Ghostrunners - 289 - Jake's Barbie Review

Episode Date: December 20, 2023

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rachel and i are back for one last podcast episode uh one last one down under one last one without brad this time we come to you from new zealand auckland auckland auckland yes and rachel's really got to see the city i really have it is walked to dinner and back and that's it yeah today is it's monday at like noon new zealand time but it's like Sunday afternoon, Sunday at like four or something back in central time. Yes, it is. 5.35. So it's NFL Sunday for us on a Monday

and Rachel's had a very NFL Sunday herself. Oh my gosh, yeah. Laying in bed all day watching football. Yeah. She watched a little football. We watched a little Chiefs. Then she put on a little NCAA Volleyball National Championships.

Yep, yep, yep. You downloaded your first VPN. Yes, I don't even know what it stands for. Volleyball volleyball national championships. Yep, yep, yep. You downloaded your first VPN today. Yes, I don't even know what it stands for. Volleyball. Pro Network. Yep. That's how you get it. That's how you watch volleyball.

None of that was actually what I wanted to talk about. So throughout this trip, there's been a few times, you know, we're different sleep schedules. We've got jet lag. I feel like more often than normal, I have stayed slightly more awake than you on this trip. Yeah. And I've got to experience some more of your sleep talking. We don't need a camera because

I just am awake for it. So I've started to take a series of notes this trip about some things Rachel said in her sleep. And then we're going to end with something new. This is perfect. You said it last night. And I've waited to tell Rachel this. Oh, boy. Saving it for the podcast because we almost recorded yesterday and I'm so glad we would have missed out on this so back when we were in Perth I believe this is when Rachel woke up the middle night said I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry just so apologetic and I said sorry about what and Rachel said I don't have sleep shorts on right now, so I shouldn't do that. What did that mean?

I don't know, because I know I was wearing sleep shorts. That's what I sleep in every night. It was confusing for everybody. A few nights later, you said in your sleep, it does feel like we're on something. What in the world? So that was... It did feel like it, though. And then a couple nights ago i think this is our last night in sydney you woke up and said i see i see yeah i know what you're up to

just funny because i was just awake and my eyes were closed i couldn't see i was like do you want to take a look at it i see um and then last night was a great one rachel wakes up the middle of the night which i've been giving you a hard time because a lot of times on this trip you either wake up from a nap or in the middle of the night and like there was one night you had been asleep like an hour and it's midnight like i thought you were out for the night and you just wake up instantly and go i gotta take my contacts out that will wake me up it hurts so bad to sleep it was like it was two in the afternoon. You were so alert instantly.

You know, I'm never like that. If I'm waking up. Oh my gosh. It's a 30 minute process. The nap yesterday. I was. Took you another nap to wake up from. I was in a different like universe.

But you always wake up so quickly. And so last night you sat up in bed with no words, which is always the creepiest when you don't make noise. So you go from a sleep, which if you were, I had this last night you sat up in bed with no words which is always the creepiest when you don't make noise so you go from a sleep which if you were i had this last night too if you were a baby i would have been worried about you because you had your your face so buried in your pillow i was like i guess she can breathe i'm sure she's probably sitting up my face is buried in my no sorry so sorry this is before like the way you fell asleep you looked like a baby asphyxiating itself okay and then you awaken from that you rose from that and you're just kind of sitting up and you're looking out this window right here gosh and i

was just kind of waiting for you to say something and then you went back to sleep and then i think you wait i'm trying to think of the because at one point in your sleep last night you also said is tyree kill playing tomorrow So you also said that. But... Gotta be my dad. The whole build up, you did when you sat up and you got back down, you told me, sorry, the kids have to see me.

What does that mean? What kids? I don't know. I don't know who's kids. I'm sorry they have to see me. Sorry the kids have to see me. Well, we were watching those weird New Zealand movies about kids getting abducted. You think that was it?

Yes, I knew it was if I made us change the channel. I knew that was going to affect me. So if there's any minors watching today and you're having a look at Rachel. I'm sorry you have to see me. I'm sorry you have to see her, guys. Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down. With some random thoughts and white meat, too.

Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet. Because it's the Ghost Rubs Podcast. Ghost Rubs Podcast. Everybody morning, we're taking round. Ghost Rubs Podcast.

Ghost Rubs Podcast. Happy Wednesday, everybody. So we're recording this, like I just said. It's Monday afternoon, our time. But our episode hasn't come out yet. So we don't know what you thought about it. I don't know what you want more of or what you want less of. My only thought after we recorded last time was there's so much i left out there's so much we didn't talk about so i've been trying to keep a better note system of things we left out last time so i have about 20 things written down jeepers they're not

all funny but they're just a lot of quick things just to help explain and help tell people about our experience in australia in new zealand and hawai. We're also going to do a schmores at some point. And yeah. Yeah. I guess that basically described it. That sets up the episode. Rachel, what's on your mind?

Anything you want to start with? I know you have written some of the things that I forgot to say. All right. So no. One thing we were so bummed that we both forgot to mention it was shaka guide oh yeah you've got to talk about it so i don't know i some of this episode is probably going to come across like jim and pam when they're back from their honeymoon or they're just like franken beans you're like okay i'm sure that's funny to you guys but i don't get it but um if

you've done the road to hana which it's Maui's like greatest tourist attraction, it's one long, really windy road with a ton of optional stops. They've got waterfalls and beaches and banana bread shops. Oh, the best coffee in the world. Lava tubes and just stuff that you can stop at. But it's very recommended that there's like,

there's a pretty solid app for it, that it knows your GPS, it knows where you're at. And this like audio book will basically speak to you based on where you're at and tell you like, up on the right is this parking lot and you can do this here. And it's great. This guy's probably made a lot of money,

but he's a total cheese ball. He's awesome. He's exactly who you want for this. Yeah, he is good. Because it would be weird if he was more casual, but he is just a dork. And he has just like the perfect weirdest tour guide voice you can do it pretty well yeah it's been three weeks now but after the day of and after rodana i was only doing the shaka guide voice because what was so funny about it is he would go from

cheesy to her guide like then instantly he would just he would put on this like weird sorry hawaiian accent which is an accent i'd never heard when we were there and sometimes it just sounded hispanic so i'm not sure why he would do it but it would be something like i'm trying to think what would some of the stuff he'd say like up on the left is some amazing banana bread you You're going to want to make sure you stop and get some. And hey, save some for me, Hermanos. Why did you say Hermanos? That seems kind of weird. He was always doing that little laugh.

And hey, save some for me. It was so good. You were talking like that all the time. On the right, make sure you check out the lava tube. This was formed by molten lava rock over 200 million years ago. When you venture inside, just be thankful you weren't in that tube 200 million years ago. Just stuff like that. Every few sentences.

So that was Shaka Guide. It was so good. He would call himself that too. We don't know his name because we wanted to look him up like i wanted to DM this guy and say thank you yeah but we don't know his name just you know the shaka you know the pinky and the thumb that's big in hawaii he was the shaka guide but he wouldn't just say shaka guide it would i this has been road to hana with shagai. So that's it.

Just needed to explain that. So pretty much, I would say 90% of the time I enter a room and Rachel's in it, I say, what's up, Hermano? You're good to see you today, muchacho. So that's that. Let's see. We have another Maui story. Me and Catherine in the massage.

That was in Maui. Yes, it was. Wow. Oh, yeah, because. Me and Catherine in the massage. That was in Maui. Yes, it was. Wow. Oh yeah. Cause you guys were late for the show. Yes, we were. Yeah. Not for the show, for the meal at Bethke's.

That's right. Yep. Yeah. Go on. So Catherine and I. I think you want to talk about the Bethke's house too. So go one after another, go crazy. Catherine and I, well, um, had sort of a free afternoon in Maui when the boys were recording

the podcast episodes. So we wanted to get lunch and get a little foot massage because, you know, that's cheap. It would be quick. And then the Bethke's live like 45 minutes into the mountains, I think. So it was sort of a drive to get there. And we just had a few hours to do all this. Better pack some water. Pack some for me. And so we were like like we were eating lunch we're like okay let's just get a reservation quick maybe they'll have walk-ins at a place for a foot massage for

30 minutes we had it planned out perfectly so we called the first place on the google maps and they were too eager to find time for us like are you guys free for walk-ins like yeah absolutely no one's here right now like this place can't be that good a little desperate but we'll go so we got there like four minutes late and so they were sort of hustling us in there like all right time to sit down your your time's gonna start so they just like laid us on these beds which i'd never i haven't gotten many a I massage in my life. Yeah.

Foot massage. I've only done a foot massage and it was for volleyball preseason. And you're sitting, and you're sitting in a chair, like a pedicure where your feet are in some water. And then they laid us down and put like a towel over our face, our eyes and men, women,

two old men, two old men, one man each. I don't think I knew this part of it. I asked because I was like, it's not as creepy as you guys are imagining. Rachel, tell them they were nice old men two old men each i don't think i knew this part of it i asked because i was like it's not as creepy as you guys are imagining rachel tell them they were nice old men turned out they're old men okay um race um i don't know i didn't ask okay we'll assume hawaiian they look hawaiian great yep okay muchacho so uh yeah so katherine and i are laying side by side eyes closed and they start massaging our heads and that's not my foot yeah it's like okay well maybe maybe if they can maybe

that's how they start like we both talked about this afterwards we had the same thought process well you don't start on the foot you don't start there that would be it would be ticklish you have to warm the body up you have to activate the muscles around it you got to get a running start to the foot and so then they moved on to like the neck and you know they would really dig into like some spots and so in my mind i was like oh maybe you can tell like a pressure point on the foot if this part of your shoulder is sore then you should massage this part of the foot you're rationalizing everything like no this isn't weird this is fine this is a science here but okay so and my guy breathed really loud okay so i could hear where he i feel where he was also but i couldn't hear katherine's guy okay so every now and then i would just like sort of look through the gap in the towel is her

neck in touch and i could see that it was but my guy was always ahead and so then i was like and i was the one who had to call and make this appointment so i was but my guy was always ahead and so then I was like and I was the one who had to call and make this appointment so I was like oh my gosh the first time I made a decision I didn't even get

Catherine and I the right massage I bet she's mad right now I bet she's not happy with this which Catherine's never like that so I was thinking that so I was stressing about that and so then

quite a bit of time had gone by and like they were onto the legs at this point and do you ever say anything to Catherine like Catherine sorry about this no okay no if it's quiet in there and they had like nice spa music playing

and then a couple times it would cut out and they'd have to stop the massage and start the track again oh it's just like it's like a cd you're just like well that's the end of it um yeah so I'm stressing about this like this this is not what Catherine wanted and then um a little bit of time had passed and I was like they should probably be getting to the feet by now if this is a 30 minute massage and then they went out of the room both of them I could quickly grab my phone and look at the time and we were 40 minutes in to the 30 minute massage and they were just moving to the feet all right so and Catherine didn't move one inch during that i didn't see so i didn't want to like wake her up i said maybe she's asleep and so i knew we were going to be

late at this point because we were already running 10 minutes late and we had 20 more minutes to go so then i was stressed during this massage you're supposed to be relaxed you're like maybe it's a 45 minute massage yeah in the last five minutes and that's fine that'll be fine our feet won't get touched but it'll be okay and i'll just have to apologize to Catherine. But then our feet got going. Yeah. And then we were going for a long time. And I was thinking, this is an hour massage.

And I don't know the price of the hour full body massage. So then I was like, are we just about to buy like a $300 massage that we were planning on a $30 foot massage? So then I was stressing about that. And then stressing about, now I'm making Catherine do that too. Yeah. It was the most stressful massage I've ever gotten. Felt great, but.

Not peaceful. And I talked to Catherine afterwards and she had the exact same thought process. And then we were 30 minutes late to the dinner. So then we were stressed about that. So, you know, wasn't the most relaxing massage, but it was a great memory. How much did it ended up costing i think 60 okay for an hour full body massage yeah that's really not bad yeah so we were we ended up being very happy with that good deal but still double what we wanted to pay

and then you got to bethie's house and you fell in love oh man it was amazing it was the most beautiful house i've ever seen i love how they decorated it their laundry room was beautiful with a really pretty wallpaper and it was huge there was a ton of space to fold clothes which i really wish you would have seen great outdoor living area their little shop on on site was there they let katherine and i pick out some clothes new flora is what it is but when i wear it i'll post it on my story tag okay okay it's real cute really i think it's like it's good modest fashion oh yeah it's very nice um yeah it was great they're great hosts they i think i think they were made to host like that's the perfect family for that house they just have people over

they serve others they're entertaining it was wonderful it was amazing i forgot to say at the beginning this episode of course brought to you by good ranchers of course of course so good ranchers.com anyway um yeah bethie's place was great yep the massage was great yep hawaii was great why it was great hawaii was over three weeks ago yeah it's crazy that is such a long time yeah you. You ready to be back? Yeah. Ever since we got the text from Morgan and Scott Caldwell this morning. Yeah, we got texts like an hour ago from our friends. They dropped off cookies, or they were going to drop off cookies for us, little Christmas cookies, and they forgot that we were gone.

And so they're just eating the cookies, which I'm glad that they are. But it made me miss all of our friends at home. I wish I would have opened the door to Morgan, Scott, and Collins. That would have made my day. Yeah, they're trying to visit us. Harrison and Abby are having babies without us. Yeah, having multiple babies. Baby without us.

But we got to text them today, too. Yeah, staying in touch. Staying in touch. Oh, Brad's story of Hattie live, I guess. Hattie answering questions. Yeah. That was amazing yeah I forgot who asked I don't know who asked the question but um Hattie and I now have a

Prince of Egypt watch party date uh organized so thank you for that we're excited um I want to give an update on human versus hamster keep forgetting to do this talked about it one or two episodes I think on Ghostrunners. It was this reality game show that hit up Friday Pickleball. This is executive produced by Chip and Joanna Gaines, like Magnolia Network. It's going to be on HBO Max. They hit up me, Scott, and Isaac about doing this. And we didn't know if it was real. We had a phone call a couple months back. They loved us. And then we had to do an interview interview like a zoom interview with the casting producer and he was asked those questions it lasted like an hour and 15 minutes i did it in our

hawaiian hotel room so i was like let's get this out of the way now i know i'm on vacation but it's gonna be way easier on hawaiian time than will be australian time and we've got two main updates one the interview went amazing i feel like we had a blast we were ourselves we were funny the guy afterwards um he's like all right we're done i turned off the recording guys that was awesome i can honestly say that was the most fun i've ever had doing an interview for anything we've done so maybe he tells that to everybody. Honestly, who knows? But it seemed like we're in, and it seems like a lot of good things, Human vs. Hamster.

So I'll keep you guys posted when we hear back from them. The bad news is that they came back about a week ago and said, hey, producers have changed their minds. It was going to be a three-person event. It is now a two-man event. So one of you is going to have to be the alternate so um tough decisions were made scott knowing that the shooting of this is going to be right around when their baby is due surprise if he didn't know that you are the king of this

i am not the king of this yeah you're right i don't know why I said that that's the first time we've ever done that yeah I am not the king of this but oh well it's not Scott's podcast it's our podcast so so yeah he was like

you know what it was gonna be tough with the baby being due anyway so you guys do it so those are the human vs. hamster updates more to come in the future in the future

future one thing we've not talked about even off the podcast do you feel like in australia there was a there was a decent frequency of one-armed people i've never noticed really i think i saw four different one-armed people in australia like amongst the different cities but i know we were there like two weeks but i was hoping we could talk about that but you didn't notice it okay maybe shark attacks sharks crocs croc attacks croc attacks um yeah it was probably a vicious attack that's it all right good segment i was hoping you would notice makes sense why we hadn't talked about it you hadn't seen it

i had not seen it i really have not seen it once. Sorry. I try to be relatable. It's okay. I'll just keep going. I got to give props to Rachel. She made an observation the other day, and I was like, that's pretty good. And then I took it and surprised Rachel and made a bit about it on stage. Yes, you did.

Do you want to elaborate on it? Oh, sure. I i thought you're gonna keep going because it's your it's your story um the observation that i made after we went to the lone pine koala sanctuary in our favorite city brisbane was that zoos are very like not even well kept because i know there are some dirty zoos but like animals are in cages you don't really see animals fighting um they're sleeping quite often they're getting fed regularly you don't really seem to do anything you don't sometimes you hope to see action yeah sometimes you don't see them yeah it's like this is the like we've there were so many times like this is the tasmanian devil exhibit like oh cool didn't see one never saw it though this is the wombat oh i can't even picture what a wombat is well i still can't still

can't never saw it where is it sleep i looked up high all right do wombats climb i'm looking all over i'm like is it could it be on me i how small are they yeah a lot of that happened and then i remembered experiences at other zoos and they're all all like that. And so then I was like, you know, why do some people describe like, my classroom was a zoo today. Or like, you know, a family with small kids. Like, it is just a zoo in here. I'm so sorry. Sorry.

It must be a nice place. People must be sleeping. People are getting fed regularly. Yeah, wow. There's no action. That's awesome. Your house is a zoo? Okay. We'll come to your place then. Yeah,, wow. There's no action. That's awesome. Your house is a zoo? Oh.

Okay. We'll come to your place then. Yeah. Sounds good. Everybody's already asleep. That's great. So, yeah. I think the second you said it, I was like, you should put that in your stand-up routine.

Then a couple hours went by. I was like, I should put that in my stand-up routine. So, yeah. I did that in the Brisbane tent, which was fun. Yeah. Rachel's been my videographer. I've been doing, like I said last episode, a lot of Australian material. So Rachel's been my videographer and has been stressed about it.

I have been stressed. I've never noticed my hands being shaky, and they are when I'm holding that camera. But you're doing a good job. Thank you. Always accepting feedback. Begging for feedback. Yeah, you're like timing. Hey, here's the edit. Be brutal. Do you remember that part? It's like, be brutal. It's like a thumbnail, dude. It's fine. Just humiliate me with what

you think about this. That's been fun. Another note I wrote down is Australia. Fun fact. I came here in 2018. I don't remember anyone ever telling me this. You guys, you know, you've heard of like the hole in the ozone layer. Apparently that hole is above Australia. So the UV rays are much more intense here. And so you got to look out. So good news, bad news. Bad news is one in three people get skin cancer in Australia. Yeah. Crazy. The sun is so intense here. Good news. Sunscreen, super cheap. Yeah. You got a big bottle yesterday for very cheap. Did I really? sunscreen super cheap yeah you got a big bottle yesterday for very cheap did i really yeah you said that that blue bottle at the airport two days ago maybe oh yeah at the wharf yeah at the wharf yeah yeah so uh there's australian fun fact hold the ozone layer i guess it's a it is a real thing

yeah it's above australia yeah the what is it the UV index, like on the weather app that it can tell you what that is. It was like 12 and above every day. Yeah. Even if it was a little bit cloudy. Look out. I was on. Um, we've been reading books.

We've been reading books. We've been reading books. Do you want to talk about your book? I'll talk about my book. Yeah. My book was so good. It was, um,

Oh, I had it out. It is, uh, man search for meaning i think by victor frankel and he was a jewish physician who survived auschwitz and uh created his own type of therapy called logo therapy and the book was what's it called L-O-G-O. Yeah, the book was just about his time in the camps and telling sort of how he survived and his outlook. He has a really positive outlook on everything. And it was very, very good.

If you do read it, though, the best part of the book was it split into thirds, not equal thirds. So the first part is all about his time in the camp, and I think that was the main part of the book was the it split into thirds not equal thirds so the first like part is all about his time in the camp and i think that was the main part otherwise after that he talks about his therapy his type of therapy so that one got sort of boring and but the first part was so good i everybody should read it it was great victor frankl yep cool name yeah i know Frankl. Yep. Cool name. Yeah, I know. V-I-K-T-O-R. That's the best way to spell Victor. Victor. What is logotherapy?

It's a lot of, there's optimism in it, I know. And finding meaning in struggling. It's hard to explain without using an actual definition because the terms are so long and complex. But that's sort of what I got about it. cool not finding like one meaning finding meaning in everything i think it's sort of future oriented like meaning in the bad or meaning in the future and anything and right now and yep good for frankl yep i've been reading a book um called diary of a ceo and it's like a business book but it's not like specific principles on like scale your business and do this. It's psychology and business. So they're like things

that will stand the test of time. And I love it. I'm only like maybe 40% of the way done, but it's like every chapter I like close. I'm like, all right, Rachel, I got to like, I got to like dialogue with you about this. It's so interesting. It's so fascinating. And then Rachel will listen and she's really nice. And she says, that does make sense. That is good. It is good. That is nice.

But I have like so many notes about it. One little nugget. Let's see. I actually didn't write this down, but I remember it off of my brain. Useless absurdity is more important than useful practicality. Like if you're going to tell someone about a gym, they should join. If this gymnasium has like a giant blue slide running through it that goes into a ball pit, obviously you don't need

that in your gym where people work out. But there's something about that. Like if I'm like, you got to join my gym, like you're not going to start off with like how nice it is and how nice the weights are and how much room there is, how nice the locker room is. You start with, there's this huge blue slide that goes into a ball pit. And the point being, I mean, there's a lot of examples of this, like Tesla cars. You don't start with, you know, all electric or the user interface. You start with like, you don't start with all electric or the user interface. You start with like, you know, has a fart, like a simulator in it. Like that's hilarious. Like you can do this fart stuff.

And so basically like finding what is that absurdity in your business that people will want to talk about? Because the useful practicalities are not as important as the useless absurdities. People want to talk about the absurd, Rachel. They do. They love absurdities. And you do. the absurd rachel they do they love absurdities and you do i think you really like that principle you like being absurd and a little bit different well yeah just like it makes i never thought about i never had someone talk like explain it that way

but like you're right you always start off with the weird stuff that's what this podcast is yeah about your absurdities in life maybe that's why i like it yeah my whole everything about yeah yeah who knows yeah yeah all right so we talked about the one-armed people we kind of could talk about that we talked about the books um let's talk about just some different aspects of actually being like not only australia but being on more or less vacation for almost four weeks straight i think it just started to dawn on us. One, just the lack of rhythm. And just like, nothing feels like a weekday or a weekend. It's all just some sort of hybrid where it's like,

yeah, maybe we should relax a little bit. But also I need to edit and I've got 15 emails and I got to do this. But it's like, oh, I guess it is Saturday. Well, then it's Friday back home though. Okay, so it is a workday. It's just like, it's constantly a hybrid of weekend and weekday.

It's constantly a workday. work day it's just like it's constantly a hybrid of weekend and weekday constantly a work day yeah it's never not yeah well it could be sunday here sunday here saturday there um but it's a sabbath for somebody and it's been really interesting trying to figure that out yeah it has been we were just talking about that yesterday we were like we kind of need a schedule yeah it's so anti us to say yeah we kind of need a routine i Yeah. Which is so anti us to say. Yeah. We kind of need a routine. I'll talk about anti-schedule. Well, one other thing I, hold on. Let's bookmark in that.

Anti-schedule. Waking up in Australia is a rush because all your friends back home have been awake for six or seven hours. So when you wake up, your phone is buzzing and it's a little stressful, but it's also very fun. You wake up and all these people have wanted to talk to you for seven hours. And so it's kind of like, I want to wake up and relax. It's also like, man, these people have been waiting on me.

You got to catch up to where they're at. I got to get up to their speed and only have three hours to do it because it's already 2 p.m. there. Stressful. Our lives are so hard, guys. We're so stressed. Really what I'm trying to do is just like take anything about this experience and try to just like tell people about it because it's like i don't know not a lot of people get to do a three and a half week work trip like this yeah business

trip business i'm here for business yeah just business stuff what i was gonna say anti being um making a schedule is very anti-view something else that's very anti-view is how into the business of padel oh i am a business woman and every now and then i'm proud to padel but i don't think you're supposed to do that i think that might be racist it's your melbourne it's your melbourne melbourne melbourne basically we talked on monday this sport that is so fun. It's so addicting. It's awesome. Paddle. And there's no courts in the United States. I mean, there's some. There's like one in Atlanta, a few in Florida, and that's basically it. So it's this sport that is

incredibly fun. It feels just as addicting as pickleball and almost as easy to play and as easy to pick up as pickleball. And there is absolutely no presence in the United States. It just feels like a crazy opportunity at our fingertips. And of course, I'm thinking about all these things, chopping at the bit about it. But I've been very surprised that Rachel's been right there with me. I'm so invested. I've got the exact people that I think should invest in it.

Oh, yeah, 30 minutes, Rachel. I know the manager of the future. Well, just say a name. Just a random name of one of our like friends or acquaintances like what was it and she's like maybe he would invest like oh he threw a paddle so Rachel's stuck on it so into it uh yeah we're gonna make a powerpoint we're gonna make a powerpoint on our 14 hour flight tomorrow yeah we're finally going home and we're gonna make a powerpoint to pitch to future investors yep and we're not really sure how we get cut into the business because we don't have the money or the time to do it but i you know hopefully it's just like well i told you about it so can i get like five percent

just something and we really want to play so can you please build it at least it's a free membership can you play can you build it in kansas city so if anyone's listening you're free to take paddle and make your own courts either do it in kansas city and let us in on it or do it somewhere else and and let us do this on our own yep um so yeah it really is like just it's not even a bold prediction someone is going to make a ton of money off a paddle in the united states in the next five to ten years it might as well be us because it's this awesome fun sport it's so fun so it's so fun i like it a billion times more than pickleball yeah that's crazy and i that's what i said i was like i think i might have slightly more fun

playing that than pickleball it's so fun it's such a blast and like if once people play it there is just this sense of like i have to play it again i have to get better i have to do this again and you get people to play that and then the demand goes crazy high and the supply and the entire midwest and the entire central time zone the only supply you have is our eight courts in kansas city i mean we'll just be raking it in yep i'm sorry i was trying to think of a name for the courts and i didn't think of anything I mean, we'll just be raking it in. Yep. I'm sorry.

I was trying to think of a name for the courts and I didn't think of anything good. Triplet Paddle Courts. No. Yeah, let's talk names. I think we got to go like Paddle USA or something. Sure. Like this is the start of like a nationwide brand. Sure.

Get the Instagram handle right now rachel is big and she i thought it was a joke at first but she's big on like hey will you go and get friday paddle like get friday paddle.com get the instagram friday paddle like just in case talk to the guys at friday pickleball and just like maybe they want it maybe they know it maybe they're good at it um but yeah uh paddle usa patriot paddle for like kind of a right-leaning chiefs paddle chiefs paddle hey patrick could invest patrick paddle patrick paddle if anyone knows patrick homes um he's having a little better sunday than he had last week he would love this game if you if i know patrick like i think i do you can't drop the ball in this game so i think he

would love that no one can let him down no no one can line up the ball in this game. So I think he would love that. No one can let him down. No. No one can line up offsides in this game. No. Not really. Football on the serve. Oh, it's a blast. It's so fun. If you're anywhere, you got to play it. If you're anywhere.

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It's tough. I feel like I have, I'm like a six-year-old boy in an elementary school with no recess. Yes. That's a great expression. And just like, I gotta get some energy out

because we're not, like the last, I mean, last time we played paddle was like four or five days ago. Yeah. It was a three-hour session in 100-degree weather, but yeah yeah it was three or four days ago i did burn

2300 calories yeah i was getting to that yeah yeah um one of the last things i did is i i check wow i burned 2300 calories on the uber ride home and i'm going man my watch or my wrist is gross and sweaty take it, sit it down next to me. Maybe you've heard a similar story before. You sit something down next to you in an Uber and then they rush you out of it. And then you get out of there and you're out of your rhythm and you're out of your routine and you're out of your programs and your patterns. And you hop out of that Uber and you're like, man, I can't wait to shower. I'm exhausted. And then you get in the elevator and instantly you realize, oh, I left my stupid Apple watch in the Uber and it wasn't even my Uber. So I got to get

Alan involved in this. And the people pleaser in me hates this. And the Uber driver, no speak English very well and had a real tough time communicating. He said he would call us back in 20 minutes. I don't know why he couldn't talk then, but he said, us back in 20 minutes. I don't know why he couldn't talk then, but he said call back in 20 minutes. And so what he did was he got about 20 minutes away, and then he called back and said, oh, I'm so far away. And I was like, well, you weren't when we called you, right? And he said, I'm actually done working for the day too,

so I can't come back into the city. It was 3 p.m. Yeah, yeah. Now it's 2 p.m. And someone's still out. Yep. He's done working for the day. Okay, can't come back into the city it was 3 p.m yeah yeah and someone's thought yep he's done working for the day okay no worries what about tomorrow tomorrow's my off day you know saturday yeah what scheduled how uber works yeah i mean they tell you when to work when you don't work um hey respect him that's his sabbath maybe he doesn't want to work on Saturdays. That's great. And he said, $75. I bring

it to you now. We said, how about you just return my property right now? And he said, no. And so then he said, I can return it to a police station. And we said, great. Which one and where? And then it just gibberish. Didn't make any any sense we never got an address we never got a time and never heard from him again so i tried to be optimistic the next couple days i was like well sunday he's gonna work again on sunday tried calling him he never answered every time i tried to be optimistic to manager tom i was like that thing's on ebay brother it's like that thing he does not have that thing the police don't have that thing that is actually bought it off of ebay tom's like did have a little scratch on the left side?

Have some paint marks on it. So anyway, that same day I lost an Apple Watch and my hair pomade. Rough day. For me and you. Hey, Christmas is coming up. Christmas coming up.

Don't buy me an Apple Watch. Don't buy me an Apple Watch for Christmas. So I'm watchless. So I was like, you know what this is an opportunity to see like do i need it do i need the watch you do for the runs i just thought about that i do oh to like track yeah yeah well look we can share so i was surprised at how much i find myself wanting to check it still i'm really curious

about the time yeah and i like i have the weather up on my home screen. That is so nice. When you're traveling, I'm checking the weather all the time. I learned about myself. Yes. Always checking the weather. You are the weatherman. I'll tell you what else I'm learning is I am the Google man. I am just Googling stuff constantly when you're in another country, when you're in another time zone.

Which is also why sometimes when I have a question, I ask you to Google it because you're so fast and good at it. Rachel has developed a knack for asking me very Google-able questions and I'm happy to look it up. And you do and it works. You know, my internet, it's different. It's like a whole new thing.

You type it in better, which we have learned you do type things in better. The one Google search I've seen you do, I was a little interested in some of the term verse what were we googling oh time let's talk about this whole conversation i mean last episode i was telling you about how stupid i was and trying to figure out the time to australia but now it's like well we got this figured out no we do not do not. No, we don't. That's it. It took me the whole day yesterday here to figure out how,

when we were in Sydney, you subtract five hours to see where Kansas City is. When we're in New Zealand, you add five hours. That one did throw you off a little bit. What got me, I think, was that if you add it normally, I forgot that you go to 12 and you start back over at one

so then i was just like adding too many numbers that aren't on the clock if that makes sense i wasn't going in 12s in my mind this makes sense okay and now i figured it out but that was very confusing to me yeah we were a little lost there for a little bit. But we started to, so I went to text Josh and Maggie Mayer because we have like a six hour layover in Dallas tomorrow. I'll put in quotes. I don't know if it is tomorrow. I know we start flying tomorrow. Might be yesterday when this one comes out.

Yeah. I don't know when anything is happening. But I go to text and I was like, let's make sure we know when the layover is. And so I don't think this is all our fault because I, and my Google calendar here in New Zealand right now, it says that I have a flight from Dallas to Kansas city on Thursday. And so I was like, great. Well, that makes sense. It's a day ahead here. Obviously it's Wednesday. When you go into the daily view of thursday when you click on the flight then it says wednesday so it's like oh okay now it's doing it local time okay i can conceptualize all this but then we're in the new zealand airport we're going through customs

trying to figure stuff out we've heard that they might need your um outgoing flight from new zealand i'm basically i'm on the american Airlines app and looking at my boarding pass and it says DFW to MCI Tuesday. I'm like, now we got three days. It can't be three days. No one's 48 hours ahead. I'm okay with there being two days. I'm like, oh, that's just New Zealand.

But once you toss in a third day, something's up. And then for the next hour, we were done for. We didn't talk to anybody. We didn't talk to each we didn't we didn't talk to each other it was just google and confusion yep and that's where the term verse came in oh yeah that's right because we were like well let's just actually calculate it out according to new zealand time we were doing all sorts of stuff like i've tried googling it it's not really working why don't you try googling and it worked it did so what'd you google what was your start so we

calculated it out exactly hour by hour we're like okay it's going to take 21 hours or something so it's like let's just count 21 hours from the time we leave in new zealand and then see what that time the 21st hour would be in kansas city oh see because we did it all new zealand time yeah yeah so like then let's just see what it will be Kansas City because that's where we'll be at. Yep. So then we figured it out. It was like 2.30 a.m. or something.

And so I typed in 2.30 a.m. New Zealand time versus Chicago Central. Chicago Central. And I was like, they're not fighting. There's not a winner or a loser. And I got the answer. And then Rachel was like, I think I type's not a winner and I got the answer and then Rachel was like I think I type verses a lot in Google I do it's just a funny thought instead of compared to

it's verse on one side you've got New Zealand and they're mad and on the other side you've got Chicago and they're mad who's gonna win who's it gonna be muchacho um so yeah the verses was really funny made me giggle um yeah that was a funny afternoon yesterday i mean we really didn't know and i was like dang i just spent so much time double checking and confirming with brad and timon hey the 21st brad's like hey katherine wants to leave for texas when's the earliest we can do this i was like lock it in baby thursday 9 a.m we're doing it timon's it i'll see you there 24 hours later i was like hey so we're gonna have to change that i think i'm 85 sure we fly on on tuesday now but until we're there i won't know yeah right now we think that we've got an extra day that we didn't know about

we didn't think we thought it was just one night in kansas city and then off to strafford i think it might spend two nights there we're living the 19th three times two times two jake so once again guys just our lives are so hard it's so hard right now um what else you want to talk about our last day in melbourne we did a bunch of fun things this is the day we podcasted i think we didn't even talk about this stuff um we did sky deck we did cricket new New favorite sport. Yeah, we did do cricket. Yeah. I mean, I love baseball. And it was less action than that. I put on my story that we went to this cricket game and put like,

it's like baseball, but slower. And so many people were like, baseball's already slow. I was like, yeah. Yes, it is. Yes, yes, yes, yes. You follow me for a while. It's all comedy. You know it's comedy. And they're like, baseball's so slow.

What do you mean? Cricket is even slower than that. I'm like, yes. Yeah. Yeah, it is. Yeah, so it was slow. It was slow. Yeah, it was.

And we felt like, you know, we'd all done our homework. It was funny. Like, Alan on his Uber ride there had watched a video. Trey had, like had read a Wikipedia article. I was watching stuff and trying to figure out the cricket rules. So we all kind of came in with a different baseline of rules. And even not knowing a whole lot, we knew enough to be like, I don't think our team's that good.

After the game, Alan finds an article. The headline says, Melbourne Stars scored the third lowest runs in bbl history which bbl history is kind of funny it's it's not brazilian butt lift it's the uh was it bash dang it bash i don't remember big bash league big bash league something funny something like it's like on mario um so yeah they had one of the worst performances of all time in a game that's known for being slow and rachel was there all three hours i was i was we had a little coke zero yes we did we're cook zero family yeah we did they love keeping the coke zero flowing down here and something's up with it it tastes too good to be

zero sugar i don't even like pop i love coke zero it's good down here um you guys might have seen on my story at halftime whatever they call it um they just brought out this dj and pyrotechnics and they shot off fireworks and that was awesome i was in the bathroom for that rachel did miss by far the most exciting part but yeah i mean it's a hundred thousand seater stadium only about ten thousand people were there and it was just awesome seeing the fireworks go off i was like they don't do this at arrowhead stadium for the cheap we don't get any kind of it's like normally some boys choir singing this is awesome They were shooting off fireworks right where they were playing soon.

It was fun though. They were bright green and navy or something. Their colors were pretty fun. Fun colors. Thought that was a good detail to share. Who'd they play against? The Perth. What did we think they were? Smashers, Crushers. Yeah, they were orange.

Fire. they looked good they won we um earlier that day we went to the sky deck which melbourne has probably been our least favorite city here uh so we were just kind of struggling trying to find like things to do there it just felt like a big city like it was sort of like annoying walking on sidewalks because there were so many people there and we were like really conscious of like okay let's walk on the left side because that's how they drive that's probably how the sidewalks are nobody does that anarchy it's just crazy and it seems like in america um bird scooters any kind of scooter is like you're told like you will get beeped out you'll get in trouble if you ride on the sidewalk yeah in australia it's not the case the birds are taking

up the sidewalk yeah and sometimes there's bikers on the sidewalk so it is pretty dangerous and just yeah and we were just middle downtown chinatown it just it was hard to find things to do we almost went to a science museum i would have enjoyed it yeah i was gonna probably it was definitely for kids it was for kids so i was like i i would love to do this brad and katherine this thing i i will take hattie to a science museum any day yep i guess Rachel's coming. I'll take Bo and Rosie. And, but I found this thing called the Melbourne Sky Deck. Oh, it was a blast. Did you have a blast?

Yeah. Oh, cool. Did you? Yeah, it was pretty fun. I didn't know how much fun you were having. I feel like you don't love heights as much as I love heights. Did I have a sad face once? No, no, no.

I just, like, this was like something I picked out. That's true. That's true. I think she might just be doing this because I made a decision. Like, oh, better than nothing. That's fair. No, it just, like, this was, like, something I picked out. That's true. I was like, I think she might just be doing this because I made a decision. She's like, oh, better than nothing. That's fair. No, it was very fun. You start out down low on the main floor, and you sit in these little pods.

I forgot about the pods. I put this on my story. Yeah. Or on my post. Celia had a great comment about it. And you put, like, VR goggles on, and the pods will, like, twist. And what you're seeing in the goggles are just like, it's like a tour of Melbourne.

So at one point, you're going on a roller coaster. And you really go down the hill, and the chair will tip. So your body's just slightly going down. But since you have every sense going, you really do feel like you're going on a roller coaster. So then the next hill hill I closed my eyes, couldn't feel the drop. First hill I did, second hill I didn't.

So it's all mental. But yeah, and then they take you up in the VR goggles. Like maybe you'll be like by the ocean and then you're downtown. Like they just give you a tour. Every now and then there would leak smell in there. Yeah, like when you're walking through the rose garden, you could smell the rose.

It was very nice. Speaking of all mental, we go up to the top. I think we took an elevator to the 68th floor. I think it was 88. Oh, 88. Yeah, I think you're right. Very, very high up. I remember them saying,

the world's largest observation deck in the Southern Hemisphere. Woo. Rub that in my face. Why don't you? Very high up. You could see the whole city. A lot of fun things to do. But they also, we bought the VR plank.

Yes, we did. Big VR day for us. And yeah, they give you this little plank to walk on. Like it's a physical piece of wood for your feet to feel and walk on. And it does wobble. But you do have goggles and it's like you're walking a plank on top of the observation deck. And it's spooky.'re walking a plank on top of the observation deck. And, uh, it's spooky. It was so scary.

I mean, obviously you can probably just like look up or something. There's probably ways to hack it, but like we paid 20 bucks to do this. Let's look down and feel the sensation. And it does work. You look down and it feels very real. It was so scary.

I was sweating so much. Yeah. You take the tiniest steps and the, the plank does wobble. So once again, you feel like you're actually up there. And you've got these headphones in, they're so loud and it's blowing wind. And it does feel like I'm like, I'm getting blown away a little bit.

Like a bird will fly by. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It was so realistic. So that was a cool idea. Yeah, Jake got all the way to the end of the plank and then you hold on to this bar and like you're ziplining down from the building. And Jake actually held on to the bar and like you're zip lining down and Jake actually held onto the bar and you were swinging from it.

I was hanging from it. I wasn't swinging left and right. Um, but I got a lot of replies to my story. There's like, of course you should hang from the zip line. Yeah. Like it's,

it's a metal zip line, but he got in trouble for it immediately. And apparently the headphones were like really loud in my ears. So I didn't know how loud I was talking. She gets mad. Uh, sir, don't hang oh sorry i was trying to get the full experience all right i won't hang louder i guess i was just screaming which you're always very conscious about that in public so it was like this is a jake i don't know yeah i was in a different world so yeah did the vr yeah that was fun so making the most of it just doing best friend stuff um here's an ad that you can maybe have some things to talk about rachel cozy earth is

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What else do we have? We'll keep going fast. Give me a quick list. Um, I wrote down some of your hypothetical questions that you've asked me. Well, I'll just start with one. Last night at dinner, Rachel, just out of nowhere, it goes, if our kids ever study abroad, do you think we'll ever go visit them? You gotta know this.

I was like, uh, 24 years uh probably depends where yeah yeah maybe we're just like okay good good i'm trying to book the flights okay okay that's good you just gotta make sure you're on the same page for everything yeah no that's good don't know what you want for dinner what you want to do tomorrow but like let's we gotta visit them we have to promise me we'll visit them please um i wrote that down uh we already talked about one-armed people we're good there great there great there um no let's talk about should we do our schmores real quick i don't think it'll go too long we're gonna do our schmores of australian slang words and these are just ones that we've like kind of heard and

picked up on since we've been here. So Rachel, you can go first. What is my favorite? I don't want you to take all mine. Okay. I think my favorite Australian word is rubbish. Dang it. I had rubbish first. Yes.

I loved rubbish. Rubbish. That's what they use for trash garbage throwing things away good luck finding it though like it can be rubbish maybe you need to find a rubbish can

a rubbish binny rubbish rubbish binny they don't like having them out though it's very hard to find trash cans it's so hard to find

trash cans I have used I have had to go into a Starbucks which they only have about two a couple times to use their trash can

to throw away a different coffee cup yeah few and far between but I love the rubbish down here all right it's just a nicer it's a nicer word for garbage garbage garbage is gross gar this is fancy what i'm throwing away rubbish yeah i like that my two picks are going to be brekkie oh i wanted that one i like that they call breakfast brekkie like you go to the mcdonald's here which they call macas you want to get brekkie and they'll have like brekkie items that's nice to see great pick i like brekkie i also like do you remember uh this i can't remember

who told us this but instead of sunglasses they call them sunnies yes i remember that of course so i'm gonna go brekkie and then sunny's. Great picks, Jay. I definitely want to bring Sonny's back to the States. I like Sonny's. Yes, we are bringing Sonny's back. Okay. Next, I'm going to pick for a napkin or just like a paper towel. They call them nappies. Nappies.

Take a nappy. Put your nappy in the rubbish. There you go. So I'm going to take nappy. You're just going to form a full sentence when you're done. They all go together. Okay. I am also going to throw my tinny in the garbage or in the rubbish there you go so i'm gonna take nappy you're you're just gonna form a full sentence when you're done they all go together okay i am also gonna throw my tinny in the garbage or in the rubbish in the garbage okay tinny is a word that we haven't used much because it means beer but it's such a it's a much better word for beer i think it might be like a can of beer yeah can of beer yeah it's a tinny tinny your tinny in the rubbish oh yeah cricket game yeah i got some tickets they come with tinnies yep um my other two are going to be

wait yeah you did too i'm gonna go with gutted i like gutted uh one of the um old sbu women's soccer players was sending me a voice memo about coming to the show. And she was like, you know, I'm bummed about this and that. I'm just, well, she didn't say bummed. She's like, I'm gutted. I'm gutted about it. It seemed more like visceral. It's more extreme. Like, there's sad.

There's bummed. I can feel it here. There's, yeah. But it's like, I am gutted to miss out on that. Morgan and Scott, you wanted to bring us cookies? I'm gutted we were gone. Hattie's growing up without us. I'm gutted we were gone Hattie's growing up without us I'm gutted about that

that is rubbish that is rubbish and then my other one I liked that they called their version of the Australian football that they play I like they called footy

you're gonna win they're so good you think these are the good ones they're like a ball better than mine so yeah I really like footy I'm kind of surprised

they don't call soccer footy yeah because I just like footy. I'm kind of surprised they don't call soccer footy. Yeah. Because I just think that would just be shortening football. Makes sense, yeah. But either way, footy, great word. I like footy. Footy, plain footy.

Okay, my last one is, it actually happened at one of Jake's shows. We found out about this job. The person who, maybe you're working at a crosswalk at a school and you tell the cars to stop and go i was doing crowd work those people are called lollies because they hold that stick that says like stop and go and it looks like a lollipop so they call them lollies yeah every night of the show and i think people find it kind of funny but i'm

i'm struggling up there i can't understand people people. And when I do understand them, they're using words I don't know. It's like, what do you do for a living? What did she say at first? She said like transportation guide or something. I was like, what is that? And she's like, I'm a lolly. I was like, well, now we got to do this again. What is a lolly?

And then she said, I'm a lollipop lady. I'm a lollipop lady. And I was like, what website do you make money off of and she's like no i just like turn it from slow to stop yep i was like that is what you do it's not like i work construction you only turn the sign and she was sitting in the front row yep it pays well and she loved her job she's happy about it proud of it so lolly fun uh okay so what were all yours? Lolly, tinny, rubbish, and nappy. Nappy. I had brekkie, sunnies, gutted, and footy.

Great ones. Good schmores. Footy. Well, we've been in Australia a lot. Famous Australian, Margot Robbie. Yep. Famous movie, Margot Robbie's been in Australia a lot. Famous Australian, Margot Robbie. Yep. Famous movie Margot Robbie's been in, Barbie. Yep.

Famous Instagram clip of Rachel and Catherine going off, Barbie thoughts. Barbie thoughts. I watched it on my way here. And yeah, I finally watched Barbie. I wanted Brad and I to watch it together, but I was bored on the plane. Needed to watch something. It was on the screen. So here's my Barbie thoughts. And I I was trying to I didn't want to

look up what you said because I don't really don't remember much um but I remember going into it like everybody is so critical about this um and I don't know if we need to be so critical about this movie like maybe it's supposed to be a kid's movie and I'm not gonna like try and like pick apart this movie I'm just gonna like watch it I'm just gonna watch it and like pick apart this movie I'm just gonna like watch it I'm just gonna watch it and I don't know if I'm really like uh I don't know if I deserve to give movie reviews I'm kind of like Jeff Beathie I'm like they're all pretty good National Treasure is one of the best movies ever made so I mean I like pretty much anything but um I thought the first five minutes were really fun I was like this is this is great. Yeah, I agree. This is fun. This is a good time.

The second five minutes were very confusing to me because that's when Ken tries to kiss Barbie. And so I was like, okay, so they're not dolls. They are like humans with feelings, I guess. And they have feelings of like desire and like lust, if you want to call it that. But everything that I'd been shown thus far was like, they are like almost robots. It was like their feet are stuck and they wake up at the same time every day and so i was just generally kind of confused i was like i don't know where to put them in the

human spectrum of like emotions like i don't know if they have free will or like ken is like trying to make moves on barbie she's like i don't think so ken so i was like i don't do they flirt here like do they have relationships in barbie world so all good yeah i'm still just like all right you're starting to pick it apart just just enjoy the movie this is a kid's movie all right and then pretty early on into it you're i'm hearing words like they're talking about oh barbie's you know she's having an existential crisis um they throw out the word genitalia multiple times they say specific words of genitalia multiple times the the president of barter world says mfr and so it's like i don't okay this i don't think this is a kid's movie at this point like they're talking about crippling

depression and stuff like this like oh these are probably pretty serious topics or whatever and so with that in mind i was like oh another oh, another thing, because they did cast, there's like a probably a 13-year-old girl who's cast in the movie, and they don't really need her for the movie. I think she's in there. My thought was like, this is for 13-year-old girls to see themselves in it. So maybe it's more for them, you know. But yeah, the whole movie, the one thing I do remember you and Catherine saying was like,

there is no plot. There was no plot in the whole movie, which I'm over here now. Like, how can there be no plot? Which maybe I'll have to look up the definition of a plot, but it is, it's pretty light. There isn't a whole lot. Yeah. And basically it's just like, yeah, you know, Barbies realize, hey, we need to go to the real world.

Oh, we thought the real world was like Barbie world where where the women were the movie actually has a pretty funny parts like they when they're in the real world and they're like hey let's talk to some respectful people let's go to the construction workers and they get cat called like that was not like barbie world at all there were some like pretty funny parts to it i think kate mckinnon was really funny barbie's great yeah um margot robbie did a really good job she was a great barbie yeah i'm trying to keep us do a good job kate mckinnon i guess um will ferrell yeah he was kind of funny i don't get his part yeah it was interesting i couldn't tell if he was a feminist or if he was like a misogynist i know i don't know either all good though maybe i shouldn't even be trying to think like that. But basically, the movie, you know, it's just like, it's kind of this anti-patriarchy, like

feminists, like women got to take it back. And truly watching the movie, I was like, all right, in the end, they're going to show that like men and women should be equals. But that wasn't the message. I was kind of surprised. I was like, oh, wow. It's like men are less valuable and like less worthy of like love and respect than women. Yes. So I was kind of oh, wow, it's like men are less valuable and less worthy of love and respect than women. Yes.

So I was kind of surprised by that. And I think my later thought was like, you see headlines a lot about like, I'm done with Pixar, I'm done with Disney, fill in the blank. Everyone's forcing an agenda. I don't watch any of those movies. All I see is the headlines.

And my response usually is like, I doubt they're forcing it. Disney had one gay character i don't i think it's fine kind of thing um but this was like a very on the nose i was shocked i was like oh this is like this is very like on the nose like they're saying things like well whatever just like i was surprised i was like maybe this is what the people are talking about um and that's fine i don't think feminism is inherently bad. But I think when you start saying feminine people need to be actually treated better than men, then it's like, hey, hold on.

I'm sorry about some stuff that goes on. I'm sorry about some prejudice and some things that happen. But I don't think women should have all the jobs. Yeah, one type of human shouldn't be. Yeah. So those are my barbie thoughts like i said i'm probably not the best to leave a review i watched it one time on an airplane with cheap little headphones and so i mean those are just my thoughts good thoughts

what do you think i think i had my thoughts and katherine's thoughts were similar um i yeah i think just the main thing of it it's like i don't know what audience they were targeting it towards it's like they wanted it to be for all you know girls but then it was also like yeah talking about depression and making sexual jokes so it's like okay so probably not for the little girls and so but then you look at like the the broad plot and just like a lot of the immaturity of it then it's like well maybe it was for little girls because it's sort of weird

for adults to really enjoy so it's weird but like I I definitely would not bring anyone under the age of 16 to it yeah

that was the only thing but they yeah marketed it that it was okay for those people to go so yeah that's all

anyway just figured it was such a big deal when Catherine and Rachel watched it I finally watched it i finally watched it i was like yeah i'll talk about that on the podcast i guess it's whatever if you liked it great i met plenty of people who love the movie i think that's great i think you

can look at it and not like try to take away all these things from it fun outfits fun colors do a leap was in there she's singing her songs i love a little Dua Lipa. So, yeah. It is Wednesday. Do you have a win of the week, Rachel? Win of the week. Win of the week. I wish it was that I could say we were undefeated in paddle. I wish it was that.

We did lose. We did lose. However, it was when we were in the 100 degree weather outside, no sunglasses. After we'd been playing for two and a half hours. I was at the very end of a long stretch. And I was truly exhausted. It was a long stretch. And I had a bru. After we'd been playing for two and a half hours. I was at the very end of a long. And I was truly exhausted. It was a long stretch. And I had a bruise on my knee, a rug burn on my knee. So I had some battle scars.

But my win of the week is that I got placed for my internship. My last internship. That's right. Yep. You're fully done with this one. You're fully done with that class you were in. And you've been placed. I've been placed.

You got an elementary school. Yep. On the horizon. Yep. It's going yep on the horizon yep it's gonna be great yep it's very excited about it good job yep one last co-worker for helping me find it if she watches and uh yeah one last semester of getting of getting to work for free yes that is wonderful what a privilege yep to get to do that um my win of the week is gonna be um gonna be brad ellis you know he's he's holding down the fort at home he's watching over us he's taking care of our packages he's putting up funny instagram stories he's posting to jean shorts um so win of the week is that i've got a partner in crime i've got another machacho back home i'm taking care of things i can't wait to see everybody when i get back but really excited

to podcast with brad and time and here in a few days and talk about stuff you know i think that's another win for us is that we've been on this like amazing vacation for so long but we have such a good family we have families that we love in community back home that we're so excited to get back to yeah that our regular life is better i kind of have to convince myself that this is amazing in a way because normal life is so good and it's so fun and we have these awesome rhythms and these friends and these hangouts but it's like this is definitely unique it's fun we get to do this i get to perform and people laugh at me in a different country and that's awesome and this will be the longest vacation we ever take

sorry we will never do another three and a half week vacation again unless we're visiting the kids uh on their yeah in italy yeah but uh but there is a little bit of like no this is good this is fun i kind of like exploring every day where it's like i just want to get in my car and drive to chick-fil-a and be back in the house in 15 minutes chick-fil-a when of the week i want to drive to the indoor paddle courts we installed that has a chick-fil-a drive they're connected to it oh man guys just let's let's get a facebook group like thread going about paddle i would love to talk to you. I've been emailing people who install courts. I've been emailing people who have a business dedicated to helping other people grow their paddle business.

I'm all in on paddle. Well, I'm not all in. I don't have money or time. You're trying to be all in. But mentally, I'm there. It's awesome. It's awesome. All right, Rachel, this is the end of podcasting for you.

Yep. You're done. We'll get back to Tymon the end of podcasting for you. Yep. You're done. We'll get back to Tymon next week. He will not be on camera. You obviously are allowed on camera. You look way different and way better than Tymon. And we are a feminist podcast. So we think women should have roles in front of the camera

and men should not. So any last words? Last time maybe ever on the podcast. Who knows? What do you want to say? Good night, mate. Good night, mate. Good night, mate. That was in my honorable mentions of.

It was also in mine. So it's crikey. So it was takeaway. Forgot about crikey. Wait, takeaway. Oh. Instead of takeout, they call it takeaway. Yeah.

I had bloody. Oh, bloody's good. You're bloody. Oh, I had Sheila. Yeah, I had bloke. And bloke. Blokes and Sheila's. Which I haven't heard Sheila,

but I just know from the outback steakhouse bathroom blokes are boys sheila's are girls i didn't know that and steve erwin always say like he'd be wrestling a crocodile like she's a nasty sheila she's nasty she so maybe it was just an alligator yeah i'm just calling women alligators hey sheila um and bogan which is like their word for redneck bogan bogan all right thank you guys for listening go check out good ranchers major roasters cozy earth friday paddle hey friday paddles yeah they've just been right here the whole time we brought them friday pickleball paddles that's right not friday paddle.com that's something else a whole different entity um all right love you guys thank

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