Ghostrunners - 366 - Our Most Unpopular Opinions

Episode Date: September 16, 2024

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Ha ha, Tymon's scared of his friend's parents. Ha ha. What a wiener. We had a lot of pre-podcast discussion just now. We talked frame rate. We talked motion smoothing. And we also talked people who are no nonsense. Which is what we're going to be this episode.

Serious, yeah. Yep. We're recording this on 9-11. It's my grandma's birthday. And last night was the debate. So I think a lot of reasons to be serious. Let's just analyze the debate seriously. Let's talk about that. Let's talk about your grandma seriously. And then let's relive where we were on that fateful day. Seriously. All right.

Tymon, go ahead and you start. You start with the debate. No. Debate? Okay. I was going to have to talk with your grandma. Or or 9-11 time it would be good on any of them time what do you know about 9-11 i know um it was stop that's too you have no idea you don't you don't get it you weren't there what what do you know uh i know i think the basic facts of um that it was sad and that it was pretty traumatic. That's not a fact, that's an opinion. First of all. Sorry.

No nonsense. It was subjectively sad for a lot of people, not everybody. That's a great recap. It was subjectively sad. No nonsense. Stop smiling. Sorry. And yeah, I read a book on it.

There was this series called I Survived, and I used to like a book about 9-11. Not because of 9-11. I liked the book, not the event. Yeah, it's like an I support breast cancer thing. It's like, well, support. Yeah, well, I don't. I'd rather not be around.

Yeah. But if it's there, I will. If it's falling, I will put my hands up to support jake no nonsense sorry it's the worst argument ever no you're supporting it i got you i got you breast cancer yeah no totally i survived time and love the breast cancer episode of that that's great yeah congrats oh i think this type beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white me too

midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet, because it's the Ghost Brothers Podcast. Everybody morning, we're taking ground. Ghost Brothers Podcast. Ghost Brothers Podcast. Oh my gosh. Speaking of time and sinning, he's coming to Vegas. Is he?

It's official. Okay. And we got a plus one. Okay. Who do you think is coming along? Maria, Maria. That would be great. I was like, I'll be there.

My mom is also going to be kind of a second shooter. And I don't know, like, you know those leashes that you have for little kids? Like, they make them for adults. This one's more subtle. It's under my shirt, so it's not as embarrassing. It's like a lav mic cord. It's more like a wireless, just like shot caller kind of thing. If I get too far.

We're bringing not one, but two homeschoolers with us to Vegas. Let's see. Zach? Zach's coming. Oh my gosh. We're corrupting the youth. You need to make an on the streets video with Zach. I feel like out of all people, Zach would love just talking to random people on the streets.

We want to try some of that in Branson this weekend. Oh, that's a great idea. Start with Branson. In Silverdark City. And then work our way up to... Yeah, we'll get you to Vegas. Start with Wholesome in Silverdark City. I like the idea of asking,

almost doing a versus, Branson versus Vegas, and asking the same questions in both people and seeing how different their answers would be. It's a great YouTube video. Maybe. Yeah.

I wasn't planning on taking you guys anywhere near the strip or not the strip, the main drag. I was going to do the same jokes we did last time. Yeah.

But for a good YouTube video. Yeah. Or downtown. Downtown. Or downtown, downtown, downtown might have less body. Not none, but just, just less,

less, less. I can support. Anyway. Yeah. We, we kind of realized like, so Scott's partner TJ is also going to come with us.

We're going to try to get multiple tournaments, kind of film multiple videos, make the most of this. And we realized, hey, Scott TJ will be playing the same time as me and Isaac will be. Maybe try to find a local guy, maybe fly a rider for a day, whatever. And then timing, not even knowing all that's happening, I was like, what if Zach came, LOL?

That'd be awesome. And I was like, well, maybe. I was like, well, maybe I was like, well, anyway, yeah, he's coming. Long story short. He's coming now.

It's going to be like Zach's origin story on like his testimony someday. Like, yeah, you know, I was, I was on a straight narrow path. Yeah. And then,

um, I don't know, like, do you remember like 10 years ago when everyone was playing that sport pickleball? Yeah. Yeah. Just, I don't know.

I got in the wrong crowd, uh, on the wrong crowd. They invited me to Las Vegas and went through a pretty hard time. Just, I don't know. I got in the wrong crowd. Got in the wrong crowd. They invited me to Las Vegas and went through a pretty hard time. So. Yep. It was where baseball cards. I thought I would just like, yeah, they said tops, like tops baseball cards.

And. There were no tops. There were no tops. So that's going to be fun, man. I can't wait to hear your experience, Tyvin. Yeah. What do you. Okay. So like a month. So what's going to be fun, man. I can't wait to hear your experience, Tymon. Yeah. What do you, okay.

So like a month. So what do you know compared to last week? What do you know now about Vegas? Anything? I haven't done much research, but I don't know. I mean, I know what we talked about last week. It's, it's a, it's not a great, uh, wholesome place. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know.

The tennis facility and, uh our urban b are both like just be normal right yeah they're like 15 minutes away from the main area so i don't know how much we'll go there but yeah it's uh the main basin wonder what it does have you looked at what's going on the sphere while you're there oh i looked that up because i am enamored by the sphere i didn't look up the sphere of a time, tell them what you found. I just, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was scrolling Instagram. Spin it out, Tyman.

Wait, two nights ago. What are you doing? This is about 9-11 again. I scroll on Instagram and I see Hans Zimmer, the famous composer, going on like a North American tour. I was like, well, that's fun. I wonder if he's coming near Kansas City. So I look it up. Unfortunately, he's not. I'm like, well, that's fun. I wonder if he's coming near Kansas city. So I look it up.

Unfortunately he's not. I'm like, well, let me just look at these dates where he's coming. And what do you know? October 12th, he's in Las Vegas. Yo,

the weekend that I'm there. Yo. Yeah. And so I think we're going to go see Hans Zimmer. What is, what would that mean? Exactly. Like,

would it be an orchestra playing Hans Zimmer songs with him? I think, I think like posing or i'm gonna i'm guessing it's a lot of different stuff i mean because he has like all these different styles of stuff he's done and like i'm gonna buy tickets expecting to watch the movie inception and if it's anything else i'm gonna freak out that would be cool though if it had like that in the background like if they had seen live orchestra yeah have you seen yeah yeah those are a thing i've never been yeah but like they Yeah. Like they do like Christmas, like Home Alone.

I think the Kansas City Symphony. Yeah, but with the live symphony. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Pretty cool. That could happen. I think there's like probably the greatest hits, like his best songs for movies.

Just like, and they're probably songs slightly different, like different twists on like what instruments are being used because it's not, I don't know. I'm just, I don't even care. I just know it's going to be, it's going to be fun fun that's pretty sweet i'm looking up hanzo movies real quick just to oh yes i mean so many so many good ones holy cow these are surely this is a wrong google search because i mean i'm i'm pulling up 200 movies is that true he does everything really and he's he did cool runnings i don't know let me look it up on spotify let me see cool blackhawk down pearl harbor wow last samurai spanglish the adam sandler hit he did all the batmans

kung fu panda interstellar inception sherlock holmes that's i sherlock holmes low-key good soundtrack homes inception so good yeah the soundtrack made inception so good interstellar i hear is awesome and there's a couple like good oh um oppenheimer there was some really good music in that i feel like really enhanced though oh was it yeah it was ludwig something or other oh well i like it yeah that means so good it feels like it. Yeah. That means so good. It feels like it was Hans. Yeah. It might as well. Yeah. He might cover it. Yeah. Yeah. That's so cool.

Yeah. I think of the dark night and I think of inception. I think of Hans. Gladiator. Lion King. Prince of Egypt. Prince of Egypt. Yeah. Yeah.

The original Lion King. Yes. Holy cow. That's African. I mean, the instrumentals in that. Twister. What?

Wait, what'd you say? Twister. Twister. The firstals in that. Twister? What? Wait, what did you say? Twister? Twister, the first one? Yeah. Twister? Wow. He's been, Top Gun Maverick? That was him playing guitar. Pretty cool. Anyway. Maybe we'll go see Hans.

It's going to be a big musical Vegas little musical weekend. I would, Oh, parts of the Caribbean. Oh yeah. What a guy parts of the Caribbean just kind of hidden in there next to the

holiday and the Simpsons movie. I mean the guy, it's good at all. Um, I would go see almost anything in the sphere. I think. Yeah. Just to see.

Cause I think if you're in there, you're a big enough act where you're going to use that thing to the right capacity. Yeah, I think what's in there for the next couple months is some nature documentary type thing. Oh, that's cool. Which would still be neat.

I'll do that. Yeah. I'll do that over Hans. I saw they're doing a UFC fight in there. I saw that too. I'm intrigued how they use the screen for that. Oh, interesting. What do you do?

Half of it's a screen. I have a hard time even understanding how the screen works exactly. Is the screen only in front of you or is it like encompassing you in the back i think it's like sight and sound kind of 180 ish or like a a lot overhead as well i think so like okay yeah yeah but like yeah it's like over your head i feel like it's kind of like about your field of vision is what I'm picturing. But there's not, are the seats in a circular motion or circular area as well? Or is it kind of like a half circle from what you guys understand? You know, you should watch my guy, Preston Goes.

He made a video going to the sphere. Oh, really? It's awesome. It's a really cool video. But I don't know the answer to your question. That's fair. I think it's somewhat common, like stadium seating though. Yeah.

Arena seating. Really cool. The days we're going to be there, time in the sphere. sphere there's the sphere experience which is like a nature thing and then on friday is the eagles what's one of their songs take it easy hotel california um life they are star isn't that the eagles yeah very good yeah don't we wow it's the only one i know the eagles are huge you don't know the no i know i just I knew they were a big deal. Oh, okay. Give you an opportunity. You don't know the Eagles, man? And then Saturday, we'll be at Hans. V slash U2.

Oh, it's like a virtual U2 concert film. On one hand, it's on a Saturday, though. Yeah. That must be a huge, pretty cool thing if it's on a Saturday in Vegas. That's a good point. Yeah. No nonsense. be a huge pretty cool thing if it's on a saturday in vegas that's a good point yeah no nonsense right you two is one of those bands that i'm like i like them but i don't get i don't get it what like while some people are like crazy about them rolling stones a little bit i want to

i want to be like respecting them because i think they're like, yeah, fathers of rock and roll like the Beatles. They did it for so long. I'm like, I don't feel like the same emotions towards the Rolling Stones as the Beatles at all. Yeah. Beatles have way more hits than the Rolling Stones. I know. Subjectively, Tymon. Yeah.

Not factually. There's no way to look that up. I was subjectively sad on 9-11. Subjectively confused on 9-11. Catherine and I have had fights multiple times over facts versus opinions. On 9-11? No, on 9-11. That would be awesome. We just, every single year. Check your can't melt steel beams!

Yes, they can! Yes, they can. I mean, that's your opinion. No, just like there was one time we got in like an hour long argument about like, I filled up my cup with milk and she goes, whoa, that's,

that's a lot of milk. And I was like, I mean, it's just like, I'm just saying that's a lot of milk. It's a fact. It's a lot of milk. I was like,

well, that's not a fact. That's an opinion. That's a lot of milk. And then we just went back and forth for way too long. Before we had kids, we had way too much time on our hands to argue about silly things like that. I was like,

by definition, a lot is an opinion. And she's like, no, it's not. You work this into a standup bit somehow. Yeah. Before kids.

And we're arguing about if a glass full of milk was a lot of milk or not. I was like, okay. She's like, the glass is almost completely full. I was like, great. So if it's a tiny little shot glass, is that a lot of milk? If it's all the way full to the brim, if it's based's like, the glass is almost completely full. I was like, great. So if it's a tiny little shot glass,

is that a lot of milk? If it's all the way full to the brim? If it's based on how much the glass is full. Oh, man. I was so annoying back then. Now, never annoying. Now, keep having kids. Who's full of milk now?

Whoa, that's a lot of milk. Henry, Henry, easy, easy. That's too much. Yeah, man. Dude, speaking of movie soundtracks, Hans Zimmer a little bit, watched Friday Night Movie Night this past week, watched a Christian 90s classic,

The Buttercream Gang. Ever heard of it? Oh, yeah. Dude. They played that in Stratford. Keep God in Stratford schools. They played it in the schools. Oh, yeah.

Did they have like a campaign that said, Keep God in Stratford schools? It's a in the schools. Oh, yeah. Did they have like a campaign that said, Keep God in Stratford schools? It's a Facebook group. Really? Yeah, I see. Yeah. It seems like it's getting to be a bit of a, what's it called?

Like a- Like a parody account? No, like a gossip account. Like, we need to pray for this person. Trust me if you knew what I knew. Anyone know, anyone that has access to a police scanner know what's going on down on Main Street right now? Yeah.

I need to pray for them. It's like, I don't know if that's really why you're asking. It just becomes a Stratford, just Facebook group. Hey, is Cowan's open today? He's going to get some gas. This is like a prayer group. Well, hey, pray for me to get gas today then. I don't know.

Dude, genuinely, the other day, speaking of prayer, I was praying. I prayed for Henry to poop. He hadn't pooped in like a week. And then literally, guys, prayer works. I'm just saying, if you were curious, prayer works. Literally like five minutes later, Catherine texted me and said, Henry pooped.

Oh, you weren't even there and you prayed. No. Oh yeah, I was just praying for my family. That's kind of fun. And yeah, I was like, holy crap. Like, that's pretty cool. Holy crap is a great way of putting it. Like literally, it was coming out. Oh yeah. I was just, I was just praying for my family. That's kind of fun. And yeah, I was like, holy crap. Like that's pretty cool. Holy crap is a great way of putting it. Like literally it was coming out. Holy crap.

It was God's crap. It was God's crap. So God doesn't, God doesn't mind your crap. All right. I've prayed for crap before. Have you? Oh yeah. Yeah. It was like times of need. He's just, he wasn't sleeping well. He was clearly like visibly like hurting. And so I was just like, God, I promise I will,

I will praise you. I'll, I'll give you the glory. If you, if you let him poop right now, glory, keep God, keep God in the poop.

Keep, keep, keep God. It's poop. It's traffic. God and Shawnee Kansas. So Brad's bad. Yeah.

I watched the buttercream gang with our kids and I thought Kat Hattie and Catherine had had a discussion about the buttercream gang. Have you heard of it, Tymon? No. I think I used to have a crush on one. There's nobody you'll know at all. It's like one of those classic Christian films from the 90s that was just like a

low budget. It was pretty well produced. This is a movie? It's not a show? I believe it's a movie. Okay, gotcha. We found it on full-length film on YouTube for free. No ads. It was awesome. Do you Letterboxd review it or anything?

Not yet. That's what I look it up on. That's kind of my default movie place. But I had thought that Catherine and Hattie had talked about it. And so Hattie was like, and they had just watched the movie called the Apple Dumpling Gang recently, which is. I watched that. You know that one?

Don Knotts. Yeah, Don. Oh, I love Don Knotts. My kids love Don Knotts. I love Don Knotts. I don't think Bo knows who Matthew McConaughey is. I don't think he knows who Tom Hanks is, but Bo loves Don Knotts.

What's it called? Apple. How it should be. Apple Dumpling Gang. And so Hattie said something like, yeah, I think we should watch, we were talking about like some other gang. And I was like, oh, the Buttercream Gang. And Hattie's like, yeah, I think we should watch mom. We were talking about like some other gang. And I was like, oh, the buttercream gang.

And Hattie's like, yeah, I think so. And so then we like start watching it and Catherine comes down and she's like, you guys are watching the buttercream gang. That's a little bit like intense for, you know, a two-year-old and a four-year-old. And you see like these gang members, like taking like, what are those things called? Like the bottles where you throw them and they blow up. Yeah. Yeah. Molotov cocktail, like throwing them and like just being these bad kids or whatever um but man it was just a it was a wonderful 90s nostalgia movie just like i don't

know maybe is it just because we're in the 90s we're from the 90s or is it because it truly is like the best time of movie lore i I wonder that too. I wonder that specifically when it comes to the Disney franchise. Because it seems like we had it made. Yeah, Jessica Weiss, Golden Age of the Disney was 90s. Oh yeah, she's a huge Disney fan. So I feel like she but she's also our age. She's also a millennial.

I'm not 90s biased and I think probably 90s like Disney animation like Lion King Beauty and the Beast. That's what they got. They were just like classics. I don't think that's a lot of like they're like classics yeah that's a very good throw a Toy Story in there Toy Story was yeah the end there wasn't Disney yet but but like great so good but that era of just like animated movies was like really really solid but there's like isn't it fun like the very first like computer animated movie was also like really good yeah it's amazing yeah it's like that's kind of fun that they didn't like they nailed it mess up like really good. Yeah. It just happened to be amazing. Yeah. It's like,

that's kind of fun that they didn't like, they nailed it. Mess up. Yeah, really? Yeah. They weren't like growing paid. It's like,

Hey, we're still kind of figuring out the animation. It's like, no, they had it down. That was the first thing. Wallace and Gromit's. I think first Wallace and Gromit's stop motion.

That's real. Hey, I don't know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. VFX house.

He wasn't alive for nine. I don't have a house like you do in the VFX world. Okay. No. Yeah. I think toy store is house like you do in the VFX world. Okay. No. Yeah. I think Toy Story was like the first like full length feature movie with like all like CGI. Okay.

Yeah. It was awesome. Yeah. Uh, anyway, buttercream gang, just a great, like, like just, uh, it has a score. It has like, it has orchestra and like music and like it had this one song that was so Steven Curtis Chapman esque. Like, yeah. And it had this one song that was so Stephen Curtis Chapman-esque. Oh, yeah. And it was just awesome.

And so the whole idea of it is this kid, this Buttercream Gang is these four kids in this small town that are just doing good things for old people, basically, doing good things for their community. One of the kids moves away to Chicago, big city, joins a real gang. Not a real, I mean, Buttercream Gang is a real gang. This could be Zach. Yeah, exactly. It's the Zach of the real world.

Joins a real gang and then comes back and, like, influences all these bad kids in a small town. And they go – they kind of have – they butt heads and they go after it. But the good kids, Scott specifically, the main character, is always good to Pete, the bad boy. That's always good. Even when Pete steals his bike, even when Pete bullies him, Scott just is showing God's love. And, dude, I don't know what happened.

I don't know if it was nostalgia baked in with fatigue and just sentimentality and being a dad or whatever. But I cried pretty hard at the end of buttercream. Like I was like explaining it to the kids of like what happened, like especially Bo, because Bo, Bo like three different times was like, yeah, Pete's Pete's going to die.

Yeah. Pete's going to die. Pete's in a gang. He's going to die. And so at the end, I like had to like stop myself halfway through a sentence because I was like getting ready to like actually cry out loud. I was like, Pete did such a good job because Scott just kept being nice to him.

I don't know what happened, but because I'm like, gosh, I hope Bo picks the right friends. I don't know what it was. One of those things. I bet. Everything becomes 10 times emotional once you have kids, I would assume. I don't know what it was. You know, one of those things. I bet. Everything becomes ten times emotional once you have kids, I would assume. I don't know how it went down, but the Stephen Curtis Chapman

knockoff song, whatever that was, because they brought it back. They had it for one part of the movie, and then they brought it back when he was just getting, like, knocked down by Scott or by Pete. It was great. Bring back the motif. It was great. Oh, man. We should honestly play that song. I guarantee you it's copyright free.

We should play that song at the end of this episode. It's got some great guitar licks in there and everything else. Speaking of crying in movies, well, actually first, Toy Story 1995 was the first ever full-length computer animated feature film. It pioneered the use of CGI to animate an entire movie. Tymon and I had a fun little texting conversation over this past week about a movie you cried in. Yes. near the use of CGI to animate an entire movie. Tymon and I had a fun little texting conversation over the

this past week about a movie you cried in. Yes. Tymon, do you want to talk about that? Yeah. I watched Forrest Gump. Oh, yeah. I've seen it once before, but it was on like that Spirit Airlines flight to California. It was like super cramped. I wasn't super into it. Like I liked it a lot, but I was like, is this fine?

Yeah. But yeah, it was like randomly the other night watched it and it was like this is fine screen yeah um but yeah it was like randomly the other night uh watched it and it was like i had started it we'd gone to my sister's like dorm at mnu and like started but then we had to like leave by 11 so i couldn't quite finish it at home i just watched like the last hour and then i was just like sitting in my bed at like 1 a.m just like tears yeah yeah it was like i was with my brother but he had like pretty much fallen asleep so i'm just like alone just jesse wakes up like what happened i can't explain it man you gotta watch for yourself nothing i think i did like uh he was like i'm going to bed like good i love you so much

yeah man but it yeah it was like it hit it was it's such a good movie was it when hayley droll osmic like his little son? That's what I said. Yeah. Oh yeah. I mean, it was like, I think that, that like definitely started. Is he smart?

Yeah. Is he smart? Yeah. Yeah. That, and then just like the ending, like grave scene or like the, yeah.

Oh, it's so, it's so good. I'm getting, I'm getting a little goosey. I know. It's so good. Wow.

I wouldn't rewatch the scene. And yeah, Tom Hanks, Tom Hanks is so good. Yeah. Especially in that scene, his face when he realized he has a kid and then he's like self aware, you realize that he is self aware and he's like,

is he smart or is he like gesture? Yeah. It's just so good. The reason we found this out is because I was trying to explain to time and how football works basically. And then time and, you know, just text Jake always had a way of explaining things so I could understand

them. I was like, that's a weird text. And the time I was like, I just watched Forrest Gump. So that seemed fitting. And so then we just have to talk about Forrest Gump. And yeah, we, uh, so fun. I would like to hear more about the football thing. We are also going to do a football, uh, patron episode, all time quarterback, a lot of football

on patron. Um, what, what were you trying to learn exactly? Tim about how football works i can't remember we've had multiple conversations just like me asking i think it was just i don't know what it was this was like i think timon texted me how do i do better in the guillotine league this is monday morning yeah because i had seen people like worried like oh timon might not make you were close well can i fix this i don't know yeah yeah so i was basically explaining, no, you're about to get kicked out of the league because you're in last. And then miraculously,

Purdy and Ayuk don't have good fantasy games. And so Tymon ends up moving on. So later that night, where is it at? I was like, dude, you somehow survived the guillotine league. That's when he's crying. Tymon said, that's wild, so fun. And then I said,

people, when they talk to me about you being in a fantasy football league, and then I sent the gift of Tom Hanks in, is he smart? Oh, that's awesome. Uh, so yeah, good, good football for us. Talk. Yeah. Did you watch any football this weekend? Uh, what did I, I watched, there was the one like 49ers game and I watched like,... There was the one like 49ers game. Yeah. And I watched like I think eight minutes

of like a recap thing. Didn't quite finish it. Nice. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. Didn't quite finish it. Didn't quite finish it. I've seen enough.

He didn't grip me like Forrest did. Fair enough. Once you start understanding who the players are, their backstories, that adds a little more intrigue to the whole thing.

I'll get there. Because the 49ers were playing the Jets. The Jets quarterback is like an all-time great quarterback, Aaron Rodgers. But he got hurt really early in the season last year. I heard him mention that, yeah. Okay, yeah. So like all that was kind of an intriguing storyline for that game.

Didn't look great, but anyway. Fun times. Yeah. Let's talk about a sponsor. Okay. I forgot to have it pulled up, but I know who one is, Main Street Roasters.

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I'll tell you that right now. Ah! Oh, man. Anyway, I was going to say, oh, speaking of my sister, it was her birthday last weekend. Which, did I talk about this on the podcast? No, you just told me.

Okay. Going to the Chiefs game. Yeah, so for my sister's birthday, it was her 30th birthday, and all she asked for was that she wanted her friends and family to take one of her sculpt classes. They're called sculpt. It's in a 92-degree room, like yoga room.

You do a high-intensity interval workout. Hit. Hit. Hit workout. Hit. Hit. Hit workout. Yeah. Like 45 minutes. They're pretty intense. I've done it before.

You sweat a lot, but then she says, don't worry about it. The janitor over there at the end, he wipey. Go ahead, Jake. Go ahead, buddy. Go ahead, man.

Nailed it. I'll talk. You get the next one ready. Okay. Nailed it. I'll talk. You get the next one ready. Okay, okay, okay. So these are pretty intense workouts. Her husband, Brayden, has thrown up multiple times doing these workouts,

which good for Brayden pushing himself that hard. I think if I'm about to throw up, I'm going to take a break, but that's because I'm not mentally tough and Brayden is. Yes.

These are pretty intense. So anyway, i go rachel's out of town she was obviously you can imagine devastated to miss this she had a wedding shower and um some of her friends come and then my mom my dad braden's dad braden's mom oh we're all there and braden of course amazing and it was awesome i'm talking to braden's dad beforehand. I'm like, you ever done anything like this? And he's like, no, never done a workout before. Oh, thanks. Oh, you had one?

Yeah. Go ahead. You ever done a workout like this? Yeah, well, not like this, but I did train for a while to do a race on my bike across Illinois, where I'm from. No way. Yeah, my wife and I, we bikey. Thanks, guys. Thank you.

Thanks so much. Thanks so much. That's my time. That's my time. All right. Okay, never done a workout before. Yeah, it was a really funny response. She's like, this?

No, I've never done a workout before. He's a farmer. Yeah, he's just got farmer. And then I was telling Braden that after. I was like, that's so funny. I've never done a workout before. He's a farmer. Yeah. He's just got farmers. And then I was telling Braden that I phrase. I was like, that's so funny. Your dad's just never done fitness before. He's like,

Oh, I think he means like yoga. Cause he wakes up every morning and does pushups and sit ups. I was like, Oh yeah, that's a farmer workout. That's great. Anyway,

it was really fun. You can just imagine the jokes my dad is making before, during, and after, you know, he'd been telling all of us, you know, telling us like, you know, you're gonna have to tell people, what'd you do for your 30th birthday? Oh, I killed my dad is making before, during, and after. He'd be telling all of us, you're going to have to tell people, what did you do for your 30th birthday? Oh, I killed my dad.

He was just fully ready to just have a bad day. Was he genuinely not excited about it, or was it one of those I'm just playing around? No, I think this is a great canvas for jokes.

Still got to be a great sport about it and have fun. You killed your dad. But he was great. I think Caitlin took it easy on us. She told us, she's like, I'm going to treat you guys like any other workout class. I think she did. I don't think I'm in that much better shape

than I was last time I did one of these. It seemed quite a bit easier. Give me some examples of what it would look like. Sure, literally. Yeah, here we go. YouTube.com slash Ghostrunners podcast. We can't play it would look like. Sure, literally. Yeah, here we go. YouTube.com slash Ghostrunners podcast. We can't play it because it's copyrighted, but pretend there's some like,

I need you to, I need you to, I need you to move. Oh. Power me now. another round of shots. Shots, shots. Now on the grenade. Now we're doing mountain climbers. Ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da. Turns out, ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da.

I still see your face, man. I love tumbling. Nice, yeah. Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. Just a lot of good. Everyone did great. That's the class. Time to join in there, huh?

Yeah, we're switching cameras. I got sweaty doing that. That was no weights in my hand. So do they give you like dumbbells? Yeah, so common mistake, macho alpha guys are like, oh, they have 12 pound weights. Oh, yeah, I'll do those. I learned, take the three, four pounders.

Oh, those things feel like bricks. Oh yeah, you can't, so much is over your head or just like so much curling, squatting. Well, it's repetition too, right? Yeah, and just doing it for, you know, you don't have weights in your hand the whole time, but you're on the ground for probably half of it, just rolling around.

But yeah, it's a lot of just like, you're on the ground, now you're doing abs, now you're doing lunges, now you're doing, you know, yeah, these's a lot of just like, you're on the ground. Now you're doing abs. Now you're doing lunges. Now you're doing these mountain climbers and just no breaks. Yeah. All gas. How long?

Oh, Tymon, you get it. Gas. Gas. Gen Z gas. Yes. How long was the workout? 45 minutes. That's a long time.

Yeah. It's a long time. I do pedos longer, but like. Yeah, yeah. I pedoed for longer. I mean, torpedoes longer, but like. Yeah, yeah. I've pedoed for longer. I've pedoed way longer than that. I'm hot. I got to take the headphones off for a bit.

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and the promo code is all gas all gas all gas all gas sculpt people might naturally type that people are like i don't know 15 off maybe sculpt i don't know i'll guess uh better add that before i forget but um 45 minutes so at the end of it, you're pretty sweaty. I mean, just the room is incredibly warm anyway. Of course. But like the vibes of the family, how'd your mom do? I think good. So I like to, I wanted to purposely not look at anyone else. I didn't want to make them feel uncomfortable.

So I just like did my own thing. I was focused on myself. So I have no idea like what anyone was doing. So it was like semi-serious. It wasn't like i was definitely joking around way more than anyone else like also i just caitlin and i are so similar like i do kind of love this environment where it's just like pop remixes right like i can't this is so fun yeah and so caitlin's like all right three more seconds three more seconds and then on the beat drop we're

doing this and when the beat drops i'm like like you were supposed to use this towel for like sweat. And I'm like, I did that a couple of times. So it's, it's really fun. And the whole time I'm sitting there, I'm like, this is so cool.

Like my sister and I both make a living with a microphone, but in such different ways, like this is, this is very cool and different how we're doing this. And after the class, I tried to like, very just like respectfully, like I have so many ideas for you and like how you could like're doing this. And after the class, I tried to like very, just like respectfully, like I have so many ideas for you

and like how you could like be improving this. I was like, one time you need to do like a, like a huge, like massive, like outdoor event maybe where you can have like several hundred people and you need to legitimately like bring in DJ Mike L

and do live music. Like if it was you and Mike L, like hide people up, that would be so fun. And then if Mike L had to do it for like five minutes, switch roles. You know what? This is so fun to do it with you guys.

Yo, that's crazy. Oh man. Pregnant, pregnant females out here. That's crazy. That's crazy. Yo,

good work girl. Oh, that'd be all. I was just thinking about like, I had the thought of like just doing it in your street, like a block party. Yeah. But like how fun would it be to just go to a random

abandoned Kmart parking lot with DJ Mikel? Yeah, sculpting with DJ Mikel. Yeah, so. That's really cool. It was really fun. And yeah, I was glad we did it. It was just a good time. Just get together, get a little sweaty.

Kind of motivated me. I was like, I should do more like fitness classes. These are good. Yeah. Shocker. Lifetime. Dude. Speak of that string bean. You want to give us a update? You look good. Thank you. Yeah. Just, uh, been working on working on a fitness and lifting and eating and everything. So Courtney Miller helping out Courtney Miller. Yeah. Shout out to the ghosty ghosty community. Courtney Miller in Gulf shores. Just like offhanded comment. I don't even remember what she said,

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She said, Hey, big and I was like, Hey, Hey, Tubby. Whoa. Still pigging out.

Yeah. Whoa. How many, Hey, how many pieces of pizza is that for you? How many throat rolls did you have? Yeah. Hey, less gas. Yeah. Well, how many, Hey, how many pieces of pizza is that for you? How many throat rolls did you have? Yeah. Hey, less gas or breaks on the stomach. So anyway, no, she's been awesome. It's been, yeah, it's been a fun journey just working, working towards being healthier and being more consistent with it, which has been good. So

do you want to say how much you're down? Are you like waiting for like a big, like progress pick on Instagram? If I ever do a progress pick on Instagram, it's because I lost a bet of some sort. It's because Courtney Miller reminded me. Yeah. Like a paragraph, like motivational, like this is what I,

this is what I did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You were sleeping. I was working. Yeah. Uh,

yeah. I'll tell you. I mean, the hungry sheep isn't concerned with the opinion of the thirsty wolves. Yeah. Yeah. Put like a timestamp on it. A four 43 wolves. Yeah. Yeah. Put like a timestamp on it. A four 43 AM.

Yeah. Yeah. Where are you right now? Peel back the onion. And you'll see a, a hungry, hungry guy. You should make an Instagram account.

That's just this, like on the story every morning, just like, like, where are you at? I'm in the gym. Like, yeah,

yeah, yeah. I'm going to schedule the posts because I'm going to be sleeping still, you know? Uh, yeah, I don't know. I, yeah, I think I've lost 43 pounds right now. So 43. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a baker's dozen

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Ah. Timon's perennial hater of the mile. Which, shout out to Courtney, she also ran in a race and got first in her age group. Hey. So she's a runner now. She's like timing can do it. I can do it. Good job. That's pretty sweet. Dr. Ben's awesome. The Miller's are great. So how do stop losses work on Kraken? Let's say I have a birthday party on Wednesday night, but an important meeting Thursday morning. So sensible me pre-books a taxi for 10 p.m. with alerts.

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Yeah. Well, you can describe it. Yeah. Yeah. uh on the on the facebook group uh posted hottest take the boys have ever had question mark can versus bottle soda and then he put up a poll can versus bottle and the dude got eviscerated can one i'm looking at this screenshot that i have 71 to 15 can versus bottle and the only reason that uh bottle there's also a glass bottle with 11 we're not talking about glass we're talking about plastic oh yeah well that stole the vote that's rfk maybe so yeah um so it was just funny to me like hey that was such a hot take right guys these guys are insane aren't they and then it's like wait i'm the crazy Dude, that's what's so terrifying about stand-up comedy is I think I have a unique observation and take on this thing that this will be relatable.

And you're like, man, I hope it is or else this is going to be embarrassing. Not only is it not funny, but also no one can even relate to my experience. Wait, you think that way? What's your problem, dude? That's what you think about dogs? So I thought we could do a little segment, a hot take segment.

Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. Okay. Let's not get... Sorry.

I don't know what I'm trying to say. Maybe someone will agree or highly disagree. Feel free to post a poll on Facebook. Feel free to get eviscerated. Yeah. Somehow, yeah. Figure this out. Respond to us however you want.

And let's go ahead and preface each take by how hot it is. Okay. In whatever standard you want to call it. Yeah. All right? Via like a pepper, habanero scale. Yeah, what's that? The Scoville?

Scoville. Yeah. Bezel. Hot wings, bezel. Scoville scale, you could do it. Settlement. Yeah. I would say my first one here.

How hot? How hot is it? No, I'll say. All right, yeah. This is my hot take. How hot is it? It's so hot. Yeah?

An eighth grader. I don't want to say that joke. Megan Fox. When you were in eighth grade.gan fox it's so hot yeah it's so hot it could be leaning over a transformer camaro right now and you're in eighth grade and i'm in eighth grade and i'm watching transformers pov shia laBeouf yeah the original um my first one is naps. Naps are most often, I believe, actually in the grand scheme of things, a net negative. Yeah. Hard to quantify this. I know timing doesn't like to be, you know, objective, but yeah, because there are times when it feels like I need to nap so bad. Yeah.

Something I've learned this year is if you feel like you need to nap and then you go run your mile, you feel pretty good afterwards. I think there's... Well, I shouldn't say good. You feel awake afterwards. You don't feel great. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yes, I think there's something like you feel good falling asleep, obviously.

But either you sleep too long and you're groggy a heck. Yeah, and that puts you in like a haze for like an hour. If you don't time it right. Yeah. It's very rare. Do I wake up and like, I don't think I've ever timed it right. I don't know if there's a,

yeah. Hey, here we go. Hey, let's go get them. Hey, let's have it. Let's have a go here.

Hey, come on. Hey, we just took that. Let's go. In my experience, I wake up from a nap more tired than I fell asleep. Yeah.

Three or four times. And then eventually you're like, but, but you recover later on in the night. I want to fall asleep later on the night. And then you can't fall asleep very well because it pushes back your bedtime. There's it's a net negative overall. I think it is more of a, when, when I realized when I'm, when I'm taking a nap, I kind of consciously making a decision of like, I'm kind of, I'm kind of doing the wrong thing here, but I can't help it. I'm screwing myself. Yeah. Kind of. It's like, it's like, it's just like when you're like, you're

like, I shouldn't eat that, but I'm going to eat it anyway. It's like, I'm going to feel bad about this later, but right now it feels awesome. This is when I go for the raw cookie dough in the fridge. Like, what am I doing? Dude, that is one of my biggest killers. It's so good. We got to stop having it in the house. Are you talking about the little cubes? I'll eat anything. Catherine, Catherine will ball them up and there's put them in the freezer oh those are so oh they're just waiting for you yeah so i'm getting nice and i'm like they're bite size they're yeah they're literally like hey here's a quantifiable thing right here oh those things are unbelievable one time somebody gave us when we had henry somebody gave us like 30 of them in our freezer. And every time I went to the freezer to get my Good Ranchers meat.

Pop and a dough, a sea dough. And then Catherine had no idea. And then finally she's like, I went to bake cookies. Hattie and I were trying to bake cookies the other day. There was no bag in there. Did you eat every single one of them? I said, just kind of unashamedly, yes, I did. Over time.

Same way about naps. So I don't know. Naps are a net negative overall. I think unless you can somehow figure out like the 10 minute nap, which is impossible for me, I don't know how to fall asleep immediately like some people do. Then, yeah, it's just not ever worth it. Yeah, I read some. I know I've said this on the podcast before, but NASA apparently did a study and they said the perfect nap is 26 minutes. So sometimes I'll try to hit that, but also

NASA sleep. Is that really your jurisdiction? Yeah. What, yeah. What are they doing with like sleep studies? Are they partnering with, you know, Tempur-Pedic? Maybe, maybe. Yeah. I just think in general, 26 minutes. Okay. But then if it's 22 minutes, does that really mess you up? Because what if I don't fall asleep when I'm supposed to fall asleep? How can you time that? Yeah. Well, you got to have a good sense of how quickly you fall asleep. Or do you just have somebody be your nap captain, your napton? And kind of like, I'm going to pay attention when they fall asleep and then I'm going to start the timer. Out of consciousness. Yeah. But how do they know when you're actually asleep and not just closing your eyes? Your breathing starts to get slower. Is that right? Yeah.

Okay. Rachel called me mom a couple nights ago. I was walking through the living room. Rachel fell asleep at 7.30. It was still daylight out. Fell asleep on the couch. And then she just keeps napping, keeps napping. I'm like, maybe I should wake her up.

And I'm like, I think she might be good for the night. But I was walking through the living room. It's like 10 o'clock at night. And she kind of wakes up. She's like, oh, hey, sorry, Mom. Whoa, she goes, wow, I just called you Mom. And I was like, you are so asleep when you're asleep. And she's like, no, I'm awake. I'm awake now.

And then the next morning, I was like, I can't believe you called your mom. And she's like, what? I was like, you don't remember that? You even said, like, I'm awake, I'm awake. She, like, recognized it in the moment. But she went right back to sleep. She slept, like, just who knows how long that night.

12 hours. See, that's nice. I'm okay. I also struggle. Sometimes I am so tired at 8 o'clock and I'm like, I shouldn't go to bed yet. And then 10 o'clock rolls around and I am not tired anymore and I hate it. That's no fun. You ever feel that? You kind of get a second wind?

Yeah, I love a second wind. Or I find a task that wakes me up. Sometimes I'm scared to say too much to Catherine right before I go to sleep. Cause I don't want to have her rile me up. I'm like, don't like I'm on the way down right now. Like, like I'll be like half asleep.

I'll be like, all right, good night. She's like, Oh, Hey, let's talk about tomorrow real quick. And I'm like,

I do a one drop off. Want to talk about this right now? I don't. Yeah. I guess. Yeah. I'll guess. Oh, anyway. of gas. Yeah, all gas. Huh?

Anyway, so that's my first hot take. I think this is, I have three on my list. I think this is the one I feel least strongly about, but I think this is the most, I think this could be the hottest one. Okay, preface it. So, I have a hot take. How hot is it? Phoenix in June. Dotune dot dot dot the phoenix weather good thumbs up oh just literally

hot that's how hot it is oh oh sorry you asked how hot it is sorry you're right i was like okay yeah go on like golf is nice You thought that was my hot take. Phoenix weather. Like guys, hear me out. It's dry. And so it's not that bad. I just said no opinion. All right.

Milk. How hot is it? Phoenix in June. Okay, okay, okay. That's how hot it is. Okay. Live music. Eh?

Oh, okay. I think I've said this before when we've talked about, we've maybe done a segment on like irashy strong opinions or unpopular opinions. I know we've done something like this and I think I've said it,

but maybe it's because I didn't grow up appreciating music. Maybe it's because I don't know how to appreciate it totally. But I feel like if I'm at a spot where they have live music, all I'm thinking is I can't hear my friends.

My throat hurts. I wish it was quieter. Does that make me sound 33? Yes. So you're talking about a spot where they have live music all i'm thinking is i can't hear my friends my throat hurts i wish it was quieter does that make me sound 33 yes so you're talking about live music not concerts or concerts to an extent but i think mainly like hey we should go to this bar they have live music why would we go to the one with live music i would i would never choose the one with live music that's so like nashville, good luck hearing your AirPods. They got a singer at every corner, doesn't matter how early in the morning it is.

And the host knows. The host seating me, they know I don't want to be that close to the guitarist. And so that's exactly where they send me. And I got to listen to Country Roads at 6.30 a.m. Yeah, do you mind if I go to the bathroom real fast? Country roads is kind of killer. Yeah,

dude, that's, I think I would like to see and hear feedback from ghosties of different ages say I'm blank age. And this is how I feel about Jake's take. Cause I am absolutely with you just, are you to an extent? Yeah.

It's like, well, first of all, I don't get out that often. Yeah. And if I do, I want it to be a social experience. You know, well, first of all, I don't get out that often. Yeah. And if I do, I want it to be a social experience. You know, I don't want to, I don't want it. Like I don't see Harrison as often as I want to, if I'm seeing Harrison out. Yeah. Same with like a movie with your friends. It's like, make sure like Catherine went and saw Reagan with Emily

the other day. And I was like, make sure you hang out with her for like an hour or two after dinner beforehand. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, you can go to dinner. Yeah, whatever. Because you're not talking during the movie. Yeah. You go to a bar and there's live music. You're talking about the music every once in a while. It's also like, is this disrespectful to talk while they're playing? Should we be more engaged?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I totally, I feel it. Even, I'm getting to the point. Even outdoor. I'm getting to the point even like just the ambiance music is making a difference. Often too loud. I'm getting coffee with Johnny U, Johnny Yusuf. Congrats. Yeah, Thursday, tomorrow.

And I picked a specific coffee shop because I went there recently and I was like, it's really quiet and not very many people are around. It's a good vibe. Like even McLean sometimes is like, this music's too loud for a decent conversation yeah so yeah i think it i i'm nervous it makes me come across as like an old just like jock or something but that's how i feel just what's the point have you felt that way at a

wedding yet oh yeah dude it took me a while to think about it but yeah yeah yeah during your session part like yeah there's so many fun people i'd love to talk to holy cow yep i even our our church a couple weeks ago it was it was way too loud during the uh during the sermon like um they have like you know it's big enough they've got speakers uh-huh and i was like just the person talking is like not because i wanted to talk but just from like an old man's sensitivity i was like that's just just slightly too loud just like him speaking old man sensitivity. I was like, that's just, it's just slightly too loud. Just like him speaking was too loud. Yeah.

I was like, can we, you gotta be hearing that, right? That's amazing. It's just too loud. It's like, he's kind of screaming.

Yeah. Interesting. Anyway, how do you feel about this take? I think I haven't had that many experiences with live music, but I think I like it anytime that I remember. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know. It's cool. I feel like music or just like hearing a song you like live is more fun. I don't know. I think all it would take is one time I went to like a, an outdoor patio with live music. And then that person went on to be, you know,

Benson Boone. And I'm like, I got to see him perform. Then I'd be hooked. That'd be all about live music. That's person went on to be you know Benson Boone and I'm like I got to see him perform then I'd be hooked then I'd be all about live music that's yet to happen to me though I've lived in Missouri my whole life

so oh speaking of that Chappelle Roan she's from Willard just found that out I've been to their prom translate

I think she's some she's a big pop singer yeah she just blew up in the last like probably three months probably like really big deal you got a song for me?

Hot To Go, Pink Pony Club. I've heard Good Luck, Babe. Good Luck, Babe. That's a really big one. Kind of an 80s vibe. I really like it. I've been bricked for a while now, so I don't know. I feel like I usually learn about music from the reels, and I don't. Oh, that's your music exception.

That's how I know who Benson Boone is. Really? Because a beautiful man. Yeah, he really found music exception. That's how I know who Benson Boone is. Really? Because a beautiful man. Yeah, he really found music for real. I think that's one of his less good songs. Is that what you've heard? We listened to a decent amount of Benson Boone on the way from Lambert's to back to the beach house in Gulf Shores one time. So I do enjoy him.

Chappelle Roan, 45 million monthly listeners. I don't even know if that's a boy or a girl these days. Chappelle? A little bit of both. It's monthly listeners. I don't even know if that's a boy or a girl these days. Chappelle? Both. It's a lady. Cool. She's from small town Missouri. I just learned she's, yeah, from, I went to their prom in high school. Willard. Right next door to us. Really? Yeah, dated a girl from there. Near the...

I think I've heard that song. Oh yeah, I've heard that song. Oh, yeah, I've heard that song. It's nice. It's been on a reel or two. Hot to go. Don't love that one as much. Pink Pony Club? Fun.

Okay. Those are my thoughts. Cool. Like, how close is that to you? Willard? 15, 20 minutes. That's crazy. Yeah, I had no idea.

I'm going to fact check that real quick. The ways away? She's from there. Education. Oh, I had no idea. I'm going to fact check that real quick. The ways away. She's from Willard. She's from there. Education. Oh, Willard High School. She was like born and raised there. Huh.

Yeah, how long do they have to live in your town before they're like from where? Like George Washington Carver lived a small, I think like one year in Olathe. And so on the Wikipedia, it's like, George Washington Carver's from Olathe. Oh. I don't know about all that.

Yeah. Missouri's pretty proud of all George WC. GWC. Yeah, I went to his museum one time in Missouri. How about that? She was born in 88. Oh no, she's born in 98. Dang, I was like, maybe we went to the same prom.

She was at that prom. That would have been awesome. Oh wow, 98. All right, good for her. I do think that there's a difference between, like, obviously live music concert-wise is fun because you know the songs, you know the person, you're excited, you're there to listen to music.

Yeah. Live music has to be the right vibe otherwise. That said, I did have the thought recently of like, I think it'd be fun to just do a live music, like at a, like we go to Medi's a lot right now and they do, they do live music. There's like a little acoustic in the corner. Do they really? It'd be kind of fun.

Why not? Just do a couple of covers. I was seeing Mediterranean music. Yeah. You know, the Mediterranean food and music Chappelle Roan. I think she's Mediterranean. Yep. That's Mediterranean.

Timon. Yeah. Hey, Mediterranean. Yep. That's Mediterranean. Tymon, you got a take? Goodness. Kind of. Do those inspire you, those two? Not much. I don't have that much. I'm just going to say. Look at Jake.

Jake looks nice. Wow. Okay. I don't have any good ones, but I'm just going to say. Hey, do you have a hot take? I have a hot take. How hot is it? It's like that first, if you're lukewarm.

It would make somebody pee the bed. This is somewhat of a hot take. I'd rather not watch a movie than watch a movie with the audio track a little bit off oh like you have a home sound system and it's like there's a blue maybe it's like bluetooth so it's like a 71 what am i saying 0.7 of a second off okay i'd rather just not watch it i i thought you were gonna go a different route because you you ever, like Rachel, We can cut. I can redo it. Rachel, I'd be scrolling through Netflix, like, ooh, this looks good, like a drama thriller.

And then as we're watching the trailer, sometimes it takes an embarrassing amount of time. I'm 60 seconds into the trailer, I'm like, this isn't English. This is a foreign film. Yeah, this is like you're dubbing it over. And then I'm immediately out. But sorry, that's not what you're talking about.

You're saying just like a delay in the audio for whatever reason. I think. And I think this maybe can apply to, that's not what you're talking about. You're saying just like a delay in the audio for whatever reason. I think. And I think this maybe can apply to just like any sort of glaring. I think I'm just my hot take is that I'm a little too picky about the audio visual of watching a movie. Yeah. Especially if it's like this is a newer movie that I know is like supposed to have a really

good quality in that area. If it's like, oh, we're watching this on a like $100 projector and it's like, this is like all like blue tinted. I don't want to watch it. How do TVs and certain like pizza restaurants become blue? You know what I'm talking about? No, I don't understand where the pizza restaurants came into play. I feel like it's always at like a bar or a pizza place.

They got eight TVs and one of them's blue now i'm like i've used a tv my whole life never had one turn blue like it became blue i don't know because i think like the it's like the the what is it the color temperature it's just like so blue like whites are blue now it's the temperature of the it's the grease in the air from the i don't know i would i would have always just thought it's just like a crappy tv and that's just like it came with very bad color accuracy but i guess you're saying it's like oh these are all the same tvs this one randomly yeah just blue now it's blue i don't know okay so in general would you say time in audio or video is worse for you like as far as

like little subtle frustrations um i think i'm more picky about audio yeah like for example in uh anna's dorm watching forrest gump the tv not great it's like the video was very just like kind of over sharpened and like whatever but it's like fine but the audio was like super uh compressed and i like could barely it was just like some lines you could barely even hear it's like that's worse than the video yes I agree yeah I then again maybe I'm defying my own take because I still watch the movie

yeah you would but you'd rather not but yeah it just I think it significantly affects it possibly more so because I didn't I tend to be the annoying guy who like might notice that or bring it up or just like be the only one in the room kind of ticked off by it yeah i'm with you with like noise stuff sound audio is what they call it yeah uh way more than video like i'm bothered by both i think everyone is just a little bit it just messes with you like it's like your

brain's just like this is not quite right and it's i i can't i can't do it like this is not quite right and it's i can't i can't do it like this is bothering me so much so i feel like yeah back when we first bought a bluetooth speaker and yeah like our tv when we were first married it was very very slightly off and it and it was like almost off to the point where i was like am i going crazy or is this actually off yeah yeah you know what i mean like it wasn't off enough but it it was off enough to like mess with me and I did not enjoy watching like shows. I would watch like sports and stuff. You have to wait till like a gun goes off in the movie

or like someone claps. Okay, confirmed. Something that I think you guys would also be aligned with me is I will notice if like for whatever reason our sound bar and like subwoofer got like disconnected and now it's playing out of the TV audio. I'm like, oh, I got to fix that. Rachel's like, I would never notice.

I would never care. I'm like, oh, I notice immediately. In my family, it's like I'm one out of nine people that cares a lick about this. But I'm like, I can't, I got to fix this. And also we already have it. It's not like I need to run to the store and get a speaker. That's the thing.

And I get so frustrated when like with our rem remodel we like got these like pretty there's like decently nice system like with speakers like there's two speakers in the ceiling and it's like sometimes i walk in people are just watching it with like the tv speaker guys come on why are you doing this yeah there's there's no base there's no remodeled it kills me it feels like katherine often will listen to i don't know ghost, ghostwriters podcast, uh, whatever, some other podcasts, but usually ghostwriters podcast on her phone on blast in the kitchen, like as loud as it can. And we have, like I said, like a while back, we inherited like this Bose, like little radio thing from my grandma and it sounds so good. And you can, it can be

quieter than like, it feels like her phone is so loud, but so quiet at the same time. It's just like, ah, stop doing that. And she's always like, like, yeah, I just can't. Yeah. It's hard to explain. But then again, like I, maybe I'm a hypocrite because we just use our audio from our TV upstairs when we're watching stuff.

It doesn't bother me that much. No SB. We have one downstairs and I'm not like, I have to have one upstairs because I don't want it to be too loud because then it wakes up kids and stuff. Anyway. Hey, good hot take, Tymon. Thank you.

Hot take, Tymon. Hot take, Tymon. Alright then. Hey, I got a hot take. We're going to go down under for Brad's next take. Oh, me crikey. Nice. Gotta bump that. Me crikey crikey uh i have a hot take how hot is it diamond diamond's texting somebody who is it no it's it's a leaf chat yeah green leaf chat i'm sorry how hard is the leaf how green is it how green is it hey toiman yeah hey jake yeah i got a hot take well goalie how hard is it i threw me off i was like what is this addition

to the i went off catchphrase well golly he's like whoa that's not fair we didn't say golly i went off script that's my bad i'm not a theater guy oh my hot take is i think this one to the masses is like vesuvius bro pretty hot well is it active active okay okay okay vesuvia active um incredibly overrated equals this tacos. Tacos are incredibly overrated. I'm not saying they're bad. I'm not saying they're gross. I'm not saying anything negative. Just people put these things on such a pedestal.

And I, I like a lot of other things way more than tacos. Elaborate. So like, yes, I think for the most part, I'm very with you. Really?

Yeah. Like a street taco, like a small, like messy taco. Fill in the blank. Any? Any? Even like, like. Tacos? Any? Like, like the, like Torchy's. I like Torchy's. That's good stuff.

Torchy's is nice. But you know what else is really good at Torchy's? The chips and salsa and queso and guacamole. Like, I think tacos are great because of the accessories around them as much as the tacos themselves or give me an enchilada. It's just the same thing. Everyone freaks out about tacos. I think people go crazy talking about like authentic Mexican tacos or like, and that's,

that's kind of what I'm thinking of is like, these are fine. But yeah, again, I would just prefer a lot of things so much more than what they're like, how much they're hyping them up. Yeah. Like I'm a sucker for pizza. I love pizza. Yeah. This is good. I would like pizza more than what they're like how much they're hyping them up yeah like i'm a sucker for pizza i love pizza yeah this is good i would like pizza more than taco yeah i love

things about mexican food i love chips and queso i love you know a lot of the motif of mexican food the chipotle bowls of the world chipotle burritos but like tacos in general people like ah just let's just go get some tacos tonight i'm like why so i don't feel super strong about i am kind of with you where i don't get crazy excited about tacos it's usually like it's not where i'm scanning first on the menu and then like oh not a lot of good chicken options i have chicken tacos hopefully they don't make them weird yeah it's it's just gonna be messy it's it's the lukewarmness of food it It's like you're not going to dislike your taco, but you're not, I don't think, going to be like,

this is the greatest thing I've ever had. And rarely stuffed. Like, whoa. Which maybe, yeah. Some people will be like, that's a positive. I'm like, okay, but not for the money you're spending on it. Yeah. Clifton Alexander, ghosty.

Yep. Loves some tacos. Yeah. Like made a whole app for tacos. LeBron James, ghosty. Yep. Loves some tacos. Yeah. Like made a whole like app for tacos. LeBron James loves tacos. Taco Tuesday. Yeah. So incredibly overrated tacos.

That's fun. Fight me. Any. Any? Any taco? I have another hot take. Okay. How hot?

How hot is it? Is it? Golly. Timing. Well, golly, Jake. This is Phoenix in May. I love it. This is Flagstaff, actually, in December.

Pretty temperate. All right, go ahead. Having summer year-round is better than having seasons. Wow. I don't know from experience, but I know that that's what I would prefer. I can get over a warm Christmas. I could still feel like it's Christmas time and be in shorts.

Yeah. I think that'd be the toughest thing to get over, but I've been on vacation during Thanksgiving. That was awesome. Thanksgiving is not that great anyway. Okay. So that was great. I feel like that's what people say.

How could you celebrate Christmas if there's palm trees? I had to figure it out. Yeah. I'm a pretty adaptable guy. I haven't been able to access my driveway for four weeks. I could have Christmas with palm trees. They make fake Christmas trees in your house.

I'd survive. Pine air fresheners. Yeah. I don't know if any of this is stuff I haven't said before, but when Rachel and I got to go to Australia for three weeks last December, we cheated the system. We got an extra month of summer and one less month of winter. Yeah. And I just loved how it made me feel. I loved how much more active we were, how much more we were outside, t-shirts, shorts.

I was like, yeah, I can get used to this. Yeah. I'll never get used to this. On the beat drop, we're going to all do body squats. I'll never get used to all do body squats. I'll never forget you soon. Now pulse. Kate, I swear you're going to kill me. You're doing a remix of comedy.

Oh, man. Anyway. That's my thought. I don't really care enough. I'm with you in the aspect of if there were any season that I would want to be the season, it would be summer. For sure. 100% summer.

John Mayer, a little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about, he says. And if I need some cold, I can go visit Alaska or something. Easy. I'll just fly to Alaska. Die to have the cold. Jaunt on over to Alaska. Yes.

Yeah, maybe this is one of those ones I really have to like be honest with myself about. Cause I, I want to disagree with you out of just like pride of like, no seasons are awesome. And I think they are awesome. And I do appreciate all the seasons, but at the same time, if I lived in a place like San Diego, I don't think I would, I think I would definitely be like, yeah, I don't miss, I don't miss freezing cold no i don't miss defrosting my car in the you know morning yeah just the trouble that comes with cold weather and pipes freezing and heating bills and just giving up golf in for five months or having to find indoor pickleball

just the inconveniences it causes with hobbies and whatnot yeah yeah fun fun weather's fun i know i know i want to it feels like a lot of females are going to disagree with that. Oh, really? I think girls really like fall. They really like the change of the seasons. Let's overgeneralize. Let's get sexist real quick. Let's overgeneralize women.

I think that they like it more for the experiences of fall than the weather itself it's like we can go we go look at pumpkins we can go get coffee right and go from ice to hot like catherine you know she's from texas she loved fall in texas or like enjoyed going to pumpkin patches in texas where it was 75 degrees in the fall yep or you know whatever and then she moved to Kansas city. She's like, now I understand why people actually like fall. Yep. But in her head, she was still experiencing fall with 75, 80 degree weather. You know, like I think she was just fine with that version of fall. So therefore you can still wear flannels when it gets down to 69 degrees, you know, in, you know, in November in San Diego or Maui or whatever. I don't know how cool it gets, but like, and, and go carve a pumpkin. I bet they sell pumpkins somewhere.

Find them Alaska. But I don't know. That'd be interesting. I do like Catherine's really leaned into the idea of winter is the warmest season last year. You remember me talking about that? And I was so proud of her for that because she's absolutely on your side as far as she would love it to be warm all the time. Like even, even these nice like temperate days that we've had where it's like high of 78 high of 80 or it's just like perfect weather, you know, it's low of 64. She's like, Oh, it's so nice. But it just means that winter's coming. Yeah. That's how I feel. That's how I feel.

I'm like, just enjoy what we have right now. Yeah. So anyway, and is there some kind of like extra personality trait that you gain when you have to savor it only for a small season? You know what I mean? Yeah. Like we, this will maybe lead into my next hot take, but yeah, like people in the Midwest, just like we have to put up with winter, a little stronger willed.

And then when summer comes, it's like, it's beautiful. Let's all go outside the whole time. Let's get social. Let's do all these things. Whereas maybe if you're used to it, you just become more sedimentary. Yeah, if you live in a- Sedentary?

What is it? Yeah, sedentary. Okay. If you live in a place like San Diego, Memorial Day probably isn't as much fun as it is in Joplin, Missouri. This is like the sign, like, summer's here. Yeah. Let's go binge drink.

People have always said Joplin Memorial Day, way better than San Diego. Yep. Yep, wouldn't be in San Diego today. Thank you for that hot take. Tymon, you got another one. Yes, I thought of it because you said sexist, and I was hesitant to do this one because it comes across as sexist,

but it's just how I feel. It's anti-men. I think as far as singing voices go... Wait, what is this that you're saying? I'm sorry. I have a hot take. Well, golly, how hot is it? I'm going to say...

It's... It's like as hot as like a as like a woman would find like a bicep tattoo. You know? Some people would say it's hot. Some people are like yikes. I don't know. A bicep tattoo.

Great comparison. I think that as far as singing voices go a male's voice is a lot nicer to listen to typically than uh than like a woman's voice okay yeah i think we brought this up because i think i disagreed i don't know that's my hot take but i don't feel super strongly about it no trying to think who are some of your favorite male voices jacobullen. Good question. Now I got to think. You think men can have a larger range biologically? Maybe. I don't know. Maybe it's just like tone.

I don't know. Or maybe it's too high pitched. It's like squeaky. Women obviously can normally sing higher than men. They are the baritones. Is that right? They are the falsettos. I know that's not right.

Are you a tenor or an alto? I'm a falsetto. Falsetto only, yeah. Some of my favorite male voices. Ben Platt. Ben Rector. Ben Folds. Ben Harper.

Cody Fry. Those are all Ben's. Who else? I don't know. Ben Yonce. Wait, hold on. Ben Houston. No, Josh Groban.

Yeah, it's just a little bit lower voiced is a little bit more. It's just like maybe just like a little softer on the ears. Well, don't you think that's why Adele is so good? It's because she's got a little bit more soothing. It's just like maybe just like a little softer on the ears. Well don't you think that's why Adele's so good is because she's got a little more of a robust. I think that is like I would be more inclined to listen to a yeah like a female artist who has a

maybe just like a gentler voice. I don't know. Yeah I think a deeper voice is probably warmer. Yeah. Whereas like a higher pitch voice is sharper. Maybe that's why I don't like maybe that's why I don't like Forrest Frank's voice. Who? Maybe. I don't know. Just like a little sharp on my ears. You don't like Forrest Frank's voice. Maybe. I don't know. Just like a little sharp on my ears. Are you even a Christian?

He's not Christian, but he is sexist. Makes sense he's going to Vegas. Know who you're voting for. Noah Khan. Noah Khan's voice is amazing. I think, then again, he has more of a high voice. I don't know. Maybe I just tend to like the music of male artists. Maybe of a high voice. I don't know. Maybe I just, maybe I just tend to like the music of male.

Maybe that's my thing. I don't know. It could be a tone thing still. I think it's, it's a little bit of everything. Yeah. I also just think, Hey, you guys don't have to agree. That makes me take more hot. Yeah.

Okay. Hey idiot. Uh, no. Put a tattoo right here. Yeah. What would it take for time to get a bicep tattoo that just says, women can't sing? I think I'd have to be muscular first.

That would be step one. Hey, check. Get there. You get there, baby. Sculpt. Yeah, I just think sometimes like, it's just like Celine Dion can sing the heck out of some songs. Yeah, she's nice.

But it's also like, kind kind of makes you go like this. Like, whoa, you're really nailing those notes, but they're kind of slapping me in the face. Yeah, is that hurting you? Are you okay? Golly, okay. All right. Okay.

Whereas Michael Bublé just sounds pretty nice. Champagne. Champagne. Yeah. Mountain range. All right. Let's do one more hot take. We have one more each.

Oh, shoot. Where'd they go? All right. Hey, guys. I have a hot take. How hot is it? Come on, time. I have a few different ones.

I'm going to go with another food one here. I'm going to say that Cinnamon Toast Crunch is a top five food. I originally, I wrote down dessert and I was like, honestly, it's just so good. It's a top five food. It's the first one I disagree with.

I want it to be hot. I forgot to say how hot it is. Uh, it's hot. It's hot. Like it's, it's hot. Like,

uh, like, like a New York, like a wall street journal on the day that Wall Street crashed, coming off the presses. Hot. Hot off the presses. Extra, extra.

Yep. So it's a top five food. I had it last night and enjoyed it quite a bit. You had it last night? I did. It's unbelievable. It's a great cereal. And it's specifically the name brand cinnamon toast crunch.

There's nothing like it. I think don't go off brand or it will be trash. One of the reasons I disagree is just that I think it can get, it's prone to get old quickly. Oh, old quickly. Not so I thought you were going to say soggy. Oh no.

I'm saying like, and I'm not even saying old as in expiring. I'm just saying like, I can get tired of the same taste. It's like, this is so good on the first like bowl. It's like, if I have a couple days in a row it's like oh this is kind of making me feel gross so that's fair that's probably just sugar does that is that constitute to top five food for you though is that you can have it every single day because i mean no that's that's a good yeah

like pizza's amazing but i think i would feel pretty sick if i had pizza every single day yeah what would you what would you put in your top five? Definitely Oklahoma Joe's. I love that Z-Man from Oklahoma Joe's. Wow. Try it. You're going to go to Vegas before you go to Oklahoma Joe's. That's crazy. Yo, that's crazy.

That's crazy. Oklahoma Joe's. Beyond that, I haven't thought too much about it. I really like Chick-fil-A. Yep. Their spicy chicken sandwich with pepper jack cheese on it. I think just in general, burgers. Yeah.

Yeah. Any restaurant, no matter what kind it is, a lot of times we'll have a burger option. Yeah. And that's what I'll go for. And then just like, I don't know. On this health journey, I've been pretty good, but a few times I've just fallen off the train and it's both been with pizza. Well, I just was like, I can't stop eating this pizza. This is so good. Yeah. So if that's kind of your top five,

that means cinnamon toast crunch is like better than like chocolate chip cookies for you. Originally I put top five desserts and I thought, I think I would, I was going to say my first original hot take was going to be cinnamon toast crunch is better than ice cream. Better than Andy's? I love ice cream, guys, but I love cinnamon toast crunch. Nothing tastes like Andy's. It's so crazy.

But there's a crunch to it, man. I don't know if Andy's is the staple ice cream for me. I'd go Andy's or Blue Bell. Colvers. No, I wouldn't do Colvers. I like Colvers. They're a little bit thicker. Oh, Andy's. Andy I don't get the right thing in Andy's. Bluebell. I like Culver's. They're a little bit thicker. Andy's melts. You gotta eat that thing. There's this place at Devil's Lake in Wisconsin

Dells where they have some of the best ice cream I've ever had. Is that on your top five? Is that in there? It was in your desserts though. It wasn't. No. I looked to make sure Devil's Lake wasn't in there. Not even in my desserts. And it's better than Cemento's Crunch. Okay.

Hot take. Hot take. Pretty hot. I tried to be hot. Pretty hot. That's good. I have one last hot take. Okay.

Hey! Hey, go away! How hot is it? Thanks, guys. This is so hot. It's like Phoenix in July. Oh, it's hot. i don't know exactly cook a steak on the rock outside yep your rock garden uh cookie dough on your dash you got cookies you're done shopping at target you get it you guys know yeah i'm speaking about Americans here.

People are great, and they're the same everywhere. Oh. And what I'm talking about is a state-by-state generalization. I've traveled a lot, and my hot take is that there's no like, oh, Florida people, yeah, they're going to be this, this, and this. Oh, yeah, I went to New Hampshire one time. Yes. People in New Hampshire are not that friendly.

The generalization of states drives me nuts. Now, obviously, you could say, yeah, Florida people, yeah, they're tan. Yeah, that's probably more likely to happen. Okay. They really like DeSantis. Yeah, that's more likely to happen. Yeah, they're more fit in California than Mississippi.

But talk about like basic, just like human traits or the way they treat other people or just like who they are as humans, more on the inside. Like people are not that different. When you say everywhere, do you mean US or world? I actually specified starting this by Americans. Okay, my bad. Please listen and stop texting the group.

How green leaf is it? This is just Americans. Speaking of the world though, I think if you were to take a second generation immigrant from India in Texas and a second generation immigrant from India in Los Angeles and be like, Los Angeles and Texas, I bet they're pretty different.

Like these people have way more in common than, you know, than, than most people who live next door to each other is my thought. State borders don't matter. Tell me that one again. It's like, basically like I got so much that goes into who you are rather than the state you live in. Yeah. There's other, there's, we should be looking at all the other factors and not like the,

the made up borders of where you live. It's like, Oh, these types of people are this way. The people from Missouri, the good tolerance for drugs. Yeah. I don't,

I don't hate that. I think in just in general, you're right. Like, especially like with your experience, like you're performing the same comedy show where like a demographic is coming you drop me anywhere in any lobby i'm gonna have no idea where i am based on the people i'm talking to and the experiences i have yeah you know would you say but but would you say along with that your experiences going to an acai bowl shop in

philadelphia would be the same as going in seattle Yeah. It would be a very similar experience. Yeah. Like the same people. Yeah. I feel like in the Northeast really gets a bad rap of like, those people are so mean they're, they just don't care about you. Don't upset them. Yeah. Like Southern people are so nice. It's like Southern hospitality. They're, they're kind of the same niceness as, as, uh, you know, new Haven. Oh yeah. The amount of kindness I was treated in the limo trip from people all over the country. I was like, oh, yeah. People are so generous everywhere.

It's not just Southern hospitality. We've always said nicest ghostie we know, Celia O'Brien. Celia O'Brien, as north as they come. She's in New Hampshire, which is like one big neighborhood up near Maine, I think. Yeah. The nicest we were ever treated the whole limo trip was in Montana, north, Northern hospitality. Yeah. I think. Yeah. The, the nicest we were ever treated. The whole limo trip was in Montana, North hospitality. Yeah. Very good. I like it. I think it's, I think that's a,

it's a good take. I'm sure there's like generalizations for a reason. I'm sure there's bad apples, but those bad apples, they kind of stay in their own little corners, right? Oh, people in Texas, they don't know how to drive. Good luck driving there. They don't know what they're doing. It is fun to hear everybody be like, I mean, houses, I mean, our city is just blowing up.

There's just so many houses getting built. Things aren't cheap anymore. House prices are just expensive. That's just eastern Tennessee for you. Exactly. Timon, you got one more. Yeah. I have a hot take. Really? Go ahead. We're both on the same page.

Tymon, just look it around. I'm not going to say it. How hot is it? Thank you. Probably about as hot as like Really? It's like it's early August and you just got done. You've been inside a store for an hour looking for something.

You go back to your car. Oh. That is hot. That's why you want to have winter. That's when you're like, dang, I miss winter right now. And it's that. My hot take is that peeing sitting down is better than peeing standing up. Oh, don't do this.

Don't do this again, Tyvin. Have you gotten to that episode yet? Oh, yeah. Oh, geez. Oh, geez. Dude, I'll go in waves. Right now, I'm not on a peeing sitting down wave, but there are times where I'm like, this week, you earned it, man.

This week, you are not having the stress of aiming. Go ahead and take a seat. All right, let's get into it a little bit. Okay, sure. Obviously, when we're going number two. Wait, are you talking women or men? Men. I am a man.

All right, go ahead, Brad. Good for you. Can't advocate for the other. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, when we're going number two, I would say. Sit. I would say sit for that, okay. When we're going number two, I would say sit, I would say sit for that. Yes.

But I would say, um, I have a 40% efficiency rate going number two. In other words, 60% of my time sitting there, I'm not doing anything. Oh, that seems pretty good. I feel like you're like 1585 maybe. Yeah., Jake and also Jake talked about one time how he sits there for a while before he goes. That's weird. That's wild. I think I wait till I have to go and then I go and I might waste time after I'm all done.

Ding, ding. I will say that was a pre-Rachel, Jake. Now that I got a lot more fruit in my system, pretty easy to go. So before it was like, I'm not ready to go yet, but I'm going to go. At first it was like, let's get some contractions going and like kind of let the body know we're about to push. And now that I'm a much more healthy, it's like sit down. I don't even know if I have to go. I'm going fun. This is way easier. So let's just say 85, 15, 40, 60, whatever the efficiency ratio is. Uh, when you sit down to go number one,

are you a hundred percent efficient or does it turn into a semi number two situation? That's a good point. No, it's for me, it's a million percent, same efficiency. There's no such thing as a million percent,

but if you're not pulling your per 100, you're not pulling your phone out when you sit down to pee. I'm saying, okay, I would think that, um, occasionally if like i'm in no rush have nothing going on then yes it makes it easier to pull out your phone

and that's i think that's a pro of it is that you can like but not a totally efficient then yes yes i've been saying so that would be like not a million percent less than a million uh i'd say yeah for me most probably 90 of the time there's no phone happening good for you but uh that it's possible which i think is nice so you're sitting down just for the convenience of like just taking a load off for 40 seconds sure yeah no aiming okay yeah that's kind of fun i think mine is like it's so easy and i think it's kind of funny. I think mine is like... It's so easy. Guys, it's awesome. It's not as easy as standing.

I don't think it's adding any more time in my, like, having done both. I don't think it's... You don't think so? There's no seat touching. That's nice. That's a downside of living with a woman and standing to pee.

You don't figure out marriage telekinesis yet? I don't have it. You just look at it and it just goes. No? I don't have that. Okay. You got the bidet. He didn't spring for the telekinesis.

No, the previous homeowner didn't leave behind the telekinesis. Yeah. I usually do it to start the day. I'm like, I just woke up. Let's hobble over to the bathroom and let's see what the phone's up to. Let's get a little pee out while we're at it. I think that's perfect.

I'm with you there, especially. I judged Jake so hard when I first heard this, and I learned that I don't think I'm in the minority, but I think it's way closer than we think. Maybe it is. It's like 48-52. A lot of men out there are out there like yeah i do it too i'm like what it blew my mind it was the it was the can versus bottle thing for old mark yeah the thing is i love a good urinal sorry like i think but i think it's that's because it's so there's no like splash zone yeah

there's no need to aim. Really. It's just so easy. Like it's just like, there's a big target. Oh yeah. Huge. Something that I have obviously never compared with anyone else, but it just feels like, I think I have really good aim with my urine.

I'd like to get in a competition someday. If there's a way to do that. Yeah. Okay. That might be that. I don't think I have great. Vegas, baby, Vegas. Maybe it's like a thing where it's like a...

In Vegas, people will compare. Probably one Airbnb. Like something you go into a room, there's like a proctor there, and he kind of gives you like a moving bullseye, and you got to stay with it. Sounds fun to me. And we're not all doing it next to each other,

but he comes out and says, here's who won. That's what I would like to do with it. Sounds fun to me. And we're not all doing it next to each other, but he comes out and says, here's who won. That's what I would like to do. Yeah. I just feel so confident. Like, like Rachel is like sleeping.

I, I'm peeing and I'm like, man, this feels so loud. No problem. Hit the side of the ball. And I'm doing that easy peasy. Yeah.

No problem. Yeah. I think I can really, I can hit my spot. It's automatically so much quieter when you're sitting down. Okay. Let me, let me, let me, it's a good point and from a cleaning standpoint there's so much less splashing can i sorry can i talk please how hard is it how much do you want to talk uh what's the word rebuttal no yeah refute uh sure question you said then earlier you were like, hey, if you sit down, you don't have to lift up the seat. But if

you're Mr. Robin Hood with your quiver, why move up the seat? I don't most of the time. Oh, really? Because you're that good. I'm watching. I'm looking. No splash. Yeah. If I do splash?

Yeah, just a quick dry erase. Why? Yeah. Try erase. Okay. Yeah. I rarely lift up the seat at home. See, like I would say, uh, sitting down to pee as a beta move, but not lifting up the seat alpha. So you, you cancel each other out with that because i lift it up every time because i'm like i mean if if i'm gonna mess this toilet seat up at least it's like the part that captain's not gonna be able to see yeah you know what i mean i saw something the other day it was like i was yeah i gotta remember it again it was like guys leaving each other notes under the seat. Cause it was like, Hey, I found out she had a boyfriend.

So I left a note under the seat for the, for her boyfriend to see like, Hey, I didn't know. Sorry. She cheated on you with me, but I didn't know that. Cause that's one place that girls will never see.

Yep. Interesting. Huh? I will say, I think this also has a lot to do with my upbringing because I was potty trained only ever sitting down. Well, yeah.

Timon. Yeah. That's odd. No, it's not. It's not odd. I don't know if it's odd. I don't. Well, I may saw that. I've only ever known one potty training. That's how you, that's how you kind of get potty trained. Okay. Okay. I think I was potty trained in the yard. That's the right way. That's what people say. Like for boys, just, just let them run around naked in the yard. Yeah. Yeah. Or peeing off the boat. Gosh. I find a tree. Any tree. Bo loves peeing outside.

Loves it, dude. And I love that. He loves it. Yeah. Like, I'm like, there's nothing better as a dude than being able to pee outside.

Like, that's what we have, Bo. So anytime he asked, like Catherine kind of gets frustrated with me sometimes. She's like, if he's home and the bathroom right there, make him go inside. I'm like, it's just, it's just too awesome.

I can't stop. I can't stop. Like right now it's like not a big deal if he's like, you know, like, cause Catherine's like, you know, make sure he goes to the corner. And he does most of the time, but every once in a while, he has a hard time understanding what a corner means. So he's kind of in a corner, but it's like really exposed still. It's like, it's fine. He's four years old. Yeah. So he's kind of in a corner, but it's like really exposed still. It's like,

it's facing Marco. He's four years old. Yeah. Um, can't do that for much longer before it's like, okay, we got to teach you where this is.

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One time I said going out to a hot car, it reminded me of one. Sunshield, more trouble than it's worth. Really? I've never even done it. I was going to say, I don't know how beneficial it is, but every time I see a guy putting it out, it's like, it's just, it looks like a hassle. It's like putting on a poncho when it's already raining.

It's like, it just seems so, like you're never going to get your arm through it. It just seems sticky. And it's like... It looks like a hassle. It's like putting on a poncho when it's already raining. It just seems so... You're never going to get your arm through it. It just seems sticky. It's already a hot environment. And you and I have cars where we can start them from anywhere, which is awesome. Even if I didn't, though, I'd be like, I don't know. Just suck it up for a little bit. 80 years old, I'm going to carry this around.

Do you guys prefer hot car or cold car? Which extreme? Because... Hot car. Well, I don't know. Hot car. I'd easily prefer hot car. Yeah, I guess hot car or cold car? Like, which extreme? Because hot car. Well, I don't know. Hot car. I'd easily prefer hot car. Yeah, I guess hot car. I just think the cold is so much worse. Oh, you're saying the extreme of entering the car, I guess?

Yes, like winter, very cold car. Summer, very hot car. Oh, yeah, hot car, hot car. Hot car is so much better. Yeah. Because there's natural AC with the windows rolled down if you ever need it. Just go fast enough, just natural AC.

Yep. Let it cool down. That's it. Just sunshield. Just sunshield. Just sunshield. Great. I think this has been a great episode. I have more to talk about, but we can win it. Yeah, so this Wednesday's episode

is going to be coming to you from Branson. It's going to be really cool. Branson happened. That's kind of fun. Branson already happened. We don't know what happened. So, yeah, hopefully you get an episode Wednesday. Hopefully there's, you know, anytime we record a and not here there's always a chance that like something technically could have been yeah well okay they want us to bring a usb stick that feels a bit wonky i feel like we have one of those somewhere but when was the last time you used a usb stick

go to like the check what you mean like a vape i'm gonna have to go to like the impulse buy section at tj maxx to get a USB. That's the last time I've seen them sold. I have a bunch of USBs, but they're all like 512 megabytes. It's like, this is all you're going to need, trust me. A handful of JPEGs.

Yeah, I mean, could we just bring a hard drive that is USB? I'm sure I have a USB. Surely we have something. Hopefully, Wednesday episode, it's all about Branson. Filmed live in front of the ghosties. Should be really fun.

In the meantime, I wish you had reviews of the week. Didn't have that pulled up. Man, I am out to lunch. Speaking of out to lunch, I texted Steve Koop because I had an apple that he sent Rachel home with from his orchard. I said, that was one of the best apples I ever had

from Koop Orchard. He said, nerd trivia, Iowa was once one of the top apple producers. Then an ice storm ruined it. Oh. Wow. I guess it just knocked out all the apple trees. That's pretty cool, though.

I love when people know stuff like that about their home states um we don't have a bunch of new ones this time jake that's not true what i don't know hey this i this is the one i read last week but it says we likey that's funny yeah maybe maybe that's why caitlin said it hey you don't think uh live in the light i'm gonna read that that's a new one yeah uh live in light five stars from literature looney thank you thank you ghost runners for your commitment to excellence i follow correct opinions g shorts and now ghost runners podcast for several years jingle and i can't stop. And jean shorts! It's not on my shirt.

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