Ghostrunners - 175 - We're Going on Tour

Episode Date: September 12, 2022

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Hey, here we go. What's up, everyone? Good morning. Happy Monday. Happy September. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's it. Now let's get on with the episode. All right. So my roommate Harrison recently was like, hey, did you hear? And I was like, you know, I'm thinking he's got some new, you know, some new idea. Harrison's idea is good. What a fun way to start a conversation. Just, hey, did you hear? Hey, you know, you know what I, what I heard? Did you hear? You hear? And I said, nope. And he said, Abby, his fiance, he said, my fiance, Abby, found a study that you can sign up for where they will study your poop.

And it's like for like a good amount of money. What? So, I mean, yeah, the elevator pitch, the one sentence version of this is like, that's kind of cool. I mean, I'm doing it anyway. Sure, every sure every day well but then the more you think about it it's like what is like the what is the shipping look like you know like am i do i have to bag it up do they give me a container or like would you rather have a bag or a box like a bag or a petri like yeah are you scooping

yeah are you scooping or are you trying to like you're aiming it in there is it some sort of canoodling situation for whatever reason i'm imagining a chinese food to go box is underneath you and that's what you are displaying it into and it's got those like wires on the top you know and you just hold it and it's way cheaper if the box is less than like you know eight inches deep so if you could fit it in this takeout box. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just get a nice swirl. You want this to go?

Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and 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. Ghost Rubsles Podcast.

Everybody morning, we're taking round the Ghost Ruffles Podcast. Ghost Ruffles Podcast. That's really something. Yeah, it's interesting. Harrison was really fired up, but he said he missed, or like they, maybe someone made a TikTok about the about the poop study or whatever and so then it goes viral and then like they reached their amount of applicants that like shut it down so he didn't get to apply but i feel like it messed but once you know that there's opportunity to be paid for your poop pooping for free now just seems yeah you just hold it in until the next time you monetize this yeah yeah let's say you're just you know pooping money down the toilet or

whatever i mean you really are you're literally sol at that point that's too bad yeah i guess i don't know how it works i don't know what they're looking for i'm sure and i would like to know the application process like what are the questions at the beginning yeah like uh yeah how regular are you like what so many people are listening to this like early Monday morning. Like they're eating their breakfast while they're listening. Sorry, guys. Well, I mean, some people might have just done it. They're on their way to do it.

So we were doing it right now. It's just part of it. I will probably be pooping when I listen to this part. Really? Or sometimes I'll turn it on like when I'm in the shower Monday morning. Yeah. Nice. Yeah.

So we don't need to go. So if you guys want to think about that, ever since Sugar-Free Jake come around, I wish I could sign up for the poop study. Really? We're looking good. Yeah, you're proud of it. Yeah, that's all I'll say. But we're looking good.

Let's let's let's talk about how you were feeling before the study. Will you say more about that? I mean, it just wasn't as good. I'm just amazed with like your regularity, irregularity back then. Well, it was regular to me. That's fair. You were you're consistent. Let's let you guys fill in the blanks.

Let's let you guys waddle your way to an Oklahoma City women's restroom. Under the overpass, through the underpass. What a story. Yeah. Have you ever done a study at all? Like anything like that? No. I remember one time, uh, why I remember the questionnaire when, uh, I first started selling plasma. Oh yeah. Cause the first session it's very extensive. There's a lot of questions,

a lot of blood related questions, some like AIDS type questions. Like, have you been to Spain in the last 18 and a half months? It starts to get a little specific. Let me think about this. I dude, I remember, and I'm not making this up because i remember i had a i had a friend and a witness with me and we're like did you get to the monkey question oh yeah something about like like yeah it asked in the last six months have you had any kind of uh sexual interaction with a monkey any canoodling with the monks it was like six months when was when did i go down to yeah when was aruba when was tulum um to find interaction and because it was i mean it was

belize you know those guys they have such a strong grip that i mean once they they can take whatever they want monkeys like bananas oh that's all say that's all i'll say that i'm not gonna go much farther into that. But it was something like that. Really? Yeah. I kind of remember something like that too. Like being like, what?

Who would? Or what is the connection? Where do you? Yeah. Or like, yeah, we used to have this question. Well, that got us in some trouble. Oh boy. Did we learn a mistake there?

That's so funny to think about. Or it's funny to think about like some guy some freak out there is like oh seven months ago or just the guy who answers yes and then the the employee has to be like okay you clearly can't do this did you think that was the appropriate answer did because you turned it in you kept answering questions after that one surely you knew that was gonna get you kicked out that was a deal breaker from day one you knew it when it happened um that's uh yeah that's funny to me i don't mean to put that in the stand-up notes i uh i i did do a study do you remember maybe it was back when you were in dallas i had two watches and you told me about it it sounds awesome yeah i got paid a

ton of money to to wear an apple watch and i was like, like, I think it was like $1,500 to wear an Apple watch for like a month. And I was like, and you had to like answer like a survey question or like a, like maybe four questions every six hours or something like that when you're awake. And I was like, sure, this is easy and awesome. But then the catch was that you also had to wear another like monitor slash watch on your other hand. Yeah. You're like, what's the catch?

And it's like, well, you look like an an idiot guess how cool people look when they have two watches on guys like just imagine how cool that was so um yeah and i actually ended up breaking my apple watch like while doing the study because i think it flew off my wrist while i was doing woodworking or something they cracked the screen and the people were like no problem that's fine still giving my money part of the study It could fall off during woodworking. Yeah, that exactly. So that was helpful. Yeah.

I don't think I really had to do anything with like, they didn't like really ask me much about the watch itself. It was more like monitoring my heart rate on it. Oh, it was just a way to track you and like tracking my feelings like, hey, how are you feeling today? You know what? And then you had to do like a really quick video journal thing like on your phone, I think it was like, OK, in 30 seconds or less, tell us how you you feeling today? You know what? And then you had to do like a really quick video journal thing, like on your phone, I think it was like, okay, in 30 seconds or less, tell us how you're feeling today.

And I'd always be like, I'm feeling good. It's been a good day. You know, I had, I had like the same answer every time. They didn't know they were getting like an optimistic, like very like mentally healthy person. Yeah. Right. This guy seems to always just be fine.

Like he's lying or just a good guy. We learned nothing from him. There is no correlation between his heart rate and his feelings. He's just always great. Speaking of being always great, we just got back from Sublette, southwest Kansas. Oh, you did. I was thinking it was you and I was. No, I'm sorry. We is in my little family and I. Yeah, Sublette. Visiting my sister and I have a better attitude in the car with my screaming babies than my wife does. Uh, your threshold's a little different. Yeah, dude. I think I could,

it might be one of those things where like eventually like the insanity would like overtake me, but I think I could, I could drive in a car with my kids screaming for six hours straight and I would be fine. As long as you knew they were okay. You just power through. Yeah. I'm like, they're not going to die. They're not going to go anywhere. I can't imagine. You're just like, they'll scream themselves out.

Is that kind of mentality? I don't, yeah, maybe. Yeah. I think to an extent, like I think A, they kind of sense like that you're bothered by it. And so that like triggers them

to do it more. Yeah. Like they get, if they get a reaction out of you, B, I think they sense your fear. They sense your, like your discomfort. And so that just makes them more uneasy. And so part of me is just like, if I just chill, if I just ignore them, they're going to be, you know, they're going to stop. And I think I also just in my head, whether it's like a longer short term or

like literally like a short term, like I always am like, this is going to stop. Eventually we're going to stop. Like eventually we're going to get there and it's going to be fine. This is how my brain thinks about heaven. I'm like, Oh, it's got to stop. I'm're going to get there and it's gonna be fine this is how my brain thinks about heaven i'm like oh it's gotta stop i'm like but it doesn't like what i mean praise god it's gotta stop you know it has to be an end but it doesn't there it doesn't it doesn't it just goes forever yeah here i go i'm thinking about it it's crazy what if the screaming never stopped unfortunately sublet kansas is not heaven uh but it does stop yeah the drive there're six hours long and i'm like i'm fine with and katherine of course is like much more worried and i think

we compliment each other in that well on that way like she is so just like stressed out and like wanting to help out and i'm just like i have all these theories of like just don't give him any toys if you don't give him any toys then they don't expect they won't know the the mountaintop of playing with a toy because you give bo a toy he plays with it for five minutes, and then he wants a different toy. And it's like, hey, if he didn't know he had options for all these different toys, he wouldn't have expectations entitlement for the toys. That is my milkshake. That's what I'm going through right now.

Had I not ever known about a milkshake, I guarantee you I would not want one. But every night at 1030, when I'm driving back from Rachel's house, I'm like, man. You're like, ooh, that's open. Stinky shake is open. ooh, that's open. Steaky Steak is open. Oh, that sounds good. Yeah, man. Like the first 30 minutes to an hour, Bo just looked out the window the whole time.

Was having the ball, dude. Happy as a lark. Oh my gosh. Not happier. Larks, you couldn't hold a candle to this guy. I mean, just so happy. He would see a train. Choo-choo!

Choo-choo! It wasn't even a moving train. It was like parked on the tracks see a train choo-choo choo-choo it wasn't even a moving train it was like parked on the stationary choo-choo stationary choo-choo he was loving it and then all of a sudden he gets one toy he gets one magnetic puzzle with the president's on it and he's it's over it's the fall of man yeah that's 100 what we've always said so uh anyway i just i don't know if i would be the same for other kids or like not my own, but I, I'm just so content. I think I've just trained myself over, over the, like I used to get frustrated. Now I'm just like, it's fine. It's a veteran parent mindset.

I will say like, if my kids, if I'm physically like trying to hold my kids or like coursing, like if I, if I'm like trying to change their diaper or change their clothes and they're kicking me while they're screaming, that'll get me going. Okay. That's a different kind of level of like, but if I'm not, if I'm not physically like touching them or anything,

no problem. No problem. Cry. No touching. Do your thing. No touching. Yeah. Catherine heard the other day from somebody like a parent that was like,

let your kid cry as long as they want, but just say that they aren't allowed to open their mouth. So, so yeah, you can cry. they aren't allowed to open their mouth. So, so yeah, you can cry. Don't let me see them teeth though. And I, I thought about,

I was like, I don't know if I agree with this because I still don't like the idea of like encouraging them to like be sad all the time. Yeah. But at the same time, she's like, but that's the point is that they can't really, if they,

if like trying to cry right now with no, with no, that's about as good as, that's about as good as you get yeah i could do that yeah no problem let her let him go anyway um yeah that's just a little bit of a tangent i suppose no that's great that's great we have we have a lot to talk about it's been eight days since you last recorded scott is no longer with us yeah today today um well we'll see but uh our podcast today uh which reminds me thank you guys for voting on the facebook page about the uh s'mores last week that was fun that

was cool what do you call them the s'mores like the mount russ s'mores okay uh and we got more of those coming stick around later this episode our top four favorite stay tuned we'll see but uh yeah we have had a lot going on yeah a lot going on this past week a lot going on today really today's big content day because yesterday was labor day so we crammed a lot in we did train i did correct opinions this morning then big daddy came over we did jean shorts then lindsey came over we did girls gone mild did a little cross pollination brad and lindsey were in a video together yeah not what it sounds like katherine yeah sorry i could have worked out a little collab a train i left the room brad and lindsey cross-pollinated derrick filmed us

her thorax was yeah right okay um anyway that was really fun though seeing you and lindsey in a video together um great improvisers we did like a freaky friday video so it was like boys and girls in the fall kind of but lindsey is the biggest football fan you know and brad just couldn't care less yeah yeah it's kind of fun like i think hopefully if if that goes well that that idea of like yeah just basically reversing roles i think that could be a really fun, freaky Friday car maintenance. Yeah. Freaky Friday bachelor episode,

right? Shopping or yeah. All these different things, online shopping or, but it was great. I mean, yeah, Brad would getting ready in the morning.

Hey girls, I've got a veggie tray. If anyone wants it, Lindsay's like, yo, we're not going to eat veggies. All right. Bring us some queso.

And a lot of times we didn't even tell Lindsay what to say. She just snapped into it. It was great. I just thought of all the conversations I've had with Catherine on Sunday. Like, hey, I'm going to make some veggies. I was like, you can make them, but no one's going to eat them. I promise no one will eat those. Well, you don't know. Maybe somebody's...

I promise no one's going to eat those. And so, yeah, it was me being like, hey, I'm going to make these veggies. No one's going to eat those. You're like, yeah, Catherine, it's Jake, Isaac, and Harrison coming over. No one is eating the veggies. Maybe's gonna eat this you're like yeah katherine it's jake isaac and harrison coming over no one is eating maybe harrison for his poop study but that's not uh yeah that was fun and then uh and then now we're podcasting tonight so how do you feel do you are you just zonked no this is so fun good truly i actually had that thought while you were talking about sublet i was like this is fun this feels good yeah i think it may be because

i put a sweatshirt on and I've been cold for like three hours. Yeah. I got my blankie on. Yeah. First podcast in a blanket, I think. First blankie pod. Maybe back in the day in the old Ellis basement, I had a blanket on at one point, but. I remember there was some blue walls days where you and I were both, I mean, down coat,

like down winter coat. Yes, I do remember that. I don't know if we ever went blanket. I don't think we had options of a blanket or else we would have blanketed up for sure. It was some cold podcasting. Yeah, we had like our winter. There was one time specifically where I think maybe it was right after you had moved out and Peter wasn't in there yet, where I think the heat was just off or like way turned down.

And it was like, you know, 50 degrees in there. So excited for a new studio somewhat soon, hopefully. This is kind of the dilemma here a little bit. Like it's a three bedroom house. Rachel's going to be one of the bedrooms. Sure. Obviously, from a financial standpoint, it'd be great to find Rachel two of the roommates. That way, the mortgage kind of gets paid for.

Yep. But she finds one roommate, still get a little cash, and we get a podcast studio way sooner. How do you think that roommate would feel about us recording late into the night? Oh, I think that's going to be like part of it. Like, hey, would you like to live here? Here's the rent. Here's where it's at. You're the producer of our podcast.

Do you know Adobe Premiere? How easy can you soundproof a bedroom? Tell us your experience with thumbnails. Yeah. Just like Justin and Nathan are like, what's going on right now? Honestly, that would be huge. Sorry, Justin and Nathan. We could find a female roommate who could also be a podcast producer.

I was like, hey, just just live here for free and just stay awake. Edit this lot. Yeah. OK. Anyway. So, yeah, trying to figure that out. But anyway. Yeah.

Feeling good. This is fun. Glad we're doing this. This is fun. Happy to give you guys another podcast this week. It's gonna be a good one. Let's talk. We both, we have, I'm sure we have a ton of stories. We purposely not told each other much about our past weeks. Yeah. Whenever Lindsay came over, she was like, oh, how's Ohio? And I was like, dang it. I didn't

want to know. I don't want to know anything. I don't want to know anything. When you showed up, Trey was like, dude, I was San Diego. And I was like, okay. We are boycotting this conversation i know it's never like explicitly said like uh-huh like hey i care about you but i don't want to talk about this it's very understood but it's just like yeah of course we're gonna wait and like talk about that on the podcast and like there are certain events where like i think you you know texted me about my comedy special you know that's a big night you got to be at least

a friend i made sure to text you before and after san diego but i also wanted i said give me two and a half sentences oh yeah you know and you did it's like that's all i wanted yeah you're like i'm going to bed just just throw a few things my way and i was like okay uh so you want to start you let me start you go for it okay let's see so there i was no i'm just kidding um so first of all san diego just 10 out of 10. You'll like it. Can't say good enough things about- The D-A's out of the A's. That's right. Of the San D-A's go. It was just amazing.

Honestly, I think California sometimes gets a certain rap and San Diego did not feel that rap. It was a different rap, right? Yeah, I got it. There's Soup Dog and then there's- Wildfires. Wildfires. I was going to give you a few options. There's Wildfires. Wildfires. I was giving you a few options. There's Wildfires.

I was thinking like rap, R.I.P. Gangster rap. There's Snoop Dogg and then there's Nipsey Hussle. I don't know. There's Snoop Dogg and there's, what's that guy's name that sings It's Gonna Bother Me? Lupe Fiasco. Got it. I don't even think he's from California, but it was just gonna bother me that I couldn't think of his name.

Anyway, yeah. So first and foremost, like my, my experience, I got there, my friend who is housing me, Jordan, uh, state lives like 45 minutes North of the city. Oh. And so little bit of an Uber drive to get there. No problem. Um, but he had texted me. So like, so Jordan and I know each other from integrated. And so before this weekend, I'll be honest. I think we were acquaintances, friends, friends to an extent, but not like tight friends. I would say by the end of it, I feel like we were close friends. Like I feel comfortable with him, but like, like, like it was one of those things where he invited me to come out is this friend's birthday party. You know, he was the original connection. He's like, you can stay with us. But I was like, okay birthday party. You know, he was the original connection.

He's like, you can stay with us. But I was like, okay. Like, I've never met your family before. I don't know you super deeply. Like, I like you a lot, but I just don't know you that well. So he texts, he owns two Chick-fil-A. So I figure he's really busy. He texts me. He's like, I have an extra car for you.

Oh, Jordan. My house will be unlocked. Two Chick-fil-A's. He lives in a gated community or in a gated house. And so he's like, all these things will be unlocked. So just go in there if I'm not in there. And so as I'm reading this text again, I'm like, go in, go in to the unlocked house. If I'm not there, I was like, I should probably at least like call him or knock or something.

Knock. Yeah. Make some noise. So yeah, I'm getting closer. I sound like I'm pulling in and he didn't know you're texting me back. So I call him and I'm like calling him from the front door. And I see this dog and this dog starts barking at me and I see his little kid. Um, and he's like, Oh, I'm not there, but my 10 year old's not feeling super great. Uh, so he's home right now. And so of course

these dogs start barking at me. And of course it's like, yeah, I'm not going to like this kid obviously knows I'm there. You got to smell like Chick-fil-A to be welcome in that house. You got to act like you've been at work all day yeah you gotta smell like waffle fries yeah a little bit of polynesian like you've been knee deep in a 15 stack hello and so i so this kid it was it was uh it was lemonade boys lemonade stand boys part two this kid opens up the door and i'm there with the suitcase and i'm like hey buddy i'm uh heard you're home alone yeah heard you're not feeling too well and you're all alone no i didn't but i was like hey man uh i'm a friend of one of your

dads or i don't think it's california come on you never know uh so i thought it was in san francisco okay seeing your parents yeah i'm a friend of your dad's uh and i'm staying at your house like that would have been great too if you just like hey one of your dad's and I'm staying at your house. Like that would have been great too. If you just like, Hey, one of your dad's friends or no, one of your dad's dad. Well, your, your dad has several friends. Yeah. It's gotta be your dad, your dad, one of, one of your dad's friends. You're not feeling well or I'm not feeling, I don't know either, buddy.

Can I just come in and like lay on your bed? No, no. Yeah. So this kid, a just props to props to him. him he goes like he was definitely trained in this he goes okay can you tell me my dad's name whoa i was like that's pretty good maybe have a little bit of a safer question than that because that seems like a pretty easy one to know but still he's like all right can you tell me my address and you okay what color is my house. Okay. Oh yeah? What color shirt did I wear this morning?

How many dogs do I have? Like all these things. Yeah. Okay. If you're so good. Yeah. What's my favorite kind of water? Regular water?

Not bad. Come on in. Okay. If you're my dad, if you're one of my dad's friends what do I call him yeah I don't know what's my favorite kind of cold

creamy dessert I don't know ice cream enter frozen yogurt it was actually peach wave. You dingus. Anyway. Um, so yeah, he answers the door, does all that. And, uh, my friend's on speakerphone at this point. And so he's like, just give me, give, give brave the phone brave, you know, talks to Jordan and you know, he's like, Hey man, just a show Mr. Bradbury stay. And this kid was awesome. He's 10 years old. He's like, show us where we're staying. And like, you know, he's like, Hey man, just a show Mr. Bradbury stay. And this kid was awesome.

He's 10 years old. He's like, show us where we're staying and like, you know, get him something to drink if you want something. And so he literally like walks me through this house and like with his hand, like motions, like this will be your room. And he's like, would you like anything to drink? Maybe a cold brew or some, some kombucha imagining a 10 year old doing that. It's so funny. Oh yeah. And he's like cold brew or some kombucha. I was like, we that is so funny oh yeah he's like cold brew some kombucha i was like we are in california baby uh i was like cold brew sounds great he goes in he i told you this already but he goes to this they have a kegerator like a like a keg looking draft thing he goes and pulls out a uh chilled mug from the freezer puts it under this cold brew and pours it for me wow bliss baby that alone sealed the deal for san diego you need to buy one

of those machines from wayfair so that it comes with a 10 year old kid that way you can just have access to what you got in california just every single day oh my goodness that would be amazing too far justin put it in win win goodness two birds one stone anyway so then I didn't I really am focusing a lot on this

initial five minutes but I didn't know what to do because I was like okay do I just chill in my room at this point so I literally

for like five minutes I was like I'm just gonna hang out here so I had my little mug in my room just sipping on it like what do I do I don't wanna like

be weird anyway eventually I was like I'm gonna go out and talk to this kid because what's like at et etp et estimated time etup estimated time of intel performance oh probably a while like five hours okay maybe yeah maybe six at this point are you still are you feeling the nerves quite a bit are you excited to be there or all of the above yeah yeah totally felt like i still need to do some more preparation that's how i always feel um yeah yeah good just all day all day i never feel prepared i'm not totally comfortable all day yeah good i'm glad to hear that because i definitely felt that but i was

like i'm gonna talk to him anyway talk to him for a while uh you start doing your routine for the kid hey what do you know about do you hey how are you doing hey marcos my wife when she drives the van so we have a minivan i think i love it even more than i think she does no i didn't say that um anyway had a great time with them uh eventually did like get out of there and go prepare for a little bit at a coffee shop in carlsbad for all those san diego guides yeah i know that heard of it they got a big uh i think they have lego land and a strawberry patch how fun i didn't expect that check out those things i don't know educated guess that's a fun i like that just just in general those two things are very specific to the point where it's like i can't deny it unless i really know carlsbad feels right but i don't know so anyway we went there and made probably a mistake of just drinking tons of

coffee beforehand because I mean, chilled mug nitro, dude, I can't, I can't express to you. Like I told you this earlier, I am genuinely like seriously looking into getting my own. It was so good. How big of a machine are we looking at? Uh, 24 inches wide. It's a pretty big machine. It held two cakes. Cause remember inches wide. It's a pretty big machine. Yeah. I held two cakes. Cause remember the kombucha was also on tap. Wow. I didn't say that, but the kombucha and the cold brew, like how, hello, California. Yeah. Wonderful. Um, it's definitely an extra, like, I don't need that, but it sounds awesome. So cool. But I drank some of that. And then I went to this coffee shop and drank some coffee there. Um,

and I think I felt a little bit weird in my stomach after that. Like, but, but before, like beforehand, yes. The night before was when we recorded the podcast. Um, and then I tried to like practice like literally in your driveway after, after podcasting, I was like, I am forcing myself to go through the entire thing in his driveway before I leave. Because so often I'd be like, I got it. I'll figure it out. Yeah. I know that part. I'll go to the next part. But like literally multiple times in the driveway, I got mad at myself out loud. I would be like, come on, Brad.

Because I think I was so tired that I could not like, like I could not get all the words out or something. I don't know if I was just not serious enough or whatever. So I was struggling. I was in like the next morning I tried to do it and I like couldn't connect the dots. I was like, if this happens during the performance, I'm done. I'm sunk. And so I literally Googled in the airport brain food. I found it was like dark chocolate almonds. I'm trying to remember avocados, maybe interesting, like all these different things. I was like, okay, I'm going to try to find some of those didn't at all. Just got a bunch of caffeine instead.

I did enjoy the idea of you because you texted me about you being in my driveway which is fun you're like hey i don't know if you and rachel are coming out to do any smooching no smooching um yeah i'm out here i was like we uh we kind of a shrek and fiona situation daytime only not before sunset or only before sunset yeah that was good um yeah anyway so so yeah i think i i had a lot of energy and nerves and whatever all pent up um but yeah i went home changed that was the other thing is that like i didn't think about the fact that i should probably have like some like nicer clothes like so i went and literally the night before I went to Kohl's to try to find, like, it was like, I think it was, everything was, it was like 8.30

and everything was closing at nine. So I was like, Kohl's is open. I'll just run in there. And Kohl's had transitioned from spring to fall, or summer to fall collection of everything. Wait, I don't understand why you, why you didn't pack clothes for this trip. No, no, I, this was, this was beforehand.

This was the night before. I know, I'm saying why, why not just like pack some of your own clothes like why not just i use the clothes you have partially because i've been i like some of my button up like nicer shirts like are are a little bit small on big daddy oh that's part of it and then part of it was not trying to throw anybody in there well i shouldn't even i'll just say it all i didn't have very many clean clothes because i've been i've been gone so much. Yeah. And Catherine offered at like 11 o'clock, like I can, I can do your laundry.

I was like, I'm not going to make you do my laundry. Yeah. Of course, people are thinking to themselves, why didn't he just do it himself? I could have, I was so tired. I didn't want to. I was like, no, I'll just get this shirt. Okay. Hey, no judgment.

You're at Kohl's. You're at Kohl's. And the guy said like the theme of the night is kind of a folksy, because the last band is going to be a bluegrass band okay it's like wear something folksy and i was like i'm from the midwest bro like i think everything i wear is going to be folksy what do you think he told the magician hey tonight's kind of folksy so if you could do if you could like make a banjo up here yeah they did not yeah the magician was not folksy but um anyway so got into all this there was a heat advisory in san diego and i'm wearing a freaking flannel to this thing you picked up flannel from kohl's yeah performing i i get so hot performing let me yeah let me just justify a little bit of saying like i hear that san diego is like the

nicest weather ever it's like always like in the 70s yeah it wasn't it was heat advisory the funny thing is their heat advisory was like 82 degrees okay Oh, okay. So it's like not that bad, but still not flannel worthy. Yeah. Um, so anyway, I get to the club, uh, the club itself. Did I take a picture and send it to you? It was at an actual comedy club. No, it was at a, I didn't tell you this. Uh, it was at a heavy metal club, a death metal, like normal.

We're like, like almost every single time a death metal band is we've performed in a couple venues like that like ashville and yeah a couple others they had like barricades between us and the audience yes because there's normally like a mosh pit and just crazy fans they apparently they had to take those out but those were there yeah and i like if you look so the the venue itself you're gonna love the name of this venue it's called brick by brick oh i say that all the time i know how how like symbolic of my comedy career brick by brick. Um, but if you look it up brick by brick, San Diego, if you look up their Google photos, you will see some people like literally death metal bands and masks like playing on this stage.

Cool. Um, so anyway, uh, the, the, the venue itself, like it didn't have, they had a little bit of a green room, but that was where the band was hanging out. So there was like a spot in the back where I just went and sat and just like tried to gather myself while people were walking in and conversing and everything. And while I was sitting there, I was like, you know, looking over my thing, praying a lot. I look over this wall and there's just a bunch of like skulls on this wall, like deads like something you would see it like uh like that uh battle the bands in school of rock yeah i'm thinking like the area in lion king that's like the with the hyenas graveyard basically yeah yeah it looks like a graveyard of two good movie references um and so my friend jordan comes up to me he's like what do you need you need to pump up speech you need a prayer what do you need you need brave to make you some some drinks yeah you need another cold brew speech? You need a prayer. What do you need? You need brave to make you some, some drinks. Yeah. You need another cold brew. And I was like all the above. So he prayed for me.

And honestly, like that was a great, uh, reminder. And also just like throughout the entire process, there were times where I, I think I was trying so hard to like focus and like prepare and like memorize everything. But there were multiple times where I was like, I'm just going to take a step back. And like on this drive where I'm trying, where I feel like I need to like do every single thing and be as productive as possible with every single minute. I'm just going to listen to a worship song. Like that might be the most beneficial thing. I'm just going to pray right now. I'm just going to like take time to relax. Like, and I think just, yeah, that reliance on the Lord was, was cool to see, like, just, just, just a reminder of that. um anyway so the the whole thing starts

uh so first of all the guy that's putting on the show for himself he's a it's his birthday but he's like i want to put put this out to everybody else um you know i want to throw a party for everybody and make it really fun he was a juggler in a former life did he tell you this that's right i think did i talk about this on the podcast either way yeah yeah i think we did talk about the podcast he knew you from like the jake and josh josh yeah uh and yeah of course when i heard he was juggler i was like oh i can't wait to tell him about jake and josh of course yeah i knew but um so he started the show off himself like with a few different things and jordan even called he's like yeah there's no doubt that glenn's not gonna do some stuff himself so So he did these like, I mean, pretty cheesy, but pretty cool,

like impressive juggling things where he like would juggle an orange, a banana and an apple and just throw them around. And like, as he's doing them, he would like take bites out of the apple or something. Oh, sure. And then he like even peeled a banana as he's juggling it. Never seen that before. Okay. But every single one of his tricks, the crowd went nuts for him. Oh yeah. Like this crowd, I think I told you beforehand, like this crowd seems like it's going to be a warm crowd. This crowd was so fun. Like then the magician came up.

The magician did all these tricks. A, I didn't understand how he did any of them. So I was genuinely impressed. I love when that happens. I know. I don't even try to like think too deeply about it. I'm like, I'm sure I can maybe think about this or maybe it's a slight hit, but I'm like, nope, not going to worry about it.

I'm amazed. Let's be amazed. But every single one of his tricks, people went nuts for. I was like, these people are so fun. So San Diego Padres organist did not come. He had COVID. Classic. COVID fingers.

So I go up there, you know, there's like a DJ in the back. So after he announces me, he's like, bro, I know this. Did they give you kind of introduction? Yeah. So he asked, that's what they always ask me. And I'm like, just say Jake. He's like, how do you want to be introduced? Woodworker, uh, you know, comedian, podcaster, YouTuber. And I was like, how about all the above with a question mark? You know, like, uh, no, but I was like, you could just say that I am part of Jean Schwartz comedy, but he said something about ghost runners. And he said, Jean Schwartz comedy. He's like, and they're on their way. They're on their way to 10 million

subscribers. And I laughed at that. You know, of course, some people are maybe thinking like, dang, Whoa, dude, these guys pretty good. That's long road. That's crazy. Yeah. Um, so anyway, yeah, he, he also had like a play bill of the night where anyone know what he should put on there for me. And I was like, just anything. I don't care. It was kind of one of those things kind of like, what do you want us to say? Well, yeah, when we introduce you and it's like, you can say I'm the third member of Simon and Garfunkel if you want. I don't know. Um, but yeah, I go up there and I do my first, like, you know, two minutes of kind of intro opening talking about San Diego as I'm talking about San Diego accidentally. I kind of like, I'm like, you know, San Diego, it's, you know,

beautiful people, beautiful or beautiful scenery, beautiful people. And I was like, Whoa, that kind of, kind of sounded Trumpy right there. And so then I was like, beautiful people, beautiful people. And I kind of did that and people loved it. I was like, okay, the Trump thing is, is hitting here. And so like, many times throughout the night, you know, I'd be like, you know, I'm kind of a quirky, insane guy, really quirky,

really quirky. Might have found something there. That's fun, dude. Yeah, it was just a great way to like make a normal sentence a little bit funnier. Yeah. Because I kind of did analyze

a little bit Bert Kreischer because he has that really long story about the machine. Yeah. And like there's so many, even his other parts of his standup, like where it's not even that funny of a thing that he says but he like says one little thing to make it a little goofier a little bit funnier like i see and a lot of times it's just cussing which obviously i'm not gonna do but you know i just

realized like okay i'll just throw in trump stuff every once in a while yeah that keeps people engaged big papa really big papa you know whatever i don't know all these other things so uh it was totally unplanned i didn't plan to do that that's like once it went i was like cool that's such a fun feeling um yeah so i i did my first little bit it was going well and then genuinely for like seven maybe 10 seconds i completely froze after that yeah like like i kind of kind I don't, I would love to watch back the video of this part. I would love to see how obvious it was that I froze or like, cause I think I kind of just like, you know, stammered over like, anyway, that's, uh, so, uh, that is the Trump. I was, I was probably two seconds away from saying, I'm so sorry. I forgot.

I need to check. Like I was so close. I was so close to being like, I can't believe you did this. I can't believe you did this. You kind of forgot how the song started. Yeah. You're like, I, and then right when I figured it out, I didn't forget anything the rest of the time. That's awesome. Um, what was your first like four words? What brought you back? What'd you start off with? Just the first four. Uh, I'm from Kansas city, I think. Okay. Okay. Okay. Or my name, I think it was literally, I needed to introduce myself. So I didn't introduce myself at the very beginning. I like tried to go right into the jokes.

I like doing that too. Yeah. Yeah. I'll get a couple minutes into it. I'm like, oh my God, I think I forgot to even tell you guys who I am. You know, I think that's fun. Yeah.

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was I was going to do that easy to celebrate bit where I was just going to. Oh, yeah, yeah. Like, because it's his birthday. So I'm like, you know, people on Instagram, they always say you're easy to celebrate.

Everyone's easy to celebrate. And I was just going to call people out. What's your name? Yeah. There was even a woman that I met beforehand named Pharrell. And I was like, that's too easy. So I was going to be like,

your name's Pharrell? For real, Pharrell? You knowarrell, you know, like, uh, you know, and then like, you're easy to celebrate. And these people would have gotten nuts for it. Like it would have been perfect. And I realized halfway through that I was like, Oh, I forgot to do that. And I was going to bring it back like four times throughout the set. And so it really, that was my big biff. Other than that, I didn't really forget anything else. And yeah, so I'm going along. Everything's going pretty well. I ask about Facebook. Anybody on Facebook?

No one really says anything. And then I find like this one pocket of like the old people in the ground. I got right. I literally like I single this woman. I was like this white haired woman right here. She's got to be on Facebook. And the woman starts laughing. She's like, I am on Facebook.

Yeah. You know, and found out her name is Janice. You know, I think later on in the night, I was talking about my parents and I was like, you know, I was raised, raised in a great Christian home. My parents are actually here tonight. And I motioned over to that area and I was like, can you stand up guys? And of course no one said, I was like, no, I'm just kidding. My parents aren't there.

And Janice is like, I'll be your mom tonight. And I was like, whoa, mama Jay so we had some great jokes about that uh but yeah just throughout the rest of the night just always going back to janice always going back to her there was one time where a woman next to her who was also very elderly she just goes i you know i'm making a joke about elderly things and the woman goes that's because she looks old and i'll go what that's because she looks old. And I'll go, what? That's because she looks old. I was like, yeah, that's the joke. Yeah. You know, kind of messing with them. I had that one time at a show. I think it might've been the Durham show actually, when all those ghosties were there, but I get done doing like some self-deprecating joke

and they were just like, someone that yells like, you're weird. And I was like, yes, you get it. So that is actually the theme of that joke is that I was doing weird things. I was like, yes, you get it. So that is actually the theme of that joke is that I was doing weird things. I was like, Hey, here in about three minutes, you'll have sarcasm. You're going to love this one. You know? Yeah. It hasn't happened often, but yeah, people will do that. It was, it was great. I was like, yeah, yeah, exactly. You get it. Um, so anyway, the, the rest of the set went well, I ended up like basically retelling in somewhat of a condensed form, the whole home birth story. Yeah. How'd that go? Really? I think it went well. I think I, I, there was at one point where I got a little nervous.

Uh, like I think my confidence, my confidence was like, Ooh, am I, am I taking too long in this part? Like without a good punchline or without a good funny thing, or are they like gripped to this? Like I couldn't tell. Um, but then I didn't even think about it. Like, as I'm telling the story, I'm like, you know, I'm telling the story about how I'm like pulling the tub out into the deck and the tub like just gets all over my shoes. And so does like the, you know, pot like a flower pot. And so my shoes are all messed up. So I just kick off my shoes and I didn't even think about like I literally like I literally like push down my shoe and I kick both my shoes off into the crowd. You weren't planning on doing that? no not not one bit not one bit of me was planning on that and you know it was of course it was like kind of surprising and then and i had i made a joke earlier in the night about like you guys are probably wondering uh you know or you guys are probably thinking yeah of course this guy's not from here he's wearing a flannel and a heat advisory like let's just say cole's was uh already transitioning to their fall fashion and

anyway and so like i was like you're not gonna want to touch those shoes i've been sweating quite a bit in this flannel up here uh so you just perform another seven so like the last yeah seven minutes i was just i was just up there you know no shoes that was probably the worst part i didn't think that through yeah because you got to look like a dingus with those shoes on. Um, Oh, that's great. You know,

at the very end, I was like, all right, love you San Diego. Walk off the stage with those shoes on. Somebody throw me my shoes. How'd your final joke go? Did you have one you're excited about?

Did it, did it work? It went pretty well. I, uh, I think I had, I had mentioned on the pod or on the Brad blogs, Patreon,

uh, about like the idea of AOLI. Oh yeah. I really resonate with that. I was like, I'm starting to like, yeah, it's rebranded for me.

It works. Yeah. So I told that joke earlier about the AOLI. And then I told the joke about Hattie saying, I say, I love you, Hattie. She says,

I love you, fatty. And I was like, it wasn't my fault. It was the AOLI. Oh, nice. And people laughed at that.

And I was like, that's awesome, dude. Got a standing ovation. That's awesome. Yeah. Uh, didn't even realize until halfway down. Cause I was so focused on like getting out of there with no shoes on. Dude, that's amazing. That's so cool. And I think part of it was because I think I did pretty well. Part of it was because I think people were just very, very kind and encouraging, you know? Yeah. So how long do you think you went i think i went 30 minutes at least no way yeah it was a that's so much to memorize i mean that yeah thank you like and that was part of it i think that was the biggest scary part for me is like i i just need to memorize this so that i can be comfortable that's what i'm most nervous about it's like

the joke's already written the jokes either gonna be funnier they're not right but the memorization is not as set in stone and of course of course like yeah the jokes themselves did fine but the the improv stuff was what i really i feel like hit home like i made a joke about philip rivers of course i bet philip rivers had a few home births because you know he's got like 10 kids or whatever and like he lives in san diego or live you know whatever and made a joke about the chargers like you know i think i said something to my home birth story where i was like i caught that baby like i was a kansas city chiefs in the super bowl you know whatever like go chargers uh you know whatever um it is fun when that happens but there's a part of it that's like discouraging too it's like well the stuff i spent a lot of time

on they didn't like the stuff i thought of in the moment honestly though but like that sometimes i know that it's like the stuff i spent a lot of time on i don't feel as comfortable or confident with yeah i've always said stand-up does not feel as comfortable to that it's like the stuff I spend a lot of time on. I don't feel as comfortable or confident with. Yeah. I've always said standup does not feel as comfortable to me as like improv was like, I don't think I get that much funnier if you give me four days to write something down because so much, so much here's, here's what it is for me at least is so much of it is delivery. Yeah. If I have it, if I'm too in my head about it, if I'm too worried about the execution of like, make sure you say these words really well, then the delivery and the physical humor and the little eye movements and all that stuff go away for me, you know what I mean? And so, so much of it, like, like, cause there was one time, I think the night, two nights before maybe I literally had everything written down word for

word and I just read it off to see how long it was going to take me. And I, I, I was like, none of this is funny at all. Like the way I'm reading it right now, it feels like I'm reading a public speaking speech and it's terrible. And so I was like, I got to get more comfortable. I got to get more energetic about this. Um, cause yeah, I, I think, yeah, the written stuff is not always my favorite. So, um, yeah, overall it was great. People came up and talked to me. So many people, of course, in California had home birth stories of their own to tell me. And yeah, that was one of the things I asked was like, has anybody ever had a home birth here? And people are like, yeah, home birth. I was like, yeah, what am I saying? It's California. It's like written into your

constitution or something. So, um, anyway, yeah, the whole thing was awesome. Um, I don't know. Oh, the band after me, dude, that bluegrass band. Yeah. Amazing. Really? Oh my gosh. So much fun. Like if anybody's from that area and went to Disneyland grown up, I'm sure you know who these people are. Cause I think they, they played five times a day,

every single day for like 40 years at Disney. Like these guys, they were bluegrass band, but they played all these classic rock songs. And so, wow. Yeah. They were around.

They kept it tight. Like they were good at what they did. Uh, no long, they retired from that though. And so like, it was a big deal Like they were good at what they did. No, they retired from that, though. And so like it was a big deal. They came and played at this concert. Dude, what a birthday party. Really?

Shout out, Glenn. It really was like an amazing night. And then he had Chick-fil-A sandwiches for everybody at the end. Gosh. So I got to like, you know, bask in the fact that I was done and I could relax. And I got to Chick-fil-A sandwiches. Yeah. Fudged.

Fudged hard. Fudge. Anyway, so that's the let me let me see if i have anything else written down i mean i think i that uh whole story is really fun and it reminds me something which i wasn't necessarily planning on talking about the podcast hopefully we're not premature and talking about this but i briefly oh actually so trey and i had a really fun conversation last tuesday which was the day that you're performing. And I made sure to wait until after you were done performing to tell you some exciting news because I don't want Brad to be thinking about this.

He's got to memorize everything. But that exciting conversation that Trey and I had last week was essentially just kind of looking at numbers and analytics. And we were like, I think Gene Schwartz might be big enough to tour. Yeah. Just maybe, and maybe not a nationwide tour, not a, are you for real tour kind of,

uh, you know, whatever expedition, but I mean, 130,000 subscribers, we're getting good views. You know, we have a 50 K on Instagram.

Yeah. You'd like to, you'd think that like Chicago, Dallas, Houston, uh, you know, and Trey was even that he's like, no, I think you could even go to like, go to Des Moines, Houston, you know, and Trey was even, he's like,

no, I think you could even go to like, go to Des Moines, Omaha, you know, Kansas City. You could do those markets too, so. Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro. Seoul. Moscow.

Korea. See what else is there. Nairobi, I think was one that we were considering. Singapore. Singapore. Singapore. Singapore. Anywhere in Newfoundland new those new fees love us yeah um so yeah that yeah we haven't really gets me excited yeah we haven't really seen each other um how you doing but yeah hearing that story gets me actually

excited it kind of reminds me it's like oh yeah we talked about that last week so yeah yeah yeah who knows if you guys want to throw out the comments or try to figure out like, where are the ghosties at? Where are the Gene Schwartz listeners? We tried to do that one time on Facebook and it was like, you know, 85 different responses. Yeah, you could just add your own. Ogden, Utah. It's like, yeah, maybe, maybe.

Provo, Utah. Oh, okay. St. George, Utah. Like, this is not helpful. Logan, Utah. It's like, okay, all right, we get it. We will try to go to Utah. Like this is not helpful. Logan, Utah. It's like, OK, all right, we get it. We will try to go to Utah. Yeah.

So maybe maybe I should put up a poll and not let people add cities and just do like major metros that we think we might have fans like. Do we have anyone who would come? Are you in this area? Yeah. Part of me even once. I don't know. This is too, I guess, over complicated.

Like part of me was like divide it, divide the country into whatever, 10 regions and then like click on whatever region you're from. And then from there you have options for like dummy. Let's just turn the Facebook page into kind of a polling center. Let's just, yeah. Kind of market research. Kind of our own poop study. Our census. Yeah.

Anyway, that is very exciting. I mean, it wouldn't be for a while, probably. But, you know, we have to plan everything. But at the same time, too, I think it'd be fun. I think it'd be just Brad and I. And I think it'd be just be making calls to comedy clubs. Like, hey, this is who we are. This is our audience.

We're funny. We sold 300 tickets at this thing called F12. Yep. We think we could sell out your comedy club one night or something. And then we just, I don't know, man, make it Zoppity. And then we perform and you kick off your shoes every night baby they were sweaty dude i felt bad i was like don't touch those things man oh man yeah that'd be awesome that'd be so much yeah i got really excited about tuesday and then i think i forgot to think about it since last tuesday yeah you i think you had texted me like you know

california is two hours behind so i think I literally woke up to that text. I kind of like listened to it half asleep. And then I was like, I got other things. I had a call with somebody who might advertise for Jean Schwartz and ghost runners. And so, yeah, it was a big day. Um, yeah, it was just like, okay, I'll, I'll, I'll think about that later. And I'm thinking about now, but just imagine, yeah, that'd be awesome. Cause the thing is, it's like on one end, it's like, yeah, we'd like to give like my thoughts were like, I would like to give people who come an hour and a half of entertainment. It's like, I don't think Brad and I are in a spot where, you know, we can each do 45 minutes of standup, but it's like, but that's okay.

We can do whatever we want. There's no rules. Yeah. We don't have to do standup. Who knows what we could do, you know, put on a concert for him or just a play. What if we write a play? Just a two man play. People would like it.

People, some people would hate it. Let's talk real quick before we talk about your stand-up stuff uh we did do a little bit of an improv play today for one of our jean shorts videos and i think there were some high points and there were some low what if we just did that in chicago i mean people would laugh for part of it yeah we uh brad had an idea like a premise for our jean shorts video he's like what if we did a a video about one uppers i was like yeah that makes sense that'd be really fun and we're like yeah what if it's just like a very conversational like we're just trying to one up each other it just kind of gets out of control and um funny and we're like yeah you know what let's not write anything down let's just shoot it let's just film it whatever and so we did and this one might be a favorite uh for you guys but i don't know if the algorithm is gonna love it yeah yeah that's

all it's all true we the first one we we uh filmed though i lost it i don't even remember what i said or what like but it was like oh man yeah we were both just dying right i mean some of it was funny i think but it was also i mean about what a video would probably be like if you didn't write anything down you just turn the camera on so if you're out there watching it just know like if you're thinking yourself i wonder if they improvise the whole thing i think that could make it funnier though if you know that like they had nothing planned so uh jake you went to canton ohio yeah i also had a one-off stand-up comedy night only hear about it i don't have nearly as much to really talk about and um but it was fun i i don't know if i've ever had more fun before a show okay than uh the canton ohio

show because i mean it's just a county fair um it's something it was a big county fair though it wasn't crazy big but i mean yeah it had everything that a fair would have they had a big budget i mean they got like country music stars they had a bunch going on and um it was a big one for them it was 176 right something crazy where I was like what you're doing it this long ago like Yeah, I don't know. It's a long time. Anyway, so it's fun It's so they had like this like camper for us. Like here you go. This is your this entire campers your green room I was like, this is great. Hello, friend. I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah, it was like at your own trailer But I was like I want to go like mingle we're at a fair like what else am i gonna do i don't want to sit in here watch

oklahoma state football and so uh so i was like hey how do we like get to the fair and our handler if you want to call her that fair term she was like uh oh i could take you guys in a in a golf cart that way the the fans don't mob you and everything and i was like okay and i'll tell you what gets way more attention than just walking around a fair is being driven around on a golf cart and so me trying especially the ladies like no one mobbed them no one mobbed them no pictures no pictures they'll be performing later yeah the celebrities do not want to be mobbed do not mob them okay guys seriously do whatever you, do not rush the golf cart. They just, they're normal people.

Just want to experience a normal fair. Okay. She was really nice. And so I feel like I had, you know, just kind of go along with whatever she wanted. And, but as soon as we kind of got into the fair, I was like, okay, you can let me off here. I'm going to go get, like, get something to eat. And I didn't even get to the pizza line.

And then, uh, probably a 12 year old kid was just like, what's up, Jake? He had a ghost runner shirt on. I was like, dude, I don't know anyone here was going to, you know, I thought it. Yeah. No one knew I was coming. So met him and his dad. There were several other ghosties.

I just remembered. I met Janelle, Ukrainian Janelle. She was there. Yeah. And I saw her before the show. And she said, I have a gift for Rachel, but I'm going to give it to you after the show. She's like, great.

And then I went to find her after the show and I couldn't find her and I forgot about it until just now. Dang. Dang. Do you think, hey, Janelle, do you think you can send that over the mail? I'm sure Rachel would love it as a beautiful keepsake.

That's it. That's as deep as I go. Okay, that is it. You don't have to put it on a Russia order. Zelinsky. Zielinski. Zielinski. Zielinski. Pudding.

Zielinski. Monica Zielinski. Do you think custom Zielinski about that? Good try. Good try. Anyway, Janelle, hopefully those jokes be um a repayment for not finding you after the fair and getting the gift from you but it was nice of you to show up thank you in advance for the gift for rachel um yeah i had so much fun before the fair just walking around the

fair just eating food and it was hard i'm still doing good with a no sugar diet and you know in a fair in a fair i mean i almost wanted to make a video like going up to the fried oreo stand like you guys have sugar free um honestly what i wanted to do i was really excited i did something like this when train i went to nashville to work with nbc for the nascar thing i made that instagram story yeah you know like who is that you know yeah i was gonna do that again because i didn't think there were a lot of like trade candy fans there so i was gonna record myself like you guys sizey trade candy Kennedy night. But then we kept getting carted around. So I couldn't really get any separation. But it was fun.

And I've never there's a line in Dumb and Dumber. And I've never felt the embodiment of this quote more in my life. But they're at the diner. And Jim Carrey says to Harry, he's like, feels good to mingle with these laid back country folk, don't it? And that is what it felt. I was just in such a good mood. I talked to everybody. It was like it was my last day on earth yeah i went to alan's getting

a snow cone i'd walk over to alan and i talked to the person that's on him a snow cone love it and oh i was just talking every i was talking you know i was like this guy's got cows what are we looking what are the names how much are we trying to get for him tonight oh two dollars a pound oh how many pounds anyway it's like you just now realize like i kind of love my childhood like i kind of miss strafford a little bit i mean just fairs were fun and i think it just it was perfect weather i felt good you're getting older i think that's that's part of it is like i want to talk to this random stranger that i'm never going to see again about this thing that i am just now learning like about yeah so i love just mingling

and got to see some stuff there was one the our the, our handler, she was like, I can take you over to the pigs. I'm like, sure. And I saw an event that is hard to describe. Okay. It was, it was 10 year old girls in like a big pen. Um, and they were, they were currently competing when we got there and they were just kind of

hitting pigs with a stick. And I was like, you got to explain this to me. Pig whip. Pig whip, pig hit. Yeah. And it's some sort of competition.

I don't know if this is what's called showing pigs or showing pigs is just like look at them i don't know what that is exactly i don't know what this event is called but the goal the the grading rubric was like how well do the pigs walk if the pigs ever stop moving you get disqualified oh so you just keep hitting them just keep moving them and i think it likes part of the grading is like the way they walk or maybe how they look when they walk it's a 10 year old like they're it was just like little girls and like little like checkered like flannel shirts with like their hair braided and it just looks so funny they have like a marathon sticker on them you know it says like one three nine and they're just whacking these pigs dude come on get there meanwhile these like you know 55 year old men and wranglers just got their arms crossed

like that's it yep that's it that one's about to stop i told you eunice yeah any second now she's gonna give out look at those little legs those little hooves them hooves ain't gonna see another three feet i bet uh that was fun honestly my goal pre-show was i wanted to buy start county fair merch i wanted to perform in the fair merch. They didn't have any. I couldn't find it. Really? Yeah.

So I tried. But I really like the idea just how like ignorant we are to county fair things. Like the fact like whenever you said like, I think maybe that's showing pigs. I don't really know. Maybe it's just whatever. Like, I like the idea of somebody who's like really country and like, like acclimated to those kind of things, like making a scavenger hunt for us and us going to a county fair and like, I mean, like, like trying to like, basically like do a photo scavenger hunt.

Like, I think, I think that that's what they're doing here. Like, let's take a picture with this. I think that's what this is called. I think that this is the chicken coop, you know? Yeah. I think this is the tractor pull. Honestly, I don't know. I wouldn't know.

Like a tractor could be moving something. I'd be like think this is the tractor pull honestly i don't know i wouldn't know like a tractor could be moving something i'd be like is that tractor is that is it pulling wind behind it i'll tell you what should be on the scavenger hunt it's something i saw and it is a probably 14 year old girl uh with a sash around her it's like oh maybe a birthday oh maybe something else nope the sash said dairy princess. Oh, yeah. I've heard of that. I don't. How do you get to be dairy princess?

How many milkshakes do you have to drink? No, it's how many teats you milk. Really? Okay. And if you get a certain point, are you the dairy queen? Oh, my God. You get a franchise. Once you get married, you're a dairy queen, probably.

But yeah, girls just walking around with a dairy princess sash. That'd be a great scavenger hunt item find the dairy queen get a dairy princess get a pic with the dairy princess no i feel like i've heard i don't know who it is specifically but like somebody i'm loosely affiliated with was like the dairy princess back are you thinking of dwight shrew being the hay king because that's what it reminded me of same kind of idea yeah i don't know i should know we should being from the midwest we should have these answers but we are not that kind of people maybe yeah i just feel like people people should at least have that general knowledge

people probably from where we are from smaller towns you really need to have it me okay i'm from i'm from a big city but you're you're the one that needs to know these things but yeah i saw the dairy princess that was fun and then performing went okay it was by far the most unique show i've ever done i mean one because i'm i'm smelling manure while performing i mean there's horses to my right money are you spelling manure because uh a horse manure no it's money baby it smells like money um you're hearing like kids scream on like rides um so but that really wasn't the main issue. The main issue was that I'm performing in the middle of a horse track. Like, you know, imagine performing in the middle of the Kentucky Derby.

But because... How far away are you from everybody? So that's the thing, because this dirt track is kind of not necessarily sacred, but it's like you can't just have a bunch of people in chairs like you, you know, it's going to screw up the track. Yeah. So that's kind of the no man's land. And so between

us and the grandstands is like i mean at least a football field it felt like it is a long ways away wow but there was a small patch of grass in front of the stage that they let oh i don't know 16 people come yet great for pictures yeah it looks like you're performing for 16 people yeah it was so it was a weird vibe which you know i can before i go up on stage i could see what's about to happen i'm like okay this is going to be weird it's gonna be different but it's gonna power through and so at times it did feel like i was powering through because if it didn't hit you know if a joke didn't hit great with these 16 that i could hear i mean you can't hear anything from the grandstand you know there's not enough people there for you to hear like this raucous laughter it's almost like you're

performing online like it's like it kind of felt like a live stream you just had to be so confident in what you were saying i tried to still remember like even though i can't hear laughter i'm gonna still pause how i would pause i'm gonna have the same cadence so it was definitely unique and did you ever do any like crowd work back there like so you sir what do you do for work and just wait for 15 seconds for no one to answer. Trey tried with the grandstand people. How? What did he do? Because mine is easier.

I just call up, hey, we got a guy right here. Whatever. What do you do? Or whatever. But Trey's is a little bit more like specific call and response. He's like, do I have any new moms? None of the 16 were new moms. He's like, I think I see a hand back there.

He can't see a thing. What's your name? I was like, oh, dude. You have nine women yelling at you. Was it crucial to the joke that he had to have a name what's your name i was like oh dude you have nine women yelling at you was it was it crucial to the joke that he had had to have a name or like had to have i think it's just kind of part of his set you know but i mean he he did a great job and you know alan came so he did the music and it sounded really good outdoors actually once i performed i went out and got i had a couple different dinners that night um but i went out dinner number two was uh i was a little they had

a noodle place at the fair and i was like i mean it's not great but it's one of the only things i feel like i could really eat here and so i was eating some chicken and noodles uh while trey was performing and it was so funny i actually took a video i didn't like post or anything but next to me there was a sign that said like something like cheese on a stick and i would just viewed that like videoed that and just panned over and trey is singing about mlm so it's great so it was unique and it was fun and um it went well the uh one other funny thing after the show so yeah i was just like walking around like i've heard trey stuff a lot you know i'm just gonna enjoy the fair go mingle with people um i got stopped by two little girls and they were just like, Hey, are you Jake?

And I was like, Hey, yes, I am. Nice to meet you. We're like, we are you and Trey Kennedy's biggest fans. I was like, Oh, that's awesome. They're like, what are you guys doing here? Oh no. And I was like, Oh, that, can you hear Trey's voice? Like that's actually Trey performing right now.

I'm like, Oh my gosh. And, um, go over there and listen to him. Yeah. Well, they were there. They were working a booth. Oh, okay. I'm like, oh my gosh. Go over there and listen to him. Yeah. Well, they were there. They were working a booth. Oh, okay. They were with- They were the Dairy Princesses.

They were with a Baptist church. Oh, nice. I was like, what are you guys doing here? They're like, oh, we're passing out tracks. I was like, oh, that's awesome. I was like, that's really cool. I was like, I'm a Christian myself. I've done a fair share of evangelizing.

I think that's really fun. And they were like, okay. And then they were still like, I don't know, like yeah actually trey not you know i'm really just trying to like say a bunch of stuff she would probably want to hear or just like fun say you know like trey is too like we actually go to the same church sometimes like that's really fun and um and then she was like oh cool are you guys baptist it was like, I mean, that's all nice, but I mean, are you the same denomination as me? You're like, I went to Southwest Baptist university. Yeah. Let me show you my diploma. Well, actually that's going to be, uh, I'll, I'll send it to you later. Yeah. I'll

send you a picture. Um, and I think because I said, I was like, well, train, I don't go to a Baptist church, but I mean, that's how I grew up. Yeah. I went to Baptist college. Apparently that didn't cut it because I was still handed a track by like, I don't know, a 12, 13 year old girl. So yeah, you'll still see the lights. Hey, you'll figure it out. Figure it out. I gave it down.

So yeah, that was fun. They were, they were really fun to interact with. Took some selfies and had a good time with the fair. Yeah. I, uh, I think I asked you this earlier today but like i was like jake whenever you feel like you bombed a joke like do you just move on or because there are a few times where i like really just one time specifically i can think of where it just no one laughed at the joke yeah like where i think they're almost they're almost waiting for me to say something else i felt like that can't be it i was like oh that's that's not the punchline or else I would have laughed out at like,

you know, politeness and no one said anything. So I was like, I want to explain this more, but is that just digging a deeper hole? I probably wouldn't. Yeah. But I mean, you might be able to make it funny. I remember the one time I did explain it was when I was caught so off guard in Knoxville with the Trump joke, the original, you know, I was like, whoa, that's quiet. Whoa. was caught so off guard in knoxville with the trump joke the original you know i was like whoa that's quiet whoa and that's i remember like okay china china think from where we go from here or whatever and then yeah they kind of laughed at that so oh man so because yeah yeah i'm sure that

that i'm sure that'd be such a uh i don't know just trial of discipline yeah performing when you can't hear reactions of the majority of your crowd yeah it was it was unique you know it was because it wasn't like uh that was tough because the jokes were bombing it was like i took a lot of pictures of people afterwards they said i did great yeah but i i got no like gratification from it you know in the moment it was just like i just got to believe in myself i don't know i haven't really heard of very many people doing stand-up live outside like i heard of people i guess doing stand up live outside. Like I heard of people, I guess, doing it during the pandemic. A little bit of COVID.

Yeah. I don't think it's how it's meant to be. Yeah. Yeah. Cause it's yeah. Like, like with music and stuff, like you can end a song and people can clap and you can hear that. It's probably better outside.

Yeah. Uh, maybe. Maybe acoustics. I don't know. Just like if the temperature's right, vibes, right. Yeah. It'd be a fun way of taking a concert. But yeah.

Stand up comedy. That's a tough one. Not ideal, but it was fun. We did it. And look at us little comedy boys. Yeah, man. i don't know how you did that 85 times or whatever it tired me out yeah yeah then again the first time's probably more tiring than most of the other ones but yeah cool man um what else you do this week you do anything else or uh yeah i yeah i feel yeah i feel like that was like one part of my week and then i came home and then like the next day i what else you do this week? You do anything else or? Yeah, I yeah, I feel.

Yeah, I feel like that was like one part of my week. And then I came home and then like the next day I went and visited my sister. And so, yeah, I was there for three days, which is really fun. It was me and my family. And then my sister,

Julie's family also came. So it was like like all my like my sisters and their families minus. And but my parents weren't there, which is like pretty rare. Like I feel like if we're all together, my parents are always going to minus, but my parents weren't there, which is like pretty rare. Like, I feel like if we're all together, my parents are always going to be there. So it was kind of a fun, different dynamic.

And, um, my kids are the youngest, but they're not like so young that like the other kids won't play with them. And so they're really fun. And yeah, we just had lots of fun. I don't know. It wasn't anything like, there's not any like crazy, hilarious moments that happened from it, but we had some sweet moments. How do you, how do you and Bo and I did did like there was one time we were at the park and had he's always had

one of those like three-wheeled scooters kind of like uh but but they had like those little razor scooters at the park okay and she like tried to like go back and like you know how they have brakes on the back oh and sorry um they like she like didn't fall, but she almost fell and she was really embarrassed and everything. And I like we like had a pep talk and I like talked to her and like like helped her, you know, navigate around the park, you know, and helped her with the break and stuff. And it was like such a sweet like moment of victory when she figured it out eventually. So we played we played some football. My oldest nephew is like super into football right now. Uh, and so he has, he's 10, I think 10 or 11.

So he's like decently, like you can actually like throw a football to him pretty well and stuff. And, um, but he has this like helmet, it's an Auburn helmet. I don't know why it's Auburn, but he wears it all the time. Like he thinks it's awesome. Yeah. And so Bo saw him have a helmet. He's like, I want a helmet.

Yeah. And so they didn't have any other football helmets. But Cole, my nephew, had a baseball helmet. And so Bo, like the entire weekend, was just walking around with this baseball helmet on his head. It was so funny. He's like, football helmet, football helmet. We played 500 together. That was fun.

Remember 500 back in the day? Yeah. Oh, yeah, of course. It was wonderful. Yeah. Mystery box. Yeah. Mystery box.

Dead or Alive was a great one. You remember that? Oh, yeah. And so there were times where I threw it like on the other side, like threw it over the house. They thought it was amazing. I could throw it over a house. Dead or alive was my only shot of getting points because I was so short. I was like, I'm not going to go up and get a jump ball. Yeah, that's fair. Dead or alive. I can go run. Oh, yeah. I did the dead or alive where I threw it really far behind him. Dead or alive where I threw it behind me, you know, like do like a little Statue of Liberty style. Dead or Alive where we threw it on top of the roof and it fell back down the roof. Yeah. Throw it over

the roof. I mean, all the different ways. That is fun. So that was a fun time. It was just great, like small town America. My brother-in-law has an ATV so he took everybody out on four wheel rides. You know, Bo, there's Bo just like freaking, you know, very nervous on it.

And yeah, we had a movie night. We watched Ratatouille together. you know, Bo there's, there's Bo just like freaking, you know, very nervous on it. Um, and yeah, we had a movie night. We watched Ratatouille together. It was so fun because like Hattie has seen Ratatouille a million times. And so like every time something happens, she'd be like, this is the part like where he's really scared. You know,

he's like, she's like explaining everything. And the other cousins are really sweet to her. Um, and then we went to church, uh, on Sunday, Baptist church for all those, uh, interested in giving me a track. My sister, um, and you know, I dropped this, I dropped Bo off at the nursery. Um, and this girl who's my

sister's friend's daughter, uh, is like a 12 year old girl, like helping out in the nursery. Uh, you know, my sister's like, this is my brother that does a YouTube video. She's like a 12 year old girl like helping out in the nursery uh you know my sister's like this is my brother that does a youtube video she's like oh my god yeah you know whatever like i was like hi how you doing you know and she she seemed pretty normal and then i left and apparently my sister my sister was still there talking to him and the girl was like i just i feel like i just met someone famous or something yeah and i was like i just laughed with my sister i was like those kids think that YouTube stars are famous. You know, like it's the biggest deal.

Yeah. And I'm like, I'm just, you know, just this guy dropping off his kid so I can, you know, focus during the sermon here. So,

um, I got recognized with my dad. My dad was in the car with me and someone came up and knocked on the car while I was driving. I was in a parking lot, but still someone come up and knocked on my window and, um, just,

yeah, I've said a bunch of nice things. And my dad was like, that's gotta be fun. I was like, it is pretty cool. Yeah. Honestly, like as much as I like being recognized, quote unquote, I think I would rather just see somebody I know in public, you know? Oh, that's the best. That's so much. Yeah. Like I, that happened to me every time I went anywhere growing up and it doesn't happen as much anymore. I love going to church. Yeah. It's so fun. I feel like I see someone that I know every time. It's so fun. I feel like I see someone that I know every time. It's so fun. Maybe that's a lesson to all those

aspiring to be famous someday. Don't worry about being famous. Just be famous in your own community. Just go to a big high school. Just be social. Be social in college. Play sports. I ran into a ghosty listener and a SBU grad at the church service.

It was great. I got one of each. Nice. Yeah. That's fun. SBU. They're everywhere, man. It's amazing.

I know. It is. It was fun. Yeah. That's about it. Oh, we also, on the way down there, we stopped at the world's largest hand dug well. I'm sure you've been there. Well, I've always wanted to go, but then I never get tickets in time.

Yeah. They do sell out real quick. It's in greensburg kansas small middle of nowhere kansas tell me what it is the world's largest hand dug well actually i'm gonna show you a video of it because it is kind of impressive but greensburg kansas back when i was in college was like 95 wiped out by a tornado like just like the entire. That's a lot. A two mile wide tornado was on the ground in Greensburg for like 15 minutes. Look at this. Jeez, that's awful. Who is the well dug by?

I'm scared to ask a little bit, but I don't know. OK, it was like ethical and I think fine. OK, they got paid for it. OK, so check that out. Like that's the largest hand dug well um oh it is massive okay so it's it's extremely large in diameter this is not a hole this is like what like the it's like it's like supplying the water for the city back in the day like the hydrant cylinder and like uh burn switzerland yeah that's what i thought everyone's gonna know that reference um

but yeah we went down so like back in the day, my dad and I went there one time and the, the old stairs used to be like, like these ones are like spiraling down. The old stairs used to be like straight down, straight down, like very scary. And so little Brad, scaredy cat, Brad was like, dad, I don't want to do that. So my dad went by himself and I didn't go. But this time as a, the good dad that I am, Catherine's nursing Rosie in the car. I take Bo and Hattie and I'm like, we're going down this thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And we did. But it's so funny. I don't know how I feel about this. Greensburg, like I said, 95% wiped out by a tornado. Multiple people died from this thing. And everything in their town now is like based on the tornado. Like it's like, like, like even that thing,

like they were like, this whole museum is like, you know, has, has tornado motifs. Like, it's like, like the spiral staircase down represents tornado.

This, this desk, see how it like tapers down at the bottom. That represents a tornado. Remember how the high school used to be the Falcons? Not anymore. Cyclones. We're the twisters.

Yeah. We went across the street. They had this like old fashioned soda fountain kind of place. Yeah. And they have this like ice cream eating challenge called the EF 45. I'm like, I don't know if like there's, there's gotta be families out there that are like genuinely like,

like this thing destroyed. Yeah. Yeah. They're, they're livelihood. And yet you're just like making light of it with this, this ice cream thing. And it seems like everyone's okay with it. Isn45 like the the workout center too i don't know it's

like the big like uh the mark walberg thing oh 45 yeah yeah i think you're right yeah it's f45 so there's like it's at 45 but um ice cream yeah this one's ef45 i think but what is is that something i don't know f45 yeah it's like uh it's like a workout center like a workout and training oh i see anyway it was just it was it was just like this funny i was like that is kind of funny yeah just like if everything in germany now which is holocaust based right it's like i mean maybe not i think some people are still pretty upset by this yeah like that's not really like it happened when we were college it was like the first it was the first time i'd ever heard the uh expression go green because everything in their city was like rebuilt like at like green and i thought that go green was literally called

that because of greensburg kansas oh i can see how you think that i was like oh wow hey here we go green yeah here we go green there Yeah. Here we go green. There's a town by where Rachel's from. It's called Parkersburg. And it got hit by a tornado. And so everything is pretty new in that town, which is kind of nice. Like a lot of the homes are new. That's how this is. Yeah.

It's kind of nice. It's a very interesting like feel. Tornadoes are wild. Tornadoes are wild. It's fun though. Yeah. Do you want to get into some segments? You want to do currently trending?

You want to do some s'mores? Yeah. You choose. You choose which one we do first. Um, let's do s'mores. Those are fun. Some s'mores. All right. Well, snake drafted again. I think I won last week.

Congrats. I'll go first. Brad, do you want to tell them what the category is this week? Yeah. So the category, uh, it was inspired by my wife the other day. Catherine was like, it's so hard to get guys presents. It's so hard to shop for guys. I think lots of women say that.

And I think to an extent they're wrong. I think there's certain things that guys all love to get as presents. And so this schmor is the gift ideas for guys. Guys, yeah, gift ideas for guys. All right. I'm going to start off with one that's not necessarily that universal, but the right person, golf balls. Ooh.

If you're a golfer at all, I mean, getting gifted any kind of golf balls is so fun. Yeah. You personalize them. That's something I like to do for people. But also, I mean, just giving people golf balls. Rachel gave me some the day that Mood Swings launched as like a little gift. It was awesome. First of all,

I didn't need anything, you know, just because of this. It was so thoughtful. But also they were like, they were like, just they were nice golf balls. I was like,

this is awesome. It meant so much. That is good. And I'm always going to use them like and they don't expire or anything, right? Like you can. Is that a stupid question?

Like, yeah, I think you're good. I mean, I think as long as you don't keep them in like a freezer or a sauna, you know, they should be fine. It's not like a tennis ball that like, mean, I think as long as you don't keep them in like a freezer or a sauna, you know, they should be fine.

It's not like a tennis ball that like, you know, after time, if you don't. It's like, oh, you popped the decompressed it. Yeah. So that's like that's like another one of those rich. If I was really rich, I would do that every single day of my life. Make the sound. I don't know. It's hard.

I can't think of exactly what it sounds like. Yeah, it's kind of like a soda can. Oh, that was good. That was really good. For not doing think of exactly what it sounds like. Yeah, it's kind of like a soda can. Oh, that was good. That was really good. For not doing it in a while. Pretty good. All right. So, yeah, my first answer is.

Not the best strategy by you, because I don't think I ever would have picked that. I don't know. That's fine. OK, my first pick is going to be something that I feel like I can, I can, I can always have more of just their fashion device. They're also very functional sunglasses. Ooh, always, always like, you don't know what else to get me, especially if you're a girl and I care about what you think of me, like AKA my wife, get me something that you think looks good. Yeah. And then I'll wear them. You think I look good in those sunglasses? Get me some and I'll wear them. And you'll be like,

what a babe. That is good. I left my sunglasses, uh, with my mom a couple months ago. And then I'll wear them. You think I look good in those sunglasses? Get me some. And I'll wear them and you'll be like, what a babe. That is good. I left my sunglasses with my mom a couple months ago. And so in that time, you know, I got recessive jeans. I can't be driving unprotected. So I got to get new sunglasses. So I bought a pair that I like. And then this weekend, my parents came down. And so my mom returned me the sunglasses. And my first thought was like, well, I already have a pair, but it's like, but there was something about these. Now I have extras. No, you know, and I think those are going to be my driving glasses. Now you got driving glasses. You can always have golf, golf club glasses.

I got walking around glasses, walking around glasses. Yeah. Yeah. The glasses for, you know, just some of the best days, biggest days of your life. Yeah. Lounge around the house. Glasses, a lounge and glasses. No.

Yeah. I have at least two pairs in my car. And, but then I forgot to bring one of those to me on the road trip. So I use some of Kath and sunglasses this weekend. I would love to have another pair in that car. My life is becoming like Dwight Schrute and his weapons in the office, where they're kind of everywhere. You can't get me in a room in my house where I can't protect myself from the sun.

I've got one in my backpack, one in the console of my car, one in just the passenger seat kind of out in my car, one in my bedroom. The sheltered kid, like weird blue ones are somewhere oh yeah i'm ready yeah and it's nice to have like and it's also not it's a great thing to like hey do you need some sunglasses while we drive you know yeah dude i like being able to offer yeah like rachel like it's so sunny i'm like hey say no more boom pop this thing i don't want to take those from you no those, those are my console sunglasses. These are passenger glasses. All right. What's your next one?

Oh, yeah. I have a snake draft. Okay. My next one is going to be, ooh, that was just like very, very strong. Number one. Yeah. I'm going to go next one. It's a gift card, but specifically a gift card to Chipotle.

I think. I thought about going to gift card route. I think that is personal enough where at the sameotle. I think I thought about going to gift card route. I think, I think that is personal enough or at the same time, you know, they're going to use it. They're going to enjoy it. They're going to think of you.

It's going to be one of those things like, like any, anytime I can get something that's like a luxury to me, it's like, Oh, like, you know, I might not have gone to Chipotle a day,

but I have this free gift card. So now I can go guilt free. Yeah. I'm going to give you plus one point. Let's say it's around the horn i'm gonna be plus one for it is gonna get used it's not one of those things um but i'm gonna downvote you one again because i think everyone just kind of knows the gift cards are like i ran out of time it's okay this gift card it's kind of a thoughtless that's fair gift i understand like i accept no i get it i get it but i think It's kind of a thoughtless. That's fair. Gift. I understand. Like I accept.

No, I get it. I get it. But I think it's one of those things where like, uh, if you don't have any other options, yeah. Then maybe you go gift card from Chipotle and like Chipotle. I love Chipotle and I would eat that every day if I could, but I don't because it's like, I don't want to spend that money every day. But if I already have the free pass of like, I mean, somebody already spent this money, you know, like, whereas like, uh, I don't know if you gave me a gift card to

Aldi or something, it's like, thanks. I was going to use that no matter, I'm going to go shop at Aldi. I don't know. It's different. So I think it's a little bit of a luxury. Um, I had another gift card on here as well. I'll say maybe, but go ahead. All all right my next one is going to be i'm gonna say a razor um okay i think why i like this is because every guy you know they're either using a typical like you know just call an analog analog razor you know or uh electric razor um what's what's my third option or are you saying like get get them one of those one of those two things like whichever one they use yeah i i just would assume the average guy is probably not like updating those as regularly as he should and so if you get them something like that it's like you know what my blades are getting dull

anyway like i think i think that's pretty okay um so you think that's a good gift yeah i think that's like because it's like there's plenty of stuff that a guy would like you know i did need that but it's not that fun but it's like oh new blades like a brand new like razor blade it's like oh see i'm pretty content i'm pretty content with my razor i i got dollar shave club for a while and so i got so many blades maybe that's what you could get them maybe that's not bad yeah subscription services are always a good idea yeah um but yeah just razor i feel like how often do you are you to go like handheld razor or what is it i go back typical what am i trying to what it's called just like a blade razor blade razor laser electric razor and i use both i use i go and forth. I probably every three to four days.

You switch? No. Oh, usually right now I've been doing like electric razor and just like not shaving completely smooth. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, all electric baby. Yeah. Almost all in the car. Yeah. Great use of time. Scott's dad used to always do that. And I always thought it was hilarious, but I've done it for years. I really really like it and i guess if you do it often enough you're not it's not like getting on you or like uh no it gets on my shirt and then when i get out of the car i just kind of animal you get i just kind of like hit my shirt and it comes off it's good enough it's easy uh my next one is going to be uh a cameo from jake and brad oh great gift uh for any guy in your life if you're listening to this um actually brad don't leave after the podcast we have six in

the queue awesome awesome six in the queue thank you guys for asking for that request and i made us unavailable for a while because yeah you did um for you guys listening the cameo makes us do it within four days and so if i know brad and i are not going to see each other in a four-day window i'm going to turn it off just for future reference you okay over there yeah i just realized my computer's not charging well is something wrong with the outlet i could talk to the landlord ah forget it i'm sorry about that oh yeah i have 23 i should be fine you're fine um okay yeah cameo from jacob brad great gift we uh we did a gender reveal last week on the yes we did so congrats to those people they're having a boy having a boy yeah

that was actually like i felt the tension there i felt like the you know just this this weight the anticipation of like, which is it? This is big decision. Oh, that was awesome. Yeah. It was so much fun. Okay.

Um, my third pick of things that are universally loved, um, guys gifts. Um, okay. As I did this, I thought to myself, okay, maybe Catherine's right. Cause this is harder than I thought to think of things. Um, I'm going to go with a watch oh really i think it's one of those things kind of like uh sunglasses where you can you can always have a different kind of watch you can always it's kind of like the one piece of jewelry that most like some guys are wearing necklaces or rings or something but those guys are weirdos like it's like it's like the one option that guys have to like really accessorize themselves too much it's also there's a wide range of like money you can

spend on a watch too also true so yeah it's a lot of like how much do i care about you you can dig deep or you can just like yeah either way i think is I think is a great, great option. Uh, my Catherine got me a watch for my wedding gift and I still wear it quite often. I think Kathy McDonald got me a watch one time. You seem to really use it a lot. Well, I still have it. I know where it's at, but I, I'm just remembering. Yeah. I think she got it for me when I left K-Life maybe as like a departure gift. Oh yeah. Thanks Kath. Shout out to Kathy. Yeah. Um um so that's my yeah well i just thought i got an apple watch on this hand so i can put kathy's watch on my there you go and that's cool that is really cool um okay and then last but certainly not least i don't love when people say that really yeah last but i mean least because it's the last thing i waited to say it

um i'm gonna go with i mean staying on theme with the flannel shirts uh button up shirt i think i like i think i like button up shirts i like this one because let me tell you so like i i don't love katherine like she early on in our marriage I think she bought some clothes for me and I was like that is dorky or that's lame button-up shirts I don't think you can really go wrong with like I mean you can find it yeah of course but like like

like a girl's desire and a style for button-up shirt and a guy's like style is pretty similar like as far as if Rachel's picking out a button-up shirt for me I'm sure it'd be great right yeah whereas like other things it's like I don't want to wear an affliction t-shirt like what is pretty similar. Like as far as if Rachel was picking out a button up shirt for me, I'm sure it'd be great. Right. Yeah. Whereas like other things, it's like, I don't want to wear an affliction t-shirt. Like what is this?

Um, she didn't do that, but yeah, I think there's something to it. I think, uh, it's one of those things that it's, especially as a Christian,

like we go to church every single week, we wear button up shirts. That's a great excuse to wear button up shirts. Wait, you're wearing like, what kind of button up are we talking here? What kind of button up are you talking here? I was thinking like a long wear button-up shirts. Wait, you're wearing like, what kind of button-up are we talking here? What kind of button-up are you talking here? I was thinking like a long-sleeve button-collared shirt.

Like you would wear in an office. Oh, you're thinking like a dress shirt? Like a dress shirt, yeah. Like just solid. Are you thinking solid? It could be striped. It could... Yeah, I wear those kind of things.

You wear that at church? Okay, very formal. Untucked. Often untucked. Okay. Often untucked with some jeans. Wow. Maybe some Clarks.arks still that's nice

what are you wearing i'll wear like a like a short sleeve collared shirt right now a couple buttons right here oh i do that too yeah yeah yeah but you know oh i look sharp wintertime you're not going but no like dynamite uh what am i going in the wintertime um it's been so long i mean are you at a baptist church though i, who knows what they're wearing in there? I like that though. I'm thinking, yeah, I'm thinking potentially it could be like a, yeah, just a nice, you know, whatever. What's that word? Chambray kind of like style of blue shirt.

Nice, nice dressy shirt. Or it can be more pattern. I think either way. It's your shirt. That's a good, good dark horse there. I think either way. It's your shirt. That's a good dark horse there. That one's not bad. It's fun. My final pick,

also a little out of the left field. A Patreon subscription for Jacob and I. No, no, no. Chocolate covered pretzels. Oh, wow. We're going to a little snack on there. You find me a guy that doesn't, you find me a human.

It's not a guy thing. Find me a human that doesn't love to devour by the bags worth some chocolate covered pretzels. I know what you're thinking. That's a great answer. You're thinking, oh, I should probably because you're going to go to a gap. You're going to go to Quick Trip. There's gonna be two options. There's one that's going to say Hershey's.

Like, I mean, Hershey's is the king of chocolate. I should go Hershey's. No way. Not for this, actually. You're going to want to go flips with a Z. Yeah, flips are good. Oh, white or brown is fine i prefer the chocolate the brown chocolate i would i'd really prefer dark if they had the option would

you well brain food yeah exactly trader joe's has some good chocolate covered pretzels rachel's in a big trader joe's face right now can't get enough she kind of like just discovered it it's like she just you know really had been in a bunker her whole life she's like guys trader joe's is awesome crazy thing here it's like me with the sugar and stuff i'm like whoa guys soda you don't understand it's not looking good if you look at the nutrition facts anyway um yeah i think chocolate covered pretzels if you need like a five dollar gift for somebody the stocking stuffer no one's gonna be upset be upset about it. It's like, dang, this is great. And no one is regularly buying themselves chocolate. Yeah.

It's enough of a gift. It's like, oh, I would have never thought to get this at a gas station. For whatever reason, I feel like in fourth grade, I was into those big time.

And like my mom would give them, like my mom would always pack my lunch and sometimes there'd be chocolate covered pretzels as my dessert. It was nice. What would that have been? 1999?

2000? Probably 2000, 2001. Okay. Cool, cool, cool. You know how it was nice what would that have been 1999 2000 probably 2000 2001 okay cool cool you know how it was back then yeah yeah okay so just a recap for us of gift ideas for guys for the s'mores jake's uh four s'mores are golf balls razors a cameo from jake and brad uh also patreon subscription if you're into that um all right is that what you said and then child cover pretzels brad's uh answers are sunglasses chipotle gift card watches or watch just one it's fine and button up shirts all right i also had uh written down i had hats i think i always use another hat i'm a big hat guy oh yeah golf hat i put cash with a question mark i don't i don't

really like that answer but cash delivered in a fun way cash in a hat yeah you like you like the you like the like yeah like it's like taped to something so where when you see the wrapping it's like oh it looks like a cd or oh i thought that was a two liter and it's really 25 dollars or just like hidden in like the like what's that called the part where you're driving you can like flip it down with the sun's in your eyes oh like the yeah that what is that called i wanted to say the billfold that's definitely what it is the car visor driving yeah um i'd like to surprise someone just put like a 20 hour bill up there and they think yeah you didn't give me anything next time the sun's in your eyes

yeah money and then I did have a gift card. I had a journal. First of all, a journal. I don't know. It's probably good. You left that one out. It was a little bit of risk. That's more like me, but I love writing things down on paper so I can always love a nice journal and then a massage gift card. I thought about going the spa route

because the guy wouldn't buy it for themselves. I thought about going the Theragun route. Oh, yeah. I got that from Catherine last year. Yeah. Boy, would they love the massage though? Like they wouldn't buy it for themselves i thought about going the theragun route oh yeah i got that from katherine last year yeah uh boy would they love the massage though like they wouldn't go that route themselves but if someone's like hey here's a hundred dollar gift card you have to go or else it's gonna be wasted that's a great honorable mention yeah it's probably worth should put that one in there so anyway mine's not button-up shirt i'm taking it back and putting it in massage gift card so uh my honorable mention is uh like maybe like the first month of a car wash membership get them going yeah a little bit i had that written down that's so nice um but then again i don't like the idea of like

here's here's one small part of the gift like your call from here yeah yeah yeah anyway yeah i've done that for my dad a couple times i got him a car wash membership and it was like i'll pay for like this much and i also did it for him for espn plus because i knew he would love the pate manning stuff that's on there i've told my dad that so many times you just got to get it for him dad you would love it yeah christmas sorry dean it's coming okay spoiled it for you awesome anyway if some uh very friendly ghost you out there would like to make a graphic of those again put them in the facebook group yeah please do great thanks for don't put an apostrophe before the s on spores the the last s has bugged me a little bit gave me a little bug i did like that you called me no sugar jake though and then one of the comments kept saying nsj it's

like it was a version of the bible or something uh yeah uh also i think if you don't want to or if you don't mind how about you comment some other ideas for that we could do for s'mores oh people in the comments of that shit yeah like things we left off yeah or oh sorry If you don't want to, or if you don't mind, how about you comment some other ideas for that we could do for s'mores? Oh, people in the comments of that shit. Yeah. Like things we left off. Yeah. Or, Oh, I see now. Also, I think just like other topics.

Yeah. Yeah. Like ones we should do next week, other categories. And do we, whatever. We don't have to micromanage. I'm big micromanager. I'm like, should we, should they do an actual poll on Facebook or should they do like the comments?

Comments was kind of fun because then you saw people calling you NSJ. So do whatever you guys want. I don't know. Ghosties? Do whatever you want. I don't think they could post

an image and a poll. I think it's one or the other. You know? Okay. I would guess. You're probably right. Hey, hey. Anyway.

Your podcast. Let's wrap it up with Currently Trending. Currently Trending. Okay. Currently Trending for me, I already talked about Nitro nitro coffee my gosh that stuff is amazing yeah i can't if if you go somewhere they have it just get it it's like it's just like the consistency of like a beer where it's like kind of creamy and frothy and has like a head on it oh i love beer but dude

i'm just sorry i'm just messing keep going just going. Just imagine it. It's so smooth. It's so good. But I've already talked about that. OK, a few currently trending for me from Bo. He's got a lot of good sayings these days. I had to write down a couple weeks ago. Like I got to talk to you about both things. Oh, OK.

So one of them is instead of saying a little bit more, he says a bit more. Not bad. A bit more. Can I play a bit more? Just a bit more. Can I get down? Daddy, can I get down and play a bit more? Play a bit more can i play a bit more just a bit bit more can i get down daddy can i get down and play a bit more pay a bit more um and then uh anytime he poops and i'm changing his diaper

and i open up the diaper and it's got poop in it he goes pooper i think because i said at first i was like whoa pooper but now every single time pooper that's fun um he calls movies moomies okay which is i want to watch a moomy uh and then the last one is like he says oh and no in this funny way where he's like oh or so the other day i was picking him up from church from his classroom i was like hey buddy did you have fun he's like yeah Did you like your teacher? Yeah. Did you guys play games? I'm like, yeah. And I go, can you give me a kiss? He goes, no. Where do you get that from? I think Hattie maybe does it, but yeah, like, like she does it more for the, Oh, you know, I'll be like, Hattie, we have to go. We're going to church tonight. You know? Oh, so now Bo does it all the time for things it's great that's a that's a nice family

that's fun yeah it's great Rachel I come over tomorrow night I'm excited yeah I'm excited too you're gonna see them for probably 20 minutes if that the children yes that's okay enough football season's coming up I'm about to start hanging out with your kids yes exactly you go you go I kind of forgot about Rosie yeah I just had to admit that to Brad earlier today I was like I'll be honest I forget about Rosie could not pick her out of a lineup, probably. That'd be a pretty fun game. Minimal lineup. Ah, yeah, that would be tough.

I'm going to ask some of my friends who have kids. Hey, can you send me a picture of your kid? And that's fine. Guess which Rosie? I don't even know if I would be able to base it off of. I wouldn't base it off my memory. I wouldn't base it off what you or Catherine look like. I would have to base it off of what I remember Hattie and Bo looking like.

And that's the crazy thing is that like, I can't tell who she looks like if she looks like anybody. It's not like, oh, that's Hattie. Right now she's just a generic baby. It's kind of crazy. It's like, it's like you're, you're like a new person, which obviously is true. But like Bo looked just like me. Hattie, I always felt like I recognize you.

She had a look. Yeah. That's about Rachel's niece, Lucy, who was born around the same time. think she is very unique and cute not like unique like whoa whoa whoa uh but like a unique like could definitely pick lucy out of a lineup so i'm sorry well hey we'll see we'll see when the when the lineup comes out if i can get rosie so currently training currently training for me is uh being on time okay i think it kind of started when i started dating rachel you know you just you start to establish uh like hey i'll pick you up at seven it's like i don't want to be late for a date you know i'm not gonna and so i think i

started building this habit slowly and now i kind of just woke up you know 11 months later i'm like you know what i i'm doing a lot better job with time management i'm generally pretty on time to things now good so i think just slowly over time started building the habit and really shocker all it takes is just like a little bit of effort yeah it's really not that hard i mean paying attention to your watch yeah just like at least give give yourself like more time than you think you need to and then you'll be there on time oh it's so much more relaxing yeah right and like god forbid let's say once in a blue moon i woke up to someplace five minutes early and then that's great. That's nice. That's that's totally fine to do that. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

So, oh, man, that's been a fun trending thing. And can you teach that to Catherine? I could try. And it's been Rachel, but I think a little bit has been golf, too, because you have a nine thirty tea time. You can't get there at nine 30 it's so you it's like i should get there at 9 25 probably or sorry 9 15 and so that maybe has been building some habits as well so you realize like oh it's kind of nice to be able to relax i should really like getting there early hit a few putts sure buy a buy a banana buy a nanner golf course i should have banana which is huge for no red meat no sugar boy currently training no sugar yes i had that written down but we kind of already talked about it uh currently training for me uh slash my family

homeschooling last week last week hattie started her first day of homeschooling uh kindergarten is what she started with and we just chose that for her was kindergarten and just a word we came up with uh it's been going great i mean she, she's, she just loves, she's always been like an academic. She's, she likes that. Yeah, she's a smart girl. And just today. So first of all, she went to her first day of gymnastics today.

And then after gymnastics, she went to my aunt Cindy's house, who lives two streets away from you and was there for like four hours. My aunt Cindy used to be a fourth grade teacher. So she was excited to help out and she's teaching her science. And so they're doing all these different science things.

She's learned about the seasons. And so she's going to take a picture next to this tree for every season and it's going to change you know over time and it's been awesome it's been really cool to see that is fun that's so fun she's learning she's in gymnastics yeah that's fun yeah i'm excited to see she's gonna start doing cartwheels i hope she built some coordination in there me too oh man just let her yeah let her not fall all the time that's great yeah uh my last currently training thing comes with a couple quick stories i'll tell fast but uh currently trending is um just old white guys for some reason is not enjoying me as much as i feel like they should yesterday i did i did nothing wrong i we golfed the coop

family came down the triplets came up we all golfed. The Coop family came down. The triplets came up. We all golfed together. We had a great weekend together. All we did was just play sports and laugh all weekend long. It was great. We all golfed together. This course was great. They're like, yeah, you can play with all those people.

The moms came out. They're like, yeah, that's great. You can have spectators. We get done. I pull my card up to leave it for them to clean out everything. And there's three different old men, like marshals down there. And the first guy was like uh you forgetting something and so then i was like uh no i got got my phone wallet like thank you guys

appreciate it and even before that i'd be like hey thank you guys we had a good time today and then he says forget something it's like no i'm good then the guy was like uh talking about your trash and i was like oh okay which like every time you drop your carts obviously like leave the trash in it whatever which i'm not saying that's great you know like sure i can so i'm like oh okay your experience that's not a weird that's not what you do but obviously i'm still a polite person like oh my gosh okay i'm sorry sure it's one chick-fil-a cup like i can take that out so i grab it and the other guy's like not that hard and i was like okay yeah no it's easy and then a third guy pipes in he's like i mean did you think it was a good idea to leave it there?

I was like, I was so ganged up on just instantly. When I started the conversation by being very polite, like, hey, thank you guys so much. And they just ganged up on me. Like, oh, do you mind picking up your trash and throwing it away for us? Oh, sure. Yeah, no problem.

Okay, thank you. That's how it should be. And then they just piled on me. Sure. That was like really weird. And then one other quick story. Last week, Rachel was having just kind of a, not like a super rough day, but it's like felt so overwhelmed.

I mean, her schedule is so full and I've tried to like very kindly, like just, just remind her that it doesn't have to be this full, you know, like, cause she's substitute teaching five days a week. She is still nannying and she's a full-time grad student, but she's also training for half marathon. So she's running, I running i mean seven eight miles a day probably like what does she win when she runs the half marathon um she wins the feeling of good cardiovascular health she wins the feeling of being overwhelmed for the last six months of training so she just fills her schedule which is awesome i think we're the same like with everything that i try to like

help her do or help her identify it's like i would guilty the same like with everything that i try to like help her do or help her identify it's like i would guilty the same stuff i mean all i did today was just like work and you know fill my time so i get it we have very similar personalities but she's doing stuff and on top of that you know with that house and everything luke's telling me he's like hey i think we can get a better mortgage rate put rachel's name on us now she's having to do all this and anyway i'm like i'm gonna do something nice i'm gonna get rachel some flowers today nice so i look at joe's has good flowers well yes there wasn't a trader who was anywhere near me had to be on time uh so i found a little store called the flower man oh sure i knew you're gonna know it i knew i was like this is such a random spot

it is in aletha but still it's like a strip mall i mean it is not in a popular spot it's been there forever i was like i know br's going to know the flower man. Oh, sure. Yeah, that's so funny, dude. And so I go in there and there's an older gentleman in there. And he's like, hey, how's it going? Is he the flower man? I think he's the flower man.

Okay. And, you know, quickly, we've talked about this before. Like you and I are both the same type type of we feel like we can make very quick decisions and we feel sometimes it's true sometimes it's not but we we think that we can identify everything and make the best decision very quickly yeah like like it's not like we're just making uh knee-jerk reaction decisions it's like i've surveyed everything i thought about everything i've thought about this and i have made this decision i'm good with it so i went in there with a plan i was like rachel loves tulips i I'm going to snag some tulips real quick.

I go in, I scan. I don't see tulips. I'm like, that's fine. I'm going to pick this arrangement. It happens in about 30 seconds. This guy manners over to me. He's like, can I help you find anything? And I'm like, no, I think I'm going to go with this one.

He's like, no questions. And I was like, okay, I'll throw him a bone. I was like, I didn't see any tulips. You guys have any tulips? Do we have tulips? He just starts laughing. I was like, okay. He's's like we don't have tulips this time of year oh you idiot yeah i was like okay don't you know the seasonal he's i mean it was

the funniest joke he's ever heard and i was like oh okay he's like it is way too hot to get tulips which in my head i'm thinking i'm surrounded by flowers you think i'm supposed to know like the the science behind why tulips can't grow it roses you think i'm supposed to know like the the science behind why tulips can't grow it roses look fine i don't know how like do they import flowers ever like yeah do they get them from california where the tulips great tulip season right now i don't know you know yeah so i mean he is laughing and laughing oh dude it's way too hot for tulips and i'm just like all right you know i shouldn't ask the question, I guess. And he's like, what are you?

You're probably going to need an orchid next. Eileen, get over here. Yeah. Hey, Janice. This guy wants a dozen roses or whatever. So, yeah, he's cracking up. I'm like, all right. I should have just went with the arrangement I wanted so uh he was he was yeah he's just laughing at me and i'm like oh okay it's all good i just my girlfriend's just having a rough day i'm just gonna get something for today

he's like well uh you could come back you know weirdly in december we get some tulips and i was like i i mean i mean i might be back in december you know it depends yeah i could just put it you know her or kind of pick me up on layaway then. That'd be awesome, actually. I got you something that's going to cheer you up later. You should have been like, can you just give me a receipt for a dozen tulips? Your first shipment in. And so I was like, OK, OK, no, that's good to know.

You know, I was very polite. I was like, OK, yeah, maybe I'll be back then. And he's like, so which ones are we looking at? You know, I was like, I'm looking at these ones. And I was like, do you have any what did I ask i ask for oh everything i was looking at was in a vase so i was like do you have any that aren't in the vase because so much more expensive he's like come over here so then he's like he's wandering me around and following him uh then i asked i was like and what's the price for these without the vase and he's like go over here and then we go back to the other side anyway the final thing is that he's like now the difference in these

two is this has been like professionally arranged and these are cheaper because they're just kind of like and then i kind of interrupted he's like struggling to find the words i was like they're just like thrown in there thinking that's kind of what it means he goes they're not thrown anywhere i was like dang it i i yeah i made him mad sometimes with the act of listening it just it's just best not to. I've learned that with Henry a few times where it's just like, don't say anything

because that's going to take him on another tangent. Yeah, that actually made me crack up. Yeah, because he was like, those are arranged and these are just kind of thrown in there. Okay, buddy. Nothing gets thrown around the flower man, okay? And I was like,

oh, sorry, I didn't mean like a literal throw but just like they're just like um and i just couldn't find a verb they're like tossed or no they're just like um flung ah they're just like placed i think i fell on place of it they are placed in there without as much thought as these like carelessly right oh never you think janice is careless yeah So just had a couple. She's been the flower queen for years. Funny run-ins with just old white men recently where it's like, man, I feel like I'm nice. I feel like I'm above average nice and friendly and I just can't catch a break recently.

Then again, I mean, for every weird old man, there's probably a ton of nice ones that just don't make. County fair? Yeah, yeah. They're just not podcasts, you know, material type stories stories so that's great um anyway you have any other currently trending sorry that last one that's great i have like four more but i'll be really quick with them one of them is being cold uh the airplane i could not have been colder on the way to stand you got to pack another layer and then on the way back i did and i wasn't. So maybe it's just a mental thing. Um, the next one is advancing my homeowner prowess. It's currently trending for me. Uh, let me tell you what I mean by that. I

please, I've just learned some things. That's just like, like it was one of those things where it's like, I don't know how to do that. And then it was like, I'm gonna learn. Oh, I see what you're saying. So one of them was, I learned how to tie a bowline knot. Congrats. Ever, ever known how to do that? Rub that in my face. Why didn't you know? It took me seven minutes. I bet to learn. I had to watch the YouTube video a few more times than I'd like to admit, but I got it down. Okay. And now I know. And then also I learned how to wrap an extension cord. Oh, is it similar to like an XLR cord? XLR cord kind of? No, actually no. That's how I used to do it. But this is like, I mean, I i have an extension score that's probably like 150 feet long yeah yeah and yeah so it just makes it it does it like in those little like loopy things yeah i'm talking about well i was taught by like some sound guy like a way to

like yeah do an xlr chord properly but you want to yeah you want to be able to feel that like because then yeah you don't want to like uh uh, no tension. Yeah, exactly. Well, congrats. That's not how I do XLR cords, but I'm not a. Yeah, no, not us. Um, another one is being sore. I feel like I've been sore for like the last seven days ever since basketball. Um, oh yeah. We didn't get to talk about basketball. Uh, we won the game.

I was gone. I was at a fair. Uh, Tate is really good. Like you said, I told you he's probably gonna be the best player we ever played with. I think we won by four points. Uh, and near the end, we were up by four points and gunner kept fouling the other team on purpose like intentionally fouling them just to be funny i have no idea it was the weirdest thing and finally we were like what are you doing he's like yeah i'm gonna be honest i thought we were

supposed to foul so he felt we were we were up by four he fouls the other team they hit two free throws then they foul us we miss our free throw so they get the ball again so they're they're down by two and gunner just goes up and fouls them again we're all just like like at first not but no one says anything i was like i guess he knows what he's doing and then finally we're like wait why did you do that and uh he's like yeah i don't know what i was thinking on that i mean what so i haven't seen tate in forever what was like his what was his like you know feeling about like playing with us like scrubs? Did he like get a kick out of it?

He was cool. Yeah. Okay. I think he said he hadn't played basketball in like two years. And so like, you know, so I think for him. Really? Wow. I, I, I called a little bull on that.

I was like, surely he's like shot the basketball, but like he hadn't played professionally the last two years and like. Gotcha. So he was not like in great shape or anything, but yeah, he's still, he's, he's very tall and skinny,

not very tall, but tall and skinny. He's not like, he didn't become a professional cause he's like really like good in the post. He's, he came professional cause he's really good shooter. Yeah.

So he just shot so well. Yeah. Uh, so that was awesome. Yeah. It was just like, just shoot the ball right now. Yeah.

You're not even that old for just shoot it. Uh, and so then at the end of the game, like we were up by two, That was awesome. Yeah. It was just like, just shoot the ball right now. Yeah. You're not even that open. Just shoot it. And so then at the end of the game, like we were up by two, they call a timeout. They're calling up a play and they start running the play and will sever and just freaks out and he just goes, they got six. They got six men on the court. They got six men on the court. And the ref like blew the whistle and called technical. And we ended up winning the game.

They really did have six. Yeah. We shot two free throws and then we like inbounded the ball and they didn't even try. They just gave up right then. How did they just sub in a guy? Didn't send someone out. The funny thing is there were, they had two, they were twins, like identical twins. So maybe they just got confused on which one, which one was it?

That's tricky. So anyway, we're one to one. That's fun. Um, yeah, I can't remember any more like really iconic plays during the game i thought it was maybe gonna miss this coming week just because tj's flying in early from hawaii kind of to hang out with me but then i text him today he's like i might not be getting until friday now yeah he doesn't know so who knows um okay and then the last one is uh putting the kids to bed at the same time.

Catherine's a glutton for punishment, as we all know. Like every time we finish one home project, she's like, I want to do something else. When I was gone into Colorado, she decided that was the right time to try to move Bo's bed into Hattie's room so they could sleep in the same room together. It's like, why are you doing this to yourself? But anyway, it's been pretty sweet. Like they're kind of getting to the hang of it now. Bo doesn't talk to Hattie,

how you can ignore him if he ever does. But it's kind of like this Mr. Roger, or I don't even know if that's the right comparison, but it's like, I, I pray for them, you know,

and then I turn on their sound machine and I sing him a song. And as I'm singing him a song, I like kind of like go and kiss, kiss them both on the cheek or give them little hugs. And like, you know, so I'm like, I'm kind of singing and like walking around and I the cheek or give them little hugs. And like, you know, so I'm like, I'm kind of singing and like walking around and I shut the door as I'm like

finishing the song. So it's like this perfectly like choreographed thing of like, and we're done. Yeah. Amazing. Great. House. You know,

that's what we'll do at our play. Yeah. As, as the, yeah. As the light from the hallway is fading out was blind but now and you open up a can of tennis balls yeah so anyway it's it's a really sweet moment though i've really enjoyed just that time of like because because bow i mean it's like talk about a classical

condition kid like when you start singing he melts in like if you're I mean it's like talk about a classical condition kid like when you start singing he melts in like if you're holding him he'll like just dive into your head and your shoulder like I mean he just or if I start singing he's in his crib he'll just like yeah sink right down into his pillow and I'm gonna try that tomorrow night right don't even give him any kind of like uh like hey Bo can you say hi to Mr. Jake? Yeah. And sing like a really like upbeat song, too. Hit me with your best shot. Fire away. He's not falling asleep yet.

He's like dozing off. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I see it now. I keep going. Get your motor running. Head out on the highway he's like he's like

struggling to keep his eyes open looking for adventure stop singing stop so sleepy yeah so anyway those are my currently trendings really just nitro coffee though i can't stop that's the main one my gosh fun i can't tell you enough guys it is just absolutely nirvanic that's not a word i haven't had a coffee in two weeks but i'm open to weaning myself on to the terrible tasting coffee wean baby no that's the thing is it's not terrible i well it is to me now i guess i haven't had the nitro, you know, kush, whatever you're drinking. I'm telling you, bro. I'll try it.

It's amazing. I'll go to Blaze's house in San Diego. What was his name? Brave. Dang it. Can I interest you in iced coffee or kombucha? This is where you're going to be staying. Oh, what a kid.

What an awesome, awesome family, really, in general. So let's do reviews of the week. Okay. Okay. Oh, I will start. Tal says, hallelujah. Maybe it's hallelujah.

I've been on a true crime kick for three plus years. I'm starting to need a palate cleanser. It came across Jacob Brad's podcast, which is super exciting. Uh, since I've seen a lot of the gene shorts videos come from my suggested feed. Um, please subscribe.

Anyway, this is definitely the best podcast out there. Brad and Jake are funny, relatable, and have such a quick wit. Plus I to brad's desire for weight loss to glorify god and be good to the body he's given us since i usually listen while i'm working out on my journey to lose 75 pounds come on keep it up guys those from abv 11111 ef 75 um i'll just say right right now we are on we are we are flirting back and forth with the rating of 4.9 and 5.0 oh really yeah how does that work if we're only getting five star reviews shouldn't it just we have gotten 11 one star reviews jake we've gotten five two star four

three star and nine four star and like just last week i looked at it and like it went from 4.9 to 5.0 average. And now it's back to 4.9. So somebody out there is being a little bit of a dingus. You're giving us a rating without a review. Yeah, exactly. Bummer.

Um, okay. I think we've done this one already, but maybe they just changed it a little bit. If not, this is my review of the week. If so, you're going to another one. Jaden Hokie Hokey says the most amazing podcast ever five-star review. I've been a listener for almost an entire

year now, and I have no clue how I live without it. I've read that, read this one before. It's so nice though, guys. I'm going to read it again. And I'll read another one too. Jake and Brad make me laugh every episode and have gotten me through many rough patches of my life their light hearted attitude has inspired me to try to do the same and look for the best in every moment and look for the humor at every turn if you need to laugh a light pick me up or even random stories about two guys living it up in Kansas City then this is the sure

this is for sure the podcast for you my second review of the week says incredible five stars by Godgirl430 this podcast is my favorite definitely makes my job more exciting. Overachiever two reviews is going to drop a deuce on everybody. Congrats. Yeah.

I get paid for it. Brad, would you like to end this episode with a jingle? Yes. This one's coming from Evan. Let me, let me pull it up real quick. This is maybe the first jingle ever written by a canadian ghosty

i i could be fact checked on that okay i know he's from canada but i don't know if he's the first he's from vancouver oh great town i was talking about it earlier today i think drake's from there um kind of or uh justin justin drakers justinvers. Yeah, Trudeau. Okay, I have it. It's from Evan Phillips. Thank you, Evan, for the submission. Let's do it. Let's rock. Today. Today.

There we go. That took a while. G-Trope's video climbed to 3 out of 10. Just go ahead and throw that in there. Bootswings' video is 1 out of 10. How about that? Can we give you other updates about our jobs while we wait for the song to start? Oh!

May 2019, a new podcast. It's the Ghost Runners, Jake and Brad, two funny guys. Yeah, this feels Canadian And we all Love them now We will never miss a soul The world will Hear us singing We'll be ghosties

To the great ghosties To the great The stories are the best The boys and the guests The world will hear us singing We'll be ghosties to the great ghosties To the great Yeah

Yeah! Eating that chick filet Babes of the week Hattie Rose and Bo Jake on tour G-Shorts comedy Writing jingles from Candy Cook to Patreon And now we all love them now We will never miss a soul The world will hear us singing We'll be ghosties to the grave Their stories are the best The boys and the guests The world will hear us singing We'll be ghosties to the grave And we all love them now

We will never miss a song The world will hear us singing We'll be ghosties to the grave Ghosties to the grave You can fade it out here. This next part is really fun. Actually, keep it in for a little bit. Comes a little bass right here. Maybe we'll keep this all in.

Actually, this is really good. Yeah, stickin' together After what was amazing Jake, Jake is for real now Kicked out of the lolly bread Makes the tables And let's go to creation's head head to youtube jean shorts comedy yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah beautiful that one felt like an extra loud one how's your throat feeling it's fine it was rough to begin with so good work never think about it though you know

when the when the podcast is flowing everything else turns off baby art is art good job evan good job brad um hey let's end it here let's go here. Let's go home. We got work to do tomorrow. And we've worked all day today. Fun day. Crazy how that works out. It's 11 p.m. It's like a 14-hour work day. Thank you guys for all your support, as always.

Yeah. Can't say it enough. Fun times. Guillotine league's happening. Yeah, it is. Thanks for all those that signed up for that. It filled up so fast. So fast. Which i don't know why i was so shocked because you guys are very loyal very fun listeners of our podcast but i don't know i just and we like to keep our expectations low

so when it happens yeah i think that we're in a healthy spot and yeah so you guys are great filled up so quickly sorry if you didn't make it this year. We will find other fun things to do. But yeah, go see league is off and running. Football's back. Football's back, baby. Go chiefs.

Hey, here we go. Chiefs. Love you, Catherine. Hey, see you guys next week. Have a good one.

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