Ghostrunners - 104 - Community College Casual

Episode Date: May 3, 2021

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episode 104 you know what that means it is the two-year anniversary of the ghost runners podcast we did it brad two years of vibes baby two whole years uh a lot of memories crammed in a lot of good times uh what do you think is your actually let's say it on let's say it on three your favorite just thing that's come out of us doing a podcast for two years have something in mind yeah okay okay say it on three one two three our friendship my church job so i can make money off patreon and live off that shoot thanks for your support

uh-oh oh i do i think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too. Been Wes' 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 Rubs Podcast. Every Monday morning we're taking ground, Ghost Rubs Podcast. Ghost Rters Podcast back. If you have not seen it before, welcome back. Does that make sense? So this is your first time watching. Hello. And thank you for watching. If you don't know where you are right now, this is the ghost hunters podcast, which is, um, it's like the radio. If you, sorry, if you don't know what a podcast is, if you really don't know where you are. So audio versus mono, you're probably an audio stereo versus mono. So audio means that how you hear with your ears and mono is Spanish for monkey.

That's right. Or hand. We've gone over this a couple of times on the podcast. I don't think. I think it's either. Yeah. I think you have to read the context. We're an evolution podcast.

It's like Aloha, I guess. Yes. You need the context. The exact same thing. May this monkey shower Aloha to your family. I think you need to roll the theme music again after that. That's pretty good. Uh-oh.

Ooh, I think just tight. Thanks, dude. Oh, man. Hey. Well, we did it. So this is the last of year two. Next week will be year three. How should we wrap up, like, year two of this podcast?

Oh, with a bow on it. just by doing it how we normally do probably we're gonna put a bow on this it's like why do we say that dude i funny expression yeah although it is a funny expression but i do love tying a bow around things do you like in the no in the figurative way okay like i love like yeah like hanging out with people and then just like texting like hey or even just like saying it like this like hanging out with people and then just like texting like hey or even just like saying it like this is really fun because we hadn't hung out in a while and i think it like we all had fun i think we're all glad we did this and like especially you hey thanks i know you had kind of a sore throat like thank you for like making it up yeah yeah yeah

make it happen yeah love tying bows you're a big bow tie it takes you like 15 minutes to leave anywhere you go because you have to tie bows everywhere you go. Dude, I love tie bow. Yeah, exactly. I have. So I'm going to Trey's wedding next weekend and I'm going to wear a suit cocktail attire. Okay. I have no idea.

Did you look it up? What that meant? No, I just figured that means fancy. Okay. It's like, but that doesn't sound like the fanciest of fancy, right? It's not like black tie for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

Black tie professional. Black tie formal. Black tie formal, black tie, black tie. You have to, you always hear about black tie optional. You never hear about black tie. You have to, what do you, do you, do you know what black tie is? I don't know. It means tuxedo. Do you know that they should just say tuxedo? I don't know why they don't. Cause then people are coming in black ties and you're dressed just like the servants. It's like, no, like, yeah. Like I learned that one time. Uh, yeah, there was a black tie wedding that I went to with Catherine, one of her Baylor friends, really rich, really nice wedding. And I didn't know beforehand, but she's like, no, you have to wear a suit or a tuxedo. And I'm like, surely not. I'm so glad I rented one.

Cause there was one other guy or one guy that was not in a black tuxedo. Hung out with him. What a loser. Yeah, no, I was kidding. I think that we should be inviting more people to things and let them know that it is black tie optional. Just an option. You don't have to. Every day is black tie optional. That's what I'm saying.

Yeah, yeah. Just no biggie, but it is black tie optional. I love the idea of just, yeah, just in general, just always giving a dress code, but putting optional at the end. And so just one of these times, you're going to have somebody that's new to the friend group. It hasn't seemed to tie bows on things yet. And they're going to come, you know, not realizing that that's what you say every time. And I think making up your own names for dress codes. Hey, it's sundress optional. Exactly. That, that, what does that mean? That is so true. It used to have like,

you have three tiers back in the day. Now it's casual business casual formal yeah now it's like uh yeah redneck redneck formal patio cocktail optional attire formal um yeah i don't let's think of more okay um egyptian casual community garden oh attire i like that no no what does that mean no yeah that's a that'll are you coming with the green thumb you know garden gloves or like overalls or is this like a garden park oh you know, garden gloves? Like overalls? Yeah, it's like a garden park. Oh, it's community garden. Like we're all, we're not really helping.

We're just kind of here to- Oh, sure. It's like a potluck of clothes. Like, hey, I got a shirt. You got a tie. Let's go together. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, wow. What else could there be? Let's see. I think associate's degree. Community college casual. Yeah. What does that mean? I like,

I like the idea. Yeah. Also of just doing it like completely random, not even like, like not even a casual or something at the end. Just say associates degree. Yeah. So the dress dress code is styrofoam cup.

Like, Oh boy. So I have some people over now. You're probably wondering what the dress code is. We're thinking minor league baseball. So just come ready to party. And they're like, does that mean – it's probably not playing baseball. Does that mean watching minor league?

I don't really have anything that I would watch minor league. I'll figure it out. And he spelled minor with an E instead of an O. Was that on purpose? Like a coal miners baseball team? Minor league baseball. You come like – like everyone has like soot all over their face and like they're like coming like they just look like they just got out of the mine and you're just wearing a trash panda shirt you're like well I thought this was it oh I thought it was a typo oh wow okay so that's

how we're gonna do year two year year three year three oh i have an idea uh speaking of inviting people to something yeah can i get into it yeah i had it last night so last night we played basketball and the long story short on the idea is invite everyone we know that listens to us to come to one of our basketball games come to the championship game yeah because i think we're gonna make it yeah and the arena that we play in is huge. Like, I genuinely don't think you could get even close to filling it up. There's so many seats. Like, the Final Four was held there way back in the day.

Yeah. Like, it's like thousands and thousands of seats. Can you imagine, like, all these people walk in, it's a Hy-Vee arena, and they're like, hey, we're here for the ghost runners. There's 160 people there just to cheer on our team. Can you, every time we scored. Oh, it'd be electric. Oh, it'd be amazing.

I would play so well. And we would have a bit, we'd have a dress code for it. It would be Hy-Vee arena casual. We would have like, I would want to have somebody, like we could delegate different responsibilities to people. So somebody could be the concession stand guy. Like he could bring Freddie's famous hot dogs. The other person could have, you know, bring a stereo and have music either during the game or during timeouts. Yeah. Yeah. Like maybe giveaways Ellis custom

gracious t-shirts. Yeah. I think we have people that act like they work for Hy-Vee arena. Like during timeouts, they come out there and like, all right, everyone turn your eyes to the big screen. We're going to do a master Wang's chicken giveaway. Oh my gosh. Seriously. Why, why wouldn't we do this? This is amazing. I thought about that last night when I, cause there's one kid on our team or one guy on our team who has a eight year old son and he was just up in the stands by himself last night. Masked up the whole time. Yeah, he was not a soul a hundred feet around like a Ninja with this g gator thing on his face but i was like that like he yeah there's no one else around there's hundreds of seats like easily we could fill up i can't even imagine filling that up oh that would be so funny and the other team

would just be like what like yeah do these people all know them like how do they all get here we had like whatever was it like six girls maybe last year come and that was really fun there was there was electric energy from six girls being there and come and that was really fun there was there was electric energy from six girls being there and we talked well last week when you came over which that was a lot of fun we haven't like just hung out in groups and forever like that no i don't know if i've ever done anything like that i mean not since you've had children not with like like it was me and a bunch of people that were not married yeah yeah that was really fun but we talked with those girls we're like hey jay we chip game i expect you back we're going to culver's

afterwards but they don't know that there's going to be 150 other people there like we'll have a photo booth that you can take pictures with hattie yeah hattie and bow and the players afterwards yeah yeah yeah you can put like a mustache on bow jordan lewis is going to do a jersey giveaway at the end he's going to sign and give it away jersey swap mac baxter can bring his like you know like, like scrubs, medical school scrubs, Jersey swap with Jordan. Oh man. This is a great idea. The possibilities for this are endless. Let's keep hyping this up. I'd say right now it's still three or four weeks out from this happening. Okay. Probably four weeks. So, um, yeah, you got time, but make some travel arrangements. Actually, let me look right now. Actually, I'll look later. I'll look whenever you're telling a

story. Uh, thanks. Backtrack real quick. I was look later. I'll look whenever you're telling a story. Thanks. Backtrack real quick. I was going to say when we're tying a bow around things, I've been tying a tie a lot this week. Yeah. Because I'm like, I'm going to Trey's wedding. I'm like, I want to have this down by the time I get there. I don't want to have to call my dad.

Right. So I've had tie practice by myself. Yeah. And today this is first try. It's not perfect, but I was like, for first try, I'm going to leave it. I'm going to leave it. It's very, it's all about this. I I'm getting, I'm, I'm out of it. This is tough. This is tough. Oh yeah. There's some tricks I can teach you about it. I used to type ties all the time. I love, I love dressing up and I miss it. But so you text me, you're like, Hey, I'm going to wear a suit today. Just FYI. Okay, cool. Me too. Um, no. And I'm sure my dad taught me me he's probably listening to this now like you don't

remember you know like i well i haven't had a real job so i you know i haven't needed this that's exciting though so i tie ties now which i'm sure at some point in the podcast i've told the story about you know how to tie you know tie tie yeah well you guys go back but now when he comes he's like yes i do absolutely half windsor full windsor what are you talking yeah dude try to do the uh bow tie someday that's next level hard it's tough maybe you're four i don't know i don't really like bow ties really yeah it feels pretty cool when you get it like and then you like kind of adjust it a little bit it does feel nice like a real one like clip-ons those are for like you know seventh grade band practice or concerts i mean mean, so anyway, I looked at the schedule. We have Wednesday, May 5th, Thursday, May 13th, Thursday, May 20th.

These are all regular season games. Tournament date, Thursday, May 27th. Everybody mark your calendars. Get to Kansas City. Thursday, May 20th. What time? Should we not even tell anyone else on our team either? Like Gunnar listens to this.

Scott listens to this. Dang. Isaac won't know. Isaac. Okay. I said isaac jordan and josh um yeah it was like what are all these people doing here can you imagine thursday may 27th and it probably starts at 7 30 so get there by six you know to get your spot we'll let you know the time later but yeah definitely get your spots first come first serve. Yeah. Oh my gosh This is a great idea, right? This one of the best ideas you've had in year two of this podcast And right before the buzzer to right before I got on to your it's gonna be sick. It's gonna be so fun

Dang, that's awesome. Another thing about Trey's wedding real quick. I thought this could be a fun game I went to go see I threw away his invitation and the RSVP of Michael just tell him come on and Through a way and then realized I don't know the venue. I'm like, I'll just tell them, come on. And, uh, threw away and then realized, I don't know the venue. I don't know the time of day. I should figure this all out. So I tried to go to his wedding website and rightfully so it's password protected. So then it's time to guess the password. So now this is your chance, Brad, what do you think Trey's wedding password would have been? Okay. Are we we going funny like my serious answer is that trey is like a pretty like he's pretty practical guy so i feel like his real answer is going to be like

trey katie and then the date oh four or oh five one nine two one nice whatever the date is okay um i love i love like the like the idea of him being really vain though and like being like middle school maddox 17 weddings be like yeah weddings be like six vine fame oh one um no that's good guesses i guess my first guess was vibes. And then of course, Michael Scott style did vibes with a Z just in case. And that didn't work. I tried. Cause it's like a universal password for everybody. Not just for you. Correct. Yes. It'd be for everyone to get into the website wedding. What if it's that easy? It wasn't wedding. Okay. Love. Was it, did it have anything to do with their names no those are some of my guesses too yeah Kennedy Kennedy's yeah and uh kiss me kiss for the

Kennedy's yeah it's well can I say it nah I guess I can't because yeah he probably wouldn't want that what's it rhyme with I'm just kidding um never mind did you figure it out or do you have to text them surely you had to text them oh i had to text them yeah yeah i was like were you would you ever have guessed it it's like they're all words i've heard of you know like i'm definitely familiar with the words okay uh so i guess come back next week to find out what trey's wedding password is but throw in some youtube comments what you think it is or do we do we challenge anybody to get on there and try to, would the,

would they have to have an email though as well to work? I don't know. It doesn't matter. I don't think you're, anyone's probably going to guess it, but here's your hint. Three words. Oh,

okay. Three individual words. Three words. Um, make your guesses. Okay. Winner gets free Patreon for a month. Oh,

kiss me, Kennedy. That's my guess. Okay. Kiss me, Kennedy. Uh, okay, cool. Wedding of Kennedy's. patreon for a month oh kiss me kennedy that's my guess okay kiss me kennedy uh okay cool wedding of kennedy's kennedy no you said it's not with their names never mind yeah no name that's a fun game and i i want to figure it out i'm gonna i'm gonna be up all night text you at three in the morning great got it yeah oh dude well what else is going on, Jakey? Dude, I went to the mall this week.

I hadn't been to the mall in so long. Probably since I bought the Zoomies jacket. I actually, I promise I've mentioned this before. I don't like stalk you on Find My iPhone by any means. But I did see that you were at the mall the other day. And I was like, Jake's at the mall. Okay. Jake's at the mall.

Okay. Not bad. So anyway. So I'm going to the mall And if you haven't been to the mall This is your Just Fun fact

Everyone who Has their hair dyed Gets their hair dyed And then immediately Goes to the mall If you didn't know that Like it's almost like You're not allowed in

With like normal looking hair You need to either have Your hair dyed Or be with someone Who recently Has gotten their hair dyed Okay Everybody at the mall

Yeah It looks like Billie Eilish is in every store. It's amazing. I couldn't believe it. Well, like half the stores are Claire's and you know, like, so it's either you're getting your hair pierced there or you're getting your hair dyed somewhere. So maybe there's at that mall, there's like actually a beauty school.

I don't know if that's true or not, but there's some like beauty school in one of these malls around here. It might be. And so maybe that's just where they go to get it for free. Like you can get experimental stuff done. And they just kind of, you walk around, it's like a wet,

wet marker. It's like walk around and let it dry. And then come back and see what happens. Yeah. How crunchy is that thing? Okay. So seeing just, just people watching at the mall was great.

Uh, I went into Abercrombie. What's Abercrombie up to these days? That was my exact thought. I'm like, I got to see in here. I'm in no hurry. Like I got to take off your shirt. So you're like a model for them. They don't have any shirtless high schoolers out front, which is probably for the best. Say that out loud. And how did anybody ever say that's a good idea? And then that's an acceptable idea.

That's good. This is good. Yeah. This is safe. Yeah. And then, you know, for a couple of years of that, like, Hey, Hey hey hey equality let's get a girl in a sports bra to stay next to him yeah this would be good yeah yeah yeah yeah certain abercrombies had guy and girl out front and it was like we're gonna cover her up but not much i didn't ever have abercrombie and fitch because my parents were like against it but i did have a shirt that said a bread crumb and fish oh good lord i didn't really have that but my parents really were like like i wanted it back in the day i was like can i please it was expensive though you know chris foran has all this stuff yeah and like well he has bad morals well it was expensive he's a wiccan it was expensive

yeah and let me tell you it's still expensive two main takeaways from abercrombie how are they still around still smells the same i will tell you that smells exactly the same 15 years later. Uh, I mean, it brought back some memories, but, uh, no, it wasn't great. And I was just so curious. I was like, okay, they're staying afloat somehow. Who with, who is rowing their boat? Like I bet the same guys that go to the club, like, like go, go to nightclubs and stuff. They might be Abercrombie and pitching. Yeah. I don't want to insult, you know know because there's so many people who listen to this podcast who wear Abercrombie but I'm just gonna take some stabs at it I think it's got it like my guess is like an out-of-touch mom like a like a mom in her young 30s uh-huh who like careful here and her name is I just have someone specific in my

life picked up uh stop wearing it Susan stop. Stop. No, I don't know. I don't know who's still wearing Abercrombie or who's still buying new Abercrombie because there was no one in the store so I couldn't get a read on like who the clientele is but still smells the same and it's so expensive.

I looked at a pair of jeans and they were $118. Dang. Which is a lot for denim. That does seem like a lot. I bet their jeans are like the one thing that is somewhat acceptable. I would never wear a shirt

that just has the Time Zoo Roman Abercrombie and bitch onie. Actually, maybe I will now like just to mess with people. And there was part of me that like, Hey, maybe like I'll find something in here that looks kind of cool. And I'll try to bring Abercrombie back. And I didn't, it was all like kind of high schoolery stuff. Here's the thing. Like I had that thought actually the other day was like, what if I just like have obnoxious clothes and like kind of as a, as an ironic thing. But I think John Chris kind of does that, but i think he doesn't really really poorly yeah and i can't figure it out i think he just has really bad taste is what it comes off as to me and i will hopefully get to the bottom of this soon i'm sitting at his table he's sitting at my table

absolutely at the wedding it's so i gotta get to the bottom of the bowl cut in the fashion yeah like all of it is just odd to me like i want to believe because trey's like no i think he's just like that's how he wants his hair and i'm like no there's got to be like a long con here he's doing like some amish character on stage right now like he's doing something that we don't see but he's like no i don't think so series or something that they're going to come out with later like he's filming a movie that we don't know about what's what's a good middle school is Jebediah. Junior high Jebediah.

Uh, no, but like, like, like even his hair before that was like bad in my opinion, like crazy spiky. Yeah. Yeah.

Something's off. So, so like, cause that was like, I genuinely had that thought of like, what if I just like had like a goofy wardrobe and like kind of stuff, like maybe I'll just wear stuff from my childhood, like Aeropostale.

Yeah. And Abercrombie. And I was like, wait, John Chris already does that. And I don't think it's funny. And it's expensive. It's, it would be an expensive joke. Sure. Like it's one thing if it's like, yeah, I'm bringing back Aeropostale, but it's like, ah, not for like $30 a t-shirt. It's not that funny. That's the reason why we didn't have very much of that growing up is because it's too expensive. Yeah. Uh, but the mom was fine. So I went to Abercrombie. Sorry. One more thing. Do you remember like back in the day they used to have so many like all those like suggestive graphic tees had abercrombie i don't know if it was abercrombie or if it was like i think it was like all those places like hollis like but it was always like you know i don't know maybe i shouldn't say too much but like you know woody surf shop and it was like where we can wax your board and

like all this weird stuff like like all these like sixth graders were wearing them it was like where we can wax your board and like all this weird stuff like like all these like sixth graders were wearing them i was like i don't really understand what that means but i could tell it's not appropriate and i'm surprised your mom was down yeah for you exactly buy that for you yeah i was in pack sun and there was a whole section that was just play boy themed really and i did like the thought of just me being so innocent and like buying this for like a like like a nephew or something like that. Bunny. You like to play.

You're always playing. I got you a playboy t-shirt. Isn't that awesome? Get it for like a six year old. You're a big game fan. So yeah. Yeah. You're a play.

You're the playboy. It's like, Oh boy. Bo turns one this week. So maybe playboy. He loves to play. Will you do that? Actually?

Will you get him a playboy thing? It'd be like, he loves games and what just watch katherine's reaction like dude that reminds me we'll get back to the mall so brad and i when we had people over friday and uh we played quiplash which brad frick that game funny guy witty guy not with quiplash not no your game no no it was an off night i don't know what was going on i i think i had been up since like five that morning or something. It was not your night. I was just, I couldn't think of anything.

Like the whole time. I played that game four or five times. I own it. Play it. I own it. I couldn't think of anything. Like there were multiple times where I was like, this is so bad. There was one.

What was the one where you're. I got zero multiple times. I got quit, which is like what happens when you get. Do people know Quit Blast? Should we explain that real quick? We've talked about it before. Cause I think I talked about when I played with Harrison, but yeah, quick explanation. Basically it's just this game that we play on your phones and the prompt shows up on

the TV and it'll say like, it'll, it'll have a prompt for you. Hey, uh, you know, what is one thing that Donald Trump might say when he's about to be put down in his casket? I don't know. That's a bad idea. But, and then you like each put a punchline in there and people vote on the punchlines one, one on one. So, so there's only one or two options every time. And you just vote on one or the other, like the room does. And so

then you see how many people vote for each one. And multiple times people just straight up did not vote for my single vote. And there was like 10 people in the room. Yeah. There was one. It was like, I remember your answer, but not the prompt. What was your one for a homemade pillowcase? It was so bad. Dang it. I don't remember that. I know.

I was, I was like trying to think. I was, I don't know, dude. Oh, it was funny. What was that? Oh, it was, it was something that was like something you don't want to be homemade. Name something in your house that you don't want to be homemade. And I don't know why, but I put pillowcase. I was just trying to think outside the box.

Like what, what's a good answer for that? You have like 40 seconds to like answer two prompts. So you do get a little nervous at sometimes. Cause I don't ever want to be the guy that doesn't answer it at all. You got to give him something. Yeah. So I gave him pillowcase. No, but it was great.

What I was just saying, my reaction to like maybe getting like bow playboy like what what was like you and i both when they were like the prompt would be like an inappropriate name for a summer camp and then you had that was your one good answer the night and it got a couple like woes from the room you're like it would be a bad name yeah exactly i was like look at the title of this thing it's inappropriate and then a couple rounds later i had one that was like an inappropriate name for Girl Scout cookies. And I could feel the room be like, yeah. And I was like, it would be inappropriate, guys. I'm not.

I don't think we should call it that. That's the tough part about it. Yeah. I don't want to say this. It would be wrong. I'm trying to answer it as truthfully as possible. That would be so inappropriate. A bad camp name would not be Camp Muddy Water.

You know, that's bad. That's fine. Anyway, it would be so inappropriate. A bad camp name would not be Camp Muddy Water. That's not that bad. That's fine. Anyway. It would be something else. Yeah, it would be something else. Which you won't repeat. I won't repeat it. Maybe.

Never mind. Oh, gosh. It was fun, though, for the most part. Yeah. It was a good time. I was dry, though. I could not think of anything. But I feel like some of the other prompts that I didn't get, I thought, I thought we're pretty, I was like, I could have said something better than that.

Oh, I was just struggling the whole night. Oh, fun game though. Anyway, back to the mall. I decided that I am going to become a smell good boy. I want to, I want to smell good. I haven't put on cologne since high school, but it's time. Good. So that was one of the things I went to the mall to do. Okay. I used to think Abercrombie had some nice smelling cologne. Bless you. Yeah. I used to wear Jake from Hollister back in the day. I remember that's not great. So did you find something? I go to, uh, dude. Yeah. Oh yeah. I go to Dillard's and everything's in French or Latin or something. You know, I don't understand any of this.'s hope it's not latin i if i was a betting man i would assume that this saleswoman in dillard's is making about eight thousand percent

commission off of cologne sales based on the way she was treating me she was just hovering unbelievable i've never been accosted like that like not on the street somewhere i think indoors that's the most it's ever been that's kind of just the mall's reputation in general this wasn't like a kiosk though this is like i'm in dillard's yeah and i just walked it like i'm i'm fresh through the security gates and it says hello sir would you like to smell better than you do right now you know i'm like whoa hey hey hey and then yeah she was all over me for five minutes wow smell this smell this smell this you would like this let me put this on your neck smell this oh my gosh you're like this is ruining the experience for me yeah so did you end up getting one you find it was so expensive yeah no way but it lasts a long time

does it and they have payment plans i'm just kidding you can get 20 credit card right now so i ended up going to this kind of fun end up going to perfume galaxy there's a place just straight up called perfume galaxy yeah it's a rush when you walk in god bless the mall what a place was it planning on going to perfume galaxy didn't know that was a store yeah no big sign out front 30 off inside all dark like it's like cosmic style like it's like cosmic bowling but for perfume sales the stars you put on your room when you're like 11 let's get those it's got like glow-in-the-dark perfume so uh this girl working there and i'm a pretty decisive person in general when i'm shopping i'm like let's get in and out like i'm ready to just make a decision and like i will justify it later

i don't need to like see every option it's like hey i want some cheap cologne this smells good she's like great how much you want to spend i'm like i don't even know what cheap is let's say 35 she's great she gives me three options i pick perfume galaxy that's that's you're a king you're literally i honestly don't know i don't know if that was high end for perfume galaxy i just set a price yeah uh but oh we're making some small talk while she's you know getting my my cologne ready yeah she's unlocking like the cage in the back for 35 dollars gotta go to the safe for the 35 dollar one and i'm trying to make i wish we could go back and see exactly what i said but it was something like uh you know how long you've been working at

perfume gal you know how long you've been in the in the galaxy yeah yeah and uh she's like four years and that was way longer than i was expecting it's like a career job for you i was like dang that's awesome like good for you and then i was like i bet you're pretty nervous when uh you know covid came around you know and then you started hearing about the symptoms then I was like, I bet you're pretty nervous when, you know, COVID came around, you know, and then you started hearing about the symptoms. And she was like, what? I was like, you know, you lose your sense of smell. Like what happened?

What would happen if that happens to you? And she's like, well, I mean, they give us time off. Like if we get sick and like, no, but like for the sales aspect. Yeah. Yeah. But like you, you smell for a living. Like what? Like I know friends who still can't smell.

Yeah. And she was like, oh, well, like, I mean, I'm like not, I'm like not i'm like the assistant manager so like i can i'm like okay we're not all right i'll just take the comedian so i'll take the nautica and the cool blue thing and i'm out of here yeah i'll take eddie bauer oh the toilet number five i'm out of here oh man that was just my my weekly bomb in person. I mean, it really did not go well. And she was not having any of it. She didn't understand that you were making a joke.

That was the issue, right? It didn't understand. Yeah. It's like, I'm not legitimately concerned for your career or well-being. I'm just trying to be like, hey, this is a current event that is like an event diagram of our lives. You smell things. I know about this virus. Let's talk about it.

Yeah. She didn't want to talk about it. But it sounds like, Hey, if you're looking for a job, perfume galaxy gives, they have great time off. Great PTO. Great. Yeah. Uh, galaxy is not scared of COVID. Yeah. They, they face it head on. So, uh, I had some good times in the mall this week, dude, the mall, God bless them all. You know, like it's just, especially that one, the one that you went to is like the one in Kansas city that actually has survived. I feel like every other mall in Kansas city has gone down, you know, and this one like is pretty good. Like it's great. I mean, where I'm from, we didn't have two story mall. So this is like, man, I feel like I'm missing

stuff constantly. I'm not seeing things that are there. Do you remember a blue canoe back in the day at K-Life? Oh, I forgot about that. Uh, back in the day we would like all dress up and people would try to find us in the mall. It was so much fun. Wow. I love dressing up and like going into skies and just walking the rush that you get when you're, when you're like in spirit gum, like a mustache walking past somebody and they don't recognize you is just amazing. Like I would never shy away from the people. I would walk right towards them. That was a fun game. It was like a secret agent style game. It was like, we give the kids like a, it was like a America's most wanted list. I'm like, this is who you're looking for.

This is what they look like. And it's like, they might know Brad, they might know these people, but it's like, I remember getting old Glenn Higgins. Oh yeah. And, uh, yeah. Like one of my friends from college in the area, like him and his wife were there. Like no one knows Glenn and Carrie Higgins. So they have to like memorize them. And yeah, it was so fun. I remember like leaders would go all out, like didn't like Laura Gabriel or Chandler Mann like fake pregnancy for it. Like it was pushing a stroller.

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there was the only place you could get like legit facial hair was from this like novelty, we'll call it, a store called the Red Garter. Novelty is a good word. Yeah. A place you would buy bachelorette items. And it was called the Red Garter. And it was always so weird like a lot of lace it was a joke like you had to bring an accountability partner in there whenever you're buying these fake beards uh but they had like legit like good beards true

like human hair beards like um and we always like went all out for all our skits and stuff so we get all these things and so once a year the programs people will go to the red garter and buy this stuff and just keep eyes straight ahead towards the beards. But, um, then I wanted to get a good fake mustache for this blue canoe thing one time. And so my thought process was like, well, you know, these kinds of places will have it. And so I called the, like I called Priscilla's and I was like, Hey, uh, I'm just looking for a fake mustache. I didn't know if you guys sold those. Do you guys have those there? And the way that the woman just judged me on the phone.

Uh-oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh. I see now. If I get judged by this woman, she's like, no, we don't have that. You freak. If they think I'm a freak, that's just the new love for me. Oh, no. Yeah, you're so innocent. If they think I'm a freak, that's just the new low for me. Oh, no. Yeah.

You're so innocent. Just like Hattie has this character in this cool play. So you're trying to dress up. Hey, do you have schoolgirl dresses? Sir. Sir. No. Schoolgirl dresses with a nice reddish brownish beard as well.

What? Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. So it was awkward. That's your mall story, huh? Yeah. I'm done with them all. That was it. Uh, I have some stories that are actually relayed from Catherine. They happened to Catherine. I was there. I really wanted her to like record an audio and we could have listened to it, but she was like, no, I'm uncomfortable doing that by myself. So I'm just going to tell it. Uh, the first one is the other day I was reading to Hattie in the living room. Catherine was on like FaceTime in

our room and our room like, uh, has a window towards this main side street that a lot of people go down. And I hear Catherine talking and then all of a sudden she like, and, and Bo's kind of like walking back and forth in the hall. And all of a sudden I hear her like scream, like, Oh my gosh, Brad, Brad, you have to come here right now. And so of course I do. And I was thinking like Bo's like making his first steps or something like, wow, Bo did something really cool. Or Bo got into something and I need to help him. And Catherine goes, I was sitting here talking to Terrell, her sister. and this woman stopped at the stop sign over there got out of her car pulled her pants down

and urinated in the street that's awesome that she saw that what are you just got back in her car and left she's like you see that puddle right there urine yeah that's pee and i was like what like i still can't believe i i don't i don. And she said like the car was like a nicer car. Like she was wearing Abercrombie. The woman looked pretty normal though. She said, she's like, you would like, she was floored by it. Did she hang onto the door for like, for stabilization? I don't understand how women, I don't, I don't know enough.

She had to hang on. I don't want to know enough. I want to know. Like, I don't know if they can aim. And so there goes the ding. I think they can aim a little bit you think yeah you think it's like us aiming our poo if it was liquid you can aim your what like it's just the direction it's facing a little bit yeah it's not like it's just like a football like boing and yeah anywhere it's not like the thing on the railroad tracks that determines like which side of the track you gotta go left or right.

They don't have one of those. They don't have a rudder. Okay. As far as I know. Yeah. The gravity still works with down there. Yeah. Yeah.

So I think they could somewhat. Okay. Yeah. I just, yeah. Anyway, that's the end of the story. I don't think there's much more to it, but I hated that. I hate the idea of that happening. So Catherine's just been glued to our window ever since.

And I was kidding. I had an actual Fox in my street this week. That's it. That's it. It was pretty cool though. What time? As soon as I opened my front door, I'm looking at a fox. Like I timed it perfectly.

Like 10 seconds earlier, 10 seconds later, I don't see the fox. Open the front door, there's a fox. Was it early or late? It was afternoon. There were actually some other details going on that i was like i would like to i was in a hurry so it's like i can't stay here but like a woman from across the street was like kind of jogging towards the fox's direction and there was a weird noise coming from her backyard so it's like worst case scenario if i want to put all these pieces together and say

it's not a coincidence it's like this fox just did something to like her dog yeah and now she's chasing after the fox or this is all just a coincidence i don't know what's happening i got to get my car right now i can't around, but this fox is on the move. Yeah. Cause I feel like if it's an afternoon fox, it's, there's something wrong with it. Yeah. We were talking to neighbor Judy. We're like, we saw a fox and she's like, Oh, is he back?

He used to come around all the time. And we're like, Oh, that's weird. Like the fox used to roam around his neighborhood. Like how strange. She's like, yeah, I don't know what brought him here. We get talking a little bit later. She's like, you know, I stopped feeding feeding them so maybe that's why he hasn't come around like well yeah that's why he came around that's what happens i don't know why we kept

getting all these foxes i don't know why i have this pet deer in my backyard joe white that's because i'm feeding them sure or like the raccoons uh dim checks raccoons uh yeah neighbors raccoons yeah um well that kind of leads me into another story i have another one that katherine just screamed katherine's not a screamer first of all i've never heard her scream but my gosh oh mice i heard about a mice one time she hates mice is that what we're talking about we got another mouse got another mouse in the house and i just hear her she does not like mice and she tried really really really hard not to like scream too loud because it was after the kids had gone to bed but i get it i go in there and she's like standing on our dining table like she's like brad like

there's a mouse oh man and to this day i still like only halfway believe her that it's really a mouse because i haven't seen it yet and then the second time like she that happened and then later on that night like she went and got all these traps and stuff and came back yeah right when she walks she's like it's back it's right there like walk out there run out there with a broom trying to like sweep it away or something yeah and it was gone and then we set all these traps nothing's even been touched interesting so i i wife who screamed mouse yeah exactly what's going on i think that maybe she just straight up you know he's seeing things she's just going a little crazy yeah i mean no one else i mean the woman peeing that's a pretty out there story katherine sounds right up anyway uh so one other thing of neighbor judy yeah sweet old woman nice nice old yet yeah uh so judy is um already outside when i am

walking to my car so she's on her front porch and she's kind of waving goodbye to a car pulling out of her driveway and then she kind of waves at me and it's like she starts to say something to me and then just kind of like holds her words and like doesn't say anything i'm like that's kind of weird i mean because she's so friendly like a little bit like too friendly trying to get out of here and we're talking about the weather again okay kind of thing but like that is weird but i still like don't quite get in my car yet and then she's like then she eventually starts talking she's like i'm sorry i've been crying i'm like oh no and uh she's like yeah sorry it's just been kind of a rough day.

I was talking to our neighbor across the street though about maybe having him mow your lawn. So it was like quick change of subjects. I'm like, okay. That's your coping mechanism. Yeah, so we're talking about getting my lawn mowed. And then she goes back to like, sorry, yeah, it's just been kind of a rough day. That car pulling out of the driveway was my grandson

and they're moving to Florida tomorrow. So that was like our last time seeing him for a while. I was like, Oh my gosh, Judy, I'm so sorry. She's like, yeah, he was, we kind of helped raise him. So he feels more like a son to us than a grandson. And you know, they've never lived anywhere other than the Kansas city. And that was them saying goodbye. And Bob and I are just not, not doing too well with it. And I'm just like,

gosh, you know, I don't know what to say, but I'm like, I can't even imagine like, that just sounds awful. I'm so sorry, Judy. Like, let us know if you ever need anything. We still need to have you over for dinner or something we've talked about. Yeah. And she's like, yeah. About that time, uh, Isaac walks out the front porch and now he's out there and Judy is like now saying something again.

She kind of recapping the story. Yeah. It's just going to Florida. Isaac goes, Judy, you're going to Florida. No way. Judy read the room. Isaac, you're going to Florida. Isaac goes, Judy, you're going to Florida? No way, Judy. Read the room, Isaac. You're going to Florida? Woo-wee, Judy.

And I'm like, dude, dude, dude. Stop, stop, stop, stop. See the tone here. See the tears coming down her eyes. I'm like turning around super quickly. Her grandson's moving to Florida. She's really sad about it. I'm trying to get all the information.

Shut up. It's really sad, really sad. She's really sad about it. Like trying to get all the information. Shut up. It's really sad. Really sad. She's crying. She's crying. She's crying. This is laser eye surgery or laser hair remover all over again. It was so good.

Oh, man. Oh, I mean, it was such an Isaac thing to do too. He even said, he's like, that is such a me thing to do. Why did I do that? Because like, it's not consistent. Like Isaac sometimes would do that. And other times he's normal you know that's that's what's so funny about it these are the times he chooses to do

it are often the wrong times like oh no it was so good and judy didn't seem to you know affected by it she was just like no i'm not going to florida my grandson is you know but i was just like you idiot it was awesome so i gave him a con and just put in quotes, you're going to Florida, Judy. Oh, Ike. That's okay. He'll figure it out. Yeah. It was real good. So that's Isaac and Judy. They have kind of a rocky relationship right now, but they'll get back to it. Oh man. Well, I, Tuesday I went and got my laser eye fixed. I told you about this. No more laser eye. Yeah. I'll just look at something and just cut in half. And I think that the doctor is just a

super big weirdo. So I'm going to tell you. This is lip stock? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-oh. I think, what do they say in the office when it's like giant weirdo creep? You know that weirdo creep? Yeah. What is it? It's like, couldo creep you know that weirdo creep yeah what is that it's like could it be i don't know it's ben franklin it's been franklin and the exotic

dancer uh yeah you never think that it turns out yeah ben franklin uh i think so at least i i'm not positive on that's funny um this guy so so a few different things i'm gonna try to impersonate him because i think i like doing impersonations every once in a while and i think i can do a pretty good one of him um who should i be you can be candace her name was candace big lips candace um and i did i did see her uh pre-mask pretty good lips pretty big lips i'll say it like i said something i said something to her out loud yeah um okay Um, okay. Good. Is this good? Is that good? That's fine. Yeah. They're going to distract me. Um, so let me think about exactly what I want to say for, I'll just, I'll just say the first, like just perfect poetic,

poetic justice is not the right word. Perfectly ghost runners thing happened right when I sat down in my first chair. Uh, I, I'm like, what is this like music? It's kind of odd thing to just have going on during, uh, you know, a laser LASIK eye surgery thing. And I swear, I swear, Jake, this is not coincidence. This is not me making this up. The song that was playing was cyclone. Like let's go doc. Like as as it's going it's like and i'm like okay we're just gonna numb you up like we're just gonna numb you up real quick brad a few numbing just go ahead and blink for me and look at that green and i'm just like how is this happening i can't believe it's cyclone yes later on this guy was

like this is flow rider radio like why did you choose and it was like 7 30 in the morning i had the very first appointment of the day um uh so i think this guy's just a weirdo a for that you know and the audacity like like this guy's like i'm so rich that i can play whatever i want in here and it doesn't matter if you want to come here or not you're just gonna be here flow rider radio i mean one like is he listening to the radio or is this like a XM radio? No, I think it's like a Pandora, like Flowrider radio kind of thing. Probably. Yeah. Incredible. Um, so I, I just think that he, he just treats everyone like in a kind of a patronizing tone. So, um, he came and talked to me beforehand and he talks to you like he's teaching a third grade class, I think is what I

would call it. Oh, I don't like that. Like he, so this is how he talks. He goes, okay, Brad, we're just going to go. You, you've been having some issues with your eye, right? We're just going to come in. We're just going to, uh, unwrinkle that thing. It's just gonna, we're going to do some numbing drops. You remember the numbing drops? I was like, of course I remember the numbing drops. Of course I remember the Indies. We're just going to do some numbing drops. You're going to get in that chair. It's going to be great.

And, uh, you know, it might be a little bit scratchy, Brad, but that's okay. Like he uses, he used my name way too many times. It sounds kind of like if Barack Obama was white and even nerdier. The weird Al meets Barack Obama, white and nerdy. And that's going to be okay. Okay. Yeah. He, he, he clapped all nerdy. And that's going to be okay. Okay. Yeah. He, he,

he clapped all the time. That's not good to you. And Brad, I just want to go ahead and have you look at that green light. Good Brad. Good Brad. And I'm like, this is not hard.

I'm just looking at a light. You're affirming me too much. And he, he did the thing where like he was trying to distract me, I think from, cause it was kind of an uncomfortable, it wasn't really painful, but it was like something like, I think he was like scraping around my eye with like a COVID swab,

but you're a pretty sharp thing, you know? And so it, even, even though you're numb, like you're not completely numb, obviously. So you can still feel something like moving around on your eye. And he's like, so Brad, tell me about, tell me about your woodworking, Brad. Do you, do you, do you make lots of tables? I'm like, yeah, I make tables. Just do the thing. I'm fine. I thing i'm fine i'm 30 years old i can take this just just just just figure out my eye i don't need you to do all this for me uh but anyway it ended up being fine he was like it's gonna be really scratchy brad for the rest of the day and uh once that's done though brad you're gonna be you're gonna be doing so well let us know if you have any other questions brad i'm just like okay thank you dean i should have said it over and over again thank you dean i appreciate it dean um but anyway it was it

was it was like it was probably more painful that time than it was like the recovery process than the actual first time the scratchy but i mean i would say i see 90 right now like i i think it's like pretty much healed and really cool so it's pretty crazy how it all works the whole whole technology you were blind and now you can see yeah it's kind of wild wow so anyway if you if anybody wants to go to lasik plus i get a 200 referral so i'll split it with you wow yeah straight up well you'll split it with who the referral person like like if they go get their lasik from lasik plus they get her bucks you get her hundred bucks. That's right. Normally I would just get $200.

Oh, but you're saying. But I'm being a nice guy. Nice guy. Yeah. Okay. Good for you. Thank you. By the way, I want to sell your stuff.

Oh, you do? Yeah. Okay, sweet. Unless somebody already has. No, I haven't reached out to anyone yet. I think it's too easy for me to say no to it. Oh, great. Yeah.

This is great then. I'll give you all my stuff. This is great. I did have several people reach out to me, uh, about wanting to buy some of my pickleball paddles and every single person who reached out, um, it doesn't, I would, they'd be like, Hey, I want to buy your pickleball paddles. And I'm like, great. Like what kind of paddle do you want? Yeah.

The first person said, Oh, I didn't even know there were different types. Yeah. Those people are looking for $20 paddles. That's what I said. I was like, probably just want to go on Amazon. Yeah. And, um, if you sign it though, I didn't mention that. Yeah. Uh, but okay. You can sell my stuff. Okay. I think it'll be easy. Okay. I hope we'll talk. Yeah. Uh, cool. We'll do an auction at the

basketball game for your stuff. That's a halftime show. Wow. The idea of a halftime show is going to be so great. Oh yeah. If we make it to the championship the last time we played a game and then we had like an hour off before the championship. So what if that happens? That would be awesome. Like a meet and greet. Yeah, man. It'd be fun to, or a live show. It's all good. Oh, it's going to be awesome. People, the Swicks are going to come in from Cincinnati for this. Yeah. Knackbacks will be there. Oh, knack backs will definitely be there. Yeah. We just need to Thursday.

Yeah. We need to make sure like, Hey, can we get the six 30 game and the eight 30 championship game, Kansas city on Thursday. And then we really need to win that six. We'll just give the ball. Jordan.

We have Jordan. Yeah. Give the ball to the Italians. Yeah. We'll be fine. Do we need to debrief basketball at all last night? It was, we won by like 25.

It was easy. I, I am more and more frustrated every time i play basketball with myself like i am so out of shape but it's beyond that like i think maybe because i'm so out of shape i'm not good at basketball like if you think those two could be related but like but like like normal things like like i'm i'm like not watching like if i'm playing man man to man, I'm not seeing the basketball. I'm not paying attention to the basketball. Oh, that probably is not being out

of shape. That's probably just like not playing much basketball. Like you never played high school basketball, you know, you ever did shell drill still. But I understand like if, if you're two passes away, you gotta be looking at the playing healthy or whatever. And I'm just so like concerned about, you know, like being able to run with my guy that I just like the ball go right past me. And I'm like, gosh, that's embarrassing. That did not used to happen. Like, anyway, I just, we got to get, we got to get in the gym more. Yeah.

We got to get, we got to do shell drill. That's what it sounds like. That sounds fun. I like that. It's not. Okay. No one likes shell drill. It's boring.

Okay. Well, I want to do, I want to do some drills. Yeah. Okay. We'll do some shell drill. Whatever they are. But yeah, the game itself was fine. The other team was really, really bad. Yeah. I think that do some drills. Yeah. Okay. We'll do some shelter, whatever they are. But yeah, the game itself was fine. The other team was really,

really bad. Yeah. I think that made us play like, like when you play somebody that doesn't really know how to play basketball, it just felt like this big clump of people the whole time. Did you feel like that to you? Oh,

I don't think I noticed it too much. It just seems so easy to score. I mean, anyone could have taken the shot at any given time. Yeah. Every possession. Yeah. I shot once all night just cause like,

I don't like tell, tell that story. That was a good story. I mean, it was just basically, the shot at any given time yeah every possession yeah i shot once all night just because like i like tell tell that story that was a good story i mean it was just basically it wasn't even until the second half i didn't even take a shot you know just we're pretty much getting fast breaks every time down to the floor so there's not much offense but second half you know ball gets kicked out to me top of the key even before i'm shooting it i'm already saying like uh-oh first shot of the night here we go and then top of the key I swish a three and then the whole way down the court oh don't let me get hot bingo I don't know why I said bingo I said bingo right from bingo door prize door prize yo and then Jordan to me after the

game was like yeah I don't think the guy guarding you really liked that they didn't have much of a sense of humor he'll be fine except for there was one guy that literally had the exact same color jersey on as all the refs. That was great. Who's got ref? Yeah. Like the refs don't wear black and white. They wear like these like KC Crew jerseys. And this guy literally, there was one time where we like let him get the rebound because we thought it was the ref.

I was like, oh gosh. I thought it was out of bounds and the ref was grabbing it. Yeah. And you said one time, who's got ref? And one of the other players thought that was really funny. Okay. Yeah. I mean. But that was about the only interaction. I was going to say, who's got ref? And one of the other players thought that was really funny. Okay. Yeah. I mean.

But that was about the only interaction. I was going to say that's about one for 50 on me saying things and them laughing. There was kind of a pretty boy that made like a few really deep threes. And I started calling him Fidel. He didn't think that was funny. I was like, who's got Fidel? I didn't get any reaction from anybody. Yeah.

I kept trying. I kept trying. I had like three different people guard me all night and i couldn't break the wall yeah i couldn't break it it's like your niece in a car ride it's just a brick wall of feelings yeah it's tough but playing with jordan i just reminded how fun it is because he like really wanted me to like i was missing everything i was missing everything but he was like still like we're gonna get you one we're gonna get you one and so it's just so fun to play with him.

Cause he just knows how to find everybody that's open. And I'm not going to say the second half was exactly like a make a wish foundation event, but we did go several possessions waiting for Brad to hit a three and he did hit it. And we all celebrate. Yeah. Oh man. Well, Gunner, of course, like Gunner. So like such a coach, like Gunner loves like

telling you, like when we play pickleball, Gunner's always like, do this, you need to do that. I'm always like Gunner. Okay. I know I messed up. I don't know if I get coached by Gunner that much. Oh, you should pay attention to it. I bet you'll maybe just coaching you. No, I think it's everybody. Really? Yeah. Gunner, get back to me. Do you coach me? And I don't notice. I just block you out. Yeah. Yeah. I know what I'm doing. Maybe it is me. I don't know. But a lot of times I'm like, I know I messed up. Like, you don't have to, hey, next time that comes to you,

hit it over the net. It's like, yeah. No, he doesn't say that. Wasn't Gutter the one who described us the sweet spot on the paddle one time? Yes, yes, exactly. He's like, yeah, if you hit it right in the middle, it just hits a little bit better.

We're like, okay, Gutter. He didn't say exactly that, but he said something similar enough to where we can make fun of him for that. That was the paraphrase. Like, yeah. So're like, okay, gutter. He didn't say exactly that, but he said something similar enough to where we can make fun of him for that. That was the paraphrase. Like, yeah. So anyway, last night it was like a simple thing. And I think, so we play on these like regulation, like courts. I don't know if they're NBA size, but they're like college size courts. Yeah. I would say 88 feet. Yeah. And so they have like two different lines for three pointers or three high school college. Yeah. And so I think the old place, we were always playing high school lines for threes.

And so I was always, but I was keep trying to do the college lines last night and I was missing, you know, short every time, but I was like, we'll say 80% of the time I was online. There was one time I missed pretty bad. Um, and Gunner just goes, just move up like a half an inch. And that's when I, the next shot, I made it. So all Gunner had to say was, cause there's something mental about like, you don't want to be the wiener that shoots from the high school line.

You know what I mean? Don't you, do you feel that? I don't even know if people would notice. I'm not looking at people. But do you, but do you do it yourself though? Is what I'm saying? Like, like if you were about to shoot a three and you see both lines, what would you do? Oh yeah.

I'm stepping back. Yeah, exactly. Like there's like some pride about like, I don't want to shoot up here. Yeah. And they say the worst shot in basketball is with your feet on the three point line. Yeah. Long two pointer. Yeah.

Yeah. So, so that's what like in my head, I was like, I can just figure out how to change my stroke a little bit. I used to have the squat max. I can get the ball there. I can get there. I know I can. Yeah.

Oh my gosh. And every time I would miss Scott would just say, use more legs. That's. I know I can. Yeah. Oh my gosh. And every time I would miss, Scott would just say, use more legs. That's what I was saying too. Yeah. That's fair. That's being out of shape. Yep.

But anyway. All right. Well, that's basketball talk. I have at least one other story I want to tell you, Brad, and then a couple other,

you know, auxiliary things from the week. But I am at Chipotle Mexican Grill. I've started weaning back. I've, I've, yeah, you're a wiener. Okay, let's just call it what it is.

You shoot high school threes. Yeah, when you wean yourself off. I'm weaning myself on back to Chipotle. Okay. Like, since the food poisoning. Yeah. Had it a couple times since then. And it's a pretty busy night at Chipotle. Go there, like, right at 7.

My bad. I should have. My bad. No, 7, I think you get the second, or, like, the bottom of the wave. So, I wouldn't have expected that. Oh, well, it was hot. Really? And so, I, you know, second, or like the bottom of the wave. So I wouldn't have expected that. Oh, well, it was hot. Really? And so I, you know, I'm going through,

I didn't do a mobile order. Like I go in, I wait in line for a long time. I do my order. I'm at the register now. I'm at the end of the line. And she's like, all right, so you had the two bowls? And I was like, no, I had a Chipotle, or I had Chipotle.

Is this Panera? I had a chicken burrito with queso. She was like, can't find it um I'm not seeing that anywhere how did it where did it go and it was like I was you know like you you're with like a good magician yeah it's like this is your card right this is your card and then like boom it's different it's like how did you I know that was just my card how is it gone yeah yeah I follow that thing I keep my eyes on the whole yeah three card money yeah this was like somehow I mean Harry Houdini was working at Chipotle that night.

It was crazy. The sleight of hand, how this like avoided all of us and no one knew where it was. She's like, oh, I bet I put it in that mobile order bag. Let me go get it. She goes to get it. Someone has already swooped in a second. Houdini has now gone and already got the mobile order bag. So now my burrito is gone.

They have to make a new one for me. I see like, okay. Not a non-worker went and got the mobile order. Yeah. Like they just picked hers up instantaneously. That's crazy. So just like that, I don't have a burrito. And like I said, that person got the wrong went and got the mobile order. Yeah, like they just picked theirs up instantaneously. That's crazy. So just like that, I don't have a burrito. And that person got the wrong burrito in their mobile order.

I think they just get bonus burrito. Oh, good for them. Nice. So now, like I said, it's very crazy. This is already holding up the line. Like this whole process, like where is my burrito? I don't want to pay for a burrito yet if I don't have one. And so like, I guess we'll have to remake you one then.

So now I'm at the end of the line by the register having to yell through my mask, my order, which my order is already a little embarrassing anyway. Because it's so simple. It's so minimal. Every time, like, is that it? I'm like, yes, I already said that's it. Anything that's white and brown, that's what I want. Everything else, keep it over there.

No color. Yeah. And so I'm having to yell, throw my mask across 10 other people. Burrito, you know, brown rice. Oh my gosh. And it was just brutal. And it was so embarrassing. And I finally get up there, pay for it.

And there was something. Oh yeah. So I pay for it. She's like, you want anything else? I'm like, yeah, I'll take a medium drink as well. Gives me the drink. Thank you. Have a nice night.

Thanks. You too. Walk away. Oh, sir, sir, sir, sir. Can you come back, please? Like, what now? She's like, you still have $2.57 to pay. I was like, I didn't use a gift card. She's like, yeah, um,

I don't know. This didn't charge you your drinks the first time? It still says you have $2.57 that you owe. I was like, I've never heard of this. Will you use a credit card? It's a credit card. How did I, what, I do it in segments? Am I financing this burrito? How did I do this on this thing? I have no idea what happened. I'm like, I'm pretty sure I'm being overcharged for this, but like, I've already held up the line long enough. Like

just, just swipe it and whatever. What? I mean, it was like my, it was like my chase credit card was a, was a gift card. Like, ah, you'll hit $11 on it. So that was scratch off the pin on the back of your car. Yeah. What? So then I go get a drink and then there's no ice. But at this point I'm like, I'm not saying anything now. I will, I will take it with no ice. It was quite the cherry on top. It was a, it was a rough Chipotle experience, but yeah, we've had some bad issues at a Chipotle lately as well. Chipotle lately. The one by our house, just like the last two times we've got, it just has not had any flavor to the point where Catherine's like,

I'm kind of done with Chipotle. Really? And that's like a big barrier in our marriage is like the fact that she's not wanting to eat Chipotle. She's not wanting to give it a try. So which was, was this Johnson drive? This one's Johnson drive.

Yeah. And that was like the one that I always rely on as being really good. So I don't know what to do anymore. Hmm. I saw, or I went to Chipotle yesterday, downtown, like a, like heart of downtown power and light power and light. Yeah.

Yeah. It was good. That's a tough one. Cause you can't park close. Can you? Nope. That's the annoying thing. Yeah.

It's not convenient, but it's fun. I did go. And I saw Kelly who said, sometimes she listens to the podcast. Hey, good to see ya. Um, the, there's another Chipotle a little bit farther west of us that has a drive-thru. I'm excited about that. Which one? It's like, you know where the Home Depot and the Target and all that stuff is off Shining

Mission Park? Super Target? Yeah. Oh, that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like brand new and has a drive-thru. I cannot wait. We're going to hit that up.

We usually go to Chipotle or Sunday after church for lunch. And lightly Catherine's not been feeling it, but we're going to try out the old D through. So I don't know how it works. I don't know if it's like a drive through only if you have like mobile order or if you can just order everything. Order. Yeah.

Oh, it's going to be awesome. That's sweet. Good for them. Oh, here's speaking of drive through today. I went to Starbucks and Catherine, I picked up something for Catherine in the drive

through and she's got a little bit more of a complicated order these days. Like she figured out exactly the kind of drinks she liked where it's not too sugary, but it tastes really good. And like, I was really worried about like sounding like, you know what, on the office, whenever Ryan's like, I'll take blah, blah, blah with two maraschino cherries. Oh, that's still going on, huh? Yeah, exactly. And a light beer or something like that. Um, but these people did not flinch at all with my order and maybe it wasn't that complicated, but maybe I'm just curious, like if anybody else out there has ever, like, like, like what's the most complicated thing you've ever ordered at Starbucks? Let me tell you what I ordered. And I ordered a slowly, so maybe, but I ordered a grande vanilla latte, half calf with two pumps and oat milk.

I mean, yeah, there's definitely some like, there's some tears to that. Yeah. There's a couple of tags on that. And they're like immediately. Okay. That's 597, which is way too much money for a coffee, but that's fine. It's for my wife and I love her. But yeah, let us know.

I know we have a lot of baristas who listen to the pod. Let us know. Like, when does it start to become, all right, this is annoying. This is troublesome. This is complicated. Like, let us know the tiers for you. Like what stumbles you up? Like what trips you up? What's tricky. And also just what's like, so pretentious and just like, oh yeah, that doesn't even make a difference. And I still have to do this for you or, you know, whatever. Yeah. I'm just, I was like, cause I think it's getting more and more normal that people have these really specific things at Starbucks, but. What do you get at Starbucks? I'm a big iced caramel macchiato guy.

I saw, uh, where, Oh, I think I went to Jack in the box last night and they were advertising a nice little iced caramel macchiato. I was like, that looks good. Dude, when's the last time you've been to Jack in the box? Never once. Okay. I hadn't been in a while and I was, cause Isaac's like, I've never been, I want to go. I'm like, dude, they have everything. And I'm trying to tell them. And then I can see the menu. I'm like, I forgot how much everything is. Let me just, it's like super cheap, right? I don't know price. Yeah. I mean, it's fast food, but it's the variety. Oh, okay. I thought you said, okay. When you said how much everything is. Oh, sorry. Like, yeah. Like the word everything. Yeah. When I said that, I didn't realize. Yeah. Yeah. So just from memory, we're

talking cheesecake, right? Just to start just, first of all, just cheesecake in a fast food place. Tacos. I know they have tacos. They have tiny tacos. Yeah. Onion rings, pancakes. They serve breakfast all day. Like you can get them a griddle or not. Pan, cheese. Yeah. Any kind of cake. Yeah. I mean, you can get, yeah. Sausage and bacon and pancakes at 11 PM. You can get a quesadilla. You can get, obviously, like a hamburger. You can get chicken tenders. They got curly fries, which the curly fries are pretty good. Okay. Only curly fries or they have like five different varieties of fries?

I think they have just normal fries and curly fries. Okay. They have, dang it, what else are all? I should have wrote it. I wasn't planning on talking about this. I don't remember. But just like crazy variety. I mean, everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just everything you can imagine. You can get a Jack in the Box. It's awesome. All day, too. Like wasn't planning on talking about this. I don't remember. But just like crazy variety. I mean, everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just everything you can imagine. You can get a Jack in the Box. It's awesome. All day too. Like it's like no matter what. And they're open 24 hours. Catherine said she used to go a lot after her youth group back in the day

when they would get those three for a dollar tacos or something like that. Really? It's crazy. But yeah, I've never, it seems like a really gross place to me. Yeah. I don't think it's that great.

Are you going to, is it going to be Isaac's new thing? I didn't even get anything. Isaac has new things, you gonna is it gonna be isaac's new thing i didn't get anything new things you know yeah this could be isaac's new thing yeah he uh he found a some popcorn chicken box that he liked so could be the new thing so it's like sonic but not as much of a drive in it's more of a drive through yeah probably sonic has so many random things like that they got french toast sticks yeah yeah exactly jack the box has got a pretty wide variety though. Surely that's, that's not the right business model. Like you think about all the most successful places. It's pretty simple. I'm talking like, like the places that always have the crazy, like Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A is a little bit complicated, but not really. No raising canes, Chipotle in and out, in and out has like four

things on there. Yeah. That's great. That's the answer, Jack in the Box. Yeah, I remember Brian Regan when he was on Comedians in Cars getting coffee. They sit down at a place and they look at the menu and he's like, you know when a place serves a little bit of everything, they do it all great. Yeah, exactly. There's no way there's like not half these things at least are very mediocre, below average, or like have been in their freezer for two months. And they're like, okay, you want the popcorn chicken? chicken yeah we'll heat that thing up for you sure so yeah anyway uh

also this week brad i'm trying to think where to go next we got some some more updates from grant and lauren on the on the t-shirt uh idea and everything i'm gonna play um i guess all the voice memos from grant grant sent me a lot yesterday heck yes um so i'll just let you listen you're mentioned a lot okay oh fun yake um bad girl lore lore just took me through the seg from the week's pod um so many briefs um we're driving in enid oklahoma currently to go look for a space for big lots so you didn't think they were expanding um i love the shirt idea again i think that expanded even better i don't know brad will hear this or not but if there is a shirt made i feel like I will invite the Ellis's to the wedding.

Like a lot of extra pressure. I also just love to have them there in general. This is more like me verbally processing now, but Brad and I have had a lot of fun at weddings like the Sloan's in Orlando where we drove two hours to Hard Rock Casino after. But in general, love the shirt idea. I had another idea of if all y'all come, we do like a Ghost Runners contest where the winner and their plus one get alls to come to the wedding. Only requirement would be that you wear your suit with like the t-shirt

under it. Look and like Brad and Catherine do the same and then the ghostie and the plus one also do that. Lauren, thoughts? We'll see. It's looking pretty good. I love that.

Like a giveaway. Like a sweepstakes for access to this wedding. Go to a wedding that Jake and Brad will be at also. That's awesome. Yeah. So that's something he sent for. I'm trying to think which other ones would pertain to. And he was just texting me.

He didn't know I was going to play this on the podcast, but we'll see. Also, Australian money. We definitely did not get any form of currency. Yeah. So I was kind of vibing with you there. I think everywhere we went, though, would just, like, convert it where it's like, oh, it's 100 AUD,

so it's like 112 USD. Oh, okay. So automatically. AUD automatically. I was wondering about the nose ring girl and when we did the bungee jump, so hopefully that doesn't get brought up. What was... Who is that? the bungee jump so hopefully that hasn't get brought up what was

what's the story there bonus there uh grant was really uh digging this girl this new zealand girl who because he was not gonna bungee jump at all but then this girl in a nose ring uh was the saleswoman and she really won him over. You just couldn't get enough of that nose ring. Can't say no to the girl with the nose ring. Can't say nose ring. So, yeah. And I made a video that day. And Grant was kind of just playing it for the camera.

But he's like, man, she had a nose ring. What was I supposed to do? What do you want me to say? Yeah. So, yeah. So, he's bringing it up. He's like, I haven't told Lauren yet about the girl with the nose ring. Is that it?

Yeah. I'll just play those two. So, I knew i didn't convert my money australians just take us confirmed yeah i knew it yeah that makes sense everyone loves the dollar sure it's like on parks and rec i think he's like this is the greatest piece of paper ever made like you will accept this yeah it's a gift card to anything you want that's right uh yeah we went to yeah we drove two hours, just Grant and I, I don't know if it was, was it a full two? It was from Orlando to Tampa, however long that was. Oh, that's like from East coast to West coast of Florida. Is it? Yeah, pretty much. Um, and

yeah, we were trying like so many people before, like during the wedding, we're like, yeah, we're, we're in, we're in. And then by the time it actually comes around and they realize how far away it is, they're like, no, we're not going. So Grant and I just drove by ourselves and we bumped the song Busy Earning. You know that song? No. Oh, it's awesome. Is it nice?

Yeah. We'll play it at the end of this episode. It's kind of old school style. Old school ghost hunter style. But man, it's a fun song. He was like, dude, we got to listen to this as we're going in the casino. It's perfect. It's a really fun song.

So I'm really actually glad that no one else did come with us because Grant and I are a little more experienced at the casino. We're a little bit higher rollers than some, and we get there and every single table, minimum $25 a hand. And so like, if these people that were kind of on the fence about going to casino came, there's no way they would have played it. Yeah. Now they have to buy in with $400 probably to play blackjack. Yeah. I made, I think I made like 500 bucks that night. And I think Grant like lost some money at first and then left the table and then came back like up like $300. He's like, dude, I was just playing war over there. I was like war. Like he's like, yeah, they get it. They get a hard card. You get a card. And if your card's bigger, win you're playing 25 a hand at war and we each left and

drove another two hours back winners so i remember grant and i played a version of blackjack in vegas uh where it was like it was like one of those like it's not quite normal blackjack it was like the dealer doesn't bust until he gets 22 yeah or something but you can also get to something like that and oh man we lost money so fast those are are always rigged, right? It's like, oh, it seems so easy. No, yeah. No, my favorite one is you can play Blackjack Switch. Have I talked to you about that? Oh, yeah. So much fun, dude. We got to go. There's this one place in Vegas on the strip called Casino Royale. It's like where dreams go to die. But you can play $5 a hand Blackjack Switch. And it's awesome. I remember my dad always telling a story when he went to Vegas, he played a version called double exposure where you can

see both the dealer's cards. He's like, how could I lose? There's something, but you push on 22 or something like that. The catch is if you push, you lose. And he said, you would not believe how many times we pushed in that night. Yeah. Just screaming. How do we tie again? Because you have too much confidence. Like, okay, she's got 20. I have 16. I have to hit this or whatever. Yeah. You start doing weird things. You're like, you have 20, they have's got 20 i have 16 i have to hit this or whatever yeah you start doing weird things you're like you have 20 they have 20 you're like i have to hit oh yeah you know like this sucks oh i didn't think about that yeah true it's like that's where it gets you yeah wow that's interesting but anyway sweepstakes for grant lawrence wedding uh we'll be there and i think the move is i or you probably me though i have to put my watch on someone's wrist that night and carry on the tradition.

Yes. Kind of like a garter toss, but we're doing the watch throw and the girls are not like this exactly, but you know, the girls have like their arms ready to like have a watch thrown on them. I like that a lot. It's like a carnival game. Like I'm throwing the rings around the two leaders. Yeah.

Got a big old watch. I'm just like, love it. Frisbee-ing it. Wow. Well, this is fun. I feel like a lot of this episode has been great segues. Like you, you say something and I'm like, I got something to add to that. Perfect. Um, so he talked about the t-shirt thing. I actually worked a little bit on the t-shirt this week. Didn't finish it or really didn't really find a design I liked, but just today I have been working

and we need to figure out how to get it live by the time we get this on here, but I've made some new t-shirt designs. Oh, okay. And I figured out I'm learning about this for the first time. Yeah. Yeah. And that's the thing we could talk about him. You're like, I don't like any of these. Uh, a lot of them are just classics. I'm going to show them to you real quick, but I figured out this website where I think we can just like not have to worry about it nearly as much as we did the first time i would like it's literally just like they order it it gets sent to this website that they ship it off yeah like everything's there so it's pretty much done once we design it so let me show you these and you can tell me what you think okay oh i have a few and i'm some of them are more cool than others but okay i noticed whenever i took your phone to start recording the bottom left image, you know, like your most recent picture. I'm like, why is our logo? He's

like most recent image. I just, I just like look at that to like meditate on it before we record. It gets me in the right headspace. Uh, Ooh, the, the marathon tee. That's, that's, that's nice. It's simple. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like that you named it. Thank you. And then, Oh, you're you reverse or you're, um, uh, what's that called? That's how it. Thank you. And then, oh, you reverse or you're. Oh, I am. What's that called? Because that's how it used to be. Inverted. Inverted.

That's how the MacBook used to be on the school. Trey is like that too. You're even inverted side to side. Freak. Inverted side to side. I don't know. Yeah. Oh, I can't.

Oh, I can't scroll. I'm having such a hard time. I'm sorry. Ghostrunner Summer Tea. Yeah. A little summer colors action for you oh classic oh well what is the vibe oh the vibes tea dude yeah so somebody made us this uh oh gosh i'm sorry i don't remember your name off the top of my head i've never seen this before he made us

he took that picture of us in the u-haul that you posted on patreon.com backslash ghost made it into a album cover um and so it's us you it says u-haul vibes if you know you know the simple t is great too dude these are awesome yeah the simple oh the simple one yeah what does it say i it just it's just in uh looks like ghostwriters podcast serif font yeah yeah white t-shirt black writing i listen to the ghostrunners podcast comma every monday morning with jake and brad yeah did you see well Oh, keep going. Okay. The SOTW. That's an idea we had from the get-go.

So it's good that we do that. Yeah. I will say it looks a lot like whenever you use the iMovie, like subtitles, like the default iMovie. That's what I think of. I think that's iMovie. We can figure out fonts. That's my only thought. Oh, that's why you asked me for that picture. This is so funny.

I just see it. Okay. Sorry. Is this fun for you guys to hear me react to things? Oh, that's why you asked me for that picture. This is so funny. Okay, sorry. Is this fun for you guys to hear me react to things? Okay, this is a good time though. Oh, I don't want to spoil it. That's so funny, dude. Dude, thanks for doing all this. This is great.

People are going to love this. I think so too. We got to put this on the Patreon, right? Sure. I think one of the, or yeah, all the tiers. It's like a vote on future merch designs. Like see merch before it comes out kind of thing. So we'll post that to everyone. And then we got a just drink short sleeve version.

Nice. Yeah. And then, dude, this is cool. Yeah. Because yeah, you asked me a couple nights ago for the password, but then I didn't hear anything against. I was like, maybe he didn't end up working on anything. Yeah, well, yeah.

I was just messing with stuff and just fun. They're not comfort colors, which is the, I don't know, back and forth. But from everything I've read, these are really highly ranked. Bella Canvas? Bella Canvas. Are they actually? Yeah, those are great. Those are super soft.

That's like, everyone's like, this is like the standard, basically. Yeah, I think they're a little thinner, but softer than comfort colors yeah i like bella canvas i mean there's different versions of of bc but they're all nice yeah dude that's awesome that gets that fires me up yeah dude hey i don't care that you were an hour late anymore all right totally redeemed yourself oh man okay great dude that's fun so yeah we got some new merch coming for you guys. Okay. Uh, segue, maybe from there, those will probably come from a warehouse. And this next story, uh, I called my dad just to, um, just to check in, you know, just weekly phone call, just like what's going on. And it's like really loud in the background.

It's like eight 30 at night. He's like, Hey, I'm gonna have to call you back. Uh, I'm volunteering at a warehouse until midnight. So I'll just, I'll call you after that. All right. All right. I gotta go. What, what? I haven't talked to him. So I'll call you after that, all right? All right, I got to go. What? I haven't talked to him since.

I don't know what that means. I don't know what. For some reason, it felt like the roles were reversed, and I'm like the empty nester dad. The responsible dad. And I'm like calling my son at college. I'm like, hey, what's going on? And he's like, oh, this crazy thing.

I'll call you back after midnight. And then I'm just like chuckling at my wife. Oh, that boy. He's crazy, he's having a lot of fun. I never know what he's up to these days. You know, that's what it felt like. I trust him. Hey, we've done as much as we can at this point. I trust him. I hope he calls me later, but Hey, yeah, it was weird. It was like, I never got to the bottom of it. Yeah. We keep missing each other. Haven't talked since then, but, uh, he's just volunteering at a warehouse until midnight. What does that mean? Yeah. Is he a big volunteer guy? Like, was it a surprise that he's out doing this stuff? Uh, no. I mean, he does

a lot of nice things for people all the time, but this seemed like official, like I am volunteering like court ordered. Like, do I need to worry about them? Like I should not be on my phone right now. The judge said 10 hours and I'll be fine. Wow. in congruence with my mom's jury duty i'll say that a little conflict of interest yeah uh so that was kind of fun too uh i'll update you guys on the warehouse till midnight whatever that means yeah please do i'll get to the bottom of that yeah wow who like what kind of warehouses could it be men's maybe that's what it was he's just fulfilling orders like he's he's at work he's good he's got a second job he just got a second job he's just yeah fitting i'm at a warehouse dude i told you about the time i got fitted for a suit and uh this korean man just couldn't get

over how much my shoulder blades popped out he was like really upset at me what's wrong what's wrong and he like kept touching my shoulder blades no yeah he was like really upset at me popped out in the back just my shoulder blades i guess just come out a lot of my back i don't know no one's ever told me this before no one's ever told me this afterwards Yeah. He was like really upset at me. Popped out in the back. Just my shoulder blades, I guess, just come out a lot of my back. I don't know. No one's ever told me this before. No one's ever told me this afterwards, but this guy was like annoyed, like really annoyed at me. And I like got frustrated back at him. I was like, I can't help it, dude. Your body shame on my blades. He was so, he would like keep touching my back. What do you want me to do? What's wrong? Stand up straight. Stand up straight. I'm like, I, I don't know. This is my first time getting fitted for a suit. Is this what it's like? I'm never coming back here.

It is kind of intimidating sometimes. It's like, just do it. Yeah, Crenshaw and I went together. It was so fun. He was like getting fitted for probably like work or something. And I was like, it would be nice to have a suit. And it might have been this one, actually. Have we talked about that on this week's podcast?

We're both wearing suits. Yeah, we talked about your tie. Your tie tie. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah. It might have been this suit. But yeah, something wrong. You see?

Well, Crenshaw has like the all-American body too. He's like 6'4". Like, hey, don't compare me to this guy, all right? Just look at me for who I am. Look at him. He tossed Linda. He was so mad at my shoulder blades. Yeah.

And I'd be lying if I said I haven't thought about my shoulder blades a time or two since. And I'm like, do these pop out too much? Yeah, you're a little bit subcon. It's just okay. If you guys come to my basketball game, just don't look at my back. No time or two since then. I'm like, do these pop out too much? Yeah, you're a little bit subcon. It's just okay. If you guys come to my basketball game, just don't look at my back. No, please don't. Look at my front. Only take in my front.

All the front. All the front. Yeah. You can see a lot of my front on our Patreon. We did a little basketball vlog. So for $10 patrons and up, get to see what basketball was like. Yeah, baby. I was wearing maybe not the right shorts.

You got to see my back too. I guess we did zoom in on my front and my back last night. Those shorts are amazing. I feel like I already gave you enough of a hard time, but they were awesome. I bet you could buy those at the mall right now. Oh, yeah. Yeah, South Pole or something.

Paxon, South Pole. I hope not. I hope I'm not wearing anything that you can find at South Pole. Oh, it was amazing. Hey, but you played well in them. One for one. Yeah, I did what I needed to do. Yeah. I guess just one last thing I want to mention this week is just kind of fun. Just work update. Yeah. You know, I spent a lot of time on that video, the train I made, it was like the COVID logic, COVID rules, whatever video we did,

the green screen. I think I downloaded like 95 different images and videos and yeah i really enjoyed that one uh and my friends did too unsolicited they like sent this video and they're like this guy is gold is what this really that's awesome yeah yeah so i just um i felt uh pretty what's the word just attached to that video like i had the idea i was like instead of like the normal teacher stuff with ripping off the, what if you do green screen? And like, it's just opportunity to have way more like jokes. Like the jokes are just, they pack more of a punch and it gives it like more rewatch ability.

I think. Cause it's like, I want to watch that again. And this time focus on not what he's saying, but the images. Yeah. Yeah. And anyway, it's just cool that, uh, it's been Trey's most watched Instagram video of all time. What?

Yeah. And you can like see the metrics. It's been DM'd. And this is just as of two days ago. It's been DM'd a half a million times to people. That's awesome. It's crazy. Like, because that's so much more of an effort, obviously, than just like scrolling through and watching it.

It's like, oh, that was nice. I liked it. Yeah. It was like, I want my friend or my, you know, whoever to see this. I didn't realize it blew up like that. I didn't know either. Trey kept telling me. He couldn't, he just kept refreshing.

I was like, dude, look at this. Like every time I refresh, you know, it's like this. That's awesome. Yeah. So, um, that was just kind of fun. Thank you guys for enjoying it. And, um, yeah, yeah. We'll have to do more like that.

It took forever, but it's cool that it was like, well, just cause it, one aspect is like thinking of like, what do I want to put in the background when we're talking about vaccines and it's like magic Johnson and Dwayne rock Johnson, clever joke. Yeah. And then you have to go find that image and then you have to go put it in. Yeah. There were, there were a few images. I was like, that would have taken a while to find. Like I'm trying to remember some of them, but it was just like, yeah, it was just, I need to watch it again. I'll rewatch it. And then I'll DM all my friends about, we're, we're going to do a video on Monday with Trey.

As in like, I'm going to be in the background of another video. That's going to be fun. Yeah. And I was texting all the bridesmaids today. Did you mention that last week? I don't know. I think you did. Yeah.

Yeah. We're doing a high production wedding video spoof. Those will be the most people we've ever had in a video with Trey since I've been working with him. Probably ever. Oh, really? Yeah. How many are we talking? We've got four groomsmen, four bridesmaids.

And then I think we're getting some extras. Like Trey's hiring some actors to play like his mom and dad. Really? Yeah. So, wow. You know, a good crew. And then Derek and I will be filming. I will also be a groomsman. Derek will also be like Trey's stand in for when Trey's the bride. Okay. Uh, so like I was talking to him just briefly today and I was like, dude, I can't believe you're going to wear a wedding, like a wedding dress. He's like, and the fun, his reaction to it was what was so funny to me. He goes, he goes, yeah, but they, they found one that like, kind of like hides a lot. It was, it was so funny.

Cause it was, it was basically like saying like, it fits my figure. Well, like it was like something a girl would say, like, like it's like flattering on me is what it kind of sounded like he was saying. And I was just like, good for you, man go for it i told him about you somehow you really misread my text i did i was like first thing in the morning maybe or i doubt i got up before you well i bet you texted late maybe that could be it but yeah it was pre pre corrective lasik okay brad uh you're not gonna be able to see your friend Jake's text. So I text several friends, Brad, Isaac Harrison, dudes, I could use your help. You want to be in video again, if you'd like to be groomsmen, you know, we're doing this

video, yada, yada Monday. And then even followed up like, Hey, could be a good opportunity to bust out the suit. That was mainly a text for Isaac's. I knew he would like that. Yeah. And then somehow Brad's response is, Hey, I'll do a lot for comedy, but I'm not going to put a dress on. No, no, no. There's more than that. There was more. I said the word groomsman and suit, but then you also said dress or bridesmaid. You said bridesmaid. You remember you're like, Oh, I'm excited. You said, and Brad, I'm excited for you to see one of the bridesmaids or something like yeah i did see that yes i did say that's what you said that got me because i thought maybe you said i'm

excited for you to or to see you as one of the bridesmaids i was like i'm not gonna wear i know i have a voluptuous figure but i'm not gonna do that i'll do it for tiny but and i was just like what what in the world yeah what's wrong yeah uh so anyway you're gonna wear a suit we need to coordinate suits so none of us have the same color suit yeah how do you guys not have black uh i have black isaac doesn't have black i told isaac to go to thrift store it's time it's time to yeah you need it's like a staple like uh oh and peter's gonna be our fourth one to tell you that i was with him yesterday when he took okay cool let's do it okay cool okay sweet yeah isaac and i will go run and get a black suit for him. Yeah. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool.

Do you have a work update? Uh, not really. Henry's been bothering me a lot lately, but I haven't like had any great quotes. Oh yeah. That was Scott like called me the other day and we were just kind of catching up. And then I hear this knock on my door in the shop, which like never happens. No one just like randomly comes by and I open up the door and i'm like i think it's henry like it's like and so scott obviously knows about all that and henry doesn't even like say hi to me that just like automatically just starts talking having the conversation like i open the door he goes what kind of planter box is that over there oh he's like what's that thing called you know what kind of what do you what are you growing over there and i'm like i don't know that's my wife's stuff. Like basil, I think. Ask me about

wood cucumbers. Uh, but yeah, he's got all sorts of ideas and I should treat him better because he gives me lots of business. He's got all sorts of things he wants me to do for him with ginger. But, uh, yeah, I can't think of anything too extreme with work, work update stuff, just kind of getting back into it honestly after vacations i always have a hard time like getting back in the groove um because usually what i do right before vacation is like work myself ragged like to get there so that i can like have a week off where i don't have to worry about much and so i think sometimes that like messes with me mentally so i haven't been working as hard obviously i I've been doing merch stuff and like, you know, finding excuses and the LASIK thing until I got that fixed. Like that was pretty

debilitating as far as like, imagine not ever having depth perception. Like, I don't know if I told you or Isaac, but you know, that window above our like sink in our kitchen, like, yeah, like there's been multiple times where I take like a wet towel and I try to throw it through that window and I've missed. And it's like a pretty big window by four foot window. It's huge. Like, but, but like I, and there was one time I was filling up my water bottle the other day and I like just overflowed it because I couldn't see distance. Yeah. And so it's just like debilitating. So anyway, don't have a whole lot of updates work wise, just chugging along on some different things. If you're interested, uh, you can check me out at lscustomercreations.com nice yeah cool should we get some voice moments yeah we should let's do

it hi jake and brad my name is renee and i've been listening to the podcast for about a year now and i finally built up the courage to send in a voice memo so i've been wondering if i were to ask you guys where you think i'm from based on my accent, what would you guys say? Accent? So I'm going to give you a moment, and then I'll tell you. Aussie. Okay, I'm going to pause it. Aussie. You think Aussie?

Accent. Accent. You're good at this stuff. I mean, never forget the Bulgaria blackjack dealer. But my guess. She's English speaking for sure. My guess is she is doing the cute little thing like, I've always been told I have a good Australian accent.

Oh, I'm from Pennsylvania. Yeah, I got you. So my guess is, yeah, she's from Arkansas. Oh, okay. But she's like trying to fake us out. Where in Arkansas? Little Rock. Okay.

Little Rock. Good. Final answer. So I am from South Africa. Ah! And I wanted to ask you guys if you could maybe give me and my boyfriend, his name is Andre, a little motivational speech And I wanted to ask you guys if you could maybe give me and my boyfriend,

his name is Andre, a little motivational speech because we both are writing big tests in May. So that would be great. What did she say? We have a big taste? We have big days? We have big days? Both are writing big tastes is what I just heard. Let's back that up.

Both are writing big tests in May. His name is Andrea. A little motivational speech because we both are riding big tests in May. We're adding big taste. Tests, I guess. We're having big tests. Adding? Riding?

Sometimes it's hard. Like what we hear in our headphones is different than when I listen to it later in the car. I'm like, oh, that was so obvious in the car. So maybe it's obvious to you right now, but in our headphones, this is very hard to hear. I feel like, oh, that was so obvious in the car. So maybe it's obvious to you right now, but in our headphones, this is very hard to hear. I feel like a little motivational speech because we both are writing big tests in May. Yeah, maybe big tests. Yeah. Writing though.

Is that something that I guess we say you write an essay or dissertation or something. They say we're writing a big test. Writing a big test. Maybe they're professors. Maybe they are. Yeah. They're just trying to make it really hard. So that would be great.

And thanks for making us laugh each week. I hope you guys have a lovely day bye-bye dang you know what that reminds me of it actually reminds me of another girl that grant hederberg was previously in love with sorry lauren we met this girl one time in australia who grew up in south africa but then it lived in australia for like a lot of her later in life and had just the coolest hybrid of accents yeah it was awesome jenna we still think about you jenna okay that was her name i thought you were gonna say her last name too like jenna grobowski um is that a listener yeah so i recognize that okay so they need a motivational speech because they are professors and they want to write a really good

ronnie big taste taste uh i'm going to search on youtube motivational speech Expressors, and they want to write a really good... We're writing big tastes. I'm going to search on YouTube, motivational speech instrumental. Okay. And just going to click the first one. Okay. This one's seven minutes long. Do you need one longer than that? Is that going to be okay?

I think I'm good with that. Okay. We'll just back and forth it. Hello. What's your name? Rene. Rene. Andre. The moment's finally here it's time for you to write your big test i know you've written some tests in the past you've written tiny teasts Long teasts

Teasts you can hardly pronounce But this teast Is unlike any teast in the Before This is the teast That all other teasts Wish they were The teast of all teasts.

This teast gets up every morning and knows it's the alpha teast. Alpha teast. It says, hey. Hi. Other teasts, you know you're worse than me. Because I am the big teased. Now I know what you're thinking. This is a mountainous teased.

How am I ever going to climb up this thing? Well, Renee, I don't know. Renee, I have one thing to say to you. Put on your taste trail shoes and step up the mountain of this taste one step at a time. Think of all the people that have tried to go before you with this taste. Your mom. Your mom.

Your dad. Your auntie and your nanny. They've all waited for you to get to this taste. They know you can do this taste. They've seen you do this taste. They've seen you do it a million times. Now it's time to do the taste in front of everybody. A public taste!

I know you're scared. But pressure makes diamonds. Diamonds. Adversity brings you to this point. And together with with Andri, you can co-write the best frickin' taste you ever did see! So write your taste!

That was good. That was phenomenal. phenomenal that's great i was gonna go but once you did that i'm like i'm not following that okay under a is that i don't know so you were saying some words i've never heard of i'm an english speaker i know well i've never been a little rock so i don't i've never never heard a lot of these words. Yeah, cultural. I hope that was everything she wanted and more because, I mean, that's about as good as it gets. That was great, dude. I'd say odds are low that they are professors writing a test, but I hope they are. Well, yeah. At least an adjunct.

I hope they are. I bet she's going to be someday. And if she is, she's going to listen to that. After that, she probably wants to write a test. Yeah. That was beautiful. Renee, thank you for listening to write a test. Yeah. That was beautiful. Uh, Renee,

thank you for listening all the way from South Africa or at least your origins are from South Africa. Yeah. Thanks for listening. Wherever you are. Oh, Hey, Jacob,

Brad, Avery Cohen, leaving this voice as I drive to my job at nothing, my cakes. I want to send you guys some cakes to celebrate two years of this podcast. So let me know where they can be delivered. Kansas. And what your favorite flavors are.

Next. Flavors. Brad, I think you should move to Texas. Jake. Hey. I think you should move too. I live in Salina with Cole, my husband, and we've been wanting to buy some land out here. The problem is, it's all in chunks of like five or ten acres.

We don't need that much. But you guys do. Jake, real estate investment. Brad, you can build the biggest deck if you have one or two acres. I think it's a great idea. Plus, not that far from Catherine's family. Let me know what you guys think. All right. Bye. We're going to have to edit this out. Can like send certain audio to certain listeners because if katherine hears this she's just gonna be like yeah we're moving tomorrow uh dude that's so funny that reminds me of in dumb and dumber when they're like uh i can't believe there's not a job in this town yeah unless you want to work 40 hours a week he's like there i am trying to buy land they want to sell to me in acres i want a small i want a garden i want to buy a garden's worth of land.

And they're trying to give me acres. I just need to add to my sidewalk here. Everyone wants to sell in acres. What's the big deal with acres? I can't believe that. Do you know how many acres you have at your Stratford house? I think we have just like an acre. Oh, really?

A couple. Maybe my dad. No one knows. My dad knows. I don't know. He'll call you back when he's done with his warehouse yeah i bet us and angie and john live on like a few acres okay final answer okay i i just 10 acres is obviously a lot but i think i would like if i'm gonna live out in the country i think

i want some if i'm gonna buy land yeah i think that's like a good amount to buy probably yeah also i just went on nothing but cakes.com backslash flavors okay uh flavors yeah she said to tell us her flavors i mean most of the well i'd say half and half like don't get me carrot don't get me pecan praline meat ones yeah no red meat either please uh i mean confetti looks like a blast and a half marble sure uh no i would never not for me no marm okay i don't want marble what can we agree on boring chocolate chocolate chips oh she's gonna send us two okay um chocolate you like that one i was thinking red velvet looked nice what is in there is that raisins no no it's uh chocolate chips okay i'll take red velvet honestly red velvet and chocolate chocolate chip are pretty

much the same thing i think because i think red velvet is just chocolate that is red yeah just red food coloring right i think so cool we'll take red velvet for the chiefs then again though how do they take it from brown chocolate to red the chips are brown still i know but like yeah but like look at the chocolate chocolate chip one obviously it's like dark brown is like the color of chocolate unless they put food coloring every time they put in chocolate do they dude i don't know yeah i don't either let's ask don't worry about it pecan praline hard pass everything else i would eat for sure i don't need any if i'm gonna have crunch it's not gonna be nuts i'll tell you that right now you would have carrot oh yeah i love carrot pineapple pieces baked throughout wait wait where

that says it in the description carrot cake has pineapples these days biden's america i did just go to hawaii so I do like pineapple these days. Aloha. White chocolate raspberry is actually my answer. If we can get two different ones. If not red velvet's great. Okay. There you have it.

That sounds nice. Send it to just. Just drinks. Yeah. Just the Chipotle on Johnson drive and we'll pick it up. Put in a mobile order. Let's just like, let's just throw some of our friends under the bus and give out our,

give out their addresses. Right now. Yeah. Like get Gunner's address. Gunner would love it. Roland Park. Yeah. Send Gunner some stuff.

Send him a massage chair. I'll send you my address, Avery. I've met you before. We've live streamed together. Sure. That was a fun time. Okay. Let's do one more voice memo. Hey, Drake and Tad.

What's up? It's Corey from the northeast corner of Kansas City, Missouri, or as those in Johnson County know it, basically Iowa. I'm playing pickleball on Kansas City Corporate Challenge in a couple of weeks. If you haven't heard of it, give it a Google. I have four questions for you. One, any tips for mediocre pickleball players playing doubles? Two, if you had to pick a sport to add to Kansas City Corporate Challenge, what would it be? Three, when is Ellis Custom Creations going to join or Drake and Tad LLC going to join? I'm curious on when you guys are going to be playing.

And four, what's the worst mistaken name someone has ever given you? Really appreciate it, guys. Thanks for keeping us entertained and really enjoy listening. Thanks. Did you get all those? So I kind of,

I think I got the bookends. Okay. I got pickleball and worst name. You've been accidentally called. Okay. You have anything in the middle? When this Ellis custom creations and Drake and Tad, which that's not our names.

I don't think our LLC, not it's our sole proprietorship, but not our LLC. Our LLC is just drinks llc uh cory robertson what up is this the same cory robertson who i worked at camp with in 2011 does he haven't seen since in iowa maybe i don't know uh i do think it's funny when like people that have never been to like any either like extreme of kansas city think that they're so far away to me it's like no it's not Like, where do you think he lives? Like Liberty? I don't know.

Northeast? Or no, he's still Kansas. No, he said, I think, no, I don't think. Northeast Kansas City would be Missouri. Yeah, so like Liberty. Yeah, but I don't think it's Northeast. I think it's like Northwest, isn't it? No.

Is it? How do you not know East and West? No, I know East and West. I just take I-35 North to get there. And so I don't realize that it's very East. Look at east look at the map mama i believe you i believe you baby uh cory um doubles pickleball advice i don't know what to say this is like saying like hey how do we get better basketball it's like there's a lot there's a lot to it um holy cow northeast it's pretty dang northeast yeah good for you cam what's his name cory cory

cam cam or cory uh cory you and your partner when you're at the net should always move together imagine that you're like uh like on a string or like a rope is tied to each of your hips so like when your partner moves right to like get a dink you should move right with them you don't want to like create gaps that your opponent can like hit the ball through. You don't want to give them windows. So you and your partner should always be moving together laterally. There's your tip. I take it a step back. Even before that is learn how to get comfortable at the net. I think that's something that whenever I first started, I was kind of weary, leery to be up close. Like I thought it was like a disadvantage, but it's really way better to be up there most Yeah. Most of the time, not, not like sometimes I run up there aimlessly and I'm like, crap,

I shouldn't be here. But most of the time, that's a good idea. Yeah. If you're at the net and your part and the opponent's back, you are in the prime position. You want to keep them back. You want to stay at the net. That's right. Do your thing.

That's a good, that's a good advice too. Okay. So there's that, uh, corporate challenge. Oh yeah. I've heard of corporate challenge. Yeah, of course. He said like, what event? I remember now what event should be added to corporate challenge? Oh, I didn heard of Corporate Challenge. Yeah, of course. He said like what event, I remember now, what event should be added to Corporate Challenge?

Oh. They have so many things. I have no idea what they don't have. Let's just add in like a combo. Oh, that's fun. Like you have to shoot a bow and arrow, but it's out of your mother-in-law's, like your mother-in-law's holding a balloon.

Like it's something like that. Like it incorporates a couple different things. Like you're shooting at your mother-in-law? Yeah, yeah. She's's something like that. Like it incorporates a couple of different things. Like you're shooting at your mother-in-law. Yeah. Yeah. She's holding a balloon in her mouth and you have to shoot like a bow and air, like a bow at her. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That would be a fun event. That's very fun. Or bowling. But your mother-in-law is one of the pants. I have no idea. Those are my thoughts.

Yeah. Okay. Um, I like the idea of a slam ball. Remember that back in the day? Dude, I recently saw Trey and I, I think we were talking about on the podcast, but we've, there's a sky zone in Kansas city. I've never seen anything like this, but they have like a slam ball court, but not like what you're imagining. Like it's like the whole court is bouncy. Let me try to find it, dude. It's we got to go. Really? We got to go.

We got to tear our ACLs there together. have to um slam ball whatever um tell yeah oh yes you can look it up but i'm just curious what what's different about it compared to classic slam ball it just i can't find it it just looked awesome dude yeah it just looks so cool yeah we were freaking out um yeah slam ball be fun to add to corporate challenge cerner like dominated corporate challenge back in the day i have so many to choose because they have yeah they have like millions of people working there must be nice yeah it wasn't that nice actually and then last question was uh like name calling oh brag was pretty weird brag will do it i get every so often

like older people people who maybe can't hear as well or maybe i just i'm slurring my words too much they think my name is jay a lot oh really introduce myself what was your name jake jay But I get every so often like older people, people who maybe can't hear as well, or maybe I just, I'm slurring my words too much. They think my name is Jay a lot. Oh, really? Let me introduce myself. What was your name? Jake. Jay?

Huh. Pretty close. Yeah. You got to really emphasize that K. So that's about it, but I don't really have any, any crazy. We have pretty common one syllable names. And so they get, they get heard pretty well. Pretty well.

Yeah. Yeah. Um, just like last week, let's do one more. One last voice memo. Okay, good for you. Hi, Jake. Hi, Brad. This is Hannah from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

I wanted to thank y'all for all the advice that y'all gave when I sent in the last voice memo a couple weeks ago. Sorry for doubling up, but... Don't be sorry. That's okay. I had a statement and a question, and I hope y'all don't mind too much. First off, I think Qdoba is way better than Chipotle.

Sure, it might have not quite as many options, but the ones they do have are so much better seasoned, so much more flavor. They're just great. And the queso is way better. Also, my question is, what are some random unimportant memories that y'all remember from like early childhood? Example, I was reading a Babysitter's Club book around the age of six or so. I love to read, so I'm not sure why this word tripped me up. I came across the word husband. I thought it was like a hoose band.

For a minute, I thought, is there an alternate spelling of hush puppy and it was just really weird so bye bye yeah the old tuxen verse tuxon oh yeah you know debate classic just like hoospan and husbands okay so random memories from your childhood brad go first one i like the first memory i've ever said i can remember is when i was like four years old i was watching my sister at a track meet and I was riding my mom's purse like a rhinoceros. I remember. Okay. That's like when I was four years old and to this day, not to this day, but now that Hattie is four, I'm like so much more, I feel so much more pressure to be a good dad. So like, she's going to remember things now, you know? Um, that's a big one for me. I remember I kind of like she said, I couldn't, I used to think it was materials instead of materials. Okay. That's a random one.

Um, I remember Jessica Brooks kissing Scott in kindergarten on the cheek. I remember the face he had. Oh, pure Nirvana. And then she asked if I wanted to kiss. I said, no, thank you. Good for you. I remember having chunky chocolate milk in kindergarten. Mrs. Harrison was scary. I was Santa in kindergarten and the musical just always been typecasted that apparently, uh, what else do I remember? Just random things off the top of my head. Let's see. I don't know. Oh, I remember like, like in Sunday school one time, you know, like we went up on stage at big church and one of the girls in our class, Becca, like got the mic, you know, just stole the microphone basically. It was like,

like really loudly and do like, Hey mom and dad, I love you. I don't know. Nice. Yeah. That helped me remember some actually hearing you say something. Yeah. Cause I don't know. Nice. Yeah. Let's think of anything else. That helped me remember some actually hearing you say something. Yeah. Cause I didn't think I had much. My first memory, my parents told me this was my third birthday party, but maybe it was fourth.

If it sounds like your first memory is four. Yeah. I don't know how deep I go, but I just remember my birthday party when I was little three or four, uh, train themed. And like they, the,

it was just so colorful and visual. I think that's why I had to remember it. Like it was a red yellow and blue like primary colors train nice and the same design that was on my cake they also painted on my wall so it's just like it's like highly visually wow like stimulated day of my life thomas no it was just uh great great value okay great value primary color train yeah okay okay yeah but i remember that that was my first memory okay it's whatever that was i also remember like oh sorry you got more well when you said choir or whatever i remember the african children's choir coming to our church and that may have been the first time i ever saw black people in person and i thought it was so awesome yeah i made my parents buy me the

cassette tape yeah and like memorized all these songs and like swahili i didn't know what they were saying but like i i knew what to say like i knew their language yeah yeah that's dope it was awesome that's really cool i remember i was really into power rangers back in the day yeah and i had I didn't know what they were saying, but like I knew what to say. Like I knew their language. Yeah. Yeah. That's dope. It was awesome. That's really cool. I remember I was really into Power Rangers back in the day. Yeah. And I had these two Power Ranger gloves. And one day my mom was cooking and I walked in and I put my glove on the stove and like

burned the glove. But if the glove wasn't there, would have burned my hand off, I think. Huh. Why did you decide to do that, you think? Oh, definitely didn't know that this oven was on. That would have been in my old house too. So that would have been like when I was four. Oh, okay.

You were young. You were young. I also remember like moving into my like new house when I was four and a half or five. Dude, do you remember? Playing with G.I. Joes? Oh, I never played with G.I. Joes.

Oh yeah. I just had a flood of memories. Do you remember Napster? Yeah. Our family got down on Napster. Oh really? In like 2000. Yeah.

It was year 2000, I think. Yeah, I remember just like downloading music while learning to spin a ball on my finger in like our rental house. And wow. Yeah, it was like, this is crazy. This feels like illegal. Wait a second.

Turns out Sean Parker. Yeah, and that was, Napster was the one that was like illegal, but people didn't realize it yet, kind of. It was like the forefront of like, yeah, streaming and, or not streaming. Do you think your parents knew knew they were illegally downloading things no no one did right yeah i mean like i think it like took the fcc like years before you even cracked down it was like what is what is it even happening like just free music yeah it was awesome yeah we got down

on napster that was so great it is crazy to think that people these days don't know the struggle of like trying to find music for free and yet to find like a good version of the song. So you're like, this one cuts off like a minute and a half or it's like, yeah, it's really blurry. Like it's like, what's the,

there's some like distorted. Yeah. But there's like, there's some metric of how like crisp song is and you could download different versions of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I remember where I was. I was sitting on the toilet when I taught myself how to make myself burp. I remember the book I was reading too. It had a pink cover. And I taught myself how to make myself burp. I remember the book I was reading too. It had a pink cover and I think the word Ferdinand was in the title. The bull? I don't know. It was just, it had a pink cover and that was where I taught myself like how to like, Oh, I hated that. Yeah. You know, whatever. Yeah. It was right there. I did like 40 times and I felt sick. There's lots of, so there's that we could, we could go on forever.

Yeah. I don't think this would have a stop to it that's fun that's some memories yeah about though thanks hannah thanks for uh what you said to us and what you said about chipotle's queso or yeah let's not litigate that too much but it's just so not true like qdoba is not as good the lines prove it the business model the fact that there's are there any qdobas left in Kansas City? I think there might be one still. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't not enjoy Qdobas. It's just not as good as Chipotle.

Sorry. But their queso is good. It is. Brad, would you like to tell me your review of the week that we got from one of our listeners who gave us five stars? I'll tell you my review after you tell me yours, okay? Okay. Let's see.

I was going to wait to see which one you chose because like there's like two like obvious ones but no i'll go with the with this one i've always thought spit takes were purely a hollywood shtick but i just learned otherwise going back to listen to older episodes i missed and in episode two jake was discussing his trip to california and how they didn't automatically give him a straw with his sweet tea just as i took a sip of water jake mentioned the possibility of slurping his tea through the butthole of the lid and i promptly showered my kitchen counter's floor and dog with water well that's a lot of spit whoa wanted to put it out there be careful listening ghost hunters while eating or drinking thanks for the laughs jake and brad corinna las

vegas thank you for the city not enough people are telling us which city they're reviewing from yeah we need that i do remember saying that in episode two because like i think this is funny and i've never said this before like this isn't something that I say with my friends. Like, oh yeah, the butthole, like that was like, it was like a first like good improvised joke on the podcast. Like we could do this. I think we could do this podcast thing.

People seem to like this joke. We can figure this out. Yeah. So yeah. And also just before I forget real quick, did you see that DM? It was so funny. People have been leaving reviews

for the other podcast called Ghostrunners. Yes. It's so good. Yes. It's so good. It's so good. I had no idea this was happening. Yeah. It was just like, not the real Ghost Runners.

Check out this one. Don't listen to these guys. Listen to Jake and Brad. They're way better than these guys. Yeah. So yeah, go check that out. I mean, it's like an old baseball podcast from years ago. Like, I don't even think they're making new episodes.

If you were like leaving them one-star reviews. Okay. Because I was about to say, if they're real podcasts, don't leave them one-star reviews. But if they're not really doing anything with were like leaving them one star reviews okay because i was about to say if they're real podcasts don't leave them one star reviews but if they're not really doing anything with it and leave them whatever review you want but yeah that's funny i'll check that out yeah go check it out um okay mine's from real music 06 says you're my head coach hey jake and brad my voice memos isn't working so i figured that i'll send it here so i'm a new listener started the podcast from beginning in week, in a week and a half. I'm 28 episodes in plus I'll listen to the new ones. Okay. How's that work? Um, one of the first episodes you guys talk about music. You guys should try listening to NF. He's a cool

kind of Christian rapper. Okay. I've heard of him. Um, my question for you guys is what is your go-to Madden team? If you couldn't pick the chiefs, if I couldn't pick the Seahawks I would pick the Chiefs well okay my answer is the Seahawks I don't know my answer is I like the Falcons I want the Falcons to be good let's go with the Falcons I like I mean it's always nice if you have a mobile quarterback that is nice yeah um like Matt Ryan you mean like Matty Ice the most sackable quarterback in the nfl sacks himself like three times a game my team russell wilson's very fun to play with yeah that's and cam newton was i don't know anymore my final answer is going to be pro bowl team oh all nfc uh but this is the fun really fun part of it it says and jake on madden you are

my head coach in franchise mode that's great one time super bowl champs you don't want to know what team i chose but i'll give you a hint they're in the same division as the chiefs i have i have an idea uh this is from your guy ryland our guy god bless do less he's our guy awesome thank you ryland that's awesome that he made me the name of the head coach. That's pretty cool. Did we ever talk about one time somebody made a NBA 2K team that was like the Ghost Runners? And I had like a Ghost Runners court and like made my players about us and stuff. And like our friends and stuff?

Yeah. I don't know about our friends, but it was definitely you and I were like two of the players. Dang. I'll try to. I have some screenshots of it. If it was you, you know, send us another DM. Yeah. That's awesome. That's pretty cool. That this is really fun thank you guys for all the reviews all the five-star reviews all the youtube comments healthy amount of both this week uh yeah it's just fun to interact with

you guys uh so yeah keep leaving the comments and their reviews and everything that uh we can read and and other people can read too because i think it's fun when you guys, when other people get to see us interacting with our fans publicly, or get to just see you guys saying things back to us publicly. Like it just, it helps cultivate this like fun community that we already have, you know? So like keep feeding into it. That was another thing that Trey really quickly said to me.

He's like, dude, it's crazy. Like the strong following you guys have really. Yeah. For our podcast. So he, he's,

he thinks it's cool too. That's awesome. Yeah. Anyway, that's great. Appreciate you uh guys brad would you like to end this up with a gene sorry necktie get a little tight right out of words all right you ready i'm as ready as i'll ever be gotta be a good one let's do it heatherly she sent this one to January what's up friends happy Monday I am just on here because I absolutely botched the jingle this week we recorded on Friday night and Jake you can put in a few just amazing minutes moments of that jingle here. I don't know this song nearly well enough. Come prepared! Somebody send me a voice.

I don't know this part. Jake's on the table. Jake's got... Jake's got Old Spice in his hair. I don't know if we should. But I was like, man, I can't do this. The jingles to Walking in Memphis. I know way too many awesome people in Memphis. Way too many of my close friends.

And also just have too much love and respect for Heather Lee writing these awesome jingles to just absolutely botch it and not give it my all. So Friday night, Saturday night, I have been listening to this thing non-stop like just over and over and over again trying to learn the songs I realized I didn't really know it so here I am trying to redeem myself please just enjoy this even though the recording is mediocre here we go. Born to play for Ackley fame New roommate Harry She said I'd pick for me Yeah, I've got a perfect jump shot And I'm betting I'll see this three

And I was ballin' in Kansas Playin' with my croc strap around my heel I was ballin' in Kansas Playin' with my Crocs wrapped around my heel I was ballin' in Kansas Is that a very sweaty shirt I feel? Yeah! Saw Jake and Isaac On Ballie Avenue We all met up for chicken and pickles

And oh, I showed up there too Now I'm standing here by the kitchen Me and my co-girls stop by too And there's a perfect little serve The tournament's over The ghost is winning, thank you And I was ballin' in Kansas A player with my croc strap around my heel

And I was ballin' in Kansas Is that a very sweaty shirt I feel? Oh, he's like the paranoid part of the song We've got just drinks on the table Oh, he's like the paranoid part of the song. We've got just drinks on the table Jake's got old spice in his hair Then the patrons will be glad to see you When we post our game on there. Yeah, we've got it made in Kansas.

Hey! These new episodes Every Monday on Apple Podcasts They bring YouTube down to film us Cause Jake's got the best rap Say, write me a little jingle And I'll sing it with all my might Unless you send me a Shrek third song

Cause I'm not singing that tonight And I was ballin' in Kansas Playin' with my Crocs wrapped around my heel And I was ballin' in Kansas Is that a very sweaty shirt I feel? I'm ballin' in Kansas I'm playin' with my croc strap around my heel Ballin' in Kansas

Is that a very sweaty shirt I feel? Put on my new croc shoes and started the game Ball out, Jake and J-Bone 2 Playing for Rack League fame Ball out, Jake and J-Bone too Playing for Rectum League Fame yes yes love you guys okay brad that was special hey that was great you have to do so many of these yeah you you have to know so many songs it's amazing how much you realize you don't know a

song until somebody like changes the lyrics on you and like makes you sing it like without any thing like, yeah. Guiding you at all. It's like, like, I'm like, oh, I know, I know that song. And then I'll be like, oh, I do not know that song at all. I know the chorus. It sounds like when you know about Deja Vu. Oh yeah.

I've had Deja Vu. I remember Pearl Harbor. I'm like, that's not what Deja Vu is. Oh yeah. I know had deja vu. I remember Pearl Harbor. I'm like, that's not what deja vu is. Oh yeah. I know walking in Memphis. I know a couple of words in the chorus. Oh my gosh. Hey,

thanks for, uh, thanks Heatherly for continuing to write them. They're wonderful. I might, I might come back to that one again. Yeah. Yeah.

Do a double feature sometime. Year three. I, I, yeah, I can't have a bad, you know, notch on my bedpost.

Right. Cause that's your number one physical activity for the rest of your life no making brownies you're right love you're maybe not on your bedposts for something else i didn't know about uh thank you guys for listening for how many times i have deja vu uh wake up you're like deja vu that was it get the notch on there get the notch our uh two-year anniversary or just our whatever, whatever you want to call it, 104th episode. We've done this for two years now, every single Monday, so thank you guys for listening. And if you haven't ever yet, consider supporting us on Patreon.

I'm doing an episode every week on there, just a short little podcast by myself, just Jake. Just Jake. Just had episode six. We got basketball vlog. We got, Brad made a little video from from Phoenix plus a little video from Hawaii. Oh, yeah. So we got some new stuff on there every week.

There's new stuff on there. And it looks like we'll have our merch stuff up, dude. I'm just trying to remember how excited I was about the merch again. The merch, dude. The merch and everyone coming to our basketball game. We got a lot of things coming to the pipeline. Dang, it's going to be fun. Cool.

It's going to be fun. All right. We might be able to get some merch ready to give away at the basketball game yeah i think we could make that happen yeah yeah we can make it happen make it happen i do have a lot of heavy did harrison tell you like brainy stop just has like a few leftovers not a ton it's like they just have like five like double xl leftover ghost so we can bring that to the basketball game perfect and just hand it out halftime that's my size okay for now string bean won't fit that much longer okay love you guys you guys are fun you guys are fun you guys are fun busy earning imagine grant and i driving to the hard rock casino in now I can't get enough.