Ghostrunners - 301 - Irrationally Strong Opinions

Episode Date: January 31, 2024

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Hot off the press. And by press, I mean she pressed publish on our Facebook group. Internet press. Maggie Posh didn't think your name was going to come up in the first 10 seconds of the podcast, did you? She posted on our Facebook. No. No. She posted on our Facebook group.

I think she's in school. that apparently when they go to science museums, when kids go to science museums, parents are three times more likely to explain science to boys than girls. Hold on, first of all. She was saying sweet things about it. Yeah, wait, what is the context here? Why is this in our Facebook group? So this was a study that was discussed in one of my child development courses today, and I was so sad as a daughter to see this,

but then I was immediately uplifted when a bajillion instances flashed in my head of Brad Ellis and his joy in helping Hattie to learn anything ever. So thank you Brad and Catherine on behalf of intellectual daughters everywhere. Do you teach Hattie science? You outsource the science. I try to teach her everything I can. I do love teaching Hattie and

it's just so fun to be like let's see if you can do more. Do you know what centimeters are? No. Let's learn. Great. That's what we're going to do today. Yeah.

We're going to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Consolidation of money and whatever. All these different things. Tooth enamel. You never heard of it?

Awesome. It's a whole lesson on it. Dude, you know how she's doing like this business where she's trying to sell things to people. So the other day she goes, and dad, you're still on my debt card for $3. Debt card. It was so cute. I don't know where she said it. Got a ledger. And so I taught her about interest. I was like, you're still on my debt card for $3. It was so cute. I got to know where she said it. And so I taught her about interest.

I was like, you know what? It took me a long time to give this back to you. So you get $3 and 25 cents. That's called interest. And so anyway, like, yeah, just stuff like that. So yeah, I do like teacher. I don't, I'm not very good at science, so I don't teach her that much, but I can't imagine like this study to me is so stupid.

Like, I mean, whatever, not, you're not stupid Maggie, but the idea of like somebody with the clipboard at science city in Kansas city being like, okay, this dad,

do you care if I interrupt here? Did you tell him? Oh, yeah. I was like, Oh, it's Rachel here. I was like,

Oh yeah, go ahead. I was very convinced. Yeah. You go ahead. You got very convincing. Yeah, you go ahead. You got me. Yeah, what's up? Oh, yeah. Do we need to stop real quick?

Keep going. Keep going. I don't need to interrupt. Like this girl, like, you know, hey, why does my hair go high up when I touch this electro ball? Like, don't worry about it. I can't imagine that. We didn't come to Science City for you to bother me with questions

figure it out if it's not learning how to boil some water for pasta or figuring out how to preheat the oven, what do you care? why does your hair stick up? because it's hot, like the oven make me a sandwich like there's no way

there's no way people are just like don't worry about it, girl. You're not, yeah, you're not going to fly a rocket anytime soon, so just get back over here. Why are the people from Africa, why do they all have darker skin in, like, the thing? Because they're outside. Like, you're not going to be staying in the kitchen.

All right? People are overhearing this like, wow, we got to collect some data on this. Yeah, I got to write this down. Uh-oh, ooh, we got to collect some data on this. Yeah. Yeah, I got to write this down. Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat.

So come along, let's have some fun and go ahead, get on your feet, because this is the Ghost Rubs Podcast. Ghost Rubs Podcast. Everybody morning, we're taking ground. Ghost Rubs Podcast. Hey, it's 301. We did it. 301. That's probably an area code of somewhere cool.

I think 303 is Denver. That's a really cool place. Fun fact. You know Eau Claire, Wisconsin? I know area codes. 301 area code. Western fact, you know, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. I know area code. 301 area code. Oh, Western Maryland,

baby. It covers Germantown, Silver Spring, Waldorf, Frederick and Rockville. So shout out if you are in one of those cities. Yeah. Maggie posh didn't think we were naming her and 301 didn't think we were

naming them. The, there's some things in our world that make sense. The highway system. You got evens. You got odds. You know, like Highway 1's on the coast and it goes all the way across.

That makes sense. The area codes, those don't make sense. Because zip codes, it seems like, yeah, I'm 65807. Right next to me is 65808. That makes sense. Yeah, you're right. But area codes, it's just random.

Yeah. 913-417-314.785-816-405. That's a 301 in Western Maryland. Why do they do it that way? Dumb. Look it up, Tymon. That's your job for now. Tymon.

All right. Wide lens. You're in charge of science and looking that stuff up. All right. That's it. Tymon, do you want to learn science? I'll teach you science. Okay? I'll teach you science. Okay.

I'll teach boys science. Boys need science. Hashtag boys need science. Boys need science. That's, yeah, that's such a silly, like, I think we need to figure out some data on this. I think parents are willingly just, I mean, whatever. Her study says this, but like. Yeah.

Going back to the study, I'm curious how they collected the data. Like, are they like, hey, excuse me, I saw you talking to your daughter. By chance, did you ignore her completely when she asked you a science question? Yes. Okay, that seems to be on track for us. Yeah, three to one odds there.

Parents were more than three times more likely to explain science to boys than to girls. Are they micing these people up? I just, I have some questions about the data. Yeah, so vague. What does it mean to explain science? Yeah. And what do the parents even know?

Science is so broad. The word explain is so broad. We're talking about this so much. Yeah, I know. Yeah. Parents, yeah, whatever. I teach science to anybody. Hey.

Hey. I'm going to step up and be brave about this. I don't care how much flack it gets me. Hey, he's, she's, anything in between. I'm teaching, hey, I'm going to step up and be brave about this. I don't care how much flack it gets me. Hey, he's she's anything in between teaching science to everybody. All right. Tim Coop. No, Steve Coop. Sorry.

Yeah. Science teacher. Does he do boys and girls or his boys? I believe it's a co-ed school. Small town, Iowa. It's traditional over there. Girls don't need science. All right.

You know, I do think he was famous. Not famous, but all the students loved him. The faculty loved him because pretty often he would bring in a grill or something. He would make pancakes for his class. But now that I think about it, maybe he was having the women make the pancakes while he taught the boys science. I never asked who did what. I just heard, oh, yeah, they get pancakes. Yeah.

Boys learn the science. Did you have some? Oh, Rachel's not here. Do you mind interrupting? Okay, great. Tymon, did you learn anything? This says, this random jump of numbers is because geography didn't determine area code designations.

Population density did. So apparently it has to do with population somehow. Interesting. But still. Does that answer our question? No. Certain populations just not handle that many people? Like 301, that's a small number.

So we can't have too many people living there. Well, I understand. You can't have too many. But like 417 is where Branson and Springfield where Jake grew up. So if the idea is like the 417 started before the 913, which is Kansas city,

I don't believe that it doesn't seem like there's population density was higher in Springfield when they started doing this thing than it was in Kansas city. It just doesn't add up, Brad. Something's not right. It doesn't add up. Maggie,

let me see what kind of study you got on this. Maggie, get back to us, figure this out, post it on the Facebook page. Yeah. And I want sexism to kind of be part of it. So figure out an article.

Have some bias there. Includes that in it. Oh, man. I feel like, well, this episode, we were planning on doing a Routishly Strong Opinions. I feel like I'm already a little fired up. Should we just start off with that? Area codes are weird. Yeah.

I don't like area codes. You know what? I've even got something similar to area codes. Tell me. So I was reading a thread online recently, one of those like, America has got to do everything their own way. They're making up their own language

where they take from everybody. They use their own imperial system, which I think for the most part, we probably should use the metric system. It's so convenient for everything. It's too late. A kilometer. Yes, it's a thousand times more than a meter.

Yeah. Pouring things, measuring things. It's all so great. However, Yes. It's a thousand times more than a meter. Yeah. You know, pouring things, measuring things. It's all so great. However, one thing I think that I really like that I don't like that everyone does, I am irrationally opinionated about the way we do dates. Month, month, day, day, year, year, year, year. You're a fan. Yes. Because that's how we talk.

But not, I don't know. Unless it's the 4th of July. Well, that's how Americans talk. Do you think that's how, uh, yeah, I don't know. Unless it's the 4th of July. Well, that's how Americans talk. Do you think that's how, yeah, I don't know. I feel like that's how they talk. You talked to a nice young bloke down in Australia. When was that? Oh, you know, it was February 25th.

Is it? Okay. Because I, here's the only argument against that is whenever I talk to, we'll call them Indian telemarketers. I don't know if they're for sure that but Bangladesh. They're somewhere over there. Myanmar. Speaking English to me

they'll be like, okay, are you free 13th January? It sounds like they weren't Indian from that point. I know you're free the 13th January. Cheerio! Cheerio, yeah!

No, he's Indian. Come and hear you from Sri Lanka! Is that India? I'm so bad at geography stuff. You're saying when telemarketers... But they learn their English from British people, I bet. Saved. I don't know.

I just like it how we do it. I like it too. I like that. I know you go month first and the numbers are different that way. Well, you did your tour dates and stuff and you had the ones for Australia and they were weird looking. They were weird looking.

They were, dude. All of a sudden, it's 13-01. When? Huh? British? Girls to guys? 3-1? They were, dude. All of a sudden, it's 13-01. When? Huh? Huh? Huh? British?

What? Girls to guys, three to one? What? Huh? So that was my least opinionated one, but we're going to work our way up. Okay. Month, month, day, day, year, year. I like it. All right.

First, your rationally strong opinion for me. McDonald's ice cream sundaes are too expensive. How much? $3.85. Oh, wow. Eating over $1.89, I was going to complain about. I had made that number up in my mind. These days, the ice cream cone prices vary. Different McDonald's, fine, whatever. whatever, anywhere from one 25 to one 99. A Sunday is just a cone without a cone. It's, it's just it. So, so the other day after, uh, had his cheer game, uh, I went, I took the kids. Plus my mom, my mom came and watched how to cheer. Um, we all went to, uh, yeah, we got, went to McDonald's.

Just had, we shared the four of us. My mom didn't have any, but four kids, we shared ice cream Sunday. It was, yeah, it was just ice cream and they added M&Ms in there. They didn't have any, but four kids, we shared ice cream sundae. It was, yeah, it was just ice cream, and they added M&Ms in there. They didn't mix it up or anything. It wasn't a McFlurry. McFlurry's $3.85, fine.

You're doing the little mix. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine. But this thing was a tiny little cup, $3.85. No thanks. Irrational, in our opinion, that's a ripoff. Is McDonald's, what comes on the sundae as is Are they throwing like nuts or almonds or anything weird on there? Is it just chocolate and ice cream? Well, first of all, they had one option.

It was just an ice cream cup at $3.50 or something like that. Ice cream cup? Yeah. Just like a, they call it ice cream Sunday, but it was just a cup of ice cream. No Sunday. And then they had the option of either chocolate or caramel, but I was doing it on like one of those little screens you can order from. And so they had all the customization. So the kids saw M&M's were like, we don't want chocolate or caramel. We want was doing it on one of those little screens you can order from. They had all the customization, so the kids

saw M&M's and were like, we don't want chocolate or caramel. We want M&M's. I think they probably have nuts or something. Literally just a cup of ice cream at McDonald's and there's no way that cup's that expensive. That's fair. That's a good start.

That's a good start, I'd say. Tommy, you got any yet? I thought of one that's not that good but like let's get really fired up I'm already kind of mad I was with my cousin cousins cousins watch with them

siblings aren't enough we watched Top Gun I had never seen it before is this Maverick or the old one both here's the thing we started with Maverick we watched like half of Maverick

then we were talking talking to my cousin Andrew's older sister and she said you gotta watch the first one the first watch the second top gun you say he has to do it it's part of our yeah law yeah um so then we watched the first one and it was not good is that is that irrational i don't it was just like i was like i've heard i feel like a lot of people just like beloved by a lot of people yeah but i was like hey it's not it was not enjoyed i wrote it i wrote it two and a half stars out of five out of 28 um i i i can get behind that take i

don't think it's not good it's not so good yeah oh at the very least did not live up whatsoever to like the hype that i felt like i had heard especially so you said you saw half of maverick and then went back to top gun and that was yeah that made it worse i think because maverick was awesome yeah well i will say maverick no no no no no no no maverick not not insanely good until the last 30 minutes that's what i thought last 30 minutes justified like it was I thought too. Last 30 minutes justified. It was like you sit through the, it was like they filled up the first hour and a half.

Really? For the last 30 minutes, I think. Yeah. That's my take. I don't remember my thoughts right after I saw Top Gun, but I think it was similar to that. I'm sure I talked about it on the podcast, but I remember thinking I was confused why they even had to do the mission

and who were the bad guys. Yeah, the bad guys are kind of obscure. I wanted to know more about the bad guys. Why is this mission so important? Yeah, because did you see the first Top Gun recently? No, it's been a while. Okay, so I just saw it like, I was like, I gotta watch the first one

before I go see the new one. And so I watched it like in the past year and I was like, yeah, it was fine. But it wasn't like, oh my gosh, this is my new favorite movie. It was always in like the $5 value bins at Walmart. And there's a reason for it. Like it was like, this is a good favorite movie. It was always in the $5 value bins at Walmart, and there's a reason for it. It was like, this is a good enough movie

that people will want to buy it, but it's not good enough to be $15 to $20. I don't need a blue shelf. So that's a good barometer for how good a movie is. Was it in the $5? Was it in the Black Friday bin? Yeah, and he's a gang bot. Yeah.

Yeah, that's good, though. Cool. This one is very low stakes like i said i'm working my way up you're actually strong opinion i have been uh i feel like the facebook algorithm and instagram algorithm is really trying to push threads on you have you noticed that like it's like kind of an option i wish i could just see a few of them every once in a while so they get me because like they only show the first like half a sentence i'm like well kind of intrigued yeah so i found myself getting on threads more. It's working.

So you don't have a thread. So I click on it. It's like, do you want to download the app? And I don't care that much. Curious what Danny Austin's saying about this thing. That's funny. So my irrationally strong opinion is with the Instagram account, like the account Instagram on threads. And it's with their tweets, their posts, so to speak. I'm just irrationally upset about them. They're stupid. I screenshot just a few. This is what Instagram said.

They're tweeting this out. The person leaving you on read is not your soulmate. Instagram. That's the best we get. Dude, your Instagram. You're worth $7 billion. This is what... All right.

The next one is, you can fit a bottle of wine in a treadmill. It's just like those signs. Wait, I know. You're plagiarizing. Very next tweet. Uh-huh. Which bestie has the 20-year plan

and why is it the Capricorn? No link or anything? That's it? They're just trying to generate responses. I'm ready for my irrationally strong opinion. What is that? What is that tweet? Which bestie has the 20-year plan and why is it the Capricorn?

That's ridiculous. Ew. I hate it. I'm not saying ew. I'm not going there. That's my irrationally strong opinion. It's gross and ew. Dude, my irrationally rational opinion on that is like,

back in the day, the corporate accounts out there were way too straight-laced. They were like, you know, the Kansas City Royals would be like, Pepsi Max. Sorry. Whatever. What were you going to say? I don't know why Pepsi Max came to mind. Pepsi Max is now available at Casey's General Store. Check it out today. 10% off. You use our code.

Yeah, right. Like, it'd be like, the Royals would be like, Royals, take another win from the twins three to one sorry lisa gluck and like that would be it and now it's like they've they've swayed way too far into the unprofessional too like that's instagram like your instagram have some respect i have yeah be able to look yourself in the mirror at night you're one of the biggest companies in the world and you're saying stuff like that what's the benefit it's like man instagram just really gets me they they know what capricorns are yeah and they have a 20 year plan what even is that what are you talking about which bestie has the 20 year plan i've never ever needed a 20 year plan from a bestie i don't know what you're talking

about yeah it was fun when like a few accounts would like be a little personal wendy's yeah yeah yeah some beef jerky brand which wasn't jack links maybe slim jim yeah maybe good ranchers yeah uh episode 301 sponsored by good ranchers yeah it is delivered um good rangers.com no i yeah it's just i i i feel that in my soul got a few more for you please new moon new manifestations so they're like just going real far into this weirdo it's 100%, is coming from an IP address in Los Angeles, California. Okay. New year, new year vibe check. Emojis only. Dumb.

So they just want you to respond with emojis? With what your vibe is for the new year. Respond to that. Give them some interaction. Cowboy emoji. That's right. Only emojis, only emojis timing how you feel about that uh last one 2024 colon manifesting self-care and self-love for all this emoji yeah i really i'm bothered by these guys right i don't like makes my blood boil thank you i'm like what i'm

so bothered by it i hate seeing it and they keep recommending it to me because i clicked on it once and i just get so mad like why are you tweeting this tweet about like show off someone who's crushing it on instagram tell a cool story show a feature on instagram show us something we're not we don't know about your instagram on threads yeah you're competing against really no one. You're the only one really using this. It's your own platform. Do something cool. Be a leader of content. Don't tweet like you're 19 years old

and have six roommates in Beverly Hills and you love getting tarot cards read to you every Thursday. Are they expecting this to blow up? I don't know. Also true. That's not a viral, I gotta share that. Oh, I gotta repost this to blow up? I don't know. Also true. That's not a viral, I gotta share that. Oh, I gotta repost this to my story.

Yeah. Let's repost the vibe thing in emoji form. Okay, I'll repost that. And just the amount of times I saw the word manifesting in there, I was like, just chill on that. Because you know Instagram would never use the term prayer.

They would never acknowledge that that exists. But the idea of thinking thoughts and those coming true like oh well that sending good vibes your way that oh i'm all in on that i'm sending love and manifestation to all in 2024 this emoji yeah it's like i mean sure there's something to be said about like you know if you write your goals, you're more likely to accomplish them. Sure. Yes. But just, I manifested this. I spoke it into existence. Yep. Show me the Science City data on that.

What's manifesting mean? Don't worry about it, Clarice. Yeah. That's, yeah. So silly. Good word. All right. We're working our way up.

Okay. My next one. I just think I have a relatively strong opinion. It's not necessarily competitive, but I wrote down not being competitive enough can be a disservice to the rest of the people that you're playing with. Maybe it's not not being competitive enough, but yes. But you got to try. Please try.

Yep. I know we're having fun here. So I went to Gunner's house last week for settlers. And right when I, I was like, I was a little bit later than everybody else. Put the kids to bed, you know, good dad. And, um, and so right when I get there, like, you know, the first, first part of settlers is like, you put all the, you know, you put all your settlements out and whatever. And everyone's like, sorry, Brad, I know you're like really like, I know you get really

bothered if people play too slow. And I'm like, ah, Brad, I know you're like really like, I knew you get really bothered if people play too slow. And I'm like, ah, or like, there'll be later. I'd be like, Oh, Brad's getting really worked up about this.

I'm like, I didn't say anything. I'm chilling. I'm just sending self love to you all. Yeah. Gunner had, Gunner must've preface. I'm like,

listen guys, Brad's like really competitive with this. And of course I'm competitive. I want to win, but I think that's, it's, it's not fun. If you're just like,

will you trade me this for that? And it's like, yeah, sure. It doesn't matter. Okay. Yeah. Or like, I got to understand like fun if you're just like, will you trade me this for that? And it's like, yeah, sure. It doesn't matter. I don't care. Yeah. Or like I understand, whatever.

If you're playing basketball against somebody else and they're better than you, they're better than you. But at least still try. Don't just be like, go ahead, man. Just take it. I'm not going to. It's going to be more fun for both of you if you give some effort. Yes.

Right. Rash is from my opinion. I understand that like competitiveness can definitely rear its ugly head and be like bad, but also it's, it's makes it more fun if you do it in a healthy way. I promise there's a balance that you could find. Yeah. I think all of our friends have, we go play basketball. Yeah. We're laughing. We're smile. But if you like turn the ball over four times, that's not probably the time to laugh and smile. It's like, Hey, have a little like pride in yourself and your ability. Like i'm gonna like do better next time gosh

i'm sorry i know i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm not i'm not trying to be an idiot out there you know whatever there was a guy this is like two years ago we were playing an indoor volleyball league with him and he always had trouble serving it over you know hey we're not asking you to jump serve top spin you know let's get it over and let's just see what happens and he would serve it into the net all the time. And he just kept doing it. And he would like chuckle to himself like, ah, again. I'm like, well, we're all doing it.

So I know it's possible. Yeah. Yeah. I don't like that you think it's so funny because we're not like being like, ah, again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's one thing if you're just not good. I understand not being athletic. But like just try.

Don't just be like, I'm giving up, guys. I just can't yeah anyway yeah i'm with you yeah i'm not i'm not a jerk i promise i just see athletes it's just fun to compete and fun when you play a game you're playing to win the game yeah that's playing to at least compete you play to win the game hello timon any others come to mind since we've been talking this one's also probably stupid but i just thought of it uh i i don't know if this is relatable but like i see movies like new movies they'll come out and they'll promote like like for example top gun maverick they were like i just like recently thought of this because i've like looked it up afterwards like they're like

we shot all these scenes like for real there's it's not like visual effects or cgi or whatever and then i'm like it's like but then the in the credits it's like the list of vfx artists just like insane because it's like they're every movie nowadays has a lot of vfx and cgi but like if it's invisible that's great that means i did a good job but i'm just like i think my opinion is stop pretending like there aren't vfx because then it's like the artists don't get credited. Yeah. Yeah. There's my thing.

I'd like to piggyback that. I don't like when people – I'll just call it specifically. Forrest Frank. Love him. Never met him, but he seems great. Love his music. Love that he's doing more Christian music on his own. I think for the most part, he does a very good job marketing his own music. However, I was annoyed recently.

Yeah. You know where I'm going with this? Dude, give me three. What does this song make you think of? Yeah, it's similar. Yeah. So he was like, the title on screen is like, freestyling a song. He's like, well, that's kind of fun. I've never seen Forrest Frank freestyle. I watch it. He's got a friend in the back. He's like, what do these chords make you think of? He's like, a good day. A sunny day. Yeah.

Okay, great. And what does a good day have? Give me three words. back he's like what do these chords make you think of and he's like a good day sunny day yeah okay great and uh what like does a good day have give me three words and he's like uh birds chirping god is good you know whatever sunshine sun birds and god okay okay oh good i didn't think you were gonna say that let me write that down okay so then he just sings his song that he's been working on for six months yeah and is out this day and he's like whoa what a freestyle it's like dude how could you you be okay with doing that? In the same video, you're like, go stream my song now. It's out. You just told us it's a freestyle.

How does that not seem so oxymoronic? How can you be okay with that? It's like that, too. It's like, we didn't use any VFX. You will notice in the credits, 12 different VFX artists were a part of the movie. Thank you for watching. It's so backwards. Like when you realize a reality show is scripted it's like well that's the whole point of

a reality show yeah yeah yeah so yeah good there's my thing all right yeah i didn't have the forest frank one written down i do like forest frank i'm sure we get along great but that bothered me um next one this is uh all right i want you guys to imagine with me it's uh let me manifest that real quick you've been in eau claire wisconsin or harris michigan all weekend you uh after the night of a show you make the hour and a half drive to green bay wisconsin they have trouble with your hotel room. Tymon is actually driving. I appreciate it. Tymon is miming.

Miming Tymon. It's been an hour and a half. It's been an hour and 25 minutes. I am ready to get there. Tymon's got his eyes closed. He's no longer editing for us. He looks like he's shadowboxing like this. He's fully driving like this.

Oh, yeah. All right, so we're driving along. This is Anyone by Justin Bieber. You get to the hotel in Green Bay, and they've never checked anyone into a hotel ever before. And this takes about an hour. And then you finally get up to your room. It's about 1 a.m.

You fall asleep at 1.30. You have to wake up at 5. No, 4.30 to take an early morning shuttle to the airport for your 6 a.m. flight. Really? You get there, and you're exhausted, and you're so sleepy, and you didn't bring enough clean clothes, so you smell bad, and you're hungry,

and you haven't had a fruit in three days, and you're just ready to be home, and you get up to the gate agent or whatever, you know, American Air, and they say, hey, are we going to check in these to Kansas City? And you say, yes, and they say, uh in these to Kansas City? And you say, yes. And they say, uh-uh, uh-uh, I'm not seeing that today. No yawning.

Nuh-uh, mister. Because I yawned. How much did you hate? That's Instagram threads level painful. There's no yawning in 2024. 2024, no yawning. I was like, I mean, of course I didn't say anything. I was just like, yeah, just tired, you know?

And they're just like, man, it is 4.45. It's going to be dark for three more hours. I barely slept. I am so sorry I yawned. You've been awake forever, it seems like. So I understand you're chipper. Yeah, you're like, okay, you're used to this schedule. I am so sorry I yawned. You've been awake forever, it seems like. So I understand you're chipper. Yeah, you're like, okay, you're used to this schedule. I am not.

Like, she probably got a full night's sleep. Or he. It was a feminine-speaking man. And yeah, he was chipper as can be. And I thought I did something wrong. It's like right as I said it on the scale. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Looking down. There will not be any yawning in this airport today.

Someone didn't read the 2024 outs list. In manifesting good vibes. Out. Basic bodily function. Involuntary actions from your body. Actions that we still don't know why they happen in the human body. Don't do those. Don't you dare.

Scientists cannot figure out how we do it. So stop it. Oh man, that was triggering. No yawning. It's like, wow. That's a bummer that I can't do that. All right. Yeah, it's like, what else can't I do? Is there a list of other things that will upset

you if I yawn? But you know, this type of person, just obviously very friendly, very excited. It's like, hey, now you have a good day, and I better not see any more yawn. Yeah. Alright. Okay. My next one, you mentioned fruit, so whatever.

The green apples in the Chick-fil-A fruit cups are getting out of control. In what way? Dude. Okay. So if you're out there and you have, if you order like a kid's meal, you can either get a fruit cup

or fries. We normally do one of each, you know, Bo gets whatever and they split it. And this fruit cup is a pretty hefty fruit cup, but dude,

it's 85% like sour green apples that the kids don't eat. It's maybe like four, four little strawberry cuts, maybe one or two blueberries, and 85 green apples. Yeah, see, I do like a good green apple, but up against strawberry and blueberry?

No. And it's way cheaper. I know exactly what you guys are doing over there at Chick-fil-A. You guys are trying to save some coin by giving me all the green apples in the world. It's ridiculous, dude. It's like... And while we're at it. Go off.

Keep the green melons out of fruit cups too. What melons? They're like the coconut melon, but the green version. Those are the last things to be eaten in every fruit cup. Yeah. They're fine. I'm not trying to act like they're gross. I'm not sure what you're talking about.

Exactly. You shouldn't. Bless life. They're extinct. Not like honeydew? Honeyd about. Exactly. You shouldn't. Okay. Blessed life. You're extinct. Not like honeydew? Honeydew. Oh. That's good. Maybe just fresh. I don't know. Honeydew is a good fruit, I'd say.

Ideal fruit cup. Go. Strawberries, blueberries, grapes, apples, maybe orange slices in there. That's great. There's my five. Maybe peaches, kiwi. Whoa. Whoa. Psycho. Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries. I don't have. Maybe peaches, kiwi. Whoa. Psycho. Strawberry, blueberries, blackberries. I don't have many fruit cups.

Raspberries. I'm a berry boy. Berry boy. What's wrong with kiwi and peaches? You know exactly what's wrong with kiwi and peaches. Those things are so juicy. Those things are getting on every other type of fruit in there. Okay.

Fruit cup. I probably had the wrong idea. I'm thinking of like the stuff they're like. Cup of fruit. Okay. Okay. Fruit cup, I probably had the wrong idea. I'm thinking of like the stuff that are like- Cup of fruit. Okay. Okay. My first thought is like the peach cups where they're like soaking in like- Oh, their own juice.

Their own juice kind of. Oh, those things aren't just juice, man. That's sugary crap. Corn serpents. Tell you what. Yeah. No, no, no. I saw one time.

That's an old memory. Yeah, we used to get pears that way. Yeah. Pears in a can. Yeah. Those are nice. I forgot about pears. Do they still make it pears? Oh, we have pears a lot. I'm sure pears are so good. Yeah, we used to get pears that way. Yeah. Pears in a can. Yeah. Those are nice. I forgot about pears. Do they still make it pears?

Oh, we have pears a lot. I'm sure pears are so good. Yeah, they're doing all right. You can just like- A good pear? Eat them with nothing done to just, it's like an apple. Yeah.

Yeah, they're good. We have all sorts of fruit at our house. We have kiwis. They're fine. All right. Anyway, just the green apples at Chick-fil-A. If you're out there and you work at Chick-fil-A and you're like, hey, actually, you can order it, no green apples, let me know.

Like, let me know if there's a hack out there because it's out of control. And the kids don't like them very much. And so I'll be like, okay, I'll eat them. And they're kind of like – they're kind of filmy on the skin. Brown? No, not brown, but just like a – Oh, the exterior is filmy. Kind of waxy feeling.

Like it's like, ah, this isn't very easy to eat. Okay, yeah. Not very fun. Sorry, man. It's okay. I was trying to keep my kids healthy, but it's like. Trying. Not with green apples, I'm not.

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Ready for you. Time to think of any more? No. All right. This is my last one. And I think people are going to get upset about this because uh i talked about it last week and i feel like i didn't say anything bad last week and people were still upset about it so here we go so buckle up i have decided that i am done watching ted lasso done you're giving up i just it's not good enough to keep me coming back there there's just the

that's the summary is it's i don't feel like i need to watch the next episode i don't think i have to watch the next episode yeah you've seen it before yeah i was i was literally quarantined in my basement so it's like i guess i'll keep watching but yeah i felt the same way it wasn't like this is gripping me this is this is yeah, the plot is just so, I got to see what happens. I got to, I'm invested in these characters. It was like, Ted's great, but I know 30 people like Ted Lasso in real life. It's just, they don't make TV shows about him very often. So this is kind of fun to watch. Yes. Let's talk about that. So I think for a lot of people, it is a feel good show, which that's great. If you need to like good from entertainment like that, then by all means, watch Ted Lasso.

Love Ted Lasso. Feel good about it. That's fine. For me, yeah, I think we have such good friends. I feel good about my friends. Go to church. You can find a lot better people than that. It's not to say that if you like Ted Lasso, you don't have good friends.

But just for me, it's like when I watch entertainment, I'm looking to like i don't know yeah yeah just something else than a feel good i'm looking for different emotions so i'll say that and yeah it feels like they made a tv show where the main character is like a golden retriever i love a golden retriever you married golden retriever i married golden retriever they're awesome but i don't think they need to be like the center of a tv show because it's just like it's just oh this is just nice it's a nice TV show this TV show has somehow won multiple Emmys for outstanding comedy it does not feel like an outstanding comedy to me it feels like a nice really nice TV show yeah who's busted up laughing at Ted Lasso I'm serious maybe Bert no Bert's not watching Ted Lasso. I'm serious. Maybe Bert. No, Bert's not watching Ted Lasso.

If you and Bert were together, you would laugh. I might, yeah. Oh, Bert. That Roy's up to something, isn't he? He's never going to learn. Dude, speaking of never going to learn, this bothered me. So episode one, Ted Lasso. I'm like, that wasn't super good,

but honestly, a lot of it was from the SNL sketch that I remember. There were even similar jokes that I remember from the SNL sketch, which is fine. And you know what? But let's stick around because people love this show.

By episode three, I was like, okay, there's some good character development already happening. This is great. But then it stopped by episode 10 or whatever ted lasso this is the champion not championship game but it's the game to potentially get relegated it's the biggest you know it's the climax of the season they're about to score and they call off sides and ted lasso goes up to the referee he's like you might explain to me what off sides means i'm like

dude you're the coach of this premier league soccer team for six months now you know what off sides is so bothersome like we get it he's from america he doesn't know soccer but i mean months into the season you gotta know what offsides there's no way like that's like the most common thing they call in soccer right so like there's no way he's he's never heard about it's like some random rule where it's like yeah you can't score one point in a football game yeah you block the extra point run about you know whatever yeah yeah yeah unless unless it's one of those things where it's like, remember Brett Favre didn't know what a nickel defense was for a long time.

Maybe it was one of those things. I don't know. But like, yeah, it's very like, that is incongruent. They're just running that trope into the ground. Like, dumb American doesn't understand soccer. For a couple episodes, great. But the season finale, now what's offsides again? You're going to have to remind me of that one more more time really dude you i get out of here with that same

with roy kent remember him yeah scott loves roy whole episode just a grumpy englishman that's all he is yeah just like childish grumpy just like he's he's the oldest guy on the team he used to be a star now he's just like barely sticking around and so people will like him a hard time for being old he's like i'm not old and i'm not slow like yeah you're like call me old one more time he's like you're old and then they fight like is this how you think alpha males act in a locker room i think he knows he's 34 he's fine he's okay call me old one more time still pretty fit guy yeah he's like hey you're the team captain i want you to give it to someone else. And he's like, nope, not going to do it, and throws it back at his face.

And the other guy's like, no, you have to. You're the captain. Nope. It's like, you can't just give someone else the captain. Nope, coach has got to do it. Okay. It just bothers me. We are living in the golden age of television.

Every week, a new streaming service comes out with an amazing show, an amazing series, an series amazing documentary so with that in mind like there's just too much good stuff out there i can't keep watching ted lasso yeah the comedy scene is not quite as strong i'll say that right like that's true it's been a while since i've seen a good comedy maybe like i don't know american vandal or something like that since i've really gotten into a comedy yeah and that's yeah i like dave on Hulu. I like Dave a lot. Never watched that. I mean, I've, I've liked some comedies kind of recently, like Brooklyn nine, nine, the, uh, superstore was a big thing about Barry. I've never watched Barry anyway, but, but like, even then it's not hilarious. I don't know that I have a, I don't,

I don't like, or like I have a hard time, even though I enjoy watching Ted Lasso fine. And I enjoyed watching the good place was another one that was like so revered and it was a comedy, but it was not very funny. Like it was like really creative. The good place was, it was not Ted Lasso. It was like way more like think heaven and hell. Right. A little bit. Yeah, exactly.

Um, way, way more original. But at the same a little bit yeah yeah exactly um way way more original but at the same time it was just like this is not funny and this is my irrationally strong opinion maybe not a rashly strong pain maybe hot take is i don't think arrested development is laugh out loud fun oh see i love arrested development i think it is one of the most clever shows ever written it is so like it has so many witty little lines but i've i never laugh out loud in it and i've and so many of my friends are like i can't believe you don't And it's so like, it has so many witty little lines, but I've, I never laugh out loud in it. And I, and so many of my friends are like, I can't believe you don't think it's funny. And I'm like, I think it's, it's, it's humorous, but it's not hilarious. The office, I laugh out loud a lot

in the office or like, you know, quoting things from it and stuff. So anyway, I know people are going to be upset by that because so many people love, love, love Ted Lasso. But I think it's like if it's a drama, there's not nearly enough drama to keep me engaged. If it's a comedy, there's very few jokes in this show. So it's not good enough as a comedy to keep me engaged. But that's just my opinion. Everyone's got different opinions. So it's all good. I'm not upset at you if you like it.

I hope you're not upset at me if I don't like it. I am getting sick of, last thing, Ted's phrases and the way he talks. At first, it was kind of cool, and now I'm just like, dude, just say a normal sentence. Just everything is just like some wild just like, he can't just talk to someone normal like, well, you look good today. Oh, dude,

I felt like I looked like a dressed up pig in a circus or something like that. Dude, I don't know what you're saying. And it's not like you can be like, well, he's from the South. We don't. It's not like you can be like, well, he's from the South. We don't know what he's like. He's like, no, he's from Kansas City. We know a million people like him. Even in the show, he's from Wichita.

But in real life, he's from Kansas City. Anyway, I have a game for us to play where I've taken some quotes from the show and I've also made up my own Ted Lasso-isms. I want you guys to try and figure out did Ted Lasso say this or did I make this up? Okay. Cool.

All right. Let's see. First one. I feel like we fell out the lucky tree and every branch on the way down ended up in a pool of cash and Sour Patch Kids. I'm going to guess that's from the show. That sounds like Ted.

Yeah. That was Ted Lasso. That's good. Okay. Okay. I'm gonna guess that's from the show that sounds like Ted yeah that was Ted Lasso that's good okay hey your body's like day old rice if it ain't warmed up properly something real bad could happen

hmm I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with Ted on that one too okay I'll'll do this uh i'll say it was you just just because just to have a different that was ted okay okay okay so you're doing good um next let's do um now i know it feels like we're pouring ink in the ocean to try and make a change of color dang that sounds like Ted, too. I'll say it Ted again.

Pour an ink in the ocean. I'll say you. Ink in, not inking. Inking logs. Not Aztec gold or anything. Yeah, I just made that one up. Oh, that's a good one. Thank you.

Hey. Hey. You wouldn't catch me asking a fish to climb a tree for a better view. Dang, they all said... I'm just going to keep going, Ted. I'll say Ted on that one. I made that one up. Oh.

Dang it. I got to think about Steve Triplett now. That's about who Jake's imagining. Hey. Hey. It's like baking a moon cake without feeling you missed the best part moon cake baking a moon cake without feeling you missed the best part dang dude i don't even think you know what a moon cake is i don't know what a moon cake is

it's like baking a moon cake without feeling you're missing the best part the best part that's you too i'm going It's like baking a mooncake without filling. You're missing the best part. You missed the best part. That's you too. I'm going. I'm going you. It was me. What is a mooncake? It's like a pie with a ton of filling in it.

Okay. A ton of stuff. Do we want to keep going? I have a ton more. We can go all day. Hey. Hey. When it comes to locker rooms, I like them just like my mother's bathing suits.

I only want to see one piece, you know? Wait. Locker rooms are one piece? I only want to see, yeah. Oh, so like don't like destroy the locker room. Yeah. I'll say Ted Lasso. Okay.

Jake. That was Ted Lasso. Ah, frick. I'm bad at this. All right. Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn't it? If you're comfortable while doing it, you're probably doing it wrong. Jake.

Ted. It's Ted. Fricking this. We'll go until Brad gets one. Can't decide what I'd rather do. Build a snowman in the desert or build a bridge over the ocean? Jake. Jake Triplett. That was me. Good job. Yeah!

I was like, I gotta stop guessing Jake all the time. Alright. So, yeah. That was Ted Lasso. I gave it a good try and obviously it wasn't terrible. It was a good show. I didn't regret watching it. Yeah, it was fine. It was easy to crank through them. It was fun. It was a good show. I didn't regret watching it. Yeah, it was fine. It was easy to crank through them. It was about sports and Kansas. But I was like, this is what people are geeking out about?

Do they like it because it's funny? I'm giving people the benefit of the doubt. I'd be like, it's just so fun to feel a show with a guy who's just a good guy. So I get that. I think that was kind of revolutionary. He has no flaws. He's just a great guy. Just very refreshing.

Now, did he abandon his family to go coach a sport? Yeah, revolutionary. He has no flaws. He's just a great guy. Just very refreshing. Now, did he abandon his family to go coach a sport he's never coached before? Yes. What is that story? Did they get divorced? Yes. Did they? Yeah. He was having issues with his wife, right?

Yeah, they got divorced. And he left. I mean, maybe it's season two and season three. They get into it. But all you know now, you watch the whole season one, and you think, I guess this guy just left his family and his kid to go coach a sport he's never coached before.

He had kids? Yeah. He's got a son. I don't remember that. So that's kind of interesting too. Believe though. Believe though. Believe.

Hey, guys, believe. Interesting. All right. That was the Rational Strong Opinions. Yes, it was. With Jake and Brad. Do you guys want to, let's do Blanks of the Week. If we have time for my game, I have a game as well prepared,

but we can always do it next week. Okay. Blanks of the Week. Let's start out with the old win of the week. It's Wednesday. I'll start with my win. My win is – I was about to say on a whim. We definitely talked about doing this video a while back, but then

yesterday I just decided to redo it because we had issues with audio stuff, so I made this Dave Ramsey video, posted it. It's not blowing up by any means, but you see Dave Ramsey commented on it. Did he really? He just said, love it. I was like, and I'm sure

it's a Dave Ramsey's account, so I'm sure it might not be him. It might be. Yeah. But still making waves. I tried to like search like other videos with Dave Ramsey, you know, themed and I never saw him comment on those. Okay.

I was like, that's, I mean, it's just cool to be like Dave Ramsey commented on my video. Okay. You know, it's just, it's just fun to, I don't know. I don't have very many celebrity interactions and Dave Ramsey's the one celebrity i'd be excited to meet yeah i had other one of the week options but when you said like you know celebrity interaction made me think of something so you know i think we've talked about before we invited brock purdy and his fiancee to rachel and i's wedding oh yeah rachel knows his fiancee decently. We're going to be sending them a wedding gift and maybe some Friday pickleball paddles.

Nice. Continue to plant the seed. How fun would it be to get to hang out with Brock Purdy and become friends with him? Yeah. Another seed was planted last night. Win of the week. Oh, excuse me.

Do you mind if I move this dirt? Put this in here. I'm just going to put a little water. Brock Purdy's fiance's older sister is on our volleyball team. We started a league last night.

That, my friend, is a big old seed. When I look at her, all I see is a big old seed. That's like a big... We're seeding. She's probably the maid of honor in the wedding. That's what I'm thinking. She sees Brock on Christmas.

Dude. She gets some gifts. She has to think to herself, what would Brock want for Christmas? How tall is she? She is 5'6". Okay. So Tymon could date her. Yeah. Tymon.

Tymon? Interested in being a little gardener? Planting some seeds? Tymon Brock Purdy, if you don't know, is a football quarterback for the 49ers. Nice. One of the four teams remaining in the playoffs as of recording. Very cool. Is he the one that looks like...

That girl? No, that looks like... Have you seen that girl that looks like Brock Purdy? It's crazy. I have. Oh, wait. I think I have. But have you seen...

Someone posted on the Facebook group that he looks like Ty Gatewood. Isn't that the guy who did the... Yeah. Oh. He looks... I can definitely see that. He looks exactly like him. Yeah.

For sure. They do kind of look alike. Ty has some brothers and he looks even more like... Yeah. He looks like Ty's brothers. Yeah. They're attractive guys. Yeah. Rock party.

Taken very last in the draft. He's the very last person chosen. Which is good. Bad. No. Sorry. So if you pick anybody in the whole pool of available people, he was the very last person that they picked. Okay. And ended up being really good and successful.

Wow. So pretty fun. Cool story. Christian guy. Everyone loves him, but Scott. Yeah, dude. That's so stupid. Like, what a...

You're actually trying to pay it, yeah. Just because he's taking zag wilson's fame or something yeah give me a break anyway so yeah dave and brock planting seeds dave and brock i was like that the girl's name is dave i thought that's human oh the horse's name was thursday what if yeah what if we just i bet dave ramsay would be excited to meet brock purdy what if we just let them hang Dave Ramsey would be excited to meet Brock Purdy. What if we just let them hang out without us? No, no,

we become friends with Brock in order to get to Dave. Cause Dave's the whale. When I look at Kalen, see, when I look at Dave, whale, whale, dog.

Uh, all right. Dave's going to be on the podcast someday. That'd be fun. Look at time and manifesting over here. Time and manifest that for us. I'm setting positive energy. I'm setting positive energy Dave Ramsey's way to be on the podcast someday. That'd be fun. Look at time and manifesting over here. Time and manifest that for us, please. I'm setting positive energy Dave Ramsey's way. Come on.

I would love to talk. If we have Dave Ramsey on the podcast, we have to talk to him about manifesting. Debt consolidation and manifesting. He would have some great opinion. Man of what? Manifesting? Can you snowball manifesting?

That sounds like phooey hogwash to me. I don't know. I've never tried Dave Ramsey before. Man of what? He does kind of have a little what to him, though. Does your dad do that? What? My dad does a lot of weird stuff. I think he might. He might be a

what? Now, I don't know where we're going. You're better at noticing stuff like that than I am. I don't know. Well, especially when it's your dad and you've been used to him forever. It's just my dad. It's your dad. Time you got to win.

It's okay if you don't. Yeah. I finally had choir on Monday after two weeks of it being canceled for snow. So it was fun. Yes. Dude, it's crazy how much stuff has just been. Yeah.

Snow days galore. Yeah. I've been thinking about that. I've had to wipe my feet off every time I'm coming to the house for two weeks straight now. My shoes are just perpetually wet. Dude, early poultry of the week is my back door when we've refinished and put hardwoods down.

Oh, brother. It's too high now. And so we don't have a rug. I mean, we have to have a little towel off to the side. I have to jump to the towel to get it off. Anyway, it's very annoying because every time that you have to wipe your feet, I'm either getting my floor wet

or jumping onto a towel. Yeah, we found an old Shrek towel. That's our, you know. From the old owners? No, just, I don't know why. Of course, Rachel can't find her cell phone, but she knows where the Shrek towel. That's our, you know. From the old owners? Oh, no. Just, I don't know why. You know, of course, Rachel can't find her cell phone, but she knows where the Shrek towel is. Oh, it's a perfect towel to wipe her feet on. It has Shrek on it?

Yeah, just nothing but Shrek. It's over by the garage door. Check it out. We've got a couple pairs of shoes on right now. All right. Shrek towel. Shrek towel. Shrek towel.

I actually wrote down, sorry, it's sabotaging your thing, but I wrote down in my stand-up notes this week, my wife doesn't know when anything is, but knows when she's supposed to wash her hair. Does that have legs? If like she, like she doesn't keep a calendar, doesn't know when we're doing anything, but she's like, I mean, she's like a rocket scientist, but it's like, okay, I have a thing Wednesday night. I should probably wash my hair Tuesday morning. And, but I could do school class in the morning. You know, it's like, she is very on top of hair washing. That is interesting. I think that that's probably a half and half because I bet half the men out there, their wives are the type A.

They're the structured ones. And the men are the, you know, aloof ones. And so, I think it's funny. You yawning, Tymon? Not today, boy. Okay, Poultry of the Week. Poultry of the Week. Tymon, do you have anything more about choir? Oh, no. I mean, just fun. Did you sing at it? Uh, boy. Okay, Poultry of the Week. Poultry of the Week. Tommy, do you have anything more about

choir? Oh, no. I mean, just fun. Did you sing at it? Uh, yeah. This time, yeah. So, next time, say that. Don't hold that in. Come on, dude. We're an open podcast. Say you sang in a choir. Next time, say that. What's your poultry?

I have two. First one's just a small one. My AirPods are just on the fritz. Fenneky beast. Do you guys have issues with your AirPods? Hey, just this week. My AirPods are weird. I'm not a big fan of AirPods. Pfizer? Manifesting? Both? Yeah. I might just go back to corded.

They're not that good anyway. I don't think AirPods are that awesome. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Go ahead. You have the ones or the twos? I don't know. I think I have the ones before yours because they don't have the little loop or whatever

on the side. But I think I got the pros or whatever. The noise cancels. Yeah, the pro ones. I feel like the twos, the noise cancelling didn't get that much better but the sound quality got better. I feel bass in my ears for the first time. Oh, really?

I never felt bass in my ears like that. I don't mind the sound quality of them. It's like sometimes they don't charge or sometimes they think they're off the thing and so they're just dead all the time. Or sometimes it doesn't recognize my left one. It's like all these things are pretty annoying. That is annoying. It's a pretty simple thing to just be like, it either works or it doesn't. And mine right now are not working very well.

Yeah, for me, it was like the left one maybe just wouldn't be the same noise cancellation level as the right one. I tried everything. I restarted everything. Yeah, I've reset things. I did everything I could think of. And then it would still feel like the sound

was a little bit more in my right side. It was just, yeah. I don't know if it's fixed yet. Because I'm hearing issues. So that's my, your Ashton strong pain. Number one, number two, I said, I've been going to your poultry, poultry, poultry, poultry, poultry, AirPods, AirPods, privilege, privilege. I'm so sorry. My poultry, my second poultry of the week is, uh, I've been going to Panera a lot. Um, and there's, you know, Panera is kind of an interesting spot anyway, cause it's kind of like this like cozy, like feel where people meet for business

and stuff. So it's got like these like cushion seats and all this stuff. Our Panera and Shawnee has a fireplace in it. Um, in the, it's like a little like fake fireplace kind of thing where you just turn a switch and it just looks like fire, you know, and it doesn't work. Um, and these old men the other day could not get over the fact that the fireplace didn't work and it just looks like fire, you know? And it doesn't work. And these old men the other day could not get over the fact that the fireplace didn't work. And it was one of those things where I was like, okay, that's quirky, whatever.

And by the end of it, it was annoying me because they talked to multiple different employees that told them the same thing. And then every time a new employee would come over, they'd be like, you fire guy? So what do you think? That fireplace? And then like sometimes they'd have people that aren't even employees, just like other people that are eating at Panera come by.

Do you think you know how to turn that fireplace on? And there's a switch right next to it. And the switch didn't work. And people are like, maybe the switch. And the guy's like, nope, switch doesn't work. Tried the switch. It's like, well, why would they know? And then finally, the third employee they talked to brought the manager over.

And the manager was like, yeah, that switch is not even working with the electrical. We just completely disconnected it because the fireplace was going to cost a bunch of money. And this guy still just could not accept that as like, well, is there a second switch? What kind of electrical stuff is going on? I'm like, dude, just you don't need that fireplace on. It it was cold but it's like there's no way that fireplace is messing with still yeah it's not the main commodity of panera it's not like they're out of bagels you know the yeah the sandwich switch wasn't off i mean i was sitting there for two hours and this guy had so many conversations with people about it that is funny yeah there was little i also had a poultry this

was a long this was uh on the way home from Hawaii. I don't know if it's been randomly annoyed with people lately. Maybe I should be checking my heart about that. We're getting older. This woman, we were boarding the plane, and there were bags on a seat. And this woman goes, is this anybody's bags?

I thought that's the stupidest question anybody's ever asked. You guys have a bathroom? Yeah. Do we have a bathroom. Yeah. Have a bathroom. Is this anybody's back? No. Do you want to refer? I'll give you one chance to rephrase that.

Where is the bathroom? That's a great answer. Yes. Whose bags are these? I was going to say whose bags, not are these anyone's bags? I was like, do these have an owner?

And for whatever reason that really irked me. I don't know why, excuse me for my language, but yeah, it just, it irked me, man. It was just like, this is ridiculous. Excuse me for my language, but yeah, it irked me, man. It was just like,

this is ridiculous. Is this someone's bags? Yeah. They were just randomly manifesting themselves in here. So, anyway.

Piggyback, I, please, don't have this written down, but I was just another airport one. And maybe I've talked about this before.

Nothing makes me just hate all of humanity or just like the the human nature for people like when it's time to get your bag from baggage claim and they all line up as close as possible i mean their knees are touching the baggage claim thing yeah their shins are like being pressed into the metal how do we not all understand that there's a better way to do this? You are guarding people from getting their bag. You are so selfish. You are so unselfaware. You have the worst spatial awareness I've ever seen.

Just stay six feet back. If we all stay six feet back and then we wait to see till our bag gets there, you go up and grab it. How am I the only person? I'm the only one in baggage claim. Not riding it, basically. You're all so close to it.

Just stay back. Yeah. Dude, there's something about airports and like certain, certain instances where it's like my patients is like, or like, yeah, like waiting for your bag or waiting for something like that.

Like all of a sudden people will just get so antsy. People are so selfish in the whole airport experience. Yeah. Just like boarding. It's like, okay, boarding group a, the people with

c are like oh let's go let's go let's probably stand up because there might be a chance that i got it i'm gonna miss my time you know what else i hate no no is when the pseudo line forms so right now we're boarding group four yeah group five has already started their own line and now i feel like when they call group five i can't just go up there i have to start in the back of group five it's like like, I don't like this. Yeah. Self-propelled society going on with group five in the back. It's like all of a sudden people change their personality.

Like if you're waiting in line at Chipotle, you're not right next to the person behind you. You are a comfortable distance away. Everybody needs to sit down more. Stop staying at someone. All right. My poultry, funny enough, it does come from the airport. It happens to be at a long layover in the Nashville airportville airport um which first of all i so i had time to

like go to like an actual restaurant which i think i never do and this nice cute little breakfast spot i was like let's do it and she's like you want to sit at a table or the bar and i was like how about a table but can i not be too close to the music just because i knew it was going to be loud and then she goes and sits me right next to the guy so i was like whatever all good i end up actually really enjoying the music so i and i tipped the guy afterwards it was going to be loud. And then she goes and sits me right next to the guy. So I was like, whatever, all good. I ended up actually really enjoying the music. So I, and I tipped the guy afterwards. It was awesome. A little acoustic set or what?

Just acoustic set and just a lot of like country music that I knew, like old country music, like 90s, early 2000s country music. Cool. So I liked it. He was a good guy. Same waitress though. This goes for all waitresses.

Maybe, surely we've talked about before but it's happened to me twice recently it's the lose lose scenario and it's called not writing down your order yeah why are we doing it i know it's just me i know you think how hard could it be it's just one guy but when i order i'll take the sausage turkey biscuit a pancake what to drink a water great can do she comes back 30 seconds later. What was the drink on that? Ooh, not a good sign already. You forgot water. Water's a tough one. It's uncommon. Nashville's a, you know, it's right down the street from Bourbon Road in Kentucky and had to reclarify the water. And I'm like, man, I wish you would just write it down.

And then we don't have to do this. And then of course comes back, only brings me my biscuit at first. I'm like, hey, maybe pancakes take a little longer. And then it's like five minutes. It's 10 minutes. It's 15 minutes. All right, you ready for a check? Still waiting on that pancake. Oh, shoot, pancake.

And then goes and gets it. It's like, just write it down. Poultry of the week, just write down my order. Yeah, I'm not paying you or I'm not gonna tip you anymore for not writing down the order. If anything, I would tip you more, or I'm not going to tip you anymore for not writing down the order. If anything, I would tip you more if you're just very accurate and very efficient and very speedy.

That could be a funny Gene Schwartz video. How waitresses expect me to react when they don't write down my order. Yeah. Albert Einstein is waiting on me. How is he doing that? No way. He memorized it. No way. He memorized I wanted the salmon with asparagus.

And what was my drink? What was my drink? Water! How'd you? Yes! Do you do a mnemonic device for that, or how's that work? I gotta know.

Do you mind real quick? I'm gonna hand you a Rubik's Cube. Can you solve this too? Yeah. What'd you think of Oppenheimer? I bet you understood the whole thing. I bet it was elementary for you. CC or AA.

Okay, we'll see. Interstellar was probably boring because you knew so much of it beforehand. Oh, yeah. You are a genius. It's an honor to be served by you. What was it? Tenet?

You got Tenet, right? Yeah, you understood Tenet. That's how they expect us to react. Yeah, that's good. That is funny. Okay, comment of the week. Next. What do you got? My comment is simple, and it's just

from episode 299, Samuel Sin 15, our boy Samuel. He just said, only two away from 301. Samuel, we did it, brother. We're here. It's a good bit. Episode 301. So, simple. Someone replied to that thing, like, is there significance with 301?

Yeah, 298 was a big one for us. Now 301. So my comment is on an Instagram post unrelated to us. But after the Chiefs beat the Bills last week, it came out that the Bills turned off the hot water to the Chiefs locker room. So they had to take cold showers after the game. And the top comment on that post says the knob must have been wide right.

Nice. Great comment. That's good. Very clever, witty. Edgy. Funny. I was like, that's a great comment. Sorry, Bills.

Sorry, Bills. And you just helped our brown fat cells, you know, from cold showers. That's what they say. Mitochondria, maybe, or something like that. I didn't know about brown fat. I don't either. I've only heard about it from that. Okay. It's the same origin as brown noise.

Yeah, blue noise, green noise, all that stuff. Yeah. Blue fat. It's a whale, like Dave Ramsey. Okay. Alright. Last blank of the week. Last blank of the week last blank of the week is babe of the week babe of the week oh Tymon did you have a comment of the week yes I actually did it was from the when Alex was on for the s'mores

from Hannah Clayton she says Tymon's supportive I believe you when Alex picked the Chipotle dressing got me poor guy is having flashbacks to the horse I believe you. Like, no, I'm sure it's right. Yeah, absolutely. That was a sweet

like, yeah, a little supportive. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure their dressing was good. I feel like I can't remember now, but his wife Erin in there was like, I want to defend my husband, but he chose dressing or something like that. She worded it really funny. It's like, yeah,

hey, Alex didn't have that much time to prepare. Well, he thought of dressing. Yeah, he chose salad dressing. Alright, and oh, did you have poultry? I actually did. How many times did we prepare today? Hey, speak up for once. Yeah, okay. What did you sing about?

My poultry is half with myself and half with train conductors. Of course. Good story. So I took a train to Illinois, there and back. And so I'm supposed to get off in Galesburg, Illinois. Galesburg. Galesburg, yeah.

And so I can see we're pulling into the station. I'm in my seat. I'm ready to get up when I need to. I'm actively listening. I'm seeing people filing pulling into the station. I'm in my seat. I'm ready to get up when I need to. I'm actively listening. I'm seeing people filing in to the train. I don't want to go down the stairs in case I'm blocking traffic for people coming in.

You don't want to baggage claim it. I'm waiting for an audible, like, anyone getting off? Then we just start pulling away from the train. See you, galesburg bomber so i'm like immediately like a million thoughts in my head i'm like wait where's the next station there's nothing what do i do in this situation so i like i find a conductor i'm like what do you

wait okay like you guys are you? Wait. Okay. You guys are just going? We're going. We're leaving Galesburg. The train doesn't seem like something that can go in reverse. Can you just stop it on a dime real quick and I'll just get off? No, but I'm asking the conductor.

I'm like, I missed my stop. Is there like, when's the next stop? Yeah. And they're like, yeah, that's in Princeton, which is 50 minutes ahead. Oh my. I'm like, okay. And so I texted my cousin who's picking me up. I'm like, so I missed the stop. So I, this is why the poultry was half of myself.

Maybe I should have just been assertive and just like got off the train. This is your origin story for why you are the kind of person that stands in line before you're supposed to on airplanes. Yes. That's it's good. Well, one time on a train, I missed it. You think that they would call it group five and you just be right there ready. Yeah.

But it turned out to be fine. It was like he was my cousin picking me up from his college, which only was like 10 minutes extra to go to Princeton. Okay. But man, it was. Dude, it was. That's a, that's a bad. It was scary.

Yeah. I was like, what? What? I mean, I'm screwed now. What do I do? I'm trapped. Yeah. And you're illegally riding the train.

I bet it was more expensive to go to Princeton. No, that didn't affect it. But it probably could have. Yeah, you could have gotten arrested. Timon's made of money. You're lucky. Would have been a big deal to me. That's funny.

I'm glad we went over that. Wow. Half with train conductors, half with myself. Yeah. So how quickly did you get up and try to get off when it started moving? Well, I think when I started moving I was like, I think I think this would happen I stood up like stood up was like wait a second. I'm like talking up I was like I was supposed to get off like which I knew that feeling of like doors closed and yeah to move I'm like we're moving and then someone

Sitting next like close to me is like oh oh i'm so sorry i'm like but yeah i was just like i don't know what to do now but it all worked out i'm glad it worked out man yeah that's wild uh okay your baby of the week babe of the week my baby week is a woman she lives great in shnee, Kansas, actually. That's close to here. It is here. Getting awful close to my wife. She has never been blonde. Okay.

Off the hook. We're good. Yeah. Only one I was worried about. Yeah, exactly. No, she, oh, I'm going to pull up a text message actually from her if I can find it. Well, first of all, it's my wife. Oh. Okay. First of all, it's my wife. Oh, okay.

First of all, our kids have been sick the last couple of days. And especially that, I think it was Sunday or maybe it was Monday morning. Yeah. Monday morning, Hattie came running into my room. Mom, mom, I'm throwing up. And like, that's a never thing that you want to hear. And Hattie hates getting sick and like hates all that stuff. And one,

like thank the Lord for Catherine being a good mom, just like in working with the kids when they're sick and everything. And two, like I try so hard to be like a safe place for my kids to go to and whatever. And I'll just never compare to her. Like, just like they just love her so much and they are just so, you know, like she is their comfort and like, she is so wonderful to them and so wonderful at being a mom. So she's my baby of the week. And also, I mean, we've talked about, I mean, it's just the nasty cold snap, um, that we've had and Catherine is from Texas and she hates, hates, hates, um, like all things, nasty weather and winter. Uh, but she's had a good

attitude. And so that's my other reason for her being in my baby of the week. She, uh, texted me this. She said, I've got elderberry syrup simmering on the stove. A fire's been going all day. The kids made a blanket fort in the dining room and everyone has warm, fresh from the dryer sheets on their beds. Winter really is the warmest season. That's like a little mantra she has. Winter is the warmest season. You can find comfort in this season. I was so proud of her.

That's cool. She's evolving. She's not like that. Hey, no Darwinism. Yeah, whatever. CC. I'm not going to say the million. We're not going to talk about that.

Anyway, that's my babe of the week. Turns out, she's my wife, Catherine Ellis. I'm going to give two babes of the week. One goes to a little company up in Indiana. Yeah. It's not my wife, but I thought about it. It's called Main Street Roasters. Yeah. You can find them on Facebook, Instagram, if you like giveaways

and winning stuff. You can also go to MainStreetRoasters.com. They've been working with us for seven or eight years now, it feels like. They're giving 10% off. Code is GRKC. If you're a coffee drinker, if you know someone in your life

who is a coffee drinker, this is probably where you need to get it from. Yes. Yeah? Yep. Yes. 100%.

So, yeah, check them out. They're a small business, but they're generous enough to support us. So we just ask you to support them, too. Do a little something special for you or

someone in your life. Give them a little coffee. Yep. Yep. They would appreciate it. My second baby of the week is a woman who I rarely see speak up. I rarely see take charge. I rarely see,

uh, her, you know, impose, you know, maybe the knowledge that she has on people. It's not my wife, is it? Just kidding.

She's never been brunette. Oh, okay. Only thing I was worried about. But when I get to see this woman in a volleyball context, it is awesome. And she is calling all the shots, and she is getting us in the right rotation. She's calling plays.

She's telling me how to do everything better in a very nice and polite way while also being encouraging and encouraging everyone else and so nice to their team turns out this woman's my wife come on baby and her name is rachel coop triplet and uh yeah she's fun fun to get to compete with your wife at a high level like that and so we were on a volleyball team. It just started recently. And so, yeah, last night was the first game. It was just fun to be back. How'd you guys do?

How rarely do you high-five Catherine? I don't know. Rachel and I never high-five. We should high-five our wives more. Yeah, on the volleyball court, everyone's high-fiving. Yeah. And I thought about that last night. I was like, Rachel and I never high-five.

But we are right now. You know, everyone's coming to the center. We're high-fiving. Hey, good set. Hey, good pass. You know, whatever. You guys go to the center. we're high-fiving. Hey, good set. Hey, good pass. You know, whatever. You guys go to the center. I will say I'm the worst at this because the girls,

it's all natural to them, come to the center. Every point? Oh, yeah. Really? Yeah. Yeah, I would have a hard time with that. I forget all the time. Another thing I noticed, I don't think this is a girl thing.

I think it must be just like a volleyball thing. But they're very quick to celebrate when the other team just makes an unforced error. Oh, okay. Which to me seems like, well, we didn't do anything. And it's kind of like me. They just serve it into the net. Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know if we earned that. Yeah, sure. But that's probably just like a volleyball thing.

Points are hard to come by. Celebrate every one you get. Right. So I'm okay with it, obviously. Yeah, it's just fun to see rachel in that context you guys win no lost all three games oh thanks bringing it up sorry it means that you're in a good uh league though that's gonna challenge you and expand your horizons let's just say i think we're in our redemption era timing you got a babe uh it's okay if you don't No I looked up famous women There you go

Spoiler Amelia Earhart Oh yeah Kansas gal What's she up to? No one knows Flying all the way across the Atlantic by herself Yep

So Then what? No one knows Who knows? Is she dead? Is she alive? Yeah no one knows No one knows

No one knows Anyway That's it Anyway I don't know if you guys knew about all that stuff But There it is one knows. No one knows. Anyway. That's it. Anyway, I don't know if you guys knew about all that stuff, but there it is. Cool. Well, there's babes, or yeah, there's our blanks of the week. There it is, baby.

That's fun. Do you want to play your game? No, let's not. Actually, I just got a text from Catherine that our kids are struggling a little bit with sickness stuff, and she's like, I kind of need you seeing her later if you're okay with it. Okay, great. I'm like, dang, I would, I kind of need you sooner rather than later if you're okay. Okay. Okay. Great.

Great. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. Well, that was a really fun.

That was a high energy, fun episode. Yeah. We got a game next week. Hope it's fun. Don't you seen, you seen it on here. Don't cheat and do it beforehand.

Don't you're going to stop. Dude, you know what that reminds me of? It says, I just see the sentence. It says fake baby products. We were watching that bills, uh,

chiefs game. And there, you know, there's this whole huge conspiracy about DeMar Hamlin, the guy who like went into cardiac arrest, you know, everyone, even if you're not a sports fan,

probably knows when that happened. There's this whole conspiracy that the person we see now is not him. It's a, you know, it's a vaccine cover-up, and it's this wild conspiracy theory. So the Bills decided to run, we don't need to get the football aspect of it,

but they decided to run a fake punt in their own territory, pivot point of the game with Tamar Hamlin, who's not even an offensive player. They give him the ball, doesn't work, and we're celebrating that they stopped him, and Brad's screaming at the TV, they ran a fake play with a fake person!

Fake play, fake person, that doesn't work! They can't run a fake play with a fake person! Fake play, fake person, that doesn't work! They can't run a fake punt with a fake guy! I don't even remember. I remember us joking about it. I don't remember saying that. That's pretty good. You were big into the conspiracies that night. Yeah.

A lot of Pfizer talk. Yeah, we were. We were like, well, what about this conspiracy? That's great, dude. Fake play with a fake player. It's not going to work against the Chiefs. Oh, yeah, we were freaking out, man. All right. Good episode. Yeah. Hope you with a fake player. It's not going to work against the Chiefs. Oh, yeah. We were freaking out, man.

All right. Good episode. Yeah. Hope you guys are doing great. Hope you guys are having a great week. Don't hate me if you love Ted Lasso. It's all good. Yeah.

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All those things. Yep. All right. We love you guys. We'll see you on Monday. Peace. 3-0-1 301 sam we did it oh