Ghostrunners - 192 - Our Favorite Moments of 2022

Episode Date: January 2, 2023

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hello ghost runners it is the happy new year happy i didn't didn't do great with that no no 2023 sounds like a happy year it's new apparently jay got a seizure on january first christmas was not good to me just trying to say hey it's the new year it's like january what is it second first yeah good it's the new year january 2nd i what is it second first yeah could it's the new year january 2nd i think if you're if you're listening to this on january 2nd if you're listening on january 3rd january if you look down your phone it says jan 2 if you're listening on january 4th it's my anniversary so i'm at the melting pot okay um yeah we want to do a quick uh recap episode

jakey if you're listening to this on january 6th i hope you're not at the capitol building uh yeah this is just a recap episode i think we did this last year maybe even the year before but uh this is our third annual yeah it's just a fun way i'll we'll be honest hey brad and i are away from each other during the holidays and so this is not only an easy way for us to still get another episode out on Mondays, like we always promise, but also kind of fun. It's just a fun way to reflect and be grateful for all the fun times that have happened. Not only because we are hilarious and amazing, but because of so many people that have brought us jokes or brought us inspiration.

All of you. So consider this a late Christmas gift. Oh, happy new year. It's an appreciation episode for you guys. Thank you for all that you have done to support us

this year. And yeah. Yeah. Enjoy the best moments of 2022 and shout out to Justin just for being awesome and editing

things like this. Justin, the year end recap. Put that in. Justin, it starts now. Oh, I think this type means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white the year end recap. Put that in. Justin, it starts now. Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat

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

get on your feet because it's the Ghost Rubs Podcast. Every Monday morning we're taking round Ghost Rubs Podcast. Ghost Rubs Podcast. Every Monday morning we're taking grand plans for this podcast. Go for a podcast. Happy New Year, Ghosties.

That kind of sounded more like a Santa Christmas. Ho, ho, ho. Happy New Year. Hey, hope you had just a a great refreshing Christmas and holiday season. Um, we miss you guys. Uh, 2022 was truly just incredible year for Jake and myself personally. And we're excited to recap it in today's episode. Uh, you know, we had new love, new life, new neighbors, new business ownerships.

Uh, so we have a lot to be thankful for. And it's so fun having this opportunity to just remember the events of our lives every week and of course have a platform to be goofy and quirky along the way so thank you guys so much for giving us this opportunity we cannot say thanks enough we will say it every episode if we can um but let's get into this recap episode uh 2022 started off hot uh not literally it's cold in kansas city but uh our second ever live event was February 12th. We affectionately referred to it as, of course, F12. We packed over 300 ghosties from all over the United States and even like the world. You know, shout out to Janelle coming from Ukraine. We had this amazing variety show. We united Ghostrunners fans and it culminated with the only way we know how hanging at Chick-fil-A until like one in the morning. It was amazing. So here's a quick recap of the event as well as the unexpected highlight of our night. Let's talk about F12.

Okay, let's do it. So let's just go chronologically. I think that's easiest, right? Okay. I was in Austin this past week. Okay. So I was born November 13th, 1990. Okay. So first things born, uh, 1990. Um, okay. So first things we did, uh, was pickleball. Uh, well first, even before that Friday night,

a lot of the ghosties got there and our fans are just so fun. Cause yeah, they're already having this community with each other. I think like 15 of them went to funky town. Did you see that? That was so awesome. Yeah. Just so cool. So I think I commented, this is unbelievable. There were so many of them and they look great. Yeah. And I also, uh, backing up one more. So I went to Austin this past week and then, uh, until I got like on the plane or maybe even like back to Kansas city, like emotionally, I was not, I was not like ready to be excited about F12 yet. Cause I think I had so much emotional investment in Austin stuff.

And so until I got back from Austin, I like just wasn't pumped. And then I saw all these like photos of people like on the plane, like coming to Kansas city. And it was like, it was like, it was a surprise to me that this was happening. Like, because it was like, I was so compartmentalized in my head. It's like, I saw the tickets to F12, but I didn't see the plane tickets. Yes. And now it's real. And then like these pictures of like, yeah, coming from DC, coming from in my head. It's like, I saw the tickets to F12, but I didn't see the plane tickets. Yes. And now it's real. And then like these pictures of like, yeah, coming from DC, coming from Zandia. It's like, holy cow, this is amazing. On my drive home last night, I tried to think of how many different people that I personally

talked to and knew the state they're from. And I counted 20 different states that I know personally that people came from. That's fun. We should write those down and try to figure that out. Like, or just do a little thread on Facebook or something. Cause it would be fun to see yeah um also sorry to interrupt real quick rachel just texted me a screenshot this is actually kind of fun okay uh her grandma just texted her out of the blue and said hey miss top golf you know you would have never met jake if your dearly beloved grandmother had not brainwashed you for years about going golfing oh that's a very timely text

that's funny she just sent me that screenshot. Also, I have, I have a 1% theory that Rachel's kind of a serial killer. Oh yeah. I forgot to get into that last night at the F12 show. Okay. Cause, cause her, her story is, I'm not totally convinced either. Yeah. Her story is this. She was like walking a half marathon. First of all, just psychopath, uh, just for fun. Right. It was even like an organized thing. No, it was just quarantine. It was just like, Hey, let's just, let's just walk for a long time. Yeah. It was just her and her friend. Like let's try and walk 13 miles. That's weird. That's psychotic behavior. Yeah. Um, and I talked about that last night at the show too. Our definitions are fun or very different. Okay. I was like, yeah, we should

book a flight to Hawaii. She's like, I'm going to give up sugar. Oh, okay. That's funny. Well, have fun. And so they're walking a half marathon for fun and halfway through they realize this is kind of miserable so let's find a podcast and they just happen to be scrolling through this like like right now i could be like hey guys find me a podcast it would take you a long time to find anything they just happen to be scrolling through and found our podcast just happened to move move to Kansas city a couple months later. Yeah. And then I'm going to move to Kansas city after I listened to this podcast.

And then once the podcast guys get kind of into golf, I'm going to show up to top golf on Tuesdays when I know they go. Yeah. And then they talk about how they're obsessed with pickleball. I'm just going to go that exact same pickleball place. Oh, and Oh, I'm not going to say hi to Jake either time.

I'm going to make him want me. I'm going to go, I'm going to go for his best friend. Like, yeah, yeah. Who I know is taken. Yeah. yeah yeah it's how sharks hunt yes and like apex predator style yeah yeah like she knew exactly what she was doing yeah yeah it's all calculated on sand that's like she don't know what she's doing she don't know she yeah she do she knows exactly what she knows exactly what she's doing yeah so so just be careful if she comes at you with a knife don't think it's to cook vegetables it's not for hello fresh yeah yeah well good thing she doesn't

know i've taken two title boxing classes okay so she's probably still gonna kill me yeah i was gonna say but um anyway no yeah i'll keep yeah i'll keep when i open yeah when i'm awake grandma shout out to grandma. Yeah. Lord. Grandma. Lori. Lori said that grandma Lori for listening. Okay.

See you in Florida or spring break. Flory. Okay. So chronologically, first thing we do Saturday morning is wake up at 4am. Yeah. Right. We go to pickleball and I call Jake and he's already there.

I'm like two minutes away. And I was just coordinating some different things. Cause like, we're not going to talk to each other once i get there and so he's like yeah i'm actually already here there's about 50 people here uh and i was like wait did you say you're like 15 that's a lot i was like did you say 15 or 50 and he's like no five zero like we're all waiting outside or waiting in the lobby to go play and i was like there's 50 people there and i bet by the end of it i didn't count but there's got to be 100 people there 107 really i'm guessing oh but i was always there's a picture so

i was like yeah did you go back and count the picture looks massive yeah dude did you count how many 80 180 180 wow 180 do we want to count a lady bending over in the back don't stare at that lady if you really zoom in on that woman bending over she looked like a ghosty from behind so i don't know okay that's that's a good lesson right there is that not that part the the fact that that was 80 people people i don't know how to describe this like like a number in your head like when you hear like oh there's 80 people there that sounds like a lot but when you're actually there it's like there are so many people here

and i want to talk to all of them yeah but i only have one mouth brad that's right you know that one mouth two ears yeah so it was tough yeah but uh yeah to listen yeah it's important and one other thing about pickleball i was not anticipating playing that much pickleball yeah like i think i told people rachel or you know my family's like yeah you know i'll probably you know if people want to challenge scott and i like i'll go up and play and then i'll just like sit back down and i just want to talk to people like pickleball is just a reason for us to gather and then i mean from the second i got there i got off the road with you it was like and i just played pickleball for two hours straight the gauntlet was set like the gauntlet five hundred dollars was on the line did anybody like seem like they were really seriously like gonna like try to

take you down i know they didn't well the first two guys that we played of the day were wearing like matching blue like outfits like they had headbands and like accessories and i was like they came together to uh yeah to like beat us maybe uh-huh and we beat them 11- accessories and i was like they came together to uh yeah to like beat us maybe and we beat them 11-0 so i was like oh maybe not and then like three games later which i gotta say we had not given up a point yet so it's like wow they keep coming and no one has scored a point they keep coming like the fourth game of the day you know we're like hey what's your name okay claire nice to meet you what's your name and okay josh nice to meet you he's like and what's your name okay scott and then what's your name i was like jake and he's just dead serious so i was like oh

this guy might be a ringer he has no he doesn't even know what's happening right now or he's just he's just walking by like the pickleball courts he's like i'll remember the time someone said football so i came running yeah so it's like oh if he doesn't know who we are then like maybe i am in for some trouble but anyway i think the most anyone scored on us all day was two what about big daddy oh do we need to go over some of those points we were going for entertainment value and i think we succeeded we did brad was so funny um and yeah there are multiple points the game where i would just lob it to brad just let him smack it on me i

was just hoping to get maybe smacked in the forehead or something oh my gosh before the game too so brad i didn't get to play each other all day brad was kind of you chatted for like the first hour just talking to people i only played two games yeah then you kind of started play a little pickleball and so scott and i were like we got to get brad to this court and then it's already past noon but we're like we got to play against brad and um you and uh jeff who i saw mclean's earlier that morning just got fun nice guy yeah jeff and regina from milwaukee and you guys partnered up and everyone was so excited to see brad come out on the court finally because it was kind of like a champion's court if you want to call it yeah i did a few laps yeah so brad starts running around getting the people fired up then he

starts running suicides and he almost fell over well no i like almost blew out my shoe my shoes weren't tied and so and so like like my foot came out of my shoe i was like did i just break my shoes oh that was awesome so i mean the definition of getting the people going and then yeah we played that game and my no it was your dad but practically my proud dad in the corner like filming everything we were doing just dying laughing oh my dad he's gonna need a second phone just to film you he loves filming you yeah man um which better than filming that woman bending over you know so skeevy little perv over there oh yeah that's right no but pickleball was so cool it was it was so fun it was a great precursor of like holy cow this is this is gonna

be a good night yeah yeah yeah and i think we were joking but we're also serious like we could end the day there like that was so fun like so many memories are made just playing pickleball and getting to meet everyone i'm convinced that the world pickleball championships don't get as much noise as we were like our game like like the crowd noise that was happening when like if we scored a point on you it was just electric it was so funny too i mean like when scott and i would like screw up or something even if we didn't lose a point just like we were serving a hit at the net, the crowd were just like, yeah, yeah. Mainly these Indiana guys.

I mean, they were just like, it was, it got to be a little demoralizing. I was like, I don't want to screw up. I'm going to get booed. I know. Yeah. It's like, it's like Jake and I both do the pot. You're fans of both of us.

You're only cheering for one of us here. It was so awesome. Oh, it was great. Yeah. Oh, your dad said you could get in the way. That's awesome. Honestly, I'm just thinking of this now, but we should just do like a pickleball tournament this summer because it's such an easy way to like gather.

Yeah. Like we just rented out Meadowbrook. I think that's fun. We talked about that a long time ago when we first got into it. With Chick-fil-A. With Harrison. Yeah. Yeah, that'd go.

No, we should. That'd be really fun. Tentative. Go start a pickleball tournament this summer. Great. Let. That go. No, we should. That'd be, that'd be really fun. Tentative ghost hunters pickleball tournament this summer. Great. Let's do it. Mark your calendars.

This summer. Put over the whole summer. Might be a pickleball tournament. June, June, July, August. Whatever. Yeah. So pickleball was fantastic. Got way sweatier

than I planned on. And it was just the start of me linking my loops that day yes and then yeah i went out to dinner went out to lunch with my family rachel's family um gosh it's so nice just be freed up just not i'm not holding anything back it just feels nice just my family and this other girl's family like yeah yeah there's a lot of my friend for the past four months yeah my friend was texting me the other day this friend of mine is has all these coats petty remember that oh yeah yeah mr manny yeah mr manny was rachel's uh whatever yeah rachel's the one who got walked in on in the or she walked in on the guy in the bathroom and he

just waved at her she's the one who has all the coats which last night i said that the show was like and rachel was the one from the podcast who has all the coats like randomly being sent to her door and then a bunch of people go oh i was like that's such a weird reaction to i don't know because because you never figure out if that was really the reason why like it wasn't like this sweet like reason that people were sending her code yeah i don't know yeah kind of fun but um anyway yeah you were doing that i was running all around i still had to go grab a guitar from somebody and grab uh yeah chords from somebody and i was running all around doing that then i came home and i was running all around doing that then i

came home and i was supposed to fix the oven yesterday i was like katherine it's not happening i'm so sorry uh went home for just a second and then we were supposed to get back up there by three to work on sound stuff with this guy because he's going to leave afterwards so which is kind of a blessing it was a huge blessing in disguise because originally we were supposed to only get in there at five o'clock that would have been so dumb that would have been wild yeah we were trying to conserve as much money as we could so it's like hey let's just get in there five doors open at 5 30 we could set it up really quick oh man that would have been wild so got there and yeah like we said the the sound was going great everything was The vibes were going very up.

And then it just crashed. I remember at one point, I was kind of out of it. It was more you and Justin that were working on all that stuff. And I was trying to do all the other coordinating pizza with Scott, which we'll get there. But talking to Gunnar about all that and whatever. But I remember at one point you just go, dude, this sucks. And that's like, that's like the most negative I've ever heard Jake in my life. Like, it's like, dude, no, it's going to be okay. We're going to figure it out. I know. I appreciate you saying that. It was just like, wow. The amount of effort that has

gone into this, even just this week alone that I put into this and so much of it is video driven, so much audio driven and now none of it works the show was like seven eight videos like we had so many videos and so the fact that like we weren't even going to show those at all yeah was just going to be a huge bummer it was a bummer for the people who came it wasn't like man i really wanted to rap tonight it was like i just want people to feel like they got their money's worth and having a time so 100 but it all ended up working the show was great yeah um the the intro man like that alone was like worth it for me um i have never been applauded or just cheered for like that in my life not after a

show not before a show nothing i mean yeah that was like what you get at the end of something and that was the beginning it was like give it up for jake and brad and yeah yeah i could relive that every day that was crazy so we did like a countdown justin shout out justin for helping me i had this like idea like we should do the jock jam song for the countdown. I texted him like 11 PM that night. Like, just like, Hey,

do you think you could put this thing together real quick? And of course he nailed it. Yeah. So the countdown gets done and then we do this intro video, which should we post some of this stuff to our patron? I think that'd be, yeah, some public,

some private. So the intro video pervert over there oh man the uh the intro video was just a cool like kind of culmination of like from start like beginning to end like it started out like with video of us before we were even doing ghost runner stuff and then it ended with us like talking about like this idea for f12 and uh and at the very end like the theme song the ghost first theme song comes on and we walk up there scott was screaming scott introduced us of course he loves that and people just went nuts it was awesome it was. That was, that was seriously maybe my favorite part of the night. Yeah. Maybe no, I was running out there. No, mine was the pizza thing. Talk about the pizza thing. Okay. So yeah. Um, once we got it, yeah,

we did a few other things, but then we had this idea. Another, it was another idea that I had like the night before, like, or the day before the day before and you're like, Hey, we used to do this at Canicuck. Yeah. But we never, we didn't do this at Canicuck. We at Canicuck back in the day you called me the day before and you're like hey we used to do this at canicuck yeah but we never we didn't do this at canicuck we at canicuck back in the day we would order a pizza and we'd have one of our friends dress up like a pizza guy and be like a goofy character and oh it was always uh a bit oh it wasn't a real pizza guy yeah so i was explaining this to you and i think you misunderstood yep and i was like wait that's a really good idea we should have like the real pizza guy come up oh and so you wanted to do it as a skit. And I was like, yeah, yeah. I have a real pizza guy. I think so. I think it was kind of like an accidental idea by you that I was like, yes,

we should absolutely do it. So what we did was Scott coordinate. So backstory is we were supposed to originally do this event at McLean's. You know, McLean's is a coffee shop, has food and everything. So I was like 6 PM. That'll be great because McLean's, it was like a $500 deposit for the event, but whoever bought food, like went towards that $500 deposit. So it was like, we'd probably make our money back from that. And so I was like, sweet, free event. Um, and then I was like, let's just charge $10 for people just to have a money, you know, into it or whatever. Very thankful we charged the money because if not, we would have lost a lot of money anyway. So it was from six to eight. So therefore like people were having to eat lunch or dinner or whatever, like super early. Uh, so I was like,

maybe we should just feed them some pizza. So, um, I had Scott order pizza to be delivered at six 30. Um, and I was like, Scott, just tell the pizza guy to come up on the stage and, you know, best case scenario, this guy, like it's a pretty fun like guy and we'll roll with it and we can talk to him and have some inside jokes with this guy. Get to know him a little bit better, like kind of cheer him on. And then I had the thought of like, how cool would it be if like we just gave him like some like amazing tip, like just kind of ask people if they wanted to tip them, they could. Yeah. And so that was as much planning as we did, when he got up there i feel like we both looked at each other we're like what do we do now you used to go do you have any hobbies which i'm glad i asked him yeah because we learned it's a wholesome guy he's like i go to the dog park every day yeah it's like

every do you have a dog okay good good good good yeah so this guy caleb yeah caleb right um so he comes up on stage and it was like in the middle of like it was perfect it was in the middle of a game that we were doing so it was like kind of what we were supposed to what was yeah everyone was on stage for family feud yeah and then pizza guy was also up there yeah and uh you know we interview him and then i was like you know i think it'd be really cool if we i think i use the word blast or you know whatever i think be cool if we if we gave him an awesome tip, ah, bless, you know, bless this boy. And, uh, and so all of a sudden, like I was thinking like, Brad even said, he's like, so why don't you guys pass your money to the end of the

aisle? And everyone's like, Oh, we should charge the stage. Yes. All right. All of a sudden, I think, honestly, I think it was my niece and nephew, like these little, like, you know, six-year-old kids that like walked up to the stage, just gave him money. And then all of a sudden, I mean, 20, 30, I don't even know, 80 people, I don't know, came up and gave this guy money. And it was just like the most, like we talk about at camp, we call moments of wonder and like this like moment where it's just like, you're watching and you're just like, what, how this is amazing. Like watching these people give this guy money and watching his face of like what is happening thank you like i had no idea like i just love the idea of him going back to

dominoes and be like dude it took you like 30 minutes to deliver that pizza like what happened he's like hope it was worth it you're not gonna believe this you know yeah i have like all the 300 dollars yeah dude so uh anyway it was so cool people we chained his name you know at the end i mean just so fun so it was i could tell he seemed very overwhelmed by the end of it he was like the money was like shaking his head he almost walked off without like the the pizza container and everything like yeah um yeah and i know that sam sell got his phone number oh really so we can like follow up with him oh one way or another oh great so yeah that's awesome oh yeah so that was that was super fun like it was one of those things it's like it perfectly encapsulates like our fans and like the fact that they're generous and like you know

wanting to help other people it's another example of us feeling like we're not really doing anything we just kind of did the thing that let you guys do the better thing right right so anyway it was it was really cool so uh along with that let's see other highlights family feud was fun we did a little friends we did our friends versus our fans yeah feud um and our friends our friends are funny funny people so they did good harrison we're like so let's introduce our friends you guys just like say your name and something else so i don't know what the prompt was and then harrison just goes harrison facetious f-a-c and that was great and uh scott or isaac was like so my name is isaac the $600 espresso machine was

the best investment i've ever made like everyone had like a joke prepared yeah yeah did you tell them to come no okay they're all just great just awesome yeah harrison did fantastic too with that improv game we did we never went over any of that yeah he did do a good job with that and he nailed it it was the it was the who's on is it anyway newsflash kind of game where the um it's like you're a reporter behind you like yeah there's something going on where you're you're reporting the field but they don't know what's behind you so we're asking him questions kind of open-ended questions and he's answering them and he did yeah he's he's so good harrison's so good yeah he was cracking me up we're like have you ever seen anything like this he's like

a couple times in high school. And then one time I think he said something like, yeah, this happened to me. And it was like, right. When like a guy like nailed his crotch, like a half pipe or something. So towards the end, I was like, I think he's kind of got it figured out. And I was like, Harrison, do you know what's behind you? And he goes, yeah, gunner. And in that moment, it was a wakeboarder behind him.

I was like, that was so amazing great job you nailed it so um i mean the the crowd the whole night was like electric i think one night we went back to change clothes and that dressing we're like dude this is crazy they just like laugh at anything yes it was like it was like anything we said it was like instant laughter just like the warmest crowd ever like you know you know, we will be like, give it up for my parents. Like we had Q&A with our parents at one point, like our parents came up and everyone went crazy for our parents. Like, you know, it was by far the most respectful crowd I've ever performed for. I mean, when we were talking, it was dead silent.

There wasn't a chirp. There wasn't a cell phone. It was crazy. And we had a special guest portion of the night. So Mr. James was able to be there. He was awesome. He did so good. And that was the other thing we didn't plan.

We, we did not do a very good job. We didn't tell anyone anything. I was like, we'll bring you up there and we'll figure it out. Let's talk about things like, you know, we'll do it.

We'll figure it out. It's especially, I felt we called James up there. I was like, shoot, I didn't really. Yeah. Playing anything.

I haven't seen James in like a year. It's like, yeah, you want to come help us out. Um, yeah. And he was really great so yeah we were able to get mr james we were able to get top golf rachel the last second yeah um and we flew in uh our northeastern um yeah we're able to get this used car salesman

yeah um his nickname is santo mac yeah that's what he goes by i think it's it's something santorini santorino something klusky uh but man he was there he was in a burgundy suit which is fun he was he was a bad comedian though yeah he tried to make some jokes they didn't really make sense and then uh chick-fil-a afterwards was super cool and everyone uh you teared up again at chick-fil-a how many times you tear up yesterday oh my gosh 10 I don't know. That's awesome. I'm not poking fun.

I was tearing up. Oh yeah. I definitely, I teared up at the video, like the intro video beforehand. Did you really? Yeah. Huh. Because I think, I think because, because like throughout the video, people would cheer and they would laugh. And it was like, you put a part in there about like Hattie and Bo.

And I was like, look at this. Like, look, it's like, it's like a time capsule of our lives and like a really funny way, you know, video cameras are awesome. Yeah, seriously. Yeah. And so, and like all these people are like, Oh, that was awesome. You know, it was like, not that we like work crazy hard on this podcast, but we do put it in time and effort into it. So to like have this reward for it was a really cool feeling to like see like oh all these people are really enjoying it and so that was cool uh and then i teared up when the q a with my parents my mom was like what do you like i think well the question was like what are you proud of and your son and my mom said like you're a great husband and dad or something yeah like my mom my mom mom, my mom, I asked her like the day before, like, Hey,

can you come up for the jingle? And I talked to her that night. She's like, well, I'm going to cry. I'm going to cry. I'm like, you're going to cry at the jingle. It was like this goofy kind of like fun thing. Like, it's like, yeah, I'm gonna cry. I'm gonna cry during that. So she's a huge crier. And then yeah, Chick-fil-A, I don't know, an hour into it. We're just talking to people. And then all of a sudden they kind of, Janelle says like, I need to steal you or whatever and come to the middle.

And the ghosties had written a song for us to the theme of, or to the tune of old friends by Ben Rector. Good song. And they say about it in the podcast episode before. It's a great, it's a great line. You can't make old friends. Yeah, it, it really is. It's a great haunting line. Like it's kind of like kind of cool yeah it's also like wow that's strong so

um but they they sang that song and then we we kind of just reflected on it afterwards of course i cried after like three seconds of trying to talk so um yeah you went it was yeah i teared up a lot probably and then again i i think i'm just really tired. And so I'm like, like today at church, like four different times, I was like, chill, like stop, stop like tearing up. Like, Oh, you're saying chill to yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Gotcha. Like, I don't even know why you're about to just out loud to the pastor. Hey, take it easy. I'm emotional. Mark of the beast. Come on. F 12 was last night. Yeah.

I'm still, still coming off of it. All right. Easy. You're heckling a pastor. Chill. No, but it was like, like there was like one time where it was like i don't even know if he's saying anything right now and i was like about to cry and i was like what's what's going on right now and i think i'm just do you think you're very sleep deprived menopause that's a thing for men well that's what's in the name menopause yeah yeah yeah uh oh i bet it's same

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and Rachel, which is my ex-girlfriend. Two American kids growing up in the heartland. John Cougar Mellon Camp, anybody? Anyway, you know, from meeting in the most unlikeliest of ways at both Topgolf and Meadowbrook Park, two weeks in a row, to the public announcement at F12, to a promise house, to an engagement funded by LSCustomCreatations.com at Meadowbrook Park.

Jake and Rachel were statistically the most talked about couple on Ghostrunners podcast in 2022. We're so excited for the wedding. There's more podcast material coming from this relationship, especially with the wedding coming up. And here's a little recap of how it all went down this past year how we got to where we are now um my babe of the week is gonna be it feels like we haven't done this in forever i haven't had to do a babe in a long time but uh my baby week is gonna be someone who uh actually met in real life which i know you're always proud of me when that happens. Someone from the podcast actually. Yeah.

And my babe of the week is Topgolf Rachel. Yeah. Do you remember we, I remember that story about her, Brad and then pickleball Rachel. Yeah. Yeah. So she is my baby of the week and has been my babe of the last four months.

Oh, because we, yeah. Wow. You guys all stopped clapping like at the same exact time. Wow. All right. We're going to do 27 claps. Keep track. Keep track. Um, anyway, yeah, we've been going steady for a while now and it's real fun. And that's our term. Yeah. That's what we like. I do want to go steady? That's great. I prefer that term. I think it's more fun than like boyfriend or girlfriend. Back in the day, I thought it was go S T U D Y. Like we're going steady. I was like, ah, so old school. Like,

you know, you're in the library, you know, working on your test. Let's just say go STD. Okay. Let's just get an STD. Yeah. You want to have a DTR? I'd rather just go STD. Let's talk about it. But anyway, yeah, I've never, never opened up my life in that way on the podcast before, but it feels like time announced her to everyone at F12 last night. There are certain comedy shows that I've done where I've talked about her on stage. Like I would talk about her on stage to 2000 people, Salt Lake City, but I haven't told the podcast or, you know, some of my friends probably don't even know yet. So it was kind of funny. So certain shows have been like, wait, is that like a real thing? And it's like, it is. Um, but yeah, ever since, uh, yeah, we met, you know, kind of met at Topgolf and then

rendezvoused on accident at pickleball. It's kind of been, yeah, just steady ever since. Absolutely. Real fun. And to add to everything going on yesterday, it was her first time meeting my parents. So they're in town. They were trying to meet. I'm trying to coordinate all that right her parents are in town and you were hopeful to do all that friday night yeah i would have nice yeah but i don't know if i told you this i'd go to awesome yeah texas yeah yeah yeah grtx yeah um so really fun she's awesome if if oh sorry go ahead you say more things i know i want to hear you say how she's awesome oh she's very awesome very awesome. I think one of the things that I, I really appreciate her right off the bat was, I think it was the first time she ever came over to our house. We were watching chiefs game or something and there were girls and guys there. And I feel like a lot of times with a new

girlfriend or boyfriend, even like they just stick together and they're just like very like kind of clingy, like, like you're my security blanket. I'm just going'm just everyone's married they all know each other but immediately like the guys were hanging out watching the game and this is gonna sound so like stereo women were in the kitchen and the girls were in the kitchen but she but she went right in there and hung out with katherine she's like helped make stuff for like an hour yeah i was like oh yeah i forgot rachel's here yeah like and like that impressed me a lot of like okay she's comfortable enough or confident enough in herself that like she doesn't need to just like cling to jake and like you know whatever and so i'm i think it's cool and i've just seen like how she's already positively affecting you oh my gosh yeah you know like every day speaking of houses um fun little

thing uh brad texted me what probably last monday you think that's when it happened yes just kind of randomly just like hey um my neighbor posted in our neighborhood facebook group he's putting in the house on the market um i don't know if you're kind of wanting one but it's across the street from my house yeah like literally i yeah two doors down and two doors across street anyway so i'm like okay you know whatever i was like is there like a link he's like no it's not even on zillow yet just like it just let you know yeah i had seen a facebook post it wasn't a marketplace but yeah go ahead okay gotcha yeah and um then i think the next day we're at trey's house shooting jean short stuff and so we're kind of talking about it in person brad's like i mean what are you thinking you know i think brad's like really excited but

not trying to like push me too hard totally because it's like i don't want to yeah whatever and i'm telling brad i'm like i mean it just doesn't feel like the best time like for you know time you have different things and like i don't know it's only got like a one car garage and like a few different things and um we're kind of talking about then and then wednesday and i was kind of joking about it i was like yeah okay yeah but i mean it'd be really cool it'd be really kind of joking about it. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it'd be really cool. It'd be really cool. Think about it. Wednesday, it goes live as a listing on MLS, on Zillow.

And so I text Rachel. I'm like, hey, this funny thing. I think I sent her a screenshot. Like, look at Brad trying to convince me to buy this house. This is so funny. She's like, well, let me see it. And so I was like, okay, I'll send you the Zillow link. And Rachel texts back. It like well let me see it and so i was like okay i'll send you the zillow link and rachel texts back it is so cute and perfect and so i was like i mean well if she says it's cute and perfect i mean i guess that's worth looking at and so um then i

text peter i'm like hey uh what do you know about this house rachel said it's cute or no i know it was as you put me and peter in a text. You were trying to get the ball rolling. It was on Zillow at midnight. And I knew it was my neighbor. I had texted my neighbor a little bit, done a little something. I forgot about that. Yeah. You text me and Peter like, hey, Peter, look at this. Jake's thinking about it.

I'm like, I don't know if I am. Origination documents going. Yeah. But then once Rachel takes that. So I'm like, all right. I was like, Peter, Rachel said she really liked it. Is there a time we could go see it? And he's like maybe tomorrow i was like i leave tomorrow um you know see griff in virginia and he's like okay i can maybe do it like 7 p.m tonight i think it's going

to go fast so we we should probably do it tonight so i'm like okay great so all of a sudden it's 7 p.m that night i'm looking at a house that I had really no interest in 24 hours before this. It's all me and Rachel go. Peter goes. Rad shows up. Catherine shows up. Walked over after our kids are in bed. Like, no problem.

Yeah. Catherine just walked around the house with a baby monitor in her hand. Because it could reach. You put the antenna up, it could reach. Well, that's good. That's actually pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. You made the point.

You're like, I think my garage door could work from your garage. 100%. Which is cool. 100%. So we're walking around. It's like, like i mean this house is built like the 1930s and it still is like looking pretty nice it's all redone on the inside everything is like they went and remodeled it two years ago it really does look really nice on the inside and uh we're like dang i mean this is actually kind of surprising how much i like this rachel's

fully on board and so i kind of think about that night talk to rachel it's all happening so fast uh my parents have no idea no none of my friends know i mean still to this day i don't think isaac knows like you know oh really yeah anything about this house and so you gotta you gotta prove for it like immediately oh that's right oh wednesday was crazy because it's like all right i guess i'm looking at a house wednesday night so i was like luke hoagland.com i was like i guess i'm gonna look at a house he's like, all right, I guess I'm looking at a house Wednesday night. So I was like, Luke Hoagland.com. I was like, I guess I'm going to look at a house. He's like right now, you know, today, I didn't know we were in the market. I was like, sorry, this is like, so last minute. I didn't either. Brad just told me that Brad has been texting me a lot. I was like, do you think

you'd get me like pre-approved for something? He's like, how much? I'm like, I don't know, dude, as much as I can, let's try and make this work. And so Luke is able to do that. Peter's, it's so nice having friends who can do all this. So do get pre-approved we go see the house and uh um that night at probably like 11 p.m i text peter i'm like let's do it let's put an offer in um wake up the next day um go to virginia golf with griff on time it's about an hour before i'm about to perform we just got back to the air bb from golfing and i'm kind of like i thought was going to have like an hour to like shower and prep or whatever. And then Trey text me.

He's like, hey, we have some last second brand deals we got to shoot. So I'm already like, of course, dang it. I was really planning on like having an hour to myself to just like really like go over my set and make sure it's memorized. Yes. And so he said, we got to shoot these brand deals. I'm like, crap. And I got to shower really quickly.

And then I get a text from Peter says, call me i'm like oh boy because we had boy was it that thursday morning with garrett uh we just had coffee with him or whatever that's right yeah he called you then and he's like and so you went over and i was like garrett like dude like is this and you're like it's not the news it was something about the labor of appraisal something i don't understand um anyway i actually i think our first show was friday so i think this was actually friday where all this went down and so peter's like call me so i hurry and the whole time i'm shooting this freaking ea sports mad thing i'm like do i have a freaking house what's going on and then am i in the game it's yeah and my rumble back is going

And so I added it super quickly before I hop in the shower I call Peter and he goes dude two houses in one year Are you seriously moving next to I'm moving across the street Best news since Rosie. Dude, what? It's crazy. Literally? Are you serious? It happened so fast, dude.

Right there. It's going to be right there. Oh my gosh. It's like we're eight years old again. We're in the same neighborhood. Dude, yeah. Find me a house. Find me one.

I knew Scott would be like, Sam, we got to move. Get me in joco baby come on i i dude that's incredible it was incredible sick because uh some other details so i i know the neighbor personally he's a pastor he's a great guy he's a younger dude i know dude it's amazing and i so i had kind of like massaged it i was like i know that i'm gonna try to get like jake into this house so massaged it. I was like, I know that I'm going to try to get like Jake into this house. So I texted him though. I was like, Hey man, really sorry to hear that you're leaving only that though. At first it's like, and he's like, yeah, yeah, we're bummed. We'll definitely try to see you before we leave, whatever. And then I texted him a few times more.

And then I was like, actually, I saw that you had to sign up. Like, are you guys gonna be showing the house? I have a friend who's really interested, you know, not really my friend. I mean, I think I mentioned it to you and you're like, that's that'd be cool yeah i wasn't like against the house necessarily i was like i mean i just wasn't i don't have a zillow download on my phone right and we had talked a little bit about like hey i mean eventually maybe you'd want to live in a different house and rent out the house you have now whatever all these different things um but anyway but like i was like this would be i mean it's a small-ish house it was a lot bigger once we went inside than i thought it was going to be.

Like, it's still pretty small. I think it's like 1500 square feet. You know, it's got three or four bedrooms, I think. Three bedrooms. Three bedrooms, two baths. Yeah. Like, not like, cause I was thinking like, oh, this is a perfect, like, cause I thought of, yeah, no, it's amazing.

It's crazy. Cause it's like right when I heard the neighbors across the freaking street. These neighbors were awesome. And so I was like, oh, bummer. Like, you never know what's going to happen to your new neighbors. They could be smokers. Seriously though. And so,

can you imagine? And so I was like, oh, bummer. But I was like, well, maybe I could like try to find somebody to be those neighbors. So I thought,

and I thought Jake and I thought Will Severance. So those are the two people I texted both. But like Will Severance, like that is not like a huge family. Like he's already got two kids.

He's not going to be able to build much more of a family in that house. You know, whatever. I was like, Jake, this would be perfect. So I texted you, but then I had also been texting my neighbor and he's like, yeah, we got four offers already. And that was before I'd even looked at it. They had four offers. Well, yeah, I think actually maybe.

Yeah. Cause I think when Peter caught, you were were bringing or you went and got hattie during that time peter called him yeah then i think yeah anyway it doesn't matter i think that they anyway you were the fifth offer and then they got a sixth offer and i was like well this is that's that's crazy that jake even is considering it but it's not gonna happen like like what are the odds but i but i i don't know i don't know if you were the highest offer or if you were just the chosen offer because he knew that we were friends do you know i don't know. I don't know if you were the highest offer or if you were just the chosen offer because he knew that we were friends. Do you know?

I don't know. Peter said, it sounded like there might have been another offer the same price, but they liked our terms is the way Peter phrased it. Yeah. Peter, good terms guy. What were your terms? Terms were, I will put on a small comedy show for you and your family. I will sing and dance for you. Yes.

I will do some- I will plow through documentaries, if you know what I mean. I will video and dance for you. I will plow through documentaries. I will video your next wedding. But Jake, so I was, I was working at the woodworkers guild on this Friday afternoon, I guess. And that hour of my life was great. Peter calls me and I'm like, dude, I can't, this is crazy, but I have to go. Like, I can't even really talk about this. So, so I get a text from Jake and it's like classic. It's just like the Elvis thing where I didn't even think twice about it at first.

Like when Jake was like, Hey, FYI, I'm going to wear an Elvis costume for the podcast. Okay. Okay. Like he texted me and he goes, Hey, you remember how you and I were both really into Mr. Rogers as a kid? And I, and I was like, I don't get this, but I'm like, I'll just go along with it. I was like, so I started being like, yeah, totally. And then I was like, wait a second. And I just, I just texted like, dude. And then I kept texting again in all capital letters. And then I texted Brad a gift of Mr. Rogers saying, won't you be my neighbor? It was awesome. And then we talked, I went out in the woodworkers guild parking lot and paste that thing. I was like a speed Walker walking all around that thing.

Like, dude, I can't believe this is amazing, dude. I think it's going to be a really good investment for you. Like you're going to love the area love the area it's gonna be amazing and then like all oh this is a funny story um because all night at dinner katherine and i were talking about it so literally all we talked about was like the things we can do now that we have yeah yeah yeah like oh yeah whatever dig a tunnel in between our houses like i was like like rachel could cook for us once a week and we could cook for them once a week and we could like have dinners together and like all these different things oh that would be amazing catherine's like um rachel could like homeschool hattie she could go she did say that she did and

rachel was like okay yeah but anyway uh but so i'm getting home from the woodworkers gill it's been kind of a busy day hectic day i'm getting getting home and I was like calling Catherine to kind of check in as I'm getting there. And she's like, Hey, FYI, I'm not mad at you. It's one of those classic, like marriage things. Like I'm not mad at you, but I'm just kind of angry. I kind of aggravated right now. She's like, I was trying to print off something on the printer for like three hours. I don't know if it was three hours, but a long time. And it just was like having all these issues, which is classic Catherine, but it just wasn't working. And so I'm just really angry. I finally got to work and I go, and I was going to go, well, next time, uh, you'll just have to go across the street to see your neighbor, Jake Triplett,

and he can help you with that. But I go, well, next time. And she goes, no, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear about next time. I don't want to hear it. No, I don't want to hear it. Like, cause he thought I was going to like lecture her of like, next time, just wait for me and I'll help you. Yeah. Like next next time just text me when you're having an issue she goes like she is she thought she knew what i was gonna say and so i think she was like i told her about that later she's like okay i didn't realize that's what you're gonna say obviously that's funny yeah i don't want i don't want to hear about next time oh man so anyway um yeah can't can't emphasize enough how excited i am so when do you when you

move in so um rachel will move in first actually she'll move in there in like november make the house a home oh yeah make it home so she'll be brad catherine's uh neighbor for a while yeah and then um eventually if all goes to plan when plan you say it was that she's moving in november okay fall goes to plan it'll be our home which i know is a little bit of putting the the horse before the cart i believe is the phrase yep putting the cart before the horse no the horse always goes in front of the car i thought you were messing i thought you were joking putting the the refrigerator out farm boy is like you know did that horse go first what is it a motorized cart and it like pulls the horse. That's what that means.

Because it keeps the horse in shape. It's a racing horse. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put the engine before the car. But the way you guys should all look at it, you know, you guys have all heard of promise rings, you know. Yeah, you guys get them. You know, Rachel and I, there's no engagement ring yet.

This is our promise ring. It's a really really expensive promise house yeah the promise house i love yeah so it's a promise house yeah and um yeah i guess we'll close here in a few weeks and then have like a month and a half to kind of just get it ready there's a few things we'll have to do but like fun things yeah yeah cool fun things oh yeah i've been i've been telling my family i was like big news for us this week it's not even our news but it's like i mean it's gonna affect us so much it's like this is so like this is the closest any of our friends have lived since the k-life house i think you know what i mean

yeah we started as neighbors didn't we yeah we did that's kind of cool it is cool well if you guys have not seen uh the instagram uh photos and everything yet uh i'm an engaged man to be married. What? Since when? Rachel Coop. Oh yeah, that's when. Well, Rachel is... Since Rachel Coop. Since Rachel Coop's. But at the time of recording this, it is Thursday,

October 27th, so the deed has not been done yet. Wait, let's do the engaged part one more time and let me just go nuts real fast. All right. Guys, I'm engaged. Let's go, baby. The boy wonder has done it.

The boy wonder. Yeah, so Brad came with me to kind of finalize the, what was I even ordering? Like the band, it's actually like the setting. The setting, yeah. The three ordering? Like the, the band, it's not just like the setting setting. Yeah. The three, three stone. Uh-huh. Yep. Band. Yeah. The setting. I don't know. Yeah. I think the ring itself and the setting is on top of it. Settings on top. Got it. And then you got the diamond. So yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah. Do you want to describe the ring for people who don't know, or maybe we can have Rachel describe or maybe oval. Yeah.

Oval three stone, baby. Pretty simple. Are they all three ovals? No, the two on the side are more circular. There you go. Round. Round. I was really impressed with how, oh, what's the word? Not exact, but just like you were really like double checking everything. Like you were like, it's not going to be late.

Like you can make sure that it's here by Wednesday. So when I propose on Friday, it's going to be okay. Yeah. I was like, how often are there issues with shipping? Like, is there ever like any time where they're not accurate with the day? You know, you were like really talking it up, like trying to figure it out and you were like flexible with them. You weren't like, I have to do it this time. But it was like, I just want to make sure that if I plan for this time, it's going to be, I'm going to put planes into motion. I want to know that the ring's going to be here. And like, you know, whenever you went to pay, like you were asking good questions on all that stuff. And, uh, what else happened when I went to

pay? So then, you know, it's like, all right, here's the total, whatever. And Jake goes to pull out his credit card, puts it in there and it takes a second. And then it goes, you know, and declined. Yeah. Uh, and they're like, Oh, that's weird. Maybe it's something, I, you know, and declined. Yeah. Uh, and they're like, Oh, that's weird. Maybe it's something, I don't know, whatever. So maybe you tried that same credit card again, got declined. You're like, well, let me try my other one. Yeah. Tried another one. It didn't work. And then I was like, okay, I'll just do debit card. And I was like, dang it. This one just expired. Yeah. And the new ones in the car.

And you're like, I'll have to go back to my car to get, and I was like, well, do you want to just use my credit card and just pay me back? I think Tom got a little kick out of it. Yeah. It's one of those things where it's like, yeah, we're best friends. I trust that you're going to give me my money. Oh, yeah. It was a no brainer.

Yeah. You're like, yeah, sure. Let's see if it works. And so we put mine in there. No problem. Accepted. So then all of a sudden, like literally like, you know, 20 minutes later, Jake just Venmo's me thousands of dollars, you know? And just the tagline said lunch lunch so go back to our venmo and see see where it says

lunch uh that was a very expensive lunch but yeah it was pretty pretty great like that was a fun memory timing yeah i get the receipt it just got brad signature on it i found that in my car a couple days ago i was like that was dumb of me to have in the car yeah really i was thinking that too i was like oh wow just in the car huh uh but yeah that was I was like, that was dumb of me to have in the car. Yeah, really. I was thinking that too. I was like, Oh wow. Just in the car. Huh? Uh, but yeah, that was, that was a pretty fun, like, yeah, like classic, like, of course, of course, Brad's going to like, you know, use his credit card. Like, of course that's just their lives. Yeah. I'm glad you were there for it. That was great. Uh, yeah. Let's get into how, uh, last night went. Um, I have some trivia questions for anyone, audience brad everyone else to

participate in love it how many times leading up to the proposal did i uh practice kneeling down and opening up the ring box okay is it zero is it one or is it more than five i any thought oh i did tell you i like the idea of it being more than five and i like them being like like a quick like super set like five in a row just quick like like a hit workout yeah interval training yeah like like not like oh i don't know if i did that very well let me do it again like no it was like all five. I'm getting reps. Like I know how I want to do it. I just need reps. Um, my guess, I want to say, I want to say five because I like that, but I think it's zero. Cause I think you're just like, I'm I've, I've been down on a knee before. Uh, any other thoughts? More than five, more than five. Yeah. Okay. Uh, the correct answer

was one. Okay. I did it once in my bathroom two nights ago and i did it and i was like i think i got it okay you're right i have been on a knee before out loud did you say it no okay okay that would have been weird yeah you never know it's like one of those i asked you this yesterday i was like have you practiced this have you done anything like this yeah because i'm always so curious i don't't remember what I did. You guys remember? Tom? Yeah. No. Tim. Sorry. Crap. Why'd you guys do that to me?

Sorry. Gosh, I'm embarrassed. The mistake that my parents keep wanting to make is that Tim goes by Tim, but Tom kind of goes by Tommy. So my parents keep calling Tim Timmy. And that just sounds way worse. I was like, you got to stop calling him Tommy. Tommy just sounds like the younger sibling because of Tommy boy. I think of like, okay. So that's why I'm sorry, Tim. Gosh, I will never do it again. I won't. I won't. Gosh. Okay. When Gunnar first met Tim, he had heard that Tim had been on a college visit, which was for law school. And so Gunnar said, how's high school going?

Senior in college. Yeah, dude. So like, yeah, what year are you thinking about pledging a frat or what? So all my friends are just one by one trying to like slowly disrespect him. So thanks for adding to the list. I'm sorry, Tim. Gosh, I really do value knowing people's names. You're very good at it most of the time.

Most of the time most of the time so um so yeah that was one yeah i just i kneel i practiced kneeling once uh second question who did i see this one's for the audience everyone else knows about this who did i see in public 90 minutes before proposing patrick mahomes brad's dad uh rachel herself or casey wolf who's the Chiefs mascot. What's up, Casey Wolf? Hey, Casey Wolf. Guess what I'm about to know.

The correct answer was Brad's dad. We both, it was at 3.30 p.m. I pulled into Walgreens. And I mean, we parked at the same time. I feel like our cars went a tiny bit in reverse at the same time. We were so in sync. And we got out of the car. He was wearing a Ghost Runners t-shirt.

And I was just like, what are you doing here? And he was like, what are you doing here? And I was like, I'm proposing tonight. I'm coming to get a card to write Rachel a letter. And he was like, oh, that's pretty neat. I just write mine on envelopes. Here, take a foam cup from my car. But that was pretty fun, and he was like, let's get a selfie.

And so we took one in the parking lot, and while the camera was forward-facing to us, it was let's get a selfie. And so we took one in the parking lot. And while the camera was forward facing to us, it was also directly facing a woman still sitting in her car. So I felt uncomfortable with that. But we took a selfie and he was like, this is pretty cool. I got to tell everybody that I saw you on your way to propose. And I was like, you're going to tell them later though, right? Yeah, be specific about how and when you're telling people.

You're going to tell everyone. That's going to be later on. Yeah, my dad will send me, like, finds the most random connections most random connections like you know because he used to work for a college and so he would meet people that i knew from high school that were like either going back to college or like we're in college at the same time as me he's like brad look who i ran into today and it's always like oh yeah noah ramirez i played like jv football with him for like a semester one time and like and so i saw like you know a quick like uh you know notification like brad look who i just saw at walgreens and i'm like i'll look I saw like, you know, a quick, like, uh, you know, notification, like Brad, look who I just saw at Walgreens. And I'm like, I'll look at that later.

And then I looked at it. It was like, that's Jake. Like what's Jake doing at Walgreens, like hours before he's supposed to propose. And I was like, well, did he tell you what was going on? He's like, yeah. Did you know about this? You know, I was like, of course I knew dad. Like you, what'd you say last night? You're like, of course I knew I bought the ring. Yeah. Yeah. It's my ring. I paid for the ring yeah yeah exactly so what a wild little wild time so yeah it was fun i was running a little behind i got like a phone call like a pretty important phone call at three about work and i was like i guess i could tell him i have a lot going on today but this is kind of fun too it's about like a mood swings apparel sponsor okay it's kind of fun

there you go in in quotes, Joe said, I've never seen anything like this. Y'all are the hottest thing in golf right now. I've always said that. I think it's because I stopped eating sugar. I think he means physically. Literally. He's like, you're physically touching.

Your jawline. Yeah. Anyway, I have one more trivia question and then we can get into the story. Where was the ring in its box when driving to the park with Rachel? All right. In my back pocket, in the glove box, in the middle compartment or underneath my seat.

Let's hope glove box is a risky move. Do you know the answer to this one? No. OK, maybe I think I might know. It's not glove box, is it? OK, so you're counting out glove box. I am. I'm going to let them choose smart enough to not do the glove box.

Thank you for believing in me. But who knows what the right answer is. Any other thoughts? Have I told any of you guys this? I told Rachel. I would have gone under the seat probably. You would have gone under the seat? Yeah.

Under the seat. Okay. Okay. I'll go pocket. Tim's going pocket. Tom's going pocket. Okay. I know it's him

gonna answer tom thanks jim tom's and tom's out like actually working right now like why are they keep talking about you say my name a lot yeah uh what do you think brad uh i thought middle console is my guess middle console yeah that was the plan uh going into it but uh timmy is correct um it is in the back pocket smart tim gets me i mean i almost wore that exact same sweatshirt we're just we're synced up cornelius seed most of the time what's your make good see yeah what's your favorite part about cornelius seed oh the the merchandise yeah the sweatshirts cc'd great planet gildan profit i like that's a good planet profit planet profit um anyway yeah in the back pocket yeah yeah but i couldn't risk like the transfer of like middle pocket to

back yes or sorry middle compartment to back what are you what are you getting out of there bud yeah i would have to like distract her like whoa look at that tree and then like boom boom oh look at that crazy tree over there yeah yeah and so on the way to rachel i had in my back pocket and kind of like with side sounding see it's like i can do this for 20 minutes yeah right it's less risk i made sure to wear it was sitting a little funny i'm sure you didn't know see this stuff we had a pretty normal drive over i made sure to wear even like a nice little like jacket thing that goes low enough on my i did like my rear that you wouldn't be able to tell there's this huge ring box coming out the back of it so love it okay so

let's get it talk about the details of the day okay um yeah i was i was kind of jealous of rachel all day because i am just nervous as i'll get out it's so emotional i cried a good amount yesterday really yeah how just different times thinking about it, praying about it, writing the letter on my phone, writing the letter in ink, rereading the letter to myself to make sure I didn't screw anything up. Wow. Eventually reading the letter to Rachel. Sure. A lot of opportunities. Really? You cried? That's great. I think it's awesome that you cried by yourself. I just, that's awesome. Yeah. I would cry. Like I did cry, like speaking to Catherine at the day, but I don't remember like crying. I mean, you were really feeling it. I like to like,

kind of spread out my emotions a little bit. You're kind of all at once. And I was like, let's do some at night and some at noon, you know, like it was a pill or something. Um, so I saw you yesterday, like multiple times in between your cries. Yeah. And you didn't tell me like, Hey man, I've been crying. Like I think that needs to be like the first thing we talk about. Hey bro, how you doing? Good. I cried.

I've been crying a little bit though. It's been kind of weird. But yeah, all day. I just felt all these emotions. I was so nervous. And I was like, Rachel's got it so good. She's going to school. Just crazy hair day. Okay.

Tell it. Did you, did you do a little crazy hair? I did space buns. What? Oh, those things. Like princess Leia. Miley buns. They're not too crazy.

Okay. Okay. But yeah, there was blue paint paint blue. Gosh, Miley Bones. They're not too crazy. Okay, okay But yeah, there was blue paint paint blue There's blue spray paint that you could use a lot of the kids were using or like hair paint not spray paint And none of the teachers other than maybe two of them did that and if more of them would have done it I definitely would have. These kids need to like me Just remind Rachel's a substitute teacher. And I walked in and no teachers even had crazy hair other than the bottle in the hair girl. Yes. Yeah.

That was it. Did I tell you? I was like, Brad mentioned that. I was like, that's got to, I want Rachel to have proposal pictures with the bottle in the hair so badly. Rachel was kind of like Pam when she goes to a different branch and realizes that none of them dress up for Halloween. Like she showed up and was like, okay, so the teachers don't do crazy hair day.

Which is sad. It's an elementary. High school teachers, I would expect not to. Elementary teachers, you have to. How long are you studying for these people? I did this whole week. Now I'm done. So at least Friday was my last day and I knew people.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. That's okay. Yeah, Rachel had a full day of school. I still had fun. It'd be bopping around. I had plenty of errands to run. I was getting groceries, yeah. Wow. That's okay. Yeah, Rachel had a full day of school. Dodged a bullet on that one. I still had fun. It be bopped around. I had plenty of errands to run. I was getting groceries, whatever. And then people were like, have a nice day.

I was like, you bet I will. I kind of look them in the eyes like, I will. I'm going to cry at least six more times today. It was kind of fun. I feel like I walked a little different yesterday. It was like, have a nice day. I will. Oh, you bet I will.

I will. I will, sir. Anyway, Rachel, how was the night? You want to tell everyone what happened? Okay. It was a great night. It was a perfect night. I was so happy. Yeah Okay, did you have any inkling any feelings? No, I just knew it probably happened sometime the next few months Yeah, Rachel said before Christmas is what you're I figured yeah And I didn't think what happened this weekend because they were my parents and Tim Maybe you two were supposed to be at a wedding

Okay, Friday night and they were gonna come down either late Friday night or Saturday morning today And then I was like we're gonna look like this the whole weekend So I'm I don't think it's gonna happen this weekend, which it would've been fine if it did looking weird But so I didn't really think it would. Rachel says that she literally has one sock on right now. Yes. Okay, I was very curious. I noticed it earlier. I was like, Rachel only has one sock on. I was like, she's like a four year old. Doesn't bother me. I guess I should put another sock on in case I step and paint my foot. You can wash it off. I don't know. You do it. Anyway.

Okay, so you did not see it coming. I didn't think it was going to happen, no. Love it. I did get my nails done with my friends this week, but. Did you notice that the blue tape was gone on the floor whenever you came here? No. She didn't. Good.

Good, yeah. That was one of the things that we were really concerned about, taking off the tape. I should have just had Catherine do it. Yeah. That was the one, yeah. Jake was like, I don't know, man. She's going to think the tape tape's gone they cleaned up too much i did think it looked really neat in there but i couldn't figure out why it looks like

i wanted to look really good before we paint our family's coming over yeah um anyway yeah i told rachel we were going to dinner with my family and i had all these like different lies in my head like okay if she asks this i'll say this and we get the whole drive to Meadowbrook. She didn't ask a single question. So I was like, great. So we went on a walk and you read you very, very nice letter to me. And then... Did you cry or did you? Teared up a little bit, but I had, I had a plan to execute, you know?

Did you, when you, when he teared up where you're like, it's, it's on? Or is it like... I think Rachel teared up first. She was already feeling a little emotional. Oh, okay. It's a pretty good letter. Yeah. Can you read it real quick?

Yeah, yeah. Let me find it. No, I was just like, I think this might just be nice. Because I thought maybe you actually did feel bad about not going on the walk last week. Because you know I was so looking forward to it. All part of the plan. It was. You never want to go on a walk.

And you asked to do it. It's like, yes. You could be freezing and I'll go on a walk. So then we walked past a tree and these two popped around the tree. Say who they are. Podcast, podcast. Mom, Angie, Dad, Steve. Facebook group participant. Let's talk.

Let's talk. Take a little detour for that. Local influencer, Steve Koop. Former teacher, current farmer, current influencer. Yeah. Ghostrunners Facebook group loves us. Yeah. Posted twice within 30 seconds on the Ghostrunners Facebook group. Steve, how's it feel? You got over a hundred likes. It was really good. Rachel thought I might get 40. And one time I just sent her

170. Exactly. That's like Scott with his followers. I'm currently at 313. Yeah, good, Scott. 172, baby. What was the caption exactly? Oh, just Rachel Koops, dad.

I like harvest season, football on the radio, and the donuts. The donuts. But there was one that just was the video. I didn't realize it was so short so I put another one on. I love it. I think we need to get a weekly you know Steve Koop video out in the field. Only if Angie will. Yeah yeah Angie will start yeah being there with you. Anyway so yeah they they they came.

They came around the tree and I I was like, oh, surprise. But that's sort of normal for us to surprise each other by showing up to an event early. Rachel's favorite kind of surprises are human surprises. So I tried to incorporate a lot of those in the proposal. A ton of them, thank you. So I was like, oh, they're just coming early, and they surprised me. Because I do that all the time when I go home. I'm like, I don't tell them that I'm going to be there until 10,

but then I get there at like 6. So then he's excited to see me. Oh, my God. Nice. So I didn't think much of it, and then Jake walked to the right, and we walked to the left. And then they had tears in their eyes and i was like oh my gosh they're about to tell me something bad and jake's not gonna be he didn't want to be here

i'm not there for the cancer yeah jake's not i mean i'm not i'm not engaged to her yet i'm not gonna be there for that intimate moment yeah rachel legitimately thought and the last words i heard was rachel talking she's like what's going on like I need to I think Rachel got a little just tell me who's got it what stage are we on whoa yeah she legitimately thought I was nervous so the part where I thought Rachel was like oh okay this is happening was the part where Rachel's like this is gonna be the worst day of my life they would they would know that I don't like to receive terrible news nobody does but I just I don't know that I know that they would try to news. Nobody does. But I just, I don't know. I know that they would try to make it a happier place to tell me and to make it a little bit less bad.

Every time you're in Meadowbrook Park. My parents are so great. They were so cute with the way they delivered that awful, debilitating news. Stage three. Not so bad when you're in Meadowbrook. Honestly. The trees are nice. But anyway, so you go on a walk with them.

They read you letters off envelopes. Yeah. Letter off an envelope. Letter from in the envelope. Yeah. Oh, nice. Yeah. Good teamwork there.

Yeah. And then we walked a little bit. Nuts. Just gave some nuts on camera. And then my brother Tom, brother Tim, niece Lucy were around another corner and then met up with them, and I got to hold Lucy for a little bit, and they wrote very nice letters. Thank you.

Lucy ripped up one of the letters. Yes, Lucy ripped up the letter while Tommy was reading his. So that was great. That's awesome. But Lucy was in a really warm, fuzzy outfit, and it was keeping me warm because they had taken my jacket. And the brothers were a surprise. That was a great surprise, yeah.

I did not expect them to be there because they had the wedding, and Tommy has 100 things to do at his house this week. And there's an Iowa State game today, so I didn't think Tim would be coming. Oh, yeah. But they came, and they wrote really, really nice letters, and it was so sweet. And then they dropped me off at jake tim took my purse and then we walked over to this stone area by the lake yeah pond pond and then jake said more nice things and asked me to be his wife

and he's like, yeah, sure. Uh, yes. Sure. Uh, yeah. Can you imagine Boad who's being like, uh, sure. If Hattie does, I will. Yeah. Hattie gets married. I get married too, Dad. Wait, Miss Rachel's not getting married to me? That's great. So, so while they were doing their walks uh walks and letters how how briskly were

you like getting to your spot i didn't need to walk briskly but you know i kind of mapped out where i had a path away from everyone else where i could kind of take a little shortcut and i just sat on a bench for about 10 minutes okay waited for them yeah um and yeah really tried to keep an eye on anyone else like getting in the way there was like a fisherman who was like kind of easing his way that way and there was this woman who i think had never been on a walk with a dog before in her life she kept like going in circles she kept looking at the sky and like she'd take three directions three steps left four steps right and she was just like eventually caitlin's fiance my sister caitlin's fiance brayden had to like shoo her off yeah because this dog had like

an inflatable around his neck it wasn't like a cone it was like in case the dog is in the water and can't swim i don't know what you know big lake you know pond it was so weird this woman something might have been up she might have had some stuff i don't know but she was kind of in the way so she got shooed off and everything truly went perfect and according to plan i was so nervous all day but then once 5 30 like once we started the process, it was like the state championship. It was like, all right, we had tip off. Here we go. Execute the game plan.

Let's go. Yeah. Yeah. So it went perfect. And Rachel thought all the surprises were done. We went out to dinner and then we came back. And Catherine Ellis had planned a wonderful engagement party here. Food charcuterie, balloon arch.

And we were just kind of at dinner. We're like, hey, let's just go back and see the house, drop off the vinyl flooring. And then all the blinds are down and the lights are off. I lead Rachel in and all of our friends are here. Lights are on. Surprise. You didn't see that coming?

No, I didn't. No? I actually was like, should we actually park on the street so the people with the flooring can back in? No. No, that'd be fine. That was a dumb idea we were we were like yeah it was so yeah we were we were all tracking your location you know um and you were getting kind of close like it's one of those things where

like when you're trying to have a surprise one mile away feels like you're you know within a year shot like come on you know like like you were by hawaiian bros you know which is like probably three minutes at least and it was like we had all the lights turned off like people were like using their flashlights to like navigate around and then we're like oh who's gonna turn on the light to like you know like when we say surprise and katherine's like i'll do this one and she like flips it on and everyone like what can't do that katherine felt so bad you know and i'm like you were like in reality you were like yeah at least a quarter mile away like you were not that close but it was so funny like imagining yeah anybody like katherine yeah doing this like

boneheaded thing um but yeah it was so fun i think we just flipped on the light right you're going in a dark house yeah maybe we just flipped it on light, right? You're going in a dark house. Yeah, maybe so. I think we just flipped it on. Yeah, I think Rachel just flipped it on. Yeah, that's right. So yeah, it was a lot of fun, the whole thing. It was great. The night truly went perfect. Couldn't have done it without Catherine.

Couldn't have done it without my sister, Caitlin. She was kind of the point person, coordinated everything. It was great. Proposal did not end up happening at 5.58 as predicted. Oh yeah, I was going to ask about that. Yeah, but we weren't too far behind schedule. Still golden hour, great pictures. Oh, I bet. And yeah, it was awesome to ask about that. Yeah, but we weren't too far behind schedule. Still golden hour, great pictures. Oh, I bet.

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You can't deny it. Man, our next big life altering chapter comes just 83 steps away from the promise house in my house or what we can just we call it instead of the promise house, the pushing house. I don't know. Uh, but just a wonderfully crazy, insane turn of events. Uh, the bullet points are that Catherine's an all-star. I was a doctor for a day and a beautiful angel was born. Uh, here's the story of the birth of our beloved Rose, Caroline Ellis. Love you, Rosie. This is doula Jackie. Doula Jackie. Yeah. Jackie. And, and uh she was supposed to be the doula which is like the coach i think i'd mentioned that maybe with beau um that we were gonna have her and because of covid restrictions and stuff they didn't let her into the hospital with beau and so she wasn't the doula then so then katherine calls jackie that morning and jackie's like

katherine i'm in texas like you're I wasn't expecting you to like deliver so early. So Jackie's out. Okay. So, so it's like 10, 15 or so, 10, maybe 10, 45. Catherine comes home from the juice from dropping off preschool to bow to juice and home. And with the home birth, uh, one of the things that they do to like help alleviate pain, since you can't get like anesthesia. I've been very curious about this for a week now.

Is they have a tub. Like they like literally bring in like a, an inflatable like air mattress style, like tub. Fun. So you already had this? We, yeah,

they had brought it to us a couple of weeks earlier. Good. And so I had blown up the tub whenever, as she got home, I blown the tub. With your mouth or? No, no,

they got the little. Oh, good, good, good, good, good. Very quick.

This is a big day for both of you. You just wait brother. And so, so she They got the little like. Oh, good, good, good, good, good. Very quick. This is a big day for both of you. You just wait, brother. And so she comes in at 1045, you know, like I'm nonchalant. She seems like she's pretty nonchalant. We're talking about the different juices she got. She got some with apple cider vinegar and cucumber. Oh, that's cool. That one has hints of cherry in there.

That's fun. Oh, hints of contraction in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I could tell she's like kind of struggling a little bit through these contractions but she's she's tough she's a warrior like you've always heard like if you can breathe through it's not that big of a deal so it's like or if you can talk through this is the part like if i'm watching a movie or like oh it's getting good yeah this is exciting so so let me keep telling let me just keep emphasizing the nonchalance i don't know if that's a noun but that's what i'm gonna call the nonchalance. I don't know if that's a noun, but that's what I'm going to call it. Nonchalance.

So in order to fill up the tub, in order to fill up the pool, I mean, we had to like connect our, like connect a hose to our hot water of our washing machine, like the hot water spigot kind of thing. Cool. And the hose that we had bought was like, it didn't work. Like when you turn it on, like the water came through the hose, but it also like didn't have a good enough seal. Yeah. And so it was like kind of spitting out. And I was like, that's not going to do. And so literally when she gets home, I'm like, Hey, the hose is not good. So I'm going to just run a run to ACE Harbor real fast and get

her hose. And she's like, once again, nonchalant, but she's like, Oh yeah. Okay. Just, just please hurry a little bit. Like she's kind of feeling a little bit. So I'm, I'm hustling to ACE, which is always a good excuse to drive fast. Like it's always fun when you have an excuse to drive fast. Now, let me ask you this. Was this the point of the day when you called me and said, Hey, I'm not going to make it? No, I called you already. I was like, Hey man, remember how we were supposed to do all these things? It was supposed to be a big day for me. And that was like, that was the classic Catherine. Like I feel bad for Brad. Like he was supposed to do this. And then you're supposed to have this meeting. You're supposed to pick this wood up, you know, like it was supposed to be like, cause I was like trying to get a lot

of stuff done for this baby came. So I was like, this is going to be a big work day for me. And of course I had to cancel everything. And so I had called you earlier in the day and been like, Hey man, I'm not going to make it or, you know, I might be late. Well, and, and, and before this, I forgot to tell this part of the story. So I talked to Catherine right before I talked to you. And I was like, so can you clarify with me? Are you sure your water broke? And she's like, oh, yeah.

Yeah, it definitely broke. And I was like, OK, so that means she's like, I'm confident we're going to have a baby the next 24 hours. So I was like, OK, so I need to cancel everything. Oh, OK, OK, OK. Including the chimney sweep that was supposed to come. Oh, he's finally coming. Finally, like he had rescheduled so many times because of weather. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Including the chimney sweep that was supposed to come. Oh, he's finally coming. Finally. Like he had rescheduled so many times because of weather finally was coming.

And I was like, I called Catherine once again, just ignorance. I was like, Hey, do you think that like Jackie's not going to be there? Like they say, it's only going to take like three hours. Do you think that they could just squeeze in there and do it? And, and like, and then like Catherine's like, maybe, I don't know. It seems like it might be a little long, you know, like, and so then I called the chimney sweep guy back and I'm like, yeah, we're actually delivering at home. And I'm like, as I'm saying this out loud, it seems like something we need to reschedule.

I don't want to stress my wife out anymore. I can't imagine if they were there for this. So anyway, I'm running to Ace Hardware. The idea of a chimney sweeper being in the room with you guys. In the room. Just ridiculous. Like ash flying everywhere like just why it's it's april at this point he's like look i know several doulas if you need any

coaching you let me know yeah right just uh the yeah you know breathe just breathe yeah breathe in the ash exactly um went to ace hardware came back got the new hose hooked up good good to go good seal yeah good to go. Good seal. Yeah, good to go. And contractions are getting a little more intense now. It's probably, we'll say 1115 at this point. And it's getting intense. And so like, I don't know.

I'm trying to time the contractions. That's another thing you do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In between, you want to see how many minutes are in between because that's how you know it's getting closer. A little bit more chill for a little bit. I'm just sitting there with her encouraging her. And then she's like, she's hurting more. She's like, turn on the tub, turn on the tub or fill up the tub. It's time. I need to get in the tub. It's hurting me.

This is awesome. And it's like, it's like classic, like, you know, you turn it on. It's running for like 10 minutes. She's battling through these contractions. And then like when she has the contractions, obviously it's like hell on earth. And then after the contraction is over, it's like, she has moments of clarity. So like, Oh, cool. So like, so like after the contraction happens, you know, it's been going for like 10 minutes. She's like, actually, maybe I'm, maybe I'm overreacting. Maybe turn off the tub because she doesn't want to get cold. And so she's like, turn off the tub. I'm doing okay. And so the tub's only like probably, I don't know, a foot full at this point. And so I go back.

I'm just consoling her. I don't know why, but at some point she's like, hey, can you go get me this? And so I get up to go get her that thing. And I look down at the tub and it's just Puddle City all over the living room. Like there was some leak in the tub. Oh, no. I mean like like imagine puddle city kind of worried me you when you tell the story yeah you gotta rephrase that

a little better puddle city that's the first time i've used pc uh my mind wandered for a while there you gotta clarify puddle city brother i looked 100% aquafina puddle city i was like i don't know what that means okay you're saying the water was just everywhere. So we had put down like some plastic underneath the tub and it was like completely saturated. I mean, and these are on my brand new floors. And so, and so the, the, yeah, the economical, like financial aspect of me is like, why are we not in a hospital right now? This is so dumb.

Like, why are we not, you know? And so I, I run and grab every single towel I have and I'm just sopping it up and the whole time like katherine's not looking at the pool like the puddle puddle city because she's too worried about herself she doesn't want to get stressed with that you know i'm like so i'm like sopping up this stuff and i'm like you're doing great you're doing great but i mean there's a there's a hole in the tub right there's a hole in the tub it's never-ending and so and so and so i i try to get i try to get some of that water and then what i did or no maybe before that i went to the kitchen and got the biggest bowl I had and just started like, what's the word in like a canoe when you get all the

water out, like scooping. I don't know. Yeah. That's not the word that I'm thinking of, but like, I was literally like, take a little bit of water, go outside, waddle over and just throw it on the deck and then do some more and throw it on the deck. And eventually like I got it light enough, like the tub was light enough where I could pick up the tub, drag it to the deck.

And literally like it accidentally like fell. Like I was trying to get it through the door of the backyard or the back door to get it out to the deck. But it like it gushed out. It got all over my shoes. I was holding the door open with a flower pot. Flower pot just fell right on my shoes. So like my shoes are ruined. Okay.

Muddy shoes, just craziness. Topsoil shoes. I'm sopping up all the water. Catherine, on the other hand, or in the, in like, just right over here is like, just like, is there something in pregnancy called transition where it's like, you go from like, eh, this is kind of bad. From Bruce to Caitlin. Oh, here we go.

Yeah. Something like that. Um, yeah, she becomes like a different person. Like she is just, she's, she has a different kind of like moaning i actually have never heard that though transition phase so it's like pregnancy i think that's like the worst aspect of it is like okay this is going from like normal contractions yeah holy crap this is terrible okay and but at the same time katherine is still thinking like maybe this is just normal and so we're calling our midwife we're like hey fyi um she's she's struggling a little bit more

um we got puddle city i also said like the tub i was pissed i was like you know because i was like we paid for this tub like to be used so your tub doesn't work yeah your tub sucks and and so she's like that's so weird you know whatever oh well i'm finishing up this appointment in south olathe when i'm done with that i'll head your way and you know katherine know, Catherine's like, okay, great. You know, whatever. Like try not to be. By the word appointment, does she mean like I'm, I'm delivering a baby right now? No, they have like a home appointment, like a couple of weeks before you're supposed to have your baby. Midwife, let's prioritize a bit here. Well, that's the thing. It was, it was classic, like Brad and Catherine nonchalance.

Like, okay, whenever you can. Seriously though, it was, it was like, it was like, that sounds good enough for me. And then like five minutes later, Catherine's like, call the midwife back right now. Like tell her to come right now. Oh man, this is getting good. Yeah. And so that's the other funny thing is that I, in the midst of all the Puddle City, I had like, the water had like gotten under my brown chair and like gotten like. Puddle City. And so I had like moved the brown chair i

couldn't find the phone that had the midwife's number and so as katherine's like dying in pain i'm like katherine do you know where the phone is and she just goes no not right now i'm like okay it was like behind like the brown chair like match or a cushion or whatever find the phone i'm like you gotta come right now she can hear katherine in the background she's like oh cap like you can tell katherine's close transition and so she goes okay do you have an iphone and i was like yeah she's like okay facetime me oh baby and so we're facetiming the midwife this is like a liam niece and a taken moment he's like look you're going to have a baby yes you know like okay it's like go under the go into the spare bedroom yeah get out of the ground shout out everything you could see in here descriptions tattoos haircuts you're just having to describe what does it look like

describe it to me yeah yeah yeah it's just it's just absolute chaos man i mean you're like uh puddle i see puddle city luckily puddle city has been cleaned up at this point luckily it had been like i i had gotten that out of the way the tub is literally on our deck like i had thrown it out there like just get it out and um you know she she's like she's like hauling down the highway i bet she was like probably close to your house so it's like a 25 minute drive love that she's facetiming during her you know 90 mile an hour escapade yeah right i know not not the best look but um you know she's like calming us down she's like it's very normal this is good like babies that come this fast are very healthy whatever and i'm like that would calm me down. I think. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I don't remember

like being freaked out or even really having many emotions besides just like the task at hand. This is what's going on. And I have to do it. Like, I don't think I had like a scared feeling or like, at one point I was like, please hurry. I remember saying that to her, please hurry, please hurry. Cause I just felt so bad for Catherine. Like, it's like, it's so intense watching your wife in such pain. And you're like, all you can do is be like, you're doing great. Keep going, keep going. And so I did this. Yeah, exactly. Uh, I mean, and then like, it just became unbearable to the point where Catherine had to, she was like, I feel like I need to push. And all of a sudden, dude, there it comes. And where are we at? Where are we at? Living room

floor, living room floor, no tub, no tub, baby. Uh, we got a rug. And that's the other funny thing is that like a week earlier, my dad came over, my parents came over to watch the KU game and we kind of had a bad timing as far as like when dinner was going to be ready. And so Catherine's like, I was like, I was like, Catherine, we got to watch the game while we eat dinner. She's like, I guess we can watch the game in there, but but just like be really careful not to spill on the tub or on the rug and now it's like we're having a baby on this rug babe okay uh you know it's just it's like so ironic like the the the white rug is just like a week old just getting and all of a sudden dude it's like i i wasn't even expecting it like i was still like thinking like in in past pregnancies she had taken a long time to push it out like probably

i mean at minimum 20 minutes or so so i was like is she just lying down on the rug kind of propped up or like no she's like she's like on the couch kind of like gosh i don't know how much detail she wants me to put sorry yeah i'm just curious, like how a baby gets born in a living room, in a living room. It was nuts. And the dude was not there. The midwives are gone. It's just me, Dr. Daddy, like big daddy MD. And all of a sudden, dude, it's like, holy crap. That's the baby. It's on FaceTiming. I just dropped the phone It like drops right on it's like flat on its face like it's just black for the midwife and she just not the baby the phone got it and

I just catch this baby dude and Hetch. Yeah, I mean like that's what I call it Like I yeah, I received the cradle you yeah, you it. And I'm holding it and I'm just like, Oh, like I'm freaking out. Catherine's like in pain and freaking out. Like we're all just like, and, and you know, like in, in my head, like the anticipation of not knowing the gender, I was saying like, this is going to be such a beautiful moment when it comes out. It's going to be like, it's a girl, it's a boy, you know, whatever. I remember being like, Oh, like it was like, I didn't look,

I didn't remember to even check for like three minutes. Yeah. I was like, Holy crap. Baby, baby, baby. You did it. You did it. You know, and you can hear the midwife like, okay, so everything's everything, you know, like the baby cries right away, which is a good sign.

Like that it has oxygen to its lungs or whatever. Like, it's like freaking out, man. I mean, and yeah, I'm just like, it's like so slippery, dude. Like it's like a bunch of crisco on there like dwight said his babies are slippery yes dude it's so it's pretty accurate like if you imagine like slathering yourself in crisco got it that's exactly what this was okay it was like holy crap here we are and here we are yeah and i i just passed katherine the baby because it's like it's like a thing like when you skin to skin. Skin to skin.

Yeah, I heard you talking about that on Correct Opinions. And skin to skin, we skin to skin that thing real good. And the midwife came just like a few minutes later and everything was good. Alongside the chaos of our personal lives, we decided to make one more life-altering move and officially purchase a business together. Here's the story of how an offhanded comment led to a month-long negotiation for a YouTube channel. The week I proposed to Rachel, I was like, let's make this the biggest week of my life. I basically had a conversation with Trey and I was very transparent with him. And I always like to be very honest and transparent with the ghosties. Right. I said, Hey, I'm feeling very spread thin

with everything going on. Seven things, I think. Is that right? Yeah, I mean, it would be like- Mood swings, correct opinions, girls go mild, jean shorts, Trey's channel.

Jean shorts? Mood swing. Oh, no. I said jean shorts, didn't I? Did you? I don't know if you did. All right, let's start again. All right, it's your podcast.

Mood swings. Okay. Sorry. Okay, podcast. Correct opinions, ghost runners, jean shorts. Buy subscribers. T sorry okay podcast correct opinions ghost runners jean shorts by subscribers trey kennedy jean shorts barely underneath um girls go mild mood swings so six six plus you're engaged so seven sounds 12 12 sounds better 12 sounds better i was like i'm just feeling a little like spread thin and i think it's just i mean just mathematically right i mean if i spent if i had less things to do, I could spend more

time on it. It just seems very logical. And so I was like, with that in mind, um, I was like, for one, I want to step away from being like your like writer, editor, videographer for the Trey Kennedy, like YouTube and Facebook, Instagram brand. Um, that's not effective immediately. I'm still gonna stick around for as long as Trey needs. I told him, I was like, dude, I'm not going to leave you, you know, hang and dry, like, you know, I will stick around until you find the perfect fit and I'll be here to teach them and coach them up. I was like, and then that same conversation, I also said, I think something with jean shorts needs to change. I think, um, we're just only committing like a few hours

a week to it. And it wasn't that long ago on the Jake and Josh channel when I was doing YouTube in Dallas, like I know what it's like to have over 100,000 YouTube subscribers. And back in the day, I mean, it was all we did. We eat, sleep, breathe our YouTube channel. That was all we thought about. And it was kind of fun to feel that ownership and to feel that motivation to work so hard on a YouTube channel. And I was like, I either want to like go way more in on jean shorts or maybe step away and just focus more on ghost runners or something anyway so that led to more conversations yeah and like the week either right after you talked to trey or right before was when we hung out at the library. I

think we've talked about that a few times on the podcast. Oh yeah. Big Monday. Big Monday. Which it was the day we bought the ring. Yeah. It was a huge Monday. It really was. So you bought the ring. Like, yeah, I think, I think we were like, initially, I think both of us would agree. We were like, let's just go all in on ghost run or not all in, but you know, like let's put more and more and more of our attention on ghost runners, make this bigger and bigger. And like, how can we figure that out? And then the process, I think you or me, I don't remember. So one of us said, uh, you know, well, if, if you and I did Jean shorts, like by ourselves, like if we own this thing, would we be

more motivated to keep going, like doing it harder? And like, and the other one was like, yeah, I, I would. Yeah. And so then we had all these discussions with Trey. Long story short, I mean, we negotiated back and forth, back and forth. We are the owners of Gene Schwartz Comedy, sole owners, Jake and Brad. Yeah, clap it up. It's ours.

And so- We're so excited. We are so pumped. All right, I hope you're liked. I hope you're subscribed. I hope, I hope you're liked. I hope you're like, I do hope you're liked, but I hope you have liked and subscribed to our channel. Um, we're just so excited for what's to come with that. It's just so much fun to think that Jake and I are going to be working so much more hand in hand in the future. Um, literally we hold hands everywhere we go because we are insecure. People always love to say that Jake seems to have the wildest encounters with people,

and they are right. It just seems like every week he's got some crazy happenstance that happens to him. So here's a highlight of some of the craziest stories we've had from the past year, including some madness in a grocery store bathroom, surviving a plane crash because of our denim late night pastries and sermons gone wrong enjoy and like hey we got free coffee i was like all right might as well can't say no yeah well next thing you know coffee's hitting me pretty hard i'm trying to get on with my night and i can't i'm like i'm not gonna i'm not gonna make it home so it's to the point where i have to stop i'm serving my options i'm like where can i stop okay on the way home to uh brad deuce it up drop a deuce on everybody that's right uh i decided to go grocery store just seemed i don't know why it just seemed like a it just seems like the place that has like really conveniently located restrooms in the very back

of the store it's funny you say that because i had a little trouble well yeah i was like for some reason it just seems cleaner than like a gas station or like mcdonald's and i don't feel comfortable going in like a hotel lobby that is like hey i haven't earned it yeah that's fair grocery seems like that was just like the sweet spot like i've earned this yeah okay i'll get something on the way out okay i'll pay for something here um so for one uh oh yeah, I'm walking all around this Hy-Vee. I cannot find where in the world the bathrooms are. I have to ask this like 16 year old employee, you know, and also in the middle of it, the news is there. I have to go so bad.

The news asked me to be on the news on a story. No way. And I said no, because that's how bad I had to go to the bathroom. Are you serious? You know, it's bad. If I'm, if I'm saying no to attention, you know, I must i had to go to the bathroom are you serious you know it's bad if i'm if i'm saying no to attention you know i must have had to go to the bathroom did they preview like why they were out there they were there like why what they were gonna ask you i don't they might have said something but i don't even know what the story was you couldn't think straight

yeah i know exactly what you're talking about like like when i when i have to go i gotta go i mean yeah my head is on a swivel i'm just looking for for any kind of signage or any kind of corridor that looks like maybe, I keep being in the back room with the deli meat, like where is the bathroom in this freaking place? So I say no to being on the news. I finally, yeah, I ask someone, he tells me it's back there beyond the pharmacy. I'm like, oh, I would have never guessed.

All right, good. Okay. I go back there and I'm walking in at the same time as a guy who has a laptop in his hands in the bathroom okay we go into the end of the bathroom together he goes in one stall with his laptop I go in one stall by myself so okay the next part of the story uh is actually actually the rest of the story not shocker not about the laptop guy really yep you don't hear him click or anything no no clicking i don't know what's going on just try not to think about it trying to focus okay

probably three minutes goes by we hear a door open i'm already feeling like ah shoot if you are going to the restroom in a grocery store you probably have to go to the bathroom we're taking up the only two stalls yeah you know whatever and then i start hearing what sounds like chanting and it could be in a different language or it could be just like um i don't know one person chanting you think or multiple it is one person chanting okay and it just is like the same two phrases over and over again it's kind of like onza onza onza onza ari ari ari ari onza onza onza onza ari irie irie this goes on i want to be completely honest i bet this goes on for two minutes and then i'm like i guess i gotta start recording this like this is now becoming a story oh my god this guy is doing this for two minutes so i just have like some audio

of it happening and it just went on I could have recorded for five minutes. What? I mean, just over and over and over again. So he's just chanting that for a long time and I'm really... What are you thinking? Are you like scared to come out of the bathroom at that point? Yes. Yes. I'm like very curious what's happening, but I'm like, I don't want to come out. I don't know. I can't tell where he's at in the bathroom. I didn't get to lay the land when I came in here.

I was really focused on laptop boy. Sure. Avoid him. Yeah. And so then the chanting stops. I'm like, okay, what's happening now? And then I could see through my little crack in the stall that he is now in front of me, in front of the sinks, in front of the mirrors.

A hundred percent. True story. Arms are outstretched he's got fist he's looking in front of the mirror and he says you wish death upon america and israel what you wish to kill america and israel but we will rise again we will rise again why did you kill her why did you kill her so he's just spouting all sorts of things he gets done with his like little rant in the mirror he goes back to chanting onza onza onza harry harry onza onza onza he's shouting more things he's asking like what's he wearing is he wearing anything he could barely barely tell i mean i had a tiny crack i couldn't even tell like ethnicity or like

anything what he looked like i could just see like an outstretched hand okay long sleeve gray shirt that's all i know and so he just shot some more things like why do you kill us why do you kill us what and then and then i mean he finally left and i just go to the bathroom no never went to the bathroom i don't know he was just pacing around there chanting like hyping himself up hyping himself up for something i couldn't believe it it's so badly i wanted to just like say something to the laptop guy you know i just be like man some people are weird in public right you're telling me buddy he's like typing it Seriously. Some people these days just don't take a hint. I mean, the lack of social awareness of some people.

Okay. Let's circle back on that. He's like, I got a Zoom call in five minutes here. Yeah. Bathroom blog's going to hear about this one. Yeah. My flirty courties are going to love this one. Flirty courties.

Yeah, I really did. I was like, I really want to console this guy next to me to be like, how weird was that? I think, I think that's like one of the only times I would say you should have done that. Like, like most of the time, don't talk to the person next to you in the bathroom, especially when you guys are both going number two, like, like it's number one, talk all you want. Like, but number two, it's like a different kind of like, I'm pretending like I don't know what's going on in your stall. I'd say 40% of me was scared that the door had opened and he hadn't left yet. Like the chanting guys was like, I really don't want to take this chair. And 60% of me was like, am I going to expect logical reasoning from the guy who brought a laptop into our grocery store bathroom?

I don't even care what he has to say. Like, it's not going to be real. Like, it doesn't matter. I'll just tell Brad later. So just the mixture of like being on the news, the laptop, and then this guy, I don't even know what he was. I don't even know how to describe what I heard

and saw in the bathroom. It all happened within 10 minutes. Where was this? The one in Mission. Okay. By the Target. Yeah. Wow.

It was nuts. It was so fun. And because of that, I was a little late to the basketball game. Of course that happened to you. Like, this is nuts. A guy went into the bathroom with a laptop at like eight 30. We had a late night basketball game last night too. Yeah. Oh wow. Oh my gosh. So how long, what do you think the duration of your stay in the bathroom was um 15 i would say put me down for 21 21 yeah wow 21 probably dang that is something it was fun it's a good way to start the night uh okay very last thing i love that i was not even playing on time with this i already talked

about on a podcast two weeks ago and now i'm like let me take about 20 minutes on this podcast i'm gonna get this one too um very end of the night rachel and i are about to leave and then he comes up to me he goes dude i wanted to introduce myself i heard you're a comedian and i was like oh what's up i was i mean kind you know whatever clearly the second hottest guy in this room you know i was like oh i was like i don't know who told you that not that's not really the case but nice to meet you okay let me interrupt it is the case you think i don't know it just feels like it's not okay okay yes you do other things besides me i'm a woodworker but i also do other things i'm still a woodworker woodworker is like the your main trade like the main way you make money comedian is not the main way that i make money why what is you make

people laugh like uh that's what a comedian does i guess i just think like a stand-up comedian that's like on the road all the time like they only do stand-up comedy you're not a stand-up comedian you're a comedian oh okay you're a comedian yeah in my head they were linked they are kind of but i'm trying to get them unlinked there yeah because everything you do is related multifaceted comedian regardless i don't think i'm ever yeah it's gonna be a long time before i'm comfortable enough to say like yep that's me comedian on deck you need a joke that's me you know i'm just like oh you know kind of yeah um and so he's like dude you guys uh do you ever do stuff on tiktok and i was like oh i mean it's not like a made for like but yeah we make videos and uh yeah we'll

post them to tiktok it was verbatim dude you don't even know i have three million followers on tiktok you don't even know that's funny i could not believe that here i am trying to defend like i'm not i'm not a comedian i am not and he's like dude i am the man let me i am the man boost myself real quick yeah and you're like dude you don't even know i've performed like in a hundred different shows in the last year so i guess i am kind of a comedian pretty boy you don't even know you don't even know that's funny so i just kind of let him talk he said we should collab i said for sure um the class that's like that's like the adult influencer version of like we should college hang out like we should hang out sometime oh my gosh yes yes dude yeah sometimes no for sure it's next time in miami all right man i'll see you later okay next time i'm at a high house in miami yeah we

exchanged no contact information whatsoever he doesn't know my last name yet we had plans to collab okay you know like in what world is this ever gonna happen i like the idea of you know talking about the different ways to start sentences you don't even know it should be the way that we do it by bragging about ourselves you don't even know you don't even know dude i drove like 28 hours like two days you don't even know like my kids all love me man like they say i'm a good dad to me i know that you don't even know you don't even know we figured out how to mobile feed yeah i don't know what that means but we'll the airbags airbags oh i was thinking like streaming our podcast mobile i don't know what that means. The airbags. Airbags. Oh, I was thinking like streaming or podcast mobile. I don't know, whatever.

It's okay. You don't even know. You literally, you don't even know what's going on. You don't even know what mobile feeding is. I don't even know what you're talking about, dude. Isaac and I will often do business together. He owns Village Woodworks and we'll make dog kennels and i'll get the sale and i'll be like i don't want to make that isaac make that you know i take a little finder's fee and so

there's a woman her name's karen fun fact okay karen's one in this karen's one in this kennel um and you know whatever we figured out get the sale isaac delivers it yesterday everything's good she pays me i pay pay Isaac, you know, whatever, blah, blah, blah. Um, and then Isaac calls me a day and was like, Hey man, did, did, did Karen contact you? I'm nervous, dude. I'm nervous. Yeah. So, so Brad preface it pretty well. Um, I get to this lady's house. She's about 45. Also, what's up?

It's been a while. I haven't been on here. Also, what's up, guys? What's up, guys? She's about like 50 minutes from where we live. And so I get there and ring the doorbell. Also, I didn't even think about this. Takes probably five minutes for her to answer the door.

Oh. I don't know why this is funny yet, but I'm excited. It takes her like five minutes to answer the door. And as soon as she answers the door, both me and my buddy that are helping deliver the piece are both kind of just taken back by what she has on, which is not a lot. Oh, no. Oh, no. She's a little older. Could have grandkids.

Can't say for F. Definitely after 40. Probably AF after 50. Oh, okay. And so anyway, we unload the kennel. We get it in the spot she is very nice seems very normal the husband he seems very normal um they are from missouri though they are from missouri deep in missouri too so and have lived there their whole life both of them okay um but i mean i can't emphasize enough how much skin is showing she's wearing a button down you know i've never described a woman's body let alone a woman's chest

on a podcast before so um we're gonna we're gonna try to just i'm gonna give my best shot guys imagine i mean a button down that's unbuttoned quite a bit with nothing under it. Like a robe? So I'll just say that. A button down shirt. A shirt. A button down shirt. Okay.

Nothing going on under it. Unbuttoned. A few too many buttons. Interesting. What time of day? Probably more buttons unbuttoned than Jake when he's on like a dance floor at a wedding. Oh, I see. He's got a little sweaty.

Got to cool off. Yeah. What time of day is this taking place? Yeah. Five. Okay. Okay. he's on like a dance floor at a wedding oh i see a little sweaty gotta cool off yeah what um time of day is this taking place uh yeah five okay okay um yeah she looks good so husband is back from work okay okay um anyway so as soon as we leave as soon as we get done delivering it went great she liked it as soon as my buddy and i get back in my truck, we both look at each other and we were like, what the heck? Like, what?

Why was she? She knew people were coming. She knew people were coming at five. And I don't know. It's just, yeah, we were both thrown back. So we kind of just laughed about that and whatever. Well, later today or earlier today. Here we go.

Here we go. I get a text from her. Earlier today. today or earlier today here we go here we go earlier today sorry you had said like she thought that you were just a delivery guy okay yeah yeah sorry i didn't really preface ever so since the order was through brad as soon as i got there she kind of asked she's like so you just do deliveries for brad or like and i was like uh i mean yeah brad i do some woodworking myself i kind of help him out and just because like i uh, I mean, yeah, Brad, I do some woodworking myself. I kind of help them out. And just because like, I didn't know what Brad had told her. So I was just like, just go with the flow, whatever she wants to think she can think. So she didn't even necessarily know that I was the one that built this thing, like start to finish. She thinks maybe I worked on a

little bit and just deliver it and help Brad out. And so I didn't want to be like, well, no, I didn't, no need to get into what I have to, what I actually do. So anyway, so later or earlier today, I get a text from her. And just so that it's accurate, I'm just going to read the text verbatim. It says, hello, Isaac. This is Karen. You delivered to my house yesterday. I was wondering if you had any availability tomorrow around lunch break. I have a spot on the wood cabinet i would like to ask about and you could also take a dip

i get bored when Mike's at work. Dot, dot. Dude, when you got it, you got it. Wow. So I just laughed. I was like, I just thought it was hilarious because as soon as my buddy got back, that was the first thing we thought. We're like, what on earth was that?

And so I immediately take a screenshot and send it to him. I was like, dude, what? The other thing is we had never, I didn't even, I mean, I knew they had a hot tub in their backyard. I could see it, but I had never even mentioned the pool. Like, oh, that sounds nice. So I called Brad about this

thinking like, well, maybe she contacted Brad because she thinks Brad's the one that built it about the spot. And Brad's like, well, here, contact Isaac because he's the one that built it about the spot and he'll figure like, well, here, contact Isaac because he's the one that built it about the spot and he'll figure it out for you. You're like, Brad, did you say anything about a pool to Karen? Did you sign me up for something?

But I called Brad thinking surely she messaged Brad being like, hey, there was a spot or whatever or something was not completely right. Okay. Because she thinks that Brad's the one building it. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. She thinks that I'm the deliverer. And so I called Brad, and he's like,

no, last I heard was yesterday. She said everything looks great. She said easy breezy, which may have been describing the way she was wearing her shirt. I don't know. The fact that it took her five minutes, that is more suspect even now. Yeah, I didn't even think about that.

Oh, these guys are coming. And the more I thought about it today, there was one other detail that I realized that was kind of, I don't know, maybe. It's like when you watch a movie that for the second time you start picking up on things. Now you know the ending, you can look back. So the shirt and the shorts that I was wearing, I was wearing like my normal like work clothes, just pretty much old gym clothes that have paint and stain all over them. A couple nosebleeds.

Maybe a couple blood stains. But for some reason, one time in my shop, my hands had just tons of paint all over them. So I just decided to grab my chest like this and put big hand prints on with paint. And that's the one you decided to deliver? Little did I know. I mean, what do you represent all sets of creations in one thing? Little did I know I had that shirt on when I was delivering it.

And it's not super noticeable. It's pretty fainted. But I looked at my shirt a little bit later on and I see these handprints. That's 100% what it was. On my chest. And her husband goes, he says,

he says, you got a little something on your shirt, huh? And I was just thought he was talking about all the- Paint all over. Tons of paint. But now I'm starting to think they probably saw the hand prints. You're like, yeah, that was Deborah in Leawood

a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, that was her hot tub. Yeah, she had a hot tub. She was 65. Unbelievable. Did you respond to the text? Yeah, I did respond hot tub. She was 65. Unbelievable. Did you respond to the text? Yeah, I did respond.

And I was like, do you mind just calling me and we can... You got a diving board? Yeah. What about the hot tub? Is that open too? Does it have to be noon? Can we go later? Yeah, right. I get bored on mics at work.

Dot, dot. The dot dots. I don't care how old you are. The dot dots i don't care how old you are the dot dots are always and it made me think of the swimming merit badge for boy scouts i don't think you were in boys were you ever in boy scouts thank you very much i was tired you're tired yeah so the swimming merit badge one of the things you have to check off is you have to jump into water with jeans on no joke good start yeah jump into water with jeans on you have to jump into water with jeans on no joke good start yeah jump into water with jeans

on you have to remove your jeans and like roll them up into this bunch and somehow capture air as well so that you turn your jeans into a flotation device have you guys ever heard or seen of this i'm speechless well this is because i thought i i when i tried it i tried it at scout camp in a lake so like i'm not i don't have a life jacket on or anything i'm just out there with jeans trying and trying to get jeans off in water it's like yeah that's impossible that's all and then figuring out how to like roll these up and somehow capture some air so that you float can you imagine like you don't know how to swim you're flailing there and you see this guy that you know is like an eagle scout like oh finally thank you my savior

my prince he jumps in and the first thing he does is you're flailing like struggling to stay above water this he's he's just like messing with his dungarees under the water like for hold on minutes like stay there just a second are off. Just a second. I'm just picturing like an air landing, an airplane landing in water and everybody's panicking. And then you see some guy who's already got his jeans off into a flotation device, just like leaning back. Don't worry.

Already got the Wranglers off. You idiots. But anyway, so. So is that why do Boy Scouts always have to, they have to be prepared? Excuse me? What's with your peepee be prepared the boy scouts always have to be prepared so therefore are they always having to wear jeans is that probably because like why does it have to be why can't it be any other pants yeah what happens if you are drowning with shorts on chinos joggers it's got to be denim the the idea of getting those off your ankles is so funny yeah like you're trying to stay afloat so you're yeah you're trying to tread water so when i try

to boy scouts actually sink and die because of this then they save themselves or others so like the whole the whole point of scout camp is you go and like you do a bunch of fun things but you're also there to complete merit badges and like that's that's point of Scout camp is you go and like you do a bunch of fun things, but you're also there to complete merit badges. And like that's that's one of your biggest goals. And so I did everything else on the swimming merit badge, but I could not get the jeans down. Scott's like, I was able to start the fire with my jeans off. I was able to tie a sailor's knot once my jeans were off. Right.

A lot of it had to do with taking your pants off. But the swimming was so hard for me. Yeah. So I ended up I ended up I didn't complete it. And so I came home. And then you remember the Sweeneys? They live down the street from us. They had a pool in their backyard. So I jumped into their pool with pants on. Please let me figure this out. My dad was there to like, you know, kind of check the box that I did it. And I think I just made the most pathetic. I finally got the jeans off. I made the most pathetic attempt at like this. I got maybe one air bubble of denim, but I was like, all right, you're good.

And I was like, dad, give me a help here. Dude, we got to try this. We got to try the jeans challenge. Jeans shorts challenge. Jeans shorts challenge. Jeans floats. Jeans floats. Just the idea.

The first Gene Shorts live stream we ever do. I went to the McDonald's drive-thru a couple nights ago and I was a thirsty boy, but it was kind of late at night. I was like, maybe a little snack, a little treat yourself. I'm not intermittent fasting. Apple, apple pie? Dude, I don't know why I've kind of fallen off the apple pie train.

I've been getting my pastries in the morning, I guess. Okay, let me guess then. Okay, kind of fallen off the apple pie train. I've been getting my pastries in the morning, I guess. Okay. Let me guess then. Okay. So you didn't have apple pie, but you got a treat. Sweet treat. Yeah, of course. Hot Fudge Sundae?

No. Good guess, though. Those are great. McFlurry? No. No. Drier. Drier than these.

Okay. The muffins? Blueberry muffins? No, I do love those too, though. Because those are pastries. I didn't think it would be that. Yeah. Those are really good. If you like sugar. They have cinnamon? No, I do love those too. Because those are pastries. I didn't think it would be that. Yeah. Those are really good.

If you like sugar. They have cinnamon? No. Luke Crenshaw. Oh, of course. Two cookies in the water. Yeah. Best order of all time.

I'll just take two cookies in the water. Harrison Pollard vibes out of that night from Crenshaw. So I ordered three chocolate chip cookies because they count. They're like three for a dollar or whatever. Right. That's what was so funny to, I'll take two, which comes out to like a dollar 30 probably. It's like way more expensive to do that. Um,

and so I had three cookies in like a thing of milk and um, not to drink at the same time as the tea, but it's like once I'm done with the sweet tea, there's like your QT last week when you were, yeah, yeah, exactly. They're compartmentalized by time and so i get to the window to paying my thing and this guy he's probably like an 18 year old kid it's like immediately he just seems so remarkably normal which i think that's just the standard that mcdonald's is set where it takes very little for me like wow this guy's awesome because all he did was like he nodded his head at me he's like what's up man and i was like hey

what's going on he's like you have the sweet tea was like, hey, what's going on? He's like, you had the sweet tea, right? And I was like, yeah, I did. And just like, that's all it took. And I was like, this guy, this guy's bright. And which I don't know. Yeah, you're right. The standard was very low. I don't know what that's.

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

already feel like this guy's cool i don't know we already have this like social just like or compatibility i'm like this guy just seems like he gets it whatever and he's like you're the sweet d and i was like yeah and uh then we make some like small talk about something he's like oh and you had the uh wait is this you you had the you're the cookies in the milk and kind of like looks in my car and like i don't know why i think it's because he's like this cool like high schooler dude i go yes for the kiddo at home no no you didn't it just came out of me yeah i couldn't it was milk dude i had to say kiddo at home oh my gosh how old how late was this i don't know i mean probably like 9 45 10 15 at night yeah you know just love getting that oh my god it makes no sense i don't know what to say i don't

know like i said it just i feel like i'd earned something with this guy he liked me he thought i was cool that that's better than calling yourself jean shorts yeah kiddo at home for the kiddo at home jake you're starting to you're starting to get old where you're like embarrassed of yourself of like i just say these things when i'm by myself i yeah i just say stuff oh my gosh yeah it's for the kiddo at home yeah you like start like really going into a long monologue about him yeah he uh he takes after his sister you know and um and she takes after me he's a spunky one you know that's so funny it was such a weird thing i had to tell rachel immediately i was like i gotta tell you about this mcdonald's experience it was so weird i don't know why i did that

like like sweet tea no problem i'll own up to that but milk and cookies no i don't know i think if he would have been any other mcdonald's worker the way he looked like he kind of examined your car he's like surely this guy's too cool and you got the milk and cookies and i just didn't want to say yes i don't know you take that kid to chucky cheese probably too you freak yeah i thought i did we were filming a little video for g towards comedy on youtube.com and uh we're filming a video about dads in the suburbs throughout we're b-bopping around shiny kansas walk around the neighborhood filming stuff and then we find these kids cute little kids doing a lemonade stance like oh yeah like, oh, Americana. We got to get them in the video.

Sometimes guys, YouTube writes itself. Like when the sheltered kid goes to Vegas and then all of a sudden I see myself standing in front of a sign advertising the Virgin Hotel. Sometimes it just, it's easy. Yeah, you're like, roll the camera. I got it. Dude, props to those kids for doing a lemonade stand

when it was 105 degrees outside. They knew what they were doing. Yeah. Good for them. Which I don't know. Well, yes, they had some good qualities. Also, they made the black kid make the Kool-Aid. So I don't know if.

They're like, yeah, we got more Kool-Aid coming. We got more Kool-Aid coming. And then a few minutes later, here comes Zion. Zion came out. I was like, okay. The biggest picture of red drink you've ever seen in your life. more kool-aid coming and then a few yeah minutes later here comes zion came out it's like okay yeah biggest picture of you know red drink you've ever seen in your life it was good though zion knows how to make it it was tasty so i was like you know we see these kids we're like we gotta get them in the in the video like this is great suburban life whatever and so we go up to

him and i was like i think we should ask him make make sure he's out there. Okay. Yeah. Hold on. Let me stop you right there. Okay. All right. This is for the audience and for Scott. What do you think Brad said to these kids? Hey, do you think your parents would mind being a, you being in a video? That's option one.

Option two. Hey. Are you going to come to the back of my truck i can't think of any normal options basically brad tell them what you said to the kids so it's me jake and derrick walking up three grown men i go hey kids your parents at home. Derek's got a camera staring awkwardly. It's like, I'll film you. And you know, I think we said before that, like,

you guys want to be in a video? Like, and they're like, what? I was like, yeah. And I was saying in my head, I was just such pure intentions.

I was like, I was like, I just want to make sure that these kids aren't like, like the, the parents aren't like, wait, you guys are on YouTube of this like big channel. I mean the most successful channel in Kansas city, you know uh yeah one one kansas city you know

awards for best new youtube channel um that's not true but um name's gene yeah and i was like i was like uh you know i just wanted to make sure so yeah just initially i was like like are your parents home ask your parents if it's okay and i just go are your parents home i could tell this kid was hesitant he goes uh no with a little bit of trembling in his voice and i was like all right well ask your parents we'll come back you know yeah we just kind of walked away i just i i yeah i was like i just accidentally just creeped the heck out of it. So, uh, ended up filming with them though. They were not naturals, which I think makes it even funnier. I think it was great.

Yeah. How quiet and kind of awkward they were speaking on camera. It was perfect. They were perfect kids. Yeah. It was great. They were in the outro. The only outro I'll ever write.

Yeah. Brad was sitting in a lawn chair with the three kids standing behind him. He's like, Hey, this video is sponsored by their lemonade stand. Um, hope you liked it. Yeah, Brad was sitting in a lawn chair with the three kids standing behind him. He's like, hey, this video is sponsored by their lemonade stand. Hope you liked it. Yeah, man. It was like Jaden, Bryce and Zion or something like that. I remember it was JBZ. Yeah, I remember the white kid said, my name's Jaden.

And I said, are you sure? I guess one of the only things that this did not happen in Nashville Park, but I was like, this is fascinating. I went to a gas station and there's a screen above the urinal and this is not even in vegas and you know you think maybe in vegas they have a slot machine they'll let you gamble anywhere in vegas this is just like kind of an ipad above the urinal it's like okay fun i'm thinking i've seen something like this before usually it's like an ad yeah it's never interactive and so i see i'm like this looks kind of like a touch screen. That is the grossest thing I've ever heard.

A touch screen at the urinal? Yes. Oh my gosh. That was my first impression. I was like, hold on a second. Literally what I thought was like, do I use my head? Do I use my nose? Like what?

I would not use your head on anything. Put your face. I know. Hold on. These are just first impressions of like, whoa. Yeah, you're like using your nose. Like. It won't swipe.

Okay. Let's see. K won't swipe. Okay. Let's see. Kino, no. Okay. Five-card draw. No, no, no. Deuce is wild. Deuce is wild.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hold him. Let's hold him. Hold, hold, hold. All right. You're like pecking at it. Okay. Gross.

So by the time I get like six inches away, I'm like, okay, this is six inches. Scott loves it. I get, I get a good amount of way and I'm like, okay, I don't think it's a touchscreen. It's very interactive looking. I think Scott's going to die. I think Scott's dying in that chair right now. He's gone silent. That's the second joke about time Brad's gotten with today. And I'm like, oh, so Scott's gonna like this too. I'm just gonna tell you,

I don't know if this is the name of the game or like just the instructions. What I see on the screen says, whip your cannon out. So like, I don't know if that's the name. That's just, so I was like, okay. And it's more like a pistola, but. Then on the screen is like, I am a firefighter. Okay, POV, you're a firefighter putting out a fire.

And there's three windows that are on fire okay but it switches which windows on fire i'm like this is interesting and i look down that is this is the coolest thing i look down at my cannon and i see that in the urinal there are three bullseyes okay left center and right okay and it knows it's like a carnival game where you're shooting like a water gun like in the bullseye trying to get like the water to go up so that's awesome my cannon was controlled it was like augmented yeah you know you were master and commander of your ship yes i was yeah i was raising the sail oh and i was lowering the boom i love that dude yeah so it was like it worked pretty well so like it was like oh the left window's on fire oh why, right window's on fire.

And I wish I had to pee more because the game ended a little too soon. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in the pitch meeting for that idea. All right. What do you think? Yeah. Joey, you know, people always looking for something to do while they're peeing. Why don't we make a touchscreen game? Okay.

No touchscreen. Okay. It doesn't have to be touchscreen. No, no, no. They just pee in the urinal and it's a game. It could be anything, Joey. You win tokens, you redeem it for like a fountain drink in the gas station. You could be a firefighter.

You could be an old-timey, you know, outlaw at a saloon. You could be Master Chief from Halo. We could get Bungie in on it, Joey. Come on. What do you think? Pull out your Warthog. Yeah, we could do 007 style, okay?

Pull out your Warthog. What do they call it in 007? The massive head? That's right. What do they call that? Just big head mode? You could get big head mode for Zion. Oh, God.

That's too far. That's too far. a big head move for Zion. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. But the funniest thing to me, so, so Jake, this guy that I work with,

he is 18 years old. Nice. And, you know, whatever. Yeah. But we're, we're laughing about this guy,

you know, like after we go to Hawaiian Bros afterwards, give him my full, you know, phone number and they struggle with it. Awards program. And, you know, on after we go to Hawaiian bros afterwards, give them my full phone number and they struggle with it.

And you know, on the way back, we're just laughing about this guy. Like what a funny experience this guy was. I hope this all goes. All right, man. And he's like, yeah,

man, drone drone. And I was like, what do you think? His name is Jerome. And you would have thought I said, uh, like a name from a like a foreign

ebenezer he like yeah he was like he was like having to like mess with his mouth to even say he's like jerome like he's chewing taffy while saying it i'm looking at jerome have you never heard of the name jerome he's like i mean i know Dorones. I was like, you don't know lots of Dorones. Dorone. Sandstorm by Dorone. Where'd that axle fall off? Where'd that wheel fall off your trailer? Oh, over there on the Rhone. Just fell off

off Dorone. On the fast drone. And no, he's like, no, I know a bunch of Doros. I've never heard of Jerome in my life. Jerome? I was like, Jerome Bettis? The bus. Yeah, come on.

And then I was like, Catherine, I got to tell you this story. With Jake there, I was like, I'm going to ridicule this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, that's what bosses do, you know? Well, it shows you love them. And Catherine goes, Jerome's not that common of a name. I'm like, yes, it is. Take my side, babe.

I'm like, come on. Two thumbs down to that response. I just, whatever. I mean, Jerome is a very common name, right? Yeah, I'm not shocked at all that his name is Jerome. But here's the thing. After I said Jerome Bettis, he's like, I've never heard of that guy. And I was like, he's on The Office even.

Then I couldn't think of another Jerome. Like Jerome Jefferson, I think was. You're just, don't just throw last names around like that. I think Jerome Jefferson is the name of the guy from. Jerome Washington is the guy. Oh no, it's George Jefferson. First president. Jerome? Yeah, he was like, he couldn't even like,

you know how there's certain words when you're taking a Spanish class, you're like, ah, I just can't find. I think the word unfortunately in Spanish is kind of a hard one for me. Website search unfortunately. That's a fun fact. You just immediately know a word that's tough for you to say in Spanish. Desafortunadamente.

Desafortunadamente. And so it's like. That is a lot of syllables. Desafortunadamente. Like that's what I think he was trying to say he's trying to say jerome jerome his name is it tastes funny yeah it feels weird coming out it tastes like i just ate a packet of chick-fil-a sauce you know like what name in 50 years is going to be like, Dave? I mean, I've heard of Gaynib.

You know, I have a bunch of guys in my graduating class, Gaynib. You know, whatever. I don't know. Borat. Borat. Is that two syllables? Borat? Borat?

Oh, he had a one syllable name? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like that's weird in and of itself. I love that you closed one eye to pronounce it. You're telling me that guy's name is... You guys got to go on YouTube to see this. And then, you know, the service is going on and I texted Catherine about... It doesn't matter, whatever.

I texted her about something during the service. So obviously I was still a little bit distracted. Um, and she, that like triggered her to realize like you took the van, the Rosie's car seat is in your van. And so I was like, brick, like crap. Like I have to go get the van and like, and this was like, you know, 10, 15, 15 minute drive to and from church. Uh, we're supposed to be there around 1045, 1050 to volunteer. So I have to leave like immediately to get her. Gosh. And I'm just like, of course.

And during the like sermon that like, like the part of the sermon, I forget even honestly who he was talking about, but he was talking about somebody in the Bible who was fat and lazy. So, so he's like, I mean, you know, he's like interpreting like, you know, the, the verse he's like, and I mean, he's just saying he's fat, he's fat. And when you're fat, you're lazy. Like this, this is a, this is a symbol of laziness and sloth and, and, and just like taking advantage of the gifts that God's given you. And literally right when he said that, like I had already started stepping to leave, but it looked like I had just like, you know what? Okay. Yeah. All right. You sprint out of

there. I'll take my ties somewhere else. Who's lazy now. Short strides, but they get me there. I get knocked down, but I run out again. But I get up again. Oh man. I mean, it was just, and for whatever reason, I like ducked down to like three quarters of my height thinking that that was a better move. So I'm like, I'm like walking out the sanctuary. I don't mean, I'm on like the fifth row. Like, it's not like people didn't see me.

There's a very unfortunate timing. So just, if you're a pastor out there, just remember that there's other reasons besides just, you know, your bad pastoring that people are leaving potentially. Alongside of us for the majority of the episodes in the second half of the year has been a welcomed addition to the podcast. Our best friend, Scott Sell, Scotty Pickleball. You could find him at Peck Family Pickleball. Scott's been referred to as the live laugh track and always seems to make things more fun. Of course, we still have to remind him every once in a while that it is, in fact, our podcast, our podcast.

Here are a few of our favorite moments with old Scotty boy. I can't believe I didn't think to bring this up when we were talking about brunch, Brulee brunch. The guy who would not have gotten along with Todd Bone very well, Toad Bone, sorry. Hey, hey, Bone.

Yeah. Is our waiter during brunch. He kind of he did something kind of funny at the beginning. Rachel, of course, asked like, all right, would you rather get this or this? And he was like, oh, and then we all kind of chuckled like, oh, that's kind of funny. Like the waiter just is doing like a bit right now. OK, great. And so we nod a little bit. So we all kind of chuckled like, oh, that's kind of funny. Like the waiter just is doing like a bit right now. Okay, great. And so we kind of laugh.

And I think that little chuckle we gave him just opened the door. The floodgates. But not to be a comedian, to be, I don't know, just flamboyant. Oh. It was interesting. So it was like one joke landed and he's like, I think I know what these people want. And then the rest of the time we were ordering, the rest of the time we were with him, I'd be like, all right, I'm going to take the grapefruit brulee.

Yes. That's what he would say. Like that's it. He would like, he was like, and can I also do the berry French toast? Of course, babe. I was like, babe. Yeah. I was like, okay.

He babed you? Yeah. And then Rachel, Rachel's ordering like, and can I get the toast? He'd be like, no, I the toes like no I'm just playing I'm just getting yes queen you should have seen your freaking beautiful face he would like

make little puns with like oh slay on that like while we're just ordering like it was like Bruce slay basically it was just like dude I don't know if he does this, dude, I don't know if he does this all the time. I don't know if it was just because we laughed at the um, but it got so

it just, it was a 180 just in the middle of ordering. Just every time you gave him like a breath, he would do an ad lib with like a different like. But it didn't seem like that's who he was. Like it seemed like a character. Something I really don't want to apologize about,

but let's talk about it as a group here. Catherine, the other day, she goes, Brad, you have a problem. And it was in the context of she was singing. We were helping out in the nursery at church. She was singing a song to these kids. And I do have a propensity, if you will. I'm not, I'm not saying it's a problem, but I have a propensity, uh, in my head, I'm always enhancing the song. Uh, but I have a propensity to take a song and make it, I'll beat box to it, whatever the song is, or, or, or, or

if, if I'm not beat box and I'll go, Hey, you know, something like that. I don't think I would like to spend time with someone like this. Okay. Give me, give me a kid's song. Or actually, no, you give me a kid's song. Scott's going to say,

this little light of mine. I'm going to let it shine. This little light of mine. I'm going to let it shine. I can't even. Catherine gets so mad. She'll just, she'll just stop singing. She'll be shine. I can't even. Catherine gets so mad. She'll just stop singing. She'll be like, I don't even know why I do this.

That kind of fired me up, I will say. Right? Usually it's like, I sent this little light of mine. I'm gonna hear you. Shine it up. You know, like, and I usually let it like, let it go once by itself. And then you add on eventually. Yeah.

Give me another, give me another like second verse. Like, yeah, yeah. Kinda. Give me another one. Row, row, row your boat. You go gently. Oh, the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily.

Life is but a dream. Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream Scott Scott is very Scott who is so not on camera is just getting after

the idiocracy of what I was saying I couldn't even finish the song alright give me Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Little star How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high

Like a diamond in the sky Twinkle Twinkle Little freaking star Little freaking star little freaking star idiot store oh man that's our niche forget t-shirt niche children's songs with a little bit of hip-hop twinkle twinkle little freaking star yeah. And also did a turkey trot. Yes, you did. First ever turkey trot.

You couldn't find the turkey though. Yeah. Did we enjoy that Instagram story? I didn't enjoy it as much as a lot of people did. I thought I was like, that's pretty clever, Jake. Good one. And man, people thought it was the funniest thing they'd ever seen. Thank you.

Hold on. There wasn't really like, you weren't looking for like a fake turkey i didn't know if that was a thing it's a turkey no no that's a turkey run this is turkey trot if you know what i mean turkey runs are like five k's if you know and then a turkey trot is like a almost like a pin the tail on the donkey but everyone is like looking for like a fake turkey that's been like in this like field basically and there's there's a you guys are making this up no no there's there's a they call him a head gobbler take it i knew if i stared at brad he'd crack a head gobbler

how long could we have gotten oh my goodness oh wait when we both realize that scott doesn't know what this is oh my gosh we should make foot makeup stuff in front of scott more often oh i didn't know if that was just like a different tradition for this turkey trot it's like you're supposed to find like a hidden turkey yeah i i thought that could really be a thing there's a head gobbler i would have loved to heard the end of that sentence he was gonna have a costume so you like know like he's all in red so you know like to follow him oh man so it was just like every other turkey trot it's just a 5k

yes 5k it's 5k on thanksgiving for sure english slang is the best like sam and i have watched i'm not gonna say which ones we've watched some trash tv like trash reality tv shows on netflix love island no go ahead no no no no no uh but yeah they just like one word like you look fit or you look you look mad fit like means you look good oh you chapped oh you looking a little wonky yeah so i love saying that to say i'm like we're going on a date like like babe you look mad fit right now oh i like that accent you look mad fit right now but oh you look mad fit yeah and then like if like when you're talking to somebody like oh they have a great chat like great they're good to talk to yeah great banter great banter great banter yeah i've never met him proper

yeah don't throw a proper on like the end of a sentence like it hasn't happened yet yes i love i love that's kind of funny you pick up a little british slang yeah so is it a modern day show like it takes place in modern day ish yeah i'm just convinced you guys to watch the crown i'm like i know yeah i was thinking of peaky blinders and i was like i could not get through that show because it was so hard to understand oh really yes in a modern era and um here's what i'll say first like two episodes which is not a very good sales pitch pretty slow mad whack yeah it's a bit wonky it's a bit slower pace it kind of moves like a turtle in the first first two episodes you know i was trying to think of a specific turtle but i couldn't think of it

jake looked mad puzzled there eastern gray it's Eastern Grey. It's not like no Eastern Grey square over here. Yeah, the first two episodes are no Eastern Grey. Let's just say that. Now, I'll take an Earl Grey. I'll take that. I was trying to figure out what you said. I was thinking of Earl Grey. London Fog, perhaps?

London Fog, yeah. Maybe a little flat white. That was so bad. That was a bad turn into australian you're gonna love it anyway this is this is like borderline another ad read for the show now but it's uh i think if you like get out if you like any kind of psychological thriller where i think when we were texting Scott, I love anything where I cannot predict it.

It's so original that it's like, even I'm trying my hardest to predict like, all right, bold prediction, this is going to happen, this is going to happen. I was so far off.

No one in the world could predict this ending. I dare you. So if you like anything like that, behind her eyes on Netflix, the first two episodes are slow. I promise it's worth it. Good.

Guess what, Jake? I might start the first episode tonight. Okay. It's slow. Okay. It's a tuttle. And you know the second episode, it gets wicked fast. No, it's pretty slow too. It's still pretty slow. Open up your ears.

It's like straight petal to the metal. It's action-packed proper. It's like straight pedal to the metal pedal to the metal it's mental it's action packed proper yeah it's like James Bond and Aston Martin

kind of thing you know kind of thing yeah yeah alright I wish I knew more words so I could contribute you're the one that's been

watching all the British shows where's your banter where's your banter we watched it in a short amount of time you know it was like only six episodes.

Why does that matter? It just, it's, you don't retain a lot when it happened so quickly. Watched three episodes last night. Okay. All right. All right then.

I'm a nice guy, so I'm not going to go any farther. My recap episode, Scott, my recap episode. In September, we introduced a new segment to the podcast that has been an absolute blast it's s'mores s'mores the Mount Rushmore type draft with different categories each week it's somewhat turned into an opportunity to see how ridiculous

Scott's answers can be and honestly just use him as a punching bag uh which I don't know how much you guys love but it's really fun for me and Jake um so here are a few clips from our favorite s'mores moments. One of them is from us talking about how weird of habits we have and the quirky things that we do. And the other is from us talking about places in America everyone should visit, which, I mean, if you haven't seen the sunrise out there, you should. Check it out. A couple times a week. This is also why I'm going to start off with the most embarrassing, most transparent one.

A couple times a week, as soon as I wake up up maybe i want kind of an easy transition into the day go to the bathroom and i will pee sitting down i didn't know you don't I didn't quite expect this reaction I expected like oh wow thank you for being transparent I do that from time to time also you don't start your day sitting down sure just to pee not to pee yeah to pee. It's nice. It's like, ah. Have you ever? Yes. Rachel said yes. I don't think I've ever. I mean, unless it was like a false alarm on a poop.

Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I haven't just voluntarily sat down to pee. Oh, it's nice. Maybe once when I was in a Winnebago and it was just, we were, we were on a windy road going to the lake. Your dad was like, I'm like, all right, I gotta hunker down here. No, an easy transition. That's like, oh dude, I love standing there.

We have a little wall next to ours. I just kind of lean on the wall. Oh yeah. See, I, yeah, there's just some days that it's just like i'm not ready to just like go straight to standing it's like um what do you how do you get there you just scoot on over i don't want to stand up yeah a number of apparatuses intended for oh my god handicapped people and i get to the bathroom and i prop myself up on the chair unbelievable yeah so Is this something

did you know this about him? No. Okay. Is that a deal breaker? Already signed the house. Already signed the paper. So Virgo. Virgo alert. Promise house is secured. That's classic Virgo. So there's a quirk. Okay. Because occasionally it's just like I don't feel like standing up right now. I think it'd be so nice

to just sit down, check my phone. Unbelievable. Spend a little more time than I need to just kind of sit in here man okay we don't need to get too much into the bathroom humor but great that's great just a little quirk it was the first thing i thought of and it took me another four days to think of another one i was like oh this is and i had a lot of time to sit there and think about it every single morning yeah shout out rachel actually it took i think i told you guys it took me six days to think of two quirks and in the walk from our house when i counted the steps rachel was naming quirks of mine i mean i could think of some quirks yeah it was really easy for her back to you scott's very nice all right i think i'm gonna i'm kind of in between a few on this last one. I'm not sure any of them are really a great amp, to be honest. Way to sell it.

But I think what I will say for my fourth and final pick is East Coast Beach at Sunrise. That is a specific time. Okay. sunrise that that is a specific time okay

it didn't feel good coming out i'm talking rehoboth beach in april no i'm just thinking of like of a beach where you can see a sunrise talking Rehoboth beach in April. No, I'm just thinking of like of a beach where you can see a sunrise is that's an awesome experience. Give it, give us a few examples of beaches just to make it a little more like idyllic,

like Cape Cod, Amelia Island. So most of the most recent experience I had of that nature was two years ago. We went to South Padre Island in Texas. Ah, East Coast. Well, now it's sold. South Padre.

I can't believe they're still on Central Time Zone with how far east they are down there in Texas. But yeah, I only got up one morning, but the morning that I got up to see the sunrise, it was really nice. Scott, I was trying to help you. Like, like, like us from the Midwest, like, like we do like hold a little bit of a pedestal to like the East coast and like, Oh, it'd be so cool to be up there. Like with the cool lighthouses in Maine and maybe Scott's been to the Hamptons and whatever. And Scott goes, honestly, South Padre Island really did it for me, man.

I mean, the seaweed at 7 a.m. is something to behold. There's nothing like brown water in Texas. I was trying to prop you up a little bit. Redeem that. I did go see some beaches in New England, but it was not at sunrise. So I can't really vouch for that experience. So this is just an idea in your head. You can imagine. This is a place. Yes. Okay. Watching a sunrise on a beach. Okay. That's my place. Not a sunset. Okay. Uh, Hey, good answer. Good answer.

Good answer. Good answer. Oh, that was so trash. I didn't like it coming out. Oh, that was funny. I'll tell you what my other answer was originally going to be, but that was awful. And of course, alongside everything else at our core, we are goofy, goofy boys. so let's recap some of our most off the rail wild moments of 2022 this compilation is goofy i don't think i didn't do it as good as brad i should have had brad do this one brad the day was last week okay and uh it was actually

right after we recorded the podcast last week i went to chicken filet and uh i'm in line and one of my worst nightmares comes true that's a little extreme just a slight bummer comes true a police officer comes right behind me my license plates are still a temporary tag that expired in august so yeah i could avoid that every time I see you. I think about what I'm going to say when I do get pulled over and, uh, who knows? COVID COVID is always the excuse. Seriously. It's like, it's like we're in the middle of a pandemic. I'm not comfortable going to the DMV right now. I like not even saying a full sentence, just saying COVID COVID COVID. COVID COVID COVID. Put your hands up. Hey, COVID! COVID! COVID! COVID!

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COVID! COVID! COVID! ! COVID! Zany Zany fun facts this week. Good. We're getting wild.

Let's keep starting the episodes this way. Number one, salt makes pineapple taste even sweeter. How? I like the way you deliver the zany fun facts. Number two, humans don't sneeze while sleeping. Are we sure? Oh, really? I always wake up every time I sneeze.

Don't question it. Which comes first okay yeah popsicles were invented by accident by an 11 year old no way uh this one's fun this one is zany this one is truly like look up the word zany in the dictionary you would find cow's moo and regional accents on there no that zany. That my brother is zany. That's pretty funny. Actually. I'm imagining like you're going down, you're, you gotta,

you gotta upstate New York cow, you know, going on vacation down South. He's passing through, you know, middle of nowhere, Louisiana. And all of a sudden you just hear them out or the couch going,

man. Hey, I'm moving here here hey hey i'm milking here so whenever i had all this sickness and stuff i went to the ent uh and they gave me this your nose throat yeah and you even like texted you're like don't leave there without getting the steroid shot yeah oh yeah i got a new shot i'm big on i was talking to rachel's mom about what do you know what a cortisone shot and i've heard of i don't know much i feel like they're like pretty strong it sounds like i want one from what i'm hearing it just like puts from what i understand a cushion back in your knee oh yeah that's right that sounds awesome all right sorry keep going that

does sound nice yeah great um no so so they gave me these meds. One of them was prednisone, pred, pred, pred, prednisone. Um, and I have been taking it in like the past, I don't know, week or so I've been like feeling uncontrollably like dry mouth, like feeling like I always need to drink something or something. Like, it's like this very, the very uncomfortable thing. And I drink water and just doesn't go away. And so I'm like, is this a normal thing? So I Googled like side effects of prednisone and, uh, I didn't see anything about dry mouth, but I did see two other ones I thought were really funny. The first one was bulging eyes, which I just love that. Like, you know, Catherine just talking to me. So like Brad, so I was like, I just bulge out those eyes.

Sorry. It's a friend of his own talking. Um, and then the other one that I thought was just like weird and like, what a weird thing to write down was inappropriate happiness, inappropriate happiness, inappropriate happiness. So I would like to do a little bit of role play here. Yeah. How's that work? Just like, um, okay. Um, hello, Brad and the family. would like to do a little bit of role play here yeah how's that work just like um okay um hello brad and the family um obviously this is never an easy decision but we do need to decide uh

how you would like him buried um we obviously we do offer cremation service uh cremation services and do not cremate don't do it um okay i've always wanted to bury him no oh sorry oh okay we've always talked about burying sparky if we if we were to that point so sorry that was great the prednisone this yeah excuse me the pred i had some prednisone so i get i get some inappropriate happiness all right um hey uh obviously uh you know this is ultimately gonna be katherine's choice um i know she said she wanted it all natural but it does seem like she's in a lot of pain. She is unresponsive right now. She's crying right now, dude.

She is bawling her eyes out, dude. Sorry. I'm sorry, dude. It's a bread. You know the bread. I got the zone. I'm in the P zone. I'm sorry dude it's a Brad you know the Brad I got the zone I'm in the P zone I'm sorry

um yeah it is agonizing to watch her be like this um yeah is it too late for the Pitocin you think um sir I would like a word with you uh I was in the play place earlier and your daughter pushed my son to the ground

excuse me she let me finish please that is incredibly she pushed him to the ground and said rock chalk jayhawk i don't know what that is supposed to mean i'm not a bird lover myself but um oh i'm sorry dude okay oh is something funny no no i'm sorry it's just the prednisone oh we actually are really working on her hitting yeah i'm sorry oh oh man no i will i will tell her not to hit and then give her five spankings when we get home thank you so much yeah absolutely maybe give her some prednisone and scene all right yeah that was great i was gonna say please i think we're done because that laughing always gives me a little bit of a headache. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.

Oh, man. Inappropriate happiness. Inappropriate happiness. What a great side effect. You know? I've been very excited to see you up in Adam lately. Up? But not only up, also Adam.

Yeah. A lot of people get up. Not everyone gets Adam. You understand me? So thank you for doing both um that's fun it's like jake jake's like responding to texts early in the morning you know and not like 4 a.m no no that's that early in the way that's late yeah yeah yeah yeah it's like i don't know when does morning starts at 6 a.m i think six is when you could officially be up and adam

maybe 5 45 let's yeah let's say 5 45 it's way, cause you could still be up and Adam at 4am, but it's how you preface it. Like, well, you're still up and Adam. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no, no. You can't, you can't be Adam. You can't be Adam. No. And at 6am it's like, well, you're already up and Adam. Yep. Already up and Adam. You think you can be Adam at 4am? At 4am it's like, well, you're still up and Adam, huh? I think you're only up at 4am. There's no way you're up and Adam. You would say you're still up. Yeah. You're still up. And I'm, I think you're only up at 4 a.m. There's no way you're up and Adam. You would say you're still up? Yeah. You're still up?

And I'm, yeah, I'm still, I'm working. There's no way you're still up. I'm working. I'm up and Adam. No, I don't, Adam is like, you're, you're, you're at the top of your tank. You got plenty more left. You're up and Adam. I'm Adam. You are just up.

Okay. And you're barely up. You're just like. So 4 a.m. What are we, it's the opposite of Adam. Eve? Yeah. Adam, you still up and Eve? Molec like. So 4 a.m. What are we? It's the opposite of Adam. Eve? Graham?

You still up in Eve? Molecule. Yeah. That's what I'm going with. What do you think? Yeah. What does that mean? Adam? Adam it?

Adam? Where does that come from? Wait, are you joking? This is your Greenland. This is your region. Up in Adam? Yeah. Like at A-T.

And then the next word is like accent mark E-M. You're up in at them? Yeah. What does that mean? I mean, I get it now, but I'm trying to make you feel stupid about it. I'll be honest. I get it. Up and at them.

Yeah. Them being the tasks, the tasks ahead. Yes. You're up and at them. You're up and at them. Like you're getting after it. Up and at them. Up and at them.

Anyway, Nose Frida. The only reason I asked about that is because I think that this Wendy product, look up Wendy next. W-I-N-D-Y, I believe. Wendy City. It's from the same company. I would like actually for Scott to read the directions honestly on it. But basically, Rose was constipated for like three days in a row.

Oh, no. You go from the top floor to the basement. When a baby's struggling, it's just like, you could just tell, like the whole time, they're just like aching. And just like you watch it, and it's like, I feel so bad for you.

And so this thing literally- Get her some flax. So I think the directions on it, can you find the directions? I think it says something like, insert it like you would insert a rectal thermometer. I know, yeah yeah say no more i know how to do that we've all done that because we're from 1945 yeah how do you think i tested

for covid yeah step one massage belly gently downward towards rectum we do we do massage yeah we did massage lubricate windy tip we suggest coconut oil but any lubricant works we use coconut oil we suggest, but anything will work. Easy to... Use the stuff from that snot straw earlier. That should lubricate it. Lift legs and have a diaper ready. Trust us. Trust us. It could get messy. Ah, Wendy.

Gently insert Wendy and listen for the gas to pass. It will sound like a whistle within a few seconds. So you're not... Step five, discard Wendy. Dude. Oh, so there's no poop. You're just getting gas out? Brother, there's poop. Oh, is there poop? Oh, oh. Okay. The directions over here are talking about a whistle and you're acting like Iwo Jima. Step six is discard. Okay. Discard is a nice way of saying there's stuff in there.

All right, get it out. So you stick it in there and where you would put a rectal, rectal, rectal thermometer. No, I know. And the rectal thermometer area, I will say,

and genuinely like after like three, four seconds, all of a sudden it's like, you remember those vortex footballs back in the day? That's what this was like. It was like, like, like we were using it. We're like, I don't think it's working.

I don't think it's working. All of a sudden it's like, and then dude, like it didn't work. And we're like, well, this is a load of crap. Like so much for target pickup. Next thing you know, you this is a load of crap. Like so much for target pickup. Next thing you know, you've got a load of crap. Catherine goes, I'm going to try again.

And then didn't work. I'm going to try again. And like, she's like, this will be the last time. Third time. Didn't work. It's like the shrimp.

Yeah. She tried five times. I felt so bad for Rosie. I was like, I'm so sorry. Just like another, when you say try again, it's like another insertion basically.

Boom. Was she like, maybe I don't know. She was, she was trying the ATM one more time. Yeah. No, when you say try again, it's like another insertion basically. Boom. Was she like, maybe I don't know. She was, she was trying the ATM one more time. Yeah. No, this car,

there's money on this car. I know. Can you run it again? Maybe the pin is this. I might run it as credit. Run it as credit. So bro, like,

and, and Catherine, like, I don't know. She has this motherly instinct about her. Like she could tell she's like, Oh, Oh,

you, you're getting there. You're getting there. Oh was like it was like it was freaking Iwo Jima times 50 dude Okay, like you know like at McDonald's they have a Shema They have like the ketchup things and like every once a while. They just don't stop going It was like that dude all of stop going. It was like that, dude. All of a sudden it was like, hold there. There's something.

Three days worth. Yeah. It was, it was wild. Hold on. Another analogy for you. The Andy's ice cream machine. You seen that?

You know what I'm talking about? That's very fair. That's very fair. You're like, wow, it just keeps coming. The Andy's ice cream goes like this real slow down the conveyor belt. And you saw a kind of a faster.

Imagine like a F1 version of Andy's ice cream. I mean, it's whistling. So I mean, it just like boom right there. It was just right there. What did you have prepared to catch it? Catherine had a diaper right there. OK, it was like right when that happened. And I'm not like that grossed out by things like this is my third time being a dad.

I sprang up. I've never, never jumped that quickly. And I, I ran to the door of our room. I was like, Oh no, no, no. That is gross. And then I think I left the room and Catherine's like, she did it three more times after that. Huh? So if anybody's out there and their baby is having trouble with their gas

the windy works guys that's all i have to say dude i mean could our weekends have been any different i mean i'm just trying to find the basement mcdonald's and then seriously dude it was wild uh so yeah there was that that's beautiful i was performing at a place called the egg and you were finding out what happens when you fertilize it oh man so yeah that was that was that she did something tonight which i mean let me just preface by saying i'm not going to describe it well and it's not going to seem as cool as it was okay but i think it's easy sometimes for me to forget how skilled rachel is when it comes to setting a volleyball because she's playing which is scrubs all the time we're in this like

intermediate kind of recreational league and the score is like um 21 to 20 we're up you played at 21 so it's one by two so it's like it's game point for us and it's a really fun rally i mean it's going bump set spike 13 bump sets by guard team i was trying to do your strategy brad said it right away absolutely it was really hard dang and i was like and i was like i should listen to brad i fun rally. I mean, it's going bump set spike 13 bump set spike 13. I was trying to do your strategy Brad, set it right away. Absolutely. It was really hard. Dang. And I was like and I was like, I should listen to Brad. I was like, oh no, wait, he's never played pro volleyball. He still has his amateur status.

So I kept thinking of that. One more week of just amateur. But it really is like the longest rally of the night. This is really intense, really fun. And then Rachel, which is the softest of hands, looked like a came off of a pillow or something. But it really is like the longest ride tonight. This is really intense really fun and then Rachel which is the softest of hands looked like a came came off of a pillow or something supple Hey

Brad yes, you come to the front of class, please Hey when we're talking about Rachel, you're not gonna say supple, okay Do you want it? We're gonna try that again all right rachel set the ball beautifully like a pillow coming off of coming come coming off of her hands supple brad you can't dang it sorry That was the word I wasn't supposed to say? Yeah. Don't say supple. Nothing inappropriate about my girlfriend, please. I bump it to Rachel.

Everyone's expecting another set. It comes off of her hands just beautifully. So soft and perfect. The ball goes up. And instead of going to Isaac, which is what it had been, it had been bump set spike 10, 15, 20 times. No one is expecting it.

What was it? I said, okay. Actually listening. She just lofts it over the net to like no man's land. No one is there. We win the game.

It was gorgeous. That's awesome. That's all I have to say gorgeous gorgeous for the game rachel just texted me i hope potting oh she said isn't going well okay it's been a typo hold on let's wait hold on let's wait she's typing she's typing asterisk i hope i hope potting isn't going well. I'm going to say, hey, I'm talking about you right now. What was my words per minute? I'll judge it the way they did for Nolan Ryan. Not now. Oh, 88

and a half. Not bad. So, yeah, like I said, that probably doesn't the story prize to translate, but it really was awesome. It's like, oh, yeah. And then afterwards, it's just so strategic. Like, yeah, smart move. I strategic like yeah smart move yeah i was like could you do that every time she's like oh yeah you know like if she wanted to she could even as a center perfectly she could set it as like a what's called a kill you know like a winner oh as the center she could score a point every time yeah and she doesn't she sets it to people who've never played volleyball in their

life it was just awesome for everybody else yeah, you're really good at this. Right. Good for us. And now I was going to say the S word. I looked it up. I don't know why you think it's inappropriate. It means not stiff or hard. So Brad, do you think Principal O'Shaughnessy would think

that that is not inappropriate. If you went and told him what you told me, I looked up the definition and the example for it was her supple fingers. I'm not even joking right here. Bending and moving easily and gracefully, not stiff or hard. Her supple fingers. Hmm.

My mind is becoming more supple. So why don't you supple up on that? Supple cheeseburger. supple up on that? Supple cheeseburger. Supple up on that. Touche. Ipso facto. I'm your supple. So good job. I got, I got some new trunks, so they're good. New trunks. We're from?

Academy Sports and Outdoors in the trunk club. Trunk club. I think they just sell swim trunks, right? Yeah, that's how it works. Yeah, cool. They send you trunks,'re from uh academy sports and outdoors oh in the trunk club trunk club i think they just sell swim trunks right yeah that's how it works yeah cool they send you trunks he's in the back yeah academy sports academy sports i'm a big academy guy really i don't yeah i don't need i don't need like super high end scott's a big navel academy guy i know that your instructor his exploits are legendary that's probably a quote from Top Gun but I'm not sure

none of us get it you've seen it less than four times guess what Catherine did by herself on 4th July night ooh my parents uh were like katherine if you want to go hang out with your friends like for fourth of july you're you're more than welcome to we can watch the two younger kids because i know brad's out of town and uh she told me this she's like you know but like all my friends are like gone like they're like out of town like most gone she would hang out with thanks for bringing it up yeah they're they're gone they're gone brad shot him

they're never coming back uh but uh but i was like oh it's hot oh it's hot every time i readjust i'm reminded of how wet i am everywhere yeah how firmly stuck to you is that uh the stomach is soaked sorry go on katherine's friends are gone you're fine thank you anyway but i was like you should just go see top gun because we've been trying to find a babysitter to go watch top gun together for a while ever since i saw it and we haven't been able to and she's like that actually sounds awesome it, got out of the top gun at like 9.30, 10 o'clock, right as like, you know, it was dark out. All the fireworks were going off.

And she was like, it was euphoric. And she didn't get anyone, didn't have anyone to share it with. No, she called me later on and we talked about it. But yeah, it sounded awesome. If you guys, and this goes for Brad or Scott or anyone listening, within earshot, obviously by the time this comes out, it'll be too late. Henry. Anyone.

You want to see Elvis this weekend? You let me know. Okay. I would see it again. Okay. Okay. Maybe Saturday night. I got a pretty busy week.

Pickleball then Elvis. Okay. Okay. Okay. Hey. Okay. Sure. Okay.

Maybe double feature. Oh, you don't want to double feature. Top Gun then Elvis. Sounds pretty good. Wait. What pretty good wait what would the what would the oh top gun again uh isaac and katherine both saw that movie for the first time within the last week and both of them said that they thought of me during the movie and it just was like a proud father almost. Yeah, dude. It felt so good. Somebody's coming.

Who is it? What is that noise? I thought it was Junebugs hitting you, the sighting of your... Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Come sing a song with us. We were just talking about it. Catherine Ellis is here. Looks like she's about to go on a walk. Come here.

Come say hi. You're like, hey, you got some athletic shorts on this time at least. Last time Catherine was going on a walk, Rachel made fun of her. Rachel called her out, unfortunately. Come here. Something only a girl knows. What brand of shirt is that? Is that Walk in Love?

Yeah. Walk in Love shirt. It's one of my favorites. Cool. Yeah. Good color. Thank's one of my favorites. Cool. Yeah. Good color. Thank you. Fun summer color.

Thank you. Catherine, what does this song make you think of? Are you ready? What day? What day does it remind you of? What day of the week? No. What day of the week?

Brisk Tuesday. Saturday? Thursday. Brisk Tuesday. The third thursday probably third thursday hurt saturday office trivia coming up oh she is our neighbors

next door gonna go camping um we were just talking about how you went to uh top gun up for july by myself you told him that yeah i think it's awesome i'd go july by myself you told him that yeah i think it's awesome i'd go see it by myself i would love to go we need to have you in the microphone if you're gonna talk and on july 4th if you're gonna if you're when you're supposed to be with people she said yeah anyway i yeah it was fun did you tell him what i said about it yeah yeah and i

said that's a bummer she had no one to share it with. Yeah. Thank you. Obviously I understand like it's more fun with other people, but I, I also really enjoy doing things by myself sometimes. Yeah, I do too. I like, I do too.

Since it was the 4th of July, I would have probably appreciated a friend to enjoy it with, but. A friend. Didn't have to be a husband. Just any sort of companion. Maybe even an acquaintance. I would have settled for a three doors down neighbor.

Catherine, when you look at me and you think about going to the movies, what comes to mind? No, no, no. Is this a trick question? No, it's me asking you to see Elvis with me. Yes, yes, yes. I would love to. Thanks. Brad said no. And Scott said something about pickleball. When are we going to see it this weekend?

I said pickleball and Elvis. Friday night. Elvis. Wee! Hey. Oh. All of a sudden. No need for that companion anymore. It's Jack. If we both go, it becomes more complicated.

Yes, that's true. Hattie would love to go with you, though. My mom and I were talking about the Elvis movie, and mom was like, I want to go see Elvis. Really? Because she's seen Elvis's birthplace, so she's really into him. Yeah, yeah. Tupelo. Just confirmation that real life Brad is similar to podcast Brad.

It's not like some act that you know, that I'm putting on, you know, once a week, uh, whenever I watched the kids by myself, when Hattie was, or when Catherine was gone, uh, there was, you know, I was feeding them this taco skillet meal. And so it's like taco meat, whatever in the skillet, whatever. And, uh, Hattie kept being like, this meat is too spicy. This meat's too spicy. And and so for whatever reason I've developed this character Where I like basically put my lips over here and for five minutes straight all I did was go this meat is

spicy and then dude that character I don't know it's got a little I don't know it was got a little Walt Jr. in it

my motivation was not Walt Jr. my motivation was was the the scene in Home Alone 2

where he's like that was the sound of a tool chest falling down the stairs. But I mean, for five minutes straight, I would change up my volume on it. Sometimes I'd be like, this meat is spicy. And then he'd be like, dad, do it louder, do it louder. I'd be like, this meat is spicy.

You guys got to watch this. I'm just spitting like crazy, yeah. You guys got to watch it. I mean, Bo. Yeah, if you're listening on Spotify. Bo was peak. I mean, two years old is exactly what you need for that. I mean, dying.

Can you feel the spit on your chin? Or is it? No. Oh, yeah, good amount. Yeah, you got it. You got it. Sorry. I'm glad Bo Good amount. Yeah, you got it. You got it. Sorry. I'm glad Bo was entertained.

As were Scott and I. This podcast. This podcast is... Chunky! So it really did have an origin, that character. Yeah, it really did. When you were like, who was that? I was like, I don't know, except for this thing.

This character makes spicy foods and then like two days later like out of nowhere bo goes dad you say you say this meat is spicy i was like okay buddy and then we did it again for like you know a couple minutes so cheers is that la croix spicy this laroix is... Spicy! This episode? This episode is quirky. Over.

Oh. This episode is it's killing me gonna run out of tape over that was a perfect amount of time alright and as you guys know we end every episode the same with our reviews of the week and with the jingle. So here's our goofiest review of the year

alongside of a compilation of, uh, some of our favorite jingles. We hope you all have a wonderful upcoming year and just know how thankful we truly are to all of you for the endless support you give us. This podcast is a bright spot in our lives and so much of it is thanks to you and all of you for the endless support you give us. This podcast is a bright spot in our lives and so much of it is thanks to you and all of the blessings you are to us. So happy new year and we'll see you next week. Love you guys. My review of the week is from July 27th to 2022 from Ryan T. Jacobson. This podcast is definitely what's up five stars. I started listening to Ghostrunners a little over a year ago after catching wind of it from watching the first videos when the Gene Shorts

channel launched and I was instantly hooked. As a father of two young kids, I connected with Brad's hilarious stories about his awesome family and as a lifelong Iowan Iowan Iowan What's your name? Iowan

Is that how you pronounce it? Aaron? Are you saying Aaron with a speech impediment lifelong Iowan I've never been Iowan I'm saying you really don't know no I know okay lifelong Iowan it does sound weird yeah it's lifelong Iowan

Iowan okay so anyway as I was saying lifelong Iowan Ireland yeah Iowan where's Dublin my family's as a lifelong Iowan. I can't stop hearing Ireland with a speech impediment. Iowan, yeah. Iowan. Where's Dublin? My family's Irish. We said Iowan. Iowan. As a lifelong Iowan, I was so fucking proud of Jake when he bagged an Iowado.

Iowado. Iowado. Oh, your husband died? Yeah. Iowado. Oh, I get it. That took me a while. Iowado. I would know. Oh, I get it. That took me a while. I would know.

I would know. I would know. Good. You're good at those, like reverse injuring mad gabs. Dude, we're teaching Hattie. Sorry. I'm teaching Hattie nouns, adjectives, and verbs through mad gabs, and it's so fun. I would know.

I would know. I would know. All right. I'm going to start that. Sorry. Let me just start this from that sentence. I would I would though alright I'm gonna start that sorry let me let me just start this from the

that sense you wasn't but I was nice please my podcast and as a lifelong Iowan

I was so pumped and proud when he bagged when Jake came down he started a whole Donald Trumpy there

at the beginning of that no no no listen here okay there are great people up there I love their caucus Donald Trumpy there at the beginning of that no no no listen here okay they're great people up there I love their caucus great caucus

they whip it out talk about a hanging Chad okay as a lifelong Iowan I was so pumped and proud of Jake when he bagged an Iowa doe

good both guys no I'm not gonna both guys seem like awesome people awesome people I would enjoy being friends with

if I can't be friends with them in real life then hearing about their lives every week on the pod is definitely the next best thing after months of constantly referencing the pod with my wife I can't be friends with them in real life then hearing about their lives every week on the pod is definitely the next best thing. After months of constantly referencing

the pod with my wife, I wore her down enough that she started listening and now she's hooked too. They're clean, positive, Christian-based comedy. F*** that. Justin, do your thing. Sorry, I shouldn't do that for Christian-based comedy. We love Jesus.

Christian-based comedy is the best, better content out there, and it never fails to brighten up our day and uplift our spirits. We were so excited that Jake is coming to Des Moines. In Iowa. In Iowa. Coming to Des Moines with Trey in December and instantly bought tickets to the show. Now we get to spend the next few months eagerly looking forward

to getting to see Jake stand up in person. Longest review. That wasn't that long ever. That's great. If you're Ryan Jacobson right now, you got to be so pumped that we made all that out of your review. Jakey just hit the ball. He don't lose pickleball.

One table for pay. Brad works with wood all day. They met in the outdoors before they were 24. Brad saw that Catherine, babe of the week, my man. Jake has never pulled a tractor. They can't back a trailer. Steven's going to shake his fist at what they can't do later. Their podcasts aren't small.

We insert the call talk on their average lives and something has been alright since the podcast now talk show way before F12 yo there was Brad Deuce and Jakey and jingles done by Heather Lee they've got

fans in high school ghosties know Jake's life rules cause we're all preoccupied with ghosty ghosty The ghost runners lies. He said I should have listened to Henry And I would be living the dream Cuz we're the ghost Runners, the lovely Ghost Runners. Brad sings for you. Yeah, Jake takes his shirt off too. Because we're the Ghost Runners, the only Ghost Runners.

Blanks out the week. Oh, who's Brad's babe today? Jakey, do you want to hit up or drive through? I might sneeze, I might sneeze So maybe Chick-fil-A and some Sonic 2 We could go Mickey D's for some ice cream treats That sounds good. Just not for Bo.

Don't want to deep clean my seats. So Louis, that's from a... And they'll see so that the Reddit posts are real funny. But get on Patreon. It's worth all of your money. Hattie's dad

makes this podcast rad! His buddy Jake is also not bad! Ghosties can't you see? Trey who is not for me! We know what makes us glad, this podcast with Jake and Brad! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

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Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! She was unashamed The handprints on his shirt Were an invitation to flirt She gets on board with Mike's at work She texted him, yeah him She gets bored with Mike's at work She texted him, yeah him Singing you don't even know

Just trying to deliver a kennel baby You don't even know Just trying to deliver a kennel, baby You don't even know Oh, Karen wants to take a swim with me That's so good. Ow! The Oklahoma Joes Yeah, just try and stop me Dean Allen's in the house tonight

He found it again. Kansas City's gonna be a good vibe Missing F12 would be a crime Everybody's here for a good time Climb your head! Mr. James is in the house tonight Kansas City's gonna be a good vibe Missing F12 would be a crime.

Hey, Jake, Rachel, really? Likes you. Every day I'm pickling. The Governor's Podcast. Hey! Whoa! Sought it out this Monday in the usual way. Listened to Jake and Brad And all that they did that day

Another time listened to an episode That's somehow even better than the last I opened up my Facebook And read some ghosty memes About how Catherine gave birth assisted by Big Daddy MD and somewhere along this podcast

it hit us like a Mahomes throw this is the most epic community and everybody wants more episodes the Ghost Runners Podcast. Mondays with Jake and Brad.

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