Ghostrunners - 302 - What's The Deal With Groceries, Huh?

Episode Date: February 5, 2024

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As you know, I've been playing a little bit of indoor volleyball recently, and this is a co-ed league, and in co-ed indoor six-on-six volleyball, it's very common to have a rule that if it takes two or more hits to get it back over the net, a girl has to touch it. A girl has to be involved. So if they serve it to me, and I hit it, and I shank a little bit, Isaac's got to sc scramble and then he bumps it up in the air everyone is shouting girl girl girl a girl has to hit it again for it to go over the net they're not shouting that at isaac like what a terrible hit like your weekly girl girl girl little girl little girl little girl so yeah you just shout girl and isaac and i have uh a problem with this rule for a number of reasons. I can see why. One, feminism.

Yeah. Isaac and I love Barbie. It's 2024. Yes. Two, I mean, Tymon's over here making major camera adjustments. One, feminism. Jeez, Tymon. Isaac heard feminism and just knocked the camera over.

He did not like that. He's Gen Z, you know. He's got to stand up for the ladies. But also, we don't like this rule because it feels like inverse of how it should be. Women are the superior volleyball players. Every girl on our team played college volleyball. Why do we have to force them yeah to hit it a girl like is if a girl is not involved it's because the play did not go how it's supposed to yeah yeah it's because i

did bad and then isaac did bad and then you know whatever else preferably it would be three girls in a row and you guys would just stand there and be like good job great yeah they should they should have a rule like guys should have to touch it yeah If the girl is, is better at what you're doing, the guy should have to get involved. I think so. What else? Like, uh, this is, I mean, we're not sexist before we talk about any of the next things. Okay. Let me just say that right now. There's just some things girls are better at than guys. Volleyball being one of them. Volleyball for sure. Uh, our girls are better at baking goods than us yes if there was a co-ed cooking show yeah it would be guy has to touch it guy touch it touch it touch it touch it guy has to get involved you have to do you know how hard it is to measure a tablespoon of butter i try and

it's like it's so messy and it's like ah i i try to like do a little scooper or something in the the butter i don't know if i got too much, too little. I would just not do good. Like guys to mince it. Mince the onion. Mince the garlic for the cookies. Yeah, that's a rule. Yeah. What else? Like girls are better at

I think even just like shopping for food or whatever you talk about this on your Instagram story. It's like, I don't know what I'm looking at. I don't know what I'm doing. Yeah. Yeah. Guy has,

guy has to get the tomato paste. It's like, Whoa, where's that? Where is that? Is that right next to the sauce? Is that, is that going to be in like a packet with like other packet type things?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or it's already a paste. It is already a liquid. I don't know if you mix it. Or is it like a glue stick? Kind of like,

like do they have that option for pasting? Guy has to touch it. Guy has to get the paste have that option for pasting? Guy has to touch it. Guy has to get the paste. Guy has to touch it. Guy has to touch it. Okay, there's 15 different types of eggs. You have to choose which one for your grocery store.

There are a lot of eggs these days. Man, these days, I just open up the thing and I'm like, those are the ones that look like the ones at our house. No cracks. No cracks and they're brown.

These are our eggs. These are our eggs. What else are women just naturally better at? Naturally, they're better at birthing children than us. That's a great rule. Guy has to touch it. Guy has to touch it.

Touch the crown real quick. Feel it. Yeah. Feel it. It can't be all ladies. Cut the cord. It can't be all ladies. You got to cut the cord.

Yeah. Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random Episode 302. 302. Jake, we did it. Episode 302. 302. And it's a special treat to all you guys. Normally, I name the episodes after the fact. You know, I take a look at what did we talk about?

What's something catchy, clicky, funny? Funny, edgy. And but today we're doing things different. Special treat for you guys uh for free uh timon is going to be naming the episode before we record give it up for timon timon our namer we are really stretching uh timon's ability to improvise i think i don't think that's ever been timon's like favorite thing to do yeah and we force him how'd you know quite a bit he's always like i just don't know guy ah time's like, I'm not good on the spot. We're like, oh, okay.

You're homeschooled at 17? We'll just prepare stand-up comedy ahead of time and perform that for 300 people. Great, since you don't like improvising. We'll do that. Always stretching, Tymon. So we gave him, what,

20 seconds before this episode? Like, hey, name the episode. Yeah, so Tymon, what do you have? What is the name of the episode? This episode is called What's the Deal with Groceries, Huh? Oh!

Oh, hey! I'd like you guys to talk about it. What is the deal with groceries, huh? So the deal with groceries, huh? Oh! I'd like you guys to talk about it, please. What is the deal with groceries, huh? So the deal with groceries... Huh? Huh? Huh? First thing that comes to mind. I'm surprised that there's such a shocking difference in, like, quality

of fruit. Why can some people... Why does Aldi always have good fruit? How come other people can't get good produce? Oh, do you think Aldi's got good fruit? Yeah. I like their fruit, but some people, that's like a knock on Aldi. Oh, really? I remember them having good produce. Aldi's big thing is like their bananas seem like they were picked yesterday, and so they are more green than the limes.

Like they are crazy. Like you have to plan out. You know how you like talk about how women or like Rachel has to like plan out her hair washing schedule? You got to plan out her hair washing schedule. You got to plan out your banana schedule weeks in advance. If you're at Aldi shopper, like you got to know like, okay, we're buying these things. I'm going to want a smoothie next month. No matter what you buy bananas every time you go to Aldi, even if you don't need them because they aren't ready for another five days.

Yeah. You know, the very first time I ever did stand-up comedy, it was at a place in Bolivar. I went to college. Yep. And a nice little coffee shop. It was called The Bean 316. Love it.

It was great. Steve Austin fans. Yeah. He's a WWE fan. It felt like sacrilegious, but I really tried to get her to take the 316 out of the name. It's like this feels wrong uh but i i think people i think the bean is great yeah i've i've always heard it as

just being called the bean yeah because people no one were like we're going b316 after this b316 yeah um anyway but they had like an open mic comedy night. And one of the only bits I remember doing my first time doing stand-up comedy was this is 2013. This is when I was starting to see self-checkout become available. And I thought it was so offensive. I can't imagine anything I said being funny. The first time you were like, self-checkout. Yeah, I don't know. When did it come out?

I don't know. When I was like fifth grade, maybe. Oh, really? Like 10 years before that. I mean, in Olathe. Yeah, I guess I wasn't doing my own shopping then. Yeah, maybe so. Go ahead.

I just didn't notice it. Has it really been out that long? Whatever. But I just remember talking about like, just what a slap in the face it is to the employees who work there. It's like, hey, anyone could just come in off the street and do your job with no training. Right.

And they do it pretty quick too. But have you been to Aldi? I mean, you've been to Aldi. Oh, yeah, yeah. Dude, they are so fast. Yeah. They are so fast. They have to be. Cause there's only two people working the whole store. They have to get there. I get, I get so hyped about all the good, good episode name timing. Thank you. What's the deal with groceries? Uh, they're not doing it like all the everywhere they should be. Yeah. I mean, it's like 60 scans per minute, dude. They're just going nuts. They know all the codes for all the fruit and everything. Oh, you have three lines. Bam,

throw them in the cart. And then you just bag them up yourself and you save yourself $5,000 a year. I want to find a video for you at time and we'll put it on the screen and post, but this is a guy following Instagram. He's hilarious. And one day I, the context that I'm guessing is he goes to this grocery store and he's developed a relationship with his clerk. And he's noticed how quick he is. And so this time he pulled out his phone and was like, let's see what you got. Oh, let's go.

It's a great video. Mike, I'll give you the over-under at 12 seconds. 12 seconds. Let it rip, Mike. Let it rip, Mike. Oh, my gosh. Let it rip. Let it rip. Bang it home, Michael. Bang it home, Michael. Let it rip, Michael. Let it rip. Bang it home, Michael. Bang it home, Michael.

Get it home, Michael. Smash it home, Michael. Look at this. Oh, that's a bad man. Oh, oh! You're an assassin, Michael. You're an assassin. The way he whips around that... The a little gun yeah that was that gun yeah he like flipped it out of his holster yeah all-time great

video so funny let it rip let it rip michael bang it home michael you're an assassin i love that yeah that guy's hilarious um anyway that's what you get at Aldi every time. Every time. It's so consistent. And I'm a big Apple Pay before it's already complete kind of guy. I scan in the Apple Pay. So, I mean, the whole checkout process for me takes 38 seconds. That's great. It's already like she's already printing the receipt before the next person's even unloaded their cart. Yeah.

I feel so good. It's awesome. It's nice. So, it takes me a while to get my groceries compared to Catherine. Catherine could go in and out of Aldi in seven minutes, I bet. So fast. Good for her. I take about 17.

I remember having an idea back in the day. Maybe this is also 2013. Maybe I had a lot of shopping concepts. Because I remember never knowing where anything was. And this isn't even someone else giving me a list. This is my own shopping list, and I still don't know where to get stuff. And I think the efficient part of my brain wanted to do it.

So I wanted an app where it coexists with your shopping list and you decide your location. Like, oh, I'm going to the Walmart on 75th. Here's my shopping list. It says, great. You're going to need one cart or whatever. It'll show you the size of cart you need. Oh, you need a one basket. Oh, okay. I can get all in one bag, whatever, a cart. And this is your route. That's the bread and butter. This

is your route. It's like the Google maps of, uh, yeah. Shopping. Just Google maps. Yeah. I have a Walmart. It's like turn right in 400 feet. Yeah. You put a little air pot in, you know, not disturbing people. Yeah. On sale, you know, you know, you could get a better deal if you buy in bulk. Like, you know, you want peanut butter, you want this kind, but it's like, well, if you get the larger quantity, do you like peanut butter a lot, Jacob? It's like a concierge as well. You're like in the school supplies section. Tomato paste on your right.

Ha ha ha. Just kidding. Remember when you thought that? It's not a glue stick. Fool, Jim. Yeah? It's not a glue stick. Fooled you. Yeah, it's like a Mad Gab. Yeah. Fooled you.

I got you on that one. It's like, yeah. It's next to the pizza sauce. It's supposed to be like two ear AirPods in, but you only have one. Yeah, yeah. You missed some of those That's how hey

So that's what's the deal with groceries to answer your question time and okay, that's the deal. That's good. We need Google Maps I went to the KU basketball game not this past week, but two weeks ago. Yes, and they played Cincinnati right after the Chiefs beat the Bills. Was hoping, you know, Cincinnati alum of Jason Kelsey, Travis Kelsey. I don't want to hear any Taylor Swift talk. I was really hoping that they were going to be there at the game. I was watching the stands more than I was watching the game. I don't blame you, dude.

Because I heard there was a rumor that like Jason Kelsey flew back on Taylor Swift's plane. And she has roots in KU. Like one of her best friends went to KU. Yeah. She's got like a video. I love Kansas. And I'm like, thank you, Taylor.

Yeah. I think she had a house in Lawrence back in the day. So I was like, they're going to be here. They're going to. Yeah. And then I thought later, I was like,

that's probably a bad idea for Travis Kelsey and Jason Kelsey to come in and all Cincinnati stuff to a KU game. Yeah. But they were going to be here. Anyway, went. They weren't there. Pretty close game, though. There was like four minutes left in the game,

and I really had to go to the bathroom. And so they called a timeout, and I was like, Dad, I got to go to the bathroom. We'll be right back. My dad was like, what in the world? What are you doing? You can't wait four minutes. I was like, I got to go.

I got to go to the bathroom. And it was one of those situations where I didn't know exactly where the bathroom was because I don't go that often at the KU game. Um, and so I was like, do I go left? Do I go right? I see to the right,

there's like a women's bathroom. So I was like, maybe the right next to the women's or maybe on the other side, straight ahead, just glowing right there for me. Family bathroom. You know, one of those like private bathrooms.

Like, okay. And I was like, wonderful. I'll just go in there real quick. Open up the door. What do I see? A 12 year old boy sitting on the toilet going, Oh, I'm in here. I'm in here. I'm in here. I shut that door. I know it's not illegal, but it felt solely and maybe it is illegal, but I didn't do it on purpose. So that makes it less illegal. I don't know. I felt so inappropriate.

I was just like, sorry, man. Sorry. Lock the door next time. Yeah. It's like when Jim walks in on the daycare guy and he's like, you know, you could have locked it. You could have locked it, man. Yeah.

Well, I mean, what if a kid, anybody could have walked in? Anybody could have walked in there, man. It's playtime. Whatever he says. Oh man. And I was like kind of going quickly. So I had like one foot in the door. What position was he in? He was in the

sitting down position. Seated. Oh, yeah. So he's really going to miss the last four minutes. Bummer. Yeah. I mean, I felt so weird. And then yeah, I sprinted to the next. I was like, I do not want this kid to come out while I'm anywhere near him. You like ditch your shirt, buy a new shirt at the pro shop, disguise myself, put a hat on. I walked back to my dad. I was like, I do not want this kid to come out while I'm anywhere near him. You like ditch your shirt, buy a new shirt

at the pro shop, disguise myself, put a hat on. I walked back to my dad. I was like, well, just walked in on a kid going poop in the family bathroom. And my dad goes, oh, that's no good. I didn't know what to do. I wasn't prepared. It is a jarring experience when you don't think

somebody's going to be in a room and then somebody's in a room. It's no fun. No fun. And especially when they're sitting down with their pants around their ankles. Correct. You add that on top of it. And especially when they look terrified to see. Oh yeah, it's equally as scary for them. Oh yeah. Maybe worse. Yeah, they're

very susceptible. If I'm in that situation, all I'm thinking about is I hope that lock works. Like I'm like, it's locked. I'm like, I'm in that situation, all I'm thinking about is I hope that lock works. It's locked. I'm like, I'm good. It looked like one of the pushy locks. Those pushy locks, it's hard to trust them. Because even sometimes you do lock

them, but it doesn't feel very clicked. It's hard to tell. It's like, is that pressed in? I'm pretty sure it's pressed in. And then you turn it to see if it clicks back on you. And it's like, oh, I guess it did click back. And you press it again, and you're like, is it pressed in now? It still doesn't feel that sturdy. Yeah, so I don't know.

Dude, that's funny. I had a perv situation of my own this week. Let's go. I was planning on bringing it up. What's the deal with pervs, huh? What's the deal with pervs? So I don't want to say the exact location yet, just in case it doesn't work out,

but I believe I found a location for Bondi bowls. It's very exciting, long process. And what I'm most excited about is like some of the co-tenancy there. Like it is a lot of just family friendly businesses next to us. Yeah. And I wanted to start getting to know them, start to get them invested in bondi balls.

It's because I was like, how fun would that be? You know, like go in and ask like, what's kind of the, what's the foot traffic like here? Whatever. And like,

I'm thinking about putting this in here, you know? And then they're like, how much more excited are they going to be? Or like when I finally opened up, like I told him to do that. Yeah. You know,

I feel like I'm glad so that he's doing it. You know, I just get everyone excited about it. You want it to be like a family. Yeah. We're all in this together. Yeah. You know, we just get everyone excited about it. You want it to be like a family. Yeah. We're all in this together. Yeah. You know,

we're going after the same moms. Yes. And we used to make sure it's saying we're going after the same moms. We can share moms. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's fine.

We all want the same mom. Um, it's so doesn't take a lot of moms. It just takes the right, the right amount of moms for us together. Yeah. So I just, you know, the first thing I do, so I'm looking at the place I'm probably going to lease,

and then I get done looking at it, talking, yada, yada, and I think, hey, let me take some pictures on the inside. Let me take some pictures on the outside. So I'm really walking around it, full of, you know, 360, taking all sorts of pictures. Sure. I get around to the side of it and there is a very high end daycare next to me. I'm like, well, this is a prime mom sharing

opportunity. Let's, uh, let's go in here. Can I ask what makes it high end? It's in Prairie village. Okay. It looks really nice. Uh, and I'll tell you what, the third thing that makes it high end is, uh, can't get in there. So I am like, I just saw someone walk in there. I know I just saw someone walk in it. So I opened the door and it's like, it's locked. And I'm like, well, I know it's unlocked. And so I'm like yanking on the daycare door. Like, hold on.

I know if I just jimmy it, I can get it. And so then I'm like, well, that's not working. So then I'm like peeking in. I'm like, how did they get it? Is there a receptionist who can let me in? Right. And then everything starts to peeking in and I'm like, how did they get, is there a receptionist who can let me in? Right. And then everything starts to like come in full color. I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm at a daycare.

Of course it's locked. And I see a keypad to my left. And as I'm looking in, I see there's another keypad. Like, wow, this is double locked high end. Yeah. So there's two like, you know, what'd you call it? Like levels of security. Yeah.

Barriers. And I'm just knocking and yanking away at this preschool. And if anyone's looking at security cameras, they just saw me take pictures of the building. Right. So, I mean, it looks like I'm staking it out. Like I have plans. Yeah, you can't build there now.

So I gotta, I don't know. I gotta send a proxy in there. Wait, what were you going to do when you went into the daycare? Just like talk to like whoever was like at the reception desk. And I'd be like, hey, my name's Jake. I'm thinking about putting in an acai bowl shop. Whatever, just schmooze them and get to know them and make a good first impression.

Do you mind if I take pictures of every single one of your children just straight very close to them? Just close-ups of their faces. This is going to sound weird. I got a buddy in my car, and none of them are going to the bathroom right now, are they? He would love to see them if any of them are going to the bathroom right now are they you would love to see them if any of them yeah i noticed your your door like your outside doors are pretty secure how secure are your bathroom just out of curiosity um uh that's pretty fun

so yeah i was like man i gotta get away from here and there was a like a dad i assume in his truck just like man i bet he saw most of that. That was really when it clicked. I was like, this looks bad. He saw me take pictures. He saw me do a lap. Then he saw me bang on the door. If there's a dad staring at a daycare in his truck, that's not a great look either.

That's true. What's he doing there? It's like, yeah, ipso facto on you. So yeah, that was kind of a bummer. It didn't deter me though. I kept knocking, went to the, another place next door. I went to the back, back door was locked too. No, I went to, uh, I did get in one place.

Did you? And it was, uh, a, like a toddler swim school. Yeah. I didn't even know this was like a business concept until a month ago. Oh yeah. You got to send Bo there? Um, probably should. I need to send Hattie.

Honestly, she's not, uh's not fully confident in swimming yet. What do they call it? The dogs, they call them house trained. Kids, we call them swim trained. Yeah. Water trained. Yeah, they're ready for the water. She's not waterboarded yet.

She hasn't been boarded. You got to send her to a swimming boarding school. Exactly. We're thinking about it. Yeah, I mean, she wants to go, or we want to send her to camp this year, but she can't go to camp without swimming very well, I don't think.

I don't remember any camper growing up that couldn't swim. That I can remember actually having in my cabin for more than a day. Yeah, they got sent out. They're a dork. I don't know. Yeah, no. He only tried swimming once.

Yeah, and then it didn't work out for him. Yeah, so I don't know. Yeah, we need to send... Have you heard of... There's something called... I think it's called ISR. You should look this up actually on YouTube or time. I don't know.

Maybe it's too hard to pull up on our screen. But basically, it's like infant swimming, whatever. Let's get some Israel stuff. Oh, I've seen this. I think I have. Oh, is this where they toss them in? Yes. I've seen this.

Yeah. Wild. Dude, it's crazy. Like, yeah, and it's crazy expensive too. I don't know how much it is, but I know that Catherine's sister has done it. And I remember like Catherine told me about it. I was like, well, we're not doing that.

I don't, I mean, we'll just make sure our infant doesn't fall in the water, I guess. Yeah, they're like one year old and they'll just toss them in upside down. And yeah, the infant just knows how to like turn themselves right side up with it. But yeah, like literally like just toss them in the water

like it's a bag of potatoes. And yeah, just splashes in there. I mean, it just turns over. So there's Rosie for you. Survival swim lesson. I mean, it's younger than Rosie. It would be, yeah, a one-year-old or younger. Thumbnail for this one says,

crying means they are breathing. And this little girl looks terrified. Oh, wow. It would be sorry to do this to your daughter. I've seen it work. I've seen these videos before. I've also seen people spoof it. I had a friend of mine,

Molly Lee on Instagram, and she was like spoofing it. And so she just brought a watermelon to her bathtub. It was just like spanking it. Like, and here we go. And one, and two, and just like tossed a watermelon in her bathtub. It was great. Yeahanking it like, and here we go in one into and just like tossed a watermelon

or bathtub. It was great. Yeah. I mean, it's a thing. I don't know. Yeah, we need to send our kids to swim school to do more stuff, but yeah. So yeah, I did get in there. It got into me. It was like, hey, you know, introduce myself and I think I put an ossebo place

and the lady just looked at me. He's like, I have never heard of that word in my entire life. Yeah. Well, cool. There's a little barrier to entry. It's almost like calling them smoothie bowls is better. Yeah.

She also had a neck tattoo. Where do we even want our business? How far? Like, uh, I would say under the, like where a necklace would go. Like in the shape of a necklace?

In the shape of a necklace. Oh, interesting. It's like word art when you can like drag it to make it curved. Yeah, yeah. It was curved like a necklace and it said eternally. Eternally swimming. Maybe. Just keep swimming.

Yeah. Huh, eternally. Like the whole, yeah, the whole thing. He started at the nape. Yeah, yeah. And went up to the other, left nape. Very started at the nape. Yeah. Yeah. It went up to the other left nape. Anyway, that was my time perving out. Uh, Hattie just recently we, what were we doing? What were we trying to go get originally? Oh, she really wanted to get a new wallet.

The wallet she has, I mean, she's so into like her money right now. And so I taught her how to consolidate. So now she doesn't have a thousand pennies. She has, you mean, she's so into like her money right now. And so I taught her how to consolidate. So now she doesn't have a thousand pennies. She has, you know, dollar bills. That's great. Um,

but she's like, yeah, my wallet. I mean that Catherine gave her is like bursting at the seams. The zippers don't work. And so we tried to go a dollar tree, didn't find a wallet there. So we went to a goodwill or city thrift or whatever.

Yeah. Thrift stores down the road. First of all, dude, that's where you should go. If you need a new purse or something, city thrift or whatever. Yeah. Thrift stores down the road. First of all, dude, that's where you should go. If you need a new purse or something, city thrift, as far as,

I mean, very amateurly, I don't know brands that well, but I know that Michael Kors is nice. I know that, uh, I've heard it in like Kanye songs. Yeah.

I mean, there was like Michael Kors purses there for $7 city thrift. And I'm like, surely those are kind of expensive. I don't know. And so how he was like thinking like, do I want, I mean, she wasn't saying this out loud, but she was looking at like, do I want the Michael cores, the Vera Bradley, the Liz Claiborne? And I was like, this is so funny. Like imagine whatever, anyway, but while we were there, she saw one of these like kids.

It's like a true, it's like a real digital camera, but it's made for kids. Like it's like, Oh, cool. Yeah. And she's wanted a camera for so long. She loves taking our phones or like our iPads and just like taking thousands of pictures on it. And so she's like, dad, and she had her own money. She's like, can I buy this? I'm like, sure. Why not? Um, and so I think we might have to start putting some limits on the camera cause she's just obsessed with it right now. I mean, it's got like all these like fun, like, uh, photo booth kind of style, like back on the Apple Mac, you know, like you can distort people's pictures or whatever. But I mean, she's like walking into Catherine's room.

Like Catherine was sick this week and like Catherine's just like laying in bed. She's like, mom say cheese, whatever. Just taking pictures of everything. Uh, but there was one night recently where they, yeah, we've been having a ton of stickiness in our house the past week. And so it feels like at one time or another, everybody's been sick. Um, there was one night where it was just me and Hattie that were feeling good. And so I was like, how do you want to go to Chipotle for dinner? You and me. And she brought, it was the day that she got her camera. And so she brought it with her and we were standing in line and she's just

taking a video, but she doesn't understand like that. You can't just like point this camera at people. And so she's like just panning around the, the restaurant and just stops and kind of video videos, these people for like a solid seven, eight seconds, like just holding it there. She's an artist. And I was like, Oh, I should probably say something. I mean, cause imagine if you're just at a restaurant and somebody you're standing in line and this kid's just holding a camera, just pointing it at you. And you're just like, hi, you know, what am I supposed

to do about this? So kind of the same, you reminded me of that whenever you said the, you know, thing with you're trying in the daycare, like have taken pictures of everything, like taking pictures inside of these, like how he's just holding. So if you need somebody to help you scout some stuff out, how do you would love to take pictures? Oh, that's fun that she's in like a photography phase right now. Yeah. Big time, dude. Big time. Go back and look at the pictures or is it just the joy of taking in the moment? Oh dude., she loves showing people the picture. Oh, cool. I mean, we went to Chipotle at 6 p.m., so it was dark outside. She took a picture in the truck.

She took a picture of what we were listening to on the screen. You know, she took a picture. I want to take a picture of the restaurant on the outside. I want to take a picture of our food. And then we got home and we're like, she's like, mom, can I show you my pictures? Catherine's like, yeah, sure.

45 pictures later, she's like, okay, wow. She's a documentarian. I told her that word. I taught her that. Yeah. She's like, what does that mean? I was like, well, you know what a document is. Anyway, so fun to teach her.

She is. That's fun. Yeah. Yeah. And fun little toy for Hattie there. So two quick things of good news. One, Gabe Oliver just paid for Ghostrunners Getaway.

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I would just like to share it right here now. I meant to share that in our football episode. Brad and I talked for 58 minutes last night. It wasn't that long. Mainly about the Chiefs. So if that interests you, you can listen to it. We did talk about the NFC championship for a good three minutes. We started with it. Yeah. Yeah. We started with the NFC. Talked about the lions for, I mean, we did five minutes, just the lions, MCDC, MCDC, Dan Gamble. Uh, anyway, uh, time is, who's in the super bowl? Uh, the chiefs and the 49ers. Very good. Anyway. Time is... Who's in the Super Bowl?

The Chiefs and the 49ers. Very good. Okay. Where are the 49ers from? I'm not sure. If I gave you... Let's give him one word hint until he gets it. Trolley. Is that too easy?

Okay, go. Not too easy. Gold. No. I went in history. Trolley. Is that too easy? Not too easy. Gold. No? I went in history. Yeah. I don't even know what that means. Let's see.

Gold in. I don't think so. It doesn't seem right, but it probably is right. I don't know. Well, guess. Do you know what we're doing? I'm so confused. You're guessing a city.

We're trying to give you hints at which city the 49ers play in. Okay, okay. Golden, trolley, gold, tech. Yeah. San Francisco? There it is. We did all the positive things about San Francisco. It was about to get negative.

It was about to get bad. Yeah. San Francisco. Car theft. Homelessness. Thievery. And who did the Chiefs beat to get to the Super Bowl? They beat the Ravens.

Very good. Who play in? Let's give them one word. Things. Theft. Murder. Murder. That could be a lot of places.

Positives. Positives. Crabs. Positive crabs. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how to give hints for the city. See, I don't know football or my cities. Well, that is interesting.

I bet without having much fandom towards sports, you don't know that much about cities. I learned so much about cities by watching that little B-roll from sports games. You know, like when they come back from commercial and they show the crab cakes. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Like this is what the city has. Uh-huh. Crab cakes. Crab cakes? Yeah. I don't know. No?

Okay. Eastern part of the United States. Okay. I'm drawing such a blank trying to give a clue. It's nicknamed the Charm City. Not too far from Philadelphia. Oh, man. South of Philadelphia.

The Orioles also play there, of course. I'm just not going to get this. I get that. You want to give me three city options? Basket. Foot. Yeah. Ball.

Okay. Ball. Blank the tool man, Taylor. Dang it. I take back my in. If you had to go off ball, what would you say? Is this like part of the city's name? Yes.

Correct. Not less, but... Bolivar, Missouri. Not less, but... Baltimore. I knew that, too. It's familiar more. Baltimore. I knew that too. It's familiar now. That's been football.

Let's talk about where you were. We should talk about this. Dude, I knew this would happen. I knew this would happen. Three days before the AFC Championship game, I texted my friends. What are we thinking? Priority is as many of us who can watch it together.

Like, let's do that. The day before the AFC Championship, we still haven't decided. I say, let's figure out a place where the most of us can watch it together. Day of. Still nothing's been decided. I say, where is the spot we can go where the most of us can gather? Hey, if this is a priority, we can meet at my place. If this is a priority.

The end of the story is there's seven of us. We watch it in five different priority we can meet at my place so this party the end of the story is there's seven of us we watch it in five different homes yeah we're all split up i mean yeah it was it's whatever maybe it's one of those things that i just need to be like hey it's my house every time but i don't i understand that my house is not perfect for the game like we don't have tons of furniture but it's one of those things where it's like if people aren't going to commit it's just so it's like almost like we're all being too nice of like we don't have tons of furniture, but it's one of those things where it's like, if people aren't going to commit, it's just so it's like almost like we're all being too nice of like, we can come to you if that's better. I mean,

cause I'm, I always say like, yeah, come to my house unless it's, unless it's a hassle, then we can go somewhere else. Or unless my kids are bothering you guys, then we can go somewhere else.

And Scott says the same thing. And so then it was like all back and forth. And I had a feeling I was going to get sick. Yep. And I did get sick. You did get sick. So you were out. So I was out because I,

cause the night before I was like, guys, just come over my house. There's no way I'm going to get sick. I literally said that. I was like, there's no, I feel fine right now.

Let's do this thing. And then, yeah, all of a sudden Scott finally was like, it was amazing. It was like, why aren't people just saying one thing? Like let's commit to something here. But yeah, all of a sudden Scott finally was like, it was amazing. It was like, why aren't people just saying one thing? Like, let's commit to something here.

But everybody's too nice. So ultimately we all watch at different places, but me and Peter, we didn't bail. Me and Peter make the drive 30 minutes north up to Scott's house. And so just us three watch together. I don't know if us three have ever hung out like that before.

But it was fun. So just, just me and Peter, Peter drove to my house first, hopped in the car, drove up to Scott's. And so just us three watch the game. Scott has no chow.

No chow. Ran my mile at halftime. That was kind of fun. Nice. Knocked that out. Just thought about the chiefs all the time. That was a great, great little mile.

It was kind of fun because now since then, me, Scott and Peter are in a group text. We've never been in a group text we've never been in a group text just okay all right then how are no group to get a little inside jokes going on we got our own jokes yeah we talked tv shows a lot and so yeah we're all chatting different shows and so that's why you're watching suits yes i saw that comment um okay yeah because peter's so in on suits yeah it has been for 10 years yeah that's the thing i remember my first coat at canicuck talking about suits in 2011 and yeah i just started

watching it this week dude it has an impact on me it's bad i wore a suit yesterday i can't believe i did it i i didn't even have anything going on i went to mclean's and sat at mclean's for six hours in a suit because Because of the show? It really glorifies suits. It really made me want to wear one. Okay. It does a great... Dude, I also...

I get Hattie wanting a wallet. I think I want to buy a briefcase. Really want a briefcase. Yeah. That sounds fun. Okay. I go up to a coffee shop. Click, click.

You want one of those? Like a click and briefcase? Yeah, because you Google briefcase nowadays, and they're all like leather, nice ones. No, I want a 90s lawyer briefcase with a laptop slot in it. Okay. That's all I need. I just carry my laptop in a briefcase.

Maybe some pieces of paper. That'd be fun. You gotta have some paper. A pen. If you're trying to go for the legal side of, you know, legal pads and whatnot. I think it'd be so fun. Have paper and pen in a briefcase.

You gotta have papers in it, like if you get run into on the street, and they can go flying. Yeah, yeah. Like my laptop and they can go flying. Yeah. Like my laptop's in there very secure. Yeah. But the clips are very like, you know, it's like your lock at the basketball game.

Papers are spring-loaded. Yeah, spring-loaded papers. I like that. Like very, very sensitive. Yeah. Yeah, those are loose in there. There's a thousand of them spring-loaded. That would be fun. I like the idea of it, yeah, like, a thousand of them spring-loaded that would be fun

i like the idea of it yeah like yeah it's spring-loaded so you're in your car and you like slam on the brakes too hard just papers fly everywhere like a third airbag airbag yeah uh but yeah so i'm into suits and i want to wear a suit and i want to get a briefcase and i want the chiefs to win the super bowl are you gonna learn how to tie a tie i need to i feel like they like those kind learn how to tie a tie? I need to. I feel like those kind of suits are like tie guys. Yeah, need to. You can figure it out.

Think about getting a nice light blue suit. That'd be fun. Light blue. Fun color. Okay, it's coming up on the season for it. That's fun. Oh, good call. Yeah, Easter suit.

Yeah, light blue. Look at you. You look good in light blue. Thanks. I got some light blue going on right now. Yeah. But yeah. You just sat at McLean's looking important for six hours.

Dude, that's the thing. I forgot about this. So I'm texting Scott and Peter. We're all talking about different shows because we got Peter to watch American Nightmare. And Peter, dude, Peter's a funny texter. I don't know about American Nightmare. Peter's so funny via text. Love texting him. Because even his text really cracked me up. I don't know about American Nightmare. Peter's so funny via text. Love texting him.

Because even his text really cracked me up. I had been talking a big game. Hey, when we get together for the AFC Championship, I got a TED Talk for you guys about potholes. I've been doing a lot of research about potholes. And Scott is the only one interested in this, of course. That's like, yeah, I can't wait, man. And Scott texts our group a couple days later,

and he's like, dang it, Jake, I forgot to ask about the pothole thing. And Peter texts, I asked him on the way right home, worth the wait. Worth the wait. Worth the wait. But Peter is texting us every little thought he has while watching American Nightmare.

Because this is a true crime, just three-part limited series show, and it's a fascinating story. Because it's based on a true story. So it's a great documentary. It's very good's very good i don't know about great good for you good for you taking it back and being like listen it's very i'm gonna reserve great for great yeah great it's like what is great then a great documentary is um i loved making a murderer that was like the start of true crime a little bit like serial the podcast making a murderer the show um i really enjoyed the murda what was that called murda murder muck duck and

murda yeah the murda one i'm kind of blanking on some of the great doc like true crime documentaries recently or even just documentaries in general last dance is last dance great yeahJ, that was a great one. OJ's was great. OJ! OJ! Man, shut up! That was a great documentary. I feel like I enjoyed the one about Waco and David Koresh and all that. That documentary, I really liked. There was a documentary. There was also a show, right? Really liked that, too.

Yeah, I remember you guys watching that. Man, you've watched a lot more stuff than I have. I haven't seen any of those things except for the sports ones. Have you seen the Paul Bunyan documentary? Yeah, he's from Eau Claire. Yeah. Which I saw someone in the comments last week and said,

no, Paul Bunyan's a Minnesota thing. I love it, dude. Which is great. The multiple people are taking ownership of the fictional thing. Oh, he's a UP guy. No. Loch Ness Monster's us. Who cares?

What are some of the other great documentaries? I'm blanking on some of the classics. Well, you've seen... What's the one about the whale? Oh, never saw that. Whale Watching. Blackfish? Whale Watchers.

Whale Watchers. Supersize me. No, I'm just kidding. Great documentaries out there. I don't know. I'm a sports documentary guy, and there's been some great 30 for 30s. Yeah, there are a lot of good ones.

Man, yeah, I'm trying to look at a list now. I'm blanking. Tiger King. Oh, Tiger King was great. I mean, is that a documentary? Yeah, it's a documentary, right? Yeah, that was a good one. That one, I mean, in its day,

was just something to behold. I want someone, all right, new app. On the all-time quarterback episode, you came up with a new idea for the internet. Yes. Which I appreciate. A new way to do internet. I would like part of this new internet to get,

because Brad's idea was an extremely personalized internet. It's a blast of internet. A truncated internet, too. Like, yeah. I was an extremely personalized internet. It's a blast of internet. A truncated internet too. Like, yeah. I want a very personalized internet where I can Google best documentaries I've seen and it already knows everything I've watched. That's not impossible.

Use cookies, use Netflix, and like show me what I've seen. Yeah, we're close to that right now. Because I Google right now, best true crime documentaries, and I haven't heard of any of these. The Jinx, Murder on Middle Beach, Mommy Dead and Dearest, Girl in the Picture, right now best true crime documentaries and i haven't heard of any of these the jinx murder on middle beach mommy dead and dearest girl in the picture what are these and some people out

there are like true crime junkies that are like oh yeah those are those are good they're not great 60 days in i survived snapped undercover underage oh that was you yeah okay you what about uh free solo that's a documentary. I did really like that one. Not a great all-time one, but good. What about Planet Earth? A good watch. Just fine.

Not great. Yeah. It hooked me for like an episode. Yeah. And then I was done. Planet Earth 2 is when they peaked. Anyway, I'm getting off topic. Peter's a great texter.

So we've just been texting a lot whatever um so i'm starting to text the guys oh yeah it was american nightmares whatever i'm starting to text the guys like man suits is really affecting me i think i'm gonna go suit today and like what do you have like nothing and so then i text him a picture i'm like i'm doing it like i'm i'm the suit guy at mclean's like i i run this mclean's and i'm hyping myself up in the text we get there and like or i get there and like an hour into it, there's another guy in a Navy suit and McLean's. I was like,

this is my territory. What are you doing? You watching suits right now too. Where's your briefcase? That was a bummer. I was not the only guy in a suit of a claims yesterday, but you're noticing the other guys in suits. Therefore they're noticing you too.

Oh, they're noticing, you know, you get, you just get more done. You're like, I can't, I can't scroll tick talk in a suit. No no i have to talk to my agent yeah about stuff and let them see me let them

watch let them watch let them watch let them watch me work that's like the most yeah what's the word niche uh inside joke we have right now is this really really obscure line from a movie that we shouldn't know obscure lines from Wolf of Wall Street. And yeah, we just say, let them watch, let them watch,

let them watch. Hey, here we go. I said a lot of interesting things on the all time quarterback episode and just really whatever. Anyway, Megan Pender, love this episode.

And I agree with all your thoughts regarding the chief say to Taylor Swift, who couldn't have said it better myself. Well, we both had thoughts. Oh yeah, that could have been. That was about both of us. She just loves us. She's just great. Yeah, because we had different Taylor Swift thoughts. She loved our thoughts.

Loves your thoughts. Love your thoughts. Let them watch, but it's audio only. Okay, let's talk about Dwell real quick. That's what I was going to say. No way. We finished each other's... Advertisements.

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Dwellbible.com slash GRKC. GRKC. Let them watch. Let them watch. Can't wait to get a briefcase. Do you want to talk about time and I's little road trip of course let's talk about it I forgot to upload this to our Instagram story

so I'll show it to you guys now took a little video when we were on the road let me find it you guys are all singing we're all singing yes it's his ability foggy as can be by the way rachel sleeping time and sleeping zonked good conversations for a good hour yeah is that

there or back uh that was on the way there okay foggiest day of my life i'm now remembering that was not fun to drive in um just gloomy gloomy week dude people forget about the word gloomy good word thanks yeah i mean when it's when it's like that you can't forget it yeah what else what else are you gonna use um yeah so it was uh it was fun we went straight from basically podcasting we grabbed lunch real quick and then we went to me rachel and timon down to bolivar, Missouri. I gave a little keynote of sorts with my friend Alex Demchik and Tymon filmed the whole thing and has already whipped up the highlight video.

Ooh. How's the highlights? Yeah, it was awesome. I watched it three times. Really? I was like, this is great. Demchik texted me separately. He's like, dude, Tymon's so talented.

I'm like, I know. I know. I told you. He's the man. He's the one who chickens for drone yeah like that that tells you anything not everyone can chicken for drone when i get asked chicken for drone i say time is your guy um time and i know we didn't get to see much of it because we were running late what did you think of a college campus had you been on a college campus before uh yeah i mean okay i've been i mean

honestly not much but like well have i i think so immediately so obviously i've been to college campuses i mean not that much though i had none of them actually wait college is the one yeah it just like it didn't feel like nothing felt like super new about it necessarily but that's sU's slogan. It's like, this won't come as a shock to you. Nothing here is new. Nothing will shock you. Nothing will wow you.

That's the SBU way. Yeah, we want people to go here because they're really interested in our morals. Yeah. Yeah, it was cool. Cafeteria, what'd you think? It was nice. It was well lit.

Calm down, Tyler. That's very nice of you you think? It was nice. It was well lit. That's all. Calm down, Tyler. That's very nice of you to say that. I have nothing to compare it to. Did you eat at the cafeteria? So, I mean, I normally wouldn't have done this, but they were, you know, because Alex and I went there,

and at one point we were talking about, like, hey, Alex and I, because they wanted to put us up in a hotel, and at one point we were like, let's, you know, we will stay there, but we want to stay in Landon Hall where Alex and I met. Like, let's just stay in the dorms one night. Let's sleep in a dorm room. That'd be fun. And so we wanted the full experience.

And so we're like, is Mellor's still a thing? Because that was the one cafeteria that SBU has. Mellor? Mellor's. Mellor's. Yeah, it was like a last name. And so they're like, well, it doesn't have that name anymore because we kind of rebranded everything and we like really like, we redid it all. And so I was like i was like oh don't cater dinner the bean 323 the bean 413 um it's peen actually for philippians oh the peen hey you guys you guys come to the peen later

it's for philippines uh i can only you can't get the wi-fi you got to get on the edge of the peen just get on the outside there's certain parts of the peen or it's spotty yeah um anyway i don't know what they call this place now but oh man you got one yeah all right uh are you going to the peen i dude i don't know if i go there the other day the what happened the woman serving me wasn't wearing a hairnet that's right good right there let him let him imagine okay anyway all right so funny start to a joke um so i was excited i was like i'm excited to

see the cafeteria if it's been revamped and so we go and we got there at around 6 6 15 would you say that's prime dinner time or would be a time that would be better to go than 6 or 6 15 that's prime that seems like the best time to go and we walk in there and first of all it's empty second of all like there's really no more food available they've taken it back like the pizza bar no more pizza uh we get up to like i think there's supposed to be two dinner options. One of those didn't have any food. The other one, she was like, no more pulled pork or something like that.

I was like, I don't even know. I think what's left over here is like, I'll get cereal or something. Go to go get cereal. No milk of any kind. They don't have 2%. They don't have whole. They don't have almond. There's no milk.

There's out? It ran out. Yeah, she said, we're out of milk. And so then Rachel made a waffle that we split. So that's what I had for dinner that night. Gosh, that's for you. You got to get it.

It's 6 PM. What are your students doing? It was the weekend. No, it was Wednesday. Oh man, that's rough. I mean,

just especially just not having pizza out. That's so easy. And surely it's open from, let's say five to seven, right? Yeah. Like easy. And surely it's open from, let's say, 5 to 7. Right? Yeah. Like, it's no way it's ending at 6.30. Yeah.

That's crazy. It was wild. I couldn't believe it. So, yeah, if you have nothing else to compare it to, time is going. Yeah, it was well lit. It was. I mean, I could tell that there was no milk in the carton right away.

I could tell from 10 feet away. They were pretty clear with how, like, not stocked they were. What did you eat, Tymon? I had tell from 10 feet away. Pretty clear with how, like, not stocked they were. What did you eat, Tymon? I had a glass of Sprite. A glass of Sprite? I didn't even know that. Thanks for taking me here, Jake. This is awesome, dude.

So, yeah, I don't know. No complaints. I mean, I wasn't not i was not hungry i had like a big bowl of chipotle like at two we did yeah yeah we ate lunch at two i didn't i wasn't great and then we had taco bell on the way home we did have taco bell me timing and rachel yeah t-bell t-bell so good it was wild it was yeah first time i talked about in a couple years and yeah anyway yeah i was wondering what your thoughts were about sbu because we didn't really get to see the campus. It was dark. It was foggy. All we did was just the lame cafeteria and then the recital hall,

which is where Alex and I gave our little keynote. And it was to the seniors. It was supposed to be like encouraging them. But dude, I told you this off the podcast. That was so much easier and so much, maybe even more fun than comedy because- More fun, yeah. I don't know.

It just like, it felt like I was surpassing their expectations so much more compared to comedy. The bar is so much higher. They're expecting to laugh the whole time and I can deliver on that. But I feel like I'm just like, at the very least, I'm just meeting their expectations. Whereas like, this is like, I don't even know who these guys are or whatever. And then it's like, bang, I've got a clean, tight comedy set. They're like, this is awesome. And so that's awesome. It was really fun. I want to do more of it. What, uh, what did you guys talk about?

Exactly. Great question. So we didn't ever rehearse. There's just like, Alex, you take half and I'll do half. And so I don't know if it meshed super well together, but it was our first time doing it. And,

um, I still think we did a good job, but we, we start off introducing ourselves, giving a little context to who we are and how we met and SBU and stuff like that. And then we, uh, talked about four principles of like things we've learned and things that we feel like could translate to where they're at so just tried to like be like hey we

were right there where you were we were sbu seniors you know 10 years ago here's where we are now here's what we've learned so um alex did two principles i did two principles so out like you guys yeah you weren't talking to co-talking. You were like, yeah, Alex is going and then Jake's going. Yeah. Which is maybe the reason why it felt so nice. I could get a five minute break and just like, think about like, make sure I know what I'm about to say next. Oh, so you went back and forth. Yeah. Okay. And even there were times it kind of felt like podcasting. There'd be a little pause and I'd think of like a joke and I'd say it in there and it was great. Just having the palm of my hand. It felt really fun and really easy and

got me excited for us maybe doing some duo performing adventures. Oh, that'd be awesome. Yeah, I forget what my principles were. I remember they rhymed. Oh, yeah. Gotta rhyme. Don't let one ruin the fun.

Oh, don't let one what? Person. There were just times in my life where like, true stories. Unfortunately, most of them happened at SBU. Like the guy who brought me into his office had told me I wasn't funny. Yeah.

What are you doing? You're bullying me and you work here. Fly in the ointment kind of thing yeah wait what's that mean i think it's just like you have one little annoying thing like a fly in in this nice i don't know i feel like it means like don't let one ruin the fun i think that's good fly in the ointment i yeah i guess now i have a hard time explaining exactly what it means but like You just have one little bothersome thing in this larger pool of... Fly in the orange juice. Fly in the Sprite. Fly in the glass of Sprite.

It's an expression for a drawback, especially one that was not at first apparent. For example, we had a cook stove, beans, and plates. The fly in the ointment was the lack of a can opener. Okay. So maybe it's not exactly the same thing, but, but it is a phrase. At least it was a phrase.

You just make it up. It is a real thing. It was not phony, not a phony phrase. Uh, so yeah, it was just like times like that. The time, the only C I've ever got was in social media marketing and I was like really discouraged that I should not do social media and stuff like that. Anyway, that was principle. Chip and Joanna Gaines.

I'm trying to think of what. Oh, yes! Sorry, I blanked on what you were talking about. Yes, I have to talk about this. Thank you for remembering me. Tymon and Rachel got to hear me bomb one joke. Got to hear me bomb. Thank you for bringing that up. You're still using Chip and Joanna Gaines references for 17 year old or 20 year old kids.

No, that's the thing. That's no, I wasn't like 2013 again. I actually made fun of Alex because he was like, you know, you guys like, you know, kind of trying to show them maybe some like perspective on where they're at and how privileged they are and how he's like you guys are very but you guys are hashtag blessed and they kind of like snickered it sounds like well this feels okay to like poke fun of it sounds like boomer that's amazing yeah I feel like you he tried to like, he's like, you guys still using hashtags? You guys planking and hashtagging? Huh?

Anybody done a Harlem Swift in this recital hall yet? Self-checkout. Harlem Shake. You guys self-checkout at the peen? You take your peen to go, huh? It's a fly in the deployment. Has blessed hashtag squad over here i see girls all hanging out together with pod goals yeah so the chip and tranny goes saying oh tyron i didn't even write that down i'm so glad you remembered it um well i mean it's not good for me but so alex is talking every Every now and then, he would pass it to me.

And it was a great improv exercise. So I feel like not only do I need to have something to say at a moment's notice, but I guess it should probably be entertaining or funny. And it's like nine out of ten times, I did a very good job of being asked to say something and saying something funny. One time, I did not. And that was Alex is talking about CannaCuck, I think. I forget the context of why, but he was like, you know,

Jake and I worked at this Christian camp where a lot of like celebrities, celebrities would like send their kids there. Like Chip and Joanna Gaines, they sent their kid there. Peyton Manning sent his kid there. Jake, who are some of the other people? And I was like, uh, Chip and Joanna Gaines. Thinking the joke would be, he literally just said that.

And it was just crickets, dude. Not even like smiles, because they had all the house lights on. I could see everyone. And it wasn't just like a, okay, we get it. I'm not expecting that to be laugh out loud. But people were just like. Sometimes it's almost insulting to you, because it's like, you just think I'm stupid. You think I wasn't listening.

It's like the full point was that i'm so quick at like yeah that seemed like in a moment's notice that i chose that was the route i chose like that is a way to add humor i'll say something that was just said because i can't think of a celebrity off the top of my head yeah i was like i'll just say a repeat that's kind of funny and dude i could see i could see none of them smiling but i could see tywin in the, but I could see Tywin in the back, and I could see Rachel in the back. Rachel is dying laughing. Funniest I've ever been to Rachel when I just bombed.

Chip and Joanna Gaines. Because after that, I was like, what did I say? I knew that I was joking. Yeah, you're like, no, guys, that's part of it, okay? I had to admit that it was a joke, and that's what really took Rachel over the edge. Like, Chip and Joanna Gaines.

Because he just said that. All right, Alex, back to you. So thank you for remembering that, Tommy. Yeah, I really bombed that. That was too bad. That's amazing. You should have just said, like, made up names that they wouldn't have known.

Paul Bunyan. Yeah, made them sound like important people. Well, Derek Zielinski, his kids. Christina Andersonyan. Yeah. Made him sound like important people. Well, Derek Zelinsky, his kids, Christina Anderson. I think, uh, her daughter was there.

Um, I'm trying to think it was one of the Jen. No, it wasn't a Jenner. It was Kimmy McNellig. Um, if you know her, Lindsay Bybee.

Yeah. Both of her boys. I don't know how many people here are chiefs fans, but, uh, Dante Rison, his kids. I just take it away. Alex is like, that's good. One more.

One more. Former president, Alex Vanderbloek. President of SBU. Sorry, yeah, not obviously oval. Right. Anyway, but that was fun fun it was a very long day I felt bad didn't get Tymon back

back home until about 12.30 1am long day yeah it was okay it was fun driving home was

it was crazy how foggy it was yeah it was like Tymon's living baby you're just like you're just like I hope there's nothing like on the highway

I will not see it yeah I hope it's more road uh huh yeah I don't have a fog TED talk ready to go potholes only right now I hope there's nothing like on the highway. I will not see it. Yeah. I hope it's more road. Uh-huh. Yeah. I don't have a fog TED Talk ready to go. Potholes only right now. Yeah, right. That's good, man.

Anyway. Hmm. That's a good talk. Okay. I got some, I got a Hattie's contribution to the podcast again. Oh, yes. But let's talk about Main Street Roasters first.

Great call. Great call. Hey, guys. I drank coffee this morning for the first time in four days because I've been feeling weird, feeling sick. Life is better with coffee. Let me just tell you that right now.

Specifically, life is better with Main Street Roasters coffee. A conversation we had just before the podcast, I was telling you that I've been trying to wean myself on a black coffee by having it when I go to church. And you said, dude, that's not good coffee. That's why you're not loving it. It's not good coffee unless they're serving main street roasters, which they're not yet. I am shocked that if they will also shout out, uh, who was it in our Facebook group? Tammy Mason. Yeah. She's

trying to get her pastor to switch over to major roasters. I can't wait. It's going to be awesome. Let them, let them sip. Let them sip. Let them sip. Let them go. Let them brew. Let them brew. Yeah, Main Street Roasters is the best. It just tastes better. When you have quality coffee, you can tell the difference. And now that I'm drinking black coffee only, there's truly a difference. I went to Main Street Roasters North the other day, a.k.a.

Sturbucks, and it was not good coffee. I just had the drip coffee, and I was like, this is considerably worse. I'm really upset that I didn't take the time to make it at home today. I had to grab some ain't right. The same ain't, ain't right. That coffee ain't coffee and coffee ain't coffee. And now the good Lord attended it. Main street roasters.com. Go support them. Y'all get yourself some high quality coffee from some great people up in indiana um grkc for 10 off all right uh so hattie is the podcaster now she's she's searching for content and this week uh she had she we have to say this on our podcast she said um hattie just get this

dude i mean just unbelievable dude hattie the other day was in the bathroom and she walks out, she's brushing her teeth. She walks out, she goes, ah, I use Rosie's toothbrush by accident. I was like, that's okay. She's like,

what should I do? And I was like, just, just clean it off and put it back. It's fine. Yeah. Oh, you have to use that on your podcast.

I was like, okay. But she's like, but make sure you know, you tell everyone like, just so they don't think your podcast. I was like, okay. But she's like, but make sure you tell everyone just so they don't think that I'm some silly girl that Rosie was holding my toothbrush. And so that's why I got confused. I like it.

I like it. Patty Ellis, once again, on the podcast, just serving up content left and right. That sounds exactly like how I tell stories on the podcast. It's like, yeah, I messed up. This is funny. But if you could see it from my point of view. Just trust me.

I'm really smart. That's exactly how I tell stories. So I get it, Hattie. And that is a bummer. And honestly, that type of screw up is what I live with all the time now, and it's a blast to live that way. It's just like we don't know where anything is. We don't know when anything's happening.

I mean, Rachel, you saw yesterday. She threw away a gift card she just bought. I mean, the house is just wild. Have you figured out? Are you just like, what's going through your mind when you're throwing it away? You know, I really don't even try to. Yeah.

I think that's just like one thing I just accepted very early on in a marriage. Just like, there are some like little things that you could probably change habits. And the other person, Rachel's made me much healthier and much more active. And yeah, those are like great things, but it's like who Rachel is to her core,

like genetically, like I see her dad and I see rachel is to her core like genetically like i see her dad and i see who she is like i'm not gonna get her to i'm not gonna make a type a person out of her i don't want her to change like that's who she is like and so part of that is i think not even fully trying to understand it because i know there's not if i want to try and figure out the logic of it i'm gonna be disappointed at the lack of logic so i'd rather just not it's just like i i wasn't thinking that's's what happens. Yeah, yeah, 100%. And it's okay.

She finds it. She realized that she dropped the gift card in there. She gets it out most of the time. It's fun. Every hour. I mean, there is a massive problem that will get solved within five minutes. I know. Last night after volleyball, we get home.

We park. Oh, shoot. Oh, I always do this. I always do this. Oh, no, here it is. It's like water bottle. Yeah, she left her water bottle at volleyball. So, yeah, she always finds it. It always works out. Hattie also left her

pom-poms at the game the other day. Oh, no. So she's distraught about that. They gave her more pom-poms. Don't worry, guys. So maybe I'm just cultivating a young Rachel, which I'm great with. If she turns out to be a little bit of Rachel, a little bit of Catherine, great. That is great.

Honestly, I would be shocked if Rachel hasn't used my toothbrush accidentally and just hasn't told me. She's for sure done that. Or just on purpose because she couldn't find hers. She's like, well, I usually use my finger or Jake's. What's the big deal? That doesn't sound outside of the realm of possibility. Like you don't have like a spot for your toothbrush sometimes,

but I don't know where it is right now. Uh, speaking of toiletries, what do you think about this? Uh, what do you think about this? Um, Catherine, you know, like I said, we've been sick all week. She came up to me the other day. She's like, Hey, I think we should throw that bar of soap that's been on the sink counter away because we've been sick all week and i looked at her i was like what well if what's your logic there because if that's true then we should probably never use that bar of soap because yeah the logic would be i am putting my bad bacteria out of the soap and taking because every time i go to the bathroom, I have bacteria on my hands that I'm putting on this.

I'm giving it to the soap. Yeah. It's giving bacteria. It's giving lack of sanitation. And so I was, I like respectfully like took the soap and took it from the sink to the shower. Cause I was like,

I'm not throwing that away. It's good soap. And so we replaced the soap. And it from the sink to the shower because i was like i'm not throwing that away it's good soap and so we replaced the soap and then later on she's like i think i was wrong about the soap it also feels wrong to throw away soap a hundred percent like a bar of soap yeah you just use it exactly it goes down the drain eventually it's self-cleaning yeah it's like a banana peel throw in the, or you let nature throw it away for you. Decompose. You degrade it. Does it degrade? Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Degrade. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah, just thought of that. I was like, what's the deal with soap? I mean, if that's the logic, then we should never use bars of soap.

Yeah, then we should just use like... Dude, everything's dirty, though, when I think about it. You think about the... I don't want to think about it too much, but yeah. No, I hear you. I hear you. Everything's dirty. Yeah, when I think about it. You think about the... I don't want to think about it too much, but yeah. No, I hear you. I hear you. Everything's dirty.

Yeah. Our phones, filthy. Well, even like the bathroom handle, you wash your hands. Not 100% of people are washing their hands in the bathroom publicly or even privately. Even like the dispenser of soap. Like your palm of your hand is touching dirt to get the soap. So you better wash that palm. Yeah.

Make sure you get the palm. Make sure you get the palm. Make sure you get the palm. Make sure you get the palm. Let them palm. Let them palm. Hey, let them palm. Let them watch. Let them watch.

Anything else on your mind? No, not really. I've been watching, because of the Chiefs-Dolphins-Peacock game, I still have Peacock. I'm like, well, hey let let us watch and they uh so i've been watching a lot of more super fan episodes where they leave in deleted scenes i think i've been making my way through season five because when peacock first came out with the office i think

they only had seasons one through four super fan so i made all those recently came out with number seven seven i think yeah i didn't know they'd been adding on. Fun surprise. Season five. Dude, back to my Ted Lasso take. I stand by everything I said because now when I go back to the office and I'm getting to see scenes I've never seen before, it is so funny. Really? That's a comedy.

That's such a funny show. Every episode, I do laugh out loud at something. I'm like, I can't believe they took that out. Yeah. That is so funny. And I'm just enjoying it so much. Similarly, there's also been a couple of times where they've taken out like major plot pieces.

It's not just like a little thing that like, okay, that would add to humor. It went on a little too long. For instance, the one I could think of is they took out a part. This is the storyline of when Pam's in New York at art school. We learned that she's failing.

You know, she needs to make a decision. Does she want to have to go retake classes or come back and Scranton? So there's this whole deleted scene where Pam is showing Jim some of her, her work at art school. And it's some like logos she made and they look fine, but they don't look great. But Jim is being very nice and like, yeah, these are great. And then he's like, what is this over here? She's like, oh, that's just my sketchbook. And inside the sketchbook are some of the like most beautiful, like artistic detailed drawings. He's like,

you've done this? And she's like, yeah, I don't know. Just every now and then he's like, well, that's crazy.

And there's a talking head of Pam where she goes, I didn't fail art school. I came back for Jim. I'm like, if people had known that, people would like Pam a lot more. People don't know that part of the story.

People think Pam was a failure at art school and that Jim was the one who made all the sacrifices for Pam. Oh, interesting. I couldn't believe that. I was like, that's a massive thing to take out of there, that Pam didn't actually fail and she came back to Scranton for Jim. Okay, so you like that.

You like learning those things. Because that's my hesitation with the superfan episodes. I've watched like two of them. And I think one of the ones I watched was season one, Hot Girl with Amy Adams. Okay. And yeah, you just learn more about her. And you're like, well, I view her as a different character now. And I think I really like the original perception I have of The Office.

So I don't necessarily want to like cloud the judgment too much. I know you're getting more of an amazing thing though. Well, that's so great. We get more of our favorite thing. Yeah, I know. That's what TJ said. The same thing when I was like, I don't know if I like the super fan. He's like, why not? It's the best show. It's our favorite show. Why not? And I'm just like, I think I would love the comedy aspect, but then I like, yeah, I heard that there's, there was a, uh, a potential plan for Kevin to actually be secretly a genius. Have you heard about that? No, I haven't. Yeah. Like that was like, they like filmed it and everything for the last episode or something like that. It was like, I don't know. Brian Baumgartner talks about it.

Huh? Like how, yeah, he's been like, yeah, stealing all this money or something like that. I don't know. Oh, bring it on. I want to learn all that stuff. I don't care. It's so awesome. Yeah. Yeah, you should watch. Season five has been very funny. I won't spoil it too much, but there's the episode where they're talking about ethics

and they learn all that stuff about Meredith. Oh, right. You know, Holly's doing the ethics thing. But that initial scene where they're talking about, like, you know, Oscar's very upset. Like, this isn't ethics. Ethics is a real discussion about whatever. You know, and Andy's like, here's an ethics bomb for you would you you know steal bread to feed your family so that scene goes on much longer and there's all these hypotheticals and they get so off track and there's like an ethics thing it was like do you do you know the wall exists behind you

like if you turned around and couldn't see the wall behind you how do you know it's still there and just the direction that michael goes in that and Dwight goes in that, it is so funny, dude. And I can't believe they took it out. Really? Yeah. I loved it. That's just like, that's an interesting aspect of the office. That's like, I wonder what would have it, what it would have been like if it weren't on a network and it could have made it 30 minutes instead of 22. Yeah. That this episode is 28 minutes long. This one's 23, you know, or whatever. Yeah, it's an interesting thought. Leave them wanting more, I guess.

Leave them wanting to watch. Man, let them watch the superfan episodes. That's fun. That's cool, man. See, I've been making my way through that. Really like them. So shout out Peacock. Good job, NFL.

It worked. Yeah, you're in. You got a guy who already loves The Office to watch The Office. Congrats. That's cool. You want to do some voice memos? How much time do we have here, Tymon?

About an hour 10 or so. Hour 14. Hour 14. Very close. I was close. Let's do a couple voice memos. Hour 14. Hour 14. Very close. I was close. Yeah, let's do a couple voice memos. Let's talk about Good Ranchers first. Okay, great. Yeah, I don't have the voice memos pulled up.

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but I don't know exactly if that's accurate right now. You'll get something. You're going to get a good deal. You're going to get something good. Did you bring Good Rancher's bacon to the watch party? I forgot. I forgot my Bad Birdie and my Good Rancher's bacon. But you know what?

Everyone deserves to have it. So, yeah, they sent me bacon, which I obviously can't have. So I am going to give it out at the Super Bowl. The big game. Let them watch. Big game. Let them watch. Let them eat bacon. So it's good. Rangers, American meat delivered once again, GRKC, uh, good rangers.com for a promo. Um, we love you. Good ranchers, please, please,

please order yourself some good ranchers and see for yourself just how wonderful, um, and different your meat can be with quality meat. Um, it's better than steakhouse meat, in my opinion, steakhouse steaks. Just really good stuff. And yeah, something you'll love yourself. All right. A couple of voice memos. How about them? How about them?

This one's from Mr. Waffles. Brad, Tyman, Jake. Hi. Yeah. So Mr. Waffles is my online moniker. And that's why i go by online i created superheroes around the age of four and five so this has been made up for this one last week over the span of many years go to the recent one i don't think we did well it sounds slightly

different than oh no you're right he's following he's following up. He's following up. Sorry, Mr. Rogers. Brad said 294, which is Viper, a person that can make and is immune to any and all poisons. He's an assassin, so he's a skilled martial artist and pretty good with weapons.

I'm just going to pause there. Thoughts on your superhero? What did he say? I'm immune to poisons? Yeah, that's huge. Good martial artist. Yeah. I like it so far. I'm immune to poisons. Dude, there goes your poison ivy anxiety.

Yeah. We're going to roll around in it. All right. Let's see. Viper. I just like that. Hyman said 67, which is Koda Tanosushi, who is a cyborg and can operate mechs. So think Timefall and Gundam. Mechs.

Like Tex-Mex. Mechs. Yeah. Mexican food. Mechs. Jax said 50, which is Rickshaw, a reality manipulator. And so if you don't like these, say another number. But what would you do with these powers?

I thought it was going to be an actual rickshaw. What is that? It's like a cart where you like a horse can pull like a rickshaw. Okay. Like a cart behind a horse. Not like a wheelbarrow. I think it could also be that way too. Because I think in Seinfeld, I think Kramer is like pushing around a rickshaw, I think cart behind a horse not like a wheelbarrow i think it could also be that way too because i think in seinfeld i think kramer is like pushing around a rickshaw i think it's a

good name a good word i want a good superhero it's my superhero shaw oh from from japanese human powered vehicle oh i know what those are yeah they they do them on The Amazing Race. That's how I feel like I've seen it. I've seen that roadblock. Yeah, Tunisia. Yeah. Rickshaw. Season four. Okay. So we got Viper. Viper.

Kota Teno Sushi and Rickshaw. Rickshaw. I think that's what we need to go by next episode. Next time I'm in McLean's in a suit. Are you the guy from Rickshaw at your service? Can I get a good name? Uh, rickshaw, you can call me viper. I'm immune to poisons. I'm a reality manipulator. And I, what do I have? You're a cyborg and you're a cyborg and I know how to operate mechs. So you're a Taco Bell cyborg. You're a worker at Taco Bell.

I like being a good martial artist, and I'm immune to poisons. That sounds awesome. That sounds like I could do a lot of harm. I could mess some bad guys up. Immune to poisons, and I can fight really well. It's like a nice try. I'd much rather manipulate reality. That sounds awesome. Oh, it sounds very try. I'd much rather manipulate reality. That sounds awesome.

Oh, it sounds very cool. What reality are you manipulating? If it's reality TV, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Housewives of Orange County. If it's actual reality, I would say the way people think and see. Is that what that means?

I have no idea. I feel like you probably are the most powerful out of all these. It seems like I could do just about anything. What do we think a cyborg means? I'm really not a superhero guy. I think it's half person, half robot, or like half machine. So would that potentially make me also immune to poisons? You wish.

You wish. You wish. Yeah, organic and biomechatronic body parts. Mex. Mex. Oh. Oh, M-E-C-H-S. Mex. We thought it was Hispanic. Mex.

Rachel and I were talking about Tex-Mex. How would you clarify, time when you were in the car, how would you clarify Applebee's? What kind of restaurant is that? It's a bar and grill. Oh, that's probably the right word. Rachel and I were both wrong. You thought it was Tex-Mex? No, Rachel said Tex-Mex and I said, I don't think it's Tex-Mex.

She's like, what do you think it is? I was like, I think fast casual. No, fast casual is like something you go through a line for. Like Chipotle, Pin Express, Payway. Payway, nice. Yeah. It's a sit-down.

Yeah, Bar and Grill. Yeah, you're right. We needed you there. American Bar and Grill. What else do you want to know about restaurants? So Chili's would also be at Bar and Grill. Yeah, Chili's is a little, yeah. It feels like they tried to do a little more Mexican-themed stuff,

but they're still like this. They got too much going on to be Tex-Mex. Chewy's, Tex-Mex. Maybe Rachel thought Chili's was Tex-Mex because they have more Mexican. I don't remember. Something was Tex-Mex. Tymon was sleeping in the back seat. All right, Mr. Waffles.

I think we need a Mr. Waffles voice memo every week with something. I did see that he left a Patreon comment last night and said he's not on Facebook, so Patreon will be his social media for us. Cool. Something like that. I just, what did he make? 300 different, 300 different.

Superheroes. Superheroes. Let's choose new numbers and let's fight our current superhero persona versus next week. Give me, it's giving. No um give me 185 next week i can't imagine any superhero beating number one so i'm gonna be number one yeah what do you start with yeah i'll take 208 208 let him fight well let him fight let. All right, next one from Preston.

Yo, what's up? This is Preston from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Peace up, T-Town. Okay. I don't have a ton of time to record this a thousand times, so I'm shooting from the hip here. Seems like you have a ton of time. I'm listening to the podcast. I'm on episode 31.

31's the new number number What is that? You guys have strong taste On small talk I do say live in the dream And I do say It's going That's always a segue into more conversation Because I know

If you say live in the dream And then don't respond, it's kind of like the stiff arm of small talk. I responded but the conversation's done. Is it okay for it to be a segue? Also,

episode 31's jingle that you did was lit and Christmas time is here so you guys should reuse it. Alright, later. Bye. Oh, i don't remember which one that was do you remember every single episode's jingle yeah that was a little drummer boy okay yeah um so he says that saying hey how's it going and you say it's going is a segue into more small talk living the dream no a segue into not small talk. Living the dream. No, a segue into not small talk.

Oh, I missed it. Okay, he's saying like he's shutting it down. It's a stiff arm. No, no, no, no, no. He's saying if you don't say anything after the... Let's just listen to it again. From the top. T-Town. Yeah.

I think he's saying if you have small talk as a segue, then you say something else. That is good. That's okay. But if you just say the small talk thing, that's basically saying else that is good. That's okay. But if you just say the small talk thing, that's basically saying, I don't want to talk to you. Like if you say it's going,

that's his way of saying, how's it going? I live in the dream. End of discussion. We're done. Yeah. But if it's like, ah,

you know, living the dream, uh, you know, family's good. I don't know. Like, like elaborating. Yes. Okay. I've noticed myself good. I don't know. Like elaborating.

Yes. Okay. I've noticed myself recently saying I can't complain a lot. Can't complain. Can't complain. Oh, yeah. I noticed that last week because I think you said that when I asked you how you were doing. And I think I remembered you might have said that as something that annoyed you.

Really? In that episode, I think. Yeah. I'm sure I go back and forth on everything i believe these days you know with that kind of stuff but like i don't mind it i guess to an extent to like i i think i have the hardest time when someone says what's new to me because it's like yeah i don't know where to start you've always had trouble like thinking about what's new man i want to give you a such an accurate answer to that but What's the best answer to what's up? What's up?

This guy, genius. Do they want to know actually like what's the latest in your life? Because if it's the same as what's new, if that's the case. But then it's like is that just more like, hey, what's up? I think what's up is what are you doing right now is what I would answer that. I would say nothing much, just wrapping up

lunch real quick. Just chilling. HBU. Yeah, yeah, yeah. NMJC. Less like when you see someone in person. Oh, okay. Is that what you're saying? Standing here next to you talking. What's up with you? I just drove here.

What's up, dude? Sometimes I think it's literally just saying hi. It's another way of saying hi. Oh, what's up, dude? Yeah, I've talked about about this before but there was a guy in strafford who his greeting was what do you know jake i don't think he actually wanted to know what my knowledge was that was just his way of being like what do you know what do you know how's it going what's up yeah just fill our words speaking of this it also reminded me another office office super fans episode that i watched last night uh it's when it's's the Moroccan Christmas. We find out that, the whole office finds out that

Angela's been tweeting, tweeting, cheating on Andy with Dwight. And then you find out it's been 17 days and she hasn't told Andy yet. You know, he's like, guys, this is awkward. No one's responded to our wedding at RSVP.

And they're like, you haven't told? And so the whole office is like, not sure how to act around Andy. So a deleted scene is he goes into like the break room with uh Michael and he's like Michael what's the haps he asked him which that all got cut out so I like saying what's the hap you know yeah I was like haps are haps all right what's the haps

with you and you know and he's like good good you know any any other haps anything about and you know Michael's like well haps you, sometimes the haps are bad. And I try to warn him. It's just so awkward. So yeah, there's a new word for you. The haps. What are the haps? What's the haps?

Yeah. You got good haps or what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You downloading any good haps lately? Chili's? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Any deals on haps? Applebee's after nine.

I think it's half price haps. Yeah. What are the haps? Applebee's after nine, I think it's half price haps. Yeah. What are the haps? All right. Well, thank you, Will. I believe his name was. Preston. Yeah, it was Preston.

Yeah. Thank you, Jeremy. His last name was Whitmill. So I guess I threw that. I just took out the middle of his last name. I think you will. All right. Hi, Jake, Brad, and Tymon.

My name's Joy, and today I found out that my cousin is also a ghostie when she shared her Spotify rap. And we were kind of freaking out over it, and she shared a story with me that last year on the pod, which I had no idea, you guys played a voice memo of her and you guys laughed about how her last name is Kid. What she didn't say is that the last name humor actually goes a lot deeper in our family because our shared maiden name is Richter. So she's Richter Kid. My married name, I got married a little bit after her. My married name is Schlichter. So I am Richter Schlichter. And together we're the Richter Schlichter kids.

Oh, wow. But it gets better because my sister this fall got married to someone with the last name Midget. They're going to pronounce it differently in this generation. They're going to call it Majette. But with the Richter Schlichter Midget kids, we would love to know what you think that we should name our children in light of our last names.

Stoked to hear from you think that we should name our children in light of our last names. Stoked to hear from you guys. Love the pod. Great question. Majette. Because that's better. Name your kid Yao. Yao Majette.

Yao Majette. And you'd say, well, it's pronounced Ming. Did I say Majette? No, it's Ming. Oh, Yao Ming. Yeah, something. Wait, but, it's Ming. Oh, Yao Ming. Yeah, something. Wait, but her last name is Schlichter or Richter or kid. I hope she married a Victor.

Victor Schlichter. Yeah, just emphasize that. I think that's fun. Hey, what's up? Victor Schlichter. Victor Schlichter's either going somewhere or is taking you somewhere. Taking you for a ride. Victor Schlichter. You're not forgetting Victor Schlichter anytime soon.

Yeah, that's great. It sounds like a stage name. Um, wow. So Richter Schlichter midget. How do you pronounce Zach's last name? Midget. Midget. But I bet at one point it was midget. It probably was midget, midget, midget, midget. A lot of people say Zach, Zach midget. It probably was. Midget. Midget. Midget. Midget. A lot of people say Zach midget. Yeah. And it's like, okay. Yeah. You just want to say it.

Yeah. Midier is really funny or whatever she said. Just like making it French all of a sudden. Midier. Midier. Oh, your parents French? No. Just, you know, socially conscious.

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He's a big Vick Schlichter, Midjay Midjay. What about Michael Jordan Midjay, and you call him MJ Midjay? MJ Midjay. Midjay Midjay. Yeah, those are fun. I don't know. We talked a long time ago, Tymon, you remember this episode, about what if you're in love with somebody,

but they have a terrible last name? And like I said, what if your person's last name is like loosely like the word racist r-a-y-c-e-s-t or something like that or their first name is ray last name schism yeah i'm just in love with racism i i googled like worst, like unfortunate wedding combinations. And the first eight, I can't say on the podcast. This is crazy. But there are some, you know,

gory butcher. Oh, wow. These are like actual newspaper clippings. Gory? Texas. G-O-R-Y? R-E-Y. Yeah.

Gory butcher. The next one is hardy har. Kind of funny. Hardy har. The next one is hunt capture har kind of funny already are um the next one is hunt capture so it says engagement hunt slash capture that's sweet wasn't there someone uh like someone burger and someone king and burger king like sponsored the wedding yeah that does sound right it might have been like a tinder wedding or something like that too victor schlichter officiated that i think this one i feel like i could say kind of funny um long wee wee

sure it was kelly long and eric wee wee have you seen that basketball player i think he's basketball maybe he's football named kofi cockburn it looks like coffee coffee cockburn i've not seen that because a football player is like the coldest to ever do it crawford uh-huh that one's wild kofi cockburn was pretty good i think let me see oh it's kofi kofi cockburn he's a illinois basketball player from jamaica wow didn't know about that apparently his parents won a settlement for mcdonald's one time they were going to get breakfast but they're like you have to name your first board. You believed it for half a second.

You're like, no way. Silently. Silently, I believed. Kofi Cockburn. Dang. The more you know. Victor Schlichter and Kofi Cockburn. Kofi Schlichter.

Kofi Schlichter. Kofi Kidd. Are you one of the Kofi Kidds? Kofi Kidds, huh? Jason Kidd. Let's do one more for this episode. Okay. are you one of the coffee kids Jason kid let's do one more for this episode maybe have

some that carry over to next week oh yeah plenty what's new with you Bakaru time and your friends are weird hey guys Jesse here from Central from living in central illinois more specifically tremont actually technically dylan which is a small town maybe like 50 people anyway oh my question is what is some fun ways ways that would be fun to like answer the phone

with i like to like not how you every now and then when somebody calls me, you know, saying like, Oh, Hey, welcome to Jesse's crematorium. You kill him, we grill him or, uh, you know, different things like that. Or, or sometimes, you know, it's, you, you, you make it casual and you just say, eh, and, or, or you, you go, go back a little ways and you say, Hey, good morning, Vietnam. Anything like that, really. Just fun ways.

Give me some ideas, some different extra ways to answer the phone. All right, so this is Jesse. Sounds like he's got plenty of ideas. I mean, more than I'm going to have. Do you have his phone number? Yes. He's friends with Tymon. He's from a small town in Illinois.

That's like where Tymon lives half the time. So I think you should call him right now and see how he answers and just hang up right away and then call him back. He seems like a real life Andy Bernard. Because he probably left his voice memo a while back. So he's not going to have any idea. So this is truly off the cuff how he's going to answer. I don't think I've ever called him before.

Here we go. He's pleading the fifth. We'll see what his answer machine says. The call has been forwarded to voicemail. The person you're trying to reach is not... Wow. That was great. Awesome. That was very cool.

I think there was a friend of mine back there i don't know which friend it was but we would answer the phone with each other and do kind of a funny thing where it was like you were having a side conversation right before you answered the phone and maybe it was you and me i don't know that sounds kind of familiar and we would like say something like either weird or inappropriate or something right before like you answer the phone. So I think that's a creative way to answer the phone. Just like, or talking about them like, Hey, no, he's calling right now. So stop. No, quit. Seriously. Stop talking about him. Yeah. Just, just for a second guys. Okay. And like, maybe it's not like it's a bunch of, Hey, what's

up Jake? Uh, yeah, that's fine. Yeah. You like purposely like answer the phone. You're like, rarely do people find out about actual embezzlement. Hey, Brad, how's it going? How's it going? Yeah. I mean, it's not technically tax fraud, but yeah, we're going to pin it on him anyway. What's up, dude? How are you doing? Yeah. Rachel, the blinds are open. Everyone could see. Hey, Brad, how's it going? What's going on? Yes, just a second, okay? What's up, dude? Yeah. I used to do that with somebody,

and that was a fun way to answer the phone. That sounds kind of familiar. Maybe it was me and you. That's pretty fun. Actually, I might start doing that again. That does sound kind of fun. I like just onomatopoeias. Just whoosh.

Just a quick pow! Bam! You know? And then back to calm kablamo yeah yeah yeah something like that so yeah a lot of energy at the beginning boom bop hey i can't really talk right now i'm actually i'm in a really quiet hey i'm in the library good morning vietnam right now it's actually a terrible time i can't talk at all i'm gonna have to call you back sorry bazinga hey i'm in church can i call you back in like five to ten they're wrapping up benedictions right now and they're gonna do an invitation yeah okay so there you go jesse yeah that seems like a good you ever uh watch modern family not really phil dunphy like the the dad in the show, he would always have different little things

that he would say right before he said hello. So he'd be like, what instrument does Yo-Yo Ma play? Cello. Nice. Stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah.

All these different ones. Nature's self, I looked it up. Nature's surefire sunburn remedy. And he goes, hello. Nice. You you know just funny things like that so i think you could do something like that uh jess yeah and get yourself a voicemail yeah the guy who wants to answer the phone this creatively gotta have an outgoing message gotta have one do you remember isaac's for the longest time i mean mean, Isaac was a little kid when we met him, but had his little seventh grade self on there.

Hey, this is Isaac McDonald. Leave a message. I'll call you back. Thanks. The way he said thanks was such this attitude to him. And he was kind of pubescent, too. His voice was much higher. Yeah.

Yeah, I remember that. It was a good time. That was fun. Let's do our reviews of the week. Okay. I got one from Sydney Shay, 32. Cool. Thank you for epidurals.

No problem. No problem. You're welcome. My brother-in-law convinced me to start listening while my sister was getting an epidural. I've been listening ever since. Y'all are hilarious. He told me to write a review if I liked it, so here I am.

Cool. Shout out to Nick Ray and Epidurals. Nick Ray, that's number 267 on the superheroes. Nick Ray. During the episode. Hey, let him crown. Let him crown. Let him birth.

Yeah. Hope he doesn't botch. Don't let him botch. Don't let him botch. Don't botch don't let him botch don't let him botch don't botch let him yeah yeah watch the crotch

mine's from Titus became a fan of Jake's from his podcast with Trey who's happy to find this podcast in October of 2023 get to hear him and Brad talk about everything and nothing all at the same time. Love listening every week, although I don't think I'll start from the beginning of Ghostrunners podcast.

Just too many to catch up on, but I'm here for the rest of the ride. I love the offensive references. They're so subtle that probably most miss, but any real fan appreciates the fine touch. It's nice to find a podcast that is not just hilarious, but clean and healthy and encouraging. Keep up the good work. Titus, thank you. Well done. Glad to have you. Come on, but clean and healthy and encouraging. Keep up the good work. Titus, thank you. Well done. Glad to have you. Come on,

Titus. I'm clapping. You can't see it. I can't see it, but Timon's clapping. Left and right hand together. Thanks, Titus. Titus. My boy T. Appreciate you, dude. Brad, would you like to end this episode with a jingle? Yeah, Malcolm Forrester wrote us one. I'm going to Bluetooth Timon. I will connect Bluetooth jingle? Yeah, Malcolm Forrester wrote us one. I'm going to use Bluetooth, Diamond.

I will connect Bluetooth. Diamond, I'm just going to... We're just going to sing one. Like, we're going to do the chorus, and then we're going to do a... No, we're going to do verses, and then we're going to do chorus, and we're going to be done.

Okay? Because it's kind of a repetitive song. But Malcolm Forrester, he said, maybe I didn't send it because it's not my best. Maybe I didn't send it because y'all don't really play pickleball anymore. Au contraire, mon frere. Oh. I knew I had to at least write it when I kept singing it in because it's not my best. Maybe I didn't send it because y'all don't really play pickleball anymore. Oh, contrary, my prayer.

Oh, I knew I had to at least write it when I kept singing in my head while playing pickleball. Anyway, keep cranking out the comedy gents. And he said, it's a callback. You guys probably don't even remember from a really old episode.

We're going to remember this one. Trust me. You don't even remember. So ready? I'm ready. Here we go. There's nothing you can serve that can't be hit Not any drop shot that you can't get Nothing straight down the middle you can't loft over the net

It's easy There isn't a run that you can't break There isn't a lead that you can't break there isn't a lead that you can't retain nothing you can't act like you'll spike but it's really pump fake it's easy all you need is love oh of course i remember that all you need is love they say it on a weekly basis. All you need is love. So love. You gotta love them up.

That's good right there, Tom. Alrighty. All you need is love, guys. I mean, that was the best inside joke to come out of Pickleball. Love them up. Love them up. Ah, I loved them. Let them love. Let them love. Heather loves All You. Luff him up. Ah, I luffed him. Let him luff.

Let him luff. Harry loves all you need is love, so she's going to love that jingle. To this day, I mean, three and a half years later, almost four years of playing pickleball, I still don't really know what the term is for what you deemed a luff. I don't know what they call it. Oh, like? Like that type of shot where like you take a

hard shot take a lot of speed off of it and drop it like right in front of the net love them up love them up is perfect love them up like i think a tennis that might be called like a drop or something but a pickleball drop is a very different type of shot so it feels like you can't call it that it's a love it's a love dude it's it's called pickleball we can name stuff ourselves it's very new yeah it's ever It's malleable. They have a name for something called an Ernie because the guy's name is Ernie. We can have, it's called Luff. Honestly, yeah.

I'm in the right position to try and get this. Can we have a Pickleball paddle called the Luff? It's very soft, very much a control paddle. I mean, you would Luff all day. Yeah, you'd Luff all day. Let him Luff. All you need is Luff. That's right.

Hey, let him Luff. Thanks, Malcolm, for the jingle, man. It's awesome. Hey, thanks, Malcolm. All right. Hey, we'll see you guys Wednesday. Chiefs are in the Super Bowl, so that's fun. We'll see you Wednesday.

Love you guys. Chiefs are in the Super Bowl. Bye-bye. Ghost Runners Podcast. Everybody morning, podcast.