Ghostrunners - 215 - The Wildest Story Yet

Episode Date: April 5, 2023

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bumper stickers trash cans your turn uh everyone's seen them some have them lately i've been more seen them than having them this is a weird way to start what i'm doing it's like you're writing like a ted talk paper like a bumper stickers are defined as stickers on your bumper webster's dictionary defines bumper sticker yeah adhesives that stick to the back of your car yeah it felt like i i saw like a template on how to do a ted talk and i was like the yo-yo we've all heard of it but many have never done it to help cook their dinner anyway okay so basically rachel um well no i'm gonna start with a bumper sticker i saw today and i'm gonna quiz you on a bumper sticker you and time are going to get quizzed on a bumper sticker that Rachel saw last week. Like a competition quiz?

Yeah, yeah. Good. Okay. You're going to lose, Tymon. Just bumper stickers have been currently trending. So I saw one today. Okay. God bless our troops, dot, dot, dot, especially blank.

Okay. Any thoughts? This is just a warm-up quiz. God bless our troops, especially the Army. Especially Marines. Especially Marines. Especially my husband who's in the... I don't know.

These are both good guesses. You thought that was a good guess? My husband who's in the... I don't know. That's what he said. No. The bumper sticker. I mean, especially my husband.

It's kind of trailed off. There's only so much room. Well, he's only gave one blank. Was it? Oh, it's just one word? Oh. I take blanks seriously. The correct answer was snipers.

Oh, sure. Which I thought was interesting. Chris Kyle. Like, I don't disagree with anything they said, but it's just interesting. God bless our troops. Especially snipers. Especially snip especially especially especially snipers i i i love those like you like surely that person has a sniper in their family i guess so i love those like super specific ones like uh you know like remember back in the day it was always like uh like facebook targeted ads and it was always like

dave university and it was like by this shirt yes dave university established 1988 the jake club or whatever yeah you're right yeah like somebody some some facebook ad figured out exactly who to give that to it's like look we've got um sniper school hoodies we've got my husband is a sniper ball caps right and sniper i hardly know her uh coffee mugs and god bless her troops, dot, dot, dot, especially Sniper's bumper stickers. And a hat that says, especially my husband's. That one did not sell. Anyway, okay.

Now you've been warmed up. Here's your quiz. This is what Rachel texted me. Okay. She said, just passed a bumper sticker. The world needs blank two. Two spelled T-O-O. What is that blank?

Oh, gosh. you can have unlimited guesses because you're not gonna get it the world needs blank to turtles okay turtles world needs the world needs cars to get the bad guys love to world needs the last two piece the world needs a first hint. Three syllables. Oh. The world needs... The world needs garbage cans, too. Garbage cans. Oh, okay.

One blank. The world needs... Brad takes his blank seriously. It is an occupation. It is three syllables. Okay. Veterans. The world needs scuba dive...

Okay. The world needs... Three syllables. Got me. I can't think of any occupants. Baristas. Ooh, good guess. The world needs baristas, too.

Not the correct answer, but fun guess. The world needs skydivers, too. Okay. That's, gosh, that's true, though. Next hint. I don't know if that's it, but I need that. Next hint, and I'll just tell you, starts with a D. The world needs

dinosaurs. Dinosaurs, too. Occupations. What do you do for a living? What about you? Dinosaur. Full-time dinosaur. What do you do? I'm a woodworker. I own my own business. I have a podcast.

What about you, son? Dinosaur. Usually T-Rex, Dad. Sometimes I'm Stegosaurus. I do Stegosaurus sometimes. I Stegosaurus. Because you can imagine him saying that, can't you? Like, it all serves its purpose.

What do you do all day? Dinosaur. But you had a nap today? Yeah. And then what'd you do? Dinosaur. I dinosaured. I dinosaured in my room for a little bit.

And then I ate chicken nuggets. Heidi did a tea party, but I was just dinosaur. I just dinosaured at my grandparents. My grandparents also dinosaured. Okay, okay. I want to guess it. Really? Okay.

You really think it's like a one decibel? It's a word you've heard of, and it is an occupation. I don't know if it's full. Ditch diggers. Yes! No way! How do you get that? Well heard of and it is an occupation i don't know if it's ditch diggers yes no way i guess it is three syllables i have no idea wow ditch digger i didn't think you would ever get it i don't even know what that's supposed to say so that's the bumper sticker talking about targeted ads the world needs ditch diggers too which i don't know if they're actually if is that their occupation or is this some metaphor where like somebody's got to unclog the toilet?

Dude, I have no idea how I thought of that. Because as you asked that question, I'm like, I don't even really know what Ditch Diggers are. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if that's like, yeah, I know I've heard that before, but is that, yeah, is that somebody's job? I think so. Oh, look at this.

The World Needs Ditch Diggers 2 is a line from the film comedy Caddyshack. Oh, we're idiots probably. You run a comedy golf channel and you don't know that? I'm getting a call right now. Should I ask this person? Yes. Hey, Stu. Yo, Jake the Rake.

What are you doing? I'm actually recording a podcast right now, but I wanted everyone to hear your voice because you always answer so enthusiastically. Am I on? Am I on live? You are. Say hi to everybody. Hey, what's up, Spotify, iTunes Music? Don't forget to like and subscribe. Yeah, yeah. Love that you're still throwing out iTunes. You still using iTunes?

No, I switched from Apple Music to Spotify long ago. Good for you. I went with them for a while when I was in youth ministry because they actually had the edited versions of songs. Oh. But then I went to youth ministry and didn't carry more. Screw that. And their curated playlists are just hot garbage. They're like 50 playlists with they're like 400 songs on them and it's

i didn't like any of those 400 songs so i don't want 50 playlists of 400 songs this is great um we got to roll the intro music real quick but before we do that i want to know do you know the phrase have you seen the movie Caddyshack? Uh, yeah. It's been a long time, but yes. Okay, do you know the phrase, the world needs blank, too? The world needs

bugs, too? Bugs. Yep, you got it! Thank you. It's bugs! Thank you, Stu! Uh-oh, ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white me too then west 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 a ghost we're back.

Another Wednesday episode. It's a Wednesday. Wednesday on a Wednesday. That was a fun start. It was fun. Just we proved that we don't know the movie Caddyshack and Stu called. That's my friend. We only communicate leaving each other voicemails.

Yeah. And so it's rare for us to actually answer the phone, but it's good to hear from. They're voicemails. I always assume voice memos. No, they're like, I don't know why we don't just do voice memos but it's always been honestly probably because it's been going on since 2014 so i think it was before you had voicemails on your phone that's probably why and they're like long voicemails usually right you get cut off i think certain it used to be four minutes but something has changed either with the iphone

or t-mobile something now it's only three. Bummer. You don't think. Talk about hot garbage. Is it inflation's fault? 7%. Wednesday. Wednesday episode. Wednesday on a Wednesday. We got some wins of the week? Yeah, let's do wins of the week. Mine is going to be that Rachel is becoming such good friends with

the women in our friend group. That's just been fun. I never wanted to force it or I never wanted to force it, or I never wanted to tell Rachel, you should be friends with these women. They're going to lift you up. They're going to be so good for you. I just had to hopefully let it happen organically. It's really starting

to happen, and it just makes me so, so happy. Because the women in our lives are awesome. She's becoming so close with Emily and Catherine. This is fun. I wasn't even planning on talking about it. I just thought of this. She was like, Catherine and I, I think, are a really fun point in our lives are awesome yeah and she's becoming so close with emily and katherine oh she this is fun i wasn't even planning to i just thought of this she was like katherine and i i think are a really fun point in our friendship i was like oh tell me more she said katherine just randomly text me the other day or sun sunday when it was really nice out here she said katherine texted her and said today feels like september 20th you're the only person who'll know what that

means and rachel earlier that day had told her friends, it felt like a late September day. And so she texts Catherine. She's like, I was saying that earlier to my friends. I said late September day. And so they just text each other like, yeah, it feels like September 20th. That's so fun. I had that thought just the other day.

Rachel had, I think Rachel had just gotten home and our kids were just coming home from a walk or something with Catherine this time, you know, crossing the street with Catherine. And Rachel came over and hung out and like went to the backyard with Catherine and they were all playing and stuff. Um, and I had the thought of like, I don't know if I ever expected Rachel, like not Rachel specifically, but your wife, I don't know. I didn't, I didn't have that image in my head of like, we're all going to be best friends forever. Like I didn't know. And then even when i met rachel

i was like i don't know she's younger who knows i don't have like this expectation but it's like no like i'm so thankful that they like genuinely like each other it's not like well we have to like each other because jake and brad are such they're gonna be hanging out for a while right like we're gonna be neighbors so i guess we'll just be friends too it's like no like like i can tell like rachel really loves our kids and like really loves catherine and like yeah it's just really fun the neighbor's aspect definitely like pushed it along too yeah because it just makes it so much easier to have these casual like i'll go over there for 30 minutes and it's not a big deal yeah versus like i have to be very intentional about getting over there and you know all this stuff so um that's a great win yeah and you heard what they're doing tuesday night

um yeah is that was rachel in yeah they're doing girls night? Yeah. Is Rachel in? Yeah. Girls' night or something. I mean, the things Rachel was telling me, I didn't know it from German. She was like, we're going to the French market. I don't know specifics. I don't even know what that, like, is that a physical place? Is it like an area? It's like a farmer's market.

They do the French. Oh, no, it's like a place. See, I didn't even know anything. Yeah. And this also made me laugh. She's like, Sophie was saying that they have something called an espresso martini. I think I might have one. Yeah.

Catherine, you know, like, I just, Rachel, I never drink. She never, ever drinks. And Catherine, like, not because she's like, well, I'll never drink because I'm so against drinking. Like, of course, don't get drunk or whatever, but like, she is not against it, but she just doesn't enjoy the taste of many things. And so yesterday she was talking and she's like yeah i think we're gonna like go out to drinks i was like who are you like 23 go go to a living room and sit on some couches together like but at the same time she's like really excited yeah i think it's so fun yeah i'm like

great do your thing so i told rachel i was like you're you're becoming older if you're having to plan out when you drink alcohol. I was like, you're becoming like a 30-year-old very quickly. You know, on Tuesday, I might have one drink. Me and the girls have been talking. We might have one drink next Tuesday. I'm excited about espresso martini, but I'm also worried it might keep me up.

So maybe if they have a decaf version. I might do like a decaf espresso martini. A decaf fresso, yeah. Fun win of the week, Jake. Thanks. My wins of the week jake thanks great um my wins of the week i have multiple um but they're all under this there was this one day where katherine is like what are you up to today um and i said katherine today my the theme of today is make i even like kind of like chanted i was like make katherine happy and so i did like two things that day and then something the next day they're all just big wins

one of them is like an embarrassing win but it's still like feels so good to do i don't i don't need to know everything okay so tell me i'll just give you let's just let's just say this is a metaphor let's just say this is gonna be good i finally took the christmas lights off of the roof oh metaphorically right let's just say the i read you let's just say the bulbs are a little bit tangled let's just say those bad boys are in a box in storage and while i well there's sawdust on the box let's just say they've been up there a while and will i read about this in sheet music is this all in there oh yeah cool yeah i wrote a forward um christmas bulbs yeah like embarrassingly so well really embarrassing because i didn't take them down all of last year like they've been up about a year and a half a year and a half

genuinely like like i put them up in November of 20- Whatever that was. 21. And yeah. It got to a point last year where it's like, well, it's too late now because- Christmas is around the corner. Yeah. You do the math.

It's like either I keep them up for five more months or I take them down and I put them right back up, basically. Yeah. And then I kept being like, I'm going to wait for a nice day. I'm going to wait for a nice day. We have had some nice days and I just had other things going on.

And so finally, the other day, right before Hattie was having this birthday party with all these people that have never been to our house before, I was like, I got to take them down. I don't want them to think we're those people, especially because some of the lights had started falling off and drooping a little bit. And I'm like, you know what I mean? Yeah. Some of them were drooping, but we got those bad boys right off of there.

Nice. We trimmed them off. So so anyway that was a win and then another win is that i finally like constructed it's not in there yet because i need to finish it and everything but a little hall we're calling it a tree no what's calvin's called a locker really it's just like a little bench with like a shoe tray and some places for like storage for our kids backpacks and stuff like that backpack shoe combo so like whenever we did our hardwood floors like we took out that bar that was there you remember oh yeah yeah great bar and you and i just drank just got wild we had some wild nights i can't even remember half of them and uh but anyway took that out.

Was going to put it there. And I always kind of pushed off to the side because I'm like, whatever. I'll do that when I don't have woodworking stuff. And then, of course, we got busy with all this stuff. And Catherine finally said, you realize it's been like a year now? Because we got our hardwood floors right before Rosie was born. And that put it in perspective. Because I felt like it had been like three, four months.

Not going to dates. And then that kind of kicked me in the pants a little bit. And I apologize to katherine i was like i'm sorry i that's that's my bad and she was very gracious about it but i finally built it it's not in there yet but that's a win and then the third make katherine happy is i built her some garden beds some more raised garden beds for our uh backyard and she's gonna reward me with some vegetation i think don't don't nod and wink at me there was no wink brad just brad just winked at me we said vegetation she's gonna put us some soil in there uh rachel got hattie for her birthday a full-on gardening kit yes so i don't know if we're hattie's gonna do her gardening you're new they're here but both she would love it maybe both so garden all over the street make katherine happy that is fun yeah it's great fun fun fun um okay i think we need to

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Yeah. So it's pooping in public is the theme this week. So we just asked people on our website, ghostrunners.life slash interact. Hey, give us some stories. And our best friend, Scott, siphoned through the pooping in public stories. He picked out some that he thought were the best. We're going to call them. We're going to hear from them. So we haven't heard any of the stories yet. We're excited to hear from them.

I haven't seen this. I haven't heard this. I haven't read this. So we got some great ones. Thanks to everyone who submitted some stories for us. And let's do it. Let's hear from the ghosties. Ghost stories.

Pooping in public. Hello, this is Dr. Ben Miller. Oh, wow. Dr. Ben Miller. That is cool. What a way to start. Hey, is this Ghost Runners? You bet your bottom dollar it is

dr ben miller oh holy smokes man i uh i'll be honest i i um i'll get like some emergency calls and stuff like that or like a bunch of sales people and so i was expecting your call but i just i wasn't sure but i'll tell y'all, I am a little nervous. Don't be nervous. You put out your first name real quick there. So first to last name. So there's no anonymity here. How can we make you less nervous? Can we tell you something?

Jake, tell them that secret that you just told me last night that you haven't told anybody else. Oh, Rachel's a guy. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. Wow. See, now do you feel better? That's a a shocker i bet you feel better now yeah i do you know that makes me feel a whole lot better you know today nowadays you just never know i didn't check and this is what i get i didn't check you didn't get under the hood

first of all tell us where you're coming where you're calling. And then also like just how you got into ghost runners. How long you've been listening? Yeah. So I, uh, I, I currently live in Albany, Georgia, which is South Georgia. Okay. My wife actually was, is currently still really big into ghost runners and she kind of got me involved really like within six months ago. Okay, cool.

I'm more of a late joiner, to be honest, relative to a lot of other people I've talked to, but it's a great show. I really enjoy, I know you guys get this compliment a lot, but it's really a wholesome podcast. I've gotten into a little bit of some other podcasts, and it's like, man, I kind of just feel gross after listening to it, but every time I finished listening to y'all, I'm like, man, I just feel like the day's just in a better mood already. Oh, that's awesome, man. Thank you. It's great. I honestly love hearing the like people that are new, like, cause, cause yeah, we appreciate and love the people that have been listening from the beginning, but it's also so

fun to see people that are like getting into it that are relatively newer with it. And the same things that people said three, four years ago, they're still saying now, which shows that I guess the podcast isn't changing too much, which is good. Yeah, which is great. Cool, man. Well, let's hear some pooping in public stories from Dr. Ben Miller.

Well, and also of course, please just call me Ben. I'm not one of those guys that's gonna hold it over you i can't wait to call dr ben miller for the rest like the whole thing just doc i'm just kidding okay all right but anyway so so i'll be honest like when i so i've had this story for a while but i only keep it in my back pocket for my like closest friends because it's also very embarrassing but when i got home courtney was courting my wife she was giggling and i was like what are you giggling about and she said i just signed you up to do that oh she signed you up

oh it's awesome i like courtney a lot. She is so thrilled. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Jake, that's what you got to look forward to, man. Your wife is going to bring out the best in you. Yeah, I can't wait. So anyway, she was like, you got to tell this story. And I'm like, oh, man.

Okay. So and not only that, for many, many people, I don't even know. So anyway, so yeah, I'll get started. So kind of like the prologue this, me and my wife, well, now wife at the time, we were just dating. We were like maybe like a couple months in to dating. And it's technically not in public, but just wait. Just listen to the story. So essentially, it's one of the first times

i'm meeting her mom and like her family and and going to her like childhood house right like growing up we're in college freshman year in college and so i uh we we get there i'm a little nervous i'm going to be meeting her dad for like the second time ever, but he's coming over shortly and I, and I'm just, you know, getting a tour of the house. Right. And so walking around the house, her mom is just telling us, yeah, there's, there's where you're going to sleep. And there's, there's Courtney's room of course. And, and there's our bedroom and here's this bathroom and here's another bathroom. And she just casually says, Oh, by the way, it's not working. All right. Now we're going to go downstairs and stuff like that.

Well, anyway, so I'm like, I'm just getting situated and all this stuff. And I'm like, oh, man, I'm starting to feel the little grumbles, the gurgles or whatever they are in the intestines. And I'm like, I got to gotta hit the bathroom especially right before dad comes you know i want to make sure you know i get that out of the way because you know whenever i get nervous you know i kind of get a little bit of stuff going well anyway yeah totally i go upstairs where no one is and i do my business etc and after i am done, just laying this log, I just realized, oh, my gosh, this is the toilet that doesn't work. And I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. So I'm like.

How long have you been dating at this point? A couple months. I did not even, I didn't even use toilet paper yet, right? I stand up and I look at this thing and it is staring right back at me. It's a burrito-sized thing and I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. And so I'm like, all right, there's a bathroom across the hall. Maybe I can transfer it to a working toilet. Suez Canal.

I'm thinking, okay, nobody's upstairs. Maybe I can do it. So I decide, with my pants down, I reach into the toilet. With what? With your hand? Bear? So the toilet paper is going to just melt. It's not going to do anything. Still? With what? With your hand? Bear? At this time? And so, yeah. So, the toilet paper is going to just melt. It's not going to do anything. Still? No paper towels.

Nothing. Oh, my. And I'm thinking to myself, at this time, Burger King has this, like, Whopper advertisement. They're like, you have to hold it with two hands. But this thing, I had to take both hands. I could not single fist this thing. I had to take both hands. I could not single fist this thing. I had to take two hands. And I had to just gently with my pants around my ankles, I look out in the hallway. This thing is like, I feel the water dripping.

Oh. Already onto the floor. I look, I just inch my way into the other bathroom. I drop it into the other toilet flush then the toilet caught and so i i then all of a sudden like i i from that point on i'm like, I can't flush this thing down. So I finish up my business with some toilet paper on that toilet. Yeah. Then I start washing my hands.

I washed my hands three times. I could not get the smell off. I just couldn't do it. And I'm like, I just got to this girlfriend I'm really crazy about's house, and I'm already doing this. Oh, my God. I can got to this girlfriend I'm really crazy about's house, and I'm already doing this. Oh, my God. I can't believe this. So I wash my hands, like, three times. Everything else is going okay now, except the toilet's clogged with a bunch of toilet paper. And the other toilet, I haven't even.

Anyway, so I get everything cleaned up. And then Courtneyney she's like ben my dad's down here come meet him like what is wrong with you i'm like courtney i need to shower just a minute everything was and she's like what are you talking about you've known about this i'm like courtney i need this I take a shower, get all cleaned up. The turd is still in the toilet. I can't do anything. And then I go downstairs and shake her dad's hand.

And I'm like, you have no idea what I just went through. I didn't say that, of course. That's what I was thinking. It's a firm grip you have there, son. My hand just held. No way. But anyway, yeah. And then afterwards, then I had to get the plunger and try to discreetly go back upstairs to unclog the toilet.

Yeah, job's not done. It was so embarrassing. And did you? You were able to? I finally got it all resolved. I think I had to break it up or something. But it was just like, come on, man. And thankfully, I didn't even tell my then-girlfriend this story at the time.

It was like when we were leaving back to college when I even told her because I was so embarrassed. But, I mean, and then eventually I told her, and then eventually she told her mom like a couple months later, and her mom thought it was hilarious. But, yeah, thankfully thankfully nothing got too crazy. And then I think she turned around and said something along the lines of like, oh, this totally wasn't that badly out of function or something like that.

I don't know. I wasn't going to take any chances, you know what I mean? No, no way. Okay, well, okay, so tell me about this. Tell me about this expedition from one bathroom to the other. Like, how close are these bathrooms? Yeah, so there are a... So you could say...

So the entrance from one to the other was about, like, seven to eight feet on the same floor. Oh, that's not too bad at all. And there was carpet. No, it's not too bad. That's not great. But it's all the second floor. But if Courtney walked upstairs, while I'm also butt also butt naked holding a turd, I mean.

Yeah, what made you not put your pants on? There's no like, well, I have a piece of poop in my hands. What am I supposed to do? I couldn't wipe. Yeah. Oh, sure. Because the toilet wasn't working. I'd still put them on.

I didn't want to leave all that toilet paper there. Yeah. Oh, my goodness and then yeah and then surely you didn't get like a clean grasp on that thing from the first there was still some remnants in there is that fair yeah i i you know honestly i think it was so well compacted i didn't i think it was good honestly without a trace yeah that's amazing good for you yeah oh man wow i appreciate that oh yeah it was i told some friends that yeah if you can get it also like if you tell it in person you can get real animated with the grass i mean the fact that you needed two hands is wild. Wild. Yeah, yeah.

I don't know if we have any animators listening to the podcast, but that story deserves its own cartoon animation for what you had to go through. And leave in Brad and I's reactions to everything we heard there. That deserves its own cartoon. That is amazing. Man, well, I'm glad y'all could benefit from that. And, you know, too, just with the whole lightheartedness of it, hopefully that helps make someone else's day, too.

But, yeah, I had no idea I'd be telling that story to anyone in public. I thought that was going to be my back pocket story, but hopefully that's, yeah. I mean, I totally understand. Meeting the in-laws is one of the more nerve wracking things. I mean, it doesn't sound like, I guess this was your second time meeting them, but still like being at their house, like this, all those dynamics are hilarious.

Like that story is funny no matter when, like if that happened to you tomorrow at your in-laws, that's funny. But the fact that it happened the first time you were at their house, I mean, and the fact that you like, I understand when you got to go, you got to go. But so often I'd be like, I can't do this right now.

My girlfriend's going to know I just pooped. I don't know. The fact that you had to go that bad and then that happened. And then she's like, I need you to come down here. And you're like, not now, sweetie. Yeah. That's so awesome. Yeah. Wow. Oh, man. man yeah it really is so great i can see why courtney signed you up because that is a phenomenal story shout out courtney

yeah shout out to her she's she's awesome man yeah well thank you man well thanks for calling in yeah well let's yeah i'm pumped to meet you and uh yeah we're just so so thankful that you shared the story dude thanks doc yeah doc that's the old you have a good day man we'll talk to you soon that's that's something else that was a good one anything ever happened like that do you remember any any anything when you first met rachel's family well i think i told the story in the podcast kind of recently it was not the first time that we ever hung out necessarily, but probably still only three months into dating her. We went,

we went on vacation with her family and I was even like, I feel very comfortable with her, but I still don't even want to poop in the same house. I'm going to the separate trailer to do this. And then that's when they didn't have a plunger and it got clogged and that's right. Scavenger hunt. That's right.

Yes, of course. Yeah. I can't remember anything specific, but I know that I was very nervous, especially the dad that the mom is like, not that she's always so warm and kind and everything, but usually the father-in-law is like a little bit nerve wracking. So there was one time that I was filming a wedding, shout out Evolve Videography. Hello. And I was staying at a house in Arkansas because the wedding

was very nearby there. That house was a canicook family that i knew because they all sent all their daughters through k west and we were friends isaac also dated one of their daughters which i don't remember when in the timeline this happened i don't know if he was dating them before or after he must have dated them i think it was after because you told this story to me like oh dude i have a hilarious i've been to that house have you been no no you said that you said oh sorry sorry to that house. Oh, sorry, sorry. No, I've never been to that house. But it's like a huge mansion of a house, right?

Yeah. So, yeah, it just kind of makes it extra funny. Isaac dates one of their daughters like a year later. But anyway, they let me stay in their house because the wedding is kind of in the middle of nowhere, but it's nearby this house. And staying there the night before, yeah, I have to go to the bathroom. And I clog their toilet. And this is a house full of girls. There's no plungers in sight.

No. And I didn't know what to do so i went into the closet of the girl that isaac would later date and took out a metal hanger and then kind of like rewired it deconstructed and then use that yeah deconstruct yeah it's a good word for it and then didn't you like put the hanger in then i put the hanger in like a trash bag like a target bag and then i can't remember it's in the middle of the night or the very early the next morning something to like not raise suspicion and then throw it in the dumpster i love it it sucked that's the thing like if i'm at my in-laws house like i mean now i'm fine going any time of the day literally any time but back in the

day it was like i'm only gonna go right before i take a shower like because then because then you can have the shower i don't know what he really did in there yeah exactly so cool well thanks uh to ben dr ben dr ben miller um you know if you're in georgia hit him up for some dental work albany yeah cool cool out of the next all right ghost stories pooping in public hello what's up dude thanks for joining us can you just give us your name uh where you're calling from and just how you got connected to us yes um so my name is josh willis i'm calling from dallas texas specifically i'm currently in a phone booth at my office in Dallas, Texas. But I got connected to

the Ghostrunners podcast. Jake and I used to work at CannaCook together way back in the day. Brad was also helped out with Kansas City K-Life when I was a wee little high school lad. I thought Brad up there strumming his guitar was just the coolest thing ever so uh I've been Jake and Brad's fan for a

long time and uh long time listener first time uh poop story share love it dude yeah thanks for calling it yeah I was just saying off the off the recording like we saw Josh Willis's name and I was like yeah we're gonna call him for sure. We need to hear this. Okay, so pooping in public. We don't know much more about the story than that. So just go ahead and tell us your story, and we'll react after we hear it. Yeah, so I'll preface the story with a couple important details.

One, this happened when i was i believe a junior in high school um so i'm about 11 years clean i haven't done this for anyone else listening about 11 years clean um so that's that's an important story but as you guys know maybe you know this um but a big thing for high schoolers to do is you hang out and um you like to hang out in parking lots of like quick trip and mcdonald's so there's some important backstory to this um that i this was my first time hanging out with um with this girl i had met her in a mcdonald's parking lot she went to a different high school than i did i went to a small private school she went to a big public school one i met her and i was just smitten like i i was head over heels i was like

this girl is cool she is she was new to town she just moved to kansas city from somewhere else and i was i mean i was head over heels i i like wanted to i wanted to be with this girl i want to be around her and so find found a way to get her to get her number ask her on a date i didn't ask her on a date because i'm in high school and i don't know how to ask girls on dates date, but I texted her. I'm like, hey, would you want to hang out sometime? She's like, yeah, sure. So I'm like, yes, I'm in. So I'm playing this whole day. I'm like, it's in the summer. I have basketball practice later that day. So I'm like, I'm going to go pick her up in the afternoon. We're going to go to Petland and play with puppies. Then we're going to go to Sonic, get some happy hour drinks and hang out. And then I'll take her back.

I'll drop her off at her house. And then I'll go to basketball practice. It'll be great. So I wake up that morning. It's a great, beautiful day in Kansas City. And I go to make myself some lunch as a high schooler does the first thing when he wakes up because he sleeps in until like noon. So I go to make myself some lunch. And an important note about me is that hot dogs are one of my favorite foods.

So I go to eat some hot dogs for lunch. And I grab some out of the fridge, put them in the microwave, heat them up, eat those hot dogs for lunch. That part will come back into play later on in the story. Anyways, eat that, get ready to go. And then I get in my car to go pick her up. And as I'm on my way to go pick her up, my stomach starts feeling a little funky. I think it's probably just the nervous too. It's probably not a big deal, but I'm like, huh, this isn't good. I'll power through it. I'm so excited to hang out with this

girl. It doesn't matter. Probably just nervous. I pick her up up we go to play at pet land and we're playing with the puppies i mean things are going great i feel like she's eating out of the palm of my hand not actually but i thought that was just the puppy like i'm just oh yeah i'm just being smooth um i'm i'm working my game with the puppies she's laughing we're having fun all the while slowly but surely my stomach just starts to feel worse and worse. We're going to go through. We leave Petland. We go to Sonic.

And this is out on 151st and Antioch in Kansas City. You guys probably know this Petland and Sonic. I know that's way far out from your neck of the woods. But you guys probably know the area. Anyway, so we leave Petland. We we go to sonic and it's happy hours we're gonna we get ocean waters and i'm like let's get some popcorn chicken and these things my stomach feels terrible at this point i can like the idea of actually eating some popcorn chicken is like the worst thing ever so why did you why did you suggest that yeah you thought that would be impressive oh i, I suggest it for sure. I'm like, yeah, get whatever you want. I'm trying to flex and be

like, yeah, get whatever you want. I've got my debit card that my dad gives me. It's happy hour. I can buy whatever I want. So, yeah, we get the drinks and my stomach is feeling really, really rough, but I'm like, I just got to get through. We're going to make it through. It's going to be totally fine. I eat maybe one popcorn chicken. She eats a couple.

We leave. We go back. We park in front of her house. I'm about to drop her off. And luckily, it's a pretty nice day in Kansas City, so I kind of have the windows cracked. But I'm sitting in the driver's seat. She's in the passenger seat. And I'm like, oh, my gosh. Like, this is my stomach hurts so bad. I have to fart. Like, I've been holding the driver's seat. She's in, she's in the passenger seat. And I'm like, Oh my gosh,

like this is my stomach hurts so bad. I have to fart. Like I've been, I've been holding, I have to fart. Um, and so I'm, I'm like leaned against the driver's seat window.

I, I think you guys can picture it like kind of leaned up looking at her. And so I try and like shift myself, lift up on, on one cheek a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. So,

so the vibration doesn't make the noise yeah so the like minimizing all risk of there being any sound yeah um it was a big gamble but i was like i have to do it um so i lift up on one cheek unclench and all of a sudden i just feel something come out like oh that's not good that is not good but i try to play i try to play really cool so i pull up my left arm look at my watch take a big inhale in to try and sniff sure enough it smells like i mean it smells like poop and so i'm just like i'm scrambling and i'm trying to play it cool i didn't want to let her know that i just pooped and that's like one thing like i i know that much about my game. If I poop, I'm not going to

tell the girl. That's one thing I live by now. No, no, no. No. So I'm like, oh my gosh, it's three whatever. I'm going to be late for basketball practice. I've got to go. I had such a fun time. Basically just force her out of the door.

And then I turn my car on, throw it and drive drive to the closest quick trip i waddle my way into the bathroom check myself sure enough there's poop all in my compression shorts compression shorts all in my compression shorts oh no i um i did what any logical person would do i clean myself up i throw away my Oh, no. I did what any logical person would do. I cleaned myself up. I throw away my compression shorts in the quick-drip bathroom.

And then I drive to basketball practice. You go commando? I'm pretty sure I had to leave basketball practice. I was at basketball practice commando at the Kansas City Christian Gym. And I'm pretty sure I have to leave basketball practice to go take care of some business like four or five different times throughout there i mean it's just it's coming out of me like liquid um it's it's tough sorry for the listeners if you're getting triggered by any of this but um it's it's coming out um and i'm just like what is what is wrong with me so i go back at home i get back

home after practice and i'm trying to figure out what why did i like this is more than just the nervous suits um this is this is not a happenstance uh situation um so i'm doing some detective work trying to figure out what what happened i go to the fridge and look at the hot dogs that i had eaten for lunch come to find out not only were the hot dogs expired, but they had mold on them. I had eaten moldy hot dogs on a date before a date with this girl that I had the biggest crush on. And it led to me pooping my pants in front of her. And I texted her after that date and said, hey, had time would love to see you again never heard back from her again what really not even a response she knew uh i don't know if she knew but uh she she definitely had to have known because there's there's no way after a date as good as that

that you don't text someone back as you're working with your game with the puppies oh wow yeah i really expected this to be like someone who went to East, who was in your friend group, or they know about this now, and maybe you laugh about it. But this sounds like they have no idea. They, to this day, don't know? You don't know? No, I've never talked to her since then.

Yeah. One of my friends, actually, one of my buddies saw her out in Kansas City recently and was like, dude, I just saw so-and-so's name. Like, should I reach out to her? And I had never told him this story either. I was like, you should ask her if she knows that I pooped my pants on my date with her. And he was like, it was Patrick McElhaney. I don't know if you guys can edit that out or I don't care if you say his name.

But he was like, you did what what how have i never heard about this he didn't go ask her but i really wanted them to that's what i was just thinking i was like the entire time i've known you this had already happened to you that's crazy the entire time we've been friends you've pooped your pants on a date and i didn't even know it wow i feel like i've told this story to a lot of people so i'm i'm surprised i haven't i like i've lot of people so i'm i'm surprised i haven't like i've told it at camp wow people i'm surprised i haven't i don't know i'm glad this is how i heard it first and honestly i kind of want to get in touch with the girl and not tell her why she should listen to this episode but just like hey you should listen to the ghost runners yeah episode 215 go to like the 46 minute mark and just let her hear this for the first time that sounds so fun

there's there's gotta be like there's gotta be some people that let her hear this for the first time that sounds so fun there's there's gotta be like there's gotta be some people that know her that listen to the podcast um that maybe can connect the dots she went to blue valley west okay um and her name it yeah let's see if we can connect i kind of want to i kind of want to just like leave some breadcrumbs yeah yeah to see if her friends are are gonna figure it out or not. Where did she go to college? I think she went to Mizzou. Oh, gosh, yeah. Good for you

not staying with her. I think maybe the thing like the opposite of the unsung hero, the issue that happened was that you had confidence when you went half cheek that since you wasn't going to make any noise but i think that also like the the valve of the floodgate was like not not it was not nearly as protected

really yeah no i i've never trusted a fart since then. It would be hard to. Not in that sort of scenario, especially. Like on my own, maybe. But not when I'm with, especially when I'm with a girl that I'm interested in. Never once trusted a fart. So like stomach churning at pet? Oh, go ahead.

That's a pro tip out there to all of the younger gentlemen listening. I know you two have already bagged your does per se. But to the younger gentlemen listening, great reason why you always open the door for the girl when you're going on a date. You have that walk around to the other side of the car to your driver's door where you can, if the car is silent, they can't hear, you can let something out and you don't have to worry about being in the car with them. That's a good word.

That is good. Well, that's what I was going to ask is like at Petland, were you, were you letting them loose there? You're like, Oh, the dog's here. Yeah. No, no. I was just like, I was, I was holding it all in completely. Um, so my, my stomach was literally gurgling. Um, but I was holding it all in until it got to the point of no return where I was like, I have to do something here. Yeah. Unauthorized evacuation. It's like, okay. That is, that is awesome.

I'm so glad we heard that story. And I'm glad I heard it for the first time on the podcast. Man. I mean, and props to you for, for like going back to basketball practice. Like, like I'd be a little bit nervous. Like, yeah, all things considered. But then again, in high school, it's like, you're so nervous to say anything like, that's your coach.

You're like, I just got to go. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Now, if that happened to me, I would tell anyone like, oh, yeah, can't do it. You got some tummy issues. Yeah.

When you're in high school, you're like, you can't be a good basketball coach. You have tummy issues. Right. You'd be running lines. It was a rough practice for sure. Gosh, the moldy dogs. There were runs, but I wasn't running. The funny thing is, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't your mom a dietician?

She is. And you're obsessed with hot dogs? That's what's so funny, just in general. That's the interesting dynamic of my family. my mom's a dietitian but i also grew up with all brothers and we just ate everything in sight so yeah she just she had to make some sacrifices to just feed us whatever but what i'm shocked about is obviously hot dogs are like my favorite food i ate a decent amount of them how were their moldy hot dogs in the fridge like yeah it takes a while for them to expire um that's a good point like they're they're almost on that level with tweekies of like they'll survive for a expire. That's a good point. Like they're, they're almost on that level of Twinkies of like, they'll survive for a long time.

That's a good word. Yeah. So I'm kind of shocked that they were in there for long enough to have mold on them. Yeah. I, Catherine would always get onto me when we were first married. Cause I wouldn't roll up and like tighten up the cereal very well in the

bags. And I'm like, I never grew up in a time where the cereal wasn't gone in three days. Cause I ate it so quickly. And so I was like, this isn't a big deal. That's going to get stale for me because I'm eating like two bowls every day.

This stuff's made of cardboard, by the way, too. It's got to be fine. It's got to be fine. Well, thanks, man. That's an incredible story. Yeah, I don't know what else to say. When will this air on the podcast? Two Wednesdays from now.

Yeah, like nine days from now. Yeah. Okay. So April 3rd. Are you going to call the podcast Poopgate or something? Poop like nine days from now. Yeah. Okay. So April. Are you going to call the podcast Poopgate or something? Poopgate. Maybe. Honestly, actually, I had that thought while you were telling the story.

I was like, I could see that being the title of this episode, like pooping your pants on a first date. So thanks for that. That could be a good one. Yeah. Or you could just call it Never Trust a Fart. Whatever you want. There's a lot of good options out there.

Yeah, our marketing director, Josh Willis, over here. Yeah, thank you. I love that. Maybe we'll A, B test. I work in sales. It's all about spinning things. I love it, dude. How's Dallas?

You loving it? Yeah. Yeah, it's been good. Finally starting to feel like home. The people here have been awesome. I hang with Kay Smitty like three or four times a week now, which has been awesome. I saw

Stinky Pete. Actually, he gets mad when I call him Stinky Pete. I saw Pete Fitzsimmons this weekend for the first time in a while. That was really fun. Dallas has been awesome. The people here are great. I miss Kansas City, but

my brother lives here and none of my siblings live in Kansas City, so it's hard for me to justify moving back there. The moldy hot dogs. Yeah. A quick trip. Just remind you. Yeah. But no, it's been awesome.

Good. So. Good. All right. Well, thanks, man. Thanks for calling. Yeah, absolutely. It's fun to get to be featured on there.

And I, yeah, I love what you guys have done with Ghost Runners. It's a really fun listen every Monday and that Wednesday. I don't have time to listen on Wednesdays, I'll be honest, but I listen on Mondays. Occasionally, I'll catch up other times. You'll make time. It's fun to hear

how much it's grown by you guys just talking about your lives. So many people just want to listen to you guys talk about your lives. It's nuts, dude. It's awesome. But yeah, you've been a supporter forever and I appreciate that. And I know you've been a loyal one, so it's awesome. Absolutely. Well, I appreciate it guys. If you need any clarifying details as you go to produce this, let me know. I can't wait to hear it on the pod. Love on the pod love it dude yeah thanks we'll let you know if we hear anything about this girl

listening to the podcast yeah perfect all right perfect yeah maybe i mean maybe this is my chance to get reconnected with her yeah there you go yeah what if what if what if like she's like she's like he was great the whole time and then he just just if we end up back together oh that'd be amazing yeah he was great and then he just he just like pushed me out the door like literally pushed me out the door so he stinks all right all right have a great day i'll talk to you guys later thanks see you josh yeah see ya nice nice that was fun yeah uh love josh we always used to joke that he was just doing everything I'm doing just a few years later. So it's just a matter of time before Josh gets a YouTube channel, Josh gets a podcast like he did.

Juggling Josh. He's going to do Jake and Josh. I think that was a joke too. Yeah. I was like next. Because he did not only Canacuck, but then he did programs, my specific job at Canacuck. And then from there he did chapter director of K-Life. And so they were like, dude, he's got to move in with a juggler.

And then things will start happening for him. He got to move in with a juggler next that's funny in dallas too yeah yeah in dallas didn't even think about that which i think we talked about i don't know if you and i talked about this timon used to watch the jake and josh videos really yeah that's great as like like when they were coming out like oh yeah that's awesome yeah i was like yeah just active subscriber it's not so fun you should go back and like somebody ghosties out there should go back and try to find a comment did you ever comment you think oh good question i don't know okay maybe once if you find it i'll give you a hundred dollars that seems like a ton of work for that person i know and then there's like not even a comment somebody's gonna figure out a way to you know search it on google with a bullion search or something but anyway cool cool let's uh get on to our next one ghost stories

pooping in public all right so uh we are here with bonnie um oh shoot i was gonna say ask her to say her name dang it we're here with. We're here with somebody. We're here with somebody mystery person. Um, please tell us, tell us your name, uh, where you're from, how you got into ghost runners,

how long you've been listening, et cetera. Hi everyone. My name is Bonnie and I am in the Salt Lake city area of Utah. Um, and I've been a ghost runner since 2019. I had seen a couple of trades, viral,

viral videos and there Jake was. So I followed both at the same time. And Jake said he was starting a podcast. So here I am years later. That's pretty cool. Thank you for listening for so long. Um, okay. So, so the topic this week is pooping in public and actually, so Bonnie, we don't know the story at all. We had, we actually had Scott look at all these stories and he chose your story. So if you can imagine Scott was dying, laughing in his cubicle to the story, but we don't know. I was wondering how the screening process was, like what that entailed. I'm glad it was Scott. Yeah, it was definitely Scott. So, um, so tell us, yeah, tell us your story. Okay. I'm, I'm naming this story.

Deposit at the credit union exceeds maximum limit. I like it. Everyone needs to name their story from now on. Yes. And you guys, let me tell you before I get started, I'm going to need like at the end, I'm going to need you to let me tell you some redeeming qualities so people can maybe remember me that way we'll see let's see if you get redeeming opportunities okay so said the scene i'm about 2021 so this is over 10 years ago and i'm working at a small local credit union and i'm working at the main branch in what they call the call center which was really like three people in a back room you know telling people their balances when they called in. Okay.

Telling people they needed to return their red box if they didn't want to be charged for it anymore. Okay. And it's worth mentioning that there was two levels of this credit union. So the main level was the lobby and everything like that. They had a bathroom in the main level that was for customers only and then they had a bathroom upstairs for employees only and it was like their corporate offices up there whatever um and so one day i'm taking calls it's like midday i'm taking calls

and i i've gotta go i've gotta go i can't hold it till the end of the day so i'm like okay i gotta hustle up there but i'm kind of sweating because i can't just i can't just like get up and go to the bathroom i gotta wait till the phone calls stop a little bit there's a little break dang so there comes a break i shuffle upstairs and i go to the bathroom two stalls in this bathroom upstairs in the employee only bathroom so i I do my business in one. I'm feeling much better. Yeah. I get up and flush and it's clogged.

A torpedo with a ghost whites. So I'm panicking a little and I'm like looking around for a, a plunger. There's never a plunger. There's never a plunger. Nope. So I've never seen a plunger in public, but in public. No. And I need it. I need it plunger. No. There's never a plunger. No. I've never seen a plunger in public.

No. And I need it. I need it. Please. Please, everyone, please be nice and put a plunger everywhere. So I'm panicking a little bit, and I'm like, this is one of those times when I'm like, do I need to start a new life? Like, is this it for me?

Yeah. I'm just going to walk out the front door, but I'm going to start a new life elsewhere. I don't know. I've had a few times in my life where just for a split second i'm i'm thinking that right but no okay so my other options are go look for a plunger elsewhere like is there a janitor's closet or ask someone i'm like no that's too embarrassing so my other option is like do i just leave it yes and do nothing. You hope some other coworker comes in right after you and you're like, I don't know. Guillermo looked like he had a lot of tacos yesterday.

All I did was pee. I don't know what happened. You do not want to go in there. Somebody else. Okay. Yeah. So you're on a mission at this point. Yeah.

So I'm contemplating these options while I'm washing my hands. Smart, because you've got to get clean hands before you can go back into the danger zone. I'm not an animal. I have to wash my hands. I'm not one of those credit union call center people, okay? We were a fancy high-end credit union.

Small, local, Utah. What can I tell you? So I'm washing my hands and contemplating these things. What am I going to do when my boss walks in and heads for the stall? I was just in. And I say, hey, no, that one's clogged, just so you know. Hey, no. I don't mention it was me. I wouldn't either.

I don't not mention it was me. So I'm like, hey, that one's clogged, just so you know. And she's like oh my gosh who would do that i can't believe someone would do that the women in this office i can't believe that that is disgusting so terrible and i'm like uh so what i should have said was you know what it was me i'm so sorry like where can i find the plunger right Right. But instead I say like, yeah, so rude. And I run back to my desk. And I'm like, oh, okay, okay. Hopefully that blows over.

Let me just get through the rest of the day and hope that is it for the day. Yeah. And she lets it go. But no, about 20 minutes later, all of the women in the office get an email. Oh, no. Oh, no. No. They get an email about the clogged toilet reiterating everything she said to me in the bathroom who who did this i can't believe the women in this office that's so disgusting who ever did this needs to take care of it and now as an adult i'm like that was so rude

i heard it too that was so rude did her to do. That was so rude. Did you respond and you were like, okay, but hypothetically, like, how would we take care of it? Like for next time, if it ever happens to me. So where is the plunder? Yeah, you're like, yeah, I agree. This is a high end credit union. So we should be taking care of our things. But for the next time.

Yeah. Where do you keep, like, do you think the janitor's closet? Give me a list of all the important things, like fire extinguisher, flanger, defibrillator, like, yeah,

I need to know. Yeah, you kind of disguise it in a mix of other questions. Which honestly, any of those three things probably could have worked to unclog that toilet in some way.

Like, if you press the flush button as you're extinguishing, like, as you're getting some jet stream in there from the extinguisher, I think it would start going the right way. Like, was it worth a try?

Yeah. Yeah. Even like the mop or something. And then your boss goes in there and then she's like, what is happening? You're like, somebody. I don't know. There was a fire in here. It wasn't like this.

The women in this office. Yes, there was a fire in the toilet. I don't know. Okay, so did you ever? we get this yeah go ahead we get this email and now everyone's talking about it and i'm being suspiciously quiet about the whole thing like i'm so nervous i'm so scared like what what could happen if everyone finds out it was me i don't know i don't don't know. And you're 21 years old, right? Or something like that? What was that? You said you're 21

years old? Is that what you said? 20, 21. Yeah. Right around there. And I'm 34 now. That's young enough where you are not going to... As a 34-year-old, I would own up to it and be like, guys, I know it's ridiculous. I'm sorry. But as a 21-year-old, no way. No way would I

ever... I would run for the hills, like you're saying. It would be tough. Yes. ridiculous i'm sorry but like as a 21 year old no way no way would i ever i would i would just i would run for the hills like you're saying like i would it'd be tough so yes yes so people are talking so i'm being suspiciously quiet in my in my area um and i'm feeling really bad and so i'm like i gotta do something about this it was so stupid so i go into my boss's office under the guise of talking about something else and so i'm talking about something else for a little while and then i i come around i bring the conversation around to the toilet like that's too bad that's so sad that that happened but like i'm so nice that like i could just do it for you. Like, I'm so much more than a stranger.

I'm like, I'm just nice. I'll do it. Like, it's not a big deal. And then there's this, I see the look on her face, this dawning realization that she knows it was me. We just stare at each other for a while. She's like, oh, no, no, it's fine. You know, it was taken care of. It's like oh no no it's fine you know it was taken care of just go back to my desk and i quit shortly oh my gosh no choice wow that was an

awesome story what yeah so like you you admitted it or you didn't admit it you never like a formally said anything but you could just tell like you never like a formally said anything but you could just tell like there's like this look on both of our faces that we both understand what's going on here and we know we know what we've done yep and it was probably a it felt like a really long time that we were looking at each other but it was probably only a few seconds but it was yes very complete the realization on her face yeah you basically did like oh no like before asking for a friend was like a like a you know a phrase like you did that in real life where you're like hey if i mean i i'll i'll go ahead and

clean it up for whoever you know for a friend for a friend you know my i think one of my friends admitted to it i'm not going to say which one it. I'm not going to say which one it is. I'm not going to say which one, but one of them admitted to it and I promised her I wouldn't say anything, but I'll go ahead and clean it for her. I don't want to rat her out, though. That's not to bring it up to anybody. Whoever you're thinking.

Whoever you're thinking it might be, let's just say it was definitely her and she does not want you to talk to her about it or let her know that you know. It was her. her it was actually her at this point in your life uh like were you dating someone were you married like did you have someone to go home to to like talk about what had happened or do you tell friends tell parents who did you like tell about this i told no one yes i was dating someone very seriously and we got married he's the best but i know i did not tell anybody mum's the word and ghosties don't tell anybody

don't go to your credit unions in utah and tell everybody don't go check and investigate the toilets at the credit union to see what happened wow that's so this is your first time telling the story is what you're saying this is this is a ghosty exclusive yes i i told my husband maybe i told my husband a while ago i mean years ago but no i did not tell him that day i was like great day at work nothing exciting yeah nothing i could never yeah good deposits today yeah Yeah. What about you? It was a blast, honestly. Yeah, there was exceeded maximum limit. That's a great thing.

Yeah, there was this one customer. She just couldn't get it through her head. We couldn't get through her. Yeah. Yeah, we took the plunge and yeah, I don't know. Anything else. So that's awesome. I love that you've kept it in almost exclusively this entire time. That's awesome, Bonnie.

You're a very good storyteller. That was really great. Well, thank you. It's a pleasure to be here and to talk to you guys. I appreciate the podcast. It is awesome. I'm trying to imagine me. I've been listening to a podcast for four years.

I love this podcast. I actually get to be on it. But with the stipulation, I have to tell the most embarrassing story that I love this podcast. I actually get to be on it. But with the stipulation, I have to tell the most embarrassing story that's ever happened. That I haven't really told anybody. Very few people know,

and I'm going to tell a million people this week. I know, I know. You guys owe me. All the Sosies owe me. They owe me some good stuff. Everyone better bring some good stories to the table. Okay, yeah. I have a few embarrassing things that I've done that

yes, I'm like, do I need to leave town? Do I need to start over? Bonnie, are you still in the Salt Lake area? Yes. Okay, fun. I think Trey and I will hopefully be coming there this fall, and it'd be fun to meet you and meet your

husband. I came to your show when you were here last. Oh, good. Well, now I don't feel bad forcing you to come. It was really, really great. Okay, cool. Well, thanks for coming. Yeah, hope to see you at another one. Fun.

Good deal. Yes, thank you, guys. Have a good one. Thanks for calling, Bonnie. Yeah, you are the best. We appreciate you. You will for sure be on next, well, I guess two Wednesdays from now. Yes.

You'll be on that episode. Okay. Awesome. Thank you. Have a good day. I will be cringing. Oh, yeah. You did great. now. Yes. You'll be on that episode. Okay. Awesome. Thank you. Have a good day. I will be cringing. Oh, yeah. You did great.

You did awesome. You did awesome. All right. Thanks so much, buddy. All right. We'll talk to you later. All right. Bye-bye.

That's so, yeah, that's great. She was a great storyteller. Can you imagine? Because it's one thing to walk out of the room and go tell your boss. It's another thing to be like in. You didn't even have time. You didn't even have time to react. Your hands still, she was washing them, but but they still she had blood on her hands metaphorically

yeah you know like and the the woman was right there and she was already frustrated before she even said anything well no she did say something didn't she she said don't go in there somebody yeah i think the lesson is if you're in this exact same scenario you cannot leave the stall until you're done with the contemplation uh like phase like she went to wash her hands until you're dumped with the contemplation until you're all dumped with it you know like you can't go you can't exit the stall and then like what should i do about this think about options there no no you gotta sit in it yeah you gotta sit in it you gotta smell it you gotta think it you gotta figure out what to do and that's probably before well no she probably had a cell phone back then but it might have been before the time where you brought your

cell phone into the stalwart i don't know 14 13 years ago in utah yeah true no way she had a cell phone yeah they were still using landlines at that point yeah yeah shit her headset on still maybe anyway that was that was awesome uh bonnie thank you and uh let's get on to our next call ghost stories pooping in public all right next up we got our good friend tj on the line and uh tj tell everyone uh your name and where you're calling from and then tell us a fun fact your Dealer's choice. Well, my name is TJ, like you said. Okay. Short for Theodore James. Wow.

But I've been TJ my whole life. How about that? That's my fun fact. My parents gave me a long name, but then they called me a short name my whole life. Really? I'm calling from Maui. Hawaii? And I love you guys.

Maui, Hawaii, yeah. Oh, okay. And I'm a big fan of you guys. Ii, Hawaii, yeah. Oh, okay. And I'm a big fan of you guys. I just can't say it enough. But if I'm going to be on an episode, I think I need to defend one of my friend's honors. Oh, please. His name's Ian Bishop. Please.

And he ordered Chipotle on Brad's dime and kind of run through the mud in an unfair way. Oh, let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. Ian was bright eyed, bushy tailed, ready to experience his first Chipotle. And he was behind Brad in line asking Brad, what do I do? You know, and Brad guided him and was telling him things. And so if Ian ordered extra things, it was only under Brad's tutelage. He is not the villain. So you think I was encouraging to order extra? Well, I don't know.

You didn't discourage it. And so I think he was just learning from you. He was the sensei. You were the master. I told him you could get he was just learning from you. He was the sensei. You were the master. I told him, you could get extra of it, whatever you want, but it will cost you more for meat and for guac and queso. And he's like, I'll take meat, guac, and queso. And then I confronted him about it, like, whoa, you're doing all this stuff?

And he had no remorse, TJ. And you know it. You know it. I'm just saying, you know it i'm i'm just saying you know i i'm just saying i just it was his first time and we all remember well all of us but jake remember our first time we were you know we're nervous we sure we don't know what to do yep you know so sometimes a new experience and so sometimes you're like extra excited and you get ahead of yourself. Yeah.

And so... Okay. I'm getting it. It costs a lot. Nah, I shouldn't say it. I want to make more jokes about it, but I can't. Well, I'm so in the dark, I don't really understand. You can't.

I'll text you guys about the joke later. Yeah. All right. Sounds good. Before we move on, TJ, how do you... Yeah, that's my fun fact i'll defend ian that's great yeah he will appreciate that and i'll also say that ian after after i gave him a hard time he sent me a venmo with 20 to send me some money back for the wow extra burrito you guilted him

into paying you money to be fair it was technically sent from his wife's venmo account so i don't know who sent it technically ian has not sent me any money it was it from his wife's Venmo account, so I don't know who sent it. Technically, Ian has not sent me any money. It was his wife. Props to them for not sharing a bank. Ian, also, now I'll drag Ian through the fun. When he wants to order Starbucks, he has to text his wife so she can order it because he doesn't know what drink he likes. This guy's a titan of business. How complicated is this Starbucks order? has to text his wife so she can order it because he doesn't know what drink he likes. Oh my gosh.

This guy's a titan of business. How complicated is this Starbucks order? I don't know, but I'm probably going to get green for a second. I like it. I think we call you up once a week and we just have a roast Ian, you know, five minutes. And then the next episode we'll have Ian defend himself. Yeah, yeah. Nice back and forth.

Well, I did just ask if I could borrow his paddleboards because I don't know if you guys know this. We live in Maui. Oh, good for you. Oh, okay, okay. We're surrounded by the ocean. Yeah, yeah. Ocean all around. Oh, cool. So hopefully this episode comes after he says yes to lending me the paddleboard. Yeah, be like a week and a half away.

So you're good. I hope the apparel sells well and maybe someday you can afford your own paddleboard. Yeah. That'd be awesome. That'd be awesome if you weren't like... That would be good. That would be cool. I would love that.

Dude, just keep working at it. If you don't know, TJ is one half of the uglier half of Walk in Love Podcasts, and also walkinlove.com. Shop.walkinlove.com. Yep. Good.love.com yep good yeah anything else he runs a t-shirt company but there's so much more than t-shirts guys they're tiny rhythms

inspiration for a joy filled life I thought you were just going to explain other garments there's so much more than t-shirt crewnecks fanny packs tote bags they do a lot yeah zip up hoodies um okay tj tell us your poop story we actually don't know it we just wanted to call you uh but we don't know what

you're about to tell us i will say uh cory fisher is the one who shouted out uh like that we need to call you about this nice guy cory met him on the beach um okay and he is from the same place you're from which is pennsylvania correct yes okay so uh cory actually started listening to ghost runners because i told him to oh that's awesome shout out cory this is this is a um yeah so okay how do i start this let me start at the. A lot of your audience are believers, I believe, right? But some may not be. And so I think that this story will make those that aren't believe in God, and that he loves us after all. That's how epic this story is. I'm just going to start there. Okay, over-promised.

Yeah, over-promised, under-delivered, at Chipotle. Um, so my wife and I used to be wedding photographers before we used to do the t-shirt thing and the wedding photography thing at the same time. Real quick. Sorry, TJ, can I interrupt you? Is wedding photography and videography like a very valuable thing? Cause we have a videographer, a videography company, Evolve Videography, who is sponsoring the podcast this week. Would a videographer videography company evolved videography who is sponsoring the podcast this week would you say like videography is a huge thing and very important for you in and you know experiences i would as a person who doesn't have so our wedding photographer we had a friend do the video she did a great job she was actually a videographer we love our video

um our photographer went through a midlife crisis after he shot our wedding and so we never really got our final picture so i would say it's a super valuable thing wow someone who is highly rated and very good and has lots of reviews and yes uh you know someone who's had a good experience because you may not get any photos because there there's some stat out there i'm not sure what was the website it was from jake i think it was uh zumba foo yeah so zumba foo.com was saying that seven out of all of 10 wedding photographers are going to go crazy within the next one to two years of their life but videographers are very consistent very reliable especially evolved videography uh So you should support them. I actually read that same stat.

I remember that stat because I thought it was so interesting that they used the term go crazy. It's very measurable. It's science right there. It's science. So yeah, I would say wedding videography is great and especially if

they're a ghost runner sponsor yes yes yes thanks thanks thanks okay anyway so brooke and i we shot weddings for seven years of our early married life like uh before we had well we had june towards the end of those seven years um but you know it was a great job you know we were we were young and married and having a ton of fun doing it and uh we um would go to this annual um wedding photographer expo in las vegas every year so we went one year it's like a trade show for wedding photographers like um you know where you can like pick out the album company that you want to work with and try out new camera gear and see presets. And it's more just to, like, see your friends that are also in the photography business that you might not see. And so we went to this one year, and then the next year we brought our jeff with us and who was also a wedding photographer and so at this expo thing there was always these parties like they're like you know a

album company would host this party in las vegas like at a club and so like you know us you know you guys definitely get the clubbing vibe from brooke and i right yeah for sure trying to put that off pretty oh yeah anybody from pennsylvania like that grew up in Pennsylvania is, like, big into clubbing. Yeah. So you can find us in the club all the time. So we were invited to this one party. And so we went because, like, friends were going to be there. And, you know, it's so loud.

It's chaos. Like, whatever. And then there was this, like, this was, like like peak instagram take photos of people wrapped in blankets out on the side of a mountain chime you guys remember that time frame yeah okay of instagram yeah so peak that moment of instagram and so after this party they were going to take a bus of photographers out to the desert to watch the sunrise. So I was like, that sounds cool. Like, you know, it sounded cool. It was definitely less cool after being up all night and then take good, get on a bus out to the middle of the desert. We did it. And, uh, you know, we took some pictures

and then we came back and we like napped for like an hour, you know, cause, and then we like went back to the, um, trade trade show so i'm just setting the stage of where we are physically we're tired we're out in the desert and then for the sunrise um and then we're back at the trade show and we're getting hungry and so we eat some lunch and then we walk by a ben and jerry's ice cream shop in las vegas and so I decide, why don't we get some ice cream? So I'm eating a banana split. It's 10am in the morning. I think this may have been the moment that I became lactose intolerant. I can't, I can't, I don't know if that's true. But it might have happened right then and there at that Ben and Jerry's in Las Vegas. So I'm eating Ben and Jerry's and Brooke actually took

a picture. She's like, you don't look like you're having very much fun and then i have this photo of me just like kind of cringing over this ice cream sundae like it just wasn't sitting well um and so we we get up and we're starting to walk down the strip to like just wasting time in between like walking around the convention and just being there. And maybe 50 steps down the strip, I have to poop. And not like, oh, like we should find somewhere within, you know, the next 20 minutes. Like I've got 20 seconds and are my life's going to be very miserable. And so I start, you know, I clench as tight as I can and I'm walking at full speed down the strip with my wife and friend behind me just cackling and laughing at me.

Not supporting me, laughing at me. How would they support you in that situation, though? I don't know. Just maybe, like, encouragement. I don't know. You know, maybe just not cackle. Violence, I think, would be a better way to support. And so I remember we had eaten at a P.F. Chang's in the Planet Hollywood casino like two nights before.

So I knew, you know, I knew there's a bathroom right beside that P.F. Chang's. Because like when you go into a casino, like they're, they're amazed, like it's hard to find restrooms and they make them that way. And they kind of put the restrooms deeper in the casino so that you have to walk by all the slot machines and everything to get to them. It's like milk in the grocery store.

Yeah. Yeah. And so I milk in my stomach in a pound of ice cream and i was you know so i'm i'm like sprint walking through the las vegas crowd with my wife and my friend trying to keep up with me cackling behind me trying to get to planet hollywood because i'm like if because i'm like i know there's one there i'm not going to risk it i'm too close to like a bad time that I can't risk it by just going into the nearest casino. So I get there and I turn the corner. I'm like, you know, there's stairs. So I'm like a penguin going up the stairs again, still cackling behind me.

And then I turn, I go through the doors, the glass doors. I'll never forget this for the rest of my life through the glass doors, turn left at the Planet Hollywood Casino. I see the bathroom. I start walking towards it and I'm maybe like 50 feet out. And I think to myself, I'm going to crap my pants. I'm going to poop my pants in Las Vegas in front of my wife and friends. This is what my life has become. I'm going to have to tell my kids about this story someday.

I have to live a life of shame for the rest of my life because of this moment. And Brooke describes it as like a movie scene where I fall forward onto a casino. On the floor? It catches me. No, I'm leaning on the casino, and this is where I believe that God is real. With everything in me, I clench one last time,

and I hold it in, but I'm leaning against the casino. She thought I was... And again, my friends are laughing at me, and I am leaning against the casino with all of my might, all of my physical strength, was like like and again my friends are laughing at me and i am leaning against the casino with all of my might all of my physical strength holding in my ben and jerry's ice cream banana split sundae and then i so then i like kind of stand up and again they're just cackling they're

laughing they can't get enough of it and then i you know waddle the rest of the way i i still haven't pooped myself which is amazing i thought it was going to happen which is why i kind of like braced myself against it because against the slot machine i was like just ready for it yeah um but but however i did it stayed in but then you get to the bathroom and there's still so many more steps yeah you know you have to get through the door you have to get through the door. You have to get through the stall door. You have to lock the stall door. You have to get your pants down.

You have to sit down. But I made it. And so the story ends in glory, and I made it. Oh, I'm imagining, like, the Wolf of Wall Street, like, that scene where he's, like, all, like, messed up and, like, trying to get out to his car and, like, just, like... I'm a Christian. So I don't know if I've never heard of that. Good for you.

I watched on vid angel. Yeah. Yeah. He's just like, he's just like minutes on vid angel. It's a super short film. I don't know why it gets so critically acclaimed. Why so evil?

I get so much. Yeah. On vid angel. What did he, he had had too many smarties the night before or something. Yep, yep, I remember that. Yeah, and then he had a straw and he had snorted some Coca-Cola. Anyway, and he was just trudging through it.

That's what I imagined you, just like every step is agony. Yeah, that is a thousand percent it. Oh my goodness. It's agony. But when people are laughing at you like i don't know if you guys like it's like i find it funny like if this was a funny moment you're you loosen up humor in it yeah but yeah you got to keep your core tight like that totally oh my goodness yeah exactly like it's like stop laughing please and then that makes them laugh even harder because you're in

like dire dire like pain and and they're like following me they're like walking with me and laughing which is i don't know i just it was just uh i'll never forget it but i actually went back i was in vegas for this music festival this year and i went back to the place that it happened it's sort of reminiscing i was like yep the slot machine was gone and they had moved it but how how short did the did the walk look the second time like did it look like oh this was like this is like 25 feet you know it felt like two miles i walked yeah it's like when you're a kid and you're like oh man that place was huge and then you go back like you know when you're 30

and you're like yeah that was the place I used to get so excited. You know, it's like the same. Oh, that's awesome. That's wonderful, man. Thank you for sharing this. Does Brooke have similar like memories of it? Or, you know, obviously she was dying. Oh yeah, she remembers it so well.

And occasionally she'll pull out the Polaroid of me eating the banana split sundae, which I'll try to text it to you guys, because it does look like I'm about to poop my pants. Like, like you see as a picture of that guy and you're like, this guy's probably going to poop his pants within 20 to 30 minutes. Just incredible foreshadowing. So,

but yeah, they remember it. And then like our, our friend Jeff, he remembers it too. Like it, it, it left an impact on us for sure.

Wow. That's beautiful. Thanks for coming on the pod and sharing with us. Appreciate it. You're welcome. Also, I was going to call... Jake, just a quick question for you. How's the registry going?

Are people buying you enough gifts? Oh my gosh. Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Are people buying you more stuff from Target or from Crate and Barrel? Yeah, where... Or are they just Googling

Jake Triplett, Rachel Coop, Wedding Registry? Yeah. Yeah, I just... Are you feeling okay with how things are turning out or do you need another shout-out? I just want to know. Thanks so much. I'll give you one if you need one.

Thanks so much for asking. No, I don't think we need a shout-out. I think we're doing just fine. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for... I won't you one if you need one. Thanks so much for asking. No, I don't think we need a shout out. I think we're doing just fine. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for questioning, if we might. TJ, I was maybe going to call or text you this week. What about just like cash or like text or like checks or anything?

Yeah. What's an address we can send that to? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you were saying, Jake, that if somebody wants to support Jake and his wedding, that they can just go to walkinlove.com and just buy that. That's how I feel supported. Yeah. Yeah.

You guys are hilarious. That's so funny, guys. You guys are the funniest guys I've ever heard. Great to chat with you, dude. Love you. Hope to see you soon. You're the man, dude. thanks for having me on oh anytime cool yeah have a great day ghost stories pooping in public all right time for our next caller uh go ahead and introduce yourself tell them your name where you're from and how you became a ghostie.

Sure. My name's Jess. I'm Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. All right. And I think I started listening to you guys on a trail of different people. I was listening to Annie Downs, who introduced me to John Crist, who introduced me to Trey Kennedy, who introduced me to Jake Triplett, who introduced me to Brad Ellis. Wow.

It was a good train. And I don't think I listen to any of those people anymore, except for you guys. Oh, that's kind. You're on the caboose. It's the end of the train. Yeah, right. No where else to go.

That's cool. I saved the best for last. I don't think I've heard i mean obviously i know any downs well but i've never heard like that uh like that trickle down so that's fun that is fun and it's interesting to know maybe we're not uh we're not having enough people on our podcast like we haven't given her the next part of the train it's like it stops here you don't go anywhere else yes well i don't know where you could go from here. That's cool. Yeah. Thanks for the introduction. We're excited to talk to you. Like we were saying, we have no idea what you're about

to tell us, but we know that Scott picked it out and wanted us to hear from you. So let's hear your story, Jen. What do you got for us? Yeah. So I think it would start back in high school. I was working at a local, well, not local, at a national chain grocery store called Superstore. And when I was in high school, we had a really cool role, which was price checker. And we got to wear rollerblades through the store. And so when there was a discrepancy over price at the till, I had a cordless phone, if you can remember cordless phones that I rollerbladed around the store checking prices for people. And nowadays, that just seems like such a foreign concept that just would never happen. But anyways, while I was working there, I met a boy that kind of we liked each other a bit and we would talk on the phone late at night and whatever.

But he, his family was, so he was like the second generation immigrant and his family wouldn't allow him to date me. So we, for racial reasons love which was fun but anyways he so we would talk on the phone all the time and fast forward like a year or so wow i yeah i was still kind of talking to him on and off you know i'd had a boyfriend here or there but just always kept to the sky and all of a sudden I had so I'm you know been married for 20 years and my husband back then we had started I'd known him since I was like 15 but he's a bit older than me so we never got together but at this time it was like okay i think we're gonna start dating and so i ghosted the other guy okay you go to the grocery store that's the background ghost the grocery store boy okay and uh so fast forward how many years would that be? Three years?

So my husband and I got married when I was 19, and this was my second pregnancy, so I would think I was 22, pregnant with my daughter, Rachel, who's also a ghostie. Oh, I met her. And yeah, you met a mother. That's right. So I've been having this problem during my pregnancy where food wasn't digesting in an appropriate manner. And I would get like sudden explosive diarrhea for no reason or for, you know know the reason of eating yeah and so it had happened we were in alaska visiting my brother and sister-in-law and i'd had moose meat for the first time and we decided to go for a nice long walk after dinner moose meat and moose meat oh and so we got that. We were going for a walk to the kind of rural community and down about,

I don't know, a couple of kilometers. I don't know. Is that a mile maybe around just over a mile walk to their ice cream shop, which was in a trailer. And we're like three quarters of the way there. And I'm going, no oh no yeah yeah so the antlers are coming out and i just ruined the entire trailer and went home in shame but that's not even the good story so that's just to say i knew this was a problem and i don't know what i was thinking ever being out in public after eating during this pregnancy. So later on, we are walking at a park. We live in a pretty big city. So we have this really nice park. Our city has a river valley that goes through it. And there's a lot of really

nice parks along the river valley. So we had dropped off our son with my mom for a little date night and went for dinner and decided a nice um park walk in the park would be great so we're walking through the park which is like of course nowhere there's you know a central part in the middle of the park where there's bathrooms, but we're not walking near there. That would be smart. And we're not so, or I'm not, I can't blame him. But, uh, so we're, you know, halfway through our walk and I'm starting to go, I think we need to find a bathroom. So we start walking towards the bathroom, you know, we're kind of getting there and i'm getting a little more panicked with every 100 meters and i can see the bathroom building now and i'm going i have to run it's over i'm done i'm going you're running summer with that you said you were going to run i need to run i'm not going to make it i have to run

yeah but of course there's like what happens when you run okay so you started running running and as i'm running there is a big group of guys sitting on picnic tables outside the building. And I'm prior to running up to these guys. I'm just focused on the bathroom. I'm going and it's coming and it's running down the leg and it's over. Proud of everybody. And as I'm running, I look at this. I just glance at this group of guys and this guy that i

used to work with that i had ghosted three years earlier is locked eyes with me with a shocked expression on his face that he's seeing me and i'm looking at him and i just keep running i just turn and run into the building and he sees the whole back of me as I'm going in, which I am sure. It was so... So I get into the bathroom, you know, finish. Yeah. And for I'm in there, it's got to be half an hour I'm in there because they don't know what to do because they don't have anything

to wear now I can't leave the bathroom and other women are coming into the bathroom like oh my god and I'm listening to this all from inside the stall just like weeping why is this my life and hoping that whenever I finally exit here this guy outside is not waiting for me. Oh, my gosh. Because I don't think I was really visibly pregnant yet. She wasn't born until December, so it was still pretty early in the pregnancy. Yes. But eventually, my mom came and found my husband's gym clothes from our car and brought me something to wear in my walk of shame out of the bathroom.

And was the guy still there? No. Good thing. I exited through, there's two exits, so I exited the other way just in case. Sounds like you were exiting plenty both ways. That's funny. oh my goodness that moment of mortification where you lock eyes with somebody as diarrhea is running down your leg that you haven't seen it was so terrible well i mean you know the the the answer to this comes from the origin of the story is if you had rollerblades on, you would have gotten there in time.

You wouldn't have exerted as much energy. You would have made it there quicker. Yeah, you would have glided and then you would have glided. That is true. All of that running motion is what did it. Although it was on grass. But I was an expert rollerblader back in the day. Rollerblades are the answer.

Oh my gosh. I would love to hear the story from that guy's perspective. Yeah. Like, I was into this girl. Yeah. I didn't all of a sudden hear from her. I kid you not. Three years later, I see her, and she's running to the bathroom with diarrhea running down her legs. It was the best response.

It was better than any text message. I thought was like i dodged a bullet i'm sure yeah he loves this story oh my gosh could you imagine if i got together with that girl is amazing changing her pants all the time gosh that is that's that's the canadian way huh so that's what we do up here we get pregnant really young and then we poop our pants have a little moose meat a little bit of stroll in the park and yeah oh wow well thank you jen that was i know that was honestly like if you if you've had that experience have you really been embarrassed since then?

I mean, I don't think so. I think you could pretty much live through anything. Yeah. It heightens your threshold. Exactly. It's like, it's like, you think this day's bad.

Remember the day where I just pooped all over myself in front of the guy that I was like in love with for a while. Pretty much. Yeah. I think also just motherhood does that to you. There's really just nothing that fazes you anymore at some point. Yeah, that's a good word, too. No shame.

Yes, that's amazing. I love it. Yeah. It's just having perspective, right? It's just like, hey, was today a poop down the leg day? No. No, it wasn't. It could have been worse.

No, it was a great day. You know, all things considered. I'm going to put a gold star on this day. I didn't put myself in front of any ex-boyfriends. Well, thanks for calling in, Jen. We really appreciate it.

You've been a supporter of ours for a long time. And yeah, we just, we're thankful for Annie Downs, you know, first and foremost. Thanks, Annie.

And secondly to you. Annie. Awesome. Happy natural to Mr. Jake. And we'll talk to you guys soon,'m sure okay thank you thanks jen we'll talk to you soon appreciate it oh man the moose meat will get you speaking of that i looked up i was like i wonder if i can have moose meat oh first of all i'm an idiot because everything that i am allergic to comes from mammals so i should just know no i can't chickens are mammals they have wings they're birds i'm i'm that dumb okay no that's fine

birds are not mammals ever birds is uh like its own category it is fish mammals birds fun yeah i thought mammals were just anything that was warm-blooded so uh they have to have like the what is it the mammaries mammary yeah that's really yeah yeah mammary glands okay but often have no is that not right but oftentimes people with things with mammary glands have fur obviously humans are different and there's a little bit of back and forth with mammals and fish dolphins and sharks and then one of those is actually a mammal i forget which one i think is it it's either whales dolphins or sharks in there. One of those is actually a mammal. I forget which one. Dolphins, I think. It's either whales, dolphins, or sharks. Something's going on with one of them.

I think it's dolphins. Okay. So you can't eat dolphins. You didn't know a chicken was a bird. Well, I'm not positive about the dolphins either. I'll be honest. Memory gland sounded so made up. I had to look it up.

Oh, that's a thing. Tom's like, okay, memory gland. Sure, sure. I haven't gotten to that part of homeschool yet. It'll get there. Anyway, yeah, turkey and chicken, which I can't eat. Birds. Moose, which are not.

The whole reason I bring this up is because I found here, food products that contain milk and milk products typically contain alpha-gal. No wonder I've been having gurgles when I have the ice cream and the milk. Yeah. Good thing lactate tastes amazing, though. Not the pill, but the milk drink. You're into it? It tastes so good.

Good. I don't know how they do it. Probably like the aspartame that's in this drink and the sucralose that's in other drinks. Something, yeah. Anyway, just to add that nice little update while I was listening to her. Okay, maybe stay away from the milk.

Or the mousse. And the meese. The meese, yeah. And the meese. Meece is fun. Thanks thanks jen that was great yeah thank you jen nice nice chatting with you well that has been another episode of ghost stories this felt like such a fun episode so many funny moments you guys are hilarious and um yeah we appreciate it it's it's fun it's just always fun to get some uh interaction with everybody else and

hear their stories so yeah yeah it's fun and it feels like the Wednesday episodes too. It's like, yeah, just, just have fun with them. So before we go, let's do our comment of the week. Comment of the week. Mine is coming from our Facebook group page. Cuco. Yep. She said, Brad, my strong-willed three and a half year old was absolutely refusing her nap for a solid half hour today. So I tried, decided the boss talk, quote-unquote, who's in charge. And she said, it worked, mind-blown emoji. She immediately quieted down and fell asleep. She just woke up now and we're playing princesses.

Best parenting podcast out there. I love that podcast. I was so excited to see that it worked for somebody else. Totally. And so now I'm excited for Monday when I was doing the different faces. I want to see people with videos of them making those faces and watching those little babies laugh, start a movement.

I think, yeah, that's, that's the next parenting tip for you. So thanks page. That's so, so, so much fun.

My comment of the week comes from Patrick Drummond. Oh yeah. He's the man. I feel like we've been talking about him more and more recently. He's coming to Florida with us, but he said, uh, Brad was so hot and sweaty in the costume last episode. He's gone to short short sleeved this time makes me wonder what he'll be wearing or not next time

we'll see funny comment just keep getting less and less he's a funny dude a lot of lights in here gets bright between him and ben miller it's gonna be a fun time in florida fun time in florida and uh yeah thank you guys for listening or watching this video. Speaking of video, Evolve Videography. Check them freaking out. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I can't imagine. I can't imagine. I'm trying to envision a wedding. Close your eyes. Without Evolve Videography videoing it. What a waste. Oh my gosh. It'd just be a bunch of Pish and a bunch of Posh. Right? That's all I see. I can't imagine anything else other than Pish and Posh. Here's Pish and here's Posh.

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