Ghostrunners - 362 - Eating Chili on Top of Spaghetti

Episode Date: September 2, 2024

Trying to figure out Timon's birthday, Brad is back from speaking at a fatherhood conference, Jake turned 33, and everybody is upset with the road construction. Help give the gift of water to those in need: https://give.healingwaters.org/ghostrunners Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brad and I, we got quite the email this week. Electronic mail. Yep, electronic mail was delivered to my inbox. And I think right away I text Brad, but he's also, he's gone. He's, you know, encouraging the next generation of fathers. You know, he's doing his thing. But I tell Rachel and I say, Rachel, Brad, no, sorry. I say, Rachel, I just got an email from from the chiefs they want me to come to like the

opening game like this the tickets are so expensive chiefs ravens and she was like wow that's awesome you should you should go with brad i was like oh okay yeah so they definitely invited me and brad together yeah it was a jean shorts oh that's awesome you should take brad that's a good jean shorts it's got to be you and brad then i've been thinking about it for a few seconds it's my best if you just take brad brad uh it means well i think when you weigh me and brad i obviously would mean more to brad but but brad loves jean shorts and so i think you guys need to do that. That makes the most sense. Stay in that lane.

Right. Jean shorts. I've only been in like a few videos. Dang it. You know. Ruin it. Ah, shoot. Whole joke.

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Everybody morning, we're taking ground Ghost Rubs Podcast Ghost Rubs Podcast But yeah, just so seriously like that's really great for you but i do think it just probably makes the most sense for you to take brad it's like yeah i think i will oh man it was addressed to me and brad yeah so i should have clarified that i am curious like i've corresponded with her but she emailed you and you're like dude did you see the email i was like no what i checked i was like i'm not i'm not seeing this yeah because it said hello jacob brad yeah but only emailed to me yeah a deep talk to her yeah uh anyway pumped dude i

was trying to explain to katherine because i was like you know i've been gone so much and like i'm leaving more and i'm just like you know talking about, Hey, there's this golf tournament for healing waters. I think it'd be really good if I went to this thing. She was all about it. And then I was like, and there's the chiefs game. She's all about it, dude. Like just such a supportive wife. Shout out to Catherine. Cause I was like ready. It was like the day after I got back from all this stuff, Hey, just want to let you know, these are, these are really fun updates for me. But she understood how exciting, I mean, it's the first game of the season. That's why she was more mind boggled by that of like, Whoa, this is like the NFL's first game.

Football starts. Yeah. And they're like unveiling the Superbowl banner and they're playing the Ravens. They, they like AFC championship rematch. Yeah. It's going to be awesome. So we finally had our phone call yesterday and I was driving and she had prefaced with, I'll send all this in a PowerPoint, but here's what it's going to be.

So once I hear that, I'm like, oh, I'll just check it out with PowerPoint. I'm tuning out. Oh, 100%. Thing is, it hasn't said the PowerPoint. So I'm not in a real great position

to relay to you what we're going to be doing. Because I was like, well, the power, oh, who doesn't love learning from a PowerPoint? Like what percentage of information do you think you retain? I'm not in a real great position to relay to you what we're going to be doing. Cause I was like, well, the power, Oh, who doesn't love learning from a PowerPoint? Like what percentage of information do you think you retain? So I could throw a couple of things out to you. Okay.

Like, like I heard, I heard corporation, right? Like what was the word you threw in that one song we did time? And when I asked you to say, what a settlement settlement, I heard settlement briefly. So here's what i remember because yeah i

was like okay this is a lot of information but i mean it's gonna be in a powerpoint i'll just send that to brad whatever yeah um this isn't so the email was like we'd like to invite you guys to the world's largest tailgate this is a thing that airhead stadium did last so it's only their second year doing it it's not that big of a deal from what i could tell they do it every year after they win the super bowl right so they'll do it again next year it's only been two straight years of doing this they do it every time they kick off the nfl season uh but it seems it's like some sort of like corporate yeah maybe get together in the parking lot because there's got to be people there anyway uh and so i you did notice like she's using the word contestants like that's kind of fun yep some sort of contestants

but it also seemed like they're probably just inviting all of the kansas city influencers they know just come and post about it whatever not the case so i know that rob wriggle's going to be hosting something okay fun pow pow what's! Pow, pow! What's he... Captain Jack on The Office, dude. Season two. Captain Jack's a far face. No can do! Can't let you do that.

Nope! Limbo time! Captain Jack says to stare at the moon. Captain Jack's a far face. Captain Jack's a far face. Blah! So Captain Jack is hosting something so uh we are going to be

competing in something some kind of like kansas city themed tailgate type games okay uh next trick shot next trick next trick shot superstar hello um and there's only two teams of six okay there's not that many people doing this okay and she was like and we thought we should have some like influencers to kind of represent kansas city so that's like that's why we called you and brad we are the influence we are the influencers i don't know how confident are you of this information fairly now if you were to ask me the other contestants that's where i was like i don't i'll look at that yeah later because they're not like a-listers but it did seem like

they might be much better known than we are. And then we're kind of just like the comedy guys. It doesn't take much. Yeah, it also doesn't take a whole lot. So yeah, it just seems like we might just be like playing in all these games. Here's the fun part. We don't have to drive ourselves.

Car service. From our house? I was picking this up from your house. Yeah, better be my house. Car service from our house just picking this up from your house yeah that'd be my house car service from your house no that's the most exciting thing i've heard that awesome yeah dude what if it's like we're like this is so sick we get car service and then it pulls up in like a nissan leaf like it's charlie who took me to the airport and uh whatever that car was the tidiest little car like this is sick is sick, dude. We have car service. So cool.

Dude, that actually, like in a stupid way, like fires me up more than cleaning Rob Riggle. Like, this is really cool. 71, please. That's right. I'm picturing like you,

like you're reclining, you push a button and like from the wall emerges like champagne. Yeah, yeah. Is the Ozarka here complimentary? It is. Oh, wow. Okay, yeah, I'll take two. Pop like champagne. Yeah. Yeah. Is the Ozarka here complimentary or it is. Oh, wow.

Okay. Yeah. I'll take two. Pop the top. Yeah. That's fun. Timon, what would you know about champagne?

Nah, nothing. Illinois. He's an Illinois boy. I just, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how to spell it.

So car service is fun. And I'm sure that will get us some kind of like private access into like the, yeah, we'll see. I don't have to wait. Don't you wonder? Just side tangent real quick. How does wind work?

How does that, how does wind just like, does it exist always? And it just sometimes picks up? High pressure system? Like, is there wind always? And it's just like, I want to show myself right now. No. Aren't you just a little bit curious, especially like, let's call it New York City. Let's call it Chicago.

Let's call it Rio de Janeiro. Got it. Big cities. Don't you wonder if there's like a secret tunnel for like the, the important people. Um, don't you wonder like, how does Derek Jeter get to the game on time every time for the Yankees?

So, yeah. Has a player ever ran late for his own game? That's what I'm saying. You never hear about it so here's the little i have to know um big dawes tv you know him yeah old school prankster kid city guy um he did that uh he looks like clay thompson so he like did the sticking into you know the game is clay thompson i've that's the only thing i have to go off of there was like a lower

there's like a ramp to get in he like parked in Oracle Arena yep but I did not see any underground tunnels under the city you're not see how he got there no I didn't see how I got I think he just which he wouldn't know he's not truly tick click you know Thompson I'm struggling I think they just have to get there so early yeah and so there's no traffic yet there's no and then they scan a little badge but like let's say you know nasty snow game in Kansas City. Like, has there ever been like a time? No, there was a time. The Bills.

Do you remember that time when, oh yeah, the Bills player. But I'm thinking of, there was a time where a Chiefs player helped a guy like get out of a ditch on the way to a playoff game. Do you kind of remember that? Like two years ago? Now that's fun. It was Peter, wasn't it? It sounds like a Peter thing.

Peter was in the ditch. Yeah. Yeah. I think was like colin saunders or somebody like that right a little bit like anyway uh i just wonder i just wonder if my homes has like hey he's got a bullet train types tunnel maybe they go air look up well after kobe bryant would you would you dare not a helicopter i would not foggy. No. Clear skies. But yeah, car service. I think we get, like, they asked for our t-shirts, guys. So you tell me what we're getting. Well, I had that thought.

I was like, I don't have very much chief swag. This would be nice. I have my hoodie that I wear every single parade. Your gray hoodie. And then I have my Ali Baba, no, Ali Express from cool guy, Sammy Patrick Mahomes jersey. That's a double XL that fits more like an L. And so I mean, people would laugh at me in that thing. Don't know how agile I'd be in it. It'd be great to get some red chief skier.

Yeah. But then she was very like up front on the phone. She's like, and we want to make sure like you guys, you get to your seats. Like we'll make sure we'll have someone like walk you your seats and you're in your seats before kickoff. We don't want you late to the game. And did you ask? That's most important. Is it hard to like walk to the suite? Did you say that? Like, and like where we'll be sitting? Why need like, will it be sunny or will it be like almost like indoors? Like, will I be hot or cold or will I have climate control? Like room tip? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Club level seats would,

oh, that would be the bell of the ball. Which one is that even? Is that the middle? This is the yellow middle yellows. We did it once with Trey and Amazon prime. Okay. Nice. Yeah. Like private concession stands, still hot dogs and pretzels, but private. But that the line on those things is short, but yeah, you can go back and pay full price much quicker, much quicker. Yeah. You can yeah you can you can spend money a lot easier there yeah i feel like it's like only like eight rows in that club level or something like it's like narrow it's so small it's like how do you get in that select it's like the golden ticket going yep literally it's gold seats yep i'm so pumped dude that's fun i think it's happening no power PowerPoint yet. I don't care. I'm going to wait on my curb like a kid waiting for their divorced dad to show up for a fishing play date. And I will wait for four hours. The game will be on the TV and I won't go back inside.

I'll just be sitting there in my Chiefs L Japanese jersey just sitting there. I want Rachel to send me out like it's the first day of school. Now, you don't want to miss the bus. So go ahead and go out there an hour early. And I've got a lunchbox and a backpack on. And I'm just waiting. We get our picture taken in front of our house. Bud's first game.

NFL week one. I joked that I was like, I want to take Bo with me, with Catherine. And she's like, you would never. And I was like, if it was a suite, I might. Of course you would push it.'re like well maybe maybe hey why not you know but uh maybe they'll let us dude let's talk about how the uh car service is not going to pick us up from your house yeah so I know we talk about every week because like the construction around here is crazy but it's like the so what used to be street, I think I've talked about this before. It looks like a post-war type street.

It's rubble. Road to Damascus is what I call it. And then it became dirt. And then it was – for a couple days, it was like sawdust. They brought in really yellow dirt. And then – Yeah, Bo was hyped about that. He told me about that.

Did he? Yeah, he was excited to tell me all about it. That's funny. Yeah, Bo could confirm. He's seen all of it. We went yellow dirt for like two days it's the entertainment of the of the century for the ellis house but every time they do this the road gets lower and lower and lower isaac came over the other day he's like i've never seen road resurface why does it need to be so low i don't know what are they putting in like heating underneath it that'd be cool why is it so low to

the ground yeah or just low into the ground? Yeah. And so, yeah, more recently, it's just gotten harder and harder. Now they've roped off my driveway. They've cut into my driveway. We lost room. They're getting to the front of the Bondi truck. They don't have much more room left to go.

I don't know what's going to happen at that point. How many feet from the garage is the Bondi truck right now? Oh, it's got a little bit of room. Okay. But still. i don't want to know that they actually um yesterday uh was my birthday and i'm you know trying to get out of the house and i had to drive through my yard not the first time i had to drive through my yard which looked hilarious on the ring doorbell footage i'll put it i'll just put it on the

screen right now and uh time i'll send it to you later. But yeah, this is me driving through just very slowly, just getting through my house. Oh my gosh. And there's been sometimes where I drive around the side of the house through the grass operating and then I get to like the spit out point and there's cars parked there from my other neighbors because that's where they park. Like that's where Dennis parks. Oh. And so then one time I was able to move around.

So then I'm like getting out of my car. Maybe I could send you this footage too. i'm sure it's on my dash cam i'm having to move the road close sign and move it and like move the sandbag so that i can get out and the other times it's just straight up just like it's not gonna work so i have to like rachel said she's been like almost late to school and there's a dump truck behind her she said she knocked on the dump truck and i was like where did you knock and she's like the tire so you're not on the dump truck tire that'll that'll get us attention excuse me yeah dude it's the most people pleaser thing so there was one day where like you need to get out i'm like if you could that'd be great if you don't i have something uh we call it a job that i have to go to yeah i get i get paid for my work. It was. It was like a correct opinion thing. And I couldn't get out the back way.

It's like, that'd be great. And when they're finally like, all right, we'll move some dirt around. We'll give you a little ramp. We'll do this. And I got the window down and I'm just thanking her. Thank you so much.

Thanks for letting me out of my house. That was really sweet what you guys did. Yeah. Seriously, thank you. Thank you. Hey, Jose! Thank you! Gracias!

I seriously, I thanked five of them. I rolled down multiple windows to thank them. I love it. Thank you guys Thank you. Hey, Jose. Thank you. Gracias. I seriously, I thanked five of them. I rolled down multiple windows to thank them. I was like, thank you guys so much. Like, this is my own home. Do we need to do like a car swap for a week or something? Cause like watching you, I watched you one time I was eating lunch and you were coming home. I think maybe Monday or something.

Maybe that was correct opinions. I don't know what it was, but you came home and I watched you. It's kind of like, you know, like those car commercials where you see these cars on like these, you know, it was like professional driver on a closed course. Like when are you ever going to be on that type of road? You're never in the Sahara desert in your Tesla. And then all of a sudden here's Jake pulling into a street. And I just see it like, like at some points, like half of his car, half, not his car.

Just like, I mean, just like testing every shock in that entire yeah can i call you back hold on right yeah powerpoint sounds good okay yeah it's like like katherine's like she's not gonna make it into his house he's gonna have to go through his yard you absolutely did yes i've been yarding it um so uh free free open invite for you guys to come park at our house. Thank you. You have a lot of driveway space. Tons. You can just find a driveway space.

So I got a letter on our door yesterday that said, just heads up, we're going to be pouring concrete. And then I got a letter at 2 p.m. And it looked like the same thing. And they just fixed all their typos. So they have all these typos and the 9 a.m. letter. But then I went and re-read it and it was just we're only pouring concrete for the curb and gutter okay it's like that seems like not much of the full project so this is going to take a while dude does it yes first of all yes that doesn't feel like they are it feels like they've singled out your house more than every other house does that feel true to you you? I haven't observed down the street very well, but do you feel like that?

Walking here from your driveway, I was like, it's way lower just right in front of Jake's house. I don't know. And there's multiple holes right there. Have you looked at that big thing underground? I don't know what that is. It goes so deep into the ground. I don't know if that's gas.

It's not water. A pipe or what is it? Yeah, a massive, it looks like if you're in a museum, you're like, this was the atomic bomb. This was fat man. This was little boy. Here they are. It's like that. I would believe that it just looks like a massive tank in the ground, but it goes so deep. So it must've, it's got to be something with that. I don't know. Something out front. But yeah, me and Dennis, they're really singling us out. We can't get in or out of our homes. Oh man. Does it, it makes me, I started appreciating everything of construction 20 times more watching this simple widening of a street project go along. How long this takes. I'm like, what about a city? What about, what about a building, a skyscraper? Like that's amazing how they build anything. I, it's funny. I always have updates for Rachel when she comes back home because I don't see her anymore.

She's at school. And I was like, today you missed it. They were in reverse all day. Because when they're in reverse, they beep. And like these trucks beeped for eight hours straight. They were never in drive. They only go in reverse around that. They're circling me.

That day was insane. I remember that because I was editing that PPA video. I'm trying to do voiceover. I'm like, all right, as soon as they get done beeping, I got to get going. I got to hurry. And then there was one day they brought in some machine. I don't know what. This machine is mainly used for an offshore oil drilling or something.

But it was just shaking the house, shaking the monitor on my computer. It's like my bed frame is shaking. I was like, somebody's got to see this. This is insane. Was it in front of your house, far down? How close was it? Corner. Really? And it was shaking your house. Yeah. Shook the block. It was awesome. But there was one, yeah, that Bo was talking about. I don't know exactly what it did, but man, he was pumped about like something where it like shot it. Maybe it's the sawdust thing or something like it shot out all this dirt. It wasn't, it wasn't the cement mixer,

obviously, but it was something like, it was like, I don't know. He was like telling it to me. Like he was like a engineer. Like he kind of had like an adult tone to him. He's like, so dad, you see this one, it goes down here and then it goes up there and then it'll shoot down. And it just got all over. I mean, it was amazing. Like I was like, who are you? Uh, I have to cross-reference with Bo. He's seen more than I have probably. It's amazing. Yeah. Just like when I'm gone for three days at a time, I'll come back and your street is completely different every time.

It's just crazy. Why did they pick our street? It's our little unused street. Like, yep, we're going to spend $3 million. Yeah. We're going to widen it. I also have been curious about that. Like, why did they choose that street? I didn't ask for this. Is it the first of every street on the,

in the neighborhood eventually? Or like, Oh man, I don't know. I don't know, but it is getting significantly wider. It is wider. Yeah. They're doing their job. It seemed fine to me. It was a two lane road. We were all driving. We had, we had plenty of fun on it. It was great. Bo would ride his bike down it just fine his little tricycle pumping his pumping his little legs over so now i'll have more room anyway okay birthday you're 33 congratulations 33 jesus year thank you yeah thank you yeah 33 baby thank you you feel old um 33 you know the odd numbers feel older than the even numbers would you agree oh 100 yeah there's something about them dude 31 felt older than 30 and now 33 feels

way worse than 32 that's funny oh what have i done with this ah i mean it's divisible by 11 but not much else but still it still feels i don't know yeah right not great um but yeah i feel good um fingers free oh my gosh i just remembered yeah fingers free and i i meant to do a big reveal i guess i forgot let's see so it looks it looks fully healed there we've still been you know yep yeah as far as range of motion still kind of stiff we're almost okay like yeah yeah. You can make a fist. You can tell it's a little bit. Yep. Oh really? It like hurts or just like it feels unable to flex more than that. Interesting. It's a, it's just very, you know, you hold something straight for six weeks. I think it's going to be a little stiff. I would say so. So I do my stretches

every now and then I do this. I don't know if that's helping. I feel like every day when I wake up, I'm just like, maybe it it's better today but hopefully this comes back to normal so yeah if you were to hold a ball right now baseball it would be hard to put that around it or is it like you can grip stuff that's not squeezing your hand like a fist pretty well i think it would be like unwise to like rock climb or wakeboard right now. Something where I need like all of my grip strength and I'm really relying on this tendon to do something for me. Right. But this can,

we can't get now if the can was narrower, I don't know if I could fully wrap around. Okay. What about, how about this mainstream roasters cup? Oh, that's easier. That's thicker.

Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like you're, you feel like you could squeeze that pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. Fun. So speaking of throwing things, so last night rachel had a little birthday get together yeah fun random crew okay it was uh

garrett gibson peyton couldn't come so isaac was uh garrett's date and then it was calvin and molly beck and it was glideide and Lauren oh fun Glide okay Mrs. Glide yeah yeah they're all Glides yeah Glide so it's just us

and we did Texas Roadhouse and then we did so fun yeah it was awesome I took a picture of Isaac eating his eighth roll

it was unreal yeah and then he had dinner those rolls are insane you can't stop. And they're free. Yeah. They keep them coming.

Yeah, Texas Roadhouse is awesome. And then we went to, you know, I did one of those. We did that breakthrough thing like a year or so. So there's like a competitor now. It's kind of different, though. It's called Activate. Where? South Overland Park, Metcalf.

Okay. Cool. Anyway, we did that. And so it's similar games where it's like group games some of them are cooperative some of our competition you're trying to like accomplish things so um i guess first thing is i'm throwing a ball for the first time and kind of like oh wow i'm just like throwing it well you can't fully bend release point i was a liability and i didn't have much accuracy i'm like maybe I can kind of chest pass it to where I need. I wasn't super helpful. But dude, Garrett Gibson got me crying laughing last night.

This is not, I'm just going to preface, this is not going to be funny to you guys now. Is anyone listening? It's not going to be funny. But I just, shout out Garrett. So we were, you're in this room where there's a giant screen in front of you and it's like pressure sensitive So it will show

Like all these little maybe shoebox shaped countdowns Not countdowns. That was different shoebox shaped three digit numbers And so as a group you were trying to you've got 20 of them to look at and you've got all these balls in your Hands and you're trying to find what's the lowest number. We're trying to hit with the ball the lowest number to knock it off. And then you go to the next one. Oh, interesting.

So it's a game about quick vision, quick decision making, communication, and also accuracy. Are you yelling out the numbers? Yeah, yeah. I got 11. Who's that lower than 11? I got 6, 6. And the girls were behind us, spotting for us. So we're doing this and so yeah it's a game about like precision and like group decision making and uh anyway it's

just like chaos we got to level five and now the numbers are three digits it's not as easy as when it was all in order yeah you know you're gonna i got 126 he went lower 126 so if you hit 126 but there's something lower it doesn't it won't work it like, oh, I guess we've got to keep finding one. And anyway, so it's just like, it's stressful. This one's clearly not going well. And you normally, you're throwing like one ball at a time. And with five seconds left, you know, then it's like six, five. Gary just goes, let them rip, boys.

And then we just started just all of us throwing balls at once. Just so funny. Just throw it wherever and yeah we were so consistent in our strategy and then in a second it's like let them rip boys forget it just charge oh yeah it was fun so yeah anyway i can't really throw a ball yeah not very until this heals accurate or sorry accurate uh activate versus breakthrough, compare, contrast, which one, if you had to go to one right now, obviously you went to one last night, but like five months from now, Hey, it's time to go back.

It has to be six months. I go activate. Really? Yeah. Why? Uh, less rooms, but more options within the room. So it's like, this is one room, but there's six different game modes you can do. Oh, and each game mode has levels you can get to.

So I think there's more to do. Were you able to do all eight of you together? No. In fact, he specifically told us not to. And then we're like, he's not here. We all want to hang out together. And then he caught us and was like, perhaps these guys were interesting guys working here.

They were, I don't even know how to describe it. They, I mean, the guy just came in hot to Rachel, just like, ooh, 731. Looks like we're going to have to take all your money. Sorry. Like, that was like his first sentence. We're like, oh, you know, and Rachel like understands he's joking.

He's like, oh, that, hey, that'll learn my jokers he's like oh that hey that'll learn my lesson and he's like unless you want to pay me a hundred dollars that i definitely don't just put in my pocket so we're all like all right just let us know when you're done with this and um so just two guys just fun loving goofy guys definitely need to be in an improv group if they're not because they were doing improv in front of us they were just on the whole time yeah looks like somebody's been riding the naughty bus and doing all eight of you together it was like so this we're still in like the lobby still getting ready to go yeah all right looks like i could take the triplet crew um you know what i'm actually

gonna pass you off to my facilitator ryan uh he doesn't bite on purpose but you know they're just like doing all that and then ryan's just like yes andingham and then the last crew that had bit me i think they'll tell you they didn't hate it come on with me yeah it's like all right and i will say i'm doing a better job than what they were doing okay last night it's just you're watching really bad improv when you bought tickets to go do something like please just get it over it's like listen you already established that we were late let's get on to it yeah that's funny yeah isaac was i think it was gary was like what did i walk into because he saw the guy telling Rachel all that stuff. And anyway,

we do get in there and he was like, when he catches us with all eight in a room, he's like, now perhaps I didn't make it clear. Somebody need to clean out my ears. I got Q-tips right here for you. He was like, if I have to do this again,

I will not be as nice. Oh man. Oh boy. What's that gotta be like? So yeah, we did have to do this again, I will not be as nice. Oh, man. Oh, boy. What's that got to be like? So, yeah, we did get in trouble one time. But for the most part, we tried it. It's like four and four or five and three or whatever. And it's like, you guys got to do this one.

This one was fun. Right. So, but yeah, fun games. I mean, it's like full on like Mission Impossible. There's like one with lasers. You got to dodge the laser, you know, all that stuff. And a lot of like sporty ones. That's fun.

Yeah. Activate. Activate. It's a good time. Okay. Got sweaty. Yeah. dodge the laser you know all that stuff and a lot of like sporty ones and that's fun yeah activate activate it's a good time okay got sweaty yeah rachel and i started our mile while we were in there because there was like there's like giant grid gain i mean the size of like a massive living room with grids all over the ground of like you can't you got to step on the green ones to get to the blue ones and you're running around a lot we all got sweaty uh And then yesterday morning, you did a little... Nah. No? Nah, I don't want to talk about that.

Oh, I did. So... Forget it. I had two phone calls yesterday. One, a teep. Yeah. With the Chiefs. Other one, I feel like you would especially be good at helping me, helping us decide this.

So my other phone call yesterday was with, um, a woman who specializes in licensing between companies. Okay. And so, uh, me and Matt from Friday, we got on the phone with her to talk through a potential like Friday pickleball, like licensing collab or whatever. So this would be like making a Mickey mouse paddle,

basically, um, a kid city chiefs pal. She, she's just been doing this for a while. She can pretty much get us a foot in the door with anyone she's like who do you want to work with we can make it happen and so we could try to think like who would we even want to do who would be beneficial to do that with our customer base it's pretty widespread but i would say it's mainly like

45 and older yeah so it's like a gen x type like you, you know, I was joking. I was like, King of Queens? Would that sell on a paddle? Sure. Young Sheldon. So I wrote down some, but I know what you think. Yeah, give me some to start brainstorming. I was like, some that are just super recognizable. Pepsi, Coke.

Okay. Candy Crush. Rachel really liked Candy Crush when I said that. Okay. Toy Story, Tetris, Seinf when I said that. Toy Story. Tetris. Seinfeld. Home Depot. Home Depot.

Chick-fil-A. I don't know. Maybe that'd be fun. Chick-fil-A's got a pickleball paddle now. Dang it. But I don't know how long they're doing it. Also, they're not even very Chick-fil-A branded. Have you seen what they look like?

Oh, really? What I've seen, they're just green and they have pickles on them. Because it's like, oh, Chick-fil-A pickle in their sandwiches or whatever. Yeah, they have to be a red pickle. It's kind of underwhelming. I was like, yeah. Oh, yeah, looking at it. You could do a better job than Chick-fil-A. That's an odd choice. Yeah, I think it's interesting. Sidebar.

Green. You need to talk to Glide about this. Because that's what his job was when he worked for Roblox. Oh, was it really like yeah he would like yeah he would license stuff with spongebob or like you know and get spongebob and stuff so i forgot i talked about this in gulf shores i forgot about all that good memory um okay so other things home depot's fun now he's wrote down tom hanks who doesn't love tom hanks yeah what kind of things would they also want or yeah is it like it's tough to figure out like

would they buy something that's like because they want to rep this thing as well or would they buy it or would new people buy it that wouldn't have already bought a pickleball paddle yeah which one are you thinking more of i don't know i'm i'm the content guy you know it's like this i'm not even like a biz dev kind of guy really i don I don't know that, but it's interesting to learn it. But I do feel like the kids angle could be good. Yeah. You know, like frozen. Sure.

Yeah. Anything Disney, anything bluey Nickelodeon. Yeah. Uh, Toy Story is fun. I would love Toy Story and like, and like Pac-Man, it does feel like, like we, we, we joke around with like people about like the Disney adults, but there's plenty of people that are like in this niche of like i would buy a woody paddle you know like i'd buy a paddle it looks like buzz lightyear like just kind of have this like quirky whatever i could i buzz lightyear i think buzz is pretty dope so i i give me some or if it's just like

it's not like a cheesy his face is on it's just like the color palette just like his buzz's colors that's kind of fun That's kind of what I'm imagining. It's not just like, Buzz serves to the rescue. It's not as obvious. It's just like, yeah, it's the color palette of a little Toy Story logo. Yeah.

In time, help us out with this one. A homeschool line. Who do we license that through? I'm talking like Peter Rabbit do we license that through i'm talking like peter rabbit i'm talking uh yeah peter you know it's like classic literature yeah like jane eyre like any jane austen stuff um yeah like pride and prejudice you know like just ones that look like books and have pages on them you have just flapping around you have a narnia paddle yeah oh aslan yep left behind you could go left behind on it as lobs as lobs for as lobs um yeah wait what'd you say left behind left behind oh yeah and then

if you ever lose them it's like well i wonder if i lost them or if i just got taken yeah or i wonder if that person needed it right yeah exactly they needed it more than i did yeah you have a track you have a qr track that takes you to a track on there every time. Yeah. Speaking of homeschoolers, Rachel actually kind of had this idea. And I texted Tywin about it. So the idea would be like, I think Rachel's idea was we gave our videographer a pickleball lesson or something like that.

And I was like, one step further, we taught a homeschooler how to play pickleball. And then it's like this whole, but not only is it pickleball, it's like a series of like lessons where it's like, we, we teach time and how to like, how to now, this is ironic how to have social skills.

How to like use, how to like, how to mouth, but how to, yeah, that was wild. It's the lesson is like teaching homeschool or everything you would need to do pickleball so it's like you're gonna need social skills so it's like a training on that so you just get like pickleball and then we send him to bda and like i go crazy and he's

mic'd up doubles pickleball is easier than singles so like probably just get three of your friends he's like whoa whoa whoa this is way harder members count um and i was like once and further we sent him to the Lenexa courts and he has to like make friends he has to like you know here's what we trained you and this this this

you have to prove you can do all of these and then win a pickleball game and if you had like a lawyer pot in and we're like watching from a distance maybe telling him

what to say no go up and say not like a practical jokers but it's like cheesy now go up and introduce yourself I don't wanna call him sir he'll appreciate it

I don't wanna he looks like he's my age call him, sir. He'll appreciate it. I don't want to, he looks, he looks like he's my age. Call him, sir. Do it. Time. Yeah. Do it. So there's an idea. Okay. Time. And I'm sure you're down for that. Yeah. Anyway. Uh, other paddle ideas. I think, uh, I don't know. Let's, I think maybe just, just in general, just fruit, just an apple, apple paddle. Not a bad idea. Apple computers paddle. Oh yeah.

I forget that apple is like a computer brand too. I'm just a fruit guy. You know, I don't think of tech. That's fun though. Yeah. Why not? Just a, just like a watermelon paddle. Watermelon paddle.

Fun colors. Yeah. People will go for that. Have little, little specks on them for the seeds and seeds. Yeah. One side's pink with the seeds. One side's green. I love a nice like watermelon green.

Yeah. You're welcome. Yeah. There you go. Best sellers. Who is, uh, who is watermelon seeds brought to you by? Well, water is brought to you. That's what I, I always forget that.

Yeah. Sorry. Who? You forget what? That water is. Water is like mainly what, what. That's what I always forget that. Yeah. Sorry. Who? You forget what? The water is. Water is like mainly. That's what. Okay.

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table setter Severance is it actually him no I don't think so that'd be fun speaking of Branson can I go ahead and promote a little bit harder about Branson

I have some I have some things written down wow you do have a whole handful check it out put your hand put your hand around that

see if you can grip it can't do it all right so here's some branson facts for you guys just it because some people out there raise your hand if you've never been to branson oh wait a lot of hands are being there's a lot of hands i can see that you can't see them on camera a lot of hands back there i see that hand in kentucky somebody's like holy. Looking down like what in the, um, all right, here's some Branson facts for you guys. Uh, Branson is located within a day's drive of one third of America's population. Pretty cool. So if you can, if you can drive here in one day, chances are your mom and your dad can't. Okay. So first, first fact for you. Fun fact. Within a day's drive.

That's so true. Okay. Second, Branson is home to Silver Dollar City, which is a record-breaking theme park. We should go there. Oh, wait, we are for a whole day in Saturdays. Record-breaking. The only wooden roller coaster to have a double corkscrew. That's off the dome.

Try triple. Twist upside down three times. It says out outlaw run i got this from the internet i think it's two in a row crap and maybe like one before crap let me tell you 40 thrilling rides 100 resident craftsmen demonstrating america's heritage crafts 18 award winning restaurants 60 unique shops all sitting atop one of miss Missouri's deepest what timing caves very good timing you weren't even reading that you just knew all that keep going off the top of your head what else do you think uh let's see uh trying to remember uh let's see the time traveler was built in 2018 it's the tallest fastest and longest spinning roller coaster in the world I think I'm pretty sure uh let me think mystic river falls was built in 2020 and it holds the title of the tallest drop

on a water raft ride in the Western Hemi. Wow. That's pretty decent. If your memory's correct. I know. If your memory. And let me remember. Let's see.

And then in Christmas time, which is kind of when we're going, they have six and a half million lights there. Okay. Okay. Fun facts about Branson. I got plenty more. So here, I'm just going to keep peppering. Forbes magazine recognized Branson for the best lakefront views in America.

Fun fact. Beverly Hillbillies filmed five episodes in Branson. Fun fact. Fun fact. The Empire State Building was originally supposed to be built in Branson, but the architects worried it would be overshadowed by other preexisting marvels and natural beauties. Fun fact. Branson was runner up for the 2024 Olympics bid.

The only reason they didn't get it was because the committee feared quote the contestants would never want to go back to their home country in quote fun fact there's a rare species of jellyfish that float in certain coves in the Branson area their main distinction is that instead of stinging you they pop out the purple packet variety of Skittles for you to eat at your leisure. Fun fact. That was why I went to K-West instead of K-Country. Yes. I don't like the purple ones.

Fun fact. Betty White, born in Branson. Fun. Fun fact. Tom Hanks, Branson born and bred. Oh, he might be on a Friday panel. And last fun fact. Michael Jordan first dunked a basketball

at Branson's famous Cameron Indoor Arena. He was in 12th grade. He was a late bloomer. So fun facts about Branson for you. Come to Branson with us. We got some exciting times ahead and you can see all those historic places. If you're a basketball fan, why wouldn't you want to go see the gym that Michael started in Cameron indoor Cameron indoor right there in Branson. Yep. The empire state building. Like if you think seeing the empire state building, like that's pretty cool. I wonder how long it took him to build that the Empire State Building, you'd be like, that's pretty cool. I wonder how long it took them to build that.

Longer than Drake Street. You'd be like, this pales in comparison to what I'm seeing here. Dude, have you heard about that tower, that building that's going up in Oklahoma City? No. So people who live in Oklahoma are like, oh yeah, they've been talking about it for years. But I think it's getting closer to happening.

It's going to be the tallest building in at least North America, maybe Burj Khalifa status. And it's going to be in Oklahoma city. Really? It's going to look hilarious. Is it like Devin or whatever? Like one of those Chesapeake or like some big oil thing? Or is it like,

is Devin going to be there? Devin's like the main architect on it. Mr. Devin, he's a friend of Trey's from like third grade. And he's like kind of killing the architect game. Oklahoma city skyscraper. Let's see how many of Trey's from like third grade. And he's like kind of killing the architect game. Oklahoma City skyscraper. Let's see how many of these facts I actually have.

So it's going to be like six times taller than anything else in Oklahoma City. Yes, dude. In a few years. OK, the nation's tallest building. OK, so maybe not quite Burge still, but it will eventually include the Legends Tower. Sorting 1,900 feet. In 1907, a number chosen to commemorate the year Oklahoma first became a state. I was going to try to read some dumb fact

about Native Americans, and that felt insensitive, so I stopped. Let's see. The new World Trade Center, the One World Trade Center, is only 1,700 feet. So it's going to be taller than that. What in the world?

Yeah. Just randomly in Oklahoma City. It's going to be taller than that. What in the world? Yeah. Just randomly in Oklahoma city. It's going to look hilarious. Also, if you're going 1907, how big is the Burj Khalifa one? Like, like why not go for the record?

How big is the Burj? It's just what I'm going to Google. Yeah. Not even Khalifa. How big is the bird? Ooh, 27 hundo. Whoa.

That's a lot more. Dang. That's a big building these not have wind and yeah also like oklahoma city out of most places like literally where twisters was based on i think right yes every eight minutes i wouldn't put the big building there i wouldn't want to go to the top of it yeah you gotta strap it down like it's a fireworks tent or something it just got things coming off the side it's got poles in every direction for six miles uh anyway okay and i heard they would also think about doing branson but we're like it's just too much competition they wouldn't even care compared to all the other yeah we couldn't do

it near the andes so no one would ever come to us right uh some branson updates uh friday night once again social birdie for pickleball golf simulator live music frozen custo frozen custies uh dinner whatever just all around fun hangout time me brad timon rachel my dad your coach my coach my parents are coming your parents unofficially my my family i don't know we're still trying to figure out if kids are coming if katherine's coming if nobody's coming we're so unofficial Saturday, just a blast of a day at silver dollar city. We've still, still working out every single little kink. Maybe we'll talk about in between episodes and we'll record and talk about Wednesday

on kink it. Um, and then Sunday Sycamore Creek is now where we're going. If you remember me talking about going to, uh, stay at the wagons with my family, that's the same property we're going to where they, uh, Sunday morning, it's the same property. We're going to where they Sunday morning, it's going to be a worship service where they normally like have hold weddings outside underneath these two sycamore trees. If the weekend goes well for any two ghosts who's out there, may we do a little elopement? I would be ecstatic brother.

Oh my gosh. That'd be so fun. We'll renew vows. We'll do whatever you guys fun. We'll renew vows. We'll do whatever you guys renew vows or time. It could do it. Like it's like a promise. Like I, I will do this someday with someone.

I think so. Solo weddings are getting really popular. It does promise. Wings. Wings. Promise. Promise. Wings.

I promise. But apparently there's two sycamore trees that have come together and made one right behind this like backdrop, beautiful backdrop. Um, so it's going to be fun time all together. Uh, so yeah, come to Branson ghostwriters.life slash Branson. We're pumped to do it. We're pumped to see you guys. They're coming up soon. It's coming up. So yesterday, uh, Ward Weeby called me and, uh, he was like, Hey, I, hey, I might be totally off here. I can't remember if your birthday is in December or is it today? I was like, it's today. He's like, oh, I got it.

I was like, I just thought maybe he's in front of his computer and he knows it's my birthday. He's like, no, I'm driving through Estes Park right now. I may lose you here soon. I was like, I think he might have just known that off memory. That's impressive. That's amazing. We were talking and catching up. Ward Weeby is the director of my old camp that I worked at for six years.

There's this thing. And he lives at Branson. And he was like, wait, when will I see you again? I was like, we're coming to Branson. I was telling him everything. And he couldn't believe how much fun this sounded. And he was like, don't tell me it's this weekend. It's September 14th or whatever.

And I was like, it is. He's like, oh, I got to go to Dallas. What's he doing there? I was like, nothing's wrong with Dallas. He goes, goes yeah there is that's where I'm going which I'm pretty sure one if not both of his sons

live in Dallas yeah there's quite a bit wrong with Dallas dang that's too bad I think he would have been there he could have given a little him and Jensen

a little combo message on Sunday it sounds like Ward would have been like ready to do everything with us there's two alphas up there just talking battling

dang that's so yeah he was I'll just say someone who lives in Branson and has their whole life like ready to do everything with us. There's two alphas up there just talking. Battling. Dang, that's fun. So yeah, he was, I'll just say someone who lives in Branson and has their whole life was excited about this weekend. Yeah, right. Can we just take a second to go back and just appreciate the fact that he remembered your birthday? It's very shocking. That's amazing.

If he did truly remember it. Yeah. Sounds like he did. Let's trust. Let's trust. That's how I feel. Yeah. I mean, he's had however many years of camp experience, 35 years working there. Who

knows how many students, how many campers, even, even if you just took leadership teams, that's 10 leadership guys at minimum, you know, 350 people. I don't even know my, like I'm terrible. Like I would not have remembered your birthday unless somebody posted on YouTube the day before I, Hey, Jake's birthday tomorrow. And I'm oh my gosh like am i supposed do i need to have yeah so credit timing probably a week or so ago we were trying to schedule a shoot potentially he's like we could do it next tuesday birthday shoot time we do it like a week out not a boy timing thank you do we know timings no not even no i don't think i even have an idea i and i know that season no i know i don't know first even have an idea. And I know that season.

No, I don't know. First or back after the year. I remember like it happening. I think it was kind of recently. I think it was like, I think it was maybe April. Really? You went from no idea to like, I think I got the month. It's more fun to like, if you get right, throw it out there.

All right. When have we? No, it's ever celebrated time. I was going to say it's January. I don't know. I can't think of a time. I remember during the Grand Debut live podcast, something was guessing my birthday. That's right. Okay.

Who knows time and birthday? And someone found it on Facebook and yelled it out. And so then people commented about it. And so then I knew because of that. I know that Rachel and I have given time and birthday gifts twice. So I know it's at least been... Okay. It's got to be between February and like June.

Yeah, we got a birthday present for... Yeah, yeah. What did we... Gift cards. Oh, yeah. Oh, I thought you said... When did we? How did we?

It's somewhere in there. February to June? Late spring, early summer. Let me think what's right smack dab in the middle of February to June. I'm talking a little place the Mexicans call Abril, dude. Only the Mexicans. Yeah.

Brazilians. Abril. Abril. You're close, but I will say you're not. The month is incorrect. Okay. So I'm close. The Mexicans call it.

Marzo. Yeah. March or May. Let's look at him. Let's look at his eyes and see if we can read his eyes. Dude, this is a problem I have with these. I watch a lot of these true crime documentaries. We put way too much stock in the polygraph. It's your heartbeat.

It's not like asking God. Sorry, let's do one on Tymon, though. Yeah, let's not bring God into this, please. This is just a secular podcast. All right. Tymon, you go. March. He was trying too hard not to.

New tactic. Tymon, I want you to tell me your birthday is in March, and then I want you to tell me your birthday is in May. We'll see which one sounds more believable. Okay. Can I first scream May at him real quick to see? Sorry. Yeah, let's bounce it out.

You can go for it. May. Okay. Can I first scream May at him real quick to see? Sorry, yeah, let's bounce it out. You can go for it. May! Okay. All right, a little different. Mouth is open. He was intentionally like trying to like, is that him trying to like throw me off or is that him? Okay.

March May! No, my birthday's in March. Okay. Slight stutter. My birthday's in May. That didn't help me a ton. May what? 14th.

And what is it in March? 14th. Oh, okay. It wouldn't be. Smart move, smart move. No, I think it's May. Tell me. Pi Day.

He wouldn't be born on Pi Day. We would have talked about that. We would have known. We would have called him Pi-man would have known. We would have called him Pyman this entire time. There's no way. If he is 314, we are calling him Pyman.

Pyman, yeah. So, with that in mind, it has to be May 14th. 514. Final answer. It's May 15th, actually. Oh, you liar!

Wow. I didn't know what to go for. I was like, do I just make up a date? Does it help me to do that? I don't know. But yeah, May 15th. All right.

You knew it. Piedman. Let's still call him Piedman for a while. Piedman. Hey, Piedman. Hey, Piedman. All right, we knew it. Yeah.

We knew it. May 15th. 515. May. Yeah, that's right. It goes bow. I'm a Mayan. I have Mayan descent, and they do their calendars a month behind

and so my may yeah my april is your may so hashtag not my may not my may i don't know what were you saying about bow just may birthdays bow timon my dad your dad you got a parent with a may birthday not that i know of i didn't think so either time in my mom rachel's mom catherine that's i knew i was like there's something in there sorry i was like i don't have any more like all my other kids are born in march it's like but may does feel like there's somebody else yeah and i thought that's cool shout out cole my cousin or my nephew okay same birthday is catherine we gotta get this on a list you can hear them go to reverse through the headphones this is all they do they go in reverse constantly sorry trigger trigger trigger now every time you hear something in reverse you're gonna

get mad reversing again anyway dude we haven't talked about uh your weekend how was it it was great about it yeah it was so much fun when you're all about it. Yeah. As a reminder, went to Northeast Indiana and spoke at this father. I keep wanting to say father son cause just rolls off the tongue. It's father child. There were some girls there, father kiddo. There were some daughters there, but spoke specifically to the dads. Had a great time doing it, dude. First of all, went, went the long route and went through Cincinnati first to hang out with some ghosties turned friends. We've talked about him tons of times on the podcast, probably like the best friends that I've never met in person before. Like I never thought I would have a friend that I'd never

seen in person before, but I met the Swicks, Kirstie and Steven and their kids. And it was so fun to meet them. You guys started off as pen pals because Swick was in jail, right? And just needed someone to like write to and then found found the podcast is it jail or is it prison when you're there for like 15 to life is that that's that's prison prison yeah yeah he was he was like dude this is crazy i'm in leavenworth right down the road come by sometime and so you think like you see the movies you think that they have like the uh the the the handheld whole booth mm-hmm you know it's all it's it's just like a bank teller kind of thing you think that they have like the uh the the the handheld whole booth no it's all it's it's just like a bank teller kind of thing you know you just have like a thin thing thing of

glass where you still pass credit cards through yes you can you can slip things through yeah as long as the bailiff anyway uh fun bit um no but it was fun we got to i i didn't get to see and hang out with kirsty and the girls too long because I didn't get there until like 7 p.m. Okay. But we went and played pickleball and they were there. It was just so fun to meet them and like talk to them. And on one level, it's like, yeah, we've been friends forever. On the other level, it's like, whoa, you're a real person.

Hey, look at you. Jensen was so funny. I met – I saw Steven first. And Jensen and I have hung out with each other four times now or something like that, come to Gulf Shores andida and stuff uh so he's like looking at steve and he's like you think brad's gonna be taller or shorter than he looks right here steven's like i think he's pretty pretty much the same it's all good i was like trying to stay it up straight for her but um yeah just so fun to hang out with them we went to uh skyline chili that night you ever been there um no i don't want to go there i haven't

uh yeah we went there like at like 9 p.m after we played pickleball so we're sweating in this booth in my head it was like a uh you go and it's so sky and chili time if you don't know yeah cincinnati famous chili chain uh that's like known for like chili on top of spaghetti essentially is like one of their main things. Okay. Gross. A hundred percent gross. Like why would anybody like get excited about this? I, I was kind of like, I was talking to Kirstie about it beforehand. I was like, I'll be honest. I'm not really that excited to go to this thing, but these people, you know, they really want me to go. It's like, great. Let's, let's try it out. Um, and I'll say this. I enjoyed it a lot

more than I thought I would. Did you actually, the, uh, the spaghetti in my head, it sounded like chili, like loose chili on top of loose spaghetti, but it was all loose. It was a mess. It was a little more, I'm going to use this as a, um, adjective, lasagna attic, like kind of like lasagna. Okay. It's all one piece. It felt like, yeah, you could use a fork and just kind of push down on it and then scoop it. I was expecting like a sloppy dish. Yes. Yeah. Like kind of like mix instead of like spaghetti sauce, you're mixing chili into a spaghetti. That's what I thought it was. Um, so better than I thought it was also a, like we'll call it an IHOP style place where it was like, you sit down, you have a waitress and then you pay at the front

kind of thing. Got it. In my head, it was a little more in and out style where you order, you get your food and you sit down kind of thing. So that was fun. Highlight of the night. Um, one highlight I'll have to tell you guys off the podcast, cause it's, it's pretty funny, but pretty awesome timing, especially he's going to love it. Um, man, Stephen was crying at this part, but I can't, I can't say, um, we're working on my censorship over here. Okay. Um, man, Steven was crying at this part, but I can't, I can't say, um, we're working on my censorship over here. Okay. Um, second part was, that was really funny was we were paying for their food at, at the

end. And there's this worker, this girl, all the girls are like younger, like high school, college girls, um, really friendly, fun, of course, really friendly to Jensen, you know, cute. Yeah. Time. Come on. You find your other sycamore.

Um, that's right. Find your other,camore um that's right find your other uh stump and uh but this girl's talking about i mean this jensen's just so funny like he can just get excited about whatever you want to get excited about so this girl's like i love tomatoes jensen's like i love tomatoes too she's like you ever put some salt on it salt yes yes salt pepper though pepper she's like no pepper no pepper that's what i'm saying you know like they're just like connecting on this like deep level about tomatoes and then this girl goes yeah um there's this uh there's this farmer's market the jew town market down the road uh the jew town market and uh or no i'm sorry sorry sorry i messed up uh the gentile market down the road oh there's no Gentile market. Have you ever been?

They have the best tomatoes. Like she's basically just describing a farmer's market. She's like, they have tomatoes there. They have all this fresh fruit, you know, so many good things, like just fresh everything.

And he's like, Oh, okay. No Jews allowed though. Right. Cause Gentile market. And she, she was like,

yeah, yeah. And then they're like talking more. And so then, so Jensen's like, really the, the Gentile market. Cool. And she's like, yeah, yeah. And then they're like talking more. And so Jensen's like, really? The Gentile market? Cool. And she's like, wait, no.

I said the Junetown market. The Junetown market. That's so great. And so just imagine. Oh. Imagine. You're like connected with this guy. They knew who Jensen was.

It's like a small town. He's in Lebanon, Ohio. I mean, 35,000 percentile. He comes in there all the time. He's the youth pastor. So he's making like a Bible joke. Gentile. Oh, no Jews, right? And then all of a sudden, it's like he looks like this anti-Semitic.

No Jews come through that, right? Gentile market? How seriously they take circumcision yeah right oh my gosh no juice i mean just imagining like what's this such a perfect like they were connecting they were vibing that was such a fun light-hearted conversation and then she's like trying to connect about where to get the best tomatoes and he's like hey but i'll go there but like just just to be clear there's no like there's no juice that comes too right like it's like oh that's so bad uh so we laughed about that for a long time you there when we our first time going to breakthrough and the the guy working

there we thought he said i had some like really annoying asians come here a couple weeks ago and so we were like that's what a wild thing to say and so then we made our team name like the crazy asians or something because that's what we thought he said he was like that's kind of weird like you said it you started it bro anyway come to find out he was talking about this is because earlier he was like oh jake from state farm doing all that and he said agents agents it's kind of a similar mess up yeah like oh we thought you said asians like all of a sudden you're the racist oh we thought you were right yeah right okay so it's neither of us oh okay cool oh man anyway the gentile market the crazy the crazy

agents yeah oh it was awesome no jews though right that's pretty funny uh so anyway um that was fun hanging out with jensen and steven we hung out all that night and just yeah just had a good time got to see jensen's hometown which is always just i love you know that about me like i love seeing people's hometowns i love meeting their parents i love like just getting that next layer of friendship with somebody so it was so fun to just see that with him uh and then yeah then, yeah, drove to Indiana and didn't, I mean, I kind of, obviously I knew the schedule of what I was doing. I knew I had, I mean, it was like a, I had 10 different things I was trying to do. Like I was doing four talks

plus two Devo talks plus four different times of worship throughout the week. And so I'm like, or throughout this three day period. Um, and so I felt prepared, but at the same time, like didn't know what to visualize in my head. Like, are we sitting around a campfire the entire time? Are we in this kind of lodge or, you know, whatever. Um, so it was indicated that I was nervous by how many things I packed. Like I overpacked an insane amount of stuff. Like I think I've come around a bonfire. It's yeah. You never know. Like, or like i sprayed myself down with bug spray i gotta go shower now you know um i think i packed 10 pairs of underwear yeah you know like seven pairs of shorts a couple pairs of pants it

was like supposed to be like 85 degrees most i don't know if i don't know yeah like three hoodies you know all this rollback like multiple polos i'm like i don't know what if what if these guys all show up and they're like corporate bros and that I'm here in my flip flops or something. So, um, just, yeah, so much overpacking. Um, and then you'll appreciate this the first time, the first night I get there, um, like they show me my, my place I'm staying in and it's just like, it's a cabin. Like normally it was like a, there was like a little apartment thing connected to this cabin. So like it was a large room that had like a little kitchenette with the mini fridge, microwave bed, shower, little cubbies where I put, you know, my eight bags of clothes. And, uh, before the thing started, I got there like a couple hours

before, you know, dinner. And so I was like, I'm going to take a shower. So I go take a shower and realize, oh, they didn't provide me a towel. What would you do in this situation? Oh, and also let me let me say this place was in the middle of nowhere enough that my T-Mobile service was non-existent. So I couldn't just be like, hey, do you mind bringing me a towel? Yeah. What do you have? You have to scavenge. What do you have around? I tried. I looked in every little like drawer to find, even if they had like a dish towel or something. So I ended up using a clean pair of my 10 pairs of underwear. Yeah. Yeah.

And you just got to go clean clothes, I guess. Yeah. I just went clean clothes on it. I was like, this seems pretty absorbent. And then later on asked the guy like, hey, can I borrow a towel? But Tanner doesn't know that I did this yet. So this is news to him. Hey, Tan, man. Anyway, the actual talking went well. The first night, I don't know, dude.

It's just, I mean, I'm sure you've experienced this a million times over doing stand-up comedy. But like the first night, it felt like the body language of some of these guys were like, it was like, Oh, this could be a rough weekend. Like these guys were like crouched over, like looking down the whole time that I was talking or something while you were talking. Yeah. Interesting. And it was like right after, I mean, it was a Friday night after they had just driven there with their kids, you know, I'm sure they're to an extent decompressing, whatever it was, but I was just like, I don't know if these guys care about what I'm talking about at all. Yeah.

You know? Um, and then I didn't know at the time, you know, which one of them was the PhD pastors in the room. Yeah. You know, I didn't know like what was, who was what and everything. Um, but then I just, I think I came to learn later on, like, that's just how guys sometimes are. Like, I think I learned, I'm like, I, that's just how guys sometimes are. Like, I think I

learned, I'm like, I'm going to be more physically like affirming, listening to somebody, like making eye contact with them. Uh, because the same people that I noticed, like specifically having these, this body language, I also like had specific conversations with them the next day. Like, dude, that talk you had last night was awesome. Like I've already been thinking about this stuff that you've been saying. Like, I love how you got to the point, but I also, it was like thought provoking. You know, I think somebody told Tanner, the director, like after the first talk, like, cause Tanner told me, he's like, this was already way better than last year. You know? Oh dude, that's awesome.

I was like, okay, cool. Like, so, so you guys are interested in this, even though I couldn't tell, you know? Yeah, that's great. Um, so then next day was fun. Um, well that, that night also I did like a Devo and the Devo was with the kids and the parents and try it. So I tried to like still make it like a deep thing for the parents, but also make it overarching, like fun thing for the kids. So I did a little interactive thing and I was like, does anybody, any kids here know what the weakest animal in the world is the weakest animal? And of course, like, i don't know how you define that but my answer was like sheep sheep are like the weakest animal because they have no you know

stink glands they're not fast they can't protect themselves they don't have sharp teeth whatever uh but of course all these kids are raising their hand like a fly i was like good answer pretty good uh they're like a mosquito somebody else some other kids like actually a mosquitoes can kill 300 million people a year and i'm like yeah let's not talk about let's not talk west now right okay yeah yeah let's not get in the vaccine debate right now um no uh you know they're going back and forth and i was like it's actually a sheep and they're like you know of course this eight-year-old is like i don't know i think a sheep could beat a fly i'm like dang it this is this is you know whatever and then i'm like does anybody know what the strongest animal in the world is?

And the idea is supposed to be that it's a sheep as well if it has a shepherd. Oh, they're not going to like that answer. Elephant! Okay. Not an elephant. Anybody else? Why not so-is? No, not why not so-is. You know, like woolly mammoth, you know, whatever. Tymon says

they're cloning them. They're coming back. It's actually a sheep. I don't know. You just said it was a weak. It's like, whatever. Tymon says they're cloning them. They're coming back. It's actually a sheep. I don't know. You just said it was a weak. It's like. No. Just listen to the whole thing. They were really sweet about it.

But anyway. Yeah. Overall, it wasn't like anything like crazy. It was. I mean, I was. I was truly like naturally bricked the entire time. Bricked. Straight.

Yeah. That's all I'm going to say. Bricked. That's what it's called legally. I was. I was bricked. And Yeah. That's all I'm gonna say bricked. That's what's called legally. Uh, I was, I was bricked and, uh, like there was no service. And so, yeah, there was just great time to just chill, you know, sleep, rest, just focus on the weekend. There was one time I drove into town and called Catherine. That was, that was my time to get away. Yeah. But I had to like drive like 15 minutes to get service. Wow. Um, really out there. Yeah.

Also Steven Swick, uh, claims, first of all, claims that he's never gotten offended in his life. Have you heard this? Yeah. He's told me that before, which is just wild. There's no way. There's no way that's even partially true. He's probably getting somewhat offended hearing this right now. Um, but he, he gave me a little, like a lot of a hard time for having t-mobile he's like i've never heard anybody in my life that's had t-mobile oh dude no they're up there now i think like they're they're the they're like that's what i have me too it's very normal that's what jake you said i mean it was we had sprint and we had t-mobile he's like i never heard anybody had sprint either i'm like it's verizon at&t or like the big dogs right i i think at this point all

three of them they're all three they're right they're together yeah it's titleist callaway taylor made they're all three at the top you hear that steven get get offended for that yeah he was like i can't believe a t-mobile i was like i don't know what to tell you great they're really they're kind of a fun color that's really cheap um so anyway but didn't have service out in northeast indiana so maybe it's just a Ohio, Indiana thing, but yeah. Uh, Rachel comes from everyone only has us cellular. Cause that's just whatever reason all you can get there. So that's like a small town thing. Yeah. They go after him. So anyway, but yeah, really good time. I told Catherine,

I was like, I was proud of how it went. I was like, I don't know if I like absolutely rocked every single guy's world or like did the perfect job of talking versus maybe we should have had more just like open discussion time or whatever. But I was like, I was proud of your preparation. I prepared well. And I feel like I executed on my preparation well. And I feel like guys took something from it.

You know, not every guy is going to. There was one guy. Yeah, I won't say his name or anything. So this is all right to say, but I mean, I talk about the idea of like Western culture, thinking that family is like the cult, the image of family is a nest and like how family is like a springboard for individual success. And so like the ideal for family in the Western culture is, Hey, if my kids can just go out and do their own thing, well, and we become empty nesters and we don't have any responsibility anymore. That's great for us. And my thing is like, biblically, the idea of family as a team, you know, Genesis one,

it looks like you're supposed to build these multi-generational teams. And so therefore we shouldn't look at kids as a liability. We should look at them and asset and all these different things. And so at the end of it, he's like, man, you know, we got three kids, but he's like, I don't know, man, I might need to go back and talk to my wife about getting a reversal, man. I don't know. I need to, yeah. He's like, he's like talking about like having another kid after this talk. I'm like, what if, I mean, if nothing else, what if this guy has one more child because of this talk that I gave, you know, kind of thing. I don't know, man. I think we might need to get a reversal. He's like, you know, and they say it's only like 40% effective after you get a reversal, but like, I'm thinking about getting one now. And I was like, let's go,

dude. Come on. That's awesome. Who knows? You know, but that's just, that was a funny, like a reversal. I didn't know. I don't know if that's like a, I'm going to talk to my doctor about the Uno reverse. We need to get me in. I'm going to give him, yeah, we're going to play Uno and I'm going to put a reverse on there. I'm going to have a picture of a baby's head at the top so anyway uh shout out to that guy but um we'll see we'll see what comes of anything from it i would love to do it again sometime if if they'll have me but it had yeah had a lot of fun doing it felt like i made a difference so that's cool dude yeah i'm happy to'm happy to hear it. Shout out to hand man. Shout out to the tan man. Catherine loved the, the, what is he? 10. She thought that was so funny.

When's the next time you'll be going up North. I'm trying to, Oh, to Napanee, Indiana. Uh, yeah. Yes. And in October. Yes. And yes. And, and I will be there too. Yes. And, and they also sponsor the current episode we're recording. That's right. Yes, and? Hey, catch this with your right hand. Whoa!

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nice so look out watch out if you want to i was talking to bo the other day about hey you're getting strong he's like yeah i'm getting strong because I'm drinking a lot of protein. I'm like, that a boy. He's like, I have a lot of milk and protein. So if you want some strong coffee, literally put some protein in your Main Street Roaster. Strong coffee. I had some before church on Sunday. So good. And I was very attentive during church and I didn't have to leave to crap my pants or anything. So I mean, overall, I mean, what more can you ask out of your coffee? That's right.

Attentive and healthy. That's right. How are you doing with the old journey towards coffee and cream? I'm not doing great, but I'm like, I'm still like kind of attempting it still. Okay. Rachel's got some like sugar-free creamer that she'll throw in there every now and then. So I'm just ever so slightly being weaned on to black coffee. Okay. Wean, baby, wean. Br to black coffee okay wean baby wean

brick by brick um mainstream roasters.com wonderful yeah you guys know it you guys support it so well so keep doing it 10 off of grkc get some there you go uh and there you go you got you go you go next i got something but you go uh let's see. Um, just had a, had a good old week. Yeah. Took the, took the splint off, uh, Rachel in solidarity. Um, that same day put the splint on and like went about her whole day with it. Of course. Right.

It was like, this is annoying. She's like, you should be like, you never have to do your hair. She's like trying to like do your hair with it. It's awful. Yeah. Maybe. Um, yeah. So she, was she there when you took it off?

No, I actually took it off in the middle of the night. I was finishing that PPA Friday Pickleball video and just having to do so much editing and freaking clicking the U and the I at the same time when I don't want to do that. I was like, I'm done with this. It's straight anyway. So that's why I took it off, just like finish editing.

And I was like, I'll keep it on. Oh, yeah. Maybe that's all she wrote. Yeah. And so, yeah, I just took it off in the finish editing and i was like i'll keep it on oh yeah maybe that's all she wrote yeah and so yeah i just took off middle of night by myself um do you ever have like a phantom feeling of it of it being on there no any so i one lingering feeling is the bottom of my finger didn't really touch anything for six weeks so it still feels very weird oh like it's it's a weird texture is it like uh not as tough as every like yeah it might be like soft i think something with the nerves are just like weak right now i don't know it's

kind of like your leg falls asleep and you kind of have the pins and needles it's kind of like that touching things kind of uncomfortable yeah kind of kind of don't like it bummer that's kind of weird whatever um but uh oh so yeah i pulled like a you know old single jake all-nighter basically editing this ppa video you know isaac and i were in this tournament whatever um thank you guys for watching it yeah i was like let's just go hard on this and see what happens and as i went to bed at like 6 a.m that morning i was like all right i have a couple things in mind like goals and to look out for as far as like the performances video. Like it's not going to be like a one out of 10 because like just last week we uploaded the video against 12 year old boys.

That one's just like crushed. It's got to get 100,000 views. But two out of 10 would be like the best we could do. And then we've never had a video above like never had a video above 50 percent retention. But I was like, this would be the video to do it. Maybe the way I edited it, I could see it getting about 50. Right. Up the next morning, check back a few hours later. And it was a one out of 10 is best video of our last 10. Yeah. And at like, at the end of the day, so after like eight hours, it was like 65% retention. So I can geek out on YouTube stats

all day, but basically it's just like really good metrics, really good data. And I was like, this is so fun. This makes it worth it. Yeah. Right. Cause you worked so hard and so long. Yeah. And I was like, this would have been legitimately detrimental to my brain. If this did not perform well,

I might've been kind of sad. It would have like, yeah, really hurt your motivation. What was the point of all of that? Why did I do any of that? Um, so that was really rewarding.

Uh, it was one of those where i'd say i've been doing this long enough to where even if a video goes viral mood swings jean shorts whatever i mean you could probably feel that way just like oh cool yeah on to the next yeah it doesn't do that much for me anymore um but i i could like almost physically feel the dopamine entering my brain when that video is performing well like to work so hard on something and see people appreciate it. And before, not just the data, but even the comments and the text I got, I was like, I need to make sure I monitor this. Cause I really like how I'm feeling right now, but I also want to like, appreciate like a job well

done kind of thing. So it did feel good. Well, yeah, go ahead. Sorry. It was just fun. We, um, it was just a, you know, I feel like I've been watching YouTube for a long time. I've been listening to YouTube podcasts forever. This is like a first attempt to like really making a YouTube video and trying to really do good storytelling. And Daniel Ming even, I saw his comment. He caught on to something.

He's like, great job. Like with the storytelling, making a villain out of that guy. Cause that's every good story has a hero and a villain. And so that's why I was trying to create like me versus this guy who shouldn't have been in our division and yeah just retention strategies and all

stuff storytelling so good all good whatever no I loved it I watched it on the way home thanks once I got service again yeah I was like oh yeah I think he did that and so I unbricked yep that's what it's called and yeah I watched it so yeah it was fun.

So hopefully there'll be more. Yeah, Tymon helped out. Even like a couple days later, I was like, this video has such good retention, but the click-through rate is like starting to die. We got to get a new title, new thumbnail. I was like, Tymon, whip me something else up. And he did.

You put the universal reverse card out there. I did. Yeah. Reverse it up. Yep. It's got so many comments. Dude, it's unbelievable. Like 1,100, 1,200 comments.

I don't know. Holy cow. Compared to like the previous one with like 60,000 views has like 600 comments or whatever. Then it has like double that. Yeah. I hope YouTube is seeing this. Yeah, really. Like, hey, something special is going on here.

Yeah, totally. Keep showing it to people. Yeah. That is a difference like between, let's call it the short form stuff that we're used to doing versus this is like, well, I guess in a mood swings, you did a little bit of long form stuff, but you didn't ever like go shot for shot with Derek editing stuff. Right. Like it's like, we weren't doing storytelling. We were just playing golf. Right. Like, like it feels like when we go viral, it's,

it, it almost feels lucky. Like it's almost like the algorithm gave us a gift today. Yeah. Kind of. It's like, it's like, okay, cool. Like, I don't know why that one did so well. That's not our funniest video or like, and so it's kind of a bummer when we don't do well in a video. Cause it's like, dang, that one was pretty good. And people are commenting like, this is your funniest video yet. Like I loved the, you know, whatever. Like people are like the fraternity roll call video is hilarious. The mechanics video is hilarious. Like those did so poorly compared to so many, you were the only person who saw it. Yeah, exactly. Like that's my favorite one. It's like, uh, thank you. Um, but then, yeah. And so when you get a viral one, it's like, okay, whatever. But like when you put

so much into it, then you would feel like this weight of like, please be good. Please, please like me. Yeah. Please, please watch this thing. Uh, and so, yeah, I think that's probably the difference is like, yes, I worked hard on this, the investment and I, I worked hard to make it considerably better than the rest. Kind of like, uh, your videos with Trey, like the one that we did, um, back before jean shorts, that was the wedding video. Yeah. You put so much time into something. Like that was like, you're trying to like spoof a professional video. Therefore it was like way more or like the hype video. I remember you did like the everyday.

Yeah. Moms had hype videos or regular people at hype videos. Like super edited those or whatever. Like you want those to get a little more traction or else you'd be bummed about them. But like, yeah, you were working days on this thing. Yeah. Yeah. Timing, timing helped out. Yeah. Yeah. You put a lot of time into something like, I hope people appreciate it. So it was fun. And it's, it's not, I'm only going to get better. I mean, that was my first try kind of doing something like this. So I'm excited for.

Yeah. So you think you'll do, you'll do like, yeah. What do you, what's your thought for future? Like, are you going to do this once every quarter, once every month? Um, yeah, I mean, it kind of worked out that we didn't win because now people are bought in and invested to, for us to win the next time. So, um, I don't know when we'll do it next, but I mean, the ideas have just been flow. I've never thought about YouTube more in my life than like right now, just the amount of ideas and things I want to do with Friday YouTube fired up. So it's awesome. Yep. So that was fun. Why did I talk about it? Oh, that's when the mallet came off. Yes, yes.

Because you were getting after it. Yeah. I didn't have a monumental YouTube video, but I had a monumental moment with my son, Beau. Fun. Two nights ago. The night is two nights ago. We went to a place called Dick's Sporting Goods,

which he didn't know existed. And first of all, it was just beside himself beside himself was like sports. There's an entire store for sports. I mean, he's, he's like, yeah, he's getting into sports more and more. Uh, and so finally he went, he's a, he's a left-handed kid. He's had this little like right-handed, uh, glove. That's like, you know, the Velcro glove for the longest time. It'll throw the ball with the glove and has learned to like grip the ball in the glove and throw it. Uh, and so finally I was like, Bo, I heard that he was really good, like a huge help,

uh, this past weekend had, he's not home right now, how he's down in Texas. So he's like the big helper. I kept telling him that like, Bo, you're the big helper, big, strong protein helper. He was, he was the big, strong protein helper this weekend. And so I said, Bo, what if we go and get a baseball glove for you? Wow. And so he got one, it was like, you know, Rawlings gold glove edition. So I was like, Bo, this is a, do you realize this is a gold glove one? We got, we found a gold glove edition one. And it had like a little, you know, tag that Mike Trout's picture. And I was like, Bo, this is Mike Trout's glove. This is Mike Trout's, you know? And mike trout's picture i was like oh this is mike trout's glove this is mike trout's you know and so i mean couldn't couldn't be more like excited about it the last

two mornings first thing he says to me in the morning is like can we go play catch like we're just he's all in on baseball right now he's all in on it i mean his version of catch is basically just like fetch more or less he barely ever catches he puts it in his mouth he like just runs after it grabs it sometimes he'll literally go back to me and put it back in my glove you know sandlot style yeah um but we're having a great time and he was so excited about this glove so that's funny you don't think about that being like its own amusement park just a sporting goods store oh yeah as far as i could see just sports equipment and of course i love it still oh 100 i was like let's keep walking around let's look at the football clubs like i know mom said dinner's at six but hey it's okay like you see mom around

here i don't think so mom doesn't have to know buddy all right so uh it it was it kind of backfired on me a little bit because then all of a sudden he just wanted to get everything in the store and it was like no no we can't he's like well you could buy it i was like well but we shouldn't it's it's cost money will you have money I was like, well, but we shouldn't, it's, it's, it's cost money. Will you have money? I was like, not that much. He wanted to buy catcher's gear. He wants a whole catcher's like, like gear. He wanted soccer. I could ride my bike in this. So I'm safe. Yeah. He wanted, he wanted a football helmet. Uh, he wanted everything. Uh, it's, uh, anyway, it was, it was a great time with Bo, um, walking around the store and getting, getting him a new baseball glove. So we're, we're going to Texas in a couple of days for Labor Day.

And he's like, we got to bring our gloves to Texas, Dad. Make sure. Make sure you bring the gloves. You guys are leaving soon, right? Yeah. Third week in a row, we're leaving on a Thursday. I'm leaving on Thursday to go somewhere. Tour's over for me.

It's starting up for you. I guess so. It is kind of a wild time. But yeah, going down there for a few days, which will be fun. We see we'll see how but you're back for thursday for the car service right yes yes yes i get back uh labor day night yeah oh wouldn't miss it for the world brother car service is so fun car service for like maybe limo service let's keep our expectations low but you never know well they said it would be a limo was that it's on the office yeah said limo service. Let's keep our expectations low, but you never know. Well, they said it would be a limo. It's on the office.

Yeah. Said limo. No, it's a town car. Town cars are actually nicer. It's a limo. Well, they said it would be a limo. I'm excited about it. So.

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Do you know that one? Yeah. Do you know they're married? Rachel told me that. Yeah. They're divorced. Okay. Yeah.

But might have been married at the time. I had no idea they were married in real life. Surely they didn't get divorced and then cameo together. probably not yeah um but that episode was great uh just you've got justin the guy who everyone's making out to be a heartthrob they should have made him look better that was an odd choice bro do you know who that guy is i don't know his name but he dated jennifer aniston and she is just are just fine do you disagree no sorry i was trying to say and good for him right like maybe he is a heartthrob and we don't see it because we're not seeing it his hairline looked like they made it intentionally hilarious and his eyebrows were so black and they look like a roller coaster he looks like an extra from twilight or something yeah it looked odd yeah

everyone's obsessing over him in that episode. So that was hard to get past. Otherwise, really funny and really great. Just, yeah. She's on a date with an MRI doctor. It's just so funny how poorly the date's going, how he convinces her to get an MRI. And she does get the MRI and the things he's saying to her. And then she gets billed for the MRI.

You got a great oven. That's what, yeah. Wow. I mean, seriously, industrial-sized oven in here. You could have triplets right now. So funny. Yeah, industrial-sized oven was so funny. And she just zoomed in on her face in the MRI thing.

Now, don't talk. Don't talk. You said your mom lives around here? Yeah, she did. What did I say? I told you a thousand times, stop talking. Why are you moving? It is so funny. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah yeah so yeah i better join that maybe a few more a few more

episodes can't wait loving parks and parks and rec eventually dude you're just gonna you're gonna hit the stride i'm still loving it as it is i know well i i hope i'm not like over hyping and then you're like well hit the stride that you're talking about. Actually. Now I'm not seeing the hype and riding short. Yeah. Yeah. Andy's great. April's great. She just became Ron's assistant.

So good. She's doing a good job. So funny. Turning everyone away. Poor Jerry. Yeah. Just wait. Just, um, uh, sorry.

I'm not, I'm gonna stop saying that. Enjoy the moment. Wait, dude. I was talking to Will Severins yesterday. He went to school at Taylor University, which is in Upland, Indiana. Stab him, Trojans. Near where I was this weekend. Yeah, he's talking about Indiana, man.

I mean, in his eyes, he's jokingly, obviously, overgeneralizing, but he's like, Pawnee, Indiana, Parks and Rec, like those town hall meetings, some of those people in Indiana are actually like that. So just imagining that with me. Something else I've been, I watched that I want to recommend to people

who love true crime stuff. I mean, there's a new documentary every week that you can watch. At a certain point, they start to blend together. You're like, I'm getting confused on which cute blonde girl is missing. They're all the same. However, The Perfect Wife on Hulu. Okay.

This is my recommendation of the recent ones I've watched. Really good. So much so, my sister randomly texted me, which we don't normally talk about shows and stuff. Just all caps. You need to watch The Perfect Wife on Hulu. I was like, I did, and I really enjoyed it. That's so cool that you liked it, too. So, yeah.

It's like, it's a three-part documentary that's got, like, the twist and turns that, like, I did it. I really enjoyed it. That's so cool that you liked it too. So yeah, it's like, it's a three-part documentary. It's got like the twist and turns that like a drama would have. Like if you were writing a script, you would have these kinds of twists. And I was like, this is real life. This is crazy. That's what you want in one of those things. Yes, I know. And I think it kind of got stale a little bit.

Like, yeah, they go missing. And in the end, it's always the husband. Well, yeah. Why didn't we check there? Like Tiger King was awesome for a million reasons but the main one the first one was like at the end of first episode or second episode after you think carol baskin's this like wonderful person they're like wait well you know you know whatever it's five years old so i'm not gonna spoil it for you but you know she killed

her husband right and it's like what what you're like yeah there's this old tiger universe look at bagavan he might be a sex trafficker like Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Do you want to watch episode three? It's like, I think I got it. Yeah. That's a great call. You know? Yeah, it's fun.

I just like to unpeel layers. So I think it's three episodes on Hulu. Perfect wife. Synopsis without spoiling anything. You know, cute, blonde mom, wife. Seemed like she had it all together Brad missing goes on like a little run they find her like phone

some headphones and like some of her hair at the end of the street and just like no sign of her and anyway okay the search begins was this where was this where was she based out of do you remember

north okay begins. Where was this? Where was she based out of? Do you remember? North. Okay. Raleigh probably. North Carolina. North Chicago. North of the border. Yeah. Richmond. North of Richmond. Richmond. North of

Richmond. Yeah. All the different things. Dude. Speaking of that. Love that dude by the way. What's his name? Oliver. Oliver Anthony. of Richmond. Yeah, all the different things. Dude, speaking of that, love that dude, by the way. What's his name? Oliver? Oliver Anthony? Oliver Anthony. Time in the line. Time in the line.

Whoa, hey. I hung out with a guy that looked exactly like him, but was just a way swaggier version. Like, one of the dads of this thing. He looked like he was, like, the Oliver Anthony of, like, but he also, like, played on, like, the team that would practice against the D1 school in basketball like he was like wearing jordans and like cool stuff and like kind of jack but he had a long

red beard and bald that's fine anyway go ahead so it's fun i'm on youtube multiple times a day and i'm always on different youtube accounts so it's like before i go into youtube studio for ghost runners first i have to switch account to ghost runners then i gotta switch back to my own then i gotta switch back whatever and they all have different homes for you they all have different algorithms it's kind of funny i click on ghost runners and it pops up oliver anthony you know he's got a new song out i was like that's funny that's like for ghost runners maybe a little oliver anthony probably because at one point i've like browsed i was like why didn't i get this on mine i like him why didn't friday big walk hit him yeah um anyway so i click

on it and it's like it looks exactly like the the viral on richmond north of richmond it's like he's even got the same shirt on i remember it like his dog's right there he's got the deer statement like i remember all this it's the same exact setting and so then but it's a new song i read to the youtube description and it says you know it's put out by some radio station in west virginia and like we've had this one in the hopper for a while thought now would be a good time to release it. And then this is why I want to have that podcast of like, how are you making your money?

What's going on here? Okay. Are they like, did he sign a bad deal with this radio company? Like he can't put out music until they put it out. It was a song called dog gone. It really liked it. Okay.

I've come back to listen to it a second time. Hmm. And, but I'm like, have they just been sitting on his music for a year and they're like hey from the vault here's his third song i know he's like one of the most popular things in the world right now but we're gonna go ahead and just sit on a song until he kind of fizzles out a little bit there might be some things i'm yeah like now that he's fizzled yeah mind of who this guy is like i haven't heard anybody talking about

him recently yeah so maybe i'm missing something here yeah but um yeah there's like yeah we feel because in the description i saw like we filmed all these in the same day and we're just not putting it out like wow after the first one it's so viral you think maybe they thought at the time this wasn't a very good recording or this is not a very good song but like like well he's pretty popular so people watch anything he does huh Huh. That's it. Actually, how do we... Doggone it. Oh, you said Richmond. Oh, North.

I don't know where this takes place, but it's the perfect white. The mysterious disappearance of Sherry Papini. A Sherry, a Papini. A Sherry Papini. That's... So it's good. Watch it on Hulu. I would recommend it.

I appreciate it. If you like true crime. I'll watch that, but I won't just watch a true crime just out of the blue because like what if you're halfway into like what if you're 45 minutes into an episode and you're like i actually don't think this is very good it's like dang i'm gonna turn this off now reading california oh yeah that'll do it north of the border that's right yeah north of the border i like's right. Yeah. North of the border. I like that. Northern California. You know, northern hemisphere. Anyway, that's that. Recommendation.

Take it or leave it. I'll take it. Perfect wife. Thank you. It's been taken. I've taken this. Tymon, what's up with you, man? Yeah.

Oh, good question. I should have written some stuff down for my week, but I don't know. I've been good. Okay. I've just been hanging out, editing a lot of that stuff from the crop irrigation. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly,

not that much to report. Okay. Fair enough. Living a good life. We asked timing off the podcast and unofficially, we think that you're going to be part of the fancy football league. Yeah. Yeah.

That's going to be so fun. Maybe time. It should be in one TJ should be in the the fantasy football league. Yeah. Yeah. That's going to be so fun. Maybe time. It should be in one. TJ should be in the other. Oh, who can get further? That's good. Or just like we have a celebrity guest in both. Yeah.

You know, kind of thing. We don't want to be like, yeah, we're not in the time and TJ Lee. We are in the other one. Yeah. They at least get somewhat fun in each one. Right. Because that's fun. It's just us.

If not. And I'd say, guys, I could joy while time is in there. We're going to give time in a few pointer time. You probably don't know draft kickers in defense first because they go quick. Yeah.

And then because who touches the ball more than a quarterback kicker? Who's on the field more defense? Yeah. Defense is on there a ton. So time and can't tell if we're joking or not.

I know. Yeah. Genuinely no idea. I think... I was born in March. My birthday's in March. How many non-Chiefs football players do you know? Tom Brady? He's not anymore.

Okay. Right? Just all old players. I know Johnny Unitas, Bart Starr, obviously. Let's do fill in the blanks. Or no, try to figure out some first. Okay's do fill in the blanks. Or no, try to figure out some first.

Okay. I mean, Brock Purdy. Hey, there we go. There we go. His sister-in-law DMed me this morning. I don't. Still in the circle. Maybe tell Rachel about that.

Include her in the next one. Genuinely, none are coming to mind. Okay. Besides those two. Let's do some fill in the rock party. Tom Brady. How about we'll start with old, old guys that aren't in the league anymore. Let's go blank Montana.

Hannah. Okay. Hannah Montana. It was Rocky. Rocky Montana. Uh, heard that before. Yep.

Rocky Montana. How about blank? Blank Montana. I felt like was a pretty good one. So I don't know if you're going to get any of these. All right, Blank Marino. No idea. Steve-O.

Should I make up random names for these? Yeah, you should. How about Blank Elway? Dan Elway. I don't know Dan Elway. Dan Marino was actually the right answer. Oh, interesting. Blank James, the basketball player.

LeBron. Good. Just wanted to make sure. Yeah, Edrin. let's do some current ones maybe you've heard of okay Lamar Jackson

hey okay he's not a racist they were all the white ones before then well maybe he is a racist backwards

yeah that's right let's see Lamar's pretty good Blank Hill Um, uh, let's see. Lamar's pretty good. Blank Hill. Hmm. H I L L. I don't know.

Okay. How about this? Tyreek blank. Tyreek Hill. Oh, good. Oh, yeah, you're right. I, you've heard of him. Hill was right. I was like, I like like, Hill is something.

Obviously. Last one. Blank Kittle. No way. Oh. No, I got one. It's not Joe Kittle, is it? Ooh, close.

Joakim. Jeff Kittle? So close. Keep going on the Juhs. New letter, though. New letter, though, Juh. Give me a Joe. I'm really curious if you could get this one.

George Kittle. Yeah, very good. Okay, he'll get this one. I think... Are you willing to bet me $5 he'll get this one? No. Really? I don't know what it is yet.

You want me to tell you what it is? It's... Tell me in a way that Tywin wouldn't know. It's the third... It's the most loved person on the quarterback documentary. Oh, yeah, he'll get this. You think? Yeah.

You want to bet? Yeah. Oh, is this the... Sorry. Yeah, you still want to bet? He's about to get it right now. He has to get it on the first try, though. And do you want to go last name or first name? He's going to get it right now he has to get it on the first try though do you want to go last name or first name

he's going to get first and last name five dollars watch this five dollars go ahead what's his name when you said most loved I just think of like I thought of a new football you like interrupted us oh okay I'll wait I thought of a new football player because I've

heard of this is a football player because I've heard of... This was a football player, right? Tim Tebow? Yes, it is. That is a football player. It's who we were looking for was Kirk Cousins. Oh, okay. I've heard of that guy. I heard of that guy. If you said... Blank Cousins. Blank Cousins, I think I would have gotten it.

I don't know if you said Kirk if I would have. I was hoping we would say Blank Cousins and you would have said Kurt. And we would have had a debate on our hands. Like, I heard a T. No, you didn't. What's Travis Kelsey's brother's name? Jason Kelsey? Not bad.

He's a podcast fan. Very good. Yeah, he's a colleague of his. All right, so. See, you can last longer than time. I'll do fine in the league. Yeah. I knew Team T.

It's fine. We'll help explain it to you. Nothing crazy. Should we do our reviews of the week? Let's do reviews of the week. We got some good ones. Yeah. Got to pull it up on my phone.

Same. Internet doesn't work. Oh. All right. Let's see. Mississippi Truther. all right let's see mississippi truther five-star view brad just said he thinks summers in the south would be like walking in someone's mouth walking in someone's mouth and as someone born and raised in mississippi i cackled so loud because it could not be more true um Proud Mississippian. Proud ghostie.

Thank you for the constant laughs. Thank you, truther. Mississippi truther. Mississippi truther. Out of all the southern states, it seems like Mississippi's got to be the hottest. Is that true to you in your head? Louisiana is where I've felt the most humidity outside before.

That's fair. It was a wet person's mouth. If it's possible to be 105% humidity, I feel like it's in the swamps of Louisiana. It was like, if it's possible to be one Oh 5% humidity, I feel like it's in, it's in the swamps of Louisiana. I was just so wet there. It's all, it's all hot.

It's all human. Uh, Perry Caperton left us, left us a five star review. It called it a boy podcast. I always listen to the podcast while getting ready for work. And I recently learned that my roommates have been very confused by the male voices that follow me around the house every morning.

I shared with them the good news that is the ghost writers podcast and has now been renamed to the boy podcast in our very feminine house. The more I referenced jokes and stories from my boy podcast, the closer I get to converting them from their girly podcast ways. Thank you guys so much for always giving us positive, encouraging and funny content. I can imagine that's tough to do while dealing with the negative things that pop up in your lives. I go on about what this podcast means to me and the way it's impacted my life. It feels like this is y'all's ministry, and I'm very grateful to be on the receiving end of it, saying prayers of blessing and praise for you all and your families. Side note, I recently got my MSW, Masters of Social Work, correct? Wow, great. Is that what Rachel has? No. Oh, no. LPC. LPC.

And now working in elementary school. It's the best. And I hope Rachel's loving her new job too. Fun. Is she? Rachel is. Yeah. Great.

You know what I learned? I had no idea. So Rachel's school doesn't have a vice principal. And so Rachel is the number two at her school. Whoa. Every Tuesday, the principal leaves to go do these like district meetings. And so Rachel's in charge of the school. Whoa.

Really? I did not know that was going to be happening. That's pretty cool. Yeah. I was like, oh, you're like a... She's like the designated survivor. Yes. Holy cow.

Yeah. She goes away from Congress. That's true. Growing up, I don't remember having a vice principal, but I never thought about what would happen if Dr. Cook's no longer here. Oh, doctor. Not bad, Alaysia. She did all right. Dr. Barry Cook. Black Bob? Black Bob Elementary. Yeah. thought about like what would happen if dr cook's no longer here oh doctor not bad alaysia she did

all right dr barry cook black bob black bob elementary yeah a little bit of a mustache little bit of a mustache but a great principal but nice nice girl um okay go ahead jake would you like to end this episode with a jingle here's what i want to do yes and no uh i asked the ghosties it was your birthday yesterday and i asked the ghosties to send me some of uh favorite memories of jake triplet oh yeah things i love about jake that was nice uh so i think time in yeah here's what we're gonna do i to, um, and this is completely improvised. We have not thought about this. I've not said anything in time. Uh, so if it's terrible, fine. Uh, I'm going to, uh, read some of these things. Okay. Uh, and then while I'm reading, I want you to hum of some

sort of a song. Okay. And then we'll do, uh, breaks in between and you'll sing a chorus of a song that you want to sing any song. So think about a song right now. Okay, maybe a nice sweet song Just in the arms of an angel. It doesn't have to be that Lion King online King. Okay, it's just birthday. He wants Lion King, okay You find that Lion King song yeah, so I just go to your browser and look up Lion King songs lyrics go to See what's a video? Vimeo. Vimeo's good. Vimeo Lion King track. I will say I have quite a few responses. I'm not going to read them

all, but just know that people love you, Jake. Thanks. Love lots of different random things. Ghosties were so nice to me yesterday. Yeah. Thanks. That's surprising that ghosties were nice. That was weird. Yeah, it's seriously weird. They were so nice. It is fun to hear like so what what somebody's like favorite things about you like um i'll go ahead and start

while time unless are you ready i'm ready all right go ahead so just like hum yeah yeah yeah first and foremost uh we'll go ahead good um first and foremost caitlin triplet favorite memory that one time we had a tornado warning. So we took shelter under a bed in the basement. Oh yeah. Jake fell asleep down there. Shocking. So once the warning was over, we all went back upstairs and just let him sleep.

Well, the basement flooded that night and I guess nobody thought to go wake him up. Needless to say, Jake, he woke up soaking wet that morning. Can you feel the love tonight the peace the evening brings the world for once in perfect harmony with all its living thing. All right, that's good enough. Keep humming now. All right, we got Mouse in the House.

Saw Jake in Boston this year. So good. Can't wait for the next one. Playing Bank. The quote, he died doing what he loved, checking to see if wolves were ticklish. Jake gets me riled up every single episode, but then I laugh.

The ultimate Gen X antagonist. Love the way Jake started laughing out loud when he met Rachel. I don't know what that means. You know how to tie tie? Says Maddie Oliver. Love that. Also when he told me I looked like Janet Jackson. I still, yeah.

CR Dale said when he told the story of peeing in the bed. Vulnerable and yet good for a laugh. Aaron Dench check made an epic proposal video happy b-day jake uh working at camp with him and doing breakfast wraps together says his sister once again oh he has she has a lot laughed twice as hard as jake as when i went to see kevin hart with my family my family all laughed twice as hard says anna buffini kind of racist but correct the pickleball story of the girl in the PPA that Jake called Thesden to confuse people

the one with the taxi driver that didn't know where he was going and was very old can you feel the love tonight the peace the evening brings the world for once in perfect The peace the evening brings. The world for once in perfect harmony with all its living things.

Jessica R. Weiss, messing with the scammers on the pod. When Jake said March Madness on the doorstep and the doorbell camera caught it. Gosh. Tremendous patience. Limo Days, classic jake rap jingles from the podcast finding rachel and just in all quotes rural uh when jake does a fake old letter read aloud in his accent do you care line jake and stew summer of 2013 says caleb hitchcock. Specifically being clotheslined by the slackline. His geoguessor obsession. Nobel Peace Prize for physics.

I still laugh. Any interaction he's had with people at the airport or on a plane. I would say the Kansas City Chiefs homecoming moment. So many choices, but love him rachel calling each other grandpa can you feel the love tonight you needn't look too far oh stealing through the night's uncertainties love is where they are and if he falls in love tonight i hope i do it can be assumed his carefree days with us our our history. In short, our palace. Dude.

What a sweet song, dude. I'll just end with this one. This is our wonderful, we love Kaylee Thompson, one of our favorites. She says, we're in church. And he leans over and says, this is the pastor with the cute kids. What is that? And then she also said, he's also one of the most genuine people I've ever met. Makes people feel so seen.

Do you remember this? I'm trying to think what that could be. Maybe you're just uncomfortable calling these kids cute or something. There's so many responses, dude. I think I have. So at our church, there's like, there's a head pastor and there's another pastor. OK. And I think any time I bring someone to church, the head pastor, it's just like it's like the one time in last six weeks he's not preached.

Right. And I think Kaylee and Celia, maybe some other people were in town. I was like, I really hope you get to hear Pastor Phil. It's like we've got one pastor who's like such a great speaker and teacher. The other one's got cute kids. I'm kind of piecing together a story, but I bet it was something like that. And then later we're like,

this is the one with cute kids. I'm guessing. A lot of people love your aerial mess up. Oh, yeah. Big one. Shout outs for Mouse in the House. Shout out for the magic show at Grande Boo. Multiple people love that.

They were twins the whole time. That's right. Spoiler. People love running with you in Gulf Shores. I mean, so many. Thanks, guys. Yeah. When you rattle those off,

it is like I do have a lot of memories with specific ghosties too. Not just on the podcast, but actual spending time with them. There's plenty on here too that were just like, when I met him, he was so kind to me

and genuinely was interested in me. That's nice. Yeah, so many things like that. We got a good pod going. We got a good thing going here. We got a good thing going. You guys are nice. We're nice.

Tymon's nice. Tymon's all right. Sycamores. Yeah. It's great. Tymon, you'll find your other sycamore. Thank you. Yeah, sycamore.

That could be a little nickname. We got in trouble for Bag Your Dough. Will we get in trouble for Find Your Sycamore? She outstretched her sycamores and I clung to them. Two became one. Same roots.

Fun. Fun, fun. All right. That's it. Got a fun Wednesday episode coming up for y'all. Go Chiefs. Go Chiefs.

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