Ghostrunners - 194 - Speaking Spanish for an Entire Weekend

Episode Date: January 16, 2023

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As you guys know, I was previously a boyfriend and girlfriend with a girl named Rachel Koop. Yes. She's now my fiance. In one of our upcoming Jean Shorts videos, the outro, you say, this is my future wife. I don't know if I've heard you say that yet. It did seem weird when I said it. I was excited. I think on the video when I was filming, I go, wow.

And then later on, I felt like it was like me saying that about Rachel. This is my future wife, Rachel. Wow. I was like, saying that about rachel like this is my future wife rachel wow i was like oh boy not bad whoa i see you triplet my boy's growing up anyway um that same girl who brad is so proud of your future wife which is telling us a story she was subbing yesterday. Substitute teaching. Subbing. Sometimes when I say that,

people think like, oh, she did basic training? Yeah. She's doing a submarine? No. She's a Beatles fan, so she does want to live in a yellow submarine someday.

Subbing? Oh, sandwich artist? No, no, no, no, no. Shawnee Mission High School, Northwest Division. Yeah. She did work at Quiznos back in the day, though.

Thought about Schlotzky's. Couldn't pronounce it super well. Couldn't do it. Yeah. Couldn't spell it. Couldn't pronounce it. Anyway. So, anyway, here she is subbing.

Just subbing. And not like a replacement player on a basketball team. Like, not someone coming in halfway through the game. Like, hey, I'm a sub here. Not doing that. Not doing that either. This is a temporary position with shawnee mission school district okay on monday sorry one more thing that i love about

rachel is that i mean she's not from here obviously and so for the longest time she was working only in shawnee mission so she'd be like oh yeah i was at northwest high school and in kansas city there's like you know five or six Northwests. And so I'm always like, what? At first, I didn't know. So anyway, now she always is like, Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. You know, like very specifically. So go ahead. She was just telling us a little story that she was calling roll.

Which, it's not like a buttered roll. You're not a chef, like making a gourmet, like dinner for somebody. It's not like a California roll. No calling role. Right. Different. Yeah. It, she doesn't have like a number program in her phone.

Like, Oh, it's not like I got a call roll real quick. Oh, Mike roll. Roll. Are you there? It's not that it's not like that.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Let's all right. This is going to be confusing. She was calling roll and, i'm just i'm just excited to think about the next thing that we're gonna you're never gonna get through this she um called on a boy not on her cell phone not not literally on a boy like she's not sitting on the boy while she's calling on him like she's she's she's like requesting this boy can we sorry we're all over the place can we back up she was actually telling

us a different story about this and we all you and i both kind of paused and we're like can we go back i'm distracted i'm not even listening to what you're saying right now tell the story about something completely different go ahead and we're like back up on this part. So she calls, she's like, uh, Adam. And he said, Adam is my dead name. Yeah. I go by this now. I go by teal now is what I heard. Apparently he has teal hair.

I have never heard the phrase dead name. Maybe, maybe we're, we're just 32 years old and just, just old or 31. It reminds me of all the coffee shops who asked me for a good name yeah it makes sense now because there are adjectives to names all this time i thought we only had one name they're trying to clarify i don't want your dead name i don't want your active name good i think i think you should next time you ask them or somebody asks you that just be like can i can i clarify what i heard did you say do you want a dead name because that is adam adam can't come to the phone right now. He's dead.

Is that what Taylor Swift? I'm cool. I know these things. You do. Uh, yeah. Uh, can I get a good name for that? Or, uh, actually, uh, no, shoot. I did it wrong. Oh, Hey Brad, what's your name? Uh, my dead name is Lazarus. Uh, but now that I'm awake, uh, it's, it's Awkwafina. Hey, what's your name over there, bud? Well, wait, Jake, right? Sorry. I nailed this. I'm doing great. Hey, buddy.

Your name's... Hey, can I get a good dead dead for... So anyway. Good dead dead. Too far. Too far. Too far. Uh-oh. good dead day too far too far too far uh oh

ooh I ooh I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white me too

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Ghost Brothers Podcast Ghost Brothers Podcast every Monday morning we'll be taking round Ghost Brothers Podcast We're back with another episode. I think this is 194. We're recording in the afternoon. If you watch on YouTube, we got a little sunlight coming through.

It feels like it's been a long time since we've recorded in the daytime. Is that right? A very long time. We get a little bit wilder when we're during the nighttime, I think. Probably. I'm trying to get zany right now. We'll step it up. Scott couldn't be with us today.

He's in a better place. And we got some fun changes to announce for the future in this episode. We got some fun changes to this episode. Hello. Stick around and find out. Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down uh jake what's the deal with the wii what do you uh like nintendo wii yeah just genuinely i had the idea

the other day i was like did the wii just come out kind of revolutionizing nintendo and then just like nothing ever came like i feel like since the xbox came it was like the wii xbox and playstation 2 all came out around the same time correct i feel like we was afterwards a little bit but like that same generation and then it felt like there's been five xboxes since then and the wii is just kind of the wii that's a good point yeah have they like like are they still making the wii the wii i don't know if i go to walmart can i buy a wii i think what it was is the nintendo switch is probably the new iteration of that because it has like a gyroscope in it. Like, you know, you can do like motion controls.

They do. Okay. So you can Wii on the Switch. We can. We can. You and I can. Yes. Okay.

We all can. Okay. Because I genuinely was like, like, I don't know. I was like, Wii Sport. Like, I saw a kid, like a five-year-old playing Wii Sports the other day. And I was like, okay, are they, did they, her parents buy that or did they have it from when they were teenagers?

Yeah. Do you ever hear those things of like, snakes on a plane is actually called high up snakes in China because it translates to devil in the sky. Or you know, so like, that's a weird example. Do you think the Nintendo Wii had to have a new name in France? Oh, because it meant urinate. No.

Oh, Wii Wii. Oh, yes. P. Oh yeah. Uh, yeah. I think, yeah, it's called Nintendo. Yes. Nintendo. Yes. Nintendo. Yeah. That's a fun idea. Yeah. What about like Xbox? Yes. Back in the day, did you, instead of saying yeah on uh instant messenger did you say yeah y-e-e-u-h i did it all the time oh really yeah maybe i might have thrown a yup y-u-p y-u-p-p you're a yup guy yep i was a yeah i was a lilas love you like a sister and i was an lol guy never a ha ha or a t-he i unfortunately spelled tonight T-O-N-I-T-E. Really? And I would also spell no, K-N-O.

Just K-N-O. Oh, let me know. Yeah. Just save a little space on the W there. Tell me you were not a cool K-E-W-L guy. I don't think so. I can't imagine. One of my best friends, Logan, was and drove me crazy.

Okay, cool, cool. Just spell it normal. Just kills me to this day because especially on t9 i know you're talking about like aim or whatever well same i think you would do it everywhere t9 you got you're almost like uh it values spelling things the right way because then you know it's trying to predict what you're texting you throw in a kwl in there it's like yeah oh fun little game what would that be on a keypad if you do k so it'd be what five three eight yeah five i'm basing this purely off of just my own dome right now it's probably off five three nine five i was close would actually be probably i don't't know. Look at the letters.

What do you think? J-E-W-L. No, J-E. Jewel. I don't know if there's a word, man. Maybe it would be cool. I don't know how we, can we do a T9 predictor? T9 text.

Yeah. Texting keyword. I'm sure you can. Oh, cool, cool. I was like, Logan, stop. Logan also did T-He. T-He. I was like Logan stop Logan also did teehee teehee he's a kid out here a teehee all right I found a like a t9 oh all right so it it said ju5 ju5 okay yeah that also works but you don't want to write out Jews so you put5 it's like a license

plate i was also never a guy that like yeah changed yeah numbers into letters and all that stuff but if you start doing that a few years ago they would say um like i5 give you instead of four oh that was like kind of a thing like b5 instead of before oh really i i don't know if i've heard that i've heard i five give you um i i was meaning more like using a three instead of an e like 303 now that wasn't really in in place of uh of letters was it no i was thinking that punk band from back today remember them uh you don't remember 303? 303? No, 311. Three Doors Down. Who's 311?

311? Who's 311? 311's way bigger than whoever 303 is. No way. No way? No, there's no way. 311's legendary. I've never heard of them.

303, British girl group. You lost me right there. Based in London. What was their song? Oh, Don't Trust Me. Don't trust me. Don't trust me. Don't trust me.

Nope, don't know it. Really? No. You don't know that song? Play it a few seconds. Okay. Wow. Everyone. No, no, no, really no you don't know that song play a few seconds. Okay, Jimmy Wow everyone Is it three Oh H three three Oh H exclamation point three. I think I've heard that

Yeah, kinda yeah, I'll see these are not it's huge these are not girls the wikipedia thing was wrong i was gonna say i think they were guys hey hey dead name dead name dead name all right 311 band huge what is their song hum me their song however far away i will always love you Whoa Amber is the color of her energy Honestly, they were Rachel's leaving. Rachel, do you know who 311 is? No. She's a Gen Z. She doesn't know.

I don't know who James is. Shut your mouth. Shut your mouth. 311 is an American rock band from Omaha, Nebraska. Oh. I think they were bigger back when we were you know 10 311 band total no just record how do you want to measure it grammys grammys i bet

they got a grammy i don't like that i'm being recorded in this argument just in case i'm completely wrong what if 311 now that i'm learning that they're like kind of local to omaha like maybe they were just played a lot on our radio station i think they're a pretty big deal though i don't know how to find out how to compare the popularity from one band to another oh here we go 311 sold over 7 million albums including 7 million in the united states including yeah omaha big big 311 town i mean their last album oh that's not true never mind i was gonna say the last album was in 20 no they've they're still coming out with stuff anyway are they everything but but they were they were big in like the 90s and early 2000s anyway what's the deal with the wii oh hold on i gotta i gotta get to the bottom of

this what if i'm wondering if 303 was not big at all oh i bet they're one hit wonder i i will say when you said 303 at first i didn't hear about him and then i thought to myself i think i've seen like something blank oh h exclamation point blank so yeah i uh i think they had a few songs i'm gonna look into this later you know what or we never look it up ghosties poll for this week who is more popular in your eyes 303 or 311 i'll say spotify wise 303 is huge compared to 311 really not as in the monthly listeners but they have a song oh the don't trust me song has 224 million plays

311 is not that good but I think it's because they were big so long ago yeah Woodstock 99 I bet 311 was there really yeah I can't believe I've never heard of them I bet they were like one of the big ones I don't know I'll tell you right now I think I already like 311 better because I'm pretty sure three or three was that band

who had the lyric. Um, it was like, Hey girl, shake your hips, do the Helen Keller and talk with, what was it? Talk with your lips, talk with your hip. It wouldn't be talking with your lips. That's a, that's a, we talk, talk with your hips. I think do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips. Didn't like that.

You didn't, you didn't get into that. No. Does that from that song You didn't get into that? No. Is that from that song? I don't know. Okay. They all sound the same. British girl group. Anyway, sorry to start with the tangent with the Wii.

Oh, yeah. It all started from the Wii, huh? But I just had that thought the other day of like, could I buy a Wii right now? Or is it like a hot commodity like on the, you know, secondhand market? Or like, are they still producing them i don't know no i think it's dead it's a dead name did you ever have an xbox connect no because that came out a little bit after the wii and really blew it out of the water it just wasn't nearly as popular you think it blew out of the water based on technology yes yeah because you didn't

have to have controllers and the we only knew what like your right wrist was doing that's it the xbox connect was like a 3d scan of your body yeah and it knew what like your right wrist was doing that's it the xbox connect was like a 3d scan of your body yeah and it knew what every appendage was doing and what your head was doing and true felt way more advanced no i never had anything past the original xbox that was where i stopped good i think xbox connect was for 360 so 360 in my head is like oh you're rich you have a 360 to this day like congrats on your promotion i assume right yeah so original xbox just reminded me i need to make a note that wherever whenever bachelor party we got to bring xboxes to play halo 2 yes that sounds so fun dude i still have don't do it then

when are we going to do it i still have an xbox but it overheats after like 45 minutes and then doesn't really work for a couple of coolant maybe got to get some coolant. Maybe. Went working on that. Yeah. Jake saved me last week. My truck basically broke down. Not even basically. It stopped. It stopped running.

I was, it was like overheating as I was driving to film Gene Schwartz last week. And I was like, I think I can make it on the highway. But eventually it like did this thing where it was like engine overheating or, you know, engine overdrive power saving mode or something like that. All of a sudden it wouldn't let me drive more than like 40 miles an hour. So I was just coasting. I went, I got on the shoulder of the highway. I don't think I told you all this got on the shoulder of highway and just kind of like bumped along. Luckily my exit was the next exit and then got close to where we were meeting at the library, tried to parallel park, uh, put in reverse once and kind of

got it close and i was like i'm not that close to the curb tried to put it back and drive and it just dies and so i was like six feet from the curb maybe like kind of far but like close enough to where it was like we know what this guy's trying to do trying to park yeah and i was like we're not gonna be there that long it'll be fine and yeah long story short got it fixed i had a car that was overheating i think it was the the uh the dodge doesn't matter can't even think of it impala chevy impala yeah it was overheating back in the day and i remember uh yeah we just have to like pull over just wait for it to cool down and so i did that one morning on the way back from like a small group it's always pulled

over on the highway and just uh didn't know what else do. So I just took a nap. It was an early, you know, small group at 6.30. Right. So I took a little nap and I woke up to a police officer knocking on my window. And I like jumped up and I scared him. Like I was scared of him and I also scared him.

Really? Because he said, we got a call that there was a dead guy in this car. So they thought I was dead. Wow. So they were like really happy to see me that I was alive. Yeah.

And I was just confused. And they were like, yeah, we need you to get going I was like, well my car might be overheated Well, yeah, you gotta follow me home sir. Okay, you push I'll put a neutral you push me Have you always been a heavy sleeper like you're long as I can remember Yeah, okay, cuz Hattie is kind of an amazingly heavy sleeper and I'm excited for her for like, I think that's such a skill. It's great. And I think it's, you can't really learn it.

Can you? I mean, maybe to an extent you can, I guess, become more immune to things, but it's not like you had a ton of stuff going around or going on around you as a kid, which is you and your sister. I don't think it was a learned behavior. Yeah. It seems like you just, some people have it. I just, I just want her to have that for the rest of her life.

It is good. Didn't you say both slept for like 11 hours? No, like 14 hours. No, like 17 hours or something like that. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. I slept, I'm coming off a 11 hour sleep right now.

Really? So if you feel a little differently, like if you feel like Brad's, Brad's changed here. It's because of that. I have not done good with my eight hours of sleep New Year's resolution yet. It's hard. It is hard. Yeah. You have to either.

Yeah. You have to obviously sacrifice one way or the other. Like sleeping in. You have to do less stuff at night. Uh-huh. It stinks. Yeah. It's like, okay, I got to go to bed now.

I'm not used to this, but you'll figure out the rhythm. That's what I'm working on right now is just rhythms and trying to get. It's January 10th. We got time. Plenty of time. Yeah. Yesterday was like the first day I like really started to implement anything. I told you this already, but I had the worst headache last night. That's why I got so much sleep. So I was like, I'm going to bed. I don't want to be awake. Nothing else sounds fun except for sleeping. And so, yeah, I don't know if it was caffeine or sugar or both,

but I'm trying to be better. And yeah, you're, you're intermittent fasting, intermittent fasting. Yeah. It could be a lot of different things. It could be like, yeah, yeah, whatever. I I've done very good to my water. That's been the thing I've been trying to drink a lot of water. You're chugging it. Um, yeah, it's good. It's actually kind of interesting. There's been a few different guys that have reached out on Instagram, like ghosties and be like, Hey man, like if you want to like, or either encouraging me or saying like, I'm interested in doing this too. So I don't know what that means for how, if we can like get a community going or something of like accountability or something, but, uh, I don't, I don't have it

all fleshed out in my head, but if anybody's interested, Brad's interested. Yeah. Maybe we'll do something on the Facebook group about it, but, um, yeah, hopefully it's going well. Two days in so far and we'll see so far. So good. So far, so it, but, um, yeah, hopefully it's going well. It's two weeks, two days in so far and we'll see so far. So good so far. So good. But, um, yeah, you, it it's make it count 2023, right? Uh, I heard that you made a count in Orlando this past week. I did make a count, uh, with quite a few different things. Yeah. You were a a busy boy it was a busy boy time for me it was just uh yeah we never really done it quite like this it was like shooting mood swing stuff all day long and then uh two stand-up shows each night basically so it was just a jam-packed schedule i think i was so behind on texting people responding to people all day long sorry let me

interrupt like how much time did you have in between finishing up jean shorts and you have to be at the club? The channel is actually called Mood Swings. Sorry, jean shorts. I'm going to always like screw up. Like did you watch Mr. Beast's latest jean shorts video? It just describes a YouTube video. I don't know how much time it was because one of the days we were there, there was a little little bit of a rain delay and so that added an extra hour and a half to the time we thought we would have at home so yeah um not long it was just like quick like go home uh you know maybe 20

minutes shower um get an uber go get dinner somewhere or go get it at the club so it was all pretty quick i uh i fell asleep between shows for the first time ever wow never done that before between shows not like during trey set uh yes during trey set into the next show so i got done performing i was in the green room uh whatever it would have been saturday night football was on i just fell asleep in there woke up to trey coming in there yeah that jaguar titans game was that boring really so i guess i was just exhausted because alan is usually in there was alan in there and he was in there yeah yeah right there next to me i guess if you have something

else on tv that makes a little bit easier like socially to fall asleep it's not just him yeah because that's what i thought i was like i could never do that if somebody else is in the room you know i guess the opener might have been in the room, too. He was gone during that time. Honestly, when I fell asleep, I was the only one in the room. Because Alan, I remember I fell asleep to them singing White People Wedding. And I was like, oh, this is nice. Okay.

Put me to sleep. Nice. Now I came back and I was asleep. Anyway, but yeah, jam-packed weekend. The shows were great. Had some good crowd work moments. Some that I think are at least one that's pretty postable, I think, for Instagram, which is always fun. We feel like you get a clip.

Heck yeah. It just worked out great. This girl told me uh i was talking to this guy and i was like who you here with tonight what's her name and he's like her name's mika and i just kind of i was like oh okay i met a few dogs named mika which i haven't i just like seemed like a funny thing to say or whatever and um i was glad i said that because instantly this guy goes my parents dog is named mika no it's always like dude i mean that's not even like a popular name for a dog or a human you know i just couldn't believe it and so anyway just had a few jokes after that um that's awesome yeah that's amazing like what amazing coincidence i know like

it's crazy the fact that you said it to begin with the fact that you were like i'm gonna make this joke about a dog and hope that people think it's funny even though no one's ever heard of a dog named me i know it wasn't even like and they're like he's like funny you say that it totally is a dog's name my parents have that dog it's not like her you know his wife's name was sparky yeah it was quite the risk and yeah i paid off i'm just getting more comfortable with crowd work and feeling like not everything needs to be this hilarious thing. Like, I think you used to kind of like, OK, don't say it unless you know it's going to be funny. And now it's like 60 percent of what I'm saying isn't really a joke, but it's leading me to something later.

You discover it in so many ways. That was fun and had some good jokes afterwards. So I'll post that soon. I that I'm going to be thinking about that. Like just how like what a blessing. Like, boom, like what a blessing. Like boom. Like to call on that person. Yeah. For her to say that.

For you to think that quickly about, I mean, just you couldn't script that again if you tried. And I feel like you'll hear in the clip whenever I do post it, the crowd was not nearly as shocked as I was. I was like, you're, I couldn't, I was like stuttering. I was like, your parents' dog's name is Mika too? That's what I'm saying. Like, it's like almost not even funny.

It's almost just like, what? Like, just like mind boggling. Yeah. Yeah. That was fun. I mean, you couldn't, like, if you tried to be like, uh, you know. What's a perfect setup? Like, hey, hey man, what's your name?

Angela. Whoa, that's a mom's name, Angela. Like, I guarantee you almost every single time this husband would not be like, that's actually my mom's name. You know, like, and the fact that you didn't go for like another woman, you went for a dog and it was that guy's parents.

I don't know. I've I'm floored by all this. Thank you for understanding it. Yeah. I was like, that is phenomenal. And trade kind of had a similar moment too. He was talking to a homeschooled girl.

And so he was like, how long were a homeschooled girl. And so he was like, how long were you homeschooled? And she was like, just until eighth grade. And then I went to private Christian school. And so trace it. Somebody who's like, Oh, your mama teach you there too. And the girl's like, yeah. He's like, Oh my gosh. He's like, so you were just doing homeschooled remote until eighth grade or whatever. Yeah. Homeschool 2.0. It's always fun when those things happen. But for every one of those that does happen, I feel like there a ton that you know just well that's why that that that's my point like that's why it was so nuts wow that's so cool anyway amidst all that we had uh quite the fiasco and you know i don't like to curse are we saying fiasco or are we calling it a snafu

this was was this is a straight up fiasco. This was a high key fiasco. Okay, high key. Probably. I don't know. Probably. Yeah. I'll throw also... Yeah. Maybe start out of the snafu. Start out.

We got a bit of a snafu. Yeah. Next thing I know, a few hours pass, we got a full blown fiasco. Jake looked around and goes, guys, I'm just going to say it. This is a fiasco. No, Jake. No, no, no. Guys, it is. It a fiasco. No, Jake. No, no, no. Guys, it is.

It's fiasco. We're fiascing. You don't feel that? We fiasced for this. And Brad's intermittent fiascing. Come on. Come on. All right.

All right. So I'm excited to hear this because like this is one of those. So many times we're like, we tell each other things because it's impossible not to talk like friends do. This was one of those ones where Jake's like, I'm saving for the podcast. Gotta save it. Yeah. And if anyone, any OG ghosties out there, which I met a couple. Now that I think about it, it was fun. I met quite a few ghosties. I met two back to back at one of the Orlando shows. The first one, she was like, hey, I've been listening to your listening to your podcast i was like awesome she's like for about three weeks i was like that's so fun nice

like imagine you just discovered a podcast and then like three weeks later you meet the guy you're like this is great that would be fun i'm gonna start listening more podcasts yeah and then the very next person i met was like i've been listening since like episode 20 i was like that's so fun to get like both ends of it well anyway if you've been listening since you know episode 40 or 50 or so i went to tulum in 2019 and had quite the fiasco there. I think this is a similar fiasco in multiple ways. Oh, muy similar. This is going to be told in multiple parts because I don't want to just tell one long story for 20 minutes.

Okay, so part one is called. Oh, the title of it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like chapter one. Okay. Okay, chapter one. The beginning. Colon.

Colon. When a snafu is not just a snafu. The beginning colon. That's such a long pause. I still don't have anything. Colon. The beginning colon. The start.

The start. In parentheses. that was worth the wait in parentheses when a snafu turns into fiasco you know where this is going yeah close dash slash sd cards sd cards oh in the uber orlando florida is calling me right now oh you know you don't think That's fun Mika It's almost I gotta answer this You gotta answer it It almost always says scam likely

It doesn't say scam likely What if it's just Answer, answer, answer Hi, this is Brad Hi, good, Todd I'm actually recording a podcast Do you mind if I call you back? Okay, sir.

Okay, thank you. Listen to Ghost Runners. Sure thing. Who was that? We signed up for a Timeshare presentation 10 years ago. Not 10 years ago. It was when we were pregnant with Hattie, when we were on a trip to Orlando to see Michael Sloan get married.

And ever since then, probably five times a week, I get calls from Hilton on a recorded line talking to you about a timeshare. Oh, nice. So she'll probably just tell him stop. Honestly, I almost just always hang up on him now. I used to be kind and now I just. Eight years. I feel bad.

It's a long time. All right, let's get to the story. So Trey goes ahead and goes to the show right away like i don't even know if he showered after golf i'm like i'm gonna shower i'll just take a separate uber who cares um and we like to record our shows in case you talked to a couple mikas you know and so i was gonna bring uh my sd card but i really didn't need anything else i'm like am i gonna bring my whole backpack just for one sd card no i'll just take that i'm gonna put in my wallet derek sees me doing that he's like dude you don't need to take your SD card in your wallet.

I have like an SD card, like carrying case. I was like, oh, that's kind of fun. Yeah. Derek has the gear. Yeah. Safer. And so he gives me that. Derek was going to ride with me at the last second. He's like, you know what? I've already seen the show. I was like, dude, I totally get it. He was like, I'm just going to go to Chick-fil-A. I was like, I think that's definitely the best move so i get an uber with a guy named diomedes i assume you pronounce it dio yeah m-e-d-e-s diomedes type 2 diomedes yeah i in my head i kept thinking it was diomedes yeah diomedes diomedes sounds like like a greek god you're gonna diomedes diomedes and potatoes yeah there you go yeah i don't know yeah and so i get in to Diomedes. Diomedes and potatoes. Yeah, there you go. Yeah.

I don't know. So I get in with Diomedes and right away, he is an elderly Hispanic man. Okay. Right away, I can tell he only speaks Spanish. Okay. Not a problem. Just need him to go to the address. No big deal.

And almost immediately, we pull out of the like condo complex we're in and he takes, he is beginning to take a wrong turn down a one-way street this is not like a downtown one-way street this is like going the wrong way down shawnee mission parkway like the speed limit is like 45 or 50 oh in fact it's so fast derrick told me the next day when i was like i'm gonna run across the street to go chick-fil-a derrick's like just a heads up the cars are moving faster than you think they are you gotta like sprint a little bit i was like when you're like're like going to literally run across the street. Literally run across the street to go to Chick-fil-A.

So it's that type of, it's the type of road where you'd have to warn your friends if they're crossing it on foot. It's a popular road. Yeah. Three lanes. Okay. Speed limit's 45 miles an hour, I think. Okay.

He is starting to go the wrong way down that to start the Uber ride. And so I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. A la derecha, a la derecha. Oh, look at you. I don't know much Spanish, but when i need it apparently it kicks in and so i was screaming at him in spanish like in a nice way like to the right oh okay you got it and i'm like oh my gosh and so right around that time rachel's texting me like hey how's it going i haven't like barely texted her all day i'm like yeah it has been crazy i'm finally in an uber

we're fine he just tried to go the wrong way. And then, I mean, two minutes later, I'm having to say, we just got honked at. Another one. We just got honked at again. And he starts confirming every turn with me, which is kind of a funny thing for an Uber driver to do. Here? Here? Yes.

Yes. Left here. Did you pull it up on your phone like immediately? Well, I could see his, the map was up. So I was just like, yeah, do that. And then it would say to turn right. He's like, here? I'm like, yeah, that's right. And then it would say, go left. And he'd say, So I was just like, yeah, do that. Yeah. And then it would say to turn right either here. I'm like, yeah, that's right. And then it would say, go left.

And he'd say to here, I'd say, yeah, go left. I have a feeling it's not going to be a good idea to, to defend Diomedes. Cause he's going to get on the wrong track eventually. Let me say the hardest thing about, uh, the initial, like the directions anywhere is that initial first turn. It feels like you're always kind of turned around on maps and it's like, I think, I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to go this way,

but it tells me to turn left. It's like head east and then go this way. Totally with you there. A little bit confusing. That's all I'll say. Any parking lot, parking garage. Yeah. How have maps companies not figured out

what a parking garage is? They know where parking garages are located, but it doesn't, yeah. So I'll say that. And then maybe he just lost his confidence and he's like, I need his help now. I don but and then maybe he just lost his confidence and he's like i just i need his i don't know what turns are anymore yeah so he's confirming every term not a huge deal um at one point yeah we just get honked out one time for like he we just switched

a ton of lanes really quickly another time he like is like so hesitant to take a right on a red um that he's not going so he's getting honked out by the car behind us. So he starts to go, then he almost hit some pedestrians crossing the street. We get flipped off. So kind of a bonus, two honks, one finger. Yeah, yeah, two honks equals one flip. Yeah, and so then he realizes,

okay, I went too far in the street. So he starts backing up and then he almost hits the car behind us. They have to honk again. Backing up in an active street. Yeah, yeah, so I'm like, oh, easy, easy. Right there in this car. So it's just, it's's a mess and we get to like this kind of promenade area this is the very first night of the show so i don't really know where to go okay and i'm

starting to cut a little close because of how long this has taken sure and he just can't get me to where like i need to go and it's taking forever to make any kind of turn and so i'm just so stressed eventually i am just like you know what this is good this is good make any kind of turn and so i'm just so stressed eventually i am just like you know what this is good this is good and i just run out of there i'm like sorry have a good night thank you yeah bill me and because i mean it was like 6 50 and the show starts at 7 i would like to be there yeah somewhat beforehand oh because i was also hooking up uh my canna cook friend jackson mitchell and his friend with tickets they've been there since 6 15 and i kept being like should be there any second and you know since 6 20 heading that way with diabetes and so i needed to like

get them in and then i needed to like maybe take a breath to focus before i'm about to stand up and so i'm running out i just sprint out of uber i'm running a full day already it's not like yeah you've had a lot of time mentally to prepare for this no time to mentally prep and so i um get jackson i say what's up meet his friend who's a ghosty by the way really fun long time ghosty nice and um anyway get in there and i get ready to get the um camcorder set up and i realize i forgot the sd card case in the uber not oh because of how quickly i sprinted out of there okay the end of part one that yeah that's like one quarter of a page and you see like the end of the chapter and it's like,

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It's been a great week, man. We celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary this past week. Ninth anniversary getting called from Orlando timeshares. Yeah, exactly. It's, it's wild. I, I, I don't know. I eventually, maybe, maybe this is a year that I've kind of started to think we've been married for a long time.

Like I've never really thought that before. And then I kind of like look back on like when we got married, Isaac McDonald was like a sixth grader, you know? And now he's like, TikTok didn't exist. Now he's like, Hey Brad, you want a beer? And I'm like, yeah. You know, like, yeah. Like I didn't know Jake when I got married. Like I did it, whatever, all these different things. I didn't have an iPad when I met Jake or when I got married. Who was the chief's quarterback nine years ago? Maybe Matt Castle. That was the year after there was no, I think it was Alex Smith.

Actually it was the year after we got married was the year, like the infamous, like Catherine sat on my lap and like was trying to be nice to me while I was watching the chiefs. I had high hopes for them. And she just goes, Brad, the chiefs suck.

They're going to lose. Like it was like the chiefs versus the bears. The bears were terrible, Brad, the chiefs suck. They're going to lose. Like it was like the chiefs versus the bears. The bears were terrible. And like the chiefs are supposed to be good. What are they doing? And since that like talk where the chiefs lost to the bears, then they won like 11 games in a row, went to the playoffs.

They've been in the playoffs every year. I think with Andy Reed, haven't they? Yeah. Anyway, all I have to say, we've been very a while, like since Andy Reed's been our coach,

basically. You went from what was like a decent while to now it's a long time. You got bumped up into that. I think so. Maybe mentally, mentally. I think of it like you're never going to truly feel, it's kind of like when you're 30 years old and you're like, I don't feel 30 years old. I feel like a high schooler still in some ways, it's kind of that same idea with like, with marriage, where it's like, I still feel like a newlywed but then you look on like look at the facts for a second brad like kiddos yeah you got three kids and yeah you're excited about getting a gray sweater for christmas you know um so we did what we have done for the last however many years five six years we went to the melting pot and it was awesome and it was just

like really good conversation another thing that like I think happens less and less as you get, hopefully farther into marriage is that you argue less. Like I remember a few times at the melting pot, like so often we kind of review our previous year and then we make goals for the future. And sometimes like the goals for the future segment would get a little bit testy because either like I would be overzealous of like, no, like I think we should do this. And Kelly's like, I don't know. And I'm like, no, you can do that. I know you can do that. Like, I don't know if I can, you know, like all these different things or vice versa, where Catherine would be like, I think we should add a second story to our house. And I'd be like, that's going to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. You know, I wasn't that extreme, but like, you know, things like that, where she's like more overzealous on, you know, things that I get nervous about financially.

And I'm more overzealous on like, we can change, we can be better. Yeah. Um, so anyway, none of that. Oh yeah. It's had great conversation. We had a great dinner. We went, we stayed at a hotel that night, like a fancy hotel, the Raphael. Ever heard of Lodge?

Fully booked, I assume. Yeah. Kind of Lodge was a option number two. Okay. Um, no, but it was right over there by the plaza. It was great. And then hung out in the plaza the next day. My parents were awesome rock stars for watching my kids.

So nothing too extreme or anything like super crazy that happened. I don't think it was just, it's a really fun time at the melting pot, man. I have your bend. I still have not. I would like to though. It's so fun. I think, I think you would love it. I don't know who wouldn't love it.

I'm sure I would. It seems like such a long time to just be at a restaurant. That's what's nice. It's a special occasion kind of place because it is. If you go to a special, if it's like a special occasion, you don't want to be like, yeah, that was a quick, they had quick service there tonight. It was a 45 minute dinner. That's a good point.

You know, because food to me is forgettable, but I think the memories around the food and this has ambiance. They do have for the last probably three years, every time we've gone, we get like a private booth, which means that not only like, do we have our own, I know, hello. Uh, but not only do we have our own table, but they have like curtains that they shut. Oh, it's like a, like a jet blue first class airline seat or something. So yeah. So the, the waitress will always be like, and do you want me to shut these curtains? And Catherine's like, no, you don't have to.

I'm like, no, go ahead and shut up. Shut the curtains. You know, it's not like we're making out or anything. It's just cool. It's just cool. But then the thing that I don't love is that every single time they come back to like do anything.

What do they say? Knock, knock. They'll go knock, knock. And I'd never say anything, but Catherine's always like, come in. Like out of politeness or something. The, come in, like, like out of, out of politeness or something. The waiters come in and like, Oh, sorry. I didn't see your hands. Like Jim in the office. Okay. You just have to give your, uh, sales to whoever you're not gardening with. Yeah. Uh, yeah, exactly. But, uh, anyway, I did have the thought

with Catherine. What do you think is customary whenever somebody comes? Let's say they refill your water. They're taking a plate away from you. Do you stop talking to Rachel during that time? Or do you continue on your conversation? Do you engage with the water filler upper? What do you think is? Because I always personally just stop talking.

It's just silent for 10, 15 seconds. I think it depends. If they are just refilling water, you seconds i think it depends if they are just refilling water you can keep talking but if they're taking a dish okay you gotta pause okay i always say thank you to whoever eventually oh but they're like yeah but they're like hey can i fill up your water yes please and then oh okay okay so this is this is good yeah i think basically yeah let me rewrite i don't want to make them uncomfortable. It's not like we're talking about anything super serious or super personal,

but it's like we are having a conversation that's a personal, by definition, personal conversation. Do you want to be in this or do you want us to just wait? Yeah. Okay, here are the new rules. This is kind of what I was getting at, but if they don't have to ask anything, like if they just start refilling your water without asking it,

you can keep talking. Basically basically if they break up the conversation by asking a question you gotta stop you gotta acknowledge okay maybe you engage with them yeah and i can take your plate yeah go ahead it was awesome yeah yeah you got any more yeah i think every single time they ask the question yeah you guys you guys done with that you still working on it you know yeah you gotta stop which by the way i'll never let katherine say i'm done with anything but we're still working on it like she needs to look at me and I say, yeah, I need a verbal. Yes, you're done with it. I'll take your plate, stack it on top of my plate and eat that real quick as well.

Have we talked about this on the podcast? Waitresses obsession with the phrase still picking at it. Why do they like saying picking at it? Still picking at it. We don't use that for anything else other than waitresses asking you if you're still eating. See, I'll be honest. I don't think I've ever been asked that, but I don't think anybody's every once in a while. Start paying attention.

Waitress will be like, you still snarfing that thing down? You still breathing? Yeah. That's what they ask you. You still inhaling that thing? Little shop vac? Huh? We'll get you a sand shovel next time. We'll get it down quicker. Yeah. Anyway, we're still picking at it. Yeah. We'll get it down quicker. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyway, you're always picking at it. Yeah. Cause it makes you sound like a bird. Yeah. A guy who doesn't finish his food. I'm getting asked that all the time, I guess.

Maybe not, but are we, are we still picking at it? Still picking at it? No, I've never working on it is what I've always heard. Still working on it. I don't know.

That's fun. Let us know in comments. Yeah. Any other quirky things like that? Any, any weird questions that people have asked because like sometimes i think as a waiter i would want to reinvent the wheel with stuff like that like oh let's see what i can you know get somebody to do here but you know or whatever

new phrase but yeah anyway still picking at it that's still picking sorry i just got a little notification that my my disc was almost full Don't want the podcast to be interrupted. Speaking of disks and not always having them. Okay. What is an SD? Solid disk? Standard disk? Sadistic disk?

What does it stand for? Sorry, I'm emptying trash. Emptying trash. Are you sure you went to your race? Solid disk? Standard disk. Standard disk? I don't know just guessing standard definition all right we got 16 gigs there okay speaking of discs and we're back chapter two the show must go on secure digital disc i wasn't even close wait i didn't react very well to your awesome title. Go ahead again. The show must go on. No colon, no colon, colon.

There's no colon. Oh, I like that. I take it back. Okay. So I like it in quotation marks. Chapter two, the show must go on. Yes. So I'm in a situation now where I'm about to go on stage pretty soon.

And I've realized this massive mistake I have made. Not only in the here and now to where it's like, shoot, now we can't record the show tonight. That stinks. And this is my fault. Sorry, Trey. Sorry to myself. That's a bummer. We have no other way of doing this.

But also, there's things on that SD card that not only I need, not only Trey needs. I think the podcast was shot on there. It had already been uploaded, but still the podcast was on that SD card. And also who knows what Derek has on there because there were three of his SD cards. Also in that case, he gave me. Oh, wow. It held six and there were three full and I put it in the fourth slot. This is a fiasco it's

amazing how much you biff this so like that is a big deal big next time just just put in your wallet just one as i never lose my wallet i never have i can't remember exactly what people do this for but it's like don't ever keep them in the same location lock and key yeah that yeah or something like that are you like i don't know i can't remember what it is like yeah something like as far as like i don't know maybe it's like the same people should never be in the same building or something like that just in case some building blows up yeah oh yeah like the like if you're gonna lose them don't lose all six you know like i'm gonna think yeah what is that call where like when all of congress meets they always have one person like not meet in case they all die checks and balances

i think check cze they have like the closest to czechoslovakia descent sit this one out yeah and balances is actually a russian man's name checks balances. That is what that's called. So I'm pretty stressed. And but the show must go on. I got to get up there and perform. Oh, my gosh. And so I go up there and I think it was a pretty good show. And, you know, talked to a lot of ghosties afterwards and my friend Jackson. When did you realize that you lost it all? Right when you got there? Kind of like as soon as I get into the green room like i finally get into the thing and i sit jackson which is what 15 minutes after you yeah yeah leave diametes and so right away i get on the lyft app and i'm trying to find like what's the policy like how do i say you know i'm sure this happens all the time i find a weird part of the app it says message driver

hey diametes oh i'll tell you what was gonna happen is i couldn't believe how awful that uh uber or lyft ride was and so what i'm planning on the whole time that i'm like jogging to get to the you're gonna leave a bad review i'm like i cannot wait for the review i'm gonna leave this guy and fully planned i'm like i don't know if it's gonna be one star because i think that can like cripple honestly maybe he shouldn't be driving though i might have given him one star because it was like it was so dangerous to me and himself and a lot of people around him it was like next level it wasn't just like this guy this is annoying or this guy's inappropriate it was like it was so dangerous to me and himself and a lot of people around him it was like next level it wasn't just like this guy this is annoying or this guy's inappropriate it was like he's endangering a lot this guy might kill somebody yeah he should not probably be driving

he's pretty old and so anyway uh i i go in the lyft app yeah not to leave my one-star review anymore i quickly give him a quick five stars i say good driver, clean car, fun conversation. This is his strategy now. Yeah. Now we're seeing it. And I also, I just figured, Hey, couldn't hurt. I go ahead and tip $5 to start. Okay. Then I message him. Hey, type two meads. Uh, it's Jake. You just dropped me off at the Orlando improv. I left a very important case in the backseat. Is there any way you could bring that back to me tonight? Which good thing that you're like electronically messaging this 85 year old man, like while he's driving, that's smart. That's, that's the best way to get ahold of him. And immediately I get like an automated response or it's just like a kind of a alert.

It was like Lyft drivers may not respond because it is illegal for them to do so like lyft won't let you check this while you're still using it yeah so i was like well that's a bummer did he not sorry if i'm poking too many holes in this but did i feel like a lot of times uber drivers will be like calling you and be like hey i'm outside did he not do that for you when he picked me up uh-huh uh does that not happen to you very often no okay i guess you gotta be running late for an uber to call you i think when he picked me up? Uh-huh. Does that not happen to you very often? No. Oh, okay. I guess you gotta be running late for an Uber to call you, I think.

Oh, really? Yeah, I think so. I guess usually like, okay. I feel like usually for my, you Uber 20 times more than I do, but every time almost I think they call me. They'll be like, hey, you know, I'm pulling up. You know, or I'm right here.

Interesting. Maybe I have some setting that says, call me so that I have your number in case I lose my SD card. And so... You don't have his phone number, is all I'm saying. Yeah.

And so then I'm like, all right, well, maybe a phone call can get through. I call him one time, he doesn't answer and then I get a notification from Lyft that says, you can only call your driver three times.

Oh, boy. I'm like, all right. It's like Bitcoin passwords. You talk about making it count. I got to really make each one of these. Holy cow. Trace Telefonos? Do you see his number?

Like when you call it? It looks like a real phone number, but I think it's like a thing, something being rerouted through the Lyft app. Like you couldn't just be like, Alan, let me borrow your phone and I'll use it to call. Correct.

Diomates. Yeah. Yeah. And so. Wow, that's a rush. That's a rush. So I really need this and I only have so so many opportunities after three phone calls. Am I just done communicating with this man? Yeah. I don't know what happens after three phone calls.

And so nothing. I go up on stage. I perform. Goes pretty well. Did you request them like, hey, just FYI. Can you guys take it easy? Shot in the dark, but I got the Mika thing right. So does anybody know anybody named Diomedes? Hables Espanol. That's the other thing. I didn't even think about the fact that he doesn't speak English. And so you get.

Oh, that's going to come into play later. So it'll be hard to forget. Chapters three and four. That's going to be hard to forget that part. And so anyway, get out of farming. Probably 30 minutes has passed. Lift app, by the way, doesn't send you any push notifications. Once you're in the lost item part of the app, by the way, got to check it manually.

Okay. So I do check it. Diomedes responded. It was about an hour after he dropped me off. I have card. And I wonder if I could actually find it now. I didn't even think about this. Let's get in there and find out exactly what he said.

Basically, it was like uh i i have it that was the good news the bad news was basically like oh the other good news i guess was like yeah you were my last driver my last customer of the day so i have your card but now i'm back home and it's 50 minutes away five zero five zero okay so i was like dang so if i was your last one of the day you could have responded to my text or you could have answered the phone because you weren't dropping anyone off yeah um let's see if we could find the lost item chat hello i left a small case in the back seat of the car is there any way i could get that back thank you so much please be patient with your driver the law prohibits lift sure yeah um okay then i called him and then oh i forgot he didn't respond so i went into google translate oh and i oh i forgot to do that so i said hola

nice i'm sure that's exactly perfect. And then I get a notification. Driver confirmed the item was found. And then he responds all in Spanish. It's a ton of stuff. I have to Google translate it. It doesn't translate perfectly, but like. Right.

See if you can translate this. Oh, gosh. Minimos. Wait, wait, wait wait you want to read this would that be more helpful uh i just saw it i have it in my oh man this is this is i will say i think that hispanics like sometimes will text different like it's weird Like he has like weird commas and stuff. I have it in my power, in my, yeah, in my power, in my possession probably.

Yeah. Uh, but tomorrow I'm going, Oh, but I can bring it tomorrow because I'm already at my house and I ought to be able to, I'm 45 minutes at least away from where I left you. It's probably more like 50 minutes or an hour.

Good luck. You were my last passenger of the day. Good luck. Yeah. Good luck with this dude. Poor suerte. I don't know. Buena suerte means good luck.

Unfortunately, maybe poor suerte. I don't know. Unfortunately. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'm not, I'm't know. Buena suerte means good luck. Unfortunately, maybe. Poor suerte. I don't know. Unfortunately? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not super good. That was pretty good.

Yeah. And then I think he sent me another text that asked me for like my phone number when I put that in Google Translate. And so I said, mi numero. Didn't have to look this one up. Mi numero es 417ada, yada. And then he says, Como a la 12, Maridiano. Or Maridiano.

Which I think is like, I'll call you at 12 tomorrow. Is that right? Como? C-O-M-O? Yeah, Como a la 12. How about, yeah. How about at 12, Marid, what did you say?

Maridiano? Maridiano. Meridianidian i don't know i don't know maybe it's like the time zone maybe like uh eastern time i don't know well either way so i'm like okay okay um i'm speaking more spanish with him uh i was yeah, I don't know. So noon tomorrow, something's going down. Okay. I don't know what, but I look forward to it. Okay. The end of chapter two. Maybe noon means like meridiano means noon.

I bet. 12 noon. Yeah. Like prime meridian half, right? Yeah. Is that a point? Yeah. Like half, halfway through the day.

Not, not 12 midnight, 12 noon. That's my guess. That's a good point. Context clues. Okay. So, you know, tomorrow at noon, halfway through the day. Not 12 midnight, 12 noon. That's my guess. That's a good point. Context clues. Okay. So, you know, tomorrow at noon. He's calling me. Great.

I don't know what we're going to talk about, but at 12 Meridian. Oh, I have a question. I'm getting a phone call. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. You can ask one.

You can ask one before chapter three. Well, it's not even a question as much as a statement, but I don't want to like ruin anything. Did you, okay. When you knew that he was going to call you the next day at noon were you like maybe i could figure out like somebody else around me that knows spanish that can be there to talk to this guy did you have that thought at all or were you just like i'll figure it out it's hard enough to talk to this guy in a car but only using his voice. I'm sure I could understand him.

Stick around for chapter three. See what I decided. I have one pretty funny story for this week. That's about it. Um, and it happened yesterday while you and I were actually hanging out. What were we doing yesterday? Oh, at Panera, um, slash writing, whatever. I come home and, you know, yesterday was like the first day of the rest of my life is what I'm calling it. Like, I'm like, you know, I'm waking up early. I'm limiting sugar. I'm limiting caffeine, you know, all these different things, cutting it out. Um, intermittent fasting. So like I get up at five 30 sharp, go and work out feeling good, whatever, feeling good about my day. And I come home and it's one of those things where like y'all, it seems like this happens a lot where it's

like the better you feel, like the more in disarray your house feels. Sometimes you come home, like Catherine's just like freaking out or something, you know, luckily she wasn't freaking out. She actually had a really great attitude about this whole thing, but she told me the story. She's like, you know, Hattie and Catherine were in the playroom doing school. They were, they were doing math or whatever. Uh, good for them. But usually anytime they do school, Bo was just like a leech. He's always there, always hanging out with them. And I was like, where's Bo? And Hattie goes, Bo's, uh, watching TV in his room because he threw up. And I was like, Oh no. You know, so that we make, I kind of give Catherine, I'm like,

I'm so sorry. And she's like, yeah. So I got him out of his bed last or this morning. And, uh, he said he spit up and you know, that's what he says whenever he throws up. Sorry, this is going to be a decently, I guess I should trigger this a little bit for anybody who's eating or gets

weirded out by this stuff. It's going to be like a three minute story. Probably it's not that gross or anything, but just, just know that if you're listening to this and you're about to throw up, this is probably not the story for you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It involves, uh, puking kids.

So anyway, she gets him out of his crib, um, and cleans that all up and everything. And, and then like later on in the day or at breakfast time, he's like, he's like, my stomach hurts. My stomach hurts. And of course hindsight's 2020 Catherine shouldn't have done this next thing, but she's like, Oh, it's probably cause you're hungry. It's like, you just threw up. You need some Mac and cheese. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want a bunch of milk? No. Um, so, and he was like, yeah, I am hungry. Like, cause he haven't eaten anything. You just threw up everything anyway. Uh, so he like, he loves scrambled eggs, loves them. And so dominate some scrambled eggs. Catherine says like he snarfed him down. He wasn't pecking at those things. It was a snarf. Yeah, exactly. And

so, um, he, yeah, he's doing fine. And then Catherine's in, you know, one side of the house and she hears like bow in his room, like coughing, but she's like, but it wasn't a cough. Like I could tell like something was up. Oh. And I think before he coughed in his other room, he had complained about his overalls that he had on actually the overalls that the ghosties gave us last year. Uh, he's like, I want to take my overalls off.

And Catherine's like, okay, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Took him off. I don't know really if that's that relevant, but is in his room coughing.

And Catherine's like, that's not a cough runs in there. And he's kind of like looking at her, like kind of, you know, panicked a little bit. And so Catherine like picks them up, gets him, you know, and has him throw up mainly in the toilet or so she thought. And so then she comes back in the room and sees some throw up on the floor, scrambled eggs.

And she's like, oh man, what a bummer. I guess it's, I mean, there's a lot of it right here on the floor. That must be all of it. But I think what happened was whenever Bo took off his overalls, he went to his room to go find some other clothes and I guess threw up and started throwing up and just threw up all in his drawer, like open up his drawer. And so Catherine's like, so it's on all of his clothes.

Like, I mean, it's like we have like, it's like a three drawer dresser, but most of his stuff is in one drawer. And just egg vom. And so, I mean, just all over the place. And Hattie's like, or I think Catherine jokingly was like, next time you have to clean that up, Hattie. And she's like, well, I don't know how to clean that up.

She's like, Catherine goes, I've never been taught how to clean stuff, clean, throw up out of a drawer either. You just kind of look at it and you clean it up. But anyway, poor Bo, just cat poor Catherine really more than anything Bo's been fine ever since but yeah just out of all places like not like an open area but just right in the drawer you know just and of course classic Bo like first thing he says to me you know I spit up I spit up in drawer I spit up in the drawer, dad. I got on every clothes. He was, he was wearing a, we went and bought like a long story

short, but we went and bought, had a, a Royal shirt one time at a thrift store. And there was a really cool Michael Jordan shirt, but it's like way too big. Like, and I bought it for Bo, like a Jordan shirt. It's got, It's got like a neon green Jordan logo. And he's just like that. He's wearing that. I mean, his, his sleeves are like completely like 10 inches down, but he's like, yeah, I spit up in the drawer. I threw up in the drawer.

And so that's the only thing I think he had left to wear. So he just walked around with that and like seersucker pants on, like just looking awesome that day. So parenting is hard sometimes, but honestly, Catherine had an amazing attitude about the whole thing. Like, like, cause yesterday was supposed to be her first like day of new habits and everything too. And she's like, I just got really thrown off with a boat puking in the drawer. Um, but she, she survived and she did great and he's been fine. So good for Catherine. That's fine. Easier said than done, but so much of life just comes down to how you frame it yeah i'm learning that a lot with um wedding planning

just because so many people ask me how it is and i think they want to hear that it was like that it's stressful they want to hear that it's like crazy right it's people who are already married they're like i am not jealous of you how's wedding planning going yeah and they almost put emotions into your like right answer like dude how's engagement like you guys you guys doing okay yeah yeah it's like that yeah and um yeah i just told people i was like you know i think this is a thing where if you're prone to stress yeah wedding planning could be stressful but we're just having fun and yeah i think it's probably nice that you're getting married a little bit later on too because in my life or in like the season in the season of life probably

the cinnamon season of life no because i think yeah you're not as stressed because you're like i've made big decisions now like that's a good point yeah i'm 22 like i've never decided anything like this yeah i don't know i've had adult relationships like with other people before where you can talk through things you know that's a really good point that's probably what it was because i we definitely engagement was fine but wedding planning was a little bit stressful at times and i think looking like if i did it now hopefully i would not be as much of like a like prima donna about little things like yeah why why why do we need to do this you know whatever i'd just be like okay that's great it's not the big the big picture is we're getting

married who cares about all these little things? Yeah. So, but anyway, big pitch. Yeah. That's good for Catherine. That's what I'm saying. She's all about how you frame it. Yes. I think. Absolutely.

Perspective. A hundred percent. I was going to, um, play some air dropping into my computer so we can play out of the audio. Uh, every single standup show, um,

at these comedy clubs, the, the club will play like promo videos of other comedians who are coming to that club in the future and so usually it's like a 60 second clip of like you know damon wayans is coming to the funny bone next month check him out and it's always just stand-up clips so maybe you guys have heard of the comedian and actor michael rapaport he's also kind of a sports guy as well i don't think he he has a, but also I feel like he's not very well liked. Well, he

got in a bunch of beef with Barstool. You remember that? Yeah, I don't know what it was about, but basically, yeah, I can't remember either. I don't know. If you guys don't know who this is, let me tell you two things I know him from that some people will be like, oh, duh. I know him from two things as well. Okay, first thing I'll say

let's have a draft. If I say it, you two things as well. Okay. First thing I'll say, let's have a draft. If I say it, you can't say it. Okay. First thing is Hitch. Okay. Next thing, only murders in the building. Wait, let me, let me be specific on when he is in Hitch. People are gonna be like, oh, the black guy from Hitch?

No. The guy who kicks the Eva Mendes off the jet ski. Oh yeah. What's his name? Albert Brenneman from Hitch. No, no, no. No, he's in it from the very beginning. Like he's playing pool with Will Smith.

And he's like, he's like it from the very beginning. Like he's playing pool with Will Smith. Is he? He's like, I think, anyway. Yeah. Talking about getting a girl and he's like, not everyone can have, you know, meet the love of their life, blah, blah, blah. So easily. Anyway. I don't remember that movie.

Only Murders in the Building. Only Murders in the Building. Yes. I feel like he plays that role, like the cop detective quite a bit. Yeah. He's very, he's like a New York guy. So he's got that a little bit of a slimy kind of feel to him uh the other thing i know him from is actually uh he's a cop in friends

oh he's got a cameo in friends for a while with he dates phoebe for two or three episodes i think he's an fbi agent in prison break really yeah so he's just like kind of typecasted as this just just like uptight new york cop guy yeah that's all i know from that's him and so he was coming to the orlando improv soon and he had a little promo video and it was unlike most of them and so so bad just objectively bad no one is going to be at that show if they see this video i couldn't believe like the style of video he went i guess he made it himself i'm just gonna play the clip you're gonna made it himself. I'm just going to play the clip. You're going to play it? Yeah.

So on three rounds of How to Talk Trash Masterclass with Michael Rappaport. Your quarterback is so inaccurate, he missed the post-game press conference. Your receivers are so trashed, they barely catch their flights to the games. Your offensive line is so bad, the only thing that they're good at is blocking your team's success. The current president of the United States is more stable than your team's quarterback situation. Your team's getting a clean round on a Hail Mary. Your running back is so slow, they try to convert him to a fullback,

then they convert him to a free agent. Your quarterback is garbage, he's trash, he blew his knee out, and it was his best play of the season. Your running back's ridiculous. He has no game, He has mono in his jersey even though his games are being played in a dome.

I love California. It's so bad, right? Your quarterback is so bad. He got hurt and it was his best player of the season. It's so bad. The only thing you have,

what did he say about the offensive line? The only thing your offensive line is blocking is your team's success. Yeah, your team's chances of success. And maybe that's what people think of our videos. They're like, wow, there's just one liner after one.

There's just no hint of humor. Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't even know if it's like very clever. Like it's like, ah, you know, like whatever. We could do. It's the most like minimal wordplay. How many of those do you think he had? Eight?

Yeah. Let's think of eight right now. Your receiver couldn't catch a cold during 2020. Yeah. Your right receivers are so bad. They couldn't catch COVID in 2020. Oh, that's a good one. There, that was better.

I'm trying to think, okay. Maybe it's harder than I think. Your players are so bad. They hurt their ACL and thought it was a coffee. The PSL? Oh, okay. Your receivers in the fall think they tore their PSL. Maybe that one would be better.

I'm freezing out here. Go. Give me a position or something. Upright. Go line. Pylon. Okay. That's not a position but that's

okay those are buzzwords those are tight ends yeah hey yeah your tight end is so weak it needs to do a band but that's that's that's the level that it's on like it's like your tight end is so weak he doesn't even bitch 100 pounds like not even like clever at all your your fullback is so bad he's only half that he's a halfback he's a half they should call him a halfback it's like they do they do they do call people half of that would be a quarterback which is and then the halfback he sucks so much he's just half of that so we call him a quarterback a quarter of a back he's like realizing like crap i

messed up your head coach shouldn't even have the name head in the title because he sucks butt i don't know maybe i shouldn't say that. That's funny. Your team is so bad, the offensive coordinator can't even coordinate a date night with his wife. Oh! Yeah! That's a bad one.

Your assistant coach is such an assistant, they should call him the assistant to the coach. Like Dwight Schrute from The Office, American version. Huh?

Yeah. Your cornerback is so bad, he can't even find the corner of the room. In a circle. Your defensive backs are so bad, you don't even have a safety. Just like with my wife, when she says she doesn't hear the safety word. Your safety stinks so bad, people touch doorknobs just looking at them.

You get it? Yes. Okay, cool, cool. Your quarterback is so bad, not even my wife would leave me to get with him. See, that would be funny if it just, it's not even about the trash talk anymore, it's just about this relationship with his wife.

That would be a very funny way of doing it. Right, yeah. That's good, I think that's all good. You got any more? Bit over. Bit over. Anyway. Whoa, what's this? The final night, I had to take a video of that to send you. Oh, what. You got any more? Bit over. Bit over. Anyway. Whoa, what's this?

The final night, I had to take a video of that to send you. Oh, what do you got, Brent? I just opened up a book and it says, chapter three. All right. Chapter three. Yo hablo espanol.

Mi nombre es Pablo Esquivar. Pablo, I made it. I don't know how this is going to get split up. You're good. Just do it. Our tee time the next day was 740. Average round of golf is four hours. So it's going to work out perfect.

Get done about 1140. If it goes a little long, I will have him meet me at the course. If we're already back to the Airbnb, that's great. I'll be like, hey, the spot you picked me up from last night, same address. Either way, just come to one of those two spots. So the round of golf is over.

It's about 11.45. I check the Lyft app, getting ready for a big phone call. You know, I'm like, is this going to come through my phone? Is it going to come through Lyft? Gearing up. And I see that like, oh, he tried to call me at 11.34. And I did not get any kind of notification. I missed it.

Call you on the lift you think or in the lift app okay he called me 1134 i was like that's not 12 meridian yeah i was expected 12 meridian yeah and so i'm like oh brother oh hermano oh hermano and so um i carumba he called me yeah 1144 1134 twice within 15 seconds i like that man on a mission yeah um and so i call him back once i get back to that because we were kind of ubering out of there i'm like the airbnb would be easier i can get there and so i call him at 12 15 meridian or so and you remember that question you asked me at the end of chapter two? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I did not think through the language barrier because I really thought it would be so easy

to like, because in the chat beforehand, the night before I sent him the Airbnb address again. It was like, just so you know, this is where I'll probably be tomorrow. So I knew he had that. Okay. And he's already got it in the Lyft history. Yeah. You know, like.

I think you made the mistake of thinking that this guy thinks these SD cards are as important as I do. He seemed determined to get them back to me. Sure. And so this phone call is just going so poorly. I mean, we can't. What? Understand each other at all. I mean, I only speak.

Give me a little bit of a reenactment of this. I only speak English and he only speaks Spanish. You can just imagine. Jake's just like, a la derecha, a la derecha, a la derecha. So I would just like, I was like, hey, this is Jake from last night, you know, whatever. And then he was like,

hola, bienvenido a tu canal. You know, he was just going and going and going. And so I was kind of just waiting for a pause and then I would say, lo siento, lo siento. No comprendo, no hablo espanol. And Trey and Derek, they didn't speak any Spanish. I like stepped outside, just handled this myself.

Smart. Smart to do it by yourself when you know so little Spanish. Well, you know what else I was thinking? I was optimistic. I was like, I'm going to get these cards back. I'm pretty stressed about it. No reason that Trey and Derek also have to be stressed about this. Oh, okay.

Keep them in the dark I'll get it back. Yeah, none the wiser. Oh, they didn't even know and hopefully they don't speak Spanish Derek does not strike me as a guy who would be a Spanish guy Derek. He's gonna be here about terrible It's gonna be about 45 minutes. Let's ask him. Oh, there's, we should do it. Yeah. Some kind of test of like vocabulary with Derek. There's no way. Um, okay. And so, I mean, it's just, I don't know how to describe it other than just two people speaking different languages, you know?

And like he could, he knows a couple of words, but not enough to like even be able to understand my questions. This is so fun. I mean, hindsight is 2020 on all this, of course. Like, yeah, have somebody there that speaks Spanish. But my next piece of hindsight is like, at least know like the buzzwords that you're looking for here. Like at least know how to say like SD card or. Well, and so I do pull up Google Translate. So I'm on speakerphone switching between apps, Google Translate and the phone, and I'm talking

to him. And so I would pull up just very simple sentences. I was like, can you come to my address? Yeah. You know, I think direction was in there a lot direction must be addressed. And so I would just ask him that. And it was never just like, see, or no, it was always just, he must've had something. Well, go ahead. Whenever I would speak Spanish, like, I feel like I was very clear, like no, hablo espanol, lo siento, you know, whatever. And then the second I would go to Google translate, it would like trigger him and he would just go nuts with Spanish. Cause I would say one sentence from Google Translate and then he was just rattling off Spanish and have to wait for him to be done.

Like, lo siento, like no comprendo. I mean, OK, how old do you think this guy is? 80s? Probably 70s. It's hard enough talking to somebody like elderly on the phone. Yeah. You know, then and then turning it into like, I don't have the same language as you. Yeah. You know, like, like trying to do this with an 80 year old, like English speaking Uber driver would be very difficult. Totally. You know? And so I've just,

I don't know. So yeah, he's just, he's just spouting away. Just, it's just, it's getting, I don't get too frustrated because all of, he holds all the power right here, right? I can't get frustrated here. So I'm just trying to be as helpful as possible. I'm sending texts in the lift app. Maybe this is helpful. I'm sending the address again. Yeah. You know,

and then he's, um, I, he's like asking me like your, your address, your address. I'm like, yes,

yes. I texted, you know, I'm going to go translate. Like I messaged it to you in, you know, application day lift. Okay. But I'm also like trying to tell them in person so i'm like it's uh it was cuatro ocho zero uno

tide crest and he would be like okay cuatro ocho zero uno oh yeah it was the most i was like i mean i don't speak spanish i don't think that's Tidecrest. It could not have been further away. It was more syllables. It ended in like an ocho, you know, Tilemundo. It was like, no, I don't think that's Tidecrest. It's like you have to spell out the Tidecrest too. And so then I went on Google Translate.

So I'd be like, Tide, like Marea, Crest, like Creste, Tidecrest. Like, does that help? But then he's going to look up Maria Cresta. I don't know. I didn't know. I didn't know Spanish letters. I love that you like didn't try to get anybody else's help this whole time. We're only in chapter three.

We're only in chapter three. You're like, I got this. This seems like it's going well. And so at one point I hear him say like, I thought he gave me his phone number. And so I was like, great. Now we can chat this way. And, and then, so then I think we, we hung up the phone and no, yeah, we hung up the phone.

And I think he said like, it'll be like 15 or 20 minutos. I was like, oh, great. He, he gets it. And so I wait there. Is this address for the golf course? This is address for the Airbnb where he's already been to pick pick me up which i realized but you're at the golf course no no i was back at the airbnb that's where i wanted to kind of start this process i'm like i don't even want to bother him having to go through the gate code again i will meet him at the front of this

complex i'm going to be as helpful as possible so i wait 15 i wait 20 20. I wait 25, 25. And eventually I wait 30 minutes. And I'm like, I got to use one of my phone calls. It's like a lifeline. Who wants to be a millionaire? 50-50. I got to ask the audience on this one. I got to call my dad.

Did you ever think, who would your people you called Ben? I always had one in mind who I would have called. Oh yeah. One of my uncles, a lot of my uncles actually know a lot of things. Same. Coach John, Uncle John. Coach John. Yeah.

He knows a lot of stuff. Just knows a lot of like random things about things that you would never. Yeah. Why do you know that? He just knows history. He knows like mechanics. He knows engineering and he knows he's a computer programmer yeah he knows stuff about stuff anyway so i use one of my lifelines i call him again and dude it's just it's just madness i mean

i just can't understand anything i can't understand like where he is or where he's going or if he's even still coming to me um he's how long was the first call? 15 minutes. Like how long were you on the phone with him? Yeah. Probably 10 to 15 minutes. If there's not a lot getting done, that would be so crazy. I can't imagine. I've talked to, um, like a few times I've talked to Mexicans on the phone at camp because Hortensia was gone and they had like kids at their camp and they only spoke Spanish and they're like, Brad speaks Spanish. And I mean, I don't speak very good Spanish anymore. I spoke pretty good Spanish when I talked to these people on the phone and it was so difficult still. Like it was so like, it was, it was broken, you know, even just the way he would say numbers compared to how I was

saying numbers was so hard to comprehend. And you know, in my mind, I'm enunciating so clearly, and he probably thinks he is too. So it's no one's fault. I would be like, cero. And he'd be like, c-c-a-c-o-o-o? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, is that one number or is that two? What are you saying? Well, it's just like any other language.

Obviously, Irish people speak different English than Americans. So he could be from Cuba or Dominican Republic, wherever. All these different Spanish-speaking places that have their own accents. It is still above the language barrier. There was a patience barrier, even just a baseline intelligence barrier. Like, I'm going so slow. Let's double-check these numbers.

And he'd be like, like, okay, slower. Yeah, that's what I was going to teach you. I was like, if you don't know any other term, you should learn más despacio. It just means slower slower say mas despacio before they'll at least be like okay yeah that would be nice yeah eventually i found out he's giving me another

phone number now and it's a whatsapp number it's like okay hey we're moving the ball down the field yeah so at this point now i have a. Your Lyft driver is so terrible at understanding social cues. He can't even move the ball down the field. He can't even. So in my phone at this point, I have Diomedes Lyft phone. Like the number I call when I call Lyft. I have Diomedes phone, which is what I thought the phone number he gave me was originally. And then I have the WhatsApp number too. Okay. None of then i have uh the whatsapp number two okay

none of these are connecting to whatsapp so i i had the number wrong so i can't get a hold of him oh because he gave you the number in spanish yeah obviously um oh dang and so i think that's the end of chapter three i think that's the end i'll save the last part okay i get one one question yeah did you think about just messaging him rather than calling him ever uh or is there like only three messages as well no i gosh every time you um go back to the lift app by the way it takes you back to the home page it doesn't like save your spot it seems like lift is the way to go over uber at this point that's what i'm learning dude the rest of the trip i didn't book a lift because like what if i get diamedes again i did not want to risk it yeah see i'd be well i don't

know i don't know the end of the story but i'd be hoping i get diamedes yeah so i mean i kept trying to use the chat and i kept just sending my address i was like i don't know what else you need other than just my address yeah you don't even need my address like just go to where yeah i don't know it just seemed like i was doing everything that was so helpful and so easy i know i would just go to the address i'm sending you i know i would just try to think about like just go to where, I don't know. It just seemed like I was doing everything that was so helpful and so easy. I know, I would- Just go to the address I'm sending you. I know, I would just try to think about like, just drop it off. Just drop it off at this address or this address or this like-

And tell me afterwards where you dropped it off. Don't you want to be done with this? Right. All right. Did you feel like he was somewhat patient? He seemed patient. He never really got frustrated with me. Yeah.

It just seemed like the same guy that i saw make a ton of poor decisions on the road is still making poor decisions yeah it translated and it's not about his race and it's not about his it might be a little about his age it just seemed like maybe just him yeah yeah that's funny man uh oh we have a few packages that i think we should open up fun uh i didn't know we had packages they are from i i don't know i i don't know if it's like well we can open it this is kirsty swick's address but kirsty swick kirsty and steven are the ones that kind of run the ghost runners on second fan page so i don't know if it's just them or if it's

whatever uh we also have this thing um i i don't know who it's just them or if it's whatever uh we also have this thing um i i don't know who it's from maybe should we open one or the other first i don't know what either way yeah just let's get it let's open this uh envelope first because maybe it'll explain this i don't know katherine was like we got these in the mail the other day and katherine's like do you guys open them right now i was like like, no, I got to open them with Jake. So this one's coming from Westchester, Ohio, 4506. Oh, yeah. It's definitely the Christmas thing because it's all these people's names that contributed. So they did it again this year?

Looks like it. How did they do that without us knowing? They're amazing. Let's read the card there. Oh, my there are so many world vision wow okay one thing at a time one thing at a time christmas so i think we've probably mentioned this on the podcast before but yeah they've done this christy and the ghosties so many of you guys have contributed this i think this is the fourth year we've gotten gifts and the third year in a row that I think maybe all the years

we've sponsored World Vision Children. We as in not us at all. You. We as in you guys. Okay. Oh, this is Kinsey signed her name at the top. That's true.

Sending Christmas smiles your way because you mean so much. 90 ghosties raised $1,872 in one day to feed these four GRKC kids for another year. Wow. Wow. We love you guys. Ghosties in the Swicks.

Merry Christmas. That is really cool. That is so cool. I had no idea. It's January 10th. Probably because we were off our phones for 24 hours one time and we didn't see it or whatever. Wow.

So here are our our kids we got carlos david cool we got our boy koto the original yeah we're from lesotho lesotho um we have raya oh the celebrity dating app and amandine amandine um and I'm sure there's so much more about them and so much more information and we can write them and everything. It's so, yeah. How cool. $1,854. I, yeah. I won't read all these people's names right now, but just know we know who you are.

90 of you. We will read all these. That is so unbelievable. Thank you all. Man, he's a cute kid. Yeah. I like Carlos David. Kid's going to be an athlete. CD. Let's get thank you all kids. Yeah. I like Carlos David. Kids can be an athlete.

CD. Let's get them in a gym. Yeah. Anyway, thank you guys so much for, yeah. Country contributing to this. It's so,

so cool to see. I mean, if nothing else, I think this is such a cool accomplishment from our podcast. Like, yeah. If, if we do nothing else for anybody,

at least somehow we've created this community that has done this. And that is really, really amazing. So generous. And then these things, let's see what we have here. I know it's a mug. Looks like this says, oh, world's best boss. Oh, Gene Schwartz comedy, world's best boss. That's so fun.

I think, yeah, I think they're saying you need to put these in your videos from now on. So, okay. That's great. That's amazing. So we can both be world's best boss because we are our own boss. And that is fun. Kirstie,

great discretion on what to do with this money. Yeah. Just very small, but very thoughtful little gifts for Brad and I. Yep. And then the rest of it goes to these kids. So amazing. Columbia,

Lesotho, Bangladesh, and Burundi. Very cool. Yep. And then the rest of it goes to these kids. So amazing. Columbia, Lesotho, Bangladesh and Burundi. Very cool. Yeah. So fun. I had no idea they did that. I didn't either.

Chrissy is so busy. We've got three kids another on the way. Yeah, it's not that hard. I mean, it's even easier for a mom. I'm just kidding. It's yeah. She's amazing.

Y'all are amazing. Thank you. Yeah. Merry Christmas. Thank you. In mid-January. It's yeah. She's amazing. Y'all are amazing. Thank you. Uh, yeah. Merry Christmas. Thank you. Go in mid January. That's fun.

Make it count. Go see his make account, baby. You have anything else? You got some, um, somebody I just jotted down really quickly. I saw that,

um, some company DM this back on the ghost runners Instagram. And so I was like, Oh, it looks like Brad is like message a bunch of people. And so I got a kick out of just, i love you you're not afraid to shoot your shot with anyone no way you messaged uh squarespace which i think is so funny that wasn't squarespace yeah you messaged squarespace oh i didn't mess with squarespace yes you're just messaging this

ultra large companies they get back to us hey well i saw i just thought it was funny so it's like i'm curious to see like what brad like what do you even message squarespace and what you messaged him was like hey my wife and i are huge fans yeah why would you say my wife and i that was a copy and paste for a few other uh messages i was like i'm gonna say we are i was like oh crap yeah i was like oh well we are katherine ask her what web you know website design well we're not gonna give it away for free guys squarespace if you're, let us know and we would love to promote you. That was just funny to me. That was the only one I looked at. I was like, why is he saying my wife and I?

What kind of angle is Brad? Is Brad trying to get a sponsorship for only Brad and Catherine? Yes, absolutely. I'm tired of Jake getting it all. He should have cut me out of it. Right. Bad birdie. I mean, he is enough for him. He doesn't need anything else. Dude, they DM me today like, hey, I think it's about time we send you some more stuff. I was like, is it? that time of year again that's fun yeah that's fun no free

clothes anyway i just wanted to bring that up to you that i saw your dm my wife and my wife and i are big fans i forgot space that's the hardest thing is like thinking about the right brands that would want to advertise with us that we could actually get like squarespace is probably i would be shocked if they responded with anything except for like automated. I don't think they do anything through Instagram. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And I'm just like, I don't know.

And so I got parallels paralyzed. I was like, I'll just send one to Squarespace real fast. But yeah, I thought of a few other ones. And if you guys think of any, that'd be awesome. Let us know. But yeah, we're, I mean, it seems like every week now we're at least having conversations with ghosties who want to sponsor us in certain ways. So keep hitting us up.

I think it's the most fun. I think everyone would say they've probably gotten their money's worth sponsoring Ghost Runner. So if you have any kind of business or product or anything, like we will do our best to let the ghosties know about it. Make it count. Yeah. Make it count.

I'm trying to think if there's anything else. Should we just go again? Dive back in? Or do we save it for the very end? You want to do some voice memos? Oh! Wait, this is usually when we do s'mores. That's right.

We're switching it up. S'mores had a good run. I'm sure they'll come back at some point. I don't know when. But it's time to bring back voice memos. Yep. You love them. I love them.

You love them. I love them. I missed them. You love them. I love them. I missed them. Yeah. We're excited to get more interaction with the ghosty community. So please start sending in more and more voice memos. Honestly, people have been sending them in, even though we haven't been doing them for a while. Yeah, we got plenty to work from.

Thank you for that. And let's dive in. I'm just starting from the top. Let's see who sent one recently. Looks like Emily Forest Day sent us one. Oh yeah, EFD. Hey, Jake and Brad and maybe Scott. Congratulations, Jake, on your engagement. Thank you. Sorry that this is

so late, but we've we, as in the Ghostie community, I'm sure has had a burning question since your engagement, and that is, how is Rachel like Brad? Because you have an episode titled Jake W to marry Brad. So anyways,

let us know how you're going to marry Brad in the coming year. Thanks. Bye. Good question. Emily, is our name? Yeah. Emily.

Yeah. What are the ways? Let's see. I know. I know one right off the bat. Both leave your phone a lot of places. Is that what you're going to say? Something along those lines.

Lose track of your items. I hate to admit this because some people are just going to absolutely, yeah, judge me for it. But I haven't had my wallet for like three months. It might not be three months. It might be two months. It's been too long. When did you get engaged? October 28th. Yeah. How many months ago was that? That's two and a half. Yeah. It's, it's been since around that time. Uh, and Apple pay has been working just fine. Cash is good. Does everyone take Apple pay? Uh, home Depot and Lowe's do not. So yeah, most other places do these days, which is pretty, it's, it's more rare that they don't, than they do. I keep a little bit of cash on me. I, you know, Catherine has her credit card when I need to go to Home Depot or whatever. But the way that we relate is, Hey, yeah, we lose. I, I misplace

things for usually like minutes. I usually walk out the door. I'm like crapping all my keys and I come back inside. I'm like, where are my keys? Cause I changed my clothes all the time for jean shorts and mood swings, you know? And anyway, but I told Rachel a while back, like, Oh yeah, I can't find my wallet. And you know, Rachel in the told rachel a while back like oh yeah i can't find my wallet and you know rachel in the same like excitement and like passion that i have she's like don't worry it will show up you will find it red it'll show up and i just know some people out there right now are just like yeah just having anxiety listening to the fact that i do not have a wallet and you'll find it yeah and for the record i'm not like completely irresponsible i'm looking at my credit card statement no one is paying anything no one's using my credit card for anything except

for katherine um you know so yeah it's not like it's it's being used and i'm just like oh whatever i think it's in my possession somewhere it's just in some pair of pants that i haven't worn again in a drawer some bugle on it yeah exactly. Which I would take that at this point. Like please, if that's where it is. Cause I have looked pretty hard. Like it's getting to the point now where I'm thinking, I'm in trouble here. So that's how I can think of initially.

Definitely that, yeah, losing track of the wallet or phone, stuff like that. I think optimistic, I think intelligent, I think socially aware. Keep talking. Can make me laugh, care more about food than I do. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. This was funny. This was, I don't want to use the word cute about my best friend, but it was pretty cute the other day when you were like, Brad, did you know that blueberries are a superfood? And I was like, you are so engaged. Like the fact that you didn't know that yet. Like, no, I think I just dropped new info to everyone. Cause I think I learned that when I either got married or was like, you know, like I

didn't know that beforehand, but yeah. Didn't even know a superfood was like a category. Superfood. Like it has a lot of good things in it. Oh, like who's in that? Yeah. Chris Evans. Robert Downey Jr.

Um, What else? Passionate about where they're from. Sure. A little bit. Yeah. Humans. Homo sapiens. That's a good question.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, probably little things. I'm trying to think personality quirk stuff. Volleyball players. Ish. Yeah. Yeah, I guess she's a volleyball player. I think you guys both shower pretty often. Really? Separately, but yeah.

You shower pretty often. Daily, at least. Regularly. Oh yeah. This is good. Like coffee? Yeah, coffee people. Appreciate good furniture? Sure.

You like fruit? Love fruit. Acai bowls. Appreciate good furniture. Sure. You like fruit? Love fruit. Acai bowls. Thin hair. Does she have thin hair? Yeah, she talks about it a lot. She wishes she had thick hair. It's okay.

She's always like, I hope our kids get your hair. And I tell her, Rachel, I would have no idea the density of your hair had you never told me. I promise you no one knows. She's like, girls, no. I was like, all right, well, I don have no idea the density of your hair had you never told me. I promise you no one else. She's like, girls, no. I was like, all right, well, I don't care. Girls, no. That's the funny thing about girls is that they care so much more about what girls think of how they look than guys. They dress for other girls. I could not care. If you said, Brad, you look dumb. And I say, I don't care. My wife thinks I'm hot. That's all I care about. If Catherine was like, wow, you look good. And you're like, dude, you look you look ridiculous i'm like that's fine my wife thinks i'm a babe it's so true it's so different because yesterday

rachel like got home and she was she got a haircut and she like really emphasized this moment i just want a little bit trimmed off the ends are a little dead i've got engagement pictures this weekend like i just want a little trimmed off and this girl kind of hit her with a little like surprise i layered your hair and rachel's like i didn't ask for that i have really thin hair like don't it's not even that long like why would you do that okay rachel tried to explain to me she's like it's a step below like her just giving me bags but i didn't ask for him she's like it's a pretty like big deal really and um so as much as i just did try to still like sympathize like that is crazy and that's awful but then she like she's like what

if i still saw this way i was like oh yeah you look awesome i love how your hair looks and she's like it's it's not good and i was like i'm not just saying this like i i genuinely like it she's like i just sent a picture of my friends and they can't believe it i was like okay but i yeah i genuinely like it like are you hearing me your approval means nothing i'm, I don't know if you're, am I talking diabetes right now? Like, I think it's awesome. Yo me gusta. Me gusta supero. Okay. Muy bonita.

Yeah. Yeah. It's one of those things. Yeah. It doesn't, it doesn't hold a candle to like, and you just have to understand that because like every time Catherine will like be choosing what to wear, she'll put something on. She's like, how's this look? And genuinely I'm like, you look awesome. I seriously think you look. I have to understand that. Cause like every time Catherine will like be choosing what to wear, she'll put something on. She's like, how's this look? And genuinely I'm like,

you look awesome. I seriously think you, I think you look beautiful. You look very pretty. Oh, I hate this. You know, I don't like,

I don't like, okay. And it's like, it takes away from the compliment. It's like, well, why did I even say you look good then? It doesn't matter.

I guess. Honestly, I've kind of learned at this point to just be like, I think you look good in anything, but if you don't think you like it, then don't get it. Or don't, don't keep like, like she'll like get clothes online. She'll try them on. to just be like i think you look good in anything but if you don't think you like it then don't get it or don't don't keep like like she'll like get clothes online she'll try them on she'll be like what do you think of this i'm like i think it looks great but if if you don't like it then you're not gonna wear it so don't keep it you know yeah so you're right

yeah we went through all that on top of the haircut rachel got a ton of uh rented outfits for engagement pictures this weekend from zoo lilies uh newly newly you were close and of course like i don't want to tell you any of them are like bad so i'm like these two are my favorites but i think you look good all if any of them your favorites like yeah i'm down you know whatever and yeah it's hard to like like i don't know if you really are are you really like looking for my opinion are you just happy to come out here because this is where you're looking at yourself in the mirror i'm not trying to generalize like all girls, but I'm just saying the way Catherine and I are,

she just wants my opinion, but then she just wants to like basically talk it out with somebody. She doesn't, at the end of the day, my opinion is not going to sway her really, but she just wants to hear an opinion. So then there's two opinions in the room and then she can be like, okay,

let me think about it and verbalize it out loud. And then she'll figure out what she wants to do. Like so often at beginning of marriage, I can be like okay let me think about it and verbalize out loud and then she'll figure out what she wants to do like so often at beginning of marriage i'd be like why do i even give you my opinion because you don't listen to me about like a lot of things that like did involve me and then eventually i'm like okay i i get it now she doesn't she's not really asking what i want to do she's more just talking it out with me kind of thing so it's good to learn those things yeah i have a lot to learn. Boy, do you. We'll listen to one or two more if we're getting to chapter four, I suppose.

Suppose. Hey, Jake and Brad, this is Becca from St. Louis. So Jake, you had talked about premarital counseling a few weeks ago, and I just got married on New Year's Eve. And my fiance and I had went through premarital counseling with my youth pastor who married us. And we thought he was pretty qualified since he had done this before. But our like four sessions were basically just him talking about him and his wife and how she never cries or shows emotion and not really asking us about like our relationship.

But at least it was entertaining. And I'm just curious what your guys' experiences have been, if you've done anything like that. All right. Bye guys. It sounds like she went to premarital counseling with Michael Rapaport. My wife is so unemotional. She could be the Aaron Rodgers brother.

Stuff like that. Like, all right. It would be a bummer to go to that yeah type of any kind of counselor or therapist like that who just is clearly going through some stuff rachel's had like uh she you know she's getting her master's in counseling and therapy and stuff right now and they have to do like practice sessions and they'll be like classmates of hers where you're supposed to like bring up something pretty simple like i'm'm a student and I'm stressed about finals. Yeah.

And like, she'll have like classmates come in and be like, ah, I'm a single mom. And like the kids don't respect me. They love the time with their dad's house more. You know, like it's clearly what is actually going on with this woman. And it's like, all right. Hey, that's a fun sample scenario. So it's too bad when people bring that into that type of industry. I mean, yeah.

Hindsight, like 20, like everything else, 2020 probably shouldn't have done it with somebody that's not like, I don't know, like doesn't do it very often. I don't think he's done it, but like, cause, cause to me, if I don't know what else to say, I'm going to relate to my own life life which is kind of sounding like what he did but maybe he did it he over it sounded like he was way too extreme on them and not really talking about their own marriage um anyway but uh my experience was great at least yeah yeah yeah i'm sure it's like yeah we can have some jokes about it or if anything else like hey we learned like okay they learned these things from marriage. Let's be aware of those things. But, uh, our experience was good. I'm so into that kind of stuff. Like I'm not one of those guys. I think some people out there think that everyone should get counseling.

Everyone needs counseling. And I, I, without like really thinking about this too extremely, I don't think that's true. Like, I think if you're healthy, then you don't need counseling. Um, I think counseling is really good and I really like it. And I really like premarital counseling with Catherine and I, um, Catherine so much less, I think now nine years later, which is a long time, I think she is a little bit easier to like crack open the egg and like, I don't know if that's the right analogy, but like here, like she, she does express her emotions a little bit easier with me. She's more vulnerable with me. And like, but I think initially, like I was so excited to like talk so deeply and she

was a little bit more uncomfortable with all that. Um, and so I think premarital counseling, there were times where it was like a little bit of a clash. Cause I was like, let's read this book together. Let's, let's, let's do a study together. Uh, let's go through all these questions together. You know, and I had written down paragraphs for each question and she had written down, you know, like maybe a sentence or just like a few words. And she's like, I don't know,

this is what I think. And that was hard for me. Cause I was thinking like, she's not taking it seriously enough. It was hard for her. Cause she's like, I'm not comfortable or I'm not, I'm not good at this yet. I'm not good at like, I don't, I don't know. This is what I think this is. I'm not, I'm not purposely not doing this well or something. Um, so, but, but we did it with our, with my pastor from Manhattan, Kansas, and, uh, he did an awesome job. And, uh, I can't, honestly, I can't remember like anything super, super specifically about it, except for just, yeah, that we met up a few times and went over our answers before we would meet with him we did it all virtually um and yeah i just remember katherine being frustrated that i like had more written down than she did or something so but i think

what was her name becca yeah i i think you should still if you feel like you didn't get great counseling the first time nothing wrong with doing it again once you're married if anything because the great thing about criminal counseling is it opens up conversation. It opens up ideas of like, I don't know, I guess we never, like, I think the one that we really, the two that I can remember, like question wise was like, how many kids do you want? And how long do you want to wait until you have kids? And I remember Catherine wanted to wait like one to two years. And I was like, one to two years. That seems quick. Yeah, exactly. Like, and I think that's probably somewhat of a common sentiment. I don't know, maybe not always, but like that the girls will,

and she also wanted, I think like five kids. And I remember being like, there's no way we're going to have five kids. And now I'm like, five kids would be awesome. Who knows? But, uh, yeah. So just kind of, it opens up those kind of conversations before you get married and then you don't have to you know i don't know find out those things later but have you started anything yet ours that we're going to do is like a nine week course through uh abundant life and it doesn't start till march so we haven't done it yet but i did separately from that i did have a phone call today with hopefully the guy who's going to officiate our wedding so that's kind of fun nice so make it move make it count make it count baby the show must go on i love it i think uh yeah i i obviously it's a personal thing and i don't have

to hear about on the podcast or in real life even but i just love i love hearing about like oh i'm learning about this or if you ever have questions about like brad what do you think about this aspect of marriage i would love to talk to you about it yeah i should do that more i just i enjoy it i enjoy really i enjoy relationships i enjoy marriage marriage is awesome families are awesome i think obviously it's such an important part of our lives so and i think even just a relationship that me and you and katherine rachel all have together can be pretty like easy to like help each other out with like rachel and katherine share a ton of similarities already which is really cool and i think how we interact with them could be similar times but also

i feel like me and katherine are also kind of the same people and you and rachel share a lot of similarities too and so we're always going to be able to see eye to eye with someone you know right it's not like oh brad's more type a than katherine therefore brad and jake are the same and rachel it's like no like yeah sometimes it's like what no like you have to plan and Kat, it's like, no. Like, yeah, sometimes it's like, what? No, like you have to plan out a vacation. It's like, no, let's just be spontaneous. There's always a yin and a yang there. So, yeah. We'd love to. It's just fun, man. Dynamics

are fun. Relationship dynamics. All right. We've been going for like an hour 38 at this point. So I feel like I need to wrap up the story and get on with our day. Voice memos though. Send them out more. Maybe one or two more at the very end but okay i love those yeah yeah they are fun we just had so much to talk about today this is fun okay so chapter four i am waiting yeah it's been like 30 minutes i call him again it's just bad i think at this point

the phone call um actually no i think before i called him again i um i'm waiting on like a hyundai sonata is that a car hyundai sonata because i was a car and so um i'm just waiting at the front of this condo complex just waiting for hyundai sonata to pull up and you're gonna just laugh at this but i see a car pull up and um i am looking you don't know what you couldn't tell a hyundai from a toyota from a tesla so uh i'm looking for a gray hyundai sonata and what pulls in to the this is so dumb this is so dumb okay what pulls into the complex i find out later is a navy toyota camry okay but it has like the lift light on okay and so from afar immediately i know i've been waiting for so long i'm just so excited to see

anything that resembles a sedan a lift you know anything wait does this guy drive a gray hyundai sonata yeah yeah that's what i'm waiting on and you know what i thought of is i thought of the office where michael's like i give her a nine-hour elixir and a two a two-hour ability to describe herself i was like all right he's a little late and he's not gonna describe himself but he did make it but it's not even him describing it's like the literal lyft app knows his car and so i walk right up and he drives up to me and i walk right up to him and you're like you got the cards yeah you got the goods and it is a hispanic looking man who looks younger than i remembered and i was like oh you're like talking to him like dwight like uh don't they star you to necessito and bueno worker uh my my name is jake what como te llamas name Komote Yama's name. Do you know Diomedes? And so he goes, Gabby?

And I was like, yes, I'm very happy. And he says, no, Gabby. And I was like, oh, no, I'm not Gabby. And I was so disappointed. I really thought it was Diomedes the whole time. Oh, my gosh. And I really thought he said happy. And I was like, that's kind of fun. Happy. That's a pretty boss move. Like happy now. Happy. He learned one word and it's happy. That was like pitfall. Number one, that was really

sad when I thought I had him, I'd been waiting for so long. He said 15 to 20, it's now 30, 35. I'm like, finally. And it's like, dang it. That's for Gabby. And so I think this is when I did my third phone call. I was like, you know, let's do this. I got to figure it out. The WhatsApp number is like, I don't know how else I'm texting him my address, you know, take some other stuff. So I call him and it's just going even poorer. You know, we just can't get anywhere. At least he answered. Cause if he doesn't answer, you're done. I guess not. Yeah. Thank goodness he answered. And I finally am able to make out, like, he says, my grandson speaks English. He will call you in three hours.

I was like, all right. Okay. I don't know what other options we have. Because, like, you and I communicate, he's not working. You know, so I'm like, great. Okay. So just so you make sure, you know, I'm looking up Google Translate. Your grandson.

Yeah. Call me. Yeah. Trace Aorus. Or, you know, whatever. Yeah, yeah your grandson yeah call me yeah trace a or us or you know whatever yeah he's like yes great and then he tells me his like a phone number that i thought was going to be his grandson's phone number to be looking out for again so i jot that phone number down and then i'm like i go ahead and just like plug it into whatsapp just to see and it populates and it says diametes i'm I was like, oh, this is his WhatsApp number.

What number did he give me before? So now I have four different numbers on my phone, all under Diomedes' name. And so then I text him in WhatsApp and I was like, you know, all in Spanish, hey, this is Jake. This is where I'm at. Can you come to this address? And then, oh yeah, I forgot.

He voice, he was big on the voice chat. I just remembered all this yeah i got some fun receipts see if you can understand hola mi nombre es jake um gracias por ayudarme i don't even know what that i don't know what i'm saying thank you for helping me oh great my address is this what does this mean la misma direccione uh in la que me recogiste oh that was probably the same address as last night i bet that's what i said said the same yeah the same address as last night. I bet that's what he said. He said the same, yeah.

Same address as last night. Okay, so this is what he said. Give me address. Give me address. So that was the first. Give me address. What did he say? Give me address.

Oh, he's trying to speak English there? I guess so, but I had just given him the address. Read it. Play it again. Okay. Oh, let me know where it's Jake. Here's my address. Give me, give me address.

Give me. Here's the next voicemail. Address here. Give me address, you here, in the WhatsApp, please. Oh, give me your address in WhatsApp. Okay. Okay. Give me your address for WhatsApp, please.

Give me your address for WhatsApp. Yeah. And so I sent him the same address that I have sent him nine times at this point. I sent it again. Very good. Very good. Very good. I like that. That's what's what i was like all right we're getting somewhere now he's a whatsapp guy okay so we're starting to get somewhere i'm okay again it was fun

very good very good that needs to be a soundbite very good very good very good all right and so i think i asked him in spanish, are you coming to this address? Okay. Like, are you on your way here? Hello. I am going to go in your house. My way, 10 minutes. 10 minutes.

My way, 10 minutes to your house. Okay. I am driver to your house. minutes to your house ok driver you how driver your house very good very good very good

I said excelente gracias excelente excelente oh mama mia mi amigo me encanta

and then he sends me another one after excellent day gracias I am here in Swiss Hilton what did you get out of that one here is where we start to lose a little momentum

I'm here something Hilton is what I heard yeah I could tell if it. I hear something Hilton is what I heard. Yeah, I could tell if it was Hampton or Hilton. Play it again. Swiss V Hilton Home 2. I am here in Swiss V Hilton Home 2. So I'm like, how did he not just go to the address that i've sent him that dude has hard time with directions nine times i mean i just go to the address you found it last night swiss view hilton home just go there two two very good very good so i'm looking that up and i just get so bummed

you're like this is not excellent i'm not near a excellent. I'm not near a Hilton. I'm not near a Hampton. Whatever you're saying, I'm not near it. How can you not just get here? Oh my God. That was sent. Um, yeah, that is whatever.

Okay. So he sends me that. And how it's just like, is this ever going to end? And so then I did what I should have done a long time ago. I run across the street. To literally half the people in Florida. I go to Chick-fil-A.

Okay. I go inside and I say, does anybody speak Spanish and English in here? And then, well, what I did was I had a guy on my right and his name was Jose. And he looked like a guy who might know Spanish. Jose does? But I couldn't just ask Jose. I had to ask everyone. Okay.

Does anyone speak English and Spanish in here? You're like staring at Jose. I'm kind of like, hey, Jose. Anyone at all? Anyone at all? Jose, you listen to this? You listen? I'm like kicking him.

Some girl raised her hand in the back. I took two years of Spanish. Anybody else? Anybody? Okay. High Spinner. High Spinner. Guatemala.

Where you born? In Honduras. Jose, you hearing this? Anybody, Jose? Jose, can you hear me? Jose, can you hear me? And anyway, Jose is my saving grace. There's so many parallels with this and the Tulum story. I remember I would not have got anywhere if it wasn't for a bilingual taxi driver.

And yet you didn't learn. I know. I need someone to be the intermediary. Because, yeah, I remember that the car got stolen and impounded into loom and the police station was closed on Sundays. It was a nightmare. And so this is the part that should tell you that it's not me. It's on diabetes,

Jose and him. I have it on my phone. They had to talk for nine minutes. They both speak Spanish. Yeah. They had to talk for not, what are they talking about? Right.

Nine minutes. So he would just tell me, he's like, just come to the Chick-fil-A, University Boulevard, right here. And I don't know what they talked about for nine minutes. I was just like, what is he doing? Just come here.

And so they just talk. And the whole time I just keep like doing this, I was like, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's trying to tell me what's happening. And anyway, and so I think that pretty much like is the end of the story eventually um he has me one last time send him the address to the chick-fil-a and whatsapp yeah he pulls up he gets there um i was so thankful to jose first of all i tried to pay him i was like thank you so i could not do this about it he doesn't accept it he's the nicest guy in the world yeah i think i

took up all of his break i felt so bad because he got done talking to me yeah he was a worker he had to go back and start working and so then about 10 minutes later daimides shows up i was so pumped to see him of course he doesn't pull all the way into chick-fil-a he's kind of in the street still so he's just blocking busy street he's blocking traffic and so i'm like trying to like wave him on and he's like waving at me and so like let's just get this over with this guy and so um oh i forgot to say when the night before when things were really haywire and he wasn't responding to me i tipped him an extra 20 dollars like yeah his attention yeah so tipped him 25 at this point um when he finally gives me the case i have another 10 bill i give him another 10 bill like even though he's been the most difficult man on

the planet to work with he's still like he he was faithful to bring it to me. I'm appreciative. I give him a $10 bill. I say, gracias, gracias. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. And he looks at it. He says, uh, 15, 15. He wanted more money. Well, I mean, did you pay him to like get there? So already pays the drivers they give them they do yeah for like the driving time and stuff yeah okay okay so i was gonna say like i would i would take down 50 no he already gets reimbursed by lift like he gets reimbursed for his gas and okay like lift covers it which is nice and um anyway i thought i was like no i have did you freeze or did you give it to him or i was like, no, that's good.

I just couldn't believe that. I mean, I don't know. 15. 15? Maybe he was trying to say 50. The only bills I had, I didn't like have another five. It was like I had a 50 from grandma for Christmas. There you go.

And I think, I don't know. That's so wild. The nerve of this guy. I mean, it sounds like he shouldn't. I don't know for sure, but maybe he's not from Orlando and therefore doesn't know Orlando. Yeah. And so then therefore, if you just say, yeah, I'm on university Boulevard Chick-fil-A, he's like, I have no idea where that is or something.

Why would it take nine minutes to talk to him? I have no idea. Unless it was like, here's how you get there. The whole thing is just for so many reasons, it doesn't sound like he should be driving. Right. Yeah. It'd be like one thing if it's like, I can't speak English,

but I can read Google maps. Like nobody's business. I know left and right. Like no problem. Press the button. Like I'm really good with technology. Press the button and go great. Uh,

but if it's like a little bit of double whammy, you shouldn't be doing that. I have some kind of fun innings to the story. Uh, for once. So I run back across the street holding the SD card case in hand hand i'm so excited about the sds there's nothing there yeah no i did check i was like right they're all in there i'm so excited i am back into the condos i'm like i was like you know what no i am so thankful i ran back across the street again

and i went inside to thank jose again yeah because diabetes actually came and right um so i went inside thanked him and then i i saw the picture of the owner operator and saw where he was sitting. So I went over and told him, I was like, hey, just wanna let you know, like this is just a really short situation. What's happening? Jose helped me like translate for me, really helped me out.

Just if you didn't already know, he seems like a great employee. He was behind here. Yeah. So it was fun. They were really nice. Like most Chick-fil-A operators are. He's just like, where are you from man?

And what are you doing here? And it was cool. So I go back as soon as i get back in the house it's been like um like a two-hour process i was outdoors like when i finally texted rachel like how you been i was like i've been outside for seven hours today just golfing to diabetes and um derrick is about to leave he didn't stay the whole weekend with us derrick was waiting on his uber and so it's like perfect timing don't ever give me this sd card case. Long story short, I lost it, but I got it back. Here it is, man. And Derek goes, oh, those things?

I'm going to use those things in like nine years. I was like, no, no. I thought, yeah, as I was thinking like $15 tip, I was like, okay, obviously like, yeah, the guy's wanting a little bit of money. But like like that's pretty valid considering that these sd cards are worth you know however many hundreds thousands of dollars worth of content did some of our golf stuff yeah like from the first day is it on there

and like what what else is on there derek's like oh you can keep that like you don't even yeah he was like i cannot tell you enough how invaluable area like how unvaluable things are to me and so but my sd card is also on there with the video i shot for trey which had not been backed up anywhere okay um and some other stuff and so that was another thing it's like we would have to reshoot an entire video we've never had to do that in four years i don't want the maybe the last video i ever shot for him to be the one we have to reshoot what video was it uh he actually uploaded today his mental the day we're recording his mental health now versus then okay kind of fun video. So if you liked that video, it could have almost not been.

It would have been way different had we reshoot it. And so that's the other thing. I'm like, I'm stressed about this. Trey eventually hears this whole story and everything. And he's like, oh, I forgot to tell you. When I took the DraftKings footage from you, I went ahead and took the mental health footage too.

I was like, no. So there was nothing. There was nothing on any of these cases. Okay. So, so here's, here's where like the kindergarten, like patronizing Brad and me comes in. It's like kindergarten teacher version of me. It's like, okay, Jake, so what did you learn from this process? Don't keep my friends in the dark when it's very easy to tell them. Yeah. Let people help you. Like we're talking out with them. Like, I don't know what to do here. Do you think it's a guy thing you think is just me being very independent,

individualistic, like not wanting help. Like I don't want to bother them. Let them enjoy their day. Let this be my problem. Cause that's how I feel. It's not even about like stressing them out. It's more about like, I don't want to make my problems their problem. Like this is a hundred percent my fault. Let me figure it out. Maybe that is a unique situation. Cause like I was thinking like they wouldn't be as stressed out as you would be. Cause it's your fault. And so you would still get like, you would be penalized. Like you would have to do all the extra work. I would, if I were in your situation, I'd be like, yeah, I'm paying Derek back for all this stuff. I'm, you know, doing this for free for whatever it takes to like make it right. But yeah, so I don't know.

So in my head, I was like, they wouldn't, they wouldn't care as much as me, but they might have a different perspective. I'm a big fan of just like resources and tools. I love utilizing the resources I have, or like thinking about what resources are at my disposal. And like, I like doing that with my phone, but I also like being like, Hey, I know, like Sam Seavers, let's do the podcast all the time. Sam Seavers knows people in Kansas City that might have things I don't have so i texted him was like hey do you know anybody that has a santa costume and immediately he's like here's a contact for you shout out kyle so like yeah and it's one of those things where it's like i don't

i don't feel bad about that but that's a little bit different because it's you and i are adding stress oh yeah because i'm like yeah if it's like i don't know anybody it's like no problem like i don't think in my head i'm like sam not going to like feel terrible for not being able to provide me something for this. Like, so yeah, I don't know. I don't, I think I would just be like, or like this person that is working the golf shop, like pro shop, who's not doing anything, just standing behind the desk, who looks Hispanic. I'll ask them like, if they, if they would like to help me with this, like, and if anything, it's like, Hey, that's a break in their monotony of like, yeah, they helped talk to this guy with me. Yeah. I can probably be more available to lean on other people. Yeah.

Cause eventually you did. Eventually I had to, you had to be like, hello, people of Chick-fil-A did you understand that? If so, i'm looking for your help oh there was one time i don't know if i've told the whole story but whenever i left spain to go home i didn't have any money any credit cards like all this stuff and i had to i had to basically like beg people to borrow their phone yeah yeah to figure out something and it was it's a very uncomfortable situation like there's a difference between like can i have a favor or like, hey, I either need money or I need- I need drastic immediate help. And it was back in the day, but it was like before unlimited data.

And so it was like a hindrance of them. It was hard to get like mobile internet. Yeah, I'm borrowing your time, but it's like, oh, can I get on there? And you know, whatever. So I know how awkward and tough it can be. So the fact that you had to go to those lakes of like i'm just gonna go like cold cold announce it to all of chick-fil-a chick-fil-a was a good call to go there they're so nice yeah anywhere else but anyway anyway what a story i'm sorry that was so long everyone no i think it was probably still

entertaining at least but yeah it was a long weekend because of that. And I was every night, I would just hit the pillow and it's just so exhausted. I was like, I was telling Rachel, like, sorry, I haven't texted you much. It's just been, I just been doing stuff constantly. I don't get a break from this and I'm just so tired. And I think when you aren't living a very stressful life, when you are stressed, it's like, this is taking a toll. I mean, I gotta be a comedian tonight. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

You have to like pretend like none of that matters. Yeah. Oh yeah. But it was all good. I love my life. It's, it was fun. Thanks for listening. Got a good life. Let's do a reviews of the week. How do you feel about that? Yeah, I love it. I had one that I really, really liked. Um, it says can't type through my tears of laughter. Oh, it's from J-Dub. Jacob Brad, thank you. There's a lot of things to say or type but long story short i'll just say thanks the transparency of y'all's lives the boldness of living your lives for jesus and the desire to want to be a light to your community has not gone unnoticed after listening to the best of 2022 i just cried both from laughing and thankful

wow wow that's pretty cool uh reliving those jokes and stories is a reminder to all us ghosties that even when we might feel alone in our lives we have a community here with ghost runners that is awesome this one is for the kid at home for the boys back home um and reminds me i got an email today and just said hey just thank you for the podcast i'm going through some depression right now and your podcast helps me get through days and that's really cool yeah awesome that's awesome um mine's coming from lizzie who gets on her feet best podcast slash talk show in europe five star review on january 8th hey jake and brad my name is lizzie and i'm 17 years old right now i'm on an exchange program for a semester in france humble brag nintendo we oh we we and y'all are keeping me sane i feel pretty homesick having less than

mediocre french speaking skills hello and not being used to eating a freaking baguette with every meal. Oh, that sounds awesome. Don't complain about it. You're 17 years old and you're dominating carbs. It's a good life, Lizzie. All right. Trust me. You'll miss those days.

Brad's only eating in a four-hour window a day. Trust me. I get like the nub of a baguette once a week. I've been listening since episode two, but not knowing how to explain to my parents why I feel like I'mub of a baguette once a week. I've been listening since episode two, but not knowing how to explain to my parents why I feel like I'm friends with two men nearly twice my age. I haven't been able to participate in the ghosty community nearly as much as I want to.

I love that because it's like, she, she's in France, like, you know, an exchange program, but the parents were like, Whoa,

Whoa, Whoa. What are these Facebook posts? See a lot of comments going out. Exactly. Anyways, it continues. It says still,

thank you so much for everything. Listening to this podcast makes me feel less lonely. Jake, congrats on your engagement. Thank you, Brad. Congrats on having a friend. Thank you.

Maybe more than one who has gotten engaged. Thank you. Keep being awesome. We will. Thank you to Maybe more than one who has gotten engaged. Thank you. Keep being awesome. We will. Thank you to Lizzie who gets on her feet. That's fun. Or as we say in

French, how do you say thank you in French? It's bonjour. It's kind of like aloha. It can mean a lot of things. Yes, that's right. It's the tone though.

But it's bonjour with like a J, not a J. Yeah. Bonjour is like hello. Oh, bonjour. Oh, merci is how you say it. I'm like, I know how to say thank you.

Did you know? No. Merci. Merci beaucoup. Brad, would you like to end this episode with a teaser? Oh, would I? How do you want to tease him? How do we want to titillate these ghosties?

On you. Let's titillate them by using the word titillate a lot. And say how uncomfortable they get about word titillating. Lizzie said keep being awesome. I think we can do that. I think we can do that. I think we can. I can manage my way around that.

But using the word manage a lot more around the office. I could manage my way around being awesome like we are on Monday mornings. But I could manage my way around being awesome. Like we are on Monday mornings, but sometimes, you know, it's a long time to go without the thing that keeps you from being lonely.

Maybe you need something, something in the middle of the week. You're, you're quarterback. That's what it's about. We didn't talk about how we're going to tease this, but... Titillate, you mean? Titillate them. This announcement has been titillating.

Announcemente to come. Yes, yes big annuncio maybe next week maybe the week after but could be three weeks could be four weeks i can see that happening five weeks realistic time frame yes okay uh bear with me here six weeks to announce it yeah okay uh katherine texted me and said can you come home right after you're done uh podcasting because rosie hasn't slept in a long time that means you should head out brad's gotta go be a dad i'm gonna go be a dad i'm gonna go be a fiance get a camera lens from derek and then i'm playing pickleball tonight for the first time in a long time fun yeah that'll be great enjoy it should be a good time should be a good time

should be you know good time sweating it up hitting it around a good long episode over two hours just us you're welcome two hours long

wow that was easy that's a long episode long soed yep huh it was long that was one episode

that was pretty long that was pretty long one episode that and this will come out on Monday uh huh cause like they always do they've always One episode. And this will come out on Monday. Uh-huh.

Like they always do. They've always come out on Mondays. Always come out on Mondays. And people love the long episodes, right? Oh, sure. Like they like it whenever we talk. I think they like episodes of us in general. Okay. Guys, it's been fun.

Peace out, Seacrest. Oh, peace out, Seacrest. Make it count 2023. Make it count. Count the cards. Love you guys.