Ghostrunners - 12 - The Thailand of the Midwest

Episode Date: July 29, 2019

In this episode, Jake and Brad answer a wide variety of questions from people on Instagram. Some of the topics include kitchen utensils, the metric system, and finding true love. Also Brad is on the hunt for new music which you can send to him at @elliscustomcreations.  Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello! It's us, Jake and Brad, Ghostrunners Podcast, episode 12. We're so glad you're here. Gosh, could not be happier. Could not do it without you. Actually, that's true. That's not true. That's a lie. We would still be doing it, but we're very, very glad that you're here listening to us today. Another beautiful Monday. Another day in Brad's basement for me. Brad and I, let's see. We've got some stuff to catch up on a little bit. I know by the time this is coming out, I'm actually in Hawaii right now. So we'll talk about that when I get back from Hawaii.

Are you enjoying Hawaii right now? I think I am. I think I'm having a real good time. I got a little sunburned yesterday. Oh, yeah. But overall. I learned that if you put ibuprofen in your body, not a little sunburned yesterday oh yeah uh but overall um i learned that if you put ibuprofen in your body not on the sunburn it's anti-inflammatory so it'll help with it's it's

will help with the burn if you get about 80 to 90 ibuprofen melt them down into a like a paste liquid and then put them on a sunscreen just mix it with with aloe vera it'll work perfect interesting didn't know that about ibu um yeah, the trip is going great right now. None of the strangers I invited turned out to be murderers. FYI, I'm very jealous that you're on this trip right now and I am not. Well, you just went to Alabama without me. Let's say that sentence again. Yeah, I went to Alabama without you. You went to Hawaii without me. You're always invited. Okay. Hey, let's go on a trip. January are you free i will be yeah i was talking to the duckworths yeah we're thinking thailand oh the land of cravats bangkok wow um wow okay thailand

just put it in your the duckworths love thai food oh do they is that why they're going no i'm sure they're also adventurous people but gun Gunner especially loves Thai food. I don't know how I feel about Thai food that much. You better figure it out. I need to tie it. LOL. Good one. You need to tie it.

I need to tie it. Give it a tie. Yeah, give it a tie. You won't know until you tie. Nice. I've always wanted to tie one of those new country. Taiwan. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Fun fact for you guys out there. Brad probably knows this because he's a big fan of my work. But if you ever need a country to go in a sentence somewhere, I can probably do it for you. Oh, yeah. I did. Yeah. Hey, quiz me.

Do you know I'm talking about that video? I did the Taco Bell drive through. I'm going to give you a hard one. OK. Oh, true. This isn't even country. I was going to say Nova Scotia. Isn't that part of Canada? Yeah, I, quiz me. Do you know what I'm talking about? That video I did? The Taco Bell drive-thru one? I'm going to give you a hard one. Okay. Oh, shoot. This isn't even country. I was going to say Nova Scotia. Isn't that part of Canada?

Yeah, I think that's a province. Ecuador. Okay. Oh, I got one. Okay. These shoes don't fit super great. Sorry for the non-sequidor. Boom!

Non-sequidor. That was good. Okay, okay, okay. South Africa. Oh, what? for the non-sequidor boom that's good okay okay south africa oh okay that one's gonna be a little tougher um so i'm trying to think of a pudding yeah like because africa would just be i mean i mean that's kind of it would be like give me a freaking break but when you throw south in front of it i don't know how to still make that into a sentence. Ow. It's like reverse engineering a mad gap. I feel like you need to like break it up into South-a. South-a?

South-af or something like that. Frick-a. And then Frick-a. Yeah, that one's tough. I'm sorry. I know. That's okay. I did good on the first one.

Yeah, that was good. Give me one more so I can end on something good. Sure. Lichtenstein. Jeez. I mean. That's okay. I did good on the first one. Yeah, that was good. Give me one more so I can end on something good. Sure. Lichtenstein. Jeez. I mean. That's okay. Germany.

Oh, I'd like to give a big shout out to my great grandpa who was in the military. He was a soldier many years ago. Okay. I was going to say, are you just going to say he was in Germany? He was stationed in Germany. Nailed it. I could use Lichtenstein i've never been to lichtenstein uh good stuff anyway um what i feel like i was gonna say something earlier oh

wait thailand let's go and i'm in hawaii now yeah we'll talk about that later when i get back um i recently went to Omaha, Nebraska. The Thailand of the Midwest. The Thailand of the Midwest. Yeah, known for their exotic foods and people. But I... Oh, quick fun fact. Last summer in the limo, we went to the...

We stopped through Omaha and went to the Hot Air Balloon and Wine Festival. Kind of a funny combination of things. They combine. You'd be surprised. They pair well. Yesterday, they emailed me. hot air balloon and wine festival kind of a funny combination of things they just they combine you'd be surprised they pair well yesterday they emailed me and like we'd love to have you back and like oh yeah how like it's a festival you just you walk in and just whatever you go to these different booths i'm like that is the most like off the grid i'm just very curious how they got my email address this this omaha wine and hot air balloon festival oh anyway i don't really have anything else to say about that they googled you just yesterday they sent

me an email would love to have me back anyway i went to omaha a while back to film a wedding and i'd just like to share a few things that happened because it was the strangest wedding i've ever filmed okay give us a little background of uh the wedding how did you get the booking it's through a referral from a friend don't know these people at all i have no idea like what i'm in for today um that day uh but and i think if you were just attending the wedding you wouldn't have necessarily been like oh this is so strange more from just like a video standpoint the things i'm used to and whatnot um one thing the photographer very traditional very like I feel like has been doing photography for his whole life and is very set in his way.

He's like in his fifties. But one thing he did, uh, he would make a Donald duck sound before almost every picture to try and make them laugh. What? It was awful, dude. Adults? Yeah. Anyone.

Brian Groom. Adults. Anyone. Yes. That. He would do that. What did he do? Before every picture. Like, would he talk? Three? No, no. Yes, that. He would do that before every picture. Like, would he talk? No, no, just like the squeaky sounds or whatever.

Like, three, two, one. I can't make the sound. I don't know how he did that. But, yeah, he'd be like, whoa, get that duck out of here. Whoa, who brought the duck in here? Seriously, he's like, we gotta do something about that duck. And I'm just standing there like, oh my god. Yeah, we do, brother. Yeah, what should we do about it and to compound things he is the bride's uncle so just playing

the role of uncle perfectly in this sitcom of a wedding just like the weird uncle who uh yeah loves making duck sounds the one uncle so that was just so cringy all day long um that's funny there were a lot of other little things i could go into but the only other main thing and i did put this on instagram maybe you saw it did you see the shout out i got did you see this no one clapped no one it was awesome but also what is the what is the father of the bride thinking why i mean i guess not what is he thinking it was really nice of him to want to give me a shout out but not after my wife and then my brother-in-law i don't feel like i should be third in that lineup but i think he just saw like oh man i just think the guy doing the photos but i didn't think the guy doing the video i should probably do yeah so maybe he wasn't

that wasn't a premeditated like he got up there and then was like oh shoot oh i think i i see it all the time like people are like like especially at church like they're mentioning all these people they love at church. And they're, like, mentioning the youth pastor and the children's pastor. And then they kind of, like, look at me and they're like, and Brad, too. It's like, you weren't thinking of me, man. It's fine. Brad has some stuff around here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brad's wife, too. Right. The bride. The brother-in-law. You, the video dude. Jake. Yeah, that's funny.

You get, like, a few pity laughs and one guy that's already a little bit you know toasted and be like yeah yeah so if you didn't see my instagram story basically the um yeah there's just such a lack of enthusiasm like it's like the the father of the bright he's given this toast and he's like thank you to my wife who's been here every step of the way helping plan this crowd goes wild wild like like veryphatic right emphatic yeah i got my attention then and then my brother-in-law mike he's here the photographer everyone you love mike give a round of applause everyone's you know on the mic yeah they love him and then next up i don't know why i came next and uh videographer Jake Triplett.

Two bridesmaids who I can't thank them enough for filling the silence. Hey. That's like the noise they made. And then so there's like another awkward second of silence. And then everyone laughs at the lack of enthusiasm. Like it's like well noticed by everyone. That was really awkward how we didn't appreciate him. Yeah. Let's laugh now.

Oh, man. It was like, yeah, it was like almost like a in memoriam like in the videographer that couldn't be here today we would have loved to have him um couldn't be here and so evan's like do we don't really cheer for that it's like oh yeah yeah that's what it felt like um dj was interesting although i found out she lost 100 pounds this year. She told me in one year. That's allegedly good for her. Really happy for her. That doesn't seem healthy, but not afraid to play a song and then get out there and lead the dance to it

as well. That was also cringy to me. Really? Yeah. So like she played the wobble and he's like, here guys, follow me. And it's doing the dance moves and like expecting everyone to like follow her lead i'm not trying oh boy i'm not trying to like hate on nebraska

too much because i'm from kansas and they're just you know incorrect midwestern stereotypes all over the place but like that's the most nebraska thing i've ever heard it's so funny you say that it's a tie-in with the the mid the 50-old uncle doing the photographs and the woman leading the pictures that also lost 100 pounds and I'm sorry, leading the dance floor and doing the music. Anyway. So funny you say that. So I texted my friend who got me the gig. She referred me to this thing in Omaha to the wedding and she's like, how's it going? And I was like, great news.

Just found out the DJ lost 100 pounds this year. And she texted back, that's the most Omaha thing I've ever heard. I mean,, great news. Just found out the DJ lost 100 pounds this year. And she takes it back. That's the most Omaha thing I've ever heard. I mean, good for her. Like, obviously, that is awesome. But, you know, I would love to say that in one year from today. But that's just funny. Oh, yeah.

You're on your goal to be to weigh less than me. I have done so little. I was on vacation, obviously. And before that, I was in Trinidad. In Trinidad, like, all you ate was on vacation, obviously. And before that I was in Trinidad and Trinidad, like all you ate was like carbs. Like they didn't even know what vegetables are there. My kind of diet. My gosh. It was like pasta. Uh, like, yeah, it was just beans. So I really haven't started yet, but hopefully, you know, while you're in Hawaii, I'm, you know, getting psyched for it, but it is kind of crazy crazy the month of july we weren't here at the

same time it's been a very yeah we're both gone the first week very good month but also like i i like being in a little bit of a routine yeah you're hurting for business a little bit or yeah like i i katherine was so great she just went shopping the other day and she was like i didn't get didn't get this didn't get and i was like thank you because we made zero dollars this month a lot of tables haven't been going out. I mean, I make money at church, but yeah, I haven't made any woodworking dollars in July. But I have some orders coming up, so it'll be okay.

I mean, we got a Thailand trip coming up, so save up. I know. Actually, yeah, I'm not going to travel for a while. I'm going to be a little broke. I might be making some tables soon. Can we call our video for Thailand, Thai Story? Ooh, that's good. Yeah. Thai Story 1. Sorry. That's good. I'll be making some tables soon. Can we call our video for Thailand Thai Story? Oh, that's good. Yeah.

Thai Story 1. Sorry. I'll be Buzz. Okay. I'll be Jesse. Man. Okay. Perfect.

Did not see that coming. Can we also, let's just maybe think of it with the 50-year-old photographer. That just made me think of, I've been to weddings where they have 50 year old DJs. I think that what I'm realizing is that I think that weddings are kind of a young man's game as far as I think you can be too old to do things at weddings these days. Yeah. Um,

like, and maybe I shouldn't say that about photographers. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me like the best photographers out there are the ones that are younger that know the new technology, know the new, you know, types of,

types of, you know, whatever aperture, I don't know what they're called. Even just like style. Yeah. Being willing to adapt and right. Rather than like the really glossy,

like, you know, it looks like a yearbook photo kind of pictures. Um, you're nailing it. Same, same with video. Like same with like DJ, whatever.

The DJ that's 50 years old is not going to know to play Old Town Road remix with Mason Ramsey in it. Oh, my gosh. I just put that in one of Trey's latest videos. Did you catch that? Yeah, the Mason Ramsey part. Oh, maybe I did see that, actually, the dancing video. Yeah, if you ain't got no giddy up, then giddy out my way.

Yeah, dude. I put that in the six-second portion of his like like i think it's a young man's game i think uh i think music like really just anything that has anything to do with pop culture is a young man's game but anyway just no i think that's very astute is it and that's a that's a good point um astute observation kevin kevin um so i wasn't even gonna say this but now you brought it up so there's a part of the wedding itinerary oh sorry i got an itch um a part of the wedding itinerary sorry I got an itch a part of the wedding itinerary was you know hey it's

8 o'clock we're going to steal the bride and groom from the reception and do golden hour pictures this is like not a not a must have on every wedding day but that's starting to be pretty common which is great I think golden hour is wonderful yeah utilize the light to get some good portraits of just the bride and groom and so most of the weddings I film and photograph like that's a part of it that's

pretty common nowadays so i'm like great that's in there because i had no time with him earlier in the day um because yeah this the donald duck was just like okay what's every mathematical combination of who could be photographed with the bride and groom let's do that now it's like all right just the second cousins let's get in here okay if you want to beach trip 2007 come on up on your feet uh if you've ever pet uh the sparky their golden doodle um let's get let's get fans of sparky in here sunday school class sunday school class up here please uh people who have lost 100 pounds up here please oh my gosh that's funny uh so yeah it was just like okay i don't i'll just wait till you're done so i'm like sweet this is where i'll get the really cinematic really

beautiful oh i'll mute your mic during that fred's mic just fell on his belly a little bit little bowl full of jelly um so i go outside to meet up with the bride and groom and donald duck has got this whole like studio makeshift studio set up outside like with uh extension cords and like these lights like set up to take pictures on this bench and so first of all lights you don't even have to know much about photography to know like we're using golden hour for a reason to use that light this is the best time of day for the light yeah don't bring artificial lights because now now it it just ruins the whole thing and so we just sat out there and he had the bride and groom sit on the bench for 15 minutes while more people came and took pictures with him and then they just went back and then like i was like maybe afterwards we get our time and they're like the dj comes in

hey it's time for first dances we got to go back in yeah so i just straight up didn't get footage of the bride and groom oh but i will say I think I'll be right the bride is like very unpicky like beforehand I'm like hey here are some of my other wedding videos tell me everything you like and you don't like she's like oh your stuff looks great just just make us the same stuff good for her I was like well is there anything you for sure want and I got everything she for sure wanted so that's good I mean that's that's the right kind of client to have yeah it's just one of those it's like this is not my best work yeah but yeah it's fine that's always tough um speaking of work quick life update but it's thought of this is I think typically something I would more to say off the podcast but whatever um kind of cool stuff with

updates with Trey stuff he just kind of we kind of have a conversation recently and like I've always tried to kind of add value through like maybe writing some jokes or coming up with ideas just because it's fun and easy but he had a conversation with me about like really trying to like build out the team you know the trey kennedy team or whatever and like now wants me to like come on board more or less as a writer and like start to pay me to like write jokes and everything so it's like so even just like being asked that has already motivated me. That makes two of us joke writers. Two professional joke writers on set.

I wonder if my rate, maybe I'll do it. Hey, my friend's getting $5 a joke. Can I get that as well? So anyway, just a cool thing. He's just like, dude, I want to bump up my quality and quantity of videos so any idea you have, feel free to just write an entire video and we'll shoot it.

And so I'm already, so that's awesome. I've been taking longer showers recently. I've been brainstorming a lot. And no matter where I go, heart and souls and the ghost runners podcast, baby. Right.

Yeah. Oh, there's no doubt. Well, no chance. I outgrow this ever. Unbelievably. No.

Anyway, there's a, there's a life update for you. Speaking of jokes i actually got denied recently they said we were good on jokes for a while dang maybe maybe forever i don't know really it felt like have you followed up i followed up once and said hey just checking in to see if you're ready for more jokes i'm always here for it and they basically said we'll like stop call stop calling me we'll get a hold of you when we get in yeah uh that's that's that's

not a good thing but but it's okay. One thing that is exciting about my life is I have been shampooing my hair again. Really? Yeah. Why'd you switch? Oh, at the beach. I just had saltwater nastiness in my hair, so I decided to put some shampoo on it. So just at the beach, you just felt like maybe I could use a little soap in my hair?

Right. Yeah. It was just like, yeah, let's just clean this bad boy out. Yeah. It was amazing how much puffier my hair was after i shampooed it straight puffy straight cheeto puff any other updates the only other thing i'll say is that i've been trying to hear more music in my life yeah uh you know new music we talked about how like i don't seek that out yeah first of all i would love it if anybody wanted to send me any suggestions any listeners out there brad is his his his dock is open yes i enjoy most types of music i would say

i feel like you and i don't have really similar taste in music though like no some of the things i don't really love are the things that you are really into like i'm very shallow with my music i shouldn't say really into but like justin bieber sean mendez that kind of stuff is not my style uh but i do enjoy like you know kind of the not goofy but like the edm kind of stuff i like chain smokers fine yeah but anyway get my hips to move i'm probably a fan of it but my my my mo my main kind of stuff is like folk rock kind of stuff i guess so give them like one artist to like model after, like one of your favorite artists. One of my favorite that people know,

I like the Avett Brothers. I like Little Chief. If you ever heard of Little Chief. Little Chief. Little Chief's kind of popular. He doesn't sound folky to me. Oh, he's very folky. Little Chief?

Not Lil Chief. Little Chief is on SoundCloud. Little Chief. Oh, Little Chief, like Native American. Sufjan Stevens.Cloud. Little Chief. Oh, Little Chief, like Native American. Sufjan Stevens. Yes, Lil Chief. Yes, right. Okay, cool.

Got it, got it, got it. Lil Chief. Dude, sometimes ask Josh Madison about all the Native Americans he knows. Really? I found this out yesterday in the lake with him. Yeah? He knows so many. They have amazing names.

Not like making fun of them, but like... Oh, for real. Some of the authentic Native American names that they they have that he's friends with really like he's like yeah i'm friends with a guy named uh zion stands over bull i was like what he's like yeah his name is zion stands over bull stands over bull yeah i was like that's awesome wow but he's got he's got a whole plethora of friends with names like that of friends that's cool man anyway lumineers great oh hellos guys send brad your music please anyway but my song it has nothing to do with folk but i'm going to give you a song of the week every week yes yes yes yes so i'm going to kind of need to breathe is another

one i really like sorry love them um the song is called it's got to be European, Plausia. P-L-A-U-S-I-A. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down. I'm a visual learner. So think of the word pause. Okay. We've got two forms of pause.

Dogs or VCR. Yeah, VCR. Okay. Put an L in there. So plause. Oh, this is plausible. Plausible. But instead of plausible, it's Plausia.

P-L-A-U-S-I-A. Oh. Plausia. Kind of seems like a disease or something ah dude like i got uh yeah i had too many chicken wings last night i got the plaza i got gastrointestinal plazia yeah and the artist is dimmy d-i-m-m-i d-i-m-m-i i i challenge you to listen to that song and not get up and dance to it or listen to it with the windows rolled down at the golden hour with somebody shining light in your face donald duck and tell me it tell me it doesn't make you feel good in the summer like it is just a very very fun you know light-hearted just fun song i love songs like that that make you want to just like yeah drive the windows down like it

makes me feel like the guy from six flags commercials like the old man that's dancing like i can imagine myself being that guy that energy like you can play that song when i'm 80 years old and i will bust a rug cut a rug bust a rug bust a move yeah bust a move anyway that's a question i like to ask people sometimes is okay let's say you just started a road trip you just pulled out your driveway perfect weather windows are down what's your like song to start the road trip i like asking people that oh yeah to kind of get a vibe for like that's a good question could i road trip with you crazy train by ozzy osbourne i'm just uh let the bodies hit the floor uh no brainer easy are you actually asking me right now sure yeah what do you think what comes to mind if it's the summertime my favorite summertime song

at if it's the right time of day whatever on, on the beach, whatever, fill in the blank, is Wildfire by John Mayer. Oh, okay. I really, really like that song for the summer, but I don't think I would like it in the wintertime. Yeah. Fire. Hot. Wildfire. Songs are seasonal.

I absolutely agree with you there. And I think he came out with it in the summer, I remember. It's important. So, yeah, let's move on to these questions because we got about 20 oh yeah brad's gotta go he's got chipotle um very soon happening okay so basically i asked my instagram audience before we recorded this for uh to give us some questions to answer um so i'm gonna look through those now um okay first one i'm seeing the top of the list from, uh, old Caroline Toler, Caroline Corral. What is the weirdest thing you and Brad have ever done together? That's a great question.

Nothing comes to mind initially, but I'm sure we got something. Oh man. I mean, some of those videos we made looking back is like, that's kind of weird. Like we went to a Justin Bieber concert without having tickets to it. We went there just to film and mess with people who were in line. Yeah, that was pretty weird, or pretty out there. And it went over well.

Justin Bieber retweeted a video of us singing and dancing. That was crazy. That was... I felt like a celebrity for two hours. Because, yeah, everyone around us... We were on the news. Yeah, we were on the news. It said, Brad Ellis, Bieber fan.

That was your title yeah people we would walk past people and be like i think those are the guys with the guys because you know if you're at a justin bieber concert you're obviously a huge fan you're stalking his twitter waiting to see if he's like giving away tickets or posting anything that day and then the only tweet thing he tweets that whole day is a video of us dancing so everyone just like recognized us i can't think of anything let's come back to that one i'll kind of be thinking in the back of my head but we we are normal ish together like you're you're kind of a goofy dude i can be goofy but together we're just we don't really we don't get that we have fun without being that wild i think we'll think of something

though i'm sure we've done something weird uh second question i see here says what's your podcast called hi great question ghost runners it says, what's your podcast called? Hi. Great question. Ghost Runners. It's called the Ghost Runners podcast. We call it, first of all, people always ask me, why do you call it that? I say, I don't know.

Oh, I say, I've always had the thought of having a band called Ghost Runner on Second. And then I thought it was too baseball specific. And so then Jake said, let's just call it the Ghost Runners. And I was like, great. And so, yeah, that's why we call it that. I think it is a great name because i think names are great when they don't like i wouldn't want the name to be like jack and brad jack jack and chad's open adventure i wouldn't want to call it that because those are our names you know i think that anything that's too on the nose i'm just like yeah it doesn't do it for me you know yeah yeah yeah jake and brad's hour long well that was the thing is i said like i wanted to be called ghost runner

on second as a band but i wanted to be like death cab for cutie and then everyone called us death cab so like ghost around a second but everyone calls us ghost runners anyway i see what you're saying because you're like why don't we just call ghost runners yeah like let's just get to the point uh favorite kitchen utensils this one comes from caitlin bland easy spoon love spoon really people people yeah i think the fork is way more versatile oh man but the spoon is just so satisfying when you scoop up something and like i don't know i don't know i think your satisfaction in stabbing a nice a couple pieces of macaroni yeah that feels good uh you can also scoop that macaroni when panera sometimes i'd say

one every five times panera will give me a spoon with my order of chicken tortellini and i i go get a fork tortellini seems it's more forky yeah it's yeah it's more forked um also dark horse in this uh race yeah avocado slicer watch out if you don't have one and you're an avocado person pick one up amazon.com 799 i'll give you the affiliate link brad can make 15 cents for every one of you guys who order so please use this link i'm dead serious i bought one for katherine because one of my friends told us like right when we got married like you should get her one so i got her one she loves it she uses it all the time that's so funny avocado slicer watch out that's great i think. It's the most middle class white person thing to have.

You have your own avocado slicer. But it is awesome. How do you feel about sporks? Get them out. I think I've only ever had plastic sporks. I don't ever want to talk about sporks. If there was a metal spork, I could be into it. No.

Really? No. It's Hannah Montana. It's the best of both worlds. Sporks are... No. You're never using a spork as a fork. Are you? I could. You won't. You sound like Dr. Se's Hannah Montana. It's the best of both worlds. Sporks are... No. You're never using a spork as a fork. Are you?

I could. You won't. You sound like Dr. Seuss right now. Meet my friend Dork. He uses spork like a fork. Bork from Spork. No, but I will say sporks suck. But at K-State...

Let me put it this way. Sporks suck. No, but at K-State they had grapefruit spoons. You ever hear of those? Grapefruit spoons? Are they thicker? No They have little like

Perforated at the very tip For like To be used as a knife To like cut the edges Of the grapefruit Oh Game changer for grapefruit Those were nice

Yeah I need to get one of those A grapefruit spoon That's hard for me to say A little bit Grapefruit spoon Whoa yeah Grapefruit spoon Whoa holy cow

I can't say it Try it one more time Oh let me I'm gonna go to the drawer And pull out bit grapefruit spoon whoa yeah grapefruit whoa holy cow i can't say it try one more time oh let me i'm gonna go to the drawer and pull out my grapefruit spoon there we go you made it harder on yourself i don't know why it's a drawer i'm gonna go out to where go to a rural area get the drawer one time when we were like looking for houses this is when i'm in like fourth grade we were like about to move and i think i don't remember if it was my mom or my dad. Maybe both. They found a house they absolutely loved, but it was on a street called Whippoorwill. They couldn't say that word. We're not moving here.

Really? I refuse to live on a street we can't say out loud. So you could never live on Grapefruit Spoon Road. Grapefruit Spoon Lane. Grapefruit Spoon Road. Grapefruit Spoon Road. It is catchy. That's too bad that I'm missing out on that song a little nice if you're listening if you're listening uh dude that dude's pretty smart i've been learning a little more about him

i think i mean anyone who can make their very first song go like triple platinum is doing something right but i guess he's like uh like very into like just very smart with the internet like i think he saw like that song owes a lot of its growth to tiktok and and twitter like and he was the one like pushing these memes out there and like putting videos to his song and trying to like put them in circulation until they blew up he retweets them still to this day like retweets all these people doing these things really yeah good for him smart guy uh here's a question from awesome adams metric or imperial easily uh well obviously i'm gonna say is it imperial the one that we use yeah nice obviously the one we use you know what you love it whatever what is it whatever america uses that's what i want um give me imperial it's the best it's incredible but

obviously i use that that's what we know but it makes so much more sense to use metric imperial is idiotic truly like why why do you stop at 12 and go back to you know like one you know i mean like inches only go up to 12 all right that's so weird why right it is weird it is yards gallons pints yeah it no nothing is consistent it's yeah it is really i might be for the week is with whoever made the imperial that's got to be the most like like american thing ever is like we don't care if it doesn't work we are america and we're doing it like okay great our like we just have too much pride to be like you know what what? This system's pretty bad. Let's go back to.

British did the metric, and we don't like them anymore because the taxes were too high. So we're making our own system. Have fun with those. Yeah, two pints of tea. Never going to know what that is, are you? Yeah, I just, it makes such little sense, which is too bad. Yes. Because metric makes a lot of sense sense but it's just not natural

um but two meters are great how hard would it be to like switch an entire country like that not that hard really i don't know so i don't know i don't know at all i mean like i'm trying things that are like really inundated with us Miles, that would be tricky a little bit. It would take you a while to not just constantly be times 1.6 by things. Beyond that, I'm talking about how hard would it be to actually... Imagine having to change every single road sign that says, this exit is in one quarter mile. You have to change every single one of those.

That would cost millions of dollars. Do you think you do a hard shift you like all right by the end of the month america is switching or like over the course of three years do you make the switch oh it's it it seems like it has to be it's not realistic it's not like a they can't get ty pennington in there be like we're gonna change this thing move that system do great reference to Ty Pennington by the way thank you we used to love that show yeah we used to watch it back in the day for all the young people out there it's Extreme Makeover Home Edition

your parents probably cried to it my mom probably did my dad's not a crier not for Ty Pennington maybe for Chad Pennington can't believe you let me down you're my fancy all right next question speaking of shifts real quick do you remember when we were probably late high school when tvs made the switch from analog to digital the worst and for months you just got this black bar across anything you

tried to watch it was like warning it's happening change is coming it's like i get it all right i've had the right tv i need for months stop warning me i know this is coming oh that's yes that's how we felt about google inbox though oh my gosh it did finally leave that's a sensitive subject google inbox if you're listening google inbox we're gonna follow you on instagram and you better tag us okay google why'd you get rid of inbox there was this email client from google to run your gmail that i found probably like three or four years ago. It was amazing. It was awesome.

Very like, uh, very good. Like UX design, like a lot of swipes, gestures. It was great on mobile. Yeah.

And then they just took it away. And Brad and I were like, what? Like we must be the only two people using it. Like why would they take this away? Google? Like, yeah.

Something that big. We were using this. Imagine them taking away your Gmail. That's what it felt like. Yeah, I was like, what do I do now? It was so bad. I still get frustrated. I have like 50 unread emails in my inbox right now

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Get after it. Drive your ambition. Mitsubishi Motors. I don't think we have to spend a ton of time on this one. Owen Irving, do you itch bug bites? Yeah. That feels great to itch my bug bites i don't get bug bites very much wait i think was that yeah this episode i reached over an itch one earlier

i said oh i got an itch oh i definitely if it's something itches of course i itch what's that quote from uh denzel coach boone and uh i don't scratch my head unless it itches i don't dance unless there's music that's how i feel that is a good one i will not what's the main point he's trying to make i will not be intimidated that's what it is but we've got that um this girl i think is just kind of calling me out personally but also calling you out without even knowing it where uh this is from kaylee where's all the evidence of gym attendance been lately um i gotta say she's right i have not been out in a while transformation tuesday that, though, is coming up, Kaylee. Yeah. You're going to want to follow us.

I can't talk today. Jeez. Ellis Custom Creations. It's also where you'll send me DMs about the song of the week that I can look at. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Matt Ford, who, by the way, I think listens to the podcast. He hasn't said anything to me about naming your truck. Actually, no one has said anything. I think that was the funniest thing I've said on the podcast he hasn't said anything to me about the naming your truck and no actually no one has said anything I think that was the funniest thing I've said on the

podcast in 10 episodes the Matt Blackford we'll call it we'll call him friend of the show Matt Ford the friend of the show uh he said why don't people talk about cash can more that show is gold cash cab cash cab okay okay um it is gold Ben Bailey was an American hero really I never really watched the show I loved it I had a friend of mine who is a yeah not that long of a story

but a random story he loved the Discovery Channel that was that was what it was on right I don't know it was like he loved Cash Cab

Man vs. Wild maybe one other show and I remember one time like he was so excited to sit down and watch whatever show, a rerun of it or whatever, and he turns on the TV and this TV show called Stunt Junkies was on.

And he just goes, Oh, Stunt Junkies! It sounded so much like that was the expression for when he was upset about something. It sounded like a phrase he says. Oh, Dag Nabbit instead of dag gum it ah stunt junkies and so like from then on like anytime we were frustrated about anything like ah stunt junkies son of a stunt junkie it sounds like he's gonna like oh stunt junkie i'm so sick of stunt junkies right yeah so anyway so like because of him i developed a huge love like he like loved bin bait like he sound his voice sounds exactly like cronk's voice my friends nice he's like oh bin

bailey your natural treasure i love this guy like oh stunt junkies that's funny i love that matt ford's question about a different show we've got to just talk about all that thanks matt matt black um matt man 2021 uh maybe he's a politician maybe he's running for office uh do you want oh i know exactly where he's running for office do you want to go to alaska sure i do yeah specifically a cruise i was just talking to i met with travel agent last week she just went on an alaskan cruise she said it is expensive not for if you're getting you know what's up not not for if you're getting, you know. What's up? Not for if you have a grocery store.

I can't make it any clearer than that. Not if you get paid, you know, to do it by the Alaskan Airlines, Alaskan Cruise Lines. Alaskan, if you're listening. Yeah, I'd be down to go. Honestly, I'm fascinated by any place. Like, I would love to go to Alaska in the summertime where it's uh like daylight like 20 hours a day like that's just cool to me i would love to do that um it's the only u.s state i haven't been to so that's another reason to go that's cool so yeah i would go um king david osho i think this is a question for you brad do you have a girlfriend oh i don't actually i have a permanent i call it my wife that's a kind

of a cool little pet name you have for yeah my wife my wife yeah um someone says juggling kyler says can a root beer float oh my gosh this is a little bit like a who's on first kind of thing next question i'm just kidding. Can a root beer float? Sure it can. If it gets the right ice cream. I think if it's buoyant enough. Yeah. I'll just go the science literal route.

Brad, here's a question from Cody Terrell. Great guy. If you need health insurance, he's your man. Yeah. But he says, Brad, have you ever built a table with fewer than four legs? Great question. Oh, I've just, I've built things with... I don't know. Maybe he's trying to be goofy.

But I've built things with bases instead of legs. Like having like... One base. Yeah, like a base in the middle or two bases. That's a really beautiful metaphor for life. You know, you don't always need four legs. You need two strong bases. That's what you are today.

Gold medals. Thanks for giving me a specific question, Cody. Cody's a woodworker himself, so that's cool. Yeah, he knows how to work it. But not like Ellis custom creation, so please don't order from Cotel. Kate Croft says, why is Panda Express fast food but not Five Guys? Oh, she sounds like she's got some beef. Drive-thru, Kate.

There they got some beef. Yeah, drive-thru. That's where we draw the line. She's got some Beijing beef. And I know that some pandas do not have drive-thrus, but a few episodes ago we discussed, at least my policy, over half of them do, based on what I've seen and observed. So it's drive-thru

for me. It's absolutely fast food. Also, you don't have to wait. It's literally fast food. Five guys, you have to wait a good six, seven minutes to get your food. Yeah, there's a wait. Shooty guys, you have to wait a good six, seven minutes to get your food. Yeah, there's a wait. Shooty says, would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses, process that, or one horse-sized duck? Easy, I'm going one horse-sized duck.

That freaks the crap out of me, first of all, thinking about that. You would fight one horse-sized duck? I think I'm scared of all animals. Like, yes, you would fight one horse-sized duck? I think I'm scared of all animals. Like, yes, I would. And I would, because, yeah. I don't think I would. I think about like a duck at the park. If you don't feed, like once you run out of bread, a duck becomes terrifying.

They just want more from you. And like, I'm kind of scared of a duck-sized duck. Just thinking about anything, any animal wanting to to fight me a hundred of them is terrifying if there were a hundred beautiful like cuddly puppies but they all wanted to fight me i would not do that think about something the size of a horse that can fly this is not going to go great for you oh crap you better hunker down you better give yourself two bases i'm not gonna lie i was imagining that duck in my basement where it was not flying. I didn't think about the fact that it was going to potentially not be in the basement.

I was imagining him in the ring at the MGM Grand. I'm looking at the duck right here and thinking about, okay. Yeah, I think if you get out. Table leg, Jim's leg, all these different things I could use on the bat. Table leg, Jim's leg. I really was. I was looking around like, okay, I could use that tripod on it. Okay, I would stab him with this. I would could use on the bat. Table leg. I really was. I was looking around like, okay, I could use that tripod on it. Okay, I would stab him with this.

I would get him in the throat. I think I would go the little horsies. All right, next question. That was a good one, though. We got to wrap up. Yeah, we got to go see him, Brad. This trolley's not going to wait. Sorry, I got friends waiting.

All right, let me just try to find a couple good ones to end on. Oh, these are all interesting. Oh, these fun we can always we can always bleed this in the next episode emma arterberry favorite word to abbreviate i think for me lately it's been conversation oh yeah yeah i love i love abbreviating abbreviate a brief that's how i say i breathe every and then they people sometimes laugh and sometimes they chuckle or sometimes they don't get it because they're stupid. I'm sorry. That was not true.

Oh, no. I was reading questions. I wasn't listening. I was doing that. There's some funny ones in here. We'll go quick. My dad says, why can't your dad be on this? I don't know how that one slipped in.

Who said he can't? Come on up. If he brings his own mic. Yeah. B-Y-O-M. B-Y-O-M. said he can't come on up if he brings his own mic yeah byom beyond uh grant huber trying to mess with me what is your enneagram number and does it fit you but also how does it not fit you uh gosh i don't like an enneagram yeah there's so many i like it i just don't like it parties when people ask me what my score is um okay maybe this might be a good one and on there are now they got to the bottom there's a lot of good ones you know what let's

do let's say we're gonna read these next time too okay we might get to some next time yeah okay do you think michael and jan could have ever made it work yes you think so this is this is a deep conversation yeah do i really want to get religious too much on this podcast? Probably not. But I had the epiphany. I was actually talking to somebody recently that if you are a Christian, you can make any relationship slash marriage work.

It's not going to be necessarily your ideal thing. I'm not saying that Jan and Michael are Christians. But yes, you could make it work. Anybody can make it work. It's called an unconditional love. I think just in general I would argue that love is a choice. Not argue, but just say love is a choice and that you can make it work

with anyone. Regardless of belief, I think you could make it work with anyone. I think if I moved to Los Angeles next month and lived there for the rest of my life I would find a wife there. I think that if I rest of my life, I would find a wife there. I think that if I stay in Kansas City, I will find a wife here. I think if I end up going to Thailand in January and never coming back, I'll find me a little Thai mama. I think there's so many people out there that...

Wait, wait, wait. Can I call it a Thai beau? Thai beau. Yeah. That's good. Wow. Yeah, I'm into fitness. Thai beau.

That's my girl. Yeah, so'm into fitness. Ty Bo. That's my girl. Yeah, so there's my kind of take on love. Yeah, they were trying to be fun, and we just got too stupid and deep about it. But I don't think that Jan was a good fit for Michael. Oh, I forgot what the question even was. Would Jan and Michael ever be a good fit? I don't think Jan and Michael should have made it work, because Michael is too much of a hopeless romantic and Jan is bitter.

And he feels weird wearing the dress. Yes. One of the best quotes. Or it's the skirt, isn't it? Or the skirt. Yeah, Jan has this schoolgirl fantasy. Pretty common fantasy. I believe that if you are following the right things, that the person you are with, it's not about you making it or they making it work for you.

It's about you accommodating them and loving them regardless. So that's my deep unfun version. Give me what, give us, is there any like fun ones out there that are not, I could have made that so much more fun than I did. I'm sorry. I mean,

I liked the route you went and I was ready to just like piggyback it. Yeah. Um, where was the one oh zach rahan said any strategy superstitions or facts you can share with us about your casino careers first of all we don't have careers in gambling we've just gone a few times and it's fun uh there is no there's no strategy that works better than just trying to follow what the odds say to do that is that is the 100 always good to bet on math like casinos are not built on people taking their money

they're built on them taking your money so just be conservative and smart and if you have a limit say okay i just lost all my money or okay i just made the money that i wanted to make i'm out of here because it's so easy to get sucked in one way or the other my tip for everyone out there would okay i just lost all my money or okay i just made the money that i wanted to make i'm out of here because it's so easy to get sucked in one way or the other my tip for everyone out there would be come with brad and i because i genuinely think we have so much fun and when we sit down at a blackjack table like people are about are our best friends by the time we have so much fun like you roll up to a blackjack table and no one's really talking they're they're smoking they're just yeah hit now i'm good right there's those guys but then there's other people and then we come in Roll up to a blackjack table and no one's really talking. They're smoking. They're just hit. Now I'm good.

Right. There's those guys, but then there's other people. And then we come in there hot. Yeah. One time Brad correctly guessed the dealer's ethnicity, which I was like, whoa, should you be doing this? Then he's just like, well, what was it? She was from Bosnia. Yeah.

Are you Bosnian? I was like, I bet I can guess where you're from. Yeah. I was like, oh. And she didn't even flinch. She's like, yeah, that's for sure. Yes, that's right. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa where you're from. Yeah. I was like, uh-oh. And she didn't even flinch. She's like, yeah, that's for sure it. Yes, that's right. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Come on. Give me some credit. Hold on. Yeah, so we love talking to the dealer and just typically trying to make their night. It's really fun. It's one of the only places I go and talk to complete strangers. I love. I've noticed recently in my life there's a direct correlation to the mood I'm in versus how

um willing I am to talk to strangers like when I'm in a great mood even in the airport recently I would just I just talk to whoever's around me just about like what's going on or look at that guy over there like I'll strike up those conversations with strangers if I'm in a really really good mood I love it um all right you gotta go Chipotle brad sing brad what's your favorite no jingle this time put you on the spot what is your favorite thing about this podcast that also relates to chipotle oh man we wrapped them both up nice yeah that was a good one thanks okay we're done uh we'll be back next monday i'll be back from florida i'll be back from Florida. I'll be back from Hawaii. Brad will be back from his fitness journey.

It's going to be a hot one. You won't recognize me, baby. You're not even going to recognize his voice. It's going to be skinnier. All right. See you guys.