Ghostrunners - 229 - The Wedding Episode

Episode Date: May 24, 2023

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Brad, how we doing? Hey, good, man. How are you doing? I'm doing good. Quick on the trigger today. Brad and I both had some energy drinks. Boom, boom! We're feeling it.

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So this past weekend, I mean, I think a couple months ago, I was like, Brad, I was looking at my calendar. I'm going to be out of town every weekend until June 24th. Sorry to feel it. This is what it feels like right now, because if I'm not touring, got something else going on this past weekend. A little fatigued, or what do you Starting to feel it. This is what it feels like right now. Because, you know, if I'm not touring, got something else going on this past weekend. A little fatigued?

Or what do you mean by feel it? It's just, it's starting to like, it's starting to become how, just very real, how little time I have in Kansas City. Like when I'm in here. Yeah. Here, it's like, I have so much. Every, like every 15 minute window is so just like. Would you say you need to make a count?

That is important. I know, right? That's a great, great word. I, sorry for interrupting, but I had written down a long time ago. I never used it or never said it out loud, but I think I was like, I wonder if we saw each other more in other States than we did in Kansas in April. Oh, that's a fun idea. I, I, the idea between, between Scottsdale and Florida. And then we didn't see each other every day in Kansas, obviously. Yeah. I don't know. Fun thought.

Because I was touring in between there. So I wasn't even here to be seen by you. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting thought. But yeah, I just nowadays, which is not even what I was going to talk about, but it's like every car ride I take now is like very intentional. No music, no podcast.

I'm working on standup. I'm brainstorming this. I know that feeling. Yeah. I'm sure it's just, it's just busyness. Everyone's been busy. I'm not special. special anyway this past weekend you are you are special you hear me hey it's not your fault you understand it's not your fault you are special yeah uh saturday uh rachel's little brother tim graduated from college oh which that was funny gunner

texted us to hang out and i was like i can't I got tim's high school graduation Because gunner thought that tim was in high school when he met him What did he did he say like did he just say straight up like what high school do you go to or like? I think it was like do you know where you're going to college? You're going to college because tim was yeah I have for i've known for three years. Yeah, i'm thinking about going to law school next year. You idiot you jerk But it was a Rachel's we had another wedding shower on sunday tim's graduation on saturday wow and yeah graduations i hadn't been to one in a while i was like man i remember these not being that fun but like let's see let's give it a chance here here's what i'll say it was so fun that for

the first time ever in our lives rachel and i were playing chess with each other to pass the time whoa does that mean what i think it means her rook my knight no it was just like wow she was the queen and i was the bishop and i'm gonna tell you check me i don't know what any of this means but uh i think that was just a funny signal of like wow they were doing anything are you playing on your phones yeah i got a little chess app sure haven't used it since we sat next to tayvon on the plane i think but we did that we did some logic puzzles but the main thing i wanted to talk about was we were watching this um mother and father in front of us they're probably like you know young 50s you know an age that would make sense to have a college-aged son or daughter okay and because it's really cute because they're

also just trying to pass the time and so the the guy is kind of leaned over they're kind of you know arms on each other a little bit they're tonguing yeah and he is just like swiping through his camera roll just like they're looking at old pictures and only like four rows in front of us so it's kind of cute and there's a bunch of just like very um very stereotypical like selfies taken of them on a vacation like just awkward like you know it was taken kind of just like very, very stereotypical like selfies taken of them on a vacation. Like just awkward. Like, you know, it was taken kind of like this where the guy just pushes his chin back into his, you know, his head. And just weird photos.

And then some of like her and like a nice like gown for the vacation. So it was like really sweet. It's like, oh, this is cute. And then, dude, he swiped one more over. And it was a picture of her feet and only her feet. And then he quickly got out of it. And it was so weird. And Rachel and I saw it all happen.

And we're like, oh, my gosh. He quickly got out of it. Yeah, he quickly put his phone down and swiped out of it. Did they kind of look at each other? I don't know what their body language was. Their backs are to us. We're a couple rows above them. But it was so weird.

It's like, I feel like he just outed himself as a foot fetish guy at a college graduation who knows how many other people saw this we sure it was her feet oh oh this is the babysitter's feet he like he like took some like yeah group photo and zoomed in and screenshot that bad boy i know yeah anyway it was just, what a gross, it went from so cute, like, wow, these people are really in love. They're going on vacations. Like, oh, wow, he likes her little piggies.

The fact that he was like, yeah, like, putting it away so quickly. Because one thing is like, oh, yeah, I remember that one time we were checking out, like, trying to figure out what shoes you were wearing. I don't know. Like there's a reason to have. I'm not saying like if you have somebody's feet on your phone, that's automatically like you're a weirdo.

But there's if you're putting it down real quick, you're a weirdo. That was I think that was what incriminated him because it was just a picture of feet. And I don't I don't have the foot fetish gene. I don't know what that's what I'm saying. That's why I'm like, if I saw somebody's feet saw somebody's feet in a camera roll i would think oh well were you interested in buying the shoes that she had on i'm serious i would would you not i would think that i would not just two bare feet look like they were like at the end of a bed well no see in my head they weren't bare oh in my head they were had shoes on them okay i wouldn't be like yeah yeah. What shoes are you wearing? They look invisible. Oh, what invisible shoes did you have? What size are your invisible shoes? I gotta get me some of those. Uh, uh, oh, ooh, I, ooh, I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random

thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along, let's have some fun and go ahead. Get on your feet because it's the Ghost Brothers Podcast. Every Monday morning, we're taking round Ghost Brothers Podcast. Ghost Brothers Podcast. Anyway, that's the foot fetish part of this episode. We'll move on now. How crazy was that graduation, though?

Because high school graduations are amazing. College graduations are just next level fun. There was so much time to do everything when you're sitting at this graduation. So I counted every row and every column, you know, multiplied. I think we came up to exactly 1132 people. Was it at Hilton Coliseum? Whoa. How do you know that?

I was asking. I didn't know that. Oh, you nailed it. Oh, I mean, that's what colleges are usually at their arenas. You just know the name of where they play basketball? Whoa. Yeah? You don't?

Oh, wow. Hilton Magic? Ames, Iowa? No. Oh, Hilton Magic, the thing, dude. That freaked me out that you just knew that. I was like, whoa, you're hiding something from me. Like next, like, yeah, I went to the Packers game.

Oh, was it at Lambeau Field? Dude! Dude! What? How'd you know that, bro? What do you have? You're hiding something from me. Like next, like, yeah, I went to the Packers game. Oh, was that Lambeau Field? Dude. What? How'd you know that, bro? Went to a Yankees game? Is Vince Lombardi your grandpa? Went to a Yankees game? Was it at Yankee Stadium?

Holy crap. How did you do that? Are you the descendant of DiMaggio, bro? You have the same gene as your dad. You're a savant. It's crazy. Yeah. There's no like basic.

I don't know. Maybe, maybe people don't know that. It's a big 12 school. Hilton Coliseum was like basic i don't know maybe maybe people don't know that it's a big 12 school hilton coliseum was impressive i don't know i don't know very many of the other stadiums in big 12 but it also is impressive too because it could have been like at all these different like big yeah it could have been like the english lecture hall i think it's snide burger it could have been snide burger hall it could have been on blue mutt Hall. It could have been on Bluemont Hall. But it wasn't. Hilton Coliseum.

Hilton Coliseum, yeah. So you nailed that. Also, speaking of your dad, it reminded me, when I ran into Zane at Shake Shack yesterday, he was like, dude, and Brad's dad, that is the most amazing thing. Oh, really? With the colleges.

I don't think I said this on the podcast, but in Florida, Maddie Oliver, she's like, I went to this tiny school. I think it's called Harrisonburg University. And she's like, I don't, I think she said that it's not even in existence anymore. Or like, like shut down or like change a name. Sorry, Maddie, if I didn't get the story exactly right. But I was curious.

I was like, I wonder if my dad knows that. And I said, have you heard of Harrisonburg University or something? He's like, yeah, it's in blah, blah, blah. I think it's in Harrisonburg, Pennsylvania, isn't it? And I was like, yeah,

I think so. So yeah, he's a, he's awesome. He's good. He's a good guy. Uh, anyway,

so yeah, I had time to count how many people were there. I was a little disappointed in the branding of Iowa state. I think I counted four different colors of like red or like, uh, sure. They don't call it crimson. They call it Cardinal.

Mm. Inconsist. Really? Yeah. For a division one, big big 12 school i really like that red but paired with the yellow it's just ketchup and mustard oh okay you know like the red by itself though is a good look i think that that's a nice red they have there good cardinal you would yeah not too bright kind of just a royal red good yeah but then the yellow just it's kind of like, honestly, I don't love the chiefs colors.

I don't think the chiefs have a great colors. Thankfully it's a little more red and white. And then I think yellow comes third. It's more of a, but then on all the freaking merch that you can buy, it's red with yellow lettering of the chiefs. There's always going to be a little, I don't want the yellow ever guys quit, quit it guys,

quit it anyway. So you counted some different reds. Yeah. I don't know if there's very much else to say i i did appreciate the um once they got done with the commencement speaker and all this other like you know ceremonial stuff when it was time to read the names they got busy yeah i mean they just like bang bang bang bang it just went after another so that was nice they tried to go as fast as they could how uh how much did you guys cheer for tim i so we didn't we didn't have a game

plan i didn't know what we were gonna do So we didn't have a game plan. I didn't know what we were going to do. And you didn't have any time to talk about it. Yeah, you know, let's be quiet. But I thought we'd at least make a little noise. I was the only person who made a little noise. Seriously? Yeah.

The Coop family. I got one clap in and realized we weren't clapping, so then that was it. Tim got one clap. You're welcome, Tim. I was the only one who clapped. Hey, Tim. FYI, if I were at Hilton Coliseum, there'd be some Hilton magic when I called your name. Tim Koop.

Yeah, Timmy! Timothy Stephen. Future Marquette Golden Eagle. Going to law school. Royal dictum. He's logical. Yeah. Pretty good LSAT score.

He's jurisprudent. Pro bono! Just lawyer terms. Yeah. Plaintiff! You're welcome, Tim. Yep. Anyway, so they kept quiet, which I... They kept things brief. Did they have anybody named Affidavid? They kept things brief. Did they have anybody named Affidavid?

Nice. I don't know that many legal terms. Bailiff. Juris. He didn't want to... So he's going to law school at Marquette. He didn't want to be a bailiff bear? Bailiff bear. Let's see.

Do you feel like people were kind of judging him? That was a good one. Good breath. Good breath going into that one. Oh, thanks, man. Anyway, so they didn't really cheer. That's crazy. Like, honestly, no offense to Steve and Trisha.

I wouldn't expect them to go crazy. No, no. They're a little quieter. But Steve and Angie, Steve especially. Steve has no shame, I feel like. Yeah, I think he's. Rachel, Steve. Yeah, we wanted to like really be embarrassed by, you know.

Like, I don't know, remember how or where, but I feel like I've seen a picture of Steve and Angie dressed up like elf, like the elf characters in Winter Rachel's volleyball game. Like, they're those kind of people. Yeah, they're fun. Like, my parents are fun. They're not going to do that. They're not dressed as Buddy the Elf at a D1 game.

But my mom went nuts for my graduation thing. Really? Maybe not nuts, but my mom's a, she has the classic whoop whoop. So she always yells every time. So, and she yelled it. I think I would be embarrassed

if my parents did whoop whoop. I like, I would prefer the quietly proud. I would be like, I don't know if I'd be embarrassed. I think I'm just like, oh man, mom and dad.

Oh man. You know. What was kind of obnoxious, which it didn't really happen to Tim, but like someone's name would get read. You got it. And their family would go nuts. Got to recognize. You missed the next three names.

You truly couldn't hear the names. It's a one second. Let's do it. Next up, Affidavit Johnson. Yeah, Affidavit! Next up, Tim Koop. Yeah. And you don't miss it.

No. Yeah, Affidavit! Yeah, I know what you're saying. Maybe an inside joke even in there. Yeah, yeah. Yeah yeah barely past biology get in there really quick way to study hard it's over you did it it was kind of funny afterwards we learned that uh because you know they try to honor everyone all right for those who are summa cum laude 3.75 or higher you have of course the gold cords.

Please stand. Let everyone recognize you. I noticed, so Tim didn't stand for that one. And I was like, oh, okay. I could see him being more maybe 3.5 guy or whatever. Didn't stand for that one. 3.25, Tim didn't stand. I was like, wow, that shocks me.

Hey, it's all right. Hey, still pass. No problem. Come to find out afterwards. Married into a dumped family. He's like, no cords? And he's like, I guess I was actually summa cum laude, but I forgot to get my courts.

And of course his family was like, that's hilarious. And I feel like grandma was a little bit like, I think you should have got the courts. You spent a lot of money for those courts, sweetie. Please get the courts. Please grab those courts.

They will be, they will look good in a frame someday. Okay. We're going to take a picture and you don't have the courts. You don't have the courts. You don't even have a hat on, Tim. He did forget dress shoes, so he's just in Nike basketball shoes underneath his gown, too. He looked good.

I mean, these days, people are wearing the shoes with the paint. Yeah, it's cool street wear. Do you mind if I wear some Air Force Ones to your wedding? As long as they're all black, I think that's great. Cool. Well, no, they'd be black with a little white accent. Okay. No, we can't do.

Okay, okay. Yeah. Anyway, that was more about graduation than I planned on talking about, but it was nice. We did it. Fun. Let's see. Oh, I have a few different things written down from my trip to Sublette. Okay, great.

Didn't really talk about that. So it was Cole's 10th birthday, my nephew, and he had a birthday party with all his friends. Did you get him some Kohl's cash? Oh, did you get him a lump of coal? No, it was his 10th birthday, and he was so fun. He had eight of his friends, or seven of his friends. There were eight of them total. Solid group. And it was just classic.

It felt like K-country all over again. Really? Like just, anytime you get that many boys in a room, it's just chaos, especially when you're eating pizza and cake and ice cream and so much Mountain Dew. They had Mountain Dew and they had Sunny D, which we can transition to that later. I bet they were amazing. It was really good

be amazing be amazing um but all he wanted to do for his birthday party first of all his his mom my sister it was cute like she said yeah he really wants to have uh you at his birthday party brad wow he wants he wants like his aunts and uncles to be there he thinks it's cool like if you would like play sports with him for really? I was like, okay. Is any of that because you are a YouTuber and you are this person that he admires? I don't think he has any idea about this. Okay, really? I know. I think he's watched the videos and stuff, but I don't think he cares.

It doesn't matter. Every time we hang out, he's always like, Brad, you want to go throw the ball around? I will always say yes. Throw the ball around is fun. Anybody who asks, especially, you know, Bo and Hattie and Cole, whatever. And, you know, whatever. So they're playing.

He just wanted to play sports the whole time. So he played football, basketball, wiffle ball, soccer. And football, at first it was four on four. It was going great. They're doing their thing. And one of the kids, you know, whatever, gets hurt or something. Classic 10-year-old.

And so we're like, Brad, come in. And there was definitely one team that was struggling a little more than the other. And so I came on the struggling team. And let's just say daddy brought him back. Yeah, I was quarterback. And the very first pass, I just dropped an absolute dime to a kid named Maxon. Maxon Relaxon all the way in, baby. And people were like, whoa, he's good.

And then it was like, this is unfair. He can't be on your team. All-time QB. And eventually another kid did something. I don't know if he was complaining or just like, I'm tired. They're like, I'll be the ref. I'll be the ref. I was like, okay.

So I was the all-time quarterback. Did a few no-look little Mahomes action. And they're like, he's not Mahomes or something like that because I had one no-look where I missed the pass. like i am my homes he's like i said i'm from kansas city and they all thought that was so cool oh then that was cool like whoa you're from kansas city like do you know my homes i was like kind of i mean i i've seen them before you know at the parade anyway but it was a really fun sweet time i don't know it's just it was just like it's just a great reminder when you hang out with kids.

It's like, oh, man, I miss those times. And it's so sweet. And childhood's just fun. Those boys were just goofy and making jokes that didn't make any sense at all. They were just talking like cavemen and just like, pizza good. And everyone just died laughing at it. It's like, football, we play after lunch. And that's like the joke of the week.

Yeah, yeah. That's as funny as it gets. But then eventually after football, we went and played wiffle ball. And it was the same thing where the kids were like doing kid pitch. And some of them were humming the ball. And so I tried to be the umpire because every kid, of course, thought everything that they didn't swing at was a ball and everything that they pitched was a strike.

So I tried to be definitive. Eventually, I just became the all-time pitcher and it was so fun. It was fun to pitch to him, but it was really, really fun because I had a little sidekick named Bo that just stood next to me the entire time. And he just thought it was like the most fun thing ever. Just standing out there with all the 10 year old boys just hanging out. Yeah. And so it was just a highlight highlight for me. It was just like, yeah, he was just like, I got to be out there with you, Dad, and with the boys. And he didn't – I think he got the ball a few times,

like when they would throw it back to me and I wouldn't get it or whatever. But for the most part, he just stood there, and it was so sweet. I don't know. Totally happy. Yeah, it was just like the little – it was like a sidecar. Like there was Bo in my sidecar kind of thing. Yeah, that's nice. So anyway, it was just a fun time doing birthday things with the kids

and just being an amazing quarterback. When you said the hilarious 10-year-old jokes reminded me. Also, once again, at Shake Shack yesterday, they read off your name, and there was a group of high school boys sitting next to us. They come out and they read off, Josh is less than adequate. They all just die laughing. Got it that's his name oh they laughed like oh just well after that you know

he'd already announced that they were just laughing and laughing that's like that's kind of fun good for that guy like the worker of like i'm gonna actually read this entire yeah and he like announced it loud like he knew it was supposed to be a joke i love that dude they loved it but anyway you said they were drinking like mountain dew and sunny d yeah sunny d sunny d and also b beam what's a beam mean what does a beam mean we love to be amazing i'll tell you that right now i know we talked about it uh last week i think, but our girl Allie, she, you know, we already liked their products, reached out and then she was like, Hey, not only do I want to work with you guys, but I've started listening to the podcast. It's nice. She actually emailed us while we're recording and was talking about beam and everything and beam be amazing, beam be amazing. And yeah, they're just so great. I, Brad and I are working

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A radioactive spider. Yeah, it became a super green too close to the sun. So he was a sunny D but yeah, they really are great. 17 fruits, eight veggies in every serving. And, uh, it, it tastes great. And I know Brad can speak to the fact of like, if you're turned off thinking like, okay, sunny D this, there's no way this could be healthy for me. This is going to be so sour or so tart. No, no, no. It's like, it's like the perfect blend of like, this tastes healthy, but it tastes good. If that makes sense. Like, it's not, it's not like, Whoa, there's all this artificial garbage in there that makes it taste exactly like Sunny D. It's like, no, this is the Sunny D flavor, but it is not like overpoweringly.

Whoa, this is, you know, bad for me kind of thing. Like the pink lemonade is so good. And it's like, it's not sour and, oh, it's just like, no, just a perfect amount of pink lemonade flavor in there. I'm actually getting some berry soon. Oh, because the berry one, I believe has 35 calories per serving. And if you have less than 50 calories, you can stay on your intermittent fast. AKA, I'm going to have it every morning while intermittent fasting. That's actually really nice. Right. It tastes way better in water. It's yeah. It's very exciting to have something substantial in the morning like beam be amazing. Way more fruits than water, way more vegetables than water.

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I did. Thank you. Looks nice. All right. Anyway. So National Anthem update. I'm just kidding. Go ahead.

I wanted to get a haircut probably like three weeks out or so for the wedding. That would be a good time. And then we can kind of see how it looks. And then you get one last one kind of right before, trim up the neckline or something. And so I walked in. Granted, I went to Great Clips. So I will say that.

My wedding haircut. But I feel like the last few times I've gone to different places, Sport Clips is like more expensive. They do more for you. But Great Clips is better. It gives me a better haircut. Sport Clips is just Great Clips with like more amenities.

With a TV. Yeah. Lockers. There's no TV at Great Clips? No, there's nothing at Great Clips is just Great Clips with more amenities. With a TV. Yeah. Lockers. There's no TV at Great Clips? No, there's nothing at Great Clips. Really? Is Great Clips the one that gives you a sucker at the end? Oh, yeah.

Okay. And I will say it's not a good sign that I've never had the same person cut my hair twice. But it's a sign of a good company. A lot of turnover. A lot of turnover. A lot of people that aren't getting paid what they should get paid. As far as they know, it's just like, oh, yeah we sent denise to uh new branch like oh okay great like a little it's called home depot everyone's getting fired here but and i was just like very clear i did

kind of mention like this is like my wedding's coming up so hopefully she'll take it a little more i remember having that haircut being like yeah i'm getting married this week yeah so you know to kind of kick it in gear yes Yes. You know, if you can. Were you nervous? I trusted them. You know, if I'm going to go in there, it's like I did have trust. And so I was like, let's do a four on the side and let's not get too crazy. I think only take like a half inch from the top.

She's like, half inch? I mean, it's like... That's like the four millimeters of hair. Are you a fly fisherman? It's going to be under a hat anyway. And she was like, I mean, a half inch, I mean, it's not even really going to look like you get a haircut with half inch. And so I was like, inner turmoil, you know, I'm like, okay, all right, let's do three quarters of an inch.

And she's like, okay, three quarters of an inch. And I was like, well, that's not really. Three quarters of an inch. Yeah, okay. And so she gets cutting, and as we get get going i'm already thinking this was a mistake this was this was a mistake this looks too short why did you say something well at that point she already started cutting yeah so it's like i mean she can't take it back yeah but it did so that's what kind of what i want to bring up being like in the haircut seat is one of the more just like, I don't know. I have, I have nothing. I have no power. You're pretty vulnerable. They can do whatever they want. Yeah. It doesn't matter. Yeah. I, I've told you Marv, the old man. Yeah. He used to cut my hair away from the mirror. I did not like that. And now this new guy's doing the same thing. And I don't know why he's doing this. Because then I don't know what it looks like until they're like, all right, how does it look?

And I'm like, well, if it looked bad, I would have not been able to say something until the end. Yeah. I love when you can look at the hair. Can you look at it at great clips? And so that's what was getting me worried because she had it so matted down that it looked even shorter. And I was like, oh, my gosh. Like, I have made a mistake. This is so dumb.

Like, I'm just sitting there like, you're such an idiot why did you not just stick with half inch you knew what you wanted you should have just been strong and what you want to see the half inch next time in the middle of all this they're listening to the radio over the speakers of course you know oh god forbid you listen to spotify it's just the radio and some like djs on there which it's it's amazing that the radio has not changed since i was in high school. Like every like, yeah, kiss 92, nine. Like they still have like the, um, the same kind of like, uh,

like sound bites of like, yeah, mash up like, I'm done. It kind of sounds like they're still like, like they have like the effect on it. It's like they're on the phone or something. Like it's like,

you know, maybe like a phone. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,

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Hey Nickelback. Go ahead. So the disc jockey's coming on. He's like, here's a new one for you guys. I'm Casey Kasem. We've all heard of the crazy things that you can tell on eBay over the years, but we've got a new one for you guys today. A woman in Tennessee is selling the contact lenses that she used to view a Taylor Swift concert. So it is kind of wild but the woman cutting my hair is in the middle of cutting it turns around this is basically like doing without

a mirror she goes what was that mid-cut is like looking at the other hairdresser and now it's like all right i oh you can't not look did you say 10 minutes ago i told you this is my wedding haircut and she is turning she's doing no look haircuts oh sure i was like okay we can't but she's got the finger it's not like she's gonna go below the finger that's true she would have had she was going to her finger yeah she did have the finger up yeah so maybe she felt safe but either i was like the way you know it's my wedding can we look at me the whole time yeah which granted it was that was a wild fact and of course the other one's like how'd they get taylor swift's contact lenses my hairdresser's going i don't know how they did that it's i was like no there's she's saying the woman who like she watched the concert

you interjected yeah i like had to explain it to him i was like let's just keep our eyes in front of us and let's just let's please focus at the task at hand and i was like distraught because i really that's all rachel ever if i'm getting a compliment on how I look from Rachel, it's about the hair. She loves the hair. She keep the hair. I wanted big, you know,

whenever she likes it, she just loves it. I have thick hair. She's always like, I hope our kids get your hair. Oh, I hope they don't get mine. That's like her main attraction to you.

Yeah. The hair. It's like, oh man, I ruined it. I'm such an idiot. But luckily like then once, once I showered, then I showered.

Once I showered, it was like completely fine. I was totally fine. And honestly, Rachel loved it. I can't wait for marriage. It's going to be a wonderful day. What a whirlwind. Wow.

Yeah, it's going to be over before we know it. But it really wasn't that bad. And I was like, and I think at that point, I had like 17 days for the wedding. It's like, it'll be fine. But just a funny story. I'm just like, when was this? I mean, it's had like 17 days before the wedding. It's like, it'll be fine. But just a funny story. I'm just like, when was this? I mean,

it's probably like six days ago or so. I got a cut. Wow. I haven't seen you in a while. Oh yeah. I'm sorry. I'd like to apologize.

It was great. Sorry I didn't come to Tim's graduation with you guys. Yeah, seriously though. I'm going to come to the wedding shower. Man. Great clips,

man. When are you going to graduate from great clips? I feel like you're, you're graduating from your maroon shirts all the time. That's a good way of putting it what yeah you're graduating into nicer cars yeah it's time for you to go to a barber man i don't know what i think i'll give you my bar it's a convenience thing it's just like no that's it's less convenient well i'm saying i

can just pop into great clips in an afternoon when i don't have it planned out that is where it's like hudson and hawk it's like, they're booked for the next five days sometimes. If they are available, it's not the time that I'm free. Great clips, I can just walk in, bang, I'm out in 10 minutes. Yeah. When are you going to graduate into planning more than one day in advance? I don't know. I don't know. With marriage coming up though, it is fun to start to, I'm starting to like process like what my life is about to look like for the first time a little bit of being like, it's going to be a whirlwind.

Wow. So I'm going to wake up and so much is going to be there. I'm going to have no alone time. Yes, dude. I'm a little worried to be honest. You're going to be like, I have no commute to work anymore.

Rachel and I, yeah, it's going to be terrible today. Yeah. Right. It's going to be the worst thing that ever happened. No, I mean,

Rachel and I, I think anytime, you you know i've talked about this before but anytime there has ever been tension with rachel and i we've never had a fight we've never had an argument that we can't talk about and get over within five minutes but anytime that does arise it always comes from unmet expectations or unspoken expectations and good word good word trying to always get ahead of that of just like really letting her know like I'm really starting to realize the older I get, how much I value my alone time. And I was like, so I don't know what the solution is, but just know that's going to be something I'm going to have to figure out here in a few weeks. Well, you're going to learn things about yourself that you didn't know.

Like, for sure. You know what I mean? And you're going to, yeah, you're going to realize, I mean, you've been single for so long. Yeah. Like you have not had to worry about anybody else. I mean, you know, whatever, basically for what, however many, 15 years.

What are you basing this off of? Like since adulthood? Since college, basically. Okay. Sure. Sure. Sure. So I guess that's when you were 18. Nine years. Oh, since college started. Okay. Hey, yeah. 13 years. I don't know. Maybe you're worried about your mom in college. Yeah. It's a long time to just be on your own, your own schedule. And then you're going to realize like, oh, wow, I didn't realize I even did that. And then it's like, oh, wow. Yeah. I think I'll find new habits, new personality quirks. I've warned Rachel several

times. I was like, I'm probably going to be revealed just how selfish I am. And Rachel's like, you are not selfish. Like you care about me all the time. I was like, I know you think that way, but I just think just logically, there's no way for me to like intermarriage and not be, not become a less selfish version of myself. It just seems so logical that like, yeah, I've only had to look out for myself. Sure. I'm sure I've built a lot of habits where I only care about myself and that is going to change. And that is going to be revealed to me. And I'm sorry in advance. And I think what's the, Rachel was telling me some psychological term. I think it's human is what it's called. You're human. And so therefore you're selfish. Like any human out there. That was good. That got me. You're like, wait,

human? Did you say human? Like it's, it's, it's May. So human. Yeah. Human. Yeah. There's salt, there's pepper and there's human. So if you're non-binary, you're human. Um, no, just, yeah. You're a selfish person because you're a person. Yeah. Everyone's selfish and it's never going to go away, but you can learn how to serve throughout the selfishness. Yeah. But that's exciting, man. You're going to, I'm excited to just reflect as much as you want with me. Cause I, I, I love hearing all about it and it's just an interesting dynamics are just interesting. Like, yeah. Cause yeah. Rachel's obviously so different than Catherine, but she's still a woman, you know? Like, and you're, I don't know if you obviously so different than katherine but she's still a woman you know like and you're i don't know if you're so different than me but you're not the same as me yeah we have our differences too there's so many things that i feel like oh me and katherine yes

we are the same in that way right but probably 80 of the personalities like oh yeah me and you yeah totally the same totally but yeah i even like had a it wasn't really a moment away with angie rachel's mom this past weekend but just like in the midst of other things going on i was like so for instance this is just such a you know rachel and her dad are so similar so right you know it can be so just chaotic and disorganized and neither of them ever know where their phone is it's great can i i i was talking well it doesn't matter i was talking to joel harney the other day he's fishing wedding and he was just asking me for some stories or some compliments, all these different things. I don't know if I'm supposed to tell him that Joel, but whatever I did.

Okay. So frigging it's fine. Joel be cool. But one of the things I said was like, yeah, Rachel's life can be, I don't even know if disarray is the, that's way too extreme, but like Rachel can be a little bit busy or a little bit like crazy, you know, her life's crazy, but I've never seen her like stress about it. That's the thing. Have you like her and her dad lose stuff all the time never seen her like stress about it that's a thing

have you like her and her dad lose stuff all the time it's like yeah i'll find it i know oh it's okay that's what that's what's amazing to me yeah it's one thing to be like oh i've lost stuff you know and that's stressing me out yeah and maybe eventually you you'll project that onto her honestly like maybe yeah because i think i might have been a little more chill before katherine but i think it like it bothered me that katherine was bothered by it's got it yeah you find the balance like okay she's not stressed about this so i will take on the responsibility of feeling it's like yeah or you see like okay jake's mad about this therefore i'm getting frustrated now yeah because i don't like making him mad i feel bad about making him mad you know yeah all these different

whatever anyway uh but i'm i was i'm so impressed by like how even keeled i've never seen her I feel bad about making him mad. You know, all these different, whatever. Anyway. Uh, but I'm, I was, I'm so impressed by like how even keeled I've never seen her like, uh, what's the word overwhelmed. Yeah. But what's the word that we use at camp?

Oh, flustered. I've never seen the word flustered. Yeah. I mean, even right before we started recording, it's like, she's about to go see a client,

like go, you know, do therapy with someone, but she's like, well, I'm going to run over. I got to give Catherine some hummus because it's going gonna expire when i'm out of town i want to give it to katherine and brad's like oh i love that hummus and rachel's like or brad's like i love

it with bell peppers where she's like i can cut you up some and in my i don't say anything but i'm like rachel you have so much i know i told her like no don't do that yeah that you're fine and i've like witnessed her like there's been times where she's like oh my gosh i need to leave like right now and then she just was like see you guys i'm running a little bit late see ya i'm like you're not like freaking out right now yeah it's great her and her dad are so similar yeah so on the our way back from iowa this past weekend her dad was like hey can i like bum a ride from you guys which is already just kind of a funny terminology like not can i he's coming back here just like part of the way.

He bummed a ride to Grundy. And then he hitchhiked from Grundy over there to Ames. So because he accidentally left a truck in a field like 40 minutes away. It's just like something Rachel would do if she was a farmer, probably. Just like, ah, yeah. Drove the tractor home, forgot the truck was in the field. I don't know if I'm explaining it perfectly, but this truck had just been in this field 40 minutes away for six days and so he's like yeah i gotta figure out a way to get that truck back and so he just

drove him to the truck so yeah we just drove him to the truck okay but as we're trying to get leave iowa then he's like oh i need to find the keys first and so he's like i know i'm almost positive they're in this backpack and so we're rushing out we're packing up and then we're waiting on steve and he's like emptying out this backpack he's dumping it out and angie and i are just kind of watching him laughing and i was like angie this has been on my mind for a long time and i've always forgotten to ask you but like i'm about to enter into a world that's like this yes you know as he's just like there's stuff falling out and making all this noise i was like do you have you have any like advice or tips? Like how do you, how do have you lived with this for 30 years? And she's like, the only thing I would say is you can't fix it.

So don't even try. She's like, that's what I've learned. Just like, let him, let him be himself and just know that you, you're not going to like get it like change this like core behavior. Dude, that's a good word. Like it's, it's interesting in marriage. Like I think originally, maybe even before we were married, I tried to fix Catherine in a few different ways that I saw were like her flaws or whatever. And I remember she said like, don't like, you can't

fix me. I'm you're not going to fix it. Like, she's like, I might be able to eventually change, but you can't just make me change. And it's like, it's a, it was a good, it was a good thing for her to say, I think, because I think I was like, no, I, I, it's my responsibility to lead you. And if I see something wrong, then I need to change this about you. And it's like, it doesn't work that way. Like it's not, it's not, I mean, yeah, sure. Call them out if they're doing something sinful or something like that. But if it's like, Hey, you're, you're running late a lot. So I'm going to teach you, like, if you write everything down in a schedule and then you just like set your alarm a little bit fast, it's like, stop, stop. I'll just, I'll figure it out, you know, kind of thing. So, uh, that's a good word

from Angie. It's, it's interesting. I feel like with me and like the in-laws, all the, all the people that are married to Catherine's brothers and sisters, we all kind of commiserate on like, oh man, those hands. It's like, man, they have, they can, they can get excited or they can get frustrated or, you know, really heated about something or whatever, like all these different things in the in-laws, we kind of, you know, huddle together. It sounds like it's going to be you and Angie that are going to be like, yeah. Oh man. I remember when Steve did that exact same thing. Yeah. I think we definitely already have that bond, but it'd be fun to hear like first you know when they're first married kind of stories of them yeah like oh man did it

just drive you crazy when you were first married of like things that they did or was it always just like oh it's fine i love them too much to care you know i know i feel like there are stories that i've heard i can't like recall them right now i know that he called angie the name of like you know someone else like you know a couple else, like, you know, a couple of times that gets brought up from time to time, but has a, was it, was it Angie's family? Sorry. This is a lot about Rachel's family. Was it Angie's family or Steve's family that had the farm? Steve's family. Okay. Okay. So I was going to say that also be kind of crazy if like Angie had the farm and her family and then Steve like took it over and like

you know is losing keys to stuff and you know whatever but that's the thing too it's like he he is like pretty impressive like he can be like a little like you know yeah um flighty and like certain things but the things that really matter it's like you know he still does his own taxes he knows every cent that he spent on the farm he knows exactly you know what fields are his and the csr of every field it's like he is very very sharp very sharp yeah same with rachel rachel's got her what second second master's yeah second master's degree rachel did impress me i was kind of attracted to it when we did that breakthrough room and there was a mental math thing she was right there with me oh yeah i gave up on the thing it would just flash an algebra equation it'd be like six minus two parentheses you know

asterix minus x equals 37 yeah and then she was just bang bang and i was like rachel i didn't know you had this in you yeah it was great then eventually they did the pimda stuff and then i just i was like i'm done with this i was like we got enough points yo that's crazy they're doing pimdas right now pimdas up in this thing yo that's crazy. They're doing PIMDAS up in this thing. Oh, that's crazy. They have the nerve to do. Please excuse my deer on Sally right now. I, speaking of algebra, I was very proud of Hattie. I mean, it's like as elementary of algebra as you can get, but we do these things every night called bedtime math. You would love it, Jake. I might do it now. Yeah. We have this book and there's, you know, it has a little excerpt about whatever it's random, every single,

there's different chapters, but one of the things was about hang gliding and it was just telling all these facts about hang gliding. And then there's three different levels of this bedtime math. There's we ones, little kids and like advanced or something like that. She always does the we ones. Um, but lately she's been trying to do little kids ones.

So the we ones is like, uh, you know, they fly in the hang glider four miles and then they walk three miles. many miles total is that you know whatever um just fun word problems but then the second one was uh they had 20 miles total to go to get to their house and they hang they did a hang glider or whatever for 16 miles how many uh more miles do they have to go which is just obviously basic algebra it's very easy for us but was like, oh, those are two big numbers for her, like 20 minus 16.

And she figured it out. And I'm like, you just did algebra. I was like, I didn't learn algebra until I was fifth grade. Yeah, seriously. Good for you. You are a little kid. You're advanced from the wee ones. Yeah, you are a little kid.

So anyway, I was proud of her for that. That's awesome. Hattie's becoming a little adult. And I think just, you know, she grows up a little bit more. She probably wears some CJLA. Hello. I think she would look really cute in some CJLA. Oh yes. Like a nice, like nice set of overalls. Sure. Absolutely. Maybe some, you know, a nice top. Oh yeah. Overalls. Let me raise your one. How a top how about some jeans i was like oh brad's about to really impress me here maybe a blouse camisole camisole what does it say in the office i know you like that store yeah yeah liz taylor yeah anyway we're not talking about her crap we're talking talking about Carly Jean, Los Angeles.com, C-J-L-A.

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There's no singing of... I saw someone posted that. Yeah, you can't audition this year. I think I have to audition February or something, which is just whatever. That's not when my vocal cords are the warmest. Do you think you could work your way up, do a minor league hockey game or something first? I'll tell you what I am going to probably do unofficially,

very, very unofficially, is August. Do you remember what's happening August 24th? The PPA tournament in Kansas City? Yeah. No way. No way. Maybe, maybe, maybe. I can't believe I just nailed that.

Yeah. Yeah. There's a pickleball tournament, like a professional. Is it Professional Pickleball Association? Yeah, it's like the biggest one, the MLB or NFL. Yeah, they basically tour with the professionals. And yeah, the guy from Vulcan, Dusty, is like, hey, I'll see what we can do. See if you want to do this National Anthem for PPA.

It is pretty cool. We have a friend who works for the PPA. We have our friend Dusty who works for Vulcan. And Vulcan happens to be the presenting sponsor of the kansas city tournament here in town so kismet a lot could happen a lot could happen uh can you imagine oh my gosh oh my gosh that's crazy i it's one of those things where it's like i don't even think they are are you sure they need a national anthem at the pickleball thing? But hey, I guess, you know, somebody's got to do it.

That is awesome. It's going to be so echoey in this like Titus, you know, canopy thing, whatever those things are called. Yeah. You know, just like one of those big, huge bubbles. Hey, hello, natural reverb.

Absolutely, brother. Turn me up. I hope you experience what I experience. How are we doing? Yeah, exactly. Okay. It's like i have no no monitor i'm sure i'm sure it's definitely not yeah it's just just gonna be bouncing off the walls you show up just super legit super professional hey i brought my uh in ears right just let's check should i wear something very like if i do it very like artsy musical rather than like you know my normal golf polo and, very like artsy musical rather than like, you know, my normal golf

polo and pants. Something very artsy musical. Like, like I'm talking like something like, what's that guy do it? Like it's either like, I don't know, like a leather jacket and like sunglasses. I want you wearing a handkerchief around your neck. Yes. Something like that. Yeah.

Something like dress like Lenny Kravitz. Okay. Go just Google him. Maybe like a, yeah, like light orange. light orange so you can still see my eyes, but sunglasses. Dude, that is awesome. That's a fun update. Yeah.

We'll see. Somebody else suggested I should do it at the KU basketball game before doing the Royals, and I feel like KU is way harder than the Royals. I would rather do Royals than KU. KU is sold out literally every single game. It's just so much more intimate. Everyone is staring is staring yeah yeah basketball game is way scarier than baseball so far away so far they're not paying attention there's so many scattered seats like it feels

like there's not that many people there and it's like it's so much before the game that i don't know if there's you know people are still talking i don't know right just basketball is like we are seconds from the game starting i'm so fired up i've been sitting here an hour right the only thing standing between me and tip off is this guy the basketball players are you know they're swaying back and forth yeah absolutely dang dude but that's pretty fun and i don't know if it's gonna happen dusty don't don't feel pressure by me saying this on the podcast but he did text me about it so and this is august like 24 25th this is not august like 25th. This is not August 18th, 19th. No, but August 18th, 19th is going to be a zoppity vibe.

Because I've got my calendar cleared for that weekend. I would clear it for that weekend for something else. Oh, okay. TBD. Okay. Oh, man. TB Dusty. FYI, just being transparent on this,

we're trying to figure out what we're going to do that weekend. We would like to do something. We are unofficially doing something. Yeah. We haven't figured out there. There's some dominoes that need to fall before we can do make the announcements. But yeah, I think we're close though. We're figuring out logistics for it. We're really excited. So hopefully you guys can make it. It'll be pretty special. August 18th, 19th. Clear, clear sketch. Yeah. Uh, one last thing I want to talk about before we get into the other stuff today is driving through rural iowa because we had to take a weird way to drop you know steve

off so we're kind of in some new roads and uh it was a town called albion iowa i'll i'll buy it i'll be albion i think i mean everyone's thinking albino how about yeah basically right yeah um it had a sign like on a little marquee board, driving through the town, which looked like a, shoot, where do they play bingo at sometimes? The Veterans? American Legion. American Legion. The FW, yeah. It looked like an American Legion type building, and the marquee board had a few announcements, but one of them said, story time, Fridays at 5 p.m.

How, I don't know what goes on there, but how fun is that? I love storytime. It's just storytime. Storytime is fun. Like that sounds awesome. I was imagining I was like, this is amazing. This is a town full of people who like can't get their hands on podcasting equipment. So instead of doing a podcast, they just go to storytime.

They're like, you're never going to believe this. National Anthem. Honestly, I like the idea of, yeah, old people. Because it's an old person place. It's got to be. Initial thought was like, oh, small town. It's probably just a kid's thing. Story time, 5 p.m. I love the idea of it being just exchanging stories with old people.

And they're all just complaining. No. Oh, I think so. You think? I think it's. Oh, I think it's like some funny story that happened to them when they were 18, when they were 12. Oh, I mean, that's much more cute.

You know? Yeah. I think that sounds so sweet and innocent. Just tell any story. Yeah. Like, oh, I remember, you know, when we scared our friend Douglas, he fell out the window. You know, that would be fun. If that's the brand around it, that'd be so fun.

And I would listen to that podcast, honestly, like genuinely. There's an old person story time. Yes. Yeah. That's a much more cuter take on it. I always imagine just people just like stuff that happened to them this week. Oh, sure. They got to go bag about it.

Like, there's some new worker at the pharmacy had blue hair. Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you believe that? And they gave me my pills. And I thought, well, is that blue hair getting in my pills? Because if it gets in my pills, I take them back. Not going to be a happy camper.

Anyway, just thought that was funny. Story time at five. It's like, what goes on there? That's Albion. Yeah, that Albion. There was a coffee shop in Manhattan at K-State where I went. Manhattan, Kansas. Oh, my gosh. Why can't I think of it? Bluestem. Bluestem Bistro. I've been there, Manhattan, Kansas. Uh, oh my gosh. Why can't I think of Bluestone

Bluestone? I've been there. Yeah. Yeah. It was like my spot. Um, and I think it's Tuesday afternoons or something. There was story time and song time with this Mr. Steve or whatever. And it was just like all these little kids came song time. Yeah. Maybe it was music hour, whatever it was. Cause he had a, he definitely had a guitar, but it was like one of the highlights of my week. And maybe that's, it makes me sound creepy as a college man, but like in K state, like everyone you ever see is your age or a professor, like, like very rarely was I, like, was I ever infiltrated with families? And so like seeing, seeing parents and their kids was always like such a refreshing time to me. That's, I love going to church on Sundays because our church definitely had like a

mix. And then I love that story hour, you know, time. So that's what it made me think of when you said story time. That is fun. Um, so anyway,

maybe we should do a virtual story time sometime, get some old people. Yeah. Whatever. Like I love my, my grandma told me a story recently that I was like, that was a fun story. I think other people would enjoy that.

So, um, anyway, that's sweet. I like that. Yeah. Well, we're going to hear from some people soon. But one of the people we're going to hear from first is a little girl by the name of Sarah Solberg. Little S squared, baby. Sarah Solberg.

Sol, like S-O-L, which is in Spanish, sun, which means Sarah, sunny Sarah. And Berg, which if it was spelled differently means city. Oh, really? I think so. Like Pittsburgh. Fun. I think Berg means town or city or something. Okay.

Maybe Latin. So sunny city, city of sun. Yes. Which speaking of, you want to travel to a sunny city? Yes. Sarah Solberg is your girl. Well, only for sunny cities though, right? Is that right? that is one of

her big oh no wait i'm reading this wait hold on i mean the girl lives in alaska so i can't imagine no no no she goes yeah she goes everywhere i think this is even she said i'm reading here yes she would take you to outer space if you wanted to go yes she would figure it out well it's jupiter i don't know if it's florida or the outer space one you know but she gave you to jupiter get you there inquire about jupiter yes we're sponsored by sarah solberg travel uh she's a travel agent and uh she's a wonderful ghosty of ours and so she offers her services completely free and she can specialize in all sorts of different things we're talking cruises jake we're talking theme parks disney universal hello oh hey hey guys uh hey ever heard of a a little you know island called hawaii oh yes i have a series of volcanoes over time

yes formed it hawaii alaska you want to go on a cruise jake she'll help you get there alaska cruise could you do both i bet you could do both any kind of all-inclusive destinations you're not doing one of those for your honeymoon are you don't know can't know what no it's just like she finishes but she can do it all no she can let me ask you this could she take me to i've always wanted to see the keystone pipeline yes cool yes about? What about the Florida Keys? Oh, yeah. Yes. I think she could. What about Chichen Itza?

Chichen Itza. Chichen Itza. Chichen Itza? Yes. She can get me there? Yes. I was trying to think of like fun, like back and forth. Chichen Itza.

Or if you want to go get some deep dish pizza, you can go to Chicago. She'll hook you up. What about the demilitarized zone in North Korea? Um, honestly, I don't, I believe in her. I don't know if that's on the list. If you can go there, but I bet she'd try if it was, if it was your heart's desire, I bet she would figure it out. I'm not seeing that anywhere on here, buddy. I'm gonna be honest. Okay. But okay. No, but she is, she is an expert at this. She knows what she's doing. She'll help you save money. She'll help

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And we may never hear from these ghosties again because now they're on vacation. They found a new life for themselves. They're going to be up. And we may never hear from these ghosties again because now they're on vacation. They found a new life for themselves. They're going to be vacation people. Yeah, their life has changed for the better. Trust me when I say Sarah Solberg is the way to go. Yep. Even if you think you might travel in the future, go throw a like on her Facebook page.

Yeah. Why not? Even if you're like, I don't know if I'm getting the cheapest rate to Kansas City on August 18th and 19th. Ooh. Make sure Sarah Solberg knows about it. Sarah Solberg. Maybe we talk to Sarah Solberg about helping us out with the August 18th. Holy crap. Make sure Sarah Solberg knows about it. Sarah Solberg.

Maybe we talk to Sarah Solberg about helping us out with the August 18th. Holy crap. Put our money where our mouth is. Hello. So Sarah Solberg. Check her out. With Destinations to Travel or Sarah Solberg at D2Travel.com. Okay.

Well, the rest of this episode is going to be a little throwback. When the walls were gray, when we, our first ever attempt at calling, uh, ghost protesters, you guys called in, um, first iteration of ghost stories. The theme was weddings and we've got a few more. It'll be fun to listen to just a backstory on them. We way overbooked the old, uh, uh, ghost stories the very first time we did them. And so we were in a little bit of a hurry the whole time. Cause I think we had like 10 minute calls for two and a half hours or something like that. Yeah.

Um, so just keep that in mind. I think, uh, yeah, it was just a chaotic time for us and it was fun. It might've. Yeah.

So just be listening and just like, no, that in the back of your head. I think that's kind of a fun backstory. Like, okay, this was a little bit of a chaotic time for Brad and Jake. Also,

they done a lot of them. Yeah. Who knows, who knows what the order is going to be here. There might be some of these calls where we didn't really introduce them because I was like, oh, we'll introduce them later.

Yeah, we had to figure out all that stuff. So yeah, but I think it's just appropriate, obviously, with Jake's wedding and Rachel's wedding coming up to just do another wedding stories. And hopefully we get some great wedding stories from Jacob. Oh, yeah.

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Visit amex.ca slash business platinum. This is Kelda. Kelda, this is Brad Ellis. This is Jake and Brad. What's going on? Hi. How are you? Do you always go? This is Kelda right off the top? I mean, I don't know. No, no, no, no number. I go, hi, this is Brad.

Hi, this is Brad. Yeah. Yeah. I like it. It's unknown if it's unknown. I do, but otherwise, no, I'm just like, hello. Yeah. Hey, what do you need? Hey, thanks. Thanks so much for submitting your story about crazy weddings. Would love to hear the whole thing. Here we are. We're ready to hear it. Oh, wow.

Just like right now. Huh? Okay, fine. Keller, where are you from? Fine. Let's get to know you. What's your name, Kelda? Oh, I have no clue.

I have no idea. Where are you calling from? I am from Georgia. Okay. I live in North East Georgia. All right, cool. What's your wedding story? Yeah, right.

Let's get going. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Bye. See ya. See ya. All right. Thanks for calling. Thanks, Kelda. Thanks anyway, Kelda. That was I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Bye. See ya. See ya. All right. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks anyway. That was a great story. All right. I'm sorry guys. I'm at work.

What's your work? I'm a CT tech. So I do CAT scan. Oh, thank you for explaining. When you said CT tech, I was like, I don't know. I don't know. Okay. It's not, it's not, it's not the MR. It's not like the one that makes all the racket. Gotcha. Oh yeah.

Oh, not the tennis. Not the tennis one. Not that one. The racket. Yeah. No, not the racket one. Ha ha. Awesome.

Well, we love your story. I honestly, Jake hasn't read any of your story yet. So he has no idea what you're going to say. Remind us, Tell us about it. Fascinating. If this is enough talk beforehand. It is. It is.

Kelder likes to rewind and dine a little bit. That's right. Yeah. I mean, yeah, of course. At least buy me dinner first. It's like Georgia Peach. I mean, I need something. This peach needs a little bit of...

Give me a little something. Before you get this peach, it's normal. Give me a little something. well here's here's the way it happened so i've been married it'll be 20 years in august congrats um and thank you same guy you want to hear oh yes the same guy i'm just teasing okay yeah so my best friend just joined hi oh now we gotta get you this okay where are you from where are you from what do you do just kidding georgia georgia go dogs go dogs yes absolutely Yes, absolutely. Stetson Bennett? Stop riling him up, right? Stetson Bennett? Yes, right. Stetson Bennett. Okay, I was like, surely they know who he is. Okay, go ahead.

25-year-old star quarterback. In college. That's right. Okay, so she actually introduced my husband and I on a blind date to start with. Cool. But anyway, so we get married at our church, my home church.

Sure. And we get there the day before for the rehearsal dinner. And it is 90 something degrees in there. Inside the church is 90 degrees. Yeah. Oh, wow. In the church, inside the church is 90 degrees. Yeah. Oh, wow. Inside the church, like hitching on the face, like a wet blanket kind of like. Yes.

Just steaming hot. Do you have any more hot like phrases like that? Because I love Southern phrases. Hitching the face like a wet blanket. It's taller than a dog's tongue in august oh my word um now you're trying to get me off track okay go ahead all right all right all right church nine degrees oh my goodness um yeah so it's like 90 something degrees in there. So we get in there and we're like, okay, so we're getting everything situated.

And we call the pastor and he's like, yeah, we were in the church offices and it was getting kind of hot in there. But we just thought because it was, you know, 100 degrees outside that it was just hot outside. So he calls the HVAC people and they come out and they're kind of, you know, scoping it out or whatever. And they let us know before we leave that night that they're going to have to put in another HVAC unit. Whoa, that's a big task in okay cool yes exactly yeah it didn't hurt so we get there the next day and it is about the same amount like 92 degrees inside like it's so hot that's unbelievably hot inside like like if it's outside

yeah it's super hot um it's in you know georgia in august 100 degrees outside humidity like crazy man so we so we get there and um our wedding's at two o'clock. Stop. So our wedding's at two o'clock and we get there. Everybody's in, you know, in the church. They're all dressed, you know, in their suits or whatever. And all of our guests are like sweating profusely. Sure. And so we get in there.

Ceremony starts. And. Well, first of all, she got married on the Georgia Florida game. No, Clinton, Georgia, Clinton game. Oh, you can't do that. Oh, my God. During the game. I know. Right. Well, let me let me start with this, though. My husband actually picked the date. F.Y.I. OK. F.Y.I. Before before the before the schedule came out, we did it, you know, year in advance. But anyway, we shouldn't have gotten married during, you college football beside the point anyway so um all the greensmen

actually ended up having um earbuds in their ears listening to the game during the entire ceremony your husband was okay with that like he was like i understand it's the dogs we gotta we gotta support the dogs yes absolutely 20 years ago yeah my mom on the other hand not she was not a fan no she was not a fan at all good for her she was kind of the um mom bridezilla she was the one that hit you in the face whenever you got into the sanctuary yes she literally would love to throat punch every single one of them no lie oh so and half of the greensmen were actually late too so that made it even worse for her so they were already on her bad side you know um i forgot my shoes um so you know i had to walk barefoot.

No, keep going. There's some, there's some great things on this list. Go ahead. Um, my flowers had wilted because it was so hot in the church. Um, luckily we had done our pictures beforehand. So, you know know our pictures had pretty flowers but they were brown by the end of it did you feel like this might be like foreshadowing like our flowers are wilting here like maybe this is a bad idea you know my my groomsman or my husband picked out all these guys that don't even care about the wedding you know what kind of character does he have yeah well here's the deal like i'm i'm really easygoing so none of this stuff really bothered me at the end of the day i didn't even plan my wedding my mom and

my husband did i was just like just tell me when to be there i'm good so yeah none of that stuff kind of bothered me but we did have a lot of stuff that kind of happened that we were just kind of looking at each other like holy cannolis how did this day ever get here and end like this so our eight track unit was you know not working um our unity candle when we went to light that it would not light so we were just kind of standing up there looking at each other while the song was going on i mean yeah if you're trying to create flames and environment, it's already 92 degrees. You're probably just like, look at the audience.

Like you guys get it. You guys understand what we're trying to do here. You're feeling it already. I swear. The flowers wilting is not a metaphor. Neither is the unity candle. Okay. So, um,

you need a candle. Um, the flowers all wilted. Um, you know, the candle, um, the flowers all wilted. Um, my cousin, she was five at the time. She was our flower girl. And she decided right before we took pictures that she was going to get two different colored markers and color all over the front of her dress oh bingo so we ended up having to tie the bow that went on the back of her dress we had to tie that on

the front so you know it didn't have like a red and blue marker show. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and then my other little cousin, he decided that he was going to projectile vomit everywhere in the church because he was so hot. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Exactly. And then after the ceremony, we went to our reception. Yeah, thank you. Our reception.

And our punch bowl fountain did not work. And it looked like colored water, pretty much is what it tasted like. Our chocolate fountain didn't work um lord what else i think that's plenty i think that's enough things to show that maybe you should have been involved in planning this wedding because your mom didn't do a very good job that probably honestly yeah that probably should have been

number one on that. Real question is did the dogs win? Yeah. Yeah. That's all it matters. Yeah. They absolutely did. So it was 10 years that since we had played Clemson like that day and we

stomped them. So that was, you know, number one. And I will say our first look was in this little chapel um and it was like the best thing ever because it was just your first look you like the first look yeah yes it was awesome we it was just the two of us oh oh yeah and our photographer he had poison ivy i forgot about that after all of this stuff i totally forgot about that eugene yeah he had poison ivy and so he was in pants and a long sleeve shirt and 90 something degrees so you know he was he was really cool and um

you guys are doing the you guys are doing the first look and you're like, wow, this must be really sweet. I mean, even the photographer is crying. He's like, no, he's just sweating and having an allergic reaction. Sweating out his eyes. Yeah, he's sweating right out of his eyes. But yeah, that was a highlight, honestly. That was the best thing we did. Okay, so do it for a sec, Jake.

Okay. Yeah. You'll be sweating all over the place crying all over the place jake it's worth it and nobody's waiting on you after the fact like we cut we did our pictures and all that stuff of cutting the cake and everything before anybody ever got to there amazing like to the um reception oh cool so we did all that stuff we had all that without everybody like completely staring you down because that's a little awkward but i love it um yeah wow well thank you for sharing all this this is wild i mean one of those things would have made some people stressed and i think you had like what 10 things happened to you. So good for you for rolling with the punches and not projectile vomiting like your cousin did. And I know, I know. And yeah, it's going to be 20 years. That's amazing. Yeah. Very good. Absolutely. Completely worth it.

Love it. You're welcome. Well, thanks. Thanks for calling in. Thanks for submitting your story. Good luck with all the rest of the CT scans. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. Oh, Jake, Jake, guess what? We're going to, we're going to come to you in July. Oh, fun. Like at a show where you're just going to come to Kansas city and see me. Yeah. We're just going to come to Kansas city and show up at your house. I know.

Yeah. Brad, are are you gonna come to georgia with him i'll be if you're there kelda i'm there baby awesome awesome yeah um we actually are gonna do this for our 40th birthday awesome very good fun yeah i will make sure i make sure and meet you guys after or before the show i I promise. Yes, please do. We will hunt you down. Okay. Kendra says she will hunt you down. Bring it on Kendra. Kendra and Kelda. Yeah.

All right. Well, we need to roll on to our next call, but thank you so much for this. This is awesome. Thanks for being a supporter and we'll talk to you soon. All right. Thanks guys. Thank you. Nice to meet you. All right. Go dogs. Yeah. Go dogs. Bye. All dogs all right next up we got jamie uh coming all the way from oregon she's going to tell us her story of her sister's wedding okay well this story doesn't necessarily involve me as the main

character which is great because i'm not this silly but I was the maid of honor at my sister's wedding. And this was in Stevenson, Washington, Washington state. Yes. I know geography is tough for you guys. Is it cool to like say Washington state? I think,

I think if I were from like a place that also had another place, I would love saying state at the end of it. Yeah. It doesn't happen very often so i'm actually from oregon but state state yeah oregon state correct um but the wedding was in washington just like right across the border so washington state yes sorry not Not to be confused with Washington, D.C. That would be quite the travel story. Yes. Okay. Go ahead. Anyway, Columbia River is the border of Washington State and Oregon State.

Okay. Like the universities. I'm sorry. Okay. Oh, that will get really confusing. Sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. sorry go ahead go ahead um but it was right on the columbia river gorge so it was super super windy and it was getting kind of hard to hear the officiant it was really windy i was having to like fix her veil and her dress and everything um so i was right on cue you know the veil went in front of her face grabbed it it was great but she was not quite on cue because when the officiant said, you may now kiss your bride, she was spacing out.

Her husband started leaning in. It wasn't her husband yet. Luckily, it did go through. Her husband started leaning in and she was kind of thinking, wow, he just must be feeling sentimental. So she went in for a hug. Crowd starts laughing and she still is not catching on to the moment she just missed. So her husband ended up grabbing her and dipping her.

Yeah. And then finally just laying one on her. Oh yeah. Crowd goes wild. Crowd goes wild. Oh yeah uh she realizes the ceremony is now over so it was great i love the idea like like you know some people decide not to kiss before their marriage their wedding i love the idea of her being like i'm still not ready like i just i just need i need a few more minutes and then she she's just hugging him like, okay, I guess we'll just be patient here.

Just let this happen. Yeah, it was very homeschool-like behavior for someone who went to public school her whole life and Oregon State University. Oh, Oregon State University. Is she naturally kind of a spacey person? Like, did this make sense? It makes sense. Yeah, she's pretty aloof most of the time. Love you, sis.

Has the opposite ever happened where you go to say goodbye to her and you're like, thanks for having us over and you try to give her a hug and she just randomly kisses you? Great question. Luckily, no. that has not happened. Um, yeah, we probably wouldn't be on speaking terms. All of a sudden it's like, well, you can't space out that much. Okay. Yeah. That'd be the last

goodbye you're at. I can't imagine being at that wedding and you may kiss your bride is always the thing I look forward to most. I love it. I love seeing, you know, it's just so wonderful. It's bliss. And you may kiss your bride and she just goes and hugs them. And it was that classic. It was like middle school hug. Like, Oh, where does my head go? The left.

Oh my gosh. Oh, it was so bad. That's amazing. And so I'm sure you bring it up all the time to her. So to this day. Oh, absolutely. Oh, it was so bad. That's amazing. And so I'm sure you bring it up all the time to her still to this day. Oh, absolutely. Oh my gosh. She's not living that down. Did she, so did she, it was just her explaining, her explanation was just like, yeah, just

spaced out. Yeah. I mean, of course she tries to make it like, it was just so beautiful. Oh sure. I was looking at the river. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, you have the, sure. I was looking at the river. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, you have the rest of your life to look at a river. You are getting married and there's one thing you really need to do.

Yeah. Oh, my gosh. You find me an average American who gets distracted by a river and I'll show you a liar or a schizophrenic. I don't buy that for one second. I was distracted by the river. Get out of town. Yeah. I mean, that river was just the current on that thing, you know, this too beautiful. Wow. I love it.

I love it. That is amazing. Thanks for submitting the story, Jamie. It's so fun to, so fun to hear it. And yeah, I just can't, I just, there's, there's nothing quite as awkward as that. That's, that's too good. So tell your sister thanks for the content and uh yeah so fun to so fun to talk to you yeah just out of curiosity real quick where do you talk to you guys too uh where do you actually live in oregon barely yes okay i live in oregon cool just when we introduce it wanted to make sure i had the facts right so oregon jamie oregon state oregon jamie okay it's jamie and not ymy, right? I was wondering if you guys were going to make fun of me for that because I'm always like right on cue with every time you guys make fun of names.

But then I'm like, my name is spelled weird. There's supposed to be an E on the end. Yammy. Jammy. Yeah, I love it. No, I did. I was going to send, you know, it didn't really fit the stories, but I got called jammy pants all growing up because of the way my name was spelled. Yeah, I got, I cried. Okay. I think that could be a fun call in sometime is like weird name. Yeah. Unfortunate nicknames or something. Yeah. We're going to write that down. Yeah. We all grew up close in age. Still close in age, I guess.

We didn't grow out of that one. Yeah, that's great. Awesome. Well, thanks so much. And yeah, we'll talk to you soon. All right. Bye guys. Hello. Hello. Is this Brittany? This is Brittany. Is this the ghost runner? This is the ghost runner podcast, Brittany.

Yeah. Thanks for calling in. We're doing great. We're having a good time calling folks today and excited to start cranking these out in our new Wednesday episodes. Where are you calling in from? Cleveland, Ohio.

Oh, the middle East. The middle East. I was hoping to be the new middle East correspondent after this. Not bad. You're more than welcome. Congratulations. As well. East correspondent. Yeah. Perfect. That's awesome. And, uh, what are you,

what are you up to at the current moment? You at work right now? You're at home. What are you doing? No, I'm actually at home. I'm looking up some videos about de-extinction for my students. De-extinction. Brad, try to guess what that means. Hot topic right now. De-extinction is like when you think something's extinct, but then really it's not. Yeah, I think that is correct. Yeah, it's like trying to get like the white tigers like to, you know, procreate more.

Get the dodo birds back. Like everyone thinks bald eagles are extinct. Those things are running rampant in Kansas. You know what's running rampant is Canada. They have way more bald eagles than we do. Unbelievable. How's that for a fun fact? Anyway,

Brittany, what does de-extinction mean? Um, well, I'm still learning, but my husband told me about this, um, park in Siberia,

I think called Pleistocene park, where they want to bring back woolly mammoths for some conservation purposes or something. I don't know. It's really, it's really deep, but I'm going to have a debate with my kids next week or the week after. So I'm trying to find some things that explain it better than I am right now. Wow. So, so there there's, there's arguments that you can

just bring back woolly mammoths or something. We're just going to bring it back. Yeah. We'll just make a new one. We've been hearing, uh, we've been seeing the tweets. A lot of people, pretty amazing. They miss the woolly mammoth. And so we're thinking about bringing it back. Like it's like the McRib or the iPod Nano or woolly mammoths. Exactly. Bring it all back. I mean, I think more like that sounds very Jurassic Park like to me and I am against it. That's what I was thinking.

Yeah. It sounds like the dinosaurs are next. Keep it in Siberia. All right. Yeah. Agreed. Anyway, let's hear your wedding story. Brittany, what do you got for us?

Okay. anyway let's hear your uh your wedding story Brittany what do you got for us okay so uh we were planning to get married in April of 2020 which everybody probably remembers there were some crazy things going on Tiger King prior Tiger King the bit that was that was what affected our wedding the most probably um but no we uh in February so this is like prior to COVID really making it here. We got a call from our wedding venue that they closed up shop and could no longer host our wedding. And I was at work when I got those calls. So I just about fainted and left work and went straight to the venue with my husband and my parents and the people who work there. It was not their decision, obviously. And they were so kind and so helpful.

And they had already, by the time we got down there, had already lined up some other venues that they knew were available in the area and were willing to give us like kind of match prices. So we were like, okay, kind of feeling a little bit better. Did you at any point, like when you heard they were going under, were you trying to like, Hey, is there any way we can de-extinct this thing? Did you ever throw that in there?

Can we get this thing back? I sent them a video. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if you guys are the woolly mammoth of wedding venues. Oh my gosh. Right. Yeah. No. So, um, so we looked at a couple of venues, we picked one out and then we're like, okay, got it under control. We, we moved all of our vendors. We got everything else figured out. And then about like a month later, six months, six weeks, I can't remember the timeline exactly is when COVID came. And so they closed everything down. And then we kind of, we kind of waited because we're like, okay, they haven't canceled weddings yet. And these places are private, so maybe they won't cancel. Well, of course they canceled. So like three weeks, three or four weeks before our wedding, we had to email all of our guests and let them know that, yes, we had to let them know

we were, we were postponing for the moment and would let them know about a new date whenever we could. So we kind of gave it some time and waited until things started to open back up. And luckily, a lot of people for that summer had already canceled all of the weddings. So there were places that were open and we were moving. We ended up finding a new venue that was seven minutes from our new house and we're like, great, this is a new venue that was seven minutes from our new house. And we're like, great, this is perfect. And they were awesome. So they were able to, oh no, sorry. I'm, I'm missing, I'm missing out my own story here. So before that, I'm so sorry. We found this new venue that the other place helped us find. And two weeks before our wedding,

they told us that we had to wear masks and we're like, okay, that's fine. We're willing to have our guests wear masks. It's a big room and we can spread out we can follow all the rules for covid and we said but we don't have to wear masks right like bride and groom like during our ceremony and they said no you have to wear a mask i'm like okay so you want us to like give our each other our first kiss with this mask on or and they're like yes that you cannot take your mask off oh my gosh they told us we would be on a stage because it was kind of like this room with like a, like an old theater looking thing in it. And so we're like, okay, but we're going to be like really far from the gas. So like, we can't even take our mask off paying a lot of money for this.

And like, I guarantee we'll be closer than this later on at night. So why not just go ahead and get it over with now? Right. We're probably already gave each other COVID at some point. But anyway, so they tried to tell us, right? They tried to tell us that they wouldn't even give us our money back if we canceled. Well, luckily in the contract, they had like the phrase act of God. And we were like, well, COVID, you could kind of consider an act of God because we, or a

government shutdown or something along those lines. There were two phrases that we were like, well, that's in our contract. You cannot just charge us all this money for a wedding we can't even have here. So eventually, my dad threatened lawyers, we don't have a lawyer. I'm going to call my lawyer. I get my classic line. I'm like, dad, we do not have a lawyer. We're middle class.

Okay, whatever. Amazing. But all we had to do was threaten it and they were like okay so we pulled out the language of the contract whatever so they said we could have our money back but we were still two weeks out from the wedding date with everything else paid for and planned and guests coming and everything so we ended up finding this new venue this is where i got mixed up earlier that was seven minutes from our new house that we were moving into and so they luckily had the date open and they got us in and they had an outdoor place for the ceremony. So no one had to wear a mask for the ceremony.

And they were pretty, pretty loose on the mask rules on inside too. Like every once in a while, they'd make an announcement. They were like, Hey guys, you got to put your mask on. And then everybody would for like a minute and then take them off. And nobody got COVID because it was a huge room. We did have like half the guests we were supposed to have, but it ended up being so fun. And it was the best day ever. And there were things that didn't go as we had planned. I mean, pretty much none of it went as we planned, but it was better than we could have planned. And so, yeah, it was nuts. And I wasn't even going to write in because I'm so used to the story that I've told it. I'm like, it's not that crazy. And one of my best friends, who's also a ghostie,

was like, you have to write in. Your story is ridiculous. And I was like, all right, I'll try. And I guess here I am. I mean, the fact that you had to like reschedule to multiple venues, because then once you obviously get the venue, then you have to coordinate everything underneath that the photographer, the catering, the, you know, wedding DJs. And it was just, yeah, just one thing after another. That's just because then they're going to be double booked somehow or, you know, whatever. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah.

Wow. It was crazy. But I mean, in the end it worked out and I feel like the following year we ended up, cause I teach, I'm a teacher and we were told we had to teach like half online, half at school. And we also had to add in another subject area, which I'm only, I'm not certified for and everyone else freaked out. And I was like, guys, it's really fun.

Everything works out. And I swear, like, because of this wedding situation, I'm just like, everything's fine. Everything's cool. It'll else freaked out. And I was like, guys, everything works out. And I swear, like, because of this wedding situation, I'm just like, everything's fine. Everything's cool. It'll be all right. Seriously. I bet that did change your, yeah. Your attitude towards a lot of things. That's great. Good way to look at the positives on it. Wow. I had to. Wow. Amazing. Well, shout out to the act of God. Exactly. Yeah. Thank you, God. For COVID, I guess. But yeah, I was gonna say, I know you guys, you are planning your wedding right now, Jake. But no matter what happens, you can tell Rachel this too, if she's not already listening. As long as you and Rachel are there, that is all that matters. Because so many things are

gonna go wrong. Hopefully not COVID or anything as crazy. But you can't stop it. I'm sure Brad has things from his wedding that happened. And I feel like as long as you two are there and you say, I do, that is, that is all that matters. And it's going to be awesome no matter what. So I'm so happy for you guys. And I'm so excited for you. And that's great advice. Thank you for sharing that.

And yeah, that's always a good reminder. So I think, yeah, when it comes down to it, we just want our families to be there and just, you know, they could, oh, and brad's pointing at himself i need to be there too and we always rachel i always said brad needs to be there okay he was there when we met maybe he paid for the ring yeah he deserves this that's right so that's fun yeah for sure we actually at one point almost decided to use just like literally a living room wedding with just our parents and our siblings because we were like, we didn't care about, I mean, I was like the last thing from a bridezilla. So I was kind of go with the flow all along. And it was kind of like, I don't know, someone was living room. Cause our, one of our best friends was our officiant anyway. So we're like, okay, we can, we had to have under 10 people in the room at some point during the COVID situation.

And we're like, all right, parents, officiant, that's it. No bridesmaids. Cause we didn't care. We're like, we can have a party later. We just want to get married. It's all we cared about. And so almost did that. And then luckily it worked out that we could have as close to a real wedding as we had

planned and even better than we planned. So it was awesome. That's great. You sound like Rachel, as far as like being very easygoing. Very chill. I can't imagine like you could throw anything at Rachel and I think she would still just be like, that's great. Just bounce off.

That's fine. Yeah. That's okay. I didn't need that anyway. Right. I don't need to be like, yeah, I spilled marinara sauce all over my dress. No problem. I don't have to wear like completely white.

A lot of it's still white. That did happen to me at my wedding. There you go. And you were fine with it. I accidentally got some marinara sauce on the front of my wedding dress and I was like, the wedding's over. It's fine. Yeah. Wow. Did you write that down? Cause I don't remember. Like I just made that up out of nowhere. No, I forgot about that part. It was after it was at the, at the hotel, after the wedding,

some other wedding party was having like post-wedding food and they had this big tray of raviolis and he grabbed one and it fell on my dress. And I was like, I'm never going to wear this again. Wow. Oh, you're awesome. That's awesome.

Well, Brittany, hopefully I get to meet you someday. I know Trey and I are coming to Cleveland to do some shows, so no pressure. Well, you know, it's funny.

We're actually, my, my friend who I was talking about, actually, who told me to write in, she and I, we just bought tickets to Columbus because the day you're in Cleveland will be, I will either be, um,

in puddle city or I will be a week past. Congratulations. Thank you. Um, I actually, when you guys came to Cleveland last time I was pregnant, so I will be, I will have been pregnant for both of your shows and my kids will have heard you, your standup. So that's cool. I love the idea of the phrase in puddle city, meaning you're, you know, delivering a baby like not, not at, not going to, but in puddle city. Amazing. Yeah. It's right. Do dates right around there. So I was like, then I'm like, is it, I don't know. I don't want to say giving birth,

but I guess puddle city is not any better. No, no. I lovedle city that translated perfectly i'm currently in puddle city can i call you back arriving in puddle city yeah we'll play on tn columbus then sounds good we're looking forward to it but thank you guys so much i love the podcast this is like third best day of my whole life well maybe like upcoming upcoming baby might might trump this but we'll take it yet so he's got he's got a lot to live up to awesome well thank you so much yeah yeah thank you guys so much talk to you later thanks for calling in all right save the unsaved the woolly mammoths i mean do whatever do something with the woolly mammoths nice see ya all right bye guys you said unsaved the woolly mammoths i don't know why would she unsave them i know i was

trying to figure out because you don't want to i don't know i'm anyway not unsafe i had a thought while she was talking the whole like call my lawyer thing i think we should make a deal with each other right now if we ever get in a situation you got a little spit on your lip by the way you probably get if we ever get a situation where like you know what I'm gonna call my lawyer yes I'll be your lawyer we call each other okay and we just at the beginning he's like all right this is my lawyer hey Brad and then you kind of know like all right I gotta be lawyer right now okay yeah this is my lawyer will be the code word for that. Just anything like that to like explain like, hey, lawyer.

Hey, hey, this is my lawyer. Yeah. Okay. And we'll know. And then it's like, all right, we'll be safe. Yeah. What's going on? And then we'll just fake a conversation.

A very legal. And I won't call you Jake. I'll call you Mr. Triplet. That's perfect. My client. My client. Yeah. I think that might be illegal, but I'll do it for. Triplet. That's perfect. My client. My client. Yeah. I think that might be illegal,

but I'll do it for you, brother. Yeah. Or just maybe once, once you answer, then I'm like, Hey, my lawyer's on the phone now. Do you want to talk to him? And then that's when you know,

like, all right, it's going down. Great. All right. And then you're like, all right, can you tell me what's, what's going on with my client? Yes. I'm very busy.

Make it short. Make it quick. I have a meth dealer that I need to work with after this. Breaking Bad. Better call. I might try to find a new lawyer. A big lawyer for myself.

Apparently my lawyer deals with meth addicts. Yeah, patient confidentiality. All right, we're back. Walls are blue. We got to still give you guys our wins of the week and our comment of the week. It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday after all. Have a Wednesday guys our our wins of the week and our comment of the week so it's wednesday it's wednesday after all day so my win of the week is going to be remember us

telling a story about uh michael a guy that recognized us at the wilder woods concert yes um my recent facebook friend oh mine too sent a request my way i said you betcha buddy and uh anyway he and his daughter millie now listeners to the podcast. What up, Michael? What up, Millie? Thanks for joining. Let's be friends, Michael. Come hang on KC.

See you. Hey, Michael, clear your schedule. Make sure you're in Kansas City, August 18th and 19th. Honestly, Michael, we should do an event at Michael's church. I don't know. What church did you go to? The church in Nixa. Nixa?

Oh, that's right. Yeah, he lives in Springfield. He lives here. No. Yeah. I think it'd be fun to, I don't know, whatever. It'd just be a, we could, we can figure it out, Michael. It'd be fun.

It could be another one of the week. Yeah. People, people live near Springfield. That they do. No, I was so pumped. I even wrote down like in my notes for the last couple of weeks, like I want them to listen to the podcast. And then the worship leader from his church also listens to the podcast. That's how I like the connection happened. So shout out to,

shout out to y'all. You guys are awesome. That's fun. Uh, my one of the week, first of all, there's a fun win to have Bo pitching with me. That was just a sweet moment. Um, other one of the week, this is going to be a trivia question that goes into my one of the week, Jake, if I were to have to complain, if I were to want to upgrade one piece of technology in my life, what would it be and why? Ooh, one piece of technology in your life. Let me think just real quickly. I don't want to take too long.

I think your phone's solid. I think, oh, I think it's your laptop. Why? Because it's so slow. It's slow, but do you remember my other issue? You lost a key at one time. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the keyboard doesn't work.

No. Keep looking around. You want to upgrade? You want more ports? You love ports. I want more ports. No, my battery stinks on it. Do you remember this?

Oh, yeah, that's right. Like it dies so quickly. Dude, it's been miraculously healed. I don't know what happened. I'm dead serious. It's just good now. I think something I w I was like, I don't know. So I was gone. Catherine used my computer and I worked on it on Monday and I worked on it for like three hours and it was at like 65%, which is like usually three hours I'm dead. You're toast. I texted her. I was like, did you do something to my computer? Which she would never like update it.

Like that's just not her personality. She's like, no, I used it, but I have no idea. I was like, did you restart it or anything? But I think maybe what I was noticing was like it used to like, I don't know, I was overworking it somehow. And the fan was always on. Like it was always trying to like you know cool it down or something it's not been doing that lately i do know it's bad for computers to not have ventilation like rachel always sets her laptop on top of her like laptop sleeve that like suffocates the fan

and like the ventilation so is this right now so this is great yeah a desk is right because there's like little pockets underneath here for the air to get in. Like where are they at? You can kind of feel them. No, but yeah, even, I see what you're saying. I mean, I was at Panera. That's where I was. And I've been at Panera plenty of times in my life

and it's died so quickly. I was using a personal hotspot rather than their wifi because it's cheeks. But besides that, I don't know. It's just like, but it was like, I couldn't believe it. It was like, it was like a brand new, and it was working faster. So I think I was doing something, I don't know. It's just like, but it was like, I couldn't believe it. It was like, it was like a brand new company and it was working faster. So I think I was doing something, I don't know, some program that I had that I don't realize I even had open or something. Using too much Ram

somehow. That's great. Rarely does technology suddenly change for the better. So good for you. Like I Googled it. I was like, what? You know, and all the, all the Google results were like on the opposite where it was like, if your battery is going too slow, I'm like, mine's going great. So's going great so i don't know yeah that's rare that's that makes me really happy for you though i love technology because like i would use your computer and you got your computer maybe a year after i did like well then you got another one yeah i guess so but still like i don't think our our versions are much different they shouldn't be and like yours is noticeably different than mine not anymore baby fun hopefully fun update fun win yeah so cool uh comment of the week They shouldn't be. And yours is noticeably different than mine. Not anymore, baby. Fun. Hopefully.

Fun update. Fun win. Yeah. So, comment of the week. Comment of the week for me comes from our girl, Michaela Stiles. She came on the Ghost Runners Getaway Florida trip. And I think I mentioned on that episode, I was like, yeah, Michaela was telling me how much this trip meant to her.

And I was getting teary-eyed. Right. Well, she's back with more to say. She sent it to our group, me. The inner circle of ghosties, we're calling it. We love chatting with them. And anyway, just kind of out of the blue, yesterday she sent this.

On our trip, I realized just how much of myself I had lost over the years. Doing something fun constantly, card games, party games, sports, et cetera, with fun people reignited parts of me that had lied dormant for a long time. When I got home, I told Kevin, her husband, that I couldn't let that part of me get buried again.

I needed to feel that sense of joy and community that I felt on that trip of people just like me, but at home as well. She's like, so I found a local rec sports league. I signed up for St. Volleyball. I'm going to be playing against Brandon, you know, a Brandon's coffee corner, of course. And so that was so fun.

She said, I don't mean to sound dramatic when I say that Florida was a huge catalyst in my life. I have felt a shift happen in me that I will probably talk about life in terms of pre-Florida and post-Florida from now on. I feel such a deep sense that I'm about to really start thriving instead of the surviving I've been doing for years. So anyway, really cool to think that this is like a defining point in her life. Not just like a really cool trip, but like to think about pre-Florida and post-Florida Michaela. Just awesome. I texted her.

I was like, this is so cool that the Lord used this trip that we, you know, came up with to like be so impactful in her, you know, life, her entire life. Yeah, dude. Wild. It's so sweet. Yeah. To hear stories like she's not the only one that has shared stuff like life. Yeah, dude. Wild. It's so sweet, yeah, to hear stories like, she's not the only one that has shared stuff like that.

Yeah, you're right. That is so cool and so fun and exciting. So just a little preview. We are going to do it again. I was going to say, too bad we're not doing another one. Yeah. Oh, wait. We are doing another ghosty getaway.

What'd you do at like 8.30 this morning, Brad? I reserved our house for next oh oh that's kind of fun wow where is it at when's that who freaking knows we do you don't we'll tell you soon enough just for now august 18th through the 19th maybe 20th is that's the first calendar clearing another one you don't have to worry about for a while yes uh so yeah we're excited and fun. I, yeah,

I can't wait to reunite with some of the people that went this year. Can't wait to meet new people. Can't wait to reunite with people that didn't come this year, but we've met before. So I can't wait to see how sunburned Gabe gets on the next one. Yeah. Like it's like a rule. Like Gabe is not allowed to wear sunscreen.

It's like you're playing chicken with, you know, the sunscreen anyway. Yeah. Fun things happen with the Ghost Turners, and it's all because of you guys. So thank you for your support of us. Yeah, for listening to the podcast.

It's just cool, man. It's just fun. So Jake, have a great wedding. The ghosties are saying that because I'll see you again. Okay, great. And I'll be at the wedding too. Do you have a comment of the week? Oh my gosh.

Go ahead. Yeah, mine's just Paige Cuco, 22 hours ago. I'll be at the, I'll be at A18-20, A18-20 if it's the last thing I do. I did see that. I was like, sweet. I love that. Especially because I've never met Paige. I've, I've, I've made tables for her. I, you know, communicate with her plenty, but I've never actually met her face to face. Saw her last week. I know you've, you've met her multiple times. Yeah. Very cool. Very great. I like, no, I didn't beg, but I like pleaded like you guys have to come on the next trip. Like you guys seem so cool. You have to come. Come on. Fun. So I'm excited. August 18th, 19th. It's going to be sweet. That's going to be sweet. And yeah, when you're listening to this, I get married

in like three days. Gosh. So how are you just, just general feelings? How are you feeling? Oh, solid. Are you the the decision fatigue is starting to set in a little bit where now I'm starting to really look forward to just like being through it a little bit, dude. Yeah. You know, I think anyone would probably feel that way. I felt the same way with the proposal, too. It's like there's so many like moving parts of this and we have to keep so much of a secret like right that will probably feel more of a relief than this will because this is like a day-long celebration with all of our best friends like it's got to be very very fun but does rachel know where i know she knows the you're going to the bahamas does she know what's the reason like

what the place is she doesn't really know anything else just know where we're flying so great plenty to be surprised about well yeah i was never i'll say it later cool just in case but yeah dude i hear you that's exciting I am excited for you. And I'm sure, I'm sure it's going to be like this wonderful release of like emotions, you know? Yeah. Like it's like, holy cow here. It's finally here. You know, we did it. This is the decision that I had made up about 10 months ago and finally, finally executing it. It's awesome, dude. I'm excited for you. Thank you. I'm excited for me. Honestly, I'm excited for you to be my neighbor officially. Yeah. Finally move here. My goodness for me honestly i'm excited for you to be my neighbor officially yeah finally move here my goodness yeah oh it's gonna be awesome it's

gonna be so fun it's gonna be it's gonna be like whoa there's jake he's still here all the time now i know oh my gosh but yeah a lot of fun things to look forward to thank you guys for always listening supporting us so well check out all of our sponsors yeah appreciate you love you. See you next week. Cool! Ghost Runs Podcast Ghost Runs Podcast Everybody morning we're taking back Ghost Runs Podcast

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