Ghostrunners - 280 - Brad's Surprise Birthday Party

Episode Date: November 20, 2023

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Two hours ago, a loyal ghostie and friend, Beth Rowe, posted something in our Ghostrunners Facebook group. Join it if you haven't. It's a lot of fun. She said, Brad, maybe invest in some air tags for your wallet. I would say you will never lose it again. Have a spare ready to go and you should be fine. Please, before the 2024 election. Which I sat and thought about for a while. I was like, I, are they related? Is this a, is this a Biden thing? Is this a, like,

I was trying to find the connection. Who are they supporting? You know? And I don't know what it means, but I know I like it. I know. And I want to start saying it more, just tacking on the end of anything.

Hey, before the 2024 election, like you and I are going to be in Hawaii together in probably two weeks or so. Oh, we got to go. We're taking advantage of going now. I think we should, we should post 2024 election. Like you and I are going to be in Hawaii together in probably two weeks or so. Oh, we got to go now. We're taking advantage of going now. I think we should post a picture like, had to make it to Hawaii, obviously before the 2024 election. Just leave people like, why did they go now?

Yeah, no further explanation from that. Like, yeah, we decided to do TSA clear before we went to Hawaii, you know, before the 2024 election, of course. We have enough time, so we went and knocked that out. Yeah. And you and Catherine, you still thinking about getting a new roof? Yeah, we are. And the shingle, I mean, yeah, we're going to take advantage of it now before the 2024 election. Before next November.

Yeah. Just in case. And, oh, have you guys ordered anything from Alibaba recently? No, but we need to, I would, I do it before the 2024 election. Like just imagine have you let's see what said a product and that would be a competitor of ours. Have you, what do you keep your thermostat at? What do I keep my thermostat at? At 67.

Oh, I wouldn't. You wouldn't? I wouldn't. We're only about a year out for the 25th election. Oh my gosh, you're right. Yeah. Conserve or use it. I don't know.

I don't know. Whatever you want to do. We got a year until the election. Enjoy the heat while you can. 2024 is coming, boys. Uh-oh. Ooh do i think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white me too then west best friends eating fast food on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet because it's a ghost I gotta say, if you are listening to this podcast, you are in for a treat. I'll just go ahead and set the stage right now.

We got a million things to talk about and only one episode to do it. So where do we start? We start with the fact that I feel as close to hungover as I could for somebody who has not consumed any alcohol in the last three days. You and Tymon might be in the same position, I think. Maybe so. Yeah, let's start with Tymon. As we always do. We have a ton of things to talk about.

I've performed in four different cities. Surprise birthday party. Who cares? What's up with Tymon? Yeah, what's going start with Tymon. As we always do, we have a ton of things to talk about. I've performed in four different cities. Surprise birthday party. Who cares? What's up with Tymon? Yeah, what's going on with Tymon? Tymon, you just got home? Yeah, just got back late last night.

The British Isles? Gibraltar? Straight up Gibraltar? Somewhere really cool, yeah? Yeah, probably. Where was it? Texas. Oh!

Straight up Gibraltar. You never know. See the monkeys out there no yeah it was cool i felt pretty legit getting flown down to texas for a video shoot no way they did a private jet for you actually that makes me think of the the guy like announcing like boarding onto one of the flights was like he just like he said he made the same joke probably four times like he was like all right and then we only like 60 people on this 170 yep like holding plane so just enjoy your private jet oh and then just like three more times just like and again no one needs to sit in the middle seat no one needs yeah in case you didn't hear me i said private jet that was great but yeah no it was just like for this professor from uh midwestern baptist college here and he was just doing like an event thing it was just a bunch of filming people talk about like these high level theological things that i don't understand

whatsoever really yeah but yeah remind you a lot of when you're filming Brad and I? Yeah, you're like, man, it feels like I'm right at home here. I'm in the Ghostwriter studio. Right in the guest room of Jake's house, you know, filming some stuff. What airline did you fly down and back on? Southwest. It's actually the only airline I've ever flown on. Oh, very brand loyal.

Like I haven't, and I didn't even choose this. That's pre-election though. Yeah. I'm just taking advantage of it guys. Well, I take Frontier at least once before the 2024 election. You should thank me later. Right, right, right. Yeah. I have a quick story from Southwest.

So we were, Derek and I were flying out of Detroit back to Kansas City and our flight had been delayed. And then, so it was going to make the connecting flight really tricky. Like now we only have 15 minutes, probably not going to happen. So we're in a big hurry, hoping, you know, everything is in a big hurry. And the gate agent is, he's being a little bit of a comedian,

but it's fine. But he's big on like, hey, let's, we've had a delay. Let's make up for it. It's my good, this is my guy. But unfortunately he's using this time like, so let's really take take advantage of it guys. Let's go quick. So we can all, we're like, yeah, yeah, we're, we're down. Let's, let's do it. If you make the sale, stop selling. Yeah, exactly. Because the plane that finally got there, it had mechanical issues earlier. So it wasn't

holding people. So as soon as it got there, we're like, let's, let's do this. We're we've been lined up for 20 minutes. He's like, we're going to make this, make this yeah we're we've been lined up for 20 minutes he's like we're gonna make this make this quick yeah who what do you guys think can we make this the quickest boarding in southwest history right we're like yeah yes i say quick you say boarding quick you know like dude he goes it's like he's opening up for a concert i said can you hear me can we make this the quickest i'm not kidding he did he said can we make this the quickest boarding in southwest history i wanted to boo i was like get us on the plane dude shut up shut up dude hey quick question steve um would it be quicker or slower if we just didn't have to do call and response five times oh man biggest pet peeve maybe in the world is someone saying, like, do not ever do this, Jake.

Do not ever do this. Detroit, how we doing tonight? Woo! I can't hear you very well. I said, Detroit, how we doing tonight? Oh, I'll leave. I'll leave your show if you ever do that while I'm there. Hey, don't be that guy.

Don't be that guy. I'm proud to say I've never done it. Even at Canicuck when everybody was doing it. Come on, Barn 12! I can't hear you! Oh my goodness. I never do it. We have some DJs who do it. I don't. I will not. No

way. Bless you. That was plenty loud. You know when you're like, oh, let me hear you sneeze. I do everything loud the first time. Sneeze louder! I do think it's a lot of how the fluctuation of your loud. You don't need to be like, oh, let me hear you sneeze. I do everything loud the first time. Sneeze louder. I do think it's a lot of how the fluctuation of your voice, you can elicit a good response. Sure. Or just here's a hack for you.

If you're ever in that situation and you want a bigger, rousing crowd, only address half the crowd at first. Ladies, how we doing tonight? Fellas. Okay, let me hear the fellas you know and then yeah the way you say it you can get two good responses oh that's a great life hack i i get that is like something so irrational that i get so frustrated about is when someone says oh we can do better than that or i can't hear you i thought this was a comedy show yeah just kind of just being just like very, very subtly

like negative towards the whole, like, oh man, I guess this isn't that, I guess tough crowd. No one wants to be here. I said Nashville, how we doing? Awesome, so on the same page.

Every single time, I'm just completely silent when that happens. I'm like, I'm not answering the second time. Yeah, and so despite him, I went really slow on the plane and I missed my connecting flight. And I won in the end. Did you actually? No, we actually, we made it.

Okay. Derek and I, it was pretty funny texting Derek cause we're sitting in opposite parts of the plane, but you know, I'm looking at the time when we land, you know, I'm like, Derek, we could do this. This is possible. Derek texts back, I'm ready for a battle. Oh, like let's go to work. Cause it was like, we got to, first it was like we got a first one we got a sprint to our gate but then we also have to like kind of inform her on what's happened and like southwest put us on the 330 flight but we want to board the flight that's boarding right now okay kind of thing and so yeah we we went to work and it worked out and derrick's bags made it the true miracle of the day wow yeah southwest southwest that's why time only flies southwest so you for now

so you just went to Texas by yourself? Flew down with someone also going to this same thing. But then flew back all by myself. So they said you could get your own row. Is that right? Did you? Or did you sit with Buddy? No, I got my own row.

Okay, and then next question. Well, let's guess first and foremost. Which seat? Yeah, you could either go window, middle, or aisle. I guess. Don't tell me, Tom, and I'm not going to look at you. If. You could either go window, middle or aisle. I guess. Don't tell me, Tom, and I'm not going to look at you. If you did anything other than window, I'm going to be disappointed. No, he's not.

He was an aisle guy. Or maybe middle. No way. Middle with both arms up. You kind of lay, like kind of half lay down. No? Yeah. Maybe that's a big man thing, but I'm like, yeah, that sounds awesome.

You would sit middle if you had the road to yourself? I don't think so awesome. You would sit middle of the other road yourself. I don't think so. I probably would sit window. I don't know because you can lean on that. Middle's kind of best of both worlds. You could still look out the window if you got something out there. Quick access to the cart girl. I think that's what they're called.

You don't have to lean over as much. Time in. Window. Good for you. Same stage. Same stage. So it was a good time in Texas. Where in Texas? San Antonio. Oh, wow.

Yeah. You remembered the Alma? I did. I did. I remembered it in real life. Good. Good. Kaylee Thompson lives in San Antonio, was in town this weekend.

I saw that. Just piggybacking, just topics today. But yeah, Rachel's out of town, but I hung out with them. We all went to church together. Oh, fun. With Celia? Me, Celia, and Kaylee Thompson. That's cool.

How's she doing? Good. It was fun. A couple of things about that real quick. One, Kaylee's in the army, and she was telling me about the fitness test they have to do. ASVAB? Yeah, they get tested about transmission fluid. I had an i forgot to tell her but i'm telling you now kaylee and you brad on the ghost runners getaway which she'll be at she is yeah yeah wait i thought she

was dang it over over and over again where you're like i mean this is fun but not like it's going to be a gulf shore i might have that like multiple times i might have it's going to be at Gulf Shores. Dang it. I might have. Did you say that like multiple times? I might have. Well, Celia's going to be there, but I don't think Kaylee's able to make it this time. Dang it. Well, there goes that. Shoot. Well, what? Were you wanting to like have her leave? I wanted to do a fitness test.

Everyone has to do what Kaylee has to do. I thought that'd be so fun. And like, who could get the closest to Kaylee? We could virtually, you know, bring her in. Dang it. Maybe, hey, maybe I'm wrong. Kaylee, make it happen. It makes me sad.

There's spots open for you. Well, the other story. we were like saying goodbye. Kaylee, there's a chance she could get transferred, I think, in the spring from San Antonio to her next location. You know, it could be Germany. And there's like a small chance it even could be Kansas City. I'm like, really? She's like, yeah, there's like an army kind of prison, army jail in Leavenworth.

And I was like, oh, yeah, yeah. We have like a big uh that's like a suburb of kent city there's a big like yeah federal penitentiary there mike vick's a graduate and so i go federal penitentiary and celia who just moved to kansas city she just goes oh my gosh oh we have a prison here i was like yeah it's all good though like they stay in it it's like a really like self you know self-contained like a max security like it's really and uh that was like she's like oh it was not the huge crime rates of kansas missouri but like oh they put some of them behind bars it's

you said penitentiary holy cow what's hilarious to add context with people who live in kid city i asked you i was like how's the living situation? She's like, I have a roommate. I was like, what part of town are you in? She's like, it's not so bad. It's between Paseo and Troost. And I was like, that would have been the only place I would have told you not to go. Okay, so like, yeah, the place that you hear on the news

every single night for a shooting is where they're setting records and not good ones. That's where I live. So she lives in that part of Kansas City and she's like, oh, there's a prison 40 minutes away. Oh, yeah. And this city that no one ever goes. And so I'm like, no, it's, you know, hey, there have been some cool people. Mike Vick was there.

I think Celia. Some cool people. I don't know. Celia, from what I could tell, I had no idea who Mike Vick was, but just maybe thought I was saying some like serial killer. And she bends over. She goes, oh, Mike Vick. It was like, I don't know. No. just maybe thought I was saying some like serial killer and she she bends over she goes oh my it was like I don't know no yeah Jeffrey Dahmer escaped from yeah right the BTK I was like he

just he like had some dogs it's all good you know and the reaction was so funny I was like you're freaking out yeah that oh there's a prison in this town I Not like Vic. Not, no. Not Vic. He was there for three and a half years? Three and a half. I mean, he must have done something really bad if he was there for three whole years in prison. Sounds funny. Anyway, shout out San Antonio. Shout out Celia. She's going to take our family pictures this afternoon.

Today? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. That's random. Busy day, yeah. What time? Like, I don't know. Four. Cool. I don't know. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. That's random. Busy day. Yeah. What time? Like, I don't know. Four. Cool. I don't know something. It's so funny. You know, Catherine. Yeah. It's, it's been a wild few past few days. So, right. She's just been like, like she literally was like, Celia has

been so easygoing. She's like, we can literally plan the details on Wednesday morning if you want to. So I don't know what we're doing exactly, but we're doing it at some point. What are you gonna wear? I don't know what I literally put out like, Oh, I'm going to wear a row back. That's what I'm going to wear. I don't know if that's really true, but a GRK C20 from row back. Um, no, but I put out like, you know, there's certain things in my closet that Catherine will like choose for me to wear. And I'm like, I don't fit into that very well right now. Yeah. I used to. And so I was like, okay, here's some clothes that are options. And I put them out on the bed. I'm just going to let her say, here's what you should wear. See what she comes up with. Cause I'm so bad at

like, obviously I understand the idea of matching when it's monochromatic, like, Hey, Bo's wearing this color. I was like, okay, I have a shirt that's that color. But sometimes maybe that's not what we want or like, yeah, Bo's wearing that same color, but it's a solid one. Yours is striped and mine is floral. And I'm like, ah, it seems like it works for me. All Navy. So yeah, that's one of those, like, I haven't figured, I haven't gone deep into the matching thing yet. And I don't think I ever will. Like, I'm just like, honestly, I'm just the dad. I'm just going to be in the back. You know what I mean? Like just get my head in there. That's fine for me. Just hold up Rosie. Like she's a eight pound bass. Yeah. Check this out.

Just buy the color. Yeah. 23 pounder. I have no idea how much she weighs. Oh man. So yeah, it'll be, it'll be fun. I feel like our kids, especially Hattie is in the stage of not knowing how to properly smile. You know what I mean? Like, I feel like she's been in that stage for a while too. Like she just looks scared with her eyes and she's smiling with her teeth. She's smile. And she's never looking at the camera either.

She's always like looking at somebody five feet away from her, like, or like at the person taking the picture. Yeah. So that'll be, I mean, whatever. I mean,

it'll be cute no matter what but um yeah taking those later with celia that's fun shout out ghosties man ghosties are fun ghosties yeah always fun hanging them i feel like i've seen so many i feel like yeah i mean we just have so much to catch up we haven't even started yet we've been everywhere i haven't texted anybody back in three days i'll say that so many people after last monday's episode reached out i love to be a friday pickleball ambassador haven't got back to a single one of you. So that makes people feel better about like, yeah, Jake didn't just respond to some and not you.

It's just that you haven't responded to anybody. Yeah, since Sunday night. I mean, there's been no text time. Good, yeah. Yeah, where do we start? Yeah, I don't know. Let's start with last night. I think-

Okay, yeah, that's fun. It's front of mind right now. Yeah, yeah, let's start with that. I told Hattie, I was like, Hattie, I'm still thinking about last night. Yeah. What'd she say? And she said, Dad, I woke up thinking about last night too.

I was like, that's awesome. So yeah, do we, I mean, basically last night there was a surprise party for me for my birthday. Last night was November 14th. And so, yeah, my parents came over for dinner. That was like the plan that I knew. It was like, my parents are going to came over for dinner. That was like the plan that I knew was like, my parents are going to come over for dinner. And I had heard that Hattie was planning some kind of surprise for me. But she does surprises all the time.

Like she loves like surprising me, whether it's, hey, dad, come downstairs. I cleaned up the entire basement. Or dad, I wrote this note for you or made this picture, whatever. And so I was assuming like, I heard that she was going to do something for my birthday and I thought it was something like that. And so, and then I heard that she was in cahoots with miss Rachel about, you know, that's, that's part of the surprise. Yeah. Um, we had Hattie come over about six 45 to start on the surprise project. Yeah. So yesterday, and there's all

these behind the scenes things that I had no idea what was going on yesterday, of course. And we can kind of fill in those blanks later. But yesterday I got home from Jake's house at like four and Bo comes up to me. And I think Bo is like doing it to spite Hattie and Catherine sometimes. Bummer. Like Hattie made the mistake, I would say, of telling Bo, hey, Bo, we're doing this surprise party for dad tonight. That's why we got balloons. Yeah. They got a bunch of balloons. That's why the balloons are here in

the studio. Um, and, uh, and of course, Bo in a moment of weakness of just like selfishness said something is like, dad, we got a bunch of balloons for you. And you know, how do you try to stop him right away? And then he goes and miss Rachel's coming over. And I was like, he couldn't even ruin it properly. Yeah. Yeah. And I, and so Rachel's coming over. And I was like, he couldn't even ruin it properly. Yeah. Yeah. And I, and so then I just thought like, you know, my parents are coming over for dinner. Okay. Maybe Jake and Rachel are going to surprise us for dinner too. That's the surprise. How do you surprise? And then also Catherine, my present from her this year was a pizza oven, like an outdoor pizza oven kind of thing, which is really fun and really exciting.

We've got something similar for Harrison for his. Did she tell you how we secured it? Yes. Yeah. Like, uh, Catherine literally probably for the last five years straight has gotten her surprises or her birthday presents for me ruined because of credit card statements or like confirmation emails that get sent to me like every year or like, you know, it gets delivered and she's not home and I get it or whatever, just very innocently. And so I think she was very determined this time. She's like, I'm going to make sure that like, what did she say? She was like, I want to buy it from the ghostwriters account. And you were like, well, that's kind of complicated. How about you just, uh, pay me back. And she was like, I'm going to wait to pay you back in case Brad sees it, which is like,

I'm like, Catherine, you're such a boomer. Like you can do private Venmos, but yeah, I didn't even bother. But she tell you like, Catherine, you're such a boomer. Like you can do private Venmos, but yeah, I didn't even bother. But should I tell you also, so we bought it from Crate and Barrel. Yes. Because we registered from there. We get like some,

$100 off. Clutch. Whatever percentage that was. That's awesome. So yeah, that was great. Yeah. It's probably like 2%

because it was like the most expensive. No. So anyway, but then I heard that that was going on or, you know, I heard maybe Miss Rachel and Jake. So then I thought, okay, maybe that's the surprise,

is that they're going to have the pizza oven and we're going to all make pizza together. Then that didn't happen. It was normal dinner. But I knew that Hattie was still doing something, and Hattie got really, really upset whenever she heard that, like Bo say that stuff to me, like really sad. Like we've been doing the surprise and now dad knows

everything. And Catherine thought I knew everything. And I had no idea. You're like, yeah, we're making pizza. It's all good. Yeah. I was like, that's fine. I mean, Jake and Rachel are going to come over for ice cream later, maybe or something. I don't know. So anyway, I had dinner with my parents and at the end of dinner, Hattie went across the street to miss Rachel's house. Cause I thought, and they're going to plan a surprise for me. And you know, it was like, Catherine was pretty upfront with me.

Like, yeah, she planned the surprise, but still genuinely no, no thoughts. No ideas. And then get a text from Rachel. Hey,

Hattie and I, or whatever, we're ready for your surprise or something like that. So we walk over and all the blinds are down. But once again, I thought that was just one of those like, oh, that's just Jake and Rachel and Hattie like being fun and being like, we can't let him see. Yeah, yeah.

And I was like, that's so cute. That's so fun. And I knock on the door because like all the blinds were down. I was like, maybe Hattie wants to greet me or something. And Catherine goes, just walk in. Okay. And I open the door and all of a sudden there's like 12 of my friends saying surprise. And, and there's Hattie. It's like 12 of my friends and Hattie. And I got a great video.

Did you? Yeah. Yeah. We should put on Patreon. Rachel was on Hattie and I was on everyone. So we got a man. Yeah. It's so sweet. And I think, yeah, so it ended up, you know, at Jake's house, all my friends, Hattie. And I think that was the sweetest thing for me was that Hattie was there. I don't know. I mean, out of everything, I just love that she was a part of it. And I don't know. And for 30 minutes, it was just Hattie and all of your friends. Exactly. It was a blast, dude. I just... Like without you being there, you know, from 645 to 715. It was just us and Hattie. Just hanging out.

Without you. I did. I asked her like, what'd you do? She's like, oh, I was supposed to prepare some things and help out. But then I just kind of played memory with Mr. Gunner. So tell them about the party. So Catherine's a mastermind. This is probably two weeks worth of planning and whatnot. And Rachel and I tried to help out, but it was Casino Night was the theme. And Kelsey Gillespie, KG Planning, helped out a little bit. Just kind of fun. But yeah, so basically there are all sorts of mini-games. Maybe nine different mini-games.

Speed Yahtzee. What else did we do? Oh, Speed Mazing. That was Rachel's idea. Speed Mazing was kind of fun. I'd never done a Speed Maze before. Yeah, like a piece of paper. Just like, can your pen go from start to finish? Speed Mazing was fun. We had Speed Puzzling, which you did Ghost Hunters Getaway.

Yep. Just a bunch of different games. The whole night, you're competing for chips. Everyone is given 10 chips. You can wager whatever you want. Hey, I'll bet you three to one I beat you in Speedmazing. Bring it on. Right.

And so we did about an hour worth of just mini games. There's drinks. There's some snacks. Some cool ice cream. It's the ice cream in a glass with caramel drizzle and brown. I don't know what we had. It was very simple in some ways, but amazing. I was like, what? This is so fun. There's so many fun things in here. It was like caramel, ice cream, brownies, strawberries, whipped cream. I was like, this is everything I want. Maybe some chocolate chips. I don't know.

Yeah, could have been. Yeah. It's great. And so we did that for, I don't know, an hour or so. Oh, one of the games, though, one of the mini games was called Memory with the Master. You go in the corner, you sit down on the floor, and you have to play Hattie in her memory game. And she went undefeated. Yeah, she did.

She did not lose all night. It's funny. I was doing the speed puzzle game, but I can hear Rustin complaining, too Hattie. No one else is over there. He's like, I didn't know that was the mama ostrich. I was like, that's exactly what I said when I first played. I thought that was the tiger. I didn't know that was the lion.

She kind of hustles people. It's kind of like the tic-tac-toe with that chicken in Vegas. Yeah. It's like, ah, surely I can beat him. Like, come on. It's a chicken. I can distract this thing. Like, nope.

I looked over there. Her stack was six inches tall, and Gunnar had like two matches. It was awesome. Maybe we're the master. I got a couple of good videos. You guys are going nuts playing speed Yahtzee. The girls are going crazy. There's puzzling.

There's mazing. And then Hattie's over there in the corner just flipping tiles, and it was just chaos. It was fun. Yeah. She did. Apparently she – because Hattie stayed for a little bit and then Catherine took her home.

And my parents were babysitting and put Hattie to bed. And what was the word that she used? Chaotic? Or she said something. Maybe she said it was just, it was really loud over there. It got pretty crazy a few times. She said those boys were getting pretty crazy. Because, yeah, we, we of course made up our

own games halfway through yeah we were very like let's play texas hold'em which is hilarious because the catrin had gotten the biggest deck of cards i've ever seen like a notebook size piece of ipad pro size yeah deck of cards and to play war with speed war and of course we turned into like let's play five card draw. Let's do Texas Hold'em. Then it got to Indian poker. So we're all have these huge things on our head, just looking around.

I think Rachel said she got a video of it, which would be fun. But yeah, so we did that for, I don't know, hour, hour and a half. And then if you were in the top four chip leaders at the end of the night, you got to go to the final table, which was a round of blackjack.

Catherine brought me a uh a visor she brought that she yeah so good uh-huh yeah so i put on a little suit jacket this little visor and i was the dealer and we played blackjack and it was so fun we did that for a little bit unfortunately i mean uh the deal the house was getting i mean wildly lucky it was a great example of the house always wins. That was crazy. To the point where it wasn't even fun for me. You were feeling bad. This is statistically almost impossible

what I'm pulling off here. Richie was like, we're going to play for real money. I was just taking everybody's money. Guys, don't bend over me. Don't worry about it. I would have made $100 last night probably. I was like, don't worry about it. I mean, I would have made, I mean, $100 last night probably. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. I was like, don't worry about it. But it was so fun. It was a blast. Afterwards, when we were sitting around talking, I laughed until I cried. I haven't done that in a while. Dude, yeah. That felt good.

There were some real funny stories, dude. Just me, you, Scott, and Rustin. Yeah, dude. We can't really repeat them. Yeah, yeah. Combination of reminiscing, because Scott, Rustin, and I were all high school together, reminiscing on high school times, talking about new times. I mean, it's just a really repeat them. Yeah, yeah. A combination of like reminiscing, because Scott Russ and I were all high school together, reminiscing on high school times, you know, talking about new times.

I mean, it's just a really fun time. I'm about to start just dying laughing, thinking about it, but. The world's a fun ride. Yeah, it was so funny. Yeah. Roller coaster, taking a picture of you. Yeah, right.

Apparently, Tymon was invited to the birthday party, which I think is so fun. If the second most exciting person, if Hattie is number one, I would party, which I think is so fun. If second, most exciting person, if Hattie is number one, I would have been very excited to see my son time. And, uh,

he's not remembering the Alamo. Yeah. Um, yeah, but yeah, I think it's funny to think like time was invited and he could have come, but it was gambling. So he wasn't allowed to,

you know, it was speed war, you know? Yeah. Doesn't work. Yeah. Anyway, it was, it was a blast man and i'm i'm so like like if katherine would have said what do you or if katherine were to have said i'm going to plan a casino night for you and invite all our friends and do i would have been like you don't need to do that like i don't want you to do that that's too much like i don't know like you just don't want all that attention on you necessarily.

But then when it's there and it's happening, it's going on, it's like, this is awesome. I'm so glad we did this. So it was a great, I don't know. I've never been like, oh, I want a surprise party. But now that I've had one, it's like, that was pretty great because now I had no expectations. Luckily, I showered beforehand, but I was very just like normally.

I was genuinely ready to go over there to your house for 10 minutes, watch Hattie do some presentation with Rachel and go home and put her to bed. Like, like he had quite the night and instead, yeah, it was up much later than I thought. So, um, yeah, thanks for putting it on with Catherine and Rachel. It was interesting being with you all day. And all this stuff is going on and I'm with you and trying not to. Yeah, we were filming jean shorts yesterday at Jake's house. And so it was pretty hard for Catherine and Rachel

and you to like actually set everything up. Yeah. I was like, yeah. And Catherine was like, we were stressed out the whole time, you know, but there were a few times where we went and filmed. We went and filmed at a football.

Luckily we went to a football field and filmed Santa mic'd up. So we were gone from the house for a little bit. Dude, I don't know. I don't care. I don't care if it gets 200 views. I'm going to be 200 of those views. I'm so excited about Santa mic'd up. We filmed a video.

It was pretty funny. I hope the audio comes through. I mean, or maybe we do it again with a better microphone because it was pretty funny to me. Yeah. I'm just running through a field. And this is a public school. They have a sign up that says no groups

while school's in session. Brad goes, I mean, what's a group? Yeah. It's just you and I. Define a group. Yeah. Wherever two or three are gathered, you know, is not a group.

The Lord is there. I don't know if it's a group. Right. Yeah. But yeah, Brad's just not a group. The, the Lord is there, but I don't know if it's a group. Right. Yeah. But yeah, Brad just in a Santa suit, just running around a football field, just doing cone drills.

He's talking crap on Mrs. Claus. He's, you know, making fun of Vixen. He's stretching. It was hilarious. Yeah.

Just like pretending like I'm in training camp for Santa. Yeah. If maybe, maybe we can get our audio engineer timing on it. See what he thinks. Cause we got, we got some decent distortion in some of them. I see.

How is that just impossible? I feel like to a certain extent it can be funny. Yeah. But then it's like if it's just all distorted. It's like, what did he say? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We put some captions on it. Yeah. Problem solved. Anyway. Yeah. So we were away for a while. And apparently the whole time we were away, Catherine, Hattie, and Rosie were over here just slaving away with Rachel on set. And then Rachel was like, while we were over here, Rachel yesterday was like,

okay, I'm going to go work out. And she left, and she came back like 20, 30 minutes later. And we were like, okay, that's not enough time to work out. She's going to go to class. Yeah, she has this amazing story. Well, I thought it was Jake's sister's class, but it was bar, and I don't really do bar, and this weird instructor I don't like. Gotcha.

Cool. Yeah, we bought it. Yeah, I didn't know that was part of the surprise. I was like, oh, that's too bad. I'm just the kind of guy that if I know I'm going to – I just thought it was going to be Hattie doing the surprise, but I was like, I don't want to ruin that for her. I want –

And so I was like, I'm not going to try. Cause there was one time where I walked. So whatever, we were going to film Jean shorts at noon. I got home to my house at 1145. You weren't quite ready yet. So I walked in and Catherine's on the phone with you. And I was pretty sure it was you. And I heard her say, Oh, just put it on the side of the house or something like that. And I was like, Oh, okay. She's talking about the pizza oven or something. They're going to do some fun reveal. Like, and Jake's going to want to surprise me with that. And Jake doesn't know that I know about the pizza oven. So maybe that's like, whatever. We shot a video for four hours. Like, when's he going to say, talk about the pizza oven? Say the pizza oven thing, dude.

Like, man, I haven't had lunch yet so you know anyway but so i was like okay maybe that's something i don't know whatever like but i'm like hey i'm not gonna cry no i don't want to ruin it because genuinely i have ruined it accidentally like five years in a row for catherine and she gets kind of upset about it she's like stop asking questions i didn't know that there was gonna send you an email about that. So anyway, fun times, man. It was pretty funny on that phone call with Catherine. She calls me really quickly. Hey, Brad can walk out any second.

So I'm going to go fast. I might, you know, might need to hang up. And I was like, great. And it felt like she's giving me these instructions, you know, in the movies when maybe they're like, all right, I need you. I don't have much time. I need you to meet me on the corner of East Washington and, you know, whatever. And like, I'll be there at 7 45 PM.

Bring this, bring this. And you're watching me like, how do they remember all that? Yeah. I was put in that position where I was like, I hang up and I'm like, what did she just tell me?

What, what was it about? What do I do? It was, I mean, it was very minimal, but it was like, all right.

In your, remember when he put away the things in your, in your cabinets? All right. There's two Trader Joe's bags. There's an Aldi bag. I need one in one Trader Joe's bag. bag there's this and i need you to grab the cups that are you know and then the caramel sauce that's in this yeah and the cups caramel sauce

it just put them somewhere inside of the house back in the house whatever so i'm taking all these bags and you know this is just i'm just over analyzing it because it's like i thought she said cups but she also mentioned aldi bag and there's glasses in the Aldi bag. Oh, cups, glasses. Yeah. I mean, I spent way too much time just staring at it. Get in the mind of Catherine. What would she...

Because you don't want to mess it up. No, no, no. I'm like, is this life or death right now? I don't know. Yeah, because then all of a sudden it's like, okay, I can't do anything because I don't have the cups that are really glasses. I don't even know what it's for either. I don't even know what these cups were.

I don't even know what caramel sauce is really. And so, yeah, that was funny. I love it, man. The one other thing I wanted to for sure talk about is, so we get done with casino night. There's probably a crew of eight of us just sitting around chatting. It was so fun. And you're starting to tell Scott about your South Dakota weekend pheasant hunting,

which we'll get into. And you're describing it. Rustin's telling it, how pheasant hunting works as well. And Scott is like, that actually sounds pretty fun. I think I could get into pheasant hunting, which we'll get into. And you're describing it, Rustin's telling it, how pheasant hunting works as well. And Scott is like, that actually sounds pretty fun. I think I could get into pheasant hunting. And I'm starting to like, I have an idea, and I'm starting to read the room. It seems like Scott, for the first time,

is intrigued to go hunting. And so I have this thought. I was like, Scott, have you ever been snipe hunting? And I'm like, this is going to be awesome, because I know Rustin's going to be so on board. And hopefully most people in the room know what it is. If you don't know snipe hunting... Tymon, have you been snipe hunting?

No. Really? Tymon should go snipe hunting. You have it? Like, okay. Like, well, maybe... Zach? Okay, go ahead.

Go ahead. Snipe hunting is a made-up form of hunting. Yeah. Where people just mess with you. Oh, Tymon. Yeah, totally. Like from Up. The movie Up. Oh, they do an Up?

See? Up ruined it. That's what... Up did kind of ruin it for me. Wow. Because they find an animal, and he calls it a snipe. Dang. Kevin, right?

Because it doesn't... Pixar. Carl, like... I think that's the old guy's name. Just, like, makes up, like, says, go find the snipe. Right. Yeah. That's not cool.

But then he finds the snipe. So therefore, I thought, snipe hunting. Maybe it is a real thing. I haven't looked for an ostrich-like bird. No. I was so excited. I was like, this might be perfect. Scott wants to hunt.

We should find a way to mess with them. We might go do this right now. We might all convince Scott, yeah, they're in Shawnee. And unfortunately, so I'm looking at Rustin, like the outdoorsy country guy. I was like, ooh, we should. unfortunately, so I'm like looking at Rustin, like the outdoorsy country guy. I was like, ooh, we should. Oh, so I asked Scott, have you ever been snipe hunting? No, no.

What is that? I'm thinking perfect setup. Oh, yeah. Scott's the prime candidate. No, yeah. What is that? Rustin, Radford goes, yeah, what is that? Gosh dang it.

I'm looking around. Anybody? Anybody? And the only other two people who know what snipe hunting is, it was Bree Dow down and Catherine. I was like, well, I don't think we can pull this off. Honestly, you did better than I thought though. Like, like I was like, I think they're all messing with me, but like they haven't given it away yet. I was trying, I was, my wheels were spinning. I'm like, how do we do this? How do we keep Scott in the dark? Cause you know how you kind of like when you lie, sometimes you overact. Like that's how Catherine lies

when she's in these like, oh yeah, totally. Totally. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. My dad used to take my uncle and he would go snipe hunting November of 8th. I remember they went snipe hunting. It's like, what are you talking? Why are you being so weird? She's like, yeah, I've done that. You haven't?

Yes. You know, whatever. Yeah. So it was almost amazing. I mean, we could have had Scott out looking for the head gobbler, turkey trotting, snipe hunting. Oh, but yeah, I was shocked. Room full of adults. People knew snipe hunting. Yeah.

And then read out hilariously. She's like, I unfortunately was taken snipe hunting one time. I was a seventh grade girl and my youth group took me and i just wanted to blend in and be cool and we're like did you have a gun she's like no i had a trash bag she's just walking around the woods with a trash bag yeah ready to put it over something i don't know what she knew she was looking for pretty brave for her yeah you know i'll trap it shows why she now lives on the country's because she talked about that but um yeah, all together is awesome. Awesome, awesome night. Fun night.

We'll put up some stuff on Patreon, some of the videos. Yeah, that'd be fun. Yeah, tell me some things that's been going on with you. You've been doing lots of comedy. Yeah, basically nonstop since last week's episode.

So we recorded last week on a Tuesday except to fly. We had a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday show. A little different. You prefer that? Maybe. I don't know. Okay that? Maybe. I don't know. Okay. Good question. I don't know. Because you lose out on time to work during the week,

but then back by Saturday. That's pretty nice. Yeah. So yeah, just real, just hearty, just blue collar, cities that built America. Hearty. Like you're not going hungry in these cities. No. Yeah. A lot of chowder. We had Detroit, Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Just some cloudy cities. Yeah. Kind of a brutal weather weekend.

Buffalo was like 34 degrees and rainy the whole time. Yeah. The whole time we were in Buffalo. So we couldn't leave the venue. So it was miserable weather. Then you didn't have wifi that worked or service. So, I mean,

that was just a little house on the Prairie vibes. Just give me to the show. Seriously. Like for how long? I mean get there i don't know what 2 p.m probably for a 7 p.m show yeah yeah it's a long time to looking through the photos um every now and then the wi-fi would kick on like oh hey what do i check what do i check and it was funny we were all we would always see each other wandering through the halls because we're all searching for like good wi-fi so it's kind of funny. Yeah, it's like when you're on an airplane and you forgot to download something.

Yeah, let's look through vacation pictures. Yeah, photos. But then even the photos these days. Sometimes they don't load. Oh, man. No video. That's not going to load. You're done.

So yeah, did Buffalo, did Pittsburgh, and then Detroit. good good football towns um i dm'd the buffalo bills coach his wife jamie mcdermott yeah and i wasn't able to make it okay but uh she's like i can that is so sweet of you i can't believe you thought of me i was like well yeah the bills coach his wife yeah um some some ghosties who i got to see and also some who wanted a shout out uh after the buffalo show i met a girl named katie who um first she asked where i was going next and uh i said pittsburgh and she was like oh good bridges good bridges i was like okay yeah sure i haven't heard of that but bridgy city bridgy city well that's why it's gotham that's right yeah heinz ward and uh anyway and

then right after that she's like also i do i do this as a podcast and would love a shout out some somehow some way i was like i mean the bridges comment the bridges got you there that was weird enough i can mention that is that really a thing did you learn you didn't see you didn't say no one else what up bridges my bridges bridge. What up, bridges? My bridges. Yeah. Well, maybe like steel. I don't know. Well, I do know Pittsburgh has a lot of, they like gardening.

They have a lot of like water hoses that they use. And so a lot of rappers will talk about Pittsburgh for all the bridges and hoes. Bridges and hoes. Yeah. Bridges and hoes. Yeah. Maybe that's what she was talking about. But then after Pittsburgh show,

I got to see some MVP ghosties. We're talking Cassidy Miles. Oh, yeah. Her sister. She will be on. Yeah. Coming to Ghostbusters Getaway. And then the celeb herself,

Rendell Weaver. Okay. Was at the show. Yeah. So we were trying to find, you know, first, I think Rendell hit me up. I mean,

like three weeks ago. It was like, hey, I'm going to be at the Pittsburgh show. Let's hang out. You want to go to, yeah. Can I stop you and say,

can you tell this story? But every time you use a verb, instead of saying it, say Randall and Weaver. Yeah. I think we can, we can understand the context of this. Just,

just through that. Um, you were trying to Randall some Randall. Yeah. Like talk to him. He hit me up and it was like, Hey, maybe after we uh we do a little rindling yeah yeah yeah and i was like i mean we we could afterwards and he's like yeah there's a top weaver around here really i was like okay okay i was like i'm sure isaac and i would be in yeah and uh the day of the show he's like hey what are you rindling i don't

know it's like i uh yeah still down when um when does uh top weaver close okay, he's like, hey, what are you rindling? I was like, yeah, still down. When does Top Weaver close? He was like, it doesn't close for a while, but it's an hour away. Is that too far away? Oh, yeah. We don't have any cars to rindle on over there. We'd have to rindle. He was like, we could do a rindle room.

I was like, I don't know about a rindle room. I was like, let's just grab a Weaver to eat. Yeah. I'm doing nouns instead of verbs. No, I like Weaver's a noun and the verb is Rindle. And so we Rindled. Yeah. Me, Rindle, his friend, his sister, Cassidy Miles, her sister.

We all Weavered to Applebee's. Love it. So it was great. Yeah. Had a nice little Applebee's dinner. Okay. And it was really fun. He comes from very much Amish country in Ohio, I think.

And I learned a lot about it, asked a lot of questions. One of the things he said, he filmed some Amish, an Amish volleyball league. And there were some Mennonites, some Amish. Okay. And he said there were some Amish guys playing in it who would wear an Under Armour dry fit long sleeve on their skin and then suspenders over the top of it. I was like, yeah.

So you're telling me you have footage of an Amish, like that's what they look like? Yeah. I was like, post 10 versions of it. I was like, yeah. So you're telling me you have footage of an Amish, like that's what they look like? Yeah. I was like, post 10 versions of this. I mean, this will 100% go viral. Yeah.

Suspenders and Under Armour dry fits, hilarious. And the Amish people will never know that you posted it. They have no idea. Yeah.

Go nuts. Oh my gosh. What would we, yeah, instead of the Libero, it's the Labarno. Yeah. I was giving them

like caption ideas. I was like, do like a, you got to raise a barn at six, but volleyball at five? Come on, dude. You got so much good content. It was really fun talking to him. He's got his own painting business. Good for him.

He's filmed some golf stuff as well on YouTube. I had a lot to talk about. Learned a lot of Amish facts. It was a fun time. Yeah. I think it's wild how many people have connections to Amish in our podcast community. Yeah. Like, it's wild. Because around here, they don't really have Amish communities.

No. I mean, maybe a little, like, yeah, kind of on the way to Branson, like, that kind of drive, I think there's something. There's a town called Seymour that was kind of around us that had Amish, but that wasn't. But it's like, it's crazy how many people are like, yeah, I actually grew up right down this, you know, really? Oh, we still get our butter from there or whatever. You got any Amish connections time? Uh, I don't think so. No. Yeah. Shocker. Yeah. Um, not yet. Cassie miles gave me and Rachel and a ton of us, we got, um, Taylor Swift

friendship bracelets. Okay. Mine says Jean shorts and mood swings. There's kind of fun. Yeah. And I have a ton more in my bag that she gave us. And gave Randall Weaver one. He snapped it, shattered it immediately. Just beat Debra in the lobby. Sorry. I paint, so I don't know. I don't know. I got rough hands.

Uh-huh. I got calloused hands from painting. That was fun. And then maybe this was after the Detroit show. I don't remember which show. Oh, no. It was Pittsburgh show, too. I meet this girl, Emily.

So she's a ghost team. She's like, you know, I might be moving to Kansas City. I was like, I feel like every show I meet a new person who might be moving to Kansas City. This is so fun. And I was like, what for? And she's like, FBI. I was like, that's cool. We need you.

The Bureau. Yeah, go over to where Celia lives. Check some things out. So, yeah, FBI lady might be coming to Kansas City. So shout out, Emily. Fun. FBI. I know.

That was so much cooler than anything I was expecting. What, what would it be like? Maybe, I don't know what the F whatever FBI CIA, like what would it be like to have this incredibly interesting job, but never be able to talk about it? Yeah. You know what I mean? Is it worth it? Like we have made a living talk, like having incredibly normal lives and learning how to talk about them way more extensively than we need to. But these people are like, I saw something absolutely insane today,

but I can't tell you a word of it. And so then you're kind of maybe potentially boring to all your friends, but in reality, you're the most interesting person in every room you go to. And it's gotta be a certain personality type to be able to do a job like that, to be able to

live in that secrecy. I couldn't do it. Yeah. I'd have to tell everybody. It's wild, man. I mean, because even the small things, like I was, this past weekend, I was on this hunt with this guy who is the president of a large Christian organization.

I don't say whatever, but he, Mike Pence was like speaking at one of their things. Wow. And don't say whatever, but he, uh, Mike Pence was like speaking at one of their things and literally before the election, this was before the 2024 election. Um, uh, yeah, this was no, this is when he was vice president and he, it was one of those, like, this is a tiny, tiny thing, but it was like, they had to have a secure line at this event, like for him specifically, like only in and out like why hard wire whatever and they've been trying to have this phone company come out for like years basically to do some stuff and the phone coming be like yeah it'll be six months it'll be whatever and then

they heard vice president's coming and it was like within hours they were there you know what i mean like yeah and and then like whatever and he told lots of other crazy stories of times with them. And, but it was just like, yeah, if that, if that's, I mean, that's a very minor thing. Like imagine like the CIA and those, do you think they just get to sit around maybe for like two hours at the end of every day and they have their own little like speakeasy bar in the CIA where they're just like, I gotta tell you this, man. Yeah. Like, cause you're the only people that can also hear this. Yeah, they should be granted some kind of like, you know, you know, a lot of companies will try to get you

to stick around. Like, hey, if you stick around four years, you get like a raise. Fully vested in 401k. Yeah, better. Yeah, better retirement. Like every five years you get a party and it's just like a one hour, just the purge,

free for all with other CIA people and just share everything. Yeah. You've earned that. I think so. Because like a conjugal, just the purge, free for all with other CIA people and just share everything. You've earned that. I think so. Like a conjugal visit, but of information. Yeah. Your wife gets to come in and you get to tell her everything.

Well, your wife gets to come in. I just changed it. Yeah, because I like the conjugal visit idea. Yeah, so your wife comes in. I mean, it's the CIA. Surely they can erase your memory really quick after the end of it. Before November next year, yeah,

you'll be able to do that. Yeah, they should do this before the 2024 elections for sure. Beth Roe is just shaking her head. She's like, that's not what I meant by any of this. Yeah, good times. Okay, yeah. How do you feel like comedy is going great? Smooth.

Yeah, it's going well. It's, yeah, it's uh yeah it's it it's uh just i'm busy i feel like it's just it's a lot it's a lot to be gone and i think it's a lot of non-direct flights which is kind of a bummer just you know you lose a full day traveling it feels like but um it's still good it's not some good moments um we uh a couple just quick stories uh one just crowd work story I asked a woman who she's here with tonight and she said

I think just like her friend I was like where's your husband he didn't want to come or he didn't want to come he's like well no he's too hurt and then I was like

kind of nervous to follow up and I was like but I don't know I feel like the crowd wants me to follow up oh this is crowd work sorry yeah sorry

so I'm talking to this woman I'm like what kind of injury prevents you from coming to a comedy show you get his ears chopped off you know like how does this he can't come and just sit side cramp it hurts this guy and then she said it's to his neck i was like okay this could be like a spinal cord thing but i was like maybe he really throws his head back when he laughs or something and i I was like, how'd he hurt his neck?

And she said, leaf blowing. Oh, dangerous, dangerous. How does he leaf blow? What's he doing? Like some type of cardio? Yeah, he's like got headphones in and yeah. He's a real theater kid at heart and he's out there. Yeah, he's like jamming to Aladdin.

Doing spins and throwing it up. He's a baton twirler. He throws it up and catches it and keeps blowing. I didn't really have that many jokes. That's just kind of funny on its own. He can't come to a comedy show because of his neck, because of leaf blowing. Gosh. The state of America and I am chief sinner among them,

but my gosh, we got to be able to leaf blow without getting hurt. It's amazing. Yeah, I went on a two-mile walk yesterday, and my feet are killing me. My shoulder from pumping my arms. You'd be surprised. I don't know. Walking hurts the arms.

I got gas. I swear those nozzles are heavier than they used to be. Yeah, my rotator cuff is just – I don't know. I might have to have surgery on this thing. I went on a jog yesterday. Oh, your knees? No. I ran in a hoodie in the straps.

They kept hitting my mouth and my lips are sore today from jogging. Don't jog in a hoodie. I was driving the other day and I swear it was a long time. I'm chafed from that seatbelt being on my chest too long. I am absolutely chafed.

I gotta stop driving shirtless right after I shave my chest. I got to stop doing that. Dude, leaf blowing is great. Like, yeah, just a big old, yeah. This would have been great. I should have said all this after. This is awesome.

I wish I would have thought of this. Well, I mean, the idea of like literally the leaf blower is doing all the work. Just stand there. He was raking a bunch of leaves like, okay. You move a little bit. Yeah, if you pull a weird muscle, you move the wrong way. But, dude, you're just blowing them around. I would dare to say you can leaf blow with the most severe neck injury possible.

You can go into it with a neck injury and still leaf blow. That's why leaf blowers were invented. You know? One of the only chores Stephen Hawking can do is leaf blow. Is that too far? I'll blow the leaves if you do the dishes. You got it. How do I even?

Yeah, I mean, I bet he's got an electric one. I bet it zips. I would say so, yeah. Just attached to the chair. Anyway, didn't say any of that. I kind of just gave her a hard time. I was like, I got news for you. Your husband's not at home with a neck injury. He just kind of made it seem like he's lying about it. Yeah, he just didn't want any of that uh i kind of just gave her a hard time i was like i got news for you your husband's not at home uh with a neck injury he just kind of made it seem like he's lying about

it but yeah he just didn't want to see me yeah he's just not a trach any fan yeah um and then only other thing from i think this weekend or this week out on the road is uh one of the nights it was travis's birthday so we got dj travis dj travis yeah um which you remember a story from last you know i guess two years ago, last time we were on the road together, we were all having this conversation, this hilarious moment. We're all talking about turning 30.

Well, I just turned 30 in August, actually. Trey's about to turn 30. Katie has turned 30. Alan, what about you? I think he said, today. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, oh my gosh. Today's your birthday? I was like, when are you going to turn 30? Like one year from today. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, oh my gosh. Today's your birthday?

No, it was like, when are you going to turn 30? Like one year from today. Was that what it was? Oh, that's what it was. Yeah, one year from today. Like, oh my God. Like, let me think about this. Like 365 days from now.

So I'm like, hey, good for us. Someone knew it was Travis's birthday. Come to find out Travis's mom texted Travis. Like, can you buy the cake? You know, whatever. Oh, that's sweet. So we get Travis a cake. We're talking to him. And then I'm sitting next to Alan. We share a dressing room that day. And I'm like, Alan, I feel like, don't you have like a fall

birthday? When is your birthday? And he goes, it was the Dallas show. I was like, oh gosh. Put it in your calendar. I know. Two years in a row. I spent all day with him. Didn't say a word to him on his birthday. I mean, I really just, I just started laughing so hard. I didn't really have a row, I spent all day with him. Didn't say a word to him on his birthday. I mean, I really just started laughing so hard. I didn't really have a sympathy. I was like, that's hilarious. It was the Dallas show. But this week, we're going out

tomorrow. I fly out to Stanford. Stanford, Connecticut. I mean, I can't not. Every time I think Stanford. Never done a show in Stanford. You gonna do it? Probably should. Why not? I said, Stanford, Connecticut. I can't not. Every time I think Stanford. Never done a show with Stanford. You gonna do it? Probably should. Yeah. Why not? I said, Stanford, Connecticut. I can't hear you.

Yeah. Tomorrow, Lucas's birthday. Friday. And Lucas is coming out with us this weekend. Friday, Trey's birthday. Friday's Trey's birthday. So I got that stored away. I knew Trey and I were close.

Yeah. Trey and Chip Gaines and I all in the same week. Wow. I was like, I think there's just something to horoscopes because I mean, we're just simpatico, you know, I'm like, I'm like the combination of chip games and Trey Kennedy.

Basically. A lot of people are saying that a lot of people are saying that Katie made a good point. She's like, easy way to remember it is Lucas opens up for Trey. Lucas's birthday opens up for Trey. That's great. Good.

Yeah. So Luke is going to be with you. Yeah. Great. And we're doing like, I think two shows on Friday and two shows on Sunday. Going to get to see Cool Guy Sammy in Boston. Yeah, he texted me that. He's like, are you coming?

I was like, no. I've never come to any show. I would love to. I would love to just hop on a plane and just abandon my children to go see people. People do it all the time. I don't think that's realistic. Yeah. I mean, we wanted to come see you.

We didn't know if Brad would come. He's never been. Hawaii. I'll be in Maui. I'll be in Maui at your show. You are coming to the show? Yeah. You really don't have to.

I want to support you. Okay. That's nice. And I think TJ and Beth, you'll probably go. Okay. Right on. Well, that's nice. So I really just want to hang out with them.

Okay. Yeah. I get it. No. Anyway, that's that. Let's talk about some phones yeah sure i don't give a heck i don't give a heck uh tywin which one were you saying you kind of felt more passionate about this week i was i was feeling um i just enjoy eating good ranchers so much because i have so much no love for main street roasters okay Okay. But I also love drinking Main Street Roasters.

So I was thinking either of those two or whatever of the other ones is what I was thinking. Yeah, Tommy doesn't even know what's... Yeah. Keep his head above water over there. Yeah. Hey, good ranchers.

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one day to South Dakota and back. What five states are they? Go. Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota. Very good. That was like two seconds. I've been on a limo to all of them. Is that fun though? Like I don't, it was a seven hour drive. I 35, right? It go. Yeah. Waivers between Nebraska. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I remember that on the limo trip. It's like, Oh, we already did Nebraska. We don't really need to. Oh yeah. Or we already need to Iowa. I think we never really did a stop in Iowa. I-35 ran through it. Isn't that telling? Actually, I'm lying. I remember. We stopped in Nebraska and we went to a hot air balloon festival.

That worked out just the day we were there. That was awesome. And we stopped in Iowa and went to the Sioux... Sioux Falls? Is that the Iowa one? Sioux City? Sioux City is Iowa. Sioux City is Iowa. And also there's a North Sioux City that's North Dakota or South Dakota. Oh, confusing. Sioux Falls is Iowa. Sioux City is Iowa. And also, there's a North Sioux City that's North Dakota, or South Dakota.

Oh, confusing. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Anyway, we stopped there, went to the county fair. Kyle got a... One of those little things that are in shells. I can't... A peanut? No, no, no, no, no.

Animal, animal, animal. Armadillo. Oh, hermit crab. There it is. Hermit crab. Can't always say hamster. One of those things that are in shells. Oh, boy.

Sunflower seeds? Yeah, yeah. He got a sunflower seed. He got a sunflower seed. Anyway it is. Hermit crab. Can't always say hamster. One of those things that are in shells. Oh, boy. Sunflower seeds? Yeah, yeah. He got a sunflower seed. He got a sunflower seed. Anyway, sorry. South Dakota. Yeah. I was just transitioning because I shot some meat in South Dakota.

Yeah. In the form of pheasants. Pheasants. Tymon, you got any hunting background in your family? Nope. Well, maybe. I think my dad's probably done hunting in his teen years. Back when he was

belting up some snakes. It's probably just because he wanted to be able to see well. He's like, oh, I can use a scope now I can actually see. He's using it as his glasses. This is great. Before glasses were invented. He was just using a sniper scope. It was a blast, man. I mean, yeah, it's the same group I went with last year

if you remember me talking about Stephen Kersh Chapman. Stephen wasn't there this time. Thanks, Steve. So, yeah, apparently – Were you the big – I didn't make enough of an impression. Yeah, I was the big – No, no, there were some guys, and there's some –

yeah, some high-profile guys that you – honestly, if you didn't, like, get introduced to them or hear what they did, you would never think that about. Like, they're just normal guys. But they do cool things doing cool things. Yeah. Like just randomly like dropping like, Oh yeah.

I talked to Donald Trump one time. Like he came in and we talked and I was like, you're just talking to the president United States. Like that's insane. Yeah. Like I have, I hang out with Trey Kennedy like once a year, maybe now and chip gains.

And I have chip gains. And I were pretty close. My wifeaines and I have the same birthday. Chip Gaines and I are pretty close. My wife went to the same college as him. But it was just a great reminder of, hey, these guys are good men that are successful. You don't have to be some career-driven, serious, I don't know, somebody you're not in order to have success. That is cool to see. Yeah. It was literally like, like it was literally, it was just a bunch of guys that were similar to my dad. Like, it was just like, Oh, you're just a good guy. Like you're just a good guy who cares

a lot and works hard. But like at the end of the day, you're just a very normal guy. Like, and yeah, anyway, you would never know these guys are whatever doing cool things. But, um, I mean, it was, the hunting is so fun. It's such a blast, dude. We got to go. We I'm genuinely, we got to go. You would love it. Yeah. The way you were telling it and you and Russ are talking about, I was like, that does sound fun. It sounds easy. And you just get to, you get to talk the whole time. Yes, dude. It's so cool. The dogs, I know we've talked about it last year, but like, I think last year there were four dogs this year. There were nine dogs, dude. I heard you tell Russ in that and he goes, oh, so you were all over him. Oh, all over him, dude. It was awesome. So like, yeah, you drive out to the field from the, like the lodge in what's the human

to dog ratio in this kind of gathering. Uh, this one, I think there were 13 or 14 of us. You almost all get your own dog, but no, we don't, we don't mess with the dog. You don't, you don't, you don't do anything with a dog, but still I'd like to claim one. Yeah. Like that one is rusty and he's mine. Yeah. I'm going to, I'm going to follow him at one point, second day there. I don't know what happened, dude, but we were all waiting. You kind of like wait in the dog, kind of, you know, sniff it out and scope the field a little bit before you start walking the fields. And at one point I was just standing there waiting. I don't know why I did this, but I put a piece of tall grass in my mouth, just because I – whatever.

All of a sudden, four of the dogs just stood by me, and I just looked like a freaking alpha male. Wait, wait, wait. Why? They just thought you were in charge? I have no idea. They thought you were a pheasant? I don't know. I don't know. No, they didn't see I was a pheasant.

They just like – I don't know. It was just like – You put a thing of straw in your mouth, and they're like, he's our leader. I don't know what the correlation – I don't know if it's a straw. Maybe I looked like – I kind of – I don't know. It was just like... You put a thing of straw in your mouth, and they're like, he's our leader. I don't know what the correlation... I don't know if it's a straw. Maybe it looks like... I kind of...

I don't know. Similar build, I guess, to one of the guys that guides for it or whatever, but I was like... And somebody even said, my friend David, he's like, oh, you got... You're like kind of giving off alpha male energy here. I was like, yeah, well, you know,

just taking out the straw. Pheromones. So the dogs will go in front of you. They do theones. So the dogs will go out in front of you. They do their thing. And the dogs are pumped. This is what they're born and bred to do, which is sniff out Fez. It's awesome.

They are so pumped. So you drive out there in these side-by-sides. You know what those are? Kind of like a nice golf cart, like an off-road golf cart kind of thing. And they have cages in the back, like little kennels where they are. You open up the kennels,

they just come out, and they're just starting to, but they're so well-trained, and then all of a sudden, the guys just go, hunt them up, and they just start. That's it.

Hunt them up. Just going all around. You ever see those TikToks where the dogs are trained to herd, and they have commands in different languages? I always respect the commands in other languages. Yeah. Let's get up. And then it's going, and it's like, yeah, that means left. have commands in different languages. I always respect the commands in other languages. Yeah.

Let's get up. Yeah. And then it's going like, yeah, that means left. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. Hunt them up. Hunt them up. Or, you know, whatever.

And then they have these like beepers on them. Kind of like the Doug from Up. Doug? Is that his name? Oh, yeah. You know, like one of those little collars has a beeper on it. And so the different, there's different beeps for different things. So like one of them is just like, they all have unique beeps.

So, you know, that, okay, that's Hooch over there. That's Abel. Hooch. I know, like spot on. Like, here, Hooch. Here, Hooch. You know, whatever. Hooch, Hooch back.

You know, whatever, something like that. But then whenever they like find a pheasant or they can like sense one's there, they point obviously with their nose. And it's kind of dog they are? They're pointers? They're all different ones. There's a bunch of different ones. You got like a Chihuahua's, obviously, with their nose. And it's kind of dog, they are? They're pointers? They're all different ones. There's a bunch of different ones. You got like a Chihuahuas out there, golden doodles.

You'd be surprised. Yeah, I don't know. Some of them look like kind of mutts, but man, they were well-trained. They got snozzles on them. But they start pointing, and then when they point, the beeps change. The beep is like more of a... Instead of a beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, it's like a beep, beep. And so you're like, and you're still kind of quiet, like not because you can't talk,

but because you're who's controlling the beep dude. Uh, like a, like a, I think, I think it's probably motion detected or something. Oh, okay. Okay. That's why I was confused about. And so all of a sudden, if they're, if they're still, it'll change the beep, you know? Yeah. And so it's like, wow. And so then you'll say, you'll hear like, okay, we got one point over to the left. Slow beep. Who just slow beeping. And then all of a sudden you hear like this little,

like kind of gobble. They kind of sound like a gobble. The, the pheasant, like, and then like, all of a sudden it's like rooster. Wait,

what does rooster mean? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Uh, you're only supposed to shoot the males, the rooster.

I thought you all had top gun call sign. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maverick. Flank over here.osters. Oh, I thought you all had Top Gun call signs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maverick, go! Maverick, yeah. Flank, over here, yeah. No, it's because they say if you shoot a hen,

it's like shooting 200 roosters kind of thing. They are populating all the pheasants or whatever. So it's like a big deal. Do not shoot the hens. Bummer for the roosters. Which that happened one time. David, my friend, one of the guys on this trip, he runs this company called Axis,

really cool company. But he, I mean, they yell, these guys yell so loud, either hin, like for obviously if it's a female. Lady Fez. Or low, which just means like, do not shoot that.

Because it's too low to the gun. It's too low, it's too dangerous. You're going to potentially hit a dog or somebody, because people are out in the distance like facing you whatever so rooster is your trigger word yes only listen to rooster rooster go for it you know whatever um because you're just shooting up at the sky so it's safe yeah but they call out hen one time dude david i don't know i think he has he had five bullets or whatever, but a few other people. I mean, he was following that thing, trying so hard to shoot it.

And you could hear him screaming at him. Hit, hit, hit. Boom, boom, boom. I mean, and he gets done. I mean, he's a little bit far away from his guide, but the guide's like, are you wearing hearing protection or something? And he's just like, no,

no. And so anyway, it's like, you don't want to screw up with that kind of thing. But, um, that's pretty fun. Rooster rooster.

So you shoot up in the sky. Here's a question for you. Maybe they went over this. Do bullets come down? I mean, they gotta, right. But I don't know.

Okay. I will say this. Um, so yeah, there's this, the strategy of it is you're going in this lot. I think I will say this. So yeah, there's this, the strategy of it is you're going in this lot. I think I kind of explained this last night, but like, let's say there's 13 of us, maybe four people start at the end of the lot. So like we park

the side-by-sides, everyone gets out, the dogs, you know, get, get ready to go. And then four people will drive the side-by-sides to the other end of the lot and they're called the blockers. And so they spread out at the end of the lot because all these pheasants want to run. They don't want to fly. And so they want to run away from you. And so they run to the end of the lot. But then when they see these blockers, they, you're like, Oh crap, we're, we're done. We got to fly. And so, um, so these blockers are literally facing you as you're shooting. That's why it's like, don't shoot low. But every once in a while, like I was like, you kind of take turns being blockers versus being whatever quarterbacks. I don't know.

But every once in a while when you're a blocker and somebody's shooting, you just feel like this, like, like spray, like this powder of like. No way. Oh yeah. Yeah. Like, and so it's like, I don't know what, I mean, it's definitely ammunition of some sort, but it's not like, like pellets or anything, but it's just like this part of the gun powder. Yeah. Like, and so it's like, I don't know what, I mean, it's definitely ammunition of some sort, but it's not like, like pellets or anything,

but it's just like this part of the gunpowder. Yeah. So that's kind of wild. Is it easy to know the difference in a hen and a rooster that immediately? I think it's relatively easy. The roosters are more colorful, but every once in a while, like there was one time it was a smaller rooster because the hens are also

smaller, but like, I didn't think it was a rooster. And then somebody yelled it into like, okay, gun, so you, uh, how many did you shoot? Me personally. That's the funny thing is like every once in a while, there's like four of us shooting at the same. I don't know if I got it.

And so that, that kind of became my inside joke was like, if you know, everyone's so humble, like, I think that was you. I was like, no, it was me. That was mine. Yeah. I can tell. I can tell. Yeah.

My bullet, my bullet. Honestly, I think I probably shot six or seven, but like there was one, I actually got the first kill of the hunt two years in a row. I don't know how I'm getting so fortunate, but yeah, both times it's like those football teams, they can always put together a first drive. They always go down and score. Like they have a good first like game plan strategy. But yeah, there was just one time where, you know, they told me like, you go up 50 yards and you wait on the side of the road for this. And I was like, okay. And then one came out and it was just me. And I popped that bad you versus the rooster. Yeah. So that was pretty fun. Um, yeah, I don't know. And I also, since I'm left-handed these shotguns, like the way they work is like,

they shoot the shells. Like once you shoot the shell, just like pops out. Um, and usually since you're, if you're right-handed, it pops out away from you that way left. So last year they had a left-handed gun for me. They couldn't find that gun this time popping out of your face. So no, um, they have this other kind of gun called an over under, um, which if you're a gun person, you know what that is, but I didn't know what it was. You would recognize it's like, instead of like loading it from underneath, like loading the cartridges, it's one of those ones that like bins in half, like it breaks in half kind of thing, you know? Oh, yeah. Kind of old timey. Sweet. Yeah. You

load it like into the barrel directly. Yeah. You just put it right in there. And so it's over under. So it's just like over, right? Yeah. So you shoot the first one out of the first barrel. So I went out of the second, but anyway, cool. Um, and people thought it was really cool and fun, but I only got two bullets. Whereas usually people are having four or five in their gun. And so one time when I was a blocker, uh, you know, these, these guides are pretty intense. They're fun. And like, they're not mean, but they're like, they're wanting to get every single bird we see kind of thing. And so I was a blocker and there was one that came up and I shot at it with my two and then I had to reload. And then there's one that just went right over my

head. And this guy's like, where's our blockers? What are we doing? He's like, we're taking it pretty serious. And I'm like, I'm trying. I'm stopping it. I got the over under gun. Okay. So, um, no, but overall it was just really, really good to be with good men. I mean, I think it's just, it's just rare these days to have that kind of fellowship, you know, and just to get that time to like, just be away, uh, is just a huge blessing to just like relax. And these guys are, I was the youngest one. I'm, you know, just turned 33 and the second youngest I think was in their forties. So like most of the guys were much older than me,

so I could learn from their wisdom and that's cool. Yeah. It was just an awesome time. So really grateful to, to have it. Who, who knew South Dakota? Who knew?

Who knew? Who knew? That's good. Hudson pheasants. Right in time to elections coming up. Exactly. I was thinking that I was, I don't know if I'm going to be able to do this next awesome. That's good. Huntsman Pheasants. Right in time, too. Election's coming up. Exactly. I was thinking that. I was like, I don't know if I'm going to be able to do this next year.

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Um, what else is going on, Brad? Uh, I got one of my favorite things that I got for my birthday. As far as it's not a present, it's a birthday congratulatory happy birthday message. Sorry, I'm struggling.

Yeah. And I want to play it now. And I'm pretty sure you get the same one. There's a guy, this is the podcast, Caden Peterson. I got to see him two days ago. Yeah, you're friends with them. Like I am acquaintances. I'll say I'm your friend, Caden.

I want to be your friend more than I am. I am a big fan and friends with his older sister. Yep. Show us how much I know about his family dynamic. Yeah. Star is the best. She worked at Canada cook with me. Caden worked with Jake.

So Caden's a listener, whatever. He makes this birthday video. I'm assuming, does he do it every year? Do you know? I'm not sure. This is the second year I've gotten it. And he just sends it out to everybody,

I think on their birthday. And it is just the greatest video ever. And so I just want to bless you guys with this video that maybe you could even steal. Like, I don't know if you want to rip it from, but I mean, it's just the most fun thing.

And the funny thing was that I got this message like on my phone and I didn't even have his number. And so I didn't even know 30 seconds into it. I was like, I'm pretty sure I know that this is Caden, but like, this is amazing. So,

uh, I don't know who's connected here or whatever, but yeah, I'm connected audio wise anyway. Cool. Yeah. Let's just press play at the same time and watch this bad boy all right three two one I don't know. Thank you. so isn't that that's just so it's it's amazing i think he does a new one every year yeah yeah

he sent me a different one last year with an office kind of theme or something like that. It's such a great thing to do. And it's so special. And it's not like, I mean, it's obviously he put effort into it once. But then he's going to send that out. It's worth the effort because of how many people it's going to entertain and bless. How much more excited are you for someone else's birthday to come around? Like, sweet. I can send him the video. Yeah. I kind of want to make my own, but I also don't,

is that cheating off of his idea too much? Anyway, just so fun. Anyway, it truly was like, it made me laugh really hard. The first time I watched it, I just wrote, I love that. Yes. I just respond. I was like, that was that. Yes. I just responded. I was like, that was unreal. Truly unreal. I don't know what other words to say. It was just unreal. It's amazing. So shout out to Caden Peterson, man. Uh, just a good dude. So you want to talk about how you saw him? You want to talk about that next episode? I think I'll save that for Wednesday. Great. Yeah. I performed down at Branson. So I'll talk about that Wednesday. Brad, do you want to talk about this little thing? Yes.

I've got it brought out here. Yes. This was so fun. So at the blackjack table last night, yeah, every once in a while, you just need a little bit of extra pick-me-up. We got this button here that if you press it, nice little sound bite for you. Here we go.

Timon's not even going to understand this because he's an amateur. No, I'm just kidding. Hit it one time for Big Daddy! Yes, that was a fun little... Here we go. Hit it one time for Big Daddy! Just... I was so impressed by the details.

That's just not Catherine's natural inclination. You wouldn't know it from last night. She did such a... It was like a inclination. You wouldn't know it from last night. She did such a, like it was like a legit party. Yeah. And that's like, I'm just such a,

like a, Oh, we don't need to don't, don't do too much. Just get ready together. Like you got balloons and decorations and themes and these cool, like chip trays and like, yeah.

Wow. Printouts. There were, yeah. I mean, pre pre-planned desserts. Yes. Like the caramel was on those glasses.

Like it was frozen. Yeah was frozen starting in the afternoon. I think the idea is that you're able to make the whole dessert beforehand or something. We'll get people to... I'll have her post it on Patreon, the recipe or whatever. So many fun details down to memory with the master, man. Memory with the master is awesome. I truly can't tell you when I think about how special it was that Hattie was there. Anyway, it's just the Master, man. I mean, I truly can't tell you, like, when I think about how special it was that Hattie was there. So anyway, it's just so fun, man.

Yeah, hit it one time. Shout out to some ghosties. I texted some of our loyal ghosties. I was like, all right, I had this idea. I need to find a soundbite of Brad saying it. Yes. And so I just kind of assigned it to them. And I think it was Janelle.

Classic. But either way, there were several of them. They were all searching. Cassidy And I think it was Janelle classic. But either way, there were several of them. They were all searching Cassidy, Brandon, and everyone was looking for it and yeah, found it pretty quickly. And so,

yeah, that's awesome. I had that thought. I was like, that'd be hard to find. Yeah. I don't know where we said this, but yeah,

that was you saying it for the first time on the podcast, like telling the story. I love it. Of when we went to the casino, you know, it'd be nice is if, well, I don't want to put anything like this on anybody, truly. But just know it would be nice.

On YouTube, you can do transcripts of the videos. And so that's one way you can kind of command F and try to find something within the episode. It'd be awesome if we had a Google Doc that had delineated every single episode with the transcripts. So at least like if, if YouTube understood that you said big daddy, you could search big daddy. Yeah. We could search like top golf, Rachel, or, you know, things that probably haven't been said a ton and you could go find them. Because obviously if you do that for every single, if you go episode by episode on YouTube,

that'd be pretty annoying to like have to search it. But if it's like all in one doc, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. There's gotta be some AI program that could go in and do that and understand it all for you. That's true too. Timon, you're an AI guy. Timon, you kind of go viral with AI stuff. You're an AI guy.

AI guy. Anyway. No. Yeah. It's been a fun, fun time. Felt blessed by a lot of ghosty, kind words. People gave me some gift cards and some chocolate-covered pretzels,

some really nice notes. Just somebody gave me a chihuahua. Yo quiero taco, Ben. So just lots of fun gifts from the ghosties. And yeah, just thankful for everybody. I think, let me, yeah, a few quick, just, what's the word? Takeaways from the hunt besides, besides,

you know, roosters and hens rooster. Hey, there's roosters and there's hens. There's no rinse. There's no third, uh, whatever. No. Um, it was just, yeah. First of all, it was just great to be with good, good guys. And I think there's something special there. Uh, number two is that I want to be more intentional with messaging and following up and having friendships and just like being intentional with my, like contacting people. I, there were guys on that trip that I connected with really well last year that I hadn't really talked to at all until this. Yeah. You know what I mean? And I'm so, I, I take for granted so much the fact that men can often just like see each other and just pick up where they left off.

But I'm like, man, how much more special could your life be? Or like, how much more could you bless somebody else? If you just were like, Hey man, I'm praying for you. Like I'm thinking of you, how are you doing? You know, whatever. So I want to be better at that. And then third takeaway was we had a lot of good times around the fire late at night, like fire pit. And so I want to be intentional about like just inviting my guy friends over, I don't know, once a month or something and just having like fire pit hangouts. Yeah. So that's fun. Yeah. Just like, and cause there's something about like just conversation around the fire. It's just fun and chill and it's easy and we can do it, you know, 12 months out of the year if we really want to, you know, kind of thing. So,

um, anyway, those are some takeaways for you. Those are good takeaways. Good takes. Good takes. Yeah. Anyway, a lot of fun. I had a good time taking away everyone's chips last night when they would bust in blackjack. That was always kind of fun.

Takey, takey. What did you say? For dealer Jakey. Jakey, takey. Give to Jakey. Yeah, something like that. So, man, we had fun. We had so much fun.

I can't thank you enough, Jake, for your help in that too, man. Oh, I mean, it was like, this is a pretty similar party to what I would want. Exactly. Yeah. This is pretty fun. Right. Help set up and pull off. Catherine told me that maybe you weren't here for that conversation, but she said there

was an idea of people were going to dress up like me from different stages of my life. I think that was Catherine's first idea. And I was like, I've never been to a party like that, but I think it's fun. Yeah, it's a funny idea, but I also would be like, oh my gosh, look at all these people putting so much effort into this. Like I think they were gonna be handed

an old picture of you. Like this is about new six. Go recreate this outfit. So funny, dude. Yeah, but it was just me, Catherine, Rachel. We just had a little brainstorming session one time and we came out of it being like, oh yeah, Brad loves betting on stuff. Yeah. That's what Catherine was like. He likes just, you know,

making a quick buck, you know, whatever. I'll bet on anything. How much fun you and Gunnar had at my bachelor party, just being the bookkeepers, you know, just being the house and just driving around. Oh yeah. Garrett. You had more fun. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You and Garrett. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it was a blast. More fun than any of us it was so fun and it made everything yeah it made everything interesting you know so

yeah last thing I think I want to talk about this episode is you know last I think last Monday one of the episodes

last week we were talking about how I'm going to be rich the sidewalk the yes yes yes got to follow up on that so

please Tymon was still here last week we were getting to work down the studio. We had knock on the door. Like, this is the guy. It's time to negotiate. I was like, Tymon, put some headphones on.

You're not going to like what you're doing. I was joking. I was like, what if I was just a completely different person? Yeah. But no, this is the nicest guy. To the point where Rachel and I were like, should we develop a friendship with our appraisal guy? He is so nice and so awesome.

Yeah. But anyway, come to find out. So good news, bad news. Bad news. My driveway is not really going to be blocked enough or even at all to where we could ask for more money because we can't get to our house. He's like, oh, no, we would never block you

from getting to your home. I was like, yeah, that makes sense. Oh, yeah, that checks out. That seems like something you probably wouldn't want to do on purpose. So, yeah, that's cool. Where do we sign do we sign okay yeah let's just get this over with uh but we talked i mean i talked to this guy for like 20 minutes it was really fun because he is uh he's a basketball coach i think he's a teacher but he also does like appraisal

stuff he like appraises like properties and like okay if they take this percentage of your lawn what is it worth if they take a fence down? What's that worth? And it was cool kind of learning from it. He's like, we have to look at it as if like, you know, if a tornado came and blew your house down, how much would the property itself be worth? And then what percentage of that? And so I was like, this all is cool. And I think I would like this. But I was curious. I was like, well, I have you. This is my only conversation with an appraisal guy. What are these, like, tell me the value of these trees. Like if they were to take these trees, what would they be worth?

I was like, I mean, this guy could tell me anything. I have no idea. So he just kind of looks at it for a while and he does some calculations. So I'm going to ask you guys.

So we've got two trees on front. There's one that's smaller. It's like the, you know, one closer to the driveway. Yeah. And there's that big, big one that's dropping

all the acorns and stuff. Big, big, mighty. Okay. Just those two. So those two in front, what do you think they were worth? Like if they were to be removed. Total?

How much? Yeah, individually. I got a price for each. Oh, you did? Yeah. How much would I be compensated for each tree if they were to be removed? And this is like basically like,

yeah, average value of the home. Like what would it do to the home value if those trees weren't there? That's an interesting question. Because I feel like out of all things, trees are the most impossible thing to replace because you can't just take a 100-year-old tree and put it somewhere else. Yeah. You know what I mean? So like if you replant that tree, it's going to take, yeah, however many,

it's probably a 50, 60-year-old tree. I don't know how old it is. He was telling me too it's such a hassle to remove a tree. I know that.. It's going to take, yeah. However many, it's probably a 50, 60 year old tree. I don't know how old it is. He was telling me too, it's such a hassle to remove a tree. I know that. It's a lose-lose. I know that's true. You have to pay the person and they have to, you know, pay thousands of dollars just to come and remove it.

He's like, you'd be shocked. The roots are just, they're all over your entire yard, you know, and just annoying, but. Okay. My guess. Oh man. I'm going to guess 1,000 for the small tree. Okay.

But I think that big, I mean, that small tree is not tiny, but yeah, I don't think it's that old. But I think the big tree, it was $5,000. Okay. My guess. I was going to guess. Sorry. No, go ahead. I was going to guess that they are undervalued and that for like both trees total is uh 2800 okay okay what's the

split yeah how do you split that um 6 and 22 probably 900 and 19 19 yeah yeah okay um i guess timon's probably closest really yeah but you you nailed it though a little tree a thousand okay big tree 2500 okay he did, he's like, now if you were to remove both of them, since those are the only two trees in your front yard, then that really diminishes the curb appeal of your home. As long as you have one tree, I feel like it still looks pretty.

Yeah. But you have nothing in your yard, he's like combined, they'd be worth maybe 10 or so. They'd take both for some reason. Oh, interesting. Okay. It's like, that's what they would be worth individually.

That is interesting. I hope so. Because we're talking about the podcast. Yeah. Tree removal. Hope you guys are into this is interesting because we don't have i hope so because we're talking about the podcast yeah tree removal hope you guys are into this well we don't have any trees on our property because at different points they had to like the city had to take them away dang um because i've seen like if you look at like old zillow pictures like oh that's kind of you know 2001 or something like i was like oh my gosh they had a tree there and like holy cow um yeah so very interesting but yeah there's just follow-up uh still gotta get some new concrete soon and still have my trees uh i i have a follow-up as well uh

i found my wallet um and it's funny thank you time and right in time i and i was like there was a little bit of tension like katherine was definitely not like mean by any means about it but she was kind of upset. Like, like it's a big deal to vote. And she's like, what you're, you got,

I can't believe that you haven't found this. And then in my head, I didn't even mention Hawaii, but I was like, yeah, I got to find it. But I looked everywhere. And of course,

like the one place that I failed to look, I talked about last year, last week on the podcast inside the couch cushions. I didn't look there first. I should've looked there first, but I just thought like a wall it's big enough where it's not going to just be lost in the couch cushions. Wrong. Look there as kind of a last ditch ditch effort. And of course it's in, it's an old big daddy's leather chair. So right where Papa left it, found it, went and voted with Hattie and Bo, a lot of people that I voted for lost, so that's fine.

But anyway, yeah, got the wallet back. Everyone's recommending Tiles. Guys, Tiles are no good. I'm just saying right now. I need to get an AirTag. Oh, really? Because Tile, I think you have to be within range or something. Like it doesn't – AirTags are just like find my iPhone.

Wherever it is that's where it'll tell you tile i surely surely i don't know though surely because it's you don't have to be in range okay you tell me i could be very wrong i mean the the tile i used to have a tile in my wallet and i'll say a it ran out of battery b oh they're battery powered well i mean yeah i think air tags are too, right? Really? I don't know. I never had them. I think they are, but like probably long, you know, two years or something like that. But still, it's like, it's not, I didn't, I don't think about it until you need it.

Yeah. The old tile I had did not work. So I don't know. Either I just rely on the fact that I always find it or maybe I should get an AirTag. I don't know. Yeah. just rely on the fact that I always find it, or maybe I should get an air tag. I don't know. Yeah. I was just checking the Facebook group. One of the ghosties I got to see this weekend,

Emily Sheng. Yeah. Also, Paige Kuko. Just always at shows. Like, anytime I'm in Michigan, see her there, her and her husband. There. She's been to four shows on this tour?

Yeah, I think so. Wow. She's great. Amazing. Good to see him. But Emily, I got to see her, She's great. Amazing. Yeah. Good to see him. But Emily, uh, got to see her and she just posted the Facebook group.

One of my half-baked business ideas, uh, the, what are they called? I'm looking at, yeah. Transition contact lenses. She's like,

they exist and I have them. And so she posted two pictures and it's awesome. I think it's blowing everyone's mind in the comments. I mean, even breathe out. I was like, how well does this work? You just walk around in the sun all day, no squinting?

Wouldn't that be awesome? Oh, that's what they were. I thought it was just like changing your contact color. Oh, but it's like sunglasses. Yeah, like in the sun, they like turn dark. Interesting. Yeah. Does she look normal-ish, like with the dark eyes?

It looks like maybe she just has brown eyes. Which is fun. Yeah, she's got brown hair. It makes sense. Cool. That's fun. So follow up on that. Tymon, anything you need to follow up with?

I don't think so. No follow ups. Tymon gave a little plug towards Sense and Sensibility on the Facebook group. Oh, yeah. So if you want to watch it. Yeah, if you want to get the recording, you can order it. I posted it in the Facebook group. I kind of want to see Tymon

laying on that, just with his arm up, singing the song so well. Yeah, I might have to. Gather around the family around Christmas. Hey, we're going to put something on. Christmas vacation? No, Tymon. Honestly, it'd be one of those things that if I were

six years old, I would last five minutes watching that play hattie would probably love it and understand every single thing like yeah anyway it could be fun little birthday or christmas gift for her um also i'm thinking of we did a uh we did an episode of all-time quarterback um yesterday that people were saying is their favorite one yet it was uh it was only eight minutes long, and it featured Rachel. It featured Taylor Swift. It featured Brad quizzing Rachel.

It had a little bit of everything. It was fun. People liked it. So if you're still not on Patreon, if you want to hear a little bit of football talk or any of our bonus episodes that are going out on a weekly basis, hop on patreon.com slash ghostrunners.

I want to put more. We have a lot of, not a lot, we have footage from Grande Boo that we've never released. Yep. It'd be fun to put some of that on Patreon too. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, get on there, please. Just get on there. Just get on it. Go ahead. Jump on it. Brad, do you have a review of the week? I do.

There are some fun ones this week, man. I actually have one as well. Oh, do you? Oh, this reminded me, dude. I forgot to talk about this. One of the guys on the trip, his name was Mark Nalrocki. Didn't know that name. I mean, he's a great guy.

He works for this company, Living Waters, Healing Waters, Living Waters, I believe, in Colorado. Anyway, but like a few different times, like I would enter a conversation halfway through or something and they'd be mentioning VeggieTales, you know, whatever. VeggieTales is, or oh yeah, back when VeggieTales, whatever. And I'm like, okay, what's going on? And I'm like, and finally I was like, okay, why are you guys,

what's going on with VeggieTales? And he's like, oh, my brother, he's the voice of Larry the Cucumber. I was like, what? That's incredible. Like, are you kidding me? That's wild. So somebody on here, one of the reviews was, I think it had something, Larry the Cucumber on it.

Oh, Silly Songs with Larry was one of the names of the thing. That's fun. That is crazy. Like, yeah, I would have a hard time meeting that guy unless his voice is way different in real life than his Larry the Cucumber voice. I would have a hard time having a conversation with him. You know what I mean? Yeah, you could just hear glimpses

of Larry the whole time he's talking. Certain words, you hear it. He says, water buffalo. Hey. Is that an Easter egg? You want it on purpose? Okay, I'm going to do the one from Narcoleptic Noah. Dang it. Calling all people who grew up sheltered.

Is that it? Was Tim Hawking grew up sheltered. Is that it? Was Tim Hawking, Stephen Hawking? What is it? Tim Hawking. Pretty much Tim Hawkins. Was Tim Hawkins the only comedian your parents let you listen to growing up? Were you told not to say geez because it was too close to the real thing? Do you currently or have you ever worked at Chick-fil-A?

If your family raised goats or passed homegrown vegetables at Halloween, passed out homegrown vegetables at Halloween, then this is the show for you. Have we got a show for you. For anybody out there who grew up super sheltered and is looking for a show where the jokes are cleaner than Tymon's dental record, look no further. Seriously, though, I love the show, y'all. Been listening for a few months now and can't get enough.

You guys have taught me so much about finding joy and humor in the little things and how to optimize my fast food experience. Can't wait to catch y'all live at some point. Keep doing what you're doing and God bless. Narcoleptic Noah. Narcoleptic Noah. Cool.

Mine is going to be from Silly Songs with Larry, who is Cameron. She said, do not listen at work. You will laugh and people think you are weird. Little do they know that you're listening to a hidden gem of a podcast, a true family feel. I feel like I've known Chick and Brad all my life. Let's not forget timing either.

I've listened for a few months and the worst part is the withdrawals I get from Wednesday to Sunday when there's no new podcast. This withdrawal truly rivals the withdrawal from Chick-fil-A on Sunday.

I love listening to these guys and hearing about their lives. I cannot recommend this podcast enough. Love you guys, Cameron. That's so nice. You're going to be listening for a few months.

How are you getting in there? Same with Narcoleptic Noah. Thanks, Cam. A few guys, Cameron. That's so nice. You're going to be listening for a few months. Are you getting in there? Same with Narcoleptic Noah. Thanks, Cam. Oh, I don't have a voice to sing right now, but I do kind of want to sing the Stephen Curry's Chapman song, but should I do it anyway? Just, we'll play an old one. Okay, great.

Should I do my, I have a review from Venmo. So this is from Johnson Ward. He's paid me a dollar. What's your Venmo name? And how did he reach you? I don't want to say, I don't want anyone to find me. I don't want anyone to pay me anything. E-M-C-H.

I bet there's a lot of time at M's. It's too complicated to figure out. No, but it's Johnson Ward. And who is he sending this to you? Like, what did you say? Email? Venmo. Venmo.

Oh. It was Venmo to time and M's. It's this thing. Venmo. It's like money related. I don't even know how. Now, can you lose your Venmo? Can Venmo be in the couch cushion?

Or you could sit time in Venmo's whenever. I think mine still exists. Does it? Last I checked, I'm pretty sure. That's where i'm seeing this right now so does it say somewhere in like the top left corner like your username it does okay but it's it's nothing even close to my name or it's just is it your middle initial or just is there nope just your name that's not okay okay um this is from johnson ward okay uh i could have

left this review on a podcast app but you're in app, but if you're in a podcast app, you've clearly already seen the light. Here on Venmo, we can reach some non-podcasters. That's great. This guy's a marketing guy. He said, five stars. Tymon's podcast is amazing. Sure, it was started by a couple of other guys,

and they still contribute to it from time to time. But let's be real. This should be renamed the Tymon Runners podcast or Tymon Time or any other Tymon- and theme name you want because he is the star. Love it. Time and Time is great. Jake and Brad seem to have a good thing going for a while, but somehow they lost their spark and the show was going downhill fast.

Wow. They must have seen the writing on the wall. This desperate to save their failing show. They took a chance on time and boy, did it work out. Time and thank you for sharing your voice, if not your face, with us each week. Also, thank you for modeling humility and graciousness by allowing Jake and Brad to remain a part of Ghostbusters after they so clearly mismanaged

it and almost drove it in the garbage dump of Has-Been Podcast. Keep up the good work. That's just a roast to you guys. I love it, dude. You imagine you're scrolling. It's like pizza, rent, cell phone, bills, and then this huge explanation

of something like that. That's incredible. I love spreading the gospel of Ghostwriters through Venmo. Man, I don't know how he found me on Venmo. It's hard to find because people don't always know how to spell your name, but they can find it with Tymon Immsch, E-M-C-H.

Good luck, guys. Yeah. Good luck. All right. Well, the Jingle this week is brought to you by Stephen Curtis Chapman for the audio listeners. I'm pretty sure that Jeff Moore, who was one of the guides, helped write The Great Adventure.

That's awesome. Kind of a fun thing. That's awesome. He's coming here. Yeah, he's coming in March, I believe. I'm going to go see him. Do you think we can get him on the pod?

If we want to. We could. All right. Maybe. He's a fun guy. Episode of Jingles. Yeah. Cool.

Well, we'll see you guys Wednesday. We'll see you tomorrow. Will we see you tomorrow? Probably. I'll be back in town. Yeah. I fly back from Boston on Monday. Okay.

So maybe Monday evening. Yeah. If nothing else, we'll give you at least... Monday evening is Chiefs game. Oh. All right. Well, there's at least something on Patreon on Tuesday for you guys that's football related. Maybe not a full episode.

But we also got another bonus episode coming out Thursday. Check that out. And we'll see you guys later this week. All right. Love you guys. Settle up your horses. Started out this morning in the usual way Chasing thoughts inside my head

Of all I had to do today Another time around the circle Tried to make it better than the last I opened up the Bible and I read about me Said I'd been a prisoner and God's grace had set me free And somewhere between the pages it hit me like a lightning bolt I saw a different human from me and I heard somebody say, let's go. Saddle up your horses, we've got a trail to play. Through the wild blue yonder, God's amazing grace. Let's follow our leader Into the glorious unknown

This is life like no other This is the great adventure Yeah Come on, get ready For the ride of your life Gonna leave long-faced religion In a cloud of dust behind And discover all the new horizons

Just waiting to be explored. This is what we were created for. So saddle up your horses, we've got a trail to blaze. Through the wild blue yonder of God's amazing grace Let's follow our leader into the glorious unknown This is a life like no other This is a great adventure, we'll travel all over, over mountains so high. We'll go through valleys below, still through it all, we'll find that. This is the greatest journey that the human heart will ever see The love of God will take us far beyond now on this dream

Yeah, yeah Oh, saddle up your horses, come on, get ready to ride. Saddle up your horses, we've got a trail to play. Through the wild blue yonder of God's amazing grace. Let's follow our leader And to the glorious unknown This is a life like no other This is a great adventure Come on, this is a great adventure This is the great adventure

Saddle up, saddle up your horses We've got a trail to play Through God's amazing grace This is the great adventure.