Ghostrunners - 147 - "Is He a Circus Performer?"

Episode Date: February 28, 2022

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Hey, Jake. Hey, Brad. So from what I remember, it was between, I'd say a month or two ago. Okay. Kind of out of nowhere. I feel like you were just like, what's with, what's with girls named Corey? And I was kind of like. I did?

It was something along those lines. Okay. I'm just like, you know, or like how they always spell their name or something like that. And I was like, ah, you know, I think it's fine. Okay. You know, that's fine. And then this past week episode, you said something like, also, I mean, this kid in Hattie's class, his name was Tommy.

What's up with that? Adult Tommy's? No. Yeah. Rachel's brother is named Tommy and he is married to a woman named Corey. No way. Sucks for them, man. What are they going to name their kid?

Flabby? Boopy? Oh, okay, cool. Hi. Is this the one that's pregnant? Yeah, big time. So they're about to have their kid. What do you think?

Yeah, what's the kid's going to be named? Something that you don't agree with. Floppy? Yeah, Tabby. It's just like the seven dwarfs. Tommy, Corey, and the seven dwarfs. Tommy, Corey. Yeah, hopefully they are going to have seven.

Dopey? Iowa, dopey. Grumpy? seven dwarfs tommy cory yeah hopefully they are gonna have seven dopey iowa dopey grumpy grumpy yeah i mean yeah does he go by tommy tommy boy um i think he introduced himself to me as tom but when i hear the family talk about tom it's like yeah tommy yeah yeah tommy so i don't remember the cory thing but i believe it i mean i'm there i i't, I don't like it when it's like, like it's a traditionally, I'm going to get in so much trouble for this. Cause people are gonna be like, well, my name is Shannon. I'm a guy. It's like, that sucks. Like, I'm sorry. Like, I don't like it when it's like very clearly, like, like it's Shannon could be

a guy's name. Shannon sharp. Yeah. Very famous. Like a girl named professional male girl named Tyler or something like that. Sure. But Tyler is 95% of guys name. It's like, let's keep it that way let's not let's not i don't care if you spell tyler i don't even know how you'd spell that differently t-i-e-l-u-r yeah fun like that's

a girl that's a girl spelling i guess it doesn't matter it's still tyler it's bad i don't like it so it's how tommy and c, I think if you have a girl, Steven, Steven would be a pretty name. And if you have a guy, what do you want to name him, Brad? Lacey. Uh-oh, ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along, let's have some fun and go ahead,

get on your feet. Cause it's the Ghost Brothers Podcast. Every Monday morning we're taking round. Ghost Brothers Podcast. Ghost Brothers Podcast. We are back with another episode. Jake's tightening that belt. No, I'm undoing the belt.

He's getting comfy, baby. I'm undoing the belt. Yeah, going to be a good episode. The belt is loose. One of those days. Yeah. You've been eating a lot of good food? I switched up what I ordered from Chili's today, so maybe. Switched up completely, like never had this before or just was like, hey, we usually get the Cajun chicken pasta. I'm going chicken crispers this time. Yeah, we went back to 2020 Chili's today. 2021, I really hit my stride with the chicken Cajun pasta. And then I was like, what about those loaded boneless wings? Remember those? And they have some bacon bits on them. So

which is fun because Isaac and I talked about going to Topgolf tonight. So I could throw up two Topgolfs in a row. That's what I do. I go to Topgolf and I throw up. That's my thing. Okay. So tonight could be the night again. Maybe do some roller coaster rides beforehand on the VR stuff. I did just see Isaac Venmo'd me, I mean, 90 seconds ago.

And he Venmo'd me $35. And the Venmo description said Pebble Beach, which I think means that he was playing virtual reality golf, really wanted a new golf course, and spent $35 on a virtual course. He's going to play three more times. You know what I like about Isaac and you? You both just ball out, right? Always have. Always will will you guys are just ballers man you know such ballers

35 dollars i think the first course he've been moment before was like seven dollars so pebble beach oh it was for x golf the other day he says oh that makes way more sense okay sorry isaac well that's why you leave the door open. So Isaac gets to have an opinion, gets to defend himself. Right before we were about to record, Jake's like, the door's open. Let's keep it open. Isaac will shut it if he needs to. And he didn't.

That makes way more sense. Because like $7 on a virtual reality or like any kind of electronic, $7 seems so expensive. Right? Yeah. Do you feel that way? Like renting a movie. It's like three 99. I don't know. But then you go to the movies. I went to the movies this past week with Catherine and I think we paid $38 or something like that. Who's your movie guy? I can get you

way cheaper. I know. Right. It was at AMC. It was like one of those like reservations. I don't know, Catherine, we went with, uh, Sophie and Peter and Gunnar and Emily. So Sophie bought the tickets and was like, yeah, it's. Hey, Keith, you didn't want me 38? Like, Sophie, can I see your receipt? Are we sure? It was one of those like theaters that has like the recliners and you have to make a reservation for a seat. But I'm still like, yeah.

For a motion picture? 19 year old Brad would have had a fit. What'd you go see? The new Spider-Man. Didn't peg you for a Spider-Boy? I'm not necessarily. I will say Spider-Man and Batman are my two favorites. He was more of a Mr.

Incredible fan. I do also like Mr. Incredible. Thank you very much. I like, I like any. Hear me out. I was going to say,

I like any action hero. I was trying to think of bigger superheroes. I couldn't, that was the only one I could think of. I was just going to rattle off just larger. You know, Mr. Penguin.

I see you as more of a Paul Blart mall mall cop kind of guy really spider-man oh your favorite incredible is dash right i doubt it all right yeah uh no i like superhero movies that i obviously they're all very fake but like i like the ones that seem like they're kind of in real life like like so like batman like batman spider-man really those two are my favorite ones like that take place in america in like a normal city like gotham you know pittsburgh and batman or spider-man's uh new york city whereas like superman where he goes to krypton i'm like i'm out i don't i don't need you to be in some intergalactic place now that's silly that's made that's ridiculous uh but this new spider-man so i hadn't seen the previous spider-man i think there's like three or four with this tom holland guy which kind of reminds me of you it's just a compliment he's

thank you um uh but like this new spider-man had some intergalactic stuff going on at some point and i was like whoa whoa whoa take me back to the daily bugle in new york city yeah let's keep it in the states it was so funny because uh gunner and i went and sat next to each other we're both like not superhero guys not sci-fi guys kind of like you you're both together not knowing what's going on well but we asked peter he gave us like a little summary beforehand so he like told us what was going on so at least we knew but like we watched probably five or six previews which usually previews are so fun and every time i don't know have we got in the movies where we do yeah i taught rachel the move it's a very fun thing to

do with your friends like thumbs up thumbs down after every preview gutter and i had thumbs down i think every single preview and it was like i told gutter i was like you know you know you're in the wrong movie when none of the previews all the previews are like yeah intended for this audience specifically like that's even close to a movie i would watch oh man there's like sonic the hedgehog i was like no way didn't even like the video game oh i love the video game but anyway it was just one of those things where it was like but but the spider-man was fun i liked it okay good i i yeah seal of approval from brad okay when you said batman reminded me probably like three four weeks ago or whatever uh rachel didn't come to our basketball game and she was like what did i miss and i was like one thing and it's like i don't know if the guys planned this or if they're all

just improv comedians at the same time i was like i if you remember this i made a three pretty early on in the game of course and i think yeah it was early and often is what we call you like rachel been there the week before she wasn't there then and i don't know if you started it but i feel like the whole team as we're running back down the court, are quoting Batman and saying, where's Rachel? Oh, yes. I remember that. It was like four different people saying this. I was like, where did this come?

Did you guys plan this? It was hilarious. Yeah. Everyone was just saying, where's Rachel? Because Jake's playing so good. That's right. Where's Rachel? Oh, that tickled me so much.

And I never thought to bring it up or say anything to you guys. I was like, what a strange thing out of nowhere. It's such like an offhanded thing that we just like, you know, like I think probably how it started. I don't remember specifically too much, but I'm sure somebody was like, oh man, where's Rachel now? And something I probably was like, yeah, where's Rachel? And then everyone was like barking at it.

Oh, that's funny. Yeah. It was a good time. We won again this week in basketball. Yeah. We are undefeated, which means we haven't lost. And which means nothing because Rustin's going to be gone for the actual tournament game. I didn't know that.

You hadn't heard that? That was like the big news after the game. He's like, I'll be here next week, which is like the week that everyone else is going to be gone. Yep. But he's like, but I'm gone the week after. And Scott's like, wait, that's the championship week. Like you should have seen Scott. It was like the star quarterback in high school broke his leg before the state championship.

He's like, whoa, you don't understand. Like, that's the championship. Like, he could not handle it. What's Rustin doing? Putting out fires? Oh, yeah. Apparently, he... Too soon!

Volunteer firefighter. Apparently, he travels like once a month or something for work so he's down in houston on a monday i think like literally one night like monday into tuesday or something like that luckily luckily i'm gonna get in really good shape you're gonna be there yeah i'll be ready to go does he have a brother or something who's like pretty much as good uh he's got a brother yeah no he's got a brother no no his brother's good too but his brother's his brother's like a a rest is like a triple plus you know what i mean like his brother's good his brother's his brother's solid like i think he played technically like in college a little bit

like jv college okay so he was like on the team cool but rustin you know is like point scoring record holder okay a little different a little different you know, is like point scoring record holder. Okay. A little different. A little different, you know. Okay. So still probably better than most of us. Yeah. But I don't know where I rank on the triple plus scale. That was a little bit of a confusing way of ranking. Oh, I'm sorry. Grades are A, B, C. Or A triple plus.

Or A triple plus. If you didn't know that, you should know that. I would say, I don't know. Rustin's like blue and like his brother's like. Like magenta maybe? Like cerulean? I would say, yeah. I would say like maybe like more know, Rustin's like blue and like his brother's like. Like magenta maybe? Like cerulean? I would say, yeah, I would say like maybe like more obsidian or like graphite. Does that help?

You know? Maybe cyan? I was looking at pants on Amazon today and there was a color and it was like malignite. And I was like, I don't know. I'd go to a doctor and get that looked at. Yeah. I got malignite. Yeah.

Malignite. Yeah. What was it? I could be wrong dark red no it looked exactly like um black i was like huh i don't know um let's find these malignant okay now let's just let's just brace ourselves for when we find out I got the name pretty, pretty wrong. Okay. Um, gosh, this is taking a while. You keep talking, Brad. Let me find this. Let me find this. So malignant, um, originally talk about Rustin and his brother, Russ's brother.

Good. I think Brit is Russ's older brother. So I think it's also one of those things where it's like he was good in high school, but he's not in high school shape anymore. Like I'm just, so you got it melanite melanite still doesn't sound great yeah because it's melanoma so i think when i hear that what color would you say this is yeah it's like a it's like an obsidian it's like like gray black. Yeah. Off black. How obsessed are you with online shopping these days? Dude, I love pants.

I feel like every time I see you, you're wearing something new. I love pants. Yeah. And I love tops. That's close. That's online shopping. Yeah. And today, Trey and I made a video today about being addicted to Amazon.

So we're kind of asking Katie for some intel. She was like, oh, a big thing on Amazon is finding like Lululemon like dupes dupes yeah and so i was like i want to find some dupes sure dupe it up let's do yeah like tommy and cory's kid dupey you know i want to let's get dupey in here and uh i was duping so you're gonna try to follow like some fashion bloggers and stuff i am not going to follow follow some fashion bloggers like that's how like all the girls find the dupes. They're like, really, you know, this is a dupe, but it's fits just like normal. And they're like doing all this stuff. Catherine follows some of them. Really? And she's bought a few dupes. I'm going to become the fashion blogger. I think, I think that's exactly

what I've always thought about you. Yeah. Thanks. Fashion blogger. That's what I try to like really reiterate to Rachel's like, it is crazy. The time in my life that you came in at, like you only know me as a comedian who dresses nice. I had a thought. I was like, I'm wearing jeans today. Did she inspire it or was it right before Rachel? It was right before. It was like this fall, like early fall.

Were you just inspired by hanging out with Trey on tour? You're like, that's a nice cut shirt. I'm going to get one of those. Yeah, it was probably a little bit of starting to notice of starting to notice nicer stuff but also just being like everything i own like my shorts are still maroon from my high school like i just need to like not be wearing this anymore it's so funny it just like clicked one day it was just like just one oh yeah i was like 30 age 30 maybe i shouldn't keep wearing the shorts i've had for 12 years yeah that's so that's your champs though 2009 pretty cool but you still do i love that you uh

continue i mean it was to basketball one time but those pants that are like uh sun bleached i do i do those yeah yeah the old sweat turning a little malignant on me they've got some weird color like almost tie-dye in one place like yeah before tie-dye was kind of in i kind of tie-dyed it nature's way with the sun in dallas for year. Yeah. So anyway. So what happened to you this week? I went to the movies. Yeah.

I had a good time there. Rachel and I saw the Kurt Warner movie. What'd you think? It bothered me. He never went shotgun the whole movie, whether he was in arena league, whether he was in high school, college. He went to college in Northern Iowa. So I was like, Rachel, it's gotta be fun.

Right. Yeah. She was like, yeah, that's like her old coach. Like I know him, you know whatever um even when he was with the rams the foot like they never showed him in shotgun did he go in shotgun he had to have right i don't know shotgun's like a new thing no i mean yeah like i feel like nowadays it's like 90 shotgun like it's almost always shotgun i don't know i could be definitely not like unheard of back then but it wasn't like as normal as it was today.

It just, once I noticed it, then it was like his career advances. And this dude has not once taken a snap and shotgun. I was like, dude, just like give yourself cause his arena league team or one of his teams.

Like they had a really bad time pass blocking. He was having trouble getting the ball out in time. I was like, dude, give yourself some room. That's funny. I would keep whispering to Rachel. I was like dude get a shotgun yeah give yourself some room that's funny i would keep whispering to rachel's like there's still not shotgun she's like i don't care yeah it's like that's crazy i don't care you want a super bowl without good shotgun it's kind of like there's like certain things that people always do in movies that i'm like that's not

real like like do you ever watch people that hold a basketball in movies like the way they hold a basketball is like two hands right in front of their chest like this no one holds a basketball in movies. Like the way they hold a basketball is like two hands right in front of their chest like this. No one holds a basketball like that. Oh, that's interesting. Or like the logos out on drinks. It's like, come on. Right. It's a little too perfect.

Like I'm always wondering, like it's either like like like most of the people that acted when I was in high school were kind of unathletic. So I was like, maybe these people literally don't know how to hold a basketball. They're not all Zac Efron's. They can't do both. But I'm not convinced that like zero percent

of actors have played basketball before. And yet they always hold it like this. Or like, like so often, like basketball courts on TV shows are so tiny. Have you ever noticed that? No. Like, uh, trying to think in the office, uh, warehouse. Yeah. That one did not seem, um, the right size. I'm trying to think like sitcoms, like fresh prints and like saved by the bell, how I met your mother. Your Mother. Like all these shows that are like big budget shows that could easily afford a bigger. Just go get a basketball court. A bigger court. And it's like always like this tiny little like one half five eighth style court or something.

Anyway, stuff like that. I always notice how closely people are talking to each other in movies and shows. I'm like, no one ever, ever, ever talks that close to each other. Interesting. Unless it's like for a comedic effect. Yeah. Dwight and Jim or something. But yeah, they're always talking so close.

They're sitting so close. Spacing's always a lot in movies and shows. And it is dialogue in general. Yeah. Just it was a spacing thing for me. Get a little more space. I mean, I'm sure that looks way better than if he's back, you know, by himself. I don't know.

Just like, yeah. Cinematically, they're like, this looks better. Get his hand underneath there. If you're a film guy, let us know. Let us know about why you would go under center every time. Yeah. I noticed dialogue, too, just in movies. It's just like, wow, that's so unnatural.

Why would they not write it to be like how people actually talk? Or just like how movies, you can just like, the scene's just over. There's a new scene. It's like, okay, that would have been so awkward in person if they just like said all those things and didn't get to cut to a new scene because they're both in a car and he just broke up with her basically yeah and now it's like oh now it's the next day at the mall i want to know the rest of that scene that's so awkward driver home yeah silence what happened that's the other thing is sometimes you'll like see something like a argument that they're having and they're like you know what we're good and they stand up and

get out like get like leave the room that does not happen yeah in real life it's like whoa what we got to talk about this for a long time now like it's like a two-hour conversation at this point remember didn't we get a podcast review one time it was like i tried to watch the movie memento jake because you recommended it so much but it was unrealistic like because they never showered or something like that oh yeah they were like i think was it a voice yeah it was a voice from her they were upset that they didn't they never went to sleep they They didn't show everything. Yeah. And I mean everything.

Yeah. They never, I didn't see them tie their shoes once. I mean, how did they get those on? The movies and TV shows. I never seen them put their pants on. So I guess they just woke up in them. Yeah. Bought some dupes on Amazon and just threw them on.

Not a single call to like a dad or mom. They never check in with their parents in the movie. Yeah. Why not? Were you to believe that they don't love their parents they don't even have parents they don't even talk about them they don't give you the genealogy at all yeah no what's their backstory 23 and me yeah ethnically where we at come on so anyway um anyway that's all we saw that movie like two months ago we were like it oh this is when rachel rachel's the coats girl when i was like i have this this friend who's been getting coats sent to her. So we went to Dick's point against return it.

And it was like, it's like seven 30. What do we do the rest? And I was kind of awkward amount of time. It's like, AMC is right here. Yeah. Go see curd. I kept calling him curd Warner. It just sounds kind of fun.

Oh, curd. And would you recommend it? It was, I mean, it's gotta be a little cheesy, obviously. Right. It's a little cheesy. Is it facing the giants? Cheesy? No, it's got to be a little cheesy, obviously. Right. It's a little cheesy. Is it facing the Giants cheesy? No, it's not that bad.

Is it pretty good? OK. They focused a lot on like him and his wife's love story. And I was kind of more one football story. Sure. But Brenda's great. I could never get over her short hair, man. Not a lot of hair on her.

No, not a lot of hair. Hairless. Like a like a sphinx. Yeah. Like a sphinx. Yeah. But it was a fine movie it was kind of fun because i was somewhat familiar with the story but not fully aware so it's like i am intrigued by the next part of this like does he get cut i can't remember oh really you know i feel like i

feel like they talk about his story every single time they show him on tv back in the day and i remember like being a big kurt warner fan when he was in the ramps because he had such a cool story like he was back in groceries a year ago but i didn't remember i was like oh when he was in the Rams because he had such a cool story. Like he was bagging groceries a year ago, but I didn't remember. I was like, oh yeah, he went to the Arena League. Oh, that's right. But for how long? The XFL, right? No, I think it was just

the Arena League. Yeah, yeah. But he did that for like three seasons or something. Okay. So I was like, gosh. Wow. And then he was bagging groceries

and yeah, whatever. So yes or no recommendation? Like should I see it? Sideways hand. No, you don't need to see it. Yeah, you don't need to see it. Not up or down. Like I wouldn't regret it,

but it's not like you got to see this movie. Only do it. If you're already in the parking lot at a Dick's sporting goods and it's like seven 30 and you're not sure what to do the rest of the night. I would say that's the only scenario. Okay. And then like, yeah,

good choice. So there's, I mean, there's a chance I could watch this, but probably not. Yeah. If you're returning a coat that you got for some reason. Um,

okay. Do you have a good week? Oh yeah. It's been a good week. Um, it's been a busy week i went to i've had something every single night so far this week and uh which is great well you're in four different church classes so yeah it feels like it uh i'm in two different ones and then i'm

playing basketball and then tuesday night went to a basketball game with my dad fun um ku whooped k-state it's always kind of hard like this case is my alma mater but i don't care about their basketball team at all yeah yeah it's kind of weird but uh it was fun my dad i told you this at dinner my dad was like brad i have a i have a new video idea for you he's like types of fans at basketball games and i was like you stretched hard for that one didn't you yeah how do you think of the idea he's like you know you could do all these different fans. And it's not a terrible idea, but I don't know. We'll see if we do it. Maybe we'll go to an undersized gym and do it sometime.

We'll see if we do it. Thanks for the comment last week about someone left a video idea about us being summer camp counselors and Maddox being in our cabin. That's fun. We like that one a lot. Yeah, maybe this summer we'll do it. I'm thinking about it. Undersized cabin. But yeah, it's been a good week.

Let's see. Oh, we had you over for dinner last night. That was it. Um, but yeah, it's been a good week. Let's see. Oh, we had you over for dinner last night. That was fun. Yeah. What do we have for dinner? We had, what did we have Jake?

What do you call them? They, what do you call them in Stratford? Those are quesadillas. Yeah. So yeah, I had Jake and Rachel over for dinner last night and I told like, Catherine was like,

we're like this, this new recipe I'm making for these enchiladas just serves way too many people or not way too many. It's just a big recipe. So I was like, well, if it's a big recipe, like let's invite somebody over. Who do you want to find? Jake and Rachel, of course. And so we had you guys over and apparently Jake was like, yeah, Rachel, uh, apparently they have these, like, there's like a lot of quesadillas. So we're, we're just having to come over for this big recipe. Yeah. I even said, I was like, I guess the recipe Catherine has just like makes too much. So they

want to have us over and it's going to be chickenesadillas and rachel knew but yeah she's like poor guy she's like i want a cute little innocent kid just this thing that you make one at a time right like once katherine gets in the zone she can't make just four stop yeah she makes about 15 tortillas will expire yeah it's so it's just it's a big recipe and we need to have people over yeah so that was fun and uh also the tulips was pretty funny uh oh yeah so rachel comes in with uh tulips in one hand and some fruit in the other and what well the story was basically like like she came rachel had called me and like do we need to pick up anything i'm gonna grab this was like great i'll grab the dessert she's like i went in and grabbed uh some tulips i was like oh nice for katherine she's like yep yeah grab some for katherine i think rachel was just like oh if i you know get flowers it kind of means spring is here purple's fun but the fact that i

like unintentionally was like oh yeah for katherine right like yeah you're a generous person so it's probably for katherine not for yourself right you're not just thinking of yourself and she's like yeah i guess so yeah i guess for katherine so she walked right in and told katherine she's like i was gonna get them for me katherine loves her man like she even said him today said today she's like look though they look so nice i was like yeah i bet rachel thinks they look yeah i'll tell you who really likes to look at them uh girl who bought them but yeah that was fun it was it was kind of a quick dinner because we had a class you know a class um which is really good if you guys haven't heard of love and respect this book check it out it's very very good for marriages um and highly recommend it so um it's

been a great class for us um yeah uh facebook group i i wrote that down a ghosties facebook group we kind of had one for f12 and we just like last week we're like hey i just renamed it let's just change it to ghost runners podcast and just use this as a facebook group because i think reddit was kind of that and i think it still can be a meme page and stuff like that but facebook is just so much easier to access and so much more familiar for so many of us so um there's a facebook group on there there's some uh ghost ghosties starting a ghosties glossary which i think is fun that's gonna be impressive when that's done. So there's going to like kind of just index

all of the episodes and like, because so often people will be like, where did the episode where you said Lick and Stick come from? Where's the glow night? Or I guess not, that's not a bad, like the shirt's wet. I don't know what, something and people are going to know.

So that's pretty cool. That's very cool. Pretty overwhelming to me like i'm like how do you do that because we just bounce around so much yeah yeah there's a lot to glosserize so yeah cool uh i've been gone a lot this week and but i'm back now uh have a few stories one right off the bat it was our flight out to new york originally and we were um southwest flight uh me and train katie are together uh a woman comes over and recognizes trey and um she's like hey do you mind if my kids and i um get a picture with you and so trey's like no no no of course i'm not at all so i'm just like kind

of talking to katie a woman uh a one woman behind me starts touching my hoodie and goes, I love this hoodie. Oh, wow. Oh, great. Thanks. Then another woman to the next to me goes, kind of nods over at Trey and goes, is he a circus performer? What? Which is a great question.

That's the assumption. Yeah. It's like, well, you know, if you would ask me three years ago, I would have said, yeah, my boss is a circus performer. But no, not, you know, wrong time. Like, what do you mean circus performer? And how do you, how do how do you how do you mean yeah and i was like not hey not that i know of uh but no he just makes a lot i don't see him you know do everything in life you know i don't see him tie his shoes yeah it's like the movie memento yeah you know we just get bits and pieces

right it's like that we go home to different houses so i was just like uh no but he makes a lot of videos online and he does comedy stuff. And so that's what they know him from. Like, oh, OK. We were told there were going to be some other circus performers on this flight. And so we were trying to find them. It's kind of like, is it your birthday? Yeah.

Oh, I thought we had the same birthday. Does he fly through rings of fire with lions on top of them? Then go on the trapeze or is that just me? Oh, OK. We didn't know if there were other people on the plane who were like qualifying that yeah yeah is he an elephant trainer as well um uh-huh for 15 and a half years huh no just me okay i just thought maybe we would have that in common because they said they're gonna have other people on here okay i see he's hey excuse me he's taking pictures over there does he saw a woman in half on stage and then reappear as a sphinx cat later and like and like you see like them get a solid half like you you think it's actually real no or no oh okay we were told

maybe someone else on this flight would would do that well we were told that somebody would have the figure for it uh i guess it's just me that has the figure like i guess i'm the only one skinny enough to fit in that thing so um and so, and so I was just like, no, he does comedy. Like, okay. We thought, yeah, circus performer. And I was like, Oh, did you? Yeah. Yeah.

No, I was, I engaged. I was great. Yeah. I was like, that's awesome. I was like, um, because I have a little background being in that world a little bit. I was like, Oh, you guys do halftime shows. And they're like, yes, actually primarily, you know, that's what we do. And I was like, yeah, I kind of figured, I know a halftime shows. And they're like, yes, actually, primarily, you know, that's what we do. And I was like, yeah, I kind of figured I know a halftime performer.

Like, who do you know? And I was like, Josh Horton. And they're like, no way. They're like, that's awesome. Like, of course we know Josh. And the guy, the husband, or I shouldn't assume. The man. The male circus performer counterpart said, I grew up with.

The ring leader. The ring male leader said, I grew up with Josh ring ring male leader said i grew up with josh and i was like really and then at that time they say all right a1 through 30 come on go ahead and so i was like ah i gotta go and so i left you prioritize your seat over over that conversation yeah i left with way more questions than answers trey and i were both walking through the jetway thing we're just like do circus people do they grow up together? Did they meet at a circus? They went to juggling school together, probably. Yeah, but why would they not say juggling?

And also, I don't know what their act is. They refer to themselves as circus people like three times, but never anything specific. So I don't even know what they do. So how'd they grow up together? I'm intrigued by that life. Because I think it takes a special kind of person. Because it's like a traveling thing. It's a traveling circus.

Yeah, you have to travel. Yeah, so it it's like i'm sure there is some kind of inner circle to extent he claimed he grew up with him and i was like wow but then again i think josh was somewhat normal right oh yeah especially compared to the juggling community right yeah so yeah anyway i wonder you you should know more about where how josh grew up i mean i knew you know where he grew up i I don't know his friends. I don't know what kind of tent he was underneath. Yeah, right. Tentist.

And then it was a wild three minutes. And then when I get to in the airplane, then the flight attendant is like, whew. No, she didn't say, whoa, sorry. She goes, wow, I love your hair. Wow. I was like, wow, the hoodie, the circus. Feel my hoodie, yeah. You think you like this? Check this out. And I was like, wow. The hoodie, the circus hoodie. Yeah. You think, you think you like this?

Check this out. And, uh, I was like, thank you. It's maligma. And, um,

no, she was like, I was like, thank you so much. I was like, I like just woke up. It was like a 6am flight. I was like,

I just woke up. She's like, you must not move much in your sleep. I was like, I don't, I'd rather not tell you. Easy perv ball. Yeah.

Right. It wouldn't, you like to know. I woke up like that's like classic, like, yeah, just like a classic line. Like, yeah, I just woke not tell you. Easy, Perfball. Yeah, right. Wouldn't you like to know? I woke up like that's like classic. Like, yeah, just like a classic line. Like, yeah, I just woke up like this. Yeah, I guess I kind of did do that. But it was true.

I was like, I haven't even looked in a mirror yet today. So that's very nice of you to say that. So that was how the week started. That was just the morning after we recorded last week's episode. It's a hot start. Good week of shows. Remind me. we're in the northeast yeah huntington new york terrytown new york baltimore maryland uh red bank new jersey

and then glenside pennsylvania it's like a suburb of philly i think four of those five places i've never heard of yeah i knew baltimore of course that was the only one terrytown never even like heard of it like huntington maybe i've heard that word Huntington Beach in California. That's probably what it is. Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah. I didn't know any of these places. Tarrytown. No, it was Huntington. Really cool venue. It's called the Paramount. There was a site. So a lot of these venues, it's really cool. I have kind of grown used to it, which is bad. I should not take this for granted. But, you know, you go in the hallways, these venues and you see the people perform. You see that John Mulaney's performed. You see that Daniel Taj performed. You see that like in my dressing room two nights ago or two shows ago

ariana grande had was there in 2014 i was like she could have been in the dressing room like this is crazy whatever use the same steamer but ed sheeran uh was on like a poster of the venue there and they had taken a tweet that ed sheeran sent out that day and put it on the like poster and the tweet was essentially like, I don't ever do things like this, but I can't not play at a venue this cool. Pop-up show tonight at the Paramount at eight. And so I was like, wow, that's awesome.

I guess that happened. I have no way of verifying it. This is Tarrytown? This is Huntington, New York. Because it was a really, really cool venue. And so I'm like, so Ed Sheeran is just randomly in this. I mean, how far away is it from New York City?

It's like an hour drive. OK, so maybe he's just like, I want to go play there. That looks cool. Maybe. Yeah, he played there when he was first starting. I don't know. Who knows? It's 2014.

But yeah, it was just kind of cool. I was like, that's fun that he liked it so much. And now we're going to perform here. It was like very musical and very fun. Like the stage was so high above the people that I couldn't hop off the stage to go grab a woman to bring up on stage it was like i'm gonna tear some uclas here so how what do you think like uh seven feet how high let's put me down for seven that's pretty high yeah it was a big one i was like this is a big jump that's interesting we were like way above everyone else i wonder why like i've never seen a stage like that i don't think i think it's

more typical for music yeah i guess so you think so yeah seven feet anyway interesting okay um good week shows rachel was actually at the baltimore show because she has um family in baltimore like one of them lives in philadelphia but the kids go to college in baltimore grandma laurie came up okay it was a party okay they're in baltimore of course you know rachel's special ed teacher the guy I'm doing crowd work with that night's what do you do for a living sir special ed teacher okay I'm not gonna make any jokes I know anything but so I didn't say anything and then when I come back around to do more crowd work with the guy I was like are you here what's night very easy

questions he was having trouble answer oh you know like whatever question I asked him I mean he was really pausing and was just really sad in the pause didn't mind it being completely silent. It's like, what are you doing after something? He's like, we're all waiting. And then eventually I couldn't help myself. And I was like, he's a special ed teacher. So sometimes it takes a little bit longer.

And I was like, and that's fine. And that's fine. And luckily it was kind of a risky joke joke but the crowd applauded it and liked it and as soon as i got off stage i just like rachel gave me a hug and i was like i'm so sorry about the special ed joke i'm so sorry i wasn't planning on it i wasn't planning on it i just had to fill the silence what'd she what'd she say she's like oh it's hilarious yeah it was great you had to yeah from what i understand i thought special admit like kids with like specific like special needs special needs yes special ed's just

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Be love. Shop now at Pandora.net. Great. Either way, nice guy. His name's Ross, I think. His name's Ross. His name's Ross. was rough oh dude speaking of names like that dude i saw i should have screenshot it yesterday on facebook a guy that i don't know very well put up a picture of an old man with a dog in his lap okay very old man dog so you don't

know this guy very well don't know this guy don't know the guy who's my age who actually posted it okay so it looks like he's posting a picture of his grandpa and a dog okay okay that's the image and the caption is like never fun to say this but ernie went home this morning i don't know if it was the dog or if it was the grandpa gotta be the dog ernie i don't i don't ever call my grandma lois like and i especially wouldn't do it for the facebook post ernie went home this morning i'm just saying it was maybe maybe literally they were watching ernie for like two weeks and they're like gosh dang gotta go home i guess yeah i thought he was our dog no way i guess he went home that is either way it was just funny yeah the name ross triggered that i was like yeah it's Dang it. Gotta go home. I guess. Yeah. I thought he was our dog. No way. I guess he went home. That is a funny. Either way.

It was just funny. Yeah. The name Ross triggered that. I was like, yeah, it's like, it could be a guy. Could it be a dog? Ernie. Ernie went home this morning. Ernie's also an old man named.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like you don't know, you don't know any little kids. Actually, Tommy, Corey and Ernie sound pretty nice. You don't know very many little kids named Ernie. Maybe I should bring that back. Actually.

We're trying to figure out a name for our kid right now. It's a pickleball term. I think we talked about that when I was asked for pickleball pickup lines way back in the day. Yeah. That's funny. I saw that yesterday at a coffee shop. I don't know how to comment. He's in a better

place. Just good enough right there. Hope he enjoys his home. Hope he finally gets what he... Hope he's out of pain if he was sure all those things yeah how do you like say something that's like could be a grandpa or a dog i don't know i've i've seen i've seen like jokes like that on tv shows where it's like is this his wife or his dog like yeah we love to go on walks together or oh yeah he's not the king of queens is that i saw it on brooklyn 99 okay gotcha uh anyway so uh i picked up hattie the other day

from preschool i told you this the other day but i'm gonna tell the podcast um i picked up hattie the other day from preschool and because i only pick her up and do things with her like you know one-fifth as much as katherine does I get to be like the fun dad more often. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so, you know, I, I did the thing, how do you so fun right now? I mean, she's always been fun, but like, I just, I love her personality right now, especially in, um, would she almost five, almost five, five in March, March 21st. So, uh, you know, she, I was like, you know, how do you, I have an idea. Ah, maybe

not. Maybe I shouldn't tell you. You know, she loved it. She's like, no dad, you have to tell me. And I was like, I just don't know. You probably, well, you probably wouldn't want to go get an ice cream cone. Would you? Yeah. It's like, yes, I want to get an ice cream cone. She's like so excited. She's like, dad, you're the most fun dad. You know, like saying all these things. So we went to McDonald's. You probably wouldn't want to. I feel dumb even saying this. You're going to think I'm crazy.

She never like picks up on like, I mean, she knows I'm kind of messing with her, but like, but not that you're, she's never like annoyed with it. Like, oh dad. Same with like, dude, dude foolproof i've started doing this probably last six months anytime she gets hurt i'll just be like okay i'm gonna go get the scissors we'll we'll cut it off like like i hurt my foot i hurt my foot okay let me go get my scissors i'm gonna i'm just gonna go cut it off we can reattach it maybe immediately immediately she starts laughing like really she's like sobbing. And then she just was like, like through her tears, like, no, dad, it's like, it's like,

it's like right there. Just like black and white. It's just amazing. So if you're out there and you're like trying to figure out how to make your kids have a good joke, have some good material ready. I mean, it's amazing though. It's like, it has, it's been foolproof so far. A hundred percent.

So try it out. Uh, anyway, we went to McDonald's. No dad, no dad, just joking dad. She always is like, you're not serious. You're not really. And I'm like, yeah, I, well, how about I would, I would, I would cut, I would have to cut off your knee if you want me to. And she's like, no, you wouldn't. And sometimes I'll use my fingers and pretend like those are my scissors. Those aren't even scissors. It's like, yeah, you wouldn't. And sometimes I'll use my fingers and pretend like those are my scissors. Those aren't even scissors. Yeah, they are. These are scissors. These could cut off your finger.

You know, whatever. Rachel said she got to hear a secondhand Hattie and Palmer playing at our basketball game. OK. And Palmer trying to be like, you know, a normal imaginative kid of like, we're going to go up the beanstalk. And then Hattie's like, well, these are just stairs. That is so accurate. She said she got to hear it it was like that's so great I tell on the podcast when we went to that Christmas play and they're like yeah yeah Christ is born he's right over there and how do you go this isn't real not today yeah what do you think BC

means he's like to like she's like the one that's gonna ruin it for everybody so literal um anyway so went to mcdonald's partially because i want an ice cream cone partially because i want to talk to her about tommy again and so uh we order two ice cream cones and french fries and because we love sticking the french fries and like she thinks that's like the coolest thing ever too yeah it feels wrong she's like wow coolest thing ever too. Yeah. It feels wrong. She's like, wow, you can do it. So anyway, um,

so this McDonald's, I mean, whatever McDonald's inside is going downhill. McDonald's everywhere is going downhill, but like, yeah. When you first told me this story, you were like,

get this. They didn't even seem that happy to see me. Okay. It's like weird for McDonald's. No, no, it wasn't even like, they didn't seem happy to see me. It was like,

it was like, we stood there for, let's say two minutes. We're the only people in the whole like inside. And they looked at us and then looked back and just kept like doing other things. Yeah. You're like, I think you see me. I'm like, I think when you see me, you should say, can I take your order?

Like, come over to me. Like, is it a second? I have to acknowledgement. Yeah. And so anyway, so they take my order for two ice cream cones and fries and, but they don't just like give me the ice cream cone and fries and, but they don't just like give me the ice cream cone, like a normal human being. Good. Uh, so we go back and sit down and then they call our number and we go over there and there's a tray with French fries and two ice

cream cones plopped on top. And I look at those ice cream cones. I think, okay, that's not ideal. I guess I can, I guess I can take this tray. I'm not great with stuff like that, but I'm like, I'll just be very, very careful. I genuinely was like psyching myself up. Like, just be very careful. Like, turn very slowly. I'm serious.

Not even like two steps in. One of them topples over on the tray. The other one just, you know, 720s off of there and just plops right on the floor. How do you think? Well, she was still at our little booth that we had, so she didn't see it. But she heard me say, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry. And she goes, why did you have to apologize? What did you do? I said, I dropped my ice cream cone. I plopped it. So anyway, but yeah i i talked to her i got some more information on tommy um because i know everyone out there is no we needed we needed to we need to update on tommy we need katherine's number for her uh shoot i didn't ask her about that

okay next week next i guarantee you it's five million dollars no i'm just kidding um so i go like i go did you did you talk to tommy today or did you hang out you know whatever so was tommy there today she's like yeah i was like uh does he does he hug you and she just kind of like literally like as like a teenager would do she rolls her eyes she goes lots and i was like well does he hug like everybody like is he just like a like does he just uh huggy tom no he only hugs me now we got problems i'm like okay i was like okay well what does miss suzanne say about this and she's like well she says like everyone needs their own personal space so anytime he hugs

me she tells him that and i'm like that's good that's good and i just i just don't know what to think about this tommy guy i was like i was like, have you, have you, have you considered Wyatt or maybe Thomas? You know, like Dalton seems like a good guy from what I hear. His parents seem like they have a good head on their shoulder. Like, yeah, no, just Tommy. Like she's showing me all the things, like she has this like take home folder and she's like, she's like pulling out all these pieces of paper. Like I have the letter of the week is a, you know, whatever.

And then there's this picture of, that's just says Tommy and Hattie and has these two stick figures that Tommy made for her every single week, man. I'm like, let's, let's go burn those things. Get those out of your brain. It's just so funny. Like how she talks, but like, like she was, she was explaining like this picture and she's like, like, she was kind of like dismissing him as like this kind of aloof kid. yeah tommy asked how to spell my name and i told him but he just really like had a hard time spelling it like kind of like rolling her eyes at it like oh you could not figure it out like she had a hard he had a hard time spelling it but i i just said it's okay just like things that you would say for like a

you know adult relationship you're like anyway it's, it's just a weird thing to be like, Oh, I'm sure this boy has a very, you know, innocent crush on my daughter. And I don't think Hattie really has any kind of feelings at all towards him. Like, I don't think she likes him specifically. She's like, yeah, just this guy's hugging me. That's kind of weird. He always wants to sit by her at lunch and everything. You know, they're trading snack cups or whatever.

Easy. I don't know about that. Anyway, but yeah, that anyway but yeah that was my that's my experience with hattie i have i have two different little updates with my kids uh that are kind of cute fun updates the first one is uh hattie and i oh we showed you last night we do the i love you sign yeah um because back in the day fun fact like the south first day of school for every single new high schooler, our principal would show you the, I love you sign.

And then I think you're supposed to go like this for, I love you always. But he would always, like he said, you could also just do your finger like this. Okay. Cause he, growing up, he had two deaf parents. And so he like, Oh wow. Do all the sign language. Well, sure. And so like for all of high school, you know, like he would always do that to us and like,

you know, it was really cool. Um, and so it's kind of cool to like, so every single night before bed, how he's always like, dad, dad. And she like, like goes like this, like, you know, swings it around. She's like, I love you always. And so that's, that's always fun. Um, and, and then Bo, you know, I'll be like leaving for the day or something and she'll do it to me. And Bo's kind of like trying to do it too. Uh, but Bo, the cutest thing with him right now is that he calls his, like, anytime we say Bible, like, like I'm always like, Bo, can you say Bo, Bo, you know, Hattie, Hattie. And I'm like, can you say Bible?

And he always calls his Bible joy. I think that's kind of cute. Cute. What a weird, like verbal autocorrect. Yeah. I think maybe because like one of, one of the Bibles that we have for kids, like maybe there's a story about joy, you know, in this Bible or something. That's like his first word that he associates with it.

And so now he just say joy. What if you realize that Bo has this ability to uncork the true like value of things? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bo, can you say Tommy? And he says, red flag. Yeah. Like, whoa, Bo, how did you?

D-bag? Yeah. Bo, you have this- Degenerate? Weird problem. Okay, okay let's ask him anything and see how he feels about it usually money root of all evil all evil yeah right wow bo good job right i like that that reminds me too of our video yesterday like good job buddy it's a big yawn yawn we had there yeah you want to explain yesterday? You got it.

You got it. So, yeah, we did a lot of different like short videos because we're thinking that maybe is like the new strategy with jean shorts. And so one of them that we did was parents or adults talking to each other like they talk to a child. And so, yeah, that was the initial thought. Should we just reenact it? Sure.

Oh, wow. We're going to do it. We're just the first one. OK. YouTube.com, guys. Check it out. Oh. and so yeah that was the initial thought should we just reenact it sure oh wow we're gonna do we're just the first one okay youtube.com guys check it out oh oh big yawn good what and then we just go back to watching tv that was a big yawn and then the next one premise yeah i was like hey uh sorry do you guys have a restroom i can use and then brad what'd you say like you go potty you go potty and it flips me over and starts if you're a parent out there you know it's it's a necessary evil to sniff the bottom everyone's yeah sniff the buttocks i got mine sniffed and so yeah i did that to jake a few times that was

yeah we had to do multiple takes yeah which was fun so yeah we got it that was fun and yeah yeah so we're yeah we're kind of thinking like social media it's exhausting like having to think about all the the trends and everything but it seems like the trend right now is to do shorter videos everyone like all the social media platforms are rewarding people that are doing shorter videos it is annoying that we're having like it's exhausting i don't like i don't like that aspect of the job very much like yeah having to having to do research of like well this person's doing this and look how they're doing and this person like you know they're still doing this other thing and they're doing pretty well too and like well they're doing you know whatever like sometimes they'll do 20

minute videos and they'll do eight second videos and they you know both are performing it's like i just want to be funny like i just want to have like whatever we think is funny let's put it out there kind of thing and i think that's good yeah because there is part of it like i don't mind necessarily the research aspect of it what i don't like is the execution where we don't know if it's the right because you never know if it is the right move exactly this based on a couple trends couple things we're saying this is probably what we should be doing but it's like you don't know you don't know yeah what if we would have made this video longer what if we would have done it this way what if we would have done a meme title what if we would have uploaded on instagram first and then a week later on youtube there's so many

different avenues we're pioneering this creator industry it's like there's no way of knowing what to do facebook just came out with reels that's never happened in the history of time so there's no avenue right to to go off of it feels like it's a complete crap shoot. Like sometimes it's like, like obviously like if you're popular, you're going to get more views, but like some videos do better than others. And I'm not convinced that sometimes like those videos are the best. It just seems like a luck of the draw. Like, okay, we just hit the algorithm this time. Right. It's like, okay, the subject that we did or the title we did or, you know, whatever, who knows? It's like, Oh, I don't like that. It's weird. Yeah. I mean like, yeah, we're constantly confused. I mean, yeah. Cause shorts seem like they're so big on YouTube

right now. So a train, I took a video that got over a million views on YouTube, which is hard to do. Which one is it? It was a corporate offices video. Yeah. We shot like over a year ago. I like that. And so we made it into a short upload yesterday and I mean, no traction, no one's clicking on it. It's like, well, YouTube loves this video. What in the world? It's also, there's two different audiences within YouTube. There's people watching long form content. There's people watching short form content. It's almost like you need to attract both sets of subscribers. And I have, I have a theory and it's a very loose theory that like the shorter, like Tik TOKs and reels and all that stuff, like need to be amateur. Like, you know what I mean? Like, like when you see like one that's like produced, like with a nicer camera or something like just an ad.

Okay. No, it's not. I don't know. I don't know if something, or maybe even if they can, like if Facebook or YouTube or whoever can like tell, I don't know. I, it's a weird theory, but like all the ones I ever see on Tik TOK, it's probably like maybe 10% are the, are the like more produced ones versus like, okay, this person shot this on their iPhone in five seconds kind of thing. So I don't know. You think the algorithm knows whether I don't know. I don't know. Oh,

that's how exhausting I am. Like that's, that's how exhausting it's like, maybe they do. Like maybe they could tell, you know, the different, uh,

like resolutions and stuff like that. What do you think? No, I mean, the resolution is all the same. They can read. It's just the quality of the, yeah.

Yeah. So how can they tell a different quality if it's the same resolution? Just I'm saying they wouldn't be able to tell. Like you can you can take an iPhone six and shoot 1080p, but it looks different than my camera with a really nice lens shot in 1080p. OK, it's just a sharper focus and a nicer lens. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah.

Who knows? Yeah, it's just a weird. Everything's like if you put text on there, like sometimes that makes a difference one way or the other that is exhausting i don't like i feel like everything needs to have subtitles on it now i'm like dang it this isn't how it's supposed to be consumed right yeah yeah it's exhausting but it's people out there who get on tiktok when they're like in a public place it's people like you now we have to put subtitles on our videos because some people are consuming media on mute yeah stop wait till you're alone and watch our videos i'm tired of subtitling crap

let's let's keep going what else what else do we need to vent about here oh i could talk about i mean the creator industry for forever i don't know how interesting it is tell me a little more um anything you think of i mean do you know about the tiktok creator fund a little bit i pretend to whenever trey talks about it they said said they were going to, I'm taking off the coat, guys. I'm taking off the coat for this. I'm loosening the belt. You know what? I may not be taking off the coat. I can't get it off this way. It's too

tight. Too much muscle, dude. Some of my shirts are trim fit. I hate that when you get, you're like, oh, I'm hot. So I'm going to take something off. And in the process of it takes so long. You're like, I'm eight times hotter than I was. Oh, it's a, it's. Oh, that sucks.

It's one of the worst feelings. Okay. TikTok creator fund. They were like, you know, all these other platforms are rewarding creators. Like you can make money off YouTube, off Facebook, whatever. So we're going to like, we're going to give away $200 million to creators, which is like, wow, that's a lot of money. But the problem with that is it's a fixed amount. And so really the only thing that's bound to happen is mathematically is the amount of money you earn is only going to go down over time.

Even if your views go up, there's less money for you to make because more and more people are making videos. There's more and more views. And they're never going to like replenish that or. I mean, as of now, they're just saying like, that's it. That's the fund until it runs out. And so. Seriously?

Yeah. Yeah. So you're saying out of everybody, I mean, besides like brand deals and stuff, TikTok is only giving out $200 million to the world. Yes. That doesn't seem like much money at all. No. Last year, YouTube gave people $10 billion.

Right. I was going to say. 10 billion. Like, like 200 million sounds like a lot of money. Obviously, if someone were like here, Jake, here's $2 million. Great. Thank you so much for that. But it's like, great.

Thank you. But it's like, there's 200 very popular Tik Tokers out there and they should be each making a million dollars. Yeah. If you're the biggest people on these platforms. And so therefore then the people that are making, we're getting a 1 million views on a video or making zero dollars yeah in theory like and that's a problem with like the uh like shared like um just like community fund model like we have this much money to allocate to you guys versus youtube is like a revenue revenue share model of like when we grow

you grow we grow together yeah if you're successful you should make more money you should make more money we should make more money we all grow together yeah and if you're successful we're successful therefore boom and so it's almost tide rises with all the boat the ships all the boats in the rise terrytown it's on the coast the hudson river cory cory terrytown um tiktok almost has this like like there's almost a theory now it's like maybe tiktok doesn't want to value their creators that much. Maybe TikTok sees their platform as kind of a revolving door. Or as like an amateur thing. That's my thing.

I'm going to stick with the amateur thing. TikTok wants to be known as a place where like, oh yeah, they got their start on TikTok. And TikTok as a platform is like, yeah, if you get your following here and then you go off and make money elsewhere, that's okay. Because people know TikTok's where you got your start. Because there is going to be someone else. There's going to be someone else. If you want to move off of here then there's just a revolving door model using you basically yeah and it's like we don't care like like because

think about the tiktok model you follow so many people you see so many videos like uh what's that anytime i try to tell someone about a tiktoker i'd never know their name i'm like it's that guy he makes like the kind of relatable you know it's so hard to describe like i don't know how to search this and i think tiktok is doing that on purpose i think they don't want you to fall in love with the creators on their platform i think they just want it to be this thing where you're just like i go to where almost you could see it as like we don't have competitors right you and i like if trevor wallace is doing good great if dude dad is doing good great like we have a similar audience maybe similar videos yeah it's not like they're gonna like not watch our videos because they already watched two minutes of a

different video yeah i see it as our competitor is not these other creators our competitor is tiktok that makes sense i get because we're competing with this other variation of media yeah that doesn't want to value creators that doesn't want to have longer than 60 second videos yeah yeah so it's also like the necessary evil of like well yeah you can't not post on tiktok because it's the most popular yeah right now someone some people are on it it's also like the necessary evil of like, well, yeah, you can't not post on TikTok because it's the most popular thing right now. Someone, some of you are on it. It's such a massive funnel. We make no money on TikTok.

Zero. And YouTube is like, whatever, 50, 60, 70% of our income, right? Yeah. Like we make a little bit of Facebook and Twitter and stuff, but yeah, it's interesting. It's all, all very, very exhausting. Like, yeah. And then, and then I have, then I'm sure you have done this for this for years already but like then i watch everybody else's videos from a different lens i don't like that either of like changes oh yeah they're they're thinking this way that's why they're

posting this or like yeah oh they're trying to get clicks you know whatever and i think i've already i had already seen like the clickbaity kind of stuff but like anyway it's just it's just silly the stuff that i start to notice recently when people make comedy videos is like i will edit everything so just like quick and like snappy like the jokes almost overlap each other like there is no dead space right it's a little thing but i think it's noticeable and you just like you have there's no breath between jokes like it's the opposite of a lap track you know like i don't want you to leave time for you to laugh it just we're moving on but there's a guy and i'm not trying to dox him because I do think he's funny. He's he got big on TikTok for the kid that's no fun and all these variations of that.

Have you seen that? It's almost like he kind of gets in trouble because it seems like he's just making fun of a kid with Asperger's or something. OK, but it is kind of a there's like a type of kid that we all grew up with who just like real follower or whatever. Really funny. He's gone on to make all sorts of types of videos. But what I noticed and it drives me nuts, every one of his videos, there is just like real follower whatever really funny he's gone on to make all sorts of types of videos but what i noticed and it drives me nuts every one of his videos there is just like this half second pause between every joke and i'm like dude just edit it just snap it together just have

the clips jam-packed to each other yeah just this little pause and so that's an example of like yeah it's ruined how i watch other people's stuff right because otherwise like this guy's great this guy's hilarious yeah what a fun character but i'm like oh it's so much wasted space so much wasted space yeah it's not like it's not just like comedic timing wasted space or not like comedic timing pauses it's like every single one of his jokes has this small yeah yeah it's just not like and not even that i'm a perfectionist at all like we crank out these videos so fast i mean just now we went and shot a video on my phone at home depot for an hour and it's great you know yeah but it like, dude, that's such an easy thing to do. Interesting.

I remember I was watching Correct Opinions the other day and there was the one where Trey, it was the Antonio Brown thing. Oh yeah. And you were watching it, you were nerding out. You were like, oh, dude, editing on this is so bad. I was like laughing at you, like, oh, you would notice that. Yeah, because you can tell.

I kind of noticed it, but like the fact that you were like, so bothered by it it's like the 8k camera thing it's like i can't not say yeah there was a shot where antonio brown like raised his arms to catch something but then nothing ever got thrown to him so they must have taken that part out but they still left the part in where his arms were raised i was like what a continuity yeah stupid that's funny anyway we don't need to talk about this anymore uh brad you would have been proud of me at one point in the show because I said a little Spanish on stage this week. Spanish crowd work. Muy bien.

Yeah, muy bien, senor. I was talking to a guy who worked in real estate and I was kind of giving him a hard time. You know, front row tickets make sense. The market's hot. You know, whatever. You're earning a lot of money. So I'm kind of building this.

And his name was Kiro. And so I was like like makes sense because in spanish your name means i want oh nice you liked it more than everyone in that crowd did it didn't get much of a laugh maybe three out of a ten laugh or whatever it's like okay kiro okay i mean kiro is a little it's kiero right do you know that i was i think i was basing it off of the chihuahua and taco bell commercial yo quiero taco bell yo quiero yeah yeah yeah like like a true spanish Do you know that? I think I was basing it off of the Chihuahua in Taco Bell commercial. Yo quiero Taco Bell. Yo quiero. Yeah, yeah. A true Spanish speaker would say

quiero. Quiero. Okay. Quiro. He was a Hispanic-looking guy, so in my head, I associate it more than... No one else in the crowd knows he looks Hispanic, I guess. So you got some pity laughs. People are like, I don't know. It's one of those where I move on pretty quick. Okay.

Your name is... Guess there's not many chicas in the audience. So you got like some pity laughs, like people are like, I don't know. It's one of those where I move on pretty quick. Okay. Your name is. Guess there's not many chicas in the audience. A little more gringos than chicas tonight. I guess at Chipotle you guys get white rice, not the brown rice. Yeah. That's pretty funny. Yeah. You got to get humbled every once in a while, you know?

Yeah. I was like, all right, now I know. And otherwise this week we had a lot of good crowd work stuff. Have you had, have you had any like moments lately where you just say something and you're like, that did not go well. Dude,

lately. Well, the, like the Steve Irwin joke, when I do that and then say stings, usually when I say stings, that is all I need to say. And then I'll get groans from the audience.

Like, okay, dude, I went five for five this week. Every single show, I got no response by stings interesting so then I would have to luckily I have another joke after that so like no in the end he was a heartthrob literally so luckily there's two puns that go well with that and then they're like oh yeah yeah yeah and so I'm like am I saying this differently like it's easy to blame the crowd but it's like it obviously it has to be something I'm doing I have to to be doing something differently. I blame the Northeast.

Well, and that is part of it too, because the team Jacob, the Old Testament joke doesn't get laughs in the Northeast like it does in Tulsa. Yeah, they're all Catholic. And so team Jacob from the catechism. Yeah, you guys know. But Hail Mary or this crowd. Yeah. So things are a little different geographically from time to time.

But that recently is like, I must be doing something differently where saying the word stings is not like eliciting a response like it used to interesting but otherwise nothing that different like nothing ever bombs you know it's like it's all like you know like the ones that are going to hit harder usually and not as hard yeah it's when you get off script and you start saying stuff you're like i hope this special ed joke is because i'm going for it did you did you have as many ghosties as normal i i assume that north like new york i don't hear about very many ghosties yeah the only one uh there were a good amount in baltimore and a good amount and we were in glenside pa which is outside of philly and i didn't get any dms that i saw so i i was like i'm still gonna go out in the lobby anyway

so many really fun just like a a great amount of just normal ghosties you know what i mean it's like these people i could talk to them for two hours they were so fun but when i'm getting kicked out they got to see it firsthand they're like this is what you're talking about like i know yeah yeah and then the um this like uh magnetic what's the electric what maligma no, what's the like a TSA kind of thing? The no metal in the building. Metal detectors. That's what it's called.

The metal detectors. I like how you had to like, you had to like have a dialogue first. Like, what's the thing? It's like no metal in the building. No metal guys. Of course. Dude, there's a game.

What is that game? I played it with Rachel's family in Florida. It's called like poetry with neanderthals or something okay you can afford neanderthals maybe okay yeah you can only it's basically like catchphrase but your clues can only be one syllable at a time oh yeah and the way everyone else was playing it was like uh corn cream uh burnt or whatever and And I would do sentences where I'm like, so I walk in and I'm like, hey, where's the corn?

I just start the sentence and see if I can do it without using two silver words. See, I would have grunted like a Neanderthal. No, no, no. So I walk in and I'm like, hey, where's the corn? Where's Rachel? You sound like PFT, guy's doing the boomer yeah the chiefs

anyway the metal detector this alarm sets going off it's really harping the conversation so it's like kind of a bummer and so i i left harping huh har Oh, okay. I don't know. Harshen the vibe. Yeah, yeah. So they were great. Harpen the vibe. I met, you recognize the name Snaps by Stacey? Yeah, of course. Yeah, I was like, oh, we've been DMing for years.

Oh, yeah. You should have said so. Afterwards, I was like, I didn't know you were Snaps by Stacey. That's a good veteran move. If you listen to the podcast and you've like dialogued with us very much, introduce yourself with your first and last name and potentially also your username. And like why we would maybe know you. People have been doing better with me.

Like I left a voice memo. Like, Oh, I remember that. Like I met Kristen Jurek. Yes. And then later on I met her again and you're like, Oh, Kristen, this is Kristen Jurek. I was like, this is like a YouTube commenter. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I like, but I think she originally just said, Kristen, you know, I was like, okay, nice to meet youer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like, but I think she originally just said, Kristen, you know, I was like, okay, nice to meet you. No,

I had no idea. I've talked to you 15 times. I've seen your profile picture on YouTube a thousand times. Exactly. You recognize it. By the way, you guys, the YouTube comments have been so,

so good. Popping. Like I, I read all the ones about Rachel too. I'm like, look at what someone said. And we're always just like, I can't believe people are taking time out of the day to say such nice things.

That's so great. You guys are so great. Thanks for being so nice. Of course. Thanks for all the YouTube comments. Real quick, I do want to say also, just you wouldn't know

if you weren't there. If you know, you know. Been hitting the Patreon hard and I plan to continue hitting the Patreon hard. So if you've never joined our Patreon. Here's the Patreon.

Here's the Patreon. Here's me. Oh, that hurt because I hit it so hard that wasn't that that wasn't that good well you know limited range of mosh that's another classic haddock thing we've been doing it's like yeah ah that hurt that hurt dude i was watching the office deleted scene yesterday the superfan episodes on peacock and it's the one where they go back to pam's old high school oh wait no oh they go to pam's old high school for the um job fair where he's like just in time yeah there's another kid who i had this thought too well oh let me stay focused um he

meets this other kid not justin who never makes it into the real episode okay and he it's michael's treating him like he's six years old he goes to shake his hands like ow ow you're hurting my hand and i was like all right anyway this guy is like a really big part in the superfan episodes and i was i was putting my shoes putting putting, well, I was putting my shoes on this guy. Harping, harping the shoes. Putting myself in this guy's shoes. And I was like, can you imagine winning the audition, getting to be in the office? You're in it for like five to seven minutes.

You're like a decent plot piece. You feel like it. And then the episode comes out and you're never in the office. They had to take out all of his parts. That would be, That would be similar to going to San Diego with a bunch of your friends and meeting Jennifer Lopez, getting a kiss from her. Telling everyone. Like having a watch party. Next thing you know.

Nothing ever happens. I can't imagine. I can't imagine that. Could you imagine that? I didn't even think of that yesterday. I was only feeling for this guy. I didn't even, I didn't, I guess I'm not that empathetic. More sympathetic.

Yeah. I was just like, man, that would suck to be like, no, guys, I was on The Office. I promise. And it's not until 12 years later when they come out with super fan episodes on Peacock. You're like, see? I told you. Yeah. I'm 42 now.

Oh man, that's funny. Oh, but Patreon. Sorry, I really like the idea let's put a bookmark in the idea of like a jean shorts video where we do similar things but with like a like a yeah like oh wow like like do it more like with a five-year-old kid rather than a baby like yeah we talk to adults like five-year-olds okay i think that's a funny idea i thought you were gonna say we bring in someone to be in a jean shorts video and then we cut them out of all of it sorry just derrick is ruthless is ruthless yeah he just he's the boss so whatever

he said yeah derrick has no idea any of this is happening like we edited the video we're just throwing one of the bus uh that would be funny okay so anyway uh where were we i've just posted so much i uh i meant to talk to you about this uh before i've edited so many clips of f12 we can talk about what we want to do with that. OK. I think at least some of them could go on YouTube as like a Tuesday clip or whatever.

Sure. But I think most of them will go on Patreon. Yeah. And I've been putting there's probably like four or five stand up clips of mine that are not anywhere else

that are only on Patreon. So I've been posting that there. Yeah. Brad posted some snow day stuff. Yeah. There's jingles on there. There is about once a week. I put I put like a

jean shorts behind the scenes video of like probably brad doing something um yeah just trying to really beef up the content we're providing you guys you guys are giving us money every month so we want to um make it worth your while so if you've never checked out patreon you go and i saw that celia just joined and she was like going back and commenting these old things like new patron i can't believe how intense jake's dance moves are during the jingle i would have never known this i was like oh that's kind of fun that's cool so she was like going back to old jingles so yeah you have a full catalog years worth of archives of old videos and yeah seriously really fun stuff and if you've been a patron before hey hop in for another month and

see if you like the the f12 stuff and yeah and let us know if you're like hey there's something like i would love to see you guys you know do some kind of behind the scenes video of this or I don't know. Yeah. Something you'd like to see. Yeah. Not not guaranteeing that we're going to do it, but it's always what the demand is like. Right. We I wanted to try and do it soon, but maybe sometime in March.

Bonus episode, me, you and Rachel. I think it'd be fun for the patron. It's been so long. So we've got to do a bonus episode. I want to get the Just Jake episodes going back out again since I'm not traveling as much. I haven't bookmarked in my head to do like a episode, more of a serious episode talking about things I learned in Austin, Texas.

Dude, I don't know how much work it takes you, but the blog is awesome. Whenever you blog, that's great. It does take longer than a quick like, hey guys, check it in. You know, here's my kids trying to name my baby, you know, but yeah take a couple hours usually but it's okay i like doing it i mean they're great i grew up really enjoying writing a lot and i don't write ever now yeah and so it's kind of fun to to exercise that part of your brain a little bit so yeah we're trying to take advantage we got a month of no travel um i'm really excited for it we're gonna get the girls channel up and going can we come tiktokers everything um also rachel's been giving me a hard time i can't wait a month with no travel

she's like you mean like besides fargo and yeah exactly and florida i was like yes besides florida fargo phoenix florida um just for rachel spring break she's gonna visit grandma grandma laurie you know i thought grandma laurie was iowa she uh a little half and a half type snowbird um sure yeah yeah okay so she's in like the tampa i live in tampa tampa area nice so yeah phoenix with the boys for a golf trip fargo um by the time this comes out i'm flying back from fargo right now i'm excited to hear about it i yeah yeah Yeah. There's going to be something funny because I think Fargo just seems like a funny demographic, especially a church in Fargo.

Yeah. It'll be fun. They asked me not to say my final joke, so I was rewriting that yesterday. I think I got a punchline. I think we're good. I think I got something I'm going to say. Do they know your final joke?

We've talked about it on the podcast. It kind of originated from the podcast, right? 100%. Word for word, what I said on the podcast just in the moment is what I say is my final joke on the the stage which is kind of cool yeah come to show you'll see it guys that was one thing for f12 we had talked in the like preliminarily about doing

stand-up it's gonna be fun and i was and jake's like you have stand-up i got stand-up like we can figure out and i look back and like everything in my, my standup like that I had written was like in like inspired by ghost runners. So it was like, I just tell some ghost runners bits again. That's pretty much all I did, you know? Yeah.

And so I was like, I don't know if I can, if I can get this done. So we didn't end up doing it. But, um, speaking of ghost runners events, I was thinking,

uh, this morning actually, I was like, Ooh, another fun thing to do this summer when everyone comes drive-in movie and then i was like well or no if originally my idea was like let's rent out a drive-in movie place that'd be so fun and then i was like well actually you wouldn't need to rent it out we could just all go and i was like wait and everyone's flying in no one's gonna have cars

and actually it's not that social of a thing you're just in your cars all the time it's like no keep so definitely not no but i like sorry no you're not so pivot pivot we don't need a drive-in movie oh i like the idea of outdoor like show in a park outdoor park show theater in the park is what theater in the park show they have musicals is that like that kind of show sure we put on musical j12 j12 in the park i kind of like what day the idea of renting out a drive-in movie and having a airing of the podcast like early or something so many people are not gonna have cars though that's that's fair june 12th is a sunday maybe just uber to the place and have the uber driver stay there hey keep it running yeah keep yeah keep the meter running. Anyway. Um, that's fun. I, I have a story. Okay. Um,

the other day I went to Chick-fil-A to do some work and it was a great idea to go Chick-fil-A to do some work because it was Monday president's day when every single child was off of school. Cool. So I get there at 1205 and every, it was just mayhem. It was absolutely crazy. Chick-fil-A sounds good. It was, it was nice. It was great. Got to hang out with Drew, you know, asked me how my sweetie was. Yeah. What a guy.

He's such a character. If you know Drew Severance, he's awesome. He's also like has so many funny catchphrases and stuff like that. Anyway, but as I was working, like I remembered, like I had seen an email from a guy, you know, a couple of days earlier interested in some desks from lsconsecretions.com. And so I call him and he's from Long Island, New York. And so classic-

Just there. Classic, yeah. Huntington's on Long Island. Oh, really? Yeah. Classic, just like Northeastern. He's like, hello? He's like, dude, I can't hear you at all.

It sounds like you're in a subway right now. And Midwestern uncomfortableness in he's like, hello. Like he's like, dude, I can't hear you at all. It sounds like you're in a subway right now. And then, you know, Midwestern, like uncomfortableness in me is like, okay, okay. Let me go outside. And so I literally go out and then I get in my truck and just talk to him in there. And we're talking about this desk. He ends up unofficially ordering when he hasn't put a deposit in yet. Uh, but he's like, you know, my setup right now, he's like, actually, is this, is this an iPhone that you're calling her right now? I was like, yeah. He's like, I'll just FaceTime you real quick.

Never had I ever done that. I don't like it. I don't like it. Never, never talked to this guy before. Never like had no idea what he was going to look like. He had no idea what I was going to look like. And then all of a sudden I'm just like, Hey partner. Hey.

And he's like, he's like, dude, are you driving right now? And I was like, no, no, I'm interested in my truck. Because you said, I was like, I was like, I was in a coffee shop and you know, I don't want to be like, I was at a fast food restaurant with 1500 little elementary schoolers, uh, had to come out here. Um, but it was just a very uncomfortable experience of like, cause you know, and I tried to be really cool about it and really normal, but I'm like, this is, this is different. Like, but maybe like to him, he seemed very normal and like cool about it.

He's, but like the first, you know, when I first answered, he's like, Hey, what's up? I was like, Hey, how you doing? Oh yeah. Face times are weird for me. I can't get, I'm not a fan of them in general. That's what I'm saying. Like much less a stranger. Oh my gosh.

Yeah. I don't like just cause I don't know something weird about only looking at someone's face the whole time and expect it. You're expected to look at their face the whole time. Well, so in this instance, he was like showing me his desk and showing his workspace yeah but the only thing he ever saw was my face it wasn't like i was gonna be like all right let me turn here's the dash of my truck show you this right here yeah i gotta i need to dust it off but you know i know when are you gonna have time for that i'm busy uh it was just a very odd odd interaction

but i was like hey whatever it takes to get the sale to you know and you close some ice cream cones yeah yeah ice cream sounds good too i think i might just be hungry i think yeah you have code yeah that's oh i feel for you i'm sorry you had to do this it was just a weird yeah it was like it's just a weird interaction so the stranger facetime that's uncomfortable it sounds like a like a modern seinfeld episode i don't know this guy he asked to facetime me you don't facetime come on yeah dude we were given um where was i guess this would have been in like huntington doesn't matter um one of trey's agents uh marcus is there so it's me and marcus and lucas just talking after a show one night and marcus it was like a very he lives in new york he's trying to lucas like a very new york story of like you know how

like street sweeping out of yet i'm like trying to keep up but it's like you know i feel like i'm in a subway right now but he was like it's street sweeping day but once the street sweeper goes by i um i park the street sweeper gives me a little nod i give him a little wave so i'm good i end up getting a parking ticket from a sanitation worker and then lucas is like what they can't do that he's like i know i didn't think they could he's like he's like i was trying to tell the sanitation worker like me and the street super like we did a thing we had a thing we acknowledge each other and we were like this is the most like george costanza thing right now like we i gave him a halfway he nodded at me he winked he winked with his right he All right, Jerry.

You get it? Yes. Come on. We were going to have such a hard time. It was such a good stage. Did he wink and nod or did he just wink? He just winked. Well, I thought you got to do the nod.

No, wink is sufficient. You have to do a wink nod and maybe a little, you know, finger up. One wink equals two nods. You need one or the other. Did he have both hands on the steering wheel? Did he give you a few fingers up? is the window down or window up window was down okay okay that that should be enough to be a full full hand wave then you know yeah it was a really fun conversation oh it was so great and then later we said something was

happening and i made some sort of like quick like wordplay joke or whatever and mark is like this guy he's always on he's always on. He's always on. And I was like, you are being, you're playing the role of the friends comedian very well right now. You're doing great. Cause Stanza. Thanks for having me up.

So, um, anyway, that was a random memory, but I think one last story, cause I know you have to go cause you have another church class. Yeah. And it's trying to be biblical.

Um, yesterday I'm out being just a little fashion boy trying to get my my fashion blog going what are you doing now i bought some clothes online they don't fit brad oh this is lulu yes sorry did i tell you tell you the story what did i say we're friends um what did you say oh i saw sarah blue at all yeah that's what it was anyway i didn't tell you a story so they're like i'm like hey i want to exchange these i just need like a different pair. I tried to go 31, 28. I tried to get crazy.

I don't know why I did that. Those are too short. Those are too short. And so it's like just 32, 30 is fine. Like a normal size. He's like, all right,

we only have 32, 34, but we can him them. I'm like, great. You can just him them to 32, 30. He's like,

why don't you try them on just in case? I'm like, all right, kind of hurry. All right, great. Just in case. I'm like,

I don't know. So I go, I try them'm like, all right, kind of hurry. All right, great. Just in case. I'm like, I don't know. So I go, I try them on like, yep. These seem four inches too long. Hard to know exactly. You see how they go past my toe. That's not what I want.

Actually. It's like not even that helpful. It's like, this is so, these are such long pants that like, yeah. Well, maybe like hike them up above your belly button.

Like a, like a 55 year old mom does, you know, when she goes to her PTA meeting, see if like that it's so well yeah it's not bad but i don't know what kind of belt is gonna fit my rib cage you know well you get a different belt you know we can get we can him a belt if you think that would be easier and we got the steve the bell himmer here yeah i never know if steve's in you'll you'll like steve he's a good guy yeah it's uh tommy and cory's daughter actually yeah sagittarius so you wouldn't daughter yeah um so i come back out and because i already talked someone in there for like 10

minutes i was trying to get all this work done i was like i'm kind of behind the eight ball oh then eventually when i go to the coffee shop i go to the roastery next door i'll tell you why i go to the roastery next door later in the story but um oh you're town center lulu yeah town center lulu i get recognized and time to serve you a little piece of humble pie because i thought you were always getting recognized i'm never getting recognized he's like i love jean shorts except for what's the name of that other guy and i was like his name is brett yeah i know troy yeah he kind of just got gone and um and then he was like he yells too much. I will say, you and that guy, you have a podcast together, right?

He's like, what's the name of that podcast? I was like, Ghostrunners. He's like, maybe I'll listen to that. And I was like, last week was the best episode ever. Critics are saying. So yeah, try it out. So Dylan Mitchell, if you're listening,

thanks for listening. So what was his critique? Did he give me any? His critique? No, he thinks you're great. Oh, I thought you were saying like, what's the other guy's name? Like, he's not that good. No, he didn't have anything that was it it was a very tiny slice

of humble pie just like finally i got recognized oh like they didn't know you know who i was okay yeah okay that was i thought you were gonna say like they had negative things i'm like okay i'd like to hear oh no even some people hate on yeah you wouldn't tell me i wouldn't tell you no yeah no he didn't have anything bad to say no not a word about you i don't have it i don't know he didn't say you were yelling the whole time loud and abrasive it was totally fine he was really nice guy he knows oxydem check so we can't do a lot of that anyway before that sorry back to lululemon i'll try to go fast i walk out and i'm like uh yeah they uh waist felt good they were pretty long so just you know we can probably send him at 32 30 he's like did you uh did you tell theresa that i was like don't know didn't know about theresa let's go

back where is she yeah so i'm like all right he's like this is theresa i'm like okay great hey theresa sorry didn't know i was supposed to sorry i took the pants away yeah these are the pants i need these hemmed 32 30 she's like okay i'm gonna need to see them on you and i was like all right and i would i would have given up so much quicker than this i know and i really wanted i was like because his pants aren't the same i don't think i don't know exactly the pants you have but she was like do you know they're just like pretty traditional like slacks like i'm kind of wanting to be like nicer pants i can golf in but i can wear on stage like just like nicer i don't know like tapered pants i don't know whatever

and so she's like well what's your inseam in a in like suit pants i was like i don't i just i know i want 32 30s like look at me lady you think i know that i don't know i have no idea i'm wearing joggers right now she's like do you want to go and try them on again i was like i feel like i have to all right i go in there try them on again i don't know i'm coming out come out like yeah looking like a so eighth grader as bat mitzvah like here i am like what as you can see they're pretty long like when you're six years old and you put your your feet in your dad's shoes it's like that but for pants okay so these things are dragging and she has me i've seen these like in movies and maybe in stores that you see me like a men's warehouse never had to use them there's a little step stool okay like four inches off the ground

sir she's like you want to go ahead and hop on the stool it's like i am trying to get out of here so fast and oh this is your sunk it's sunk cost fallacy you're like i have to do it now i'm in yes and the thing is from the start i forgot to mention this the guy was like well you could have these 32 34s and then we could just hem them and i was like what would go faster like hemming or just ordering them ordering online and he was like they're the exact same oh my gosh which it was like i think i was so thrown off by like there's no way that could be true you're telling me they both get here at the same time there's they literally get here at the exact same minute i know it i was like the nerve of this guy to look me in the eyes like you know

what it's actually the exact same time like yeah you're like that like like the ocd and you're bothered by that there's no way at least one day different i bet like i can't expedite shipping online like you're telling me there's no other like whatever there's two lululemon stores in kansas you go to the other one there's probably there you know so i'm so thrown off by this answer that i choose to go the him route which makes no sense next thing i know i look up it's eight minutes later and i'm trying on pants for a second time theresa's got me up on the stepstool yeah and i And now I'm towering above just nothing but 17 year old women. You know,

I'm just like, I'm so embarrassed that I'm here right now. Is Teresa 17? No, I'm just saying like the clientele. Yeah. Teresa is a nice older lady.

Okay. So she's him and me. She's like folding my pants. She's like, are these the, I swear this is how she does. Are these the shoes you're going to wear?

And I was like, I mean, probably sometimes. I don't know. I was like, and I'm still like in a good mood. I'm like joking And I was like, I mean, probably sometimes, I don't know. I was like, I will. And I'm still like in a good mood. I'm like joking.

I'm like, I have a lot of shoes, have a lot of pants. I don't know. They're all going to get kind of, they're going to get to know each other. Some Jordan dupes. I get some CRZs.

You probably know about those. And she's like, ah, okay. And I was telling that story to Rachel. She's like, are you sure? You sure you want to go with these shoes?

Yeah. She was like, that's a normal question of like, you're getting a dress for prom. And's like are these the shoes it's like i don't know these are pants i'm gonna wear for the next 10 years it's so i get i get what she's saying she's like are these the shoes i'm like sometimes she's like jorge get over here so now we're bringing jorge in i got two people at my feet i'm wearing the wrong shoes jorge's like in the bullpen like you need a righty one more time throws it and then he runs in he runs in with uh like six pairs of shoes

in his hands he can be seen all right yeah bring some loafers some low rise medium and golf golf shoes jorge jorge comes out he's like oh yeah i see what you're saying that's a it's a pretty like there's a big tongue on these shoes i'm like sorry guys i didn't know about that that's your style though you like those big tongues. I don't know. I would have never said I like big tongues. You do, though. No, I'm sorry.

The shoes I'm wearing now, yes, there's a big tongue to them, but I think I'm just wearing Nike shoes. I think all the shoes I can think of that you've worn, big tongues. Huh. I would have never noticed that come to Nam. Yeah. I think I just like Air Maxes. I had no idea about tongue width.

Anyway, but so this is all. They're trying to figure out. I'm like, and they're like, yeah, I think we need to take four inches off. I'm like, maxes. I had no idea about tongue width anyway, but so this is all trying to figure out. I'm like, and they're like, yeah, I think we need to take four inches off. I'm like, yeah. Oh,

good idea. Thank you. Yes. Good job. Jorge. Yo, Quiero. Quatro inches off.

How hard is it? Like never could have done this without Teresa and Jorge working together on the stepstool. No way I could have done this. I love that. Like, you know what I'm thinking? Crazy idea. Say it with me, Jorge. Four inches off. Oh my gosh. I would be like, yeah, I would be very polite, but in my head, I'd be like, I know, I know the thing. Yeah, please just do it. So sorry. I need to wrap this up. Then I finally get to the counter. I'm like, all right, so sorry i need to wrap this up then i finally get to the counter i'm like all right so do i need to pay it's like the same pant he's like no you should be fine let me just bring this up he's like oh this is kind of weird i actually i owe you i know

how you paid online i owe you 48 cents i was like don't worry about it i've been here long enough you know and he's like i have legally i have to give it to you but i can just give it back to the card i was like okay that's great he's like answer your card he's like your card's not working can i just give you 48 cents and i was like i guess and then it was like i i felt victimized like i had to walk out of there with change that i didn't want so then i went next door to the roastery and donated it to them ah okay that's where the roastery comes into play so the roastery got my lulu change but yeah i had to walk out of there 48 cents which felt like i lost money somehow have i talked on the podcast about how i've been shamed uh recently at the roastery got my Lulu change, but yeah, I had to walk out of there for 48 cents, which felt like I lost money somehow. Have I talked to her on the podcast about how I've been shamed recently at the roastery?

I told you, haven't I? I don't know. I think I have. What happened? What happened? Remind me, remind me. So in my opinion, the roastery has the best iced vanilla latte in the city. Oh, I should have got iced.

It's so, so good. Oh, iced latte. That sounds good. It's very good, dude. Get some ice cream and Chick-fil-A. You know what? Now that you say it good. It's very good, dude. Get some ice cream and Chick-fil-A. You know what? Now you say it. Chili's does sound good around here.

Anyway, but I've been going there because there's one pretty close to Trace House. So I had a habit for a couple of weeks where I would go there before Trace. I should start doing that. Is it close? Yeah. I mean, three minutes. Everything's close to Trace. I'd say.

Yeah. Southwest Boulevard. Oh, great. Anyway. And they have a a specific drive through location where it's only drives. Anyway, this guy's like, Hey, um, and they always ask like, do you want to tip the barista? And I always use Apple pay. So, so like they have to like press the button for you. And so like first three or four times I went there, he like changed his tone as soon as you said, dude. Yeah. First three or four times, like different employees were like, like, I just said, no, it's okay. Thank you. Cause I think the latte is like $7. Like it's like an expensive latte.

I already feel like I'm, I'm profiting their property play off me. Um, and this one guy asked me, he's like, do you want to tip the barista? You know? And I'm like, no. And he's like, you don't want to tip the, you don't want to tip the barista for your latte. And like, do you want to tip the barista? You know, and I'm like, no. And he's like, you don't want to tip the, you don't want to tip the barista for your latte. And like, like right before this, he was like, Hey, what's up, man? How are you? How's your day going? You know, one 80.

Oh, we got your vanilla latte here. Do you want to go ahead and tip the barista today? No, no thanks. He's like, you don't, you don't want to tip the barista. And then I swear he gave me my, I was like, no, no, I don't think I do. He gave me my drink. He like looked at me and he slammed the door. Didn't even say have a good day or anything.

That's just turned around. And my goodness, the people pleaser in me, like I want to be like, and you know what? I've never tipped since every time, dude, I always am like, yeah, let's go ahead and do 15%. It got the best of you. Yeah. That. And I talked to our friend who was a barista and kind of explained some of the

stuff and whatever. Like, yeah. Yeah. It's just so hard because it's like, I know that coffee is not that expensive. Yeah. It's not that expensive. Like they're making so much money off me already. Yeah.

They should pay you more. Not me. Yeah. But anyway, but now I can't get over it. So I forgot. Yeah. I think you told us that story when we were making the coffee video. I don't think you said on the podcast. So yeah. Anyway, it now I can't get over it. So I forgot. Yeah, I think you told us that story when we were making the coffee video. I don't think you said on the podcast.

So yeah, anyway, it's funny. You had that interaction because yesterday when I was at the roastery, the baristas, we had such a fun interaction because right off the bat, I was like, hey, how's it going? They're like, killer. How about you? And I was like, I love that answer. I was like, I was just at Lululemon and asked the guy, Jorge, I asked him, I was like, how's it going?

He said, it's going. And I was like, and that is such a disappointing answer. Yeah. You weren't customer service, liven it up for me, baby. You know, and whatever. So we're just being really fun. And at the end of this conversation, the baristas were like, you, you are funny. You should make TikTok videos. And I was like, you think?

I mean, you know, the TikTok fund's pretty small, though. $200 million. Maybe I should make reels, right? Reels? Yeah. And I don't know. What do you think? Quality wise?

How nice of a lens? They can tell. I know they can. Maybe they can. maybe they can maybe they can that's funny dude the you said killer and this made me think of this i know we got to wrap it up soon but uh john tyson this australian guy that was in austin texas hello preacher yeah awesome dude uh he preaches in uh city of new york anyway uh he's like you americans you always talk about how everything in business, anytime something's going good, you're like, I'm killing it. I'm crushing it.

You guys are so violent. He's like, you know, like, like, he's dominating. He's dominating. He's killing it. You know, whatever, like all these different things. And he's like, you know, I talked to one of my best friends. I'm doing such a bad. That sounds good.

No, it's not. I could do better. I could do better. I could do better. I talked to one of my best l. I'm doing such a bad. That sounds good. No, it's not. I could do better. I could do better. I could do better. I talked to one of my best lads. No, I didn't say lads. Mates, mates. I talked to one of my best mates out in Australia.

He's, he's making so much money. I asked him how he's doing. He said, I'm doing quite well. You know, like I'm caressing it. That's yeah. I'm petting it. But it was funny. Cause like, especially Jeff Bethke is like the most like, oh, this guy's crushing it.

Like he's killing it. Like, yes. Kill, crush, crush, kill. Oh yeah. All these different things like that. And after you hear it, you will never not. Yeah. That's a good observation.

Trey is a big crushing it guy. Like Mr. James. Oh, Mr. James literally would crush iPads. I was like, he still crushes things. You know, like we're just crushing iPads. And yeah, it's just like, once you hear it, it's like, you can't, you can't go back. Yeah. It's good observation, Pastor. So doing quite well versus.

Oh, I've done quite well. I'm trying to think of, he gave one other example. Oh, oh, like if you're, if your podcast all of a sudden got really popular overnight, what did it do? It blew up. It blew up. That's a good one.

Isn't that funny? That sounds like a Jerry Seinfeld bit. Yeah. Where he's like, you know, everything is built for right-handed people. Oh, you know, you're doing all right, right whatever and it's like left-handed people it's like um you know left-handed uh compliment right yada yada it's like you go to a party where'd they go i don't know they left yeah yeah that is good that could be like that okay i'll give hat tip to john tyson whenever i

do that yeah i wanted to do a joke like that and And I was like, I think it's too similar to Seinfeld. I want to do how we say like, I'm up for that. And I'm down for that. Both mean the same thing. I was like, that's kind of interesting. So I was writing this whole bit and then I was like,

it's just, I think I would be stealing like a joke format. Really? So I did it. Yeah. Well, I don't have that same, so I'm going to do it.

Okay. I know you need to get going. Cause, um, yeah, yeah. Church Twitch. Let's do reviews of the week real quick alright I'm going to go first

Shay Baby says zippa zappa five stars the title of this review makes no sense but it just felt right I'm so glad I came across this podcast about six months ago I'm a new podcast listener and I have three that I enjoy I'd say this is the best one okay top one out of three top three three that I enjoy. I'd say this is the best one. Okay. Top one out

of three top, top three, not two. Uh, I enjoy it because it is clean, hilarious, and easy to listen to. I also love their Christian and openly talk about their faith at times. I don't like to think or analyze things when I'm listening to podcasts. That's exactly what I have to do. I listen to Jacob Brad. I listen most of the time while I do my makeup in the morning. It's probably one of my, one of the best ideas I've ever had. I feel like they're my old friends from high school and i've actually never met either of them but simply left lots of comments on their youtube page shout out to myself it's christina shea 17 oh okay shout out to myself anyway you won't have any regrets if you listen to this podcast and if you do well i know there's some ghosties who

wouldn't be very happy with you god bless smiley face god bless okay thank you very much that was really nice i was trying to find i know i screenshotted a youtube comment this week as my review i'm gonna do one of each they're both gonna be short great soccer 247 says this podcast has made me more organized i was listening to episode 143 when jake is talking about how easy it is to make your bed i looked over to my bed realized i hadn't made it in almost 27 days which is a funny almost almost 27 days i had almost gotten there almost 27 days keep up the good work you know oh my gosh it's it's been almost 27 days almost yeah two fortnights um and then youtube comment of the week janelle i love this after last week and the whole um make out you know creator fund yeah she said wait so instead of having people pitch

in for a surprise banner for the next event, what I'm hearing is people should contribute to a $500 fund for Jake and TGR make out sesh. Oh my gosh. Which is so funny. Yeah. You're like, oh boy. Well, Hey, take it up with Rachel. You got to raise 8,000 for me. I, you know what? Now that I think about it, I don't believe Rachel. I'll call her bluff. I'll give her $500. I'll do it at my house. You two and me. Catherine's out of town. Have you guys come over?

Had to get in here. Time you learned. Yeah. So you know if Tommy gets too close. Personal space. Dude, something I was going to bring up, but I was like, maybe it's too, actually, maybe I'll just save it for next week. Okay.

Because it was like, yeah, whatever. Okay. We need to get done with this episode. Brad, would you like to end this episode with a jingle? I would love to bring up, but I was like, maybe it's too... Actually, maybe I'll just save it for next week. Because it's like... Yeah, whatever. Okay, we need to get done with this episode. Brad, would you like to end this episode with a jingle? I would love to, man. Okay, I'm going to start playing it now. Ooh-hoo-hoo! Ooh-hoo-hoo! Ooh-hoo-hoo!

Ooh-hoo-hoo! Ooh-hoo-hoo! I didn't realize it wasn't playing. I didn't know that. That's fine, man. Okay, I'm seeing the bar. I'm going to let you know. Jakey just hit the ball.

Oh, this one has words in it. Does it? It says karaoke video. Play it. I'll just do it. One, two. No, no, no. Five, six, seven, eight.

Jakey just hit the ball. He don't lose pickleball. One table for pay. Brad works with wood all day. They met in the outdoors before they were 24. Brad saw that, Catherine, babe of the week, my man. Jake has never pulled a tractor. They can't back a trailer. Steven's going to shake his fist at what they can't do later.

Their podcasts aren't small. We insert the call. Talk on their average lives. And something has been all right since the podcast. Now talk show way before F12. Yo, there was Brad Deuce and Jakey and jingles done by Heather Lee. They've got fans in high school ghosties. No Jake's life rules because we're all preoccupied with ghosty, ghosty.

The Ghost Runners lies. Love the ton of voice. I can't say too much. We've heard all the classics. We know every line. I'm a sham, shut your cake hole. Beef jerky for the troops. Love the $5 jokes.

They don't like Facebook posts And they got a plan On a summer day for the fans Where's Michelle said that Tony That guy Tony And who's the other guy That's living in Jake's basement When did old Brad

Stop writing jingles Whatever happened to Blanks of Blanks of, blanks of The week on the podcast Thanks to Ruby Sandelman Way before their life hack There were road trips to football And mediocre life recalls

The YouTube debuted live Gas boys then made a drive Cause we're all preoccupied With ghosties, ghosties The Ghost Runners lives Cause we're all preoccupied with ghosties, ghosties, the ghost runners lives. Oh, the talk show, not podcast. Why does two hours feel like five minutes? And will, will Brad do more?

Some stand up? Please never stop. Stop. Stop. Stop! We love the touring through our doobers way before the bloopers. There was Domi and Mr. James and Whispers not wake the babies. Brad's two kids

almost three. They've got a great big family cause we're all preoccupied. The Ghost Runners lives since Steve Triplett took selfies with a bunch of ladies. There was Isaac and Coffee. He got a fancy new machine. Brad's notes got

since high school. He'll tell you that Brad's real cool, cause we're all preoccupied with Ghosties. Ghosties. the Ghost Runners lives. The energy, dude. You kept that up the whole time. Thanks, man.

Great work. Great voice. Emily Schmidt wrote that one. Schmidt's back. Nice. Yep. Schmidt's name. Good jingle, Brad.

Good writing, Emily. Thank you. Fun week. Thank you guys for listening to our podcast watching our g shorts videos whatever you're doing liking else custom creations instagram post whatever yeah please do um brad i bought diva detergent this week i'm going to tell you that oh baby i'll know i'll know the first time you it's awesome it's amazing it's awesome you're welcome yeah you're balling out baby i didn't even realize it was the detergent you had previously told me about like

years ago and then i was like this is the one that brad told me about oh baby oh change your life baby concentrated concentrated i'll say that we made that mistake the first time we put way too much in i read the amazon reviews so i knew what i was getting into but still still because if not then it's like this is ridiculously ridiculously expensive and now it's only kind of ridiculous just one ridiculous yeah yeah anyway i hope you guys are using good detergent out there um have a good week you guys we love you guys love I hope you guys are using good detergent out there. Have a good week, you guys. We love you guys. Love my family. You guys are awesome.

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