Ghostrunners - 209 - Is Rachel Britney Spears?

Episode Date: March 15, 2023

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Let's dance. Okay. I was driving. So last night I dropped off Hattie at Iwana. Great. And then after Iwana, I went to Culver's because that's where you go when you have an hour and a half to kill. And I was eating some ice cream, doing some work on my computer. Oh, I see.

You're like, I got to pick her up an hour and a half. Yeah. I got to spend some time somewhere. I could go back home, but then I'm roped into being a dad again and doing some bedtime stuff. I'm, you know, roped into being a dad again and, you know, doing some like bedtime stuff. I'm not, I feel like usually like when Catherine, you know, when, when we're on Wednesday nights, like, okay, you're out of the house, just do your thing. Catherine usually does groceries. I got ice cream. So, um, and anyway, but on the way to drop her off at Iwana, for whatever reason, I brought a banana with me cause it looked good as I was leaving the house. I ate the banana in the car, had the banana peel still in the car. And as far as I know,

bananas disintegrate, right? Like biodegradable. Yeah. Is that the right word? I don't think they just disintegrate. What is it? Yeah. Biodegrade. So what's the, what's the adjective? Correct me if I'm wrong, but apple cores, those just vanish into thin air. Those just are vaporized, right right what's the word biodegradable yeah but like but like the adjective they are they they biodegrade biodegrade okay those things biodegrade right that's kind of funny too it's like yeah you can degrade bananas watch hey you suck hey hey you're real bruised you. Hey, you're a little green for me. Yeah, too ripe. Too ripe for me in this place.

Now let's biodegrade them. Hey. Hey, that thing is short. Like the banana. You're short biologically. Is that right? You go. Hey.

Hey. You have seeds, so you're technically a fruit, but you're not shaped like the other ones. That was good. I don't know. That's exactly what I was expecting you to say. So you're technically a fruit, but you're not shaped like the other ones. That was good. I don't know. That's exactly what I was expecting. That's so funny. What I just said, that was hilarious.

What I just said. Anyway, anyway, I'm driving back to get Hattie. And so I get back in my van from, you know, Culver's and it smells like banana naturally. And so I think, hey, those things disintegrate when you throw them into the grass. And so I take my banana and I pick it up to throw it out the window. This is a full banana or you have eaten it? No, of course I've eaten it. Oh, okay.

No, no, no. It's just, it's just the peel. I don't know you to just let food. Never have I once, uh, you know, especially a banana, but it is top 10 top, top two fruits. You've seen, I've had a banana three days in a row now. They're wonderful. I love bananas. They're so good. They're so sweet. And it's just, so I pick it up to throw it out. You never make eye contact

with me though when I'm eating my bananas. You told me not to. Okay, keep going. Okay. So I pick it up, throw it out. And as I'm in the motion of throwing it out, I had both sets of keys in my pocket, my truck keys and the van keys. And I, my truck keys and the van keys.

And I put the truck keys on the center console next to the banana peel. And the banana peel lifts up the truck keys and has hold of the truck keys, a little bit sticky. And before I could stop myself completely, I took the banana peel and hucked it out there into the grass. But as I'm doing it, I see the key. So I kind of like half-hearted, they throw it. And all of a sudden my keys and a banana peel are just in the road, like right outside of Culver's. So I have to get out of my van, like put my van in park,

get out, pick up the beta and throw it in and get my keys. So it's just one of those like, like stupid, like, yeah, imagine that real quick with me. Me just being like, oh, no, no, no. But it's already too late and the keys are out there. And then you looked at the banana and you're upset at him and you said, this is why people degrade you. This is why you get degraded. Uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down

with some random thoughts in white. Me too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's the Ghost Brothers Podcast. Real quick, back on the banana story. So you weren't really driving yet. You were still in the parking lot. I was, no, I was driving. I you weren't really driving yet. You were still in the parking lot. I was.

No, I was driving. I was driving like seven miles an hour out of the parking lot. Was the banana, I guess this is my main question. Was the banana intended to land on concrete? No, no, grass. Okay, okay, okay. That's the only way it disintegrates. Yeah, I don't know how well they vanish into thin air on concrete.

Well, and that's the thing is that it accidentally landed on concrete because I threw it out with the keys. That's how like Japanese plumbers slip on their go-karts. Yes. Is bananas on concrete. You got to be careful. I need to get all the way out there. Yeah. Okay.

Gotcha. No, no, no. Yeah. I made sure I got into the grass because I'm a good citizen like that. I like it too. Just the fact like this banana field has been sitting here for how long? 45. No, hour and a half.

And nothing has happened to it. And then just instantly in one motion, you're like, I have to grab this and throw this out instantly. I was being strategic. To the point where my keys are still in my hand. I was like, I don't want to throw it out at the church and people see me throwing stuff out. They're not going to assume it's a banana. You know, so I got to get it out of there before I get to church. They're not going to assume it's a banana.

They're just going to think you're littering. They're going to be like, who's this guy? Getting out, getting his daughter from Awana. So, yeah. Culver's parking lot yeah culver's parking lot culver's parking lot no one's noticing yeah no one's looking at you i like throwing away trash just or sorry i like throwing away uh food into the earth it's because it feels wrong but from what i've learned it's fine you're composting it yeah yeah yeah 100 it is fun i you take a nice apple core and just heave it. I like doing that.

Just be careful if you know, the apple core gets stuck on some keys or something. If your keys are attached to the apple core, don't throw it that hard. I mean, can you, you can kind of, you know what I mean?

Like every once in a while, like it's kind of like in baseball when you realize like, Oh, I'm not supposed to throw it to second. I need to throw it to first, but you're already throwing to second and you can't stop it. Like, you know what I mean?

And it's like, you try to stop your hand, but it still goes a little bit. Yeah. That's what it was. Yeah. It's relatable. It's a good feeling.

Yeah. So just imagine your favorite podcast host who you just think is so cool. He's throwing bananas out and keys into the street for no reason. He's just like you guys.

I'm just, I'm just a normal guy. He puts his pants on the same way you guys do. But when he's done, his keys are in his hand. He biodegrades bananas. Something I just want to talk about real quick.

Me and my roommates were watching something, and they turned it off. They're like, Jake, here's the remote. You can put something on. So I was like, okay. So I went to the TV guide on YouTube TV still, but I was like, let's just see what's on TV. And it said, America's Funniest Videos.

Oh, yeah? I was like, sure. How are they doing these days? Let's put that on. Well, I'll tell you, they're still making episodes, which really, really shocked me. It wasn't a rerun.

It was a new episode. Two, the host, no longer Tom Bergeron. Alfonso Rubiero? Yes. Yes. Carlton from Fresh Prince. Yeah.

Which is, you know, good. He's working. Good for him. Yeah. He's got something to do. For some reason, I thought he died a couple years ago and then I saw him on AFV

and I was like, hey, he's alive. to do. For some reason, I thought he died a couple years ago, and then I saw him on AFV, and I was like, hey, he's alive. You're thinking of somebody else. You're thinking of Whitney Houston. Yeah, who you also had trouble knowing if she was alive or dead. Now I will never forget that again. Whitney Houston, dead. Big time. Alfonso Soriano, alive.

Soriano. Anyway, and the other thing that's on America's Funniest Videos is they have a sold-out crowd. There's like 300 people in the live studio audience. Which if you're wondering, who goes to this? I'll tell you who it is. It's 300 people who've never heard of TikTok. Because the videos they are showing, the videos these people are cackling to.

Yeah. Like if my TikTok algorithm showed me this, I'd be like, something's wrong. Yeah. Something's broken. The dog had a toy in his mouth, and then he threw it, and then it kind of landed near the baby and the baby started laughing. I feel like I've seen, yeah, an episode recently or something. Yeah. Cause I remember thinking the same thing of like these, yeah, this is just YouTube, but not that good. Like the, the less popular versions of, yeah, the Tik TOKs. Yeah. It's like showing you a Tik TOK with less than like 10 likes.

That's what like America's funniest videos is like, these are the videos that have not hit the algorithm yet. Like they're not that great. I could see why you uploaded it. Yeah. But it's just going to take something better than that these days. It's amazing. So just know it is still out there.

If you need something to watch, good, clean family fun. I like to think that if I am in the audience though, I'm dying laughing at everything. Just to make it fun. Like you got to go one extreme or the other. Just stone cold the entire time. Do not laugh. Like be as completely serious. Even if you think to go one extreme or the other. Just stone cold the entire time. Do not laugh.

Like be as completely serious. Even if you think it's funny, just they show you on screen and you're just or man, you just think it's the greatest thing of all time. And yes,

the dad playing with football got hit in the crotch. What? Oh, my gosh. He might not be able to have kids anymore, man. Oh my gosh. Oh, that's funny.

I've never seen a video like that. I didn't think it would end that way. Just dying laughing. Like, you're laughing so loud, they have to tell you, sir, you can't laugh the whole time. I just know when I go to an event, I know how they expect me to act, and i want to just meet that expectation if i'm going to a sporting event i'm going to be as loud and as raucous as possible unless pj golf event quiet please

you're the quietest one there i'm quiet i'm absolutely quiet and then when they make a nice putt i go nuts or when they hit the drive the drive shot drive ball get in the hole right that's what they say yeah mashed potatoes is a big one. Mashed potatoes? Yeah, it's become like a meme. Mashed potatoes! Okay, yeah. You could yell, yeah. I'll do whatever they want me to do. Whatever it takes. If Tymon's in, let's say, a play in June, maybe, here in Kansas City,

I will go to that play and I will go nuts when he comes out on the stage at the end and does like the bow. I will, yeah, Tymon! Tymon, you're my boy! Bow! Bow. Bow. Bow. For that day. Time out.

I think I'm going to middle school play tonight. Really? Yeah. So that'll be on next, next Monday's episode. What's the connection there? It's one of the girls that Rachel nannies. Okay.

And the, the next kind of part of the newest season of you comes out tonight. So we've been really fired up to watch You. Okay. But then we decided, hey, Netflix is always going to be there. Yeah. But Kate, the girl she nannies. What a great combination.

Why not do both? And so we're going to go watch that. And I'm really excited. Rachel's like, are you sure? I know we're really excited to watch it. I was like, Netflix is there all the time. We only get middle school theater every now and then. We got to go. What play is it?

Do you know? Don't know. I look forward to finding out. Brigadoon. And act two, hopefully see if I can just guess it. So yeah, anyway,

that'll be great, man. I think you should be in the America's funniest videos. I, yeah, I just audience. I went to a live studio recording of jeopardy one time, saw Alex Trebek,

RIP. And yeah, I was, you know, you're only supposed to clap if, when the daily double shows up oh or if the guy runs an entire category that guy was four for four and he got the fifth one right i clapped baby i clapped hard listen to this clap okay uh what is oh oh oh oh what is the fall of the roman empire 500 points that's right with that said we'll be right back potent potables for 200 anyway yeah you are a good clapper yeah i

tried to be yeah that's fun anyway it's funny you got to see jeopardy i got to see the set of i think the big bang theory one time i got a tour of like warner brothers studio okay you got to see what i got a three-wall setup or whatever, like the audience in the fourth wall. I mean, it was three. It was fine. I was on the Friends set one time with Peter. I think he's very cramped. I remember thinking, I thought he went to

Los Angeles. Why is he in New York in this picture? That's how good they are on Friends. They tricked me. I thought they lived in New York. Huh. Who knew? I saw some tick tock recently on America's funniest one videos, I think, where they were talking about back in the day. It was like they wanted they wanted everyone like Universal Studios or some some big, you know, production company wanted everyone to believe in like the 90s or

late 80s or something, uh, that they were always working on a show. And so they would literally like have people tour the studio and they weren't actually in the show or like doing the show, but they said they would hire like the, uh, PA production assistants to act like they're directors and like directing a show. And so whenever these tourists come in, they're like, Oh my gosh, it's a movie. Yeah. And they'd be like, uh, when's this going to air? And the guy would be like, uh, check your local listings. I don't know your local list, check your TV guide. So anyway, maybe, uh, yeah, I don't know. Maybe I didn't really see jeopardy, but I think because Alex Trebek was there. It was a bunch of PAs. That would be fun. I mean, a PA is not a very fun job. It's like the

bottom of the totem pole and like, you know, in that whole industry. But that's fun if they're like, hey, you're great. You've earned it. You get to go direct a fake movie. Yeah, why not? That's fun. I think you'd do a good job with that. I think it would be fun. And it'd be fun to pretend like you're able to boss somebody around when you're really

the one getting upset too. No, no, no, no, no. This is not right. I need emotion. I love it, dude. Oh, sorry. Oh, there's a tour. Whoa, hey.

Oh, sorry. Sorry. Hey, let's cut it. Hey, how, dude. Oh, sorry. Oh, there's a tour. Whoa. Hey. Oh, sorry. Cut, cut, cut. Sorry. Hey, let's cut it. Hey, how are you guys doing? Yeah. You guys have any questions about the set? There is no fourth wall.

No, I am a big time director, but I take time out of my day to talk to fine folks like you. So at the Big Bang Theory or Friends, like were the sets literally right next door to each other? How does that work? Yeah, I think it's like studio lots. And yeah, they're all right next to each other. i mean like the big bang theory obviously there's whatever penny's apartment and there's also oh i see lewis whatever they're what's his name the whatever the other guy do you know our big bang archibald archibald yeah i they only showed us one room from what i

can remember so i don't remember seeing like all the other sets i see you're saying now i didn't know if they were like a revolving like in a circle and you just that's fun i don't remember saying like all the other sets. I see what you're saying now. I didn't know if they were like a revolving, like in a circle and you just, that's fun. I don't know how it works. Cause I think sometimes you see on SNL, you know how I got an SNL, they have a set and then they'll like show you at commercial. Like when they're like,

like they'll like show like a 10 second little, like they're messing with the set to do something else. And you can see there's like three sets in one. That's SNL. So that's freaking Saturday night live. I mean, that's, that's SNL,

which they'll preview a little new segment coming here in a little bit. Here in a little bit. Here in a little bit. Here in a little bit. Here in a little bit. I need to give a shout out real quick. Something happened to me this week. It's Monday morning.

I've called a plumber to my house. Not the same one that you called last week. That's right. So yeah, last week I had to pay for a new garbage disposal. Now I got a plumber in the Aletha house. Some things are wrong. Oh, I told you. I got a water park going on in my basement. Yeah.

And it was bad once I checked it out. But so he's working on that. Isaac's at the house. I'm having to drop my car off because something is kind of up with my car. So two things are happening at the same time. Both of them, I'm getting feedback, not good news. The plumber's calling me. Hey, it's worse than

I thought. It's going to be quite a bit more than we estimate than we quoted you i'm like okay that's fine just get it done yep car shop as well i go in for a pretty like easy thing and they're like hey you know we checked and it looks like uh you need two new tires i'm like okay that's fine 30 minutes go by hey you're gonna need two new tires on the front too so remember that mechanics video when we're like you know what why not

if you got four you know why not get another one you're probably gonna need five tires you're probably gonna need another one just for a spare when you got five

why say five I like a nice even number six tires is good but hey if you're a biblical man you look like a biblical man seven's a nice biblical number let's do seven

probably get seven tires let's do seven you can fit one of those in the frunk you a cat owner probably get nine tires for nine lives nine lives nine tires

I bet you fit nine tires alright alright yeah they gotcha they mechaniced ya they did they're like one of those in the front. You a cat owner? Probably get nine tires for nine lives. Nine lives, nine tires. I bet you fit nine tires. All right. All right. Yeah. They got you. They mechanicked you. They did.

They're like, you know, you need two. It's not going to be that much more in labor to put those other two on. We're already underneath the whip. Yeah,

the whip. Which that reminds me, I'm sure I've probably told this story on the podcast before. Maybe just kind of recap. Story of getting told you're going to have one thing and then getting switched around.

I'm leading a seventh grade Bible study with K-Life. These guys were studs. John Kierznowski, Oscar Brandmeier, Tate Stockton. If anyone knows them, tell them I'm talking about them on this podcast. Jackson Donaldson. Okay. And they were willing to meet at like 6 a.m. before school to this Bible study at Starbucks. It was awesome. I was like, if they're willing to meet, I will meet them.

Is this... Sorry for interrupting. It's okay. This is the same Bible study that one time your car broke down on the side of the road. Oh, yes. On the way back from that. On the way back. And then I fell asleep while my car was overheating. And then the police said, we thought you were dead. Yes.

Same Bible study. This is a different time when I had car issues. I get pulled over on the way to 6 a.m. Bible study. It's so dark outside. The cop says, yeah, I pulled you over because your tail light is out. And I was like, oh, wow. I didn't know that. I guess, you know, how would you know? So thanks for letting me know. I was like, just out of curiosity.

So I know which one to fix. Which one is it? He's like, actually, I don't remember. Let me go back and see. He's back there and he's looking for kind of a while. He comes back. He's like, well, it's the funniest thing. Both your taillights are working.

While I was back there, I noticed your tags are expired. I was like, oh, my gosh. That's your fault. That's your fault. Which lights? Take a journey back there and see. You know, open the trunk real quick. You have five AK-47s back here, sir.

Oh. Those are my uncles, I think. Oh, shoot. I was just storing them from them. So I'm in a rhythm now where I feel like this seems to happen with cars. You go in for one thing and like, actually, that's fine. This is way worse. That's a thing I feel like is like they always try to like, I don't know, not as much for

your car because yours doesn't have as much mechanical stuff, but I feel like they're always like, and we can fix this while we're in there. And this thing, you don't need to do it, but I probably think about doing it sooner rather than later. I would. Yeah. And then I, in my family, I mean, they're all doing, I always call my friends who are like good at that kind of stuff.

And they're like, no, don't worry about that. Don't worry about that. Yeah. So figured tires, tires are something that every car needs to have good ones yeah so so did that but anyway so i'm just spending all this i think i texted you and i was like it's just the perfect storm of dumb expenses yes having to spend all this money on tires all this money on plumbing and then the very next day i get a venmo from brad and i was like what is this and he said it's from anonymous ghosty giving you a wedding gift

and I know we keep doing this joke of like okay we keep saying thank you Jake doesn't want any more gifts do not do this do not do this but I have to give a shout out to whoever it is they gave me an amount of money I have never been given in my life it is so nice I'm not going to say the amount

but it was just like the day after I was just like kind of bummed. And I think I handled it fine, but it's just like, it's just never fun to have to spend money that you're not anticipating plumbing tires, whatever in the very next day. And anonymous goes, he just gave me money.

Yeah. It was unbelievable. So you know who you are. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have to say thank you publicly on the podcast. Yes.

That's my only way of saying thank you. Yeah. It was one of those things. I, of course I'm not going to tell you, but I want to tell you, but you don't want to know like and i i'm like but it's just so nice it's like holy cow i know so but now i'll just treat every ghost you know it's like maybe they were the person i'll treat everyone even nicer than i would already okay cat's out

of the bag it was actually 2 000 ghosties we had a drive i had a i had like a patreon video on patreon.com slash ghost runners that i made sure you couldn't see. It was like close friends, patron. Oh, cool. And I was like, guys, Jake's having a tough day. And yeah, he needs us. We can just pull this together because we don't even have 2000 patron subscribers, but that was incredible. The close friends we do. Yeah, that's right. The close friends go for all of them. Um, I, I did write down, I just, I just got so tickled by this. Uh, this was on top of all this other stuff going on. Oh, yeah. We were going to shoot this.

We were going to make this video. We need to make it into a short somehow. Somehow. Keep talking. I'm going to grab the beans. Beans. Beans. Go grab the beans.

Beans. So essentially, it's one of those things I think every adult kind of experiences at one point in their life. Man, that smells good. Holy cow. More or less. So Jake's on the phone trying to get information for his accountant about his mortgage and all this stuff. So he's on the phone with his mortgage lender, LukeHoglund.com.

Yeah, my freaking mortgage went up $150 for no reason. Yeah, so he's like, I got to talk to you about this. What's going on? And he's like, and by the way way i don't remember the exact numbers let's just say let's just say by the way i'm seeing like like what i paid for my house you know and what it says it's worth now is like pretty much or what i owe now it was like it was like the loan i took out to get the house and my total amount owed is like pretty much the same number he's like that, that's, that's not right. Like, like it's saying like every month I'm like only like a hundred dollars is going towards my house and like 1800, I don't know what numbers were 1800 is going towards the interest that that's

not right. Right. And you, I can just hear Luke, like, you know, he's on the phone, like Jake's on the phone in the podcast. Do you, I just hear Luke on the other line being like, uh, yeah, it's kind of tough, isn't it? It was one of those like, oh, welcome to adulthood, brother. It's like the same with taxes. It's one of those things where it's like, wait, I'm not making very much money all of a sudden. Yeah. What I had to give this much.

Surely that's I entered in a wrong zero or something along the way, right? Yeah. It was like it was so funny, like listening to you say all that, because it's like I've been there where it's like, man, I've been paying off my mortgage for three years now. I'm going to check how much we have. Make a little dent, probably. It's like, oh, okay. I guess we still have a ways to go on this.

I got nervous because it was for the Promise House, the house here. And when I first saw it, I was like, have I not been paying my mortgage? Because this makes it seem like it's the same amount of what I took out from the bank. You know, like this is like, it's almost nothing has Yeah. You're like, Oh my gosh, my credit score. I mean, and then I only paid it like one time because there's only like $400. It looks like,

no, you've paid six months worth. And as I'm like doing the math, I was like, so this like very modest small house is going to cost me about $2 million. Yeah. You said we were talking about like like what's a good line for this for the short and you're like so i'm gonna buy a lamborghini but you're gonna give me a honda civic so yeah that's a fun reality for you modest but you have to pay for it like it's like oh yeah we paid yeah three hundred thousand dollars for this house but really we're gonna pay yeah 1.4 million yeah whatever it is crazy so i'd learn that i mean it's for the sake it's like well i mean what can you do that that's them's the rules i guess that is the rules keep paying it yeah but

anyway it was such a it was like i told katherine then like later that because it was one of those like classic like just rites of passage into adulthood of like yep look at this i we've all been there that's why i think i think we can all relate to something similar to that whether it's that whether it's student loan, I don't know. All these different things that just the interest is just silly on it. It's like, wait, what? I thought I was successful for having a house, but I don't really have the house. I don't know if I own very much of this thing.

I think my new plan, I even told Rachel this last night. I was like, I'm not looking at anything. No bank accounts, no mortgage. You see this head? It's going in the sand and it's staying there. I was like, money's coming in at anything. No bank accounts, no mortgage. You see this head? It's going in the sand and it's staying there. I was like, money's coming in. We're fine. We have enough.

It doesn't matter. Smart. Dave Ramsey would be proud of you for that. I'm just not going to think about it. Yeah. We're going to be fine. Everything's fine. Yeah.

I mean, what's the worst that can happen? What, a recession is any second going to happen? Oh, it's so funny, dude. Do you feel like what we do is a little recession proof? Oh, I don't think so. I don't know. Well, no, no. I don't think it is either.

I don't know if anything is beer. I think beers are recession proof. People are drinking that beer no matter what. Storage units. You think so? Yeah. Okay. We don't talk about economy. Yeah's it no because i think if if

people don't have as much money they're not gonna buy merch or they're gonna cut back on patreon or they're gonna not come to our shows that we're theoretically going to do someday yeah yeah yeah all those things or they're not going to be able to afford youtube.com once youtube starts charging yeah all those things. But who knows? Maybe. I mean, we,

we talked about threats one time for at the retreat. Oh yeah. And one of them was like, uh, if YouTube just decides to hate us all of a sudden and not show our stuff to anybody. So we're like, how do we get out of that? We make more podcasts.

We do more podcasts, less algorithmic things. Right. So, uh, it's Wednesday, Brad. Oh yeah.

Do you want to share your win of the week? It's Wednesday on a Wednesday. Yeah. Do you, it's when W I N timing Wednesday, not Wednesday. Okay. Yeah. My win of the week is actually a conversation we had yesterday. Uh, Jake and I got to talk and hang out virtually with Josh and Andy from Sunday. Cool teas. Oh yeah. Good win of the week. Win of the week. So, yeah, if you don't know who they are, you might recognize them. I feel like they're pretty recognizable guys. They have, you know, awesome beards.

And then there's Jake and I just being like, hey, how's it going? We can't grow a mustache. And so, anyway, but we talked to them. They're doing similar things to us on a bigger scale or, you know, not exactly the same, but it was fun to like, just anytime you can talk to another like like-minded Christian guys who are doing something funny and similar to you and we can kind of share back and forth and potentially collaborate with them. It's just energetic. It's just,

it's just fun to like, to like, you know, share in your struggles, share in your wins, trade secrets, trade secrets, trade wins. Should we tell them the trade secret or talk about the wind direction uh trade secret let's let's keep it a secret um anyway but they were just they were just awesome um and so that was my win of the week was just going away from that being like i feel like we we have a new friend not just a one-day friend we'll have them lifetime for lifetimes of friends so yeah they're great They do podcasts and they do sketches on their YouTube channels. It's like, great. Yeah.

Very similar to us. Yeah. My win of the week is... Sorry, shout out to Trent who hooks us up. Trent Roseman. Yeah, Lickum Bearcat. Yep.

My win of the week is I've been getting more sleep. Oh. Kind of fun. A few nights ago, I got 11 and a half hours. Yeah, you were like pretty casually the other night.

You were like, yeah, I went to bed at 930 and I was like, look at you go. Yeah. You're just a half hours. Yeah. You were like pretty casually the other night. You were like, yeah, I went to bed at nine 30 and I was like, look at you go. Yeah. You're just a new man. It's been trying it out. And it turns out it's, it's better than not sleeping that much.

Did you say 11 and a half hours? Yeah. I was pretty behind on sleep that night. I'm not doing that regularly, but just trying to get like eight, nine consistent. Yeah. Yeah.

Fun dude. I know I've talked to you about this. This is my like poultry of the week is I've just been, something's up with the circadian rive where I'm just waking up at like four every single morning. And so then I'm trying to wake up at like five 30 and I'm up from four to five, like just thinking about things that are irrational. Like I don't need to be thinking about them at this time in the morning.

Like, and oftentimes it's not even real thoughts. It's like, it's like, is girls eyebrow hair different than our eyebrow? Where do they put that hair when they're done with it is it just so small that just like gets microscopically biodegraded um and no one of them that i remember legitimately thinking was like okay if we restain the floors we'd have to take out like all the furniture from the house we could probably put it in the garage because it's like pretty warm weather and gathering.

You're just parking the driveway. But how would we get the, the refrigerator in the garage? Maybe we could get like a, like one of those cool. And I'm like, we're not even thinking about restanding our floor. What is,

what is happening? It's four 30 in the morning. And I, I, it's one of those things where you're not awake enough to like, tell yourself like, Hey, stop thinking about this.

It's like, I don't know. It's the weirdest thing. And so anyway, and then I fall asleep at five and I'm trying to get up at five 30. And so then at five 30, I'm like, I wake up and I'm like, I'm too tired. And I start snoozing again. So I don't know how to fix that. Maybe I'm, I've thought about just getting up at four, but then now I've been starting to get up at two 30 because I want to get up at four. Oh my God. It's just, I don't know. I've

never had a hard time sleeping and all of a sudden, like, I don't know what's going on. What if you set your alarm for like seven till your mind and your body, you're waking up at seven. They don't wake up at five 30. Yeah. Maybe it's just like, yeah. Alarm minus one and a half hours is when you're waking up. Yeah. So yeah, that's okay. I'll try that. Problem solved. Okay. Dude, that reminds, I had a dream this week that, uh, I was married to Rachel. Rachel is still who she is now. Nice. But she was Britney Spears. What do you mean?

What do you mean she was who she was? How does that work? I mean, like most dreams, it didn't make a ton of sense. Like, does she talk like Britney Spears, sing like Britney Spears, look like Britney Spears? No, I think she was just exactly Rachel. But for some reason, I remember my dream being like, that is kind of crazy. People don't really mention that much to me, but like, it is crazy. Like I am marrying Britney Spears. People don't talk about the fact that she's Britney Spears. That's what

my dream was. It was like, she's exactly who she is. It even looks like Rachel. But for some reason, I was just like categorizing her as Britney Spears. Like even when we go like play blackjack at the casino and they're like, all right, uh, you know, 11 and she says, hit me baby one more time. No one even like mentions it. Like what in the world? Like that's a pretty big song. When East Palestine had the train derailment and the water and everything, you know, and Rachel Brittany was like, Hey, that's toxic. No one was like, wait, you would know that's like, cause you're the toxic person. That was your tour and your album and your song. No one says that. Yeah. So that was kind of a funny dream. She's just exactly britney

spears in no ways other than just the way i look at her did she like wake up every morning be like when she's like yawning anyway that's okay so those are our dreams of the week weird dreams of the week what is your win of the week sorry or did we already say it? 11 and a half hours sleep. That was it. Oh, okay. Okay.

Yes. Thanks for asking though. Did you hear about the Rachel and Catherine fiasco with the neighbors across the street? Oh, Rachel did kind of text me about that. She said, yeah, right in between our properties. Yelling, some domestic yelling. Yeah. Sunday night.

Yeah. Sunday night. They all of a sudden like they were, Catherine was going on a walk and of course the kid's always going to go. I miss Rachel's house. Say hi to her. And so it turns out they didn't get very far on their walk. They just went and played in your backyard here and they come home and Catherine's like, sorry, it took us so long to get home, but there's like some serious yelling going across the street, not on the Sabbath guys. And I don't, Catherine said they heard something about some, some, like somebody was cheating on somebody or something. It's like students pretty. Yeah.

Yeah. Hey, my praxis stop using chat GPT to write all your stuff. Okay. Use cliff notes. Um, yeah. Yeah. That's probably what it was like these these adults in non-traditional community college. Yeah, I was going back. And so, yeah, Catherine was like, I feel like we couldn't leave with this going on right across the street. And I was like, well, do I need to go over there and, I don't know, protect somebody? I don't know what I would have done.

Who's cheating on who? Yeah, right. She's like, no, the neighbor next door is kind of out there looking around just in case. But then did you hear Rachel? Rachel like was updating Catherine via text after Catherine got home. And she said, yeah,

still a lot of yelling and a lot of F boobs. She went to say F bombs. Like, yeah, there's a ton of F boobs going on over there. The kids aren't here. The F boobs are flying. The F boobs are flinging out.

And so, yeah, anyway, I think that was like Catherine started dying laughing. I was like, what? She said F boobs are flying. The F boobs are flinging out. And so, yeah, anyway, I think that was like Catherine started dying laughing. I was like, what? She said F boobs. So anyway. Speaking of the kids walking over, Rachel's, I think, started hiding things in our little

like bird house. Oh, I heard. I heard that. Like, we need to go check at the bird house. Yeah. Yeah. It's so fun. And so I think.

But now Rachel went and bought. Rachel is always buying things for your kids. I feel like just constantly. It's like, where'd you get those sunglasses? Where'd you get that little chick that goes? Miss Rachel gave it to us. She got them like Valentine's Day presents. Yeah.

And now she bought like 60 Easter eggs. And I think it's just kind of like every day hide like a couple eggs. That is so fun. Or whatever. Just like something to do. Just go find an egg. Oh my gosh. I love it.

Miss Rachel's house. That's awesome. it's kind of fun um real quick question are you buzzing or can you zoom in on me please hyman because i am buzzing for beans that's a great shot you look good there yeah thank you gosh yeah there it is hey wow we look good it's a colorful episode i just got distracted just look at ourselves this looks great we got a nice like 40 inch tv right there against the wall we get to see ourselves wow wow um anyway i could yeah it's not someone else that's buzzing it's you who's buzzing for beans right yes i'm big time buzzing for beans and it's because of our wonderful sponsor, Main Street Roasters. If you don't know by now, you haven't been listening very long because they have been sponsoring us now for, I think it's 19 years, something like that.

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So let's go ahead and let's go ahead and if they haven't paid i want you to be quiet if they have paid i want you to say something okay no i'm not no that's not that's not you that's not you revealing anything i i said a week later i will i will oh i can't well this podcast isn't coming out till next week come on He's too nice. I think I could go three for three on who hasn't paid. One of the guys, though, that I'm kind of surprised... Can you guys hear me okay?

Yeah. It echoes back to me. Yeah, one of the guys is one of the first ones that said, hey, where do I send the money to? Probably got more money to? All this. Probably got more money than any of us. Oh, interesting.

Jake hasn't paid yet. Yeah, Jake, come on. Oh, sorry. Get on it. Jake's been paying for plumbers. Actually, Jake got me a dollar to test my Venmo, so I suckered him for a dollar already. Oh, yeah, I had to test the Venmo first.

Death by paper cuts. He's been loving Venmo. He likes the chat feature. You been enjoying Venmo more recently? No, because nobody's paid. That's not as fun now. Nothing to see anymore. That's fun. I'll call you when we're done on my way to lunch or something.

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Bees just reminded me of that. She wants to like sell beads. And then Job, which is Will Arnett, he's like, bees? What are you going to do with bees? And they keep trying to tell him like, no, she says beads. And he just, he's already got it in his head that it's bees and so the whole rest of the episode he's like and we're gonna make a lot of honey he just keeps referencing bee type things oh that one stings maybe i need nothing is about bees maybe i need to watch that uh show with somebody who

loves it because like i just i get the jokes i just don't think they're like, oh, that's amazing. Really? Yeah. And maybe I don't watch enough other comedy shows because I'm like, I don't see a lot of shows written this way. This is very clever writing. That's always been my belief is that it is crazy clever. Yeah.

But clever to me doesn't always mean I laugh out loud. Oh, no. Hey, no one's saying I'm laughing out loud. Hey, what? Hey, hey, hey. No one's laughing out loud here. Okay. No, people say it's

the funniest show like they've ever watched well i i didn't say that but you're saying i'm saying it's really funny it's really well done i really appreciate but you think a really funny show would you'd be laughing i don't even really laugh at the office out loud you don't i've been watching more office lately again and i've been laughing a few times like yeah i've gone on record the only shows that can really make me laugh out loud are whose lines in any way, because it is so like, I mean, that really catches you off guard because it's all improv improv and the occasional Nathan for you. Yeah.

Cause those are also a little bit of improv improv and also just very absurd. Really? Office doesn't make you laugh. Not allowed. It's very funny. Well, yeah, I'm laughing in my head. Really? Office doesn't make you laugh? Not out loud. It's very funny. I'm laughing in my head. Not out loud. Okay.

I think that Arrested Development, very clever, very funny, but not funny enough for me to laugh out loud. And there's plenty of other shows where I laugh out loud. Because people are like, it's the funniest show of all time. And I'm like, then you should be laughing hard. And I just don't see those times for me. So, and you agree. It sounds like you're expecting everyone else to go off of your, the way that you judge laughter. You want everyone

else to base it off of like a laughing out loud metric. You don't think that funny means you have to laugh out loud. You don't think that funny means like you think that you can be somebody can be funny without anybody ever laughing at them yeah really that's what the rest of development is but i i think other people laugh out loud yeah that's what i was like our standards for for what is funny is different so you can't expect everyone else to base it off of the same standard that you have fair enough fair enough, that's what I'm saying. Anyway, we've got some new segments. Sorry, we have one new segment. We might have new ones. We have one new segment this week,

which could be a train wreck, but it could be really fun. And then we're going to do, which I feel like these episodes are getting long, so we might do some voice memos towards the end. But we've got a new segment. Brad, I think you will you will introduce it well you started off live from shawn e it's wednesday morning live that's right uh a little

bit of uh we were just talking about improv we are going to be doing some improv scenes the other person um doesn't really need to do too much. Showcasing new characters that we've thought of. Maybe these will be in videos someday. Maybe this will be a funny, awkward podcast segment. Maybe both. At the very least. So, yeah, it'll be... Yeah, we're just...

We're trying this out. New characters. Okay. You want me to go first? You want to go first? I can go first. Okay. Okay.

What's your character going to be? This is a guy who's pretty sure... So you want me to go first? You want to go first? Uh, I can go first. Okay. Okay. Um, what's your character going to be? This is a guy who's pretty sure, like I, I've just recently, I'm pretty sure you don't know my name. I don't know your name. Yeah. You don't know my name.

Um, so, uh, yeah, man, if you could just, uh, Venmo me,

that'd be great. Yeah. Okay. Um, yeah. Do you have like a QR code? No, just,

I think just type it in. Just, okay. It's just like my first name and last name. Okay. Sure. Do you have like a QR code? No, just, I think just type it in. Just, it's just like my first name and last name. Okay. Sure. And like, it's on Google? No weird spellings. Yeah. It's just exactly how it sounds. That's how it is. Okay. Yeah. No numbers or anything? No, just, just the name.

Okay. And is it first name first or second? So it's just, it's just straight up. Just my name and so yeah how much actually i want to i want to i want to see you type it in type in the name or type in the amount for the you whichever you yeah to go and type in the amount first and then i just okay why you want to see it just you know i think it'd be fun like how often you want to see it? I think it'd be fun. How often do you get to see someone do the Venmo for you? Yeah. It's $12, right?

Yeah. Okay. Great. Then you just type in my name. That's your name, right? You just type it in. Just type it in? Well, I feel like I already typed it in.

That's why I didn't show you. Well, that is my name. That's a character. Okay. Do you want me to send that to you twelve dollars no okay discard we're done yeah that's the character okay okay uh my character is a lawyer a jd if you will jd what What? Juris... What is it? What's a lawyer's initials when they get a law degree? Oh, I have no idea. JD.

JD Power & Associates. Not the same thing. Attorney initials. Jurisdoctorate, maybe? Should I use JD or ESQ? JD stands for Jurisdoctor. ESQ stands for Esquire. That's fun.

I'm a JD. I'm a JD. Good for you for knowing that. Thanks. But I've watched too much Theo Vaughn in my free time. All right. And so now I'm starting to like, like I'm giving you advice on,

we'll say like a will and testament. Like you're trying to start like a will and trust for your family but i've watched too much theo von so i've accidentally like started talking like him okay great in regular voice so yeah so um i've never done this before but um just figured it'd be something smart to do yeah dude like it's super important that you do this. I don't know, man. I just, I've seen too many people come through here, through these doors and just, you know, crawdad bites them the wrong way. And then all of a sudden they're gone for the count. So I think it's smart that you're doing this. So go ahead and fill out that paperwork there. And, uh, you know okay i am a jd yeah uh graduated from harvard so uh wow have

you done this a lot for for people like me dude i don't know probably like six seven years now yeah six seven years but i before this i was you know down on the the banks of the Louisiana River going, you know, their Louisiana River down there. You know, just going for crawdad. Honestly, I wasn't in crawdads when I was there. More like craw. Like I didn't really have a dad down there. I was just more like, shoot, man, I don't know, like a third grade teacher. Just like a third grade teacher that was a really cool guy,

you know, like Mr. Anderson from third grade. So I had like a craw of Mr. Andersons that I was hanging out with down there before I was doing this. So fill out the paperwork and we'll get you all set. Thank you. It's fun. Is that good?

Trying out new characters. All right, our next character is just a guy who's really excited for summer. Okay. Okay. Great. So, dude's coming up.

Summer, right? Yeah, man. Oh, yeah. It's going to be so fun. Like, we just get the boys together and like, go lay out by the pool or something.

Sure. That'd be fun. Like, you know, have to put some sunscreen on or whatever. Yeah, because you got to be careful with that stuff.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, maybe there's like spots I can't reach and like, you guys put like sunscreen on my like back, you know, around then. Summer's going to be careful with that stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like maybe there's like spots I can't reach and like you guys put like sunscreen on my like back, you know, around then. Summer is going to be awesome.

Like I fall asleep at the pool and then you guys like start mess with me and like you put like a smiley face of like suntan lotion on my chest and like the eyes would be the nipples, obviously. Yeah, yeah. You want us to do that or that would be exciting? Summer is going to be awesome. Like, like we're all by the pool and like,

we form a massage train, like with suntan lotion, but like at a certain point, you guys are all just massaging me with like suntan lotion and you guys are messing with, you guys are like pranking me and you're like, eat it, eat it. And you're like putting it in my mouth and we're all just having fun by the pool. I mean, i mean yeah if you have we ever done that before oh that'd be so i love summer really you're just i don't know if is it summer that you love or is it just guys and and you guys your catherine could stay home and you just just spf everywhere SPF everywhere. SPF everywhere. That's character. That's it. Okay. I only came with one character, so I'm

thinking of more. Okay, that's good. Then we can just end it there. Okay. Great. That was the characters. Wednesday morning live. It's only going to get better, guys. It's our first time. Yeah. Okay, next. Is there any way to know how long we've been recording time? I forgot to do my timer this time. Yeah. Okay. Next, is there any way to know how long we've been recording time? And I forgot

to do my timer this time. Oh, okay. Okay. Not bad. Cool. Let's do, did you have any in mind, Brad, that you want to listen to? No, I don't really. Okay. I'm sure they're all incredible. Cool. Well, let's just start playing some, see what happens. Wait, not this one. I'm just kidding. Hey, Jake and Brad. This is Walker from Dallas. This is my second voice memo. I was excited to hear my first on the podcast a little while ago. But Jake, when you were talking about let's normalize, not saying let's normalize, it made me think about, so you know how like if someone doesn't remember your name, sometimes they'll say, oh man, I'm sorry I don't remember your name, but I'm really good at faces. You know, I remember faces.

It's like, well, yeah, duh. Like have you ever met someone who doesn't remember faces, but is really good at remembering names? It just doesn't make sense to me so i just wanted to come on here and say let's normalize not saying i'm good at remembering faces but bad at memorizing names because i feel like that's everybody thanks guys that is a pretty funny bit i'm great with names not with faces because no one's ever said that yeah somebody in this room is named brad like i don know who, because I'm not good with faces. I like the idea. Yeah.

Tymon's like one of like eight kids in his family. He's like, okay, one of you guys is named Tymon, but I can't remember which one. And I've never met the other ones. Yeah. Yeah. That's a funny, funny concept, Walker. Yeah. Great with names.

Terrible with faces. It is true. I think everyone, though, yeah, you're either good with names. Terrible with faces. It is true. Like I have. Yeah, I think everyone though. Yeah, you're either good with names or you're not like like there's no one that ever is like, oh, yeah, I yeah, recognize your face, but

don't recognize. What am I trying to say? I don't know. There is some type of like disorder. I feel like I saw on like Oprah or Dr. Phil back in the day where like they can't see human faces Have you heard what I'm not describing? I mean, I'm trying to read this like a repressed memory of like 20 years ago But there is something about there like yeah, I can't see human faces. I don't know but do you feel like I?

This this it does show you like how you can remember faces really well because if I've seen you in one movie You could have the smallest role ever. And then I see in another movie, I'm like, I know I've seen that person. And then I look back at their filmography and they're in one small scene from like one movie I've seen once. And it's like, Oh, they were in the Italian job, you know? Yeah. And they were, yeah, they were like the, you know, 12th person on the cast list. Like had like, you know, probably three minutes in the movie, but I recognize him from that one time. That's all it takes. So I found it.

Prosopagnosia. Oh, yeah. Also known as face blindness. Yeah, of course. It's a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces. Okay.

So like you still see parts of the face normally, but all faces look the same to you. It also says it affects people differently. They it says like they cannot tell difference between strangers and people they know well. all faces look the same to you. It also says it affects people differently. They, it says like they cannot tell difference between strangers and people they know. Well,

no, that's really, I don't know. I'm just reading. I had a, I had a friend at Cerner. She was black. And she said that all white people look the same.

And I said, how in the world is that true? Did she say, well, I have prosopac. I got this thing going on where, yeah, I'm like, like I understand. But then again, well, I have prosopac, prosopagnosia. She's like, I got this thing going on where, yeah,

I'm like, like I understand, but then again, like I've heard, you know, I feel like people say that about like Chinese people or something like,

oh, I can't tell them apart. That's why I mark my girlfriend's arm after we meet at Benihana. Yeah. And it's like, but,

but white people, you and I look nothing alike, right? Maybe she had prosopagnosia. Like she's just walking in like, man, I don't know. One of you guys' name is Jake. One of you is Brad. I can't tell you which one's which.

I'm like, okay, Ashley. That is kind of a funny thought. Yeah, it was very interesting. I had never heard that before. So if you're out there and you're black and you feel that way, holler at us because I would love to hear that. Also, if you're out there, no matter the race,

and want nightmares, Google prosopagnosia and then click on images and see what they see. Sometimes some of them are a bit terrifying. Okay. Um, anyway, thank you Walker for the, uh, for the voice memo. We'll listen to another one. Hey, Jake and Brad, it's Ashley from Florida. Um, first time ever leaving a voice memo. So hi. I wanted to just pass along a comment that something hit me just like a ton of bricks today. I can't believe it took me this long to realize this. But Jake, how long did it take you to realize that you and Rachel are your own little biblical Bible story characters brought to life, Jacob and Rachel.

I don't know why I thought that was the coolest thing, but I just thought it was so interesting. And how long did it take you to realize that when you guys started dating? Thank you guys so much for the podcast. I started listening last summer. All through the current episodes, I went back to the beginning, started listening again. I'm up to about episode 85. So thank you so much for keeping me company while I work from home. I'm here by myself while my husband's at work, kids are at school. So you guys keep me company for about six hours a day.

So thanks so much. Bye-bye. Pull us up on YouTube and watch the show, baby. I would say I've never really realized that there's any kind of biblical, you know, parallel because her name is Brittany. There's no Jacob and Brittany Spears in the Bible. So I don't know what that would be. No, honestly, I don't think I even thought about it until maybe we made it public and then other people started being like, oh, Jacob and Rachel. And I was like, oh, nice.

Yeah. So I didn't think about it at all. Maybe never would have thought about it had other people not told me. There was a family at our church that had kids named Jacob, Rachel, and Leah. And I think that's even funnier. I'm like, and the girls, I think they were,

maybe they were twin girls named Rachel and Leah. I'm like, interesting biblical choices there. Yeah. So this prosopagnosia thing, first of all, Brad Pitt apparently is trying to have it. He's trying to. If you look up Google images, half of them are Brad Pitt. And I'm like, why is he on there it looks like that thing like so our friend sophie does these watercolors you know i'm talking about like and they're they're

like faces or they're like they're like the family members but then the faces are never they never have eyes or anything it's just like blank that's what these things look like it just people just don't have faces to these people. That was that the idea here. This is the one I saw too. Oh my gosh. Where'd you get there? There you go. Oh, you looked up disorder where you can't see faces.

I just looked up prosopagnosia. Oh yeah. I guess it did. That was before I knew the name. Yeah. Look up disorder where you can't see faces. That's even better. So.

Well, let's do another one. Yes. I clicked it like several seconds ago guys i promise okay sorry andrew compton we tried to play it and nothing's coming through we'll try a different one okay this will show audio is coming through check the old bluetooth connected sound output left a voice memo this this one time um for this like first time first voice memo so let's see how this goes abigail um i've been i was listening to some older episodes and i really like the idea of ghosties being the official ghostie of you know like whatever like the official cleveland ohio ghostie i am claiming myself to be the official sacramento ghostie and also um i'm

putting myself to be the first and only muslim ghost runner listener so this is my question what is like have you ever had a time when you said something that you didn't realize was really offensive and realized it later on? Thanks. Love the podcast. Love you long time. Bye. Have you ever just like said Rachel slurs and can you tell us about this? What's like something like maybe from your past?

It was a one time event. Wasn't on camera or anything that could get you in trouble that you want to say now on camera i mean honestly the first thing i thought of which is that was when i talked about um when i set that mexican woman's purse on the ground and thought i was just like doing us all a favor and then realized oh culturally that might have been rude but you weren't well i don't know okay yeah i don't think I didn't say something, but I did something and then later learned that, Oh, I guess that was disrespectful. Um, tough question. I'm trying to think of like a joking answer almost. Cause I'm like, I don't, I don't think hopefully I haven't said anything super. Yeah. I don't think we've lived our lives in a way where it's like, Oh, we're to begin with the regrets of things I've said. Boy, oh boy.

No, that's weird. I don't know. Not weird, but thanks for being a Sacramento Muslim. You know you're a true Muslim when you're saying it, Muslim. Because I'm saying Muslim. Oh, like with a Z? Mm-hmm. You also hear it Muslim sometimes, too, which also seems more authentic.

That's like, yeah, people in Alabama, like in the South, they say Muslim. Oh, that's actually not authentic. No, I don't know. That's the South. Okay, we'll try South, they say. Oh, that's actually not authentic. No, I don't know. That's the South. Okay. We'll try one or two more. Hi, Jake and Brad. Just wanted to let you guys know I love the show. I've been listening to the podcast for about a month now.

I love it. Uh, so, uh, I was just wondering, how did you guys get your, uh, like, uh, business YouTube, uh, that type of stuff, uh, started and get it off the ground? Uh, thank you. Also, can you guys please mention that it's my birthday on Wednesday And yeah, I love the new shows. Thank you. And see you guys next time on the next show. Yeah, there it is. Happy birthday, Andrew. Andrew.

Yeah. Today, Wednesday, maybe or one of the Wednesdays. It's every Wednesday. I think I've had a birthday on a Wednesday. I get it. Yeah. Andrew ends in W. Wednesday starts with W. Probably the same. There it is um how do we get started on youtube jake

jake's jake's the youtube guy let's see i mean the podcast was easy i mean it was just like anchor.fm just drag and drop an mp3 file boom you have a podcast um yeah they've made it really easy these days yeah that stuff youtube i stuff. YouTube, I mean. YouTube.fm or? I don't even know where to start. Like, is this story start when I first bought a camera? Is this story start with jean shorts? Let's start it with jean shorts.

Yeah, I think having, you know, having a vision of the type of videos you want to make, treating it like a real job, even though it isn't a real job at the beginning, setting aside time to write, setting aside time to shoot, setting aside a way you're going to edit, whether it's going to pay someone else to edit, you know, treating it like a business from the get-go will help you out in the long run. Begin with the end in mind. And we said, we're going to make these types of videos. Let's all throw out ideas, make them happen, write them, shoot them, edit them, do your best to learn

from your mistakes and keep posting baby and be diligent to keep at it. Even when maybe you're not getting the results you want. Good. Yeah. Couldn't have said it better myself. I don't know. It's hard to kind of very succinctly talk about how to start a YouTube business, but. No. Yeah. I think, I think, yeah, everything you said was good. I think the thing that we feel like we have the most success with is probably relatability more than anything. But I don't know if that's his content of what he's doing. Maybe he's trying to go for a niche, and that's really great too. The riches are in the niches. Ooh, come up with that? Nope. I think I say it all the time, actually.

But her business professor in college, Dr. Lynch, said that. Yes, he was the one that came up with it. It's a lady, you racist. Whoa. Okay. What was that girl's question? Abigail. Abigail.

I stereotyped a professor as being a man. My bad. Guilty. All right. Let's do one more. Hi, Jake and Brad. This is Selah from Nebraska. It is currently the day after the Super Bowl

and contrary to popular opinion I'm not a Chiefs fan and I'm very mad about the game and all my friends have been very annoying and gloating over me about it and I'm curious how you guys deal with annoying

fans after a heartbreaking loss. Well, I'd say first thing is don't cheer for a team in Philadelphia if you live in Nebraska, which is like three hours away from the team that was... Do you think she was rooting for the Eagles or you think she was just anti-Chiefs? Oh, because she probably cheers for the Nebraska NFL team. Yeah. They think that they're an NFL team over there and they're not even really a college team. They're struggling.

I'm sorry to say it. Nebraska. Everyone thinks like everyone, Nebraska thinks like the university of Nebraska is so good. It's like football, football. You don't understand Tim. Nebraska.

It's different, man. You know, a mod green, like Ndamukong Su. Like, yeah, you guys haven't had a good team in like 15 years.

So, Hey, just saying Scott Frost was a great hire, by the way. How do you deal with unruly fans? The best way. And it's, it's easily the most annoying thing. If, if in fan is truly unruly, if you just lean back into it and just say like, you're right, you guys are way better than us.

Dang. Almost like to an extent. Like I used to use that Scott after he beat me in Madden, he'd be like, that's what I'm talking about. Suck it, Brad. You know, all this stuff. And I'm like, dude, you're better than me. You are so much better. You're good for you. Good. Dude, this is going to be weird. Can I get your autograph? Do you mind like giving me tips on how you beat me? Cause like I could never beat you, dude. Like that is so you're so much better. And he would get so angry because all he wanted was the satisfaction of him trash talking me and it bothering me. And instead it was like, like, and I, I used to do it to my cousin all the time.

I was the, I was the Scott when I like play him in ping pong and be like, I'm going to whoop you in ping pong. He's like, you're probably right. I mean, you're just, you are just really good at ping pong. I mean, you're better at me. You are. Yeah. You're much, much better player. So, I mean, I wouldn't, I would be shocked if I beat you and it's like, gosh, that's not fun.

Yeah. And so honestly, that's the best thing I can say to do is just, just lean back into it and be like, yeah, the chiefs are like almost too annoying amount. Like the chiefs are so good. Like,

Oh, I would be so happy if I were you. Like, there's no chance that the Eagles would have even won that. You know, like just like, cause if they're, if they're trying to get a reaction out of you,

you're giving them the other reaction, the opposite reaction. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm sorry that the chiefs fans are unruly though. I tried to be very complimentary of the Eagles cause I liked that team a lot. I thought you were very ruly. I was trying to be bangles.

I wasn't so ruly about bangles. We have a little bit of beef with, but yeah, the, the Eagles, I was, I was very happy for them to bangles fans fans out there, I just want to say, I've been mispronouncing you guys for a while. I've been saying Bengals, and I'm going to try to get better. Bengals, you said? Bengals, like a, you know, are you a Google or a Bing guy? Bengals.

Which doesn't make sense because it's a Bengal tiger. Bengals. I feel like you also, if we're talking about pronunciations, you say, you make it sound like Olathe is Olathe. You notice that one? Oh, do I? Like U-H. You use it like an E, like Olathe is Olathe. You notice that one? Oh, do I? Like you use it like an E, like Olathe. Olathe. Yeah. And you would like

to hear more of a long O sound? It starts with an O, so I think so. Oh, Olathe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, I got someone really there. Fun. Thank you, Selah. Pretty name. Selah, isn't it? Sayla.

Struggling. I like that. Saylo swing chariots. Uh, oh my gosh. We have to end with the YouTube comment of the week and I am not prepared. It's pulling up on my phone. You know what, Jake? It's not a YouTube comment of the week, brother. It's a comment of the week. Sorry. You're right. And mine, it is a comment of the week. Mine is coming from the Instagram DMs. Okay. Does that count as a comment of the week? Sure. Um, this is from Zach Sheely. Uh, Hey, Jake and Brad, I had jet chat GPT, write a review for the podcast and wanted to share the result. Ooh, fun. I've been listening to the podcast since the peeing sitting down episode, which he said is not okay. By the way, definitely do not normalize something like that. I don't

know. I've enjoyed it so much every week. Thanks for the laughter and joy you provide every Monday and now Wednesday, and hope you enjoy what is possibly your first review from an AI. So here it comes. From chat GCPs? GGPs?

I think it's like GDP. It's like an economy thing. Okay, chat gross domestic product. Yeah. The Ghostrunners podcast, hosted by Jake Triplett and Brad Ellis, is a highly entertaining, engaging podcast that is sure to keep listeners hooked from the very first episode.

The hosts have a natural and effortless chemistry that translates into an easygoing, relaxed atmosphere, making it feel like you're hanging out with friends. That gets me in my feels, chat GTPs. I'm not going to read this whole thing, but the last thing of it says, overall, the Ghost Runners podcast is a highly entertaining and engaging show that's perfect for anyone

looking for a fun and lighthearted podcast. Jake and Brad's dynamic chemistry, relatable humor, and well-structured format. So well-structured, brother. That's us, baby. Make for a highly enjoyable listening experience. Whether you're a fan of pop culture, current events, GDP.

Suntan lotion. Or just good conversation, the Ghost Runners podcast is definitely worth checking out. Did they say anything about your Theo Vaughn character? Man, I don't know about that. Let me see.

It did not say anything about Theo Vaughn. No gross domestic product about that? No. Maybe next week. Yeah, fun. Fun DM.

My YouTube comment, my comment of the week comes from YouTube. I always see this person's name. No idea how to pronounce it. G-O-K-C-E. You seen that name before? G-O-K?

G-O-K-C-E. It's like go-K-C-E. G-O-K-C-E. Go-C. Go-C. It's Serbian. Tomogachi. Anyway, Gachi Leonard.

Big fan. Always see you in the comments no idea how to pronounce her name she said last week's wednesday episode love love the ladies on the pod they're so sweet and awesome katherine i want to be like you when i grow up rachel is the sweetest girl congrats on your upcoming wedding there are so many comments that kind of share the same sentiments but yeah people loving katherine loving the motherly advice. She's the best. Yeah, it's awesome. She's wonderful, man. Fun to have the ladies on. Fun.

Fun all around, man. Okay, I think it's been another episode. Any final thoughts? Final thoughts. Yeah, let me pull up some final thoughts real quick. I have been telling people to chill while driving, and it's been really fun for me. What do you mean? Yeah, yeah, the other, yes. Yeah. You don't, you don't get that. Um,

the other day I was driving on a shiny mission Parkway and the speed limit was 50, 50, 55, and I was going 58 miles an hour. And this guy was acting like I was going, you know, 20 miles an hour was tailing me. Oh yeah. And I just look in my mirror and I made eye contact with them. And I just went like this, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, like just doing that. And it bothered the heck out of them. And eventually when they had the time they got around me and the whole time, like they passed me, they were like looking at me all bad. And I'm just like, Hey, Hey, 58 and 55. Yeah. Like I'm not, I'm not some grandpa here. And it's just, it's a really, really satisfying feeling to like be very chill very calm and really rile them up so I guess it's like the opposite of like being unruly they're

being unruly to you and you're just like hey because because the last thing that they want to do whenever you're going that fast or whenever they're going that fast is tell you to slow down if anyone has been listening only in the last year or so you maybe missed out on Brad's other strategy that he does on the road. Thumbs down. It's a great move. Maybe I should start. I should have, yeah, as he was passing. It's the best finger to display while driving. Just a nice, simple

like, I'm just disappointed. Like, that's just not good. Yeah, and if you're like just like really like motherly upset, just do the captain thumbs down. Guys. Come on, guys. You're tailgating me i'm just not appreciative of that okay so just calm down okay anyway that's so funny yeah i've been thinking about shiny mission parkway recently because three lane road yep uh 45 mile an hour speed limit during like

kind of the you know the heavy stretch you never end up going 45 miles an hour. Sure you do. Oh, never. Sure. I think it's just always, like someone is holding back the pack. It is like a slow golfer. They just think like,

oh, I'm playing a little slow today. But what you don't realize is this has like an accordion, like butterfly effect where now someone playing like five hours after you, they can't get their full round in because you played so slow at 9 a.m like these people who are so slow to pull away from a stoplight and so slow to like make any kind of like changes or lane changes

anything like yeah they're making everyone behind them so much slower and they miss stoplights there's a stretch near our house that's got a bunch of stoplights like five probably in a mile but there's the spot like by long john Silvers. You know Long John Silvers is? Yeah. You got to be watching, dude. You can easily be going over that bridge, going down to Long John Silvers, going a solid 55.

And there's always cops down there. So I'm just saying right now, be careful. It just seems like I'm just shocked because it's not even right lane, not even left lane where there could be turning. Middle lane. Every light is green. Why are we not going 45 miles an hour?

We never, ever, ever. And I know this because now with like the Promise House being, I've been driving to this house four days a week for six months now. You know, just like, just never going the speed limit. Bothersome. Yeah. I'm sorry. We'll talk to somebody.

I want people to do their part. I want people to do their part. Who do we talk to about this? Mayor? I think this is what you call congressman about. That's the congressman thing. Chuck Grassley. I'm going to give him a ring.

Chuck, what are you talking about? Any state's congressman.. Chuck Grassley. I'm going to give him a ring. Chuck, what are you about? Chinese Parkway. Just any state's congressman. Yeah, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Perfect. Cool, man. Final thoughts.

Tell a friend. Oh, yeah. If your friend likes YouTube, if your friend likes watching things, it looks great now. Yeah. Watch the show on YouTube. Listen on Spotify, Apple,

wherever you listen to podcasts. But we ask just please tell a friend that might enjoy this podcast. We'd really appreciate it. Yeah. Tell five friends is what we're actually If you can, text a few. How about six? Six. You might as well do seven, right? If you're going to upgrade to seven,

find eight. For Kobe. You know what? Hey, we've always said we're like a football and soccer playing podcast first, so let's just do 11. Like just get a whole team. Okay. Just do it. That's all we ask.

Yeah. Thank you guys. Thank you, Tymon. Thank you, Brad. Thank you for everyone listening. We'll see you on Monday, baby. See you on Monday. Love you guys.

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