Ghostrunners - 29 - co-winky-dinx

Episode Date: November 25, 2019

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Hi everyone, this is Katherine Ellis, the brains behind Ellis Custom Creations, and I'm just here to give a quick announcement that there was some minor technical difficulties during the recording of this episode, episode 119 of Ghost Runners Podcast LLC. And so the sound quality, specifically of Jacob Garland Triplett, will be a little bit... Is that too much personal information? No, I was like, good for you for remembering. Will be a little bit not as high quality as you are accustomed to hearing. But don't worry, that does not affect the high quality of the conversation.

You've got to go and dig those holes with broken hands and withered souls Emancipated from all you know You've got to go and dig those holes Dig it up, dig it up, dig it up, dig it up Yeah, two suits, two tokens in hand Got no respect cause I'm the new man Got my shovel, shoes full of sand Check out the tag, the name's Caveman. I do the tea. What is that you smell it dog? That's me. I don't take showers and I don't brush my teeth because all I do is dig holes, eat and sleep.

Dig it up my own, dig it up my own, yeah. Dig it up those holes, dig them. Dig it up my own, yeah. Episode 29. Welcome everyone to Brad and I i's favorite podcast it's ghostwriters uh a little behind the scenes i had a little trouble uh with my parts to that song what are you talking about we uh before and we're like should we like rehearse this and brad's like let's just do it it'll be funnier if we just like do it and in the it's true for the most part it went fine yeah for some reason my my first two lines are

two suits uh and i kept saying two soaps two different times i said two soaps the first time did you say two soaps the first time you say two soaps i might say two soaps and then i got closer and said two soaps shoot man oh that had us giggling though i just couldn't couldn't say the word suits but goodness we're here episode 29 another uh Monday here in the in the workshop of Ellis Custom Creations recording a podcast that's right yep um most of the time it's uh used for custom made furniture um for all around Kansas City but today is being used for the Ghost Runners so thank you to elliscustomcreations.com for letting us use their shop what's the furthest you've ever like delivered a table to someone?

Personally, not that far, like probably an hour and a half or so. But you've had people deliver tables for you? Yeah, actually, my friend Mike Bamford, who does most of my deliveries, he delivered a table for me to my friend Jeff in Oklahoma City kind of recently. Whoa. Esther Kim, shout out, you know, uh, big, big ghoster Esther. Yeah. Uh, she delivered something for me one time to Texas. No way. I didn't know that. I think she delivered it to Oklahoma, but the guy was living in Texas. So he came and saw her anyway. Um, yeah, so there's, there's been some times like that, but for the

most part, it's just around the Kansas city area. Um, so nothing too crazy. I'm trying to figure out how to deliver to people more efficiently, but it's really, really expensive. It's like $400, $500 to ship something if it's like already intact, like it's already constructed. Like if it's like Ikea style, you can ship it out for $75 or something like that. But then what's the point of getting a custom table that you have to put together yourself?

Yeah, it's not fun. Yeah, I was trying to figure out how like the drug cartel does it because they're very good at smuggling things in and out of places. Yeah, I've actually contacted them a few times. Pablo? They refuse to admit that they use custom-made tables to smuggle though. So I cannot get the hold on it. You'll break them down. You'll get them.

I'll get their mules. Yeah. Oscar, have you ever pooped a balloon? That was one of those things that I've been watching The Office for so long that i did not understand that at the time like why is he why is he asking this like what does that mean that's funny i was like somewhat sure but wasn't gonna ask yeah but i was like i think i know why another uh part of that like like right in that same scene whenever he's asking creed like do you know what this is and creed oh yeah like i didn't get a very technical term for marijuana cannabis indicus yeah and dwight's like no it's marijuana

but the funny thing is that creed knows exactly what it is yeah it's like saying the exact strain of like right that the weed is yeah i did not get that at first at all but anyway uh so no do not ship very well yet unless you want cutting boards uh custom made home signs things like that i can ship those so just check out ellis custom creations.com tell a friend i'm trying to get my seo up um sure so oh speaking of that yeah you're in about 25 minutes we'll tell you a little more about seo oh yeah strap in brad how's your week been? It's been very below average, to be honest with you. Yeah. I've been sick like pretty much all week.

Really, I don't want to go into too many details about it, but I got really sick on Sunday. I had food poisoning after. And I'm pretty sure the reason that we got food poisoning is because you and I got late night IHOP the night before. Yeah. Had to be. And got food poisoning the next day. Yeah. Um, had to be and got food poisoning the day, the next day felt terrible. And then since then, I just haven't really been able to regain strength or motivation to do anything, which is just a terrible, terrible way to live life. So it's just been a really like

rough, unproductive feel like I haven't contributed much to my family. Kind of like, it's just been a really not fun week for me. So hoping that I – I'm starting to feel a little bit better, but hoping that I can regain full strength here soon. Well, you're podding today. I'm podding. Appreciate that. It seems like you've got some energy in you. I think I have some.

Yeah. Yeah. Enough. Enough. We just had a little Chick-fil-A. That's fueling you a little bit. Yeah. That peanut oil back in the bloodstream.

That's right. I needed that. Yeah. After peanut oil back in the bloodstream. That's right. I needed that. Yeah. After food poisoning, you go right back to the fried foods. Yeah. You don't want to throw your body off too much. It's already been through enough. Let's return back to home base.

Homeostasis. Yeah. Exactly. So, but yeah, the week's been just fine. Nothing too crazy one way or the other. The Chief won on Monday. So that's exciting for me. That was nice. And they played in Monday, so that's exciting for me. That was nice.

And they played in Mexico, which was fun to watch that. But yeah, how about you, man? It's been a good week. It's been a very, very busy week. Not necessarily in an exciting way. Just like every hour has been filled, it seems like, with something, which is good. All the work I'm doing, I'm something which is good yeah it's all the work i'm doing i'm really excited about but it's just been a rather exhausting week just like feeling

like there's always something i could be doing and i i guess i've just been very disciplined this week more so and just like actually doing it right but a very busy week i've had some uh i almost said like ironic things but it's not ironic it's actually peppy of mine people use the word ironic incorrectly all the time they don't know what it means like oh things, but it's not ironic. It's actually a pet peeve of mine. People use the word ironic incorrectly all the time. They don't know what it means. Like, oh, your sister's name is Julie. My, my sister's name is Julie. That's so ironic. No, that is so far from what irony is. It's a coincidence. Yes. It's a coincidence. 90% of the time you're using the word irony. You mean coincidence. Yes. Mrs. Roth, AP English, sophomore year of high school taught us because there was a pet peeve of hers. Like, yeah it's bothered me since high school it's not ironic yeah and sarcastic and facetious two different sarcastic means like negative uh sarcasm okay whereas facetious

whereas facetious uh whereas facetious is just like joking around okay like sarcastic is like i'm trying to be mean to you with my sarcasm do you know that sarcasm means like like i think the latin root of it means like the ripping of flesh like sarcasm is like really bad yeah that's what i'm saying like it's a very negative thing to be sarcastic being on the same page about yes words gosh we're so good but irony that's ironic that we're so on the same page oh my gosh you and i we are ironic soups anything with soup or suit i can't say today yeah but irony is like oh the firehouse burnt down the marriage counselor got divorced this week i had coincidences happen okay we had four different

ones i'm gonna go through them real quick and we're gonna start from least crazy to most crazy okay here we go let's go first one real quick i was talking to a friend the other day she was like oh when's trey get married you're going to the wedding right i'm like oh yeah i would assume i'll be invited to the wedding i think they chose a date like a month ago i don't know at what point you get invited or when all that happens it'll probably be well whatever then like 30 minutes later it gets a text to get invited to the wedding i'm like oh, oh, that's great. Perfect. You know, answer to that question you had or whatever. Okay. So there was one thing.

That was one. Okay. Just, yeah. Trust me. It's going to get higher and higher. Can we have like a little, like a just quick catchphrase for every time you say something, I'll say, what a coinkydink. Is that cool?

That would be great. Okay. Ready? So let me start over. Okay. And then 30 minutes later, Trey texted me asking asked me for my address to send to save the date. What a quanky day. Okay, I can't wait for the other ones.

I want to see you get into it. Okay, number two was I was talking to my sister. She's explaining to me that at her place, they've had this mouse issue. She's like, it's bad. I got in the habit of every time I would wake up in the morning and flip on the kitchen light i would see a mouse like it was bad it was so consistent i was like we've taken all these steps mouse traps uh mouse poison all of our food is in boxes and just like they won't go away and so we were having a conversation about it and i was just like that is that is scary that sucks but it's interesting being so like

almost terrified or whatever and spooked by an animal that can literally do nothing to you. You know, I don't know if they have teeth. Do they even have like prey? They just eat people's food. I think they carry disease. Yes. My sister said that too.

She's like, your poop can kill you or something. Oh, really? Okay. But I was saying from the animals themselves, whatever. Like they're scared of you. They're going to run away. Yeah. For some reason, I'm still scared.

Yeah. It's funny. So we had that conversation. Oh, wait, is that the part? Okay. No, no, no. You'll know. The next day I get in the craziest mood, Brad. I'm like, I said, I'm going to clean my entire place. I pick up a thing of dirty clothes. A mouse runs out from underneath them the very next day. Hello? It's me. What a coink-y day. And so then I just had to clean up my entire place being petrified. Mice could be anywhere. They could be underneath every single thing I pick up. And I live in a studio apartment.

There's not a lot of room for mice to hide. And that's when it got scary. I was like, I was making fun of my sister. And now I am terrified of where these mice could be. Okay. Option three. We're getting, we're raising the stakes. Okay, here it comes. Here it comes. Don't worry worry there's four so save save your best one for the fourth option

three was uh so i have been feeling not great not nearly as bad as you but just got a cold earlier this week maybe oh that's that's bonus bonus and i had to do a lot of like speaking this week i was on a guy's podcast i spoke at a high school this week so i was like i really don't want to have a cold for this so my friend was like oh take some zycam and i didn't know if this person knew that i couldn't swallow pills so i didn't know what zycam was yeah so i was like no no i'm fine i got plenty i'm totally fine yeah turns out zycam dissolvable tablets so i take a few pop a few zyes i think that's what the kids are probably saying hey bro you got any zyes you got any Zy's? You got any Zy's? I get dime, dime of Zy's.

I don't know. Zycan? No, that's what it's really called. Dang it. I was trying to think of a funny pun. You got any little Zyboys? Zybo, what's that? Oh, I'm just making something up.

Zyboy. I don't know, dude. Okay. So it turns out this thing helps a lot. And so I'm like, hey, you know, what would you recommend? I'm looking for more Zycam. I'm taking it more and more. We started, we're texting back. It's become a running joke about Zycam. Then I go to Trey's house Wednesday. We're about to shoot some videos. He's like, Hey, before we shoot this other stuff, I just had a brand deal come through last

minute, last night. Uh, we got to shoot a brand deal for Zycam. Hey, over here. It's me. The coinkity. So that was crazy. I was like, dude, you're kidding. I just found out about Zycam. Hey, over here. It's me. The Coinkydink. So that was crazy. I was like, dude, you're kidding. I just found out about Zycam two days ago. I've been texting my friend about it like crazy. I've been popping Zyboys every three hours. And then I didn't even know about this pill three days ago.

And now like we're doing a video for it. That's awesome. What a Coinkydink. That is a big time Coinkydink. And then the fourth one, Brad. Oh, baby. I am walking with my friend, Will Severins. No.

Well, no, you're not a you're recording a podcast i was walking with my friend will severance we were walking to costco no there we go here it goes and it was monday and he was like how you feel about the chiefs game tonight and i was explaining to him my my my pickle that was in with pickleball oh yeah and i was like you know gunner and I freaking signed up for this Pickleball League. And it's right in the middle of Monday Night Football and the Chiefs are on. So I'm not sure how I'm feeling about it. We opened the Costco doors. And I kid you not, I literally bump into someone.

He's now grabbing my arm. I look over. It's Gunner's dad. And he says, hey, shouldn't you be practicing for your Pickleball game tonight? Ah! Hey, Mom! practicing for a pickleball game tonight hey mom we got a big old quicken egg over here that's what i'm talking about thanks for saving that one for me it truly was crazy though like not only had to like that is i was in the middle of that conversation about pickleball then i

run into gunner's dad who lives nowhere near midtown kansas city yeah what yeah i really know why he's at that costco and he mentions pickleball and then like he leaks he says should you be practicing for pickleball all right see you guys it was like he was like he was a guardian guardian that's exactly what i said to will will just try to keep talking to me he's like anyway man so i was like sorry i can't even focus like you understand what just happened to me was that an angel that's what i said i was like that might have been an angel if i didn't already know what gunner's dad looked like i would have thought thought that was just like something he hadn't sent. So anyway, all four of those things happened in like a three-day span. I was like, God, what is happening this week?

All these coinkydinkies. Coinkydinks, yeah, are really just signs from the Lord. Every one of them. My mom has a, she has a, you know, cross-stitch needlepoint thing that says that. Oh. Coinkydinks are really signs from the Lord. In parentheses. Ephesians 2 2 8 and 9

second opinions 13 44 exactly oh wow that's really funny those are just some random things that happened this week that i was like this is fun podcast material that is funny um okay speaking of chiefs so whenever i listen to the chiefs on the radio i'm listening to 101 the fox 101 101.1 the fox classic rock and then because of the chiefs i find radio i'm listening to 101 the fox 101.1 101.1 the fox classic rock and then because of the chiefs i find myself a lot of times turning on my car you know monday tuesday wednesday still on 101.1 the fox and so i get into whatever classic rocks on there so like wait what's their catchphrase 101 the fox with the classic rock with the classic rock uh i don't know what their actual like catch i their actual catchphrase is.

The Fox. I think it's their chief radio. I think that's what they brag about. Does the fox make a noise like an animal? The fox. Well, you know, what does the fox say? You know, remember that song? Ring-ding-ding.

Yeah. That's about all I know. I think that's accurate. But anyway, I've really enjoyed the classic rock lately. I got really into Lynyrd Skynyrd's Simple Man the other day. You know that song? Simple kind of man. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

Like I was belting it out. And then the other day I turned on like this classic rock station and they're like, what a wonderful fox. And then it was like – and it was like like i was like wait nirvana is this nirvana like this smells like teen spirit on a classic rock station like nirvana is don't get me wrong nirvana is one of the greatest bands probably most influential bands of all time but they're not classic rock a little bit of generate like probably 20 year difference between yeah i was like roses and acdc right right I was like, what's – yeah, ACDC. You shook me all night long.

Sure. Get on there all day. You shook me all night wrong. A whole different song. Yeah. It's about an unplanned pregnancy. Oh, boy. Oh, gosh.

What? I don't know. Never mind. That's really funny. Anyway, so like, yeah, just very, very surprising that Nirvana would be on this station. So I'm like, so I thought to myself, okay, is classic rock going to change over the year? Like is classic rock always going to be this like late sixties, seventies, maybe early eighties or era music change its timeframe. Right. Like, or cause

like is Nirvana eventually going to be like, like oh dude let's just listen to classic rock like nirvana and soundgarden bro like it's like no like classic rock is leonard skinner and acdc you know like it's like guns and roses stuff like that and i'm like are we gonna turn on 101 it's gonna be like 101 the fox you know in 2025 no 20 2025 is kind of soon 2040 it's gonna be like 101 the fox it's gonna be like never met it as a blind man yeah couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing you know like

is it gonna be like Nickelback's classic rock all of a sudden I hope not 101 the Fox welcome back to a classic rock hour wake me up

wake me up and say it wake me up and say it I hope it's not that oh evanescence you know 101 she was a boy no i mean well he he was a boy she was a girl like is that gonna be like the new like stevie nicks is gonna be like skater boy like no wait what avril lavigne right oh like stevie nicks is like classic rock like is avril lavigne going to be the new stevie nicks is like classic rock right now like is avril

lavigne going to be the new stevie nicks someday yeah all the uh that like whole genre of music they're like lifehouse and hinder and doctrine where their voice is the same that i hope that never becomes i actually love that song you did not i. I hated that song. I love, yeah. Oh, golly. Lips of an Angel and Better Than Me by Hinder. They are, the content is so terrible. Like, it's disgusting what they're singing about. Like, in What Is Better Than Me, like, the, or no, maybe it's one of those songs.

It's like the taste of your innocence. It's just like, it makes you like squirm listening to it. But it's so catchy and I kind of like it. Golly. They're going to have like a acoustic 101 The Fox unplugged. Hey there, Delilah, what's it like in New York City? And it's like, what the? These are not classes.

These are not classes. This was like sophomore year of high school for me, man. What is this? I don't know. Hey there, Delilah. I forgot about that. I never really liked that song. I didn't either.

I didn't like most of these songs that I'm telling you right now i don't know ocean avenue by if i could find you now things would get better anyway i don't know stacy orico is coming on there michelle branch come on like this is not classic rock i hope to live in a day and age where Stacey Eureka is considered anything classic. Anything. I only want the classics. Stacey Eureka, Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne. You know. Yeah.

That's when music was good. I said no hits. Let's listen on CDs. That's the way music is supposed to be listened to. Do you think that the content of music is only going to get more and more inappropriate? Not necessarily. No, because i think it was inappropriate back in the day yeah like i was listening well we don't need to talk about it

too much but i was listening to a on 101 the fox there's a song by acdc that was just like this is ridiculously suggestive and inappropriate really yeah and i had never heard it before i was like this is on the radio right now and it was easily probably put out in the early 70s and i was like this is not appropriate yeah so it might be more like just like very explicitly like let me just tell you exactly what i'm saying or to say rather than being creative about what they're trying to portray but i don't think it's i don't feel like back in the day music was very appropriate either the reason i asked that question because in my mind i was thinking of the t-pain song which i also really love i just have an affinity for songs about terrible things but I'm in love with a stripper

is literally what it's called yeah but it's like a really pretty song I really like it it's a it's a beautiful message I don't resonate with the message but yeah something that is just so like overtly inappropriate I'm like you know to maintain the shock value maybe it does have to just keep getting worse and worse maybe I don't know maybe we'll swing the other way it is crazy to think like like as i said last week i love the beatles it's crazy to think like how inappropriate the beatles used to be seen yeah or even like elvis don't even show the bottom of him right because he is moving his hips on tv right it's crazy crazy what were the beatles they just they thought they were just like really inappropriate. They had long hair.

Ew. Yeah. And they like shook, they shook. Oh, Brad. No. And the girls just go crazy for it. So it's like, Hey, was that really it? That was pretty.

I mean, they were also very like, uh, like everyone before them, like anytime they got interviewed, they would be very professional and very, you know, cookie cutter responses and stuff. The Beatles would be sarcastic and Beatles would be like a little more like they had a personality. Yeah, exactly. Pretty much. And so it was like, like well I don't know about these guys like ah these guys are a little bit uh you know a little bit too yeah they're coming into America

with these personalities right they're not being facetious they're being straight up sarcastic you know like they'd be like are you are you excited about the tour and they'd be like well yeah of course well wouldn't we be you know like something like not giving quite the cookie cutter answers right used to rather than like yeah Roy Orbison back in the day being like well, of course. Well, wouldn't we be? You know, like something like that. Not giving quite the cookie-cutter answers we're used to. Rather than like, yeah, Roy Orbison back in the day being like, well, yeah, of course I am. It's going to be a great time. Thanks for everyone who's going to come out and buy tickets to the show. It's going to be a great time. Anyway, something like that.

I don't know super well. But anyway, 101 The Fox. 101 The Fox. It's going downhill. Oh, I know what I was going to say. We've been of classic rock. I remember when I was in college learning about, it was probably like art or something, you know, it's like okay So this is like the Renaissance era

This is the pre modern era the modern era and the postmodern era and we don't really know what is gonna be next And we're thinking this is so dumb Like there is a generation of people who thought so highly of themselves to call themselves the modern era Like how can you not see that there's gonna be more time after you like we're not always gonna themselves the modern era like how can you not see that there's going to be more time after you like we're not always going to be the modern era it's always going to be more and more modern yeah you mean yeah just so like short-sighted and pretentious to think no we are modern no one else in the future will ever be modern that's funny as much as we are yeah so the next generation okay i guess we're post-modern and after that it's like where do you even go from here so it's kind of classic rock in a way right like hey this is classic rock and it has to forever be classic rock that is interesting

to think about like that do you do you really think though like i think there's just going to be like this bubble of music from like the 90s and 2000s is going to go away because it's like we don't know where else to play this maybe like like where's dave matthews going to get played like dave matthews is not quite easy listening enough for like that station that plays like Your Body is a Wonderland by John Mayer. But like he's definitely not classic rock. I don't know. What's going to happen to Dave? Yeah, it's hard to really know.

I mean technology is moving so fast. Maybe radio is going away. The way we even consume music is going to change drastically every 10 years. If you have an opinion on this, just go ahead and leave us a five-star review and let us know what you like to listen to music on, whether it's 101 The Fox or your own station. So we'd really appreciate hearing about it. Brad, I've got some little mediocre life updates, just things that happened to me this week. We don't have to spend too much time on them. I have one. Okay. You want to start? Well, why don't I start us off so that we can kind of mix it up a little bit. Sure. Good idea. I was in Kansas City, Kansas. I was in a McDonald's

parking lot waiting. I was waiting for someone to text me back for lunch plans. Okay. So just chilling. I saw a creditless deal go down with a cat. Oh really? They like sold the cat. I saw or the cat was doing the exchange. The great question. The humans are doing the exchange. Give me the money. Meow. It's my money and I want it. Meow. The, uh uh that's really all i had to say i just saw a woman hand a cat over another person hand money over and i never seen that before they're just like yeah as you can see the cat's black here you go yeah this is it's exactly like the pictures yeah okay thanks here here's ferguson okay your turn uh i have uh misplaced my wallet all week oh yeah this was so funny well that was a really good story i was gonna tell but i okay i didn't end up finding it uh we could tell that

story after maybe that's my second mediocre life update misplaced my wallet all week um but i bought uh a ladder on homedepot.com okay for a black friday deal because they're doing black friday all month now i guess black ladder uh no silver ladder okay uh bought it to put up christmas lights which we can talk about that later um but i got a really good deal i ordered a homedepot.com knew i had to have an id whenever i came in to home depot so didn't have my wallet don't have my id so i went in with my government issued passport as my it and so like and this guy that this kid i'm i can really actually use that term he's like 18 years old this kid that was checking me out was so chill the whole time and i was like oh he's not even

gonna ask for my id thank goodness because this is kind of embarrassing and then at the very end he's like oh by the way do you have your id can I just look at it real fast and I was like yeah I gave him the whole I was like I forgot I don't know where my wallet is so I brought my passport and he's like that's awesome it's like okay awesome very cool so very cool very cool uh verified my identity this week with my passport at Home Depot of all places did you kind of flip through some of the pages like oh sorry that's when I was in Spain. Oh yeah. Sorry. Stay abroad. My bad. Uh, you know? Yeah. Yeah. And I didn't just stay in Spain yet. No, I didn't. Uh, I just went right, right to the page, but he was, he was very excited about it. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure he gets to tell other people.

I saw a passport today. That was fun for him. This dude brought his passport in for a ladder. Where's he taking this ladder? Probably smuggling it. There you go. Hey, the mules. I, this week, Brad, took my first ever phone call on my AirPods. Okay. No one had ever called me with them in. My dad called me. I was in Panera Bread.

Hey, Jake, what are you doing? What's going on? I did not like it at all. Oh, really? Just, I mean, the quality, the technology worked fine. But just like everyone in this place just thinks i'm crazy because i go for i've been sitting here for 30 minutes and like oh hey what's going on like heads are turned you always feel like you need to talk louder than

you probably do in those things yeah with typically with phone calls yeah i always like over like right oh volumize myself right under but yeah so I was like, okay, this is awkward. I'm going to get up and get a refill. So, but that made me feel more awkward too. Cause now I'm just staring at the lemonade being like, oh yeah, I heard about that. No, that's cool. Yeah. That sounds good. And I'm like, I don't know. So I guess I'm seeking tips. Like how do you get over this fear of looking like a crazy person talking on the phone with AirPods? Do you think it's less awkward if you have the cord coming down? Yes, I think so. I think think it's like i'm afraid they can't see my ears yeah because with the cord you can like take the cord and like kind of put it up by your mouth you're also like

hey hey i got a microphone here yeah and i'm touching it i'm aware of it you're aware of it because you see me touching it right airpods just so hands-free that is interesting so yeah i did not like it at all i'm gonna try to do anything I can to ever have another public AirPods phone call. I think time is just going to heal that. Well, no, here's what you do. Oh, you take your phone, you put it up there. They can't tell you're not using your phone. It defeats the purpose of AirPods, but.

At least my confidence is higher. Right. If you're worried about other people, like thinking you're a crazy person, just put your hand up to your, you know, put your phone up to your. That could be a funny, like sketch, almost like video where like maybe a guy and a girl are like in a, yeah, a coffee shop or a supermarket or something. Uh, sorry, I'm just coming up with this now. Like the girl is saying something that's like almost flirty and the guy thinks she's talking to him, but then like she has her AirPods in or vice versa. He thinks she's talking

to him. Hey, we'll, we'll figure it out. Okay. In the, in the writer's session this week. Yeah. In the writer's session for next week. Yeah. Uh, next week yeah uh brad what do you got oh shoot i've i kicked your phone a little bit sorry oh if it's blurry right there for the writer's session bit that i'm sure you're gonna put out oh yeah uh um what else do i have okay so i lost my wallet i found it later on um i was sitting in a place i'll keep it vague for a second to build suspense sitting in a place with you and isaac and me we were eating lunch i wonder where it was and our hero james mr james mr james which never mind we're probably not making him sound like he is katherine last week i I'm going to say it. Catherine last week said, for some reason, I thought he was black.

Yeah. I don't know why we say his name like that. He's just awesome. Anyway, he deserves his name to be said a little differently. Mr. James comes up to me. He's like, dude, is this yours? I could not believe it. I was like, yes, it is. He's like, yeah. Somebody else was asking if they lost their wallet here.

So I went back there to look at the lost and found and found yours and i was like thank you so much i have not had a wallet this whole week um and he goes was it him or you i don't know somebody said like you lost your wallet you didn't even check your house first like yeah i didn't even ask dad first yeah i was like you didn't like check your home right filet on mission you gotta check here so i ended up finding the wallet katherine was so excited um and you thought that isaac and i were in on it because we laughed so hard you laughed so hard when i was so excited to find it and i was like yes that's my wallet well it was more just like we were having a very normal conversation i had i had no inclination at all that you had lost your wallet so i was not expecting

this then james out of nowhere just comes in this your wallet and you say yes right it was just so like you could never have predicted this to happen i guess i just didn't yeah i wasn't going to like purposely you know get you guys in on the search for the wallet so i didn't didn't think i needed to tell you guys i had lost it but anyway i checked other places and never never occurred to me a check with low or with a chick-fil-a so you just sell these other businesses you go to never occurred to me low home d low or with a chick play so um you just say all these other businesses you go to never occurred to me low home dandy or mcdonald's chick play just say all places you frequent oh man yeah exactly um that's funny well i i have one last mediocre life update this week and it's about uh boxing but we're actually going to pause that come back to boxing afterwards because uh-oh brad we got another sponsor this week uh hey yeah we did it this is uh another personal

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Yeah, and you don't want to change your life too much. It's like, I want to get better. Yeah. You want to, you want to, you want to be yourself. Yeah. While being healthy. If you've got like, you're on a first name basis with your barista at Starbucks, you want to throw that away. No, just, you know, for your health and fitness. If I could somehow do both. Yeah. That's the middle ground I think we're searching for. So anyway, you guys can find out more about how Paige can potentially help you by following her on instagram she's actually giving away a ten dollar starbucks gift card brad hello hello to that to uh one lucky person who follows her this week so it's simply fit page

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clients are reaching their target audience and get the best uh return on investments possible and like we mentioned last week they've been on the inc 500 list two years in a row for fastest growing companies it's like yeah awesome it's like winning uh super bowl mvp two years in a row no it's like it's like better than that. Okay. It's like when the Superbowl MVP and then creating a new, better Superbowl and be like, no, you can still, you can win the both these MVPs. Like you can't do both very easily unless you're like just killing it twice in a row. That's a great, I'm glad. That's a great correction. I'm glad you did that. Hey, so check them out. Digital resource link is in the description for your free quote today. Okay. So boxing again brad this doesn't need to be a big long

thing again because you know i knew what to expect last time there's a lot of firsts for me right had a new teacher so i didn't get the uh let's do it let's go guys uh we had a million dollar baby was in the house uh lady coach. Good luck, Manushka. You think he's going to try to kill me? She was awesome, though. She was very scary in a good way. I'll call it just like she was so intense that I didn't want to let her down. She did a good job monitoring.

She would come from bag to bag like I can't slack off with Hannah's looking at me. Do they ever like mirror you like around the bag like you're both punching at the same time oh no because that would be sweet we could do that when we go together yeah like almost like the uh like what's that thing that like the the balls go back and forth the thing that you have on your desk at like a corporate job i know exactly what you're talking about i think it'd be really fun to have that as like a boxing exercise i punch yeah you punch yep i punch and you have to keep the momentum going and have to keep the rhythm going or else first person down your teammate first person's punch hit the ceiling wins you kind of get that bag all the way all the way up there it's like when you're on the swing set

you're like trying to make it go all the way around swing around this thing yeah uh anyway only other thing i'll say about boxing is uh you know i was thinking about i'm about halfway through i'm like all right this is great i haven't missed the bag yet i'm excited to tell everyone i haven't missed it but then uh hillary swing starts to come over and uh we're doing little uppercuts so it's just like hey just more just uh you know just do it fast rather than hard and i looked to my right to see like if she was coming and watching me and i skimmed it keep your eye on the bag i skimmed it yeah i did it completely whiff but i did like oh man like i didn't make solid contact and so was she looking at you while she wasn't that was the thing i didn't even need to look over at her she was just walking my

direction this is like okay if she's looking at me i need to go harder and uh in my in my haste i i slightly missed the bag so good for you for getting to the point where you're worried about the like the instructor seeing you i think my first few times i think i would just be like just survive bro i don't care i don't care if they're looking at you and you are on the ground, like dying, you know, like don't pass out. Yeah. Just like, just like make it through the hour and then you're good. You know, like you're already worried about the instructor thinking if you're good or not. I'd just be like, Hey, just, just, just don't die. I really, really want you to come with me sometime. I was going to this week. Yeah. I just felt terrible.

I'll probably go next Tuesday or Wednesday. So we'll have to. Yeah. Coordinated because it's, it's, it's such a hard workout. I just cannot wait to hear what you think of it. I can't wait to barely be feeling better and then go box and just feel terrible. Yeah. It's fun though.

It's a, it's funny. They're always like, all right, guys, the last round, we're going to're gonna do 30 seconds of freestyle go go get all that anger out get it out and you're like you're like cut off for boxing i don't know you're doing the soldier boy like freestyle like oh i thought it was two-step remix so freestyle just beat it as hard as you like just yeah one dude just started kicking this week i was like oh, oh, this dude's angry. Because I was like, I don't really have a lot of pent-up anger. I'll just kind of punch. That's my parking lot space, Janet. But yeah, he just started kicking that bag.

That was kind of funny to watch. But it is. It's fun. Yeah, we'll have to go sometime. Oh, before I forget, we meant to do this last time. We are looking for a new logo for our podcast yeah if you have any experience or just want to take a crack at it feel free to design us a logo you know to go on our show page and to go on our instagram and go on whatever else someday youtube

channel everything uh you could probably tell i made mine on a free website in five minutes and so we're looking to get something better than that yeah i think uh just some little um framework i think something cool not cheesy nothing with ghost in it we don't want to give people the idea that it is spooky and anything else probably just yeah as long as it's good i'll be okay okay with it. Just make it good. No, I don't. Simple, clean, and professional. That's what we're looking for. Yeah. Yeah, because like, well, whatever.

You look at like all the top podcasts for improv comedy, and it's like these pretty nice logos, and then there's ours. It's like those guys are just brand new to this. Yeah. We're getting there. It looks pretty simple, but that's okay. Hey, maybe you love our logo. And if you want us to keep our logo, just leave us a five-star review. If we get enough five-star reviews saying we'll keep our logo.

If we get 500 five-star reviews this week, we will keep our logo the way it is. That is a great idea, Brad. I can always see those come in. Do we want to move on? I think last week we were going to get to it and never did. You want to do irrationally strong opinions? Irrationally strong opinions. Yeah, sure opinion yeah sure okay what are you thinking okay so this one it's kind of uncomfortable to talk about uh because of the why i am uh opinionated about it

is because it's inappropriate but people caption often these days, especially teenagers to young adults, the phrase, love you long time. You're actually strong opinion. I hate the phrase, love you long time. And part of the reason why most almost all the reason why is because often they'll be saying it about really no matter what, who they're saying about. It's inappropriate, but often they'll be saying about like somebody that's very platonic relationship of theirs and what i think of when i hear love you a long time what i think is probably like what everyone else is thinking about or at least where it originated from was that asian song yeah where they're talking about how they are so aroused yes me so aroused i guess you could be so excited yes yes they're

they're like rams out there they are so they have they have they're they're on top of their head they're hawking themselves yeah yes if it was a car yeah i get it okay okay okay okay uh like like the famous wide receiver joe yes like that. No, the guy that used the cell phone. Of course. Great celebration. Anyway, so whenever people say, hey, love you long time, you know, brother. What? No, you don't.

Why? That's weird. You're referencing a song. I'm uncomfortable. Yeah. You probably aren't thinking that, but I'm trying to educate people. Love you long time originated from this. Just like sarcastic originated from Ripping Flesh.

Yes. Love You Long Time originated from this song where these people said that they are very aroused. And it makes me uncomfortable whenever people say it. No, it's definitely weird. I'm fully on board here. Okay. I just – yeah, I get uncomfortable when I see people say it. Do you think people know that and don't care?

Do you think they have no idea where it comes from and they're just following the trend? Second, for sure. Yeah. There's no way. I can't imagine some like people I've seen people like post about their brothers and sisters, you know, like literal, like genetic brothers and sisters on their birthday. Love you a long time. It's like, no, no, no, you don't. Not like that. You don't. You're right. I hope not. Right. I hope not. Um, I'm with you. Yeah. It's just, uh, it's too bad that that's a trend. Yeah. so that's my irrationally strong opinion for the week is just that phrase is just very get it out i get it out i don't like it my irrationally strong opinion is in the realm well it's something

that i never thought i would say necessarily publicly like this because it's one of those things you tell your friends. Like, I would never say this out loud or whatever. But here we go. But whatever. You know, episode 29. 29? I don't get the whole thing with art.

Specifically abstract art, like abstract painting art. Okay. I feel like Aaron in the office, talking about Holly, she's like, I'm sorry. I just, I don't get it. I just don't get it. Is she like aaron in the office i'm talking about holly she's like i'm sorry i just i don't get it i just don't get it she's like a great cook or something that's what i felt like for years like i have been to uh the moma in seattle i have been to the met in new york city i've been to smithsonians i've tried to give art a chance and i'm standing there and i'm looking at this jackson pollock splatter painting and they say yeah the original is worth four million dollars like how there's no way crazy there's no way

that's worth more than an airplane right I don't know why that was the first thing came to mind but still yeah I just don't understand that you're telling me I can either go across the country or have this painting I In my own plane. Yeah. And I'll even like try to, I'm like, okay, maybe I'm just, I'm not a deep enough thinker. Like I'll talk to other people like art galleries and like, okay, so can you help me understand this? And it's like, they don't know.

They cannot give me a good answer why it's worth so much. It almost feels like abstract art is like what cryptocurrency has become. Like people are assigning it value, but no one knows why or how it works. It's like, no, that's worth a lot. Why? Why is that? Because people said it is.

I've seen like a news story one time where they had all these preschool kids do art and then they brought it to like this really prestigious thing. This is perfect. Yeah. And people were like, oh, this is wonderful.

$80,000 easily. That is amazing. I didn't even know that. That is so awesome so awesome you dinkus like you don't know what you're talking about like i will say a little bit of backing up but i don't i don't get art either but i went to an art show one time just one not really your art was the prettiest art your art was the best art do you have a uh is that you have a candy bar in your pocket? Anyway. But it was Clayton, our friend Clayton. We went to his art show one time.

Oh, we did. And he had this, I don't even remember if it was a painting or a sculpture or whatever it was. It was a piece, though. And he had to explain quite in detail about it. Like, whenever I first looked at it, I was like, this is somewhat normal. But he had such a deep reason behind it that that's my only like potential rational thought thought as far as i hear from the artist yeah maybe jackson pollock has like this deep reason and then you see you

hear him say that and you're like wow okay now that he says that i get this because without it it's just like yeah it's just a bunch of people that look like they barely spilled some paint on a piece of paper. Yeah. And I don't want to like, you know, defame these people that like some people out there are probably like, oh, this is such art. Like, I can't believe you're saying that about these people. Yeah.

But to me, I get it. I'm right with you. I think the, the kindergartner thing you said, like validates it a lot. It's not just two guys saying art is stupid. Yeah. I don't think that's necessarily what we're saying i'm very open to still learning about abstract art but that specifically i just have a tough time understanding its value yeah yeah it is it's interesting it's kind of like it's it's similar to music where it's like whoa dragon force can shred on guitar and death cab for cutie has these really simple little riffs so why do people like why am i gravitating towards death cab for cutie when you know like there's like impressionists out there

that are doing like these tiny little dots like a million times yeah but yet some people still like the very simple like simplicity of this kind of art and so it's like maybe that's just what art is it's just like you don't you don't happen to have an opinion because it's the opinion kind of thing but that's the thing with art like it's such a gray area in general art you know it could be music it could be dance it could be singing like it's all like open to the consumer's interpretation but there's such a disparity in my like hopes of ever interpreting it and like the original artist intentions with abstract art like music i don't have to know what you were going through when you wrote the song and i can still feel a certain way about it sure sure but i i'm specifically thinking there was one in new york

city when i was at the met where it was just uh it was a brown painting and it was called brown it was just the color brown and it was a huge i mean it was probably a 12 by 12 foot installment in this art thing it was called brown i was like, they know they're like in on the joke now. Right. You know, it's like, this is like a UPS sponsored, you know, like there's going to be a joke and it's going to be some Buzzfeed video, like UPS paid for a brown painting. Maybe it's like, you get so far into it that like, you don't want to admit when things are stupid. Like you're like, I can't say anything now, but like that looks ridiculous. It's a brown piece of paper, but everyone else says it's good. So I can't, I can't go against them.

Yeah. I don't know, but that's my deeper. There's deeper lessons to be learned there. I think Jake, that's my, you're actually strong opinion. That's nice. I made that up. Very good, right? I think you should.

That's, that's a podcast thing. It's just that after every sentence, I made that up. Just taking credit for everything you said. Thoughts are my own team. Thoughts and opinions are my own and not held by the company I work for, which is Ellis Custom Creations. It is. Do we want to do Blanks of the Week real quick and see where that leads us? Oh, I forgot about the voice memos too.

I was thinking we were almost done. Let's do quick Blanks of the Week and we'll let the voice memos. Blanks of the Week. Babe of the Week okay we'll let the voice memos blanks of the week babe of the week we haven't done that in a while my baby the week is oh wait sorry song babe of the week gotta babe that week my baby the week goes to an employee by the name of awa at chick-fil-a you're kidding oh yeah let's go for i mean she deserves it for a couple reasons she's great she is so friendly and talks to us every time she has the best smile out of any any person named awa that i know oh easily yeah that's a great point about awa smiling she is singalese

is that the right word she's from senegal yeah singalese is that right? Yes. Singles. Go singles. Let's go singles. Cincinnati singles. She, uh, I was there by myself and she brought over someone to me and she was like, Hey Jake, this is Janine. She's actually in training and I'm kind of showing her how to do different things and thought she might want to meet you since, uh, she's going to, you're going to be a part of her job. So baby of the week goes through all the way thinking that meeting me needed to be part of Janine's training at Chick-fil-A. It's like a checklist item. Learn where the ice is.

Do the cash register. Know how to add on items once somebody's already ordered. Go ahead and meet Jake. Just talk to him for a few minutes. Get to know what he drinks, the sauce he likes. What's your booth? Booth 28, by the way. That's he likes and what's your booth yeah yeah right booth 28 by the way yeah oh yeah absolutely sure that's our booth that's

our booth baby my booth my choice that's right bring your booth bring hey bring your booth brad who is your babe of the week my babe of the week um i'll go ahead and just spoil the surprise right now katherine ellis my wife who katherine k- K-A-T-H-R-Y-N, Ellis. All right. She has not only been my wife this week, she has also been my nurse. She has done things that I would never want to do for anybody. She's been your medicine woman. Yes. She's been your Jane Seymour. She's been my Dr. Quit. She's my Dr. Quit and she didn't Dr. Quit. She was awesome. So, um, just in all in all in general, like, honestly, like this is not even joking. I just had such a bad day. I was so sick and I would have never known that it was bothering her. And then the next day she's like, yeah. Or

maybe a couple of days later, she's like, yeah, I had to admit to my Bible study later that i had such a bad attitude about you being sick because i had no idea oh really yeah because like she was so gracious and wonderful and patient with me wow with all this stuff and you know like she just was so selfless uh also doing a great job of looking after hattie hattie had a bad week this week she was complaining a lot and being two years old basically. And she was so patient and gracious and wonderful. So we truly deserving of what baby of the week is. 100% truly deserving of, yeah, the honor of BOT dubs. So, um, Catherine, if you're listening, I don't know how often you listen to this because I don't actually, I know she listens every week.

I love you. You're the best. You're my babe that's it okay all right next up let's do poultry of the week that good came out of nowhere oh man that was fun okay uh do you want to start us off? I do. This is my poultry of the week. And it's really – so Connor Lamb again. Oh, no. Just in general. Connor just has a big old couple of wings on him because he's a chicken of mine.

It's my poultry. Connor! Wait. Did you just – I forgot to ask you this. Did you see him in the Chick-fil-A parking lot when we left? Connor? Just now. He was pulling out.

I saw a car that looked like Connor's and I literally thought, hey, that looks like Connor's car. And he pulled out right parking lot when we left connor just now he was pulling out i saw a car that looked like connor's and i literally thought hey that looks like connor's car he pulled out right when i or he pulled in right i was pulling out no yeah so we almost oh i would have loved it i would have smushed him into the ground i tell you what so uh connor his feathers connor claims that brad ellis who is me, is a contrarian, a.k.a. just disagrees with everything. Jake kind of agrees with him. So that makes me feel like maybe he's right. But I don't think I'm that much of a contrarian. But that's the ironic thing is that if I disagree with being a contrarian, that just proves that I'm a contrarian.

Yeah. If I agree with it, then I'll also catch 22. So catch 22. Anyway, Connor texts somebody the other night that I was with, uh, Emily. Hey, is Jake Triplett a redhead? Emily says, here we go again. Oh man. I disagreed.

Prove my point perfectly. Jake conceded to it. And Connor still will not admit that Jake is a redhead. And I don't want to get into too far into it because i already did i got into the transit property with connor i got very scientific um this whole time he's getting into this though it's in a group message with me i'm trying to like get all this work done i even said multiple times like does no one get any work done in this town i have like 105 papers yeah that's what i was thinking and i'm like i just i don't even care

really about this. But then like, Jake, who's right? Jake, what do you think? All right. But Jake, didn't you say this? Don't you remember this? I'm like, I don't really care that much. Golly.

Anyway. Strawberry blonde. Strawberry blonde is red hair in the lightest form. Therefore, if strawberry blonde is red hair, that means that Jake has red hair. Transitive property. A equals B, B equals C, A equals C. Hypotenuse. Mic drop. Get out of here, Connor. hair and that means that jake has red hair transit property a equals b b equals c a equals c hypotenuse mic drop get out of here connor go go do something go do something let us know i don't want to get too far into it but i connor just disagrees with everything i say

what well oh he disagreed with the uh nutty bars last week or it's a couple weeks ago last week yeah yeah he was he was on my side for the justin bieber thing too i think he just wants to be against me though is what it is you guys should fight good thing you're going to boxing soon oh brad we should fight maybe that would be fun it wouldn't okay i don't know we could talk about it that seems like something that could hurt our friendship more than it would help it oh Oh, well, I don't think it would like wrestling to like knock you out, but like boxing, like for technical points, you know? Okay. We don't have to box.

One punch, two punch. Open your mouth. I absorbed the first punch. I was not expecting a second blow. So catch 22. That's what he says. Nice. Perfect.

My favorite line that episode is when he goes if we were in a bar there'd be two hits me hitting you and you hitting the floor that's a great line that is great anyway that's my poultry connor lamb i i hate even giving the satisfaction of me saying his name so let's just edit out his name from now on connor okay my poultry of the week is with small talk i think i actually brought this up to you now that i'm saying it out loud i think we already talked about this but whatever i'll say it on the podcast i've just been i've always been annoyed at small talk and i think i was trying to figure out why this annoys me so much and i think the root of it is that small talk was never never modeled for me

in my own home growing up like i never saw my parents have small talk with other adults they were always just very good at talking to people comfortably steve just hey tell me about your childhood i was gonna let you go i didn't want to step on you somebody lies tell me tell me what tell me tell me what shaped you up as a kid i don't know has he given you any feedback about my impression of him uh i can't remember. You would remember. I can't remember. Sorry. I'm sure he loved it, though.

He loves you, too. I'm sure he loved it. Oh, okay. My sister loved it. Everyone loves it. Okay. Anyway, small talk. So when I'm in a conversation with people and, you know, like they hop in the elevator

and then they say something like, crazy, crazy windy out there today, huh? Oh, this just irks me hey hey i'll say it it just drives me up the wall i cannot believe that people just like it seems so crazy to me that people would do that it because to me it's so like logical like oh when you talk about the weather you have nothing else to talk about that's what it means to me so when someone talks to the to me about the weather i'm like you're just admitting. You don't even want to try in this conversation. They come up. We're in some line together.

Almost Friday. You're not even saying anything. You're just saying hollow words. Just straight facts. Just like check this box. Like, yeah, I talked to some people. Hey, check out that window. Black truck.

Black truck out there. How's it going going it's going i hate that living the dream is my least favorite yeah i'm just living the dream and in like a very like melodramatic like eeyore style way living the dream living the dream another day another dollar another day in paradise oh man get out of here with that and you're not in paradise you're in hell it's to me yeah not that every conversation needs to go to these extreme depths but just show a little effort i'm showing effort you should show some effort you should show some effort two soaps two soaps two tokens at hand i agree dude yeah it's just like I understand small talk can be the gateway to more talk I think is maybe why people do it hey crazy weather out there yeah it's super windy so anyway um my my sister left home when she was 13 and it hasn't been the same since and it was windy on that

day and so that's what it reminded me of this we were worried about her because it was so windy so how's your family doing oh Oh yeah, they're doing well. That's good. Yeah. Um, dad came down with cancer last week and it's like, Oh golly. Okay.

This happened fast in this conversation. Um, I don't know. Yeah. I totally understand what you're saying. I can talk more about it, but you guys get the picture. It just, so do you have an opening question?

Don't just cause you whisper. It doesn't make it matter. You're right. You're right. You're right. Do you have an opening question that you would say to somebody? I really don't. I probably should have come prepared with something to prove that I don't do this, but no, no, no. Maybe that is actual proof that you don't, cause you don't have one

set question. You cater to every single person. Yeah. I think just immediately, well, what's nice this, you know, after last summer, I can ask anyone where they're from and I've probably, you know, and I've been to their state. So's great we can talk about that okay so is that not in a way a little bit of small talk right at the beginning maybe not usually here's usually turn into small talks where you're from montana oh really cold up there this time of year i bet like okay oh but you're but you're happy to be down here yeah oh was cold. Oh, right by Canada. Like just geographic facts. Just saying, yeah. Oh, big sky country.

Yeah. Yeah. There's probably bears there. Oh, yeah. You got bears? You got bears up there? They brown or black? Kodiak's a style of bear, yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard a pit bull song. Kodiak. Now, is that anything to do with klondike bars or no kodak no that's a camera okay well have a nice day do you have you taken a picture before montana take a picture of this weather lately in that black truck out there should have taken a picture of my sister before she left so maybe it is a little bit of a crutch yeah that's funny but no but that's not there has to be conversation starters are not necessarily always small talk in my opinion

yeah but small talk anyway we can move on all right last i love that you guys can't see sometimes when brand is ready to move on he just moves no more s'mores that's what i'm doing no more he moves him so rapidly it's funny okay our last blank of the week is gonna be life hack of the week yippee mine's real short so i'll go real quick uh on your iphone you can probably any phone you can do these little keyboard shortcuts where you can make your own oh uh yeah i guess just shortcut so for me i do so i'm typing in triplet jake a lot that's my email that's my username for stuff so when i hit xxx it auto correctrects to Triple Jake. That's so pure of you. Oh, yeah.

When I try to go XXX, it just says, nope, your name is Triple Jake. It just takes me to my own website to look at myself instead. Which, yeah, will do a number on your ego if you're in the mood. Oh, sure. Whatever. I'm going to move on from this. But, yeah, so that's just a helpful tip. If you didn't know, I used to commonly – I noticed that the iPhone wouldn't correct A-O to so when I would screw that up.

Ridiculous. I think maybe they do that now. So I would go in and I'm like, okay, A-O equals so, and I'm doing my own autocorrect thing. I have like 15 different ones for thanks because I would autocorrect the wrong way so many times. I have them for my signature, my phone number, my email address, address, all. That's awesome. Oh, yeah. I love it, dude.

I figured. I was like, when I say this, I know Brad's going to be all up in it. And if your computer is also a Mac and you're connected to them, they also work on your computer. They're synced. Yep. That's cool. But not on the Google Chrome, unfortunately. Yeah.

And so you have to do a different app on there. Trey and I were talking yesterday. Isn't it weird that Gmail, like in your your email it doesn't autocorrect words for you at all like you can miss you can misspell something by one word it'll tell you it's wrong but it doesn't like fix it for you it doesn't do the autocorrect function well i haven't noticed that it seems like at this point in time it should do that it does predictive text have you seen that is nice it knows me pretty well sometimes i'm not about to say whatever it's like oh that's a good idea yeah that works yeah yeah just let me know what it's like you're thinking i was like yeah

let me know what you're thinking yeah sure yeah no but yeah notice that it'll like it'll do red squiggly lime it won't correct anything for you okay uh my life hack of the week is uh it has to do with canceling uh subscription services so just recently I canceled my YouTube premium. I got like a free subscription of that. And it was awesome because you can like download movies and then you can watch them later. So I downloaded stuff for a road trip with Hattie. And then also something else. Oh, E-Verify.

I downloaded that to find NFL agents. Oh, yeah. That one time. Oh, boy, Mike. and canceled that immediately and then learned like thanks for canceling you actually still have six days left of your subscription um so my life hack is and the same thing happened with youtube where i actually forgot to cancel it multiple months i was like dang it well i don't want to cancel it now because i want to use it for the next 28 days before i like I paid for all this month.

And so you can cancel it on day. We'll call it you get 30 days for free or something. You can cancel on day two and you can still use it for the rest of those 28 days. Don't be scared. So, yeah, don't just wait until the last minute because you think I don't know if that works for everything, but it worked for YouTube and E-Verify. So if you're trying to hunt down NFL agents that screw you over at Chiefs game, or if you're trying to listen to YouTube for your daughter for Richard Scarry's counting videos, those are the two. Give me a little sample of that.

Okay. Come along and count with me because it's a counting day. We will something, something, something and count along the way hey fa la la one two three won't you come and count with me fa la la one two three won't you come and count with me nice that was hot i changed the time signature but you you got it with me it was great four four it was not i think it was i'm just kidding i don't even know what that means maybe it was anyway music boy over here okay brad that's a good life hack or sorry keep going if there's more no that's it that's it just don't be afraid to cancel your subscription service i i used to always like be like okay i'm gonna try out playstation view for the you know seven day trial

so i need to cancel it on day six hour 20 it's like no no you can cancel day three and probably still watch it until day six. You have a good time. Let you run 23. Yeah. Talk with it. Cool. Okay.

And then always, we always love our reviews. We always do a review of the week. Mine comes from tennis feud. We just got this one last night. It says, uh, my perfect Monday morning would be rolling out of bed,

sitting down at an Ellis custom creations table. It has the perfect amount of wood. Oh, you're listening to this pod with my own poopsie. Awesome. People have been loving the poopsie thing. I've been so many people DM me like, Hey,

love, love the pod poopsie. Uh, too bad me and her won't be married for a few more months. Obviously I'd be enjoying a beverage from Chick-fil-A with the perfect diet. Dr. Pepper to regular Dr. Pepper ratio.

Oh, let's go. It's a thing. Does the ratio for the appropriate time to wear jorts to the inappropriate time to wear jorts match the diet to regular Dr. Pepper ratio? Please let me know. Yes, I am a man. Jorts are for everybody. ELE, Jackie Moon. Wear your tuxedo to my wedding. Definitely me. Did you catch those last two things? Do you know ELE? It's from SemiPro. I know Jackie Moon. Everybody everybody loved everybody that's like his phrase for the locker room gotcha and then in quotes he

said wear your tuxedo to my wedding definitely me like quoted himself so you just got invited to his wedding really more months holy cow awesome see you there poopsie i yeah i haven't read that review yet so that's awesome yeah that's my review of the week they've all been great can i get a plus three uh me well plus two and a half me k a plus three? Me? Well, plus two and a half? Me, Catherine, Jake, Hattie? Am I the two and a half? Or am I the half? You can make your own decision on that.

Okay. Hattie was the half. Okay. Just wanted to be clear. But yeah, we got a lot this week. A lot of reviews. So thank you for all of them. I got some Prince of Egypt in the chat.

Love that. Playing with the big boys now. Somebody said Little Big League. I talked for a long time about Little Big League with old chat. Love that. Play with the big boys now. Somebody said Little Big League. We talked, I talked for a long time about Little Big League with old Steve, my guy. Steve,

Swick, baby. Brad, what is your review of the week? I forgot we were doing this, but I really like this one. Mostly for the title. It says,

bring your best, in parentheses, friend. I've listened to this podcast since day one and I absolutely love it. Not spooky at all. Oh,

this is from Carrie Ann, by the way. I genuinely look forward to work since day one and I absolutely love it not spooky at all oh this is from Carrie Ann by the way I genuinely look forward to work on Monday mornings because I know that once I get to my cubicle I can sit down and listen in on another conversation with some of my friends even though I've never met y'all you feel like true friends and I'm so thankful for that

thanks for an amazing thanks for an amazingly hilarious podcast to tune into weekly looking forward to the 5k carrie ann carrie ann baby that 5k has got so much potential we good thing we've got you know 11 months to plan it but right i think i think it'd be really fun also uh i forgot about this the ghost runners uh on second fan account account also created a review for us that was hilarious oh yeah they took pretty long but they took things from like their the people who followed

them helped write the review which is a creative idea and really fun uh something i'm thinking of now i'm just gonna go ahead and say don't go into voice memos i thought you would find this funny so uh yeah pretty much all week long. I feel like every hour has been accounted for. I've just been like going, going, going. The last night I was like, okay, Jake, you need to take a break a little bit. So hopped on and played a little, some video games. Really? Good old days. I don't even

know you had a video game console at your house. I do. But most of the time I feel like this is a waste of time. I should not do this. So I typically only try to play if I can play with my friends on the line. And then it's like we're hanging out and it's still some of production hey dude you want to get on live you say that every time yeah made them and you know none of them live around here so it's fine you know this is our way of kind of connecting and staying in touch so two of the guys are playing or all three of them all listen to the podcast which is fun

okay what two of them are very up to date they listen every week one of the guys uh joel i've told you about joel former roommate joel you compared him to the dallas version of me which i did not appreciate you didn't like that i'm just kidding it was just like i just felt like i was replaced oh i'm sorry i'm just well i live here now i'm teasing yeah take that joel okay so joel is very behind he's going through the podcast one by one but just at a slow rate so he he was telling you last night he's like Jacob just listen to one of your episodes today uh you know role play at urgent care it's like two or three months from now and he's like and I'm really excited because you and Brad just talked about how you're gonna make a song in the recorder I can't wait and so then uh Garrett who is also who's like up to date he's like oh

just wait Joel it's so good just wait till the recorder episode and we were all cracking up laughing shia labeouf garrett is that what you're talking about yeah yeah um and so we were all cracking up and so i think joel thinks we're laughing because it's such a funny segment some of the episodes and just wait joel so joel it's probably like march right now that you're listening to this but we still have not gotten around to the recorder thing we'll get there we will get there eventually you'll learn baby you'll learn but i thought that was funny yeah we were cracking up like oh just wait till the recorder episode it gets'll get there. We'll get there eventually. You'll learn, baby. You'll learn. But I thought that was funny. Yeah, we were cracking up. Like, oh, just wait

until the recorder episode. It gets so good. Oh, that's great. I love that. I love that you guys messed with the voice. Okay, voice memes? Voice memes.

I think we've got four this week. Oh, before I forget, Tessa, someone by the name of Tessa left us a voice memo, but it didn't work. I couldn't get it to play, so I'm sorry. The title of the voice memo

is called Father Jake. That's pretty exciting. Father Jake Braham had many memos many memos had father jake for him we did not receive yours it didn't work so we record next week next week next week all right um so tessa sorry about that get you next time though bring your best again all right voice memo number one hi y'all and hello from utah i have a game that i want you guys to play it's called three two one you count down three two one and then you both say a random word and then the next word you count down three two one but you try and say a word that coincides with that word for example if i said okay peanut butter and my friend said jam we would maybe try and say sandwiches and you go

until you say the same word at the same time and see how many rounds it takes it's very fun and it really should be the same way like second of all when are we gonna get isaac on the podcast and when are we gonna get hattie on the the podcast? I need to hear Hattie say whale. I know it was on Instagram and it's so cute, but I just want to hear it again. It's just the best. Anyways, love y'all. Let me restart from the beginning.

Oh, crap. Hi, y'all, and hello from Utah. I have a game that I want you guys all right uh that was a solid voice from start to finish yes isaac and hattie will will be on at some point our biggest obstacle right now with having anybody else with us is that we only have two microphones and they're pretty like directional microphones so it's hard to really have anybody else on unless we boot one of us off so jake is i'm trying to convince jake to be sacrificial but he's too selfish about everything so that is one of my flaws uh i would love to i just want to sit down with hattie sometime and just record her and just get random sound clips that we just interject randomly

have a little like sound pad that whenever we like say something cool it just says like hey mama hey mama i think sometime soon whenever things slow down for us it'd be fun to do like a bonus episode in the middle of the week and that's when isaac is on or something like that yeah just like a 30 minute episode but anyway this game i've never played this this game sounds fun let's just do it right now hopefully you guys can hear both of us talking at the same time uh on the mics but okay so we just start saying any random thing. I think you just... Okay. You got one?

Just any word. Yes. Three, two, one. Hammocks. Circle. Okay. Circle. Hammock.

Okay. Three, two, one. Outdoors. Okay. Outdoor and beach. Three, two, one. Vacation. Oh, it was with vacation dang it vacation trees okay

three two one colorado oh yeah we're getting close okay three two one yes all right rapid fire ready okay three two. Three, two, one. Nose. Whoa. Nose? Nose. Nose, nails? Three, two, one. Nostrils. Nostrils. Nostril body parts. Three, two, one.

Nose. Face. Dang it. This one may take a while. Yeah. I'm circling around it. Okay. Three, two, one.

Mouth. Features. Dang it. Okay, I'm going broad. You're going specific. I know. Okay. Okay.

Features. Three, two, one, mouth. Features. Dang it. Okay, I'm going broad. You're going specific. I know. Okay, okay. Features. Three, two, one, tongue. Gosh. Tongue, mouth features. You have tongue in there. What do you do at this point? Okay.

What are we at? Tongue. Tongue and skin. Tongue and skin. Okay. Three, two, one, burn. Epidermal. Epidermal is my word. What did you say?

I don't know. I could burn. All right. Well, hey, we got the first one. one first one went great that's a fun thing to do randomly that is kind of a fun game that'll be how we warm up next time stretched my mind a little bit okay uh let's move on next voice move hey guys uh my name is chrissy i'm a fifth grade teacher from florida um i've been listening and laughing along to your podcast for quite a while now. Brad, your scream yelling voice that you use when you go on rants gets me every single time. And Jake, I don't understand how your funny little pickup line with the barista did not work because it totally would have worked on me.

Come on. So anyways, as a teacher, my question to you guys is what is the funniest thing that you got in trouble for in elementary school? Because oftentimes, I find myself trying super hard not to laugh when my kids are getting in trouble. The second thing is, Jake, I am pretty sure we're soulmates. And this isn't based only on this fact, but it's based loosely on the fact that I, too, was a Simon Says champion and world-class in-line skater. So if you're ever in florida definitely look me up for chick-fil-a all right bye guys oh baby chrissy tom cruise rugged tom cruise coming in hot shooting her shot on the voice memos uh thanks for that that was really kind that was

really nice of you i will i don't have any plans to come to florida but i know where it's at so oh we know texas no no i know texas i'm tired i'm tired of jake being the attractive symbol on our show by the way you're married i don't care i want it they're not gonna flirt with you you want them to love you long time because it's a slippery slope you're right you're right okay first thing I thought of to answer a question was one time in kindergarten, I cut my own hair and put it in my backpack. Really? Just for fun, I guess. And my teacher was so mad at me.

Which part of it? That I don't remember. Okay. But she was very mad. Wow. That's awesome. And I got in trouble for that. Okay.

Mine, I'm going to fudge a little bit. Mine was from eighth grade i think okay um there's mrs slifer's uh science class and we were doing oh have i told you this i don't know hard to say right now we'll cut it out if i haven't if i have gosh um we were doing the periodic table the elements and there's that little stair step thing right like that fake stair step thing and the periodic tables that separate the – Oh, like the – Metals from the non-metals. Sure. Right?

And the metals are on the left. I know what you're talking about regardless. We'll say for the sake of the story, the metals are on the left. So there was this kid in our class. So I was like kind of a cool whatever, too cool for school kid. I was a good kid, like behaved really well, sat in the back right, like very back right though. And this deaf kid, Jeremiah, was in the back right like very back right though um and this deaf kid jeremiah was in the front left oh boy and uh he had his translator right in front of him mrs slifer

goes hey okay so what side of the stair step are the medals uh jeremiah and jeremiah like the translator did a little thing jeremiah was like, I don't know. Like translated back, I don't know. Oh, come on. Yes, you do. You know it. And he's like a smart kid. So it's like, yes, you do.

You know it. I don't know. And the translator kept being like, he doesn't know. And without thinking about the fact that he was deaf, like just thinking I was trying to help him, I like jokingly whispered from back right to front left. Okay. To the left!

You know, like not trying to – but all the kids around me just died laughing. No, they thought it was hilarious. And I, of course, felt like a jerk for – You're like, oh, I wasn't – this wasn't supposed to be like a hearing thing. Like I knew Jeremiah. We played baseball like against each other. Like I was friends with him and I could not believe it. That was my one time I ever got detention was because of mrs slifer like being really fresh you got a detention for that yes that's a little it was it was that and then i left my pencil bag

there okay well that makes sense you can't do that yeah well that's that's crossing you shouldn't have done that uh but like i there's no way that should have gotten me attention the the pencil bag especially but i I felt so terrible. I felt so bad because I was not, I truly was not trying to be a jerk. I was trying to like help out a kid who doesn't know the answer. Hey, with the hearing aids, Hey, turn them up. It's on the left. Golly.

So anyway, he's not ever going to hear this. So I can tell a story. Jeez. Have I ever told you the story? I was in eighth grade, I think. And this was, this is one of the more like, yeah, embarrassing things that I ever did. But it was Mr. Mo's coach Mosman's, uh, math class. It's at the very end of the school year. And I was just, uh, I was a gassy boy that day. And, you know, and after i'm like squirming in my seat like i

gotta hold this in but like i'm gonna feel so much better if i just let it out like it was a selfish move so i let one squeak out did you did you half cheek it probably one cheek on one cheek off so it was more like a yeah there's like a there's the right way to do it quietly and i like i had that down so i went out you know without anyone knowing about it like jeremiah definitely didn't you know know about it he didn't know it happened and so but it is bad it i mean it's seriously like one of the worst things you know it was like really like sulfuric like one's like oh my gosh i can't believe that could come from inside my body yeah it is like filling the room and to the point where and it's kind of before class started like you kind of look up and there's a haze yeah my eyes are starting to close a little bit um the the teacher it's the end of the school year so kids are starting to do a

lot of pranks and everything he thinks that this is a uh a stink bomb he thinks that someone like put a stink bomb in our classroom because it's so bad it's filling the room so badly and so it got to the point where i'm not gonna admit like yep farted it's my fault that so i didn't say anything and it got to the point where he's like we're not leaving this class until someone admits to this who is it i'm like oh what do i do what do i do i'm an eighth grade i don't know it gets to the point where there were like two kids kind of giggling in the back sends him to the principal's office and i let them i let them go you let them take the blame i didn't say anything oh my gosh so i've been kind of scarred from that and nervous to say it, I guess, until episode 29.

What's the name? Coach what? Coach Moseman. Well, if Coach Moseman's listening, you can apologize now. Shane, I am so sorry. I farted in eighth grade, advanced math. It was me. It was me.

And hey, Coach Moseman, if you're listening, leave us a five-star review and let us know you heard it, please. Thank you. Thank you, Coach. Gosh. Yeah, I let, leave us a five-star review and let us know you heard it, please. Thank you. Thank you, Coach. Gosh. Yeah, I let them go to the principal's office for something they didn't even do. You're kidding. Yeah.

I think I would do the same thing, though. You're not going to, at that point, you're not going to, like, it's been way too long. And no one ever admits they farted in public. And I don't even know if they would have believed me. Like, oh, it was me. I farted. Okay, Jake, you don't need to take the fall for this. Like, seriously, who lit the six stink bombs filling my nostrils goodness gracious that's amazing

so good job jake yeah there's my story of getting in trouble my two stories of getting in trouble yeah that's about as much trouble as we got in we were not that was it we were not much of troublemakers every once in a while we farted or uh tried to help people out with answers that's it that's that's our that's our fault uh okay hey jake and brad this is shay and chad newton tennessee so many tennessee people you guys had a walkout song but for like everyday life what song would you pick i love the show you guys are absolutely hysterical keep it up ain't no way they can stop me now because I'm on my way I don't feel my brain coming coming

it's the heart of a champion I don't know if that's really my answer but that was a quick answer though and it's a good song I've thought about that before like this utopian world where every time you enter a room like music gets played for everyone and then they associate you with that song ooh I've definitely thought about that. Like that would be so cool.

That's so much easier that like, that's not that hard of a concept to just everyone bring their phones and play a song whenever you walk in. Yeah, I guess. Yeah, it's not that hard. You just do that for everyone. Guys, I'm coming.

Three, two, press play on one. One. Don't know. Don't know. Don't know. Aye, aye, aye. on one. One. Don't know. Don't know. Don't know. I, I, I. Are we done? Okay.

Yeah, I don't want to keep going. My initial thought is obviously I'm in love with a stripper by T-Pain for just how pretty of a song that is. But I- A bunch of like, it's art. It's good art. Should be in the MoMA. Yeah. Put it in a museum.

Okay. My song would be just a portion of a song there's a song by drake like seven years ago probably it's called find your love and there's a part of it that is so it's like i almost said music to my ears but that's a very literal of what it is it's like he's singing into my ears but it's so good and it's like uh i'm more than just an option. Hey, hey. Do you know which song I'm talking about?

I don't know Drake very well. Well, I'm so bad at singing it. So anyone who has even heard the song, probably is like, I still don't know what you're talking about. But that portion of the song, I'm just going to play it right now for you guys. I'm more than just an option. Hey, hey, hey. Refuse to be forgotten. Hey, hey, hey. There. It sounds like that. I would have that going over and over again when I walk up to people, I think. So yeah, great question. Is it subliminally trying to tell people things that you're more than just an option?

Oh, honestly, I don't even know those are the words. It might be, but I don't even know what the words are. It's just really catchy. That's a really fun question that we could definitely think about better than we just did. But like, I don't even know what the words are. It's just really catchy. That's a really fun question that we could definitely think about better than we just did. I don't think my answer would really be Heart of a Champion, but that's a good... That's a fun group get-to-know-you question or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Welcome week at college. Right.

Okay, next voice. Mim. Mo. Hey, Jake and Brad. My name is Anna. I'm actually from Adelaide, South Australia Alright I love your podcast

It always makes me laugh And honestly I think I know more about American football now Than I do about Sheldon at this point Footy? Not sure what to do

With this knowledge But anyway My question is Would you rather Only be able to whisper Or only be able to shout When you talk? Thanks guys

Have a great day Hope to have you back Down under sometime soon. Bye. Oh, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. Bye, bye, bye, bye. Watch out for those koalas over there. Thanks for the voice memo.

They got cephalus. What was her name? Anna? Anna. Anna. Thank you, Anna. Yeah. No.

No. Near. That's what they say, no. No. No. Yeah, they do. Yeah, that was a great voice memo always appreciate the people from other countries also so curious how people from other countries are even finding

out about this how'd you find hey anna anna leave us a five-star review and let's see how you found out about us yeah probably that's bye-bye-bye-bye-bye kate mcginty honestly she's she's doing a lot for the for the show absolutely a lot for the brand. Um, glad you're knowledgeable about American football and, uh, do we talk about that often? I guess enough. She knows some teams. She knows Patrick Mahomes. I'm sure. Uh, what's his name? Uh, Antonio Brown. We talked about him for a couple episodes. That's true. Yeah. Uh, my answer is easy whisper. Yeah. It just so much less of a burden on other people. You can go to public easier. People aren't ashamed to be around you. Like there's,

there are people out there that have a hard time containing their volume. And even though those people have the ability to whisper, but they just don't, it's pretty embarrassing or like kind of awkward sometimes. That's a decent pet peeve of mine. You're talking too loud, dude. Yeah.

Like how do you not notice this? Yeah. Do you, do you, you don't need to talk so loud. We can hear you. Okay. Yeah.

I really don't like that. Um, so obviously other people wouldn't like that i wouldn't be able to yell and i guess that's like a it's like a new thing that i'm doing on the podcast just screaming more gets the people going um if you've ever seen prison break every season michael scofield becomes only a whisperer more and more by season four he never like even talks in normal volume. He's just only whispering. So it can be done. That's just persona. Yeah, interesting. If we're going to do this, we're going to need three more days.

That's just how he talks, just normally, all the time. He always bugged us. Just speak normal, Wentworth Miller. Because you can always read people's lips a little bit more. If you can't hear them very well, you can read their lips. Yeah.

Can you imagine going to church and having something to say to your wife and being like, do you have any gum? I had some coffee this morning and I think my breath smells. And then your wife has the same condition and so she yells back,

speaking of coffee, I need to go to the bathroom real soon. Can you watch hattie coach mosley thinks it was me yeah that would not be ideal to have that condition you could never you could never be honest to anybody about anything yeah you have to be very private very strategic like get in a car before you could talk to anybody about anything privately you're at a funeral trying to say you're like you know last regards to the to the body you're like a brother to me the body not the person just the body sorry it's funny funny thing about the the fact that's the body i'm just

kidding i know it's more specific than just the person like which person uh yeah just trying to think of inappropriate moments to only be screaming. Uh, I don't know. Or if on the other end, inappropriate moments to be whispering. Okay, honey, push, push. You got it. Come on, honey. You can do this. I can't.

I'm irate right now. I cannot believe what you did. Let me hear you go crazy. Yeah. San Antonio, get on your feet. Get on your feet, guys. Dig it up, bum bum. Dig it.

Okay, I think we've ran that joke into the ground. Literally. Nice. Yep. Those are all the voice memos we have. No more voice memos. No more voice memos. Okay, Brad, anything else we need to talk about? about obviously we've got a jingle coming and on our way but anything else you need to get off your chest

yes actually can we talk about the thanksgiving thing real quick we can talk about whatever holiday you want i want to talk about that that's a thank you for that first of all okay because i'm tired of people just disregarding Thanksgiving. Yeah, let's just talk about it. Okay. So there's this trend that's sweeping the nation that says, hey, let's celebrate Christmas starting November 1st. Love you long time, Christmas.

Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. I understand. I understand that you love Christmas and that you think that celebrating it for two months is better than celebrating it for one. I say no. I say my premise is that actually, if I only celebrate Christmas after Thanksgiving, which I've always done,

that I love Christmas more than you. Uh-oh, did I offend a few people? Maybe so, but I think I'm right. Because if you think about it, it's more of a compressed uh celebration correct like the intensity is higher because it's a shorter amount of time exactly exactly that's science you and you you honor so so right now what season is it november what's fall fall equinox what what you think of when you think of fall holidays or fallidays, you think of Thanksgiving and Halloween.

Yeah. You don't think about Christmas being celebrated in the fall. So why would you celebrate Christmas when it's not Christmas season? Yes. And then whether or not it's technical or not, I think December 1st or after Christmas or after Thanksgiving, basically, but really December signifies it is winter, right? Like you think of the winter season when you think of December.

I would love to play devil's advocate to represent the people maybe don't agree with you. But yeah, I just, I agree. I'm right. Christmas is, everyone enjoys Christmas. You know, it's arguably, it's up there. It's one of the best holidays that we celebrate here. Oh yeah.

And it already gets a month. Everyone agrees that you celebrate Christmas for a month. That's a lot already. That's plenty. No other holiday has movies around it as like parades like Christmas does as you know, just all this hoopla about it for a month long. And the longer you decide to celebrate it, the less special it becomes. If you celebrate it in the allotted time that it should be celebrated, it is amazing. It is the best. You embrace the Christmas spirit. You watch all the movies. Home Alone is my favorite movie of all time. I love it. That's why I haven't got married yet. I want to enjoy my wife for, you know, maybe 40 years rather than 60. It's going to be sweeter. It's more pure. Hey, we don't have,

we can talk more about purity, but that's, that's part of what I'm talking about. Looking at you, Chrissy. Anyway, I just think that, yeah. And what other holiday are you celebrating? Thanksgiving is a nationally recognized holiday, correct? Yes. Yes. Oh, you said nationally. Yes.

In our nation, it is. In our nation, it's a nationally recognized holiday. What other holiday are you celebrating before another nationally recognized recognized holiday is over i am trying to think like you're not like oh let's celebrate for the like like christmas you know december 15th rolls around you're not starting to celebrate valentine's day no that'd be ridiculous i have a new year's eve party but it's but it's not ridiculous to do pretty much the same thing with Christmas. Yeah. That's ridiculous. It's weird.

I'm with you. People like a meme that got passed around was like a calendar of November and December. Have you seen what I'm talking about? And it's got like all these dates, like greened out for all of November and December, except for like two days in November that are like brown. And so brown equals Thanksgiving and green equals Christmas and like how to celebrate. And I understand like there is a lot more celebrations going on. Like you have Christmas parties on December 15th or whatever. Like you have stuff leading up to the actual Christmas day more than you do for Halloween

or more than you do for Thanksgiving. But I just love Thanksgiving and I think it doesn't get the credit it deserves. It doesn't, it's, it's wonderful holiday to give thanks. And we just need to, and, and I love Christmas. I think that Christmas music is wonderful. I'll listen to it almost exclusively once Thanksgiving is over. Um, what are your favorite Christmas songs? Oh man. Like it's November 29th. You're finally allowed to celebrate Christmas. First time getting in the truck. What are you playing? Deep tracks, actually. It's kind of a little bit of a random one, but Sufjan Stevens, if you've heard of him i've heard of him has a

christmas quote-unquote album it's really like five it was like five or four or five discs but he has one song that i really really enjoy especially when it's snowing outside called come on let's boogie to the elf dance oh i'm gonna guess how it goes yeah yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Come on! Let's boogie to the F's dance! Come on! Are you with me? Boogie to the F's dance! You got it.

Snow falling down! Hey! Joy going up! One hundred percent. Christmas time! Hey! And the F's falling down! I forgot the title of the song pretty much as soon as I started singing.

You did it. You did a great job. I was like, I don't even know what he just said. You've never heard that song for real? I'm just kidding. I was like, nowhere close. That's probably one of my favorite recent ones. I really like O Come All Ye Faithful, Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Austin Stone has a really good Christmas worship album, if anybody out there is wanting to listen to that um it's called the day of glory i think anyway uh love love christmas music love it all so anyway glad you got to get that off your chest but i'm kind of a hypocrite jake oh because this week you've been listening to justin bieber christmas music double hypocrite oh boy no no no that would have been cool um doesn't he have a

really good like little driver boy song or something he's got like people like obsessed with that song mistletoe i will say it's a decent song all of his other ones are not good like little driver boy has buster rhymes in it and it's so bad oh boy yeah it's bad but mistletoe's deece um because it was really nice weather and because my friend gunner was willing to help and because i got a good deal on a ladder, we did hang up the Christmas lights Tuesday. But I don't want to turn them on yet. And you could have just been like, oh, these are just lights.

November 29th, they're Christmas lights. These are just house lights. These are just fall lights. Just fall house lights. Anyway, I leave a five-star review if you disagree with me, but I think that Thanksgiving deserved its praise. And I think that when you're, when you're celebrating Christmas,

like you're not going to want to watch the NFL if it's on 52 weeks out of the year, it would be cool. But like right now, it would be a special, it would not be a special. Like we feel like we cannot miss a game. No,

you get three hours a week to watch the chiefs. And that's the only TV I watch all week. So I'm going to watch it. If it was on 52 weeks out of the year, I'm like, I can miss one. Yeah, that's okay.

I can play pickleball during this one let's be honest baseball you don't watch you don't watch very many games at all anymore because it's like it's not that big of a deal one game's not that big of a deal because there's so many of the options so i agree with your point thanks man also real quick i realized i should have given an update swept the floor with the competition to pickleball because gunner and i went in there we're like all right the game is in 30 minutes how quickly can we win this game you look you're supposed to play best of five so it's kind of a lot of games not for you not if there's only three yes so we win the first three and then they're like well you're actually supposed to play all five for like tiebreakers

and we're like we're gonna watch a chief's game you guys can have the other two and we just left it's kind of a baller move yeah we just like ran out of there it just like swept this like father son duo wow well the picture you took had some woman in the background i thought we were playing her and i was like they're going to smother her i'm going to smother her in affection before and after we play because that's i'm just a physical touch guy we did not play her we played that's good people and god said he's like oh those are by far the best people that i've seen so far oh really and we swept them so i guess it might be an easy season yeah Did you sweep them? Yeah, easily?

We were down eight to two one game and came back. So yeah, it wasn't easy, but that's pickleball. That's the route you take when you decide to be a pickleball player. And that is Dallas. And that is pickleball. Okay, Brad, it's time. We're going to end this episode. Hit them with a jingle to end it.

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if you're listening uh that was for you. Is she dead? Is she? I don't know. Dang, it's my turn to talk about the dead person, I guess. I'm sorry. If anyone in Tina Turner's family is listening, I'm sorry. I like her music, but I guess I'm not familiar with her life.

No, I don't know. Oh, okay. I don't know either. Okay, well, that's episode 29 uh don't forget check out page on instagram link is in description check out digital resource for a free quote on some digital marketing needs follow our instagram account uh brad how you have you been doing better leaving people on read this week yeah i think i'm doing i think i'm answering more okay let me know let me know what the five- star description uh review if i'm not doing a good job and i'll step up my game bring my best bring your best love you katherine love you and

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