Ghostrunners - 20 - Can I get a refill on my burger?

Episode Date: September 23, 2019

Brad and Jake discuss their most irrationally strong opinions. Jake is decently upset at the McDonald's ice cream machine. Brad is extremely upset at Connor. Both are the opposite of upset with Patrick Mahomes. Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

His speech is called Go For It. Now, he's used to big groups, so make him feel like there's a crowd here. Matt, come on up, buddy! Alright, how is everybody? Good, good, good. Now, as your father probably told you, my name is Matt Foley, and I'm a motivational speaker. Now, let's get started by me giving you a little bit of a scenario of what my life is all about. First off, I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river. Now, you kids are probably saying to yourself, now I'm going to go out and I'm going to get the world by the tail

and wrap it around and put it in my pocket. Well, I'm here to tell you that you're probably going to find out as you go out there that you're not going to amount to jack squat. You're going to end up eating a steady diet of government cheese and living in a van down by the river. Now, young man, what do you want to do with your life? I, uh, actually, Matt, I kind of want to be a writer.

Well, Lonnie! Freaking da! We've got ourselves a writer here. Hey, Dad, I can't see real good. Is that Bill Shakespeare over there? Well, actually, Matt, Ellen and I have encouraged Brian in his writing. Dad, I wish you would just shut your big yapper! Now I wonder, Brian, from what I've heard,

you're using your paper not for writing, but for rolling doobies! You're going to be able to do a lot of doobie rolling when you're living in a van down by the river! Now, young lady, what do you want to do with your life? I want to live in a van down by the river. Now young lady what do you want to do with your life? I want to

live in a van down by the river. Well you'll have plenty of time to live in a van down by the river when you're living in a van down by the river. Now your kids are probably asking yourself hey Matt how can we get okay now your kids are probably asking yourself, hey Matt, how can we get back on the right track? Well as I see it, there's only one solution. And that is for me to get my gear, move it on into here, because I'm gonna bunk with you, buddy. We're gonna be buddies, we're gonna be pals. We're gonna wrestle around. Old Matt's gonna be your shadow.

Here's Matt, here's you. There's Matt, there's... Well, we're gonna have to clean that up later. Me and my buddies, my pals, my amigos. I'm gonna go get my gear. Wait, Matt, you don't have to go. Yeah, you don't have to do that. We'll never smoke pot again. Uh, Matt, thanks for all you've done, Matt. I don't give a rat's behind, because I'm moving in. I'm sick and tired of living in a van down by the river. Is it back to our lot? Yes.

We love you, Dad. I love you, too. And scene. Thank you for joining us on episode 20 of the Ghost Runners podcast. Brad, how are your lungs after that performance? You know, I'm good. I actually just got a text from my wife. We were in the detached garage of our house.

She said, you're being pretty loud with the emoji with like the big eyes. Like, no way. Yeah. She's yeah. She's very far away. Yeah. With the windows shut. Multiple doors between doors and walls.

Hey, speaking of your wife being in your house. Yeah. Here's something I forgot to mention about 30 minutes ago, which by the way, you were very kind to lend me your fork when I needed to eat my chilies. Yes. When I went in to return the fork and then go pee. Oh, there are no doors on your bathroom. Yeah. That was weird. Yeah. Cause I was like, is your wife home? Is your daughter home? Am I just going to pee with the doors open? Oh yeah. I did. Yeah. I was like, is your wife home? Is your daughter home? Am I just going to pee with the doors open? Oh, yeah.

I did. Yeah. I was a little nervous the whole time. Yeah. Because there's no doors on your bathroom. Did you kind of angle it? Did you kind of go 45 degrees? I did a little bit. A cute angle, like, you know, like just in case, like at least they'll hear you coming

a little bit. And more than anything, I just tried to pee really quiet so that if footsteps were coming, I could be like, hey, Catherine, I'm peeing in your bathroom. You were quiet. I would be, I would be like, push a little bit harder to like, you know. Ah! Yeah. Oh, this feels good.

Just Jake Triplett here. Yep. Peeing. Because she might have assumed it was me. And then, yeah, just walk right past. Well, last week when we were here, Catherine was napping. So I was like, don't want to be too loud in case it's nap time. Right.

So I tried to. I thought she was this time. She was not. Oh, I don't know. I mean, she could have i didn't like i didn't go around the house looking for her now i thought you saw her or something no didn't know if she was home just try to be real quiet i peed like not in the water like in the side of the bowl or a little quieter exactly like that and then when it kind of calms down yeah nice um all. A little toilet ASMR. A little bodily function here.

But yeah, I made it through. No one saw anyone. It was fine. Oh, man. Oh, man. What if she was napping right now and she heard... I woke her up. Matt Foley woke her up.

By yelling about vans down by the river. Oh, man. I've never... I've watched that plenty of times, but I've never actually tried to imitate it before. I thought you did a good job. I imagine in my voice what it sounds like, because I've seen it plenty of times, but I've never actually tried to imitate it before. I thought you did a good job. I imagine in my voice what it sounds like because I've seen it so many times. And you did such a good job, at least here in the garage.

It sounded like you did a great job. Yeah. Well, if anybody ever asks me, like, hey, if you could do any job in the world, regardless of money, regardless of if you'd make it i think i'd either say athlete because i think that'd be so fun to be a professional athlete or i would love to be on snl i think that's so fun like to be able to do that so not that i believe that i'm talented enough necessarily but it's like if you had the skills to be an athlete you'd be an athlete right right skills to be on snl and be honest yeah i think it'd be so cool so that's cool that you say that

because just recently i was catching up with an old friend and they were just like, you know, tell me all the updates. What are you really doing? I don't understand what you do kind of thing. And I told them, and then after my drive home, I know it's kind of a cool moment of like, whoa, it's crazy where I'm at right now. You know, it's kind of hard to get perspective on that until you tell someone else. But, um, yeah, just recently I was just like, holy cow. I think I'm very close to doing what I would do if money were no object kind of thing. Yeah. That's awesome.

Yeah. Which is really, I'm just, I'm just saying this because I'm happy about it. Yeah. Um, so sweet to everyone out there. You deserve to feel that. Do whatever you gotta do. Everyone deserves that. It feels good.

Do what you gotta do. I'm a little exhausted from it. I have, uh, not been sleeping a ton, but I've been working a lot in a good way. That's totally a worthwhile trade, though, of like, yeah, I work a lot, but I work doing things I love. And so, therefore, it's way more fun than working less at something I do not enjoy. Oh, yeah, it's great. I'm happy with it. Like, I think that's like a misconception.

Like, that's like, I have beef sometimes with people that are like, just do what you love. I have poultry with sometimes people that are like, hey, just do what you love, and you'll get through it, and you'll do great, and life's going to be awesome. It's like, yeah, you do a lot of things you love, but you have to work really hard in order to do that. I mean, you know what I mean? I don't like it when people are just like,

hey, only do what makes you happy. It's like, okay, but you're gonna have to really grind. It's not the most realistic thing. Like, like I do work that I really, really enjoy and get to do a lot of things because of it. But at the same time, it's like, I also have to work at different hours and worry about things that other people don't, you know? I love riding roller coasters, but it's hard to do that most of your time because you don't

make money riding roller coasters. Yeah. Unless you're a roller coaster tester Would be a nerve-wracking job RCT. Yeah, you don't necessarily that's what I was wondering about What sport was I looking at the other day? Oh, I think it was um, the people who jump into squirrel suits I was like, how do you how do you practice this right? You just go for it. I think I think I'm pretty pretty close Okay, like your first time squirrels scoot script. Yep. Yeah, I it. Like your first time squirrel scoot. Yeah, squirrel scoot boogie. Squirrel scoot and boogie.

Like, yeah, how do you get good at it? Because like, I feel like skateboarding, you don't get good until you break your ankles a few times. And that's kind of like your hazing process. Like, all right, I've broken some bones. I'm starting to get the hang of this. Maybe it's the same way. Let's get a squirrel scooter on here. That's good.

I'm going to search eBay for a squirrel scooter and a first time squirrel squirrel scooter do you remember the first video that you saw of a guy in a squirrel suit because i definitely do really i don't think i like i remember the one it was with the awol nation song sail okay and it was like and the guy was like flying down the mountain like this has to be fake no it's so cool because he had like a gopro or something and that was like right when gopros were getting popular so it was like oh my gosh this guy is flying i've never seen this point of view before holy cow you want to do this before like look how close he was to the ground right there and it was like yeah it was like in college so i had like cool speakers on my computer you know hooked up so it was like the subwoofers were

going and everything. And I was like, this is the coolest thing ever. Dude, I just recently bought speakers for my computer. Right. It's so great. We can get for $30. Yeah. $30 on one.

I get two main speakers and a subwoofer. A woofer. Yeah. For $30. A big woof. Big woof. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, big woof.

Oh, big woof. But yeah, I thought that was so cool. It's like, whoa, I have a great sound system. Yeah, speakers have transcended the price line, I think. Like, you can get really good speakers for cheap. Kind of like an HD TV nowadays, too. Yes. Those are getting cheap.

Really technology. Yeah. Yeah. In general. Anyway. That's my street. Didn't like that yep the other is katherine katherine gets irked irked i tell you you ever been i hate to use strong language but she gets irked i hate to use the i word um you ever seen a tractor pull uh like down the street no like you thought i meant just like a tractor being pulled by something Uh, like down the street? No.

You thought I meant just like a tractor being pulled by something? No, there's like these competitions. Oh, that's what they're called? Like that's like a noun. It's like a tractor pull. Like if you grew up in a place where you're probably drinking well water, you've probably been to a tractor pull. That'd be the only way to say it. Yeah, you go to a tractor pull after a cat affair.

We don't have to talk about that much, but just know it is the loudest thing known to mankind, I think. Oh, really? That's me saying that. I don't know if that's largely... Demolition know it is the loudest thing known to mankind, I think. Oh, really? That's me saying that. I don't know if that's largely. Demolition derbies. Ever been to one of those? No.

They take the most beat up cars. I mean, I know what they are, but I've never been. So it's like they don't ever have mufflers on them or anything. So they're really loud. Really? It's really fun. In, I think it was fourth grade, third grade, I had a math teacher, Mrs. McShane, and she always called me Jake Break, which is a apart from a semi trailer

it's like an automotive part oh sometimes you'll see it on signs they're like no jake breaks allowed within two miles of whatever i have seen that it's like the thing it's just like a really loud type of break oh really but in third grade i have no idea why my why ms mcshane keeps on me jake break she must have grown up around semis well yeah it yeah, it makes sense now. Yeah, I guess she did. But the whole time, I'm just confused. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have this nickname. Not a lot of other kids have nicknames.

I don't get mine. Jake Break? How are you spelling it? Yeah. I remember thinking that, but I figured it out. Still doesn't make that much sense. Jake Break. Let's take a break.

Break me off a piece of that Jakey Break. Christ, look at your car. Football cream. Brad, what's new with you oh i don't know if much is new it's just a lot of work in this week um i don't know man i'm so bad at remembering whenever you ask me that question i'm pretty bad too i'm sorry um let's think this week why don't we do hey forget your week forget it forget about it why don't we just go into a little currently trending so it's less of an update more okay okay currently trending update um what do you got currently trending number one oh is listening to stories

in the car with my daughter listening to stories so no more music you've taken her along the podcast route a little bit almost yeah. But listening to like the classics. So like- The Odyssey. We kind of discovered, no, not Ventures and Odyssey, but, or, oh, we're talking about Homer's Odyssey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, not that classic.

Like Pinocchio. Oh. Peter Rabbit. Hold on, here's an idea. Have they ever made a cereal called Pinocchios? Oh, yeah. They have? No, there's an idea.

Pinocchios. Pinocchios. Kind of like Piccolos. Piccolo, Piccolo, Piccolo. But yeah, I listen to a lot of stories on Spotify tape, you know, kind of thing. Spotify tape. Yeah, not real tape. Not like stories on tape, but on Spotify.

Cool. But like, yeah, and it's amazing. Like, I am continually. Have you learned anything? Have I? Not, I mean, I've learned some new songs. Oh, okay. I know if you were like, oh, I forgot that part was in Peter Pan or something like that.

I've learned that I don't know like very much of any of those movies very well. Like we watched Babe last week as a family. I don't know if I said that on the podcast. That'll do, pig. Yeah. But I didn't even know like what it was about, but I had definitely seen it before, but I don't, I didn't remember a single scene. It's a sheep herding pig.

Correct. From what I remember. Correct. Yes. And stuff like that. Not about Babe Ruth, as I thought in second grade. I was really excited to watch a baseball movie. You thought it was a baseball movie.

Like Babe Ruth was the pig, but he was emulating Babe Ruth. Yeah. I didn't know what to expect. I was really into, what were those, like Transformer, Beetle, Beetleborfs, Beetlemorphs. Oh. Yeah. They were cool. Mighty Morphs?

No. Not Mighty Morphs. Not Mighty Morphs. Not Mighty Morphs. Not Mighty Morphs. Not Mighty Morphs. Not Mighty Morphs. Not Mighty Morphs.

Not Mighty Morphs. Not Mighty Morphs. Not Mighty Morphs. Metamorphic Rock? Was that it? Either way, was not about Baby Ruthie, the great baseball player. That wimpy deer! No, but it's

just amazing. The amount of knowledge and information that Hattie retains. My two and a half year old daughter. She's very smart. She will listen to this Peter Rabbit story. And granted, she's probably listened to it now,

like 10 times. Okay. Like she knows like all the words, all the songs now. That's cool. All the, yeah. Like it's amazing.

And she knows when they're coming and everything. And I'm like, like sometimes I'll try to sing along with her and I don't listen to it every time. Cause I'm not in the car with her. Like correcting you. Yeah. She'll be like, no dad.

That's not how, like she will say that literally. And so that's pretty fun. That's currently trending in my life is howdy is getting smarter than i am so cool yeah kind of fun yeah like ai gotta worry about it the other day we're learning about she's getting really good at her letters and uh she has this like puzzle like letter puzzle and she was taking out the r she's like r and katherine goes oh yeah r for rhino and she goes no mom not rhino it's rhinoceros.

You said it wrong. And I was like, dang, she's getting, how do you don't deal with no slangs? No. Yeah. She's like, no,

no slang words for her. She doesn't say hi. She sends his only. Yeah. She says, hello. How are you doing? Howdy?

She doesn't just say good. She says, hello, Jake. I am doing well. How are you? It's a full subject of predicate. Every time.

Also, I love to talk about howdy anyway, but just one more quick story is whenever she stayed with her grandparents down in Texas, Catherine's parents, who don't have a great, like really strong Texas accent. But one time they had a video of her waking up and saying, good morning. She said, good morning. And how'd you sleep?

And instead of saying, well, she goes, well, and it was like the coolest thing. And now that's how she says it every time, every day. She's like, I'm like, how'd you sleep? She goes, well. And it was like the coolest thing. And now that's how she says it every day. She's like, I'm like, how'd you sleep? She goes, well. Whoa, that's awesome. So maybe she's going to have a Southern accent a little bit, even though she's going to grow up. That's awesome.

That's the best of both worlds. Well. Well, let me tell you. Well, all right. Has she picked up y'all? She does say y'all sometimes. That's cool. I don't think she knows exactly when to say it yet, but she does every once in a while say, is that for y'all? She does say y'all sometimes. That's cool. I don't think she knows exactly when to say it yet, but she does every once in a while say,

Is that for y'all? Something like that. Like, yeah, yeah. That is for y'all. Us y'alls. Oh, man. She's the best, though. She's probably more than anything currently trending in my life.

I went on a date with her Tuesday night to a soccer game. We went to Chick-fil-A beforehand. Cool. Rode down the slide. She did, not me. Cool. I don't think I can fit. That's right.

Okay. Yeah, so that's my currently trending number one. A lot of Hattie time. What about you, Jakey? Oh, something currently trending in my life this week. Hold on, tractor pull's going on again. It's the same guy. What's he doing?

Is he doing laps? Is he fast and furious? Man, anybody want to guess what kind of truck that is? We will give you 10 cents. Okay. You can guess the color and the model of truck. I saw it. Venmo coming your way.

There's only so many trucks out there. So not that many. Something really trending. Oh, sorry. We keep talking about trucks. No, no, no. Certain trucks, I think, elicit tools more than others. That's all I'll say.

Okay. Currently trending for me would be bad Chipotle experiences. I've had two just this week. Unbelievable. Which also, I'll say, have not been super diversified in my lunches this week. I went Chipotle, Chick-fil-A, Chick-fil-A, Chipotle for Monday through Thursday of this week. It was a sea week. Oh, and Chili's today.

Big seaweed. Bingo. Call it a C-section. Oh, C-section. Yeah, boy. Got your sea legs. Lieutenant Dan, you don't got no legs. Okay. So Monday, and I texted you about this. This wasn't really a bad experience. Just kind of funny for everyone else to know. The guy in front of me says, hey, now just, or like, sir, what can I get for you? Before you do anything, I do have an eating sensitivity. Can you please remove your gloves? The guy's like, what? He's like,

I have an eating sensitivity. Can you please remove the gloves that you just used on a previous customer's order? And the guy was, you could tell the worker had never been asked this before. He was like,

all right. What does that mean? That's so vague. Eating sensitivity. Sensitivity to what? Like, it's one thing when you say allergy. Is he a germaphobe, basically? Is that what you picked up on?

Because sensitivity makes it sound like... Like he's not going to change out the food. He's changing out the gloves that he's serving him with. Yeah, I don't know about that. Okay. You ever see that old SNL sketch where it's like the Amazon Alexa, but for like grandparents. And they're always like, the catchphrase in there was like,

I don't know about that. You know what I'm talking about? Have you seen it? Allegra, what them boys doing across the street? They are just playing. I don't know about that. Okay, so the actual bad experiences. I'll go fast. My first day there, Monday. This is the same day as the eating sensitivity

guy. The woman ringing me up is like uh okay chicken queso would you like a chips or drink with that i said i'll take a large drink please and there's about eight to ten seconds of silence slash typing which is fine you know take your time sure you're like then finally which is a long time though think about eight to ten seconds i'm just waiting for her to see what's next she's like all right so a side of chips that'll be 11.55 i was like oh no no oh um and then i'm like so not comfortable i'm like i think i said i think oh yeah i think maybe maybe maybe i said chips you know obviously i'm 100 sure i never ordered chips i was like oh i think i said large drink oh okay okay so chips and a drink. No, no, no.

I don't want chips. Just like a large drink is the only other thing I want. Okay, so you don't want your burrito anymore. Just a large drink. That was essentially where I went. And then something happens. I'm looking down to pay. I'm not paying attention.

I get back home. There's chips in my bag, in my to-go bag. Did you pay for them? I think so. No. I think I paid $13. When I got thinking about it, I was like, this is kind of my fault for not paying enough attention after clearly she was having some trouble. But I paid $2 extra for chips, which are not that good unaccompanied by anything else.

Just raw chips. Not great. Because you got a burrito. You didn't get a bowl. Correct. And so they were just not salted enough to be good on their own. And so, yeah. But it made me think.

I was like, this is how Isaac got drugged at McDonald's. They's they were trying to do that to me like she was gonna make sure i went home with those chips no matter what and i'll just ask him to you for free yeah it's like lady i really don't want your chips well well how about i give you a little so uh that was my first monday experience and then yesterday um just a bunch of little things happened again but it was like dang this chipotle on 39th street it's going down the cracker i was about to ask what state are you going to this chipotle go ahead it's right off state line but it is in missouri 39th street so going there thursday and right off the bat um she greets me hey how's it going today good how you doing i can't even like totally finish that sentence she's already turned around

turned around to like talk to like her boss I guess she's back in the kitchen. Do I need to wash my hands? Weird way to start this. So I didn't respond to how are you doing? And what did the boss was like? Uh, if you want and you're like, nah, I'm good. I'm good. That's the thing. I think the boss knew, like, this is a weird thing to ask. Because, like, yeah, now that you've asked. Right, right, right. Definitely wash them if you have to ask. The boss gave an answer like, yeah.

Like, yeah. Go wash them if you have to ask. Go wash your hands. So she washes her hands and puts the gloves on. All right. What can I get for you today? I'll take a burrito. All right.

She's kind of messing with stuff. Like, she's opening a bag of new burritos. Wait, now, did you say burrito or bowl? Burrito. All right, all right, all right. She's kind of messing with stuff. Like she's opening a bag of new burritos. Wait, now did you say burrito or bowl? Burrito. All right, all right, all right. Then we get- Large chips or small? Now what size chips?

Let's go ahead and cover that right now. Anyway, just the whole experience from the get-go was just like not ideal. I had to ask for more rice. Not because I wanted double rice. They just didn't put very much rice on there. I'm like, I'm not a mouse here. And then I go to, can I get a little bit of Pico? I always say that. I always emphasize, can I just get a little bit of Pico? I think he had

a vengeance against me. I feel like he got a bigger spoonful than you ever would and dumps that thing on there. Did he get the juice out first? No, he just quick, quick scoop and dump. Loser. That guy is a meanie. That's terrible. But yeah, so none of these things are really that big, but it's like, it was like so many little things. And then to top it off, I get my burrito wrapped in my basket. This time I didn't go to go. And he must have avocado all over his gloves because my burrito is just green. Or sorry, like the tin foil is green.

There's just guac all over it. You know that guy didn't wash his hands. He came out of the bathroom and he's like, I'll be all right. All right. That's pretty nasty so yeah it was just like yeah two in a row just like not ideal chipotle experiences happened this week but i'll be back it's not gonna stop me from going but um sorry that was a long currently training my next ones are shorter but what do you have going on well now that you say that my next

currently trending is just overall fighting with my friends, but specifically, uh, well, we got a little, I have, I have lots of, I have lots of stories about this. Uh,

it started off with a friend of mine, Connor, um, having a terrible take on, he, he put on his Instagram story, Hey, looking for recommendations for movies to watch.

And I gave a solid, like you are not going to regret watching this movie. October Sky. Love it. A pubescent Jake Gyllenhaal tries to avoid the mining town life by learning about how to fly a rocket. Aeronautics.

A coming of age movie for the generations. It's great. They got great accents. Hey man, thanks for the movie recommendation, says Connor, but actually we just decided to go ahead and watch the new Jumanji instead. Idiot.

Gosh. I just. Talk about triggering me, man. I mean, nothing gets me triggered like saying no to Jake G for some Jumanji. Jake G is better than Jumanji. You know what I'm saying? I've always said that. I have a tattoo like that.

It's on my bicep. Jake G right on my bice. And so, Jake and g uh anyway um couldn't believe it so i started there i gave him such a hard time i was like you have such bad opinions all the time connor to the point where we then he said okay what about this opinion i think patch mahomes is going to throw for uh three and a half touchdowns tomorrow do you want to pick the over or the under? If you are, you can pick whatever you want. And if you're right, then I have to watch October Sky.

If you're wrong, I have to watch, you have to watch Jumanji. I said, great. And of course, Patrick Mahomes throws for more than three and a half touchdowns because he's the best quarterback of all time. He's the man. I love him. I'm in love with him. I want to be with him.

I don't think anybody faults you for that. Thank you. Yeah. Babe of the week. Patrick freaking Mahomes. Patrick Levon Mahomes the second. Love it. So anyway, and then he, yeah, long story short, he doubles down and actually ends up having

to also watch what was, oh, rounders. I made him also watch rounders. There was a side bet, a double or nothing. So yeah. Cause he doesn't know anything about the Chiefs. He doesn't know anything about anything because he's Connor. And Connor doesn't know anything. And so then we get into all these other arguments about the things that Connor believes that are just so wrong.

And it turns out my friends, a.k.a. Connor, Gunner, and this guy right here, Jake Triplett, think that Qdoba is better than Chipotle. And it just hurts my feelings. It hurts my heart genuinely to think that something like that could, you know, like I've always heard there's darkness in the world. And I've always tried to, you know, hey, no, there's not. No, I've never seen any evidence of that. Nope. Now I know. Now I know what people are referring to when they do their, you know, yeah, their prayers

like God, you know, take away the darkness of the world. It's people like you guys thinking that Chipotle is inferior to Qdoba. It just bothers me. Yeah. We don't have to rehash it, but we know that we just. We know that I'm right. Yeah. The fact that you went to Chipotle twice because there's no Qdoba's even available for you to go to. Yeah, they kind of went out of business.

So that says something. That's a point to you, but their queso was so good. Excuse me for my language once again, but I was irked. Oh. I just couldn't believe it. Should we bleep that out, you think? I was, yeah, rhymes, I just couldn't believe it. Should we bleep that out? You think I was, yeah. Rhymes with schmert. Um, can I take a break really fast to go get that tarp and go get the tarp? Yeah. My tarp was flying away in the yard. It's starting to rain and storm and I don't know where the tarp went. Okay. We're back. Uh, my next currently trending topic would be youtube.com

just in general. Uh, last uh last week uh got to make a couple videos with my friend garrett he's a full-time tuber here in kent city he's a golfer uh and just the man let me be on his channel uh we made two videos together and uh it was a lot of fun to be back you know just momentarily in the youtube space a little bit made a couple videos and did you title them like clickbaity things or did he you won't believe what happens at the 18 minute mark not quite but dude he's crushing YouTube he hasn't even been doing it that long but yeah he's a young guy isn't he yeah he's like yeah something like that and I think the two videos we made together already like 300,000 views on YouTube and it's kind

of crazy also when you like open yourself up to like a brand new audience who don't know you. Yeah. Like obviously he like invites me to be on this channel to try and add some entertainment to maybe be funny. So I'm there to try and be funny to a six figure audience who don't know me at all. So it's like, I hope they think this is funny. That's so much more fun to me though, than having like a following of

people that are already bought in. It's like, no. It's a challenge. Yeah, this is real. If you think I'm funny and you don't know who I am. Then I've done good. Yeah, I think it's way more fun to meet a new person that you don't know and just make them laugh really hard than be like, oh, that's Brad.

Yeah, he wasn't funny whenever I first met him, but after two years with him, I guess he's kind of funny now. Yeah, no. I mean, I was excited about it, but when it came time to upload, I was just like, I'm going's kind of funny now. Yeah, no. I mean, I was excited about it. But when it came time to upload, I was just like, I'm going to read through these comments. I hope they liked it. And they did. A lot of really nice things. Some of them I was like, I'm going to print this out and read it to myself every morning.

That was really nice of you to say that. Put it in your skylight that you see every night before you go to bed. So I made some videos with him. I think we're going to make some more because it went well. As soon as we got done filming, I went and got dinner with some other full-time tubers they've been living out of an rv for 18 months the jerky family i met them in texas filmed with them in utah and uh they're coming through kansas city they drove through every state in a rv is that the trick shot family no oh okay um they're just uh they have a family they have a daughter okay so got down with them that was really fun and then last piece of the youtube pie was uh trey and i sat down and made like a reaction video

because all of his videos are like super short and they don't do super well on youtube because yeah algorithm stuff but we're like let's make a video to try and perform well on youtube and so it's just him and i trying to make people laugh and reacting to like these super over the top gender reveals um and stuff like that and um editing that right now i think it's just him and I trying to make people laugh and reacting to like these super over the top gender reveals and stuff like that. And editing that right now, I think it's really funny. So also opening myself up to a brand new audience and hopefully they think I'm funny. Yeah. But yes, it's been fun.

I'm really enjoying it. Yeah. It's funny to think about the algorithm thing you just said. Yeah. And how like, I don't know, however many years ago, I don't know, 25 years ago, like there wasn't even a way for people to share links like with other people on the internet. Like without like being like, go to this exact website and, you know, do this. Like there was like American Online, American Online was like a front page thing.

Is that what AOL stood for? AOL, yeah. Oh, nice. But it was like, if you're not on that front page thing, there was no way to know how to get to another website. That's true. And now it's so easy to share with other people and go viral at times when YouTube doesn't want you to,

that now they're trying to scale that back into, unless you fit our exact mold, then you're not going to be able to be as popular. I see what you're saying. Which is just crazy. To think back in the day, you couldn't even control that. And now you can control that so much like that they don't like it. Yeah.

And that you can like reverse engineer it in a way. Yeah. Speaking of the AOL kind of acronym or whatever, I learned this week, it's not an acronym, but sitcom. Do you know that that's like an abbreviation? Sitcomaniac, right? Sitcomaniac. No, situational comedy. is not an acronym but sitcom do you know that that's like an abbreviation sitcom maniac right come on you're gonna no uh situational comedy oh sure i had no idea i didn't either i knew rom-com is a roman romancional romancional comedy yeah everyone that but that was roman like it's

only in italy that's rom-coms um yeah but situational comedy i had no idea no way yeah I mean yeah you're kidding that's all I got um that's my uh I think my last currently trending oh really I said some earlier I talked about something earlier that was going to be one of my currently trending so okay um RBC Avion Visa lets you get there your way. Whether you want to... Suit up for peak ski season. Or... Spring break with a whole fam and a whole lot of sunblock. Or even... Book last minute and go on a whim.

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doors we have like so many doors cabinet doors in one of our rooms so we took them all off and i literally sprayed down like 30 doors on saturday and it was really fun sprayed down yeah i have a paint sprayer oh and so i can spray them all really fast that seems like it'll go fast oh it was awesome it was like a superpower so if you could fill a paint sprayer can with something else other than paint and have it be practical or pleasurable what would you fill it with? Practical would be water to like wash off things. Oh, like as a power washer? Yeah, it's pretty strong. Not power washer strong, but it could shoot out some water.

Could it take hair off my arm? No, no, no, no. It's not dangerous. I have strong follicles anyway. Yeah, yeah. I was about to say your follicles are firm. They're in good shape. No, pleasurable would be Dr. Pepper, of course.

Yeah. Turn it on a softer setting hey get get 30 feet away let's see if we can get this dp in your mouth he got it like a carnival game yeah yeah that'd be a good time charge kids down the street to come up right hey kids you'll never guess what's in this cup like just be like super creepy about it. Well, that's cool. Glad you're painting, man. Yeah, that's currently trending.

I have a few more that I'll just really quickly touch on. Shows on HBO. My mother-in-law gave us her HBO Go account. Love that. So I've been watching Silicon Valley and started watching the show Entourage. Entourage. Yeah, exactly. That's kind of why I wanted to watch it because I didn't really understand.

I've never understood that cold open by Michael. And so I wanted to see what it was all about. I still don't really understand. Cool. Like five episodes in, but they're fine. And intermittent fasting is still currently trending where I only eat for like eight hours a day. I don't know if it's really yielding very many results right now, but it's making me hungry a lot. There's a result. And I'm not eating during that time. So maybe it's working. I'm always hungry. So anyway, those are my currently trendings. Speaking. Oh, you got some else?

It's not necessarily currently trending, but I do have a thought. Okay. I'm going to put a bookmark in intermittent fasting. We're going to come back to it. Okay. This has to do with food, I guess. So I want to know your opinion on this. And it's probably a situation that most people in the world don't encounter because I have a vice, an issue with drinking too many liquids anyway, to where this is a big deal to me and probably not to other people. Would you say it's like a sitcom or just a sit? Sitcom. Okay. I don't know what the difference is, but... Well, just a sit? Sitcom. Okay. I don't know what the difference is. Well, just a situation and a situational comedy.

Right. Okay. I guess it's comedic. Okay. So let me preface this by... Oh my... Unprofessional. That's hilarious, actually.

We just got a text from Garrett Perkins that just said, I'm a little ashamed at how much I enjoy listening to you and triplet talk about nothing kills me, man. Let's go gamble soon. That's the greatest text I've ever gotten. Um, wow. Thanks Garrett. So anyway, let me just preface this all. Thank you, Garrett. Um, let me just preface this all by saying, I think more than almost anybody in the world, I love free refills. Okay. I drink more, like out of all things in the world, soda is my biggest vice.

I love it. I could drink it all the time. I've seen you put down some serious refills at Chick-fil-A. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm in my capacity. Like I've had two large refills. More to drink, more to drink. And Jake's like, no, no, I could never.

And I'm like, yeah, fill it up, baby. Come on. I'm drowning in Dr. Pepper. Give me some more ice. I've encouraged you before. I think you should start asking for refills on your sandwiches. Just, you know, hey, what if, hey, can I get a refill on this burger? Yeah.

Yeah. I'll get a refill on this. Can I get more Dr. Pepper? Can I just get another sandwich as well? Do you guys do refills on that? You guys don't do refills? Oh, is this, this is Chick-fil-A, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They said that they do that. So anyway, love do refills on that? You guys don't do refills? Oh, this is Chick-fil-A, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They said that they do that. So anyway, love free refills. Was at Chick-fil-A the other day with Isaac. Leave to go pick up some wood in Platte City, 30 minutes away. And Isaac's truck was still at Chick-fil-A. We went together to Platte City. Come back to Chick-fil-A about an hour, hour 15 later. And I said, okay, I was just at Chick-fil-A. I still have my Chick-fil-A cup. It still has ice in it.

What's the rule on going in and getting a refill right now? I don't think you would go in, just go through the drive-thru. And get a refill from the drive-thru? I'm just kidding. I want to see what you say. Like you're out of your mind. That's mine. You're kidding. I'm kidding. What do you think though?

Like I said, I don't think many people care that much about drinks to have this dilemma. So I don't think very many people have thought about it, but I'm like, if I were in that store for an hour, I don't think there would be any problem with me getting up and saying, Hey, I haven't had a drink for an hour,

but I would like one now. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Here's a free refill. I can see that you paid for that drink. The are very cheap so here's more of them please come back as a customer I think yeah if I was thirsty enough and in that situation I would try it yeah but as uh maybe a Chick-fil-a employee if I just like see you come in the doors you don't sit down

you don't order you just come straight to the side of the counter like hey can I get a refill on this and then you just get the refill and leave. I was like, what was that? Yeah. How old is that cup? Who is that guy? Why is it all brown on the outside? Yeah.

Why is it green like avocados? Yeah. But I think it's fine. I don't think they care. I mean, it's not losing them much money at all. Oh, the thing with, yeah, with like drinks the thing with drinks at gas stations or places like that, the cup is what most of the cost is going into. Yes.

So it's not like it's losing the money. It's just weird. It's just like, why do you care about drinks that much? Yeah, yeah. But I'm like, I want more. I wanted more. No, good for you. Luckily, I saw our friend Scott Caldwell in the drive-thru,

doing that Chick-fil-A thing where they're standing outside the drive-thru, taking the orders. Have you seen recently they just have a sauce guy now yeah they got a sauce guy full-time yes i called him the sauce boss because he was the manager he was like in a different shirt yeah and i was like wait so you're out here just for sauce he's like yeah you know whatever i was like have you given yourself any like nicknames or anything yeah he's like no you got one for me i was like yeah i was like aren't you the manager he's like yeah i was like sauce boss he's like oh i love that dude he comes back next time he's got like the new uh new tag new name tag hey what's up guys you want some chick-fil-a sauce to barbecue get it from me right here sauce boss andrew jake

triplet the sauce boss um anyway sod scott caldwell there was doing the sauce boss esque thing and drive through, asked him about it. And he's like, yeah, I probably wouldn't go do that if I were you. He's like, what if I just go get you a free refill?

And I said, okay, great. So it pays to know people. That's all I'm saying. He threw out. I wouldn't do that if I were you. Yeah,

he did. That's scary. He was pretty like his personality is like pretty straight up. Like, yeah, that's wrong. That's probably wrong. Like he's like, so matter of fact about all that. Like, yeah, no, no, no, that's wrong. That's probably wrong. He's so matter-of-fact about it all the time.

Like, yeah, no, no, no, that's wrong. You shouldn't do that. Oh, okay. All right. So anyway, just a thought. If anybody has any thoughts on that, leave us a five-star review and let us know what you would do in that situation. And stay tuned. Later in the episode, we are going to have our reviews of the week.

So don't go anywhere don't touch that dial here's something for you Brad I only have one this week but good idea bad idea I think it's going to go quick do the jingle

got a good idea bad idea which one's it going to be hey that was good Jake thanks for asking me to do that I've been practicing it for a while

how's it feel when someone throws you out on the jingles? Now imagine if you have no ability to sing at all. Now imagine what it feels like. Okay. Good idea, bad idea. By the domain name, I've got to make sure that YouTube comes down to tapethis.com. The direct quote from Michael Scott.

So if anyone types that in, then it links to my website. Like it forwards to my website. What do you think about that? Good idea. You think so? Because I just bought a domain for elliscustomcreations.com. What URL did you choose? www.elliscustomcreations.com.

Oh, smart. I can see why you went with that. And it's very cheap to buy a domain. Oh, yeah. For the first year, it's like five bucks. Yeah. I think I paid $1 for mine. Oh, smart. I can see why you went with that. And it's very cheap to buy a domain. Oh, yeah. For the first year, it's like five bucks. Yeah. I think I paid $1 for mine. Oh, that's less.

Nice. I was kind of just guessing. It kind of depends on what words are in your URL. Yes. So, yeah, great idea. Why not? Yeah, I don't know. I heard an interview with Chris Bosch the other day where...

Chris Bosch? Chris Bosch, the basketball player. No, I was just making sure. It was on pardon my take. And he sued this guy for having all these domains, all these basketball players names like ChrisBosh.com. Well, it's illegal. It's called a URL squatting. Yes, that's what it, yeah, exactly. I'm smart. Yeah.

Cause people got into trouble with this, you know, eight years ago, they tried to buy goggle.com. So then every time anyone misplows Google, you know, it goes to whatever they want. They can add space. It's a, it's illegal. Can want. They get ad space. Yeah. It's illegal. Really?

You can't squat on the urls. Don't squat on my knot. I don't know what the knot is. The knot, the website, the wedding website. Yeah. Don't squat on the knot by calling it the note. Squat on my knot. Yeah.

I just think it could be like, I don't know if I had the right connections and knew that person, like several blogs would write about this. Like there is a guy out there who bought this domain name, like office lovers blogs. Or like that. Uh, there's that one, uh, thing in the office. It's like www.creethoughts.gov slash backslash. I bet, I bet somebody has that domain. Maybe it doesn't even make any sense. I don't think it's like a real domain, like with the amount of slashes and dots, but you can make any kind of thing, a domain, you know, like you don't have to be.com or.anything. Yeah, maybe you're... You can be.jake or jake.triplet.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's your website. I just remember... Whatever. Yeah, it might be. Yeah. It might be. You're right.

Maybe it's like you can't have that kind of syntax. Too many dots. Hey, man, that's too many dots. I tell you what, man. You got one dot here, you got one dot there. It's not going to work for your dots. Do you like the candy dots? I mean mean they're

sugar so i don't mind them but no i don't really i i never thought they're that great either because each dot takes you about seven eight minutes to chew it like you know if you have one of those with braces in your mouth you're done i don't know what that's done it's like i'm not eating anything till christmas just like really just got done swallowing it anyway those are dots um okay next little segment uh brad had an idea that we should each come to the podcast say to the workshop um and bring to the table literally an irrationally strong opinion that we each share i've never thought about this before i don't know how good of an opinion mine even is but uh we'll get there we will soon because

that's the segment we're on it's it's well and you might not be great this time, but next time you'll be amazing. Thank you for believing in me. Yeah. You know, you've got to play t-ball before you can play fast pitch. That's right. You've got to have the training wheels before you get a squirrel scooter. You've got to take driver's ed before you can anticipate the yellows. Dude, I was, yeah.

Oh, go ahead. Anticipate the yellow has just been a highly quoted thing to me. Anticipate the yellow! Anticipate the yellow. It's just been a highly quoted thing to me. Anticipate the yellow. Anticipate the yellow. I think we're going through. So good job. Okay. So Brad, what is your irrationally strong opinion?

My irrationally strong opinion for this week is I hate the thumbs up emoji. Interesting. You text me a thumbs up emoji. I never. You might as well be texting me the middle fingers up emoji because do you care which color? I'm not going to get into that. Um, but I can't, I, I know that people probably never mean any kind of harm by it. I would be very surprised if they did, but it hurts my feelings every time. Like, hey, just FYI,

I'm going to be about 10 minutes late. You know, just save me a spot. Bing! Thumbs up emoji. Screw you, man! No thanks. Sorry. Say words.

Irk you, man. Forget about it. You know, like, I don't know. It's just an irrationally strong opinion because there's no reason why I hate it so much, except for I think that it feels like a very passive aggressive. Like we talked about the word bud. Sure, man.

Like, yeah. Like bud is like the most derogatory. Condescending. Yeah. Oh man, that's so hurtful. It's like, okay, sure. Yeah, sure, bud. Like the thumbs up, like, all right, bud.

Yeah, you got it, bud. You will be 10 minutes late, bud. Yeah, we all know you're going to be late, bud. It's okay. Now, how do it, bud. You will be 10 minutes late, bud. Yeah, we all know you're going to be late, bud. It's okay. Now, how do you feel if someone likes your message? That's why it's your rationally strong opinion, because if someone likes my message, I don't think twice about it. Like, oh, great.

He's not calling me, bud. Like, oh, they're just very quickly responding. You know, it's the exact same idea, except you're holding it down and then choosing it. But there's knuckles with the emoji. Maybe it's the... It is maybe the exposed knucks that really get me. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't need to see the nucks, but not the follicles.

This is a doors off home. The cuticles, not the follicles. Dang it. That's okay. We were talking follicles earlier. I'm irked. So yeah, irrationally strong opinion. Do not send me anything with the semblance of the thumbs up emoji.

I hope so bad that just the listeners now will just go and DM at Ellis custom creations. Just a thumbs up. You could have been a long time listener. Listen to every episode. Don't even give them a, don't do that. Don't even give them a compliment.

Just a thumbs up. Hey, see what finger comes back. You send a thumb. You're getting another finger. You're getting another finger. Oh yeah. Okay. The index finger saying you're the man. you're getting another finger back oh yeah okay the

index finger saying you're the man thanks for listening you yeah you gary you man you i've seen fire and i've seen rain geez yeah get started turn yeah if you send brad the thumbs up sign he's just going to city that scene remember the answer gary gets lit up um okay so my irrationally strong opinion and i think i'm nervous about this one because well yeah i just don't know how good it is and two after i thought about it i was like oh crap brad does this oh great so i did so we might get in a little bit of argument here i didn't it wasn't like i thought i was thinking of other people when i thought of this and then after okay okay i'm just gonna. Um, my irrationally strong opinion is that

you can't cheer for college teams that you didn't go to. Oh, big, big, uh, yeah. I forgot that you did this after I thought of it. Cause this originally happened when I first got to college, right? I went to a private, small Christian university, Southwest Baptist, Lickum Bearcats, and we'd be in the cafeteria and someone would be wearing like a TCU hoodie. And I was like, that's weird. Like you're like openly supporting a different college.

Like in high school, I wasn't wearing other high schools hoodies. It's different. Memorabilia. I wasn't paying money for other, to support other high schools. And then it's like, once you get to college,

you just support other universities. That was so weird to me. You're telling me you've never rooted for another team. Hold on. Okay. I know it's irrational. All right. I'm not expecting you to's like, once you get to college, you just support other universities. That was so weird to me. You're telling me you've never rooted for another team? Hold on. Okay. I know it's irrational. All right. I'm not expecting you to be like, that makes perfect sense.

Yes, you're right. You're right. You're right. But seriously, like from freshman year of college, it always bugged me because it was like, this is just, it seems so weird to me. If you live in Jacksonville, you're going to be a huge Yankees fan. Yeah. That's weird.

If you go to University of Texas, you're going to be a big Ole Miss fan. You're not. You shouldn't be. That's different, I think. I don't think it is. Then if you're comparing, first of all, I think it's different. Like if you root for, let's say you root for Mizzou because you grew up watching Mizzou. My good friend is a quarterback there.

I would cheer on Mizzou. Sure. were from Mizzou because you grew up watching my good friend is a quarterback there I would cheer on Mizzou sure uh and you went to a school that had no rivalry whatsoever with Mizzou that's acceptable in my opinion see and this is where it makes you look worse no no yeah no we're gonna get there because so I went to K-State Kansas State home of the Wildcats every man a wild you also have probably heard of them because they hate KU so much. Okay. Growing up, I went to probably, I don't want to over-exaggerate, probably 50 KU basketball games. Yeah.

Think about how many that is. That's a lot. That's a lot of games. And huge KU basketball fan. However, KU hates, fill it in the blank with me, Mizzou. Yeah. K-State is a footnote to KU basketball fan. However, KU hates, fill it in the blank with me, Mizzou. Yeah. K-State is a footnote to KU. Like, don't care about them.

That's true. Good job. Good job, little brother. Like a circular. Let's be real. I know that's going to trigger people. Like, you'd be amazed how many. K-State hates KU, and KU hates Mizzou, and MU hates KU.

No one really hates K-State. No one really hates K-State. Correct. KU is starting to kind of get that a little bit because KU noU hates Mizzou and MU hates KU no one really hates K-State no one really hates K-State correct KU is starting to kind of get that a little bit because KU no longer plays Mizzou but there was not a huge rivalry there it wasn't like yeah anyway so I choose to go to K-State because of the school because of the opportunities I felt like it had to be a like I think it had good Christian opportunities but also had great public school opportunities So great best of both worlds kind of thing hot ice heat up the ice cubes. It's the best both worlds hot So went to K State

Maintain my KU basketball fandom. That's so weird What's what's worse though growing up one way and then changing because of you know, you've been at a school for six weeks or because I'm paying for the culture of the school, not necessarily only for the athletics to me. It's different if you say that Texas Ole Miss thing. Let's say you were a fan of Texas whenever Vince Young was awesome there, and now you're a Texas fan. But you are from Mississippi.

That's a Fairweather fan, in my opinion. I'm not saying you're a Fairweather fan. Let's not even bring that into this. That's not what I'm saying. Well, I'm just saying that there's a difference between being like, yeah, I really like the school that is within my area of growing up versus, oh, I just choose to be a Yankees fan because. They're really good.

Yeah. Like, that to me irks me more or whatever. College people. And I'll agree with you there. Because I think a lot of times it was like, okay, I know this person is from Missouri. They now go to SBU. And now they're wearing a Texas hoodie. What in the world?

Yeah. Why are you doing that? Because Texas is cool. Like, it's like, okay. It's like, yeah, a lot of people like Texas. Now I'm going to like texas it's like no no i grew up in kansas i'm a huge kansas basketball fan i know more about kansas than kansas basketball than most of the people that go to kansas yeah and it doesn't really bug me that you root for it it's just like surprising because i've been in the car i was with uh some girls who went to k-state we were driving to

kansas city and they drove around lawrence like that's how badly they didn't want to, like, be in Lawrence, because they hate KU. And so it's just, like, surprising, because so many people share a pretty strong sentiment towards KU. If the opposite were true, if I grew up a huge K-State fan and went to KU, that, to me, would be more double-sided.

Like, because K-State, it'd be like me going to Mizzou. Like, if I grew up a huge ku fan went to mizzou that's one thing but like to me it it's not that much different it's different i understand but it's not that much different than me growing up a ku fan and going to emporia state like a small hornet small yeah small uh state school in kansas it's like so i don't know that's just i understand i and i get crap all the time from oh i'm sure but you know who the people that almost can like are the most consistent that

give me crap are always the people that went to small schools like i have a friend that went to central methodist i think is what it's called go mules yeah or no way central missouri uh they were the eagles cool central methodist i don't know anyway they're in missouri somewhere yeah they're green uh like people like that like that are, oh, I root for a team that I didn't go to school. And I'm like, well, yeah, it's easy for you to say that because no one's giving you crap for rooting for Mizzou and for Central Methodist. Yeah. And it really doesn't. I mean, this is our first time in like six years of friendship that I brought it up.

So it clearly doesn't bug me that much. But, you know, you tell me to think of an irrational opinion. I understand. I thought of one. It's very common. I didn't win at all in college because the K-State fans didn't understand that I could like both, but the KU fans were like, why didn't you go to KU if you like KU so much? It's really hard to- That's a fair point.

But I'm very, very proud of going to K-State. So I don't know. It is weird though. E-Mall. K-State's great. Whale. E-Mall. Anyway. k-state so i don't know it's it is weird though email k-state's great whale um email anyway so irrationally strong opinions there they were there it is uh next up should we get into our blanks of the week blanks of the week sure great um what do you want to start with? Your call, dude. Oh, shoot, man. We could start with the old...

Go on. What did you say? I just said go on. Food tip of the week. Food tip of the week. Food tip of the week. I'll go first. Go for it.

We've been talking about Chick-fil-A a lot today. Dang it, mine's Chick-fil-A too. It is? Okay. I have multiple. Okay. I'll just go with this. This is a food tip. This is a thing you. I have multiple. Okay. I'll just go with this. This is a food tip.

This is a thing that you might not have tried. If you're a thrifty person out there looking for a nice, cool, refreshing, caffeinated beverage, and you are blessed to be within the range of areas that Quick Trip are around, Quick Trip has something called an iced cappuccino. Okay. It is $1.19 for a small, maybe $1.30 for a medium. And it is great.

It is, it's not, it's not the same as like a frappuccino. It's not the same as an iced coffee, but for that much money, it is the best value in cold coffee there is. So. Your food tip is,

if you live near a quick trip, check out the iced cappuccino. Okay. Yeah. Cool. It's very good. And sometimes, extra food tip on if you live near a quick trip, check out the iced cappuccino. Okay. Yeah. Cool. It's very good. And sometimes extra food tip on top of that is put like a pump of creamer in it and then mix it up. Then you got vanilla iced cappuccino.

Whoa. Hazelnut iced cappuccino. Caramel. Fill in the blank. You got it. So whatever pump you put in, that's what word you put in the front it whatever pump you put in that's what that's the pump that you're gonna get out that's life yeah that's marriage write that down t-shirt idea uh what pumps in must pump out it's got to yeah no other way my food tip the week comes from something i have not

personally tried but i saw on the internet take the chick-fil-a mac and cheese put it on a chick-fil-a sandwich and then buffalo sauce you're kidding that sounds awesome yeah it was going viral because it's apparently good did they have a name for it yet no i think it's up to us to come up with that great we can talk to the sauce boss and get it done mac buff the mac buff sandwich mac buff that sounds a lot like a like a blog for oh what blog i was gonna say a blog for like apple products like the mac buff oh you're mac you're big mac buff yeah oh you're huge mac buff yeah food tip of the week um okay um i already talked about my poultry of the week do you want to do poultry though uh yeah my poultry

of the week was connor lamb and just how much oh sorry let's add it out as last name. Connor Sheep and just how much of a dingus he is at his opinions about Qdoba and the silver screen. Earlier this week, we were all in the group text and Connor was like, I hate to say it, but I agree with Brad on this. And Brad, you sent back something like, oh, great. Yeah, I think it's a no crap. You just don't want to be on the same side as Connor. There's any argument. I just stopped arguing at that point. I was like, great.

I'm done. Well, I agree with Connor that I'm on the wrong side. It's over. It's over. You're done. My poultry of the week, which if you're new here, I'm allergic to meat. So we don't say beef. We don't have beef. We don't have beef. We have poultry. We go chicken chicken chipotle chick-fil-a chick-fil-a chick-fil-a chilies um chicken chicken chilies my poultry of the week is going to sound very cliche because the internet is riddled with the jokes of this nature but the ice cream machine at mcdonald's like it's it's starting to bug me more and more now that i've learned more about it because i was like why is it always down why is it always broken and i had a conversation with this guy at the drive-thru because it was like 10 15 at night not you know it's not like what state were you in i was in missouri okay cool cool you

always know sunflower state baby that's see didn't didn't go to mizzou that's all i'm saying but it's like 10 15 at night so it's far from like a 3 a.m after hours type you know shift and uh i was like can i get a milkshake there was an a deal for like large milkshake for a dollar on the app. I was so psyched. And he's like, ah, it's actually, we, we clean it every night after 10 PM. And I was like, man, well, how long does it take to clean it? He's like, oh, just a couple hours. I was like, well, why don't you guys do that at like 4 AM from like four to six, clean it. And he was like, I don't know. I think we're just supposed to do it at 10. I was like, well, okay well okay well i feel like i've been here at like 1 a.m before and i can't get milkshakes then either yeah i don't know it's like what i just like that we clean it and then we don't

set it up again until noon so i'm just upset and i think rightfully upset like you're irked i didn't want to say let's let's let. Let's go ahead and put viewer discretion advised on this one. But you were irked. This is going to be our first explicit one using the I word. I was irked at the ice cream machine. Just because it truly like, why would you not want sales? Sonic is over here giving half price shakes till like 11 p.m. Yeah.

You can't compete with that if you don't even offer shakes. No. For 10. Stupid. So I just feel like I have a rightful gripe with Don's there. They're like, just clean it at 4am. I'll tell you what. Tell me.

McDonald's right down the street. Yeah. Has never told me that, that they, it's a great McDonald's. It's so clean. And it's open 24 hours. It is.

It's great. Yeah, it is. It's great. So just move over here, man. Okay. It's my poultry.

Uh, next up, we've got babe of the week. All stars of the week. Babe of the Week. All-star. Babe of the Week. Ta-ta. Babe of the Week. Whoa.

What happened there? Speaking of babe tongues. You're a little scatting. Yep. Babe tongues. Babe of the Week. My Babe of the Week is the diction and linguistics of Bob Ross. I recently... These are not babes.

These are... Yes, they are. I very much. We need to have a definition of babes. These are my babes, dude. I can't control what I feel. And this week I feel very strongly about the diction of Bob Ross. Okay. I, uh, it was like 3am, which by the way, I need to start keeping track. I think I went to bed after 3am, 12 or 13 nights in a row. I need to stop. I'm a monster. I got to stop. But one night I was like, I was very tired. Cause it's not like I have all this energy. Like I'm very sleepy, but for some reason I couldn't fall asleep necessarily. Cause I just, I just been doing a bunch of creative stuff and I was feeling juiced. So it's like,

I'm going to put on Bob Ross and see if that makes me fall asleep. And it kind of did, but it was also like, I was fascinated. Like i had just been probably 20 years since i had seen him and uh like how familiar are you with bob's content very little i mean one which i it took me back he'll always when he's like getting the paint off he's like yeah i just dip in some water and then he'll smack it against the easel and he says beat the devil out of it and that part's great so love that diction but then also i just love the way his like perspective while he's painting you know because he's trying to help you paint as well as he's like and then we're just going to put some trees here and you can put trees wherever you want if you put a tree there it's in the exact right spot it needs to be there's no wrong place to put a tree wherever you

have it is where it needs to be i was like whoa i had no idea he was like teaching those kind of like deeper lessons while painting granted i watched, I watched it when I was eight. So that's probably why. So how'd you connect that lesson to your life? Oh, I don't go that far. Oh, you said deeper lessons. No, I know. But not for the podcast.

But basically. That's between me and my therapist. Yeah. I just fell in love with the way he spoke and yeah. Beat the devil out of it. He had a couple of cool like. Really? Yeah.

Things he said. I went to a Chiefs game on Halloween when I was in college with my dad congrats best yeah best time to go chief's game monday night football halloween i'm excited to see how this comes back to bob ross and there was a guy dressed up like bob ross i had no idea who he was like who bob ross was or this man i just didn't know this guy at all his name was connor i don't know um dingus i liked your dough bowl or chipotle um and everyone's like dude great costume great amazing costume and i was like man i wish i knew who is this guy my dad's like his name is bob ross i was like who's bob ross and i don't think my dad really knew either he's like i think it's his uncle i don't know i don't get it yeah

so that's that's my exposure to bob ross i don't even really know exactly what he looks like except for Apparently that guy looked a lot like him at the Chiefs game big poofy brown hair like afro Yes, yes, and like kind of hippie like bell-bottom kind of looking stuff. I wasn't looking at his pants I don't know. Well guys bottoms looking at the canvas, baby Brad who is your baby the week? You know, it's tough this week. I had to really You know pull a lot of people, you know, think about you know, was tough this week i had to really uh you know pull a lot of people you know think about you know put an inventory out there but and the definitions are starting to get a

little more abstract right so it's it's tough no it was not tough at all i was kidding my babe of the week is you're kidding the one and only katherine ellis whoa as always she's a babe um she's just so cute and so fun and And just, I really enjoy hanging out with her. I think I'm going to hang out with her for the rest of my life in some capacity or another. Holy cow. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm going to die before her.

So literally the rest of my life, I'll probably hang out with her. She hates, she hates talking about like how I'm going to die before her. She's like, no, please don't. I'm like, Catherine, you are way too healthy. You need to get unhealthier. Yeah. Cause I'm not, I'm not getting any help. Someone's got to change. I have a set lifestyle and I'm like Catherine you are way too healthy you need to get unhealthier yeah I'm not getting someone's got a change yeah I have a set lifestyle and I'm sticking to it and maybe the week baby turns out it did oh

I'll say turns out she's my wife turns out babe of the week is my wife so I'm really going to indefinitely be spending time with her uh she's amazing and really fun and we've got a good time together this past week so we went to a coffee shop together which is so rare cool just the two of us it was awesome my parents watched hattie and we went to a coffee shop and read next to each other that's that's bliss baby that's marriage wow yep sounds great i gotta gotta get me one of those chai tea latte i had nice vanilla latte baby i got coffee with someone today trey kennedy you're kidding it was great trey kennedy yeah thomas kennedy the third on instagram.com wow friend of john christ

oh boy your favorite comedian poultry i'm just kidding nice uh tell us about it if you want oh i was just trying to relate that hey i get coffee too so oh i got my first latte from isaac this week and fire really i was not sick so i could taste it so take that oh uh oh i need to go that one hurts yeah no it was very good because i he was like you want to make you a latte i was like oh great but i didn't say anything else i didn't know like how he's gonna make it oh yeah That one hurts. Yeah, no, it was very good. He was like, you want me to make you a latte? I was like, oh, great. But I didn't say anything else. I didn't know how he was going to make it. Oh, yeah.

Caramel, vanilla. We doing pumps? No pumps? What kind of milk? I had no idea. Pump in, pumps out. Yeah. But however he made it, it was fantastic.

I sucked it down while watching some Breaking Bad. It was just win, win. Wow. Win. Because now I get to talk about it on the podcast. Win, win. So would you say it's $600 worth? Or would you say you could get the same one at Starbucks?

Look, let me put it this way. I don't think it's $600 worth. I was trying to think of something poetic, but I don't know. Then again, like I was more of a customer of it. It's not like I was like a user. Yeah, you got it for free. Yeah, so it was pretty worth it for me. Yeah, It was a great deal for me. Benefits, baby. As always, we got to throw out some shout outs for a review of the week. They've been coming in hot though. So we've been doing more than one.

Last week, we kind of talked about how apparently we have listeners all over the world and at least one guy in Edinburgh, Scotland. And then that guy gave us a review. He said, listening in Edinburgh. Love the podcast. Nailed it. Yes. So thanks, dude. Let's just like throw another random country and see if they comment. Okay. So heard we got people in Botswana.

So Brad would like to hear if you're from Botswana. And I'd like to say Germany, let me hear you. If you're out there. Germany, let me donk you. What? Like, thank you. I don't know. Oh, in German.

Donk. Oh, okay. Slam donk. what? like thank you I don't know oh in German donk slam donk okay okay well another one from Josiah had a great just review

love the Stephen Curtis Chapman but that I really loved he ended his review by saying also quick question for Brad do you ever introduce yourself the way Bob Vance does which is so funny

Brad Ellis oh it's ghost of Cree yeah he has a name in the company name. That's how I sign all my things on Facebook. Like whenever I send stuff back to people, I always say Brad Ellis, Ellis. Thank you, comma, enter Brad Ellis.

Enter Ellis Custom Creations. No, Brad Ellis, comma, Ellis Custom Creations. Down, phone number. Down, elliscustomcreations at gmail.com. Email Brad this week with a thumbs up emoji. Wait, here's a quick side note. We got one more review to talk about,

but do you think it's relatable? Do you have a tough time not using a ton of exclamation points in your emails? Yeah, I kind of just, yes, but I still do it. I kind of embrace the fact that I want to be

a little bit different. Okay. I don't do it. I probably do it every third sentence. Okay. On average. I used to do it like every sentence though.

Okay. Because I'm a big exclamation point. Because I'm excited. Thank you so much for your email. Yes. I can't wait to get back to you. I'm so glad you like the product. I am excited.

I'm genuinely, I want to talk to you about this. I'm the Sandman. The Sandman's here, baby. Yeah. Okay. I didn't know if that was relatable or not because I found myself doing it a lot and I'm like, I got to take away some of these exclamation points. So I thought about doing a bit on that or a video, but I was like, I didn't know if that was relatable or not because i found myself doing a lot and like i got to take away some of these exclamation points so i thought about like doing a bit on that or like a video but i was like i don't know if other people struggle with too many exclamation

points oh i'd much rather have too many than not enough i think you just seem like you're not very excited or very fun or very little very real what are those types of sentences demonstrative is that the word i don't know yeah no way of knowing You're out of high school now. Who knows how words are formed? It's a, whom is a made up word used to trick students. Another just great review from this week was from Blueberry3. Brad, do you know Blueberry3? I know Blueberry2. I'm assuming it's his brother, but.

Probably. Also, no way of knowing. But. Wait, how do they spell blue oh wait uh well sorry i got distracted because i read that one last week whatever uh they spelled it uh ue okay no no i don't know i somehow skipped over one the other review we got this week sorry we'll end this segment soon was uh the title of the review says my car ac doesn't work either so i love that we're like what is that manufacturing this subculture of listeners who also don't have car ac um and also this guy's review is just riddled with

inside jokes which i love that our podcast is doing that really username is the real patrick mahomes i promise he said uh um super fun podcast keep them coming because they are in fact sauce and sauce which is a throwback to like episode one and two wow good job yeah should we like try to sponsor up like link up with a heating and cooling company hey like it sounds like we have very direct um potential to like and we could put some in this workshop because oh boy yeah i am warm i am 20 uh is that how tweety bird sweats no there was just this YouTube compilation a while back where these kids would tell these random stories. Oh, yeah, yeah.

And then the adults would reenact them. And he'd be like, I got the twets. I'm so 20. That's why I say it all the time. And no one probably ever understands what I'm talking about. Those videos were really funny. That's a great idea for a video series. A couple other updates I wanted to talk about brad and

then we'll end this sucker um somehow my zip code changed on my credit card this week i don't recall making any kind of changes in my billing address or whatever but like i don't live now where i lived when i fill out my credit card so it makes sense there'd be different but all of a sudden i just couldn't pay for gas and i was like that's weird i'll just use my credit card. So it makes sense there'd be different. But all of a sudden, I just couldn't pay for gas. And I was like, that's weird. I'll just use my debit card. And then it goes somewhere the next day, and it says my zip code is wrong there.

So I'm like, you know what? I'll just try my zip code now. And it worked. So I don't know what that means. Do you have any theories? Just out of nowhere. You haven't changed anything? No.

Like, I haven't even been on Chase.com in weeks, like, to pay anything. Like, it just switched in the middle of the week. Then now I have a different zip code for my credit card. Isn't that weird? That's interesting. Yeah. I don't really know what to think about.

How do they know? Yeah. How do they know? I don't know. Good idea. Better, better idea to contact Chase and say, how do you know? How do you know? That's the subject line and an email.

I'll just assume that they, how do you know? Exclamation point. Maybe I'll write them a song. It's a parody of How Will I Know by Whitney Houston. How do you know if you have moved?

How do you know if I don't have the zip code that I used to have all my life? I do not know, but you know my zip code. Solid, dude. Was it? So solid.

Yeah, so solid. I love that song. Where's Whitney? Where's Whitney when you Was it? So solid Yeah, so solid I love that song Where's Whitney? Where's Whitney when you need her? She's dead, Brad Is she really? Yeah I'm sorry That's okay, hey

She's dead, Brad R.I.P. She's gone In peace R.I.P. Sorry about that Something else that I jotted down to happen this week Once upon a time I was at the Cheesecake Factory at The Grove in Los Angeles, California.

Oh, yeah. You sit very close to people at the Cheesecake Factory. What a great place to go when you're in the rich cuisine place of the Mecca, like Los Angeles. Hey, let's go to the Cheesecake Factory. Thank you. I deserve that. Yeah. Getting a vanilla cheesecake, probably. I start talking to this. This kid. Thank you. I deserve that. Yeah. Getting a vanilla cheesecake probably.

I start talking to this. This kid is with his mom next to us. We start talking to him. Found out this kid's an actor. And just get to know him. Oh, it's cool. You been anything? You know, oh, maybe this, doing this, whatever.

You seen The Sixth Sense? Oh, holy crap. It's Aiden LeDraws, man. That's so funny. I referenced that in the video I made with Trey this week. Oh, really? But anyway, I follow him on Instagram and keep made with trey this week oh really um but uh anyway i i followed on my instagram and yeah keep up with him this week he posts he's in it too whoa yeah

so happy for luke luke you're doing it you're doing it lucas yeah it like rocked my world i was like good for luke i had no idea so you can say he's the it actor right now you could say it wow good job buddy that's awesome buddy good job bud got him thumbs up bud boom i'm gonna say hey thumbs up congrats thumbs up to you luke okay luke congrats anything else that you have to tell me i thought of one more good idea bad idea great good idea good idea bad idea Whenever I see couples on Instagram being really mushy, a little over the top, maybe actually just make potatoes together. What'd you say? Mushy. I don't know. I was going a different way with mushy. Go ahead. That's okay. Um, just maybe a couple in general, but maybe, you know, I'm, I'm friends with them obviously commenting cousin goals on

their post. What? Okay. Um, they're, they're, they're they're commenting no so it would be like normally people would comment something like relationship goals but i would be commenting cousin goals like insinuating that they're cousins oh you're going to say that that would be my i guess it's too confusing so no no i get it now i wasn't listening very well i'm sorry um like a couple of two people kissing and i'm commenting cousin goals good idea bad idea um bad idea that's that that's the high the risk is not worth the reward i don't even know what the reward is right exactly just making them laugh yeah like being marginally funny like oh good one i mean you could like hurt somebody's feelings really bad. You could.

If someone in the comments had been dating their cousin, they're like, not cool, dude. I do that. Not cool, dude. I didn't know Allison was my cousin when I first started dating her. Okay. Yeah. Stuff like that. I think it's pretty funny.

I think it's pretty funny, but I don't think it's funny enough to risk it. Okay. But do it if you want to. No, no, no. You asked me about getting a new phone and I think you're getting one. That's true. Which by the end of that conversation, you had me convinced. I was like, I don't need a new phone.

You don't. But then I think I am going to get, but I'm not going to get the nicest one though. So you kind of talked me out of that. Okay. I'm going to go mid range. Yeah. Mid range jumper. Like Lamar Odom.

With the iPhone 11. Okay. Probably tomorrow. Congrats, man. Congrats, man. That's awesome. But yeah, that's, I don't know. You got. Congrats, man. Congrats, man. It's awesome. But yeah, that's, I don't know. You got anything else, Brad?

I really don't. I'm sorry. I don't have much content. I was just trying to work off your energy, which I think we did great today. But just not much. Just really thankful for the people that are listening. It's really fun to cool feedback and texts like we get and i don't know if it's annoying that we say that too much actually it's probably not

annoying that we're extra thankful but we truly are yeah yeah yeah like so thankful that people listen to this it might be annoying because people think it's not genuine but i promise it is because i i don't do this stuff so that's true i make furniture by myself all day so this is like the most affirmation feedback I get. That's kind of fun too. When I tell people about the podcast or like, now I see on Instagram, you got this podcast. Who's the guy you're doing it with?

Like, what does he do? And they're always very shocked. Like, oh, so he doesn't make like videos like you do or anything. Or he doesn't. No, he like, he just, yeah, he's a craftsman. And like, whoa, that's awesome. A craftsman makes me sound so official. Yeah.

Like, I don't know why that's so surprising to people that i would like stoop to the level of a lowly blue collar worker to create this guy yeah this guy you're telling me a guy that picks up trash during the week can talk as well oh boy i don't believe it i gotta see this oh that's funny yeah so thank you guys for listening i assume the reason it's growing is because word of mouth. So thank you. Yes. We appreciate it. Absolutely.

And I think that's all. Hit us with a jingle, Jake. Oh, no. I'm just kidding. You want me to do it? That was my nightmare. I'll tease it. Yeah, that's episode 20.

Brad is now going to hit you with a jingle to close it out. Oh. Jake and Brad on the Ghost Runners podcast all day and night. We all appreciate your listens and your time that you spend with us every week. Jake, Brad, Jake, Brad, Jake, Brad, Jake, Brad, Jake, Brad Jake Brad, Jake Brad. I like the way you podcast, Ghost Runners. I like to listen every week. I like the way you podcast, Ghost Runners.

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Best one yet. Really? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I like the way you work it.