Ghostrunners - 355 - The Beginning Stages of a New Business

Episode Date: August 7, 2024

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Last week, I talked about performing in Indiana and getting to see all these ghosties. The Carmels were one of the people I saw. Samuel Carmel gave us some infamous memories in Gulf Shores for getting a seashell. Just classy. Samuel and I play chess against each other every single day. So we stay in touch that way. One of the other things they were sharing. So they are hosting a foreign exchange student.

She's going to be, I think, moving in with him very soon for this upcoming school year. I was like, that's so interesting. Tell me about that. And it said she's a German 16-year-old. I was like, sweet. And, you know, I'm trying to, like, learn what that looks like. And, you know, I'm like, so does this mean, like,

is she ever going home? Or, like, is she with you, like, Christmas? And they're like, yeah, she's with us. It's funny you mentioned that. They said, we asked her, like like what are some things you for sure want to like experience in america and she said wait can you give me a german accent how do i i would like i would like to is that i would i don't know yeah let me think uh oh sinking i was sinking maybe we could no that's kind Ooh, sinking. I was sinking. Maybe we could.

No, that's kind of Frenchy. Oh, I was sinking. I've never been good with accents. I don't know why. I'm like, let me make sure I nail this one. Do you mind? Can you give me a pitch? Can you?

I think it's like, hey, man. Hey, she says. Hey, brother. Hey, brother. Hey, brother. How do you see it? Just give me a... I was thinking.

I was thinking. I could... They were thinking. I could experience... No. Think... Let me just say what she said. She said, like, all right, anything in America, what do you want to do?

She said, I want to see Thanksgiving. I want to see Thanksgiving. And raisin canes. Oh, really? Yeah, they're America, what do you want to do? She said, I want to see Thanksgiving. I want to see Thanksgiving. And raisin canes. Oh, really? Yeah, they're like, out of everything? New York City? If they have a raisin cane, that's fine. Prom?

If they have a raisin cane? Where do you go before your prom? Do you have a pre-prom dinner? If so, I would like it to be chicken fingers with the cane sauce. I'm what they call a cane-iac. She's at prom. Can you send the coleslaw and the extra thing of sauce? It's not all canes.

The whole country isn't just canes. But yeah, I thought that was funny. Like just out of everything you could want to experience. Like, hey, we can. Isn't that amazing? We could do anything. What do you want? Like, hey, you could go to a rally about anything you want.

March for anything, rally for anything. You're free. No, yeah. You're free. Do whatever you want. No, I just want... I just want... This is so Russian.

I just want to see the gains. I just want to experience the sweet and tea. I want to hear what they say to me in the drive-thru. I hear they have really funny lines. Hey, hey, hey. Can you imagine if she drives up? Hey, hey, hey, we think about chicken today? I got it on my phone.

I recorded it. What did you just say to me? It is my new ringtone. Uh-oh, ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts in 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 this is the Ghost Rubs Podcast.

Ghost Rubs Podcast. Everybody morning, we're taking ground. Ghost Rubs Podcast. Ghost Rubs Podcast. Back for another episode here, Jacob. Thank you, Bradley. I have a little competition for the ghosties. Slash you, anybody.

Anybody that wants to play. The other day at the gym, filling up my water bottle. Just thought about it just now. They have one of those things that's like, this water fountain has saved X amount. This many bottles, yep. 190,000 on this one oh that's an old i challenge anybody to beat it that's all i'm gonna say that's a fun

competition 190,000 i feel like i somewhat take inventory of how many bottles and yeah i haven't seen anything that high yeah i haven't seen six figures yet let's let's say post on facebook uh top one by next week gets a free piece of merch. You are a free piece of merch. You are a real piece of merch. Ghostrunners.life.shop. Even just post ones that aren't above $190,000. Just where are you seeing them?

How do you encounter these? Is it at work? Is it at a barbecue restaurant? Let us know. Maybe. New competition. Highest and lowest. There you go. I want to find one that says 27. They just installed it. Yeah. Brand competition. Highest and lowest. There you go.

I want to find one that says 27. They just installed it. Yeah. Brand new. Brand spanking new. That's fun. 190,000 is crazy. Yeah. They had to be one of the first people to put this in.

Yeah. A lot of water bottles. Good for them. So, A.G. and Steve Coop, speaking of filling up water, their fridge at their house in Iowa will tell you. So, it's like you could set it down you know in the water will disperse automatically yeah automatic sensor as far as when to stop and whoa when to stop yeah it knows like when your water bottle's full i think it's got to be some uh

what's that called what's this sensor at the top of your phone sonar sonar yeah yeah uh no um what's that called proximity sensor no i want to say no honestly it's the uh janka scale that's how you test wood hardness radar sonar i want to say it's it's um yeah it's the bariatric bariatric thermometer it's dew point right because it's water 97 humidity is crazy dude wait speaking all those initials radar sonar there's um are those initials aren't they they always capitalize them like scuba really maybe not radar and sonar like scuba nascar usa you definitely don't capitalize radar so that's not true what am i thinking of? Well, I'll tell you. So I have a problem.

This is why I was going to bring this up. I, well, no, I brought it up because of the water thing. Forget it. No notes today. Laptop's closed. We're talking whatever. Ponax. You know what that is?

Yeah, yeah. So whatever. It's a restaurant in Kansas City. Yes. Whenever I hear Ponax, I think it's like a government. Like it reminds me of like NATO or something like that, or any kind of like government acronym. Yeah. Especially if it wasn't a K apostrophe S like Ponex, if it was with an X. So I've never even like been there or seen it. So in my head, it's,

it's a C. So it's like political organization, North America community community is something. And like, I just imagine like, oh yeah, that's Ponex's ponax like yeah it was about to i mean that uh building was about to get resurrected and you know uh renovate there's what they were going to renovate over here but then ponax shut it all down ponax came in and just said i don't think so they said this is this is not this is too historic we can't do this and so ponax i mean that's the jurisdiction that ponax has i don't know if anyone else is like that i have a flaw i think everything is an acronym. Like, yeah, radar stands for something. Sonar, yeah, it's not just a word. That stands for something.

Ponex, that's not a restaurant. It's a government building. It's in D.C. We don't have that here. Maybe an office, but not the main one. I was at the Pentagon, but then they downsized the Pentagon

because the janitorial staff was getting way overworked, so they moved us to Ponex. Yeah. Honestly, they have a better cafeteria there. The company culture is not bad. It's not bad, it just doesn't have the allure of the Pentagon. No, it's yeah. I'm at Ponex and it's not what you think. Like, it's not nearly like, they don't like abuse you time-wise as much as you think they do. Like there was a class action

lawsuit once, but that was, I mean, that's what you listen, you get in the Ponex game. Like, you know, you're going to work. You're in it for a while. You're, you're a, you get in the Ponex game, you know you're going to work. You're in it for a while. You're a Ponexian. Yep. Anyway, that's what I've been going through. That's a flaw of mine. All that to say, in addition to everything else, the proximity sensor tells you when to stop.

Instead of telling you how many water bottles you saved, you have a little LED screen that tells you how many ounces you just filled up. Yeah. Kind of fun. You're filling up a water bottle you've never known. You're like, I don't know how many ounces this this. We could find out at the coops. Okay. And it's, it's accurate. It seems to be. Cause I had one back when we lived at the mustard seed house, the youth house, it was like a brand new refrigerator, but the water came out so slow.

And so it almost became a game because like the, the, the sensor or whatever, it just like, like, it just assumes like, okay, for every two seconds, this thing is coming out. That means two ounces is coming out. But in reality, this thing was like, the stream was so little that it was like maybe a quarter of an ounce in that time. So all of a sudden you could like program it to like fill it up for you, but you'd be like, I want 84 ounces of water and just hoping. And so with the youth group kids, it was so fun to like fill it up for you but you'd be like i want 84 ounces of water you put it over and just hoping and so with the youth group kids it was so fun to like be like okay dude like see how close you could get to like be inaccurate without actually overflowing it that's a fun game yeah yeah the coops is all sonar so you just set it and forget it yeah that's must be nice

shucking corn and not worrying about your water. Humidity though. Set it and forget. It reminds me of fantasy football. Yeah. It's like sometimes always talking about Christian McCaffrey. He's a great guy to draft. He's a set and forget guy.

You know, I was just thinking about this recently. Football's coming up last year. We did a all-time quarterback, which is great. Yep. Let's just brainstorm on the podcast. Do we want to do it on Patreon again?

Do you want to do a football podcast again? Should we do it publicly? Should we do it a part of nateland entertainment i mean i would like that what should we do um for the football pod this year it was nice yeah it was nice having it on patreon to feel like okay at least we don't have to do it no i was just gonna say more like at least we're getting like a little bit of aback for this, for people paying for it because we don't have ads or whatever. But then again, we could try to find ads. We could try to get, you know, we have like the recorded ads that we do in the middle of episodes

is always good. I don't know. What do you think? Do you have opinions? Sorry, I'm flipping you off by biting my nails. I never noticed, brother. No, I don't have really strong opinions. I just remember thinking, that was fun last year.

I liked it. It was on Patreon. If we were really busy, we didn't feel like we had to do it that week. Right. I know. That's the most hard, I think we say hardest is the word, part of it is finding the time to do it. The new rhythm of doing another podcast.

Cause you record correct opinions on Mondays. Yeah. We don't want to record a Sunday night. I don't want to record late into the night. So that's the, but I, I really, I've been thinking about,

I really enjoyed when we did it. Yeah. We can keep thinking on it. Cause it was fun to put that out there. And it's always fun to launch anything. If we were to do it publicly, like, let's see if we can develop a fan base with sports yeah but then they're like cool

see you guys next september or take a break for right eight months yeah we could we could keep it going and try to find i don't know what we do if there's legs in it we could keep it going and change it up and do interviews of football players or something garrett deeter probably be number one gare bear like gare and then we'll do patrick mahomes after that yeah one leads to the other it up and do interviews of football players or something. Garrett Dieter probably be number one. Garrett. Garrett Bear. Then we'll do Patrick Mahomes after that. One leads to the other. Anyway, that's it. Patreon, just a quick update.

If you're interested in this, if you're interested in joining Patreon, we are going to release our episodes early for Patreon members on Sundays and Tuesdays. If you're eager to listen to the episode, would like to support us on patron. I think,

I think we'll just do it for 10 and $15 tiers. Great. Yep. So just releasing the episode a day early. If you're interested in checking it out, we'll appreciate the support, but I'm excited about football. Yeah.

You watch receiver yet? I don't know if I'm going to, should I? I've only watched it on an airplane. So it's only like when I have limited options, but I'll turn on receiver, but I don't think I would spend my precious evening time watching receiver. Yeah.

But if you're curious how Justin Jefferson does the gritty, you would love episode two. He breaks it down. Yeah. I think they're like, all right, this guy doesn't have a ton of personality, so let's focus on how you dance. Does he not have personality? I don't know. I'd say not good for a documentary. I don't know.

If Justin Jefferson was in the room, I would not say that to his face, so that was mean. I shouldn't have said that. But that's how I try to always look at everything. When I say that to their face, no, that was mean. You probably wouldn't say anything mean ever to anybody's face. There's some people I would. I would say, I don't like the way? No, that was mean. You probably wouldn't say anything mean ever to anybody's face. There's some people I would. I would say, I don't like the way you conduct yourself on social media.

I feel like it is not indicative of who you are in real life. Would you? You would say that? Yeah. I would just probably think that and not say it. I mean, I wouldn't go right up to them and say that. But if they were like, hey, nice to meet you. I'm Justin.

Hey, Justin, you're not much of a personality. Mallet finger. Thanks for asking. I think if someone that I had previously gossiped about came up to me and said, do you have any problems with me? I would say, like in that specific scenario, I'd be like, to be honest, yeah, sometimes I tell my wife that I'm bothered by you. And here's why I like to try and at least tell myself I would do that. I wouldn't gossip or say anything if I wouldn't like say it to them. Cause I think it would be correctional. Anyway, Justin Jefferson, he just, I think compared

to quarterback where you had these players with families and wives, he's like 24 has all the money in the world, really likes jewelry, really likes the gritty. I just can't connect to him as much. And I would guess most people can't as well. Yeah. The quarterback documentary was so good because yeah, the three guys they chose were like pretty normal guys for most guys, but also like incredible football players, you know, in their own regards, but like, and they're just, the quarterback is just the entire team. I mean, not truly, but like a lot rests on their shoulders. Whereas like even a Justin Jefferson, sometimes the, one of the best receivers in the NFL has a game where he gets three catches

or something and they can win the game. Like best case scenario, he touches the ball 11 times in a game. Yeah. It's just so much different than the quarterback position. So I'm not as intrigued by it. Yeah. If,

if I heard 10 of my friends all have rave reviews about it, I'd be like, okay, fine. Yeah, I got it. But like, or if Kelsey was in it,

do you see, he said he turned it down. They offered it him that's cool he's like i got enough going on i'm probably okay which i was like good for you yeah it'd be hard to it's hard to say no i never say no so i get it that would have been a crazy i mean imagine them releasing that news dude that actually would have been so sick if there was a documentary going on while he like yeah yeah all the taylor swift stuff dang that would have been awesome because it wasn't like that the beginning of the year when he turned it down yeah netflix would have been like wow we scored on this one thank goodness he started taking care of yeah just behind the scenes of travis and taylor's you know relationship this entire time yeah i didn't even

think about that he turned it down before they were dating probably he was probably like i got the podcast that's enough for me yeah sheesh anyway uh i went to iowa last week it was like thursday at like 10 p.m rachel's planning she didn't have to go into work um which by the way rachel started her job it's just like a lot of training and stuff no kids yet but pretty fun she's meeting co-workers when's when are kids i don't know a couple weeks maybe something like that maybe a week from when this comes out um i'm pumped for great school good district olathe usd 233 and uh oh so she didn't have to go in friday so she's like i have a wedding on saturday in iowa i'm gonna go back home yeah and i had been traveling a bunch the weekend before the weekend after i was like i think i'll

probably stick around and but then thursday i was like why don't i go to iowa that'd be fun i'm just gonna do it i don't have anything this weekend why would i stay whose wedding was it anybody we know uh no uh former just volleyball connection yeah tall girl dude you go to these weddings it's unbelievable your wedding was like it was like is this what corn gets gets you? Like Rachel and all her friends are just like, whoa. It was. So yeah, it was like that. I felt like there were even more. So the girl, the bride, she has a twin sister.

And then she has two other sisters who are also twins. Kind of cool. That's crazy. Two sets of twins. And the twin, so all four of them played college volleyball. Wow. So one of them played the bride played at texas wow so then the texas girls it ain't corn it's athleticism the texas girls were

american yeah they were i mean i just like a look like olympians yeah just like so tall so strong yeah just everything yeah so there were so many volleyball players. I was looking up at people all night. Made Rachel look like a shrimp. Yeah. Yeah. It was crazy, but really fun to meet. And it's just so fun to meet these people.

Oh, yeah, so I guess to fast forward. Yes, I was like, I'm just going to go. Yeah. To really fast forward. Ah, yeah. Dang, I kind of spoiled it. Whatever. Sorry.

Not your fault. My fault. Rachel tells me, yeah, if you want to come to Iowa, no problem. I was like, if I can get work done Friday while we drive, if you don't mind driving,

I'll come. She's like, all right, I'll do it. And she also tells me, look, I didn't even RSVP you for the wedding. Months ago, I just figured you wouldn't want to come. So you'd still come, and you can just hang out with Tim. Tim was back home. He was like, oh, I should come. Tim P.E.

Tim P.E. I was like, great. I will come home. I was like, you know what? Me and Tim, we're going to watch Twisters during the wedding. I was set on that. That was my joke the whole weekend. That was just my bet. I was like, Twisters tomorrow, Tim? It's going to be so sick. Tim had unfortunately made plans to go to Minneapolis Twisters tomorrow, Tim? It's going to be so sick. And Tim had unfortunately made plans

to go to Minneapolis on Saturday, so he wasn't even going to be around. And so I just, any opportunity I could think to bring it up, like ask the waiter, how are the IMAXs around here? Pretty good? 97 for humidity. That's hot. I'd love to be indoors. You guys ever, yeah, you guys ever go to the movies to cool down?

Your Twisters are pretty good. Well, that was quite the breeze. I mean, it wasn't a tornado crazy yeah although those are cool to see i was bringing up anytime i could you don't think you are you going to see twisters in minneapolis because i could i mean i could come it's not that far is it i mean i know that dyke is basically that new hartford is like chicago but like not that far from any i was bringing up any chance I got. Anyway, so I'm not planning on coming to the wedding. I don't bring wedding clothes, anything. Morning of, Rachel goes, hey, so I just looked. I guess months ago, I asked for RSVP to do yes for the wedding.

So you can come if you want. Borrow some of my dad's clothes or Tim's clothes or something. Like, I'm kind of right in the middle. I feel like I don't fit in either one of your clothes. And so. Definitely more Tim, though, right? Yeah, but even. I feel like I don't fit in either one of your clothes. And so definitely more Tim though, right? Yeah. But even, even then though, I don't think I, I think it would be, he's a little, he's

a little smaller on top. He's a size small. I'm a size medium. Yeah. And, um, so yeah, about an hour before the wedding, I, uh, Rachel, I popped by Cole's. We were in a hurry. It felt like Rachel said, she said, this feels like a game show because we pull in there. I'm like, all right, game plan.

Let's see. What's the best way to do this? I should probably get the shoes because you can't really pick out shoes for me because you need to try them on. I need to try on the shoes. I'll do shoes. You start with shirt. We'll meet in the middle of pants or whatever. And it was really fun.

And so I ended up picking out a nice little outfit, some nice just some slim fit black slacks. Picked out some Adidas Sambas. You know Sambas? Kind of just like the classic Adidas, kind of like flat. Oh, really? Yeah. Kind of soccer looking shoe a little bit.

Black ones? Yeah, just black and white, but kind of stylish, like street wear type shoes. You went for the shoes, the tennis shoes, not the dress shoes. Well, in the end,

I ended up picking out the clothes and Rachel picked out the shoes. So we ended up reversing. It was not as efficient. Rachel picked out those. Well, oh, end, I ended up picking out the clothes and Rachel picked out the shoes. So we ended up reversing. It was not as efficient. Rachel picked out those. Well, oh, here's another thing. I keep spoiling my own birthday presents. So did I tell you about the hokas thing?

Yeah. Yeah. I was like, oh, yeah, put all these miles on the hokas. Rachel's like, don't. Literally that morning, she had gone over to Tim. She's like, Jake, close your ears. I need to talk to Tim about something. And they were helping pick out like my birthday present. She had bought sambas that morning, she had gone over to Tim. She's like, Jake, close your ears. I need to talk to Tim about something. And they were helping pick out my birthday present.

She had bought Sambas that morning for me. And then at Kohl's, I was like, those kind of look good. And Rachel's like, you would look so great in those. That's funny. She didn't just say like, no, let's get some other ones. She couldn't help herself. I was like, you would look amazing in those. Yeah.

Oh, man. And then I wore something real weird that i wouldn't normally wear it was like a almost well when i rang up it rang up as men's sweater but it was short sleeve so it's like almost like sweater material kind of beige with some buttons like a button-up sweater material tried it on i was like this feels great let's do it try it on for 10 seconds and that's the problem because once i did put it on it's like this is scratchy and warm i see why it rang up as a sweater really warm i was putting deodorant on every hour i feel like is it something trey would wear yeah yeah i was gonna say that's kind of trey style of a shirt yeah it felt cool i was like hey it's just for one wedding in iowa i'm

in coals let's get a little wonky so it was nice to wear the burlap sack for our wedding so it was uh it was really. So it was really fun. And it was really fun just meeting more volleyball players because they're all doing cool stuff. I mean, I'm looking up at a girl, you know, hey, nice to meet you, Emily. I'm like, what are you up to? Are you still playing? She's like, I'm actually about to move to France.

Whoa, no way. What for? Playing volleyball. Wow. Oh my gosh. That's awesome. Maybe it's a bigger deal over there than it is here even. Yeah.

I was like, that's so cool that you're, yeah. It just feels like they're all doing cool volleyball stuff or they're coaching in cool places or they coach beach volleyball in this place or yeah. A couple of girls I coach, they're playing right now in the Olympics. You know, it's like, this is all awesome. Yeah. I love meeting you guys. Didn't you say that Rachel knew one of the beach volleyball players?

Yes. The really tall blonde one. Taryn is her first name. Taryn Clove. Clove. Something like that. Okay. Rachel kind of knows her.

That's fun. Cleve. Claire. Oh yeah. We started that. Okay. Rachel kind of knows her. That's fun. Clive. Clare. Oh yeah. We started talking about this last episode and then we never got around to it. Have you been watching the Olympics? No, not really. Summer Games. Minnie Mounds bars. Minnie Mounds bars. Summer Games bars. I have not watched

a second of the Olympics in real time. Well, Catherine had it on last night and I came home and I watched a few of the Olympics in real time. Well, Catherine had it on last night and I came home and I watched a few of like the highlights. Yeah. And then I watched something with Colin Jost in Tahiti. Dude. It's like, what is this?

Why am I watching this? I saw, I don't know if it was what you saw because it was a couple of days ago, but he was bombing on TV. It was hard to watch. It was, he did like some montage that was like pre-recorded him, like all around the ocean doing all these like cool, like seeing stingrays and swimming with sharks or whatever it was. And I, at the end of it, I told gather, I was like, they spent so much money making

that. Yeah. And that was such a waste. It was so silly. I saw him on opening ceremonies night. Just like we sent our very own Colin down there and he was just like on the beach, just like doing material kind of. I mean, like evening news type material. Like, hey, thanks for coming down.

And he had the chickens walking behind him. He's like, these things are you're looking at my alarm clocks. And then there'd be a really long delay and then kind of a laugh. It was really hard to watch. I've never thought he was funny anyway. Yeah, he never really did it for me. I mean, yeah, whatever. Yesterday was my first day

getting to really watch anything live because I thought I was like, hey, Paris, way easier time zone than Tokyo. I'm excited. And Rio, I was at Canicuc. I was doing a race to Rio party. London, I was at Canicuc. So I really haven race to Rio party, London. I was at Canicuc. So I really haven't watched the Olympics since 2008. And I love the Olympics. Do you have a lot of

memories watching the Olympics? Yeah. More like as a kid though. Yeah. Not as much now. I know. I'm trying to remember. I'm like, how was I? I feel like I watched so many with my family. Were we watching them live or were they messing with me? Cause I'm like, not a lot of these have been in our time zone for a long time. I think, it was just a matter of you didn't realize it wasn't live i think that might have been it was just always at night is when i remember watching them yes i think they were messing with me and maybe it was before social media so we didn't yeah you didn't know the results yeah um but you have so many fond memories of apollo antonono michael phelps sean johnson and so i want that and like this year's gonna be great because they're

during the daytime and i just keep not watching it but yesterday i finally got to watch some yeah it was awesome i turned on so i told you about uh instead of nfl red zone they have peacock gold zone it's pretty sweet they cut over like let's check out the women's rugby i was like i would never turn this on myself let's see it and have you did you see this the catch catch thing? No. Oh, yeah, I saw that too. What was that? What was that? This girl like, like grabbed this girl by the shorts and like lifted her over her head.

The girl caught it. Like an OBJ catch. Suplexed backwards, like halfway down this girl, and the girl grabbed her and threw her back forwards. It was insane. I saw that this morning.

I turned on rugby with three minutes left, and I'm not real familiar with the scoring or how anything works, but it seems like rugby is a little like football where they don't score a ton. You might have a small handful of touchdowns. They call them tries per match and USA versus Australia, a bronze medal match. Apparently the USA, they haven't won a medal in rugby women in like a hundred years. Sorry, we don't do this, you know, very well compared to other countries.

You don't even know the score or how to. we just don't know it we're not rugby people australia goes up they scored like their touchdown equivalent essentially with like 20 seconds left so i mean they're essentially celebrating this is bill's chiefs 13 seconds and um anyway us gets the ball back girl breaks a tackle i mean and essentially our five yard line and just streaks down the field it was a walk-off touchdown really olympics it was seriously electric yeah i mean australians are bawling instantly and not the fans the players are instantly have tears the commentator was getting choked up like i can't believe this it was like a miracle on ice thing really it was just bronze but it was it was really cool i was sitting in my living room by myself watching i was like this is pretty cool so do you think that gold zone like that's not live probably i don't know okay i i don't know

how it'll work i mean it was well i've watched it at 1 p.m so if there was a delay it was by minutes it was like that was crazy let's cut to it let's let's go there after we go here you know kind of thing yeah so watch a little bit of that. And then after that, I just cut. I just started watching women's gymnastics. And so I got to see our women's gymnastics team compete. I saw them win the team event in gold. Okay. It was awesome.

Yeah. Catherine said that. I'm back. Simone Biles jumped 11 feet in the air, 10 and a half feet, something like that. So they keep throwing this word around. I think it's her head is 12 feet off the ground. Okay. So I think that's what they're doing. I will it is very impressive i went to rewind it peacock willie

rewind gay that's not right that's un-american that's un-american it's not okay i'm joking i was gonna say is that what gay means to you is un-american i just like throw that in there such a middle school thing to say. That's great. I went and watched Simone Bala's highlights. She is so powerful and can jump so high. It is awesome. Okay, so if she's 5-whatever.

I think 4'10 or something. She is. 4'8, 4'10, yeah. Okay, so for easy math, she's 5 feet. So that means she's getting 11 feet in the air or 12 feet in the air, whatever. She's getting seven feet off the ground. Yes, this is the floor routine.

So it's springboard a little bit. It doesn't matter. Yeah, it's still insane. It's so cool to see. That's awesome. So it was fun. I was like, you know, all right, I got to get back to work. But it was fun to see a little bit of Olympic action

and seeing it live. Yeah. It was so fun. Today, we're recording this at 2 p.m. You want to watch USA Basketball plays? Oh, fun. You want to watch together? No, a little lunch and watch.

Yeah. That'd be fun. Cool. Who do they play? South Sudan. In basketball? Dude. Dude?

Tell me. I thought the same thing. How'd they make it? Because you had to qualify. They're good. Obviously, but like who knew? South Sudan? Is it like Bol Bol?

Does he count as South Sudan? No, it's Luol Deng. Luol Deng. Is he on it? No, no. He's pretty old. Sorry. I was like, that's crazy.

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Cheers to that, brother. Cheers to that, brother. I'll drink to that, brother. So probably two weeks ago, I specifically remember I was at the casino in Hammond, India, and the U.S. was playing South Sudan in like a, not a qualifier, but just a warm-up game, whatever they were doing two weeks ago, I specifically remember I was at the casino in Hammond, India and the U S was playing South Sudan in like a qual, not qualifier, but just a warmup game, whatever they were doing two weeks ago.

And so I was like, I saw that too. And I thought, well, DraftKings, let me bet my house on this. Like what's, what's allowed.

Right. And I turned it on at halftime and we're down like 17 points. Like to South Sudan. And my house is no longer. This is not good for my house. Thank goodness. I didn't do anything. So for one, they do have some pretty good players.

They have, I think, four people on the roster are active NBA players and another like handful have played at some point. So they're not scrubs. It's not. Yeah. You know, some of these games where you sometimes see um and the first half of that game they shot like 70 so it was like everything is going their way us did catch up uh but in the end i mean lebron had to make like a essentially a last second layup to win there was tied with or we were down one with

10 seconds left so really they hung around okay so Okay, so it's a good game. They were pretty solid. So yeah, I think the USA might turn it up a little bit. Kevin Durant didn't play in any of those games. He was such a stud in the game against Serbia. Yeah. I saw some stat. I don't remember the exact number. I'm going to say 96. Percent humidity?

No way in the basketball? Like Team USA this year will face 96 nba players oh yeah potentially i saw this is like the dream team was like 14 or something yeah yeah it's kind of interesting like how like international the nba has become i also do you understand why joe allen beads on our team dude i don't understand it for multiple reasons one he has not been playing well yeah but i don't know if you've been watching but but it's just like, dude, figure it out. Yeah. Bam and Abiyo is playing so well.

Anthony Davis is playing so well. But also, yeah, he was born in Cameroon. The country of France granted him citizenship a few years ago. Yeah. And so that's why he's getting booed like crazy because he could have played for France. They probably saw this coming like,

hey, let's get him on our basketball team. Yeah. And then he's like, well, my son was born in America, so I'm playing for him. It's like, I feel like you want to be on LeBron's team. You just want to win for the first time. Yeah.

Yeah, like his whole thing at KU, and he played for the University of Kansas for a year. His whole thing, every time he got interviewed, he'd always go, we all from Africa. That's what he'd say every time. And now he's playing for USA. We all from Africa. It's like, all right, but We all from Africa. All right.

But you are from Africa. You were born in Africa. Raised there. So. Yeah. Very interesting how that works. We all from Africa. We all from Africa.

Anyway. I don't know. I didn't understand how that loophole. Yeah. Yeah. Next year we're going to get Luca, you know. That would be awesome. Well, I play most of my career here so i'm gonna just

play for them all right i guess that's just how it works all right great because i as much as as fun as it is to have like a stack team it's more fun if it's competitive yeah i'm sure you want to win the people of cameroon would be like you you're by far our best player. Please come play with us. Don't go play with the Americans. You imagine he gets there though. And like these other guys that are on his team are just like, can't even make a layup. And he's like,

all right. Yeah. That also might be a big reason. Get me out of here. Like there's probably no Cameroon basketball players, you know? Yeah. How did he,

I think he was a soccer guy until he moved to America. Yeah. He's one of those guys think he was a soccer guy until he moved to America. Yeah. He's one of those guys. Do I was thinking about this recently? It's impressive. So you hear a story from time to time, like this guy never played basketball. He was in high school. Giannis Joel Embiid and their studs now.

Lorenzo Cain was like that baseball. Yeah. Sometimes you hear it in baseball. Yeah. You can hear it football for sure. You can pick up that late. So I was having a conversation with myself the other day while i was watching the Olympics i was like what are what sports are like that that you absolutely cannot do later in life here's what i came up with oh it's because i was watching gymnastics

i think it's tennis and gymnastics what else would you add to the list like you never hear of like yeah he got cut from his high school team so he just joined the gymnastics team and turns out he's incredible because we have a man braun would suck on the pommel horse and he's a freak athlete like the we have a men's sand volleyball player who used to play in the nba and he had like an eight-year career played i forget his name now okay um but had a decent career role player got play a minutes played for like eight ten seasons so i mean he's older and he's like i'm gonna go play volleyball now. Yeah. And like, obviously it takes a lot of autism to play all the sports I'm talking about, basketball, baseball, football, volleyball, but there are certain sports where it's like,

you have to have played as a child to compete at the highest level. You think tennis too? Yeah. I mean, golf, it kind of seemed like it. Oh, golf might be there at least as far as like competing on a high level at the highest level. Like maybe, yeah, you've, you picked up golf later on life and you're competitive, but you're not nothing close to highest level. Like maybe, yeah, you've, you picked up golf later on life and you're competitive, but you're not nothing close to. Yeah. Like, like,

like our friends that have played golf their whole life just have different looking swings. Yeah. You know, totally. So when you take someone like a Steph Curry, who's a freak athlete, very good at golf.

I don't think he was grinding golf as a kid. And so I don't think he could ever be one of the best in the room. Yeah. Yeah. I think golf, um, golf's a good one to add it seems like

everyone played tennis as a kid the gymnast for sure did i'm trying to think of any other ones that would i think hockey would be really hard to pick up maybe just like the mechanics of skating and yeah i can't even skate i don't understand the physics i watch people skate backwards i'm like how it feels like you're being pulled by a rope. Which, have you watched fencing? Not watched it, no. They have, they're like tethered to something. You notice that?

It looks like it's, they're on a zip line. It's like, well, in case you fall off. So each fencer is tethered at the back. They have like a cable attached to them. For what purpose? I was trying to, I was like, is it like a positioning thing or whatever? So it turns out this tether goes to like their t-shirt, we'll call it.

They're like bulletproof vest. And so it's all electronically. It's how they do the scoring. Oh, so it's more about scoring than it is about keeping them in a certain line or something. Yeah. It has nothing to do with anything else other than just like electromagnetic scoring. Like, oh, the, the metal rod touched you. We know for sure it

touched you fencing feels like one that i would imagine you could pick up super easily later on you know like if a guy's been fencing for 20 years and you're like i bet i could take this guy he would wipe you down it seems like a lot of uh a lot of just little technique that right he's do over and over the cup stacking cup stacking is probably another one. Yeah. Anyway, just a little conversation was having on the couch yesterday. Watching gymnastics.

Like what else is like this? It doesn't feel like I should have Bo start swinging a golf club. Yeah. You know, and piano violin. I mean, come at, imagine if he's just playing the violin right now that I gotta go practice violin. Dad, I'm going to go to the plaza and street perform.

I'm going to go busk. I got to go busk, Dad. Is that the word? Pick up sticks. Pick up sticks. Maybe busk a little. Busk. That sounds wrong to me, but is that...

Have you heard that word? Yeah, it's either bust or busk. Busking. The activity of playing music in the street. There you go. Oh, you make any money? Yeah, it's either bust or busk. Busking, the activity of playing music in the street. There you go. Oh, you make any money? Any? Any.

I was trying to make some cash. You're so good, but we don't have any cash. Really? Any? Any? Oh, man. Anyway, you want to do some ghosties on a couch questions? Yes.

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um let's just go real quick uh hair advice jake how does jake get his hair to be so johnny bravo esque give us some hair advice good i think genetics you gotta have that first thick hair and then i think i've talked about this before i always love supporting other creators influencers whatever there's a guy named as a youtube guy named jeff's barber shop he came out with a pomade so i was like oh i'll support him all right not that he needs it he's a millionaire but whatever um so i bought a buy that okay jeff's pomade i mean man i'm spitting nothing special about it i just you know once every like two days just throw some in your hair and once every two i just you know once every like two days just throw some

in your hair and once every two days yeah you know and then unless you get really sweaty or you shower or whatever but you know then you just get the mallet out of the way and then you're kind of doing your hair with like these like a few fingers i don't know nothing crazy did you did you already say you don't wash it very often or do you wash it now uh yeah i mean i probably wash it once twice a week oh okay i thought you did like once a month. I've probably gone through, yeah, time periods where I've done that, but no. Maybe it's gone already. I'm sweating so much that I should probably wash it.

Yeah, it's like, okay, I need to get this out of here. My pillow's getting nasty. Let's see. Okay, Tom Holland wants to know, the best way to shake off a spider web when you accidentally walk through one? Oh, that's tough. That's a good question. Um,

I mean, mine kind of looked like karate movements. I would say it's a lot of like chopping. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a big,

it's best if you have a hooded sweatshirt, but it'll work with anything. You get one right through the face. You just wrap it up right over the face like this and just oh golly something like that really oh yeah see i think i would try to like find the biggest clump like get it off of me you're almost trapping it in and rubbing it around oh well then you go under the shirt or in the hood and then you clump it it cl It clumps in the the fabric brings it up. It's really nice actually. Yeah.

Okay. Let's see. This guy, Tom Cruise, fake name, he says Tom Holland was a real name probably, but he says there's this great girl at my work and well dot dot dot, you know how it goes. Sad face. Any advice?

There's this great girl at work sounds like he's striking out with her okay well any advice if she wanted to she would okay so just move on yeah unless you have like have a really good reason to think this is worth pursuing also he didn't give us the details. Have you asked? Have you asked? Do you know she wouldn't? Right. Yeah, plant the seed.

I would say literally plant a seed. Show up one day with a lima bean and a wet paper towel. Hey, here you go. That's how you plant a seed? Well, yeah, in like 10th grade science, yeah. You're in charge of it. And be like, listen, I'm planting the seed now. It's going to sprout. And it sprouts date that yeah yeah you have about two weeks depending on how much you

water it you let me know yeah um alissa wants to know should i get my doctorate degree man it's so tough without context that is just uh what i would No. What do you need it for? You know? Yeah. Hey, we don't have them. Look at this. Look at this. You listening to us right now? Yeah. Yeah. That's a, that's a, at a con I would say without context, most people should not get their doctorate degree. So I'm going to say in general, don't get it. We both think no. It's I heard some crazy stat that was like, let's say, let's say around 80 some percent of people don't use their graduating degree in their work. Like, like don't go into work with their graduating degree. And then it's like 40 some percent of people don't even, uh, get out of college or like don't even graduate college with their like they go to college, but they don't even like end up graduating, a.k.a. like they drop out. I see. And so it's like

I think the argument was like not everyone needs college. Think about if you really need to go to college at all. Totally. So I would say the same thing about your doctorate. I don't know if you want to be a principal lives in DeSotooto and has 35 women and one man over, maybe you should get your doctorate degree. Look into it. I don't know if everyone needs it. Okay. Okay.

This is a funny one. How do I handle... It's Emily. Emily, you got this mama brace, says. How do I handle my... Emily Brace. Sorry. I met her at the county fair show. I'm pretty sure. Okay.

Nice girl. Give us a, give us a quick, you got, you got this mama. How do I handle my two and a half year old being the most socially fearless person I've ever known when I don't feel like talking to strangers. She has literally walked up to a group of 20 somethings at my husband's rec soccer game and grabbed one of their water bottles to drink out of and started talking to them. I don't want to discourage her confidence, but i also don't want to have to talk to every single person first of all let me just say you're a rock star mama whatever you're doing mama keep it up mama hey sounds like parties at your place tonight mama margaritas with you mama yeah i'll bring the ice you being the salt uh in my basketball hoop will bring the rim mama i don't know oh you're doing the best you can mama you just keep

persevering mama one day at a time mama where are my other fearless mamas at are you one of those mamas that has a socially fearless daughter where are my stay-at-home mamas uh that sounds really fun i mean obviously if you have some kind of like legitimate social anxiety then that is a problem i feel like i don't want to keep having to interact, but I, I, without having kids, I think a really social kid would be a blast. Right. Oh, I think that'd be fun. And just like, yeah, it's forcing her out of her comfort zone. It sounds like, yeah. And your kid's not 15. It's not embarrassing for them to like, not know social cues. Like it's, she's what, two and a half. So it's, you'd be like, obviously she's a kid. She doesn't know any better. I'm just sorry. We can laugh about this. Yeah, she's what, two and a half. So it's, you'd be like, obviously she's a kid. She doesn't know any better.

I'm sorry. We can laugh about this. Yeah, totally. You have such a crutch. Imagine like, you're just like super, super tired, sweaty after you're playing soccer. You come for a break and you go to get your water bottle and you just see some kid go to town on it.

Like, what the heck? Oh, sorry. Which mama's in charge of this one i think you just um you just purge it all you have you spank it out of her no not spank it out of her just just uh like get like have a party with 30 adults and her and just let her talk to everybody let her be the center of attention for a little bit wear her out out. Make it to where it's like, okay, that was something, but that's not everything. You know, I need some time to myself.

Okay, great. We can do that. I would love for my kids to be more like that. My kids are definitely, I guess Rosie's trying, she's a little more of the social one, but Bo and Hattie are pretty quiet, actually, with people. Which is fine. They're also very respectful. Yeah, I think there's a balance there. She's Actually with people. So. Which is fine. They're also very respectful.

Yeah. I think there's a balance there. She's probably saying the same thing. Like, I don't want him to just, you know, disrespect other people's. My kid's a maniac. Yeah. I don't know.

He saw a hoodie over there and so he just put it on and ran off with it. Started rubbing around his face. It's about a spider web. I don't know. It's called shoplifting, Emily. You know. So.

All right. Okay. Danny wants to know, he's 26, he lives with his parents again, and he says, all my co-workers and church friends are married. How can I locate a flock of dough so I can bag one? What are some good spots? Spots?

I mean... Is online a bad idea? I don't know. You didn't like it. Yeah, it didn't is, is, is online a bad idea? I don't know. You didn't like it. Yeah. I mean, it didn't work for me, but it works for a ton of other people. Um, I mean, for me, I think my Instagram is more attractive than like an online dating

personality would have been. So that's kind of where I was like, yeah, have them see this. I don't really want them to see my dating profile, but look at my Instagram. Like I'm doing fun things. Like, like I have friends, you know, like, have them see this. I don't really want them to see my dating profile, but look at my Instagram. I'm doing fun things. I have friends. That's obviously one option. But no, I mean, it sounds like you go to church

and you probably like your church, but if you're at a church and there's not, if it's all married couples, find a young adult ministry in your town. It's not a Tuesday night or Thursday night or something.

Start going there. That's a good word. Not on the main Sunday. You know, it's not a Tuesday night or Thursday night or something. Start going there. That's a good word. Like if you're not on the main Sunday, like you still like your church community, but like, yeah, they're meeting on a different time. Yeah.

Um, smart. If there's like single small groups, I mean, I don't think that should be the main reason you do that, but it should be a way to, it can also be a way to meet people, meet friends in general,

find hobbies, sports, join leagues, mural league or something. Yeah. Um, also Craigslist. Yeah. I was going to say Facebook marketplace is more taken over. Isn't it? But don't be like obvious about it. Say like, Hey, I need help like with fill in the blank. And it's a task that you would want your wife to be good at. Right. I need help cooking pasta. Yes, exactly. Like I am, I'm hosting a group of people. I need a caterer for this. Please, please cook it at my house and get there five

hours early so I can kind of, you know, help you. Hey, face of marketplace. I have some childhood trauma. I need someone who I can talk to hiring a good listener anyone anybody yeah must have ovaries throw that in there i don't know yeah or at least at one point she did at one like hysterectomies are a thing that happens sometimes that's where they take out the ovaries right of course um all right millie with 18 exclamation points. I haven't read this one all the way through, so if it's weird. See where it goes. But the beginning of it's funny.

My friend and I always talk about opening a trivia-themed Froyo shop called Froyo Info. Get it? Like for your info, but with the letters mixed up. And we're going to name frozen yogurt flavors based on names of smart people. Liminardo Da Vinci, Alexander the grape, Edgar Allen cookie dough, maybe a twilight slash Christmas theme with Taylor law, lot chocolate, lot chocolate.

I don't even, I wouldn't do that one. Taylor low chocolate and Robertppermint Pattison. Can you guys come up with some more flavor names? P.S. No one steal my idea. Thanks. Can you imagine? Millie, here's what I'm going to say first of all, and then we'll joke around.

I want you to think of all the Froyo places like 10 years ago. Oh my gosh, there were so many. Orange Leaf, Peach Wave, Tropical Wave, something like that. You name it, there were so many. Orange leaf, peach wave, tropical wave, something like that. You name it, there was one in every corner. Now I want you to think of how many there are now.

Where they at? Now I want you to think, should I do this? Now I want you to think, should I take Froyo and have it be more niche? I just got to say, be careful.

Be careful. Should I take it more niche? That's great. Now should I make that to say, be careful. Be careful. Should I take it more niche? That's great. Now, should I make that? Yeah. People feel even a little more secluded if they still want to come here. All that to say, love a good pun. Love a good pun.

And think of how many successful businesses are pun based. Okay. Oh, the Italian mobster, the McDonald's. I can only think of nothing Bundt cakes. Nothing Bundt cakes. There's one. I'm sure there's more out there. Fro-Yo Info.

Cheesecake factory. No, I think you're mainly joking around, so I love it. Yeah, let's brainstorm along. Let's just think, first of all, I'm just going to look at frozen yogurt flavors. You kind of have to reverse it. That's probably the best way to do it, to start there. Yeah. All right.

I'm going to look that up as well. We got raspberry, vanilla, strawberry, orange, lemon, peanut butter, brownie batter. Brownie, it could be, you're in Cincinnati, I think, so it could be a Reds-th, brownie batter. Brownie. It could be, you know, you're in Cincinnati, I think. So it could be a Reds theme. Brownie batter up. It's sponsored by the Reds. Batter up. Mango.

Mango Robbie. Mango Robbie. There you go. She's smart. Yeah. She might be. Yeah. Respect her.

I forgot. Oh, yeah. I forgot. Yeah, me too. Brownie. Batter up. she might be she yeah respect her i forgot oh yeah i forgot yeah me too brownie batter up um let's see it's hard to think of smart people who are yeah okay let's reverse it all right start with smart people smart people i'm just googling smart people famous intelligent people people go chat gpt freud uh or freud yo freud yo just vanilla freud yo um isaac newton newton fig yeah fig isaac newton fig isaac that's the thing your your flavors are all gonna suck like you gotta mango now yeah uh apparently limonardo da vinci was good smartest people we're talking

ashton kutcher's on this list of Google smart people? How about that? Albert Einstein. Sherbert Einstein. Sherbert Einstein. Thomas Edelman. There's some stuff in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You don't know. The CBD. It's a thing. Do you feel like CBD went away? Have we talked about this? I still, I don't know about went away it seems like a lot of uh like brick and mortar stores are still like around i don't know how well they're doing but they're paying their lease i just feel like i used to see them so much more like maybe they've yeah slimmed down a little

bit you're probably right then again missouri it's you can go all the way these days you go stop at cbd uh man emma watson is smart i guess i don't know You don't have to stop at CBD. Man, Emma Watson is smart, I guess. I don't know. I don't know about all. Famous philosophers, maybe I should say. Oh, there you go. Socrates. What about Plato?

Chocolatese. Chocolatese is awesome. Chocolatese. Chocolatese, lock it in. Chocolatese is nice. That's way better than Taylor Lautner chocolate or whatever. Chocolatese. Plato. Just Plato. Plato. Play-Doh.

Just Play-Doh. Play-Doh. Just one that looks like Play-Doh. A little bit less. There's a hard consistency. Off-colored. Aristotle. Cheristotle.

Cheristotle. Yep. Descartes. Oh, a la Descartes. A la Descartes. It's to go. John Locke. It's got to be something with pistachio.

Why? It just doesn't seem like that. John Locke? Oh, sorry, sorry. I'm on my own. It's like someone's got to be. I go, John Locke. You go, ah.

It's got to be pistachio, right? We got to figure out something with pistachio with that. Really? That makes sense, right? Confucius? Oh, yeah. Confucius. Oh, yeah. Confucius. Caramel cheesecake.

Mint chocolate. Confu. Nikola Tesla. Mint chocolate chip. No. Tesla. Nikola. Nikola Espresso.

Yeah, espresso. Okay, this is tough. This is tough. It's very hard. But that's what we signed up for when we became Espresso. Yeah. Espresso. Okay. This is tough. This is tough. It's very hard. But that's what we signed up for when we became podcasters. Yep. And we got one. Karl Marx.

All right. Well, we got chocolate. Chocolate cheese. Yeah. Good one. Let's see. Vladimir put it all in one bowl for me. That's how you order. Like it, love it, or Vladimir put an all in one bowl for me. That's how you order.

Like it, love it, or Vladimir put it all in one bowl. Uh, do you have any weird food combinations you enjoy that you'd like to give advice on? There for a while, I really enjoyed anything with like a dish with red sauce and milk. Better than you think. Pizza and milk, spaghetti and milk. really fun i i agree with that uh i don't know if this is that weird because i think peanut butter is awesome on anything but peanut butter with pancakes is awesome i don't know some people think i got peanut butter she'll put peanut butter a lot of stuff yeah um okay andy johnson says you wake up in the middle of nowhere you have no no idea where you are. You have no phone, watch, or anything. You do, however, have $800 in cash.

How do you get home? $800 seems fine. You got to walk either way. You walk to where you find somebody. Here's what I do. I go to a credit union, and I say, I'd like to get a loan. Okay. I say, what for?

I say, think Froyo, but trivia name. So you're earning your way back, baby. Yeah, I want to come back with way more than $800. How are you going to get a loan? No ID. Oh, dang, that's the one flaw. That's the one flaw. Wells Fargo will not honor that.

Just like, trust me. Look me up. And then they look up your facebook profile it's like that guy looks like rustin down yeah who is that yeah all right you have 800 to get home i mean i think you just you you track someone down well not with the mallet finger you put your left hand up and you're you hitchhike with a hundred dollar bill you don't let them know you have more than that but you only have a hundred dollar bill just to get someone's attention. Okay, wow.

You go $100? Well, I imagine that's the... You only have $800 bills? Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Did he say the denominations we'd be getting? No. Dang it. And I say, hey,

I'm lost right now. I have $100. Could you tell me where I'm at, where you're headed, and potentially help me out? And then you at least get into some city. Yeah, but what if you're in Russia? Oh, oh, okay. I see now.

I see. Didn't say U.S. either. Didn't say denominations or U.S. Okay, it's 800 rubies, rubles, whatever it's called. I didn't say $800. That's fair. I think you, yeah, you got to just find civilization like you're saying. And then from there.

I mean, I guess depending on how far away from home you get a job. I was going to say, is it worth it to try to get home with $800? Or is it worth it to say, hey, I'm going to spend a week, make as much money as I can somewhere. And now I have whatever, $1,500. Let's go with that. Let's go with the Russia thing. You are in rural Russia and you have to get home with $800. Yeah. That's tough. What do you, what do you, if you're in a rural setting, what's your best trait? Like what what what quality are you bringing to a russian farmer i can run a mile i can i can i can huck some things around like if they're like you need some manual labor i'll i'll push some hay around yeah i don't have any like trades or skills but i think like i can work hard i'll work all day i'll work all i'll work you i'll work all day

i'll be bored i don't have my phone what else am i gonna do all day like we would speak the same language so i could i could milk cows all day i bet yeah i want to be two weeks to milk the cows and they'll look like a pervert i'll milk the cows if you want milk the cows i mean anything that's wanting to be milked i'll milk it goats sure take crack at it you're popping your knuckles yeah i'd love to yeah i think uh you just go russian countryside and maybe you don't go home and maybe i kind of like it uh okay uh perfect bondi bowl order says jc oh jace uh you're gonna want to get a large so a large from us is i think 24 ounce container big boy this is a meal replacement.

And how we do it, so you're going to get acai on the bottom and then we do a layer of granola and then you do another layer of acai. It's like a Big Mac. And then another layer of granola. Is that standard or is that,

you have to ask for that? Yeah, yeah. That's how we do our large bowls. And it's the best because that's how it should be done because you don't want all your granola on top. You get done,

okay, now I need a reset. Okay. That's what you do with ice cream too. They should put a layer of sprinkles in the middle too 100 you know anything with like a topping so and then what about this whole bowl double decker like put put some fruit down there too while you're while you're at it that's kind of fun yeah why not sorry this is your perfect fill it up i'll do my perfect bowl and then depending on what you're in the mood for if this is a meal for you throw a little uh

maybe a little protein mix in. What do you got? You got some protein mixes. Yeah, maybe a little collagen in there, if that's what you're in the mood for. Sure. Or if you're trying to pig out, you want this to be more of a treat, more of a snack. Then we're going to go big old bowl of granola. You know what?

Give me some strawberries. Give me some blueberries. And load me up with Nutella. And oh, that's going to taste good. Okay. I want one right one right now yeah we should do those for the when we watch the basketball game bowls and basketball bowls and balls balls and balls yeah bowl bowl oh yeah i shout out glide he did name our basketball group chat acai bowl bowls yeah that's right forgot about that uh what would your perfect bowl be i really like bananas okay i gotta have bananas in there i i think the trifecta for me is just banana strawberry blueberry do you guys have other ones kiwi or anything with kiwi

we have raspberry um a ton of like little mix-ins that it's going to take four years to get rid of we got a 10 pound bag of bee pollen so okay it's gonna to take a while. Don't like the taste of that very much. Yeah, that's one of the things that's like good for you, but doesn't taste great. I like kiwi and raspberries, but I would really just like the, you know, the primary colors there.

Yeah, it looks great. You want peanut butter? I don't. Okay. I think, well, not my perfect one. I think I would like it. I would probably adjust something. I don't know if I'd put strawberries in there

if I'm going peanut butter. Yeah. More like a peanut butter jelly kind of thing. Extra granola, normal granola? I would do extra granola, I think, but I would do, as much as I like the acai base, we got to lay a base, right? Yeah. You got to have the base.

Maintry Roasters is my base. Maintry Roasters is my base too, brother. So suck it. But I think you got to have a good, uh, ratio. I don't want too much base personally. Yeah. So I think I would just get a regular size. Yeah.

I don't think I go kids. Kids is pretty small. Yeah. I would go regular. And because like, sometimes like I make a big old sandwich with like just a ton of meat and it's like, this is going to be awesome. And it's just like, I can't taste the cheese. The ratio is off. Yeah. I'm not enjoying my sourdough bread with it. So, uh, same thing

with my acai bowls. I want just a solid size, but just nice amount of fruit. I would, if I could, I'd double the fruit and I double the granola. Oh, fun. Yeah. Yeah. Load up the top is your top heavy. Basically I want to be top heavy and then I'm mixed. I'm a mixer. Really? Like as a jambalaya? Yeah. Because I don't like the competition. We know who we're talking about here. At the end of it, it's all base, and their base isn't very good.

Yeah. So it's like, this is disappointing now. What is nice about having hundreds of pounds of granola on hand is I never take a bite without granola. You're not skipping on the nola. Yeah. If I'm like towards the end, okay, I will do like one-to-one ratio. As much acai is left, I will do that much granola. And then I call, it's like acai soup or something.

Yeah, dude. Oh, it's so good. Okay. I'm going to redo it. I'm putting granola at the very bottom fun and then it kind of drips down into it more granola yeah yep granola is so good maybe someday once we're up and running and it's going well i would like to try like its own product like selling think of a name for it but all it is is like almost like runny aussie it's like blended a

little bit more and just so much granola. It's almost like cereal. That's fun. But you could drink it. You could take it to go. Oh, oh yeah. Yeah. I would enjoy that.

That would be so good. Yes. Let's explore that. Okay. TBD. TBD. It'd be a couple years. New time.

TBD. Um, okay. I'm not answering that one uh what was that healing waters question somebody asked oh yeah it was like how do i like give to people uh who need more water water yeah i know we we've been friends for a long time in podcasts for a long time but it is great like i don't think that's a given that i could just sit here and podcast with someone and like, just like, wait, I don't see, I didn't see a, what are you looking at? Yeah. Are you on the doc? I see anonymous links on here, but I didn't know that was you.

I try not to take stuff like that for granted. It's just great. I know you're going to like, pick up what I'm putting down and it's just so easy. And of course I've interrupted the flow now, but it is great that you know what I'm talking about. Sorry. What was the question again? How can I, where can I donate you read it okay you're better at reading no yeah it says the german accent i have too much money and feel like it should go towards water weird i know but do you have anywhere hold on i'm gonna scroll no no I could. Oh, so you see the rest? No, no, no.

I'm seeing a new one here. Oh, what's your saying? Shoot. Let me find it. Oh, you could read the Spanish one. It's saying I'm trying to start a new water fundraising trivia shop called Hydro Info. Good idea. Bad idea.

Good idea. Bad idea. info good idea bad idea good idea bad idea get it like like for your info uh but with um raising money for people who need uh clean water first of all smart idea second of all love it i'm reading um alexandra hydrates play oxygen play h2to h2to um this one says hola hola one sorry i'm just i'm having trouble reading it because it's spanish uh then you're not looking at your screen like sorry i'm having a hard time reading i was looking off to the side sorry i'm having a tough time reading it right now because it's in spanish it says um um yo I live vivo in Chiapas, Mexico. Mexico.

Si. That's all it says, but there was a vibe to it that seemed like they were in need. And so why don't we just put these things together and say, hey, give water directly to my amigo Juan, to the fine people of Chiapas, Mexico. You can either do it at Hydro Info,

brick and mortar. It'll be open, I don't know, when Bondi Bowl is open in five months. Or it'll be, you can go to give.healingwaters.org slash ghostrunners and do it right away. That's probably the right way to do it.

Yeah, we have all these people saying, I want to give water. I want to give money. Where do I do it? This is how. Yeah. This is how. Healing Waters,

thanks to the ghosties, thanks to the ministry that's matching all the donations. We're up to, I'm going to say by the time this comes out, we've given $25,000 to Healing Waters. I bet it's going to be somewhere around there. Wow. You guys are so generous. Yeah. Just brick by brick, ghostie by ghostie, small, medium, large donations.

You guys are all being so generous. And so we're going to keep it moving. You can give a one-time gift. You can give a monthly gift. And whatever you feel kind of led to do, we would appreciate it. I know they would appreciate it. We're giving the gift of healthy water to an entire village of people that don't have access to it. Yes.

So please check it out. It's give.healingwaters.org slash ghostrunners to donate today. Okay, let's do some more advice. Vellum Design Studios says best and worst parts of living in the Midwest. I don't know if that's really advice, but... Worst parts would

be bugs, like mosquitoes. That's just generally kind of annoying every summertime. Sure. Not too bad. Tolerable. Um, and then I guess just like winter time.

Yeah. Yeah. Just having winter. See, I think that's one of my favorite things about the Midwest is that it has four seasons, like a true four seasons. And I like winter for a season. Yeah.

It gets, it gets old around if it, if it bleeds into like March and April, it's like this, it's, it's time to be warm. I think if I could, if I could take everything I have here in Kansas City and just put it in like, I don't know, anywhere Southern than here, I would do it. Yeah.

See, but it feels like the summers here are a little more mild than when I think of South. I think it's like, I can't breathe outside. It is really, really hot. Like it feels like you you're just in somebody's like mouth, like somebody just is breathing. Like, and you're just inside of that a hundred percent humidity. Um, so yeah, a downside of the Midwest, it doesn't have weather as good as Hawaii. Maybe we'll say that it's different than Hawaii. I think it's better than Hawaii. I think most people would disagree with you. I think people were like, would you rather live in Kansas or Hawaii? They'd be like, flip a coin. I don't know. I don't know. Like all that sand, you know, you get sand on your shoes. Honestly, that's

probably the worst part about being in Kansas is that you're far away from the beach. I like the beach. And I think, yeah, uh, that's probably the only thing I don't love about this location, but it's nice on another level, more optimistically that you're not far away from like, you can take a direct flight ideally anywhere. Obviously you can't go to like small regional airports directly, but like Trey always talks about that. He's like, Kansas City is the best place to tour out of. You can get anywhere.

It's so centrally located. Like imagine going to LA to New York or something like that. Like that's a, that's a bear of a day. Yeah. Whereas like we can go Casey to LA in a morning. Yeah. Direct Southwest flight. Easy.

Yeah. So I like that about, uh, Kansas city and just the Midwest. I feel like is, or Kansas city specifically, but in general, the Midwest with the exception of maybe Chicago is like pretty accessible. Like as far as like, it's not, there's no word that's like the traffic here is terrible. You know,

like even like rush hour, quote unquote in Kansas city is like, yeah, you have to drive like 30 miles an hour for like six minutes. For the, like one exit link from one exit to one exit. It's busy. And that's,

sorry, I'm late. I hit, hit traffic. And it's like, you're six minutes late. Like, yeah, it's not too bad. You're fine. Like, whereas sometimes it's busy and that's sorry i'm late i hit hit traffic and it's like you're six minutes late like yeah it's not too bad you're fine like whereas sometimes it's like standstill traffic in cities and stuff like that one thing i like about kid city or just the midwest like we're all kind of any mid major midwest city but like omaha you know des moines you know little

rock anything that you're just kind of like an underdog with not a lot of like stereotypes yeah it's kind of like i don't think i would like living the same life i have now but living in los angeles because people would assume things about me and they would assume things about my friends or my church or you know whatever same with new york or miami some of these other places where it's like it's nice to just like people don't know much about us people don't expect much of us right besides st louis like no one in the midwest is really arrogant so i'm just kidding uh yeah i think there is like that humility or like that like yeah hey we're just we're just living happy lives here just doing our thing and yeah taylor swift kind of lives here every now and then it's pretty cool

all right rindle my weaver says what's up boys i need advice on a tactical way to kill this tomato worm right now the thing is two inches long and about as round as a quarter. The thing is too big to smush. Round as a quarter? Not bad. Two inches long, round as a quarter. I can't imagine anything else like that besides this worm. A couple thoughts.

One. A quarter, yeah. Yeah, I would say. Literally last night, Rachel and I were driving and we were turning on laramie street i said what are the two things that i'm thinking of that have to do with laramie well i'll ask you i got them okay no the second one is not you first one is wyoming yep university of wyoming and the other one was uh a model of a ram truck that's really yeah come on jake you like never know anything about cars. I don't know.

It came to me last night. Really? Rachel's answer. She said, is it a type of worm? No. Maybe. Thanks for thinking I know worm types, but yeah, I didn't miss a beat. All right.

Can you tell me the two things about Laramie? Okay. One of them is worm. Obviously worm. Like everyone knows worm. What do you know about worms? Earth worms and inch worms. That's all I can think of. What's the one that eats your food for you? Tape worm. There you knows worm. What do you know about worms? Earthworms and inchworms. That's all I can think of.

What's the one that eats your food for you? Tape worm. There you go. Oh yeah. Okay. Ringworm. Ringworm. Yeah.

Is that a thing or is that a, is it a worm? Oh, well, I don't know. Like if you have a ringworm in you, does it show up on your skin or is that what they call something? I think it's maybe just on your skin.

Cause I think I had it one time. I think my kids have had it one time too. Don't, Catherine probably doesn't want anybody to know. We're good parents. We just. It happens. Yeah.

Ringworm happens. The worm, the dance move. The worm. Yep. Reverse worm. Tomato worm. Tomato worm.

I think it's two inches long. I need advice on a tactical way to kill this tomato worm. I don't think you need to kill it yourself and make sure it's two inches long. I need advice on a tactical way to kill this tomato worm. I don't think you need to kill it yourself and make sure it's dead. I would just take some kind of homemade catapult and just throw it as far as you can down the road and just let that baby do whatever. It's not getting back to you for years, probably, if you do that. And or it's dead my idea uh is you're gonna you're gonna get this taken care of and you're also gonna send a message to the neighborhood

to the other animals they get too close to you so you're gonna kind of rig this thing up you're essentially gonna like hang it from your tree you're not gonna kill it and you're also not gonna put on a fishing line or whatever basically you want to dangle it out there to be eaten in the middle of the night. So just like tie it up, wrap it up something and just hang it from a tree real low. So that'll come by and eat it tonight. And then your problems take care of,

and it lets the other tomato worms. No, don't mess with Randall Weaver. Don't mess with this Mato. Yeah. Or just, uh, get Ponex on it.

It's true. You could get, yeah, I had a, I had a buddy. We're on tax dollars going towards. Yeah, our uncle who used to work for the FBI and then he got switched over to Ponex. So I could text him. Yeah.

I got connections in the Ponex. Did you see CBS is coming out with NCIS Ponex soon? I did see that. Yeah, it's going to be awesome. Yeah, I'm not much of a primetime TV watcher like live, but I'm going to watch that one live. I do young Sheldon and then I do Ponax Miami. You do. Yeah. Those are my two months. Yeah. Ponax colon Miami. Oh, that's great. All right. Ben from St. Louis. Nevermind. Um, no, I'm just kidding. I'll read it. Um, I'm an entrepreneur starting my own business insurance business. It's been almost a year and at times things can still be really tough. What has helped the both of you in the

beginning stages of a new business and what encouragement slash advice do you have to people who are just getting started in their entrepreneur journey? Thanks guys. So what has helped in the beginning stages of a new business? I actually just met with Josh Brumfield the other day, ghosty slash just awesome guy. He's starting a new business and he was just bouncing ideas. And it was so fun to talk that kind of stuff. I don't know. I don't know if it's like a career that I want to pursue, like a consultant or something, but it's just fun.

I think about that too. It's so fun. It's just fun to like, especially when it's like other people that get it. That's why I think I love this table setters thing that we're doing with all those guys. But I don't, I mean, my biggest thing, I don't know if it's different for insurance, but it's like take on as much as you can right now as far as business goes. Create a portfolio of sorts so that you can like, I think that really helps get momentum in the future. If that makes

sense. Like kind of like when you start a video channel, you're not going to have a hundred thousand followers right away. But if you have, you know, all of a sudden you have 25 videos on the channel, it's like, okay, these guys look more legit or whatever. Um, so I don't know if I have a ton of advice cause I've taken some like, quote unquote, risk in my life, but I've never like fully just like, I'm all in on this thing. It has to work. I've always given myself kind of a bit of a financial runway to work with where it's like, I don't need this to absolutely work out. I, you know, I have other options and things. So I would say best thing you do is mitigate risk and stress by

leveraging what you already have, or it's kind of what you did. Like I was only going to work on my second business, you know, in addition to my first job until I cannot handle both. Yeah. I think I was going to say that, that is advice of itself. Like, I don't think it's smart to just go all in on something like right away, like until you've proven it or whatever. I don't know if you're single and don't have many commitments, maybe, you know, assess however you want, but like, yeah, figure it out along the way or like, yeah, do two things. I don't know if that's necessarily what he's asking about, but, um, encouragement slash advice, I would say

just in general, this is, this is not like, Hey, if you spend a million dollars and work really hard, you're going to be successful. But I think in general, people who work really hard are successful. Like maybe not right away, maybe not, you know, completely, but like, I'm always confident that like, I'm going to be able to provide for my family because I'm going to work hard enough to do it. I might not figure it out. I might not do it in the exact way that I think I'm doing it right now or whatever. Like I might have to, you know, go whatever, deliver pizza for six months or whatever. But it's like, I'm going to figure out a way. And therefore like you are going to be

all right. If you just work hard. I know it's so, so simple to hear, but like, that's my encouragement is like, you are going to succeed if you want to succeed with this, if you are willing to work hard enough for it and not give up. So it's my, my encouragement. Yeah. Without knowing the specifics, it's hard to get too helpful. But one of my big business philosophies are just like habits that I have. I love putting money back into the business and just like knowing that it is going to pay off in the end. Like Friday pickleball. I don't, I make next to nothing on that because I, I pay time and well,

I pay Ryder. Well, I pay Nathan Coley. Well, you know, just like I want everyone to like, let's, let's beef up the content. Let's beef up everything. And like, it'll pay off. Like let's, yeah. I'm just a big fan of reinvesting. That's good word too. Yeah. I, I would always do that. I was like, if it's a good month for woodworking, it's like, okay, I'm going to buy a tool that yeah. Helps me be more efficient. And like you said, same, same thing. You're buying a tool. Yeah. Timon's a tool. Timon's a huge tool, right? Like he's, he's the biggest tool we can think of. When I look at time and I think, what a big old hammer.

That's all I see. What a, what a. Okay. What episode of VeggieTales should I watch? Whatever one is the one. Yeah, I was going to say it's season four, episode six. Six or seven. Probably a good place to start.

It's the where's my hairbrush? Larry, the cucumber. So these songs with everyone. And they're at the beginning of those episodes are always doing like previously on VeggieTales. It's a little kind of catchy up to like who's dating who, and like kind of like the drama from like last season. Yeah. It's crazy how much they interweave like seasons.

Like you're like, you forgot. I forgot about Bob, the tomatoes. Yeah. Foster child. Yes. Larry Salamanca. I forgot. Yeah. Foster Child. Yes. Larry Salamanca.

I forgot. Oh my gosh. I'm glad they reminded me of him. Okay. My wife of three months sleeps talks. This is Josh. Josh Katz. My wife of three months sleep talks and can hold a full conversation while she's asleep

and I'm awake. Wow. Never heard of anything like this before. What should I ask slash talk about while she's asleep? would say so this is what i'm doing with rachel keep a journal of it like and write it down because it's so funny i love like i did it this past weekend i was just told uh rachel's parents i was like here's a couple updates of what rachel said in her sleep recently and it's so fun to like rehash that like the things she's doing and saying so you got any rememberies rememberies of what

she's done i mean some of them i've talked about before the time she like woke up and just started clapping and then checked her watch and then started clapping again that's when i can remember off the top of my head let's see i think i talked about when she thought she saw a woman in the window oh yeah rachel in sleep there we go most recently she sat up said what's happening I said nothing

she said oh I thought there was a race or something Bo yesterday fell asleep in the car Bo and Rosie both on the way home from Mother's Day out

and so I just drove around for like an hour it was great yeah listened to Beatles music the whole time because that's what

made him fall asleep. And Bo wakes up and he just goes, Rosie fell asleep. I'm like, yeah, I know. And then he goes, I don't know what I'm going to be for Halloween yet. I'm like, okay, buddy. That's so funny. That was it. Yeah.

He's starting to plan a little bit i guess so just thinking rachel's told me this is called uh executive functions okay when like i think infants and kids start to like learn how to like plan ahead for things and like prepare for things it's like a part of like adolescence interesting development oh he was all about that when i told him about field dreams but like yeah okay we gotta do that we gotta make sure you pack my glove, Dad. Remember? We got to bring my glove.

We got to pack. Bring your stuff, pack. That's really good. Yeah. Other one, Rachel said, did she see something in there? I said, no. She said, okay, good.

I couldn't see through the mirror, so I didn't know. Couldn't see through the mirror. I couldn't see through the mirror, so I didn't know. She was interrogating somebody at a tv show for police officers and then last one she sat up on the couch and goes oh heads up and then went back to sleep i like that one heads up she's always like her eyes are awake

or her eyes are open yeah yeah wakes up and just fully thinks whatever is in her dream is like happening right now so her parents, has she always done this? Um, she doesn't really know. She thought like everything like volleyball sleepovers, like some people have told her this before, but she didn't know how often it was happening. And her parents never said like, oh yeah, I remember when you were napping on the couch and you, yeah. Freaked.

Yeah. Right. Yeah. No, they haven't said much. Uh, answering Josh's question just about what should I ask slash talk about? I think you assume you, you pre choose some different characters that you assume. One of them doesn't speak English.

One of them, you only speak to her in Spanish and see how confusing she gets. How confused, uh, you know, another character, be a repairman, whatever she's talking about.

Like I could do it, but it's going to cost you. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, it'll be worth it in the long run. Yeah. Look, we do this model.

I'll be back in six months. We're gonna do this model. I won't see you ever again. Probably. Yeah. I think just whatever she talks about, just try to say the most random thing, like non like connecting thing back and see how she responds to it. Yeah.

Cause that, that's, that's hilarious to me. Like if she says, heads up, and you go, oh, we need to get some more granola. Or you say, yeah, we're hunting. Yeah. Obviously, I'm looking around.

Just take, pretend you're in an improv scene. Everything is yes and. Yes, right. Take us somewhere. Where are you going? Yeah, that's a good thing too. Like, yeah, go hunting.

Be on the- Go hunting together. Yeah. Just like yeah just like okay okay i got your six be careful you got safety on yeah all right i don't want to tell you again that's fun go see sending so many questions uh okay alexis Oh, I like her. Yeah. Alexis West, uh, Jake and or Brad, I can assume your to-do list is pretty lengthy. Do you use a mental, physical or electronic method to make a list? How do you decide which tasks to do first? Mental 90% of the time. If I'm really overwhelmed, I go electronic in my notes. 90% of the time. Yeah. That's amazing. And you don't forget things? Not super often. I mean, no, not too bad.

I'm still able to like handle most things and knowing what I have to take care of and whatnot, but every now and then I'll write it down. I have a, I have a note on my phone and it's, it was called, I named it one time way back in the day, Tuesday completion. Okay. It's just my master to-do list. And sometimes I will break it down from there of like, okay, these are the things I need to do on my computer. These are the things I need to do in person. These are like people I really don't want to do and like, you know, be honest with myself and whatever, but yeah, it's I sometimes I think writing down a to list can make me more overwhelmed. It's like, I I think writing down a to-do list can make me more overwhelmed. It's like, I got this. I know what I need to do. So it's only when I already feel overwhelmed, like,

well, might as well write it down. Cause I'm already feeling a little stressed, but I'm a big fan of personally making my to-do list, making my plans the day before, like this is what I need to do tomorrow. To do tomorrow is the name of my note. Okay. Yeah. Cause it's like so often the day of I'm like, I don't know. I don't know what I should do. I have this to do list, but I don't know what I should do first or like what's the most efficient, you know? So I'm not always doing that, but I try to do that. Alexis. Um, okay. So I have a few more here. Uh, how do you guys stay content and have a positive attitude in the midst of changing

and potentially challenging seasons of life says rachel rachel in princeton's not triplet oh it's coop how do we stay content say it again how do we stay content and have a positive attitude in the midst of changing and potentially challenging seasons of life i honestly i don't even know because so much of my positive attitude just feels like... It doesn't really feel like a choice that I'm making. It feels like just who I am.

So I guess you would chalk that up to my upbringing and also my genetics. I think my parents are both positive people. I was surrounded by positive people. I think I naturally gravitate towards those types of people. So it makes it easy to see the positive in things. It makes it easy to find the good in things, but it's not something I'm consciously choosing to do most of the time, I would say. I know it's not a satisfying answer. Yeah, no, I, I, I kind of feel the same way. I've always like,

yeah, been very thankful for how I was brought up with my parents and my sisters being positive people. And like, yeah, our, our situation wasn't bad, but it wasn't incredible, but it was like, no, this is great. We love our family. We love everything about our lives. Like, and so I'm sure it is deeply ingrained in us, like you're saying. Um, but I mean, obviously there's times where they're hard and whatever Jesus Duke, obviously it's the Lord through us and working through us and asking for his help with that. But, um, that was the only like tangible advice. It's just like zoom out, you know, whether, you know, if it's from a Christian perspective and it's like, Hey, you know what? I am stressed

right now about work, but I can't take this money with me and I know where I'm going. I don't need to be as stressed about this or this thing that is legitimately sad. Like, at least I know this, even from not a Christian perspective, just trying to zoom out and see like, I'm going to be alive for 80 years. This thing that's bothering me right now, right now is annoying. And you don't have to tell yourself you're not feeling those feelings. I think you should like be validated in however you feel, but also trying to like reframe it to a point where you're like, Hey, I will get through this. Just like I've gotten through fill in the blank. Look at other things in your life that have made you

sad, made you angry, made you hurt. And like, that was just a small season where I did feel that, but I got through it. Yeah. Zoom out. Yeah. I just feel like if you have the right perspective on life, it is hard to have a bad day because I mean, even talking about healing waters and all that stuff, like people out there don't have water. Yeah. And yeah, it's like, oh, our situation stinks for our standard of stinks, but like we, you know, whatever this, this day was hard in our standard of hard, but it's like, have a bigger perspective here, have a greater, you know, idea of what's going on in the world, how much we deserve to not have any of these blessings, you know, whatever. Yeah. Just the fact that we were born in America.

How great is that? Right. That makes it really nice. I mean, yeah, just be like, right before we recorded this episode, I wasn't stressed, but I was just like, felt like I had a lot to do really quickly. And it was like next week, the PPA is coming. I'm four different pro pickle players have agreed to like shoot with us next week and this other guy. And, but we're not flying back from Reno until Monday afternoon. So I'm coordinate four different pro pickle players have agreed to like shoot with us next week. And this other guy and, but we're not flying back from Reno until Monday afternoon. So I'm trying to rebook flights and coordinate with time in, but Tom says those are non-refundable flights. So it's like,

ah, gosh, how do I figure all this out? And it's like, at least I have clean drinking water. Who cares? Right. It'll all work out.

You know, zoom out. It's fine. Zoom out. It's a good, that's a good word. Um, okay.

Guy, uh, Shannon says I'm a dude named Shannon and people always think I'm a girl when they hear my name before they meet me. Help. You know, I met a girl last night who was named Drew. I was asking her about that. I said,

I've never met a female drew. Obviously Drew Barrymore is kind of your hero. I assume, uh, kind of who you put on a pedestal. I said, you come a lot of across a lot of them. She said,

no. So does that help? I don't think it does as much as my advice. Are you ready for my advice? Change your last name to Sharp and people, you'll get. I think I said change your gender. Nope. Don't think so. I think just change your name to Sharp. All of a sudden

when you make reservations places, you know, tables will open up for you. Oh my gosh. Everyone but a guy named Skip will love you. If you don't get the joke, you're're probably not named shannon and a dude skip that's the one shannon i can think of um dora the explorer explorer oh thoughts on women initiating a relationship oh sorry the name of the person who like called it and or whatever okay it's like all right let's talk d, let's talk Dora. Let's talk women in STEM, women in expiration, women can keep story. Okay.

Thoughts about women, women initiating a relationship. Oh yeah, sure. Fine. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of like it too. Cause I mean, now that I like, not that I like now that I fully understand women, but now that, you know, I've lived with one for a year and you get a little more glimpse into how women work and how it's like, oh,

wow. I could think of so many times, like I was not picking up on signals. I had no idea. Even just thinking back to like, oh, you know what? That girl did reply to every single story I posted for about a year straight and never really thought much of it. And she's engaged. I really appreciate her support.

Big fan of my comedy. You know, just like guys are just naturally not good at picking up signals. So yeah, do what you got to do. thought much of it man she's engaged i really appreciate her support big fan of my comedy i guess you know just like guys are just naturally not good at picking up signals so yeah do what you got to do i mean the the story is a little bit i mean it's a long story but basically like i don't think katherine and i would be married if she didn't initiate i initiated initially and then eventually like we kind of went on and off again and then i kind of gave her distance and then all of a sudden she like was like wait like, wait, you're not gonna one time. She's like, you're not going to come sit by me. And I was like, Oh snap. It's on. And how fun is that? And like,

you just needed that little just sense. And who knows if maybe, yeah. Oh, exactly. Like, it's not like, don't, don't pursue this guy to the like ad nauseum. Like don't suffocate the guy, but like, yeah, I think it is nice. Just like it's nice for a girl to feel wanted. It's nice for a guy to feel wanted in a relationship. Like, and women, you have a lot more, you're the leash is a lot longer. I want you to imagine a guy at church says, you're not going to sit by me. Now I want you to imagine a girl saying, you're not going to sit by me night and day, different perspective. The guy is like, dude, come on, get out of here. You're like the, where's my hug guy. Oh, come on. You're not going to sit by me. Come and day, different perspective. The guy is like, dude, come on, get out of here. You're like the, where's my hug guy? Oh, come on. You're not going to sit by me?

Come on. Yeah. It's like, I got an open seat for you. It's like, oh dude, chill. But if a girl is like, you're not going to sit by me? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm so nervous. I'm going to pray so hard during this thing to see how spiritual I am. This is so cool. Oh yes, let's go. This is so cool. Let's go. Oh, I hope I have enough verses highlighted in my Bible so she knows that I have a strong relationship.

I'm glad I brought a pen today. I'm going to make so many notes. Oh, I'm going to be scribbling. Oh, yes. Very good. Let me circle this off on a map. Okay. How high should I hold my hands during worship?

Okay. Yeah. What size TV? That's right. Is it a Vizio or Wazeo? Okay. Let's end it there. Is that is that good yeah that's great thanks for everyone for sending stuff in we'll we'll if you guys like this segment we'll do it more often and yeah um yeah but uh yeah it's just fun fun to see some different things oh a1 blackjack says 16 versus

a 10 hit or stand you know in my younger years i used to um stay and now you got hit that a boy yeah yeah yeah got a hit the more adventurous you become yeah let's live a little yeah that's right and don't get insurance suckers bet suckers bet but get insurance from that guy in st louis yes that's yeah. St. Louis, you're gonna need insurance. I would say, yeah. Lock your door.

Get homicide insurance. Yeah. Been from St. Louis. Lock your doors. Anyway. All right. Let's end this thing with a win of the week

and comment of the week. Great. My win of the week is going to be a video that I'm going to show you and then I'll have time to put on the screen. Hey,

tool, put on the screen. What's up, Tool? So it was a surprise that I was going to Iowa. We didn't tell anyone that I was going there. And so Rachel and I kind of schemed up. Rachel was going to like drop a bunch of crumbs, like eating a cookie and like, oh, dad, will you go get the broom? And I was in the closet ready to scare him. You're going to come out of the closet. Yep.

So this is the, I was recording from the closet. Wait, can I ask some questions before you play this? How'd you get in the closet? I got home before, they were out golfing when I arrived. So we had like 10 minutes to prep. Perfect. Oh! That was a setup deal the whole time wasn't it

wow rachel's dying how'd you know i was gonna get a broom how'd you know i was gonna how'd you know i was gonna get i was gonna sweep it up with a broom and not just lick it off. It was funny. Him trying to rehash it afterwards. He's like, and I can't believe I just thought to go get a broom. That's crazy. And Rachel's like, dad, I said, go get a broom.

He's like, did you? I thought I just, I just, I just thought I was proactive. He thought Rachel was a mentalist. Like, how did you correctly predict all of my behavior? So that was really fun. Great, man. My win of the week is just my AirPods. The squeak is gone.

We're back to normal. Someone posted on the Facebook group about the squeak. You've had a couple of squeak comments and posts. That's why I'm telling people about it because I probably have had 20 people talk to me about the squeak. People were concerned. Some people were like, it's there forever.

Sorry. Other people were like, no, no, no. Here's how you fix it. You got to put a splint on it. Probably a couple of days after I talked about it on the podcast, it was gone. Squeak's gone. Squeak's gone.

Not bad. Comment of the week. Comment of the week. I'm going to go. Let's see. Zachstack215. Yeah. I'm just glad to hear time on his back. He was out a suspiciously long time. I'd heard a rumor that he wasn't being renewed for the next season, but glad they kept

Brad's son on the payroll. Well, Zach Stack, you're in for a treat. We pretended like Tymon wasn't even on this episode, but... Tymon, go ahead. No, go ahead. Alright. He's really committing to the bit.

Tymon, what if you... Stop. Just don't laugh into the mic. Just do something else. What if we did your five favorite songs again? Never gonna give you up? Never gonna give you up. Jesus Loves Me?

No. Wow. Nothing. Anything? Something for the newsies? I think Greenleaf's a bunch of crap. Go ahead. Go ahead.

Fight me. I think collegeleaf's a bunch of crap. Go ahead. Go ahead. Fight me. I think college is the right choice for you. I think you're making a mistake by sitting here right now and not being on a university campus. Wow. All right. Well, sorry, Zach Stack. I thought he'd be a little more lively.

He's like, that one girl's hurt. Cut it out. Cut it out. All right. I actually kind of have two comments here uh trevor sullivan 205 uh on youtube on the wednesday episode of last week thank you guys for such a great and wholesome podcast that my wife and i can talk about while i'm stationed on the far side of the world from her she listens at work i listen after my i have my dinner same time of day for us though 13 hour

time difference. Can you give a shout-out to Sage in Jacksonville, Florida, from her husband over in Japan? Yes. Shout-out to Sage. Shout-out to single moms everywhere. You know, that's amazing. Yeah. All the things you're doing.

Shout-out Trevor. He's in the Navy right now, defending our freaking freedom. Shout-out Trevor. He said... Do the song. Thank you, Navy. I was like,

what song? And here's a s'mores topic. Best twist in a movie. Oh, we'll think about it. Or do we not do now? No, we probably need to think about it.

That was good. The only thing I can think of is six cents. The prestige. Never seen. I know the twist. So does that ruin the movie for me? Book of Eli. Never.

Oh, but he's something about his eyesight. Yeah. Yeah. See, who's telling me all these things? What other twist are there? It's fun. Get out. You may sound like that's twisty.

Yeah. Or at least like, whoa. You know something needs to happen dude best twist in a movie what twisters tim tim come on come on imax dude i've heard it's unreal uh maybe not twist yeah twist just a revelation uh crazy stupid love yes that they're all yeah yeah dude how did you just pull that because Because it was like, because I remember watching it the first time and being like, ho, ho! It was like a double.

Oh, how about that? That is a fun twist. Yeah, I need to stop just thinking thrillers or action. Sometimes those kind of movies can have a little twist. 100%. Did you ever watch any of those like New Year's Eve

or Valentine's Day? Yeah, it wasn't like Charlie St. Cloud or one of those, there was one of those like Nicholas Sparks movies where she was a ghost. Ooh, it wasn't like Charlie St. Cloud or one of those. There was one of those like Nicholas Sparks movies where she was a ghost. Oh, I don't know about that. I'm thinking like those movies are the ones that have like 18 big names in them.

And all of a sudden they're all connected at the end. It's kind of fun. It's not really a twist, but. I'm Googling Nicholas Sparks. She was a ghost the whole time with the mallet. Yeah, I might have made that up. Might have made that. Maybe I really wanted her to be a ghost.

Either way, fun s'mores topic. Yeah, we'll think about it. Submit other s'mores topics if you'd like as well. They're always fun to see. Okay, and then Danny Park Parker's was the one that, uh, did the jingle last week. She just said,

I feel so honored for singing. Thanks for singing our jingle. And then Ryan guy who probably could win a comment of the week every week. I would say he gets, should get some award for like most commonly makes me laugh. Best, best subsequent comment. Yeah.

Uh, so he commented and just said, definitely going to listen to this jingle in the gym bathroom stall at full volume. When Brad belts out the first ghost runners pod, the guy sitting in the stall next to me will be thankful he was already in a prime position to be so startled. Like just like, Oh, that would be funny. So shout out to Ryan guy. All right, Jake, take us out. Take us home. Take it.

What was that? Uh, Hannah Creech. All right. Take us home. All right. All right. Ashley,

take us home. Take us home. Go ahead. Go ahead. Do it. Um, all right. Yeah.

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