Ghostrunners - 399

Episode Date: January 8, 2025

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Happy Wednesday, ghosties. I'm here with Hattie Louise Ellis, a neighbor of mine, and Hattie, you've got a story for us today? What is this story about? It's about breaking mugs. Oh no. All right, I'm hooked. What happened? Well, I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I do know that Rosie was in the kitchen

playing with magnets. And I'm not sure if the coffee cup cupboard was already opened or if someone opened it. And then it has two different shelves where we keep mugs. And I heard a crash and I thought Mom had dropped something. Okay. And I came in and the top shelf was broken. I mean not exactly broken, but it had fallen down and all the mugs were broken. I mean, not exactly broken, but it had fallen down

and all the mugs were broken. Oh no. Well, not all of them, but a lot of. Okay, okay. Oh man. That's crazy. Okay. Yeah.

And. How many? How many broke? Five. Holy cow. And so was it, was it your mom? Was it Rosie? I actually have no idea.

Earthquake in Kansas maybe? No. No. You think it was, hey, do you think it was Bo? No, he wasn't even in the kitchen. I was laying in my bed with to Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Oh, you were lying in your bed listening to Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe? Oh, he's got an alibi.

Yeah, yeah. I was in my bed the whole time. Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, ask them. Yeah, yeah. Ask Aslan. He can vouch for me. So, what are you going to do, Addy? Do you have anything to drink out of now? Yes, I do. That settles that. Yes, I will be just fine.

You have quite the inventory of mugs. We lost five and I think we can glue together two. Okay. I think two more are chipped and a few did not break. My Santa's mug did not break though and Rosie's little mug did not break and the Nutcracker rug which is one of my mom's favorites I think did not break. That's good. What would you call the type of event Mom says? A massacre? A massacre! Yeah! Yeah! Perfect! A mugzicker?

A mugzicker! Honey! Welcome to comedy, Heddy. Uh oh, ooh I think this tight beat means that it's going down With some random thoughts and white meat too Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat So come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet because it's a ghost from the spark cam Ghost from the spark cam

Every Monday morning we're taking back Ghost from the spark cam Ghost from the spark cam I have something I want to ask Bo about. Can I ask Bo something real quick? Okay. Boie, we went to the church the other day and we played basketball and Pastor Sam was blowing up these balloons. These balloons were so cool. They were like these like, they look like hot dogs kind of like when you blew them up. But then you let it go and it would just like fly all around the room. You can imagine it. Yeah. Okay.

And what did Pastor Sam do with one of the balloons? He blew it up really big. And then what happened? It got stuck. Where? Really? Was it funny? Yeah. Isn't that wild? Crazy?

No way. Yeah. A balloon sicker. Yeah. And then one time he blew one up really, really big. And then it popped right in your face and it scared me because I thought I was going to like slap you and like hurt you. Remember that?

Yeah. You're joking. Yeah. Yeah. And then what did I, this is actually kind of funny. A poor guy. This is the second week in a row that we have, um, played basketball with the church.

And, um, the first time I like wave to somebody, the door was locked to the church. I waved to somebody with like my Yeti water ball in my hand. You know, those Yetis are so heavy. I waved to them and then like kind of lowered my water ball down and Bo like moved forward and I just bonked them on the top of the head with my water bottle. You got bonked? You Bo bonked?

I Bo bonked. And then this past time, are you done? You get out of here? See ya. This past week, this is great. This past week, I took a drink of my water and and then I was going to swing it back to put it on the table in front of me. Bo was to my left.

Bo walks in front of me as I'm swinging the water bottle to put it on the table. And I just swing it. And it's not that hard, but hard enough to where if it hits you in the forehead, how did it feel? It hurt. I felt so bad. So I think you might have a bruise from that one still. Is that what this is from?

Howdy in the head. Oh, that's when you fell on the laundry hamper. We've also been wrestling quite a bit. And there was one day we were wrestling pretty hard, the four of us, all the three older kids and me. And we just started, they started getting hurt so often that I was just like, we just designated one of the chairs as the hospital. And anytime you got hurt.

There was a hospital and I was the nurse unless I was hurt. Like go to the hospital, go to the hospital till you get over it. And they never went to the hospital cause they recovered in 10 seconds or less. Yes, that's good. That's the truth.

Hattie, can I ask you some questions for the podcast? Yes. Okay, if you were the boss of the world, what would you change? I don't know. Would you, okay. Okay. What would you, all right,

if you could have any superpower, what would it be? Fly? Okay, what would you all right if you could have any superpower, what would it be? Fly okay, where's the first place you would fly to? A lot of different places. I really want to go to a lot of different places And I can't decide one. What's one you're thinking of? Egypt. Oh, that would be awesome. Do you think that your flying abilities would be good enough where I could be on your back like a backpack and you can fly me to Egypt with you?

Maybe. and you can fly me to Egypt with you? Uh, maybe? Maybe I could fly you to Colorado. That's the other one I was thinking of. Yeah, that's probably a little bit more feasible. Across the Atlantic, Dad. It's pretty far. What are three animals you think you would see in Egypt? Camel.

Ooh. Uh, camel? Ooh. Uh. Actually, I don't really know. Camels. Yeah, mama camel. Maybe a scorpion. Dad camel and baby camel.

Snake. I didn't really think about that question. Me neither. Hattie loves would you rathers or desert island. Okay. Hattie loves would you rathers or desert island. Okay, Hattie, would you rather become a tiger or become an eagle only for a day? An eagle. How come?

Because eagles can fly. Yeah, it goes back to flying, doesn't it? And I don't know. Okay, Hattie, if you, all right, choose between these two things. Would you rather have bright blue hair, the color of Bo's hoodie right now? What the?

Or hair that's your normal color, but it's all the way to the ground? Hair that's my normal color, it's all the way to the ground. Hey, that's my normal color. That's all the way. Wow, really? Why do you choose that? Because I've always wanted to have long hair and I've cut it three times since I was born.

Mom's keeps wanting to cut it. Yeah. Patty actually asked me to bring that up in front of you. born. Moms keep wanting to cut it. Yeah. Patty actually asked me to bring that up in front of you. Yeah. What do you like to do with your long hair? I don't know. Oh, I thought the reason that you were bothered that we got it cut is because...

I just like long hair. I thought you liked to like throw it in front of Henry's face to play with him. Oh yeah. Well, maybe not that long. Maybe Henry will be older. Yeah, true. He would be able to talk to you and be like, why are you throwing your long hair in my face?

All right, Hattie, let's say you're on a desert island. What's the one breakfast food you would bring with you? I don't exactly know, but I'm going to just say one that I thought of. Go ahead. Coffee cake. Ooh! Coffee cake! Okay, and what about, what about one dessert that you could bring with you?

Any dessert? Ice cream? Ice cream. My girl. Strawberry ice cream. I would. I didn't catch that last part, what'd you say? Stop a brain freeze. Super brain freeze?

You would teach her how to stop the brain freeze? Yeah, but. I know how to stop a brain freeze. Super brain freeze? You would teach her how to stop the brain freeze? Yeah, both. I know how to stop a brain freeze. What do you do? You. Hold my umbrella, please. Yeah, you take your hand and you put it in between your thumb and your index finger.

What? Yeah. That doesn't stop a brain freeze. Stop the brain freeze this morning. So. Egg on my face. All right, Hattie, last question. What do you want to be when you grow up?

A woodworker? And I was thinking of something else, but I forgot. Okay, just woodworker. You wanted to build your shop next to Dad. What did you say, Bo? You wanted to build your shop next to Dad's. Yeah, then we could. That wasn't exactly what I was thinking of last night.

It was something else that I wanted to be, but it's fun. Yeah, that'd be fun. We can make lots of furniture together. Call it Hattie and Brad's custom creations. Me and Bo used to want to be woodworkers when we grew up. Now Bo wants to be a series of things when he grows up. And when we wanted to do that, then we thought we could build our shops

right next to each other. Oh, that'd be so fun. What are the series? If I was a woodworker, I will build my own house. And my own dolls. Doll have it in the house. And my own dolls. Dolls? Out of wood? What are the series of things that Bo wants to be now? You answer Bo.

Bo, what do you want to be when you grow up? Do you want to be a baseball player? Soccer player. Okay. Baseball player. Okay. And a football player. And a police and a woodworker. Okay, okay. Firefighter too.

Fireman? And firefighter. Volunteer? No, full time. Careful. He wants to do a lot of things with me. He's picking his nose so big as to stow him into the wall. All right thank you guys for coming on. That was sure fun. I think we had you guys over

last time Miss Rachel's birthday wasn't it? Did we really? I think so. It was like why what's so special about today it's Miss Rachel's birthday. So To find a secret place to discuss it All right, all right That's my secret stuff, all right, I discuss love you guys have fun. Thanks for coming And then if she wants it, and then she wants it. Got some secrets to discuss. All right. Love you guys.

Have fun. Thanks for coming. All right. Love you. See you guys. Well, it was fun. Yeah, it was fun. Yeah, Sam blew up this balloon so big,

and it just popped right in front of Beau's face. And it was so loud. And like, if I were a four year old kid, I would have screamed and cried at that. And he just thought it was hilarious. Oh, he laughed? He did not mind at all. Like, I feel like anytime a balloon would blow up as a kid,

like there were definitely those kids that were like traumatized by those balloons blowing up. He is not one of them. So no problem. No problem, Bob. I got a couple of just random updates from my time in Iowa over Christmas. Okay. One, you would have loved this, Brad.

So we, it was our very last night there. We've already been playing games all night. And now we're like, you know what? We haven't played Mario Party all week. Let's fire it up. It's like 11 o'clock at night. Like, you know what? Yeah. Let's go for it. So we like 11 o'clock at night. Like, you know what? Let's go for it.

So we're just bouncing around playing all these different games. And then we land on a game called Dine and Dash. Okay. This is a game where like two v two, you get an order from the kitchen or it's like, we need to to make this order. You're gonna need two tomatoes and one lettuce. Go get those things and bring them back. Okay. Now the next order needs two things of bacon and one tomato go bring it back But the way it's configured the tables and everything It's kind of like a maze Where you can get in the way of the other people trying to get their thing and you can see what they have to get Okay, there was an unbelievable amount of strategy and Dine and Dash because we just kind of playing Mario Party like oh this dumb game

This is the game and we got to Dine and Dash and we didn't move on we played it for over an hour Dine and Dash over and over and over again. It was so up your alley. You would have loved like trying to like, all right, time out. Let me just like, can we just talk for a little bit and like talk strategy about how to best play Dynadash. Because it better be more offense or more defense.

Like, it is the player's character like depend. Like me and Tommy were teammates all the time. We're like, I feel like if we were like Donkey Kong and Wario, that's gotta help block people. Oh, sure. I don't know, maybe they have the same hit box, no matter who, I don't know. But yeah, Donkey Kong's slower than some of the others.

It's hard to know. Yoshi scoots around, but Donkey Kong's a little more burly. Yeah, this is over a week ago, and I still think about it. I still think about Dine and Dash. I'm like, when's the next time I'm gonna get to play that? I mean, like, Tim's not in town from law school that often. Like, sure, I could come back, but could Steve Koop even replace Tim?

I don't know if we're gonna have that magical Dine and Dash. I mean, I might be told next Christmas. Yeah, who were the four playing? Me and Tommy were teammates the whole time, Rachel and Tim. Okay. Oh, that was amazing. So just throwing out there,

if anyone else has randomly played whatever iteration of Mario Party we're playing, Dine and Dash is so fun. What console? It's on the Switch. I don't think it's like a new Mario Party, it's like an older one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, there's something about like when you play a video game enough, you start like seeing it in your head when you go to sleep. Yes. I got really into Bejeweled. You know that game? start like seeing it in your head when you go to sleep. Yes. Like I got really into a bejeweled. You know that game? Yeah.

I got into it in high school. I think we had like Palm pilots that were given out to everybody and I somehow figured out how to download it on the Palm pilot. And oh man, like I was so into it that I like literally I would like close my eyes and just see bejeweled or like same with a rock band guitar hero you know like you just start seeing those things in your head yes something about it I remember doing that with Call of Duty zombies there was one night it was like Christmas break I'm playing with the K life kids you know he's my

job I had to play sure and I went to fall asleep and I could see zombies man I have played too much gosh I gotta chill yeah me, it was Mario Kart and the DS. I had like a personal record on Peach's Mansion I kept trying to beat. And I would just close my eyes and be drifting around like, gee, that's just perfect. A perfect like on the corner there.

That's great. Dine and dash, so good. Other just like random small story from Iowa. There was one night after like kind of the the extended family Christmas party, we got talking to Rachel's grandma, Steve's mom, so Bonnie Coop. And one thing led to another, and we kind of just start this like kind of history lesson,

like she's like 80 something, but still pretty sharp and like remembers a lot of like, this is who came over from Germany, this were their names, this is where they settled, they actually bought this, you know, acreage over here for $3 or something, basically now it's worth this. It was just a fun history lesson.

But one thing that stuck with us is, so I guess Steve's dad was named Minard. Yes, Tommy's. Middle name. Good job. But he was Minard Jr. So his dad before that was minored senior. And so I guess there was kind of this discussion

like is Steve Coop, is he gonna be like minored the third or whatever? Okay. And I guess they were kind of talking back to the day and they're like, I mean, it's already confusing enough. Like we've got two minored Coops at the same area trying to buy different land and taxes and mail is so confusing.

Like we can't keep doing this to our son. Like we need to just name him something else. And I guess the matriarch of the family at that time, like look them in the eyes and said, Minard is the only name. And we're like, whoa, I've got chills. You will carry Madam Zaroni up the hill. That's exactly what I said.

Madam Zaroni vibes. Carry Madam Zaroni up the mountain. Minard is the only name. Minard is the only name. Minard is the only name. Wow. It was kind of like, and even Rachel's grandma was like, we were like, oh my gosh. Cause it meant something.

It was more than just a name. Yeah, we immigrated over here. Right. We slept on the bottom of the boat and feces for two weeks. Minard is the only name. Wow. That was kind of an inside joke. I have a very distinct picture of like,

they're all like talking in like a circle around the table or something. She's like in the arm chair and like the kind of dark corner. And then they're like, Oh, we'll just change the name. She like rises from a chair like, Minard is the only name. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. But, but John's good. Mark's good. Minard is the only name. Yeah, like a nice Christian name. Yeah. Matthew. Minard, it will be Minard. Uh-huh, like sent chills down my body. But yeah, we kind of laughed at that

and that was kind of an inside joke. Minard is the only name. I don't know if you knew that. So I guess- It's the only one. They went against her wishes. Yeah, I guess so. Wow. Went after Steve.

I love that you heard stuff like history. I think that is lost on us more than it is common. And like, I wish I knew more. I need to get better at like, for Christmas Eve, we asked my parents, tell us stories about your time, like your favorite Christmases as a kid. Like, cause I want Hattie and I want all my kids to like remember those things. So then they can be like, I remember when grandma told

me about this time, she walked outside at midnight on Christmas Eve and it was snowing, you know, and I don't know. Mom and dad, tell us about, tell us about the first farm you bought. Well, we didn't really buy far. Do it like Rachel's grandma. Tell us about farms. Please. That's the experience I want. That's all, yeah. Tell us about polio. Uh, all the things. It was cool. Obviously it was a little hard for me to follow

because I don't know a lot of the family names in this county, that acreage, but it was still fun. Still cool. Catherine's brother is a junior. And Catherine's mom has said like, we regret doing that because of the legal aspects of what you're saying. Yeah, just Yeah, so many different things It's hard to decipher who's who's this going to or who is this? Yeah, whatever who's buying this property or whatever?

So you got two of them in the same town too. Sure. I'm sure the mail gets lost and Yeah, anyway, mine was the only name. Mine is the only name. That's so funny. I love that. Can I tell you about my scam? I should try to pull it up. I don't know how quickly I'm gonna be able to do it. But basically the scam is a woodworking scam

from William Hamilton. William Hamilton 4508 at gmail.com. I'll go ahead and shout you out. Yeah, go ahead. Also 99% sure it's a scam. It hasn't been confirmed, but. Time and I will get, we'll let you know. One way or the other.

First of all, just, you almost always know it's a scam when it's riddled with grammatical errors and spelling errors. Or just even like a space after the comma. Hey Brad, space comma. Yep, here's my first email. Good morning. Two, three spaces.

You know, enter, enter, enter. Two, three spaces. I'm Williams, space comma space. I would like to know if you do custom built dinning table, capital on dinning. Not in the other one. Oh, so it's not a misspelling, it's someone's last name. No, maybe.

Thank you. I assume the worst of William. so it's not a misspelling. It's someone's last name. No, maybe. Thank you. I assume the worst of William. I will be needing in my new home. Here's a picture of the sample I want best regards period. William Hamilton. There's a picture of this table that looks very similar to things I can make. So I respond. Hi, William.

Absolutely. We'd love to build this for you. Where are you located? And was your ideal timeline for completion on this? Thanks. Brad Ellis of Ellis Custom Creations. Thank you, Brad, for your response. Comma, three spaces. My address location is 1309 East Main Street,

Princeton, Missouri. All right, I look it up. Not the nicest house, but who cares? We're moving in fully by March 2025. So I'll be happy if it can be done completely by then. And my carrier will be coming to your workshop for the pickup with their truck van. Carrier? You mean courier? Or does he mean?

I think carrier is okay there. Okay. But truck van, a little bit of a red flag also. But at this point, still just like, Hey, I would love to close this deal. Also, can you get back to me the price quotation and do you accept check for payments? Uh, thanks, William. What size are you hoping for on this? Looks like one piece would be about seven to eight feet based on the picture. Is that correct? He just responds. All right. You can work with this dimension colon. And then in different font, 35 and a half inches wide by 59 inches long by 29 and a half inches high. Thanks. William Hamilton. Thanks William. Let me see what kind of live edge wallet we have. Once again, just not seeing the scam at all at

this point. Yeah, you're not. Um, just because I've, I've, there's been so many times where I'm like, these people aren't going to order from me. And then they ended up doing it. And I'm like, I'm glad I gave them the time of day. Yeah. Sounds good. Thank you. He says, Hi, William. Wallet dining table would be this much. Are you ready to proceed? I generally asked for this much as a deposit and take the remainder of payment upon completion of the project. Blah, blah, blah. Uh, yes, please proceed, Brad.

And I'm like, yes, awesome. I'm satisfied with the price quotation of blank as I believe you'll do a great job for me. I would like, and then it says, I will, I will like you to do me a favor space, space question mark. And I'm like, okay, I'll be sending you a check of $8,550.74. I'm gonna guess that's more than you asked for. Correct, Jake.

When payment is delivered to you, take to the bank to deposit. And when fund is available in your account, you will take $4,250, which is the price I quoted for the dinning. And you will help me send $4,000.74 to the carrier man who will handle also handle the pickup, et cetera. Wow.

So he's gonna pay carrier truck fan guy four grand for picking this up. Nice, maybe I'm in the wrong business. Generous. I will forge you their info once the fund is available in your account and the remaining $300 as your tip for the stress this might cause you. I understand we're all busy.

Hope you understand. Best regards, William Hamilton, period. Well. He's done his math, right? This is what I thought that seems like a scam wait his initial amount was there since involved in there Yeah, eighty five hundred and forty seven cents yep, seventy four cents four thousand dollars seventy four cents is how much I'm giving the carrier That's odd. I think that's maybe like part of like oh, they they'll believe it if it's not exactly $4,000. So this is when I Google check scam something. Yeah. And yeah. Yeah. What's the scam here? How is he going to get you? Yeah. Let's let's try to try to think about it. Try to figure it out. I've been stewing. I don't know. I've been like so far it's it's yeah. Brad getting the money. I don't know when where's he gonna get money

But who's I'm gonna guess has something to do with I don't fully know how checks work, but like While the check is still processing you send for a grand to someone Yeah, basically I think like Yeah, this check they sent me a check and it looks 100% legit. Okay. And maybe it is a legit check that's from a bank account that doesn't have the funds or something. And so whatever would happen, I think if I deposit this check, it would clear initially

and within two days, the available balance hits my account. And then two, three weeks later, it would say, actually, this check is fraudulent. Wow. And I've already sent $4,000 to the carrier man. So. Good scam. I did send, I sent something. I said, William, can you help me understand why I'm paying the carrier

and you're not paying them directly? He says, they're also going to be handling alongside some logistics for me. And he doesn't have the facilities to accept the check at the moment. He doesn't have facilities to accept the check. Bad businessman. Yeah, carrier man's worth $4,000 and 74 cents

doesn't have the facility. Figure it out. Sign up for Venmo, dude. My financial advisor issuing the payment said they are to write the payment once. I'll be glad if you can help me out with this favor. Thank you for understanding. Warmest regards, William Hamilton.

Every sentence is so confusing. Yes. And then he did, this is, if you're ever getting scammed, this is a hundred percent what happens is they send this in the email. Good evening, Brad. Compliment of the season. I feel like that's always like some weird greeting like it's kind of like wind of the week. Compliment of the season. We should go around to our comments in the season. Jake, I like your shirt. Compliment of the season. Thank you. Yes. So anyway, that's the compliment. So I did text him or email him again, say, hi, William,

I had a few questions about your table. Can we arrange a time for a quick phone call? And he has called me a few times and I've always missed it. But I want to know who this he's, he did leave me a voicemail that was two and a half minutes long. Not bad. And he talked for maybe five seconds of it. William doesn't sound like a William. Yep. And was just like, we can do this over text. We can do this over text if it's better.

And then it's just two and a half minutes of silence after that. He was stewing. He was stewing. What else do I say next? So anyway, part of me is like, I want to see what would happen if I take this to my bank. But also, is that going to mess with my whatever bank? I know.

I'm curious. It's probably not worth it. I'm curious. I don't think it's worth it either. Or if anything, I just want to have a conversation with the teller and be like, can you look and see if this is fraudulent right now? Because I think it's fraudulent.

Kind of a Frank Abagnale situation. 100%. I mean, I should have brought you the check to look at it because there's nothing about it that looks fake. So anyway, kind of a new scam, new scam, just drop. New scam. But it got me, man. Especially because he didn't initially say that.

He was like actually interested in the table. And I was like, great. I was so excited when he was like, yes, let's proceed. I was like, yes. And then I read the rest of the email is like, that's, that's not anything. That's interesting. So I wonder like, who else is he going after? Like just anyone who makes anything from their home like that? Or? Yeah, probably. If it were like, you know, $2,000 for this carrier, that might have been less of a red flag to me. $4,000 just seems so high.

Yeah. It's like twice as much as the, you know, twice half the cost is going to this guy moving it to Nebraska. And then I looked up the address and it's like a $200,000 house in Nebraska, like just a very like normal house. Like I don't think this is the guy. All right Anyway, well William slash sadique Good try

Maybe next time. Yeah next time. So you have time. Do you have a website for like videography stuff? I'm maybe maybe soon maybe soon. Yeah, why'd you guys just get excited? Oh cuz I posted on my Instagram story I have a friend that's looking to like build this portfolio and wanted some business owners for website So I posted about it and time and like hey, I'd be interested in getting connected with your friend Oh nice So yeah I in like the past my dad and I like figured out we like bought the domain name of like time and image calm Smart but nothing yet. Maybe soon though. Okay. Yeah in the works

You have any domain names out there? I feel like you'd be that though. Okay. Yeah, in the works. You have any domain names out there? I feel like you'd be that kind of guy. Oh yeah, not that many. I mean, Alex Dimcheck has probably like 500. Really? Yeah, I have my own, jaketriplet.com. Few other stuff, few other like just dumb businesses

that I started for like a week. KCTshirtclub.com. Okay. You guys heard of it? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, it was big in the 90s.com. Okay. You guys heard of it? Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah, it was big in the 90s. Yep. Yeah. What else do I have?

I don't know. Yeah. I got a couple. Have to go on GoDaddy and see what I have, but. Do you have to pay for those every year? Like keep the money? Yeah, I think so. Okay, like a dollar or something? Yeah. Cool. I don't know, dad.

I don't know. What was that noise? I didn't hear anything. You didn't hear that? What was? Timon? It wasn't me. It wasn't me. What noise do you guys hear?

The buzzing? Something's buzzing. Is there feedback in the woofers? No, maybe. I do hear a buzz now. I think I think there is a buzz. Yeah. I think it's me. No, it's timing. It's Jake. We're all Oh baby! Yes and I'm buzzing. Great improv timing. Thank you. Well done. Yeah, we are all buzzing.

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And you'd be buzzing our beans. So go to MainStreetRoaster.com and pick out something for yourself or for someone else. They've got something for everybody there and you get 10% off using the promo code GRKC. That's right. Let's play a little game. This was emailed to me a while back from Ryan.

Ryan, no last name, please. Got it. Last name. So this is what we got the TV up here for. Said, hey guys, I've been listening to podcasts for a while now. Thought it'd be fun to put together a game where you all could see if you can guess what cars people drive based on what their houses look like.

Oh, fun. He made his own game. Okay. Kind of similar to your guesser, you get a street view of a house. You have to guess cars instead of location. It's like those Josh Benson videos. Have you seen those?

Yeah. Mm. Oh yeah, right. 2021 you seen those? Yeah. Mm. Oh yeah. 2021 white Super Room presa. You know. Speaking of that, just got text. We got a little phone call right after this. Oh great.

If you want. Very fun. Timon. Yes. Just texted you the car guessing game. Great. Link. So is this like actually yes or no,

or is this a, like we're just having fun? We've got a whole system here. Oh, wow. Are you screen recording timing? Yes. Yeah You're on top of it. So you select a location view the house make a guess on how many cars the make model and year Wow So get to YouTube to follow along with this. Okay, there's a whole scoring system Correct number of cars three points points, make five points. I'll pull this up, I'll beat the score master. Correct year, five points. Correct make and model, 15 points.

Correct make, model, and year, 50 points. Or just make stuff up. Note color does not count. The car photos are stock photos. It would be very creepy if they were not. All info is publicly available on google.com slash maps to statef google.com slash maps to statefarm.com.

So I wonder, worry about privacy? Don't worry, let him watch. Is he removing the cars from the photo or like, how does he know what cars? Are these not his friend's houses? That's maybe my guess. Oh. Well, they're all different places though.

Yeah, they're all over. Maybe they're just like, I don't know. That's a good question. I don't know how he knows what cars live here. All right. Let's start at the top timing. Branson. Oh, you can kind of see the car. No, I think that's just like a background of the game. I think it's the background of the website. Okay. Oh, I see down there. It says Seacard. Okay. Okay. So we have two different looks of this place. Valley View Drive in Branson, Missouri. Nice spot.

It's the same house. Nice little house. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Looks to be, yeah. Nice spot, I would say. Is it the same house? The garage is the same. Where's the driveway in the second picture?

No, you can see the bushes in the left edge. Yeah, yeah, just doing tricks. Angles are doing tricks. Yeah. OK. Oh, I see that bushes. OK. I mean, it's a it's a modest house. It's probably 2000 square feet. I would say it's a younger family. And so there's two cars at this house and

One of them is going to be for a mother But she doesn't have a ton of kids. So she's gonna be driving a I'm terrible at years of stuff I have no idea probably 2019 We're gonna go Toyota rav4 and then the dad is we're gonna go Toyota RAV4. And then the dad is,

the RAV4 is the nicer of the two cars. The dad's driving a 2006 Toyota Camry. Okay. I think old people live here. So I think there's one car in the garage that we never see. So there's really only one car in the driveway. And that's like a 08 Buick Century. Okay One car one car family. I just can't think of cars. I mean like but I'm gonna say I like the idea

It's like a small family Okay, but they're like they're about to outgrow their house. I think so. They already have a minivan. Oh, yeah yeah, they already have a minivan. Oh yeah? Yeah, they already have a 20, oh I don't know. I don't even know what year they like started making different cars, but I'm gonna say, if this exists, a 2018 Toyota Sienna. Oh yeah, that exists. Okay, great.

Yeah. All right, let's see. Oh, Toyota Highlander. Okay. I was on the right track. I was one thing too small. I was on, I went, did I say wrap four? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Just one? Just one. Looks like it. Yeah. Oh, okay. All right. Very good. Okay. Let's go back here. Branson. Okay. Kansas City. Kansas City, Kansas. Which if you're from Kansas City, you know that Kansas City, Kansas does not have

the best reputation in Kansas City. Yeah. Little duplex here? It's house is a duplex on Troupe Avenue. Okay. You'd be surprised how many cars they have though. There's quite a few people here. Yeah, there's three cars parked in this drive.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. At a given. How do you get a picture without the cars in the driveway? Yeah, I want to know the process of this whole thing. Let's go. Let's go. 2006 Chrysler 300. Let's go.

Um, Oh, what's that car Chevy Chevy s 10 like a, like a tiny truck. We're talking 2000. Okay. Like a, like a, like a bridge, like little like sporty truck. I'm going to say there's a 2012 Honda CRV Okay Only gonna guess two cars. I'm gonna say the other one is a 2003 Camry, okay. Okay, great

Let's go three cars one One of them's a truck. It's a Tacoma. Toyota Tacoma. Toyota Tacoma. Okay. And then, yeah, give me like a Lincoln Town Car. Okay. From like 02.

Okay. And then another sedan. We're gonna go Dodge Stratus nice 98. Okay. Yeah, all right lock it in Oh 96 Toyota Camry, okay a 2006 Chevy Trailblazer 2009 Mazda 3 Okay So that's you got a camera. That's about it though. Yeah. Not much else. All right. We're going to Harrison, Arkansas. Ooh, I'm going to say Confederate flag.

They do have something like marked off on both these things. What is that for? Like a Trump sign probably or something. Oh, it's for sale as well. This is a nice looking house. I like this property. Good looking place. Looks like it's got some acreage there, maybe an acre, acre and a half. Is that water in the back? No.

Yeah. Oh, I thought it was. I thought it was a little pond. I think it is. Yeah, a pond people. There's a truck back there, I bet. There's a F-150, Arkansas, keeping it rugged. Sometimes people spend a lot of money on their trucks when they have ponds, you know, with pond truckers. So I'll do a 2021 Ford F-150.

I'm also going to do this woman that he lives with is also an SUV gal. She's going 2017 She's going to a four-runner. Okay. Nice nice car. Yeah. Yeah, I got two cars 2015 Dodge Ram Mm-hmm, 2018 Honda Accord. Okay, that's it. Yeah I'm just looking up cars. I mean honest just a but I think they have a newer Ford Escape, like 2020. And then there's a Volkswagen. You're kidding. But I don't know the model.

In Arkansas. A Jetta. No shot. Yeah, it's probably a Jetta. A Passat. A Golf. A Jetta is the only one of those I've heard of. Okay, you're going Jetta. All right. Whoa. Six cars. Wow. F-150. F-150. 2003 Ford Mustang. It kind of like

Escalade. A Suzuki. Wow. What a range of. Did not see the Suzuki. Wow. Light colors. Well those aren't the colors. Remember these these are just those are not the photos in the house. They're FYI, the ones in the showroom. And yeah, Toyo Sequoia. I was kind of close with the forerunner. Oh, man. Okay. So I got a point for F150. Yeah, man. Six cars in this driveway. A lot of cars. Wow. Arkansas, man. Let's do one more. Whichever one you think is good. Oh, Napanee. This one, I've seen this house before Napanee. I would be cheating. Is it actually a Napanee?

Yeah. Yeah. Great. We got it on Main Street. Main Street. Um, yeah, I think this is the Miller's house. We're just exposing them. That's a fun house.

I would love to. What is the car that can anyone do detective work and see what car that is? Catch a glimpse of. I can't tell exactly what it is. No, I don't know It looks I'm gonna go like an SUV though, doesn't it? I'm gonna go mini van urban Maybe not it does kind of look like many van as well Could be a lot of things They drive they have a Dodge Caravan 2008 and they also have a Buick LaSaber 2003 and kids first car is an Infinity i30 1998.

I think that's a minivan. That's like a 2012 Honda Odyssey, okay, and then one other car. Oh What are the the classic hybrids Prius they got a Prius yeah 2015 Prius nice. I'm gonna say 2013 Kia Sedona and then Let's do Honda Accord but it's it's 2009. Okay.

It's a hatchback. Yes. Holy cow. Six. Six again. Dodge Stratus. Nice looking CRV. Cadillac Escalade.

Back to back Escalades. Wow. Oh, an Audi. That's the first car for the teenager. A teenager spoiled. Buick Verano. We need the people who live in Napa Nita. Back to back escalates. Wow. Oh, an Audi. That's the first car for the teenager. Teenagers spoiled.

Buick Verano. We need the people who live in Napanee to tell us who lives here. You probably recognize them. CRV and a RAV4, nice. Yeah, what if they're like, based off of that profile, I know exactly the family that lives here.

Not based off the house, but just like I know what kind of cars they drive. Wow. It's pretty cool that you made this whole website. That's pretty cool. All right you guys both got points good job. Send me a link I want to play the rest of it on my own time. Yeah that's great. Great yeah four more to play sometime. Can I do a quick segment? You guys can add on if you want. I have a segment called I have a segment called, Judge Me If You Want, but... Great. Apparently Jake told me there is a trend

going around right now that says, we... We listen and we don't judge. It's the worst. All right, well, I'm saying, judge me if you want. This is way better. I welcome judgment. Judge me if you want, but I'm unashamedly doing these things.

Okay. All right. So, hey guys, judge me if you want, but I'm unashamedly doing these things. Okay. All right. So, hey guys, judge me if you want. But I wear my, let's start again. Time to take that out in post. Judge me if you want, but I wear my pants for multiple days before I washing them. What kind of pants? Fill in the blank. What kind of activities? Regular act, just day to day. No, no sweating. If I sweat at all, I'm done. Yeah. Yeah. I don't judge you.

Like these joggers, I bet I've worn them four days without washing them. At least. Four different like wares. I feel like that's maxing it out for me. Yeah. But you're not judging me yet. But maybe five would be judgmental. Five is like, dude, come on. Yeah.

Use the laundry. What about jeans? How long do you go for jeans? Jeans until they smell or until they have a stain on them. Yeah. Yeah. You're okay with that. Yeah.

My dad's big on this side. If your clothes are not dirty at all, why do you need to like change them? Yeah. Sometimes I'll like wear my shirt to church and then I'll get done and I'll get home and I'll change my shirt. And every once in a while, when we do laundry, we just get like random like, like spots on our clothes. And it kind of bums me out. I'm like, well, that church ruined now. And so I try not to watch my shirts too often.

All right. What about this? You shut it's 10 PM, you just showered, and now you put a shirt on to like sleep in. How long can you wear that shirt into the next day? You were clean when you put it on, all you did was sleep. For whatever reason, sleeping feels dirty to me. I know that sounds weird. What are you doing in your sleep? Brother, tell you later off the pod

when time is not listening. Close your ears, Tim. I'm okay wearing that shirt again to sleep, but I don't want to wear that shirt the next day. But not out. For whatever reason, I don't know. That is weird to me. That's a sleep shirt now, until it's washed.

Those are your pajamas. Do you guys not ever like get warm in your sleep? Or like, I don't know. I think we're excreting something in there. I'm always colder than, uh, me and Jesse share a room and I'm always colder than him and wanting it to be warmer. I don't like sweating my sleep typically. And maybe it's more of a stat or not a status, but like a mental thing of like, that feels lazy to me or like that feels wrong to me. Like that's, that's, that's yesterday's, that, that's a different kind of responsibility

for that shirt. That shirt's not supposed to be going to a coffee shop every once in a while for dadder days. I don't shower in the morning before the kids get up and run around and everything. Um, like I kind of wear like my like hoodie that I had like put on over my pajama shirt and like wear my pajama shirt and my hoodie out and I like like there's like mentally something Emotionally bothersome to me about that. Okay PJ's on you feel that or I can I can get past it Yeah, I go from sleep shirt to like Walking around shirt. Yeah for a little bit half day same here. I can I can go like a whole day I think I do prefer though. I feel it more

I feel you more on like a shirt, but like I'll wear hoodies It's like to sleep a lot. Yeah, and then I'm totally fine wearing that the rest of the straight hoodies No shirt underneath. Ah, typically sure. Nice. Yeah, like I said, I'm with you. I'm like I'm trying to layer up Yeah, and all a hoodie is like less dirty. Yes. Yeah, I agree because there's an in-between layer That's why the pants are okay. Yeah, if I was going Mando in between layer. That's why the pants are okay. If I was going Mando, you gotta change, right? Got it.

Yeah, so, yeah. Judge me if you want guys. Judge me if you want Jake, it's not gonna judge me, but other people will. I love milk with pizza slash spaghetti. Red sauce. Yes dude, judge me if you want. I don't do it that often, but like it's great.

So. It's great, I love it. Milk is so, but like it's great. So it's great. I love it. Milk is so good. Milk is really good. Milk is so good. Pump me up. Just let's talk about milk more.

All right. Hey, judge me if you want guys. But sometimes I eat slash drink something after brushing my teeth at night. I don't really find myself doing that, but definitely not eat dude. Not often. Okay. But every once in a while I'm like, yeah, I'll have a LaCroix. I don't care.

To me it's like quantity over time of day as far as brushing your teeth goes. Like I brushed my teeth. That's fine. I can, I can drink a LaCroix now and it's not gonna make me have to brush my teeth again tonight. I just, I really don't like brushing my teeth. So if I did it, let's respect, let's honor it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, I don't brush them again, is what I'm saying. I know, I think I would feel like I would have to. Yeah. I don't know. I just, I wanna respect what I did in there. This is a newer thing for me. Yeah. And something that this is the first time I've ever publicly talked about it.

Like I've never even told Catherine because I think she would 100% give me a hard time for it. I'm slightly judging you. Yeah. I think. Yeah. Like I think. From record, one time a month maybe.

Not like often. And I'm sure it's happened to me too. Like it's more so I just, yeah, I think that it's just, it would feel kind of gross a little bit. Like especially it would be like, this is the kind of thing that would happened to me too Like it's more so I just yeah I think that it's just it would feel kind of gross a little bit like especially it would be like This is the kind of thing that would happen to me if I'm just super tired maybe I just like like Because I I never ever miss brush like have miss brushing my teeth in the morning, but occasionally

I'm so tired before bed. I'm like I just don't yeah, then I feel like If I had food especially I feel even grosser in the morning. Maybe not quite like at night, but I don't know. Yeah, there's different foods for sure. That's what I'm saying. Like LaCroix doesn't seem as extreme to me as like Puppy Chow. Sure Puppy Chow. Something peanut butter based anything. Yeah. A LaCroix totally fine with that. No judge, but I bet dentists would say no that's bad for you Probably I don't know. I don't know Ben Miller. What do you got? All right. Hey judge me if you want. Let's talk about the Croy for a second I have started putting balsamic vinegar in my LaCroix

Oh, is this your thing you think it brings the flavor out dude more. It's so good If I hear vinegar, I'm judging Great question, not sure but it tastes good and it's like got some sweetness to it First of all, yeah judge me if you want for liking the Croy because I used to be so judgmental of people I just think no one likes that stuff. I think I like it now with vinegar and then I I just think no one likes that stuff. I think I like it now with vinegar and then I like Flavored juice in it. That's great. Yeah, I've been half the croy and then some juice It doesn't I mean it you you taste a little bit of the balsamic vinegar in and of itself But really it just like makes it taste more like a soda in my opinion interesting

So it's like it's not a horribly bitter vinegar. No, no, no, I hear vinegar I'm like I hear like the apple cider vinegar, which makes me throw up. And the whatever typical vinegar, it's also disgusting. Apple cider vinegar might be kind of close to balsamic vinegar taste. So I don't know. No, yeah.

But like the white vinegar, that stuff smells nasty. Yeah, I think both smell nasty. Apple cider vinegar, I have like a reaction to it. Really? Deep within me. It like brings back trauma in your childhood. Hey, judge me if you want, but I talk to myself in public sometimes, and I'm pretty sure no one can hear me.

The other day I had to run to the grocery store for Katherine and get something. And I think I was like Siri search. Sorry. I was like S I R like, Siri search, sorry. I was like, S I R I search this thing for me. And it did the thing where it's like, you'll need to unlock your iPhone first. And I was staring right at it. I was like, yeah, right. Watch this. I said it out loud like that as I'm walking through the store, like kind of like, kind of like smarting smarting off to Siri. Yeah, right. Watch this. Like, like, cause like, kind of like smarting, smarting off the Siri. Yeah.

Right. Watch this. Like, I, cause I knew it was coming. Nice try. Nice try. You little AI bot. Did it work at least? Did you? That's good. At least. Cause I think I was, I don't know what I was looking for. Like how many, this and how many tablespoons in a cup or I don't know what I was looking for. Like how many this and how many tablespoons in a cup? Or I don't know what I was looking at. Yeah, right. Watch this. Out loud. Yeah, I don't think I do.

Like, I know this isn't like technically relatable or not, dude, but like I, I'm not judging you, but I don't think I would ever talk out loud in public. But I do find myself occasionally singing like something. Oh, Mary, did you know? Yeah, because I was I was pumping gas. I was like singing some like Noah Khan song. And then this guy, he's like pumping on the other side. I didn't know there's anyone there.

He's like, hey, you sound like Robin Thicke. I was like, like what? He's like Robin Thicke. I was like, I don't know who that is. But thank you. He's like, yeah, he's just like R&B singer like sweet. Sweet. Listen to him on the way home. Nice, yeah.

That's pretty cool. Yeah. But you've never like talk. You'll get there. I don't think so. You'll get there. OK. Yeah.

I've gotten weirder over time, I think. Yeah, I don't talk to myself, especially not in public. The occasional sorry to myself when doing laundry, but that's about it. I think it's, I don't think I would ever do it if I thought anybody could hear me, but it was like, you know, run to the grocery store at 10 o'clock at night kind of thing.

There were four people in there. No one, no one's here. Me. Yeah. Right. Watch this. Yeah. Right. Watch this. I would think stuff like that, but never say it out loud. Oh yeah. All right. Face ID you're looking at now. Judge me if you want, but I often prefer to drive in silence.

I think we talked about this a little bit recently. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes I just like, like not even because I don't like listening or whatever, but it's just like, I just like thinking. Did that on the way here. Yeah. It's great. I want to do it more.

Yeah. It's nice. Yeah. I do it a lot on a longer trips, silent. 20 minutes a year, 10 minutes a year, oh, quick song album podcast, but like six hours to Iowa, I bet two of them are silent. I really like it. Yeah, yeah. I don't think I'm like, I wanna do it the whole time, raw dog and whatever, but like, I don't mind it for a season, for a time, especially when other people are in the car, funny enough. Like when Catherine and I are together,

like it just feels like conversations easier when there's not music going. Yeah. So. No judge. This one I don't think is very judgmental, but judge me if you want, but I almost always choose to watch shows over again,

rather than watching a new show. This is my dad's quality. Yeah. I have like a, I list, I list them friends, the office, new girl, modern family, parks and rec, Brooklyn, nine, nine, super store. How about your mother? I know those shows like the back of my hand. And you're good with those.

And I just go through seasons of like, man, Brooklyn, nine, nine is hitting right now. Let's just keep watching that one. Yeah. It's hard for me to invest in a new comedy. Yeah. Anything else, give me the newest, the latest. Let me try something new for sure. There's that show, St. Dennis Medical. You've seen the advertisements for that?

Maybe. It looks pretty good, but yeah, I'm also like, I don't know if I want to try out. I watched one episode of it. So I did try it out a little bit. It's like the office for the hospital basically. Oh, cool. All right, and last one.

Judge me if you want. Hopefully you guys won't, because I think you guys might be in the same boat as me, but I don't know how to change a tire. I don't either. All right, let's go through the steps. I don't know either, but. Yeah.

Jack it up. Yeah, jack it up. Find the right spot to jack it up. Jack it up on the side. The fulcrum is the fulcrum right in the middle carburetor also works Does it? Really anything just find a piece of metal and throw it on there. Yep, the hitch the hood whatever Oh, that's what the hitch is for. Okay, Jack it up and

Then you take the big thing that shape like this. Yep. Take off the lug nuttaroos. Okay, and After that, I think your tire can come off It just is it like a is it like a pull off like a like a bottle like I twist off like a bottle opener Or do you need a bottle opener to get it off? It's a spin off Is it you have to get the tire going fast enough, and then eventually it'll just kind of, don't be in the way, it'll shoot off. Really?

But you don't need that tire anymore. It's like pressurized. Let it go. Okay. And then next tire goes on, spin on. Yeah, you do that one right, like the opposite direction of the spin-off. Ready to tidy?

Yeah. Lug them up. Let them lug. Yeah, hunt them up. Good boy. Lug them up. Let them log. Yeah, hunt them up. Good boy. Log them up. And then, unjack yourself and you're good. Okay.

And how do you, do you just press a button to unjack it? Or is it like a, is there a AI command? Like, yeah, right, watch this. Let's see, I'm googling it great steps to change your tire see if we missed anything Oh Step one find a safe location. Oh God about that. I actually skipped a lot of step step two was turn on a hazard lights Okay, okay Step three cheese that we skipped through all these apply

the parking brake okay yeah yeah if you're if you're getting on the carburetor you got to do that first carburetor doesn't drop down until you apply the parking this says loosen the lug nuts while the car is still on the ground a little lug loosening. Oh, yeah. That makes sense. Prime it a bit. Yes. Then position the jack under the designated lifting point.

Parentheses carburetor or hitch or anywhere else. Sure. Sure. Raise the vehicle with Jack. Remove lug nuts completely. Do the spin off technique. Yeah, we got it. Yeah. Boiler plate from there. Yeah. Cool.

Yeah, I've never done it. Never been in a situation where I've like been out a tire and also had a tire available. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, I have and just call people to do it for me. Ray. Yeah. My grandma who just passed away this past year, she always gave me a AAA membership. And I use it probably once a year on a tire. Huh, killing my tires quick, I guess. I went and bought a car probably in like 2015 from the Salvation Army in Denver. I think that's who I bought it from, almost positive.

I flew out there, drove her back. On the way back, I popped a tire. I was like, man, this car sucks. But I didn't have a spare with me. And so I was just in the middle of like Western Kansas trying to get anybody to help me. On the interstate? Yeah.

Somebody stopped. They did? Yep. And what'd they do though, if you didn't have a spare tire? I think they gave me a ride to somewhere, bought a tire, came back. Gotcha. And I don't know.

What kind of car do you think it was, Timcha. I don't know. What kind of car you think it was timing? No 20 I don't know. It was a it was a um, oh Hyundai Sonata clothes Was it oh wait Twitter Camry? I don't know the year but yeah, yeah a little powder blue

Salvation Army took good care of her Yeah, what's the story? You know somebody that had a connection to Salvation Army in Denver. Yeah, uh Jill Johnson K1 girl Okay, didn't really know her that well I don't know why she even I can't remember why she reached out but she's like hey I've volunteered the Salvation Army and they have like rental cars that then they try to sell afterwards Okay, I just flew all the way here and just bought it, like most things didn't put much thought into it. I was like, yeah, whatever.

It was a good car for me. I have a car now. It was great. Traded it in for the car I have now. Straight up. So you tell me. Went high, yeah, you tell me. Bought low, sold high.

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Yeah. Go ahead. Oh, I had a little game. Oh, sure. It's gonna take just a second. Okay, I don't know. I think it'd be fun. Everyone have their mobile phones on them?

I do. I have a smartphone. All right, the game is try to guess with only knowing the first letter of the answer, try to guess the other persons in the rooms very last open app that's on their phone. Does that make sense? Are you guys, do you guys kill apps?

Like do you guys? Never. Okay, so like- Should I go to the very end or most recent? Very end, like the one that you haven't opened the longest. Oh, fun. Mine's not very funny, because I think I, that doesn't matter.

All right. All right, I don't know, hold on, let me see what mine is. I've got mine. I tell you guys the first letter Tell me the first letter L L okay, L It's gonna be something, you know like

Is there an app called Lumosity? Do you? Okay. No idea if you've ever used this. This would make much sense. It's the only app I can think of. Life360. That's my guess. Oh, okay.

Mike, I looked up Lumosity brain training challenge and improve your mind. I think one time you got a push notification. You actually clicked Lumosity back in the day and it's just been open ever since. It's my guess. Correct answer is lift. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. All right.

This time, if you don't get it right on the first try, give them a clue. So I think I could figure that out eventually. That's okay. What a fun game. Mine's also mine's mine's kind of boring. But I'm saying not that yours was I'm saying breakfast. Brad said his one. Whatever. Gee. Gee. Yeah. boring, but I'm saying not that yours was, I'm saying breakfast brats at his one, whatever.

Gee. Yeah. What's that one app just like the game app? Okay. That's games. Is it called games? No, it wasn't. I mean, it's gotta be something like Google Maps or Gmail or Google Home. What's like, yeah, like what's like one of the more obscure ones, Google, not Google Sheets even, Google. Gmail, light. Google inbox.

Gmail dark. What about Google, like the presentation one, what's that one called? Google Slides. Google Slides. Just slides though, no G. Oh, it is. Afraid.

Afraid so. Afraid so. Afraid not. Gee. The Google app, Google Chrome. Google Photos. Google Photos. How often is he accessing those bad boys? Yeah, Google Photos is my guess. Okay, I'm gonna go. Maybe we're not Google Photos. How often is he accessing those bad boys? Yeah, Google Photos is my guess. Okay.

I'm gonna go Google at all. Google Calendar. Okay. The first thing you ever said, Jake, was right. Google Maps. Yeah. Really? Yeah.

Is that because you don't use them? You collapse. Is what? Because I don't what? Do you close your apps a lot or do you, like, do you not use Google Maps? Because Google Maps is so good. I think of today I have one two, three, four five. I have like 10 open. Oh not many. So

That would have been like from Got all of them. Here's a relatable or not dude. Do like I Oh, wow, what other what other ones are down there jake with lift? strava crossword wallet What other what other ones are down there, Jake, with Lyft? Strava, Crossword, Wallet Shazam. That's so embarrassing. Shazam that that game where you threw the water up piece of paper to the trash can. Oh, yeah.

Paper toss. Skype. Let's see. Microsoft Words is on here. That was clicked on accident words with friends. Calendar that was clicked on accidentally, probably. Oh, playground updated to like I was 18.1 or whatever. And then this playground app was just on my phone one day.

It would say it's a Google's like image creation or not Google. Apple's OK. And so who knows when this is? But I was like, let's put this thing to the test Oh, it just went away once I clicked on the app But I said Whatever doesn't matter. So got a bunch of random ones. All right, your turn. All right. Mine is a C I I wish I would have done this game before I Canceled out one time because I never used to cancel and now I do so

Go my phone. Let's see what's there's at the sea I canceled out one time, because I never used to cancel and now I do. Go my phone, let's see what's there to see. I have some guesses. The Chick-fil-A app. Okay. Yeah, I was thinking either just Chrome, if you're like a phone Chrome guy. Yeah, he's a phone Chrome guy. Or, Chipotle.

I don't know. Chrome. Clock, camera. Oh, clock is good. If I hadn't said Chrome already, I would guess clock. Those are my three guesses. Clock is the answer. Yeah. Okay. I wish it were something better. I even came up with the game. I should have gotten into some random apps recently. What do you got towards the end? Google Photos is like my third to last one. Yeah, but I only have, I still have quite a few on here.

ESPN Fantasy shows how deep into that I am. Same with Sleeper, Torchies Tacos down there. Didn't know they had an app. Ordered some Torchies for Catherine the other night. Calculator, I feel like I use calculator and clock, but I never go to the app to use them. Yeah, I just swipe down. Yeah.

Costco, didn't even, you know. Oh, after you talked about getting wireless garage door openers, I downloaded the MyQ app. MyQ. I'm having a hard time figuring it out though. Yeah, I had to call them. Did you? Yeah. What was the answer?

They like walked me through this resetting Operation and okay I tried to use like their AI bot online and it was not working out I haven't met an AI bot that helped me out really yeah, a few of them. I don't mind too much Triple A's was good. All right P so Come on. Hey, thanks for that guys. Yeah, thanks for that. Thanks for entertaining that fun game. That was a fun game.

That was a fun idea. Yeah, it's a fun conversation starter. Hey, what's the last app on your phone? At the very end. You might learn that you're the kind of person that doesn't have very many apps open. Google Maps. Do you guys use Google Maps a lot when you're going somewhere you already know where to how to get to?

Daily. Jake uses maps all the time I there's traffic. I don't ever train. Yeah, I don't ever not I don't think yeah I love to see exactly when I'm gonna get somewhere and Also, just like yeah exactly if there's a some kind of obstruction now, it'll tell me yep Yeah, I know I sometimes I'll like look it up on Google Maps, and I see where it is I'm like I know how to get there. Yeah, I also I take I have I get so much joy For some reason out of like confirming that a stalled vehicle is still there.

I love to happen still there. Like a civil servant. Yeah. It is kind of fun. Do my part. It's fun. Yeah. Yeah. Or if they're not there, because sometimes they aren't. No longer there.

Yeah. I wouldn't do it like going from here to McClain's or anything insane like that, but yeah. Five minutes or more? Yeah. Probably will. Fun. But you're a silent Google Maps guy, like your phone never talks to you. No, I do not like the audio help.

Nor I. At some point, I do want to try, don't they have some apps where you can get like a celebrity to tell you what your ways? I kind of want to try that. Nate Bargatze is on there now. Fun. I don't know. Maybe I will.

Hey. Funny to hear him say some different things. Yeah. How do they do that? I guess that's all AI stuff. He's obviously not reading off every single name of anything. I'm guessing they have you come in

and say just a bunch of different sentences. They know the right types of sounds and words to teach this thing how to sound like you or something. Yeah. Yeah, it's so interesting. All right, Win of the Week, Jake? Win of the Week, this comes from about a week or so ago, but back in October, you guys remember all the stories

when we took time into Vegas to go play in the pickleball tournament. Well, the time came to finally edit that video. And it was just one of those that I just spent a ton of time on. Because the first time I edited a video like this, like a tournament vlog, we only played like three games to 15.

It went by so fast. And it was so, it was much easier at it. This was like two and a half hours of footage. Try to figure out how in the world to like consolidate this to like, you know, 10 minutes. And so took forever, put a lot of work into it. Put a lot of work into like, even like lot of work into like even like texting my friends who know YouTube, like what are your suggestions

for title thumbnail? Like, I really want to nail this video. Finally posted it a couple of days after Christmas. I was like, I think that's fine. And anyway, came out of the gate, best performing video in a long time. Good. Oh, it was a sweet relief.

Because it was a little bit like, most of these videos, I don't care, move on to the next one. I was like, if this one doesn't perform well, I'm gonna have a tough time accepting it. I'm gonna need to like rethink something. You're gonna question like your instincts on editing or whatever. Yeah, and a lot of stuff.

Thankfully, it all paid off. It was a good video, good title, good thumbnail. It was one out of 10, still performing well. I watched it. Thank you. Timon sleeping in the... Yeah, through Timon in there. Timing, sleeping in the- Yeah, through timing in there. That one guy cheating on the serve thing.

It was crazy watching that back because I had forgotten about that. I was like, oh yeah, we did, we like called him out in the moment and it like didn't go anywhere, it's just there where it gets stars. Yinky consciously was doing it? I was like, I don't know,

I was annoyed at the mom for stepping in and like arguing for her son. Like, you stay out of this. Also coming, like just as far as pickleball goes, it's very uncommon for there to be a discrepancy on who, on like, if you have a third server or not. I think most of the time everyone's kind of aware of like, so if someone ever confronts you about it,

then it's probably like, oh yeah, like I forgot or whatever. It's a pretty quick like, oh, you're right, my bad. Unless it's like some like really long, like they've scored six points in a row and it's like, I don't remember who was serving first because you guys have been serving for so long. But it's like, no, I think everyone knows. It's kind of a rhythm here.

So it's kind of bummer in a tournament when both members of the other team are like, actually think You're wrong for them to even go above. They're like no You're wrong. Yeah, we had it the whole time and then footage proves them other otherwise So it's too bad didn't matter but makes the video better. There's a good video. You got it. You need a villain You said yeah, you gotta have a good villain. That's good my win of the week is

Just as overarching. I've gotten a new habit of, um, like in my mornings specifically, I've, I've been like determined, like I'm going to wake up before my kids every morning now. Oh good. Like some mornings I would wake up at this time. Other mornings I would just be like, I don't know. I'll just wake up when I wake up. Um, so I set my alarm for 6 AM waking up every morning, getting the word, taking a shower. And then I make myself mainstream roasters coffee. While it's brewing, I go over to the fireplace, start a fire, and then go back, get my coffee, sit down, read a little bit more of my Bible.

Sometimes, not always, I'll be honest read a little bit more of my Bible. Sometimes, not always, I'll be honest, but sometimes read more of my Bible. Other times, read my book, roaring fire, cup of warm coffee, silence in the house. And it is awesome. Even when I'm like tired and it's hard to get up, it's always just so great. And then the kids wake up and they run out and they're excited to see me. Sometimes I'll even be like, I'm still reading my books. You can sit next to me, but I'm gonna read.

And it's just, oh, I forgot to tell you this. So that's time to go love is I also take my iPad, which is my alarm clock right now into the kitchen where we have a speaker set up. I plug in the iPad and I've been playing instrumental Christmas piano music. And it's just like a nice little like, just a little away in a manger in the background

with the fire crackling, the hot coffee. I mean, it's just a vibe. That's great. And I've really enjoyed it. So I don't know how long it's gonna last, but right now it's fun. It's just cozy time. It's a great vibe.

You don't get that in San Diego. You don't get that in San Diego. That's what we always say. You don't get that in Phoenix. So anyway, fun times. That's my win of the week. Cool. I'm going to say just a random thing I thought of the Friday short form video that I was like working on. Oh yeah. I just like super happy with the edit. Oh yeah. Like I guess it'll be out by now. Or is it coming out this week? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the To Catch a Predator Pickleball version. And I just thought it was like, it turned out funny. Like mostly thanks to like their writing and stuff.

And I was like, I was happy how it turned out. Oh yeah, I was fired up. Tyman showed me like one time on my phone, or he's like, all right, does this look good? I was like, yeah, don't change anything. It's great. I don't even need to see it again. What is it? Yeah, like you familiar with To Catch, yeah, don't change anything. It's great. I don't even need to see it again. What is it?

Yeah, like you familiar with To Catch a Predator? Chris Hansen. A little bit. Why don't you have a seat? Yeah, he like comes out of nowhere kind of and like. Yeah, yeah. So it's always like, it's a sting operation to get perv balls who are trying to like hang out with younger boys and girls.

And so essentially the idea would be someone who is trying to play in a tournament with people below their skill level, like sandbagging. And so essentially the idea would be someone who is trying to play in a tournament with people below their skill level, like sandbagging. And so I even did the whole thing like we set up a decoy account and I could have hit the NUNOs way harder, but I didn't want to be that type of, you know, You won't be that stereotypical pickleball comedy channel, right? You're not another number. Yeah. I didn't want to just add to the list.

Speaking of that, funny, well, hold on, pin it in. But yeah, it was just like, I forgot, we set up a decoy account to pretend to be Isaac's partner. So Isaac was the Sandbagger? Sandbagger, Pickleperv, we called him. That's great. There was one joke in there like, our decoy said, how many rounds do you think will last?

Isaac said, I bet we'll go all day. I'll bring over grip. It's like weird pickleball jokes. Yeah. But yeah, we'll post it tomorrow. Hopefully people like that. That's funny. And hopefully it sends a message,

because what I was gonna say, the dink. I think we're all familiar with that website and newsletter. Big dink guy. That's my only website and newsletter I ever subscribed to for Pickleball. Yeah, you're the rewards. No, I'm a dink guy. I used to be Kitchen, and then they started doing paywalls.

I'm like, I don't wanna do paywalls. Then they came back from paywalls, and now there's just so many ads. New ownership. Sure, sure. Nice try, Kitchen. Okay. Nice try kitchen. I thought we had a good thing with the dink. They often repost our videos. We met the guy who found it.

We've made videos with him, hung out with him. And anyway, this year is like top Instagram content creator. There's 11 people on there, not even nominated. 11? 11 is just a random number. Yeah, it's like. I've got my finger. It's like, I think there's 11 total content creators.

Let's figure out, we can just do all of them. Let's just do all of them. I think we're misses, yeah. Yeah, so we weren't in like top YouTube channel nomination or top Instagram channel. And I was like, that's kind of shocking to not even make the top 11 for Instagram. And you've been on that list before?

Because last year we had to have finished, we didn't win, but I'm guessing we had to have finished second. I can't imagine not doing anything. So it's just funny. So I replied to their story when they announced it and I was just like, come on, man, there's no way we're not in the top 11. So we're dinkers.

I thought. Wait. This is the dink who came out with it. I thought we were cool. We're not the top 11 now. Oh, so we're kitchen people now. I don't like them either. They're weirdos.

You're just a bad boy getting... Dude, if you would agree though, this is weird, dude. Anyway, yeah, I mean, there's people on this list too. I'm like, they don't even make pickleball content like on a regular basis. Yeah, they must have forgotten. Yeah, I don't know.

But yeah, Scott was upset. I was like, just use it as motivation, whatever you need. Scotty. Be motivated by it. How, yeah, how big of a deal is it? Two out of 10. No, I'm sorry. Like how big of a deal is the dink? Like as far as

not, not how big of a deal is in your life, but like, like in the pickleball community, do a lot of people actually take like, I think people are paying a ton of attention to it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Not, not a, not a huge deal. It's two out of 10 everywhere. Yeah. Not just like, all right. Not the, not the end of the world. That's funny. Friday Paddle's won best value paddle of the year with this other podcast. Pickleball Studios podcast, I saw it. I unbrick about once a day these days. And yeah, I see everyone's.

See some stuff. Friday Pickleball's at the top of my algorithm. So I see. Good. It's day eight of giveaways and we're doing this thing with Caitlin Clark. So, see you all. Cool. Comment of the week. Ooh, everyone's favorite. Oh my goodness.

Where is it? Where'd you go? Dang it. I'll give a shout out for my comment of the week. And yeah, this will be my comment. Derek Hostetler. Look at that shimmer, he says on the Facebook group. He posts this picture of this walnut table he built. Brad Ellis, after doing my first walnut table, I now understand why it's your favorite. Thanks for the inspiration to make this dream a reality. He made a beautiful table.

It looks amazing and awesome. And I'm very impressed by it. So just overall, it's a round table, which there's complications making it round, blah, blah, blah, all the different things. So, uh, check it out. Derek, I'm not saying hire Derek over me, but maybe, maybe price out both of us and see, see who you like better.

Would love to make a table for you as well, but, um, no, it looks, it looks so good. So shout out to him, man. My comment of the week, uh, comes from Susan, uh, his last episode. She said, I'm Susan and my husband is rich. My comment of the week comes from Susan's last episode. She said, I'm Susan and my husband is Rich. So glad to know we sent such a generous card to our old friend, Steve and Engy. So that's awesome.

Thank you, Susan. So good, Engy. Time you got any? It's okay if you don't. I was just gonna say, I don't have a specific, but shout out to anyone who listened to your needs, my needs and liked it. Yeah.

And stationary jam to it. I need to listen to to it. You should hand up. It's great. It's funny. People that are our age have sent me quite a few responses about relying K song. People that are time and age are like all about Noah, you know, like, yeah. Yeah. Nick Hagerman, shout Nick. He's like, dude, that was like the first song I ever listen to that like made me feel something in my like Yeah, it's funny. So that's great. Yeah. All right That's it. Right. That's it. I do want to keep recording but for patreon Okay, people want to hop on the patreon. It's be a fun game that I made up for Rachel on a road trip. Okay, and

I don't want to spoil it, but we can't do it on the main podcast. Wow. I'm very intrigued. Why? Patreon.com slash Ghostrunners. Yeah. That'll do it. That'll get you there. That does. We really do appreciate people that are supporting us on there. Admittedly, we're not throwing immacular value at you on Patreon, but it does help help us. We pay time and with that money, basically, it's helpful.

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