Ghostrunners - 134 - Meeting the I'm Down Boyz

Episode Date: November 29, 2021

Brad builds a table... but how long is too long? Main Cabin 1 is the best boarding position because it's right at the front... or is it? Lots of tough questions being asked this episode. 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

Jake, on the way here, this is not even a, this is not a joke. Like, this is not like a convenient, like on the way here, this happened, like, you know, comedians and pastors do it. This is like really, really, this happened on the way here. Uh, there was a license plate, like border cover thing that said, my other car is a 56 Chevy. And that, that to me just was funny. A because I, I don't, I'm not a car guy. I mean, I am a car guy to the point of like, I know the difference between like a Celica and a Dodge neon, but I'm not like a car guy in the sense of like, Oh, 56 was a good year for Chevy. You know, like I'm not a Somalia with wine. I don't know like the right years of wine. Like, is this a, yeah, is this a whatever Chardonnay? Oh, it's a, it's a 2003. That's that's urine water. You know know i don't know that stuff i don't know cars so like first of all i thought that was weird like 56 chevy like who even if

you're a car guy do you know what a 56 chevy is oh cool like yes b i i don't know i i just had to believe that guy like like there's no proof that like like i think you could just lie about whatever you want and just put on your license plate or on your bumper sticker or something. I think, let me add to it. Three, three. I think it's funny to just brag. No, three and four. Okay.

I think it's funny to brag via your license plate about something in your life. Yes. And then four to brag about a specific like material item you have. It's like, I have a leather couch at home. Right. Oh, nice. Like congrats. about a specific like material item you have just like i have a leather couch at home right oh nice like congrats but even like even like you're you're bragging about one car on another car so it's like it's like on your leather couch at home you have a throw pillow that says i have a tuft and needle bed and it's king size it's like oh right good job it's like it's like yeah on your

starbucks drink it's like okay I have a tall vanilla latte for, I have a really nice espresso machine at home. I don't need to be here. Like, okay. I think on Catherine, there's going to be a bumper sticker. This is, hey, you think she looks good now? Yeah. Should have seen her five years ago.

Oh, that's not where I thought you were going with that. Uh-oh. Ooh, I think you were going with that. Okay. Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down. With some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along, let's have some fun and go ahead, get on your feet. Because this is the Ghost Rubs Podcast. Every Monday morning we're taking ground.

Ghost Rubs Podcast. Ghost Rubs Podcast. Jake, are you a pro-level graphic designer? Had a little trouble getting that out. I thought it was a fun idea and then I struggled through it. Oh, dude, speaking of that, on stage this week. So I haven't had any speech impediments, not since Tremendous Patience. Oh, yeah. I had one.

Which was a bad one. I said diarrhea with a soft R this week. That one was tough. The word soft with diarrhea just made me lose it. The idea of, oh, yeah, I said diarrhea. Yeah. Just like how a baby would say it. Mom,

mommy, I think, can you come in here and check me? I think I had some diarrhea. Yeah. It was a Nashville. I'm pretty sure. Oh no. I said diarrhea with a soft R on accident.

And did anybody say anything like, I just quickly tried to correct myself and luckily it was like a punchline. So it was fine, I think, but it was like, that's not ideal. That's not ideal. I would prefer to not say it that way. Dude. Speaking of, uh, speech, not even impediments. I had a friend come into town this week from Minnesota. Boy, do they speak weird up there? Freaks. Just weirdos. Just with me real quick, everyone in the audience, um,

and listening at home, uh, the word B O T H. Don't say it. Say it out loud to yourself right now. B O T H. Okay. The word is both. Do you see an L anywhere in there? Not that. No, not on my paper. They all say both, both. If you're saying both quit it. Okay. It's both, both, both, both. Uh, yeah, I had a friend in town and it was awesome. It was really fun. I can tell lots of stories about it, but, uh, he was in town. He's a, he's Mr. Mr. Steeze. Okay. So he's the one that, yeah, I used to call in a lot and do voice memos and now it doesn't really listen to the podcast. I learned it isn't caught up at least he said. Um, but yeah, he came into town and i was building

him a table and he was taking it back and so um we got lots of stories about that uh i don't know you want me you want me to get into him right now sure i know jake's jake's on the mend right now from uh just having acute bronchitis or something i'm a weak little boy so i'll just i'll just talk a lot uh this episode but yeah so so it was Steez and John. John, I didn't know John beforehand. But now you know both of them. Now we're both good friends. Yeah, but John, I learned near the end of the trip, nicknamed himself Bones.

And his last name is O'Leverson. So specifically, he wants to be called Bones O'Leverson. Oh, I think Bones should replace his last name. John Bones. Johnny Bones is nice. J Bones. J Bones. I call him J Bones.

So there's like, yeah, multiple different, you know, things we were throwing out there. He wants his last name to still be. Oh, that's dumb. No, I like it. Only only because Oliverson's nice. Like Bones Triplet doesn't work. Bones Ellis. But J Bones. Bones Oliverson.

Anyway. Yeah. Johnny Bones. So they get there and they get there like late friday night they're leaving early sunday morning so like literally we had a day to like build this table and i had already done a decent amount of the work it was you know martha stewart cookbook or cooking show we already have one in the oven yeah we've been doing this for 45 minutes and it's ready um so i had a big chunk of it made already, but Steeze, Alex, he wanted, he wanted a nine

and a half foot table, nine foot table by whatever, three and a half foot. So like a huge table. And he's also like, he's very similar to Gunner in the fact that he's very, very frugal, borderline cheap, but he bought it at Ellis Custom Creations, so I shouldn't say that. But he's like Gunner in the sense that he's very frugal, so he was trying to figure out the easiest, best, most economical way to get the table back to Minnesota. And so he decided to borrow his parents,

I mean, sorry, his in-laws' minivan. Because he's like, yeah, minivans, they have a bunch of space in there. I was like, yeah, yeah, I think a minivan, from what I've heard, can hold like an eight foot by four foot piece of plywood. He's like, yeah, but I want my table to be nine foot so it'll we'll make it work oh which okay like yeah read read the room a little bit here so we get we get started on saturday morning i was like just before

we get started let's go ahead and measure the like make sure that this thing's gonna fit at nine feet uh in the van and so we go out to the van uh Uh, 98 inches is the longest it'll, it'll go, which is eight feet, two inches. Um, and so it's, and it's not like a truck where you can just like lean it out the back. There's no, the window doesn't open or anything. Um, but, but Alex Steeze, he's like, he's like, I, I, I has, it has to be, I really want it to be nine feet. He's like, maybe even nine and a half. And I was like, what? Like we can't. And bones bones is like very, like, he's much more like a outdoorsy, like type a, like, like if it's either doesn't fit or it does fit, like there's no, you know, whatever. And so he's like, no, it's not going to work. We just got to make it shorter.

He's like, no, like I, I wanted an obnoxiously large table. He's like, I want this thing to be really long. Um, and so I genuinely, like, I want this thing to be really long. And so I genuinely, I think we talked about it for two hours. We went back and forth, went through all these different options, which if you know me, I'm a shoot from the hip. We can talk it out for a second,

but then let's make a decision. Oh yeah, I was going to say, I would be too decisive. Like near the end of the conversation, it got personal. I was like, listen, because it's so like one of the conversation, I like, it got like personal. I was like, I was like, listen, like, because, because it's so, so like one of the options that they were considering in that spoiler, they eventually went with was to bungee cord down the, uh, like the trunk.

And so it wasn't shut all the way. Okay. Um, all the way back to Minnesota, all the way back to 20 degree Minnesota. Okay. Um, and so the so the yeah the trunk was open look partially you know air was going into whatever and we we test drove that and it was beeping it beeped every like two seconds it was like it was like you know what it sounds like to to we'll go in reverse yeah like it sounded like that the entire time he was driving like he like drove away from our house you could hear him like driving down the street. Beep beep. People who live frugally. Is it worth it?

Is it worth it? Is it worth it? Like, and so, so that's what I said. I said, I said, I said,

Alex, like you messed up by not, not measuring this beforehand. And so you have to, I was like, I was like, I think as an adult, as a man,

you have to either, uh, like, you know, live with your consequences and make it smaller or pay the money that if you think it's worth it and rent a U-Haul to get back and get it shipped or whatever. Yeah. I was like, I was like, you can't, I was like, your friend doesn't want to do this, you know?

And then, and then it became like a really like deeper, like personal, like, he's like, you know what? But I really want to host as many people as I can around this table, you know, whatever. Like it got way deeper and stuff. Long story short, we made it a 10 foot table. Oh my. It hung out the back, you know whatever like it got way deeper and stuff long story short we made it a 10 foot table oh my it hung out the back you know like really minimal amount but literally as they're driving away beep beep beep beep like the whole time and apparently it went off after like five minutes but i think originally it was going to go on like they didn't know that they were like alex was fully planning on driving six hours back to

minnesota with it beeping the whole time. And he did it. And I think that's just ridiculous. And I would, yeah, I would never, I know. Oh yeah.

Like, like to me it was like so obvious, like, cause an eight foot table can fit 10 people. A nine foot table can fit, you know, maybe 12 people. Like it's like you squeeze them in there. So it's not that much different.

And how I was, I even asked him, I was like, do you have 12 friends that you want to hang out with at the same time tell me their names because i i mean i could yeah i think of 12 people but i could easily take two of those people out you know they don't have to be there jake's out of town i'll just choose a weekend when he's out of town and then i don't need the table or just squeeze in closer you know so anyway it was it was, it was hilarious, but, um, yeah, Stee's and bones, man. We had some good times. I, on one end, it's like, Hey, good for your friends,

your friend for like, make, have an excuse to come see you. But also, I mean, maybe just have him. I think I would just have been like, Brad, can you ship this to me and let's find another reason to hang out. Yeah. Well, yeah. And that, like, I think in hindsight he might've said that, you know, but, but at the time, yeah, he was, he was like talking about like, well, hypothetically, if we would have known this beforehand, would we have changed? And I was like, first of all, it doesn't matter. Second of all, of course you would have changed. Like you would have found a truck or something. But, uh, anyway, we had fun. I learned some things about Minnesota. Can I tell you those real quick? Um, I learned, so, so just obviously we think of minnesota is really cold

i don't think i realize like how cold it is there all the time like they're like once it snows it just stays it like the snow stays for the whole season like because it never gets warming up like in kansas like it'll get up to 40 degrees or something and most of the snow will like melt and get have a sunny day yeah it's gone. Right. I've heard Minneapolis has like a underground sidewalks for people to like, no, that's cool. I hadn't heard downtown. Really? Yeah. That's really cool. Also sounds scary. No Harriet Tubman style. Yeah. There you go. Oh, those are where they're from. Yeah. That was in Minnesota, the underground road star. Yeah, there you go um but but no i learned like yeah it snows so much and obviously you know they have to put a lot of it like in the parking lots and stuff like

especially airports like they just pile it up pile it up pile it up those airport snows like they said don't melt completely until like potentially june that's too long that's crazy airport snows but you know what i mean like a huge mounds of snow don't like can you imagine flying into minneapolis you know to watch a twins royals you know series and there's snow on the ground that would bum me out that would be crazy you know uh so these are also all just facts from from bones so i don't know if i if they're completely true or not but his name is bones they're bones facts yeah um snow doesn't melt um they they do ice fishing obviously you've heard that but it's like 17 inches thick of ice on the on the lake that seems plenty that seems plenty i learned it's even

enough to drive their like people drive their trucks onto it now that i don't think i would be willing to risk right he's like he's like and he like casually was like and i mean every year like you know people go in the water but and i was like really he's like it's ever been me but right you know it happens yeah but apparently it's like a huge culture of like going out it's like more of a social thing where you can just like socially ice fish and i don't know i think that sounds kind of interesting um huh and then lastly i learned that oh last last thing was both i just i just thought that was yeah they just they have like just like this subtle accent i don't think it's like crazy or anything but i mean it's not like a oh yeah don't you know you know something like

that but every once in a while he would be like oh oh you know like oh yeah oh yeah okay how are their short a sounds sometimes people from the north do that like oh afterwards yeah that does sound fun yes i'm trying to think of specific words but yeah they definitely had some stuff like that especially bones because because teen alex steeze whatever you want to call him he uh he's not from there originally he's from he's like iowa st louis michigan and then went over there lately but uh, uh, yeah. Bones from Wisconsin. They say Wisconsin differently too. It's like, it's like they barely like get out the S before they want to say the C like Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Wisconsin. Like got it. Uh, one more. No. Um, but anyway,

I had a lot of fun with them. Um, we went to LC's that night. Awesome. And tell me, tell me what you would have done in this situation. Chicken. Yes. Um, so we get to LC's that night. Awesome. And tell me, tell me what you would have done in this situation. Chicken. Yes. Um, so we get to LC's there's probably 10 people in line. LC's is a barbecue place. It's, it's more of a rundown LC's joint, like our barbecue joint. Uh, it's more of a hole in the wall, but super, super good. And so we get there, there's probably 10 people in line, which is fine, but it's going really, really slow. And we got there at seven 45 closing at nine. Okay. And it's really, really slow. We finally get up to the front at like eight o'clock. And right before we order the woman goes around to like the dining area and like turns over all the chairs and the

sign, we like look back at the sign of the door. It definitely says nine o'clock and we order our food. And I'm telling you within'clock and we order our food. And I'm telling you within one minute of us ordering our food, it was ready. So like, it was like, Hey, it seemed like it was kind of suspect that it took us forever to get through the line because it seemed like they had plenty of food ready and it was ready right when they, like we ordered it. And B I was like, can we, can we not sit down in the table? And they're like, no, no, we're, we're close. We're closing.

I was like, and I looked at my watch. It was eight Oh eight for a nine o'clock close. And I was like, well, it's, it's eight Oh eight. Talk about eight Oh eight and heartbreak. That's exactly right. Exactly. Uh, they were very heartless in this situation. Um, but yeah, they literally like the lady was like, no, we're closing, we're closing at nine. So we got it. We got to clean. How can I help you? And like turned around like multiple times. Like, and I, I didn't didn't know what to do because i was like i want to be a little bit confrontational right now yeah i also don't want to be a jerk i don't want my love locked down well yeah a little kanye uh auto-tuned uh era but um no i still know what to do my in my like i didn't want my friends to have like a sour

experience no with uh are you looking at savory are you looking at more kanye songs no uh but yeah but eventually i just gave in and we literally ate in my minivan out in the parking lot it was fine but i just did not like it at all. Like if it was like, you know, eight 50 or something or eight 48, eight 40, eight 35. I don't know. Like anywhere kind of near nine. Sure. Eight Oh eight too early to say you can't eat here anymore. And there was a police officer there.

Cause I'm telling you it's a hole in the wall kind of ghetto place. Were you paranoid? I was not. Uh, but there was a police officer there in the corner like just like i think they just hire him to be there because it's kind of a sketchy area was he underneath the street lights he was not he was okay so i keep going but i was just like this like like is this what they always do he's like yeah and lc the owner has just recently passed away he's like oh that's bad news keep going now you're just recently passed away. He's like, it was. Oh, that's bad news. Keep going.

Now you're just like, now you're just pretending like they're songs. Oh, that's a bummer. No, look at the track listing. But he's like, this would never happen with LC if LC were here, you know? So it was a bummer. And I didn't know what to do. What would you have done, Jake? Well. First. Well, hey. Hey. what would you have done jake well first uh well hey hey

i'm trying to incorporate more songs of this okay i don't know what i'm gonna i'm gonna close out this time i'm getting distracted uh hey say you will say i will yeah um i know i was trying to get that one in there let's see you In My Nightmares. There was literally a track called RoboCop. I was talking about the police officer. I was waiting. Oh, sorry. I was waiting for the perfect time to use that one. No, that's a bummer.

I mean, let's see. As I was walking out, I said, hey, I'll see you in my nightmares. Yeah. Okay. I think I probably would have eaten in a minivan too. Yeah. You haul vibe style. I tried. I mean, I think I probably would have eaten in a minivan too. Yeah. You all vibe style. I tried. I mean, I already confronted them. Like, like I'm not going to be the guy that's

going to continue to push, but I, I wanted to. And there were people there from Texas. Cause the Cowboys were playing the chiefs the next day. Yeah. And they, they just Texas people, they just sat down on the chairs. They just turned the chairs over and sat right there. Good for them. And I was like, dang it, Texas people. They have more got more confidence than i do hey how about those chiefs though how about those chiefs everyone everyone everyone said they were done yeah and we were like nah and now we've won four in a row and we're in first place kind of in the driver's seat just we're the best you know what's gonna be really fun is february 12th comes around we have all the ghosties in the world to come to mclean's and shawnee and we have an event and then Casey night of comedy with the ghost runners.

And then February 13th happens and that's the super bowl. And all the ghosties are just still in Kansas city. Cause they decided to prolong their stay. And after we win the super bowl, we just have a riot for the ghost runners. Oh yeah. Ghost riot. Ghost riot.

Yeah. Hashtag ghost, right? So, uh, no, the chiefs are awesome and they're,ag ghost, right? So, uh, no, the chiefs are awesome and they're, it's,

it's a weird season, man. But he doesn't that kind of exciting though, in some ways that like we won yesterday without looking that good on offense. Cause don't you just think like eventually they're going to figure out an offense, both sides of the ball.

Yeah. Like, like if the defense can be half as good and the offense can do what they can do, it's over. It's stopping us. And the NFL is so fun this year in general, because it's like anybody's anybody's league this year.

So, um, you mentioned that the, uh, guillotine league is still going well for you. Yep. I put up, you know,

another record breaking, you know, uh, numbers this week. So yeah, it's going well. Um, see who got kicked out.

A guy, uh, Garrett, Garrett, Garrett's out this week. Sorry, Garrett. It's see who got kicked out a guy uh garrett garrett's out this week garrett sorry yeah it's okay it happens to the most of us it will happen to all of us except for one by the end of the year it was a big week for me meeting members of the guillotine league really tell me about it i think four nights in a row i saw someone from the guillotine league uh pittsburgh was kristen olsen which we're already friends like we went to hawaii together yada yada whatever but saw her nice next night was columbus saw matt dole also kicked out but was at one time

oh yeah in the guillotine league matt dole tall matt dole real tall my gosh wore a hoodie that said tall matt dole oh doll yeah dole dole wore a hoodie that he made that said wish brad was here yes which was awesome i yeah he had sent that to me earlier and i was like i might make that into merch i was like this is incredible yeah this is so fun well uh he he had that hoodie and then somebody else ordered me or a cutting board from me and was like by the way my wife uh made this hoodie for or for the show i think his wife so so the other guy jake is his name so it's jake and matt and this other girl i remember it yes um i think the other girl also her name is jameson i believe okay um or jamie and yeah she she had made one i was like wait this is surely you guys are friends because yeah these are the exact same

hoodies but i like the idea of wish brad was here i also might change it grammatically to wish brad were here but okay i don't know but the the original quote was wish brad was here so i don't know all right but yeah and then i saw uh stacy a couple nights ago as well she's in the guillotine league she's still in it so it was pittsburgh columbus cincinnati nashville and uh indianapolis is where we're at this week and one of them was like a huge like one of your biggest shows yeah indianapolis i think was the a huge, like one of your biggest shows. Yeah. Indianapolis, I think it was the biggest venue and it was the second biggest show.

So very random. Okay. Indianapolis. But it was a great time in the Middle East. I remember to say the Middle East joke like three out of the five times, I think. So it was really great every time I said it. Right. Usually I would just get so excited about like what else I had to say about the city and I would forget about the Middle East thing.

Because Nashville, which I guess we can talk about that right now like i uh i i don't even know where to start so much has happened this week basically i've been feeling not well all last week i mean you heard on the pot i was like my throat is on fire i gotta stop recording it hurts so bad like even after the podcast monday i mean like my dad had called me i texted him like hey i don't even feel like talking on the phone like i'm just gonna rest it yeah i do not want to like talk out loud your instrument did you ever refer to it as your instrument i love never i need to rest my instrument sometimes tour manager tom when he hands me a microphone to go on stage he's like your weapon sir i've like never laughed once but he says it every time here's your sword from my scabbard go get them

Lancelot so he likes that but you should start laughing at that give him a little grace he's not a comedian like you he thinks that's good so yeah Monday was just awful for my voice anyway

and then I get a call at like 6.30 at night I don't know why I even answer this I never answer random phone calls but I think in the midst of like Monday was just awful for my voice anyway. Yeah. And then I get a call at like 630 at night. I don't know why I even answered this. I never answer random phone calls. But I think in the midst of like I was closing on the house the next day, there's just a bunch of people that day. Electric, water, you know, whatever. I answer. And this guy's just like, hey, this is Gary Kentwood.

That is call you and give you a rundown of the house i was like oh okay that's like not you're buying from i guess i didn't yeah but but yeah you had at first i was just like oh right on because they don't tell you i don't think when you buy it like who you're buying it from or and obviously i didn't care like i didn't ask so he's like all right so uh i mean it's a good house you're gonna going to love it. And so I'm like, hold on. Sorry. Are you like the previous owner of the house? He's like, yep. I was like, oh, awesome.

Like, thank you for, you know, calling me. So it started off like very polite. Like, this is so kind of him. Like he went out of his way to like do this. Started out. But not long afterwards, it was like, whoo. One, I mean, my throat is on fire. I do not want to be having this conversation.

And two, he walked me through every inch of that house. Oh, man. And you know, and just. Do you sound old? No, that's an old man thing to do. Yeah. It was probably just like our dad's age. Yeah.

But. Getting there. Very much just like, you can imagine what I'm saying on the other end, right? It's a lot of like, oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. Oh, wow. No, I wouldn't know.

I wouldn't have known that. Okay. Yeah. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah. Okay. Three years't have known that okay yeah huh oh really okay yeah okay three years no that's pretty new oh yeah okay yeah that's all i would say the whole time yeah no seriously i mean okay 15 minutes i go oh okay you know good to know okay yeah okay no that's sweet yeah yeah no i've never i think that'll be sweet. Oh yeah. Yeah. And that, okay. Okay. Oh, both of them. Okay. Okay.

It's just that over and over. That is the classic, like it's not the same thing. And I think it's, this guy had great intentions, but it's the classic, like, let me give you directions to something.

Like, let me give you directions to how to get there. Like, it's like everyone, everyone's going to just like, you can tell me everything, but I'm going to figure out how to, how to turn on the shower by myself and figure out the idiosyncrasies of like, Oh, I need to, you know, tap this a

little bit to make it warmer. Or this one since like, I don't even know all that from you. Yeah. Like, if it's like, Oh, that thing will electrocute you. If you turn on the hot water first, please tell me that. But other than that, that's helpful. Yeah. I don't need to know the garbage disposals, you know, whatever works great yeah oh awesome i always run water with it so oh yeah okay i was playing most people do yeah um so this guy just talked to you for a long time you know what it's like it's like when you watch like csi and you're like wow that looks so cool and then you like meet someone who does that and they're like it's not like that this is like being like forrest gump seems like such a cool guy until you're talking to someone in a scenario like that and

he won't shut up you're like wow forrest gump in real life would have been so annoying he just wouldn't shut up about these old stories and like isaac's here hey we got butter rolls boys thank you isaac one for each thank you a lot of stuff going on yeah we do yeah we haven't addressed it but if you're watching on youtube you can see we got a lot of gifts to open up here soon thank you for the butter roll dude they're warm too isaac always gets them warmed up oh oh you can get them warmed up on like to go that's nice of course you can but i mean i just know i mean this is we're talking about the business we're going to do casey night of comedy so yeah can you talk more about that brad yes um i i don't have like firm firm details yet but i thank you i have yeah thanks dude yeah just a um i do have confirmation enough that

february 12th is going to happen in at mclean shawnee that's all we know so far um like two specifically like i know there will be food there will be coffee drinks everything like that um beyond that we we don't know exactly what the night's gonna look like but i can just promise you we're gonna have fun we don't know how how like what jake and i are gonna do with it yet but so should people book their flights yet yes oh really yeah why not i don't see why not why not yeah why not okay yeah we'll make it happen february 12th be in kansas city there's a there's a slight chance there's gonna be like a graduation happening at mclean shawnee on february 12th that's very minimal i think um man that was the worst that was the worst feeling like i've ever felt in my life i can't i

can't imagine if that's how i felt towards you know know, whatever, a hundred people coming to a basketball game. How do you think the people felt like that? We're having to cancel like huge events because of COVID, whether it's like your tour or a wedding or anything like I just like, like my heart sank when I read that for the first time, like no games tonight or no games this week or whatever. I was like, oh my gosh. So I was at Hy-Vee arena last night for the first time since the game really yeah and it was uh it was fine it made me miss basketball though i was like we need to get back yeah we do um but okay you heard it from brad

go ahead and book your flights mclean shawnee um let us know if you have questions or we'll continue to have details we'll continue to bring more and more to in fact don't ask us questions yet that's fair yeah because we don't ask us questions yet. That's fair. Yeah, because we don't have the answers yet. But I feel very confident in Brad and I's ability to like throw something really well done in the next few months.

It'll make it like worth your guys' while to come here. And I think this is, this will be separate from like the Ghostbusters Olympiad. This is not that. Right. This is like that saturday night there will be an event that's like a night of comedy whether it's like a little bit of stand up or a little bit of like live podcasting or it'll be an event to get all ghost runners fans

together yep to meet us too um we'll see if i want to um say hey there's gonna be some surprises there that i just totally regret by the time everyone gets there. Maybe that'll happen again. Especially because I remember one time afterwards, you're like, I've always been told like under promise over deliver. And you totally were like, you guys are going to love these surprises. Oh man. So we'll see. But I think there'll be actual surprises, not for my private life, but like in general, like I'm sure we'll have some surprise things happening that night. We'll try. Yeah. Yeah.

You guys know us. We're going to have fun. It's going to be really, I promise we've said it a million times, but we're not that much different in real life than we are here. So if you enjoy the podcast, you're going to enjoy it on February 12th. So look into it. We could, we could, I mean, you could make an excuse like, Hey, let's do a Valentine's weekend with my hubby, you know, do something.

Come and get some, we have steak houses. Yeah. Nice restaurants. Yeah. Great restaurants. We can give you some recommendations on the podcast. Don't ask us. Just kidding.

I like, but you go, don't go to LC's too early or too late. I mean, but yeah, February 12th is happening. Um, McLean's I'm trying to think of any other details. I don't, I don't remember too much right now. I'll just clear your schedule and know that it's going to be fun. And I mean, if a hundred people came to watch us play basketball, I feel good that we can, we can double those numbers for like an actual night of real entertainment, which does make me make sure, want to make sure that there's like a good enough, we have enough, uh, of

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Save like only you can at tdinsurance.com slash ways to save. TD. Ready for you. Anyway anyway so this past week um for a couple weeks my voice has been feeling great and then i think the combination of only being home like 34 hours last week or whatever and doing two podcasts back to back and just the two the true detriment is not like oh i'm on the road and i'm performing you know i'm on stage like very little it's not that it's the enneagram seven in me is the problem because i can't shut up i can't stop talking to people what am i gonna not post post game that you're truly am i not gonna talk to kristin and matt dole and joel trainer and the swicks you know like i can't not make these memories with people like um like this is your one time to see these people.

Yeah. It's like temporary throat pain or like make a memory that I'll have for the rest of my life with these people. Um, cause I already had to cancel. I felt awful. Like Joel and I were gonna like hang out during the day and I woke up and I couldn't even speak.

And I was like, this is not wise for me to go catch up with Joel for two hours. So I had to cancel lunch, but I was like, I'm obviously still gonna like hang and see people afterwards. So anyway, story of this week has been, I abuse substances now.

It feels weird. Welcome. Because you hear these stories or maybe you see in movies like rock stars and rappers and everything, like they're so reliant on these pills or they go out there and they're just blazed out of their mind or whatever.

And it was so interesting getting to this point point where like i think it was before the um cincinnati show i mean i am like i'm doing mucinex every four hours i'm doing this throat coat stuff every two hours i'm taking ibuprofen and you know until the pain comes back again right i'm doing cough drops as much as I can. I'm drinking water. I peed more than I've ever peed in my entire life this week. You know, I'm trying everything. You had wet pants again. Everywhere down my front, I discovered chloroseptic throat spray. OK, yeah. You know about this? Yeah. Yeah. That should not be sold over the counter. This is crazy. So what I would do is like literally almost while Alan's announcing me, he's like, welcome

to the stage. I would spray my throat and numb it as much as possible. And then I would go out and perform. And it felt wrong. It felt like I was like doing drugs. Like I needed these things to perform. It just felt weird. It was like, this is over the counter, but it feels so wrong that I'm like reliant on

these things. Totally. It was just weird being in like pretty decent pain from just like i'm not even sick i feel fine like no fever no cold no congestion pretty congested now as the as the uh week went on and you still had a sore throat i was like he's like something's messed up like so he's sick like yeah i just truly thought i was like i'll be fine and honestly hanging out with the swicks so much, which is so great to finally meet them after the show.

And we went out to dinner. That was the worst my voice has ever felt that night. And but I think it worked in my favor because it got so bad the next day that I was like, I need to go to urgent care because this is so bad. And so an urgent care just historically has great, great service. Also, the irony is I've been taking cold medicine all week for my sore throat and I developed a cold while I didn't even have a cold when I started this.

Hey, I'm not, I'm not going to speak into, yeah, we're going to speak into that too much. Um, well, Oh shoot.

What was I going to say? Go ahead. Basically it got so bad. I went to urgent care. I get tested for all this stuff and it came back just what i thought they're just like your voice is just really tired you strained your vocal cords your throat sore so yeah i figure negative for strep negative for all this which strep test by the way oh no like i you know you go and you beg my throat sore like oh you know what'll help

let's launch a yeah splintery thing back there let's throw a couple number two pencils back there see if that can't make it feel a little better and so they i mean they literally they swab your tonsils it's so deep yeah oh my gosh i hate it oh that's the worst i've gotten strep more than i think like most people per capita like i've probably gotten it twice since we've been married maybe three times huh i get a lot yeah around this time i'm i'm not the healthiest guy in the world so uh but yeah and so uh but anyway i'm explaining to them like I have a show in like an hour and 15 minutes. Is there anything you can give me to make me feel better right now? And they said, you ever had a steroid shot?

And I said, oh, Barry Bond style. Let's do it. That didn't really land with her. She was not a big baseball fan. Well, because it's not proven they did steroids. Right, right, right, right, right. He just his voice got, you know, higher and his arms got bigger got bigger i don't know that's just how it happens over that's called old age and this is my first steroid shot this is my first shot in the hiney oh it was a hiney

shot hiney shot oh good i was so excited here's a little tip brad yep tip for everybody out there flex it no no here's the tip when she says drop your pants you don't really need to drop your pants that far just fyi you went all the not like down to your ankles not to my ankles all right you're like a little boy in the urinal okay i want to give you plenty of surface area i hope i don't have any diawia oh yeah so let's just say i went a little lower than I needed to. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. What kind of show do you have in 90 minutes?

Yeah. It was great though. It was a beautiful night in Nashville and there was, there was a full moon in that. It was, it was gorgeous. Oh man. It was a full moon this week. So it was, yeah. You, you, you performed admirably.

I have a theory and I think you kind of already said it, but I think even beyond just like talking after the show, I think you're probably yelling more after the show. Like because I'm going to like a sports bar or whatever. You're going to a sports bar, even like out in the lobby when you're talking to people. It's loud. It was hard for like I have like a bad hearing. Like, you know, I don't know if I've talked about in the podcast, but like, yeah, I have like distortion sometimes.

And like after that show, I remember trying to talk to people and like hearing that noise in my ears and like the low murmur and everything. So you have to talk louder. And so I bet not only like the talking, like extensive talking, I'm sure like that's fine. But the fact that you're probably like more or less yelling for an hour and a half. Yeah, that's what kills it. Yeah. And so, so yeah it was

honestly a pretty brutal week um or i mean the shows were so good i wish i had been feeling good right because the shows themselves were so fun they were so good just people just seemed like they really had a good time well that's what i was gonna yeah i was gonna ask like i don't i don't know if you'll ever feel like it's a grind but maybe you feel like a grind this week like like you're the most like positive optimistic like this is great like i this is a great opportunity like i can't complain about anything yeah but i feel like this week you had some stuff to complain about and probably felt a little more like a grind you know i still i still tried you know it's like the good so much outweighs the bad here yeah you know it's like and i think just my personality i don't

even let myself fully like comprehend how like maybe in pain or how like inconvenienced i am because it's like there's too much good stuff going on for me to do this right because i didn't fully notice it until so post steroid shot like 24 hours later i was like oh baby i'm feeling good really get more steroid just a tip for everyone get a steroid shot i don't know how much they cost because they said like we'll bill you later so maybe it's not worth it but i couldn't believe how helpful it is i mean yeah all those baseball players loved it yeah like yeah they made millions of dollars based off of them so sunday there's no bad side effects that's the great thing like there's no such thing as roid rage no that's the thing no that's just

like a that's a myth but i noticed it sunday the day after the story shot i was like wow i'm noticing myself like initiating conversation with people or like with trey or with alan like i would just wouldn't talk right to people because it was unpleasant to talk yeah it's just like this is nice like i feel like i'm back a little bit like i've had such a good time all week and i've been really not myself yeah so it's nice to just kind of like smiling in the corner like and people notice it too tom and people are like dude good to have you back today really i was like you could tell he's like yeah you just look way better today wow yeah um then again i still not sounding great not feeling great

but it's gonna it's gonna take days of rest probably that's gonna be nice being home you're gonna go back to strafford right yeah get some time just at the door there's there's there's nothing honestly like i'm not trying to like uh lean into your bad attitude because i don't think you really had a bad attitude but like there's nothing worse in my opinion than being sick and away from home like i think i do not like i i do not like the idea of like feeling bad and like being on a tour bus like like if i'm gonna feel bad i'd rather have my bedroom and my laptop and my wi-fi and like you know whatever like just to comfort i guess it could have made a little more comforting. Yeah. Cause I mean, I, I door dashed cough drops multiple times. I would door dash mucinex. Right. Like, like it's like, yeah,

I would like to go get some medicine. I would like to go get some, you know, something hot to drink. Like, you know, I would like walk a half mile in the cold to get soup. I think this is like two steps backwards. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah. Also it'd be hard being by yourself you kind of feel i mean i know you're not by yourself but like like if katherine were there with me it'd be like okay katherine could do all those things for me yeah you do not have a wife no but you know someday it'd be nice to be you know recouped by someone that's right recuperate yeah it'll help you get recuperated so uh yeah absolutely it was it was such a good week. And let's see. Got to meet two of the I'm Down Boys last night. Was that last night?

No, that was not last night. You were home last night. Two nights ago. That's when you know life is busy is when you said, was that today? Was that last night? Like struggling to know what day is what. I didn't even know they were going to be at the show. And now I think I'm going skiing with them.

Oh, really? Yeah. In December. Yeah. Tell me, tell me about like, tell me about expectations versus reality with I'm down boys. Cause it was so funny when you posted that on our Instagram, so many people were like, that's not what I expected him to look like. There's so much more clean cut or whatever. Like they're, they're, they're more put together than I thought they would be. Or I don't know, like, it's just so funny when you hear somebody's voice and don't know what they look like and then you see them so so yeah tell me about what you thought of them

it was just awesome I mean it was like I would say similar to like Isaac vibes like younger but it doesn't come across that way right you know so it was Clint and Simeon yeah and they were great they were so fun I um had like an emotional like not like not like i didn't cry or anything but like i i didn't freaking cry i'm not like a like a girl um no i like i got i got kind of like sad thinking about the i'm down boys graduating high school and not all going to the same college yeah which sounds ridiculous because a never met them in my life b like don't know like their personalities and like how each of them i'm sure each of them chose the right school for them financially or academically or whatever but like it, it was just like, it was like, oh man, that's like an end of an era kind of thing. And they seem in my eyes, they seem like the tightest group of guys. And

it's like, why wouldn't you just keep that forever? And it's like, well, that's life. You can't just hold on to this friend group forever. Like you have to expand. But like whenever I like heard that they weren't all going to the same school, it like kind of shocked me for a second, even though like I have no connection to them besides the podcast and, you know, trying to be their friend by messaging them or whatever. But I think it's gonna be magical time or Christmas break. Cause they're all gonna be back at Traverse City.

Exactly. And then we're all gonna be skiing together. Oh, you're going to be there at Christmas time. Yeah. I think so. Like, wow.

Cause my last show is December 17th in Detroit, Michigan. Oh, perfect. It's like a three hour drive to Traverse City. Okay. That's perfect. So let's go up there for a few days afterwards.

I think that's the plan. That's fun. That's so fun. Yeah, I'm really excited. You're going like, do you think they'll like inaugurate you like a like a honorary I'm down boy? Give me like a T-shirt with a down arrow on it. They'll knight your weapon, sir.

And they'll knight you. Uh huh. Yeah, I think that'd be i i hey clint i'm not saying you have to but if you do do some kind of coronation knighting ceremony something for jake for an honorary i'm done but i would like you to record it please okay i don't think i even listen to the podcast anymore because they're on college that's fine they'll get cam might they'll get back to it cam cam might be uh i was about to say my favorite i don't know well he does some woodworking. Cam seems like Brad.

Like if there's a Brad in the group, it seems like Cam and I would connect them up. He's the big boy. He's a woodworker. Yeah, he's just a goofy guy. And I think Clint might be the jank, so we hit it off. Yeah, Clint's a good dude. So that's fun.

Yeah, it was fun to see them. Maddie Short, you know, generous coffee. We all hung out at the same time. So I brought, I'm down boys. Where no indianapolis oh yeah that's right well we all hung out together i golf with sam tootin he came to show tootin brothers band rose yeah listen to them on spotify or wherever you listen to music yes that's fun tootin brothers um oh speaking of singing there was i wrote it down. What show is this? Nothing matters. It was the second show in Columbus. My voice was at this weird point.

So it was kind of fun. There were slight benefits. Did you get a little Janis Joplin, Janis Joplin action? Like some Macy Gray. Yeah. Something like John Mayer, like a little raspy. And it was like, that's kind of hot. So all week long, I took a couple of stuff out of my set, which is also kind of fun, too.

It's like, you know what? Like, instead of having 19 minutes of like, yeah, pretty solid, it's like 15 to 16 minutes of like best of the best. Kill it. Yeah. And it's better for my voice. And I think it leaves a better taste in people's mouths, which I'm I'm such a big believer in that.

Right. And I think I slow down more like Alan made a comment about it. He's like, I like the way you're like kind of talking now. So it's like maybe this revealed some stuff in me. Like go even slower. Interesting. Yeah. Kirstie Swickman said something about that.

She was like, you know, I've been listening to two and a half years of podcasts with you and you talk so fast. It's so off the cuff. She's like, it was really pleasant just watching you be patient. Oh, interesting. And talk so slow. I was like, oh, cool. That's fun to get like that in-depth

analysis too yes yeah which just encapsulates the swigs just awesome just awesome to talk to yeah rub it in but the thing that columbus's second show this will probably never happen again but i just i hit the sweet spot in hoarseness of losing my voice where i start singing and i'm hitting notes that i never hit before am i yeah I? Yeah. Yeah. It's like, okay, so this is in me somewhere. Like I can, I am capable of singing. Yeah. And so I say a couple like notes that come out. I'm like, oh my gosh, that's like how it's supposed to sound.

I'm like, well, now it's not funny. Now I got, I'm like, how do I, you know, I'm like trying to like sound bad again. Purposely try to sound bad. Yeah. I was like, I can't sing like average. Then that's awkward. Right. But it was awesome. It was truly like euphoricoric to to hear myself in loudspeakers like holy hitting like four notes in a row i've never ever done that and alan noticed it too he's like dude

your voice tonight what if by the end you just become a good singer like well that's i'm i'm weirdly confident i'm like it's in me somewhere right i can get this out of me yeah it is no like whenever i first started singing because yeah i, I didn't grow up, I didn't start like publicly like singing in front of people until my freshman year of college. And I remember, so like whenever, at least back in the day when you led worship, there was a monitor, like a speaker that was just shoot at you. So you could hear what you sound like. Wedges. Right. Is that what you guys have? I'm sure you don't have in-ears or anything. So, um, yeah. So, so the monitor shooting back at you and I would sing and I'd be like, Oh, that's the wrong note. But I was like, I, I like physically could hear the wrong note,

but I couldn't fix it. Yeah. Like well enough. Like, I'm like, Oh, that's a little bit off. Like even when I listen to myself singing jingles and stuff, I'm like, Ooh, that's a little pitchy or something, you know? Um, but, but you know, the more you sing, the more you learn how to, how to get into that stuff and how to, how to change a little bit. So, so maybe you're just like right on the cusp, on the cusp, baby, take some singing lessons. It'd be so fun to be able to sing. Dude, I don't think it's actually inside of me though. I don't know if I have it, but you never know. You never know oh but yeah it's good i'm glad that things are still so so you have a little bit of a break for thanksgiving um and then you're

back at it what west coast i think next wednesday wednesday or this wednesday i guess now you're listening to this um yeah west coast happy thanksgiving if you're listening to this hope it was great happy late thanksgiving you're still the best yeah we did i i guarantee you the chiefs did not lose this past week bye yep okay nice um uh i have some things since it is post thanksgiving oh um i'm a firm believer firm believer of do not you know put up christmas stuff do not celebrate christmas till after thanksgiving so but since it is past Thanksgiving, um, we are considering a, not, not getting a real tree anymore. We're considering going fake. And I think that's fine. You think so? Yeah. I've, I've my whole life. I have been so pro real tree, real tree. There comes a time where Netflix needs to realize we don't need to send DVDs out to people. Oh analogy this is your dvd exactly

the same thing yeah i can't that's the best thing let me let me talk to you about it a little more so so the reason that we're we're thinking about switching is mainly due to cost it's like like there's a christmas tree down the street from us christmas tree farm and we go there and cost of time yes opportunity cost but listen but i like time. The time is like part of the tradition. That's what we grew up. Like my family would always go out together, pick out a tree, cut it down, you know, bring it back home. Like it was like a, it was like a ritual.

It's like Christmas season. We do this together. We go to the Christmas tree. They have apple cider and hot chocolate and candy canes. And sometimes Santa's there and you can talk to him. Sometimes. Sometimes you never know about st nick um so but but like recently the christmas tree farm by our house the only ones that they were letting you choose are

ones that are already pre-cut so that's like half the fun was watching my dad like struggle with the handsaw you know like cut that thing down and then like flag down the people to like you know put it in their tractor for us um and number two it's just like wildly expensive like i mean like 95 for a tree and that's i mean you do that every year until hattie's you know or until our youngest ones out of the house that's another 20 some years that's 20 you know two thousand dollars we're gonna spend on trees or we can just do like a fake one and just, you know, just forgo Christmas memories forever. So yeah, I'd say just stream it. Definitely just use the internet.

I don't know, dude. I just, yeah. So we're going back and forth on it, but I think maybe next year we're going to, we're going to still go to Christmas tree farm this year. Good for you guys. See how it goes. But, um, all right. That's a big, a lot of, a lot of shaking up in the Ellis household.

Yeah, literally. So, um, another thing that Steeze told me about, uh, he's got a really fun lot of a lot of shaking up in the ellis household yeah literally so um another thing that steez told me about uh he's got a really fun group of friends in minnesota and they one night i think we need to do this um like like there's like eight of them eight in his friend group that had this comedy night stand-up comedy night but it was just them at one of their houses and it was like everyone has to come with five minutes of material and ever if you come you have to perform like cool there's no audience no just yeah no no but but also like like it's black and white like if you're there you're performing and yeah like and so they but since they're just so close friends they said it was like the most fun night they said it took

like four hours you know like people were up there for like 45 minutes just making jokes and i just think that'd be so fun can you imagine if we got our boys together and just like just yeah made some great jokes and just laughed hard i just i would laugh so hard the entire time harrison pollard is up right exactly whatever he does i would just love it and like and like so i was i was thinking about like i was like open mic night like everyone thinks it'd be so funny to go watch people bomb at open mic night it's not funny because those people are just so so bad that that it's like, this is just, and it's like usually really inappropriate. But like, if we did that with our friends, if our friend was not fun,

like if gutter gets up there and tries to make jokes that completely bomb, then that's a funny thing. Yes. Like that's so funny because it's our friends, you know, like, and we like know them, but like, if you just watch a, like a random person up there, you just feel bad for the guy. Especially when it's like Gunner. Right. Someone like this dude is the man, you know, everything going for him and just watching him just sweat up there.

Just struggle through it. And yeah, I, I just think, uh, I think we need to do it. We need to find a time, maybe February 11th. Yeah. A little warmup. Yeah. So that's going to be so fun. I can't wait for whatever that night's

gonna be yeah i think it's gonna be great so um yeah they said they said it was pretty fun and yeah pretty wild it was only boys only guys that could come like only boys no wives no wives allowed um for this comedy night are you thinking you and i each do stand-up individually or you thinking we do like a joint show together like a practice run for like a ghost runners show. Yeah. Um, I have no expectations right now in my head. I think both sounds fun to me. Excuse me? Both. Thank you. Both sounds really nice. Uh, that was terrible accent, but, um, yeah, maybe, maybe a little bit of both. Um, cool. I was just wondering, no, I have, I have no, I mean people, I would love to hear other people's thoughts about what they want to see. But yeah, I think people do enjoy our like give and take and banter and stuff.

But I think it'd also be kind of fun to perform in front of like a warm crowd that like knows who we are and likes our kind of humor already. I mean, everyone needs to see you do jock jams. Yes. Everyone needs to see it. Well, let's go ahead. This is kind of a spoiler.

I was going to do this as a shout out. My shout out was going to be to Grand Rapids, Michigan, because December 15th, Jake will be in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Yeah. And because you're going to be in Grand Rapids, Michigan, I am performing in Stanbury, Missouri comedy with Alex Divchek. So I officially am going to be a paid comedian. That's right.

On December 15th. I forgot about this. In the tiny, tiny town of Stanbury. You're doing it live? Doing it live. Yeah. Did you think it was like a... I thought it was Zoom.

No, dude. Like, I can't... We'll see how it goes. I am really, really excited. So... Yeah. Tell me all about this. Yeah.

Okay. So... Because Alex hit me up and I was like, I got a show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So like a couple of weeks, maybe a week and a half ago. Yeah. Alex Dimchik, one of Jake's good friends, Jake was the best man at his wedding. Uh, he texted me and he's like, Hey man, uh, Jake seems like he's busy for this.

He's not really responding. He's like, he's not responding to me. I was like, yeah, cause he's at, yeah, I'm in Jacksonville. But, but I was like, it's pretty, I just looked at the schedule. I was like, Oh, he's, he's not available. Um, but he's like, he's pretty, I just looked at the schedule. I was like, oh, he's not available. Yeah. But he's like, I have this, it's like a Christmas party that this company wants to hire me for, but they're also looking potentially for a comedian for it. And so he's like, I figure we could split the money and do it. Are you interested? Dude, first of all, Alex is just the man for even like texting you. Right.

And just splitting the money 50-50. I know. I told him, I was like, thank you, dude. Thank you for the opportunity i like like yeah i can tell you more about it but but but the eventual decision was just like i'm not gonna say no to this like i need to do this like yeah the opportunity is just too fun and like it's gonna be a great memory and whatever but um so yeah like but but he like quoted them and they said, no, we don't have, you know, the budget for it. And I was like, bummer.

Um, but it was also kind of like a relief because I'm so busy with work right now elsewhere. And so I was like, oh, my, my, my would have wandered to that too much. And then like three days later, he texts back and he's like, actually, they just came back and said they want to do it. And so he's like, are you in, if you're in, like, let's do it. And I was like, yeah, I'm in, let's do it. So, uh, you were talking about like, you it was gonna be on zoom where is stanbury missouri uh it's like two hours from here i don't know where it's like northern missouri somewhere i

think okay um but i'm not sure exactly where this is awesome um but we zoomed with them yesterday to kind of talk through it and no way because because like because dim check really didn't know what to like so dim check usually does like leadership training and they specifically asked him they're like we want you to talk about whatever you talk about and we want a comedian i don't know i i'm not sure if that happened or if dim check like i've sold them kind of yeah like pitched it this way of like you want because because because basically it's this agriculture company that's having us for this christmas party and it's like the agriculture company's client so it's like Dimchak usually talks to companies about like being a team and like doing things together and like having leadership and stuff. Like, so Dimchak doesn't know what he's

going to talk about because they're like, they're like, we just want these people to feel encouraged as you know, farmers and like feel important. And he's like, Oh, I'll do my encouraging farmer talk. Yeah, exactly. Oh, no problem. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I got it. It was just in New York city, like talking to stockbrokers or something. Yeah. Let me, let me do this. Um, but, uh, yeah, so we zoom with them and that was just a struggle even to like get that set up because the guy that was hosting the zooms, like, yeah, I, I never actually like host meetings on zoom. Like, cool. And so I was asking them like logistically before we plan too much about what the programming side is going to look like, like what, like, what is this, uh, atmosphere and environment going to be there? What kind of room are we in? Yeah. Like they said, probably about a hundred, 150 people.

Um, it's going to be like mostly like farmers with their kids, like with their, with their families. Um, and, and you know, in my head, like, I'm just thinking like, uh, yeah, some kind of like presentation or something that Dimchik is going to do. He's going to have like a projector or a screen or something i was like so like audio visual you know is there gonna be a stage anything like that they're like no no this is just going to be in like our the the the building that we have used to be a cabinet shop and so we had a showroom it used to be a showroom so it's gonna be in the old showroom no stage or anything like you're gonna be in trough number four okay but they they go they go like do you need a microphone and i was like i was i i was taken aback by that we don't we don't have a microphone they've never done anything like this before

they're like do you need a mic we don't we don't we've never done this before so like if you need a microphone like and i was like it'd probably be good i was thinking one um you know but in my head i was like thinking like, depending on what this place is going to be like, maybe they're going to have enough like PA system where I can plug in my guitar and do some musical comedy. Yeah. You know, whatever. Have some audio visual stuff.

And now I'm like, nope. Like this is. Bare minimum. Yeah. And so it's just going to be. And I think, I think I, I'm more excited to perform comedy in front of a bunch of farmers than I am. Yeah. Like, like that, that in front of a bunch of farmers than I am. Yeah.

Like that's more of a warm crowd to me than anything. Hey, come on in. Peter's here. Peter asked if I was wearing a knit sweater. It is ghost sweaters. It's ghost sweater. Ghost sweaters Tuesday. Yeah.

I love it. Yeah. How are you doing? Come on in. I know you don't have makeup on, but. No, Isaac got me. I know you don't have makeup on, but guys, welcome Peter Casey to the podcast. Peter Casey. Was it just last week? You said you wanted to get Peter on the podcast. Yeah. Genuinely. Peter, Peter, what do we have? Closing gift. Closing gift. Yeah. I've got your key. So, wow bomb tech yeah i figured it's time for the bomb tech to take a leave dude this is hot this is sweet guys i got a i got a huge putter

look at this no it's not a putter this looks like a really nice driver this is awesome thank you peter back when sophie and i bought our house all like for the first like five months i just spent money on house stuff and it was kind of the worst. I figured that was probably gonna be you for the next couple months. So thank you. New driver, something you probably wouldn't buy. Thank you, dude. This is awesome.

So if you buy a house from Peter Casey at Platinum Realty, scoutkc.com, scoutkc.com. This is so fun. You can get personalized gifts like that. Wow. This is awesome. As much can get personalized gifts like that. Wow. This is awesome. As much as I like fake was in love with the bomb text, I don't know if that was the club I needed to still be hitting.

Peter, this is awesome. Thank you, dude. Yeah, absolutely. I'm glad you came by today. I was thinking about it on my way over. I was like, I'm about to give him a gift that's probably going to lose me so much money over the course of like the next next two or three years, just in Chipotle lunches.

Just Panda Express one by one. Well, just make sure you play on Jake's team now. That's right. Oh! Oh, you're talking about... Isaac, I can't do it. They're teammates. Oh, really?

It's like a... I didn't know it was like a... It's a thing. Like an allegiance. Yeah. And thanks for the house key. Yeah, absolutely. Just as important.

This is awesome. So, Peter Casey at ScoutKC.com. Really good for the house key. Yeah, absolutely. Just as important. This is awesome. So Peter Casey at scoutkc.com really good at getting house keys as well. If you want a house key for your new house, Peter and get you one. What do you, Hey Peter, what do you call, um, like you and Luke Hoagland are kind of starting a, uh, like a small dynasty of like realtor and a mortgage lender. What do you guys call yourselves again? Uh, the dream team. Yeah. The dream team. What, what,

what classic, um, athlete duo would you compare you and Luke Hoagland to? Um, there's a lot of different ways you could take this. I'm going to say Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire. That's exactly what I was thinking. I was thinking that shot.

I wish I could say code Mark. It's just like they came and completely revolutionized the game. They did. And you've seen a drastic change in the real estate market since Luke and I did Jake's deal together a month ago. It's pretty crazy. The market's been crazy ever since. Dang. Any other real estate tips that you have for us?

I wish I could say code Mark McGuire. Great time to sell. Great time to sell. Great time to buy. If you need somebody. So it's a great time. I'm your guy. Oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah!

I'm always thinking Seiko! All right, all right, all right. Drop the mic on that one, Petey. Dude, thank you so much, Peter. I really appreciate it. Enjoy it. We're getting ready to head off for Thanksgiving. Oh, happy Thanksgiving, brother.

Have fun. Are you playing with Pops tomorrow? Yeah. Break this out in front of old Papa Steve tomorrow. we're getting ready to head off for Thanksgiving. Oh, happy Thanksgiving, brother. Have fun. Yeah. Break this out in front of old Papa Steve tomorrow. Let's see what he thinks. Uh, I don't know. I love all my friends,

but like whenever my friend, whenever Steve was in town this weekend, I told like five stories about Peter. I just told so many different Peter stories. What kind of Peter stories? Let's see if Peter needs to defend himself right now. No, I can't remember all very many of them. I just remember like saying my friend Peter over and over and over again. One of them that's like very inconsequential was we went

to Harrah's, we went to casino. And, uh, I remember whenever we get on the elevator in Harrah's, there was just one big button that says casino and you click it or you press it. And, uh, I just remember one time, like Peter, like the first time I ever went to Harris, Peter had been there plenty of times before and was just like, and it was just like, he's like, yeah, you see this place. It's a little bit crappier. And that's how you know that you can win more money here is because it's not as nice. Like they can't, they can't afford to make it as nice because they're giving all the money away. So I remember telling that story. Um, but anyway, other things to Peter's men, Harris,

Isaac's going to be there. Thanksgiving night. You know what I'm thankful for? Raising the hole. Yeah. Dublin on 11. That's what I'm thankful for. That's right.

Oh dude. So we went to the casino this past time, uh, past Saturday and there were so many guys. Thank you. See you guys. So many Cowboys fans there. Um is fine whatever they were nice but there was one woman in particular that actually was from katherine's hometown of sherman texas wow go bearcats uh she was she she had been um sipping on grand ice cough medicine a little bit too much throughout the night next pm that's right pm yeah no she was a little drowsy.

But she like, so she came and sat down. And if you know much about Blackjack, we were playing Blackjack. If you know much about Blackjack. Dude, Casey Comedy Night, should we have a little casino night as well? No. Sorry, keep going. Yes, we should. Two dates. Michael has two dates.

But anyway, if you know much about blackjack, like sometimes they're like, like, this is going to sound obvious. Sometimes there's, you want to hit and sometimes you want to stay. And like, depending on what the dealer has, you kind of play the dealer. Like if you think the dealer is going to bust, you don't necessarily hit on the same numbers that you would hit other times. So anyway, there was this one guy or two guys in particular that like just did not know how to play. And there were a few times where like, obviously if they take cards that you were supposed to get, like it, it like messes up, it messes up everything. Yeah. Um, and so finally event, like after a while, me and a couple other guys started being kind of

annoying of like, don't hit that. Don't hit that. And finally this girl comes up next to me mucinex pm girl just like it's gambling they can do whatever they want they can do it stop and like like she stared it was it was after the lc's confrontation so i was already kind of like confrontation you're already eating dinner in a minivan gambling they do whatever they want i was like but they're doing the wrong thing and then i i promise we looked at each other for six seconds let's do it right now a full vine it's it's awkward ready six seconds it's just let them do whatever they want i was like yeah but they're doing the wrong thing and then like this deal the cards you know what that's a really long time it was too much it was like and she was right there next to me and she ended

up losing money very quickly and left but because she doesn't know how to gamble. Anyway, that is gambling. It is gambling. It is gambling. What do you want to do? So, yeah, we got anything else to talk about, Jake? Yeah, there's a few just like stuff that made each show kind of fun. It's a little noteworthy.

Let's see. I remember talking to a guy, Cincinnati showinnati show um i asked him i was like what do you do for a living if you're sitting in the front row and it was something like not like a fancy job and i was like oh good for you and he's like no i got a sugar mama i was like okay okay what's your sugar mama do she said school bus driver oh that's uh yeah that'll do it does it cincinnati it? Cincinnati. It's pretty easy. Yeah. Procter and Gamble. Number one, school bus drivers.

Number two in Cincinnati. That's what they're known for there. Yeah. Yeah. And then Joe Burrow. Yes. Yeah. I heard that you made a Joe Burrow joke or something like that.

Like you. Did I? I think I saw a video of you like being like the Bengals aren't very. Oh, no. Maybe it was. It was. It was Trey in the song. He said something about the Cincinnati bangles yeah and then I think I may have tagged the joke with like a Joe Burrow thing yeah maybe so Trey and I are starting to

really I mean we've never had like a really the only bad duet or improv we've ever had was the second live stream show that you watched that's the only time we've done 60 of these really that's the only one that was bad um but we're starting to get better and better like our last show in indianapolis the woman worked at state farm okay it's like train i looked at each other on stage we like shared a moment we didn't say anything but it was like don't say anything yet like we both knew like this is going to come back into play later like right i'm looking at him like don't say jake from state farm he's looking at me like yeah you got this one yeah right it's like that stuff's starting to happen more like as soon as we get answers from the

women it's like we know where we're going with it we know like who's this who's kind of thing gotcha so that's kind of fun yeah that's awesome like like having that connection a little bit yeah uh yeah two nights going to indianapolis i was like uh what's your name josh who you here with and he goes my ex-wife i go really that's your ex-wife right there and he goes no it's like okay that's when like they're trying to be comedians back to you he was big time and that's always fun that and that's what i told him i said this is all this is hilarious everyone thinks you're so funny and then people people a lot liked a lot because it was silly building i didn't really get my hard time until he answered

like three questions very difficult for me and so then i was like you hate that yeah i was just like you hate that yeah well it's just you know yeah you have to be a comedian you're like play along like dude come on like i need your help here i'm asking for your help and you're the game city one was also like top three worst of all time so it's a bummer that you saw that well i i didn't think much of it to be honest like normally they're all pretty pleasant but it's not fun to just be pleasant up there you need to like right ask a question and connect it and state an opinion on it whatever but yeah so like you would probably like the perfect answer would be something somewhat serious but not like not too bland i just want them to like legitimately think about

the questions and answer it like they don't need to think of like what's like the wildest scenario i can think of right now? And then when pressed on it, they'll be like, I was just making that up. But no, I've gotten good at it. I think I want to I'm not going to share it on the pod because I still want to keep the magic alive for people who haven't been to a show yet. But I've got it nailed down now who I pick on. It's kind of

fun. I started manipulating the show a little bit. It's kind of fun. I'll tell you about it. I like it. One night we sang to Allison, who is a radiologist. I kept really? I started like manipulating the show a little bit. Oh, interesting. It's kind of fun. I'll tell you about it. I like it. Because one night we sang to Allison, who is a radiologist. I kept making jokes that she worked for the radio. That was fun. AM or FM? Pittsburgh show.

I remember I asked this guy his secret to marriage. And he said like, you know, just always be around her and be supportive. So I kept acting, pretend like he was like, I was like, he just described a sports bra. You know, like that's how he handles everything. Oh um oh also his name was matt and he was a carpenter which i was like i don't know if these people know baseball but yeah matt carpenter i didn't say anything about i know that's that's a little deep track yeah but i like that though just every night little fun stuff nothing too crazy um let's see two nights ago after annapolis show these two women i had noticed they'd been waiting around to be last in line which is always a red flag they want time to themselves to talk to

me yep these women were actually pretty pleasant though and one of the women asked me she just goes i don't know if she was trying to like catch me or maybe she just generally want to know she's like you know hey good job night yada yada whatever are you happy though and i was like yeah for sure she's like no no like what a question like are you happy in life and i was like no like for real like i'm extremely like yeah content and happy and joy you know all this stuff and so i don't know if yeah she expected me to give her like be really serious like you know what i'm actually not you know the stage it looks good up there but anyway but then she was just like what she asked me she's like where does your happiness come from in life right now and then it was another

good question and then i was like no one's ever asked me this question before but i was just like uh the first thing came to mind was like i have so many things to look forward to in life right now yeah and i feel like it's so just happy it's it's always a joyful time when you have things to look forward to you know it's like i have things to look forward to tomorrow right i have things to look forward to like a week from now short term long term yeah just like three months from now february 12th sure let's look forward to sure like how like blessed am i to be able to have all these things to like look forward to in life yeah so this interaction started off weird and by the end of it i felt more encouraged by myself i was like truly wow who cares about my throat yeah right i

cares even it matters even less now that is interesting though just are you happy uh just out of nowhere just in a meet and greet line like like but what if what if she said no what would happen you know i think she was fully ready to like be my counselor okay oh one other thing i gotta mention also in line at indianapolis a girl i was like hey good job night this is my boyfriend adam and uh even though we're dating he said i could date you too and so i was like oh you know i got the hall pass from you i appreciate it and then kid you not this is the transcript he goes nah for real and i was like oh and then the girl this all happens very quickly the girl goes yes my name is carly i'm 25 uh like

i said we've been dating but not for super long uh i'm an actress um really liked your stuff tonight i uh i'm interested in this and this i do theater stuff out loud i go oh this is happening because you know there's there's people around like it's so crowded everyone can hear this it's so awkward yeah and they were just legitimately offering up like an open relationship with me in a meet and greet line what'd you say did you i said if my throat i don't want to get you sick yes good um you know i've had so many cough drops that you know and then the drainage like i don't know if it would even be that fun for you guys yeah but she followed up on instagram later she dm me like the picture that we took together and she's like seriously consider it i know it could be awkward at first but we can make it work and we travel

all the time and we're both in show business so i get it that was kind of crazy there was like no like joke to it it's like legitimately do you want to be in a relationship that makes me so sad i mean like yeah what the heck like yeah what what kind of relationship are they are they in if they are not content with each other and i I just want to know that I hope I'm the only one they asked. You know, it's going to make me sad if I hear that they asked other comedians to be in their throuple. Yeah, Trey all of a sudden was like, dude, weirdest thing happened.

I'm like, no. You ever heard of something called a quadruple? It's two comedians, one actress and one cuckold. Yeah. Wow, dude. I guess I just assume there's just this brand of people that watch Trey

and go to his shows that are just Christian. So I was like, why would this person be there? But I guess he just has the stragglers. Or maybe it's not even stragglers. I think he just has millions of followers. Yeah, who knows? But that's crazy.

But you're hard no on that uh you know soft r on the diarrhea but hard no on the throuple okay good good for you thank you i would i would i me too just fyi just for future reference for the comedy night um one last thing that i wrote down that i wanted to bring up probably should have said this earlier because i think this would be pretty funny um yesterday i'm boarding we have a delta flight we don't fly delta very often i look at my boarding pass and it says main cabin one and i was like oh baby that is like i feel like i'm always like zone six or whatever you know okay i was like this is gonna be awesome i might be on there before the pilots main cabin one i mean that seems like pretty

one does sound nice i was excited like shout out maggie for booking this like trades manager whatever yeah but then they start making announcements like of course delta people you know thank you for socially distancing wearing your mask um now remember and she starts spouting off the order that we're gonna board in now i went and looked this up afterwards so i could remember everything here is everyone who gets to board before main cabin one okay we're gonna start with pre-boarding okay customers needing assistance or additional time to board sure family boarding next no not family yet sorry next we have a active duty u.s military with id okay good for them next we have delta one members uh next we have diamond medallion members then we have delta premium select okay then we have just normal uh first

class customers then we have early access for customers traveling with car seats or strollers yep family boarding there it is yep then we have delta comfort plus they get to go on that's ridiculous how many tiers they have go ahead then we have sky priority all right okay these are platinum medallion members these are gold medallion members oh this is like a different tier yeah yeah yeah oh my gosh blue platinum and gold members what if you happen to be a club gold member with virgin atlantic oh yeah you go in there that's where you go if you're a gold member with virgin australia uh-huh you go in here left-handed people yeah 116th or more native american yeah if you're from cherokee specifically the inuit uh tribe from alaska actually sky team elite plus members latam past black signature black and platinum elite

members okay west jet rewards they didn't call all these out did they no this is they call the bodies out but this is from their their website okay i was like that's ridiculous and then of course after that we have main cabin one hey so how we've like so what is that actually like how where were you in the plane i mean there was probably like 80 people on the plane before i got on there really yes it's like oh that was that was so exciting so briefly and they just let everybody on there it just got humorous i mean she just keeps reading off this list right and just like now of course diamond medallion gold medallion virgin atlantic platinum member right virgin australia gold member sky priority you know just like my goodness delta

that's a pretty funny uh like snl skit i think i know yeah it's probably one of those things that's like that's could be kind of funny yeah ever kind of like urgent a urgent B I'm working urgent a urgent B urgency urgent D urgent a you know like whatever urgent D you know you have to remain cabin one like just sounds so great main cabin ones like standby like you even have a seat for you yeah all right if you're left- Right. If you've ever worked at a pizza shop. Yeah. If you, for some reason.

Still have your wisdom teeth. Are losing. Yeah. Have only your toes amputated. Come on down. Yeah. Still have your wisdom teeth. If you still rent.

Yeah. Come on. Go ahead. Bored. Right. Anything. Yeah. If you're Mormon.

Where are my Mormons at today? Okay's sunday so you tell me what you're doing here uh yeah um what else we got if you uh bite your fingernails yeah no biters we need you on there first if you prefer nasal mist go ahead yeah where my flow nays at flow nays flow nasers lasers get in there if you thought captain solely was innocent and you support pilots get on in there oh man that's good anyway okay well good to know that delta i yeah i just fly southwest so much that i'm so like yeah you get used, yeah, but the guy that came in, I think I talked about in the podcast that came in, like looked at those coffee tables from Texas. He flies all the time, like flies to London and Paris and stuff for business.

So he's got like, he's like, he's like, yeah, I'm technically this. It was basically like the same thing. He's like, I think he's American airlines though. He's like, I'm technically this, you know, and it's like the highest one. Technically there's one higher, but they don't even talk about that one, you know, whatever. But it's like crazy that there's so many,

cause he's like, yeah, I'm like, you know, whatever black, but there's also premium and there's also, it's also Matt black. Yeah.

Yeah. All these different things that like, who knows what, you know? Yeah. It's just like all these different things to like, make you sound good. Like actually I thought about this as a standup bit at one point, kind of not really about the same idea, but the

idea of like, uh, just like prestigious sounding things that aren't really that nice or like tough. Like, so I was at Lowe's yesterday, uh, picking up some drill bits and there was a brand there called spider, but it was spelled with a Y and for whatever reason reason, that Y gets me. It's like, it's like, I bet that's a good brand because it's not spelled right. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Like, like there's something there. Like it just sounds tough. It's like, just take a normal word and just misspell it barely. And then you got, then you got something nice.

Or if you like take out the vowels and you're like a tech company all of a sudden. Yes. Yes. Right. It's like, that's probably a nice burger.

That's cool. Cause they don't, they don't spell it all out. So, anyway. I have several other stuff written down, but we got to go soon. I got to go to Trey's soon. We got gifts to open up. Oh, yeah.

Let's do it. I think also, like, yeah, we always save more, guys. So, don't feel like we're shortchanging you, but we can give you more next week. Yeah. All right. Let's get in these gifts. So, I legitimately, yeah, I think I said this last last week i packed a bigger suitcase so i could bring all this home okay get my driver out of the way oh my throat it's just so big throat dog is barking again

just too bad all right first of all i remember this guy uh i forget his name maybe caleb though but um i remember he smelled really good Oh good smelling Kayla. You know who you are cuz I comment. I was like dude you smell great tonight really Yeah, did you go to perfume City? working galaxy galaxy He was the first one and then they got way bigger. He's working chick-fil-a. So he got us each chick-fil-a hats No, those are dope. They say Jacksonville, Florida. Cool. Which one do you have preference? No up to you

i'll think about it thank you caleb or whatever you smell and then i think in indianapolis just two nights ago we got t-shirts i've not even looked at any of these yet so we're gonna look at them for the first time that'd be so hard i would never i would it would be so hard for me not to like oh really peak yeah they say neely home cleaning mine says ne nearly upholstery oh how about that i like you want upholstery or up cleaning let's see this one's home cleaning too small for me so maybe that one or maybe neither or maybe they're both for me just frame them we frame them this one's a medium so i think that's a little too small both for me i might try it on later though let me get that brad and i both have our sweaters on. We're recording on a Tuesday. Hello.

Are you guys go sweater? Go sweatering with a sweater. So cozy, dude. So funny. I went from like my cover, like my overalls earlier today. And then I'm in this and I'm going to go back to my overalls. I'm going to go trace it like change again. So next we have gifts from a really sweet woman. Like that morning, I put on my instagram story in orlando like there's a dvd player in my bunk and so she went and got me a dvd just to play it

what is it it's wing seasons one two great show dude great show paul mccartney started a whole band based off that show there's a rice crispy treat in here oh big old crispy yeah that's a gift for hattie in there brad oh man she's gonna love this a little fuzzy friend a fuzzy friend i got socks oh some chocolate white chocolate bar is this fun to listen to brownie brittle there's all sorts of stuff little little uh gingerbread man oh i bet this is for bow probably just kidding these are like little necklace for hattie awesome um and in the crown jewel is this big old box oh yes please thank you thank you i'm gonna just look at this like the just drinks logo drawn out hattie loves these loves these. If you're watching and you gave us these.

Our logo drawn out. Dude, that's nuts. A heart around Catherine. Let's go back to how I look in this logo, dude. What's going on with me here? Just a little tumor on the side of your neck. That is very nice, though. And look at all this.

Like famous quotes from us oh my god here my throat hurts can you read okay yes yeah sorry yeah it's like it's like a lot of the ones from our instagram so um let's see but do you think you could wipe a female but you think you could wipe in a female way feminine way female is what it says on here. Okay, my bad Shout out to cheerleaders for teaching me how to spell aggressive It's hard to be rude in a pair of shorts. I Wish I could when my sister's dog or my sister's in town. She has a dog. Oh, that was kind of funny. That's good Alright, what's in the box? They just it was very fully. Oh and show him the lid too. Oh, yeah

Look at that guys honestly like this is like this is better than any gift i think yeah just the box just the box yeah we're gonna be very careful with that oh sweet some hats talula brewing company okay i feel like i've heard of that okay you know where that is this is from kate katie stimple and she wrote us okay wow um oh cool love the. Thanks for all the weekly laughs. The fidget toys are for Brad's kids. I love these things. So they might be for me too. Congrats on the new addition, Brad. The hats are from a friend's local or friend's brewery here locally shop local. That's right. I hope you both enjoy them. Keep making all the ghosties laugh.

Thanks. Katie Stimple. Oh, and now we got some Alabama trivia. Oh, okay. Okay. Question number one. In Alabama, it is a class B felony to either A, eat ice cream on the street, B, wrestle a bear, or C, cut grass after dark. I actually just saw the answers on the back of this piece of paper, so you get to guess. C, cut grass in the dark.

Incorrect. It was B. Really? Yeah. Okay. Alabama. Wrestle a bear. Alabama was the first to a design the rocket

that sent a man to the moon b have 10 state songs c patented mini golf you know all these already oh okay um my guess is that they had they patented mini golf incorrect send the rocket ship one really allegedly you know if that's even real. Yeah, yeah. Moon landing. True. Number three. I am doing great.

Alabama was the in the United States to do what? What? That's what it says, Katie. It sounded, it looks good. You have good handwriting, but that's what it says. Alabama was the in the United States to do what? A, the first federal territory to apply to statehood to congress b the first 9-1-1 call was made or c to produce diamonds

uh first 9-1-1 call uh b yes good okay one for three uh number four going for 50 going for an f alabama is known for what sign a caution falling cows B after whiskey driving risky C go to church or the devil will get you or D Scorpio what sign D brushing his teeth um after whiskey driving risky B no it's a church one go to church or the devil will get you pretty sure it was B ABC what I saw in the back will get you pretty sure it was b-a-b-c what i saw in the back very good oh wow yeah okay cool okay thank you these are do you know about these your dad would like these yes i know someone who likes those yeah your dad i think probably these are awesome thank you wow this is oh and i have one more gift for you jakey okay um

it's like becoming... Oh, there's that. First of all, that's Sebast. That's Sebast. Sebast. That's his artwork for us. Duct tape. He wants you to autograph it,

and then we're supposed to send him a picture of it. Okay. So do that sometime. And then also from Nikita. Oh, Nikita. Let's see. Nikita sounds like a word when we were doing that Spanish song and I was making up Spanish. Nikita, Nikita. Yeah, I think I said Nikita. Let's see. Nikita sounds like a word when we were doing that Spanish song and I was making up Spanish.

Nikita, Nikita. Yeah, I think I said Nikita out loud. How many things do you have in that backpack, Brent? Enough. Enough to have some trouble knowing where it is. Maybe put it in this pocket. Nope. Just a second.

My goodness. I'm getting nervous. I found it. Okay. This is for you from Nikita in Oregon. It is. Thank you, Nikita. What is this?

I think it's called Right in the Rain, but it's basically. Oh, it's like a shower journal? Yeah. Sweet. Yeah, so you can take notes in the shower. How does that work? There's a ruler on here. What am I going to be measuring?

Hello. I don't think it's specifically supposed to be used in the shower. Nikita, you dog you dog anyway thank you this is so fun to get all these gifts yeah i'm sure it wasn't the most fun to listen to necessarily but i want to honor the people who like went out of their way to like like so is hattie gets pumped about this stuff yeah yeah it's really cool um we don't have time for voice memos this week i'm sorry don't be but we just got a lot of stuff going on right now let's do our review no yes reviews of

the week let's do it i'll start dude yeah whatever poultry poultry is that i used to like be able to go to the website on google chrome and now it has to like pull up itunes every time i'm sorry man you have to scroll down and sometimes it doesn't... Whatever. It's fine. Hey, the good outweighs the bad. Am I happy? Jake and Brad are legitimately the kind of funny I aspire to. Period.

Katie, did you write this one? It's super nostalgic for me because they remind me of my fun uncles. It tracks to... Because my uncle was a camp counselor. Spelled with a K, so Kanakuk. Sweet. So recently I somehow got to speak with Jake over DMs in which he kindly encouraged

me to pursue Kanakuk myself. So I'm enthralled to report that I accepted a King Country position last week for 2022. That's where I worked. That's where Catherine and I became lovers. All thanks to Brad and Jake for helping me to realize a wonderful ministry opportunity. Love y'all.

That's really cool. Real quick, speaking of Canada, I was talking to Simeon. I'm down boy, Simeon. And he was like, dude, I think I might've met your friend Grant Huber. Like last weekend. I met a guy named Grant who worked at CannaCuck and I think it was K country. And so I texted Grant. I was like, where were you at last weekend?

And he said, Edmund. And I was like, Oh, okay. I just met a guy who met a grant at a conference in Indiana yesterday. And that grant worked at K country. And Grant said,

if I'm ever at a stage in life where I'm going to conferences in Indiana, please put me six feet deep. That's pretty good. Good to grant all right i'm gonna actually give uh my review of the week to a youtube comment of the week okay there have been some great ones there have been some great ones this one's coming from jonathan ways oh yeah he got after it today yeah so so luckily like people are really informing me about taylor swift um but this one like just just takes the cake so the t-swizzle album red actually stands for retired, extremely dangerous. And it looks ahead to what Taylor's singer status needs to be and what she will likely, and what she will be like someday as a cougar. Each song conceals a

code that leads to unlocking secret international government secrets. This is amazing. I can't believe that Taylor Swift is so smart about this. So fast forward to red too. Taylor is being hunted by treacherous federal agents from 22 countries and she knows it all too well, all too well capitalized. She's the lucky one, but knows everything has changed. She's on the run under the starlight and this is her message in a bottle. After the third red album drops in her 10 years, her safety status will be updated to a code red 3 and then she'll be in real trouble and her and us will get back together. It's sad,

beautiful, tragic. Jonathan. So I really appreciate that because that's really interesting. I didn't know that. That's helpful. And also sounds like she had her love locked down. Oh, no, you did it. I thought you were looking at something. No, just like, whoa.

No, just excited about your joke. Would you like to end this episode with a jingle bread? Yeah, and guess what, Jake? What? She's back. And by she, I mean the legend. Heatherly? Heatherly's back.

It's because I met her in the alleyway in Orlando. It's because you met her, Lee. Met her, Lee. Yeah. She's back. We're back. Monday morning, post Thanksgiving, Christmas time. This isn't a Christmas song, but just Merry Christmas to you guys.

Merry Christmas, you guys. Jesus is coming. All right. He's born. He's been around. Yeah. All right. Here we go.

Ghost Runners. Monday. Monday. Ghost Runners Monday Monday To Casey Brains Give you Monday morning laughing pains You know we'd never forget you So each week we come back Just to vibe I like this. Why this podcast has exploded It's these two guys Hey!

Said hey Ghost Runners Ain't that Jacob Triplett on the microphone? Orlando, those jokes you spit ain't fair, you know Hey Ghost Runners I don't wanna miss a single Patreon video tonight Hey, how's your mom? Can I buy some merch? Always on time

I'm so glad to find new episodes each week You gave this group direction a podcast friend connection We can't deny I am so

obsessed My family is bound for a GRKC merch Christmas We believe in you I like that. Hey Ghost Runners, ain't that Freddie Ellis in the studio? String me flow, the way you sing ain't fair, you know. Hey Ghost Runners, I don't wanna miss that jingle thing you do. You can't crack wood, AC City Only furniture on me New cable on that rug It's exactly what I'm dreaming of You see, I can host my extended family In fact, there's no one I can't see I want them all to eat Thanksgiving Of quality

I said, hey, Ghost Runners Ain't that Kirstie's daughter on the radio? Voice memo, the cutest kids It ain't that Kirstie's daughter on the radio? Nice. Voice memo, the cutest kids, it ain't fair, you know. Hey, Ghostrunners, we don't want to miss a single joke you make tonight. I said, hey, Ghostrunners, I don't want to see this podcasting inside Inside No way Don't go away

Never say Goodbye No way Don't go away Never say goodbye. Heather Lee is back. That was awesome. She's back, baby.

That was awesome. Good job, Brad. Thanks, man. Well done. Thank you. We love you guys. We've got to run because Jake's got to go to Trace, and I've got to go to Trace, and then we've got to do things,

and Jake's got to rest his voice, but we love you guys. Have a great week. Very excited. If you don't remember, we are on YouTube dot com. We are on Patreon. We are on the World Wide Web. Yeah, we have merch called WWW dot Ghost Runners dot life is our website. If you want to buy some merch just overall, we appreciate you guys. We love you guys. This has been episode 130 something, right? Episode 134. Episode 134. It truly is. It's so great. How many of you guys listen and how many are coming to the shows and just the genuine support

that Brad and I feel from you guys. It's pretty crazy. Can't wait to meet more of you on the road or more of you on February 12th weekend. Let's go win the Chiefs for the Super Bowl. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go, baby. I hope you guys have something to look forward to in your life.

Yes. Amen. Amen. And Jesus name I pray. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go, baby. I hope you guys have something to look forward to in your life. Yes. Amen. Amen. Jesus, name of prayer. Love you guys. Love you, Catherine. Love you. Love you.

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