Ghostrunners - 123 - Early Bird Gets the Big Worm at Econolodge

Episode Date: September 13, 2021

In this episode we discuss normal people Olympics, the best ways to end a conversation with a conspiracy theory, and Jake's story from his time at the Econolodge. Read his review here: https://goo.gl/maps/WQS5FQqPuZfFBH4L6 Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu  Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y  Watch this episode on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3cQSPnw  Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P  Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So Jake, when I was in Branson a couple of weeks ago, one of my buddies was telling me a story. He's a football coach at Branson High School. Go Pirates. Go Pirates, 417 B-Town, get down. And I think he's a line coach of some sort. And he was telling me about this girl that he has on his team. I don't remember her actual name,

but I absolutely remember this name. He said, yeah, she has this name, but she says, don't call me that. Call me Big Worm worm she chose that yeah and so so my buddy who's all already like you know he's he's living in brands conservative branson struggling to coach a football football for a girl uh has having to yell big worm lower six inch steps. You think the worm would want to get into the ground. The worm would want to burrow.

She doesn't want to get low. No, only when it rains, like all of a sudden, big worm gets bigger. All of a sudden, she's like outside my garage after it rains. Big worm. What a nickname though. Big worm. Like where'd that come from? You know?

And it's not even like, let's even take away the fact that she's a woman just like a football nickname no big worm big worm yeah i'm skinny thorax it's like something insect related yo yo yo call me little larva my name's sarah don't call me sarah little larva yeah i'm bees wings what's up hey yo my name's tina but they call me bed bug that's funny hey yo hey yo well give me a regular name for a girl i'm sarah hey yo my name's sarah but they call me ridiculous chrysalis uh-oh oh i think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white me too midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet because it's a ghost

ridiculous chrysalis Okay. Go for a vodka. Ridiculous chrysalis. Ridiculous chrysalis. That sounds like something Eminem would rhyme with. I haven't heard of this word since middle school. Yeah. And you thought of it. Sometimes I think rap is more educational than we realize for people.

I think it used to be more. Yeah. Not so much anymore. I don't listen to it too much anymore. I think, yeah. What happened to rap music i used to whatever happened to rap i used to learn big words rap used to be an informative it was like sesame street on the streets whatever happened to it i used to really really like like intellectual rap even like borderline intellectual like even like lowane or something like at least i could like understand most words and they were like you know seemed like they were clever they were

witty um i also used to love m&m but then i like tried listening back to it and i'm like man i don't know if this was as intelligent as i thought it was like when i was in high school just like even that would be an example like uh i'm a ridiculous chrysalis. I'm slipping in this, missing the disc, and I'm thinking of kissing it. You know what I'm saying? I thought that was like, dang, bars.

Wow. That's so sick. No, but in reality, he was like writing stuff. I was like, I got to figure out something that rhymes with ridiculous. Yeah.

It was just like, you know what my style is going to be? It's just rhyming the same sound over and over and over. Even if it's not a word. Yeah. I need some napkins. What a napkin. What a napkin what a napkin napkin napkin and that

sounds good happen what's gonna happen what a gapkins with a napkins and you get it you get a good beat on there it sounds good dude he nailed it dude people liked our our rap or whatever you want to call that last week where you were saying nonsensical noises barely with spanish that's proof that it's all about the music and not the words, guys. Yeah. And I did text you afterwards. I was like, dude, I'm listening back to the pod right now. Like the hook you sang is like kind of catchy. Yeah. Like I'm out on the golf course right now, like singing whatever melody.

Yeah, that was fun, man. So I guess we should probably do that more. Okay. I don't know if it's Spanish every time. Oh, I think we definitely changed the language every time. Scott, this is Brad and I texting you back right now because I think we were in a group text with him and Sam. And I don't think we've texted back.

He's like, did you see that video? I talked to him about it. Okay. Well, Scott, here's my response. He's like, dude, you barely even sound like you're speaking Spanish. Hey, it was my first time doing a fake Spanish song. All right, Scott. So it sounded a little Italian at times, but I was trying my best.

Yeah. He was so pumped about to knock to knock to as I i knew he would be oh he was fired up we'll have to throw it out on patreon sometime yeah video of scotty yeah uh speaking of rap do you ever listen to logic because i have not so this is not going to go very far if you say no here are my quick thoughts on logic okay he is half black yes half white and he throws it around a lot. Okay. That, this is my, this is about all I know from logic. That's, that's like the one thing I know too, is like, he says the N word in a songs, which is fine, but until you see him and he looks as white as I do. And then you're like, he looks a lot like you. This feels wrong. Like, are you sure

you're okay to say this? Sure. Yeah. Which I guess genetically. Yes. But visually it's like, this is not right. It's kind of like Carlos. It's like i don't know about you carlos yeah or like even me like when i say the word chigger i'm like oh i got some chigger bites like it doesn't i don't feel like i should say that yeah you gotta drop the hard car yeah but still though these days it's like i don't even know i'm not even i'm just gonna say mosquito across the board right the grass bugs yeah that's safer yep so those are really my thoughts on logic like yeah decently talented from what i know looks like squints from sandlot i did music video together i just listened to an interview one time they did a

music video together is that what you said yeah for real yeah they had like um i think it was chris d'alia was eminem and okay it was a song that eminem and logic did together chris d'alia was eminem and logic was or was playedintz, all grown up from the Sandlot. Really? Okay. I just listened to an interview with him and he sounds like the kind of rapper that would be smart in his lyrics, but I don't... His name is Logic.

Exactly. I figured it was right up your alley. So that's why I didn't know if you listened to him. Yo, it's Jake Triplett, AKA Analytical. Okay. Let's get into it that'd be my rap name analytical logistical logistical left-brained yes uh that'd be me that'd be spreadsheet they call me balanced spreadsheet yep let's get into it let's get

into the sheets yeah you would say i'm a freak in the sheets spreadsheets baby come on that's right dirty to me in the attachments oh nice uh what's going on what do we got going on this week um episode 123 what oh episode 123 yeah it's uh saturday afternoon for us i uh went to chick-fil-a earlier today i went actually i went to chick-fil-a earlier this week and got to see i went inside to get some work done oh it was special yeah it was special. I got to see Domi, our favorite girl. You know, if you're a new listener, Domi is, how would you describe Domi, Brad? She is a five foot four Mexican woman. Very sweet. She works the, I don't know, like the dining area in Chick-fil-A and just like refills all the

drinks, all the trash thrown away and just very diligent, very hard worker, very blunt with you, which I think is kind of a Latin American thing anyway. But the thing that she's really known for is one time we were talking about religion or something. She's Catholic, classic line from Domi. You should really go Catholic. You should really go Catholic. Like she just like, it's not afraid to just like i i'm i'm i'm like

somewhat afraid to say that kind of stuff to people and she just straight up just is very blunt with it yeah domi's awesome we haven't been able to interact with her much in the last year and a half just because it's been drive-thru only i saw her in the drive-thru one time i went through the drive-thru and she was there like you know filling up kids uh bags or whatever she goes hey good good to see you. How are you? I said, good. What's going on with you? You do her voice really well. That's amazing. Good to see you. How are you? Uh, I'm doing well. How are you doing? Like you guys been really busy today and she doesn't respond to me. And then about three seconds later, she just goes, okay, good

to see you. And I say, that's the classic tell me which, which like she speaks really good English. Like I'm not saying like she didn't understand me. It was like, it was like she was just distracted by something or whatever. All right, move along. And I go, okay, see you Domi. I don't know how good of friends we are. Good to see you guys. Okay. Good to see you guys. Yeah, man. I want to record Domi talking just so you guys can like compare Brad's voice to her voice. It's pretty similar. If I can hear something in my head, that's like, yeah, I can absolutely do a voice. Yeah. It's an incredible quality, but thank you. Uh, yeah, I got to see Domi inside. I brought my something in my head, that's like, yeah, I can absolutely do a voice. Yeah. It's an incredible quality. But thank you.

Yeah. I got to see Domi inside. I brought my laptop in to get some work done. And so we got to catch up. I was not in a hurry. She wasn't her. We just got to chit chat. And right away, she's like, you know, are you still working?

Are you still working? You know, and I think she's worried about us financially. Yes, I think she's like, like, because we hung out at all the time. She's doing our work. Yeah. But like, like these guys are hanging out way too much during the week. Yeah. This was before work from home was a thing.

And so she was really nervous about this. So she's like, are you working? I was like, yeah, yeah. I'm still working and everything. And she's like, are you still single? And I was like, right away. Yeah, yeah. Are you still single?

Are you still single? Do you want me to pray for it? There was kind of a tone to that. I think it was like doing like check-ins, like make sure everything's all good to go. It's so I kind of like, I'm realizing this tone. So I'm like, I am still working. I am still single, but like, you know, like I'm happy. I'm trying to have like a, you know, trying to get a little deeper. I'm like, I'm still very happy and I'm loving what I'm doing and everything. And she goes, well, you know, it's about balance. It's about balance. Sometimes you need someone to come home to, and you know, it's good. You should find

someone, you should find someone. And, uh,'s about balance. Sometimes you need someone to come home to. And, you know, it's good. You should find someone. You should find someone. And she would have said that no matter if you said you were happy or sad. Yeah, I was like, I don't know if you heard what I was saying. She just queued it up. Yeah. So she was not totally like, I don't know, pleased that I'm just like single and happy. Yeah.

You need to find someone. Yeah. And anyway, that was fine. We got talking later. She refills my drink. And, you know know i think i said something like man it's like it's dead in here you know i was like is that normal like it was like 1 p.m or something and she was like yeah you know it's kind of been dead more recently and i

was like maybe with the you know pandemic like everyone's been so used to the drive-thru that they don't even consider going inside anymore like everyone's just been trained to go through the drive-thru she's like yes they are trained that way and i wrote this down this is like the final words she's like leaving she's like yes they are trained to go to drive-thru. She's like, yes, they are trained that way. And I wrote this down. This is like the final words. She's like leaving. She's like, yes, they are trained to go to the drive-thru. The government is trying to program your brain. Okay, have a good day. That was her last full sentence to me.

The government is trying to program your brain. Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, Domi. Like, what a cliffhanger. Let's get back to that. That'll bring you back. Come back here. Yeah. I need to hear more about that.

Okay, have a good day, guys. Okay, have a good day. 9-11 was an inside job. Okay, you guys have a good one. Okay, okay, have a good day guys okay have a good day uh 9-11 was an inside job okay you guys have a good one okay okay have a good day there's two shooters there were two shooters at jfk okay have a good day okay the denver airport is run by illuminati okay have a good day like oh okay thank you guys for coming in today if you get the vaccine we'll have 5g inside of you okay you guys pull ahead okay okay okay nice to see you nice to see you nice to see you yeah sandy hook was an inside job okay bye like whoa told me it's a huge thing to say i don't think so i really don't i don't think you're gonna be on the right side of history on this thing okay guys okay you're

still single i hope you find a girlfriend i hope stevie wonders not blind okay okay have a good day okay have a good day guys okay the government's trying to program your brains word for word i'm very intrigued i know i don't know if i disagree with you domi first of all but i i i'm interested to know like that's so broad that's so vague and i was meaning like we have become conditioned to go through the drive-thru he's like yes yes the government's trying to drive through it's because of biden yeah it's because of the joe biden the jose jose biden jose biden you know you know sleepy jose you know i love because she knows i speak spanish so she'll sometimes like ask me how to say something in english yeah so it'd be so funny be like how you

say uh jose biden jose biden you know you know that's amazing the government's kind of fun like interaction okay it really did have me like wanting more like i really wanted to refill my drink one more time just in case yeah yeah actually can i get some more ice actually i need can i get a second lid do you mind come back over here this lid just you like punch through like this lid just broke i don't know what happened oh second leader remind me of second dose You should not be getting your second dose. Do not get the second one. Do not get the second one. The first one is just fine.

Yeah, that's too good, man. Oh man. I'm currently half vaxxed right now. Half haxed. Haxed. I'm haxed. I'm haxed. Haxed.

Haxed. Haxed. Haxed. Haxed. Haxed. Haxed. Haxed. Haxed.

Haxed. Haxed. Haxed. Haxed. Haxed. Haxed. Haxed. Okay.

How's that? It feels good. I think I like where I'm at. It's a nice sweet spot. I think I'm just, I'll stay here. Really? No. How?

Can you, do you the the proof after the first one the proof like you know how people like you have to like get in like certain places you can you have to like oh yeah they give you an index card that's just a little bigger than every wallet ever made just like a pretty inconvenient to carry around with you yeah and they just write down like the date you're good it's like i, I could have made this. I could have so easily made this. And Cindy was saying, and this is like a friend of a friend. So who knows if it's really true, but I believed her, uh, that somebody was trying to come back from Mexico on vacation and they got like a positive COVID test. And so they just made like a fake vaccine. Yeah. They just went and bought one in Mexico for like a hundred dollars for

somebody. And then they got in like that day day you should really buy a fake vaccine card you should really go you should really you should really go to mexico guadalajara yes yeah the vaccine cards i was just i was expecting more maybe a little laminate maybe sharpie yeah you have to pay extra for that okay you probably went to cvs only walgreens yeah i went to cvs walgreens they'll laminate for your urgent care you know yeah and i think let's put it up there i, I still love that. It said put it up there until I feel resistance. Resistance, dude. It was so scary to hear that from a doctor reading off a piece of paper. Like clearly not super comfortable doing this. Like, do you think that if you would have said, hey, can I just do it myself? Do you think he would have said yes? I don't know. He

already had the gloves on. You know, he was already primed. He was ready to go. I don't want to waste these gloves. Yeah. I have the nitrile gloves on, so I'm just ready to go i don't want to waste these gloves yeah i have the nitrile gloves on so i'm just gonna go ahead and do it but but yeah the vaccine cards they're they're fun i got them in my glove box or in my my center console right now i'm definitely gonna forget about that and um yeah i love the size of them i uh i think it's gonna be this is gonna be the new like oh a bunch of girls go out or like the wife goes out it's like one extra thing that a wife can leave behind at home it's like oh i forgot my id yeah dude and my vaccine. It's like one extra thing that a wife can leave behind at home. It's like, Oh, I forgot my ID. Yeah, dude. And my vaccine card. Let's just go home. Are you a forgetful person when you go out? Because I, I, I am getting worse and worse. Really? I think because I don't have a system for a lot of my things. Like,

like I often will come home, put the keys like in my truck, like just throw them in. Oh, smart. Yeah. But then sometimes you forget them. Like you don't realize that they're always there or like I'll throw them in my pocket or, and then I'll change from my work clothes to my regular clothes. And I'll literally just assume like, as I'm walking out and I don't have my keys, like, Oh, they're probably in my truck. Yeah. And so, so often I could never do this. It's killer. Like I bet genuinely three times a week, at least I have to come back inside after I say like all my goodbyes, give Catherine a kiss. I forgot my keys. I don't know where they are. And so actually last week I texted you this, uh, because you had hung out with me on Wednesday night. I think we had had dinner at my house and

then all of Thursday I could not find my keys to the point where like the last time I remember having them was like, I unlocked my door, uh, inside and I was like, maybe they like stayed in the door. And Isaac, whenever he came over, like pulled him out, put him in his pocket to give to me. Right, right, right, right, right. Yeah. Like, like that was how far I had gotten with it and could not find my keys for the longest time was really nervous that Bo like Bo just takes things and like puts them. He loves, like we have a basketball, like a little Fisher Fisher price basketball hoop for him. And so he loves like putting things in basketball hoop style things. So like we'll throw random things in our laundry hamper or in the trash can. I was like, Bo like did something

with my keys. And the entire day I couldn't find him was like texting people like that might know. And then I had Peter and Sophie over for dinner that night. And Peter is worse than anybody I know at losing. Yeah, I was his roommate for a while. So then I reverse engineered that and thought like, okay, Peter must be also the best person I know at finding things. And so we scoured the whole house and found them like literally right next to where my keys are always. Oh my gosh. It was like underneath the bowl,

like in a crack that we hadn't moved the bowl. But all day I was like thinking I'm going to have to get new keys. Because I didn't have a spare, like an idiot. That would be be annoying so when we were in hawaii isaac couldn't find his phone when we were all in the van we're doing the road to hana and he can't find his phone it's like oh man is it like somewhere at like a stop we had but he's got an apple watch so he's able to like ping find my iphone and the the pinging sound is going off for sure in the car it's like oh great okay sigh relief it's in the car somewhere and then it pings more and like no one can find it like i'm in the front i'm like all right

it's definitely behind me obviously yeah chris is in the very back being like i think it's in front of me but five people in the car and none of us have an idea yeah of like where it's at it was the strangest sound like all like people like who should be able to hear things and none of us can tell where it's at and we're like is it underneath us you know we're like moving our heads all over um there was one time where i kind of like hit the brakes while i was driving and it got really loud it's like okay slam on that again yeah so it's like okay it's sliding underneath something it's like under the mats or it's under something where like when so like jake hit the brakes again hit the

brake so i'm just like slamming on the brakes on the road to hana trying to like get in like but it wasn't every time but every now and then i hit the brakes i turned right and hit the brakes again, hit the brakes. So I'm just like slamming on the brakes on the road to Hana trying to like get in. But it wasn't every time. But every now and then I hit the brakes. I turned right and hit the brakes. It was fine. Yeah. Jace is looking all over.

He's like, OK, sometimes when I bend down, it seems like it gets like way louder. And so we're like, OK, so it's like probably in the floorboard, like right there or whatever. Eventually, I just like pull over like this is taking forever. We got to figure this out. It's driving me nuts. Everybody get out. Isaac, keep pinging it. We get out of the car. Jace was sitting on Isaac's phone for at least 15 minutes. Too much junk in the

trunk. Oh my gosh. We were so pissed. The whole phone. Like you got to be able to feel that. Entire phone. And that's why when I hit the brakes, like his butt would come off the seat a little bit. It would get a little louder. It's like, oh, there was, oh, it's quiet again. Oh, dang. That's why it was so muffled. It was impossible to hear. So yeah, don't ask Jace to find anything for you. Catherine the other day, like I couldn't find my phone. She's like, I think you're sitting on it. I think you're sitting. And I was like, Catherine, I know I'm a big guy,

but there's no way I'm just sitting on my phone and not realizing it. Like I have enough sensitivity down there. You would think. I think so. Yeah. I think like someday we should do like a normal person Olympics or something, call it something like that and have like, see how long it would take everybody to find the same like lost iPhone.

Because I think I have really bad ability, like here where things are coming from. I'm not great at that either. Like I can hear it. This is in the room, but I think it's like way different place. Normal person Olympics is kind of fun. Yeah. What else would we do for that? We got like, can you just like you like, can you renew your tags on time?

Oh, that's kind of just a fun task. Like that's hard to do. Yeah. Like while balancing everything else going on. Yeah. You struggle with that more than I got pulled over two nights ago for that very thing. So it's on my mind. Did you get to get?

No, it's Prairie Village cop. So I was like, you know, at that time, probably one of the hardest criminals in Prairie Village at the time. I think he just wanted someone to talk to. Yeah. He was in no way interested in giving me a ticket. He was like, you know, at that time, probably one of the hardest criminals in Prairie Village at the time. I think he just wanted someone to talk to. Yeah. He was in no way interested in giving me a ticket. He's like, nice car, though. Yeah.

He's like, hey, so where are you headed tonight? And it wasn't like I'm trying to be careful. I think it was like one in conversation. Just like, is it good food? What'd you do before that? They got specials? What? How are their street tacos?

I've heard good things. Right. But I would never. I'm a big systems guy i would never lose my keys that'd be my rap name never lose my keys hey what's up my name is jay triplet aka i got systems in place so where are your keys right now oh okay okay where's your wallet right now it is on the uh like the mantle looking thing like upstairs where there's like a little window like you could see the tv from the key from the stairs so you walk in put your wallet there every single time even like when we're on

the road on tour i have a designated spot for my wallet like when i enter a place for the first time it's like this is my wallet spot okay good for you spot for shoes spot for wallet spot for everything i don't think i realize that about you i think i used to be that way and i just maybe just get so sidetracked these days like yeah where i just like kind of throw it and like i'll figure that that out later but i was actually telling tommy that and she's like you need a place for a woman you need to find a place and have a yeah a designated spot for a woman every day spot in your heart for your girl yeah put this spot right here is is empty it's like well don't mean my bible says singleness is a gift so you're like oh you get the single shot johnson and johnson

it's also dangerous. Oh yeah. Don't be quit bringing up the vaccine. The efficacy of that thing is not good. Not good. I tell you what. Oh, that's good. But yeah. Anyway, normal person Olympics.

Also, what do we like? Weed eating. Yes. I don't, I've never weeded in my life. Oh really? True story. Never. My dad never felt that vibe.

Like you, you vibrate on the weed eater for about 45 minutes. You come inside and your arms feel like, like goose necks. Yeah. No. 45 minutes to take that long in Stratford. I guess you have a big lawn. Yeah. Thanks. No. Like my, my dad would, for whatever reason would always weed for me when I mowed the lawn. I don't know. Lucky. Yeah. I don't know why he did that. Traditional gender roles. Yeah, exactly. Good for you guys. The son mows the lawn, but the dad still gets to weeding. But my daddy owns the lake. Dude, since we brought up weed eating, I want to ask your opinion about this. Actually, we have lawnmowers that mow our lawn.

You know what? Yeah, it's crazy, huh? Like a human. Yeah. Not the apparatus. Both. Oh, they both. Yeah.

Together. Humans use. So we hire these people out and they're doing a really bad job of weed eating okay and this is why i should go in the normal person olympics it's kind of tough is it or is it just like just just you either do it or you don't sometimes like like i'm getting frustrated because i'm paying the same amount that i've always paid but i feel like they're getting worse and worse and i'm like this is bothering me do i say something or do i just let it go because i don't have a weed eater to even do it myself.

It's not like it's like just do it yourself. If you're going to complain about it so much, it's like you can't. You don't have your weed eater's license. I don't. I would love to, but I did, but it expired and I don't have. So, yeah, I haven't weed eaten since high school. But from what I remember, I would say there's two issues probably happening. One, just pure laziness.

Just don't want to do a good job. Or the second one would be like wheat eating around trees can be tough because if you like cut two into the trees you can like kill a tree i think by like cutting into them really yeah or i don't know i think it's not good to like cut into yeah i didn't realize the wheat eater was that strong that he could cut into trees big dime we don't have trees so moot point we have a peach tree we have a peach tree it's so grown two feet tall i don't know why they're doing a bad job it's just it's just frustrating and i i have tendencies of like a karen you know in my life and so i don't want to like be too like hey why are you doing this better for me i want to be nice and like consider it but

i'm also like i'm paying you money to do a job and you're doing it mediocrely so i don't know i'm thinking about it i think or maybe i'm just gonna hire a new lawnmower this is like my passive way of thinking is like, I'm just going to fire them at the end of the season once it's winter and they're not mowing my lawn. I would absolutely do the same thing. Would you? Yeah.

Like, I'm just not going to renew my contract with you basically. Or fun idea, hire a second one, have them show up at the same time as the other one, have a little battle. Oh. Battle royale. Yeah, that's not a bad idea.

I guess whichever one of you guys wants it bad enough. Right. Yeah. The price is still the same, but whichever one of you wants it. No bidding wars you're not negotiating here just you know figure it out okay weeding so oh normal olympics we got uh like how many uh like how successfully can you fill up a water bottle on your sink without like having water on the outside of the bottle i got something kind of weirdly annoys me i'm bad at that i'm bad at

that outside this thing is so it's way worse if it's not water too like i i fill up bo's uh milk every single morning oh that's rough and today like like not every time i bet three out of three out of 11 times what what percentage is that that is uh 0.272727 repeating 0.27.27.27 repeating, uh, times percentage. I mess up. I don't know. I don't know what it is, but yeah, you got milk everywhere and then you gotta, you gotta like wipe it all down, but then, but then, yeah, but then the, the rag is all milky and you don't, you still have like milk somehow. You don't ever get it all the way off. So. All right. What about, uh, are you going? Yeah, I got one. Um, choosing the right container for Tupperware to put leftovers in.

Oh, yeah. Even just like lids at a Chipotle. Sometimes I screw that up. Like, oh, I grabbed a medium lid. It's amazing. Like, I'll be like, oh, this one needs a really big Tupperware. And then you get it and it looks like Rhode Island in there. Like there's nothing in there.

That would be a fun game. Just lids strewn everywhere. You got to match the lid. Yes. That's a fun game. Yeah. Catherine would dominate. What are my team for team like my wife is amazing at that you guys all right I got one for just the fellas okay uh do you ever try to pee standing up while brushing your teeth no yeah trick show

every single no I was kidding oh triple tasking um I find that as long as I go, like I'm a right-handed toothbrusher. If I brush the right side of my mouth, we're fine. Okay. But I am shocked at like the minimal amount of movement. So then to go cross body, I brushed the left side of my mouth and I am, yeah, the fire hose is going everywhere all over the house. It's crazy. The hose.

Yeah. The fire hose got disconnected from. Yeah. Yeah. It's too much pressure or something. Yeah. Yeah. So I can't, I can't really do it anymore. I stopped trying. You go cross body. You can't. Yeah. It's crazy. Like that's all, that's the difference is right there and right there. That is enough to make those hips swing, baby. Really? So I think that needs to be a competition, like cross, cross mouth toothbrushing. Oh, I like it. Urination accuracy contest. It's tricky, but it's all in the honor system because no one wants to watch you do that. So how did you do? Was it, was it good? Yeah. Scale of one to 10.

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than any other brand as of June, 2024. Find out what makes Mazda different at Mazda.ca. All right. Brad, are we ready for the story? Yes, I do want to hear the story. haven't yeah yep yep it's time for the story guys uh as i mentioned last week i wanted to get a hotel room for myself just for a couple nights one weekend labor day weekend i wasn't doing anything it's like this is the time to do it i'm going to work on nothing but stand-up comedy content i'm going to be writing when we figure out merch, figuring out giveaways, whatever.

Just knock it out, be by myself. And several people I told this to, they're like, that's such a great idea. Like I would be doing the exact same thing. I'm like, thank you. Just to get out of the house. It sounds great. Yeah, I just have like not be with my own habits,

my own rhythms. I don't know where my wallet is. It's a new hotel room. You know, like that's kind of fun. So. You unpack your clothes when you got there? Of course not. I actually didn't really pack any. Okay.

I had like one change of everything. Yeah. I was like, I'm not going to be doing anything. So it didn't matter. And then. So you thought. Yeah. Well, then this is like, aside from everything that happened in there, I did such a bad job

of just like staying there. I just kept getting invited to stuff. I'm like, yeah, I'm not going to not go do that. That sounds awesome. Yeah. It's like, hey, we're all watching like movies on my back porch. I hung up a bed sheet and a projector. Like that sounds odd.

That's such a vibe. Yeah, of course. I got to go there. And then Isaac invited me golfing. So I did a lot of stuff. I wasn't in the hotel that often, but I have been very productive since then. So I think it kind of stirred something inside of me. I wasn't super productive in the hotel, but since then, like every shower, though, you're

getting there. I've written more stand-up comedy material this week than i have any other like month of my life which is cool like every shower nuts i'm coming out of there wet thumbs typing away love it everything's misspelled but i gotta figure it out later okay anyway let's get back to the story the econo lodge which i think last week you're like oh lodge sounds fun yeah i was trying to be nice to you to be honest i will say we have an econological atha and it just it was not the best location in the world that's i'll say that this um location was

fine this one is right off shawnee mission parkway like between the stake a shake and a quick trip okay yeah i i saw that eventually i was like oh he's at the place by the stake a shake high roller so anyway right away i didn't you expect too much, but I didn't need much. I just wanted to be in my room. Sure. And so let's just get right into it. The first morning, I actually got a... I went right to bed that first night. I slept like 10 hours or something. Heck yeah. I'm awake in the morning. It's about 9.30 AM. Continental B. I was thinking about it. I was thinking about making my way down there. I was still in my room at this point. And I'm awake and there is a knock at the door it's like oh it's probably housekeeping or

whatever so the lodge they get them up early yeah i start to get out of bed i'm in only my boxers so i'm like i'm gonna like throw on some shorts throw on a shirt and then i'll like talk to the woman and tell her to like you know come back in 30 minutes or something like that by the way the government's trying to program something quick like that i don't know i'll slip something in as i head out as i'm in the process of getting out of my bed and standing up i have not even had time to put on my shorts yet and remember these people like just knocked like i'm awake it wasn't like they maybe they've been knocking for a while uh all of a sudden there is a man in my room what there is a man in my room tell me about this so and he is just like borderline yelling at me like very like

quickly and sternly yelling you need to move your car you need to move your car and so that's going through my mind i'm like how do i need my car how does he know what car i have and then also if you can imagine like this is a this hotel room is like blacked out like i drew the curtains like it was so dark in there and just a beam of light it was like i was in the room with the man and the ark of the covenant it was so bright i can't even like my eyes are so shut i'm like what all this is going through my mind and the only thing i could think to say at the time i just go who are you yeah yeah who are he says you have to move your car right now and i was just like okay like i just i can't even process like what's happening

right now i'm just like why and he's like we're doing like the the parking lot is being like resealed this morning you have to move your car right now and i was like you could why didn't you tell me this last night yeah and he's just like i'm sorry it just it has to be right now and i was like did you guys like just just figure this out it was a surprise what day was this this would have been sunday morning yeah who reseals something on a sunday not me i was like that's a weekend job yeah sunday morning and i'm just like so just like thrown off i don't even and he's pointing directly to my car it's like how does he know which car is mine i'm just like very thrown off by this like you were at a place that was like a door right

by your car right yeah kind of motel style motel i always get those confused but i'm on the second floor second floor is pointing down to my car and once again i'm just like who who are you because he didn't answer me the first time and or no i think the second time i said do you work here like truly like do you are you part of the parking lot people like what's happening and surely they're not giving parking lot people just access to rooms i didn't even know how we got in there it It happened so fast. And I said, do you work here? And he said, yes, I use my keys to get in. I was like, okay, well, don't do that.

Yeah. Don't do that to me. Okay. So he didn't, he knocked twice. Yeah. It was, it was like a, now he's in my room. Like a little delight. Yeah.

It was very fast. No, it's like that. You gotta, and you don't even pronounce yourself when you're walking in like hey just like very slowly oh whatever okay so i'm fired up for you right now yeah i was already like oh my gosh like this is just like kind of absurd like i'm just trying to think of like in this day and age how can you ever just like justify doing that right you need to be so careful right using your authority your keys to like enter someone's private like quarters like just like non-consensually like dude you just cannot be doing this yeah yeah um that's weird so anyway i'm like you know what maybe

this is just a i'll start my day right i'll move my car and i'll go like get some stuff done so i go to panera bread oh panera bread uh they i saw i didn't get it because i wasn't in the mood for lunch yet but they have a grilled cheese mac and cheese, varsity donut style. Do they really? I haven't got it yet, but just for all the K state people out there, okay. She's now a Panera bread. Good to know. Right. That's fun. Might get it after this. Catherine's going to hear that and go right away. Oh, Kath. Hey, text me. I'll go anytime you want. Uh, and so I'm kind of going about my day. I run a couple errands. I do everything but get my tags renewed. And I come back to the hotel.

And now it's like, yeah, 10 a.m. By the time I leave the hotel, probably I come back at 2 p.m. I ran a lot of errands. Good lunch. I go and work somewhere. And I come back at 2 p.m. There's still so many cars parked on that side of the parking lot. So I get more frustrated.

Like this is so far from urgent. You acted like the Taliban was all over us. You got to move your car right now. Get it out your car right now right now you entered my room for this and that made it more frustrating it's like this is so far from urgent this is so annoying and just like we have a phone call or we have like a telephone in our room this is like just to have a yeah call me sure you know it's like yeah yeah i might say something to this guy you know i might say something to him um i go uh oh i think later that day isaac invited me to go golf and i go golf and then um then that night is when i got invited to go to watch a movie with some people on the back porch there's string lights

total vibe okay i'm telling them about it there's some girls there and like you need to talk to them even not for you just for the sake of like other women in the future he needs to know that he can't do this that's what i that was the first thing I thought of is like, obviously a little bit inappropriate, but like, what if a girl's like showering? Like, like there's no,

he doesn't know if you're married or, you know, whatever. Like that's just weird. And that is what I said to him later on. I brought that up. Yeah. It's so I'm like,

you know what? I probably will. I didn't get back to late at night, but I was like the next morning, depending on how I feel, I'll sleep on it, but I think I'm going to, I'll probably say something to the guy so it's 9 30 a.m again or you know sometime around there once again it'll be i'm awake and uh there's a knock at the

door this time way quicker um you know what was they were judging tom brady's like uh release time release time way quicker release time on thursday night football on labor day for you way quicker release time yeah i mean he went so fast from knock to he's in my room again what monday morning labor day he comes in my room again after i feel like i was already pretty upset the first time i gotta let him know like who are you you shouldn't be doing this you get me in my room okay you gotta start dead bolting first of all i guess so yeah if you're at the lodge, deadbolt away or whatever that chain mail thing is, use that.

This time I was still in bed and very much, I just, I can't even emphasize enough how bright it is when an Indian man walks into a room. Because it's not so bright. Because it's not a hotel where it's just a hallway. It's straight sunlight. Yeah, it's, yeah. Nothing but sunlight coming into this pitch black room.

It's, I mean, my eyes are basically shut. I can tell that it's not housekeeping and it's this guy again. And I'm just like, what? I see that. And then he's like in my room, sees that I'm in bed. Once again, I'm shirtless, like pretty like, you know, weird position to be in. And he's like, oh, I apologize. I apologize.

And then like walks away again. And so I'm just like, all right, that's it. Now I'm like pretty upset. I'm like, I can't. Now it's not a coincidence. It's not like he did this. He forgot whatever. It's like this guy is probably a creep.

He probably he wants to like bust in and see something. He wants to like just keep getting better looks at me or even the bare minimum is that he likes using his authority to like prey on like your privacy. Or I don't even know what the theories are, but it's just like weird. This is messed up. Yeah. And I'm not going to stand for this. Yeah.

Oh, I should have mentioned this at the beginning. When I turned 30, like, you know, two weeks ago or whatever, I kind of had a conversation with myself like, hey, I'm 30 now. I'm an adult. You know, I got to start standing up for myself more. So that was like part of it, too. It's like, you know what? This is my this is my test.

Yeah. Are you going to stand no for yourself or not so i um i don't go down right away because i'm just like let me like figure out really what i'm gonna say to this guy and i don't want to be like i'm not gonna go in there guns blazing karen style i want to like talk to him and have a civil conversation so i'm gearing up for what i'm gonna say i'm packing up i'm showering and then i get a phone call when i'm out of the shower i'm'm like, you know what? I was just getting all upset. I bet he's calling to apologize. I bet that's what it is. I answered the phone. It's a woman at the front desk. It's like 10 30 AM woman calls. Hey, just want to let you know, checkout is at 11. And I was like, oh yeah, yeah, I know you. All right. So will you

be checking out at 11? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Just make sure you're out by 11 yeah all right see ya i was just like so now that kind of stuff fires you up you didn't need to call me for that but you could have called me for all the other stuff why are you calling me for that like these are the rules oh i see what you're saying yeah like yeah like use the telephone to say move your car or use a telephone at 1101 yeah like that's fine yeah now it's kind of upsetting too. It's like, I'm following the rules. Don't act like I'm in trouble. I know, I know when checkout is. FYI, you have to, uh, you have to pay for your room whenever you check in. Okay. I did. Yeah, I will. Like, okay. Just right when you check in. Yes, I did. Hey, is this Jake in 211? Yeah. Yeah. What's up? So we put towels in there. Just feel free to use them as you dry off or really as you see fit.

Right. Feel free to use both towels we put in your room. Yeah. Okay. That's great. Checkouts 11. Checkouts at 11. So that kind of fired me. They give me a little extra juice going into this. Like this hotel just ran so poorly. This is so dumb. So I go down there and it's a sweet girl, like look like she was like in high school, basically working the desk. And so I'm like, Hey, I'm checking out before 11 she's like great just put your thing here yada yada and i'm like actually can i speak to the manager which i don't even know if the guy who's walking my room is the manager i know he has keys i don't even know like his name i don't know that's randy the janitor what are you oh yeah his name is rusty

tin cup it's a little nickname we gave him it's uh that and big worm big worm and so it's him at least i'm pretty sure it's him. And he, you have a little Isaac, uh, Walmart situation. He had been in a mask when he was in my room. You're just like out of it probably.

Yeah. But he was maskless here. And what's better than wearing a mask. This is kind of a fun little detail. Mouth full of sunflower seeds. Okay. So just kind of just picture that power move. Yeah.

Yeah. Like Mr. Sir style. Yeah. Like you, you're not a loser if you have seeds in the mouth. And so you're, you're not a loser. Yeah. Yeah. Like Mr. Sir style. Yeah. Like you, you're not a loser if you have seeds in the mouth. And so you're not a loser. Yeah. Seriously. That's power. That's alpha move right there. And so I just go, Hey sir. Um, my name is Jake. I was staying in room two 11 these last two nights. And, uh, I just wanted to like, he's like spitting this. Yeah.

And, uh, I'm just like, I just want to talk to talk to you um i really didn't appreciate you like coming into my room unsolicited using your keys like two mornings in a row and uh i just wanted to know like why you did that especially this morning i have no idea why you did that he goes i i apologize sir i apologize i said okay you know that's fair but i would just like to know like why why did you do that this morning yesterday it was because I needed to move my car. Why did you come in my room this morning? He said, like I said, sir, I apologize for coming in. I said, well, I'd really like to know, like, for instance, like, let's say I was a woman. Let's say I was naked. Let's say I was both. Would you still be barging into like your guest rooms? And he goes,

look, I already said, I apologize. All right. So what else? You know, I'm like, well, I get that you apologize, but you haven't answered any of my questions. Even back to the beginning when I said, who are you? You know, you didn't tell me who you were. I still don't even know your title here. I don't know your name. Like, right. Give me, give me something here. And he said, look, I apologize. I don't know what else you want from me. And then he walks back to his office. i was so fired up because he kind of got the best of me yeah he had a subplot they were spitting everywhere and i was just oh i didn't know what to do yeah i there was what what did you do i just i kind of sucked my head you're 30

the poor girl at the desk is seeing all this go down and i was pretty civil you know just like i just want answers like why are you doing this? Are you doing this to everyone? Am I special? Yeah. She's telling me I'm special. Right. Uh, and the guy walks away, you know, being pretty rude. And the girl's just like, I'm so sorry, sir. And I'm like, oh, you're fine. Like, I'm not upset at you. You're totally fine. Um, any chance he comes back out? You think she's like, I don't think he's coming back out. And, uh, I said, well, why don't you let him know that I do practice law full time and this is against my first constitutional right and he'll be hearing from me. And she said, OK.

And so that's where I left it with the Econo Lodge. OK. Playing big boy ball. Yeah. Since then, I have done quite a bit of research. I filled out what's called like a letter of intent to sue, um, asking for compensation for my time. I'm obviously not going to actually sue this guy, but I just want to scare. He needs to like learn his lesson. And here I am asking about weed

whackers. You know exactly what you would do. This guy needs to like, he can't get away with this. Yeah. It's odd. Yeah. I think everyone else just like lets them just like wow the manager is rude it's like no i'm taking a stand but my new idea is i come in i'm actually not the lawyer even though i said that i was to her to try and like scare them i think isaac comes in with me in a suit with a briefcase oh pops open the briefcase in it one piece of paper that says letter of intent to sue hands it to him drops it it off, and then the game begins. So that's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking somebody besides Isaac. Isaac.

Isaac looks like a kid still. And I don't know if Isaac's the best thing on his feet when they're like, I would need to prep him a lot beforehand. Yeah, I'm thinking. Harrison. Harrison would do Harrison would do a pretty good job, probably. Yeah, he's been he's done well in a suit before. Yeah, but you got to make sure he doesn't wear his like Roger Federer like no no tie suit like he has to wear like a suit he's an attorney yeah um oh wow real quick one

other thing I forgot to mention that's in my notes this is why I wrote it down because I knew I'd forget in between uh his second entrance into my room and me checking out housekeeping did come they knock on the door I. I'm fully clothed. So it's a totally normal experience. And I say, hello. And this is, I wrote this down because I wouldn't forget. She said, a little tough on the wording here. She said, do you want me to service you?

I said, how so? You can clean my hotel room. Yeah. And actually, this must have been the first morning because it would have made sense to whatever. She asked if I want to service me. And have been the first morning because it would have made sense to whatever. She asked if I want to service me. And it's the first morning. So I'm like, can you come back in 20 minutes?

She said, no, I can't do 20 minutes. It was like there's like nine people staying here. I can't imagine being on that rigid of a schedule. I said, OK, what about 10 minutes? She's like, it's not like she really had to think about it. She goes, no, I probably can't do 10 minutes. It's like, OK, she'll definitely do five. Then it's like five minutes.

She goes, no, I'm sorry, sir. I just kind of laughed at that point it's like good for you what maybe she maybe she was wanting to go the other way with it oh sorry she went a longer time yeah because maybe it takes 30 minutes per room or something like that huh yeah either way it was kind of another funny like aspect of it like five minutes no absolutely not there's no way we're here i have to be in the next room okay two minutes yeah it like, all right. I didn't really do anything in this room last night. You know, whatever. I don't really need to be clean, but that was just kind of a fun aspect of it as well.

I'm pretty intrigued by this whole thing because I bet stuff like that happens more than we realize, you know, with this manager guy. I don't know. I think most people out there would deadbolt or whatever you, not deadbolt, but whatever that thing is the second lock yeah out there so i don't know if this happens very often i think he probably is unsuccessful in his pursuit

if he does that very often but like i yeah i think if it were me i would have a really hard time with that first time he walked away i would i would i i know i would like overdo it as far as like how many times i argued with him right then and there when he was wanting to move my car. No, no, no. Sorry. When you went down to the lobby to confront him. Oh, yeah. Away from you. Yeah, that was I didn't know what to do in that situation. Like it would I would not leave that like in a bad way. Like I probably like any time Catherine, I get an argument in a conversation like and I kind of win, quote unquote. I keep like pushing her to like admit that I was like like so you're wrong. Like you, so you, like you, you admit what I said was right. So therefore you're wrong.

She's like, that sounds awful. I was like, no, you have to admit it to me. Like I'll do that. I got like such like a, I can't, I can't let it go until like resolution is there. So that would kill me if that guy walked away from me. It did suck. Like it felt like he out with me. He got me.

I had so much more left to say and I didn't get to say it. And I would have, I would have said, I'm not paying for any of this. I want, and that's where I was headed. That's where I was headed with it. Yeah. But now I have a letter of intent to sue for $5,000. All right. The goal is for him to maybe he just like wants to settle out of court and meet me in the middle. Yeah. How sweet would that be? That'd be very sweet. I'll spend the money on some sort of ghosties giveaway. You have my word. Yeah. Any lawyers out there that are listening? Yeah. If anyone knows how to sue someone, let me know. Wow, dude. Um, so that had to say a kind of lodge, probably not going to go back.

It was great. I got so, so much material written. It did not cause me any kind of like anxiety or like emotional distress. Um, there were a few other things about that hotel that I didn't mention in that story, but what I've done, Brad, is I wrote my first ever one star review. Oh, I've never done this before. I've never really even left a five star review. Right. I'm not a review guy. I have that written down as one of my shout outs, actually.

So perfect. Yeah, preview. So I want to read for you in the ghosties out loud. My first ever one star review. OK, I like this already. May I? Please. I'll never forget my stay at the Econo Lodge. I actually live in Kansas city, but wanted a quiet, blissful staycation to myself to be able to focus on some things going on in my life right now. Upon arriving, I immediately felt safe between myself and the man at the front desk.

There was an inch thick of bulletproof glass separating us. It quickly put my mind at ease knowing that there are no shortcuts being taken by the EconoLodge when it comes to COVID safety. As I entered my room, the air felt extremely humid and stale, which I found odd because the thermostat was only set to 85. After a few hours had passed and the temperature had lowered to a point that petunias could no longer grow in, I decided to get some sleep. I loved the variety of pillows that came with each room. I had a tough time deciding between the hard one, the rock hard one, and the one that was cooked well done. Upon waking up in the morning, I had an itch to get some breakfast. I also had a tremendous itch to scratch all over my left ankle. Some hotels will

surprise you with a mint on your pillow. But what I like about the Econa Lodge is that they do things differently. They don't do things like the big guys. You know, they're one of the little guys. And with that in mind, it makes sense that each hotel room comes with several little guys in the form of bed bugs. As I laid in bed, scratching my ankle until it bled, I contemplated checking out the continental breakfast to see if they had any donuts. However, it wasn't much longer until someone was perusing my long john. At around 9.30 a.m., I heard a quick knock at my door. I promptly hopped out of bed and started throwing some pants before I opened the door to speak to housekeeping. However, manager of the hotel, Ramesh Patel, had other plans. I love a hotel that goes above and beyond to look after

their guests. I also love hotels that literally look at their guests. Mr. Patel entered my room using his special keys and immediately started demanding that I move my car. What I liked about this interaction 15 minutes into my day was how direct and upfront he was with me. No introduction, no reason why I needed to move my car, just the short, simple demand to move my car over and over again while I stood there in my underwear like a six-year-old who just woke up from a bad dream.

With the urgency and panic tone that Mr. P had with me, I could only assume that move your car is hotel code for the building is on fire. But that's what's great about the EconoLodge. Every matter is taken seriously. Every matter is handled promptly, first thing in the morning, in your room, while one of you is only wearing boxers. Fast forward 24 hours and I've had another wonderful night's sleep. I felt blessed that this time I only woke up once in

the middle of the night due to the people yelling on the balcony. I think I speak for most travelers when I say that when it comes to lodging, one of the main things we're looking for is consistency. And that's exactly what I got at the Econo Lodge. Like clockwork at 9.30 a.m., I get a knock at my door. Once again, I assumed it was housekeeping. Silly me. Before I could utter a single word, I found myself once again giving Ramesh Patel another free sighting of my Free the Nipple campaign. For those keeping track at home, that's two mornings spent in the hotel,

two unsolicited entrances into my room from the manager, and two exposed nipples per day. Like I said, consistency. To summarize, I thoroughly enjoyed my stay at the Econo Lodge. I would have loved to have given them five stars, but I have about a million bed bug bites all over my legs. Not sure if I mentioned that part yet. End of review. Mic drop. Wow. So all those things were true as well? Absolutely. 100%. Golly. So you guys can find that review um on google yeah look at the econo lodge off shawnee

mission parkway um feel free to give it an upvote maybe a comment and let's just see what happens to this review yeah let's see i'm gonna do it right now oh well i haven't typed it in or i haven't posted yet i will once this comes out your uh draft there yeah there's my notes app um so there's a little something don't ever try to invest in yourself or in your own like career goals just do it at home yeah good don't ever try to like do something that you think a professional comedian would maybe do oh man well unless unless a professional comedian would go to like a mediocre place on purpose like like don't pick like a nicer like safe bet like this place looked good but not amazing.

So let's go for it. I just, it would have been fine. None of that would even been a story. Had he not entered my room two mornings in a row, like I can handle all that other stuff. Sure. I just couldn't believe it. Just like felt weirdly violated. Of course. And I'm like a grown man.

I can't imagine being a woman or being any other scenario. If I was even there, like with a girl, with my wife, you know, whatever, like that's such a strange thing. Like this guy just walking in hoping to see something. Oh my gosh. He's definitely a creep. I guarantee you, Catherine, like we would, we would leave. We wouldn't have said that second night.

Yeah. No matter what. Yeah. And I would have gone down there and been like, I need my money back because that's not right. That's not cool. And he said, look, I apologize. Oh, I got to go.

Okay. Like, like I'm obviously don't get revenge in poor ways but like let me go bash your car in and oh sorry i apologized like look that doesn't i left a note i said why'd you do that hey i'm sorry look i said i was sorry that that that that would fire me up if someone just straight up ignored my question i was pretty hot hot after that. A hundred percent. After he didn't answer any, I mean, he really never answered any of my questions the entire time there. So, yeah, I just never had anything like that happen to me.

It was a bummer. Well, yeah, I'm sorry that that happened. But hey, it's podcast material. Are you, are you one and done with the hotels? You have any desire to do it one more time? Ooh, maybe I should. Yeah. Get a little redemption.

I think so. I think you should go Pricelineeline negotiator. You remember those commercials? Yeah. Priceline negotiator. I have great luck with it because do you know how it works? Like, it's like, like, especially if you're trying to do it like last minute and you're not that picky, you can be like, I want to do four star or better hotels, like nice ones. And this is my, and this is my price, you know, like, and a lot of those hotels just want anybody at that point. Cause it's like the last night they know, or that night they know like how many reservations they have. And so you'll get a nice hotel for like the

same amount that you would go for a lower end hotel. I had no idea that existed. Yes. It's awesome. Okay, sweet. I'll look into that. Especially cause if you're not that picky, cause it's like, you can't choose, like, I want this hotel or this location. You just have to say like in this general vicinity, you know, you get to choose within like a few miles or something, this general vicinity, this general, uh, type of hotel. This is my price. Sweet. Accepted or deny it, you know? But, but like, it's like, it's fun because it's like, right when you claim your price,

like right when you quote your price, if you get accepted, it's automatic that you get charged for it. Oh, so there's like, there's like, yeah like yeah so that's like like the kind of the game is like i don't know if they're gonna say yes or no to this but if they do i'm in you know so i'll try that out that sounds kind of fun next time i have i have things written down but none of them are nearly that like literally like the most mediocre life updates uh bo's getting into dinosaurs uh we went to panera for data days and went to the library today um football's back did some fantasy drafts oh yeah you fantasy drafted for me thank you that

was fun yeah um isaac texted me i went to a need to breathe concert so i was busy and isaac texted me during the concert i was like dude i can't wait for you to see your team that brad drafted for you and i thought maybe i don't know i thought you had something ridiculous like three kickers for me or something but yeah no it's a great team i think i did fine win the league i hope so dude i'm i feel a little bit invested now like yeah yeah like how's my team doing so the thing that i think people were giving me a hard time for for all the fancy people out there if you're not fast forward whatever uh but uh i drafted two i drafted robbie anderson and i drafted uh dj moore for for both the receivers for the Panthers. And pretty mediocre receivers, but it was also like the third and fourth strings on the team.

And people give me such a hard time for drafting two guys from the same team that aren't that good. And Scott especially, like really hating on their quarterback, the Panthers quarterback, Sam Darnold. Thinking he's like really bad. And I have faith that Sam Darnold thing. He's like really bad. And I have faith that Sam Darnold is going to be way better than people think. And he was just bad because he was a New York jet. And so Scott and I like, like now I had this pride where I really, if you're listening to this, it's Sam Darnold through for five touchdowns yesterday. You have no idea the smack talk that I just talked to Scott.

You have no idea the text that went back and forth. Like if he just dominated yesterday and you're listening to this, just know that I know it and Scott knows it. And that's so funny. I look like a genius. What really probably happened is he got two touchdowns and pretty mediocre, you know, 200 yards or something like that. But I'm really excited. Like I have so much invested in a team that I don't even have any money in, but I really want the Panthers to be good this year for you and you went ahead and drafted the third one yeah and that was the joke it's like literally like the last couple draft picks like no one was left 12 person league so i picked yeah

terrence marshall or whatever with the just in case you know what if yeah so that was that was the joke we did the ghosties guillotine draft yeah which is so fun it was crazy it was kind of crazy like i was playing i'm like watching tv while i did it and i had to like i'd focus an hour long yeah i loved it so fast so quick and yeah you had to make some quick decisions yeah oh man yeah and like whatever we don't have to talk that much about it but just know that it was like crazy because it's a two quarterback league and so people were drafting the quarterbacks left and right and you know like picking a really like low performing quarterback before there were some like really good receivers out there that were getting drafted so it's just like this weird thing that i had no idea what the strategy was behind it

uh so and i think we already know who might be kicked out of week one um he's got a great name but not a great team yeah nathan cooley video editor. Yeah. He was the one that made those. Yeah. The videos that you've seen on Patreon. If you like the Super Bowl, like video or like the music videos, I guess. Did he pick multiple kickers? Yeah. Exactly what he did.

He has three kickers and he has two quarterbacks, which is how many you need. But the two quarterbacks are both backup quarterbacks. Neither of them are starting. Drew Locke and somebody I'd never heard of for the Texans. Yeah. When you're the backup quarterback for the worst team in the league, you're struggling.

So it was fun. We all got a good laugh out of it. And his team name is Montitude, which is a deep cut. Deep cut for how Brad's first couple episodes. Yeah. Brad spelled Montitude and a spelling bee with an M first.

And yeah. And broips, which was also way long ago. Yeah. I don't even remember what that stands for i just remember saying get your boy up here i think i didn't remember at the time but now i'm thinking we did that um ad read for uh best return on investment possible that's right that's right for uh digital resource digital resource down in florida see guys when you're

when you're a sponsor of our ad you're a sponsor for life kind of that is kind of cool like the sponsor of that is now a famous football team like a year and a half later that's right um yeah great team name but it's gonna be shocking if he does not come in last and he's the one knocked there's no way there's no way i mean he doesn't have a single starting quarterback he who did he have oh he had antonio brown on thursday night who like played really phenomenal and he's still projected to score at least 77 points he's starting running back as some guy for the jets i've never heard of yeah it's like man how did you do this how did you accumulate so many players i've never truly impressive cooley it's cooley impressive hey truly cooley yeah very impressive very fun uh it's cool while it lasted yeah thanks for being in the little thing. We love you. We love you. So anyway, it'll be fun.

Uh, yeah, I don't know what else I have. Oh, I, we went in, almost bought a van, but didn't,

didn't it mediocre life update, but, but it's because I'm wheeling and dealing the guy. I love it. I love it. And deal. And I think I thought I had him. So like we were there for multiple hours,

like doing the back and forth thing, like the most classic, like stereotypical, let me go talk to my manager. Okay. Let me go talk to my manager. Okay. Let me go talk to my manager again. Like, okay, here's, and he would like, you know, highlight the price on a piece of paper and slide it to me.

No. Yeah. Oh, really? It was great. Highlight and slide. Highlight and slide. High slide. Is Catherine there?

Yeah. She did great. Yeah. Yeah. Tell me. You guys do bad cop, bad cop. All right. So, so we also had our, uh, advisor guy there with us, Alexander. Bad cop, bad cop. From what's his one request. Yeah. Tell me you guys do bad cop, bad cop. So, so we also had our, uh, advisor guy there with

us, Alexander, bad cop, bad cop from what's his one request. Yeah. Um, so Alexander was awesome cause he was a dealership. Like he, he sold cars for a year and like dominated at this BMW dealership, like did so well one month that they had to change the commission structure for every dealer or every like salesman. Yeah. And so like knows what to do, knows how to like negotiate with these guys. And so he kind of was like, here's what I think we should do. No matter what, no matter what he says, we should go out and talk one more time, you know, no matter what he says, no matter what he says, no matter what this offer is. Cause he said, he told me like really interesting, like insights. He's like, yeah. You know, sometimes when you go back to the manager, I think they, they call it the tower, maybe something like that. It's like the manager's

room. And he's like, sometimes my manager would literally say, Hey, lean forward a little bit real quick. Like just to like, look like you're really like, put your hands on the table and lean forward, you know, like it's body language. Yeah. All these different things. Like, even though they're not talking about anything. And so I was not getting ready to be taken for a ride on this thing. I was like very adamant about my price. Um, and he like the, the lowest he got was at like $900 closer, like, like $900 for my price. And I was like, no, like, I'm sorry. I was like, sorry. Uh, we, we appreciate it. We'll let you know if we change our mind, got up Catherine pro move, which I think this was actually true, but pro move, she goes, uh, where are your bathrooms? I need to go to the restroom real fast so she ran to the bathroom we were just standing

there kind of you know over the side in the lobby kind of area and he did the classic like get up he's like well now what if i do this for you okay you know like and i was like here it comes but but he didn't get to my price i because he the yeah he was like what about 10 9 95 and i was like if it's 9 9 95 then great but not that like that's not that's not the number i'm looking for and then he called me back multiple times yesterday so we're on the hook we're back and forth me and don you and don how old's don don's awesome honestly i like him a lot he's probably 65 70 years old older still black gentlemen older black gentleman with a straw hat he came out and like met us. Oh, like Sam from

holes. I mean, he looked swaggy dude. Like he looked really cool. A straw hat, you know, like a cool straw hat. Like I can't even imagine a cool straw hat and a car dealership looking swaggy. Like, uh, something you would see at the Kentucky Derby or something like that. Like that kind of hat. I feel like only women wear big hats at the Kentucky Derby. So now I really don't know. Not a huge, not a huge big hat. I have no idea what to picture. Straw hat. Sam from Holes in Kentucky Derby hat inside of car dealership, 65 years old. This guy.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. This guy, like right, like something like that. Oh. Swaggy. Like- YouTube. Oh gosh. That's like a Neo, like a hat Neo would wear. Neo from the Matrix?

Neo from like, and I'm so sick yes maybe so yeah yeah so definitely anyway swaggy dude nobody was doing he had like a plaque that said like gold dealer or whatever oh you can make that anywhere i think so yeah anyway but really liked him but don i still need it for my price i don't if you're listening i just i want to feel the the the sense of winning so badly you would need to have sunflower seeds in because he yeah he goes he goes like well like is it the price like what what price are you trying to get to i said this is the price and any i basically told him i was like i can afford that price i just don't want to spend that much

i don't think it's wise for me to do that so but we really like we're like emotionally invested in this van now so you gotta have a van i'm struggling not to what van is it it's honda odyssey elite thank goodness my gosh it's cool it really is dude i'm so excited about it so it's got like everything you can think of it's got a microphone inside of it for like katherine to talk if somebody's in the third seat so like if oh in that way i was like oh yeah i think a lot of cars have like bluetooth like phone calls yeah they call like which katherine's like i'm never gonna use that but i'm like, oh, yeah, I think a lot of cars have like Bluetooth, like phone calls. Yeah, they call like which Catherine's like, I'm never going to use that. But I'm like, still, it's cool to say it's got it. We could use that in Hawaii.

Poor Kristen couldn't hear it. She didn't hear a word I said for the whole day of Road to Hana. She had no clue. You could have literally been whispering to her and she would have heard you. With if I had the Hana Odyssey Elite. That's right. Yeah, that's nice. It's pretty.

We got to test that out. I would definitely do. We got to play games like see if you hear me play telephone. Yeah. In the Odyssey Elite. Anyway, it's going to be be so fun can't wait to take some road trips with you and the kids that's awesome you're gonna be in the back you know so um i don't have too much else to happen to me this week like i said i've been writing a lot of stuff i've been working hard i've been playing a lot of golf still loving that play with uh scott sell and trey yesterday so it's

kind of a fun group um would you say you're obviously not as many months so far but more addicted to golf than you are to pickleball oh then you were at your peak of pickleball good question it i can't yeah i don't know i'm so obsessed with golf and the thing with golf is like i know that it's coming to an end i've got one more month left and then i'm done with golf because of the weather yeah whereas pickleball was like oh i'll be fine like there's indoor tennis courts like if anything i'm gonna pick up pickleball again this winter i have a feeling you guys are still gonna play some winter golf somehow i mean do they have are the courses open i i don't know actually yeah i can't it can't be

it's gonna be hard to maintain a golf course in the wintertime yeah the grass isn't growing you can't water it because it'll freeze i could see you guys being like it's only ten dollars in the winter let's go here's what i'm afraid i'm gonna get into i'm already spending so much money on golf but i i definitely foresee me being like once a month like you guys want to go to phoenix and golf all weekend oh yeah and then isaac is gonna irresponsibly go with me and then i'm gonna be the downfall of Isaac being like, so I have to get a real job now. Um,

yeah. So I'll think that a lot happens. We, we drove together to the fancy football draft and we were talking about golf and I was like, that must be, that must be pretty expensive. He's like, no,

he's like, yeah, it's, it's adding up. He didn't say that. He's like, yeah, it's definitely more than I should be spending on stuff like this,

but it's too fun. But yeah. And I think we know that we only have like a month left, so just getting after it. So yeah, that's fun. Uh, and then, yeah, I went to a concert this week, which is first concert post pandemic. It's kind of fun just being around people got recognized a lot. Really? It's the place to be if you want to, yeah. Just people all over. That is funny. The last time I went to a need to breathe concert, it did feel like half the time I was just talking to other people, like seeing people i knew because it's like cool christians out there are all in the need to

breathe concert i think i remember that concert because we were there together and it was a crazy cornucopia it was like canna cuck sbu kansas city everybody was there yeah my my aunt was there randomly and she like she was like i feel like brad knows every single person here i felt like yeah i knew every single person it was awesome that was a fun one was it the same venue that was the outdoor one right okay oh yeah yeah. You were at the Midland this time. This time was indoors. So it's pretty dark. Okay. And we got there like two hours late on purpose. It's like, I don't care to see the openers. Yeah. That kind of hurt my feelings. Like you didn't want to see Switchfoot. I think Switchfoot would have been a great concert, dude.

I've never seen him, but I really, I respect Switchfoot a lot. I mean, I loved them in seventh grade, but I haven't heard a single song they've put out since seventh grade. So I wouldn't even know what they're singing. And we actually got there when they were singing Dairy to Move. And so I was like, oh, I know this one. There you go. And also that has to suck for that guy. Like, you know, he's so sick of that song. John Foreman's yeah. Just like, gosh, I struggled through this. I'm sure he can't stand it. He has to end every concert with the song he wrote in 2004. You know, like that sucks. Yeah. Do you think? Yeah, probably. But, but, but if the, it's one thing, if you're like, well, I was gonna say performing the same joke, cause it's so funny, but with a song,

like the audience gets into it so much, you know, like you got interaction that way. I don't know. I'm just trying to, I'm just trying to sugarcoat it a little bit, but yeah, I, I agree with what you're saying though. Like there's no way those are the most fun songs to do and i don't think it'd be very fun to listen to uh band songs that you don't know like you're saying like yeah like even if it's a good band or like they're playing good songs it's hard for me to know like is this actually good like because i don't usually enjoy it if i don't know i can't compare it to what i know yeah what it. Yeah. So, um, but good times. Uh, I went with my friend Morgan and we had a ton of fun just like messing with people and just like,

so who is, who is performing tonight? Uh, need to breathe. Oh, I love need to breathe. Oh dang. That's all.

I'm glad we came. Really? Oh, that's awesome. Glad we came. Um, or like towards the end of the need to breathe concert, like John Foreman comes back out to perform a song,

you know, with need to breathe. And so we're like back out to perform a song you know with need to breathe and they're like whoa switch foot how did they get what are the odds it's like you just won like free ticket to a concert like a newspaper or something like yeah the guy from switch foots here no dude you would have loved it if you got here earlier no way oh but also i feel like i had to tone it down a little bit because literally the guy standing behind us he hits me on the arm like right when the concert started he's like what's up dude love the podcast he's talking about correct opinions but he was like love the podcast love all the videos like you're hilarious man i was like oh thank you so much what's your name

nice to meet you and we kind of turn around one or several ways but the whole time i just know this guy is right behind me it's like he is surveying everything i'm doing right like morgan and i got pretty dancey at times like really like taking up some space like big daddy style yeah you would have loved it i was like i wonder what this guy thinks really you got into it at the it was just fun to like i don't know just move around everyone is just standing still oh yeah it's like me and my sister have talked about this like how do people stand still when there's music on oh i do sometimes oh i can't it depends on what it is i cannot stand still there was one i've been to probably three or four need to breathe concerts. And there was one in Lawrence

that I went to. And the guy said he had been to like 25 need to breathe. Like he was huge, super fan of this, this, this band. And like, he was jumping up and down, freaking out the whole time. I don't jump like that, but yeah, sometimes I just like, I'm like, I just want to enjoy this moment, but it depends on the band need to breathe Breathe is a dance band. They're very fun. It's rock and roll, baby. It really is. It's like Southern rock and roll where it's just like,

oh, Carolina just gets me going. And there's a decent amount of songs that have a country twang to it. Exactly. And so Morgan and I would get slapping our legs. Yeah! You know, to get doing that. And it's pretty quiet.

So it was so fun. We just loved it. It's like just having a hoot. So that's you toning it down for this guy behind you. Yeah, yeah. I was like, I should probably, let's tone it down. But guy behind you yeah yeah i was like i should probably let's tone it down but yeah why not it was just so fun it's concerts like yeah it's my first one in a year and a half yeah i was gonna get after it a

little bit i'm worried that i'm past the past the point of concerts like i don't know if you're done i don't know retired from concerts like surfaces is coming in a few months or weeks or something i looked into that this morning that's crazy and i november 16 16th. It's a Tuesday. I leave for Pittsburgh the next morning. Perfect. Yeah. So it's perfect. I just don't know if I, if I would be like worried that I'm just too old for them. Brad, this is so sad. You don't think you can go to concerts anymore? I don't know. Obviously I can go to concerts, but I don't know about surfaces, surfaces. They're going crazy. And I'm just wanting to watch the band. And it might be, it might be a college audience. That's what I'm saying. Might not fit in.

My friend, Esther, our friend Esther said she went in Phoenix and she's like, be prepared to be the oldest person there. I don't care. Yeah. I'll be dancing harder than them. Yeah. Let's go to the services concert. Okay.

I don't know when we fly to Pittsburgh, but if we can make it happen, I would love to. No, there's no way you fly during the concert. Not at night. Oh, you're saying you perform the next day from the next day in pittsburgh so maybe okay hey get your tickets trinketing.com slash tour hello they're pretty much all sold out but there's some cities memphis memphis is like the only one i think it's not gonna sell out really just i don't know okay yeah so if you're memphis please come yeah it's because it's such a big venue though i was gonna give nat Jolly a free ticket. She's been like a day one, $15 patron.

She's like, I already bought one. Of course. I was like, yeah, you're the best. That's a bummer. Yeah.

So that's fun, man. Anyway, what else we got? Oh, we got merch, merch. Talk about it.

By the time you're listening to this merch, maybe out, may not be out. We're releasing it, uh, Monday at noon. We have it scheduled on the website to go live. And I'm really excited. Yes.

Central time. Um, I am just really excited. I, I, I worked hard on some new designs, but I also just like recycled some other, like you haul vibes on a hoodie, you know, some other old, like classic designs, throw those on some cozy fall stuff. I'm really pumped about some of the stuff we got. We got, um, lots of long sleeves, lots of hoodies, lots of crew necks. I'm really pumped about some of the stuff we got. We got lots of long sleeves, lots of hoodies, lots of crewnecks. I just think crewnecks look so great. I just think they look so cool. And even if it's just something really simple on there, it's going to look cool.

So we got flags now. We got flags now. So if you're a college student or just somebody who likes flags, buy one of those. If you're in one of those two categories. That's it. You have to be in one of those two. If you feel comfortable going to a Surfaces concert or are one of those if you're in one of those two categories that's it you have to be in one of those two if you feel comfortable going to a surfaces concert or are one of those people that likes flags go buy a flag uh we got beanies we got it's gonna be a big season for beanies i think beanies are coming back beanies bigger than ever big beanies bigger beanies than ever

bigger beanies uh we got some we got a new coffee mug design. We got it all. So plenty of stuff for everybody. Check it out. But wait, there's more. Oh, yeah. If you're listening to this on Monday, September 13th, and you order today, you will be entered into a raffle contest. I made a custom cutting board, a custom Ghostrunners cutting board that one person who orders on monday september 13th orders any merch any any no minimum purchase let's say let's say 185

dollar minimum purchase i thought you're gonna say five dollars let's say five thousand dollar minimum purchase and then you enter to win if you if you order uh four hundred dollars worth of merch i guarantee you i'll I'll give you a cutting board. Okay. For free. So you spend $5. You're entered to win. You spent 400.

You get one. You got it. I promise. With your custom Ghostrunners phrase. Yes. You get to decide. Yeah. I, uh, yeah, the one that we're going to have available, you'll see it on our Instagram.

So I'm not a teaser. Teaser. Check it out on Instagram. Uh, but we're, I i'm really excited i think the merge is gonna be sweet we got some really cool like material that we have it on anyway there's some really cool stuff i'm not gonna go too far into it it's gonna be soft it's gonna be nice you're gonna want it just know yeah i just i'm just imagining the bonfires the you know the outdoor football you know whatever the watch lies chili Just all of it is going to feel better

in the Ghost Runners merch. Like you're hanging out. It's a nice cool fall evening. You're out on the porch of like the Econo Lodge. Just watching people mill about in the parking lot. Watching the meth heads just roll in. It's like, do you stay here or do you live in your car here? You can't quite figure it out, but you're in a nice Ghost Runners crew neck and it doesn't even matter. Yeah. It doesn't matter. It's so nice so nice dude we got some embroidered ones i'm just i'm pumped about it yeah let us let me know what you think of them i'm very very uh curious to hear what people's thoughts are which what's your favorite everything like that so check it out ghostrunners.life is the website for anybody who didn't know that ghostrunners.life check it out link in description as well for that um

trey is going on vacation here in a couple weeks so just uh me and big daddy for some jeans short stuff and he kind of threw out the or actually derrick threw out the idea he's like i love watching you guys interact with strangers i think you should do that more yeah so ghosties what should we do pretty much if it's derrick filming brad and i in public with strangers yeah Yeah. What should we do? Yeah. We have the green light. I, yeah, I'm very, very intrigued to see what we come up with. I don't know what we can. The only idea I've thought of is like, we find some event or something where it's going to be a bunch of people out and we ask people who, what they think of Trey Kennedy. And like, that's the video. I

think that's got like some, that's a fun YouTube title. That's something people would click on potentially. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. I really like the idea of just like kind of assuming people understand what we're about to do and then just doing it in front of them and seeing their reaction. So like, like, like coming up to them and be like, are you guys ready? Are you guys ready? Here we go. And they're like, what are you, what are you talking about? Okay.

Five, six, seven, eight. And we have like a choreographed dance and we're like looking behind him. Like, what are you doing? Go, go, go, go. Come on. Like, this is your part. Sing it. Donald, you know, know whatever like just really mess with people we yeah we're excited to do something like that because trey's like that is absolutely something

i do not like do not make me do that i do not want to do that doesn't have any desire of it he's like i'm very uncomfortable with that i'm like i could care less maybe if i were as popular as him i would have a little more of a stigma behind it, but I think it's just a personality difference. So, uh, yeah, that'll be fun. That'll be fun.

Give us your ideas. What kind of strangers, what kind of questions, what's the vibe of Brad and I was strangers on the street. Yeah. If you haven't seen our interview videos, we've done before. There's a few of them out there.

What have you done? Three. Yeah. Yeah. Chiefs Royals. Yep. Um, should we do shout outs?

Yeah. Let's do some shadows. Uh, my first shout out is an Instagram. Should we do shout outs? Yeah, let's do some shout outs. My first shout out is an Instagram account. I think I have the name right. It's called Run With Maddie. Do you recognize that? Have you seen it? No.

They're a fan of ours. I'd never seen this woman comment on anything until about two weeks ago. And now I feel like almost every day I'll see some like hilarious comment. It could be anywhere. It could be YouTube, could be Instagram, G shorts, personal, anywhere. I will see a comment like, oh, that's pretty funny. Really? And then I see him like run with Maddie again, every time with Maddie again. She's just on fire right now. OK, I mean, this is the definition of a ghostwriter shadow like this girl's just

crushing it. I don't know where you came from. Run with Maddie. And I really hope I've got it right because I thought of this a couple of days ago and I was like, what was that name? But just, yeah, look out for it. Can I put you on the spot and ask if you remember any of the comments? Not a one. Okay. But they're good. Let's find them. Let's like them. Let's subscribe. Look for them. Uh, okay. I got a shout out. Uh, you talked about reviews earlier and I said I had a shout for that. So I have a shout out for the Bible app for always asking, are you enjoying the Bible app? Because it is the worst question I could ever get because every time I'm on there, I'm like, I'm not, I don't want to leave a review. Cause if you enjoying the Bible app? Because it is the worst question I could ever get. Because every time I'm on there, I'm like, I'm not, I don't want to leave a review. Cause if you say yes,

they ask you to leave a review. So you want to review this? Yeah. If you say no, you say, I don't like reading God's word. And so there's just, there's, there's no real great way to do either of those things. So that's tough. That's like asking, like, I think we've talked about this before. Like you read the reviews of a skydiving place. Like, well, they have nothing but five stars. It's like, well, yeah. Anyone who about this before like you read the reviews of a skydiving place like wow they have nothing but five stars it's like well yeah anyone who had a bad time is dead they can't leave a review yeah of course they have good reviews oh wow that's genius maybe we haven't talked about it before no i think that's a that sounds like a correct opinion thing sounds like every wednesday guys um sorry i was trying to find a run with

maddie comment well no you're fine i'll keep looking uh next shout out goes to um it's another just commenter these are the only two shots i have just people online we got a comment on a ghost runners youtube video last week on our episode 122 and it said wow i just realized you can watch these on youtube shout out to you because for 70 episodes now not only have we been on youtube but i would dare to say every single episode, we've talked about the fact that we're on YouTube. We've talked about YouTube comments. We've talked about that. Maybe that it comes out at midnight or that you could subscribe.

Like, right. It's just amazing. Her comment made it sound like she wasn't new. Right. Yeah. Like I've been listening all this time. I didn't know.

Wow. Yeah. YouTube.com the whole time. Who knew? Uh, so shout out to you. I got a shout out for my daughter, Hattie. Okay.

Yeah, I've met her. We, you know, we have a WANA every Wednesday night. A WANA Wednesdays. And the theme, they have like a theme night, like once a month. The theme night was favorite college, favorite team, favorite team, where your, where your favorite team's apparel. And Catherine's like, oh, Hattie, so you could wear your Baylor Baylor Bears shirt she's like I don't want to wear my Baylor Bears shirt I want to wear uh my purple Wildcats shirt so shout out to Hattie for saving us literally

hundreds of thousands of dollars for choosing K-State over Baylor so yeah that's it that's beautiful I'd like to give a shout out to um just Jake and Brad and their banter on the Ghostrunners podcast because uh back in the day some segment some bit we were on we got talking about like oh what would happen if like you slowly got more and more passive aggressive during a prayer you know that's like this old segment we did this kind of funny premise forgot about it then brad you remembered this a few weeks ago one time when like trey was upstairs on a phone call with like casamigos or something yeah you

and i bust out like let's just actually write this out we wrote out this sketch and then i left for hawaii so you filmed it with trey and now it's it's like doing well on instagram it's blown up on tiktok and uh just shout out to us we're just killing it shout out shout out to past us and current past us and current us and the people on tiktok who are watching and enjoying let's go heck yeah that's kind of fun yeah it was fun to like see like oh this one's like really gripping Pass us a current us and the people on TikTok who are watching and enjoying. Let's go. Heck yeah. That's kind of fun. Yeah, it was fun to like see like, oh, this one's like really gripping some people.

It's gripping some peeps. Also, sometimes in a bad way. Yeah, the comments, the comments were pretty back and forth, but we had pure intentions. I promise. Of course we always do. OK, I got shout outs for Peaches from Colorado. Oh, I didn't want to see them in concert. Yeah, they're really good. Coachella Live was awesome with Migos. No, not a band. from colorado oh i didn't want to see them in concert yeah they're really good coachella live

was awesome with migos um no my not a band no peaches from colorado literally katherine ordered uh i forget how many pounds i think there was like 18 or 19 of these peaches that got shipped from colorado it's a heavy bushel she went and picked up this amazing box and we've just been down in the peaches they are incredible just letting them dance in the intestines all week like like obviously like fruit is good if especially if it's like that prime time of the fruit oh hawaii dude if you haven't had a peach yeah if you haven't had a peach in hawaii it's like yeah yeah but from the big island only um oh kona peaches yes dude kona peach that girl is a kona peach. Oh, wait till she turns around.

Talk about a Kona peach. Yeah, I got my peaches down in Kona. Anyway, but they like, like, I think peach is the best, like in its prime fruit for me. If that makes sense. Interesting. Like, I really love a good plum, but peaches are peaches are the best. What would you say? Like, like I'm talking like this is like the exact moment you're supposed to have this fruit i guess peach is pretty solid it's very solid imagine having 18

of those bad boys in your house it's amazing so they're in their prime they're hitting the sweet spot yeah like this was the last week for us to order them like like you like we couldn't order anymore like if we wanted to because they're out of season now huh colorado though i don't know what my fruit answer is but that's great yeah it was great so good for you all right that's the only shots i had i have one other shout out but it's something that i think we're gonna say in a future episode okay i got i got one more keep going uh shout out to the central standard time zone because yeah because football's coming up football was yesterday sam darnold threw for 18 touchdowns yesterday. And I, I,

I'm very happy. We watched football. I watched football on Thursday night. The game didn't get over till 11 o'clock and I was falling asleep in the third quarter. Got it. Got a wind in me that for that fourth quarter, but I can't imagine being on the Eastern time zone and having to watch that

until midnight. And then I thought about everything else like news on, on the East coast doesn't come on till 11 o'clock. That's too late. But then you got, then you got the Western times or whatever the Pacific, like, I don't want to watch football at 10 o'clock in the morning either. You got church. Central standard time zone is the best time. It's the place to be. It's absolutely the best. And so that's a good way to CST. People really don't take that into something like that. We should be thankful for. No one's thankful for that. Genuinely. Like, do you go to church at eight o'clock if you're on the, if you're in California or do you just miss the first slate of football games?

Oh, you can't miss first slate. I would never. I would, I would, I would not even, I'm kind of joking, but not that much joking. I would choose my church based off the time. Can they get me out by 1030? Gas boys out there, Oregon guys, what do you do for this? Cause I need to know. I would absolutely make sure I go to the 8 o'clock service every time.

Then again, if you're up in Oregon, maybe you don't care about NFL football. You care about the Ducks. Which is because of Pacific Standard Time Zone. I guarantee you care about it if you're in Central Standard. We got plenty of good teams in the Central Time Zone. Including Super Bowl favorite Chiefs. Yes. Dude.

We're going to be so can't wait can't wait did we beat the browns did we get hey everyone out there check out the chief score right now do we beat the browns 34 to 20 because i bet we did something like that we probably put up 40 at least 34 to 20 i was talking to uh morgan who went to the concert with uh because she's a chief cheerleader and she was telling me about how uh she cheered you know in person for the preseason game. And the Chiefs are letting full capacity fans in the season. Right.

And she said, I have never seen a preseason game like that, like full capacity for preseason, like going nuts start to finish. She said it was like crazy. Really? She's like, people are like, you know, like cheerleaders, right? Getting nervous for the preseason game because it was just like so electric. And that's awesome. I was like, that makes me want to go to a game so bad.

It's going to be nuts tomorrow. It's going to be nuts. Yeah. Oh, it feels like a holiday. I'm going to week two. You remember that was Sammy to Baltimore. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Which is going to be sweet. And we got a voice memo. I don't think I'm going to play it, but we got a voice memo from someone who just got a season tickets to, uh, to the chiefs to no, it was either the Steelers or the Eagles either way. Try and see her. Okay. Was that a cool piece of information? I thought you were going to say like they got season tickets and they were saying we could, try and see her. Okay. Was that a cool piece of information? I thought you were going to say like they got season tickets

and they were saying we could come up and see it. No, at first I thought it was the Eagles. That's why I said it. And I was like, as I'm saying this, I think it was Pittsburgh.

So this has nothing to do with anything I'm saying. I wish I had said, hey, close by. Eastern Standard Time Zone. Eastern Zone. So yeah, shout out to CST for that.

Beautiful. Should we get some voicemails? Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. Big worm. Let's do it. Hey. Hey.

Let's do it. Any second now. Let's go ahead. Ghostrunners.life merch. Check it out if you haven't already. So let's go ahead and let's do it. Hey, what's up, Jake and Brad? This is Caleb from Texas.

Uh, I got into y'all's podcast recently because my wife, she's been an avid listener for a while. Shout out Holly. Uh, Holly actually worked with Jake one summer at K West. Anyway, uh,

I've got a story for y'all real quick. When I first started playing football in fifth grade, uh, I was a starting quarterback in my center was a midget Asian girl. And I just remember asking my dad, what in the world do I do with my hands? And then also our offensive lineman

was another big girl. Big worm. That was my first year playing football. So my question for you guys is, what is one of the weirdest situations you could find yourself in as an athlete? All right. Thanks, guys. Bye bye. That that is the weirdest. I midget Asian. Bingo. Like I listened to that voiceover last week and I so I somewhat knew it was coming and

I still could not not laugh at that sentence. Is that really true or is she just short i just can't you just oh man that's so i mean they have like superpower strength though so like she probably pushes off the line pretty well superpower you're thinking of people with down syndrome oh really yeah they're like really strong and stylish yeah you're right i don't know if little people are inherently strong okay do you think they're really strong i stand by it like compared to what compared to a baby calf i'm just kidding i've bottle fed a baby calf and they were pretty strong let's see here but i never tried to get underneath it and hike a football nope nope nope nothing nothing nothing nothing quick on google now you know what you searched

the first thing that came up was weird. So we're not going to go there. Cool. That's I hope you were in the shotgun the whole time. Yeah. You got to run a spread offense at that point. And not, well, you know, spread in the sense from a playbook standpoint. Yes.

West Coast. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. That's awesome. I mean, that's a story that'll never not be funny for the rest of your life. That's so great. What a scenario to be in.

Where, where did you play football? Like, like you couldn't find Shanghai. You couldn't find. Yeah. Yeah. Really? Like, yeah, I should, I should have mentioned my dad was a missionary in Shanghai. So there wasn't very many people want to play football.

That's just, there's not, there's not enough boys to play or the girls just really wanted to play. They were maybe really good. Maybe they're the best person for the job maybe maybe maybe uh what do you think to this question what's the word what's the weirdest combination like sports like scenario you could find yourself in um hmm i'm trying to think like baseball i think baseball you get a good one like uh i don't know you have an answer uh just from personal experience i remember being pretty let down time and time again in our small town our small very non-diverse town of stratford missouri about every two years

a new black kid would move in and we would get yeah fired up and we borderline have a parade for him to come into town and just nothing nothing brandon was bow-legged yeah you know so right away we're like he's not he's not making it not not gonna do too well yeah quentin was very good at pe dodgeball he would get like really into that but it didn't translate what what what skill their trends i guess throwing i guess just effort mainly like no one else i'm like he's just quicker than look i have science after this i'm not trying to get sweaty quinn didn't care i don't care about science yeah so um yeah i think that was my situation tyler gatewood was our was our token black guy that wasn't very that's right i have i know a white tie you know a black tie yeah you know how to tie

you know yeah he like every he like transferred We're like, this guy is incredible. He had the biggest calves. You should have seen him. That's exciting. I'm talking. Yeah. Mammoths. Huge.

And like, it was like, this guy must be able to jump out the gym. He was fine. He was more of a jump roper. Short bursts. Yes, that's right. So I remember a guy that I've talked about on this podcast, and I guess he listens. I didn't know that when I was talking about it. I was like, yeah, we used to go to church with this guy.

And the preacher said, I want you to look at your hands and they're clean or whatever. Grant Holmes. Grant Holmes. Wow. Phenomenal memory. I remember Grant, I don't even know

if Grant knows this, but we had heard, so I knew Grant from like growing up. I was like, wait, Grant Holmes is moving to Stratford

because he grew up at Springfield and then he moved to Texas and then he moved back randomly to Stratford by the time I was in high school. And so these rumors going

around like we're getting this like four-star quarterback from texas and it was like whoa from texas like for texas as long as you play football in texas like you are amazing and i didn't say a word because i was like maybe grant did get like really good at football but i was like he's not like from texas you know like i went to rich chris baptist with this guy right like 12 years ago. Yeah. And there was all this hype around grant and I don't even know if he played football now that I'm thinking about it. Like, did he even, he might've played his freshman year. He definitely didn't keep playing with football, dude. I bet it's, I bet it's a pretty good

feeling like transferring in and like being this mysterious person to people like, like this guy might be like the answer. Like this guy might be the thing that we've been waiting for. I think I kind of was that like in fourth grade for Stratford a little bit. My class was so unathletic. Like we had good teams, but it was cause there's athletes below me and athletes above me. So it was like, we had a good team, like my junior year. And then the year after I graduated, but yeah, my class had nothing. So I think they were pretty fired up. That's great for the triplets to come to town. Oh, wow. At least for a little bit. Yeah. I can't think of any other scenarios that are like too good. I, yeah. Anything that's just ironic, just like a cross country runner with a smoking problem, you know, would be like a funny,

like your cross country coach, like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Pass out jewel pods to the, to the runners or whatever. Like a catcher that only has one arm or a punter that only has one arm or a point guard that only has one arm. These are good, Brad. Or brushing his teeth. That's right. Yeah. I can't think of. Yeah, that's a good question.

Sorry. I'll answer it in the YouTube comments below. Great, great. Because we're on YouTube. We are on YouTube. Okay. Next voice memo. Hey, Jake and Brad.

It's Lucy from Indianapolis. I just started my sophomore year of college, and in one of my classes, we were doing an icebreaker where everyone had to give a fun fact about themselves, and one girl said for her fun fact that she likes to eat oranges in the shower, and the whole time, all I could think about is how Jake may have started that trend.

I did. So I just wanted to tell you guys that and let you know that that little inside joke put a smile on my face and helped make that class a little more bearable. Now I want to know what you guys thought about those first day of class icebreakers. Did you like them? Did you hate them? Do you have any funny icebreaker stories? And if you had to give a fun fact about yourself today, what would you say? I love the podcast. It makes me laugh so much. Keep doing what you're doing. Bye-bye. Loved them. Bye-bye. Yeah. I was kind of a fan of them

too. Yeah. I don't care. I don't care how cheesy they are. I don't care anything like that. Let's do it. I like, I think we might like them for different reasons. Probably. Why do you like them? I like them because it, it, it's like like it's like the small talk video where it like open. It's like a gateway to opening up to like talking about more. It's like a stepping stone. Yeah. Like, oh, now we have this little thing to talk about. Let me now be comfortable to say this, this and this to you from now on.

That's a good point. Yeah, that's good. I feel like I never encountered get to know you questions until I got to college. There are so many things there was like, oh, it's the first me in college. Like even like passing someone on a sidewalk and talking to them. I'd never done that before. It's like I have to learn how to do this. Like how to have like a quick interaction with someone on a sidewalk oh yeah i remember that was just like fascinating to me my entire first semester but like you were always late to class because

you like talked to every single person i'm like pretty good i'm on my way to um financial accounting which you know i think it'll be fun sounds kind of redundant but you know yeah but um i was in the honors program at sbu shout out anderson right away yeah shout out anderson exactly so i like to get to know you questions because i feel like you can get a pretty good sense of like how cool someone is from get to know your questions like right away you're gonna sweet out wow braggy braggy braggy just like the like my fun fact would probably be that i have the highest gpa ever in my high school's history and uh i was valedictorian and you know it's like three fun facts all in one about how great they are heard so much of that first day college is already

like or i guess it was pre-college it's like college purgatory you know you go there like five days early for welcome weekend oh that's rough and you just get to know i'm like right away i'm just like there's got to be somebody normal in this group. There's got to be just like all these answers right away. Just just want to brag so much on how cool they are.

And then, yeah, I found Anderson. I was like, thank God. So this guy's got a sense of humor. He played high school sports. I think we're the only two in here that played high school sports. Yeah.

Oh, he's on the college tennis team. This is awesome. Yeah. Found him, found Caitlin Zerker. So, yeah, lifelong friends were in that group. And it's because they knew how to. This is awesome. Yeah. Found him, found Caitlin Zerker. Uh, so yeah, lifelong friends. We're in that group. And it's because they knew how to play. Never have I ever,

I'm really bad at that though. Like, like when she said like, what would your, or what would your fun fact be? Like, I think if you're listening to 123 episodes of us, you think I'm a decently interesting person,

but I, I don't, I can't think of a thing for that kind of thing. Really? Like, like what would i say that's like like unless i'm like trying to brag about myself just like i think i'm a funny person no no don't do that of course not yeah of course that's like a fact it's an opinion do a self

deprecating self-deprecating fun fact i punched a girl in the face one time that that is one thing i like always talk about that'll get people yeah a little bit have we talked about that yeah yeah that's a fun one i would probably nowadays i'd do the tick bite thing like it's interesting but it's not like a boast by any means it's kind of a bummer maybe the synesthesia thing maybe the uh like the worst is if i were to like so i've actually been on a number of tv shows i'm just gonna say you have plenty of today's show ellen show anyone heard ridiculousness i was on one called amazingness you know not gonna do that yeah oh that would just be awful i've never talked to that person you would have i would talk

to him but uh talk to everybody but that would annoy me you can't do that you have to do it in the right way you have to do in the right way but probably the right way is it comes up organically months down the road and they're like oh my gosh there's so much more to this guy i know i already liked him now it turns out he's been kissed by pamela anderson i had no idea yeah that's fair you're right you're right you're right that's why i'm such a big fan of like when i've like dated girls in the past who like didn't listen to the podcast didn't know anything i'm like this is awesome we can slowly discover things about each other yeah rather than you being like oh yeah i know everything so if you're listening out there stop or don't solicit yourself to jake what was it uh for his your services yeah never i was trying to

get it whatever something else move on yeah anyway i i don't know what i would say to the fact i always like one of the ones i used to say was i play mandolin that's super fun right cool like that's what i'm saying like you hear that you're like that's like if i was in your group at welcome week honors program you'd be like that guy's a loser i'm not like probably anderson's cool caitlin's cool that guy plays a man i don't even know what that is it's not even the fact it's like it's like how you say it like do you show that you're capable of like having a good personality in your fun fact like do you show a little self-awareness do you show like a sense of humor that's what i'm looking for as you deliver your fun fact like you like you

introduce your fun fact almost based off of someone else's like all right now i know i'm not alex sitting on this you know like do you show that you have like a sense of like i want to make people laugh do am i aware am i a good listener like that's your chance to show people they're like yeah i get it i know how to like be a good friend i know how to like interact socially sure sure sure they're very telling times Yeah, I love it I would probably I'd probably fail your test though Because I would be like I'm trying to get in and out of this thing as quick as possible Dang good thing we didn't go to college seriously, man. No, we would have found each other. We were find each other

Yeah talent show. Yeah for sure Dominate that talent show dude. That was so great Anderson I got asked to host the school-wide talent show as like sophomores. It's like don't even do you even know who we are do you even know you want us to okay yeah i feel like there's just got to be other people better than this but it's so fun that is awesome um okay another voice memo perhaps we got so many from people from australia they're like multiple back to back and i don't remember which ones are rich so well i i tweaked our algorithm to where we like show up a lot in seo, Oh, because I, I master SDO. I mastered it.

So that's why if you look up podcast in Australia, you'll see go. Okay. You should try to do that for every country. Have you ever thought about doing that? I have not. That's a good idea. That would be fun though.

So like maybe United States next do United States and then British, um, British, British, British, just anyone who speaks British, British and Columbia, British and Columbia's,

um, down South, down South, like, like Columbia. Oh, Columbia Colombians? British and Colombians. Okay. Down south. Down south? Like? Like Colombia. Oh, Colombia. Yeah, British Colombians. Okay.

Yeah. Anyway, here's Australia. Hi, Jake and Brad. This is Grace from Australia. Australia. First and foremost, I'd like to claim the title of President of Australia? And then also, is it possible to send merch to the President of Australia? Because that would be awesome.

Awesome. And then finally, Jake, did you come across any drop bears when you were down under? Anyway, he's got to hit the frog and toad. Hero. Okay. Drop bears. Frog and toad. Frog and toad.

There were no vowels in whatever she just said to me. Did you see any drop bears? Drop bears. Drop go. Drop dais. Drop gong. Did you see any drop dais? Did you see any bong gongs while you were down there?

I had to ask Jake. Did you see any drop bears? What? I don't know what she Did you say any drop bears? What? I don't know what she said. Oh, drop bears. I looked, I'm looking it up. No, those are terrifying. Oh, are they scary?

Wait, wait, wait, wait. But then the fourth, the first three pictures are like these really vicious looking bears. The fourth one is just a koala. So maybe that's just the name. Some sort of hybrid. Drop bears. Fourth one looks real cute

but that but when they get going they are not fun or when they get wet yeah don't get a drop bear wet not worth it whoa i have no idea you gotta send in another voice what was her name uh grace grace send in another another voice will tell us what this is all about there's this there's this drop bear height chart i think it's a i know it's a joke it's a joke or else we'd heard about this there's there's a one meter drop bear then there's the average man there's a five meter drop bear there's no way there's a 15 foot tall looks like an elephant exactly drop bear maybe that was stuffed that's a decoration foot tall. It looks like an elephant. Exactly. Drop bear. Maybe that was stuffed. That's a decoration.

Grice, while I was in Australia, I did not see any drop bears. Sorry, Grice. Not a single drop bear. We didn't see any of the drop bears. Drop bears down there now. No, no, no. But Brad, can we ship to Australia for the president? I'm going to work on it.

I will say if you are wanting merch and you don't see exactly what it looks like or you don't see your size, let us know. Because if you are abnormally, no, I shouldn't say that word. If you're if you're like extra small or like triple X, quadruple XL, like let us know. And because some of them have those colors and sizes and some of them are out of stock of certain things. So rather than having to worry about all the different headaches of like, Oh, the extra small doesn't have red, but it has blue and white and black. I just didn't do extra smalls. I didn't do a three X, four XL for a lot of them. But if you want one holler, we'll make it happen and maybe send them down under. And yes,

we can definitely figure out how to send it down under. but let's put another t-shirt in the bobby yeah just holler at me and we'll make it happen make it happen ghostrunners.life you can send us a email you can send us instagram message a gene shorts comedy comment that's probably a good place for us yeah yeah we will see it but don't just do that yeah don't do that but love all the gene shorts comments though amazing micah stelling got his name right this time just still crushing it still crushing it oh and i think yeah we talked about this in the espn chat yeah with other ghost runners i we figured out how we're gonna do the march madness story yeah i think do you like that plan i think so i talked to her about it she was down oh her what could that what could that mean what could that mean there's a little teaser there's

the first clue i talked to her about it and she's down okay so uh i think next week it'll like she's down she's down under get it what yeah so um yeah i think that'd be kind of fun yeah i think it's kind of a fun way to deliver it i like it so get on our patreon i'll just say that probably something's coming let's listen to let's do one last one. Please, Australia. Hey, Jake and Brad. My name's Carly. I'm a nurse in Kansas City.

But in high school, I ran cross country. And I personally think it's one of the best sports ever. No way. But, you know, you pretty much just run. So I get how people think it's incredibly boring. Yeah. But we used to do different things to try to make it as fun as possible. Like we'd do parkour on random things that we found on our run.

Sometimes we would take a golf ball and play catch. Like we would chuck it or bounce it off the ground. And then one of us had to run after it and try to catch it. Just a lot of stuff. On Halloween, we did themed runs. Of all the balls. We would go sometimes in the morning with glow sticks and do glow catch it. Just a lot of stuff. On Halloween, we did themed runs. We would go sometimes in the morning with glow sticks and do glow themed runs. So we just did everything we could

to make a 10 mile run in 100 degree weather or when it's snowing a lot more fun. So my question to you guys is, what's the most boring sport you can think of and what would you do to make it fun? Love you guys. I like that. So did her time run out or no,

she had more time. I love it. And like kind of had an exhale. Like she was about to say something and there's just like, I'm done. Brad, you've always been a good friend to me. Mm.

Oh, so how's your week been? Like what's new? Yeah, dude, I was talking to your mom uh the other day yeah dang like i could i could i can't even do it brad guess who no i was hanging out with you know i don't like this i don't like it you guys did this on correct opinions one time where you just like leave things up oh yeah we did it bothered me dude really i don't like it oh i could do this all day please don't this is my 8k camera

this is my episode of like we each get one yeah this is my 8k camera that's such a funny reference i love okay carly carly what's her name carly sanders thanks carly uh nursing kc yeah hey thanks for helping out the locals maybe if you stop listening the podcast jake would be interested i'm just kidding um maybe you work to urgent care we would already met yeah that's right Yeah. Hey, thanks for helping out the locals. Maybe if you stop listening to the podcast, Jake would be interested. I'm just kidding. Maybe you work to urgent care. We would already met. That's right. Did you feel resistance? This is a good question. No, it's a good question.

Okay. First of all, I get it. Like cross country, just like any other group thing. If you have great camaraderie, it's going to be fun. So it sounds like that was what you had to lean on because the sport itself is so unfun like that's what i'm hearing is like and and also while you did your sport you had to basically play other sports yeah like so we also did this like thing where as we're running we like threw a ball and somebody else had to try to catch it or like go after it if they don't catch it right away that's called baseball and then we would split up into teams so you basically have two teams running after a ball. There's just one ball that you kind of fight over. It's kind of like there's different field position and

she's playing. Okay, so you're playing soccer. Sometimes we kick the ball, but man, it was more fun if there was a ball involved. Yeah, that's the point. I think it's hilarious too that of all the balls, they chose like one of the densest and bounciest ball. I mean, that just sounds brutal.

Like one drop of the golf ball and this thing is moving across the street and it's dangerous to cars. It's dangerous to humans. Like I wouldn't go jogging with a golf ball. I'm like, this will be fun. It's like what a four year old does. Like, how do you want it?

You give me the golf. Here's a Nerf ball. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or yeah, anything else. Like anything else that a golf ball is better a tennis ball would be great tennis ball is the answer tennis balls either uh most boring sport to honestly golf is like seems like the most and the way to make it better i think is what she asked is be good at it i think and then it'd be really fun it'd be a really fun sport but it's also super boring if

you watch the game being played, I think the most boring sports to me are sports like bowling. I've never been able to get into it because it's so much of the same exact thing. There's no variables. There's no, like the only variable is like, how bad did I do my last role? Okay. Now I've been given a new scenario, but even then there's only so many options. That's fair. That's kind of, what's fun about golf. As I'm discovering how to play this game is like every round of 18 i am shooting a new shot that i have never done before like oh wow okay i'm like off the rough but not quite in the bunker one foot's in the bunker this is a new shot hey how does this how's this gonna go okay you know it's like there's so much like new just you're

in a new environment you have new variables yeah some of those boring sports are like yeah cross country or bowling even track you could argue it's just like kind of like you know what you're getting into yeah people who are nervous about track come on come on you're either faster or not are you faster than the person next to you great don't be nervous yeah that's true well but there's like something mental about like performing yeah bowling is the answer you're right bowling is bowling a sport probably but it sucks yeah i you're right though it's like the exact same there's no variables yeah it's like maybe it was a little bit cold in the bowling alley one day and so your popcorn machine was down yeah bummer i like to snack with my off hand you're like holding the ball in one hand like

good shot good shot marvin shot, Marvin. Nice. Like, is it bowling kind of nuts that like, we just willingly throw our fingers, which we just got done eating with, inside of the holes that everyone else is sticking their fingers in holes of? Yeah, I don't want to think about that too much. Yeah, there would be resistance.

Yeah. I'll tell you who would like that. Right, Ramesh Patel. He'd get his fingers in some holes. Dude, let's keep saying his name let's get him on the pod if you're gonna do that Ramesh yes we should we should be like yeah we have a

podcast about um whatever the hospitality industry and we got your name from your high school receptionist oh yeah I love her I'm sure you get this a lot yeah I'm sure you do Rames ash whatever his name is ramesh ramesh um anyway anyway uh carly sanders great voice memo lives a kid city never

even like seen or heard of this girl i've never seen a comment or anything from her yeah i don't think carly sanders probably new just got here thanks for thanks for getting here thanks for getting here thanks for running uh brad do you have a review of the week? Because I do. Thank you. And I will go first with my review of the week. This is like our first time ever doing the reviews of the week. Right, right, right, right, right.

I don't think we've done this before. This is from Cass Daddy. Does that sound familiar? No. Now that I just said it out loud, I'm like, maybe. No. She said, you you guys top two stories to date brad describing his completely calm cool and collected ice cream outing with his kids

in jake's chaotic encounter with a 200 year old lady on the airplane you have you have me busting out laughing every week but those two nearly brought me to tears i can't read but those two nearly brought tears to my eyes. And I know I've been in similar situations to both. Shout out to my friend Kayla with the C who introduced me to you guys a few months ago. I've officially caught up and I understand all of the inside jokes. Thanks for keeping the vibes high and making every Monday morning.

Something to look forward to. Love you guys. Thank you. Cast daddy. I'm glad people like that. A woman on the airplane. Sorry. That was one of those that like,

I almost didn't even tell because I didn't realize necessarily how funny it was or whatever but it's amazing like the the segments or like the memories that we have of things

that I'm like we almost didn't probably talk about that yeah like I'm glad I'm glad we mentioned that one thing that then led to that thing

yeah so no I love that story okay and thank you for complimenting my story as well mine's from son of fire oh okay Jakeake and brad

is what it's called it says sup jake and big daddy listening to the pod and loved the cross country shout out i'm a state champion oh get to know you games okay a little icebreaker who runs cross country for tahoma high school in seattle i listen to the pod while i run and it really gets me in the zone you guys are the mans you guys are the mans. You guys are the mans. You heard it here, folks. You heard it here, folks. Please never quit potting. Yeah, that's that's fun. OK, that's one. If I'm going to run, it'd be fun to listen to the Ghost Runners podcast. You gotta. Yeah, you gotta. And if especially cross country, because you're running for like 18 hours at a time. Yeah. So you're welcome. Giving you something cool. Well, thank you, guys. Thank you for the reviews. All the YouTube comments,

Gene Schwartz, Ghost Runners, wherever you're leaving them appreciate it yes i have yes go ahead ask okay sorry i was trying to figure who who's saying this song uh who brad would you like to in this episode with a jingle for everyone i would if you guys don't know brad ends each episode with jingle as long as you know i ask him and he gives his consent yes because one time you you didn't ask and i recorded it and i said actually jake you know i didn't appreciate that one star review yeah we yeah we we said stop record let's we're done with this so who wrote this one uh emily schmidt she's back she's back with a little different genre here i'm not trying to say oh you want to talk about a little different genre she said in her email i'm also working on lose yourself by eminem if jake ever wants to do another jingle emily i'm down if you ever want to write me a

rap i'll figure it out absolutely so i was just doing my eminem earlier ridiculous chrysalis siphonous nimbiness careful all right i got syphilis whoa you want the five minute one is that the instrumental i don't know i haven't listened to the instrumental of this song yet, but probably. Here we go. Oh. McDonald's run. For a nice cold drink. Then we sit right down and press record.

Life updates. Brad's a super dad he always puts them first for his babe and G shorts comedy is a good place to come in daily help us get Jake his money back And even though Chipotle bought Struck Jake's three-pointer Chili's has his usual You're forever his is your your forever is

three for ten that's great podcast live oh my bad podcast live I'm just kidding Oh, my bad. Podcast Live! I'm just kidding. Trying out our stand-up bits.

We all need new comics to make us cringe. Through tours and vids Always another goof I'm wondering where Jake is touring this week And being apart ain't easy on this co-host here. Figuring out when we're gonna record this show. Justin gets to edit whenever I can upload this. Justin, you make us proud. We're forever yours.

Ghost Runners. Woo! Sing this part with me, just Ghosts, okay? Whoo! Sing this part with me. Just Ghost. Okay? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,! Shoot that thing up, mommy, let it roll, roll, hey! Pop, lock, drop it, hey, that's a throw, hey! If your mama gave it to you, baby Let her know What you found

I'm like a puppy, baby Say, say Ghost Ghost Ghost That was something. That was something. That was powerful. That was, yeah.

I loved the mashup. Did you ever listen to Girl Talk back in the day? What is Girl Talk? Oh my gosh. The greatest DJ ever. Like, I think it was like, he was like mashup,

a mashup artist before mashups were like a thing before DJ earworm. Maybe. Yeah. Similar to big worm. Oh man. Look up. Uh, if you're 21 or over,

look up girl talk, play your part. Part two, I think is what it's called. He's got a whole, I mean like the whole album is awesome, but the end end he like did such good mashups of like uh old school like rock with new school like stuff like that and so that was he literally did pop lock and drop it with that song oh really it's so pretty it's so good dude oh it's so good yeah but like yeah whatever

i could talk about girl talk forever he's really good but but he uses rap songs and so it's so good. Yeah. But like, yeah, whatever. I could talk about Girl Talk forever. He's really good. But he uses rap songs. And so it's pretty inappropriate. But it sounds nice. My gosh. Yeah. The Night Ripper is his best album, in my opinion. And then right after it.

Oh, what's it called? The one that has play your part on it. Anyway, play your part, Girl Talk. Play your part. Oh, man, it's so inappropriate, guys. But it's so, so fun. Feed the Animals is what it's so inappropriate guys but it's so so fun feed the animals is what it's called feed the animals huh i went to a girl talk concert one time and it's awesome it's literally just this guy that comes up on stage and like has a macbook

he doesn't even like act like he's like some crazy amazing dj that has like all this stuff he's got a macbook and he just kind of starts bobbing and like playing some music and then like presses some more music on there i mean so he's playing stuff like and by the end of it like first he comes out with like this hoodie on like pretty chill by the end of it his shirt is completely off i like that and like probably 50 of the audience is on stage dancing oh it's awesome kind of the ramesh patel treatment yeah hey everybody come on here and have your shirt off it was awesome i went my junior year at high school. I don't know why my parents let me go,

but it was so much fun. So yeah, Girl Talk. I haven't thought about Girl Talk in a long time until they played Faithfully and made me think of Pop Lock and Drop It. Beautiful. All right.

Well, hey, this has been Boy Talk with Jake and Brad. This is Ghostbusters episode 123. Thanks for watching. If you're watching on youtube thanks for listening elsewhere and uh check out our videos on g shorts comedy merch is live today at noon let's go monday go get some merch enter to win a uh you know custom

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