Ghostrunners - 159 - Brad and Rachel Have Beef

Episode Date: May 23, 2022

Jake finally made an LLC and the name is decently embarrassing. Brad has started employing his children a dollar at a time. And Rachel joins to tell the story of a man named Scuzz and goes head to head with Brad in a heated debate. Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu  Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y  Watch this episode on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3cQSPnw  Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P  Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, we're back with another episode with some more audience members here for fun facts about fast food. Nina Nazi, I believe her name, N-O-Z-Z-I-E. Two Z's would maybe be, how do you pronounce mozzarella? I just pronounce it. Pizza, P-I-Z-Z-A. So N-O-Z-Z-I. Nazi.

Nina Nazi. Nina Nazi. Yeah. I need ai up in here okay so she had a hierarchy of uh fast food facts great um uh so sorry i can't concentrate very well just like oh my gosh. Let's see. Ah, Schwitz. I lost the link. All right. Just kidding.

Okay. Sorry. I was going to say one more. No, keep going. Fun fact number one. Number... I don't know anything about German. McDonald's is the world's largest toy distributor.

Fun fact. That's crazy. I mean, Hasbro? Think about the Titans. Stink it, Milton Bradley. Okay, there's two. Stink it. Remember when there was a Major League Baseball player just named Milton Bradley? It was the Milton Bradley

Coco Crisp era. Yeah. It was wonderful. Both in the outfield. Yeah, I think they were maybe even on the same team. It was like, this is amazing. Fun. Yeah. I think they were maybe even on the same team. And it was like, this is amazing. Fun. Yeah. If only Nina Nazi was in right during all that. I don't know. Fun.

Subway was sued for short sandwiches. Uh-oh, Rachel. You like Subway? Mm-hmm. A lot. Sued for short sandwiches. Customers who doubted the name of Subway's footlong sub broke out the rulers and sued the sandwich chain for making sandwiches that were only 11 inches in length.

I like that. They're like, no way. They bring out the tape measure. 11 and 8. Yep, that's what I thought. I thought so. You're trying to put the cucumber so it's overhanging? I know that's not part of the sandwich.

Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts in white. Me too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. Tell me more okay um cinnabon bakes empty cookie sheets to entice customers what wafting through many malls is the familiar smell of cinnabon's buns to keep you coming towards that seductive scent seduct hold on one sentence at a time they they will bake empty sheets. Yeah. And that smells like what? Hot metal?

And people are like, that's seductive. Bakes empty cookie trays coated in their signature sugar and cinnamon mixture. Oh, I missed the second sentence. I kind of like that idea for just...

Your home? Yeah. I would love like... Your garage? Yeah. Bathroom? Yes. Family room?

Yes. Dining room? Yes. Guest bedroom. Yes. Family room. Yes. Dining room. Yes. Guest bedroom. Yes. Basement. Too far.

Okay. We got to talk about this one real quick. Sorry. Okay. Soda fountains sometimes contain fecal matter. Is this one of those things it's like it's supposed to shock you and then it's like, well, fecal can mean a lot of things. 48% of soda fountains at fast food restaurants. I don't think so.

They contain coliform bacteria commonly found in feces. So actually, kind of what you're saying. Well, yeah, coliform. Rachel gets that kind of crust. Yeah, can I have the coliform crust, please? Well, it's just straight out of the crack. I don't know. Microbiologists from Holland's University don't know how it gets

there, but suspect it may come from dirty cleaning rags or unwashed customer hands. Hold on. Here's what I like about that quote is they brought in a microbiologist. Like he's the expert. Like let's use his quote. And he says, I don't know. We don't know. And they're like, yeah, let's run that. Should we find another microbiologist? Let's just use the quote of the guy who doesn't know the answer. I mean, it may be from Tony. He was in there for like six minutes and his hands were very dry when they came out.

Dude. And they didn't, all that McDonald's has are those air dryers. Those things are never keeping your hands dry. They'll keep fecal on there. Yeah. That reminds me, we went to, Rachel and I went to spend pizza last week where she got the chloroform crust. Yeah.

And before Rachel got there, I went to go pee pee in the bathroom and had to wait a little while, which is fine. OK. And there's not many things that someone can say leaving the bathroom that are good. But I'll tell you what you don't want to hear them say is, I'm sorry, man. Oh, as you were. Oh, yeah. He was coming out.

You were going in. I'm sorry. But he apologized to me for what he had done in the bathroom. And all of a sudden I was like, I don't think I have to pee that bad. All of a sudden I didn't order water and I was okay. Oh no. I'm sorry, but it just smells so good in there. Yeah, sorry.

I peed directly into the bowl. It's going to be perfect. And he was like a cook. He was like a chef. How was this guy look like? He looked like someone maybe with the last name Otzi. Okay. How much hair was on his head? That could probably be interpreted different ways. He was

an Italian looking guy. Okay. Hair was under a hat. I don't know. Have we rolled the intro music yet or is this part of the episode still? Roll it. The Ghost from the Spot we're back episode 159 scott is here rachel is here brad's here jake is here the ghost runners quartet ghost runners quartet we got the flute we got the clarinet did you remember that do you know that rachel used to play the flute no but i can tell by that motion

man she's doing it she is ready let's guess how long rachel flouted um you were a flautist until you were pretty into volleyball growing up so i bet you quit quit. Well, you're from a small town though. I bet you quit your... Oh, that factors into it. It does. It does because they're like, we need people in the band, right? What else factors into how long you've been fluting? Do you think?

Like what are the other contributing... Well, I think sports. Like I really like trumpet. I was good too. I was first year until Luke Gantis. Yeah, I stopped trying so hard. You were a first year trumpeteer? Oh, do I?

Scott? He was good. I was good. Did you ever play Taps? Yeah. T stopped trying so hard. You were a first year trumpeteer. Oh, do I? Scott? He was good. I was good. Did you ever play, you ever play taps? Uh, yeah. Tap seems like a fun trumpet song.

Uh, fun fact. You don't need to like, I believe this is the one that you don't need like your fingers for. Like, you know how trumpet,

there's like three different valves that you push down. I think taps is just like, you're just moving up and down. Just all lips. Yeah. All lips, baby. Huh? I had shirt to say that um junior year you quit flouting close tell me last trimester of my senior year that's true

i couldn't quite reach it i can we need to pause if i have some questions for rachel i didn't know about that. Did you guys do trimesters in Iowa? No way. Oh, the school system. Oh. Last trimester, you know. We got to talk.

I was just bloated and having a lot of acid reflux. It was hard to get that much air. To good piccolo and fluting. Like switch to the drums. Like, oh, you're just getting less and less attractive. You were so close. You had one trimester. I never got a letter because of that but i wanted late arrival oh late arrival i don't even understand the verbiage you guys are talking about she was she she said she never got a letter which means you know what that means abcd no like you like you earn a letter on

your letterman's jacket like oh like you're rachel strikes me as someone who take a lot of pride in a letterman's jacket so that makes i'm sure she was devastated first team all state yeah but where's the band patch gonna go yeah where's my flute patch uh but then she also said she wanted uh what did you say late arrival oh yeah the amy adams movie yeah late arrival it's a pregnancy term for last trimester dang it i'm just missing jokes left and right no No, later rival is when you just... Oh, I missed it. You were making a joke. Oh, gosh.

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Ghosts of Spock. Ghosts of Spock. Ghosts of Spock. Ghosts of Spock. Ghosts of Spock. Ghosts of Spock. Ghosts of Spock. Ghosts of Spock. Okay. So Rachel was saying late arrival, which is, which is. So when I said the pregnancy term thing, you were like, oh, that's right. She was pregnant. That does make sense. No, no, no, no. Hang on a second. From the top. Okay. Rachel said, this is like when the uh deposition michael's deposition you know it's like that's what she said yeah whatever okay what did rachel want

she said she did not get a letter because she quit and she wanted a late arrival surely you know what that means i'm lost you don't know what late arrival like what else could it mean in high school in the context of high school oh i thought we were talking about i thought it was a pregnancy joke no i made the pregnancy joke i thought it was like oh your baby's like oh like you know there's preemies and there's late arrivals yeah yeah you do want to let i mean it'd be great i was a late arrival what were you yeah i was heavy good for you heavy set the first baby's usually no maybe the first baby's late i don't know but but usually the first baby is like the smallest so good for you really yeah um but anyway so do you understand late arrival for the school setting it just means you get there late oh in the

morning so i'm assuming you had early morning band practice or first hour band practice yeah and you're like i'm done with that because it was hour band practice. Yeah. And you're like, I'm done with that. Because it was after volleyball season was over. And so you're like, I am kind of checked out right now. Got my full ride to UNI. NIU? UNI. UNI.

Yeah. In AZI. That's like reading your mind. I think I just understand how people operate. I'm a little disappointed in myself. Not a single second of that was like a bit. I't know for some reason i was thinking later rival like you wanted to get us get like done with the cement the trimester earlier like i thought it was i was seeing the school year as a whole and i was like you want to arrive yeah i was confused i was

confused let's let's put the blame on rachel a little bit trimester like threw us all off i think we were all a little confused we were all thrown for a loop i was like yeah i need to learn more about that guy you dated in high school it turns out i haven't asked many questions turns out that was a pretty big deal let's talk about i've heard about guys twice now and i'm like that is the most amazing thing i've ever heard is it okay to talk about it is he listening to the podcast um does he have the ability to listen to the podcast? Do you want to come in and talk about Skuzz real quick? Okay. Okay.

This is, I mean, anyone listening in New Hartford, Iowa is going to be excited to hear about this. Okay. There's a lot of listeners there. What do you want to know about Skuzz? Okay. Well, first of all, tell us who he is. Like just kind of what his relation is to you. Thank you for holding this.

Yeah. Scuzz is our neighbor technically in Iowa. Okay. And he helps out on the farm a little bit. Because your dad is a farmer. Yes. But he's also a teacher. Yes.

So he's not like always on the farm. Yes. So he needs a hired hand. Right. Is that what they call him? Right. Is that what they call him or do they have a different name for like Scuzz? I think he'd go by that.

Okay. He goes by Scuzz. He goes by anything. And he goes by literally anything. You just make a loud noise in his direction. Just yell an onomatopoeia in his direction, he'll answer. Okay, so yeah, and tell me, tell everybody. No, no, no.

Okay, okay. The interesting, unique fact about Skuz that not everyone, or not anybody else that you know of has. Well, not only does he wear overalls quite often, he doesn't wear a shirt under them. Okay. I mean, I feel like if your name is Scuzz, you're obligated to say that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, the one that I'm thinking of.

He's got fleas. He's got fleas. He did. He bombed. He like. Oh, he bombed? He bombed. He put like the bug bomb thing in there?

And it worked? I think a little bit. So from what I understand about Skuz, he has fleas, but he does not own any animals that would give him fleas. He does not. No. No, but critters just go in and out of his trailer that he lives in, which is now our old camper.

So do you look out your window and see Skuzz in the morning? He's got one of the best properties in the county. Like how far away is Skuzz from your bedroom? Half mile. There and back is a mile. Okay. You run. I run there.

He's right off of our pond. So if you want to swim, he's going to be watching. Skuzz. Skuzz a little bird. I like the idea of Rachel and her brothers growing up. Like, you want to race? he's going to be watching. Scuzz. Scuzz a little firm. I like the idea of Rachel and her brothers growing up. Like, you want to race? Okay, scuzz and back. Scuzz and back.

You got to touch the scuzz. Scuzzy dorm. Yeah. Yeah. Any other fun stories about scuzz? Anything that, like, does he have any sayings or, like, anything? I try not to talk often. Uh-huh.

Does he not? He kind of keeps to himself? Doesn't he have a look alike? Isn't this the guy? Is this not the guy who looks like Abraham Lincoln? Oh, no, that's a different guy. What's his name? Neil. Oh, dang. He does look like Abraham Lincoln, though. When they go to the beach, he brings

like a suit and a top hat. What? And just walks around. Because he looks like Abraham Lincoln. He's like, watch these reactions. Okay. I feel like, did we talk about a guy that also like wears jeans to the beach? Did we talk about that? My grandpa. Okay.

I feel like that's like a, I don't know, just a very like country, like farmer thing to like, you even go to like, one of my friends went to Hawaii recently. Shout out Jeremy. And like his pictures, like he didn't look totally small town, but he was like, you don't look like you know what to do in Hawaii right now. The way he had jeans and tennis shoes on, taking a picture next to these beautiful rocks and waves and everything. So, okay.

Thank you for telling us about SCUZ. That's SCUZ talk. This has been SCUZ talk with Rachel. Rachel, make sure that you're listening to the rest of this because we do have some more to talk about with you yeah rachel's not done yeah we have some beef i'm gonna write that down so i don't forget rachel beef i brought it actually no we'll talk about it later we'll space it out we'll let rachel do some homework what kind of what kind of diet this scuzz has by the way do you know like yes cigarettes cigarettes

just a bunch of marlboro red cigarettes maybe like beef jerky yeah beef jerky and cigarettes yep yeah okay the troops love them so discuss that's right okay thank you rachel all right for all that okay anyway it's the quartet i I didn't get the... Wow, that's how this got started? The quartet flute? Rachel's the flute. Scott will give him the clarinet. No, you're not the trombone. There's only four instruments. There's not going to be a trombone in the quartet.

You're a clarinet. You've changed, dude. You used to be a trombone. Now you're a clarinet. I'll be the bassoon. Bassoon is top four? Oh, yeah. Okay. You were first chair. I'll be the bassoon. Bassoon is top four? Oh, yeah. Okay. You were first chair. I trust you.

Jake, you can be your lead man here. So you're probably, I don't know. I guess you could go Alto Sax if you want to. Great. I think that goes really nicely with bassoon. Great. Okay. What do you think?

I know less about this than I did the late arrival conversation so really okay we'll we'll keep our uh quiz you some time on band instruments okay so it wasn't like a common thing in your small town to like play in the band like everyone was supposed to play in the band even if you're like on the football team and stuff two things we did not have uh quality band participation okay any kind of like late arrival early departure really like we really i have never heard that option turn yeah so yeah that wasn't a thing interesting so that's truly why i didn't know okay you get there at 755 leave at 305 pretty annoying times yeah just extra 10 minutes yeah yeah just strafford r7 school district just nickel and diamond yeah just just making it worse. 10 minutes.

Okay. All right. Here we are. All right. So let's get this podcast episode started. Um, how was your week, Brad? It's been a good week, dude. Um, I feel like most of the stuff I have written down is just stuff with my family. Um, just a lot of family time and a lot of working. We're going to Gulf shores next week. And so it's just a matter of just trying to get as much stuff as I can done before then. So had an order out to Connecticut, uh, the other day. And these guys that picked it up were New Jerseyans.

Okay. And just, we're just as New Jersey as you can imagine. You're shipping a lot of stuff these days. Yeah. I'm getting there. You got, who's your man who calls you B uh,

that's Sean. Sean came by the other day. I think I told you he's off the podcast. Uh, Sean, Sean's your man? Who calls you B? That's Sean. Sean came by the other day. I think I told you he's off the podcast. Sean's got a dark past, dude. Oh, yeah. We got to talk about this. Yeah.

I mean, like basically made it sound like, I don't know all the details, but he was in the clink for a while. What's a while? Like three years? No, I think it was like 20 years or something like that. Usually 20 years though. I bet he, I bet he didn't do bet he didn't do anything serious a lot of tax fraud yeah i bet it was a lot of little things yeah yeah yeah yeah he told me things and i expired license i think three times in a row i had to say i don't know what that means and he would explain arrival to prison i don't know what that means either like he was like you know hey b you know i had some i had some crazy times b i was on the pacific rim b it's crazy man and i'm like is that a james

cameron movie i don't know that's yeah yeah i haven't seen that i don't know if that's the term he used but whatever he said the pacific something i was like oh i don't know what that means like man i was i was a top gang i was no i was a top shot caller for ma man the lip looking and i'm like i'm like i i don't know what i don't know what a shot caller he's like and he said something else and i finally go dude i grew up in a suburb in kansas like i don't know anything about any of this stuff and finally he was just like it sounded like he was pretty involved in a gang um cool and it was a gang that was like mexican americans he was explaining to me good for them um but it was like they were truly like american like they didn't even speak spanish and so they weren't respected by the

mexican gang oh and so like the mexican like people from mexico would come up and they like he said that they were like getting shootouts and stuff with these people oh like tell us next time you see him that i still respect him okay that's fine yeah i will thank you i will see how many more times i see him i don't know how he's a nice guy he's a really good guy but um he's like he would just tell me stuff and like it was one of those things where i was like i think i know what you're talking about but man is it like a little unclear having to do a lot of my uh yeah i was a shot caller b i was just i was a shot caller i'm like oh like i remember people saying that in songs back when i was in like seventh grade like baller shot caller 20 inch rims yeah like the spinners on the apollo

yeah um i had a interaction like this today except except not a former gang member, just an old, old man. And I was like, what in the world? I was at Golf Galaxy. I was at a golf store. I was looking around for some things. Is this the same place you went the other day for good clubs? Yeah. Did I tell that story on the podcast or is that off the podcast?

This is good. No, you told it on the podcast. Okay. Yeah. Just had me hit with a plastic there. I was like, how's that? It's like flying off of there. So I go back and I'm on my

phone texting Isaac about something like, you want lunch or whatever? And then this old man just comes out of nowhere. Sneaky little guy, probably some orthopedic shoes or something on him. And he goes, what's Google say? And I was like, oh, I didn't see you there. I was like, is this a worker or is this just a patriot

i didn't know at this time just a guy in an orange shirt um you never know yeah that's good go i mean could be a worker there could be a worker with sean in the clink yeah could be a cellmate of sean and i was like oh i'm just uh i'm just texting my friend and he's like okay he's like then he gets that gets him going on this tangent. I mean, that was all he goes, you know, your generation, you guys just look everything up. And pretty quickly, I'm like, I wasn't, I was texting Isaac. I didn't even, it wasn't even a thing. You want to talk to that guy?

You just talk to him right away, man. Yeah. I can't wait. Huh? You gotta text him. We used to just make plans for lunch in advance. We used to have to talk to our friends infrequently. Yeah.

Like it should be. Yeah. You shouldn't get to talk to your friends all the time. And face to face only, you know? Yeah. Nobody's upset that you can Google things. The nerve. He's saying, he's like, I mean, your generation, I mean, your kids probably aren't even going

to know what a salesperson is. And I was like, okay, maybe, maybe, you know? And so then he's going on about this. Like, I mean, you just, Hey, what do you do if you, if you want to research something? And I was like, Google it. He's like, see, I'm like, what conversation am I in? What's this guy? And you should have said, what do you do? What isuinely, do you go back home? You're like, you know, I'm not sure who won the Vietnam War. But once I get home, I get to those encyclopedias.

Yeah, I hope there's a microfiche at the library for this. Go to the Dewey Decimal System and figure this bad boy out. And so that is a lot of me gone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. But then the conversation, he really escalates it by just once again,

why do we have curbside pickup? I go, dude, I don't work here. Eventually I'm just tired of this. I go, I don't work here. He's like, I know, I know. But I mean, COVID's over, right? COVID's over. And I was like, oh, here we go.

It's starting to ramp up a little bit. He's like, look, everyone's vaccinated. Everyone's inoculated. The masks are off. What are we doing with curbside pickup? I was like, dude, you want me to Google it? I don't know, dude. I don't know what we're doing. And he's like, why do we still have it? And I was like, I'm trying to help. I'm like, I don't know. I mean, there's drive-thrus at fast food. People like convenience. On one hand, he's like complaining about like, yeah, all these salespeople are going to be gone by the wayside. There's gonna be no more jobs.

On the other hand, he's like, why do we employ people to take things to your car and make it more convenient for you to buy from them? I'm sorry. I was like, dude, I don't know what any of this conversation is. Also, pretty sure not everyone is vaccinated. I don't know where you're, you need to be Googling stuff because that's not the case. That is not accurate. You should. Okay. I think this is a good idea for a new business idea. Ready? Yeah. It is called a open mic night, elderly open mic

night. All right. And it's not, it's not a comedy thing. It's just elderly people. Get it off. What's with the Google? Huh? I mean, gone are the days where people don't know as much. Information age? No thanks. Back in my day, we didn't know what the most popular food was. You know?

Turns out it's bread. Yeah. I would have thought Hasbro was the biggest toy manufacturer. Get a load of this. No, I think it's a great idea. And all the other people are gonna love it in the audience. It's called get a load of this. Get a load of this. Because every sentence starts with,

you're not gonna believe this. Get a load of this. Get a load of this. Hey, get out a pen and paper. Get a load of this. A lot of like moving around on their chair. Get a load of this. Yeah, everyone sits down.

Yeah, no one's standing. You never have to go up on stage and pass the mic around. You're not even looking at the person talking. They're behind you. Yes. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. The shoes are getting thinner.

I don't know what it is. Just complaining about weird stuff. You know, I think doors are getting lower. I swear. I swear those things are lower. Oh, they're heavier too. Yeah. Maybe.

I don't know. We were filming a video yesterday and you were, it was really funny. It was a good observation because everyone's encountered that old man. It's typically an old man who like will say the word, huh, H-U-H so aggressively. And so quickly. Yeah, yeah. So for example, like, oh, I was just texting my sister. Huh?

Huh? Huh? Oh, you were texting your sister. Oh, okay. I couldn't even get her because that's how it is. Yeah. My grandpa used to do that. Just so it's like, it's like, it's like, whoa, well, it wasn't even done yet. Like you thought you would think that you were like, like pull the shiv out before you said that. Hey, just texted my sister. Huh? Yeah. It's like, I didn't think there was enough information in the sentence to be confused yet. And you're already, huh? Dude, the reason that like, that was fresh on my mind is because last week it wasn't a good enough thing to say in the podcast, but of course I'm saying it now.

It was like, it was a great experience, but it was hard to like truly illustrate what it was, like what was going on. But I, I bought, or I had this guy like commission, I commissioned this guy to make a table base for me. Cause he's he's like a wood Turner. So like wood turning means like making things round, basically late. Like I can see that being someone's name to wood Turner, Turner, wood Turner. What's up? Wood Turner. Yeah. It's kind of like in pirates of the Caribbean with William Turner, but it's wood Turner. Sure. Yeah. Anyway. Um, it's good to say some topical things. Yes. Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp. Yo. I heard that he was.

I got it. He was under trial. So anyway, this guy's like the godfather of woodturning in Kansas City. Everyone's like, if you want something done, just ask Anthony Harris. Cool. This guy could not be farther from like. Cool. Like I pulled to his house and it is like overrun with weeds and ivy and everything okay but at the same time he's like pulling weeds

off of his house okay okay so he's trying he's aware of it but i bet his lawn is like two feet tall like very tall it's off putting and yeah right when i got there um you know i was like i forget what i said i was like you know you know, you lived here, lived here long. Huh? Huh? I was just, I was curious how long you lived here. Oh, oh, uh, 20, 20 to 22 years. Yeah. And then he did it like multiple times. He, it was his, his garage was so cluttered that he was like, uh, do you like walking forwards or backwards? I was like, I don't care. Uh, whatever you don't want to do. Huh? Oh, this is to like lift the table in general. And he goes, he goes, I finally was like, if you don't care, then I'll go forwards. I think that's easier. And he's like, okay,

then you go in the front way to the garage. I'll go around back. It was that tight of an area that like I had to scoot in one way and he had to scoot in the other just to take this thing out. So anyway, and it was like not a big table, but it was like around whatever, 24 inch thing. So kind of crazy, kind of funny. And yeah, that's,

that's what we were thinking. Huh? Is this him? Dude, that's him. Whoa, Scott, Scott's got it,

baby. That looks like, that's kind of what Scuzz looks like in my head. He could be a Scuzz in another life. Right, Rich said he looks better. He looks way better than Scuzz. That's him. You should, like in my head he could be a skuz in another life right rich said he looks better he looks way better than skuz that's that's him you should you should go to his uh wood turning website i

forget what it's called yes dude read some you not right now don't read it like the looney tunes business i thought that was like a fake this is the tagline keep trying there's a lot of wood out there he's got some funny like really dry humor in there like it is like click on the one that says something about pipes and it's like like he makes like like smoking pipes and uh he's like i don't know why you're on this website it's not interesting talk about pipes uninteresting page i don't think that you should come to this page at all huh and he keeps going about anyway uh so i was like i really like your web page about pie huh oh yeah yeah hey making those for a long time so anyway yeah uh let's get in there that was we we filmed that jean shorts that was a great idea it was uh your idea about every person in

the airport yeah and yeah we filmed that elderly one was like one of the times where i remember laughing the most like i that was we finally we all broke like it was like i can't keep doing this anymore and it was it was based off of your uh experience my actual experience that we talked about on the podcast right yeah that old man was like you have do you have any like you know metal in your i don't know i could it be it's four dollars and change in my pocket yeah maybe yeah i think that could have yeah passed it so i'll play you guys the idea i actually took a video of this on my phone i haven't posted it anywhere but you guys can hear the exchange oh scott's crying over there about something i don't

know what's going on come over here do you have any metal in your body perhaps from like a surgery that scene went on for like 10 seconds longer than anyone was expecting. I thought they had vending machines. That was the most I'd ever seen Trey like laugh afterwards. He really laughed, yeah. Yeah, that was fun. So what's it like to buy your first cryptocurrency on Kraken? Well, let's say I'm at a food truck I've never tried before. Am I going to go all in on the loaded taco?

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Come over here and talk to us. His website is like a blog post. Like he's just talking. Yeah. Like he'll be. So what's the website called if anybody wants to check it out? Acme Woodturning. Oh, it's called.

No, it's not. Look at the website. The website is acmepipes.com no no you click on the home page okay kids these days oh so you want to get everything correct the first time i google everything i'm just gonna kids so we got the uninteresting part uh he says now that i know that people like to click around but i can't spend all my time catering to you i've been down in the shop working on pipes and it really comes down to this do you want to click around on this plain jane website and get to look at pipes that i've made or do you want to see some really whiz bank site with no pipes on it he'd be great for get a load of this first guest needs to be

get a load of this last First guest needs to be Anthony. Get a Load of This. Last paragraph. Do we need to make any more entertainment or can we get on with it? I could put some pictures of my cat on this page. He's outside looking for something to bite. When he comes back in, I'll dig out the camera just for you. Have you considered going on a trip?

Trips take time and will keep you occupied. What in the world? Of course, then you'll be bothering someone else who probably would rather be doing something else. Here, call this guy. He always wants to talk with someone. Then gives this guy's phone number. Guy's name is Bill. He has seasonal work and he's going to be lonely all winter. Dude.

Oh, gosh. That's a web page. We need to call Bill. If it weren't 10 o'clock at night right now, we need to call Bill. We have to call Bill. I hear you're lonely, Bill. I'm going to write down on the list, call Bill, on my podcast notes. That's really funny.

That's great. Here's a guy that he's lonely. He wants some work. Seasonal work. Call Bill. I don't think that's what we want, Anthony. Anyway, I do have one story really quickly to tell about the New Jersey movers. Oh, that's right.

We got derailed pretty quickly there. These guys were just i mean they were older guys but usually the movers are probably 40s at most and these guys were probably in their 60s like and it was this guy and his cousin named tom and jamie okay okay jamie jamie's like the first guy gets out hey brad hey brad nice to meet you i'm Jamie. I'm Jamie. I'm Jamie. This is my cousin. Oh, no. His name is Todd because he kept calling him Toad. This is my cousin, Todd. And he, right away, like he cusses and like Hattie's, you know, 10 feet away.

And then he's like, oh, hey, sweetheart. I didn't see you there. You know, what you Googled recently. Oh, you Googling things on your iPads or what? And then he just goes, he goes, hey, goes hey he kind of kind of quiet his voice i was like hey you mind if i just go around uh back and just take a take a quick squirt oh oh and i i had literally like uh like i think i forget why katherine's inside but i had rosie with me and i was like that's fine whatever we have grass behind the shop. You need something to wipe with. But the squirt, first of all, is just gross. And then, uh, Catherine saw that the movers were here. So she came out to get Rosie

and I was like, Hey, FYI, the movers around back taking a squirt. Let's just say there's a shed squirt going on right now. I wouldn't come any closer. I was like, I was like, just FYI, don't go. Not that she would, but I'm like like just in case he's going to the bathroom back there so uh they were nice guys they were just it was it was fun talking to him it's so fun you obviously know this when you meet people on tour and stuff but like obviously people from other places really care about their sports teams i'm always like is it really jacksonville jaguar fans out there but you know like these guys were crazy about the New York Giants because they live right by the Meadowlands.

We're just talking to them about the Giants. I'm like, yeah, Daniel Jones ain't the guy. He's not the guy. I hope he has a terrible year this year. I mean, they drafted Barkley with the third pick. Look what he did in week four last year. He took a big squirt on the field. He just took a squirt right in the 50 yard line. He squirted right there. I mean, come on.

We can't have a guy squirting in the pocket. Exactly. You're like, all right. Yeah. He's like, he's like, when we took Saquon Barkley with the third pick and then Jamie's like, well, Tom, we had to take him with the third pick. He was the best. Come on, Tom.

Like, anyway, it was just a, this was a funny experience. And now they haven't gotten to Connecticut yet with this thing. They were going to Denver first. Doesn't matter. But now I'm, I'm seeing a little, like, there's a little bit of complications because the desk is really heavy and they're like, I don't know if we can get this thing out of here. And I'm like, out of here, like out of the state? No, out of the car. I'm like, what do you mean? We got it in there. Like, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm a little worried about it. So stay tuned on that. Okay. I'm like, what are you, what am I supposed

to say? What am I supposed to do? Like, uh, you want me to come help you drive to high elevation? Maybe it'll be lighter. Yeah. Yeah. What can you do from afar for that?

Find, yeah. Find another cousin, you know, see frog call places. If they have anti-gravity potion. Yeah, exactly.

I don't know. So call Bill, call Bill. See what he would do. Yeah. Bill's lonely. You might drive up there. Um, anyway, it was just, uh, yeah, exactly. I don't know. Call Bill. Call Bill. See what he would do. Call Bill. Yeah. Bill's lonely. You might drive up there. But anyway, it was just an experience.

I've never had somebody ask to take a squirt behind my shop before. No, never. Usually people just do it on their own without asking. Yeah. Self squirting. Anyway, so that was fun. Cool. I went to dinner with Scott Peck this week.

Oh, yes, you did. We double dated a little bit. Had some doubles pickleball and then went went to dinner with scott peck this week oh yes you did we double dated a little bit had some doubles pickleball and then uh went out to dinner did scott laugh at you when he beat you i think at one point rachel made the comment i think scott was like there was the laugh scott noticed it and then yeah scott's like crap i laugh all the time but it was probably after a really fun point have you ever laughed at the point that you've lost? That's what I want to know. Oh yeah. I don't think so. Yeah.

I'm calling bull on that. Scott and I are playing in a tournament together this weekend. Actually a pickleball tournament. Yeah. I've been a long time. Yeah. Yeah. Playing this weekend.

How you feeling? You excited? Yeah. It's definitely going to be one of the things like Scott's still playing pretty regularly and I'm not, so I'm going to get picked on. So I got to bring it there. They're going to be hitting the ball to me. You got to get your dink down.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. I'll have to squirt beforehand. That's good. That's fun. I thought you were playing golf too. Big, big day tomorrow. We're golfing tomorrow.

We got me and me and Nolan. So it's kind of the Bearcats versus the boys. Me and Nolan versus Scott and Isaac. Love it. Yeah. Catholics, convicts, Bearcats, boys. Yeah. Bearcats and the boys. Me and Nolan versus Scott and Isaac. I love it. Yeah. Catholics, convicts, Bearcats, boys. Yeah, Bearcats and the boys. Yeah.

Love it. Yeah. Okay. Very good. Nolan was the guy nice enough to let me take a plus one to his wedding, which was Rachel. Really solidified things. Would we be where we are today without Nolan? Definitely, definitely not.

No. No. No. No. No. No way. No way. Yeah.

I was going to say something else. Never mind. Okay. I was going to. I was going to say something else. Never mind. Okay. I'm going to say it. Oh, hey. But hey. Earmuffs, Rachel. This is just a joke.

This is a joke. You know how people say land ho? No land, no ho. I wish I didn't. Like if Nolan wasn't around, maybe Rachel wouldn't be either. You get it? No, you didn't hear it rachel why are you laughing i don't say it again for rachel maybe that was no i can't no it's funny it's funny say it for rachel again no land no ho I didn't tell you to lick your lips at her I told you to tell her a joke again that was a little hard to watch so that's what yeah anyway um Nolan though

congrats Nolan he's married what did i what are we talking about why did it when i start oh dinner dinner here's the main thing i was gonna say one i already um put this in the comments of the live stream which is fun we should live stream more it's so fun it's so easy yes rachel and i were in the car we enjoyed watching you thank you time um two just main things that came out of dinner uh one uh palmer and i ate the same thing let's guess let's guess let's guess like i legitimately ordered what i wanted and palmer got what she wanted and the waitress brought out the same thing for both of us this is a diner correct this is yeah the corner cafe like a like a hometown cracker barrel type cracker barrel the average age of customer was 73. Average age of customer was 73. Average.

Average. There were some oldies in there. Okay. Quack-O-Bell. I just want some Quack-O-Bell. Yeah, well, the first time it came out, I think I had a little slur in there. Yeah, it was hard. Is it Quack-O-Bell?

Cracker Barrel. Silver Dollar City. Silver Dollar City, and we can go to Quack-O-Bell afterwards? I love Bantam. Oh, man. Table, walk, wake. You always say it on the L's. Are way you always say it on the l's are you supposed to say it on the r's r's a red a rudolph a red nose reindeer how would you have said table rock lake back in the day table walk lake really you could do the l's l's great that's more in the

tongue table walk like lake um table walk like okay it's a diner, so I'm going to guess it was a breakfast food and you had It's got a little noise. I'm wrong? Okay, it's a diner. Lime. Let's see.

Apple. Okay, chicken fingers then. Kinda. Okay, just tell me me it's a pretty weird thing to get i can't believe that palmer and i both got it um the menu item said chicken and noodles um and so we thought well basically i got chicken noodle soup is what i got um about 7 p.m right after pickleball Still a little sweaty. And nothing just just like just quenches your appetite. Yeah. Palmer and I both had it. Both loved it.

Palmer ordered chicken noodle soup. She likes chicken. She likes noodles. And hey, I get it. I don't blame her. But you didn't know chicken noodle soup when you ordered it. I in fact, I asked the table. I was like, this is chicken and noodles.

And everyone assured me like oh i'm sure it's not soup it's like a yeah dish with chicken yeah exactly i was like whatever version of chicken and noodles it is like i'll like it i and i still did like it i just wasn't expecting soup i really like the yeah the faces people make whenever their food comes out and it's just completely different than what they expected oh my gosh you see rachel in chicago is that what i ordered she got um something which i think was partly um suggested by her mom, you should see Rachel in Chicago. Is that what I ordered? She got something, which I think was partly suggested by her mom. Like, you should get this and we can split it. And Rachel ended up getting, I mean, baby vomit.

What was it? It was, what was it? Curry, curry something. Breakfast curry. Breakfast curry. Breakfast curry? It was gross. I like curry.

Not for breakfast. Not for breakfast. Don't do it for breakfast is your mom like you does she have like a similar like uh taste taste buds and everything okay that's like let's let's go for we're in chicago we're getting crazy we're the home of breakfast curry everyone everyone says you have to try the deep dish pizza and the breakfast curry. Yeah, it's Curry City. Yeah, that's right. Oh, man. Anyway. Oh, then the other fun part of dinner is Scott couldn't decide whether to get the pecan salad

or the pancakes. And he's like, you know, I'll just get both. And so he's like, I'll take the pecan salad and the pancakes. And can you, can you guys throw in chocolate chips? We do chocolate chips and pancakes. Like, oh yeah. You know. And so he does that, throws down the entire breakfast for dinner yeah and salad he throws down the entire salad all three pancakes filled with chocolate chips

and afterwards being completely serious not even trying to be funny i was like guys i'll be honest i i've never been more stuffed after eating pecan salad and chocolate chip pancakes like i mean are you eating this off he's like no i don't think so i think it's my first time actually now you say it i think this huh this is probably yeah i guess i should take a picture huh this is my first salad talk to pancake dinner did you do it again oh yeah oh yeah it was so good the salad was amazing the pancakes a little too much on the taco chip. Yeah, those are, they can be rich. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. It was a great dinner. Great dinner. Great dinner. Let's talk about Chicago, dude. Okay. We haven't yet. I haven't, I've kind of, I've gotten a little bit of like bits and pieces about the special,

but I've, I've been like pretty intentional about not asking you about it because I want to talk to you about the podcast. I want to hear. Okay. Well, yeah, thanks. It was good. Rachel and her mom and her to you about the podcast. I want to hear. Okay. Uh, it was good. Rachel and her mom and her grandma. Okay.

Right. It was really fun. It was great to have like people there on a night that is really fun and cool and everything. What's grandma like? What's so this is Flory, Lori, Florida,

um, back in Iowa now. So I worry there. No, I, I just came out as a sentence. I worry about grandma. Sometimes I worry about her. I was trying to mix Iowa and Lori. I worry about grandma sometimes.

I worry about her. I was trying to mix Iowa and Lori. I don't know how else to do it. I agree. I agree. Iowa. There's no way to make that. Okay, whatever.

Just go, grandma. What's she like though? Oh, wait, actually, real quick. I just thought of something. Grandma. Is this grandma Graham? Grandma Graham. Did I tell you this?

Was it in the podcast? It was on F12 at least um i maybe i thought that so i i didn't realize that the maiden name was gram right and i thought that rachel was just the type that was like oh me mooping deep up you know whatever it was like calling her gram gram and yeah rachel was mortified to think that for like a month, I thought she was calling her grandma Graham and not just like G-R-A-H-A-M, like Graham. Graham, Graham. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Rachel to this day. Oh, she's burying her face in her hand. She like hates that. I thought that for a month. I was like, oh, you know, whatever. She's like, no, that's her. That's her name. That's never happened.

Like no one's ever been like, why do you never, never once has somebody been like, you call her Graham Graham? You're like, no, it's sorry. It's grandma Graham. That's so funny. Grandma gram. All right. Sorry.

Now you can. I just want to know what she's like. Like, what's her personality like? She's a sporty little gal. Is she? Pickleball weekly. Yeah. Golf weekly.

I'm going to Iowa for Memorial Day. We've already got, we got tee times booked and teams decided. Me and grandma. Yes. Versus the field. Yes.

Versus like, so we'll be scrambling together. Okay. Which more than anything, I'm excited for, which grandma and I've got some time together. We got Versus the field. Yes. Versus like, so we'll be scrambling together. Okay. Which more than anything, I'm excited for, grandma and I've got some time together. We got some porch time together one morning. I woke up and no one's at the house. It's just me and grandma. So I'm like, I guess we'll hang out.

And what I'm more excited about anything is four hours in the cart. Just me and grandma just driving around the course together. Yeah. Me and her versus Rachel, her dad and her brother and everything. I can't wait for you to like get really frustrated with her for missing the putt or something. Just screaming at her. I said left her right.

Come on! Oh, I told you. What's something you say like for like the greens, like putting green. Hey, just like they're been rolling fast all day. I told you they've been rolling fast. What's your first name? Lori.

Lori? That's right. I, I, I Lori. I Lori, you're not hearing me. Yeah. Walk to That's right. I, I, I, Lori! I, Lori, you're not hearing me. Walk to the next hole! Yeah. See you at the ladies' tea, all right? You can walk there.

That'll be really fun. That's awesome. She's, she's great. She, I mean, she came to, so this is another thing. Our tour manager, which is pretty frustrating. Sorry, let me back up. Somewhat frustrating. New tour manager. New tour manager. We pretty frustrating uh sorry let me back up somewhat frustrating new tour manager new tour manager we lost tom yeah no he's alive um he's with uh the band heim you heard of them uh laheim nina nazi loves them yeah i've never heard of

heim h-e-i-m h-a-i-m h-a-i-m like remember what was your, what was your, how I'm a screen name back in the day? Yeah. It was like that. He's touring with AOL. That's the message. What's with Google? What happened to AIM? Come on. Tom would definitely be the type. Tom would hit me with a, what's up with Google. He would, he had all sorts of technology takes that I was like, Tom, I'm pretty well versed. I don't even know what you're talking about. Tom was using DuckDuckGo, I bet.

Yeah. Yeah. Privacy. For sure. Definitely. Um, okay. What, where are we? Tom's gone.

Tom's gone. Oh, new tour manager. Ashley? I only asked for, uh, no, Ashley was the merch girl. Ashley's my, uh, blacklight putt putt partner. Um, Amanda? A? Something A.

Kinda. Becca. Dang it. Towards the beginning. Towards the beginning. the beginning yeah um what's that in with a i had it backwards anyway go ahead i was like hey i don't she's like anyone have cop tickets and like no one really had people coming i was like i just need two uh for the seven o'clock show she's like oh no can do and i was like just two tickets two tickets? And she's like, yeah, it's going to have to be the 10pm show. So I was like, alright.

I was like, what if that was my parents? Or what if that was like, what if you and Scott had actually driven up expecting like, oh, they can get us free tickets. And then I was like, I guess not. She's saying you can't. Was that passive aggressive? Like Jake was mad at us? Like, what if you would have fulfilled my dreams? What if you would have actually been a good friend like you said you were going to

and at least to me beforehand Wishing me luck and saying you were praying for me Dang it you would yes Okay, but so they end up going to 10 so grandma had to yeah go to the 10 o'clock show It doesn't get over to like 1145 at night. She rallied and then Yeah, grandma rallies. Oh, I know the next part of the story. Go ahead. Do you go ahead? Then the next day you guys flew out really, really early in the morning and they took you to the airport, I think at four 40 in the morning. Is that the correct number? Probably a little earlier, maybe. And then they were so, so yeah, they must've gotten done with the show. Probably not

in bed till one. Yeah. So like 440. And then they're going to New Hartford. Yeah. What? Six hour drive. Yeah. Right after that. Yeah.

Just live in their life. Yeah. With a lot of caffeine, probably. That's how the Grams do it. I guess that's why, you know, Graham Graham. That is crazy, though. That's how that's why they do it. Graham Graham.

Yeah. OK. So that was Chicago. That was that was a comedy. That's all I have to say about it. Man Okay. So that was Chicago. That was the, that was the comedy. That's all I have to say about it. Man, this episode, it's off the rails. No, but tell me more about it for real. Okay.

So it was, it was nice to have been there, you know, just because we kind of just walked around all day. We did different stuff. We went to a behavioral science museum, kind of fun, completely free and learned about psychology stuff. It was cool. Like, tell me some examples. Like it would have you go, like you would have like an assignment or a test, like think of

whatever this and put these over here. And then it's like, did you do this? And it's like, yes, it's like, we thought so because of brains and just studying people over the years. So you would learn like different things. Like there was like a compatibility type test. And test and but before you took the test you were supposed to assume how many think you'd get right and then of course you find out everyone always over estimates their abilities to be compatible it's like oh yeah rachel yeah oh we're gonna ace this yeah yeah and then it's like uh what did we like get upset each other at i was like like because it would ask you like one through seven like i hate it or I love it in the middle is neutral. Like how much do you like to clean or how much do you like to go bowling?

Oh, I know what it was. One of them was like, go to a bar or club. And I put one and Rachel had like a four or something. I was like, what? At a 10 or at a seven?

I was like, when? Whoa. This must have been in the trimester days. That food's seen some things yeah so there was a couple like really funny things like i was like whoa and she's like just if you were there yeah it didn't say i was there you know and bar and club are so so different yeah totally i can yeah i'll go to a bar with any like if it's the right person yeah sure like i'll hang out there club i i'm too old for that you know yeah this same thing with like

we can go club yeah okay i think it was also like bowling or something i put one and rachel put like something four or five she's like i mean if my friends were if you were there dude let's go i'm gonna make bowling fun for you i I think you would love it. It's fun, dude. I've been, it's fun. I don't think it's that fun. Have you ever been with me? There's only so many things that can happen.

Brad slams the ground. I do actually. Yeah. Scott just said Brad slams the ground. I don't know how I bowl. I don't know what I do wrong. I mean, you've seen how like awkward, like just short, short strides, you know, whatever. The way I throw the bowling ball, it, it hits the ground immediately.

Every time. Doesn't it? Oh yeah. The release points way too high. Yeah. You have early arrival to the ground. Maybe so. But I mean, I do.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And it seems like it's really got to slow your ball down. If you're kind of just throwing it 90 degrees, just straight down. I don't know. I chuck it. I try to, I always have like a sprained, like middle finger after every single time I bowl. And don't know. I chuck it. I try to, I always have like a sprained,

like middle finger after every single time I bowl. And you enjoy it. I love it. You think this is fun. This is fun. This is a good time. Yeah. I just think.

Good social time. Kinda. Yeah. Like 15 seconds at a time. Eh, 40 seconds at a time. I like that. Yeah.

Bite size. Kind of like Topgolf. I just think there's only so many things that can happen. You know, it's like, oh, I got most of them. I didn't get as many as i wanted yeah those are the two options yeah walk back and then what happens you miss a lot of them and then you got some

dorky little like personified bowling pin making funny on the tv oh looks like we missed some we're old this guy's an idiot yeah we're still're still up. Yeah. I don't like the cocky bowling pin. See, I love it. I love talking back to it. It's Americana, dude. It's just so American. Anyway. Okay.

So you're not that compatible with Rachel? Is that what you're saying? Yeah. It actually was a worse conversation than the trimester conversation is going to be. No, it was really fun. So just like different stuff like that. It would run you through stuff like, look at all these faces. Did you notice anything?

Oh, well, it turns out humans don't notice, you know, just different stuff like that. That is fun, though. look at all these faces did you notice anything oh well turns out humans don't notice you know just different stuff like that that is fun though yeah it was fun it was a good time i'm always interested like the one that you kind of the first example where it was like you know think of this where like whatever and were you thinking of this and like everyone always thinks like i remember one time being like you know think of any number you want and it's like i thought of the number that they said i was going to think of and i was like how how how do they do that you were talking to david blaine so you were talking to that that was a street magician yes yeah anyway um okay but okay so that's what i want to know about that's awesome about the behavioral thing it's great but the whole time like that day were you were you nervous

like yeah yeah it was like hard to eat uh the curry uh so all that didn't help um no i'm just kidding uh but it was yeah it was just like really nervous just not because of like i hope it wasn't like i hope i'm funny tonight it was more just like the magnitude of the night of just like this is it this is the last time it's a long time coming and this is like a big opportunity yeah um just like any one would probably feel like this is a big deal hope it goes well and because there are some things left up to chance that's like i hope that aspect goes well like i hope i'm witty up there i hope the crowd work goes well i hope that this works out just things like that so um but overall it went great it was really fun i'm excited to post it i'm excited to see the footage i think i'm gonna have derrick

just give it to me and i'll just edit it probably okay um but uh it went well i was a little like i was obviously very relieved to get the first show done with because then all the nerves go away i was like all right we've done it because there were a double header that night and he recorded both shows yeah it was great yeah so it was like all right nerves are done but i wasn't super happy with like um because i was sharing with you in the car before but for everyone else basically the two nights before chicago have been some of my best like shows ever best crowd work i feel like i was getting hot at the right time north carolina going into march madness like of course they went on a run sure they were a great team then so i'm

like things could not be going better leading up to chicago right which is when he said a lot it's like then why were you nervous idiot but i couldn't help it no i think i think you're gonna be nervous no matter what and so i was like i hope we get this again just some really really cool things happened they were all improvised and i just didn't get those things but you can't control it you know so it's like i go to talk to someone in front of what do you do for a living and um in telecom uh industrial i'm like i don't even know i got nothing yeah so i just kind of scrapped that um i'm like we'll edit that out i mean i didn't say we'll edit that out but i just kind of move on you should have been like uh fyi that was not going to be good enough for the special.

So if you watch this later, you are not in it, my brother. Marcus was saying one of Trey's agents was like, I've been to taping specials before. They do that. Cause he was like, do not be afraid to say that. Like get what you need. Like this is going to live on the internet forever.

These people are going to see this for an hour. It's like, do not be afraid to get what you need for the taping. Interesting. So we didn't have to do that. But anyway, so I just kind of like phrased it, talking to the second guy like it was the first guy. I was like, oh, we got a guy here in the front row.

You, sir. And then his job sucked and we couldn't get anything going. He didn't even know how long he had been married. And it was kind of, it wasn't funny. It was more awkward. Right. And just different stuff. Just like felt bad for the guy.

Yeah. I was like, okay. And you know, how'd you meet? College. Oh, yeah. Okay. You know, I just, I couldn't meet? College. Oh yeah. Okay. You know, I just, I couldn't get any momentum.

Higher education, good for you. Yeah. Yeah. Bachelors or? Yeah. Bachelors, cool, cool, cool. Okay, bachelors. Same.

How many bachelor fans? Actually, Trey's gonna do a joke about that. Shoot. Okay, forget it. Okay, shoot. Edit that out, please. Do you have any dog moms? Oh no.

Oh my gosh. Oh, okay, okay, okay. From the top, from the top. Hey, Chicago, how we doing? I say the wrong city. Do less, oh crap. Thank Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. From the top, from the top. Hey, Chicago, how we doing? I say the wrong city. Do last. Oh crap. Thank you,

Charlotte. Um, and then, but the second show, you know, I'm like, all right, it's going to be better.

I was so optimistic. I was like, I'm going to, I'm going to bring the house down. This second guy, I know the Lord is going to lead me. I'm going to talk to someone. Yeah.

Yeah. Scott texted you. Alley-oop. Yep. And so I'm like, all right, who we got here what do you do for a living he's a goes I work for electrical conductor or something like that it

was like four words and I was like oh gosh um but I did something it was pretty dumb but I was like okay I'm trying to think of my electrical conductor jokes and so people kind of laughed at that and I was like I got I got nothing I just I can't find the spark there you go yeah people laughed way too hard at that and so i even yelled i was like do not laugh at that stop laughing that was not good and my guys it was short and it was sweet and it was still like okay it was kind of funny yeah and at least the way i'm rationalizing it now i was like no that's actually good because people will think like okay clearly he didn't like plant that guy he would sure if he was in on it he would have chosen a better job than that. Oh yeah, that's fair.

Anyway, that was a lot of words. All just to say it went good. I'm very happy, very pleased with it. Also very motivated. Every shower I've taken since the special, I've had like, I go into it with a bit in mind and I try to like write jokes in the shower. It doesn't go that great.

I get pretty distracted. If you can't tell by how this podcast episode is going. Well, how do you do it out loud or do you? No, not out loud. Thoughts, thoughts, thoughts, thoughts. But I feel like eventually you gotta do it out loud. Oh, someday. But I'm not just brainstorming.

I'm not just like, and then I, and then I says to him. Okay, okay. Electrical conductors you said? Hey, do we, it feels like, it feels like only, only kids have iPads. So that- Funny, cause it's Chinese kids making them. We have any Chinese? I'm trying to think of what to say next.

Who here's been to China? Did you see the Great Wall? I don't- I feel like they gave us a great wall of virus. Well, sh- I don't I feel like they gave us a great wall of virus well you wash you wash your hands so no it's not out loud

it's more mental just brainstorming I just like the idea of Isaac walking by you know walking by you know like what kind of public

locker room shower am I in no no he's walking he's walking in the living room. There I am, playing at fitness, showering, doing bits out loud. He's just hearing mumbles of Jake like, I don't know. I'm like, what is he doing in there?

Isaac gets closer. I can hear Isaac laughing. Is that funny? Yeah. You like that one? Yeah, it really resonated with that. Yeah, I have a golden retriever. Oh, man.

Okay, but you're motivated. You're motivated to- Yeah, it really resonated with that. Yeah. I have a golden retriever. Oh, man. Okay, but you're motivated. You're motivated to... Yeah, I feel motivated because I got nothing. And, you know, I have zero jokes right now that I can use. So it's like I got to start all over. Yeah. Trying to find stuff. So...

It's awesome. Yeah. Working on it. People like the joke that we put in the Gene Schwartz video about, I've never seen Passion of the Cries, but I read the book. Yes. That's a stand-up premise. Like, okay, good.

We're testing things out. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah here and there i really like the idea of like yeah testing out premises with podcasts and jean shorts everything so that'll be yeah the idea i wrote down yesterday is videographer this is just my shorthand so see if you can figure this out videographer dot dot dot thinking about filming my own colonoscopy. Okay. That's it. I don't even get it.

I don't even know why I thought that was funny yesterday. I guess there's some connection there. Like, yeah, video. I don't know. Your shorthand kind of kills me sometimes, but it's like, I don't, I don't remember what I was meaning by that. It's like, well, write down more thin. Well, yeah. Also, like if it was funnier, I think I like i would jump to a conclusion yeah like whenever we write

uh notes for jean shorts and trey's the note taker i'm always like what was this joke and we're like oh yeah what do we mean by what did we mean by passenger seat it's like why don't we just write down the joke hey just say the passenger seat joke. Just do the passenger seat one. Well, I'm glad that it went well. Thanks, dude. Yeah, it was fun. So when you think timeline-wise, it's going to come out. In my own head, I was thinking like, I mean, Trey should obviously be the one to post his

stuff first, kind of the allure of like the first thing to come out of it. And then Trey was telling me that his probably won't be posted for a while. So he's like, you can go and post yours whenever. Oh, cool. Like, oh, great. Do you think it's going to be tough to edit because it's going to have you have so many more cameras and everything um yeah a little bit okay just like the one we like edit it like removing clips or whatever just like discretion just like oh this shot this you know i'll go to this camera

for this joke i guess you know i don't know you said derrick derrick did a great job with derrick did a great job like making proud to to see him in that element. Right. You know, we hired this guy to be our podcast producer. And now he's like directing this like huge shoot, you know, like he's just so overqualified for what he's doing for us. So it's cool. Speaking of that statement. Yeah. You also said that statement yesterday.

We had quite the day yesterday. Yeah. Tell them about it. I just got him talking a lot. You should tell them about it. Yeah. So the reason I thought of that is because you were like, dude, this guy to be our podcast producer and now look at him you know like he's hooking us up with all these different things so yesterday uh we went out to very rural yeah maybe let's just start with the end the the day ended by derrick um pushing a

stroller in a field um looked like that guy's yard probably like three feet of like uh grass pushing a stroller um with like a six thousand dollar camera on the front of the stroller and like five semi-automatic weapons pointed up at him in the back of the stroller while he's pushing it all right go on yeah so so we uh filmed this video or part of a video for trays like it's like a gender reveal stages Stages of gender reveals. Is that right? A progression of gender reveals. Yeah.

And so obviously gender reveals are getting more and more ridiculous. So Trey wanted to make a ridiculous video. What's with these gender reveals? Get a load of this. Yeah. What's wrong with an ultrasound? Yeah. It's a picture and it does just fine.

It says it's worth a thousand words. And so, yeah, we went to this place out in nowhere missouri and put something called tannerite i don't know if everyone's heard of that you heard of that yeah it's like it's like dynamite basically um and uh it was like a gender revealed tannerite thing and so trey literally like took a you know semi-automatic weapon and shot this tannerite and just absolutely exploded it and you know we had you know extras well we had hired one extra along with jake and i and katie were there um and just it was it was fun it was just one of those things it was like it was quite the day it was like wow this is

something yeah for some reason i wasn't imagining it being so rural like i was imagining it being like in on like the back porch of this guy's house. And we were going to shoot like pretty close. And so the Tannerite just in the backyard of the backyard. Like I was thinking like the Tannerite would be far away. But like like I wore shorts and Chacos. And as we're walking, Katie's like, yeah, better watch out for snakes. And I was like, oh, gosh. And then Jake was like Jake, like reached down on his leg was like, oh, there's a tick.

I was like, oh, my gosh. I was the only person person finding, Oh, there's a tick. And I was like, Oh my gosh. I was the only person, person finding ticks. I found a tick last night after our sand volleyball game. Really? So it was like on my body for, I mean, multiple hours afterwards. I dove multiple times, Brad. Tick stayed on me. I am.

I'm nervous. Yeah. I've never had a tick before. Uh, I tried to check everywhere. I had Hattie check. No, I'm just kidding. I had some of the kids at upper basketball basketball check. Oh gosh. And anyway, I still, I'm worried because of obviously what happened to you. But yeah, I literally like was bear crawling through. Hey, everyone can stop sending

me the article that's going on. I mean, have you seen it? Do you read every single one? Every time they send it to me, I just, I just read it one more time just to make sure I didn't miss anything. So I've read that entire article probably 45 times. So keep sending it just in case it basically, it describes exactly what I've had for three years. So appreciate you sending it. It's just confirming though. It's just like, Hey, this tick is out there and people send it to me and they're like you look what you did yeah so anyway um but it was it was really fun it was it was a experience that tannerite it worked it exploded pretty pretty darn nicely it was fun we were taking bets on how many shots it was going to take trade to hit it and he got on the first try

first try crazy yeah it was fun um but yeah it was i don't know what else you want to say about it it was a long day um yeah i woke up early that morning i was up in adam yep uh played golf at 7 a.m with isaac parker willis and then yeah we did several hours of gene short stuff several hours of gene short stuff yeah and then when yeah so far away and then to do that blew up tannerite found a couple ticks played sand volleyball, had a lot of fun. Yeah. Rachel nods in agreement,

playing sand volleyball last night. You winner, you winners, winners. Yeah. Good. Two out of three is not bad. It's good for us.

Two out of three. Very good. Almost every time when I get to the front row, it's always like me, Isaac and Rachel in the front row at the same time. And I say, Hey, Rachel,

don't ever set me. No, like I don't want you to feel bad. Like set Isaac every time. Just so we're clear. Yeah, set the guy that has the ridiculous vertical. Yeah, who has like the record for vertical jump. And she still sets me sometimes. But last night, something was clicking, Brad. Could have been the tick. Feeling good? Yeah. Good.

That's it. Hopping. I don't know. I don't even know why I said that. Just like talking about Rachel. She's a good setter. Okay. Good flutist. I don't know. Like I said that. Just like talking about Rachel. She's a good setter. Okay. Good flutist. I don't know.

Like I've only played like very amateur volleyball. Oh. Really? You were in the Olympic trials? Because form. You've never made money playing volleyball. So you still have your amateur status? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You've never taken a dime. I'm getting looked at. You know, I don't know. I quit my third trimester getting looked at you know, I don't know I Don't know it was all politics really coach wouldn't blame me Delta blasted I've only played a hammer How often like does it always go bump set spike or do you sometimes just spike it or set it right away? Cuz I'm imagining like you said it to Jake on the first hit. And then Jake's like, I don't want this.

And you said it right over back to Isaac. Does that ever happen? Or do you just do you? On accident maybe. Okay. Is that just like kill you if somebody sets it right away? Because that's what I would do every time. You would set it right away?

Oh yeah. Or like I would just throw it right back over. Have you seen volleyball uh-huh so basically a ball that you're receiving is going to be going pretty fast probably well not on the serve no i'm not talking about the serve oh because the other team has just got done bump set spiking it that's fair so it's coming down at your knees very fast so you setting it to isaac from that position okay the volleyball that I've played is not, they're sending it over to me.

Let's just put it that way. They're not spiking it very often. That's fair. That's fair. Okay. And you never played pro volleyball? Not, well, define pro. It was overseas.

It was in the summertime. It was out of season. It was Latvian, you know. It was really fun though last night because we were just like just being goofy but like being goofy and still able to like play well you know just a good hybrid yeah yeah um and isaac was just cracking us up last night isaac he i know it's gonna be hard to describe but we had a really good point and then you know isaac was the one who eventually screwed it up you can imagine it pickleball like you it's just going all these crazy shots and you're the one who's in the net.

And then it's just like, oh yeah. So Isaac does like a fake temper tantrum where he just stomps the sand so aggressively. Just flying everywhere. Yes, he is going everywhere. And then the same thing happens. I mean, like not two points later. I mean, we're diving. We're having these miraculous points.

We're getting the ball over the net. And I dive and can't quite reach the ball. And so I'm just like exhausted. My, my body's on the ground, my hands out, the tick is crawling around the back of my neck. And all of a sudden it's like a war scene where sand is just like falling all on me and everyone is dying, laughing and sand is just flying on me. And Isaac, I guess was slapping the sand and just like out of fury and it was so funny that's one of those things where i could see isaac like taking it one step too far like okay dude okay chill out too far like you found a good joke but i have sand in every crevice of my body now yeah i was like i'm gonna shower either way it's all good i'm gonna do some

comedy in the shower later either way i'm going on i got a mic at 10 30 tonight so it's all good i'm gonna do some comedy in the shower later i'm going on i got a mic at 10 30 tonight so it's all good dude lucas performed at 3 p.m the day we had the the special i was like dude what are you doing what do you mean where he just found some comedy club and just got up and performed he's like guys i'm not gonna be at soundcheck today uh i got a spot at three i was like what really it's like why the grind he's like i don't know yeah i was like oh man and that's kind of the main difference between like traditional comics and i think what trey and i are doing just like i'm going for it yeah i mean they just they're obsessed with it they just do it constantly just just like a muscle memory thing for him almost like just going and going and going

potentially huh that's wow um okay i have i have a few different things okay one of the things i want to say is um let's do that facebook trivia or facebook meme contest remember that oh yeah yeah i forgot to do that last week um so we've uh recruited a few different people that are really good at already doing the facebook group memes like doing really funny captions and funny videos and stuff for us uh and so if you're not on the facebook group get to the facebook group ghost runners podcast facebook group i finally figured out how to auto approve people so that's saving me some time i was about to say you have to you have to request it okay but you can just auto approve it so that's awesome

you've had a facebook account for 48 months oh wow okay i don't know if that's it maybe it's four to eight months so if you're yeah first trimester 48 weeks okay i don't know okay but yeah um get on the ghost runners podcast podcast Facebook group because it's so fun. And I just think the more people that we can funnel there, the more fun we're going to have. Fun and all. Yeah, exactly. So we're going to have these certain people, and I don't remember all their names, so I'm

not going to even try, but these certain people are going to post. We're going to send them out the podcast a little bit early so they can be ready. So check it out on Monday, runners podcast Facebook group and they're gonna You know have their things on there and just like the one that you like the best Is that good or how else can we vote on this? I don't know or maybe we should just do a poll You know on Tuesday morning or something. Yeah, I think everyone you know You get to enjoy what people have made and we'll have like a winner like who's the who's the king or queen of the week? Right King runner. Okay, Queen runner. Let's say wednesday morning we'll put that poll out

there just join the group yeah just join join the facebook group so that reminds me so janelle mielle i'll just name drop she is one of the people in the group uh her and heather lee were in chicago the same time we were would have been fun to see him and i did a really bad job communicating and we never saw him yeah it was just tough did they come to the show there was a lot going on no they just happened to be there okay but that we were like kind of trying to meet up and yeah I just couldn't make it happen this is my public apology okay I should make it sound like I did something um so a lot of you guys have seen or at least probably heard I'm sure yeah it's been going

around about what happened on Saturday and they said I dissed a fan by no means am I proud of what happened I'd like to say it won't happen again maybe it's the way I was raised

I'd like to apologize to the people affected to my fans out there and to Brad because I let you down as part of this brand and you know what but i i support

you i've always supported you i i think you're a stand-up guy um in the shower yeah and uh just will always support you forever no matter what whoa anything you you try me try to lose my respect yeah unconditional my brother uh okay I dare you to lose my respect. I mentioned earlier, but I've just been doing so much for my family, so I wrote down a bunch of different things. Is it hot in here? Y'all hot? No. Rachel's got a blanket on. She's bubbled up.

Got a space heater underneath her. Rachel's like, no. I walked in here earlier and I thought it was freezing in your house. It was like, you guys must be paying a fortune for electric. Roommate Luke is always shirtless. Really? And I mean, always shirtless.

Always. Why'd you look at, why'd you look at Rachel? I looked at Scott. I looked at Scott. I looked at Scott. I mean, no land, no shirt. And so I'm like, I like it warm. So I was like, but I kind of feel for the guy.

I'm going to throw him a bone. I'm going to crank it down a few for him. Maybe he'll feel more comfortable. Maybe that's just his thing. He just doesn't like a shirt. Yeah. Tick made him allergic to cotton. Anyway, I've been hanging out a lot with my family and i i have headlines

for you and i want you to choose which headline you want me to tell you a story about okay cool they're like i tried to make them kind of clickbaity nah you're gonna make fun of me because they're not really that clickbaity okay but they're just titles of different things they're like a headline which one yeah like a headline yeah okay which one you want to hear about first Hattie earns a dollar Bo goes down under you thought this was clickbait Hattie earns a dollar no that's why I took it back immediately

Hattie earns a dollar you'll never believe how she did it now we're talking Bo goes down under could he be an Aussie for life Hattie graduates. Dot, dot, dot. Was it a hoax?

This is good. This is good. Believe the hype? Question mark. In quotation marks. I don't think so. And then lastly, just in all caps, CRIAD. Which one do you want to hear about um i'm thinking i'm most intrigued by how do you earn a dollar all right so um uh i got some airpods uh i don't know three

months four months ago maybe a year ago i don't know okay um and uh ever since katherine's been getting up in the middle and when do you actually think you got the AirPods? Do you remember? No. I remember telling you, like, guys, I got something that I think everyone else got a long time ago. It was it was the like day or two before we filmed that mechanics video. How long ago do you think that was? Oh, nice.

Rachel's favorite video. No way. Yeah, she loves it. Really? Reminds her of Skuz? Kind of? Do you know how long ago that was uh probably like uh i don't know it was nice enough to be outside but we were cold probably late february okay so however many months ago that was okay um anyway i got airpods and ever since katherine's been getting up night to nurse, she borrows them every single night, whatever. It doesn't matter. Cool. Long

story short, I went to go get them from her, uh, bedside table in the morning when I was up and at them. And, uh, like later on the day, went to get them out. They were not there. And I was like, okay, so maybe Catherine forgot to put them back in, you know, in the middle of the night, she was, you know, half asleep or something. And so the blame game just starts going around. I was like, you didn't put them in. She's like, Brad, I guarantee you, there's no way that like, I would have taken both of them out. I only had one at a time. Yeah. There's no way. She's like, that's not my, I was like, well, maybe when you're half asleep, whatever. And so, and she's like, I think Bo did it, you know, for like two or three days, we could not find my AirPods. Um, and so I told Hattie, I was like,

Hattie, if you help me find my AirPods, I will will give you a dollar fun um and so you know she she did she took i mean a dollar to a little kid is like you know a million dollars to us so she was like looking everywhere for this thing and we couldn't find anywhere it was kind of a lost cause and then one morning i was up i was adam i was out in the shop and she comes katherine's showering how he doesn't know what to do when she like wakes up and like you know the parents aren't around and so she she literally like puts her sandals on goes out to the shop and is knocking on my door uh in the shop to like see me but i have my other earmuffs on so i don't hear her earmuffs and so she's she said so you you weren't you weren't answering me so i sat down on the ground and thought about what I should do next.

And then that's when I saw your AirPods in the grass. Oh, no way. I mean, it was like, yeah, it's one of those things. You know how when you lose something in the grass, it's like so hard to find. You know, when you lose something in the grass. You know what I'm talking about. You never lost something in the grass? Never?

Hold on. Let me think about my entire life real quick. Lost something? I don't. What kind of You never lost something in the grass? Never? Hold on. Let me think about my entire life real quick. Lost something? I don't. What kind of things do you lose in the grass? Seed? AirPods. AirPods?

Yeah, I don't know. You lost a wedding ring? Yeah, you drop something small like a ring or like, what other things are small? Rice. Rice. Tick. A grain of rice. Yeah, it's like. A grain.ick. A grain of rice. Yeah.

You, it's like. Grains. Looking for a grain of rice in a, you know, backyard is what they say. It's like kneeling in a haystack. Okay.

So it's tough. It's tough. Anyway, but it was just crazy. She found it, but she only found one. So then we were on the lookout for the other one, found the other one.

But anyway, she earned a dollar. She's like, dad, you told me I get a dollar. You betcha. So that's cool. She sat down to think. That's the cutest part. I should try that in the shower it's like it's it's cute that

she like came out to like see me and then whenever i didn't answer she didn't just like start like having a temper tantrum she just sat there like what do i do next well there's dad's airpod that i get that i win the lottery if i find so that's awesome anyway, that's how he earns a dollar. How do you earn a dollar? Next? I'd like to hear about, um, cry ad cry ad all caps. Uh, so the very first, yeah, since we've had three kids is the first time ever the other night where all three kids were simultaneously crying. It was a triad of crying. So that's why it's called the cry ad. And it was just like, like how do you was throwing a little tantrum because we asked her to, I don't know what we said. We were like, you can't, you know, I don't know where that pajama robe or something. And then Bo's freaking out and Rosie's freaking out. And I just,

I started laughing. I was like, I guess this is like, yeah, it's one of those things where it's like, I don't know. I can't control what's going on right now. And I'm not going to let it just like freak me out. So it was just, it was just one of those things where it was like, this is, this is rare. This is obviously it hasn't happened yet, but it was like, that was, that was wild. So, I mean, you have three under five, so that's what they say. That's right. Three under five. People love, people love like, I mean, I have four under four, so you wouldn't understand. Ever since you pointed it out, I'm starting to see it in way more Instagram bios. Two under two. Yeah. Mom's so proud Yeah. Oh, yeah. I had a friend that was like,

you know, we're pregnant with 202. And I was like, you can't say that. You're not even there yet. Yeah, you know, I'm thinking about running a marathon. Okay, nice. Like we're thinking about trying for a fourth and we might have 202, you know, if we did get pregnant with that.

Well, hey, future congrats. Yeah, maybe 303. Yeah, really, really almost happy for you guys. Really, preemptively, just really pumped for you guys right really preemptively just really pumped for you guys so uh okay cry out next i'd like to hear believe the hype believe the hype this is a cute one uh i don't know like katherine's like i did not teach him to do this but every time i like walk in from the shop and like bows at the counter of the um kitchen eating breakfast or something he'll just go daddy daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy.

And I just, I'm just, I start like kind of get into it. I'm like, yeah, I kind of start dancing around to it and stuff and he's just my hype man. So we both leave the hype. That's great. My goal by the end of the golf next weekend, I get back to the cart, grandma. Yes, Jake, Jake.

I was thinking daddy, but yeah, she can yell Jake. Bo obviously. Sorry. jay i was thinking daddy but yeah she can yell jake uh bo obviously bo loves jake she can yell whatever i told you that like yeah every time he like sees me on the phone yeah i got home the other day and you know he sees me and he goes jake jake and i was like oh and kevin's like oh maybe because i told him that you were you know with jake earlier i think he was like hoping that you were there and cool i look forward to seeing him sometime yes yeah and of course like it's like tell him text me little yeah little kids like they're like they always talk a big game and then when you actually come over they're like super shy so shy it's like you were just saying you want jake to come over so smug so yeah so smug uh okay and then the other

ones bow goes down under yeah um that's we, we had swimming lessons the other day. Um, and since he's under two years old or two and under whatever, like this class that he's in, it's like a parent involved class. Like you have, like you have to have a parent there. So I was like, fun. I love the pool. I'll do this thing with them. Uh, and so they're like, yeah, it's a, it's great. There's a lot of kids in this class. Uh, so it'd be really fun. I get in the pool, you know, I'm kind of waiting around and they're like, all right, we're going to go ahead and start. And I look around, uh, six other kids, six moms, big daddy. Yeah. So here we are. And it was like the cheesiest, like, you know, uh, just goofy swimming class. You know, it's like,

all right, let's all go around and say our names and our baby's names. And I was like, my name is Brad. This is Bo. And then it'd be like, hi, Bo. And so, which I hated they did to me, but then I was like, I gotta do that to everybody else. I have to say hi to them. My name is Christy and this is Bjorn. Hi Bjorn. And they were like, they did so many things like that. They're like, all right, we're going to sing a song as we, you know, float around. Sing a song? Yeah, it was just, it was. How much water are you in?

Pretty good amount. I would say four feet, three and a half. Okay. Yeah. Nips out? Oh, no, never. I'm always. You were sunken?

Oh, yeah, always. Okay, I was trying to imagine it. No. I didn't know if you were yelling, if you were kind of bouncing. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, because I trying to imagine it. No. I didn't know if one of you were yelling, if you were kind of bouncing. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, because I bounce when I yell. Yeah, well, it's Bjorn. Yeah, you bounce with Bjorns.

But anyway, one of the things that they did was that he went underwater and Hattie refuses to go underwater. She's so scared of going under. And Bo, I just dunked him a few times and he's great. He likes it? That's like the win of the week. Does he know how to hold his breath or is it just like a little scary for her a few seconds i don't know i don't think he knows how to maybe he's just learning it's out of instinct you dunk him enough he'll figure it out but like he's like okay like jumping in the pool now it's like so fun because hattie's like i'll jump in but you have to catch me and

don't let me get underwater you know she needs to be dunked she'll be fine i've tried trust me like there was one time like for a while where i was like okay once every single time we go swimming we just have to go under we just have to like and she just that worked like twice and then she started screaming so could she like stick her head like in the bath water does she do that not really she doesn't understand like not breathing out of your nose so i think whenever she goes down she's you know breathes in and then it goes up your nose so well she's smart otherwise so that's fine she can read great she's advanced otherwise so uh anyway and then the last one is how he graduated this past week um or did she and it was one of those things it was i mean it was graduation from mother's day out preschool that she went once a week like i think a lot of the other kids were there like three four times a week get a lot of

this now we're doing graduations for preschoolers google that um it was she literally put on a cap and gown i mean it was the cutest thing that's cute but it was also like one of those things where katherine and i are like you know our personalities are not this is not our thing like we're like this is silly what day of the week is this? This was on Wednesday. Okay. I was going to be more upset if you had to give up half a Saturday for. No, no, no, no. I mean, shout out to all the, um, like children's like recognition ceremonies I've been to, like, cause we also had an Iwana night, like end of the year Iwana night, like a couple of weeks ago, there was like 20 minutes long. Like these people understand,

it's like, this is a kid's event. Let's keep it short. We don't have to get out. Like, like I really appreciate it. Like it wasn't like this, like, let's just wax poetic and like be really sappy about like your kids are just wonderful. And just like little beans, like it was just like,

we've really enjoyed having your kids in class. We're going to call them up now and they're going to sing a song. None of them squirted where they shouldn't. We're proud of them. Except for Tommy. He's working on it. Yeah. But anyway,

she walks across the stage, you're capping gown. And like, of course I'm like emotional. And I'm like, I don't know. You know, I think I was emotional.

Not for the fact that she, she accomplished something. She didn't accomplish anything really, but she, it was just emotional. Cause it was like one step farther. It's like a milestone in her life. No, she didn't.

What did she accomplish by going to preschool? She got dropped off one day a week. She conquered separation anxiety. Give me a break. Participation trophies over here for the cage muscle. No, I mean. I think Rachel's studying mental health over there and she's kind of sharing some notes with Scott. So he feels like he's got to be like, hey, you know, that's important.

You know, like you think, you think, yeah, you think these kids need all these graduations? Yeah. Why? Really? Good job. He doesn't need a good job. Oh, no, I think I think we should absolutely encourage people. I just the graduation thing, whatever.

I enjoyed it. So maybe I'm hypocritical for having this take. Yeah, you were crying. But I think you figure it out. i don't know if i was crying i just said i was emotional but i think it was just because it was like oh she's no longer you know a little kid she's like becoming a elementary school kid kind of thing so it was emotional and i was proud of her so anyway thank you for sharing they're. They're cute, though. Oh, my gosh. I'll rapid fire a few of my headlines. Click bait or no?

No. Okay. Just bait. No, just click. Went golfing in Springfield, Illinois. It's like me and Alan, we're going to go when we're on the road. And we're like, oh, shoot. Day before the special. Better not get sunburned.

Hey, pro shop, you guys have sunscreen? They say, no. Say, I'll take one large bucket hat. Yes yes i was a bucket hat boy for a day you're do you own it still do you have it with you i have it let's go i think you should wear more often sorry i didn't bring you down here okay it was funny though because i also didn't bring my club so at this pro shop i'm like like he's ringing me up he's like okay so we have one round of golf with a golf cart we have the rental clubs and i got you for the teas the golf balls uh the powerade the snickers bar and oh and the bucket hat

bucket hat yeah that's great so yeah quite the receipt there you have a picture of that uh of the of what of you and the bucket hat um oh yeah i sent rachel a selfie kind of out of context just like what's up and And she was like, oh, did you bring, do you, is that yours? And I was like, I mean,

it is now. She like thought, not only did I own a bucket hat, but I made sure to pack it in my carry-on bag. Like, it's an important weekend for me. I gotta have the bucket hat.

Does he pull it off? Do you feel like you look good in it? Yeah. I think if you pull off that bucket hat, you own it. A bucket hat?

Wear it tomorrow to pickleball. I don't think, I mean, you pull out that bucket hat, you own it. A bucket hat? Wear it tomorrow to pick a ball. I don't think. I mean, hey, maybe. Hey. Hey. I couldn't see myself. No way of knowing.

But I do not think I pulled it off. That's really funny that you're like worried about the sun and like, I'm wearing this bucket hat. I had to be. It was good coverage. Alan and I bought matching bucket hats. So I was looking at Alan. I was like, dude, your face is like completely in the shade. He's like, dude, you too.

So we were like kind of spinning around. I was like, dude, your face is like completely in the shade. He's like, dude, you too. So we were like kind of spinning around. I was like, am I good? He's like, yeah, even your neck. Oh, it's so much better that you both had bucket hats. Yeah, we both bought them. There's maximum one bucket hat guy per group. Like you can't both have them on. It's just funny to think about like us like getting closer to, you know, a group in front of us.

They're like, oh, bucket hat guys are trying to see how. Here come the bucket boys. Or the guys catching up to us like, yeah, we got to wait on these these bucket hat guys we'll get out of the fairway so yeah we probably looked ridiculous uh especially as you guys are checking each other out like no dude no no you're good what about mine yeah yeah yeah twist the logo around that's great that was one quick thing uh quick story and the fact you might appreciate oh i loved it no pressure oh no i haven't said it yet i love that one okay i appreciate them all uh went, I was running through the McDonald's drive-thru like sometime last week. I text Isaac, Mike, cause I knew he'd be awake.

He's like, you want something? He's like, yeah, give me a Dr. Pepper. So two large Dr. Peppers. I get to the window. They say, you know what? It's on me tonight. Just take it. I was like, oh, adulthood W, you know, adulthood W.

I was like, thank you so much. I take one, put it in my cup holder. She's like, all right, thank you. Have a good night. So now she, she has offered free drinks, but did not apparently hear my two large Dr. Pepper's order. So now I'm in a pickle where I have to say like, oh, I had two and I just, yeah, it just, it totally came across.

Like I was just taking advantage of this woman like you think it's free you think so i'll take i'll take another i'll take another lauren charge pepper oh it was social uh just i don't know i can pay for it if you want me to now yeah it was not fun uh not a fun situation to be in uh next one is um ghost runners sponsor a college athlete i told you a few days ago yes let's get everyone's heads in on this let's brainstorm yeah um nil deals are allowed now you can sponsor college athletes can make money i want to sponsor like a division three kicker or something and have weird things in their contract where every time they make a kick yeah they have to do something weird they

have i mean we could start out subtle you know like maybe extra points they have to once they take off their helmet, just do a quick headbutt. Like just like I'm really excited. But then eventually, like they have to do something just ridiculous. Yeah. Something while they're still going to be on camera. Hopefully even they film D3 football games. But, you know, as soon as the kid goes up, they will. OK, yeah.

When he's on the sidelines, he throws on a bucket hat instead of the helmet or whatever. You know how they have like turnover chains, like the field goal bucket hat. Oh, here on the sidelines, he throws on a bucket hat instead of the helmet or whatever. You know how they have like turnover chains? Like the field goal bucket hat. Oh, here comes the bucket hat. And it has the Ghost Runners logo on it. That's not bad. So it doesn't have to be kicker, but just something fun.

Just, you know, give some kid some money and he's a sponsored athlete in his Instagram bio. Ghost Runners athlete. Yeah. So if you know anybody, let us know.

Yeah. If we have any college athlete listeners, it would be fun to sponsor a listener. Send us some, some DMS on Instagram, go short podcast. And, uh, yeah, just kind of make your case of why you should be the ghost sweater, uh, athlete athlete. And then I think not only is it a fun, like just a funny bit, but also just like everyone else will be like following their career. We'll give updates like, Hey, she swam the butterfly in 58 seconds. I love it. It's like, I've never even heard of Allegheny College before this, but now I'm very invested. Good engineering, I think.

Right. Grove City, where is that? You know? Last thing, real quick. Should we, I feel like you got a kick out of it. I was definitely not planning on talking about this, but JT Operations. Oh, I meant to write it down. Yes, dude.

I just said it for you. Guys, we have a LLC sole proprietor in our midst. That's right. And his name is Jake Triplett, better known as Mr. JT Operations. Yeah, everyone got a big kick out of that yesterday. I can't even call him my tax guy because he actually texted me and said, actually, I don't work with you so i don't have a tax guy but he suggested i get an llc he suggested that i don't name it the same name as me because then it could get confusing it's like is this a business is this a person so it's like okay uh jt or my is good and then i was like i need some just word i

guess i don't know enterprises feltprises felt so smug. Yeah. I'm not to that point. Well, you do operate things. Oh, I operate daily. Oh, yeah. Every day. Morning, night, afternoon. Sometimes mid-morning.

Like just always operating. Early evening. Yeah, I've operated. Yes. You've seen me. Yes, just the night. You're right. So JT Operations LLC.

That's me. I just. Why right. So JT Operations LLC. That's me. I just. JT Media? That's my credit card says Jake Tricot Media, which is a separate entity according to Chase Bank. Okay. But JT Operations is going to be my S Corp next year. Like it's funny. Why is it funny?

Like JT Operations is funny to me. Like every time you said it out loud yesterday, I just laughed a little bit it was just getting people going yesterday for some reason i think we need to make some merch some jt operations merch get it out there sure like a big like a like skyscrapers or something that's your merch baby you do whatever you want okay yeah i don't know jt operations make it look like you're from new york or something skyscrapers yeah what'd you say um maybe yeah i guess yeah a bit delaware um enterprise incorporated we'll get we'll New York or something? Skyscrapers? Yeah. What'd you say, Scott? Is that recorded in Delaware? Maybe. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Delaware Enterprise Incorporated.

We'll get some more specifics on this JT Operations. Yeah. Well, it's a big business, so good luck. Yeah, I loved it. Yeah, we were like, yeah, jokingly like, you know, like telling Derek, we were doing a green screen yesterday. And so we were like, all right, before every single scene, just tell Derek, like, who, like, what is supposed to be behind you? so we were just being goofy like hey derrick

brad ellis about this because migrations you know whatever and you're like hey it's jake triplet and i was like well say say your name like and say your company and you're like actually i actually do have a company jt operations hey derrick it's jt operations this scene i'm on the airplane and i am the talker okay yeah so um should we end this episode with you and rachel arguing it's time rachel come on in come on in i'm even gonna get out of the seat i'm not holding the mic rachel you just get in here just take my spot come on in i brought something up yesterday in the car brad and i were in the car for about 18 hours so i was like you know i'm just saying stuff at this point and i was like oh brad i don't think this is cool

brad did not think this is cool. Brad did not think this was cool. First of all, I appreciate that you had a strong opinion about something because I feel like it's like Rachel's not competitive. It's so chill. I was like, oh, good. Rachel has a strong opinion. I'm sure I would love to back her up on this. Can I start that?

This was formed in maybe fourth grade. Really? Yes. You've been dumb that long. Yeah. I'm teasing. Oh, man. OK. Fourth grade. Really? Yes. You've been dumb that long. Oh man. Okay. Fourth grade. It's cold, man. Okay. So just explain a little bit about the, the, yeah, the premise, what you believe. I think that the word better is better than the word best.

Okay. So that's ridiculous. Because by definition, the best is the best. But better is better than that. But then it's not the best if it's better. Okay. So yesterday I gave the example. I said, okay, Rachel, who's the best basketball player of all time?

Michael Jordan. And I said, okay, who's better best basketball player of all time michael jordan and i said okay who's better than michael lebron james so therefore michael jordan is not the best so something can't be okay okay okay uh rachel who is like okay think about think about your high school who was the just like the worst the worst person at your high school oh i don't know okay okay okay let's think about think about um places to eat like where's like the worst place to eat subway okay would you say would you say that like firehouse subs is better than subway no really equal okay would you say fine What, what is better than subway? Um, anything like,

like a sandwich shop. Okay. Like what? Uh, Jimmy John's. Okay. Is Jimmy John's the best restaurant? No. Okay.

But you just said it. The better was better than best. Oh, that's smart. 34. Did you actually, I don't know. We don't need to bring this up.

Yes, I did. Yes, this is. You got a 34? Okay, we don't need to talk about all that right now. This is a whole thing at Trey's house. Brad is out of nowhere. We were talking about someone's ACT score. Brad's like, oh, nice. Yeah, I got a 34.

And it was right. I said maybe a 33. He just moves on. And Trey and I are like, whoa, back up. I got a 34 and it was maybe a 33. He just like moves on and train. I'm like, Whoa, back up. You got a 34. I mean, that's like, it gotta be like the 99.7 percentile of score and Brad's like a ton of people got 34s. Yeah. Everybody was getting 34s. I was like, Brad, I don't think you realize how high the score is. I got a 30 and I was dude,

30. You, but you knew people in our high school that got really high scores. Yeah. What was your rank? I graduated. I think I was number 42 out of 500 people in our high school, which was top 10%. But I was not by any means a valedictorian of our high school. I don't remember.

Scott is smarter than me. Scott was definitely smarter than me in school. I cheated on Scott's homework a lot. Especially geography proofs. I could not understand those things. Geometry? Mrs. Wilhite. Remember that? Yeah. So would you say that I had the best score?

No. People had better. Okay. But I was better than Scott. So therefore, was I the best? No. So somebody was better than me and they were the best. So therefore, it I the best? Mm-mm. No. So somebody was better than me and they were the best. So therefore, it's the best. Oh, man. I just, that's all I have to say, Rachel.

So I don't know. We can agree to disagree. I guess it's just, you're saying that the idea of something being the best can change over time to something else better. But then that thing, if it's better than the best, then it's no longer the best. It's a growth mindset, really. You can always be better. I'm just always trying to progress. One percent better. That's good. That's good. What do you think about the idea of being content or not being content? I know that's a little bit of a broad question. Let me say this. So Catherine

and I have this argument between us in our marriage of like, she's always wanting to improve in our house and like always wanting to like change things about our house. And I'm like, I just think we need to be content with what we have. What's your stance on that? Oh, I'm good with being content. I'm content with being content. Really? Yeah.

You're just like, that's good. Yeah. You just don't need to be any better. It's the best it can be. Right. Well, it could be better. It doesn't it to be any better. It's the best it can be. Right. Well, it could be better. But it doesn't have to be. But you're content with it right now because it's the best it has ever been right now.

Yeah, it's been better than it was before. I don't know. That was great. Thank you, Rachel. Good game. Good game. Good game. I want to see you get really competitive at something now that Jake says you're not competitive.

Okay. I don't know when it will happen, but I hope it does. Yeah. Wits and Wagers. Oh, baby. Yeah. What's that one game you get competitive? Lone Knight Werewolf?

One Night Werewolf. One Night Werewolf. I haven't said the name right once. That sounds like a mafia type game. It is a mafia type game. Okay. It's fun. Yeah.

All right. Here we are. Should we do some reviews? Yes. Like podcast reviews. Yeah. Let. Here we are. Should we do some reviews? Yes. Like podcast reviews. Yeah, let me pull mine up. Someday we should review each other. Like here's a review of Brad. That sounds fun. Not today. That sounds uplifting.

Well, growth mindset. Depends on who you are, I guess. BroBear26 says, absolutely hilarious and heartfelt too. This is a five star review. Good. Ghostrunners is the goat. Ghostrunners. I've been listening to you guys for about two years now. I can't get enough.

I listen on the way to work most days, if the week. Jake and Brad are great guys who love to have fun, and I appreciate the encouragement, too. 10 out of 10. Highly recommend for a good time. Thank you to... What was his name? Brobeard26. Thank you, Brobeard. I i didn't mention that but he did have

the rock on emoji at the end oh heck yeah oh sick dude that's so tight uh thank you for that review uh mine is i feel like i keep going for non-traditional five-star reviews this one's a five-star review in the form of facebook comment from Janelle C-O-Z-Z-A. Do we think that's Koza or Kotza? Kotza. Janelle Kotza. She said, after listening to the pod weekly for the past 123 weeks, I finally recruited one new listener. I'm so happy. And it's a screenshot

from this woman. Or I don't know who it is. Maybe it's a man. Hi, Janelle. I hope all is well in your world. I owe you a big thank you for introducing me to Ghostrunners Podcast. I remember reading your newsletter where you mentioned going to a fan meetup with Jake and Brad, but I can't seem to locate it now. Would you mind resending it? Anyhow, I had been

looking for a new podcast and decided to try it out when I read your newsletter. I went back and started from the beginning and I love it so much. So shout out to Janelle. Janelle's Ukrainian. I don't think she's actually Ukrainian. She's not. She was one of those living in ukraine uh and she came from ukraine to f12 and yeah just anybody that ever gives like recommends our podcast anybody deserves just all the praise

in the world but um thank you to janelle what praise me that scott we praise scott as well we praise scott tonight every head bowed and every eye closed. We praise Scott tonight. Brad, would you like to end this episode with a jingle? I would. We have one from Gavin Austin in the house. Cool. My phone's glitching on me.

Just a second. Real quick, Brad. Yeah? Eagle has landed. Oh, my gosh. Scott, the eagle has landed. And the raven arrives at dawn. I can't.

That was our code word. I forgot to do something. I have a surprise for you, Jacob. Right now? We're going to do it after the podcast or after the song. Ooh. We'll do it to end the episode. What is this? Do you know what this is, Rachel?

No. What's going on? I haven't seen this. I love getting surprises. This is so fun. This is fun i got three percent two percent battery on this bad boy so let's uh let's do the jingle this prize is on your phone secret license no but i just the lyrics on my phone jingle lyrics are on your phone

rock on let's take broke your wood honestly i'm gonna think about the surprise the whole time. It's like you're in the pool celebrating yarn. So long. So long. Taking Brad and Kate down, recording their sound for all to hear. I'm just getting tired. Jake and Brad in K-Town recording their sound for all to hear. Neighbor Henry James Ross

funny so sincere. The intro was so long. You know it's the Ghost Runners. You know it's the Ghost Runners It's John Channel 4 News Check in for Brad's dad On Mass Street Jake on airplanes

Being explained Why they need his seat You know it's the Ghost Runners being explained why they need his seed. You know it's the Ghost Runners. You know it's the Ghost Runners. Yeah! Rose Rose Parkin' Rose Rose Parkin' Oh, oh, oh. Rob Catcher, baby. We're growing lately.

His life's unique. Now with Rachel, Dick's got a stable babe of the week. Yes. I hope you push yourself deeper. Oh, Dane. I hope you push yourself deeper. It goes on as part two. It goes on as part two.

It goes on as part two. Ghost Runners Podcast Oh, you fade out here. Okay. Ghost runners, ghost runners. Sorry, I faded out. It's just a lot more of the same, guys. That was from Gavin Austin. Thanks, Gavin. Thanks, Gavin. Thanks, Bravin.

You did great. The eagle has landed. And the raven rides it down. Oh! That was our code word. Okay. So Jake, I don't know if I'm going to give you that much context on the front end. I'll give you more at the end, but we have a surprise for you. Scott is filming because we are going to take the video and the audio from his phone and

put it at the very end of this episode, because we have a little field trip to take fun up to the driveway. How about we go right now? Let's go see what it could be. This is so fun. Yeah. Let's never get surprised like this is so fun. I don't care what it is.

Just the fact that we have, we have something to do. It's somewhere to go and it can't fit downstairs. I don't know. It is! didn't get him a gift or something. How about this videography though? Yeah. Just straddling the rail. Get this guy. All right. Does anyone else know what's going on right now? All right. Good job, guys. Hey, we're still rolling, man.

You want to come see the surprise? Oh, no. Oh, hey. Oh, hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.

Hey. Hey. Hey. Should I just like look now? Or like what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just walk out. You'll see it.

Just check out Scott's car? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just walk out. You'll see it. Let's check out Scott's car. Oh, the original sign. I got it. I see now. So here it is. So our, uh, one of our super fans, Jeff Boyer,

he was at, uh... Yes, Arkansas Beans. Yes. This is perfect timing. Onyx Coffee. He was... You just got a nosebleed? You did? I was just like, every time i come out for ghost every time it's too excited amish jams man they get me going jeff he was going on a trip to waco and he's like dude i think i just drove past the amish jam is it like just north of sherman or whatever i was like i was like yeah he's like dude i'm gonna try that'm going to try to get that when I come back. And so he went in.

We'll post the video at the end here of him explaining it all. But basically he was like. Did he steal it? No, no, no. He like went and he's like, hey, I'm not going to explain it all to you. And he goes, would you take $100? And the woman, I love her. Her response was, if you're stupid enough to buy that thing

for a hundred bucks I'll sell it to you for a hundred bucks so we have the Amish jams the original sign here it is in the flesh Amish jams the the sign that sparked a million signs I mean we got dozens of listeners after this. I mean, this is kind of what started it all together. Yeah. Uh, this is really cool. Thanks Jeff. So I think we need to put it in our studio.

Cool. Um, I was just thinking tonight, um, well, maybe we just talk about that first. We need a bigger studio. Like we need to get Scott on camera.

You know, we need to have, we need to do a bunch of stuff. So, um, this is great. Almost jams. So there you go.

Well, into the episode here. Thanks for listeningams. So there you go. We'll end the episode here. Thanks for listening. See you guys next week. Love you guys. Anything else you want to say? Peace out. Rachel, say the last thing.

See ya. Nice. Yeah. Every morning we're taking back our sports podcast. Go for a podcast.