Ghostrunners - 435 - Shirtless in an Arcade

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

Brad went to Branson with his family, Timon has his hood up, we do a shmores of champagne problems, and somebody has ants in their pants. Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's the shortest intro you think we've heard on the podcast? I don't know! Uh-uh-oh, ooh I-ooh I think this tight-beatin' means that it's goin' 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 Cause it's the Ghost of the SpotCat Ghost of the SpotCat

Every Monday morning we're taking grand-parents from the SpotCat Ghost of the SpotCat All right, we are back on a Wednesday with a comfortable neck and a guy who's hacking into a police system database. I'm into the main. I'm in. Enhance. Enhance. We're in. We're in.

Yeah, now I know. You're going to want to take a look at this. He's right in front of me, isn't he? He's the bad guy. The Friday Fever comes out this Friday. Okay. First paddle we've launched in over a year. A lot of work and stuff has gone into it.

Yadda, yadda. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I had this idea about a week or so ago. I was like, Hey, you know how like actors or musicians, whatever, they will do like a PR run. Like if they've got a new album coming out or a new movie coming out, they will go on, it's a night show, good morning America,

Joe Rogan, whatever. Jimmy Fallon, you're going? I was like, why don't I do this? But for pickleball. Why don't I go on Joe Rogan? Just in the stands with Friday Fever paddles. It's grassroots, it's grassroots. It's cool. Yeah. But I was like, there are like a handful of like pickleball podcast and they have,

I mean, they have dozens of people listening, tens of why not? I was like, I would be willing to do it. I was like, I was like, what do you guys think about this? They're like, I go bounce around all these people podcasts just this week and like blitzkrieg like the Friday fever is out bounce around yeah, whoa gotta like a David Blaine situation Now my arms in it Basically, alright, so let me backtrack tell tell you guys a story. My uncle, Brad's coach. Mike out.

Was a senior level computer programmer for Hallmark for 30 years. And about two years ago, he retired and enjoyed it for a little bit and then he got bored. And so about a year ago, he wanted to do something. And so he's like, I don't care what it is, I'll do anything. He applied to be, just to work at O'Reilly's Auto Parts. He's like, you know what, I'll do something. And so he's like, I don't care what it is, I'll do anything. He applied to be, just to work at O'Reilly's Auto Parts. He's like, you know what, I'll do it.

I just need something. He applied there and didn't hear back for a while. So he was like, that's weird. And so he like sent his application again. Never got an email back, never got a call back. Months went by, Uncle John could not get a call back from O'Reilly's Auto Parts. We love giving him a hard time about this.

It's like, help her. She talks about that. Like interview to Target. They didn't even give me an interview. Exactly. I am now having my O'Reilly's Auto Parts moment because none of these people on podcasts will have me on their show.

They have like six reviews and they're saying no to me. We're good, buddy. It's not really what we do. It's just so funny. It makes me feel weird. And then also I get this feeling of like, they don't want me on there. And then I feel too good.

You're like, well, I do need them. I do need them to bring me back to earth. But yeah, it's just funny. It's just like, hey, I'd love to come on. I've been on, and I'm not even saying this, but I think if they did a little research, they would find like, I've done some stuff, we could talk about that, I don't know, fill in the blank.

Yeah. Eh, it's not really a good time for me. Did you like expose the fact that you were like, I would like to promote my paddle? I actually don't know, Matt has been the one handling it. I had the idea and he's been the one talking to them anyway, cause he's talking to them about like, here's how the paddle is constructed.

Here's what I want you to say. And so he was like, yeah, I'll reach out to all of them. So maybe it's Matt. Maybe, maybe, maybe I don't know what's being said. If it was coming straight from you, maybe they'd be like, oh my gosh, that's real. He really does know. Blue check mark.

Yeah, right. But yeah, it's just kind of in this ongoing joke. I just can't book a pickleball podcast. That's great. Yeah, what else could you like instead of pickleball? Like, is there another type of podcast you can get on that would, you know, like maybe like an AARP, like something pickable adjacent. Yeah. Grandparent podcasts. Yeah. I should look into that. Honestly. Yeah. I didn't think about that. You might have

to send them like snail mail though. You couldn't be like, check your DMS. They'd be like, ah, I don't remember that password. Let me see if it's written down in the junk drawer. I'll talk to Chatty about that. Chatty, what's my password? Oh man. Anyway, that's it. Kind of funny.

All good. You'll get there. Yeah, I'll get one. Yeah. What about the people you interviewed with a while back? Like the pickleball guys. Oh, sorry. Are they responding?

Yeah, they said no. Interesting. I know. Wow. Cause you responding? Yeah, they said no. Interesting. I know. Wow. Because you did great with them the first time. It's got to be the only podcast in the world with a hundred ratings that like won't have me on. That's wild.

I know that sounds kind of weird to say, but I just think like it is kind of just funny. Well, yeah. I mean, well, at least there's not, it's because there's not technology these days that you can just like. You can't do it. Just conference in virtually like you'd have to like fly there and like, and even if I could, I don't have the techno. I don't have the microphone. No, it would just sound bad.

Yeah. It'd be all this old thing. Yeah. And you don't have wifi here. Nope. Not high speed. Nope. You're all DSL.

DSL. Road runner. Yes. Road runner. Road runner was wild. There's yeah, there's so many things I think about like, like I had the thought the other day I was listening where I was at the Royals game and they were playing Smash Mouse All-Star. And I thought I have memories of this song, uh, going to swimming lessons as a kid listening to the song in the car.

I was like, but I bet certain age people like just think of that song as the song and Shrek like like it's like there's like a cutoff of like and there's I'm sure there's so many things like that for us too of Like, you know, you guys think that is what that song is. Oh, that song's from this right from that Like you think we hear Roadrunner and we think of that. It's all weird internet. Yeah Timings I have never like Roadrunner is the guy in the cartoon. Yeah Just two nights ago Rachel I were driving around I put the song on I was like, hey, I've never, like Roadrunner's the guy. Louis Tune? Yeah. Just two nights ago, Rachel and I were driving around and I put the song on, I was like, hey, I want to put this song,

it's like this Australian pop artist that I've enjoyed following the last few years. Her name's Tones and I is her name. Okay. Really like her, has some good music, but she released it, she did a cover to Hallelujah. And it's just, it's amazing. I love the way it sounds.

And so I put that on and Rachel said, what does this song remind you of? I was like, I don't know, just Hallelujah. And it's just, it's amazing. I love the way it sounds. And so I put that on and Rachel said, what does this song remind you of? I was like, I don't know. Just it's Hallelujah. I don't know, it doesn't remind me of anything. She goes, it reminds me of Shrek. It's like, wow, it's so funny. That was the first time I heard it too, to be there.

Yeah. That was a, that's a beautiful, but that's not like the original versions of one on Shrek. It's like, oh, I assume, yeah, they've been singing this for thousands of years. You know, this song's just been around forever. Yeah, they're talking about David, you know? Yeah, it's first person this for thousands of years. You know, this song's just been around forever. Yeah Yeah, it's first-person narrative. Yeah man, that's yeah, there's stuff like that where it's like like let's think of other things that are I'm trying like it'd be like

Derek Jeter. Oh, yeah the guy from the the milk commercials. Oh the no, no the Marlins owner. Yeah Yeah, no the Yankees shortstop. Yeah. No, no. He was in the got milk poster ads. Even like this is a little bit more like sports center, but like Mark Cuban. Like a lot of people are just like, oh, the shark tank guy. And it's like, no, we were who we were before that. That's a good point. I don't know. So, yeah, there's there's other things like that that I can't think of off the top of my head.

I should have had more. Ah, this is an improvised podcast, guys, If it wasn't obvious from the last six years. Like I'm trying to think of like toys that we liked or like, I don't know. Ah, ah, I wish I knew. Like, wish I had something. We think of 9-11 as a tragedy. Timon's like, oh yeah, I've never had to call them.

Yes. That would be a difference. That's probably it. He has no idea what he even is. Plus he didn't take history. Yeah. That was one of my favorite pranks as a kid. It is a bad prank, but it was like at church, you know, there was like those like night, like

advanced phones where you were always be like, you have to press nine to get out of the building. Get out and then one one or we say 11 and then 11 to like, you know, whatever, get out of the, get out of like nine to get out of the church. And then 11, if you're wanting to do like dial out. Yeah. And people would call 911. Oh man. It was awesome. That's a funny prank. It was, it was like, okay. Um, yeah. Text 911. This is my new PSA. I've been telling everyone just, you never know when it might come in handy. You could text 911. I did not just, I'm trying to tell everybody. And what's the number? I don't know. Okay. Look it up for your area.

Okay, yeah. 90 get out. That is kind of bothersome. Like you can call the police or you can call 911. And it's like, why wouldn't I just call 911 every time? No one knows the number for the local police. No, not at all. There's like a lot of Karen's,

like they know stuff like that. I'm gonna call the county. Did you ever have like all those like numbers on the side of your refrigerator as a kid? I don't know if I had it for that. Like emergency numbers? Yeah, or any kind of numbers even. Like I don't think we did.

Like for the operator. Classic, my mom, you know, like she's just very, she like made like a document of like Aunt Cindy's number, you know, and then we'd always like in pencil do like other numbers that we use a lot. Like, well, we call Pizza Hut once a month, you know? Pizza Hut, you know, all these different things. Sounds kind of familiar. If not, I think maybe my grandparents had like handwritten phone numbers on there.

Right. We might've had something like that. Like at least my parents' numbers just like for, if like Anna's babysitting and we need like, cause we had a home phone until I was like 14, I feel like. Yeah. Yeah. I like the hood timing. I can put over the headphones. Thank you. Thank you. Hood phones. I feel like. Yeah. I like the hood, Timon. You can put over the headphones. Thank you, thank you.

Hood and phones. The hood phones. How do you guys navigate Timon? Well, you're out of the house now. I shouldn't ask. That is crazy. You're like in college now. Yeah, you're in.

That's why he's got the hood up. He's on his rumspringer right now. Sorry, I got studying to get back to. Yeah. I'll just go back from the mess hall, from the cab. Yeah, man, the cab, dude. I just want to play some ultimate the quad, bro. I already gave time in his college experience.

And it's when he had Sprite and a waffle at SPU. College is wild, man. So much sugar. No one telling you when to stop. Drink the whole thing. Well, how did your younger siblings, they have some sort of way to contact your parents when your parents are gone? That's a good question.

I think we have the family phone is like, just like an iPhone that, you know, it's meant to be, I feel like I bet families relate to this hearing this. It's meant to be like, if a kid needs to be like, separated from a parent for a while, like when they're out and about, like they can have this phone or that the kids are home alone, but it's just Jesse's phone. Oh, like he just kind of has claimed it as his own. Wow. So that is like enough to where like my mom will accidentally say Jesse your phone. And he's like, yeah, yeah, it's my phone. Okay. Yeah. But it's supposed

to be the quote unquote family. Okay. Cause that's what I'm like. I obviously like with like every once in a while we'll go over here at night after we go to bed and we're like, you know, if you need to contact us, here's how you do it on the iPad, you know, like, cause the iPad's connected to my stuff. So she could call Catherine or whatever. Yeah. But I'm trying to figure out like a better solution for that kind of stuff without just straight up giving my kid a phone at 10 years old or whatever. So anyway, try to figure it out. You guys can try to just hang on for as long as possible. Dude, after reading the anxious generation, the book, I'm like, yeah, they're never gonna phone.

Yeah. I'm burning my phone. Yeah. I'm home phoning it. No, yeah. Yeah, I think so. The interesting thing with that is like, it seems like if you can get other people

in their social group, like other parents also on board, that's the answer. Cause if, as much as I don't want my kids to be exposed to things too early in life, I also don't want them to be like the social pariahs of like completely outcast. Like ever, honestly, like you don't, you definitely don't want that, you know, I don't know. You just feel like I got it.

I don't, you feel terrible if your kid's like the dork. You know? What movie is that? Maybe it's big daddy was like, ah, he's the smelly kid. You don't want to be the smelly kid. You want him to be the, you know, the kid who doesn't get invited to birthday parties and stuff. You know, sad. So it's like protect the innocence, but also like, oh man, I'd feel terrible if every other person, if she's like every other person has a phone except for me. That is where it gets tough. That's a good call. Just like get your friends to like, like in on this. That's great. Honestly. So I'm like,

I'm trying to get military Bob on board, you know, all these different people who have kids around my kids age. You get military Bob on board. The rest follow. I think so they have to, it's like literally you have to be a single fire behind military Bob. He outranks you. Yeah, exactly. So, you know, Tate, my buddy Tate, I think, you know, he's on board for stuff like that. And so if it's like, okay, be friends with those girls

and also we'll be friends as dads. Yeah. So. How's Branson? So fun. I love Branson. I don't know if I love anywhere more than Branson. All right. No, I'm just kidding. But it was, it is truly like, as far as Kansas City

vacation destinations go, it is perfect. It's like, I mean, unless you're flying somewhere, which it's expensive and hard for us as a family of six to do that. It's like, no, this is like three and a half hours, which to us as a Texas traveling family, three and a half hours is nothing. That's like a, that's like a movie and a show. And we're there. And I mean, yeah, there's Omaha, there's Des Moines, there's sure, you know, Wichita, Wichita, but it's like Jeff City, but Branson is made for a tourist destination. And so, yeah, we get there the first night, first day, and we go out to barbecue at this place that Catherine and I would always go, Dana's.

Yeah, they call it Kim's now. It's changed, unfortunately. From just from one woman's name to another. That's kind of funny. It feels like it, yeah, yeah. I think there's still a Dana's, like the original one in Branson, but we went to the one outside of Branson.

Dana's your mom, but Kim's your stepmom. I gotta get used to this now. Kim's, they use like chicken that did not look like it was made there. It was like, yeah, we heated up this chicken. Anyway, still really fun though. And then we went straight from there. Well, dropped off Henry at the condo that we stayed in.

What's a condo mean to you? Dude, who knows? Something Michael Scott owns. It's like basically an apartment and a town home and a hotel. Yeah, like it was labeled as Villa, but then we described to people and they're like, I think that's just a condo.

And I was like, I don't know what that is. Oh, right on. Yeah, sure. So it was like a room with like a living room and a little kitchen area and then one bedroom. You share a parking lot with 20 other people. Yeah, yeah. It was a condo style. Anyway, a parking lot with 20 other people. Yeah. Yeah. Was that condo style?

Um, anyway, dropped off Henry with the complete stranger. Uh, shout out to Cody Terrell for being like, here's, I got a guy. Here's a baby. Yeah. Babysitter's number of this girl. We're like, Hey, nice to meet you. This is Henry. We'll be back in three hours.

Wow. Hope you're nice. What was your name? Savannah. Oh, that's not. Yeah. I trust her. Yeah.

She's nice. Nice gal. She's going to teach kindergarten next year, I think. So she's doing just fine. We'll see. We'll see after this episode. Went from there to Sight and Sound to see David. Good. Dude, I don't. Why aren't people talking about Sight and Sound like everyone? Like it's Broadway. It is better than Broadway. And maybe that's just the 34 year old dad of four talking, but like, probably unbelievably good dude. It is good. I've been to one show, but it was amazing. Okay. And you went to Esther.

Yeah. Esther was amazing. And then you see David and it's like, Esther, David was like next level. We went backstage afterwards because Mariah Garrett got out, you know, wonderful ghosty hooked us up with the whole experience and they have this like the screen and she said she thinks it's 2000 LED TV screens connected to each other. Like it's this massive, massive in David, like he used to like. He was the LED king. Yeah.

He's the LED. Yeah. He was, he was like the rent a center. Like in the meantime, he was shepherding and rent a centering. No, but it's like, it was, it was such a good performance. I don't know, Timon, like you've, have you been? I've seen Moses. Okay.

I remember it being really good. Ooh, Moses would be fun. Like I was like, and also David, you know, his, the character, I feel like Tymon could have been David. Like, cause it's like this kind of young boy that kind of turned into a man. So he's got like, he doesn't have like this like super deep voice.

It's more of like a Tymon's voice. Like it's just like, like the songs are perfect for you, dude. I mean, Yeah, yeah, it's me. It's like, it's really me. Just like me. Yeah. Oh, I totally get it.

Yeah, no problem. Yeah. No, it was, it was awesome. Uh, Bo and Rosie and Hattie all did pretty well with it. Like, um, there's a part with Goliath and at first it's like, how are they going to do Goliath? And you see this shadow of a, you know, giant, you know, with like, it just looked like something that's like backlit, like shadow kind of thing. I was like, okay, that's how they're going to do Goliath. There's going to like make it like something that's like backlit like shadow kind of thing. I was like, okay That's how they're gonna do glide. There's gonna like make it like that and all of a sudden spooky a 22 foot like large machine Goliath comes on screen. I mean are on the stage Unbelievable like I looked at Bo Rosie like they're gonna be terrified. Yeah, I was really scared. Bo was into it Rosie seemed like she was just kind of just along for the ride

and Rosie seemed like she was just kind of just along for the ride. And it was, but it was just an amazing, truly unbelievable. Like if anybody has the opportunity to go to sight and sound, I don't know. It's like, well, maybe it's just cause it's Christian. So the masses aren't talking about as much as like, this is more well done than when I saw Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. Cool. It's like unbelievable. So yeah, a few experiences there. Bo, classic

like dad, rite of passage probably, but like Bo got stared at hard from the people in front of them for kicking their chair too hard and too many times. Like it was like, at intermission I was like, I am so sorry. This woman seemed upset. And then at intermission she was fine. But like, I think Bo was just kicking it, kicking it, kicking it. Finally, she just looked back like, so that was kind of embarrassing for me, but they were pretty restless near the second part, but we got the roasted nuts, dude, those candied nuts. Oh yeah. The smell fills the air. Unbelievable. Those things, I could have a gallon of them every day. Um, and a really sweet part, uh, in David was, so there's a song we've been listening to the soundtrack. I've been listening

to it by myself. That's how much I like it. It's not like, I'm just a good dad listening to the soundtrack. Um, but there's a song called let everything that has breath and they have like this, uh, it doesn't matter. They say, they sing hallelujah. And while they're singing it, Rosie sitting on my lap in like, it's like, let everything that has breath praise the Lord. And she just starts putting up her hand almost like a heart. Like, you know how they do that? It was like, she was like worshiping, but I was like, I've never seen it was like, she was like, I don't know. It was just like amazing moment of like, she was like feeling it. She was like, let everything, I don't know, like putting up her hands, like singing hallelujah with them. And I think it was because

at Easter we sang the song Christ the Lord has risen today. Ah, late, you know? And so I think she knew this word, hallelujah or whatever. Like, but it was like this sweet moment of like, do you, are you getting this? Are you worshiping right now to the song? That's cool. Little did she know she's like reaching for a mixed nut. She's like, please, I need more, more almonds. Yeah. Uh, uh, yeah, it was just so sweet. So that was Friday and then Saturday we went to our city. Once again, just what a vibe, so much fun. Once again, got hooked up from the ghosties. Shout out to Natalie Sawyer, the people that hooked us up with the event last year. Catherine, classic homeschool mom, just spoiled.

Every time she went to Six Flags growing up, I think she went on like a Wednesday morning. And so she gets there on Saturday morning and she's like, what are all these people doing? Honestly, she was like, Oh my gosh, I didn't register it was Saturday. There's going to be so many people here. I was like, yeah, that's fun. And it was pretty busy, but like it was a blast. It was hectic and crazy.

And we had so many different things on this. We had our double stroller trying to maneuver everything. You ride in like the kids ride section, like the little caterpillar and stuff like that. Yeah, we rode the caterpillar butterfly. Yep. We didn't really, that's the thing. Like we didn't even scratch the surface

of like how awesome Solar Dollar really is. Like we could have, like I think Hattie probably would have ridden some of the big kid rides. Thunder Rage maybe. I think she would have done Thunder Ration. But yeah, like just didn't even like have time to even offer that up to her. Like in my head, I was like, I don't know if we're going to be here for two hours or, you know, very open-handed

like the whole weekend. Like, let's just have no expectations. Just see what happens here. And we were there from like, I think it opened at 10. We got there around 10 and then left at like five 30. Like we were there all day. And so the kids did great. Hattie and Bo's favorite ride was the flooded mine. Oh, yeah, that's great. I'm sure Bo freaked out. Oh, yeah. They had a blast with that.

At first, they were too scared. They were like, I don't want to go in there. I mean, how flooded is it? It's really dark in there. I was like, trust me. Trust me. It's going to be awesome. Catherine ran into an influencer that she really, not really

likes, that she follows, Madison Vining. And she freaked really likes that. She follows Madison Vining and she freaked out. She's like, Madison Vining is over there. That's Madison Vining. What kind of content does she make? She's just like a crunchy mom. I think she got really popular selling essential oils back in the day. Lives on this huge compound like in Tulsa or somewhere like that. Sounds nice.

And uh, and I've heard her talk about her before. And so I was like, you should go say something. She's like, no, I, I can't. I'm like, she's not that big of a deal. And she's like, I'll go say something. She's like, don't, don't, don't you do it. Of course. I did it. Yeah. I was like, yeah, I'm do it. Um, I think she's just like, she's like, no, she's just having time. She doesn't want to get bothered probably. And I'm like, it's fine. Anytime people come up to me, I'm never bothered by it. Yeah. You know?

So Madison was super, super nice. Catherine, you know, gave her Catherine a hug and all this stuff. Were you like, hey, I, a bit of a creator myself. I don't know if you recognize me, but it is me. Yeah. No. So I get it. I like where fans could be like really annoying.

Like, anyway, all I did was, and I actually had a similar in instance this past week, I saw Nick Collison at a coffee shop, basketball player time. I just, I just went up to him saying with massive eyes. I just said, Hey, big fan, keep doing what you're doing. That's all I said. Those are the hand motions. I think I said, my wife's a big fan. Keep doing what you're doing. And I, yeah, I did the blackjack dealer. Like I'm out. Yeah. And she was then like, well, I want to meet your wife.

Like she did all that stuff. I did not instigate any of that. I already put my hands down. So my wife is very stressed right now. So she doesn't want to go talk to you now. But it was great, man. The whole weekend, a highlight. So we were getting ready to go on Sunday morning

and the whole weekend was like our resort, quote unquote with our condo has a pool. And that's like a big thing for these kids. Like let's go swimming. That'd be so fun. And we keep not having time, you know, and we're like, all right, Sunday morning, we're going to go swim at the hotel pool. What time do you guys think hotel pool is open? If you were having to guess. Good question. Nine or 10. Okay. Yeah, they should open early morning hot tubs. It should open at seven, but I'm gonna say maybe eight. Early, what?

Tell you what, early morning hot tubs. Oh, I'm just saying it sounds fun. Yeah. Yeah. So I take Bo, Rosie, and Hattie, the older kids we'll call them, to the pool at 830 so that Henry can take a nap by himself in the condo without the kids screaming, whatever.

Catherine's gonna stay back. We get there, Bo doesn't have a shirt. Yeah, he's going swimming. Yeah, he's going swimming. Hattie just has her swimsuit and no shoes. Bo has shoes on, I think, it doesn't matter. But we get there and it says it's not open till 10 a.m. 8 30. I'm like, well, if we go back, you know, that's going to wake up Henry. That's, that's not good.

And I was like, and so I knew that you guys want to see a big chicken, take them to Branson landmarks. Yeah, I should have just driven around. So I knew that this resort had a quote unquote arcade. And so we went there and I spent $30 on like some like card, you know, thing. And we had a blast at this arcade. That's great. 830 to 945, just killing time. And so there's all these, like, I can show you a picture or whatever, but like, bow, like he's on this, like motorcycle game, you know, the motorcycle. Oh yeah. Where it kind of moves. Yeah. He's shirtless on the motorcycle game. Just going like, just doing all this stuff and we're just going all around

That's what I think I said last year or last week There was this one room that was a bunch of claw machines and stuff Yeah, and Hattie was like you get it you get up stuffed animal there. I was like Hattie those things are ripoffs What's a ripoff sucker you I guarantee you what went I just told like yeah I don't know how if I need to be more like sweet as a dad sometimes with that kind of thing, but I'm just like, it's not gonna, it's very, very uncommon to win this kind of thing. I was like, you can try it. It's, it's part of your points. You know, you have only so many tokens. And so like, it was almost like a joy for me to watch her lose. She needs to learn. Like, like it was like the cloud would go down and it would come up

and I'd be like, and ripped off. She's like, oh, maybe I should do it one more time. I was like, it's not gonna work. You try it. She tries it again and you're ripped off again. And then Bo tries it. Like Bo tries it on some like crazy one that gets you like AirPods if you win or something.

Like Bo, no, try it and you ripped off. I love the thought of Bo being shirtless in an arcade. I really want to go to Dave and Buster's with no shirt on. Are they like formally against that? Or were they like, hey, it's kind of frowned upon here. I mean, it's Dave and Buster's, come on. What do you, what do you have for me here? Oh, that'd be so fun to play games with your shirt off.

It was honestly a vibe. It was so fun. We were the only people in this little place and that motorcycle game was awesome for kids. Like it was not one of those ones where it's like you run into the wall and you have to, it's like going reverse. It was like made for like an easy kid thing. You could even pay more to make it unlimited nitrous. And so Bo was just pressing the button, just flying around the whole time. It was awesome. Like he

got first place multiple times. Like rather than like, you know, some of those arcade games like this is not arcade It's like a real way to drive a motorcycle. Yeah, it's too realistic It was a blast man Yeah, the whole thing like so the arcade was great and then we eventually went swim in and met up with some friends from Kinnacuck days and Yeah, I'm trying to think of anything else. Oh Let's see the, at Sight and Sound, we got to go backstage afterwards and we got to meet David, which was like,

like you can see Bo, like the way that a kid just like, like, doesn't like know how to really like contain his excitement, but trying to like, just like, you know, like kind of embarrassed, but also like so excited. And he showed us his harp, his liar. And it was really cool. It's like a real true harp that this guy's playing explained us all about that. And then he showed us his slingshot, which of course, Bo is all about that. Um, but in the play, it's really cool. Like there's times where they do like slow motion almost like within the place Okay, he's slinging the slingshot and then all of a sudden it like everything slows down. It's like

Wow, that's so cool, but I want to see that Yeah, but you know the slingshot obviously like it's like, you know, what do you call that? Like I mean, it's like the physics of normal earth It can't just become slow motion, right? And so the way that they make that happen is with a selfie stick. Like it's like a selfie stick slingshot. So somehow like as he's like winding up again or something like he extends it out for that part of it, you know,

so it's like, so it's stiff. Does that make sense? So yeah, swinging around. So he like showed us all that kind of stuff. And was this like a core memory for Bo? You think like, is he still talking about meeting David or is he moved on to baseball now? He's not talking about it. No, but at the same time, he's not one that's like talking like that.

It lets us feel the dreams. Like honestly, like Iowa, whereas Hattie would be like, how he talks about everything. Like Bo and I went to the Rose game yesterday and like, there was a while where he just was like, just taking it all in, like not like verbally processing it like Hattie does. So, um, but anyway, it was, it was all just so cool and so fun and it was sweet to do something with just our family and like, and just have like low expectations. Just be like, we're just doing something as a family.

We're just having fun. The kids just thought it was fun to sleep on a, they'd never seen a couch that pulled out into a bed before. Oh, that's something. It's your first transformer as a kid in one of those couches. What? This is amazing. And Hattie and Bo slept together.

And Hattie's like, yeah, Bo. He was moving around all night. And Bo goes, I couldn't help it. I had ants in my pants. It was great. I mean, it's just fun things like that all over the place. And anyway, I got ants in my pants. So yeah, all, all around

a wonderful time. We went and saw it. Still our city. We went and saw these cloggers. You know what clogging is? Yeah, of course. I didn't know. Do you know, Timon? I just think of wooden shoes. That's it. That's what I thought of too. It sounds like these people are just going to have these like wooden shoes and just really slowly move around. These people were unbelievable. I get with it. It was 30 minutes of nonstop action, dude. It was like, it was like they were on America's Got Talent. Like that's how they were famous.

Now they're at Civil War City. So if you go into SDC, go to the cloggers. Get your clog on. And they had all sorts of different music, you know, country boy, shake it for me. Yeah, they would do the, I mean, it was awesome. So, uh, anyway, I love it. Your clog head now. I'm a clogger. I'm a, yeah, I'm a David fan, you know? So anyway, all that to say it was a great time. Uh, yeah, I don't know. It was just special. It was a special time to just be able to go with my family and we don't do that. We're not, I'm trying to be better at that, but like brains. I'm like,

I'm like telling Catherine, I was like, this is what we need to go here all the time. Like, and Catherine's like, I don't know if I'm this kind of mom. Like she said that it's like, I'm not, I'm not really like the pack up your, you know, stroller for a whole day kind of mom, you know? And I'm, I'm all about it. Like, I'm like, this is great. Yeah. Pack up your stroller and all drive. Yeah I know how to do directions really well So do everything that's fair like she did so much more on the front end and like she did a great job

She packed she like cooked and packed meals that we like brought to the condo for multiple meals Wow, like just killed it. Yeah, that's what you get You change the name to Kim's and now we're not eating out there anymore and I'll make at home. It was kind of a sad like oh man. This place used to be better. But Anyway, yeah, it was great time Thankful for Branson. We'll be back there in a couple weeks taking howdy to camp. So When are you going cuz I'm going a couple weeks. I think I'm going the weekend after you. All right. I'm going I think May 31st cool That when you're going I'm going Memorial Day weekend, whatever that. Cool. That when you're going?

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Yes, yes, let's do schmores. So schmores are champagne problems this week. I had the thought of this a while back, or earlier this week, but I did have a champagne problem yesterday at the Royals game. We got free tickets from my brother-in-law. They were in row M behind the dugout.

So I think that's like 13 rows from the field basically. Okay. And champagne problem example. This will be an example of a champagne problem, is something that you only experience if you have privilege basically. It was a little bit annoying having to go up and down so many stairs every time

we had to go get concessions or go to the bathroom. OK. Champagne problem. It was like dang. Man, we're so close to the field that we're like out in the sun. We don't have shade. And then when Bo has to go to the bathroom, it takes us like five minutes to walk up all these stairs with a little five year old. So champagne problem. So champagne problems. I don't know who you were winning. I think last week, I think last

I checked I was. Yeah. Whatever we did. Oh, the, oh, it was the food. Yeah. Who won that? Did you win that one too? That's what I was afraid to last I saw. I think I was winning. I don't know if I ended up winning. Okay. Well, you go ahead then.

All right. Me, time and Brad, champagne problems. First one, I'm going to go with too fizzy. Oh, yes, dude. I like it's nice. Occasionally if you want a little like sparkling something, but for me, I. It's nice occasionally if you want a little sparkling something, but for me, I think it's too fizzy. Now it feels like I'm supposed to have this nice fancy drink

and I'm burping afterwards. I feel like it doesn't match the vibe of when champagne is being served. So I'm going to go too fizzy. I see. Tyman, what about you? Good, Jake. This is good. I'm going to go, Alexa wouldn't turn off the lights. Oh, you're like having to say it a second or third.

Yeah. The excuse me. So Graydon's like really into this, like, um, having all these smart lights in the apartment, like mainly for like the main rooms and stuff. It showed me pretty cool. And so you can just like tell the Alexa to like turn on and off the lights. And I had to tell it like three or four times. Just listen to it. That's a great one.

That's a bummer. That is a good one. All right. My first champagne problem is just a classic one. Just a green text bubbles in the iMessage chat. There is no reason for me to care what color it is. But yet for whatever reason, it's annoying whenever somebody doesn't have an iPhone. So green text bubbles. And then, sorry, I got some in my throat. And then next one is when your wifi isn't working for some

reason, and so you have to use your mobile hotspot. It's like, golly. You're like, and I think that charges me at some point. I think if I hit the limit, so hopefully I don't. I don't know what it is, but. I've never had that issue, but at the same time, I think it's a possibility. Exactly. Never once come up, but I know it technically could.

Yeah. So that's my second one. Great. I'm going to go with Chipotle skimped on my bowl. Like they do it in serving size. I'm like, come on. I think the worst part is like, I don't know. Sometimes I feel like they can tell when I'm the hungriest and they're like,

look in the eyes and just like, yeah, a little bit of rice. I'm like, what are you doing? It's like the one thing is I haven't gotten to the point where I'm like, I don't really fuss about it to them. And I'm like, maybe I should start like, oh yeah. Like for rice. Yeah. For something like that. There's a few things I'm, um, and they always give me too much lettuce. Oh, they love, they love to throw in the lettuce. Yeah.

Yeah. Ever since that eco-eye outbreak, they're like, no one's getting lettuce anymore. Yeah. It's like the one they can sense. Like he, he's so hungry. He thought about asking for double chicken. Yeah. So let's give him three fourths.

Yeah. Do you get a sour cream on yours? No, I, I used to, for like the binding, I thought there has to be something that kind of brings it together. Yeah. And it used to be sour cream. Now I get queso. Oh, you do.

And I love the queso, but it is, yeah, extra upcharge. But hey, champagne problems. You know, a dollar more. I think like for me, I do get sour cream. And it's feast or famine with sour cream, dude. Sometimes it's like, sometimes it's like, you know, oh my gosh, they gave me, you know, you know, whatever, just the smallest amount. Other times it's like that whole thing is swimming

in sour cream. I think that's why I like queso. Cause like, I think I prefer too much queso than too much sour cream because there is such thing as too much sour cream and it's a thousand percent. And it's like, you just doubled the calories of this thing. Yeah, and you never know and you can't be like, ah, it's too much Take it back. Can you remove take it off? Can you remove the liquid on top? And so yeah, I'm sorry saying like light sour cream. Yeah, that's what I always would say too. So good guys That's good. Good champagne problem. Jake take mine second big I'm gonna say gets warm too fast. Okay. It's not common. I've actually never seen anyone serve champagne with ice. And so it's very common.

It's like, I either got to drink this fast or not enjoy by the end. It's just like a warm, skinny glass of fizzy alcohol. So, yeah, it's warm too fast. Okay. Had that on my list. And then third one, I'm going to say, hard to spell. Yes.

Like when you're looking at it, you're like, yes, that's champagne. When you think about it, you're like, I'm pretty sure it's not SH. All right, I got CH. All right, great. But there's something silent in there. Yeah.

I don't know where it's at. Yeah. It's like a lasagna situation. Hard to spell. Yeah. Champagne. Sure. Yeah, it's a real one. Um, are that in the

apartments, another apartment one, there's no, we have no sound bar yet. So the TV's too quiet. It's way too quiet. Yeah. Like, it's probably like an old, it's like an old TV. That's not flat screen, not high def like, right. Yeah. It came out at like the eighties curved screens. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like your 80 inch HDTV is not very good sound quality. That's a great tip. Small speakers. Yes. That's great.

All right. I'll do another technology one here. I guess all of them are technology so far. Interesting. OK. I'm going to do, I think I talked about this a couple weeks ago, I'm annoyed with my AirPods because I have to manually connect them every single time I think I talked about this a couple of weeks ago. I'm annoyed with my AirPods because I have to manually connect them every single time

I want to. That's a good one. That's a really manually connecting something that's you have to like for you to not do that. You have to forget device and then connect and it doesn't work the first time. So then you have to do it again. I'm sorry, dude. Thank you, man. It's a champagne problem. And then my last one for champagne problems. I'll do this. I guess they are all technology down on work. Look at them. I did not have enough room.

I don't have enough room in my garage to park my car. And I forgot to remote start it in the morning. And so it's cold slash hot when I get in. Cold slash hot. Depending on the time of year. You know. Get this. It's cold and hot.

Yeah. In the summertime, it's like, gosh dang it. These black seats are burning. Cookin'. Yeah. In the wintertime, it's like, gosh dang it. These leather seats are not. Frozen.

Yeah. These nice leather seats that have heat and air conditioning. My F-150. Yeah. Yeah. These nice leather seats that have heat and air conditioning. My F-150. Yeah. Yeah. OK. It's too big of a car. You know, it's so big that I can't.

It's too spacious in here. Yeah. Yeah. I'm realizing a lot of these have to do with the apartment. Maybe it's not as good as I thought. No, I'm just kidding. Our AC there, it's like, it doesn't have a great auto system.

So it's either like blasting cold air or nothing. So it's just either too cold or too hot. Yeah, yeah. Some cars are like that. They're like HVAC isn't very good. It's very hard to, like, you can't just leave the car's climate control going. Like you're always having to adjust.

Well, now I'm a little cold. All right, five minutes goes by, now I'm a little hot. Yeah, I went from driving the minivan to the sportage. Like the minivan had like an auto, you set the temperature and then it's just like, figures it out. But does it. But my new car, it's like, no, I have to be always finangling with it. Dang. Yeah. Who'd have thought Kia's weren't the greatest. Just kidding. All right. Your last with Jake. I'm going to go with the bottle requires a wrench basically. I mean, you're last with Jake. I'm gonna go with the bottle requires a wrench, basically.

I mean, you gotta get the cork off. I mean, it's like a CrossFit exercise to get your champagne out. Yeah, and you never know if it's gonna like fly around. Now we got a weapon on our hands. Bottle requires a wrench. Yeah, so the inaccessibility of the champagne is just a massive issue.

I love that you did this Jake. That's great. I'll be honest. I had a whole list of real champagne problems at the last second. Very last second. That's even better. So like you're... I have like nine things written down.

I thought your audible mentions are going to be like, I just don't like the taste. You know, like, no, you had like real answers. Yeah, at the last second. I just audible. That's even better, dude. Okay, so Jake's champagne problems were too fizzy, gets warm too fast, hard to spell, bottle requires a wrench.

Timon's Alexa wouldn't turn off the lights, Chipotle skimmed on my bowl, TV's too quiet, AC doesn't have a great auto system. Mine were green text bubbles, Wi-Fi isn't working, so you have to use a hotspot, AirPods have to manually connect every time, not enough room in your garage to park your car and you forget to remote start it. Honorable mentions.

A lot of links you open up on your phone, open up in Safari. Yes. I don't like that. I'm a Chrome guy because Chrome does all my passwords and my email and everything. My credit card number. So I don't know Jack squat. Jack Jack six. squat jack jack six do you then copy and paste into chrome or do you if it's gonna be or safari if it's gonna be cumbersome like we're going credit card all right copy and paste and you go over to chrome and it's like allow paste oh that okay yeah yeah chill of course of course you know don't ever ask again and you always do they always yeah. Yeah. Allow it.

Same with like Google Maps versus Apple. Matt, everyone's like opens up Apple. I was like, no, this interface. I don't want that. Yelp. No, please don't. A lot of restaurants like Chipotle water cups are annoying for two reasons. One, it's like this tiny little four ounce shot of water.

It's already what you're already losing zero money on this. Why not just give me a bigger cup? There's some restaurant where it's like a super tiny little thing. I can't think of what it is, but. And then on top of that, they never have a lid that fits the water cup. And so now I'm going on my car, sloshing around. You're all over the place.

And like, do I want to put a bunch of ice in it? I don't know. It's already only a four ounce cup anyway. I want to have that to be ice. And then yeah, you're really sloshing with no ice. So just the water cup situation is ridiculous. Panda Express, it's crazy what they give you. That is the one I was thinking of. It's so small.

Yes, so small. You gotta get six of them. Panda and Chipotle. You wanna round up for actual water cup, please? Yeah. Thank you. What about Apple CarPlay or Apple Play? It glitches in my car sometimes.

Yeah, it kinda works. Sometimes not that great. Yeah. Like, oh, that's a good. I, my, mine is that the Apple car play doesn't work via Bluetooth in, in my key. You have to plug in and I'm like, I just don't, I don't like that. I don't want to be always charging my phone. Like I do. My phone's too charged.

I get it. But also I'll, I'll like my phone gets phone. Yeah, my phone's too charged. I get it, but also, can I? My phone gets hot. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's better. It's so much better plugging it in, I think, than Bluetooth. Quicker, like less latency? I think I think.

Yeah, no latency. The sound quality is better. OK, yeah, that was a problem at the beginning before I realized I can set like an 85% cap on my phone battery to like try to keep it healthy. And then, yeah, I think for the most part, I like it also Apple car play. Why can't I see the map on my phone? If I want to, is that a thing? Cause then you're on your phone while you're driving, I guess. Well, I'm just like, so how I always have my setup is that this is why

my screen time always looks more than it is. Anytime I'm driving anywhere, my phone is always on with the Spotify. What's what's playing on Spotify. Okay. And then the car play screen is the maps. Oh, cool. Sometimes I'd like to switch that. I'd like to feel, get like a little funky and switch it up. But the maps just like shows like a list of directions. Yeah. I'm like, why did it? Why is that the case? CausePlay could be way better. Yeah. I will say it's gotten better.

When I first got my truck back in the day, this was like what 2019 or something, the CarPlay, every time you got out of Google Maps or whatever on your phone, it would get out of it on CarPlay. And every time, so like only if you were like on the same thing as your phone would it work. So just be thankful for you. Yeah. Yeah. That that being said, yeah, it glitches and it's like, Oh, Apple CarPlay. Like sometimes it just like mutes the person

that's talking to me. Like, and I have to like go back to speakerphone and then it'll work again or something. Like I'm like, okay. You have any more? Oh yeah. Go. Speaking of CarPlay stuff, my phone has like built more? Oh yeah. Go. Speaking of car play stuff, my phone has like built in Bluetooth or whatever. But anytime I talk to people, they're like, oh, there's like, I can hear myself. Like there's like a weird delay. Hate that.

Cause I can't go hands free. Gotta hold up my phone. Like some poor person. Yes, like a peasant. What about this one? My TV only offers sleep timers in 30 minute increments. Sleep timer is such an old person thing. No, it's not. You don't use sleep timers in 30 minute increments. Sleep timer is such an old person thing. No, it's not.

You don't use sleep timers? Sleep timer? What do you call it? Alarm? I don't know. Watch the show, then go to bed. No, I like every once in a while, I like to fall like very rarely, but I like to fall asleep to well, sometimes do on my phone.

And I know that the episode is like 22 minutes. So I set my timer for 22 minutes. They don't have that. You can't customize on your TV. So your TV is on for an extra eight minutes of this So then next time I get on there, I'm like, I gotta go restart the episode. I didn't actually watch this I don't know the context of that joke That is brutal, right and dang dude, I'm sorry about that. Dang, and it's fizzy. And sometimes like the beginning, like theme song, like the office forever, their theme song is so loud and piercing to your ears.

Yeah. And so then you wake up because 22 minutes is up and then they got a new episode. But then guess what? Now you get to go to bed and turn off the TV. I guess. Sorry about the sleep timer. You're welcome.

Thank you. I guess. Sorry about the sleep timer. You're welcome, thank you. I mean. I love my weather app, but it's got a lot of ads. And God forbid I pay 3.99 to remove them. You know, I was like, well, that's not gonna happen. What weather app is it? AccuWeather. Okay, yeah.

Really like it, but man, I swear, it's like the Chipotle thing. It's like it knows when I need an answer quickly. It's like, let's show them that one dumb game again. How long are these ads? Well, they're supposed to be like five seconds. Sometimes it'll get stuck at two. I'm like, hey, hey, come on, come on.

It's not counting down. Is it about to drizzle or not? I need the X in the corner. It's cloudy up there, but I don't know if that's happening. Wake up. That's funny. Yeah, I hate the ads. It lags, the five seconds lag sometimes.

Yeah, it lags. That's a bad one. Time you the ads. It lags, the five seconds lag sometimes. Yeah, it lags. That's a bad one. Time you got anymore? Nope, I literally just thought of four and hoped that no one could. Okay, good. Yeah. My bed is so comfortable that sometimes it's hard

to get up in the morning. That's a good champagne problem. Yeah, it's like, I just want to lay here forever. Yeah, it's like my curtains are so blackout and my bed's so comfy, I have trouble starting my day. Yes. Yeah. Right. So coddled. Yeah. Right.

So coddled. Yeah. Complaining about how much taxes you have to pay. I wrote that down. Really? Yes. It's like, yeah, it still sucks, but it's a sign that you made money.

It's like the reason you're spending on taxes is because it's a percentage of your earnings. So yes. Champagne problem. Taxes, yeah, for anybody that's like, oh, I love taxis, and it's like, you should own your own business, and then you'll care about taxis.

Yeah, you forget about them. Okay, what about if you have to do two-factor authentication, but your phone's in the other room? It's like, gosh, dang it. Oh, lately I keep my wallet just in my car. Yes, me too. That way I don't ever forget it,

and I don't need it at home. But every now and then it'll be like, some weird websites just don't let you auto fill. It's like, I need your credit card number. I'm like, I just won't get it. Yeah, the other day I was signed up for something. They're like, we need a picture of your driver's license. I was like, it's gonna take me like three minutes

to go get that and bring it back. That is one thing I've done for myself. If I've done nothing else, I have pictures of my driver's license, favorite it That is one thing I've done for myself. If I've done nothing else, I have pictures of my driver's license, favorited in my photos. I can find them quick. Are you too, are you above or too like paranoid to do that with your credit card?

Cause I'm not. Oh yeah, why don't I? I'll be honest. Dude, I'm so dumb. Why did that never cross my mind? No, I'm not too paranoid. I've got like notes in my phone of just like my bank routing number and stuff. Bring it on Russia.

Routing number I feel like is public knowledge. Oh yeah. Account number. I got them both. They're labeled routing number, accounting number for Jacob Triplets bank. Now that I'm thinking about it, is the account number always on your checks as well? I think they're both. I don't know.

I think it's like, so it's pretty easy to like somebody. Good point. And what else do they need? There's things like that where I'm like, I'll give like occasionally there's think some things that need my social security number, like just a very random thing, or maybe it's like a tax thing. And I'm like, I'm sending this to a person so they can like, if you really wanted to see it, I think you could. What is it that dangerous? I feel like the social security people say that the SSN is like like don't lose that one. Don't don't give that one away I don't know But I just feel like I've been in situations where like if someone really wanted to like see it

They probably could figure it out. Yeah I don't understand Banks yet or every check has the routing in the account number. So it's like, if you write a check to somebody, they have, so how do you do the EBT? Like when you sign up for that, isn't that all they need is those two numbers. What's EBT? Oh, sorry. Is that what ETF? Whatever. Like the ETF. Yeah. So when ATF comes, you're like, no, no, no, I got to check. We're good. We're good. EBT is like food stamps, right? Yes. I get that confused. Carter Kellerman gave me a hard time about that one time.

Like when you're like signing up for like direct deposit, like from your computer. Like gotcha. OK, there's some auto pay kind of thing. ETF. I'm sure you're around there. Anyway, but yeah, I think that's all you need is those two numbers. Like when everyone, when people want to, a brand wants to pay me or something, that's

all they ask for. Write me a check sometime. See what happens to you. I wouldn't. Great point. I don't know though. Yeah. And then like I got my credit card when we first got married and I think I have the exact

same password now as I did like for my account. But then there's other things where it's like, ah, it's's six months you got to reset your wayfair.com password. Say where we upload the podcast makes me change it but my bank never has my bank didn't have a number in it my bank's password is just dog I was like everyone else is doing dogs their dog's name all this dude dude, D-O-G. Yeah. My bank's password, dog. All right. I thought of one more, I'm living it right now. I just, I don't know why, I just like left my watch at Oliver's,

at his grad party. How many steps? Having had it for like five days, it's rough. It's rough. I have to take my phone all the way out of my pocket to see what time it is. To see who texts you and stuff. How about when you say, I'm going to say, I'm going to spell it out so that people don't get triggered. When I say H E Y S I R I.

Oh yeah. Hey Alexa. It recognizes it on more than one device at a time. Oh really? Every once in a while, my computer and my phone, they're both like going back and forth. Who wants me? It's like, okay, too many Chatties in the chat, you know? Yeah, go to the highest, you know, Dong. Whoever's quicker at this.

And then also an iPad is trying to get in there every once in a while. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. You see this. I got too many great Apple products at my disposal. All listening. Yeah. You see, there's a class action lawsuit against Apple because Siri was like too invasive Max you can get If you can like if you like basically claim like yes, you're I if you can

I don't know if you have to prove it you just claim that at some point the last five years I was having a private conversation when Siri got activated you can get $20 per device I'll do it. So that's that's that's PSA out there. Everyone you get 20 bucks per device. That's dinner brother. That's interesting. Yeah. So I think yesterday because I did think like whenever time is like yeah we got all these Alexa stuff I was like there's listening to you all the time. I'm like how many times has it been like I didn't even I didn't even say that word I said something kind of close. Yeah. It just pops up. Oh yeah. So all right I'll go. Someone wanted me to take a picture for them but it was a Samsung. Oh, yeah. So, all right, I'll go.

Someone wanted me to take a picture for them, but it was a Samsung. Yeah. And now I'm navigating, so I'm like, this doesn't even look good. Oh, you really want? That button just looks a little different than mine. All right, or vice versa. Someone wants a picture with me,

and now I gotta stare at, like it looks like I'm looking at a spider's eyes. I got five different lenses on, and like they're so spread out, I don't know which one to look at. I'm gonna look cross-eyed if I do this wrong. Good point. Champagne problem. All right, what about this one?

I don't know if this is relatable, but for us, we have a candy jar, and every once in a while we get mint gum in the candy jar. It just stinks up the rest of the stuff. Ruiner. It's like, how does it get through the Twizzlers? You know me and my Twizzlers. How does it get through the Twizzlers?

Guys, constantly bringing up Twizzlers. Golly, the Pulp and Peels tastes like winter green. That is though, I remember Halloween as a kid, someone gives you some gum. I mean, just throw away the whole box. Yeah, don't even put it in the house. Yeah. Like you gotta keep that outside.

Yeah, keep it with the dogs. Yeah. Yeah, mint is a verner. My next one, my microwave specifically, but this goes for any of them, weird microwave interface. You're trying to microwave anything in my house? No. We don't have any buttons, we've got a dial.

Oh, why are we trying too hard with microwaves? I know, like who, you don't have any buttons. Homeowner bought this and wanted this interface. So you do dial and then you push it in or something? Yep. Oh man, that bums me out. Yeah, weird microwave interfaces. Also, just bonus microwave thing.

I try to heat something at half power. If you click the power level button on my microwave, it says, cannot adjust power level at this time. Okay. Like, well when, that's like something you would see like your cell phone is like, hey, we're doing a software update, we can't. Yeah. But I wouldn't expect my microwave to have temporary software issues. Yeah, when, that's like something you would see like your cell phone is like, hey, we're doing a software update, we can't.

But I wouldn't expect my microwave to have temporary software issues. Yeah, when do you want it? Yeah, isn't that weird? Cannot adjust power level to stop. Well, you made a button for it, so I know you want it. I will say, like, microwave people, get off your high horse as far as your buttons go.

Just have the numbers and start. No one's pressing the other things. Yeah, there's a lot of of there's so many buttons on there I've tried the popcorn button once as a kid and it burned it to high heavens It was like four minutes for popcorn. I was like this is Let's look at some of these microwave but it's a bummer that it has a popcorn button, but it can't even do popcorn Well, yeah, like that's it doesn't justify its existence at all. All right Maybe there's like one that's like, you can de-thaw something for 30 minutes or something

at like a low power. Yeah. But I've seen my mom do that like once. And that feels cancerous, 30 minutes of microwave. It absolutely is cancerous, Jake, 100%. All right, here's some buttons on a microwave. Dinner plate, fresh vegetable, frozen vegetable, soup, popcorn, potato, dude, potatoes come in a lot of shapes and sizes, pizza or beverage.

Yeah. So vague. One says memory. How does that work? I'm having deja vu. Get to the microwave. When was this from? Tell me. I just don't know why you need like who I would love to hear a ghost. It's like I actually consistently use dinner plate Yeah, I use fresh vegetable. Yeah, it's actually pretty good. Yes teamers a mom before I use beverage all the time That's a mom before I am a big fan of the our microwave has the add 30 seconds button. Oh

Great, I love that but I mean I never don't use the I just go bub bub bub same two minutes So you okay? I need two minutes bub bub bub. Yeah hundred percent It's so great. All I do is go that's a little idea. We don't need the any numbers No, it starts 22 seconds literally literally the only button on the entire microwave because it starts right when you stop you might need a stop No, you open the freaking mic. That's true. The stop is the open button That's a great point. Yeah, you only need one button. Just a massive, can't miss it.

Plus 30 seconds. I love that. I love that. The other day, another one for me. I went to a natural food store, natural grocers, and they were all out of organic bananas, champagne problems. I was like, how are you out of bananas at a grocery store? I remember we went to Outback Steakhouse one time.

I was like 11 years old and they were at a A1 sauce. And I'd say, how are you a steak? It's a steakhouse. Yeah, you gotta have plenty of this on the shelves. Also they have it at Price Chopper down the road. Yeah, if you're out, go get it right now. That's funny. Organic bananas.

Yeah. I realized, so I watched White Lotus on the airplane on my iPad. I got back home and I told Rachel, I like season three, you should watch it. So she's been watching it. I noticed when she watches it in our living room, it'll show a recap. Like previously on white Lotus, the downloaded iPad version of white Lotus didn't do recaps. You didn't get it. What the heck?

You could have known so much more. I didn't need the recaps, but I'm surprised it wasn't ever offered. It's kind of nice to have the recaps because then you're like, okay, now I know what they're going to talk about in this episode. So it was important when you got the tattoo. Yeah. Yeah, that, and there was no skip intro on the intro

and the downloaded iPad version. Massive. Champagne problem, that's great. I had to manually take the status bar and try to get two and a half minutes in. It's a 22 second clip and I'm doing plus 15 plus 15 and I have to go back 15 after it. That's great. Sleep timer on my iPad. That's right. There is actually and it's awesome. All right. Next one for me. This is Zach where hand inspired this one. He used to have a BMW SUV and it needed premium gas.

Oh, what a shame. Yeah, I also wrote high end. Like if you have a high end car and the replacement parts are backordered or expensive. Yeah, that's a stinker. It's like, yeah, I don't mean, that's what you get for driving an Audi. You gotta get those kinds of parts.

Yeah, like. Terrors too. Not gonna like it when they get here. Not gonna get them. I think I have one last one. Okay, full flat Terrors too. Not gonna like them when they get here. Not gonna get them. I think I have one last one. Okay, full flop. Go ahead. You know, I complained a lot about all the construction

that happened on our street, but we did get paid for the construction to happen. Yes. So I'm willing to look in the mirror and say, that was a first world problem. Yeah, it was a win overall. Okay, I have a few. Mail-in rebates.

Those things suck. And it's so simple. Like literally you just have to fill, I think it's online these days, a mail-in rebate. Yeah. E-Bates. I bought something at Menard, save big money. And it's like, their whole thing is like,

you get 11% off with a mail-in rebate, and I haven't done it yet. Cause it's gonna take me 45 seconds to fill that out. It's like those Chateau milk bottles. It's like they charge you a little extra, but they give it back to you when you turn it back in. Oh. I bet we all have a Chateau milk bottle.

Yeah. It's like most of the time I'm popping through the grocery store. It was kind of unplanned. I'm not running through the house first. Yes, a hundred percent. Another one is I have a friend who I helped out with something for business the other day.

And he's like, I can either pay you like taxable income, or I could just give you a gift worth $500. And I'm having a really hard time finding exactly something that's worth $500 that I want. Is that a shame? No, that's kind of fun too. Because it's like, it's like AirPods would be kind of cool. But that's not fine. But it's like, oh, what new, new computer. Ah, it's too much. You know, like. Yeah. Can you bundle, you bundle and save here a little bit. Yeah. Throw some new AirPods on there.

It's a fun problem. Yeah. It's a really fun problem. Be like, I don't know what to spend $500 on. A nice pair of sandals. You have sandals you like? Not $500 sandals. Yeah. I like my tacos, but They're running low. Okay. Yeah $65 there. Okay. Yeah, just make this guy just go to nine different websites

We're low on organic bananas. I'd like some of those please honestly That's a fun problem Another one we've talked about wireless printers just like they're unreliable. You never know if they're gonna work or not Sorry that you have a wireless printer at your house and it doesn't work very well. Just self checkout lanes slash bagging your own groceries. A little bit of just like, I don't know. I mean, that's kind of annoying sometimes.

And then you gotta, especially when you're getting fruit and you have to like manually enter it in and stuff. I'll give you that on the fruit. Yeah, yeah, once again, not a huge deal. And then last one is Starbucks rewards points expiring or just any rewards points. Why are they expiring? Why, why can't those things last forever? Yeah. Starbucks hurt. I might be saving them up for a bunch of, yeah, like a catering thing I'm doing a hundred percent. I was saving them up for like a signature drink, not just like a drip coffee. Yeah. And I don't go there that often. So therefore, like I just got an email. Hey,

your rewards points are expiring. Why do you think that's like, I just had this. Do you think maybe are they trying to like get you to go there? Oh, interesting timing. I'm trying to, well, I'm just like, maybe spoken like a business man. That reminded me of the no soliciting side on correct opinions. Oh yeah. It was like, I mean, they have signs that say like no soliciting. I laughed so hard. That was really funny. So funny.

We know these, I know these people, they have a sign. To be fair, I was kind of thinking the same thing. I was like, well, they just have a no soliciting side, but the way that you guys reacted to it was like, I guess it is more because in my head I was like, well, they just have a no soliciting side But the way that you guys reacted to it was like I guess it is more because in my head I was like I've seen those plenty but anyway, so maybe they're like maybe Starbucks is like wanting you to come in and that's why they're secretly They want your business. Yeah, were you being were you being innocent or were you being? No, okay I figured just making sure just in case we were getting ready to make fun of you Anyway, those are all my champagne problems.

Oh, that's it, huh? Yeah. Done so soon? That's all I can... Okay. All right! All right! Whoa! Simon, wake up! Brad's done. Wake up. Wake back up. Brad's done with his stuff.

You losers. You little frickers. Anyway. Good stuff. Good stuff. Gosh, I'm so appreciative of America. Really? Yes. Go on. Because of the great state of Indiana. Yeah. Good ranchers. Didn't you? I was going with Main Street Roasters, dude. Yep. cuz it's a nappin knee in D and nah Go off Jose. Can you nappin knee? I'm not good at that. Oh, yeah You are good at it! I sang she's a great flag in the middle of the last one. Thanks. Thanks, Andy.

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It's MainStreetRoasters American coffee delivered to your door. All right, talk about Taiwan. Oh yeah, we were just there for a day. Taiwan was great. We were in Taipei and that felt a lot more like westernized. That felt like you're in like a nice part of, well, then again, it had a little bit of both

now that I'm remembering. You know, sometimes you go in a back alley and like all the entire communities, like electric wires are like bundled together. You know, it's like, we see that kind of stuff in like Honduras. There was some of that too, but it did feel nicer in parts.

We went up the, you know, the 101 building. You've probably seen it, kind of an iconic looking building. I don't think so. Look it up. Oh, cool. It was sweet. Yeah. Went all the way to the top of that.

Kind of a touristy thing. And then Matt took us to, he told us, he said, I want to take you to the world's most famous soup dumping spot. Okay. I doubt it to the world's most famous soup dumping spot. Okay. I doubt it's the world's most famous. Sure enough, you look it up. We went there.

Okay. Most famous, we had to wait like an hour and a half to get in. Yeah. And yeah, we hadn't had much of like, we hadn't really had meals like this. And boy, I put the herd on him. I had like so many dumplings.

And then they brought out chocolate dumplings. What? Probably should. I don't know. It was great. Soup dumplings? There's a very like traditional way you're supposed to eat them too, where you know, you use the chopsticks and you puncture a hole and then you put them in the spoon and

they slurp the broth out and then you dip them in like this ginger, sesame stuff. And then. Oh, ginger sesame. You got me. I'm in. That looks great. So it's fun to get to do that, to get to like, like we're kind of doing something touristy,

but it's also cool to say like the dumpling spot. But then yeah, the main thing, all right, we've said our goodbyes, Matt's in a different part of the airport than us, me and Isaac are going this way. We have like two hours, we pass by the spot and the sign says blind massage center. And right away it's like, okay, obviously like,

they're not blind, like this is something else probably. Yeah. Sure enough, there is a girl walking, passing us in the hallway, and she's got like a yardstick poking around. Like maybe they are blind in there, dude. We go and we start kind of talking to this woman because we see a sign that says cash only.

And so we're like, do you take American cash? Like we're all out of dong, you know? And- They have dong in Taiwan? No. Okay. Just offering, no. Yeah, we never even exchanged for whatever.

You were just like, yeah. And this woman doesn't speak great English. And so we're trying to like tell her like, we're pointing 30 minute upper body massage, $15. Great, great. And she's like, two person, two person? Or like, yes, separately though. Like me, him, two massages, two person, two person.

Like, all right, whatever. She leads us back there. And I don't think they were blind. I think they might've been like partially blind. And maybe this money supports like a blind organization. Sometimes people will say they're legally blind, where it's like they can't drive anymore, but they're still, they can tell who's who.

They know their way around the human body maybe. Sure. So we go back there and she's like, all right, we only have one person available. One person, one person. But you could go ahead and both go back here. So they pull the curtain and it's only me and Isaac in the room.

We got like a couple's massage. I mean, we were this far away from each other. And so I go first. You get naked at the airport? I was like, I guess I pushed the envelope a little too far cause I was like, I'm getting a massage. So I go to take my shirt off. No, no, no, no.

Oh gosh, all right, I'll leave it all on. So I'm in my Cozy Earth sweatpants. Yeah, baby. Which are pretty warm, you know, especially when you're being touched. Yeah, right. But I paid for an upper body massage, so no problem. This woman, Isaac got videos of it.

She spent at least 10 of the 30 minutes on my butt. And some of it was in my butt. What? This was crazy. Yeah, I mean, I'll send the video right now, but you can put it on screen. Yeah. Yeah, it was, I mean, I thought it was pretty clear.

30 minute upper body massage and so much was my butt, which of course once I posted that to Instagram, everyone's like, she was blind. She thought it was, you know, whatever. Right. But yeah, so I got to go for like 10, 15 minutes before Isaac's masseuse was back there. So then we were going at the same time

and we're just goofing off. We're making noises, you know, of course. And then Isaac's done. So then I get to watch him. Great experience. Wait, I'm sorry. I'm watching this video and she is like, yeah, she's taking an elbow just elbow in my crack.

Yeah, dude. She about started a fire back then. And did she do the same thing to Isaac? No. So someone else said Isaac. Okay, I'm sorry. Um, also my girl had like a little like speaker, like on a necklace. So whenever she would get really close to me, I could hear it.

It was the pink panther theme music was being played. That's wild. That was really funny. No way. And then Isaac had this old man and Isaac's massage, they spent like a lot of time on his head. Like the whole time I was watching Isaac, he was just like going to town on his head. So it was so funny like we paid for yeah the same thing

we got very different massages, but it was a great way to like spend some time or layover and So you think these people were kind of blind though, or you think they were just supporting the blind? I don't maybe maybe a little bit blind But yeah, it was great. It's a fun experience. Massage in the airport. Only one I got the whole trip. That's amazing. The Pink Panther music is so funny. Yeah, it's random. Because other times I kind of heard music,

like, you know, she's playing something out of something. And then, yeah, then the one time she did get really close and yeah, it was the Pink Panther song. I like it, Pink Panther. Yeah, because like you think of like a spa, like kind of, you know, setting where it's like, it's really peaceful and relaxing. Dun dun dun dun dun.

Dun dun dun dun dun. Dun dun dun dun dun. That's so funny, dude. Okay, so Taiwan though. Okay, Rankham, you went to four different countries. We'll call Hong Kong its own country, right? Yeah. Okay.

I'll go Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong. Okay. That's the order I'd put it in. Yeah. Okay. I'll go, uh, Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong. Okay. So order I'd put it in. Yeah. And we were there very limited amounts of time, each one. So who knows how accurate that really is? But, you know, the five star resort, yeah, that makes me lean a certain way. Okay. And so, yeah, it was just fun. There's, I'm sure there's things that happened on that trip

that will continue to come up for the next six months on this podcast. Just different things that I forgot about and whatnot. But overall, really great trip. Just fun. Just got a lot done at the manufacturer. A lot done in Vietnam. And now we're back.

Feels good. We're back, baby. I don't know how much time we have. We have time to talk? Yeah. It's not like we don't. It's a free podcast. I have time to talk. Yeah, it's not real. It's a free pocket. I want to talk about both first baseball game real quick. Oh yeah.

I want to hear about it. Yeah. You know, Bo's been playing, you know, he's in the four and under league and he just turned five. So he's like kind of like a minimum boys with this team. Not truly, but like he is like arguably the best player, which is kind of fun. Great. Yeah.

It's kind of awesome. Like, that's my boy. Yeah, build some confidence. Actually last week at his game, he got a hit. And I hear this dad or his grandpa in the stands go, that kid's going to be good some. Oh. And in my head, I was like, that is how parents get super into this kind of stuff.

It's cause that triggered something in me of like, hang on to that. Oh, we gotta, we gotta do some stuff. We gotta practice more. you know, like all these different things. But I was like, all right, no, dude, that's so cool. Uh, yeah, it's, it's fun. So, uh, it's really interesting. And I guess it's kind of a normal thing these days, maybe at least around here, uh, where the dads are like on the field or mom or dad are on the field with the kid, uh, for like this whole, I mean, cause they're so little, but I even told this to my cousin who's got a son who's six or seven. I don't know how old he is. Yeah. I think he's probably going to be seven. And he's like, yeah, I still

go on the field with Sam too. I'm like, really? So like, it's a thing, I guess these days of like, we never had this, we had coach pitch. There was like one adult on the field, but this is like, take your kid to baseball. It's like, yeah, there's as many parents out there as there are kids. Crowded field. And so yeah, they give each kid a little like, lily pad looking spot. And they're like, well, be like, all right,

here's your spot, that's where your position is or whatever. Lefty comes up and they shift it. All right, move the lily pad. It is funny, dude. All of it, it's T-ball, all of them hit it opposite field. Every single, almost every single kid. It's very rare to have a kid pull the ball. I don't know why.

So yeah, your best kids play in second base. Yeah. And so Bo, because he's older and because I think he's a little more comfortable with stuff just wants to play all the good positions. And I have to be like, you have to share, you know you have to let other people. And so there's been times where I've had to be like,

Hey, let somebody else get this ball. Like, cause once the ball's hit, like he just runs. Everyone goes to it. Not everyone. Some kids are not as aggressive. And so I'm having a hard time, like, like you can't really teach aggression. I don't feel like for kids.

And so the fact that he's going after it is pretty good. So I'm like, how much do I, but also like sometimes he's literally like fighting with another kid on his team for the ball. And so it's like, I don't want to, you know, like it's like your teammates. So you want to instill that skill with him. Yeah. You almost see like practice it in the yard or something of like, I want you to get as many balls as you can, but you can't take it from your teammate. You know, you can't all right, let's practice or something. That's a funny balance.

Like Hattie and Bo that that's what they do is all like, they fight over the ball, throw the football in the yard and they'll like both run to it Like Hattie and Bo, that's what they do. It's all like, I'll throw the football in the yard and they'll like both run to it. And Hattie always beats him to it. And so he's like really excited that he's able to do it now. But he's pretty cute. I mean, he's made some plays a few times. Like there was one time he like slid down to get the ball

and like stood up and you know, threw it left-handed over there. And so it's fun. Forget he's left-handed, that's awesome. Yeah. And so he always wants to play pitcher or first base. And I'm like, that's fun. That's good. That's fun. Forget he's left handed. That's awesome. Yeah. And so he always wants to play pitcher or first base. And I'm like, that's fun. That's good.

That's great. That's what you're going to have to play. Lefty positions. And so the way they do batting is every single kid hits every single inning. And so the inning is over when the last kid bats. Great. And so got to make hay while you can. And the coach, you know, the first game, the coach is like, all right, we're going to go in alphabetical order based on first name. He's like, oh, yeah, so Bo is gonna be the first batter

It was like whole baby. How do you do? He did great, man? And I started jokingly like incentivizing him and you know, they're playing on these fields that are smaller fields But still 200 some feet over the fence in you know, the outfield I was like Bo if you hit it over the outfield fence, I'll give you ice cream. And so now I bet I've heard him, that's what he keeps talking about over and over again. He's like, dad says, if I hit over the fence,

he's gonna give me ice cream. So I'm swinging really hard. And so the new rule is Bo, if you get it to the outfield, like on a roll, you get out ice cream. You have the cone. And so for his birthday, I bought him a new bat, like a little Walmart, like $15. So affordable.

And he swung, dude, and he nailed it, and it got to the outfield. And so yeah, he got some ice cream, which is awesome. He's going to get some ice cream. That's great. It's just a blast, man. It's just little things. They're done in the field.

And at the very last batter always runs all the bases at once. Every other batter just runs one base at a time. Yeah. And, you know, at the end of the inning, I'm always like, all right, you know, don't stop running until you get to the dugout. And he's like sprinting back in. Oh, good habits. Good habits to build.

My mom for his birthday got him like baseball pants and a belt. So he's like looking the part and everything. And it's just it's just fun, man. I don't know. It's just a sweet, sweet time. I love that you're already telling them to hustle the dugout. That was such a big thing for me growing up. I mean, elementary, middle school, damn it, which coach I had, they were so big on that. Now if I ever go play softball, I like physically can't help it. I mean, it looked like a dork, but I'm like jogging to my position while everyone else walks. I can't

not, this feels illegal to like walk on the field. I would be yelled at. Yes. I was inspired by Sammy Sosa back in the day remember how he sprint out there every time so I was like I'm gonna run like that like what put some hustle into it. So Yeah, Bo loves being on deck, you know loves being like wait fun kind of being on the field But I'm really playing you got the circle. So he's like able to get in the sir, you know, whatever. I'm Dex great Anyway, it's just sweet time So I'm pumped that you're getting experiences now. Cause like every dude always dreams about the day

that they get to like, you know, see their like sporty, you know, son playing stuff and like, you've had kids for a long time and like, you finally getting to experience it. It's awesome. It's like, yeah. And watching him like, yeah, he's hitting pretty well. It's like, dude, that's so fun.

Like you're not, it's like, it's not what it's one thing. It's like they're playing and they don't cry. But it's another thing that's like, they actually enjoy this and they're like, kind of good at it. Yeah. He's not going to be the best player on the team or anything, you know, but it's like,

it's fun that he's doing well right now. So, uh. Catherine's jeans, you know. Yeah. She loved softball. Honestly, she would have been a great, I don't know. She got those long arms, dude. She should have been a boxer.

She would have been a great boxer. You said knowing what I know about Catherine. Yeah, combat is her thing. Krav Maga. Yeah. So anyway, it's just, it's just a fun season. A lot of things with Bo, you know, Bo's birthday, we had a great time, you know, doing stuff for him for that.

And all he wanted to do for his birthday is play baseball. So we had friends over to play baseball. What a good stage. Then we had practice for his birthday that night, whatever, we had baseball practice and he just wanted breakfast for dinner. Just fun times with Bo. So it was a great time.

Fun. Fun, dude. Yeah, man. It's awesome. Yeah, dude. Yeah, dog. Ty, man. It's awesome. Yeah, dude. Yeah, dog. Ty, when you have anything on your mind,

anything you need to end with? I don't think so. Actually, I'm curious. Keep your hoods up out there. Keep your hoods up. I don't know. Keep your hoods up. Yeah. Are you like...

Stay hooded. It's crazy. Like you were just like, you moved out. I know I already brought this up kind of like last week, but like, are your parents doing okay? How are you feeling? Yeah. I think it's not like the most insane thing just because I'm not like last week, but like, are your parents doing okay? How are you feeling? Yeah, I think it's not like the most insane thing just because I'm not like far away,

but yeah, I mean, we're doing fine. You still like tell them what you're doing? I think I wanna get better at that. I like that about that. I'm like, I wanna do better. Just like, Texas, this is what I'm up to today. Like I wanna do better about that. Because you've kind of severed that.

You've like just now you're doing your own thing. Kinda, yeah, I'm not like checking in that much. But I think we're just going to like as much as possible. I mean, obviously I'll go to church together. I think every Sunday I'm sure I'll just go home and hang out and like, yeah, weekends maybe, I don't know, but just like, I want to, just like keep hanging out a lot, but, but yeah, it is like, kind of wild. It was, it felt quicker than I thought it would be. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Great sausage. When was the it felt quicker than I thought it would be. Oh, yeah. Out of the house. Yeah. Yeah. Grating sausage. When was the last time, have you been home yet? Yeah. Okay. I was home, yeah. Tuesday night for fun, just like hanging out.

Yeah. And then weekend Sunday or Sunday, I guess with them at church, but then we went to a grab party, but, but yeah, I wanted to be home as much as I can. Yeah. Yeah. That's nice. That's sweet. Yep.

Love it. All right. I'm all out. Yeah. Well, that's nice. That's sweet. Yep. Love it. All right. I'm all out. Do we have any wins? Oh yeah. Forgot what we do on this podcast. I'll do wins.

My win of the week is Hattie is officially a memory master. She got it done. Oh, like a certified. She did all the tests. She got 100% on this memory thing that she had to do. And last night they had like a end of year closing thing for her homeschool co-op and they recognized all the member masters. There are seven of them in the whole school. And she was by far like the

littlest little girl up there. I mean, it was awesome. It was so cool. I think the second youngest person was nine and she just turned out, it's just awesome. It was so cool. I think the second youngest person was nine and she just turned it. You know, it's like, it's just awesome. She's just tiny. Yeah, just so sweet and proud of her. And she worked hard. Catherine worked almost as hard probably, you know? And so it was just like a really fun, exciting time

to be like, you did it. Like you, you, you- All this hard work. And she got a trophy and she's like, it's like very special to her, this trophy. Cool. To the point where Catherine last she's like, it's like very special to her, this trophy, to the point where, uh, Catherine last night was like, can you please throw this other metal that I had away? It's

this metal that Scott won, uh, first place at the pickleball tournament and gave it to one of the kids. I think gave it to Hattie and Catherine's like, how he doesn't care about it. Like, or, you know, we don't use, like, there's no reason for us to have this thing. The, the thing to put it around your neck is not even there anymore. Can you just throw it away? Cause Hattie refuses to throw it away. Cause he's like, or, you know, we don't use, like, there's no reason for us to have this thing. The, the thing to put around your neck is not even there anymore. Can you just throw it away? Cause Hattie refuses to throw it away. Cause he's like, mom, it's a medal. Scott won that. Surprised thing. Yeah. On the back, it says some funny like sponsorship kind of thing on there, but, uh,

I threw it away. So, but anyway, she's really, really excited about her medal for, for memory master. And so I'm pumped for her. The win of the week is just all her hard work paying off. Cool. Yeah. I would say it's similar to that as far as just hard work paying off. I know I already mentioned it,

but Friday has not come out with a new paddle in like over a year. We've been testing paddles since October and there's just a lot of effort going into a new paddle launch. And it comes out this Friday. So it's just a lot of effort going into a new paddle launch and it comes out this Friday. So it's just a lot of momentum. I've been working crazy hard, honestly been putting time into work. He's been doing a ton of stuff for us. Um, yeah, just the culmination of a lot of work, a lot of testing, a lot of fun, uh, coming together this Friday. We,

uh, yeah, we're just, we're feeling good about it, but it's like nervous. It feels like we're like launching a rocket into space on Friday. It's like, we got to make sure guys, we're just, we're feeling good about it, but it's like nervous. It feels like we're like launching a rocket into space on Friday. It's like, we gotta make sure, guys, we have to get everything set up and ready to go by Friday. This is a big deal. You know? Like what, yeah, tell me more about what that means. Like, like what all goes into it.

Just from, you know, we are marketing this thing in a bunch of creative ways, a bunch of different ways. Like I said, like paddle reviewers, like for the upper echelon, like people pay attention to that stuff, like getting in good with them. Yeah. Getting in good with the Reddit community.

We're doing posts on there, like behind the scenes, like writing a bunch of like cool stuff on there. We're like creating these really big videos for like social media, like what we would normally do, you know, on Fridays, but getting those prepared, having even more videos to promote the normal. We've got like 5,000 people on this early access text list, which is really cool.

It took a lot of hard work to build that list of people who've specifically opted in to get early access to this paddle, not just some old email list or something. So just working so hard to hit people from so many different angles that this is the most affordable, high quality paddle on the market, which it is, and just so excited.

That's just hoping, really hoping it sells like we think it will Friday. Yeah. So it's fun, it's exciting. I love a good launch. Yeah, oh yeah. I love to launch. Because then, yeah, it's just like you're on your computer

looking at analytics and looking at reactions and looking at comments and looking at all that stuff. I think the Reddit thing is so real. Like that's so often, I will search something and then put Reddit at the end of it. Cause I like the discussion back and forth so much more than like read an article where one person says, yeah, you should do this

or whatever. So I think that's smart. Articles are just becoming just chatty. Chatty. That's all it is. Yeah, Reddit's smart. That's articles are just becoming just just chat. You'd be T. Chatti. That's all it is. Yeah. Red. It's great. Yeah. So that's we even have a,

we have like a Friday discord now. Like I'm kind of treating that like a patron kind of thing. Like I gave them early access to today's video. Cool. A day early, you know, just trying to, yeah, build a community. Yeah. Like we know how. Yeah. That's fun. That's awesome, dude.

So yeah, just, just grinding. I mean, you saw it on the camera, literally bought a new computer yesterday just to edit videos for the next week Yeah, cuz there's so much to do that is crazy. It's awesome Time you gotta win. I got a win probably concert for us Frank. Yeah. Yeah still think about that. It was good It's good time Yeah, good concert. Brad, you got a comment of the week?

Oh, I forgot we do this. I've got one from Kelsey friend. Yes. Old bear cat of mine or not? My bear cat. Yes, we were both bear cats. She said this episode is so entertaining. Talk about the China episode. Jake explaining the struggles of trying to grab things off the giant lazy Susan table with chopsticks sounded like we make a funny Seinfeld episode. Everyone's struggling to actually get

food to eat and then leaving angry and still hungry. So yeah, I like that. That was a great observation. Okay. Mine. This is, I laughed at this. Peter PJ 32 said, love the idea of the random English words on people's clothing in China. I've never been to China, but one time I saw a guy and all it said on his hoodie was 1977. Okay. What time it was wearing. That was a good guy. That's so funny. That's so funny. And somebody else commented. I think the episode with just you and well us in studio time and I in studio And it looked like you could just see the ke of time. Oh, that was funny. That's crazy time Jake's I hear Tyved wears a shirt that says Jake. It's pretty good

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