Ghostrunners - 16 - Role Play at Urgent Care

Episode Date: August 26, 2019

Jake is now a Tik Tok star, Brad has a casual resume, and both realize how weird nursery rhymes are. Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

one two three it's showtime welcome back to my favorite podcast the ghost runners podcast with jake and brad and two microphones all right we are here back in the basement baby in the basement baby where it all began our humble beginnings in the basement gosh it's been what two weeks since we were down here like a phoenix we rose from the ashes out of the basement but like a like a like a gerbil out of the cage yeah we are back we are back baby if you're listening to this podcast for the very first time uh we tried to podcast in a moving car last week well let's not use the word tried let's say we did oh we freaking successfully did it like a gerbil in his cage we were in there and we did it and we thought you know what it might be a while

before we do that again because because there are some struggles. But we were talking about it. Brad and I have got a 16-hour round trip road trip coming up. So we're probably going to be podcasting back in the truck very soon. But for today, we're in the basement. You know what? Can we actually pause for that? So we probably will be podcasting in the truck.

And we've talked about podcasting multiple different episodes, maybe potentially some you know uh specials if you will bonus episode so if anybody wants to leave a five-star review on podcasts uh apple podcast and give us an idea of different specials that you might want to see from us like it could be just a you know whatever episode right like we can talk we can talk all about our favorite movies. We can talk about sports, whatever. How we wear our hats. How we shower. I used to be a big flat bill guy.

Now I'm more of a dad hat guy. Dad hat. Makes sense. So yeah, we'll have all sorts of time to maybe pump out some bonus pods. Yeah, baby. Next next week so let us know b-pod we think uh brad i gotta start off this podcast by just i guess airing my grievances with you um okay a few days ago good you you came over to my place oh no you remember this

yeah but i'm just now you're trying to remember everything you did you're like what did i do wrong okay um i'm worried you said oh can i have an oreo i said oh absolutely and you were like oh no you're like oh no no it's not even opened i was like oh no i'm gonna open it anyway like it's totally fine get in there and then i a few hours after you left, I go to eat my own Oreos out of the package and it looks like some sort of rabid squirrel has gotten into this package. How did you open those things? It's very easy. Oh man. Like it just,

you pull the little thing off the tab off the top. It's resealable. It's great. I'm not a detail oriented guy. And I think I, I am not the, I'm not, you know, well-vers think i i'm not i'm not you know well versed in opening up those things and then starting those things that honestly we don't

get very many uh cookies in our household um for better and for worse and uh you know so i probably haven't opened one of those oreo packets in you know you know five years so i don't think they were the same back when i was opening those bad boys. It looked like a Neanderthal. But you know what? Whenever I opened it, I noticed I was like, oh, it's kind of ripped off to the side a little bit. That's not going to seal as well.

But then I thought to myself, well, if Jake's anything like me, he's going to be eating all these Oreos in the next two days anyway. I have no choice now. Yeah. I know. Gosh.

They went from like a two week to like a three day shelf life. So I've got to eat these puppies before they're stale. Oh man. Don't, don't, it's not, it's not an 11 day difference. There's no way that you would have, first of all, they wouldn't have lasted. Maybe they would have with you, but they would not have lasted that long. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Thank you for giving me the, um, for the Oreos, but I'm sorry for, I hope they were good. You know, I think I'm sure Catherine could think

of five different examples of stuff like that on the spot that I do. I can't think of them off the top of my head, but I do. I'm not a very attention to detail guy when it comes to stuff like that. It comes to food and being hungry. Not even just that. Like, I, I just wish I could think of other things. Like, I don't know, like just things that I just manhandle. Like that's, that's my dad coming out of me. Like my dad i said in another podcast like amazing guy very hard worker personable man but just like was never like very like he's not naturally handy and so i feel like growing up like if the door wouldn't shut right or something he would just slam it really really hard until like oh well that works yeah until it got you got, you know, until it's shut.

Like he's not, he's not one that's trying to be like, well, maybe the, uh, maybe the hinges are a little off. Let me tighten that nut there. He was just like, you know, we're good. We're good. Yeah. Right. Okay.

Yeah. Hey, we're good. We're good to go. You know? And so I, I'm sure that, that that's what translates to my Oreo. Perfect. Uh, coincidentally, my dad is also a huge cookie guy. And so, so a lot of parallels here. I'm sure that that's what translates to my Oreo opening. Perfect. Coincidentally, my dad is also a huge cookie guy.

Oh, wow. So a lot of parallels here. Yes. Loves cookies. Has his top 10 list of cookies, which growing up, there was an inside joke. He was like, yeah, it's on my top 10 list. I'm like, dad, there's 15 cookies on your top 10 list. And so he actually wrote down a top 10 list of cookies.

That's so funny. And it actually reminds me me something i've been meaning to give you you know now that i bashed you i want to i want to lift you back up you know like the phoenix from the ashes baby yes the uh i want to give you the opportunity to tell people about your casual resume that you made for yourself coming out of college so random what made you think of that, just a top 10 list of cookies. Seems like something that would be on there. Okay. Because I've never heard of anyone else doing this. I think this is a pretty unique quality of yours.

I'm genuinely, I would hope somebody can try to use this and see if they can be successful with this. Because I tried it probably twice on different people and it did not work. But I think it should. It absolutely should for the right person and the right job. So coming out of college, like I'm sure a lot of you were, you were unemployed, you were looking for jobs. I just applied to all these jobs and I had a resume and I, I had a great resume. I had plenty of things on there that, uh, extra corrects, right. Good, good GPA. Yeah. A lot of leadership, You know, Habitat for Humanity every summer.

Oh. You know, went to Uganda. No, I'm just kidding. Didn't do either of those things. But had a great resume. And I was just like, I feel like this is probably very similar to, you know, 50 to 60% of everybody else that's putting stuff out there. How can I really stand out? How can I stand out?

And so what I would do is I would have a regular resume. Like a professional resume. Yeah. Professional resume with all that. So I'd still attach that because I don't want people to think I'm a barbarian. Yeah. We're not animals. But then I would also attach a casual resume that had just different things that like,

like would set me apart from people. So I had on my casual resume, my, I kept it, I'll start easy. Like I kept, I did my top four strengths, strengths finders, which is like the Enneagram for people that are 30 years and older. Great. People haven't heard of that probably around these days. I love the strengths finder. Love the strengths finders. Yeah, it was great. So I had those four on there and then like a little bit of a description of what I meant by all those different things, top four or five strengths. And then I also had what I get on my Chipotle burrito and why. That's awesome.

Yeah. And then if I had a day to myself in Kansas City, what I would do and. Is this all fitting on one page? Yeah. Okay, nice. And then like talked about how I have large or a wide variety of experiences. So like, you know, I have street performed in Spain. I can do blue collar work.

You know, I can do, I can work with kids. Yeah. I can. Yeah. I studied abroad. I, you know, have, I've been a leader to older people while leading them at church, you know, like, and so still getting my name out there and still showing that I'm like, have, have, you know, reliability and whatever clout, but like at the same time showing that I'm creative and original, it did not work out for me.

And it was even like on really well done, like graphic, like I had my cousin make a cool, like graphic design of it. Um, but I don't know. I, I didn't even get like any feedback or anything from those. No one said anything about it to the point where I was like, maybe I shouldn't do this anymore. Maybe this is actually hurting my chances, but I don't think, I don't think it does. I think it would be awesome. So if anybody out there is interested in trying this out, uh, on the job search, maybe you're not even searching for a job. Maybe just, maybe you're very content with your job. That's a great time to try it. Make a casual resume, throw it out there and see what happens just for the sake of the pod. Yeah. I feel like online dating is kind of like your casual resume too. It's like you want to like show your best, but not

too much. Bring your best. Call back to that episode. No, I've always thought that was so cool that you, I actually never really heard you talk about all I knew that was on there was your Chipotle order. So I thought it was actually more things like that. Yeah. And I, that's right. I probably could have thought about it more. Honestly, I probably spent an hour or so. One random afternoon. Like, Oh, it catched me. Cause it was like, yeah, because there is this place at, um, in K state in Manhattan, this really cool t-shirt place. And you have to, yeah, you have to like submit an application in a creative way in order to be considered there. And so maybe that's what spurred it on i don't remember specifically i just remember one of my

friends uh made like a i was like a ice cream bucket and then like had his resume all around like written on there or something i don't know what it was and then had like a i think he made like a basketball hoop or something like that you got to do something to stand out right um but maybe that's a juvenile thing that's why it was happening in a college town for 21 year olds and not at a corporate job. But I tried. I shot my shot. You're fine. Yeah.

I mean, it helped to create the free spirit that is Ellis Custom Creations. Which you can find? On Facebook, Instagram and wherever. And the web now? Yeah. The website's up? No, not yet. But I'm working on it.

But by Monday, no. Okay. No. What I learned is that, uh, since I have like different variations of my table. So like, obviously I have this table, but it's a six by three and it's this kind of wood. Uh, but then you also have options of like, Oh, you can also do it in this wood and you can do it in this size. This stain. Since all those different. Right. So there's like technically like 150 variations of every single product. So technically I have 150 products per product, if that makes sense, that I have to build out.

And so my friend that's helping us out with it, he's like, yeah, that's going to take a really long time. So maybe. So he's like, maybe I'll teach you how to do it and then you can do it on your time. Great. Teach you how to fish. Right. Right. Teach me how to fish so I can eventually open up my own custom-made sushi place. That'd be awesome if you could

be taught how to fish. We would call it... Is this an obvious thing or are you just... No. Okay, we would call it... Custom sushi, we would call it... Custom sushi. We would call it... Sushi made for Yoshi. Oh, Yoshi. Welcome to Yoshi. We would call it wasabi.

Wasabi. We would call it... Raw fish for a raw human. How you California roll. We would call it... I don't know enough about sushi. How you California roll. We would call it. I don't know enough about sushi. I don't either. I know wasabi California roll.

Do you eat it with chopsticks? Yeah, sure. Cool. Utilize that somehow. Chop. Chop, chop. Chop, chop. We would call it chop, chop.

That's it. And they would totally understand what it is. They would totally. They would get the vibe. I think yushi is perfect. Yushi. Yeah. It's sushi. And they would totally understand what it is. They would totally. They would get the vibe. I think yushi is perfect. Yushi? Yeah. It's sushi.

Sushi for you. Sushi for yushi. I would love to make the commercial if this ever comes to fruition. If you'd bring me that opportunity. I mean, yeah. You would be the target person to sell sushi, I think. So it makes sense that I make the video. Casual resume.

Came up with sushi for yushi first bullet point horse boat it starts off as a horse got rafts on the side pontus uh brad here's something that i don't even know where we have so much to talk about i feel like we haven't seen each other in three days and so much has transpired in my life since then okay one have you seen or heard of the movie ready or not no neither did i in fact when i walked in the theater i thought it was called hide and seek so that tells you how little i knew about what i was watching but saw it with some friends they told me it was called hide and seek you just saw it two nights ago okay tell me more who's in it or um there's a girl that looks

like margot robbie that is not margot robbie um the only other person that i recognized was the love interest of bill murray and groundhog day oh gosh she's like an older woman okay she's in it so not a super high build cast sure um and i imagine i haven't seen the trailer to this movie but i imagine now knowing what i know if i had seen the trailer this is not the movie i would have seen but i kind of liked it a lot it's it was more quentin tarantino than once upon a time in hollywood was if that tells you anything in the violent way or in the violent way okay like the shocking way okay it's this this family this woman just got married into this family and uh and there won't be any spoilers so if you're about to watch this movie don't worry

i'm not gonna spoil anything but basically they uh are now all trying to kill her because she married into this family. And so the movie is her trying to, like, you're trying to figure out why they're trying to kill her because there has to be a reason. And then it's like, is she going to escape? And it's wild, dude. Wow. I think it's good. Honestly, I haven't talked to anyone else about it because it just happened and no one else has seen it but um i think there's different uh different levels or whatever you want to call it of how good a movie is and i think that

whether or not a movie is like oscar good doesn't really matter as much to me as if it's fun like it sounds like that's a fun like you had fun watching that movie like like what's going to happen next i don't know this is awesome especially when you walk in the movie theater without seeing a preview like i truly did not know what it was about. In three, count them, three different times, my like mouth was open. Like my jaw literally dropped. It seems silly to say out loud, but it was like, whoa, this is so shocking to my eyes that I'm seeing this.

Should we, should we start a trend or maybe not even a trend, but just you and me, should we go to one movie a month that we literally do not know? Like don't even know anything but the title of it. That'd be fun. You just show up to a movie theater and just buy a ticket for something that we don't know what it is. Like the rule is, yeah, you do not. Yeah. You don't know the times. You don't know the movies at all. And you just walk in and you say, I'll, I'll see that one. And just what would happen? That'd be so fun. Yeah. Cause it's really like, I feel like the older I get and the more I learn like from life and you know, I'm not being educated as much, but you learn from your experiences, like expectations

play such a big role into like, Oh, you know, just happiness on a day-to-day basis. When I go on, that's good. That's a good word good word like my favorite here's an example my favorite like hike and thing we did in kawaii was no one else's favorite thing in the trip and i think the reason why that is is because i was kind of leading the charge a little bit i was like kind of googling everything like hey this hike looks fun this waterfall looks fun and we did this one hike that we didn't google at all because uh lula lulu i think lulu the local, this random Hawaiian girl told us like, oh, you got to do this hike. So we just trusted her when in blind and not having any expectations

and then going there and there's this huge waterfall. There's this rope swing that we have to ourselves. It was so much fun for me because my expectations were so low. That's good. I was going to go a different route. Go your route. No, I think you're right though with expectations. This is such a mediocre example, but I remember Natural Libre when it came out.

Everyone was like, that is the funniest movie I've ever seen. And so I went into it thinking, okay, I'm ready to just die laughing. And to this day, I think I've only seen it once in theaters, and that was it. Because I was like, that movie was terrible. Which, some people love that movie. Some people's favorite movie. But because I had such high expectations, it did not meet them. No, but I think communicating expectations in life is like the answer to so many relational issues with people.

Like if you and I, yeah, like friendships, marriage, work relationships whatever like if you guys are on the same page with expectations up front so many issues like down the road will not happen yeah which i know that's not the same thing sorry but but you made me think of that and i was like because i like that is the small pearl of wisdom that i've learned since graduating college and like having all these different worlds and different experiences and being like, okay, like if I would have just, if I would just communicate that earlier, or if you would have told me that that's what you wanted, or if, if we realized that we were going to have to work way later this week,

like I could have hyped myself up. I could have planned differently, but throwing it out there, you know, positively or negatively, like, yeah, it can just change so much yeah big deal um so that's just a pearl of wisdom for everybody out there is communicate expect over communicate the expectations i learned that also at uh programs or doing programs at can i cook because i would just like i would think oh they understand so i don't need to really go into it too much more and then i would look at them working at a party or something working at the station and i'm like no that's not what I wanted.

You don't ring toss with 20 ounce bottles. We go two liters, guys. We had nursery rhymes and crimes night one time. They're like, that's not how you do the three little pigs. What are you doing? Okay, wait, hold on. Okay, so under communicate to me how you would have done it and then what nursery rhymes and crimes means.

See if I know. Like you said they were like, you didn't communicate well enough and they like struggled to run this game. Oh, it was, you guys are the three little pigs and there's this going to be this house and they're going to, you know,

these kids are going to come and if they blow it out, then you need to, you know, put the, make the house go fall down. I think that was probably how I under communicated it. This is like a skit to their service performer. It was like,

like, no, no. Like we had like 20 different stations that the kids could just roam and go to all over camp. And that was one of the options. And they would get tokens or whatever. I don't know what they got in order to like build up enough wealth of

whatever it was to then figure out the crime that happened on the camp. So the giant theme of the party, the whole thing was nursery rhymes and crimes. So yeah, there was a crime that happened at camp that day. I don't remember what it was, but the kids were working towards trying to solve that crime by yeah. Gaining these tokens or whatever.

Gotcha. I think switching gears somewhat. I'm now I'm on the nursery. I'm thinking there's a lot of them that are pretty like messed up, not really messed up, but just like kind of weird. Yeah. Read it to kids. Yeah. None of them that are pretty messed up. Not really messed up, but just kind of weird. Weird to read it to kids. Yeah.

None of them really make sense. Rock-a-bye baby. In the treetops. Yeah. Who's putting that baby... Yeah, just go up that sycamore, rock the baby a little bit, you'll be fine. Yeah. How else does it go, right?

In the treetops. When the wind blows, the cradle will rock. Cradle will rock. bed you'll be fine yeah when houses go right in the treetops when the bow brought about when the wind blows the cradle will rock cradle rock yeah yeah oh it's it's outside yeah the baby's outside just getting a little fine yeah we're working on her base tan we're going to the beach next week so we're just getting her outside for a little bit yeah just just uh hoist her up to that sycamore it's real windy we want that cradle to rock yeah hopefully hopefully she's you know 30 40 feet up in the air just just rocking back and forth swaying that one's weird and this one isn't really a inertia rhyme but like uh this story uh well wait let's go back to rockabye baby okay because then the next part is when the bow breaks the cradle will fall and down

will go baby cradle all yeah so they're like like it's like a sweet rhyme and then it's like wait a second we're talking about we're talking about hoist like a sweet rhyme and then it's like, wait a second. We're talking about hoisting a baby up 40. I mean, the baby is helpless up there. It just has a cradle and nothing else to cling to. And don't worry,

it's just going to go down like Plinko down Price is Right. Blum, blum, blum, blum all the way to the ground. Like, is that what we're trying to just like sweetly sing to our babies as they're going to bed? Isn't that so weird that we sing that?

Yeah. Yeah. Rock-a-bye baby. Down goes the baby cradle and all like bye baby i get it now rockabye baby it's saying bye see ya bye baby gone baby gone probably where that movie came from maybe so uh also the um story of goldilocks first of all we've got this girl just wandering through the woods yeah where's her parents parents don't care she just wandering through the woods yeah where's her parents parents don't care she's wandering through the woods she told them she's gonna wander through the woods it was a different time back then kids are wandering through the woods like crazy you don't even know you don't even know wait that's uh something i've been thinking about like a joke

for something is like i see on instagram a lot like not all the time but from time to time i'll see like a you know you're you're like a basic kind of girl, whatever, like, ugh, they're watching some old movie. Ugh, I was born in the wrong century. And that just, I think it's just a recipe for jokes. Just like, I think that would be a great like standup joke. Like you're born in the wrong century. Oh, that's okay. Tell me what, go back in time and tell me what it's like, you know, with polio. How's that? Tell me what polio is after three days. Gosh. Are you born in the wrong century? Okay, well, turns out, yeah, you can't, you don't really have any basic rights if you want to go back in time as a woman.

Gosh, I just don't want to, I don't want to have a freezer or a refrigerator anymore. I was born in the wrong century. I was born in the wrong century. I want to use salt to, you know, keep my food. Yeah. I just want to, I just want to know how to milk cows better. You know? That's what i'm missing out on that's another great stand-up joke is that the first guy to that discovered you can milk a cow what was he up to you know what what did

what was going on whoa genie come over here look now i'm gonna tell you something but you can't ask any questions okay i'm pretty sure this is milk coming out of this cow try this try this seriously um let's put some syrup in that thing call it chocolate where oh goldilocks she's wandering through the woods and then just like breaks and enters this home so this girl is is no good i'll say that if this was this day and she would be on dr ph Phil for her misbehavior. She would, she would be in juvie.

First of all, juvie. Yes. She breaks into this home, starts eating just people's porridge. You don't do that. Rule one of the streets. Hey man,

respect other people's porridges. Don't, don't hit below the belt. Home by dinner. Yeah. Be home for supper. Those are the big three. Um, yeah, hit below the belt. Home by dinner. Yeah, be home for supper. Those are the big three. Yeah, just bad life lessons. We don't need to keep talking about old stories and nursery rhymes. No, it's true though. It is just kind of funny when you think back to stuff like that.

Just like, oh, this is like weird that it's just so unrealistic, but we come to know these stories so well. We did that party and we looked up these nursery rhymes and we're like these are some weird things like and they're yeah they're very short really quick ones and humpty dumpty why were they trying to get horses to put a man back together all the king's horses and all the king's men well the hooves are best the hooves are delicate they they kind of do like touch-up work they have better dexterity yeah yeah it's like it's like the fine bristles on the paint brush like you you bring in the hooves for those last couple you don't just use one brush for a painting you got like a course adjustment like a fine adjustment because it's all the king's horses and all the king's men so the king's men came in first you know to do like the easy stuff and

that they're the hooves are essentially the finished carpenter's biscuit yes polish it up it's time get in here yeah so pretty much any nursery rhyme we name we could probably nick pick it um knit knit pick it nitpick you said nick i did not mean to i'm so sorry oh i thought you said nick pick we Nick pick that thing. We could Nickity pickety it. Oh, yeah. My arm picks are just a little bit sweaty here. I used to think it was nip it in the butt

for a long time. Oh, really? Instead of the bud. Oh, yeah. There are a lot of little phrases you just don't. I had a friend that thought it was play it by year.

Oh, idiot. Yeah. Play it by year. No. We got to be quicker than that. And yeah, this phrase comes from like playing an instrument by ear so true it doesn't make sense to play it on a yearly basis speaking of are we

are we able to are ready to commit to this uh playing an instrument yeah tell them about this idea we have we've been brainstorming a few different uh ideas for the listeners out there brett and i we kind of just want to take the podcast a little more seriously. Like you can probably tell like nothing really gets planned beforehand. And so we want to take it more seriously by like brainstorming for like 30 minutes. Yeah. We're going to bump it up from five minutes to 30. So I was thinking to myself, what if we did like, what if we both figured out a new hobby

to do on the side? We talked about the same hobby. Botany. Botany was my first thought. I don don't know don't know really even what botany is i just think of like a bonsai tree and like you know trimming up some shrubberies bonsai trees these trees that take like hundreds of years to like grow is that really true i thought they were like super old oh you know what i don't know i was thinking of tectonic plates that's my bad ah my bad wrong so um so but anyway but then we kind of settled on what if we both learned an instrument and came back and like kind of reported on our progress and so we settled on one unofficially uh we are committed to both

buying and learning how to really play well the recorder everybody's favorite instrument that you were forced to play in fifth grade music class oh man hot cross buns maybe i'm about to show you some i've already got my song picked out i think i heard a song like an old song this week and i was like that might be my recorder song if we end up doing that i don't know why but the the one that i've been thinking of in my head the whole time is the Friends theme song. Like, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. I think that'd be awesome. That's a lot of really quick notes to hit with your fingies. I know.

Maybe that's going to be my intermediate to advanced, you know, three, four weeks in kind of thing. That'll be the impressive part of it. I think it'd be fun to come. I don't know what part of the podcast that'll happen, but we come. And maybe it's not next week because we will be in the car and we won't have a lot of time to buy and practice but right a fun recurring thing like we come prepared with a song and the other person you have to play it good enough for the other person to like guess what song it is yes it'd be so funny and i don't know maybe fun for the listener oh it's gonna be

awesome yeah so i think that's something we've talked about. Maybe doing more like starting an Instagram for our podcast. Sure. Which we really appreciate everyone who's been listening and I'm guessing telling your friends. Well, the podcast is growing and I don't really know why. I obviously put it on Instagram every week, but I don't know if that's helping or not. I think the stock market in general is up right now. So maybe that's why. Trump's America, baby.

Podcasts are up. Podcasts are great. Speaking of the economy, this is going to seem a little weird, but don't worry. It comes back to it. We each had fantasy football drafts this weekend. How was yours?

It was great. I loved it. It was my first time doing an auction draft. Yeah. Here comes the economy part. So Brad and I are in different leagues, by the way. For the listeners that don't know what an auction draft is, instead of just picking one by one, you know, and you have a certain set draft order.

Maybe even, hey, let's go back and even briefly explain what fantasy football is, just in case. Real quick. Okay. So if you've been living under a rock the past 15, 20 years. Hey, there might be some women out there who have no clue what fantasy football is just in case real quick okay so if you've been living under a rock the past 15 20 years hey uh there might be some women out there who have no clue what fantasy football is really maybe all right just real quick you pick people and based on their real life performance you're rewarded in this digital game real life performance meaning football americana how well they can open up oreo packages yeah do they communicate well with their wives are

they using shampoo and conditioner in the same bottle or separate? Yes. Um, and then you draft them based on how well you think they're going to do those things. And then you check in, you watch them on Sunday afternoon. It's like a voyeur kind of thing. Like use like the ring or nest cam. You watch them like, Oh, did he sweep? You know, three hours ago she asked him to sweep. Is he going to remember? He did. He didn't wipe the lid, though. He didn't wipe the lid. Eight points up, two points down. And so you have a team of people doing that. And then they also play football.

Right. And so an auction league. Tell them about it. So you get $200 to start out with, and you basically just get to bid on every single player. But obviously, you only have a set amount of money. And so... There's a lot more strategy involved so there's a lot more strategy involved a lot more strategy i went to this person because it's my pick and my favorite thing is that

there's a lot more strategy but there's also like so much more freedom to be like i really want this guy i'm going i can go get him yes and so because because of that maybe it's almost a mockery to fantasy football but i basically chose all chiefs players did you really yeah i got patrick robes uh tyreek hill i didn't get travis kelsey but i got darwin thompson he might be a great pick i think he's gonna be a great pick me cole hardman also i think it'd be great fun name too who's cole me cole that's right and then the chiefs defense that was probably not a great choice everyone laughed at it frank clark Clark, though. Who knows? That's right. Frank Clark or Honey Badger, you know. And I tried to get Harrison Butker, but my friends, like, purposely, like, upbid him,

like, the kicker. Just because, yeah, because they knew that I would try to go even higher, but I was like, nope. And that's what I kind of like doing. We've got a guy in our league who is just a Cowboy fan. He's such a big Cowboy fan. And so I'm like, I know he's going to bid a little bit more than he should for Dak Prescott. So I'll bid a little higher, and I know that he's going to top Cowboy fan. And so I'm like, I know he's going to bid a little bit more than he should for Dak Prescott. So I'll bid a little higher

and I know that he's going to top me. It was so fun. And so we were just, and so there were seven of us in the same room and then the other five were remote. But, you know, we were just laughing at each other. Like sometimes my friend would be like, oh, keep going, keep bidding this guy up.

Like, you know, he's going to go for it. So just, and so then you kind of like, you know, hurt the other person because you upbid them and then you step back and then they end up spending $35 instead of probably like $25. So they don't have as much money. And so then you're, it's just, it was fun. It is fun too. Like someone's like bidding on like, like in our draft today, someone was bidding on Le'Veon Bell.

It's like, you know, he plays for the Jets, right? Right. He's the only person who plays on their offensive team. Like he, just remind you, he does play for the Jets and stuff like that. I'm not a great fantasy football player, so i'm not trying to like give strategy out there but my strategy that i always have that doesn't work is that i i like only picking guys that are on good teams like i don't ever feel comfortable like yeah like he's on the jets why would i want that he's a loser that guy's not going to win a football games and so he's not

going to do well in fantasy football. Winners only. Right. That's why I only chose Chiefs. Do you have a punny team name? Last year it was Chillin' Cone Mahomes. What? Like, chillin' with Patrick Mahomes.

Oh, yeah. It probably reads... Cone means, like, cone equals... With, in Spanish. Es igual to wees. It probably reads better. No, and then yeah and then yeah so i try to have punny names but we'll see what it is so i had my fantasy football draft today and i i've been doing this auction keeper league with the same guys for like 15 years like since i was like yeah 12 years old like since i've been middle school we've been doing this same team names

you know for those guys like no they're all like they're only 10 to 15 years older than me yeah like friends and family yeah started with like a cousin yeah that's how i've been with my family too um but so we only do a hundred dollar um what i'm trying to say100 salary per team. And I've never done this before. Draft is over. I only spent $85. 15% of my budget did not go used. So it might be a rough year for me.

Oh, yeah. And I'll tell you what I have to blame is my freaking computer went down on me this week. Which is, I feel like every other episode I'm complaining about having to drop a lot of money on something it just keeps happening um so being an adult yeah so at least it's fun stuff like a computer computer is exciting so like not an ac unit or something that would suck too but yeah 900 bucks is going out tonight probably when i get home i'm gonna buy it but anyway so i'm i'm doing this baseball draft with a cell phone and my in a church bulletin that's literally all i have and i i kind of forgot about it so i didn't prep at all so what is the church what do you mean I'm doing this fantasy football draft with a cell phone and my, and a church bulletin. That's literally all I have. And I,

I kind of forgot about it. So I didn't prep at all. So what was the church? What do you mean church? Like I didn't have any pen or paper. Oh, while I was at church, I was like,

Hey, I should steal this pen because I'm going straight to the football draft after this. So I literally was using a church bulletin to do everything. Were you in the same room as everybody else? Yeah. One guy was FaceTiming in, but for the most part,

I was going to say, you don't have a pen and paper at your house? But yeah, so it might be a rough year. And I know most of you probably don't care, but we'll probably be checking in with our fantasy teams. Brad's feeling good with his Chiefs, and I'm feeling so bad about my team. Because everyone else is spending all their money. And I straight up just... There were just a couple guys I was holding out for.

I thought Robert Woods was still available. I was like, oh, I'm going to get him. And I was like, oh, someone kept him. Woods was still available. It's like, Oh, I'm going to get him. And I was like, Oh, someone kept him. Oh, I forgot. You know,

that wasn't on the church bulletin. So I was like, shoot, I thought I could shoot $10 on him and okay, I'll take Willie Sneed for a dollar. Yeah. So God's good there. Yeah.

That's what I was. Trump's America. I was interested to see like, that's right. Uh, I was interested to see like, okay's right uh i was interested to see like okay i spent a lot of money early because i got tyree killing patrick mahomes yeah but then you're kind of strapped at like after that i'm like maybe i shouldn't yeah going for this cheap

amount i could get for four dollars but i don't have any money right you lose out on those yeah so it was interesting to but then after a certain amount it was like wait a second all these guys were like way lower like way worse than those guys that just got picked shoot maybe i missed out on all those guys like is it better to have three or four like pretty solid yeah seven out of tens or is it better to have you know eight fives you know i mean yeah uh so strategery yeah it was fun though uh yeah alongside that just it was fun though. Yeah. Alongside that, just, it was fun to have friends in Kansas city and show them around and everything.

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Yes. It was fun. We went to Oklahoma Joe's yesterday, and one of my friends got, he's like, we were in line for an hour, you know, and he's like, should I just get two Z-mans because he had been there before he was so high he knew they were good he was like the z-man's so good and we got up there and he ended up he ended up getting a z-man and something called a rocket pig whoa which is the one of the new like famous sandwiches there um rocket pig give us us a little hello

hello through my side of the door I'm a Rocket Pig that was way better than

mine Rocket Pig Rocket Pig I was trying to yeah come on get in there with me man

you were like the composer like cheering me on with your hand give it to me give it to me brass Give it to me. Brass, come on.

A little more brass. Yeah. Keep it coming. Keep it coming. Anyway, yeah, it was fun. He inhaled those two sandwiches. Shout out to my friend Alex Teen. Alex.

Minnesota nice, baby. We love you, Alex. Here's something. Can we do it quick, currently trending? I've got something real quick. Okay. Just piggybacking real quick. I said church bulletin and reminded me, I'm not going to say the church cause about to say not great things about him.

Went to a new church this morning. Oh yeah. Trying out new churches and a little bit of a so, so experience. Okay. Um, I'm always, since I work at a church, I'm always interested to see and hear how people's first experiences, things they notice at a new church. So go ahead. Yeah.

And I'm not saying this just to docs in this church. I think there's just going to be some funny things about it. That's why I'm mentioning it. But lady pastor today, I don't know if she's normally the pastor or whatever. But anyway, right off the bat, starts off the sermon by like saying, I guess I'll call them like Dr. Seuss-isms kind of like, or not isms, I don't even know, just everything like rhymed and used a word like four different times in the same sentence. So like an example would be like, maybe the, the life that you live is not living to the fullest because those around you can't see the

life within you just like sentences they're like what did you just say and everyone is just eating it up wow wow but she's just firing them off maybe the gifts we've been given we are not giving out i'm serious she rattled off 10 of those at least very john very john chris punchline kind of like just you're trying to come up with just use a word just like five times in a sentence um and you gotta like fluctuate your voice a ton yeah because you're trying to garner a response from our crowd now we've been forgiven because we were forgiven with i don't know count it with me one two, two, three, four given. You know, there's not three.

There's four. One cross plus three nails equals four given. Yes, yes, yes. So right off the bat, kind of just like rubbed me the wrong way. It was like, are you guys even listening? Or are you just humming and like giving this audible feedback? No matter what she said, are you going to do this? And I just and it was

i just thought it was so funny um and uh at the other this will be the only other thing i say but i also feel like she watched a jerry seinfeld special last night and was like i kind of like this the way this guy talks i might try this out tomorrow like two or three different times she i mean just like a classic and they did not land at all. The people were not humming along to this. One of them, she said, I can't remember all of them, but the one I remember was like, so you guys have all seen people you don't know, right? We've all been there. We've all seen people we don't know.

I know. I was like, already an interesting start. You guys have lived on this earth before. You guys, you breathe in oxygen. Seen people we don't know? I swear she said this. You guys have driven down a road before. You guys have seen people this earth before you guys you breathe in oxygen and seeing people we don't know i swear she said this you guys have driven down a road before you guys have seen people you don't know and sometimes we might think something about them and then what happens you learn they're not

so bad as you thought am i right it just silence and i was like oh i think she wants to be jerry seinfeld so bad but that was just like you got to be more specific than that. You can't just say, we all know people that you've seen. See people you don't know. We've all seen people that you don't know. That was like the start of the joke set up, I guess. So you guys have tried water before. What's the deal with wind?

Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's there sometimes it's not it's crazy get the wind over there chicago it's so windy they called the windy city but there's no wind so yeah we've all we've all felt wind so yeah it was just one of those like man i wish i like kind of had someone here it's like i needed my camera i needed my gym moment in the office to look at the camera and like, acknowledge like you're hearing this, right. You're seeing this. Like I'm not the only one that's thinking this is funny. Oh yeah. So I hadn't, I kind of like going to church and stuff like that by myself.

Cause it's always like, yeah, I know it. Then it's not like I'm not motivated by anything else or it's not, you know, I'm just going there just to whatever. Would you rather be in a church that is a little, we'll only say a little, a lot over cooperative is not the right word. Over participant, participating, like participatory, over responsive to stuff like, yes. Or would you rather be a one that's like under like the average? I think, and this is such a like kind of middle ground answer but i think i almost have to feel that people are listening and they're

not just doing it out of habit like if it seems like it's really coming from a place of like oh my gosh i resonated with that and it's coming somewhat infrequently then like that's great yeah yeah i'm really not the type to really get annoyed by people expressing themselves. Sure. In whatever way that looks like. But if they just hear like, oh, the tone's going up here and going back down. Yeah. Or this guy's getting really quiet. So it's like, oh, yes.

Like, we're really loud. You know? Yeah. Yeah. That's fair. I get annoyed by people when I feel like they're not thinking for themselves and they're just, they're following a trend and they're doing with other people. Right, right, right.

Whatever, however that manifests itself. So if it's, you know, being in however that manifests itself. So if it's, you know, being in the congregation of a church or if it's right posting on their Instagram story, it just, you know, because our church,

I obviously lead music and our church is not very, you can see their faces a lot. Yeah. And they're not very outwardly like quote unquote into it. But then again, I think about if I'm out there, I'm not usually like super, I'm not always raising my hands. like a rock concert I might just be standing

there enjoying it and really enjoying it yeah and then I'll have people afterwards be like hey that was amazing today thank you like and I'm like really you looked like you were so bored and that's okay like you know I'd rather you're right I'd rather just be gin as long as yeah people are just expressing themselves how they want to. Right. Totally. So, well, cool. Yeah. Anyway, we can get into some currently trending if you want.

That's great. Yeah. I was just. Time-wise. Oh, a little over 40 minutes. This is great. We're flying by. This is great. This is great.

You guys have all felt great. We're all great. We're all great here. Maybe the greatness of the great ones needs to be graded for you. We've all done great things, but have we really done great things? Bring your best. Okay, so currently trending is just a thing we do where we literally just talk about what is currently trending in our lives. In our lives, not the world.

Not the world. Although I do want to talk about some things trending in the world maybe we'll end with that wonderful sneak peek popeye's sandwich it's coming oh yeah we're going to talk about that in 17 minutes uh maybe that's one of the podcast specials we do is a 20 minute review on the on the road maybe uh you know taste test um so currently trending i was talking about alex teen aka the guy that ate both a z-man and a rocket pig let's go and call him the t-man from now on snarfed those things down by the way snarf snarf dog hard snarf probably seven minutes minimum or maximum sorry you are not i've never snarfed anything in my life no he's like i looked over and he'd already gotten the rocket pig down

like i was about to ask for it like hey can I try just a little bit of that? Because I've been curious, but I never wanted to get it because the Z-Man is so perfect. Looked over, it was gone. It had been snarfed. He had, yeah, post-snarfage. But he is a transplant into the Minneapolis metro. Originally, yeah, originally a Midwest boy. Iowa, Illinois,

St. Louis, kind of different areas. I've been to the Great Clips in Minneapolis. Oh, and? And the Qdoba. They were both fine. Yeah? Minnesota Nice. Have you heard that phrase? No, is that the WNBA team? No, it's Minnesota Lynx. Minnesota Nice.

I can always count on you for WNBA trivia. Oh, yeah. Maya Moore tore it up for the Minnesota Lynx back in the day. Maybe still does, honestly. Did you see that tweet that kind of went viral? He's a really famous podcaster, Theo Vaughn. No. Did you say Epstein?

We could talk about that. No, Theo Epstein is actually the GM of the Cubs. Oh, okay. I wasn't just throwing out Epstein. Oh, okay. Jeffrey is his name. Jeffrey. Sorry.

I got a soft topic. Theo Vaughn just tweeted white men should be able to play in the WNBA. It went like really viral. It was pretty funny. Okay. Minnesota. Nice. What is it?

It's a drink. Sorry. Really quick. If they, if they lowered the hoops down to seven and a half feet WNBA, would you watch it and be very into it? Cause I know I would, if I could,

if I could watch Lisa Leslie throw down on another girl on seven and a half foot rims i would love it let me put it this way no i would not you wouldn't like genuinely i just don't think i would but because it's so hard for i don't watch even nba basketball that much i might like watch the highlights yeah yeah yeah i think i'll become a fan like who which w? Which WMA team am I going to adopt? Like, gosh, yeah. I want to go to this concert tonight and just stand there and enjoy it without looking like I'm enjoying it. But the links are on.

Okay, Minnesota Nice. Minnesota Nice. Minnesota Nice doesn't really have anything to do with it. He just always talks about how great Minnesota is. Minnesota Nice is like a thing because everyone there is so nice. It's literally like a phrase. But the currently trending that just started this weekend Minnesota is Minnesota. Nice is like a thing because everyone there is so nice. Oh, literally like a phrase. Um, but the currently trending that just started this weekend and I think is going to continue on is because he's a new Minnesotan.

He has learned a lot of Minnesota ways. He loves hockey. Now he plays a pickup ice hockey in the pickup pond ice hockey in the winter, which is like, sounds like the coolest thing ever. Uh, but he said that a hockey lingo thing is like kind of a derogatory term or like you know when you're kind of trash talking somebody is to call him bud so like anytime you're like uh oh yeah hey nice shoes you got there bud like oh it's like it's like a big time which kind of makes sense like kind of even not being from minnesota i feel like that's already a little you can feel that already um condescending yeah but ever since he told us that this weekend uh we just did it all the time out like nice pick bud yeah like stuff like that and uh defense in the sixth round yeah you won't regret that but

yeah good call yeah exactly and so that's definitely on my currently trending list is just using the word bud as like a zinger. Yes. Especially with those guys that are, you know, entertaining this inside joke. And now you know, I love it. Any like, cause it's pretty, you didn't like, you don't even really talk about it,

but if you call like a guy like squirt, it's already like, I'm trying to be condescending. Yeah. Squirt. Maybe, maybe squirt's going to go in there with bud. Squirt is yeah.

About as bad as it gets. Hey, thanks for showing up sport. And you know, it's like, okay, I'm not 12 sports, bud they're all pretty synonymous buddy uh hey buddy yeah that's a good currently trending using the word bud yeah uh one of my currently trending things which i am legitimately hesitant to put out there to you know our listeners other than just you but i haven't

told anyone this um so for months now trey kennedy has been telling me dude i really think you need to take advantage of tick tock um you know that app oh the kesha top yeah the hit hit single like i think you just need to do work on the clock yeah you need to do more videos with that song you're not utilizing that song in fact nursery rhyme oh tick tock tick tock down goes the clock how does it go i don't know if it's a song maybe i just started singing to try and say something i don't know oh hickory dickory dock the mouse went down the clock maybe maybe that's what i'm thinking of actually hickory dickory dock okay i know that part's in there

hickory dickory dock the mouse went up the clock the Kesha's song was Tick Tock? Tick Tock. Stripping down to dirty socks. That was always my least favorite line in any of her songs. Why did you have to say dirty socks? Okay, quick question. Is there a mouse in the Hickory Dickory Dock thing, or did I just make that up? Hickory Dickory Dock. The Mouse Went Up the Clock.

The Mouse Went Up the Clock. The Clock struck three and... They all fell down, Cradle and all. Jack came tumbling after. Couldn't put them back together again. Uh-huh. So anyway, Tick Tock. Where was I? Oh, yeah. and all uh jack came tumbling after couldn't put him back together again uh-huh um so anyway where was i oh yeah he was like you need to take advantage of tiktok like it's crazy like the standard is so low for comedy or just anything there and i was always like i i just don't even

know if i want to like okay so what if i do blow up on tiktok do i even want that you know it just seems like such a everything i've seen is so cringy. Anyway, I'll just get to the point. I uploaded a video to TikTok probably Wednesday. When I woke up Thursday, it had 700,000 views. What? And right now I haven't even checked today. It's probably doubled that. I think it's like 1.3 or 1.4 million views, like a hundred thousand likes. It's crazy. Okay. Can we watch this video? It's not even a new video. I just uploaded my pickup lines video. Oh yeah. Which I mean, it's solid. a new video i just uploaded my pickup limes video oh yeah which i mean it's solid yeah you know but yeah so now i have 40 000 followers on tiktok in a video with over a million views it's like this is crazy but it's also like does it feel

good i mean no it legitimately does not that's why i'm like i don't even want to tell people because i don't even know if i'm going to upload anything else right because it's just like i don't it's almost too easy well or like almost like i don't know it's just like, I don't really want this. It's almost too easy. Or like almost like, I don't know. It's more just like, I don't know if I want to be known as anything related to TikTok. My nightmare would be I get recognized in public as I've seen your TikToks. That would just make me squirm.

I do not want that at all. Yeah, but maybe it's going to change its reputation. That's true. I think it's close to becoming Vine, actually. Well actually well or or yeah turn it on its side and say trey was popular at vines right yeah and i don't think that vines were ever viewed like tick tock probably is now but like because of his vine fame he then was able to transition more pivot to the next big thing yeah so if you're famous on tiktok and then all of a sudden you become either more famous on instagram or more famous on fill in the blank

upcoming you know social media that we've never heard of because it's not there yet that's true that's the only motivation i have like i put my instagram in my bio okay yeah i was just like the only motivation i have for this is just to funnel maybe some followers and your zanga probably yeah i put my zanga on there i haven't really gotten any followers on Zynga or Instagram since then. But yeah, just kind of a random trending thing. Please, no one go look at my TikTok or anything. I'd like to keep this just kind of between me and the talkers, as we call it. The talkers.

The walkie talkies. The walkie talkies. What else is trending for you? there are people out in uh i think it's student uh indonesia that they literally do exercise class while watching tiktoks and they call themselves the walkie talkies nice yeah that's not true um okay what is my other currently trending oh i just i just put uh basically living like an old man this past week i think i've talked to you about this a little bit, but it's been amazing. I've gotten so much sleep and gone to bed so early this past week,

except for this weekend. This weekend with my friends, I got like seven hours of combined sleep in two days. But before that, I was getting a solid eight hours, maybe even eight and a half, nine hours, but going to bed at like nine o'clock. And it was awesome. Really?

I loved it. I loved it so much. I, like I would, I would, I know it sounds funny because it's most people do this every single day, but I would just work hard during the day and then I'd be done with my work. I got everything done and felt good about my day, ate dinner, like put Hattie to bed and then was like, I'm ready to go to bed too. It was awesome. I loved it. I love that you could find the joy in that. Oh, I loved it. I'm glad.

Like 845 every once in a while would roll around and I would get in bed and just kind of just cozy up with the book or a nice episode of Hard Knocks. Foreign to me. That's wild. I think you should try it for a week and see what you think. I'm going to need some accountability or something. Yeah. I can't do this on my own. Oh.

Going to bed at nine? Oh. I don't even. Okay. Yeah. I can't do this on my own. Going to bed at nine? I don't even... Okay, I guess I could do it. When do I hang out with people, though? During the day. That's when I work. Actually, no. That's the thing.

You have so many more hours than you realize if you just don't sleep in as much. You and I hung out almost every day last week. We did hang out a lot. During the mornings. It was great. But then I would still work hard yeah it was great yeah and we also work yeah you and i could sometimes work together while we're hanging out yeah but once again a computer can really do that more yes um okay so currently training for me is that you probably saw a weird look on my face about two

minutes ago is that well three minutes ago i got a text from a number i don't know okay um that says booked my flight just now oh i don't know what to think i like it i think that should happen more often as well kind of like the movie thing where we don't know like you just go and visit somebody without telling them like go cross-country uh like they don't even know them like five degrees oh you know them you just don't know them well enough to like have their phone number that's probably what it is but yeah it could also be the wrong number but yeah i've just been racking my brain i'm like who what oh you gotta respond on the pod. Okay. Just booked my flight. That's all? Explanation point? Booked my flight just now.

Oh, wait. What flag is that? We got an airplane emoji. A flag. Indonesia walkie talkie? A flag emoji. That's Italy. Italy.

Okay. That's exciting. And he's, yeah, there's also a little spaghetti emoji. A spaghetti. A biscetti. I will respond with something Italian. Say, ciao. That's the one I will respond with something Italian. Say, ciao. That's the one word I know.

Grazie. Okay, something else while I'm thinking of my response that's currently trending for me. I've been popping my neck a lot. It just feels tight a lot. And so I'll just, maybe I could do it now. Maybe do a little neck ASMR. No way. Can they hear it?

I wonder what part of my neck I should put the microphone on um hopefully i get a good crack here all right i need absolute silence here we go did you hear it i barely i heard it like i'm in the room and i've never heard it well on the inside it felt good, yeah, just driving a lot. I'm like, oh, if I need to pop my neck or crack my neck, what is even the word? I need to throw my head around and make a noise. Crack sounds like you just got messed up. Like, oh, I cracked my neck. Oh, I cracked my freaking neck.

Yeah, but just for the past week, yeah, just like, oh, man, my neck feels so tight. But I'm fine. That's okay. Neck crack oh man, my neck feels so tight. But I'm fine. That's okay. Neck cracker. Oh, neck cracker Christmas. Oh. Here. Hey.

You want some Ritz? Now I already got some neck crackers. Do you have more things trending in your life? Oh, yeah. I kind of alluded to it last week and just now, but going to Chick-fil-A for breakfast. Oh, yeah. So we got like all these free breakfast coupons. And so for the last two weeks, Monday through Friday, I went to Chick-fil-A for breakfast. Oh, yeah. So we got like all these free breakfast coupons. And so over the last two weeks,

Monday through Friday, I went to Chick-fil-A, which was an awesome excuse to get up early. Also a great excuse to like meet people early in the morning and get some work done. But like the Chick-fil-A we go to is very slow during the morning.

And so a lot of times we'd be the only people there and it was awesome. It's crazy, yeah. It felt like it was like, yeah, our own little club. So intimate.

Um, you know, we, we brought Hattie the other day and then we had four computers around in the table, like all talking and hanging out. Uh, it was just great.

It was a good time. And, or sorry, it was only three computers. I didn't want to correct you, but yeah, my computer was trying to rub it in. It was broken.

Um, but Hattie was there. She was like, just on the play place, just going down the slide, and we weren't worried about her at all. Hattie was loving that slide. Yeah, currently training Chick-fil-A was a great time. Chick-fil-A in the morning.

In the morning. Currently training for me, as of about, I would say, eight hours ago, I decided I think I'm going to start substitute teaching. No, I've always loved the idea of it. And now that I'm like pretty close to full time with Trey, we're going to have more of a schedule. So it'd be easier for me to be like, Oh, I'm working with Trey Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. So those other two days I can just like teach if I want to. Dude. And the money's nothing crazy. I think it's just more like, I just think it sounds so fun. Honestly think you're gonna have a blast and I think my cousin

did it uh for a little while I don't remember exactly when like if he was in between jobs or right after college or something but he did it and he had the funniest tweets to the point where I was like I think I'll be able to get some material out of it yeah you should make a book like just that has substitute teacher you know quotes or something I think, and I think that he's plenty funny, but he's not purposely seeking it out. So if you're like actually seeking it out, trying to, yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. So I don't, I think just tomorrow morning I'll hit the ground running and try to figure out how I get plugged in and involved in, I think it's very easy to teach everything from middle school to high school and hopefully have some good stories for the pod,

I guess too. But eventually you're going to be like the guy that they walk in they're like oh we got a fib he's awesome like oh you know Mr. Trip nicknames for me oh I like I remember one sub we had we were like reading history in like grade school and we were trying to talk about King Tut real name Tootin Common yeah I did a project on him okay and uh like we all like every single time like we were like doing popcorn reading so somebody would read a paragraph the next person every time the word tootin common came up every like it was like fifth grade so we were all struggling with the word somebody's like two two and i just remember this substitute for whatever

reason that's all i remember about him but he would just yell out tootin common and y'all just lost it no we didn't know we didn't lost lose it but later on we were just thinking about it like laughing what a weird thing that he did and he probably did it like 10 times like well yeah tootin common dude common jimmy uh figure it out like so let's get that'd be kind of a fun thing like hey today i'm going to you like give me challenges today i'm going to you know talk in a 12 you know i usually talk at a 10 i'm going to talk just a little bit louder a little bit more energetic hey what's up it's me i'm jake triplet like just like

yeah it'd be fun just to try new stuff out yeah i'm excited i was talking here's a callback probably several episodes ago i talked about how i randomly met this guy on the street we ended up getting shake shack together yeah and you know adam adam he was the one who like talked me into it today. Cause he was like, I've been, cause he runs his own business. He's like, yeah, I've been substitute teaching. It's great. And so, yeah. And I bet you can get a lot of stuff done depending on the teacher.

I bet some of those classes just pop in a video. You're on your computer. You're on, you know, you're on your phone or whatever. You can get a lot of stuff done. I can make twice, a double, two. Right. I gotcha. Yeah yeah two jobs at once he said he only does shawnee mission school district because they all have macbooks and

so all their homework is just in that google classroom so he's like i don't do anything which i would like to do something i think if i get a wide range of knowledge i'd like to somewhat use it would you do all grades i would do i think 7th through 12th i think it'd be fun to do something i think but you have a wide range of knowledge i'd like to somewhat use it would you do all grades i would do i think 7th through 12th i think it'd be fun to do grade school you could get some great stories they're not really my audience though i've tried i think i talked about this on the podcast when i was i had that like speech or that whatever i spoke at that school assembly for the elementary school kids i thought they loved you i thought they acted like you were a celebrity they did but it wasn't it was like more like in like awe and wonderment they liked me it wasn't like they found my jokes funny when i was talking like i was saying a lot of like things that i feel like would normally land like all the teachers would laugh and then

there's like girls just like picking band-aids off they're they're less worried about the content as they are the delivery and the like physical if i would have tripped and fell yeah so that's why i'm like i don't think elementary is my audience wouldn't be as fulfilling not that the only way for me to be fulfilled is like make them laugh but i think i can have a more of an impact same with i did when i was working in youth ministry right i gravitated more towards middle school and high school kids that's fun dude so i'm amped as of tomorrow i might be an official sub good i'll have a like a new name or something sub sub sublet sublet that's a word for housing sublet and it's with my last name i think yeah i think there should be different challenges

every week for something like today you are not allowed to smile once and just see if you can do it that seems like a pretty hard challenge i was thinking something easier like i could do every every period i'm gonna do it for the rest of this podcast i'm not gonna smile why would you even want to yeah you're right you're right i don't want to be positive i was thinking like a challenge like see if you can get a kid every class period to do push-ups like not even telling them to but like you have to somehow provoke them to do push-ups without really mentioning it aggressively and then just like the stories you would have of like yeah like three kids or whatever i don't know that's funny it's good uh you have any other

training things oh um watching the tv show hard knocks for the first time i've never watched it before yeah um it's a documentary about like training camp um for a certain nfl team the oakland raiders this year is what who they have and i love it because it's great it it's it's fun anyway because anything nfl related is always entertaining and interesting but john gruden is their head coach and i love john gruden and i think he's amazing and he's just, just so like intense. And so, yeah, so funny. And like, like he'll, he'll do this thing where he's like, you know, doing a big pump up speech and then he'll say, knock on wood if you're with me.

And all these guys will just start knocking. And it's just, it's just funny. Where do they get wood from? They're, they're in like this, uh, like, uh, press room or something. Oh, they're not watching the middle of the field. No, no. Yeah. They don't just pull out like a piece of two by four from their horse collar.

Oh, you don't know? The Raiders wear wooden cups. Yeah, very well-known thing. Only team to wear wooden cups. Oh, yeah. No, but he specifically has this one backup quarterback, Nathan Peterman, which you know who Nathan Peterman is. He's the worst.

I think his first NFL game ever, he threw five or six interceptions in like the first half right yes it was awful like the worst start to anyone's career ever poor guy seems like he is still like emotionally affected by that which was like was it last year or two years ago i don't know what happened but like poor guy he still seems like he's like i don't know and gruden doesn't seem like the type to be real sympathetic yeah but gruden loves kind of messing with his players. Yeah. And Gruden also loves saying man at the end of everything. How you doing, man?

So he's like, hey, man, like, we need some execution, man. You know, like, ah, this football man's back, baby, man. Come on, man. You know, and so with Nathan Peterman, he goes. His last name is man. Yeah, he's like, Peterman, man. Peterman, man. And sometimes he says Peterman. He's like, hey, Peterman, man. Peterman, man. And sometimes he says Peterman, and he's like, hey, Peterman, man.

I just lost it. Peterman, man, you're pretty good out there, man. That's funny. So anyway, it's a fun show. It's not the cleanest show in the world as far as language goes, so don't let your children watch it. But I don't let Hattie watch Gruden.

That's good. Maybe someday. It's a fun show. And John Gruden specifically, like, I love the Chiefs, and I want the Chiefs to just kill the Raiders. But I think that if they keep killing the Raiders, then John Gruden is going to get fired. And I don't want that either.

And so, like, I don't know what I want. I want the Chiefs to whoop the Raiders, but I want the Raiders to whoop everybody else so that they keep thinking that John Gruden's a good coach. That's funny. Peterman, man. Peterman, man. Something, I guess you could say, trending for me, kind of.

Yeah. My birthday is Tuesday. Let's go. Let's go somewhere. Shawnee, Kansas, on your feet. We got a big birthday. 28. Yeah, 28.

Man, that's seven times four. Holy crap. Yeah, 28. Man, that's seven times four. Holy crap. Yeah, birthday. You nailed that. Yeah, we should do something. We talked about going to Dave and Buster's on Thursday. Still down. Also, maybe we play basketball on Thursday.

It's been a while. I can tell my abs are kind of going away because I haven't played basketball in two weeks. You've been cracking your neck, and that's about it as far as exercise goes. That's about the closest I've been to working out. Oh my gosh, this is another one of those moments where I'm like, holy crap, I have a gym membership. I legitimately forget all the time. Jeez, I need to cancel that at this point. Like, I'm

not even using it. Oh, jeez. Or we can start going together. Oh yeah, how's your weight loss journey going? So bad. So bad, man. I'll tell you what, man. It's so bad, man. Peterman, man. Everybody look like Peterman, man. Oh. We need to...

I don't... Really, working out is not that fun. And running is even worse. But we need to at least find something we do. Yeah. I was thinking about playing pickleball. Oh, yeah. I don't know how big of a workout you get doing it, but I was thinking about going.

Probably better than not playing pickleball. Better than just sitting here. Yeah. But, yeah but yeah we need to do something we need to play something i need to sweat like twice a week yes agreed um so yeah we'll figure something out but okay so but birthday go back to your birthday oh that's really it's just like um it just it's birthdays were never that big of a deal in my family growing up but it's still a somewhat more special day than typical sure than usual so of course and no one likes the guy who is like uh kind of coy or like shady about trying to celebrate his own birthday like i've been there before where it's like hey we should all go out to dinner friday and you like don't like you still agree but you don't know why you've agreed and then you find out like once you're

there like oh it's your birthday like that's why we're doing this like oh, what was it happen to you? I've been there before we're like someone like is trying to play it cool at their birthday But they still want to be celebrated and this is me like I think I'm gonna text all of our friends like hey for my birthday I would like us all to go to Dave and Buster's. Yes, Thursday night $20 wings and games unlimited That's that's what it should be. Yeah. Cause expectations. Exactly.

That's kind of similar. Not really, but kind of though, like kind of like we're, you're expected to celebrate me. No, but like, you know,

everyone's on board with what's going on. Oh no, your Mac's about to die. Let's turn down. I got a few more things. Oh, it's fine. It's fine.

It's fine. Are you sure? Let me just turn down the brightness. That's fine. It'll, it'll last plenty. I'm going to turn down the brightness. That's going to It'll last plenty. I'm going to turn down the brightness. That's going to save us a little bit.

I got a few more things to say. Well, hey, the energy is still there. I'm feeling good. And you know. You're flowing, baby. You are too. For such minimal sleep that you've had this week. I'm running.

Well, great sleep this week. But yeah, the last two days. Oh, the last two days. Yeah. Not sleeping much because of the boys. The boys. Something else I'm pretty fired up about, which by the time you're listening to this maybe you've already seen on instagram because i think tomorrow this might be on my to-do list in addition to substitute teaching um oh i kind of previewed this yeah so if everyone out there probably

approximately 10 episodes ago i learned that i developed an allergy to red meat from this tick bite. And I tried to go to urgent care because that was just like a quickest way to find a doctor to try and get my blood tested. Long story short, this woman was less than helpful and said, sorry, I mainly deal with UTIs. And so I said, that's great. Can I get a refund? She said, yeah, no problem. Brad even congratulated me. I told the story in the podcast.

Brad was like, good for you, man, for being confrontational. Good for you, man. Thank you. Because I normally don't do that. I was so proud. We were all, everyone. I speak for all the listeners. I'll tell you what.

Everyone was so proud of me for getting this refund. But then Thursday, I get a bill in the mail for $120 for my urgent care visit. Oh, bud. So, oh, bud. So I don't really know how i'm gonna like dispute this necessarily because like what i say like you said you would give me a remember that conversation you had with a guy two months ago i think that's where you start i mean yeah i'm gonna use everything so i figure it could be at least a good instagram story content so you'll probably see something

about it this week is i'm just fighting back baby oh. Oh, let's go, baby. Maybe we do a sample conversation. Do you think you could help me out? Like some role play? Sure. Um, Kansas city regional, uh, medical bills, billing department. How may I help you today? Hey, my name is Jake triplet and I've actually decided I'm going to come and talk to you in person. So I'm going to see you in like 15 minutes. Okay. Mr. Triplet, do you, do you mind verifying your date of birth? I'm just kidding. Talk to you later. No, that was my way of saying,

I think I'm going to go in person. I get it, I get it. Hi, how may I help you? It's a great day. It's a great day. It's a great day to be here. It's a great day, man. Hey, how's it going? Great.

Great, I already said that. Okay. It's a great day. So I'm doing great. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. Hey, so my name is Jake Triplett. I was in here a couple months ago. I don't think you were here when I saw you here, but I spoke to a gentleman who's working the front desk. Todd. Yeah. I think his name was Todd. Bigger guy, dreadlocks. Mustache. Did he have dreadlocks? He has dreadlocks, but he also has one arm. So it's funny that you went for the dreadlocks over that.

But yes, Todd dreadlocks Todd. Okay. You know what? Now that I think about it, yes. I remember it took him a while to enter information because he was having to use his mouse and a type with only one arm and it took a little bit longer. So that makes sense. Yeah. Todd got fired.

Oh, okay. So anyway, Southpaw Todd was, was talking to me and I had spoken with the woman who works here who mainly deals with UTIs. Oh yeah. UTI Carrie. UTI Carrie. Oh, yeah. UTI Carrie. UTI Carrie. Yeah. She was unable to help me with my allergy issue.

And I said, I asked for a refund. She obliged. And then I spoke to Southpaw Todd. And he also said, hey, you know what? I didn't even put you in the system yet. So don't even worry about it. Just wondering if this is something that happens often where you maybe put someone in the system and forget about it i'm looking to get my refund because i didn't get one as you can see here by this piece of paper i'm holding up

in front of your face not in a condescending way but okay let me check uh what's your date of birth and what was your name again i didn't get your name oh my name is uh i'm sorry if i was too personal a question dana oh dana dana that's that's a pretty name dana uh yeah uh can i get your date of birth oh sorry it is actually tomorrow how fun is that august 27th 1991 side note you should definitely go on your birthday. Oh, so when they ask for it. There's no way they're going to say no on your birthday. But then, this is just where my mind goes instantly. I don't want to be the guy who makes sure people know on Instagram it's his birthday. So then I'm nervous to like make that a part of the story.

Like, and I'm going on my birthday so that they know. Would you rather save $150 or worry about being a little bit of a tool? I don't know. Genuinely. That's something I have to consider. Yeah, because I think that you would totally have it. If I don't remember. Yeah, that's a good thought.

Okay, it's tomorrow. Okay, so I don't know what the procedure is here, but let me talk to UD Carry and get back to you. Yeah, it doesn't look like you have a UTI, so I don't know why she saw you. But I'll be right back. Yeah, so I talked to Carrie, and we are going to have to charge you for that.

But we'll be able to alleviate the funds to $250. Okay. Now, Dana, I'm not much of a screamer, but that is actually twice as much as I was billed. So if you don't tell me in three seconds. Well, you're here now, so it's a second visit. Oh, I'm being billed for this. Also, you should have come on your birthday because we have a birthday special.

Okay, real quick. I'm worried your computer is about to die. We're going to lose all this. Oh, no, it's still at 4%. Gosh, I just doubt the MacBook Air. Why did it go so slow from 5 to 4? Okay, still, save it real quick? Oh sure. I'll pause and save real quick Dreadlocks Todd. I think we're back. Oh, just laughing at Todd who had one arm that got me good. We should roleplay more Okay. Anyway, so yeah stay tuned on how my

trip to the Urgent Care to be confrontational goes I'd like to think that i'll do all right because like yeah money is something i can more easily be confrontational about got my order wrong you got me a diet coke that's fine i still like soda i'll suck it up yeah and it's literally suck it up but this is like i feel like i've been wronged i have a good reason to and quite honestly sometimes i can get a little snarky so i got to keep that in check because more often than not i'm quicker witted than the person i'm arguing with and i think that can come across as mean so i'll try to keep that in check no the the strategy is to be as nice and

understanding as possible until they say no and then you have to get a little firm sounds like a great plan yeah let me hear you knock on wood if you're getting firm i tell you what i knocked on wood too much uh beat a man man beat a man man uh okay do we we've been going a little while now did you have but real quick there's been two things that have come out that want to talk about the popeyes chicken sandwich and the Apple credit card. Oh, Andrew Luck. I want to talk about. Oh, that was crazy too. Gosh. That's crazy.

Okay. Well, we'll go three minutes per topic. Two, one minute. Okay. When did it just start? Go. Go. Okay.

I tried to eat a Popeye's sandwich today and they said out of sandwiches. Crazy. I want to, I really want to go. Oh, you haven't been. I thought you went. No, I thought about going and Catherine said, don't go unless it's a special occasion you have to go with your friends or something is the money tight this month or what's up oh i think she just knows that i'm not doing well on my weight loss which is like oh and i've been eating at chick-fil-a every single

morning the calories are tight uh but i know the popeyes has mayonnaise on their on their sandwich is that good or bad oh you're saying like beware i'm just i think it's a good thing i hear the spicy one's better than the regular do you think let me ask you this do you think the popularity will last no but i heard that they have 23 million dollars of free advertising on like via social media is like what they equated it out to it might even be more than that that's yeah well that, that was multiple days ago. Ten seconds. Yeah, it's crazy. I'm happy for him, but Chick-fil-A is still the undisputed champ. Chick-fil-A's got the sauce too. Get lost in that sauce.

And good for them. Next topic. New Apple card came out, which is kind of exciting for a little bit, but then, Brad, you actually were the one who read this headline. Do you want to tell them? No, no, Apple came out with their own credit card, which is kind of... But it was having malfunctions, so they said you can either... FYI? FYI, if it's having malfunctions, just don't have it come came out with their own credit card, which is kind of. But it was having malfunctions. So they said you can either. FYI. Yeah.

FYI, if it's having malfunctions, just don't have it come in contact with denim or leather, AKA your wallet or your pants. That should solve things. Don't let your wallet, don't let your wallet touch your credit card or your pants. Just keep it in your car the whole time. Which that part is really funny. They should have seen that coming a little bit, but the more I think about it, it's genius. Do you know you get 1% back on just using the card and then the part that's

genius is you get two percent back if you link it up with apple pay and use apple pay okay because here's what's going to happen let's say you brad are a guy who gets i don't know gasoline is that true yeah okay you've got two gas stations that you don't really care you'll switch between i know you like quick trip but in this scenario but one gas station has apple pay and one doesn't you know you can earn twice as much money every single time you go to that gas station you're gonna start going there they're gonna change consumers habits to where more people are gonna have apple pay and more people are gonna be using it it's genius think different okay we're five seconds over next andrew luck retired crazy how do you feel is it a good decision or bad decision i think

good for him i'm very middle ground i think good for him but terrible timing like suck it up suck it up for one more year sucks sucks for fantasy football we literally had our draft like 45 minutes after that announcement oh no way yeah uh sucks for fancy football but also sucks for his team what's kind of weird timing like push push past this season to next season and then then retire yeah the time or retire at the end of last season the timing is the only thing i have an issue with but i mean it seems like he would he he knows it's bad timing and i think he wouldn't be doing it if he really felt like this is like yes an obvious decision for him also they've been showing the clips of him coming back from 28 points down from the chiefs so

many times it was like one of his highlights and i was like oh that was on my wedding day and it was so mad i've been loving the clips that i've been saying of how nice he is to everyone also love those three seconds uh if you don't know andrew luck is a quarterback who is so great and so nice and retired way before even he maybe reaches prime he sounds like this okay guy he has a weird voice yeah all right that was it we did it you think we maybe next episode we choose 60 topics and just minute by minute oh my gosh 60 that's so many that'd be fun sprinting a marathon and yeah actually the whole i think i think that was kind of a benefit of a potential like currently you know in the hashtag in the news and we do that for seven minutes that is kind of fun

yeah that could be a future segment yeah because yeah it's kind of fun if you don't need to elaborate on things because i think the whole benefit of podcasts is like to really go into detail about things okay let's check that battery yeah we should probably end this um thank you so much for listening i'm gonna say a review review of the week uh we love reading your reviews this one comes from cornyhead66 I cannot stop listening to these and it's so weird which is for the most part a compliment it's like saying I can't figure out why

but you are so pretty thank you I think I would rather you know why I just cleaned my whole fridge and listened to the podcast the whole time also please tell us why you dislike the Enneagram ok forgot that part was at the end of the review there is no time you have to come back next week to find out why you disliked the Enneagram. Okay, forgot that part was at the end of the review. There is no time. You have to come back

next week to find out why Jake does not like the Enneagram that much. There's no time, but she did. Brad, end us with a jingle. It's been a few episodes. Everybody, yeah. Ghostrunners. We already did that song.

No, that was a different. That was larger than life that we did. Dirty ghost Sick and tired of hearing All these people talk about What's the deal with these ghost runners And when they gonna fight out This thing's not a trend We got Jake Tripple and Brad Ellis We're here till the end

Nice That would have been a great point to end it, but it was funny. Come on! I nailed it! It was great, but it's so fun. You sang the Bat Street Boys song randomly that Trey and I wrote a whole parody to this week.

Oh, plug. Sneak preview, or not even preview, but we wrote a whole song to it in like an hour and a half at Messenger Coffee in its straight fire. That's awesome, bud. feeling good about it that'll be out we're gonna record it and shoot it this week music video uh to the backstreet boys song all right in this thing before we lose all this content okay goodbye see you next monday