Ghostrunners - 135 - Hide the Ham

Episode Date: December 6, 2021

Do not accept any luggage from an unknown person in the terminal... also do not let Isaac anywhere in your living room. 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

uh jake as you know well actually by the time that this podcast uh airs it's going to be a week from wednesday that i'm performing my first stand-up comedy gig that's right paid comedian now small town stanbury missouri oh you know what you know you know you know i was trying to think of that rascal flat song i'm a stanberry sitting on the corner, drinking ice cold, cherry Coke, watching the clouds go by data. For sure. Forget jock jams. Um, no, but I was looking up, somebody asked me the other day, like we're Stanbury. So I just looked up on the map and really close to Stanbury is a town called conception city. And I was like, that's too good to not make jokes. I have to use that. Yeah. Uh, so I just need your help as a experienced comedic writer and stand up comedian.

Well, rural comedian is what I am. How do I how do I find my how do I find my joke there? I mean, first of all, they're going to love it from from my experience. Anytime anytime you can make it specific to their city. Yeah. They're like, this guy's awesome. He gets us. Inception City.

He gets us. Yeah. You could pretend like you read it wrong and like i mean i wonder if there's any people from uh inception city loved you guys's movie yeah leo leo must live there yeah i had a dream i performed here at least i thought i did yeah right what the girl from juno was in that what happened to her after that they'd be like what are you talking about like took a took a wrong turn and concept and got yeah wound up in conception city i said i already have three kids no no more no more kids

um somebody rear-ended me i don't know it said that's not how it's supposed to work not in conception city oh yeah your tailpipe's in my muffler. Yeah, traffic-based jokes at Conception City is fun. I rolled down my window and asked for directions. And yeah, they said something about a Tahoe minus the Tah. I don't know. Hey, we're brainstorming. We're brainstorming here.

You know? Yeah. It's got to be around Christmas time time when you perform that's right some sort of joke with uh hey oh your time is immaculate yeah in conception city that's good that's a that's a family good joke right there thank you the immaculate conception they're expecting you to go dirty you know tahoe jokes yes but you're not nope not because it wasn't funny just because not because it wasn't dynamite material. Just because. Just, you know, family friendly.

So you're welcome. So anyway, I was like, that's the Immaculate Conception. Thanks for coming, Stan Barry. You've been great. All right, we are back with another podcast episode. Episode 119. Almost. Okay. I can't tell you guys how good it feels to have my voice pretty much back. Yes. Congrats. Yeah. I'd say I'm at like 85, 90%. You enjoy talking again. Right now. It's awesome. Like I look forward to it now. The last like two and a half podcast episodes, maybe three, I don't know, have been pretty rough. Yeah. Mine doesn't really hurt right now, but it's starting to sound like it's raspy yeah every morning when i wake up it's still dry

and like is it back and then in like 30 minutes it's fine okay good i've only been awake for like 30 minutes so that's perfect no you're just getting warmed up i right before we record we started recording this i asked jake i was like what are we going to talk about since you didn't go on tour this week yeah what do we have we We got nothing. We'll make it work though. This is going to be a great episode. I'm just excited to finally like have just energy in my throat again. Like I'm just excited and we've had a good day. I laughed so much the last two hours. Yeah. Was that like one of the more fun times we've had recording? I don't know what it was. Shooting. They, I always call it recording. I think we start calling it shooting when we're doing videos. I would say this is recording. This is recording. That is shooting. That is shooting.

Yes. Which that was funny that one day we were giving Derek a hard time. Are you asking like, Derek, do you ever say any, do you ever say action or whatever? And then Derek was like, I should start mixing it up. No. Yeah. So I, so Derek always goes rolling, rolling. And like, that always like kind of like mess with me at the beginning which i think that's just what everyone says but i learned on the office um the cameraman always say go ahead go ahead go ahead and so it was just kind of like whenever you're ready go ahead and so i said that to him and he was like that's kind of cool and so then like he was testing he tried to do different things like we are rolling and he'd say let's roll okay yeah let's roll he'd say go on and it just yeah it just. Let's roll. He'd say, go on. And it just, yeah, it just, it just made me laugh every time.

It was so funny. Just mess with me. It was these subtle things. Go get them. Tray ball. Tray ball. Have a nice day. Yeah.

So that was funny. But yeah, we had such a good time today. Yeah. We were shooting two different videos. Yes. We recorded two videos today. Yeah. Which will be good.

And Brad, you should talk about the little blooper we had last week because we didn't talk about that. Oh my gosh. Yeah, you're right. Was that? Yeah. Oh, that was awesome. It was the people pleasers video we shot last week.

That was another one of the times I've laughed the hardest. Single, single, single hardest, but also I felt so bad. So yeah. Oh yeah. So we're doing people pleasers part two and it's like, we're doing this scene where Trey and I are just like being obnoxiously not funny, but like Jake feels like he needs to laugh at us. Like, Oh, that's crazy. And we're just being so goofy and like, just, yeah, just like, like just dying laughing. And yeah, Trey at one point he's got like this little mantle. He like,

kind of like elbows this vase on his mantle and it kind of tips a little bit. And Trey like is like, oh, I'm so clumsy. I'm so clumsy. And takes the vase and just like throws it to me. Brad's like, don't knock the house over. Like these are the types of jokes you're saying. They're so bad. Just like terrible, like dad jokes. And he throws the vase to me and I catch it.

And he's like, oh, we're like dying laughing. Like as a skit, like just dying laughing. And for whatever reason, I don't know. I, whatever. I am convinced that if this were you and me, it wouldn't have happened, but those are me and me and Trey. So I catch it and I kind of like fumble it for a little while.

And I throw it behind my back, like behind the back pass back to Trey and Trey just doesn't see it coming at all. Nope. And the vase just shatters. And Trey's like, why did you do that? We got it all on camera. Derek kept recording. Trey's like, why did you do that? We got it all on camera. Derek kept recording.

Trey's like, you, you threw it behind the back. What were you thinking? You know? And I was just like, I'm so sorry, man. Oh, it was so funny. I mean, the thing is just in pieces. It's so loud. Derek pans back to us, my hand or like my head is in my hands. I'm dying laughing. Brad's dying laughing. Trey's like, what are you doing? I was so, I was felt so bad you know because you never know like with decorations like that could be that might have been five dollars or that could have been like yeah a hundred dollars you don't know um and he has nice stuff at his house so i'm like oh gosh what have i done it was awesome and derrick showed us a clip today it was great i forgot that i i went back into character and i was like that's crazy at the end of all of it you did did. I didn't remember that. I just remember feeling so bad.

But yeah, we watched back to tape and I am convinced that Trey could have caught it. It was a better toss than I remembered. Me too. And maybe that's just the angle of the camera. Maybe that's, maybe it's just giving me some grace, but I am convinced that if it were me throwing it to Jake, Jake would have caught it. So that was hilarious last week. Today was just so fun.

We got really caught up on the Suez Canal today. That was hilarious too. Yeah. And Brad was on it. So that was hilarious last week. Today was just so fun. We got really caught up on the Suez canal today. That was hilarious too. Yeah. And Brad was on, you were on a roll. Like we were not having a writing session. Like we were in the middle of shooting a video and Brad is like coming up with all these like amazing, like wordplay pond things. Like if I had five minutes by myself, yeah, I could do this. Like, how are you doing this in the midst of us? Like shooting these videos. It was so funny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah yeah the suez thing was really funny too like we uh we were doing a video uh five stages of gift giving and so uh one of the stages was like there's they're all out of supply chain yeah and so uh you know trey talked about the suez canal but unironically yeah when he first

said it he said suez he's done that multiple times. I've tried to tell him and he can't get it. Oh really? Yeah. Yeah. He always does that. The Suez. He's like, he's like, it's the Suez Canal. You know, he's like, he's like, he's like, you know, talking before he's even acting. Like it's like, just like acting it out beforehand, like the Suez Canal, Suez Canal. And we were both laughing. We're like, no, it's the Suez. You know, it's the Suez like, or not's like i don't know so then it just came to sing in the video if we if we could find a way to bring up the canal we would and then bradavich just loses it enough about the suez stop with the suez yeah oh man that reminds me that that

like blunder of of talking reminds me of the the wolf on the roof thing uh it started to be a thing with me about once every three videos yeah i need an slp on on hand i need help like like there's a video i it's at the end of one of the correct opinions um that jake does with trey kennedy of um it's a podcast and uh but but it's like they do like the skit at the end or do they do this get the beginning and then the bloopers are at the end i think it's the only time derek's ever put a blooper at the end of it yeah because the skits was the beginning it's so it's just talking about like how people say words wrong like that's the whole skit and like you know people saying rough instead of roof yeah but you had the hardest or both instead of both you had the hardest time saying uh roof yes you kept saying

rough because i kept trying to I was supposed to say it incorrectly, but there's these like slight, like, you know, variations to each word. It's like, yeah, you just love it. I'm just thinking about it because, because you're, you're supposed to say a wolf on the roof and you had such a hard time saying roof. And so you kept saying rough instead of roof. And so then you're like, there's, you're like, guys, you need to come up here. There's a wolf on the rough. I mean, I bet you need to come up here there's a wolf on the rough i mean i bet we did 17 takes of it i could not get it we we might let hey justin if you can write this down right now just let's put that sound clip in at the very end of this okay cool slash video yeah it's so so so funny and recently we've just had more trouble

i forgot what it was last week but this week I had to say solstice sisters. Yes, that's right. Oh, I like, yeah, I died laughing at that. Yeah, Brad really liked it. That was one of those times where like, even like there was one time you said it perfectly, but even before you could get it out, I was laughing, imagining you saying it wrong.

Just the anticipation. Yeah. Hey, cause you, cause you kind of like barely pause. You're like, hey, all you solstice sisters. So that was a good one. Yeah, today today was fun i've had a little trouble recently i mean we talked about last week i said diarrhea with a soft r on stage yeah and then also this week it was um a certain week in college football bedlam rivalry week yeah that one's tough tough one the word rivalry on its own is it too bad but when you know that the w is coming it'll throw you off a little bit okay rivalry week rivalry

rivalry week rivalry week call the calvary because it's the rivalry week yeah that is tough so embarrass myself there but just in front of like people like other people in front of people what a great rivalry oh arkansas against arkansas state so many great games in this why will we yeah oh shout out to my salsa sisters dude yeah we had some fun we had some fun writing we yeah so we did five stages of gift giving and we also did a female influencers were honest about christmas so those are always fun those are easy to like they're so easy because they're easy to be like goofy with and also easy to come up with you know goofy yeah so i'm just remembering i should have done something physical probably because last time they loved me doing the side planks i forgot about that i had that

thought at one point when we were recording too like we should do something fitness wise but couldn't think of it oh well oh well oh Oh, well. Oh, well. Yeah. I'm curious. Whenever that video comes out, comment some of your favorite quotes in it. Cause we have so many like stupid small things that we said. Yeah. I think it'd be good. We can video. Yeah. I didn't tour this week, but I still went on an airplane.

I'd like to talk about it real quick. All right. I flew to Iowa. Sure. Why? Why wouldn't you? Yeah. No reason.

Just, you know, the dreams. I wanted to see it. It's that time of year. Is this heaven? No. It's Iowa. Anybody say that to you? Yeah, no reason. Just, you know, the dreams. I wanted to see it. It's that time of year. Is this heaven? No, it's Iowa. Anybody say that to you? Nope. Really?

No. Dude, that's what I would say. I would say that to every single person. You know what I heard when I was there? Is that we were talking about Iowa nice. No, that's Minnesota nice. That's what I thought from you. So I don't know.

That's fair. I've only heard it from Minnesota people. And you live in Kansas, so I don't know. Maybe that's just a thing that you do. It's like a North thing. Wisconsin nice. Yeah, Wisconsin nice is another one. Maybe that's just a thing that you do. It's like a North thing. Wisconsin, nice. Yeah, Wisconsin, nice is another one. Ohio, nice.

Uh-huh. Iowa, nice. Arkansas, nice. Oh, just great Arkansas, nice. He came by yesterday. Henry? Yeah. Nice.

Yeah, Henry, nice. Henry what? Henry? Henry with the Wibowee week. He came by and yeah, that was why I was a little bit late to Trace yesterday. That's right. I finally go, Henry, I gotta go. I'm sorry, man.

He's like, okay, okay. Okay. Just want to come by and make sure that you're getting some water for those peach trees and that Northern white oak. Okay. Okay. Okay. You got it, Henry.

Anyway, sorry. You're flying. Oh yeah. Flying to Iowa. Fly away. Fly away. Fly away. anyway sorry you're you're uh you're flying oh yeah flying to iowa fly away fly away and there's so many like little announcements or things you hear in an airport that i've never paid much attention to but one of them caught my ear this week you know i put my nose to it and uh it's like it's one of those announcements it's like um it says something along the lines of

do not accept luggage from any unknown person in the terminal yes and in Kansas City it was if anyone chooses to or if anyone asks to give you bags whatever that are not yours do not accept it if an ex-girlfriend attempts to give you her baggage do not take it right it's not worth it yeah um no but yeah the idea of me without this announcement I might be accepting other people's luggage. I might do it willing, willingly in what world, like, do we need to warn people? Hey, now I know it's going to feel like you should take other people's bags for them. Don't do it guys. That's suspicious. It's not a good idea. Don't wheel around their luggage for them. I'm trying to think about the year that

somebody would have needed this announcement. I i because i genuinely can't imagine a world 1920s let's say okay first of all you're not flying at that point you're on a train no wright brothers haven't even done their thing yet but if anyone you know like gave you a bag on it like hey do you mind taking this on the train uh i'm not gonna go on the train but just take my bag in the 19 1923 you're gonna take that to take that bag. No, I don't know. I got one to watch the Yankees. Yeah. Like, like if the guy was like, Hey, I just need somebody to drop this off. My daughter's going to be waiting in Rochester, New York for this. Do you mind just taking that from Racine to Rochester? And then you're like, no, what? No. Why would I ever, ever? I don't want my own bags. I don't want any of your bags. And they haven't invented the wheelie things on the bags yet.

So those things are heavy. And back in 1923. And those are wheelie nice. Remember 1923 bag. I mean, those things were like super hard plastic. Yeah. Like those things are crazy heavy. Very robust.

Yes. Back then. Big busts on the bags. Yeah, sure. The front bags. There you go. Yeah. So luggage has come a long way.

Yeah. That's so true though. Like, like, and it's an announcement that they make every 10 minutes in the airport yeah probably it's like do not leave unattended baggage that's a big one i got in trouble for that one one time when i was uh like you know ignorant little flying boy i guess it's just suspicious to see a bag without an owner but yeah i was like oh you want to take it to the bathroom with me and now i know you have to take it into the bathroom with you but like even as a little kid you're probably keeping it with your parents or something oh i don't mean an actual little boy i just mean like knowledge wise i was a little boy in the realm of travel and i was just like i don't want my duffel bag in the bathroom no one's gonna steal my underwear you know

duffel full of underwear yeah i had uh my bowels were like a little boy i had some trouble i had a lot diarrhea no but like trouble in paradise really really a lot of things about flying just i i think that they're just so so careful but it's just like how come like yeah really uh but like the name of an event the liquid thing is also just like like it's also bogus i haven't had anything in a travel size bag in years and i never get in trouble for it yeah every once in a while they'll take do they ever take it out of the bag or like examine it sometimes they'll like take out my camera and just like certain airports they're just like all right go ahead yeah i don't know but yeah no i'm talking about liquids though no no liquids no i don't think so no yeah it's just it's it is like i don't understand like do i can i really like with pert plus and a little bit of Tresemme, am I going to

be able to make like an atomic bomb all of a sudden? Atomic bomb? No. Okay. But just short of it. Oh yeah. Pert bomb. Pert bomb.

Pert bomb. Yeah. I don't know. It's, it's interesting. And the shoes thing. How much, how much are we hiding in our shoes these days? Well, I think it came from someone actually having a bomb in their shoe. No way.

Yeah. That one. That's real. Yeah. Yeah. Shoe bomb. Okay. Okay. Fine. I'll, I'll, I'll accept came from someone actually having a bomb in their shoe. No way. Yeah, that one. That's real? Yeah, yeah. Shoe bomb. Okay, okay, fine. I'll accept the shoe bomb thing.

Shoe bomb law. But you can't detect a shoe bomb through the x-ray thing? Yeah, the x-ray thing. The x-ray thing should be able to detect shoe bombs. Make a better x-ray. We can land a guy on the moon, but we can't make an x-ray machine that sees bombs in your shoes? Riddle me that. Yeah. Huh. I'll tell you what's nice when the dogs are out oh you ever had those airport terminals those

you get nervous just in case yeah a little bit like i'm like i know i don't have anything but what if what if i like you know like rubbed elbows with some what my uber driver you know was smoking some reefer earlier and all of a sudden i have i had a lot of poppy seeds yesterday i've heard that could show up in a drug test. Yes. Can the Basset hound also know that I had poppy seeds? Yeah. They're like,

you get a false positive. That's a muffin. That's a muffin boy over there. Yeah. We got a false sniff. We got a muffin over here. Oh my gosh. That reminds me of two things.

Um, I'll say both at the same. No, uh, one, I was at what airport was it a couple of weeks ago coming back from tour. It was the dog thing, but it was the dog is going to sniff

three of you at a time so line up next to each other and we need you to walk at us at the same pace while the dog sniffs you this was new i'd only ever like free soloed it with that seems like it would take longer than just going one at a time yes it did because you're all had to be like okay how fast are you guys gonna walk what kind of pace you guys think hey hey i'm brad hey how long are your strides steven nice to meet you man yeah okay yeah my i have size 12 pace do you guys think? Hey, I'm Brad. Hey, how long are your strides? Steven, nice to meet you, man. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. My, I have size 12. What do you have? Seven and a half. Whoa, buddy.

Okay. What high school sports do you play? Let's talk about it. JB, varsity. Was it easy? Small school or big school? Right. Yeah.

Public, private. Okay. You probably made it easy because you were from small school. Okay. Small school. It's not the same as me. All right, Steven. Yeah, go ahead.

But no joke. We had a guy, overachiever. May have been something off about him. I don't know. But like couldn't grasp the like what was going on. It was like, no, no, no. Go back. Go back.

And we all had to go back. It was truly like in middle school basketball. It's like Trevor missed a free throw. We're all running. It's like, that's not fair. How does that show you? The dog could smell it like what? We all had to be at the exact same like pace the whole time.

And it wasn't a long ways to walk. But this guy was just quite the overachiever. He had a backpack on you know I think he looked like a hiking backpack like oh, he can't go at a slow pace Okay, he doesn't he only knows one speed baby had like hiking boots and like the like long socks like halfway up the I just Described someone who's blind. I'm like he had this like stick like this hiking stick yet sunglasses Because he was just right there fine, and he like on, he walked further than he needed to. He like walked through some of the, and it was not even that bright out and he had, he had like dark sunglasses on. Yeah. I don't know. So, so, okay. Genuinely, like, did you, did you say one, two,

three, and then step? Or did you say five, six, seven, eight? Like, how'd you do this? The guy counted for us. I don't know what like type of metronome he used it could have just been a go ahead okay or a rolling let's roll let's roll here yeah uh tray ball i don't know what he said but we had to do it two or three times because the guy to my left like couldn't couldn't pump the brakes that's ridiculous yeah it was kind of fun i forgot about that uh you have another thing sorry other thing oh uh speaking of uh dog sitting for poppy seeds yeah i was with some folks this weekend and they have a family game it's got a real creative name it's called hide it here's how hide it works okay you're never gonna guess okay no it actually is pretty fun

so one person takes the dog in the kitchen okay and the other person will show the dog a slab of ham it's like look at this you see this and then they go we talking like deli ham we talking we're talking pretty nice ham it's pretty thick okay it's like this could have been served at thanksgiving like honey honey baked ham yeah yeah it's nice i would i would enjoy it i would i would enjoy okay so the dog sees it's ham time it's also hide at time oh yeah seemed like the dog has played this quite a bit. She understood the rules. Yeah. You're about to go ham.

Yeah. It's not a Jewish dog, so she can go ham. Good. And so someone else holds the dog. It's like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Someone will go into the living room and hide the ham somewhere. It should be called hide the ham. Now that I think about it, that's a fun name.

HTH. A little hide the ham. Yeah. And. Hides anywhere. Anywhere in the living room. Nothing's off limits and then they release the dog and two things happen one it's literally like a pavlov's dog experiment because the dog

is salivating so much it looks like the sandlot dog it's pretty off-putting how much slobber is coming out of the dog's mouth but it's also kind of lovable okay and then you just you watch this dog try and sniff out the ham okay only. Only thing is kind of an old dog. I don't know how well its nose works anymore. Not the quickest dog. Yeah. Paint the picture of what the dog looks like. It looks like, I think it's just, I think it's just a black lab.

Okay. I don't know dogs super well, but it's black. I think it's an, I got the color, right? Okay. Feel good about the color. It's bigger. Um, yeah. Bigger.

Like, you know, I'm kind of a hunting dog. Uh, no, I don't think so. Black labs. I don't think so. Yeah, bigger. Like, you know. It's kind of a hunting dog. Uh, no. I don't think so. Black labs? I don't think so. Yeah. I think you need the word hound somewhere in it to be a hunting dog. Oh, really?

I think so. I just know a lot of black labs that I have friends that do duck hunting. Oh, dang. Yeah. Hey. Hands up. Two hands up. I don't know if they're like.

I'm sorry. I don't know if they're like sniffing it out as much as they are just like going and getting retrieving. Like black retrievers. Oh, no, no. That's a good wait i don't know um somebody's gonna comment and know their laughs yeah honestly i don't know what i'm talking about but um but this old this did not seem like a hunting dog to me based on how small the living room was and how long it took this dog to find the ham but boys at a fun game i would encourage anyone to play it not even with a dog with a younger brother maybe something without you know that's not ham so i would i would genuinely play hide the ham i would i love him i'll play you want to do it sometime

we should i think like next like snowstorm it's like oh power's out what are we gonna do come over bring a deck of cards and a couple things to have yeah i mean we could play kings in the corner war egyptian rat screw and uh hide the ham we gotta hide the ham yeah um if we you know we get enough candlelight in here i love it dude let's do it so just a little something just a little hide the ham just a good times um well let's go back to the uh airport airport do you feel like there's people out in the airport that like, uh, like, like some of the TSA people, they just like live for being TSA. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Which it's nice to see a little fire in them, like a little passion. Cause it'd be easy to, I mean, that's such a boring job. You see the same things like anything bigger than a laptop. We need out of your backpack,

hang on to it until you see it go through the machine. Right. You need shoes off everything out of your pocket, you know, just the same thing. Don't you feel like eventually sometimes they're almost wrapping it though got a little beat to it yeah no laptop shoes yeah shoes everything out of your pocket if you got a gun on you you're gonna get dropped it yeah you know whatever it's like whoa this is me goes and then every once in a while

like the x-ray machine guy starts beatboxing Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, shoes off, shoes off. Where you flying to? Where you flying to? Just making some small talk. We got a runner! We got a runner! Yeah.

That kid left his bag. That kid left his double bag filled with underwear. Won the world. What's he doing? Through the loom. Okay. Anyway. Anyway.

Airports are nuts. How was thanksgiving for you i had a great thanksgiving thanks for asking some people actually do that in real life you know like but it's something so specific so like so has anyone ever performed in a talent show just waiting we're like uh what about you let's go let's all go around yeah that's my my cord is it you okay yeah everyone's well let's all go around and talk about our best talent show experience in fourth grade i'll start i did a song acapella don't make me do it now don't make me do it now i don't even remember the lyrics okay go ahead okay all right it was evanescence's bring me to life wake me uh did you ever perform

the talent show yes in second grade i was jake the great oh heck yeah do you know what act i did based off that oh yeah magic magic magic yeah i was a magician what kind of stuff oh we're talking um i've got this little like vase thing there's a ball in it right let's let's back up one okay what did jake the great look like what What did Jake the Great look like for sure? Okay. I know we have a home video of it and I've seen it. You know, last I saw it was probably six or seven years ago. Actually, yes.

I'm almost positive. A wand? I don't think I have a hat on. I think I've just got that classic like side part. Yeah, sure. Early onset side part in like second grade. And yes, I'm wearing a cape. And I think I'm just like dressed nice like i'm

like going to church or something khaki khaki pants black pants i think you know i keep it classy yeah up there but like probably some like a like a polo that has like golfers on it you know like a bunch of like speckled golfers all over maybe something like that nice i'm wearing that with a cape love it and it's funny because i was so shy truly so shy until probably seventh grade so the idea that i did this doesn't really make much sense to me and when i watched the footage back when i watched the tape i had some like flamboyancy to my act okay not in like a feminine way but just like in a showmanship way like i would like get down with the thing and i would like throw both hands up and like all my fingers up i would do that to show you like i'm not in handcuffs anymore but there was no talking so i did it to music oh okay i'm

almost positive i did it to some like really cheesy christian song back then like some like like um in the voice of truth it was inspirational magic routine yeah I can only imagine magic. Yeah. I can only imagine. Yeah, you didn't call it magic, though. You called it illusion because you're a Christian. They were illusions.

Oh, that's great. So I did it to music, to like an instrumental of just probably like, I don't know. Yeah. It was like you're inside of a Chick-fil-A. Like that instrumental is what i perform magic to yeah and yeah i think i did a i did a trick where i got one rope now i've cut the rope oh i love three distinct sizes i do i do not know how to i don't i don't want to ever know how they do magic tricks i don't remember how i did it okay i was like this is that's kind of cool that looks like three different rope right and then a little razzle dazzle

i think i literally put i put the rope behind my back and it was like doing who knows what behind my back just like hold on hang on boom well it's one rope now you know like it was pretty awkward it's the equivalent of like a comedian having a piece of paper up i have one rope now a quarter of three strands is not easily broken, though. Illusion. But the voice. Illusion. So, yeah, I did the three rope thing. I think I got out of handcuffs. I'm pretty sure.

Okay. And I did something with like some scarves. I think I had like a quick changing scarf. It was like, this scarf is red, green, and blue. Whizha! Oh. Yellow, pink, purple now. Okay.

What's up? What's up? went yeah that's awesome something like that i like that those are the only tricks i remember um but you didn't want to pursue it next year third grade it was like i'm over magic i'm over magic uh i was just so stagey i mean i think most kids are i just went through stages i went through it yeah i remember my yo-yo and my sign language stage where we're back to back oh not at the same time like once yo-yoing was done it's like let's figure out some sign language did you what kind of yo-yo you have i had a let me tell you what i had my thanksgiving was great we didn't talk about thanksgiving i had a fireball yes yes yes and i had it was uh brown with like a red like

red on the interior of my fireball well mine was mine was red and black, maybe. Okay, cool. Fireball, dude. I remember, so I had a $2 allowance back then. And it was an eight, the fireball was $8. Wow. And $8, I saved up for four weeks. And it felt like an eternity to save up for that $8. $8 though, you were basically a king. Seriously, I went and bought that thing.

And I felt like I was like investing, like I was buying a car. I was like, here's my $8 like investing, like I was buying a car. I was like, here's my $8. Please, like, please be very careful. I hope this holds its value. Yeah. I'm going to sell this in a few years. And I got that.

I got that fireball. And then I got the brain later. Do you have one of those? The brain. The brain was one that automatically came up. Oh, see, I didn't like those. I wanted to be able to walk the dog or a baby in the rocker. Remember that one? You could do all that with the brain. brain yeah you gotta time it right oh that fireball yo-yo i was about to say i have no clue what yo-yo i had and then the second you said

fireball i was like that's exactly what i remember yeah there were like three there were like three tiers oh yeah yo mega that was the brand yeah there was fireball and there was the brain there was one above that that i didn't have. The brain. The brain was like the $25 one. And I remember thinking, I think I got that for my birthday or something. I was like, this is the best birthday ever. Dude, the prices have not gone up very much at all. Fireball is only $13.99.

Dude, I follow. That's cool. I follow this account. Like it's like nostalgia about the nineties or whatever. It's awesome. I think it's like things about the nineties or whatever. It's awesome. I think it's like things nineties kids know or something like that on Instagram. But they, they like showed a, like a, you know, black Friday kind of ad back in the day and super Nintendo games were $60 each.

No way. Right. Like, like I was like, I had a hard time. I had a hard time believing that because that's how much they cost now. Right. For like a new Xbox game. Yeah. It'd be 60 bucks. Like I was like, I was like, Oh, and same with like, I had a hard time believing that because that's how much they cost now, right? For like a new Xbox, it'd be 60 bucks. I was like, oh, and same with like TVs and cameras and stuff. Like the prices haven't really changed that much over time.

Even with inflation? Even with inflation, technology advance, you know. I will say TVs have definitely gotten cheaper. Yes. Like not even adjusted inflation but it's like truly tvs used to cost like five grand for like a brand new one because they were made out of like 50 000 pounds of you know things you're made out of shoe bombs right pretty impressive technology yeah well for the talent show for me oh yeah that's where we got going i

in like first grade yeah what'd you do in tell us first grade kindergarten uh my whole baseball team saying take me out to the ball game uh guess what i was i was the catcher i was the the only kid that could really fit into the the gear everyone else was too skinny and then i think maybe like third or fourth grade me and one of my friends davis woodward we sang uh the ku fight song because i'm a j j j j j hack so end up going to k state but how do you feel like take me out to the ball game went over um fine we all got to put eye black on our on our faces which was that's cool that's fun did you rock the eye black as you continue to play baseball not too much because it was i remember like one time i kind of got in my eye and i was

like this isn't fun anymore ouch but yeah i thought it was really cool i also remember like one time I kind of got in my eye and I was like, this isn't fun anymore. Ouch. But yeah, I thought it was really cool. I also, there was one time where I bought the, uh, the glasses that he had, the chipper Jones, like flip up ones. I wore them once. I was like, these are terrible. Like, it's like the ones that like, you're supposed to be able to flip down. Once you get a top fly, you flip them down. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. But whoever did that, it only looked cool if they were flipped up. But even then I was like, no, this is too extra for me. Dang. I always thought those were cool. I never had those. I was an arm band guy though. I even then I was like, no, this is too extra for me. Dang. I always thought those were cool. I never had those. I was an armband guy though. I was, I was an accessories guy for sure.

Really? I had a headband and basketball. Oh, I was such a sweater. I was a huge sweater. So I needed a headband. Yeah. I had a headband. I was a big fan of Corey Maggette and Quentin Richardson on the Clippers back in the day.

And they used to do this. They did. And so. And Miles Davis. He did that too. Miles, not Davis. That's the. Darius Miles. so. And Miles Davis. He did that too. Miles, not Davis. That's the. Darius Miles.

Yeah. Miles Davis is the like saxophone player. If peeing your pants is cool. Miles Davis did that after he got done performing. Yeah. Darius Miles. Yeah. Yeah.

So me and my friends would always do the thing with our heads. Nice. We need to. I know we kind of talked about this last week, but we need to sign up for basketball league. I need some cardio in my life. Yeah, me too. I want to wear a headband. Okay. That's it. You're usually the one that takes charge. so go ahead and take charge of that i need to take charge i need to take a charge this season too

you know it's a big momentum shifter i should take more charges that's right nothing in rec basketball yeah rec basketball like taking charges i could probably benefit from a headband now my face gets so so sweaty but acti boy also got a big old patch of, you know, Acti right where my headband patch me. Yeah. So take it as, take it as you want. Okay.

But anyway, my high school was the Indians. So we were the Apache Indians. It was nice. We all had it. There you go. Thanks. The all new fan dual sports book and casino is bringing you more action than ever.

Want more ways to follow your faves. Check out our new player prop tracking with real-time notifications. Or how about more ways to customize your casino page with our new favorite and recently played games tabs. And to top it all off, quick and secure withdrawals. Get more everything with FanDuel Sportsbook and Casino. Gambling problem?

Call 1-866-531-2600. Visit connectsontario.ca. How do stop losses work on Kraken? Let's say I have a birthday party on Wednesday night, Visit connectsontario.ca. on Kraken, an easy way to plan ahead. Go to kraken.com and see what crypto can be. Non-investment advice. Crypto trading involves risk of loss. See kraken.com slash legal slash ca dash pru dash disclaimer for info on Kraken's undertaking to register in Canada. Looking for a path to accelerate your career?

Clear direction for next level success? In a place that is innovative and practical? A path to stay current and connected to industry, a place where you can be yourself, you will find it at York University School of Continuing Studies, where we offer career programs purpose-built for you. Visit continue.yorku.ca. This episode is brought to you by CIBC. From closing that first sale to opening a second store,

as a business owner, you've hustled to accomplish a lot, but the rewards don't stop there. When you earn two times more points on things that matter to you and your business, easily track those business expenses, and experience flexible Aventura rewards, you'll realize how much more rewarding your hustle can be. Get up to $1,800 in value when you apply for the CIBC Aventura Visa for Business at CIBC.com slash Aventura Business. Terms and conditions apply.

At Pennzoil, we have one job. Pioneering a motor oil so advanced, you don't have to think about your motor oil. Instead, you can think about how your engine sounds, how your stomach feels as the RPMs build, how your wheels hug the curves, and how with the Pennzoil Platinum up to 15-year, 800,000-kilometer protection guarantee, your adventures will be many. Pennzoil.

Long may we drive. Available at your local Canadian tire. Enrollment required. Keep your receipts. Other conditions apply. See Pennzoil.ca slash warranty for full details. Anyway. My Thanksgiving was great.

How was yours? Thank you for asking. It was good. Let's see. We, we all went over to grandparents house, had a nice meal. Kansas City grandparents?

Stratford. They're all back at Springfield now. Oh, so. Okay. Or like they're all in Springfield now. Okay. Kansas City grandparents have moved into like

a house down there so all this area but uh went over my grandparents house they don't have a ton of room we're all trying to like hang out watch football but what they do have is a lot of um we'll call it like you know special assistance type seating for my grandpa okay this is my grandpa who got five of his toes removed five yeah he's up to five it's pretty funny looking like all on one foot yes okay so he's basically just no toes yes when he's got his socks off i mean one foot is just like hilariously like shorter than the other one when you don't have toes anymore and he was just so funny about it and can he walk no not really okay um he has a wheelchair or yeah different kind of stuff and yeah it was pretty funny he made so many just like self-deprecating jokes which is great it's

like good to see him like joking about it laughing about it you know he's like jake be honest can you tell which which foot got the toes taken off you know it's like it's a pretty significant difference um but because of this he has got a wheelchair he's got a walker he's got like a electric wheelchair this is what he brought to my pickleball tournament when he was beeping for me and so everyone spreads out you know all the couches are taking the seats are taking my sister sitting on the floor we got dad in the wheelchair we got me in the in the hover round and that's how we watched a three-hour football game yeah yeah oh nice it was awesome though was it would be a time out i just do a lap in the kitchen really it was just fun just to scoot around i I throw people's trash. Anybody need anything?

How quick does the bad boys go? Well, you know, like most old school things like that. They've got a turtle on one side, rabbit on the other. I'll tell you that guy at the airport was on rabbit mode. Absolutely. It felt pretty quick. Like making turns was like really quick. It was really responsive.

It was pretty fun. Yeah. I was gonna say, did you enjoy it quite a bit? I enjoyed it a lot of bit. Yeah. So that was fun. So yeah, I sat in one of those for three hours and watched the Bills game Thursday night. So it was good.

Okay. Good Thanksgiving for me. What about you? Thanksgiving was great. We stayed here in Kansas City. We always flip Christmas, Thanksgiving where we are in Texas or Kansas City. So we were here Wednesday. So kind of we have some different Thanksgiving traditions.

I've probably talked about on the podcast before because we've been doing this so long, but Wednesday we always do chili cook, chili dinner, chili chilies. Yeah, no, not chilies. Uh, uh, I wish, but no, this chili is good too. Might have that for supper tonight. Dang. Okay. Okay, cool. Um, chili dinner at one house. And then, um, this year, like for the first time, well, I guess last year too, but I wasn't in town. First time that I'd ever done it. We had Thanksgiving lunch slash dinner, whatever you want to call it, with our own separate families. Usually we do like one huge meal on Thanksgiving with everyone, you know, 35, 40 of us. And this time we're kind of getting too big.

Thanks to Bo and, um, offspring because Bo's, Bo's huge. And I'm like this tiny little space. It's like, where are this? Yeah. Right. Like all of a sudden, like Bo's the one that's like tipping the scales. No, but you know, we're just having kids, you know, all our different cousins. And so, um, I, I went to, yeah, lunch at my sister's house. But before that we, we have done the, uh, like a turkey trot thing, which I feel like is like a new, like punchline these days. Like you do it, you do a 5k don't marry into a family. I've noticed that like so many people are like making fun of that or whatever, but we've, we've done it for probably 10, 15 years. Um, and this year we didn't do it.

We literally just did like a, not even a 5k, like just a walk around our neighborhood. Okay. And like, it was my, I don't know if it was my dad or my sister's idea, but we just like literally walked from our house, our current house to like our house that my sisters and I grew up until I was four. And so my sisters were, you know, 14 and 12. Um, it's like a mile and a half away. And so we just walked there and walked back. And along the way we were like, you know, do we know anybody that lived in these houses? Like, let's,

let's talk about memories and do stuff like that. So we're like, yeah, I remember, you know, whatever. Alison Trujillo used to live in that house, you know,

whatever. Oh, I remember that this, this house used to have a really scary dog, you know, whatever. Um, he used to find the ham.

He was a hunting dog. Yeah. We hid the ham from him all the time. Um, so that was fun and let's see what else did i do then yeah thursday night we we did meet up all as a family and then friday we really like intentionally met up as a fam like an extended family at my cousin cory's barn barn um that was really fun um i don't know my my nephew cole i think he's nine eight or nine

he's like getting old enough to where he's like actually decent at sports and like into sports cool like he loves watching football he also loves like like running routes and like playing football and so it's like that he's like yeah he's like getting to the age where i can like teach him like all right this is how you run a down and out like this is how you run a post route you know like okay that time you didn't really turn very well on that like you know work on that uh you know show like, okay, that time you didn't really turn very well on that. Like, you know, work on that, uh, you know, show them the diamond with the hands. Um, so that's been pretty fun just to like kind of get into that. And, um, yeah, overall, yeah. Thanksgiving was great. I don't know. There wasn't anything like, like, like, like you said earlier, like when your

family's normal, there's not that much to talk about, you know, with this. Yeah. We were going over what we're gonna talk about today. I was like, well, you know, my family's very normal. So it's not like I have all these crazy stories for me back home yeah which yeah which is great it's a it's a blessing to have great family but it was just nice you know thanksgiving oh here's the thing that we do i think i've talked about it before but we do a pinata every year oh that's right uh which was awesome it's so fun um like beau even did the pinata you know i have little footage of him like smacking it uh and at first he was like because we always go youngest to oldest so he was literally the second one to go and he had no idea what he was doing and but then after he watched a few people do it he was like i want to go back

up there again you know but uh cole my eight-year-old nephew i think he was no maybe he was even before him that like tore it open because they were using an aluminum bat they were kind of okay yeah they were corking the battle yeah okay but man Bo was excited once that candy really he was yeah eyes got even bigger oh he was like wait that's I can eat all that uh so that's like a random tradition that we always do in my family that we did this year but I was I was just really thankful because last year we weren't we weren't able to get all together and so this year it just was extra special for me but I think we are developing a family tradition unfortunately something i realized is uh thanksgiving okay um there is like uh one of my

favorite parts of thanksgiving is the dessert all the pies and stuff what kind what do you are you apple i'll go i mean usually there's like a chocolate pie available okay so yeah i'll just throw down on that pretty hard um yeah like i said like our extended family i know i'm bogarting your thing but like yeah our extended family has like you know 35 people and so you can find a pie you like dessert yeah it's just amazing like it's just like like i i literally had like four or five different slivers of pie you know just just give me a little sliver of that please i'll take a little sliver that's nice yeah brownie pie we had uh yeah that sounds really good yeah go ahead so apparently our new family tradition is make sure there's a pumpkin pie because jake and caitlin really like it so apparently the rest of the

family has figured out a way to just you know bow out from the pumpkin pie they don't have to eat any on thanksgiving anymore because jake and caitlin love it so much so we made them a pie okay so now i guess it's on my sister and I to consume an entire half pumpkin pie. Do you really, really love it? And that's the thing. It's like I hung out with Caitlin last night. Actually, we were kind of debriefing it. And she was like, I think dad told grandma that we like pumpkin pie because I guess Caitlin

was like dishing up and she was like talking about it. She's like, do I have to eat this? And he's like, I'm sorry. That's on me. I don't know why I said that. So then now it's on me. So she wasn't even like wanting to eat it at all no and so now i gotta bite the bone like i'll eat the pie i guess which i don't mind pumpkin pie yeah but somehow in a family full of so such unhealthy eaters yeah i am by far the pickiest eater yeah and now i'm the one stuck with pumpkin pie so that's our new family tradition. Jake loves pumpkin pie.

Nobody else touch it. And you got to clear that up, dude, because if you don't, if you don't, then you're going to be the pumpkin pie guy forever. Oh, grandma's hang on to that stuff. I mean, just like one time in seventh grade, my other grandma, she asked me if I liked or she asked my sister if she liked like the cream corn. My sister was like, yeah. And then next time she's like, I got you your favorite.

And now my sister's trapped. She's cream corn girl. She is. She's yeah corn girl. She is. She's yeah. CCG all day. No, no. That's like something I will tell you in marriage. Like, like, cause your wife will eventually make you meals.

And of course I'm like very thankful that Catherine makes me anything, but you need to be clear on like, I really like this one. And the others were like, I appreciate that you made this for me. So now, now I like, I'll always be honest. I'll be like, that was really good. Like, uh, but if it's like amazing, I'll be like, you you can i always say you can make this meal every single day and i will eat it every single day that seems pretty clear i would never get tired of this one like this is so good i never because because what my mom does and then what katherine kind of does mentally but my mom

would literally write down our reactions to the recipes like like in quotation marks like you're being like studied as a psychology loved it you know or whatever and so then she would go back in the recipe book. Like, what do I want to make tonight? That's kind of fun. Dave and Brad really liked this. Let's make this again. And yeah. And so my mom, and so then my, but my mom would use it against me. She would say like, well, you said you love this September 08. Right. You, you wrote it down, Brad. Yeah. Freshman year of high school. You love this. And then sophomore year, what happened? What happened? Yeah. So anyway, so yeah, be careful once you're married of like, be honest, but also be gentle about it. So I feel like I learned, maybe I'm going to get the story wrong. My dad needs to be here to defend himself. I feel like just a couple of years ago,

I learned that my dad doesn't really like chicken that much, which is a weird thing already to like, not enjoy. I feel like it's such an easy thing to like, but he's like, I never told your mom because I didn't want to ever cook. He's like like so that's just making for me i say best thing you ever made honey it's like he is straight up not enjoying it not at all i don't know i'm sure he was fine but this is also the same side of the family where i think my grandpa was like he eats an entire bologna sandwich and afterwards he goes boy that bologna is expired so not real picky so maybe yeah okay no like that's my thought too, is like, I don't want to get in any kind of trouble to where I have to be responsible for this. Like

if you make it, I am grateful for that. Like I would never complain about the laundry because right now she's doing it. So let's keep that going. A hundred percent. Yeah. She does a great job. She has a great job cooking and you know, yeah. And some nights are better than others. And, and and but honestly like the nice thing is Catherine will often be like yeah this wasn't that good tonight and I'll be like yeah it wasn't my favorite either you know I'll say something like that okay anyway it's a pumpkin pie what do you say that's pretty funny yeah I've heard Catherine's dad like he got kind of like pigeonholed into peanut butter cookies and so for like every single one of his birthdays

like pigeon peanut butter yeah he ppb'd uh and so yeah like every single one of his birthdays like pigeon peanut butter yeah he ppb'd uh and so yeah like every single one of his birthdays like his kids were always like dad we made you peanut butter cookies and maybe he loves them but at this point i think he's just gotta just accept it you know who we need to ask about this i guarantee he's got a good story is derrick because we've learned some funny things about derrick recently we were shooting the people pleasers video last week and it's funny because like derrick and i and and Brad too are like that Trey is not at all which is funny he's just like whatever you know it like doesn't really relate to it he's like I'll ask Katie but yeah Trey's a jerk basically the rest of us are nice no but um you know so I'm just a lot of these

videos are the people these videos I'm just trying to think of genuine things that I do and Derek and I will go back and forth and we were about to do a joke, which was a made up scenario where someone like they think they have the wrong birthday for you or the wrong name for you. And now you have to go with it. Right. And Derek goes, uh, one time I was shooting a video for a client and they called me Archer all day, which Archer says last name. And he's like, I never corrected him.

No, Archer's not his last name. Oh, wait, it's Archer. No, wait. Yeah, it's Archer. That's the name of his, uh. That'd be funny if you really thought. Yeah. Wait, I forgot about that. Yeah. Yeah. It's the name of his company. It's the name of his company. It not his last name. Oh, wait, it's Archer. No, wait. Yeah, it's Archer. That's the name of his. That'd be funny if you really thought. Yeah. Wait, I forgot about that.

Yeah. Yeah. It's the name of his company. It's the name of his company. It's his middle name. Oh, it's his middle name. Okay. I didn't even know if it was his name at all.

That's right. Yeah. It's not his last name. No. Yeah. I have no idea. I had no idea why he called himself that. Called him Archer all day.

And he didn't correct him. Hey, Archer, can you come here? Yes, ma'am. Yes, I could be. I guess I'm Archer to these people now. Now we've started doing that, like making that joke'll throw that archer come on archer archer come on and he said he told us something else today that was so people pleasure-ish of him i forgot what it was well you said the thing about him caroling to his football friends that was hilarious

too yeah i forget if it was on the podcast or maybe before oh no it no, it was, uh, he was late to record today to shoot today. I'm sorry. And it was because of like his other job where like this, these people were getting in a fight or something. Was that what it was? Maybe it was. And he was like, he was feeling so uncomfortable like this. He's in the room while this husband and wife are fighting, like yelling, have this company together and they have a podcast that he like works with them on. And yeah, they're like legit fighting back and forth and he's like i'm gonna go and step out for a little bit that'd be so uncomfortable like no no stay in here choose a side who's right i want to hear it you have to fight a lot as a couple to like get to the point

where you're comfortable just fighting in front of other people that's what i felt about the john gruden emails because people were like it's not that bad but it's like yeah if it's in an email that is just the start yeah yeah i've never said anything somewhat polarizing in an email. Right. It's like the most bland way of communicating. I don't have any opinions in an email. Right. Yeah. Just, just very quick. Yeah. So you're, if you're yelling in front of people minutes before recording a podcast, you're pretty comfortable yelling at your spouse. Poor Derek. They're like, no, no, stay, stay. He's like, okay. Okay. I guess so. Um, but yeah, he was telling us how he, his parents used to make up Christmas Carol and they're like no no stay stay he's like okay okay i guess so um but yeah he was telling us how he his parents used to make up christmas carol and they would like specifically go to like his

friends houses it's like 16 years old having to sing to a guy on his football team this sounds brutal yeah big derrick but yeah um yeah it was good we got our christmas decorations up i don't know about you have you decorated your house for christmas yet my house i'm living nowhere right now so no you're a nomad yeah it's it's just like a constant logic puzzle i'm just like it wouldn't be that confusing if i didn't care so much about efficiency because i'm like every trip needs to be the most efficient as possible because it's a long drive down to latha right but as soon as i go down to latha i'm driving back home but then from there i'm flying to iowa but then i'll go straight from there kansas city so because it's a long drive down to Olathe. Right. But as soon as I go down to Olathe, I'm driving back home. But then from there, I'm flying to Iowa.

But then I'll go straight from there to Kansas City. So how do I get close to my new house, but also pack close? It's just this constantly. But I'm leaving for Seattle tomorrow morning. Right. And I got to get my car. Yeah.

Let's take a taxi. Just figure it out. Yeah. Anyway, sorry. Christmas decor. Yeah, we got a lot of it. And I don't know where it's coming from. It's like growing exponentially, I feel like.

It's like, were we the benefit of some sort of donation drive? Yeah. Like, did Operation Christmas Child come to us this year? No, I think last year we got our Christmas decor up in one day. I could be wrong. It might be two. But I think there's still a little bit of stuff that needs to be hung right now. What day are we on?

We started on Friday. Wow. And granted, once again, this is one of those things where it's like, Hey, don't, don't poke the bear too much. Like, yeah. Cause the bear is decorating. Catherine's the one hanging everything. I did the lights. That's it. I did the lights outside and you know, she's doing everything else. But I feel like, I feel like she went to Hobby Lobby sometime when I was asleep and just came back with a lot of stuff and hid it in our basement until like, I was like, I've never seen that Garland before.

That's fresh Garland. That's that, that right there is fresh Garland. I can tell. But yeah, it's just. Garland around me. I love it. I tell you what though. Don't hide it. You want to talk about a, like, Oh, what's the word? Like kind of,

kind of when they're talking about like one moment of temptation, like ruining like the rest of your future or something like that. Oh gosh, where is this going? It's, it's going towards the fireplace. Every time I look at the fireplace, I just think to myself,

I just threw all that firewood in there and burned up the fireplace. Now I can't have a fire anymore. And it just makes me sad. Wait, I didn't realize that you, you're done for. Well, I have to repair it.

Yeah. I have to like fix it. Oh, okay. So just pay someone to fix it. Well. Well, I have to repair it. Yeah. I have to like fix it. Oh, okay. So just pay someone to fix it. Well, it's really expensive to fix it. Okay. Well just sell more tables. Here's the easiest.

Okay. Make our video tomorrow go viral. Oh man. Yeah, exactly. But man, like, yeah, all these beautiful decorations and then like, dang, that actually makes me sad that the Ellis house can't, can't fire up right now. Honestly, I'm going to probably text the, i know a chimney sweep guy well sure i'm gonna text him and be like hey like what are my chances here like if i keep it kind of low can i just go ahead can i still can

i just go i mean what's what's the worst that could happen god forbid you text the chimney sweeper and say hey can you fix this just hey what can i get away with listen there's like there's like insurance stuff with it and so the insurance part of the house insurance yeah yeah there's like there's like insurance stuff with it and so the insurance part of the house insurance yeah yeah there's like an insurance claim so they have to like come out and like oh dang like yeah like assess it or whatever got the folks involved so before that yeah and but that means i wouldn't have to pay as much because then i just have to pay my deductible so just chill out okay so give me some space i would definitely call the chimney sweep to fix it if i could jake i'm not just that dumb i'm i in, I'm still in like shell out money mode right now with the house.

I was like, just get it out. Yeah. Um, it's good. I haven't looked at my, um, checking account in a long time, so I think it's going smart. Fine. Smart. Yeah. No, I think it's good.

Yeah. I just, ignorance is bliss. So we're fine. It costs what it costs. What are like, do you have like any like really big purchases or are they mostly just like nickel dime kind of things? They're big nickels, big dimes. Uh, no, I told Catherine, I said, I want nice stuff yeah like pick me out the nice stuff so it's it's adding up yeah it's fun uh rugs ain't cheap rugs are very expensive rugs ain't cheap rug pad i guess

i need that yeah if you don't want to slot you have hardwoods yeah you gotta get it it's hard too okay uh not that's truly not what i meant i meant all right it's, you gotta get it's hard to okay. I not that's truly not payment. I Mean all right. It's nice hardwood floor. It's like what I meant. I was trying to emphasize like it's really like it's good Whatever. It's good. Yeah, I got it's quality wood my fireplace works. Okay, fireplace gas dude you dog Oh, here's something I've been meaning to Google for about two weeks now And I never remember at the right time at all times There is a tiny flame in my gas fireplace pilot in my pilot flame pilot the pilot light okay so that's fine that's not just like slowly losing gasoline into my house

i am uh 90 sure that's good take your chimney sweep okay okay um yeah because i noticed that i was like i turned it on turn it back off now i came back i'm seeing a little flame no i think that's just how it works it just it always needs to be ready to go yes now you turn the gas on because if not then you have to like reignite that and that's a thing yeah that's nice one moment of temptation yeah i am excited yeah text your chimney sweep also like the like like am i gonna save money on this because it's it's still it's gonna cost gas to yeah warm up my house via fireplace is that different is that more expensive than just like using my heat oh i don't know if it's much of it's it's going to cost gas to warm up my house via fireplace. Is that different? Is that more expensive than just like using my heat? Oh, I don't know if it's much of it's, it's probably not much of a money saver to use your fireplace. It's just, it's just fun. It's

just, it's just ambiance and you will, it'll be nice if you're close to it, but, um, gas, I'll gas it up. It's not that expensive. Air conditioning is where they get you. Really? Yeah. Unless you're just like pumping it up to 80 degrees or something i have it at 70 but when i leave town i pump it down to 64 good for you maybe lower this week maybe not too low don't want to freeze those pipes don't do it lower than 60 no more pipes can freeze anyway oh here's something okay thermostats yeah anything other than like a nest or like the new age stuff. Ecobee. Sure.

Yeah. Some of the more confusing like user interfaces I've ever seen. I agree. You know, it's not good when my mom can figure it out and I can't. So it's maybe not that confusing. It's just old school. Yeah. Like she was having to show me, which may have been the first time since like our first

computer in fourth grade that she's showing me how to work something that has buttons on it. Yeah. You know? And I'm like, I still don't understand that. She's walking me through it. And I'm like, you're sure? She's like, yeah. I was like, this doesn't make sense to me.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have a thermostat in my shop. Um, and it's like a, just a simple, like old, not old school, but you know, like, yeah, very elementary thermostat, not a nest. Traditional. And it has, it has a setting that's

called stay a setting that's called leave oh you got hold on there i think i got hold i got hold yeah and so all three of those stay and leave kind of seemed the same to me like stay is that like you want to stay there or leave is that like when you're like i am leaving or i want to leave it on this leave it there just leave it right This is the classic, like turn the air down. Yes. The temperature itself down or like turn the, the amount of air conditioning down. Right. And so, so my thermostat, like stay in, like, like I have it set at like 62 cause I don't

need it super warm in my shop. I want to stay there. And then every once in a while I can come in there. It's like 72 and I'm like, whatever. I don't even care anymore. Just that's fine. Stay and leave is so funny yeah stay leave you can truly convince yourself it means like right that they're all the same yeah

it means stay there it means leave it where it is it means hold it right there yes they're all the same button where's the difference and like the the little pamphlet it comes with there's like a little like insert that you can look at and they just literally say like hold this to stay hold this to leave and it's like but what does it mean and so then i just tried to program it one time to have it all be at 62 every single one of those settings and then i get back the next day and it's it's changed so whatever like 38 and older right now is probably just just struggling it's like you guys don't know how to work this is not that hard these idiots yeah well let me show you how to send a GIF on a text. That's not

from the GIF keyboard. Yeah. Mine has very few buttons. So you're very limited what you can do. Okay. And from what it seems like there has to be a schedule. It's not like, do you want to schedule your air? It's like, it's always on a schedule. It's up to you how it gets set. Okay. So that's, what's tricky. And then it's like, there is weekday schedules. There is weekend schedules. There's a nighttime schedule. There's a morning schedule. What's the weekday schedules. There is weekend schedules. There's a nighttime schedule. Why? And there's a morning schedule. What's the weekday weekend? I guess because maybe like you'd be there during the day on the weekend or whatever. But like besides that, like that doesn't seem like it makes that much sense.

Still. So that's probably the most stressful thing going on in my life right now. You'll be all right. Got a pretty easy life. Yeah. But that has given me some trouble. Got a good life. Got a good life.

Okay. So yeah, I think it's just going to, you know, I got i gotta reduce the stressors i've got to install a nest something app based something i can understand those things are sweet too because they can like location like detect you so when you're heading like oh papa's coming home let's go ahead and crank that up let's get a cooking for him it's nice that sold me right there it was a white it's amazing it's a white it's a wonderful amazing thing is what i was trying to say okay that's cool that's good to know what are we how do we get here that's a good question this has been a it's been a little i haven't really talked about our weeks at all it's just been

just been raving ranting raving uh bo's starting to talk that's kind of fun what language english awesome kind of baby baby english um he's like he like just starting to like like mimic you a little bit so he can kind of say baby or yesterday a couple days ago we went to home depot together so i was like we're going to home depot and he depot which was like my my boy um yeah but just little things like that and it's really fun like you just you don't realize how great it is until he starts talking it's like yes this is pretty cute and he's probably like finally you guys understand me like because he's been talking quote unquote forever oh that's a good great it is until he starts talking. It's like, yes, thank you. And he's probably like, finally, you guys understand me. Like, cause he's been talking quote unquote forever.

Oh, that's a good point. It's like, he just unlocked something. Oh, is that a stone for him? Like, like I bet he,

imagine how frustrating that would be. If you're, if you're just saying exactly what you think you're saying and everyone's just looking at you. Okay. And you can understand what they're saying. Like he can understand me. Great.

Like I can't communicate back. I say, Bo, go get your basketball in the east, Southeast corner of your room. And he knows he's, he has a compass rose in his head I was kidding uh but he could he could go get his basketball bring it back into me you know whatever but but he opens his mouth to say something to me nothing and then yeah you say something you're like are you hungry he said what no I said go outside right that's not even close to what i said he stuffs cheerios in my face and i'm like okay i think yeah i'll eat them like yeah uh but yeah uh isaac called me a couple nights ago

how's he doing he was talking english too yeah and he was like dude uh what are you thinking what we're gonna do with the tv in our living room right now i was like i was thinking we put that in the basement of the new house but open to whatever you want to do with the TV in our living room right now. And I was like, I was thinking we put that in the basement of the new house, but open to whatever you want to do too. Oh, cause you got a new TV. Yes. I bought one about the Samsung frame. Okay.

No, no, uh, power on noise. I, uh, I had a lot of people reach out to me about the Samsung TV thing. And they're like,

I have a Samsung TV. It doesn't make any noise for me. Okay. All right. Thank you. So Brad just lies basically. Well, I don't know.

Maybe just yours either way. I still haven't even taken out of the box yet. I've had it for over a week now. It's just sitting in the box. Fun. It is fun. It's cool. Money well spent.

Yeah. But I... Oh, so I'm telling Isaac, but I mean, whatever. I'm open. What do you want to do with it? Yeah. He's like, well, we might have another TV coming. I was like, oh, sweet.

Tell me more. He's like, me and some friends the other night we're uh just kind of messing around playing uh kind of an adapted version of fruit ninja and next thing you know i uh my blade scratched these people's tv wait what is he talking about i don't know i didn't really ask that many questions and he he's like, so I feel really bad. It's a it's a very like tiny scratch, but I did scratch your TV. And this was like on like Sunday when he's talking about this. So he's like, well, it's still kind of Black Friday.

I'm going to go right now. Like I'm going to Best Buy. I'm going to buy them like the exact same TV and just replace it. And then I'll have us a 75 inch TV with a tiny little scratch on it i was like well sure cool okay that's thanks for having to do that but i was like great well you know just if you want that one just put that one in your room or you know whatever and so i'm like that's kind of fun that was two nights ago i get home last night to the new house and i'm like looking around don't see the tv anymore i check the basement i check the bedroom so i text is like what happened

to the tv and he was like so i thought i was doing like uh you know obviously i felt really bad but thought i was making up for my gesture this family is threatening to sue me what over this they're still like really what heated they're very upset about this they don't accept uh they like they're not letting me leave with the other tv they don't fully accept the gift i gave them because they want to just sue me instead what so i felt awful for isaac and he's like yeah i think he's pretty annoyed too why first of all i don't understand what he was doing that i don't have a lot of clarity on either but with the facts we know it's still weird

it seems like tbc's days are not that like they're pretty replaceable clearly you can get one a couple hours later yeah and very like for what they are for how valuable of a asset they are in your life they're relatively cheap that's a great point right like they're not like i'm not saying like it's like a top five like yeah item you use technologically right and you use it for years like use it way longer use a phone yeah and it's not that much it's probably a lot of times less than a phone that's a good point too and yeah yeah whatever anyway and they're just like that that's like and they're gonna lose like threatening to sue or like that sounds so silly going through the process of this like how

much is it for a 21 year old yeah for the the price of the tv okay he owes you 800 now what do you do doing that buy a tv isaac like cut a hole in their wall or something like he's not telling us the whole story he also scratched their newborn pretty upset about that what in the world couldn't get one of those from best buy what in the world i know and i haven't got to do the face-to-face about it that was like via phone call and voice memo and everything gosh so he was kind of like he's like hopefully because when he said that uh i was playing fruit ninja i was like oh my gosh. So he was like, he's like, hopefully, because when he said that I was playing Fruit Ninja, I was like, oh my gosh, he needs me to pick up for the hospital.

Like he like did something like that. I thought he's gonna be injured because that's what he always says. He's so injury prone and so accident prone. Yeah. So he was like, I think they're just really fired up right now. Hopefully they calm down. You know, they sleep on it and they're fine. But more to come.

I'll have an update next week. He hadn bought the tv yet as far as you know no i think he had bought it and they just didn't let him leave with the old one oh really yeah he like he like was like talking to them with like this huge box in front of them he basically had christine in his arms again and was just like you don't like it yeah he's just like no i understand yeah right yeah i mean it's just a small scratch and this is this is the same tv can i sit this down i'll install it for you i'm i'm your geek squad no problem you know that's crazy okay we got to get to the bottom of that well yeah so i don't have more details that happened last night so just thought i'd mention it we'll follow up yeah figure it out what's going on next week um cool cool i don't i don't have more details that happened last night. So I just thought I'd mention it. We'll follow up. Yeah. Figure it out.

What's going on next week. Um, cool. Cool. I don't, I don't have much more this week. I mean, it's just been a busy week,

man. I've been, uh, you're really cranking out the items working hard. Yeah. Working really hard. Um, like I was telling you earlier,

I'm just trying to get everything I can done before Christmas because it is such a wonderful feeling to like go on quote unquote Christmas break and not have stuff looming over your head. I would love to do that. Sounds so nice. Right. That sounds like the way to do it. Like, and it's not like, uh, it's not like people have said like, I need this by Christmas or I need this by a certain date, but it's just in my head. I'm like, if I can, I'm going to try to grind this out and like get this done. And so, um, yeah, it's just been a lot of logistics and figuring out everything. And, um, yeah, it's, it's good. I'm very blessed. We're all, all the ghosties. So many ghosties have ordered cutting boards. Um, yeah, I, yeah. Also I'm doing these

ornament things. Um, I don't know how much, whatever I'm going to, I'm going to say this, but I don't want people to like feel obligated to do it just because I'm going to say this, but I'm, I'm doing these ornament things where like, you can like send me a signature of your kid and I'll put it on an ornament for you or whatever. Um, but the, the, the bigger idea that I have behind it is to have Hattie like kind of help me with. Oh yeah. You were talking about this. Yeah. This is awesome. Did I mention it on the podcast? I don't know. Last week. Yeah. Did I? Maybe two weeks ago. Okay. Well, in that case, great. I still, I don't want to feel like I'm like, like, Hey, like I'm going to kind of, kind of convince you to buy something because like, you're going to do it for my daughter.

But just keep mentioning every week and that'll kind of do the trick. Exactly. Whatever. I don't, I don't know. I get it. That's fine. Um, but just showing, yeah. How do you, how to work hard and yeah.

Make some money or something. That's so sweet. Yeah. So yeah, if you're interested, you can order some, but don't feel obligated by any means. But anyway, yeah, yeah,

it's just been, it's just been fun and busy times, busy, busy times. Life is good. Yeah. We're going to record a lot of jean shorts next week. Yeah.

We're about to hit it hard so that we can take a break too. Cause I think we're going to take close to like a two week break. Yeah. This is kind of interesting. Tell them about the CPMs in December. I think that's kind of a fun little influencer. Yeah, thing. First of all, talk about CPMs because I think people.

Of course, of course. CPM is an acronym that stands for cost per milli. Milli being the Latin word for thousand. A milli, a milli, a milli, a milli. Yes, Lil Wayne loved Latin terminology and Roman numerals and uh so cost per a thousand impressions in the instance of youtube this is a thousand views so this is the rate that youtube is giving you basically uh how much money you will earn per a thousand views and this is different this is what makes it so tough to be like so a million views how much do you get from that you

know it's like this could be anything because every creator is different right and this number is based on a multiple a multitude of things when no one knows exactly what it is but you know it's estimated it's it's a mix of like is your content clean that's going to be a higher cpm because it's all based on like how much is the space worth you know to advertise on your channel like if it's a really good channel it's going to cost more this is prime real estate advertisers are willing to pay more to channel. Like if it's a really good channel, it's going to cost more. This is prime real estate. Advertisers are willing to pay more to be there. So if you're clean, that'll get you a lot higher CPM.

If your videos are longer, people want to be on your website longer. That's good. And if you have good retention, good watch time, YouTube will reward you for that, for keeping people on their website longer. And just all different, you know,

if you do the right things, you'll get a higher cpm um i'll just say some specific numbers not about us right now but i remember when josh and i were doing youtube together back in the day we were like four or five dollars okay and we were told like oh that's pretty good like that's like maybe slightly above average we're like oh great we didn't know i'm doing this i have nothing to go off of sure heard a rumor back in the day that dude perfect was as high as 85 that's crazy which is crazy when you do the math there right um ours i'll just say ours is somewhere between that

who knows could be anywhere um but because of i guess i'm just like theorizing here hypothesizing because of probably the holiday season um in, you know, surplus of just like advertising dollars, gift giving. I think there's more advertising happening. I think plus it probably being Q4, maybe more like leftover dollars to be spent. CPMs always go up in December. So I think most people know, most YouTubers, most creators know crank out the content in December because you can make the same videos, the same amount of views, but get legitimately double your money. Well, isn't it like, yeah, it's almost double.

Yeah. Typically it's like around double sometimes more sometimes less, but yeah. At the end of December, like after Christmas is, yeah, maybe like December as early as like December 25th, like drops below what it is normal. Yeah. And then in January, it's like, why are we even doing this? I need, I should go get a job. Yeah. It's like, why are we making these videos from like a financial standpoint? You could still like, there's still benefits. You can grow your following everything, but yeah, it's just kind of interesting. So we, we have probably like six or seven gene shorts videos that are backlogged right now. And we told Derek, release the floodgates, get them all out there by like December 22nd. I think we're going to be done with videos.

We're not going to post for probably two weeks. Right. And then we'll start from ground zero in January. Yeah. So that's kind of a fun little background yeah you'll know like holy cow they're posting a lot why are they doing that i mean it'll be close like every other day then you'll be like wait i got used to this why are they posting what's going on now you'll know like as a ghost runners fan you know exactly what's going on with all that so yeah which is cool so that's why we do it i mean i thought that was interesting it's kind of a savvy thing and also just truly just makes sense on a very elementary level of dollars and cents so either last year or two years ago you and trey did like 20 videos in 20 days or something like that yeah we did that uh that was actually in august oh i don't know why necessarily

we chose august i think we just we had a gap of like not a lot is going on right now let's push ourselves oh okay i thought you did one did you do something i think we did a 12 days of christmas thing oh okay potentially gotcha we did something 12 days of Christmas thing. Oh, okay. Potentially. Gotcha. We did something. Yeah. I thought, yeah, whatever. I don't know. Okay.

Sorry. So many videos. So many YouTube channels. What can you do? I don't know. You guys get it. Uh, so,

uh, where are we? Oh, so yeah, just whatever that's going on. It's going to be a big December. So you're going, you're going out West this week.

Yeah. Tomorrow morning I fly to Seattle, then Portland and Sacramento, then Los Angeles and then Denver. So it'd be good. A lot of ghosties out there are excited and excited to be back on the road. It feels like we haven't performed in forever. I'm like, man, I hope I remember my stuff.

You know, it's only been like a week and a half, but. Was it a good break? Was it a good like? Yes. I mean, my voice is back. I've just gotten to see people that I want to see. I've gotten to just do so many things that I haven't been able to do. They see my family, eat pumpkin pie.

You know, it's my favorite things. And all of my favorite things that I can't live without. Yeah. It's just, it's just so fun. I'm just, I think it is a coincidence that it falls this close to Thanksgiving, but I'm just all time high on thankfulness. Like, this is just crazy.

I was driving home today and I was thinking about how thankful I am for my job. I was like, that was so fun. That was a good one. I laughed so much the last like five hours. Yeah. That was a good time. Yeah. I was like, i'm about to go laugh again about to go see right again i'm gonna stop and get him a high c and mcdonald's and we're gonna see him again

let's do it man i love it good times glad that you're thankful bro yeah thankful too for the record but but nobody asked me yeah they want to have a talent show let's all go around like and talk about like uh things that we're thankful for like specifically that happened within the last five minutes like I'll start my podcast my really successful podcast has 600,000 listeners

per day day the day the day yep let's listen every day let's listen to some wisdom

okay what do you say all right hey Jake and Brad. It's Isaiah. I'm nine calling in from Hawaii. Hawaii? And you probably remember me and my family from Oklahoma Joe's and Annie's Frozen Custard.

Sure. Let's go. And my question for you guys today is, have you been to five national parks in your life? And if you have, what are your favorite two? Mine are Glacier National Park and Acadian National Park. Nice. Love the pod. Bye.

It's a little funny. Sorry. I love the idea. Like, he's definitely been to five. He hasn't been to six. It's kind of like the talent show question. You're just doing like, so has anybody been to seven national parks? My question for you guys is, have you been to 19 and a half national parks

and if so which one's your favorite seven i have a question has anyone ever ridden space mountain twice in a row twice in a row uh between noon and one in december um yeah that's funny i have not been i have a question has anyone been a magician before has anyone ever been a magician in second grade anybody know how to get out of handcuffs yeah is that a curiosity with one big rope

no how many have you been to Brad I don't think I've let's see I've been to Grand Canyon I've been to Rocky Mountain I've been to Arches is that it that might be it

that's three yeah I think that's it okay National Parks maybe one more sometime but I can't remember is that it that's that's three yeah i think that's just that's it okay national parks maybe maybe one more sometime but i can't but not isaiah level right less than yellow we like to go to yellowstone we like to go to the tetons tetons we like to go to acadia uh big bend oh um yeah out in california i don't know what else is out there joshua tree yeah j tree yo's might i don't know what else is out there. Joshua tree. Yeah. J tree. Yo's mine. I don't know. What is Joshua? Like Joshua tree doesn't sound that great. Actually Yosemite for sure. Yosemite for sure. I think I talked about Joshua tree on this podcast once where I

said it's a place for rich people to go do acid in the desert. That's right. Yeah. That's what they do there. Okay. I don't, I don't, neither of those things are for me, so I'm not rich and I don't do acid. If you did one of those two things, would you go? No. Yeah. I don't, I don't think it, I don't know what you do there. Yeah. I think you look at Joshua trees.

You're like, Oh yeah, it looks like the pictures. Yeah. And then you go home. There was one point in my life where I wanted to like make it a bucket list thing to go to every single national park. Nah,

there are a lot of national parks out there. There's some probably not worth seeing. I don't know though. National parks are pretty amazing. But then again, Joshua tree who needs to go there. I don't know but uh i would like to go to a lot more yeah katherine maybe i shouldn't put her on blast like this but i don't think she's as national parky as i am she seems to find it she's got it in there somewhere she needs to watch the right

documentary yeah she's like oh i want to see that well that's what that's kind of like my cousin uh hiked the appalachian trail one time, like from Georgia to Maine or whatever. And he, yeah, he like showed us pictures and like videos and stuff and like told us stories about his time. And I was like,

that sounds amazing. I want to do that. So that was your documentary. Yeah, pretty much. No, that's cool though. That's what it takes sometimes.

I know Jake's been to like 15 probably. So I'd say maybe close to 15. I'm not sure. I know we did 10 and one summer, the limo summer. So there's 10. Okay. Any of them stand out as ones that you would not want to go to again? Oh, good question.

Cause I'm sure that most of them are great. Uh, I don't think I need to go to Yellowstone again. Really? Yeah. I think it was, it was fine. Okay. But like, what if you've never, we'd never gone there? Like, sorry, sorry. Not, maybe not, not again, but like, like, yeah, you've seen it once.

That was good enough. But like, is there any, you're like, don't even go once. Like, like if you were me, would you say, don't go to Yellowstone? Uh, no, I would say maybe don't go to big bend. Okay. I went there on accident. Um, several summers before that. Um, thought it was, I feel like Dwight like of course it's not wedding crashers i was saying bear attacks you thought it was yeah great bend kansas i thought it was horseshoe bent oh it's truly it was me david harris and sherman young which sherman i haven't i've already talked about him on the podcast but he's hilarious he's a good friend of mine well i guess we haven't talked in probably years yeah but he texted me today

and said you going to the Big 12 championship game? We have no previous text, which shows you it's been at least a year. Yeah. No previous text. You go to the Big 12 game? I said, not even a little bit. Why would you? Yeah.

Oklahoma State Baylor? Yeah. This Saturday in Texas. No. It's in Dallas. Right. And anyway, so good to hear from Sherman. See if he remembers Big Bend.

It was just I think there's that type of national park exists a lot of other places and there's better versions of it. OK, so that's what I would say. I heard it's in like West Texas, very West Texas. I heard it's the darkest sky in the contiguous United States. You taught me that on the podcast one time. So we've talked about this before. Maybe. But anyway, if you like dark skies, you'd love Big Bend. Otherwise, just go to Horseshoe Bend.

Dark sky country. Or Arches. Yeah. Yeah. Or the Grand Canyon. So anyway. Isaiah, cool you traveled that much. You've been to Glacier?

I haven't been to Glacier. I would like to go to Glacier. Yeah, it's hard to get to, but I think it's worth it. That's probably what makes it awesome, though. It's like, wow, we haven't had service for eight hours. And now we're looking at this mountain. This is awesome. Yeah.

So Isaiah, thanks for the, the text, uh, you know, email. Thanks buddy. Thanks buddy.

Hey, you're Jake and Brad. This is Leah from Carbondale. I want to say Jake, I met you briefly at the show in Indianapolis and you were really kind and genuine. And I just thought that was really cool. I appreciated that.

Well, Brad, I haven't met you before, but I'm sure you are also really cool and genuine. Yep, I am. I am an SLP and I have a challenge for you guys. Say Salsa Sisters. Jake, I think you have a proclivity that way as well, except for rural. And then Brad, you're trying to teach Hattie to rhyme. So here's the challenge. Without thinking too much about it, pick one word and then go through the alphabet and see how many words you can create by only

changing the first sound of that word. So for instance, if you pick the word fan, you would have bam, cam, fan, ram, etc. Whoever comes up with the word that has the most words wins. If you need a tiebreaker, say the alphabet as fast as you possibly can and whoever says it the fastest wins. If you need a tiebreaker, say the alphabet as fast as you possibly can. And whoever says it the fastest wins. Lastly, I wanted to say, Jake, I am kind of losing my voice and I think it's in solidarity with you because it only started after I met you on the show in Indianapolis. Something in the air. Solidarity or maybe just Jake breathing on you. Maybe we got a little too close. All right, I'll go first. My word's basketball. Good luck. luck oh i have to do it i'm just kidding i was thinking ball uh ball call fall wall tall mall hey okay okay no chal stall um i thought it was just to go through the alphabet like in order no fine no okay i could tell on your face you know what call doll fall gall gall hall jake jillian hall

yeah we're doing that okay sure assembly hall monty hall dante hall dante hall arsenio hall yeah um deck the halls i use all my fun uh wordplay earlier today oh my gosh it was so funny not to just keep harping on this but we would this instagram influencer character we have we like to call our fans like hey all you phimmy fatales hey my boss babes yeah yeah we kind of did it last time we didn't make up jokes we just kind of made them like just whatever hey glam gals yeah and then this time we're like this is an opportunity for jokes so we had so many christmas puns and that's what brad was just like killing us on can you remember any of the ones we didn't use yeah they were all derrick's racist ones jingle antebellum he's like well you're a southern character

and then he just kept trying to come up with like five more southern ones yeah the southern character and then the conservative dad like derek would always like try to have like these extreme things like derek he's a conservative dad but like he can do things it's just like dad things like he doesn't have to be like all these conservative overtly conservative constantly yeah oh that was funny yeah uh hall Maul. Null. Paul. Saul. Tall. Vol.

Go Vols. Vols. Exalt. Xylitol. Y'all. Y'all. Thanks, y'all. Your turn. My turn.

I had 19. I was counting i'm sure uh my word is going to be sit don't cuss jake i'm serious um a i'll be it oh you weren't expecting that where yeah there was one did that count it feels like I changed the first sound. Oh, wow. If that was the case, I should have tried more harder. I don't know. I just, okay. That's great.

Bit. Oh, C word. Be careful. We got to skip over that one. Kit. Right. Yeah. With a C?

No, with a K. Right. That's what, yep. Right, right. It doesn't count. You're doing great. Okay. D, nothing.

Drit? That seems like a word. Don't cuss, Jake. No, I... I'm serious. E-grit? Yes. The animal?

Yes. Fit? Fit. Grit? Grit. Hit. It. It.

Derek Jitter. Jitter. Dirt. Yeah. it it um derrick jit jit der yeah um then kit lit uh mitt knit um um omit omit yeah good thank you yeah um pit this is easy yeah quit writ go ahead that's with a w writ like it was it has been writ oh I think there's an r-i-t too what's it mean use it in a sentence

I think there's like some kind of a brand that has writ oh writ aid or something what does it mean I think it means like clean or something

r writ r writ might not be a word alright speaking of use it in a sentence i wrote this down on my in my potential stand-up notes this week you ready for this one yep so maybe some bit about spelling bees are tricky or like my experience in spelling bees that would be like the setup

and then maybe there's some other joke where it's like uh your word is spider okay can use it in a sentence? Yeah, no problem. A spider has eight eyes. All right, got it. Spider. S-P-I-I-I-I. Whatever. You get the joke. That's good. That's kind of funny. Whatever.

That's my use it in a sentence joke. Anyway, thank you for the game. Yeah. SLP. Shout out to my SLPs out there, my NVs, you know, my non-verbals. Shout out. Trey actually texted me today. He's like, you know, my non-verbals. Shout out. Trey actually texted me today. He's like,

Hey, I'm going to be running late. I'm at the speech pathologist. And I was like, I'm the one saying diarrhea wrong. Really? But his was more like a health wise. Like,

how do I keep my voice healthy? Which also was probably something I should have done too. If only someone in my immediate family did this. If only someone that like my one sibling went to school like grad school for this yeah could have brought that up around the dinner table could have brought that up around the you know round two of the pumpkin pie but you know could have mentioned this while we were at dinner okay i didn't realize that that speech pathologist could help you with that i didn't know that either but from what i could tell from my sister's job she's doing all sorts of things that she didn't go to school for.

Like she's having to call families and tell them just awful news. What? Yeah. I'm like, that doesn't seem like something you should do. She said she walked into a patient's office. This is two days ago. She walked into a patient's office and the woman was choking. So she had to unchoke this woman, which is also, I don't think like part of your training. I think it's like if they have a stroke here's how you can correct their speech that's as close as you get to choking i think wow so she's doing all sorts of stuff that she's like yeah i don't know i'm doing this anyway good for you caitlin yeah good job welcome to the welcome to the world real world real world the real world of corporate wife

all right next one hey jake and brad this is lindsey from indianapolis jake your show was fantastic last night laughed my head off oh my god i should have stayed around to meet you but the babysitter had to relieve her anywho what happened after the show last night we were laying on the couch watching football and i was taking a survey on my phone because Nielsen has sent me a survey every month for about the past two years and when I complete it I get a $15 gift card to wherever I want oh yeah my husband thinks it's absolutely ridiculous but I'm like it's a free $15 so my question for you is what is the weirdest thing you've ever done for money and ghosties with your mind in the gutter get your mind out the gutter hey you guys all right love you guys bye hey don't cuss okay first of all lindsey send me that link i was

gonna say that is so up brad's alley i am the husband and brad is the wife in that scenario and catherine like you're gonna like you probably get like gift cards to things that you don't like normally go to and catherine be like why do you need that? It's like, cause it's free. That's why I need it. That's why I need it. Yeah. Um, it's like Duncan has like free ice coffee every Monday. Like I'm going to go get one. She's like, you don't need one. If it's free. I do.

But it's like, yeah, I do. Is that correct? Uh, I don't know. Like seasonally. I don't know if it's like true anymore, but we just had the solstice. So, okay. I'll, I'll check on the solstice schedules. Solstice schedules. Hey, all my solstice sisters. Check the solstice so okay i'll check on solstice uh schedules social schedules

hey all my solstice sisters check your social schedules talking about duncan iced coffee today um that's yeah i played that once i knew you were gonna love that i was like that is up brad's alley that's love stuff like that um okay so she asked like what like what do we do for oh yeah she did ask a question did she what's the weirdest thing you've ever done for money podcast yeah i i do i've done lots of like like especially lately i've just like hustled a little bit more like like i wrote jokes for a while that was fun that was weird oh yeah i used to peruse craigslist a lot yeah let's see if i can try and think of something thanks for perusing that one time and find those jokes you're welcome um yeah i don't know i'm just uh yeah i played music i i remember one time when i was working at cerner like when we were going through training maybe i've already told

this on the podcast but like we were supposed to do some group activity thing like do a presentation on it and i was like well we should do like a rap or something and like and so i like rapped in front of people and so i called myself a professional rapper because i made money that day okay and i was rapping you earned money just like you got a weird professional comedy show coming out yeah exactly i want to talk about that more okay like what you're feeling what's going on yeah i'm a little scared right now i'm kind of compartmentalizing my life enough right now where i'm just like i need to think about this eventually though yeah it's a lot uh Yeah, are we talking about right now? Real quick, I thought of something I did.

Okay. Freshman year of college, it was Assassin's week. Which I think most people probably somewhat know what that is. Explain it to people that don't. Just a quick elevator pitch. Anyone who would like to participate in this game, your name all goes in a hat.

And then if you can imagine, I'm a visual learner, a big circle where like you have to get someone and someone is behind you. It makes a big circle so like when you're out, the person behind you is now getting the person you were trying to get and by get I mean Like shoot them with a water gun. I'm trying to get them out You're trying to be the last man or woman sure standing and so it's a week-long event where you were trying to hide You're getting to class as quick as possible. You have people drop you off. You're trying to hide You're not going to certain events because you want to win the money at the end

I created a service where I went and stole a shopping cart from Walmart, took my comforter off my bed, made it nice and comfy. So you could sit in the comforter. I would push you to class. And then I got a cardboard box out of the dumpster and I would put the cardboard box over you. I'd poke two holes in it so you could still see, but no one knew who you were. And I would push people to class and they would pay me or they would give me like baked goods or just different services. That's amazing. How much do you charge? I can't believe I've never told this on the podcast before. Not much. I mean, it was like first semester freshman year of college. Okay. Entrepreneur. Yeah. Charging like $3. Have I ever talked about the relaxi taxi? Yeah. Okay. I think so. Yeah. That's so funny.

Like theme days and stuff. Relaxi taxi. Let's's bring it back yeah i i can't believe i didn't like try it harder because like now it's like uber it's basically uber you invented uber i 100 admitted over i was about to be modest but you know i did no you did so um how am i feeling about comedy you asked yeah um i i think i i have enough confidence in myself to pull it off but but I want to do a good job obviously because they're, they're paying me a considerable amount of money. Like I'm not trying to like, yeah, whatever. Like, like they're paying me enough to make it worth my time to like put some thought in the midst of how busy you are. Right. Surely it must be a decent amount. Yeah. Like I think I told this on the podcast last week, but like they originally canceled or they

originally said no. And I was like kind of relieved. I was like, okay, that would be a lot for me to take on. And then yeah, Alex came back the next week and was like, Hey, actually they're back on. And I was like, I got to say that would be a lot for me to take on. Um, but yeah, we're going to Austin for a wedding. We're flying out Thursday, come back Saturday. And so we're doing some planes, plane rides for that. And so I'll have some time to think a little bit more. I have a lot of like ideas written down and a lot of like concepts written down. And honestly, I have like thoughts from either the podcast or from Jean shorts videos that we've written that I can, I think I can turn into, you know, stand up stuff. Um, that's awesome. Kind of like the idea of, uh, like you just said

about the spelling beat, like the, the, the story I told about like spelling longitude with an M at the beginning. Do you remember that story? Like, I think that could be a worthy story to tell at a standup comedy thing. Like, you know, and it's obviously figure out jokes around that and like kind of maybe, I don't know, I need to figure out, and maybe you already do this and tell me if, if you have any advice for this, but like kind of like sections and subsections of like your, your, uh, your set, like, is that kind of how you do it? Like, you're like, okay. When I visualize it, I'm like, yeah, I spent about three minutes in the realm of this. Right. And then five minutes in there. Yeah. Right. It's like, this is the

main theme of this. Like, and I was kind of thinking like, you know, family is this part and then work is this part, you know, whatever. I don't know what it would be, but like different things I've talked about or that I would talk about. I can tell a story about family, but then I can be like, you know, whatever. Yeah. Kids are crazy, man. You know, whatever. Um, so, but, but yeah, I, I, I am much more confident in the crowd that's going to be in front of me there than any other crowd that I've performed in so far. Besides like that one time we did a live podcast for our ghost runners fans,

but like, um, like I'm, I'm, I'm confident in that. I think that people are going to be kind to me. They're going to laugh. You know, if it's even somewhat funny, it doesn't have to be like, that's the greatest thing I've ever heard in my life. And luckily they're crammed in.

I think the size of the venue is going to be a big deal. Yes. Cause 150 people, it could be great if they're in a small space, right? 150 people in this basement right now would be awesome. Electric. It'd be amazing.

Uh, so, so I think that'll be good. Um, do you go first and then dim check comes on after you? No, I check oh he's gonna warm him up a little bit yeah we haven't figured out the exact schedule yet like it might be a little bit of a sandwich thing we don't know oh or you can do your thing back and forth where you get to be introduced five different times like you've always wanted that's right i forgot about that um maybe we should yeah and once again dim check just i i don't that's a funny thing like i've never met alex face to face oh really no so i don't like i know him quote unquote because

we talked a few times but like like i just i think he knows me pretty well from like listening to the podcast like we don't know each other super personally but like from where i gather he's not a funny guy like he's not he would not consider himself like like that's not his forte he's like much more of a serious speaker yeah there might be a few jokes here and there but it's not like he's really trying to wow him comedically right with his talk yeah and he recognizes that and so yeah i i think i'm i'm just excited i i i think i'm nervous i think i have a healthy healthy nervous feeling about it as well if it makes you feel, I would be nervous if I was going to do this. You know, it's like, this is just a unique thing.

Who's going to be, who are these people? Right. Yeah. Stanberry. And luckily like, yeah, my brother-in-law is a, you know, like ag background guy. He's a crop consultant. Greg. My, my friend, Greg.

Yeah. Close friend of mine. So I've learned a lot. And then I was in farmhouse fraternity at K state. Like, like, and I got made fun of for being a city boy. Like, I think, I think those kind of jokes are going to play so well. Yeah. Like any kind of like the city people are dumb, you know, city people are afraid of every chemical, you know, whatever. Tell them how you're afraid of deer. That's great.

Yeah, I should. Yeah. I'm trying to find like, where, where do you, how do you toe the line between like, you know, making me funny, but also not making me seem like too much of an idiot as a city boy. You know what I mean? You could be the idiot all you want. Yeah. So, and then maybe I thought about like, how much do I lean into like making fun of them back? You know? Yeah. Yeah. But like, but like be careful with that. Yeah, exactly. So, uh, yeah. Like I said, I, I, i kind of have constantly thinking about it but also not thinking about it really really intentionally at all yet so if that makes sense like but every i'll think about things and like write them down real quick um like i wrote

down the thing about the conception city you know that we just talked yeah that's that's no problem yeah maybe try to find out a few other things about stanbury what they're known for like today is anything ever substantial happened in this town what do people know what are the stereotypes like what is the family here that has six kids because they lived in conception city at one point you know what i mean and like make that joke that's great that's like like such small town like i am literally playing into this audience or whatever so i i think it'll be good i i yeah i really enjoy you know just just uh crowds of. I enjoy being in front of people. I don't, I think initially I'm a little bit nervous, but overall, and like the whole thing

is like, they just want to have a good time. That's what they said. Like we don't have, they've, they've never done anything like this for their Christmas party. It's usually just dinner. And so it's a good chance. All these people have never seen the comedian live. Sure. I mean, at trade shows, we have people who've never been to a comedy club before. So I think my time in Phoenix was a Larry, the cable guy one time went to him first but yeah yeah your show in phoenix was like second time i'd ever seen anybody my first comedy club was when i was performing in one yeah so yeah yeah so it's not like a super like common occurrence or whatever but but yeah they've never done anything like this they're just like we just want them to feel appreciated for

them to have a fun night and i was like i can do that i can make them have fun i can yeah we can have fun shock jams alone will be a good right like i think i i think i have enough energy that i can be like we can have fun yeah that's awesome like we'll at least smile like we don't need to like be dying laughing necessarily but um i have two tips for you please one i would say give as much context as you can of who you are and your life and your family dynamic right off the bat let them kind of know who we work with. Okay. He's married. Okay. He has kids. Okay. He's from the city. I love that. I think it just helps like draw them into like who you are and yeah, which you're probably already going to do it either way, but I think it's just a big fan of

that kind of thing. Yeah. It just kind of makes sense. That's I do that. And it's like, this would be weird if I didn't introduce myself. Oh, it's way more like personal that way. Yeah. It's way more relatable. That's your Kevin Hart. I think you should just be like here's kind of who i am yeah like i wouldn't assume especially in my opinion sorry i'm like no adding on to your advice but like especially if you are a normal person you know it's like i don't do this right like especially yeah if they know you're a woodworker like that's my yeah full-time thing i'm a small business owner like just like you guys yeah yeah exactly it's Exactly. It's going to be awesome. I have a lot of confidence in you.

That's going to be great. Thanks, man. A second tip would be, uh, make sure you have it memorized. Yes. Cause that's what got me so nervous when I, at the beginning, it was like, I'm not super nervous about it being funny. I just don't know if I've been memorized. Yeah. And if I forget, what do I, I'm screwed.

Yeah. I have no fallback. Right. So yeah. Both times. Spend a healthy amount of time. Like, yeah. Like open mic nights.

I always forget something. Like, I'm always like, dang it. Like, what did I, I meant to say this and I forgot. fallback right so yeah both times a healthy amount of time like yeah like open mic nights i always forget something like i'm always like dang it like what did i yeah i meant to say this and i forgot you know maybe it's gonna feel weird rehearse out loud like in your shop sometime no i'm planning on yeah i'm planning on like rehearsing multiple times good and like recording myself which i don't want to do yeah but like yeah i think i did it once too and it's also a little weird and yeah like i i'm not i'm not excited about that i'm not excited about like saying like katherine please don't come into the shop you know during this time because i'm going to be recording myself like you know anything like

that but it's yeah it's one of those things just necessary yeah so yeah let's go this is so fun that's awesome you know you know what gets me excited you know it's back it's back you know what gets me excited for february 12 it's back you know what gets me excited for february 12th i saw somebody label it f12 and i think that's awesome i did see that too f12 i think we didn't make merch as f12 f12 i was there on f12 yeah f12 night i survived f12 i survived f12 i played bingo and i got f12 yeah i got a bingo and it was on f12 12 yeah the fingo that's great yeah i got a fingo a lot of people in formula one not me yeah formula 12 we need to talk about this a little more off the pod

but right now right now the they said the capacity is like 150 people oh so we need some rsvps probably to give us a gauge of like we do are people coming i know like there have been people that have there have been people that have messaged me and said i've bought my ticket so no yeah yeah yeehaw yehaw yeehaw to that let's go stanbury so that's crazy so if enough people like commit then we might need to change the venue and figure that out but i love mclean's i do too love their butter rolls yeah but the idea of having a stage it's having a built-in sound yeah thing would be nice but i it's important though we got to have it i want it standing room only i want it packed yes i agree yeah no matter what it needs to be a smaller venue but we can

figure that out but we'll get some rsvp out here soon yeah we'll talk about it talk about but anyway comedy it's gonna be awesome f12 baby it's gonna be zoppity yep gonna be zoppity um let's dive in and i mean dive br Brad into our reviews of the week. What do you think about that? I think that's great. I was thinking about the verse of dive by Stephen Curtis Chapman right then, but it's just, it's just a bunch of mumbles to me. I don't know any of those words, you know, how does it go again?

I don't know. I don't even know how it goes. And then I'll just do it. So here I go. I'm diving in. I'm going deep. Yeah don't even know how it goes. And then all of a sudden, so here I go. I'm diving in. I'm going deep. I'm moving up here. I'm diving deep.

Yeah. Chorus hits hard. I think that's kind of a Christian music thing. Like spend a lot of time on the chorus. Yeah. That's what people are going to remember. Especially when the chorus is that much of a banger. Which that's probably music in general.

But I feel like, especially in Christian music, it's like the verse is so forgettable. Dun, dun, dun. Dun, dun,

dun. It's like, it does something like that in the verse honestly it's a song that i feel like i know extremely well and i can't even think of the verse so that's gonna be great yeah is that at one point oh it's so that i hear a voice does it time to sing no wait it's uh yeah whatever yeah yeah yeah it's pretty forgettable it's just like it's just like so here i go all right rank these two i'm diving in so here i go or the first six seconds of the great adventure oh hundred percent great adventure i think i'm going to it's such a hot start. Settle up your horses. Settle up your horses.

Like it's got harmony right there. Uh-huh. And then it goes. Oh my gosh. Game over, dude. It's so good. Oh my goodness. Not even a challenge.

It never reaches that point again in the song. It's like the first like five to 10 seconds. It's so good oh my goodness not even a challenge it never reaches that point again in the song it's like the first like five to ten seconds it's so fun yeah that that is great like and that's as a dj that's what you need is those first few seconds just be like boom i like this song okay reviews of the week what a fun episode this i knew would be a good one i knew once we're back good vibes baby good vibes the voice is back you want me to do the big one i think i do yeah my voice is back i'll do me to do the big one? I think I do. Yeah, my voice is back. I'll do the first.

I'll do the small one first. And then let me gear up a little bit. And then I'll find the jingle while you're doing the other one. Great. First of all, I want to say a review of the week. Honorary review of the week is all 1,225 people who have rated us on Apple. I didn't even know this. Look at this. You can see it broken down. 1200 people have rated us five stars. 10 have rated us four stars, four, three stars, four, two stars, seven, one stars. That's incredibly good. Wild. Yeah. Wow. That's

amazing. So thank you. So, so I want to, I want to say that because I'd never seen that before. I'd never seen that either. Yeah. I broke it down right here. Uh, I know that at least one of those one stars is William Hanna, um, on accident. He's one of our good friends. He's a dad and he's not most technologically savvy. He might've changed it by now, but, um, one of the seven, he, he wrote was like a really nice review one time, but it was one star review. I love William Hanna. Um, no, but long story short, uh, we were talking on the Hanson family, Catherine's

family's group chat. Um, you know, I talked about how Brooks got engaged to Katie a couple of weeks ago. Sure. Uh, Katie got added to the group chat. Big deal. We're like, welcome Katie. And I, you know, we're like, we think we're so funny.

And I was like, yeah, we, we think we're way funnier than we actually are. Something like that. Yeah. And my brother-in-law screenshotted these 1,225 five-star reviews and said, speak for yourself, Brad. Other people think you're funny too or whatever. Nice guy. I don't think I really registered the fact that 1,200 people have rated us five stars.

So that's just cool. So thank you. Thank you. To all 1,200 of you. Yes. I guess more like 1,999 because I've rated myself five stars. I'll be honest. So Mrs. Nutella, my review of. Um, so Mrs. Nutella,

my review of the week is from Ms. Nutella. Laughter is the best medicine. Oh, she says, I've never loved a podcast more. I'm a 49 year old mom and I should know better than to become obsessed with a podcast, but I'm literally obsessed. I used to listen to serious educational podcasts until a friend suggested I try ghost runners for a change of pace. That's funny about educational and serious. Yeah. And I've never looked back. I look forward to every Monday morning and I know I've caused some concerned looks when people have seen me laughing hysterically in my car while sitting at a red light or waiting to go into work. You guys are so funny and your banter is so natural. You never fail to brighten my day. I also love that I can let my kids listen to you during this crappy time in the world. Please don't cuss. Your ability to make me laugh uncontrollably is a true gift.

And I appreciate you both so much. Keep up the good, good work. I'm proud to be a ghostie, even though I'm old enough to be your mom. I mean, we've been unplanned. Probably, probably. We don't know. Or just a strong Christian woman that didn't want to wait anymore. You know, didn't go to college.

Enough is enough. Yep. Yeah. Found her bow and got married.-e-a-u you know just like a nice boyfriend nice thank you miss newton all right my turn oh wait gotta type something up so don't forget to say at the end of the episode here we go big breath this is the only podcast review i've ever written and ghost runners is definitely worthy of my first ever review and the five stars i commute a total of Big breath. and that it's evident in the way they interact with one another and fans of the podcast every week. This podcast, while extremely entertaining, goes beyond just that. Their integrity and kindness have formed an amazing fan base and community that seems to consistently surprise them. That's just such a good sentence. That's amazing. And their influence goes so much further

than they realize. I'm around their age with a very similar upbringing to them. So of course, I find them funny and relatable. But I love hearing how many younger people listen to their podcast as well. I am a middle school and high school teacher. And the fact that there are young people out there listening to and being influenced by Jake and Brad, rather than many of the other influences that they could find online. It's such a positive thing. Last night I saw Jake perform in Indianapolis,

which sidebar excellent job, Jake, you were hilarious. Even when feeling under the weather, sorry about front row, Josh, and that you had to make a Jake from state farm joke during the song. That's funny.

But it was so good. It's so well-tim well timed you were seriously great thank you anyway i went to the show with two of my friends who only knew of train although i talked jacob quite a bit beforehand before the show young man came up and sat in the seat next to me and greeted me we got to talking and realized we were both ghost runners fans not only was he a ghosty but it turned out that he was clint from the heim down boys wow this is sweet soon after don't you know oh simeon joined him after attempting to awkwardly explain to my friends how i knew and why i was so excited to meet these two random college kids that's so funny we got to talk um before the show we got to talk before the show there's the line breaks tricky yeah uh about how their senior year had finished out, how college was going for them now. And even though we really didn't, it felt like we had friends in common because of this

podcast. It was such a pleasure to meet these genuine young people and watch the show with them. And afterwards, I just reflected on how amazing it is because of this podcast community. People from all over are able to connect over such entertaining, uplifting and wholesome content. In some, the Internet needs less division and more Jake and Brad. The world could certainly be a better place. I know this is such a long review,

but hey, it's the only one I've ever left. But if you're still reading, I hope I've convinced you to give this podcast a shot. It has helped keep me entertained through some tough times and helped me to continue to believe in the goodness of people, even when most other news would have me believe otherwise. I promise you will leave each episode

both entertained and uplifted. And it's a great way to brighten each Monday morning. Jacob Brad, thank you for this community. You have created any positive influence you are leaving on the world through this podcast. I hope this review gives you some words of affirmation and encourages you like you do your community. My goodness, Amanda B.

Yeah, some words of affirmation. That was, yeah, amazing. Thank you. That was worth every word. Thank you for taking the time to write all that and encourage us and use it as a tool to maybe encourage other people who are reading it so that is very cool if that was a um mla formatted uh double space paper that would have been long enough probably for a whole paper in high school yeah definitely even college english in high school i think that may be long enough yeah yeah double space yeah that was yeah yeah Whatever. I don't know how to...

You said it, Amanda B. 288. It's pretty sweet. Thank you. It's cool that she's able to recognize the community we have and sounds like she's going to be there for F12. You don't want to miss this, Amanda B. F12. Amanda Bynes. I'm just going to assume it's Amanda Bynes. She's a listener probably. Holy cow. Born and raised in Indianapolis. If it were Amanda Bynes,

Catherine would flip. That would get her to go to National Park. Catherine watched the Cinderella story the other day. Oh, sure. Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray. Yeah. Okay. They are both so bad at acting. Really? Especially Hilary. Yeah. My gosh. Sorry I had to go through

that. Oh, I just, I've watched like 10 minutes of it. I was like, Catherine, this is ridiculous. But still, that part, I'm sorry. Yeah. Oh, real quick before I forget, I got thism yeah just now six minutes ago okay hi jake i'm going to your show with with trey she's going with trey holy cow wow how did they get for her her name is caitlin let's go skating i'm going to your show with trey in portland this thursday super excited for it i work for nike and have extra employee store passes if you guys want to go yes yes yes yes hubba Hubba, hubba. 100%. Yes, I will be doing you back soon.

Caitlin, do you know Jason Wright? He's my friend that works at Nike in Portland. Caitlin. He designs football jerseys. It says that Caitlin follows Gene Schwartz comedy. Not Jason Wright. But not Ghostrunners is what I was going to say, so I don't know if old Katie's listening. Maybe in retrospect

though. I just wanted to brag that I had a friend that if old Katie's listening. Oh. Maybe in retrospect, though. I just wanted to brag that I had a friend that made the Rams jerseys. He made the Rams jerseys. That's so sick. Isn't that dope? Yeah, it's a good fact. I think he like helped make the Rams new logo. Like they came out, which everyone hated.

I thought it's cool, but a lot of people really didn't like it. I think it's cool. Brad, would you like to end this episode with a jingle? Let's do it. Cool. Here it is. This is written by Europe Bailey Doan. Oh, okay.

Tis the season. B is for your son, Bo's big blue eyes. R is for you getting recognized. A is all the ghosties in fall merch in cozy D. I love it. His dadder days with both the kids, but Catherine stays. Oh, Brad, drive his minivan around. Brad, he makes up jokes just like a clown. Hey.

At the slots, he kills it. Bucked off a horse, but no one films it. Brad. That's great. The flyest guy in town. It's kind of funny that you're having to sing about yourself like that. I like it. Yeah.

So far, Europe, incredibly well- europe incredibly well written very very well done is this her first uh she did one a couple of weeks ago cool i think well europe won on me there oh i probably made that joke a few weeks ago too so sorry but so far so good how am i done on Three, two, one. J is for just drinks that we all need. A is for your senior abs. We see. Gosh. K is awkward kissing. Rink him bit that we are missing.

Oh, there it is. E, he got on Ellen. Bottle him. Oh, yes, is. Thanks. Oh, wow. How about this weather? State Farm Mads are oh so clever. Jake, you have the biggest fans. Brad, the flyest guy in town. Oh, and Ghost Runners every Monday. day hey hey clap it up for Europe Europe that was awesome please write

more yes she let me that was great she also wrote the one oh the Lancaster dang two for two yes Europe you have a gift Derek and Europe are their names what do you mean their names Oh, the Lancaster. Dang. Two for two. Yes. Europe, you have a gift. Derek and Europe are their names. What do you mean their names?

She's married to her husband and they wrote, they at least wrote Lancaster together. Okay. We have some co-writers. Yes. Okay, Derek, good job as well. And jazz just sounds better in the winter. I've decided. You don't listen to jazz in the summer.

I saw that on Mythbusters. They proved that. That's right. Yeah. Okay. Okay. i have two final thoughts two little you know at the end of uh around the horn when there's like just a couple last things i like that part yeah like it's like your time like you won so you get to say you know 30 seconds contemporaneous uh-huh yeah so just um two things one uh just update on the guillotine league i know people don't really care i've been bragging a little too much on myself like i've scored so many points and then oh boy it sucked i mean christian mccaffrey out in the second quarter darren waller out of the first quarter these are

guys on my team like here i go this week but then uh it comes down to the wire uh i'm down by like six points with only justin tucker left to play who's a kicker and six points is manageable though it was like yeah yeah, definitely realistic, but also just needed him to make some kicks. And I think by halftime, he'd already made enough kicks to push me through. But then it got scary. I was like, don't miss an extra point.

Oh, because those go down. Because it wasn't locked in. Yeah. So pretty electric. I was able to scoot on by. A little more humble now, though, huh? Yeah, now I'm like, hey, everyone, I need to say, let's all just have fun here.

You guys are all great. You guys are really good at this holy cow yeah that was humbling so poor kristen my friend kristen got knocked out so it was a bummer but how much the most of us kristen and one other thing i want to note is kid named gavin all season long his uh team name has been bomb tech drivers which has been fun he's the one we have such a hard time do we spent 99 on week one like gavin what are you doing he's still and he's still in it so for him hard time to. He spent $99 on week one. We're like, Gavin, what are you doing? He's still in. And he's still in it. Good for him. And the guys he spent money on are not really playing. It was Antonio Brown, who's been hurt. So good for him.

Did he get Patrick Mahomes too? Was he that one? No, that was, I think, Brock, who spent $100 on Patrick Mahomes. Anyway, his teammate has been Bob Tech drivers all season long. And then I look last night, and he changed it to Peter Casey's drivers. Nice. And I was like, that's awesome. That's good. Good for was like, that's awesome. That's good.

Good for you. Okay. Uh, easy segue. I need a golf partner looking for one. Oh, this. Oh,

dang it. I'm an idiot. By the time this comes out, it is stupid. Dang it. We are, we are recording so far in advance. Yeah.

Dang it. Basically we're going to be in, I'll just tell you this scenario. We're going to be in Los Angeles, Riverside, California. It's going to be 80 degrees. I'm so excited. But that's the day of the Big 12 championship game that I wish I could be at. Oh boy, I wish I could be there.

It's Oklahoma State. So Trey and Al are like, we definitely want to watch this game. Okay. Say, man, you got a free solo golf when it's 80 degrees? If only there was another way to get a word out. Because I'm podcasting these days, you know, it has to be a podcast. You film six days in advance. That's the only way.

So I guess I'll go by myself or Marla Joe Marla, Marla Joe Marla Joe. No are in it. Marla go. I think Marla go. Yeah. Marla Joe. Wait, did I get you got a gift or something for you that I didn't bring? Oh, you didn't bring.

Yeah, I forgot it. Oh, OK. Sorry. It's in the garage of my new house. So I got two houses, you know. Sorry. It's in my other house. It's in my vacation home.

Yeah, it's going to lay down the wintertime. It's in my southern Johnson County house. OK, good stuff. That was wrap it up. Hope you guys enjoy this episode. Brad, any final thoughts? You're around the horn time. Yeah. My final thoughts are, I've been trying to be more excellent in life.

Good. Just in everyday things. I think, I mean, there are lots of- Good enough isn't good enough. Nope. There's lots of Bible verse out there on excellence, but the Aristotle quote is, you know, we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit, Jake. Okay. So therefore I've just, I don't know repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit, Jake. Okay. So therefore I've just, I don't know.

I've just been trying to like, I've just like, anytime I see something that's like, oh, I need to do that. I'm like, no, I'm going to do it right now. Let's do it. I'll go, I need to text that person. No, I'm going to text them right now. Like, oh, there's that text. I'll respond to it. No, right now.

Like just trying to be better. And it's, it's a good thing. So, and it's a habit. So be habitual. Good. Even though it kind of just did, saying habitual. Yeah.

We love you guys. We're so thankful for you guys. Ghostrunners.life is popping right now with merch. Great. By the time this comes out, we have the End It With The Jingle merch coming back.

Oh, of course. For Christmas season. So check it out. Yeah, get your Christmas gifts now because people love the merch. But we, um, check it out. Yeah. Get your Christmas gifts now. Um, cause people love the merch, but we, yeah, it, it like every day, like people are still ordering and it's so awesome. So thank you guys for supporting us in that way and see you on F12. Yeah. Let's get F12 going. All right. You guys have a good week. Love you guys. Yeah. Ghost Runs Podcast Ghost Runs Podcast Every Monday morning we're taking back

Ghost Runs Podcast Ghost Runs Podcast You're trying to be nice here. By the way, what's this all on the roof? Ruff. Ruff. Ruff. Okay. Was there something on the ref? Ruff. Ruff.

No. Ruff. Ruff. Ruff. Because roof is how to say it. Roof. We're saying ruff. Ruff. Ruff. The ruff.

The ruff. Ruff. I don't think it's all the way ruff. Okay, so subtle. It's a little more subtle. It's ruff. It's ruff. Say it again.

Ruff. Ruff. Like split the numbers. Roof. Ruff. Ruff. Ruff. Do you hear that? I hear it. Roof, ruff, ruff. Ruff. Do you hear that?

I hear it, but there's just like a disconnect to my tongue. I was like, how do I? It's probably why I'm not a good singer. There's like a, um, the ruff. Yeah, that's right. Okay. By the way, did you hear something? There was like some sort of racket on the ruff last night.

I almost had me. I think it was pretty good. Okay. I'll try it one more time. By the way, did you hear it last night? There was like some sort of racket on the ruff last night. Ruff. I think it was pretty good okay i'll try it by the way did you hear it last night there was like some sort of racket on the rough last night rough i think it works okay and either way it's wrong you're like it almost sounded like there was a wolf on the roof um yeah this is gonna sound crazy but it almost sounded like there was a wolf on the rough

dang it i said roth wolf on the rough like there's a wolf on the rough dang it i said roth wolf on the rough yeah there it is wolf on the rough yeah yeah this is gonna sound crazy but it almost sounded like there's a wolf on the rough last night wolf on the rough wolf on the rough wolf there's a wolf it sounded like there was a wolf on the rough a wolf on that yeah you're getting dead you're almost saying a wrath at this point i'm trying to like envision how to spell it and i'm throwing an e in there just just picture right wolf on the roof wolf on the roof wolf on the roof yeah okay easy enough