Ghostrunners - 27 - Don't Dance With Your Pants On!

Episode Date: November 11, 2019

Jake is back from tour and Brad's life "has never been more mediocre." Also... free unlimited Chick-Fil-A?!? Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Check out our podcast fan account lol: https://www.instagram.com/ghostrunnerspod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen little donkey, take a look at me. What am I? Uh, really tall? No! I'm an ogre. You know, grab your torch and pitchforks. Doesn't that bother you? Nope. Really? Really, really? Oh. Man, I like you. What's your name? Uh, Shrek. Shrek? Well, you know what I like about you, Shrek?

You've got that kind of I-don't-care-what-nobody-thinks-of-me thing, and I like that. I respect that, Shrek. You are all right. Whoa, look at that. Who would want to live in a place like that? That would be my home. Oh, and isn't it lovely? Just beautiful. You know, you are quite a decorator. It's amazing what you've done with such a modest budget. I like that boulder. That is a nice boulder.

I guess you don't... Oh, uh, pause. I guess you don't entertain much, do you? I like my privacy. You know, I do too. That's another thing we have in common, Shrek. Like, I hate it when you've got somebody in your face, you're trying to try to give them a little hint and they won't leave and there's that awkward silence. Can I stay with you? Uh, what?

Can I stay with you, please? Of course! Really? No. Please! I don't want to go back there. You don't know what it's like to be considered a freak. Well, maybe you do. That's why we've got to stick together. You've got to let me stay. Please. Please. Okay. Okay.

But one night only. Ah, thank you. What are you... No, no. This is going to be fun. We can stay up late, swap our manly stories, and in the morning, I'm making waffles. Oh! Where do I uh sleep? outside oh Well, I guess that's cool. I mean, I don't know you you don't know me. So I guess I guess outside is best

You know here I go. Good night. I Mean I do like the outdoors. I'm a donkey. I was born outside. I'll just be sitting by myself outside I guess you sitting by myself outside, I guess, you know, by myself outside. I'm all alone. There's no one here beside me. Oh, wow. And scene. That was perfect.

I forgot I was going to have to sing at the end of it. I did, too. I saw it coming. I was like, oh, good. Oh, geez. Jake, did you remember to turn off the heater? I did. You did? Okay, good. Yeah it coming i was like oh good oh geez jake did you remember turn off the heater i did okay good yeah i was like it's about this is usually what happens right after the cold open uh when we're when we're getting going yeah i remember to turn it off welcome everyone to episode 27 27 baby uh nine times three yeah

the door is that's why it's cold in here poultry of the week, Catherine Ellis, leaving the door open. My goodness. We were like, man, the heater is going... Get in the frame! Welcome back, everyone. If you're new, this is the Ghost Runners podcast. If you've been listening for a while, it's also called the Ghost Runners podcast. Yeah.

First time listener. It's the same title no matter how many times you listen. So congrats on coming and finding us we uh we're so excited brad and i have not seen each other in six days correct something like that i i said correct before i thought about it but i'm sure you're right you're you're good at that stuff thank you so this is exciting we got we um we just got our chick-fil-a lunch, of course, which a couple updates there. You should tell them the good news. The good news is that suspicions were confirmed.

We do have unlimited free Chick-fil-A with our friend, Mr. Mr. James! Mr. James! Oh, yeah. Was it two episodes ago? There was the discussion? Yeah, and you were like, no, dude, I think we get one time. time i was like i think he said next time we get free chick-fil-a i thought they said like anytime we wanted it uh and then our friend isaac yeah shout out to isaac for doing what we

were uncomfortable at like doing but you know also i was out of town well but even so i it would just been an awkward like hey did did you say like we could get like free chick-fil-a all the time because what do you mean by that, if we're wrong, then we just look like jerks and put them in an awkward situation as far as like, uh, no, you can have it one time. Like I'm giving you like a $10, essentially a $10 gift card. He's like, no carte blanche anytime you want. And so we were talking to the gift card is blanche card, card blanche. Uh, yeah, exactly. The gift card is blanche. Card Blanche. Card Blanche.

Yeah, exactly. The gift card is Blanche. The pin is blue. Royal Blue! That's what we need to do next episode of The Liar Liar. There you go. No, but like, it was so funny. We were sitting there and, you know, somebody sits down a couple of tables over and has ice cream or something.

Like, Jake's like, oh, well, I didn't know they had ice cream you know in the cup ice cream in a cup i'd never seen that and and we're like and i probably commented something similar just like three or four times throughout our meal like yeah we'll try it we'll try that out we'll talk to james about it like every time oh you got bacon on your mac and cheese uh yeah we can get that yeah it's it's free to add it in so we might as well yeah. So we are very thankful for that. We went outside and this is old news to you guys probably now because this just happened. So I put it on my Instagram story. But we learned that, oh, yeah, if you want to go talk to James, he's outside working the drive-thru.

Chick-fil-A was very busy. So we had to kind of like sneak out there. We probably looked a little suspicious just because a couple of guys standing out there. And anyway, got to talk to James. We go back inside. And then this couple next to us, when he said, I'm like, Hey, sorry to bother you, but what were you guys doing in the parking lot? Yeah. They were like kind of sketched out. Like you guys, tell them what they said. Like the, the kind of hurtful thing they said, obviously. No, this is why I'm bringing it up. This is

amazing what they had the nerve to tell us. So Brad, like you did a good job of just like not explaining the whole thing. Like, oh, it's just one of our friends. We were just saying hi to our friend. Yeah. Thought that would be enough for them. Like, oh. It looked like you guys were a little lost.

Yeah. So the woman comes in hot with like, oh, it looks like you guys were a little lost out there. And then I was like, oh, that's just how my face looks all the time. I was like, we are the opposite of lost here. Let me tell you that right now. Yeah, we come here all the time. So we don't get lost very often. Pretty nice exchange so far. But then the man pops in and says, yeah, it looked like you guys

were escaping prison. Okay. What? Okay, guy. All right, bud. And then the mom like piggybacks that and is like, yeah, it looks really, what'd she say? Like, yeah, we were really worried or like, yeah, it was really sketchy. I don't know. It was something that just kept adding up. I was like, okay, now you're kind of, I even said like, oh, really coming after us now, aren't you? I like said that to him. Yeah. And under your breath, you were like, oh, that's, that's pretty hurtful.

Yeah. This isn't funny anymore. Wow. Yeah. You guys are really sketchy. If only you knew we could get you free milkshakes, Janice. Sorry. You don't get one, Tom.

So anyway, yes, we are hyped about this free Chick-fil-A. As long as James is there. As long as James is there. As long as James is there. I got to figure out what kind of car James drives. So James, if you're listening, leave us a five-star review and tell us what kind of car you're driving. Or if you don't know James and you just want to tell us what kind of car you think he drives, leave us a five-star review and let us know. The cool thing about our podcast is there's a lot of ways to leave reviews. Yes. And most of them aren't set up that way. Right. Exactly. This one, encouragement, not us. We'll take anything. Any, any kind of tidbits that you have or predictions that you have are great on the

five-star review for podcast.com. Any tidbits. Uh, Brad, where do we, where do we start? What, what do you want to talk about, dude? Well, yeah, I was thinking about this earlier. Um, I'm, I'm presuming that you've had a crazy awesome week. I have had pretty much the exact opposite of that. Um, no, well not in like a negative way, but just in like a very mediocre, like it's been a very normal week for me. You didn't go to Wisconsin. I did not go to any of the Midwestern, uh, Northwestern states. Um, a lot of people will tell you that Minnesota is better in Wisconsin, but we can talk about that later i could not care less about those two states so let's probably not talk about that great um so anyway we usually at this point we're just trying to talk about our weeks anyway at the

beginning of the podcast what if we made a little bit of a segment since my week was so randomly boring and your week was so randomly awesome uh did we just talk We have a segment called Hot and Cold. Hot, hot, hot, hot, cold. Exactly. That's not how we practiced it. Okay, I thought we were going 3-4. You went 4-4 there. That's not what we planned on.

That was my first jingle segment. So give me some slack. Jake is getting into the jingle game. I had a perfect transition. I had to sing on stage this week, which I discussed last week, pretty nervous about, right. Among other things, but, but you're feeling more confident with it, obviously with that amazing jingle. Here we are episode 27. Yeah. Singing the jings, singing the jings. Do you want me to go first? We want to start hot or stop? Yeah. You hot gotta start hot okay yeah whenever whenever you're doing uh you know like you you get done working out you go hot and then you go to a cold shower and then you go back to the jacuzzi your steam room shower jacuzzi out that's right you and i both work out a lot so that makes sense

like absolutely almost as much as we chick-fil-a we work out so this week was awesome I got to go on tour with Trey Kennedy I was his opener and it was awesome I I can't even I don't even know where to start about how much fun this week was I was I was clearly very nervous that first night I mean this is if you're a stand-up comedian typically what you do you travel around and do open mics and you test your material material before you go live in front of a big audience. And I did not do that. I took a couple of showers and I wrote some stuff down after I got out of the shower. And then I went and tried that out in front of 300 people in Madison, Wisconsin.

And so that was more, you know, it wasn't like getting up in front of people is scary. It's just like, I don't know if I'm going to be funny at this first show or not. How many people do you think knew who you were beforehand? Any of them? Did they have any indication? There were a few. I would get that vibe afterwards. There were a couple people at the meet and greets like, oh yeah, you're from the podcast

or something from when I would appear on Trace. So definitely some here and there, they would recognize me. So it was fun. I had a little bit of familiarity. But from the beginning, it went pretty well. There were little tweaks I made every night. Excuse me. Oh my gosh. We had a lot of backpapers today, but, uh, it's just fun. It was fun getting to tinker with jokes every night. Like even though, okay, that joke went really well last night, but you know, you don't know if it could be better unless you try it out. Right. Like there was a joke I would do. Oh,

well the thing I talked about last week about the girl who comes into Chick-fil-A or whatever. Yeah. So I do it, you know, before I even get to the punchline, I try to like, I throw in jokes constantly every five seconds. I want them laughing. So I would say this girl walks into Chick-fil-A, you know, already too soon. Oh, sorry. I'm trying to, I'm trying to simulate. Uh, you were close though. So I would say this girl walks into Chick-fil-A already dream scenario because these are my only two interests nice yeah and then i would say and i could already tell she was my type because she was you know she was cute she was athletic and then fill in the blank i would throw in a new fill in the blank every night there i like that laugh is that your comedy comedy laugh

new new new blank every week yeah so stuff like that was fun you know just like it almost felt like a puzzle like okay this was good but it could be better and like just little words i would say yeah i would just mix up a slight verbiage to try and test like could be better well that's that's the whole point of this tour is to test what's good and what's not and what makes it good and what yeah right yeah trey had a couple different songs to choose from to perform and so there was it was clear like okay one of this these songs doesn't work nearly as well forget that one really no yeah so we learned a lot but overall it was so fun when i got done with the des moines show just the second one i felt like i was jerry seinfeld i'm like i

wins my netflix special this was amazing yeah There was a part, like my set already went well, but then I went into a bit about prayer and a microphone, like had this like feedback above me, like in the speaker right above me. And so it just worked perfect. I just played it off. And I was like, God, is that you, am I not supposed to tell this joke right now? Do you not want me to? And they laughed at that. So then I just went off that for like another minute. Oh, poultry of the week, theis family the door is open the notifications are on gosh sorry that's okay uh anyway so yeah i think it's one thing to like have these jokes you wrote

make an audience laugh mainly full of strangers like that already feels amazing but then it's like wow i came up with stuff on the spot i'm just talking right and they're laughing right that was euphoric and that felt so good like i got, I came up with stuff on the spot. I'm just talking and they're laughing. That was euphoric. And that felt so good. Like I got off stage, like shaking with adrenaline in Des Moines and Kansas City. Those are the two shows. I feel like I crushed it a little better than others.

So you were like air punching in the back after. I did like a six minute shadow boxing routine in the green room afterwards. Yeah. Put on Eye of the Tiger and got after it. So anyway, I can talk for an hour just about what this week was like, but that's just a little snippet. Okay. Brad, let me give you a snippet of my week.

Okay. Um, I haven't had a whole lot of orders this week, so it's been a little bit slower. Okay. Um, however, I've gotten great time with my family, which has been really great. Um, obviously I said great twice, but, um, what made it such a great time was that it was so great for me yeah so like if I just I'm feeling fantastic so like I just if I had a word if I just like if I just woke up and I was just like man this is fantastic um so yeah I had a lot of good times with Catherine and Hattie um and my daddy I even had had lunch with my dad uh at one point did you almost say daddy there to rhyme with Hattie? No, I didn't. It sounded like you were about to say daddy. I kind of said daddy.

Yeah, I did. I think I said daddy, but it was on a... Hattie was there. Daddy was there. My daddy. My little catty was there. Yeah. And they call me Braddy. Nice. No, but lots of good times. One of the good times that we had, kind of a bittersweet time. It was a good time that was also bitter and sweet. Okay, cool. So it was a good time. Yes. Cool. We went to a soccer game.

We go to a lot of soccer games this year because the boys I lead Bible studies for. Play soccer. Yeah, they're soccer guys. They're seniors in high school. And we're in the playoffs. We're deep into the playoffs, like close to state championship. championship fun times sweet times because it's fun to watch them bitter because they lost gotcha um which means that's the last time i'll watch them play soccer unless i come to their intramural games in college that is bitter do you think you'll be attending their intramural games

i think i might come to a few yeah probably you're probably a traveling fan yeah because i'm sure they're all going to go to the same college you know yeah that's convenient for you um yeah i'll probably go watch like you know the fight outs at arkansas play some soccer or something but cool no uh so that was that was that was bitter a little bit yeah but literally we're talking hot and cold that was literally a cold night so i oh i was there with hattie being cold watching the game so there you go cool that's my first That's a cool update. No, Hey, it sounds like a wholesome night to support your boys. We had lots of wholesome times. Yeah. Wholesome times. Uh, okay. Back to hot. Uh, I wrote down various things over the past week that

random people would said to me after the show. Okay. I would just, I thought maybe you would enjoy. Yes. After the first show in Madison, Wisconsin, a girl said, can I get a picture? Poopsie? What? Yes. Can I get a picture? Can I get a picture? Poopsie? So that's all one down or is she saying, can I get a picture? Poopsie? Great questions. It was not written down for me. So I did not know what she meant. Wisconsinites. What does that mean? Did you figure it out? Leave us a five-star review no i was like sorry what yeah you can get a picture what did you say though at the end she's like oh i just call everyone poopsie oh oh that's normal oh you get a picture piss be hey vomiting hey vomiting can we get a picture over here

i was like what a interesting pet name and there were like people around who heard this exchange too. And they were like, oh, how fun is that? Can I get a picture of your crap head? What else is next? Yeah, so that was one of the first fan interactions of the week was, can I get a picture, Poopsie? Oh, man. We're going to keep it clean, but there's so many funny things.

Yeah, it's kind of hard to keep it PG. I'm going to say something something clean but can you bleep it out later and make it sound like it's sure that'll be fun can i get a picture or or can i get a picture face just just just edit out the first part i got it is that good yeah it's solid that's so so you got a picture poopsie with there i got a picture poops with my girl in madison i think it'd be better if it were just all the noun. Like there's such things as pictures. And then there's like really fun pictures that you put on the Instagram.

And so you call those the picture poopsies. Those are picture poopsies. You put them up on your fridge. You might frame them. Yeah. Can I get a picture poopsie of you guys? You're a wedding photographer. Let's just squeeze it a little bit closer for a family picture poopsie.

Okay. Now I need the bride and groom for a portrait poopsies. Okay. Just real quick, five minutes portrait poopsies. We've got the sunset. Yes. Yeah. Golden hour poopsies. It's a new, uh, it's like a, like you get like this new dog bread because like he doesn't like poop the right way. Like I got a golden poopsie. Oh, is that the ones that don't shed or poop? Yeah. That's a golden poopsie. Yep. You literally don't have to clean them at all. It's amazing. They live like three weeks, but they're awesome. They're made in a lab. They're basically vacation dogs. They are not labs. I want to be very clear. They were just

made in a lab. Okay. Picture poopsie. Picture poopsie. Okay. Another thing that happened, actually, I want to hear your take on this. Cause we were talking about this one night, the very first night they were like, Hey, how do you want to be introduced? I'd never been asked that before. so i i was like just don't say anything and i'll play off of it when i go up there but what are your thoughts because i have a thought too would you rather say because there's things i could have said right you know i could have said as if i wanted to hype myself up and not lie i could have said as seen on the ellen show and mtv or whatever it wouldn't have been for standup comedy, but they don't know that. Or I could have said what I said at the Des Moines show.

He's a red member at Chick-fil-A, uh, give it up for Jake triplet or whatever. Do you think it's better to downplay yourself or upsell yourself? Cause I think there are benefits to both. I like, um, I think down,

down, sell yourself. If they're there, they're already, you're, you're good. Like, like,

well, I don't know that you're the opening act too. So maybe's a little bit of up you know advantage of upselling yourself but i think you should uh upsell yourself on your website trying to get tickets maybe like saying like he's been included in you know this this game show or you know this this reality show this mtv thing like all these different ones but once you're there it's like well once you're not gonna leave like hey let me listen to myself. You know, my, my credentials here for five minutes before you call me up. Whereas I love when comics are, and I think you're good at this humble, like, like they laugh, you know, alongside of you. Like, like if I make a

joke to somebody, like you laugh, you know, like, you're not just like, Hey, I'm too funny to laugh at you. Cause I'm kind of, I'm also very funny. I'm kind of the funny guy. Dave's the Jake's the party guy. Jake's the funny guy. Office funny guy. Eat the soap. Eat the soap. Eat the soap. What are, what are we doing here with the traffic when we're known for gridlock or whatever it is, something like that. Hey, let's not get political here. Yeah, exactly. So you're laughing at me. Funny guy. So I think it's better to be humble and just be like, Oh,

this guy just loves life down. So like, yeah, make it just a very simple, he's from Kansas city or Stratford, whatever you want to say, uh, Missouri. And just excited to be here. Loves Chick-fil-A and blank and fill in a blank. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. That's my, my opinion. That's where I swung as well. So I was like, I think, um, yeah, you know, it would give you some validity a little bit like, Oh snap, this, this opener has been on this and that, but I would rather them come in with no expectations. And then if they're like, who is this guy? And then my first, my like second sentence out of my mouth is like, I shoot videos for Trey Kennedy. then they just see me as like a videographer and then if i make them laugh like oh that was great i was not expecting anything out of that so that's the method i went with but i think that's

the better method in my opinion it's always safe to go that we're out and then impress them then be like hey this is the funniest thing you're about to ever hear because i have all these credentials and these people like all right i'm ready i'm ready to be i'm ready to laugh my poopsie off here we go and instead they just yeah our opening comic don't eat or drink when he's performing because you will spit it out hello give a big warm welcome for yeah poopsie triplet poopsie triplet yes i think that's that's the right way to go personally uh one last question for you, Brad. Okay. Our waitress one night in Wisconsin had their name, had the name Persephone. Oh, I'm going to do a quick spelling bee for you.

How do you think you spell Persephone? Can I get the, this is Wisconsin based. Okay. Wisconsin based. Yes. So they like cheese. She was a brunette. Aged cheddar. Yes. Keep going. She was brunette. Brunette. I'm going to take a chance and think that there's not a silent letter at the beginning. So P. Okay. P-E-R-S-E-P-H-O-N-E. Oh my gosh. Persephone. You nailed that. How did you know that?

I'm pretty smart. Have you seen that word before? No. You knew the P-H. Persephone. Yeah. Wow. I'm just very shocked.

I just did not expect you to get that. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'll do it. I'll do it wrong. Persephone. P-R-R.

That's not even close. Okay. Dang it. Wow. What a good segment. No. Yeah. We got our bill that night.

It was like, her name is purse phone. Her name is purse phone. Hey, I'm going to grab my thing. I'm going to grab a purse and a phone. That's Persephone. That's her name. Sorry, man. Yeah.

Good for you, dude. Remember, I almost won the spelling bee back in the day. You didn't beat Kristen Baker though. That's right. Which I did. I misspelled longitude because I go longitude. M. And I just froze.

I could not believe it. I thought there was a silent M. Apparently, subconsciously, I could not believe it. So anyway. Perseverance. Okay. Perseverance. You nailed it.

Back to cold. No, that was funny. That was amazing. Cold. Back to cold. What do you got? Sourdough bread's on the rise, baby. You're baby you're kidding literally no i didn't think about that if it's got yeast in it it'll rise i'm telling you guys my my my week has never been more mediocre um hold on a quick uh interjection

speaking of yeast i don't know about you when i first watched the office it was like probably season it was early in the seasons dwight makes that joke like there are an alarming amount of yeast infections probably because we're downwind from that uh bread mill bread mill i didn't get that joke at first i didn't understand it until i watched again later there you go now i know there's lots of things like that that i don't understand at the time yeah like that's a nice boulder also boulder i'm just kidding oh you're like what does that mean that is a nice boulder oh. Oh, hey, don't say that. Don't say that. Not mixed company.

Do you remember the scene where he's talking about the Shoah Foundation? Yes. I don't know what that is to this day. I've never looked it up. Do you know what it is? No, I have no clue. It's definitely the punchline of a joke, but I don't get it. How does it go?

I don't remember. He's like, I don't know. Something about like, yeah, back when I was part of the Shoah Foundation. I bet it's funny. I think it is too. So if you know what the Shoah Foundation is, leave us a five-star review and let us know. Sorry, I interjected. Keep going.

Sourdough bread, baby. I mean, I'm telling you, my week has been so mediocre that I'm excited about sourdough bread. My wife went to Costco the other day, went shopping and was just craving sourdough bread. Yeah. So we've been having sourdough bread for our sandwiches instead of that classic uh Dave's killer bread uh wheat and so sourdough bread's been great and I've been hyped about it so that's that's my next one oh that's great dude I uh I think I want to move on from the tour like there's so many other things that happened

or no okay one more thing then I'll say and then we'll move on from the tour. Like there's so many other things that happened or no. Okay. One more thing that I'll say, and then we'll move on because I could talk about this for forever. She should. The, I got plenty more cold things. You think that's it?

Yeah. It's so many more. There are a couple of different things that happened this week where on stage, I felt like I was doing a decent job. Maybe something about just, you know, feeling like I'm this comedian.

Now I, maybe I, I don decent job. Maybe something about just, you know, feeling like I'm this comedian now. I maybe, I don't know if it was just, I felt the urge that I needed to be more of a jokey jokester in my free time. Oh yeah. But I was really bombed some jokes in person this week. And it was really funny because there are always witnesses to it.

In person on tour or? Like, yeah, on the tour, but like, okay. Let me just tell you the story. Not with the microphone. Not on the stage. Okay. I don't remember which city we were in, but I ordered a coffee. I ordered a latte at this coffee shop.

And she said, you know, you want it hot or cold? I said, hot, please. She's like, how many espresso shots do you want? I said, just one. So she goes to ring me up. She's like, okay, we got a caramel latte and hot and single. And I said, you're looking at them. Oh, it's awesome.

No less. I mean, I was so quick with it. It was awesome. Yeah, I was mean, I was so quick with it. It was awesome. Yeah, I was feeling so good. I just crushed it. You know, Des Moines the night before. Like, you know, get on your feet, Omaha. And then, you know, hot and single.

You're looking at him. Not only did she not even like look up from the register, there were people next to me in earshot. They heard. I was like, give me something, people. Yeah. Like, I understand if the barista says hot and single all the time. She's probably heard a similar joke. But the quickness, the punctuality of this, the boom, you're looking at them.

The fact that you're clearly single and hot. Oh yeah. Um, and just, yeah, come on. That's hilarious. Yeah. So didn't, didn't something happen like that on that road trip to Texas? She said something like, hi cutie to talking to Hattie and you're like, hi. And she did not like it.

So maybe it's baristas just don't have a sense of humor. Baristas. Okay. Maybe, maybe probably right down. Um, that'd been a couple of times. That's just one example of just like, yeah, I was just feeling it, but couldn't, couldn't crush off stage. It's not the zone. I love when people bomb jokes though. I think it's so funny. Oh yeah. So I always go for it. Even if they're a stranger. So she didn't even like react negatively. She just didn't react. Just it even if they're a stranger so she didn't even like react negatively she just didn't react just did not react it's like she didn't even hear me but i know she did you're looking at him i know she did oh that's great is it my turn sure or you have one more no let's get cold uh okay it's ironic that this one's called cold because it's actually about some warmth now that is ironic let's talk about it. It's been cold here.

So the truck has been heated seats. Oh. And similar to, this is a condition that I'm really concerned about, honestly. Similar to like, you know how like whenever you're, I don't know. I don't know if I experience it as much these days, but phantom vibrations with your phones. Yeah. You know, like you're just like, oh like i swear my phone vibrated in my pocket um i have a similar issue with my bottom oh it feels like there's a heated seat yes what yes how i don't know but i've every time i go in my car you know i'm

got the heated seat on lately though i've just been sitting in my like room or my bedroom or my living room or even at the like restaurant the other day with my dad like i was like my bottom feels warm like i swear they put heaters in the seat yeah i would not be surprised if she baked at a professional level i would not be surprised if there's heaters in the seat i don't know what it is but it's just like what in the world is happening to my bottom? So that you might want to get that looked at. I got a hot butt, as they would say, you're looking at them hot and single.

Wow. Single bottom. So, yeah, I don't know. That's pretty awesome, though. Yeah. It's going to be worse. Honestly, it's comfortable. Like, it's nice. It's a good sensation.

It's a nice, relaxing feeling. But is there any kind of like vibration or anything that happens when your seats are heated like it's weird to me to feel something that's like a temperature and not like a physical right like touch not that i know of i mean yeah i don't know dude it's weird maybe it's just still insulated in there and then i go from my car and then go sit down again but it's not always like instant, like, you know, 15 minutes later that I'm sitting there feeling that way. I'm feeling that way hours later.

I think you're on the brink of some like science breakthrough or something. I could be. I could be the test, the tester. Testless. Yeah. They could call me the test poopsie. That would be cool. Yep.

I don't know, man, but warm bottoms are a thing right now for me. The warm bottom boys. That's cool. Congrats on that. Thanks, dude. Brad, do you want to move on to our voice memos? Yeah, absolutely. Let's do it.

We got a hefty amount this week. So we will try to get to all of them. If we didn't get to yours, we're sincerely sorry. And we'll get to it next week. But feel free to send those in. The link in description. You can send us a voice memo. Ask us a question.

What else was I going to say about that? Oh yeah, in response to Gracie from last week, you wanted a five minute rant. Brad and I brainstormed all week. We don't have anything negative. The only thing we can rant about is how positive we are, Gracie, and I'm sorry about it.

That's all we got. We just don't, we don't have anything that we're really that irkable about. I mean, we have little irks. Yeah, many irks, but nothing that – five minutes is a long time. I have to be pretty mad. Yeah.

I just don't really get that mad. But, hey, maybe it'll happen organically someday down the road, but for now – I'll tell you what. If Andy Reid runs another QB sneak with Patrick Mahomes, we can rant about that for five minutes. If he dislocates his knee. Yeah. Or any more second and 24 running plays.

Stop with the draw plays. Yeah. Let's talk about it. Okay. Start the timer. And go. No. Okay, so voice memos.

Let's listen to it. Let's do it. All right. Hi, guys. This is Sarah from Texas. And you said that you wanted people from other countries to leave you voice memos. And we all know that Texas could be its own country, you know, if we wanted to like secede. But anyways,

my question for you today is what is your favorite and least favorite thing about the other person? Okay. So first of all, come on Sarah basic macro economics tell you that you cannot, Texas cannot secede from the United States and still survive. Just, just pointing out there. Hey, keep going, baby. I love, here comes the rain. I love, I love Texas. I have, I have obviously so much affection in my heart for Texas, my wife and all, and all their in-laws, all the in-laws are from Texas. I think, correct me if I'm wrong,

but all, every single one of your babes of the week have been from Texas. 100% of, yeah. That's crazy. Amazing babes in Texas. It is a different culture, but we're all from America. She's from America now. So just cool it with the secession talk, all right? I'm just tired of it, okay? Just look up, can Texas succeed and survive? I just, no, you can't. Economics say no. Okay. Sarah, was that her name? That was her name.

Golly. I'm just kidding. There are a lot of things that would have to be done. I know very little about economies or GDPs, but I know that there are no mints, even in Texas. Where'd you get your money from? What money? Yeah. We exchange cattle.

Shotgun shells? Yeah. Oh, fun fact. Okay. Kansas pride here for a second. All of Texas longhorns, most of them, come to Kansas for the summer.

Take that, Sarah! Yeah, so you think your longhornses are so great they're growing in Kansas okay you just did me so her question was why can't Texas secede was that what it was I think that was it I think we're just gonna pretend to rant about everything pretend like everything's just everything just fires us up very excuse my language but irkable um okay so quite the question though now what is our least favorite thing about the other person Everything's just, everything just fires us up. Very, excuse my language, but irkable. Okay. So quite the question though. Now, what is our least favorite thing about the other person?

And favorite thing. Did it say that? I think. Okay. I definitely know my favorite thing about you. Oh, already. Like I, I love the positives and not only, I mentioned earlier that you are very funny and very wonderful to be around, but you're also like make other people feel good.

That's not my favorite thing about you, but it's a great thing. I like that about you. Thank you. My favorite thing about you. And I don't think this will change no matter what your life circumstance will be right now. You're obviously single and, you know, easygoing because of that, but I think you're easygoing and down for almost anything fun all the time. And that's like, like I have other friends that are very fun people, but they're like, Oh dude, no, like I should probably stay in or, Oh no, you know, I'm not going to get enough sleep for tomorrow. I need to go home and sleep. It's like, as long as you're not going to like, literally not be able to make the next thing you're usually in. And I love that. And you've

always been like that no matter where you have been in life. And so I love that about you. That's a good compliment. Thank you, Brad. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah. You're welcome, man. Uh, okay. So when she first asked that my first thing in mind was going to be a similar answer. So I'll change it now. Oh, really? But I like, I like that, that you think that about me as well. It was going to be a, yeah. Cause I want to be like that. My answer was going to be, this is not my answer. Don't worry. I have another one. I got plenty. It's not, it's not, it's not his answer. Okay.

Do not write this down for my answer. My answer was going to be that you are married. You have a kid. Correct. And you still hang out with people all the time. Not even just me. Yeah. But I've seen it in my own lives. And I think a lot of people have friends out there.

Like once he got married, I never saw him again. Yeah. Especially once he had a kid, I never saw him again. Relational. All the times. Yes. And it helps that I have a lot of people have friends out there. Like once he got married, I never saw him again. Yeah. Especially once he had a kid, I never saw him again. Relational. I see you all the times. Yes. And it helps that I have a flexible schedule, but relational, whatever you want to call it is just important to Catherine and I definitely.

So you're doing a good job. Try to, yeah. But it's not my answer. Don't thank me for it. Forget it. Okay. My answer for favorite thing I like about you is, and it's kind of funny how this plays into the fact that we have a podcast now.

I've always enjoyed, I can say anything to you. Like, you know, street signs are kind of weird or something. And even if you don't, you've never thought about that before in your life, you can, you'll talk to me about it. You will form an opinion. I'll entertain you. Yeah. You'll be like, okay, yeah, let's talk about this. And even if you don't know, like, I don't know if I've noticed street signs ever being different than they are now right right and then that was a really bad example i like that

no like why don't they just make all the street signs the same so it's more efficient on the city oh but then you know you wouldn't pay attention to them as much or oh they just take them different colors different colors different shapes yeah that's a weird example but it is fun though we could talk about that's that's the seinfeld aspect of us is that we can talk about nothing important and just have fun talking about it if we should look into i don't you think there's any adult speech and debate clubs that we can join i've always liked the idea of like you can run for senate is a big one that could be cool how do you have to be 30 for senate probably cool almost almost there yeah uh speaking of almost there birthday week uh-oh depending on when you're listening to this uh it could be brad's birthday

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For your birthday, Brad, I think you should tell the people the new thing exciting with your business. Yes. And what you want to do with that. I have a limited run of merch coming out right now. Good friend of ours, Allison McElvain, works for a company called Branding Stop, who might be a future sponsor of the show, by the way. You're kidding. And they just put labels on everything, you know, your logo on everything.

And they're not like, they don't judge people. They don't put labels on you. They won will put labels on anything. You come in here with a nose ring judge tattoos on your arm has a pass just right on the forehead baggage baggage. No, not like that. Uh, branding stop great company. And she is hooking me up with some awesome, awesome comfort colors, t-shirts. And I decided, you know what? I'll make an extra t-shirt or two and put them out as a giveaway for the Ghostrunners. So if you're interested in the Ellis Custom Creations Comfort Colors long sleeve t-shirt,

leave an awesome review. Leave the best review you've ever left. Oh, wow. And we'll accept it only till Monday at midnight. Because Brad's going to put the orders in on Tuesday, right? Yes. So for the early listeners being rewarded. Right, wow. And I'll, we'll accept it only till Monday at midnight. Cause Brad's going to put the orders in on Tuesday, right? Yes. So for the early listeners being rewarded, right? Yeah. If you're a, if you're a true, uh, ghoster, maybe, maybe this is up for up your alley. So are you sure? Yeah. Just leave a great review. It can be whatever, whatever you want. I'm not

going to, I'm just going to leave it so open for you to do whatever you want. How fun is that? Get your, it's your review. A free t-shirt. Yeah. I don't, I don't know. I don't care. Yeah. They're your oats. And maybe someday down the road, I will give them out for sale to everybody. But right now it's, it's literally like my close family and my very close friends. And you're just selling them at cost, like what it's costing you to make them. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not trying to grow the business through a t-shirt campaign. It's just like kind of fun. Right. Good to help out Allison. Yeah. She's helping you. Yeah. Uh, okay. Quick sidebar. Again, speaking of merch, we've had a lot of people ask, not a lot. That's an exaggeration. Several people

have asked us when we're coming out with merch, I would have never thought the day that people were asking for merchandise from Brad and I's podcast, but we're open to your ideas. I don't know. Whatever you think. Yeah. Oh, wait, you had to tell them the idea you had. Yes. My friend Cookie, I think. Ah, geez, guys. My first ever currently trending. Was it? Was saying geez a lot. Oh yes. Okay. Ah, geez guys. Also Cookie was the one. Yeah. Bunch of great stories about Cookie. Cookie had the idea of having a shirt that said shirt of the week that's great you know a blank of the week is shirt of the week so i think that's a great idea for a t-shirt for ghost

writers whenever we have time we'll do it yeah it should be really difficult probably to put that on a t-shirt but yeah but we'll you know we'll figure it out do it for you guys and for profit so i'm glad i remembered this because i didn't write it down it's been a busy couple weeks you know last week was the show and this week was the tour, but still throughout the day, I've been trying to work hard and on, on podcast stuff as well. I've been on the phone with multiple like advertising companies and companies who want to advertise with us. And one of the networks that I was talking to, she was kind of asking about the podcast and she's listened to it before. She's like, before we had this meeting, I listened to a couple of your episodes to get a vibe for what it was about. So I was like, okay, that's great.

A little nervous about what, maybe what she thought, but at least she had done her due diligence and familiarized herself. And so she's asking me like, so what kind of advertisers are you looking for? How can we help? What are your goals? Yada, yada. I'm telling her that, you know, we're just really excited, you know, to be still doing this and that people are enjoying it and it's growing right now. And she was like, uh, how did it go? Pretty much. I was like, I don't even totally know how it's growing, but it is. She's like, well, I had the thought. Do you think because of, you said he grew a lot in October. Do you think because of Halloween and with the ghost and ghost runners, they grew a lot? Yeah. Spooky

season. I was like, I really don't think that's why. Like I said, I don't know why, but I really don't think it's because people are like, oh, what's a good spooky podcast? You know, I'm just feeling the fall vibes. What's a scary podcast? It's just like a ghost. And then they just click on ours. And then they listen to all our episodes. And then they keep listening.

Oh, this is scary. I don't get why they're calling this that, but maybe that's part of it. That's the thing about bear attacks. They come when you least expect them. I thought that was so funny. Yeah. You think, well, yeah, it's probably because of Halloween. That's the thing about bear attacks. They come when you least expect them. I thought that was so funny. That's politics, baby. Yeah. You think, well, yeah, it's probably because of Halloween. That's funny.

It's like, well. Good point for creativity. Maybe. Really doubt it, Cheryl. So did you listen to our episodes? Because Ghost Runners is very little about what we ever talk about. Not a lot of ghosts. I did get feedback from people that said they would love to do the Ghost Runners 5K next year.

Oh, yeah. So we need to do that for sure. Absolutely. Halloween 5K. We can't forget. We cannot forget to do that ghost runners 5k. So we need to do that for sure. Absolutely. Halloween 5k. We can't forget. We cannot forget to do that. Holy cow. Was that only one voicemail? Did we go off on a tangent off that? My goodness.

We didn't even say the negatives, but honestly, I don't know the negatives. I'm sure I could think of something, but it's, You forget to turn the heater on and my feet are cold now. There's my negative for you. And it's similar. Uh, what are what yeah what if we just like oh i can't think of anything all of a sudden actually uh sometimes in the car most of

the time in the car we do not agree on temperatures oh yeah you're always like like dude i'm so hot roll down the windows with like 25 degree weather and i'm like it's perfect in here i get so stuffy so fast but not today not because the heater was not turned on okay hey let's not fight let's not fight in front of the ghosters not for sarah okay next voice okay we got to go faster with this because i got to go hey guys it's renee so i really consider you guys fashionistas so i think you're really the most qualified to answer this question my question is what's a trend from the 90s early 2000s that has made a comeback that you wish would have stayed in the 90s early 2000s

or on the opposite end of the spectrum what's a trend that has not come back that you would love to see again oh i already know which one i want to come back gauchos are you kidding me those things were awesome those are the ones that are like really free-flowing capri kind of thing the girls were in seventh grade oh boy i'm really just bring them back upset that uh sophie shorts aren't back okay just teasing just teasing hey just okay okay cut that out hey add that out please i was just joking about the sophie shorts um the real answer is fedoras of course you're like spandex no one's wearing spandex except everyone's wearing spandex all the time that's true um i'm just joking about sophie shorts you're right that was that was inappropriate of me howdy if you're listening you are so beautiful the way

you are sweetheart don't do not wear those shorts with the imprint on the booty. It'll make your bottom warm. No, fedoras, of course. Jason Mraz was rocking them back in the day. I forgot about Jason Mraz. You know what? Let's take it even one step farther than fedoras. Driver's caps.

You know what I'm talking about when I call that? I thought they were so cool back in the day when Michael Jordan would wear them backwards and space jam for his golf sessions. That's right. Those things were awesome. And I did not know what they were called back when there was not good internet. I could not look them up to put it on my birthday list. So I never had fun. I want the backwards Michael Jordan space jam. I wanted a driver's hat. That was Nike so bad, like it never got one. and so if you are interested in giving one for my birthday out there um dm me and i might give you um the address to my house wow be careful maybe um something comes to mind that i wish would come back as well was uh i feel like in the 90s

everything was like primary colors everything was red blue and yellow and now we stray away from that now it's like much more like muted colors like desaturated colors oh yeah and i would like to see more like vibrant red blue yellows bright colors yeah i i don't have much to add to that i'll try no it's okay but i think she was being sarcastic saying how much fashionistas we are first of all i take a little offense that i could be a fashionista if i wanted to be you'd have to rearrange some things i just have to get unmarried i think i don't i don't care anymore i've bagged my dough. I've told, I've told you that. Yeah. Well, who cares? I look good. I look fine. She likes me. So it's fine. She likes my face. She doesn't care what's beneath it. Shirt wise. Okay. Next voice memo. What up my homies jake and brad this is rachel from rosedale ohio but i'm

calling from montrose colorado um first of all i just wanted to give a jumbo thank you to jake for your touching poem about hospitals last week as a nurse who works in the hospital i found your poetic words just truly truly touching next I have a suggestion rather than a question. So you guys have been talking about wanting to learn to recorder for a while now, but it seems like you need some motivation to actually take it seriously. So I was thinking maybe by episode 30, the two of you could perform the same duet Dwight and Pam did at the bird funeral. Plus, this way, only one of you actually has to learn the recorder which might be more attainable but seriously guys i love this podcast i've been ghost running with you guys since episode one back

in may so thanks for being the highlight to my mondays for the last six months all right bye guys okay i loved that that was awesome great sound quality great oh yeah she she had the woofers turned up i think for sure on that probably Probably. And Listings hits the very first episode. That's cool. Did you notice that she did the classic compliment, diss, compliment? It was the hamburger approach to sports psychology. She's like, what did she say first? Oh, she complimented your slam poetry.

Heart spittle. And then she called us out like, notice you were going to do this thing you never did. Yeah. But I love you guys. So, no, I actually like the idea of the recorder thing do you want to be Dwight or Pam I want to be whatever you don't want to be okay we'll talk about it

that's just my personality man no but we do need to do something on the recorder Rachel thank you that was awesome thank you for listening for so long I love that you even made it a verb you even go strutting yes I love it thanks Rach can we call you out? Jake and Brad. Hello from Slovenia.

My name is Gwen and I just started listening to your podcast. I am not Slovene. I'm an American missionary over here in the country of Slovenia. But anyway, my question for you is, do you guys even know where Slovenia is? So don't look at a map. All right. And thank you for your podcast. It's awesome. Thank you for the voice memo. Persephone, I think. Persephone. I could be wrong, but I believe Slovenia is beneath the shoulder blade. It's near the vertebrae. Well, yeah, on the left or right. I think it could be either.

I don't know. Yeah. What did you think? I was thinking, and this is like specifically the school supply, Slovenia, like the writing utensil is right around like the northeast like new york vermont pennsylvania uh i was like where is it going with this um also did you know no idea where slovenia is of course i think it's i i guess it's like near hungary romania i think it's tucked away in like southeastern europe is my guess. Bosnia. Give me one of those places.

Like that's my guess. The Baltics. Is that the Baltics? Oh yeah. Baltic Avenue. It's purple. That's right. So Slovenia is right before Community Chest, but right after B&O Railroad.

I think it's before the first railroad. Yes. Yes. But after go. I did not know that they were called Slovenes. Slovenes. I did not know that they were called Slovenes. Slovenes. I love that. And when they're, you know, going through puberty, are they Slovenators?

Nice. I was going to say Slovene Dion. Oh, Slovene Dion. Oh, somebody you know, Slovene, I love you. I don't know. Yeah, it's the national anthem to the tune of my heart will go on keep going near far and you'll go through the puberty um slovenians man oh yeah yeah you just go you just go around the river through the slovene slovenes man oh yeah yeah you just go you just go around the river through the slovene

and then you're there go to one of my favorite uh things like in barnes and noble i'll go to the section that slovene romance that's good i love those books twilight give me five you little slovene okay now great question next voiceover i gotta go so soon i'm sorry i've we're kind of short this week but i gotta hey guys it's taylor from canada i just wanted to say that i love your podcast and i think you guys are doing a really great job i just recently started listening to it but i think my favorite episode is window middle aisle it really resonated with me so my question for you guys is can you find another solution to an everyday problem also jake your relationship videos are the funniest i love them i'm totally recommending this podcast to everyone i know have a nice day all right that's awesome thank you for the recommendation window middle aisle that's a great idea i'm glad you liked the relationship videos. Yeah, check those out.

Triplet Jake. Just... Two T's, one Jake. That's me. Welcome to the stage. Two T's, one Jake. He's all yours. You got him.

Han Siegel. He's your poopsie. So, I've got one. Okay. Here's the problem, Brad. You gotta go throw your clothes in the washing machine. What? An hour later...

Not like you're already upset. What? You gotta wash your your clothes in the washing machine. What? An hour later. Not like you're already upset. What? You gotta wash your clothes. Come on. An hour later, you gotta come back. You gotta bend over. Over and over again as you're loading and unloading into the dryer. Then you put them there.

Then you come, you start it, you come back 45 minutes later. Bend over again. Put them in the, you fold them. Then, what's your face? What's wrong? Nothing. I was gonna i was gonna try to find a natural pause and sing bend over by little john and taiga i love that song that's all i know it's so catchy wow i love that song i hit my hand on the table too

ow worth it Poopsie. So here's the problem. Multiple trips, a lot of bending over, let your knees touch your elbows. Bend over, let your knees touch your elbows! Here's my solution. Combo, washer, dryer set on top of each other. There's a trap door beneath the washer.

When you're closer to washing, trap door opens. Trap door closes. All your clothes fall into the trapdoor opens trapdoor closes all your clothes fall into the dryer and then they start drying on their own one trip to go get your clothes afterwards what how hard is that technology to do because it needs to happen it's just a trap door it seems so easy they're already making washer dryer combo sets like vertically right stacked so it's not like it's impossible for them to be on top of each other for like heat displacement or something. Like, I don't know why you would not do that. I bet

people that are engineers out there are doing it to their own things. Probably. In the private sector. Yeah, the private sector. Elon Musk. Eli what's his name? Eli Musk. Elijah Musk. Elijah Musk has those in his house. He's only taking two trips, I guarantee it oh for

sure to load and unload he's probably not even taking a trip he's probably just saying please come get my laundry and then this little robot puts it in there for him maybe no way of knowing wow that's a way better solution than mine um mine is simply but this is also a common problem everyone washes their uh clothes every, but not everyone puts washers on their body every week. Not everyone sits on a washer. That's always fun to try and guess what you're going to say. I think everyone at least once a year goes through at least a little bit of a common cold, a little bit of congest, congesties. Simple answer for how you battle this, not necessarily overcome it, but battle it, especially at night. One of my least favorite things whenever I have a cold is going to bed,

knowing that A, you're going to snore and your wife and or husband is going to be very irked by you because they're not going to be able to sleep as well. B, you're going to wake up with a super dry mouth because your mouth is going to be open this whole night. Um, but well, it's, I have to, because I can't breathe out of my nose. So what I do is this Kelly Kapoor, I go boom, boom, boom. Yeah. I can't believe you don't know how congestion works, Ryan. Um, so, but I want to watch love actually, which was awesome. Uptown girls. Um, so what I do whenever I have a congestion and it's, it's 30 seconds of, uh, I'll go ahead and say it. Hell 30 seconds of mild discomfort and the rest of your night is wonderful. Okay. What do you do, Brad? Tell me the steps. It's very simple. You close your mouth Okay And you breathe as intensely as possible through your nose sounds scary and you there will be moments where you feel like it's not

There's no there's no air. There's no canal. How am I supposed to live with no air breathe with no air? Yes, Jay sparks, but you crazy. Literally. It's like this your wife is going to hate it for one minute but i promise after one minute you will be breathing well through your nose it's wild but it works it seems like you could generally like lose air like if you're that congested i'm telling i'm serious no way to breathe. No, there is like the first, I'm telling you the first 15 seconds you think, I don't know if I can do this. I don't know if I'm cut out for this. And then you do it for the next 15 seconds.

You're like, okay, it's getting a little bit better, but it's still really hard. Next 30 seconds. I think I'm getting past this. Do not open your mouth after that. Go right to sleep and you will be good. Write it down, try it. It's wonderful. That's great. That's's awesome thank you for the question yeah do we have any more one more cool all right i'm abby so you

wanted an english accent here it is just wanted to say love listen to the podcast love all the banter brad if you get the shipping sorted ellis Custom Creations, here I come. Jake, I hope the stand-up went well. I have a question for you both. If you could be anyone for the day, who would you be? Oh, that pumps me up right away. She goes, all right. I'm like, yes!

You proved my point. That was awesome. All right. All right. The podcast. Oh, man. Go to England and bag that dough. I think if I could be anyone for a day it's

whoever lives nearby this woman whoever is like already a personal friend of this girl i want to be them for a day and i want to i want to meet her and i want to hear her talk i would be lebron james oh dang you're right that's so much better than mine he could dunk easily this girl's friend probably doesn't dunk never dunk dunked. Play your dunk. That was really fun. Sorry, I interrupted you. No, you had a great point. LeBron James can dunk. Yeah, LeBron James is probably better. When you look at dunking, he's far and away better than most people you're going to choose. So stupid answer, Jake. I mean, yeah, I've just always had a dream to play in the NBA and I don't think I'm going to make it.

But LeBron has made it and is doing very well. So would love to play. And I'd probably be LeBron James like the day that he's playing like, I don't know, like the magic. Like somebody that's just, he's going to dominate. Yeah, he can pretty much score as many points as he wants to. It's on him. I would insist, hey, coach, I know I've been playing three quarters.

I want to play a fourth. LeBron, you're amazing. I'll say, hey coach, I know I've been playing three quarters. I want to play a fourth. LeBron, you're amazing. I'll say, I bring my best. So, um. Do you invite your grandma to the game too? Oh, of course. Lois is coming. Nice. Yeah. She needs to see it. Absolutely. Okay. Was that all the voice memes? Blanks of the week. Awesome. Let's do blanks of the week.

One thing I just thought of while she was talking, because she mentioned Ellis Custom Creations. There was a girl, I want to say her name was Megan. I think the Omaha show came up and talked to me afterwards. Cause a lot of people would talk to me and ask for pictures. And they're like, Oh yeah, I saw you in the letter boards video or,

or just saw me tonight and liked it or saw you on trades podcast. But this girl said, I listened to your podcast, Jake with you and Brad. And I was like, Megan, get in here, gave her a big old hug.

And she was like, Oh yeah. She's like your friend, Isaac who bought the espresso machine? And I checked out Brad's tables. Those are good tables. All right. So Megan, if you're listening, Brad's had a slow week. Yeah.

We're going to place that order. So I wonder if she looked at my tables on Instagram, Facebook, or lscustomercreations.com. Either way, there's pictures up everywhere. It's hard to know sometimes. That's awesome. LSCustomer Creations really appreciates it. That's really cool. Megan, thank you. You're Ellis Custom Creations' biggest fan.

Okay. So Blinks of the Week. Hit it, Brad. Blinks of the Week. Thank you. We're going to start with, what did we decide we were going to start with? I don't remember. Take it away. Fan of the Week. Oh, okay. Great. Fan of the week for me, um, is somebody that I've been playing a lot of football with. Um, watched a movie last night actually with this person has just really been wanting to hang out with me a lot lately. It's really cool. It's like, man, I love like, especially when Jake's not here, like Jake's my guy that I always hang out with. Um, that's me, but this, it's actually a girl that wants to do all this stuff with me. Uh, turns out she's my daughter. You're kidding. Hattie Louise? Hattie Louise Ellis. It was so cute.

We played catch, quote unquote, one day with the football. And really what I did was I just threw it really high up in the air. It bounced and then she ran and got it and brought it back to me. What kind of ball are we talking? Regulation, collegiate size, Kansas State Wildcat football. She's catching this bouncing ball. That seems a little scary. I'm throwing it up in the air, bounces on the ground,

bounces and goes wherever. It stops rolling. Retrieves it. Okay. Gotcha. Uh, she does. I've been throwing her the ball though, like from like five feet away and she's been catching them, which is really very exciting.

Last time I saw her trying to play catches with a dodge ball. Struggling. Struggling. Yeah. No, this is a football. So hopefully she'll be a professional athlete and get paid way less than men. Um, that would be the dream. Yeah. But not unless you play soccer. Maybe not. I don't know what they do there. Well, we talked about it on the podcast. Remember? Kinda. Okay. Anyway, fan of the week. She's just

been so sweet and it's been really cool. Like, obviously I know that she likes me, but like just the other day she was like talking to Catherineatherine she's like i want to go play football with dad you know and i was i've been around a lot this week but i've been working on my computer and whatnot on elliscustomcreations.com and she like sought me out multiple times she's like i want to dad i really want to watch a movie with you can we please watch this movie i say yeah we can watch it sometime soon and she's brought up so many times like she's just a fan of me and it that's really cool so fan of the week howdy louise from one parent to another i'm really proud of you thanks yeah you know what it feels like yeah i can't imagine yeah you know what that was like before you knew your daughter's fan of you so congrats

man uh my fan of the week is actually not from the tour not what you're expecting you're kidding and fan is probably a loose term because i don't think it's like she's a fan i don't know it's someone answering who i don't personally know so fan works i guess because she's been following me for a while but this girl messaged me probably a month ago she was like hey i just got to australia i know you went a while back and do you have any tips for me and it came, it was a great time because I just got done. I think I was just getting into bed for the night. It was like 2 a.m. And I was like, perfect. I can like dedicate some time that give her a thorough answer. I love it. 2 a.m. Yeah. I got plenty of time. Honestly though, like you've DM me at noon. I'm probably not going to like

see it or get around to it right then. But yeah, 2 a.m. Yeah. I'm free baby. And so Kate McGinty, that's her name. Shout out. I give her a pretty thorough list of like things I've done, even included like pictures and videos I could find on my phone of like things I did. And then like two weeks ago, she sends me a DM back and she has recreated multiple videos that I sent her with her friends. So I sent her one of like, oh, okay, you got to take this cruise around the opera house. And so I sent her this video where, you know, you see the Sydney opera house and then Grant Hederberg is like flailing out of the boat or whatever. And so she did that with her friend. I was like, if you want to, if you like dancing, you got to go to

Argyle nightclub, get your shirts wet there. And there was a video of me dancing with my passport and like flipping it. And I don't know, honestly, I was killing it. And she recreated that with her friend, recreating Grant and I's dance moves. And it was awesome. That was probably a really fun thing for her to do too, though. Like we have material that we can go off. Yeah, it was just so fun. That's really cool. And one step further, I got tagged in multiple stories this week that said, shout out Kate McGinty for telling me about this podcast. So Kate McGinty, get on your feet, let's go. And we got to give an honorary fan of the week every week to the ghost runners pod creator oh my god that is is our biggest fan i think this person he or she i guess we don't

really know we have no idea who this person is but they're continuing to amaze us with what they do it's incredible so follow the ghost runners pod right after you follow triplet jake two t's one jake and ls custom creations and leave us five star review. That's right. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, it's awesome. That's so cool. So thanks, Kate. Okay, next we're going to go quote of the week. Brad, what do you got? Okay. Quote of the week also has to do with Hattie. The other day she was eating breakfast in her high chair in the kitchen. I walked in and had my shorts, you know, t-shirt on, just had woken up, hung out with her for a little bit, went back and changed my clothes. So I put some jeans on, put some, whatever, a hoodie on or something, came back in there, was feeling goofy. I love entertaining Hattie. So I was like dancing

around the kitchen and Hattie's like favorite thing she says these days is like, no, don't do that. Like kind of like flirtatious. Like, no dad, no dad, don't do that like kind of like flirtatious like no dad no dad don't do that like you know better than to do that she's like kind of joking around like no dad don't do that and then she says don't dance with your pants on and multiple times since then katherine and i have just yeah big quote don't dance with your pants on that is absolutely what i'm titling this episode that is amazing no dad don't dance with your pants on that is absolutely what i'm titling this episode that is amazing no dad don't dance with your pants on dad oh just amazing that's a great line so uh that's the quote of the week easily been been the most quoted thing in our house this this week

don't dance with your pants on dad oh wow that's awesome well i can't top that but my quote of the week comes from a woman in madison wisconsin who, kind of cornered me at the meet and greet that. So if you pay like extra, there's like a VIP meet and greet that Trey has. I was just there getting footage of him for like, you know, maybe our next tour and have some promo stuff. Like there's meet and greet and then a footage of it. I'm just doing my camera. She taps me on the shoulder and it's like, Hey, so great to meet you. Yada. You did. You did great tonight. And also, you're so cute. This is my daughter, Rachel. Oh.

Daughter Rachel has been like standing behind her the whole time. Didn't even see old Rach back there. And then she does this like little move and just like sends Rachel to the front and she goes to the back. Presenting Rachel. Rachel, single, disease free and free this Friday. Long walk on the beach. And said it loud enough that other people heard like other people's heads turned my face i think got so red pretty uncomfy situation decent

kisser yeah just kidding uh wow so it was not a love connection i wouldn't say so but yeah quote of the week you're so cute this is my daughter rachel wow great transition going for it all right i like that she's bold they're bold up there love it man wonderful i think last blank of the week is going to be review of the week once again we got a lot yes they're so awesome they came in hot this week people seem to like the uh the hospital slam poem which i felt was pretty mediocre but a lot a lot of feedback on that it was clear that j Jake won the hospital or the slam poetry battle because no one said anything about my slave poetry. I don't think maybe they said something about bring your grandma, but anyway, it's fine. I'm not, I'm not irked. Okay. Let's, uh, I'm going to just give half of a couple as my combined review of the week.

My friend, Aaron Dimchek said, PS, I posted a screenshot of your pod on my Insta story and now people think I like podcasts about ghost hunting and I keep getting recommendations for them now. So thank you. Maybe she's friends with that woman that's doing our ads stuff. She's like, oh, Aaron sent me. Yeah, she told me.

Yeah, it's real spooky this time of year. Okay. And then why don't you go half of one of yours, Brad? Let me try to find one. Yeah, I was gonna say, you might need to edit some of this because I need to look at... I always feel like I love all of them.

And I want everyone to get some kind of recognition for it. Sorry. Yeah, they're all so great. But also, I've really got to go. I know, I know. Guys, this week, I got to go shoot the stuff for Old Spice right now, which is exciting. So make sure to see that this week. You comment on it and say something for me, please.

I appreciate it. And then I got to go look at this other exciting stuff happening. I got to edit a video for Trey., but it's amazing that he's yeah. First time reviewer, long time listener. He says, love it. Uh, but he says just like the office, this podcast has evolved from something to have on the background to laughing out loud by myself. Oh, that's awesome. That's kind. Uh, but the best thing he said was at the end, he said, Kansas greater sign, Missouri. Um, I wonder why that's your favorite.

I wonder why that that's, that's definitely,'s definitely i i just we appreciate all of them though it's so hard for me to choose one yeah they really are so great they're so fun they're all so clever too yeah so appreciate it oh dang it there's dang it i'm just not reading this one for the first time jake really does only reply once i'll just keep getting called out. I'm sorry. Yeah. There's one that's like the fifth most recent one. Oh, yeah. From CatterJFJFEJX. Maybe that's why you only got one reply. Who are you?

What is that username? Anyway, Caitlin. Oh, I see it. Yeah, Caitlin in the review. Thanks for the DM, I guess. Sorry, I only replied once. But I think my other favorite review this week was someone who was talking about how they got a concussion and they weren't allowed to like watch TV or read or do anything.

That one needs to be the one. So they'd just been listening to our podcast. Yes. I forgot about that one. I got a concussion a few days ago. My doctor told me I can't go to work, watch TV or read any books as an extrovert. Whose top love language is quality time. This was basically a death sentence. Continuously listening to your podcast has been the only thing keeping me sane. And since I have been spending so much quality time with you both, you are my new best friends. That a hundred percent is the best. Great review, Gabby. I'm so sorry for forgetting about you at the beginning, Gabby, you poopsie. Thank you. Oh boy. Well, Brad, you want to hit him with a jingle to end it? do thank you guys for um listening to this episode again i hope i didn't butter my own biscuit too much but i'm just very excited i got

to do comedy and i want to talk to you guys about it thank you if you were there at the shows and thank you for if you come to brad and i's live tour 20 2020 baby whoa just kidding that would be cool though premature Pretty mature. 2021. See you there. Wear your shirts of the week. Oh, yes. All right. Ready?

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