Ghostrunners - 169 - For the Kiddo at Home

Episode Date: August 1, 2022

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bow body bow body bow body brad you ever get your car washed yeah yeah all the time yeah me too yeah actually quick fun fact you know isaac's only got his car washed once ever that doesn't surprise me it's just kind of shocking he got an incredible deal on that truck from a guy who like took meticulous care of it oh really that thing is just like falling apart like like he i saw him the other day or today he pulled up he doesn't even have like a can't like a cover over his gas tank anymore oh no like everything's like at one point like water was like leaking through like into his inside of his truck he's just slowly justifying like you know we're one of the only countries that uses windshields you know

he's gonna have like weird stuff like that yeah a lot of people don't. I mean, like this guy probably could have sold it to him for seven, eight thousand. I think he sold it for three because it's like this church guy and like loved Isaac's family. And Isaac, poor guy, has just just just done Isaac ran it into the ground. Yeah. Anyway, I feel like so I probably get my car washed once a month. I got a membership now, so I might as well lose the money if I don't say once a month. You better go once a week. Really? well. I'm losing money if I don't. I was going to say once a month. You better go once a week. Really? Honestly, I'm not taking advantage of it.

No. But what I do. Well, whatever. You can go through twice. Oh, of course. Yeah. I love going. I just met like slowly.

Like, you know, I realized I was like, wait, I could just go through again. Oh, yeah. Anyway, one thing that happens without fail and it shocks me every time is I guess the anti Isaac. One thing that happens without fail, and it shocks me every time, is I guess the anti-Isaac. Every time I leave a car wash, there's like an area to like park and just like, I don't know, wipe your car down. Yeah, the wipe. Yeah, the wiping spot. Yeah. There's one, no matter where you go, there's a wiping spot.

It means different things depending on where you go. Yeah. I've never partaken in the wiping of my own car. Oh, yeah. Like the microfiber cloths. Which, yeah. So I don't get it. I'll say that. in the wiping of my own car. Oh, yeah. Like the microfiber cloths. Which what? Yeah. So I don't get it. I'll say that there's something that I'm missing. They don't want water spots on that thing. But what I would expect to see is like some really nice cars in there,

like from what I know about wiping spots. Sure. But what I see every time is always like a middle aged man, cargo shorts, like calf length socks. Yes yes and he's wiping down a car like from the 90s a 1998 like a station wagon Toyota Camry yeah like what is with the wiping yes dude without fail tourist every time oh yeah because sometimes the way they're wiping it I'm like you should be going to jail but the car is over 18 years old so uh that's why they don't but i do you feel like that's a thing oh there's there's a yeah there's a reason that that car is in pristine conditions because of it those kind of people like there was a guy down the street from me growing up richard brooke shout out richard uh jessica jessica b i think we've talked about her on the podcast before you know because there

was 15 different jessicas in our yeah jessica b was like a heartthrob dude scott's first kiss on the cheap kindergarten jessica b gross uh yeah also the one that like pelted scott in the back of the head with a snowball was richard brooks you remember that story no it's awesome let me just tell it to you really quick i think we talked about the patreon uh episode with scott way back in the day we like ding dong ditch jessica b's house one time good like fourth grade good and we were running away it was like a scene from a movie it was snowing or you know there's snow on the ground and I mean we were running away we all had gotten away uh but Scott and like we felt like we were safe and Scott just got absolutely pelted from it felt like a hundred yards away I mean it probably wasn't that far

it's probably five houses but I mean just nailed in the back of the head and like to the point where he got hit and like fell to the ground that's the kind of people that are like this guy has still to this day we drive past it because he lived by my parents still has like this probably 1988 honda accord in just like perfect condition at their house really still driving richard brooks is the father richard brooks yeah snowball throwing it going going. Those are the kind of people I 100% relate to this. And what does the wiping do? It just like, you just feel good about yourself or it's just like,

I don't know. What does it do? It keeps the paint from rusting or I don't know what it was. Maybe. I really like the joke about the 18 year old. Is that good? Go to jail. Yeah, that's stand up material. Really? Yeah. Guys, that's stand-up material. Really? Yeah.

Guys, you hear that? This guy. A comedian. Come on. Put him on Broadway. No. Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat

means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along, let's have some fun and go ahead, get on your feet,

because it's the Ghost Brothers Podcast. Ghost Brothers Podcast. Every Monday morning, we'll be taking round. Ghost Brothers Podcast. Ghost Brothers Podcast. Yeah, that'd be funny. Where do the plays, you just get the career wrong? This guy can sing. Whoa. get this guy in the red carpet

get this guy in the louvre get this guy at finway park that reminds me this is on correct opinions a couple weeks ago but i got like a telemarketer call and so i answered it and i'm just making stuff up she's trying to sell me on a vacation package like this is what's family friendly i was like good the kiddos are gonna love this like oh you have kids almost like oh yeah i forgot what i said i got five of them she's like five kids you got yourself a baseball team stacy yeah in korea i was like you you got to know what baseball teams are if you're going to be a saleswoman you got to know what baseball teams are. If you're going to be a saleswoman, you got to know how many people are in a baseball team.

And so then I was riffing the rest of the life. Whoa. Two kids. Yeah. Start yourself an army. Holy cow. Largest army starts at three, I believe in settlers.

So, uh, settlers rules. Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. She's just nine kids. You got yourself,

uh, what would that be arena football maybe private school kindergarten classroom just weird references that's like really specific whoa 15 kids you got yourself a overcrowded summer summer camp cabin. Yeah. That's what we've always said. Yeah. Oh, five kids. Better have three rows of seating. Huh? A full, yeah.

You got a town and country's worth, huh? Whoa. She has like a cheat sheet. Like every time someone tells her a number of kids, she got to look at the sheet. Six kids. Okay, six kids. You got yourself three on three

basketball i guess i mean yeah that she's like calculating it real quick to make sure one two three three one two three i like that somebody uh ghosty make us a list of uh one through twenty make a little cheat sheet a number of kids means you. And then from then on, if you leave a voicemail, you say, hi, my name is blank and I have enough kids to blank. Yeah. You follow along with the cheat sheet. Yeah. This is great. That's funny. Good start. Enough to make a basketball or baseball team. Yeah. I think I said it five or six years. Backyard baseball, maybe. Okay. Sure. Yeah. One of those types of baseball where you split the field in half and you can only hit it to left field. Yeah. That's really funny. Got one of those. That reminds me when I was doing the three on three, like three plus three, that equals six, whatever.

Hattie this weekend when we were at my parents' house was like loving playing with a calculator, which first of all, I think we take calculators a little for granted because technology is incredible these days. I've never understood how. How? She goes, how does it know every single thing and i go i have no idea and it's like you know it's like the most simple thing that we have on our computer now or on our phone but like but even the original like calculator i mean one they were solar powered we got solar power you know powering this yeah calculator machine i mean the one that she's using is one that my dad got at some,

you know, career fair college thing for free. It's got like a bank on it. Yeah, it does. And a, it does this thing where you press a button and it swings like the plastic up and then brings it up there. That's really cool by itself. I used to have a couple of, they were like transformer calculators. Yeah. You like, like it's flat and then you press this little button and it just magically goes up. And now it's kind of like a computer screen looking at you yes dude yeah that's really cool and then the fact that like yeah it just knows how to just it's never wrong it's never wrong like well 99% of time yeah it gets it right like how and i know that technology is so far beyond that but even that was like like enough

like if a kid asks you, how does that work? And you have no idea. And like, it was one of those like see-through calculators. Remember like the old, like, uh, in 64 or see-through, it was like a see-through calculator. So she's like, what are all these little things in here? And I say, I have no idea. Motherboard. That thing is incredibly advanced and yet it's 5 cents, you know, on the black market. Yeah. So yeah yeah i've never understood and probably never will sorry i hear a lot of voices outside i'm a little lost on that's okay is that abby mcgee's voice it's gotta be we should get her on the phone uh i'll text her go

on the off the rails uh hattie really got upset uh Uh, you know, I, I always have to take opportunities to like teach her, you know, I'm always, I just like trying to advance her in any way. So I'm like, you know, trying to do word problems for her to like do on the calculator. So I'm like, yeah, okay. We have five people in our family. And Julie has four people in her family. We have a baseball team versus a full cabin. Yeah. How many, yeah. How many does that mean we have? And she would do five plus four equals nine and be like okay but then aunt dana also has four in her family and so she would do five plus four plus four but you know on a calculator when you do five plus four and then you press plus yeah nine comes up she's like whoa she started bawling dude it was it was very uncomfortable

yeah i would have done the same thing so sad she. She's like, it keeps messing up. Oh. And I was like, Hey, calm down. Calm down. I was like, you know how one plus one plus one equals three. She's like, yeah. I was like, okay, but one plus one equals two. And you know, I showed her the whole thing anyway, but it was like this crazy, like she was breaking down at this. Oh, I would have done the same thing. Oh yeah. That is infuriating. Anyway, but Hattie's in calculators right now that's our currently trending in our house good for you good for you for like encouraging like algebra and like word problems too yeah yeah i i'm so tempted to like go so far advanced what i probably should be teaching her like you know she's still trying to learn without using a calculator five

plus four yeah you know but i'm like you know five plus five is the same as five times two because there's two fives and then if you five times three be five plus five plus five because there's three fives three times five and i was like so that x on there is times and i'm like she like you don't learn multiplication until like third fourth grade and i'm trying to teach a five-year-old dude that's great so anyway i, I'm going to get her for a geoguessor session sometime. Okay, Hattie, so white at the bottom of those utility poles probably means Romania.

It could be Ukraine or yeah, it's probably Ukraine. Yeah. Can you memorize that, Hattie? Thank you. I'm a big fan of like trying to like advance kids, probably farther beyond what they should. Why not? We went swimming the other day

and I went with my sister, Julie and her kids and Watson is her son. I think he's six or seven and he's starting to be able to catch and throw the ball pretty well. Good. And I remember there was this kid at camp who was really, really good at football. And you know, we always do those clinic shows at camp, like at the end of the time, show the parents what we've learned and stuff, which is a seven year old.

Yeah, that's great. But then at the end of the time, show the parents what we've learned and stuff, which is a seven-year-old is hilarious. Yeah, it's great. But then at the end of it, we would always be like, all right, parents, you know, we have five minutes. Go play catch with your kids. Oh, cool.

And I remember this one kid specifically, and you might remember him from K-West. I can't remember his name now, but he... It's going to be hard to remember him. Yeah. Case Hodges? Sounds famous. I think that's his name.

I'm pretty sure that's who it is. Case is cool. I remember that kid his name. I'm pretty sure that's who it is. Case is cool. I remember that kid. Anyway, he played catch with his dad and his dad threw it to him like he was a college wide receiver. I mean, I was throwing it a good 40 miles an hour at this little eight-year-old kid and the kid was catching it. Really? And so then I was playing catch with Watson at the pool the other day and I was like, you know what? Yeah. And so I wasn't like humming him in there, but I was no longer giving him any arc at all i was just throwing it right towards him every once in a while hit him in the face but it's a splash bomb so it's just like fine and he thought it was hilarious you know it's a splash

bomb dude i remember playing catch with uh alex dimchek when we did go to school together and alex he went to sbu and then went on to be a quarterback at mizzou dude it was like fun to know that i'm like you know i'm running routes and I'm catching passes from like a college quarterback. But also it's like, I mean, that definitely hurts my hands. Like, is this fun for other people? Yeah, like you're really slinging it. Did you have gloves on? No.

Okay. No, no, no. I didn't know how, like, if you like getting reps in for him, like practicing or something. No, it was pretty casual, but I would still like, you know, we work on some routes for his sake or whatever. But yeah, I was like, can we go do like some 40 yard batter it's like these these eight yard curls are killing my hands yeah he was humming it in there i remember that yeah

so i'm a real it just made me really excited for when bow is old enough where i can hum it he's getting there he's close he's close he's close he's trying he wants to play catch but uh a quick question how's the diet coming? Diet's coming good. This weekend we were at my parents' house. Anybody called you string bean yet? No, not even close,

brother. It's interesting. Let's get into the diet thing a little bit because just like, and some people are probably going to disagree with this. That's fine. You can, I welcome your opinions, but I am going to try to stick with this because Scott's kind of been my coach on this a little bit.

And Scott's like, one of the things that he's been teaching me is like, if you don't eat enough, then your body will like store the food that it has because it's like telling, telling like you're telling your, your body like, Hey, you need to store this because if not,

then you're not going to have enough food for energy later or whatever. So he's like, you need to eat a lot of food. You just need to eat the right food. So he's giving me like, Hey, you need to store this because if not, then you're not going to have enough food for energy later or whatever. So he's like, you need to eat a lot of food. You just need to eat the right food. So he's given me like, like a prescription basically of 225 grams of protein, which like, I didn't know anything about what that means, but like, that's like the, like equal of like, I don't know, seven chicken breasts a day. Like, whoa, just a ton of food. Like, like I've, I've probably told him 10 times, like, I don't think this is humanly possible to do this in eight hours. Like, how am I supposed to be able to do this? Well, you forgot Scott has a doctorate in dietetics, I think.

Yes, he's very good. So he knows what he's talking about. He knows what he's talking about. And he works in procurement, which means, I think in Latin, that means dietetics. Protein. Yeah. Yeah. Protein.

The pro and procurement. What is Scott's degree? Some kind of business marketing, maybe. Dietetics marketing, probably. Yeah, exactly. It's something. It's something helpful. Yeah.

So I'm not trying to claim that Scott knows everything, but i think he does a lot of research on this stuff whatever um so he's basically saying like you need to eat enough where your body you know doesn't store food you know as fat for later anyway got it anyway so like it's been good but at the same time i don't feel like i'm eating enough but that's hard because it's like you're trying to diet and so you're not supposed to eat you it's like this weird like eat a bunch of the bad stuff or eat a bunch of the good stuff right but you're not eating the bad stuff right yeah so i feel like i'm eating good stuff but i don't think i'm eating enough of it yet and like that's feels so backwards to me so anyway um overall it's going well i mean mean, I, I, uh, last night went off the,

not off the train, but, uh, cheated, I guess we went to raising canes, the kids and I did fun. Um, so yeah, that was not, that's not good for a diet. I don't think, but, um, overall it's been, it's been good. Um, yeah. How'd you do with, uh, this past weekend? Uh, three kids, one acorn, no wife. Yes. How was it? It was, um, awesome. It was, it was hard, but my parents, we stayed at my parents. We were going to stay there one night. Um, cause my mom invited us and she was like, yeah, we're having your cousin over. You know, my, my cousin Joel was coming over for dinner with his kids and it was awesome. It was like, you know, my, my mom is so helpful and my dad is too, but my mom so helpful. And it was awesome. It was like, you know, my, my mom is so helpful in my dad is too, but my mom so helpful. And it was so awesome that I was like, can we stay another night? You

know, it was almost cheating. Did you ask it like that? Can we stay another night? Like my sister had asked that day. Cause like we, you know, we stayed overnight Friday, then Saturday we're hanging out with my sister swimming, humming the, you know, and you know, we had lunch at my parents and she's like so you're staying again tonight are you going home and i was like well i don't know you know and i don't know like looking for your bill full yeah i can tell my mom like my parents are going to alaska tomorrow for like two weeks and so i think my mom is like the kind of person that likes preparing for that in advance so i was like did you have things going on and she's such a homebody like by herself she's like well i had plans of like since your dad's going the royals game

tonight like folding up my you know clothes for alaska and i was like well we can we don't have to and i was like i can also get out of your hair or whatever and she's like no let's make it a party let's have fun so um overall yeah bow still pot training. We're getting pretty good at him going in the potty. What's his batting average? We'll say 750. Oh, that's great. Definitely making the playoffs. But well, let's say 700 because I think every time he pees on the carpet, no big deal.

But let's say hypothetically, Friday night, you have your cousin and his kids over everything's going great i mean he's pantsless still i was gonna say all weekend my parents or my cousin i was like is it cool he's like yeah we've probably trained before no problem cool uh and i just had this sixth sense intuition about me like after dinner is when he loves to you know whatever and i look don't we all i mean it's like it's like we brought our cocker spaniel over to the to to my parents' house or something. Like there was just two little logs right in the living room floor with Bo standing right next to him. Like, Bo, you can't do that.

So I picked him up real quick and ran him to the, you know, to the bathroom. Do you think he's starting to get it? Like, I can't do this on the carpet. So yeah, I just have to remind myself he's two. Cause like initially I was like, okay, do I punish him for this? Do I, do I like give him some kind of bad consequence? I was like, I don't think he knows enough that he's doing it wrong. So like, you know, and you feel silly sometimes,

but I've probably a hundred times this weekend said, where do we go? I feel embarrassed about this too. We say TT instead of potty or pee or whatever. Like, where do we go TT? Really? Is this a conversation? Sorry to Really? Is this a conversation? Sorry to interrupt. Is this a conversation you and Catherine had?

Like, what's our word going to be? And you came up together with TT? No, I think it's a Catherine did this. And I said, OK, I'm in. I don't think like growing up, we were supposed to say pee for some reason. So I was OK with TT. I don't know. She she spends, you know, 75 percent more time with them than I do.

So, yeah, OK, I guess that's the T.t in we're so i was like where do we go tt and he goes in the potty and i go where do we not go tt on the carpet you know where do we go poop in the potty where do we not go poop in the carpet you know i've we've said that so many times he's got it yeah we're getting there but then of course he still messes up. And, um, anyway, maybe that comes from just like sphincter control. Yeah. That was one of them. One of them, he goes, he goes, TTTT. And we were like sitting like, I like imagining. Yeah. We were like having ice cream, you know, one night he was eating his ice cream and I looked down and there's like a dribble, just barely anything. I pick them up and i put him on the you know

little plastic chair we have right next to the table and he goes right away so i was like that's good okay he's like learning how to like sense it but not let it all out he's like okay we're getting there um and he like he's also so like so young so he loves positive reinforcement so we just go nuts every time like yeah yeah boo, yeah, boo. And I mean, he's such a boy. So he'll just like, if you're not in the room, he'll run up to you and go, I teach you to the party. You know, he's like so pumped about it. And that sounds fun. Yeah. It's, it's been fun. I mean, and I, I'm just like pumping them full of fluids the whole time, you know, giving them anything liquid IV. You want you want powerade great have some powerade sure sure sure uh so anyway yeah overall it was great except for that one

pooping incident it really felt like i had a dog like it was like i brought my dog to my yeah yeah i got some newspaper down on the carpet and my dad like my mom's so chill my dad's more like me of like nervous a little bit high strung about like, I don't want to make a mess, you know? And so anytime Bo would be a little bit weird, my dad would be like, Oh, do you need to go? That would be me. Yeah,

totally. That would be so like hyper aware. Yeah. So anyway, overall is good. And Catherine had a really great time away to the point where tonight, last night I was like, Oh,

by the way, I need to record the podcast on Monday. Cause Jake's going out of town. And I was like, is there a good time for you and she goes she goes baby you can do the podcast anytime you want she was so appreciative you know she was like so great with it so um i think she was refreshed and filled up and yeah that's great so how does hattie do or just like what's it like having one kid not wear pants at all times like like is Hattie like I want to go pantsless or is she like no she's never had that desire is she confused or she's like no we all do it's so

funny you know like we've tried so hard for Hattie's whole life basically to like never change in front of Hattie like always be pretty private about those kind of things and then all of a sudden like that's all been thrown out the window. Like she's literally like, like she's helping us. Like she's like such a helper, like such an oldest child where she's like, I think maybe he's going. No, he's not going. You know, he's like, she's like staring at the whole time. I mean, she's, she doesn't know that anatomy or anything, but she, she knows everything

that's going on. So that's kind of fun though. No, she's been so helpful. Like, and sometimes he listens to her better than he listens to us. Like, gosh, they're just like best friends. So she'll say if you go if you go sit down you know on the potty then we can watch more curious stories oh my gosh okay okay and he does it and he like you know kind of makes it make sure it's pointed down and we press play you know uh so anyway it's it's she's she's like been such an all-star in so many ways. I could brag about her for the whole podcast.

I mean, she, she's been cleaning her room without us asking her like just taking initiative. Yeah. She's been putting on her pajamas without us like saying it's time for bed. I don't even do that. I exactly. You just go, you're like, yeah, I'm good. These jeans are pretty comfy. I mean, she's just been a mate, like she's been so obedient.

And so it's like, okay, this is good fruit and that good proof of like, if we keep training these other ones, they'll do all right. Like she's doing. So it's been good encouragement for us. That's fun. The more that Hattie stays perfect, the more you and Catherine be like, I mean, what's wrong with the fourth? Hey, let's do it.

Y'all turn out like Hattie. Why not? Come on. Yeah. I know. It's going to be so interesting seeing what Rosie's personality is going to be like, because I feel like Bo, we saw his personality so young and Hattie, we did it. So, uh, but Bo is just such a awesome kid too. He's just so fun. So make a bold prediction about Rosie's personality right now. Uh, okay. Her high school superlative is going to be what most likely to uh compose in the orchestra oh yeah she's gonna be a she's gonna be a like a music music maestro

yeah yeah i like that all right rosie listen to this in like the year like 2031 yeah keep it up keep playing the flute gotta pay off yeah she's like i only listen to podcasts that's the way audio is supposed to be considered you know like there's some other medium for audio now that's fun it's fun to think about kids yeah and kids growing up yep i love it man and so many of our friends have had kids recently you guys are all gonna have kids in the same grade isn't that crazy that's so fun that's the way it's meant to be yeah i agree so hey we'll wait for you hey well yeah appreciate it i bet i bet if we have another one we'd have it close to gunner and emily again which would be kind of fun gosh that's great i know i know that's fun they're boys they can play on the same you know teams or girls but yeah

girls they could you know girls they could uh sew together they could you know just like so stereotypical they could um quilt at the same time you know girls they could uh both take baking classes together just like it's so girls they could stay at home while the men work at the same time yeah girls could tend to the dolls uh while the boys are out doing construction projects that could be great yeah um you mentioned your dad earlier and i learned something about him via scott peck recently okay your dad i feel like i was shocked we've never went over this unless i just missed it your dad is a crumble cookie maniac oh my gosh you didn't know i didn't know this about oh my dad oh my dad's calling again

he knows when we're recording well we'll skip this one i think i know what he's calling about which we could talk you go okay my dad is a cookie enthusiast like like i think i mean he has plenty of other like labels in his life but i think for a long time like out of everything like in his life like he would want to be known for like i like cookies like i want i want you to know that if you ever want to like, give me a present, my name is Dave Ellis and I like cookies. Like you had like the, for the longest time, I don't know if I've ever talked about this, but he had a like verbal, like kind of quote was like, Oh, chocolate chip. That's my, one of my top 10 favorite cookies.

Okay. Yeah. And he said that over and over and over again. And finally I was like, there is no, there's 25 cookies on your list. Make a list. And now he has lists for everything. Yeah. I like that quality.

Yeah. Like the list for top 10 things he likes to see if he opens up the refrigerator. I think about that every now and then. And so now he knows, now he's made a running list of every single crumble cookie flavor he's ever tried. Uh, and even, he even like my sister, Julie got him a, like one of those, like it, it's like a, a cutter, a cookie cutter that can cut the crumble cookie in fourths oh so he goes and gets the four cookies every week and then cuts them in fourths and just

like has like one or two of the fourths every day like he he he and my mom do that and they just love cookies yeah i'm sure he's like ranking them you know that's amazing oh he's that's a great life yeah he he lives his life right so. So. Oh, yeah, he's very into him because Scott told me that your dad is apparently he's had over 200 different types of crumble cookies. And that's one of those things where I was like 10 years ago, I'd been like, that's hyperbole. Now, I guarantee you that's true because he's written them all down. Like he has a journal that he writes in every single day. I just didn't know it was to that extent. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, he's probably ever since they came here, he's been obsessed with them.

So, yeah, he's very into it. That's great. I get it. The last time I went to crumble was with Scott after some soap at softball. And I went back in two different times to get more milk because it was just it was they were going down so easy. I went back in. I was like, Scott, do you need more milk?

I'm going back in. We were like eating on the patio or something. OK, and then I finished that milk and I was like, I got to go back in one more time. It's good. Good milk, good cookies. No milk will ever be our milk. Uh, one thing about my dad, unless can I say something while I was there this weekend, you're going to appreciate this for multiple reasons. Just, I guess, mostly because you are in the business of making videos and my dad, like I said, my parents are going to Alaska for the next couple of weeks. And so one of his good friends is getting married while they're going to

be gone. And so my dad's like, Hey Brad, he's like kind of awkward when he's asking me this, he asked me this a couple of weeks ago. He's like, you know, we're going to be gone for Dan's wedding. So what do you, do you think maybe you could help me? Like maybe you and Jake could help me make a video. I don't know. Like you could do like the Chris Farley, like thing. And maybe Jake could like, I don't know, Dan really likes Mick Jagger. So maybe Jake could be like Mick Jagger or something. Exactly. And I just kind of laughed and I was like, yeah, I mean, sure, dad, whatever. I was like, I don't, I don't know if Jake's going to want to do it. I said, I just, I said no for you. Basically. I was like, you, you would hate it. You know, you're not going to want to do that. I was like, I don't know if Jake would want to do it.

He's really busy all the time, but like, I'm sure I can find some time with you to do it. Uh, and so then anyway, he reminded me again, a couple of days ago, like, Hey, when you're here this weekend, you might help me with this video. Um, and I was like, I was like, and he even gave me an out. He's like, if you're uncomfortable, I understand you don't have to do it. And I said, dad, you've done a million things for me in life. Like, if you want me to do, if you think this is going to be funny to your friends, I'll be your Chris Farley. Sure.

I'll do whatever you think. And so then the day that we were going to do it, uh, it was just like classic. Like, I don't think this happens really with us, with Trey or anything, but like, I think we've all been in those situations where we kind of have a very, very general idea of like, this is the, this is the thing we're doing. Totally. And then my dad and even my mom were just like throwing out tons of ideas. Yeah. Yeah. It was a brainstorming session when it should be like the time we're shooting. Yes. I like, I like was like getting ready to get into my Chris Farley, you know, foley motivational speaker gear and my dad's like and then i i don't know like i do have like a wig that kind of looks like a trump wig like i don't know maybe i was maybe you could do trump

and then like later on he said something about mick jagger again and then my dad you know like anyway got off the right and i finally i was just like, okay, I'll do whatever you want me to do. What's our best idea? He's going to tell me. And finally he goes, well, I was kind of hoping you could help me with all that. And I said, great. Here's what I think we should do. You know, I kept it simple and tried to try to do it pretty quick, but it was so funny.

That's great. Look at you being a pro. I'm actually going to post, I scheduled it to be posted. So if you're a Patreon member you've already seen this you know explanation and video and stuff uh but it's it's it's like yeah sure dad whatever I'll do this with you but it's just one of those classic like uh brainstorming yeah like what about this well I guess if you want to do that that could be funny and you know this guy's last name is Miller but it looks like Mueller and so my mom's like oh you could do like ferris bueller mueller mueller

and i'm like yeah i guess the video even like it's just gonna be sent to him or what's like the yeah they're having like a or a wedding party beforehand with a lot of people i guess cool and so i think it's gonna be shown yeah it's at one of my dad's friend houses. So this, yeah, this friend is going to show it to everybody or something. So I don't know. It's one of those things where I was like, I guarantee they're going to think it's funny because it's my dad and they all know and love him. Yeah, sure. Why not?

Like whatever you want, dad. But it was just a classic, like, will you do this for me? No, that's great. But it was kind of fun to be like, you know, that's, that's kind of, it's a little bit harder than it looks. Right guys. Totally. it's kind of fun to be like uh you know that's that's kind of it's a little bit harder than it looks right guys you know totally and that's probably the difference in like people who do it all the time and people who don't ever do it yeah just like we'll just get together and like um jake you bring your camera brad you like come in like a costume you're like the type of costume

you know and then we'll just be funny i was thinking you could do the matt foley thing like the living in a van down by the river. I was like, sure. Yeah, but just like make it funny for his wedding. But just like be goofy and like, you know, I'll just, yeah, just do kind of fill it out. Okay. I think we should talk about it a little more than that. Anyway, so, yeah. How do stop losses work on

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Oh, that was scary. What's up, kids? Oh my gosh. Guys, it's... It's Fairway Franklinlin fairway franklin from the sporty good times podcast oh thank you that one's on me thank you bud how we doing boys here here's some ketchup for you jake boys what's up man hey i'm just making the rounds you know franklin's out and about sure sure i uh had a few uh tips from the links if you guys wanted it. You ready?

All right. Here's the first one. Did you know about this? No idea. I texted Abby and said, come join the podcast. And Abby said, I went to Home Depot with Isaac. Oh, I thought she said, dress up like Fergie Franklin and go in there. Okay.

I misread what she was. Miscommunication. Wait. So these are tips? These are tips from the links. by links it's wordplay. Okay. We'll see. Golf is a great way to catch up with your friends. If you mustered up the courage to chase your dreams, you'll relish the experience. Oh wait, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me absorb that one real quick. Yeah.

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really how i got got called up i can hear him singing something as he goes upstairs got called up how are you going to dress? Oh, I hadn't thought about it. Well, just kind of do your do like a Mick Jagger thing. Do like the Mick Jagger, Matt Foley thing from Ferris Bueller. Oh, that reminds me. Did you see the story I posted of Rachel in the costume? Yes. Tell me about that.

Yeah, it was. We had like a little triple date going with the pecs and with Isaac and his Rachel. We all went and pickleballed. And oh, it was pelvis night. So pickleball Elvis. Oh it was pelvis night so pickleball elvis so fun pelvis night and um anyway i had washed the elvis costume and i had brought it um and i drove separately than rachel and isaac was like dude you think she's actually gonna wear that i was like oh for sure she will and he like couldn't believe it and so we got to the movie theater i was like rachel i have a surprise for you i said i have two surprises for you one i brought you a blanket and she was like over the

moon like yes i was i was worried i was gonna be cold and dress warm enough it's like two i brought you something that could also warm you up here's an elvis costume and she was like oh my gosh and so she put it on just like right there in the parking lot and then walked in and yeah we just filmed this like dumb video and uh derek today at work he's like dude this is i don't know if this is embarrassing to admit but he's like i watched it 10 times he's like, dude, this is I don't know if this is embarrassing to admit, but he's like, I watched it 10 times. He's like, I couldn't get over the delivery of how she said it. He's like, I think I watched it nine or 10 times. It's one of those things where she's so comfortable and she's such a natural, like she didn't try too hard. She didn't overact.

She just which is a thing people are minions, you know? Yeah. Minions, which that was, yeah, a great moment to any time I've given. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Minions. Which that was, yeah, a great moment, too. Any time I've given. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Was supposed to be earlier. We asked the guy who sold the tickets like, hey, can we can I film you? And he might have had a little something going on, but he was like, is this going to be posted? And I was like, yeah, of course.

And he's like, I would rather not. All right. Hey, no worries. And so we went inside and a girl was down for us. So, yeah, one take, one take, Rach. But yeah, I any opportunity I've given her like especially f12 she did phenomenal she spoke better than i did that night i was like maybe you should you want to stay up here she does good katherine the same way too you can you can trust them in front of a camera with the microphone they do a great job live streams yes katherine is the best at a live

stream yeah sometimes she struggles struggles not talking to the microphone or like talking to somebody out of the frame no Brad what I was saying was or like the two of us are on the screen

and then you're over in the corner and she's like what did you say we're trying to have a conversation she's like no anyway it's just it's this uh it's this live stream thing it's like no talk say it like yeah focus focus on this you know but but yeah overall she's definitely more well spoken to me she would tell you tell anybody that i do way worse at telling stories than she does really but at the same time she talks so much more than i just went more practice it's not fair yeah yeah anyway yeah it was great rachel watched the whole elvis movie in the elvis costume um which was fun and i think she stayed warm so win-win this uh

viewing number two for you yep viewing number two and it was fun i still really enjoyed it good um i think everyone else seemed to really like it it's gotta get pumped is he addicted like he was to top gun scott said he got chills at certain parts of the movie. So I was like, I'll take that. That's because he didn't have a blanket, dude. He got an Icy. Oh, dude, that is one thing. We got, so I ordered a large, just like Icy.

And I was like, this sounds so good. It's a Coke Icy. It's a bunch of cruncher. What are a bunch of crunchers? It's just how we always, me and Cousin Steve, we always say that growing up. Just a bunch or the crunch candy the oh like the crunch bars but in like little balls oh fun yeah that seems

like i'm like only can buy at the movies exactly and i only get at the movies cool it's like classical conditioning you eat these you know you're at the movies drink your red powerade you must be at a golf course but uh they gave me four straws for my icy and i was like that's kind of weird i don't know why they did that and then about three minutes into sucking down a coke icy i realized why these are paper straws and they like coagulate at the bottom i had to go through every straw it was ruined every time i would go to drink in the food i was not getting anything do they make like a collapsible portable straw because i'm sure they do. And if they did,

I might buy it. If, if, if things are going to continue on like they are like, I'm talking like, it's like this pin, maybe even smaller. And,

but it's like, you know, it's like a telescoping straw and you pull it out, you drink your ice and you put it back in your pocket. Yeah. Because that's ridiculous. Four straws. Used them all.

Take that environment. You're welcome for saving you oh now i've used four times the amount anyway yeah scott got the chills um so that was fun and i don't i haven't like overheard isaac listening to elvis in his room or while he showers or anything so i don't know if he really caught the bug like i did but it's a good time yeah it's a good time um what was That's a good time. Um, what was I going to say earlier? Oh, my dad called this kind of fun.

I think what he's calling about is the festivities tomorrow night, which feels wrong to say out loud now, but by the time this comes out, like totally fine. Okay. Totally fine. Okay. But you're confident she's going to say yes.

If not, then we will edit it out. Okay. Guys, Jake has some big news. So tomorrow night with the help of my family, my sister Caitlin is getting proposed to. Oh!

I like the way you set that up. We're on the same page now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, I see what he's doing. Yeah, so who knows? Younger sister, beat me to it. Wow. Hey, we'll see wedding day.

Well, we'll see proposal day too. Engaged ain't married. Well, I mean, she's not engaged yet. Yeah, true i got time 24 hours yeah engaged ain't married so uh it's gonna be a kind of a wild um day and a half for me coming up so you got a pretty full day of work tomorrow i'm gonna have to take off right before we start shooting girls got mild stuff but i'll go straight from trey's house new house tomorrow shooting at the studio tomorrow this is far

you're telling me I know I'm sure how far away is it 50 I bet it's a solid 50 I think no traffic at all it's exactly 40 but usually like coming back it's like 430 so that can add at least 10 minutes so it's far and I know there's people that think of twice as long commutes, whatever.

Gas is expensive, though. Right. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. And anyway, it's all the straight from the studio all the way to Branson. It's a nice Tuesday Branson proposal. We all saw it coming. Yeah. So I'll drive straight down there.

And we're going to be big Big Cedar? Devil's Pool? Top of the Rock? Landing, baby. Right in front of the fountains. Oh, yeah. Right by the Sunglass Hut, baby. Where it all goes down. Yeah, hiding out in Cantina Lorena.

Oh, yeah. Like it's meant to be. Wax the Oceans. Yeah, we got a little post-engagement at the black oak grill okay yeah yeah you're dad gonna get some fish and chips is that where you guys got fish and chips that was from the land shark grill oh okay way different yeah totally different brand experience um that's so funny right by the sunglass hut i'm not i'm just kidding. It's going to be wonderful. It's like several stairs down from the sunglass hut.

It's not on the same level. No, no, no. It's a snowball's throw away, but it's not on the same level. I mean, Richard Brooks could get it there. I guarantee you that. But down at the landing. And so how far away from lids? Just in case. Well, I don't know.

So my mom, of course, has volunteered me to take the photos and videos of the day. And I was like, no, totally. I have tons of sisters that get engaged all the time. So I don't need to. No, I'm just kidding. I was giving her a hard time. And she's like, I know I shouldn't. I was like, no, you should have.

You're my mom. That's what moms do. You're supposed to volunteer your kids. And your mom's going to have 15 different ideas right beforehand. Like maybe you could dress up and you know um it's so yeah so i'll be doing i'll be taking the photos and everything and i went and uh um just brayden and i went and golfed like last week and so we were kind of chatting like strategy and whatnot and so i asked him i was like can you do me a favor like one let me know when it's going down yeah um and two i was like can you like take a screenshot of like Google maps and like put in a

circle or an X or something like where it's happening and like which way she's going to be facing. Okay. We're about 21 hours out. Don't have that info yet. So hopefully, so I don't know where it's going down. Okay.

Hopefully. And I'm scared to text him because they're together. They're like on like a kind of family vacation with his family down there. Oh, yeah. I was going to say call him, but that's if. Yeah. She sees that you're calling

like what is he calling about? So I don't know exactly where Instagram DM. You think those pop up every time? I don't know. They don't pop up for me. I wonder what his notifications look like.

Email. I could shoot him an email. I could shoot him an email. You shoot me an email. And I'll make it. I'll say it's from. It'll look like Ellis Custicration. So it'll look like. No, shoot him an email i could shoot him an email you shoot him an email and i'll make it i'll say it's from it'll look like ellis cousin creation so it'll look like no i don't know let's just hope caitlin's not that kind of girl you know that's not just checking his phone all the time yeah or just trust him yeah hey don't worry about it yeah so i'll be driving straight down there and do the whole engagement thing and hang out for a couple hours and i'll be driving

straight from branson pretty much as soon as i got there to the kent city airport because i fly at 5 a.m just driving through the night it's gonna be fun are you you're not gonna stay at scotts or anything i don't think so i think i will just like yeah just parked i mean if it's a 5 a.m flight you know get there between 3 30 and 4 like i, you know, stay in Branson long enough to eat dinner, get some Andes, maybe see a friend. And it's like, see a show. Got to go to the airport. Yeah.

So I'd rather just go straight to the airport than take a chance on like, yeah, I could sleep for an hour and a half. Sure. Hope my alarm goes off. And now we find Vegas. And then from there, things get really interesting because I found because Rachel and her family are already in the area. They're staying in an Airbnb like three hours away from the airport. So Rachel's like, just let me know when your flight is. I'll come get you. I was

like, you are not waking up. How far away? Three hours. Oh, yeah. I was like, you're not waking up at two thirty a.m. to come drive three hours to get me and then drive three hours back. I was like, there's got to be shuttles. Like, let me figure something out and uh i hit the the yahtzee here there is a 6 30 a.m greyhound bus that'll take me where i need to go so okay okay so think about it down for me real quick so you're you're flying from at 5 30 at 5 a.m it'll land there at 6 a.m vegas time you're gonna get to the greyhound in time well i don't know if i'll actually make it to the bus in time, but regardless, I will be taking an early morning Greyhound bus from Las Vegas. Like think about a Greyhound bus anywhere in the United States. It's like, oh, sketchy. Oh, probably not worth the money you're saving. And then think about the type of person who's taking

a bus out of Vegas at 6 a.m. Well, I was going to say normally I think the 6 a.m. bus would be the best bus to be on. But in Vegas, I doubt they woke up early. I think the 6 a.m bus would be the best bus to be on but in vegas i doubt they woke up early bus is the bus where people have been up all night and they're just not the same as they should be no there's not and hey i'm right there with him i'll be up all night too so it's kind of the same thing fun like i don't think there's gonna be a single person on that bus who like woke up early and had their coffee you know every single person is like waddling on here from a casino or worse yeah so that'll be fun i'm gonna try to predict like a few different characters that you're gonna see okay okay i think you are gonna see one like super boring old couple that's on the trip i will say

the shuttle is going to it's not like i'm going to vegas you know i'm going to um like saint george utah which is like i don't know maybe 30 minutes outside of zion you know so there's a ghostie from saint george utah that i built uh something for holy see yeah that's cool uh okay so it's like you think old couple yeah i think one old couple um i'm gonna say guy with a ponytail i'm a i'm envisioning like yeah some guy that like looks like a very touristy like experienced vegas tourist old couple but like not very excited like he's he's kind of balding he's got you know hair on the sides but he's bald on george costanza and yeah yeah it's like george's parents basically um i think i'll get asked guy with a ponytail guy with a ponytail i think i'm gonna get asked one time if i have a lighter oh really yeah one time i think there's going to be one person

at least there's probably gonna be multiple but at least one person in sunglasses that does not say a word and just like acts like the uh window like pain is like the most comfortable pillow in the world like just just nuzzled up next to that pillow. Just done. And then there's going to be. A group of three people that are just far too loud, like not reading the room at all. Hope not like laughing a bunch of jokes that aren't like that funny, like reminiscing on their time. Oh, gosh. There's going to be a bus driver bus driver. Yeah, I think just just they're going to have a steering wheel in front of them.

I'll tell you what I hope there is Elvis impersonator. I'm going to treat them as if they're Elvis. Kind of like Dwight and Ben Franklin. Yeah. I'm quizzing him about his own life. I think you should bring your Elvis costume and be the Elvis impersonator. Cause it's not going to be hot there in Vegas. I've definitely thought about it.

I was like, how big a bag do I want to pack? Carry on. It'd be nice. But the Elvis costume, I kind of am trying to think about like, because on, bag do I want to pack? Carry on would be nice. But the Elvis costume. I kind of am trying to think about like, because you're probably going to get there. But on the way back, you're also flying out of Vegas.

Correct. And you're spending a little bit of time there to film a video. Oh, yeah. Did we tell them about this? I think I just told correct opinions. We'll get there. But I also think like, I kind of want to make a bet with you of like, if you can a hundred dollars in your elvis costume anyway i don't i don't care how you do it like i would give you a hundred dollars more or something like that but i don't know that is kind of something fun like that uh i went to vegas

for a bachelor party for a guy named matt kelly probably like five six years ago and we kind of split up into teams and tried to see who could make more money street performing and then we quick quickly got kicked off the sidewalk because you need like a permit to our um our our act our shtick it was like me and sherman and cory mcdonald we did a white boy dance moves so you would like pay us and then in return we would show you like a really white dance move and we earned like you know 13 or so we were well on our way okay and then uh yeah i yeah, I got shut down. That's okay. Yeah, it was fun. Yeah.

The one time I've ever street performed twice. And one of the times I got kicked off after a while. So yeah, they know if you're not part of the crew. I feel like that guy's not local. That's he thought of this recently. That's an international Elvis costume. That thing's not domestic. But yeah, we are going to or you are going to film a sheltered kid goes to Vegas video,

which is great. Everyone's working when they go on vacation. Trey filmed a girl who studies abroad. We went to Italy. You film conservative dad goes to the beach. Now it's my turn. Shelter kid goes to Vegas. It's going to be great off, baby.

You know, the whole trip. More or less. Yeah, that'll be great. Last guy I hit up to do my taxes um actually said no to me so um i don't think it's a real fun job to take on for some reason to be fair did you ask him before or after april 20th i asked him on probably may 24th to do prior taxes also future taxes and he told me yes on the phone. And like three days later, texting me is like,

Jake, I've been thinking about it. And this is just going to, it really, he said, it's going to be because if you do it by the books, I should file taxes in every state I've performed in. Maybe, maybe don't, maybe don't like disclose all this. And he was like, I'm not doing that. So I was like, I'll do it. I'll do it in TurboTax.

That's right. So I did it by the books and TurboTax myself. Did you? Yes, of course. Like I always do. Yep. it i'll do it in turbo tax that's right so i did it by the books and turbo tax myself did you yes of course like i always do yep that's that's you've always had in high school i was most by the book uh-huh that's what they gave me because you always had your nose in something thank you if you know what i mean yes um have you ever heard of something called it or do you want to talk more about your trip first of all i don't think so um you're going to some national parks yeah uh it'd be fun Rachel and um actually she just texted me not too long ago and said she come on love the jingle

today um who is it Abby McGee she said she loved the jingle today and I said oh would you listen she said yes we all did as we were going into the great canyon that's fun say listen to setting queen abby mcgee's here abby come on come on come over here come on camera so okay you're gonna use how are we doing great we we heard your voice please talk into the camera okay into the microphone i mean we heard your voice outside and we were like abby would be great to have on the podcast. Oh, I'm here. We talked about you. I come here about once a month. Yeah. Abby, for those who don't know, is engaged to Harrison Clark Pollard. With an E.

Getting married November 29th. Or 19th. 19th. Hope we're married by the 29th. I knew it was a nine. Yeah, yeah. Good job though. Yeah.

Being married on November 29th. We talked about you last week on the podcast. I'm sure you've already listened today, correct? I have. As you do every week. Every week. Right on your... Apple podcast. Oh, yeah. about you last week on the podcast. I'm sure you've already listened today. Correct. I have. As you do every week. Every week. Right. On your.

Apple podcast. Oh yeah. There you go. Very good. We always say on your Apple podcast. Um, no, we talked about how we went to the special or we watched the special at your house. Oh yeah.

Yeah. And how, uh, it was really hot. No, I didn't, I didn't mind the heat. I liked it. Yeah. Um, crisp 80 degrees inside how you and I were sitting by each other and every time you would laugh at a joke you'd look at me and go that was funny I really thought that was funny and I always thought to myself I know because you're laughing at the joke uh as I'm sitting laughing thinking like that was funny like I did

that but I did I should tell him though like just in case he didn't understand what the laughter was all about uh so anyway i don't know do we have any learned i've learned that when i don't really think something's funny i'm like oh that's funny but i have no emotional oh you like say it because you don't know what else to say yeah but it's not funny like oh that's crazy wow in your you're like, please stop telling me this story. Dude, that's crazy. No way. That's interesting. That's so funny. Oh yeah. We all do. Yeah. Wow. That's so funny. Okay. So it's like, you have to have both in order for it to be funny. I'm like, that's funny. But if I'm like, Hey, that was funny. Like that means that was really funny. Gotcha. That's interesting. That's really interesting. Okay. Oh, that's crazy. No fun fact, everyone, Abby McGee and I have known each other since 2012.

Hello. This is our 10th year of friendship. We met at CannaCuck way back in the day. What did you guys do for your 10 year friendship anniversary? For anniversaries. We had watermelon at our house. Just like the first summer. Yeah.

We had watermelon together. Abby, what is your first memory of me at CannaCuck? Can you remember? I absolutely a thousand percent can remember. It is seared into my brain. Seared. Like a fairway Franklin dog. The first time I probably remember.

I probably met you before this, but this was like my first like memory memory. So at KOS, we always had the staff talent show. Oh. And. Did you ever perform first of all yeah what did you do i think i probably did like i don't know do you remember didn't you and all the other like kitchen ladies do like a weird uh just something weird something like acapella singing thing where by the end of it you're kind of going like that's crazy that's crazy. That's really funny. That's funny. All you guys did that together.

Good job, Michael. Justin, put that in. Very funny, Michael. Okay. Very funny, Michael. Yeah, it was funny. It was funny. Okay, so Jake, talent show.

Correct. Circa 2012. This was his second year at camp. Jake. No one really knew about Jake back back then we kind of knew he was kind of funny but we didn't really know it was kind of weird um he had a magic show act with his friend i don't remember his name harrison his name was harrison no his name was Ross. Ross. Ross.

And I have not seen him since that week. Really? We didn't work the same session. So we did the talent show together. We won. And I never saw him again. Did you like recruit this guy? You were like, hey, man, you look like a magic guy.

No, you look like a magic guy. Like, why? Why were you so tight with Ross for one half of like? Hey, some of the girls here are pretty creeped out by you. You got a magic probably? Yeah, you probably know how to cut them in half, right? Is that what it was? It wasn't quite magic. We did like a time machine skit.

Okay. Yes. Thank you. It wasn't magic. But no, Ross just seemed like a funny guy. We just clicked early on. It's like, this guy's funny. Well, you felt magical, but it was like a time machine skit.

It was a time machine. This was your first summer? This was my first summer. Okay. Yes. First summer, loving all things camp. The talent show comes on. There's this goofy guy, Jake, Goofy Ross.

And they had this time machine act where they repeat scenes, but put biscuits in their mouth. Yeah. And every time they would repeat repeat the scene they would eat a biscuit and they would like go back in time but there'd be biscuit in their mouth so they would like that's the most camp thing yeah because it's so much drier and drier and drier obviously so that's funny by itself yeah there's just spewing everywhere i'm sure i laughed real laugh not just said that's funny that's funny that's funny that's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. I don't remember the premise of the scene, but I was like, that's funny.

I need one, a two by four. Yeah. Two four. Two four. Yeah. They would, they would tell everyone like, Hey, the winner of talent show gets free two four. So like, Holy crap. Let's think of a time machine skit.

Wait, then they just hand you a two by four. Ha ha. Get to put your name on the two by four. That's different. My name is on the two by four that's different my name is on the two by four a two four for camp people that don't know camp is like a 24 hours off like a day off it's pretty strict too they're not just handing out free it's not like the immunity idol it's like there's one somewhere one two four every week right yeah yeah i'm impressed you actually

had a memory i asked you that kind of just like let's see where this goes you actually remember and you remember specifics except for the magic part and his name is Harrison. So what has changed about Jake in the 10 years you've known him so much? Actually, Facebook Memories is one of my favorite places to frequent when I'm bored and Facebook Memories during the summertime

10 years ago is all camp. Sure. So there's two particular photos that come to mind when I think of Jake. This when i think i do have a good well basic memories helps anyway there's this photo the other day jake is in a giant blow-up orange suit and there's just like a sea of girls behind him i mean another day in the office huh i don't remember that wasn't 10 years ago i think that was like eight years ago but yeah okay i don't know but how's jake changed how's jake changed yeah how is jake not changed no i'm just kidding he doesn't use those inflatables

anymore he doesn't that i know of i don't He doesn't. That I know of. I don't know. Yeah, true. We hang out with him all the time. But really, I don't think he's changed that much. Still a loving, fun-loving guy. Still a funny guy. That is it. That's the exact photo I was thinking about. Oh, it's cropped.

Oh, because I'm back there. What's the context here? I don't know. Another day at the office. Really? It wasn't like a themed like. I mean, surely. Party or anything. What I'm guessing is. It looks like Jake is like the Syracuse Orangeman mascot.

And there's a bunch of girls just behind him. I think this was flagged before a party. Everyone's dressed up for the party. The girls are already there because they just got out of dinner probably. And I'm there because I'm on program. So I have to be there. Yeah. And somehow someone takes a picture.

It's just me and the ladies. Gotcha. Another day at the office. I mean. What up? somehow someone takes a picture. It's just me and the ladies. Gotcha. Another day at the office. I mean, just happened to be me and the ladies. Yeah, I only show up. I spilled a bunch of stuff. You know, everyone had to clean it up. All the guys had to clean it up. So this is it.

Oh, wow. Abby pulled that very quickly. Yeah. Okay, do you know on Facebook that you can search? See friendship? Yes. Oh, I love see friendship. So we can just go deep dive into Jake and I's friendship

If you'd like Wouldn't hate it If you get anything else good There's Jake There's me Oh Very cute Very yeah very cute

Very fun I don't think I have any crazy memories Besides this fun Christmas Oh yeah Abby and I used to be next door neighbors In 2016 2017 Yeah Abby was born Yeah It there's been stranger things came out You're a onesie he's in onesie I was cold it's wintertime

That's great though. We'll put the we'll put some of those pictures on the screen for the youtubers watching and Whoa, what is that? It's a video. What is that? it's a video what is that it's a video of me talking about chicken nuggets that's funny that's that's crazy that's funny that's interesting are you aware of what harrison did earlier with the podcast i am not but i have seen him this evening okay i didn't know because he said that you were at Home Depot. Isaac and I went to Home Depot. Yeah. Or you said, yeah.

And Isaac and I went to Home Depot and Harrison stayed home in a hot dog costume. Yeah. He just walked in, interrupted us completely. It just started giving us puns, hot dog puns. And it was awesome. Nice. So. Funny guy.

Second best podcast we've had on this or guess we've had on this episode whoa thank you i'm assuming versus me yeah of course yes yes so thank you for coming abby nicole mcgee thank you for joining elizabeth elizabeth i knew it was a basic white girl name let's just go ahead and call her abby pollard november 29th they'll be married hey pauls we will be married yeah by the 29th abby thanks for married. Hey, Paul's. We will be married. Yeah, by the 29th. Abby, thanks for coming down here. See ya. That was fun.

Jake, do you know what a cicada killer is? Cicada killer. Yes, that is would be any drought or any hailstorm. Could also just be like an anteater. Yep. How'd I do? Almost there with the anteater. Okay.

Because it's something in wildlife. Bobcat bobcat no they call them hornet mosquitoes they eat the cicadas hornet skeeters um venus fly trap but for cicadas that would be cool i wish there were more plants that would open and close their mouths that would be sweet you'd be surprised brother you'd be surprised um there's these things called cicada killers i didn't know uh much about them uh i kind of learned about them a little bit last summer uh they look like wasps but or like hornets but they're twice as big okay just just very scary looking things um i killed one in my shop last year i posted on patreon somebody said that's a cicada killer anyway um katherine i was i was showering the other day like in the morning katherine comes into the bathroom she's like brad

you have to come out here there's a huge wasp out on the deck and i say now like i have to you need to come out here right now like she has like the fly swatter ready to go and so i you know dry off and i put on my skibbies that's it just me in my undies yeah going out into you know blue collar shawnee kansas over here that's great and with my fly swatter and swatted and missed four times i would say oh i mean and it's it's demoralizing enough when you miss once or the fly swatter, but when your honey's watching multiple times. Yeah. And you know, Bowen had your little auction from the inside of the window and I miss and I'm like, you know, just in my underwear, like, it's like ridiculous that I, like, this

is not my personality at all to be this kind of person, but I was trying to be like a good guy for my family. Um, eventually I think I had told, I've told people this on the Patreon before too but like if you hold your hand close to your forehead and move towards a fly you like can't sense that you're getting closer to it have you heard this what dude it sounds ridiculous try it sometime hold your hand what does that have to do with anything I don't know I don't know you put your hand like open hand on your forehead and very slowly move it towards the fly I mean you can get this close to a fly. No idea.

I think there's a lot of theories when it comes to approaching animals. You hear a lot of stuff. I'm like, I don't know if it's true. I think it's like rabbits. They're like, you approach them head on because their eyes face to the side. So they can't see.

And it's like, I don't think that's accurate. You know, there's a lot of stuff. You have to be perfectly head on too with those things. Yeah. It's like you actually, if you're right, if elephants charging at you, you should stay in your ground.

If you're left-handed. Name one person who's just going to stand there when elephants charge at you. No problem. Yeah. It's like you actually if you're right, if elephants charging at you, you should stay in your ground. If you're left handed. Name one person who's just going to stand there when elephants charge. No problem. Yeah. Well, this one's true. OK. OK. OK. And so I was like, maybe cicada killers the same way. Took the fly swatter on the face. Got close. Whacked that bad boy. Yeah. Got it.

Stomped it real hard with my foot. Got it. Good. I'm the hero. I walk back inside, get dressed. And Catherine goes, Brad, not one minute later, there was somebody that came and turned around in our driveway because we're going the wrong way or something. Can you imagine if I'm out there just whacking away at the sky? This guy, yeah, playing whack-a-mole with the sky. Looks like he's being potty trained because he's not wearing pants i mean i would have been mortified so i just i just think it's a funny image anyway you got to get a taller fence

yeah exactly or not a see-through one at least um little geo guesser tip for you you know how you one way to know you might be in japan because the the camera itself feels lower to the ground because uh japan sued google like streetcar because the camera was too high so you could see over their fences and the japanese were like no i don't think so lower your camera very interesting so a little tip for if you feel low to the ground you might be in japan or switzerland okay i googled cicada killer i've never seen anything like this it really is like a hornet but with brown wings apparently though it like is it very rarely stings you. And so they're here for cicadas.

They're not here for us. True. But yeah, they're huge, aren't they? Like they are massive. It is a scary looking hornet of a thing. So the more you know. Yes, that's right. I don't hate looking at these.

These aren't too bad. I saw a snake skin on the golf course and I truly just like got grossed out and I didn't like knowing that a snake felt comfortable around here to get undressed. Is that what it means? He's clearly uncomfy or he's comfy around here. What's the deal with snakes? They never stop growing so they

gotta shed their skin eventually because it's too small for them. That's so weird and gross. Do we do that in a weird way? I don't think so. i mean not all at once and not at all uh an easier way to say it would be no uh nope no we do not yeah no thank you skater killer um so last night as always sunday night is volleyball and all session long i've invited the ghost he's like hey you know people's like we've always wanted to bump into you and brad chick-fil-a i'm like volleyball beach where you can find me yep paneer bread no one's ever taken

me up on it yeah just fine we've had people come to our games every week like friends of ours bailey rachel you know the pecs whoever this is gonna be our first week without ever having an audience there it's like ah bummer we're about ready to start the game kid comes up to me comes right up to me confident kid he just walks right up and he says hey i'm josh i go what's up josh i'm jake nice to meet you and he's like and this is rachel's like oh hi rachel and he's like we drove here um to watch you play volleyball i was like oh and he goes we're ghosties. I was like, oh, that's awesome. And then you have me and Isaac were like, no freaking way.

I was like, finally, I was like, this is perfect. No one's here to watch this. You guys could be our audience tonight. And so he's like, yeah, my mom and sister over there. So there was four of them. Okay. Who drove down from, you know, Perry, Kansas. Yeah.

That's not that close. It's not. It's like near Lawrence. Yeah. I learned they have a lake, man-made lake. Sure. Learned they have a golf course. Anyway. Yeah. They all this way just uh to watch us play a volleyball game and i got a little nervous for because we sat and talked for probably five minutes and another

team hadn't showed up yet i was like oh gosh if the team doesn't show up the night they came and i was also bummed because rachel was already in utah and so she wasn't there so i was like ah like one of the main reasons to come is to see the Isaac, the Jake to Rachel to Isaac connection. Right. Beautiful. Yeah. And so Rachel wasn't there.

And on top of that, well, not that this is a really bad thing, but we were scrambling around all day. I could never find anyone who's like a decent volleyball player to sub for us. And so I was like, all right, let's just try us three,

three on four. And so we were like, we'll try to make it, we'll try to still make it entertaining for you guys, but we might have to be like running around here. You know, let's just try us three, three on four. And so we were like, we'll try to make it. We'll try to still make it entertaining for you guys. But we might have to be like running around here. You know, it's not gonna be very pretty volleyball. Yeah. And it'll be really fun.

We got to really chat with them and have fun with them. We end up winning all three games. It's a pretty decent team. Yeah. We once the team came over, we're like, dang it. We've played this team before. And they're like, they're pretty decent. So this is not the best night to only have three.

But so it's kind of like when Russell Westbrook would go out and like the thunder would be better. And it's like, maybe like, I think Russell Westbrook is good, but like maybe look at the results. Yeah. Yeah. No, we would have destroyed him if Rachel was there. Cause we're, yeah, it was, it was a lot of just like, you know,

you have to cover so much ground. You have an entire volleyball court. It was only three people. So, I mean, I don't know how many times they would put it in the corner and i'm like diving with one arm and i'm just trying to get the ball up in the air right and then i would end up sending it over so it's like all right we didn't get the best hit on it but we're just keeping it alive so rarely did we execute a bump set and spike but it was like a lot of diving around a lot of sweat

it was fun and uh yeah it was nice to meet the the row family how you spell it roe i think are we have fun re that's awesome that's so cool we were kind of trying to get to know them all the josh's sister i forget her name now but she was at f12 uh with her husband which is fun and i can't are they you think that they're from that area too? I kind of remember like a couple from that area. Yeah. Yeah. That would be from there as well. Um, but there was another girl there who wasn't a part of the family.

So I was like, okay, I think Josh is dating her. And she did go to K state maybe or not. And now she's going to, she's gonna be going to Washburn. Okay. Okay. Let's go buds. Yeah. And so I was like, okay, she's going to be freshman software or something like that.

And so I was like, okay, so Josh, how does that make you? And everyone kind of starts laughing and they're like, okay, that's kind of a complicated question.

And around this time, it's not the other team. Just say your name. The other team is like getting on the court because it's between games. And so I was like, dang, I just asked this,

but now we're going to have to go. And so they're all kind of like looking around a little awkwardly. He's like, let's just say she's a little older and i pull it's like she's older okay okay so i was like yeah go josh so we ran onto the field so josh might be 11 years old i don't know um listen to the age gap there's nothing wrong with dating a girl older than you

it's when you date a girl younger than you where it's creepy okay like be loud and proud i'd say five six years like is definitely the max for how much younger a girl could be than you right jake five and a half is where i would five and a half or so yeah like like anything less than that's just like this guy is just you know shooting fish in a barrel what's the difference between peter and sophie uh five and five months if you're five and five months that's weird i have no idea it was just so funny whenever like uh peter and sophie got together because sophie was really good friends with some girls that like peter like whenever peter was working for k-life was they were like high schoolers in k-life yeah it's like wait a second peter you're freaking us out just kidding no anyway that's awesome.

It's fun that they came and supported. And I don't know if we entertain them enough to where they would do it again. But maybe. Rank currently your favorite sports to play. If you could just be like, hey, we have a day where we can play four sports and four sports only. Oh, fun question. Thank you. Be thinking of your answer

too i want to hear yours um still got to go golf number one just still so obsessed so obsessed um can't get enough of it two i would say volleyball under the condition that rachel coop is also there of course makes it way more fun three i'd have to go pickleball ball don't play it that much but still fun and then four what about some just pick up football really yeah okay as long as gunner's there yeah or dim check yeah yeah humming yeah yeah that'd be fun um what are your four you can have some contingencies too on people okay pick up basketball if leBron James is there. Home run derby if LeBron James is there. Home run derby if Armaguire is there.

Pick up basketball is always number one, I think, for me. Which I haven't played in forever, but it's just so fun. Pickle ball is really fun for me still. Let's see. Other sports I'd really want to play right now, like currently, um, magic, the gathering chess, no ping pong, no billiards, maybe bull riding. I golf randomly is like probably four for me because in the end, at the end of August, this means that you had time to play it. Yes. You were given this whole day.

That contingency is like, I can play it guilt-free and I'm prepared for this. Yeah, fun. No, at the end of August, a bunch of my buddies are coming. There's like 10 of us coming up for the fantasy football draft in Kansas City this time. Great. And we're going to go play golf and I'm excited about it. And I don't know. I like football fine.

These days, I just get worried about my knees with pickup football. So maybe a good game of wiffle ball or just like football fine. These days I just get worried about my knees with pickup football. So yeah, maybe a good game of wiffle ball or just like real baseball. I don't, I'm not really that interested in softball, but I would, I would not hate like playing like a game of fast pitch baseball. Who was I talking to?

I think it was Garrett Gibson. He was talking to, he wanted to organize like a nine on nine. Yeah. Like just a legitimate baseball game. Give me a catcher in gear and knee safers and let's play some ball and just kind of like everyone just kind of agree on balls and strikes i guess or yeah that part gets a little interesting we get no fire yeah okay yeah my dad will do it

dean ellis yeah i was gonna say absolutely my dad would be such a nice umpire he'd be like oh okay fine let's just let's just redo it yeah what do you guys think okay okay strike strike sorry let's go back to strike back to strike Let's just redo it. Yeah. What do you guys think? Okay. Okay. Strike, strike, strike, strike. Sorry. Back to strike. Back to strike. Yeah. Just a legitimate baseball game.

Kind of fun. Yeah, dude. That'd be great. That's fun. Or just catch, dude. I can't. Yeah. You can make me happy.

I've said this before, but you can make me happy for days if we just play and catch. Like me and Watson the other day, I was like i love this i cannot wait i'll play catch with bow for the like hours at a time if he wants to catch is great it's just it's amazing i think at one point maybe like two years ago or so on this podcast we were or maybe it's a voicemail someone asked about our perfect day and i think in my perfect day me and my dad play catch oh really strafford yeah i think so i think there's got to be a part of it oh yeah i love playing catch my i would we would play until my dad would literally like almost get hit in the face a few times because it's so dark like dad come on come on you can see it okay i i can't see it i'm sorry we gotta be done then we turn on the light and like you know

the light would like kind of show the ball but not really you know which light oh like a porch oh gotcha yeah anyway fun times fun times i went to the mcdonald's drive-thru a couple nights ago and um i was a thirsty boy but it was kind of late at night i was like maybe a little snack a little treat yourself i'm not intermittent fasting apple apple pie dude i don't know why i've kind of fallen off the apple pie train i've been getting my pastries in the morning i guess um okay let me let me guess then okay so you didn't have apple pie but you got a treat sweet treat yeah of course uh hot fudge sundae no good guess though those are great mcflurry no no drier drier than these okay mcmuffin the muffins blueberry no i do love those those are pastries i didn't think it would be that

yeah um those are really good if you like sugar they have cinnamon so no luke crinshaw oh of course two cookies in the water yeah best order of all time i'll just take two cookies harrison pollard vibes out of that night from crinshaw but um so i ordered three chocolate chip cookies because they count they're like three for a dollar or whatever. Right. And that's what was so funny. I'm ordering two. I'll take two, which comes out to like a dollar 30. Probably. It's like way more expensive to do that. And so I got three cookies and like a thing of milk and not to drink at the same time as the tea.

But it's like once I'm done with the sweet tea. Just like your QT last week. Yeah, yeah, exactly. They're compartmentalized by time. And so I get to the window to paying my thing and this guy he's probably like an 18 year old kid it's like immediately he just seems so remarkably normal which i think that's just the standard that mcdonald's is set where it takes very little for me like wow this guy's awesome because all he did was like he nodded his head at me he's like what's up man and i was like hey what's going on he's

like you have the sweet tea right i was like yeah i did, what's up, man? And I was like, hey, what's going on? He's like, you had the sweet tea, right? And I was like, yeah, I did. And just like, that's all it took. And I was like, this guy, this guy's bright. Which I don't know. Yeah, you're right. The standard was very low. I don't know what that's. I don't think it says that much about me.

I think it kind of says more things about McDonald's. But I was like, wow, this guy's awesome. I'm like, this guy deserves a promotion. And he said six words to me. You had a big enough sample size of McDonald's to know like the type of people that you encountered there. Yeah, it's just typically normal for them. And Isaacac can back it up i don't know how many times just like hey how's it going what can i get for you yeah okay um and so i already feel like this

guy's cool i don't know we already have this like social just like compatibility i'm like this guy just seems like he gets it whatever and he's like you're the sweet d and i was like yeah and uh then we make some like small talk about something he's like oh you had the uh wait is this you you had the you're the cookies in the milk and kind of like looks in my car and like i don't know why i think it's because he's like this cool like high schooler dude i go yes for the kiddo at home no no you didn't it just came out of me. Yeah, I couldn't. It was milk, dude. I had to say kiddo at home. Oh, my gosh.

How old? How late was this? I don't know. I mean, probably like 945, 1015 at night. Yeah, you know. Just love getting that. Oh, my gosh. It makes no sense.

I don't know what to say. I don't know. Like I said, I feel like I'd earned something with this guy. He liked me. He thought I was cool. That's better than calling yourself Jeans Shorts. Yeah, kiddo at home. It's for the kiddo at home.

Jake, you're starting to get old where you're embarrassed of yourself. I say these things when I'm by myself. Yeah, I just say stuff oh my gosh yeah it's for the kiddo at home yeah you like start like really going into a long monologue about him yeah he uh he takes after his sister you know and um and she takes after me he's a spunky one you know that's so funny it was such a weird thing i had to tell rachel immediately i was like i gotta tell you about this mcdonald's experience it was so weird i don't know why i did that like like sweet

tea no problem i'll own up to that but milk and cookies no i don't know i think if you would have been any other mcdonald's worker the way he looked like he kind of examined your car he's like surely this guy's too cool and you had the milk and cookies and i just didn't want to say yes i don't know you take that kid to chucky cheese probably too you freak yeah i thought i did yeah so if you had been any other mcdonald's worker i probably said like yeah you know or like that is so funny that made me take off my headphones in in amazement i don't think i've ever done that before yeah i was excited just rachel's reaction alone told me you know what this might be a good podcast story so i was just shocked at what i did yeah i was like the jean shorts thing it's like what what's wrong with me i'm getting worse golly dude getting worse i have one little story i think it's okay to tell i haven't asked his permission

i got i got the story relayed from his brother so my my cousin joel was uh at dinner on friday with us my parents house and his brother cory is a friend of yours what'd you say yeah yeah yeah we're to camp together yeah we're to camp together 2012 i mean you guys you guys do video stuff you know you guys are in the arts we're facebook friends you guys you know both belong the Louvre. Put that guy in the Louvre. Of the arts. Anyway, Corey is awesome. He was just on a mission trip in Uganda. And if you know much about Corey, talk about the Picky Eaters YouTube video. He was that guy.

Growing up, he was not one to really go out of his way, whatever. And then he married a wonderful, awesome, adventurous girl. And now he's like, started to see the light a little bit of like, we should, you should try, you should try Pico de Gallo on your tacos. Jalapenos, not bad. Yeah. Like, like he's like really, I mean, it's, it's been amazing how he's expanded his horizon. Even like going to Uganda and like how he's really enjoying stuff like that is awesome.

So anyway. Uganda drives on the left side of the road, by the way. Good to know. Easy little tip. Yep. Are they on a geoguessr as well? Yes, they are. Cause you said most of Africa is not a lot of Africa is not Uganda is. Yeah. So Corey's in Uganda. Um, I say all that stuff to preface that. Yeah. He's still a type a little bit of a warrior, a little bit of, you know, just not super natural and super, super space natural in these type of situations. Like in the, in the sense of like, basically what happened was he didn't, something he ate didn't sit right. And he was having trouble, trouble, uh, digestive trouble. Um, and so they go to, uh, like, like he's feeling it,

like he's struggling. Um, and they go to this, uh, like, like he's feeling it, like he's struggling. Um, and they go to this church, this Ugandan church and, you know, it's a classic like mission trip church. I feel like anytime you go to a mission, like church on a mission trip is like two and a half hours long. Yeah. And it's hot. The service is never, yeah. Quick. Just like, you know, actually in Guatemala, they only do 25 minute services. Like they're always longer. Um, you know, when you're on a mission trip. But anyway, so he's he like before going into the church, he like tries to go into this bathroom. He's like, it was so disgusting that I couldn't even go in there.

Oh, really? Like it was so gross. And he's been he's like the Holy Spirit wasn't even in there. Yeah, he's been to Japan and seen their, you know, low cameras with tall fences and like, oh, boy, all these different, you know, he's been around. So like, Oh boy, all these different, you know, he's, he's been around. So like, it must've really been disgusting bathroom, whatever. But he's like, I just can't, I can't do it. I'm just holding it. And so, uh, not only was the, you know, the service really long, but then they had all the Americans get up and like, say, you know, what they've learned on the trip and, you know, do

anything. And of course, like, I think Corey's one of the last ones to go and his wife, you know, what they've learned on the trip and, you know, do anything. And of course, like, I think Corey is one of the last ones to go and his wife, Erica, you know, you know, waxes poetic and says all this stuff. And Corey's like, okay, for me, I'm just going to keep it short and sweet and be done, whatever. And, you know, it comes to his turn. He just goes, I love Uganda. I love the Ugandan people. And then apparently he just passed out. What? Like faints and like falls to the ground.

Holy spirit. Oh my gosh. Because I think he was struggling so hard or something. Maybe he was like dehydrated or whatever. Yeah, maybe. But just, I mean, it's a funny story anyway, but if you know him, but if you know him like you know like he's he's already high strung at high like you know like like he is outside of his comfort zone i'm so proud of him for being there and like taking these leaps struggling i love uganda i love the ugandan people boom that's a great line to go out on but apparently you know they woke him up and i think like in order to help him when they woke him up they gave him a bunch of water and stuff

which i'm sure instigates a lot of feelings in your bowels and everything maybe and then he has to drive like 30 minutes back to his you know place on his bus so i don't know what the end of the story was i just know that he you know was struggling with all this stuff so oh you know that pastor was fired up you know you probably thought that thought that he'd been slain in the spirit. Right. No, just dehydrated. That's amazing. I love Uganda.

I'm going to say that next time I'm like feeling sick. I'm going to say that to myself. See if it like helps churn anything. Yeah. See if it gets going or whatever. But anyway, that's funny. Yeah. I have another quick story from I got quite a bit of standup stuff written last week.

It was fun. I felt productive. It was a couple different coffee shops figuring stuff out for Virginia Beach coming up and went to Summer Moon. You've been to Summer Moon? No. Rachel kind of discovered it. I love it.

It's like 91st and Metcalf or so. I feel like it's Luke Hoagland's. It's his jam. Really? Oh, yeah. I never seen him in there before. Cool. Yeah.

They have moon milk. You big moon guy. Oh, yeah. I love moon milk. Really? Yeah. It there before. Cool. Yeah, they have Moon Milk. You big Moon Milk guy. Oh, yeah. I love Moon Milk. Really? Yeah, it's awesome. Cool. But in reality, it's been a hub of just fans and subscribers and everything.

Hubba hubba. Hubba hubba. Thursday or whenever I was in there. Yeah, some ghosties came up and said, what's up? And then like a Jean Schwartz subscriber came and said, what's up? And then the third person, she had seen me perform perform like it wasn't really familiar with the videos or anything but it came to the show with uptown theater saw me in trade forums she's like saying what's up and no way um so it's kind of cool so we talked for a little bit and she leaves and then comes back

something i've never had happen to me she hands me something and it's her phone number on a post-it note. And she said, if I don't hand you this, it'll be the biggest regret of my life. Oh, yeah. I was like, oh, my gosh. And she just walked away. Yeah. It was like Luke spoiling a surprise.

He just had to get out of there. Just chug some water. Oh, got to go. OK. And so, of course, I was like, Rachel, look what happens when you don't come to summer mode with me yeah kiddo at home and girlfriend too but that happened with the

same coffee shop where uh the guy was typing on a typewriter oh i did see that yeah i posted that i think that might be the most replies i've ever gotten to story of all time i didn't think it was that crazy it was like yeah people are weird or whatever but yeah i probably got like 400 replies to that story most of them just being like whoa that's. It was like, yeah, people are weird or whatever. But yeah, I probably got like 400 replies to that story. Most of them just being like, whoa, that's crazy. It was a mix. Yeah, yeah. Everyone just saying a different aspect of it.

Some people had really funny like jokes to say like, wow, the nervous guy to sit in front of the outlet, you know, like he doesn't need it. Yeah, right. Or some people because it was fascinating, too, because he had an energy drink next to him. So it's like this is a weird combo, like this old fashioned. Yeah, you think he's like he's like only going going for black coffee yeah like black coffee but not just like drip coffee even like he wants like the it's artisan yeah kenyan whatever what's it called the poor

poor over yeah george poorwell yes all those things cs bruce um cs what br is okay one more um edgar allen poor oh yeah that's what i said in the caption of the video oh crap sorry i started thinking it was cool wow that's good take the headphones off what did you say all those three no no no just our ground for yeah yeah okay um that does sound familiar but anyway yeah so many different replies and yeah some people are just getting fired up like uh morgan mitchell or morgan called about replied like six times she's like i just keep watching i just keep getting more fired up about it like that is so loud i can't believe how loud that is so people were like way more agitated than i was i think but this is a fascinating like thing to see i guess breaking

it down more now i like the idea more than anything of him getting it out of his car and walking in with it so we left we both stayed there till close so we both got to leave at the same time so i got to see him pack it up in a little briefcase oh he had a case for it yeah that makes sense it would be funny i was thinking he was just kind of lugging it like he would like a you know a really big dictionary or something like a rescued like sheep like he has a hole under his arm come on yeah yeah so he just packed it up and then he just kind of wandered around because i was like what kind of i was trying to just gather info like what kind of guy is this he didn't go to his car he just like yeah it was just wandering around okay he's lost he's looking for something he's looking for technology yeah he's trying to figure it out okay that was fun yeah that's yeah what kind of what kind of other things is he

like is he going to a payphone to call yeah where is he call his taxi you know yeah and on his walkman what's his music what's his like tv show consumption look like right is he only using you're only watching tv land turner classic movies that's what you know i just i remember i think someone replied to my story i i can't find it now but it was something like i used to work here or i used to work at a coffee shop and i saw a guy like write books he would write a book on a typewriter that's a terrible idea yeah i mean they're yeah if you ever want to be like copy now where was that what did I say there? Let me just search it real. How am I supposed to?

Yeah. You drop the pages. They get all out of order. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. I don't. I like writing things down, but I would never write a book on a typewriter. Yeah.

Yeah. Whenever we did, you know, Gene Schwartz types of people like coffee shop. I remember talking to this guy that kind of owns or partially owns some of the big coffee shops in Kansas city. And he gave us a bunch of ideas, but they were all like ridiculously. Oh yeah. And it was like, I don't think people would believe that this happened. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, I'm sure out of, out of all places, coffee shops get the most funny stories because people stay there longer. And so people bring in weird things, more time to see. And I'm sure people, there was the other day I was at panera there was this woman who had like these extension things for her laptop computer to make it into a three monitor system it was actually kind of cool i was like i might write that down to see how much these things cost but i didn't

um anyway but yeah i'm sure there's crazy stuff like that that you see all over the totally so many of the replies were too about like, this guy wants attention and he's getting it. Yeah. You know, to bring a typewriter. It's like ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Ding, ding. You know, he was just slamming away for hours. Gosh.

But. I didn't mind it. What do you think about some voice memos? Yes. You think yes? I think yes. I love voice memos. I love the voice memos.

I love the voice memo people. Hi, Jake. Hi, Brad. This is Josh calling again. Last time we talked, we were planning out Josh trivia night, which we called Juno Josh. I wanted to give an update that it was a success. I had so much fun and it was just a really good time.

I appreciated all the suggestions and ideas. I ended up not really taking any of them, but it was really mainly on me. The suggestions were awesome. I did not have enough time to really plan this out. So I'm calling this week because I have a question. I know Brad has recently become a boss since he's hired an intern. And I have been put in a similar situation at work. I am now the boss of two people and I have never been a boss before. So I'm calling for suggestions on how to be fun, how to be memorable.

One fact you might want to know is that these two people are women. Oh, yeah. So take that into consideration. Thanks, yeah. Oh, yeah. So take that into consideration. Thanks and have fun. Have fun. What do you got, boss? I just, whenever he said be memorable, I thought you could do so many things to be memorable.

Yeah, if memorable is the only goal, plenty of stuff you can do. Like buy them both ice cream and then smack it out of their hand and say. Everything is earned, not given in this office. That's right. That's a lesson. Samples only.

That would be memorable. I wish I knew a little bit more about what exactly he does. We met Josh before. He's come to some events. He was just at Kid City, I saw. Really? Mm-hmm. At your, not your, that was Josh R bro sorry yeah i think josh katz and i

must be facebook friends or something i saw that he was at oklahoma joe's fun fun um memorable hey ladies as you guys know first monday of every month haircut day every month so a girl gets a haircut i'm cutting tanya's tanya's cutting linda's and linda's cutting mine i like it yeah memorable and then have different themes for the haircut days like do one blindfolded do one I'm cutting Tanya's. Tanya's cutting Linda's and Linda's cutting mine. I like it. Yeah, memorable. And then have different themes for the haircut days. Like do one blindfolded. Do one. 70s theme.

Without electricity. Do one only with electrical, you know, tools. Do one without a traditional hairstyle tools. Like, you know. Just like Fiskars. That's right. The kids scissors or something. Man, it's fun i i don't know all my answers are just serious or normal no that's great let's go that route i think like i've just

learned like anytime in leadership like you you just naturally want to try to be like some exciting fun person kind of like what the questions that he's asking is like, how do I do it? And it's like the best way to make them like you is just be yourself. Like remember in youth ministry for a while, I tried to like, like talk similarly to them. And when I finally was just like myself and like talked about my family and like my marriage and stuff, like, I think they relate to me more. And so, I don't know. I think, yeah, you're different than them. So therefore, be different than them. Don't try to act like they're your mom or something like that.

But yeah, I don't know. That's good advice. Thanks. I think that's more of just like if you're leading younger people than you. But older people, it probably works too. Still could work. Yeah. Treat them normal.

Don't treat them like they're this completely different dinosaur from you or something here's what i do in the first week and maybe you already know them or maybe you're just now going to get done for the first time try to like really pay attention and just try to find something that they like they've taken interest in and you wait like two or three months and you get them like a gift that coincides with that and they're going to be amazed that you remembered that thing that you like i think little things go a long way i also just think I'm already naturally wired this way, both receiving and giving. But words of affirmation, words of encouragement are huge to me. Like if you write them a note, specifically a letter, I think letters are so amazing. But even a text of like, hey, I just want to say you're doing a really great job.

Thank you so much. Let me know if you need anything like that. That to me is like, I like this job now. Like I'm happy to be here. Like, yeah. Little notes. Like you, yeah. You're doing great. You know? Uh, I don't know if I'm being a good boss or not, but I always am just like, please let me know if you have any questions. You know, I remember what it was like to be new here. So don't feel like, you know, you need to be intimidated by it. You want to create like a comfy environment right okay it's chill yeah i'm so chill so yeah i don't know that's that's a fun i like the memorable aspect though like how can i just how can i just like do something crazy how could i do something that they remember one day just don't talk to

them at all the next day uh never stop talking talk to them like an auctioneer yeah they're like hey give it to me give it to me i see it there about like a bit on yeah but eod the third day uh just do like the thing where michael in the office uses harvey and just have everything go through a computerized yeah um get out of my r5 something like that you're in a funny joke you uh yeah all all good options all good choose one of those yeah so that's a fun question though josh congratulations for being a boss to 250 and congratulations to whoever hired those people for knowing exactly you know the right positions to put them in with a 25 year old guy congratulations on your job at the zoo because you're in charge of

two cougars oh yeah let's move on next one aloha jake and brad from hawaii um this is lizzie as in the lizzie who just won jake's 500 giveaway so i thought i'd finally just hop on here and leave out what i like to call reverse cameo to say thank you so much i'm so freaking excited and happy this has made my vacation it's already so amazing but oh my gosh so i've been meaning to leave one uh voicemail because i just want to ask can you guys think of any better account names for my sewing account because i've been trying to think of a pun for a while i have no ideas uh been taking up a lot of brain space gotta be honest um also i love your guys's jingles and i was hoping you guys could like make a playlist of them separately so i can just listen

to them whenever i want because they make me so happy and also uh brad i have also turned my acl so i was wondering uh how did you tear yours and what was your experience after surgery fun fun okay sewing glossary on charlottecan.com let's see here i'm on vocabulary.com backstitch over so bias binding fabric bobbin buttonhole i think just called the buttonhole she needs yeah some wordplay listen here you buttonhole her sewing account um cut unfold her name's loose lucy um lindsey no lizzie lizzie when i vin mode her the money i said don't spend it all on one thimble so is that spurring on anything? I didn't know anything about her. All I knew was it was Lizzie's sewing cup. Let's get ready to thimble.

It's time. Or seamstresses, a thimble. That's very funny. You like that? Yeah. A thimble. What's like the Singer? Sanger?

Sanger, I think, is like a popular sewing machine brand. Oh, okay. Singer. So what about something with that? You know, we're using that word. Anything with tack fray.

How to save the life. Good band. Yeah. Tack. It's only about attack. A phrasing grace. Oh, that's not bad. No, it's not.

That's not. Attack. Needle. Nothing. Need. Yeah. See the trouble. Hem.

Roosters and hems stitch it what about stitch fix oh my gosh that could work say that again stitch fix like you're fixing like stitching

one word or two uh what do you think one yeah no underscores if you can if you can help it just stitch fix

stitch fix dot com see if there's domain out there for that. I bet you'll be fine. What about fusible interfacing? Can you think about anything with that term? Somebody out there right now is like, they're like seamstress and they're like,

this is the best episode yet. Yeah, I'm loving this. This is great. Him. Him. The Northern Hemisphere. Him and hers. Yep.

But spelled H-e-m or um hymns like h-y-m-s hymns the hymnal the hymnal yeah the sewing hymnal i like that that's not bad sacrilege not terrible because it's not like whatever you can still incorporate oh and then you incorporate what you do is you stitch like you know you know, all fly away old glory. You know, you've- Love it. You attach him, you sew, what am I trying to, you stitch fix- Yeah. Lyrics into your work.

You got it, yeah. Use backstitch and over-sew these with your machine stitch into the fabric. Amazing phrase. And just like that, you've got amazing phrase. Yeah, that's it. The hymnal. You're welcome, Lizzie. If the $500 wasn't enough, there's a million dollar idea.

Lizzie, can I call you out real quick? I think you entered it multiple times. What do you mean? I think she entered in one for her personal account. Oh, her main account? One from her sewing account. Ooh. Did you, Lizzie?

And if so, my Venmo is B underscore Rad Ellis, and I will take half of that money. That's cool to know. I didn't know she was a ghostie. Actually, my Venmo now is Brad Ellis Ellis, and I will take half of that money. That's cool to know. I didn't know she was a ghostie. Actually, my Venmo now is Brad Ellis Creations. I changed it. Brad Ellis Creations? Yeah, because I was taken. That sounds funny.

I thought it was a little more legit than B Rad Ellis. B Rad Ellis. Yeah, I didn't know she was a ghostie. Who won the money? That's great. That's way better. Yeah, we didn't really exchange any. Honestly, it was great to hear just now that she was so fired up because it was kind of like hey

congrats you won um do you have vinmo and she's like yeah i do here it is and then i sent it that was it maybe she it sounded like she was in hawaii so maybe the time changed she was either brand new in the morning or going to bed at night like it gets crazy yeah over there you know how it is it's nuts tj and bethke they're always having D&D. They're doing Disturb all the time. No, that's great, Lizzie. I'm glad it went to you. I'm glad it went to a ghostie.

Glad you were in Hawaii when you got it. That's kind of fun. That is so crazy. I had some people on Instagram trying to call me out this week. They're like, hey, what's with, you said you're going to give that money away. What happened?

And I was like, I gave it away last Friday night. And they were like, but like, do we know like how it was given away? And I was like, I, I posted the exact Excel spreadsheet and I showed me like giving it away and like, Oh, okay. I guess I missed it then. That's a fun, that's a fun type of person right there. Like, like someone who's like, Oh, I know exactly. Like somebody who's like questioning the validity of your contest. And like, can you please show like a screenshot of your Venmo? Like you sent it and like, like exactly how much and that's USD and not like euros or something. Cause the dollar is really strong right now. And, uh, you know, make sure it's USD. Okay. Like, thanks for checking in. Yeah. Yeah. When I had posted it publicly. Yeah. But someone else commented and I really liked it. They said, I appreciate you posting this. They're like, the Kardashians are always doing giveaways. We never know who gets it or if they're even give it away.

So it's like, oh, really great. Not real familiar with the Kardashians content, but good to know that I'm counter. I've always said if I do a giveaway, I'm not going to do it like him and Khloe. I love the Kardashians. I love the Kardashian people. All right. That's probably good. Let's do some reviews of the week.

Views of the week. Do you have one that you would like to say, Brad? Or do you have one that I would like to say? You go ahead. Okay. This one says five stars, just drinks from Cola Dan. I drive 60 minutes round trip every day and I haven't listened to music in months. That's fun.

That's cool. Long time listener, but unsure when I started. So approximately four months ago, decided to start listening from the very beginning and find where I initially started listening. And I am dying at how funny these earlier episodes are. I hope that's in a good way. Or if it's like, these are embarrassing. Or I hope that you still think our new ones are funny.

Yeah, and it's not just the old ones yeah yeah i hope so uh but i came here ready to tell jake he sent me into a time warp when he brought up just drinks on correct opinions the other day after he initially had the thought on the ghost runners podcast my mind was blown do you know why because of the time warp yeah i'm a little lost now but either way love to have love to hear mine was blown you're welcome i don't know i don't understand the phrase time warp there um let's see also i don't think it's possible to have a time warp in real life i watched a wrinkle in time or no i a warp warple in time i read a warple in time in ninth grade and it was one of the more confusing pieces of literature i've ever read oh really so i also don't know how time warps work time warps work i don't know

anything about how time warps work sorry i'm just talking like my kiddo all i know is that there's a wormhole yeah talking like the kiddo uh the review goes on to say you guys brighten my day every monday morning and i feel like i have two best friends keep it up love you guys uh mine's gonna be a five-star review from july 16th of 2022 from Emily Blomberg. It's a five-star review. Like I said, so good. It's a quick, simple, kind one. It just says this show makes me laugh out loud. Such funny and clean content. Glad I found these guys. Thank you, Emily. Glad we found you. Seriously though. Yeah. I've messaged a few people recently about merch stuff or whatever. And they always say nice things.

I'm like, thank you for your support. Yeah, thanks for joining. We really appreciate you guys. So thank you for that. Okay. Okay, Brad, do you want to end episode 169 with a jingle? Yes. Two weeks in a row, we're talking about this guy, Logan Walters.

Last week, we talked about him going to Comic coffee getting us all those office trivia uh things katherine was so pumped about the idea for office trivia like on the podcast like that is so fun and then we did a bunch of them and she like she would not have contributed very much to the uh yeah trivia night they those got hard they were tough um anyway logan walters wrote this awesome jingle uh some of the lyrics made me laugh um because they're really some of the lyrics made me laugh, um, because they're really good. Some of them made me laugh for other reasons.

Can't wait to see what that means. They weren't so good, but overall fun, fun jingle. Let's do it. Okay, Logan, here we go.

Here we go. Love the music guitar here. Love the music guitar here. Right here. Ready? I love it. I like the stereo sound in the headphones right now yeah

oh my god it's Monday morning don't you know that was wild Jake and Brad the pod duo if you oh crap That was wild. Jake and Brad the pod duo. If you...

Oh, crap. Dang it, they're over it. Brad is able, Jake is not. We're back, we're back. But I've got to let you know Jake is a golfing pro. Wow, thank you, Logan. It's always Trey, Trey, Treyrey when is it time for chick-fil-a the game show guy was kind of whack I just work here get off my back

have you seen Jake's comedy show Erica Erica from Summer Moon has. He gave out 500 in dough. Oh, all right. Lucy, Lucy. Check Ghost Rounders podcast, Gene Stortz comedy. Ghost Rounders podcast, Gene Stortz comedy. If you listen, leave a good review. Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. So come on and join the show Yeah!

This comic coffee's burning me I'm getting blisters, can't you see? Isaac's kennel delivery Mike's not home Come swim with me That's a good one This plane is going down Take off my jeans

So I don't drown That's good, Logan Solo here Hey! Hey! Hey! Weird voices in the background. Oh! My favorite part is he changed, should I stay or should I go

now to this, ready? This goes, Ghost Riders podcast, Gene Shorts comedy. Ghostrunners podcast, Gene Shorts comedy. You know G.O. Gesser is my game.

But I like Elvis just the same. Scott Peck, Gold Ball's the name. Watch out, Gene Shorts will steal your fame. One more time. Ghost Runners Podcast, G-Shorts Comedy. Yako Soba is the best.

Find some dances out for us. Go Scott, let's protest. Ghost Runners Podcast, G-Shorts Comedy. yeah the chorus is kind of funny instead of should i stay or should i go now ghostwriterspodcastjshowscomedy that was great though logan man thank you so much i just love anybody who yeah tries to flex their creativity and yeah, whatever. And write a song. I know it's not easy. So thank you for doing it. So fun.

Yeah, that is so impressive. I think Rachel always talks about that. She's like, I can't believe people write you songs and they've been writing you songs. Like they take hours out of their week. Seriously. Like maybe it's just like a fun distraction at work or something, but regardless.

Regardless. They do it. Good singing. Good writing, Logan. Good watching, Ghosties. Yeah, thanks for watching on YouTube. maybe it's just like a fun distraction at work or something but regardless regardless they do it good singing good writing logan good watching ghosties yeah good listening on youtube that was great you try to quiz abby if she does a podcast on your apple podcast apple podcast that we should have done more of those we'll do more later that was fun we had some fun cameos it's fun voice memos yeah Yeah. Fun times. Fun times. Enjoy Sin City. Are we? That was one thing I think would be funny in that video.

I like that idea of pretending. Are you thinking of the Cincinnati thing? I think that's so funny. Like, here I am. Cincinnati. Where are the where the Bengals play? Where is the Bengals stadium? Where was Harambe killed?

Can I get some Skyline chili, please? Yeah. Oh, where's Kings Island? Sin City. Treasure Island yeah oh where's king's island since he's treasure island but where's king's on yeah all those yeah i don't know the best way to pull that off but i honestly don't even know how it's going to be filmed like i think i might selfie it yeah with my phone i was thinking that too i might try to just recruit one of the coops to hold the camera for me i don't know how it's going to be maybe if you find a friend on the greyhound bus hey you want to meet me back here five days from now isn't there a story about you like making a friend on a bus one time yeah it's a beta it's her name that's her name yeah which i know you're

thinking like this is a beta killer no that is a bug um but yeah her name is zabeda and i met her on a probably the last time i went on a national park trip. I took a shuttle from the airport, kind of out to Yosemite. Was it an easy drive or did it get Zabeth out of you? Thank you guys for listening. This has been our podcast. Sure. Love you guys. That's fine. Go for a podcast.