Ghostrunners - 25 - Window, Middle, Aisle

Episode Date: October 28, 2019

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Mr. Schneebly? Okay, start over. It's hard to be slightly Asian. I know. Alright, go, go, go. Mr. Schneebly? Yeah? Hey, what's up? I don't think I should be in the band. Why not?

I'm not cool enough. People in bands are cool. I'm not cool. Dude, you are cool. The way you play? Why do you say you're not cool? Nobody ever talks to me. Well, those days are over, buddy. You could be the ugliest sad sack on the planet, but if you're in a rocking band, you're the cat's pajamas. You're the bee's knees. Bee's knees? Yeah, the bee's knees. You'll be the most popular guy in school. Okay, I'll do it. Now listen, this is a big commitment. Don't say yes if you're going to flake out. I won't. Larry,

welcome to my world. Boom. Boom. A couple of these. Now here. Now give me a platform. Let's rock. Let's rock today. Now do it to me.

Let's rock. Let's rock today. That's good. Slap it. Shoot it. And kaboot it. We'll work on that later. It's a long shake. going good knuckle crack welcome everyone to episode 25 we made it quarter uh well a quarter i guess yeah quarter of a century quarter of a dollar your call yeah we made it episode 25 and we are starting it It's 1230 at night. We haven't done a night podcast in a while. Yeah, we're night potting. It's wild, baby. This is going to be fun. Ghost Hunters after dark. After dark.

Things are going to get PG. Hey, whoa, whoa. This episode is probably just going to be just a big. This is going to be big for Brad and I's friendship just to catch up. We haven't recorded a pod in like probably ten days. My friendship is dying. We need this as friends We've been away from each other. We haven't seen each other basically in ten days So we have a lot to catch up on you've been in New York. I've been in LA. Yeah And you're kind of saying in your group chat of friends. How do you guys catch up with each other? Oh

Yeah, we do something called mediocre life updates is what we call them. And so it's like, it's like something you might want to be talking about and you know, you just decide, you know, it's not anything too exciting, but it's like, Hey, I want to tell somebody this mediocre life update. Uh, somebody just gave me their extra McChicken at McDonald's. I love it. Brad, as a single guy. Not to make this too sad, but, you know, there's a lot of days. No one's asking me how my day is or what you've been up to. So it's fun that I have someone, you know, to give my mediocre life updates to.

And feel free to always text me if you ever have anything like that as well. I love mediocre life updates. Or just I'll say, today was good. Yeah. You don't even need to ask anything. Just know that I had a good day. Yeah. Do you want to start us off?

You went to the big city. I did. New York. Catherine and I randomly Southwest had a big sale in the middle of the summer. And we're like, hey, let's go to New York. Sure. In the fall. It'll be fun.

So we did. And Hattie stayed back in Texas with Catherine's parents. Shout out to them. First mediocre life update of the day is I met a mediocre athlete in the airport, but he is now a mediocre athlete. I would say back in the day, he was pretty big deal athlete. I'm going to guess Pau Gasol. You would be wrong.

No, Pau Gasol. Pau Gasol is a future hall of favor. Okay. Sorry. Above mediocre. Yeah. Okay. uh you would be wrong no pal gasol i would pal gasol's a future hall of favor okay sorry above mediocre yeah okay um uh how about like a he was the athlete it's not like athlete's cousin i i already i didn't tell you about this you sent me a picture but i had no idea who you know who was i have no idea that's awesome okay just tell me i have no idea who this guy is uh no i'll give you a few

clues okay um was really good in college played in the big east and they won a national championship can i get a sport oh you didn't even know okay sorry he was a very tall black man i'm not racist um so obviously yeah uh basketball hakeem warwick no remember the boom goes the dynamite uh video yeah sure Where he like butchered all their names. Instead of Wayne Simmon, he's like Wayne Summers. Hakeem Warwick was like Hagem Warwick. Andrew Bogot. I don't remember that.

Oh, man. Anyway, he played for UConn, won a national championship with UConn. Oh, Emeka Okafor. That's correct. Wow. I was in baggage claim with Catherine and I was like, that's Emeka Okafor, Catherine. You're like, I've seen him on NCAA March Madness 2002 cover. He ended up, yeah.

I mean, he's been in the NBA for like 15 years. And you recognized him by his face? Absolutely. That is crazy. He was like a big deal in college. I mean, he was so good. He was dominant. But he never did anything in the NBA.

He won rookie of the year. Okay. I looked into it. I had no idea. But beyond that i mean he played on the bobcats so he he didn't really yeah stacked odds were stacked back with adam morrison you can't have a diabetic as your shooting guard that's not gonna work out like the the ultimate like pew best that like i i don't know how to shave yet but but i probably should you know like

yeah like the eighth grader who just bloomed a little too early sure we all know one but yeah we get off the airplane baggage claim like that's a Mecca Okafor I'm almost positive and I must I must have said it a little bit too loud because his wife goes oh do you want Mac I was like do I what do you want me excuse me I'm a married man I'll go talk to mech or you know a Mac Mac and he turns around and I was like hey man my name is Brad I'm a married man. I'll go talk to Mac or, you know, Hey Mac, Mac. And he turns around and I was like, Hey man, my name is Brad. I'm a fan of yours. Like, nice to meet you. Wow.

She's like, do you want me to take a picture of you guys? So took a picture with Mac. So it sounds like the wife is really hooking them up. Yeah. Like, you know, my husband, he'll take a picture. I was like, what are you guys, what are you guys up to? I just came back from Denver, you know, visiting family. And I was wearing a Texas A&M

random like quarter zip. And he's like, you Texas, you from Texas? I was like, no, my wife's from Texas. I was like, are you from Texas? You know, I'm like, act like I'm his biggest fan, but at the same time,

do not even know where he's from. Who have I got here? Who am I talking to? Who have I got here? So anyway, that was a great start to the trip though. That was the start of the trip. Start of the trip.

Mecca Okafor, I was like, I can't wait to see so many famous people that were famous 15 years ago. Yeah. Who else would be like on that list? I don't know. Famous 15 years ago. I can't believe, I can't wait to see Rebecca Black. Rebecca Black.

Check it on her. See what she's doing. Gordo from Lazy McGuire. Check it on him. Right. Hector Zeroni. Whatordo from Lazy McGuire. Oh, yes. Check in on him. Right. Hector Zeroni. What about the, oh, what's his name? The guy that was on like Cinderella Story and Brink.

Oh, Chad Michael. Oh, no, no, no. Chad Michael Murray. Chad Michael Murray is also a good one, but I'm thinking about like even the deeper cut than that. The guy that's like. I'm not going to know anyone, not a main character. The long haired guy.

Anyway. The Cinderella Story. He was on Princess Diaries. Anyway. Would have been cool to see him. Chad Michael Murray also a great answer though. Would have been fun to see him this week uh yeah any of the oc cast would have been great um anyway so yeah so i'm back with okapur did you end up seeing any other celebrities by the way um no but i do have a little bit of a story oh should i say it

now back to back um go for it so i'll talk about the rest of this later, but we went to an office musical parody off-Broadway show. Oh yeah, you sent me a text afterwards. I had no idea what that meant. I didn't even respond. Oh really? I had no idea what that was. It was like, I'll talk about that. But the place that we had to go,

like we went and bought tickets at the actual venue, but it was a small little theater and the theater was on the third floor. There was another theater on the fourth floor. So we had to go to the fourth floor to buy tickets. We were on the fourth floor. Like there was no one there, um, like to take our ticket or to take our money for these tickets for a while. And I overheard this woman saying like, yeah, um, you know, what are you, what are you doing with the space? And they're like, oh, we're going to be filming a TV commercial here or TV show here. I don't know, something like that. And she's like, yeah, well, uh, you can definitely have it, you know, soon.

Uh, we actually got Hamilton in there right now. And I overheard that and I don't know much about Hamilton, but I know you were like Josh Hamilton, the old Rangers outfielder. Holy cow. The legend at the home Run Derby. What's he doing? Is he back on drugs or off drugs? What's his latest? No. But I saw something on the door that said King's College.

And I know from like one of the not throwing away my shot song, you're like, the King's College. And so I'm like, okay, King's College, something with Hamilton. And so the guy eventually came to the box office, took our money for the tickets and everything. I was like, just out of curiosity, like, what's this King's College thing? He's like, oh, yeah. He's like, he kind of looked around.

He's like, you didn't hear it from me, but Lin-Manuel Miranda has been in there for the last week doing auditions for his next big thing. Oh, wow. And Catherine like freaked out. She's like, what? We have to audition, Brad. Let's go.

So I don't think he was there like currently, but it was kind of crazy to even think like, wow, such a big name. Like he is like the big name in, you know, Broadway right now. And yeah, I would say he's the biggest name in theater that has to do with the founding fathers. That's also a hip hop themed historical.

Hip hop founding father theater is the biggest name by far. So we were, yeah, we were pretty cool. Like thinking like, cause it was like this random place. Like it was not like a, you know, really beautiful hall or anything like that, that we were in buying these tickets. It was like pretty grubby looking place. And the fact that someone like led with, don't, you didn't hear it from me. Like,

Oh, we're getting a real experience, baby. And then I tried to ask him some more questions. Like, I don't know. And he's like, I really don't know.

I'm not just saying I don't know, but anyway, pretty cool. Um, so no, did not see any other celebrities, but kind of was in the presence of Lin Manuel. That's cool.

Have you ever seen his clips on, uh, Jimmy Fallon when he'll freestyle? No. Oh, you haven't? Then it's awesome. It's, it's very impressive. He's one of the best Have you ever seen his clips on Jimmy Fallon when he'll freestyle? No. Oh, you haven't? Then it's awesome. It's very impressive. He's one of the best I've ever seen.

Really? Because it's like you know he is freestyling. I guess you don't know, no, but I'm pretty sure. He says, though. He says. He said he would. Why would he lie? I'm not lying.

Why would he lie? So, yeah, that's awesome. Yep. Thanks. I don't remember where to start. This could be a three-hour episode if we wanted to be but i'll try to think of just the good stuff i went to los angeles for basically it's kind of to explain i think before i even told you like i don't know why i'm

i'm going but i came back i came from my finger out but i came back just like so inspired and like i don't know i've been i've just been more disciplined since coming back already. It's been great. It was basically, it's a, it was like a masterminds class of Christian influencers, basically of all different walks of life and doing different things. It was like influencers, influencers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be the Avengers influencers. That's basically what it was. We had a little bit of everything. No one's really doing anything. Oh, so Trey brought me as his plus one uh yeah so there's there's 14 married couples and then trey and i yes it's kind of funny and it was just awesome no one's really doing what trey and i are doing but that was still fine you know there's

best-selling authors there there's a famous dietician fashion bloggers there was a guy who he's on general hospital right now i looked him up afterwards i couldn't get a gauge on what he was doing the whole time i was there but i looked him up afterwards uh there's a couple that are on a tlc show because they have quintuplets it's like they have a tlc show about them it's called outdaughtered i think okay and so like when i put them on instagram people were freaking out i didn didn't even know. Really? And everyone's like, you're with the, uh, the Busbys from OutDaughtered? The Busbys? I guess.

And then I was also with another TLC show, former TLC show stars. Remember, uh, Little People, Big World? I remember hearing about it. Uh, well, my mom still watches it. I found out because she sent me a text. Can't believe you're with the Roloffs. I was like, I know. The Roloffs?

Remind me which ones those are again. Yeah, he was like, his twin brother is one of the little people. And he is not a little person, but was on the show. And now him and his wife are like influencers. Oh, he is. I found out he's a hobbyist, but he's a woodworker. Really? Got talking to him.

Brought you up. He looked at your Instagram. I got a picture of him looking at your Instagram to prove it to you. He looked at Ellis Custom Creations Instagram. That's awesome. That was the exact same. Not the website, elliscustomcreations.com? It was the, yeah, the Instagram.com account.

And he's like, oh, wow, this is impressive stuff. Oh, cool. And as far as I know, he did it, shouted out on his 1 million follower Instagram and saying, go buy a table from this guy. But he was impressed. That's cool. And, you know know I think you guys would be friends that's awesome man well thank you for that how did they uh try to cater something that like it seems like you guys were all except for being popular there's really not very much and Christians like there's not much

common thread between you yeah there was one portion that was uh marriage counseling essentially and that really didn't relate to me uh because i i'm not married you're not no not to a woman okay and uh so that was to the grind maybe married to the game because that wasn't super relatable and yeah a lot of the stuff they were like teaching us wasn't necessarily like um i don't know, pivoted towards making comedy videos on Instagram. But, you know, there was almost every other person there has a podcast. That was cool to talk to other people.

Oh, TJ. Love TJ and Brooke. Those are new friends. They have a merch company. Go check out Walk in Love. But he helped me out a lot with like podcast stuff, which we'll get to later. We got some exciting stuff for you guys to maybe be a part of yeah um what am i saying oh yeah so they would just like they talked about book launches and e-courses and yeah a bunch of stuff that doesn't necessarily relate to trey and i but it's so cool

it was just more fun just like being around those people and just like seeing them succeed and honestly it kind of got me excited for marriage a little bit it was just like well look at all these power couples and like there's like multiple instances of guys in this group who are like they quit their like really good corporate job to just like come alongside their like wife's dreams really like i'm gonna help i'm just gonna be her like guy who just helps write her books and you know films her takes her pictures can't wait for you to do that with taylor oh yeah swift oh didn't know where you're going but i was down i was like you have someone in mind awesome taylor someday you're gonna be living in a big old city that's feeling 22 yeah cool uh wait she has a song about new york city welcome to new york city it's been

waiting for you you don't know the song. No, but keep going and I'll sing it with you. That's all I know. Welcome to New York. Clap. It's been waiting for you. Welcome to New York. It's been waiting for you. Again? I don't know. I liked it. Again. All right. Yeah. Another one. Let's go one more one more welcome seriously guys welcome to new york uh last thing i'll say about that was they brought in a couple speakers and one of the my favorite things about the trip they brought uh they were like kind of like bows or you know what did i say oh favorite speakers speakers sonos bows wireless sony's a maybe. Noise canceling. Bluetooth enabled speakers. So that was cool.

And over there like, hey, later in the afternoon, we're going to have so-and-so come. He founded the Bible app. And so I was like, okay, like that's cool. But like, I don't know. I was kind of almost like pessimistic towards it. I'm just like, that's a cool thing. But what could I possibly learn from? I mean, just a successful person that had vision.

Yeah, exactly. I was wrong. This dude is awesome. He started off as a Christian rapper. That was a huge curveball to start it off because he does not look like it. 40-year-old man with a lisp. Oh, yeah? I was like, wow, good for you.

Ain't nothing without Christ. He's my savior. He reigns. Y'all hear? Hey, download my bible app please yeah in the new testament i'll be reading the thesans philippians corinthians hey but don't forget about the old testament you know i'm talking about song of solomon jose that's pretty mean but whatever uh he's doing fine. He's doing fine. Anyway, this is like the Christian Mark Zuckerberg.

Like this dude was like founded a web hosting company in 1998. Can only imagine how much money that makes you because he sold that company. Excuse me? GoDaddy.com? Oh, no. I thought you were just, you know, hyping me up. Go Daddy. Go Daddy.

Okay. Keep going, Daddy. Keep going, Daddy. Our Daddy. Keep talking, Dad. I see you, white chocolate. Shake them branches, go. Go, Daddy. Okay, keep going, Daddy. Keep going, Daddy. All right, Daddy. Keep talking, Dad. I see you want chocolate. Shake them branches, coconut. You want some chocolate with your chips?

Well, that's not what I said last time. What did I say? That's just, that's chocolate on chocolate. You want some cookies with that cream? Cookies with that cream? So, yeah, he went Christian rapper to like tech startup to, yeah, the Bible app. It's just just it was fascinating learning about they spent 15 million dollars in 2018 on just like expenses just upkeeping it

which is crazy so he was just fascinating to listen to and uh he one quick story and then we'll move on he was talking about how you know he was in this like meeting with elon musk right when he was like announcing tesla automotive for the first time he's like this guy announced tesla he was in a meeting with him like right around the time that elon elon musk did it okay okay okay i was like this guy's amazing no no i think i said elon musk maybe i did it i don't know and so he was telling his wife like i want this car like it's a five thousand dollar down payment but it's gonna be awesome his wife was like no it's always like okay that's fair and then like six months rolls around they're finally announced and his wife still didn't come around on the idea but he he did

convince his wife that he could invest in tesla and so he invested in it and in six months he sold that stock and bought a tesla with that money so he made tesla pay for his tesla that's it was so sick that's dope i was like this dude is just awesome awesome that that guy is incredible so cool so yeah i um i loved it it was awesome good i had so much fun that's awesome what else has happened you brad that's awesome um okay another new york story i went welcome to new york in the city what is it it's been waiting for you on yeah i don't even know the words welcome to new york the big apple we'll just say something different every time okay um so went to new york and went to phantom of the opera on broadway uh which was really cool we stayed we stood in line for like an hour and a half to do like the tickets in Times Square.

Have you heard of that? No. TNTQ? TS? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can get really cheap tickets if you do it that way. So we got like 50% off for like pretty good tickets and went. But before we went, first of all, Phantom of the Opera was dope.

Is it extra spooky in October? Oh, yeah. They have extra goblins. Pretty fancy. Yeah, extra ghouls. Gobble ghoul. Gobble ghoul. Soup of the day.

Yeah, if this play's not on the side, I take it back. I send it back. So anyway, Phantom of the Opera was dope. But before Phantom of the Opera, we went to dinner at this Italian restaurant, like right across the street off Times Square. And it was this really cool Italian restaurant that like used to be a church. And it's like this huge, like stained glass, beautiful place. Right when we get there, we're like, oh, this place is so cool.

Like, yeah, I'm so excited we chose this place. Kind of spontaneously chose it. And we were looking at the menu. And one of the quirks that I have, and I bet other husbands out there do, if you do have this quirk, leave a five-star review and let me know. Um, or if you're a wife of somebody who does, um, or if you just have a husband or a wife, um, leave a five-star review on podcasts that just let us know.

Um, but I took off my wedding ring and spun it. I do that a lot. Cool. It sounds sick. It's awesome. it's awesome it's awesome um but it the the wedding ring fell off of the table when i spun it was a bad bad spin fell off the table and just like lin-manuel miranda picks it up no i am not throwing away your ring. No, he did not pick it up. It fell off the table and Catherine kind of rolled her eyes.

I was like, oh shoot, let me get that. Looked, could not find it under my table. Looked a little, didn't freak out. I was like, okay, I'm sure it's around here somewhere. Looked a little bit farther around. It's kind of dimly lit Italian restaurant restaurant kind of thing didn't really find it um and then the waiter at this it was like right when we got there the waiter was like hey what's going on oh nothing much i just i just dropped my wedding ring oh let me you know freaks out like

let me help you find it uh tells his manager like they're they're helping me and then steve and there's other people other people 23 other people like like sitting down eating uh like there's this australian couple next to us was like what happened mate you lose you lose something we're like gotta buy buy buy buy buy buy buy buy mate uh and they're like i was like yeah i lost my wedding ring and they they freaked out they're like oh my gosh like I don't know you know like just standing up like looking everywhere like like I bet there was 10 people with their flashlights on their phones looking around we got we got a live one here we got a live one bouncing around on the ground somebody falling to wrestle it over and I bet we looked for I'm not trying to exaggerate seven minutes which is a solid seven minutes did not

find it did not find it 10 flashlights I'm no and we like we. Seven minutes, which is a solid seven minutes. Did not find it. Did not find it. Tin flashlights? No. And we like were picking up. I was like, okay, maybe like went under the legs of the table. People were like picking up their tables. Also, wait, I don't know. At this like decently fancy New York restaurant.

They got stained glass. Yes. And like all these people. Hold on, hold on. These Australians. No, hold on. I'm trying to back up because I don't know if I mentioned this, I'm not married, never have been married.

No. But I don't imagine like the male wedding ring being that like expensive, or is it? Like, does it cost a lot of money? Mine was kind of expensive. Mine was $500. Oh, congrats, man. So I didn't mean to put you on the spot.

It's solid gold. And so it's like- Oh, I genuinely thought maybe- But I have insurance on it. I pay like $2 a year for insurance. Oh, that's a great deal. Crazy cheap crazy cheap right yeah um maybe because they don't think you're gonna lose your ring in a random surely italian restaurant yeah you're not gonna lose the john's pizzeria over there um so anyway uh we were just looking forever cannot find it

finally i'm like i'm sure it'll show up later i'll i'll keep looking throughout the night uh and people are kind of looking at me like, what? You're just going to stop looking? But I was like, I got it. I got to stop. We can't just do this forever. Like Catherine, I got to give her like huge props. I will say like she was very gracious, but she was also very upset.

You know what I mean? Like she was like definitely not mean to me at all about it. Like did not give me a hard time. But you think if she would have preferred you have the wedding ring, she would have chosen that? Yes. Okay. Or I think she was more just like embarrassed. Like that so many people were gathering around.

It's okay that you spun the ring and even that it fell. But I just don't like this attention they're getting because of it. And, you know, like as the Australians were leaving, they're like, now good luck, mate. You know, like hope you find it. And they had like a little girl. They had like their daughter with them. And she came up to us like, I hope you find your ring. You know, like it was just like, oh, thank you so much, little Elizabeth.

You know, like, and so anyway, like people would leave. And like I would go over to their tables after they leave, like with the bus boy. And we like lift up the tables and like, look around. Could not find it. This sounds like a prequel to the Lord of the Rings. Like we've got someone from New Zealand or Australia maybe. And you're looking for a ring. Like this is the perfect setup.

Peter Jackson's in the corner, just like scribbling notes as fast as he can. I love what I'm seeing. Yeah, more, do that again, do that again. Give me more. No, with the flashlight? Yeah. And there's like somehow, then we bring it.

Ah, nevermind, nevermind. That was gonna be mean. Hold on, that was gonna be mean. I'll tell you after the podcast i can't say that oh geez okay sorry you're gonna say something about the little people big world oh my gosh i was gonna make a smiegel reference how did you know because i was there with you man oh my gosh i don't even know lord of the rings i've never seen it you're kidding oh shoot yeah you know the director's yes uh oh my gosh we're at the same route little girl sorry roll offs so anyway the mates are you know we're still looking for this thing scrambling and i'm like surely it's gonna show up does not show up throughout the

entire night and it's like at this point we got to go to our show you know you can't just stay there forever because we got it's a timed show like point we gotta go to our show. You know, you can't just stay there forever. Cause we got to, it's a timed show. Like they're not going to wait for us. Um, we tried. And so I leave my phone number with the manager. I'm like, Hey, you know, we're going to go to the show right across street. We'll come back at the end of the night. If you end up finding the ring, give me a call. If you don't, I'm at custom tables.

Yeah. Either way, Ellis custom creations.com. If you need anything, call me. Yeah. And so literally like we leave and five minutes later, we're in line at like waiting to get into Phantom. And I get a text from her like, I think I found your ring. This is whatever from John's, you know, I was like, you're kidding. So I go back and she could not have been happier about it. Like she freaked out.

Like she gave me multiple hugs and said multiple cuss words about it. Like, I can't believe I freaking found it. You know, like, give me another hug. Pretty much. Wait, what was the cadence of these hugs? Like initially, big hug. I found your ring. And then like pass it over, hug again.

Yeah. When are you hugging? Like, yeah. So I go in and she's like, there you are. There you are ring ah hug hug and they're like thank you so much oh my gosh it's like my wife was not happy about it like thank you so much for this oh no problem i can't believe they found it another hug yeah she's like i just want to make sure this is the right one and i'm like yeah yeah it's the right one turns out i i bet it went a hundred feet away. I don't know what happened. It was a pretty good spin.

It took, yeah, it was. Not necessarily stationary good, but really went a long ways. I don't know. I don't know if Stuart Little got a hold of it and just kind of drove it over there or something. But it was so far away. Well, good for her for being willing to look past the radius. Yeah, she's like, it was on the other side of the stairs, four tables down. And I was like, what? way um well good for her for finding like being willing to look past the like the radius yeah she's like it was on the other side of the stairs four tables down and i was like what

this mouse had in its mouth i don't know it was crazy it was on this chinese man's finger but i just took it off and said sorry anyway so uh that happened and then we went and saw phantom and catherine yeah was so gracious throughout the whole thing but i felt a lot of weight lifted off my shoulders whenever we found it so so earlier when you said i made a big goof was that your big goof yeah that was the big goof yeah the big um big time goof so i still like you know i think just as a man you're not used to wearing a ring and so whenever you get married like whenever i first got married i messed with it so much i don't mess with it nearly as much anymore but like i still will every once in a while will take it off and start like to spin it and katherine will

kind of look at me like don't spin what are you doing yeah so um anyway that's that's uh that's my next story my next mlu mediocre life update i almost lost my wedding ring but i had insurance on it so life lesson get insurance and also leave your number if you're gonna leave a and get a wife yeah yeah yeah you got a good wife yeah you got a good wife you got a good wife for some reason stewart little reminded me that i had an animal experience earlier tonight oh yeah i didn't even have this written down as an update but whatever and this isn't even much of a story but a few nights ago on my instagram story i put this cat followed me home and then earlier tonight i'm getting in an uber and see this cat is at the end of my driveway so i'm like oh same cat cool but i'm also like

the cat is standing between me and the uber so i'm not planning on hanging out a lot with this cat but as i'm approaching it like it starts like hunching its back like cats do and i'm like is that a bad thing i think so it freaks me out yeah because cats freak me out yeah in general yeah yeah kyle uh brown had a quote on our um let me bottle them i still remember this quote he had in one of our videos he's like this uh this episode is sponsored by house cats if we were big enough to kill you we absolutely would i'm like that is such a perfect description of cats if they were big enough to kill us sorry yeah that was from the cat's perspective his okay okay cats if we were big enough to kill you yeah whatever gotcha gotcha yeah I'll talk to him about it maybe next time go from our

perspective say if they were big enough okay okay okay sorry it's okay so yeah cats already scary it's starting to hunch its back and I'm like oh no I thought we were friends like this uber driver's gonna see me like have to like scurry around this cat or whatever so then i'm like oh wait he's not looking at me sorry i just assumed the cat's gender there that's my bad uh i don't know what it's looking at his his meow his choice i look to my back right i'd say 4 30 o'clock okay there is a possum oh and they are having a stare down. I am now caught in the middle. If we go from right to left in this, let's say top down drone look, possum, Jake, cat, Uber driver.

Oh boy. So he's watching this all go down. I'm in the middle of a cat possum fight. What do I do? You play. I say, let's have a good clean fight. No scratching. Be home for dinner.

That's your Raider Rumble. no scratching be home for dinner i did something of the sort and then you play some jack jams yeah no basically i got pretty scared in that moment didn't want to be a part of it sure but i joined the cat side of the ring and i lunged at the possum that's a big lunge yeah i was gonna say define lunge i would say like i went from an athletic position feet shoulder width apart left foot stayed stationary yeah and i went half step with my right foot like went oh yeah right had my body moved and he scurried off into the bushes but then the cat followed him so i don't know what happened after that i'm not a witness or an apprentice or i can't say if she did this i don't know why i thought it needed to rhyme there uh but i just hopped in the uber sorry that wasn't even much of a story but no that's great it was kind of weird just

seeing i was like i saw nature happen yeah kind of also kind of got in the way of it uh we took a lot of ubers in New York. How do you feel about Uber? I like Ubers normally in New York. They're so not friendly. They're not mean, but they just don't talk to you at all. Like I, I love talking, you know, to my, to anybody that wants to talk to me and get in. How's your day going? Good, sir. Okay. How long have you been doing Uber? Three years. Okay.

So you ask all the Uber questions, that's probably why they don't like you. You're asking the same questions everyone else is asking. Okay, so I need to get more creative. Yeah, and not that I- I guess I try to break the Uber barrier first. Yeah, the oob.

Yeah, the oob barrier. But- Uber. Uber. barrier first yeah the oob yeah the the oob barrier um but uber uber um but anyway but then we got back to kansas city we had to take an uber back to our car which we parked at my cousin's house and that guy was super friendly yeah talked to him the entire time we're back in the midwest yeah it was it was so funny the difference but we also took the subway a decent amount the train as they call it there yeah if you want to be a new yorker don't call it the subway call the train yeah take the f train blah blah i don't know anyway um and i don't remember the time of day it was a very high traffic time um and it was the most i've ever been squished on an airplane on a subway ever and so we got on and i'm kind of always kind of chill

with that stuff because it's cool it looks cooler when you're chill and it looks like you're more like less touristy so i'm like oh yeah let's get on and then you kind of realize like no there's not much room at all and there's one other girl behind me trying to get on i would guess i didn't really get a good look at her but katherine was it katherine Catherine? No, it was not. Okay. Catherine. Oh yeah. She was in front of me. Catherine like acts like it's like life or death on subway. Like she'll like, like it'll be our stop and she'll get off. And then she'll look back and be like, I'm sorry.

I just had to get off. Sometimes you just have to get out of there before you die. Like, and I'm like, or, you know, something like that. Like it's a very extreme, like it's just life or death. You just got to get off and then you got to figure it out after. And I'm like, people like the, the doors aren't going to like, if the door starts shutting and you're in the way, they're not going to just kill you.

Yeah. They're not going to keep you halfway in and just start driving. Right. Um, but so, so this, this woman, apparently Catherine said she was pretty little girl.

Um, like short woman, um, attractive. No idea. Did not ask my wife like, Oh, was she hot?

Um, but, uh, all of a sudden like michael's calling the office is she hot is she hot what's her name burger king um uh but anyway the the door starts shutting and you kind of feel the door shutting because you feel her kind of like push towards me oh like and i just all, and I just, all I heard was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. And I'm like as pushed against this guy in front of me as I can be. Like, I like am like forcing myself, pushing, but like- Like front to back high school homecoming dancing?

Yeah, like I've never, I haven't been that close since Right There came out to another person on purpose. And so it was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. This little girl, you know, I'm like this big dude, like taking up a lot of space. And she is like fighting for her life, not to like either get forced out of the subway or assault you. Right. Right. Pretty much. And I think, you know, one or two stops later, a lot of people filed off and it was okay. But Catherine was like, oh my gosh, that was the funniest thing.

I didn't get the best vantage point of it, obviously, but she was, like just hearing her freak out about it was just so funny. So yeah, that's New York for you. Welcome to New York. New to New York. It's got Sbarro for you. There you go.

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To discover how, visit bhp.com slash better future. I'm going to pause the email use because I just thought something else that's happening in the world. Kanye's new album came out today. Yes. Have you partaken with your ears? Yes.

So I have listened to it all the way through once and I have a hot take. Oh. Are you ready for it? Hold on. Process, process. Okay. So as, so the non hot take is that as Christians, it's really, really cool that Kanye is coming out with like, Hey, like it seems like, like everything I've listened to in the music like in the lyrics

and everything sounds like he's pretty legit in his faith and it's like holy cow like this could be so cool it is so cool however hot take is that the music itself is so mediocre yeah it's so bad it's not so bad but it's like kanye is so good at music and this music is not like it's not the best christian rap i've ever heard in my life. And it should be. And so like, it definitely should be. So I was listening to it,

you know, and like, I was listening to it on Spotify. So right when that album got over more Kanye's that kept playing, this is a pretty stark difference. Harder, better, faster,

strong. And it was like, okay, here we go. You know, now I started like grooving to it. But like, there was like,

I'll have to listen to it again, but I don't think there was very much like even like baseline stuff in it. Like there was no beats or anything. There was like a, and I listened to, I shouldn't even say that much. Cause you know, I don't think it's totally fair to like comment on an artist album when I'm on this and like, well, yeah, let's, let's, let's disclaimer right now. Like we can totally change. We are allowed to change our opinions after like, we say this, you know, for eight hours,

I could easily change my mind on all this stuff. But that was my first initial reaction was like, this isn't very good. I mean, it's fine. And it's really cool for like the bigger picture, but musically, which is what I'm about,

you know, I like that lyrics fine, but the music of it is like, what he's so known for is he's like such a big producer. So one thing he does really well consistently. Right. Typically. He made Whoop-Dee-Dee Scoop sound really cool.

And his best song, my favorite song on there, I think it's like the second to last one, or maybe it's even the last one. The way it starts, I don't remember it very well, but it's like such a simple thing. And I'm like, and at first I was like, this is ridiculous. Like, it's just like, I don't know. It's's not like that but it's like something very very simple that eventually sounds really dope but like at first i'm like oh gosh what's he doing here but what are you doing yeah i only listened to a few songs but i looked at like the song titles and one of my only takeaways really right now is the titles of the song seem like where Christian rap was 15 years ago.

Like the titles of the songs are just like, God is with us. Yeah. Jesus is king, which is fine. You know, everything you need or whatever. I don't even remember the song titles, but it's like there's no artistry, really. There's no metaphors. There's no like symbolism. It's just like the titles.

But in the lyrics, I think there is. Yeah. It's just like I said said just like a very far out observation like it just seems like a cheesy christian rap album from 15 years ago right right and yeah i'm gonna listen like the first four songs but it's kj52 and kanye pretty much kj52 it's five tweezy kj5 tweezy that's what my friends just call me Remember that song? It was really bad KJ5 It's so nice to New York

New York Where subways cut you in half KJ New York So yeah, that's my hot take yeah i really um i don't even totally know why i brought it up i have i don't have much to say about it it's like a huge thing that has been talked about today and it just came out today so i haven't even like checked twitter or anything i've just i was just more like oh this is exciting he's coming out with christian music

his lyrics seem to be you know in line with what he's saying he believes but it's just like oh man christians were really counting on you to make some sure make some heat here yeah and it's like uh but it's fine i mean he's got his own style it's a lot of like like gospel vibes yeah which i love that just put put a beat behind it every once in a while be a hip-hop artist but then again i'm not much of a hip hop guy these days. And hip hop is kind of moving towards this very mediocre beat stuff, in my opinion. Yeah. Either way.

So quick little MLU is back to me. Some updates on previous things we talked about. The speaking deal where I need a letter of recommendation. Finally got that. Passed it along. She said, sorry, I moved on to someone else. else just crazy the event i'm supposed to speak out is in april and you couldn't wait from late september to early october or whatever it was you know it's like she couldn't wait in that two-week span she moved on that's pretty annoying but you know you

didn't need him yeah another door closes what does he say on the album? She doesn't, you don't deserve her. You don't deserve her. You don't deserve her, buddy. Kevin, right? Yeah. You don't deserve her. That's a great line. Bummer.

Sorry. It's okay. But yeah, it is kind of a bummer because it would have been pretty easy and would have made some money. Hey, but we're making money on the podcast someday. Ooh. Oh, there's another little quick hit or bullet point. MLU, we got our first sponsorship kind of.

Mr. James at Chick-fil-A, you want to go over this? This is pretty exciting. Oh my gosh. Yeah. If there was ever a time that I felt popular, it was this. This is yesterday. Yesterday, we were at Chick-fil-A, of course. Jake texted me, first of all,

hey, I'm going to be at Chick-fil-A for the next two and a half hours if you want to come stop by and i told that to katherine as i was telling the story and she goes you have the worst influences as friends she's like they're just so bad for your diet and i'm like whatever um so we go to chick-fil-a and we're there and as we're leaving it's been like a two-hour session Yeah. We're hanging out for a while. Just talking, uh, as we're, or as I'm leaving this,

uh, manager is like, Hey, before you leave, I want to talk to you guys. Um, I've noticed that you guys have been putting Chick-fil-A cups in your Instagram stories. I think is what he said,

or on your podcast or something like that, which has been totally like accidental. Like we're just, we just got done having Chick-fil-A. So, and I kind of jokingly was like hey i'll just put it you know make sure i put the logo out though you know like so i think maybe the last two times i put something on my story there's been chick-fil-a cups right didn't

even think much of it and so he um and so he he introduces it like that i'm like oh gosh he's gonna like say like please do not do that anymore like i do not we do not want to be associated with your ridiculous singing improv you know podcast um i did not think that at all i was so excited yeah i'm just maybe i'm more pessimistic than you but he was like uh but noticing that you put those you know those cups in there and we're just really appreciative that you're you know putting that chick-fil-a out so cool um so from now on uh anytime you come into Chick-fil-A, just tell them you know me and you'll never have to pay for Chick-fil-A here again. He didn't say that. What did he say?

We'll never have to pay again? You think we just got lifetime Chick-fil-A for free? 100%. No, that's not what he said at all. No. What did he say? James, if you're listening, I hope you gave us free Chick-fil-A forever. I would be so more excited.

What do you think? What's your expectation? Here's i heard him say maybe he didn't okay i was paraphrasing i'm sorry but i think i don't think it's a lifetime supply but i also don't think it's like a one-time thing okay so yeah we don't totally know what he meant but i think he said next time you come in here see if i'm here uh and if you know them come get me. Just put your wallets down. Next one's on me. He said next one? No way. No. I guess tune in next week to find out.

I think it's a deal that we have. I mean, either way, we've got the Chick-fil-A cups in the frame. Where's my girl Awa? After you left, she came in. When you talked to her. I didn't talk to her, but I saw her. That, I think, I don't know. I've been telling people this story and i've been telling them you've been telling people hey yes we got a lifetime no i don't use the word lifetime

but i use this i say yeah and that chick-fil-a anymore they say we don't have to pay anytime we go in there that's funny i gotta that's the truth i mean i hope i obviously really hope it is yeah i just i that's not how i took it so that's that's a truth. I mean, I hope, I obviously really hope it is. I just, that's not how I took it. So that's a way more exciting version. My, Brad, chewing that ice. I'm back here. Brad chooses during us recording our voices to chew ice. It keeps me concentrated.

It drives me crazy. Not like crazy, crazy, but just whatever. I got a Chick-fil-A gift card in the mail today. I think I mentioned this in the podcast. I Skyped in a classroom to talk about. Yeah, BMI-a? Boo. Yeah, Boo.

Oh, you were saying her initial. I thought you were like mispronouncing her name because it is a different name. J-triplet, yeah. B-O-U. Okay. I think Boo. Bow. Bow-u?

Bow? Bow? Bow? Oh, yeah. Home Improvement or The Simpsons. I think boo. Bow. Bow you? Buh. Buh. Oh, yeah. Home Improvement or The Simpsons. Bow. Bow. Buh. Buh.

Anyway, the kids sent me a... Free gift card. The kids sent me a letter with all their names and a $10 gift card. That's awesome. They're not going to be paying for a while. That's awesome. For one meal. Other... I had another quick little update about something i remember it's at but uh our podcast is a big update two

percent canadian our listeners hey hey big a to that let's go went from one percent to two percent this week i noticed how'd i been in highlight bling that's they'll they'll understand that oh because of being the only mean one thing ever since i left the city you you you you you smile i smile whoa oh it's magic are they canadian too you know quite the riff off though oh were Oh, you were just going for another song. I thought it was like you were wanting me to, I didn't know what song it was. Well, you said, you, you, you. So then I chose another Canadian artist. Justin Bieber.

You smile, I smile. Oh, and then what did you do after that? Then, well, that's part of the song. Oh, okay. And I was just like, I was sending it back for you to be Saskatchewanian as well. Arcade Fire. I can't think of a song. I don for you to be Saskatchewanian as well. Arcade Fire. I can't think of a song. I don't know either.

It's pretty much only those two. That's all I know. What song is that? It's an Arcade Fire song. It's really popular. It's this Canadian song. I don't know. I don't know.

It's like the national anthem probably. Probably. So yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Canada. Yeah, for real. For being here. It's probably because we got retweet So yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Canada. Yeah, for real. For being here. It's probably because we got retweeted by Justin Bieber that one time.

Oh. And they went back and they're like. Have we talked about that? So we're on the podcast? I don't know. I think we have. It sounds like maybe we did. I think we have.

Yeah. Bieber fan. Yeah. I remember us talking about how your label was Bieber fan. Big BF. Big BF. Brad Ellis. Bieber fan.

Yeah. But yeah. Cool. 2 Ellis. Bieber fan. Yeah. But yeah, cool. 2%. Saskatoonian. Like my milk and my Canadian listeners. 2%, baby. Can I talk about this office thing? Yes.

Okay. So we went to this office off-Broadway musical. Off-off. Which I learned off-B off Broadway is not necessarily specifically. It is. No, it's not a brand. It's a store. No, it's a warehouse.

Off Broadway is a warehouse. Thank you. Um, buy three, get six free. Um, off Broadway is not about the location as much as it is about the size of your production. So the size of your, like the audience size of your like the audience actually like where you do it at so um i think anything under 500 people in the audience is off broadway because technically this place that we were at was like on broadway streets or whatever so not necessarily the size of the production but the size of the theater another production like the location yeah the

venue um so it's just technically off Broadway. There's probably, I don't know, 200 people in the audience. And first of all, it was fun because, uh, like when you get there, all these songs are just playing that are just like kind of inside jokes from the office. Like we didn't start the fire. Um, you know, all these like random songs. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no yes no so that was the one i sent you uh no nope nope nope nope but but like and like in the uh video like that they do in the office like he's like going all through the office you know doing the lip dub and stanley just goes you're falling behind and so i put in quotation marks you're falling behind and i sent you that video

with that song in the background i don't think i could hear the song that was the disconnect for me okay okay well yeah obviously so anyway um the play itself was interesting yeah i don't regret going but i also don't think it's like you have to go to this but it's pretty fun there was like probably seven people in the cast and so people played like multiple different characters which at first i was like oh that's not very fun like this girl plays pam and she plays oh what did pam play i don't know but like or this girl plays karen and she plays uh jan or something no who was that girl she was karen and she was who's that girl it's karen and it's karen and somebody else

oh it's gonna bother me it's like a very popular office person like you can imagine her or you're just trying to think of office characters i'm just trying to think of the office character if she was okay let's think not angela angela was also played by no gosh oh kelly girl she played kelly okay yeah uh she she played Kelly and she played Karen. Uh, you know, but it was like, it basically like went through the whole story of the office with music, you know? So it was like, there was a song that was like, based off the theme song, like every day in Scranton, you know? Okay. And so it was kind of fun. Like, you know, there's lots of inside inside jokes lots of stuff that i felt was a little bit forced honestly like the inside jokes um but one of the funnier

things i thought was that karen filipelli yeah like they like just like leaned into the fact that she was italian so much like she did not talk like it wasn't like it was a parody you know and so it wasn't like the exact same thing and so yeah karen filipelli was like ridiculous and they do they do they did a song uh it was really funny with kelly and michael and they were both like singing a love song to ryan which was pretty funny you know like stuff like that so that's cool anyway it was it was a fun time uh brought me back to the office roots and everything, but was also kind of weird. That's something that's cool to like experience.

Like you might as well go to if you're in New York. Yeah. It was like a different, it was a different experience, like different, like it wasn't like the most touristy thing in the world, you know, to go there.

So anyway, it was fun. Michael Scott was played by a woman, which was kind of interesting. Progressive. And it was like, she tried too hard. That's a hard role to play as well.

Yeah, yeah. But Jim and Pam, really good. Jim was also Andy though, and he was really good at both of those guys. Oh, cool, good for him. And he was from Missouri. He was from like some small town, Missouri. I should look it up.

You've probably heard of it. Stratford? No, not Stratford. But he went to Missouri, like Northwest Missouri, I think, or something like that. Oh, go Bearcats. Yeah, so anyway, it was a good time though. heard of it no not stratford um but he went to missouri like northwest missouri i think or something like that oh go bearcats yeah so anyway um it was a good time though if you're in new york it was a pretty cheap as far as new york goes ticket and it's pretty fun so that's cool um yeah wish you could have been there with us to experience it but maybe someday did you give the office podcast to listen i have listened to the first episode did you what'd you

think um i know we listened to the trailer together and we weren't super psyched about it it wasn't as bad as the trailer it it was this does feel kind of forced though that's my beef with it is like or not forced but like they don't they feel like they're acting too much like rather than just talking to each other which i think they should um but they'll get some good feedback from people and yeah i think i think that's just gonna take time right um and so but they had some interesting facts i'm trying to remember where they are now of course but um like todd packer wasn't actually cast to david kechner until season two oh okay because they would just refer to him but they didn't know who it was going to be yet yeah so like the voice of todd packer in the first episode is some other guy.

Cool. Or, you know, like where they filmed the first season is not the same location that they film all the rest of the seasons. They talk about like the cameras, like they truly, like they're one of the only, or I don't know, maybe not one of the only, but like they truly film in an actual building rather than most people have like sets where they can like remove walls there is a fourth wall right like literally right yeah um so anyway it was it it was informative it was good but it was like sometimes it was like have i told you this you haven't let me tell you and it's like oh like i don't know just let it roll right right right and

maybe that's their personalities but i don't think it is i've never hung out with them so i don't know just let it roll right right right and maybe that's their personalities but i don't think it is i've never hung out with them so i don't really know what they're like in person but it's they there's cool stuff like cool little yeah that sounds interesting so i need to listen to the new one but i'll probably just have you keep listening to it just give me the good parts okay that sounds pretty fun uh just a couple i'm almost done with my mlus okay one thing that happened in los angeles that i don't have a ton to say but i want to hear what you have to say about it there was an apartment complex where we were kind of hanging out for some reasons up there and we found out that if you want to have a dog there in this apartment complex that's totally fine you can have a dog but they require you to dna test your dog they will take your dog's dna

and then if they ever catch any poop on the shared lawn they will test the dna of that poop and then find you you're kidding if it's your dog's poop poop did he scoop poop did he find the doopity scoop the dna i was like this is the most la thing i've heard. That's ridiculous that they're going to go to that much trouble. It seems expensive. Why not just use like, you think it's more of a scare tactic? Did you hear people say like, no, they tested this and they got back to me? I'm not sure. Because to me, like, it seems way easier to just have like a security camera.

If they're going to really try to go to any kind of trouble to find somebody, just look at the security camera and be like, hey, that's you and your dog taking a dump right there you and your dog both took a dump right there please that's not cool man like it's cool we took dna of both of you it came back you are not the dog's father but it was definitely your poop uh it's cool if if you poop there we just got to have you clean it up yeah please hey yeah you only cleaned up the dog's poop and that's just not cool. Anyway. So I thought that was strange. I don't know that much about LA.

This is Huntington Beach. I don't know that much about the HBCB, Huntington Beach Crap Brothers. Cheddar Biscuit. But they do roam there every once in a while. Something kind of LA-esque. Very similar to that. In New York one time, multiple times I went and got ice lattes. Big, big ice drink fan, of course, as you know.

Got an ice latte at this coffee shop. Went to go get a straw and they had straws, but there was a huge sign on them that says like just massive font. You do not need a straw. Oh, wow. Just shaming you. Yes. Straw shaming. Straw shame. Straw shame redemption. Straw shame redemption. And I never saw a straw again after that. Was that good, Morgan Freeman?

Yeah, it was. Brad Dufresne got himself an iced vanilla latte. And he never saw a straw again. Anyway, so got myself a straw but yeah just felt very like was looking around the whole time like around my court is this okay i maybe i don't need a straw you know but i do i love my straws are awesome um yeah so anyway multiple times had like experiences like that like uh like i have to like go out of my way to get this straw i love a place the idea of a place just slowly shaming you more and more as you walk in like the sign on the door says like you don't need a straw to drink and then you walk

in a little further like if you use a straw you suck like a little play on words i thought you were gonna say i thought you were gonna say like like slowly shaming you more and more like at first they shame you for the straw and they're like oh you oh, you're going to use a cup to drink that coffee. Like most people just lap it into their hands and then throw it. You're going to get a drink. You get thirsty. This is New York City. Yeah.

Oh, you're going to use plastic to pay. Oh gosh. Hope that's recycled. Use it once. Recycling. You need a plate? A napkin? How privileged are you?

Do you know how many trees had to die for this napkin? Yeah. No, it was not like that. But I did feel shamed. I'm sorry, dude. Yeah, it's okay. That's pretty much New York. I don't have too much more to say about it.

We had a good time that's watched patrick mahomes hurt his knee in our airbnb oh yeah that was rough that's crazy that was that long ago yeah geez but he's gonna be all right yeah we're still gonna win best case scenario on his mri it's amazing yeah uh i have just a few more things left on my list. Oh, great. Gunnar and I have signed up for a doubles pickleball league. Oh. I'm so excited. Double ball.

Double pickles on the court. Yes. Monday nights. I can't make it the first two weeks. That's a little bit of a bummer. That is 40% of our season. Whoops. But Brad, I'd like to offer you, would you like to put anything on the table, kind of uh prize for me granted here's the things i know okay nothing i don't know if

we're gonna be playing against people who are really into pickleball or our first timers they didn't have like different levels of like just a pickleball league okay but what would you like to give me i just i kind of need something to play for a little bit and i'd like to keep the podcast listeners engaged with this prize um i'll give you i'll give you a box of straws you're kidding yeah i'll give you i'll give you this box of straws and say you don't need a straw but you deserve a straw for this okay uh and you can take a straw poll every week a straw poll on how i'm doing uh-huh for the box of straws okay is that good enough or do you need plenty and you know what hey i'll give you a box of straws and i'll give you um whatever you want one time of to use with that straw or use that straw for like a drink aka

whatever you want it's your straw i don't know i don't care they're your oats it's your straw so you want a milkshake? Great. You want hot tomato soup? Great, man. I'll go get it for you. You know, I'll get you anything you want that you can use that straw with. Any size. Okay. Got it. Got it. Okay. So pickleball for the straw. Yeah. Pickle straw. Pickleball. Whatever. That's an exciting exciting update i might get to go to las vegas to make a video for paula abdul's concert what yeah you love paula duel i kind of do i mean i love one song of hers oh but you love american idol yep wow the season i was on was the first season without her so it would have been cool to really reconnect like you saw me in a crew costume it's me the grapes now hey apple okay okay sorry

hey we don't we don't go over there yeah but that's pretty exciting i mean who knows the connection there girl who follows me on instagram is paula's assistant what yeah you have so many friends that are assistants to stars yeah rachel platten's friend oh yeah she just put the music video on her story last night and was like rachel platten are you seeing this so i'm like i hope she says something cool i don't know i i don't know if she said anything yet though that's awesome and then other quick thing i got a text from fedex a couple days ago that said your package is on the way oh didn't order anything that's. That's awesome. Yeah, so I'm pretty excited. It's coming Monday.

So today, by the time you're listening to this, I've received a package. And I don't know. Wow. Have you ever had anything like that happen? Should I be alarmed? I don't know if I've ever been notified. I've obviously been sent things that I didn't know about. That's what I'm trying to figure out.

It's like, how do they get my information? Like, it's not just my address. Like, somehow my name is connected. Well, you know, if you send something, buy buy something for somebody and then you put their name on it you know yeah so it's like it's definitely being sent to me like it's not a mistake like something's being sent to jake triplet so stay tuned on whatever that is want to guess box of straws i hope not because then i'll ruin my incentive to play pickleball well true i really hope not pickleball racket i have three

that was in my car right now so hopefully not once again i i really doubt it's pickleball related but i love the angle you're taking that's exciting man so yeah there was just a few a few quick ones okay a quick one oh quick one for me yeah um katherine bought cheese at costco if you know anything about costco they sell in bulk. If you know anything about me, I do not know how to open things very well. Oh, I thought you were going to say, I love bulk. Love bulk. I don't work too much for

tones, more bulk. No, but they come in bulk. Okay. So probably 40 pieces of cheese. And I was tasked the other day with opening that. And so often with those resealable things i do not open them very well as we've talked about before i opened it okay okay it's now resealable and it's okay there's a mediocre life update your turn okay cool we're

going rapid fire okay rapid fire uh took a couple flights this week i was noticing something guys who hop up the escalator that's moving where are you going who are you well and what are you doing with all that time you're saving yeah what why do that get out of here can i talk about you you say you flew um whenever you scan your ticket why do people like hustle so much to get to the tarmac? Oh, wait, what's even worse is plane has landed. Plane has landed. Everyone stands up. What are you doing?

Is this your first time on a plane? It's going to be. You got a good five minutes. At least five minutes before the first row gets off. We're Southwest, baby. I forgot to check in. I'm C33. I'm in the back row.

You're done. Why are you standing? You're good. Unless you have arthritis in both knees, keep sitting down. The worst part though, is when you're in the aisle and the middle person's like, Hey, Hey, like, uh, I, I, why do I have to stand up? I haven't even unbuckled my seatbelt yet. It doesn't matter. Like, yeah. Cause it's like, I don't want to be like, act like I'm the expert. Like, yo, it's going to be 10 minutes before I even need to think about standing up. So you can maybe chill. And also that seems like it's hurting your neck because you're standing up, but it's not right.

Right. They're, they're like, yeah, they're sitting back down there. Yeah. They're like 45 degrees on the, yeah, that is funny. I don't often sit in the aisle, but that sounds like a nightmare of a position to be in. No, but the tarmac thing too, like that is a pro tip. People are hustling. I don't think I've noticed that because it gets so backed up. You don't go anywhere. That's my point is that people scan and then they like walk so briskly. And then they realize they turn this corner into the tarmac and they have to stand there for like another five minutes. I'm like, just scan and then walk really cool. Like you're like walking into a sports game and you're like, don't, don't drop your ticket.

Don't drop your ticket. Don't drop your ticket. I don't know if I've vented about this on Instagram or the podcast, but I think the way we are boarding people is also dumb. And I'll say it. Irks me. You're talking about boarding the front first? Yes. Why? Why do you do that?

I know. I agree. There's multiple ways you could be doing this better. I'll name a few. Board in the middle. Oh. Change where we're putting the name a few. Board in the middle. Oh. Change where we're putting the doors. Oh, board in the middle.

Like in the middle of the plane. Well, sometimes if you have first class, they do technically kind of board in the middle. They probably do on like big planes like that. Okay. We could also buy seating back door, front door. Sure. Here's something. It's going to blow your brain, so hold on to it.

Board. i couldn't do this on southwest but board window middle aisle doesn't that seem freaking genius why is that yeah window middle aisle holy cow do it we just fixed the efficiency think about how many more flights southwest could take how many more people can fly how much cheaper those flights can be at least how much more money everyone's going to be making and spending. America has been fixed. Oh, my gosh. We did it.

Window middle aisle. Oh, that feels good. We're going to have like a license plate that says that when we're rich someday. Window middle aisle. Oh, man. It feels good to know we're directly affecting the GDPdp yes things are gonna skyrocket after this yeah the dow's just been going crazy lately have you noticed that it's because of those ghost runners over there in kansas i guarantee you that's gonna be happening sometimes i guarantee it brad you had a good idea yesterday when we

were talking about podcast things you're like ghost runners we should have had a halloween 5k for ghost runners. And then I said, and then we don't even run it. We're just at the finish line, just cheering people on. Or we say we ran it, but people are like, I didn't see you, and we're like, well, that's weird. Well, that's why they call us the ghost. We're pretty ghost runners.

Yeah, so maybe next Halloween. The ghost runners 5K. The ghost runners 5K. First annual 5K. Yeah. We could even, yeah. I think we could take that further with the name. The Ghost Runners.

It's like, you don't have to run, but like to get a t-shirt or in a picture by a finish line, you have to spend money or something. Right. And it's like, it's a ghost. It's just a play on words. It's like you ghost ran a 5K. Yeah. Yeah. And then that could be a thing, a definition, Urban Dictionary.

Yeah. A UD. Urban Dictionary picks a thing. A definition. Urban dictionary. Yeah. A UD. Urban dictionary picks up on. Then YouTube. The next thing you know, we finally get to Southwest and they hear our idea. Yes, baby. They listen back to episode 25. Yes.

I think you're onto something here with this window metal aisle. We're flowing, baby. It's 144 in the morning and we have found our groove. At what point do we turn off the microphones? Because these ideas are too good to be putting out in the public. Oh, gosh. Somebody has already stolen, ran with it. Literally.

They're running somewhere. Probably off a freaking escalator. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, frick. Those guys are so efficient. Yeah. I hate.

Oh dude. Trey and I saw this. This was just, it's gonna be hard to describe, but it's on the same token of like guy who runs up the escalator. It's just like, are you saving that much time? Are you in that much of a hurry when like we're not even close to any gates guy with a skateboard in the terminal you ever seen that no like using it using a skateboard this guy gets up an escalator we just got out of security so like tons of people around drops in right there people are all over and this guy doesn't look like he skates often seriously like train i immediately

like look over like oh geez like he hasn't done anything yet and we're already like alarmed because he doesn't look that good he's gonna fall and he gets so close and like i'm glad he didn't hit him but it would have made for a better story get so close to like heel tapping this old man like has to like like step down on the front of his wheels and like like screech over like how you do like i don't know on skateboards or whatever to avoid hitting this guy this like old man step down on the front of his wheels and like, like screech over, like how you do like, I don't know, on skateboards or whatever to avoid hitting this guy. And it's like,

old man like looks behind him. I'm like, what? But he was just like weaving it out of people and just skates into the bathroom. I think because he was embarrassed. But just get, and we were like, what was that? And like,

why, why do that? No, that guy's no, he's no Bucky Lasek. Who? Oh, the best.

Don't tell me. Guy who invented Lassick eye surgery. Lassick eye surgery. Yeah, is the real way you say it. Bucky Lassick, he was like my favorite player on Tony Hawk. Oh, he's Tony Hawk. You would. I would.

Do you play with the Patriots too on Madden? No, not for football. Not for football. For Call of Duty, I play with the Patriots. USA, baby. Just kill the Nazis any way you can. We're on the German team. Oh, man.

That's too good. We are feeling it. Yeah, it looks like you had some lattes. I didn't. This is great. Oh, man. Do we want to get into Blanks of the Week? I think it's time to get into it.

I think it's time. get into it it's time uh catchphrase question mark yes i have a good thought i keep getting higher i can't go any higher um in new york there's a lot of foreigners welcome to catchphrase catchphrase phrase in new york i don't really know the... The melody is off. I'm thinking of it more of being like... You've got to be going rogue every time. All about that bass kind of thing. Welcome to catchphrase, to catchphrase. No, New York.

I don't know. Sick song, dude. What's your catchphrase? In New York, there's so many people speaking other languages. And so I think it's a really fun inside joke or maybe not even inside joke, but just after someone walks past, you kind of look disgusted at your friend and go, what did he just call you?

It's like, like Catherine probably laughed at it five times. Like, what did he just call us? You know, cause somebody speaking like Romanian, you have no idea what they're saying. This Polish person walking by like,

and he's like, what did he just call us? It's a pretty good joke. Use it sometime. That is funny. Just like probably like an hour and a half ago, I sent a text and I've kind of been doing this lately where I act like I don't know what words mean or something like that.

It was kind of the same thing. Like I sent a picture. Okay, so a guy was texting me and it was like, kind of's kind of the same thing. Like I sent a picture. Okay. So a guy was texting me and it was like, kind of like fake threatening me about something. But then I sent him a picture back in my karate outfit that I also sent you today. And I was like, I'm a sensei now.

I wouldn't mess with me. And he's like, you just let me know if you ever want to spar. And I was like, I don't know what that word means, but I'm pretty sure I'm saving it for marriage. And I was like, that's a good like one-liner. Like I got to use that for something. Like, I don't know what that means, but I'm pretty sure I'm saving it for marriage and i was like that's a good like one-liner like i gotta use that for something like i don't know what that means i'm pretty sure i'm saving it for marriage but i love that that kind of reminds me your other joke of uh after you fart saying what's her name what was her name what was her name what was her name

yeah i love that that's not my original joke that's one of my friends and i don't even know where it came from but it's still funny it's just a funny thing to be like oh hey what was her name well excuse me i love that the uh foreign language what did he just call you hey do you want me to go talk to him or sometimes like it's kind of a funny joke like obviously they're way out of earshot you go you kind of look at them and you talk to them directly what did you say to me like what's up dude anyway yeah that's my catchphrase of the week yeah my catchphrase is stolen from our friend grant huderberg gave us a great fast food tip last week yeah i spent some time with him about a month ago in oklahoma and he said something on the phone one night when we were making plans and i was like

that that's a phrase right there i never heard anyone say these words together before i'm like i gotta start using this so it's like 11 o'clock at night where it's like all right it's it's point it's time to what's the breaking point what am I trying to say basically it's like some people are going to bed and there's a few of us who are ready to party so it's like where your decision time is the best word yeah yeah it's called decision time that's that's the name for 11 o'clock p.m there's something I I'm looking for. Obviously, I'm finding it. The tipping point? Sure. I don't know. Whatever. Equilibrium?

I think that's it. Outliers? Are we just speaking about Malcolm Gladwell titles now? Yeah, just any math phrase. Ray, point, segment, anything. And he said, look, it's me, Jake, Jace in the car right now. We're looking to get our shirts wet. What are you guys doing?

And so my catchphrase of the week is let's get our shirts wet. Let's get our shirts wet, baby. I think in the context he was using it was like, we kind of want to go dance somewhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like let's get sweaty enough where our shirts are wet by dancing. Love it. So did you guys at camp at Kanaka say shirt dry ain't hype? What did you just say?

No. Okay. That was like a common phrase that we saiduk say shirt dry ain't hype? What did you just say? No. Okay. That was like a common phrase that we said. Shirt dry ain't hype. Oh, so shirt dry comma ain't hype. I guess. Not necessarily a comma. Okay.

Shirt dry ain't hype. It's just a lot of nouns. If you have a dry shirt, it's not hype. Okay. No, I'm with you. I'm with you. There's only one noun in that whole thing. There is three.

Dang, it dries an adjective. Dang it. And so is hype. Hype's a noun. Define it. No. Man, I wish I could take that back. Is ain't a noun now?

No, ain't's not. One for four. It just seemed like a lot of words that weren't a sentence. Shirt's dry, ain't hype. Well, still, it's like Kevin and I. Why say more words when let's start a new trick? That's more what I felt like's more when i say car no go one day i president they see one day when i put they see they see they see okay so those are

catchphrases of the i like that i like getting her shirts wet because yeah yeah it's just funny let's get her shirts wet baby yeah that's great brad you got some poultry this week golly do i not really i mean it's mediocre poultry i don't want to is this the thing you told me about earlier i don't i don't want to necessarily like go on here and get too professional with my ls custom creations custom made furniture business handmade and talk about yeah yeah um a story with every piece unique um and a story with every pod a story with every piece story with every pod. A story with every, a peace story with every pod. But I don't want to go on here every week and just talk about my clients. Guys,

just know Brad's sensitive. All right. Brad's a little nervous about this one. Yeah. I just don't, I don't want people to be like, well, if I buy something from him,

he's going to talk about it. I could end up on the podcast. Yeah, for sure. That's right. I did the same thing with girls. I try to not talk about girls on here. Cause I'm like,

I don't want them to get nervous. Right. You know, they're like, well, if I say something dumb, he's going to like bring it up. Oh, I have a funny story. I'm them to get nervous right you know they're like well if i say something dumb he's gonna like bring it up oh i have a funny story i'm gonna tell it later but katherine was like oh great you're gonna say that on your podcast

later aren't you and now you're like yep i've heard yeah we did that today we borrowed a dog from taylor lamb and she's like what's the video for and we're like oh we're doing like a dog mom's video she's like you're not gonna make fun of me are you like no no we already got the video written but then while we were there she did like five different things she's like wait you gotta see the tricks he could do do this okay shake okay he's not doing it he's not doing it he's not doing it that's the classic yeah and then it was like oh and he does this thing when you ask him questions he'll tilt his head and so definitely put that in the video like he's not doing it and now i'm putting on the podcast sorry tay, Taylor. On blast, baby. I know Connor listens to the pod, so just maybe don't tell your wife.

Okay. Anyway, what's your poultry? Okay. So I made this table and dining set, all this, like a great order for these people. Dining set with a little bench thing, little coat rack, like all these things. So they were great customers, great clients, ordered a lot. They come and pick it up yesterday. The husband comes and picks it up alone that's why you left me a chick-fil-a by myself you had to go yeah yeah i was like hey and i was really excited because

they were supposed to come friday night tonight but instead they were like hey we actually pick it up on thursday awesome get it out of my shop i don't have a huge shop comes and picks it up get out of my podcast studio get out of there yeah i got it the ghost runners are recording your session tomorrow um and so he comes and. I got it. Don't you know the Ghostrunners are recording here soon? I have a session tomorrow night. And so he comes and picks it up, says everything looks great. You know, it was sweet. It was a good, I think it's a good looking table made out of hickory, you know, hardwood. Hickory dickory dock.

Stuart Little ran up the clock. Right. With a wedding ring. The clock struck three and the wedding ring fell down and hickory dickory dock. It was worth $500. Yeah. So he picks it up, get a call today from his wife and his wife said, hey, I'm just not exactly satisfied with quite everything. And this can sometimes mean a number of things.

Maybe the measurements were off or it wasn't as level as you thought it was right you usually like that stuff happened to me a lot back in the day it doesn't really happen anymore not trying to brag but like i feel like i do better now like i know i know how to look at all the little details and know what everything is going to be so yeah definitely not with measurements or anything but like anyway just different expectations and stuff but they had come and like seen specifically like what the end product would look like and everything. What they're getting. Before they order.

And she goes, you know, the table looks great and everything. But the top is just a little like, it's like too, I don't know if she said too much or like, it's really wood, woody. Savage move. I'm like, I just like, it's really wood, woody. Savage move. I'm like, I just, I was talking to her on the phone. I, at first I didn't really know how to respond. I'm sure they didn't hear you, right? Like, it's just, it just, it's just really hard wood. I'm like, oh.

Wait, hold on a second now, man. Are you telling me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This wooden table is. Hey, barista, I really appreciate this frappuccino but just really tastes like coffee to me like play it was just it was just kind of like to the point like I think what she was trying to say was that she wanted a really really like glossy like kind of plasticky like she I think she may have even used that word

like plasticky finish on top I want a cheap table yeah pretty much spend four times the amount for it i want to yeah i want to look like something that's you know factory made like do you have any non-alcoholic whiskey i love the taste of whiskey don't like alcohol it's like it's like that's why you that's why you bought the nicer wood table like this is like hickory yeah it's like you buy the nano puff jacket that's like light, but then you throw a parka on over it, even though you don't need it. What's the point? I just had never had anything like that happen to me. First person to complain about the woodness.

Yeah. Like, yeah, this wood is hard. I just don't. Like, don't even know what to say. Like, you're right. Yeah. And so. Like Zoolander, like, like what is this a center for ants

he's like he's absolutely right i just didn't know three times woodier than this i yeah so i was like of course i want to make sure it's good so they had to like drive all the way back up here with all this stuff like in a trailer you know drop it back off i'm working on it tonight they're gonna come pick it up again tomorrow and so i'm just like caking it with this finish like as much as i can which it really doesn't even look that like plasticky still so i'm a little bit worried but i gotta say the chairs that we're sitting on they're pretty plasticky right yeah like they're very shiny yeah that was the other thing she's like it's not shiny at all and yesterday isa Isaac was helping me with something.

And Isaac's like, wow, this is like shinier than my finish. It was even glossier than normal. Yeah. And she's like, I can't even see myself in the reflection of this chair. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. It's fine.

If you buy a table from Brad, he's not going to put you on blast on the podcast. No, because. Unless you complain about the amount of wood. 99% of the time this does not happen um it's just so funny that they had this like like if it's like a complaint about like yeah we got it in apparently it actually is a little bit wobbly like oh okay like i need to fix that for you yeah that doesn't make sense but we can fix that but it's like yeah the tabletop's made of wood oh yeah yeah. Yeah. I got to give it to you. You nailed that one.

Yeah. What else? How many legs we got? You want a quiz? How many legs are on the table without looking, without looking? Tell me. Oh boy. It was four. It was four. So that was that, that's poultry. That's good poultry. Um, so I've been working on that tonight, Friday night. So, yep. I have a poultry that's also going to lead us right into our third, uh, blank of the week entertainment of the week. Perfect. Which we talked about as well. So my poultry real short and sweet.

I went to go to a concert last week with my friend Johnny. Uh, we made plans. We were going to go see Mason Ramsey in concert. I was like, I don't have plans tonight. Uh, tickets are only $15, which is a little worrisome. It's so cheap that maybe it's not a good show. Well, he probably only plays for like 45 minutes.

Yeah, he only has five songs. Yes, the show's at eight. All right, y'all. Thanks for coming out. Drake and Josh reruns in 45. We gotta get out of here. Something like that. You ain't got no giddy up than giddy out my way. That's a good line.

That is a great line actually. Someone definitely wrote for him but still. You don't think so? You don't think he wrote that himself in homeroom? 100% sure.

That's what one of my friends was like. She's like, I can't go to the concert but like more than anything just tell me what he says in between the songs. She's like,

I don't even care about like the music. She's like, I'm so curious what he says between the songs. I bet he has some pretty good stage presence i bet by now i think he's just straight up been touring for like a year basically uh but yeah i was joking yeah he's just like hey y'all so this next song um i'll never forget when it was emailed over to me you know i was like wow this is gonna be about it was a long time ago but on the way there like earlier that day i checked

i'm like great we don't need to even get there no one's even selling them on stubhub because there's no secondary market for this like no one cares but there's like still tickets available on whatever the main like the granada site you can still get tickets and then even on the way there i'm like should we buy these now and john Johnny checks and he's like, well, tickets are still available. And he's like, the app's kind of weird or whatever. I was like, well, let's get there. Go by Lawrence.

No ticks. So drove there for no reason. That's a bummer. So I guess my poultry is with myself this week for not buying tickets ahead of time. I don't know, why would I not just do that? I knew I was going. Because of the convenience fee? That kills me. I hate the know. Why would I not just do that? I knew I was going. Because of the convenience fee?

That kills me. I hate the... It does suck. Yeah. It's kind of a lot these days sometimes. Yeah. Like $20 for a convenience fee. I mean, not for that ticket. In this economy, when we're still boarding from the front, I can't afford this.

Let's fix this. Let's fix this too. We'll get it. Let's fix this too. That's a good campaign slogan. So my poultry is with myself not getting to see little walmart boy uh oh this i've just remembered something else so not quite into the next blanket i got pulled over on the way home that night uh for going too slow for for being so sad

so you're going 45 to 60 um and you're blasting country music that you didn't get to hear tonight no he was like, it was pretty late night. My tag light's still out, which I, you know, very hard thing to remember to do because you can't see it. Super nice cop.

And he was like, you coming from Lawrence? I was like, yes, back to Kansas City. He's going back home. He's like, what are you in Lawrence for? I was like, I was like, do you remember the Walmart Yodel Boy?

Remember he's like eight years old? And he was like, no. I was like, oh, geez. Well, there's this guy. You're like, I don't even know why I'm telling you this, but he like went viral on the internet. You could have easily just said a concert. I know. Instead, you continue to say that.

Yeah, I'm pretty obsessed with this little kid. I don't know. He's just like, I don't know. Just a talkative guy. I would rather just have a longer interaction than a shorter one with people almost every time. Well, I think with cops, you like sell like a shorter one with people almost every time. Well, I think with cops, you like sell like how much of a normal person you are. Oh, I'm normal.

You want to see normal? Oh, sure. I'm normal. I'm very normal. Please stop saying that you're normal. So, yeah, he had no idea what I was doing, but nice guy. So, didn't get to see Mason Ramsey last week, but new blank of the week. And there's a jingle for it?

Question mark? Entertainment of the week. Entertainment of the week and there's a jingle for it question mark entertainment of the week entertainment of the week yeah this thought i would pitch it that's great i wanted to say something entertainment of the week goes to a concert that i just saw tonight a few hours ago ajr i think I've definitely mentioned them on the podcast before. AJR. AJR. I would say, and I've been trying to get better about using the blanket superlative statements, but I think I mean this, most creative concert I've ever been to.

Really? And just like, yeah, the different stuff they were doing. Have you ever seen Bo Burnham's shows on Netflix or anything like that? He'll do really, cerebral stuff from the perspective of each side of the brain, like left brain versus right brain. And he'll switch really intellectual stuff, literally, I guess, with the brain. But they were doing stuff like that where the LCD screen behind them was a part of the show

and they would interact with it. He would touch on the screen and things would happen. It's all just an act. He knows what it's going to be. It's not like it's actually affecting the screen it's not a touch screen uh there was an escalator in front of the screen so like streets would be moving behind him and he's walking it looks like you know he's actually walking he held up an umbrella and like water is bouncing off the anyway very awesome show and i'm ready to be a musician now i don't go to concerts that often

that's that's what they make you do though and my personality as we've talked about is so much of just like well i can do that yeah so now the whole time i'm i went to this concert by myself which is kind of fun i never done that before but it was just just me and the music baby you can take me out of the music but can't take the music out it was pretty good concert so i really enjoyed it it's my entertainment of the week what kind of music are you gonna to like, are you going to sing? Are you going to learn an instrument? That's the thing. The route to get there is a little hazy. I don't know, but I am like determined. Like I'll just decide, like I will perform in front of people like musically.

Really? Yeah, I know I will. It's like kind of the one, not the one aspect, but it's like one of the things I've never ventured into, but I think I am capable of doing it. Love it. Have to be some sort of, you know, rap, hip hop thing or some sort of auto-tuned microphone. But I think it's possible. I think the Ghost Runners, I've definitely got something on the way. We're the next Fly to the Concords, pretty much. I never really got into them.

I didn't either. Okay. But I know that they did music and they were funny. Okay, cool. There were got into them. I didn't either. Okay. But I know that they did music and they were funny. Okay, cool. There were two of them. One of my podcasts I listen to, they signed with a music label this week, actually. I just not thought of that. Really?

Because they would just make these funny songs and one of them can really rap. The other one, he does his best. But they signed with a music label. They're a big deal. Sounds like you and me. I do my best. No, you can sing really well. I can sing, but I can't rap.

I'll do the rapping. Okay. And I will pick out the presents. Yeah, I was going to go that route too. I can sing, but I can't rap. I'll do the rapping. Okay. And I will pick out the presents. Yeah, I was going to go that route too. I was like, it's not even Christmas time. Okay. So Brad, what is your entertainment of the week? I guess mine's a little bit of a switch on entertainment.

It's not live entertainment. It is. You're still entertained. Yes. So entertained, man. NFL prime time. We've watched it all before. It's the Chris Berman, Tom Jackson.

It's so good. It's only on ESPN Plus, which is like the paid extra ESPN thing. And it comes on, I think it technically comes out Sunday night, but I watched it on Mondays. And it is the best thing. like i i think that if

you're a sports fan you would love this and like the the reason i think we love it so much is because it is literally just 45 minutes of highlights like deep highlights the good old days and it's just like yeah just like the good old days like nowadays on sports center you turn on sports center and it's just people talking And maybe there's some highlights in the background. Like, you know, they'll show like B-roll kind of highlight stuff, but it's not like specific highlights of last night's games or anything. It's all like storyline stuff and specific people. They barely analyze anything. They just show the highlight and then they go to the next highlight.

Wow, look at that. That's a good game. They'll show the standings every once in a while. You know, stuff like that. It's like, this is so refreshing to watch a whole 45 minutes of highlights. Like, you know what happened in every single game. And it's just like old sports center. Like back in the day, if your team played, it was on sports center. It might've only been on there for 25 seconds, but you know, like if the Royals won or lost every single day, if you watch

sports center and now it's just talking heads and it just bothers me. So NFL prime time, it's won or lost every single day if you watch SportsCenter. And now it's just talking heads, and it just bothers me. So NFL primetime, it's so glorious. If you're a sports fan, if you're an NFL fan, watch it. That's my entertainment of the week. Entertainment of the week! Yeah! I think, I don't know if I just made this up and wrote this down, but did we talk about doing a win of the week?

W-I-N? Did we say that? Oh, yeah. Like a success of the week. Success of the week. That was, yes, we did. Okay. That was my opening the cheese well.

Well, maybe it's good that we didn't build up to it. What are you talking about? It's huge. That cheese, like, I got gotta use that cheese for the next like two weeks so you needed to open it well or else it's ruined right so much cheese i'll just do a quick success of the week then on my own uh let's see if it's better better than mine or not who knows who's to say who's to say who knows how words are formed no way of knowing a man could have slipped in so last week uh we talked about

we were just rolling dude it's 2 a.m last week we talked about uh that i needed a deal negotiated santo mac offered his services i was able to close the deal without santo mac yes oh without probably didn't get as much as you needed then probably not i didn't have his help but and i actually don't know why i need to be secret about it i'm just like i've never done this but it's with old spice oh yeah oh yeah how's how's the yeah oh i'm laughing i can't do it when you can't whistle while you smile focus focus focus that's deep you can't whistle and smile at the same time oh t-shirt idea that wasn't my best but it was okay it's two o'clock in the morning it's two o'clock in the morning and conversation got boring oh yeah

i don't know this one uh little wayne i think yep pass little wayne little wayne so yeah that's exciting uh so when you see that come across my Instagram. Know that it's paid and not real. You don't really care about it. I'm just kidding. Okay, okay. I'm teasing, I'm teasing, Old Spice. Old Spice, if you're listening.

Sponsor me too. Ellis Custom Creations, Old Spice. So when you see that come across Instagram, please comment on it so I can tell future brands, hey, I have a good engagement when I do brand deals that people love me absolutely that's awesome I'm gonna comment so many times I can't wait I finally put up for those of you who are Facebook friends with me it's taking me five months to put something

on Facebook which I know most people don't post on Facebook but I try to keep mine pretty up-to-date like people enjoy my life updates uh-huh you know I typically have a lot going on. It's fun to update people. I haven't posted about the podcast at all. I finally posted about it with, you know, all this written up description of Brad and how funny he is and our podcasts, all these video clips.

And then Brad just comments, lscustomcreations.com. That's it. That's the only comment. It was great. It got a ton of likes though, which I feel like people like you only like that if you listen to the podcast i think people are in on it always plugging baby

and they get it yeah which is so funny so those are our oh no we got it we can't move on quite from blanks of the week reviews of the week oh my god hot mama we got so many thank you it's so awesome whoa this chair is a little sticky sticky well i don't know if sticky maybe i don't know i'm scared i'm scared to move like not sticky i think it just could be my jeans don't worry don't worry it's fine you yo oh see no i sat up and it was fine okay no stick oh boy it's fine it i just the chair is wooden though is that okay okay for you? Is that going to be a problem? Reviews of the week. Reviews of the week. Guys, this is crazy how many reviews we're getting.

And it's so awesome. Brad and I read every one. We usually text each other about it because it's so exciting. As Brad's mentioned, he doesn't get a lot of feedback digitally. So this is awesome. It's so awesome. I do. And it's still my favorite.

I mention that every time. So keep them coming. They're so fun. Like some people take different routes with it and are like really encouraging brad really appreciate appreciated one this week from lisa that had good grammar oh my gosh it was a perfect no not good grammar perfect grammar from lisa loved it do you have in front of you um yeah no i can get it it says um genuinely funny and thought dash provoking. Perfect. Good job, Lisa. Commentary on everyday life.

I find these guys so relatable and their chemistry is off the charts. Thanks for letting us listen in while you shoot the breeze, Jake and Brad. Oh, that is just music to my eyes. I've loved every minute of it. Thank you. Like all those things. And like they spelled every word right. That's just, that's the kind of thing that really like gets me up in the morning is like okay i'm gonna make a

good podcast today uh we i just looked we've gotten one since we started recording that is so cool no way yeah from katie but anyway we've gotten like i think 20 maybe over 20 now reviews since we last recorded which is so fun like we've said but also i'm realizing that like i don't know i guess brad we're on to something like i think you guys like i think we're on to something like so for instance tj new friend tj christianfluencer uh oh that would that would be better i just thought of that. Christian fluencer. Christian fluenza. It's when the Holy Spirit is your medication. Uh-huh. I don't know.

He was telling me, he's like, because we each have a podcast and our podcasts are about the same size, we realized. And he's like, oh, have you ever charted? Like, have you ever been on the podcast top charts? And I was like, oh, I doubt it. I've never even looked. I look at the reviews every day, but I've never even looked. He's like, oh, you might be.

He's like, Brooke and I made it to like 160th and like social and lifestyle or something I was like what and so I checked in Bradham. I you don't even know the latest number. I'm happy to announce guys I'm not kidding We are 12th in the world in improv comedy Let's go I could not believe. Like I didn't know if I wanted to cry or... Window middle aisle, baby! I couldn't believe it. And granted, it's like a subsection of comedy, but there's only three. It's either improv, stand-up, or interview. Wow. So I just labeled us as improv. I think that pretty well summarizes it. And so yeah,

12th in the world in improv comedy what does that even mean that's the thing i don't know the metrics like i don't know if that's because we have a lot of new listeners or if that's concurrent listeners or like right reviews i i truly have no idea why that's wild but it's so cool and i texted it to brad and your response was like so perfect and funny which is like that's decently unbelievable or something like that yeah like that's all and i was like yeah it is like unbelievable like i was like no we're not yeah i don't think we deserve that where we are when we record these things and the fact that it's 2 a.m you know we yeah so it's just so freaking cool thank you guys for listening and having a good time and enjoying it and probably telling your friends. Like, I assume that's how it's growing.

So, thank you. Awesome. It's so cool. And, like, it's also kind of surreal. Like, my favorite podcast has, I know so many listeners. Like, just their YouTube videos alone have, like, hundreds of thousands of views. So, the reason I wanted to start a podcast was fifth. So, like, that is not a big gap.

I mean, listener-wise, there might be a big gap. Yeah. But, like, in numbers numbers it's only seven that's really cool also brad i uh we are 25th for sweden improv oh baby what did he just call us i don't know that's swedish but i love that you always go for it yeah i always go for it just in case and then 15th in canada for improv comedy let's go just so funny let's go let's go that's so dope that's so fun well thank you uh tell us um on using a five-star review which country you'd like to see us in the top 20 um next and we'll work on it real quick and i don't

even have one yet but let's each read our favorite review of this week besides lisa's of course besides lisa's uh very well grammatically stated one okay i got one okay i'm not gonna listen and i'm gonna look for mine no we have to you have to well i don't know i don't know there's so many good ones i, over 20 in one week is crazy. This is awesome. This one's just wild. Okay. This one, the title of it is, We'll Make You Barf.

It's so funny. Oh, I forgot about that. I love the idea of this. It said, I would like to inform you that while the podcast actually made me barf with laughter, in quotation marks, I barf when I get excited. Oh my gosh. Can you imagine that person's wedding day?

Okay, let's hold on. Do you? Jake Tripp. What? Oh my gosh. Let's try this in a scenario. And then I said, I don't think so.

Not unless you're going to pay me $40. And then he said, free Chick-fil-A for life! No, Brad, seriously, stop. You gotta stop. Oh! Goodness gracious. Well, that was funny. So anyway, this person said, it'll make you barf

with laughter. Brad also said the B word in the episode entitled Improv Slam Po slam poetry so shame on you brad i got so nervous when i read that i don't think i say b words but oh they oh sorry oh i just said one however how furthermore i must have said one that was supposed to be replaced with poultry yes beef because the username is jake's illness so a little uh sorry about that subtlety there that that is the first one i thought of when you said can we read but yeah i want to read all of them they're so good it's like yeah i don't want

to just read reviews for a podcast but they they are are awesome like y'all have me chuckling in my cubicle on the rig i love that idea i love the idea of them like laughing laughing at work there's multiple people who said we're their favorite podcast that's crazy and now i don't want to tell you the name of my favorite podcast because you're gonna think that's way funnier so just don't look at whatever number five is this person said people think i'm a psychopath because i'm laughing so hard uh i think i found my favorite one because also I feel like I need to address something in it this is from Nack Baxter Naxter

14 his title got cut off so I don't know what he was going to say but it says these guys are my friends but they duh D-O dot dot dot I don't know what he was going to say hey leave us another 5 star review and tell us what you're talking about follow up on that or leave us a 5 star review and tell us

what you think he was going say oh yeah everybody participate fortune style listening to jake and brad is like hanging with the boys in college again that's a cool compliment it's revitalized my life saves my marriage and giving me reason to live again i assume that's hyperbole if that's true i'm very happy to hear that but i think it's supposed to be funny and it is funny that is is funny. A word for the wise. If you message Jake, he will reply only one time. So choose your comments

slash questions wisely, which that's pretty funny. And I assume he's just kind of giving me a hard time about it, but I'm sorry, Knack Baxter. I've been tagged at a couple of things from Thomas Kennedy III recently.

So there's been a lot to catch up on. Yeah, we get your pop. And I try to reply to as many as i can that's too good i've gotten a little behind the last two weeks oh i do want to say one more somebody said can we start a fan club just for brad absolutely anybody can start fan clubs out there if you'd like to start one my name is bradley david ellis you can start whatever you want um my mom probably already has one out there but if you would like're going to have to take the domain name from her. Brad is number one.com.

Brad is number one.com. Kind of a cool thing on the realm in the realm of feedback on the podcast. And I'll mention this again at the end as a reminder, but TJ once again, coming in with the third mention, he also uses the same podcast hosting platform and he encouraged us. There's a way to do audio memos to us you don't even need like the anchor app or anything but there'll be a link and i don't think it works on spotify but if you're listening on apple podcast in the description there will be a link to follow us on instagram triple jake one p two t's and where you can click on that link and i

think it'll just open up safari for you and then you can just like record us a voice memo. So we're gonna use those, I think for questions. Love it. So feel free to tell us who you are, where you're from. How long you've been ghosting. How long you've been ghosting. Any other information and then ask us a question and we'll start to make that a regular part of the podcast.

Is your voice on our pod? Yeah. Your V on RP. A quick introduction. To be amazing. Your V on RP. Don't think about it. It's just initials, a quick introduction don't think about it it's just initials all right don't think about it your voice on our pod um geez a quick introduction and then we will uh then we then a quick uh question and we'd love to we'd love to answer them we will address those

because we are not as creative as you guys are so whenever you come up with questions it helps us talk about things y'all are so funny uh because we don't go to new york and la every week not that often so one last story from new york um so in new york there's a ton of people that drink drink that smoke marijuana really the devil's lettuce yes the devil's lettuce i don't know any other the the jungles uh oregano and katherine nor i have ever dabbled in the marijuana nor i've never even like smoked anything in my life just don't have any interest in any of that strange part cool enough right exactly um so i yeah i mean i don't really like the smell of it. I, yeah, I think it smells gross. Recently learned from some kids who I guess are now technically freshmen in college, high school kids, freshmen in college, that a nickname for marijuana is loud.

Did you know that? I don't think so. Yeah. So we were at the Chiefs game the other day and isaac's like smells like loud up in here you know i was like oh okay like i've heard that i thought he had some sort of like psychosynthesis where he was smelling sounds you can smell that onomatopoeia what is that there's onomatopoeia in the air that's weird i'm trying to think of something smells like gosh i can't think you can't think of a sound smells like pow i don't know which is another drug is it yeah boom another drug drug uh also black eyed peas words boom boom pow dang

yeah that's okay okay it smells like teen spirit a catastrophe that doesn't work i don't know it's okay you struggle with nouns earlier okay so um so anyway loud so i told that to katherine we were because we were walking past some marijuana i was like yeah hey did you know that another word for marijuana is loud she's like oh really you know and and katherine's like the sweetest like most not most innocent girl ever but like you know not like a didn't grow up in a rough area or anything like that. She thought friends with benefits meant you had a friend who had a Costco gift card. Oh, you have a free hookup at Chick-fil-A. So anyway, we were walking past another, you know, maybe an hour or two later, another guy that was smoking very water or something.

And she is the most like white girl. Oh, no. I'm nervous for this. Southern way. She goes, man, it smells really strongly nervous for the southern way she goes man it smells really strongly of or no she goes she goes man is that loud oh geez right you don't think we just laughed so hard like and she just goes you're gonna put that on the podcast aren't you is that that loud loud it was because it was like

the guy had like walked past us but he was probably only like 20 30 feet ahead so like he could definitely hear brad you don't think that gentleman is smoking that dank loud dude is that loud that cushy loud just the way she said it was just so like oh just funny anyway so did you keep doing that the rest of the weekend i did it a few times yeah um anyway it was funny i love that katherine and the drug references yeah she's just so down with the the oh and then we also talked about like because i said like you sound so dorky and old whenever you said that or something like that and she's like what are you talking about i'm hip uh a take on the word hip is that hip has never been hip the word hip has never been hip oh i think about it like you could be

hip but it's not cool to be called hip or just like don't ever use that word like if you are hit if you if you think you are hip don't ever say like yeah i'm hip yeah like the word itself is just not hip the way you said it sounded pretty dorky right yeah no no i'm hip. Yeah. Like the word itself is just not hip. The way you said it sounded pretty dorky. Right. No, no, no. I'm hip, guys. I'm hip. I'm very hip.

I know. Kanye's worship album. I'm hip. Oh, I'm hip. One of the hippest. Right. Top notch hip. Yeah.

I'm a hippopotamus. I love hip hop. I have two legs that are connected to my hips. I was going to go, yeah, grandma's hips. My golden shepherd. Golden shepherd? What is that? My golden shepherd has hip dysplasia.

I'm a doctor, so I practice HIPAA. Oh, nice. Yeah. That's probably enough. Okay. Everyone's like, move on from the hip thing. Hey, enough with the hips. You got enough hips.

We get it. Stop. Synonyms. Cool. We get it. You're clever. Those are homonyms. Whatever.

It doesn't matter. Let's end it with a jingle I'd say. Oh boy. Or do you want to talk about something else? Let's jingle it up. I mean, I did have down as one of my talking points, shaving cream. i'd say boy boy boy or do you do you want to talk about something else let's jingle it up i mean i did have down as one of my talking points shaving cream why not put that other places not other places what do you mean by that i was just thinking how great is it shaving cream

how does it taste shaving cream in a milkshake shaving cream oh looks a lot like whipped cream yeah that's funny just give someone a word like make a slogan right now shaving cream looks a lot like whip cream yeah that's funny just give someone a word like make a slogan right now shaving cream what can't live with it electrical outlets how many is enough why are there three prongs um no i was shaving the other day and thought this is so nice that i can absolutely know if i've hit a spot or not because of the shaving cream. Why not? There needs to be that principle other places in life. Like mowing the lawn.

There's like lawn cream until you know if you missed a spot. You lather the entire lawn first. It's going to take a while. You're probably going to get a little bit too much lather. I feel like I always get too much shaving cream. I've never had just the right amount. No, for sure not. No, this is perfect.

Maybe just use shaving cream for your lawn. It's more of a visual thing. It kind of loosens the lawn up. Oh man, that'd be a great image. Brad, real quick. I'm going to goop. I got the goop. Goop-a-dee-goop.

Goop-a-dee-goop-goop. I have a not so mediocre life update and you could be thinking about your jingle. Okay, okay. Or listen. You're totally on your call, dude. No, I'm not going to listen. Okay, cool.

This is just between me and the audience now. So I thought this was gonna be more of a secret, but I can somewhat talk about it. Two weeks from now, oh sorry, to jump ahead. Two weeks from now, Trey and I are going on tour. If you bought tickets, so excited to see you. Brad didn't, so you know. I would love to get a VIP pass.

I didn't know that I should get tickets so quickly. They sold out, it's Trey Kennedy, baby. It's so fast. Yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna know anyone in Kansas City, which is a little bit of a bummer. Haven't gotten one of those texts yet that's like, bought my ticket, so excited to see you, but whatever, it's fine.

So tour in two weeks, but then this next week, so these next two weeks are gonna be the craziest, most exciting parts of my professional life, probably, from a work standpoint. This next week, Trey and I, I can't really say specifically what we're doing, but there life probably from a work standpoint this next week train i can't really say specifically what we're doing but there's been months of work on this there's like a 20 person cast and crew flying in to kansas city to work on this awesome huge project the biggest thing either of us have ever worked on uh it's going to be we honestly we're probably not going to i'm going to not have time to redeem my free Chick-fil-A next week, Brad.

I'm so sorry. Like 12 hour days every day. What? It's six to six. Oh, so maybe dinner, maybe dinner. Yeah, say. Sorry, say sorry. Six to six, but I got pickleball Mondays.

But yeah, just freaking psyched about that. Just a lot going on. It's so much that I'm excited about, so much that I'm trying to prepare for, because stand-up comedy is a pretty daunting, pretty scary thing. Would have loved to have maybe a kind of an easier week to think about that, rehearse that,

really feel good about it. But no, I got the biggest project of my life before I go on tour. So obviously very thankful. Honestly, so unbelievably thankful. That's pretty much all I've prayed about recently. It's just like, this is crazy, God, thank you. This is so crazy.

I have my dream job. So yeah, you'll know when that can be talked about more, but just wanted to say that. You guys are my friends, so I thought you should know. They got some big things coming. That's awesome, dude. Thank you know they got some big things coming that's awesome dude thank you i also have big things going i am going to be making a table and it's going to have wood on top not the route i thought you were going to go but that is cool that you were able to

announce that here this is a safe space oh yes i see what you're saying do you have a jingle for us uh also you've been typing a lot while I was talking. I was a little distracted. I was like, what's he typing? Is he annotating my life update right now? No, definitely not. Like, I don't remember this day. I was writing down prayer requests for you.

He said he needs that. Okay. I was looking up 90s songs. Oh, cool. To see if I could think of something. Are there any? Yes. This one is going to be to the tune of Richard Martin's Living La Vida Loca.

I love it already. Okay. Every Monday, yeah. Listen to Ghost Runners podcast. Live with Jake and Brad. Listen to Ghost Runners Podcast. Five-star review us now. Listen to Ghost Runners Podcast.

We will wear you out. If you listen too many times to Ghostrunners Podcast. Nice. I really felt that. Yeah? Huge, huge Latino vibes. That's what I go for. What did he just call me?

What? He called me a huge Latino, I think. Okay. Well, that is all we got. Episode 25. A long one, but you guys understand. We had a lot to catch up on. And from what I can tell, I think you guys liked the long ones.

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