Ghostrunners - 348 - Brad is Rich

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

Brad shares the uncomfortable details of how much money he's made as an Amazon reviewer, Jake had to explain to a fast food worker what boneless wings are, and I think we all learned a little something about how large Canada is. Help give the gift of water to those in need: https://give.healingwaters.org/ghostrunners Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ghostrunners.life slash shop is where you can get some new merch on this beautiful monday morning unless you're one of these people who gets laughed at by jake and timon and therefore you get it for free because you submitted this joke so hey jake yes what happened to the frog that parked illegally he got towed yep hey you want to hear a funny joke about potassium? Nah. Wait, that's wrong. You're laughing at yourself. Okay.

Nah, I'm okay. Okay. What's nah? Iron? No, that's heavy. Sodium's nah. I'm randomly pretty good at that. Huh.

Better than I should. S-N. What's S-N? Sandwich. I don't know. A-G? Gold? No.

Close. Is F-E gold? Nope. A-U is gold. A-U. Come back with that gold. Oh, nice. A-U.

Come into my restaurant. That's how you remember how to spell restaurant. Oh. I don't know what SN is. 10. What? Right? 10?

Oh, I thought you were counting down. 10. 10. Yeah, I was like, what are we doing now? Hydrogen, nine. Helium. Neons, eight. I have no idea.

All right. Hey, what do you get? Hey, hey. Guys, let's be serious. What do you get when you cross a barbed wire fence with a cow? What? Utter destruction. I do like that one.

You like them? You got to remember this one. You got to remember for... You got to remember... Just... Here we go. What do you call iron blowing in the wind what fe breeze febreze irons fe

two of the four jokes have been about the the elements oh that's what this whole theme is oh sorry i don't know what part of god's creation always lets you down i know gravity grab it yeah it's working against me is that a joke that might just be true is that a punchline hey hey okay seriously seriously free merch is on the line burton ernie we're hanging out at sesame street and bird says, Ernie, do you want some ice cream? He responds, sure, Bert. Oh. Sure, Bert. Oh, yeah. Okay. No periodic element there, so. Hey!

Okay, sorry. What did the janitor say when he jumped out of the closet? I love this one. Surprise! Dumb. Do you like that one, Tymon? No, I no i like the wait did you say surprise yeah huh well i know i know the one where it's like supplies oh that's funny hey timon gets free merch free merch uh-oh oh i think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and

white me too midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet because it's a ghost Yeah, supplies is great. So that person just wrote down surprise. So maybe it was like an anti-joke. Yeah, I think it's like, everyone knows that joke. You're supposed to know that one. Oh, I see.

Like, why did six eat seven? Supplies. Because he was hungry. Supplies. Oh, man. It's another Monday. supplies because he was hungry supplies oh man it's another Monday it is sorry yes another Monday

janitors are coming out of closets yep Tymon's playing pedo every Thursday and you guys listen to our podcast we're happy you're here

pedo what I love that I love that we talked about that. That was great. I want to hear more about your pedo sometime. Okay.

That sounded weird. No. I want to come watch you pedo. I want to see your pedo. You said there was a pretty good amount of teenagers there? Like how many? Oh, shucks. I went to my first Royals game in years first rose game since the pitch clock was

invented and friday night uh we were storm watching a little bit storm was rolling in yeah it was muggy it was a hot day yeah really hot day like they all are but it's summertime baby wouldn't trade it and yeah went with uh pretty good crew uh like 12 of us total i felt like such a you know last episode you talked about like am i getting older because i might buy four pairs of new balances i paid for our group tickets by calling them i called the group ticket sales uh blaze it was great life hack no fees yeah like, it's $20 a ticket times 12. Yeah. $240 or whatever. That works. Yeah.

$440. Maybe. I'm not going to worry about it. $480. No, it doesn't matter. Fine, I'll check. It was, so yeah, no fees. $440. $22 times 12? Am I bad?

And yeah, because I was like, well, 12 people, I want two rows. You can't really do that on like StubHub and stuff. Dude, it is nice. Yeah, call them. It is great. It was great. I did that with youth ministry stuff back in the day. And yeah, they were like really good about helping you out.

Like, yeah, putting you all in one section, but not just like 30 people on a row. Yeah, because that's no fun. But yeah, all like row after row is nice. And yeah, I called him and he's like, all right, I got a name under this, uh, Peter. And I was like, oh, that's funny. I guess, uh, no, that was like 10 years ago, but no sharpshooter. My name is Jake. Now went through a bit of a rough patch.

Oh, like Jake from state farm. Good. All right. Okay. Supplies. Uh, but the Royals game was fun. We went, yeah, Christine, who's an old friend who moved to Kansas City, the one that Isaac carried out of the ocean.

Yep. Some of her friends, one of Rachel's friends, Glide and his fiance were there. So Rachel and I got there late. Shocker. When we had got there in the second inning, Glide had already eaten a bowl of Dippin' Dots. Okay.

He had a helmet full of nachos. And by the third inning, he had eaten his second bowl of Dippin' Dots. Glide goes for it. I was like, Glide, you're on pace for like four and a half Dippin' Dot bowls tonight. He's like going for the perfect game. Yeah.

But it was just fun to just pig out a bit at the ballpark. Got some chicken tenders, got a frozen lemonade. Just ballpark type stuff, dude. I introduced the kids to frozen lemonade, like eighth inning of last time. And they, it was like, why have you been hiding this from me for so long? It was awesome.

Another old man thing. Yeah, I called the ticket office. I'm like, 12 tickets, please. And then when I'm buying the frozen lemonade, I'm passing cash. They have to pass it back to me. And they say, oh, we don't accept cash. I'm like, wow, a stadium vendor.

They don't accept it anymore? I feel like, wow, a stadium vendor. They don't accept it? I feel like you just did a complete 180. Right. A couple years ago, it had to be cash. Dude, I wonder if their tips have gone down a lot because of that. They have to, because now they have to verbally say, how much do you want to tip? Right. That sucks. Oh, he asked you? He asked Glide. To me, he I think passed it. Yeah.

I would imagine he would just, it's going to ask you a few questions. It's like, I know the questions, dude. Yeah. Yeah. And so that was fun. Friday Night Fireworks is a good time. Started raining on us during the fireworks. Didn't really start pouring.

Started to get a little more intense as we left. And so Rachel and I knocked off. I think we'd already ran our mile, but we ran to our car, just passing people. It was fun. It's like, good for us. We're in shape. Good for us. We're in shape.

Every Friday night, the Royals play fireworks. The whole night, Lauren is about to move to a fiance, so she's asking me different questions throughout the night. Like, all right, what do you know about this? Or like, all right, I'm born and raised in Los Angeles. What do you know about the wintertime? Like, how do I prepare for winter?

And, you know, we're telling different things. Like, you're going to want an ice scraper. You just have in the back of your car. Winter coat. Yes. I was like telling her about like snow gear. Yeah. Catherine didn't know that was a thing.

Oh, okay. It's like you have to, you have. First Harambe, now winter coats. I mean, like, just like a heavy jacket. Like a, no, no. There's a, you have a coat. Get it from a goose with down feathers. Yeah.

It's got to be expensive. Okay, ice scraper. So just the whole night, we were doing different things. Just kind of answering questions. And other times, I just joke around and explain really obvious things that are not Kansas City specific. So frozen lemonade, those are, I mean, it's basically like a lemonade, but it's a little colder.

It hovers around 33 degrees. And so when the fireworks show started, it started with Despacito, the song. Oh, okay. And so I kind of lean over to Glide and Lauren. I say, oh, by the way, the fireworks, it's always Hispanic themed. Yeah. That's just how we do fireworks here. Yeah.

I hope that's okay. Despacito gets over, and then it's another like just reggaeton song i've never heard of just and so i'm like it's like a remix how we do the song it's another mashup and you move on and it's another spanish song like oh my gosh it's actually hispanic night i mean half the players on the team don't speak english yeah that was really funny i was like i can't believe it's actually Hispanic night. I mean, half the players on the team don't speak English. Yeah, that was really funny. I was like, I can't believe it was actually... Nothing else about the night was Hispanic night.

At least, I mean, we were there for three hours. They never mentioned it. But just the fireworks show, when I was like joking, like, and just FYI, it's going to be pretty Spanish tonight. And it was. They didn't speak English. Oh, it was consistent. It wasn't like they had Sweet Child of Mine at some point.

They never did. It was always... One time I thought, is this a Springsteen song? And they started speaking Spanish. I don't know what genre this is like a classic American Spanish rock. Huh? Um, so yeah,

just like 15, 20 minutes of just like Spanish music right after I'd like, that's amazing. Dumbly predicted it. Um, one last thing with glide and Lauren there, you know, I'm asking,

how was your time in Kansas city been? Where have you been? And I glad you took me to a messenger coffee. I'm like, Oh yeah, great spot. Um, I'm asking, how was your time in Kansas City been? Where have you been? Glide took me to Messenger Coffee. I'm like, oh, yeah, great spot. They didn't have nacho helmets there, though. So if you don't know, Glide is probably like 6'2", broad shoulders, very athletic, well-dressed white man. Maybe a little beard certain times,

Clyde's fiance, very just like LA, cool, black girl. I like the swivels while you're saying it. That's how, someone outside of Messenger Coffee starts like hooping and hollering at them going, no way, Travis is back with his ex. Like legitimately was like like i can't believe

this how is this not bigger news travis kelsey's like ex-girlfriend before taylor swift was just like i don't know i don't know if she was famous beforehand maybe she was but just like a black girl it just thought this travis kelsey just openly cheating on taylor swift and he was the one who like cracked the case. No way. Messenger coffee is how you're announcing it. This is amazing. You changed your face completely. Guys, this is huge.

That's crazy. That's amazing. I was like, yeah, that's kid city. Yeah. You can be, you could be your own celebrity. You could be confused for one pretty easily. Yeah. So we don't see many of them.

So we always assume like any guy that's somewhat strong looking, probably an athlete, probably Kareem Rush or, you know, Travis Kelsey. Kareem! Yeah, I knew it.

I knew it. I told you. Oh, that's great. One last thing. Sorry, I just remembered this too. We somehow got talking. I was just really honed in on some of the umpire's movements,

and it was really funny. So then I just became the umpires movements and it was really funny so then i just became an umpire and rachel was like getting a pretty good kick out of it but i was also like please stop like just like anything i do like she was just like it's such an ick to become an umpire she's like it's the worst thing you could do just to be like out of there just like really like distinct oh i like it and like um what else were i joking around with oh batting coaches it's like how serious batting coaches are hey get it right here kid and doing this and rachel can't stand it i love doing it now just the this kind of club high school baseball club hey we thinking we um you want to run to like uh mason roosters south and then maybe go play pickleball what do you say

here hey huh come on you're it let go. That's a great third base coach. Hey, come on. It's kind of like... It's directed towards... It's not super hard. It's like... Come on. Let's go.

Hey, two outs. Need you on base here. Come on. Here we go. It's a vertical. It's like they're showing rock, paper, paper. Right. Yeah.

Here we go. Hey, on me. On me. Guys, on me. All right, here we go. So ever since baseball, I've just been doing baseball movements around the house just throwing a strike in there every now and then connor's safe calling her out hey what kind of i think we've talked about this before just yeah the different kind of umps there are because some of them are delayed where they'll say it before they show it you know yeah some are very casual ball sometimes they don't

say anything i i would be the dramatic ref i would love that like same with like block versus charge and like i would i would the other way i would scoot down the court like before i give the block or the charge like getting ready like make no, everyone can see me and everything. Some of those umpires really take like a, you know, a guy's trying to steal second and those umpires are down there. Good for them taking their job seriously. And they were squatting down solo, like trying to see exactly when it happens.

And then during the action and then giving the biggest like fist, he's out of there. What about like a wrestling ups, wrestling referee? Oh yeah. Down there. They're like, they're like down,

like they're lower with them. Yeah. Lower than the players. Oh, it's amazing. Yeah, yeah, down there. They're like down, like, wrestling with them. Lower than the players. Oh, it's amazing. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm just kind of in my umpire kind of phase right now, just around the house, just doing a bunch of umpire and third base coach stuff. Say, hey!

Ball. Just a nice ball. Ball. Ball. Fun game, though. We saw, like, five home runs. Really? Yeah, Royals hit four or five, I think.

That's fun. It was a good time. What did you think of the pitch clock? It made me anxious when I was with the pitcher. I'm like, this batter is still like digging in the box and a 10, nine. It's like, does he know what pitch he's even throwing? Is he ready to go?

I hope he is. Batter's not even ready yet. Well, you can throw it whenever, right? Once the batter gets in the box. Can you? Yeah, I think so. I don't even know. Okay.

I don't think the, ah, somebody will know. Lisa Gluck, let us know. She's a big baseball gal. But there's something about like, you can't step out of the box, I think. Oh, I have seen some clips of that. Yeah, I don't fully understand the rules anymore. Or maybe you can step out once or something like that.

But like, because I saw Max Scherzer kind of was like trying to like break the idea, basically. Like doing a really long, you know how the batter wants to get the right timing or whatever. So waiting a really long time, getting set and waiting for like 20 seconds. And so the batter is uncomfortable, gets his timing wrong. Totally.

So he calls timeout, gets out of the box, and then Scherzer's ready, and this guy right when he steps into the box again. Like can't even like get set before scherzer's ready to pitch it kind of a yeah cat and mouse kind of gamesmanship yeah yeah it's fun it's crazy my first job i used to be so into baseball i was a baseball statistician for three years and then now i go to the baseball game and on the box score on the big drum of tron they're saying mvr like holy cow this is They're treating this like a major statistic,

and I don't even know what it stands for. It's like runs, hits, airs, MVR. Yeah, I asked somebody last time I was there, what's MVR? I forget what it is, but it was like, oh, that makes sense. Tymon looks like he... Tymon, yeah, you were also a statistician

for three years for the T-Bones. I think it's something with runner, but it's not left on base. Oh, you didn't figure it out? I have no clue. I think it's something with runner. But it's not left on base. Oh, you didn't figure it out. I have no clue. Oh, it's something like that, though. Most valuable. Dang.

MVR is definitely what it was. Yeah. It is kind of like something runs. MVR baseball. Oh, it's not. It's not. Dumb. This is why I don't know.

Mound visits remaining. Oh. It's like seeing how many timeouts they have left. No, there's not. It's not. Dumb. This is why I don't know. Mound visits remaining. Oh. It's like seeing how many timeouts they have left. No, there was another. No, I agree. It's not that. There was one other stat, though, that I hadn't heard of on there. Anyway.

Mound visits remaining, huh? No. No, that's not it. No, it's not that. Keep looking. Anyway, that was my baseball experience. It was really fun. I need to go back. The Royals. Anyway, that was my baseball experience. It was really fun. I need to go back.

The Royals are great. They're playing some ball. Salve, still there. Oh, yeah. And yammed one. Hit one like 447 feet. 447 feet? 447 feet.

Yeah, he's the man. Yeah. I just feel like we would be friends. Yeah. You know? I'd show him the viral video I made of him back in the day. He would probably like it. Very excited.

Very excited. Oh, man. Yeah. I'd like to go. him the viral video I made him back in the day. He would probably like it. Very excited. I very excited. Oh man. Yeah. I'd like to go to, let's go to a baseball game before the summer's over. Baseball. Go with Bo. Baseball.

He would love it. Um, yeah, your dad would love it. Everybody would love it. Look, get your dad up here. Sure.

He'd say yes. He came up for a acai delivery. Not that hard. That was great. Speaking of baseball, when we shot some Friday Pickleball content recently, we were at Two Trails Park in Olathe. Yes.

Thank you. Got a little baseball diamond there. And they were, it looked like it was maybe just like high school baseball. Then we just got closer. We're like, this is like adult, not so much off ball,

but adult baseball. They were in pants, uniforms, base coach. Hey, come on. Only got one in vr whatever that means and scott and i were getting so excited like why don't we do adult baseball way harder to get elbowed that's a plus i'm watching these pictures they're throwing it i mean like 75 it wasn't like

these guys take it serious and they're bringing the heat. Oh, we can hit 75. No, it's fine. It looked slow. I was like, how fun would that be? We'd have Coach John come up and coach us again. Come on, Coach. He'd make Scott bunt every time again. Scott still listens to him.

All right, I have to bunt. He said so. It's for the team. There are some teams that take it super serious. They've all got uniforms. I have to bond. Okay. Yeah. He said so. It's for the team. But yeah, there are some teams taking it super serious. I mean, they've all got uniforms. They're wearing pants, metal cleats. They've got their last name on the back of the jersey. Yeah. And I was like, that would be, I'm guessing.

Yeah. Gotta. That would be fun. I don't know who would catch. That's a position that wouldn't be real fun. Sam Dwyer. We'll get him. We'll get him there.

Joe McBride. But we have Harrison Pitch. Yeah. Who would catch? Work him like a dog. Gunner would be a great catcher. Gunneryer. We'll get him. We'll get him there. Joe McBride. But we have Harrison pitch. Yeah. Who would work him like a dog? Gunner would be a great catcher. Gunner would be a

great catcher. Gunner has no like Gunner so good at like no, no regard for his body. I think wrestlers that they're kind of spend time down there

anyway. Gunner do it without a glove. It's a, just give me a, give me two chest protectors. I'll take everything in the hockey.

What's it? Hockey tryouts are in three months, three or 64 more days to hockey practice. So yeah, adult baseball. Maybe next summer, fall ball maybe. I think that'd be so fun. Our friend, chicken for some drone, Drew Severns used to, I don't know if he still does,

but he used to play in a men's baseball league. Really? Yeah. Yeah, I don't have any of the gear. We'd have to like buy just a one team bat. I don't know what's popping these days. Easton, any stealths out there? Just Clton alexander give us one of your old ones or something he's got okay son's playing um yeah you're right the catcher is the issue because

i'm like i'd much rather play adult baseball than softball i think so too it's so much more like the fielding is so much more fun in baseball yeah Yeah. You know? Softball? I don't know. You're so tight together. It just doesn't feel the same. But then again, like, if your catcher stinks, people just steal the whole time. I mean, it'd be like sixth grade all over again. He's good!

Don't even throw it. Don't even throw it. Hold it. Hold it, Petey. Hold it. It would bring back so many memories. Even just like do we still like do we do balls in coming down like an adult baseball dude come on you gotta get a rep in i loved coming down yeah hey coming out you know in middle school you're just screaming and as you get older you try to

do it more and more subtle more and more subtle like all right don't be a dweeb don't scream balls in coming down just like just to have everyone on the same page but it'd be fun got a nice just completely dirt infield so yeah the ground ball is gonna get on you hot you have some bad hops that's Olathe for you yeah I think it'd be fun I think we'd find nine guys we should just go we should sandlot style and just go like do ourselves just even just play like just hit the ball around yeah we get 10 guys one guy the batter, and whoever else just rotates around the field. Oh, that's fun. That sounds awesome.

It sounds so much, even if it's just, let's take infield practice. Let's take five balls. That'd be so fun. Yeah, baseball is great. My dad, I think I'm going to do it. I haven't officially made the plans yet, but my dad is going through Iowa,

going to the Field of Dreams in mid-July, and wants me to come and play catch with him on the field. Oh, that's fun. The outfield. He's like, it's a dream of mine to play catch with my son. And my mom's like, I could play catch with you. He's like, nope, it's got to be Brad. I don't want to.

No, it's not that. I might drive like 10 hours, you know, round trip to go to this thing. That'll be fun. I think it'll be awesome. Stop and see Michaela and the Madison County bridges. Yes. And then who knows what else? John Wayne's birthplace.

Yeah. How you sleeping, Brad? Could be better. Really? What would make it better? Well, I've been sleeping on my downstairs bed because I got in trouble from Catherine. She said, get out of here.

You don't deserve the cozier sheets. Oh, well, I'm glad I brought it up. I said, listen. What'd you say? Take my marriage, but save my sheets. Yeah, most people think that was like that. You think that's safe? Uh-huh.

Yeah. Who was that? One of those founding fathers. It's actually Brad Ellis who first coined it. Give me cozy sheets or give me death. Exactly. Cozy Earth is amazing. Their bed sheets are obviously kind of, I feel like they're bread and butter because

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gonna regret it you're gonna love it yep and you get 30 off uh with our link so make sure you lose use our link uh don't lose it use it don't write it on a post-it put it somewhere safe and uh find that link in our description show notes yeah yada yada cozy earth.com slash ghost runners or you can use GRKC. I think so. 30%. Hey, come on. Go get it. Come on. Get her up here.

Hey, uh, joke up here. Hey, I'm not trying to brag here. I'm not trying to, um, you know, expose all my finances real quick, but I am now officially a face or Amazon influencer. Tell us. Um, I don't. Okay. Just, I just want to be completely transparent here.

I'm not trying to brag, but I have been making these video reviews for Amazon. I don't know. This is kind of uncomfortable. Maybe I shouldn't. I don't know. Do you want me to say my credit score first? Would it make you feel better?

No. Okay. Right here. Ready? Sorry. Sorry. This feels so... Have you ever said a number this big out loud before?

Okay. $1.32, guys. And that's been what? Only a couple weeks? Like 75 videos I've put on YouTube. That's amazing. That's almost double the amount of videos in cents. Positive ROI.

If you look cents to videos, it is above one. I can't even. I mean, I'm almost up to a McDonald's large drink with this bad boy. You know, and with Friday Pickleball with meta ads, we like to look at ROAS a lot. Return on ad spend. Yeah. Return on videos made. ROVM.

ROVM. Just over one cent. About almost two cents, actually. Yeah. It's bordering on two. That's pretty good. Rove them, which reminds me of MVR, which also stands for most videos remaining. Most videos remaining.

So you have unlimited. Yeah, I can keep doing this and it's, it's just going to keep going right to the bank. You know, it's passive income at this point. You, you're not going to reinvest it back in the business.

Ah, maybe I should. Yeah. Get a better camera, buy some more stuff on Amazon, buy more products with it yeah yeah i don't know that would make the most sense do you have anything in your cart right now that you could get with the dollar 32 anything you got your eye on yeah um yeah binder

clips i do i have a replacement part for my uh fingernail clippers it's in there for 78 cents which we'll we'll put a little bit of a dent in there but the the ROI on that thing for my fingers is going to be nuts. Yeah. And you still have some cushion for like emergencies. You still have about 50 cents in there. Yeah. I could get, I,

yep. I can get a thimble. Yeah. Part of a button. Yeah. Maybe, maybe as maybe a zipper, you could get the end of a zip tie,

the locking mechanism of a zip tie, which is what's a zip tie with a locking mechanisms. Most of it. Right. Yeah. So, um, yeah, a zip tie with a locking mechanisms. Most of it, right? Yeah. So yeah, I don't know, guys. I'm not. I know it's uncomfortable to like talk and brag about your successes, but it's one of those things where it's just like believe in yourself, believe in your

dreams. Anyone can do this. Anyone can do this. Yeah, right. Like, well, you don't want to like keep it to yourself. I don't want to. I don't want this opportunity for right share the wealth yeah right yeah so a rising tide raises all amazon reviewers raises all affiliate links so it's amazon.com shop so that is pretty neat yep five years now people are going to be saying how did brad get that pink mercedes and i'll say he tried to tell you guys. He tried to tell you, you know, while Tymon was up pedoing with his brothers,

Brad was out making Amazon review videos. You can pedo or you can video. I chose the second. Right, guys? That is pretty neat. It reminds me, not to go back-to-back finance talk, but occasionally

I will get a little check from Facebook because towards the last three episodes of Alan We Bought a Limo on Facebook Watch were monetized. And so it comes out to about once every two months, I get exactly one penny. You're kidding!

Sorry to make a spit take there. They pay me one cent um and i don't know where it goes shocker can't get money out of facebook uh but yeah i'll get like a it looks like an invoice or something and it says l we bought a limo one penny one cent one one penny one cent but you want to one penny and we bought a limo last episode one penny let's see if we can like push every ghostie to watch that last episode and see if we can get that bad boy up to like five cents. That would be fun.

Yeah. Just see the check roll in the end of August. You should somehow demand paper checks for that, and then it would cost them more to give them, to send it to you. It's like eating celery. It's more calories burned. It's the same exact thing.

Ooh, you do a video review on celery oh i would love to genius i'm looking around right now there's so many things in here i could video review ghosties let us know i would like to hear from other people like things you've done and made a similar amount of money like a similar return on something if you're if you're comfortable bragging about that's true we might say your name on the podcast so if that's yeah not okay with you just say you'd like to be known anonymously. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks. It'll be awesome. How do stop losses work on Kraken? Let's say I have a birthday party on Wednesday night, but an important meeting Thursday morning. So sensible me pre-books a taxi for 10 PM

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Pump me up. So that's been my Amazon video review review. Not bad. Thanks. Time. And you've been shooting a lot of Friday stuff. How's it been? How's it going?

Thanks for flexing. You had to, first of all, I felt bad because I know Sundays you're trying to like, you know, spend a lot of family time together. And I was like, Hey,

the only time Scott can record a Sunday, he's Mormon. So that's what they do. Yeah. Then you made it happen. And they were like, Hey, the only time Scott can record a Sunday. He's Mormon, so that's what they do. Yeah. Then you made it happen. And they were like, hey, we're doing this new series. The only time TJ and Ellie can do it is Tuesday. And then you canceled your voice lesson.

Rescheduled. Sorry, sorry. Rescheduled. Rescheduled. But yeah. How's it been? How was the heat yesterday? Dude, it was like toward the end there, I was like,

heat had never really affected me that much. I was like, sorry if I was super low energy, because I was like that. It was brutal. And I wasn't even doing anything. I was just standing there. I think, honestly, that might have been, I don't know if it made it worse, but just like sitting there and just letting the sun cook you.

You're not even like, you're just not even, I don't know. It was rough. Because what do you, what did you had to eat before then? Uh, so the shoot was at like 3 PM or so to five 30. Um, and I had had two pop tarts for the day.

Okay. What flavor? Uh, cinnamon. What else? Yeah. Yeah. So yeah,

good answer. Yeah. But also you should eat more. Yeah. Yeah. I know going into it. It was wild, man. It was 100 degrees outside and all I'd had was two Pop-Tarts

and I did not feel great. Jake sprung this video shoot on me five days in advance at 3 p.m. I had time to eat breakfast and that was it. Fairly got back from Torpedo. Yeah, exerted 3,000 calories worth of Pito. So what did you do after Pickleball? yeah yeah exerted 3000 calories worth of pito and then and then and then so what'd you do

after pickleball um I went to I went to Chick-fil-a yeah I should just find my text I sent I was just um

what did I say I drove straight to Chick-fil-a and just basked in a chicken sandwich combo and an ice cold Dr. Pepper yeah ice cold baby

ice cold Dr. Pepper it was great Ice cold, baby. Ice cold Dr. Pepper. It was great. Dr. Pepper, hit! No cash. Cards only. Yeah, it was fun. We did like, we're trying to do this new thing. The PPA is coming to Kansas City

kind of mid, early August. And so we're like, what if we did like a little different type of material, like an instructional series, but there's like a specific goal in mind. So it's like, hey, Isaac and I, we've been playing pickleball for a while, pretty athletic guys, but we didn't play tennis, and we've never practiced, essentially. You know, we've never like tried really to get better other than playing.

Yeah, you never do drills. But here's our goal. Our goal is to win 4.0 gold at the PPA tournament. Over the next four weeks, we're going to do four lessons with Scott and TJ, who's this other 5.0 player in Kansas City, and learn new things every week. And so, yeah, kind of a new idea and fun new thing.

And so it was like, let's hurry and do this before the cruise. And so, yeah, timing made it happen. And it was hot, but it was the only time it would have worked. And so we'll see people's response. It should be fun though. So what did, what was like, what were you working on? What'd you learn? Uh, I think the first video, you know, I'm trying to come up with the title thumbnail before we do any of this. That way we know we're working with three, three pickleball tips to instantly boost your rating. Oh, that's good. You think so? Yeah. I mean, I'd watch that. I mean, honestly, if I didn't care so yeah i mean i'd watch that i mean honestly if i didn't care about you i'd probably watch that before i'd watch some of your other videos yeah you know i mean

hopefully so and it's like uh serving returning and the fourth shot a lot of people talk about the third shot drop scott focused on the fourth shot and how to which is what's the strategy on that i don't know what it was exactly i think wasn't very i think i actually i remember now it was like you know so you would be the serving team so you've served they've hit it back to you you've hit oh you're the return of serve team i don't know okay i don't remember we did all of them in one day yeah and that was the very first thing we did so i don't remember exactly um and then lesson two is all about tj grew up playing tennis and isaac and i are always like we see people you just tell they play tennis they're so smooth and they have such good technique and so i want to do a video of like how to play pickleball like a tennis player

because i know i would have clicked on that four years ago like yeah how are they're doing different things than me totally and it was fun to get taught that for the first time like be taught pickleball mechanics. Like, oh, you know, he was like swipe the outer, if the front of the ball is like a face, don't hit the nose. He said hit like the outer like chin or the cheek of the ball.

I was like, wow, no one's ever taught me anything like that before. He taught me techniques like going from like low to high, your paddle. He taught me like kind of re-gripping it. Like even before you like are about to hit a big forehand ground stroke i go ahead and like close down the paddle beforehand and a lot of just like stuff that was like immediately so helpful yeah i was like this is awesome and i feel like i'm getting value so i would think totally the viewers would be getting value too um anyway so we just did a bunch of that and got really sweaty and had

a bunch of fun so that feels like something that you can, like somebody would find that video without intentionally already being following Friday Pickleball. You know what I mean? Yeah, I think a lot of those views are going to come from search, which they say you don't want to build an audience completely relied on search because it's not reliable. Well, hopefully they'll subscribe from there though, right? Yes, that's the goal. Yeah, they come in and like our personalities, and they become a member of the community a little bit. Yeah, because surely you're not just being very bland.

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would go over to this guy's area of the court where he was shooting or whatever. He, he grabbed the ball and it was almost like there was a hidden camera in the room or something. Why was he? I don't know what this guy's deal was, but he threw me back the ball so poorly four different times. Oh, I see. It's like, you gotta be doing this on purpose. It was.

Yeah. The first time, like, so the first time he got the ball, he has his ball in his other hand. So whatever, maybe it's a little harder to throw or he has his ball in his other hand, so whatever. Maybe it's a little harder to throw or whatever. I don't know. Been in and out. Threw it across the court to me and just skied it 14 feet over my head.

Just like shot put at it? Just way too far. Twice as far. I don't know if he was like, oh, man, he's kind of a little bit on the other side of the court. I need to throw it pretty hard. But, I mean, yeah, it was like, hey,, he's kind of a little bit on the other side of the court. I need to throw it pretty hard. But I mean, yeah,

it was like, it was like, Hey, try to throw it as hard as you can at this guy who cares where it goes. Just in that direction. Don't leave it short. And he was like, Oh,

sorry, man. Sorry. Uh, so he knew it was a bad throw. Yeah. And then, yeah,

did that again, basically more or less like a little bit like over the side. And then one time this one was like where it kind of turned to be like is this guy doing this on purpose he caught the ball like i shot it i shot it missed a little short so the ball the ball hit the rim and kind of bounced towards him so i was basically directly behind him he gets the ball and instead of like just turning around and passing to me he threw it over his back and like another 10 feet above my head. Like he was in a canoe that was taking in water.

He's like, gotta get this out of here. And once again, apologized and I was like, oh, sorry. I thought you were somewhere. Dang it, dude. I keep doing this. I'm so usually so accurate with my behind the head passes. No look passes to God. Never met before. Yeah. And then the last time, I mean, it wasn't as extreme, but it was still doing this i'm so usually so accurate my behind the head passes no look passes to guy i've never

met before yeah and then the last time i mean it wasn't as extreme but it was still like enough to be like if you messed up three times you better make sure that next pass is a chest pass right in the hands or just just recognize that you're making you're doing more of a disservice by trying to throw me the ball and now i have to go shag it the other way just go sandlot style just walk it to you here's your ball it was it was like one of those things was like, is anyone else seeing this? Like I was looking at the guy on the other side of the court like, are you recognizing what's happening? Yeah, it was like I

desperately want someone else to see this. Yeah, this is amazing. I don't know. It's just one of those weird. I was like, what? Who is this guy? Who got here? This isn't quite the exact same thing, but once again, I'm you know, in my car by myself and i am going from so this is from our sunday pickleball shoot where we that runs a little late

but i was gonna have basketball at 6 p.m all the way at hy-vee arena so i'm like well i need some sustenance i'm not gonna go the timing route you know yeah i've got pop tarts in my glove box but i need something more than that yeah and i'm at what's around me and it's like Sonic, Dairy Queen, Taco Bell, and Jack in the Box are like the ones kind of all like close. Like none of those seem real quick or real great, but I can get chicken tenders from about any of them. I choose Jack in the Box for some reason. Like I think they're going to be the emptiest. I bet I can get there and be the only person there. I go to the drive-thru Jack in the Box. Who knows when the last time I've done this? Jack in the Box.

Where, 119th? Yes, I believe so, yeah. And I get on the menu, or look at the menu, and they've got garlic Parmesan wings that look amazing. They are well photographed. The seasoning, you know, I'd say probably, I'm sure they had a disclaimer, like, you know, wings are smaller than they appear you know enlarged for what do they say sometimes

enlarged for uh detail show textures yeah yeah it was working they were massive and i was like that looks so tasty um but i'm driving and they were i all i saw was bone in and so i start talking to the woman he's like what can i get for you and i was like um i'm looking at these garlic palm wings do you have these boneless she's like sorry and i was like do you have like the the chicken wings do you have like a boneless version of them she's like like a real long pause. Yeah. You know, in my head, I'm like, I don't think she knows what I'm saying.

So I was like, yeah. Do you like, are you, are you sure? Like if I were to get it, like there wouldn't be like bones in it. And I mean, it gets the point right. I bet you I'm just explaining what a boneless. You want bones. You can go to Joanne if you want bones. They got a whole aisle of bones.

And she was like, I could talk to my manager and I was like okay it's just like you're running late and you're like I don't know if I you know I'm like bone out maybe that's an easier way of describing this but my boneless is throwing her off so like I see bone in no it's not your fault but you have bone out and then I just like I succumb to like really just mansplaining. I'm like, so it's like, it's still a chicken wing.

I don't think it actually comes from the wing. I think it comes from like the thigh or something, but they, they market it as a chicken wing, but it's just like a, it's a small, like bite size. Just think of a chicken tender.

It's just a small popcorn. I'll just go Sonic. And I'm just explaining what a chicken wing is. I'm like, I would love for someone else. No one's going to believe me if I just say like this whole interaction happened. And I was like, I'll just explaining what a chicken wing is. I'm like, I would love for someone else. No one's going to believe me if I just say like this whole interaction happened. And I was like, I'll just do the,

I'll just do the tenders, the tender meal with a large water. Okay. Do you want that with Buffalo ranch on there? It's like, that's kind of what I was asking for. Yeah. All right. We just like that pre-seasoned with garlic Parmesan.

Yes. And later, two hours later, that Jack in the box water was cleaning out my wound. I was pouring it out on my hand and cleaning it out. Dude, there's no way that those wings would have been a good idea. Really? You think it was a blessing? I think that they're definitely frozen, just heated up.

They can't be that good, especially if this woman didn't have any information about them. It's not like she's selling a bunch of them. Oh, these are popular. Yeah. Yeah, I think we can dig some of those out of the freezer real quick. It's going to be about 30 minutes. Dude, you like she's like selling a bunch. Oh, these are popular. Yeah. Yeah, I think we can dig some of those out of the freezer real quick.

It's going to be about 30 minutes. Dude, you didn't see the photo I did. Look it up right now. Jack in the box, garlic parm wings. They're probably like already discontinued it. It's been four days.

Let's see images. From Food Beast. That one looks good. Yeah, I mean, they look look good i want them right now they look nice you're right i'm not i'm not trying to act like the picture of course the picture's gonna look the picture better look good hey you're hurting the photographer's feelings you go to some of those like chinese or mexican spots that are like kind of just family-owned smaller spots and it feels like they've never taken a picture before.

And they just, yeah, they just hire somebody who has like an old digital camera to take a picture and put it on their menu. It's like the colors are washed out. They clearly like took it just like with a flash, you know, like that's fine. And like a, just like a fluorescently lit like room. And for whatever reason, it's like those places taste better than anything. It's a good product. Let me see. Somebody just tried

to put a review of these wings on there. Curious what people think of those. Are there any reviews about pre-basketball game? No one commented on this. They tried to start a Reddit thing on it. No one commented. There was a video but I didn't watch the video that much more expensive than kfc's new wings which i thought were actually quite good for next time

okay i bet kfc would know boneless or not you know i feel bad for the kfc the one right by our house because chick-fil-a is coming in right next door to it that can't be good for business i think they just like renovated to kfc did yeah dang that hurts yeah yeah or or is it a rising tide or right rising tide what does it say rising rising tide lifts all rising coop rising rising i don't know rising roost you need wings is one of those things where it's like yeah it's good for all the businesses around it as well? If you're a direct competitor, it probably isn't. True. If you're like a, I don't know.

Like raising canes, though. Do you think it's going to be? No, probably not. And Popeyes is right down the road, too. A brand new Popeyes. Yeah. Poor Popeyes. Poor Popeyes.

Popeyes is just trying to just get their own spot. Yeah. Can you guys stop following us around? Can you please quit? Can you guys like tag or something? Come on! Can you follow me around? We did the chicken sandwich thing

for like six months a while back. Remember? We ran out. It was popular. Please! Sorry. Sorry. What should we do, Brad?

Do you want to play your game or do you want to go over my scam issue? We could do either. We don't have to even do both we don't have to do mine let's do uh healing waters ad read and then the game let's talk about that because they were saying they want to support um chiapas mexico and this game yep they were saying let's do both okay hey why not both hey why not both we are supported by healing waters international a wonderful nonprofit organization

committed to solving the world's water issues. I'm gonna pull it up real quick, sorry. We got 1.8 billion people, as a reminder, that rely on unsafe drinking water. That is so many. I mean, what are there? Approximately 7 billion people in the world. A very, very good chunk of the world doesn't have access to drinking water like

you and I do. And that's where Healing Waters comes into play. And you guys, if you've been listening, you know, they are matching the donations or sorry, they are not necessarily, but as another ministry is matching every donation that you guys, the ghosties donate to Healing Waters. Yes. So our goal is $10,000. Yes.

And hopefully by this time, we're recording these in bulk because Jake's going on vacation, but hopefully by this time we've made a dent in that. Yeah, I believe in you guys. Just a quick example of what our plans are, what Healing Waters plans are with this money. They're currently working with the local government in Chiapas, Mexico to build large scale water infrastructure that will forever alter the water delivery system of these communities by providing consistent access to clean water piped directly to hundreds of household taps. It will alleviate the need for each household to collect and purify water, which revolutionizes the region's health, well-being, and economic

capacity. Just imagine that. Imagine just not having this access to pure water and then all of a sudden just having tap water at home, how much that would change. Yeah, how much healthier you're going to be, how much less stressed you're going to be about the access for water. I mean, it's hard for me to wrap my head around, to be honest. It's also crazy. Just like, I mean, they've even given us stories to look at and read and learn from. And like, there are elderly people they've been able to help, but these people, I mean, they live 75 years without clean water. Right. It's almost amazing. They made it that long. And it truly is. And now they're getting the gift of clean, drinkable, potable water, and they're doing it all over and want you guys to help out if you can.

Yeah. Whether it's, you know, $30, which would provide a safe drinking water for a child for an entire year or $750, which provides five families, five families with safe drinking water for a year. Or if you want to do the monthly route, which we highly encourage, would really appreciate as well. Um, you are able to just provide safe water with just a small donation. So, um, go check them out, learn more about them at healing waters.org. Their website, if you want to give right now is give.healingwaters.org slash ghost runners. We'll put that in the show notes, but it's give.healingwaters.org slash ghost runners. We're trying to get $10,000 raised. And I believe in the

ghost runners community. I've seen the amazing things that we've been able to do, uh, supporting different children, uh, across the world. And now we're trying to do something special with healing waters. Um, and these, this, this, uh, this wonderful cause. So check them out. Give dot healing waters.org slash ghost runners. Let's play a game. Let's do it. This game is called, did you know? Did you know Tic-Tac-Toe? Yeah.

Brad came up with this. It's a bit of a trivia, a bit of Jeopardy, but with Tic-Tac-Toe involved as well. So timing's got a few categories that you pulled from. Was it Teen Jeopardy? Yeah. Love it.

We know our intelligence. Yeah. Yeah. That should be great we should be able to get a handful of these got a few categories so whoever has the board they get to choose the category they also get to pre-select the place on the tic-tac-toe board which you guys can see right here thank you timon for putting it in oh i love what you did oh wow white and pink gradient no way you're gonna use our faces for the X's and the O's. That's awesome, dude. I'm pretty innovative.

You will pre-select where you want your X or your O to go. However, if you get it wrong, the other person has a chance to steal and get that spot from you. So, be careful. I sure would.

Alright. Okay, so, so time we have a few different categories that we can choose from uh yeah this has five categories movies science geography history and sports okay i think we both like sports i think sports geography dang come on you get to pick one now okay what is the other ones movies science history you know time is not picking history. Movies. Okay. All right.

I don't feel great about history and I have always been terrible at science. Okay. Movies, geography, sports. Those are our three. Brad, you can start us off. Got to go top left corner of the board is where I want my face. Yep. Time is pointed.

No, I'm kidding. Top left corner. And I'm going to start with sports. All right. Any number of sports? Like 100? I think you choose that time. Yeah.

We don't need to know. I don't want to know how hard it is. Yeah. Okay. Sounds good. George Washington built this kind of court at his house in Mount Vernon. A basketball, B tennis, C BOCCE, but bocce. I don't even know what that is. Oh, interesting. Okay. Basketball, tennis, C, B-O-C-C-E. Botchy? I don't even know what that is.

Oh, interesting. Okay. Basketball, tennis, or botchy? Yeah. George Washington? George Botchington? That's what they call him? Let him botch.

Let him botch. Let him wash. Hey, come on, George. Get the teeth in and let's botch. George, put that oar down from the Delaware River. We're trying to botch. Not basketball. Tennis?

Is that an old? Whoa. That was me like thinking. You know what? You know what, Tymon? You know what? I'm going botchy. See?

All right. You'd be correct. Let him botch. Let him botch. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Top left. Brad's in the top left. Okay.

Jake, you're up. Oh, we get to swap. Oh, I think so. Well, that's sure nice. You know, like tic-tac-toe would. Well, that's how tic-tac-toe works. Well, that's how. Oh, so you go now.

That's a good point. Oh, I get a turn. How nice. All right. I can't go middle just for the sake of like if you get it. Well, anywhere I go is kind of. Now I can't go middle just for the sake of like, if you get it. Well, anywhere I go is kind of, no,

I need to go middle. Let's go middle. I could fully 180 flip flop. I'm going to go middle spot of the board. Yeah. Geography. Okay. Middle,

middle, middle, middle, middle, middle, middle, middle. What are the world's three largest countries in size?

Area. No multiple choice on mine. Nope. Area. Area. Area. Three largest countries in size area No multiple choice on mine Nope Three largest area I have to get all three of them the world's three largest countries by area Got it. I think I get it. No, I don't know Sorry looking at the answers like I I think I can get this time. That's because I'm looking at the answers do i gotta say you're on my end and this is tough for you you should try looking at the answers it's way easier all right i'm gonna lock in russia okay and i guess don't tell me what i did or didn't get

wrong because brad you're gonna you're gonna get it right i believe in you let me go through all the let me go through every single country real quick timon do you know the only country that starts with y yemen thanks timon sorry you're supposed to be thinking this is the whole i did not do another one do another one okay you know the only country that starts with a q jake absolutely knows i know you know the only country that starts with a Q? Jake absolutely knows. I know you know, Jake. La Quinta. I don't know.

Qatar. Qatar. Oh, interesting. And I believe there's only one that starts with an O. You know that one, Jakey? Oman. That's right. Oh, man.

I'm trying to think of that. Oh, man. All right. I don't know. So many seem like nearby. Whatever. I'll just start guessing. Nearby? Sorry, nearby. The same area. I don't know. I don't want to say them all, but I will go China next

and then I will go Brazil after that. Okay. You would be incorrect? Okay. Yeah, don't. Here's my initial guess. Russia, China, Australia. You would be incorrect? Okay. Yeah, don't. I'm not. Okay. Here's my initial guess. Russia, China, Australia. You are also incorrect. Frick!

Oh! What happens now? The middle's open. The middle's open. Do you want me to tell you? Yes. Do you want to know, though? Yeah.

Russia, Canada, China. Canada, those silly... Australia definitely feels like the right answer. Great guess, dude. Australia's huge. Yeah. Canada's huge. Canada's bigger than Australia and Brazil?

Show me that map. Show me that map. Show me that map. Let them watch. So, Russia, China, Canada. Canada. Yeah. Canada. Man. What'd you say, Russia, China, Australia? Yeah. Oh, so each of the three. I was teaching Hattie about, do you know which

country's border? United States, whatever. Just thinking about Canada and how, I know we have Canadian listeners, but this is such an American pompous thing to say, but just like, man, I better be a bummer to share a border with America. You're just not going to be as good no matter how good of a country you are.

Just a little brother. I know that's so silly and arrogant sounding but man it'll just be tough you know mexico understands who they are but like i don't know canada probably is like canada's like okay we're okay up here we're pretty good i'm just curious i found the list it goes russia then canada then china then united states alaska's just gotta help big time and then Brazil is Australia just not a country? and then Australia

oh my gosh we were right there I'm gonna do movies in the bottom left bottom left your question is Javert pursues what character in the movie les miserables frick this stupid i said i said hetero movies

okay javert i thought his name was like javert hugh jackman um no that's it's not hugh jackman it's but oh okay the character you're trying to think of is hugh jackman okay so it is hugh jackman oh yes i have no uh marie okay you are uh you're incorrect jake jake i bet you got this. This would be Samantha. Nope. Jean Valjean. What? Jean Valjean. Oh, I was close. That's a man?

Yeah. What was the question? Javert pursues what character in the movie Les Miserables? Pursues sounded romantic to me. I thought it would be Samantha. Jean Valjean, I've heard of him. Yeah. He's in Jeopardy. No joke.

So is that Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean? Yes. Ah. So who Jeopardy no joke so is that Hugh Jackman and Jean Valjean yes ah so who's Javert Javert's Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe Russell Crowe oh Javert Russell Crowe alright alright go back to the well give me uh

middle middle sports dang alright I kind of felt a little bad like going sports twice thanks dude

thanks but didn't think I was going to get Javert. What color jersey is worn by the winners of each stage of the Tour de France? Oh, ding, ding, ding. What is yellow? You got it? Middle, middle. Bonus question.

What color jersey is the last place? Red. And what do they call them? Red bone. Red bony. Red lantern, I believe. Yeah, I think that sounds right. red bony red red lantern yeah i think that sounds right don't be the red lantern we did that at camp yeah it was like hey you're still loved and appreciated and you're still a great part of a great community here but we're gonna kind of mark

you with the we're gonna all right god yeah take back i'm going bottom left no i'm going top right it doesn't matter top right please uh and i'm gonna go with i can't do j i'm gonna go sports okay can i do that yeah top right sports top right sports who was the first player in nba history to be elected league MVP by a unanimous vote. Oh, wow. First one. First one. I'm going to go. Don't say Jeremy Lin.

It's not him. Jeremy Lin. No, don't do it. You can get another guess. Sorry. That's the obvious choice, but it's shockingly not the answer. Okay. I'm going to go. is jerry or gerald west okay you are incorrect jake oh i haven't been thinking i was just thinking about jeremy lynn uh i'm gonna say who is bill russell you are also incorrect can we go back can you go back

and forth on this one hey bring it on try to to guess a little bit. Bring it on. I'm going to say, who is Robert Bob Cousy? You are incorrect again. Who is Wilt Chamberlain? Nope. Good guess. Who is Karim Abdul-Jabbar? Nope. Who do I got here?

Who is Michael Jordan? Nope. Oh, I was going to be so... I was like, I should guess Michael Jordan. I was going to be so frustrated. Who is Elgin Bay Jordan? Nope. Oh, I was going to be so... I was like, I should guess Michael Jordan. I was going to be so frustrated. Who is... Elgin Baylor? Nope.

Who? How old... Does this have a year on it after that, by curiosity? No. Okay. No? No. I don't know.

Have you heard of this person? Oh, yeah. Oh, don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Go ahead. It's got to be someone new, right? Who is LeBron James?

Nope. No. All right. I think we don't get a point. Okay. Can we write? Nope. Steph Curry.

Yep. Okay. Whoa. Went until what? 2016. He had a unanimous MVP. A lot of politics in the NBA. Yeah, it's probably just politics, man.

I'm not voting for Wilt. All right, no points or no spot. Hey, did you know Tic-Tac-Toe? Did you know? All right, I'm going to go bottom left, geography. That's the hardest geography, right, Timon?

What structure is currently located on the exact spot that Abraham attempted to sacrifice Isaac? Whoa. Say that again. What structure? What structure is currently located on the exact spot that Abraham attempted to sacrifice Isaac?

I have no idea. Yeah, I could. I don't know. I don't know the structure. Nor I. Dang. Straight up. Okay, it says. That's not the Egyptian pyramids, right?

No. It says Mount Moriah, the Temple Mount, Jerusalem, Israel. Ooh. Show me the. The structure is Mount Moriah? What's the. Or the Temple Mount. Or the Temple Mount. Okay.

Sounds like it. Show me the teenager that gets that. Yeah. Time would you have known? My foot. I. Sounds like it. Show me the teenager that gets that. Yeah. Time would you have known? My foot. I don't think so. Gosh, Catherine probably knew. She's going to be upset with me.

Not a teen. Doesn't count. I'm going to be sleeping in the basement with my non-cozier sheets again. Not a teen. All right. Back to you. All right. Top.

No. Yeah. Top right. Top right. Top right. And I can't do sports because I already did top right sports. Yeah, top right. Top right. And I can't do sports because I already did top right sports. Yeah, same question. So top right movies,

Jean Valjean. All right, hetero movies. Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou is based on what historic novel? Oh, that's no fun. I've never seen that. I would have no idea. What historic novel?

Catcher in the Rye. Nope. Jake? Correct answer is The Boys on the Creek. Nope. It is The Odyssey by Homer. I kind of knew that.

I kind of knew that. Once you said it, I was like, oh, I've heard that before. I kind of knew that. I kind of knew that. Once you said it, I was like, oh, I've heard that before. I kind of knew it. I kind of knew it. I kind of knew it. Okay, Joe? Dang it. I did not know that.

All right. Give me bottom left. Sports. They have kids, Jeopardy. Is it Todd or Jeopardy? All right. Which two teams will play in the 2017 World Series

oh my gosh okay we'll play future tense I'm not gonna get this let's go I follow baseball so poorly

I think let's go Los Angeles hmm I think I know let's go Cubs for the National League and Angels for the American League

you are incorrect I think I got none of them right. See, I think I'm going to guess this, but I think it actually is a 2016. Who are the Cubs and the Indians? Nope. Darn it. It was Dodgers and Yankees.

Oh, you were. I started with Los Angeles. Dang. I think that was the year before. Ah, the Yankees. All right, top. I kind of knew it. I have that was the year before. Ah, the Yankees. All right, top. I kind of knew it. I have heard of that before. All right, top right.

Geography. Got to. All right. I'm going for that top right. We got to get to this. What's the largest volcano in the world? Ah. All right.

I got two in my noggin. Largest volcano in the world is. I would stink at Teen Jeopardy. How is Mount Vesuvius? You are incorrect. I'm going to go with my gut. First thing, Mount St. Helens. No.

The Mauna Loa on Hawaii is not only the largest, but also the most active. It is. It's real active. Mauna Loa. Mauna Loa crap. So how does tic-tac-toe work? You just have to get two anywhere on the board? Hawaii. It's not only the largest, but also the most active. It is. It's real active. Mount Aloha. Mount Aloha crap. So how does tic-tac-toe work? You just have to get two anywhere on the board? Seems like it, brother. You are running

out of questions. Bottom left. Sports. This is the last sports question. Good. Alright. The Native Americans invented which team sport? A. Soccer, B. Lacrosse, or C. Field hockey. Gotta be lacrosse. You are correct.

Dang it! Bottom left, bottom left, bottom left. How confident were you? 70%. Really? It was that or field hockey. No way they invented soccer. No way.

All right, so I need to go middle left. Movies. All right. Why would you go middle left? Wait, what'd you just get? Wait, I take it back. Where are you? You're middle.

You can't see right there. Oh, that's right. Just look at where your face is. Oh, you just did bottom left? Yeah, and I'm center. Top right. I keep doing it. I can't get it.

Go for it. I can't quit you. Top right. Movies. That's a movie reference. Never seen that movie. Who is the most popular Doctor Who, and what is this actor's name?

Frick this game, dude. Oh, fun question. Fun category, Brad. Fun thing, dude. Awesome. Wish I would have chose history. You know what this reminds me of? We did talk about this

when during basketball, Garrett Gibson, when someone would score, he'd say, that was Brad's guy. That was Brad's guy. That was so funny. Brad's guy. Brad's guy. Brad, that was Brad's guy. That was Brad's guy. That was so funny. Brad's guy. Brad's guy. Brad's guy.

It happened once, all right? It happened once, and then he just said it every time. Brad's guy. Brad's guy again. Doctor Who, the most famous one was oh, what's his name? Benedict Cumberbatch. Okay, you're incorrect. Jake? I know. You're not going to get this.

Mine, he just goes by one name. Johnny. Yes? Yeah, I know. You're not going to get this. Mine, he just goes by one name. Johnny. Yes. No, I'm just kidding. David Tennant. Oh, shoot. This is a good one. What do we have left?

Can we top right? Whatever we got left. Okay, we got two geography questions and two movie questions. Oh, geography, geography, geography for the win. All right. I'm going to steal this and I'm going to get the other one and it's going to be a comeback story for the ages come on which two countries share the longest border in the world i've i've heard this before nothing is coming to

mind but i've heard this before let me think of the the earth real quick earth welcome to earth united states and canada Canada have a decent one. Africa, don't sleep on Africa. Africa's big, though. Africa's not a country, you dolt. You dolt. Could it be Russia and Mongolia? That's a lot of space.

Could it be China? I think it's one country where another one almost surrounds it. What would that be? Really want to get this. Oh, I see, because it's not necessarily one side of it. Why am I talking out loud? You are going to get to steal this. I don't know it, dude.

I already have mine locked in. United States of Canada. You are correct. Is that for the win? That was for the win. Good job. Look, it's right there. Tic-tac-toe. Oh, look at the three of your faces. You did the sound effect. That's cool, too. Whoa, you had fireworks coming off of it? Whoa, you mashed up Linkin Park

and Jay-Z for the win. Wow. I guess you won an encore. Let us know what you thought of Did You Know Tic-Tac-Toe? Did You Know Tic-Tac-Toe? Did You Know Tic-Tac-Toe? Maybe we'll vet the questions a little better next time. Maybe we should bump up the Jeopardy and do a real Jeopardy next time.

We should do a real Jeopardy, but even more so cherry pick the categories. Yeah. You know what I mean? I would have gone for movies so many times just thinking it'd be a safe one, but those were weird movie questions. It made me think that they were from a different country the doctor who

thing come on who are we kidding there rachel and i randomly watched an episode of celebrity jeopardy like two nights ago and i think it's somewhere between regular and teen jeopardy and they had categories where like the they're pretty easy where it's like hey this whole category it's gonna be two words that start with the initial cf or something really easy like that or like it ends in ology which really narrows down your answers yeah that's the categories we need what did you freaking find just kidding time um yeah i think celebrity jeopardy might be well you said teen jeopardy no celebrity i know but like it's above teen jeopardy is how you said i thought so yeah maybe sometimes i'm just like those guys that's so easy yeah it made me feel good i liked

it yeah because you don't want to like do a trivia game where nothing make like can you imagine spending what i don't know 10 15 minutes 17 minutes on that thing barely getting questions right that would be fun man after, I would want some nice, hot refreshment from Main Street Roasters. Or cool down. Or cool down. Ice down. I got a nitro cold brew waiting for me at home with Main Street Roasters name on it. Hey,

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Brad, what is this? And you look at a Tumblr and you start singing a song. The lyrics are not on the Tumblr. Yes, yours doesn't have the lyrics. Brad,

what do you have here? Single, gorgeous, single. Yeah, this is Main Street Roasters. Okay, this is Main Street Roasters.

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Yeah, I'll take the hardest question you have from there. Ooh, thousand. Coffee shops in northern Indiana. Would you like to ask a question from there? Yeah, I'll take the hardest question you have from there. Ooh, thousand coffee shops in northern Indiana. Daily Double. How much would you like to wager? Now that it's a Daily Double, it's going to take a little longer. James Holzhauer. All in. All in, he says. All right. $200. He's got one spot on the board.

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STDs. Thanks, dude. Thanks for the STDs, Nathan. Appreciate you. All right. Maybe we end the episode with this. I'm going to read you guys some emails. We can pause whenever we need to pause,

or maybe you can just tell me where your scam rating is at right now. I talked about this a bit on Correct Opinions, but more things have happened. I feel like I have a pretty good radar for scams. I just don't know what's going on with this girl. So I'm just going to go through it quick-ish. Okay.

Email comes in from Stella, is her name, to Friday Pickleball email address. I'm so sorry to stop you right at the beginning, but can I know, you don't have to tell me your exact email address, but what approximately is it? It is, it's like a first name, last name, and then three numbers, gmail.com.

Okay. It's like normal pretty normal okay i would say um subject line is video editor to make your videos better parentheses stella looks a bit like off to me hi there stella here i came across your youtube channel friday pickleball which is in bold feels like this is a copied and pasted message a little bit and love the content you make wasn't sure if you edit your videos by yourself or have the editor for that but the idea popped in my head and thought to email you about it i currently work with john sancola pickleball linked his pickleball page looks the jay's got 40 000 subscribers or

something and basically just gives a little pitch let me know and um let's see i respond jeez it just went away and i'm, yeah, we're starting like an instructional series. This is great. We could maybe use some additional help. How much do you charge for typical 8 to 12 minute pickleball video edit? Hello, she says. Oh, that's a great thing. I'd love to know if you want to make the edits better.

Or are we going to make it with the same style? Like I said said we can level up the edit parts and for the 8 to 12 minutes video do you have any specific budget in mine dude it's just weird somewhat broken english okay go ahead keep going she emailed that sunday at 5 a.m i don't respond because sunday we're you know, you know, doing stuff. It's 6 p.m. that night. She says, follow up. Is there a better platform where you guys will be more responsive and we can have a constant chat? Seems a little pushy.

Seems a little scammy right now. Constant chat. Are you 100% on scam at this point? What do you think? The word is not scam. The word is bad idea. Like, from the get-go, yeah. No, like, scam? I don't think she's scamming you okay like i don't think she would like take your money like i think she would probably edit a video for you

but it's like i don't i i don't know why you keep responding to her it looks like she already works in pickleball space maybe easy transition i said well it's sunday we're not normally responding emails right away. Would you mind sharing John Sincola's contact info as a reference for your work? And do you normally charge an hourly rate or per video? She said, I can't share his contact info without asking him. But I'm in contact with his manager, and here are some proofs. I'm in contact?

I'm in contact with his manager. And then since a lot of pictures that look like she took from her phone or maybe like screenshots of like what looks like editing and like a group chat and like people going back and forth. We see the words the moon club looks like a slack channel, maybe called the moon club. If you look in the description of Johnson Cola's YouTube video, he gives credit like it's shout out to the moon club for editing and management. So this looks like legitimate. Is she signing her thing? The moon club? No.

Okay. I said, appreciate it. Where are you located? Thinking her English is a little weird and she's emailing me at weird times of the day. Maybe it's Monday there. She said, I'm in Pennsylvania and I charge per video.

If you let me know about some details about the content and vision for your channel, that would be great. So I explained the whole, like, here's what we're trying to do. Yada, yada. How's that sound? She says, I mean, that's realistic if we proceed this week because you guys will ask for the changes possibly. But I will try to get it approved in one go still for the safe side. If you guys ask for the changes, I will have to make it before July 16th.

Tough sentence. Also, did she explain July 16th? I had said that might be our first day to post these videos. Okay, okay. Yeah. Still on the page of just like, I don't think I would hire this girl because it sounds like she would be hard to like. Communicate with. Go back and forth with.

So I said, look, the videos, it looks like you're editing seem great. How much you charge for video like that? She said, um, usually $150 per video. But if you want to commit to four videos at once, I do it them all for $500 with unlimited revisions. I was like, wow, that is pretty good rate. Okay. A little too good. Right. I was for long form YouTube videos for $500. Yeah. I said, that sounds fair. A little too good. Right? Four long-form YouTube videos for $500? Yeah. I said,

that sounds fair. What's this guy's name? John what? Sincola with a C. C-I-N-C-O-L-A. Okay. I said, would you be around

for a chat tomorrow? Would like to hop on a quick call. I could do Monday at 11 a.m. if you're available. No worries if not. She said, yeah, that works for me. I didn't tell you this, but I have a speech disorder. I'll be very happy if you keep this on text. But if that's too important, I can have my associate in loop. I'm also up to listen to you and type my thoughts over messages. I was like, what? Of course the girl has already been weird to talk to,

has a speech disorder now, and we can't have a phone call? Yeah, I think she's definitely foreign. Not in Pennsylvania. If she's emailing you at five, she doesn't speak very good English. And so she's... My impression right now is that she's legit. I mean, we get emails like this a lot with

jean shorts and stuff where people are like yeah we can edit these reels for you if you want so i think they're legit things but i don't think she's from pennsylvania i think that's the only like lie that she's telling like right now gotcha i don't think her name is really stella i think she's got you know an algorithm that figured out i don't know then again maybe she does this johnson cola guy because that seems like a lot of things to alter for a screenshot She's got an algorithm that figured out. I don't know. Then again, maybe she does this Johnson Cola guy because that seems like a lot of things to alter for a screenshot. Yes. Those screenshots were enticing to me.

They look pretty legit. If you said that they really did, you know, have you reversed image search the screenshots or anything? No. Okay. Go ahead. Keep going. I said, sorry to hear that.

Are you unable to speak at all? It ended up being a long conversation. I just prefer to see and speak to people before beginning to do business with them. Okay. She said, I do, which I don't know what that's in reference to. I do, but this has been a trauma from the start.

And the reason for me not being confident in myself, like, ah, what did I get myself into? Do you think if I have you in contact with John's manager, you'll be more likely to feel comfortable? I mean, I have no issues with any of my other clients to have the conversation with you on the experience they had with me. And then she follows up again about social media help.

She follows up again. For any reason, if you're uncomfortable about it, do you think we could start with one and see how it goes? You can decide after that. I used to figure out my schedule. I said I would feel more comfortable if we were able to talk to John's manager or if you could have a co-worker on the

call vouch for you. I said do you work at the Moon Club? She said thank you. Should I ask him to email you about that info? I said yeah, email's great. And then we did get an email from someone named Gabriel. At the Moon Club?

At the Moon Club. What's their email address? Let's go back and find it real quick. Yeah. The one moon club at gmail.com. At gmail.com. Yeah, they don't have their own URL. See ya.

It looks like a very, it looks kind of like AI. ChatGPT wrote it. It also referenced Stella having disabilities. There's an email like, the service she is offering is video editing, and therefore that should be the metric to which she is measured by, regardless of outside disabilities.

Stella has risen far above and overcome obstacles to provide an excellent product and smooth process. Does she have disability? I thought it was like a speech impediment or like what's going on? Is this the most elaborate scheme of all time? Like what's happening? And so

I thought it was just like whatever. Whether or not she has a hard time speaking or not, she has a hard time writing as well. I'm just, and she's not, she's yeah. At this point, are you just doing it like to figure out what's going on? Cause there's no way you should hire this girl, right? Really?

I I'm curious. Like she's already making pickleball videos apparently. And she's doing it for cheap. You should say, okay, can you make me a 30 second teaser of my video or something like that? Like show me what you would do with this that would be so impressive or something if you really think that she's viable. I don't know.

18 hours ago, I said, hey, Stella, we'd like to move forward with the first video and see how it goes. Oh, really? Stels? I said, we can get you the footage tomorrow, post the content mid-July. Here's what we'll pay you let me know what you think and here's here's where it gets fun okay that works for me let or i guess not quite yet let me know if we can proceed with it and what you prefer is payment method i said we'll do ach transfer i'll send you a separate email you can follow the info and we'll make

payment once the edit is complete she said said, I accept payments through PayPal or Stripe. Also, it will be half upfront. And I was like, here it comes. This is, she's been doing all this for this. And I said, I'm sorry, but we aren't willing to pay someone any amount of money up front if we don't know them and they're dodging a phone call with us. I said, we currently employ multiple people. All of those people get paid once the work is done. It's how we do business and it keeps our contractors motivated to finish the job. She said, after knowing about my speech disorder,

giving enough proofs, you're still thinking I'm dodging a call? I'm doing the first video without any initial deposit. But after that, if you guys like my work, I'll charge half up front

and half when it's done. Okay. And then she said, let me know whenever you send the raw footage. And that's where i left it so i haven't had time and send her anything yet i just i don't know i'm so curious like hey at least she's gonna like give it a try without making you pay something because that's like

the half up front that's that's suspicious that's like yeah okay you pay her the half and then she deletes everything and you can't contact her like Yeah. I'm just curious. What's the worst that can happen if you just send a video right now? That's what I'm saying. Getting your first one, yeah. We're out $150, worst case scenario. No, but even then,

you wouldn't be out $150 until she gives you a product, right? That's right. I'm saying even if her video is terrible, she goes and edits a video, it's really bad. All right, let's still pay her, I guess. Well, unlimited edits.

Yeah, that's true.. Like, all right, let's still pay her. I guess. Unlimited edits. Yeah, it's true. Part of me is curious, like this woman who might not be from America, like how is she going to handle like making decisions on what joke to keep in? Yeah. You know, so we'll see.

Yeah. But also what if she's amazing, this amazing editor that's so cheap and she just can't say her R's. That's best case scenario. That'd be amazing. That'd be awesome. So I just, yeah, her R's. That's best case scenario. That'd be amazing. That'd be awesome. Yeah, maybe she's from... Whatever.

There's no way. Does she have her last name? Have you searched her on Google? She has an Instagram. She has a Twitter. They're both active. They both seem real. They're like faceless accounts, though, where she just shows off her edits. Here's the work I did for this client.

Here's what I did for this client. She's foreign. She's foreign for sure. And I'll be like, Stella, just be honest with me. Where are you from? Yeah, where are you from? I don't care where you're from as long as you just. Which word is the hardest one for you to say?

Can we just see it in action a little bit? Just send us a voice memo. How bad is it? Have Gabriel. I don't care about the speech impediment. I would like you to be honest with me about if you are

from Pennsylvania or not. I don't believe you. I'm very intrigued to see what happens next. It is intriguing. We'll see. Who knows? Stella might be any of these videos. Time might be any of these videos. Brad, if you want to take a crack at it. I'm good. I, uh, my thought is maybe that was her last ditch effort to like, feel like, make you feel a little bad about the first one. I could be wrong.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting this whole thing, but she wants you to make you feel bad about the first one. Like, okay, fine. I'll give you half up front here too. Psych. You know, whatever. Like, I think that she's, you're going to send her that first thing and she's going to have issues with it

and then nothing's going to materialize. That's my prediction. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, we'll see. Should be fun. Interesting. Really got myself into the little,

fun little pickle here. We've exchanged 30 emails back and forth. Yeah. It'll be funny to see if it's just like, clearly just like one of those, you know, there's like those websites where you just enter in your, you know,

video and, uh, it'll crank out like a clip for you. Yeah. Like AI edits it for you. Yeah. She did say, she's like, let me know when you send over the raw footage

and the script. I was like, well, script, you're gonna have to lower your standards for what a script looks like. I mean, it's just the script is the video you watch. That's the script. I don't know. The script.

The script is what the footage is. Yeah, like I said, I mean, I don't hate the idea of like hiring out foreign people you know online i've seen a lot of people do that but for what we're doing i think there's too much nuance with like sarcasm and discretion of like this is redundant i don't know right i want someone who like knows pickleball and knows entertainment sounds like she's you know john cisnes cisneros guy yeah cessna airplane cessna yeah but she's doing it for someone else.

That's what keeps you coming back, and he's crushing it. Also, yeah, this is interesting. I'm on Moon Club, the one Moon Club. Not a great website. Not a great website, and that's killer, too. Their graphic design feature, one of the pictures on it is just pixelated. I don't know, just red flags. You look at John Ciccola's videos, though,

and they have a very good amount of effects and graphics. It's a video. I would like ours to look like that. Really? That's what keeps me coming back to it. It's like, this would take someone five to six hours to do, probably, and she's going to do it for $125? Maybe, dude.

I mean, that'd be a clutch. Stella could be my girl. I give you credit for it. It's like, you lean into things and like, yeah, let's see if this works. And a lot of times they work out for you. So we'll see.

Let's do a food truck. Any, any updates? Not really. Okay. It's just, yeah. Thank you for people who've reached out.

It's just, just kind of stagnant right now waiting on stuff that's out of my control. Yeah. Permits and city stuff and landlord stuff. Having fun though. Vib vibes are up we're good thank you for indulging me that thank you for your thoughts yeah of course what do you uh what are you predicting for this cruise that you're going on i think it's gonna be so fun yeah

uh yeah i think we're gonna really have a good time that was one of my first thoughts after i got like the cut i was like oh am i have to get my stitches out from like a cruise doctor or something or am i not gonna be able to get in the water? And I think these are supposed to dissolve in time. So I should be fine because they have,

if I talked about, they have one of those like fake waves to call it the flow rider. Oh, you love that. That's all I want to do. I did it once in 2017

and I thought about it ever since. So I want to do that morning, lunch, afternoon, evening. I'm gonna do that so much until I get injured.

And then this cruise so this road like a pedo club on the boat you should send one up trick shot oh pedo trick shots that could be fun um road caribbean like it's this is a massive ship there's 7 000 people and like they're doing stuff constantly there's trivia going on all the time they're having pickleball competitions having free throw family free free throw competitions, Elvis trivia. They're doing, you know, cornhole competition. Like my dad and I are going to play in like a ping pong doubles ping pong competition. Like it just sounds like, yeah, I'm really, really excited. Not only for like the activities they're planning, but like just the crew we have assembled. Yeah. I'm excited for Rachel to meet Paul Shira and

get more time with my uncle and just the funny people that are going to be coming. It's a, it's a wild fun crew, like just a random assortment. Uncle John at the martini bar, fending off the fellas. That's right. So yeah, predictions are hopefully, I think we all have a really good time and we dodged the hurricane and just, uh, it's hopefully lives up the expectations my dad has for it, which are pretty high. Yeah. I'm sure he'll have a blast just being with all y'all. Yeah. So it'd be good. Where are you going to be up to when I'm gone? What can people expect? There's going to be one episode without me. Yeah. My hope. And I, you know, it's one of those things where it's like, I've seen some people recently, like, you know,

say stuff on podcasts and then be like, I probably shouldn't have said that. Cause then it didn't end up happening, you know, or something. Uh, no, just kidding. My hope is that I would do an episode with Catherine and then also maybe do a little Skype interview or something with TJ, my friend. So a little hybrid. Cool. A little brid. Something's coming Wednesday.

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Something's coming Wednesday. I think, yeah, if kids, you know, cooperate and sleep, then we can come over here and record something. If Tymon can find his way over here, maybe we can figure out a you know skype skype and tj so um yeah i think that'll be good i'm i'm uh i told myself i was like when jake's gone like i can go over to his house and i'm going to record some jean shorts videos so really yeah i don't know what that's gonna be but i'm like forcing myself because like we're both just so not enticed by G shorts right now. I think it's just not on the top of our priority list, but it's like, Hey, we should at least keep doing something for this. Like keep it afloat, do like keep some kind of consistency there. And so, um, yeah, I'm going to just force like just discipline myself to like, maybe do that. Um,

not maybe do that. Um, and yeah, I've thought about a few other things while you're gone to, to potentially like, I've thought about like toying with the idea of like a kid's podcast or something. I don't know, maybe just more extensive thoughts while you're gone. Cool. Yeah. Brainstorming. Yeah. Anyway, this guy does have good editing. Right? I'll say it. It's enticing. It's like, I would love videos that look like that.

A lot of graphics. He didn't respond to you? Yeah, so I DM'd him separately. And we're just like, hey, John, my name's Jake with Friday Pickleball. Look, we got a girl named Stella saying she edits for you. Like, is this real? Is this a scam? He's not DM'd back.

Interesting. Okay. Yeah. Also DM to like multiple other pickleball people making videos and like asking them like who edits for them and no one will respond to me. Kind of a bummer. It's very, it seems like it's very competitive.

That's such like an interesting, like, um, Oh, counter counterintuitive. But I think it's one of those things where it's best for everybody. If you just share how you're doing things like, like as, as crazy as it would sound for like us to get together with Jaron and Tim and be like, here's our best thing that

we do is our strategy. Here's yeah. But it's one of those things where I think there's so like, there's plenty of entertainment value to go around or there's plenty of whatever to go around. So it's like people, I understand like initially, like I remember people being like, where do you get your lumber from? And I'm like, I don't want to tell this guy. Yeah.

You know, whatever. And it's like, no, there's plenty of people in Kansas city who need a table. I don't, yeah. I'm not going to like monopolize the industry here or anything. So with social media content, I always say it's like more often than not, you're not competing with another creator. You're competing for people's attention. Yeah. You're competing for their like free time. Yeah.

So percent. Yeah. Be helpful. Yeah. Reviews of the week. You got one. I got one. The username is thankful. It says Timmy own conspiracy theory. Timmy own conspiracy theory timmy oh he secretly stinks at his job but the ghosties love him too much so y'all gotta keep him leaving jake to do the

editing anyway that's what's up actually it's uh stella stella does our editing there's gonna be a lot of graphics this episode tic-tac-toe. You tell me if Timmy did a good job or not. The Random Guy Listening five-star review. We're a little bit short on five-star new reviews. Let him botch. His review is good. Five stars. And then it says, yes, it's good.

This Random Guy Listening, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for confirming. It is is good it is very good he listened to it and he said this is good uh do you guys have would you like to end this episode with the jingle you guys do you want to do the harmony thing or do you want to just do you just do it straight up straight up just how you practice just how we practiced okay probably i probably... I could... Yeah. Give me a note. Okay.

It's the Ghost Runners. Come on, guys. Don't be nervous. I know you've rehearsed this. Just how just how we practice okay we'll start it you got it it's the ghost runners Every Monday morning Tymon just being drunk along. I know, I feel bad. I don't even know how to lead him. All right, let's just do a nice

melodic version of the theme song. Okay. Can you do it? Can I make a request? We talked about Oh Brother Where Art Thou. Can you do like an acapella version of one of those songs? They have some good music in there.

Give me, give me, oh, you don't know that. You connected to Tymon? Never mind, Tymon. Tymon, follow along. Find the instrumental. You'll figure it out. Okay. I don't know if you can follow along.

You'll follow along, figure it out. If you trust me. Yeah, maybe so, maybe so. What song? Man of Constant Sorrow. Yeah, that's good. I don't know if that's what it's called, but. That's how it starts. I am a man of constant sorrow.

Sounded good. Just like George Clooney. Jake, that's not really George Clooney. Oh! That guy died recently, that singer. Really? Same guy that does Wake Me Up by Is this right? It's not the right version. Maybe it is. Well, that's what I found. It doesn't start yet?

Yeah, I know. Okay. Oh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down on some random thought. Oh, why me? Do me a best, best friend. Yeah. But then I'll repeat. So come along and get on your feet. I don't know.

That's about all I got. Good job, Gorge. That was fun. Hey, Tymon, you did. You figured it out. I knew you would. Yeah's about all I got. Good job, Gorge. That was fun. Hey, Tymon, you figured it out. I knew you would. Yeah. You're right there.

Good stuff. Well, I'll miss you guys Wednesday. Not talking to you. I'm talking to the ghosties. I know. I didn't respond to you at all. We're not going to miss you. We're going to FaceTime at what time every day?

10 p.m. ship time. 10 p.m. ship time. Yep. So it's like a two-day ship day? 10 p.m. ship time. 10 p.m. ship time. Yep. So it's like a two-day ship time. 10 p.m. ship time. Yeah, two business days ship. 10 p.m. international waters time. Maritime.

Maritime. But yeah, another episode just without me. Coming Wednesday, something fun, special, different. Yeah. And then I'll be back next Monday. So thanks again for listening. Thanks always. This is our podcast.

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