Ghostrunners - 286 - Brad and Timon Call the Ghosties!

Episode Date: December 11, 2023

We gave Timon a camera! (Don't worry, it'll go away once Jake is back in the country). Jake is in Australia for his standup comedy tour! Brad misses Jake dearly, but updates the ghosties on the final part of his trip to Hawaii, talks about some family Christmas traditions, introduces a new segment, and takes calls from the ghosties! We are sponsored by these amazing companies. Buy their products and support the podcast! * Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com * Check out Good Ranchers and get %10 off with code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU * Check out Dwell and use our link to get 25% off a yearly subscription https://dwellbible.com/grkc Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right. Hey guys, if you're listening to this, uh, just know that we did it. Uh, we've successfully recorded and produced a podcast without Jake. Um, and this one specifically took a little bit of time to get off the ground. If you're going to use a airplane metaphor, like Jake did loves to fly, you know? Um, yeah, it was, it was a little bit hectic. I had the idea, I don't know, a couple of days ago of like, Hey, let's get some more interaction. Let's do some, uh, phone calls, uh, with ghosties on this episode, which time and thought was a great idea. Shout out to time and time and show your face. Boom, boom. I have a camera. He's got a camera baby. Um, so Jake's not here, but time is on, on camera. So, uh, you told me if that's a worthy trade, but, um, had the fun idea.

Time was like, great, let's try it. And I don't know, it's been hour, hour plus trying to figure out this, you know, phone call technology, whatnot. But we got to work. Thanks to Timon. Thanks to Timon's never, never say die attitude. And I'm pumped. So yeah, as you may or may not realize, Jake is out of the country. He is down

under in Australia. I don't know how much more of the accent I can do. Uh, but instead of, uh, just sitting here and crying, we are deciding to make a podcast, me and timing. So let's time in welcome. Um, I will say, uh, just right off the bat here, uh, just pulled up to Jake's house to unlock the door for timing to get in earlier. And I mean, be lined right, right. When I got out of the car, be lined to the driveway was Jake's across the street, neighbor, Dennis, shout out to Dennis. Great guy. Have you met him before timing? I don't think so. Uh, hadn't really met him myself, but you just know this kind of guy, like, you know, who Dennis is judging solely off of his house. Like this guy is the man.

Like his house is like his lawn is pristine. He doesn't have like a mansion of a house, but it's very well kept. Drives a tiny pickup truck. I think there's a certain quality of men who drive a tiny pickup truck. It's like, hey, I know I need to use and utilize the pickup, but I don't need a big one. I don't need anything flashy. I'm going to do my work on this tiny pickup. And came over and was so, so concerned, Jake and Rachel,

about, hey, I feel like their cars are always leaving, and now all of a sudden their cars have not moved for a long time. Just wanted to make sure everything was okay. And as I was talking to him, I tried not to reveal too much, but then again, I was like, well, I got to tell him what's going on or else they're going to, he's going to be like, how in the world are they in Australia for three weeks? And so finally I was like, yeah, Jake does some comedy stuff. So he's got some shows actually. And he's like, Whoa. Um, so he was pumped. Uh, Jake, you've officially been outed on the street as the resident comedian. And, uh, then he's like, okay, I just want to make sure nothing weird was going on.

And right at that moment, Tymon and his brother pulled up and we all three went inside. And so it's just me and these two underage dudes just hanging out in somebody's house. That's 5,000 miles away. So it's going to be a great episode. We're excited about it. Thank you for listening. Let's get into it. Let's do it.

Uh, uh, oh, ooh, I, ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down about it. Thank you for listening. Let's get into it. Let's do it. All right, Tymon. Merry Christmas, brother. I feel like I haven't seen you since the Christmas season has been upon us. Yeah, Merry Christmas to you. It's been a while. You have a Christmas concert coming up tonight. I do, yes. Tell me what a Christmas concert coming up tonight. I do. Yes. Tell me what a Christmas concert looks like for you.

It's just like hanging out with friends and then also singing. I feel like it's a lot of fun. Okay. I know what a concert is. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's like a choir concert. But like, yeah, tell me like, I feel like with choir, there's multiple different ways that you can approach choir.

Like, I feel like sometimes choir is like this fun, you know, poppy glee. Have you heard of glee timing? First of all, I don't know. Yeah. I've heard of it. I've heard of it. Okay. It's like this show that was like all about choir, I think. And they did like mashups and it was really cheesy and like super like theatrical. Okay. Uh, but really fun. Uh, back when I was in high school, college. So anyway, but then there's also like the type of choir that's like, we sing this super slow song in Latin that also is talking about Christmas. Like, so what kind of concert are we looking at here? Are we doing more like, you know, we wish you a Merry Christmas? Are we doing more like this song was written by Pablo Picasso's dead uncle, you know, singing in Latin and we're supposed to just love

the way it sounds. It's very flowy. Uh, I'd say here's the range. We've got, um, a fun towards the night before Christmas song. Okay. All the way to a song from handles Messiah. Yep, exactly. That's, that's so classic choir. Like, Oh yeah. You just never know what you're going to get. Like, yeah, they, they'll sing. You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch. And then next, yeah, they're singing I Don't Even Know What, something else. So speaking of Christmas, I have a few things to talk about with Christmas. I just recently was out shopping for Christmas at Academy Sports and Outdoors. And it's just like a Dick's Sporting Goods type place. And I just got i just got

so sad i think i was triggered at first and then i was like no it's just sad so one of my favorite songs modern classic christmas song merry christmas happy holidays by nsync um merry christmas you know it's just so fun it's so poppy and i was just kind of grooving as I was shopping at Academy. And, you know, do you know that song very well? I don't think so. Okay. So, so it's the, the, the line is blessings from above God's in you. God sends you his love and everything's okay. Merry Christmas, happy holidays. But this one specifically, as I was listening, it just goes blessing from above and everything's okay. Merry Christmas.

Like they took away, God sends you his love. Like completely, like it wasn't like a blank space, which that triggers me as a music person of like, well, this is the wrong like measures. But also it just like completely took away, God sends you his love. Like I understand like political correctness to an extent and like looking that way corporately, but like you're playing a playlist of Christmas music. Like the next song on the, the playlist was silent night. Yeah. And this one specific,

like, it's like, Hey, they're all about like Christmas is like, it's about the birth of Jesus. Where did Christmas come from? But like God sends you his love is like, we, we can't go that far with it. So if you're listening to Merry Christmas, happy holidays in a store and you happen to hear the edited version, which is just crazy to say that it edited Christmas song, a censored version, uh, sing it out loud. God sends you his love because I just couldn't believe that. But,. But yeah, man, Christmas is upon us. It's exciting. I been starting to get a lot of Christmas cards in the mail.

You guys a Christmas card family? I think we've like sent Christmas cards for every year as long as I've been alive. Okay. I think last year we were like considering like maybe we just shouldn't this year. It's a big hassle. Right. It's not super easy i uh one of my friends tate under shout out tate uh his wife who i don't know well at all but seems really funny posted like on her instagram story hey guys just fyi

we are doing christmas cards because tate couldn't believe that we don't do them so if you guys want to send us your address and we'll mail you a card that you can look at and then throw away in a week, or you can look at and throw away right away. You know, she was like, so practical about it. And I was like, that is kind of fair. Um, but I just observed something in Christmas cards recently. You know, I'm at the age now I'm 33. I'm a, I'm not so spry of a buck anymore time. And, and so I'm at the age where I can, I, a lot of my friends are having kids. So often the Christmas cards are them with their kids or zoomed in of their kids with them holding my friend's hand or whatever. I'm learning more and more.

I just want to give a PSA out there to all dads, husbands out there with kids to be on the lookout for this because Uh, because if your kids take a good picture, it doesn't matter how you look. That's the picture that people are going to choose to put on their Christmas card. So like one of Catherine's friends from college sent us a Christmas card recently. The kids looked so cute. These two little boys just so wonderful. And the, the, the dad who I'm friends with and is a good looking guy, just, I mean, it looked like he didn't even know the picture was being taken. It was like, it was like, he was just like in another world, you know, I'm sure it was

one of those, like, I just blinked or I just, you know, looked whatever the wrong way. But it was like, I, I just know the process of like, Hey, as long as the wife is going to be enjoying the way the kids look, it doesn't matter what the husband looks like. Like when we took our family pictures, Catherine, um, like she wanted me to wear khakis and I have a pair of khakis, but I haven't worn them in, I don't know how long, three years. I mean, they were not, they didn't, they were snug. Catherine had to iron them because literally like they, they smelled like our old detergent. That's how long I've had these khakis just hidden away somewhere. But Catherine doesn't really care what I look like as long as the kids look cute and I

match them. So I am just PSA out there for all the dads, all the husbands of the world. Just smile the whole time you're taking pictures because you don't know when that perfect shot is of your kid. Can't be caught mid expression change. Yeah. I mean,'t describe you i mean this guy is a i don't know solid eight out of ten good looking guy yeah he looked like a face app like like something terrible from photo booth or something like wow just not not great and it was like surely you see that yeah maybe you don't so but hey kids maybe changes your priorities maybe so so um yeah man christmas we we are fully in the Christmas mode. Now, uh, we decorated a decent amount of Christmas before we left for Hawaii. Um, but then when we got back, we put up our tree and, uh, when the kids, we, we went and got the kids halfway from

Texas, they came home, the tree was lit, but it wasn't ornamented, ornamented, decorated or adorned with decorations. And so that night, it was just a wonderful classic Christmassy time. Bo is now getting to the age where he's pretty careful. He can put stuff on the tree, which is so fun. Hattie and Bo being so excited

about all the different things. You won't necessarily appreciate this that much time, because I know you're not a big sports guy, but we have a Royals ornament of Salvador Perez, who's like one of the best Royals players that we have. He's a catcher, and so he's got his catcher's gear on. He's like mid-throw. It's a cool ornament that my parents gave us a couple years ago. And it's like Bo's favorite ornament.

He's like, yeah, that's my favorite one. That's a Royals player. I'm like, awesome, dude. He's like, yeah, we put that one up high so Rosie doesn't take it. I was like, very smart. And I was like, do you know his name?, he's like, yeah, we put that one up high. So Rosie doesn't take it. And I was like, very smart. And, uh, I was like, do you know his name? And, uh, he's like, no, I don't know his name. His name is Salvador Perez. He's like, okay, he's my favorite player. He's dead though. And I was like, Oh, he's dead. Uh, who he's, which he's not, he's very much still playing on the team. Uh, yeah, he's dead. He's,

he was just so confident. Yeah. He's dead. He's, he's dead though. So yeah, I just put him up there and he's my favorite, but he's dead. I was like, I don't, I don't think so. But I think he's, he's doing just fine. So there's a woman up there with him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly, dude. Oh, he's also been like, I mean, every year I feel like growing up, I did this too, but, uh, nativity scenes, like they love playing with the, like the, there's some like kitty nativity scenes and I heard them playing the other day. They were outside on the deck while I was putting up Christmas lights. And I just hear Bo, Bo's like describing them all. He's like, that's Mary. That's Joseph. That's Jesus. That's Moses. And I'm like, oh, Moses, huh? Yeah, Moses is there too.

And Noah, I was like, I don't think so, buddy. But they're like, yeah, role-playing. Like the other day I heard Hattie being like, Joseph, would you like to go with me to the grocery store? And Bo was like, yes, let's go to the grocery store. And was like yes let's go to the grocery store and so it's just so funny they're like yeah just yeah playing with nativities but that's awesome you've seen I saw this I saw this post of like minimal nativity sets it's have you seen those like literally like like a ball or like yeah it's like a colored shape yeah yeah I thought that was so funny. What do you think as far as timing your young kids?

It's cool. Yeah. Like, do you have more appreciation for ornate old stuff or like modern new stuff? Like, have you seen any of these like posts where they're like, they're showing a old, like something from the 1700s,

1800s, like the architecture is like so ornate and beautiful. And then the new stuff is literally just like straight line, everything. I think, I think I, I like the new stuff just because I think it just like can't help it. I like the modern simple stuff, but I definitely appreciate the old stuff. And sometimes I miss it as it, I mean, miss it as if I like, right. I was in it, but yeah, like I, I definitely, it's sad that we're losing all the beauty of stuff. That's what I'm wondering is like, yeah, eventually it's just going to be all that modern look. And cause I don't mind it necessarily. But then when you compare it to the old stuff, it's like, man, what if eventually there's

no old stuff? Like, I don't know. I feel like in movies when it shows like a dystopian future, it's like a, yeah, like a simplest, like everything's like metal, metal, black, white, just like, yeah, no color, no character. So yeah, it's moving that way with nativity scenes, man. So no, anyway, but it was a fun time. Rosie has officially like entered the age where we're scared every time she walks into a room,

what she's going to do to it. And so, yeah, we had put up an ornament and before we knew it, she would take it and run down the hall with it. And luckily we didn't break any, but, um, she's, she's there. So, uh, she's fun. She's cute. And she also, I think since she's the third, she has more opportunities to be like, uh, disobedient. Um, just because like with Hattie, it was like, had he never had opportunities to pick up a marker and write on it. Cause we only had one kid. So we didn't have markers out.

Yeah. And then with Bo, it was kind of like that. And now with Rosie, like Hattie and Bo are leaving their stuff everywhere. So it's just like, like, it's like, you're trying to negotiate with the baby, like put the marker down. Yeah. Please just, just, just trust me here. It's not worth it.

Put the marker down. So anyway, she's, she's fun. I was going to ask you time in, um, I feel like Bo and Rosie have started to hang out more and more recently. You know, Bo is three and a half. Rosie's one and a half. And now Hattie is six and a half. And so for a while, and I think Bo and Hattie still hang out the most, but Bo's really enjoying Rosie as well. Do you remember going through phases? Cause you're the second, right?

Yes. And then is Jesse the third? Yeah. Okay. So what's the age, what's the age difference between all, is it like two years for everybody? It's every right now.

Like it's Jesse's birthday kind of like is what, uh, throws it off or like what kind of puts it in line. Cause right now everyone is exactly two years. Okay. Apart. Yeah. That's crazy.

Yeah. It's Jesse are the farthest apart though. It's like two and a half years okay but still like pretty pretty even yeah because then your older sister yeah two years older than you like do you remember like going through phases of like oh jesse's a little like little twerp i'm not his friend and all of a sudden like no he's my best friend and then like i think back and forth yeah i definitely remember being like best buddies with Anna. Yeah. My older sister, like, and then it kind of switched. It was like, Jesse was like, Oh, we can both like entertain him and like be like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Stuff with him. And it was like,

now it's like, Oh, and it's like, I don't know. It's like, it's something different. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I was just, it's just been fun to watch. Like Bo is like really entertained by Rose and for the longest time, like when Hattie was born, she was three years old. Bo obviously was newborn. And so Hattie was old enough to where it was like a little like fun doll almost like Bo has always been like, he's always been very sweet to Bo. He's always cherished her little brother. And now we're a little sister,

but like Bo, whenever Rosie was born was only two years apart. And so he didn't have any mind. Like he was just like, like he would just, you know, if you wanted to like go crawl on Catherine, he would just literally like step on Rosie's face. Like, no, no problem. And so I didn't know.

Yeah. But it seems like now he's finally realizing like, oh no, my little sister is a lot of fun. Let's do this fun thing together. So it is a weird thing when like you're, when a baby like starts getting a personality, you're like, Whoa, I can like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So fun, man. So, um, anyway, yeah, just, just fun times with family right now. I, I don't know. Um, I mean, they had, the kids had so much fun in Texas Wednesday. We're going to do another episode. Um,

sans Jake. And then next week, Jake is in charge of both episodes. So Wednesday, TJ and I have an episode together. Um, TJ Mercedes of walk in love, sunny Morrow. And, uh, it was, it was really fun to record with him. Um, it's a little bit of a shorter, I think it's like an hour. So sorry guys for not, not going forever, but, um, it was really fun time. Um, and it's kind of, kind of funny. So I'm going to kind of like talk about the end of my Hawaii trip now. And then we'll talk about the beginning of my Hawaii trip on Wednesday. So, um, I'll try not to talk too much about that, but I did mention on Wednesday's episode that, sorry, this upcoming one, it's like back. Oh yeah. Um, I mentioned that I felt kind of weird and sick and stomach crampy, whatever, for a decent amount of my trip to Hawaii.

But near the end, I felt better. It was funny. We stayed with TJ and Brooke for the majority of the trip, I think four nights. And then two nights we stayed up with Bethke at his place and was planning on hanging out with Bethke the first night. And he texted me and he's like, hey, man, probably shouldn't hang out. I got really bad food poisoning was puking my guts out the night before. And obviously I'm just so bummed, like not to hang out with them, but obviously understand. And then I hear from TJ who I'm supposed to record walk in loves podcast with

the next day. He's like, Hey man, I got really sick. Not knowing about Jeff. I got really sick last night, so I don't think I can make it. Um, or I don't, I don't think we should record. I'm like, that's crazy. And then I'm like, wait, did I get these people sick? I didn't really have, I didn't throw up. I didn't, you know, food poisoning. I don't think that was what I was going on. Yeah. But then it's like this weird, you know, like TJ got sick two days after Jeff, it was, it was a very odd thing. Um, but in my notes, I just wrote down, I think that my, what did I exactly, what did it say? Uh, I just said, my friends puking their guts out may have been the biggest blessing of

our trip because for, for the first half of the trip, you know, it was, it felt like we had a lot of things to accomplish. You know, we're going to Jake show. I was trying to see all my friends do all this different stuff. And then, you know, staying with TJ, staying with his family was so fun. But then we went up to Jeff's house and Jeff has like kind of more of a secluded house, secluded guest house. And because of that, I finally got some time to just like, not that I wasn't like relaxed at all before, but like really got some good time to relax with Catherine, just like spending some time

with her when did some fun, um, walks, some cool, um, restaurants. So we went to, went to the beach, saw some turtles, um, and just ultimately had a great time with her. So anyway, it was, it was a lot of fun both times, but yeah, it was kind of funny, like in weird blessing of disguise kind of way, TJ and Beth or Jeff, if you're listening to this, just know, thank you for puking so that I can have some time with my wife. So, um, good times, man. Uh, yeah, it was just, it was just a great time in Hawaii. It's one of those things where, um, being sick is never fun, but if you're going to

be sick, it's pretty fun to be sick in Hawaii. So, um, still beautiful, still wonderful. Can't thank TJ and Jeff enough for helping us out. Thanks to you guys for your feedback on everything. It sounded like most of the people really enjoyed it. There was somebody that said that Jeff talks really fast and talks over people, and that is a million percent accurate. He is amazingly like, yeah, just so funny.

Like I think there was one time where he said something three times in a row. That's next level. You know, that's next level. I think I noticed that, yeah. Like he loves to repeat himself, which is great. I wish, if I could do it again, maybe Jeff's not listening to this and I can, you know, sneak in. I want to see if I can accomplish having him repeat himself four times.

I think that would be a crowning achievement. Thought about doing Bethke bingo while we were recording. Didn't do it. having him repeat himself four times. I think that would be a, that would be a crowning achievement. Um, thought about doing Beth key bingo while we were playing or recording. Didn't do it. Um, but he's got some mannerisms and hilarious things and couldn't appreciate him more, but, um,

yeah, man, it was fun. So, uh, timing. Well, first of all,

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let's do one on the phone. So let's start with this new one I have. We're going to call it quiz me for a dollar. Okay. Um, so guess what we do, Tymon? Uh, we, people ask you quiz questions. Yes. There's money involved. How much money you think? A dollar. You're so good, man. You are. That's why you figured out the phone issue right there. So, um, yeah, we're going to do quiz me for a dollar. What I did is I posted on our Instagram story on ghost runners podcast, uh, some different, um, segment prompts. And this one specifically, I just said, send us just the main category, send us your phone number.

We'll give you a call. So these people don't even know we're calling them. Uh, we'll see how this goes. Maybe if you're like, Hey, that was a weird, uh, silence in between or like weird choppy thing. It's because we edited you out. We are not. We're not going to use everyone. Probably. Who knows? But let's go through this.

Let's do it. Time. And who is our first lucky, lucky person? Okay. Let's see. And maybe it's just maybe you don't even know their name because it's Instagram. First one that I'm going to call is Hannah Knits. Okay.

And this is specifically a quilting trivia question. Okay. I know you love quilting. Yeah, I'm going to get so exposed for like how much I don't know about anything. Yeah. Quilting. All right, here we go. Calling Hannah. Oh, that was

a long pause, dude. I was like, did it not work? Is it not working? All right. Random number. Yellow? Yellow. Is this Hannah Nitz? Can you hear me?

Oh, no. Maybe, maybe. Hello? Hello? Timing? Anything? Hello? can you hear me oh no maybe maybe hello hello time in anything hello okay i don't hear anything oh no time in oh it's not connected oh all right just hang up i'm to try switching. Okay. She hung up. Okay. Dude, we, oh man, we tested it and it worked. Interesting. Right. She just said, I answered the phone,

but couldn't hear anything. I said, we're calling you back. All right, cool. All right. Hey, we're this,

we're keeping it all in or keep some of this in. Just know that this is, this time you interrupted me with the call. I'm sorry. I'm just kidding. Hannah, please hear us. Hannah,

please, please. Hello. Hello kidding. Hannah, please hear us, Hannah, please. Please. Hello? Hello? Hello? Can you hear us? Can you hear us? Yes!

Yes! Victory! Let's go! Time in! Awesome. Oh, my goodness. Wow, you guys really put in the work for that one, man. That was awesome.

You have no idea. I mean, you're the first one we've called. So we worked really hard. We worked really hard to get it done. And then, uh, you were the first one, like once we actually thought we had it made. And then we, I don't know, we don't know what we did differently really. Right. Yeah. Honestly, it's just, I guess the system is just finicky, but yes, it works now. All right. So honestly, that's, that's the worst part though. Cause you're like, what if it happens again? I don't even know how to fix it 100% what did we do right like is it gonna mess up

for the next person I don't know it's not going to you guys got this you got it okay so Hannah thank you for submitting your willingness to be on the podcast your quilting question I hear you're trying to stump me for a dollar

looks like it yeah so I was're trying to stump me for a dollar. Looks like it. Yeah. Yeah. So I was just trying to think like, what does Brad, like, what could I stump Brad with? And it just felt like quilting came to mind because my mom quilts a lot. Yeah. And I thought, I bet Brad doesn't know a lot about quilting. Uh, you would be, I don't know. Maybe you do. Very accurate. I know. I don't know anything about sewing, quilting. Uh, had he just got a sewing nativity set? I don't even know what that means, but I'm not going to stop it. Yeah. So it's going to be, that's going to be fantastic. Yeah. It'll be fun. Okay. So my question for you, I have right here, I wrote it down to be compared. Are you impressed? Okay okay so here's my question for

you you just knew like the quilting category was like i'm definitely getting on the podcast i had a really high confidence when i messaged you on instagram today i was like here's what's happening yeah jake's out of town yeah you know brad's like ready for any help he can get so some like random mom from akron messages him, he's going to be like, yeah, sign me up on there. So here we are. All right. Let's hear your question. Okay. Quilting question for Brad. Yeah. Brad, what term is commonly used for the decorative stitching that holds together the three levels of a quilt? Oh oh i think i got this is it okay oh i don't know if this is right but i think this is something is it bunting no but i like your

confidence dang it the correct answer is quilting oh come on i was gonna say it's too hard it's not too hard that sounds like the i just think that's the too hard. That's not too hard. That sounds like the very much. I just think that's the funniest fun fact. It's almost too simple to be true, but it's called quilting. It's got to be an ING or something out there. Okay. What does bunting mean? Do you know?

No, I don't. I know the term in baseball, but I don't know what it is quilting. Yeah, I think it's when you're trying to advance the runner to second base. Okay. Oh, man. Okay. I think that's what it is. The answer was in the question. The answer was in the question. Yeah, the answer it's when you're trying to advance the runner to second base. Okay. Okay. I think that's what it is. The answer was the question.

That's deep. That's tricky, I know. Thank you. So you're calling from Akron, Ohio. Calling from Akron. Are you friends with the Broncos? You heard my baby in the background, Florence, crying. Nice.

She's here too. Thank you. You heard that, but yes. How old? She is eight months old i have three kids that are like very close to your three kids brad so cool fun i relate to so many of your stories you tell i'm like yep my two-year-old did that today yep that's exactly exactly what happened with us right a poop incident at tick fil a been there done it all you know all the fun things all the joys of being a parent. But it's all worth it, right?

What was that? I said, but it's all worth it in the end. Oh, yeah. Were you nervous that I hesitated there? It's all worth it. You're like, honestly, I regret it. I wish I would have stopped at two. She doesn't think it's worth it.

Cut her off. Yeah, exactly. It's the greatest joy in life, but but man, it sure wrecks you. That's what makes it the best is nothing. Nothing easy is the best. So, uh, well thanks Hannah for giving us a call or for letting us call you, uh, send us your Venmo and I will Venmo you a dollar. You officially have stopped. Oh man, this is a good day. I love it. All right. Thank you so much. We day. I love it. All right.

Thank you so much. Thank you. We'll talk to you soon. All right. Bye, guys. All right. Bye. Fun.

Okay. Quilting. Cool. Quilting. Yeah. Time is the one choosing these. So, yeah. Quilting is definitely one that I was not ready to know much about here.

All right. Next, we got Brittany. Brittany Gracious. And this is a... Well, I'll just have her ask it. The question's kind of in the response. Okay, okay. So, yeah, all right, calling him now. No way.

Yes, Brittany, hello. Hello. How are you? How are you doing? I'm great. How are you? Good. Oh, my goodness. I'm so nervous. Oh, you should be. It's going to be really hard to ask a question. You don't even have to be the one answering the question.

Brittany, where are you calling from or where are you receiving a call from? I am receiving a call from southeastern Pennsylvania. Oh, fun. It's called Emmaus. Okay. Nice. That's all I can say about that is fun. I don't know much else to say about Southeastern Pennsylvania. Is it close to Lancaster? I feel like that's like more central. Yeah, that would be more central um south central i'm about uh maybe an hour and a half from lancaster okay about an hour from philly okay um yeah do you like saying pa because that's my favorite part about pennsylvania yeah yeah i'm heading back to pa uh it's so fun yeah you can always tell always tell someone's from Pennsylvania because they don't say Pennsylvania.

Right. They say PA. I know. That's what's so fun. Like no one else can do that. I don't think everyone else can try, but KS doesn't sound cool. TX even. Like Texas is a cool place.

TX cool initials. Not going to happen. So, okay. Tymon says you have a good, Tymon's been the one reading the trivia, answer question, submissions, whatever. And he says that you have a good one for us. So for a dollar, can you quiz me and stump me? All right, I'll try. So the question is,

there's only one mammal that does not have vocal cords. What is it? Wow. I picked this one because I have no idea. Tymon's like, I want to know the answer. Well, last episode in Hawaii, I didn't even know that chickens weren't mammals. So I'm not going to be great at this. Let's see. Okay. One mammal doesn't have vocal cords. Tymon, have you ever heard a fox make noise? I think they do. Okay. I'm just going to ask.

I think there was a song about that. Well, but no one knew the answer. True. What does a fox say? And then it just went silent and these weirdos from Serbia just sang for a while. Mammal. Okay, Tymon. I think we get two guesses on this one because I don't know the answer.

My first thought is something like maybe ocean related. Cause there's some mammals that like swim and live in the water. Yeah. Maybe like they wouldn't have to make noise. Yeah. I don't know. Or they made noise. I don't think it's that they don't have to make noise.

It's that they don't make noise in the traditional vocal cord way. Yeah. You know, like maybe they're, they're scratching up against rocks or something. Uh huh. So, Oh, hammerhead shark probably could be. Okay. That's my, was that a mammal scratching up against rocks or something. Oh, hammerhead shark, probably. Could be. Okay, that's my answer. Is that a mammal, though?

I mean, yes. No idea, dude. I thought chickens were mammals. Okay, yeah, a shark's definitely a mammal, I think. All right, well, that's my answer. So don't go shark, though. Go something else. Okay, okay, cool.

I'm still going water, I think. Let's do... Have we heard of this animal before? Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. Okay. I'm going to say... Okay, well, I was going to say whale,

but whales totally make no sense. No, whales are like the thing. They're like the noises of the ocean. Yeah. You hear them from miles away. Okay, I'm going to go... I'm actually not going to go water. I'm just going to say it's some kind of rodent.

Oh, just in general? I guess, yeah. I don't know enough rodents. Is it a rodent or a hammerhead shark, or is it something else? It is something else, and I'll give you another hint. It's in Africa.

Africa. You ever heard a giraffe make noise? You ever heard other things? Lion? Do lions make noise? Lions make noise. Okay. But giraffe, though, I feel like if they made a noise, it'd be like a cow. Think about how long that vocal cord would have to be.

That's true. Giraffes are wild creatures. Let's guess that. All right. Let's do giraffe. You got it. Oh! I still feel like we owe you a dollar because we initially said hammerhead shark and rodent yeah so really no so so do they make any noise at all do you know do you know anything beyond just this one fact about the

giraffe i nope i have no idea um i saw your Instagram story and I was like, I could probably Google a pretty good trivia. Oh, okay. I never interviewed a giraffe and actually found that out myself. Okay. Yeah. Well, okay. We got to make sure we'll check our sources before we, we just, we just throw money around on the podcast. So we'll make sure that you're telling the truth. Yeah, I know. That's a large sum. Right. Yeah. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for participating.

Thanks for listening. It's fun to meet you virtually. Don't be nervous. You did a great job. Thank you for your clue. And yeah, we'll talk to you soon. Yeah, great. One last thing. I'm actually also Santa Mac in the Facebook group. No way.

Yeah. That's fun because I've always wondered. Wow. Yeah, it's me. I just didn't want to make an actual Facebook account and like connect to people that I know in real life, but I wanted to be a part of the group. Okay. So this is, so you don't have like a separate

or you do have like a separate account that just is anonymous. It's not like you have another one or how's that work? Like, like did, did you still like have a Facebook that says your real name on it? And then you just go by anonymous. Oh wow. You're like, no, like completely like Facebook, uh, Facebook account is the only Facebook account I have. That's so fun. Like, oh, that's, it's like my profile picture from, or my, my senior picture. Yeah, I know. I'm sorry for being so creepy about that. It just, it gets creepier the older that we get because it's like less, you know, like right now it feels like that was only like five years ago, but really I was, you know, 15 years ago. So like eventually it's going to be like,

why do you have this little kid as your profile? That's amazing. Right. Exactly. Wow. Okay. Thank you for letting us know. I've always been curious, but it's one of those things. It's like, I don't want to know. I don't want to know unless somebody tells me. So, uh, that's really fun. Thanks for being on the Facebook group. And, uh, yeah's really fun. Thanks for being on the Facebook group. And, uh, yeah, we'll talk to you soon. Yeah.

Sounds good. This is super fun guys. Have a good rest of your day. Thanks. You too. Bye. Bye. Wow.

That's crazy. That's fun. I think, uh, yeah, I had no idea about the Santo, the Santo Mac things more exciting than the draft thing for me. Uh,

cause, cause yeah, there's a few people that either stay anonymous or go anonymous for certain things and then Santo Mac. But she puts some pretty fun things on the Facebook group sometimes. So that's awesome. All right, Tymon, we got one more quiz? Yes. All right, here we go.

Hopefully I got the right number in there. So this one's coming from Larson. Larson. And he's going to give us a category on the pod okay larson we talk like that to him oh yeah hey larson no that's weird it's too weird when you're like well hello oh what's up dude larson itarson. It's Brad Ellis from Ghost Runners. How's it going? Great, man. How are you? I'm doing all right.

Yeah? Where are you calling from? I'm from, well, I'm from down in Utah. I'm living up in Logan, Utah. I go to college up here. Where'd you, what was the first place you said? You said. It sounds like you're saying down the street.

What'd you say one more time? Oh, he doesn't. It's like, it's sorry. It's like cutting out one more time. I'm going to try to go on outside one sec. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Down the street,

down the street. My phone's about to die. So hopefully it doesn't, but no problem. Bountiful Utah. Bountiful. Oh, that sounds nice there we go

and now you're you're uh you're an aggie i am yes heck yeah go utah state that's fun okay well your phone's about to die you have a trivia question for us let's let's just get right into it you want easy medium or hard uh let's let's go eat like let's just go up the ladder if i can get the easy one which i probably can't we'll move up okay let's do that okay what brand makes the following models corolla tacoma and land cruiser toyota next easy easy awesome what type of car is lightning queen's girlfriend sally in the pixar movie cars oh never seen cars i have seen cars really yeah yeah i'm like i'm not quite to that stage of my fatherhood yet where i've like watched the modern classics we're more of a classic classics guy um so i don't even know i don't even know what this what this car looks like uh i don't

even know the color of it do you know timing uh light blue light blue and is it like a is it supposed to be modeled after an actual car is that what you're saying yeah yep hmm i don't know um that is a stumper but i feel like that's a tough stuff like i want i want the hard one now unless it's another hard one mcqueen question so next one kind of similar uh what is the firing order of the cylinders in a porsche 911 oh gosh oh that is hard you are correct um yeah i don't i don't even know how to answer that question while still sounding somewhat educated uh because that's fair uh i mean i don't know what the order is of a normal car. I don't know what a Porsche 911.

You pronounce it Porsche, and it sounds like you're a car guy, so maybe I should be saying Porsche. Yeah, I guess. I don't even know if, like, I know what a Boxster is. I know what a Carrera is, but I don't know what a 911 is. So, yeah, 911 is just another model of Porsche's lineup. Fun. I'm going to say, I'm just going to go ahead and go simple.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. That's the order. Well, I mean, I'll say close-ish. It's a flat 6, so it's 1, 6, 2, 4, 3, 5. But, I mean, I didn't expect you to know that. That's kind of not a common thing to know. You guessed all the numbers though okay yeah that's true yeah

you wound up in order that's right oh the order are you a big car guy yeah yep do you have a Porsche 911 I wish as a college student I wish that was feasible for me but

I have a buddy. Nope. He's not even my buddy. He's a friend of my brother-in-law's who has a Porsche. I'm going to start starting to say that. Um, and they put, he he's, it's like a, you know, this guy's pretty wealthy. So he called it like a beater Porsche or like an old, you know, Porsche, like, um, but it's still sweet. Uh, but he's gone around the country with his little like son every year for his birthday. I think his son is now like six years old, but they just go on a road trip and they have like a, a tent that they put on top. Like they literally, I mean, the whole thing is in this tiny, I think it's a box or maybe or something

like that, but yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. So anyway, yeah, pretty, pretty cool. That's, that's about as much as I can relate to the car stuff. I just need, I need you to come over and just help me change the oil, honestly, in my car. But Oh, see you, man. Phone died. Probably. All right. We get to realize let's message him and we'll send him a dollar. Um, fun. Thanks Larson. Was there somebody in there? I didn't check all of the, uh, answers, but was there somebody that said something about an office related question? I think so. Let me find them. You try to pull it up for me. Um, man, that was funny. Like let's do the hard one. What's a firing, the firing order cylinder thing. I was

like, no, I, I don't even know when he said that I didn't even really know what it meant. Yeah. Um, it'd be fun to learn cars. Cause I think it, I feel like a lot of things out there, like once you learn, you know, some general knowledge, you can really avalanche that onto more and more knowledge. Um, it's true, but yeah, I don't know much about cars, but it felt good whenever I did change the alternator in the car. I think it was but all right. Do you

have the office one? I do. Yeah. I just says the office guarantee I'll stump you. This is from what's the firing order of Pam's cylinders in her car Mrs. Dot Osseous something like that. I don't know. Okay, that's the Instagram handle. All right, calling him now. Mrs. Osseous Mrs. Osseous or something like that. I don't know. Okay. That's the Instagram handle. All right. Calling them now.

Mrs. Osseous. Mrs. Osseous. Mrs. Osseous. Hello? Hello? Is this Mrs. Osseous? Yes. Hello.

This is Brad Ellis from the Ghost Rovers podcast. How are you doing? No way. I'm good. How are you? I'm great um we're doing the podcast right now and timon says you have an office question that's guaranteed to stump me oh yes um okay so this is super random but i'm a super fan um like you guys are yeah and i wanted to know if you could uh if you knew the middle name of gabe lewis oh wow um yeah not guaranteed to stump me this might be

the first one i've gotten right i just got asked about uh the firing cylinders of a car earlier so this is easier than that i think it's a woman's name. And I think, oh, I'm in between two right now. I'm in between Susan and Karen, I think. Oh, am I wrong? I think I'm going to, no, I'm going to. I'm not going to give you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to lock in.

Oh, man. I'm pretty sure the way you laughed, one of those is right. I'm going to go Susan. Yes. Yes. Nice. Oh, that's fun. Do you have any other office fun questions,

or should I try to think of one for you? Oh, yeah. Think of one for me. Okay. Let's see. I'm a big, like, seasons two and three kind of guy. So I'm going to, I'm going to go back in the, in, in the seasons a little bit. Let's think on Wednesday's episode, a fun teaser for everyone. I did a little office quiz with my friend TJ. So

that'll be something that'll happen Wednesday. But okay. Let's think here. Uh, where did Katie, the, uh, cheerleader, Amy Adams character go to high school? Oh, Oh, okay. I remember Roy goes big flop. Who cares? I know. What's the actual answer? Um, Bishop O'Hara. Yeah, I think so. that was that at least i'm not positive but i'm pretty sure that's what it is uh i think it was bishop because he goes kickflop who cares yeah yeah yeah yes uh oh here's something i forgot i think maybe i can remember this now that i read it i just looked it up to make sure i was right. Do you know who else went to that high school in the show? Oh, gosh. Did they say it in that scene on Booth Cruise?

I don't think they said it in that scene. I think this character, he or she, is talking to Katie and said it at a different time. But I can't remember exactly what it is. Oh, man. That's a good one. I don't know.

I have no idea. Do you know? I mean, it was on Google, so it's Toby. I'm trying to find exactly when he said it. What? Yeah. I feel like maybe it was in passing, like, oh, yeah, we went to the same high school, and he's trying to flirt with her that way or something.

Um, but I can't, I can't remember very well. So that, that doesn't count. Um, do you have any more for me? It's fun to meet another, a fellow super fan. Oh yeah. Um, okay. Hold on. Um, Oh man, I didn't really expect that you were gonna call so i kind of like half

thought of it um let's see i'm feeling really on the spot right now because i can already like that's how timing feels every time we ever do anything with them it's okay yep i understand if you don't have any uh that's okay um just wait wait hold on hold on uh name name this isn't probably gonna be that hard but name five of evangelist cats oh that that is hard for me oh i don't know uh sprinkles bandit obviously save Bandit. Obviously. Save Bandit. Beyond that, I'm not positive. Garbage. We could call it.

I mean, does that count? Yeah, yeah. I feel like she's got like Lord something or something like that. No, I don't know. Give me some more if you have them. In one ear, out the other is cats for me. for me uh lumpy milky way diane oh yeah princess lady lumpy uh yeah those are a couple that i remember diane i i didn't even know that as an answer so okay you stumped me when she was like listing yeah yeah yeah she was like

listing them all out one after another and yeah yeah yes yeah those cats have names and those names are princess milky way diane and lumpy yeah yeah yeah your bed's lumpy yeah oh that's great okay uh i think uh first of all what was your what was your name your your your screen names or your whatever username is different. Oh, yeah. My name is Barrett Osius. Okay. Barrett. Thank you. Yeah.

And where are you calling from? I'm from Little Rock, Arkansas. I actually know some people, but I think that you went to like Canuck and stuff with. Oh, sure. The Heralds. Oh, my gosh. Oh, you are fortunate to know Mary and Bubby. Oh, they're like two of the best people ever. That is amazing. Really? Holy cow. That's, that's wild. Give, give Mary a really long hug

for me and then say, please give this to Bubby from Brad. Like, I don't want you, I would love for you to give Bubby a really long hug, but I don't think that would be right. And so just give it to Mary, who can then transfer it to Bubby. Is that fair? Well, I don't even think I could get my arms around Bubby. He's a freaking monster. He's the man.

So, wow. Small world. Well, thank you for calling and sharing your office love with us. For sure. Thanks for calling. All right. See you, Barrett.

All right. Bye you, Barrett. All right. Bye. Bye. Fun. She stumped me. She stumped me. All right. That's been Quiz Me for a Dollar.

Let us know what you guys thought of that. A little different. Tymon, get some responses ready for the next one. The next one I guess we'll do is let's do some crazy holiday stories. Cool. Um, but before we do that, um, yeah. How about you just prepare one of those, get those ready. I'm going to do a different segment and it's going to be called anyone else.

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can bury the hatchet literally with main street roasters you can use that as grounds so um mainstreetroasters.com grkc um, let's do anyone else. Uh, that's the new, new segment. And I just have a few different thoughts, few different opinions and time. And I want you to have two different soundbites ready. One of them is crickets. Don't we have that as one of them? Yeah. And one of them is the applause. Okay. You're the only one here. And so it's just you and me, man. And so I'm going to just share my opinion. And at the end of it, I'm going to say anyone else. And then, you know, do a little dramatic pause, maybe two seconds. All right.

And then either clap or crickets, depending on how you feel about this. So, okay. Hey, anyone else? I have anxiety sometimes when I'm going off of directions, even though I have plenty of time before I have to do the next thing. Like I, I know I'm not supposed to turn for another seven miles, but probably three miles into it. I'm like, I should probably go check and make sure I haven't driven seven miles. Anyone else? Yeah, absolutely. You feel that? Yeah. Yeah. It's just like, like, even if it's like 138 miles,

you know, take a slight right. I've driven like on like road trips and stuff. And I'm just like, it's, I have like a hundred miles ahead of me and I'm just, I'm checking every once in a while. Yeah. It's like, I know I'm on I-35 from here to Dallas, but I should probably check just in case. Oh, I spent two miles. What if there's construction? Yeah, whatever. Um, so there's just something there. Um, so thank you for agreeing timing. All right. Um, Hey, anyone else? I have a term that I really dislike and, uh, that term is artsy fartsy. I think that is just, uh, even if you are artsy fartsy, no one wants like, no, you know, I think that just means that you're kind of like high above people. No one wants to be called artsy fartsy. I think if you say the words artsy fartsy, you sound like a dingus. Um, artsy fartsy is just a really,

really terrible term that I don't think should ever be used anymore. I do not like the term artsy fartsy. Anyone else? That's, that just hurts to, I don't like, like why? Like you're kind of like an insult. It is an insult, but it's like you're, you're, yeah, you're trying to insult somebody, but it's like, you just sound stupider than they probably look a three-year-old yeah yeah don't say fart don't just go around calling people fart artsy fartsy i understand it's supposed to be an insult but like yeah just say they're pretentious or something like i don't know artsy fartsy just kind of kills me so okay uh a couple more here timing cool. Cool. This one's more of like a, have you ever related to this? I

don't think anybody would say, no, I dislike this. But the other day, actually when I was driving to South Dakota for my hunting trip, I was going into Culver's, just classic Midwest establishment, way better than Shake Shack, Jeff Bethke. And I was holding the door open for an elderly couple, not trying to brag, not a hero, just doing what normal people do there. And this couple went in, said thank you, but then recognized that I held the door for them and the guy insisted that I go in front of him in line.

And that was like a next level move for me. I recognized it. I appreciated it. It's awesome. Anyone else? Okay. Yeah. Nice.

Okay. Yeah. It's just a fun. I mean, that's just like a next level. Like, hey, I hold the door open for people. So I understand that sometimes it's a sacrifice holding that door open. Go right on back up there. Next time someone holds the door for me, I want to try that. Yeah. It's, I mean, and they might say, no, I said, no, that's okay. You don't have to do that. But it was like such a kind gesture to be like,

I recognize that that could be an issue for you. So, all right. My last one here. Um, this one might make me might, might out me as kind of a OCD freak. I, anyone else? Hey, anyone else? I organize my utensils when I'm putting them in the dishwasher. Like I put all my knives in one basket, forks, kids, utensils, straws, whatever. So that whenever it comes out of the dishwasher i can put it away quicker anyone else dang i will say though now that you say that i want to do that now it's genius dude that's great it's so awesome to just scoop up the whole thing of knives and throw them in there yeah it's like you're sacrificing a little bit of time on the front end, but you're saving

more on the back end. Here's the issue is that you live with nine other humans and they all have to be on board as well or you have to just be in. That's when I invest in it. I happen to be the dish loader in my family. Are you? So this is good advice for me. Yeah. Wow. You're the

dish loader. What are they like? You're exclusively every night? We have kitchen cleanup assigned jobs. Yeah. Wow. You're the dish loader. What are the, what are they like? Like you're like exclusively every night we have like kitchen cleanup, like assigned jobs. Okay. And I am like, I load and unload and put away like all the dishes. I'd like do everything that involves like the dishwasher. Oh yeah. You're going to get into this dude. Like, cause, cause I mean, Catherine does the dishes 75% of the time, if not more, maybe that's insultingly low to Catherine, but like she does them a lot. But there are certain days where she's gone or I just know that I am going to be mostly in charge

of preparing meals, doing the dishes, everything. And so yeah, I'll put all the kids' dishes in a row and then all the plates in a row. So then I can scoop them. And I always put all the cups. Like I start from the very back on the top. Okay. That way, you know, if you have more room or not, um, Catherine, you know, doesn't always do that. It's fine. Um, but man, it's awesome because I hate unloading the dishwasher. That's, that's my least favorite thing. Yeah. And so if

I can figure out ways to make that more efficient, I to so yeah um think about doing it time i will i think i will yeah i will do it all right uh we got some crazy holiday stories christmas time let's uh let's get into them all right here comes uh first caller is at j-r-y-n-n-i-n-g-7 j-r-y jerry yeah no idea what this person's name is let's just say let's just say let's let's guess J-R-Y J-R-I-N No idea what this person's name is Let's just say Let's guess J names Until they are either freaked out

Or something We don't even know if it's a boy or a girl Yeah Your call has been forwarded to voicemail The person you're trying to reach is Sorry Jamie or James Or Joan or Julie. Yeah, Jake Wellen. Okay.

Next up, let me put the number in. That's too bad. I had that queued up for so long. You did. I was so ready for that one. Alright, next up, some of you may recognize this name, at Rendell Weaver. Oh my gosh. A living legend.

This story sounds intriguing i'm excited it was at this point that some very sad things happened we called rendall weaver like two or three times and he could not hear us so then we restarted our entire system turned everything off turned it back on uh called him back and he could hear us and we had a great conversation it was super fun we called some other people it was awesome uh then after those like several 20, 30 minutes of recording, I realized that I'd forgotten to press record on our system. And we lost all of that footage slash audio for that entire section of the podcast. So yeah, that's too

bad. But I guess things happen. I was trying to think about a lot of things with all the phone calls and stuff. So I forgot to press record the most important part um so yeah anyway that's too bad but enjoy the rest of the episode dang that's a bummer that is too the rendall weaver was a bummer uh time and messed up because he's only got 15 things to do and he can't handle 16 gosh uh don't worry about it dude um we're back who Who knows how long was that? Probably three, four calls ago. Maybe. Yeah. Shout out to Jeff.

What in the world? Okay. Oh, this is Jesse. Jesse. Jesse, call him back. All right. Jesse, can you... Accept.

Here it comes. Jesse, can you hear us, brother? Hello? Hey, is this brad this is brad ellis from ellis custom creations ghost runners podcast gene shorts comedy dude what's up how's it going great man how are you i missed your call i was in a bad signal area but yeah just took off work and heading home heck yeah happy weekend for you man yeah it's kind of a bad signal area oh yeah yeah you just cut out for like five seconds so uh bad signal area is right um well let's let's try to hear your holiday story man i know you got one you're calling from illinois um let's let's let's hear it

yeah so i don't know if you can still hear me but uh the story happened in ohio okay and uh this is christmas day christmas morning our uh my mom has grew up in ohio so we travel back there every christmas and we went to I'm trying to remember the exact details of this Christmas. We just went to church Christmas morning because, you know, that's what good Christians do, right? That's right. And, yeah, so my mom was in, both my parents actually were inside. Oh. It sounds like he's like in a winter storm yeah friends and stuff and me and my brother and probably a few other siblings are outside

hanging out in the van which this van just by itself is a story it's a 15 passenger white van the most homeschool van you can think of. Absolutely, yeah. And it's diesel, turbo diesel. Oh, wow. Okay. Didn't even know they made that. I like to call it the white rhino.

Just guzzling gas. Oh, diesel, diesel. Oh, sorry. Got to clarify that. Yeah, Oh, diesel. Diesel. Oh, sorry. Gotta clarify that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But, so I was with one of my younger brothers, and he's either just turned 15 or 16, something like that, new driver, and it was a slick parking lot.

So I said, hey, I'm going to teach you how to drip this thing. So we, while my parents were inside church talking or whatever, me and my 15-year-old brother were out. I was teaching them how to drip and do donuts out in the parking lot with the 15-passenger van. Yeah. That sounds awesome. That's my story.

I can't think of any. We didn't hit any white poles or anything else. It was successful. Well, it feels like those things could tip really easily. Yeah. That's awesome. Well, thanks for letting us know. I love that story. And yeah, you get home safe.

Happy weekend. You too. Have a wonderful time. All right, brother. Thanks for calling. Yeah, absolutely. Bye. Bye.

Oh, man. It was tough to hear him, but Jesse sounds like a good time. He's awesome. Dude, those things, I mean, I feel like those things could tip so easily. Yeah. I wouldn't know how to drift anything. Yeah. I feel like I'm going to tip it.

Right. Yeah. Fair. But a big, tall van. Dude, I love that, though. Like every Christian kid whose parents are pretty involved in church understands the feeling of waiting outside either around the car, in the car. I remember once I got into the Chiefs, I would always take my parents' keys and go start the car

and sit in the car and listen to the game because your parents just love to talk i mean it felt like two hours oh yeah i'm sure my parents really were talking for like 20 30 minutes um but i love the idea of them just having like a great heart-to-heart talk with these people that they enjoy but they don't see very often only on sundays and then they look out the window and the white rhino is just flying around the parking lot, drifting. Oh my, that is incredible. Um, and yeah, it sounds like it wasn't any kind of flat when it was a diesel. I don't really even understand. I don't know. I didn't, I don't, I didn't even know they made diesel vans

like that, like in that size, but, um, that's pretty incredible. Um, yeah, we need to address, we, we had two calls, I think maybe three, uh, but we've had some issues with people hearing us on this thing. So it's going to be a little bit of a month or whatever disjointed podcast. Yeah. Uh, but the one that was the highlight that I am bummed, I think we're both sad and I'm not going to make time and feel bad. Cause I think he already does. Yeah. Mistakes happen a million times. We've done it all time. And so don't worry about it. Um, but we, we had Rendell Weaver, we called them to hear his crazy holiday story. And he was like, dude, I actually can't talk right now. Um, or I can only talk for three minutes. I'm going on my first date and first date ever. He outlined what the date was, what they're doing. And I just got

super pumped for the guy. Um, yeah, going on the first day with this girl, just basically going to watch the sunset and then going to dinner and ice cream. And I was like, that sounds awesome. Um, so bummed to miss that audio, but just know it was electric and just know Rendell Weaver, we're all pulling for you. You have to keep everyone updated on every single detail of your relationship now. Um, if, if it works out, which he seems like a pretty smooth guy, I'm sure he's going to be just fine. So, um, that, and then Jeff told us a funny story, uh, about some confrontation. Uh, so sorry, Jeff, for missing that, but, uh, let's try it. Let's try one more time. And let me give you a phone number here. Cool. Um, here it goes. Call it. All right,

Jessica. This is Jessica. Jessica, can you hear us? Yes. Oh, right. How fun. Jessica, this is Brad, uh, Brad Ellis from, I almost said Ellis Custom Creations, Ghostwriters Podcast. How are you doing? Hello. How are you? I'm doing really good. Good. Sorry, we've had some technical difficulties with our phone service software thing, so we never know if we're going to actually, if people can actually hear us. So I'm glad that you can. Where are you calling from?

I live in Tri-Cities, Washington. Tri-Cities, Washington. So that is Boise, no Washington. I don't know Tri-Cities. Tacoma, Seattle, and something else. No. Kennewick, Pasco, Richland. Oh my gosh. Which no one knows. Yeah. Wait, no one who knows any of those or no one knows Richland. Oh my gosh. Which no one knows. Yeah. Wait, no one knows any of those or no one knows Richland? Not usually.

Okay. Usually people know like Spokane. We're like two hours from Spokane. Okay. Fair enough. I like, I feel like there's like seven tri-cities, you know, like there's like. Yeah. I think every state has like a tri-city.

I kind of like that. So, okay. Tri-cities, Washington. Okay. Jessica, you had a fun submission for a crazy holiday story, and we'd love to hear it if you're willing to tell it to us. Yeah, absolutely. So probably like 10 years ago now, my family all gathers at my grandparents' house on Christmas Eve, and my grandpa reads the Christmas story.

And there's a bunch of us. I have five siblings and a bunch of cousins. Yeah. And so there's probably like 20 to 30 of us all in my grandma's little three-bedroom house. Oh, that's awesome. I love this already. It's super fun. It's loud and crazy. There's little three bedroom house. Oh, that's awesome. I love this already. It's super fun. It's loud and crazy.

There's a bunch of kids. So I have, and my family's like super Christian. Like my grandparents are super conservative. Yeah. Try cities, you know, like you're in church when you're there.

Yeah. A lot of this sounds exactly like my family. So this is awesome. Yeah. Yeah. So it's very like wholesome. Um, like my family so this is awesome yeah yeah so it's very like wholesome um but i have one cousin that is a lot of bit of a black sheep um and so we had known he got into like some trouble and there was probably going to be some like legal ramifications um we didn't realize it was going to

be on christmas eve so we were all sitting in the living room i have like a couple little cousins on my lap and then all of a sudden like two police officers come up to the door oh my and we're like oh my gosh like of course the little cousins have no idea what's happening so we're trying to like distract and like okay tell the story louder like don't look don't look oh my gosh it was bad so one of my brothers went over and asked the police officers to stay outside and said that we would bring my cousin to them and so one of my brothers had to go get my cousin and say, Hey, uh, there's someone for you at the door. And it was the police. So they arrested him right there and put him in the car. Wow. Not everyone knew at the time, but all the adults were trying to like play it cool. And then my grandpa thought he would use

that as like a little bit of a teaching moment yeah so like in his prayer which is very like classic like kind of passive-aggressive christian prayer right he one of one of my brothers has gotten into some trouble um in his past and when he was younger and so so my grandpa was praying. He's like, Lord, you know, like these boys are getting into trouble. And Jason, you know just what this is like, don't you? Yeah, right. And we all just like froze. And he was like, oh, yeah, yes, I do.

Oh, wow. And then he just prayed for him, but called my brother out, too, for getting in trouble. Yeah, having a conversation mid-prayer. And Jason, you remember what it was like. So, I mean, maybe you could go to the jailhouse after this and talk to him. Yeah, exactly. That's what they wanted him to mentor him. He's like, you know what it's like, right?

You've been in jail. That is wild. I mean, yeah, it kind of reminds me, I don't know if you've seen the jail that is wild i mean it's yeah it kind of reminds me i don't know if you've seen the national lampoon's christmas vacation when all the police officers like literally like swat team in and like break the windows down and just like yeah you know because they kidnapped that guy or whatever so funny and just that scene like i don't know just any any time like i love the humor where it's like i don't know just any any time like i love the humor where it's like i don't know just juxtaposing the idea of like this sweet beautiful family scene with the outside

of like no this is actually really bad you know and trying to like be cool about it all it's so funny um right exactly it seems like you know tri-cities washington might be a little different than like like if if you're in new jersey or you know, like New York city with the, whatever, like if you're a different kind of family, like it's like the police officers like, Hey, do you mind just standing outside? We'll bring our cousin to you. And the guy's like, Hey, it's time to go out the back. We got to get out of here before you get caught. Like, uh, you could have, yeah, you could have like, you know, definitely like not like turned your present in or whatever. No, it's such a small town.

They knew that we were going to be at my grandparents' house for Christmas. I figured it had to be a small town. How else would they have known to go there? Yeah, 100%. It's like, oh, wow. They're like, oh, it's Christmas Eve. They'll all be gathered together. Plot twist, your grandpa was in on it it and he's been coordinating with the police.

He called the police station and said, hey, he's going to be here this time. That would not surprise me at all. He probably would just as like a teaching moment. Right. He's like, it's time. It's time for him to learn. It's time for him to get his head on straight. He's got to get arrested.

That's too good. Oh, man. Yeah. Well, Jessica, thank you for sharing that with us. Thanks for being a fan of the podcast. We'll talk to you soon. Bye, guys. That's too funny.

Anything crazy like that ever happen to you? One time my grandparents' house caught fire on Christmas. That'll do it. Yeah. Yeah. It was. How bad? Uh, I mean, it was, it was bad enough.

It was a big deal. Yeah. It was like, we were all having like dinner. It might've been Christmas Eve, Christmas, whatever. All like as a family. And then I think someone just noticed, I don't know if people started like out by like smelling it or like just noticing something, but like in the bathroom bathroom, the shut bathroom door, the crack was glowing. There's something that's burning in there.

And so I think someone, maybe a relative that was there was a firefighter, so he kind of went in first and was checking it out. But yeah, it was like everyone ran out of the house. Basically, this whole bathroom was on fire was it like from a candle you think or you know yeah there was a candle um as far as i know like i mean it's been a while it's a long time ago but there was like a candle on the maybe like the top back of the toilet seat or something it had like fallen and it was like the toilet itself somehow like maybe caught on fire i'm not sure maybe like yeah or the toilet paper i'm sure

that yeah it might have, but like the whole, I think the whole bathroom was like pretty burnt from what I remember. Wow. Yeah. It was, that was crazy. Like everyone's standing outside, like seeing like the glowing,

like window of the bathroom and like the firefighters are showing up. It was crazy. I guess we'll go home. Merry Christmas. Um, man, it's wild. All right.

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Dean. So shout to shout to Dean. Uh, my dad's 70 years old. And I mean, I could talk for a long time about his impact on me in my life and how many others he's, he's, there's so many countless others that he's affected, but, uh, just wanted to give him a shout out. You guys know him, you guys love him. And, uh, you know, it's, it's, it's not possible to be Jesus. Uh, it's not possible to be as, you know, as perfect as Jesus, but I think it might be possible for me to attain being as good as my dad someday. And I would, I would like to do that because he is my role model in so many ways. Uh, he points me to the Lord. He points me to Jesus, uh, in every conversation I have with them. I mean, there's so many times where I think to myself, uh, I just

want to be just like my dad and I'm like nothing like my dad. I mean, I'm not nothing like my dad, but he is so like, um, contemplative or like, he's so thoughtful. He's so intentional. He's so, um, I don't know, not, not soft-spoken, but he's not this brash guy yelling on your feet on a podcast, you know, twice a week. Um, and so many things I respect about him. I'm not even close to him at, but, um, truly just a great example of what a husband, what a father, what a grandfather, what a friend looks like. Uh, he has, he probably quit his job, not quit. He retired from his job that he worked at for like 30 some years, uh, five years ago. And it's been amazing watching him be busier now, be more missional now, be more intentional now

with his time than he was when he was working. I mean, he had a mission in his work and his job, and he retired from that mission. And now he's just being so intentional with his time for the Lord and for others. And so just want to shout out my dad. He's the man. I love him. And yeah, just hope that you feel loved and honored today, father. So yeah, thanks for leading our family well. Thanks for the multi-generational importance of family that you put on people. I think that I'm able to see from my dad and what he is now and what he's learning later on in life.

Hopefully I can learn that earlier on in life and hopefully I can be even better for my kids. So just want to give a quick shout out to Dave Ellis. Um, and yeah, I think that's going to end it today. Timon, unless you have any last thoughts for us. I don't think so. That's a great note to end on. Yeah, let's do it, man. Let's, I hope you guys have a great week. Uh, once again, Wednesday episode with TJ, we have a lot of fun. We also talk about some, uh, important, interesting things, um, that TJ is really passionate about. And, um, yeah, please follow us, uh, subscribe to us on patron, get some merch. We have a lot of merch coming up for a Christmas season. That's awesome.

Um, or just, we, we have merch available that you should get for Christmas for people for Christmas. We don't have Christmas merch right now. Maybe I'll make it. Who knows? Gosh, chill. Uh, anyway, it's been fun. Jake, I miss you. If you're listening to this man, it's not the same without you. You're my security blanket in so many ways. Uh, but we, we did it timing. We recorded this bad boy. I'm going to have to edit this bad boy. And, uh, yeah, we appreciate all you ghosties listening, um, to us. So love you guys.. Have a great Monday, and we'll see you back here on Wednesday.