Like, am I missing

something? They're like, dude, this sounds like the best deal of all time. Sign it as soon as you can. I was like, okay, that's what I was thinking too. Like, this is crazy. They're going to pay us per view on Instagram. They were going to pay us. I'm not going to say the lump sum they're going to pay us, but they were going to pay us $2

for every thousand views we got on Instagram, which I was going to be crazy. Yeah. I mean, yeah. What is that? If you get a million views, that's $2,000. Yeah. It's like, dude. Yeah. I mean, yeah. What is that? If you get a million views, that's $2,000. Yeah. It's like, dude, do it. And so I'm like a lawyer, Hey, by 5 PM, we'd love to have it. Love to have it.

Don't hear back from him. So I'm having to go back to Selkirk. Hey, I'm really sorry. I know we really want to get it signed. I just, I didn't hear back from him. So we could try again Monday. I'm in Las Vegas that night, about 30 minutes from going on stage. I get a DM, Isaac and I both do, and it's from the Friday Pickle Paddle Company. I'm like, oh yeah, I kind of forgot about those guys. He sends us a DM, really nice, really friendly, but he's like, hey, I saw you guys launched merch. Now that you've done that, I feel like I should probably just let you know that I do have an active trademark on the word Friday when it comes to paddle games or however it works. So we should hop on the phone and just see how we want to go about this.

It's like, dang, that's kind of a bummer. Now we might have to redo the contract anyway because it sounds like we're going to have to change our name probably. That's probably what's going to happen. We can't continue. If we ever want to sell merch, we're going to have to change change our name if we ever want to have our own brand at all right now but grand scheme of things i guess we're still pretty new at this but man i love the name and i feel like people were starting to catch on and we'd already sold merch and it was it's a growing brand we loved it so um so it was a little bit of a bummer like or what did you feel yeah yeah i

think it was like a bit of a cloud all of a sudden yeah it'd be nothing but amazing news and the sky's the limit and we're the best you know a lot of and it was like oh this is a bummer i thought this company was going to go away not only that but they have like a trademark and you know we're gonna have to start over essentially and it's not fun to feel like oh we have those momentum does it matter if we change or anything it feels like it's a bummer yeah i really like the name so yeah go perform i dm afterwards like hey let's chat uh sunday because me and isaac and scott were going to be together anyway watching the chiefs game and we watch the chiefs and then we call this guy and i was i wouldn't say i was like rude by any means but i was also like not my friendliest self trying to like kind of figure this guy out.

Like does he even have an actor trademark? Is this guy a real deal? Is this guy even sold a paddle or is this all just like blowing smoke trying to get us to waver and back down? Well, this guy is the nicest guy in the world on the phone. He's so friendly. You know, he's the one with the trademark.

He's the one who could be giving us a cease and desist if he wanted to. He could be the one who could be rude and threatened to sue, whatever he wanted to do. And he's the one with the trademark. He's the one who could be giving us a cease and desist if he wanted to. He could be the one who could be rude and threaten to sue, whatever he wanted to do. And he's the one coming in like, honestly, it's fun to talk to you guys because I really like your stuff. You guys seem like good guys. And I want to find a good solution for both of us here. And maybe a solution is partnering up. Yeah.

And so, you know, we were not prepared to partner up when we went in that conversation, me, Scott, and Isaac. But I was kind of like... You were prepared to go to bat instead. Yeah, we were prepared to, like, stand up for ourselves and give as little information as possible and, you know, whatever. And so then we're like, okay, well, just FYI, and I was very transparent with him. I was like, this is the offer we have in place from Selkirk. And thinking he'd be like, oh my gosh, okay, nevermind. Go do that.

And he kind of didn't bat an eye on it. He kind of was like, okay, all right, we can make some work. We're, you know, internally, I think we're like, oh my gosh, what? He seems like it could work. And so we continue talking to him. We continue having conversations. And basically a lot of negotiating since then a lot of

oh man the people pleaser in me like basically it just seems like do we want to go with this friday brand like hold on i'm getting hammered so i have no notes i don't know why my computer is up i have nothing right now uh we learn on the phone with this guy that this guy's a stud i think he's he's younger than me and sc. He's 27 or something, but absolute stud. He has done over $100 million in sales on the first company he did purely online. E-commerce only, $100 million. They just launched in Target.

And we're like, well, that is good from what I know. I've seen Shark Tank and that seems solid. And so that was his first company. He graduated from Yale. It just seems like a, just the stud of a guy. It's so nice. And he's like,

and pickleball is kind of just my fun other company, but it's taking off. He's telling us the numbers they're doing in sales. They've like doubled or tripled every month that they started. Like, dude, this thing looks like it's going to, he's going to blow it wide open.

He knows e-commerce. We know content. How fun could it be to like actually merge together like right when have you seen something like this happen like you know it just seems like it's a really cool mesh of talents and skills and um so we then we had a decision to make because his offer was basically like hey i'll give you about half as much cash but i'll give you equity in this company that's brand new but growing and so it's, do we want to turn down this crazy, crazy deal from Selkirk, but kind of better ourselves a little bit, bet on this company as well?

And so going back and forth a lot and trying to decide. And in the meantime, Selkirk sent me up Monday 9 a.m. All right, let's do this thing. And I'm going, hey, so a lot has happened over the weekend. I hated making that phone call, but I feel like it was the way my parents raised me. I know that my dad would appreciate it. Like I actually, yeah, I hit them up first.

The first thing Monday morning, I was like, hey, we need to talk. I want to tell you guys. And I was fully transparent with them. Like I was not trying to use your offer as leverage. I didn't know about this company. I could show you the DM I got at 6.30 p.m. on Friday. I was ready to sign it.

I had it initialed, everything. And I feel like they somewhat understood, but they were somewhat like, we think you're making a terrible decision. Oh, really? Yeah. They didn't just say like, well, you gotta do what you gotta do for you.

Yeah, they're kind of like, we think you're gonna be back. We think you're making the wrong decision, and we'll see you in six months kind of thing. If that's the case, then great. We'll see you in six months. Okay, best of both worlds. Get both.

But yeah, ultimately, to sum up the kind of last part of the story, we end up going with this guy, and so it's been kind of cool. All of a sudden, we're the same company. These paddles are our paddles now, kind of. It's been interesting trying to word it to people. Like, what are those paddles? Oh, they're this cool company. It's all on Instagram.

Or they're kind of ours. I don't know how to word it. It's like, did we get bought out? Did we merge? Did we sell? I don't know what happened. Well, you have equity. So therefore it is your company.

Yeah, we're like part owners in this paddle manufacturing company. Who would have thought? So yeah, I feel like people have been buying the paddles. People have been seeing Scott in the ads recently. So that's why I've been seeing Scott. It's part of it. We are all in on this company because we are part owners now. So we're doing Facebook ads for him.

We're trying to do anything we can and try to make Black Friday, you know, Friday's in the name. We got to do Black Friday stuff. Sure. Try to sell our paddles. A Black Friday pickleball pad. Black Friday. Yeah.

Talk a little bit about, I mean, yeah, if you're comfortable with this. Thanks for letting me talk, everyone. Appreciate it. Sure. Oh, it's very, very exciting. No, it's crazy. Like all the back and forth. It was such a cool. Yeah. Sorry, what were you going to say? No, it's very, very exciting. No, it's, it's, it's crazy. Like all the, the, the back and forth

and it was such a cool, yeah. Sorry. What were you gonna say? No, it's been very interesting. Like watching the whole like progression of pickleball brands and how, yeah, you're kind of doing something that is very rare in the pickleball space. Like there's not very many people having channels like you. So like you were such a commodity, like it's, everyone was like, we'll do this for you. We'll, you know, whatever. Um, but talk about like the actual, like manufacturing, I don't know, just the, if you want to talk about numbers, you can, but just like the idea of how pickleball paddles get made from what I understand, it's like most of them are pretty much the same paddle more or less. Right. Like, is that what you kind of have? That's what,

that's what I kind of remember you telling me yeah it seems like there's a few different places in china that make paddles and you kind of just choose which one you want yeah um matt he's the guy who started the friday pickle paddle brand he was kind of one he got into pickleball you know and he's obviously developed a lot of talent skill when it comes to e-commerce, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics. He starts looking into pickleball paddling industry. He's like, oh my gosh, these are so cheap to make. These big guys are charging how much? Okay, there's an opportunity here.

And so that's what he's done is like these paddles. So we know this is the same paddle that's being sold by another company for $200. And so we're selling them two for $99. And so, yeah, we're not making nearly as much on the paddle. But I think people are so satisfied. They're like, this is a crazy deal. Yeah, I can't believe how good of a paddle is for how affordable it is. And hopefully trying to disrupt the market a little bit like these paddles don't need to be that expensive. You know, it'd be like if a I don't know if a ping pong paddle costs $100. Like, I don't think that's what it I think it's wood with

a little rubber on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think this could be done cheaper. Yeah. So, yeah, trying to disrupt the market there and hopefully kind of educate people, like, you don't have to pay $300 for this. Yeah, yeah. We are trying to come out with, like,

more of a premium, like, pro line. But even that, I mean, I think we're going to charge $129 for that, for, like, a top-notch paddle. Yeah. Someone else would charge $300 for it. Scott's been loving it. He's been really helpful on the R&D side like he knows all the science behind it all right

exactly even from his job at hostess and dfa he knows like about packaging and thermoforming and these weird sciences of the paddle that him and matt can talk about and so yeah scott's been geeking out been loving like scott gets to basically build his perfect paddle and then matt goes out and gets it basically from his relationships in China. Yeah. So it's pretty sweet. And just like Matt, occasionally we'll send us videos of just like what his manufacturer in

China is sending him. And it's like, dude, China's awesome. This is pretty crazy what they're doing over there. There you go. This is sweet. But yeah,

they're just recently got USA pickleball approved tournament ready. Okay. Oh yeah. Is that what that one says? Get some for black Friday approved. Yeah, literally. Cool. So, so what's the website friday dude i think it's just fridaypickle.com go to the go to the friday pickleball instagram link in bio that supports us there you go yeah yeah yeah go to

our go to our link yeah um anywhere friday pickleball so anyway i know it's a long story not really humor to it but definitely a cool life moment. Yeah. And it was fun. Just like that weekend, especially just thinking, or I guess the weeks afterwards, just like this feels like something special here. Like knowing how ready I was to sign that document, the coolest, most fun document I was prepared to sign in my life. Maybe. And then an hour and a half later, just getting a total 180, totally flipped.

I'm like, are we, what's going to happen now? Right. And it really felt like, is this a, is this a total 180, totally flipped. I'm like, what's going to happen now? And it really felt like, is this a God thing? If nothing else, it's a serendipitous thing. It's really cool. It's really unique. Something tells me that happened for a reason. We need to double down on this and better ourselves and just see where it goes. Yeah, you were in Vegas, so you had to double down. Yeah, exactly. If I'm not in Vegas, I don't know if that deal goes down that way. Yeah, like Milwaukee, it's like, let's play it safe. I don't know. Bucks won.

And I want more bucks. Let's go with Zilker. That's right. They're all about the bucks here. So yeah, man. Well, I'm pumped for you guys. It'll be fun to see. Because whenever you guys were going through the process for all this,

like figuring out who to sign with, you guys met with Scott's friend who is really big in e-commerce. That's a good point. Scott's friend was like, you guys shouldn't sign with somebody. You guys just make your own brand. And you guys were all like, I don't want to do that. I don't want to mess with that. I don't have the time for that. And then you kind of found somebody like, it's just a perfect marriage of everything. Yeah. This guy is like some e-commerce expert as well. We met with him. Yeah. He's like, dude, just make your own. Cause if they're going to give you that much money, they're making more than that off of you. And I was like, I don't doubt that you're wrong, but I know how to make Valor videos. I don't know how to manufacture

products. Kind of thing. I was like, maybe later we do this. Right. And he's like, well, maybe what you do is you try to find the right partner, someone who is an expert e-commerce. I'm like, yeah, how am I going to do that? Where am I going to find one of those? Yeah. And then a month later he comes knocking on our DM. So a really perfect blend. Really excited. The business is doing really well. And yeah, I think Scott, Isaac, and I are all just so pumped and just can't believe this is such a big part of our lives.

And 2024, we're definitely going to schedule out way more time to make it more part of our livelihood because this is a decent income all of a sudden. Absolutely. It's a huge opportunity. Yeah. I and isaac are especially pumped to like could i maybe stop doing what i am doing my real job my you know whatever and start working on more the paddle side of this the manufacturing side the customer service side you know whatever it is like just make this their whole life i know fun it's crazy man all right that's it. I'm done talking. This has been Long Form Podcast.

That was Jake tells a long story as fast as he can. You did great. Thanks. It was fun. Tymon. Yeah. Hi, brother. Hey, how's it going?

How are you? I feel like we haven't really included Tymon. Yeah, well, he made a mistake last week. Yeah. Okay, you're right. So, yeah, let's talk about the mistake. Let's talk about the video. Yeah, Ty's talk about the mistake. Let's talk about the video. Yeah, the video.

The video. I mean, I posted just a snippet of it on our Facebook, and that's got like 200 likes. Something crazy, man. Everyone loves timing. It wasn't even the good stuff. It wasn't even the funny part. It wasn't.

Yeah, on our YouTube last week, do you even know what happened? I think it was literally just something with my software. It just messed up. Whose software? Your software? I really didn't know if it was like... So nothing with the studio or Brad and I's voices or our image and likes.

It was always on your end. On you. Okay. The crazy thing is, don't look now, but if you go back in that closet behind you, we have a camera for you that we're going to set up. Like, don't test me on that. Like, it's back there, I promise. We were going to set it up for this week.

It was going to be really cool because this is, we haven't talked about it, but this is Brad's birthday episode. It's Brad's birthday we're listening to this. Yeah, happy birthday, Brad. And I was going to do this fun prank, like, hey, I got Brad something. Tymon, reach in the closet. See, we got Brad.

Ipso facto, in a reverse card. It's going to be for you. First should be last, last should be first. Not anymore, Tymon, reach in the closet. See, we got Brad. Ipso facto, Uno reverse card. It's coming for you. First should be last, last should be first. Not anymore, Tymon. Dang it. Yeah, but it was not a huge deal. I think it was like three minutes on YouTube where it just glitched out. It was just frozen. And then it came back, which is very interesting that it just glitched out

for a second. I do not know what happened. I think it's gotta be just like a Premiere export or something. If I use Premiere, it would be. Oh. I was saying your export was not, it did not do a Premiere job.

It did not do a Friday pickleball job. So anyway. Phony phrase. Let's just say it did not do a Friday pickleball job. It'd be the Friday pickleball of the world. So anyway, yeah. I mean,

a few people were commenting on it and that's how obviously we noticed it. And then I texted, I was like, time and you should jokingly do like a really short, like press conference, like pretend like answering, feeling some questions. It was a great idea.

Yeah. And initially I was, you know, of course hindsight, of course, hindsight, of course, timing's going to just do it like he's doing it. We were on the same page.

Like, time it. Just spend five minutes on it. I texted him. I was like, do not take more than 10 minutes on this, timing.

Like, this is not a scheduled day that you're working for us. Like, I don't want you to like go above and beyond. The dude doesn't know how to not go above and beyond.

Yeah, of course. He's like, hey, maybe I get some voice moves from you guys. Maybe add that in. Yeah.

Okay. Knock that out. An hour and a half later larry comes back to us with uh you know definitely filmed on a camera maybe some lighting involved there's graphics lighting involved you got some great aperture in the background we got fake microphones yep i i was so mesmerized with how you shot it because it was all it looks like it was all in one take but i was like there's no way that he could have like timed out the voice memos to know when he was done talking like how'd you do this and he's like oh yeah i uh i had a word document up that told me how long the voice memos were and what the questions were just time and just yeah going all out so check it out on patreon i happen

to have my horses shirt i'd like for the first time i've ever put on like that horse's shirt someone like gave you and then yeah than me so that was just fun timing yeah yeah so anyway it was an amazing minute and a half video of him feeling some try try 250 try 250 i think so patreon.com slash ghost runners no way go look at time and yeah people loved it they were just like we need more time and on patreon yes this is timon's way of getting on camera yeah that was funny like time and oh we see you finally made an excuse to get on camera it's like we asked him to so it's funny people people saying like make more mistakes timing like yeah this is awesome yeah somebody did comment and they were like the audio

was glitching um or something like that oh yeah and i went back and looked and i didn't at least on spotify that worried me i was like wait a second like yeah well you see someone replied to that and they were like were you listening to an apple podcast because spotify sounded just fine she's like i was listening to have a podcast oh interesting which that's why i stopped listening to it like three years ago every now and then it would just like rewind like i didn't touch anything why did it just go backwards i've had an issue lately when i'm listening to podcasts on my lock screen these days. It's really easy to scroll still.

Oh, you scroll ahead an hour. Or backwards. I'm like, oh, man. They need to have a button that's like last command Z on a phone. Something. Does the shake to undo work for that? Probably not. Not for a lock screen swipe. You'd look like an idiot trying to do that.

Go back to where it was. Shake to undo work for that? Probably not. Not for a lock screen swipe. You'd look like an idiot trying to do it. Go back to where it was. Shake to undo is also just like, it needs to be a lot more subtle than it is. Oh yeah, you feel like you gotta like really shake away. Yeah, you actually like yeah. I just deleted all that. Ah, shoot. You're in public just like shaking your phone. I'm trying to get

an iMessage back. I feel like there's been a time where it's like so many times in a row it was so annoying. And then I finally like turned it off. Then there was one thing I just like could not undo. And I was like, shoot. Like I just, I think I like deleted a whole, it was like a whole, I had a whole quotes file on notes. Like just like funny quotes from people. I accidentally selected it all and somehow deleted it.

And I could not undo it. Dude. Lost it all. It was sad. You couldn't undo it? There's no other like option to undo it. I could not. all and somehow deleted it. And I could not undo it. Dude. Lost that all. It was sad. You couldn't undo. There's no other option to undo it. As far as you know. Yeah.

That is a bummer. And I had like just turned off shake to undo. Cause it was like, Oh, it's so annoying. I keep accidentally doing it. They should do some other version of shake to undo. Like maybe an undo, but wink, wink to undo. You already looking at me anyway. Yeah.

Face ID. Like that'd be so much more subtle. Tymon just deletes all his livelihood of quotes, and he's so bummed, and he's just like, no problem. You know? Or Dwight and Michael. Yeah, lick your lips. There we go. It's back.

I got my quotes. For whatever reason, I wink at my kids a lot, just when I'm kind of like, hey, I love you, and Rosie's starting to try to wink back. Oh got my quotes. For whatever reason, I wink at my kids a lot, just like when I'm kind of like, hey, I love you, and Rosie's starting to try to wink back. Oh, cool. I mean, she'll just scrunch her eyes and smile. It's so cute. Like timing without his contacts. Pretty much just like that.

GIF peanut butter. Yeah, wink to undo. Yeah, maybe blow a kiss to undo. What else? I think it's got the, what do they call it, the accelerometer in there. It knows the orientation of your phone at all times. Yeah, figure eight to undo. What else? I think it's got the, what do they call it? The accelerometer in there. Like it knows the orientation

of your phone at all times. Yeah, figure eight to undo. Figure eight to undo or maybe just like a chin, bottom of it to your chin. Oh yeah, chin. Because that's not happening on accident. That is like messed up.

If something that you're doing on accident, it's just like blink to undo. Yeah. I mean, you're just on your phone all the way just like, oh shoot, this is important text. I gotta leave the eyes open here. I mean, you're just on your phone all the way. Just like, ah, shoot. This is important text.

I gotta leave. Oh, no, I highlighted all my quotes. I gotta get out of here. Yeah. That's better. Keep my contacts in.

That's right. Don't squint. Do not squint. Um, okay. Uh, daylight savings was this past week. Yeah. How'd the kids do?

Not great. It was an interesting day i think i talked about a little bit on all-time quarterback um but like the kids didn't sleep super well uh like they didn't take naps very well first of all hattie and rosie you know share a room they woke up at 7 a.m which is not crazy um but normally they sleep until like 7 30 or so but 7 a.m was like 8 a.m normally so it into like seven 30 or so, but 7am was like 8am normally. So it's like, okay, they're doing all right. Didn't,

didn't sleep great in the afternoon though, because Rosie was down for like 30 minutes and then Bo had a hard time like going down for an app. So he's screaming, wakes up Rosie, um, bummer, bummer time.

And then Rosie poops and we changed her every life diaper and rosie poop yeah she wouldn't go back down for a nap um katherine decides to go on a two and a half hour walk with rachel so it's just big daddy and the kids which is fine really truly was but man like at one point every single one of the different kids like had a meltdown of some sort um but some great quotes came from it specifically from Hattie Louise Ellis. Um, so I want to share those with you now. Cool. Um, first of all, uh, you know, at church that morning, apparently they were walking into like their main area where all the kids meet, they call it kid street and a kid street had like water, like flowing down from the ceiling. Oh,

like just something apparently three weeks in a row now, kind of a drama in the church, somebody has gone into the women's restroom and stuffed a bunch of paper towels down the toilet and like clogged the toilet. Oh. Yeah. Sad. Sad in the women's room too? Like at least make it boys that are doing it. Come on, boys. So really intrigued by who's clogging. Okay. Classic whodunit. Yes. Classic whodunit. And so because of that bathroom above them, all this water was like just flowing down. Kids river. And so all of a sudden they couldn't meet in their normal place.

They had to go somewhere else. Not a huge deal, but Hattie told me. That was her first thing she told me when she got home. And so anyway, that happened. And then I forget what other thing happened. And then she's outside with Bo and Rosie that afternoon. It's a beautiful day. I'm like cleaning up inside. So I like basically locked them outside. I was like, don't come inside. Don't come inside unless you have to go to the bathroom or something.

Or if it's Bo, he'll just go in the yard. Um, and so they're out there with their little snack. They got a little snack cup, almonds, cranberries. Um, each of them have their own and Rosie, you know, it's just Rosie. She's just Rosie she's just I don't know obnoxious but just like handsy and like doesn't always understand like that's not a good idea so just took Hattie's bowl of snacks and just dumped it on the ground just and gosh it was one of those times where Hattie was a little bit sleep deprived a little bit whatever and daylight savings kind of messing with her maybe I don't know but she just starts like getting real upset about it. And she says,

I am just having the worst luck today. And then she like listed all off. He's like, first, the pipe at kids street. And then this, and I could kind of hear her out there, like saying all this stuff. And then, so she goes and like sulks on one of the like dining chairs outside that we have on our deck and adequate deck.

And, um, she's just like lying there just so sad. And then Bo, you know, is coming up with whatever apparatus he's using as a sword and like banging on the fire pit next to her kind of thing. And just trying to like play with her. Come on, how do you, come on, come on, how do you, let's go play. And how do you just looks up from her tears and she just goes can't i just have what she's saying can i just have one moment of peace i'm like how old are you who are you that's hilarious i bet she meant that too she did oh enough of the sorts like she is so sweet and so like

accommodating and like so understanding of like rosie most of the time and so sweet to beau but every once in a while i think she just she's getting like this dramatic street had enough like every once in a while with beau and her argue the other day they were arguing over like sharing a blanket and you know all of a sudden haddy just couldn't take it anymore she like like didn't scream at him, but just like screamed at the situation and just like huffed and puffed away. I was like, Oh yeah. She's walked back to her room crying and like shut the door. And I was like, this is a little preview of teenage Hattie. And I do not like it, you know, just cut it off at the source as much as I can. I'm like, I'll go in there right away and be like, you can't do that. I understand you're sad,

but you can't do that. Yeah. That's good. Anyway, what did you say anything to her after she asked Bo for a moment of peace? I did go out there and I was like, Hey, what's going on? You know? Cause I didn't know exactly what was going on. And that's when she kind of like, once again, kind of rehashed all the hard things. Yeah. First this and then that. And then, oh, because earlier, even before that Rosie, i had i had uh let her have some dessert from your house those nerds that rachel from the halloween candy um and she was you know had he's just such a sweet oldest child it's like rationing out her nerds like eating them little by little yeah trying to like make it last for like three hours and

little box of nerds and rosie came up and just dumped those out too. So she's like, first the Nerds are over! So anyway, it was one of those times where 7 o'clock hit, which is when we have our bedtime, and they were pushing into bed. I didn't even read Hattie's story like i was like you're going straight to bed tonight that's easy at that point i guess that's exhausting yeah that was fun when they they came over the day after halloween and trick-or-treated yes they dressed up came over here gave me some candy and uh it was fun i feel like uh it gave rachel and

i an opportunity to have a good conversation because bo had just flipped a switch and just had a tantrum on the way out. Yeah. You witnessed that. It was crazy. Probably from afar. Yeah. You were like, okay. He went from like, so shy, like, which I think he's starting to be less shy around us. I don't know, but maybe it's because he's in our home or something, but couldn't really get him to talk to us or, you know, couldn't get him to talk about candy or anything, but like, all right, we got to go. And he just wouldn't, he wouldn't obey. And he just like, wouldn't leave, wouldn't pick up binoculars and just loses it.

Yeah. And then we were watching from the window. Dude, he, he lost it to another degree out there. Oh yeah. To the point I started recording cause it was funny. And then it started being not funny. But at one point you were just dragging him. Yeah.

Did you see me? I mean, I'm still, I hope that I'm never dragging. Like I'm going to, I'm going to do curls for the rest of my life just so I can never not just, like, manhandle my children. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Like, it was like, okay, if you're not going to come, I'm just going to pick you up, and I'm just going to drag you all the way home.

I don't care. Yeah. Like, whatever it takes. It was fascinating case study to watch, because Hattie just could not be bothered. Just like, yeah, Bo's having just a wild tantrum, but look at these leaves. Just kind of walking around the yard, and just kind of watching Bo, and just waiting for him to be bothered. Just like, yeah, Bo's having the, just a wild tantrum, but look at these leaves. It just kind of walking around the yard and just kind of watching Bo and just waiting for him to be done. He was losing over just carrying binoculars. Yeah. And it's one of those things where it's like, as a dad, you try to pick those battles a little bit of like, okay,

but it's like, I know that Catherine like chooses like to discipline him, you know, for those things and disobeying all the time. And I'm like, okay, the one time I have with him and he's disobeying me, I gotta, I gotta do this. Yeah. We have to stay consistent and he's getting better, but he's still, you know, a punk sometimes. Yeah. Cause it was literally like, I think he had, he had his candy bag and then he had, was it binoculars? Is that what it was? And no, he just had like a one, he had like, yeah, his bag in one hand and just one single piece of candy in the other hand. He's like, my hands are full. Yeah.

He's like, I can't. I can't hold it. I want you to hold it. And I was like, no. Just put the candy in the bag. Like you're responsible. You brought it over here. You had to bring it back kind of thing.

And I could have easily just been the nice dad. It's like, yeah, sure. Yeah, I'll grab it. Okay. Yeah. Or just like I was trying to give him solutions. I was like, put the binoculars in the bag. Easy.

Put the candy in the bag. He's like, there's no room. Yeah, I can't. give him solutions. I was like, put the binoculars in the back. Put the candy in the back. He's like, there's no room. Yeah, I can't. I can't. That's when it just gets irrational. Who's in charge? Are you in charge or am I in charge? Eventually, I did just give in to him, quote unquote,

but then he had consequences when we got home kind of thing. I was like, fine. I'm not worried. I'm dragging you home, and we're dealing with this when we get home. I'm going to show you the binoculars now. That's right. You're going to be, yeah. Peering into those things.

But it was fun. It gave Rachel, like after Bo left, we were just like, what would you do there? How do you like, what is your inclination of like how to react to like a tantrum like that? It was fun. We got a good conversation. Yeah. Do you think like one of you is going to be more strict than the other?

I don't, it's so hard to know anything about parenting without one. At least that's my thought. Let's not even have too much discourse on this. We're going to find out once we get there. Because I don't feel like you're super controlling, but I think you don't like when things get messed up. When you're like, that doesn't make sense. Why are you doing this?

Whereas I think Rachel's more just like, I don't know, this is the situation, so here I think Rachel's more just like, I don't know. This is the situation. So I'm here we are. Whereas you're like, I don't understand. We did all the exact same things, but yet the outcome is different. Yeah.

That bothers me. Definitely more analytical and like, if this than that, but I feel like Rachel has studied enough of like adolescence and everything like that. She helps me understand like, yeah, you know,

logic is not going to work, you know, still like, this is not gonna work. So I'll definitely lean on her for a little bit. But yeah, at the same time too, it's like, yeah, you know, logic is not going to work, you know, stuff like this is not going to work. So I'll definitely lean on her for a little bit. But at the same time too, it's like, yeah, what if, I mean, all that goes out when I do have a kid,

because I'm able to understand like, I'm not going to reason with them. I just need to figure out a solution or you need to figure out consistency or display whatever it looks like. So eager to find out, but I mean, who knows. Tymon, as I know you're the second oldest, but I feel like you're kind of the oldest,

you know, whatever, not the oldest oldest, but but you're on the upper tier in your family. Did you just get used to your kids, your siblings just having tantrums around you? Yeah. Like you were saying, Hattie was just like, oh, this is fun. He's screaming. Oh, yeah. Yeah, totally normal. Really?

Yeah. You would just be like, yeah, whatever. I'm just going to be chilling over here to the side. Nice. Yeah. No reason to get involved. Just go play with my sister over here. Unless I'm babysitting and I'm the one that has to get involved.

Right. Yeah. Jeez. Was there one sibling who was like, I don't know, just either the best or the worst at those situations? I feel like I wouldn't know as well as my parents probably would, but I feel like maybe I think know as well as like my parents probably would, but like, I feel like maybe I think my younger sister,

Alice was pretty like when she was like five, like three, four or five, she had like a lot of tantrums and like a lot of just like irrational stubbornness. Yeah. And I think I did too though. I'm pretty sure when I was young,

I remember some just like moments, some vivid moments are just like I was so convinced that this was just like I don't know I was just I was just a stubborn kid I still can be but yeah I think we all are I mean yeah extent you know but but then hopefully you get through it so yeah kind of scenic we're kind of seeing Bo like get through the other side he's super super helpful like just. Like just yesterday, Catherine overheard, like Catherine was going to make dinner, I think.

And he, she overheard, like she was working on something in the dining room and she overheard Bo say to Hattie, Oh, mom's making dinner. Let's go see if she needs help. Oh,

cool. Just like, yeah. Trying to help out in that regard. Or maybe it was mom's cleaning the deck. I don't know what she was doing, but doing something. Like, let's go see if she needs help. Wow.

Wow, that's so sweet. That's so thoughtful. So he's definitely very good at helping right now and eager to help. And I feel like he's going to be an engineer or some kind of like type A kind of guy, which is interesting because he's like also such a rough and tumble kid. But a those magnetized are you a magnetile guy timing do you know those are no do you know they're mag formers that's what i know maybe like the like square pieces that have magnets on all sides and you like connect them together oh it's really cool like so yeah i don't know maybe maybe bow is just normal in this but he's three years old and he's making these awesome creations out of them.

Like these like cool, like buildings with like awesome like roofs and stuff. And I'm like, and he's just like, he's just like a prodigy over there. Just like put it together. Like it's nothing. And I'm like, how'd you, how'd you do that? So between that and like, he's also very like meticulous with his, like, these are where my boots go. You know, that's, that's not where my dinosaurs go.

My dinosaurs go in that thing. So he's a little bit more that-minded. Anical and rational. Whereas Hattie is so messy. I could learn some things from Bo. Yeah, maybe so. I don't know. I was kind of that way too. I liked my stuff organized. I respect that in Bo.

Just for Bo. Anyway, fun times with parenting and trick-or-treating. He didn't get candy that day, I'll tell you that much. No, he did not. He did not get to reap his reward. I ate all of them. No, not really. Let's talk about Matri Roasters real quick.

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I haven't tried the other two yet, but the Holiday Blend is very good. I think it says it has hints of caramel, fudge, and something else. The fudge is what I, or maybe it's just chocolate and fudge, or something else. The fudge is what I – or maybe it's just chocolate and fudge. Fudge. Fudge.

That's what I had for the Chiefs game. That's what I'm always going to just enjoy. I watched – I had two cups. I was like, that's so good. I'm having another. Double cup. I'm double cupping this thing. So they are the drink of winners, Chiefs.

There you go. Go to maitreuse.com. You can go to our coffee merch uh other coffee products mugs things they sell in store um you can also private label your own coffee kind of fun yeah put your name on it they got great customer service family oriented midwest folks major roaster.com promo code is grkc boom boom well that's nice yep um what are we talking about brad um let's see i i just wrote down this the uh cash readers these days you know i'm talking about like the things that take your cash like the like oh like an atm yeah vending machine it could be at an atm but like

yeah more commonly i feel like growing up use we used them in Vending Machines. Okay, I understand now. I think they are amazing. Like leaps and bounds better than when we were kids. They've gotten better. And it's too bad because I feel like cash is becoming more and more irrelevant. But the other day, I had a crumpled up bill, $20 bill. Oh.

Put it in there at Lowe's, and just took this thing. Like it was nothing. You're right. I feel like middle school, high school, it had to come straight from the mint. You were like this thing to take it. You were pressing it. You had to get an iron out sometime.

Yeah. Yeah. Steamer. Yeah. Like seriously, do you remember like, like sometimes it wouldn't work. And so you take it on,

like push it on the Vindi machine. Like, yeah, I would rub it up again. Yes, dude. Or just be like, Hey,

do you have a dollar? And I'll just give you this dollar do you have a dollar and i'll just give you this dollar you have a good dollar mine's like nasty in like the face uh the face of the president had to be up and it had to be a certain orientation sometimes now you can just like fold it in like an origami and put it in yeah i think you just taught it's like a trash can you just toss it in there and it knows by the weight of it it was the serial number time do you remember a time where a dollar bills had to be picky? Yeah, definitely. Okay. I feel like vending machines, I barely ever use cash

anymore. I don't use vending machines that much anymore. Bitcoin only. Yeah, definitely. I remember a lot of times just taking it against the corner of a wall or something. Swivel it. Anyway, just a random thought the other day

that I had. Getting some lawn bags for the old casa. Oh yeah, we have those. When are we allowed to set those out? What day? With Trash Jay? You can probably Google it. I have no idea. I will. That's a good question. I have no idea.

Okay. Probably with Trash. Try it with Trash. Try Trash. Try Tr idea. Okay. Probably with trash. Try it with trash. Try it with trash. Try it with trash. Try it with trash. We'll see. Yeah. Tomorrow.

Rachel, this past week, I think it was last Friday, got in the car with little Celia O'Brien. Yes. Which is fun, you know. Ghosty. Very famous ghosty. Yeah. And that movie, he came sitting. He's become friends with all of us.

Coming to Gulf Shores. Ghost Harvest Getaway. Could be with you. Possibly you. She's going to both sessions too, so no matter what, she's coming when you're coming, if you're coming.

That's a good point. Yeah. They hop in the car, go to Lawrence, Kansas to go visit Sarah Ming. Did it take them a year to get there? Another month to walk. Yeah, fun that they all did that.

I think they went shopping, went to a coffee shop. Sarah Ming, also previous attendee of Ghost Hunters Getaway. Also attendee of next year's as well. Yeah. And Rachel's telling me a story. They were in some coffee shop, I think.

Yeah, I think coffee shop. And they see this really old guy just there, just chilling by himself. And they were like, man. Just staring at the wall. Yeah, I think it was like that poor old guy he just looks lonely and uh i think it was just like it became a topic conversation like look at that old guy he looks so sweet and um but then i think uh some guys i'm freaking the story exactly but some guys in suits but one guy was in a suit and one guy was

in like athletic clothes i think oh you know the story? Oh, yeah. How do you know the story? Because my wife just spends time with your wife these days for five hours at a time going on walks while our kids are struggling through daylight savings. And I'm not bitter about it at all. I can do it all day. It's fine. I'm a good dad. They were supposed to go on another walk yesterday with Hattie and it was like, oh, I guess Hattie's going to the KU game.

So, no walk. Oh, yeah. Sorry. No, go ahead. Either way. One guy was in a suit from what i understand the other guy was in like nicely dressed athletic like ku stuff yeah this guy's not alone anymore okay great they overhear i think the old guy classic speakerphone talking really loudly it says uh this is dana this is dana you know whatever it's so like all right his name is dana so then they start looking like i don't know why they thought to do this exactly maybe is dana you know whatever it's so like all right his name is dana so then they start looking like i don't know why they thought to do this exactly but because the ku you know athletic

i think he had some cool ku shoes on let me tell the story i'm just kidding you were basically there this is what katherine told me so go ahead that's impressive third hand uh and so they start Googling like KU, you know, athletics, Dana. Yeah. What pops up is like the greatest donor to KU athletics of all time. This is like probably the richest guy that they'll ever be near or come in contact with. Yeah. His name is Dana Anderson. And just like a couple of years ago or something, maybe last year, he gave $10 million to KU.

And over the course of his lifetime, he's given $40 million to KU. Yeah. That's such a fortune. Yeah. To just give away. Yeah. And it's not even to charity.

No. That's to an organization. Public university. Yeah. They're already taking tax dollars from us. I just could not comprehend that. He had given $40 million away. Is that how much it is? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Catherine told me the story. She's like,

do you know who Dana Anderson is? I was like, yeah, really? You know him. Oh yeah. Uh, he's in the documentary that 30 for 30 that KU, um, does where they go by the, he's a point guard. Uh, no. Yeah. K K U there's like the original rules of basketball for sale. And this guy goes around trying to raise money to bid on it basically and goes to Dana Anderson's house. And Dana, he actually says no. Really? He says like, that would be great.

We need it here. I don't have the money. I'm not going to do that or something like that. Really? I think. Maybe he helps get to the last person, but I don't think he does. I think because Booth is like the one that really has donated

a lot of money to KU. Guy named Booth, huh? Yeah, David Booth is like the guy. But Dana Anderson is like up there, but I don't think Dana Anderson even has anything like named after him.

Like, whereas like the Booth Hall of Athletics, you know, or Booth Hall of Fame. You got to get more than 10 million a year to get named after him. Maybe he does have like,

like as I know, he's like donated to the football stadium. He donated to the baseball so like i saw that dana donated to the business school business school maybe that's named after him yeah i think he's a big financial guy but um heisen mcdonald's calling me oh nah nah right price bam it's it's about woodworking stuff probably so uh but yeah i thought that was interesting i just couldn't believe it the more i'm reading about this guy, I was like, that's so cool you were there. It's so funny, like, that poor old guy. Oh, he's here by

himself. Yeah, he's like the richest guy. I mean, I just, I still, it's hard to fathom. If that's what you're giving away, how much money are you worth? And also, just to give it to the school you graduated from? Dude, people are crazy about their schools. A lot of pride in where you spent four years. Holy cow. How much money have you given to KU or K-State? graduated from dude people are crazy about their schools a lot of pride and absolutely where he

spent four years holy cow how much money have you given to ku or k-state uh zero is it zero i've also given zero to ku and k-state 36 for parking inconvenience let's see we spent like 17 on concessions. Dude, guess. Whatever. You're not going to guess because you're like, whatever. It was $37 to buy this doll last night. This little stuffed animal Jayhawk thing. I honestly hate that I'm saying this out loud

because then Catherine's going to know. Dang it. You spent that much money on that thing. But it was one of those like, I want to spoil my daughter. We missed the pregame. I was going to have a good time and this is special. I want her to love this kind of stuff. But it was like, I want to spoil my daughter. We missed the pregame. I was going to have a good time. This is special. I want her to love this kind of stuff. But it was like there were two different sizes.

There was like this tiny one or tinier because they have two different mascots. They have Big J and Baby J. That's right. Baby J was $29.99. I was like, gosh, if that's... Baby J. I was like, I want that one.

I was like, of course you do. I was like, I'm doing it. If Baby J is already $29, what's another eight yeah yeah exactly so irrational so um that'll get you yeah anyway but yeah that is sorry let me i'll text either back in a second um yeah i feel like any guy any old man that's at at a trendy coffee shop in a college town is probably doing just all right. You know what I mean? An old man that's like this poor, sad guy is probably not going there.

He's probably going to more of like a Hardee's. Like a sad place. Like a Hardee's where he just gets black coffee every single day for his senior discount of $1.28. Reads the paper. And does just fine. And yeah, I don't think he's sad necessarily, but he's not about to meet with these guys that are going to ask him for $5 million.

Yeah. You know. Old Dana. Fun story. That is fun. You can text my guy. He's a comedian too. I'm going to talk about Good Ranchers.

Please. Because I had it for supper last night. Yep. With my ravioli and uh and vegetables too good meal that sounds nice yeah it was um yeah i mean you guys know good ranchers and in fact i dare to say you know good ranchers.com as well guys they're one in the same same company uh same trademark i would assume but yeah good ranch I mean, if you're unfamiliar, they are meat providers, and they do it all in-house.

And by in-house, I mean America's house, Uncle Sam's place, if you know what I'm talking about. The whole process, start to finish, it's done right here in America. It is very rare in the meat industry. Not a lot of people doing that. And it's pretty simple. Basically, you pick your boxes. They got all sorts of boxes on their website you want the ranchers classic that's beef and chicken you want the holiday helper that's some pork you know whatever they got tons of fun options honestly now i'm on

the website the pictures look amazing shout out to whoever's photographing these yeah sorry pick your boxes choose how often your frequency and then enjoy the meal and enjoy free shipping along the way a i'm pretty sure my friend adam busby our friend you know adam yeah is now doing some photography with them i don't know if it's these why is adam busby doing dude because he's awesome stock he's the man stock image this is this baby yeah not quite stock product shot yeah but i mean he has a tlc show why is he doing photography? He's doing it, man. We got the holiday helper box recently and we had the ham brother. It is something to behold. Dude, just a couple of days ago, Rachel goes, do you miss ham? And I said, yeah,

ham is awesome. I do miss ham. Especially like that kind of ham, like thinly cut ham on like a sandwich. Fine. This kind of like ham, ham, holiday ham. Yes, dude. And then we had we put the ham hawk in some beans dude had some pot of beans um so all around good they also have chicken they also have seafood yes wild caught seafood they run the gamut so they do the promo code is a grkc um take some money off your you know your subscribe and save box or just your first subscription box. Yep. I think subscribe and save is what Jake calls the thing.

Either way. Yeah, if you subscribe, you will save. I'm not lying to you. Yeah. So everyone gets free shipping regardless. But yeah, go to goodranchers.com and use promo code GRKC. Absolutely.

Get some holiday ham. Isaac says, tell the people i saw what up so that's what i have to deal with that is my business partner uh that's fun you guys talking wood or what yep uh i had him build a desk for me not for me but for somebody from Iowa. So smartest people I know they'll probably try to chew it or something. That's funny. I just love the idea of like acting like everyone that's not from where you are is just idiots. Yeah, because one time from a distance, Rachel thought a husky was a wolf. So like that's the whole state now. It is interesting that Spencer said that it was like, he was like, I don't know if they're wild or what.

Yeah, I would like to hear more from Spencer of these two huskies that just wandered into our yard. Like, next door would go crazy over two dogs just roaming the neighborhood. And that's what he described it. They were not like, they didn't belong to anyone. Or like there wasn't an owner nearby. It was truly just two of us.

He's out on a walk. He just came right up to Spencer and let him pet him. Just like they got loose or? I don't know. I mean, there's no way. Yeah. Just in a suburb these days, like people are just going to see that out there.

Some old woman is going to see that after going to Hardee's and getting her coffee and being like, I got to post about this and get animal control involved or something. I'm not on the next door app, so maybe they are going nuts about it. Yeah. I don't know.

One last thing I want to mention. I forgot to mention this earlier. Friday Pickleball, we started our own little ambassador program. I was big on that. I was like, let's start getting this in people's hands. People in the community. So got some ghosties already involved. Yeah. Brayden Parsons. Okay. Nashville guy. Boom. Ambassador.

Brandon Faulkner. St. Louis. Boom. Ambassador. I justulkner. St. Louis. Boom. Ambassador. Yeah. It's kind of fun. I just texted them their codes this morning. I think Brandon Faulkner lives in Tennessee as well. Johnson City.

Oh, yeah. That's right. Yeah. He's from St. Louis, but he saw the light. He's like, I got to get out of here. That's right, Brandon. You're not in St. Louis. There you go. There you go, bud.

Either way, fun. Excited for them. If anyone else wants to be an ambassador speaking of brandon falconer and me can you get me an orange paddle because i'm a huge broncos guy and maybe i could wear like i could just be like yeah i'm a broncos fan but you know also love the color orange even better what if i got you an android paddle oh a lime green i don't know what it would have yeah yeah whatever you want it just wouldn't work. It's just, yeah, it's slow.

It's a control paddle. That sounds cool. Yeah. But you can customize it however you want. It wouldn't win games. Oh, I see. I see. The paddle. Yeah.

That's exactly right. Yeah. Put some lead tape on it. Yeah. So if anyone else, if you play a lot of pickleball, if you feel like people listen to what you have to say about pickleball, holler at me. Make you an ambassador. Cool.

Get a couple free paddles out of it. That's it. Fun. You want to end this episode with a review, jingle? I wish I had. Dang it. I had jingles for the ad reads. Stupid!

Next week. Next week. Next week. Next week. Next week. Let me pull up my review. I put my phone over here today. Okay. I got a review I'm excited about it's five stars and it's titled should we move to kansas my wife and i found ghost runners in an unusual way we somehow started watching midwest youtube

comedians you betcha and charlie barron's dude did that thing they used ampersand so just the the punctuation goes nuts. And pound sign, 34 semicolon. You're uncharitable. Yeah. Then, Trey Kennedy, and finally, Gene Schwartz. Once we both started

listening to the podcast, we knew we had found our community. Just like every other comment says, we also feel like Jake and Brad are our friends, even though we've never actually met them.

We both come home from work on Mondays and Wednesdays asking each other, did you watch the newest Ghostie Pod? Who do you think should win Schmores? Now to explain the title of the review. I'm originally from New York and my wife is from South Dakota.

We met at BYU, go Cougs, and decided to find jobs here in Utah. We love it in Utah and have also talked about how much we enjoyed growing up away from extended family and having to build a life on our own. We also both appreciated the growth from having to stand up for our faith in our schools and with our friends. We keep talking about where we're going to move to raise kids one day, and I keep saying Kansas City. My wife has an aunt and uncle live in Kansas City,

so we always tell people that is why we are thinking about moving to Kansas. Don't want to tell people it's because of random podcasts we found on YouTube. Keep being you. Love, Dawson Homer. Oh, love y'all. Dawson Homer. That is fun. Dawson Homer is Oh, love y'all. Dawson Homer.

That is fun. Dawson Homer is a good name. Domer. Domer. Yeah. What was his name in Jake Gyllenhaal and October Sky? Homer Hickam. Yeah.

I thought Homer was involved. Homer Hickam's a really good name, too. Such a good movie, dude. Simon, you seen that one? I have, actually. Brother. It's so fun. I watched it for a film school, like for teens class.

I think if they do a reboot of that, like 10 years from now, and October Sky, just new characters, Timon's. Timon's got Homer energy. Homer Hickam. He could be the protagonist.

Oh, I like that movie a lot. That feels like a nice fall movie. It is a fall movie. A couple side. Wait, it's called October Sky. Oh, that's probably why. Wait, it's called October's guy. Oh, that's probably why. Something about October's guy.

I don't know. When Lisa, I didn't even like, I was with you too. I was like, yeah, yeah, man.

I want to watch that movie. Is how do you hold old enough? No certain parts. I need to watch it again. There's like an abusive father in there and there's language. I remember, I remember thinking like somebody dies. I remember thinking this movie doesn't seem like it would have this much language. I was like this, like I abusive father in there. There's language. I remember thinking this movie doesn't seem like it would have this much language.

I was like, unnecessary amount. It's coal miners for you, Tymon. That's the real world. Get out of Kansas for a second. Idiots over there in West Virginia. I don't remember all that happens. Gosh. What a movie.

Homer Hickam. That's cool that you knew that. Prodigious. Remember how the guy said? Yeah. Prodigious. Prodigious. Prodigious. Oh, man.

October's guy. Miss Riley, dude. Miss Riley, dude. Yeah. Just all around great. Man, I really did not like that dad. Yeah. What's the friend's name?

He's got a fun name, and they kind of say it in a southern accent. Odell? Odell. Odell. Yeah, what's the friend's name? He's got a fun name and they kind of say it in a southern accent. Odell? Odell! Odell! Yeah, they're like, Odell!

Odell! You know, like, they're kind of worried about it. Odell! No, Odell! October Sky. Something about it. Just a fall movie.

Oh, man. It's a good fall movie. Dad, we're doing our big launch today if you want to come out. It'd be real good. You just shook hands with Warnervon Braun. Oh, great movie, guys.

Look at it. Watch it. It's a great time. Look at it for an hour or two. Where are you going? Myrtle Beach. Pumped up now, boys. Oh, damn. now, boys. Odell!

Odell! Ty, if you could get just like a quick Odell in there for us in post. Don't work more than 10 minutes on it. Don't AI Adobe enhance it or whatever. I'm just doing it myself. Yeah, that's right. Couple good Odells. I couldn't find a clip.

All right, my review, five stars, is coming from Alicia Ross 14. It's titled, Very Unexpected. I never intended to become a podcast fan. Love that start. One early June 2023 Wednesday, after leading in our student ministry, my friend Cade looked over at his now wife Katie and said, Katie and Katie. Alicia is the perfect demographic

for ghost runners. Which is just a fun thing. And Katie very excitedly said, yes she is. She would love it. I was very confused and asked Cade what he was talking about because I don't like ghosts and I definitely don't run. He said it was a podcast about two men who talk about nothing. That sounded

very exciting to me. Not. He quickly added that both men were Christian and one was a dad and one was a comedian. I like that. I was still confused on how I was the perfect demographic for this podcast. I'm not a dad or a comedian. He said

I just need to listen to one episode and decide. The next day I had a long drive and decided to give it a go. I picked a random episode entitled The Girl Before Rachel and was laughing by the time the theme music rolled. What was that about? I went back and listened to it. Really? I mean, probably like 20 minutes of it.

I'm trying to even remember. I mean, it was about the date that you went on. Or maybe it wasn't even a date. Was it that concert? Oh, okay. Maybe it was. Maybe it was that one. I was getting shushed at a concert yeah i think it was that uh hey we're at a concert we talked about other stuff for that anyway um uh whatever

uh kate's just okay i was instantly a fan and decided i needed to hear more kade suggested starting at the beginning of the year 2023 and catching up that way I was caught up on the whole year by the end of August. I now listen to both episodes the day they come out, and I'm in the process of listening to all of the older ones from the start, which feels very strange not having time in, because, in parentheses, he's the real star. Just in parentheses, though. Yeah, nice afterthought, bud.

This podcast has been such a fun and lighthearted highlight of my days as a college senior, and it has given Cade, Katie and I something to bond deeper on. It's been so fun when we get together and talk about the inside jokes and the people around us are either so confused or they go, Oh, it's from their podcast, which is great to get them in on it. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, Jake and Brad for creating an environment for people to laugh and hear the gospel in a way that's not cringy. And thanks for being an example of what a healthy adult friendship looks like. Hey, right now, I want to talk to Katie and Alicia's friends right now. They made you listen to this part because I'm talking about you.

Yeah. I'm talking about you. Brian. Yes, Brian. Rachel. I'm going to go ahead and say there's a second Katie in there. Yeah, Sadie. There's a Katie and a Sadie.

Katie and a Sadie. Katie and a Sadie. Which Sadie almost didn't get picked because it was like, okay, we have two Katie's. We don't need to get confused with the Katie. But you're in there. Take advantage of it. Katie with a C.

All you guys start listening to the podcast. Please. You belong here. Yeah. And if you don't like sit in a voice memo, like quiz us, see, see if we are your kind of people.

And if we answer it correctly, then yeah, you belong here. Thanks. Thanks. Anyway, fun five-star review. Thanks for everyone for leaving them. It's fun that we still are consistently getting those and... It is fun. And consistently

getting new listeners too. Yeah, thanks for sharing the love. That's... There's no better way to spread a podcast than just word of mouth. We can try. We can yell it until our ears fall off. But, boy, we just need you. Yeah, so thank you guys.

Anything else to wrap it up? No. I mean, if you're listening to this, tomorrow we're coming out with another. I just realized. No, I'll probably. We'll figure out something for all-time quarterback next. I have to just do it like Sunday afternoon or something. No, I'm not going to be here.

Oh, I'm going to be in South Dakota. Okay. It might not come out next week then. Because you have some. When are you leaving? I have a private gig Monday. So I'm gone all Monday. Okay.

So you're going to have to do it solo without me or something. But either way, guys, we're appreciative of all the support on Patreon. It's been awesome seeing that continue to grow. And we're trying to put more and more stuff out there. So we're going to put out another bonus something on Wednesday. Maybe all-time quarterback this week. Maybe not. Maybe we'll do a little back and forth voice memos. We'll just send it to Tymon and have him enhance him.

But, yeah, I'm going to South Dakota this weekend for a little hunting. Cool. Hunt fast. Fast. Sweet. Yeah, check out the Patreon. There's a lot of bonus episodes right now, the podcast, other stuff. People loved it.

Last week, I think I called it Game Night with Tymon. Game Night with Tymon. That was fun. And then, and then of course timon's press conference so check it out yeah all right we'll love you guys we'll see you soon bye-bye