Ghostrunners - 225 - The Girl Before Rachel

Episode Date: May 10, 2023

This episode is... JUICY. And so much fun. We talk wedding dresses and coke/pepsi taste testing. What do you guys think? Do you think Brad could guess the drink correctly 100 out of 100 times?? Check out Sara on Facebook (www.facebook.com/sarasolbergtravel) or email her at [e-mail] Check out Carly Jean and use code GRKC for 20% off https://www.carlyjeanlosangeles.com/ Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Get a personalized video from us on Cameo: https://v.cameo.com/e/fvERn6rrysb Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Howdy, Brad. Hey, buddy. Today was kind of a fun day for Rachel. Her mom came down from Iowa. Her grandma came down from Iowa to do her final dress fitting, which is a process I'm pretty familiar with. Yeah, I know. She had a dress fitting like a couple weeks ago that Catherine went to. And so you said she's coming back. I was like, I didn't know that was a thing. I totally knew there would be multiple sessions of the dress fitting. I thought I was like, yeah, of course, that's how it works. But yeah, I guess you maybe try it on one time, you get it altered, and then you come back and it's like the dress rehearsal. Let's make sure it fits. Literally, dress rehearsal. It's the dress rehearsal, yeah. Anyway, Rachel

had her appointment today. I texted her. I was like, how'd it go? She said it went amazing. Everything fit perfect. Oh, that's awesome. The seamstress said she's been doing dress rehearsals, been in the business for 40 years, and told Rachel she has the most unique dress she's ever seen. What does that mean? I didn't know they could put peacocks on a dress.

Bright green. The most unique dress she's ever seen. Fun. So a couple options. One, she says that to everyone. Fair. Two. she's ever seen fun a couple options one she says that to everyone fair two not maybe not everyone but like if she's 40 years old sorry i'm interrupting no i just think if you're 40 years old my dad has started to talk in extremes very often like hyperbole he'll go to a burger place like that might be the best burger i ever had like he says it twice a year you know like

he goes that chicken that chicken might be the best chicken ever and he's not even talking about good rancher he's talking about some random place he's a hole in the wall in small town kansas i like to think maybe she's uh she's saying like within reason maybe this is the most unique dress or even maybe just the most unique dress of the company she's been at like they don't have crazy dresses okay so out of just a nice normal white dress is the most unique one yeah or what's what's another option um or it's just like a i don't know what are you thinking a wild dress like a truly she looks like a like it's got like a native american headdress attached like it has like a it has like a cable attached

to it that yeah the wedding venue has all these like she's gonna peter pan around the entire wedding reception i've never seen that before you're gonna be p like, she's going to Peter Pan around the entire wedding reception. I've never seen that before. You're going to be Peter Pan, she's going to be Wendy. Animatronic wings. Hydraulics involved. Wow, this is... You can fly! Uh-oh, ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts in white.

Me too, Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet because it's a ghost from the spot anyway yeah it's kind of fun just everything was wearing Go for a podcast. I don't know if this is normal. I don't know if this is crazy. Yeah. I don't know if this is from the rack at Dillard's or if this was $3,000, $5,000, whatever. Is this vintage? Is this a new style? Fair. I have no idea. Yeah.

That's a good point. I don't think I could describe more than, I think Catherine's dress had sleeves or whatever. Not sleeves, but straps. Tanks. That's all I can remember about it. I don't truly feel bad about that because I don't think I can remember anything about i can't i and i and i don't i don't truly feel bad about that because i don't think i can remember anything about any dress it's not just okay like i just don't i'm not yeah i don't know how to describe the differences you're right

like whereas like i bet that's the way katherine looks at like basketball shoes or something like she's like yeah they're shoes no those are russell westbrook shoes like you know whatever like yeah it's probably one of the things that maybe a lot of husbands out there can relate to this when you're going through this but yeah i feel like once we got engaged rachel started like um like let's just scroll pinterest i want to see what kind of dresses you like and so i'm you know i've been a good sport the whole time like yeah let's see and i i tried my best to like have an opinion but it was so hard it's like what about this one and like like, yeah, cool.

Really? I didn't think you'd like that style. I'm like, well, okay. Well, I don't even really know what I'm saying. Like, I don't know if that's like a, is that a crazy? She does not need to worry about you in the slightest. You're going to think she looks gorgeous in anything.

It's so hard. Yeah. Especially on Pinterest. Pinterest is like, everything looks good on Pinterest. Like it's the lighting. Well, it's the models wearing it. Right.

Like, yeah, she looks great. Yeah, that's the perfect lighting on the perfect day. Yeah, of course she looks awesome. And I would be contradicting myself. She'd be like, oh, you like this one? I thought you didn't like... I thought you didn't like long trains. I thought you didn't like the backs like that.

I didn't even know you had shown me the back of a dress yet. I thought we'd only looked at the front of a dress. I just thought that girl was deformed. I'm sorry. I thought I was looking at at from really far away you're pixelated yeah oh man so that's been funny too like even like there's been a few times where rachel's trying to show me a picture and she's like you didn't see the dress did you like i promise if i saw it i it is not spoiling anything like there is nothing nothing I would remember, but I am excited because I have been a good sport about this.

I am into it. I like the idea of just like a little girl grows up and she knows someday I'm going to be in a wedding dress and there's only going to be one dress. It's a huge deal. It's fun. I can't imagine what it's like to pick out yours and then get fitted for it.

I think it's really exciting, but I just can't like i can't find the the ability to like observe it can i admit something to you yeah i've seen a picture oh and i couldn't describe one iota katherine showed to me she's like at first she's like i'm not showing to you because you're gonna tell jake and i was like we had the same conversation i was like i i wouldn't even know what to tell him. And he wouldn't even understand it if I did. I gave him a telephone. Yeah, talking about wedding dresses.

Yeah. Oh, my gosh. And she's like, okay, fine. I'll show you. I don't even know what to tell you, brother. I didn't know you'd seen it. So sorry that I put you in this position where you're having to riff off of the dress and you know, at least somewhat, what it looks like.

Boy, it's white. Okay. I'm sorry. Cool. I'm sorry. Spoiler. Gosh, Rachel. Oh, frick. Edit it looks like. It's white. Okay. I'm sorry. Cool. I'm sorry. Spoiler. Gosh, Rachel. Ah, frick.

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Get a lot. Yeah. Hey, we got some voice memos, Jake. Let's time travel. We time traveled last week, didn't we, for some voice memos? Yabba dabba doo, we did. That was only a few days back. We're going back back.

The walls are going to change colors. Yeah. Timon does not exist. Yes, this was a Justin edit. I was not born. Yeah. I miss Justin, man. I mean, Timon's wonderful, but I love him.

I miss him. We texted him today. That was nice born. Yeah. I miss Justin, man. I mean, timing's wonderful, but I love him. I miss him. We texted him today. We did. And that's when I realized I missed him. Yeah. Because we did not text him back for two weeks. No, dude. I think it was longer than that.

Oh, really? Yeah. Two and a half weeks. It was like Arizona when we were in Arizona. So, yeah. When we were in Arizona for the bachelor party, Justin had texted us like, hey, what do you guys think about this video? And we told you guys, like, that was like such a getaway trip.

Like, no screen time, no phones. Yeah yeah just for living life oh yeah and then it was one of those days where you start the battery off at 100 you in the battery with like 78 yeah like wow this is awesome yeah and i went to text justin today and yeah i hadn't texted him since april 14th i was like oh my gosh yeah dude i'm so sorry he's like dude i get it it's all good so anyway we recorded uh a little session answering voice memos and uh there's actually some really fun stuff in there yeah uh so i think you guys enjoy it yeah just know i'm really excited about the sample we'll we're gonna make we're gonna make it happen yes so have fun listening to them we'll see you in a little bit enjoy yeah okay our first voice memo of the week comes from

bridget let's hear what bridget has to say dick and brad this is bridget from philadelphia i'm a junior in high school and i've been homeschooled my entire life so shout out sheltered kid i love listening to you guys all the time but um especially while i do my math homework so thank you for making algebra and geometry actually enjoyable. You're welcome. My question is for Jake. So I remember hearing on the Correct Opinions podcast a long time ago that you were trying to get the number of a girl

by guessing the clue she was giving you for each digit. And then I don't know if I missed something or not, but it seemed like you went straight from her to you were seriously dating Rachel. So I was wondering if she is in fact the same girl, or if I somehow missed some important plot twist. Also, my brother wanted me to tell you that you should definitely add

sweatshirts to your merch if you haven't already. Okay, thank you. Bye. Thanks, Bridge. I'll tell you one thing right now, Bridge. Ghostwriters.live, you can see all the merch we have. Please check it out. You tell your brother to go check it out. I'll tell you one thing right now, Bridge. Ghostwriters.live, you can see all the merch we have. Please check it out. You tell your brother to go check it out. I love the idea of her listening while doing math homework

because I could never listen to anything even somewhat substantial with math. Anything else, maybe. But math, I have to really focus on. And I think I'm going to just kind of sabotage her real quick and just throw out some numbers. 17 divided by 14. 11.

To the ninth. Oh, wait, no, it's negative. 0.095. Cosine tangent sine. Yeah, so it could tell. Or no, it's the absolute value of 14. It has to be your squared roots. Okay.

Pythagorean is not. That's a different pedophile. Got it. Did we mess with you, Bridget? Gotcha, gotcha, Bridge, London Bridge. Good luck doing proofs with that on there, huh? Anyway, okay, so do you know what she's referring to? Yeah, once upon a time,

I'm trying to figure out how much I want to say, because this is a juicy story that you're going to love off the podcast. I'm trying to figure out how much I want to say. I better not say all of it right now which i know people probably gonna think that i do this on purpose i promise i'm not i've just been burned so many times i'm like well one hyping something up before it's actually happening and two just like i don't know just gotta want to be protective of things sure um especially with

relationships yeah it's other people's lives so yep basically yeah there was a girl what's her name i'm just kidding okay don't just say girl what's her first okay but like like paint a picture brother where's she from what's her name what's she dating now social you know um that's funny where'd you meet her so this girl was uh hollering at me back in the day oh she was hollering at you yeah yeah and um oh how do i navigate this hey boy i'm hollering i wasn't prepared for this uh scenario all right but i can always adjust it later okay so basically this girl was hollering at me and give me an example of a girl hollering at you just like replying to pretty much every story i would put up oh yeah hollering yeah yeah i'd say that's like a pretty regular holler. You know, it's like, okay, I get the picture. Okay, I see you hollering.

Okay. I can hear the holler. We know the holler. Yeah. And... We have holler ID. There it is. Hello, you're the fourth holler. Rock 107, my seventh caller. Dang it! I didn't even do it do it i didn't do it right stupid okay anyway uh this is good it's giving me more time to navigate i want to go about this

basically this girl's hollering and i was like okay yeah you know he's kind of cute and i was like yeah i might be interested in this and so i was like hey can i get your number like you know i don't want to like chat on instagram and she then like made it this like really like fun creative way trying to figure it out which i appreciated and uh i legitimately couldn't figure it out and so i brought it to correct opinions i was like hey can you guys figure this out i figured it'd be a fun thing for trey and so trey and i get talking after the episode and he was like who who was that i'm telling him and i'm showing the girl he's like wait i have dms from this girl so she used to

holler at trey hollering at trey then hollered at me yeah nothing worked out with her and i okay i met rachel probably like two months afterwards or something like that okay and now that girl is is dating someone else you've told me about this you told me yeah yes dude yes so it's kind of fun let's do the eye emojis in real life no no we're not doing the blinks just just eye emojis like oh oh so there you go bridget there you go that's an interesting story for sure Just eye emojis like, oh. Oh, dude. There you go, Bridget. There you go. That's an interesting story for sure. Okay, do you have a fun?

Whatever. I know this is all personal stuff, but do you have any fun stories with Rachel and the initial conversations with her? Do you remember getting her phone number or anything like that? Do you feel comfortable answering that? If not, say no oh, thank you. I don't remember specifically how I, I mean, I think I probably just straight up asked

and she just straight up gave it to me. Because it, I mean, we met in real life. You guys know the story. Topgolf Rachel and then Meadowbrook Rachel and all this stuff. But I never like got her phone number then and there. You know, at the time it was just like, this is the craziest coincidence ever. This is so fun. Can't wait to talk to the podcast about this.

And then what I remember happening is after the second week in a row of seeing Rachel, I was like, you know, I think we're asking like, do you guys come to Meadowbrook often? Like, oh my gosh, we're here all the time. Yeah. And I'd probably went like two other times recently, hadn't seen Rachel. So I think the third time that I just sent a picture of like an empty pickleball court at Meadowbrook and then a quote sent her a message that said, yeah, I'm here all the time. Just kind of give her a hard time.

We started chatting that way. And then I think at some point just got her number. We can take out any of this because I know it's, but do you remember the story where you were like, first of all, you had Isaac friend her, right? Oh, what it was. No, that night after we met her at Meadowbrook, I came home and I said,

Isaac, i got a girlfriend for one of us oh because i didn't who knows how old she is yeah i was like she seems young i think she may have just graduated college i don't know and well she was on the tall side yes she's young and tall that's right you guys did some recon for isaac and so yeah what i did is yeah i looked up uni volleyball roster found name, because I only knew her first name at that point, Rachel Northern Iowa Volleyball. And so I found her name, her last name, hello Instagram, but most importantly, they found out her height.

Yes. And it said 5'9", which is about as tall as I can go. Yeah, right. So I was like right on the cusp. Sorry, Isaac. Were you nervous? Like, hey, they fudge those numbers sometimes. Yeah, like in football.

Yeah, in football, like all of a sudden, Brad, who's like six foot was like, I'm 6'3". In the program. like hey they fudge those numbers sometimes yeah football yeah football like all of a sudden Brad who's like six foot was like I'm six three and then in the program but like a girl probably wouldn't want to be like yeah I'm extra tall yeah I'd be like no I'm not that tall on the program sure I remember the story of the the F's you remember that like family that was the one I was gonna bring up was like yeah like she had different Instagram story highlights, right? Is that what it was? Yeah.

And there was, because it was like, hey, like, dude, is she a Christian? Like, that's a non-negotiable. We got to make sure that's there first. I remember telling Isaac, I'm like, she's got a cross necklace. And Isaac's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think anyone who wears a cross necklace has to be a Christian. I was like, you're right, dude. I don't know.

And so, but there was like, what was it? It was like all these different. Friends, family is fun maybe yeah fun and and you're like it was it was the perfect opportunity for her to put faith in there could have been in there she didn't put it so i don't know about this girl like i remember having that conversation in the basement of the house like where we did you know ghost runners two two sets ago two studios ago wherever that was mission kansas and yeah talking about it then i'm like i don't know though dude because she didn't put a faith you know you were it was a joke at the time it's set up well for yeah it is fellowship baby

so and come to find out i told rachel about that months after we start dating and she was like oh my gosh because for one you guys could probably tell if you follow like she's not a big social media person at all poster yeah even more than that she shares her instagram with her best friend from high school so they both so it's like wait this girl saw all my dm she's like yeah probably i was like oh my gosh that's crazy i was like your best friend sees everything she's like yeah it's crazy i'll go on instagram and i won't see people's stories i feel like i should be seeing it's because carrie already watched them and i was like of course you guys just share on instagram and so she was like i think carrie did all those she's like honestly i didn't even know those were there i don't i didn't even notice they all start with f i think it's just a coincidence have you ever been worried that maybe you're in

love with carrie and not like like the whole relationship was a fraud that's why i want to do a first look catfish you got care fish i want to make sure it's carrie at the first look i don't want someone to be walking down the aisle to take the veil off and like that's actually that's carrie that's funny that's funny to think about like yeah carrie was actually i i'm really bad at writing you know and so i had carrie yeah richard's like i did the voicemail was but that was all carrie who texts you so funny but hey iowa you know royalty though carrie grassley yes so that's it could be worse why she has an instagram with rachel right because yeah yeah being in the political yeah i think it's just not fun yeah that's interesting all right thanks bridget bridget fun question all right

this next one comes from uh kayla this is fun hey jake and brad it's kaylin the ghosty rep of the great state of Texas. Yeah, yeah. It's been getting cold down here. We don't know how to act, how to dress, or how to drive. We don't know what to do. But, you know, it's been getting chilly. People getting the sniffles.

I wanted to get y'all's opinion on public nose blowers. Personally, I think that is so weird and disgusting that people just are fine just doing that like in class or like wherever um i have a roommate and she does this thing where she like rubs her nose and it makes this like really weird sound and she does it like anywhere and i always look at her and i'm embarrassed for her but she's not embarrassed or like you know it'll be quiet in church and then you just someone's just honking their nose so i'm gonna do y'all's opinion my prediction is that brad's gonna be on my team. He's going to be like, ew, that's disgusting.

Like, uh-uh. But then I bet Jake is a public nose blower. Okay. That's my prediction. But I wanted to hear y'all's thoughts, but I'll catch y'all later.

That's such an indirect insult to you of like, hey, I think this is really disgusting. I bet Jake loves it. Right? I bet Brad sees rationing like I do, but I bet Jake loves it. Right? I bet Brad sees rationing like I do, but I bet Jake can't wait to do his next one. I bet Jake's all out of that snot whenever he's in public.

He's a Chick-fil-A just blowing that thing. He's not quiet at all when he's eating his chicken strips. I bet he uses Rachel's sleeve sometimes. Let me tell you yeah i mean he's nasty with it i bet i bet okay caitlin well so for some reason at first i was imagining snot rockets only and i was like oh yeah that is so gross i mean that's what i think about public like you're on a sidewalk just blowing your nose that's pretty gross but even sorry caitlin but even just like yeah someone just like yeah someone just like really honking themselves it is a pretty nasty sound yeah i don't like doing it in public

i i yeah caitlin i think you're opposite of you're wrong on this one yeah as i because i'm like oh it depends on like define public i guess first and foremost church church during worship when it's loud go for it like it like i or i will go for it like i understand that it's gross sounding and it's gross but sometimes it's like i'm desperately needing to blow this thing usually if i'm that sick though like i will just stay home from church but like like something that like people can really hear me well but like i mean i was it still am ellis cousin creations blue collar and so i like i feel like i like a home depot or something like you walk into a you get out of your truck you shut

the door you're in your coveralls you got a little something in your nose you get right out there yeah yeah boom right there i have a i have i have a bad habit honestly of spitting like i i spit a lot and so i yeah i'm definitely the person out of the two of us that's, like, more. Probably more likely to do that. Yeah. Tell me. I am conscious of it, though. Of, like, I'm not going to.

If it's quiet in a library or something, I'll go to the bathroom and do it. That's good. If you've got, yeah, easy access. Yeah. Tell me about this, Kalen. Tell me about this, Brad. Because this is more my move. Is this better or worse?

Like, let's say I got a couple of runny nostrils one day. I'm in church or something. Rather than, like, do a big honky honk, you know, in the tissue. It's nasty. It's gross. You can hear everything. I'll just slowly sniffle all day. But I try to time my sniffles.

The pastor makes a joke. Everyone, ha, ha, ha. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Timing this. Hey, we're clapping. We're clapping. It's huge. And you try to get a lot in in a short amount of time. Everyone, ha ha ha. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Timing this. Hey, we're clapping. We're clapping. It's huge. And you try to get a lot in

in a short amount of time. Oh, yeah. But that's where my move, I'd rather just slowly and quietly and annoyingly sniffle than do a couple big honks. See, I'm the same way with the loud noises, but I'm a honker.

I'm a honker during the noises. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, good joke, pastor. Whatever, yeah. No, I think sniffles are okay it depends on what kind of sniffles we got like if it's like runny sniffles fine congested it's like you're getting some action congested sniffles where it's like i don't know if you're breathing very well after that like yeah you probably shouldn't be here i don't want to be close to you or sniffles where

you can like actually hear stuff it's like i always imagine like it's like boba tea going up the straw it's like you've really got like some substance. It's going back there. Like there is, there is, yeah. There's some weight to this sniffle. Right. That nose. Yeah. Is, is four pounds heavier right now. Yeah. Yeah. You need to get out of here, please. It's crazy how they're all connected. Ear, nose, mouth, throat, all that. It's a wild system. God really built for us. I was talking to Hattie about that the other day. Yeah. It is crazy. Like I was like, yeah, you can, I think I said something like, if you put something up your nose, it will go into your mouth or something like that.

She's like, no way. Or like one time I was like, yeah, I sneezed. I don't know what I said. I sneezed in some like carrot, whatever. It's kind of gross. But like a piece of carrot came out of my nose or something. She's like, no, I didn't. How did that happen?

Rachel did this recently. She was eating something and then sneezed. And she said, instead of like choking via throat, she was choking via nose. It went up. Oh, that sounds so uncomfortable. And she's like, it wasn't as scary. I just couldn't get rid of it. Just blow it out.

Yeah. She's like, I ate so briefly. But I was in public, so I had to wait until the joke happened to get the pastor. Say something funny. Yeah. That's a fun question, Kalen. Yee-yee. All right.

Thanks, Kalen. Sorry to let you down there. All right. A-pew-pew-pew! The vey-pew-pew! Whoa, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew! Whoa, whoa, Brad, you're interrupting the voice memos. What are you doing? The walls are blue.

There's a plant life in here. How'd this happen? Tymon's been born. How'd you do this? We did it to interrupt to talk about a new sponsor. That's a new sponsor noise. A-pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew! Where'd they come from?

They're probably just some corporate... It's probably what? Visa credit cards? Some suit, right? Wrong! Pish posh! It's Sarah Solberg, travel agent, baby! Oh, yeah!

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She lives in Alaska, but she does not like winter, so she loves to travel. She took that love for travel and made it into a love for her job. She is now a travel agent. She is wanting to just basically help you have the best experience possible when you travel uh so let me tell you about a few quick bennies benefits great number one with sarah solberg travel agent for destination travel.com destination it saves you time because she does all the research saves you money because she knows how to coerce the system massages a little bit she has the expertise so she knows like oh youerce the system, massage it a little bit. She has the expertise, so she knows like,

oh, you need to think about this, you need to think about that. She's dedicated. Well, she lives in Alaska. What else is she going to do? Exactly, yeah. She does not have the highest speed internet, but she can work fast.

And the best part about it all, how much do you think it costs? I would pay upwards of $400 for a good travel agent. You'd be surprised, Jake. This one's free. There's no charge at all. How she would afford to sponsor us. I don't know.

She's just a generous lady. No, that is cool. I've always heard that travel agents are free. Yeah. And it's fun. They just get kickbacks from the resorts or something. I guess so. For all I know, they do embezzling.

Yes. Doesn't matter to us. We don't know for sure what you're doing, Sarah Solberg. But I know for the ghosties, they don't need to worry about it. They're clean. They're not going to get wrapped up into this. Yes. If she gets sued, your hands are clean.

All right? You don't need to worry about it. We just obviously went to Florida on vacation, and it was awesome, but it was also a ton of work that I think to myself, man, I wish I would have known that. Man, I wish I would have noticed that detail that we could have done something different. We would have. How do we use Sarah Solberg? You've got to affect the bottom

line, though. Right. Oh, wait. Oh! But it's free! It would not have changed. It would have been the same bottom line. The exact same bottom line. Yeah, I know trying to figure

out a honeymoon for Rachel. She was like, surprise me. You do it. And I did. I was excited to, but when it came to figure out a honeymoon for Rachel. She was like, surprise me. You do it. I did. I was excited to. When it came to picking out a resort and the parameters I got from Rachel were somewhere warm. I got a lot to choose from. That would have been a time

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App for details. This next one's from Alden. Let's see what he has to say. Hey, what's up? It's Alden Cronin. Coke or Pepsi? Short and sweet. To the point. Why not, dude? Hey, right there. Hey, what's up? Alden Cronin. Coke or Pepsi? I've always wanted to do a Coke and Pepsi taste test. Maybe we should. Dude. For the channel. Sure. I can't believe people that don't know the difference well that's what i

think too i'm like i'm pretty good at this stuff i would have a hard time look at all the pepsi commercials in the 80s and 90s look at you know people still do it now and well the good thing about advertising is it's never fake or like bias at all i watched the pep yeah you're right it all could be fake i'm not there i'm not conducting i remember those things though. I mean like there's no way they don't know a difference. Well in the Pepsi, where's my jet documentary. That's kind of a running shtick throughout the thing. Every person they interview, they make them do a Coke and Pepsi taste test. And it's crazy. Like a guy from Pepsi chose Coke. It's like, I don't think they would let that, I don't know. It seems real. I, I don't want to do this necessarily. I mean, I do, but I don't because it's unhealthy.

I would bet $1,000 that I could do a Coke or Pepsi taste test 100 times and get 100% accuracy. No way. Yes. No way. Yes. I would take that bet so quickly with you. Okay. A hundred times.

A hundred times. A hundred times. A hundred out of a hundred. No doubt. There's no way. Okay. There's- A hundred times. A hundred times. A hundred times. A hundred out of a hundred. No doubt. There's no way. Okay. There's no way. Any number of money you want to do-

I'll bet you a thousand dollars. There's no way. Okay, let's do it. You only need to screw up one time. I understand. They taste very similar. No, they don't. That's the point.

No, they don't. I would- Oh, I dominate it, dude. Somebody conduct this for us. No, they don't. I would dominate it. Somebody conduct this for us. Somebody get a brand involved. Which brands could we use for the cup? What would be an easy integration? Let's see.

Maybe Simple Modern. They have cups. Straw Company. Yeah, Straw Company. Hey, maybe one of them. Straw Company. There's no way I would ever lose that give it to me a thousand times i'll get 100 give it to me as many times as you want honestly i'm so curious i may have

i may do this tonight with rachel like can you get me just a little bit of coco pepsi i'm just so curious and see like maybe if it's a rachel or a katherine they might not be able to tell the difference because they're not they're not like brother. They're not the same, but I'm convinced that you and I, I don't even know if I'm gonna say you. I'm not gonna put my money on you, but I'm putting my money on myself very confidently. Bring it from different spouts, different restaurants, different cans, I don't care.

Bring it. See, I'm not crazy confident myself. Like I know soda pretty well, but it's like, I've only ever had Pepsi when I'm looking at a blue label, when know it's pepsi i've never had pepsi out of a neutral container like how similar is it we've never tried this we've tested it i don't know brad you are gonna owe me a thousand dollars maybe let's do it okay so let's go through let me ask you so which is coke versus pepsi straight up which one you prefer coke a million times over yeah cherry coke wild cherry pepsi oh that's more of a wash i guess but i cherry coke is like the nostalgic pick for me i think okay both really good yeah vanilla pepsi vanilla coke vanilla coke

nothing beats vanilla coke yeah yes okay vanilla coke is like a nostalgic childhood thing for me it's so good like junior high i think was when when I first got into it and it was nice. Vanilla Coke out of the can is something special. Just pop out of the can in general. Yeah, it's nice. It's so cold. Nice and cold. Yeah.

It's good. It's good. I had some Nitro Pepsi one time. I've never tried it. At a gas station in Boston. What out of 10? Rank it. I was, okay, so I didn't know what nitro meant.

This is before we had our nitro conversation in our friendship. It's kind of freaked you out? Yeah, it was so smooth. I thought it was flat. I was like, oh, this is maybe how it's supposed to be. I think the first few sips, it's like, oh, this is fun. Oh, okay, I'm vibing. And after a while, you're like, I think I just want Pepsi.

I think I just want the real thing. Did you drink it straight from the thing or did you pour it? Straight from the can. Because I wonder, like nitro, I've had a nitro coffee from Starbucks. It says to like pour it into a cold cup or something. How about that? So I don't know. I don't know if that makes a difference.

But yeah, I don't know if I'm too interested in the Pepsi nitro thing. Yeah, I don't need soda to be smoother to me. If I'm drinking it, let it burn. Yeah, that's half the fun. Yeah. Yeah, it's carbon-ache. Anyway, yeah. Diet Pepsi, though, is the edge. Oh, I forgot to ask about that. Yeah, that's half the fun. Yeah. Yeah, it's carbon-ache. Anyway, yeah.

Diet Pepsi, though, is the edge. Oh, I forgot to ask about that. Yeah. Any other? Pepsi Blue or whatever Coke did. New Coke. Yeah, what else? Coke Zero.

I know Grant Hederberg, big Coke Zero guy. He is a big Coke Zero guy. He's keeping him in business. I don't know if I've ever had the Pepsi versionpsi zero or whatever pepsi max is that what they're calling it maybe maybe probably either way hey alden you got a great you know for only a four second voicemail you gotta lie that's right i'm ready i'm ready to take on any i'll take anybody's money and i'll put my money up against anybody i'm serious i'm so confident guys can't wait it's gonna be great all right let's hear from michelle hey jake and brad this is michelle from fort worth texas i just have been a super long time listener i thought i should send you guys a voice message because i've been listening since like the second episode and then i went back and obviously listened to the first but when y'all posted on

instagram like a long time ago like how would you describe our podcast i'm the one that answered like seinfeld but less jewish so i just think i should introduce myself and say hey i'm the one that gave you that cool instagram bio but i love what you guys do i listen every monday it's so awesome i don't really have any questions because y'all pretty much cover everything on the podcast but um i just wanted to give myself a little humble brag and say, hey, all right, keep it up. Bye. Yeah. Michelle, thanks for the footer on our website in the Instagram bio.

I think that phrase is one of my favorite, like one of the most iconic things I think that we've had. Like so many things that we've gotten that are that are so successful for us have been from the fans like that phrase i think is so like fun to tell people and like describe it to people i think uh the ghost runners logo that like both of the ghost runners logos like but the ghosts like the actual running we call it the marathon t oh right there yeah that one is so awesome i mean he's like i think he's talking about this one but he's not like gesturing towards it i i forget that we have that bad boy up there um for now for now um so lots of lots of really cool things like that from the ghosty community so i just i love the idea of like yeah i i say that to people all the time michelle genuinely like

people like what are your podcasts about it's like, it's just me and my friend just trying to be positive and talk about our lives and make it funny. People have described us. I always say people. There's more than one. Like Seinfeld, but less Jewish. The press have said. Yeah.

I was talking to a guy last night. I was trying to tell him about what we did with our basketball game. I was like, yeah, we just took people who listen to our podcast and we had like 100 people come to our basketball game it was so fun he was like cool i'm checking out what's your podcast about i was like it's just like a comedy podcast he's like what's it about i was like it nothing we just kind of talked he's like it's not about anything and i was like i was not describing it well and he wasn't getting it i should have hit him with the seinfeld line yes always yeah i was i was just failing because it's just like it's just it's just good because because it's like it's about nothing it's like it's about nothing but there was a really successful

thing that was about nothing and so it'll be fine so stop asking me about it i always my main like hook i think or like my main whatever like thing that i try to convince people of if i am trying to be more specific is i'm like it's about two we're best friends we're only a year apart in life but we're in like different stages and different you know i'm a dad and been married for a while you know and he's you know young and now engaged but like touring like just like explaining like the dichotomy of like you know the two of us being different but at the same time the same yeah anyway I think that's what makes us fun. It's good.

That's just a two and a one. How you feel about that, Brad? I feel all right about it. If it's from Addie, is it from Addie? It's from Addie. Addie. This is Ashley from Texas. I started listening to The Pond during the Iwo Jima episode.

Iwo Jima. I just recently went back into the 50s and caught up last week and then went back to the beginning to listen um so I'm bouncing around the pod like a beach ball at a Nickelback concert but my question is for Brad I just listened to the episode for how much you would sell your dog for and so my question, what would be a dollar amount for you, Brad, to happily accept a cat into your home? This cat would be about two or three years old and you'd have it until the end of its life.

And the rules are it would be an inside cat and it would have to have a litter box inside. And so really I'm just wanting to know a dollar amount and then katherine you're uh the ball would be in your court so you would know how to proceed okay thanks love the pot bye a million dollars no um do cats know to find a litter box or do you kind of you get them at home and you like you show them like this is the sand remember it i have no idea okay i i don't know i don't know much about cats besides just how just awful they are okay and that's that's a fact not an opinion i think uh no um okay how much would it cost she didn't mention she said like it's an inside cat

who had to be inside she didn't mention if she would mention like hey and it's going to be a good cat like i would consider it for less money anyone else she didn't mention she didn't say you had to feed it didn't say you had to water it yeah she didn't say i had to feed it so who knows how long it's locked in the bathroom basement she said it'd be an inside cat oh there's windows in my house though hope it hope it doesn't escape you know are cats nimble i don't know can cats like yeah jump and climb i don't know i know like leopards can but those are different bo did you leave that every window in the house open last night um for the black cat to get out um i i don't know i i i mean it would have to be some good money, some life-changing money.

But in reality... Life-changing money? Life-changing money. To take a cat in for the next 10 years? Yeah. I think so. If I'm genuinely answering this question like somebody will write me a check tomorrow, I would need some good money.

I'm going to try to guess your number. I want you to choose a number and then I'm going to try to guess it. Okay. How much money you would accept. And it's for 10 years? We'll say roughly 10 years. We don't know if this guy's a fighter or not.

You just got to take care of this cat until he dies. Oh, roughly. Yeah, yeah. Don't love roughly. This is her rules. She said the cat is two or three years old. You take care of it until the end of its life. Dude, I think cats live...

What average life of a cat? Let's see. Go look at all the species. 12 to 18 years. Okay. Yeah. 10 to 15. Hattie's going to be like graduating high school.

Hey, fun little gift. Hey, here's Cat Casket. Here's your urn. Hey, you're saying goodbye to us. From Mr. Scruggles. Yeah, say goodbye to Mr. Whiskers as well. Little Sebastian. Okay, let me. I knowad right now is crunching the

numbers he's probably like i mean food alone yeah and the emotional money the emotional damage it's gonna cause uh let me think about my number two i'm worried about what you mean by life changing i don't know what that number is gonna be that that's the thing like if somebody's really going to write me a check i want i don't know just find your number and let me know and i'm gonna try to guess it okay i don't know i don't for the record i i think i might well go ahead i have my number i don't know if it's another category of life changing but i think this is a good amount for a cat seventy 000 yes i would take it for 75 000 you would yes oh okay i thought maybe i shot too low no honestly like as i was thinking i was like

okay they're gonna be like that's not life changing i was like but that would really alleviate some things in my life i my number was like 18 000 oh i know the ghosties can could pull that together and i would i would gladly accept it for $18,000. You would take a cat for $18,000? I would. Okay. I'm not saying I'm going to like it, but $18,000. Yeah, I would.

$18,000. $18,000? Yeah. I wonder what mine would be. Good. I mean, $75,000, please. Yes. I wouldn't be excited for $18,000, though.

You know what I mean? Like, $75,000, I'd be like, give me that thing. I wouldn't be excited for 18 grand though. Like, you know what I mean? Like 75, I'd be like, give me that thing. I'll take another one if you want it. Because 18, you just think like, all right, I'm getting about $1,000 a year that I have this thing. Right. Roughly. Right.

With inflation, it comes down to about exactly 1,000 a year. Well, the compound interest on that thing. I don't think you're getting interest. No, I'm going to invest that money is what I'm saying. Oh, you are? Oh, absolutely. Oh, good job. Oh, yeah. But then cash. then cat's how he's gonna be going to college soon good yeah you gotta and you gotta go to have her go to k-state by the wildcat wow oh yeah perfect or sbu or cincinnati go cats yeah anything with cats okay addy slash ashley whoever you freaking are good question thanks for not asking me a darn thing.

What would you, what's your number? I don't know, I really wasn't thinking about it. I was trying to just think through your number. I mean. I didn't think for more than five seconds, so you go ahead. Okay, I mean, I don't want a cat either. Rachel and I are in a good spot.

We have zero responsibilities, because a cat feels like, I mean, I'd go 20 and I think I like cats more than you. I just really don't have anything to look after. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I might go 20. Okay.

So hit us up. 38 grand for a couple of cats. It must be a couple of cat dads. Cat daddies. Cat daddies. All right. Let us know. So anyway,

that, that is all the voice memos for this week. Another Wednesday episode. Thank you guys for listening as always. Yes. And that concludes the voice memos. Real quick,

Tymon, let's start with you. What is your win of the week? Win of the week. Well, so this week on Saturday, I had auditions for Sense and Sensibility,

a musical based on the book by jane austen oh sure and for anyone that's a jane austen nerd i got cast as mr willoughby oh mr w that sounds like the main role main main male not really but like a love interest oh look out that's what he wanted well that's that's the problem is starts out starts out nice maybe not quite as so nice throughout the but you gotta you gotta come watch the show i don't know um time the tool man taylor yeah yeah we have to go speaking of which so i'm in a musical june first second maybe third cross and switchblade if you live in Kansas City Go to Greenleafstudio.org

We usually make people pay for stuff like that Time into television Greenleafstudio.org No, I'm just teasing That's going to be awesome My win, got a fun roll Dude, congrats Is it nerve wracking to

Audition? Yeah, definitely's so awesome. Is it nerve-wracking to audition? Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I'm sure. That's awesome, dude. That's awesome. I think I'll be out of town for the June dates, but I will come see Mr. Willoughby. Amazing. That's fun.

I'll make it happen. Fun. Let's get a bunch of ghosties. I know. A bunch of Willoughby ghosties, dude. Yeah. That's fun. Shoot, what was my win?

Oh, my win of the week is I have an update on Ian, my friend in the baseball team and everything like that. Oh, that's fun. Um, shoot. What was my win? Oh, my win of the week is I have an update on Ian, my friend in the baseball team and everything like that. Uh, so the guy's named the coach, Brad, uh, started out with 13 or 14 players on their team down to nine players. All these players are quitting. Apparently three of them are, uh, are, are the coach's son. So they only have six kids left. And Ian's like imagine the ultimate um you know just poetic justice if they lose one more player one more player quits they're disqualified from the league and they get last place fun so win of the week is justice for cheaters in little league baseball fun but i feel bad for the kids the children yeah sure my win of the week is i feel like lately this

past month i've just been doing so much consulting um and enjoy it. Oh, I love. Yes. It's been for free, but I've enjoyed it. Morgan Mitchell or Morgan Caldwell reached out. Hey, me and my friends, we're all nurse practitioners. We're all moms. We want to start this Instagram. Can we pick your brain? I said, yeah, let's do it right now. Yeah. Called her up. Talked for like an hour. It was really fun. Had some other friends who were like, hey, we're doing this like golf content thing. Can we pick your brain? Yeah. Yeah. Love it. Talk for an hour. Love it. So it's been really fun had some other friends who were like hey we're doing this like golf content thing can we pick your brain yeah yeah love talk for an hour love it so it's been really fun to just feel like it's fun when people write stuff down when they listen to you it's like oh i do know stuff wow in this one very very specific industry sure i know stuff so i talked to harrison today kind of

i think you did too like a couple weeks ago yeah yeah and i just like was yeah consulting i don't know if that's the right word but just like encouraging him of like dude you have a gift yeah do it man go for it so it is fun it's fun to just like yeah breathe speak that life into somebody like breathe that life that sounds weird anyway yeah uh my comment of the week comes from sarah marufo marufo i don't have any apple devices be able to leave a review but i just left y'all five stars on Spotify. Thank you. We need that too. Yeah, it's really easy.

And you can do both. Yeah, you can do both. On Spotify, you don't even have to type anything. Just click five stars. So just do that for us, please, if you would. She said, can't believe I hadn't done this earlier. I've been listening for at least six months now. Jake's Carly Jean ad read had me belly laughing so hard

that I coughed and started gagging. That's amazing. She's pregnant, so things are happening. But can't tell you enough how much hormone balance all of this laughter brings me. Thank you for what you're doing. So, welcome for the gagging. My comment is on YouTube. It's from Megan.

She said, honestly, the part of the trip that sounded the most fun to me was the puzzle competition against Catherine. It's so cool to be part of this community. Even though I was too young, busy with my master's, to be there in person, I still feel included. Love to hear all that. It was awesome. Fun. Hope you enjoyed this episode. Go see Tymon. Go see

Brad. Come on. Wherever. You should play. He'll be there. Probably. Preview for next episode. I got gotta tell you about, I was recognized by 14 people at once today. Preview for next week. Whoa! Have a great week, everybody. Make it a Wednesday. See you guys. Love you guys. Go for a podcast.