Ghostrunners - 30 - Sneakin’ Goat Cheese

Episode Date: December 2, 2019

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Ready? Set? Go. Okay, this is like you hurt yourself like, oh, I have a... Boo-boo! That was me. I don't know, that was Ty. Okay, this is like... It wasn't. Jewelry in the early 2000s. Yo, I got you.

Bling-bling! Nice, Kat. That was me! That was mine. Okay, this is like, I'm just talking, talking. Yada, yada, yada. No, no, no, it's different than that. Chat, chat. Chat, chat.

Talky, talky. No, it's like... I mean, I don't really know how to describe it. It's just like... You talking on and on and on Rambling yada yada. No, it's the same word. It's the two words in a row. They were gonna bother I was looking for a blah blah. Oh, okay. This is the type of gun kind of hurts not that bad Oh, baby. Nice. Oh, this is the Flintstones character boo-boo. No, no, no, nice Okay, lady Nice you distractedboom. Okay, lady.

Gaga. Nice. You distracted me. Okay, this is like a, could go either way. It's half and half. No, it's a fraction. It's a. Half-half.

Two percentages. Two. The reason it's, the reason, oh. 50-50. 50-50. A kind of sucker. Pop-pop, dum-dum. There you go. Pop-50. Kind of sucker. Pop pop, dum dum. There you go.

Oh, this is a kind of bird or it's also an- Dodo. Yeah, wow. Stinked bird. This is a type of grain. It's like rice. Kinkin, awawa. No, it's like rice or quinoa or-

Couscous. Yes. What? Don't know that one. This is a dog breed, I think. I've never heard it as a double word like this. Chow Chow? Yeah.

Oh. Okay, on the double. Hop, hop. Chop, chop. Dang it. Hop, hop. Come on. What does a train say?

Choo, choo. I think that was J. Of course you do. This is a kind of dance. Cha cha! Yeah. That is not how you do the cha cha. I know, but I'm sitting.

This is another kind of dance. Boom boom, pal. This is the, it's very upbeat. It's the, this word is things in your pantry. Rice, rice. No, the can can. Oh, sure, sure. It's like a motorcycle move.

Go. This is an island. Oh, Pee Pee Island in Thailand. It's not very exciting. It's pretty... Boring. Oh, Bora Bora. That's right.

Thank you, Kat. Wake me up before you. Go, go. This is a band, kind of like Kevin Blank of the basketball... Duran Duran. Yep. This is a type of hair dryer, but you say it twice. A brand of hair dryer, I'm sorry, brand of straightener.

Paul Mitchell, Paul Mitchell. Chi Chi. That's correct. Dang it. This is a type of dance that has already been said, it's can-can. This is how you say I pay in Spanish. Probably not gonna get it. Blank stick that you jump up and down on.

Popo. Okay, but it's like that, except it's. Popo. Popo. Go-go. I except it's. Popo. Go, go. I said that first. Your. Pipa. Go, go. No.

Ma and. Papa. Um. Pa. What? Ma and. Pa. Papa.

Papa. Popa. No, but you're, you're doing the, remember the stick part of the clue. The pago. Pago, pago. That's correct, Jake. What is pago? Hey, don't do that.

That's a no no No no Dang it This is a basketball player He's African And tall Nay nay Oh watch me whip

Alright Time for me to Roll away Yeah thanks for doing that Yeah sure Anytime Catherine Hanson Ellis Thank you for joining us today

On the podcast Absolutely Absolutely Happy to be here Happy to be here See ya Episode 30 Ghost Runners Podcast Baby today on the podcast. Absolutely. Absolutely. Happy to be here. Happy to be here. See ya. Episode 30 Ghostrunners podcast, baby. Thanks for joining us for another one. Brad

is here. Yeah, baby. Dirty 30. And so is Jake. You went dirty flirty. I was going to say flirty 30. Flirty 30? I never heard of that. Oh, I thought you were just making something up. Oh, I feel like dirty 30 is like a thing that people say. In what context? When they turn 30, I up. Oh, I feel like dirty 30 is like a thing that people say. In what context?

When they turn 30, I guess. Really? Oh, yeah, dirty 30. I straight up have never heard that, I don't think. Flirty 30 is more fun. Thank you. Yeah. What else could it be?

Hurty 30? If you're like, oh, gosh, my back feels more like hurty 30. Sounds like herky jerky. Or if you're like just a very loquacious person, you're a wordy 30. Nice. Yeah. Your turn. Okay. Somebody who's, who looks nice in his Southern. Oh, that's a purdy 30. Ooh. I was going to say someone who, uh, does a lot of birdwatching birdie 30 birdie 30. Oh, for sure. Or is a good golfer. I should have said good. Oh yeah. Someone who really enjoys like the more like flan and yogurt parts of life they are curdy 30 ah

uh someone who um loves like kind of the type of underwear you use when you play football that holds your pads gurdy 30 oh someone who like looks really looks forward uh to the end of a meal. Dessert-y 30. You know, the woman who assembles that it's a women's restroom. She's a skirt-y 30. We did not plan on starting the episode this way. Pudding. Pudding. Okay, that's probably enough.

You won. Episode 30, we're here uh the game you just heard us play was something i wanted a white elephant gift exchange last week and clearly have not played it until just now we just thought we'd take a whack at it and it was it was fine uh white elephant gift exchanges uh one time actually it was last year i think so katherine's family does a big white elephant gift exchange and we do the thing where i'm sure you guys probably did too where you can like steal it and everything like you get three steals and it's locked exactly so you get three steals and it's locked and so katherine's family has like 25 people doing this gift exchange and so one of

the first people that picked something um picked out this uh what's it called instant pot is that what they're called? Have you heard of those? They're like crock pots, but like instant, like you can make stuff in 10 minutes or five minutes in them. And they're sweet. They're like a hundred dollars maybe, or something like that. And the, you know, the, the price is supposed to be like $50 for these gifts. And so somebody went above kind of like a video iPod kind of thing. Like, yeah, I love you a home ways oven fits for it. You know, that kind of thing. So they, they did the video iPod version of this, uh, white elephant gift. And I was like, Catherine, we need to get that. I was like, here's what we're going to do. I'm going to steal it from

whoever got it. I don't remember who got it. Terrell. I'm going to steal it from Terrell. And then, and I think we only got maybe, maybe Terrell already had stolen it. So Terrell stole it. And I think we did three steals. I'm going to steal it. Then you steal it. And then you steal it. And then it's ours. Yeah. But, but her sister, Catherine's youngest sister, Caroline really, really wanted the instant pot. Okay.

Um, and like, so I was like scheming all this stuff, but Caroline, we knew that Caroline wanted, but Caroline was like number 20 out of 25. We're like, she's not going to get it. If we just, we can do this. And Caroline just was like, Brad, don't. Like, she was like so mad about it. Like, do not do that. I want like, Like you should have had a higher draft pick. This isn't my fault. I was like, that's just part of the game. Like we're just going to do

Yankee swap. And I don't, I don't really truly want the instant pot for myself, but I know that my wife can make some sweet. You could be a good husband by doing this. Well, but, and she's also going to make me good food from it. I'm not going to use the Instant Pot personally. You'll use it residually when you eat. Is it called an Instant? I feel like it's not.

Anyway, I think people know what I'm talking about. I think maybe it's called. Anyway, so I steal it, but Catherine refuses to steal it because she feels too good about or too like bad for her sister. Okay. Her sister's like very frustrated with me. Somebody else ends up stealing it from me besides katherine katherine opens up her gift and somebody got her like four different like

graphic tees of movies like it was terrible it was like a josh shirt a sandlot shirt uh one that said like i think one like a 50 white elephant yes graphic tees yeah it. Graphic tees? Yeah, it was like $12 shirts, like four of them. It was just so bad. Like, Tia's beating Ninja Turtles or something like that. Like, and Catherine, you know, kind of like, she was smiling with her teeth, but her eyes were looking at me like, I'm so sorry. The shirt's like, in a world of fish, be a shark.

Jaws. No, they weren't even, yeah, no, it was just, it was literally just like the Jaws like cover. It was like just Jaws. This is a movie. Yeah. This is a movie it was just it was literally just like the Jaws like cover. It was like just Jaws. This is a movie. Yeah, this is a movie that's out like that. You got it from like the Walmart, you know, like they have like those different ones at Walmart.

Anyway, Led Zeppelin probably was one of them. I don't know. That's not a movie. But anyway, her sister really was frustrated with me. I believe she listens to the podcast, so she's probably going to defend herself a little bit. But I think the irony of it was that the girl that ended up with it was not her sister. I think it was maybe her other sister, Terrell. I don't

remember, but Terrell was going to get one for Christmas anyway. And so it was like, Oh, what's, what are we going to do with this second instant pot? You know, anyway, all that to say those, those white elephant gift exchanges can be a little bit, uh, contentious if you, if, if you have too much scheming involved. So don't, don't scheme. Just, just go. No, I think I'm on your side here. Yeah. I mean, you're playing by the rules. You're allowed to do that. It's not like you did anything shady. Like that's the whole point of the white elephant thing is you get to trade and steal from people. Right. Oh, I was all about it, but I just, I didn't want to get, I didn't want to ruffle. I didn't want to ruffle feathers actually, but Catherine did not.

So I don't know, man. Hmm. I did it, but then it didn't work. I stole it. And I think she said, I hate you. I think she maybe told me that. Whoa, Caroline. But then, but she took it back.

I'm sure. For a crock pot. Yeah. I will say, yeah yeah as you get older your your mindset starts to shift and what's important candles were a big hit at our gift exchange personally i was not interested in the candles in the least bit no you're in a central oil guy right yeah if you need a scent going you you diffuse i've actually been a big glade plug-in guy recently just bought some yesterday are you the kind of guy are they the ones that

like just are consistent or the ones that like spray out a little bit every once in a while they do not spray these are like they're the little little liquids you have to plug into the wall yeah yeah why do you plug them in i don't know i don't know what that does exactly yeah like does it heat it up or something and that's how it disperses i don't know let's look into it let's let's call let's call if you, you know what to do. I'm not even gonna say it. Anyway. Okay. So, um, Brad, fill me in on your week. What have you been doing? It's been like nine days since we've recorded a podcast. So a lot's been going on. Well, we all know what week it was. It was not the week of Christmas. It was the week of Thanksgiving. That's correct. So it's

Thanksgiving week. I was sick the week before. And so I was getting caught up on my orders. I was trying really hard to get these two orders done before the end of November. Got those orders done, celebrated Thanksgiving with my family. It was a great time. My mom has a huge extended family. She's one of six daughters. And so we just, and we were all in town pretty much. And so it was like 45 of us, 42 actually, to be exact on Thanksgiving day, uh, at this one house. And it was wonderful. Um, and crazy all at the same time. So, uh, yeah, I mean, I don't know how much detail you celebrated Thanksgiving. Yeah. I celebrate Thanksgiving. Okay, cool. Uh, so we, well, we have some random fun traditions. I can tell you about those. Okay. Have I ever told you? Um, the most random one that we do obviously beyond just Thanksgiving

stuff is we do a pinata every year. Oh yeah. You haven't mentioned that before. So I thought it was very, very strange. Uh, yeah. And then you also go to a Mexican restaurant every Friday, every Friday. Yeah. Why, why are you so Mexican in your family? Uh, uh well i don't know we always went to my grandma's growing up before she passed away like early 2000s and we always went to this one same mexican restaurant there and so i think it was just kind of like well we gotta keep going to mexican even though we're not going to dodge city for this anymore so but the piñata thing too like it's not just a mexican restaurant yeah the piñata thing happened started like one of my aunts was living in texas i think so she brought up a piñ one year. Cause you know, Texas is practically Mexico. So, um, we

brought a pinata up and that was just really fun. And we always go like youngest to oldest. And so like back in the day, I was the second youngest grandchild. And so it was always my goal to like bust open the pinata. I never did. And this year actually, uh, all these little, we have all these little kids like Hattie's too, you know, and like we have kids up to like basically 10 years old, but they're all so young that they don't hit it very hard. And then a couple of the girls that were in junior high were not there that probably would have busted it open. And so it was getting to the point where it was about to go to me.

And luckily my cousin, Corey, who's 27 years old, was the only one that was embarrassed and had to actually do the pinata. And he he busted it open. So wait, why was he embarrassed? Well, I don't know if he was embarrassed, but he was just like, man, I don't want to do this anymore. I'm so young. Whereas I'm like, oh, let's go. I'll I'll beat the crap out of that pinata.

It's very infrequent in adult life. You get to take a swing at something. Yeah. Like unless you chop your own wood, you pretty much don't make that motion anymore with your body. Seriously. I think that'd be fun. Uh, that reminds me of something else that happened this week when you said it's very rare as an adult to do this. Uh, my cousin basically sprinted in the parking lot the other day. Um, so one of my, my cousin Abby forgot her wallet, um, at raising canes where we were for lunch. And my cousin Joel was like,

okay, I'll go take it out to her. I was kind of walking leisurely, you know, out to her. And then I kind of watch Abby like go in reverse in her car. And then I see like the reverse lights go off and start driving away. And Joel went from like, kind of like chilling, you know, kind of a chill, brisk walk to like, all of a sudden he is like sprinting out there. And I thought to myself, people just don't ever sprint these days. Like you don't like when you're a kid, it's not that weird to like run really hard. Yeah. Like it'd be really weird if like we got done with this podcast and I just left the garage and just sprinted into my house.

But as a kid, you ran everywhere. Are you, is this you saying you're going to start sprinting more? I think. Yeah. A hundred percent. I mean, it's faster, right? Forrest Gump did it. And look at him.

He got a movie made out of his life. That's a real story, I think. Yeah, book and movie. Yeah. Both true. I get that. If you would come play football with us, you would be sprinting. Because I played this week.

You did? We texted you. Oh, on Sunday. You said. I was working. I was working on those tables. As far as we know. Yeah.

That's what you said. That's what I said. You actually I was working. I was working on those tables. As far as we know. Yeah, that's what you said. That's what I said. You actually didn't miss out that much. There was a lot of dog poop in the field. Did you not play at the football field? No, we met up at Westport High School instead of China Mission East. Oh, what state is that in that has dog poop on their field? That is in Missouri. It is.

OK, gotcha. So I got quite a bit of dog poop on my knee third play of the game really yeah diving touchdown catch ask gunner ask isaac they'll tell you but uh there were two very different shades of mud on my knee one was brown and one was more green yellow like i i'll show you the picture actually when we get done with this it's pretty it's pretty stark contrast of where the poop starts and where the mud ends uh was your team the bulldogs or the shih tzus yeah okay gotcha yep anyway uh what else did you do uh not a whole lot honestly i mean we no that's not true we we eat a lot in my family we love eating so just ate a lot plate it's a random tradition that the men in my family love the game of hearts.

Oh, yeah. I played spades last night. Yeah. Hearts is fun because we can make it to where you can play with. Like we were playing with like eight guys, I think it was. So you can expand it to bigger games and stuff. But one of the people, one of my cousins had a Guatemalan foreign exchange student with them who spoke, like, I'm not even joking, like very, very little English, like no English.

I bet he loved the piñata part though. But he speaks that pretty well. He swung the piñata. He got, yeah, he got in there because, you know, he's over in Korea. Dale, dale. Yeah, yeah, dale, dale. And anyway, but I tried to teach him how to play hearts.

Very difficult to teach somebody something like that in Spanish. Okay, let's try. Hola, me llamo, what's his name? Alex or Ali, Alejandro. Hola, me llamo Alejandro. Hola, Ali. Como esta? Como estas, Ali? Bien, y tu? Bien. Bring your beans. Bring your, bring your bangs bring your bring your may horrors i don't know um ali this is how you play okay see you use one cars one una carta si mas alta si o mas bajo okay mas bajo Bajo. Que? Mas bajo. Huh? Alto. Bajo. Medio.

I don't know what this bit is. Corazon, yeah. I don't know why I thought this would be a good idea. It's okay. We played hearts. It was fun. Fun time. That's cool?

Yeah. I don't know. What else? You got anything for me? Yeah. I wanted to give you time to fill people in on your life and everything. Thanksgiving was great. We had a fun time with my family. Hattie was really, really fun.

And it's now Christmas time. And so we recently just today bought a Christmas tree. Went to the Christmas tree farm and got it. Hattie loved it. She kept calling it a Santa Christmas tree. That's fine. Which, yeah, not bad. He's not the reason for the season, but good enough, you know.

And, yeah, it was really fun doing that with her. She's just, she's at like this perfect age where everything is like majestic, like perfect for her. So, like, she's so excited every time we see Christmas lights or like I'm teaching her all these new Christmas songs, you know, that are brand new to her. She wanted me to sing Carol of the Bells to her before bed last night. No one knows the words to that song. Uh, do you know that song at all? I probably heard it. Oh, that's that song. That sounds awesome. No wonder she has you singing. It is awesome, but I don't know the words. Um, so that's my new resolution before the end of Christmas season. Yeah. What are the are they no one knows like those are words in those moments yeah i don't know what to say i'm gonna learn them that's cool yeah next week yeah

maybe next week i'll solo so anyway uh yeah that's i don't have too much that's great those are great you had a very wholesome week it sounds like it was it was a lot of family time which was really good and uh revitalizing for me. Nice. Are you sick anymore? No, I feel great. There's been a sickness that started going around my extended family though. It's a stomach bug. And so I really hope Catherine, Catherine claims that if you drink, uh, uh, grape juice,

something about the pH levels in your stomach or in the juice or whatever, make it to where you are less likely to get a stomach bug because it makes your stomach inhospitable for stomach bugs. So she's been giving us grape juice left and right. A hundred percent Concord, of course. You know, it also helps not get the stomach bug, raising your immune system by will and saying, I'm not going to get sick. Yeah. It's a mental thing, right? It's like Dwight. Yeah. Raising his cholesterol. Why would you ever want to raise your cholesterol? So I can lower it. That's right. I just raise my immune system and keep it there all the time.

And then you don't ever get sick. That's smart. And if you do, pop some Zyboys and you're fine. You're back at it. There you go. You're good. Okay. So I've got some updates.

A lot of stuff happened as always in a typical week, but I sound like a broken record always just saying that. So I'm not really gonna talk about the important stuff that happened. Let's talk about the not important stuff that happened. The mediocre life updates. Yes. I got a wedding invite this week. Yes. And my only thought on this, figured maybe we could talk about it. It just dawned on me this week, that I was like, wait, every wedding invite I've ever gotten, I cannot read for two reasons. One, the font is always something in so much like grandma cursive,

I'll call it, where it's like, this is barely English that I don't even know who's getting married. And then two, can't read. Okay. I thought of three reasons. Oh, two, sometimes the parents of the bride and groom's names are bigger than the bride and groom. And so you'll get this invitation. You're like, wait, I don't even know these people yeah who's kenneth and laura yeah it's like kenneth and laura huge font invite you to join them on the celebration of their son tiny little font caleb and you know sophie or whatever yeah yeah and it takes forever to find out who this wedding invitation for and three the wording of the date and everyone 100 chance the wording of the date is so confusing yeah Yeah, they just try to be so fancy with it. Yeah, and it's like, it's out of order.

Like, please excuse my dear Aunt Sally. There's a way to do this. Month, day, year. That's what we're all used to. But in the wedding invites, it's like, would you care to cordially join us on the eve of this 25th day of the sixth month of the year of our Lord? Yeah, seriously.

And I just, I don't know where that came from really other than just like, I've never talked about this before and I'm here to say, I think you're annoying. I know exactly what you're talking about. It's like, it's like there needs to be something on the back. There's like a cliff notes version. Like, Hey, Luke and Courtney are getting married June 25th, Austin, Texas. Be there. Okay, great. See ya. See ya there. I'll make my accommodations now. It's like a word search every time you get a wedding invite. What's important information?

What are the few keywords I need here? And I'll probably be guilty of doing it too someday. Oh, you're 100% going to be guilty of all these things that you're frustrated with, I bet. It's not up to you. That's what you got to realize right now. It's up to... It's up to fill in the blank girl. Oh. Oh, well, maybe.

Yeah. You should take, take your request to him. Yeah. But about anything. But I totally know what you mean about the, like same thing with that calligraphy, like the calligraphy thing. That's like the big, the big trend these days. The big colleague.

The big colleague is just like, like if it's more than one or two words, like give thanks, of course I can read that. It's like love. But if it's like, if it's like love is patient, love is kind, it's like all these things on this huge custom made, you know, piece of wood from Ellis Custom Creations or something. It's like, what does that say?

I can't. It's the grandma cursive. I have to go so slow through each word to understand what it's saying. And it just, it's saying. And it just, it's like, this is not pretty to me. This is not aesthetically pleasing to the eye at all to me. So you're saying if it was calligraphied, I believe,

you would rather just have it to be the verse of the Bible, or like the reference, not the entire verse. Or this, you know, emphasis, mine kind of thing. But it would be like you know love is in a nice sans serif uh all caps love is and then maybe calligraphied patient period love is kind you know you see what i'm doing with my hands so uh you get where i'm going with the i don't know that's just the thought okay but yeah, it's just like, I can't, it's way too much, way too much. Can't, can't do it. Two words, tops, two words, top man. I mean, let's talk. Yeah. Or just not a whole sentence. Just, just, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it can be three words if you wanted to, uh, you know, home is where the heart is. That's probably

fine. Okay. But if it's like home is, or if it's like one of those things where it's like in this home, we don't go to bed angry, you know, share pillows. I don't know. You know what I mean? Like those kinds of things, like have a drink when we need it. Cheer for the Jayhawks. Uh, you know, it's like very rosé all day. Uh, eat guacamole with our food i don't know they don't ever say that you know but but there's a i think everyone knows what we're talking about there's like this brand of just like yeah generic fake silly sayings that everyone just buys into yeah yeah oh yeah yeah it drives me nuts now that's a whole different topic but it it just, yeah, here it comes. I'm just going to talk about it. We're just moving from one thing to another.

I don't even want to start. My entire life, I've always been just pretty individualistic. So maybe that's why I have trouble understanding it. But why would you want to buy the same things that everyone else is buying for the same reasons? Okay. When you could have a custom table. Right. Perfect segue. Sure.

Alice custom creations will do that for you for a table. If it not for chairs, we don't do T-shirts. We don't do T-shirts. What? What is the plug even here? Basically it's so crazy to me how popular just like, yeah, these just sayings and these signs you could buy for your home when you know that everyone else is also buying them. I just don't want to decorate my home the exact same way that I know that several other people in my neighborhood are also decorating their home.

Right. Yeah, it's just, yeah. I don't understand it, but I get that not everyone cares like that. Well, or not everyone's creative enough to figure out how to find it themselves. You know, go to a custom website, ellscustomcreators.com being one of them. You know, something like that. Maybe people are just like, okay, whatever Joanna Gaines says, that's what I'm going to do.

Joanna Gaines wants this. That's a good idea for me. So I don't know. But Joanna Gaines uses tables similar to mine, just FYI. So if you're in Kansas City and looking for a table, holler at me. We can make one just like a fixer-upper table have i talked about this on the podcast when we were in college uh my senior year in the apartment we made pros and cons lists for each other as humans for each other yeah so that seems like you get dicey quick well we got it so these girls that we knew did it but it was

more of like a uh just like a daily encouragement list like on your way out you know you can encourage your roommate or whatever and so we took that and so just say like ethan and you have like a t chart pros and cons just as a human just things they've done good and bad it was like a running chart it was awesome it was just like yeah like a written account of inside jokes basically yeah like i specifically remember one time ethan had just come home from a run and i was like oh what's up dude how was it doesn't say a word to me because he's like feeling really sick from his run just goes to the bathroom and starts puking oh even you know so that's a con that's definitely getting written down yeah doesn't say hi just starts throwing up yeah it doesn't

doesn't doesn't acknowledge your feelings whenever he's not feeling well and so like and even like the pros were never encouraging it was always like sarcastic like is a super social guy apparently it doesn't have time to do the dishes after he's had a bunch of people over very passive aggressive yeah but when you're close enough you can like get away with that but that's funny it was such a hit as a decoration because people loved coming over and reading them so if you're out there if you don't really care how your wall looks that much and you live with a bunch of guys or girls that are really close-knit yeah have a pros and cons list i would love to see our list now but really just anything or any any kind of like lists like that is fun like having like a quote quote board of just like oh remember that hilarious thing that we said that's going on the board you know that kind of yeah it's great to just yeah

write down memories like that like little memories yeah we did that in college too that's fun that's good man anyway got real off topic there with it oh just start with the wedding invite like probably the least important thing that happened to me this week but that's okay no but it's real it's like where am i where are we going what's happening here like at least underline something for me you know underline bold italics actually most of it is italicized already too much italicized it's tricky yeah another update this week uh brad you'll enjoy this a uh i went to church last sunday and we had just got done recording a podcast where i shared some pretty strong opinions about art and then i get to church in the first 20 minutes of the sermon is it all about vincent van gogh's life it was about to art yeah you know what that is and what a quinky dink thank you yeah kind of a quinky dink

didn't pick up on that but hey go winky yeah brad say like mouthing it to him uh but anyway so the pastor is showing us these uh self-portraits of vincent van gogh and saying like look at what he painted here and then a year later later here, and then here and here. And then he kind of asked this open-ended question to the congregation. He's like, what do you guys see? What kind of person do you think Van Gogh portrayed himself as? First person, you know. Like based off this picture. Based off, yeah, how he seems to view himself, his own self-portraits.

First person yells out, sad. Pastor goes, yeah, you're right. Yeah, he does look sad, right? He's always kind of solemn. Someone else yells out, serious. Yes, that's good. He's never smiling. He's very serious.

Third person raises his hand. Yeah. Active shooter. What? I'm not joking. I went to church by myself. So no one is really, I can't prove this, but there's a guy who yelled out active shooter in church.

I could not believe it. And what did people do? There were like a few giggles, maybe just like uncomfortable giggles. Like, dear God, don't kill me. Like I'm going to giggle to diffuse the situation. But I was pretty mortified. Like you just, you can't say that nowadays or ever. Bomb in the building.

Like, yeah. Okay. I can see how you could interpret that. Like, yeah. Okay. I can see how you could interpret that. Like, no, no, like active, like,

like working for a church, we have like a security team in place all because of all these shootings in church. That is so beyond not what you should do. I like looked around, like, you know, are people about to go like tackle this guy?

Like I couldn't really see him. So I was like, is he actually like a threat? Is posing a threat why would it was crazy it was also awesome like it's like the nerve of this guy yeah the the the rationale to do that like because you know he wasn't just like right away like like there were a couple of answers a couple other people were saying stuff before as he's like what should i say what's really gonna get their attention uh maybe i should say, you know, this thing that's kind of going around America,

like very dangerous, like people are very nervous. Maybe he'll start talking about gun control if I say this. Oh my gosh. Let's get a sermon about gun control next week. Oh. Child predator. Serial rapist. Golly.

Of course. Yeah, 100% chance. I know those eyes. Gosh. That's terrible, man. And people just laughed about it that's what i kind of i mean i bet there are plenty of other people who felt as uncomfortable as i did but you can't really like talk about it the pastor just kind of moved on it's like okay yeah yeah i could see okay

any other like emotions though not so much like you know that i think about that like since i do work at a church i don't think about active shooters very often, to be honest. But I think about like just the crazy things that must happen every single Sunday. Because like every single church has church every single Sunday. I bet there's a million bloopers of worship every single Sunday that people just don't put out there because it's like not edifying to the church. I bet like a worship leader falls down on stage once a week, at least, you know, like while he's singing, he just trips on a chord or something and just falls. And when you have a guitar in your hand leading worship, you can't, you can't cushion the blow. You can't

cushion the fall at all. You're just, you're, you're going like, you can't stop yourself. You know, imagine like holding things with two hands and then falling backwards. Like, what are you doing? I've never thought about falling with a guitar. Oh, I think about it all the time. I'm like, please do not fall. What's your biggest church blooper that you've done personally? Oh, I have a few. Um, that's a good question. Uh, there's some simple ones. Like sometimes when I'm like kind of getting into worship, closing my eyes, I've like bopped my mouth on the microphone. Okay. So I'm like kind of singing and all of a sudden just like, like one time it was like kind of a fat lip almost.

Cause I hit it so hard and I'm sure it was like, you could hear it in the congregation, like whatever. Another time I prayed, this is what I still get crap from, from my pastor in college. I led worship my senior year of college at this church. And I prayed for God to use his magic in the service. God just use that, use that hocus pocus of yours and just cast a spell. My pastor's like, Hey, just FYI. Like I wouldn't, I'd start writing out your prayers from now on.

He told me that. He was like no more improv prayers. Which is so fair. Like I'm not like great at like, you know, public praying, I guess. And so like, uh, yeah. Cause he's like, yeah, we don't want to say that, you know, talk about God's magic anymore or something. Um, and then this is like my most embarrassing one, even though it didn't happen to very many people, we were doing a worship night at Canacuck and it was just me and my guitar, uh, and no, I don't think I had a microphone. And so it's just me and my guitar unplugged with like 15, 20 counselors after, after lights out or whatever. Um, and I was playing the song, the stand. Okay. And the stands verse, I like that song. I love it. It's like one of my favorite songs. The stands verse is pretty low. So it's like you stood before

creation. And I was saying to myself, as I was starting the song, like instrumentally, this song is pretty hard to hear if I sing it low. So I think I'm going to try to sing it an octave higher. It's easier to hear, you know, when you're singing higher, um, you can make out the words a little better. You can vocalize more. Uh, and so I was about to sing higher and then decided maybe it's a bad idea it's pretty high you know because then it's like instead of you stood before it'd be like you stood you stood before creation and so it's like so i basically like went in the middle of it and i was just like yeah like like or maybe not even like it was like so off it was like it sounds

like ocean avenue yeah it was like you stood like it was like completely the wrong like, it was like so off. It was like, it sounds like Ocean Avenue. Yeah. It was like, yes, dude. Like it was like completely the wrong note and it was just so uncomfortable. And like, it was when I was in college at Canna Cook where like, you know, hormones are flowing. Like, Oh, the girls are like probably loving me right now. I'm just saying, you know how I sing when I get hormonal, a little pitchy. No, no, no. I'm just saying like, like there were just lots of stuff going, you know, that's where I met Catherine. That's where I, you know, I probably, it was not because of that song. I'll tell you that much, but it's a different song. But yeah, I just remember trying to go high and not hitting that note and just then trying

to go in the middle and you can't go in the middle. There's no, there's no middle ground. So that was by far the most embarrassing I've ever felt in worship. So yeah, I'm trying, I'm sure there's more awkward things. Uh, did you ever say anything like when you're doing programs at camp, like ever accidentally like let something slip on stage? Oh, I've no, not like anything like super, super inappropriate. I don't think I remember like, like there's a few times where I've made jokes I was like oh maybe I shouldn't have made that like like I remember the summer after Steve Jobs died I made a joke about Steve Jobs oh okay like it wasn't like anything like yeah but I was with seven to eleven year old kids so

they didn't understand anything anyway and so that was kind of stupid they're idiots uh no but like because of that I could do like a little bit higher level humor for the counselors. Yeah. That like they would laugh at. And then because they were laughing, all the kids would love it. Yeah. No, I don't. I can't remember anything specific that I said that was like, oh, I shouldn't have said that.

Like in staff training week, though, when it's just the counselors. You let it fly. Oh, yeah. And there were a few times where I was like, I probably shouldn't have gone there. I don't know. We don't have to talk about it but anyway yeah i said some stuff there i i know i've told you this story i hope it hasn't been on the podcast but uh a little sneak peek at some of my uh stand-up material i actually tell the story yes in my set um and also another sneak peek i am a liar because i tell the story like it's from my perspective and it happened to me. But it's not.

But it's fine because stand-up comedy is mostly made of stories anyway. Really? Is that true? Oh, yeah. Oh. I just always assumed that. Really? Like there's no way all these things happen.

Yeah, I was in the airport today and there's no way that happened today in the airport. Oh, sure. You know, or that happened ever in an airport. Oh, interesting. At least the way my mind works. Mine really oh man maybe i either one i'm super wrong or maybe i just shattered a lot of people's minds i don't know nate bargetzi i feel like all this stuff is is real but i i don't know i just assumed i would actually genuinely be very curious if anyone knows this because i always assume that most of it was made up you know what you can do if you know

you can leave us a five-star review and let us up. You know what you can do. If you know, you can leave us a five star review and let us know, let us know if things are true or not. I know for a fact that one of Nate Bargetts, he stories is true because there's like a review on trip advisor.com. Oh yeah. It's actually one snake Emporium or whatever. Oh yeah. I'm not saying everything.

Okay. Sorry. Go ahead. There's always going to be fabrications. Like, like if I think of a funny punchline, it's like, okay, that part happened to me and that is funny funny but everything leading up to it is going to be

fabricated or yeah yeah whatever not acting like i know anything about what i'm doing okay anyway this story is uh ty gatewood the guy that i did the limo trip with he was in high school and was pretty involved in young life and they were doing this big young life conference so he went to like edmund north but like all the other Edmond schools were coming to his school for this huge like youth rally. And he said it was like a completely full like gymnasium, like thousands of kids are there. And his only job was to, you know, he was like the secretary or, you know, he had some

little title. And his only thing was just, we just need to pray before the woman comes up to like give the message tonight. Just pray. Yeah. And, uh, so Ty was up there praying and he said at some point in the prayer, he thought he was going to say, like, if you don't know, like in Christian culture, there's kind of a phrase like God, let it be your words and not theirs, you know, like, let it be your spirit, you know, and nothing, you know, of just themselves, of their flesh, whatever. Yeah. He tried to say

that phrase of like, God, let it be your words and not hers. Uh, but what came out of his mouth was, uh, God, just tonight we just asked that you just put your tongue in her mouth. God, just put your tongue in her mouth and guide her. And, uh, yeah, it was a true story that actually happened to him. And he, he said he got about halfway through the next sentence and then looked up and realized what he'd done. And everyone was looking back at him and the place just erupted in laughter and he said he couldn't contain it and it was just uh yeah and i think that story's so funny uh and then this part i normally don't tell this part but whatever because it does make the story slightly better for some reason the woman who was coming up to speak was uh in a wheelchair she was handicapped oh boy which for some reason yeah just makes it slightly worse

why does it make it worse you know you know oh boy sorry ty i don't know if you want that story getting out much less me uh saying it on tour oh speaking of that and then we're gonna get some ads real quick but another big update this isn't actually exciting update that happened to me we got sent a tentative schedule for dates and no no, not dates, cities and venues for our tour in the spring. Yeah. Which was awesome.

I forgot to tell you this. I should have texted you this. Because the first time we got this, it terrified me. Something about finally seeing cities and dates was so scary. It was like crap. Why? I don't know. It was just like, okay, this is happening.

Yeah. I am not a scenic comedian, but I'm about to do that. And this is so scary. Okay. But this time it was awesome. I was actually at dinner with my parents when I came through and I was just like so fired up. That's awesome.

You know, just like seeing it. Cause right now there's like 26 cities on this list. Holy cow. And how long is it going to take? You think? We don't know. The dates aren't on there yet. It's all pretty tidbit, but just cities and venues and just, yeah, it got me so fired

up. And you know, it shows the capacity of each theater and then like googling each theater like guys google oh what is it paps theater milwaukee i think like just seeing like it's like a triple decker theater sweet oh my gosh yeah it just got me just oh just pumped out of my mind like i'm gonna be there yeah you know performing in front of you know 1200 people so that's it just a really fun update i can't wait can't wait to go to paps paps yeah oh don't you know all paps has got the best shows up there oh i go i sneak in a little goat cheese in my coat pocket no one sees it no one checks and then i'm sneaking goat cheese the whole show you can't sneak goat cheese oh no no it's it's too it's too creamy you bring some crackers maybe

if you have some rich with those those goats you scoop it up real quick or else you'll be needing that ziploc bag as well you got a baggie you got a baggie i don't even know i don't think that's how wisconsinites talk is it i think up north do you ever i feel like that's minnesota minnesota uh making a murderer i didn't watch a Murderer? I didn't watch it. Watch it. No, I didn't watch it. I didn't. They were from Wisconsin, Manitowoc County.

Okay, so you know. They had some accents. I mean, not probably as thick as what I'm doing. They weren't saying goat cheese. But it was pretty, okay, whatever. It doesn't matter. When I was in New York, can I tell this real fast? You can. It's just like the most stereotypical New york style conversation we were eating sushi next to these people and i'm probably going to do

this very uh poorly uh but like we were eating sushi next to these people and it was just like the most typical like new york like abrasive way of talking there like this it was just a man it was i'm thinking husband and wife and this woman's like yeah i bought some new pants today and he's goes where where? Where? Where'd you get them? Where? You know, it was like, it was like very frustrated.

Like, where? Where'd you get them? Oh, over there at Ross. How much you spent? It was like, it was just like so frustrated back and forth, but they were not frustrated. They're being cordial. How much you spent? How much you spent?

Why are you going to Ross? I told you a thousand times. Go to TJ's. $20. It was, it was cheap. It was $20. Well, I don't need those pants. Why you give me pants? You know you a thousand times, go to TJ's. $20, it was cheap, it was $20. Well, I don't need those pants, why you give me pants? You know, it was just really funny. Like, I was just like,

this is like a real life TV show right here. These people are just like, where, where'd you get those? That's funny, cause I feel like sometimes like certain Asian languages get a bad rap for like always sounding angry, but New York accents are the same way too. Like, it doesn't matter what you're saying, it's got a tone to it that sounds right aggressive exactly in its nature anyway we have another new

sponsor this week uh another one coming in and just so you guys know anyone's welcome to advertise here very welcoming community yeah um so yeah let your words be our words well just put your words in my mouth and uh yeah we'll we'll say whatever you want to say. But anyway, we're actually going to listen to a little audio file of my guy, Cole. He just started a podcast that I was actually on. And so I'm going to let you tell him. I'm going to let who his tongue is going in your ears. He's going to tell you a little bit about his podcast.

Here we go. It's burning. Hey, Ghost Runners listeners. This is Cole Douglas Claiborne inviting you to listen bit about his podcast. Here we go. It's burning. Hey, Ghost Runners listeners. This is Cole Douglas Claiborne inviting you to listen to my new podcast, In No Hurry. This is a show where we just have conversations about life, things like faith and grief, as well as sports, creativity, and culture. I'll talk to musicians, writers, creators, coaches, athletes, and others about where faith intersects with their life and their work

and what they do to maintain balance in their busy life. In a world of hurry, we often need to be reminded to just slow down sometimes. I hope this podcast gives you a chance each week to do just that. I'll have a new guest each week, and I hope you feel enriched, encouraged, and entertained by the stories they share. Jake Triplett is my guest this week. So if you love Ghost Runners like I do, you definitely don't want to miss that episode. So go and subscribe to the In No Hurry podcast and join me every Monday for a new episode wherever you get your podcasts.

So yeah, check out his podcast. I was on there. This episode that came out this week, actually, and Cole interviewed me and we just kind of chatted. We actually went over some babes of the week. We went over some things that we talk about in this podcast and some new segments. So check it out. It's a lot of fun. Love it, man. A lot of people say they don't have enough or they wish we had more Ghostrunners. It sounds like this is pretty similar in a lot of ways to us. So check it out. It also sounds like know we don't really have much substance

to ours we just kind of talk like you know like we're not really uplifting anybody here uh it sounds like his might have a little more uh value to it so if you're looking for a way to kind of supplement your you know random ghost runners time of like i didn't get anything out of that with a little bit of depth probably more depth than what we have. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good spot. So yeah, it was a good interview. I talked a lot about random stuff, a lot of like Ellen, we bought a limo stuff that we know we haven't really talked about here. So this is the guy that you did, uh, with, uh, who was right, right with his wife. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. We had a few discussions, the two of us with Catherine, who was right. He would propose an argument that him and his wife had to choose

who was in the wrong and who was in the right. They are now, who was right. He would propose an argument that him and his wife had, and then I'd have to choose who was in the wrong and who was in the right. They are now divorced. No, just kidding. Well, you'll have to see. Listen to the podcast. Listen to the podcast. See if they're still together.

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Who knows what tangent this is going to take us on. I thought of something, and I feel like you're going to have something to say about it. That's our podcast description, basically. Pretty much. Yeah, honestly, all of our funniest bits are like something happened to jake and brad can make a lot of jokes about it that's like the format uh anyway so back not to bring this up again back to the wedding invite uh these are two canna cook people that got uh engaged to be married yeah and one thing led to another in my fury of thinking about their wedding invitation. Not

really. Theirs wasn't that bad. It just reminded me of everything. Where I'm going with this is we both worked at Candidate for a long time. And I think we've both seen something very similar, not with Candidate specific, but with Christians and the way they act specifically guys going to rag on the fellas here. There's a very specific way that some types of dudes, it's a minority, but some types of dudes will share their testimony. Do you know what I'm talking about? I think I do. Go ahead. It kind of becomes like, you know, if you don't know, your testimony is kind of supposed to be this, you know, short summary. Yeah. Of your faith journey of where you were, you know, then you had some sort of encounter with God, some sort of, you know, whatever. Yeah. Interaction with God and like where you're at now. And typically,

I mean, there's no rules to it, but typically you're so proud of where you're at now. That's where the focus goes. Sure. But what happens every now and then you get the right guy and it becomes an absolute highlight reel of what they did before they knew God. Pre-salvation. It's amazing. So let's just, let's just riff off what some examples would be. I just, my favorite one is when they talk about their relationship. Like I was dating this girl in high school and we did everything. You guys would not believe. I mean, think of something. We did it probably 25 times a week, you know, her parents were pretty chill. it probably 25 times a week, you know, her parents were pretty chill. So like we would do like, we pretty much had the basement to

ourselves. We, yeah, just, just nonstop. Um, you know, and, and she was hot, like she was really, really attractive. Um, you know, just, it's always tough. I mean, it'd be tough not to, I could show you guys pictures of her. Like you guys would seriously, you guys are not gonna believe what she looks like. And then, you know, went to college, uh, broke up with her, um, and just got, got really into partying. It would just wake up and just, you know, uh, five, five girls just all around me, surrounding me, wouldn't even know their names. You know, there was like a couple that were twins. And so it was hard to know their names. And that was just like, it wasn't even that crazy. Cause this was like every Friday night, every Friday, it turned out eventually to be

Saturday, Sunday. Well, every, every day, pretty much eventually I would lose track of the days because you guys, you got to understand that these parties, like I am drinking so much, like, and I would buy like an entire like handle of crown Royal and just drink it myself. Like I, I was a monster. It was nothing. People called me, people called me monster, monster Mark. Um, because I was just, you know, drinking and drinking. And I was in, I was in, I was in a really good frat, um, because of my success in sports in high school. That was the thing. It was very hard to not have my identity wrapped up in sports when I was just so incredibly good at it. I mean, I was the quarterback, I was the point guard and I played shortstop and, you know,

it'd be hard not to have your identity wrap up at sports. My parents really let a lot of things slide because of that. I set records for most yards for Coach Perry at Stratford High. And Coach Moseman just said, hey, carte blanche, baby. He gave me his credit card one time and just let me go to town. So it was just this really, really rough lifestyle over and over and then um i couldn't even keep track of everything that was going on then i went to church one day and so yeah here i am nice to meet you guys yeah there's

there's like and there's no there's yeah after after all that and uh so then i encountered the lord and uh haven't been the same since and then i met uh yeah michael here and he introduced me to um you know campus ministry and yeah i'm uh yeah michael here and he introduced me to um you know campus ministry and yeah i'm pumped to be here guys this is gonna be fun yeah like what there were so many details that story you did not need to share and then the redeeming aspect of it takes five seconds that is funny man it happens so many times it's it's classic you can't just interrupt them and be like hey this is really selfish and prideful and i'm not sure you fully know what is going on well of course you're not gonna do that you just kind of let them run with it and poke fun of it five years later on your podcast but yeah it's just a funny thing that

man just just was partying all the time you know did everything you could think of uh i mean just every weekend a new girl it was just tough you can imagine you know i didn't care about god you know when i've got stephanie and ashley and and Jennifer, like there's no room for Jesus in that lineup. It's like, geez, dude. Calm down. Oh, man. There's just so many funny things. We could probably go for a while with just like funny Christian things that we've noticed over the years.

One of the ones I was thinking of the other day was the natural transition prayers. And what I mean by that is like, um, well, like, I just think about like, if you're ever like a small group or like a meeting or something, like a church specific meeting, or even like a sermon or something, and you're, you seem like you're just kind of talking. And then all of a sudden, like the meeting's over and you're just praying. Like, okay. Give me an example. Yeah. Um, yeah, we can talk about that. Uh, you know, maybe next week or something. So Lord, we just thank you so. We can talk about that. You know, maybe next week or something. So Lord, we just thank you so much for today. And it's just like, Whoa. Oh, okay. Oh, we're praying. My hat's not even off yet. Like, Whoa. You know, like, so anyway, that's

where we're going next week. Make sure we, you know, sign the guest book in the back if you're new. So Lord, we just thank you so much for today. Uh, it's just like back and forth, like, uh, okay, I guess this is prayer. This is a prayer. He's closing his eyes. He's closing. Yeah. Let's go. Uh, that reminds me, do you ever, um, I just thought of this, the, the pastors or the youth leaders have had over the years who like, for some reason they don't say amen. And then you don't know, like the one eye open because there's worship afterwards. So it's not over yet. Yeah. Are we still praying? Like it's, he could be talking to God, but it's also kind of sounds like announcements now, like, you know, and yeah, so it'll fade off into like,

and then, you know, we've got the, you know, the women's dinner on Thursday and then, you know, the Easter egg hunt next Sunday. And it's like, these can very well be prayer requests or announcements. I don't know if we're still praying or like, uh, if you're praying and like, uh, you know, the Easter egg hunt next Sunday. And it's like, these could very well be prayer requests or announcements. I don't know if we're still praying. Or like if you're praying and like you kind of start gossiping about other people a little bit. Like, so Father, like. I don't think this is a real scenario. No, but like.

It's a fun idea. But I think there's kind of, I don't know. Sometimes like with prayer requests. Oh, okay. Especially like when Catherine would do it with like her, you know, high school girls. High school girls. Hey, we really need to be praying for Anna. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Especially like when Catherine would do it with like her, you know, high school girls. High school girls. Hey, we really need to be praying for Anna. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, we do. Wait, what happened to Anna? Oh, yeah. Oh, you didn't know. She's just been really getting into some bad stuff. You know, like, I think it'd be funny. Like, I start praying for somebody like without them knowing, like, God, I just pray for Jake. You know, he's really struggling with, you you know whether or not he should tell his girlfriend

that he's cheated on or something and then Jake kind of like opens one eye like dude and I want to pray for Brad who said he did not get a milkshake today

at Chick-fil-A when he clearly did and his wife's right here so I just pray that he would repent you know and then I look back so it's just like

building back and forth you know what we haven't prayed for the drinks yet. So actually I'd like to pray real quick one more time. I'd like to pray that Brad, you know, would finally open up to his wife about that secret he's kind of been sharing with me and not her,

and just hope that he can have the boldness to finally get that off his chest. You know, why don't I pray for the desserts? Why don't I go and pray for the desserts now? You know what? And I'll pray for Jake to reveal that search history to somebody very soon, God. Let's just say the XXX isn't switching go and pray for the dudes now you know what and i'll pray for jake to uh reveal that search history to somebody there soon uh god let's just say the xxx isn't switching to jake triplet anymore oh man okay that the hiding the milkshake thing uh i haven't

told the story forever and i know you know it because it happened the hungary yeah oh i love it um yeah i guess we'll keep his name the same whatever no chance he listens to the podcast and if so they would be good for his marriage that this gets brought up okay so this is like two and a half years ago probably i'm living in the k-life house with luke crenshaw went to his wedding he wrote us notes oh yeah we love luke great guy we're living together and we have a little uh chief's watch party over at our house and uh people were supposed to bring different food over and uh it's whatever it's your typical watch party pretty early on to the night this uh this is confusing because my roommate's name was luke but the other guy we'll call him we'll call him connor okay yeah from now on just because

connor lamb deserves a little bit of so we've got hungry connor yeah enters the scene it's not connor lamb but we'll call him for the sake of the story yeah hungry connor we've never met this guy before he is his wife is friends with some friends we know so hungry connor brand new to the house new to the friend group very early on into the night uh you know like food is just now trying to get there hungry connor hits up luke hey when those pizzas gonna be out of the oven and he's like oh you know you know, probably here pretty soon. You know, whatever. Pretty normal conversation,

but not full context of things. Pizzas get out of the oven. Hungry Connor goes to town and back on the pizzas and starts asking us. Like, is there like two pizzas total for everybody? Yeah, yeah.

And he has at least half himself. He's eating a fourth of the pizza for nine people. And then Hungry Connor starts saying some things like, hey, I heard we're having chili tonight is the chili getting here soon it's like yeah i think i think morgan's bringing chili that'll be here soon too okay cool cool cool um then one time me and luke go into the kitchen it's halftime and who do we see but hungry connor absolutely like scarfing down on these cookies like eating

them to the point where like, it was just funny. Like Luke and I made comments afterwards. Like he was eating those so fast. Like very rabidly, like a rabid dog. Yeah. And after all the other like food comments, you know, we were starting to make these jokes. Like, is he not eaten in weeks?

Like what's the deal with Hungry Connor? And also he wasn't called Hungry Connor at the time, but he's scarfing down these cookies. And it was like, this is kind of weird, but whatever. Fast forward to the third quarter. It's like a commercial. We're always kind of talking. We're asking for updates on people's lives. Hungry Connor's wife, we'll call her Stacy. She's sharing a little update. You know, this last few months have been awesome for Connor and I. We actually just started leading a Bible study. And our big thing has just been addictions and just like standing your ground on the things that you might, you know, hold to these

vices in your life. And so Connor has made the vow and I'm so proud of him. He's not going to have any sweets and he hasn't been doing them. He's been doing such a good job. She's like putting his hand on his knee, like rubbing his knee. I'm'm so proud of him he hasn't had any sweets in two months guys and like connor loves sugar like he loves sweets and he's done such a good job and me and luke look at each other and we're like oh my gosh and then connor's looking at us like don't say a word we don't know this guy and it's like obviously this doesn't mean you're a bad husband because you eat cookies. But it was like, it was weird in my brain to process. Like, if you're this willing to like openly lie to your wife and you lead this Bible study and you're eating the cookies behind your back.

And now it was just made me get the heebie-jeebies a little bit. It was a bold move to eat those cookies around her anyway. Yeah. She was right there in the other room. Yeah. She could come in at any point. He could get crumbs on himself. I get crumbs all the time.

Big crumb guy. Crummy eater. Yeah. Oh. So yeah, we still talk about hungry Connor. That would be a great prayer. Like,

okay guys, let's pray for this food. So God, we just thank you. Like, or no, no, not even before that.

Hey, let's pray for this food. I know that, I know Luke's already eaten a little bit of cookies. That's fine, but we're going to go and bless it real quick. So God, and then like natural transition prayer too. Yeah. So food. I know that Luke's already eaten a little bit of cookies. That's fine. But we're going to go ahead and bless it real quick. So God. And then like natural transition prayer too.

Yeah. So anyway, I know you're big into cookies. So let's go ahead and pray for him. God, let's just get all of them in one. Oh, man. That's awesome. I love it, man. Yeah.

It was just like one of the weirdest instances of like, I don't know, it felt like a reality show or something. Like I saw the secret and then I saw no one else being in on this. You know what that truly is in literature terms? That is dramatic irony. That is truly ironic. Really? Yeah. I believe you. You know something. The audience knows something. Oh, gotcha. The character does not. That's fine. So you're kind of like the audience. Cool. I appreciate that. You're welcome. We got that and we got the therefore, but therefore, but we're adding to our audience's screenwriter knowledge. You think that. You're welcome. We got that. And we got the, therefore, but therefore, but we're adding to our audiences, screenwriter knowledge.

You think that Cole Claymore is the only one that got some value in his podcast? Listen to that! A dramatic irony! Huh? Good. Yeah. It's good. You hear me?

The D.I.! Dramatic! Where do we want to go from here that's a great question oh two things i want to say super fast y'all i it was like a love language i felt so loved by y'all out there when i posted my first old spice picture everyone commented it was awesome like i really appreciate like so many podcast listeners were like, wow, I'm going to definitely check out Old Spice now. And like, a couple of people like made references to the podcast. And so. Oh, that's awesome.

I appreciate y'all who did that. I think it really is going to help like moving forward, like getting more brand deals and stuff. So got one more coming out this week. So look out for it. You do? Yeah, I owe them two pictures. So.

Who took those great angles of those pics? On Instagram, it would be LS Custom Creations who took those pictures. So if you guys want to comment about the great photography yeah combined photography with the great old spice you know spicy spicy composition spicy deodorant aperture oh spicy spicy deode spicy photography that's okay good effort yeah so that was awesome i just wanted to say thank you truly that was really cool to see so many people come through and then the other thing i've i've said a lot of stuff on this podcast i've said some stuff i'm like oh this is really going to resonate with some people i kid you not nothing has given me more feedback from something when people be like

yes i totally agree then when i mentioned the song I'm in love with a stripper. So many people have like messaged me, been like, dude, I've always loved that song. It's like the guilty pleasure. Apparently for a lot of people. And I just like, you know, broke the dam where everyone's now like, okay, I'll say, I'll admit, I love this song as well. Really? Okay. Well, congrats. Yeah. People love that song. You're a man of the people. And so do I. I don't care who knows. I don't care who knows it. What about your mom? Did she say anything to you about it? She did not.

Okay. Okay. I guess that makes it okay. Okay. We got some new logo submissions this week. Awesome logo submissions. There's, yeah. There's a lot of great ones.

Yeah. We, yeah, we appreciate everyone who sent them in. We're only two different people sent basically the same logo in like the office logo, but with, uh, Brad and I, and one was white, one was black, which is crazy or not to people. The logos themselves were different colors, but the same exact logo. And it was crazy. One of my favorite things that I appreciated about the logos was that every one of them that had a like semblance of like us in the, in the picture had Jake with strawberry blonde to red hair. No one had light brown hair in there.

So if Connor is listening to this, in your face. All right, voice memo time. Hey, guys. Vicky from Canada. Shout out to the 2% who have been supporting you since day one. First of all, I've never craved Chick-fil-a more than I have after starting to listen to your podcast so thank you for that second of all there are so many inside jokes that I had to make all of my best friends start listening to this because I just needed to share these moments with people

so thank you for that my challenge is for you guys to come up with six things so probably three each of things that you think you know about Canada and it can't be all the typical things like that we're super nice or that we say A or that we live in igloos I look forward to hearing you guys

get creative thanks okay right off the bat prime minister is hot everyone talks about that really oh you don't know to hearing you guys get creative. Thanks. Okay. Right off the bat, prime minister is hot. Everyone talks about that. Really? Oh, you don't know? No idea. They got a hot, hot PM. Justin Trudeau is maybe his name. He's like the hottest world leader. Bar none. I don't know any of that. Yeah. I feel like I need some back up. I Jong-un out of here. I need some backup or this just makes me sound kind of weird. It's a thing on the internet. The girl's like, actually, now I'm nervous.

Now I'm nervous. He might not be. Whatever. Second Canadian thing. Go. Oh, gosh. They have like, let me try to think of all the provinces. Quebec.

Is that one? Yeah. Nova Scotia. Prince Edward Island. No? Yeah. Nova Scotia. Prince Edward Island. No? Maybe. Maybe not. You're not saying like the main one.

Like Ontario. Ontario. Okay. The one that Vancouver's in is called British Columbia. Nice. Calgary is a city. That's a city. Very good.

Thanks. Yeah. I don't know that much about geography. I'll go again. Okay pop culture snake draft uh we have justin bieber arcade fire um brian adams drake drake of course um steve nash sure uh andrew wiggins maple j, is what they call him. Wayne Gretzky, maybe? Maybe. Maybe I've talked about this on a podcast before, I don't care, whatever. There's a stretch of street in Vancouver where they pass out

needles to addicts. What? Oh, I have not told you this before. No. It was weird. I walked along it. What do you mean? Like they encourage it? It's basically, it's this thing they're trying, at least from what I understand, is, you know, they assume that people are going to use no matter what but you know the rate of just like you know all these diseases and everything from bad needles it's like out of control so we're going to pass out clean needles to these people what yeah that

is like oh why don't they pass out clean anecdotes antidotesotes, anecdotes, anti-heroine. What is that? Calms you down. I don't know. A little NyQuil in their needles. Why don't they pass that out? Give a little melatonin and they'll be, they'll be having a nice snooze afterwards. Yeah. I don't know. Obviously I think it's going to take a long time to actually see the effects, if this works or if this helps or not, but it was, we walked along it first in the daytime and then walked back to our car at night. So walked along not, but it was, we walked along it first in the daytime and then walked back to our car at night. So walked along it twice and it was, it was dark both times, like in a, you know, spiritual sense in a way, but I would dare to say it was like, I don't know,

scary or almost in the daytime. Like you could see. Oh yeah. You could see it. You could see it. Yeah. I mean, it's like stepping over drugs. I'm yeah. Stepping over just like some nasty, nasty stuff. I've heard such cool things about Vancouver, but that turns. Yeah. I mean, it's like stepping over drugs. I'm stepping over just like some nasty, nasty stuff. I've heard such cool things about Vancouver, but that turns me off. I will say very, very clean city. Loved it. Went on a ferry ride there. Spent all day in Vancouver.

It was really, really great. Just that one experience was not as great. And more so, I would say it was more interesting rather than like not so great. It's just like, that's a fascinating thing. It's like a skid row to a whole new level from LA. But you know, it's, they're just like leaning into it and being like yeah we know this is a problem we're just so foreign like that whole everything about that is foreign to me like injecting drugs into your body well yeah or just even knowing people

that are struggling with that stuff yeah anyway um okay my fact okay i got one too oh we're snaking oh that's right the snake trapped my turn don't Don't take mine, please. Tim Hortons coffee. Is that gonna be yours? No, I know what that is though. Okay, yeah. It's like the Starbucks at Canada. If you don't know Tim Hortons, that's like where everyone loves it

and it's very popular and it's on every street corner, much like Starbucks is here. Is it like to the same like social status as Starbucks? I feel like Starbucks is a little bit, like I feel like Dunkin' Donuts is more like the Tim Hortons in my head. Okay, I don't know.

Well, I'm just saying like, Starbucks is kind of like high class for coffee. Dunkin' Donuts is more like grab and go. Oh, okay. You've been there, right? To Tim Hortons? Yes. But I don't.

Would you compare it to one or the other? I don't know. I don't know coffee very well. Some people like, oh, I'll never drink Starbucks. So they might put Starbucks and Dunkin' on the same level. Plain. Yeah. I don't know.

Mine is about the money there. I'm pretty sure the coin that represents $1 there is a loon, and they refer to it as a loonie. And then there's some other coin I think that's called a toonie. Loonie toonies? Yeah, I'm dead serious. I got a loonie and a toonie. Really?

I think. It's fun either way, even if that's not true. That's cool. Loonie toonie. And my last one, oh know, that's not true. That's cool. Looney Tooney. And, uh, my last one. Oh,

maybe that's three, but, uh, there's a lake there. That's really cool. Called Lake Victoria. Is that it? You know,

it's a name. It's a woman's name. Lake, Lake Harriet, Lake Victoria. Victoria sounds right. We'll go with it. Cool.

That's my bonus fact. Okay, great. Do you have any more? I got, I mean, I'm probably gonna take a trip to Canada next year. Banff National Park looks amazing.

Didn't realize I was in Canada. Yeah, I think I'm going to go. I want to rent an RV for a week and just take a trip up there. Really? So if anyone wants to come next summer, I'm probably going to fly to Calgary, which is a city, and then drive to Banff. Oh, okay. You're not going to take an RV from Kansas City.

No, no, no. I'll fly in there. I was like, bold, dude. No, yeah. I'll rent an RV once I get to Canada. Fun. Yeah. Cool, man. Next voice memo. Hey, guys. This is Mackenzie from bold, dude. No, yeah. I'll rent an RV once I get to Canada. Fun. Yeah. Cool, man.

Next voice memo. Hey, guys. This is Mackenzie from Austin, Texas. I am going to hustle on this. You only get a minute. Didn't know that. This is like the seventh time I've recorded this. It's fine.

I have a game for you. Also, earlier, I panicked and was like, oh, freak. I don't remember if I played this or not. I don't think that you have. So if you have, sorry. You should do it again. Deal breaker. You are in a relationship everything's perfect except for blank so you can fill in the blank uh you can go serious you can go funny serious could be uh you she just has a snaggle tooth or funny in college my roommates and i used to play this

and one of ours was everything's perfect except he only eats cheese. It's pretty weird, but is that a deal breaker? I don't know. You tell me. We're going to go funny. Let's not do serious. Of course there are serious things like she cheeses on you or she doesn't. She's whatever. I don't know.

There's obvious deal breakers out there that are not good. Yeah, let's try to find ones that are actually like toss-ups. You know, it's like this is tough to decide if this would break the deal or not. I haven't this in a while it's like since college what about like let's say you view yourself humbly as an eight out of ten in the humor scale what if she views you as a three out of ten like she just doesn't think your jokes are that funny oh yeah that's a deal breaker is it yeah even if i don't view myself as that funny i think it's just like you need to find each other like funny and fun and engaging.

And you're gonna be talking to this person. Hypothetically, she still has tons of fun with you. She just doesn't love all your jokes as much as you think she should. I think if other people are laughing and she's not laughing, that's weird to me. Deal breaker. Okay. Deal breaker. Um, she refuses to eat fast food ever.

Deal not broken. Really? Yeah, I could do ever. Deal not broken. Really? Yeah, I could do that. Okay. Yeah, I could do that. She doesn't want you to drink pop. Oh, why not? Because it's bad for you.

Oh. The high fructose corn syrup. But she's perfect in every way. Oh, no. That's not possible. Oh, I thought that was the game. Perfect in every way? Oh, no. That's not possible. Oh, I thought that was the game. Perfect in every way is just crazy. Just letting you know right now, Jake.

There's imperfections with everybody. Well, maybe I zoned out in her voicemail. That's how we used to play in college. It was like, perfect every way, but, you know, she bites her toenails or something. Oh, gosh. What do you think? Perfect every way, but she bites her toenails or something you know gosh what do you think perfect everybody when she bites her toenails can i do i see it happening or does she like go into the bathroom you walk in on her one time and you see it what are you doing um

that no i just came up with that one is that a good toss-up yeah that's that no because i'm kissing her with that that mouth you would you would say no that breaks the deal torials biting yeah that's something she does like once every two weeks probably i don't know wipe wipe your mouth off real nice that is shocking that would break the deal for you i think the image of it is really gross yeah yeah kind of like a little spider like your legs up there yeah like you have to be really acrobatic buddhist gods like what are you doing yeah what you disagree it sounds like i could get around it yeah pretty easily i don't know i chew my or i bite my fingernails oh yeah that's fun but that's way different feeling uh jeez i don't have anything that extreme uh she's bald

perfect in every way but she's bald is her hair growing back like is it possible to grow she's gonna be bald for the next 18 years 18 18 years um could she wear a wig so she's gonna be super hot when she's like uh you know all your kids are graduating and stuff. That's fun. Could you wear wig? She can, but she won't. She likes the baldness. Okay, that threw me off. Because wig was going to be no problem. Yeah, she's perfect every way. And it's like, it's like, it's like cue ball bald.

It's like, it's not like a buzz cut. It's like, no, I can, I can see my reflection in that head. I can see all the veins in her skull. Sure, and she's veiny. Oh. She just refuses to wear, I don't know if she's perfect. But she loves you. She's hilarious.

She doesn't bite her toenails. I mean, it seems shallow to say it, but I would really have a tough time just like, I don't know, associating myself with a completely bald woman, I guess, as the love of my life. I feel so bad saying that but i just i think physical attraction is a pretty important part of 100 how would be tough for me what about what about if she never wears shoes never you're so it affects her life in effect like like she's like i i can't go like it's it's 30 degrees today i'm staying in because you know me i can't wear shoes i can't wear shoes and it's

like no just put on. Come on. Put on your bean boots and let's get out of here. Nope. No shoes. Is she like an aborigine? Or she's just very normal in every way? What does that mean? Like a. Like an aborigine.

Like a. Like indigenous to her tribe. In the land. No, no, no. She's not. She just doesn't believe in shoes. This is a fun scenario to think that there could be someone so perfect for me, but she does this one weird thing where she just doesn't wear shoes wear shoes like you couldn't go you couldn't go to any

established you couldn't go chick-fil-a ever oh go to the movie theater gross she wouldn't she wouldn't be allowed in luckily she doesn't bite her toes ma'am can you put some shoes on no thank you can't i think that would be a deal breaker because it's not just about the shoes it's like maybe you got this other thing also you haven't told me yet like you don't just not wear shoes but you also like yeah don't do something else like there's there's a deeper issue yeah something else is going on and that would worry me like what why don't you she's like well i just need access to uh bite my toenails easier oh it's done. I'm out of here. Toenails and the shoes. I'm good. Okay.

Last one. Brad, she eats chapstick. That's fine. That's totally fine. As a meal replacement. As a meal replacement. Sometimes. Like once a week, you'll be like.

Yeah, you want some eggs, babe? No, I'm good. I had my chapstick earlier today. I had my Burt's Bees earlier today. You're at Chili's and it's like, and what we be having? She's like, oh, I'm good. I had my chapstick earlier today. I had my Burt's Bees earlier today. You're at Chili's and it's like, and what we be having? She's like, oh, I'm good. And then there she just starts unfolding this chapstick thing. She takes like the little like Carmex, like a little bottle thing.

Not bottle, but like a little canister. Yeah. And it just takes a spoon and just scoops into it. No, that's fine. Oh. That's fine. Because it's like, I don't think of chapstick is like really unsanitary, like gross. I think it's like somewhat cleansing, not truly, but like not for your digestive system, all that wax. You'd be surprised. You'd be surprised these

in a year, people are probably going to be selling chapstick. Like just, just put, just, just stir a little bit of this. I stir a little bit, a little bit in my morning coffee. And it's just a great meal replacement. That's going to be our first line of merch it's gonna be ghost runners chapstick it's like got like lowers your ph it has like good flavors yeah grape not a deal breaker weird very weird but if i'm at chili's i'm at chili's like i'm i'm eating whatever i want yeah i'm good chicken cajun pasta oh yeah okay what are you all right good question oh uh for some reason that one kind of freaks me out gets you eating chapstick i mean if she's perfect every way i could probably get over it there's a lot weirder things like like i'd be okay with her eating chapstick over toothpaste or like sleeps

with a sledgehammer sure like is never probably never gonna anything, but make sure she sleeps at the sledgehammer every night. No, thank you. That would scare me. No way. No way. No way. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Whose chairs are these? Hi, Jake and Brad.

This is Becky, and I'm currently in Oklahoma, but I'm from Uganda. So, yay. Fun fact, we actually celebrate Boxing Day in Uganda. So, I don't know what it's about, but it's a holiday, so that's good. I just love your podcast. I love that you guys just talk and I relate. And I'm glad you made a Prison Break reference because I love it.

So my favorite show. Anyway, my question is, how did you guys become friends? I'm just curious. You probably talked about this sometime. I don't know. But just want to know how you guys became friends. Love listening to you guys. Bye. That's a fun question. Uganda. I don't know. But just want to know how you guys became friends. Love listening to you guys. Bye.

That's a fun question. Uganda. Uganda question. Uganda, get a load of this one. Uganda, really love this one. But long story short, you know, the overhead view is that we met because Jake was working at K-Life, which is this nonprofit ministry, student ministry with my wife, Catherine. Basically, I accepted this job and we became neighbors.

Yes. And we lived next door to each other for two years or was it one year? Two. It was a great two years. And we really became close in that time. I remember the first time I met you was you came in town, I think, for your interview. We've talked about this on the podcast before. Have I? Driving around. Yeah. And I just loved joking around with you i was like yell things out the window and you you just did it with me you're like it was funny yo i get what he's doing

i'm gonna do it too it was really fun i could yell at people um it is crazy to think that yeah driving around in what 2013 2014 spring of 2014 and now like you know five and a half years later 2015 yeah people are listening to us talk i yeah it's a podcast right that's kind of yeah we we became better friends i really started hanging out with you and peter a lot once i quit my job at cerner that'll do a number for your social life yeah my corporate job i used to come home dead tired every single day didn't really want that much to do with like, you know, you guys and your like K life stuff more than I had to.

And so I just went to bed like at, by nine o'clock every night, usually after that. Oh, I was staying up all night playing slug fest, uh, super smash brothers, stuff like that.

So, but it settles every tan. Um, that's the long story short. Anything else you have to add? Anything you remember? Uh, remember we started making video we started doing a little bit of skits together at K-Life

we did like whose line is it anyway did some improv games improv stuff we sang some songs yeah we sang a Justin Bieber parody is it too late now to play dodgeball or welcome flow rider parody welcome to K-Life welcome to flow right a parody welcome to K life welcome to K

life and then is it too late to play dodgeball now yeah yeah yeah those good times we made a few videos together yeah justice beaver royals parade yeah check those out on are they on youtube they're on youtube i think they're on my igtv as well uploading them there yeah we had some fun interviews after the royals won the world series and fun interview and justin bieber came to town we interviewed some of his fans and eventually got retweeted by justin bieber yeah it's kind of wild um so we've had a lot of fun times together uh yeah we're not going

to get to I'm not going to cry. So that's it. But thank you for the question. Yeah, thanks for listening. Yeah, that's awesome. Glad you like prison break. Hey, Jake and Brad Cody calling in from Branson, Missouri. Question I've got for you guys is, is there a federal holiday that you would say, ah, we don't need that one, We can nix it and go with something else. And if there is one, or even if you just want to add a new one in, what's a new federal holiday that we should add into our national calendar?

So thanks so much, guys. Love the podcast. See ya. Very first thing that came to mind, I don't know why. Meet your neighbor day. Oh, that's an added one. Yeah, that's what I would add. It just seems like a fun

federal holiday. Like, everyone knows the neighborhood's getting together on this day. Yeah, like it's like a nationwide block party. Yeah. That's cool. That'd be fun. Oh, good. I was thinking of the first question first. My answer for that one was, I don't know why we have President's Day.

Really? Just, first of all, I don't really want to ever advocate to take away holidays because I think holidays are great because you get time to rest and not have to go to school. Do other countries have more or less holidays than us? Like, do we have like a weird amount? I don't know. Hey, whatever her name was from Canada, check in. I mean, let us know. Let us know. And Uganda has boxing day so uganda would know yeah she would know she lives in oklahoma now but becky

um yeah becky would know so becky let us know in a five-star review and or voice memo about that um yeah so i don't really want to take anything away but like president's day seems like fine whatever like i don't know like recognize all that stuff but we recognize that stuff on fourth of july i think about i think about abraham lincoln a lot more on fourth of july than i probably do on president's day do you i don't know how often i'm thinking about abraham lincoln i think about my freedom with abraham lincoln because wait i mean just in general just in general he did thanks for freedom in america okay yeah that's fair you know he did not help but i i would say more so most african americans are much more thankful to abraham

lincoln right for their freedom the overall freedom of america uh okay abraham lincoln sorry it's like do i need to tell you brad uh you're cockade no No. Uh, yeah. Um, I don't know what, what you'd add. I mean, meet your neighbor day. It seems like the right answer. I don't know. That came to mind right at the end of the thing. I don't know where that came from. I just think neighbor, as far as like, just to be in a commercialized American goes like, I love black Friday. And I think that there should be another black Friday at some point. Ooh, like maybe like, you know, white Tuesday in spring. Yeah. Yeah spring yeah yeah something something like that where it's like uh you get all your but but like have it like yeah make it like white something like where it's like very specific like only

things that are colored you know like only the xbox one that is white you can buy like all these companies are making special white versions of their products for white tuesday i don't know if that's a great transition after we just talked about Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves. And then we just had an idea about having a white holiday. I want to be more pro-white holidays. That's only white. You can only buy white things.

If there was just like a day where, let's just call it whites only. What about that? What if we just had a day for that? That's what I would choose. Let's get rid of the day that we celebrate the guy taking away slavery. And let's get one that's called i would let's get rid of the day that we celebrate the guy taking away slavery and let's get one that's called whites only oh brown ellis is salt salt america i'll tell you

that clip is not going on instagram i can't have that out of context going anywhere else that stays in this episode oh boy that's funny digital resources resource is going to be like, hey, love the episode. Less jokey racism. If we're going to sponsor it. It was unintentional, I promise. Speaking of Instagram, we are at like 970 some followers right now. Are we? On Ghost Runners podcast.

Okay. So if you're not following us yet on Instagram, we're looking for a thousand. Because once you hit a thousand, you know what happens. Absolutely nothing except for we have a thousand followers. It's a very arbitrary number that looks cool. Really cool. Like, oh wow, they got 1000. I think we're going to start deleting followers once we hit a thousand and try to keep it right there. Yeah, exactly. The three zeros looks cool. The plateau. Um, and then we also have like 270 some reviews. So we're almost at 300 reviews, which if you get to 300 reviews, I think um you know what that means you get like a plaque or something you get to meet your neighbor yes that's true they have to come to your house uh so that that was good we need 25 reviews

or 25 followers who's gonna come first i think that's all the voice moments we have we're gonna for the most part skip blanks of the week this week, except we have to, of course, give a shout out to review of the week. And I had one. There were several, several good ones, but one right at the beginning of the week that made me laugh out loud. The title of it is called Harry. I've reached the top. Yes. And just thank you.

Like, I love Home Alone. Anybody that knows me knows that my favorite movie is Home Alone, Home Alone 2. So. So good. Thank you. Like, I love Home Alone. Anybody that knows me knows that my favorite movie is Home Alone, Home Alone 2. So. So good. Thank you. And the. Here's what it says. So I've been listening to this podcast for a while now.

Absolutely love the topics, jingles, and rabbit trail stories. Here's a funny story. So I'm listening to this week's pod. And you guys mentioned this fitness trainer who Jake went to college with, who now sponsors you guys. Turns out she's my wife. Then you guys say my name on a podcast. Ha, what a coinkydink.

You guys are awesome. Also, I've never left a review on a podcast before. Do I leave my name at the bottom of this thing like an email? Ethan Farr. So yeah, that was Paige's husband I talked to. And I mentioned him, and he was a part of the pros and cons list. He was the one who threw up without saying hi to me. He's antisocial. For some reason, that's the only thing I can remember. There's a lot more

redeeming qualities of Ethan, but he definitely puked without saying hi once. I love it, man. That was a great review. I love the one that said, I was referred to as poopsie by an actual human being. I was a camp leader for middle schoolers this past weekend. It was snowy and I almost fell due to the frozen ice on the ground. One of my middle school girls says to me, oopsie poopsie, you almost fell. I asked her to clarify and she did in fact refer to me as poopsie. What a coinkydink. What a coinkydink. Felt like it was something you needed to know.

Keep it up, poopsies. So yeah, that's really funny. There were some great ones. We got people who they said the show deserves a Dundee, all the little office references. And I've had multiple people, somebody did this in the review. So I want to just answer it real quick. Somebody asked, what is poultry of the week? Like, why do we call it that? Um, for anybody who, you know, missed that in some episode or something, we call it poultry of the week. Uh, anytime we have beef

with something, like anytime we have like an issue with something, we have poultry with it because we talked about in one of our previous episodes that Jake got bit by a tick and we think that he now has beef poisoning or beef allergies. He's allergic to beef. And so we kind of made a joke about like, Hey, we don't have beef of the week. We don't have any beef in this podcast. We only have poultry. And, uh, we're also unofficially sponsored by chicken filet, uh, which also helps with the poultry idea. So, um, that's why we call it poultry of the week. Um, any other inside jokes I'm trying to think of that the reason we call ourselves ghost runners, if anybody's curious is really random pretty much, but, uh, we were trying to figure out what the name for the podcast should be. I grew up playing wiffle ball as did Jake. And when we don't have enough people,

you have ghost runners. Uh, so we call ourselves, I would say like, okay, ghost runner on second. And then I'll go bat. And I thought it was a really cool idea to name like a band when I was like in high school, I was like, Oh, I want to have a band someday. And I want to name it ghost runner on second. And we'll just call ourselves ghost runner for short and jake's like okay let's just call ourselves the ghost runners and so that's how we started naming ourselves ghost runners uh for the podcast there's no no deeper issue or meaning behind it behind that beyond that there it is yeah um any other inside jokes that we have that i don't know i mean I mean, I'm sure there's a lot. Yeah, I'm sure there's more like that we have, but. Those are the staples, the big ones.

Last thing I want to talk about, and we already talked about this at Chick-fil-A, but I just think it's so wild and funny. The Sugar Ray cameo. Oh yeah. Let's talk about it real quick. If you guys don't know. Okay, so first of all, there's an app called Cameo

where basically you could pay money to have some sort of celebrity, you know, whether it's a YouTube star or Viner, Brett Favre is on cameo, which is a little weird. Cause I'm like, do you not have money?

Do you need to be doing this? Uh, you can just pay a flat rate for them to give you a personalized shout out. I, I've given my sister a gift like that before I had someone that she follows and really likes and you know, yeah. And it's always just like really positive things and really like personalized

yeah it was kind of weird when I did it for your sister but I mean it seemed like she really liked it like I could have just texted you didn't need to pay me 30 but I was honored you're welcome like uh Trey is on there and we'll do cameos every now and then uh it's your birthday does he do that every time they actually i don't know if i ever told you did i tell you like probably nine months ago they asked me to be on it and i was like no one is going to pay for this so i just whatever there's a certain point where i took myself i'm not going to pay i'm not going to get paid ten dollars to say this ridiculous thing like it's like almost like demoralizing i feel like yeah and so i was like unless you're going

to get paid enough money to do something like that. Yeah. I was like, someone might hire me if my price is $1, but then it's not even worth my time to like do these things for a dollar over and over. I just want you to say poopsie 60 times in 60 seconds. And we're not that unreachable. Like I'm not a slave. Like we did a cameo for a guy this week for free. Yeah.

You know, you don't need to pay us money. Yeah. That was all. We sang him a song for his birthday. Anyway, the whole reason I'm saying this is that is the nature of what cameos are well barstool sports on instagram posted a video and i didn't read the caption of it yet so i just start watching this video and it's uh forget his name but the lead singer of sugar ray mark mcgrath oh yeah mark mcgrath it's him doing a cameo and uh i guess i could play it we'll just describe it it'll be funnier that way you do this

cameo like hey um he's talking to the guy right he's talking to the guy he's like hey timothy con let's call him connor that's okay hey connor this is mark mcgrath you know lead singer sugar ray um your girlfriend taylor we'll call her taylor your girlfriend taylor um you know wanted me to tell you a few things man so uh you know she says you guys have been together for a long time and it's been a lot of fun but uh she's just having trouble you know with the distance it's not it's just not working out man just not working out in my i literally made a noise i was watching this alone in my place i was like oh my gosh i cannot believe that he like said yes to this. And so he proceeds to break up with this guy over a cameo for two minutes. It's like a two minute and 15 second cameo.

And he goes into detail. Like, yeah, he's like, I know that you're, uh, you're, you're doing this thesis right now. You got a lot on your plate. Uh, this is probably not the best time to be doing this. Like, but then again, I mean, you're writing a thesis. So, I mean, things have got to be going decently well for you and just keeps dragging it on. like you know it's tough with distance i've been there in relationships too you know i'm on the road all the time and it's just tough with the distance to keep up those relationships but hey man i think you know someday we're all gonna laugh about this the three of us taylor connor and i you know we're gonna be hanging out we're gonna laugh about this it's just it was it's one of the craziest things i've seen on the internet this year i i just can't believe it really struck a chord i just i don't know is he the funny thing

if i'm imagining it i guess i haven't thought about this yet until right now but if i'm watching like imagine maybe you're a big fan of like because i think he said you're a fan of me or something like that yeah so like let's say some let's say justin bieber which i know he's too big for cameo but like let's say justin bieber came on and it was from you know you hear it's from your girlfriend and you're like you as jake is just like i'm so excited oh my gosh how cool is this how much money did you spend on this great for doing this and then he proceeds to like just break your heart exactly that's what i'm saying like he she used sugar ray against him oh man and so yeah it's just so wild from her perspective and from Sugar Ray's. Like this

guy was like, okay, I could make 60 bucks. Yeah. Or I could just not break up with a guy who's a stranger over like a video. Is that how much you think it is? $60? I mean, every person could set their own price. But like how much? Yeah. But yeah, I would guess for a guy like him, he's probably like 60 bucks. Really? Yeah.

Oh man, that's crazy. I was thinking more than that for some reason. I doubt it's that much. Wow. That's just wild, dude. Yeah.

I, the, the, the rollercoaster of emotions that must be going through your head as you're like, you know, taking your five minutes of break every day from your thesis to, to,

to get on your phone. Oh, holy cow. Mark McGrath is. And that that's the thing this probably just gets emailed to you i'm sure the girlfriend just put in like her boyfriend's email address it just gets sent directly to him you don't think it like went to like her first and then she texted it to him i've done she seems pretty passive-aggressive so i don't think she was texting him she's yeah she's blocking him she's like i'm just gonna let the email sheesh i don't know what to do beyond that like what are you gonna say no that's basically it i just just people need to see it go look at barstool sports instagram of just sugar rays right there dead center in the thumbnail go watch that video it is so cringy to the max um i don't know what

made me think of this i don't know there's no there's no natural transition that's okay it's a podcast but did you see that we have uh ghost runner on second uh doing a go fund me for us oh we haven't talked about that yeah that it's so cool but also i'm like you don't you really don't have to get us anything you already made a fan instagram account for us you're already trying to plan this new year's eve party for us you already made us five logos like they're awesome and now they're like taking ven's from followers to get us something. Is there anything like out there that you like? I don't know.

This is me almost thinking like, whatever. I'm just curious. It's more of a, this is more of a conversation topic than it is like us subtly hinting, not so subtly hinting at what we want. Okay. Like, is there anything out there that you love that is like right random? Like for me, I love hand soap. You know this about me. Like I love Bath and Body Works hand soap or like soft soap, something like, like little, little joys of life. Yes. Like, do you have any like irrationally strong opinions in the nice form of like things like that or like oh man i love you know a warm towel i don't know

uh oh yeah okay i thought of one i was kind of struggling i was like on the spot i can't think of anything that i love but the little head scratchers those are great it's crazy how good you could make yourself feel dude on yourself two of those maybe you need one those are awesome yeah like the things like the wire things that just yes i mean it's genuinely crazy how good you can i almost said pleasure yourself but what i mean like it's crazy and then i said it anyway it turns out it turns out I said it. But I at least caught myself for the first time ever on the podcast. It's just crazy to me that you can, wow, there's no way to word this and not be bad.

That you can... Just do it. The way... Just calm yourself down. Yeah, just feel good. Yeah, yeah. To yourself. Yeah.

It's really cool. Okay, I'm going to shut up about this, but just know I like them. They feel nice, okay? Oh, that's great. Woo. Okay, I'm going to shut up about this, but just know I like them. They feel nice. Okay? Oh, that's great. Woo! Yeah, I have irrationally strong opinions about soaps.

Really love a good plastic cup. Like, I'm kind of weird about my cups. Like, some cups are like, yeah, this cup is not my favorite. The lip of it just doesn't feel good. You are kind of picky about things that I could not care any less about like chairs we've had multiple discussions last two months about chairs oh you what do you mean like what do you mean i am sitting on a barstool that's about to fall over right now i got cheeks spilling over into the side of it you're also like 150 pounds less than me so that helps not have to worry about barstools as much i'm still saying like uh just

pickiness wise like i'll sit on this rickety barstool that's very uncomfortable. When we were at IHOP the other day, do you remember what we did? That's the thing. Yeah, no, yeah. We keep talking about chairs. Yeah, because we got to IHOP.

I got there first. And we were sitting in this hybrid booth chair thing. I would have never in a million years would I have like considered like, should we sit somewhere else? That is an irrationally strong opinion of mine. I love sitting in booths. Brad sits down. Can we really, is this the only spot we could sit?

Are there no booths? I'm like, I don't know. She just sat us here. He's not even like really listening to me. Just like looking around. Are there, so there's no booths here, huh? Okay. I just knew we were going to be there for a while, just talking and hanging out. And it's so much more fun to hang out in a booth. And guess what? We did not end up sitting there. We waited until someone left and Brad's like, I'm going to that booth you were so cool about it too you you could have easily been like why are you doing this i was like i don't care either way if you want the booth let's get the booth and then we were tailgating the chiefs game i was in your seat oh that was that those seats were definitely different they were different but it's like i don't

like notice them really i didn't notice that i was sitting in your nicer chair yeah that was my good seat like that's the good chair i think my mom got me that for christmas a few years ago i don't know what the good chair is that's funny no i love we go to a restaurant and they're like how many i'm like uh two and can we get a booth if it's available i love it there's just a little more intimacy there i think it's what makes you great at podcasting is you do have an opinion on almost everything i more have to make them up really because i don't really care about anything i care about wedding invites apparently but that's about it here's here's what i will say i think that when you get married you'll realize you have more opinions than you ever thought you did oh that's scary or it's kind of scary it is kind of scary

because it's like you realize how much more selfish that you are than you realize like i thought it didn't matter how i keep my rolly chair when I'm not in the room. But now that it's, it's not next to the closet. Like if your wife is like, hey, I moved that over there. You're like, oh gosh. The toothbrush goes on the right side of the sink. Yeah. And maybe it's like a psyche.

Like you want to be like, you want to have your own say in a marriage or something. So you're like, well, I can't, I can't let her just move the toothbrush. It starts with a toothbrush and then we get a gold doodle that i don't want i gotta stay in my ground now so you're like well i gotta i gotta teach her hey i'm the boss here i'm putting my toothbrush over here i don't know i it's like one of those things where you're like like i thought i was super easy going and i still think i'm fine yeah plenty easy going but there are certain things where i'm like i guess i i do like a booth i don't know why i like a booth but yeah i do uh so and hand soap because there was one time where katherine made her own hand soap out of

essential oils and something else and it smelled like booty to me i thought it smelled so gross and so finally i was like i like went and bought my own hand soap so for a while we had two hand soaps that's great his and hers hand soap really though i was just like no i'm getting my own i cannot stand like my hands smell worse after i washed and i love washing my hands too yeah i have a i have a thing for that so anyway okay hand soaps head scratchers and booths if you can just buy us a booth no oh yeah that's what we're talking about yeah ghost charters on second the fan account is so great and they're so funny um no other fan account will compare i don't care how many other people try oh what we haven't talked about this there is that other account what is that the stop the ghost runners oh has it posted anything yet they haven't posted anything and it's like uh i just don't

understand what's going on i don't either it was like jake and brad are phonies they don't talk about ghosts at all yeah which is kind of a joke that we've had one time like we don't yeah yeah they're not actually hating i don't think but also like they haven't posted anything i just don't know what's going on but they comment on our stuff like fake oh they do not yeah they've commented maybe just on my personal stuff i've seen comments before okay no i haven't i bet your mom probably that's something that trish would do my mom did say she was thinking about starting an instagram for our dog which really surprised me yeah she's one of those people huh maybe what's your dog's name cooper cooper's uh cooper's travels

cooper's cool name i know what's the alliteration for cooper? Cooper's. Cooper's Cup. Like the football player. And it's about his dog bowl. Cooper's Cup. Yeah. Had dog food for lunch today. Every single day. Same thing. Kibbles. Again.

Win with Iams. Oh, speaking. Okay. Win with Buffalo. What was that one called? What? There's like some like Buffalo. I don't know.

There's some. There's some. Talking dog food? Really fancy dog food out there. Oh, I don't know. Buffalo breed. I don't know there's some there's some uh talking dog really really fancy dog food i don't know buffalo breed i don't know what's cool last thing we'll say we'll wrap this up but i got a blue buffalo okay cool tie a ribbon around that last thing uh about dog food i had this idea when i was in high school i remember english class coach perry's class we were told to write a journal and whatever doesn't matter had this idea for an invention. What I do is this. But you make your typical just kibbles and bits TV commercial, have it look exactly the same as all the other ones or whatever. But in the background of that

entire commercial is a very high frequency sound that only dogs can hear. So that every time that commercial comes on, your dog rushes to the TV, maybe starts barking at it. Either way, he's acting up. He is reacting to this kibbles and bits commercial. I think dog food is one of those products that no one is ever super loyal to. It's like, whatever, I'll just get them. Sure. Whatever, you know, we'll get whatever someone else down the street said they're using for their dog. I think I disagree with that a little bit, but keep going. Of course you do. Of course you do. I'm on a roll here. Are you, you're hearing this? This is amazing. You're a genius right here. Okay. Yeah. And so I think if you start seeing sparky, every time a kibbles and bits commercial comes on sparky, so it's going crazy. 80% of people are going to start buying kibbles and bits. This is a genius idea. I don't

know why no one's done. I've had this idea. So 16 years old. Why didn't you? I don't know anyone who works in the marketing department of kibbles and bits. I've never met one of those people. I keep trying. I keep going in chat rooms i've tried facebook groups no one will listen to me i think the only the only thing that i'll say is i think there are certain people out there that like are very like the whole blue buffalo is like the high end like only made from this kind of byproducts like they're the organic they're the people that eat organic they also like the crazy dog people yeah so i think maybe that's your angle is blue buffalo you go high end and you have the the high pitch that's great i just didn't know any other dog brands yeah because that way it's like man this stuff

is more expensive but my dog goes crazy for it's the funniest thing he just like he perks up it's like he knows it's dog food on tv i'm gonna get him and see how he likes it yeah that's great i love it thank you yeah you do a dog whistle for a commercial there's got to be something like illegal against that or something the only thing i could think of was maybe tvs can't produce a high frequency sound or a frequency high enough you know certain speakers can you know there's there's subwoofers you know produce low frequency sounds tweeters produce high, you know, there's subwoofers, you know, produce low frequency sounds. Tweeters produce high frequency, you know, so it would depend on the type of speaker. We'll look into it.

We will. Leave us a five-star review if you have looked into this and work in the marketing department of a dog food company. I would be surprised if we do not get any next week. I was going to say, if 15 people in Taiwan are listening every week, someone works in a dog food company. We're actually no longer ranked in the Taiwanese charts. What? Which is kind of a bummer. Yeah, just came in hot.

Get us back. Yeah, we'll try. We'll try. Oh, man. We'll tie one up for this. We'll tie. Great. Okay.

Well, this is episode 30, flirty 30 of the Ghostwriters podcast. Thank you guys for listening. Check out Digital Resource. Check out Cole's podcast with me as a guest out now. Both those links are in the description. And follow us on instagram for little updates and clips throughout the week you can see our faces as we talk and whoa i almost forgot about the jingle holy cow i just did i almost forgot about i was about ready to just like hit it's christmas so let's do a christmas okay great um ghost runners podcast ghost runners podcast ghost runners podcast every monday ghost runners

podcast oh yeah ghost runners podcast oh yeah ghost runners podcast every monday oh yeah i don't know no that's great i wanted to i just don't know that song well enough to add in things i don't know it very well either that's great i love the part where he goes oh yeah that's one of my maybe favorite christmas songs as far as like uh modern christmas songs modern christmas songs that are good there's not many of them no my repertoire stays pretty much the same every year uh mariah carey's all i want for christmas is you of course uh merry christmas happy holidays in sync uh little drummer boy justin bieber uh that's it i think that i can think of off the top of my head cool yep great you got any nope

okay bye that is it see you guys next oh voice crack to end it. See you guys next week. Bye. Happy Holidays It's a wonderful feeling Feel the love in the room from the floor to the ceiling It's that time again Christmas time is here And the blessing over God sent you his love Everything's okay Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays Merry Christmas

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