Ghostrunners - 205 - An Episode with our Dads!

Episode Date: March 1, 2023

Steve Triplett and Dave Ellis join us for 74 minutes of pure fun. We play a game of s'mores with everyone and the dads answer all of your questions from Facebook. Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Get a personalized video from us on Cameo: https://v.cameo.com/e/fvERn6rrysb Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y 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

So anyway, before we get, you guys came over, Jake and I were just out talking and stuff. And, uh, I don't know how we got onto it about the stuff you do stupid when you're younger. And I said, boy, I used to have road rage when I was younger, you know, and you know, I, Trish and I was driving down Kansas expressway and some carload of guys, you know, cut me off. And I mean, I was ready to whip them. Trish was like going, there's four guys in there, you know? And I'm in my mind, I'm like, it doesn't matter.

I'll whip them all. They would kill me. You're feeling good. So anyway, I don't know how much longer, but Trish and I are going to a Southern Gospel concert. Albert E. Brumley singing Springdale, Arkansas. I love that Trish made it, but she's a good wife. And we're driving down there. It's a two-lane road, about a two-and-a-half-hour drive.

And this idiot in front of me doing 50-mile-an-hour. And, I mean, I'm tailgating. I mean, I'm close enough. I could change his radio station. And I mean, the whole way down there, all the way to Springdale, two and a half hours. I'm just on his rear end. And about two weeks later, we're at church. And one of the older members of church that I always looked up to and really respected,

he goes, you guys enjoy the concert? Yeah, we loved it. Were you there? He goes, yeah, you followed me the whole way down. Oh my gosh. I mean, I crumbled. Praise God. I'm just excited to get there.

It was, yeah. After that, I mean, you could throw a beer bottle at me. You do whatever. I'm just going to go, amen, brother. Just that, I mean, you could throw a beer bottle at, I'm just, you do whatever. I'm just going to go, amen, brother. Just in case it's Gathel. I mean, that stopped me. That's a good story. I've never had road rage since. 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

Cause this is the Ghost Rubs Podcast Every Monday morning we're taking round the Ghost Rubs Podcast Welcome everyone to another Wednesday episode You just heard a story from my father. None of our voices changed. We got the dads on this episode. Yeah, we do, baby. Dave slash Dean.

Hello. Yes. Steve slash Stinky. Stinky Steve. You know, both are nicknames. Stinky Steve and Dean O'Dave. All right. All right.

Yeah, they're with us. So thanks for being here. It's a Saturday night in the studio. We got a full house. Rachel's mama's in town. My sister's here. Her fiance's here. Your mom. My mom being here. It's a Saturday night in the studio. We got a full house. Rachel's mama's in town. My sister's here. Her fiance's here. Your mom. My mom is here. Catherine's across the street. Catherine and the kids are sleeping across the street. Yeah. And yeah, it's going to be a fun episode, but it's a Wednesday. We got to start off with our wins

of the week. Wins of the week. Brad, do you want to start us off with yours? Sure. Yeah. I talked about it on Monday when I went to Austin, Texas. It was a great time. And my win of the week is kind of, it's not like a solidified, like this is one situation, one thing that happened. My win of the week is like introducing friends of mine to inside jokes that I have and they enjoy them. So like another, so TJ is the friend that I'm talking about that he has similar humor to us. Jake and I both know him. He loves Jake. And so there's a few times where I'll like say a phrase, like I'll say like, hey, or,

you know, that one. Or what was another one? What's the one that we say in the podcast a lot? Or no, not that. You don't think Jake and I always will do like these silly like, whoa, when water is not working. When we're watching the Chiefs game, Brad is big. You don't think they'll throw an interception here. Yeah.

It's a pivotal moment. Like, you don't think the Bengals are just going to, like, you know, nail Patrick Mahomes after he's, like, five yards out of bounds and we'll win the game on a little. Exactly. You know, and so the first, like, three times I did it, they were like, I don't get why this is funny. And by the end of the trip, win of the week,

they thought it was really funny. We were all doing it together. You warmed down. Yeah. And there were multiple inside jokes like that, that we had. And inside jokes in general, just a win.

Cause I think it just solidifies friendships and it's really, really fun. So my win of the week is whatever that is, that however you want to word that, but yes, just jokes with friends that go over well. So cool. Cool.

Dave, what do you got for us? What's your win of the week? Welcome, Dave. Thank you. It's good to be here. Dave's excited to be here. I think he's got...

It's interesting starting doing a podcast and just not knowing exactly how to work it, but you're going to do great, Dave. Right. I always refer to him as Dave. I always make sure he doesn't say any words. I'm just going to talk. I like to watch that Dean video every once in a while.

You know, I had both of my grandkids over the other day, and Hattie and Bo were over the other day, and they stayed overnight. And the next morning, I had to go somewhere. I had to leave. He's being humble. He's, like, going and, like, teaching, like, inmates about, like, you're teaching a class to inmates. Yeah, teaching a class yeah teaching a

class over no big deal i had to go run an errand over you know just do this thing i knew dave was gonna make me look so i told trish i don't know if there's a nicer man in the world i'm gonna look terrible i wasn't gonna say anything i just say I'm going somewhere. Fill up for gas. Yeah. How many inmates did you lead to the Lord this year? Yeah. So anyway, I was leaving. So I said goodbye to everybody. But my wife was, well, she was on the pot. And she was in the bathroom.

And I said goodbye to George. And she goes, goodbye, Dave. And then Miss Hattie was in the back room reading books like she always does. I said, goodbye. She goes, goodbye. And then Mr. Bo was in the back room reading books like she always does. I said, bye. She said, bye. And then Mr. Bo was in the living room just playing with toys. And I said, goodbye to Bo. He said, bye, Grandpa.

So I'm leaving. And I open the garage door and I'm heading out. And I see the door open right off of our kitchen to come into the garage. And I go, yeah, it's my wife. She's got to tell me something before I leave. And as soon as the door opened, there's that little bow two years old coming out all by himself and just put the little wave on me when i was heading out of there and i'll tell you what it melted my heart man it was it was i mean two years old and he just kind of stood there and i just

said there i honked at him i headed out his little little chubby hand. That was that, I mean, that made my week. He knew you were going to see inmates. He was a little worried about you. I guess he was, yeah. This could be the last time I see you. This might be the last time. Yeah, he knew there was an inmate named Bo over there. So anyway, so that's my win of the week.

Yeah, that's good. Cool. Yeah, that's fun. Maybe my win of the week should have been my grandkids or my kids getting to go hang out with you guys and you guys saying yes. So thanks for that. Cause Catherine was home alone and you guys were like hey we'll watch the kids we enjoy watching brad and hattie and the kids are really good and me sometimes you watch yeah

sometimes you yeah you got one stinky uh i wish i had a grandkid story i don't know do you i don't yet maybe about eight months from now yeah story. My win of the week, I can't believe I'm stumped on the very first question out of the gate. And it's very selfish, but so with the two weddings this year, Trish and I have absolutely no money left. And so we talked earlier, all right, no vacation. We were actually planning one here a few months ago. We were eating dinner one night. We said, you know what, maybe we could squeeze a cruise in this summer and we're eating dinner and phone rings.

And Jake, sweet, Jake's calling. Put him on speakerphone. Hey, what's going on? He goes, hey, I thought I'd tell you about Rachel Ring today. And I go, are you and Kate having a contest? And so, I mean, we thought we'd put the cruises away and said, all right, no vacation this year. But last week. Vacation to Iowa.

Yeah. No, last Saturday night, I won a trip. Oh, wow. The week after Jake's bachelor party, two weeks after, Trish and I are going back to Scottsdale, Arizona for a few days. So that's, uh, it's great. So we get a little time away.

So I'm glad that's awesome. You know, Trish is stressed out and she's got a lot on her plate, uh, or she thinks she does. I mean, you know, she,

she's being a very good mom or future mother-in-law not to try to plan, but she wants to plan. Sure. So I'm glad that she would be great for her is a nice, just golf trip to Phoenix. That's gonna take her mind off everything. That's just what she needs. They have a spa there.

I'm golfing, she's doing the small things. They're smart about that. They know how to like, okay, with the golf, there's also a spa, so everyone can be happy at once. So anyway, I'm happy I get to take Trish for a few days. Was that through work? Yeah. Congratulations, that's good. Yeah, through work? Yeah. Nice. Congratulations.

That's good. Yeah. No inmates, but still. No inmates. Yeah. But I'm sure you're going to do some charity work. Yeah. All the range workers.

Yeah, right. Talk to the vacation Bible school. Yeah. Help them with home projects. Hand out tracks at each hole. And the clubhouse. That's good. Yeah.

That's great. My one of the week. Super short. Super simple. But when the Oregon boys were that's good. Yeah, that's great. My win of the week, super short, super simple, but when the Oregon boys were here, I paid for something for all them. I was like, yeah, you guys each just been mowing 30 bucks.

Christian goes off script and cash apps me $30. So now I got to re-download cash app, which by the way, my dad just downloaded Venmo for the first time this week. Oh yeah. So very exciting.

That's the win of the week. You figured out Venmo. It took me longer than a week. Cash app, is that another app? Yeah, explain cash app. I don't even know what that is. Cash app. So I was gonna try and make something up.

No, it's just like a mobile payments platform, like PayPal or something. Oh, PayPal, okay. Yeah. But it's just like Venmo's slightly more popular, I would say. And so I have to go download cash app just to get 30 bucks i'm like oh christian i said bin mo you know he's asking

what's your cash i mean like do i don't even know my cash and i get into cash app and there's 500 in my account it had been there for two years and i had no idea from who uh from isaac paid me rent from like our merriam house in 2021 really i had no idea i don't use this app nothing that's like the the new age version of finding 20 in your phone yeah like that's not gonna happen you know because no one's using cash anymore but you're gonna find it on a random account that you didn't even know people say interesting i think christian i'll get a finder's fee yeah a little money have a little money coming back to you, buddy. Yeah, he probably should. That's a great point.

Anyway, that was just a fun little thing. So that's our win of the week. Let's get into a segment we're bringing back. People have missed it and I think it'd be fun to do with our dads.

We're bringing back s'mores. Let's do it. Our s'mores for this week. The category is Most Recognizable Songs. Okay. Yeah. And who, like, was this you and me that came up with this idea or no this is uh it's a steve arino triplet uh came up with this over there yes yeah it's a good idea we've never done that i don't think we've done like best songs

there we did something similar but not like not by their like recognizability so are you saying like most recognizable song like the first 10 seconds it's played, everybody like goes, Oh, I know, know that song. You're you're, you tell us,

this is your, this is your idea. But when I told that to Jake, I'm always giving him a lot of ideas. He's never asked for one, but I gave him a lot of pointers. And, but I was thinking you too.

So the, cause I thought, well, that would be a fun one. But now that I'm in on it, I'm going to get destroyed. I do not know music. Well, let's decide right now. I just put recognizable song, period.

Period. I think it's kind of by like you hear the tune and you're like, I know what that song, I recognize that song. If you recognize that first 10 seconds, but you don't recognize it in the second minute, then it's not recognized. You walk into a random Applebee's, it could be playing any part of that song. I recognize that. You walk in the Applebee's and Scott's the hostess.

We did that before we started recording. Dang it. That was a joke before we started recording. Well, that was just for us. Anyway, anyone have any preference? Anyone feel like going first? Anyone motivated? Brad, you name the order.

Okay. Ooh, it's different with four people. That's a little bit more of a trick. You've got to wait a while. Because, you know, it's a snake. I think I'm just going to go right down the line here. I'm going to go first. Yeah, great.

We go Dave Dean, Stinky Steve, Joe Veal Jake. Even though it was my idea. Yeah, it was your idea to make me pick the order. Can we explain why I'm Stinky Steve? Even though it was my idea. Yeah. It was your idea to make me pick the order. Can we explain why I'm Stinky Steve? I thought we were going to say it one time and just move on. I know the Dean deal, but what's the Stinky deal? There's no connection.

Okay, so the way I remember- I don't even know why I said it. Sorry. He thinks there's like a story now. Tell us the story. I appreciate Diarrhea Jake. Everybody called him Diarrhea Jake. No.

So the best I remember, Coach Fulbright, my brother-in-law, which coach. Coach Brad and Scott. Yeah. Yeah. They were living in Kansas City and I came up to spend a few days with them. And John David, their oldest boy, uh, we were playing wiffle ball or something in the backyard. Ghost runner on second.

Yeah. Ghost runner on second. And I had to go to the bathroom. And so I ran in to go to the bathroom and some little girl came over and said, Hey, are we going to play? And he goes, yeah, my, my uncle had to go to the bathroom. I wouldn't go in there. It probably stinks. And so the next day she came over, she goes, Hey, are we going to play? And he goes, yeah, my uncle had to go to the bathroom. I wouldn't go in there. It probably stinks.

And so the next day she came over. She goes, hey, can Stinky Steve play? I see. So this is actually not an original nickname. So it's stuck a little longer than I thought. Yeah. Have you heard any of that before? Yeah, yeah.

So I said, I don't know why I said that like in this context. I don't know why I brought that up. It's more like within our family, that might be like a term. Uncle Stinky. I mean, better S word. Studious. Spectacular. Yeah.

None of them is going to work. Studly. Studly. Studly Steve. Yeah. We'll go Studly Steve. So, okay. I don't know.

Start us off, Bradley. This is a category of songs. It's not. That's all I'm going to say is it's songs. I don't want to get too. I already have it to justify the first pick. Interesting. Well, because I don't want you guys to be like, oh, come on. That's not. Whatever. to say is it's songs. I don't want to get too... I already have it to justify the first pick. Interesting. Well, because I don't want you guys to be like,

oh, come on. That's not... Whatever. Okay. We're going cheesy. I've got some cheesy ones. No, no, no. Man, I don't know.

This is going to be cheesy. I have two that I really like. I'm going to go with my first pick being the National Anthem. Dang it. Oh, God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See, that's cheesy. That took care of mine.

I think it's... So who recorded that? Who's the recording artist? Exactly. That's what... But is one of those. So who recorded that? Who's the recording artist? Exactly, that's what. But is it a song? Is it a song? We need the recording artist and the song. No, no, that's why I prefaced.

Do you understand? Anybody back me up on this? What are you saying? Just like, it's a song. It doesn't have to be like, oh, the song by the Bee Gees. Okay. Just the National Anthem. Just don't vote for Brad.

Hey, sing the National Anthem. Oh, it's like, can you see? I've never heard that. Yeah, I didn't recognize that. I'm sorry. I'm not familiar with that song. All right, go ahead. As you were saying, a song cannot be repeated is what you were saying.

Well, no, sorry. No, I agree with that. But my thought is like a few of my songs on my list are recognizable songs, but they're not necessarily like obviously sung by Whitney Houston. It's like, no, just a song that everyone knows. Right.

That's all I'll say. I don't know. Now I thought I was on board. I'll explain it later in another pick when you're like, it was actually number two on my list. Okay. Great minds. They go like,

okay. So dad, we're okay. I think probably most of us, and I kind of broke it up into age groups because i think that's where i'll get my votes sure but uh this might be for more of the older people somewhere over the rainbow okay not not my first pick somewhere over the rainbow number one song

check it out number one movie so yeah one movie song. Check it out. Number one movie song. Yeah, fun fact, Dad, back in the day, you had that list of top 100 movies, and you watched them all. I did. Oh, wow. Good for you. I remember watching a few of them with them, and there was some weird ones on there. Some really strange ones.

Like one that was like a Charlie Chaplin silent film and stuff. Yeah, 2001 Space Odyssey, kind of a weird one. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Anyway, okay, Somewhere Over the Rainbow. I mean, hey. I'm getting the Kind of a weird one. Oh yeah. Yeah. Okay. Somewhere over the rainbow. I mean, hey.

I'm getting the older folks on that one. Yeah. We have a lot of older folks that listen to the podcast. Yeah. Okay. It's a lot of people's first song they ever learned on the ukulele. So it's very popular in the ukulele world. Yeah, sure.

Just trying to help you out. They did bring it back. That guy that sung it on the ukulele. Yeah. Israel Kamakalakaloa. Yeah. Whatever. That's him. It's like a penguin. Kamakalakaloa yeah whatever that's him it's it's like it's like 20 letters i don't know what how to pronounce it anyway love that guy all right what's yours

well uh i forgot my win of the week i learned how to do notes on my phone that should have been can't wait to teach you about all right so if we're going cheesy evernote no cheesy yeah i'm going happy birthday. Dang it. That was going to be my, I have it highlighted at the top. So that was my, I was trying to use that as my example, but I didn't want to give it away because if it came back to me, that's what I was going to also say. But yeah, happy birthday. Who sings

happy birthday? No one knows, but everyone knows the song. That was all I was trying to say. I was going to go legitimate until you started out cheating. So now if you're cheating, I'm cheating. That is a legitimate song. That is a legitimate song. No, it's not, but I'm going number go legitimate until you started out cheating. So now if you're cheating, I'm cheating. That is a legitimate song. That is a legitimate song. No, it's not. But I'm going number one.

Number one. Happy birthday. Yeah, I'll follow that one up. That was going to be my pick if it was still there. Pick something else from Wizard of Oz. Yeah. Oh, somewhere where the rain goes. If I only had a brain.

All right. Somewhere. Come on. Similar to that song, I'm going to go the ABCs song. Oh, okay. I mean, from zero years old to 100 years old. Jackson 5 version? Oh, yeah, that's a good point of clarification.

No, the same melody as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. That version. Everyone does Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. That's true. Okay. But yeah, I'm going to choose the abcs um everybody knows it i don't have to justify it and it's second i want to go a real song i was gonna say let's go next round it's got to be legitimate we're going back this way yes yeah trap so gotcha it's mine again i think i'm gonna go with um the circle of life song just that like that scream at the beginning that you hear um true i think everyone knows what other song starts out with that i mean

it's so unique everyone loves parodying it um you know well it just why don't i just spell it n-a-u-h-h-h-u-u-u no no no that's not how it's spelled is it with an n i've always done it with a y yeah oh i was thinking nah maybe it is an n yeah let's do it both at the same time let's see who sounds better right one two One, two, three. Yeah! You can't even tell the difference. It sounds the same. That's probably how they did it in the studio. Yeah, one was Y over there. Circle of Y. It's like a... Dad's trying to figure out what song that is.

Oh, yeah. My dad's not like a big music fan. Lion King, I watched it. Okay, yeah, yeah. A lot of movies. Anyway, all right, those are my two picks. ABC, Circle of Life. I'm going to steal one of Brad's.

What does that mean? Little Leonard Skinner. Oh. Sweet Home Alabama. Oh, that's a good answer. I think everybody knows. I mean, I was going to play it, but I really don't know how. And you'd have to listen to my YouTube ads for the first 30 seconds.

But I was just going to play it just to prove my point. Great song. Great song. Maybe my favorite song of all time. And you know it as soon as it comes on. That first lick. Oh, yeah. Right. I get excited just thinking about that song. Every time I hear it, I think of that

and happy birthday. Somewhere over the rainbow. Somewhere over the rainbow. That's right. Okay, I'm going to go with the Rockers and the Chiefs on this one. Start Me Up by Rolling Stones. What do you

think huh that's a good one there you go all right start me up man that is that is a big one for the rocker folks there the rockers so if anybody out there is a rocker yeah you gotta vote for that song all right identifies rocker all right um i am going to go with the most popular, in my opinion, the most popular Christian hymn of all time, Amazing Grace. I thought we said this round we were going legitimate song. Is that not a legitimate song to you? Who recorded it? If you can tell me who wrote it.

Oh, I don't know who wrote it. I should know who wrote it. Francis Scott Key wrote it. I think Francis Scott Key wrote both of those. He was on a roll for a while. It was either Francis Scott Key or Kurt Cobain. Natasha Betty? Kurt Cobain.

Maybe it was Kurt Cobain. No. Maybe it was Betty. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, no, Brad. That's a good pick. Okay.

Steve's making me feel like I really got to go with something legit here I'm going to go Sweet Home Alabama's already taken Yeah, I know, I love that I'm going to go with the song Shout Oh Isley Brothers I mean, you're right

That's only for weddings, isn't it? That's only for weddings. You're talking about the old song, right? You made me want to shout today. That's the only time I ever hear it during weddings. But you recognize it. It's not how often you hear it. As long as I go to weddings.

Is the s'mores topic most recognizable outside of a wedding? Not that I know of. Okay. Not that I know of. Is that what you heard? Mm-hmm. Yeah, exactly. Not exactly.

All right. All right, Dad. Who's this for, first of all? This is for the Christians. I love the categories. This is for all you candle lighters. Silent night. Oh, okay.

I forgot about Christmas. Yeah, I did too. For those who celebrate Christmas. Yeah, yeah. Next genre. Dang. Okay, silent night. Silent night's Oh, okay. I forgot about Christmas. Yeah, that. I did too. Celebrate Christmas. Yeah, yeah. Next genre. Dang. Okay, Silent Night. Silent Night's a good one.

Silent Night, you know, light the candles and do it. Light the candles and do it. You know, light the candles and do that thing. Merry Christmas. That's right. Fast candles down. Good answer. Good answer.

That's good. Yeah. Good answer. Man, I've got about 60 on here. None of them are looking good right now. 60? I mean, everyone might know that's good yeah good answer man i've got about 60 on here none of them are looking good right now i mean i mean everyone's spending a whole bunch of hours doing this the whole way up yeah we had to talk about my songs we have some we listened to great music though it was an awesome trip up so uh i mean imagine the first day you figured out notes you also have to write a list of songs of course course you're going to go crazy. Like it just doesn't run out.

Yeah, does this thing have like an end page? Yeah. Give me more. Give me more. Okay. Boy, I do not like this song at all. We're going back to the 70s, but I'm going Village People, YMCA.

Okay. Terrible song. Yeah, another wedding song. I'm starting to think that they play popular songs at weddings. I can't wait. I'm going to wait for your wedding coming up, Jake. YMCA and Shout.

Yeah, Dad's going to be like, you guys have Somewhere Over the Rainbow in there? You never know. Somewhere. That's a nice song. Good answer, Steve. Good answer. All never know somewhere. That's a nice song. Dancers looking good answer. Steve. Good answer. Thank you.

All right, Jake, round us round your, your list off. I want to two of my potential ones you hear at weddings. It's not gonna make Dave happy if I say this. So I'm kind of nervous. Go for the weddings. Butterfly kisses. Oh, man. I have so many that I like in here.

I'm going to start. I'm gonna start I'm gonna go with Dave style for the for the millennials out there Party in the USA that one has a very recognizable opening to it

Brad do it with your mouth yeah but it sounds more like a guitar and less like a I know the end of it I don't even know the last five seconds. I know the... That's all I know.

The part of the USA. That's all I know. That's so funny to think like, I know the end of that song, but how does it start? I'm glad we just took Jake out of the competition. That was a Scott Peck. That was good. Now we're down to three. I love that song. All right. We Now we're down to three. I love that song.

All right. We know we're in the top three, Dave. So is this my last pick? Oh, I got one more. Jake has one more and then you'll have one more. Oh, yeah. I've got 37 more. I'm going to go with this one for maybe Gen X by generation here.

I'm going to go with Billie Jean by Michael Jackson. That also starts off very recognizable. Brad, do it with your mouth. Makes me want to moonwalk. First time we ever saw moonwalk. Oh, you like that part first.

Wait, I was doing Smooth Criminal. What song was I doing? No, you did Billie Jean. You just did the chorus. Yeah. Is it? That's what it goes. Yeah, you're right.

Okay. Yeah. I wanted it. Yeah, so. Yeah. I left out some of my more creative bits. No, that's Beat It. That's Beat It.

I was doing Beat It. You were doing Beat It. Yeah. So I left out some of my more creative bits. No, that's Beat It. That's Beat It. I was doing Beat It. You were doing Beat It. Yeah. Okay. We got to the bottom of it. Anyway, the beginning of Billie Jean. So recognizable. That's like.

Yeah. It's that one. Okay. The beginning of it, you know. But you do hear it at weddings. So I will get docked points for that. All right. What's yours?

Oh, God. This is so much harder than I thought. It's hard to pick when you have a word bank of 80 on there. I know, and they're all good. I believe it. My honorable mention is going to take me about 11 minutes. Let's see. It's hard to pick.

I get it. Well, I've got it narrowed down between two. Don't do the one that gets played at weddings. I'm not. I'm going to go. This one is for all the left-handed people out there. They really like this one. You know what?

I'm going to skip the one I really like, and I'm going to go with this just because I like it. Aretha Franklin, Respect. Good start. Good start. Recognize me. Yeah. I've got everybody singing.

Number one. That's good. That's good. That's good. That's another one. Great wedding. I can see you getting down in the dance floor at the wedding. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T. All right, Dan. Round up your- Okay, I'm going for you all country types now. Oh. Because I know some of you are out there. Jolene by Dolly Parton. Oh, wow.

I got a Dolly Parton on mine, too, but I was afraid I couldn't make fun of it. I'm going to throw her out there along with the Silent Night and Somewhere Over the Rainbow and Start Me Up. Come on. I had four different areas there. That's good. Good. Okay, Dad. Very good.

Jake, how well do you know that song? I like it. I like the Miley Cyrus Dolly Parton version. Yeah, it's good. I feel like I was late to that song. I know it, but I don't think I know it until like five years ago. Maybe because of Miley. Yeah.

Miley Cyrus sings Party in the USA. You know, the end of the song or the end of the USA. Okay. My last song is going to be, I'll just sing it. Just a small town girl. Oh,

back in black. ACDC. Yes. Don't Stop Believin' by Journey. That was my second one. That was the one I chose. That's a great song. Really?

Yeah, I like it. I love when people are like, dude, I wanted that pick, but I didn't do it. That's what Scott always do. No, if I wanted the pick, I would have taken it. I'm saying I passed on that for a readout. Top R. But no, that is a very recognized, that's a great number four. For the Chiefs Parade, I chickened out, but I thought, what would happen if I just stood? Oh, that's a great number four for the uh the chief's parade i i chickened out but i

thought what would happen if i just stood oh that's right like at this like on the sidewalk and just started singing that song by like a sing-along song and like yeah because like that's a song that everyone that literally what i was trying to think of was like because i think i don't stop believing and i was like yeah what if i just sang that and just see if everyone starts singing it like and if not then it's just a sang that and just see if everyone starts singing it? And if not, then it's just a great blooper of like no one's singing it with me. Didn't do it, but maybe next time. Next time.

Next time. Yeah. All right. Well, let me read off what we have so far. You're welcome to tell us our honorable mentions. Maybe do a Patreon episode with honorable mentions for Steve. Okay. So Brad has the national anthem. Amazing Grace. Shout. And Don't Stop Believing.

Dave has Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Come on. Start me up for the rockers out there. Silent Night and Jolene. Steve has Happy Birthday, Sweet Home Alabama, YMCA, Respect. Jake has the ABCs or the alphabet, whatever. Circle of Life, Party in the USA Billie Jean Good feel good about a solid list guys. Yeah, so the ones I wanted to pick but it felt too risky the March Madness theme song

Oh, that's perfect. Great answer when I watch any sports things. I know I was like all the theme songs But then I also had the Pink Panther theme song. Oh, no, it's very recognizable And then the last theme song I thought of was James Bond also starts. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Just know like, Oh, instantly.

That's James Bond. Yeah. Banana, banana, you know? Oh yeah. I remember like jaws, the jaws,

like, Oh yeah. I don't know if that's a song. What constitutes a song? Most recognizable noises. Yeah. Two notes, two notes.

Jaws, whoopee cushion. That Marsh Madness is one of my favorites. I know, I probably should have chosen that. Michael Jackson. Yeah, that's great. Anyone else have any creative, honorable mentions? I had Brad Ellis, Ghost Runners theme song.

Oh! And I knew if I would've said it, I would've got all the votes. I thought, you know what, I already picked the cheesy happy birthday, so I can't. It's that little Miss Hattie at the end, isn't it? Oh yeah.

I laughed every time I hear that. Every time I hear it, I laugh. Yeah. It's just, it says every Monday morning, but I don't really want to change it because I, I don't want to screw it up if I try.

I think you'd get crucified by your audience if you took her. So cute. But I would love to have an, you need to add Bowen there too. Yeah. Before he can get speaking role. Because that's his favorite part. No, that Hattie, that's awesome.

That's good. I was at the KU game today, and Brad's been to the KU game, and they play songs, and the students sing along to the songs. And there's a couple of them, but one of the ones that's really favorite is Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. I've had that one. And they sing, the students sing that,

and they love doing the, bah, bah, bah. Yeah, that's good. Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. I've heard that one. And they sing, the students sing that, and they love doing the, ba-ba-ba-ba. Yeah, that's good. Sweet Caroline. You know what my dad's favorite song in the KU game is? The Wolf of Wall Street song. Have you heard that,

like the techno version of that? It is. No, I've not. Oh, so they play it at the, after the four-minute timeout at the second half. So like, when like the game is like on the line, basically.

And it just gets the crowd going. And like, the the game is like on the line, basically, and it just gets the crowd going and like the student section is going crazy, but more importantly, Dave Ellis. And they bring the flag down over the students, the KU flag over the same time. It's so awesome. Every home game. Yeah.

It's not quite as good as if when they're losing at that time, but, but, but if it's like a tie game and they play that song, it gets the crowd going. Would you say when that comes on, are you buzzing?

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They said specifically it was in the contract. Like, hey, we need to talk to people who might like country music or might like rock music. And like our kind of anti-wedding song. Like, great. We have an episode in mind. We can do this perfectly. But no, I'm sure a lot of you guys have heard about Main Street Roasters and haven't quite pulled the trig yet i think this is the week it's time to pee the tea yes yeah pour the tea pour the trivet pour the trivet pull the trigger i don't think trivet

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It's just because I want to keep it quality. Sounds like a great company. That's right, Dave. It is a great company. Last week, we talked about George Ann, Ellis Dave. It is a great company. Last week we talked about George Ann, and then other people were talking to the Facebook group. They're like, actually, this is so rare that a company this small who roasts their own beans would still provide K-Cups. Yes.

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From the executive producers of Lost. This place will not break us. The phenomenon returns to Paramount Plus. The only way we go home is together. From new season now streaming exclusively on Paramount Plus. Okay, now we're going to get on to, this doesn't really have a name, but just basically I put a little Facebook post up asking, hey, what do you guys want to, let's, you know, optimize this time we have with the dads. What do you guys want to know? What do you want to hear about? And you guys just came through like you always do with plenty of questions and conversation topics. So, um, thank you for sending those in. Where is the, uh, Oh, here's just kind of first easy question comes from Josh. Um, what career options, options uh would you have thought

your sons would have chosen you know basically you know we're doing we're doing now but what would you have thought let's say uh we're 18 years old and we're in high school yeah what would you have thought we were going to end up doing well not this yeah how do you try to first of all how do you try to succinctly say, like, what does your son do for a living? You're like, ah. Well, the good thing is being from a small town, everybody knows what Jake does for a living.

I mean, they're always coming up to me. And, you know, I was at a basketball game quite a bit this week with district ball going on. And, you know, they're all just coming up. Oh, I saw Jake and Brad. So now you're popular. Oh, good. But I always thought just from when he was young, all just coming up and oh i saw jake and yeah brad you know so now now you're popular oh good but i always thought uh just from when he was young uh since he had some intelligence and uh

when he was young he was a little bit more argumentative and so i really thought he'd be a lawyer oh you know because just i remember when you were young you know you just wouldn't let things slide you know like cody garrison say oh i read that i read that book and you'd you'd correct him on everything no it was this was the book you read and this is what happened we'd have to go jake just let it go you know you're not gonna have any friends if you just keep correcting them all the time and so yeah i always figured uh figured you'd do something legal or well not legal i guess this is still legal on the books i figured a lawyer or something with uh numbers yeah yeah that makes this is probably more fun yeah that's a good answer what do you think yeah you know i think

back when brad was about 17 or 18 he was actually in a special program over to lathe the south the people who wanted to go into business and so brad was in this special program that's what they told he worked as a blessing he worked as a teller he worked for this weird girl and lady in our house anyway but yeah i should talk about the weird girl let's hear it you talk about it i just try to remember more like i've kind of like blocked that experience out of my life it was so that lady was so weird yeah did you ever meet her or anything no like so yeah she's like this woman i mean she was probably in her late 50s 60s like really old and like um thank you uh no but she had this business and honestly she was so bad

at like her job I didn't even understand what she did I worked there for like six months as an intern and I still didn't really

I couldn't tell you what she did like what she wanted from me she was just so odd and she was like you're there to learn about business

and you're like I don't even know what a business is I can't even see what the business is this is all part of the program like yeah this is all the, you're there to learn about business. And you're like, I don't even know what a business is. I can't even see what the business is. This is all part of the program. Yeah, this is all the experience. You're going to have a weird little thing.

It's no matter, like not act basically. I mean, like she was very odd. Her husband was like a biker. And so always was wearing like a leather jacket. Not a bicyclist. No, not a cyclist biker. Like he came, his name was Tony. He always had like a bandana, like not a do-rag, but you know, like one of the ones that goes

over the whole head. He came in with like all this Sturgis stuff. And she's always, she had a little bit of a Southern accent. She's always like, hey, Tony. And she just worked at home and it just worked in like this like weird little like offset thing right by the front door. And so it was just me and her and she didn't have shoes on a lot. It was just like a really, a lot of odd things.

And then at the very end of it, I was like, do you mind writing me a reference letter? And she wrote me a reference letter and I swear it was like six pages. It was the, you know, a reference letter is usually like, I think Brad's great. You know, he did this, this and this for me. It's like a very short, succinct thing. This was like, literally she wrote a letter to me that was like, you did a great job and like wrote all this stuff. It is like the most incoherent babble of a thing.

I looked her up kind of recently and she's not still doing that. So she got the letter. How's Tony doing? Tony. I think they're still married from what I found her on Facebook. Yeah. Anyway, not really nice lady paid me $12 an hour,

which I thought was like insane money at the time. Actually, it really just gave me a lesson of like, Hey, you can make a little bit less money doing something you enjoy. And it's way better. So, Oh yeah. Sure. You know, if I can comment any more on that, the whole idea is having worked with community college students forever. It's the idea is that when people from eight, 18 to 30 to 35, this is my opinion, they change all the time. And so I never got panicky if someone came into my office with their 18-year-old and said,

I don't know what my son's going to do for the rest of his life. Because I see you guys, I see Brad, you know, I've seen him go into business and, you know, then he starts doing stuff with woodworking. Now he's doing this. I mean, so there's all kinds of stuff. And I think my daughter did that with teaching and nursing so it happens a lot so people change around a lot so

but but that particular time though i thought you're going to do business i think it's at that time so my dad always jokingly was like he's going to be a preacher i did talk about that one time brad might be a good i'll be like up on stage at church like messing around he's like brad you look pretty good up there on that stage. Yeah, that's right. You're trying to like speak it into existence. Yeah. Okay.

I, uh, I'll give one for each of you. Um, so Dave, you could be thinking about this story. Like what's one story of when Brad was growing up, something that you remember laughing so hard at something that Brad did or something he, you know, something silly he did, some accident he had or something. Like something you can remember that he did that really made you laugh. And then people, Jonah wants to hear from you about you and some of our dogs out on the farm.

They would love some. Oh, Trish hates this part. Yeah. Yeah, tell them about each of them. They need to know about Black Dog and Lucky. Oh. Yeah, I love animals i grew up farming for several years and so i do love animals before we get to this yeah get all that out of the way first yeah well trisha said man these stories make you sound terrible and

we love animals so when we moved out to the farm uh, Jake was getting ready to go into fourth grade. Caitlin, first grade. The kids were young and decided to get a pet. And, you know, the rules were, hey, we're on a farm. Pets stay outside. And that lasted for about four hours. And the dog stayed with us forever. But we were on land.

I didn't want to build a fence. So we went through the first five dogs in, I don't know, a year, maybe they'd all get killed. Uh, they'd all get killed. And, uh, so I know one dog I took the bed after we got from the pound, uh, and they said, what's this dog's name? And I said, not dead yet. And they didn't think it was as funny as I, uh, so we bought a probably dog number, probably around dog number five. I didn't know exactly what I was buying but I ended up buying a blue tick hound.

And so we was trying to train him to stay in. And we named him Lucky. Figured that could help. Yes. Lucky dog. But the dog just he was a good dog we just couldn't keep him in so we built a fence uh woven wire so woven wire is what you keep the keep pigs in you

know it's not barbed wire just little squares that's what i have on our fence yeah so they can't get through it yeah uh he chewed through that and got out. Chewed through metal? Yes. Yeah. Chewed through the fence. And so then the next option, I think we bought the corkscrew that screws into the ground. Okay. You know, and you can't pull it out. He pulled it out, uh, tied him to the trampoline one afternoon. And when we got home, the trampoline and the dog was in the front yard. Uh, and so dad and I being farmers, we thought, well, we'll put electric fence up. And, uh, if you've never been hit by electric fence, I mean, it's uncomfortable. You don't want to get it, but I mean, I've been shocked several times and,

you know, you survive. And, uh, so anyway, we got the dog, we put electric fence up and we're like, all right, let's just let him go. We'll see what happens. Go see it first time. Nothing. So we tested it's working. Uh, but the dog just doesn't feel it. I don't know if his coat's too thick or not. So my dad goes, well, let's get him wet. So we poured water on the dog, let him go. He went under again, nothing. And so, yeah, I was sick of the dog and I can't remember exactly what he did one day. I came home and he was out in the field chasing cattle. And at this point I'm driving a 1994 Plymouth Voyager minivan. I opened the gate and I'm chasing through the field trying to kill him. I was going to run over this dog.

I'm like, I have had it with you. Couldn't catch the dog. And so finally, we built a pen to hold him in. And I just felt guilty because we lived on a farm. You know, this dog should be able to run free. And one Sunday afternoon, we got about eight inches snow and no traffic was there. So I let the dog loose. And, you know, Trish was like, you cannot let him loose. I go, Trish, there is no traffic out there. The dog's going to be fine. Next morning we found him a snow plow that hit him. Oh my God. Probably the only car that went by. Yeah, the only car that went by all night. And he found it. He tried to be like, hey, here comes a buddy in there. The snow plow took care of him. Why could I not do that snow plow?

Now, just to back that up though our our last dog we had we did keep for 16 years and then we had this one for quite a while so yeah most dogs pass away by getting hit every dog we've had has gotten hit by a car is that right yeah I think we had that one scooter that got some weird

disease from the dirt you remember that that's probably how the vet explained it to you. I didn't want dogs sitting on the dirt anymore. I remember calling the vet going, I got away from Trish and the kids and I called him because I went to high school with him. I called him and go, hey, Kenny, I don't mean to be cruel, but what's this dog cost to me? Because Kenny's taking the dog home with him, 24 hour care. And he said, he goes, well, we've got a maximum and you hit a long time ago ago. So I was all right. So, and it wasn't that bad.

Kenny was good, but yeah, there's my dog story. I'm not telling, I'm not telling about black dog because they already know I tried to run one over in the car. That's great. All right, Dave, you got an answer. What's something Brad did as a kid? Well, you know, one time Brad called me into his bedroom and he says dad you gotta come here and he was on the the top bunk of the bed he's on the top bunk and he goes uh he got me bunk beds even though i only slept in there by myself yeah you're right on the top yeah anyway

uh there was a spider right up here on the right above him on the bunk bed and he said reach it and he says dad can you hit that thing for me and get it and stuff? I said, sure. But, you know, I had to really kind of get up there and go after it because it was kind of in the corner. How hard did you really try to get up there, Dad? I didn't get in the bed with you. Anyway, I had a magazine or something, and I just gave it a good old hit.

And the next thing I know, I had no and the next thing I know I had no idea where that spider went I had no idea at all where it went and I said where is that and next thing I look it's right there on Brad's head right here and you were just you started screaming you freaked out and all yeah all kinds of stuff and I'm kind of slapping that thing off of your head or whatever but that's that's one of the stories I did not find you did not think it was funny at all but that was kind of funny that is like a classic yeah i was like you could have used something a little more like how were you fitting to the he's probably third or fourth grade or something like that he was like 17 18. 17 18. yeah just read a book just read a book too it's so funny just got done reading a mere christianity you know after the inmates and so yeah no uh yeah

just today we were talking about like cleaning up downstairs and like you don't want to leave food out like we were talking to haddie like because then you might have mice or cockroaches or even spiders she's always i'm not scared of spiders i was like good for you she's like yeah i just tell you that they're spiders and you just come and kill them. I was like, okay. So I guess I'm not passed on my fear to my daughter so far. Right. I saw one,

I saw a question, Jake, about the random college thing or like, can Dave see if he can have a little trivia for college? Yeah, go ahead. Throw it at me. So I did,

I want you to be the one to like, I don't, I don't have the answers. I have the names of the colleges here. And some of, I just looked up random college generator. Dad likes to say it's only division one so i'll preface that okay um so let's just try this uh carnegie mellon university it's in pittsburgh yep pittsburgh pennsylvania okay uh this is just like rapid fire mcallister college mcallister college up in

minneapolis minnesota yeah st paul twin cities though okay okay that's amazing those aren't Rapid Fire. McAllister College. McAllister College. Up in Minneapolis. Minnesota. Yeah. St. Paul. Twin Cities, though. Okay. That's amazing. And these aren't Division I schools, by the way. I just want to tell you that.

He's like, hey, I'm reaching deep, by the way. Yeah. Those are good, though. Those are good for me. Coast Guard Academy. Coast Guard Academy is in Connecticut somewhere, but I don't know exactly where it's at. That's good. New London, Connecticut.

New London, Connecticut. This is amazing. We've got a little Goodwill hunting going on here. Get a chalkboard out of it. What about California Institute of Technology? California Institute of Technology. He's like, they don't have a basketball team.

I've never heard of it. I guess Los Angeles. Pasadena. Okay, what about Lafayette College? It's in eastern Pennsylvania. Wow. I couldn't even type it. I had typed it.

Yeah, you're right. There it is. Haverford College. Haverford College. That's another small one. These are crazy small. I just looked up. Is it South Carolina?

No. Actually, also in Pennsylvania. Haverford. Here's a fastball for you. What's it called? Just an easy one. Is it South Carolina? No. Actually, also in Pennsylvania. Here's a fastball for you. What's it called? Just an easy one. Vanderbilt University. Nashville.

Here's a fastball for you. Here's like a Randy Johnson fastball for you. Here's one coming at your head. Is Princeton University? It's in Princeton, New Jersey. Oh, Hamilton College. You ever heard of that one? No.

Hamilton's in New York somewhere. Clinton, New York. No, I haven't. University of no hamilton's in new york somewhere clinton new york no i haven't uh university of washington it's in seattle all right oh there's also there's also washington university in st louis yeah i was gonna say the st louis university of washington is in seattle but yeah my dad's a washington guy washington where's he where's he get that? Did you say Washington? Warsh? I said Warsh. I said Warsh. You just ticked on the show.

Cornell University? Ithaca, New York. That's good. University of Virginia? In Charlottesville. That's good. Why are you even checking? I don't know.

I don't know why I'm even... I'm going to do one more, and if you get this one right, it's over. Swarthmore College. Swarthmore College. Oh, wow. Is it somewhere in Pennsylvania? Yes, it is. That's amazing. That is great.

Okay. Good job, Dad. We could do this for a long time. The only one that I was even close on was the Cal-pec-to- What? Cal-pec-to- Cal Poly? The California Institute of Technology.

I think I might have got the state, and that would have been as close as I got on email. What about this one, Dad? Case Western Reserve University? Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland, Colorado. Not even like those popular people. Oh, I think it's Cleveland, Colorado.

That's amazing. Good job. That is fun. I'm glad we did that. I don't know how I, you know, I think we all don't. I bet you do too, Steve. We all have stuff that we know that a lot of other people and that's just me

I have a friend of mine who knows every Andy Griffith show every time you start talking he knows every one of the shows so some people we probably all have something like that you're good at colors. Coca-Cola. Primary colors.

Oh, yeah. I'm good at it. I mean, you got your red, brown, purple, and lavender. You're good at those. Primary. Got it. Nella. So when you say colors, though, you mean like you say something and he knows the color?

Like, for instance, let's say. Hey, what's that? What's the color? What is that? What's like the main color on that can? I'm going to call that yellow., what's that? What's the color? What is that? What's like the main color on that can? I'm going to call that yellow. See, that is really good. Cause I saw red. He's different. Uh, okay. This is fun. One easy. Andy with an eye lady. And he says, go to gas station snacks. Oh, every morning, every morning, the little, uh, orange crackers with

the peanut butter. Oh, really? I know you ate those. I ate those all the time. Eat them every morning. It's fascinating that that could be passed down. Like, is that somewhere in our genetic code? I don't know. I get them every morning. Yeah, I love those. Now, if I'm on a road trip by myself, because Trish won't let me have them, my road trip by myself is a Snickers bar and a bag of Funyuns. And you can chase one another. Whoa, both together. Then your breath smells like that for about a week and a half. That's interesting you go both of them together. Yeah.

About four Funyuns and then a little bite of that. But to be clear, you have swallowed the Funyuns by the time the Snickers has entered your mouth. No, you start chewing them and then you throw that in there. Really? Yeah. I'm intrigued by that. That's so weird it might just work give that a try thank you yeah that's great well you're dead oh i'm i'm a huge

cookie guy you know and there's this grandma's chocolate fudge cookies i get oh like the individually packaged yeah grandma's cookies there's peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies but the chocolate fudge ones are the best for sure. Yeah. And they're in my top 10 cookie list too. So anyway, but that's, that's my, whenever I go there, I try to buy that. Follow up. Are there any things in your top 10 cookie list that are maybe like, you know, unsung heroes?

A lot of people don't know about this. Sure. People need to know about this type of cookie. Yeah. Yeah. There's a cookie that, that only comes out at Christmas time, and it's called different things.

It's gross, dude. It's like listening to Ed Sheeran break down his music or something. We're like watching an expert at work. Exactly. He's taking this serious. I could do a book on them. Pfeiffer Noose cookies. You ever heard of them?

They're so gross, dude. They're not gross. They taste. They're licorice cookies with white powder on them. It tastes like black licorice. They only come out at Christmas time. I bet there's a lot of people out there who know what I'm talking about.

Pfeiffernuss cookies. And they're called some other things I've heard of. How do you spell Pfeiffernuss? There's got to be a P at the beginning. P-F-F-E-F-F. P-F? Yeah. P-F-F.

Oh. It's P-F-F. Two F's at the beginning? P-R-U-N-F. Oh. It's P-F-F. Do you have it at the beginning? P-R-U-N-S-E? I don't know. Yeah. Okay. P-F-E-F-F-E-R.

Yeah. N-U-S-S-E. Yeah. Looks German or something. My goodness. Yeah. They look all right. And then you taste them and you're like, oh, these are-

Pfeiffernuss in German means peppernuts. If you like- Which is making it sound worse. That's probably what it is. Some people call them peppernuts. Listen here, peppernuts. Do you like black licorice? No.

Okay, but you don't, then you won't like these cookies. So you got to like black licorice. You like the way a skunk smells? Then you probably won't like these cookies. Come on. Come on now. Somewhere over the rainbow. River, put that boat in, please.

Love you for the the votes I love it when I asked I was like what's maybe not like a well-known cookie you chose like the worst one come on buddy

start me up man there's this one not many people know about it it's called dog crap no one knows about it but it is hard to get down hard to get down

that's great that is pretty funny No one knows about it, but it is hard to get down. That is pretty funny. All right. I didn't prepare a next one. That was so fun. Do you have any others that you see on there? Let's see. Oh, yeah.

Oh, what was your favorite sports memory from your son's, I guess, career? You know, this could be six years old or recently, I guess. Any pickleball championships? Maybe you're really proud? No. Didn't think so. Boy, I miss watching you guys play sports, you and Kate. Trish and I was talking about that on the way up here. Just so much fun. Favorite memory? There was a lot

of them. You were lucky to be on some successful teams. Yeah, it was nice that there were other athletes around me. Do you have one in mind, if you need to think about one can you think of one dave yeah i do brad was probably in first or second grade maybe third grade and he played ymca basketball oh good song i've heard maybe maybe a little bit older than he was and uh it was at the end of the game was going back and forth back and forth and right at the end of the game about five or six seconds left brad popped a three and made it and then it was and then the coach came out on the floor and they gave him a technical because he was coming out to

celebrate and it's not two seconds left oh this was this was a kiddie basketball right yeah kiddie basketball they're not even calling travels probably so yeah this court was like i don't know three eights the size of a normal court it was a tiny it was tiny brad loved three-point shots he loved shooting on me yeah but like you were never allowed to shoot threes like it was like what are you doing you know and but we were down by one point and they're like brad if you have an open three-pointer, shoot it. I remember that exact. I remember Coach Johnston saying that to me, and I was like, oh, my gosh, yes. I love that you weren't even down three, though.

We were down three. It didn't call my three. Shoot it. We were down by one. We need a three. And so I got the ball on the inbound. Just in case the coach gets a technical. Yeah.

The coach gets a three. The kiddies get a three. The coach gets a technical. And then worst coach gets a three. The kiddies get a three. The coach gets a technical. And then worst case scenario, we go to overtime. My form was so bad because I had to like bring it all the way back

to shoot and I made it and people went, yeah, Coach Pintola runs out and they're hugging me from behind and pissing me off and stuff and they're like,

that's a technical. Wow. And so the other team had a chance to tie it up with two free throws. I missed one of them yeah uh but it was that is yeah definitely the best moment of my life at all the sports are otherwise and you probably don't remember this too but brad was a real k-state hater at that particular time

anything purple he hated yeah and they had purple k-state cookies after the game purple and brad was so bad about hating them. He didn't even eat the cookie. He didn't even eat the cookie. Yeah. That's the last time I've ever seen Brad turn down a cookie. I was going to say it first. That's funny. That's a good story. Good memory.

I was always hoping you'd say, please say the one when I nailed that three. That was great. Senior night basketball, you started out, I think you hit four threes in the first quarter. Did I really? Yeah. Really nice. And you were lighting it up.

I did not remember that. Yeah. That's fun. No. Okay. I got one. So when Jake was young, I honestly thought his goal when he was a kid was he was going to be the first person ever to play Major League Baseball,

professional football, and the NBA. Yeah, all three of them. Deion Sander, Bo Jackson. Yeah, they did two. I'm going to do three. Gosh, being a kid is so fun. Yeah. And being seriously, like, I think I'm going to do that.

Why not? I've looked at the schedule, and there's a little wiggle room there. And I'm good enough. And when Jake was young, I mean, at a very young age, he would sit and watch the entire game. So he just stayed it, and so he just knew the game so well. So we're getting ready to play our very first ball game. And it was in a church. It was with Kirk Gattis as your coach.

This is basketball. Yes. Sorry. But the only rule we really knew was you could not defend them until half court. And so Jake was just such a smart player. I told him, I said, all right, what you need to do is just hang back off the half court line about, you know, five or six feet, kind of be casual.

And then as soon as they cross half court, eat them up. And Jake was so quick at that time. I didn't know anything about basketball at this point, who we would be playing. I thought it'd be competitive teams. First team we play is a co-ed team. And I don't know if you remember. I don't remember anything about that.

You know, that team gets the ball. Bringing it across court is a cute little girl. Got pigtails on, you know. I mean, Jake steps back up. She's probably really small. You were like small for the... And this is probably five years old. So, you know, they're all cute stuff. And Jake's kind of stepped back. And I so wanted to holler, abort! Abort! I'm like a bull getting ready to be let out of like, oh. And this poor little girl just dribbling up.

And I mean, when she steps around, Jake attacks her. And that little girl did not know what, so bad. And so you kept doing that until Kurt finally, but I mean, he was doing what, you know, and he did, it worked, but that poor little girl, that was probably her last game she played. Oh man. Yeah, I do remember that.

That was one I'm going to owe. That's great, Jake. That's good. That's absolutely great. Way to crush your dreams. Right, yeah. She's still on the psych chair. Yeah.

The self-awareness developed a little later than the ball handling did. So that's too bad. It's working, though. Good job, Dad. Good advice. Yeah, this is awesome. I can do this every time. Samantha has no clue what's coming.

Yeah, that's great. I can do this every time. Samantha has no clue what's coming. Yeah. That's great. Any, any last questions, Bren? I like the, I like the Jamie Whitefield asked advice to maintain a godly Christ centered marriage.

I like those kinds of questions. You got any answers for those? You got, do you have those? Yeah. Any marriage advice? Any? Well, I, how long have you been married Dave

45 years 45 you're the man real quick yeah I mean wait I have a question sorry when is mom's birthday

September 24th what year 55 nailed it okay you'll hear on Monday oh you're a good son knowing your mom's birthday

yeah wow mark that one down as a win of the week. I know my mom's birthday. I had a story about that. I'm glad Georgianne's watching this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, go ahead.

45 years. Yeah, you know, I think the whole idea of if you ever have to just keep praying for your spouse, I think that's first couple of 10 years are kind of discovery years, basically. And I think the next 10 years are just, you know, you just kind of go through some things, I think. And if you have Christ in your life and you have, you know, he's the number one in your life, you're going to make it. You'll be fine.

And I think just praying for your spouse is real, real important, at least in my book it is, and my kids too. But yeah, and not only that, just to try to be a servant, I think, to your spouse as much as you can and not be so selfish at times and say, you know what, even though I really like to do something else right now, I'm going to spend time with my wife. It's really important. So those are just some of the things that I think would be really, good i'll tell you listen to that makes me want to be incarcerated oh yeah

exactly how often do you come once a week i can probably find figure out something brad and i can still record the telephone and i can get some some dave ellis preaching that's a good word i feel like you are very servant-hearted yeah and i don't know if you always were though maybe i think i have been. Yeah. No, I always was. Yeah. I think that,

I think one of the hardest parts when we first got married and maybe Steve went through this too, you, you know, I was a real social guy. I mean, I like to be around people and like to do stuff and I like to play golf. I like to do all kinds of stuff.

And, and my wife has more of being at home. So we had to work through that a little bit, the first 10 years of our life and try to have a balance of having both of them. So I just kind of learned how to do that. So it's really difficult. You're never going to marry somebody that's –

I feel like that's almost every marriage. Is that – Well, I was going to say, I think that was the same for Trish and I. And so just, you know, I'll – I mean, obviously, Jesus has got to be number one in your life. And Trish and I talk about a lot, you know, I'll, I mean, obviously, Jesus has got to be number one in your life. And Trish and I talk about a lot, you know, people that don't have that in their life, how do they make it through the rough times?

It's a tough time. Totally. I would have, yeah, given up. I would have been like, yeah, why am I still married to you? Yeah. Yeah. And it's funny because Trish is, you know, when COVID hit and we had to stay at home and Trish was in her wheelhouse,

you know, and I lasted three days and I said, I've got to get out. Yeah. Dad, you met with, sorry, you met with like people in a parking lot, like in the winter time. Dave and I also like to meet up in parking lots too though. That's right. We'll go to a parking lot together. That's right. So, all right. We can give Jake some marital advice. So, you know, I think it really depends on just who you marry. You know, Trish is so content with, I mean, she's just content with everything, you know.

She thinks I'm the funniest. If I could find a crowd of Trisha triplets, I would be the best stand-up comedian. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, and my goal is once a week to make her either cry laughing or spit something out of her mouth, you know, and she just, she just laughs at everything. I'm like going, some of this stuff's not that funny, you know, but yeah. And so, yeah, we're the same way. Cause you know, and I can't figure out, all right, how, so about every few months I'll say, are you happy? You know, cause I just want to make sure she's happy.

Right. few months, I'll say, are you happy? Because I just want to make sure she's happy. She says she is, but I'm not going, I couldn't be happy with just saying, oh, I just want to come home and do nothing. Because I go to ball games all the time and I'm going, come to a ball game with me. She's like, no. No. She's just so...

Humor is really big. If you guys, both of you have humor that makes a big difference i think in your yeah your family you know one other piece of advice steve that i've maybe given to you just in a minute i can tell you for all three of my kids the night before the wedding happened before all the madness happened make me cry you go in there and you go in there and you talk to them and you pray with them. You do that. And I know that's a tough thing to do. And I think there are probably a few tears when that happened,

but that's the real, real important. And I think my kids will all remember that, but this is my one-on-one with them. That's a good word. Can you do it for me? You know, you're invited to both of them. Say this next. We got a little air pod in his ear yeah that's a lunch at austin's you remember that but like before i went to texas for my wedding like austin's by jake's house now and you wrote like 10 things on like 10 tips for marriage and like gave them to me on these little like

index cards like classic like my dad has all these like, do you remember any of them? I'd like to hear them. Oh man. I don't remember. I have them, but I have, I've had, I've had them in my wallet. Luckily I lost my wallet. I don't have my wallet anymore, but I've like had in my wallet. They've gone through the wash like 10 times and I still like, like they're like all tattered up and everything, but I still like hold those so precious.

I think I, I put them on a evernote one time just in case i ultimately lost them but i don't i'll send you a note about it well trish and i were just trying to talk because you know i said you know i'd like to get some words of wisdom to jake and kate i mean they're both getting married and you know so we talked about what you know and just consistency was one of them you know all right you know if i think that's a good one laugh at this if we don't take this too serious, we always laugh at that. I don't get mad at it just because I've had a bad day at work or if Trish is irritated or whatever. The only thing I wish in my marriage I would have done different was I always thought I was a good dad and a good husband.

And I didn't realize until after the kids graduated and we were empty nesters, how much my wife did. They do. They do a lot. Yeah. I'm a good husband. I help her out. But then after the kids, we were empty nesters, and I saw how much more relaxed she was.

And then I get thinking back. So every once in a while, I'll just go, I'm sorry. I mean, she did everything for me. We'd go to bed at night. Well, go to bed. I'm going to sleep. Well, you know, in her mind, she's like, all right. Okay, I've got their clothes laid out.

They're clean. I've, you know, I've got this to do tomorrow. And she did it all. And I just, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I feel a little guilty. Sorry, Trish. That's really good.

No, see, he brings up a good point. And the whole idea is that with your wives, appreciate what they do all the time. And I think Brad does that really good. I think he knows when he's going past the limit, I've got to be home now with my wife. And I really appreciate that because it doesn't always happen very often. I said no to KU game today with you. I was like, I'll be with my family today.

It is very hard sometimes. Trish and I joke about that. I said, I'm sure she's laying in bed at night thinking, did I kill him? I know. I know. I know that happens. I mean, yeah, Trish and I joke about that going,

you worry about when your kids are getting married and going, there's going to be tough times. And there should be. That's how you grow. And it's, yeah, so there's that fun stage. And and it's uh yeah so it's uh there's that fun stage and then the raising kids that's that's another stage the man after they're gone it's fun it is a lot of fun it's lots of fun yeah you guys have lived so much once i went to college like you guys are traveling yeah in a good way like yeah but like just yeah you guys yeah believe it or not

i think what what i appreciated more when the kids left was we had weekends open you know it used to be every weekend we were doing something yeah during the week it's pretty much the same stuff basically but weekends were so much we could just go anywhere we wanted to at that time when everybody left the house trish and i usually will pick one room every winter we'll pick one room to remodel. That's a good idea. And it's been so fun since the kids were gone because if we don't feel like working on it, we just want to eat sandwiches for supper. We don't have to worry about getting the kids proper nutrition or getting them to bed on time.

That's right. Because back in the day, you cared about nutrition. I mean, you guys were big on like, hey, throw some mayonnaise on that bologna, honey. Boys got to grow. Got a game tomorrow. Got a game tomorrow. Got a game tomorrow. That's great.

Whatever that pizza was. English muffin pizza. Oh, yeah. Don't be knocking the English muffin pizza. I'm knocking the Cheez Whiz specifically. Everything else about it sounds good. Cheez Whiz is where I... You know what?

Soon as it's over, we're going to have Mrs. Tripp whip you something up. I got the stuff all in the fridge. It could happen. Cancel the pizza order we got you covered right oh my gosh brad i do think you're an amazing husband oh wow thank you man just you guys got your three kids yeah that's a lot yeah yeah yeah it is and that's so and katherine is she's an amazing that's the i was gonna say i feel like, I feel like I'm, I'm fine. She is amazing. Like, I think she's so good at so many different things.

And yeah. Yeah. Talking about like what you were, or when, yeah, what you were saying about Trish and like how much she does, like whenever we go on a vacation or like on a trip at all, I'm always like, why, why does it take you so long to, I can pack the morning up. I feel so. I'm packing for all of us. And I'm thinking about every other scenario.

What if it snows in southern Florida? It's happened before. I hooked it up. I don't see how they keep it all together. Really. Mentally, I just know that she's always on. I've just learned that she can't turn off being a mom. I'm not thinking about my kids at all

right now besides this. Besides this conversation, obviously, but like, like, so she has a harder time sleeping, you know, because she's always like hearing things like maybe that was the kids, you know?

So. And she wouldn't do the podcast because she would feel guilty about going, no, I've got, I've got things to do at home, you know, even now, you know,

we'll be at home and, uh, you know, we'll get ready to watch TV show or movie or something. And Trish will, Trish never sits down. She, and I said, you know, we'll get ready to watch TV show or a movie or something. And Trish will, Trish never sets down. She, and I said, you need to hang out. Let me show you how to relax. Yeah. Right. I mean, I can sit in that recliner. I know I can do the recliner 18 hours, but you know, and so she'll say, okay, well go ahead and start. And I go, no, you're not

sitting down. I'll do it while I watch. And now as a husband, I probably should get up and help her. Seriously. You know, you think, well, after a while, maybe I should get up and help her. Sorry again, Trish. Yeah. But you've been married long enough. You know when it's time to get up and help her. It's true.

I mean, you know, I can tell when we have people coming over to our house and they're going to stay overnight and stuff, I just sit there waiting for the instructions. Basically, I just sit there and wait, and Georgianne gives the look. Okay, I'm going to vacuum. Yeah, I know, and whatever. But the thing is, when I do do something like that, you would think I had just found a cure for cancer.

You know what I mean? I mean, my wife sweeps the floor five times a week. I do it twice a month. I'm like, hey, we're looking pretty good tonight. That's amazing. Women are good. I love it. Talk about that for another two hours. That's great. This is fun.

We got some pizza to eat out there. Regular and Cheez Whiz version. I call it Cheez Whiz. Are you going to eat some some pizza uh with the dairy english muffin pizza no just the the cheesy the cheesy dairy in you yeah i meant to mention this monday we'll mention it now i was talking to uh my friend zane music producer zane i went got lunch with him and i was asking was like how you doing how's your family he's like it's weird we're getting over some sickness right now and i was like what kind of sickness you have

and he's like this is gonna sound weird dude but getting over some sickness right now. And I was like, what kind of sickness do you have? And he's like, this is going to sound weird, dude. But like I had it, then my wife had it. And then some of our friends in our friend group had it. And it's like this like. Rotavirus? Gurgly thing happening. This like gassy thing. And I was like, can that be passed around?

I've never heard of it. You know, something gets passed around seems more like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. Blue like, cold like, whatever. And he was like, I don't know. It's going around. I was like, well, I had that and then brad had that i did so now i'm thinking you passed me the gurgling patsy thing yeah yeah oh man she never got sick or flu yeah it's just

like this one weird day where i was just like there was a like active volcano in my stomach you threw like a stomach bug yeah but it was different than like it's weird crazy i've never heard of it no no it was like i got i couldn't stand up it was cramps it was different than like it's weird crazy i've never heard of it no no it was like i couldn't stand up it was cramps it was weird and i had milk the night before so that's what i chalked it up to but i think well either way i discovered lactate lactate is an amazing milk byproduct it tastes awesome i don't know what they've done to it but i have got that as my fallback but yeah i had a hard time like googling it i didn't know how to describe what was what i was feeling in my stomach i was was like, stomach cramps?

But they were not really... But for men? Yeah. And they're like, oh, a bellyache? And I was like, not really a bellyache. I don't know. And it didn't last very long, right? Mine lasted like five days.

Oh, you're five days. I'm a little bit stronger than Brad. Yeah. A little better immune system. Never got COVID. Mine was a struggle. Anyway, so yeah. I'm going to take down the cheese. I'm excited for you, man.

Yeah, thanks. Anyway, that's the end of this episode. Another Wednesday in the books. Check out Main Street Roasters. Anything you guys need to plug? Anything you need to funnel people into? No, thank you guys for doing this. Yeah, thank you.

Thanks for coming to town this weekend. I think Steve and I are very proud of our boys. Thank you. We really are. I cannot wait until Monday mornings to roll around. I mean, I, it is one of my favorite days of the week.

And so, yeah, you know, I'll get home and I'll ask Trish how much of the podcast you get to listen to. So thank you guys. Yeah. Yeah.

Thank you. Thanks for, I mean, out of all the influencers of our life, I think you guys are the biggest. So thank you for being great influences to us. We appreciate you. And right after them, probably Trey.

Yeah. You said influencers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Trey or Tron Chris. Or Ward Weeby. That's all I hear about. I'm thinking, oh, here we come. We're going to talk about daddy for a while. Nope, it's old Ward.eby. That's all I hear about. Yeah. I'm thinking, oh, here we come. Are you going to talk about daddy for a while?

Nope. It's old Ward. Old Ward. Should have had Ward on the podcast. He said no, Steve. We reached out. Yeah, we reached out. We tried.

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