Ghostrunners - 311 - That Still Exists?

Episode Date: March 6, 2024

Jake talks all about performing at Rachel's old high school, Brad is introduced to the New York Times Connections game, and everybody competes in a shmores of things that somehow still exist. Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Check out Good Ranchers and get %10 off with code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When I was single and I had a bathroom, that's all it was. It was just, it was the bathroom. I didn't think much of it. When I got married, this bathroom, I feel like the Berlin Wall was erected right in the middle of it. Okay. And there were two very distinct sides. On one side, you have the Soviet-controlled East Germans. Okay. That's me, I guess. I don't know if that's good or bad basically on my side of the sink you will find two things one toothbrush one razor that's it toothpaste you peek sure you peek over the berlin wall and it looks like it belongs to a circus clown the amount of things that rachel has laid out the amount of different colors of chalk i know it's

not chalk it looks like face paint yeah the consistency is there and i don't think she uses any of these colors but the full spectrum of you know browns and tans laid out and oh like just bags everywhere um they're in the sink it's in the sink oh yeah oh yeah rachel like uses the sink as storage it's like a container yeah yeah it's not falling out of there yeah she like puts things in the sink to hold her things they're saying her psycho um you tell me wait wait wait so then how does she what about water she comes over to my side oh she gets over the berlin wall yeah she does she tears that down gorbbachev. Wall hopping. So I'm curious, what's your sink setup?

Well, first of all, it must be nice to have two sinks. Oh, you just have the one? Just one. So maybe I should appreciate what I have. It's a tiny little bathroom. So we thankfully, yeah, I think Catherine respects that enough. And it's like our guest bathroom. And so then, therefore, if you come over, you use that bathroom.

That's what you guys use? Yeah. Wait, I never thought about that. Have you ever been to my room? Yeah. Well, not really, to be honest, but enough to know there's not a bathroom in there. Yeah. I mean, I think the only two times I've been in there have been recently when we filmed.

Really? I think that's it. Good for you. Yeah. Stay out of there. I'm not in there. I don't want to hang out in there you're right you just have the two bathrooms yeah we have a half bath downstairs that's right but yeah in one sink

per wow there's tiny little bathrooms dude now you're like wow catherine's gotta want a bigger berlin doesn't seem so bad anymore uh-oh oh i think this tight beat means that it's going down. With some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along, let's have some fun and go ahead, get on your feet. Because this is Ghost from the Spotcast. Everybody morning, we're taking ground.

Ghost from the Spotcast. Ghost from the Spotcast. Does Catherine want a bigger sink? Does she ask you about this often? Like a bigger bathroom? I think she's understanding that this is the life that we live right now. But oh yeah. Good for her. We would love to have a bigger bathroom.

A hundred percent. Yeah. You deserve it. Yeah. Our current vanity, like we redid our bathroom. We as in we hired my friend Todd to do it. I don't know, a deserve it. Yeah, our current vanity, like we redid our bathroom. We as in we hired my friend Todd to do it. I don't know, a while back and this past year. And yeah, the vanity now has more counter space than the old one did. And so at least that's a little bit of an upgrade, you know.

But yeah, we have a lot of good storage. She's got a lot of drawers. We got a lot of stuff like that. So I don't know. I don't know how much it bothers her. I'm sure it does. Good for her. Overall, she deals.

She makes it work. She makes it work. And that's the other thing is like, because she doesn't ever leave anything out, I have no idea what all she's got. I couldn't tell you. That'd be actually a pretty fun game if someone manufactured fake-looking makeup versus real. I would never know the difference. You show me what Rachel uses for foundation and you show me what a detective uses

and every cartoon to dust her fingerprints. I'm like, what's the difference? I don't know. I don't know what Catherine's setup is. I know that she has multiple bags. Like one of them is like more of a makeup bag. One of them is more of like a, like toiletry, like deodorant and you know, toothbrush and stuff. But I don't know what, like, I don't know. I don't know what's in the makeup bag. I have no idea. She just comes out of that bathroom looking like a million bucks. And I'm like, awesome. Good job. Maybe one of those bags is a wallet. Yeah. That's where she gets the money from. She looks like a million bucks because she puts a million bucks on her face. So no, I don't, yeah. That's one of those

things. I'm pretty observant in almost everything or like in what somewhat knowledgeable of my wife and almost everything i have no no knowledge of that that process at all that world like i'll be like you look great and she's like oh i just have eyeliner on or something i'm like i thought i wouldn't have known great i grew up we we fell in love at camp where she never wore makeup and I thought she was beautiful. Yeah. So it's great. Every day she wakes up, I'm like, you look amazing.

Yeah. I love you. That's what I think too. So I'm my first three times hanging out with Rachel. She didn't wear makeup. It was like she was a can of cook in the real world. It's true. And it was great.

Yeah. And we've talked about this before, but we think it's you and I, we timing, let us know if this is true for you too. I can tell he's got his hand up. He'll pipe in afterwards. Just think it's so much more attractive when girls don't have to put on a million pounds of makeup to look great. A million bucks? Yes. A million pounds? No way. That's British

currency. We're Americans here. Because this episode's brought to you by Good Ranchers. Yes, American meat delivered, baby! GRKC. Tea and crumpets? Maybe. Maybe. Pounds is currency? No thanks. No way. GRKC. Tea and crumpets, maybe. Maybe. Pounds as currency. No thanks. No way. I like my pork pulled and my chicken grilled.

And this obviously is the characters of people who grew up in the UK but now live in America. That's right. And are very patriotic. I met someone from the UK this week. Tell me more. Alex. Okay.

I played pickleball with him. Met him at Meadowbrook. Dink it. And I had dinkin' crumpets. 2-2-0, 2-2-1. Alright. Alright. Alright then.

It was fascinating. He moved here just for no reason, just for a job. Cross the pond? Cross the pond. It's for a run-of-the-mill finance job. Yeah, just a finance job. Finance. Alright. Yeah, I was like job. Finance. All right.

Yeah, I was like, did you know anyone here? He said, no. Not a one bloke. Did you have any connection to Kansas City or this company? No. Correct.

But he's like, I've been here 18 months. I got friends. I got a girlfriend. Yeah, I got a lass. You got a lassie? Is that Scottish? I don't know.

You got a nasty sheila? It's Australian? But it was fascinating. You got a nasty Sheila? It's Australian. But it was fascinating. I was like, so I'm sure you've turned into like an American football fan. He's like, oh, my friends back home can't believe that the one city I moved to, I've won two Super Bowls and I've moved here. Taylor Swift publicly supports this team. And they just think it's crazy that I happened to move to this town.

Right. And they're like, well, it's like one of the biggest cities in America, right? It's like, no, you don't understand. It's like pretty small. Oh, yeah. It's kind of amazing that they have a football team. You've been knocked upside the head, bloke. No way.

Yeah. Maybe a million in the Metro as maybe. It would make more sense to put in like Salt Lake or something. Really? You think it's that big? Try San Antonio. Try San Antonio. It is like one of the biggest victor wimpy yama have you heard of him he's like three meters tall

that's great yeah i don't know yeah city you don't think it's uh bigger than kansas it's blown up actually i happen to see a post on Reddit this week, and it said the NFL, if the 32 most popular cities had teams. So it happens to be fresh on the mind. Was Kansas City on there? No. Dang. A lot of California, probably.

Yeah, like San Jose gets their own team, and San Francisco, and Los Angeles, and San San Diego and yeah, Columbus, San Antonio, a lot of Texas. Would Oakland get one? I did not see Oak. A lot of Texas. Yeah. Portland gets one.

I remember seeing that. Okay. That's it. That's all I can remember. That's all I can say. That's all I can say about that. I haven't seen this. I went to Iowa this past weekend.

Let's talk about it. I did, you know, I don't do a lot of private comedy gigs, and I definitely don't do a lot where 95% of the audience really knows my in-laws well. Would you say you've done one of those now? I've done one of those in the books. Yeah. It's in the records.

The records. Dude, you should have been cast for Sense and sensibility dude oh my god you got a great british voice i would have loved it i could have been grandpa zach's grandpa yeah all right go ahead iowa it was a blast it was uh honestly i did a lot quite a bit quite a bit of prep for it because i hadn't performed in a while we've had all of February off. I'm doing 45 minutes of material, and this is 45 minutes of a private gig. Trey will tell you, 45 minutes of a private gig is like doing an hour in a theater.

Why is that? Oh, because like, why? The laughs don't last as long. It's not as warm of an audience. Right. That's what it was. It was a half-full high school auditorium. It's a little different than a sold-out theater where it's Friday night, people have been drinking, whatever. So I prepped a lot to make sure a half full high school auditorium. It's a little different than a sold out theater where it's Friday night. People have been drinking, you know,

like whatever. Yeah. So I prepped a lot to make sure I knew what I was doing and knew I could fill 45 minutes and also prepped a lot. Cause I was doing a lot of, uh, local material. And I wanted to make sure I had that part down and had it memorized.

Cause there's nothing less funny than somebody who acts like they know what they're talking about locally. And it's like, Oh, this guy actually doesn't get it. they know what they're talking about locally and it's like oh this guy actually doesn't get it you know i mean yeah like the missouri jokes like yeah i was like oh this isn't really i was like i don't think that's like the thing that's resonating the most with people at all here yeah and uh end up being great i mean almost right off the bat uh i i just want to establish some context so the reason i I'm here, I married Rachel Koop. I think a lot of you guys know her.

And people cheered. And then I was like, I know her dad, Steve Koop. You know, he taught here for 30 years. And then it seemed like the crowd just erupted. It's like, perfect. Standing ovation right away for Steve. I was like, they're going to love all the Steve Koop stuff. I was like, who knows the Koops?

This high school kid raises his hand. And he's like, my favorite teacher. And so we go back and forth for a little bit about geometry and doing some jokes. And then, kind of classic me, trying to make it seem like it's more improvised than it is. But I think it's a performance, and it's a way to make people feel better about your show.

And so I was like, well, you know what? Let's talk about Steve Koop. And then I proceeded to do my seven minutes of stand-up material that I'd written about Steve Coop. And dude, I should have closed with it. Yeah. It was the best part of the night.

We peaked right off the bat. Well, go ahead. Yeah, keep talking. So it was fun. I don't think it's a bad thing to have really good material right off the bat, but it was by far

the best laughs of the night. Yeah. It was people's favorite part. It's just the material about Steve Coop. You established the credibility, though, right off the bat. And it helps.

Well, I like this guy now. This guy knows this guy knows Steve. Yeah. Yeah. Right. He's not just some random guy. It's like, oh, we really liked this dude. And I gave Steve a little heads up. I mean, about an hour before I went on, I was just like, just heads up. You're going to hear your name a lot in the first five minutes, but I don't want you to be anxious the whole time. After that, you're going to be done. Okay. And he's like, Hey, as long as I laugh. And so I was like, it's same stuff I do about my dad where it's mostly true and it's good natured. And I think people will come out of it liking you, but. Well, and, and people that know the Koops, they're not just like a, like average family, you know, like they're like, like if you, if you had him as a teacher, I'm sure he's like one of

the most memorable kind heart. I don't know. Like you just love the guy. So yeah, like people have like strong feelings about him already, like good feelings. And so it's easy to piggyback off those. Yeah. Like it'd be one thing if it's like, I don't really like this teacher, you know, I guess we can make fun of him a little bit, but I don't know. I did kind of feel weird. Like, but it's like, no, everyone like knows Steve knows he's going to love this. Like, yeah, that kind of thing. Exactly. So it was fun. It was,

uh, I mean, and like you said, I like multiple conversations that weekend with people who told me how much they respect and appreciate Steve. Like I met the superintendent of DNH and Dyke, new Harvard. And he was like,

Oh, it was a sad day when we lost Mr. Coop. He was one of our best teachers we've ever had. And, uh, Mr. Pork. Oh man, it was a pork and tough day. Mr. Coop. He was one of our best teachers we've ever had. Mr. Pork.

Oh, man. It was a porkin' tough day. Yeah, I didn't like the porkin' bad day, yeah? Porkin' crumpets. Yeah. Met the pastor of their church. They got a new pastor a few months back and met him at the church on Sunday. And I was talking about Steve, and he said he's the rock of our church right now.

Wow. I was like, well, this is great, and he's well-liked in the community. But yeah, I compared him church right now. Wow. This is great. He's well liked in the community. I compared him to right off the bat. I was like, if you know Steve Koop, he looks like a white Arsenio Hall. Which if you know Arsenio Hall, it's like, it really

is spot on. But I know a lot of people, like the older crowd were like, oh my gosh, yes. There's a lot of you probably don't know who Arsenio Hall is. Someone one time told me that when he smiles he looks like donkey from shrek and that got a huge laugh um and i i made that up but i felt like it would be better if i was like someone one time told me that like that's not me saying it uh-huh they said that yeah kind of like passed the blame to somebody else that's just what people are saying like i'm not making fun of the guy myself i'm just relaying what people are saying. Hey, I'm not making fun of the guy myself. I'm just relaying what people are saying all the time. Arsenio Hall.

Yeah, that's great for like 1992. Oh, yeah. I mean, there's a lot of older people and they loved it. That's amazing. And so then they laughed at the donkey thing that I got to use the donkey just reference so many times. Like how? Well, I did the joke about

how pros, Rachel looks just or pros, Rachel has a beautiful mother. College is just like her dad. And then I did multiple callbacks at once because we had talked about geometry with that kid at the beginning. And so I was like, transitive property, Jack gets it. That means I'm with donkey or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so I had some good crowd work moments.

Well, one bad. I called on a woman that I knew, and I crumbled. Like one of the Coop's good friends. Crumbled. Do you have any moms in the audience? And I'm not even really looking. I just see someone raise their hand. You there.

And it's just like, I've met this woman. She was at our wedding. You know, just like I really know her. Yeah. What's your name? And I could just feel the confidence leaving my body. I was like, how do I get out of this? I have messed up here.

What's your name?ra awesome uh where are you from like i know where she's from new hartford cool so what you why'd you lose the like you lost confidence because you felt disingenuine about like yeah just like i already know her name my masculine name this isn't how it goes where are you from i already know where she's from but don't do that idiot where's everyone from in this auditorium yeah yeah and okay so that one wasn't great that one wasn't great i tried to get out of there as quick as possible and i did i bailed pretty early on all right thanks see ya had a couple other good crowd work moments there was a couple in the crowd they were not from daikon or hartford so glad i asked where you guys from this hit strawberry point i was like well's fun. That sounds like a beautiful

place. Mad Lib situation. Fruit, verb. And I said, what's your relationship? And they said, together. I was like, just together. Okay. What does that mean? And they said, dating. And I said, how long have you been dating? They said, eight years. I was like, oh, that's why you just say together. You were embarrassed. Okay. And so we did a lot of jokes about that. But I'd say this is one of my favorite interactions I've ever had in the crowd. And it happened to be at the D&H Auditorium. I feel like the best crowd we're in are always during the picky eater stuff. It's always so fun.

And little boy raises his hand. He's maybe 8, 9, 10 years old. Says that he's a picky eater. And I was like what's your name he said Bodie so I was like okay I'm gonna give him a bit of a doubt he probably has a speech impediment so I was like Brody that's awesome nice to meet you and he goes no no no Bodie I was like your parents named you Bodie I was like that's that's shocking you're a picky eater because your parents were not picky naming it. It would go with anything.

And so he was just awesome. He was just a hilarious, just like spunky kid. He was a lot of fun to talk to. So I'm talking about picky eaters. Okay, so what did you eat for lunch? I can't remember. Okay, no worries. What did you have for dinner?

I had chicken sandwiches and pizza. Great. Had to make up for not eating lunch, guess you know yeah so we're talking about this and uh i had some good jokes in there you know what do you like on your pizza and i don't know if he understood the question and i was like like um sausage cheese peppa ony you don't use ours and then he was like we were talking about that and i I'm sitting on my next jokes. I'm like, do you ever have sushi? And he's like, I've had it once.

I was like, okay, when'd you have it? And he's like, today. I was like, hold on. The one time a comedian has ever probably talked to you, the one time they've asked you, when'd you eat sushi? And it's today. And it was the one meal you couldn't remember what you had. I was like, this is just amazing.'s pretty forgettable coincidence yeah california roll

uh so it was just awesome everyone afterwards loved telling me about like oh bode was awesome he was so that was such a fun interaction and the fact that he had sushi and couldn't remember it that's classic bode that's just bode, man. That is wild, though. I know. That's why I was like, I just feel like we have to acknowledge the coincidence here. That is pretty cool. And I was like, did you like it?

No! I was like, perfect. So he was great. First people I saw when I walked in, full-on ghosty family. Mom, dad, two little girls. Everyone's, I think it was two girls. I hope it wasn't a boy.

No, I think I saw the picture. Okay, yeah, I think it was two girls. All of them. Ghost Runners merch. Yeah, that was awesome. Shout I hope it wasn't a boy. No, I saw the picture. Okay, yeah, I think it was two girls. All of them. Ghost Runners merch. Yeah, that was awesome. Shout out Tim Gilroy and your family. They were great. They live in Waverly,

which is where Rachel and I got married nearby. Yes, I've heard of that. Yes. Pretty cool that they came. And probably the best piece of words of aff that I got all weekend is Steve Koop's mother, so Rachel's grandma, Bonnie Koop, who, this is not Flory. This is not Florida. Not Grandma Graham. Grandma Graham. Yes. So I haven't, you know,

I haven't vacationed with this grandma. I haven't spent nearly as much time with her. And to be honest, you know, she's, I think mid eighties. I just didn't know if she would like my standup comedy. I don't know. Just standup comedy in general. You're just like, I don't know. Yeah. It's very subjective. Yes. I hope she likes it. I hope she still likes me comedy. I don't know. Just stand-up comedy in general. You're just like, I don't know. Yeah, it's very subjective. Yes. I hope she likes it. I hope she still likes me afterwards.

I don't know. Yeah, yeah. She might be like, hey, you were kind of mean towards my son. Yeah, you called my son a donkey. I was like, that's fair to say. And she came up afterwards and was just laughing as she's walking up to me,

said how much she enjoyed it, said she laughed so hard, and she also cried because she thought about how much her husband who has passed away would have loved it. I was like, this is the best. It made Rachel's whole weekend made me feel happy. So yeah, people loved it. I mean, just like it was, it went even better than I would have thought. I just didn't, I was like, it's a private gig. I don't know. It's a small Iowa town. I don't know. I have to do 45 minutes. I could see people losing interest after a while.

How did that – did you do 45? Did you check? I forgot to ask for a clock, so I had no idea how long I was going. Got off stage, and I'd gone 47. Okay. So it was great. That's great. Did you feel like it was hard to do that much while you were up there? No, not necessarily.

I didn't feel like i'm struggling to find things i did a couple uh bits from a previous tour last tour and did i tried some new stuff i tried some stuff about wedding registry uh yeah i tried a couple new jokes steve koop joke so the mom the mom joke about yeah i tried telling that story okay i think it's a good story i think it's interesting it doesn't get a big laugh though. Okay. Um, the setup was okay. So yeah, I learned a little bit. It was fun. And yeah,

I feel like just the next day I saw so many people on Saturday and they were saying good things. Everyone's talking about it. Like that's so fun. And it's all people at church and I wish you would've gone longer. So cool. Well, I'll get up here really quick after the benediction.

Uh, Tim Gilroy, two daughters. Thank you. Yep. All rocking merch from ghost runners dot life slash shop. Also shout out to Gilroy because daughters thank you yep all rocking merch from ghostrunners.life slash shop

also shout out Tim Gilroy because they had all the the house lights on the whole time I could see everybody and I would be doing my jokes and I could see Tim

in the second row just doubling over laughing yeah his comment says my cheeks and tummy are sore from laughing yeah

he was bending over a lot he was moving forward um yeah he was really laughing at the Bodhi stuff I remember he really loved Cheeks and tummy are sore from laughing. Yeah. He was bending over a lot. He was moving forward. Yeah, he was really laughing at the Bodhi stuff. I remember. He really loved me acting like he had a speech impediment and stuff. If you guys have a son, you're going to have to name him either Bodhi or Bandon. Oh, yeah.

I was doing those jokes. Like, what else do they think about naming you? And like other names that don't have an R in it. That's so great, man. Good. I'm glad it went so well. Thank you. Yeah, it was as good as it could have gone. Because like you said,'s a it's a crap shoot as far as those kind of things go it seems

like and also you know i don't know i would i would imagine there's more pressure when it's like hey i don't know my wife knows half these people in the audience i think yeah i probably a lot of pressure on rachel right yeah i hope he does well i hope they like totally because like that's awkward for everybody in the family of like, Oh man, I didn't even consider it going poorly. Like, like the idea of like,

I go up there and bomb. They're like, that's who Rachel married. That guy, he doesn't, that's all. That's his whole, like,

that's like his main thing here. It's money from that. He has a pod. I'm not listening to the podcast after that. Yeah. A hundred percent. You're right. Yeah.

I guess Rachel really believes in me if she lets me do that. I guess so. I should be like, do not go up there and perform for my closest friends and family. Or she just doesn't know how to say no to you. Okay, yeah, if you want to. Yeah, yeah, sure. What do you think? We can go anywhere. You want to go be an agent and do a show? Yeah, sure. We can do it. That's fine. Man,

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with another game on their website called Connections. So, Tommy, if you want to just type into your system preferences right now. Not bad. Figuring out if I have enough storage to record. I'm good. Oh, okay. Hey, hey. All good. Just making sure. No problem. Let's look up the search history real quick.

No, no, no, no, no. I saw the word weather. I saw weather was a... It's too late. Oh, New York Times Connections. Just type that. So we're going to play this game. So what we have to do is just match up uh words that like have a consistent

theme to them i've seen this uh on claire talifero's story recently oh claire because the word was drip and she's like has anybody ever heard drip be this kind of definition i said yes because of how i met your mother that's the only reason i knew that that's nice so i'm excited to play so it's just like basically like defining words more or less with other synonyms. Yes. And sometimes they try to trick you. I haven't seen this one today. Drip, I think.

I haven't seen this. I haven't seen this. I haven't seen this. This is new one every day. Yep. It's like. NYtimes.com slash game slash connections if you want to follow along at home. Tymon, how do we feel about clicking that button that says play?

You want to tell me what all sides is? I'm like almost positive on screen recording. Oh, so they give you all of them to start. I'll let you guys read them. I'll read them off to people who are only listening. We've got the words blue, pole, Cuban, space, American, kitten, Dutch, wedge, jeopardy, hurdle, Swiss, date, jack, hammer, stiletto, javelvelin anything standing out to you right off the bat no not really uh kind of code names a little bit yeah kind of like names but with like four things go together interesting um create four groups of four wedge i mean wedge and Swiss. That's cheese.

Wedge is cheese? That's smart. Jack is another type of cheese. Maybe. Blue cheese. American. American. Get wedge out of there then. You think?

Because blue is usually B-L-E-U for blue cheese, right? Because Jack and Hammer, right? That's how they trick you. Jack and Hammer are both tools No, that's how they trick you. That's how they trick you. Jack and Hammer are both tools, though. Cuban. Cuban sandwich, wedge, salad. Yeah, wedge.

I thought of salad. I also thought of, obviously, golf clubs. Oh, I was thinking of a women's shoe. Oh, my gosh. That, too. All right,

so we're back to square one. There's got to be something with cheese, though, right? There's just too many cheese things to not. You get four, like, guesses, basically, or four mistakes. Okay. Let's try a cheese one. Let's got to be something with cheese though, right? There's just too many cheese things to not. You get four guesses basically, or four mistakes.

Okay. Let's try a cheese one. Let's do Jack and Swiss. Jack, Swiss. Click it? You can click it. I'll say Swiss first. And then you'll click

submit once you've clicked for it. Oh, I see. American. American's cheese. So blue is spelled differently. That's a good call.

But I think it's like, I think it's a little bit inconsistent. Like, can we Google real quick blue cheese? Yeah. That's allowed. Because I think it's a little bit inconsistent. Can we Google real quick blue cheese? Yeah. That's allowed. Because I think sometimes I feel like the right way.

I don't know. Blue in French is B-L-E-U. They're spelling it regular. But wait, in this image it's spelled. Wait, let me see. But it sure looks like it's okay to say blue. B-L-U-E. Oh, yeah.

Did you mean blue cheese? Did you mean U-E? All right, let's do it. Lock it in okay to say blue. B-L-U-E. Oh, yeah. Did you mean blue cheese? Did you mean U-E? All right, let's do it. Lock it in. Blue. Good. Yeah. And American.

Submit. Dang it. Oh, I got it. Oh! It kind of moved him around. Yeah, kind of like, yeah. Cheeses. All right.

Okay. We got one. That's big to get one because now it's like, okay. So we got space kitten Dutch wedge,y hurdle Cuban date pole hammer stiletto Javelin I could go with words that have the least amount of double meanings Okay, stiletto and stiletto it is stiletto with wedge, right? Like they're both shoes shoes. I know what else let's let it was so that was a type of like when high heel Okay, cool. I don't know what goes with stiletto besides that the kitten shoe Cuban

shoes yeah oh javelin and hurdle those are like Olympic events and pull Oh pole vault Oh a hammer throw yes pull hammer pull jab hurdle job yep lock in these yep yeah I can feel the vents okay I can Yep. Lock in. These? Yep. Track and field events. Bang! Yes! Track and field equipment. Okay, so now we got Jeopardy, Wedge, Cuban, Date, Dutch, Kitten, Stiletto, Space. How is Stiletto and Jeopardy going to fit in here?

Jeopardy. Some kind of show, a dating show. Oh, the show Jeopardy. The show about space. Jeopardy. I mean, Dutch and Cuban seem almost too easy to put together. Is that fair? Because they're like nationalities.

Yeah. They seem like, if you say they try to trick you sometimes. How did this get harder with less options? Kitten? Yeah, because there's nothing even close to kitten. Kitten? What's kitten match with? Kittens. What's a double meaning of kitten? Kitten's in jeopardy because he's out on the wedge.

We need to give him some space. Get him back in here. Pull him in with a stiletto. I'd like to choose five. Dinked. Jeopardy. Jeopardy. Jeopardy.

Dutch. I mean, jeopardy, obviously, I'm just continuing to think of the game show, but jeopardy is also just meaning danger. Yeah. So, like, high stakes space. Hey, let's press the word shuffle. Let's get us a shuffle here. See the words in a new order.

Smart. Got to shuffle. There we go. Whole new world. Oh, my gosh. Dates on my side now. Okay. Yeah.

Now, some of the categories, sometimes it's not like an overarching category like cheeses it could be like blank something oh so like words can precede it or great come after it so for instance like oh got it oh double dutch double date oh double space double okay there's three at least double date so click double jeopardy double jeopard. Jake, say that next time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Amazing. Oh, okay. Wow. So what's the last one?

Kitten, stiletto, Cuban, and wedge. Maybe we don't know that much about shoes. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how to figure out what this. I would put those four, though, together, Tymon. I'd click those four. Kitten.

Yeah, this will be fun to reveal the category. Everything that has heels. Tides of heels. Brad's a genius. What is that? But what's a Cuban heel? Here, press X. I want to see the...

It's like a bad guy in wrestling. It's a sturdy style of footwear that characteristically features a heel that grows narrower toward the bottom. See, we just didn't know. Oh, wow. So Kitten does have a double meaning. What do Cuban heels look like? I just searched Cuban heels. See, we just didn't know. Oh, wow. So kitten does have a double meaning. Oh, Cuban heels look like I just searched Cuban heels. They got a lot of cowboy boots. Boots.

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I want... Interesting. That was fun. Do we get... Do we... Do we... Do we... I just got done calling you a genius.

Your next sentence is, that was fun. Do we just... Do we just get one of them or can we do it? Do we do it? Gotta wait till midnight. We can't do like a previous version or anything? Oh, probably can. Oh, probably can.

It's going on top now. I assume so. Oh, I reckon you can find a can. Let's go out on top. I assume so. I reckon you'd find a way. That's fun. Connections. New York Times Connections. I enjoyed that a lot. I thought you guys might. It was fun. Good work. Thanks, Jacob.

Let's do some s'mores, huh? Great. Or do you have anything else in your notes? Don't touch that dial because I forgot about something and I had Rachel text me. Everyone's dying to know, what was the improv group like that opened up for me? Oh. Remember that?

Yeah. You want to wait, or you want to talk about that first? Very special. Let's do Schmores. I'm excited about Schmores. I got a thousand things written down. Okay, I've got about six, maybe.

Okay. I'm going to lose. No, no, no. Because my brain doesn't really work like this. It really is quality. Because I don't know how to rank what I've got. Let me tell you a little secret, though, about schmores, is that if you have a lot of good honorable mentions,

it'll cloud people's mind into thinking that your four were pretty good. So that is one thing. If you have a lot of honorable mentions, I think sometimes it'll help. You spoiled my strategy. All right. So the schmores this week is just that still exists what that's the name of the s'mores what that still exists okay you have to say like that that still exists don't open your mouth much that still exists ventriloquist

yes so uh just things that you're surprised still are are kicking live and kicking so um timing you only have six so let's have you go first i had the thought i was like this is this is jake's kind of thing because i feel like i feel like you're like very analytical and like logically like rachel and i were going off last night and like it's fired up about yeah i just kind of accept things how they are. I feel like, um, it's probably a good trade time. We'll see.

Uh, the radio. Hey, I wrote down first thing I wrote down was the radio. Wow. Good. First pick. Cool.

Let me write down the answers real quick. All of a sudden, the time we just got confidence. I go, well, talk to us about time. And what do you, why do you say that?

Um, first of all, cause it's, it's like the fact that they aren't popular anymore are ruining themselves more because then it's less enjoyable because there's so many ads. Yes. I found this out because yeah, I... Jake talked about that last week. I drove the truck, which didn't have like a phone

connection thing. So hard to find just anything playing music. And it's, yeah. The answer, my friends, is called Sports Talk Radio. It is the thing that is... Right up my alley. Well, Ty, you'd learn more if you listen. That's true. Yeah. Free agency's coming. It's wonderful. And not as many

commercials either. Or at least like if somebody talks for 20 minutes versus like four songs, it feels like you got a lot more value out of it. Yeah, that's true. So, all right, you go next, Jake. Okay. That still exists. What? Racism. No, I'm just kidding uh i was joking with rachel i'm only

gonna do like social justice issues all the time i did think wage gap how political are we gonna get how religious are we gonna get on this like that people still believe in that religion uh black incarceration rates uh i typed like racism and it auto-corrected to Rachel. That still exists? Oh, Mrs. Pork? Mrs. Pork is still a thing? Mine are in no particular order. I don't even know where to start. Let's go with...

This is a job. This is a position. That still exists? What? Toll booth operators. Can we not automate the toll booth? Yeah. What are you doing there?

You swipe my credit card. A machine's been doing that for 20 years. Who are they choosing to be like, this toll booth needs a person. This one, just take... You'll be fine. Have the money machine that you just throw coins in. Yeah, which Gunner gets out of his car

and picks up coins that have missed. Christmas morning for Gunner. Yeah, which Gunner gets out of his car and picks up coins that you have missed. Christmas morning for Gunner. Yeah, that's fine. That's a good answer. Toll booth operator. It's like, think about all the other things that are, like, there's no toll, well, maybe there are some, but like, parking garages, you just put your card in and go. Yes. Yeah, that's a good word.

Thank you. Toll booth operator. That still exists? What? Alright, my first one, I maybe gave this as an example, but fax machines. Thank you. That still exists? What? Alright, my first one, I maybe gave this as an example, but fax machines. Just insane. I was suggested to fax something yesterday and I said... Why don't you just send it on your dinosaur? Get lost, brother.

I don't understand. Just who needs them? Who's ever needed... I mean, we have an email now and we can take a picture. And I'm pretty sure that's the same illegally binding thing as like sending a picture of a document is the same as faxing it. Like, oh yeah.

All the tax documents that I give to Connor to do our tax stuff for us. I just take a picture of my phone. Yeah. And text it to him. He's doing just fine with that. Yeah. Unbelievable. Like fax machines.

Just they're so annoying. They're so slow when you even receive them. They're not even like a quick, like printing thing. It's like, yeah. Email attachments, a hundred percent, like just eliminated the need for a fax machine yet. They're still around. And like some people insist on, yeah, using them. And it's like, no mortgage industry and like insurance, like home insurance, stuff insist on, yeah, using them. And it's like, no. It's like the mortgage industry and like insurance, like home insurance, stuff like that.

They're using them. I did find a website where you can like e-fax things or whatever. So I do that every time somebody's like, you have to fax this number. I'm like, fine.

It's going to look like a picture because it is. I think I'm this young, but I'm not, like I'm not exactly familiar with fax. No, no, I'm not. That's the thing.

Like, I don't know if they were... It kind of missed us. Yeah. I think it's a corporate thing. So how is it different than scanning something? Because you're sending it. It's like scanning it and then sending it to somebody else. And there's no internet involved. It's usually a phone number. You type in a fax number.

You use the same... There's an electronics. Yeah, yeah printer in my dad's office that you just can type an email in and it will scan it to them it's the same idea yeah i think new newfangled fax machine newfangled fax yeah so i don't think very many like households had fax machines huh i can remember a few of my friends maybe having them but yeah mostly it's like corporate stuff but man does it just seem like, and they, people, it still exists. That still exists. Oh, all right. The next one I'm going to do is door to door salesman, door to door salesman that still exists. These days you can

communicate with people quicker and more efficiently than ever before. And yet people are deciding, Hey, you know what doesn't really exist anymore. Also people knocking on your door. I'm going to go ahead and do that a hundred times a day. I'm going to knock on them. I'm going to annoy him. And then we're going to try to get them to give me money. Good luck. Yeah. I don't, I can't imagine, maybe I'm wrong, but I can't imagine that being the most effective way to sell. Or even just to spend your money.

You think if you own a company and you want to have salesmen, I don't care what you're selling. Put that money into Facebook ads and don't pay people a salary to go door-to-door. I guarantee you it's a better return on your investment. Do not send people door-to-door. Yeah. So we don't get it as much these days, but like pest

control. Roofing. Roofing. Hey, I'll do a free assessment on your roof. I did one for a buddy just a couple streets over. They love using the name. I did one for your neighbor, Nicole, down the street. You know Nicole probably, right? I don't actually. I've never met Nick. Door to door assessment? That still exists?

Is this? So. Permission to go combo? Go off. Go off, Burger King. Okay. That still exists? I'm going to go smoke breaks slash cigarettes in general.

Yeah. Good call. The idea that smoke breaks were ever allowed to be a thing is crazy to me. Like your job legally had to let you stop working to feed your addiction. I can't believe that was ever allowed. And as far as I know, I think it still is allowed.

What is it like? You think it was like a legal thing? Like they had to like allow that? That's how I understand it. Wow. No, I didn't know that. They had to let you take a smoke break. It does.

It is crazy. I mean, I'm sure we could find a million things that we have vices in our own life that we know are unhealthy that we do anyway, but like cigarettes just because I've never personally experienced them do seem like next level crazy that people are just like, I know it's killing me, but I'm doing it anyway. Like I just, to me, they don't seem good enough to like not stop. You know what I mean? Like, and the fact that like we try to like squash all these other things, like the FDA is like, well, you can't have this thing or this dye is terrible for you or whatever.

But it's like cigarettes, go ahead. Just put a label on there and it's fine. It's fine. You'll be fine. Paul Maul did just fine. I, uh, this, I kind of checked out real quick. The first thing I saw, your employer is legally obliged to provide the workforce with smoking breaks. Maybe it's state by state.

Back in the day when you'd go to a restaurant, what was the first thing they asked you? Smoking or not smoking. Who's saying smoking? Please. I want to be near it there was one time i think we were like there's a long wait and we're like i don't it doesn't matter whatever's closest we've been smoking boy was it a mistake it was like this is not the same applebees that i know and love gross so all right time you got two geez. Okay. I'm not proud of these. Coins. Coins.

Oh! Change. That's a good one. I think so. Yeah. Honestly, I don't know. Okay. Maybe, it's obviously the penny.

Yeah. Just like a lot of the smaller stuff. I don't know. But what's your answer then? No, genuinely. Penny's okay. But if you're saying coins okay okay it's a dollar 46 what does that price turn into uh here's my card yeah it's a dollar 46 electronically okay yeah i think i don't know here's something interesting i learned sorry go ahead time let me hey go for it

this is interesting about cash and fact check me if you want, Ghosties, because I think I understand this correctly. And I think this is something Jake would get into. You too, Tywin. Whatever. I don't care. So, Jake, let's just say, for example, we all three have businesses right now.

I buy something for Jake for $100. Jake takes that $100 cash. Jake takes that $100 and then buys something from Tywin's business for $100. Now Tywin has made $100 cash. Jake takes that a hundred dollars and then buy something from Tymon's business for a hundred dollars. Now Tymon has made a hundred dollars cash and then whatever. Tymon takes it to guy down the street with cash, buys for a hundred dollars. That same $100 has circulated around the economy. And that is a hundred dollars. If I were to say, Jake, charge me a hundred dollars, I pay him a hundred dollars with a credit card. Jake now only made 98 50 or something like that. And then time in, you know, so from that 98 50,

you go time and spend that money. And now time is only making 97. So by the time you use credit cards all the time, basically the banks just make all the money from your a hundred dollars. I see. Yeah. Yeah. Like you're not, you're're no longer making $100. You just made whatever that minus 3% or whatever the credit card fees are. It's just crazy to think about. Am I mistaken? Does a debit card cancel that issue out kind of? I don't know.

Because that's what I have. I don't know. Sometimes maybe it does. Because I think the difference is you know you have the money. It's coming from somewhere. In the form of your bank yeah you're you're taking out your checking account instantly or whatever yeah that's interesting yeah it is kind of like a like okay that's why the banks have so much money is because we all use credit cards all the time okay it was a horrible pick i agree i'm just kidding no change is great no do you have a

credit card uh debit card you should get a credit card you think so it's the same thing but it helps you more cool yeah just treat it like debit card yeah and just don't be dumb yeah yes well the whole idea of buying paying money you don't have is the dumbest thing right so yeah yeah i think for a lot of people financial literacy just already makes logical sense but some some people doesn't yeah all right i'll say uh gaps in bathroom stall doors that still exists that still exists coins and gaps baby the wage gap and the gaps in bathroom gaps in bathroom stall doors that's funny why did it ever exist i don't know just seal it just make it edge to edge like any other door is that an american thing like do you think that's that's like something that like french people know and hey fyi when you come to america you're gonna be able to see something or maybe every other country has like just like a community like bowl you know i don't

like it like in a bathroom a bowl or are you imagining you know not a war torn south sudan or something a community bowl that sounded like that not community puke bowl? That sounded like... Not community. Puke bowl, pee bowl. Just like a... I don't know. One place to pee or whatever. Like a trough? Yeah. Use two of the weirdest words. Community bowl sounds

fun because then you're just straight across from somebody else like, good to see you. Howdy. Howdy, bloke. I see you howdy oh howdy bloke i see you're jewish uh not a kanye fan huh la haim all right oh man golly okay good good answers time gaps in bathroom stall doors i love this category because the answers can be anything.

They're very fun. I've got humans on here. We'll get to those later. Oh, specific humans. Next, I've got... Not just humans in general. The human race. The human race.

That's still going on. Neanderthals. Are those still around? All right. This still exists? School buses with no seatbelts. That is wild. Doesn't it seem like we would have like

passed a law making kids wear seatbelts to and from school because the kids don't wear seatbelts it sure does seem like school buses aren't very safe like you don't have to receive that is weird like those things could tip easier than a car they do schools seem very like government like informed i feel like above approach the first safe do it yeah like kids actually annoyed they have to take like roller coaster type seat belts to school and back because it's so safe oh yeah simply fit page page far she uh she was in a school bus accident in high school really yeah it was like a huge deal really bad thing in her town and yeah i mean school buses get in accidents all the time they do tip easily and kids don't have to wear seat belts what what's the justice do you do you have any idea like no people are like well but this you haven't heard the other side of it but listen we

don't need every kid i don't know what the justification is yeah it would cost like i don't know 75 80 bucks to put seat belts in their car per bus is how much is a kid's life worth they can afford ipads we're cutting it off at that though we're no seatbelts for them yeah that is wild that still doesn't exist that's still not happening that's still happening what the crap all right um yeah i have a few of them here. I guess I'm going to go with my next one. It's going to be similar to Timon's financial realm of things, but checks. Does that still exist?

I had checkbook written down. Yeah. It's like the facts. We found better ways to do this. Yeah. These days, you can put a card up to another phone, and it can just transfer money for you,

probably. Like, you don't need a check. I don't know. Like, I have to pay for the Gulf Shores getaway that everyone

can come to, Gulf Shores.life.travel. I have to pay with a check. And it's like, that's so silly. That is silly. Or it's like a 3% fee for a credit card

or something like that. Yeah. There are a number of things that I'm convinced will die out once kind of the generations above us die out yeah and checks are 100 one of those things checks radio yeah uh physical newspaper bye-bye yeah it's gonna be sad when the physical newspaper leaves us i'll be fine with radio i'm already kind of sad about it. Yeah. Like the state of it now. I don't know.

I'd be a little sad about the – no, I don't think I would care that much. It's sad that – I want to care about the radio, but I'm like – Podcasts are doing all right. Let's look at myself in the face here. I don't listen to the – I'll listen to sports radio sometimes, but that's it. Yeah. Man, I got a lot.

It's hard to pick just one more. We're going to go off on our mentions. I can't wait. All right. This one's, I feel like, just a very strong thing we've talked about multiple times in the podcast and the podcast history. Bologna. That still exists?

People think that's a good idea to eat that still? You see it as like a poor man's ham, basically. Just like, why would you choose? That's how I always looked at it. Yeah. I don't know. These days, I feel like I'm not trying to like, whatever. People are struggling financially or whatever,

but ham seems all right. Like, it seems affordable enough. You don't need to go bologna. Surely, the price discrepancy isn't that crazy. And yet, people are going for that ring of bologna the ring bologna looks wild that was my favorite thing growing up i love bologna i grew up on it too yeah but these days i'm not touching the stuff we can do better good ranchers can do better that's right bologna that's funny that bologna's old you heard that story diamond i don't think so

well someday someday uh permission to get political permission to go combo political just singular this this still exists the lack of like a congressman age limit yeah or like term limit just like after you went to dyke new heart failure you're like you know i'm kind of fired up about this. Chuck Grassley. No, actually I talked about Chuck Grassley on stage, but yeah, that's just kind of wild. Like when you see Mitch McConnell literally freezing.

I mean, he was freezing in real time. He gets stuck and it's funny and you feel bad for him, but then you're also like, yeah, he's 80 something. Like he should not be in charge of anything let alone a state yeah yeah what is yeah what is the is it is it are you saying saying age of person more than probably duration of because i think that's an interesting thing too of like

you shouldn't be allowed to do this forever yeah you know maybe that because then you become a career politician kind of thing. Yeah, I think definitely age is probably the most important thing. Just like... I don't know. Other countries just look at us and they laugh. We have like running our countries and what our Congress looks like. It's like, yeah, it's just so old.

There's got to be someone better. I know so many smart young people. Yeah. I know we can do better. I just know we can. Everybody's so old. There's got to be someone better. I know so many smart young people. I know we can do better. I just know we can. Everybody's so old. China's not number one. America's number one. China's like number seven. That's what he says in the office. It's shockingly agrarian or whatever.

Yeah, so congressman age limits. I just can't believe we don't have those yet. Drain the swamp is what you're saying basically. I'm not taking it aside. I'm just saying get them out of there. Just reset. All right, time. I don't know what to...

Permission to get political again? This is my last one, right? Yeah, sure. Permission to use your last one. Permission to do my answer? Yes. Okay, permission granted. People saying, I could care less.

Getting it wrong. That still exists? That still exists? People haven't figured out that that doesn't make any sense? That's pretty funny. You could care less exists people haven't figured out that doesn't make any sense that's pretty funny you could care less you want to figure that out yet that's funny you're only 18 what's that 17 like 6

15 stop me when I'm 14 just like are we legally allowed to hire this guy I feel like I've just lived almost double the life and like yeah I've been seeing this for a while I really can't believe they're still saying it. Yeah. I just, I've confronted people about it.

I've been like, oh, I've been like, not in an annoying way, I hope. But just like, why do you say I could care less? Because that's saying you could care less. Yeah, I could care less probably. But it's like, then I think people have said like, well, you can say both. They mean like kind of different. Like, when I say I could care less, it's like, well, maybe if say both. They mean like kind of different. Like when I say I could care less, it's like, well, maybe if I really tried,

I could care a little bit less. Like I've heard someone say that. I'm like, what? No. These are the same people who say irregardless. Like it sounds right. That's not a word. Is it not even like one of those words

that's like become a word because so many people get it wrong? That's funny. You know what I mean? I think that I could care less thing is just like because it flows a little bit quicker i could care less i care less i care less about that it does flow it's a quick i couldn't care less about that i could not care i don't want to say that anymore i was thinking about asking permission to do a combo and come back with like your slash your and they're there like

why does that still exist but i i didn't. Jake has already done some combos. I already, I had first permission to do a combo. Irregardless certainly is a word, says Merriam-Webster. What? Well, it probably is, but it just doesn't. It seems redundant. Is there a difference between regardless and irregardless? Kind of like flammable and what's the other one?

Inflammable? Or like genius and ingenious. It's like, why do we have a second word for this? Why do we tack on a prefix? It's the same word. That was genius! He's ingenious! I use them interchangeably. Yeah, I've never said ingenious.

Alright, let me... When you look up the word irregardless, the definition is regardless. So they have like adopted it, I guess. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Sometimes it's like, if you can't beat them, just join them. Whatever.

It's fine. Judgment has either an E or no E. It's like, whatever. Either way, guys, just whatever. Buses, however many S's you want. We're cool with it. Glamour, you can add the U. That's the one we've taken from Canada,

and we're like, yeah, we'll actually use it. It says the ear prefix means not. And if you add it to where there already means without regard, you get not without regard. This double negative is what makes irregardless a mess of a word and an insult to the army of people who are passionate about English vocabulary. Thank you. GrahamRidley.com

This is wild that it's a word, but it's not. It shouldn't be a word. It doesn't make sense. It's not. Hey, don't say irregardless. Maybe that's... People that still say irregardless, that still exists?

Don't not forget about saying irregardless. Right? That's what we've always said. All right, so our answers are, Tymon said, that still exists? The radio? Coins? Gaps in bathroom stall doors?

People saying I could care less. Jake goes, that still exists. You think that could still exist? A toll booth operator. This is so high. Smoke breaks, cigarettes,

combo schoolhouses with no seatbelts. Schoolhouses. Dang it. That must have autoorrected. School buses with those. It did autocorrect. That jerk. One room school houses and not a single seat belt.

Not a single belt in the whole house. Lack of congressman age limits. Brad says, what? This is a fax machine. Door-to-door salesman. Checks! Bloody! Well read.

Thanks. Madison McCullough, you're back. You got this, mama. You got this, Madison, my mama. Thanks in advance for the poll. Everyone vote. Congratulations on your new baby, Madison. Let's do honorable mentions.

Got plenty of them. You want to just go around? Tywin, you got a bunch, right? Nope. You start. I had bad visual effects in high-budget movies. Classic Tywin. Sometimes it is kind of amazing. This is clearly a green screen.

This is a $150 million movie. I can very easily tell it's fake. I know why. It's like people are overworked and underpaid and like tiny time limits. It's like a political time. I'm sorry. You have to ask permission if you're going to go into it.

Specifically visual flexor on it. It's not political. Oh, no. Yeah. I loved the show Dave on Hulu. The season finale of season three, he finally meets Drake. They get Drake to be on the show.

They haven't used a green screen for a single scene in three seasons of television. And then the final scene, he meets Drake in Africa and it's't used a green screen for a single scene in three seasons of television. And then the final scene, he meets Drake in Africa and it's just an awful green screen. It was very weird ending to the show. Yeah. Why is it a green screen?

The last scene. Why can't you just find a place that looks like Africa in LA? I don't even know if it needs to be Africa. Not pivotal to the point. Okay. It wasn't like you have to be

in Africa for this part. No, it was dumb. Why did you? Poor green screen. I get it. All right. My first one, actually the thing that sparked this whole idea and i didn't think it was a great answer was graffiti it's like why are people still doing that still that doesn't seem like a fun fun enough thing to keep keep uh keep up with the trend okay like i was driving down

i-35 yesterday and yeah there was like a pretty new overpass bridge and it still it had graffiti on already i was like really that's still going on guys i think we're better than this people are still sneaking around doing that and doing pretty good job by the way pretty cool bubble letters guys it's kind of interesting but that's lose this uh second one i ever wrote down i wrote radio then i wrote pandora i wrote down Pandora as well. Yeah, what are they up to? They seem like they lost the minute Spotify got invented. Yeah, but I know they're still around,

and I'm shocked they still exist. They still exist because of the Chuck Grassley's of the world. Yep. They're like, Pandora is cool. I got Adele Radio. I feel like they're the homeschoolers of the world or something. My sister does love it. I feel like there it. Some homeschoolers that use Pandora. Yeah, there you go.

Is it just Spotify but not as popular? It's like Spotify radio, basically, where you're like, hey, I like this song. Play me a whole playlist of it. I see. Yeah. Interesting. You don't get to pick the songs.

For a while, it was awesome. In high school? Yeah, maybe it was high school for you. Yeah, I was like, this is great. But it's seen its day. Time you got any more? Nope. Great.

Permission to not, I don't even know if this is political. I didn't know this until a couple years ago that these two things, maybe we'll say them in funny accents

so YouTube doesn't know exactly what we're saying. We'll say the triple K. Oh, okay, okay. Had no idea the triple K was still around. Yeah, that is kind of wild. It's like, surely the people in it know that's a bad idea.

Kind of took my racism pick, but yeah. And then the other racism pick, Naziz Ansari? Yeah. Where was that? Naziz Ansari. Like, was it the St. Louis Capitol Building? I don't know. I don't know if it was St. Louis.

Or recently. St. Louis Capitol Building? That doesn't make any sense. That's what I think. What did I see then? if it was St. Louis. Or recently. St. Louis Capitol building? That doesn't make any sense. That's what I think. What did I see then? Somewhere east of us, there were a whole group of Naziza Ansari's protesting. I was like, you guys are going out in public this way? Yeah.

You claim to be this? I know. I had no idea. What do you like about them? I don't know. And what about history makes you think it's a good idea? We already know that's the wrong side of history. It's one thing to be caught up in Hitler's speeches back there. You're like, I kind of like this guy. I think it's a good idea? We already know that's the wrong side of history. It's one thing to be caught up in Hitler's speeches back then.

You're like, I kind of like this guy. I think he's a good leader. And then now you're like, geez, I was wrong. Got good tone. What can I say? And now it's like, nah, that was a bad idea. Knowing what we know now, I don't think that's the side you would choose. We should not be smoking and we should not be in disease.

No, thanks. All right, your turn. Did you find it, Tymon? St. Louis Capitol Building? Oh, I thought that's where you're looking up. It's okay. It's not important. Third right, your turn. Did you find it, Tymon? St. Louis Capitol Building? Oh. I thought that's where you're looking up. It's okay. Not important.

Third thing I wrote down, I went radio, Pandora, and then super unleaded gas. Whoa. And reason being, I've just never heard of anyone getting it. Oh. I just never,

I just don't know who, maybe I need to be in a different tax bracket, but like, you just get unleaded, or you get diesel. I know a guy. You know a super unleaded guy? And you do too.

Is it high-maintenance Ian? Nope. That's a great thought, though. He works for a car dealership. No, it's Zach Warehand one time. What? I borrowed his car, and it was like a BMW. He tossed you the keys.

Hey, super unleaded only. He did. He was like, hey, FYI, it takes whatever, the premium gas. I was like, okay, buddy who sure it does okay fine yeah it was also the first car i'd ever seen that like didn't have like a shift for like the like you know like yeah dial or a touch i can't remember one of them super unleaded uh that still exists cheese whiz america will always have a health problem cheese is going to be around for a while well it's fine that america has a health problem but like have a health problem

for something that's a little bit more delicious than cheese whiz like that the crazy thing is that yeah cheese whiz exists enough or like people buy it enough that these companies still say like that's a viable thing for us to spend thousands if not millions of dollars producing with these very high-tech machines yeah that just make nasty cheese stuff like aerosol cheese aerosol cans gross i ew i liked it growing up i mean really i thought it was so fun to do like watch this i have a cracker now i have cheese on it that was wild only pro i don't think that cheese itself is is From what I remember, it's been a long time. Yeah. It still exists.

I've heard the story, probably an old episode, of my friend Ty pulling out Cheez Whiz during karaoke. I don't think so. All right, you'll get to it eventually. Sounds good. Who wants some Cheez Whiz? Next on my list was Jimmy Carter. He still exists?

Oh, is he still... President Jimmy Carter, he's 99 years old. Still kicking. Yeah, he looks like a mummy, Carter. He still exists. Oh, is he still president? Jimmy Carter is 99 years old. Still kicking. Yeah. He looks like a mummy, but he's still around. Uh, I don't have much in toot in common with him.

Uh, the Simpsons, do you know, still running? Oh, is it really new episodes? I think so. I had no idea.

Yeah. Good pick. Um, yeah. All right. Uh, I, I've, I've talked about this before. It drives me nuts. I had no idea. Yeah. Good pick. Yeah. All right. I've talked about this before. It drives me nuts. I don't understand it.

The square footage of banks, that still exists? What are we building three-story banks for? Oh, okay. What's going on in there? Yeah, what's the inner workings of that second and third story? And I'm not talking lower Manhattan. This is where Chase Bank, this is where people work for corporate. I'm talking Shawnee Mission Parkway, where I live.

Guarantee Spank. Well, Spank? Guarantee Bank. Where guarantee is spelled wrong. Why do you have a two-story massive new building? It's spelled wrong? Guarantee with a Y? You ever notice that?

No. Really? Why do they do that? Just banks in general. Why do you have such big buildings? I'm really, I'm stopped up on the misspelled guarantee. What about when I said guarantee spank? Stopped up on that?

Not compared to guarantee with a Y. Yeah. I would never give money to that thing. Guarantee bank. Let me just double check myself. I've been wrong about a lot of stuff recently. Yeah, there it is. All right.

Wow. Okay. My next one is pyramid schemes why are people still following for pyramid schemes mlms i can kind of get behind which are a little different but like to me it's just like it just there's too many of them they still exist we're still doing that we're still messing we're still meeting somebody for coffee that we haven't hung out with for 14 years. That's what it is? That's what it is? I'm with you.

I should write a song about that and do it on a comedy tour. Get an Herbalife. Yeah, that could be fun. Get an Herbalife. Yeah, like you go around peddling these products. You're like a cosmetic Pablo Escobar. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. Okay.

Next, permission to categorize a few different options. Granted. And that's its food. It's not food. This is... Rachel came up with a lot of these. She was like, there's a list of things that still exist that like cold American culture has memed them and made fun of them so much that we know they're looked down upon

yet. They still exist. For example, Karen haircuts. All right. What, what does that look like? Like the John and Kate plus eight,

like her haircut. Okay. Um, just like a little like shortcut or something. Yeah. Short shortcut. Um, on that same note, things that we all know are just like weird and bad,

like Mountain Dew pajama pants. Those still exist? Yeah, like that's the thing. They're making thousands of those on purpose. Because people will buy them. Because they know people out there love them. And somebody does. The cheese wizards of the world love them.

Yeah. Leashes for kids at amusement parks. those people get made fun of constantly yet they still leash their kids must work must work for some people and the last one i thought of like like flat build like monster energy hats the rob deardex of the world yeah like i just feel like it's just like a sub subculture yeah mountain dew people there's mountain dew and yeah all right i got a few here those are all those all of them you got some those are the categories of things that culture is okay down upon i'll do i'll do two uh food ones first of all i don't think they have any like brick and

mortar restaurants anymore but i was at aldi the other day bob evans still kicking bob evans oh robert evans he's still kicking bob evans yeah you ever heard of bob evans definitely heard the name but what is it it was like i've only been there once because i feel like that that's the funny thing is this is so like suburban olathe whatever but like i felt like it was like a rich person place back in the day I don't think it was but I think it was like maybe just like $2 more expensive and so I think we've never really went there but I think it was kind of like a Denny's

like a breakfast kind of spot maybe the last thing I would have guessed is a food place oh yeah it's a restaurant kind of like a Denny's maybe more like a but also I think they had lunch like Applebee's or whatever. There might be one in Branson still now that I'm thinking about it.

That makes perfect sense. Bob Evans and Branson. Yeah. And then also Long John Silver is another one that's just like, dude, we have one by our house, like kind of close to our house.

And it's always got four or five people in the drive-thru line. Long John Silver's A&W combo. I wrote down Captain D's on my list. Okay. That's like a seafood place. Yeah. Yeah.

I went to Bolivar, which maybe it doesn't exist, but yeah. Drive through seafood in Bolivar, Bolivar, Missouri. Uh, how about being as a search engine? Dude, uh, I feel better about being than one of the ones

on my list was, was my space. Uh, one of the guys that like the guy that trained me at Cerner obsessed with being obsessed with like, was like so convinced it was better than Google tried to prove it to us every day. By the end of our training, I was like, it might be, he won't quit, but guess what? I'm not going to use it. It's just, sorry, bud. Sorry. Being, uh, yeah, just search engines in general, in general that are not Google. Trying to compete, yeah. Yahoo. Yahoo in general.

Yeah. My next thing on my list was AOL.com. American Online. Is that what you wrote? I wrote down. Yeah, that's fun. And then because I saw a stat and I looked it up, they still have a million and a half users

that spend $10 every year on AOL. What are they spending money on? To have their account. Oh, wow. And guess what? To have their account. Oh, wow. And guess what? My mother-in-law, two episodes in a row,

making fun of her. She has an AOL.com email. So I don't know if she's spending $10 a year, but they're making $15 million a year. That's something that you can do free 25,000 other places on the internet. You can do it 30 seconds. Let's see if our next one's the same. We'll say it at the same time.

One, two, three. Caprize. our next one's the same. We'll say it at the same time. One, two, three. Redbox. Caprize. Redbox. That was my last one. Yeah, Redbox can't stick around much longer, right?

I mean, I would have said that four years ago. That's a good point. Netflix has been doing just fine for a long time. I got one last one. Okay. Just a We Buy Gold stores. I'm just so curious what goes on in there. I'm fairly sure the one closest to us on like one 51st,

it has like an escape room below it, below it, below it. I think it's like also like under the building. They like use that space for like an escape room. Really? This sounds like a cool place. First in 69.

That one. Yeah. Really? Yeah. I've been to that one before. I just don't, when I was looking for Bondi locations, I just, I feel like I kept being in nice areas of Kansas City and I kept seeing Vape Haven and We Buy Gold. And it's like, it's expensive to rent here.

How are you guys doing this? We Buy Gold? You're like seeing the numbers now. You're like, okay. I'm more intrigued now than ever before. Yeah. Batteries and bulbs. How can you afford this? Batteries and batteries and bulbs. Yeah. There's so many stories that I just so specific like that.

Yeah. Then I just wonder how they're making it. He's involved. Never heard of that one. Yeah. There's a lot of them. I mean, we buy gold, I guess there. I don't know.

I, I, I'd be more inclined to buy something like that in person than batteries and bulbs. I'll order double A's online all day. You know what I mean? That is true. I feel like it's kind of appealing to like, if you have something, like some jewelry you want to sell,

you want to like get a physical person to like, look at it, you know? Hey, it was my last honorable mention. Okay. It was last. I'm just trying to think through why they are the way. I don't even know if that's what it is. Is it a jewelry store or is it like.

We Buy Gold is how they get you in the door. And they upset you on the escape room. Yeah, it's an escape room. I don't know. I don't know what we buy. Yeah. There's never been one. Fun.

Okay. That's been Schmores. It's a long segment. I hope you guys love it. That still exists? People are asking for Schmores,'s a long segment hope you guys love it that still exists people people uh yeah people are asking for schmores so we're giving to them get on our facebook group vote or just say the segments that you like and we're more likely to do them if people request them

enough so um that's right brad that's right that's right let's uh let's end this episode off jake i gotta go home to my sick family okay it's gonna be awesome i'm not gonna say anything about this improv group. I'm just going to let the videos speak for themselves. Oh, fun. Rachel's texting me. Am I still synced up over there, Tymon? Looks like you are.

All right. Just pull. I think it's quicksand. I think we deal with this every day. We just pull. And a one, and a two, and a hee. Wow. So I'm telling you. One and a two and a hee! Whoa! Hee! Hee! Hee!

Hee! Hee! Hee! So I'm telling you, I'm not your Cinderella. This? Shoes do not fit. They're glass. I don't wear glass slippers.

I don't even know why you're in my house. You look really good in glass slippers. Is why. Look, I've been scouting all over for glass slippers. What was the game there? I don't know. They were in quicksand, and then they were talking about glass slippers. I guess you weren't really watching it.

You were preparing. I was side stage when they went on stage. And right off the bat, their first improv game, they're like, all right, give us the name of a story that should have been written but doesn't exist. And so someone gives them the title of like a made-up book title. It's like, all right, this is the reading of that book title. And then they went every other word, writing the book on the fly, which seems like the hardest thing to do. And they started off with it.

That seems like the highest degree of difficulty to make funny. Was it all and after that i said all right i'm gonna go in my room i shut the door and anyway so those are rachel's video that was rachel's video that she sent me so as far was interesting as far as you coming on stage of following somebody would you rather follow somebody bad or good? Great question. Or like scale of one to 10, where's the right point? Great question. I think about that all the time.

Because it's like, you don't want someone to like, I don't want to follow Nate Bargatze, but I think there's value in someone warming up the crowd and being funny and everyone's in a good mood. Yes. I can also see value in like, okay, we haven't laughed in 45 minutes. We are to laugh we need we need somebody to bring some energy we're so excited to see someone new so i can justify either one but yeah because you don't want people

to be in a bad mood because this they're not having fun at this thing yeah that's tough that yeah but it did make me excited i feel like we could do some improv. Okay. I feel like we could knock it out. It's fun. April 12th, baby. April 12th. Just a little variety show. Let's do a little bit. Have we talked about that on the podcast?

I think we did. I think just a little bit, yeah. Brother Ray. That's right. Come on out if you want to. New City Church is the people putting it on at the Doubletree. Yeah. It's going to be a little bit.

Near Guarantee Bank. Guarantee? I. Guaranteed? I can't believe that. Guaranteed Bank and Trust. That's too bad. Yeah. I don't know if there's actually one at Kansas City, but I know I've seen that bank before and just been like,

that still exists? Maybe it's more in Springfield. Either way. That makes more sense now. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Springfield.

Springfield. Anything else? Oh, win of the week. Win of the week. I got three wins. They're going to be quick. Are you more sense now. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Springfield, springfield. Anything else? Oh, uh, when did the week come? I got three wins. They're going to be quick. Are you ready for them?

Are you ready for them? Um, number one, I finally figured out how to get text messages on my, I message on my computer. Oh, I'm sorry. You were going without that.

It was on my old one. And so I thought maybe that was the issue. And then basically I just signed out and signed back in on my phone. And then it gave the option of turn on IMS or text messages. Easy. So now two, two factor authentication, no problem right there on the phone or on the computer. Bada bing, bada boom. Another, let's see, what was my other one that was technological? Oh, I also noticed that Gmail

has a, if you hover over an email, you can unsubscribe right there. Did you know that? Like in your inbox. Mobile desktop. Desktop. Really? Yeah. Because I've been really into unsubscribing to things recently.

For like two months, though. Like I still. You can. Isn't that cool? That's nice. See ya, JP Morgan Wealth. See ya, LoopNet. See ya, SoFiorganWealth. See ya, LoopNet. See ya, SoFi.

I don't need any of these. Yeah, I guarantee you have a lot of crappy emails. I just know you. You are right. It looks a lot like my garage. You are right. Your garage. I have some problems.

Okay, and then my last one of the week is, I was probably going, we'll say, 46 and a 35. I kind of ran a yellow light and a police officer turned, drove towards me and was driving with me for, let's call it two minutes. I turned the corner,

they go straight. Win of the week, baby. Scary. The best feeling ever. Yeah, they're looking up your plates probably. I don't know. Yeah. That goes from the worst feeling ever

to the best. Truly. It's like, I wasn't even in a hurry. I don't know. Yeah. That goes from the worst feeling ever to the best. Truly. It's like, I wasn't even in a hurry. Why are you going fast right there? Why did you just stop at the red lights? Fine. You know what that reminds me of? Every now and then you'll feel like, oh, man, I got a little bubble gut.

I got something going on. Am I going to throw up today? And then you just let it rip. You didn't trust those? And it was just like a massive fart you're like that's it i'm good dude yeah it was just one biggin i don't know what's going on it's like clockwork though with rosie and i'm talking it's it sounds like a rat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat it's every night at dinner.

Only at dinner, though. Not at breakfast or lunch. She's like sputtering out. And she just smiles. She thinks it's the funniest thing. She just... I mean, and it's that long sometimes. Or it's like two of them.

And she just smiles and just kind of shrug at her shoulders. And she feels better she's regular uh mama all right those are my wins my one of the week it's just been a good time that i've gotten with with dudes dudes lately just dudes um so yeah specifically this week uh yeah i met some new friends, Alex from the UK talked about that. Other people via pickleball, but also went and worked at summer moon with Joe, just he and I one-on-one end up not working that much. We just talked, had good conversation that same day, went and had lunch with Calvin Beck and we went to Torchy's together. So I'm early that day. He's like, yeah, I'm getting lunch with Jake later.

Yeah. So just one of the week, good time with dudes. That's great. Saw him earlier that day. He's like, yeah, I'm getting lunch with Jake later. I was like, fun. So just one of the week. Good time with dudes. That's great. Yeah. Papas. Good dudes. Good daddas. Time you got to win? Yeah, I ran a mile in like six minutes and 43 seconds.

Let's go. Oh, yeah. I forgot to bring it up. Timon's texted me, said, just ran a 642 mile, and I'm ready for Jesus to take me home, which is impressive, dude. Thanks. We talked on that live stream we did about you racing Steve Koop, but now, I mean,

you're going to have a full lap disadvantage or something. I don't know. Wow. How fast do you think Rachel could run one? 8.15. Really? Yeah.

She just seems so in shape that she could just turn it on. Maybe. Hey, maybe. I feel like Rachel could, just if the stakes were high, she could just like... She's just a competitor i don't know hey maybe i feel like rachel like could just if she if they were at the stakes were high she could just like she's just a she's a competitor half yeah six and a half i mean she's just a she just seems like a freak of a human yeah just like yeah like has something in her that's like if i want to i could do whatever i want

dang you know i mean i don't know i could be wrong i hope i hope i'm wrong i'll ask her anyway it's a D1. Playing competitive high school, I feel like you know how to dig deep and just find something for a small moment. If you've done D1, I think you could really find it. Yeah. Six and a half is flying. Hey, we'll see, though.

I don't know if I've even talked about this on the podcast. For my birthday this year in August, I want to do a big track want to do track and field day oh fun i want to go to a track olympiad yeah go first olympiad and just do a bunch of track events rachel is like even more excited about than i am rachel really wants to make this happen so javelin hammer throw uh hurdles hurdles what else is on there not discus track was it just a track is that one of them sure it. Dang it, we're done. Track. Was it just a track? Was that one of them?

Mm-hmm. It surely was. The track. We'll do it on the track. Fun. Cool, man. Comment of the week. Oh, my gosh.

Mine is from Samuelson at midnight last night, right when the episode came out. The episode was called Time and Search History, and Samuelson commented, horses near me, as if that would be time and search, which and search history. And Samuelson, uh, commented horses near me as if that would be time and search, uh, which is very funny. So I always am curious, like to Samuelson stay up late, see the title comment right away and go to bed or is he like a late night owl? You know, like, because I love it either way. Cause he is consistently right there on the comments. So, um, good question. Comment of the

week for me comes from Seth Van Dyke, 48, 48, uh, talking about his Pine Cove name. We talked about that last episode. He said, my Pine Cove name was liar, liar, diaper on fire. I'm sure parents were thrilled to leave their kids with me for a week. That's awesome. You imagine? Yeah, this kid, I mean, this, this guy was a stud of a guy led my kid to Christ. I mean,. I mean, my son is saying he wants to work at Pine Cove someday. Oh, really? And he went to Baylor? Yeah, he went to Baylor. Oh, well, my son's at Baylor right now.

What's his name? I don't know if I remember it. No. Come on. My son says it's liar, liar, diaper on fire. Okay. Yeah. Baylor kids are weird, so that makes sense.

That's so funny, yeah. I've got to go back to camp next year. I hope I get in Liar Liar Diaper on Fire's cabin again. Come on, L-L-D-O-F. Please, please. So wordy. Exactly. Yeah, surely they have like a nickname for it.

Or just Liar Liar, maybe. Yeah. Fun. Good soad. Yeah, man. Thanks for encouraging us to do Schmores again uh vote in our ghost runners facebook group and uh hey couple bedrooms still available ghost runners getaway gulf shores we're going to the beach we're going on the beach uh all of us are going to be there me and brad

time it'll time it someday when he turns 21 yes and uh so yeah come on vacation with us we'll see you then. It'll be fun, guys. We love you. See you on Monday. Ghost Brothers Podcast. Ghost Brothers Podcast. Everybody morning, we're taking back.

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