Ghostrunners - 291 - We're Finally Reunited

Episode Date: December 27, 2023

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do you smell that bro what are you smelling it smells like we're back that's right it does let's party baby time can you find can you look on youtube for copyright free banger pop yeah dance yeah yeah yeah edm Research all that. Friends are back after Australia. Okay. Celebrate good times. Come on. Two friends ask. Got it.

Okay. Big booty mix cover. Be like. Be like. Got it. Okay. Let's see how this is. Yeah.

This is. Do you smell that? Do you hear it? Oh, yeah. Do you hear it? Oh, yeah. Do you taste it? Uh, uh, yeah. We're back. We're back.

Hey, hey. Rachel's still asleep, but we're back. Sorry, Rachel. That was the perfect song. That was perfect. Exactly what I was thinking. Yes. Night at the Roxbury, but 2023 version.

Maybe 2024 by the time you're listening to this. Who knows? Hey, we're back. It's December 27th. Hope you had a good Christmas, a good boxing day, a good... Unboxing day. Good unboxing day. Yeah, or unwrapping the presents.

It's going to be a great episode. We are back. B-A-C-K. I want my Ghost Hunters back. Ghost Hunters back. B-A-C-K. I want my ghost hunters back. Ghost hunters back. I want mine. Dang it. No, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think. 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 Brothers Podcast.

Everybody morning, we're taking round, Ghost Brothers Podcast. Ghost Brothers Podcast. Yes, welcome back. What episode is this again? This is either 291 or 292. This is Ghostbusters podcast presented by Good Rangers. Either way, yee-haw. Either way, we are back. American meat delivered.

We are, yeah, this is the Wednesday episode, which is going to feel, I think, more like a Monday episode because we haven't seen each other in a while. We're catching up. The Christmas episode, you guys heard it on Monday. A little Christmas special. Maybe you did. Let us know.

Let us know when you heard it. We'll be interested to hear. Yeah. I think we're kind of anticipating not a lot of people listening on Christmas, which is probably to be expected. Honestly, if you did listen on Christmas, check your heart a little. You know? No, I think I'll be interested because I think there's enough people that,

you know, the Christmas hustle, the Christmas bustle, you know, happen. And then it's that good time from like two to four where people are kind of napping people are kind of just lounging you get on your phone you watch some ghostwriters chiefs game at noon on christmas how do we feel about that i mean how do you i'm watching yeah i think katherine's like you realize that she's play on christmas i was like, yeah. I've known since August. Yeah, I do. Yeah, luckily Catherine's dad is as big of a sports fan as anybody, and so he'll be all about it.

He's not going to, especially that he knows it's my team, he's going to fight for me to watch it. That's great. He might, if we're eating lunch, he might, he's not going to be like, hey, Brad can't eat right now. We got to eat later. But I think he'll be like, hey, yeah, get up there. Get upstairs and go watch the game. Get up there.

I'll be up there soon. Yeah. Okay. Good deal. Yeah. But one of the things I want to talk to you about was Chiefs and Mahomes and all that hoopla, just wild stuff that we haven't been able to talk about. Yeah. If you're, for some reason, listening for the first time this episode, which would be awesome.

Yeah. Everyone's been laughing at their family gatherings to the Christmas episode together. Now they're like, I got to listen to another episode. You got to listen to this one. They're bad. Yeah. Brad and I, for the last four and a half years, this is the longest we've ever spent apart, the longest we've ever not recorded a podcast together.

We were apart like three weeks. Wow. And we're back. We're back. What's that smell on the mic? It smells like two guys who are back, baby. Dude, one time in college, my friend, Kerry Tyler, now Kerry Higgins,

for those SPU people who know her. I remember one time me and my friend, werie tyler now carrie higgins for those spu people who know her um one time me and my friend were trying to like glenn higgins he she's married to glenn oh yes i was like i feel like i've heard that a name like that before yeah good job me and my friend jake williams were trying to i don't know what we were doing just messing or something but we went and got in the back of her Suburban. We were going to hide in the trunk of it and, I don't know, scare her. I don't know what Plan B was. Just boys. She got in her car, and within

five seconds, she's in there by herself. She's out loud. She goes, smells like boy in here. I was just like, oh, man. That's hurtful. I showered like three days ago. That's fine. What we're smelling on three days ago. Yeah, that's fine. And so what we're smelling on the mic,

Carrie Tyler also smells like her car. Carrie Tyler gets it. This one's for you, care. Right there. Smells like two bullies back. You like our must, Carrie? Catherine will do that every once in a while. She'll just walk into our room and just be like,

it smells in here. And I'm like, that's hurtful. Because it's not you. It's me. I understand it's always me. And I'm like, that's hurtful. Yeah, it's not you. Yeah, me. I understand. It's always me. It's often like after I've like worked really hard in the wood shop that day or something.

I'm like, yeah, it's cold, blood, sweat and tears. Providing. Trying to make money for our family. What's this smell like? Does this smell like provision? Does this smell like food on the table? Gosh, it smells like, yeah, sheer masculinity and profits. Golly.

So it's, yeah, is Rachel, has that happened to you yet? Oh, my gosh. Probably on the road you have. She's got the nose of a basset hound, so I can't get anything past her. Right. Good or bad. Want to surprise her with some food? Good luck.

She could smell food in the refrigerator from the couch. Wow. She did that one time, and I was like, this is unbelievable. Was it because it was bad? Yeah. She's like, I think I left some leftovers in the fridge for too long. Dude, yeah. She's like, this is unbelievable. Was it because it was bad? Yeah. I think there's... I think I left some leftovers in the fridge for too long. Dude, yeah.

We need to take her pheasant hunting because she got a nose on her. I don't hate that idea. Do you use noses to pheasant hunt? The dogs do. Yeah, they're sniffing. I knew the humans didn't. Well, you... What does that smell like? It smells like a hunt. Northeast. Yeah, she's got a crazy nose. So she's always smell like it smells like the hunt northeast yeah she's got a crazy

nose so she's always just like do you fart like no i did that's the worst too it's like hey that's offensive because i didn't i did like 25 minutes ago maybe yeah so maybe i kind of smell a little yeah and rachel is not one to quickly be like oh it was a while ago i bet it dissipated then she's like i think i can still smell it. Like, there's no way. There's no way. There's no way. Just admit that you were wrong.

Admit that it's in your head. Oh, classic, dude. Yesterday, we flew back from New Zealand. It was a 14-hour flight. And she had a sweet woman next to her. So she got rewarded, like didn't have to deal with anything crazy. She didn't have a fever. But this woman got up to go to the bathroom one time,

and Rachel swore. She's like, she had a fart under her blanket. This old lady. That's real. And I was like, oh, man, that stinks. And then when the lady came back, Rachel's like getting my attention, and she's like just moving her nose.

And I was like, does it smell bad? She's like, yes. I was like, I can't smell it. She's like, you have to smell it. Yeah, surely you smell it. I don't know. In fact, we're in the same area. I can't smell it. Really? Oh yeah. The airplanes, like there's been so many times where I'm like, I just let out a six second fart and it's not going to smell for two more hours.

It's just, it's just lingering under there. It's just, I feel like airplanes, you can get away with way more. because the air is different or something yes and i'll tell you this was validated yesterday i'm trying to be a little good little boy i'm reading on the flight yeah and i can't just leave my paperback book open because the pages are blowing in like the wind oh i didn't even feel windy to me i felt nice i felt good in there but then once i got the book out and i saw the pages i I was like, I think there's a lot of airflow happening in this airplane. Not just from the overhead fan thing?

Yeah, how those turned off. There's a lot of natural air moving around, so let them fly. It is generally pretty cold on an airplane, so that makes sense. Yeah, it does stink. Catherine's calling me. She got to know.

Whoa, new phone. Just no case. Ah. We'll talk. Hey, you're on the podcast right now is this important because you know i'm recording well i didn't know you're recording that's why i was calling to say are you recording yet i have two very very eager neighborhood children that want to come oh to see to see mr jake and miss rachel yes miss rachel is still uh hibernating i think oh good for her okay

i will hold them off here's an idea you could call rachel next time i'm teasing i'm teasing i'm teasing i love you yeah she would she would be like yeah that is a good point real response from you yes that's a good point good job katherine all right well what time yeah well yeah just just i'll let you know if if and when she wakes up yes that would be wonderful love you okay bye all you podcast people bye bye that's funny so no case huh uh so no case, huh? Uh, yeah. So the other night, well,

I honestly dude, like, so it's so funny when you get back from a trip, like little things. It's like, why don't I just do this real quick? Like a mission trip. Yeah.

No, no, not like that. Sorry. No, sorry. The, the,

not the opposite of that, but like so often, like I've gotten in a habit now, every time I get back from a trip immediately, genuinely, almost literally when I walk in the door and go to my room with my bag, I unpack it right away. I did that last night. It's a great thing. Felt good. I've already packed for Stratford Christmas right now. Amazing. How great is that? You know, like Rachel could not be more opposite. It's hilarious. And Catherine is the same way.

She still has her bag in our room from Hawaii. Oh, Rachel hasn't unpacked from the honeymoon. It's unbelievable. Rachel still doesn't really truly live here. Half her clothes are in Iowa. Yeah, exactly. And Catherine's not always that bad. I think, you know, whatever. It's just a busy time of year. But I unpacked everything,

but then I think my phone charger cord was in another room. And so I do have one of those chargers that you can, it's like a wireless charger, but then it also has a cord that, you know, like it has a USB port that I can plug into as well. So I, I've been doing the USB ports.

It's faster. My case on my phone, I have one of those like Otter box cases from back in the day. That's like indestructible case. Cause I was like, this is going to be great for woodworking stuff. And so it doesn't, it's too thick to work with the wireless charger very well. Took off the wireless charging or took off the case to charge it wirelessly a few times. And I've just been going rogue ever since. So yeah, it's, it's interesting.

I know you're, you're, you're team. No case. I don't know if I'm team no case yet, but I'm test driving no case. Yeah. And I'm getting used to the slickness of it. That's the only issue that I have. It can be slippery, certain shorts, certain pants. The hard thing for me is I'm very used to putting my phone on my leg while I drive. And there's not enough. You got to tuck. Oh, under where? Exactly. In like the, in the waistband. Yeah. Okay. My bra strap. Yep. yep all right we'll see you guys later tucking it in the waistband that'd be cold dude yeah okay just like underneath the leg like like sit on the bottom half of your phone that sounds like one of those things that in 10 years we're gonna be like and that's how he got testicular cancer just all that radiation right

there yeah maybe shouldn't i don't't know. Speaking of the case, so I think we talked about this in Hawaii. I bought an iPad at Costco. Right. For the long flights. What kind did you get? The iPad 10. I don't know why I asked.

Yeah. I was so out of the loop with iPads. I don't know what you guys have been making. I've seen something about an iPad Pro. There's like the ones that are as big as your computer. Yeah. You got the Apple Pencil. I've never seen anyone actually ever use that in the wild. I don't know what you guys are even making. I've seen something about an iPad pro. There's like the ones that are as big as your computer. Yeah. You got the Apple pencil. I've never seen anyone actually ever use that in the wild. I don't know. Integrated guys use it and it looks nice. Really? Does it? Busby likes it. John Tyson likes it. TJ likes it. Yeah. I know they have iPad minis. The only people I ever see using iPads are three-year-olds.

I didn't know you could even buy one as an adult. I was like, do I need a fake ID right here? Do I need to fake a three-year-old's birthday? Yeah. you could even buy one as an adult. I was like, do I need a fake ID? Do I need to fake a three-year-old's birthday? Yeah, you need to have a kid off the street walk in with you like, yeah, we're here for the iPad. For the kid. We're allowed. We can download PBS Kids. Yes. But we bought an iPad, and Rachel pretty early on

getting it was like, we need a case on this. And I was like, an iPad? I mean, I really don't think... Out of all things, you're going to drop. Yeah, I really don't foresee us like dropping the iPad. I think we're going to be fine and about halfway through our Australia trip Rachel just found a way to step squarely

on the iPad. It was just on the ground 11 inch screen just flat on the ground and just step fully on it. You can see the full footprint of her hokas fine. Okay, you know, at least she dispersed the weight throughout the whole screen so it's fine but yeah i was like huh you were right i guess then you are my three-year-old kid that's pretty funny then again what's the case gonna do in that

yeah if you step on the screen i think i just i don't know just get one of those screen protector things i am team screen protector because we we talked about Emily Duckworth, right? I don't know. Oh, yeah, yeah. She dropped it. Somebody parked on top of her phone. Wind reverse, the screen looked completely cracked, and then she just peeled out the screen protector,

and it was totally fine. They're great. They make some good ones out there. Yeah. So I like the screen protector. Okay, maybe do that for Rachel's feet. Yeah, I was really disappointed to learn when I was going to Hawaii Yeah. So I like the screen protector. Okay. Maybe do that for Rachel's feet. Uh, yeah, I was,

I was really disappointed to learn when I was going to Hawaii that you can't download the only, uh, service that you can download movies onto your computer with streaming service is Amazon prime. All the rest of them. No, only on tablets.

Do you do it on your computer? Only on tablets and phones. Like, wow. They won't let you on a computer. No. And I was like, surely I can, surely I'm doing something wrong. Surely I'm missing some Google.

And you can download some weird software that I don't think I'm allowed to download ever since LimeWire back in the day. Napster, Sean Parker. So yeah, so I thought about like, it'd be nice to have an iPad just for that. They're not that expensive. Are they not?

I'd say it's a miniature splurge. Okay. I got mine at Costco and this is like a newer, it's just like, I think it's the newest one they come out with. It's not the iPad pro. Yeah. Pretty up to date. $320.

Oh, I thought you were going to say like $600. Yeah. And I was like, Jake, I think we have different definitions of not that expensive. I was shocked. $320. Really? For a new iPad. expensive. No, I was shocked. $320. Really? For a new iPad. Okay.

Yeah. Okay, yeah. Now, if you want to buy a case, now that's going to attack on a little more. Yeah. Okay, I'll think about it. So did you use it? I like to nickname the iPad the Netflix machine. Did you use it for anything besides watching movies?

I don't know. You've got to be a psychopath to text on an iPad or to do a lot of things on an iPad. Unless you have the keyboard thing, which would be cool. Like the... Yeah, at a certain point, then it's just like, I mean, if you're going to buy this accessory

and this accessory, just use your laptop, dude. Just get a computer. But no, I would use it for games. Okay. What games are we playing? A little game by the name of Bloons Tower Defense. Bloons!

You know about Bloons? Bloons, dude! Oh! Bloons is awesome. Balloons was out before Tymon was around. Like, Tymon couldn't spell balloons back when balloons was... Balloons was college for me, I think. Wasn't it? Do you remember that? I don't remember when I

first played it. It might have... It could have been like, yeah, maybe college iPod Touch, high school iPod Touch, Balloons 1. I forgot about Balloons. Remind me exactly how it works. So they just keep coming out with them. Okay. We got two different versions that I like to play, which is embarrassing.

No, it's not. Once you play Bloons, you would understand. It's awesome. Anybody that's judging, you've never played. Dude, so this is what they've come out with since college. I didn't really know about this until recently. I'm like, let's just see what Bloons is up to. They've come out with a game, Balloons Tower Defense Battles.

Just adding more words. Some businesses still know how to make good mobile games. So instead of just playing the computer, like, hey, it's round four. We're going to send purple balloons now. Now it's you play against someone else, and we get to decide. I choose what balloons to send you,

but they're going to cost me money. Okay. What do you mean, what balloons? I don't remember balloons. Okay, so it's a tower defense cost me money. Okay. What do you mean, what balloons? I don't remember balloons. Okay, so it's a tower defense game where you upgrade towers. There's a path, and you're trying to kill the things going along the path before you get to the end. You only have so many

lives. You only have so much money, but you get more money each round. You get to upgrade certain things. Like this one fights against things in the air, in the ground, you know, whatever. So it's a tower defense game, but the things you're trying to kill are balloons. Balloons. No it's tower defense game. Yeah. But the thing is you're trying to kill our, our balloons, balloons. No,

they're balloons, balloons. One syllable. Yeah. You know, so the balloons get stronger and the balloons get bigger. They turn like blimps of balloons and yeah. Bollims.

No. Bollims. So are you playing against Rachel? Are you playing against? No. The best of the best. Oh, you're online.

Yeah. Oh, so you're not playing on the air. You're playing beyond the airplane. Well, so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now I am judging you a little bit. It's one thing to be like, no, dude, play all you want. Well, it started with the airplane version.

Yeah. Which was like the typical like non non battles version. It's like, this is pretty fun. Right. And then I learned you could play against other people. And like, that's way more fun than just playing against the computer. You know exactly what's going to happen. So much more strategy playing against someone else for whatever

reason it's kind of jarring to me i'm i'm so like i've played on against people online maybe 25 times in my life like of anything yeah like and so for whatever reason it's jarring to me whenever a random person i don't know what they look like just beats me at something it's jarring it's like it's like kind of like what's what's going on that this person's so good at this game because i play a decent amount of this thing and you know whatever like i remember the first time i played halo like there was back in the day on the original xbox they had like an xbox live trial subscription for 30 days okay and i remember playing against this guy and he just wiped the floor with me on you know beaver creek and i was like whoa who is this guy is he just wiped the floor with me on, you know, Beaver Creek. And I was like, whoa, who is this guy?

Is he 11 or 40? Right. And it was back before they had like head chat. Yeah, whatever. And so anyway, it just messes with me sometimes. That's funny. All right. Would you, would you also be this way?

Because I, when I've played like Call of Duty online back in the quarantine days, I, you know, a guy could trash talk me. I don't send it back to him because we're like talking and like, I can't be mean like that. I'll just be nice or I'll just shut up and I don't care or whatever. But something about these, like balloons, tower defense, two battles. Yeah. You're not on a headset. You're not talking to someone, but they give you like little emotes you can like chat with, but the only that bank, you can't like add your own keyboard or anything. So I get real toxic with the emotes. I like, I'll find it.

Like, like, let's say I send this guy like a big rush of balloons. He can't defend it. And I win the battle. There was like one of the emotes you could send is I just send. Oops. Oh,

I like doing like a, like a kind of a sarcastic, like, like a little kissy emote. Like have fun with that one. Is that an option? on there i would i would just flood this guy with explosion to just go see ya wouldn't want to be a kid that's good because they have a like a large range of emotions there's like actual like there's like a person like smiling or kissing or crying right and i think those are obvious like someone's

losing you send them the cry emoji yeah whatever but like i like to try and send like yeah um yeah like i beat him in round four i went even a game send him the email that says good game oh yeah maybe just snooze snoozing yeah some eight-year-old in missoula montana is just like getting absolutely just dejected by these emotions. Like, oh, that's awesome. Yeah. So. Okay. So I do that.

Yeah. Netflix. Dude, I was so stocked up. I was, I was so looking forward to both these flights because it's, it's fun to stock up. Yeah, it is. Like I got Barry Sanders documentary download on Amazon prime. How was it? I got, I got through the first like hour.

I liked it. It was really good. I think I just stopped because I was tired. And then I had all these things on netflix downloaded i recently got youtube premium recently okay because ad blocker plus stopped working on google chrome and i was like well i'm getting pretty used to not seeing ads so i gotta do something about this and so you could download things on there nice and so yeah it was great i watched a lot i watched barbie yeah i heard i i listened to the episode.

So we're recording on Wednesday. So the episode just came out today. Yeah. I listened to it on your episode on two X speed to like get caught up on everything that was going on. Did you really? Yeah. And it's not a very fun experience to list to something on two X. It was like,

okay, just like absorbing, like, okay, this is what, this is what the Australian slangs were. This is what the Barbie thoughts were. This is what,

you know, whatever. But yeah, I, I feel like downloading stuff to your tablet or to your phone for a plane ride is kind of like, I don't know. I don't know a good comparison, but like, it's one of those times where it's like, Hey, I know the kind of person I am, but I also have wishful thinking that I'm going to be this person in three hours when I get on a plane. So I'm going to download this documentary that like would teach me something and enlighten me and be like this clean like thing to listen. But really, I'm going to watch like grownups too.

You know what I mean? Like it's like I download four things. I'm like, I'm not I'm not going to the, you know, free willy killer whale documentary. I'm going to the, you know, free Willy killer whale documentary. I'm going to the, you know, fourth iteration of Kevin James standup. Yeah. True crime. Jeffrey Dahmer tapes.

Right. Yeah. It's like bringing two books on vacation. Like I'm going to bring my utmost for his highest. Yeah. And calling Hoover. And now I have both like whichever mood I'm in. And it's like, man,

I finished calling Hoover pretty quick. I haven't read a lot of that other one. Dude, you have been reading, yes? Yeah, no hooves, no thrillers. I, yeah, I read like, it's like a- CEO thing? Yeah, it's awesome. I love it.

I know I talked about it last Wednesday, but yeah, it's just, it's psychology and business, and I'm so glad I picked it out, because you're in a bookstore, and it's just like, all these look good. They all say bestseller. I mean, they can't all be which don't they hack they hack that somehow right yeah the book industry is kind of lame yeah so i

don't i don't trust that stuff at all you know what i do trust rachel put me onto this which you know maybe katherine put her onto this first of all but goodreads sure it's like the site for book reviews yeah yeah and so i would i chose probably like 10 different books all look good to me and then compared them on goodreads so So that kind of helped. Were you at the airport? Is that where you bought this? This was just a bookstore. We were just walking in Brisbane, I think, and found it. It was great.

Cool. Fresh off of a dude. Brisbane was the best city. Fresh off of a free Coke Zero. We love Coke Zero. Coke Zero is different down there. Something's up. Everything that you were talking about sounded like Spain to me.

Really? Like it was like, I think they're just in europe time you know 2.0 yeah like a more pretty like warmer version of europe because everything you're like there's no free refills dude free refills at burger king that's the only place i could find in spain i camped out at burger king dude yeah we didn't get a fountain drink the whole time in three weeks we never saw a fountain drink but everything's bottled or canned. I don't know about Australia, but at least in Europe, it was like the variety of drinks was so much less. It was like Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero. Like we couldn't find Dr. Pepper to save our life, you know, whatever. But, and so I got into Coke

Zero as well. Yeah. I remember the SBU tennis players. They're all international students. They had never tasted Dr. Pepper before they came to America and none of them liked it. Really? They were just so used to Coke. They're like, no, it's too cherry. It's too much. Oh, no Gatorade. Big Powerade presence in Australia. No Gatorade.

Because, you know, Powerade's owned by Coke. Yeah. That makes sense. Also, what was I going to say? Oh, the Burger King down there? There was some kind of copyright issue. Something else was already Burger King. So it's the exact same logo.

Everything's the same, but it's called Hungry Jack's. Really? That's fun. Same, similar thing with TJ Maxx. Something else was already Burger King. So it's the exact same logo. Everything's the same, but it's called Hungry Jacks. Really? That's fun. Same, similar thing with TJ Maxx. There's another store called TJ something down there. So it's a little too close. So they're just called TK Maxx down there.

It's like, hey, it's close enough. People are going to be just fine with it. Also Kmart doing just fine in Australia. Isn't that interesting? It's like our target is their Kmart. Yeah. It's like, you kind of feel bad for certain businesses. Like KFC in America is like,

Oh dude, KFC is not doing too good. You go to Trinidad and Tobago. Dude, it's all KFC. It's like, it's wild how much KFC is running or, or like,

yeah. KFC pizza hut, like all those places, like subway, even subway is doing all right. Domino's overseas is doing just fine. Subway smells the same wherever you go. Phony phrases.

I don't care where you are. Subway smells like home. The bread there, yeah. Yeah, it all smells the same. Just seeps into your clothes. We were disappointed. We did get Domino's one night. We're like, all right, we've had enough traditional Cantonese.

Let's just go to Domino's. And even the Domino's tastes a little different. It's not quite as good. It's just mentally to Domino's. And even the Domino's tastes a little different. Yeah. Not quite as good. It's just, yeah, it's, it's just mentally not the same. Yeah. So what did you do? You got home last night or yesterday afternoon. Yeah. Yeah. And what was like first, first establishment? Well, I know what you did in the airport. Yeah. You texted me right when it happened to, I mean, it was terminals over. I had to take the Skylink tram to get there. Uh, but I went and Chick-fil-A first meal. And it was, it was weird because I couldn't fall asleep on the plane where they was

14 hour flight. I slept maybe 30 minutes, maybe an hour. That's wild. She couldn't do it. Your balloons was on the mind. I think part of it was that. So my goal, you know, of course I got a plan going into it. I was like, the plan is stay awake the first seven hours, sleep the next seven hours and then get back on schedule. No jet lag. I'll be fine. And so the first seven hours I'm doing fine. I'm upright in my chair watching, doing, reading. And then I was like, all right, you know what? It's time. I've been a good, good plane rider. I'm going to lean the chair back. And I couldn't lean it back further. Cause I'll tell you the guy in front of me had to lean back. I mean, he was, I was massaging his head. I mean, he was in my life. Yeah. Yeah. Um, 60 minute massage. I could have leaned it back further by leaning back,

you know, about halfway in the second I leaned it back. I just, I feel like a little like, Oh really? And then there's another hit 20 seconds later. And then 25 seconds later, there's another hit. It's I was like, man, that's a bummer. I another hit it's i was like man that's a bummer i mean it's a long flight it's you know it's late i think we're okay to do this so i asked rachel i was like hey is there a little kid behind me before i just get irrationally upset like let's make sure he's not seven yeah and she said no she said it's an older guy and but she said his head is resting on your seat and so she's like i think he's just readjusting. He's just trying to get comfortable. So he's just headbutting the seat. He's hitting it pretty hard, apparently. Yeah. I was like, I guess that could be true. But so anyway, I think that was kind of part of it. I just couldn't

get in a rhythm. Couldn't fall asleep very well. So I get to, we landed Dallas and it's 8 a.m. Our bodies think it's 3 a.m. at that point. So we're pretty tired um but we got to go through customs we got to go through all this and i'm hungry and so i was like i'm going to get chick-fil-a it was so good i i ate eight chicken minis instantly yeah that's crazy it was good and then yeah i tried to take a nap in the airplane couldn't or in the airport couldn't really nap there and so just a few hours later i went back to Chick-fil-A for lunch. Okay. It was awesome. I needed that, just America.

And it wasn't like knockoff Domino's. It was like the real Chick-fil-A. Yeah. Now the employees, they take a little step back in the airport. Sure. But the food tastes the same. Sure. And so did that.

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I unpacked a ton. I did laundry. I packed for Stratford. Just anything to keep me busy. I just did it for like four hours. What made you want to go to Costco when you're leaving for another week, basically? Maybe some Christmas presents. Oh, good.

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Alcohol in select markets. Product availability may vary by Regency app for details. Timon, give us a little update. What's new with you? What's going on? Man man i don't know i just i've just been loving listening you guys i don't know um oh yeah you text us you've been listening to old episodes of ghost runners right oh yes yeah let's talk about that yeah i've been going i think since i guess since a week a week um before to before today i've been listening i got i've gotten

through episode 13 of from all the og 13 og ghost in our episodes yeah give us give us like just general thoughts that you have on how it was back then versus now what our personalities were like like do you feel like they're the same people that you're listening like that you're friends with i think so yeah yeah it's like it's really similar which is crazy like four years difference yeah but but yeah i mean. It's like, it's really similar, which is crazy. Like four years difference. Yeah. But, but yeah, I mean, it's like, it's, it's just the same as it's just the same. Yeah.

Yeah. Um, I'm trying to think of anything. Did you learn anything about us? Like, oh, Brett has a, Brett has a daughter, Hattie. Okay. Brett has a wood, wood shop company. Oh yeah, Brett. Nothing that comes to mind, but a lot of just fun stuff. It's like, I think Jake's life was just way different back then, I feel like.

Yeah, that's fair. All the constant video working and stuff. Interesting. Yeah, I hadn't gone on tour yet. Yeah. I hadn't met Rachel yet, obviously. Right. Yeah.

He was doing scuba shows. I feel like that was one of the first episodes we did. Yeah, it was. We were talking about the scuba shows. I remember episode, I think two of the podcasts, I think we were talking about the scuba shows. I remember episode, I think two of the podcasts, I think we were talking about the scuba show, and that's where I went to California. I was so upset they had paper straws,

and finally went to McDonald's to try to get a plastic straw, then they didn't give me one. Anyway, it was after the Melbourne show in Australia. I had been doing a bit in Australia, because it's nothing but paper straws there, and so I was doing this whole bit about how I need a plastic straw. I'd kill for a plastic straw or whatever. And I see these ghosties after the show, and they're like, hey, love the part about the paper

straw. Reminded me of when you talked about slurping it out of the butthole. I mean, I know you're here and you're talking to me and you're wearing Ghost Hunters merch, but I did not expect an Australian to quote episode two of the podcast. That's awesome, dude. That is crazy. They were great. All the Melbourne ghosties were incredible. Yeah. Did they have

any like, don't tell my friends, but here's where you get the plastic straws. Was there like an underground go to what was the Burger King? Hungry Jack's? Go to Hungry Jack's late at night. Go around the back. I never went to Hungry Jack's. Three knocks.

You're in. And they'll give you one for $15. Dude, I thought of you because you might have a little side business if you go to Australia and some of these places that really care about the environment. Because I had a thousand acai bowls, and half the acai bowls were wooden spoons. Dude, wooden spoons.

I hate wooden spoons. Are they makeable, though? Could you make those over in your workshop? Sure. In bulk? I was going to say, I'd probably employ a factory at this point. spoons are they i mean are they makeable though could you make those over in your workshop sure i would probably i was gonna say i'd probably uh employ a factory at this point but yeah yeah yeah that's pretty smart did you get did you hate them yeah i mean it was fine i think if i had to eat something other than an acai bowl it would have been more annoying if i'd eat cereal with a wooden spoon that would suck more have you ever had uh wooden forks? Yeah, one Aussie place gave me a wooden

fork. Dumb. Dumb. Yeah. Would you rather have paper straw, wooden spoon slash fork? Oh, definitely wooden spoon slash fork. Paper straw is at the bottom of it. Really? Yeah. I've only used a paper straw a handful of times, but man, I did not

like. The feeling that you get when you put like food in your mouth and you bring out the fork with your lip, you know, it's supposed to be smooth and that wooden fork is just like, it's just grainy. And like, and I do not enjoy it. Extra friction there. I went, well, it was, uh, Chad and Jackie's wedding. You were there. Um, you had a big boo-boo that, and uh they i i remember that's the only thing i remember about their wedding besides your uh blunder is that really they had wooden wooden fork and i was like i i don't ever want to use these again i can remember specific times

of my life where i was using a paper straw though and just hated my experience there was one time probably in an airport or something but i think i was eating panda express and having to use a paper straw and the top of my paper straw became brown from like what i was eating oh gross like getting back on there i was like i hate ew gross that's pretty rough be a plastic straw just disguise that for me i hated that and i remember there was one time specifically i was uh i ordered a milkshake and they gave me a paper straw. Yeah. And I mean, by halfway through, I can't even like, it has disintegrated the bottom half of the straw. Yes.

I'm just having to like dump it. A milkshake takes a lot of force. You got to have a sturdy straw. Yes. Somebody that won't deteriorate. Yeah, that's fair. In Oahu, when we went, I got a Jack in the Box milkshake

because I just wanted a milkshake so bad. And they gave me a paper straw. It was like, I didn't even drink at all. That's how crazy it was. So I don't know. Maybe that's a pull for Madison McCullough to put up a paper straw or wooden utensils. But, um,

that's funny. You've been listening to timing. Yeah. I've been busy with some video work too. Yeah. Yeah. What have you been editing or shooting or doing? I've been editing a lot of stuff from San Antonio.

Still have that like backlog. Cause I shot a ton of stuff. That's right. Editing takes a while. And then, I'm trying to think. Some stuff for Greenleaf. Theater Place. Yeah, some interviews and stuff. Interviews? Like for their website or Instagram or what?

Yeah, website. Probably. Maybe Instagram too. We'll see. Maybe Instagram. Fingers crossed for Instagram. Let's hope so. How was your choir concert? It was yeah yeah anybody pass out or anything fun nope no one locked their knees yeah yeah have you ever been somewhere where somebody locked their knees and passed out uh i think many years ago someone in our church christmas program just like standing up there it's like the the lowest stakes thing it's just like so funny your church is pretty small right yeah tiny church like just a few like a little group of kids up there and

yeah he he was probably like 12 yeah fainted right up there which man that'd be so that'd be that's a story because it's like yeah that's it's i feel like you'd maybe faint if you're like super nervous for something like this insanely huge thing. Then again, for some people, a church Christmas program could be the biggest quote on stage thing you're doing. Sure. I think I got to see your church and more of your family. I downloaded Be Real in Australia. I never had it. And I was like, hey, this would be a fun Australia thing.

Dumb idea. Because how Be Real works, they send you a notification once per day. And that's where it's supposed to post they're sending it on american times so i just missed it every single day basically yeah so i think there is jake just posted 18 hours late it wasn't very exciting i feel like i could be wrong but i think there's like an international version it's like a little more time but maybe when jake signed up he signed up. Friendly, but he might have like. With his phone number here or something. Yeah, exactly.

That's funny. I have some, I have like a friend in France who. No one likes a braggart timer. We get it. All right. I have friends all over the globe. He'll like post on time, but it's a different time than you. Yeah, exactly.

Like they'll always like be at the bottom of my feed. Like if I open B-Real, even if I haven't posted, they're like there from their B-Real. Huh. Interesting. Either interesting either way i would i posted maybe six times in three weeks but okay i got to see a little more timing see the the like selfies in the in the van or yeah i think you were at church one time yeah nice what kind of selfies timing's doing is he just smiling is he is he like there's some faces in there jokingly like modely like, modely. No, not jokingly modely. I would say there's some siblings who are making some fun faces. It's just nice.

It's just good. Just wholesome. Just impsh. Just, yeah, impsh. Impsh it up. I learned that Hattie knows what be real is the other day. Really? Like, because Catherine, that's like the only social media she ever posts to.

And, yeah, Hattie's like, Oh, I guess it's time to be real. And I'm like, I'm like, what? What did you say? She's like, that's what it is, isn't it?

I was like, yeah, I think so. Cause I don't have to be real or anything, but, um, yeah, Catherine,

I bet I looked on my phone the other day. I have 20,000 photos slash videos on my phone. I bet Catherine has, I don't know, 2,000. She never takes pictures but she does it for Be Real and they're always just low quality crappy pictures. I'm like,

why don't you just take a normal picture of our kids? I think Rachel is probably the same way a little bit. She might document a little more than Catherine, but my parents and Rachel's parents, we all got in a group text for this whole long trip and I was like, hey, they texted like, send us as many updates as you can.

It was just only me. Sending pictures and videos. It's so interesting. It feels like one in every marriage. It's not ever both spouses are good at taking pictures. It's like one of them is better at one thing, one of them is better at the other.

Yeah, it just seems like, I don't know. Like Catherine's, like when slash if I die, the only footage is going to be jean shorts, Jake's camera roll. If I die. Who knows when the raptor's coming? But like it's going to be from jean shorts and ghostwriters like screenshots.

That's all it's going to be. Like Catherine's going to be like, or's going to be, it's going to be from jean shorts and ghostwriters, like screenshots. That's all. That's all it's going to be like, Catherine's going to be like, like, or if I go missing, like, do you have a recent picture of the man? We have an email. He wanted to remember to respond to, let's see, we got married in 2014. Um, I guess I could pull one up from that. Like just look at your brother. That's fine. There's got to be a psychological principle to, to like define, like in any kind of partnership,

if one person is like fulfilling the obligations of something, I think the other person feels like they don't need to do it as much. Yes. Like even between you and I, I would say in most dynamics, I could be the more organized person, but with you, you are more organized

and more type A slightly. So you fill that role. And then I feel like I don't need to be right as organized, but with Rachel, it's like, Oh my gosh. Yeah. I need to be that person.

But with Rachel and like maybe some of her friends who are even more type B than her, she could fill that role too. You know, it's just like, I think it all depends on who you're, you know? Yeah.

You recognize like there is a need for this thing. No one else is going to do it. So I should do it. But if someone else is already doing it, then it'd be annoying if both of us did it. You know what I mean? Like, like if, if two, if two spouses were just taking pictures of each other, the entire vacation, it's like, well, we're not doing anything, but taking pictures is ridiculous. We need to be real. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or if like you and I were just both super organized, I would just be like, Jake, let's just do it my way that I set up. And you're like, no, I think this place is better. It's like,

I can, it's like, okay, we're not getting anything done. Like we're not being creative at all anymore. Like, um, yeah, to a limit it's the bet or to a degree, it's probably just the best way of going about something. Like you probably shouldn't have two people both plan the trip. Right. It's just easier if one person plans the details of the trip. And I think I've always enjoyed the organizational aspect of life, but I enjoyed it more once I got married, like, because Catherine, I think is so much more like organizational aspect of life, but I enjoyed it more once I got married. Like, because Catherine, I think is so much more like she just values relational time. And sometimes it's like,

Catherine, we're an hour and a half late because you have no idea what time it is. Cause you just talked, you know, to these people. Like we had a lot of fun tonight, but like, you know,

it's like, we're going to leave by nine tonight and we leave. And Catherine's like, it's 1115. It's like, yeah, I know you have a watch and a phone like, it's 1115. It's like, yeah, I know. You have a watch and a phone.

You have access to time. We had some people over the other night. First of all, loving the pizza oven, dude. I've only used it twice now. I can't wait to just introduce anybody to it. Come over anytime. I know I didn't get it for you, but it feels like I got it for you. Yes.

Because I ordered it and it was at my house for a couple of days. Right. So in a way, I'm like, you're welcome. It's like, Oh, I remember when that thing came in. Yeah. Um, yeah. I see if Catherine's been moment for that. I asked her about that the other night. She's like, honestly, I don't know. And I'm like, it's amazing that you don't know how to check. That's the crazy thing. It's like, it's like, it's fine that you don't remember. Like you do a lot of things in life, but just check real quick. Um, she's like, I'll text Jake. And if not, whatever, um, Rachel has gotten that way. We talked about a little bit on last

Wednesday's episode. So maybe you heard it two X speed, but Rachel's a big, like ask me questions that are so Googleable. It's like, I know you got it in you. You can Google it. She's like, I'm not that good at Google. That's another thing. I think there's one in every marriage. We're just like, ah, you figure that part out. Like that's your thing. You're better at that. Um, anyway, loving, loving the pizza oven, had our thing. You're better at that. Um, anyway, loving, loving the pizza oven, had our friends, Justin and Cassie over. Um, and dude, we got to talk and like, we're just getting to know this new couple from church that we really enjoy. And, uh, I learned that Justin has 650 photos in his phone. That's it. Dude. I think that's

borderline crazy. I think that's borderline crazy. Wow. 650 photos. That'd be like a Spotify rap. You listen to six minutes of music this year. Yeah. Two songs? He's like going through,

like, I mean, he scrolled, like, you know how you like scroll through something? Like he like scrolled all the way up in like one thumb swipe. That's it. I just checked. I have 39,900. And most recently, Timon. and most recently timing your timing right there

it's the thing i posted on facebook last night the video of him squinting um yeah i think because we were talking because because cassie's mom loves photos apparently has like 60 000 on her phone or something like that like take so many pictures it's just classic like that mom that in-law that person at the party always wanted to take pictures, get together. Um, and so we were kind of giving her our time. And then I was like, I'm going to check and see, I was like, I have 20,000. That's quite a bit. And Justin checks and he's like, I have 650. And I was like, okay, that's way worse than anything else. Like that, like 60,000 is wild. 650 is like more psychotic.

Like there's some, like I was like, there's less people that have, like if people check their phone, they're not very many people have 650 or less photos. No. I think plenty of people

have 10,000 or more photos. Like I'm going to guess without looking, I've more than 650 screenshots alone. Yeah. How do you not have 600 screenshots? Right. Like screenshots are awesome.

Let's see. Honestly, I bet, if I had to guess, i bet my dad has 300 photos really yeah oh yeah he i don't think i've ever seen him take a picture what kind of phones he wheeled in these days uh it's old samsung okay see that's that's part of it like yeah and yeah he just and my mom is good at taking pictures like yeah and whatever so he he never takes pictures, but still like Jake saying like, even if it's just, let's say six screenshots, let's say you've had your phone that you continue to get like updated and you

have the same photos in for the last 10 years. I don't know if that's accurate or not, but something along those lines, let's say out of those 10 years, 650 days out of those 10 years, which is whatever, 5,200 days. So like 10% of your days, every once in a while, you're like, oh, I need to remember that. Oh, or my wife gave

me a shopping list. Let me just take a picture of it real fast. That's all you got to do is take it like one photo and you've had more than that. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. It's just wild to me. I looked at the folder screenshots. I'm not going to shut up about screenshots. I have 11,800 screenshots. 11,000? That's too many screenshots. That's why I don't understand all these people. I have 1,170 screenshots. I have 720

and I deleted a bunch of them recently. But like 11,000 is let's scroll up to a random one and let's hear about it. Just one of my screenshots? Uh-huh. Wow. I went a little too what are you screenshot i this is from march 18th 2016 this is a march madness bracket okay i don't know okay let's let's hear some or let's see some recent screenshots okay yeah i went okay so you still

have stuff from like like a long time ago because i have like probably everything in my phone is from the past year because like i've like transferred stuff to like google photos and stuff and deleted stuff so my total photos is 7281 gotcha yeah big ipod yeah how much are you doing two terabytes i don't know okay because it might just be the 100 gigs there's a guy in integrated uh that he like messaged our like integrated slack group he's like hey just curious what do you guys do when you've uh taken up your 10 terabytes of storage for your family photos i'm like holy cow get a second phone michael scott yeah yeah exactly 10 terabytes how many photos on a phone is that even possible on an icloud like oh i see yeah yeah whoa for like

photos crazy of your family. That's crazy. He's not like a video editor. I was going to say, yeah, for media storing when you're taking a bunch of high-res videos, but man. I recently have started getting notifications I need to upgrade to two terabytes. Wow.

I'm not going to do it, though. I texted my dad. I said, I'm curious. How many photos do you have on your phone i feel like it'd be a tiny amount he said if you go back 20 20 years or so i'm sure would add up to over 100 that seems like quite a few okay but he responded almost instantly to you so he's tech savvy good for brando or like tech he's on his phone some yeah yeah i texted him four minutes ago he He's responding in two minutes. That's wild. But yeah, it's not a photo.

I am curious, like who out there. Okay. Tell us if you have 650 photos. Let's say if you have anywhere from, let's say a thousand photos or less on your phone. Tell us how many photos you have and tell us two things about yourself. Just so we can get a little more of a demographic of who we're dealing with here. Because this guy is a normal guy. He's pretty close friends with Luke Hoagland.

He's not some antisocial. You meet him and you think, no, this guy is one of us. You know what I mean? So I don't know. It's just wild to me. Yeah, that is interesting. It sounds like I do have a screenshot problem,

so I'll get better. But that's also since 2016. Yeah. That's a long time. And you're not deleting anything, it sounds like. No. I would like to. There's going to be an AI out there someday that's like, hey, this isn't important.

This photo, they're not even looking at the camera. Delete that one. And it can just do it for me. There would be an easy way to get rid of, or free up space, is just delete the entire screenshots album. Because at a certain point, it's like, I probably needed this temporarily. Right.

I do not need it anymore. Yeah. It's kind of fun, though. I love the memories of it. Totally. I scrolled up a little bit and was just looking through other screenshots, and I enjoyed all of them.

Yeah. Because one was like, Selkirk counter offer. Oh, okay. That's fun to think back to that. Oh, this is what we offered Selkirk counter offer. Oh, okay. That's fun to like think back to that. Oh, this is what we offered them on August 3rd. Wow, that's interesting. Before Friday Pickleball and stuff like this.

So what made you screenshot that? Just so you could access it quicker than your notes? I think it was like I screenshot that and sent it over to Isaac and Scott. Like, what do you guys think of this? There is like a screenshot of Friday Pickleball and what the Instagram looked like on August 1st. I think that's fun to see.

It's like, wow, we only had 5,000 followers. There you go. That's fun. That is pretty crazy because, wow, we only had 5,000 followers. There you go. That's fun. That is pretty crazy because now it's like 30K or something like that. That's wild. Screenshots of ghosties after shows. Shout out, Angela. Shout out, Angela.

Love a good screenshot. Yeah. I want to apologize for it. Matesforroasters.com. What do we think? I think I am buzzing for some beans yeah i am so pumped dude uh i'm getting a large uh package from main street roasters coming up to make my five gallons of cold brew for the kegerator i told you about that what no nothing doesn't that sound familiar

oh i bought like a uh yeah kegerator you don't know what kegerator is no it's like a mini fridge that like can store a keg underneath it and so like it's like a home keg thing like a home keg tap so like on the top you can imagine like what a keg looks like right yeah pull it like so yeah kegerator so you can put anything in the keg you want wow and so yeah i got one and i'm gonna do like a nitro cold brew setup. Have I told, I haven't told you this? I know you've said like you wanted to. That I wanted to, yeah.

If we got the hostage tape, big deal. Pull the trigger, yeah. You're going to do it. Yeah. You did. So, yeah, I bought it secondhand from my cousin who has a coffee business, and so he's like, this is a pretty good price

for this really high quality one. Keggerator. And so, yeah, like the kegs, I mean, you can have all these different sizes, but I have what's called a quarter keg, so it's five gallons, I believe. So I'm going to make five gallons of cold brew from Main Street Roasters, put it in the kegerator, and it's just going to be on tap. So anytime you want some cold brew, some nitro cold brew, come on by. It'll stay cold and stay good the whole time it's in the keg?

I think it could go bad eventually. Like, I don't think it lasts forever, but I'm not too worried about it. I'm going to drink it just fine. This could be my way into black coffee. The nitro. Yeah. That sounds nice. And the winter time. Yeah. Fun, fun facts I learned about nitro is nitro cold brew versus regular cold brew is the same thing. It's just, um, obviously infused with nitrogen. Yeah. Like nitro, like there's the nitrogen is how you get the coffee from the keg, like how it shoots it up into the tap. That's it. Does that make sense? Yeah. And so like, I don't know the exact numbers, but let's say it's a, a 10 measure to just get the, uh, coffee from the keg into the tap of Mace Rozers. Um, but if you do like 45, that's when you start getting like the fizzy nitro 40, 45

measure. That's when it starts getting a little different looking. So it's really like if you let it sit there for 20 minutes, it's going to look the exact same as a normal cold brew. Oh, you gotta go fast. Yeah. So I gotta go nitro. So Rachel as a normal cold brew. Oh, you got to go fast. Yeah. You got to go nitro. So Rachel would never finish a nitro.

No, she wouldn't. But she would enjoy the main charosers that she had. I'm so pumped about, yeah, I think I ordered the Miller blend, Miller morning blend. Yeah. Coming. And all the different flavors of main charosers is great, but I'm excited about that one for a large batch, baby. Miller blend.

That's fun. Yeah. I mean, get yourself a large batch. Get yourself a small batch. Whatever. I mean, I know Christmas is over with now, but people are still drinking coffee. Yeah.

Newsflash. Newsflash. People still like coffee. Yeah. New Year's resolution, drink more Main Street Roasters. Yeah. Be more alert. Be more intentional. Spend more time with my family and coffee.

That crisp $20 bill that you got from your grandma, spend it on some Main Street Roaster. Spend it. Yeah. So MainStreetRoaster.com, GRKC is the promo code for 10% off. And you'll love it. That is correct. Jake, I read a book.

That's a big deal for me. Yeah. That's awesome. And guess how many pages it was, dude. I'll give you a hint. It's almost as many, uh, pictures as that guy had on his phone. Why 500 page book? It was like 618 pages. Jeez. Give or take while I was gone while you're in Hawaii. What I started in Hawaii, I started on the plane to Hawaii and it's a fiction book. And I think that's my potential hack is like, so often I'm like, I just don't know if I'm a reader. It's because I'm reading books that are too heavy, you know, not, not physically. I'm, I'm pretty strong. I can pick up a book or two. You just put them in a Kindle if that is a problem for you though. Yeah, true.

Or an iPad. Yep. 10. Um, but yeah, I just started reading this book and it was written by a guy. I believe that either he has some affiliation with Kanakuk. Um, I think he worked there or something like one of the things on the dedication was like to Kanakuk camps who taught me so much, whatever. And so anyway, parts of it were like, had like nods to Kanakuk. Like, you know, it was about like, part of it was about this orphanage that this guy ran and these kids would sing songs that we'd sing at can of cook, like the Johnny Appleseed song, all those, um, it was great, dude. It, and it was one of those things. Like there was one night, I think I read it for five hours straight. Holy cow. Like I put the kids to bed and I think I read it until like 1230 or one in the morning. It's a fun feeling. It was just

like, I just want to keep reading. I don't know. I'm not tired. I just figured it was going to help me fall asleep, but it's just not working. I just want to keep reading. So, and because Catherine is such a reader, she's so encouraging of the whole thing. She's just like, I see with Rachel,

like every time I walk in the room and she, or she walks in the room, I'm reading. She's like, cute. That's cute. Do your thing. Read.

Yeah. I'll do this. You read. Yep. Just like, okay. So anyway, yeah, i read that and now i've almost finished ruthless elimination of hurry by john mark comer which is not fiction

but it's been good and easy to read and necessary so um look at us so yeah just trying to read man i think i think my problem was that i was trying so hard yeah to like kind of like what you said like you'd read a chapter of this book and be like, okay, I need to digest. I need to like download this with somebody. I'm just like reading it. I'm just like, I think I'm just going to trust that I'm going to get enough out of this.

I'm not going to like think about every single sentence in really big detail or else it's going to take me forever to read this thing. Yeah. So that's sweet. Yeah. Both reading. Tommy, you reading?

Just for history, like school stuff. Like heaven. Yeah. Not nothing. I, you reading? Just for history. Like school stuff. Like Hadwin. Yeah. Not nothing. I think next one up is The Jungle. The Jungle. Yeah. It's like, I think about... It's not about a jungle. It's Guns N' Roses' biography. Welcome to the jungle.

The Jungle. Novel by Upton Sinclair. Upton Sinclair. I feel like he or she wrote something else too Upton Sinclair. I feel like he or she wrote something else too, man. I know. I feel like I've heard that name. It was like a name in National Treasure or something. Upton Sinclair. I think it's about like factory stuff. I don't know. Apparently it's kind of...

Maybe it's heavy. I need your help, Brad. The Jungle is a fictional novel by American Muck Cracker. Muck? Muck. Muck Raker? Yeah, maybe. Okay. No, it's the musical.

Dance of the muck. Muck cracker. Dun, dun, muck cracker. Muck raker. I've never heard that word either. I've heard it. I don't know it. I mean, I guess.

I read this book. 600 pages is probably in there somewhere. It looks like the word nutcracker. I'm going to assume that they rake muck is my guess. Rake muck. You got muck over there? Whoa, give me that. Hey.

I'm just raking some muck up. Muck duck. Up to Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. Cool.

You're going to love that one. I think it's all factories. Fun. It's an expose expose i know that word muckraker cool interesting my book if anybody's curious it's called the early tales of snow and oakum why is it called that i don't know it was awesome though i loved every part of it like catherine's like trying to figure out like okay what book like wait maybe i want to gift you one like what kind of books do you want to read i And I'm like the, that one again, like I just, it was like, it's like a coming of age

story about these two boys, like that are like 15 to 18 years old. And like, it's just like out in the wilderness and like America, but they go other places and they go on all these adventures. And it's like, this is awesome. Yeah. The next book you read should be the script of that as a movie. Yeah. And the crazy thing is, like, this guy, that's the only book he ever wrote. Like, it's not like he's, like, some, like, accomplished author.

Wow. That's how, right after my first Hoov, I read another book on the honeymoon called The Perfect Marriage and loved it. That was a great thriller, and that was her first novel ever. I was like, way to go. Yeah.

That's got to be tough. Right. How often are these people's first work good just doing just fine yeah yeah so uh i have a story for you this happened over a month ago i guess right in a month ago so we'll see how well i can remember the story which is when where where were you we're in iowa okay i was gonna say were you still in hawaii at this point yeah this is uh okay so i rachel and i are driving um to iowa to spend thanksgiving with her family and as we're getting close to her house we see that there's a huge like piece of wood like propped up um i think you posted this on your

instagram yeah yeah yes i promised a story from it here it comes and spray painted on there on this huge thing of wood it just says who took my trailer uh which is a hilarious sign to see uh on both sides either way you're driving you just see who took my trailer this is at rachel's house yeah yeah yeah this is at their house um so i mean they've got a really pretty home. You know, they got the landscape. It all looks so nice. And then just like boarded up, huge piece of wood, spray paint.

Who took my trailer? And so right away, we're like, what is the deal? What's the story with who took my trailer? So apparently, I think it was like, let me try to think of the, it would have been Steve Koop's brother-in-law i think he was like hey i have some stuff i'm trying to get rid of can i put it like on your property because people drive by a lot and they see it and we'll just put like a free sign up and people can take it okay

so i think steve was like yeah go for it that's great so this is how i remember this right i think that guy put his stuff and put a sign that said free on it, you know, in your yard. But apparently put the free stuff a little close to Steve's trailer. So some people come and like, oh, cool. Some chairs. Oh, yeah. Outdoor table. Wow.

This trailer. This is great. And so someone just thinks the trailer is part of the deal. Yeah. And so they just take the trailer and, you know, Steve just wakes up the next morning. His trailer is part of the deal yeah and so they just take the trailer and you know steve just wakes up the next morning his trailer is gone and so he just doesn't know what to do so he just spray paints who took my trailer that was like his like small town like you know policing i guess it's like we're gonna we're gonna find it we're gonna figure it out um and then of course the whole town loves this yeah so he's getting phone calls the whole time

we're there hey steve just drove by love it uh i'll be looking for it all right course, the whole town loves this. So he's getting phone calls the whole time we're there. Hey, Steve, just drove by. Love it. I'll be looking for it. All right. I mean, the whole town is full of vigilantes now. Everyone's looking for who took my trailer. Then we start getting leads.

One guy calls. Steve is like the sheriff now. Basically, everyone's calling him with information about this trailer. And someone says, I think I might have seen someone pulling out of your driveway with the trailer in a gray Dodge Ram. Oh. So then we're like, let's use this. I think we show, it's like putting, you know, when you watch like true crime stuff, it's like, hey, it's time we release info about the unsub. Yeah.

Let's put it on the news. So then Steve and I were figuring out, it was like, let's, you should spray paint another sign that says gray Dodge Ram. I'm on onto you. Ooh. And like, try to like smoke them out and get them to bring it back. But then we were like, do you look like a crazy person?

If you have two signs in the yard, is that too crazy? I was like, maybe you need to add a third or a fourth to add on like, Hey, I'm aware this is crazy. Yeah. So it was kind of,

I'm not crazy. Seriously. I'm not. Stop making fun of me yeah seriously though if you've seen them let me know call me now i'll be awake yeah and so yeah we were gonna like i think at one point we had four signs playing it was like who took my trailer gray dodge ram i won't be mad oh yeah yeah my wife hates this yeah yes my wife hates these signs something like that is what we were gonna plan on doing and then i can't remember forgetting any other details but basically woke up one morning it was back it worked but no

communication with them no don't know who dead of night yeah drop that thing off and run middle of the night they did drop it off. So good folks in Iowa. Were you there when it came back? Yeah, yeah. So they dropped it off in the same spot. So then Steve's getting all these calls the next day. Everyone's calling him, the trailer's back, I said. Me and my wife, we're just dying laughing, driving by.

We can't believe the trailer's back. And so I think he might have, maybe once we left, he might have spray painted like a thank you or something on there too. So it's like this is his Twitter now. It's like, he's got one piece of wood where you just like, just share your thoughts. I like that. I was encouraging. I was like, the amount of people who drove by and know it's your house and loved it and

love you, use it for anything. Yeah. It's great advertising. Start doing puns on there or something, you know, like Merry, whatever, Merry Christmas sign or something like that's great. Yeah. I was like, this can be your Twitter. Just do whatever.

Legally, how does that work? Negligence-wise, that person, if Steve found that this person had taken his trailer and the person was like, well, I just thought it was part of the free stuff. Where's the statute of like, okay, it was a half mile down the road. Yeah.

You can't, you can't argue that that was included in that. Like, is there some kind of just like judgment call that the judge has to make in that? Like probably, you know, and I wonder who like tie goes to who prior to the original owner,

I guess. Cause at the end of the day, it was, you stole their property. It was on their property. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah.

Legally. Like what are you allowed to do? Once someone puts a sign in the yard that says free. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, legally, like, what are you allowed to do once someone puts a sign in the yard that says free? Yeah. Like, what is within your legal bounds of like, I can take this. They have a tree, you know, 20 yards away. Wow, free oak?

Yeah. That's some good wood right there. Like, how does that work? Like, how close was this trailer? You know, like. Yeah, I don't know. It would be funny for a judge to have to decide that. Or maybe it was like, hey, I know this guy.

He's going to be okay if I just take it for a few days and bring it back. It'll be a fun little story. I just need a trailer to take my daughter to school, you know. Taking a snowmobile over to Sioux Falls and then I'll be back. That's so funny, man. Yeah, that was a fun part of Thanksgiving. It was a good time. I went to Iowa and back.

Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah. Texted you and Rachel just a picture of Iowa and said, it's no Australia, but it's close. Yeah. Just delivered a desk to a guy who owns an RV park. Oh, owns the RV park. Yeah, my daddy owns the RVs. Campers, actually, not RVs, excuse me. I think there's

a difference. Yeah, what are they? There's RV, there's camper, there's Winnebago. They are the same to me. I think Winnebago might be a brand. Kind of like the Kleenex of, you know. Ah, good for them. Yeah, so I think a Winnebago is just a brand of RV, but campers, I believe, need to be

always pulled by a truck. They're like a trailer. Whereas an RV is a vehicle. Like it can. RV is like the movie Robin Williams was in. RV is Robin Williams. Camper is national lampoons vacation. Uh,

yeah. Um, so, but this guy had 400, 500 campers on his lot. Like, uh, shout out. Uh,

oh my gosh, Robin. No. Um, gosh, the, our friends in lot. Like, uh, shout out. Uh, Oh my gosh. Robin. No. Um, gosh, the, our friends in St. Charles,

Iowa, Rachel Flickinger and Michaela Helton. Thank you. Um, I was like, I was going to call her Rachel Hilton. And I was like, that's not it.

I'm losing it here. Uh, this RV place is like five miles North of where they live. Oh yeah. Neato. So you stopped at my screen. No, I didn't. I was, I literally left to go there like five 30 in the morning they live. Oh, yeah. Neato. Did you stop to get some ice cream at the pharmacy? No, I didn't. I literally left to go there like 5.30 in the morning.

So I was like, they might not even, pharmacy might not even be open until 10. Yeah. And December ice cream in Iowa, I don't know if it's like, I got to stop. Yeah, right. Got to get some. It just hits different, you know?

But yeah, I don't have much to say except for. Yeah, it's fun. You guys see Iowa. Iowa's nice. Iowa's not bad. First, like 10 miles in, there was a, there were two, they looked like wild wolves. I don't know. Maybe it's a thing that Rachel understand, but it looked like wild wolves, like eating

a deer carcass on the side of the highway. Kind of fun. Fun. Iowa. Here we are. Not bad. So, so you're going to Iowa first and then Stratford or opposite. Okay.

We're gonna do Stratford like 22nd to 25th. Okay. And then go up to Iowa for a little bit afterwards. Fun. Yeah. Yeah, it'll be a good time. It'll be good to see everybody. How like emotionally, mentally, like what are your feelings on everything right now?

Like what's going through your head? I feel good like always. I don't know. To be honest, it's like I just just i feel good good like normal you're not much of like a reflector i feel like you're way more future here i am i'm doing this yeah i'm looking forward to this thing we're good yeah i am 95 future oriented five percent like we should take pictures to look back on them sure we should obviously still take pictures that's why you take the picture yeah still take the picture but no yeah i'm all about just like all right

what's next and yeah i filled my day today. Like I got stuff all day today. Yeah. Um, which is so fun and excited for, you know, getting some stuff done tomorrow and then we'll go here, go here. So yeah. Uh, Australia was obviously very fun and it was cool and it was a good time. And I was just so thankful. I got to do it with Rachel. It would not have been nearly the same, nearly as fun without Rachel. Honestly. I don't know if I would've gone. I was going to say it would have been non-negotiable to next. Yeah. It would not have been nearly the same, nearly as fun without Rachel. Honestly, I don't know if I would have gone. I was going to say, it would have been

non-negotiable to an extent, right? Like you would have been like, listen, this is a month away from my wife, basically. Yeah.

So it was a good time and it was good. I think we'll always look back at like, wow, the first year of marriage was kind of crazy. Like we did a honeymoon,

we did Hawaii, we did that Australia trip. We haven't done anything like what we did that first year ever again. Yeah. Yeah. You're going to, like eventually you did that first year ever again. Yeah. Yeah. You're going to, like, eventually you're going to live on a hundred acres, you know, and

your kids are going to be like, what were you guys like as little kids, mom and dad? What were you like as newlyweds? Like we traveled the world. Yeah. We got to see some stuff and Coke Zero was wild. Yeah. So I think we tried to acknowledge it, appreciate as much as we could while we were there. We also, we felt this way on our honeymoon too, but we were like, how blessed are we

that like even traveling to all these like tropical, beautiful places, we're still like, man, when we get to Stratford, it's going to be awesome. We have so much to look forward to when we get back to Kansas City, when we get to Iowa. So I think we're aware that we have good lives and we have a lot of stuff here going on and it makes it hard to leave, which is a sign of a good, good home. I was going to say, yeah, that'll preach. It's like, yeah, it's like, it doesn't matter what your exterior environment is. If you're people around you, good community, you can live anywhere. And that's the blessing. That's the main love like thing in life.

That's important because it's definitely hard. We go to these places and Rachel and I absolutely love the warmth. I mean, like most people. It doesn't really make us unique, but we are so active when we go to places like this. And I know it's part of being on vacation and not having as many things to do, but I mean, we do stuff every day. We're outside. It's so fun. And Rachel made the point. She's like,

how much more active and potentially happier would we be if we lived somewhere warm? And I'm like, you're right. And that gets to me, and I think about it let here we come phoenix yeah but like i just can't i can't leave kansas city yeah we got too much going on here i mean it wasn't the same but you lived in dallas like yeah this is warmer it's not warm like always but like i don't know and you came back you know like i came back now and you even had friends in dallas it wasn't like you were like by yourself yeah it wasn't like't like it was tough for me.

It was hard to move to Dallas. I was like, oh my gosh, I had a great community the whole time I was there. It was awesome. But yeah, Kansas City, special place. Come on out, guys. Come on. Come on.

Water's great. I have something for you guys to help me and Rachel out with. Speaking of being active, you don't need to. No, you guys can sit. You can sit. You can sit. You can sit. Rachel and I, starting January 1st, are going to attempt to run a mile every

single day. That's right. That's it. It's not much, but just it's the act of the building, the discipline of like making yourself do something every single day. Right. So the idea is that,

or what we're coming up with is like, we should make it a competition to keep us motivated and we should figure out either something that you win or a consequence for the loser to continue to keep us motivated. And we should figure out either something that you win or a consequence for the loser to continue to keep us motivated. Okay. So, and I think what it will be, it's not like you can make up more miles. It's not like, Hey, I got really behind. We're gonna run six miles today.

No, this is about how many days did you run one mile? So those are the terms. Oh, okay. So it's not like a non-negotiable every day necessarily. It's just a, out of 365 days, how many days did we do it? Who ran the most days? Okay. Minimum one mile. Because it's going to be tough some days when I fly to, you know, Eau Claire, Michigan for a show and you know, whatever, it's got two flights there. Yeah, it is Wisconsin, right? Harris, Michigan. How'd you know Eau Claire, Wisconsin?

University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Really? I had a friend that worked there. He did navigators at University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. That is impressive because that's crazy. I've never heard of Harris, Michigan in my life though. Wow. Because Eau Claire is spelled E-A-U, Claire or something. So yeah, good job. You were smart. So Rachel and I had a really fun conversation about this. To be honest, that was back at Perth. So I don't remember a lot of what we were going back and forth on. Um, but one of the things just to get people,

maybe, you know, the idea is rolling. Yeah. I said, maybe the loser has to do lessons, any type of lesson that the winner gets to choose. Okay.

So like, maybe I would make Rachel like have to go and like, give it your best at like golf lessons. Okay. Or something like that. Or I don't know anything. Oh yeah. And Rachel was like, I would make you go take cooking lessons. Oh fun. Or something like that. I was going to say choir less like that's kind of fun. In the earlier episodes, you mentioned you want to get voice lessons. Do I really? Yeah. That still hasn't really changed. Yeah. But it's changed. Now I just, I want to being born with different vocal cords. I just want the natural talent.

I really want to work at it. Okay. So that would be one potential thing. You have to get lessons. It's something that lasts a while. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

It could be a physical thing. You either win something, you lose something or you lose. Yeah. Like it could be you're motivated. At least I would be motivated. Like you can't have X, Y,

Z for six months afterwards, whatever it is, whether it's, whether it's a food or it could be, you can't, you, you cannot drive anywhere. That's within one mile of your house for the next six months.

That's good. And it's either like, you got to get Rachel to drive. You have to walk, you have to ride a bike. You have, you know, whatever.

Um, scoot. I saw a bird scooter filed for bankruptcy today fun fact really isn't that fun? That is fun Pretty neat. My dad has started uh, nicknaming rosie scooter Because she just scoots all along Because she just runs everywhere. She's just like running her little linebacker baby body all over the place, you know It just runs in with her hair all flying around just scoot. her little linebacker baby body all over the place. You know, it just runs in with her hair all flying around. Just scoot. Hey, little scooter. I don't know if it's going to catch on or not,

but my younger, my younger brother literally scooted for like before he walked. Oh yeah. Long time. He would live like, like on his butt, like feet out and then just bringing his feet in. And he's just like scooting along.

Wow. He wore holes in his pants. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was funny. Like he got gotta grease them up or whatever and then set them down spray some butter on that yeah okay other other potential things that's fun yeah not getting to drive your car within a mile or whatever not yeah being able to have sweets not being able to eat out for a month how crazy would that be for jake tri being able to eat out for a month. How crazy would that be for Jake Triplett not to eat out for a month? It's cooking classes and not being able to eat out.

So it's directly use your cooking lessons. You can't take cooking lessons and keep eating Chick-fil-A. You can either take cooking lessons for six months, which is a long time, or you could take it for one month and then two months, you are the only one that cooks for our family. Yeah. Which is kind of like, uh, you know, double-edged sword. Cause it's like, okay, I've only cooked for one or taken

lessons for one month. So I don't know that many recipes. Are you sure you want me cooking for you? Yeah. That's kind of fun. Um, I'll tell you something that would get me running is if it was like, Hey, if you lose the bet, you can't watch team's games next year. That would be a big, I'm like, I have to run every day. Or that's the only football you watch. Like, you can't watch Chiefs games next year. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. That would be a big, I have to run every day. Or that's the only football you watch. That's the only TV you watch. That's the only, I don't know. Obviously, you need screens for your work,

but somehow limiting some technology, because I feel like that's probably the thing that you're more indulgent on than food in your life. You know what I mean? Okay, that's fun. Yeah's good good luck go sees let us know any ideas you have for there's no way you're gonna beat rachel at this yeah the odds are not good no i'd say rachel minus 250 right now if you're wanting to bet on this well let's figure out how you could obviously we could physically hurt rachel make her not be able to ride.

Oh, I've thought about it. But then again, I think she would still do, she would scoot around. She would scoot around for a mile every day. She's just so active. Like she, she just, she craves it. I think you are more like, I'm trying to do this because I know I should. Yeah. I think she would be like, I got to do something.

All right. Well, yeah, let's forget consequences. Let's think how to get her to lose. Option one is I make that bed the coziest bed you've ever seen in your life, where it is so hard for her to leave that bed. It's already pretty cozy with the cozy earth. It really is. Today, I mean, yeah, first bed back.

It was nice today. That's right. Maybe I get her like a gift card to like power life classes, these like hot yoga sculpt class you're going to can be hard to run a mile after you've already done that don't even get her a gift card get her a month-long membership and max out that membership to where it's like if you don't go 25 days we kind of wasted money that's that's the angle i think we need to we need to lean on where that way or or like k I, Bo, Hattie, Rosie,

like we give her so much responsibility in our lives that she is overworked to where she doesn't have time. But she's not going to say no to us. That's a good point. Okay, maybe Rachel doesn't need to get hurt. Maybe Catherine gets hurt, you know, quote unquote. Maybe Catherine has a bum ankle. Yeah, and all of a sudden we need Rachel over there for X, Y, Z.

Then again, she would just figure out a way to get Bo and Hattie in on it. And they'd just all be running around. She'd be pushing them. She'd put Rosie on her shoulders, just run around the neighborhood. All good ideas. So that's fun though. Yeah. Yeah.

Did you run? I know you ran in Hawaii. Is that the only time you guys ran together? Did you do a few more? Yeah. I ran a couple of times in Hawaii. We did a whole workout in Perth. Oh yeah. I ran a good amount at that nice field. Yeah. Great field. Good memory. We did, uh, let's see, we got, once we got out of the Airbnbs in Melbourne and Sydney, we were staying in hotels in the center of downtown. So it was way harder to run. I would still try to do it. I'd be like, Rachel, I'm going to run and get us off the evils.

And so I would just run through the street. You know, you have to stop every block basically for the crosswalk. But I would still try to – because it was interesting just like this is the longest stretch of time, like not being able to like go play a sport with my friends or go play golf. Or like I felt like – I think I even talked about it in the episode. I felt like a little boy. It's like I've all this energy. I've got to go get out.

I've got to go run around. Right. Yeah. Cooped up in the big city. Coed up a little coop yeah that's right um so yeah ran around a little bit uh should we do if we do comment of the week or i don't know sure when of the week when of the week stuff Stuff like that or whatever, dude. Keep talking. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. I'll go comment of the week.

This is on last Wednesday's episode with me and Rachel. Serena said, I meant to comment this on Monday, but I love Rachel. And it's so nice to see her and Jake's dynamics so beautifully. So happy for you both. I hope it's not her last podcast ever. Also, get Tymon on camera. And then she just kind of trailed off. But yeah, it was mainly about me and Rachel.

Thank you, Serena. That's awesome. All right. I'm still looking for mine. Let's see. Yeah, I'll go with Elizabeth Virgil, a staple of the show. If you hear a that that's Elizabeth Virgil, stapling. She said, love this episode so much. This is on the Monday episode with you and Rachel.

Love this episode so much. I think it's so sweet that if you all complain at all, you apologize for it. Thanks for telling us the good and the bad parts of your trip. I've loved all the pics Rachel has been posting on IG. IG is Instagram. Yeah, I was big encouraging Rachel. She's like, should I just post all this on my story? I was like, no. Story goes away. Post, I was big encouraging Rachel. She's like, should I just post all this on my story? I was like, no. Story goes away. Post it. You're in Australia.

People want to see it. Absolutely. Virg wants to see it. And she did. She was loving it. Tymon, you got a comment? How's Tymon looking? My win of the week is going to be that Brad and I both made it to the top three in the guillotine league.

But did you see my biff, dude? I'm an idiot! You gotta start remembering. I did remember. I did remember. No, you didn't. Yes, I did. And then it wasn't there in time. Oh, because I was on my flight. I guess.

I don't know. I, cause I, did you see, I put it on there. I was like, I'm ready to buy some guys or something like that. Really? Okay. Yeah.

So here, yeah. So we're both in the top three guillotine and I just keep scooting along. Call me scooter. Brad, Brad hasn't done much in like six weeks and make that seven. No. Uh,

and somebody, one of the guys, Mark, Mark Damien, I guess just kind of, kind of like message was like, Hey Jake, can you get onto Brad about like, he started somebody that didn't even play this week. And I was like, yeah, sorry.

I've been, it's not, it's not on the top of my mind to think about fancy football, but I'm like, I'm going to make sure I get my, my guys this next week. Cause Matt Dole lost. Matt Dole had a stacked team and Matt Dole lost. And Dole had a stacked team. Yeah. And Matt Dole lost. And I was the only one that had any money left over to basically buy players. So that's the thing. For a month, you've been the only person with money and you haven't

bid on any players. Didn't even know it. So that's why people are like, why is Brad like Brad's not participating in the league? He's starting players who are. I'm sorry. Is daddy winning or not? He's not bidding on any players. i know more than you big brain he's just rocking with the same guys from week 11 naji harris is getting along rashi rice just keeps doing all right um so yeah anyway so i was like all right this time i'm gonna make sure i get all these guys i'm gonna get travis kelsey i'm gonna get jalen hurts i'm gonna get derrick henry whatever uh you could have any anyone you wanted. Travis Etienne, like all these amazing players. And I get on there, and I was like, okay, it's Tuesday is the day I need to get on there, I think. Which I had messaged the day before.

I was like, hey, I'm about to go on a 14-hour flight. No problem. I wasn't – no, I'm not upset with anybody except for myself because I just don't think about it until I woke up this morning, and I was like, oh, I need to go do that fancy football stuff. And I was like, I think I was supposed to do that fancy football stuff. And I was like, I think I think I was supposed to do that yesterday. I think I was supposed to. And I just went in there and I, you see, I put a gif. It was

so good. The home alone, you know, parents where they just go, we did it again! Like overslept their alarm or whatever. So there were still people out there. I picked them up. Yeah. I mean, you split the entire NFL and only three fantasy teams. Everyone's got a pretty good team.

It's all luck at this point. It really is. Cause like you think like at the end of the season, Oh, every team's going to have 300 points. It doesn't happen that way. Like, yeah.

I mean, one guy, the guy who lost, was it Matt Doley? He only had 149 points. Yeah. Derek Henry had 20 yards or something like that. 16 yards.

And again, I had Derek Henry in the league knew to sit him. Then again, I had Derrick Henry in the league. New to sit him. Why? Texans run defense is pretty good this year. See, I have a hard time sometimes when it's like, yeah, but when you got the bell cow, you played the bell cow. Like, when you got Patrick Mahomes, I don't care if you're playing

the best pass defense. Start your studs. Start your studs. Don't get too cute with it. But then again, Derrick Henry hasn't been as studly this year. And when your team is full of studs, you've got to start playing the matchups. The guy, Christian McCaffrey, Kyron Williams. It was a good decision to play them last week. There you go. Anyway, win of the week.

Brad and I made it. We're in the top three. Win of the week. Yeah. Kind of all luck at this point, but we've got good teams. We'll see what happens. Let's see. I have some other things. I guess this isn't a win of week, but I'll pivot it to make it a win of the week. When the week is I made Bo laugh. I'm making them laugh a lot lately.

Uh, we're playing this game. It's a win of the week slash Biff of the week. Um, classic dad game. If you need a hack out there, this one works. Uh, it's in my dad used to do when I was a kid. So that's how I remember it. Um, just pretend like you're blind every time your kid does a good job brushing their teeth. But like, but like Bo, cause, cause like Bo starting to brush his own teeth and he'll brush for like three seconds and be like,

I'm done. And I'm like, well, I'm not blind. But then if I, if he does it for like 30 seconds, like if he does it for a long time and he comes up to me and he shows me his teeth, I'm like, Oh no. Oh, I mean, he thinks it is the funniest thing. And then I'll pretend like I put glasses on and he'll like take my glasses off. Like, Oh yeah, your glasses. Yeah. Whatever. And so the other day I was so into character that I was so blind that I genuinely hit my head on the door, like to the outside, to my deck, like that door, like I ran into the wall essentially and cracked open my forehead, like busted open, like was bleeding out my forehead. Cause I was like, Oh no. How that hurt really bad too. But like, yeah, it was just like, Oh no. Oh,

Oh, it was blood coming down your face. And then I was like, wait, I think I'm actually, yeah. A hundred percent is both laughing at that. Or he's like, Oh no, dad's hurt. No, no. Like, but Catherine could tell, like, I actually hurt myself at that point. And she's like, like from the other, he's like,

Oh, that didn't sound good. I was like, Oh yeah, I think I'm, Oh yeah, I'm bleeding a little bit. But yeah,

so that happened. Just, just get into the character every time. That's great. Believe in the art of the joke. That's right. That's my way of the week is that both things. I'm funny.

And he's got good, good teeth. Dr. Ben art of the joke. That's right. That's my win of the week is that Bo thinks I'm funny. And he's got good teeth, Dr. Ben Miller. Good teeth. Tymon, anything to add on? You got a win? You got a comment? I got a question. Ooh. Okay, comment first.

Someone said, shout out to Tymon's sick beatboxing. Ooh, yeah. Me and Brad's episodes. That was fun. That was a good time. Question for you, Jake. Two questions. Oh, for me?

Oh, I have another win. This is Australia related. I'm wondering why you say Perth. You say Perth with an American accent, but Melbourne with an Australian accent. What is it supposed to be? Oh, I think that's... I would always have thought Melbourne.

Yeah. And I think you can like somewhat put an R in there, but I even asked before I went on stage, like I've always heard it thought Melbourne. Yeah. And I think you can like somewhat put an R in there. But I even asked before I went on stage, like I've always heard it's Melbourne. Okay, interesting. I know it's like objectively wrong to say Melbourne. But that's definitely like not how you're supposed to say it. Interesting.

And Australians kind of say it, I think there might be an R in there, but the way they pronounce the R's, it's absent. Melbourne sounds like Melbourne, but with like the accent. An accent. But I could have just like been always reading it and just assumed it was absent. Melbourne sounds like Melbourne, but with the accent. I could have just been always reading it and just assumed it was Melbourne. I don't know. I've always said it's Melbourne. That's good enough for me.

No one's corrected me. But then I was like, well, I'm about to go on stage and I'm about to yell, Melbourne, how we doing? So maybe I should make sure. So I asked the woman who worked there. I was like, hey, as an American, how should I be pronouncing Melbourne? Because I had the same thing. I was like, should I toss a little R in there? She's like, how do you say it now? And I was like, hey, as an American, how should I be pronouncing Melbourne? Because I had the same thing. I was like, should I toss a little R in there? She's like, how do you say it now? And I was like, Melbourne, just no R.

She's like, oh yeah, that's great. Cool. So maybe that is the way to pronounce it. Yeah. Good question, though. Well, how would you pronounce Perth then, Tymon? Perth? I think, yeah.

Is that how they say it? I feel like you'd say Perth. Perth? It'd be weird if you said that. It sounds... Brisbane was awesome. I didn't care for Perth. Yeah.

Because to me, Melbourne sounds like the accent. So I feel like if you say melbourne you should say perth same with brisbane brisbane not much difference i don't think not brisbane but it looks like brisbane insane in the brisbane yeah brisbane i don't know adelaide adelaide that Adelaide. That's a nice one. I'll tell you a tricky city. C, visualize this thing. C-A-I-R-N-E-S. How do you think you pronounce that? Oh, wow. It looks like Kyrenes.

Kyrenes. Kyrenes. You pronounce it Cains. I think Cans. Cans. Cans. Maybe it is Cains. Well, there's C-A-N-N-E-S, which is like con, right?

In the con music festival? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe that's what I'm thinking of. Oh, I spelled it wrong. Dang it. Not that it really matters. It's still C-A-I-R-N-S. No E. How do you say it?

I think I put an E in there. I'm looking up Cans pronunciation. Cans. Sounds like... Whoops. Try again. I'm looking up Cairns pronunciation Cairns sounds like whoops try it again Cairns okay that was just

straight up Cairns so Cairns I think so somebody told me wrong you know what I'm not Australian so let's make the questions

a little easier timing what's the next one I see you have an Apple Watch on your wrist. Oh, yeah. That's what I'm curious about. It was left off on unresolved, right?

You bought another one? Just went and picked one up. You couldn't handle it? Yeah, it probably would have been fine. But I was like, hey, I'm about to start running. I think I want to have some kind of fitness tracker. Yeah. Costco? Yeah. Costco?

Yeah. Yeah. Had to. Love Costco. Got a little slice of pizza. How are they? I've never had one. I feel like people rave about it.

Dude, if you are impoverished and need to put food on the table, buy a Costco membership. I know that's going to put you in the hole a little bit. But what is it? 60, 70 bucks for the year? The Costco food, I didn't realize it was so cheap. I got a little bit, but what is it? 60, 70 bucks for the year. The Costco food. I didn't realize it was so cheap. I got a slice of pizza and it's a huge slice, huge slice of pizza for one 99.

Okay. And then I was like, I don't really need a fountain drink. I drank plenty of Coke zero in Australia. I'm just going to get a water, but this had fountain drink 69 cents. You can't find that anywhere in America. You can't find anywhere for the last 10 years in America. That's unbelievable.

That's almost exactly how it is at Sam's. Because we go to Sam's Club. Yeah. I think hot dogs are like 99 cents there. So, life hack, feed your family at Costco. That's so cheap. That's crazy. That is wild. Interesting. Okay, I have another win of the week.

I think me and the boys, aka Jake and some of our other friends, are going pheasant hunting in November. Yeah. Rachel's my guide dog. I'm so pumped about it. Yeah, long story short, got the offer. The same place I've gone pheasant hunting the last two years,

got the offer to basically host a week with my friends. Is that what it is? I didn't know if, like, am I bunking with Stephen Kirsch Chapman, or is it just going to be just us? No, I think it's just us. Wow. There's going to didn't know if like, am I bunking with Stephen Kirsch Chapman or is it just going to be just us? No, I think it's just us. Wow. There's going to be like, there's going to be people working,

like guiding and running the hunt. Cool. But like the people hunting are going to be just us and like our friends. Wow. I think it's going to be so much fun. How many spots are there to fill? It's either 13 or 14.

I think it's 14 total, including me. Okay. So we still got plenty of spots. Yeah. So I, and I'm like, I'm a little bit worried about some of our friends. I'm it's 14 total, including me. Okay, so we still got plenty of spots. Yeah. Cool. I'm a little bit worried about some of our friends. I'm not really worried about you. I'm worried about some of our friends bailing.

The hunt's in November. I'm worried some of them are like, October comes around. Hey, actually I can't go. It's like, well, okay. I wrote down a list of names and I have like 40 names of like, these guys could come. Oh, like depth chart. Yeah. So like Gunner's in Gunner's in, I think Isaac's going to be in,

I think as long as we get the ball rolling the right way. So like, yeah, I, cause, cause like I have to commit to a date for it and everything. So I told my friend, like, here's when we should do it or here's when I want to do it and and asked, like, hey, can you guys just send, like, assuming your families and schedules and stuff work, who's in? You know, I know it's 11 months away, but it seems like everyone's interested. Garrett Gibson, kind of a ghost right now, hasn't responded. He's in that group chat? Yeah.

How fun would it be? I thought of all the guys from the bachelor party. Yeah. Well, all, like, the, sorry, coops, maybe, someday. Hey. All the guys in the bachelor party. Yeah. Well, all like the, sorry, Coops, maybe someday. Hey. All the guys in the bachelor party. And then I also added Rustin and Will. Yeah.

And Jensen. Jensen's going to come. Oh. Yeah. Fun. So fun. Pheasant hunting. Yeah.

Never been hunting. It's going to be a blast. You're going to love it. So that's my, that's another win for me is like being able to like, eventually 11 months from now, share that experience with my friends. It's going to love it. So that's another win for me is being able to eventually, 11 months from now, share that experience with my friends. It's going to be so fun. Cool.

And Jake's going to be a dad by then probably. Whoa. I'm just kidding. What if you're like, yeah, I actually can't come because we just had a baby a month ago? Yeah. Triplets. Be awesome.

But from what I've heard from parents, it would not be awesome. Triplets? Yeah. Why not? I mean, it'd be a. But from what I've heard from parents, it would not be awesome. Triplets? Yeah. Why not? I mean, it'd be a lot more work, but... Then again, I mean, if we're going to have three kids anyway, get it out of the way. Yeah.

Dude. That might be the way to do it. If you're going to have triplets, do it first rather than having one kid knowing that experience. And be like, let's have one more. And then you have three. That's what happened to a woman at our church. They had two kids trying, they kept praying for three.

Like, Lord, just give us three. Guy got a little confused. God's like, oh, watch this. Choose your grammar carefully. They got triplets. Yeah, I don't know. Why not? I would help you out. I'd come over here. Thank you.

Rock them to sleep. Okay. I can put you down for a rocking. Yep. I'm good you out. I'd come over here. Thank you. Rock them to sleep. Okay. I can put you down for a rocking. Yep. I'm good at rocking. I take pride in how I get my kids to sleep. In how you rock? Yeah. You doing a 4-4 time measure?

Not good dismantling of the kids. Like once it's like, all right, go to your bed now. I'm not very gentle with that. And I've just kind of accepted it and just been like, this kid's going to have to learn. He's going to wake up a little bit. They're going to be fine once they get get down there though so cool thanks for the questions good win go pheasants um okay the next episode for you guys is gonna come out monday january

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