Ghostrunners - 13 - Jake & Brad's Mattress Firm

Episode Date: August 5, 2019

Jake talks about his trip to Kauai, Brad threatens to move to Arkansas, and they have different opinions on conspiracy theories.  Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

it's like rain on your wedding day the ghost runners are back today oh nice what do you think of that that was pretty good for not knowing what was coming my bar was pretty low for what you were going to do and you surpassed it a great job all right uh aloha everybody aloha and welcome aloha and hello uh i was actually planning on like starting off this podcast with a little like funny bit about like uh what do you guys say for hello here anymore you know i just got so used to you know the island what time is it even you know um but then i'm not kidding i got back to the mainland a few days ago i started catching up on podcasts like probably what two days ago one of the ones i'm catching up on the guy just got back from hawaii and that's what he

started his podcast off with i was like dang he beat me to it and he did it way funnier than i would have either so cody co you beat me oh he's like big enough where people might listen to both yeah they would know like oh you just stole that from him yeah but i really was planning on doing that and he he beat me to it yeah he's like sorry just got island brain and i mean how cool did you feel being able to call it the mainland like whenever just now yeah that felt cool got back to the mainland like i got back to the contiguous 48 like like you have to be away from the mainland to get back to it. Whereas I've just been in Kansas this whole time. I kind of have a theory about that,

of like people complaining about jet lag a little too much. It's so they can prove like I've just been traveling somewhere where I would be affected by jet lag. My business thinks I'm important enough where I can't do my work virtually. I have to go. I have to go somewhere. I need to be there. I'm just very tired traveling.

I also think that this is not really the same thing at all now that i'm about to say it but i think people talk about shark week way more than they watch it i've never watched a minute of shark i don't think anyone actually watches shark week but the internet loves like mentioning that it's this huge thing like oh gearing up for shark week yeah our church talked about it today no yeah i was like i didn't even know that that's so perfect i was like of course we're talking about shark week right now yeah it just seems like one of those uh i don't know just trendy things it's cool to talk about it but i don't really know if people are tuning in i don't know anything about it to be like beyond like i know that there's obviously shark themed

things on discovery i guess they just put all their shark shows in one week i don't know yeah have you ever watched it either i don't think so and i i mean i love shows like that but i think sharks specifically it's a little too narrow i'd rather watch oceans like episode of planet earth yeah rather than just sharks i don't know maybe i'd like it aquarium week yeah i just i don't know i don't interact with sharks that much so um it doesn't get get me that excited one cool thing about hawaii no snakes they don't have snakes and rabies which is good for me because two of the main things i'm worried about on a day-to-day basis of contracting right oh gosh but they've just never gotten there i guess no one no

snake has swam there yet so they just don't have them that's awesome it really is like because i mean every day we're hiking somewhere you know deep brush be careful there might be oh no well but don't get bit by anything you might get never mind we're good all the normal things i would say before we started a hike i didn't have to yeah um so that's kind of fun wow no snakes no rapes no snavies wow that's that's interesting i i don't see i don't honestly remember the last time i saw a snake in the out like in the wild just because i don't go to very many places with brush or live out in the country yeah but like i know that you probably have lots of stories whenever you're a kid katherine you know grew up in the country so or you know kind of in like out she had acreage

if you will sure she had some land as they call it uh so they definitely had some stories with snakes i remember we had a snake that was getting into our strawberry patch not cool you're kidding dad got a hold of it though with a shovel so oh yeah took care of it yeah um have you ever seen a tarantula in the wild no i don't think i've ever seen one in real life i don't think i've either katherine one time was just like yeah yeah, it's like a normal thing. Like in Texas, it's like sea tarantulas. I was like, what? Is that the name of a ride at Six Flags?

Is that maybe what it is? The tarantula? Yeah, maybe that's what she meant. Or Durantula. No. He plays for a different team. No, like the massive spiders. And I also learned that they're not poisonous.

So what happened? They're just huge and freaking hairy and scary and so people hate them oh but i don't need to actually be scared of them like you should not be scared of them like you should be scared of a black widow or a brown recluse or even a little bumblebee but yeah she acted yeah she acted like not that it was normal normal but like normal enough to where she saw them regularly. Interesting. Yeah.

She's like, you've never seen one? I'm going to start asking Texas people about this tarantula thing. Yeah. And it probably is somewhat a Southern thing. Somewhat the fact that she lived on land. Like I doubt that they're just like crawling around Frisco, Texas. Yeah. That'd be scary though.

It would be. Tarantulas crawling around Frisco. Texas. Yeah. That would be scary, though. It would be. Tranches crawling around Frisco. My gosh. I asked Catherine about the, speaking of animals, the 100 duck-sized horses or 100 or one horse-sized duck. She just, like, dissolved the argument right away. Like, just, like, disregarded it. Like, well, horses are not, not like vicious people or vicious animals she's like you need to be provoked you would need to be uh you know messing with the whole the whole idea is that they're supposed to be fighting you it is a fight i'm not easily

provoked either i'm not an aggressive animal but in this situation i would fight she's like no the horses would never fight you like that like they're very kind. And I'm like, okay, but in this instance, they're coming for you. That scares me. So she would choose the horse, no, the duck-sized horses because they would be non-vicious. I don't know. She's not scared of ducks either. She's just a very fearless woman. I married Xena Warrior Princess, basically.

Yeah, I would say so. Hmm um takes down tarantulas snakes snavies ducks or horses nope so so hawaii was awesome it was fantastic we've already talked about some but yeah tell us some of the highlights um one very office-related thing that I thought you would enjoy. I was very confused leading up to the trip trying to book a rental car because I thought I was still on the same website I was just looking at, and then something happened, and the website completely changed. And I was like, whoa, did they just redesign their website? They just hit refresh on their page.

It's like, this is crazy. How often does anyone get to experience this? I don't know. Google changes their logo and I'm here for it. Anyway, we had a little... So there's two different companies. One is called Kawaii Rent-A-Car. The other one is called Rent-A-Car Kawaii.

Uh-oh. Very confusing. Very much two different companies. Which, do you know where I'm going? Do you know what office reference I'm thinking of? Um, I pizza by Alfredo. Yes. So proud of you. Yeah. I thought you were going to say assistant to the manager. Oh, both good. Yeah. I was thinking of the Alfredo's pizza kitchen or pizza by Alfredo or whatever.

So similar, but very different. Do they have a large amount of okay pizza or a medium amount of very good pizza a medium amount of good pizza uh i would say in this instance though we got a large amount of bad pizza um i was just sharing brad with brad about this before we went live on the podcast but i was in a 2006 chevy malibu the check engine light was on and we started getting alerts in the middle of the trip that said check oil soon the right blinker would stay on and whenever it wanted to uh but and then the other car was not good either couldn't get out of the doors but it was kind of nice like not feeling like oh i'm in a nice car yeah like i need to be careful you know we get sand in there i'd go in there my swim trunks and

like they don't care i bet everyone does that every week yeah exactly which is probably why it is at the state that it's in yeah so it was kind of nice like this one really exclusive beach we wanted to go to we had to drive through about 15 minutes of potholes but it was like oh yeah i'm sure the malibu can handle it like it'll be fine my cousin went to iceland iceland on his honeymoon cory did and they rented from a rental company called sad cars i think it was on accident because they don't speak english in iceland i mean that's not like their native language yeah yeah and so it was it was not on purpose that the initials spelled out sad but they were like decently bad cars like i think he got like you know a 2001 crv or something like that

so he was like yeah like the gas cap he had to use like a fork to like open up the gas cap thing like interesting all these different on their honeymoon on their honeymoon which is like classic like like they're so cool and so adventurous and they're gonna you know go out and do adventurous things like that like they're not gonna just go and do like all the normal stuff yeah and so they they enjoyed it and it's a good story for them but yeah it's called sad cars and yeah i remember him saying like yeah we drove you know we couldn't drive over 10 miles an hour some of the routes we were taking in iceland going to the middle of nowhere um but we didn't care that much because we were in this sad car if you're gonna get gasoline with a fork handy you can drive wherever you want.

Like, no, I think what happened, I might be completely misremembering this, but I think that he called the Icelandic, you know, rental car company, like, how do I get this gas cap open? They're like, oh, just get a fork and, you know, just pry it open. That's what Corey had to do. It's just like, my gosh. That's a funny prerequisite for like you need to be 25 uh valid proof of insurance and like a metal fork probably yeah

just bring a metal fork if you can another thing knife will be okay knife will work but you're gonna want prongs probably trust us we do this a lot you're gonna want prongs this company also i feel like they ran it out of a backyard like honestly i think they probably did because they there was no physical location it was like we will have the cars waiting for you when you get to the airport we'll text you where they are in the parking lot and when you drop them off just leave them in the parking lot there was never like i never saw anyone it was all like hide it in the gas can thing really yeah yeah so it's like i'm sure they're running it out of their home and they just don't want people to see that. It was great. Super cheap.

It's like 65 bucks for the whole week. Worth it. Yeah. Great value. Another little part of Hawaii, which my sister and I thought was so funny. Well, that was another cool part of the trip is like just traveling with her because we never really traveled together outside of our parents. But like one cool thing now that I'm thinking about it, there was a, I put it on my Instagram story, but just that picture that said, I think it was trying to say, like, slow down, there's kids here, but it just said

slow kids. Slow kids here. Yeah, my sister and I were in two different cars, and, like, we each took a picture of that, because we thought it was so funny. It's like, oh, that's cool that we have, like, the same humor in that sense, but another thing we thought was so funny this uh we went and took a big uh um boat like cruise tour of the napoli coast oh cool beautiful it's like the reason i chose kawaii is just like coastline uh this was during when i think you were i missed our basketball game while this was happening we were texting about it okay uh which how did it go great we won good job how'd you play i played poorly actually i played okay but sorry i brought it up uh one of my contacts was blurry and so i had no depth perception and so that was my excuse

at least for not being better but i mean basketball is a sport where you're gonna want depth reception so i think that's fair that right like there were there were a few times where i shot threes and i was like oh that's in and it was not in wait why did you not have a contact no i had both of them in one of them they were just getting old like i needed to replace them i'm supposed to take the shelf life on a two weeks is what you're supposed to do i just i kind of go until they don't let me go anymore though so usually mine are like three to four weeks um because i've heard that you can yeah keep in longer. So anyway, but yeah, one of them was very blurry, and I just couldn't get it fixed.

So when it dies out, it's just like it's losing its prescription, basically? Well, I don't know how it works. I don't think that's usually the case, but usually it gets too dry too easily. It rips, it tears, or it a little like divot in the edge of it or something so it's just not comfortable yeah you remember when you get like in like a different part of your eye or whatever yeah yeah yeah that freaks me out katherine the other day i was in the bathroom with her putting on my in my contacts just like i can't believe you do that every single

day yeah you put your fingers in your eyes every single day oh my gosh i could not have i don't know i mean you can't even chew or swallow uh pills yeah no thanks to the touch of my own eyeball gosh and getting one lost in there okay anyway so we're on this boat tour and uh captain chris is our captain oh yeah c squared i would say your typical i don't know guy in his 50s who like is trying to be fun but just tells the same jokes every day which initially i was like dang it's gonna be one of those just cheesy joke things but i think all things considered at least he was trying to make it fun he could have been more normal and just by the book but uh one thing so he's one big rule was like you have to be hanging on at all times with one hand,

which was tough when it came down to take pictures, not a big camera strap guy. So we're just on this huge boat and I'm just like trying to adjust settings. That was kind of scary. It was pretty rocky. At times. That's why he made the rule. Yeah. Yeah.

Chris isn't just like making up rules. No, no. He's a very safe guy. Risk sake. I felt safe with him. We had some girls yakking, by the way. One girl puked 12 times. Yeah. 12 times. One girl just once. One of your friends? Yeah, by the way. One girl puked 12 times. Yeah.

12 times? One girl just once. One of your friends? Yeah, this is like people just within our group. Oh, no. Emily puked 12, Katie puked a few, and then Liz just once. You're kidding. Yeah, so kind of rough.

Maybe were they taking too many pictures? Not just staring ahead? Because if you get car sick, you're supposed to not be looking down and reading. Within the first 45 minutes, I got sick. it was very rough at the beginning but before we'd even taken pictures or anything um it was just like did you say captain chris says stare stare at the moon like on the office whenever he says captain jack you feel seasick captain jack says stare at the moon that seems like the worst advice captain jack's a far face and then he throws up again okay

this is a great segue speaking of terrible advice from a captain so we start going over these huge waves not like getting you sick waves but just like really fun like you're on a jet ski kind of way yeah um and so it's kind of natural to just like bend your knees a little bit and absorb the shock or whatever captain chris comes over the microphone hey everyone down there lock your knees keep your knees locked and me and my sister start like laughing like oh he's like joking probably or whatever and so we're still up there we're at the very front of the boat having a great time you know jack and rose but not in a romantic siblings anyway um jack and jill yeah jack and jill is probably better but I don't know if they ever went on a boat.

They went down a well, so different. Okay, anyway. Went down a hill. Anyway, go ahead. Oh, yeah. Wait. Go down the well. Why did he get...

Where did he get well from? Because they were getting a pail of water. From the well. Probably. Probably. So a well is somewhat involved. Loosely involved. Yeah.

Fell down a well. What's wrong with me? Okay. Anyway. He gets mad at at us again over the loudspeaker everyone can hear this hey i already told you once oh really lock your knees i was like no that seems when have you ever been told in any sport in any show choir performance yeah like it i just feel like it is the worst idea ever to lock your knees especially going over very rigid bumps in the ocean why yeah we thought that was so funny guys i'm serious lock your knees i'm not gonna tell you again lock them it's like this captain chris i respect you but this cannot be safe i really want to absorb the shock and not hyper

extend my knee or do something lock your knees yeah i didn't understand that that's weird have i ever told you about the time where um this kid in fifth grade a special course uh american patriotic concert fainted no uh like yeah our teacher would always tell us to bend your knees and i didn't really understand why he said that in fifth grade. But I'd always do it. But I never felt like the urge to faint or anything. We've also been at a wedding where a bridesmaid fainted.

Oh, that's right. That's right. That was pretty awkward, too. We were there together. Oh, my God. Something else happened at that ceremony that was pretty gnarly. But definitely the fainting was great. Oh, the pastor's mic was on during the worship.

He was a little off kilter. I can't believe you remember that that's amazing yeah he because i was the one leading the worship so i was like what's going on like do i sound bad yeah the pastor oh that's just for mike on and he was not shy he loved that song you chose he was rocking jesus paid it all or whatever it was but uh fifth grade we do this like my my choir teacher in fifth grade was very patriotic like i remember one time in music class he got mad at me for itching my nose during the national anthem how dare you like genuinely like i was like so innocently doing it and he how old were you at that time i was probably fourth grade when i got old enough to know not to itch your nose don't you itch your nose during the dawns early light they didn't die for you to itch your nose during the pledge of allegiance so anyway super patriotic so we sang i don't want to exaggerate but i think probably 20 patriotic songs in this concert like a lot of

and some of them are short it's some deep tracks though i only know about oh man every single one of the like theme songs for like the armed forces you know yeah like the navy song the army song yeah your grand old flag yeah america the beautiful or you know god bless america ended big big grand finale with god bless the usa sure great song one of the best literally right right at the very last and i'll gladly stand up nick holly man just went down with a vengeance like just fell hard on the ground that was for the troops probably it was amazing it was supposed to be like this emotional ending i'll gladly stand up oh it was awesome it was like from a movie it was so great um have you ever passed out

uh i got close one time kind of recently actually a couple summers ago we went on a bike ride in colorado and it was like a very leisurely thing but i was like i'm gonna go ahead and go like all the way around this track okay because we had like an hour and a half like rental with these bikes or something like that and so i did and second half of that track was a little hard for these and i was not expecting it and i just didn't have enough water so i got back and was like kind of lightheaded and then like laid down on this bench and got lightheaded but never passed out nice so have you uh oh i remember i was going to say once is like your favorite thing. Yes, that video. That's another one of my – I think I really enjoy passing out people or watching people pass out.

Yeah, that's something you just really enjoy. I guess so. This would have been like probably three summers ago. This is when the jorts that I wear for everything, this is the day they got made. I cut my jeans that morning. I hiked my first – Oh, that was the the original that morning yeah i cut it uh i hiked my first 14 or ever and we weren't at like the peak of the mountain yet but we got into like a spot we've been hiking for a while and it was like uh oh okay we're gonna take a break up there like at this

little clearing and so i was like i'm gonna sprint it i'm just gonna go i was feeling energized i got away at the top and i'm feeling pretty good but pretty out of breath. I was going to celebrate. I started to dance and I tilted my head back and that just threw off everything. I just went down. I didn't fully pass out but it dropped me to my knees.

Do not underestimate the altitude, man. Yeah, getting up there and dropping that head back. There was a song going and the song lyric was the altitude man yeah getting up there and dropping that head back oh yeah and like there was a song going and it was like right at the beach yeah the song lyric was we ain't never gonna quit it and right after that happened yeah the beat dropped and you just like fall to the ground just limply and i was like jake will you please save that video and send it to me because that's my favorite thing i've ever seen um i passed out one other time at my sister's gymnastics meet.

Oh yeah. Cause altitude had the knees locked. Really? Didn't really drink any water that day. You were just standing for a long time. I was watching, I was trying to watch a little Zacchia style standing on this like folding chair, trying to watch her do the balance beam.

Okay. And then I just remember waking up and someone was like handing me a Reese's peanut butter cup. Really? Yeah. I don't know why that. Wow. That's what I remember. Yeah. I don't peanut butter cup really yeah i don't know why that wow that's what i remember yeah i don't think i've completely i don't know my parents love to fact check me on things uh on the podcast so they'll probably be like uh brad you actually have passed out remember that time we threw you the toaster in the bathtub there you go didn't like that um

anyway well last time we did a podcast we had some instagram questions oh yeah we didn't get to all of them that seems like forever ago because it was forever ago it was a while ago do you want to go through some of those because i remember at the end you were like yeah there's some really good ones i wish i was seeing these earlier because i was kind of in a hurry that day it's true because you had chipotle to eat yeah it ended up being taco republic oh which is also great okay you know support local yeah is it yeah it is oh is it really yeah taco republic i don't think that's local 100 okay owned by the well and then again i think things sometimes i just lost a bet to katherine that i was very confident but yeah i think it's owned by the same people as like brgr oh okay

and anyway um i see a couple at the top now that i went back to find this instagram story there's a couple do you need guests uh can i be in it can i join from a fewer people um the thing with that is that we only have two microphones and they're pretty like they're like very directional yeah you know so you'd have to get real comfortable with one of us or just get your own microphone The thing with that is that we only have two microphones and they're pretty like, they're like very directional. Yeah. You know, so you'd have to get real comfortable with one of us or just get your own microphone. But yeah, bring your own or you'd also have to know where Brad's basement is.

Yeah. Which I'm, here's a fun fact. Uh, just a couple of days ago, my zip code was named one of the top 10 zip codes to live in, in America, according to realtor.com.

Really? Like as far as like the property value and the location. Schools, everything. Top 10 in America? Top 10 in America. The only one in Kansas that was on there. Wow. What's it like being extremely rich?

Right? I don't know yet, but maybe I will because of this house someday. Jeez. I couldn't believe that. That's really cool. I was very proud of it. Realtor.com. Can we trust them?

I think so. They're like, you know, probably third in line after Zillow and Redfin. What's Redfin? It's like Realtor.com. And Zillow. A little bit better. What does it mean? Redfin.

What does fin mean? I don't know. Finance? Maybe. I don't know. Redfin. Doesn't it mean like the end does fin mean i don't know finance maybe i don't know red fin doesn't mean like the end in like french silent films fiend means uh yeah the end in spanish perfect good enough for me red fiend uh one guy says where do you guys play pickup basketball and how do i

join oh for real we're always baby yeah thursday nights at bethanyany Lutheran Church slash school. It's on 92nd and Lamar. No one gets down like the Luths. We love, we love. If you also have any tips for us, like any, you know, places we can play basketball throughout the week, I am willing to say that I almost always will play basketball. I love playing basketball. I got St. Volleyball on Tuesdays, better than that. Yeah.

Pretty free. I mean, and if you just want me and not Jake, I i'm also free you can talk to brad on tuesdays um here's a fun question from i.like.dragons what is your greatest conspiracy on amelia erhart oh man i don't know if i have one on just amelia erhart i don't know enough about amelia which is kind of embarrassing shame on you is kansen and you i could see you probably scratching your nose during her theme song probably oh gosh yes that's the kind of disrespect you man sorry about that amelia um is she known to did she like apparently die because the bermuda triangle is that her oh that sounds like a conspiracy i thought that's kind of where they were going with it i don't know i have no idea i just know that she died flying right doing what she loved trying to see if wolves

were ticklish i used that in a video once didn't get the amount of love i thought it should have for the amount of views i got anyway well let's instead of familiar heart let's talk conspiracies i don't know if we've ever talked conspiracies as friends yeah as podcast d boys go well here's what i think of conspiracies i i am very much a hater i like i like listening to them but i'm always probably to a fault believing in the greater good of like yeah like even like katherine doesn't believe in conspiracies but she's way less trusting of whatever. Fill in the blank. Big pharmaceutical stuff, doctors, research, stuff like that.

Stevie Wonder. Sure. Which I'm realizing we did. I'm like, why would all the government steer us the wrong way just so we can have more sales in medical stuff or something like that? She's like, I don't know. I'm not saying one way or the other, but I just,

yeah. I'm realizing that we did talk about that. Cause I've mentioned the Stevie wonder thing on our podcast before, but not a, not a really, I mean, in depth conspiracy theory talk. Um,

I'll have to say, uh, yeah, I don't get too into them. I think they're fun to look into. And I think it's fun to see circumstantial stuff that people can strain together and can try and convince you of a point. It's like, whoa, that is convincing the way you're saying it.

I would watch a documentary about the idea of Illuminati or something like that. Yeah, what do you think about them? See, I just don't know enough to really have an opinion, but I think it would be so cool if it were true. It is kind of cool of kind of terrifying like because isn't like they're a conspiracy conspiracy oh isn't there a ct with uh like the denver airport in the illuminati oh yeah like there's all these weird things i don't know if it's a little bit but denver airport just kind of weird and like

underground is where the illuminati is or something yeah i don't i don't know they're like um their runways are in the shape of a swastika yeah the barbed wire is like on the inside rather than the outside of the fence so it's like why are they trying to keep people in oh wow um i don't know all this is just kind of random stuff have you ever seen the paintings in the Denver airport i've just seen those like with my own eyes they're just like some really creepy paintings yeah i've been in the Denver airport once and it was yeah like gas mask stuff and like like just like dark paintings plastered right by you know baggage claim it's like guy in a gas mask is like holding this sword like a child's neck what it's like what does this even what could this possibly mean that's good and why did you

choose this for airport art dark those dark denver ends yeah denverians denverians the illuminati is interesting on one end i'm like okay if there was a group would we know we wouldn't know the name of it it's definitely not going to be called the illuminati it's not like oh we cracked the code of the name but we don't know anything else about it you know that part is silly to me um but on the other end i think like humans as a whole not not that good at keeping secrets. I don't think there's all these secret societies out there just because I know what humans are at our core. It is very, very hard for us to keep anything to ourselves. Someone gets frustrated.

You want to know all these secrets? I'll tell you all these secrets. Yeah. Someone at a bar has overheard something or just even just like if someone wants to leave you know that group then they can just tell everyone about it right right i don't know i i don't know if i want to go into that let's go lighter i was going to go either lighter or darker area 51 what do you think about that you heard about this right yeah about how they're like raiding you're gonna storm it i think it's hilarious that all this started from a facebook

group yeah like a facebook event like that's funny that we live in this day and age where they're just like some like weird dude uh can start something like that it'll be interesting to see like if people go and do it because i know some people will show up nothing's gonna happen but i think people will still go like they're like the government's like threatening like we will use every force that we have to if you show up yeah they're gonna like they're like the government's like threatening like we will use every force that we have to if you show up yeah they're gonna like they're like threatening them to like yeah it's just crazy like why would you do that i'd always heard of area 51 as being like this mysterious place i didn't know we knew where it was until a month ago yeah like i always thought it was like oh if we could find

area 51 we could get to dove oh i didn't know we knew of a spot like i'm imagining like the behind the cornfield in interstellar like underground nasa like it's like oh it's hidden but okay well you haven't seen interstellar no it's like why not okay never mind you see anything no uh it's very good though um okay the other conspiracy i'm gonna talk i think i've talked about this before uh the mattress firm thing yes guys this is the biggest conspiracy theory i believe in something's going on with mattress firm there's so many of them yes do you have anything to say or i'll keep going there no go ahead this is a product that on, humans buy once every 10 years. There's a spot in Kansas City, at the Chili's I go to, where I could be standing in the parking lot and I could see two mattress firms.

What? Yes. Really? 119th and Metcalf. You can see two mattress firms from that one parking lot. And it's not like they're the only company. There's so many companies nowadays selling mattresses. Like, so many influencers do brand deals all the time with all these big mattress firms.

Or with all these mattress companies. And there's no way they're just making money off of Mattry. Mattry. So I don't know what they're doing. I don't really know what the motive is. I think it's a front for some sort of laundering. Maybe. Do you really need a storefront for Mattry too?

I think it is one of those things that until, I don't know, three or four or five years ago was pretty exclusively sold like brick and mortar. And now people are starting to be like, why can't we just buy these online? Yeah, just ship it to my front porch. Yeah. So I like the idea of the conspiracy theory with mattress firm part of me just thinks they just give out their franchise tag it's not the right word but you know franchise eligibility to anybody who wants it and they have crazy high uh margins so they can afford like the rent space or whatever yeah and and people everyone needs a mattress whether or not

you're right only every 10 years but that's how cars are too. Maybe not really, but you know, people aren't buying cars left and right, but yet you see dealerships everywhere. Yeah. That's a decent point, but no, we can disagree. I I'm not, I'm not budging mattress from us up to something. Let's see in 10 years, if there's still a bunch of mattress firms, i think they're going to get you know killed like best buy is and there's not going to be very many of them anymore and it's not going to be conspiracy theory anymore can you uh do you mind looking up for me yeah just like mattress firm locations let's see how many there are in kansas city um and let's see what we come up with because i just think there's like it is disproportionate to the amount of people the amount of mattresses that people should be buying

okay how many were you looking at well maybe i'm just gonna look up mattress firm in general i looked up mattress firms kansas city i City. I'm just going to look up Mattress Firm and look at Google Maps. Just search the word and then maybe hit one minus sign, zoom out once. What do you see? Okay. We're not going to count that one because that's in Topeka. So let's see. In the greater Kansas City area, there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 15.

15 in Kansas City. I didn't even know that. I literally did not even – I obviously didn't plan on saying this today. I've never even looked into that before 15 in kansas city huh okay that's just one company that's not just car dealerships that is one specific company what is something comparable to a mattress firm that we could look up and see how many those have you know what i mean like a like a another mattress company or like well no not necessarily like a Like another product similar to that that you buy rarely? Like a furniture store or...

Sure. See how many Ashley Home furnitures there are? I'm going to say there's less than 15. I'm going to guess that those are just a smaller brand. Really? Okay, that was the first one I thought of. I thought they were big. How many?

Oh, there's only one uh what it would be something you're not gonna find anything more than 15 but i'm just saying like there's like maybe 20 mcdonald's no okay there's more okay okay let's look at that 20 there's 20 i bet there okay hey hey all right try to find give me a fast try to find a fast food place Hey, hey. Alright, try to find... Hey, hey. Try to find a fast food place that does have 15 locations. Like, try to find the middle ground. Like, five guys is probably less than 15, but there's gotta be something. Chipotle.

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Ooh, that's pretty close. There's no way there's that many pandas. You don't know a panda like I know a panda. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Ooh. So I was five-way, you were four-way. Pretty close. So I guess I won.

So I guess if you do math the way I do, Brad wins. Oh, man. 15's a lot. When I compare it to Chip wins. Oh, man. Fifteen's a lot. When I compare it to Chipotles, because I feel like there's a lot of Chipotles out there in Kansas City. Pretty much every time you see a Chipotle, that's a mattress. That's someone trying to sell you a mattress. Like, you have to go in, like, I feel like you need, like, one or two per city. Like, a mattress is such a big thing to buy.

You'll drive 30 minutes to buy it. You don't need one, you know. I don't know, man. Every two miles. But they're not all owned by Gary, the mattress firm guy. They're owned by, you know, the person that Gary buys. It's his franchise. So he's kind of competing against other mattress firms.

So it's like, there's only two mattress firms? Oh, there's not enough mattress firms. We need to get one of those in here. So now Jake owns a mattress firm. I can't wait for you to wait who said that last part uh jake i said that and gary says yeah i would love to give you the rights to call your place mattress firm oh so i think that there's not enough and then i want one yeah i'm surprised i didn't think there's enough i can't wait for you to uh research this and realize like mattress sales are crazy.

You know what? And I could afford $3,000 to start one of these things. It's not looking like such a bad idea. Jake and Brad's Mattress Firm. Mattress Firm. Brought to you by Ghostwriters. Yeah. Exclusive sponsor of the show.

Oh, wow. Well, I'd like to thank I like dragons for providing us with that um this person asked the question three times and i don't think i want to answer it at all if you had to kill one person in your family who would it be my gosh yeah no thanks that's so dumb um oh here's a good question i've never been asked this before everybody loves them but what's the time when you hated an underdog story huh that's a good question oh i mean anytime they beat ku that's that's a big one i'm a big basketball fan yeah against your team um i'm trying to get underdog story that I hated I don't know

Hated is too strong But I remember when the Cubs won the World Series I was rooting for the Indians Because remember the Cubs were up 3-1 And the Indians came back And they had that great game 7 Like tied it up with that home run And then ended up losing

Yeah I wanted the Indians win too Because the Indians were kind of an underdog too They both yeah were But i feel like the cubs were because like everyone was cheering for the cubs because they'd been so long and i was like no this is like what the royals were yeah everyone's gonna forget about the royals if the cubs win they're not gonna remember what we did i just feel like once an underdog wins, they are hated very quickly after that. Yeah, it's like, oh. Like the Red Sox, whenever they won the first time,

it was like, awesome. And then it's like, the Red Sox win all the time. They're a dynasty. Break them up. Yeah. They have too much money. That's a hard question to think of on the spot. I can remember when VCU beat KU and it crushed me.

Did you think about transferring to Virginia Commonwealth? No. Or Northern Iowa. I was at that game whenever Northern Iowa beat KU. And KU was very good that year. Yeah, it was like a nine-seed and a one-seed. I mean, March Madness is just heartbreakers left and right. Yeah.

Yeah. I can think of lots of times where the underdog beat KU. What about not a sports team? Can you think of any movies or anything about an underdog that you didn't totally enjoy? No. team can you think of any like movies or anything about like an underdog that you didn't totally enjoy no i was thinking about how i met your mother it's like a joke that he's not rooting for the karate kid he's rooting for like the bad guy and how i met your mother right no break his leg break it again i don't know That's a good question. Yeah, good question. Too good. Too good for a quick answer. Here's a hot one from Emma.

How do you feel about the equal pay for the U.S. women's soccer team? Wow. Are they getting paid equally? Did you kind of hear about all this? Not really. I know that there's like political stuff going on with the soccer team. I know they won. Yeah.

Well, it's going to be good for us to kind of talk about it, both being pretty uninformed. I think that's kind of the goal. That's what politics are. Yeah, perfect. That's what social media does. Yeah, we will take part. Yeah, so to overstate it, I know very little about any of this.

Great. But I think it should probably just be dollars and cents. I think the WNBA should definitely make less money than the NBA. How dare you? How dare you? It would be very, very financially irresponsible to pay them the same amount that you're paying the NBA because they take less money. Well, you wouldn't have a league. Yeah. they take in more less money well you wouldn't have a league yeah so i think on the same end like for all i know the women's national soccer team might make more than the men if they're

winning so if they do they should be paid more than the men right i think it should just be like don't even look at gender just like look at it as a business and whatever that equates to pay them sure i don't i don't disagree with any of that i'm also now that i'm thinking about i'm also kind of surprised they even get paid like outside of sponsorships because like olympians don't get paid you know like michael phelps doesn't get paid for winning the gold he gets paid by when subway says we want you to be in our commercial that's true is that true i think so for the olympics like i don't think there's like a olympic committee that pays their athletes okay i'm gonna look it up real fast yeah also is it starting to smell like uh like um like tiki torch fluid yeah it's katherine's essential oil cleaning stuff oh dang it katherine

i'm sorry i was i was just worried the house was gonna go up in flames it's not the the diffuser's fine. This really quick Google search says... Did I just make that up? The Olympians earn $37,500 for each gold, $22,500 for each silver, and $15,000 for each bronze. Oh, who pays them? That's cool. Okay, so maybe what I was thinking was

they don't get paid for just making the Olympics. This is the U.S. Olympics, by the way. Okay. So there's probably some agency, like the U.S. Olympic Association, that pays their athletes based on performance. So, yeah, maybe what I was thinking is you don't get paid just for making the Olympics. You could be a gymnast and work your whole life towards it. If you don't medal, you make nothing.

The first sentence says they are not getting paid to be there, but if they perform well, they can bring home some cash. That is crazy, though that is crazy though that it's just i mean obviously it's still more than i thought it was but it's just 37 000 like think about being the very best software engineer in the world you could probably go work for the government or some private firm and make you know eight hundred thousand dollars yeah you know easily by being the very best if you're the very best investor in the world you are a billionaire if you are the very best at swimming you you might make fifty thousand dollars this is interesting singapore singapore gives their gold medalists one million million. Singapore? Yeah. Silver medalists, half a million. Bronze medalists, $250,000.

Wow. Singapore seems cool. They have a lot of, like, very... It's, like, extremely illegal to, like, dispose of your gum in Singapore. Like, they're very clean there. Like, littering is just, like, chop your head off. Yeah. Not Qatar. They might both for cutter

i don't know they they're probably both very clean singapore's clean singapore singapore singapore gum fine you were right holy crap i nailed that i say a lot of things on this show that i don't really know if they're true or not so it's nice to win some every now and then the selling of gum can be as high as $100,000 for a find. Whoa, didn't know that. So don't even, that's like illegal to even have the gum. You can't be a gum dealer. Wow.

Okay, other questions? This is from my friend Hannah Reynolds. Are those bookshelves being used as a lap desk? Yes. Yeah, absolutely they are. We found these in brad's basement on the first episode yep they're the perfect height for these microphones so they're wonderful i think someday maybe the day we get our first sponsor maybe we get mic stands you know

i think that would help getting right in front of our face but for now i would say if it's not broke don't fix it but if it's you know you know a little bit uh squeaky maybe we should fix it i think overall when i listen to our podcast versus other ones the production quality is pretty on point i mean you're the producer so i'm just kind of patting myself on the back here no but even like yeah i think it sounds fine there's not many improvements that need to be made necessarily but yeah the uh these are removed bookshelves. They make your thighs a little warm, but not too bad. No, it's not bad. I'm cold most of the time.

Catherine is like wanting to remove those bookshelves. So someday we might have to out of force. Necessity. Yeah. Does Catherine know that she'll be paying for a replacement mic stands for us when she takes out these shelves? She doesn't really think about the money too much. I don't think when she thinks about.

She's just what it costs, Michael. What does that mean? She's very Joanna Gaines sometimes, like, oh, I would just do this and this, and I'm like, oh, gosh. Like all this. I'm the one just thinking about the money behind it. She has, too, but not in the same way. Anyway. Favorite Pop-Tart flavor?

Oh, my gosh. Brown sugar cinnamon, and it's not even close. Really? I'd take one brown sugar cinnamon over four of not even close really i'd take one brown sugar cinnamon over four of any other kind really oh 100 that's just that's just ridiculous it's that's so much better than any other one all right let's say you have nothing to drink does that change anything for you i mean all the pop tarts are making me thirsty brown sugar though especially makes me thirsty they get yeah it's like you get that thing stuck

up on the top of your mouth uh something i don't know that thing from the dentist office to kind of slurp me out here it's like kind of stuck what if they had those for your house okay spit just like after you eat a butterfinger you have to get one of those things put in just like remove this like i got like six inches of you know butterfinger in my molars right now six inches combined among the molars um do you agree what are we talking about oh yeah um i'd say they're in my top three but not number one what i think cherry's number one you would you would go cherry what our taste buds are different have you ever been minor refined uh have you ever been to pilgrim coffee down in

leewood no but i know you're gonna say you're gonna say they make their own pop tarts oh we talked about this before yeah they i discovered um they make their own pop tarts and they're so good i just don't think i would spend that much money but you didn't hear the best part they have brown sugar cinnamon they do yeah i'm in let's go sometime seriously dude they're so good okay um maybe you never know what we go on location and they give us free ones like like maybe we should have somebody else be in there as a hype man be like hey these guys are part of the brown uh the brown sugars podcast the ghost runners podcast and uh they have like a little room do they yeah just hit them up

let's do it wait oh wait i think oh i can't remember they went out of business no no no i can't remember the coffee shop no i think one of the baristas was like oh i follow you on instagram which i didn't know her at all it caught me off guard but it might be pilgrim so maybe she's i don't know your name but if you're listening okay yeah this is all stretched now i can't remember um okay i guess this is a question for both of us how many custom builds or instagram followers to get you to move to fayetteville arkansas this is from thomas cole uh t cole i actually need a tuxedo and i'm thinking about buying one from thomas rather than renting because he he does the greatest uh you know tuxedo suit sales in fayetteville this side of the mason dixon yes he is a great guy um where is the Mason-Dixon line? Are we on the same side of it as Thomas?

Surely not. Was the Mason-Dixon... I know it runs horizontal. And it was something with slavery? Or voting? Slavery. No? You're not giving me much.

I'm looking, I'm looking. Yeah, I'm going to keep guessing. It was for endangered species. You had to it was for um endangered species if you you had to go south for the winter if you were scared mark the northern limit of slavery in the united states okay good um that was close it's still used figuratively as the line that separates the north and the south politically and socially um where does it run compared to Arkansas it looks like it's way up there by West Virginia to Pennsylvania oh it's not like a coast to coast well that's the original Mason-Dixon line though do we have like a an updated updated MDL sure sure do uh it's still up there pretty north

um I just want to look at this that's okay okay. Yeah, it looks like, well, we're pretty close to it, actually. Like, Missouri, like, Missouri is the border. Oh, good for us. It's like the northern border and the eastern border of Missouri. So we are below the Mason-Dixon line. We kind of. It kind of just, like, ends at the intersection of the northern border of Missouri and Iowa. Oh, okay. It's not like a line all the way around the northern border of Missouri and Iowa. Oh, okay.

It's not like a line all the way around the United States. That's okay. It starts in the northern part of Missouri, goes all the way down to the eastern part of Pennsylvania. Oh, that's sad. The question was how many custom builds to get you. Oh, man, 100. If he buys 100 tables, you'll move to Fayetteville?

Yes. Permanently? Yes. man 100 if he buys 100 tables you'll move to Fayetteville yes permanently yeah you live in the best zip code in America you're gonna move for 100 tables yes that's a lot of money really yeah I'd be I'd be doing fine my life you could afford not to live in one of the top 10 zip codes yeah and I love Thomas wow and yeah you could have you could afford so many custom tuxedos right yeah have you been making a lot of tables recently a lot of custom builds um you know not as many as i would like to i've i i've had this tension for a long time and i'm still trying to figure it out with being able to make high-end things but my main way of marketing it is through social media and mainly facebook and so and i always compare like facebook to the walmart of social media society to where like so like people that find stuff on there like oh i love your stuff oh but i'm not

really looking to spend that much money like like you're targeting more typical like middle class right family right that doesn't have a large amount of like disposable income well on accident i am but i would love i would love for people yeah to have more disposable income to have more flexibility like um because obviously my stuff is a premium product so um it's not it's not what i'm saying it's not something like you can find a cheaper version of the exact same thing that i make that just doesn't have a story and doesn't have the handmade real wood whatever like you can you can find a ikea table that can function it can hold your food right yeah um so it's not gonna have your sweat in it right man blood sweat and tears so all three sometimes every tape oh sometimes sometimes

wow um i'd love to have your blood in a table that i use yes i won't stand it out just keep it there let me know where it's staying over it um if you weren't making tables but still had to run your own business what would it be oh i don't know i like sales a lot like i've been really enjoying because since i haven't had as many like direct sales lately i've been more reaching out to people and i've really enjoyed that on the offensive yeah which i is kind of uncomfortable for me initially but then once i do it i'm like this is really fun it's fun like i love just talking with people and so what kind of sales company would you start like you have to you have to run this by yourself I mean what would your first reaction is brown sugar cinnamon pop-tart sales

I would buy them uh in eastern Kentucky very known right for having you know a low I mean the Mason Dixon line is the taxation area very cheap place to get pop-tarts I would bring them back I always used to wonder that ITarts. I would bring them back. I always used to wonder that. I remember when I was probably 12 years old and I remember gas prices were just on the news all the time. I remember thinking, and it was like, in California, you're up there up to $5.30. And I was like, telling my parents, all right, guys, I got this idea. What if you fill up one of those tankers with Missouri gas and then go to California and sell it?

So you could do something like that with Pop-Tarts. I mean, that's the general idea of most businesses. Like, you're very smart, just that doesn't work for gas. Yeah, it doesn't work. That's very perceptive as a young kid. I don't know what I would sell. I would love to do that. I don't know.

One of the comedians I was with last night, I went to a comedy club last night with some friends, saw Nikki Glaser, very funny. But one of the openers probably his like best joke was um he's talking about trying to teach his dad just like technology and stuff he's trying to tell him about amazon how his dad doesn't trust it and he's like dad it's amazing i mean just literally type in anything you want anything and they will bring it to your door like it's crazy just type in anything and he's like i don't believe that and you're just going back and forth and he's like dad i swear just type anything he's like he typed in gas the one thing that you can't get off amazon he wanted to get and then from that point on he just swore it off ah you know it doesn't work

i beg amazon will be able to fill up your gas in the next 10 years. Oh, yeah. A drone with two arms and a legs, I had a little trouble saying that, is going to come to your door and just fill it up itself. Have you ever been to New Jersey or those places where they fill it up for you? My sister lived in Oregon and they filled it up for you there. It's kind of weird. But they don't expect a tip or anything. You're definitely not supposed to.

I didn't know they did it in the East Coast. I thought it was a West Coast thing. I think New Jersey and Oregon. I like the two states. No. I think. Really? California?

Google me. Don't Google me. Google it. We're gas station states that fill up your tank. Yeah. Autofill is going to come in real hot any time now with Oregon and New Jersey. I know for a fact it happened to us in New Jersey.

Well, now it's saying that it was illegal in Oregon. But it got re-legalized for places of 40,000 or less. Oh, gotcha. What's it saying about Jersey? In New Jersey, self-service fuel filling is illegal that's crazy oh maybe that's what they were saying for uh oregon is that self-serving was illegal that's quite the tongue twister that you did pretty good with self-service fuel fueling fuel state new jersey and oregon dude i'm smart The town of Weymouth, Massachusetts

I did forget about that one And the town of Huntington, New York Wow One of the very last things we did in Hawaii was filling up the rental car with gas before you leave and I'm in a big hurry and there was an attendant out there and I thought she was working on something

but she was like, hey how's it going? I was like, oh hey, we're heading out kawaii it's been a great week or whatever she's like oh awesome okay so just go ahead and uh do you have a fuel saver card i was like oh no i don't she's like okay so just go and insert your card and so the way she's like starting to explain it i'm like oh this is about to get tricky like that's why she's here oh yeah or like because there's going to be something that trips me up and she walked me through every step and it was exactly like every other gas station like interaction you've had all right now it's going to ask you if is this a debit card is it no okay so then just type in your zip code and like all right i'm just still waiting for it to get tricky all right now just hit hit what kind of

gas you want and then just uh lift the lever all right not common to get gas i don't know it didn't seem like she was supposed to be out there like i don't think she was like working outdoors i i don't know if it was just like just because she's already outside she's gonna help me maybe they have enough tourists in hawaii that like live in europe and don't have cars maybe yeah i mean it's like late at night i wouldn't think that like she's being paid to like sit out there and assist people really get their gas but yeah it was really funny because like other people could hear it all happening too and just like waiting for the catch and it was just nope which is extremely standard all right thanks for coming

in yeah oh no it's gonna ask for a receipt do you want one no i'm good all right car wash today no okay wow i got my car wash yesterday yeah when i drove to this is a while ago yesterday when I drove to this was a while ago, but when I drove to Omaha for that wedding about every bug in the Midwest hit the front of my car and so I was like, I'm going to go to a car wash and I'm going to pay a little extra to get these bugs off you didn't really get the bugs off, if you let them sit for a month

they're pretty much a part of the paint they're on there the sides of my car look really good though you'll have to check it out sometime what do you think of the idea of my car look really good though yeah yeah you'll have to check it out sometime what do you think of uh the idea of unlimited car washes for a year like a car wash membership because i was at the car wash the other day and it was like it was something pretty reasonable like 12 a month and i was like i might do that like that's awesome sounding it could be one of those things where like it could become something that becomes

like soothing for you in a way like i would equate it to almost like when you have your phone and your laptop and all your and all your batteries charged you know it kind of feels like oh this is great sure like it doesn't really help anything it's like a mental relaxation i think it'd be awesome yeah maybe it's not the same thing i really enjoy the feeling i have after i get a car wash but yeah and i just don't care about my car too much but i do now with my newer car anyway when else would you pay to have like cleaned for you every month besides a car uh my teeth would be awesome.

Yeah. If someone would clean my ears but then promise not to make fun of me afterwards, I would probably pay for that. I don't know. If someone would actually shave me or just laser hair removal on my face, I would do that.

Really? If there was going to be no side effects. Have you ever been to a haircut that got that you got a shave no but dan yeah and the man dan's the guy who went to kawaii with i've been telling brad how awesome he is uh he's a barber he told me whenever i want now he does live in lawrence yeah he said he'd give me a free haircut and a straight razor shave dude it's sweet i think we'll do it this week i mean my hair is getting shaggy yeah i need it cut so i'm gonna text dan it's really like the shave is awesome yeah so is your family big big beardy beardy boys oh my dad is very hairy and i'm not like uh my extended family has some beards brother-in-law's yeah they got some facial hair

but yeah my dad has never had like a lot of they never really grow it out too much but yeah he's a hairy man none of the men in my family have had like facial hair like nothing worth writing home about i would never write home about it um so i'm like maybe i just should just laser it off and then never have to shave again that's gotta be so painful you think i think i wonder if there's like a numbing gel yeah either way the idea of lasers going into my face permanently yeah i don't know laser hair removal i saw a tweet one time that it was a i easily could have passed this off as my own joke just now let you guys know being honest it was a tweet but it was like why would i want laser hair removed i think that's really funny the thought of having laser hair how

how'd they like make that into a thing on twitter like a tweet that you would understand what they're saying rather than like i think you know twitter is kind of what you make it and i just follow a bunch of writers like it's just a bunch of people who write for shows and comedians and everything so my twitter feed is just jokes but i know but i mean like how do they grammatically without putting a italics or anything on there like show that you're saying laser hair rather than i think they just hope that their audience knows they just go for it okay it was something like that I mean this is years ago I don't even get on Twitter anymore but it was like back in college

that like stuck with me something like something along those lines why would I ever want to remove laser hair you got any more any more questions I think that was about it

let me look one last time we can end it on something um sorry should I have this prepared because I'm also trying to remember what we did last time oh i can remember if you repeat one um oh yeah here was one we didn't get around to last time who was the hottest founding father oh my gosh uh that question i don't know if we should answer that but um that question just makes me laugh um okay we could finish this one i'll finish with this one ben bridges 03 i don't

think i know who that is you know that is i know that name really yeah yeah but you know him yeah he says how was your experience at canada cook and the years you worked there we both worked at this summer camp a number of years oh my gosh it was great yeah one of the one of the best decisions in my life i would i would say so as well yeah it was amazing it was the best time of my life like i was talking with some of my friends from canicook who i talked with every single day still um and we were talking about the summer of 2013 which is the summer we got engaged katherine and i got engaged and we got engaged at camp and it was like this that was the best summer of our lives like yeah i mean college in general like that stage of life is just so special and different just so carefree right than any other you know life stage and so

it's just so special to be there with guys that you know you can make memories like you can you can meet a guy spend two months with them and be closer and better friends with him than you would ever be with the people that you're going to college with potentially you know the people you went four years of high school with and played on every sports team and everything and so it's just like yeah because you just bond over this common struggle but goal of like man we are so tired and so exhausted and this is hard you just spend so much time together right but this is also like totally for the right reasons and we're all yeah we're all grinding out together and so yeah

and you just have inside jokes and hilarious memories and it's just fun it's so so fun candy car does a good job of of putting you in its own ecosystem almost where it's got its own inside jokes and its own traditions and everything and you really dive into their culture. And so I think it just becomes easier to breed those friendships there. Yeah. To the point where it's kind of awkward now whenever we hang out with friends that are CannaCook friends and then some of them that aren't.

It's like we make jokes about whatever. We call call them two fours like our 24 hours off yeah i was taking two four and you know it's just like oh you gotta catch two fours or you know day off you know like anyway the uh the positions that brian and i worked at different camps within canna cook but the positions we had for most of our time there was basically well actually i always describe these people i want to hear how you describe what our job was so i can get a better better scope of how i can be describing it so programs well i don't know exactly it's different for every camp but like programs at k country was like not what everything is based around obviously everything's based around the lord but like programs was such a big deal at k country

because it's kenneth cook was originally a sports camp but our camp was like the little 7 to 11 year old kids so you're not training them for yeah we had like we had like an hour of sports a day and the rest of it was like how can we make the most fun hilarious out there like outrageous memories possible and so the the main thing we were in charge of were parties but then we were also just in charge of like basically like how can you take every little thing that we do and make a memory out of it so like they call them moments of wonder is what like the uh we did not have that yeah that was like one of our assistant directors like uh kind of inside joke or you know inside words or whatever but like like that was a moment of wonder right there when you did that when you did that skit and all those kids were like you know cheering for you or like everyone

was excited to like go take down the bad guys or whatever like that was a moment of wonder you know and so um and obviously it applies to more than just the parties but yeah i was we were in charge of all the parties all like the nighttime activities being fun and energetic yeah we we did like multiple skits a day um yeah it was just a blast man it's just that freedom to like hey if you think of anything yeah to make something fun you have the freedom to do it our our director who's very like type a but also like understands the idea of programs and creativity and stuff like basically said yeah you have a not unlimited budget but he he was like if you want to do something do it like don't let don't let

prices be the thing that's gonna and we didn't abuse that by any means but we we went hard on some of our parties and like we built these foam machines i think they started building everywhere like all the different camps but like we built them and they churn out like six feet of foam and it was amazing yeah it was so fun stuff like that that was just hopefully the kids remember that and then realize you know the deeper thing of like oh wow you can live a life you know that's really really fun without doing all these bad things and pursuing good things and so oh yeah i'm really that's how i met gunner is because he kept coming to k west parties he worked at a different camp but he kept coming over he would always come over on tuesday nights

because we would um or every other tuesday we would have like kind of just like a typical pool party or whatever but then halfway through we would have the local fire department show up nice and um then they have this like certain hose where they can just take water from the pool and put it back in the pool. And so they would have to keep kids away from where it's being sucked out. But then the hose would just go everywhere, like all over the sky. It looked like the Bellagio. Wow.

That's cool. And that was the second time I got electrocuted, too, was that night. What? Yeah. I just realized that. I was telling that story. I touched the microphone after I had a little water and electric current in it. It was pretty awesome.

Really? Yeah, it wasn't too bad, but my arms just kind of started wiggling. And my fingers wrapped around the microphone. Ours were spaghetti, but the rest of it was awesome. They didn't hurt that bad. It was just like my fingers wrapped around the mic, and I couldn't let go of it. Oh, you couldn't let go of it. I was like, oh, I know I'm being electrocuted, but very minimal.

Wow. Just the amount of electricity it runs, like an amp or whatever. But yeah, it was the best. We were just, yeah. Is that accurate of what you would describe it as, more or less? Yeah, I always typically say that we were in charge of all like the big picture fun. Yeah. And just like your main job was just to make memories, whether it's on a stage or just

rapping about breakfast food on the counter in the morning. Right. So just like anything you could think of, just like make it funny and good. I think I'm super biased because I did the job, but I think it's the hardest, but best job at camp as far as leadership goes. Yeah. Word we,

my first summer is like, Hey, thanks for doing this. You know, program's the hardest job at camp. And I was like, what? Right.

Yeah. From the outside looking in, you're like, Oh, this looks amazing. These guys just have fun all the time. Everyone knows my name get to make people laugh this is so easy and then i do it four more summers i'm like oh wait i'm the only one working on this in february in march april and may leading up to it like the doc daddies right they're showing up to camp with their suntan

lotion and then they're they're chilling for three months you know it was, yeah, you work a little bit, but it was fun. Oh, it was a blast, man. It was so fun. It was a blast. Yeah, if you're looking for something to do this summer, go work at CannaCuck. Seriously. Or if you're under 18, go next summer.

You can do volunteer stuff there, too. Yeah, so you can't be there. All right, that'll end it for us um episode question mark i'm gonna say 13 i'm gonna guess 13 sure not bad 13 weeks it's a long time uh thank you guys for listening hope you have a good week uh brad send them off with a little jingle jingle oh boy i know you started with one. It was really good. No pressure to top that. Gosh.

I'm trying to think of another random song. Okay, yeah. Let me give you... Let's go Whitney Houston. Oh. Hey, I want to ghost run a podcast. Hey. I really want to ghost run a podcast.

Hey, I want to ghost run a podcast hey i really want to go on a podcast hey i want to go on a podcast with jake triplet and brad elders that was good thanks man see you guys