Ghostrunners - 196 - Crossing the Finnish Line

Episode Date: January 30, 2023

In this episode, Jake talks about being in house full of people from Finland all week; Brad talks about playing basketball against high school boys; and THE CHIEFS ARE GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL BABY! Make sure to check out our website below to be a part of Ghost Stories, book your room for our Florida trip, or get some merch! Get a personalized video from us on Cameo: https://v.cameo.com/e/fvERn6rrysb  Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu  Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y  Watch this episode on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3cQSPnw  Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P  Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are back with another episode. Normally is Ghost Runners back in your lives, but Brad and I are back with each other. Yes, we've been apart. It's been a minute. Been a minute. Been a minute, but we are both, we are buzzing this morning. Hope you guys are having a good Monday morning. Brad and I sure are.

I went to bed at four last night. Four? Yeah. Holy cow. You were like, yeah, I overslept my alarm a little bit this morning. I was like, that's fine. Didn't even know you went to bed at four. I would have been like, that's totally fine.

But I'm feeling good. I'm feeling energized to be here. You said you're buzzing right now. I was like, that's fine. Didn't even know you went to bed at four. I would have been like, that's totally fine. Uh, but I'm feeling good. I'm feeling energized to be here. You said you're buzzing right now. I have had nothing but coffee this morning and boy, am I feeling good? I think there's, it just adds to the effect if you haven't had any other food. It, yeah, it enhances it. I don't know why you would think like if you've had food, you'd be more energetic. opposite brother i'm feeling something else right now man and i'm just excited to be back with you jake yeah it's fun to be back working together we were working kind of separately this week i've been in orlando uh i'll tell you guys more about it um here in a little bit but for now i was with uh the finnish people uh for the past three days straight nothing but finlandites and those guys

get things done they do finish and they like having a finish having a beer while they're doing it really learned yeah i think drinking while working is like somewhat appropriate it's so normal in europe to have beer everywhere mcdonald's the cafeteria at school when i was there funerals yes oh yeah big time as they're dropping in the casket, they're also taking a swig. As long as they got one hand free, one hand on the casket here. It was so fun talking with them. So for some of them, it was their first time ever coming to America. Can I have some Finnish names real quick?

I have no idea. Jonas with two O's. So it looks like Junus. With two O's? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. okay. Yeah. Okay.

Jonas, Sebastian. Uh-huh. Nicholas. Nicholas. Nicholas. Okay. What were the other guys' names? Tommy.

Okay. Tommy was awesome. Tommy was like the Chinese, like foreign exchange students. Like, you can't pronounce my name. Just call me Tommy. If you guys, it makes it funnier too. If you want to imagine like, oh, what does Tommy look like? Imagine like, just not even a grew.

Just imagine grew. Okay. He is bald and he is awesome. Okay. That was Tommy. And yeah, it was a good time. So when I got there, they had all just had Chick-fil-A for the first time. Oh man.

I couldn't wait to ask him about it. I mean, I just met these guys. It's like, tell me everything. Like, what did you think? And it was i couldn't wait to ask him about it i mean i just met these guys just like tell me everything like what did you think and uh it was so funny because on one end i expected them to be like best thing i've ever had we don't have this in finland and it kind of was like i think one of them rated it like uh like jonas gave it like a seven or an eight okay i was like really i thought this would i thought it would be 10 out of 10 i thought this would like make you want to stay here forever like like chick-fil-A should be passing out green cards. Like I know you probably want to stay here for a while.

And, uh, but no, they were like, they still had good things to say. They, I guess fast food in Finland, it's still, still very good, but it's not as fast as it is here. Okay. It was so funny hearing them talk about it. They were like, I ordered a spicy chicken sandwich. Yeah. It's here.

And like, it'd take like 30 seconds 30 seconds it's in my hands yeah right especially chick-fil-a because like chick-fil-a is like known like obviously they're so busy that they have to make stuff that's not been ordered yet anyway and so yeah it's just amazing it was so funny just like i feel like i grasped the concept i was like oh yeah yeah it's pretty quick and he just kept elaborating no no no i said seconds not minutes he's like i thought it's maybe someone else sandwich. I go back and check it.

Different Jonas. Different Jonas with two O's here. Jonas with, yeah. One O? Jonas? Jonas. Jonas Brothers. They must have thought

I was Nick Jonas. No, this Nicholas. He went the same company. This is Nicholas Jonas. Nicholas I Jonas. Nick Jonas. Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down.

With some random thoughts in white. Me too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along, let's have some fun and go ahead, get on your feet. Because this is the Ghost Rubs Podcast. Everybody morning, we're taking round. Ghost Rubs Podcast. here's something i did right before this uh i speaking of singing i was in a singing mood in my car i think i heard it at uh i've been i've been at summer moon this morning uh new new

favorite coffee i love doing some smooning. Smooning. That's what Rachel and I call it. Yeah, it's fun. S apostrophe mooning. I've gotten more done there than anywhere else, I think, coffee shop wise. I've been very productive. Very nice folks there. Rachel and I learned that one of the baristas goes to church with us.

Fun. Yeah. How fun. If you're a barista and not a Christian, are you even doing it? Are you even like really making good coffee? You got to feel a little ostracized by the bracelet community. Anyway, but I think stand by me, you know, was on there. And so I was, it was in my head. So I was singing it in the car,

had to stop and get some gas was getting some gas. Every time I get gas, first of all, good job having a car that doesn't need gas. 75 fat ones to fill it up tonight. 75 big bones to fill up the old truck. But every time I get gas, I always just change. Like I always clean out my car of all debris, right? You kind of miss out on that. Yeah.

It's not all good things. Like I'm not naturally buy a trash can. Exactly. Once every two weeks anymore. Yeah. Yeah. Every two weeks. Good for you before.

Yeah. But I'm like once a week, getting like eight gallons to my hog. But anyway, it was filling, it was filling up the, or was, was emptying out all the, you know, cups and everything. And as I was emptying it out, I would say at a six out of 10 volume, just singing, stand by me. Yeah. Darling, darling, stand by me. And so anyway, got, got, whoa, whoa, stay by me. You know, got all these cups and noticed like, oh, the hose is kind of in my way to get to the trash can. I'll just go around to the other side, you know, kind of go around because I don't want to, I don't want to hurdle.

You're not hose hurdling. No, I'm not. I'm not trying to hose hurdle this time of year. Yeah. Nozzle knocking, hose hurdling. There's a lot of names for it. You know, pump paddling. I'm not trying to hose hurdle this time of year. Yeah. Nozzle knocking, hose hurdling. There's a lot of names for it. You know, pump paddling. Petroleum pushing. I don't know. Anyway, so I go around the other side and very close to me,

didn't even realize there was somebody else filling up their gas tank. Ah, you music fan. So just remember that there could be somebody very close to you at a gas station and you have no idea. And all of a sudden you just gave them a show it's happened to me a couple times where we'll be feeling golf content and i've got a wireless mic on and i'm by myself right and i'll catch myself singing to myself like dang it that's like being required it happened yesterday literally i was filming with my friend josh mayer and he was off doing his thing and i and i was like singing like i don't even know what i was singing i was was like, shoot, I got to keep. Oh, I had One Direction stuck in my head, which is embarrassing.

Nick Jonas. It was maybe because Jonas Brothers. It's never like a fun song. It's always like. What One Direction song? Baby, you light up. No, no, no, no. It was.

I think once you sleep, it resets. You would have had to ask me before 4 a.m. last night. OK. I don't remember. I don't. I don't even know. Like, is One Direction the one that does the top gun song what the uh no no it's one republic i don't know i get all this i get all those i would i would go four for ten on a quiz

between run one direction one republic jonas brothers x amount of other bands speaking of top gun real quick maybe just every five, I'll give you a new like Finnish story. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Chapter two. One of the guys who works in production for Tacoma, he had like an FPV drone there. And you could still use the goggles.

Explain that a little bit. See, it's for a first person view. And maybe some of you guys have seen videos. It looks like, well, if you've seen footage of an FPV drone, it looks like drone footage you've never seen before. It's so cool. The way you can like bank and turn. It just, it's awesome.

It's like you're watching a bird fly and not like a two dimensional drone fly. Right. Very fun. Go look up Johnny FPV. If you're into that kind of stuff, he's the man. Anyway, so you could still like do kind of a simulator thing where we were sitting in the living room, taking turns, putting on the goggles and flying and everyone else can see like the ipad and see what everyone's doing it was my turn i've never done anything like this before but pretty good

video games i've flown a drone before sure pick it up pretty quickly i'm going in tunnels and everything and next thing you know all the the finnish people all the tacoma people are calling me maverick it was awesome like this guy is like maverick top gun maverick works for tacoma i love it dude any nickname from someone like that just means more because you're always wondering like what are their stereotypes of america american people one of them's definitely top top gun yeah this guy's maverick and lebron james how do you think you would sing the top gun theme song, but in a Finnish accent, Brad? Jonas, Jonas, Jonas, Jonas. We got to send this episode to Jonas.

That's hilarious. This guy funny. Yeah. The big man looks like he has lots of Chick-fil-A in 30 seconds. Yeah. So that was fun. Just a quick little thing. Just, yeah, for five minutes, my nickname was Maverick with the Finnish people.

That was awesome. Whoa. Maverick with the Finnish people. That was awesome. Oh, Maverick should not be golfing. He should be in disguise. Would you like to work for Finnish military? Yes. You're like Sully of the pilots. I did learn Finland has the largest artillery in the world. Artillery?

Yeah. Meaning like bullet? What do you mean? I don't know. That's what they say. I don't work there. Don't ask me. Artillery.

I feel like every time I ever talk to anybody from Europe, I'm always like, you're smarter than me. Like if you're a European person and you're over in America, you're doing really well for yourself. And you think that all Americans are stupid. Okay. I just looked it up. This is what I thought it was, but I didn't know how to describe it. But like, it's like big guns being shot from the land.

Okay. They're thinking aside wikipedia that they are smarter than us it's like big guns being shot from land it is like how you say big gun how you you know the big gun the rocket launchers dwayne the rock johnson type gun big big um yeah i don't know it's like a tank that doesn't move is what i'm looking at right now stationary tank it's like you know turrets in uh halo 2 yeah turret maybe oh here's large caliber guns used in warfare on land okay the dictionary didn't define it much better than i did okay so yeah we got it yeah they share the out of anyone in the world they shared the the longest border with russia and they said because of that you need a good artillery i would say so i was like all right sounds like we're on the same team here really I'm so bad geography I had no idea where

I thought Finland was like right there with I don't know Greece or something oh Brad you gotta play some geoguessr I'm real bad at geography gotta play some geoguessr another thing I would get four out of ten on the Scandinavian ones okay but they're the eastern one so obviously yeah duh well now i know that well obviously how well do you think you would do on a geography quiz of like countries of the world you have a you have a bank of all the countries how well do you think you would do percentage placing them or just like knowing that country no country oh no placing them that'd be really hard i would do i would do three out of three North America.

Well, no, the Central America is also part of North America, isn't it? Yeah. I think I would do better than the average American, but not much better. Really? After GeoGuessr? What? After GeoGuessr, it didn't make you... I don't know.

Maybe I'm being a little too humble here, but I think I'd do a pretty good job. But still, the South American countries, I know generally where they all are, but I could still mess it up. Like if you gave me a blank map and said, put like point to Bolivia, like I may not get it exactly, but I would get one next to it. Right. Like point to Belarus. It's like, it's either this one or this one.

Like I could get close on all of them, but I'm not confident in like the tough ones. We should, we should find a Sporkle quiz and do it sometime and see how there's for sure a sporkle quiz because like you can't wait to start with obviously like the easy ones and then like fill them in from there i bet you would get 35 and i bet i would get five percent like i would bet you know five coming to a something near you i don't know if it's a facebook group post or whatever but surely we'll do that we'll go to lunch after this maybe chick-fil-a maybe a chick-fil-a yeah spice a chicken anyway uh so florida was awesome though tell us tell me some more okay so yeah i went down there with um you know i've talked about before joe gilland he's uh our manager for mood swings he's the man i was just on the phone with him he was the one who kind of brokered this deal with trey and i in

tacoma which is our club sponsor he was the one who's like hey i think i can get you down to the pga show which sometimes joe will tell me things and like he's like dude i got good news i think i can get you the pga show and i have to pretend like i know what that means yeah right right like oh no what what channel is that on pga show yeah i don't have youtube tv so i'm gonna watch it he's like no it's like a it's a trade show right oh i knew it yeah yeah yeah what's like tiger woods is gonna be there okay so where's rory okay i'm having trouble saying that name it's oh it's like the biggest like golf you know trade show kind of thing it's down in orlando so it's like cool he's like yeah i think tacoma would want to have you down so they fly me down there

they put me up there in a big like 14 bedroom airbnb that we're all sharing oh wow get to go down there with josh mayor he's the man if you haven't checked out his stuff if you like golf stuff check him out but his body's a wonderland you know i made that joke a couple times and i think it's like he's probably heard this hey man you got some daughters you waiting on anything to change maybe the world yeah i did that pretty early on i was like he's probably heard this his whole life i don't probably You waiting on anything to change? Maybe the world? Yeah, I did that pretty early on. I was like, he's probably heard this his whole life.

I probably don't need to make these jokes. I don't think I could say anything. All right, sorry, Josh. Yeah. Maybe focus on the mayor aspect and be like, hey, I bet you're... How was the city council meeting? Yeah, worried about that government vote next week. What are you worried about, the budget cuts? The road's got some potholes that i'm gonna fix

you raise taxes or or the josh part just be like hey hey uh uh do you want to come with me to chick-fil-a i know we just ate lunch i'm just joshing you want to start a youtube channel where you juggle man that'd be good oh anyway so he got to come down there which was really fun so yeah and yeah Tacoma was their Finnish company and uh so I just I got a lot of time with the Finnish people it was fun and was this your first experience ever with Finns as far as I know on our way back from Russia's Got Talent with Juggla and Josh yeah we stopped in the helsinki finland airport okay and i remember they had a ps4 with fortnite on it so i've played fortnite just publicly available for you yeah like it's like a test it like tester you know station at best buy back in the day except i didn't have to crane my neck it was like it was even with me it was nice i remember

that internet was a little slow for playing an online video game, but that was my only experience with, with the fins. So, it was just fun. Just crazy. Nice people. Very chill. Very, um, just appreciated the way they, they communicate and they operate. And they had a great grasp on English language and just, I thought how nice it was for them. Like they easily could have spoken Finnish to each other the whole time. And they spoke English. Like I didn't feel alienated by them. They spoke English to each other. Even do each other. Yeah. Yeah.'t feel alienated by them they spoke english to each other even to each other yeah yeah that is really cool yeah yeah so

oh yeah it'd be so hard not to like go back to oh it'd be so hard you're with you know they are the majority of the people down there um interesting and it was just cool getting like the ceo of tacoma was there the whole time he did everything with us he slept there with us he was in meetings with us like i feel like i just love just being around the the ceo of a somewhat new company but a company that's like carving a path for itself and they're disrupting the market and it was just fun it's like even just aside from learning directly from him but just like watching him lead watching him operate it's like i'm i've never been in a situation like this before this is cool two questions one are fins pretty into are they called fins or is that okay to call them

hey it's not a slur like derogatory towards yeah or the f we call them f bombs uh f words let's just f words is that okay if fins wasn't i'm sure efforts is fine okay are the f words like pretty into golf like is that like a thing there like are there some professional f words that are golfers i i i mean i could be wrong right like i two years ago i didn't even own golf club so i'm very new to this i don't think it's necessarily like massive there i mean like if you look like their latitude would be like yeah middle of canada like they don't have a lot of months of the year where they can golf outside so i can't imagine being massive and i don't think there's like a famous finnish golfer there's not i didn't know ernie ells was from finland i didn't know it

or something ernie else the guy i let play through for me come see that on my story as well i think he's like south africa or something okay other side of the world but uh yeah because we were asking like would we know any like famous finnish people and i there weren't a ton that we knew okay um fair enough but uh second question second question is like what what is the demographic of these tacoma guys like age what do they look like like what i don't know i don't know i'm learning all these things like the ceo you're saying like it was cool to be around a ceo is this guy like a young 40 year old ceo you think or is he like 60 years old or yeah i mean he was probably like young 40s i don't think he's married he didn't have a wedding ring on uh most of the other guys that all worked on like the marketing and strategy department they were like

i think tommy was like mid-30s guy but other might have been like mid to high 20s okay gotcha cool and uh very pale okay they were putting on uh because i like you could see i did not get sunburned i was on the sun for two of the three days yeah just because it's january i checked the heat the uv index is like four i'm like i'll be fine um but they were lathering up and they call it one guy called it sun cream and the other guy called it sun lotion okay which i kind of liked yeah cream seemed a little perverted but that's sun lotion i was down for sun cream i like sun lotion yeah any extra sun lotion i am i am burning out here everything they say it's almost like um i don't want to compare directly to like a child but like just there's a certain way of saying things that

are just like naturally comedic like right the difference in me saying something in a five-year-old saying something it's gonna be funnier the five-year-old says it right and just like that accent like there's something about you you're not used to it it's just fun oh yeah or just missing one word out of something like i am burning like sun out here you know like like all it takes is one word that doesn't get included it's just funny and i would expect the same thing if i was trying to speak a different language oh yeah especially like i i just know spanish i don't know any other languages but like you know you change up the order of things when you talk in spanish right i'm sure yeah you know like fin de semana is end of week but we always say weekend

you know and so all of a sudden we you know if you're just trying to if you didn't know any better you would say it wrong or yeah so anyway no but they had a great grasp on english they did a very very good job with it just funny at times so you golfed with them though yeah the first day we were down there it was a lot of like um they're taking photos of us we're doing videos for their youtube channel um i remember the very first thing we did it's like 8 a.m oh i remember this this was fun so i think our tea time was actually at 9 a.m like we're gonna leave a little early and stop and get some some breakfast on the way you know i'm thinking like chick-fil-a drive-thru something quick yeah and um we pull into ihop oh yeah which for some reason like me and josh

thought it was funny and it was like hard to explain why this is funny it's just like no one really goes here in the daytime that i'm aware of and that's like don't judge america by your experience that you're about to have i think i've been told it was like you guys are gonna see some stuff in here yeah you know it's just like it might be an old man reading the newspaper it might be people here they've been here since midnight right it's just it was the opposite it's just not a quick meal everyone's just loading up on syrup and yeast and it's like all right now we're late for our tea time everyone's stuffed and we got to go golf so that was kind of funny i wonder if that's like in spain at least i'm comparing everything to spain that's the only european experience i

really have but like it was so normal to be late to things like it was like as long as you weren't 30 minutes or later it wasn't like even a thing for you to tell somebody you're running late interesting like it's just like kind of a just a a customary thing of like, it's not a big deal to worry about, you know, one versus like, if you're like, yeah, it's me at noon, 1230 rolls around, you can come and no one thinks twice about it. Yeah. So I wonder if it was like, yeah, we're late for our tea time, but it's because we had the IHOP.

And we're still golfing. Yeah. Yeah. That's all good. So yeah, that was kind of funny. And then we get out there and it's like, people are still like loading their bags up and it's kind of just, we're still in the process of getting started but we're like running late so like hey we need to start shooting all right this video is like we should

have explained i get to the airbnb that first night and it is like the united nations because there's spanish people there there's americans there's a canadian and there's two from england how fun it was like the olympic village yeah everything was there and uh it really did feel like the olympics because there was like we were all playing ping pong a lot so i was like all right uk versus canada go and uh so it was fun so there was this the very first shoot they did was like the two americans uh were playing against the two brits and so it's a usa versus uk thing and so like jake how do you feel about being like the commentator for this like mix it up so i'm sure i can do that so i just go up there and we were running late so i was like let's just roll i'll just say some

stuff and i just very quickly was just like knocked out an intro like hey we're today at the kiss me uh golf club united states versus the uk we know how it went in 1776 let's see how it goes today megan markle versus prince harry who's i don't know i'm just trying to think of british versus u.s things it seemed pretty easy to me. Love it. When I got done, I got like a standing ovation. Like, this guy, amazing. No rehearsal. It was, I mean. One take Jake.

I felt very validated. They were like, it was like, yeah, they saw Dave Chappelle performing his front. They're like, this is, you have to. You are the maverick of intros.

So that fired me up. I was like was like great these people are easy to please and i you know and it was just set the tone for the rest of the weekend i think so wow dude that was fun so we did that for like six holes and then like did you guys win and then who did win honestly i don't even remember that was like the very one of the first things we did it's very american of you like if you lost then like i don't know honestly it's like yeah not even a big deal we were i don't even know if we were keeping score i really don't remember but i was just the commentator i was switzerland and then i got to be on camera more golfing and it was funny that first day it was like it was night and day like if the cameras were not rolling i was a pretty like average to blow average golfer and the second the cameras got flipped on i just i flipped a switch myself and i would just play so well good

oh good and everyone's like what is happening to you i'm like i don't know i just i feel like i'm playing the same but i just i feel like i made everything all these pots and it was only when it was on camera which if you're gonna have it one way i'd rather be that i love i love like actually just the other day we played basketball with some people. We played basketball with these high schoolers. We should talk about that. Let's talk all about it. But so we played, well, I'll just say the thing I'm going to say, and then we can talk all about the rest of it.

But like there was a point where, you know, jokingly, I think it's like an inside joke between us, but also just like, just in general, when you play sports, especially as a kid, you'd be like, Hey, should we, let's, let's start trying now. Hey, let's start trying. You know, like, I think we said that a few times, like, Hey, let's go ahead. Let's, let's go ahead and try now. let's start trying you know like i think we said that a few times like hey let's go ahead let's let's go ahead and try now hey like you know we're like playing really poorly like yeah do you guys you think we should try now you guys want to kick it up a notch uh-huh so uh yeah we played basketball jake's friend nolan uh who's a listener of the pod is a basketball coach for whitfield academy small private school here in

key and city and uh whitfield didn't have a game for they usually have games on friday afternoons for whatever reason this past friday didn't have a game i think the school they were playing didn't couldn't field a varsity team they only had jv which if you have a jv why not just make them the varsity team must be pretty bad it must be real bad anyway whitfield academy these kids were awesome i don't think they won a game yet all year but had some talent they're going for three that's their goal they went with three games this year and they they know their goal you know they know their place they had a lot of talent i think a lot of the kids though were pretty young like freshmen yeah um anyway so it was uh jake jake got asked by nolan who went

to sbu with him hey come play basketball we just need to feel the team like it'd be a fun way to instead of having a normal practice on Friday, let's just do a scrimmage. It's a fun idea. And so it's just me, Jake, cup to cup Johnny. Garrett Gibson. Yeah, Garrett Gibson and Nolan. And then another guy.

I'm just kidding. What's his name? Do you remember? They kept calling him Vols. It must be his last name. Oh, no. V-O-L-S. Anyway. I thought. think we talked have we

talked about on the podcast uh gary remind me he's like one of the very first episodes you ever did you talked about this guy oh really i guess way back when it was it was back when we had like we were playing in a pickup league and i think we were in the championship against this guy and his brother and his dad came and we gave like such such a hard time like who would ever have somebody come to one of their rec league championship basketball game i think it was his dad and his grandpa were there like yeah rooting hard for them like chirping at the rafts kind of yeah yeah yeah it's a weird vibe we we didn't really like this guy very much i mean whatever he's he seemed like a fine guy on

friday but like he was very like intense you know at this basketball game and then of course we invite 100 people to come to our basketball game. So, um, anyway, but it was really fun playing basketball with these high school kids and just messing around. Uh, it was great. It was fun. Yeah. I was just, I haven't done any cardio in a long time.

Oh yeah. We were sucking wind. I was beat. Luckily we had Vols or whatever. Whatever it is. Nox Vox. Yes. Something like that.

Junus, um, to, to kind of help us you know have subs but it was fun and another fun thing uh i saw nolan like three days later oh really yeah he uh he was at the pga show in orlando what yeah how why he works for like the midwestern region like pga i don't know how to explain exactly oh really yeah he works for them and he was in orlando so it's like hey what's up dude dude? Oh, cool. Yeah. There you go. I've seen him twice in one week.

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It was fun. Like we kind of like, by the end of it, we knew all their names. And so we were like trash talking them. I love calling them by their name. Oh yeah. What was the tall guy's name? Shoot, now I can't remember. Oh, Frank?

Frank the Tank. Frank's a great name. I like the name Frank. Especially if you're a big guy. Like he wasn't a, he was a tall skinny guy, but he was tall. And like, that's a nice name for a tall guy. No one texted me afterwards and said, uh, all the guys are big fans you just got some new subscribers oh heck yeah i was like oh how'd they how'd they find out and he was like frank said that you guys

looked familiar so i told him i said i always knew i liked frank it's fun to like just be goofy and these like make make people think like these guys are kind of fun and then all of a sudden like you think they're fun here check them out on they do this for a living podcast everything so i can't remember anything specific besides the fact that i missed 18 layups i think it was unbelievable how like how much like i had like just like you know whatever those are like t-rex arms like i was so it was ridiculous i was like guys i promise i'm not that bad at basketball. So there was some flukes. But I did make the last, it was like, you know, uh, the game winner next shot wins.

And you know, I love doing this thing in pickleball where like you play to 11 to pickleball. And when you have 10 points, you're always like, Hey guys, good game. Thanks for playing guys. And then I serve it up. Hey guys. Hey guys. Good game. Thanks.

You know? And so I did that when I, I, right before I shot the basketball, I was like, Hey guys, thanks for coming. Good game. And i just shot it and made it three i like that you do that because i'll do a thing too we're like the backswing and golf is so sacred right you don't talk in other people's backswings you know it's very sacred and i've been known on camera and even off camera to talk on my own backswing i think that's so fun and it's just kind of fun it's like this isn't affecting me a ton right and uh yeah i love that love that you, as you're shooting, you will talk trash sometimes. Hey, see you guys.

Thanks for coming out. I shouldn't have left him open. And when it goes in, it's pretty funny. Yeah, yeah. And when it goes out, it's funny too. Oh, it's so great. There were so many times where you were like, you would trash talk Frank. Like, Frank doesn't want this.

Frank doesn't want this. And then you'd shoot a shot and he would block it. He swatted me at least three times. I was like, I don't know if Frank's getting the message yet. I don't know if he understands. You shouldn't have left them open, Frank. Yeah, that's what you were going to say. Yeah, it was fun.

Always fun to play sports. Yeah. What were we talking about? Oh, just shooting. And yeah, it was just fun. Just if anyone likes watching golf, subscribe to Tacoma Golf. And here in the coming weeks, you'll probably see some good stuff. So you guys are going to come out with videos

on their channel, not for Mood Swings. Yeah. Yeah, we didn't film anything for Mood Swings. Trey wasn't there. And so I just went down kind of just, I'm just back in this mood of just like saying yes to stuff. And just, you never know the doors that could open. And look at the doors it has opened.

I think it really did open some doors, just being down there and get connected with the right people and having some interesting conversations. Yep. Yep. Sounds like you've had some i could talk about some bad some i cannot how would you just to titillate the brad the conversation i told you off the pod how would you give it some adjectives oh uh awkward okay um intense good um what's the word cutthroatroat. Ooh, good word. What do you think about that for a little titillation?

Last titillation for you guys. It was with the CEO of good, good. Ooh. End of titillation. Story coming to Patreon. Question. Oh, colon. That reminds me.

One of the other things we did was. That reminds me. One of the other things we did was take barium and then have a colonoscopy. You ever heard of the Pepto Challenge? It's big in Finland, apparently. We all take this drink and poop our pants. It was colon, like the grammatical device. Okay.

We've had a long day. We were at the trade show all day. We get back and I find myself like, they'd ordered pizza. I'm just sitting sitting on the couch eating pizza and then like all of a sudden on the screen it looks like a powerpoint is like about to start i'm like maybe like they have meetings tomorrow and they're like sure making sure turns out this was like a high level marketing and strategy meeting for the company of tacoma this powerpoint was for this meeting and i'm just me and josh are just sitting there eating our pizza and we're like i don't know if we're supposed to be here or if they want us here, but like,

I guess we'll just ride this out. Where are the other guys, the other golfers there too? Uh, the British guys, they were not, the British guys were not there. They knew better.

They're like, take your pizza to go brother. And so Josh and I sat there, it ended up being over two hours long, but there were times it was like, it was kind of interesting. Just like being in the, in the war room. Yeah. With this company that's trying to disrupt the golf market and do some it was kind of interesting just like being in the in the war room

yeah with this company that's trying to disrupt the golf market and do some that kind of cool things they're like direct to consumer so they're able to do things a little cheaper and it was just kind of fun like just being there and seeing the ceo operate seeing the marketing people operate and yeah honestly helping them out and i didn't say a ton but when called upon they were like that you're what you're telling us is so valuable right now because josh kind of has has a lot more golf experience i'm more like hey i just started doing this i don't know much and you know i'm kind of their target guy in a way so it was fun but we had to do a few exercises few workshop things one of them was like uh all right everyone write down three headlines that you would love to see for Tacoma five years from now? Okay.

Or something like that. So it's kind of a fun exercise and we, you know, categorize them and what does this say about the direction we're going? And at the same time, it's like, look, I don't even know. I don't really know the company identity that well.

Yeah. Right. We work with them like a month or two. And, um, of course I'm like, I'm trying to take this serious, but I'm still trying to add a little,

I'm still Jake triplet element to it. And, um, um they were loving the answer it's the only one i could think of because it had to do with a colon i think i said like the tacomo story colon it's not how you start it's how you finish oh now like oh this guy that's a that's a good word yeah wordplay jake yeah just though the wordplay they were loving it so he's like it won't translate very well to finland but but good try but good try jacob try maverick i hope they call you yakov yakov yakov shmierdov yeah that's that's a colon just reminded me of that i so did you you did contribute some though like only when they called on you because i'm so like i think it's humility but at the same time,

I genuinely feel it. Like, I'm not just like, Oh, like I know stuff, but I'm not going to do it unless they like, anytime I'm in like a big meeting where people seem like they know what they're talking about. I'm like very like slow to speak unless somebody asked me, yeah. Cause I'm just like, ah, you guys know it. Like, I don't feel like I should give you advice. And I feel like some people are the opposite where they give advice and you're like i don't really want to hear from you i want to hear from everybody else so you felt like it was very much like i'm not really gonna say anything unless they specifically call on me which they did more than i thought they would so you know they know my whole story like which is great i don't i don't really know golf that well but they

were like that's really interesting like we had like a matrix of you know kind of a four box thing almost like a SWAT analysis of all these golf companies where do you see these companies how do you view their their vision versus their execution and sure and they're like Jake what do you think about all this and I was like oh here we go yeah and so I was just able to share with them I was like well from an outsider like who didn't know much about golf I wouldn't have thought this company was on the same level as this company and they were all like oh wow that's really interesting and so they're like we're all just so into the golf world we we don't know. So it's so valuable though, to get that, like, like, that's what I love getting feedback on from our, for our YouTube channel and all their videos.

Cause it's like, I think we think like, Oh, everyone's thinking this way. Totally. And then it's like, Oh no, like people that aren't in this world as much as us consume it completely differently or, you know, like view everything completely differently. And so it's nice to hear those things i'm sure so yeah they're very complimentary i didn't say much but they're like we really appreciate you helping us out and sticking around so just another thing just keep saying yes and sure and yeah i told one of the marketing guys i was like i'll give you my number i was like don't feel bad like if you ever need you know my opinion on things or if you want me to like shoot a text to like my golf buddies like yeah i'm happy to do stuff like that sure it's just nice good market research from probably their target market you know that's what i told him i was like i do a lot of stuff you know i have

podcasts and youtube channels where like it would be so nice to hear from different types of people like so i've been on that end of it and i know how valuable it could be so let me help however i can are they trying to market more towards like the newer golfers or are they trying to be like a callaway or whatever all these other brands that are like higher end or that's kind of what they're trying to decide and try to figure out one of the things i landed on was like tech you know higher end stuff like yeah it was like not quite brand new golfers but like what they call like the first upgraders which is like exactly the point i was at i was like you guys stepped in right when i was like i think i wanted some nicer clubs yeah but it's like i don't need to spend 1500 on clubs which the cool thing about

tacoma now i'm just giving the sales pitch is like their stuff is made in the same manufacturing plant as like taylor made callaway but because they're direct to consumer they can have cheaper prices right so basically that's kind of their like where they fit in the market is like high quality still affordable it was what sorry i'm getting in the weeds now but it was interesting like i love this word affordable i think translates a little differently in finland because they were scared to use the word affordable because they found it synonymous with cheap well that's what i was about to say sorry is like kind of what you were saying like they make it in the same factory so they can

sell it cheaper i'm like i wonder there's there's some kind of like prestigious pricing like thought of like totally if you sell it at the same price as all those others then it's the same quality as those others or vice versa so and that's kind of what they're trying to decide like what is our price level for these like because we want to be seen as like yeah these are legit clubs these aren't starter clubs but right we really can't still make a profit and sell these for way cheaper yeah it's so interesting They're trying to find that like, you know, product market fit. Right. And so Josh and I tried to do our best,

but it's like, it's like we're representing America though. It's like a lot of pressure. Like they're trying to like conquer the American market. Sure. Two Americans in the room, you know, like,

Oh, I don't want to speak for Josh. It was like, I think affordable is overall still a positive word in America. I was like, it's, it's way is a way different connotation than cheap. Yeah. For me. I think so. Like I get get what you're saying too i think it's good to be

careful about it but i think you can i like the word affordable i don't know i don't know if i like even ever worrying about any any word that has to do with money like i would i would take that out completely almost and that was the other thing they talked about they're like we've seen some success with facebook ads where we don't mention that we're affordable. We just show the price. Yes. And that let them come to the conclusion. Right.

That it's affordable. Like I don't ever see like at Chick-fil-A, the prices, well, that's different because their prices are a bit higher, but I don't ever see it be like only $7.49 or, you know, try this out, you know, whatever, like having like some kind of prices, like, or some kind of word that's like, this is, you know, how cheap it is. It's like, no, no, just, this is the price. Jane Loves It's out. It costs what it costs, Michael. That's usually just always like come back to like, well, you know, I watched this show. I'm pretty into business. I watched this show about a paper company. It's all about the kind of the

office. Yeah. It's just a American workplace. So that's, you know, why we're doing it. Uh, yeah. So there's this woman in there, Jan, really just shrewd businesswoman and she has a now can be confused with the shrewd businesswoman esther later on um it costs what it costs it costs what it costs colon colon but it's also how you finish fly the plane yeah i'm just like speaking like borat i think i like that business talk that's fun to think about like yeah do you use the word affordable or you just use the word quality and they see that it's affordable like yeah because it doesn't take a genius if you're going to compare two different brands of clubs to be like well this one's cheaper than that one like and say it out loud to themselves where it's not like you have to say that but maybe

you wouldn't click if it doesn't say affordable i don't know it does not click that's that's fun i like that kind of stuff so yeah it was interesting it was a good time good well i have not been doing anything like that um because i've been home but you've been knocking things out left and right every day what's the noise is that is that brad grinding what type of grid is that on your sand paper you're grinding with every day i was gone i got two things from brad i got an essay via text and i got a four minute long voice memo and it was awesome because there were updates yeah yeah go ahead it was just brad was getting so much done i don't know how else custom creations has done the last two weeks but i know the ghost hunters and gene shorts are in a good position yeah because like and i even told you i was like

i feel guilty like because i'm not like moving the ball down the field in the same the same field that you are like i've got a lot of really cool things going on i want to see some things that might still work out for gene shorts here but you were just doing so many tangible things like i'm reaching out to this person i am doing a meeting with this person right yeah and i'm like i'm sitting in on a meeting for a company that i don't even work for i'm helping out those f words though brother all right just trust me it will pay dividends in the long run all right if russia ever invades finland they are fine trust me we will not you know it's like on billy madison like i'm glad i i'm glad i helped those guys those guys no yeah it's been it's been i've just been having a lot of fun man it's fun to like do more

of the business side of things i mean obviously i enjoy doing hard labor of the woodworking side but even with woodworking i just really enjoy the the computer work and the advertising and marketing so this has been really fun to like basically take on these new challenges of like, hey, if we're trying to make Ghostrunners and Jean Shorts more of like our big thing, like we got to we got to figure out what's going to happen. Yeah. So anyway, it's just been fun. Like I said, Summer Moon's been great.

Yeah. So I've done a few different days where I've been been at Smoon and then two doors down is Pi Five. Is that your combo these days? Yeah, which is awesome. I don't love Pie Five because it's really, it should be called Pie Nine and a Half. It takes forever for your food to get out. And I just think that's just how the, surely Domino's makes a pizza faster than Pie Five would.

I'll tell you, the Papa John's at the PGA show, instant. Really? Just had them in the warmer i mean and it showed that's the whole point of pi 5 is i guess you can customize it but like anyway but pi 5 uh the smoon wi-fi works at pi 5 i learned so you're over there at 2 30 in the afternoon you're the only one there it's pretty nice little vibe by yourself working with some greasy fingers at pi 5 um but yeah just been having phone calls and fun conversations and trying to email. If you,

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So it's easier to talk through things and not be like, it's called ghost runners, but really it's about us just being fun. And anyway, so, um, but I have not been, I was working a lot this week, but I also, since I kind of took advantage of the fact that you were gone to take, let's call it a day and a half off of work, more or less to hang out at my parents' house with my kids while Catherine had like a planning day for her upcoming year, basically. Like she told me in late December, she's like, I just need like a solid day to like get our lives in order kind of thing. Like, you know, cause I, I do that like every week, like, and I value that time so much by myself, like organizing things. And she just gets 30 minutes to an hour at a time. Like it's so hard for her to find that time without kids screaming or without, you know, whatever.

And then sometimes she gets that time, but she's so dead tired from working with the kids. And so she took like a solid day to like kind of plan out more of the homeschooling stuff for Hattie and figure out what subjects they want to do and how they're going to do that and what curriculum and all this different stuff for our house. And anyway, so I got some good time with my parents. Uh, I got to watch basketball with my dad. Always a fun time. Basketball with my dad. Dude, just watching basketball with my dad. Uh, the big 12 is a freaking buzzsaw this year is that the right way buzzsaw 12 yeah that's the b that's what the b and big 12 stands for um so anyway we watched k-state iowa state great game uh but then

that night it snowed uh-oh what are we doing the next day playing in the snow yeah we didn't sled but we went outside for a solid i think hour plus just playing the snow me bow and hattie uh made a snowman uh was not our best looking snowman in the world but hey it was good it was fun to teach them how to do it i i really wanted to make like when you imagine a snowman how many how many layers you think of it's like an ant you got uh abdomen yep lorax yep head yes that's that's the ant that is the ant's anatomy antatomy uh Second aunt. You got abdomen. Yep. Lorax. Yep. Head. Yes. That's the aunt.

That is the aunt's anatomy. Antatomy. Hattie was adamant that it was only two balls. I was like, I think we should put another one on there. And then the head. She's like, no. It just needs one little body and then the head. I was like, okay, fine.

Well, she's a kid. Maybe that's how she sees the world. She doesn't want to make a five foot tall adult. She to be yeah simple uh anyway had snowball fight with them it was awesome it was so much fun bo was loving it but so hattie went in first and i was like bo you want to stay out here do you want to go inside he's like i'll stay outside i want to stay outside but those snowballs i was like great it was like a husky you know it's like wow something about it he just feels more at home out here did you see there was a picture i posted a picture of him he had like this beanie on oh yes i did and i don't know how he sees through the thing like it's like it's like down

like a ski mask it's like somebody it's like you have long hair it's like how do you how do you see through that stuff like pull it away you know there was a few times where i'd like pull it up and he'd just pull it right back down i I mean, he is like completely covered up just walking around, you know, it's like a Clydesdale with blinders on or something. Uh, but he had fun. He was really excited about the snowman and putting the nose on there. He's like, we need a carrot. We need a carrot. The only carrots we had were baby carrots. Thought it was just fine. Okay. Uh, anyway,

just a blast of a time with them and hopefully Catherine got some good time away from us she seemed refreshed and then of course we come home and genuinely like 10 minutes into being home Rosie randomly throws up all over like Catherine one of the things she did was like clean the floors clean the carpet like rented a carpet cleaner and Rosie just I mean was acting a little bit funny and then all of a sudden just yaks and I'm like I even texted Catherine as we were driving home i was like we're on our way home like feel free to like hang out in the basement if you want and i'll put the kids to bed like you know like if you want the whole day to just be kid free and of course she's like no i want to see the kids and you know i can help you

out and everything she's holding rosie in like five minutes you know ten minutes dang so it's fine it was a freak i don't know what happened with her, but she hasn't gotten sick since. And, um, anyway, uh, good times with kids. I always just love, you know, time where I can like really feel guiltlessly, guiltlessly hanging out with the kids. Like, it's like, Hey, I don't, I'm not worried about Jake, you know, doing stuff without me kind of thing. Like, it's just nice. yeah is i love the fact that our jobs are flexible enough where we can afford that time on a tuesday to wednesday you know yeah we've talked about dad guilt before but this is like business guilt built built yeah yeah yeah yeah which hey it built if you want to sponsor us holler dude uh cuts speaking of

built cuts was at the pga show it was funny like seeing these brands that weren't necessarily golf brands there sure and so i went up to them and uh introduced myself and was kind of like hey i um i'm familiar with you guys i wear your stuff i uh you know and i tried to like i had several different personal stories like one of the like the guys who works there was at my comedy show one time and recognized i was wearing the stuff oh nice and they were like cool i really thought that would maybe do something like these guys are just comedian and someone from your company recognized me like right it was like right on okay it's like yeah so you know i do some golf stuff but i have like some bigger channels i'm always wearing cut stuff you know um be fun to

maybe do something more official with you guys like i filmed my stand-up comedy special wearing like your your stuff like you know it's yeah this and like that's awesome man all right so um and like no one was at their booth it wasn't like yeah yeah we got to talk to some other people come on tiger woods is behind you here yeah then i was just like do you guys ever do any influencer marketing and they're like uh yeah yeah we do with influencers yeah usually like comedians comedies worked well for us but only like people that like are recognizing our stuff you know it's like okay so maybe you don't speak english very well you know i feel like i got done with that and i was like andy renard like i wanted that to go better yeah yeah you're walking around

the improv show like yeah whatever yeah because i saw it was like oh sweet like so many of these companies i'm trying to like talk to you i'm trying to introduce what i do and this is like this is great i'm familiar with them maybe they're familiar with me nada nope that's so i bet that guy was just like mailing it in like who knows who this guy was but like it's like you have to go this trade show like he did all the cuts guys here were very attractive and i was like these might just be the models that are like sure they're not here to do any business they're not here to like so you think he's basically saying you're not hot enough oh i think he was just like look they pay me 20 bucks an hour to sit here yeah in the cuts stuff you look good i don't know about influencer marketing man that's

what i'm telling myself yeah yeah that's exactly no matter what that's the truth okay thank you thank you um i would be so interested in i've never been to a trade show like that with your intentions like i think it'd be really fun to just like guns ablaze and just be like sponsor me sponsor me like everywhere i go like i think it'd be like because it's like okay what's the worst that can happen here you know i guess you were kind of representing tacoma though because to me i'm just like i would love to go to something like that and just be like okay let's let's headhunt real quick and if they say no they're never gonna see me again yeah it was it kind of got exhausting after a certain point it's just so much of just talking and talking and it's loud and you don't know this person's role exactly you're trying to you know just cater all these conversations to

who they are but still had some really cool conversations and spoke to several CEOs, which is like, in what world do I, did I ever think I'd be talking to several CEOs in the same day? Seriously. It was funny. It's like you go to a booth and you're talking to like the CEO or like a hired model. It's like, okay, it's gotta be one or the other. It's never anyone. It's never both either. Like the CEO is never a good looking guy. No, I'm just kidding. It was funny was funny too i mean so many golf companies we talked to it was like i i do work with joe gillen oh yeah i know joe it was like man if joe was here he would it would be like walking around with the president yeah i think every single company knows joe and right he's the best guy to know and golf he's connected it was uh i'm trying to figure out now i'm going back and forth if i want to talk about

sorry i didn't mean to late i i think i i shouldn't say this on the podcast but one of the ceos i talked to we got to talk business it was so fun it wasn't like a awkward uncomfortable i'm being squeezed business this was like it wasn't cutthroat it wasn't cutthroat this is like we're on the same page really fun okay i might have to just tell you about it after the podcast fun titillation the company is a pickleball company hello it was kind of fun that they were there i was like i guess that makes sense that you guys would be here sure but just a bunch of white people yeah yeah people who play these kind of sports i was like i didn't expect to see you guys here but it was really fun so oh cool contract the ceo of pickleball company very good things uh would you

say like you're done going to florida or like are you excited to go back anytime soon because you've been there three three out of the last three weeks i've been to Florida and we're done. I keep talking about it with you. I'm so excited. The week you're listening to this, I have a five day work week for the first time since I think, uh, Rachel and I were trying to think about it since like before Des Moines, like, you know, early December, I think was the last time I've had five days to get all my work done. So no more traveling for like two and a half months, except for one wedding shower. I thought you were about to say two and a half weeks. Like, no. Yeah. Which would, which would be like a feat for you. Honestly, sometimes

like no more traveling for like two and a half days, guys, it's going to be nuts. Really hunker down, get some laundry done. No, I think I have two and a half months except for one wedding shower in Iowa, which would be fun. Which is a fun travel. Yeah. My parents are going up too. So that'd be fun. And we've started doing the wedding registry. Yeah.

Which is kind of fun. I'd say that five times fast. The guns are out. We've tried to go and register in person. They say, hey, you should do it online. Oh, I didn't know what you meant by that. Oh, sorry. They're like scanners, I should say.

Really? Which is a bummer. That is like a rite of passage of sorts. It's one of the things. That's why I wanted to get married. Like you go to Bed Bath and Beyond, you get a gun and you fight with your fiance about what you're going to add to your registry. Actually, that is kind of a stereotype, isn't it? I've heard that like, Oh, be careful in your registry.

Yeah, man. It's so many things I look back on. I'm like, just, just be cool with whatever, dude. So many things it was like, like Bed Bath and Beyond. I remember we registered there and they were like, if you register for all the things on this checklist, you get these things for free. Like, Oh, I don't know what that meant, but I was just like, okay, we're, I'm going to do that. And of course, Catherine's like, well, I don't think we need that. I don't think that matches this. And I of course was frustrated by that. I was like, we would get these free things. You know me, like, that's like, it's just like, if X, then Y I'm going to do X like to get this thing. Cause it's like, not like I was like, we can take them off. We can return them. And she's like, I don't feel good about that. Which of course in hindsight was like, she's probably right. You know? Anyway, I just remember being

frustrated about that. And I remember getting so frustrated with how long she took to make decisions because of course she's,'s first of all she was 23 years old or whatever trying to figure out like how to decorate an entire house and like coordinate everything so she's like well do we do with a white you know plates with blue flowers on them or do we do these because we did these towels and you know and of course i'm just like just just scan it you know like i was so frustrated uh it was it was so much less fun than i wanted it to be because and i think it was because of me like it was because i was impatient with it yeah so maybe it's a good thing that you don't have the guns maybe yeah because it was kind of a thing

like rachel's shower invites got sent out and so she was like oh snap i gotta get some registry stuff done so she went did a bunch of it online and then while she was out of town this past weekend she was like we just here's the password and stuff just go in and like sure she's like you can honestly like you could delete every single thing if you want to add new stuff just keep this she's the only thing i want is the fish spatula oh all right i won't touch the fish spatula is the like spoon part shaped like a fish the whole thing dude honestly i got in there i'm on target i'm on crane barrel i'm like this is like i i told her later it was like someone wanting help on like a math problem but they've already done like most of the problem and like hey what did i do wrong here it's like i

don't even i would have to start over to even see like what's happening yeah it was just so much product and like trying to figure out like what are we missing here sure it's like from my eyes we've got about a thousand plates on here. Yeah. Eight different types of glasses. You know, it's like, I don't even know what I would remove or what we need. This is so hard to wrap my head around. So I tried to still do it very diligently and like, all right, I think we, Rachel, did you know you registered for eight different types of pillows? She's like, no. I was like, all right, well, I'm going to take some of those off because I have my pillows

and you already have your pillows. So you like your pillow? Well, yeah. So why do we need 25 more? Yeah. So there's some things like that. And she was like, yeah, you're right. I don't know why I have those on there. I was like, I thought maybe you were really into, cause it was like $125, like Casper pillow. I was like, do you really like this? She's like, Oh, I don't remember putting that on there. I was like, Oh, I'm going to take that. I would love to hear her thought process and all that stuff. Like, or maybe she's didn't have one.

Maybe she was just like, you know, cause you add one thing and it might suggest things below it. She's like, okay, sure. You know, just add,

add whatever. She said there were some things that I think she scanned on her phone. Her and her mom went to target and she scanned on her phone. And so it was like, I didn't have my registry. Like I wasn't looking at the registry. I couldn't remember if I had a pillow on there. I didn't even look at the price.

There's just like, this looks good. Yeah. So it needs to be like, you know, back in the day, there was the clippy guy like that would come up on Microsoft Word. It needs to have something that comes up. It's like, it looks like you've already added 16 pillows. Are you sure you want to add a 17?

You know, something like that, like a smart widget. At the PGA show, there was like, it's wild how many different companies are doing the same thing. I feel like my eyes were open to like, all right, I only know of three simulator companies. Turns out there's 25 companies trying to make golf simulators and they're all here yeah and there was one of them where like it would like provide a caddy for you but this was like a very like how do i say this like a very we'll say very japanese company okay it's so this like like half japanese half white guy would like just pop up on the screen and would like suggest

a nine iron for you and like give you feedback and like, oops, missed the green. It felt like clipping. It was like this little paper. It was like your own Mr. Miyagi kind of thing. And one of the guys asked was like, is there a way to like not have him? And I was like, yeah, we actually, we get that question a lot. This guy's annoying. Yeah. You can't turn him off. He doesn't have to pop up between every shot but they make us put him in there because the cuts guys over there are so hot so he's like our competition for that yeah it was so funny he's like yeah we get this question a lot so yes you can turn him off interesting speaking of clippy um that's awesome what were we talking about before oh just registry stuff it was just fun it's a good time um do you think the chiefs are going to super bowl it is so

funny uh you went bananas one day i'm like talking i'm on the trade show for i'm talking to someone and i thought i was getting a phone call and it was just you texting about the chiefs dude i was crazy yeah i can't stop thinking about it it was yeah my my pocket and wrist were just being destroyed and i was like it's just br, my pocket and wrist were just being destroyed. And I was like, it's just Brad. The one time you were just going nuts with the Swicks, just in a group text. Oh yeah. Cause the Swicks are from Cincinnati.

They trash talk a little bit. And I knew some insider information that Kirstie, you know, the chief trash talker, not, not chiefs trash talker, but the head trash talker of the family, uh, was actually, uh, sleeping for half the game. Fell asleep during the AFC championship last year against the chiefs. So, Oh no, no, not, not last year, last week. Oh, last week. Against the bills, the Bengals bills. So I was texting Steven and he, well, I'm going to expose Steven real quick. Cause we were trash talking.

Steven took a picture of him drinking two Mountain Dews. He had two cans there and I was like, Whoa, double doing. And, uh, he's like, yeah, Kirstie's asleep. So I'm drinking these while I can. How about that, Steven? If your bagels win, at least I, you know, trashed you. Yeah. I was like, I get it, man.

I told him, I was like, I understand completely. Sneaking dooskies. Sneaking the dooskies. Get them while you can, baby. Double do. And so then I was giving K kirsty a hard time for sleeping like okay you're you're acting like you you care about the bangles kirsty but really you're sleeping for ask how many times me and brad have ever fallen asleep during a chiefs game you know

kirsty's list of this like no stop i was so into it though yeah anyway um so yeah you guys were trash talking and also just our friend group you were going nuts dude guys yeah i'll let you go okay so first of all it's so hard to like know that people are listening to this and either thinking to themselves what brad's about to say is either so right or so wrong you gotta be careful dude i'm not gonna be at all so so against jacksonville the week before the chiefs uh you know patrick mahomes best quarterback in the league, chiefs quarterback, messed up his ankle pretty bad. Like to the point where some people, Tony Romo, what a joke of a guy he's becoming. He was like, I don't even think he's going to be able to play. It's no, no guarantee.

And of course he's playing Patrick Mahomes is the freaking best. He's a ball player. Uh, but because he's got this hurt ankle, you know, everyone's worried, like, is he really going to be able to be himself? Is he going to be able to run? I'm sure he's not going to run as well but he's patrick mahomes dude did you see the talk show nick wright i love nick wright he's like all right i think did you see this club he's like i think we need to give our end of year uh you know quarterback rankings number one i go patrick mahomes number two at this point i gotta go joe burrow joe burrow and then number three's tricky a lot of guys vying for the spot i'm gonna go with Patrick Mahomes on one leg yeah baby I love it it was going viral like get this

guy out of here man you know Nick Wright's from Kansas City so he's a huge homer I remember listening to his talk show back in the day but anyway it's great to have someone in the mainstream media on our side so into the Chiefs yeah and he's biased but I think he's always bringing facts for his bias but anyway I so so then because of my home's ankle, he is, he, you know, Vegas, you know, people that make the odds have chiefs as the underdog. And I'm like, guys, that's ridiculous. And I just, I just, every single time I think about it, I text the group like, Hey guys, just reminding you, make sure you bet on the chiefs because they're going to win. They're going to win and they're going to the Superbowl. And if I'm wrong, I will,

what will I do? I'm so confident. I don't know. Be careful. Just know, just know. I know that they're, they've won. All right. Just know we're recording this on Friday, January 27th. We got two more days. I can't wait. I can't tell them what you did about the, like you're watching the game. Oh yeah. Yeah. So, uh, there uh there's this is one of the greatest compliments i've ever seen oh thank you i almost didn't even tell you guys but i'm glad i did i guess uh ghost decrypt opinions listener anna uh she's awesome she happens to know miranda who i do the treehouse stuff with oh nice by the way if you're looking for a great spot to stay in the watchdog national forest check out the treehouse but uh she said something in the facebook group she's like i can't

believe i'm doing this i can't believe listening to this podcast two years ago has brought me to this point oh yeah i saw this me and my brother are flying to kansas city on a whim and we're going to the afc championship game yeah and i was like that's so fun and um i've chatted with this girl back and forth for years now and so it's like she's gonna be in kansas city that's so fun so i reached out i was like that's fun you're coming to kansas city you and your brother should get coffee with rachel and i at some point yeah and uh she was like that's so fun we for sure should by the way i just got given two extra tickets if you want to take a friend to the game yeah on sunday and i was like let me think about it and so i slept on it and i was like literally all my friends are going to be together

for the first time all year watching the chiefs game everyone's going to brad's house and i was just like i don't think i could pass that up i just can't let's go and so i told her i was like i'm so sorry this is amazing um but i think i'm gonna pass but i think we're still gonna try to go to church together on saturday yeah there you go so that's is she's the one that's like the uh professional equestrian yeah i'm trying to be an olympic i think it's very likely that she goes to the next summer olympics in paris in 2024 so cool it's pretty cool that's fun yeah i was i was so so uh flattered that you're like dude i'm i'm turning it down to watch with you guys i'm like wow it was a tough decision but yeah i just had to think on it and i was like no i think

i think that's where i want to be and of course course, Scott comes back with, well, there's no puppy chow at the Chiefs game. I, ah man, poultry, whatever. Scotty, I love you, but you talk about your puppy chow like it's freaking the, you know. Ark of the Covenant. Something crazy. Oh man, Scott's not here to defend himself. He just thinks he makes the best puppy chow ever though and it's it's good it's good it's good it's good anyway uh what else do we have anything else one last finish update i guess in finland maybe it's a big scan anything maybe it's a big european thing cars are not that big i guess they got that large big like like in size because i didn't know if you meant popular they could not get over how big the car because we rented we're moving golf clubs to and from i think they got probably like a dodge ramp 2500

you know kind of thing big boy extended cab yeah then they got like a mid-size and then like a big old suburban okay and they all were just like because some people came up in the airport and they were like what does that in driveway i have never seen car to this big yeah we don't have tanks that big that move it's artillery artillery so stay put they could not uh get over the size of the cars and they were like you like the the parking spots are just not even big enough really for like suburbans and like we don't have anything close to that yeah i thought that was very fascinating they couldn't go over how big the cars were other thing uh that you know they would go out and get groceries stock the fridge or whatever in finland they don't have shelters like we do they could not

get over the white claws they loved them oh really but they didn't call them white claws and they weren't even trying to be funny they were just like hey i'm going to the fridge you might need anything he's like can you get me vodka in that mint white cloth yeah which is so funny to me i was like that's just a funny thing i want fizzy vodka raspberry vodka please in tiny can that's awesome that was fun last other thing saw jim nance at the pga show no way how about that save that for the end huh yeah i kind of forgot about it until you said tony romo i was like oh yeah i just saw jim nance did you say hello friend i didn't even write it down. We it was like the first 15 minutes. Josh and I.

Jim Nance is a sports commentator, by the way, for all that you don't know. He's like one of the most popular announcers in the world. The voice of the Masters. He's done the Olympics for years. March Madness. Yeah, he's just he's the man. I don't know if he does the Olympics. I know he at one point he did.

Really? Yeah, I know he he was. Olympics is NBC these days. OK, well, hey, hey, know he's you know he's doing yeah he's a cbs he's the man so do you see him from afar did you see if he wanted to support cuts with you i didn't go up and talk to him he was talking to other people but it was cool to see a guy like that was he did he have his own booth or what was he doing there yeah when we first like what is he doing here he was talking to some golf club company i think or something but then as we got further it looked like cbs had a huge like

booth slash like almost like elevated like you know nfl you know sunday night football kind of booth where it's like there's lights and they're above everyone and everyone in the background is kind of just like blurry but so i'm sure maybe cbs was just reporting gotcha from the pga show and they had him down there. That's pretty cool. Living legend. Yeah, he's the man. I mean, yeah, we were like, that's crazy seeing him right now. He's going to be calling a conference championship game in a few days.

Like he's so, yeah, he's huge. And we know that he's huge. And like, we know that someday he'll still be, like, he'll always be a legend. Like he's, that's really cool to be like, that guy's going, like already a legend. Living legend. I already said it. I said it. Okay. be a legend like he's that's really cool to be like that guy's going like already a legend living legend i already said it i said it okay uh i got one more thing real quick uh yesterday as i was working at smoon like i like i do sometimes you guys want to see brad or i or rachel come to summer moon i'm into it roll the dice it's good times um this guy comes up to me or like that doesn't really come up to me it kind of makes makes eye contact. You know, I like sometimes as I'm typing, like think and like look up to try to, and

I make eye contact with this guy that's in line. He goes, Oh, sorry, man. You, you just look like somebody I watch on YouTube sometimes. And he said, you just look like someone. And I just kind of dismissed like whatever he was going to say next. And I was like, Oh, and I was like, wait, what did you say? He's like, yeah, I watched this guy on YouTube. And I was like, I that's me. Like I bet I'm that guy. We talked for a while. It was fun. Cause I was like,

did you know I was in Kansas city? And he's like, no, I had no idea. I thought you were in Nashville or some other like Bible belt, you know, city or something. And so that'd be such a weird feeling. Like watching, like I watched certain woodworkers online. And then if I just run into that person randomly, you know, at a coffee shop, you would doubt that it was like, is that really Nick key from key woodwork? I guess he just looks like him.

Yeah. Whatever. So all these different random things like, but it was fun. I talked to him for like 10 minutes. He was really complimentary of our stuff. Got, uh,

his, his high school daughter was the one that originally, uh, showed us or showed him. Oh, that's fun. The stuff. So I was like, okay, we're, we're cool. We got the high school daughter was the one that originally uh showed us or showed him oh that's fun the stuff so i was like okay we're cool we got the high schoolers okay not the dads um not the dads aren't cool uh and he said our thanksgiving videos are his favorite one we've ever done hey first one we ever did together i kind of explained that to him really briefly i wasn't going to be like yeah i just bought out this thing but i was like that's cool because we you know it was our first one and

he's like oh yeah i think it's so good really anyway that's really fun i guess i have probably a couple quick stories about being recognized one uh rachel's out of town last week so i went to church by myself but it was a it was a fruitful time to go to church when you've just posted a video called things christians say yeah really did pretty well yeah on instagram at least and yeah it was just i feel like so many people like said what's up and we're big fans of that video specifically so it's kind of cool and then yesterday josh mayor and i were on the course and the guys at the pro shop recognized josh so they kind of talked earlier like from his tour and good one and did you guys play as a threesome and call yourself the josh mayor trio john mayor fans will get it i was gonna say i don't even get

that one but we are we're done playing golf we're out of the parking lot waiting for our uber and this like probably like second grader comes out just walks out there confidently by himself he says hello are you josh mayor golf and he he's like, Hey, I am buddy. Like what's going on? And he said, my name is Xander Johnson. You could follow me on Instagram. And so he's like, okay, awesome, dude. Yeah. I'll follow you right now. And while he's looking them up on Instagram, I was like, that's so cool. You watch Josh's videos or what I say you watch Josh's videos. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's what I said. I didn't say Tik TOK. And he goes, no, Tik TOK is for China. And then did a 180 and walked away. Welcome to Florida, bud. Yeah. I was like, that is the most like Republican

Florida, stereotypical, like indoctrinated kid. Like his dad has told him over and over. We don't watch Tik TOK in his house. Tik TOKok is for china instead we watch things run by facebook and you know google i couldn't believe i mean just hearing that come out of like an eight-year-old's mouth it started off so confident and so cute and then like no tiktok is for china turn around go get a xander josh and i were like i mean i've never i've never seen anything like that we were like just left with our mouths open a gape yeah that was really funny we're like and then we were thinking like okay so that guy doesn't even know who josh is he just like the pro shop guys probably told him like hey that guy out there is josh mayer you should go talk to him oh he just comes out

plugs his instagram and leaves amazing i love it so yeah kind of some fun fan interactions there that's great man it is great great. Should we do some other stuff? Should we do some reviews of the week? Oh my gosh, yes. Let me pull it up. We got a lot. We had some good ones this week. These charitables telling me that it went up this week.

I can start. Well, don't take mine though. Okay, I'll do the different one. Then you're going to do. Okay, go ahead. Hey, Jacob Brown. After being a ghostie for almost two years, I'll do the different one than you're going to do. Okay, go ahead. Hey, Jacob Brad, after being a ghostie for almost two years, I've decided I should write my five-star review.

Honestly, should have written it quite some time ago, but I finished listening to every episode and it was a hilarious time. This year, I'm a freshman in college in Michigan. Life gets very busy with schoolwork, but I look forward to every Monday morning with Jake and Brad. They have taught me to be positive

and to see the humor in everyday situations. My closest friends and I all love this podcast and find ourselves quoting it all the time. Anyway, have a great day and go listen to the podcast. Signed, Paige. Paige. Which is very sweet. Very nice. Very complimentary. Really appreciate you saying all that.

Okay, I found mine. It wasn't showing up on my computer. Mine's from WVU Aaron. Ghosties in the OR. Jake and Brad, I'm proud to let you know that your humor and light has now been in played in an operating room. I had a minor outpatient procedure I was awake for, and during the first try I had passed out. The doctor asked if there was anything I could listen to to calm down, and I said, hot dog there is. So thanks for getting me through round two of this. I got through the procedure without passing out.

Thanks to your familiar comforting banter on my feet after some apple juice. That's a great review. Isn't that awesome? I love the idea of like in the room. Yeah. Getting an MRI or something like, is there anything you want to listen to in there? Jack Johnson. Can I get a ghost runners podcast every monday morning in wednesday morning with

jake and brad so first wednesday episode coming out two days so please listen to it it's gonna be exciting for a number of reasons we've got a very fun new sponsor we've got uh your guys's stories that we asked you about last week yes people calling People calling in. It's going to be very fun. I'm so pumped for the Wednesday episodes because I think so much of it is hopefully going to be ghost runner, ghosty community driven, interactive stuff. Yeah, it's going to be so fun.

It's going to be so many great opportunities for you guys to interact with us and do awesome things. So thank you for supporting us. I'm looking. It's cool on our computer. You can see the five-star reviews. We have 1,607 ratings and only 11 of them are four-star,

five of them are three-star, six of them are two-star, one of them is nine-stars. Or sorry, nine of them is... I don't know how you hacked that system, okay, Junus? Would have loved at least a 10-star. Nine of them are one-star. So we have 1,576 five-star ratings. We have nine one-star ratings.

That is insane. You guys are so supportive in so many ways and we can't thank you enough. And we're hoping that you're really enjoying this Wednesday episode that we have coming up. So thank you guys for all your support. I'm excited for Wednesday. I hope you guys are too.

It's going to be the same, but it's going to be different. Yes. I think like it's going to still be us doing our thing, but it's going to, you're going to get some stuff that you can't get on Mondays. Yes. So I hope you guys tune in and check it out and hear from some ghosties.

It's going to be fun. Brad, we want to end this episode with a jingle. I want to end this episode with a throwback jingle or the saddest song I can think of. If the Chiefs win, we're going to listen to the Chiefs jingle. If they lose, we're listening to something else. I'm going to find the de-saddest song I can think of.

And if you don't know what happened in the Chiefs game, you're about to find out right now. We're going to the Super Bowl! Thank you. Culture is what you make and how you grow it. That's what we're doing. We're going to grow it together. Every day, be great. Take advantage of this opportunity tonight. Meet everything you've got on that billboard.

When the ball comes your way, you make a play. It's a story. Can I make it on three? One, two, you make a play. It's a story. Can't make it on three. One, two, three. Fight, man. Kansas City, this is the moment that you've waited for. All season long with the gas pedal to the floor. And buried in your bones, there's a love that you can't ignore.

Taking your breath one game at a time and through it all. Arrowhead pride. Don't fight him. He's coming for you, running at you. 15 Pat Mahomes. That's my quarterback. Like a bad dream, you can see him getting closer. 24 pounds down.

Now he's taking over. Marching down the field and they are getting open the legion of zoom and the end zones their devotion tight is coming to the beaches headed to miami and did you know casey do you want to go where it's covered in all the florida lights where the running backs are running the night impossible came true and February 2 Chiefs in the Super Bowl we're prepared now to tame the crown San Francisco will surely go down first time in 50 years we're crying happy tears Oh Chiefs in the Super Bowl.

Kelsey and Hill, Damien and Sammy Watkins. And Reds, G. Raglin, Chris Jones, Frank Clark and Sorensen. Don't fight him, he's coming for you, running at you. 32, T. Matthew, he's the honey badger. He's blinding out, shining anything that you know just surrender cause he's calling and he wants to go where it's covered in all the florida lights where the running backs are running the night impossible came true and february 2 chiefs in the super bowl we're prepared now to claim the crown. San Francisco will surely go down.

First time in 50 years, we're crying happy tears. Chiefs in the Super Bowl. It's everything we ever loved. Football's history. From Lamar Hunt and Hank Stram. To Clark and Andy Reid. It's everything we ever loved. Going to the championship.

It's here right in front of us. This is where we're supposed to be. This is where we're supposed to be. We're covered in all the Florida lights. Where the running backs or running the night. Impossible came true in February too. Chiefs in the Super Bowl. We're paired now to claim the crown.

San Francisco will surely go down. First time in 50 years We're crying happy tears Oh, Chiefs in the Super Bowl Where it's covered in all the Florida lights Where the running backs are running the night Impossible came true in February too Chiefs in the Super Bowl

Be prepared now to claim the crown San Francisco will surely go down. First time in 50 years we're crying happy tears. Oh, Chiefs in the Super Bowl. Hey! Hey!

Mom! We did it! We can afford our own Super Bowls now! We're going to Miami! Yes, we are! Don't care what you say! Mahomes! Kelsey!

Hill! Sorensen! Matthew! Jones! Frank Clark! We're all going! Bring it on San Francisco. Chiefs of the Super Bowl.

Oh. I can't believe they won by that many points after they were underdogs at home. Never disrespect Patrick LeVon Mahomes again. I hope they don't. I hope they don't disrespect him. Gosh, I want to win so hard, dude. Yeah, overall, can't wait for you guys to check out Wednesday.

I'm excited. It's been a wild week, wild couple months. I feel like it's weird trying to balance everything going on right now. I'll go to Orlando. Last time I was in Orlando, it was like, I'm a stand-up comedian, and that is all I'm thinking about. I am a comedian. I'm standup. I am so enveloped in the standup world. And then the past three days, I am so enveloped in the golf world. It's like, I'm golf. I'm thinking about his golf brand deals, content, yada, yada. I'm sitting in on marketing meetings for a club

company. You know, it's just wild. And then, you know, I come back to Kansas city and I'm this comedy YouTuber and content creator vacation planner. Yeah. And we're doing this hospitality thing and it just, it's interesting and it's hard to compartmentalize it all the times. But at the same time, I'm always a fiance and I'm always a son and a friend and it's, it's wild trying to navigate this. I think I'm always going to look back at this time. Like this was nuts. Oh yeah. I can't believe this. It's the best way to do it though. It's so much fun to have all your different hats. So keep wearing them, baby.

Yeah. And you're a woodworker. Oh yeah. Father. No, just woodworker. There's woodworker and podcast. That's an F word I don't subscribe to. I don't have any dad guilt.

I'm done with those kids. Maybe play in the snow. Yeah, that's right. Play by yourself, Bo. All right. We'll see you guys snow. Yeah, that's right. Play by yourself, Bo. All right. We'll see you guys Wednesday. Love you guys so much. And Jake,

say that one thing. Maverick signing out. Ha ha ha. Every Monday morning we're taking back Girls for the Sparky Girls for the Sparky