Ghostrunners - 397

Episode Date: January 1, 2025

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10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Happy Wednesday! Wednesday, Tymon. Nensday. What did Tymon say? New year, I think. No, I said happy Nensday. Tymon, Tymon, Tymon. We don't say happy new year on this podcast. When have we ever said happy new year?

We're Christians, Timon. It's Merry Christmas. It's Merry Christmas and Happy Wednesday. Not Adam and Steve. From the top, 10, nine. Uh oh, ooh I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat Two Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat

So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet. This is a ghost Hey, happy new year, happy Wednesday here. It's backward ghost writers podcast. Three 90 something eight, seven, seven, seven, five, four, three, two, every time we mentioned any number on this podcast, lower than 10, we have to start going. We're counting. Oh man, we're here. Jake is a little under the weather, but no prob, Bob. And not too bad. You know, I was telling my dad a few days ago, I was like getting sick in any capacity is never fun,

but having a cold, I would take a cold 10 times in a row before I had the flu or anything that made me throw up. Yeah. I really barely consider this being sick. If I wasn't a podcaster, this would be no problem at all. But it just happens like once every year, the throat just gets so red, so sore. And then it just kind of hurts to talk.

But hey, it's happy Wednesday. Yeah, did you do one yesterday for correct opinions? Luckily, no. Okay, you were in the hopper there. Yeah, and I feel like right now you'd be able to spout out emails just fine. Like you're doing all right mentally. I could edit.

Growing up, did you call, like we reserved the word flu for stomach bug at my house. Like, oh, he's got the flu. But I think I've learned over the years that flu is actually not just the stomach bug. Something else I've always been confused about. Influenza. Yes.

Is that the flu? I believe that's what it comes from. I think I'm learning all this stuff. That was a misnomer. Yeah. Like the flu can mean like body aches and chills and fever and all that stuff. To me, if somebody had the flu, it meant they are yakking. Yeah. So throw up. You meant they are yakking. Yeah.

So throw up. You grew up that way too? Yeah. Exact same way. Like I thought that was just for puking. I was only like characteristic I would think of with flu. And now, yeah. Yeah.

It's like just a general more of a sickness. Yeah. I was telling you, yeah. Off the pocket. I was like, at this point in the year, you just expect to get sick because there's no way, especially with all these little kids running around and everything they're exposed to, it's like, they're going to get sick, which means we're going to get sick. And the cycle goes back and forth.

Like, you know, it's just how it goes. It's just family time. It's so hard. Like there were people in my family that missed part of Christmas, but then came to other parts and it's like, are you sure you should be here? But also I'm glad you're here. You know, like back and forth, you know, with all that kind of stuff. And it's just like, yeah, it's not contagious. It's not contagious. Do you, are you sure you should be here? But also I'm glad you're here. You know, like back and forth, you know, with all that kind of stuff. And it's just like, yeah, it's not contagious. It's not contagious. Do you, are you sure? Yeah. No, I've been on antibiotics

for 48 hours. Yeah. But like your husband, like you slept next to him. Oh, it's just like, it's just like, don't judge anybody too harshly, but man, please don't get me sick either. So anyway, that's, that's what we're doing. It's new year's Eve as we're recording this, which never normally happens that we're recording like right before we're actually releasing. Yeah. We could talk about current events because they'll still be current. Let's talk about current events that we're super current on. All right. Let's see what's going on. What's going on right now, December 31st. Anybody know anything going on? Oh man. Did you hear about that thing in Wisconsin?

Oh, yeah. Or the one in, oh, was it Cheyenne, Wyoming? They did something crazy yesterday. Yeah. Lions beat the 49ers. Yeah, man. That was, yeah. So.

Those are the benefits of recording things. I'm so glad we're doing that. Yeah. Right before you post it. We can get to talk about stuff like that. It is New Year's Eve. I think as far as overrated holidays go, I think New Year's Eve is close to the top. Yeah. Top three would be in no particular order. Valentine's Day, New Year's and say with me, Arbor Day. Oh, Arbor Day. Oh, Arbor Day is really highly rated though.

Yeah, you're right. I forget about how hard people go decorating for Arbor Day. Like whole like just plots of land out in the middle of nowhere just decorate for Arbor Day, just massive trees. And I don't know if they do that year round. I don't think so. As far as I know, it's only at Arbor Day.

What would your third most overrated holiday be? Halloween? Halloween's getting there for me only because it's starting to become really, really decorated and sought after and anticipated all October. Yeah, I'm with you there. I'd put it in top three.

I can't agree about New Year's Eve though. I love it. I love a good partying countdown. When does the allure go away? Because I will say it was fun. It was fun as a high school college kid. Like, especially college, like you're back from break. Like let's hang out with all the high school friends. That's a good point. You know, and, and now it's just like, do you, do you want to stay up till midnight? Like say on three, if you want to stay up till midnight,

you know, time has got at least like six more years of new year's fun. It's just a good excuse to get together and I'm gonna be up that late anyway So it's like I might as well have fun with it. I feel like that's true point. Yeah timing you went to You went to Branson. Yeah, how was it? What'd you do? So what our city all day day trip? Yeah, it was great It was like insanely busy It was December it was like a couple days after Christmas. And I think it was like their record for the most they've had in that time period.

Like really, because it was like really nice that day, like fifties. And yeah, I think it was like in the 20,000s. I think of people there. Wow. I think when when we were there, they estimated there was going to be like 7000 people at the park. Wow. On in park on park where they say in park, I think when when we were there they estimated there was gonna be like 7,000 people at the park Wow on in park on park where they say what you're saying in park. I think in park Yeah, so did you get to ride rides or is it just crazy a few? It was like I had never seen so wildfire is always like the one that's kind of over in the corner There's not that big of a line. I saw a part of the line that I've never seen before There's like a whole upstairs for it that I didn't know about. Oh, yeah for in case of a long line

They're not too many rides. It was good though. We did the that I didn't know about. Like for in case of a long line. They unleashed the upstairs. Not too many rides. It was good though. We did the cave tour, which I really liked. Oh yeah. It's a good time. The cave tour is great. Yeah. There was this guy, our tour guide though, he, he was very passionate about the cave and he was like, people forget this was like how silver dollar city started. He wasn't, he wasn't crying. He was just so passionate about like, just tell your friends about the cave tour.

We just mean so much. We're like, I mean, but it was cool, but it was like, you don't have to, I don't know. It was just funny how much he was like passionate about the cave tour. You think he's that passionate every single tour? I don't know. Yeah, he was like, I think he'd done 6,000 tours,

which I thought about that. And I was like, I think he'd done 6,000 tours, which I thought about that and I was like that's that how do you do that? I would like I thought about okay if I do 50 cave tours That's gonna be I have it like the back of my hand and like I am tired of it 6,000 is insane Oh, man, you would have fun with it though. Every time you'd be like I'm gonna figure out a way to yeah talk in alphabetical order You know in this sentence or it's true. Yeah, you know, you're so familiar with it. Six thousands wild, especially in the cave. Yeah.

It's not, it's not a boat tour in Chicago, like downtown Chicago architecture or anything like that. Yeah. Yeah. How long was the tour? It's like a little over an hour. Oh my gosh. Yeah.

It was 6,000 hours. And this guy talked each time for longer than I remembered the other one we done. He got into it and I was like, respect for still keeping it lengthy when you've done it so many times. It was good though, he was a good tour guide. That was probably a Super Bowl though.

It sounds like there was a lot of people there, the energy was off the charts. He was ready to get some cave tours going. Yeah, that's true I hopped on your guys's live stream and it seemed like people were giving you ideas for a video Did you know filming a video? So was this I'm down boys, or is this your family? This was uh, sorry for interrupting Was this the I'm seat boys It was sorry back seat boys plus some siblings of backseat boys. I see Yeah, it was great though. It was so I realized once we got to once we got to the park

I was probably the only one there like that really cared about getting any videos done because it was like beforehand Everyone was like into the idea of like let's do some like skits there involving the park. That'd be fun But then once we were there it was like I was still thinking hey we could like do this joke And then I was like ah I was like that, Hey, we could like do this joke. And then everyone was like, ah, I was like, that's okay. So we didn't really get anything done. That's going to happen a lot more in your life. Yeah. Yeah. There needs to be more of a skill. And I'll, I'll be as much to admit it as anybody of like just saying, no, I don't think we should do that. Like beforehand. Because I've had a million conversations where it's like, we could do this and this

and this. And then all of a sudden person A has expectations of doing all those things that they mentioned because you didn't say, no, I don't think so. And then you get there and you're like, yeah, okay. This guy doesn't want to do it at all. It's like, well, why didn't you say that beforehand? Yeah. Like I wasn't surprised about it, but I was like, ah, you could have just like not acted like you were going to do it though. We got, we got a few things done, but I could tell like if I would bring it up, the vibe was just like, eh, it's like, it's okay. We don't need to film anything. I think there just needs to be more just honesty and being okay with

like, kind of like, Hey, that, that movie is a four out of 10 and that's okay. Yeah. Hattie for Christmas this year got a reading journal. Okay. It's the most Hattie homeschool thing ever, but it's like, yeah, you like critique all kind of like a good reads in journal form. And she gave a book. She recently read a two out of five stars. And I was like, good for you. She's like, yeah, it wasn't my favorite. It wasn't my favorite. I was like, good. And of Avonlea or something like that wasn't my favorite. Yeah. And of green gables all grown up. She's like, I didn't love it that much. It's like, good for you. That is good for her. Yeah. At that age, I was probably giving everything like a four or five out of five, you know?

Yeah. Yeah. So anyway. Something else I want to bring up because it's recent current events. Good. Last night, Ty and I had a big Friday Pickleball shoot. It was great. We get done. And I texted, I'm starting to think about the next day. I texted you guys, hey, are you guys good to podcast at 10 a.m.?

Tyman knocks on my window. I roll it down. He says, yeah, 10 a.m. is good. I was like, oh yeah, you are right next to me. Anyway, and then I'm just catching up with things on my phone. I'm checking the 49ers game. Yeah.

Carnivance. That was a crazy game that just happened. You know, it was kind of wild because when I checked into it, you know, it's like nine o'clock. I was like, well, Brock Purdy has a perfect passer rating. They are beating the Lions. Three touchdowns passing, one touchdown rushing. I'm like, he's about to earn some money tonight.

Yeah. I text Rachel cause he's an Iowa State guy. You know, we like supporting Brock Purdy. I'm like, you got to turn on the game. Brock Purdy is playing perfect. I text her that he threw two interceptions in the next five minutes. So that's too bad. Anyway but I continue to sit in my car and Suddenly I start to hear

Some music and I think is that coming from me? No, that's coming from that's coming from that this Kia Sportage Next to me. I'm gonna break in and see what he's listening to time. It's jamming I'm not really thinking much of it and then I start to see like Movement out of my peripheral vision. It's dark out But I can still kind of see movement along with the music and I look over my kiss That's still timing next to me and like and timing is jamming I don't know if he knows I'm still next to him. I don't know if I'm supposed to be seeing this or not. I thought about it after I was like,

oh, Jake probably like, if he was listening, he probably caught on that I was like enjoying some music. Yeah, I don't know. I just unashamedly, I was enjoying, it was Your Needs, My Needs by Noah Khan. Check it out and see if you don't jam a little. And see if you don't find yourself with a little pep in your step.

So were you honestly doing a performance for Jake or was this truly just like I would do this no matter who was there? It looked like I wasn't supposed to see. Really? I realized halfway through, I realized halfway through there's a chance Jake is watching. So I played it up a little bit more. Okay. A little bit more halfway through.

Like you were rocking the sport back and forth. That's hilarious. It wasn't anything too crazy. But yeah, I was just like, this is a guy jamming alone in his car right now. Yeah, just like singing along and plenty more questions, Timon. Next one is, were you like, were you intentionally sitting there to listen to this song before you went somewhere? So why not? I jam sometimes, but I never jam in stationery. I don't typically jam stationary

I had turned on like a playlist and was playing just like go but then I was like Got some like texts I was responding to and I was like so I was still sitting there But my playlist was going and then like it got to the good part and I was like well gotta get even though I'm stationary. I'm gonna jam. Yeah. Okay, fair enough Yeah, dude. There was a few times on the way home from the pheasant hunt, I took Jensen and Steven to the airport, because they were from Cincinnati. So Jensen, Steven, Justin and I were in the truck

and Jensen wanted to listen to this Reliant K song, Deathbed, do you know this song? Nope. No. Tyman, you'd love it. Jake. Okay. Mike. Yeah. I feel like people'd love it. Jake. Okay. Mike. I feel like people that know it are going to be like,

oh, great song. I've never been a huge Reliant K guy. I was kind of like a hater of them back in the day, but we listened to the song at Jensen's request and then like he wanted to jam to it. He didn't want to just like listen to it. It's like a 12 minute long like ballad of a song. Oh wow.

I didn't know that coming into it, but I was, I mean, it's like a storyline and everything. Uh, and it was so sweet. Like it was such a moment with like Justin and Stephen were in the back. I could tell they were like, what is happening up there? Like, but Jensen's just like borderline like worshiping. I don't know. Like just like this, like feeling the song. And I was just like, I'm feeling it with you, brother. It was like, it was a great moment of like, I love when somebody else is like, I love this song. Can we please like intentionally listen to the song together? You know? Yeah. What was the name of the song again? Your needs, my needs, your needs, my needs. All right. I'm a stationary jam to

that. Oh yeah. Deathbed too. And deathbed by relying K. They played 11 48 tonight, kind of bring in the new year with deathbed by relying K that was like such a trend is it still going on where it's like if you press play on this song at this time of the night I see it more with movies now yeah if you start Iron Man 2 right this time like the anos snaps his fingers okay yeah yeah like Fight Club the very end where it's like maybe you guys haven't seen that seen it nope don't spoil it seen it you it. You'll give it four stars probably. At the very end it'd be cool to like have that be this New Year's. I'll just say that. When the... in

the... Yeah that part. You know. So. It's a New Year's movie. So what are you doing for time? New Year's Eve time? New Times Eve. I'm going to my friend Oliver's house. So and my cousin's coming into town and he's also going all over his house. Oh, we've met him. Yes, Andrew Andrew. Thank you Yeah, I know his name That's fun. Yeah, pickle baller. Yes. Nice guy. Nice guy. Good pickle baller. Yeah Just all overall just stud of a guy Great guy. Remember that? Yeah, oh Luke Redshaw great guy great for Sam Good times good times I have a couple of fun stories from Christmas so please I guess just overarching had a great time time, Iowa's great, Strafford was great,

we have such great families, win of the week, family, it's awesome, love it. But Rachel and I, a couple days before Christmas, saw an Instagram reel that really inspired us and we were like, we have to do this to Steve Koop. So I wrote my father-in-law a fake Christmas card from people that don't exist It was awesome. Okay, so I The outside of the card was just like a t-rex skiing

Quick sidebar you open it up and it says hope your Christmas is terrific Tim Coop made a good point It's like why is it not ski Rex? We're like, yeah ski Rex is way better than a T-Rific Christmas. Wait, Ski Rex, oh, cause he's skiing? It was a Tyrannosaurus Rex downhill skiing. Oh, okay. And then you open it up and it said, have a T-Rific Christmas?

Yeah. Ski Rex. Ski Rex. Shout out to him. I was like, yeah, totally. Anyway. Tim does more than just, you know, practice law. The guy writes cards. So it was so fun trying to concoct just like the perfectly

confusing Christmas card. So what we did is we included a $50 Cheesecake Factory gift card that Rachel found in her purse. Okay. And so it said, Steve and Angie, I spelled Angie wrong. G E Y. Angie. Angie.

Steve and Angie. Hope you and your family are doing well this Christmas. I wanted to, he said something like, I always think of you when I go to the Cheesecake Factory and wanted to include this, have a good one. Signed it, Rich and Susan. And Steve opens his card and he's going, cheesecake, I never even go to the Cheesecake Factory.

I've been there once. So he's doing mental gymnastics, trying never even go to the cheesecake factory. I've been there once. So he's doing mental gymnastics, trying to figure out why in the world. Rich and Susan, okay. And at this point, the whole family's gathered around, you know, trying to figure it out. And anybody else in on it? Every single person was in on it except for him.

It was great. I mean, like we had Tommy Koop go outside and kind of muddy it up and say he found it by the mailbox. You know, cause we put a stamp on it, but anyway. And so Steve Koop was looking at it and he's just like, he's going through every rich he can think of. We have it on video.

I mean, there were times he suggested a guy who was dead. I mean, this is how far he's getting. Sure, yeah. He was like, could it be? It was buried kind of by the mailbox. Rich Gleason, Tim's like, isn't he dead? Yeah, he's dead. Could be Richie Jr. though.

His son's name was Dick. I guess that would, maybe he's going by Richard now. Yes, his main theories was some guy, well, I don't know. I mean, they throw out all these Iowa names. Dick something, he's like, it could be him. It could be these guys. And so he's going through his Facebook, he's going through his contacts,

gets to the point, he calls his mom. He calls his like 84 year old mom. Mom, I got this Christmas card from Rich and Susan. And so then him and his mom go back and forth, trying to think of all the Rich and Susan's. How long do you think this was all together? Between 15 and 20 minutes. Awesome.

And then a pretty shocking part of it is that we're like, all right, we should tell them. So he's thinking like, this is hilarious. Really what we should do, we should turn this into a prank. We should try and get like, Jake, we should try and get your dad in on this. Or like Uncle John. And Rachel's going, yeah, I mean,

we've already got to practice because we just did it. And Steve will kind of smile. He's like, yeah, I mean, we've already got to practice because we just did it. And Steve will kind of smile. He's like, yeah, Uncle John would be good. Yeah, he's in his own world. Yeah. And so we're like, all right, we got to tell him again, I guess. And he's like, yeah, we should do it to him.

And I was like, yeah, I mean, it'll be our second time doing it. Yeah. He's like, yeah. You think, so you think you'd catch on since it's the second time? Exactly. It's like, no, the first time we didn't do it to him,

we did it to you. Oh, so you think we should do a cheesecake factory again? Or is there another one that's like better for John? That's exactly what was happening. That's amazing. We've probably told him four times and on the fourth or fifth time, he was like, you guys pranked me.

Yeah, and it was great. He loved it. It was a great prank. And best part is three days later, we did get my uncle John on the same thing. It was so fun. So we had, you know, I found it out by the mailbox on my run, been raining that day.

So I get it all wet and damp. And this time it was great. So Rachel thought of this ahead of time. She got it. She picked out a card. It had an ugly Christmas sweater on the front of it. And it said, Don, we now are gay apparel. It's like, this will be perfect for Uncle John.

And so then this was really fun writing it. So then I was like, hey, which is perfect. My aunt is named Angie. So I spelled Angie again. So John and Angie. That's your calling card. Is Angie. Wet bandits, yeah, Angie. So John and Angieie. That's your calling card. Is Angie. Wet bandits, yeah.

Angie. So John and Angie, I said, I know I don't normally send you a Christmas card, but after our last conversation, I thought you'd appreciate this one. Oh, you just put it in quotation marks, appreciate. Yeah, just anything to just give more confusion, like what's going on.

Read into appreciate, yeah. Why would I appreciate this one? Have a Merry Christmas, PS, still thinking this summer, round two. And they're all going, what does this mean? Cousin Steve and Uncle John were both not in on it. So they were just going back and forth. That's even better.

Like get a few guys like, yeah, that's fun. Round two, what could round two, what is that? Dad, what did you do this summer? I don't know what I did this summer. I did zero things this summer. If you remember this, also in the podcast, I think we told this, one of John's, a cruise John went on a few years ago,

Angie would always take a while to get ready for dinner. So John would, before dinner, he would just go down to this martini bar and just kind of hang out for 30 minutes or an hour. On like the sixth day of the cruise, he keeps telling Angie like, these guys are awesome. You got to come down and meet these guys. Angie comes down one time and the guy

that he's become good friends with goes, who is this? He's like, it's my wife Angie. He goes, I've wasted six nights on you. John's like, what are you talking about? This is a gay martini bar. John had no idea. He had gone there six nights in a row and just had the best time.

So those- Martini bar. Those theories were being floated around. What was the guy's name with the martini bar? It wasn't this. Did he say Angie or Angy? And so anyway, just a whole lot of fun. Maybe the best part of all of this

is when it was all said and done, we tell John, hey, we were pranking you. My dad tells me, he said, what we almost did is I almost let John in on it and told him, hey, this is how Jake and Rachel about to prank you. I love that. And what they were gonna do was when it came out, like you got this letter

John was gonna come out as gay Once that happened everyone started throwing out these like options I was crying laughing at what people were saying like John being like throw the card out. All right, that's it Yeah, I've been living a lie. I am so gay And then we were laughing like what if Braden over in the corners like, you know what? Maybe it's a bad time all right, that's it. I've been living a lie. I am so gay. And then we were laughing like, what if Brayden over in the corner is like, you know what, maybe it's a bad time,

but I'm gay too. I'm like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. Yeah, John, you really encouraged me, man. Caitlin is gonna be our last Christmas together. Oh my gosh. Everyone just starts throwing up. And then they hold hands and it's like, with each other? No! Yeah. that's so funny.

I mean, that could have been amazing. It also would have like traumatized me where I might not have ever pranked anyone again. That would have been legitimately tough to swallow. Well, dude, I know we've talked about this on the podcast as well, but back in the day, I think it was in college, but we talked about it. I loved the double prank like it's so good

You never see coming when you're the pranker. Have you heard the ice cream prank that Jake did in college? Oh, just so good where he'd he'd be like, hey, like I I'm gonna butcher it But I know you have a sore throat. Can you can you say it? Yeah, it was like Two people have to be in on it in a circle, you know a group of eight Hey, who wants to help me put, I got it now. You would go up and say, I'm gonna get some ice cream. Great, Brad leaves. All right, hey, does anyone know how to help me

pull a prank on Brad? Tymon raises his hand. All right, great, Tymon, here's the deal. When Brad comes back, take a big bite out of the bottom of his cone, he'll freak out. All the ice cream will drip down. Oh, it'd be so funny. We always used to do it to each other,

but if I do it, he'll know it's a prank. He won't expect it from you. Meanwhile, Brad is filling up the bottom of the cone with relish, mustard, hot sauce. Yeah. Gross. Yeah. And then the top of the ice cream just looks like normal ice cream.

You're coming back looking at it. This is good. Yeah. Tymon's like, hey, can I have a bite of that? My ice cream, that's kind of weird. Yeah, whatever. Sure. Tymon's got a big smile on his face. I'm about to get you good.

Just gets a bunch of horseradish in the bottom of the cone. Just a relish and mustard down the face. It never didn't work. That's such a funny double prank. That's what I'm saying. I love your dad for even thinking that way. It would have been so good. I don't know what I would have done if John just.

You think you would have believed him? I don't know. I don't know if John could have done if John just. You think you would have believed him? I don't know. I don't know if John could have pulled it off. Maybe he would have given it away, but oh, just the thought of it. I think there's the person pranking and then there's all the people in on it that sometimes give it away more than the actual prankster.

Yeah, that's true. Like maybe the way your dad would react to John would have said more of like, that's not, you wouldn't react that way. What have said more of like, that's not, you wouldn't react that way. What are you doing? Yeah. Yeah.

That's a good point. I will say everyone pranking John, everyone did a good job. I mean, even grandma is like trying to like, well, John, could it have been, uh, who was your college roommate? And John's like, Oh, I didn't think about it. You know, so it was, it really worked great. That's so good. I love it.

Um, our Christmas does not involve any kind of pranking. It really worked great. That's so good, man. I love it. Our Christmas does not involve any kind of pranking. I don't think. Bo's real into tricking people right now. And it's borderline just lying, but I think he does it innocently. But it's like, Bo, it's not a prank. You just lied to your mom. Like, you can't do that.

I have some different things written down. Christmas Eve is really fun. My parents came to church with us. We had a little, you know, they had do the classic candlelight service. Those are nice. You know, at the end we sing Silent Night with just the candles on and they had childcare for Rosie and Henry, but Bo and Hattie were in the service with us. And so Bo had his own candle and man, you know, sometimes those candles like, you know, sometimes it's like hard to get them lit. And other times it's like you get like a three inch flame on there. Oh no, got a three inch flame. And we were, I mean, luckily nothing happened, but I was, we were all just like eagle eyed watching bow. Cause he was getting so close to this. So this person, you know, he's standing up singing the song, standing up in front of his seat and the person took off their coat behind or in front of them and put it on the seat. And so it's like, he's going to light this coat on fire. Like it's about to go up in flames. I'm sure that happens once, you know, every year

at some church, but didn't happen was a sweet time. Parents came over for dinner, read the Christmas story. And then, you know, ride of passage kind of thing for dads. I thought this year I was getting off like scot-free, but every single year I have to put something together at the last minute. And this year it was, I don't know what they're called, but they're like these, I don't know, like wooden play,

like jungle gym kind of things for kids. They're just like minimal. They're not like colored or anything. There's like wooden. Yeah. Like it's for Rosie. Like she can climb up and down this thing and like has a little slide and rock wall and all this stuff on it.

Cool. Pretty cool. But yeah, didn't remember it until I was getting ready to go to bed and Catherine's like, Oh, you have to do that thing for Rosie. And I literally like sunk my head down and I was like, all right. Uh, it was all right though. So, um, but yeah, it was great. Uh, just, yeah, the kids all got fun stuff. Bo, I feel like a few different times this Christmas got things that I'm like, Oh

man, I hope like he's going to be so bummed comparing himself to somebody else. Like at Catherine's family's Christmas, all the other boys got the armor of God, like toys was like a whole like shield and armor and sword and all this stuff. But Bo had already gotten that a couple of years ago. And so Bo got literally like basically these exact same work gloves, fun cowboy gloves. And I was like, Oh man, he's going to be so sad. He didn't get a sword or like all this stuff. And he loved his gloves. Like really, I get it. He was obsessed with his gloves. And then again, at our family Christmas with my family, you know, all these kids are getting fun, you know, toys and like Rosie got these Calico

critter, like, you know, whatever, all these different fun little dolls and stuff. And Bo gets a lantern. And I'm like, oh man, poor guy. Like just like, here I am holding my lantern up. Bo couldn't be more obsessed with this lantern, dude. What does he do with it? I, he just, he just uses it. He like plays, you know, right now it gets dark pretty early. So he like takes it out to the shed at night. What a great gift. Oh, he loves it, dude. Everything, everything about it. But I'm just like, oh, poor guy. I have heard like multiple stories like the last couple of years of like kids who like, they got this big gift and they love the box that it came in more than the gift.

Sure. Yeah. Oh yeah. You never know what's going to like hit home with people. Like we got him in his stocking. We got him this thing. Probably was $7. You seen those poppet things? Oh, yeah. I bet Rachel. Sensory things, yeah. It's like a little bit of an electronic game version of it.

I bet it costs less than $10. By far the most popular gift in our house right now. All the kids love it. Always wanted to bring it with them. They've gotten in multiple fights about it in the car. No, Hattie, I want to play. It's my gift. But funny it with them. They've gotten in multiple fights about it in the car. Like, no, Hattie, I want to play. It's my gift. But a funny story with Bo, there's a few, Bo has just been fun. Everybody's been fun, but Bo has, you know, he's four years old. So he's not

perfect in his speech yet. He says his L's like W's. He, he says his TH is kind of like a V or an F He says his TH is kind of like a V or an F, kind of like the, and out of nowhere the other day, I'm in my room feeding Henry, so I don't understand the concept of this, but Catherine pointed out later how it really did sound a little bit questionable. Bo out of nowhere just screams, I am fucking. screams, I am fu-king.

I don't know what he was referencing, but like Catherine was like, it, like the way he like paused after, I am fu-king. It's a great. I was like, okay, buddy, you're the king. You're the king. I am the king. And so it's sometimes a little more V, a little more F, but pretty hilarious. And then another thing that was just funny with Bo, he just, he's got to get down on video to show him someday. We got it.

Yeah. Who? where are you? I am the king. And it's so funny. I probably wouldn't have even recognized it in the moment if Catherine didn't like, maybe if he didn't pause, we wouldn't have even thought anything. What if you called him King Awesome?

Yeah. Say it in full sentence, Bo. Okay. I'm the King Awesome. Yeah. Another thing we've been really into playing this game called 10 Z. You ever heard of that time? 10 Z is it dice involved? Yes. Yeah. Dice game. Yeah. Good game.

It's I mean, it's, it's just easy enough that Bo can kind of play. It's like everyone gets 10 dice and you just roll them until you get all of one number, you know, like we're going for sixes. Oh, wow. And so Hattie, I over here the other day, Hattie's like, so, Beau, what you do is you get your own 10 and then you roll them until, you know, you get 10 sixes and both of us go, oh, well, that seems easy enough. For whatever reason, I thought the same thing.

Yeah. Oh, well, that's easy enough. Just so funny here to a four year old, say it like, especially about something that I thought he couldn't comprehend. Oh, easy's easy enough. It's just so funny hearing a four year old say it. Especially about something that I thought he couldn't comprehend very well. Oh, easy peasy. That's easy enough. Oh, it's like Texas Hold'em. Oh, exactly. Oh man, so anyway.

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Amazeros.com. That's great. When you said lantern, that reminded me, have you watched Dave Bergazzi's new special? No, I forgot that it is it, where is it? Netflix. Ah, I don't have Netflix right now. I was using old Susan Hansen's honey's.

Honey. And every time I want to watch it, it's like, oh, you need to log in. And I'm like, it's 9 p.m. I'm not going to text my mother-in-law. How is it? Oh, I loved it. I'm not gonna text my mother-in-law. How is it? Oh, I loved it. I saw some interesting comments,

which is like a vocal minority, Instagram comments, but people were like, he was doing old stuff. I can't believe he was special on old stuff. But what they're referring to is like SNL, I think. Oh, sure. I was like, well, he's not gonna try out new material on SNL. Sure.

So I thought it was great. It was what I expected it to be. It was funny. I liked it. Cool. It was what I expected it to be. It was funny. I liked it. Cool. Yeah, I need to, it's always good. I wonder if it's like one of those things, like is he, yeah, he's still funny to you?

Like it's like, to me, I'm like worried he's going to, he's got a shtick to an extent. Like, and so it's like, is that going to wear out? Or it's always, long yeah funny to me Yeah, so far still funny several things that I thought were funny Yeah, last time you saw him would have been when we saw him in King City, right? Yeah Yeah, I'm trying to think what was on the special but not on SNL that would be oh talking about His parents are getting old having to walk him around everywhere He says he's always kind of having to call out like new terrain to him like carpet.

We got carpet coming up. Yeah. We got carpet. That was kind of fun. I don't think that was in either of his SNL monologues. And yeah, as long as the content itself is still funny, he's still funny. But like, I think his delivery is like more expected than it

is like new to me. Yeah. It's always much of a surprise. So yeah, I still love it. Yeah, I need to, maybe I'll come over here sometime while you're gone and just pop it in. Pop it in. Pop it on. Rewind it. A few more things for me for Christmas real quick.

I, this was just like one of those like sweet moments. I was like, I'm gonna frame this, sorry, Hattie wrote a note to Santa on Christmas Eve. Kind of unprompted, didn't even like ask us really, she asked us how to spell one thing I think, but for the most part, riddled with spelling errors. But so cute and so like, whatever. It just says, dear Santa, it just says I, instead of I'm,

I find with almost anything you give me, Merry Christmas, love, Hattie. You have to frame that. Dude, cause it's like. That shows her personality. That's gonna be her personality for the rest of her life. I hope so. Because on one hand it's like,

like, you know, we went to like go see Santa at Bass Pro Shops a couple of days before. I think it was a Saturday before Christmas. And they were all just so like, I mean, none of them even sat on his lap. Everyone just kind of, maybe Hattie did. But they all just kind of, I mean, none of them even sat on his lap. Everyone just kind of, maybe Hattie did, but they all just kind of stood there and asked for stuff.

And Hattie put on her Christmas list, like a real horse. I was like, you really think Santa's getting you a real horse? Maybe, I don't know, maybe. I was like, if there's a real horse in the backyard, you're going to be excited about that. But I just loved, on one hand, it's like, she's, she's like very content with anything. But on the other hand, she says almost anything. So therefore it's like, she's like very content with anything.

But on the other hand, she says almost anything. So therefore it's like, she's being honest. It's not just like, I know the right thing to say, so I'm just gonna say this. It's like, I'm fine with almost anything you give me. Merry Christmas, love, Hattie. It was just so sweet. Put it right next to the milk and cookies.

And it's a great Christmas card. Oh man, the whole thing was just wonderful. Almost anything, Santa. I think you know which ones I'm talking about that I don't want. Like, please don't give me that. I don't need a baseball glove. Right. So anyway, it was so sweet. And then I think, you know, Bo wanted us to ride a car and not remember what I said, but anyway, it was just dear Santa, almost anything, almost anything was just so sweet to me. So a real horse just reminded me. I'm guessing if you haven't watched Nate Bargatze special, then you also have not been watching

Mr. Beast game show. Oh my gosh. No, I have been. I've been bootlegging that. I've been doing Bit Torrance on that. It's on Amazon Prime. Tell me all about Mr. Beast game show. I don't know anything about it.

You didn't know it even. No, no. Time and how many episodes you seen just one I liked it though. I want like I just haven't had time to keep going, but I want to guys busy making lady videos Yeah, right this guy. Yeah Sending cards to John if you know what I mean So Amazon gave mr. Beast I don't know if gave sir right right verb, but he's doing a game show with Amazon Prime, 10 episodes where he gets kind of free reign

to do whatever he wants. And so it's the first episode broke like 43 Guinness world records. Wow. Just everything is just to the like hundredth degree of anything we've ever seen with like game shows. It's pretty cool. Oh, I see like the things they did broke records.

Kind of, it was like the most cameras ever used. Okay. On like a production before. Yeah. Like some of it's like production stuff, like the most trap, they had a thousand trap doors, the most contestants of all time, the highest winnings of all time.

They're giving away five million. I think like a minute 42 in episode one, he gave away a million dollars to the contestants. there's just money going out. Yeah left and right It's hard to like process it, but it's also very like psychological and like yeah, you could take the bribe But then your whole row is out. It's pretty cool being like what would I do? How would I play it? Maybe maybe they do something a job of like making you be like, what would I like? It's a lot of like intense It's great. Yeah, was it advertised on NFL at all? Oh, I don't know I think in the in my Thursday night football in in the corner of my ear that was called I heard somebody say this is the most money ever given out on a game show and

Probably games Not I'm not looking up for that but But episode three, they're in a box. Yeah, every person's in a box and like earth three people to a box. And it's just like one of you has to leave. Figure it out. But they get a yes to leave, not like one of you loses. Oh, yeah. One. Sorry. One of you is like has to stay in the box and you're like off the show. So figure out a way to knock someone out.

Just like you have to give up the money. Like not physical or not like you can't force them to stay in, but just like you have to all agree someone is staying in here. And then it's up to you to like, I can't wait to see this. Because some people are like, all right, let's just get it over with now. Let's just do rock, paper, scissors or something. But you also get a self or you get a phone in there where you can call and request anything.

So some people are like, I want a board game. We're gonna do a board game to determine it. Some people are like, let's just enjoy this. Can I get a pizza? Oh, nice. You know, some people, and anyway, one guy requested a real horse and they brought him a real horse.

Why did he request a real horse? I don't know, and I don't know how they had one ready to go. These are the questions I have. How did they, because- it might not be quite as like spontaneous as you think. Maybe it's like, hey, do you want a horse? We have one.

Yeah. Ask for a real horse. Ask for a Mustang specifically. Yeah. We got a brand deal with Mustang. It'd be great if you could work that into it. So anyway, yeah. There was a real horse brought in Hattie's dream to be on Beast Games. So maybe he was like, I bet these other people are afraid of horses. So I'm gonna bring in a real horse brought in, Hattie's dream to be on Beast Games. So maybe he was like,

I bet these other people are afraid of horses, so I'm gonna bring in a real horse. Maybe that's what it was. Well, but then people would leave the box. Yeah. What if, could the other two, like could one person just leave right away? Or is it like, we're not getting out of the box

till you guys all agree on who's leaving? I'm trying to think, I think there were a couple instances of someone being like, you know what? I'm kind of missing home, I'll just do it really they were like great Thanks, man but 98% of them I think it was like I'm not leaving this is tough. It's crazy, dude, cuz there is some backstabbing There is lying there is yeah

This drag queen. Oh The most hated guy the guy the guy from mr. Beast. Oh Not that one. Oh Yeah, I know that guy No, yeah, I think yeah, everyone should watch it. It's good. Really? Yeah, it's well done. We got we talking 30 minutes hour 42 minutes first two was like first one was like 45. I think we're right. Yeah Yeah, Jesse's been like actually like watching, I think, keeping up with it. Rachel's into it.

Jesse's like, I am pretty sure it's going to turn into a Hunger Games thing where people are getting killed. He was like, that's my theory. People are going to like start fighting to the death. Well, isn't his whole like most popular video, or at least used to be that Squid Games thing? Yeah. Yeah. Maybe he's got a taste for it.

Mr. Beast. We're thinking he's got a taste for it. Mr. Beast. We're thinking about that. Mark of the. Beast. It's been right in front of us the whole time. What about like more questions about this game show is are the contestants like continuously rolling over? Is it like that kind of game show or it's like a brother kind of OK? They continue to just survive in advance. I didn't know if it was like everyone is it's like a big brother kind of, okay. They continue to just survive in advance kind of thing. I didn't know if it was like everyone is,

it's like Wheel of Fortune or something. Oh yeah, gotcha. No, same people just slowly narrowing it down. Okay. But when you start with a thousand, it's hard to, you know, I'm on episode, I've watched three episodes and you still don't really have favorites yet.

It's just too many people. Sure. Okay, so. But I'm sure it'll get to that point. Last game show I tried to watch was The Traders. Shout out to Courtney and Ben Miller for the great recommendation. Yeah, we did not enjoy that.

Okay, so I'm gonna be real leery if this one's not good either, Jake. So how confident are you that I'm gonna like it? It's better than The Traders. For sure. Because the host isn't dressed like a gay jockey. That's what I remember from Traders. He's very European, we called it.

It's a European cut. Yeah. But it's better than that. Yeah, it is. It's interesting. It's compelling. And I think it, so far it's, it seemed to get better and better.

Also just like visually, episode one, when that whole row of people drops in the trap door. Yeah. Pretty sweet. Really cool. Just visually. Yeah, it's like better. Definitely better film than like his average YouTube video. They like they up the production by far.

Yeah, I wonder how much money they have for it. I don't know how much money they got to do this. You know, like Amazon. They have unlimited money. Yeah. Because I mean, I'm guessing he's spending, I don't know, five to 10 million per episode. So good for him. That's great, man.

Anyway, check it out. Go see, let me know what you think. Let's see, what else do we wanna talk about here? I'm trying to think of any other Christmas things. And you give a shout out to the guillotine ghosty fantasy football winners. Okay. it is finished Unfortunately two weeks ago. Jalen hurts got injured in the first quarter

Goodbye me. That'll do it. You can't really have injuries at this point in the season Yep, so for the Monday league the winner is M poindexter Everyone's favorite troll gosh. That's like the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl And for the Thursday League with a dominating performance 276 points the championship game Austin Locke his team name bricked up nice. It pays to be bricked. They should be bricked. That's right. That's great So shout out to you guys shot to everyone who competed It's very fun fun getting to know you guys that way. And yeah, congrats to the winners.

That is fun. We'll keep doing it. We'll do it next year. That's great. Let's see, a few more Christmas notes here, I suppose. Another thing, Rosie right now loves baby Jesus. Oh, great. Hopefully forever.

But man, every time we drive past Nativity, she screams out baby Jesus. She also has been loving singing the song, Oh Christmas tree, but she goes, Oh, myth mystery. Oh, so that's fun. Fun little routine. No, innocent thing for you there. How do you feel about the song?

We wish you a Merry Christmas. I love it. I think I like it too. I heard a new rendition of it this past week. We went to the New Hartford, you know, local church for Christmas Eve service. And we were with like all of Rachel's extended family, which is basically the church.

Okay. And they were letting us know like, yeah, so Dawson's gonna be this and you know, whatever is this. But by the way, don't expect much. They haven't rehearsed it. So I was like, oh, this should be great. I wish I would have filmed the first verse

of We Wish You A Merry Christmas. Because they, I mean, seriously, there's kids who haven't rehearsed this. Each of them have a different instrument in their hand, just like tambourine, maraca, you name it, just whatever we found. Percussive though, like not like missing notes. Correct, yeah, just it was supposed to be,

we wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish, you were just supposed to hit it on the downbeat well, if you're a kid and you ever practiced it and you got some old lady like trying to tell you it was great, dude, because the The woman who was like leading the kids. I think she was off from the pianist And so that doesn't know yeah, that doesn't help things and the kids are just banging these things whenever they want to or just not at all Time is like that's why we don't have instruments are It was beautiful that's it I just loved it I

Thought it was so just like cute and hilarious just not a single kid hit that thing at the same time I mean it'd be almost more disturbing if the kids were amazing at it It's like what how long even practice It gets you guys out of new heart for it. You're seeing those like videos of those like a hundred Chinese students, like just playing the cello and it's like, it is just, I don't, I don't know if this is right. Like they're playing better in yo-yo ma over there. I know what you're talking about or dribbling a basketball on beat. How are you doing that future like Olympics opening ceremony performers? Which was awesome, but also it's great. Kind of crazy. Disturbing. Um, that's so funny. Yeah. I've been listening to a lot of Christmas instrumental, peaceful piano Christmas music

in the mornings, early mornings. And there's some good ones in there of like, just like, I don't even know what you call it, Timon. Musical, like almost like runs, like, ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da. Like, I don't know, just the way it like, just goes down, basically. Like it's just a sweet thing to listen to on an instrumental piano.

So I love that song. Sweet. Is that the one that has figgy pudding in it? I don't know. I think so. Yeah, I think so. So bring us some figgy pudding. Yeah. It's in the song. I think so. Yeah, I think so. So bring us some figgy pudding. Yeah. It's in the song.

I think that's like verse three. Gross. Kids didn't get there. No, we did not. Yeah, what is a figgy pudding? No one knows, but. Yeah, I don't know. I also celebrate Christmas with my immediate family,

like my sisters, and that was great. It felt like very chill, very easygoing. Um, my mom, like normally we have like a Christmas breakfast. Um, it's kind of like we have the same thing every year and I love it. But then apparently all the women in the family decided, let's just not do that. Let's just do breakfast at home and then come here for Christmas. And then we'll do, Mark will do stakes for lunch. And I made the mistake, uh, maybe intentionally subconsciously, but like I've telling my mom like, yeah, I'm really gonna miss that Christmas breakfast.

And my mom then like, and I was like, mom, don't change anything. And she's like, you know what? I've been thinking about it. I think we should do Christmas breakfast for lunch and then steaks for dinner. And I talked to Dana and she wants to do it too. And you know, of course, Catherine's just rolling her eyes.

Like, what a mistake. You spoiled brat of course, Catherine's just rolling her eyes. Like, you spoiled. You spoiled brat of a baby child. You got your way. Yeah, and I was like, I'm sorry, you know, whatever. That's just classic. My mom just being so sweet and like, Brad really, he said he's gonna miss the cinnamon rolls. You know.

Gonna miss that breakfast. It's fine, mom. But Catherine just rolled her eyes. Like you're such a spoiled youngest child, you know, kind of thing. So. What did you guys get for Christmas? What did I get? I got some air tags.

Oh, nice. Thanks. Where are you gonna put them? I don't know, because I used to lose everything, but now I just kind of keep everything in my truck. Okay. I just lock my keys in there. Because the truck has a keypad on it.

Has a keypad. So as long as you don't like lose your memory. Or give it out to too many people. Great. Sometimes like Hattie and Bo will like yell it to each other. Bo the code is... And I'm like our neighbors are gonna... So I don't know maybe wallet, keys.

I don't know what else. What else? Do you guys have any? I've got one for wallet and keys. That's it. Okay. And it's like it's been clutch a few times already. Like I recently got the wallet one and I've lost it like three times. It had to use it. Okay. Wow Yeah, whenever I get a new thing of good ranchers

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I said it was the Christmas episode. That was in the back of my mind. I was like, this is coming out at Christmas. I'm not gonna go crazy on milk bags. I'm gonna say only bags once, but that's it. Oh my gosh. That was, that was something. New year?

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I've been reading the last two nights. What are you reading? A book that my sister got my wife. Okay. My present now. How is it? Would you recommend it? Is it something that you read?

I'm pretty early into it, so stand by. Mine, it's funny, like all these things that I've kind of been coming to the realization of in the last like month about like phones and stuff. She bought me this book like two months ago called the TechWise Family. You can kind of book two months ago called The TechWise Family. You can kind of imagine what it's about. TechWise.

Tech. Tech. Why. Why. Why. Why's guy, huh? TechWise guy. So.

What did you learn? Oh, just, honestly, has your mom read this book, Timon? You should ask her. TechWise Family. Okay. I think it was written in 2017. And as I was reading, I was like, that's Timon's family. Like Timon, you should ask her, TechWise family. Okay. I think it was written in 2017. And as I was reading, I was like, that that's Timon's family. Like Timon, like

they're like, this guy, it was funny. He, I mean, it's all about like limiting technology, limiting what he would consider like things that make your life. Oh, shoot. How do you define it? Basically, like things that make your life too mindless. Not necessarily like technology, like things that make your life too mindless. Not necessarily like technology, like get rid of your refrigerator or your heater or whatever, but like technology that just makes you not have to work. I don't know.

I can't remember exactly what it is now, of course, but he described it as like, we're not Amish and we're not almost Amish, but we're almost, almost Amish. This is how he described it. Like, in other words, like, like one of the things he advocated for was like getting, like, don't have a TV in your house. Or another thing he talked about was like singing more with your family. And I was like, wow, timing does those things. Like, you know, all these, like all these different things, those are the two that I really thought of you for art. Or we're like, cause you guys had a

projector, right? But you didn't have like a set stationary TV Yeah for like my whole childhood. Yeah, like the last year we have like a TV, but we hide it behind the wall What does that mean? It's like just like doors like so it's kind of like so we'd sign it showed me It's so it's not always like except easily accessible. I'll just like throw on the TV like right It's behind a sliding like you take off a frame. Yeah, I like a sliding thing. So it's a bit of more of an ordeal It's not a sliding, like you take off a frame, find like a sliding thing. So it's a bit of more of an ordeal. It's not like a easy thing. I'm pretty thankful even in today's world of like, TV doesn't seem quite as accessible as it was when we were kids as far as like,

you just had to press one button and the TV was on a channel. Now it's like you had to press a button and like go to an app and then choose something else. Like, and so even that feels like a little bit more of a barrier to me. And obviously my kids don't know how to do that very well. So anyway, there's all sorts of things I could talk.

I could talk people's ear off about it, but it was really good. What are your phone habits look like nowadays? Dude, you first you came bricked. Like now there's been even a scaling back from brick. How I talked about, yeah, personal do not disturb. That's my yeah. Where I can get through. Yeah.

You guys are on the list. I think time is on the list. Yeah. Where I can get through. Yeah. You got, you guys are on the list. I think time is on the list. Yeah. I'm almost positive timing. Yeah. Um, I was actually just texting Garrett Perkins last night and while I was texting him, he called me and just went straight to voicemail. Cause I didn't know, you know, whatever. And then he just goes, ouch, dude. I was like, I didn't even know. Sorry. Um, so there needs to be some tweaks, but, um, I am leaving my phone am leaving my phone in our dining room at night. Like I'm not, I'm setting my iPad next to my bed for my alarm.

I'm going to start doing that. Yeah, get like just an alarm clock. Yes. So my phone can be downstairs. Definitely could do that too. And that's been really good. I don't know. Everything about it's just like, it's just,

I turned off my notifications for Gmail. So if I look, obviously I can access it and stuff, but yeah, just, and I, I, in the mornings, I, I'm making it a point to always make sure I, I'm reading my Bible before I am on my phone. It's a little bit easier to do that when I don't have to pick up my phone and take it with me out of my room. And I've been reading like more in the mornings versus having my phone on me. So it's just easy to find reasons, find ways to be entertained on your phone. And it's just like, yeah, that's not always bad. Like phones aren't inherently bad, but it's like, we kind of turn them into like entertain me in this way. Like this guy talked about in this book,

just like we forget that like certain parts of our life are boring because our phone makes everything not boring. Like standing in line at Chipotle, I always think about like, look, you look at every single person in there, it's like everyone's on their phone. Cause it's like, well, I can't possibly just like be bored or talk to somebody or think right now.

So I'm not trying to act like I'm better than anybody else or anything. I'm just learning all this stuff. I just find myself having these tendencies. Let's say at night, I'm going to bed. Or no, I'm putting my kids to bed. One of the things we do is read a book. They're in bed with me.

And I'm like, OK, go grab a book real fast. They're going to be gone for 30 seconds. And my instinct is to pull out my phone for no reason, not to be like, oh, I need to text Jake real quick. I'm going to pull out my phone and text him. It's like, let's just see what's on Instagram for the next 30 seconds. And it's just like, just don't do anything for 30 seconds.

And I think I struggle with the fear of like, I need to be as productive as possible all the time. And that's just not reality. Or like, I'm not being productive on my phone for 30 seconds. You know what I mean? But I just recognize that even when I don't have my phone on me, I just

feel like this urge of like, I got to pull out my phone. I got to check something. Doesn't matter. And so I'm just kind of right now, hopefully I can bring it back in. Kind of like being on a diet or something. Like, I'm going to eliminate right now, hopefully I can like bring it back in kind of like, you know, being on a diet or something like I'm going to eliminate sugar from all my foods and then eventually, yeah, let's have sugar, but just not as extremely.

Yeah. You know, so right now it's like, people could text me right now and I don't know for six hours sometimes. Yeah. And no one so far, it's never, it's never bit me really. Maybe I think I've missed phone calls sometimes and I feel bad about that, but like, I'm not that busy of a person.

I don't have that much, people aren't in that high demand of like, like there was a one time where you texted us time in about the year end episode and I hadn't seen it for a while. That was like, ah, I feel kind of bad about that, but. No worries. Overall, yeah. Anyway, so that was a good book to get.

This is like inspirational, cause like I've been thinking about all this stuff And like I want to do like take steps to like this cuz all my phone too much. Yeah Yeah, it's it's one of those things where it's just like just you got to discipline yourself And maybe sometimes it's literally just like go somewhere and keep your phone in the car. Yeah. Yeah, or something like just I Never I never struggle with my phone I'm not I'm not that bad like when I'm with other people. Yeah. Yeah, like you know, I never, I never struggled with my phone. I'm not, I'm not that bad. Like when I'm with other people, like, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, we all do a

good job being present. Yeah. I'm talking to me. I'm not going to be on my phone. And I think some people do struggle with that or like, you kind of look up and all of a sudden you realize you're sitting in a room and everyone's just looking at their phones. And I always, in those moments, I always just go, how are you guys phones doing? And people don't love that. So how was everyone's phone? You've seen them there. Anyway, what would you go for Christmas? I got a coat for my grandma.

I got a hoodie from my sister and some joyride candy from Ryan Trahan. Oh, my sister as well. Those are good. Yeah. I got the blue raspberry kind. I want to try the other flavors now. You've had it. TJ had it at his house. I can't believe you've had it before I've had it.

You've had it? I barely even know who the guy is, but TJ's had it and it's it was it's like the gummy kind. Yeah, it was like it tasted healthier. Like it was like it tastes not quite as just ridiculously sweet as like other sour strip candies. It was good, though. And that's kind of the that's kind of the thing is like less sugar, less nasty stuff. Not like the dyes.

It's supposed to be natural. Yeah, it's like a blue raspberry, but it looks kind of reddish brown because it's like not naturally, you know, or not artificially colored. It's good, though. That was it. Yeah Nice you get some good stuff Got that hoodie. Got this hoodie from Cory Coupe. I like it It was great. She got me another chief shirt, too. And then yeah, cuz the Coupes were all drew a name I got Tommy a beef jerky subscription. Oh That's fun. Yeah

six months of Honestly, I bought this like a month ago. So he was like, what brand is it? And I was like, dude, I don't even know actually. I don't even know if it's one brand. It might be a different brand every month. It's probably, yeah, maybe they're just like outsourcing. Yeah, or whatever.

Yeah, it's funny. I forgot what I bought. It's not Old Trapper. It's not Jack Link's. That's fun. My mom got me a Carhartt jacket. Yes. Which I was like, did I even ever say that out loud?

Cause I wanted one after hunting. I must've said it out loud to Rachel, but I really thought she just read my mind. Moms are good like that. Moms are good like that. Women are good like that. They are. What kind of like hard, hard shell?

Just like classic, yeah, hard, brown, carhartt. Brown? Yeah. Oh, you dog. You're gonna be doing some good work in that I hope it gets colder. Yeah, you're like, please let the temperature three. I can't wear my car It's too hot. That's fun Trying to think what else dude I got socks from three different people. I feel like I'm really turning a corner Okay on getting older. Yeah, and you didn't hate it either, probably.

No, I did not. Right. I liked all the socks I got. Yeah. But I was like, this is a, I'm gonna make a note in this Christmas. This is where it started to get old for me. It is funny. Three different types of socks.

It would be fun to like log what you get every year. Cause some of it's like stuff that I'm asking for obviously. And like last year, I think I got two different types of like wireless chargers for my phone. Like one like magnetic one, one like, got two different types of like wireless chargers for my phone like one like magnetic one one Like, you know power bank kind of thing and this year I got way more like a tech wise family book and like a shovel for my brio, you know fire Oh, that's nice. Things are like maybe my values are changing here. Maybe I

You know, so I Got qp goat soaps. Oh nice. Yeah excited about that. I got QP goat soaps. Oh, nice. Yeah, excited about that. I got a fair amount of clothes. One of Rachel and I's New Year's resolutions, maybe say this on the podcast, no clothes in 2025. Okay.

You can't buy any new clothes. Yeah. The only stipulation is you can buy new running shoes. If your current running shoes have holes in them. Okay. But that's it, no shoes, no clothes. Okay. So I kind of loaded Rachel up on some clothes for Christmas this year as well. Yeah, and her birthday is tomorrow So I know back-to-back

tomorrow or Tomorrow when this comes out. Yeah Okay for not being on a major holiday, I think January 2nd might be the worst birthday Now December 26 is bad too though, which is Tommy Coop's birthday. So the Coops really just got bad birthdays. Cause by January 2nd, everyone is like done with celebrating. They're done with spending money.

They just went out for New Year's Eve. They just spent all this money on Christmas. It's like, oh, now we got to do something again for Rachel. Let's buck that, buck that stereotype. Rachel deserves it. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. My nephew, Watson, I think he's December 27th or eighth. Yeah. It's about a lot of times they do like the half birthday celebrations in the summer.

That's what we're going to try to do more. Yeah. Yeah. July 2nd. That's a, now that's a birthday. But then it's so hard to just be like, it's your birthday, but we're not celebrating you very much because we already did it. You know what I mean? It's like, ah, I still want to celebrate you. So we got a, uh, Lydia's gift card from, I think Rachel's grandma, bang, bang, boom. We'll just go there Thursday night. Yes, I have. It's awesome. It's awesome.

Yeah. It's sweet. Yeah. That's fun. Fun. That's great. No clothes. No clothes. Yeah. I'm sure I got other, I got some, I don't know. It doesn't matter. I got, I got other stuff, but very, very happy, very thankful. Hattie loved gift giving this year, like made every single person in our family, these things that I don't even know what to do with. Cause on one hand it's like, I can't throw it away. It was like, felt like fabric, I guess. But she just like taped it up in different ways to like look like an angel or like all these different things. But it literally just taped. And so it's like, this is going to fall apart eventually. But it's like so sweet. And she wrapped them all in everything.

She's been so fun and sweet. Yeah. uh, yeah, Bo, I think got something. Oh, he got bells for everybody and put them in their stockings. Oh, bells. It's so, uh, and he wanted to give one to my mom. She's like, yeah, I want to get one for grandma. And so she could put it around, uh, her, her neck and then grandpa will always know when she's coming. I was like, okay, but like a cow? I guess what I get this from a cow book. I was like, don't compare grandma to a cow. That's a bad idea. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, like a cow or a dog.

I was like, not a dog either. Don't say a dog. I am the king of cows. It'd be donkey, whatever. Anyway, let's do some, we got some wins of the week real quick. Yes. I know you said I said mine, but just good times with family getting to prank them

all. Bunch of games with them all. Both families. We just do the same thing with both. It's just awesome. It's just perfect. Timon, I think my win is just going to be Andrew coming. My cousin. Like I just hasn't happened yet, but premature win. Yeah, it's gonna be fun. It's fun. It's a somebody visiting. Yeah My wit. Yeah Christmas is great. But my win is that we are officially mold free. Oh, you did it. We're good

We don't have to go through the process people were like I don't feel bad for Brad. This is a never-ending thing It seems like whatever they did worked. So sweet now we just have to finish our basement again. That's fun, no problem. That'll go quick. Yeah, it'll be easy and not stressful and I won't get in any fights with Catherine. So it'll be awesome. Yeah, but we're mold free. So we're excited about that.

Anyway, comment of the week. There was one I was trying to find. Someone typed up, you guys know the comment I'm talking about? On Facebook? No, it was on, it was a YouTube comment. Someone went to town. Oh wow. Gosh, where was that? I'm gonna about? On Facebook? No, it was on, it was a YouTube comment. Someone went to town. Oh wow. Gosh, where was that?

I'm gonna find one on Facebook. Because I couldn't even screenshot it because it was so long. It's like they deserve a shout out. Wow, I don't know if I saw it. What was that? You find it, I'm gonna look up, or I'm gonna read this one from Kayla,

oh I'm sorry, Kayla Ebeneez. I'm gonna get your name right, Kayla. It's a tough one. All right. But I think people are used to struggling with your name. So I'm going to Kayla, immunizer, immunizer, immunizer, brofie. Today is a big day for me because today I am finally fully caught up in the podcast. On December 20th, 2023, I finally decided to check out Ghostrunners after hearing about it many times from Jake

and Brad at the end of Jean Schwartz videos, went to Spotify and press play on episode two 89, the most recent episode at the time to hear Jake say, well guys, this is the first episode ever without Brad. I listened for another 30 seconds or so, and then decided if I'm going to give these guys a fair shot, I probably shouldn't start with the only episode ever without Brad. Wow. So I scrolled back to episode one and press play. Ooh, since that day, I've listened to every episode in order, not keeping up with recent episodes, just the order they came out.

It has been so fun, quote unquote, knowing the future as I listened through due to having already followed them on Instagram in quotation marks, top golf, Rachel, isn't his wife named Rachel? This could be interesting. And quotes, I know they have a fourth kid. They're going to have to announce them soon because we're coming down to the wire on timeline. That's pretty sweet. Alas, I am now officially here in real time with the rest of you. I will no longer know secrets that the Brad and Jake in my timeline are unaware of. Thank you, Jake and Brad for the year of constant entertainment. So much of my 2024 was riddled with your voices. Happy 2025, ghosty nation.

Thanks, Kayla. So fun, so sweet. That was great. That was great. Tyman, do you know this comment I'm talking about? I still can't find it. What's it about? They went nuts.

It's a YouTube comment. Well, I thought everything is, everything's up for debate now. Nothing is real. What do you remember about it? I see a big long one here. Yeah. I thought everything is. Everything's up for debate now. Nothing is real. What do you remember about it? I see a big long one here. Yeah. Like about like I'm from the future.

Yep. Read away time in. All right. This is from Malachi Tish. It's very long. So here we go. Because I think last episode we talked about if you're listening in 2027. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. We don't have much time. I'm from the future. you're listening in 2027, yeah. Let us know. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Oh, that's fun. We don't have much time. I'm from the future, March 19th, 2027. I was able to time hop here on a prototype machine built by the Backseat Boys, the genius inventors who masquerade as podcasters.

Your podcast is thriving and growing, but only through cassette tapes carried by pigeons, ever since the others landed and took over all electronic communications. Jake, it's a common misconception that you're bald. We all know you're shaved due to widespread persecution of all things strawberry, food and hair when the others took control. We need a shaved leader rather than a dead hero.

We are daily indebted to your sacrifice. You and Rachel finally got Bondi Bull's food truck operational, but the others seized the truck for their invasion efforts, leaving you no, but to go into hiding and lead the resistance Obviously Rachel's a sanctioned medal mental health counselor of the group. I'm about a fourth through should I keep going? Yes Your fitness journey is trying you to turn you into an absolute specimen and unit of a man So much that so that so that the resistance has chosen you to be the physical fitness instructor for its underground army on a personal Side you've somehow somehow added six more soldiers, all biological, to your growing army. Needless to say, your marriage is doing not bad.

Taiman, your songs can be heard amidst the camp of the resistance and your theatrical performances are the muse of the multitudes. Your wedding was quite the performance as well. All I can say is, wait, I can't tell you that. It would rip open the fabric of space time. Oh, wow. Scott finally defeated Tyson McGuffin and was signing his pro pickleball deal when the sky grew dark with the others invasion. Seeing he was a choice specimen for their barbaric games, Scott was immediately taken and thrown into their arena for sport.

Since it was a Sunday, he refused despite the brutal encouragement of the others. Currently he is imprisoned in their lair until he plays their sick games and efforts continue to hashtag free Scott. Isaac nearly died playing pickleball by shattering every bone in his body as well as bleeding out through the nose. During his three month hospital stay, he resolved to heal his nosebleeds and affinity to injury. Spending six weeks alone in his rented house, since Jake still couldn't find his roommates, he poured over his own blood samples until he found the culprit, the rare bacteria Clutzyboicillus. After synthesizing a cure, he continued his obsession with all things healing and now he serves as lead physician in the resistance. I need to go. My time machine is running out of its primary fuel source

and ancient relic known as Crocs. Stay strong, Jake. You have a good shaved head on your shoulders. Keep potting my friends It helps more than you know, God bless. Godspeed. Goodbye. Merry Christmas. Wow That's awesome because it's not like chat GPT. Oh, no, like that's riddled with Ghost Runners inside jokes. Sure. That's great And I mean so kind of him to think what you know little he time he had in the future to do that Type all that out. Do you think he like typed it out and had it on whatever kind of device, phone or whatever

in a note and just came back and like copy and paste it? Or do you think he typed the whole thing when he came back from the future? I don't know. Tough to know. That's sweet. And well, is it Malachi? Yeah.

Thanks Malachi. I tried to find it too. It was on YouTube. Yep. Couldn't find anywhere It's it's hidden from us That is that is really cool and amazing and funny and yeah, thanks for taking the time to be hilarious Our fans are the best fans. There's nothing like it. Thanks Malachi So my comment of the week is from quirky lover, but not it's not spelled corgy Just kind of sounds like it. Oh Okay, I know Brad is bricked but let him know that a book he should read

About endurance is called shipwreck at the bottom of the world. Oh, you know about this I thought it was just called endurance. Is it? Yeah, cool shipwreck at the bottom. I Yes, I don't know. It's a story of Captain Ernest shackleton and how he saved an entire crew who were shipwrecked He would like it for the leadership principals alone. Cool Uh, she's a seventh grade ela teacher and taught it for many years Love the podcast. Merry christmas. Happy new year. It looks like Is it a kid's book? Oh readers from 10 to 14 Great. I i'm I'm pretty reader. So breeze through that. Yeah

I'm currently reading a book called the devil in the white city. Heard of it. What's it about? It's about murderers at the Chicago World's Fair in the late 1800s True or fiction true and it's very interesting. Very good. Cool. Yeah. Pretty fun. I'd heard of it. Yeah. Anyway, good times if anybody wants a once a dark read. Anyway, fun times.

Thanks guys for listening. We'll see you back on Monday. Hopefully Jake will be feeling tip top. Hope so. I'll be fine. That's the thing. You would have never known if we didn't say anything. I'll make it happen.

Make it happen. Yeah See ya Monday. Oh time time time time tempo. I have to forget it. No, no say Monday or now No, it was too late There among the morning, we're taking round, but it's only sparking