Ghostrunners - 172 - Talking About Our Dads

Episode Date: August 22, 2022

Jake went to an all you can eat Italian buffet and saw every type of American. Brad is getting a reputation at the guild and it's not great. Also Jake almost ran over someone this week. Good stuff all around. Get a personalized video from us on Cameo: https://v.cameo.com/e/fvERn6rrysb Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu  Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y  Watch this episode on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3cQSPnw  Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P  Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jake, I'm following your footsteps. Did you know it? You're performing in Virginia Beach this weekend. Yes. Congratulations to me. No, I'm a two podcast a week guy for one week. You were on Stefan's golf podcast. I was on Stefan's golf podcast. Yes. No, you were on the Sporty Good Times one, right? Sporty Good Times with Harrison Pollard last night. And yeah, it was really fun. I was doing it and I, I think I would

have been a little bit nervous had I realized this earlier, but as we were recording, I heard some, something in the background, there was a familiar voice. And I thought, first of all, I didn't realize that Harrison was recording at Abby's house, Abby's roommates with Rachel Coop. Rachel Coop is dating Jake Triplett co-host. I think that's Jake Triplett's voice. Yeah. It was fun knowing that you weren't in the other room, but kinda. Yeah. You were being recorded in the other room. Yeah.

And yeah, I'm afraid I know exactly when you probably heard my voice. Did Harrison seem bummed that it was loud? There was like, I was kind of, I was, I had a long explanation to a question that he had, but like near the end of the explanation, he got up and walked away. And so I just, I didn't know what to do. So I just, I just kept talking. He like tried to fill time, but yeah. Was I loud? Was it pretty distracting? Uh, it wasn't distracting to me because it was like, you know, it was like secondhand loud, but I could hear something going on in the background, but it felt like it was just

like, if someone, let's say you're in the basement and your mom gets home with groceries, you know, she closes the garage door. You can kind of hear the reverberation and she's like oh like that's what that's what i feel like it was like so but no it wasn't too bad okay well but apparently it was bad enough for harrison to say something yeah um and i felt bad normally i'm pretty aware of what's going on around me aware of my own voice aware of any of my own actions right and something got the best of me which i didn't know if i was going to bring this up um but you know just another example of just rachel and i are different and i'm learning it yeah no it is cool and this is what i like about her i see this in her dad a lot it's it's a fun quality okay and it's a quality i don't have it's a quality called well i don't know what you'd call it just like just not

just i don't know careful yeah i don't know what to call it a quality of just like the quality is just having a good time just just all right let me just get on the story let me just get on the story i love how like no it is a fun quality i'm just trying not to say anything like rude it's just like a whatever it's fun but i'm just trying not to be rude, no, it is a fun quality. I'm just trying not to say anything like rude. It's just like a whatever. It's fun, but I'm just trying not to be rude about how fun it is. Oh, stupid, stupid, stupid. Okay.

Here's this will explain everything I need to say. Forget me trying to sum it up. You guys come to your own conclusions. So I go to Rachel's house last night. She's like, let me cook you dinner. I'm like, this is awesome. Oh, it's so she's like, oh, I love doing it. I'm like, I can't believe that. That's's so crazy that's so much like anytime you want me to

i was like that's crazy you're even saying this so once she has a lot of phenomenal qualities okay what do we eat salmon yes salmon um i love when she cooks salmon it's so good that was a loud one that's a loud text tone very loud one i'm sorry i was turning it up earlier for a video i was watching and then we had broccoli which i don't know what she did to the broccoli it can't be that healthy whatever she's doing to it because she's getting me to eat it it tastes pretty good a lot of seasonings or a lot of probably just seasoning and then she she tried to fool me by covering it in pesto but it was some weird like healthy pasta it was orange it looked like it was eating carrots unhealthy no i'm saying oh i don't know the pesto tastes great oh and she covered

carrot pasta in it okay i was like i know this is not right anyway great dinner i'm offering to like first of all i'm offering to help with the dinner she's like no i got it then like let me at least get the dishes she's like no i got i'm like let me clean out the air fire something she's like no let me do it i'm like i keep asking i keep asking i go i go sit on my phone for like five minutes like i feel too bad i gotta get in there in there. I got to do something. Yeah. You're just completely a consumer at this point. You haven't done a thing. Should I tip you 20% in your house? Like you're not even hosting her, like using your dishes. Like I would love to have the wifi pass, but I can't ask for that at this point while she's cleaning the dishes. And so I'm like,

I got to get back in there. And so I was like, can I please do something? She's like, yeah. Um, well, yeah, you can, um, you could back in there. And so I was like, can I please do something? She's like, yeah. Well, yeah, you can. You could wipe off these like these plates and like spoons and everything. I was like, oh, great. Oh, you need a wiper. That's easy. Right.

Yeah. I can't screw this up. Like Ryan Howard. Trust me, Pam. I would find a way. I would just screw it up. It's I'm like, OK, great. And so I wipe off like maybe a spoon and a fork.

Put it back in the drawer. Now we're washing a bowl. And I'm like, there's kind of some residue in here that doesn't totally look like clear like water it's so i like kind of rinse it back out she's like oh it's fine then a couple plates later i'm like this is like slippery on the outside it's like kind of gross like grimy yeah it's a grimy plate like top and bottom i was like we got to re-rent this she's like you, you have some standards. I was like, I mean, about like no one ever told me that I sanitation, I guess. Yeah. And then this happens like two more times.

We have the same conversation. Nothing ever like comes to light. And we're just like, oh, I guess we just have different standards. I'm like, yeah, I guess. And eventually. So I'm like, look at this. I was like, you could see like food on this one. And I was like, and you want me to wipe it off with this towel?

I was like, I'm just going to get the towel so dirty. dirty she's like yeah that's the point they are dirty and i go what this is what i started yelling i mean obviously not yelling at her i'm just like we're i'm wiping dirty plates she's like yeah i was like you want me to why i was like but they're going in the dishwasher next right she's like yeah to get wet again yeah i was like the dishwasher's job is to make the things wet why are we putting like why are we drying things off no wonder we had different you know standards your plates were dirty and i'm like she's drying off drying off the dirty like having me the semi-dirty dishes like dry off that's like going 95 of the way on this job. But I'm not going to clean them all the way, but I'm still going to dry them and then put them in this thing. It's so funny thinking back to me being like, I mean, I guess we just have really different – this doesn't seem clean.

And I've been putting silverware back. I've been putting bowls back, plates back, thinking like, I guess this is good enough for her. The lack of observation on both your ends because like was she using soap or was she just washing it off with water? I don't think I was paying attention. She was not using any soap. I don't think she was paying attention to you putting these things back in the drawer. I know. How many times do I have to say, excuse me and go like around her to, but I was like,

you had to know. Or I bet you had to ask like a few times, like, Hey, where's this random thing that I don't even know what it's called. Go like, where's your spatula drawer? Yeah. Does she have justification for any of this? The only thing that she somewhat said which you're gonna love the reason and maybe had she known it was gonna come up on a podcast she would have explained herself more but because then you know of course I'm like y'all like you got me wiping dirty plates

I'm drying off dirty plates just kind of like being funny like that that's it's busy work she saw you like you know not having the wi-fi password and she funny like that. It's busy work. She saw you like, you know, not having the Wi-Fi password. And she's like, all right. It's like when, yeah, I went to Trinidad. I mentioned to her like, move the dirt. I was like, move the dirt? From one side of the yard to the other. Yeah, last week we had a church from Ohio moved over there.

Why don't you go ahead and move it back? Okay, cool. Move the dirt. And so then, of course, Abby's like, what are you guys yelling about? I'm like, Abby, get a load of this. And Abby's like, yeah, you dry off the plates before you put them back. I was like, put them back where? And, you know, I was like, the dishwasher. Why are you guys yelling about? Like, Abby, get a load of this. And I was like, yeah, you dry off the plates where you put them back. I was like, put them back where? And, you know, I was like the dishwasher.

Why are you driving off? I was like, thank you. Anyway, Rachel goes, I don't know why. I don't know why. I think because so in college we didn't have a dishwasher. So I'm just used to like you wash the plates and you dry them. Which, A, she wasn't doing that. She wasn't.

Hey, yeah. you know what hey Rachel back when I was 15 years old I didn't have a car and so I walked a lot of places and so now I don't know I just I just like one time I walked like 15 miles on accident to trace to do dream sports comedy because I like forgot like back when

I was 15 I didn't have a car so that's what I did I walked to my friend's house. Whoops. No. What a biff. Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down.

With some random thoughts in white. Me too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet. Because it's the Ghost Rubs Podcast. Everybody morning, we're taking ground.

Ghost Brothers Podcast. Ghost Brothers Podcast. Oh, that's good. Yeah, I mean, it's just funny stuff like that pretty often. I mean, it's never like that extreme. But even during that dinner, she was eating. And around her middle finger and index finger that's holding the fork. She has like a ponytail holder just around these two fingers eating.

And I'm like, what? Why do you have a ponytail holder around like those two fingers? Like, oh, didn't know it was there. I'm like, really? That's that. Oh, man. OK, so. So first of all, Catherine, so I does not do that so what would you call that

quality um it's hard to define i think carefree carefree lackadaisical steve cooke you're carefree yeah you're fun huh you know now that you mention it but yeah my hair did get like halfway shaven off last night i don't know what happened like Like, I don't know. Just like, now that, yeah, just not noticing things. There was like a, for a while, like in our first year of marriage, Catherine was like, you know, I'm just, I'm just a really observational person or observant person. And I, I just disagree with that so much. I was like, I was like, I'm the observant one. I noticed everything. Like I noticed all the details and she's like, I do, I'm an observant person too. And so bring it on. Oh, it was bad. It was like, it was like one of those like first year of marriage. Like, don't just, just let it go, Brad. But like, it was like a competition to me of like,

every time she didn't know something, I'd be like, well, I thought you said you were an observant person. So why don't you know that like over and over and over again, I was just like, so just like, just trying to eat at her, you know, like maybe it works in Rachel and I's favor that like, we're clearly like opposite here. So it's just like, I mean, I'll be the guy that notices things and you don't have to be. There's no competition. And she realizes like, oh, I appreciate you noticing those things for me.

So yeah, totally. So yeah, it's fun. Also, we just got a text from Peter. Yes, I was just about to read that. Can we let me just say I haven't read it yet, but he has five points. OK. Also, Peter, let me just say. I haven't even read it yet, but. He has five points. Okay. Also, Peter listens to our podcast. Fun.

I don't know if I knew that, but it's nice to know he does. I don't know. I didn't know that he listens all the time, but he had like referenced things before that. I was like, okay, Pete. And maybe someone told him, hey, you're a pretty big part of the podcast this week. You might want to listen. There's a pretty long segment about you. All right.

Peter's five points. Number one. I swear my computer was on 87% when I left the house before summer moon. He was working for nine minutes in love, which may be guys. Here's a fun fact about computer batteries. A I'm, I'm, I'm very happy to be refuted if this is not true, but I've heard this is true. So, uh, computer batteries like can be plugged in like to the charger as long as you want, and it doesn't hurt the battery life of them. Fun fact.

Compared to a lithium battery? Compared to a cell phone where once it's charged, let it go all the way down before charging it again. It's the ideal situation. Okay. Fun fact. I don't know. But go on.

I think a genius told me that one time. Like any of them. No. Just an astrophysicist one time. Hey, FYI. Neil deGrasse Tyson. he tweeted that out uh-huh um number two i no doubt still use sophie's high school computer from 2012 it is a brick yes does it sound like it's going to explode most days also yes wow yeah that thing was thick also like humble brag slash also like you ask it for us to make fun of him that his wife was in high school in 2012.

I get it. Yeah. Number three, I thought everybody carried papers in their laptops. Like it was a folder. It was a folder. And then number four, you nailed the road rage story.

I think it's worse in Missouri because of all the potholes. That's probably true. Number five, let's hang out soon. So Peter, what a guy. That's wonderful. Fun. That's cool that he texted us a guy that's wonderful fun that's cool that

he texted us in the middle of recording uh that's cool it's a good time um we just made an instagram story about this but so i'm just gonna say it before i forget guys we're on cameo now which is kind of fun cameo is a site uh maybe some of you guys are familiar with it where you like pay to have like you know kevin from the office tell your husband happy birthday. But hey, who would want Brian Baumgartner to do it? That's like $400. Yeah. Is it really?

I think he's the number one booked guy on Cameo. No way. It's him and one other golf YouTuber, actually. The number two guy. Interesting. One of two, yeah. For now. For now.

For now. Ghost Runners, run it up. Ghosties? No, stop stop don't say it don't I'm gonna mouth it ghosties? alright youtube.com slash ghostrunners that's funny I feel like I just got a lately I love doing this

I don't even know I don't know if it's a character I just love making Rachel laugh in a number of different ways lately what I've really enjoyed doing is I guess you would call like a character piece of just being the most basic guy of all time and saying basic phrases and stuff and Rachel's always like ew like don't and that's how I feel whenever he's like ghosties do your thing like we all like her brother came to town this past weekend and like we all went golfing and then we went to this like flatbread kind of pizza and bar place or whatever and um Rachel was like okay we order the flatbreads over here but I guess you get the drinks up over there by the bar

and I go after that round of golf I need a drink she was like ew so I love doing stuff like that that's great all the time that's That's what's, it's fun. You know, having a girlfriend, having somebody that you can like, you're constantly evolving your humor around them. Totally. Cause like, if I do the exact same jokes to Catherine every single day, eventually she's obviously going to get like, yeah, I'm used to that. And so it's like, yeah, you have to keep it fresh.

You got to get kids and you just learn like, okay, you got to dumb it down for them. You know, you got to do different things and it's so much fun. Yeah. I'm a big character piece. Oh, I love it. Mode right now. Oh, that's fun. There was a character I did at K country called lucky. And for the longest time, it was like my most popular character. Did he blow anyone's heads off? No, no. That's why he was very popular. He was a pacifist. He was the, uh, like he was a pirate, but like literally his, his character in the skit was like inconsequential. Like, like literally it was like lucky mumbles. And so I just like took, I had no lines.

And so I literally like just did like kind of like a Kyle Mooney esque like character, but like, I just like didn't really say real words the whole time. I just made some Swiss ass. That's what's up. What? And like, everyone thought it was funny, but classic Catherine was just like, yeah, I'm going to be honest. I, I don't think that's funny's up what and like everyone thought it was funny but classic Catherine was just like yeah I'm gonna be honest I don't think that's funny you know like everyone but her yeah I feel like Katie Kennedy is kind of the same way sometimes with Trey like just really honest

with them like like the stuff that everyone's find the funniest I do not care for like I think I think you're great I think you're wonderful but I mean that that thing is really annoying to me you know but then after like a year I wore down with the lucky stuff for her day now and now like she does it like you know We do it all the time like it says saying what we're like was was So that's what I like that you have an inconsequential pirate more than more sketches should have that involved in like it was it was like I had this language kind of like a minion language or you could kind of understand what i'm saying like if i say was you kind of know it's like supposed to say what and so like i would just like sprinkle in either inside jokes about

counselors in there or i would like like one one term all i did was like basically go through the like uh you know anthology of the uh san antonio spurs like just talked about like like you know i started with David Robinson or George Gervais or whatever. And then like talked all the way. And there's a minute. No, he's going to say, this is a good.

No. And then when I force us, it's like, of course the kids have no idea what I'm saying. You know, it sounds pretty funny, but also you seem like too talented

to be given that role. That's like something you give someone like, hey, we don't really trust them with. Yeah, I don't know why I give Brad the pirate. Yeah. Stammering. Yeah. And it was one of those things. I think like this was the second iteration of us doing this skit.

Like I think they did it like, you know, five, six years before I had worked there. And they said like the first time, like Lucky was kind of like a throwaway character. And then all of a sudden, like not completely because of me, but obviously I made it my own and made it like somebody that people really liked. And so. That's fun.

You know what it reminds me of? I don't think I came up with this, but I'll go ahead and take some credit just in case I did. Just in case. No, I don't think I did. But you know, everyone's probably played the game Mafia

at some point or another or whatever. And every person there, you're given a role role you're a townsperson you're mafia whatever you're the night watchman you're the what's the other one is there a nurse yeah doctor yeah yeah doctor um i like to play it from that time especially i was doing a can of cuck with like seventh graders someone is the ice cream man and the ice cream man plays no part in the game it doesn't affect good or bad but just like all right you know towns people wake up and it's like all right so and so died last night but benjamin got ice cream and it's like oh like every night when you go to bed the ice cream man just

gets to choose who gets ice cream it's just kind of fun it's like you died but you were the one who got ice cream i like that like the lights are off like but you know one person just really under there it's like kind of a creepy vibe, but one person's just like, like there's some guy killing people in the streets, but the ice cream man's going around in his ice cream truck. Yeah. It gets a little creepy after a while. Yeah. That's lucky.

The pirate. Lucky the pirate. Ice cream, man. That's fun. Yeah. Um, what do you want to Lucky the pirate ice cream, man. That's fun. Yeah. Um, what do you want to freaking talk about? I don't freaking know.

Uh, I, uh, learned this week. So I have, I'm a member of the word, word workers guild, Kansas city.

Um, and I learned this week that I have a quote unquote reputation at the wood. Oh, that's scary it's not a good thing i felt i feel like a bad boy string bean reputation you know you have a reputation of just losing just just melting weight off of your body we call you big sauna around here uh no this guy comes up to me i'm nervous for you i could tell you the longer story and i will i'll talk about on the podcast but i'll tell you the end of the story first this guy comes up to me i'm nervous for you i could tell you the longer story and i will i'll talk about on the podcast but i'll tell you the end of the story first this guy comes up to me so like the way woodworkers guild works is that's hard to say the way the guild works yeah is there's

one person that's the foreman quote unquote and he's just basically in charge of overseeing the shop make like if it's open like he's in charge if anything does he get paid wrong no it's all volunteer stuff um and there's probably you know 20 or 30 people that are like eligible to be the foreman and so okay anyway roger's the foreman this day and i'm working and he comes up to me he's like brad hey just make sure you uh clean up uh your area uh you know i think i think you just said that at first i was like oh yeah no problem like i always i always I do that. I was, I was going back and forth. So I didn't clean up that machine. Cause I know I'm going to be back there in a second. Okay. Okay. Okay. I mean, just, just being honest with you, uh, you're gaining a little bit of a reputation of coming in, doing your work really fast and then just leaving. And I got a little, I got a little perturbed. Um,

I would. Yeah. So I don't know the situation at all, but I still would. So first of all, there are people at the guild. I mean, the rule is like, clean up your workspace when you're done, like clean up your tool when you're done, whatever. And there are like certain like 75 year old men who will get out of shop back and like go to every nook and cranny of that tool. And, Oh, wow. And I mean, the guild is often open for six hours at a time. And so I might be there the first two hours and I'm not going to like. Someone else is going to get sawdust on this. So it's like, I'm not going to like, like act like I'm trying to do, like sell this thing on Facebook marketplace tomorrow.

Like give it a nice car detailing or anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what I really think happened is there was one day, dude. And it wasn't. No, that's all it takes. There's a guy named John Johnson, which first of all, terrible name. Like, it's not like he like married into that name. Like his parents had to be like,

our last name's Johnson. What goes good with Johnson? Well, John Johnson, right? Billy Williams. And it's like, yeah, whatever. So John Johnson, I actually think it was a day that I met you at Qdoba randomly for lunch.

This was a long time ago. You think the reputation has followed you since Qdoba randomly for lunch. This was a long time ago. You think the reputation has followed you since Qdoba was still in business? Let me tell you. I think 2018. I think that's where it precipitated down from. So John Johnson, one time I went, like I left for, you know, an hour and a half to go to lunch. And I came back and John Johnson was the foreman in the morning. Gary Melke is now the foreman in the afternoon.

Mr. Melke. Yeah, the milkman, not the ice cream man, the milkman. And Gary's like, hey, FYI, John Johnson was not happy about you not cleaning up your table saw when you were done with it earlier. And I, you know, right hand to God, the Father Almighty up in heaven and earth. I promise I cleaned up my workstation. Oh, you did? I 100% did.

Okay. I didn't get the shot back out and, you know. But it was tidy. Yeah. I'm not an army cadet about it, but like, yeah, I cleaned it really well. And I think it was the guy after me. Oh, no. But ever since then, every single time I saw John Johnson.

He's got it out for you. I mean, nice, nicely, like very passive aggressively will be like, hey, just a reminder, just to make sure you make sure you clean up your work area when you're done. And I every single time was very gracious. And I was like, oh, definitely. Yes, I did. Maybe I should say every time but one. Finally, eventually, I was like, hey, I do that every time.

Yeah, I know. Thank you. I will. And then I would clean it and he would come up to me while i'm cleaning be like hey brad thank you so much for cleaning up he's treating like you're eight like trying to reaffirm your like your good actions and i i understand like a little bit of where he's coming from but i just i wanted so badly to be like that wasn't me the first time like i promise i always clean up it is like be an adult about just have a conversation

yeah he's like you know definitely um, carrying this like bitterness. I will say he did, I think either email or text me one day that I, that I, or maybe it was that day. Like, Hey Brad, you need to like be better at, you know, whatever. I think I just, I don't know if I responded, whatever. Anyway. Um, so I think that's kind of carried with me. Okay.

And then I definitely do have like a, like I get in there to do work. Like I'm not, some guys are in there to socialize like I get in there to do work. Like I'm not, some guys are in there to socialize and I get in there, I work and I, I do hustle around. I like, you know me, I like being efficient. Like, like I'm like, I'm here to do this. I'm going to do it and I'm going to leave. And so I, that's fair that I like don't visit with people. I don't think that's like a bad thing. Are there a bunch of old white men in there? There are. And that's what they do. They're, they're retired men that worked hard all their life so they can be retired. They're like, what's this guy doing? He doesn't even talk about the weather with us. He's in such a hurry. What's the deal with that? And I say hi to every single person. I say like, hi Ed. Hi, how you doing Roger? Thank you, Roger. Like I'm

very cordial, but I'm also like working while I'm there. They just don't like it. And anyway, I was already having like kind of a mediocre day. and then that like really like kind of hit me and i had to like really check myself because i like i i then like kind of processed it more and i was like well those guys have all the time in the world why can't they just clean up a little bit better than me on my stuff and i was like okay that sounds like a bad attitude so maybe maybe i do need to clean up a little bit better but anyway i'll have to say resident bad boy big daddy big bad day every guild's got everyone yeah you know so i'm wearing a leather jacket in there no no uh yeah loaded up a entire dining room table on my harley right it was worth it though it was worth it

anyway so that's i think that that was like last i don't know shortly after we recorded i must have had that happen i just wrote down guild reputation so now now of course i'm like trying so hard not only to like clean up my area really well but also like do it a little bit slower than i need to like i'm probably going to be seen cleaning probably oh yeah all right i'm leaving just got down on the miter saw if you want to take a peek yeah fyi i use this this and this but that guy used it after me so yeah i you know how like on a you know when you're in front of the camera you're always trying to like face the camera so they can hear you that's how i'm like sweeping now i'm like okay milk man

you seeing this huh milk man so anyway anyway, but it's all good. Bad boy of the guild. Yeah, honestly, I don't really. I mean, I obviously care a little bit about what people think of me, but I really care about like I don't want them to kick me out. I just want to stay in it. Yeah, this was me with very, very beneficial thing to me. My college scholarship GPA.

Yeah, it's like just three point two five. I don't care if they kick me out of the honors program. Just got to keep the scholarship. Right. So I hope you have that uh i ran into someone um uh ryan mustang i never met him before but uh some of the pickleball courts this past week it's saturday i think oh heck yeah man he's awesome yeah he was like hey just want to introduce myself i grew up with brad yada yada and i was like what's your name and then he's like ryan must i was like oh oh royalty yeah i was like totally know you and so he told me to tell you hi okay uh let me give you

something back unless you in case you see him on the pickleball court okay what's up dude okay okay I'll relay that back to him I'm pretty sure I know at one point he was a pretty avid podcast listener of ours so if I had to guess he's like three weeks behind okay maybe like four to five yeah because he said something and I thought it was a joke and I was like ah okay serious I thought If I had to guess, he's like three weeks behind. Okay. Maybe like four to five. Yeah. Because he said something and I thought it was a joke. And I was like, ah, okay, serious. I thought he's giving me a hard time. He's like, just want to come and say what's up. That way, you know, someone could finally recognize you in public.

And I was like, ah. And then he was like, yeah, because you said like Brad is always the one getting recognized. Oh, yeah. And I was like, oh, yeah. Yes. It has been a while then maybe. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. That was probably a month or two ago. And I was like, dude, what is going on? You're getting recognized then maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was probably a month or two ago. And I was like, dude, what is going on? You're getting recognized like crazy. Yeah. Right. And now you are. And now I just brag about it every week.

So I've changed. But Ryan must have changed the man. Yeah. Yeah. That's fun. Fun guy. Fun guy. Fun time.

His sister, fun fact, is the one I punched in the face. The only girl I've ever done that to. I promise. She's fun though. She's very fun. She could take it. She did. Very well. I mean mean barely even felt it um here's uh one voice memo it's kind of in the same vein as you know public oh you know

happenings let's do a little voice memo in the middle kind of thing is that what we're doing you could tell it's a voice memo but it's from uh an iMessage with Rachel Koop. But Brad, you're not going to hear Rachel Koop's voice. This is one of the kids that she's nannying right now. A nine-year-old named Emmy. Oh, fun. Emmy's awesome. Emmy's awesome. Actually, a quick little sidebar about Emmy.

I went to like meet some of the kids she was nannying and like we all met up at Chick-fil-A last week. There's three of them, right? Yeah, good memory. Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar. That was funny. Tony's on the way i don't i don't have a place for this to fit anywhere but i wrote a joke like for me for a stand-up set because we've talked about this in the podcast how i don't feel like i'm a comedian at all i'm like a true comedian to me it's like a jerry son you know like they

are the ones like hosting the oscars i don't i have a friend named oscar yeah you know it just feels different i don't know where that fits anyway emmy is hilarious like when we met up at chick-fil-a uh she had crutches and had been like you know it's like i let yesterday at soccer i did something my ankle or whatever we find out she has been just like milking this just faking it um the entire day just to mess with me and rachel and so we're just like laughing like that's funny you know because i'm trying to ask her i was like do you have like a favorite crutch you know and she. And so we're just like laughing. Like, that's funny, you know, because I'm trying to ask her. I was like, do you have like a favorite crutch? You know, and she was like, neither.

And she's like answering really funny. Like she hates these crutches. Turns out not only is she faking it because I was like, well, wait, you said to get crutches from somewhere. How do you get crutches? Yeah. And then her older sister goes,

she ordered them on Amazon with her own money. So I guess Emmy just wanted to like, I think just got, I don't know if she got jealous or just like she thought it would look so fun to be on crutches dude i kind of get it yeah and she's i guess for years just never broke a bone so she's like i'm just gonna have to do this myself i remember thinking like they basically like these kids that broke a leg like they're basically swinging all around school right now they're just swinging one step at a time and i mean there's so

much attention everyone knows when the crutch walks by where it's talking to him what happened and so yeah she spent her own money 17 on crutches on amazon that's all they are so yeah i was like cheap good for you good for her yeah so funny anyway she sent me a voice memo today from rachel's phone okay here it is okay jake it's emmy and Ford, and we're at this coffee shop called Monarch, and there was this guy, and we looked at his computer, and he was watching a Gene Schwartz comedy video, and it was like Brad versus you, and yeah, it was really funny. It was really funny. That's amazing. Yeah, that was so cute. It's so fun.

Yeah, I got that today, because I was like, oh,achel sent me a little midday voice memo what's this and then he's like um hi so but yeah that's pretty cool i've never even seen that but they were at a coffee shop today like literally watching someone consume our video yeah in person yeah that's pretty fun i wonder if it was the latest one you know the 90s one or yeah i wonder brad versus jake brad versus jake the fight yeah fight night that's amazing that's so that's so cute and fun yeah so rachel taking their little nine-year-old kid to monarch i don't know you don't approve yeah it's fine i mean it's just it's in the city man city that's kind of where this family lives oh they do yeah they live in like midtown oh for whatever reason i was thinking they were right by Summer Moon or something.

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What sounds good? I was like, Italian sounds good. Rachel, of course, is like, I don't care. It's like, great. I'm looking up like Italian restaurants nearby. Where were you? Metcalf, 95th area. Sinzetti's?

Okay, you nailed it. Okay. Did you really? So, yes. Dude! I didn't know. Have you been? I really so yes dude i didn't know have you been i didn't know i didn't know oh dude it my brother you are in for a treat i don't know how more people aren't talking about i don't know how everyone in america isn't talking about this place i mean this should

be you know andrew tate is taking over tiktok since eddie should be taking over tiktok since eddie's a chain i don't even know i don't know anything like i don't know if anybody outside of kids is gonna know this or not go ahead it's okay so yeah i just google italian restaurant i'm like cool um since eddie's sounds sounds fine it says italian it doesn't look like it's a chain uh i don't know the when i looked it up like something about colorado came up but i'm seeing here um it looks like maybe it's just overland park that i'm seeing okay anyway i'm trying to find what their slogan is it's something like so as soon as we roll up you can eat italian feast yeah that sounds right yeah so yeah their slogan we get to the restaurant

says all you can eat Italian feast. And we're like, whoa. And the only things we see outside of the restaurant are like families of like eight waiting to get in. And we're like, this is already like pretty interesting. This is. And dude, it is. You walk in there.

And for the next hour. I saw America. It was everything that our founding fathers wanted america to be oh it's inside of that since eddies since eddies is awesome dude i saw i saw people look like they were having the best day of their life i saw one guy lean over the rachel and i said he looks shipwrecked he was wearing a white tank top and looked wet and just had all the life sucked out of his eyes he had a long blue collar day and this is his one meal for the day since eddie's he was just walking around yeah he looks shipwrecked because like like since eddie's can i explain it or is there any like uh yeah you

go and explain i'll tell you more about what i saw in there essentially in my opinion i mean i haven't been there since high school but which is crazy because it's one of those things like why haven't we been there you gotta take the whole family it is essentially like i just looked it up it's 20 adult buffet so it's like a higher end, all you can eat like Italian buffet, but still not like insane. It's not like a Vegas buffet or anything like that. But it's like, I mean, like obviously there's pizza, but there's so much like pasta. I remember they had, you know, all the icy machines and like a soda and all this different stuff. I mean, it's wonderful. And it's like good.

I think, was it good? Dude, I, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like, it's like, it's like, like, I mean, talk about a cheat day for Big Daddy. Let's go to Cincinnati's and just pig out. Just the things in there. Yeah, it's hard to even know where to start talking about it.

I'll talk about the food. So they have every kind of pasta imaginable, you know, spaghetti without meatballs, spaghetti with meatballs spaghetti with meatballs they've got um chicken marsala they've got um penne pasta okay they've got fettuccine alfredo sure they've got um i had some gnocchi in some pink sauce sure put it on the plate i don't like gnocchi they had kansas city barbecue there they had chicken parmesan not not a pasta just barbecue they had kansas barbecue yeah it not a pasta just barbecue straight they had

kenshi barbecue yeah it's a long line i was like what are you guys waiting for like barbecue i was like great um i mean they have every kind of pizza you can imagine they have all these options that you know were red meat that i couldn't even have yeah um they have a crepe station the entire middle island is no way just crepes um they have an entire ice cream station. Yeah, they have Mari. I'm looking here. Multiple types of bread. Just different breadstick options. Oh, yeah. They have something made a chicken. I was in Italian. I couldn't read it, but it was covered in some zesty lemon sauce.

And I had a gallon of it. Oh, they had they have everything you can dream of in this place. I never like fill up my plate. I never fill up my stomach. But so many things look good. I like ran out of room. I had to put the garlic mashed potatoes on top of the spaghetti. Better than you think, guys.

A couple bites got mixed. So it was it was not. It was just. I saw everything in there. Like I said, yeah, people shipwrecked. I saw a guy in a suit. I saw a guy wearing overalls. I saw a 70 year old man with an Afro. I saw an abandoned

toddler in the bathroom. I mean, I'm serious. Like it was like six flags with carbs. Interesting. Yeah. It was just an amusement park of carbohydrates. Yeah. It was amazing. I saw there was a guy, Rachel saw one of her former students in there, Rosedale middle school. Okay. Saw him in there. We saw teenagers in there. Okay. Saw him in there. We saw teenagers in there. We saw birthday parties in there. We saw 50 year wedding anniversary parties in there. We saw skateboarders waiting outside. We saw, you know, teenage girls wearing crop tops in there.

Next to us was a man named Francis. I know that his name was Francis because the waitress called him by name and said, hey, welcome in, Francis. And for the next 45 minutes, I saw Francis eat a week's worth of food. Yeah. He was in there in a cutoff tank top. He came by himself and dude, I was like Joey chestnut. I've never seen anyone put down that much food in my life. It was phenomenal. I was like, this dude's getting his money's worth. Oh man. Yeah. I, I feel like my dad's like a part of like a alumni or not alumni, but like retired Johnson County community college association. I think they always meet at

Cincinnati. It's like, it's like a business meeting area sometimes, but it's also like, yeah, just like a, like it's, it's like, you know, like some places that in your mind you think are nice, but other people are like, no, let's just go to our flip flops or wife beater. Like, no problem. Like it's all these like random different things. So I just couldn't believe what I was seeing. Uh, I learned that kansas city barbecue i'm looking on their website kansas city barbecue is available wednesday through sunday so lucky me don't go monday or tuesday if you want to experience that uh also there are two locations one in overland park kansas one uh north of denver in a town called north glen colorado cool so next time we have a ghosty meetup we gotta go i had the exact thought because

that's a perfect location you guys obviously they can they could get those get our food done quick and do they have icy still i didn't see ices no that must have been the crepe station maybe so they they took out the ices i want everyone to see this because i'm not embellishing a single like piece of this i mean they had watermelon they had beets just beets not even beet salad just beets just fresh yeah yeah good for them no i love it man uh let's yeah i i would love to do that with you and i just kept eating and eating because i love pasta so much and i ate myself i think this happens to other people like more often but i never i think get full like this and i couldn't like i couldn't move like it was just my stomach yeah i was just resting on rachel's car and i was like i can't i can't move right now and she was like okay well let me know when you can't

i have a surprise for you and my purse i was like five minutes i can't even i i can't i don't want to show any emotion yet um that's how i feel every time i go to like a mexican place with all you can eat chips because i eat so many chips at the beginning of the meal and then it's like uh like i still have to eat the thing i'm actually paying for. Even if I only eat half of it, I'm so full. I just, I'm not used to consuming that much food. And it was, yeah, it was primarily all carbs, but yeah, dude, my stomach was just expanding and expanding and I felt so sick, but wow, it was a fun experience. I had to talk about it. Sins Eddie's. I mean, maybe for your birthday, your birthday's coming up. You want to like go back to back? Should yeah i gotta play it safer this time yeah that is fun he was always thinking

about doing i feel like i'm always the one like trying to like plan something for my own birthday so i'm like i don't know if i need to but i just think it sounds so fun just to play a bunch of sports yeah we don't have to celebrate me or anything just like hey who's in town let's play sports listen this is your birthday so we're doing whatever you want. But I want to say we should do sports all day. Get a healthy appetite. That $20 would definitely suffice. And then Sinzetti's at night. Yeah, Sinzetti's at night.

That's so fun. What do you think of that? That's so fun. Let's see when they are open. Birthday's on a Saturday this year. I mean, the barbecue's available. The barbecue will be there. They're open until 9 p.m. on Saturday.

We can make that work. Yeah. So that's fun. Rachel might also have plans for you beyond Sinzetti's. But I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. But yeah, it was just awesome.

I just couldn't believe like. Yeah, I'm so glad Rachel is there just to enjoy everything that I saw in that place. It was just awesome. It was just awesome. It was just awesome. Did she think it was great too? Yeah, we loved it.

Yeah, it was awesome. I don't know if Catherine's even ever been to Sinzetti's. Oh, bring her. Let's go. Bring her. Awesome, dude. I feel, and I feel like most, like Sinzetti's back in the day, $20 for a buffet seemed extravagant. Whereas now, like a lot of places cost, I mean like a sit down restaurant is usually

going to be $15 or more. Yeah. If you get a drink, you get a sody pop. Oh, easily. Yeah. And then once you tip, then it's definitely over $20 probably. So yeah. Yeah. So it doesn't seem as, I mean, obviously I have more money than I did in high school too, but it doesn't seem as ridiculous to spend $20 on a buffet that you're just eating four meals in one. And the buffet is fun. Yeah. It's like, I mean, I wouldn't normally get this this but now let's try it let's you know categorize a fourth of my plate for it yeah if you're international like an international person and you come to america like go to an all-you-can-eat buffet that's gotta be your first place you go that and like that's what i said i was like this is a baseball game like just certain things are like just a college

football tailgate like certain things are so Americana. County Fair. County Fair is a great one. Yeah. Yeah. The DMV. Mar-a-Lago. The White House.

But yeah, that was fun. Fun. What'd you eat this week? Nothing between the hours of nine and noon. Probably eight and noon pretty much yeah um yeah i had i've actually had a lot of fun like meals with people lately it's been fun i got got lunch with sam severs uh okay you know uh children's pastor from our church yeah who i've become you know close friends with and uh got i did eat breakfast on saturday morning i'll be

honest i fudged uh we we went down to Calvin and Molly Beck's house. Oh, yeah. Shout out to them. Calvin's a big listener of the podcast, I believe. Calvin, thanks for breaking my friend's intermittent fast. Appreciate it. It was delicious, though. And yeah, just like, you know, just having fun.

I went out on a date night with Catherine, which is kind of rare. We went to we were going to go to Blue Sushi. Forty five minute wait on a date night with Catherine, which is kind of rare. We went to, we were going to go to blue sushi, 45 minute wait on a Sunday night at seven 30. I don't think that's ever happened. Sunday night, Sunday night, 45 minutes. It was one of those things that I doubted her when she said 45,

I was like, I bet it's max 15, but like Catherine was like, I'm so hungry. Let's go. So I don't want to wait. Yeah. I was like,

I can eat anything. Where'd you go? Uh, Lulu's just a classic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We love it. It's great somewhere else. I don't want to wait. Yeah. I was like, I can eat anything. Where'd you go? Lulu's. Just a classic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We love it. It's great. Chill outside venue.

So I'm into boba tea. Rachel loves boba tea. Taro is the flavor I get. I don't know what it is. T-A-R-O. Yuzu. Yuzu. Yeah.

It's like this milky. Milk. It's so good. I don't even know. It's like purplish and it's awesome a lot of hatches may turn out it's hard to imagine kind of but that's cool yeah yeah yeah anyway um but that's about all i've eaten these days a lot of tea and colorado peaches uh we ordered like a don't know about that a box of like 30 peaches from like they it's like one time a year this farm

from colorado like delivers like to kansas city these like wonderful peaches and they're in season how do you find out about something like this my mom found like my mom ordered them a couple years ago moms are great it's always like this is the best peach i've ever had she's like yeah it's from this thing you know whatever um and so then last year we ordered some and this year we ordered some more i mean and i think we got yeah like i said 30 and i think we ate them all in a week. You ever make any Colorado sploosh? I would love to.

If we had more peaches, we would. Like we almost went back the next day because I was like, we're going to run out of these peaches too fast. Let's go get some more. But we did. Colorado peaches. Yeah. Like Western Colorado.

So, yeah. Brad, I have something I'm so excited to show you um that's what i airdropped you don't don't look at it yet not yet not yet not yet i gotta set it up a little bit okay um and i wish scott was here because i think he would be so excited scott just texted us and said whoa whoa whoa travis reliford's on your team it's so funny how scott like only listens to 20 minutes at a time of our podcast yeah just while he's driving yeah yeah so i guess he got to that part from last week um anyway uh a quick follow up on that will severance texted me individually and i was like hey sorry i might have um pushed a little hard to get to a league and i was like it's all good i was just shocked at how confident you

were you know to join uh a league made up of 100 college basketball players and we have gunner duckworth as our small ford when we would have zero college basketball players right and anyway he was just like yeah yeah it's all good he's like you know what's funny is um this exact same thing happened to me in college i basically made all of my friends play a league basketball we didn't win any games i was like now i don't i feel even less bad what's funny is you haven't learned your lesson seven years ago, I did this exact same thing and I have two kids now

and I haven't matured or, you know, he's like, my friends still give me a hard time about it. I mean, on one hand,

I kind of respect it. Like, I'm like, Hey, you're reaching for the stars, baby. Like on the other hand, it's like,

maybe you should learn from your mistakes. It sounds like you've been through this exact same thing. That's great. And you know the result and you didn't learn from it. So yeah,

that was kind of a funny follow-up that's funny he's like yes same thing happened anyway how many games are we gonna win in intermediate honestly half you think i don't know if we're gonna win that many teams worse than i don't know how good tate is like i mean i think he might be like very good but then again rustin was i mean rustin was rusty no pun intended but he was still very good too. I think Tate will be the best player you and I have ever played with. You think so? Yeah, I think so. Great.

Yeah. Take that, Rustin. Sorry, Rusty. I miss Rustin and I miss his family. Me too. Bree, if you're listening, we miss you. Oh yeah, I forgot she listens. Catherine went to a baby shower.

Yeah, for Aaron Bowling. Baby shower. I was trying to think. Like when I said it, it was like one of those things was like, is that the right? Or was it a bridal shower? No, it was a baby shower. Yeah, for Aaron Bowling. Baby shower. I was trying to think like when I said it, it was like one of those things was like, is that the right or was it a bridal shower? No, it was a baby shower. And Bree was there and she got to spend some time with Bree. She's like, I like Bree a lot. She's so cool. Yeah, cool. Cool people. Yeah. Anyway,

I think Bree's the best. Someone just replied to our story about Cameo. Yeah. Said, y'all are all hustle and I love it. Hustle is spelled wrong, but that's us, baby. Two S's? Yeah. Okay. Nipsey Two S's? Yeah. Okay. Nipsey style. Yeah, exactly.

Okay. Can't think of anything to ask for in Cameo just yet, but in my dream world, I'd ask y'all to tell my boss to stink it because I quit. That's fun. Hey, first person to do that will Venmo you or will Cameo you or whatever. We'll send you back your money because that's really fun. If you actually quit. Yeah. That's fun. Is that a good thing to encourage i don't know yeah i don't know now they have less money and we have less money no i'm just kidding i mean

we would lose money on that transaction but it'd be a pretty great story hey uh mrs donaldson um kelly says stink it she's tired of BCC-ing her on all these emails. I don't know. Why are you BCC-ing me on things that have nothing to do with me? I do not think that is funny. Rachel, Tim, and I are playing golf this past weekend. Course on Independence. Beautiful course.

Winterstone. Doubt it. It is nice um at the turn you know after nine holes we go to like go get like a gatorade or something and we're like the gatorade stuff is normally in here where is it like oh yeah it's not in there there's a hawaiian birthday party happening in there that's fun and themed or person i think yeah or both yeah you can do both i don't know what the theme was after looking at the folks in the parking lot after 18 holes. Hawaiian people.

Fun. Which is probably more fun than just Hawaiian theme. Anyway, so 18 holes is over. I drop Rachel and Tim off with their car. I go back to my car. I go to load my clubs up. And when I get to my car, there are people surrounding my car. Let me put it this way.

If my car was landmass okay and the people was were water it would be a peninsula okay i can't make it any clearer than that uh which part is connected not to them the front oh so you well but was there a car in front of yours um like could you have gotten out uh no well i couldn't even really get to my car i need to like get in my trunk put my golf clubs back i can't even really get to you know i can't get to the door or the trunk or anything and as i walk up a woman how many how many how many people how much water is around this peninsula 11 to 12 units wow big family yeah in numbers and okay no okay no in numbers all right and i've seen hello hello inata yeah i've seen moana's uncle

uh and so as i get there a woman part of the peninsula first says oh sorry and i'm like i guess she's probably apologizing because they're around my car i'm like oh no worries no worries yeah and i'm kind of putting i like open my trunk i'm starting to put my clubs in and before i can even do that she goes she looks at me again she goes i promise it wasn't me oh so now i'm like i don't know what i don't know what happened here and um so i'm like okay it's all good you know i can't tell what's going on right as that happens then this man uh i hear him like clinking around my club he's like nice set of irons you got here or whatever and i was like oh okay thank you he's like touching your clubs yes which is

whatever i mean it's not like illegal or anything but it's just a little bit awkward yeah it was a little awkward and so then i look i'm like oh thank you i'm like trying to see what club he's actually looking at because some clubs are a little nicer but most of my clubs are bought off facebook marketplace they're from 2008 yeah and of course that's the club he's like whoa looky here what is this boom tech bomb what he pulls it out of the bag now he's got in his hands and he starts swinging it around this time tim drives the golf cart past me and he just i feel like he's like what's going on you know whatever i'm like i don't know this guy's taking full swings in the parking lot with my clubs this guy's inebred um no i think just like really friendly okay i think it's just his vibe but i'm a little on edge i'm like is my being swindled i

feel like she was just apologizing for something and now he's trying to get my attention over here oh yeah you know like i don't know what's happening oh yeah and this guy is just fully swinging my club just like how much how much do these run for? And I'm like, are you trying to like buy it? You know, I'm like, oh, not. They're like super old. And we have this conversation about clubs. He pulls a few more out, takes a couple of cuts.

And then he's like, all right, we'll have a good day. And so anyway, just kind of a weird, funny thing. And I mean, Tim and Rachel make the comment. They're like, I feel like just weird stuff like that is always happening to you. And I'm like, people say that all the time. Like, it's not the case. I think just like when you have a podcast, you look for stuff like that is always happening to you and i'm like people say that all the time like it's not the case i think just like when you have a podcast you look for stuff like that when you you know you try to tell jokes or like you just you're looking for moments like that so i'm really denying it yeah and then 24 hours later i am leaving sand volleyball okay isaac is in the car with me and

what you're about to see is some dash cam footage. And this is like, OK, maybe they were on to something because I don't think stuff like this happens to everyone. So there's two videos. Brad, I want you to click on the one that says front, I think. OK, like widen the like, you know, file name out. Yep. And then skip ahead to like probably, you know, 20 seconds or so. The first 20 seconds, there's nothing in it.

OK, Justin, I'm going to press here can we can we dub this in later all right i'm gonna go to i'm not looking anything 19 here comes ready 20 seconds starting right ready justin now i don't think there's gonna be any Okay. So you're seeing me kind of drive up. It's like GeoGuessr video. Yeah, I'm thinking North America. All right, so we're crossing some railroad tracks now. You see there's a girl on a bike. Yes.

I kind of joked Isaac. Nice night for a bike ride. Nice night. Yeah. It's 1030 at night. Missourian. Is that Rachel? Now a car has stopped.

No, the car has stopped on the right. Okay. All right, Brad, now pause it. Oh, gosh. I pressed the space bar. Dang it. Dang it. My bad. All right, go to like 40, 45 seconds and pause it. 45 seconds. 41, 42, 43. Pause. Okay. Do you see anything

oh something like straight ahead okay there's like there's like somebody in the middle of the road it looks like oh is that a car on the left side of the road like in a ditch or something i don't know go a little bit further and then pause it again. Okay. Pressing play. Pausing at 47 seconds. Somebody's walking towards you in the road. Dude, a literal zombie is walking towards me. All right. You could play the rest. Basically, I start freaking out.

This guy is just walking towards me in the middle of the street at night at 1030 at night, holding his hand. And like as you swerve, he's like swerving with you. He's doing like defensive slide drills with me. What in the world? Dude, it was terrifying. Wait, so first of all, do you have like a dash cam? Yeah, yeah.

Oh, okay. I was like, why are you filming this? That's what that was. I'm a YouTuber. Yeah. I just, everything's content. Just blatantly out of the gate. You're in Missouri, right?

Yes. Okay. I just have to keep emphasizing that. content uh just blatantly out of the gate you're in missouri right yes okay um just i just i just have to keep emphasizing that because it's amazing how just true the stereotype is uh page far joked about uh missouri and kansas the other day she had like a onesie for her uh she's had a baby this past week and before it was born she had a missouri onesie i was like poor kid or something like that she's like i'm sure you can find the kansas version of this at walmart and i was like that's a good that's a good comeback but anyway what in the world that i mean that guy's just yeah this is on a sunday night sunday night 10 30 at night a man is walking towards me on a street that has a 40 mile an hour speed limit trying to get hit. And as I swerve, he runs left as I go right, he runs right.

And it kind of looks like as you are passing him, it looks like he is like trying to approach you. Is that right? Yeah. So I have to drive off the road to get around him. And when I do, he like takes a swipe at my car, which I know what he's going to do to punch a car like that. Pride when it felt good.

It would have been like, yeah, you the hawaiians can do some damage watch this and that means family yeah which i'm now realizing i never looked at like the outside of my car i don't know if anyone did anything worth their apology who cares whatever yeah whatever i trust him i like hawaii and so out you know as he like takes a swipe my car we make some good eye contact in the driver's side window he says something along the lines of like hit me with some expletives in there you won't hit me or something like that and dude it was so terrifying i mean and kind of sad too honestly i mean this guy's clearly like drugged out of his mind he's just walking down a street trying to get hit dude okay sorry i'm interrupting okay and now there's one other video you could play the one from like

this is kind of like looking backwards now. OK, so if you want to like fast forward kind of towards the end of that video, you can see him barely get hit and then you see him barely get hit by you. Or like, sorry, almost I should have said almost get hit by me and then really almost get hit by the car behind me, dude. OK, let's see. OK, you're passing. Martin City, OK.

OK, I'm at 35 seconds here, Justin. Okay, you're passing Martin City. Okay. Okay, I'm at 35 seconds here, Justin. Going over the tracks. Nothing happens to like 54. All right. Well, we're just letting it ride. You're slowing down. You're kind of swerving around. Going real real slow and this guy's like yelling at you oh he like he yeah he like if this was old

school madden he pressed l1 right there and just like juke left and right into it yeah into the car behind me we thought he was gonna get hit by them dude well it was scary okay the the the protector in me the husband in me is like what about that girl on the bike totally i thought well even more than that i called rachel immediately of course she was in her own car too so i called her and i was like hey if you turn left out of the parking lot watch out there's a guy in the middle of the street yeah it's like what and i was like did you turn left or right on the parking lot she's like i turned right and i was like forget it. Forget everything I said. Just go clean the dishes.

Wow. That's. Yes, I called her. Yeah, it is. I don't know what to think of the girl. I was already a little sketched out, too, because it looked like a car had stopped on the right to like, I don't know. Yeah. Say something to that girl anyway. I don't know. It was a weird 20 seconds. And my adrenaline was pumping. We left there. And yeah, I was like, maybe Tim was right. Maybe these things do happen. It happened to me kind of weirdly. Or Tim's just like this, you know, Iowa country boy. And he's like, I'm not coming to the city anymore. You know, I do always give him a hard time. Like,

so what's it like in the big city? How are you adjusting? It's all relative, but yeah, some people like are like nervous in Kansas city city like driving and stuff but yeah my dad hates driving in kansas city really yeah i have a yeah the pastorate from k-state he visited me one time and we were like driving on the interstate he was like white knuckle like he was so nervous really um i've had a few different experiences kind of similar to this and every time it just bums me out and like yeah it's scary kind of in like someone is trying to get hit by my car they were dodging into me yeah it's just so sad man and it's just that's rough have you had something like that happen actually not no not that i there was one time i mean whatever not to get into it too much but katherine i want to walk in this beautiful park in kansas Missouri. And this woman got thrown out of a truck.

Oh, and later like, and like, whatever, I don't have to get into all the details, but later we figured out that she was selling herself. We'll just put that. Dang. And just got thrown out. Yeah. Like literally like, I think she was kind of drugged up. And then, so then she called this guy and this guy was like yelling.

She was like, can I borrow your phone to call somebody to pick pick me up and then she calls this guy that like did not want to talk to her and dang anyway that was really sad like we prayed for her and and then yeah another experience where i i like witnessed like two homeless people just like having a very like physical fight oh yeah you told me that that's great that's it's just hard to see stuff like it's just really hard to just like and at both those times katherine was with me. And so it's like, not only is it hard for me, but it's also hard to know what to do to protect. It's like, I want to help this person, but I also want to make sure I'm yeah.

Not neglecting. Endangering. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Anyway. So yeah, that stuff's hard, man. It's heavy. So that's crazy though.

And I do feel like more things happen to you. Like that is really true. But I think it's because you do a lot of things. If you fill your schedule, it's just mathematically more things are more likely to happen. Right. Yeah. You give yourself better chances. So if you're in college, get a meal plan, live on campus, change your life. I met a guy today at UPS who was like, yeah, it's actually my last 27 minutes here. I could tell he was, I could tell you said you didn't have to tell me. I was like, Oh yeah, dude, almost over

for the day. It's awesome. He's like almost over forever, dude. I'm going to Manhattan tomorrow. You're like, Oh, K state is Kansas. You should book a cameo with us. We can help you. We can help you quit. But I was just like, dude, just enjoy the heck out of it, man. It's going to be the best four years of your life. It's going too fast like all the cliches oh he was like an 18 year old at ups yeah he's going to he's gonna be a freshman at k-state cool cool and i was like love like just enjoy it i mean we talked about the dorms and you know yeah it's fun so he's you can tell he's like like just like got this fresh like he's like ready to take on the world kind of thing so cool uh ready to get out of ups first of all but um yeah uh

let's see i did mention a little bit that i was on this yeah podcast with harrison last night but it was really fun yeah i really enjoyed it um harrison is really good at asking questions and interviewing people i think like he's a good listener he's a he's a caring guy yeah yeah he's emotionally intelligent yes yeah we covered all the bases of Brad Ellis basically from, you know, woodworking, podcasting, YouTube, uh, family life, you know, everything, anything in between. We talked about you a decent amount. Oh, wow. Uh, and I just like how you and I became friends and just our dynamic and everything. It was, it was really fun interview. And we, I think, I don't, I don't know how long most people talk to him, but I definitely think we, we talked twice as long as

usual. That's awesome. And it was great. It was one of those things where I was like, I'll keep doing this forever. And Harrison's like, yeah, I mean you, like the ghost runners, they, you guys are talking all the time. Like I can hear you guys singing to the end, the end, the episode at 1130, when I'm trying to go to sleep. And so I was like, yeah, I'll do this, do this forever. I just, it was, it was it was just fun um to do that with him and uh yeah he told he told you the story obviously you're his roommate but he he has this Instagram account um that just basically reposts old like nostalgic 90s 2000 sports things and he's a Steelers fan so he posted about this Steelers quarterback in the 90s named Cordell

Stewart and Cordell Stewart was like kind of a big deal I mean he was a bigers fan, so he posted about this Steelers quarterback in the 90s named Cordell Stewart. And Cordell Stewart was kind of a big deal. I mean, he was a big deal in his day. He was one of the 30 NFL quarterbacks. And Cordell Stewart reached out to Harrison and was like, this is awesome, man. Thank you for doing this. Because Harrison's account is not big by any means. Yeah, he was on cloud nine from that. So anyway, it was fun to talk through all that stuff with them.

And, um, yeah, I told him the whole story about how big daddy, the name, big daddy started and everything. The blackjack game. Yeah. That's fun. Hit it one time. So anyway, yeah, it was a great time. I, it's different.

Like when you're the, when you, when you're just like a guest. Yeah. You're not steering the ship. Yeah. Yeah. And of course I think you steer the ship here anyway but at least like i know kind of i can be like hey let's talk about this more until you're still in control yeah yeah like we're co-hosts obviously but you're the you're the play-by-play i think but anyway it's just like like i was like

i don't know if this is gonna go on forever i don't know i'm okay with it going on forever but i didn't know you know what was what was going to happen. And anyway, it was a fun time. So I'm excited to hear the feedback. Hopefully somebody listens to it. I don't know. It came out last Thursday, right?

Correct. Cool. Speaking of football, just super quick. Cause I know this really only affects about 30 of you listening, but go starters, guillotine league. Yo,

you thought I was going to do chiefs. Oh, the Tomahawk chop was up. I'm sorry. Go chiefs. Oh, the tomahawk chop was up. I'm sorry. Go Chiefs! Oh! Oh! I was going to talk about the

little Ghost Runners Fantasy Football League. Oh! And how much fun that was last year. Oh! I think this season what I'll do is instead of just one league can you please finish it I can't talk

I've been there dude can you please oh don't take that breath in stop um yeah last year it was so fun i think everyone involved had a great time unless you got knocked out week one then maybe it wasn't that fun but um yeah i think i want to do two leagues this year you know that way more people could play okay and then the week 18 the two like league winners will play each other be kind of fun oh yeah that's fun i like that i also had the idea i think we talked about maybe on the podcast but

like of the very last week after the two super teams are formed everyone else everyone else has a chance to get back in it like with a redraft that is kind of fun is that even possible to do um surely i mean yeah somebody figure it out yeah if we took it to like a different like app or differently you know it's kind of like almost like we're starting over yeah like a mock draft like a draft kings kind of thing yeah yeah because i think that would be really fun too it's like it's like yeah you don't have the two all-star teams but like let's see what you can do out of the c plus players still james connor's available yeah big week you never know um so anyway be looking for that i'm sure i like sometime soon i will announce a

draft date and time i think i'll do it like last year where the patrons you know 15 patrons get a 15 minute heads up five dollar patrons get a five minute heads up what about ten dollar patrons i hadn't thought about that per se let's just say like nine minute heads up that makes the most sense to me yeah and it'll be posted probably just like you know facebook page instagram story so if you hear about football just start you know just pay attention we'll have a draft here in like a couple weeks or so so um yeah i think it'd be so fun yeah it's gonna be just want to you know get that out there just know it's coming soon um join if you like playing fantasy football and know what's happening awesome right anything else you want to get some voice memos? Yeah, I got a few things written down here.

Hit me. One is Ellis Cousin Creations is officially an influencer. I shared this with you. Oh, yeah. I'm almost more proud of how this happened than like the fact that it did happen. I posted a reel. You know, I'm not getting very much traction on my reels,

but I'm having fun posting them. But, you know, I put hashtags in there because I think that helps. Good, good, good, good posting them. Uh, but you know, I put hashtags in there cause I think that helps. Um, and almost immediately somebody like responded and was like, Hey, I'm a salesperson for this company called a tiger stop. And we sell these like, you know, whatever industrial machines. And I thought maybe you'd be perfect to buy one of our things. Would you be interested in learning more? And almost immediately I respond and I just said, uh, I'm not interested in buying one, but I do have a YouTube channel that has 130,000 subscribers on their way to

10 million. Um, let me put it this way. Would you be interested in paying me to like, to like promote your reverse Uno card? Yeah. And just of course thinking like, there's no way because like everything that I could tell about this,

uh, company, it was like for like, you know, huge assembly line, kind of like cabinet shops and like big woodwork. Massive. Right. Yeah.

And so I was like, they're not like they're not really going to go for anything. They're not going to be able to send me a $40,000 machine or anything like that. Yeah, I see. And she's like, well, send me over an email. So I literally like more or less copy and pasted the email I sent to Dave Ramsey's people and send it over to her. And she's like, this actually looks great. I'll get in contact, you know, with our person. Long story short, this person contacted me.

We had a conference call and she is going to send me out this product. I mean, the product that she's sending me, I was like for a smaller business, like smaller garage kind of shop, but it's still like a 4500 product that i get for free just for free yeah it's called saw gear check it out if you saw gear saw gear also i did that uh real like got like 2000 views on it you know so really nailed it um sawdust um but anyway but she was like and the whole time i was thinking like okay i i I, I, I was going to be like this awkward thing of like, you can send me the tool, but I'm still going to need to get paid some money. If we're going to do like a jean shorts video. Yeah. Yeah. My friends are obviously not just going to be

like, Hey, cool that you got the tool. We'll take a third of the tool, I guess. Or maybe just pay us back for like 1500 of that. Like, um, yeah. And so, uh, so she was like, Oh no, no, this will just be with Elliss custom creations like you can like you just have to post a few things on your instagram story if you like it and then if you really like it then we'll just do some more videos with jean shorts we'll pay you more for that hot dog i was like this is the greatest thing ever like this is the greatest like finesse you know like i have a 5 000 you know follower instagram account i'm not a big deal at all in the woodworking community especially with that. It sounds like they're not even like the right fit for you,

really. No. Yeah. If anything, they would work with like Bobcat or something, you know, that's something that's like, I don't know, a big company doing heavy machinery. I don't really understand why people like that are marketing that way because yeah, not very many people, even like true, like woodworkers like me are like this, this, this product is really, really cool. It like makes it so that you can like enter even like true, like woodworkers like me are like this, this, this product is really, really cool. It like makes it so that you can like enter in like 12, let's say you're trying to make a 12 inch cut. You enter on this computer 12 inches and it like slides this thing to where if you put your wood right up to this slide, it'll make it exactly 12 inches.

And so it's like a cool thing, but you could also do that with a tape mesher for free. You know, like it's like not $4,500 probably worth of a product for most people. And so, yeah, I don't know how their ROI is going to be on this, but I'm excited about it. Wow. So that is exciting. Yeah, that's really fun. And that just reminded me, you would love this

about almost as soon as we launched Mood Swings this past week. It's crazy that the golf community, you know, we've launched things, you know, Jean Schwartz Girls Channel, whatever. and it's never been like this so many people reached out to us on instagram like hey so excited you guys are getting into golf i'd love to send you some stuff oh really dude i ate it up oh yeah i went full brad alice imagine i full-on brad oh just like yeah it sounds great and i was very clear with them i was like you know basically like we

are not giving you a shout out yeah but we will wear the clothes and the videos and stuff. And they were just like, yeah, great. So, I mean, hat from one company, polos from one company, hoodies from one company, joggers from one company. Yesterday, Whataburger gave us golf balls. Come on. So it's just like, it's so fun. It's like we have like no followers yet.

And all these companies like, hey, I think golf is so competitive. Everyone's trying to get their name out there, I guess. Yeah. There's probably so many companies. And I think there's a lot of money in golf, so it doesn Everyone's trying to get their name out there, I guess. Yeah, there's probably so many companies. And I think there's a lot of money in golf, so it doesn't take much. Just, you know, throw something somebody's way for free, I guess. Cool. So, yeah, I was loving that.

Day one, I was like, we got so many things coming in the mail. Yeah. And of course, now that we have a studio house, I completely forgot about it. I sent them all to my private address. It's like, oh, we finally have a house where I could send them. And I just completely forgot. No problem. Whatever.

So, yeah, I thought of you, especially because I was like, T like trey honestly might give me a hard time that i'm like dming every single company like yeah that sounds great we'll take two hats well he said yes to whataburger right or was that you i don't even know if he knew that was coming i think like they hit up someone and it just got sent to him but no that wasn't me yeah i mean tons of whataburger stuff and i was like this is awesome trey got sent probably 400 with the whataburger stuff just weird like i mean almost every like if you're on youtube i'll show you a few of them you know in the elvis movie when they talk about when he first made merchandise and they put his name and face on everything that's what a whatever did dip dip trip a sauce holder um i got

a golf hat i got golf balls i got playing cards i got gift cards brad's got a t-shirt they had hoodies they had multiple pairs of socks socks they had i mean just swank um tank tops uh yeah sweaters more socks more socks oh this i'm actually gonna wear this hat for sure that's a nice hat yeah yeah they had snapbacks rope hats um tube socks uh it doesn't really fit right now dang no no that's okay how's it look it looks good yeah it looks really really good cool um yeah it was that yeah that's that's exciting though i i like and and trey has like kind of pushed us to like contact more companies and i just a i haven't had the time and b i don't know who to contact but after like one win i'm like okay maybe it's kind of fun maybe this is more possible than i thought to do this if i really try to

yeah a little more we have tried to reach out to dave ramsey's company ramsey solutions right now you're attacking it from two different angles yeah we are it's kind of like a competition at this point like see which one of us could get it and neither of us have won so that's kind of how we got on ellen though i feel like we were doing a lot of different approaches it was like we did the social media route but also we knew someone but also someone else knew someone i'm working on rehab he's like right surely word's getting around in the office yeah eventually it's like oh multiple people are talking about this maybe these guys are kind of a big deal exactly i think you gotta come at it from two angles yeah um yeah it's fun i actually i was listening to a podcast all day today it's uh and they're interviewing mr beast

manager he's been his manager for like four years now. And it's all about the business side of like the creator economy. And it had me pretty fired up of like, why are we doing so many more brand deals? Why aren't why aren't brands coming to us? This is such a good tool for them. And yeah, just so much more we could be doing. So, yeah, it's one of those things where like. I struggle with it because I'm like, if I spent more time on this, I think, yeah, obviously

we could do better. But it's like, I don't know if I struggle with it. Cause I'm like, if I spent more time on this, I think, yeah, obviously we could do better, but it's like, I, I don't know if I should do that. It's also like, I like my family. I like my family. I like my other jobs.

They like it when I'm around. Right. So, so yeah, anyway, a few other things. Let's see. Um,

we filmed some office videos today on site for Jean shorts. Yeah. Got a little, uh, went to a little, uh, workspace, co-working space. Brad got soaking wet in the day which is fun red played the role of a character who tried to work out during lunch and just got way too sweaty yeah and had to shower um it was

still wet that was fun because there's like a receptionist in the in the hallway nancy it was her name actually nancy yeah yeah she's bubbly okay i just like as we were leaving i was like all right nancy see ya just like completely jokingly like just call your nancy maybe her name wasn't nancy then you just said i was just very confident like because i thought i thought that would be funny to you guys i'm like is her name nancy and i like no one said anything but i thought then i was gonna be like i have no idea huh um now you got me wondering but we filmed two videos i feel like jake was on one like you there were a few times really oh i don't think i do very good in those videos at all oh really i just don't know anything about

corporate america oh jean or ghosties when this when this video comes out all right get here your lips yeah i know that that one. I did a like one on the volume. No, I think there were a few different times. We're often like when we don't have like specific lines written down, we just have like a character idea. We'll just like trace specifically. We'll just like give us 45 seconds of dialogue. It's plenty of good stuff, but it's hard to remember. It's like, is that a are we are we brainstorming? Am I supposed to memorize that word for word? Am I supposed to say half that? Like if I say one thing and then like, sometimes like he'll say something and then

one of us will like also, Oh, that's good. No midnight. Yeah, exactly. So like call her like you're like night and shining arm, midnight and shining arm, you know, whatever. And then like, you just kind of leave it being like looking around like what am i actually supposed to say okay and there were multiple times where you had lines like that and you one take j i just got all the info in one line you nailed it like there was one time specifically i remember thinking like oh he's gonna screw this up halfway through there's no way there's no way he gets through this first time and you just nailed it so maybe i deserve to be more you know in more roles as the overenthusiastic boss. Is that the one you're thinking of? Just like too high energy, overenthusiastic one. But there was also one we filmed in two different rooms. There was one in

the first room. I think it was your routine. So, so we did two different videos today. The first one was work from home versus working in the office. Second was every type of coworker and work from home versus in the office. We talk about our routine and like Jake's routine in the office is like, you know, get up at six, do a quick workout, all these different things. Oh yeah. Whereas like work from home is literally like wake up, open up your laptop while you're like laying in bed, lying in bed. That was the first shot of the day for me. I was just started off hot. That's what I'm saying, dude. I know you were on one. I felt it. Well, thanks dude. Yeah. Anyway. Anyway, that was fun. We did that. That was fun.

It's always fun to go on location. Yeah, mix it up. If it were up to me, I would go on location or I'd do a different location every single time. Yeah. Just go to a different city every time. Sheltered kid goes to California. Sheltered kid goes to Bali. Yeah.

It's like all these like exotic places. Yeah. Everything else is. It's just a sweet fatherhood thing. Had he's been in Texas for the last like five days. Okay. She went back down with Catherine's mom, uh,

when they were visiting here and we're picking her up tomorrow. Fun. Um, but because of that, I feel like I've had really sweet time with Bo. Um, Bo time. It's not like Hattie is difficult at all.

Like she's so easy going, but at the same time, I think she does push beau's buttons in some way um oh i see you know so like it's having beau not being button pushed yeah like like she's never like i don't think she ever intentionally pushes his buttons but i think yeah she brings out something in him that yeah he just didn't he was a little bit sweeter this week he was a little more like oh like quick to obey and just like more affectionate it was just we had yeah we had some good times and um he's just such a boy man it's so fun like before dinner tonight he was really wanting to be held by katherine you know just loves his mom obviously

but katherine was cooking so she's like brad can you just take uh rosie and beau and just like distract her basically which is like my one of my favorite oh i can's like, yeah, I have free reign to do whatever I want. I'm creative. And so we, the wheelers went into our room, my room, and we just got on the bed and he just like,

we wrestled. But like his version of wrestling now, he's like to the point now where he's realized like, oh, it's fun to just like, like throw my whole body on dad. Like, so he like, he like stands up

and kind of scoots back a little bit and then just runs and just jumps. That sounds fun. It's so fun. And like he, we like hit up and kind of scoots back a little bit and then just runs and just jumps. That sounds fun. It's so fun. And like he, we, we like hit our heads together pretty hard one time and he just goes, oh, and he just got up and kept going. Like, like I was like, you should be crying right now, but you're just a tough little dude.

And I mean, yeah, so many fun times with Bo. Um, yeah, overall it's just, it's just great. So I've, I've missed Hattie. I'm really excited to get her back. Actually, one of the reasons that she went down to Texas was Catherine's mom bought her a sewing set, uh, for Christmas, like a sewing machine, like a little kid's sewing machine. And she wanted to teach her how to do it. And so there's a video of Hattie learning how to sew on this little machine. And it is the cutest little thing, dude. What a great skill. Yeah. I have no idea. I couldn't.

Yeah. Without a manual, you give me a sewing machine. I couldn't figure it out in eight days. I would have to join a master class for it. I wouldn't even trust the free information online. I would want to pay for it. And there's like our cameo.

Just kidding. There she is just sewing away. That's so fun. It's so cute. So I'm excited to have her back. I want to have Hattie sew me something. Right. Or have her just, I mean, just give her a project. project can you sew the chief's logo i don't know what's possible

you sew me a dress you know the word blood or like maybe you don't know the word blood but you could probably sew the cheese logo right uh anyway but yeah overall great great week great family time great friend time um just have a reputation at the guild bad boy bad boy what you gonna do i'm a bad boy would saw um let's get a few voice memos yeah yeah i'm really uncomfortable i just did that like into the camera really yeah i don't love it okay i also was a really uncomfortable character today uh the sexual harasser the co-worker i was telling katherine about that she's like oh gosh amy you seem tense and just getting all that hand sanitizer in your hands you were

so much it was funny let's actually one other quick thing from today's shoot it was cracking trey and i up so much uh you watching a jeans shorts video or a mood swings video and acting like it was the funniest thing you'd ever seen oh that was so funny that was good of course derrick is always thinking opportunistically like if that's a word but like he was like is there something there like should we do like a, should we like an Instagram live? You just watching videos? Or like,

I was like, I don't know. Maybe I didn't hear him say that. It's funny. We was on the way over to the coworking space. Yeah. It's a funny idea. Brad,

just like watching me hit a golf shot and just be like, ha ha ha. These guys are so funny. Oh, so, oh, dang. Oh,

man, this guy, see what he sings when he sings the words that he says? Oh, man, that guy's good. Oh, he's making fun of the thing on the back of his shirt. Oh, I love their banter. You could tell these guys really have fun. Yeah.

That was just a random thing that we just did as we were going. It was fun. It was good. Okay, this first voice memo is from Renee, the girl who um i haven't listened to the voice from yet but it's the girl who recognized rachel in public last week so we're excited to hear what she has to say thoughts you yeah go ahead hey jake and brad it's renee um i just want to say how much fun it was to see um rachel in kansas city and i just wanted to say say that I did not get straight A's in college. I did get one B in chemistry my freshman year.

So my twin sister, however, was a straight A student. Anyway, I had a question. So I realized my husband and I lived in Kansas city for about five years. And during that time we did like none of the touristy things. I think we like went to the World War I monument

and didn't even do the museum at all. Same. And it took us to move away back to the Springfield area to actually be tourists and go to Crown Center or, you know, something like that. So I was wondering,

what places in Kansas City have you yet not been to, if any, and would you still like to do? Okay, talk to you later guys bye renee fun to hear from you and fun question i didn't realize she didn't even live in canada city so that's even more crazy that she ran into rachel lives in springfield now yeah she was just visiting yeah i guess so doing the touristy things going to fitz's it's fritz's fritz's the trains yes um i haven't done the world war one museum okay i'm i i mean if if it's something

like i'm sure there's something i haven't done but i don't know what it is or else i probably would have done it you know i haven't done the college basketball museum oh i haven't done that either the college basketball experience you haven't done that no seems like you should wait it seems like i have i have okay it's actually really fun it's more of like you'd actually it's like a date date thing like a date night really it's like more interactive like there's like like you can like literally play basketball like there's like a full court oh cool and like like pop a shot kind of stuff and like it's it's it's college basketball experience i think there is like a part of it it's like the hall of fame but like for the most part it's like more i went with like 2k life kids back in the day cool yeah um i still have yet to

run someone over after a volleyball game i know you're supposed to and i just haven't got around tradition in kansas missouri to commit a crime and i i almost got in trouble for tax evasion on accident uh but besides that i'm i'm pretty scot-free. Commit a crime in Missouri. That's the funny thing is like Kansas City does not, like it's not a tourist

destination really. I mean, there's more common things to do, but I don't know if it's like a tourist thing. Every city will have their things. but I don't think it's like a,

we got to go to Kansas City to get to the zoo. I don't think it's our thing. You've been to the zoo? No. You've been to the aquarium? Didn't know we had one. These are all, yeah, it's like a, what don't think it's our thing. You've been to the zoo? No. You've been to the aquarium? Didn't know we had one. These are all,

yeah, it's like a, what do they call it? Something life. It's just Lake Quivira. Yeah. Just go down there with goggles. You know, yeah. Fish hatchery.

Legoland, haven't been there? No. Science City? It would be. It's all these things that's like, if you didn't go as a little kid, you're probably not going to go. I was going to say,

it would be a red flag if I had gone to Legoland. It's like what ages have you been in Kansas City? 22 to 30. Unless you were the K-Life kid maybe. Yeah you went with the elementary school kids. Crown Center. Yeah?

Yeah. Crown Center at Christmas. That's a fun noise. Do that more. Crown Center at Christmas. We're talking Plaza of course. Here's something that's I don't know if it's touristy but it's very like big in kansas city is like going on thanksgiving night the plaza like oh lights up so the plaza is like a big shopping center restaurant

area district and they always have like beautiful lights during the christmas season hundreds of thousands of christmas lights and tons of people. It's packed at the plaza to see the lighting. 10 p.m. Thanksgiving night or something. And that's definitely like a tour. I don't know if it's touristy,

but it's one of those things where I have no desire to do that. Probably do it once and you're like, all right, I've seen lights turn on before. Seen the Chiefs win a World Series.

Oh my gosh, thank you. Justin, add this. Aye yi yi. Why yi yi yi. Yeah. Chiefs, Royals, Sporting KC. Been to them? Yeah.

T-Bones or Monarchs now? No, no. Okay. Mavericks? Never been to a Mavericks. Never been Mavericks. That's the tourist destination. Minor league hockey.

Talk about a date night. Yeah. Kansas Speedway. I've been there. Been there once. Oh. For. Talk about a date night. Yeah. Kansas Speedway. I've been there. Been there once. Oh. For Formula One back in the day. I think that's...

That's pretty good. Yeah. For all the kids listening out there. Yeah. All right. We'll go on to our next one. Rene, thank you for the question. Nice to hear from you.

Hey, guys. Josh Brumfield here coming at you from... Yeah. Somewhere in the middle of Kansas. All right. I have been loving the content lately. I've been loving the content all along, but I have also been loving it lately. You guys are doing a great job.

Keep doing what you're doing. Thank you, Josh. My wife got me a t-shirt press for our anniversary, and I've been having a hard time coming up with good t-shirt so I figured nobody better to ask than the ghost runners themselves hold on what would you guys put on a t-shirt if you could put anything on a t-shirt sky's the limit I want something wacky something fun something zany if it suits your fancy, just let me know what you got. I'm excited to do it.

And I'll make you guys some shirts. Be seeing you around. Well, I don't know if I'll be seeing you, but Brad, you'll probably be seeing me. All right. See you at the construction site, probably, you know. That's so funny that like his wife got him a gift that apparently he had no ambitions to use.

I don't know. There's like traditions. There's like five years paper or whatever. I don't know what they are. funny that like his wife got him a gift that apparently he had no ambitions to use well that's like i don't know there's like traditions like there's like five years paper you know whatever i don't know what there are seven years though i know his press so that makes sense so that at least checks out yeah that's so funny yeah just like katherine katherine got me like a like 45 pound like weights but i don't have like a bar to put them on so do you have any use for like 45 pound like weights but i don't have like a bar to put them on so do you have any use for like 45 pound like katherine got me a super nice like machete knife and dog on it i can't find anything to cut yeah that's so great and all so far all i've i just wear plain t-shirts only and i just don't know what to do.

For anniversary, my wife got me a t-shirt press. I don't have a single idea. Okay. Well, I don't know exactly how t-shirt presses work. Like how advanced can your graphics be? Is it like, can it only be like cartoony, like words like this? Do you know? Or can it be like a little bit of a picture on a t-shirt?

I have no idea. Okay. Today I was actually wearing Harrison's custom shirt. I was wearing the vibe shirt today oh yeah um so you could just do that just do a knockoff of supreme and just put different words in the middle there's your idea brumfield put one that says josh just josh and the supreme logo um he doesn't seem like a supreme guy but well neither am i but when it says vibes it's like that's kind of fun yeah um okay i like the idea of an andy reed silhouette like just like the outline of his of his face and you can see his mustache and you can see a little hat i think that'd be a cool shirt i'd wear that i would okay i don't know why that was the first thing i thought of was andy reed maybe because we're talking about kansas city football um that would make sense why bo body he said sky's the limit

i like i like that just as a motivational like calligraphied you know font sky's the limit or even more it just says sky's the limit for t-shirt designs that's all typed out on your shirt um what about just like my first t-shirt and like people will be like kind of confused like i don't think that's your first this guy really just wear like polos all his life until now or yeah um i really like i like the uh like the idea of the bonfire t back in the day i like maybe maybe like like uh bar mitzvah just put bar mitzvah on there or like uh anniversary shirt anniversary um wedding day nfl sunday yes every sunday you break out the shirt yeah love it um a guillotine logo chips and salsa shirt salsa's fun uh gu Guillotine logo would be,

see that seems more up Josh Bradfield's alley. He's not so much a Supreme guy. He's more of a guillotine guy. Guillotine guy. He's a man's man. What if even less, let's go even micro, not even events, but even just moments.

Okay. Toothbrush. That's a moment. Teeth brushing. Like, okay, I put this on when it's time to brush my teeth. What about no, late at night?

Late at night. Late at night. And that's however you want to define it. That that could be a that could be a pajama shirt that could be like you're going out shirt it just said be on it night it just says late at night yeah late at night what about okay besides late at night let's let's go earlier than that let's go early morning saturday morning so oh even more micro specific days. It's just a Saturday morning. What if, what if you made your living off of just having specific shirts for every single day and like time of day, Josh, you're welcome. Saturday, early afternoon, Saturday, noon, Sunday, if it's raining, rainy Sunday. Yeah.

Like if then statements almost like there's got a certain, like the crazy thing is like, there's a part of me that would kind of like a shirt that said rainy Sunday. It's kind of fun. Like there's something like simply cool about that to me. Or even sunny Sunday. That almost feels good together. Like a sunny Sunday shirt is like I do love Sunday.

Or what if you just combine it and just like instead of sunny Sunday, just put Sunday. Sunday. Sun. Sunday. Say it again. Sunday. I can't pronounce Sunday. Huh?

Sunday Sonata. Sunday. What do you think? Yeah. sun sunday say it again sunday i can't pronounce sunday huh sunday sonata sunday what do you think uh yeah just literally like have a monday tuesday and maybe there's something there too i'm just the entire business is just moments throughout the week tuesday night josh wednesday brunch every single day i wake up and i just i kind of dread like trying to figure out what uh like work shirt i'm gonna wear I would love it if I had three shirts for each day of the week, because I go through them. You know, I, I go through multiple shirts a day. Sometimes I'll love three Monday shirts, three. Oh, you sell a pack of 21 right there. Yeah. That's a, that's high volume. I don't think Josh is even trying to have a business out of this. This is the Sinzettis

of casual wear, but some guys are just like, I don't, I just, I don't, I don't think Josh is even trying to have a business out of this. This is the Sinzettis of casual wear. But some guys are just like, I don't, I just, I don't, I don't want to think about what I'm going to wear. I just, I'm going to wear these things.

That'd be so awesome. Do you think it says Monday on it? Or you think it just marketed that way? Like, Hey, here's a shirt for every day of the week for you. Or you think it says, I like the idea that it says the Monday in the shop or Tuesday shooting

YouTube. And if you're zany, if you're like a little more of an indie rock kind of guy, you wear the Monday shirt on a Wednesday. Okay. That's how you show some personality. That's how you show the guys at the guild. Hey,

I'm still fine. That's right. I like, I did not know we were going to get all there from that. Yeah. Voice MO, but we did. I do like talking about Birch.

So that's a fun question. I like talking about business. Also that Calvin Beck's a fun one to talk business with, guys. Really? Continue Good is the name of their company. That's right. Check them out. Shout out.

All right, we'll keep going, I suppose. Okay. What's up, Jake and Brad? Not much. I'm recording. This is your boy, Samuel Sen from Springfield, Missouri. A long-time listener, like fourth-time caller, but you've only ever responded to my calls once. I'm not bitter much.

Anyways, I want to congratulate you on 1,000 five-star reviews on Spotify. That is such an accomplishment. We were aware of that. Next, I was listening to episode 93 recently, which is one of your most iconic episodes to date. It was your first rap battle. And I just want to know why not rap battle again right now? It would be amazing. Brad, you might be able to beat your Mike Mike Trout line you had.

And Scott, if you are there, which is a big F, maybe you can rap some about Utah. Anyways, I just want to say I love the pod. I love you guys. And I'm signing off your Springfield correspondent. All right. Well, that's so funny. The voice memo beneath him that we haven't played yet says Grant Holmes, Springfield correspondent. The literal word Springfield.

It says Springfield correspondent in the title of the voicemail. The one right underneath him. I didn't know any of that was going to happen. OK, so who sent the voicemail first then? Grant did. So I guess Samuel. Well, which one have we played first? I don't know.

What do you think? Ruling on that? Grant kind of claimed it like we were like a month or two ago. But it's ever changing. If you claim it, you claim it. But we haven't technically heard what Grant has said. So maybe he's going to claim it again. If he claims it in this audio, then it's ever changing. If you claim it, you claim it. But we haven't technically heard what Grant has said. So maybe he's going to claim it again. If he claims it in this audio, then it's Grant's.

But I think just written doesn't count. It has to be audially claimed. Gripping. Gripping. Samuel Sin, great guy. Springfield is always one of the first people to comment on our YouTube videos. On your feet. Yeah.

It's always like between midnight and 1 a.m. I always it sam right before i go to bed i see it he was one of the last people to leave chick-fil-a on f12 he helped us clean a lot of that area he's can't i got guys serving hearted he walked walked some stuff to my truck with me him and jeff boyer my truck was far away because it was a packed house, brother. Well, you didn't grow up driving. Got to walk a little bit. That's right. I forgot. I forgot to drive. 93.

Episode 93 was, let's see, our first rap battle. Oh, sorry. I didn't know it was actually called that. I didn't know it was called that either. I don't remember titling it that. Would you get three of your fingers removed for $200 million? Are dogs' mouths actually cleaner than humans? Also, what gives you the right?

That's what I put in the description. We talked about about that would you remove three of your fingers for 200 million that's pretty funny idea yeah it depends on i'm sure we talked about this back then it depends on the fingers totally depends no it doesn't no it doesn't you believe in prosthetics huh i believe in 200 million dollars live brother generational wealth right there i don't know some Some are really important, but three fingers. It's either, it's either like most of one hand or like,

like just like a little, like, I guess the, the, the four, like if you take off both thumbs, I'm in trouble. Oh yeah.

But, but any, any other combination, I'm fine. Like take off these three fingers. I'll just, you know, just give a,

you know, whatever this is, Texas red Raiders, Texas Red Raiders. And then I'll be fine on this hand. No way. I don't know what I said in episode 93. I could play guitar, you know, with one hand, you know, whatever.

It'd be fine. I think having to work for your money is such a valuable thing. If you were just giving the money, then it'd be like, all right, what do I want to do all day? Golf? Oh, I can't.

I can't hold on to the club. I guess I'll give it to that Hawaiian. I'm personally I'm personally of the belief that working does nothing for your ego or your identity or like self-worth or pointless. Yeah, there's nothing biblical about working. So personally, I would love to just get paid to get hit by a car or to get, you know, it's kind of just cut off. Click the Apple TV with the fingers I have left with my nose. paid to get hit by a car or to get you know it's kind of sitting just cut off click the apple tv with the fingers i have left with my nose yeah like the urinal touch screen uh okay so what was the question that sam oh he wanted us to rap battle i mean let's be honest you and i are good at rap battling scott's the best so we need to wait till scott's back right yeah of course i

think he's gonna be be back next week. And as far as things, people encourage me about it, but I don't like it. I get so, I just. You know, you're good at it. You know, you're above average. I know I'm above average, but I still so white, dude. It's so lame. It's just, it's weird to me.

Well, how many, how many black people are encouraging you? Like the people that are, the people that recognize your talent are also just as dorky as you are like that's what it is the quality of compliment doesn't hold a ton of value if it was a weighted test yeah like you're not going to like the cool you know the streets yeah no one from def jam has complimented my freestyles right they don't spell hustle with two s's that way uh so yeah i think we should wait for scott on that one okay and should we should we come prepared this time like should we do a little bit of a theme because i would do a lot better if we're prepared that's kind of doesn't necessarily be like everything is prepared but like i would at least like some buzzwords some

things i know rhyme with each other okay okay do Do you have a theme that you want to do? Hawaiian? No, just come, just come with something, just anything. But, but then we're going to have a rap battle of two different things.

Oh, it's a battle. We're going back. Right, right, right. Okay. The battle is going to be, um,

Hmm. What two things do we want to fight over? Land versus sea, Missouri versus kansas no land versus sea that's less land versus missouri versus kansas would get we could we could in this podcast all right land versus land versus sea rap battle we'll call it yeah peninsula and scott can be the air he could be air he'd be gas he'd be atmospheric he could be the crust molten lava core outer core gosh he has so many options what are you gonna land or see what are you are you drawn to one or the other i'm drawn to see dang i was kind of drawn to see i don't know i just

made a decision but i'm taking it you took the good one you know that's the good one you know i almost studied maritime law in college dude you know that you you know that i i still you know i like seafarers better than settlers dude you know it dude you know my affinity to still judge distance and knots okay please i'm trying to think of a third comparison i couldn't think of it you know in college I failed that test so I could get a C I'm trying to think of something that would be the opposite of Jaws you know I like Jaws more than

Mandible Mandible I trust you on that one it's like oh I get it I was thinking like a movie where like a terrorizing animal was Jurassic Park you know I like jaws more than jurassic park dude that's that's fine all right um the mandel the the maritime blah one that was

pretty funny right that was pretty good i laughed i laughed um all right we got like two more voice memos bring them hey hey go ahead and bring them in here please wipe them off just bring it hello this is clean hands hol, the official Springfield correspondent. Oh, yeah. I just wanted to let you know that I get to spend some time in Springfield with my family the past couple days. This is great. One really fun story from my grandfather was that they actually did not have a name picked out for my third aunt, their third daughter. It is fun. And she was in the hospital for about three days before getting her name, which was given

by a coworker that came with him at lunch to visit her in the nursery. So exciting times. Meaningful. But all this time with family and the fact that I'm expecting my first son in October got me thinking about dads and family. And so Jake and Brad just wanted to know, we all know Steve. We know Dean. We know Steve, we know Dean, we know they're both great dads. So what did they do as dads that you want to bring on to your family? And what new traditions do you want to bring in that will be unique to your family in

the future? Gosh. All right. Oh, wow. Looking forward to your answers. How much time do we have? That's a Stratford, Missouri graduate right there. That's a Stratford Indian right there. That guy's got clean hands. I love that he it too that was that was perfect that samuel claimed it and immediately grant claimed it right after we're gonna have a springfield correspondent battle on our hands for the next and renee she's like i live in springfield now she was close to common correspondence yeah so and anybody can do it that i love that that's crazy like are they in cahoots i don't think they cahoot at all you don't think so actually that just reminded me remember that the game with a coup with a

game i don't know if they were cahooted what was a trivia crack they've canoodled yeah anyway um this is a big question that's a great question grant and i'll preface it by saying i'm gonna forget so many things that i'm gonna i'm gonna listen to at night i'll be like god he he took me to a baseball game every summer, just him and me and had intentional questions. Like, no, I don't know. Um, you want to get the ball rolling? You want me to, there's so many things. Yeah. The comfortable, I mean, okay. First thing is like availability. I feel like my dad would come home from work and it was never like, all right, let me sit on the recliner. It was like, I want to play catch. All right. I'm playing catch. I want to play,

you know, tree stump. Let's play tree stump. Yeah yeah i'm a statue right now my dad was like i guess my son's a statue right now you know just he put up with everything yeah he's there to play and i had no idea i didn't know what it's like to work all day i'm just like all right dad's home let's all right give me a ton of attention let's jump on him and headbutt him yeah until yeah that's fun yeah i would agree with that for sure my dad i i'm gonna probably emotional. I don't want to get emotional though. So don't let me get emotional. I might get, I've rubbed here if you need it. Barks, baby. Um, no, I think, yeah, he was just very available and I think he just tried to meet me wherever I was. Like if, if I, yeah, like he would, he would just, he would coach my baseball team. He would, you know, yeah, he was always,

it was never even like a question, like if my dad would be at our games or if my dad would be at church that day you know or my dad would be like picking us up like consistency yeah he was supportive like yeah and i think that's huge a huge first factor and then like my dad is so affirming both like affirming in a very intentional way like not just like uh like just i mean he's very kind hearted anyway, but a, I remember like so many times growing up, like, let's say I had, uh, either, you know, a good game or, you know, I got recognized for something academically that night at a reward ceremony or whatever. Like he would stop by as he's saying goodnight to me and be like, Hey, I'm just, I just want to let you know, I'm really proud of you. That's awesome. Like, I'm really proud to be your dad or whatever it was. And it's like, I think I never struggled with like self, uh, what's the word? Self-esteem or

like any kind of self confidence confidence because my dad was so he like instilled it. Yeah. And not in like a, well, maybe I was cocky in some ways, but I think I like to hope that he also instilled humility in me and like, you know, whatever. But I think because yeah, he was so encouraging. And then later on in life specifically, but I mean, I even found notes from like, when it was my birthday and like my eight year old birthday. And he was like, I have to go to work early today. But he wrote me a long note. Like, but he's always been really good at writing notes and like being very intentional with his words and like, and like very consistently, like, like, yeah, he'll do, he'll do it often. It's not like only for your birthday or only for special times.

It's just like, like I'll get texts from him that are, you know, like that would fill the whole page of a piece of paper. Like it's like so long, like here's the specific things I'm praying for you about here. I mean, that's the most important thing obviously is that he's walking with the Lord and he's yeah. Just caring so much about my walk with the Lord and mentor me in that way. But yeah, I mean, he's just so intentional about like,

he'll text Catherine the same thing. Like he's so supportive of me and my marriage. And anyway, I mean, a million different things and sorry, I'm kind of taking all this, but. You're doing great. He also is like, like one of the things that he's like famous for saying is, Hey, you know me, I'm flexible. So like, he's always like willing to help out with whatever you need him for. Like, or he's always willing to like, we don't have to go to that restaurant if that doesn't

work for time. Or, you know, I can, I can go pick them up even though it's 45 minutes out of the way. No problem. Like, and I think he's instilled that in me. I'm not perfect. Like he's not perfect either, but I'm not, I'm not as good as he is in those things. But, um, yeah, all those things, all those things combined with like his intentionality because when i first was born my dad finally got like a good like like uh balanced job where he wasn't working super long

he was working two different jobs like barely saw my sisters for a long time and so that's kind of where my idea for dadder days came from is because he would do that on Saturday mornings. I was like his special time with his daughter, like his daughters, like he would take them out for breakfast. And, um, so, but, but like, yeah, I think he's recognized, like I have the, uh, responsibility to be very intentional with my kids. And he was great with that. Great with instilling traditions. And, and I could say so many things, but he was also just a really, really great husband to my mom. I don't, I think maybe once or twice I can remember them even like bickering, like, like I'm sure they argued, but I didn't see those things. I didn't see them

disagree. I feel like they were very supportive of each other, very servant hearted, and just a great example of what it looks like to be a godly, you know, godly husband, godly wife, and, you know, motivated me to be better than that. So I can go on forever, baby. But what, what do you got? Dude, that's great. I mean, that's awesome. I don't think I can remember as many specifics as you can, which is really impressive. Other things I think I've heard things that my dad is even still doing now, is cool that you know i think it never stops that example you said in fatherhood because i mean now it's so fun to see just like and sometimes i'll give him a hard time about it but just like still how servant-hearted he is and like okay my both of his parents are having like health issues okay i'm gonna be there every single day i'm gonna mow

your lawn i'm gonna do whatever you need and then my got the headlamp so he can be like yeah my uncle is having all these health issues like hey i'm gonna be there every single day whatever you need i'm gonna mow your lawn you know whatever you need around the house i think my dad is just bouncing around constantly from family member to family member doing whatever they need for him he's also taken to um i mean ever since i've been in high school there's been like certain members of the stratford community that have uh special needs you know and i think every small town has these people right you don't even know their last names and you know you're just like yeah it's so and so and so they come there again they love sports they're always there you know or whatever and um

yeah my dad and just one of his friends i think one of my dad's friends actually the old the superintendent has like custody of some of these people like they're really just taking them in and yeah they take them to every away basketball game they want to go to whoever you know women's jv game and skyline we're going load up the car we're going and right he makes it so fun for them they do karaoke in the car you know they do all sorts of stuff and it's like wow that's great i mean just to be so giving of your time like that i think that's a really cool thing that i i kind of also relate to is like your dad making the mundane super fun like driving to a away game it's an hour away but doing karaoke in the car like we're doing karaoke you know like i

feel like bluegrass only yeah my dad would do my dad always makes like he has lists for things he wants to open up the fridge and see like he makes everything like a little more fun a little more like original yeah and and totally and i think another thing that i feel like i heard you say that i would agree with is like my dad as he's gotten older just like your dad has like doesn't seem like he's slowed down yeah his fatherhood role but also just his role as a servant-hearted you know christian man and just like like i feel like if anything my dad has you become more in that like his capacity has become greater in that and it's and so that's always encouraging to see of like

okay just because you're getting older doesn't mean that now all of a sudden you're entitled to xyz no you're still serving others yeah so whatever and i mean they are getting old let me i'm starting to work you know yeah uh to move into the next part of the question i'll just say an answer real quick because i'm sure you're gonna have a lot more to say about that too like what kind of fathers we would like to be oh whatever yeah the first thing i thought of it's literally a conversation that rachel and i had last night not necessarily about parenthood i guess kind of she was talking about um just like children and i can't really take any credit for this this is rachel's kind of thought but i was like that is so true that's really saying that for the rest of your life honestly i can't take i can't take

credit rachel's smart she's smart um but she i feel like rachel's learned a lot from teaching but also from being surrounded by a lot of bad teachers i think she learned a lot about like yeah that's kids do not respond well to this and so she was making the point of like i don't think you know the whole thing like no excuses you know no there you know, the whole thing, like no excuses, you know, no, there's gonna be no excuse that you've got to get it done on time. She's like, I think it's good to let kids, it's good to hear out kids excuses. I think that's important. You know, you can shut a kid down so easily if you're like, Hey, I asked you to do that and you didn't do it. Okay. Well, I know, no, no, no excuses. Okay. I just need you to do it. She was like, I just saw so many kids

just shut down. They come and they would complain to me. If she would have just listened to me and Rachel can remember times when she was a kid, just, you know, screaming and so upset at her mom. And all she wanted to do was explain like the reason I did that. It was because of this, you know, you're so just. So I guess the more macro version of that is I hope to be very understanding and very patient. Yeah. Patience is a good word of just like what my child's intentions were

and like something they might do something that is just so infuriating to me. I pray that I would have the patience and the wisdom to like hear them out and to trust them. Well, and there's a difference between an excuse and a reason, you know, like that's what we kind of get. Excuses are usually reasons, but sometimes they're made up reasons or like whatever. Yeah. We went in that same conversation. We really like dissected the word excuse. It was like, I think excuse has a bad stigma because it really, what it is is just a reason, but the word excuse sounds bad. It's like, oh, the sun was in my eyes. That's a bad excuse, but excuse could be good. You can have a good excuse. Like I was late. I was literally in a car accident. No, no excuses. You get here on time.

It's like, that's a good, good reason. Right. So just finding the balance. Cause honestly, yeah, there are times where it's like, Hey, you didn't listen to me. Like you need to listen no matter. Yeah. You did disobey. And cause Hattie is really good. We call it disputing our word is what we say. Don't dispute mom's word. Don't dispute dad's word. Like she's, she disputes our word all the time. Like she almost every single time she has, it's like, she, she can't help it. Like she's like, but I just want to do this one thing real quick and it's like no like you have to listen you have to learn it yeah so it's just a fine it's a fine line i think and we obviously don't have it all figured out but um yeah i i like that though like don't just don't just shut them down before hearing what they have to say but then hearing

that what they have to say to see if it's like a valid excuse or a you know just like a bad character yeah i'm not saying every eight-year-old's gonna have a great excuse for a, you know, just like a bad character. Yeah. I'm not saying every eight year old's going to have a great excuse for why they didn't do something, but occasionally, and there was probably so many, I feel like I spent so much time in my life, can't cut K life around kids. And I would pick up so many things like I'm going to be this, I'm going to be this, I'm not going to do this. But anyway, that was just something that happened last night. So I mean, yeah. Another thing I could write novels about because I have lots of things I want to be as a dad. I think, I think the main words are intentional. I want to be, you know, an example to them. Like, I don't want it.

I don't want to look back on our, like their childhood when they're 18 years old and be like, what did I, like, I didn't do enough. You know, like I want to, I want to feel like I laid it all out there for them. Like I want to, you know, I want to make sure like, yeah, there's a really cool book. The intentional father by John Tyson to make sure like, yeah, there's a really cool book, uh, the intentional father by John Tyson. And then like, yeah, he like literally like does so much work for his son and daughter, like, um, to like intentionally like teach them what it means to be a godly Christian

man and like take like time, like not only like on big vacations or big traditions, but like in the mundane everyday kind of things, uh, to really be intentional about so many different things. And I think that's, I want to be intentional. I want to, I want to make sure I'm humble in the process. Yeah. Like you said, I don't want to be like, I know everything, so I'm never going to try to learn anything new. Like, um, yeah. And I want to, I don't know what else kind of dad things do I want to be? I mean, I want to be godly. Obviously I want to pursue the Lord and hopefully they see that in me. And then that would affect them and help them to do the same and, you know, produce reproducers and blah, blah, blah, like all these cool things. Um, coach a winning baseball team. I would love that. That's, that's one thing right now. I'm really

trying to convince Hattie to be a, to play upward basketball. And she like, if you know, Hattie, she's just like, so like once she sets her mind on something, she's not doing it. But she's like, I'm not playing basketball. And so I've really thrown like the kitchen sink at her. I'm like, if we go to, like, we'll go to practice together. Maybe sometimes we can get treats afterwards. They have concession stands at the basketball games.

Like you get your own jersey, you know, all these different things. She's like, no, I don't think I want to do that. I'm like, I could be your coach. That could be so fun. But yeah, I think overall I want to do that. I'm like, I could be your coach. That'd be so fun. Um, but yeah, I think, I think overall, I want to be available. I want to be there and I want to put them first. I think that's, those are the big things. Cause of course, especially now, like with all these cool things happening in my own personal life that don't really have to do with them, you know,

where it's woodworking, podcasting, YouTube stuff, That's not really connected them very much except for with me. But I want to make sure that none of those things overshadow family. Like I don't want, I don't want to make decisions in spite of my family. So that's another thing. So another thing I got, like I said, I could talk for a long time about all the feelings I have for this, but maybe this is a sign you need that parenting husband podcast. Right. I know it'd be so fun.

So shout out Clean Hands Holmes. Clean Hands. Shout out to our Springfield correspondent. Springfield correspondent. Stratford's finest. I mean, Samuel Sin had a good campaign, a good run, a good tenure. But ultimately, it was the incumbent. Yes.

Grant Holmes. Right. OK, I know we have another voicemail, but it's going to lead to a whole game. And we've been recording so long. Brad's been awake like 19 hours at this point. So I i believe you i feel like we kind of need to wrap this up no problem it's been a long episode so let's do our reviews and a jingle okay it's a long jingle but it's for our guy nathan coley uh it's a long review from nathan coley let me do mine first if you don't mind what did i say uh long jingle really yep catherine i swear the other day i'm

so silly she goes hey just fyi uh rosie's napping bow and i are gonna go to home depot to buy a few books for the baby shower and i go did you say you're going to home because i heard her say home depot i was like oh good you can pick me up like some felt pads for uh caleb lee shout out to him he bought a cutting board for me uh and i was like you're going to home depot to get books she's like, what did I say? Uh, let me read mine. Cause then I'm going to prepare for the jingle. Um, makes sense. Makes sense.

Okay. Mine is coming from SL Fort 71. I believe is what it says. Love this podcast. Five star review. Uh, it says Amanda and Liz from the boy mom meets girl mom podcast recommended your podcast a few years ago. So I decided to listen and I sure am glad I did.

You guys just keep getting funnier and funnier. I was laughing out loud last week while listening. Please continue doing what you do because it's such a blessing. I always look forward to Monday mornings, which is such a strange thing to say. I do love that. Have a great week and God bless you guys. I just think it's fun. I chose this one specifically. The kind words were great, but I think it's so fun that Amanda and Liz are connecting people to our podcast because i think we've also connected people to theirs yeah and liz is a big fan of ours um so anyway um yeah just just shout out to the boy mom meets girl mom podcast they're a really fun uh mom centered you know just hilarious southern blast biden that's them blast anyway uh the review i'm going to read is from nathan coley i think that's how he

pronounced his last name either way he uh he does our thumbnails for us um so shout out nathan he and if if we ever lose both of them he'll do our index fingernails nice his title is i need a drink after that oh i want to go back to the drawing board on that one. This guy. Okay. Review says, an oasis in a desert. A really long podcast review. The Ghostwriters podcast provides something I look for from almost every entertainer I watch or listen to.

Authenticity. If I'm watching streamers, film critics, political hosts, et cetera, some of my favorite moments watching them come when they're a bit out of character. Doing something outside of their main occupation. Seeing it with their most real and authentic is often the most entertaining content for me. For most creators, these moments are like oasises. Oasi? Yeah.

In a desert. Oasi. Oasi. Oh, Oasi. Oasi now. a way sign yeah in a desert oh I see oh I see but for the ghost runners that's just what's expected every Monday morning more broadly the podcast is an oasis and a desert full of creators they stand out among the rest for their authenticity and that's what keeps me coming back not only is the authenticity something to appreciate but also just their energy this was the most noticeable for me just a couple nights ago. I'm leaving for college soon, and I was seeing a group of friends for the last time. When we all said goodbye,

and I started driving home, I was driving in silence for a while and getting pretty emotional, just reminiscing on the last four years and how much I'll miss my friends. I needed something to make me smile and laugh, just as a little pick me up, I guess. That's when I started playing the KC Rock Anthem, the jingle from episode 165 to Party Rock Anthem. I had previously commented on that jingle being four minutes of pure joy. And that really showed that night.

I was driving at 1130 p.m. listening to Brad screaming fan made lyrics in our microphone while Scott and Jake are dying laughing. It was given the joy I really felt I needed. Thank you, Ghostrunners, for all the levity and laughter you've brought to my life and that of many others also the facebook group is the only thing only reason i have facebook nathan my guy what a great one thank you very well said very well written thank you for all the kind words i'm glad that um you're able to find that joy and dude good luck at college holler me uh where you're going and how you're feeling.

And that's a really exciting time. I remember that time. It was really cool. Just felt like anything was possible. It is. Just felt fun. Still possible, Jake. Thank you.

Anything is possible. This one's coming. Oh, sorry. Can you send me a link? Oh, my gosh. I don't have one. Acapella? Jake. This guy. a link oh my gosh i don't have one acapella jake this guy this guy he says some crazy things but i guess i'll keep him around that's kind of the character i like that i mean so far it hits 10

out of 10 with rachel so i just keep doing it. It doesn't have to be that funny. It's just like the way you say it. It's just basic things. Yeah. That's great. You know what? I'll keep them around. I just texted you that link.

And in the process, I saw that you had sent me the Cameo link. So just another reminder, guys. We're on Cameo. I'm excited. I'm excited to see what happens. While you're doing the jingle, I'm going to see if we've got any bookings yet. Okay. That would be so fun.

That would be crazy. Because anyone who's booked right now would be a ghost runner. So we'll got any bookings yet. Okay. That would be so fun. That would be crazy. Cause anyone who's booked right now would be a ghost runner. So we'll just do it live on the pod. That'd be so fun. Oh, that'd be awesome. All right, Brad,

you want to end this episode with a jingle? I do. Um, yeah, that's it. Question mark. Matthew Vaughn wrote this one. As far as I can remember,

he's a first time writer. Uh, V a U G H N or V O N. A N G H A N. Oh, Vaughn. Yeah.H-A-N. O-V-A-H-N. Yeah. Okay. Intrigue.

And this song, I love this song. I learned recently that Jeff Boyer hates this song. I think just the first riff of the piano alone with the reverb is just beautiful. So without further ado, let's ado. Let's ado uh wait go back is this sorry it's play it again let me see if i can get a better one i don't know that's not that the piano is not quite right there okay okay okay 8.2 thousand views why did i use that one you dingus you dingus brad uh copy link address is what i like to do oh 8.2 thousand it's like i've never used youtube try this one.

Give me some bass in that first one. All right. That one didn't work. We're trying a new instrumental now. Brad, even before you get singing, we have two cameo requests. No way! Two cameo requests. We put it on our story right before we started recording.

Awesome. That is fun. So stick... Hey, don't touch that dial. A couple cameos coming right after this. This is Brad Ellis. Drops of Jupiter rewritten by Matthew Vaughn. Rewritten.

I pressed play several seconds ago and nothing's happening yet. There it is. Hey. Now Gene Shorts has a few YouTube fans With shots of Brad in his minivan They act like members of a youth camp staff Remind us that there's a time to laugh Since the first video on YouTube They've made us laugh but never been crude But tell me, did you see Chipskate's be like?

Did you make it to adulthood wins to see that they are funny? And that the jokes are also punny? Tell me, did you laugh at conservative dad? Are any of them gonna be bad? And did you miss one while you were catching up on trey's channel have you seen every type of teacher making your way to middle class culture Yeah. And now that they have a YouTube channel, I'm afraid that fans might think of them as YouTubers making bits to make them laugh

and not the Ghost Runners. But tell me, did you see every shelter kid? Did you finally get the chance to watch the one called Wolf Heron? Then head back to the Ghost Runners And tell me, did Lampin blow your mind? Was he everything you wanted to find? And did you miss Pratt while you were driving a stale green out there? Can you imagine no Jake, Brad, Gene, Shorts, Channel Your best friends always posting videos

When they don't get views Can you imagine no Grandpa grandpa, shelter, freshman Five hours of YouTube perfection The most fun channel that you ever saw in Brad Tell me, do you think we'll ever see Steve? Will Brad finally get the chance to do Stand up with Jake and Trey? Intimidated by Big Daddy And tell me, did you see Chief Skates be like?

Did you make it to a door? Who wins the seat if they are funny? And that their jokes are also punny? And tell me, did you laugh at Conservative Dad? Are any of them ever gonna be mad? Did you miss one while you were catching up on Trey? Ay! Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na Did you laugh at conservative death? Laughed at conservative death?

Na na na na na na na na na na And now you're happy watching a G-Shorts video Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh

Oh Oh Oh The YouTube version that cuts out the jingle is just gonna go straight like let's get started with the jingle just you doing the tomahawk chop like what happened what happened in this jingle uh i will i will uh mash up the tomahawk chop every time i can baby into anything uh matthew thank you for writing that brad great job as always shout out train shout out to the original songwriters and that was renee's favorite uh you know lead singer post remember she had a

poster of train on her wall remember that totally totally totally that's renee absolutely not her sister no straight a shout out so funny what she said i got one b it's like so it's like a scotty smalls and sandlot thing like yeah actually it-. But it should have been a B. Shout out Jupiter. Shout out to him. Huge planet. Just the drops, though. Just the drops. Just little drops.

Yeah, we got two cameos. Should we do one on the air, I think? Yeah. Another one I think will be fun to do. She requested some specific stuff, so I think it'll be fun to take some time to do that. Cool. So this is from...

I actually recognize him. I went to college with him. It's from Jennifer. It's for her husband, Colin. She says tomorrow's his birthday. You guys are the comedians. You know what to do. But then she also goes on to say, like, we went to school with Jake.

My husband called loves the loves the pod and your videos. He finds all the characters you do. Funny Trump, conservative conservative dad sheltered kid okay go ahead you're ready right now yeah sure love it joke i love i love that lie in the office you got any time yeah this job's a joke okay i still don't know if you uh hold it down or just press it once to record a hard time with that but we'll just figure it out i'm gonna hold down colin's turning 32 okay tomorrow okay go ahead this is gonna be great okay colin what's up dude happy birthday first of all wait what are you doing you're what are you sorry

sorry i was gonna say happy birthday but i thought we were calling him no no cameo can't oh hey okay so no colin happy birthday man 32 years young are you kidding me man lick them bear cats colin uh give me something to tell colin about trump or with trump's voice colin oh thanks for giving me that advice jake i hope your birthday is incredible fantastic wonderful okay i hope if your birthday has pronouns it would be wonderful him this is good this is people is it um yeah hey colin thanks for supporting uh the podcast thanks for watching all of our videos um and oh someone's calling br Brad again wait are we not calling Jennifer now you said call in Jennifer his name is capital C

his name is Colin C yeah he kneels before the anthem I don't know thanks man okay alright live on the air you know posted on Monday and that is how the sausage is made, everybody.

Colin Capricci. That's fun. Okay. We can't promise that they will all be verbatim to that. But we can promise that we're going to have fun on every single one. We're going to try to stick to that script, though. Yeah. As close as we can to that.

Dude, I'll be honest. The first time you said that, I didn't even get the Colin joke that his name is Colin. Really? Yeah. You were like, you just, but good for you for going with it and not just totally yeah totally that's awesome all right upload i guess i guess we did it i guess we just made some money oh that's fun um oh cameo takes a cut 30 for you guys. $22.50 for us. Hey! So if you do quit your job, you can get Vin Mode back. $22.50! Oh, fun little soad.

I'm starting to look forward... I have always loved the podcast. When people ask, you're doing a lot of things. What's your favorite thing? I've always said Ghostrunners, but something lately, I've looked forward to it even more. I don't know what that is always said ghost runners but something lately i've looked forward to it even more i don't know what

that is i can't pinpoint it i just look forward to it even more recently i like that i'm not going to try to diagnose yeah that's all i'm saying yeah i have really been looking forward to it i talked about on uh sporty good times this week of like yeah there's some times where as i'm driving i'm like i i wouldn't mind going to bed in an hour rather than going recording the podcast but every time i get here it's just non-stop fun so i've never thought like while we're recording i don't want to get me out of here yeah carry me out of here so i'm looking at this guy like where's the door is there a fire exit in the back i don't i don't i don't know how to do it yeah hey teach me it's not my character guys sorry sorry sorry i said that's not my character i shouldn't have said that oh dang it dang it okay i'll i'll practice practice

on gas as i will also do practice my sea rap the sea monster yeah you want to swim with the sea monster but you like to swim with the sea monster um okay so yeah stay tuned next week um hopefully scott could join and we will do land versus sea rap battle fun it's gonna be great we love you guys thank you so much have a good week yes love you bye you