Ghostrunners - 18 - The Enneagram, the Sandman, and Chapman

Episode Date: September 9, 2019

Honestly pretty fired up with the title that I just thought of for this episode so we're going to keep that momentum going with the description. Something about recording this 'sode in Brad's workshop just brought out the energy and also the singing. There's something beautiful that happens to your creativity and imagination when you can feel the faint sawdust shavings in the air slowly creeping into your lungs. Does anyone actually read the descriptions to a podcast? I've listened to probably four different pods a week for years and I've never once read the descriptsch.  Anyway... paaaaackkkkerrrrrsssss!  Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Action! Listen, I'm Brad, you're Jake. Let's just get some particulars and get this over with. Particulars? Man, no matter what I tell you, you ain't never gonna do nothing about me. Listen, I ain't running anymore these three-a-days. Well, what I got to say to you, you really don't want to hear, cause honesty ain't too high upon your people priorities. Honesty? You want honesty? Alright, honestly, I think you're nothing. Nothing but a pure waste of God-given talent. You don't listen to nobody, man. Not even Doc or Boone. Shiver push on the line every time and you blow right past him. Push him. Pull him. Do

something. You can't run everyone over in this league and every time you do, you leave one of your teammates hanging out to dry. Me in particular. Why should I give a hoot about you? Huh? Or anyone else out there? You want to talk about the ways you the captain? Right.

You got a job? I got a job. You been doing your job? I been doing my job. Then why don't you tell your white buddies to block for Rev better, because they haven't been... You got it, you got it, you got they bet they have been blocked for him worth a blood nickel and you know it nobody plays yourself included I'm supposed to wear myself out for the team what team nah now what I'm gonna do is

look out for myself and I'm gonna get mine see man that's the worst attitude I ever heard attitude reflect leadership captain and we're here at the ghost runners podcast baby episode 18 uh new location for us if you're not watching on youtube which is all of you because we do not upload this to youtube we are in yet uh brad's wood shop how much shop could a wood shop shop if a wood shop could have a place to make wood? Ellis Custom Creations, Facebook and Instagram, our sponsor today as always. Yeah, we're here where Brad gets work done. You're probably thinking, oh, it must be a nice day in Kansas City if you're outdoors in the wood shop. My car said 96 when I was in it, which it's

a little cooler than 96 in here. Let's see, the thermostat here in the shop says 84. I'm wearing i'm wearing long sleeves and i got a hood on which makes sense to be wearing long sleeves no matter what in in the summertime well i will say we basically just did our own podcast because brad and i just spent probably an hour and a half at chick-fil-a together just now um doing a non-recorded podcast which is called a conversation um and they were like let's just pod after this podcast um but it's always always a little too chilly in that chick-fil-a so yeah that was okay i gave you

a hard time just now but now i take it back because it is so cold in there every time we were trying to play uh sporkle which probably the nerdiest thing that we do uh and uh our hands were cold it was tough to type because it was so cold in there. But yeah, if you all don't know, there's this website called Sporkle, S-P-O-R-C-L-E.com. It's also the sponsor of this show, which is trivia. And that's basically it. But Brad and I like doing it. It sounds so simple, but it's so fun. And there's something for everybody on it.

So many niche categories of stuff. Like you're really into quilting? They probably got a quilting quiz. Quilts of the 90s. Name them. Yeah. Quilt styles. Quilts of the 90s. Name them. Yeah. Quilt styles, quilt techniques.

All of it. One of the random quizzes we did today, which is like, it was basically like a, you know, just answer the, you know, name the word that goes with its description,

but the only consonants used were the letters S and B. Yeah. So just like random super niche stuff like that, that you can just be quizzed on. It's like, no one really has an advantage over this. It's not like, Oh, no fair. You studied S and B. So just like random, super niche stuff like that, that you can just be quizzed on. It's like, no one really has an advantage over this. It's not like, oh, no fair. You studied S and B consonants. Yeah, dude.

You're a big Webster dictionary nerd. Like, come on. Yeah. It's just like, who knows more about this random thing? So it was fun. Yeah, we did that. Are there any other places besides the Chick-fil-A on Metcalf that are just like universally known for being cold?

Yes. Like the movie theater is one that I'm thinking of immediately. Airplanes. Really? Not always cold, but it's good to have them just in case. You're right. If it's cold in an airplane, I am very cold. Like one time I recently put my hands in my shirt.

Oh, I've done that on an airplane. Really? I've gone full like, you know, seventh grader in science class. I just feel like such a little kid, though. Yeah, exactly. Like a seventh grader because you're like, oh, gosh. But I don't care because I'm so cold. Yeah.

Especially with, like, sleep is my escape on airplanes. And if I can't sleep, then I'm just bored out of my mind. So, yeah. Tucking the arms in the sleeves. Getting in, like, kind of a seated fetal position. A seatle. A seatle. A seatle.

Yeah. Seated fetal. Oh, you got holographic seatle? Oh i've been looking for that card i don't know i just imagine seedle being a pokemon definitely not a pokemon but let me tell you i've actually told you about my pokemon collection i remember there's something like with your mom it's pretty embarrassing so in third grade is when pokemon was really popular for us at least it's popping and i might have already told this on the podcast, so if we have, we can edit it out.

Joseph Athioli was this Indian-American kid in our grade. Wait, what'd you say? England? Indian-American. So his parents were from India. Okay, cool. But he was American. Joseph Athioli,

I don't really think I was only doing this for him to be my friend. I think I was in a little bit higher social class than him, if you will. Okay. Uh, in the cast system. I hate this. Oh gosh. I hate to say that. Um, but I, I don't know, whatever. This is part of the story. I think I was a little bit cooler than him. And I think I kind of took advantage of that and said like, Hey man, if you get me this holographic card, he's like, no, I got Charizard at home. I'll give it to you. You want it? And rather than being like, no, that's me this holographic card he's like no i got charizard at home i'll give it to you you want it and rather than being like no that's okay that's your card i said yeah yes i'll

take your charizard card if you're just gonna give it to i have a holographic squirtle too you know he gave me so many i had a great collection and probably only had like two or three of the cards that i've actually bought and like had so many of them and then my family had a garage sale one day and they were, and I was, I was a big collector of sports cards as well. You turned to profits. And so I had this big catalog of like, this is how much every card costs. Like Charizard, $25, whatever. I tried to, and then I came back and my parents were like, yeah, we sold all your Pokemon. I was like, all of them? You know, I'm so rich as a little kid. Yeah. Turns out they misinterpreted the catalog.

No. And thought that they were all $25. No. Total $25. So they sold them all for like $25. Got $25 out of it. As a bundle. Yeah, Joseph Atiali, man.

I still feel bad about that. Because I don't think I was truly like trying to be conniving with him. Like he brought it up, but you also were like, yeah. feel bad about that because i i don't think i was truly like trying to be conniving with him like he brought it up but you also were like yeah but i should have in good conscience been like no that's not right you don't have to give me that because it's truly i would have been his friend no matter what i never i never was like oh i'm not going to be your friend because you're not as cool whatever i don't know but it was like looking back on like oh my gosh that's exactly what that guy was doing and i totally let him anyway that's exactly what that guy was doing. And I totally let him.

Anyway, that's Brad's shame hour on a Friday afternoon. Yeah, sorry you had to bring that up again. The nine-year-old shame you still feel and I'll hold with you. Thanks, man. That's funny. I also tried to sell Pokemon cards when I was little. Really? I remember I had a Mewtwo.

Remember those suckers? Those were rare. Oh, those were the ones that looked like a diabetic Michelin man. Was that how you – you know what I'm talking about? I said a hairless baby mouse. Remember those suckers? Those are rare. Oh, those were the ones that looked like a diabetic Michelin man. Oh. Was that how you – you know what I'm talking about? I said a hairless baby mouse. Also true. I think that's the exact same thing as like a Michelin man after Weight Watchers. Diabetic baby is not the right word.

They weren't pretty, but they were rare. And I can still remember we had a garage sale, and I tried to sell just that one for $13. Yeah. And my parents – and they were really nice, but I can still remember them trying to talk me out of it because that's just ridiculous. Right. But, you know, I thought I had a... Did you? No.

Oh, you didn't? Of course not. No. No one in Stratford is buying $13. But those things were so valuable back in the day. It did seem like it. Because you couldn't, like, nowadays it's so easy to find exactly what you want on the internet.

On eBay. Yeah. On eBay, on Amazon, on Facebook Marketplace even. You can find it locally and go pick it up in the next hour. But back then, it was like you had to not only buy the Pokemon pack, but you had to hope that the holographic card that you didn't already have was in that pack. Yeah. And there was no guarantee there was a holographic card even.

No, no, no. Did you ever actually play the game Pokemon? I had no clue how to play it. Me neither. Why were we so obsessed with a game we couldn't play it's ridiculous that's that's one maybe that should be our marketing um that was marketing genius by them because i have no idea seriously i wasn't even into them like i watched the show some but i didn't really care about the show either i didn't have the nintendo uh game boy version of it i didn't watch it on tv either i just knew that

it was like popular yeah i mean that'd be like collecting chess pieces. Like, oh, you have a queen? Dude, I only have six pawns. Gosh, I have three bishops and no queen. But having no idea even how to play chess. That is so funny that we did that. Did you ever get into Magic the Gathering? No, I didn't.

Pokemon was as nerdy as I got. Oh, okay. Well, sorry. Sorry, I shouldn't, I guess, frame it that way. Oh, I never went that far. Oh, my gosh. Did you get't, I shouldn't, I guess, frame it that way. Oh, I never went that far. Oh my gosh. Did you get into Magic the Gathering, Jake? Just a little bit. Because it was in middle school.

So I was playing school sports by then. Yeah. You know, so I had that as my main thing. But everyone was talking about it. You were like trying to like pepper that in. Like I wasn't that big of a nerd. I also, I played sports. I had other things going for me.

Yeah. But everyone in seventh and eighth grade was talking about magic cards. So it was almost like I felt left out by not knowing what it was. So I had other things going for me. Yeah, but everyone in seventh and eighth grade was talking about magic cards. So it was almost like I felt left out by not knowing what it was. So I had some cards. I think I was like, all right, I'm not going to spend my own money on this. But yeah, if I could somehow like get someone's throne. You had your sugar daddy. If I had my Joseph Atiali.

Atiali. Atiali. That's a pretty Italian sounding name for. Joseph Atiali. You want the pizza and the calzone? Atiali. I'll give you the charizard i hope he's listening oh man i saw his his cousin used to work with me at cerner let's talk all

about joseph at the alley he used to work for you with me sorry did i say for me i don't know definitely did not have anybody working for me different caste system gosh yeah that's what they use in india right oh yeah okay cool but he's in america now okay okay got it got it i tell that story on the podcast the one about being at town topic and being like oh i love your accent no where are you from i don't know the story i thought i told you that i told somebody this recently we were at town topic downtown like late one night i was with katherine wait wait town top oh that's the burger place okay maybe you did i was thinking of hot topic oh gosh no um i'm still going that's the... Burger place. Okay. Maybe you did. I was thinking of Hot Topic.

Oh, gosh, no. I'm still going to imagine this story taking place at Hot Topic. We were at Spencer's Gifts and... Just me and Catherine. Yeah. Catherine and I were at Spencer's. We go there once a month to refill some things. I don't know.

We were at Town Topic Burgers one night late. And yeah, this woman like like taking my order she was clearly from some other country this kind of sounds weird i think you told me but on the podcast but i forgot i go oh i love your accent like where are you from just like trying to like maybe i didn't say i love your accent maybe i just thought where are you from and just trying to make conversation with this woman and this guy down at the end of the diner like tiny little diner like six people in the whole place. Cause I can only fit six people. He just goes,

well, she's from America now. And I was like, Oh my gosh. I was, it was like one of those things on the internet where you like say something so innocently and just get trolled for it so hard. Like,

yeah, it was like, no, no, no. I wasn't trying to like, like persecute her for being from another country. I was just curious where she originated from.

I don't know. Like everyone has an ethnicity that is not American. Yeah. Where are you from? Like, well, she's from another country. I was just curious where she originated from. I don't know. Like everyone has an ethnicity that is not American. Yeah. Where are you from? Like, well, she's from America now. And I was like, oh gosh, I'm so sorry. I did not. What did it, like, what were your guesses? What did you think she was going to say? I thought she was going to be some kind of Hispanic, which is, you know, then I could speak a little Spanish to her. Yeah. You were hoping this could lead to some conversation.

Yeah. I know, I know some slang and different dialects of Spanish. So I was like, oh, maybe if she's from Mexico, I could say this or from spain say that but it's not too often you could speak spanish in spencer's gifts so i exactly yeah you got to take advantage spencer's regalitos um anyway so it was i always laugh i've noticed i always laugh when you speak spanish like it doesn't matter what you say i just laugh every time you speak spanish i don't know why the accent baby yeah maybe i used to try to like in spanish class back in the day i used to like we used to listen and try to interpret what people were saying and i used to try to talk like those people yeah and so i would talk like anna you know like and i'll do that thing in your own voice you'd say

it like right the textbooks like and like the teacher loved it like she's like yeah it's great like do whatever you're gonna do just to have fun. She's like, yeah, it's great. Do whatever you're going to do just to have fun and try in this class. So it was high school, so half the people were like, oh, I don't want to be here. And so I was just having fun with it. Donde esta el baño? Where is el bathroom? Speaking of kind of just saying something, I don't know, and getting persecuted over it.

We, you know, Trey and I made that music video just came out yesterday. Football's back. Yeah, it was great. Thank you. Thank you for the kind words that you spoke to me privately. Yes. About it. Yeah, I wasn't just saying it on the podcast.

I really did like it. But one of the things we mentioned in there, just because it was kind of funny and is relevant, but we mentioned Kaepernick didn't take a stance on it one way or another just like you know made a reference like you know i'm praying i'm down on my knees and then the echo was kaepernick um yeah which is very neutral just mentioning it and i saw multiple comments were like well i loved it until they mentioned kaepernick and it's i mean that is such a facebook comment just like multiple people like why do you have to throw in kaepernick into this it's like it's just it's like saying politics and be like oh okay well he mentioned politics why do you have to say Republican it's like this doesn't mean

anything right just because you say it but that's just like oh it just one of the more annoying traits of humans yeah I'm trying to think of something else that they would do that yeah Paul like oh yeah once you once you mentioned the election i was done oh yeah don't please do not mention the election around my uncle which i guess that maybe has validity you never want to mention an election around anyone let me let me tell you something real fast it's not too political it's not anything controversial it's just hilarious to me so uh last weekend we were at um or two weekends ago uh for that fantasy football draft we were at my friend's grandparents' house in rural Missouri, outside of Kansas city. And, uh, we learned that their grandparents were very

political. Um, and really like, it didn't surprise me that this guy's grandpa was political. He seemed like that kind of guy. i guess they do not like obama that's correct um i'm not trying to get into that one side or the other um train i mentioned that in a song blinded by the white something about like don't bring up obama around my grandparents or something this guy he had a shop i i love it first of all great thank you so much for letting us stay yeah we love these people um this guy had a shop where he refurbished his bikes. And it's really cool. Outside of his house, this little standalone shop.

And he had all these pictures of his family members. It was kind of like ascending up. It was like family members. And then there was a picture of Jesus. It was awesome. And then right above Jesus, I don't think it was a coincidence, was Dwight Eisenhower, baby. Oh, wow.

So that's not even the story I was going to tell. That's also funny like it's not typically the president you put on a pedestal necessarily well you know my my friend though who's from minnesota alex teen was like dude those boomers love ike do they really i guess so and they call mike yeah didn't know that either i like ike you never heard that no maybe it's just i know more about Eisenhower than I do. I want to be like Ike. I've heard the song. Like Ike. Is it the shoes Ike? No. But anyway, so then I heard that, yeah, they were pretty political. And then his grandma proceeds to tell me, like, yeah, I used to be really into Twitter, you know, back in the day. But then I just started getting pretty ugly. So I don't know.

I just don't really like looking at it anymore. Like Twitter as a whole? I think, I mean, she was probably on the politics side of it. She was getting her hands dirty. Right. And her fingers. So then later that night, my friend's like, Oh dude, I gotta show you something on his phone. He pulled up my friend's grandma's account. She's got to be mid to late seventies probably. Oh, this is awesome. I'm not even gonna have you guess. I'm just going to tell you 32,000 tweets. Oh, I thought you just going to tell you. 32,000 tweets. Oh, I thought you were going to say followers. No.

32,000 tweets. That's more impressive than 32,000 followers. 32,000 tweets. For a 70-year-old woman? Yes. What's she talking about? Every single one of them was about politics. Really?

I think some of them probably were retweets, but she was responding to people. She claims that Clint Eastwood responded to her one time. I don't know if i i'm i didn't want to burst her bubble but i was like that's probably not the real clint eastwood with zeros instead of o's um anyway just baffled me i could not i don't know i should look at some of my friends that tweet a lot and see how many tweets they have but that just seemed so high like i bet i have 2 000 tweets in my life yeah anyway they're so random i don't know how we got on that but no that i don't know yeah that's very surprising it was amazing i could not i was like no this is not her this is some other woman and it was like nope like there she is right there like when i think of grandparents

i think like yeah they're probably a little more set in their ways and they really believe what they believe but not in like a aggressive way and not in like a passionate way like you are when you're younger and the thing was that this woman his grandma sweetest lady you've ever met like but online oh baby she went out look out like yeah it was crazy i did not believe some of the things that were on there you know she used to march back in the day she's been to some marches dude maybe so anyway uh let's not get into politics this is a this is a young adult podcast young adults and it's about jokes speaking of jokes guys brad's back back at business the jokes are back jokes are back in town the jokes are back. Jokes are back in town. The jokes are back in town. The jokes are back. The jokes are back.

Yeah, like any good boomerang, they came crawling back and said, Brad, we need you. Give us some Christmas-themed jokes. Christmas-themed, which is tough for, you know, beginning of September to think, I mean, to stretch your brain like that. But not when you're a joke master like yourself. Not when you're a JM like MS. Myself? Was that right? JM like MS. Myself? Was that right? Yeah, myself.

Myself. So you pounded out another 50? I did. For the $250? Yep. So far, they're pending right now. They're needing to get approved. But I got my first half of the cut.

The lady responded with, wow, that was fast. And I said, only way I know how. Fast, Brad. FB. Only way I know how. What's the grand total right now, gross gross revenue oh man I would guess pushing $4,000 whoa that's way more and I thought it was I might be wrong I should calculate I think a couple months in a row I made like over a thousand

dollars each that's awesome yeah four thousand but it's ridiculous for the worst joke to you I read a few to you we should read a few to you the other day you should keep reading some to the people on the on the line i'll just kind of sprinkle them in like you won't even know that i'm about to say a joke as a listener this would be good um because also something brad and i talked about at um the wedding we were at last weekend um which we can go over that on the pod as well but absolutely we're at the reception and uh i was sharing that i really don't like my my laugh that much like i don't hate it but like when i hear other people maybe

that are in entertainment or other creators i'm like man i think they're funnier because their laugh is so good they have such a good audible laugh like when i think something's really funny i give it maybe like oh and that's like a pretty decent laugh for me like that was pretty funny um i agree because whenever i do make you really laugh it gets me really excited it's like a pretty decent laugh for me. Like, oh, that was pretty funny. I agree. Because whenever I do make you really laugh, it gets me real excited. It's like, oh, I got him. Yeah, but it's typically not like a great, like, let's see, like a, I wish I had something more like that.

Like a true ha ha ha. Some people, I don't know how to spell mine. Our friend Gunner, silent laugher. Yeah. We watched those Kevin Hart things together. First of all, I don't think Kevin Hart spell mine our friend gunner silent laugher yeah we watched uh that those kevin hart things together first of all i don't think kevin hart is that funny i think he's fine hey also let's be sensitive um did you do you know what i'm talking about he was in like a really really bad car crash last week what yeah almost died he's like in the hospital with serious

injuries okay we watched um chris rock ch Yeah, frick, I didn't know that. Whatever, it's fine. He's going to make it. Dang, I didn't know that. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. His car was demolished. Really? Yeah.

Okay, well, regardless... This is about Gunnar. He thinks that Kevin Rock is... Kevin Gronk? Kevin Gronkowski. Kevin Rock, I said, which is also wrong. Kevin Hart's hilarious. I don't. I look over at him every once in a while, and he's just dying laughing, but you have no idea.

I can see it. I'm imagining he's kind of rocking back and forth in his couch. He's kind of pushing his kneecaps up into his chest. But you have no idea. But yeah, I think feel free to sprinkle in some jokes, and it'll give me a chance to practice my new laugh that I'm going to try to get good at. They're so bad. What do you call a frog that you kiss under? What do you call a frog that you kiss under at Christmas time?

Oh, I don't know. A mistletoe. Oh, the late bloomer. That's what he calls it. Yeah. We call it October bloom. Oh, boy. Orlando bloom. Your turn. Anyway, that's Yeah. We call it October bloom. Oh, boy. Orlando bloom.

Your turn. Anyway, that's one. You'll get many more. That one left me pretty breathless. So, yeah, I'll try again. That's very funny, though, Brad. Good joke. Thank you.

Okay, so this wedding. It was a fine wedding. We had a really good time all weekend long. You even said at one point, which I love when you say things like this, or when anybody reflects like this, but you're just like, this weekend has been so fun. I'm like, yes, it has. Typically, I don't think back.

It's all to the next thing. So yeah, I was like, whoa, this has been a really good time. We laughed so much. It was the perfect people that we were with. We got to swim multiple times. Which, oh man, I could swim every day. You love swimming. I love swimming.

We also invented a game, which was so, I mean, it's just such a typical guy thing. But there was like this thing that was meant to hang plants. What would you call it? Small little miniature pots of plants would hang in those little hoops. Not bigger than a cup holder but you can imagine like it was tall it was probably five feet tall maybe yeah five feet off the ground could hold multiple plants and they're kind of like dispersed like left middle right and if you're thinking what we were thinking perfect for like throwing a ball into like the little water pool balls splash bombs and splash bombs yes uh sponsor the show and uh so we had a

grand old time like making up this game like all right there's a person at the back end of the pool they get a pool noodle to try and like beat the living daylights out of the balls that's being thrown to them the other three get to throw it uh one second apart yeah and there's we only had two splash bombs so the other one is like a bouncy ball you get double points if it bounces and it's a pretty even even game like the points and the scoring and technically it wasn't even a second it was it was like a half a second we said one one you had to say one one in between you somebody there you go one one it was really fun yeah that was fun uh went to whataburger every single night which was fun also great honey butter chicken. Yeah, we like coronated.

That's not the right word probably, but Isaac. We inaugurated him. Consummated? Speaking of marriage. Yeah, the marriage between him and I don't think that's the right word either. We showed him the honey butter chicken biscuits. And man, was he. He was hilarious.

He did not struggle to pull the trigger on the 600 espresso machine which did arrive yesterday but did struggle to get the acronym for hbcb man these hbc ccs are good what they call them hcbb's what are these hbc c's h um man it was great though oh man by the way i'm getting hot are you i'm gonna make it we're we're 22 minutes in but uh yeah i'm gonna find 23 22 minutes in but um i'll be all right what a little back sweat was a good time um it's just fun whenever you have like like the four of us friends are pretty much down to say yes to almost anything like with that yeah like that's what's so fun about this weekend probably is it was just a bunch of like-minded guys that are like let's just yeah that sounds

fun like like other people would be like okay that that pool game was kind of fun i guess but we're not gonna do this anymore and the rest of us were like no let's let's do it let's keep going let's get very into this yeah also the wedding was great i've it's cool to see someone you're close to marry the love of his life and to see his like raw emotion that was actually really cool that was the hardest i've ever seen anyone cry at the altar yes and it was like powerful it was so cool it was like just seeing him i mean yeah just letting it all out i know exactly how he felt and it is the greatest feeling in the world like when you're a man who has waited so long not so long even just waited for this girl that you to bag your dough, you bag your dough.

But he, he was just so excited and it made me, it made me cry. Did it make you cry? No, I'm a crier though. And I've also never been in that situation before. Right. I think I've cried. I cried at my wedding and I think I've cried every single time since. At weddings?

Unless I don't know the people. Like if I know the person at all, like I know that Luke has been faithful and like waited so well for her and like led her so well. And it's just like, here we go. He's yeah. Yeah. He's claiming his pride, you know, kind of thing. So the other day I felt something kind of similar. I thought I was a completely out of pizza rolls and I was like, I'm going to check my freezer just in case.

And there were 30 pizza rolls in there. Most of the time I'll be like, Jake, you don't understand what it's like to be married, but it's unreal how accurate you are. Right. That parallel. Kind of nailed that one. Exactly right. How many did you have left? 30. You're kidding. Which is perfect.

That's amazing. Perfect serving size. But yeah, Luke's reaction was great. He also, this was unprecedented. He hand wrote a letter to every single attendee of his wedding wax seal you know name on the front of it ready to just honor plate at the reception and like a full-length letter yes i was gonna say not like a generic maybe some of them were generic but like to ours filled the page filled the page i saw some of them that courtney had written to some of the girls that were like Tiny tiny lettering filling the page. She's like using like a hey you get one one note card to Bring you to the test. She was cramming the Pythagorean theorem on that page

X is equal to a plus minus square root Seriously, that was like such a cool thing to show like that they put that much time into those kind of details Because when you plan a wedding you obviously have to worry about so many details that ultimately aren't going to matter but that is something that's going to like last oh yeah forever like you're people are going to remember that people always going to remember one thing about your wedding for yours what a burger for mine it was what a burger or the chief's losing and my espn or my father-in-law's espn alert going off during the very opening prayer the The three big ones.

Which the alert said, chief sleuths. RIP Andrew Luck, by the way. And RIP in peace. Yes. But anyway, it was just so cool. That wedding was just very intentional. If you're out there getting married, planning your wedding, think about it. Write a letter to everyone coming.

Could be a good time. That's amazing. I can't think about how long that took and how much discipline that took to do that. They also had a donut bar, which I was a big fan of. Got to them a little premature as it turns out. I was not supposed to be eating them. I saw it and I was like, Jake, I don't think you're supposed to eat those yet, man. And so, but somebody else was. And so then I was like, maybe I'm wrong. And so you went for it. It turns out we were all wrong. Me and her, there's only like two of us who ate them, but yeah, they're good. Which wasn't the other person that we saw eating them that i kind of gave you permission wasn't she one of the ones

that were like actually we're supposed to not let people eat these yet like she was in charge of yeah she really okie doke me there she like let bait switched you hard yeah yeah she she sent she she eaved you she's like i sinned so i going to make you sin real quick. And then I'm going to reprimand you. Yeah. Except it wasn't, there was no fruit involved. This was caramel. Yes. Caramel. Trying to get better at pronouncing that word correctly.

Is that the right way to say it? I think so. You know, like I don't want to be in my 20s still saying like, oh, pass me that red crown. It's crayon. You know, that's an easy one. Yeah. But I think caramel, like kind of like often and often. I think it's like either one's acceptable.

Pecan or pecan. Oh, yeah. Either one of those works. You got to say pecan though or else you're like a weird person. Some sort of freak. All right, Brad, do we want to talk about blanks of the week or do we want to go over like four topics, four minutes? What would you rather do right now? Let's go four topics, four minutes.

Okay. I'll get the timer out. So a couple of weeks ago, we ended our podcast by just doing not a currently trending, but just actual, just like current events, trending topics in the world. But we wanted to not spend very much time on them. So Brad said, you get one minute for each topic. And we were like, that's kind of fun. So today we've got four topics get one minute for each topic. And we were like, that's kind of fun. So today we've got four topics,

a minute for each one. Can we cue the, uh, who wants to be a millionaire theme music, please? Dun, dun, dun,

dun, dun. No, that's, that was sports center. Can we cue the game of thrones? Yeah. Baseball tonight.

Theme music. Oh, yeah. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Oh, there it is. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.

Oh, there it is. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. That was good. Yeah, troll finding it. Clearly. Ready? Okay, go. First one, Antonio Brown.

We've talked about him before. Now he was fined $50,000 for not showing up to two mandatory things. Jeez. And it's like complaining openly about him. Dumb move. Moron. Yes. Well it's like complaining openly about him. Dumb move. Moron. Yes. Well, let's be honest.

Dumb move initially by the GM for even bringing Antonio Brown into that dumpster fire of an organization. Okay. Like the Raiders have always been a little bit silly as we say in our family, aka stupid with their roster moves. They signed John Gruden who hadn't coached in a while to a 10 year deal. 10 year, $100 million deal.

Yeah. Silly. Stupid. Antonio Brown already got all these issues going on. He misses practice and he gets fined like he

should. It's in the rules. But now they're threatening like we're going to take away your $30 million. Yeah. You heard that?

They might try to get rid of him. But then just today he issued an apology so now he's going to be okay. He issued an apology. Apparently.

Is that all it takes? Emotional apology. Yeah. And that's just like such a great sign of like emotional, like whatever the right word is, up and down, rollercoaster. Like that's unhealthy. He's like, I didn't mean it. Okay.

One minute. I'm sorry. Okay. We're done. Next one. Hurricane Dorian. I think it's in North Carolina right now. Seems like Bahamas got the worst of it.

Right. It's pretty crazy. It's like one of the worst of it. Right. It's pretty crazy. It's like one of the strongest hurricanes ever. Yeah. Really? I think so. What did I see? I haven't unfortunately been following it. I saw it got up to like 185 miles an hour. Maybe the strongest one hit the Bahamas or something ever.

Yeah, I didn't realize how many people had died in the Bahamas because of it, which is sad. I also saw at one point it was going as slow as eight miles an hour. I think that's the most terrifying part of it. They said it kind of, like, stalled over, like, some part of the Bahamas. So just basically a water tornado just over them for, like, hours and hours. Did you hear Trump say that we should nuke it?

What? He said we should nuke the tornado. No, he didn't. Or the hurricane. Did you see what he drew with Sharpie? He said we should nuke the tornado. No, he didn't. Or the hurricane. Did you see what he drew with Sharpie? He was obviously joking. For the Alabama thing. Did you see that? No. Three seconds. Okay. Well, check it out on Twitter. Okay. Next one. Facebook dating. Yesterday, Facebook came out with their own dating platform within Facebook. I immediately was like, oh, I should take advantage of this. If I could be one of the first people to do what I did on Tinder, but do it on Facebook,

this could maybe blow up or turn into something. I was really excited about it. Brad, I'm going to read you part of my profile real quick. This is my bio. I'm looking for someone who is comforting, makes me feel better when I'm around them, and isn't afraid of shedding their baggage. Yes, I'm describing a Chick-fil-A sandwich. You can put a picture and then you can

answer a question for a prompt. They said my favorite place in the entire world. I said Chili's. Not to be confused with Chile. My favorite place is Chili's Bar and Grill. And then last question. I was pretty proud of this answer. A phrase I often say is dot dot dot. I said technically

it's not arson. I think that's pretty funny. Anyway, so i do all this i'm so excited it's like 2 a.m last night and then look at this i finally gets all set and like oh there's no one in your area we are suggesting people 250 mile radius and there's no one man okay we'll follow up on that um but oh is it minute up oh shoot yeah i took too long that's okay last one is uh i don't have much to say about that anyway. Football's back. Football's back. All right.

Yeah. Music video's doing well. A million views in 24 hours. And also Packers and Bears played last night. Packers. We should tell that story probably. Brad made a good point last night. Thursday at football.

He said, it's crazy that one of these teams is going to win this game. It was so sad. It was just ugly. It was like, you take that and you take the Super Bowl. Like there's been no offense. Yeah. We are very spoiled in Kansas City with good offense. So we're like, this is so boring. Yeah.

Give me the, give me the balls. We really wanted to be into that game last night. We just weren't. But I did say last night, I was like, I get pretty excited to watch the Bears lose. I don't, like, I'm pretty happy when the Bears lose. Interesting. I don't know why, because I have nothing against Chicago. Maybe it's because of my friend Cookie, a.k.a. the one who don't know why, because I have nothing against Chicago.

Maybe it's because of my friend Cookie, a.k.a. the one who's got the grandparents. Maybe it's Mike Ditka. Maybe. And he likes the Bears and the Chiefs, and I think that's silly. Stupid. Yeah. That it?

That's it. Four topics, four minutes. Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba. Who wants to be a millionaire? A millionaire. Was that Regis? Was that good? Let's hear it one more time.

You did it, Jake. You did it. Is that your final answer? That's your final answer? Huh? What do you got here, huh? That's your final answer for $1 million? I don't know if he has that much in the next... We strayed away from Regis there.

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It's such an inside joke, but I have faith that I think this is still going to be pretty funny to anyone else out there. Yeah, just sprinkle in your details throughout it, okay? Okay. I'll set the factual scene, you give the color commentary, okay? Great. So we are at McDonald's one morning. Red and yellow. What is color commentary? You keep going. Yes. Jake. Red and yellow. What is color commentary? You keep going.

Yes. Jake. Ha ha. Ha ha. So we were at McDonald's one morning after playing basketball. It is Christmas break, and so there are two boys with us that are from the collegiate level. Former youth ministry kids of ours.

Yes, friends of ours that are now in college, back home. So there's four of us there eating, and we're just kind of minding our own business. And one of our friends, Clayton, has this shirt, kind of like a parody shirt of a Christian, like a Christian parody shirt. Just a classic Christian shirt. Like, I think he probably got it at a Goodwill or something.

But instead of like, you know, normally you would see like Reese's Pieces, and it says like Jesus, what does it even say for pieces? Jesus Pieces? I don't know. I think it just says Jesus. It just says Jesus instead of Reese's. Or like YouTube.

It was like, God wants you to be a light. Remember, it's an Abercrombie and Fitch. You remember that one? A breadcrumb and fish? Yeah. Yes, absolutely. I do. Did you ever have any of those?

I don't think so. I don't think I did. I was more of an and one. What goes around comes around. I was more of a bulldog. What was those? Like the big dog? I don't think so. I don't think I did. I was more of an and one. What goes around comes around. I was more of a bulldog. What was those, like the big dog? Fubu? No.

They were like big dogs. You were Fubu, didn't you? I didn't really have a big dog. I was more of a South Pole guy. Echo? Yes, an Echo. Anyway, our friend had this t-shirt. Instead of Sprite.

It said Spirit. Like, Holy Spirit. That'll lead people to Christ. So it was green with yellow, if you're imagining the Sprite the sprite logo um also yeah i'll just keep going from there green with yellow and this guy comes up from behind for clayton and just starts like poking at his like side of his ribs just going like poking pretty pretty aggressively and kind of came out of nowhere we don't know who this guy is we don't know where he just came came from. And he is tickling him from behind. Yeah.

Just like, yeah. Gnawing at his ribs. Like, wah. And he's kind of aggressively just says, Packers. And Clayton, now Clayton's not doing anything. We're looking at Clayton. We're looking at him. We're trying to read the room, read the situation.

Clayton is practically ignoring him. He goes a little limp. So we're're like does he know this guy like oh maybe it's an inside joke maybe this is like this guy um no it was not an inside joke no come to find out this guy had some mental disabilities of some sort and uh was just like thought that thought that clayton had a packer shirt on i guess because it was green and yellow so he's packers and but decided to like tickle his ribs to like express his emotion towards a football team Clayton had a Packers shirt on. I guess. Because it was green and yellow. So he's Packers. But decided to like tickle his ribs to like express his emotion towards a football team. And that was funny.

And then the part that might be more of an inside joke is that our friend Eli was with us as well. Eli is Isaac's brother. Isaac's older brother. Espresso brother. He's also like 20 years old at the time. Yeah. And Eli has experience with like he has done a lot of volunteering with special needs. And so he thought he, like, knew, like, the lingo.

He steps in. He goes, okay, sir. Hey, let's keep our hands to ourself. And just the fact that Eli, like, just was so mature about it and just, like. Because we didn't know what to do. Me and you were just sitting there. We were speechless. What's going on?

Because I was still like, oh, maybe Clayton knows this guy. Clayton's getting tickled by this old man. But Clayton's not looking back at him. So I'm like, okay, what's going on? And also he's saying Packers. Right. We didn't know why he was saying Packers at the time. Right.

So then, anyway, it proceeded to be like, this guy just started talking to us about how he thinks that the Patriots are going to beat the Chiefs in the playoffs. And he was right, to be fair. But he's like, I hate the Packers. I like the Chiefs. And we're like, yeah, me too. Anyway, but Clayton goes to school. First of all, he goes to art school.

You know. Come on. That's a walking punchline. Second of all, you know, he's just very free spirit. So I figure like he's, and he goes to art school in like downtown Chicago. He gets tickled all the time. So I'm dead serious. He shoots with knives if he's in downtown Chicago.

That guy's probably on the L every single morning, like getting tickled by somebody. He's in people's personal space all the time. Right. Clayton doesn't even feel this guy right now. No, genuinely. Like it was amazing. He's on the L every single morning, like, getting tickled by somebody. He's in people's personal space all the time. Right. Clayton doesn't even feel this guy right now. No, genuinely. Like, it was amazing. He's on the subway. Like, if that guy poked me like that, I would have, like, flung up.

Like, I would have, like, thrown my drink behind me on, like, just out of reflex. I hate it when people poke my socks. Packers! And he's just going to town on his rip. Packers! So anyway, now that's, like, that's probably's probably like our favorite One word inside joke now It's so easy to just get a laugh Out of just one word now

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Alright Alright Before I forget I've got it in my notes to not forget All right. Before I forget, I've got it in my notes to not forget. People keep DMing me and want to know about this Enneagram thing. I'll go real fast. If you don't know what the Enneagram is, it's a personality test. It's been around a while, actually.

If you don't know what an Enneagram is, you're clearly a three. I'm just kidding. I don't know. That's exactly. There's probably something like that, that probably that'll lead you into your, don't know what this test is. Oh, I know, I know what kind of person you are. Uh, but yeah, it's just a personality test and, uh, it's super, super trendy right now, especially in like kind of the Christian subculture, but, um, and especially more so with women, I think they just kind of like talking about personality

types and it's kind of fun to talk about this stuff. I think we've talked on the pod about like strengths finders and stuff like it is fun to really get to know yourself and know other people. Um, so here's what I'll say. I'll keep it real short. I think the Enneagram is a great test and it's great to know what you are and what other people around you are. If you are in two of these scenarios, if you are dating someone or married to them, like if you're in a relationship with someone, then I think it's helpful to know what you

are, what they are. Right. If you are dating someone or married to them, like if you're in a relationship with someone, then I think it's helpful to know what you are, what they are. Right. Or if you are like work closely alongside someone or some people, then I think it's very helpful to know what motivates them. What are their weaknesses? What are their strengths? But where I have a problem with it, and this happens way more often than anyone out there would think, is that I am at a casual setting.

I'm at a party. I'm at dinner with maybe some friends I don't know that well. And they say like Something along the lines of just like yeah, this has been fun, dude Like Jake, it's so fun to get to know you in person like what's your Enneagram score? And it's like they're using it as such a huge crutch to get to know me It's like instead of just asking questions instead of like waiting for just organic moments to get to know someone They're relying on this test that ranks people on a nine-digit system. Hey, bro Like let me put you in a box really quick exactly that is that is that what that explains it

perfectly let me put you in a box real quick that's what i feel like they're asking like once you answer that you're a seven i don't know the numbers but they're like okay i'm not gonna make any jokes around you tonight oh okay okay yeah okay why don't you go ahead and get in there i know you're like center of attention now you were just like bart oh my gosh you and bart would get along right oh dude oh my gosh hey bart come over here get along. Right. Oh dude. Oh my gosh. Hey Bart. Bart come over here. Bart. And it's just like, whoa. It just, it brings on like, oh, okay. I know exactly who you are now. You're exactly like my friend now. Oh, that's why you showed up late. Okay. You know, it's like, whoa, you know, it's like so many things of like, I don't know. I'd rather you just get to know me or date me, you know? It's like, it's kind of the yeah kind of like an extreme version of oh what's the

horoscope signs or whatever a little bit that's such a virgo thing to say like of course of course you would be that way like such a kind of rolling your eyes such a virgo oh such a seven you know whatever they say eight wing four yeah whatever such a seven wing seven that's another thing the wing thing so you know i took the test cause you know, I think it's still good to know what you are and what drives you. And yeah, it's fine as a test. Um,

it's so I took it and I told someone what my score is like, well, what's your wing. And I just thought wing meant like your second score or whatever. So I was like, Oh, okay. My second one's,

uh, probably this number. And she just laughs like, Oh, it can't be that. The wings have to touch. You dingus. So if you're five,

your wing has to be six or four. I'm like, why does it have to? She's like, well, that's how the test works. I was like, but it's not how my brain works. It's not how I work. I was like, this number is my first one and this number is my second one. She's like, well, that's not how it works. I'm like, this is so stupid.

You're saying my brain is wrong. Yeah, you don't understand yourself. You don't know yourself. This test knows. You have to be a wing of what's next to you. So that's a silly thing too. Yeah, my biggest beef with those kind of things, I think they're great to understand how people are motivated and all that stuff.

But I think it kind of like puts you at a crutch of like, well, now that you understand how I work, you need to then cater to me. Rather than me being like, okay, I understand that I'm kind of a control freak, but I need to be able to relinquish some of that. Like, you know, rather than being like, you know, I'm a seven. So therefore you need to give me a schedule like, like it's your fault. Like, I don't know. That's my big beef with those things is like, that's a great point. You can't just, you can't just use that as a crutch to be like, well, sorry, I'm a three. So I'm going to be late. That's just how I am. Yeah. I'm free spirited. I'm free spirit. So I'm

not going to pay attention to that. I don't pay attention to detail. That's just how I am. I'm hardwired. There's nothing you can do about it. There's nothing I can do about it. That's just, that's just how God made me, you know? And so I'm a little forgetful. Sorry. Yeah. I think people use that as a crutch too. That's probably just like a millennial thing as well. Just like, sorry, just the way I am. I just i just uh i'm not task oriented i'm what was that oh gopro's not recording well we got some good stuff hopefully um oh now it's really beeping shut up just explodes in the shop uh red why don't you give me another joke let's laugh together let's go come on come on everybody let's go. I'm diving in. I'm going deep. In my head, I want to be caught in the rush, caught in the flow.

In my head, I want to go. The river's deep. The river's wide. There's a side to the side. But I don't pay to swim. I'm diving in. Whoa. I'm diving in.

Whoa. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. What did the fruit stand sign say on the holidays? I don't know. We wish you a merry Christmas.

Man, that 20 seconds could have been a great Instagram preview. It sucks that the GoPro stopped recording right before that. Man, just imagine us singing, though. In the heat of summer, Jake's got back sweat going all up and down. Yeah, we got a nice reservoir in between my back dimples. I got a little mustache sweat. Oh, can I say this one? I'm actually proud of this one. What did Scrooge give as a gift?

Oh, let me guess. Scrooge. Catherine did not like this, for the record. The Great Coalition. Scrooge? No. Oh, I get it. He gave a Ghost of Christmas present.

Oh, nice. Yeah, that's a Jake kind of joke. Scrooge No Oh I get it He gave a ghost Of Christmas present Oh nice Yeah Like it That's a Jake kind of joke I like it That's like a clever joke Yeah yeah yeah That's a $10 joke Some of those are $0 jokes

That's a $10 one You made up for it there Yep That's pretty funny Other things we could talk about Oh I'm gonna Do a quick plug Before I forget about it

Sure I think I'm going to Costa Rica in January If anyone wants to come Really You can The rich coast Is that what it means Oh yeah Oh, I'm going to do a quick plug before I forget about it. Sure. I think I'm going to Costa Rica in January. If anyone wants to come, you can. The rich coast. Is that what it means? Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. But rich as in like rich of flavor. Like, es muy sabroso. Costa Rica. Tiene un sabor rico. Es más bonita. Eh. Para familia via... Bienvenido a Costa Rica.

What was the name of the place that you went to? It was like the Queen's Silk. What was it called? That was not me, I don't think. What? The Queen's Silk. Well, there was a place you went, I don't know where, maybe in Spain or whatever. You said, oh, no, it was in Trinidad.

The Queen's Bath. No, that's where I went in Kauai. The Princesses. No, no, no. It was the Queen's Bath. The Queen's Teamstress. No, Queen's Bath. No, that's where I went in Kauai. The Princess's Bedroom. No, no, no. It was the Queen's Bath. The Queen's Teamstress. No, Queen's Bath is where I went. Well, I did it too, man.

The Princess's Heirloom. It was the Queen's... Princess Peach. Yeah, something. Either way, something with the silk. The sand exfoliated her skin back in the day. Princess Fiona. Anyway, I'll look for that in Costa Rica. something with the the silk exfoliated the sand exfoliated her sand back in the day princess fiona anyway i'll look for that in uh costa rica costa rica oh speaking of trinidad yes

this is gonna seem stay with me here it's gonna come full circle i saw the great hack oh yeah which would have been highly recommended to me after i made all those kind of just like whatever it's kind of just like a bit but i was doing that conspiracy theory series of instagram stories um after i made all those everyone's like your phone is listening to you the government is watching you gotta watch the great hack and uh i think you would really like it it's kind of like the big short well no the big short's better is it a documentary yeah it's more straight documentary but it's like the big short in the sense that like it made data and typically boring stuff fun okay in the sense that i wouldn't want to read a book about the housing market crash

but the big short made it fun and this was like this is really interesting and just kind of scary sorry just to clarify one more time it is a doc like big shorts not documentary correct yes that's not a great comparison okay style of video but just in the entertainment value straight documentary about cambridge analytica which i feel like i kept pretty up to date with everything that was going Yes. That's not a great comparison in that style of video. But just in the entertainment value. Straight documentary about Cambridge Analytica, which I feel like I kept pretty up to date with everything that was going on when all that broke. But just some bullet points from the documentary that I found fascinating. It's just like, they really like influence some stuff, which is crazy.

And like, it's on paper, like it's on record. Like they for sure influence some stuff. And one of them was the Trinidad and Tobago country we've both been to yeah election and i believe 2009 they've been involved in all these different elections like not like rigging it but like uh they just work for one of the candidates and they use data to influence a large amount of people yeah kind of swaying it at least which is legal unless you are getting the data illegally which is where they've gone wrong um and where facebook went wrong but basically the trinidad one was really interesting so like you know you would think like one candidate wants to win an election so you would either do like positive

stuff for them or like slander or like negative stuff for the other candidate it's kind of always fun when you remember like a vocab word from like 11th grade remember slander sure it's like in the same unit as a mud slinging remember that that word always felt like so dirty like i was like i don't know if i should be writing this mud slinging hello uh yeah i won't talk about that anymore anyway slander oh what they did a pretty genius so they were like i guess in trinidad there's like basically two types of people it's like the blacks and then like the indians are kind of the main two types and And I think they were like working for the Indian candidate. And so what they did genius was they just started this like uprising in the

black community to not vote, to like, you know, withstand or like to revolt against government by not participating. And that's how they won the election. So they use like, really, they talk about,

they've like, they've done all this research and like in every precinct in every state in whatever country there's always like certain amount of people that we call uh um oh it's something like uh persuadables that's what they call them okay it's like if you can affect them then you can affect the entire population okay and so they went after their persuadables and they so they started this movement it had a hand signal it made an appearance in music videos and it it was just like, don't vote. And so they got all like so many, like, I think they got like a 6% switch in voter turnout.

And that was enough to sway the entire election. That's nuts. Even in a tiny country like Trinidad, that's nuts. I'm sure there's way bigger examples of that. Yeah, it's pretty interesting. I like, I don't know. I know that stuff is out there, but at the same time, I don't don't want it like i want to believe that it's not you know i mean like i mean for sure it is i want to believe that like the government's just so pure and it's so not well

that's it this isn't government related it's like private company working you know on their own but they were working for the election of somebody sure yeah and so and that person's now elected into the government yeah yeah i guess and that's yeah they're connected but that's crazy it's yeah it's crazy they were played a pretty big role in brexit which i know an embarrassing amount about like little i know nothing about brexit yeah i felt kind of out of the loop with that but also i think like they said some stat like trump's campaign people put out like five point something million worth of visuals on Facebook and Clinton's put out like 33,000 or something like it's crazy the difference in like Facebook marketing they did it's interesting we don't have to talk about that anymore that's our second go

round of politics let's go on to a blank of the week thanks are the week coming at you now. We've done this briefly before. What do we do? Quote of the week or other stuff of the week. But I think we might make this a recurring bit where it's just a blank of the week, and then we can fill that in. And so this week, we've got three different blanks of the week that we're going to go over. Yep. First one, I'm excited about this.

Brad's got a plethora of knowledge in this area. Food tip of the week that we're going to go over. Yep. First one, I'm excited about this. Brad's got a plethora of knowledge in this area. Food tip of the week. Food tip of the week. So first and foremost, food tip of the week. Favorite place, favorite chain restaurant of mine is, of course, Chipotle Mexican Grill. And the best food tip I have there is when ordering especially if ordering a burrito or a bowl to ask for double rice tell me why Brad let me tell you Jake okay not only do you get double of one of the most underrated ingredients in Chipotle's arsenal you go brown rice right BR no no no no really cilantro cilantro lime white rice all day cilantro yeah can I get double white rice and they'll say beans I say

no beans but chicken for my meat that way they don't have to ask another question. Um, anyway, so I get double white rice and then they go to the chicken and they look at all this rice on your bowl, on your burrito. And they, they give the normal amount of chicken on there. And then they look at it and they say, wait a second, it doesn't look like very much chicken on there because of all that freaking rice. You can't help's human you know what yeah it's it's all about um proportion size ratios like if you have if you have a you know huge pickup truck in a very huge field that pickup truck's not gonna look very big you have a huge pickup truck in a little parking space it's like dang that truck like that's too big that's thick so we were talking

about this huge field of rice with this little pickup truck of chicken they'll say i think we need to add a little bit more they will give you more chicken without double rice or double meat they will i have been asked so many times like is that double meat and they'll say nope not double meat and i'll say that's right that's right it is baby so uh food tip of the week get double rice for your chipotle burrito if you value the meat portion but do not want to pay extra for it it's it's awesome it's gold it's a great tip i use it yeah a fun little just tag along uh this is just got chipotle wing wing four here um a fun game to play at subway or chipotle or places like that is just like the um challenge see if you can

do your entire order without saying um kind of hard sometimes you just even though you know exactly what you want you still like try to sound casual oh yeah let me get some chicken yeah do i want cheese oh good question uh yeah yeah i do um yeah so it's hard to not say um when you order my food tip of the week uh actually tip of the week for i received this unsolicited advice from a homeless man when i was in high school and haven't forgot it he said hey want to know how to always get fresh fries at mcdonald's i said how he said ask for unsalted fries odds are they don't just have unsalted fries ready to go so i'll have to make you a new batch then you're you're gonna get fresh hot fries and the use has for a salt packet you just put your salt on

yourself love it boom fresh ice bonus tip if you ask for well done fries or well done chicken that chick-fil-a they'll do the same thing it'll be always be fresh stole my food tip for next week no that's great I don't know how many food chips that's this practically the same food tip I will I'm so sorry no I could find a food tip for next week food tip for next week sneak peek sneak peek of the next week okay next up I'll start with this one we have babe of the week babe of the week found you gotta that week. Babe of the week. Down, down. Gotta babe that week. Ow.

So my babe of the week, I don't know her real name, but when she was a part of the ensemble known as Cheetah Girls, her name was Aqua. Hello. I'll say it, because it's a vivid memory for me. She was the first black girl that I remember having a crush on. Really? Yeah, which is formidable years. It's a big memory for me.

Did you never see pictures of Destiny's Child? No. Okay. Honestly, not. I couldn't even tell you who the other two are. Are they cute? Yes. You're a married man, Brad.

My gosh. Cute. I didn't say attractive. What? My daughter's cute. I don't know go okay this is this is waiting on waiting on uh yeah go ahead anyway um yeah my girl aqua uh she's still killing it i checked her out on instagram recently um she's got like 130 000 followers she's married got a couple kids it

seems like she's doing well i'm happy for her. She probably has her own cookbooks that she sells. I didn't see cookbooks. Or like a hairline. Yeah, she's probably doing something. Honestly, it looks like she has a pretty normal life. Which is kind of funny to think about that like, Aqua from the Cheetah Girls might work at Sephora or something. Like she might just have a normal job right now.

Probably not. Sephora is probably the most normal job. I don't know why I said Sephora. Or Spencer's. She might be a Spencer's girl. Spencer's regalitas. Bien's girl Spencer's regalitas bienvenidos a Spencer's

oh and Aqua me llamo Aqua yeah already Espanol so that's perfect perfect but yeah she's just my babe of the week just been thinking about her

my babe of the week is going to be a girl that I spent a lot of time with this past weekend okay we went to a wedding

as you know Luke Crenaw's wedding um and alongside of me there was just amazingly cute good looking beautiful attractive i'll i'll say it you'll say i was attracted to this a word this is next to you at the wedding at the wedding on the way there at the reception everywhere um come to find out she's my wife no way yeah katherine ellis is my babe of the week amazingly amazing woman huge babe babe alert come to find out that's my wife uh that's a great babe of the week brett when i come to i realize that's my wife holy crap yep babe of the week babe of the week my wife's a babe oh uh and then last blank of the week goes to what we were gonna call a beef of the week. My wife's a babe. Ow! And then last blank of the week goes to what we were going to call beef of the week.

But then Brad pointed out, Jake, you're allergic to beef. Probably shouldn't even be saying that word. So tell them what the new word is. We're calling it poultry of the week. But it still means what you have beef with. But it is the... Poultry of the week. Your turn to start.

Oh, sure. This kind of has to go along with that same wedding theme is online RSVPs for weddings is my poultry of the week okay I did one two days ago let's talk about how we talked about how there was handwritten place cards for every single person at the reception wax seal was not a handwritten place card for my wife oh yeah because i forgot about this because brad ellis the great husband that he is rsvp'd for the both of us and it says on the link it says enter in the name that was on your invitation brad and catherine ellis and i press next and then it says rsvp yes no yes boom clicked done oh brad thank you for RSVPing. I'm always one of the RSVPs. That's

awesome that you took care of it this time. Get to the wedding. Come to find out. Once you enter in Brad and Catherine Ellis, then there was another prompt that said, how many guests are there? One or two? I did not see that. Or if I did, I assumed it must've been one of Brad and Catherine Ellis. Like one unit of the married couple, Brad and. So Catherine did not get a handwritten letter to her. Not only did she not have a place at the table, but the table that we were supposed to sit at was the table of a semi-famous Christian women's author that Catherine had done, like had led like multiple of her Bible studies,

like would have loved to talk to this woman. I had heard of her name. The fact that I had heard of a female Christian author, I was like, Whoa, she must be a big deal. She's like, like yeah we were supposed to sit at her table instead we we sat at the table with the rejects aka the photographers and the people that were supposed to be and unsuccessfully watching over those donuts yeah it was the island of misfit toys there was a you know jack in the box it didn't work freaking rudolph was there. Creed's a maybe. Creed's coming? Anyway, it was fine.

Tale 22, man. Catherine was very, very gracious, which is another reason why she's my babe of the week. But it was funny when we're all kind of realizing, like, wait, hold on. Why is Catherine? Even Isaac's got a... He texted Luke the week of his wedding, and Isaac's got a note here. Like, I saw, like, it said Brad Ellis on Ellis on like the little thing that said where your table was. And I was like, oh, I'm sure it just says that for everybody. Like all the couples like Mr. and Mrs. Brad Ellis.

They share a plate and card and a seat. We get there and nope, nope, nope. Oh, man, I felt so bad. I was like, I'm so sorry. So needless to say, I will never be RSVPing online ever again. I'm just going to call the person and say, FYI, I'm coming. And so is my wife. And she would like a seat.

Yes, that's my poultry of the week. With Ginny Allen. Hey, don't drop it. Oh, don't name drop. Yeah, sorry. Let's edit it out. Ready? With Ginny Allen.

Now you'll bleep that part out. I'm confused. It'll be funny. With Ginny Allen. Oh, now I have to bleep out three different parts. Stop saying it. With Ginny Allen. Oh, now I have to bleep out three different parts. Stop saying it. My poultry of the week is with certain aspects of mobile navigation systems,

both in Apple Maps, Waze, Google Maps. Part of the instructions are oftentimes... Watch out. Car on road. Ah, sorry. Car on shoulder ahead. road car on shoulder ahead that's a vehicle on shoulder ahead did you ever use uh because you're a big ways guy right oh on road trips i am but not in everyday life do they still i know at one point they had t-pain as one of the voices do they still have that no i've never i've never dabbled anything that deep into that's like ways is kind of like a little thing that like they're always switching out the picture of voices.

Like at any given time, I think they have a lot of voices. Oh, like it could be the default of T-Pain. Like I wouldn't even change it. Yeah, like everything that is said to you is in T-Pain's voice. And like I know they have like boy band or like valley girl. Like they do all sorts of stuff. Maybe you'll take a left here and go three miles and then merge on to I-35 for 10.

Is that what it does? Like One Direction's on there? You don't know. Oh, there's a cop around that curve. Sorry. I totally took your line. Punchline. It's okay.

Let's edit it out. Jenny Allen. Go ahead. Perfect. No, it's fine. My Poultry of the Week is... No, it's still funny. It's great.

Thanks, thanks, thanks. Poultry of the week is... No, it's still funny. It's great. Thanks, thanks, thanks. Poultry of the week is... Oh, when they will tell you things that you were 100% going to do anyway. Like, next up, merge onto I-44. And it's like, I have no other option but to merge. This is just like a waste of an announcement. Oh, so I... Yeah.

This is a waste of just like, now I can't see what my exit is because I've been told to merge. Okay. I finally merged. Now what's next? Continue for 20 miles. Okay. That, yeah, I will. I will do that as long as you tell me otherwise. Okay. Let me swipe over, you know, continue left. Yeah. It takes away, like, especially if you're doing lots of little turns and stuff, it takes away from, uh, yeah, your ability to listen to anything in the car. I will say I've had the voice turned off for years. Really? Because of that reason.

Yeah, I don't do that anymore. Good for you. It's come back to haunt me a number of times. It comes back to haunt us when Catherine's giving directions as well. Oh, your baby of the week, dude? Crap. Let's edit it out. Crap.

Edit it out. Edit. Jenny. Future Jake. Take that out. Oh, man. But, yeah, just the stuff where it's like, look, I'm going to keep driving straight unless you tell me to do something else.

So you don't have to tell me to continue or to merge or to like, just drive. That doesn't need the direction. Like when it changes from kind of like one name of one highway to another and it's like, continue straight. And it's like, did I do it right? Because I'm just now I'm confused. Right. Exactly.

Cause I thought I was on 69. Now it's, it's, you know, whatever. Now it's like did i do it right because i'm just now i'm confused right exactly because i thought i was on 69 now it's it's you know whatever now it's 71 correct i think i'm still on the right highway yeah and if i hadn't been told to continue i just would have kept driving just keep going ignorance is bliss oh man yeah so um that's just my beef my poultry your poultry we don't do we don't do beef here I've got a this is not a blank well technically it is but I'm going to read a review

oh perfect review of the week yeah it's a perfect blank I'm going to stay back here and eat some ice thank you for being

considerate of that we had two great ones this week both of them say that we are the best podcast so thank you vmat27 and then also the other one the username

is jake triplets future wife don't know who you are but appreciate you this is easily my favorite podcast to listen to I always look forward to the new episodes and inevitably die laughing every period single period time keep doing it because you're killing it y'all straight killing it what up we really appreciate that from both of you guys

so thank you thank you always love your reviews and your comments and your feedback on the pod uh we really appreciate that from both of you guys so thank you thank you always love your uh reviews and your comments and your feedback on the pod um whether it's via dm or via five star review yes absolutely it's it's really cool you're used to it probably but i'm not i don't get very many compliments on my i mean i get some on my woodworking but so it's fun to get some you know yeah social media information yeah this is my favorite type of sma gratification to get is on the podcast because it's uh it's so raw baby man it's just real bro it's real you know you just get in there and you're just like oh this just feels right if you were a wwe wrestler what do you think like part of your brand would be like

either your walkout song like your finishing move your singlet your name what do you think some aspects of you i think i would definitely have a good catchphrase like um like who's ready to feel the pain yeah i don't know something like that like the pain train i don't know if it was something with woodworking yeah the drill he's gonna sand him oh no and it's just like a here comes a random orbital like it really is a sander but it's like not enough to take their skin off but from tv like it's like a really light sand yeah yeah yeah he's standing up it's 220 grit but they think it's 80 grit yeah see i didn't know the terminology yeah yeah yeah uh yeah this is the oscillating oh i got I got it, dude. You're going to be the Sandman. You're going to come in from Inter-Sandman. Yeah.

Oh, no. Exit light. Inter-night. Take my hand. This is the Sandman. Oh, no. It's the Sandman. Not the Sandman again. Oh, no. Billy, get over here. The Sandman. Oh no! It's the Sandman! Not the Sandman again!

Oh no! Billy, get over here! The Sandman's on TV! Oh, the Sandman. That'd be so great. And you just sanded people. Oh! Rough, baby. Rough to smooth. I'm gonna make you smooth, boy. I'm gonna smooth

out your forehead. Hey, you see that forehead of yours? It's going to be real nice and smooth when I'm done. That's how you talk trash and like to weigh in. Yo, I notice you've got a real chiseled jawline. It's going to be real oval-like when I get done with you. I'm going to round them edges real nice. I'm going to round out that cauliflower ear into a regular ear. It's going to hurt the whole time of doing it oh boy oh yes exactly

goodness great brad the sandman that's pretty funny yeah thanks red good bit good bit good hey good bit hey hey guys good bit hey good game out there guys good bit yeah dirty bit uh you think that's enough to end it i think so we're in an hour how's your sweat content going i mean at this point i'm past the point of no return. It's like once you start getting sweaty in PE class. You're done. Yeah. Actually, that's such a true analogy.

Even though I just said that, like I'm thinking about it. Like there'd be some PE classes where it's like, I'm not trying to sweat. I got math right after this. But it's like, I can't help it. Travis Gillespie is going so hard playing two base. The fact that you ever thought you weren't going to sweat just shows how we are different. Because I sweat. I sweat every time I put those godforsaken things on my body like those sophie shorts sophie shorts you were wearing those yeah you had to for pe what cheerleader do you borrow them from they were sophie shorts sophie brand not sophie length though they were

not those oh my gosh can you believe that can you imagine if i was wearing i was imagining you in short larry bird style shorts my gosh i don't know elatha you imagine if I was wearing... I was imagining you in short... Larry Bird style. Gray shorts. Soapy shorts. My gosh. I don't know. A Latha, man. No, man. It was like the... It was that like material though. Like very non-breathable.

Very soft. Yeah, like sweat pant kind of thing. And just... You just sweat right when you're in them. Luckily, I had a lot of Axe Kilo. So I just sprayed Kilo all over them. Ew. Oh, man.

What is Axe Kilo? Oh, just kind of a spray. Like a fragrance of Axe. Oh, like a body spray. Oh, yeah. You guys didn't use Axe? just kind of a spray like a fragrance of acts oh like a body spray oh yeah you guys didn't use ax ax kilo sounds like uh like a like a millennial greek god like a like an instagram influencer who's from greece probably oh ax kilo yeah i went to burning man dude i love ax kilo yeah that's such a sick name ax kilo ax phoenix uh ax krypton axonics exactly uh anyway yes i was sweating every every day i remember there'd be some days where it's like hey guys uh we got a sub today we're just kind of like you guys just do whatever you want so i'm like okay i'll probably

just not even gonna get dressed i'm not gonna sweat but then it's like okay a game of knockout broke out sure sure i can't lose knockout i'm like one of the only people here who's even on the basketball team this is bad for my image i mean you do listen to or play magic though so this was hey we're talking like 11th grade by now i'm imagining this going down i was no longer playing magic i was big sporty spice and it's like dang it now i'm getting a little sweaty i might as well just go for it i might as well just keep getting sweaty so to answer your question i've played two games of knockout now. I feel decently sweaty where it's like at this point. Yeah.

I'm a, I'm a sweaty boy. You're gone. You're going for it. Yeah, man. Yep. I sweat so much in high school more than any other time of my life.

Sure. I feel like I've kind of always had overactive sweat glands. I got, I mean, a skinny guy, you are a sweater. Yeah. And not like, um, um oh man i'm just

always sweating but if there's physical activity i'm probably sweating more than everyone else and a lot out of my face really yeah i think so sweater face sweat fs yeah i remember the first time i sweat on my shirt i felt so cool i was playing what like you know how like you sweat so much that you like see it on your shirt like as a kid that's not very common yeah i guess so and i remember i was like fourth fifth grade i worked i played basketball for a really long time at my cousin's house in florida and i sweat on my shirt because like you see like the basketball players like sweating on their shirts like gosh those guys look awesome so do you remember this i actually did this one time so kind of the same thing the gatorade commercials were huge derrick jeter michael jordan yes the same thing. The Gatorade commercials were huge.

Derek Jeter, Michael Jordan. Yes. And they would always sweat Gatorade. Yes. That's how they looked so cool. The color sweat. And so, yeah, it was like on their face and on their shirt. And I remember one time pouring purple Gatorade.

I was like in the sink. I poured purple Gatorade on my face. And then so I could look at myself in the mirror. Perfect. And so I could see purple Gatorade, you know, and then it's just clear. It's not actually bright purple on your face. I'm sure it looks so cool, though. It looks like nothing.

You know, it was kind of purple on my shirt, but yeah, I wanted to look so cool. That's good. Gatorade, yeah. Dick Jeter. What a player, Jeter. Oh, I miss the old Yankees. Dick Jeter. I tell you what, man.

Chuckie K, Chuck Knobloch, huh? Bernie Williams. Roger Clemens. I don't care how much he doped. He was a good ball player. David Wells could pitch. I tell you what, man. Chucky K, Chuck Knobloch, huh? Bernie Williams. Roger Clemens. I don't care how much he doped. He was a good ball player. David Wells could pitch. I tell you what, he could pitch on Tuesday. He wakes up Wednesday.

He's like, hey, I'm ready to pitch again. Got an arm of a titan. I'd like to see Ax Kilo try to throw as many pitches as he could. And then you bring out Mariano for the ninth, and it's game over. Game over. They call him a closer for a reason. It's time to go get hot dogs. Yo, my uncle Giovanni had a neighbor who said, Ravia, close the door on him. And it was even better than a sink a reason it's time to go get hot dogs yo my uncle giovanni had a neighbor who said revere closed the door on him and it was even better than a sinker it's time to

go it's time to go let's go get a pizza let's go to joseph at the alleys oh for some pizza i almost went indian accent because oh but i was like i shouldn't do that yeah but you did that was the name you just said right yeah full Yeah. Full circle. There it was. It's over. Joseph. A-te-a-ly. Camera. A-feel-a-pelly.

Yeah, that's probably a good place to end it. Thanks for listening to the Jenny Allen podcast. This was episode 18, I think. Wow. Making our way. Making our way downtown walking fast ghost winter podcast

maybe we should do something big for episode 20 you didn't even recognize my Vanessa Carlton I did sorry

what do you always say nice oh sorry okay nice dude that reminds me of uh white girls

oh white chicks oh shoot white chicks first movie I ever saw Terry Crews in. Nice. What were you going to say?

Sorry. What was I going to say? We should find a milestone episode. Do something big for either 20 or 25. And do it big. Either on location or get a guest. Patrick Mahomes, 25, baby. Oh, we should have done it with 15.

Or Darwin Thompson, 25. Probably a little more realistic. LeSean McCoy. That's how you use the number? Oh, yeah. He's number 25 now. Okay. Yeah, sure. We'll get LeSean McCoy on for number 25. We'll get him on the show. If you guys have realistic. LeSean McCoy. That's not even his number? Oh, yeah. He's number 25 now. Okay.

Okay. We'll get LeSean McCoy on for number 25. We'll get him on the show. If you guys have connections, please let us know. It's like that SNL bit where it's like, well, apparently Albert Einstein's been dead for 37 years. We'll try to get him anyway. Harry Carey. That's so great.

Would you rather be the greatest scientist in your field or have mad cow disease? The greatest scientist in my field? Oh, God, I was afraid to choose mad cow. Just a worrier. That's why my friends call me Whiskers. Whiskers, yeah. I have a lot more of that memorized than I thought I did.

Old SNL skits and T-Pain are the things that I keep surprising myself. Like, whoa, I really have this memorized. You really know them. Yeah, bartender, buy you a drink. Pretty much word for word. Yeah. Ain't weird, Al.

Okay. Now, Brad, hit him with the second jingle of the day. We've been singing a lot this episode. We've been singing a lot. It's the shop, man. This is the singing episode. Maybe that's what this episode will be called. Anyway, hit him with the jingle for episode 18 here in the wood shop from the Sandman.

Oh. We're always out, out in the shop. Oh, gosh. Wait. Take your time. Take your time. There's always going to be another podcast. Always going to be another episode.

There's always going to be some humor and some funny times. And sometimes they're going to make you go, oh. There's always going to be someone else that you can listen to instead of Jake and Brad. Nice. But please listen to us instead. Yes, dude. Love you, Catherine. I'm diving in I'm diving in

I'm going deep I'm diving in I'm diving in I'm diving in I'm diving in I'm going deep I'm going deep I'm diving in

I'm diving in I'm diving in I'm diving in I'm diving in