Ghostrunners - 195 - Can We Normalize Not Saying Normalize?

Episode Date: January 23, 2023

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Jake, it's time to put an asterisk next to last week's episode. We're risking. Because we had some misinformation in there, my brother. Yeah, it's going to get flagged on Twitter. Flag that, Elon. Readers would like to add context to the above tweet. Apparently, I attributed our mugs that we got last week to Kirstie Swick slash the Ghost Runners community, when in reality, they were not from her.

She said, i have no idea who sent those to you that was not us so it's interesting because i have i've been accused of a lot of things i will say i i have misgendered mugs you have uh misinformed mugs but i've never miss uh misattributed um yeah mugs how yeah i was gonna say how how much of that sentence did you have going before you started it i would have never you would have never thought just assumed that someone gave me these mugs if i wasn't certain and that's what misattributing is i misattributed the mug i also misattributed um hey hand up mug up please apologize i am a misattributor you did my name is brad apologize i am a misattributor you did my name

is brad and i'm a misattributor hey congrats idaho you got miscontinuality shiny kansas you got misattributor pun anyway what were you gonna say well i'm just trying to figure out who they're from i mean yeah if they're not from you know the ghosties who could they be from should we check the return address or do you think we can just kind of figure it out on our own i think the return address said well now i'm thinking about it i'm not positive but maybe the return address said something like the vatican you don't think this was jp3 i don't know what pope we're on. I think regardless, he would probably respond to JP three. That's a good nickname for whoever it is.

JP trip. That's funny. I mean, you don't think though, right? Like that would be insane, right? I thought so. When you said Kirstie Swick last week, I was like, I don't think that sounds right. I think this is Trey Kennedy being like, hey guys, congratulations on buying this from me. Yeah. You're the boss now.

Thanks for the soul-sucking deal. You don't think? Here's a couple of mugs. Suck your copies. Yeah. Well, you don't think? You don't,

I mean, if it's, it probably is Trey or the Pope, but just level with me here. You don't take it. You don't. I mean, it probably is Trey or the Pope, but just level with me here. You don't think it was Kobe Bryant. Not what I was expecting you to say. You didn't think Kobe Bryant was going to. That one I will say I don't think.

You don't think it was Kobe Bryant. That one I actually don't think. There's rumors out there. Then again. You don't. You don't. You don't think that people like out there then again you don't you don't you don't think that people like that he had foresight i don't i i don't think you don't think it was princess diana do you oh now we're just going jp3 is probably never is it meant they mentioned all these dead people alongside with Trey

like you're all tragically you don't think John Lennon sent these right Elvis's cameo Home Alone I don't know who sent these

but whoever it was thank you world's best boss let us know so we can attribute properly who sent it to us you don't I got nothing you don't think it was john elway joe montana and

steve deberg who's the last one chief's quarterback from like the 1980s let's roll the music i think this is good you don't think that the episode's about to start right now. Hey, normalize, normalize getting random mugs, you know, getting and given, huh? Getting and given. Hey, normalize not saying we need to normalize things that are already normal. That's what bothered me lately. You know, normalize sitting down. bothered me lately. Normalize sitting down. Hey, right? Normalize sleeping in.

Normalize the gas pedal being on the right, right? Come on. People are doing that. You see a lot of tweets these days of like, hey, can we just normalize taking yourself out to lunch? These are normal adult things. Yeah, can we normalize eight hours of sleep, please? You don't need to like

almost play the victim of doing this like everyday adult behavior yeah you know it's like can we normally it's like well there's just a stigma around eating you know taking myself out to the movies and eating lunch myself what if a stranger comes up and starts bothering me and they i just get bothered by this person i didn't even know existed that happens all the time well it's like i'm starting to get the idea yeah I'm starting to feel it right now. I just, I don't know why it's, it's become so normal to normalize on radical behavior.

It's bothering me. Normalize complaining about people complaining about using the word normal. Yeah. Normalize it. Yeah. That's what should be happening. Yes. Hey,

can we normalize these idiot tweets I'm seeing all the time and calling them out for what they are? I saw you think about like, maybe I won't say idiot. And then you're like, I'm going for it. I'm going to say it. You go, can we normalize these idiots? It was like. I said it. Yeah, yeah.

And I don't take it back. Can we normalize not apologizing? Can we normalize like, yeah, like just being unbiblical, you know? Don't know about that. Not apologizing. Oh, sorry. I thought you meant calling someone an idiot. Oh. Got it now.

No, no, no. God calls people idiots sometimes. You fools. Yeah, I'm just tired of seeing that. Can we normalize just running errands on a Monday morning? Yeah, it's been normal. Do it. Come on, hey. This is just adult. we don't need to talk about the things you're doing as it millions of adults are just doing these things they're not tweeting about it asking to be treated normal can we normalize just like you know blowing our nose

with both nostrils at once is that it am i getting it yeah you're nailing it you've seen that one can we normalize not waiting to respectfully put the seat down after urinating until the flush is completely done? Just in case some splashy splashy is on your hand? That is so specific that you know it's like real. Something I think about. Yeah, just normalize it. Just normalize it. I think just say normalize it and we'll know what you're talking about.

Right? Like it's probably the splashy splashies. Can we just normalize it? Yeah. Can we say normalize it and we'll know what you're talking about. Right? Like it's probably the splashy splashies. Can we just normalize it? Yeah. Can we just normalize it? Huh? Just normalize it. That's my thing.

That's my big thing right now. Yeah. I'm sick of seeing normalize it. You walked in today and I was like something, something's burning him up. Something's askew in his heart. That's right.

Askew spelled different than I thought. A-S-K-E-e-w wait that's how i was thinking i promise there's a vocab word of mine in gifted class can we normalize talking about being in gifted class please what were you thinking e-s-c-h-e-w deliberately avoid using abstaining from you said askew i think a-s-k-e-w is like things are all things are all over caddy wampus not straight or in a level position exactly this is a vocab word gifted baby what'd you what'd you use it for um i didn't use it perfectly but i said things are askew in my heart oh that is good okay it's kind of a weird way a bit wonky but then askew with an e

it's something different it's's pronounced the same way. I'm really bad at like the, Oh, maybe a shoe. Yeah. That seems more right. I'm really bad at like reading the thing that says how this, how you pronounce it and understanding how to actually do it.

I know if it's an upside down E it's the sound that is an upside down E and it's E S apostrophe capital C H. That's where the emphasis is. S-H-U and then C-H and then two O's with a line on top of it. Ooh. Yeah, that's why I think so too. S-H-U, S-H-U, S-H-U, S-H-U. Gesundheit.

Yeah, exactly. Can we normalize saying S-H sq and then blowing our nose with two can we normalize you know two kleenexes just in case it goes through the first one yeah two applying yeah dude this is kind of a wild thing speaking of blowing your nose i don't think i've ever asked anyone about this if you really get blown which for me sometimes if i'm really blowing i'm probably in the shower and it's like hey you know a hundred percent it doesn't matter at this point wherever it goes it goes, you know, just the governor's off. Right. If I really get blown, I feel a little bit of air come out of my eye. Is that normal?

Cause if not, can we normalize it? Let's normalize it. Let's normalize it. Like, it's like, I'm trying to blow my left nostril so hard and I'm just blown. I'm getting my elbow into it. You're closing off the right gate. You have to yeah more psi yeah so i'm even like swiveling my hips a little bit and it's like if i really get going i can feel like my left eye also like air is coming out of that like sinus cavity i don't know about the eye i not not i can't remember that for like specifically blowing my nose but like yeah if you like plug both of your nostrils and blow like yeah you feel it in the eyes do you ever like get you feel it in the eyes. Do you ever like get the ringing in the ears?

Like the, almost like an eardrum, like really high pitch noise. Every now and then I feel like I like, Oh yeah, my ears are ringing. No, it's like different than that. It's like a,

it's like almost like a nails on a chalkboard, but even higher pitch. I don't think I've had that. That sounds awful. It's no fun. Yeah. It's like when I'm really congested and I'm trying to blow too much, I think.

Really? So you're getting your hips into it though. I think sometimes you're maybe not quite like swiveling my hips, but like going, like my head is going from high to low. Like I'm doing that. Like just to get some momentum into it. Like when you're in the shower,

I mean, it's like the same principle. Why? Like eating an orange in the shower get a little mess Who cares so you don't you know, you don't leave anything up there to catch it in the shower Yeah, I still do I go I go one on and then I kind of catch it in my hand and then let it run off my hand what's What is better about catching your hand rather than like catching it on the shower floor or your side?

I was gonna say what if it doesn't get on the shower floor? And then all of a sudden. Then you wash it off with water. You got to bend down? No, it just, you use the same water you got to wash off your hand. You wash it off. Totally. That makes sense.

I don't know. I just use my hand. It's a freak like that. Yeah, it is gross. I think I'd rather just see it fly and then have it like gooped on my hands. Like I just put, you know, wet cement on it. Yeah, no, it's fair. This is all gross.

I think every once in a while it gets on the shower curtain don't like that i haven't had a curtain in a dog's age what do you just have like glass yeah yeah just doors so you're just going i'm just very precise yeah it's a small stream it's the jet setting what was that story way back in the day you didn't have a shower curtain oh it was when you soiled yourself and you're like you remember in the uh mission house mission house the the house before this house or before they were like the house when you peed your pants peed your bed peed my bed okay okay okay yeah oh yeah i guess is that not soil soil is more fertile um fecal yeah fecal uh and you like couldn't shower because you didn't have a shower

curtain yeah right wasn't that the story that's probably right i remember there being issues with the shower curtain for a while i remember i left that place and there's still a hole in the dry wall they had to my shower is leaking into isaac's workshop and so the rental company came in and they they um drilled in a big hole on my wall and like replaced the showerhead and they just left it. And so for like nine months, is that a huge hole? And I was like, I guess no one's going to fix this ever.

You guys were great tenants to them. Cause they're like, yeah, we're just going to put a hole in here and no one's going to really complain about it. No one complained. Yeah. Didn't get our deposit back. What?

Yeah. They put the hole in the wall and you guys didn't get the deposit. I don't know if that was the only reason why we didn't get the deposit back. Probably like the massive amounts of, you know, sawdust in the garage didn't help. Maybe. That deposit's due. It's one of those things where I'm pretty sure I paid the full deposit and was like, I'll just get it back.

And we never got it back. And I haven't told my roommates yet, but they already owe me so much money that I said, it was like, ah, now is not a good time. Right. It's like, uh, I probably shouldn't bring it up now don't want to tell them and yeah just just slowly trickle it in there over time fudge the numbers a little bit yeah yeah yeah anyway you've been blowing your nose or what i've been uh blowing my nose some yeah how about you i've been uh i've been more blowing both to get my ears uh out of you know popping yes yeah that's good too been flying a lot no no non-stop flights

recently there's a lot of layovers really yeah no good into sarasota airport oh yeah so that's that's how it is got a layover um layover in the fort myers we're going jacksonville we're going uh atlanta oh you dog good for you yeah well nice little time i'm not sure if really anything came out of it if i have any stories but nice little time um it's fun i travel with rachel which is why i'm not used to really traveling with people like what train i travel together we don't really sit next to each other he's an aisle guy i'm a window guy he's usually sitting up further to the front he's like an a-list really you guys don't even sit in the same row i don't know if we ever have really there's no real benefit to it i'm gonna

sleep the whole time i know yeah that's fair but i just assume like you would still i if i were him i'd be like i'll save you like kind of put put something on the seats i don't know you're always sleeping 100 of the time or you know it depends i always could sleep but sometimes it's like hey i need to get to bed tonight or good time so let's see what southwest airlines has for me yeah and so i watched king richard this week on the flights you really enjoyed it yeah really liked it did you did you like uh you know one earbud for each of you and watch it together with rachel no rachel's still big on the reading kick i got her that kindle for christmas and she loves it yeah she she reads all the time it's funny she like she's

like gosh i didn't do anything today i like read all morning i'm like to me that seems like an awesome like productive morning yeah to her she's like i didn't get anything done i'm envious of you being able to read because i can't you couldn't like sit down and read for like if it's a good book i probably could i just never give myself a chance i just get too antsy there's so many stuff that has to be taken care of. Sure. It's hard. Yeah. To be, you know, to be young and in love like Rachel. To be young. Just in general.

Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. It was a good time. We flew. We tennised. And you were visiting Rachel's grandmother. Yeah. Grandma Graham.

Yes. Flory. She was living down there in the wintertime so yeah we kind of this idea is like rachel visits her grandma every winter down in florida but i was like hey it'd be fun let's take some engagement pictures while we're in florida rachel's like oh my gosh yes i love the sun i love outside i love being warm it's a great idea those are all going to be things in florida so we haven't sent out save the dates yet even though we probably not something we probably should know all i was like It was like, let's wait. We're going to take good engagement photos.

And you look at the forecast, like the 10 day forecast for, uh, you know, the Tampa area going into it. It's like mid to high seventies, seven days in a row. And then the weekend we were there, huge cold front, really cold. And then immediately now it's back to mid to high seventies. It was just like everyone we talked to in Florida was like, I lived here 20 years. I've never seen this cold. It's like, awesome.

Awesome. Just like it was in Orlando the week before before too right everywhere i go when i went to corpus christi yeah it's always like this but um anyway so engagement pictures dude they were i'm not even gonna pretend like they weren't frigid because they were absolutely freezing it was like low 50s but you're on the beach there's no protection from the wind and the wind was like between like 30 and 40 miles an hour yeah and i was in a t-shirt rachel really likes this one shirt i had she's like can you wear this one i was like great it's like a uh a sheen shirt and i've never noticed it until you're being hit with this kind of wind i'm like this is the thinnest shirt it's like i'm wearing a napkin i mean which normally in florida

would be a great shirt great florida shirt yeah breathable oh my gosh so most of the engagement photos i'm gonna have like flushed cheeks i think because i would just run around she'd be like all right let's go over there so i would just run like the photographer took a video of me i was doing down and backs i was like running suicides i was like touching the sand and i was like doing push-ups and just anything i could to stay warm it was so so cold and just so windy it was just funny like it was almost better like if it was kind of windy then i think you're allowed you're given the permission to be a little upset like ah my hair or whatever sure but when it's that windy you don't even care yeah you know it's like being in like a boat that's sinking it's like oh i don't care

about getting wet now sure yeah yeah my shoes are the least of my problems yeah there's a lot of stuff going on so yeah she took a couple polaroids of us just to give to us immediately and so many pictures just like the wind is like, I'm facing this way. The wind's blowing this way. And so my hair is just down like this for like photos. And, you know, everything else in the picture looks perfect. Oh, my gosh. How much does that kill you?

Because I know you're you love your hair. Like you love your hair is awesome. Like, was it like, oh, that's a bummer, you know, for that specific Polaroid. It's like, I mean, that kind of ruined the picture just because i look like a little emo kid but you know when it comes to engaging photos it's like we don't need the whole gallery to look amazing yeah we need one maybe two for a save the date and then we'll probably use some to get in frames to give to grandparents you know whatever some nice photos so we don't need them all to be perfect but yeah it was definitely just like it was it was memorable and it was fun because it was so brutal.

It was almost better that it wasn't like, ah, it's kind of chilly. It was just like, it's so cold. Get this done as soon as possible. It was like, how long was it? It was like a 30 minute. Uh, we paid for 90 minutes and I think the photographer, if this tells you anything, the photographer was in a like sweatshirt hoodie and then a ski jacket and i'm a floridian so it's like this is like yeah a blizzard to them yeah everyone was in ski jackets and coats and everything and like you

know mink hoods and no yeah mink minks links what's the animal that always gets slaughtered for the hoods mink excuse yeah um true true but um anyway so yeah she was just so bundled up and I was in a t-shirt. So it was very cold, but very memorable. And I think we still got some good ones. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah.

I remember when we did engagement photos, we did it with a friend of a friend kind of thing. And, uh, she hadn't really done very many, but she was kind of interested in doing photography and it was fine. But it was one of those things we look back on. We're laughing.

Like we like changed outfits. I think I had wore three different outfits you know for it and like yeah it's one of those things i don't know where those photos are now i think they're on facebook somewhere but beyond that you know it's like we didn't need to stress so much so yeah yeah it was uh yeah it was it was fun it was fun it was something to do rachel and i've never gotten photos taken together so it was just kind of fun to just pose and i had a fun time you know i'm there i'm trying to make rachel laugh but i feel like the photographer was like very complimentary like wow you guys are hilarious this is fun like she would because i don't know i just can't help it just like well you have no like the it's so fun when the photographer or whoever like

doesn't have any expectation of who you are like they don't know anything like yeah they could have i bet a lot of the people are just very serious very polite but like just going in taking pictures and leaving and you guys were trying to have fun with it yeah she was want to do some post she's like all right rachel you just stand there and then jake i want you to come behind her whenever you want you're gonna like surprise her by giving her a hug and uh i was like okay and so of course i just I start like gathering like sticks and everything. And I'm like throwing them to the side to try and like throw Rachel off of like when I'm coming and I try to make extra noise. And then like I'm throwing sticks over here

and coming from the left. So just like dumb stuff like that. I had a blast. Extra surprise, I like it. Yeah, yeah. I was like trying to like, you know, and then try to walk really slowly. So yeah, it was just fun.

Just feeling like we're having fun, but the photographer's having fun. Good time. You've done wedding photography stuff before. Tell me there was apparently there was some tactic that this girl was doing. I went to a wedding this weekend and they were like, all right, the bride and groom are going to be in the middle and you guys are all going to form a circle and you're going to start like circling, like moving in a circle around them. The chief's play, the snow globe play.

Kind of idea like that. And they're like, just trust me. It's going to be a really cool picture. What in the world? Where? Okay. So this, I don't know. I wasn't there. So I don't know. Okay. I was going to ask where the photographer was. Yeah. Good point. I don't know. I don't know. But it was photo. It wasn't even video. As far as I know, this was a photo. Oh, I have some things to talk about with this photographer actually. So I assume it would just be like, they very well it was I I got yeah I don't know like like my friend who was he was an usher so he wasn't in the maybe he was in those pictures but anyway he was like it was a weird thing like yeah these so so I went to a wedding this weekend and it was the best

it was so much fun it was well do you have anything else to say about the photographer i can always come back to it okay um it was just an incredible fun weekend i think it was one of those times where it was like whenever you're right out of college you go to so many weddings it's so fun you know but at the same time it's like oh another wedding we got to pay for another or we got to go travel and now that we're older it's like that doesn't happen very much anymore. And they especially don't happen with people where a bunch of people are reuniting at this wedding. Like it was just such a reunion of so many Kennecock friends.

Uh, cause the guy that got married, Matt Gilbert is his name. Shout out to Matt, to Gilly. He, uh, he was, he's the kind of guy that like will come and like be loyal to anybody and everybody that, you know, invites him to anything. He's always going to be there. And so it's one of those things. Yeah. And so it's one of those things where like when the tables turn, everyone's like, we got to go to his wedding, you know? Like, so everyone made it like from, you know, our solid friend group. And so it was one of those things where it was like, I don't remember the last time

all these, as many of us have been together since then. Very fun. And so it was great. And there were all sorts of little funny things that happened at the wedding. But one of the things with this photographer, along with this weird circle the wagons move, was, hello? Rachel Coop made it to her home. Hi, Rachel. Hi.

We're recording the Ghost Runners podcast every Monday morning with Jake and Brad. Come show everyone your outfit. It looks great. Okay. Yeah. She's like, all right. Okay, fine. Brad's telling a story about weddings, but you can just stand here if you want.

Okay. Okay. Hello. Ooh, little, we'll say 40% eaten pear. Yep. Good for you. Very right. Rachel likes pears.

I do love pears. Yeah? Come on. Get a little lower maybe for... Yeah, there you go. Do a wall sit. Just a wall sit. I don't think the walls are strong enough. Old house, old house.

Let's talk to Rachel some so she doesn't have to wall sit forever and then I can come back to my story. How you doing? Good. What's the latest? We should give Rachel that mic. Is it on? Yeah.

I don't know. All right, we are back. We went ahead and got Rachelachel microphone and in the process brad is now eating her pear a lot of things have happened rachel's got a mic come look at her on youtube all right that's it that was the introduction rachel uh tell us about your day who where'd you sub chenny mission north chenny mission northwest high school okay how was it it was good let's let's guess i get do you know Tell us about your day. Where'd you sub? Cheney Mission Northwest High School. Okay. How was it? It was good.

Let's guess. Do you know what subject, Jake? I know nothing. Okay. Let's each guess, and whoever guesses it right wins. And then Rachel's going to ask us a question about that unit today. Okay. My first guess, of course, let's just be broad.

We don't have to be like calculus. Uh my first guess is science. Okay, I'm gonna say English We're both wrong, okay, no, you're right So I had multiple ah He's a Swiss Army knife English slash French. Oh, I wish. One time when I was a French sub, we just watched Ratatouille the whole day. Really? Yeah. That's awesome.

Okay. English slash. Oh, your guess. English slash. Social studies. Yes. Boom. Good.

You're pretty good, Jake. Good point. Any other slashes? Yeah. Slash. Remember, I texted you about it this morning. Study hall. Yeah, basically.

Really? Library. Library? Yeah. No students came in. You can be a sub for the library. That'd be awesome. Yeah, I know.

It was weird. I wasn't signed up to, but then the person who I was signed up to sub for came. Okay. So then they were like, go to the library. They're like, I don't know. Go to the library. Okay. I don't know.

Go read a book I forgot my kindle it was heartbreaking if only they had other books at the library I'm in the worst place possible gosh I am stuck without a book it's like being up the creek at a paddle store

that's funny well that's fun I also we asked rachel about i just told him about the pictures and how cold they were but how much fun we still had so fun yeah did anything happen on the airplane i feel like something happened on one of the flights or something i lost my water bottle twice oh i mean that's not it's not news to us lost in the airport in the airplanes what what are you talking about the first one wait wait to find lost you're gonna need to oh i know i knew i'd find it but like but like like lost meaning like what one time i forgot it the first flight rachel forgot it on the airplane

okay and then remembered and so i was like running back it's like oh the airplane's still here i permanent water bottle like oh it's a good one. Really? Yeah. Where is it? A Lala from Target. Yeah. That one.

Oh, they're good. It's got a straw. You don't need to tip it. Yep. Yep. Okay. So I ran back to get that one and the pilot was bringing it off the plane.

So I was like, Hey, that's mine. I'm just going to get it. Nice. Nice guy. And the second time I was like, cause okay.

So the first time I said it by my feet and then that's where I forgot it because I couldn't see it. So then I got to sit by Jake on the next flight and I was like- Wait, you didn't sit by Jake on the first flight? No. What is up with Jake not sitting by people he loves?

Not our fault. Apparently Jake has never sat by in the same row as Trey on a flight. Does that really surprise you guys that much? It doesn't surprise me that much on Trey's side, i could see you being like hey can i sit next to you dude we didn't check in super early so that's why we were not able to sit by each other like it was like middle seats only available okay and i offered to sit on rachel's lap and the pilot said no the pilot said not this flight buddy if you give me the water only the

one of vegas so rachel just got done losing her water bottle on an airplane and about 45 minutes later we were back in the same position well because i put it by my seat and i was like the same one the same one i put it by my feet like where it was last time i was like this is a chance for me to show myself that i'll remember it and then like halfway through the flight well sorry before the flight someone else came and sat by us and he put his huge foot in my in my section being no no so i just yeah he went in your lane he did and i think when he did that he kicked the water bottle because like halfway through the flight i finished my tea so then i wanted my water okay and i could not find it this remember on the gene towards video yesterday i didn't tell you this but when i we were doing early people versus late people in the video i was like literally yes last night on a flight rachel carried three

drinks onto an airplane she really did and when she got done with one she couldn't find the other but yeah this guy this was like the um the water bottle was nowhere you know when they were trying to find that malaysian aircraft and they were trying to like it's anywhere it should be anywhere in here there's like the water bottle should be somewhere in this perimeter you know it can't be anywhere else it was it was outside of the bottle should be somewhere in this perimeter. It can't be anywhere else. It was outside of the perimeter. And there's like a bar in front of the seat and a bar like under the seat. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So it's not going to be rolling like really far up the plane. So this guy got a hold of it. He did. Yeah. I was like trying to get my head down to look, but there's no room. Did the guy have any interest in like, what are you guys doing over there? No, not at all. Okay.

I couldn't believe it. Yeah. Big, pretty big guy. And just like put his leg in Rachel's lane. Big no-no. He put his bowling ball down her alley. And he was on the aisle seat. Yeah.

Yes. So if you're, you can, you can out of the lane it, but you do it on the left side. Or you don't have the aisle. Yeah. Yeah. That's too bad. I'm sorry. It's okay.

I'm really, honestly, I'm just sorry that for the rest of your life you're going to be in the middle like because every time you fly with jake like well i mean jake's a small enough guy he could go in the middle sometimes but like with katherine it's like i could go in the middle but everyone's bad like like no one's happy about that so poor katherine just always has to be in the middle scrunched yeah okay we could trade off so okay so you did end up finding it i did after the flight we stayed on a little bit later really it was like one row in front of us that's all yeah wow i knew we would that one was confusing like did i bring it on did i dream that i said i was gonna know you you take it very confident so would would you say like, you're very good at losing things?

I'm, I dabble myself. Would you say like, you're pretty good at finding things? Like, because I need to help finding my wallet. Like, I would look.

Yeah. I would say I'm good at luckily finding things. Yes. Like, it's like, I'm not good at searching and finding. Okay. I don't even think i

attempt that anymore it just happens in life yeah yeah rachel will just like for a split second she can't find her phone so she'll ping it from her watch and it's always like just by her thigh or in her pocket or in her purse i'm like it's always in one of the top three spots you should be looking for i think i know it's just quicker this way all right i don't i don't hate that yeah use the resources you have yeah it's usually like for me i'm like i don't know where my wallet's been you know i haven't had it since i played basketball a couple weeks ago maybe to the gym and then like you know it's like oh i'm gonna go play some basketball get out my basketball shoes there's my wallet inside of it it's like oh okay you know but i just need help basically is what

i'm trying to say with finding my wallet. So I'll start not looking. Yes. And just come hang out around our house sometime. Just look around. Um, anyway. Okay. Would you like me to tell you this wedding photography story?

Would you like to stay, stick around? You're welcome to stay as much or as little as you want. You tell me what to do. I'm not deciding. Also, I guess that is so on brand. we,

did you have any good stories from today's school yeah anything happening i know it's putting on the spot okay english you just watched dead poet society we were in 1984 did you guys ever read that oh george robo yes good job thanks isn't that crazy that was like supposed to be futuristic like 1984 now now it's like way later than that and now it's happening again but different but different wake up sheep i think a lot of people like 1984 was always trending during covid they were like it's happening here it comes yeah yeah never read it though so i don't know what you're talking about you know george orwell i know george orwell how do you know that i'm good

with trivia but i'm not good i'm not good that's common. Dang it. I forgot his name until I read it again. That is very rare knowledge. Very intelligent. What else did he write? Animal Farm. That's the only thing I knew. You knew that? No.

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powerful backing of American Express. Terms and conditions apply. Visit amex.ca slash business platinum. Okay. So it's, it's just, so I was at a wedding this weekend in Texas and right before the weddings, like probably 10 minutes before it all went down, the photographer like stopped ever like stopped, you know, the conversation before the ceremony was in the sanctuary, whatever the area is. What's it called? It's not a sanctuary. Cause it's just a norm, a venue. And she's like pretty seriously, like, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, everyone. And we're all like, Oh no.

Like something's going down, you know? And she's just like, just want to let you know, this is a completely no cell phones wedding. Uh, do not have your cell phones out. We will be the ones taking all the pictures. You don't need to worry about it. And it was like this, like very like awkward silence. And then I just hear my friend Chris goals. He just kind of like laugh pretty like just like for whatever reason just maybe die laughing but i had never like it was just a very odd like did they really care that much if somebody in the background has a phone out while they're taking a picture i i i would be shocked if the bride and groom had them say that this was just a weird thing the photographer's like getting everyone in trouble yeah you know like pre-trial

yeah exactly it's like what we haven't done i wasn't going to pick up like get out my phone in this instance i've seen on like the wedding program you walk in and maybe it'll say like today is gonna be an unplugged wedding don't worry about taking photos okay handle it but i always see photographers complain about it like you know this grandma with her ipad was in the way of my shot when i'm trying to you know the ipad would be extreme yeah so this photographer is probably just i don't know very butthurt about it and winnable to extreme. Yeah. I don't know. So, but I'm always, not always, but often big man in the aisle, like aisle seating. And so I'm always very conscious of how I'm like smiling the entire time. Like

anytime that like the bride's coming down, I'm like looking so nice like ah you know so um but then during the ceremony like you know i think i talked about it at harrison's wedding how i could never be a wedding photographer because you have to be so like you know kind of just put yourself you have to be up there but like not really be seen this i think she was this they call them second shooters like the secondary photographer she took a few pictures like straight on, like basically right where the bride would walk down. Like while the ceremony is going on, you know,

it's been like 10, 15 minutes in, took a few pictures and then walk back, let's say six rows and then genuinely stood straight up, like pretty tall girl too. Like stood straight up in the aisle for 10 minutes. Just didn't take a picture in the world didn't do anything she just stood there i think at one point i didn't see this but somebody

else said she even got on her phone so she's standing right where someone's sitting like they have a photographer like right in front of her not necessarily she's still in the eye like she's down the middle of the aisle so i don't yeah i guess she probably was blocking some people's view it was a very like honestly it was a power move but it was like i don't i don't think you should do this like just you got your shot like it's one thing if it's like let me wait for another picture and then i'll take a few more it was literally she stood there and did not take a picture for 10 minutes huh it was it was wild so just something to think about with you for we don't have a photographer yet no that is maybe we

could ask her yeah we that is good when we've talked about it i'm pretty big on like hey i want to invest a ton in a really good video photographer really kind of whoever sorry to the photographers listening well also hit us up yeah yeah exactly photography is i don't know video is hard because it's like usually what max 10 minutes oh who knows what this one could be yeah jake's writing a script for it yeah there's gotta it's gonna be pretty fun oh really yeah okay it's gonna be different oh cool do you know about it yes okay that's a fair question um cool well yeah let's see other things from the wedding do you want to grab a chair? You also don't have to stay. Up to you.

I'll stay for a little bit. Okay. Here's another thing. I mean, it's just one of those, like, so Gilbert, Matthew Gilbert is this guy's name. He was always like, you know, we do a gospel skit every year at Keenacook. And, like, different characters represent different, like, different, some of us, you know, know different characters represent you know satan and the regular you know us and then there's always the christ figure literally every year gilly is the christ figure this guy good for him and i mean he would always like save the day obviously like christ does and he you know would always have

this like pretty booming voice whenever he did it he'd be like, I'm not dead yet, or something like that. He'd always have a great line. And so during the wedding... I'm not dead yet. I don't know. That's not what it was. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey.

Yeah. But anyway, during the wedding, they're like, what symbol do you have to represent your promise to each other or something? And obviously, it's a ring. But the way he said it was amazing. symbol do you have to you know represent your promise to each other or something and obviously it's a ring but the way he said it was amazing he just goes this ring so regal and like and everyone like people laughed pretty hard at it like it was not on purpose that he was trying to be funny he's trying to be serious and like this ring and people started laughing but it like tampered down pretty well and then he gave his vows and everything and then they did the same thing for the bride and they're like and kelsey what uh you know symbol do you have and she jokingly was like this ring everyone died

laughing at that so that was a pretty great inside joke there so we should include more announcements in our wedding i think big proclamations proclamation yeah uh here's kind of fun update brock purdy yeah we're an irish quarterback might be at the wedding who is he dating somebody he is okay volleyball girl really he's gonna get an invite right might be at the wedding really how fun is that is he from iowa originally no i think he's from arizona or something okay but played at Iowa State. Yeah. Yeah. But so does your Iowa, did she play UNI with you or she play Iowa State?

She played at UNI, not with me though. And she played at Iowa State. Okay. Fun. That would be cool. Kind of fun. Second most popular guy at the wedding behind, you know, behind Jake Triplett. Really?

Oh yeah. Trey Kennedy. I mean, if he's even to come, he's not going to sit in your aisle. I think he'll be there. No, I think so too. Um, that's kind of fun. Yeah. Uh, yeah, we should, I want to hear more like wedding stuff. I need more, um, like ideas for weddings or even just like crazy stories from weddings. It'd be fun to hear from people. What if we did like a, uh, like a call in kind of thing?

Like, what if we like, Oh, I like this. So like, yeah, I'm trying to think like, like make it like almost like a call in show or something like, but it's not just like voicemail was like,

Colin asks us a question. It's like Colin with this specific prompt answer to this prompt. Like, Hey, if you have a crazy wedding story, if you said something weird instead of this ring you know you something crazy happened something crazy was said yes from the audience from you i like i like the idea of even if it's like yeah and my dad tripped down the aisle like as he was like walking me down let's get your dad on i want

your dad i want to talk to your dad as well like if you know somebody like it doesn't have to be you like that would be awesome have that person tell their first-hand story on the podcast yeah you know what by the time this comes out there will be a google for there'll be some sort of link yeah you can click on in the description to fill out a little questionnaire let's see if you have a story we'll vet it and then we'll give you a phone number to call we'll get you on the podcast okay yeah check it out ghostrunners.life yeah it'll be on the website and the description of this maybe not even limited to just a crazy wedding story you give them a few give them a few yeah i would like it'd be fun to hear um what valentine's coming up oh that's good there's gonna be some good like i thought this was like expectations

true story uh my senior year of college i had a valentine's like i thought it was gonna be like so fun and like do like chocolate fondue on like the open, like fire out in the, and I just ended up like, like burning a bunch of chocolate in a pan and Catherine walked out. Like I was trying to surprise her. Catherine's like, what stinks out here? Like, well, this is going great. That'd be fun. Yeah. And expectations are surrounding Valentine's day thing. Sure. Yeah. I was just thinking, because you had a little experience with this just now at chick-fil-a uh although like worst horror stories from like an mlm pitch meeting type thing whether whether you knew what you were a little bit brad got kind of oaky i mean she was very sweet but yeah actually yeah we kind of we didn't find out

it was uh like an mlm until we got back to the house there's a energy drink in the fridge for you jake took a sip he's like like, I'm going to have to buy some more of these. I was like, this is pretty good. Added sugar? No added sugar. Some natural, some natural. Sucralose. Okay. But yeah, then we found out it was amylase. I was like, oh, that's why she was so talkative to Brad.

Anyway, so yeah, your worst horror stories from like any MLM experience whether you're in one or got pitched one. Oh, I like this. So yeah, we could do like a video or a little segment for each of them. So we got weddings, Valentine's, MLM. MLMs. Fun.

Coming to a segment near you. We'll figure out a name for it. Or you guys figure out a name for it. Hey, you guys freaking do it. Do it. We don't do enough around here. That's fun. Brock pretty reminded me

that we need to talk about the guillotine league but i feel like we should talk about that when rachel's not here because she is not going to care at all i can leave whoa rachel is a founding member of this year's guillotine i am she was in it for five minutes no we should talk about the church we went to in florida oh yeah still here okay it's so fun the pastor's name is stephen, first of all. Oh, fun. Yeah. And he is awesome. He was pretty highly talked about. And I was like, Rachel might be hyping this guy up too much. I did hype him up.

Yeah. He deserves the hype. Tell Brad, tell the viewers about this pastor. Oh, he's very energetic. He's a performer more than anything. Okay. Yeah. He knows how to captivate an audience.

And he knows his audience. I think that's the thing. Tell them the audience. The audience is probably an average age of 73. Sure. I think it's older. Older? Oh, yeah.

Okay. I guess it's Florida. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, this is a retirement community in Florida that we're in and we're going to like a nice, just like, I think it's non-denominational, but just a nice, just simple church down there and everybody's old. Yeah.

Everybody's old yeah everybody's old it was like when we walked in when my mom walked in who's 55 people were like oh my gosh she does look young but sure yeah what would you say the first time you your dad went with all you oh yeah so my dad went with me my mom and my sister-in-law like a few years ago and so they introduced new members anytime anyone's new there so they are like all right who's the new crew back there and my dad we all stood up and he's like okay so who are your three daughters like yeah give us your their socials this is my wife actually um yeah i got to be your daughter no i didn't yeah so yeah i didn't explain that one i'm sorry

oh wow um but yeah i got to introduce myself he's like we have anyone here for the first time and so i got to raise my hand he's like what's your name i was like my name is jake i'm from kansas city he's like you a chiefs fan i said yes i am he said good job and then he cracked a couple jokes he's saying about the packers uh yeah some some nfl jokes he's like as is customary we always have the new people uh lead worship for us so jake why don't you come on up here and he's like i'm just kidding so it's just joke after joke but he's also an old guy himself and he can hang he has a is it als or ms als and um so his voice is a little different and he walks around a bit different but it just adds to the charm i think in the character and uh-huh you know a bit so cold in florida he brought up a ping pong ball and's like, found this on my car this morning. It was a snowflake.

The crowd just went nuts. I mean, every, every joke. And I laughed at a lot of them, but it was crazy. I mean, the jokes he was doing were murdering with this church crowd. It was so funny. And he was good at like improv-ing. He did some crowd work. Someone's phone went off.

He was doing some jokes about that. And he's an old guy. Someone's phone went off. Yeah. And it probably didn't like get on. Oh no. It didn't't they never silenced it it's just like the phone call ended like the guy is making jokes about the ringer and like no one's turning it off it was awesome they probably don't realize you can turn it off yeah i'm not gonna answer it now he had some joke about snot oh he said something he's like you know and you probably wanted to come up and just beat the snot out of

him i don't know if i could say that in church beat the snot out of him he said something. He's like, you know, and you probably wanted to come up and just beat the snot out of him. I don't know if I could say that in church, beat the snot out of him. And people kind of laugh. He's like, well, some of you might think it's funny, but to me, it's not. Murdered again. The crowd went wild. It was so awesome. And I love that guy. Rachel had hyped him up so much. Like this guy's awesome. We have, no matter what, we have to go to church Sunday morning. Yeah. That's like the thing we look forward to the most when we go on vacation. Going to church. And it really was good.

And Angie even said, I was already thinking this. And Angie said to me, she's like, is this kind of like Canna Cook for old people? And I was like, I was thinking that. Really? Because there's kind of like a lot of call and response that everyone is in on the joke. And I don't know it. So he'd say, we got a few announcements today. So announcement number.

And everyone would say one. And he would say is OK. We know we've got this fundraiser coming up. We got a few announcements today. So announcement number, and everyone would say one. And he would say is, okay, we know we've got this fundraiser coming up. We got it. Announcement number two. And these people are old. Jake's like, I can't keep up with this. Hold on. What's the next one going to be?

It was just really cool. He just had it like, he's got that church in the palm of his hands. Yeah. And everyone knew what to do. It was just funny to see a crowd of elderly people just so into this and i was into it it was it was really fun you were captivated i was very very captivated wow he had me on the edge of my seat too because he kind of did a miniature sermon at right off the top and then was like all right let's do some prayer and get to the offering and

so rachel and i were like is that it is he is this like a 15 minute church service these people got ready for two hours and then you know they walked here whatever and now he came back around okay so i was on my toes the whole time though it was great do you have a video you can't see much but this is the special music going on we play it up against the microphone rachel's just got to show you nice straight out of him though two of the performers i guess had been sick for a few weeks and they had been on the prayer list for a while it was their first time back so it's a big deal yeah so sweet we're like tearing up thanking everybody for praying for them because they watched them online it was like yeah like

hollow notes just came back it was like they were a dynamic duo i didn't see in the video didn't see it in the video. Like, I'm imagining in my head like 50 people. Is that, is it more than that, you think? Well, maybe I should show them the video. Yeah, it's a packed house of probably like 150. Oh, really? Yeah. And a lot of white hair, man. Harvey Memorial Church.

Yeah, here in the Bradenton. You can watch it on Facebook Live on Sunday mornings. We used to do it during quarantine. Oh, there's Jake. Yeah. That is funny. Jake, oh, your mom was was there too i didn't realize your mom was there is this from last this weekend yes okay okay okay okay how fun yeah sorry say the name of the church again harvey memorial harvey memorial check them out like anna maria island or something yeah wow harvey memorial

watch their facebook honestly everyone can't blow up their facebook they stream on that would be awesome ghosties do your thing so it's 9 15 eastern i think is when their church is so you guys have to wake up early especially the west coast people but yeah harvey memorial community church in anna maria island that's you're gonna get to experience this guy for yourself he is a hoot he is awesome yeah just there's something about like like is it always going to be simple when we're old or is it just like is that dying out you know what i mean like like when we're 80 are we going to still like be on our phones all the time and like addicted to all this stuff or are we going to actually be like just simple nice people that go to this nice

quiet church and sing nice songs you know what simplicity will look like to our generation like they have their version and we see that and it looks like reading the paper still and having direct tv still like what technologies are we going to cling to what technologies are we not willing to get rid of like yeah they have an apple tv still they're still using remotes instead of their eyeballs yeah you know like we still use things with our hands rather than just like yeah just think it and it changes yeah yeah anyway that's so sweet i love i love it yeah everything about it was fun i'm glad we got to tell that story together what time is yoga today uh in a little bit

he was very precise this is why rachel's running late all the time it's in the four o'clock hour it's here after a while unbelievable i should go yeah okay i'm not missing it rachel thank you very much for for being here i know i love it but everyone else really loves seeing you anytime you're around anytime you're you're in a thumbnail or anything, people click. Boy, do they. Boy, do they. You're welcome. Yeah. Thank you. Thanks, Rachel. Thank you. All right. Can I take your app? Paracorp. Paracorp?

Do you want me to move my mic back? No, Jake's going to double mic. Can you move it back? Would you mind? Thank you. I'm going to mute that. Cool. Just us now, Brad. Just us. Rachel, these are mystery mugs think about who's who sent them to us think about it all right um real quick i just feel like we need to give a final just update on the guillotine league i just realized it's been a couple weeks now we have

not given like the final synopsis people are just on the edge of their seat what happened yeah hey i did get some feedback from people some friends of mine who just listened to the podcast recently for the first time or whatever. Guys, but they're like, I love the fantasy football talk. Sure. That's kind of fun.

Thanks, Rachel. Will you make sure the camera still looks good and nothing got bumped or anything? Thanks, thanks, thanks. Anyway, so if you guys don't know,

week 17 of the NFL was a bit of a weird one unprecedented truly unprecedented more than covet really this was uh a very serious very scary injury happened in the middle of a game guy named demar hamlin they end up deciding we're not going to finish this game it was a monday night football game with a lot of implications and two teams that were like good with a lot of fantasy players and therefore yeah a lot of fantasy players were on those teams week 17 and almost every you know 98 of fantasy leagues across the country is championship week right and so fantasy leagues across the country were scrambling trying to figure out what to do and of course the guillotine league is not immune as well it's like well i had plans week 18 was going to be the winners of the two leagues

for each other and it was really hard to figure out what to do um in the in one of the leagues brad when the games were over brad was already winning and had like i think josh allen and stefan diggs yeah it was likely that i was gonna win that one and i had been winning yeah yeah so that one was like um it's a bummer didn't really get to end how we thought it was but that was like for sure you were you were the outright runner and you were definitely going to win yeah not yeah 90 probably more he had he had jamar chase i think but you had a quarterback interest i did yeah yeah you were in good shape i would yes yes but however in the other league me against uh a guy's username was made a mess his screen name whatever is gene

schwartz comedy don't know this guy's real name goes by a couple different you know names but anyway me and him were head to head and i was winning when the game was over but he was like he probably had a 90 chance of coming back and winning so it's like i don't feel good about like yeah well what was the office comparison you said what did i say just like basically if jake and brad are the winners oh yeah like the employee of the month thing where like jim and pam are the ones getting the employee of the month jim comes up with the idea pam gets it yeah it was just gonna it just looked bad i didn't like it was like oh jake and brad are the two winners of the league yeah i didn't like i didn't want to win on like this weird technicality.

It's like, cause technically I did win. I was like, I don't feel good about this. And so what we decided was me, Brad and Mr. Gene Schwartz, I'll reset our teams.

We don't have any players. We redrafted for week 18. And anyway, we get teen ended up being kind of weird. A lot of people like didn't really play. And if they did play, they played like a half. It was kind of a bummer of the year.

Honestly, I ended up winning, but it was like, well, I didn't really play and if they did play they played like a half it was kind of a bummer of the year honestly i ended up winning but it was like well i didn't even score that many points like a normal good week was in like 220 to plus and like i think the winning week it was like 170 130 130 or something like that so i guess i won but it feels like you know this was like the covet year it's like right, next year we'll be back to normal. Big asterisk next to that. So bummer to Austin Locke to Jean Schwartz. Yeah. But thank you for everyone who competed. It was fun.

Austin and I kind of still like started lineups in the other league and he did beat me in week 18. So I'll give him a W as well. Hey, congrats Austin. Yeah. I didn't even realize that. I haven't even really checked in on that league.

I think I like changed my lineup up and I think maybe he saw that and he's like, Oh, I need to change mine too. I guess we're doing this thing again. So then he won. So anyway, yeah,

it was, it was easily the most fun, you know, fancy football. You guys got to join. I tell everyone. Yeah. You guys got to do one of these leagues.

It's so much fun. So good time. Yeah. Um, okay. So a few other things at this wedding real quick. Uh, just funny things. Um,

first of all, the father of the bride did a speech and it was just classic, like what not to do during a speech at a wedding. Uh, can you guess some of the things that he did? He went for way too long. He didn't hold the mic up to his mouth. Correct.

Correct. Two for two. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He didn't hold the mic up to his mouth. Correct. Correct. Two for two. Yeah. Yeah. He there's a lot of faux positives. I'm going to I'm going to go with he didn't have a script. So he rambled. Nope.

He did have a script. He had. Yeah. Yeah. Just a good amount. Yeah. What other little faux pas? He told inside jokes.

Yeah. A little bit. Yeah. Yeah. A little bit of that like yeah or just like asking certain people in the audience and you know jerry you know yeah jerry you jerry you remember that yeah jerry's if jerry doesn't know that his wife probably does anyway yeah so he he was an older guy he's older than user than us. And like 40 probably.

No, he was. Anyway. But yeah, right off the bat, which I don't have any pet peeves. I need to start writing them down because this is definitely one of them. He starts talking and he's not holding his mic up to his face, which is a pet peeve in and of itself. Bigger pet peeve is when people scream. Can't hear you. can't hear you. Can't hear you.

That is, that is like, in my opinion, like one of the rudest, I don't like it. I don't like that either. I don't like anything about it. And like multiple times, like through the first,

like 30 seconds, people did that. And then people, I think just kind of accepted, like, I guess we're not going to hear him. Can't hear him. And like the way the speakers were, uh, set up up they were kind of tilted in towards the dance floor and everyone

else was sitting on the outside so even like the speakers were working against him and so it was a little bit echoey in there i mean he held it down by his b button you know like he's down here just and then every once in a while like he like talked about like all the places they moved and so he literally like he was like so we were in tulsa and then we were in nashville and then he's like you know like moving and then coming back and we went down to houston washington of course i mean it was it was unbelievable and in the middle of it one of my buddies uh just for basically no reason just started dying dying laughing at something that somebody else did. And then it was one of those things where it was like,

dude, you got to stop laughing. It's hard. And then we all started dying laughing and we're like pretty up close, like, like pretty easily seen by most people. And it's just one of those things where it's like the, the more we aren't supposed to be laughing,

the more we are definitely dying laughing. Those are the hardest you laugh is when you're not supposed to. Yes. It compounds the tickleness. Cause it's just like, stop, stop. Like Catherine was like, literally like, Brad, you gotta stop. You gotta stop. Like, I'm like, I'm sorry, these guys. And so anyway, we were all just dying laughing at this. And, and along with like, every time we would kind of get over it, then he would do something kind of funny. Like, Oh, that's funny again. Cause it's like, it was so quiet. It was so, it was so much quieter than it needed to be

with somebody on a microphone. And so then it was so it was so much quieter than it needed to be with somebody on a microphone and so then it was like yeah we could hear each other like even when we're not like laughing out loud you could still like hear what is that quiet you still hear somebody be like you know it's so funny and we're just dying laughing i mean at harrison's rehearsal dinner me isaac i'm on harrison's friends blake we got so tickled and like because you're in that serious setting it's like we're not supposed to laugh right and i forget what it was exactly i know i don't even know if i told you this or we talked about the podcast but i got mentioned in like four different people rehearsal dinner speeches and even rachel got mentioned in one it was like you know rachel's very new to this

whole thing it was we were getting shout outs left and right but i mean isaac and you know people were like texting and so you know you just sent a hilarious text you're just watching that guy and just watch him read it and then to see him crack up and then you crack up and you just can't stop it's so good oh yeah it's it's the best i love dudes i know and especially it's like man i haven't seen him for so long but we're still dying laughing together here you know so anyway that like, that like, I think we even did a, we did the jean shorts video where the guy like didn't know how to use the mic. I was just like, well, it's crazy back and forth. I mean, it was like textbook like that, like so much of it.

And you know, the, there was a singer in the back kind of trying to like tell him like, uh, can't hear you. Can't hear you. Can't hear you. So hear you can't hear you so um anyway just a just a funny time and that's that same singer for the first dance uh i don't remember which first dance it was whether it's father daughter whatever but um you know brother sister which one cousin cousin yeah cousin's second step. Aunt adopted son. Doctor vet.

But it was My Wish by Rascal Flats. I don't know that song very well, but it's like, My wish for you. And this guy, his voice was gone. And so literally, during the song, he just goes, My wish.

He couldn't hit the note and like multiple times throughout the night he just didn't sing the song that you're supposed to be singing because he like couldn't do it and i was like just sing an octave lower that's my wish i wish for you so would you honestly would you or would you not recommend a wedding singer? More variables, higher ceiling, lower floor. Yes, exactly. There were times like where we were dancing out there and somebody was like, we should get some rap in here.

Like we need some like hip hop. And you can't just be like, hey, play the hip hop. You know, like. Because it was a band. Yes, it was a band. And they were good. They were very fun. I think with a band, here's the thing different than a dj dj plays a song you're not feeling it you leave the dance floor pretty easily don't think twice about it you're like if a band's out there people will it's a guarantee that people will be out there it's very rare that like a band is playing and everyone leaves the dance floor. Yeah. But we've seen it with DJs, right? Like, so I really like a band. I had never really seen one until, or been to a wedding

with a band until like going to weddings in Texas. And cause I think there's more expensive, but they are fun. They're very fun. So it just depends on your like crowd. And like, if you know that your crowd will respond really well to just like really great music from a DJ. Sure. But if you And like, if you know that your crowd will respond really well to just like really great music from a DJ. Sure. But if you're like, I don't know, cause like with a band, it can be a mediocre song, but if it's played by a live band, it's really fun. But if it's like a mediocre song by a DJ, it's like, I'm not really feeling the song. You know? What about wedding singer only for the ceremony? No. Oh, I think that's normal. Right. Kind of ish. You're only for the ceremony? No. Oh, I think that's normal, right? Kind of ish.

You're only for the ceremony. Yeah. Like having someone sing live music. I love that. Yeah. That's that's good for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like that.

Because I've been that person. So I think that's nice. Rather than just like playing a track. Yeah, yeah. Unless you like need unless you have like a reason for a track. Unless it's like a really hard song or something i think it's always sweet to have like a real piano real guitar whatever but if it's like oh i don't know anybody that does that very well then i would like bohemian rhapsody exactly came and played that exactly yeah there's i don't know there's something sweet about

like real i mean i'm a live music guy in general, so it'd be fun. Are you kind of thinking about one way or the other on that? I hadn't thought about the ceremony much yet. Yeah. As far as music. But Rachel and I were talking more this weekend about I've been pro band the whole time because I'm like, it's so fun. It's so much more energy.

And I think more recently we're more on like the DJ side of things just for one, just so much more cost efficient. Right. And I think the type of video I'm wanting is going to be a little costly. Okay. And, um, and Rachel would say, it's just not that common to even find bands up in Iowa. It's like so much more common down South. And that's true too. It's like Rachel's never even been to a wedding with a band until she went to Harrison Abbey's I think. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. Like it's not like very common in the Midwest.

It's much more common in the South. And there is a difference obviously between a good band and a mediocre slash bad like if they're good it's like this is awesome but it's like because good bands can do everything from don't stop believing to super bass like yeah they can find it all whereas like mediocre bands it's like oh you can't you can't pull off that song we only do 80s billy joel yeah they might try to do bruno mars and can't, you can't pull off that song. We only do eighties Billy Joel. Yeah. They might try to do Bruno Mars and it's like, you can't pull off Bruno Mars though. Like you're not good enough for this. So that's fair.

And I keep forgetting if this conversation was ever on the podcast or just me, you and Rachel, but you know, as we get older, we're more just like, I don't need to dance for three hours straight. Yeah. We struggled with that a little bit on this one. Like, we're like, I'm really like, whatever. I know Gilbert listens to the podcast, so I don't want't want to like but we were like it's pretty loud in here i'm like kind of excited to go somewhere else after this and talk to our friends more yeah

because it was really hard for us to talk to our friends once the band got out there you know and that's exactly what i was talking to rachel about this week and i was like i think our friends like would still like to dance but i think a lot of people ourselves included like it's very important to rachel and i that we talk to every single person there. Yes. And it's not loud. Yes. Yeah, it's hard to turn a band down, really.

Whereas like, I think what we might end up doing is trying to look into like, hey, everyone knows, hey, for the next 45 minutes, the DJ is playing. Right. Get out here.

This is the 45 minutes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like if you know that it's not going to be very long, it's like we're going to have seven songs. Like we're going to play seven songs and we're going to go as hard as we can for 45 minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, if you know that it's not going to be very long, it's like, we're going to have seven songs. Like we're going to play seven songs and we're going to go as hard as we can for 45 minutes. I would something like that.

You know, then it's like, okay, like this is our time. Like, yeah, yeah. I like that.

I like that a lot. And then there's still be other music throughout the night or there's an hour long, just sure. I don't know. Dessert portion. It's like, Hey,

he was got it in him. Two more songs and we're leaving it's like that's kind of fun too yeah so we'll figure that out but yeah that's kind of what we've been planning and thinking just something just like just sprint sprint in on the dance floor yeah like because because this is a marathon sometimes where you're out there for a while yeah i don't want to leave anything in the tank no i don't know how much time is left oh man it's so fun i love love dancing the weddings good can't wait to dance at yours speaking of weddings should we talk about the bachelor party

yes let me pull up so yes uh your dad's probably freaking out like no no brad don't say too much because uh you know jake's dad is the best man he's organizing this awesome bachelor party you know where it is yeah obviously because you made that's all I know. My dad told me a time and a place to book flights. OK, that's it. So, yeah, it's we're going to Phoenix in April, Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, rather than, yeah, Phoenix, the band. And so, yeah, I think back when it was my birthday, you were in a group chat with Catherine and a bunch of our friends.

And I remember feeling like this FOMO because you're you're like dude there's been some hilarious and our friends are so fun yeah katherine even was like gosh it's so fun to be in a group chat with guys you guys are so funny like look at this funny gif that you know will sent or something like that um so anyway steve messages us uh big crew i'll just i'll just send i'll just give you the first first sentence i know you guys have all been dreaming of the day that you would get to hear from jake triplet's dad well today's the day i'm sorry for the group text but i'm old and i don't know how else to do this uh so i'll i won't say everything you know but um i've had like five different friends of mine personally like tell me man you're missing out on this group chat it is so fun i wish you were in it it's so funny it's all these funny people it's all your

your friends you know and so um anyway we figure out details and everything uh but then i think maybe the next day or something uh isaac says i'd like to know who i'll be seeing in phoenix in april y'all mind popping your names in here and And he says, Isaac McDonald played in a pickleball tournament with Jake and Branson once. And so then it became like us introducing ourselves in funny ways. So Scott then says, Scott Peck, big Ghost Runners, Gene Shorts, and Mood Swings

fan. I said, Brad Ellis, the Chris Farley to Jake's David Spade. And then I can't read Alex Demchek's because it might give something away. Brayden Carroll, who's Steve's favorite future And then I can't read Alex Dimchek's because it might give something away. Okay. Okay. Uh, Brayden Carroll,

who's your Steve's favorite future son-in-law. So that's your future brother-in-law, uh, Garrett Gibson, licking bear cats. And then just classic Tom coop, Rachel's older brother, just straight to the point. But the little I know about Tom is like,

yes, I think earlier in the text as well, he signed his name on the text. And I was like, that's a classic, like straightforward man way to do it. No confusion. Yeah, he just said Tom Coupe at the end of it. Let's see.

Luke Hoagland, couple of funny words right here. Like, ha ha, funny comment. And then Gunner responds, Jackson Mahomes, I have no original thoughts, but go chiefs. And then Harrison said, Harrison Pollard, Kansas city, Kansas. And it has like this, you know, flying, flying V with ducks, like emoji. Like, and then, uh, Peter says, Peter Casey, Jake skipped my wedding to be on Russian, a Russian game show, which is true, right?

Yeah, yeah. And so then Grant Hudeberg responds and says, Josh Horton, professional juggler. But if you don't know, Jake used to work with Josh, juggling Josh in Dallas. And I think it was in Russia. That's where you went with Josh, right? And he went on a game show, Russia's Got Talent,

where one of the celebrity judges was Pam Anderson. That's right. If you don't know Pam Anderson, sorry. Great actress. She's a blonde. Anyway, so he says, Josh Horton, professional juggler. That's pretty funny. And he says, I'll never forget the first time Jake and I met Rachel.

And he sent this picture of Jake, Josh, and Pam Anderson. It's amazing that he has that. It was just a wonderful one-two punch. Me, Josh, and Pam Anderson. The first day we met Rachel. Anyway, just really funny times. And there was one time where your dad texted me earlier and was like, hey, can you give me a call sometime when you're not around my son? I've been sick this past week.

And so I didn't call him for a few days. Then I responded back, uh, you know, in the group chat and he said, well, well, well, well, well, look who finally surfaced again. Don't worry about ignoring my texts for the last 72 hours. Now I understand why Jake did not ask you to be best man. So anyway, we got, I mean, he's got countdowns, you know, all these different things going on for everything. So, uh, he called me a couple of days after he kind of started everything. And he's like, I'm having so much fun with your friends. I love what they're texting you. And he was like, Grant called me. He's like, I just, Grant just straight up called me out of the blue. I talked to him for a little bit. He talked to you yesterday. So he's just, people are just straight up called me out of the blue i talked to him for a little bit he talked to you yesterday yeah he's just people are just calling him just

he he's having i think more fun i'm so glad that he's doing it because like yeah he's putting so much time and energy and like love into it yeah sure like you will feel very very appreciated i'll just say that like it's gonna be a lot of fun so oh yeah i'm already so fired up for it it's four three months away i mean is that the only thing you're fired up for in april probably it's probably up there with this little trip to seaside florida i'm going on this little trip to seaside florida's for you is that you would come to florida with us We only have a few more spots left. Could be you.

Investors? Possibly you. Possibly you. Yeah, we got a few more spots left. A couple other people signed up recently. So yeah, come hang out with us. You get to be in a Ghostrunners episode, a Gene Schwartz video. Yeah.

Unlimited vibes. We were just talking about it at lunch, and it's just going to be so fun. We have so many fun ideas for it, and it's just going to be so fun we have so many fun ideas for it and uh it's just gonna be awesome so check it out it's gonna be live go to our website look at the trip and then uh buy it what i think it's way too far away but i was gonna say what would it take for us to go to a little uh we're not even gonna be there on sunday are we yeah are we we haven't booked your flights yet i should go to church with uh stephen king that would be a far trip that'd be a trip yeah that'd be a very far trip but hey we stream it oh that'd be fun too that's a fun idea stream april's gonna be fun it's bachelor party weekend

madison wisconsin stand-up comedy show and then uh yeah ghost runners getaway and then right you know a month later marital bliss yeah and then a week later the tour starts oh we're getting it out soon okay what are we what are we calling it uh what is trey calling it the the something about clearly i don't know i mean i took a picture of him in like a childish kid, like helicopter hat. Go back to your room tour. Grow up tour. Yeah. Like the growing up. I'm, I'm just a kid.

I'm not a kid anymore. Yeah. Honey, I shrunk the pubescent tour. What is he calling it? I don't know. You guys find out in a couple of weeks. Okay.

Fun. Something like that. Um, should we do some couple of voice rooms? Yes, please. Also, I've written down shout out elsa with an h at the end i don't remember why i wrote that down but i'm sure you know yeah someone either emailed me or dm me something really sweet i think and i was supposed to give a shout out to her daughter elsa i think yeah you gotta say with an h at the end also this written down for a month shout out connor kelderman he lost in fantasy football by like 0.4 he was a great sport about it i was like that's a brutal way to go man

connor keld i was finest um shout out to you okay so voice mimos let's go see mimosas here we go hey friends it's michaela um kevin and i were in a heated discussion not long ago discussing which five states were the most ridiculed or made fun of. It made for some really interesting traveling conversation. And we polled our friends, asked different people. So we're curious what you guys think. Which are the top five most ridiculed or made fun of states in your opinion and why? Thanks.

This is Michaela Stiles. This is Michaela Stiles. She is coming to Florida. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So want to meet Michaela? Come hang out with Michaela. Come to Florida.

Would Florida be in your top five most ridiculed states? Okay. So this is an interesting thought. The answer I was looking for is definitely. Definitely. I think the most ridiculed states are the most popular states california texas florida new york new york uh after that the fifth one's really the only debatable one i don't i don't actually let me take it let me take i don't know if it's truly that because i think like alabama alabama gets ridiculed like

those southern like states alabama mississippi arkansas like alabama arkansas louisiana like those are just like mississippi like people people are we talking like percentage are we talking quantity here because like percentage wise i don't think people are saying much nice things about mississippi right like when you talk about missing ratio, you're of good to bad things, right? No, I think this is just a mount of, of mud slung their ways. Well, California is number one. Yeah. Right. And then probably number two, because of California being number one, all the Californians are slinging it right back over the great state of the Republic of Texas. Am I right? Texas and Florida, I think could go either way, two and three.

Yeah. And then after that, that's, that's when it gets tough. That's true. I don't know if New York is locked in at four. I think the top three that are somewhere, you know, some combination of those three after that. I wonder, I don't have a great pulse on new England. So, uh, and maybe you do cause you've been there more than me, but I bet a lot of those other States don't like New York. You think that's true? Yeah rural connecticut hates new york what connecticut rural oh that's good oh it's real uh yeah probably or like even like philadelphia probably doesn't like new york like like new york and new jersey do not like each other that's very true i know that new jersey gets ridiculed quite a bit they They do. Jersey Shore didn't help.

Don't think of any good things when I think of Jersey. Atlantic City. I don't. I hear terrible things about Atlantic City. I don't know anything about it. Yeah. Well, what rounds out four and five there? Missouri, probably.

I don't think so. Ozark. Ozark didn't look great. I don't know if Ozark did good or bad things. Chicago. Did Illinois get thrown in there? It's where Chicago is a city. It's nothing about Illinois at all.'s where chicago is a city it's nothing about illinois

yeah like texas is a state stereotype florida as a state has a stereotype california has a stereotype arkansas is like the the punchline of like kissing cousins kind of thing a lot i think in the midwest though i'm sure regionally dude like if you were like tried to say like hey where's the most redneck place in america to a person in you know tacoma washington i bet they go arkansas they might say idaho though we don't know it's regional maybe i think a little bit you think i bet like people of like new hampshire look down on the people in like there's probably a part of new hampshire that's really uppity it's a part of vermont that's really rural and they like to make fun of them for it you know i bet each bet each one has their pockets. But yeah, on a national scale, I bet Alabama and Arkansas take up the brunt of it.

Yeah. Yeah. Which Alabama, if you have, or I'm sorry, Arkansas is so beautiful. Arkansas is not bad. Got some hills. The Ozarks. Great tree houses.

Got great tree houses. Go visit the Ouachita National Forest. Tell me you didn't have a good time. Did you use the O in there? You say, Oh, Ouachita? I didn't mean to if I did. Okay. Ouachita. Yeah. Tell me you didn't have a good time. Did you use the O in there? You say, oh, Wachita? I didn't mean to if I did. Okay. Wachita.

Yeah. W. Yeah. Those are, I think that's a good, that's a good question. Fun question from Michaela. Can't wait to talk more. This will be a big Facebook group thing this week. Everyone talk about it.

Yeah. Because I think there's going to be, I really want to know if you are not from around Arkansas. If you don't know anybody from Arkansas. Yeah. Do you think negatively like is Arkansas the, or Kentucky? Like, I think there's other States around there that might also get it. West Virginia. It'd probably be interesting to learn like, we're going to learn like, Oh yeah, Pennsylvania hates Ohio. Like no. Yeah. I was like, Oh, I didn't know that. Oh yeah. The, the,

the vitriol that South Carolina has for, you know, West Virginia, Southern North Carolina. Yeah, exactly. The Appalachians. The Smokies run through Tennessee and nowhere else. You understand me? I don't know all that stuff. So yeah, that'll be interesting. Yeah. This next voice memo is from a girl, I think named Abigail,

but it's spelled A-B-I-A-G-L-E. Abigail. Abby Igel. Abigail. Abby Igel. Abigail. I don't think you could spell your own name wrong we got to assume she spelled it correctly a b i a g l e yeah that's not an auto correct right there abby

igle yeah abigail abigail you say it the right way abigail where's she from she's probably from texas hey hey how you doing my name is abigail hey gig'em i'm from abigail all right go touch go touch the aggies let's see what abigail has to say hey jake brown sc? My name is Abigail. Hey, Gig'em. I'm from Abigail. All right, go touch the Aggies. Let's see what Abigail has to say. Hey, Jake, Brian, Scott. My name is Abigail, and I'm from Pennsylvania, and I love tennis and pickleball, and I'm so hyped to be talking to you guys right now.

Pennsylvania. She said her name in there, too. I want to listen. Abigail. Hey, Jake, Brian, Scott. My name is Abigail, and I'm from Pennsylvania, and I love- Did you say Abigail?

Abigail. Abigail. Abigail. A bugle. It's like if a British person said a bugle. She has them on her finger. No, it's the bugles that you eat, like chips. Yeah, Abigail. Abugle. It's like if a British person said abugle. She has them on her finger. No, it's the bugles that you eat. Yeah, I'm abugle.

I'm abugle. I'm abugle. I'm abugle. I'm abugle. I'm pickleball, and I'm so hyped to be talking to you guys right now. I'm the biggest fan of the pod, jean shorts, Scott's Pickle Channel, and all that. I die laughing every week, and you guys are so incredible. So like I said, I live in a small town in Pennsylvania, so I'm'm surrounded by a ton of amish farms and every time i see a horse and

buggy roll up i cannot help but think that they're bopping around to like amish gems top 50 um so i have two questions first i want your opinions on a problem i have i will pick out a new show to watch but i don't watch the first episode i watch the one that seems most interesting to me and then if i like it i'll go back to the beginning and watch a show in order i'll sometimes do with books and i for sure did it with ghost runners um until i got through all the episodes uh please forgive me and i want to know who is the most gullible out of your friend group because it sounds like scott after the whole turkey trot thing but who knows it could be like isaac or gunner um that's pretty much it so yeah god bless and you guys are what's up bye god bless i should have known this girl was a psychopath by the way she spells her name Um, that's pretty much it. So yeah, God bless. And you guys are what's up. Bye. God bless.

I should have known this girl is a psychopath by the way. She spells her name. She's watching TV shows and whatever. Psychopathic. Yeah. That's, that's weird. A podcast. Sure.

Sure. Something like this. Yeah. A comedy podcast that it's not episodic. Really? Yeah. Watch it whenever, but just to watch like, I'm gonna watch breaking bad season three, episode four. Let's start there.

Dude. Catherine does that with books where she'll read the ending first and I just get batty. I don't want to have to say this word again, but that is idiotic. That is psychopathic. I, yeah, I, why would you give something? I love being surprised. I love being titillated.

I'm going to say it again, titillated. And I'm not titillated if I know that you know where's that person they weren't in the they're in the first episode but they weren't in the you know 48th episode they must die yeah i'm gonna be looking for it the whole time i just think if i'm gonna watch something if i'm gonna give something my time i should also not only honor my own time honor the people who put in time to make this they had a plan they have a way good man that they want to do this why would you try and disrupt the way it was meant to be consumed in the world in the heat in the throes of my lost obsession i accidentally watched or read a description to something two episodes ahead and i was like what

that happened that is as titillated as i'll ever get all right like i just catch brad more pre-titillated than that no that is as that is as pre-titillated as i'll ever get. All right. Like I just catch Brad more pre titillated than that. No, that is this. That is as pre titillated as I'll ever be. And I never want to get titillated like that again. I do have a solution. Grab a Google, though.

OK, do you know about this? Do you know about the show Kaleidoscope on Netflix right now? No, I haven't been on Netflix in a while. Netflix dot com. I just learned about this last night. It's a new show.

It's got Gus Fring speaking of Breaking Bad. And I forget his real name. Oh, Gustavo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's in night. It's a new show. It's got Gus Fring speaking of Breaking Bad. And I forget his real name. Oh, Gustavo. Gustavo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's in it. It is a show where you can truly watch it in any order you want.

But well, not but, but basically Netflix puts it in a different order for every user. So just get on your Netflix and it'll be a different order than what mine is. It's like a shuffle playlist. Yeah. iPod mini. Ah, interesting. So Abigail, you're going to love this one. Watch Kaleidoscope any order you want.

And it will make sense. Apparently, Isaac said he didn't really know you're still supposed to watch it in the order they give it to you. Yes. So he said he tried to bounce around. And so they watched the very last one first. And he's like, I think you're supposed to end with the ending one. OK, yeah. So I guess he still ruined it for himself. yeah i haven't watched it but that just came out it kind of reminds me of uh they came out with the balder yeah balder snatch

balder dash builder snatch bander bander bander ash bander snatch bander snatch yeah i think it's yeah i remember you talking about that when that was fast a youth group. You were doing youth ministry, right? When they did that? I think so. I remember watching it with Danny Tapp and Ryan Cayley and Peter Casey. Yeah. You tell me. You tell me.

Are those kids or are those normal people? Anyway, so Kaleidoscope's out there for psychos like Abigail. That's wild. No, thank you. I would never. I just recently, when I was sick, I got into Yellowstone. I don't honestly know if I even think it's that good, but I have to, I have to watch it all now.

Like I'm like pretty far in. That's how I was with How I Met Your Mother when I gave it a chance. It's like, do I like this or are the episodes just short? See, I love How I Met Your Mother's got some great first seat and Yellowstone is good. It's like really, really well done. But I'm like every, like the first 10 seat or 10 episodes, somebody dies. Like, it's like, it's like, this isn't what is happening. Who are the characters?

On this tiny little Montana ranch. People just killing people the whole time. I have started to like kind of talk like they're like kind of raspy, like cowboys. They'll be like, all right, go, go out for some supper. That'd be fun if you talked to Bo and only Bo that way. Well, I kind of, I kind of have, I've kind to bo and only bo that way all right well i kind of i kind of have i've kind of started being a father that way all right go ahead wash up before supper y'all get to bed y'all get to bed i don't i don't do it that crazy but i am i'm like i'm like

all right y'all get in the car i'm like who am i trying to trying to turn into yellowstone is that kevin costner is he the one who talks that way they all kind of do but yeah that's they all kind of do they all kind of do, but yeah. They all kind of do. They all kind of do. What setting does that show take place in? Yellowstone. Sorry, time period. Present day. Present day.

But isn't it a lot of cowboys and natives? Oh, yeah. You don't think there's natives on our land these days? No, I didn't think. It's called Indian Reservations. I didn't think they were like still on horses, still shooting bow and arrows. No arrows. Okay. I have a misconception about the show. There there's another there's a prequel show now what's it called it's called 1883 greenstone greenstone back before it was yellow

my father fought for this land that's what i mean father fought for this land cool not giving up to anybody anyway i've been to yellowstone do you think that would make me like it more i i think half like it has so much language and so to the point where i was like katherine you wouldn't like it because they cuss every other word oh like um i thought you just meant like dialogue oh like it's pretty dialogue heavy show you're gonna need subtitles yeah there's a lot of language no just foul language um but man the beauty of america is so beautiful like even when uh abigail was talking about like small town pennsylvania and the amish and so i was like america's so cool like there's so many awesome amazing beautiful

pockets of it and then there's a part of it where they're in texas and even though it's like texas you know west texas dirt kind of stuff it's like it's beautiful it's like Texas, you know, West Texas dirt kind of stuff, it's like, it's beautiful. It's all right. Yeah. There's something, I love all the different cultures of America. So I really liked it because I've never been to Montana and I'm sure that's exactly what Montana is like in real life where they, you know, kill people all the time for land rights and everything.

So can we normalize killing people for land rights? I think we already have brother. It's called Yellowstone seasons one through five. You're so right though. Every piece america has got something cool to it i can't stand when people will stereotype or typecast just like an area just like i i tried to give dallas a try and i don't know dallas is just like and the people down there it's like five million people live there you just didn't get just find somebody yeah it's like that's fair oh it drives me nuts with people especially they they have such a strong opinion about a big city new york's just so busy which like yeah manhattan is but like you can find dude i will say dallas this weekend i was like it there

are so many people here like it's crazy but like every big city is gonna have suburbs where you can find a nice calm lifestyle every downtown is busy to an extent. Just people love putting their opinions in these blanket statements on large cities, even States. I didn't really like Montana. You didn't like Montana. You went to one gas station that was kind of had dirty bathrooms. And you're like,

you know what? This place is a dump. Oh, I can't stand that. Yeah. Normalize just treating every part of America. Being open and positive, you know,

that's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. Open and positive. Normal is being open and positive, you know? That's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. Open and positive. Yeah. Thanks, man. Just like a quick trip. Always open, always positive.

Thanks, Coogan. Hey, see you soon. They always get, they start saying something that makes me think I'm going to see them again. I forget what the phrase is. See you later.

They always say see you later. See you later. That's what it is. It's like, I will. Yeah. Before I get to the next voice memo, I think we got to talk about this because I keep forgetting. We got to to talk about it came from a voice memo

i'm just going to summarize it uh we got to talk about shoot where's the url i think it's ghostrunners.family is that sound right yes is that what we were we you're not gonna we should play that you don't think we should play that one i i can just sum it up he he did a lot of singing like uh the scott's toss yeah um okay yeah it's ghost runners dot family okay yeah my friend from high school grant holmes he's had a couple voice memos clean hands homes yeah he's awesome love his whole family so he left us a voice memo where he starts singing the scott's toss things over and over again to be honest grant i almost turned it off because i was like how many times is he just gonna keep singing really the scott's tossing and eventually he tells me to check out ghostrunners.family and so i go check it out and it's a legit website that this so grant has paid for the

the url he has like found some website to host it he has designed a website ghosters.family and it seems like so between the voice memo in the you know beginning of this website it seems like grant's trying to like crowdsource the ghosties to like do what michael scott couldn't and like sponsor a child to go to college and i was like oh wow like this is kind of a wild thing and it's funny that he's doing it you scroll down on the website a little further and it's me and brad's face and it's a youtube video linked with a cameo watermark and so after putting the pieces together we did get a cameo request like hey this one's not going to be funny or entertaining we just need like serious life advice for someone who i forgot what the prompt was exactly but it's like yeah someone who wants to live a life on a good path honoring children or honoring kids or

something can you play that can you play the audio oh yeah yeah i mean it's kind of funny now because we were you know because we were trying to be yeah kind of fun and serious like so yeah this is the cameo what's up it's jake and br Jacob Brad. And a lot of times we use cameos. People want us to be funny or they want us to be in character for someone's birthday or something to celebrate. This was a little different. So we're going to try to do our best to still encourage you to make some good decisions. Yeah, we've done a lot of stuff in our past careers where we worked in youth ministry and children's ministry. And we just know the value of the next generation and, uh, just unashamedly think that it's important to support that, um, financially as well as through your time and through your talent. And so we encourage you to do the same

and, uh, yeah, I hope you consider it. Yeah. Brad and I actually met, uh, we were next door neighbors because I and Brad's wife were working in youth ministry together. It's really fun. And, uh, you know, it's funny to look up now, but it'd be like eight, nine years later. And one of my roommates now, uh, and best friends, uh, was one of my former like youth students and not in a weird way, you know, you could, yeah, it's cool. So, you know, have that to look forward to. It's just amazing how well it fit together with this like this this fundraiser for

his own you were like you know i think it's very important to support kids you know with your time with your money and so i'm not sure exactly what's happening but i think grant is just pulling all sorts of strings here and he paid for a cameo he paid for the domain he's not paying for this website and i truly don't know i don't know if it's real or not i don't know i don't know what's happening because you scroll down further and there's an actual like he's already got a kid picked out true it and i'm like is this your kid oh you don't know for sure it's got to be right i mean it probably is it looks like just photos taken on iphone i guess i haven't like reverse this on Grant's Facebook.

It looks like it's probably Grant's kid. So he's trying to get his own kid sponsored. It's like, oh, maybe it is a joke. Or maybe he just wants free college. And then you scroll down further. And this is where it's pretty hilarious. It says a glimpse into the potential future. It's got ridiculous pictures.

Yeah. Athletics. It's my senior photo. Brad playing football. Yeah. Different screenshots. Family. Me and my family. me and my family,

Brad and his family, scholarship, funny stuff, funny pictures. And then it says donate now. And then it just goes straight to grants, Venmo and cash app. Every dollar donated goes directly to the 529 account of the official tot of the ghost service podcast. That's amazing. They didn't even scroll down.

It looks like the website's over. And down below, there's like a nice little like poll it's like college choice which college should the official tot of the ghost podcast attend sbu k-state baylor mizzou or your favorite university um so funny so funny so i don't know exactly what to make of this other than i wanted to bring attention to it and say this is amazing ghost runners dot family one way or another uh this is a fascinating thing it's just so great i love that he put so much work into this absolutely this is awesome so grand clean hands homes clean hands homes wow and the page you can click in the bottom of the pages update on november 15th so this has been out for a while and we're just now talking about it right i just learned about it last week

we went away from voicemails for a while yeah i can't believe that's the only way he told us he wasn't like hey check this out hey i've spent a lot of time on this can you check it out he's like well if they never listened to the voice memo then oh well every week he's like this might be the week this might it never is and now finally we're talking about it if we would have never brought back voice memos do we just never find out this exists yeah we didn't check the voice memos for a while so that's amazing so amazing good on grand for not never even posting it to like the facebook page or anything so fun anyway all right we'll listen to like one or two more hey jake and brad this is samantha um i'm a listener of the show and i had to pause this

week's podcast right after jake shared the story about setting the opener, the Latino woman's purse on the ground. That is a super big no-no in Latino culture, particularly Mexican-American culture. I am Mexican-American and my mother trained us from a very young age to never set her purse on the ground. Not even the ground in the car. Like it has to be on a chair, has to be above ground, cannot be touching the ground um not even the ground in the car like it has to be on a chair has to be above ground cannot be touching the ground it's really offensive and it's um just something that's like drilled into us from a really young age so it kind of makes sense to me why she um got upset and didn't show up but at the same time it's a little bit of extreme um response for sure but

i will tell you my heart rate skyrocketed when jake said i was setting it i set it on the ground my heart rate just went through the roof and i was like nope big mistake nope that's good to know that's good to get clarity on i figured it's like yeah i probably did some mistake or some cultural thing and you're not put on the ground mexican american people that's a big deal fake ground it's not yeah you're touching the soil yeah i'm on the third story of a building yeah still the ground so the floor where people walk i guess yes that's good i will honor it now i know it also is crazy to treat people poorly because they didn't know a custom that like they probably shouldn't have known in the first place i just want to be able to say latino like

she says she did say it quick and And it's just like, so cool. And like, she's Mexican American. So she speaks great English too, but she wants to throw in a Latino snap into it. I'm a Latino. I can't do it. I wish I,

I'm a Latino. She snapped into it. Like diabetes did whenever I would speak Spanish to him. It's like, he can always find it. You know, as you guys know, I am a Latino.

There you go. No, that's not even close to her, dude. Yeah. I nailed it. It was exactly the same. She did such a good job. Well, Samantha, thank you for educating us. Thank you for saying

Latino in such a cool way. She's Latino. She's Latino. Can't do it. I'll work on it. Please. Please do. Hey, Jake and Brad. My name is Mitchell. I found your podcast a few months ago, and the timing was really, really sweet. I graduated from college in May, did some ministry for a couple months, was on the road a lot, went through the crazy job search process. I ended up getting a job, moving, getting an apartment. So just a lot of exciting things. But also post-grad life is just difficult in a lot of ways. So your podcast has been a big source of encouragement, of consistency in my life.

I'm really thankful for your guys' faith, for your friendship with each other. You've shown me just how to be more thankful in the everyday, which is really awesome. So my question is, what is some advice that you would have for somebody who is trying to figure out how to be an adult? So anyway, I would love to meet you guys someday. I'll tell you my fourth grade spelling bee story. I hear that you guys have some fun ones. I just listened to the first episode of the podcast. So anyway, thanks so much for what you're doing. It really does matter. Jake, congrats on your engagement.

And yeah, love you guys. Bye. Mitchell. Cool. Mitchell, what are you doing in April? Hey, you want to meet us so bad? Come on. Normalize.

Are you dying to meet us? Dying to meet us? Yeah, Come on. Normalize. Are you dying to meet us? Dying to meet us? Yeah, I would love to see you in Florida. Oh, here we go. Hey, pal. It's for you, Mitchie. Mitchie. Dude, what was I?

I was just talking to somebody the other day about just how hard it is, man. No one talks about post-grad life. Oh, you know what you need to do? Normalize talking about post-grad life. Guys, normalize it. Normalize it. You know, you're a senior. Oh, you know what you need to do? Normalize, talk about post-grad life. Guys, normalize it. Normalize it. You're a senior. I don't know.

I just think, yes, it's just like all of a sudden you have so much less time and less energy, but you're supposed to make all these new friends all over again, especially because people these days very rarely move back to where they're from. They'll get a new job in a new city where they don't know anybody and so it's just like yeah i feel for you mitchell so i'm glad that we can provide some levity stability stability su mexican american cultural faux pas latino good um so yeah so what was the question how to advice to advice on like, I think becoming an adult, being an adult, young adulthood, things that I was not as good at back in the day that I feel

like I'm starting to get better at. Uh, I don't know if this is like truly adulting or it's just, just Brad was, you know, immature. I think one of the things is like, don't be afraid to ask people. Just don't just put yourself out there more. It's, it's really hard, but it gets easier when you do it more and it's never going to get easier until you do it the first time. That makes sense. Like, and like specifically for me, it's like calling people on the phone. Like I am not, I don't, I'm not good at calling people on the phone if I'm not like confident in what I'm going to say to them or anything, but it's just like, the more I call people, the better I get at it.

I'm still kind of not great at phone talking. And I know it's a small thing, but as a post-grad, I was, I was like, anytime someone would call me, I'd be like, uh,

I'll text you. So, um, some advice that I just thought of is, uh, like, don't be afraid to let people know that you're new to the city. No one else would like you meet someone.

They don't know that you just moved there unless you tell them. Like I think about in my life, I knew that Harrison Pollard had just moved to Kansas city because of, you know, the way he'd been introduced to me, yada, yada. And that was right when COVID hit.

It's like this guy, I mean, what a bummer situation. I'm going to make sure he gets invited to pickleball as much as possible and gets invited to this. And so don't be afraid to just even like you just be very transparent with people like hey man i know we don't really know each other that well or whatever it is but like i just move here like is there any are you connected to anything do you ever have anything you could you know invite me to you know it's a little like uh it takes you gotta set your

pride aside to like ask another guy for stuff like that but i think find the right people who will value it and you'll be glad you did. Yeah. I think it's along that same vein. Yeah. Just being like, Hey, I just want to be honest. I don't know what I'm doing here or I don't have friends here and I am lonely right now. And I need, can you, do you know anybody that could help or is it you or whatever? Um, I think, yeah, obviously not every college experience is just like mine or yours or whatever, but in college I just had a great community and it was easy community. And it was just like, there was never a shortage of people to hang out with or do things like you could have fun doing anything. And then post-grad life, it's like, you know, all of a

sudden, yeah, you don't have as much time. And when you do have time, it's like, what am I supposed to do with it? You know, with all these people, I don't know. So I think just like, yeah, just, just finding a community somehow, somehow usually that is really great in a church, uh, or something like that, or, you know, playing sports, finding, I don't know, finding guys that play sports and playing pickup with them or whatever. Um, just some way that you can like, especially with guys, guys just need to break the barrier somehow. It's's not it's not as natural for me at least to just be like let's get coffee like i like it but i feel like it's so much easier to like talk after we played basketball and like let's go let's go like you know knock back a few coca-colas after basketball bro no um so

cool yeah i don't know. I feel like our experiences post-grad were also a little bit different since we worked in a ministry that was busy all the time. Yeah, I got thrown into like a community. Yeah. Primarily high schoolers.

Yeah, exactly. No, that's great. It's a fun question. Hopefully we do get to meet you soon. Come on, Mitchell. Let's listen to one last voice memo. It's from our boy, Knack Bax. Oh, thank you.

Hey, Jake and Brad, it's's knack just addressing your most recent uh uh inquiry um still haven't gotten the check for the last one so wait on that so first off yes there are dissolvable sutures uh stitches um actually one of them is made out of uh animal gut it's called chromic gut. It's very weird. It smells funny. Really? I used it to sew up a lip last year. So, yeah, they followed on their own. Other thing is, yes, technically, you should see a medical professional to get your stitches removed.

However, some people might suggest that an ape that, um, an ape can do it and you should save the money and just take them out yourself. Uh, not my suggestion officially. Um, but yeah, some people may suggest that. Um, so yeah, uh, go see a medical professional and get your, uh, your, uh, stuff out, but don't say you guys ever learn anything on this podcast. This is a practical advice. Resident MD. If you guys have any medical questions, let us know.

We'll get knack backs on it. It can come from an animal gut, no matter what it is. If an animal guy can take out your sutures, then so can you. I thought he said at first that, uh, it's pretty easy.

An aid could do it. I was like, Oh, you got to find like a nurse's aid. Yeah. Just an aid. There's any kind of aid. i've been thinking about it more i was everybody said ape i bet so you know what now that i'm thinking about it that's an ape yeah he didn't say aid so that's good to know rachel slices her hand open again just go either to the doctor or to the zoo

yeah just just hop on in there with harambe excuse me just uh four stitches in the webbing i'm a ghostwriters listener. I'm sure you are too. You probably had a lot of ghosties come through today. You're the closest ape. Oh, he said aid. Oh, it's aid. That's great. It's fun to hear from Nicholas Butler.

Knackbacks. I have a hard time calling him Nick. It's weird. What do you think you'll call him in person when he comes to Florida? I'll probably call him just a valued customer of ours and very thankful. Hello, valued customer. I would call him Knack. I'd call him friend.

I call him Knackbacks. Oh, Knackbacks. All on the floor. Duh. Good. Yep. Good, good, good, good, good. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, floor. Good. Yep. Good, good, good, good, good. Cool.

Anything else you need to get off your chest, Brent? Let me look at my notes. Oh, no, that's fine. Well, I'll just say really quickly, Gilbert, the guy that got married, his grandma was 96 years old and they're like, we're going to have him do a dance with his grandma and she came out there in heels and so in order for them to get

her shoes off to dance with Matt Matt picked her up like kind of like a sack of potatoes and they like pulled off her shoes pretty funny um oh do we titillate one more week or do we

do we open up the titillate titillator open up the titillator I have it written down an annuntimente annuntimente we'll do it should we do

um I think you could titillate him now i think you tell him now you think so you do it you're better at titillating what's february in spanish february is going to be the start of your new life. Oh! And your new life consists of Jake, of Brad. Hey. The Ghost Runners podcast on Mondays. And the Ghost Runners podcast on Wednesdays. Hello!

We're going to beef it up. February 1st is when I am officially no longer working with Trey on any of his main channel stuff. I'm writing, shooting, editing. I'm going to have a little bit of extra time. And we've always said this is the thing we love doing the most we want to do more of it we want to get to know you guys more give you guys more of what you already like and really just double down on the ghost runners brand uh so yeah be looking out for uh two wednesdays from now wow first ever wednesday episode and a lot more to come. And there should be some exciting things. I think we need to do those call in things on Wednesdays.

That could be very fun thing to do on some of them. At least that'd be really fun. Anyway, Wednesday is just going to be a little, a little extra fun. I think Mondays will stay the same. A little extra fun. Mondays will stay exactly the same.

And Wednesdays are just going to get extra fun for you guys. Would you say they're going to get Zoppity or Boppity? In February, Zoppity. Okay. Because it's like, whoa, this is brand new. Whoa, this is Zoppity. And then once you start cruising, it's like, oh, every Wednesday, we're just Boppity Boppity. And then maybe every once in a while, we'll go Zop-Bop.

Yeah. No doubt. No doubt. No doubt. It's going to be awesome. We're excited about it. We've talked about it for a while. And we're like, how are we going to make this work?

I got an idea. How about Jake stops working for a while and we're like, how are we going to make this work? Uh, I got an idea. How about Jake stops working for Trey and lives 83 steps away from me. That'll make it work a lot easier. Um, so we're pumped to bring it. We're going to make sure we have lots to talk about and fun things. And it's just going to be,

I hope that you guys love it. I hope it continues to be more of a rhythm in your week. And, um, yeah, we're excited about it. Yeah. Speaking of rhythms,

we want to try to get kind of an upload schedule with gene shorts too where gene shorts videos go out tuesdays and thursdays and it kind of gives you almost some something almost every day of the week monday podcast tuesday gene shorts wednesday podcasts thursday gene shorts friday enjoy the weekend baby it's almost here. For now. Titillated, dude! Titillated. Oh, boy. So,

that, that, that, that, how many times do I have to say that before I get a sentence out? That time that we met in the library, that's what we were talking about was going to two episodes

and figuring all that stuff out and dreaming. Yeah, if you remember us talking and saying going to two episodes and figuring all that stuff out and dreaming. Do you remember us talking and saying, yeah, this week was a big Monday. Yeah. It was, yeah, I bought the engagement ring with Brad, but it was like we spent three hours at a library just strategizing ghost runner stuff. That was back in October.

Yes. Early October. We're not the fastest movers in the world, but. A lot of things were juggling. Yeah, exactly. Professional juggler. And we're so, oh, we got an awesome sponsor coming up. Oh my yeah exactly professional jugger and we're so oh we got an awesome sponsor coming up oh my gosh dude that's also coming in february yes if you want to

sponsor our show alongside of that i promise oh it's gonna things are great guys things are going great we would love to partner with you guys holler at us just just know just know we love you guys and it's gonna be a great great time. We've had more ghosties than normal recently hitting us up to sponsor, which that's our favorite way of doing it. Favorite way. Ghostrunners listeners. So definitely holler at us, even if you're somewhat interested. We'll send you some info, and we can make it happen.

But, yeah. Make it happen. A couple Wednesdays from now. Also, there might be a little sneak preview coming out. Okay, okay, okay. You know, just wherever you listen to podcasts, there might be a little sneak preview coming out. Okay, okay, okay. Wherever you listen to podcasts, always be checking it. Check it out, baby. You never know.

I have a five-star review to read. I have one, too. Go ahead. Mine's from Podcast Kaylee. Is that yours? No. This podcast is fantastic. I recently found ghost writers from the walk and love podcast. Shout out TJ. Shout out Brooke,

where Jake was a guest for one episode and I loved him immediately. Love at first. Listen. Now I love this podcast even more. Jake and Brad are the best at talking about everything and nothing at all at the same time and making you laugh the whole way through. And Scott should definitely be a part of every episode. My fit.

My new favorite thing is listening to this podcast on my lunch break. It brings so much joy and laughter to my life. Do yourself a favor and listen to this podcast. Two exclamation points, smiley face. I love the idea of our friends like TJ and Brooke and their success and ours intersecting with that. And like, I love the idea of you guys listening to Walk in Love. I love the idea of Walk in Love people listening to us i think that's so cool

to like see that because we love them we appreciate them they're so cool so holler at them for some listening about marriage my review comes from elk grove susan this is a fun review she said i love this podcast it's like listening to the sons I never had. She said she's 65 for Pete's sake. Pete's sake. Looking forward to all you have for 2023. Oh, Susan, I hope you're titillated. Oh, Susan, all the way.

And then she signed it. Elk Grove Susan. I like that. Where is Elk Grove? Let's look that up real quick. There's no way there's not an Elk Grove, Missouri. Elk Grove City in California. Elk Grove Village City in Illinois. where is elk grove let's look that up there's no way there's not an elk grove missouri uh elk grove city in california elk grove village city in illinois um elk grove elk grove colorado it's california seems like the main one um anyway she said ps the original shape of tricks was

actually balls when they change it to those weird fruit shapes i was not amused glad to hear they came back to their senses dang suze you don't like the the textured shapes she's 65 for peach shakes she doesn't need any for peach shapes shapes she doesn't need to know no you know fruit shaped thanks susan stop that's fun that you listen and that's fun uh one last note i had we can end it on this well brad i think i know brad you don't have a jingle for us listen no i don't i we i have a few songs in the hopper but i don't know them very well and so i've tried to read them and like figure out the way they're written and like no i don't okay i don't it's okay it's okay it's okay if you have one that you think is a popular song send it my way yeah um uh sorry guys i feel bad a couple of last notes i'd like to always update people on this just because you

never know last week and maybe like two weeks ago by the time we're listening to this biggest week ever on ghost runners kind of fun i don't know why necessarily i feel like i i don't know why why you don't know why it's fun or you know why it's sorry i don't know why it was the biggest week ever just podcast just this stuff just seems to grow so organically and just word of mouth so it is like we always say thank you it is so much about like just telling your friends and so thank you for telling your friends and family and uh dads and doctors uh older women in elk grove trash trash collectors chiropractors right uh rhinoplasty surgeons specifically baristas can i get a good name for the order uh ghost runners podcast dare you grassroots marketing yes that's how it works

no we really do appreciate it uh and so yeah it's fun to not even know why we're growing and just know that it's probably largely because of you guys so thank you for telling your friends biggest week ever recently 2023 is definitely gonna be our biggest year ever come on and uh for those maybe just curious scott has been here a couple weeks it's just because brad and i we've kind of got the time on our hands now to record in the middle of the day so it's like if we can have the opportunity to record at 2 p.m. rather than 8 p.m., Brad and I would much rather do that. And my wife, yeah, I can put my kids to bed and take them to church and yeah, all that stuff. So nothing's changed here.

And I know Scott's listening to this right now. He's still listening to the podcast, baby. It is Saturday morning and Scott's finally finished. He just listened to it. Scott, thanks for grabbing me from the airport last week. Yeah, man. Thanks for taking us to the airport last week. Appreciate it. Thanks for taking us to the airport in April, unless you're going with us to Florida, Scotty. Of course, Scott.

We'll see you in Neck Baxter and Elk Grove, Susan, Florida and Mitchell Mitch. Yep. Got to see Mitch either. I see Mitch there. So cool. We love you guys. Thanks for all your support. Please be excited for us for going to episodes. If you're not, then please don't tell us, but it's going to be awesome. We hope that it's going to, yeah, just bless you even more

and make you even more happy and make you laugh. And yeah, we're just so pumped about it. And thanks for being pumped alongside of us. Good vibes ahead. All right. Love you guys. Toodle-oo.