Ghostrunners - 32 - Ranking The Office Christmas Episodes

Episode Date: December 16, 2019

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And you was smooching with my brother. That's a dirty lie, Johnny. Don't give me that. You've been smooching everybody. Snuffy, Al, Leo, Little Moe with the gimpy leg, Cheeks, Boney Bob, Cliff. I could go on forever, baby. You have me all wrong.

All right. I believe you. But my Tommy gun don't. Johnny, you're the only duck in my pond. Get down on your knees and tell me you love me. Baby, I'm over the moon for ya. You gotta do better than that! If my love was an ocean,

I'd have to take two planes to get across it. Maybe I'm off my hinges, but I believe ya. That's why I'm gonna let you go. I'm going to give you to the count of three to get your lousy, lying, four-flushing carcass out my door. One, two,

three. Merry Christmas, you filthy animal. And a Happy New Year. Episode 32. We are here, baby. Hope you like Home Alone 2. Hope you like Episode 32. All right.

Welcome back to the sexiest podcast in Kansas. Hello. I don't know where that came from. No, that's a thing. I mean, it in Kansas. Hello. I don't know where that came from. No, that's a thing. I mean, it's true. Yeah. So I know exactly where it came from. We were right.

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So yeah, welcome back. If you're new, if you're old, glad you're here. Listen're tried and true, but we'll be there someday. So yeah, welcome back. If you're new, if you're old, glad you're here. Listen to the Ghost Runners, baby. That's right. My name is Brad Ellis, owner of Ellis Custom Creations. This is? My name is Jake Triplett. I am friends with Brad Ellis, and we have a podcast together.

That's correct. So we are here, ready to rock, rock. It is Wednesday night for us. It is 10 p.m. We don't often do the late night pods, but they tend to go well when we do. Yeah. We get a little loose. I think it's been a long day, you know, just throwing caution at the wind. Who cares at this point? One of my favorite, uh, like initial, like first recording pods with you is when that, that one night where we did it really late into the night. Do you remember that? And so we did another one. Yes. We're like,

we're feeling it. Let's just go again. again because you were you were leaving like we were both on vacation or something yeah we were gone two weeks of july and you were gone the other two weeks of july yeah so it was tough to make it happen we went after it and we didn't get done till like three in the morning it was a great one though but it was fun a little earlier tonight 10 p.m it's uh i've actually already i already recorded one podcast today with Trey. How dare you? The Correct Opinions podcast. And then we shot a video together where I got to be on camera. We did like a reaction video to these like really cringy TikToks.

Camera was rolling for like 35 minutes on that. So I've I've already had to be funny for a lot of time today. I don't know if I got much left. Oh, you got more than tank. OK, we got you some electrolytes. You're good. OK, yeah, I believe you. Um, you'll be all right, maybe I'm off my inches, but my Tommy gun down. That's my favorite part, but my Tommy gun don't. What have you done today, Brad? Um, not as much as you for sure. Uh, I went and watched primetime

with Isaac, which if, if you didn't hear this before, I'm going to say it again. NFL primetime is the greatest thing you can watch on TV. If you are a sports fan, specifically a football fan, because these days there is no good highlight show out there except for NFL primetime sports center is total crap. Excuse me for my language. I know it's a family podcast. We'll edit it out. Um, but it's just not good. But NFL primetime is just like pure, like 2003 highlights, you know, style show. And it's awesome. They have very, very little talking back and forth and it's just awesome highlights. So, um, so we watched NFL primetime. I helped Isaac with some woodworking plans and whatnot. He's trying to get this really big order,

which could be really exciting for him. Yeah. Um, there's some backstory to that that we could talk about later, I guess if, if it comes up again, but, um,

and then we went to Chick-fil-A for lunch. And I was there. I saw Jake there and I, I'm not gonna lie. I felt, I felt a little bit like, um, you know, somebody who might come home to another man in their bed. Yeah. I felt like I'd got caught. I was like, Oh my gosh, this is in our booth. No less. No, you weren't, you weren't in our booth. You were in high chair. That's what, that's how I knew that you were, you were not, not thinking of

me. You know, uh, this was completely different. So, uh, anyway went to chick-fil-a uh from there you don't have to tell me everything you did i didn't say every single thing i did today i'm just saying like give me some highlights like what'd you do today that's that's that's good when when what looked at christmas lights tonight with hattie and katherine oh nice that was fun too i won't i won't say anything else i'm sorry you know i'm just like gosh i just like i i ate i had breakfast i had lunch had breakfast, I had lunch, you know, I even had dinner, but I was just, I was kind of hitting the highlights. Went to the bathroom a few times. Sure. Which we kind of learned this week. You go to the bathroom way more than me. Yeah. Yeah. I think I, I drink a lot of liquids. We all know. That's true. It's probably pretty

adequate to liquids consumed. Actually, let me, let me tell you a little story about going to the bathroom real fast. Okay. So like I mentioned today, I was at Chick-fil-A for a while doing computer work. And so obviously I get refills while I'm there. So I have to go to the bathroom. And I've decided that I think I walk a little bit too much with a purpose sometimes for other people. Okay.

Let me tell you the two examples that made me come to this conclusion. Number one was there were these three girls and their mom, I'm assuming, um, they're like after school, like they're probably like five years old. And I was walking to the bathroom and I noticed one girl who wasn't even like the closest girl to me, like start leaning away as I was coming towards them to then like turn and go to the bathroom. Like I was like coming after her or something. Like, I think she was like nervous that I was walking towards her. Yes. Um, and that didn't really strike me that much until, uh, later on, I realized I was also walking with too much purpose. When I got done at the bathroom, I opened up the door to one of our good friends, uh,

and Chick-fil-A employees. Domi was taking a drink of water right outside of the bathroom door. I like nailed her on the head with my, with the bathroom door. She was taking a drink of water. Her water like flew onto her face. Oh my gosh. And I was like, Oh my gosh, Domi.

I am so sorry. She's like, it's okay. It's okay. No problem. She's like, she's like, how would you know?

How would you know that I was right here? I was like, that's true. It's pretty poor design of Chick-fil-A. They have like the lockers for the employees right next to the door like they kind of just hanging out there whenever they need to like get away but like i think i opened up the door a little fast and probably kind of hurt her uh and she let she like went home right after that probably coincidentally but i still felt really bad like she's like it's okay it's okay i'll see you

tomorrow i love how she said i'll see you tomorrow. Like she just assumes I'm going to be there. I mean, she's right. She's probably, yeah, I probably will. Yeah. Anyway, so I do go to the bathroom a lot, all that to say. I went multiple times to have those multiple incidences earlier. But yeah, I probably go number one seven times a day. Whoa. At least. Whoa.

At least. Wow. Not you? No. I've also heard, I've also heard the fact that like, if you hold it, you're more likely to not be able to hold it later on in life. So anytime I have the inkling, I'm like, might as well. So let's compare 30 years from now and see where we're at. Cause I might be hurting myself in the long run.

Yeah. I'm like, I'm like 15 deep already. It's only 3 PM. I shouldn't have held it in my 20s. I got kind of secondhand, but still recognized at Chick-fil-A today. Yeah. Trey always gets recognized every time we go to Chick-fil-A. But this time, I took note of her verbiage.

She said, hey, just want to stop there real quick. I love your guys' stuff. Yes. That's me. Yes. Plural. That's right. No clue if she even knew who I was. Very Midwestern of her, too say your guys i love your guys's stuff not y'all's i was like good

thank you yes thank you so loud thank you thank you that really means a lot to me jake triplet at triplet jake on instagram i'm so glad you said that i needed that thank you i was i was telling you last week i got uh recognized at chick-fil-A. Shout out to Rachel, who is a listener of the podcast, came up to me and she was like, Brad Ellis. And I looked at her and I thought, I didn't recognize this woman. I was like, oh, she must be somebody from church that I just didn't recognize or something. And she's like, yeah, you don't know me. I am a fan of the podcast. And I was like, oh, wow. Thank you so much. And then I walked away from her. And later on, apparently another girl recognized me and asked the manager like, hey, does that guy fan of the podcast and i was like oh wow thank you so much and then i walked away from her and

later on apparently another girl recognized me and asked the manager like hey does that guy have a podcast with jake triplet and so yeah you got recognized again right there chick plays the place to be it's the plug so if you are in kansas city and looking for uh podcast celebrity sighting definitely come to the chick-fil-a on mission Road. Yeah, we'll be there. I'm sorry, in Mission on Metcalf. Yeah, yeah, we'll be there. Anyway, you probably saw the title of this episode. We've got a little bit of a purpose to it this time. We are going to be ranking

all of the Office Christmas episodes this week. We've done a bracket before. Brad made a good point. The tough thing about doing a podcast bracket is you have to keep talking about the same thing you already talked about, like four different times. It makes it the championship. You're like, I don't know what else to say about this.

It's good. It's really good. That's why it's in the championship. Like I already mentioned everything. Right. Like maybe a podcast is better for like an interactive thing with viewers or something, but yeah, I'm sorry. I bracket.

I knew what you meant. I'm so sorry. You guys. Sorry, you guys. It's 10 o'clock. I love your guys' stuff, but I am sorry. So I don't know the best way to do this. Should we just mention an episode and then we each say where we ranked it?

Or should we just both start at the bottom of our list? I think those are our two options. You decide. Maybe we should just go chronologically one way or the other and just say where we ranked it from there. Okay, great. So yeah, do you have an opinion on chronological one through seven, I guess? Let's start from the back. Great.

The Belschnickel, Dwight Christmas. Great. Brad, where did you rank it and why? I ranked it, I actually haven't officially ranked them yet. Oh my gosh. One job, just kidding, I'll start. I actually ranked the Belschnickel episode

as my least favorite. Okay. I'll start. I actually ranked the Belschnickel episode as my least favorite. Okay. I, uh, and also one thing I did, I watched them all over the course of the last two weeks and we both did a good job even without talking about it, which is kind of funny. We both took notes, which is funny. And I, I didn't take notes while I watched it. I took notes later. Sorry. What? You showed me your notes. Yeah. I took notes, but not like while I watched it. Oh, okay. Sorry. I took notes like right before we recorded. Okay.

So part of my notes is I wrote down the best line of every episode, or at least my favorite line. So my favorite line from the Belschnickle episode is Dwight trying to make an excuse for Reyes to leave the room. And he says, I have to go to my car to take a dump. I have to go to my car to take a dump. So good. So funny.

But yeah, overall, it ranks as my least favorite Office Christmas episode. Okay. You're going to find out pretty quickly that just as seasons go on is how I feel about the Office. So like the later seasons, I just don't like. So I think I was going to rank this one sixth out of seven Christmas episodes. So I'm going to keep with that, I guess, just to disagree with you a little bit, but I'm kind of on the same page. Like it's not that it's not funny. Like it's a really, I really liked the idea of Belschnickel. I think that's

like, Oh, like what if we had Dwight be this German Santa Claus? But like Catherine kind of mentioned it earlier, actually, like whenever he like hits Jim and like, like that's, that's supposed to be funny. Like's not funny yeah to me um one of my least favorite character moments of anyone in the show is when daryl is supposedly drunk and mad at jim also not funny such a terrible job of being drunk even as an actor he does a bad job being drunk and like when he falls down on the table not funny slapstick humor don't dig it you know know me. I do sometimes enjoy that. You'll slap the stick from time to time. But not when it's like so random and unnecessary

that it's just bad. He's such an angry drunk and. I literally wrote down drunk Daryl was not funny. Oh wow. I wrote down Toby and Nellie kissing was bad. I said episode centered around Angela and the party planning committee forgetting about the party completely. That's how it all starts. Like, hey, the Christmas party is today. Angela's like, no, it's not. There's no way that would happen. Not on Angela's watch. No, no.

The only other thing I wrote down that I didn't like is I felt like Jim was overly excited. They wrote Jim's lines to be like, all right, we want you to be really excited about this. The first 15 minutes of that episode, every time Jim's on camera, he's like, yes, so excited. Yes. Bell Schnickel.

And it just, it's the same thing over and over. And as I watched it back, I was like, I think he's a little over the top with this. Like we want Jim to be a fan of Dwight's crazy antics. In my opinion, that's just the last two seasons of the office in general. It's just like overacting, decently poor writing. Yeah. And just like trying to be poor. I mean, like, like like there's there's certain

parts where like okay it's kind of funny but like overall it's just not the same um yeah and like jim leaves and then comes back and we're supposed to be like a huge part of the episode i like that i like when he came back but but like that that storyline should not have ever really happened like that wasn't that interesting of a storyline to me. He missed his wife. I know. But if you had enough good material in the episode, you would not be making that a big thing for him to leave and come back. They took way too much time on that for me.

Pete and Aaron, are we supposed to root for them? Are we not supposed to root for them to get together? Aaron's dating somebody else. Yeah. Do we like, oh, Aaron should cheat on him. But it's also like he's being rude to her i don't know um when the last thing i wrote down i so you know but just a quick summary i have kind of a special way a special access that i can watch the office oh my gosh and basically i have a way to watch the office where the original way it was written like the deleted scenes that

are now taken out and deleted are in the show where they were supposed to be in the show so typically the office is 22 minutes when i watch an episode of the office it's usually like between 28 and 30 minutes because the deleted scenes are in there it's really cool um and this one especially more than any episode i've ever watched in this way i it was i was like this was awesome and it was plop uh going hard like doing the die hard thing like it's it's a very much extended thing and he's doing this entire one man scene like aaron left the room and he's doing it all by himself and it's awesome like he legitimately does a great job playing like three characters it's really funny like dang i wish more people could see this like i don't know if it needs to be in the episode

but it was really awesome that's probably that is interesting like i was just thinking about deleted scenes like rarely get seen anymore like back in the day you had uh the dvds and now it's like that's the only advantage to getting a hard copy i feel like is that you can see deleted scenes of stuff i'm sure they're out there somewhere but very rarely yeah it was awesome because every episode there's always a few things i'm like okay i can see why that didn't make the cut or right okay that was kind of a funny line surprised it didn't but this was like oh my gosh plop like i'd like he showed like that was he showed off his acting chops there more than any other place in the office yeah because he's a pretty forgettable character yeah but he did great acting out die hard so if you have access to was it season nine

deleted scenes maybe it's in there fun fact never seen die hard me neither okay good i would probably i have the desire to watch it i just don't it's not on netflix or anything so that's okay okay next episode christmas wishes okay where'd you rank it uh i ranked it as number seven really behind yeah oh yeah i disagree okay i just think andy is so unlikable like they just make i'm really kind of frustrated that's like that's like one of my poultry is with uh the office is how unlikable they made andy because for a while he was like so lovable such a great guy then all of a sudden he just gets worse and worse and he's not the he's not the main guy that they want him to be he's not the next michael scott they tried to make him the michael a little bit And it was just not, it didn't work. They tried way too hard to make him into this incompetent Michael type guy.

So yeah, I just didn't think it was very funny. I thought maybe I would change my ranking six and seven here because I did like Jim and Dwight trying to prank each other okay. You know, they try to like, hey, if one of you guys pranks the other one, then you lose your Christmas bonus or something. That's a funny idea. The execution just wasn't very good again. I thought it was decent when Dwight does take the bait with the credit card,

but then buys Pam flowers. Yeah. Not very funny to me. Like, fine. Oh my gosh. You're being so critical. I'm trying to be. This is a TV. I mean, yeah. Until we've written a TV show, I don't know how critical we can be of our favorite TV show. Well, you can be critical comparing it to other seasons of The Office. Okay, that's fair. I'm not saying like, oh my gosh, I could write such a funnier show.

Totally not saying that. I'm just saying like that, similar to like Dwight's Belschnickel German idea. It just wasn't, it was a good idea that wasn't carried out as well as I feel like it could have been. That's my opinion. No, it's a good idea that wasn't carried out as well as I feel like it could have been. That's my, hey, that's my opinion. No, that's okay. I'm a big believer. I tell this to everyone, like people who ask for advice, like ideas are easy. Anyone can come up with ideas. The hard part is executing your ideas.

A lot of people have ideas for YouTube channels. A lot of people have ideas for whatever, their blog, but executing it is what separates the good from the very good. So I'm with you. That's deep. That's good. Write that down. Put it on a t-shirt.

Okay. T-shirt idea. Execution is the hard part so i wrote down christmas wishes is number four for me yeah i kind of liked it okay i thought aaron being drunk was awesome no no no way better so not funny it was awesome oh my gosh i don't i don't think drunk people are funny in shows i don't think ever though really ever there's nothing they can do to be funny? Not necessarily. I don't know. I'm sure that's too extreme. You're right. But I can't think of something right now specifically.

It's pretty funny when she's like shoving Andy and Jessica's faces together and just like kiss. It was awkward. It was, it was successfully awkward. Yeah. I think she does a good job just like being a drunk, drunken love and drunk of alcohol. Yeah. I also loved the, uh, trans Siberian orchestra montage. You're kidding. I wrote that. I wrote that down as trans Siberian orchestra montage seemed like another filler slash time waster. Oh, it was awesome. Oh, man.

Because it didn't feel like it was in The Office. It felt like a different show. And I liked it. See, that's probably why we, that's like my fundamental difference with it. That's why I don't like it. What are the fundamentals? Like, I loved The Office from day one. And I think you did too.

But like, and so it just didn't feel like the same show to me. I loved it. My best line of Christmas wishes is just at the end of the montage when dwight just screams christmas yeah i just thought it was awesome i really really enjoyed like um yeah just them giving each other these nice gifts which is a really sweet moment but with intense trans-siberian orchestra music going on in the background like this is awesome this is fun for me to watch yeah i dig it There were some really nice moments in this episode, which I really enjoyed. Because a lot of these Christmas episodes, there's a lot of drama, a lot of things that aren't that great.

And so, you know, Daryl almost unknowingly tricks whatever her name is, girl, into wearing a really nice dress. But then he comes around at the end and dresses up into tux. And that was a great moment. And then also you really think you know sketchy slimy robert is gonna go home and take advantage of aaron and we found out he didn't take advantage of aaron yeah which not that that should someone should be judged good for you you didn't take advantage yeah good this this 50 year old man didn't yeah but the way the episode was

set up it it came across as like a nice moment and so because of those i was like this ranks higher for me than some other ones so it's number number four okay man that's good christmas wishes okay so next one would be classy christmas okay which is the one where holly comes back that's about it that's not about it but this is where we find out toby has uh jury duty and he's gonna be jury duty holly's gonna be coming back daryl's daughter is there. Yes. They plan this whole party. And then once Michael finds out Holly's coming, scraps it all. Right. Because they have to have it all for Holly.

I chose this one as number five for me. I did too. I was number five. Look at us. Yeah. Sexiest podcast on the same page. I didn't really love the snowball fighting. Okay.

I didn't think... Kind of... I didn't think you have to if you say it if you say it slowly it does not make it more appropriate jake mother um i didn't like i get why it's a fun idea oh it's just a dusting jim's gonna prove it's not just a dusting but hitting him in the face too far too far too far i think that's uh yeah kind of mean hitting someone in the face is a little much and then it started this thing and he got in too deep but he couldn't take it yeah sorry jimbo i kind of agree i think that it's a funny idea i guess like i'm gonna be a broken record by saying that i guess it's funny idea that wasn't that funny like overall execution but um it just wasn't believable at times which like i feel like the

office that's what's so great about it is that so much of it is like so relatable like i can't relate to somebody taking a lacrosse stick and trying to throw it at why get this lacrosse stick yeah trying to throw it at dwight and then miss and break a window with it like that was very unrealistic also we've never heard of jim playing lacrosse like he just has a lacrosse stick and that's not jim's personality to be like so flustered to like do something so extreme i agree that was usually very cool about his pranks mild-mannered jim's what they call in you know whatever you want sitcoms everything he's the straight man he's the one that you relate to because like he's thinking rashly that's how i would think right you know and dwight is the fool

and you know you've got all these character roles maybe that's part of like when you know the overacting started coming in was around this time maybe because yeah i just don't like that i um i i love the shot though at the end of the snowball fight with dwight on top of the roof looking down at jim freaking out maybe the best snowball yeah one at all it's fear yeah i think that part is awesome. Yeah. That's pretty great. Like the shot of him looking down and just like the, you can see his breath. Yeah. It's a good shot.

Uh, Daryl and his daughter. I think that part is so bad. Like this is where they go to the vending machine. That, that part's the one kind of sweet part, but like they go on the scavenger hunt with Andy, you know, down in the warehouse and then all of a sudden they just, yeah. Like that was a time waster. That was a filler. Like why'd they show that?

Andy just like dresses up, puts all this effort into it, then just gives her the star. Right. Yeah. It was a double, it was a double episode. So maybe they were just trying to fill some time there. But yeah, that part was just, yeah. Like I was watching, I was like, wait, this is the end of, he's like, yeah, you found the star. It's like yeah you found the star

it's behind my very ear i'm like i don't know i did like the uh plot line of aaron just disliking holly for like kind of a random no reason i'm sorry i just i don't see it is she a great cook or something that's a great lie to me um I don't see. That is really funny. Also. Oh, sorry. You go. You go. The part wherever Holly comes in and she's like, oh, I just love what you've done with the plays.

And Michael starts kind of start talking like flamboyantly and gay or whatever. And he's like, don't you just love it? Isn't it wonderful? And they show Oscar. And then Oscar like kind of is offended obviously by that and starts walking away. And like okay let me go to my desk he's like yes let me let me show you through your desk you know it's like talking in a mexican accent and oscar's like walking away he like turns around again to be offended twice i think that was really really funny show you through your desk so that is funny i couldn't be this is the only episode i couldn't decide between my best line because

they're two great one-liners the first one is from andy if my grandma ever dies i'm going to kill myself uh that's just so that's that's good writing that's funny and then the second one is michael i love anytime michael is like laughing or crying anything like hyper emotional michael's so funny to me in his line. Yeah. Well, at least he was married. I can barely get it out.

Yeah. At least he was married. Oh, so funny. That is a good one. Oh man. Any other thoughts on that episode? Um,

I had one that I just said, Holly lying to AJ about like what happened to Woody and how he got ruined and stuff. Gave the, gave the viewer hope that hey maybe maybe that that Michael still has a chance with yeah that was awesome that was a big moment that fired me up yeah so they did a good job of building that scene up like oh what she's gonna right they're gonna find out it's gonna like hey Michael you don't deserve her anymore like we love you as as a character we all know you we love you but you screwed this up yeah

it's it's not yours anymore man this other guy seems like a good guy you're done aj does seem like a good guy yeah he does i miss him so what's next the next one uh would be the third one fourth one and his secret santa um what do you mean by fourth one sorry one two three four i don't think it would be season four seven sorry yeah just the fourth uh of the of in the lineup oh okay secret santa i don't know what season it is it's okay we'll just talk about him where's michael oh it's my third okay uh do we wanted to give a quick synopsis for people that might not remember? Sure, go for it. Secret Santa, Phyllis dresses up as Santa. Michael's like, no, I'm dressing up as Santa.

They don't want Michael to be Santa anymore, so he decides to go back in, change his outfit to be Jesus, comes back out, and that's about it. Oh, and Andy also does the 12 Days of Christmas as his Secret Santa gift to Aaron. Whoever is my Secret Santa, please stop. It is a funny, like, that's like a little bit unbelievable, obviously, but that's hilarious idea. Yeah.

Just give them a very Andy move. Yeah. That was, that was the peak of Andy's likability in my opinion. Yeah. Um, was that like the moment, the, the scene wherever he comes out with 12 drummers drumming, like I want to, I want to be him in that scene. When he starts dancing around. Doing the running man in the snow.

With the cymbals. It's so good. It's like, oh man, I love him. I want him to get Aaron so bad. It's my number three. It was also my number three. Okay. Best line is when Michael is Jesus, Toby toby walks in ah the antichrist my favorite

line was when he goes uh david guess who i'm on the guess who i'm dressed up as right now this is great he's like i don't want to guess you either tell me wherever he goes his last name is christ he has the power of flight he can heal leopards he can heal leopards i love how he he didn't just end at his last name is christ like there's other people with the last name of christ you're gonna want some more information and so oh he could fly like that part is so funny to me i think and i've said this before many many times but watching the office when i was still in high school at a somewhat early age yeah i think completely played into shaping my sense of humor i think in the the way mainly Creed and Michael, like that way of being funny of being like giving too much information. Like that's a joke in itself.

Like that is a way to be funny. And then like barely messing up the information by saying leopards instead of leopards. Like that is funny. And I think I just like subconsciously took all that joke within a joke kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Especially Creed too. The more I've been like looking at Creed and thinking about all the lines he has i'm like i think i got a lot of my sense of humor from creed that's awesome just like those little like quick throw them in there like the right time kind of thing for i love them but uh yeah secret santa it ends so good there's another great montage in that episode uh and then it's it's happy too you find out the office isn't going under. Yeah. That's kind of a big thing in the episode. It's like they got bought out.

They all might be leaving. No, we're not. We're good. Just upper management. Right. Although it is funny. It's like, is it that episode? It's like I find it hard to imagine a scenario where David Wallace loses his job and Meredith Palmer keeps it.

No offense. No, I get it. No, I get it. Yeah. I think it's funny whenever he's like forcing Ryan to like sit on his lap lap he's like i need this i need this uh anyway but yeah the big thing for me like 12 drummers drumming was like iconic yeah like it was cool they did that you know because that probably cost him a lot of money get these guys to come out and drum you know but it was like worth it we're gonna do this for the shot yes yeah it was great okay next one okay next one is moroccan christmas okay where yeah phyllis

is the head of the party planning committee because she has dirt on angela the fact that angela is kind of uh sleeping around with dwight even though she's engaged to andy and uh meredith gets very inebriated and sets her hair on fire, doesn't she? That's correct. And so they have an intervention for her. And then at the end of the episode, Phyllis does out Angela. Yeah. And calls her bluff.

Yeah. Calls her bluff. So this was my fourth best. Okay. This was six for me. Really? Yeah. Tell me about it.

It was most of the overall tones in this episode were just like sad or upsetting. Okay. Just like all, all the subplots of this episode, you know, it was like, um, it's very dark. I mean, yeah, they're having to have an intervention because one of their employees is an alcoholic. Right. She is completely like ignorant to the fact that she is an alcoholic. Doesn't want to hear anyone out. Um, doesn't want to go to rehab,

even though Michael drags her in. That part's hilarious. I have a deposit. I have a deposit. Phyllis is just like so bossy and mean to Angela the whole time. And then you do find out, well, everyone but Andy finds out

he's being cheated on. He walks in the room, none the wiser, playing that stupid instrument. Duff Groud. The sitar. Yeah. And you just feel bad for him. Yeah, he's like, ooh.

Yeah, yeah. I feel really bad for Andy at the end. Yeah, it's just, I don't know. It's kind of just like a sad episode. It was still funny, but when you compare them, it was just way sadder than most. I understand.

Like there was very few people that were having fun in that episode. Yeah. That makes sense. Michael being a bartender was funny. I really like that. I called it one of everything. Or what he called juice or orange vodka wow um yeah i yeah it's not the greatest for me either but i think there was a lot of strong um roles for like

supporting people and supporting cast in that like meredith phyllis and angela all had like big roles yeah they were the big big players which were kind of like that was kind of a defining thing i think potentially my favorite line of this one was uh they're in the circle talking and they get so off track you know at one point yeah you find out that michael's reading from like the mormon church like intervention thing have you ever where'd you get this of alcohol yeah question the teaching the mormon church and then they're like jim and dwight i love the back and forth of uh now i don't remember what they're talking about dwight's talking about a fire jim's like well you need a permit for that uh and that'll take several days and then my favorite line is creed uh is

i can get you one in an hour that just comes out of nowhere and i think it's so funny and then the deleted scenes they get off track even more and it's really funny. I mean, they just keep not talking. Do you think they were just improvising it the whole time? I think maybe so. They were just, the furthest thing from Meredith's alcohol addiction

and just keep talking about the most random stuff. It's pretty funny. In that same conversation, Michael says, what's going to happen if you come, he says something like,

if you come to work and you're dead or something like that. That's my favorite line in the whole thing. He goes, I'll stab her in the head with the wooden stick zombies can come in many sever in the brain i think something like that um i also just remember the deleted scene this is like pretty sad so yeah it's moroccan christmas they're all

supposed to take off their shoes it's the deleted scene is toby coming in to the main area of the office and phyllis is like take off your shoes he's like do we have to and she's like it's moroccan christmas you can tell he doesn't want to he finally takes him off and you see he has these giant just like holes in his socks it just makes him look really like poor and trashy and he's obviously very embarrassed about the holes in his socks and so i'm glad they left it out and like yeah he's not gonna expect to take his shoes off at work yeah um another couple of things I think I really liked about this episode was a great prank where Jim wraps Dwight's desk, but it's not really there.

And so he goes to sit down. I think it took a little bit less than that. Yeah. He goes to sit down on his chair and just falls over. Like that slapstick physical humor is funny to me when it's kind of situational humor. And then also, what was i gonna say oh we you you put this on our instagram story the other day ghost runners podcast um but andy's kind of brag bragamony brag testimony that's right that's right where he's like used to have like they would they would kick me out if i let it affect my grades

but got straight b's they called me buzz you know all jobs people's empties you know whatever he would say all these different random things and I think that was that's a great little monologue so some of the things I really liked about that were were there so okay only two left and we both have our one and two left so that's cool that we yeah we're on the same page yeah we're on the same page which is awesome yeah you would be crazy not to be that was yeah uh okay so next one benihana christmas a double feature um two two-parter um basically michael uh breaks up with his girlfriend karen karen carol carol break carol carol carol yeah michael after he's broken up with himself in the skiing picture. Which is just amazing. It's so unbelievable.

Michael's character is written so well that it's just barely believable. It's just hilarious. He gets really upset so they go to this Benihana restaurant and he brings back these two Asian waitresses with him

and kind of goes from there. They have a little office Christmas party. Oh, Jim, or Karen and Pam have their own office Christmas party that competes with Angela's. Yeah, yeah, that is fun. So anyway, what's this one for you? Number two. Me too, dude.

Nice. Okay, okay. On your feet. On your feet back there. Get up. We're the same. Four out of the seven. We ranked the exact same that's awesome show me show me toilet podcasters out there coming in blind rank in the office episodes i guarantee you the wheat boys you know yeah western kansas aren't doing the sexy wheat boys

no chance the sweet boys sexy sweet boys oh shoot they're farming and they grow it. Nice. Yeah. I think my favorite line of this one was you're telling me Stevie Wonder can't love his wife just because he's not sure what she looks like after Michael is being questioned for marking his girlfriend. That is good. I love the I love a lot of parts about this. But what he's talking about, like she's your ho no mo. I think that's a really good line. Or when he's like, I knew within the first, or he's like, you know, they say you can know within the first 24 hours. I knew within the first 24 minutes of the second day

that I met you, something like that. The whole exchange between Dwight not being able to hear them. Hey, what's going on? Yeah, Catherine loves that part. Yeah, I think that's funny. Like the part or the scene, like kind in in that the the monologue between Dwight and the Benihana chef where he's like uh what kind of knife you using using the Nikiri or something

like that and he's like Suba no actually it's Soba yeah oh but you wish he had a Nikiri and he's like go back and forth and actually Suba is better yeah yeah yeah no no no I think Nikiri's better and then this woman this random woman sitting next to Dwight because he's like go back and forth and actually suba is better yeah yeah no no no i think the carry is better and then this woman this random woman sitting next to dwight because he's not sitting next to everybody else goes i think he would know and katherine always thinks that part is so funny i never thought of that as being that funny i didn't either until you but it's kind of funny like when you watch it with somebody else and they find things funny it's like that helps okay that is funny i loved uh what's happening she's asleep narcolepsy narcolepsy and then later oh she's trying to describe how to uh got a goose oh yeah whatever something

about the innards yeah i mean lots of blood and innards i want to get a bucket oh shoot yeah this is like still when andy is really really vying and battling like dwight for michael's affection and so he's like we gotta take her take him to benihana you know all this stuff he's being such a suck up yeah exactly it's uh it's yeah it's all around great episode i mean it's classic the mark in the arm is iconic everyone knows that right that's so funny and then jim and michael's moment at the end is really cool too it's kind of a real moment jim starts to poke fun of michael a little bit he's like stop you're making fun of me jim acknowledges that he's's like, you're right. But then they still laugh. And he's like, yeah, but you rebounds are fun. But, you know, they never.

Yeah. You're still wishing you had the person you wanted. And it's this allegory for Jim and Pam. Yeah. So it's like, OK, Jim still he's not he's not content with Karen, which who would be? I mean, have you even seen Pam or Karen from behind? Karen from behind. So, yeah. seen pam or karen from behind karen from behind um so yeah okay so the number one episode for

both of us was the original christmas party yankee swap well i call it fun it's just i love this one so much because you're it's what like season two i think it is season you're still very much getting to know these characters i feel like you really get to know like creed and meredith and it's like a coming out party in a way right these different characters totally it's so fun oh yeah you find out whoa creed is weird he very weird like it's starting when you're finding out meredith takes her top off which is like i remember that being so uncomfortable watching that part but now it's like oh that's part of who she is right that definitely like helped define the rest of her role you meet bob vance and that's what he does, the Bob Vance refrigeration.

Which I think is the greatest marketing ploy of all time because I think he did that specifically whenever he was on camera for whenever he knew he was getting filmed for The Office. Every single time he would say something, Bob Vance. Wait, what? I don't think he introduces himself to some random guy in a restaurant

whenever the cameras aren't recording and says, hey, I'm Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration. I think he only did restaurant whenever the cameras aren't recording and says hey i'm bob vance vance refrigeration i think he only did that when the cameras were rolling i see like the documentary character did that oh yeah correct correct yeah it's like he owns an actual business no no no no sorry it's there like in in fake life i think that was hilarious they did that you also get to know packer a little bit yeah he's in that episode. Yeah. So yeah, it's just, everyone's, everyone's there. Everyone's having a good time. Uh, moments between Jim and Pam are great in that episode.

That was like the first time you really think like, okay, this could actually come to something like become something like this love triangle thing. Cause like, it was like, okay, Jim obviously likes Pam,

but he's not going to do anything about it. Cause Pam's engaged, but he pot, he's going for it. Yeah. Um, then you find that. Yeah.

That note. Right. What did He's going for it. Yeah. Then you find that, yeah, that note. Right. What did he say in the note? Yeah. This was like one of the episodes I remember actually buying on iTunes for like, you know, $4.99 or whatever it was at the time, $3.99.

And watching on my video iPod that I had. It was like right when I first learned how to drive. I was like 16 years old. I remember watching this. I went to go get pizza for my family or something. And I don't know why, but I was like way in the parking lot watching this. That's awesome. And then they get a video iPod.

Yes, which I think is also hilarious. I want to talk about this a little bit. The video iPod thing, like it's so funny how coveted that was. I guess it would be like around 2006. You know, so 13 years later, it's like iPods. Do they even make iPods anymore? I don't know. Maybe, but it's like no one wants, like, unless you're.

It happens so fast. Unless you're 12 or under, you don't need an iPod. Yeah. And it's crazy. So it's like, what today is going to be in 13, 15 years, whatever, just so obsolete that it's like laughable. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Like, is it, I don't know. I hope it's like aable. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like as in, I don't know. I hope it's like a phone charger or something cool like that. Sure. It's hard to understand or comprehend how that could be, but I hope in 10 years we laugh that we used to have to charge our stuff. Or like phone cases even like, oh, we laughed that we had to have cases on our phone. That's probably more likely. Because it's like so indestructible now.

I don't know. Maybe that's more of a fashion thing. I don't know. Or like AirPods. Like, well, no, you're always going're always gonna have it you're always gonna have some kind of headphones uh i don't know my favorite line in this episode was when michael uh convinced that he uses and he explains reverse psychology you know he gets the oven mitt stolen from him and just the line is Mine is just one word. Sucker! It's still a problem. It's so good. Oh, man.

This is like not really a line, but one of my favorite like little subtle things. First of all, they do a lot of little subtle things like transitioning from scene to scene, which I wish they would have continued to do. Like whenever Dwight's like, whenever I think it's Oscar and Kevin are trying to lift this desk and move it. He pushes him into the wall. He's like, do you have a hand truck? And he's, you guys should use a hand truck. like they're whenever i think it's oscar and kevin are trying to lift this uh desk and move it pushes them into the wall he's like do you have a hand truck and he or you guys use a hand truck and kevin's like do you have one no and that's like the end of the scene that's it and then uh angela

is trying to like fold out this tablecloth on the the conference room table for the party and she's struggling and she just goes like to pam she just goes will you help me please or something like that and that's the end of the scene. Like, I wish they had more like random things like that, but yeah. Great character development from the get go. Like kind of showing you these people are right. Right.

Creed's gift is just an old shirt. He found in his closet. Right. Angela is very tightly wound, but also weirdly likes these things about babies. But my favorite, like little subtle thing they do is Dwight wearing those elf ears. He's like,

Michael, I would like to be the elf. Yeah. Cause he has elfish features. And then Dwight, like the, the, this comedy is like,

I don't know, not so advanced, but like the comedy of it seems like it's like very calculated. Like he starts having this little monologue Dwight does, but you can't see him yet. Even though, you know, he's about to like,

like they were just talking about his elfish features and he starts talking and then they show him with these elf ears. i think it's just so funny like it's just like it's just perfect timing how they don't just like pan to him right away having these revealed right like a sentence or two deep right exactly it's just like that's such a little thing that i think makes it so much funnier um that's great you're good at like picking up on little things like that in the office because that's what what I think. Like I enjoy those little subtle things that are like, yeah, they, cause you know that those people work very, very hard on every single second of that show to add those little things in there. Right. So it's like, yeah, you, you know, that stuff's not just

on accident. Like that's very intentional. So, um, yeah, I remember whenever the guy, Michael's at the liquor store and he he's like is this enough to get you know 20 people drunk he's like 15 bottles of vodka yeah that should do it i remember at the time like being so ignorant i don't know like i was like yeah that's an honest question yeah i was like i don't know what that how much that is turns out it's a lot that'll do um so yeah that's that's pretty much all i have i just think i i went homemade for my secret santa this year um with somebody and that was kind of fun for our friend peter but i wonder if in his head he was like man i wish i would have gotten you know that candle over there because i made

him a nightstand or maybe he wanted like airpods he wanted you to go over the limit and get him something like on the cutting edge technology technology. Somebody went really overboard. With the Christmas spirit this year. I love you this many dollars worth. Anyway. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed that, you know, kind of our second episode we've done here after 32 of them, of kind of ranking Office episodes and talking about them. So let us know with a five-star review.

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So let's just see what they are. Can you remind people real quick? Because I don't know if I could explain it very well. How do we access or how do we do voice memos? Like how do people post them to us? Yeah, that's a good point. There's a link in our description of this episode and just follow that and i think you have to like enter in your email or something you don't have to like log into any kind of app or something but i think it does ask for your name

and email okay and then you just use your phone right then and there do it from your phone and it has to be under 60 seconds and it'll get sent to us that's that's a big thing because i know a lot of people have been like i've gotten cut off a few times yeah uh so that's a big thing because I know a lot of people have been like, I've gotten cut off a few times. Yeah. So that's a good advice. Yeah, cynicism. We love them. Hey, Jake and Brad. This is JC from Atlanta. I'm a second grade teacher and I just convinced my class a couple weeks ago that I was a mermaid and it got me wondering,

is there anything your parents tricked you with growing up or, Brad, as a father is there something you aspire to trick Hattie into or I don't know just to be a little ornery did your parents ever trick you that's funny that reminds me of uh Parks and Rec whenever she says ornery uh and Perkins goes uh old people can be pretty ornery and Andy goes I think it's pronounced horny that is funny anything ornery. And Andy goes, I think it's pronounced horny. That is funny. Anything ornery that your parents did. Can you think of anything off the top of your head? I could not.

The first thing I thought of when she was saying like making stuff up at camp, that was a pretty normal thing just to make stuff up to your counselors or sorry to the campers. Yeah. You say anything and they believe you. That's so funny. Cause we were like taught very strictly. Do not lie to them. Oh really?

Because there were some stories. One of them being from my friend Cookie back before I worked there, that he said he convinced all his kids that he was a professional wrestler. I love that. We had little 7 to 11-year-old kids, so they believed everything very innocently. And we had middle schoolers. Yeah, maybe it's a little different. And so this kid went home. She's like, Mom, no.

He said he was a professional wrestler for WWE. It looked on there and stuff. So we were like, strictly like, do not lie to them about stuff like that. Unless you're like being like ridiculous character or something, but you can't just like say, you know, these crazy things. Yeah. That was never mentioned once. Like, Hey, let's try to limit the line, even though it's fun. Like they never did that.

It was just, it was like a deeper thing of like, Hey, it hurts your trust with them. Stuff like that. Gotcha. Yeah. I don't think i ever took it that far i would just you know i would tell them anything you know it was a bit more so like are you and kevin brothers you guys look like brothers we're twins you know just like adding on to something they probably already believe okay yeah stuff like that but anyway back to the question i don't i really can't remember my parents tricking meing me about anything. I don't really remember either. I remember Santa Claus. Sorry, I remember for the first... Hey, we got kids listening. Oh, okay.

I mean, St. Nicholas. That code? Yeah. Yeah. Nice. I remember one time when I was like six, we were watching Superman on TV, like the Superman TV show with Dean Cain.

And this ribbon, banner or whatever on the bottom said, Santa Claus has been spotted flying, you know, five miles away from you. So you guys need to go to bed. And my parents, they were all about it. Like, Hey, go to bed. Hey, you want to be here when he gets here, dude. Yeah. So beyond that, and that's one of those things that I think we're going to definitely talk like, Oh, look what Santa brought you Hattie, but we're not going to like do like the elf on the shelf. Like the elf can watch you. Have you heard about that?

Yeah. God's magic. Um, we're not going to talk about God's magic too much. So I did think of one thing, I guess technically it was kind of them tricking me. My parents for like probably like 16, 17 years,

like tricked me into believing that they were my real parents. I can't, I can't believe it. Like, like they, my dad, my dad got facial reconstruction surgery because he looks like very similar to me. It was very impressive. The links they went to, to, to make it seem like I wasn't adopted. Like you should have seen, like they have these birth reports. Um, they have a video actually of me, uh, and my mom, you know, on my,

on my first birthday. Um, that's a joke. I'm not adopted. And if you are, hey, leave a five star review and tell us how it's affected your life. We would really appreciate that. But thank you for the question, Jay, Jay,

Jay, Jay something from Atlanta, Jace. May, Mary? I'm going to go with Jaycee. I think it was Jaycee. Okay,

cool. Next one. Hi, Jake and Brad. This is Sarah from North Carolina, but I'm actually in Texas right now recording some interviews for a podcast for work um and I was just wondering what you guys have learned over there's more than 30 episodes of podcasting what has been your favorite part

what's something that you've just learned about podcasting through this experience um thank you guys so much for your show it's been so fun to listen to each Monday morning at work it makes me excited um sit in my cubicle all day. So thanks guys. That was an awesome voice memo. Introduce yourself, where she's from. She talked really fast. She asked a good question and then she was out of there. She's gone. She's done. Sarah, that was a voice memo of the week was that one. That was awesome. That was a great, great structure, great format, great speed. You go first. I haven't thought about the question at all. Let's see. Oh, I have a few thoughts. One of them I think is like a small thing that we changed is recording out here versus recording in the basement has made a difference for our

energy levels. I think. Yeah. Because before I think I was nervous, like Catherine's going to hear us and just be like, what the world are those guys doing down there? Would people tell me, like this has happened multiple times just in the past two weeks. Like, oh, I've been loving your podcast. And I'll be like, that's so cool that you listened to it. Like what episode are you on? I've only listened to the first six. I'm like, oh, those suck. oh those suck don't listen to just you wait we were like whispering for the first like 15 episodes we're just talking in normal voices yeah so podcast tip get to a place where you have the freedom to be as energetic as you explore the room explore the room yeah get to know the space um that's a good one brad keep going i think it was nice to start having a little bit of a

structure as well that was a good thing we definitely, we're not like super structured in our podcast. By no means are we structured. But we go into it like, okay, I guess we can do blanks of the week and voice. Like we have a little bit of like segments, quote unquote. And like, I remember my first episode where I was like, this is, I think pretty good is like, uh, the one where we did like the categories kind of thing where we had a game, basically, that was structured and planned out for more than two seconds beforehand. Definitely, we love improvising and being goofy and stuff, but it's nice to have a little bit of something to fall back on as well.

So that's another thing that I think we learned that was effective for us, right? Yeah, no, those are awesome. You're nailing this. Really plug that you want reviews, because then you can get number one in Thailand. Taiwan. Taiwan. Oh, we're done. To the Taiwanese out there, I am sorry on behalf of Brad. Say it in Taiwanese, please. No, there's no way to do that not offensively. I almost went for it. I made one noise. Learn how to censor yourself every once in a while i almost did uh

yeah those are all good i don't even know there's a lot i could say i guess especially on the back end of like podcasting and learning about um i guess like growing one or marketing one uh oh here's something i just thought i had this week good idea bad idea brad okay making like creating like in photoshop basically fake headlines about our podcast to try and pass around to people and like passing them off as real headlines great idea and all of our listeners would be in on it they would know that it's a fake headline yeah but we would like put it on facebook for our friends to put it on twitter put on instagram like whoa you know some maybe not like the new york times or something where they could research it but

something that looks legit. It would have to have some kind of title that like gives a lot of legitimacy. Like I want the purpose of this to be like, oh, wow, I've been seeing Jake, you know, be so annoying about this for the last seven months. Now I'm finally going to listen to it. Seven months? Have we been doing that long? I don't know. That would be a fun idea. I like it. I'm not a Photoshop guy though. So if anybody knows how to do it out there.

Yeah, I don't know what that headline would be, but just something like, new Ghostrunners, yeah, I don't even know what it would be. I'm not going to try to come up with it now. Yeah, in college, I used to like, anytime I would do like a party invite or something,

remember like Facebook? I guess they still do Facebook events. Like that's how you always invited people. In the description, I would always do a random like fake quote and I would tag it as Pope John Paul II. Like this is the greatest party I've ever literally ever been to. Yeah. Pope John Paul II.

And then one time one of my friends who was Catholic was like, dude, you got to stop doing that. That's really offensive. And I was like, oh, come on. Like, that's really funny. So I love the idea of fake headlines. That's okay. Yeah.

Something to think of. Great idea. I feel like I should give some answer because I just, I haven't given any answer to this so far. Uh, I'll do another one. Okay. If you're, if you're still thinking, don't, don't think, don't think about me though. Just, um, I remember one of our first episodes, one of our friends, Clayton was like, honestly, it's just not very funny. And on one hand I was like a little bit hurt by that, obviously like, okay, dude, thank you. But I think he was like, I know you guys are funny, but this podcast is not that funny.

But at the same time, like I think it is good for us to like remember like just to be ourselves and just to hope that funny things happen every once in a while rather than being like, hey, let's be really, really funny right now. Yeah. Because I think that is when it becomes less enjoyable for people when they don't think that we're being real. And that's why I think like, so that's the macro version is like, just be real and be yourself and just do whatever you enjoy doing.

And hopefully it'll translate to other people. Because it's not going to be nearly as enjoyable to listen to if it's somebody trying to do something that is not true to them or whatever. So that's another part that I would say. That was great. That gave me two things real quick. One, we had a conversation probably after like episode three or four. And I was like, cause we would be like, okay, we just did a podcast. Like what was that good? I have no idea what we just did. You would always be done. Like we'd get done with them and you'd be like, dude, that was great. Thank you. That was awesome. And I would always be like, I don't know if it was that good.

I'm always more critical, I think, but yeah. But I remember coming to you and I was like, Hey, I had a thought this week. Like so many people are listening to sermons. They're listening to NPR. They're listening to like this for a lot of people could be their one lighthearted podcast. So let's not be too critical of like anything that's like laugh out loud, funny or whatever. Like this is just like mindless for a lot of people. And as long as we're just like, yeah, being ourselves and having fun, like that is enjoyable. Yeah. I remember you telling me like, it doesn't have to be funny 24 seven. Like it just, yeah. Like podcasts are long. Like people listen to long podcasts all the time. So I'm cause I was a new podcast guy. Yeah. You hadn't even ever listened to a podcast

before you started one. Here we are now. Here we are, baby. Okay. Let's go on to the next one. Okay. Thank you for the question. Yeah. That was a really great question. Sarah, thank you. Hey, Jake and Brad. It's Hallie from Madison again. In last week's episode, Jake left me a voice memo in regards to my headlamp situation on the podcast, and I thought it'd be fun to respond. Here's Jake's message. Oh, sorry. Hey, this is Jake. First time caller from Kansas City, Missouri. Do you like walking in the dark with a headlamp? Tell me more about that. Well, thanks for your voice memo, Jake. It's always good to hear from first time callers. So in answer to your question, I do love walking in the dark with my headlamp. I have lived in Wisconsin for a long, long time and it gets dark here, but I finally bought a

headlamp this fall and I love it. You know how sometimes there's something really small and insignificant, but when you finally have it, it just makes your life so much better. You kind of wonder how you ever lived without it. That is how I feel about this goofy headlamp. Highly recommend it for any early morning or late night walkers out there. It is awesome. Thanks for taking my call last week, guys. Leave a voice memo for me anytime and I will gladly respond.

Love it. That was awesome. That was awesome. That was great. Included my own voice in her voice memo for me anytime and i will gladly respond love it that was awesome that was awesome that was great included my own voice in her voice memo that was really great inception that's great i'm so happy for you and your headlamp i'm glad you found that little trinket that brings you joy that's my favorite like gift like the criteria for a gift is like as long as it's like a small like i want like a small thing that is like the most luxurious version of that small thing. Like I want to get you a really, really nice. Yeah. Flashlight. Like a really sturdy head scratcher. Yes. Totally. Seriously though. Carbon fiber. You know, like, wow. I didn't realize that I needed this nice of a pencil until you got me

this and I will never go back to another, you know, I'm going pilot G2 every time, you know, for pens now, you know, stuff like that where where it's like because usually like when i give gifts or like my family asks for gift ideas it's like a 20 kind of more or less limit and so i can't be like oh i want airpods you know so um anyway i love love that i'm with you i'm with you i have i have a really nice headlamp that i won at last year's secret santa um and i don't use it very often, but when I do, it's like, this is so nice. I can see so much better than when I had this off, but you can't, you can't ever like look left and right. If you're, you know, in the morning or at night in the dark, because then you might

like look into somebody's like, imagine you're like sleeping and you see this like flashlight just go into your room, you know, and this woman's just like casually kind of looking around trying to, oh, look at the architecture on that house. Nope, she's just peeping, peeping Terry. I am so lost with, what is this scenario? Why are there multiple people that you could be looking at while they're sleeping? Okay, you're walking down the street.

The street? Oh, wait, I thought you were talking about you at Christmas. Now we're talking about this girl? Oh, I'm so sorry. Whoa. I'm just saying in general, headlamps are great for walking, like she says. Yes. So she says, but if she ever wants to look left and right, she better be careful because-

Now she's in the windows. Exactly. I'm with you now. I'm with you, I'm with you, I'm with you. Okay, okay, okay. Great. Thanks for the voice memo, times two. Hey, what's up, Jake and Brad? This is Bradaden from atlanta georgia um so i have a couple questions first um i'd love to hear a little debate um from you guys about which um artist is better so the group the beatles versus um justin bieber obviously the beatles are better but i do know that j likes Justin Bieber a lot better.

So I was just wondering if I could hear a little debate on that. Also, second question, I am a Patriots fan, and we all kind of know that they're going downhill a little bit, much to my dismay. And so since you guys are KC fans, I was just wondering what your pitch would be to somebody like me that might be looking to change up teams. So anyway, thanks so much for doing the podcast. Keep it up and check out my music history podcast, Tune Break.

See ya. Okay, first of all, you can't plug your own podcast in the voice memo. People pay for that privilege. Seriously. Like Creed, yeah. I have paid dearly. you can't plug your own podcast in the voice memo. People pay for that privilege. Seriously. Like Creed, yeah. I have paid dearly. You can't do that.

I'm a pretty normal guy. I do one weird thing. Yeah, appreciate the voice memo, but, you know, it's not the place to plug your stuff. Seriously, like elliscustomcreations.com is where you look at, you know, custom-made furniture for anybody within the Midwest. Not on the Ghost Runners podcast or Ghost Runnerspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublisherspublishersp Ridiculous. I say this to people a lot. Like there was a big argument if Kansas city or Wichita was better in college because there are people from both at K state. And I said, uh, it's like, that's like saying is New York city or Kansas city better? Like I'm not an idiot. Like I understand that they're both, they both have their qualities, but Kansas city is not

better than New York city. Okay. Justin Bieber is not even close to being as good as the Beatles. Justin, Justin freaking Bieber would not even be here without the Beatles. The Beatles are why music is the way it is today in so many ways, in so many ways, even like hip hop has origins within some things that the Beatles have done. So just, just get that out of here. And then Brighton,

Oh, you are not bringing your Patriots crap into my Chiefs kingdom now that we are good. You can't dominate for 20 years. And then right when we get the golden trial of the NFL, be like, hey, man, actually, I kind of want to be a Chiefs fan all of a sudden. Okay, like not very many things get me fired up, but that is like the most like, Oh, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't just, just stay where you are. I hope you're at least from new England. Did he

say that's the thing? He says he's in Atlanta. So it already seems like a fair weather fan in Atlanta. You know, I was, I was a Falcons fan that first half, and then just became a huge Tom Brady fan for the rest of my life. But he's kind of going downhill, so can you please let me on your bandwagon? No! Get out of here! It's pretty convenient the first time a team has beat the New England Patriots at home in December. He wants to switch fandom to the team that beat them. Right. The week afterwards. Give me a, oh boy, Brayden. What a coinkydink that is.

Hey, my name's Brayden, and my Spotify wrapped was Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Ariana freaking Grande, what else? Shawn Mendes, and who else? Drake. What is it? Drake. Drake. Is that good Drake, what is it? Drake, Drake. Is that good? Did I do it?

Oh, you want to get me fired up? I'll get fired up, huh? Go ahead. Defame the Beatles again. And then they come back by saying you want to be part of my chief's kingdom. Oh man, he packed a lot of my chief's kingdom. Oh man. He packed a lot of fire in 60 seconds. Brayden,

how did you do it? 52 seconds. That could be a challenge. Hey, voice memo challenge this week. Try to trigger me. Try to get Brad more fired up than that in one voice. I don't think it,

I don't think it's possible. Like normally I'm a pretty nice guy. I just, I hope he was joking about most of that i think he was probably joking about the beatles and justin bieber thing he did say he thinks the beatles are better he did i think he did say that so he's got a little bit of sense in him but i think he might legitimately have expected us to convince him to be a chiefs fan and we just said get out of here please do not be a Chiefs fan. Oh my gosh. That is convenient of him to want to switch teams the week after we beat him.

Golly. We have a friend who you watched a Chiefs playoff game with. Oh my gosh. And it was like a demoralizing loss to the Patriots. Was it the Patriots or was it the Steelers? I don't remember. Do you remember that? Go on.

It wasn't the team. No. But it was like a demoralizing loss and you had a big party and it ended up being like two guys and like all these girls, right?

At the end of it, whenever everyone's like super sad. This is the same night as Hungry Luke or Hungry Connor. Okay, so maybe there were more.

Okay, so at least there were three guys there. It was a Chiefs game. Correct, correct. It was the Chiefs game. Correct, correct. It was a Chiefs versus the Steelers, I think. Chiefs versus Patriots, something like that. But the Chiefs had really high hopes that year. Chiefs lost.

Jake was super sad. It was a playoff game. You know, lifelong Chiefs fan. And this girl, right as the game got over, just goes, and that's why I'm a Broncos fan. The worst thing she could have said. Oh, if I would have been there oh hey mom pick me up from this party you know what pick me up from jail because i'm gonna kill this woman

bring an extra caprice out i'm thirsty from all this yelling golly that same girl i didn't uh bring this she's a huge cheese fan now yeah oh she's tailgating she's got the hoodies oh she switched over triggered triggered triggered this uh this same girl about two weeks ago this is the same day of football playing when i had the mud knee incident so that day of football um she oh, Brad's choking on some ice. I'm going to keep talking. He's fine. That same day of football. Just yakking on a bone.

Oh, that is a great reference to, was that Vegas vacation? Christmas vacation. Christmas vacation. Just yakking on a bone. Oh man, my dad says that all the time. Oh, that's funny. Okay, so what am I saying? vacation christmas vacation christmas vacation tis the season just yakking on a bone oh man my dad says that all the time oh that's funny okay so the same girl at the football thing oh yeah okay so we granted we'd already been playing football for two hours the sun is kind of setting like

we're not gonna be playing for that much longer but then this girl and her compadres we'll call her taylor we'll call taylor and her friends tay Taylor and her walk onto the football field. And there were some mutual friends involved. They were, they were all kind of go to the same church. They all knew each other. I didn't know much of them. We'll call the church life church.

Okay. Um, it's not the church, but we'll call it that. Um, they walk on the field and say, Hey, can we play?

And it truly was like, you know what? That's fine. We're pretty much done. We're kind of the middle of a game, but that's fine. We're not going to say, no,

you're here. You're our friends. Sure. You can're pretty much done. We're kind of in the middle of a game, but that's fine. We're not going to say, no, you're here. You're our friends. Sure. You can play football with us. So one kind of audacious, audacious, audacious of them. Audacious. Autistic. Is that? Artistic. Artistic.

Artistic. Artitious. They were that. By coming onto the football field in the first place, you know, I think, you know, good for them. Bold of them to come to come into the you know the man's world in the football field and say we want to play arena yeah and then it takes us about 30 minutes to decide teams and how we're going to do this we finally get playing the two girls lined up a receiver next to me we're about to hike it okay so do we just we just go out and then we'll we'll catch it i'm like oh oh oh okay so you walked onto this football

field not knowing what sport we're playing that became and it didn't annoy me it was just like the boldness now do i need a glove now who who's first base yeah now who's on first yeah it was uh yeah just one of the things like wow that was really bold of you guys like you don't even know what sport was going on. You're like, count me in, count all six of us and restructure the game and the entire teams. And while you're at it, teach me the fundamentals. Let's be honest.

They want your chili. Oh, they, they want you. They want, they want, they want whatever you're selling. Yeah.

They want to catch my passes. They do. They want to get in the end zone with you. I wish I didn't say that. That's too much. That's too, too far. Uh, they want to catch my passes. They do. They want to get in the end zone with you. I wish I didn't say that. That's too much. That's too far. They want to get... They want to touch my pylon.

They want to get flagged for holding. Yeah. They... Oh, yeah. Shoot, man. uh yeah they oh yeah never mind uh yeah where's the line i don't know i don't know where the line is they want to get film on you they want to go down and out oh i didn't think about it you just just said it. That's okay. Illegal hands to the face, maybe? Sure.

Oh, that's funny. Well, I'm glad I almost didn't tell that story. I'm glad I did. How did we... Oh, we got here from Brayden. Shut up, Brayden, for getting us here. Brayden, man. Hey, all love, Brayden. Oh my gosh.

You're a ghoster and that's all that matters, brother. Yeah, we appreciate it. We're just giving you a hard time. Wreck them tech. No, not wreck them tech. What do they say for... Go Georgia Tech. Go dogs oh no yeah atlanta i'm a i'm a tech guy uh sting them sting them yellow jackets yeah sting them good yeah okay let's keep going i guess yeah good luck topping that uh hey jake and brad uh my name's Caden. I'm from Utah. And I love your podcast.

I've been listening for about a month. And it irks me that I haven't really been listening to your podcast for a month because I could have been listening for so much longer. But anyway, I'm on episode 29 right now. And there's 30 right now, I think. Yeah. And I love all the office references that you guys put in there. And I just wanted to know what your favorite Jim, Pam, Dwight, and Michael moments are

for both of you. And yeah, love your podcast. Thanks for making my life easier and funnier. Okay, bye. Let's go. Caden, thank you. Caden, that was really nice. Appreciate you listening, dude.

Love Utah, man. Let's go, Utes. Let's go, Caden, thank you. Caden, that was really nice. Appreciate you listening, dude. Love Utah, man. Let's go, Utes. Let's go, Cougars. For the Morms. Yeah, I have a Mormon friend. Nice. Yeah. He'll appreciate that.

Not trying to brag, but. No, I can say that. I have Mormon friends. Oh, wow. Yeah. A lot of office things to unpack. We've already unpacked a lot for the office. We have said a lot about the office

Caden, and I hope that could be enough for you. That's an office quote. What is that? A man on a train with no answers. I hope that could be enough for you. That's good. How about we just pick one of those four people each. Okay. It doesn't have to be your favorite ever, but just the first thing that you really like about that person or about each person. No, no, no. Just one of Okay. Just, just pick one. Let me think. That's a great question, Caden, but that's a long one. And we've already talked about the office a lot and there's definitely people out there that don't know what we're talking about when we talk about the office. So I don't want to just make them go away from the podcast completely.

I think anytime where Michael is hysterically laughing is so funny because he does as an Steve Carell, as an actor does such a good job of making himself laugh. Yeah. It's really believable. He's laughing that hard. Like, I think that's how he really laughs in real life. It probably is. So anytime there's a few moments, you know, throughout the seasons where he is just laughing hysterically. What is there's one in my mind that I'm thinking of when he's dying laughing. I can't remember why. I think it's's really funny maybe this isn't the part you're thinking of but whenever phyllis gets flashed and he just laughs about it that's it yeah that's exactly it he's just laughing in his office for a while yeah he's just laughing that this guy

flashed phyllis but he's just like making himself cry from laughter and i think that's so funny and so impressive um i think there's like very sentimental spots that i really like for jim and pam but my favorite jim and dwight prank and i may have already said this but is the exercise ball that dwight has yeah season two i think and jim just pops it uh and dwight falls back and it's just so funny to me so um thanks for that um awesome question caden thank you caden uh are we done with voicemail list no i, I think we have one or two more. Oh my gosh. Hey, what's up, Jake and Brad?

This is Braden. Frick that guy. Oh, hey. Never mind. That's it. Okay. My name's Caden. I'm from...

Babes of the Week. Side note, I made Trey laugh a little bit today, and it was funny because it was like the same laugh that he has in his videos more or less oh nice I wasn't gonna say that on the podcast but it was kind of funny to like anyway feels like whoa I've heard you laugh before but that was like a real laugh anyway okay thanks for the week yeah do you want to go first with babe I think we save babe last okay okay okay and and you do your babe first yeah yeah it's very very last yeah okay um okay well that is all the voice memos i think we're gonna go back by popular demand go back to blanks of the week a blanks of the week yes awesome let's start

with some poultry brad what do you got okay small Okay. Small thing. Uh, hangers. I've heard of them. I love hangers. First of all, I've used them. Dis, dislike the hangers that have those little ridges halfway through. Oh my gosh. I'm trying to pull a hoodie off. I'm running late. I've been running late to everything I've been to for the last six years. I'm stuck. Yeah. It's, do you want your hanger to go with you? No, no. I want the hanger to hang, not to come with, it's not a come with her. And no, it, it is a, a, a closeted hanger. All right. Exactly. Stay in there. Yes. Um, yeah, I think that, I think those things are probably for like dresses or something for girls. So why do I have them? You don't have anything spaghetti strap that I've ever seen. Yeah. Save that. Save that for, uh, yeah. Um, for Mardi Gras.

Um, no, just don't like those. Uh, what about the ones with like extra friction at the top? Like a little extra, some, some ribbed hangers, maybe those are okay. Like I don't mind the grip on there, but I, I don't like those hangers because they get caught, but they also give those little indents. If you have t-shirts or something that you put on there, I do have t-shirts and like, you kind of get that little thing, you know what I'm talking about? The little, like the hanger crease. It's like, yeah, it's like a, it's like a, it's like a t-shirt pimple. Oh yeah.

And it's like, oh gosh, sorry. I just did. I only had three hangers left in my closet and they were all those kinds of hangers. I just got off Accutane. Yeah, seriously. I'll talk to my dermatologist, but yeah, don't, don't like the hangers. I just got off Accutane. Yeah, seriously. Uh, I'll, I'll talk to my dermatologist, but, um, yeah, don't, don't like the hangers. That's my poultry of the week is just hangers like that. Like there's, there's other answers out there for those hangers.

Guys, we can do better. Yeah. I love your guys' stuff, but we can do better. My poultry also a very small thing and literally a small thing last night after um boxing which we'll get into babe of the week preview okay after boxing i went to quick trip and got a gatorade and for some reason i chose the the thin and slender gatorade and the it's been a while since i've suckled down on one of those babies and i say suckled because the end of it is kind of weird the ones where you can have twist sure it felt like a pacifier kind of uh uh sure passy passy a passy passy pie yeah um which that's another weird thing i feel like now i'm just getting off topic but anything at the end of your life or the beginning of your life has really weird names

like the beginning like you're being pink or you're you're being a boy you're binky and at the end of your life, I feel like once you're a grandma or a grandpa. You're Kathy. You could be. Oh, no. Not like devices anymore. I'm thinking,

I do like the idea of naming your own catheter though. Giving it some personality. Come over here, Eugene. Who's that? Oh, just your catheter. I was trying to think of another apparatus that sounds like, no, I'm saying like,

the names we give our grandparents. Oh. Hey, I'm going to spend some time with my muumuu seriously oh yeah me me and poop pop what who are you talking about oh it's been good this thanksgiving got to spend time with people and nana who are these people okay uh descendants from southeast asia who are these people? Do you have descendants from Southeast Asia? Who are these people? What does the word winky mean to you? Winky? Winky. Isn't it one of the Pac-Man villains? Winky and Blinky? Winky and Blinky.

Definitely the Pac-Man. No. That's what I think of. I used that term growing up for a part of the male anatomy. Other people that I know called their grandfather that. So they're like, Mimi and Winky. I'm like, what did you just say? You're Winky?

I got to go see my Winky. It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm excited. Grandma's bringing Winky. Excuse me? It'd be funny to call your- Show and tell. Today, I brought my Winky in.

What? What did you- I love the idea of calling your grandmother, just grandma, but then your grandfather, winky, like the only one of them gets a nickname. I have a theory that Southern people, and I don't know what you consider that. It's a different conversation, but Southern people are the only, or the main people that use different names than grandma and grandpa. I just said grandma and grandpa, and then their last names growing up katherine of course had different names for them pop pop yeah and so now her parents are honey is the grandma and pops is the honey pops that's a cool serial name she wanted to be lovey and i said no no no i cannot

call you lovey oh so when she entered into grandmotherhood she chose a name oh yeah she's the matriarch man she's she chose her own name yeah oh and and i i like kind of went behind these like went behind her back and like talked to all of katherine's siblings like hey this is the first grandchild but all your kids are also going to have to call her lovey so you need to talk to your mom yeah because katherine was like well i can't choose it's just my mom's mom's mom's choice she can do whatever she wants i was like very thrown i was like i will not call her lovey but now of course i'm like, uh, you know, sometimes I talk to her, like I would, you know, expect how you talk to her. So I'm like, oh,

hi honey. And that's weird too. Calling your mother-in-law honey. Is that pretty normal for a grandma to choose, to take a different name when she becomes a grandma in the South? Yeah. They all choose different names. Yes. That's what I'm saying. I think leave a five-star review with your grandfather's name, your grandmother's name, and where you are from. I think it is almost uncanny that people in the South do not call them grandma and grandpa. But I'm still thrown off by the fact that they wait

and then they just choose their own name. They don't let the grandkids decide if it's going to be papa. I don't know if that's 100%. Maybe that's just my in-laws. But yeah, that happens. It seems like we should have thrown her some debutante be i don't know if that's like i don't know if that's 100 maybe that's just my in-laws but yeah it seems like we should have thrown her some like debutante or some you know grandmother bar mitzvah kind of thing like congrats you are now indoctrinated as honey ladies and gentlemen honey and her winky come on down honey's winky accompanied by honey is the winky

yeah yeah never mind yeah i was just like calling yeah there's no way to make this appropriate okay whatever yeah let's move on to um we're gonna mix up two different segments at the same time irashly strong opinion of the week irashly strong opinions of the week. Nailed it. Yeah. I can go first. This one is not much of a fleshed out idea. Don't even. I haven't really thought about this at all. But this doesn't really happen as much anymore.

But back in the CannaCook days, even in the more K-Life days, post-college, me rapping was somewhat a part of what I did. It was just like this hokey thing using the only amount of rhythm I have to make a skit or a game more fun. Like I can't sing, but I can at least. You're a professional rapper. I can at least just like talk to a beat. And so it would become this thing. And this would, this happened multiple times over the years. Someone would get brought up about rap or something.

And someone else would be like, oh, Jake, Jake can rap. And then someone would be like, oh, you can rap? Rap for it, Jake. Well, not even them expecting me to rap. Just the question, you can rap? I always want to defend it and be like, don't consider this a skill. Can you talk? Yeah.

You can rap. Don't look at me as someone skilled in this area anyone can do this that's true yeah you write your own raps that is kind of cool yeah then you got something but just the phrase like or i'd even been in a car with someone and like i don't know some m&m m&m song comes on and someone starts rapping along with it by the way that irks me beyond belief singing or like rapping along to a song. Really? Yeah. I don't like that. Oh gosh. I do that. Some, I did that on our road trip together. What do you mean? I'll stop. I'll stop. I don't even remember it. Okay. Good. Just like, yeah, I stand by it. Rapping along to a song that's on the radio is weird to me. Okay. And so like someone will start doing that and then someone else will be in the car

and be like, Oh, I didn't know you could rap. I'm like, this is not a skill that should ever be endorsed by anyone. You can rap? No, we can all rap. You got a tongue, you can rap. It takes no skill. You literally just rapped to me. You asked me that question.

Yeah. Yeah. It takes no skill. I think it definitely takes skill to successfully rap. Like, I don't know. I think that's there. I don't know if I completely agree. But I think that like, yes, everybody can don't know if I completely agree, but I think that like,

yes, everybody can quote unquote rap. Not everyone can rap. Like I think the performance, remember Twista. Yeah. Not everyone's rapping like Twista. He had the world record for words in a minute before weird.

Al took it from him. Hardware store. Yeah. Weird. Al. Yeah. Hardware store. Good for him.

Weird. Al can rap. Oh, he can rap. Okay. Yeah. It bugs me. Okay. But I can rap you guys. I can, I can do it. My irrationally strong opinion. And I've already gotten pretty heated today, so I don't want to get too many people, you know, on my, on my business. But, um, I think this was going to be a little bit of a controversial thing that I think a lot of people

are going to disagree with and maybe feel shame for. I hope. You typically do not have the people's choice award. Justin Bieber's incredible. What are you talking about? Yeah. So whatever. This is just a thing. And then maybe, maybe you can judge me because I shouldn't be thinking this way. My irrationally strong opinion is that posting, whenever people post on their Instagram stories, reposts from other people, especially when they are complimenting themselves. So if I post,

oh, loved hanging out with Jake Triplett today. He is such a great guy. So funny, so talented. He's a really good rapper. And then like and then like two hours later, you just repost that same pic or like, I repost it to my story. Happy birthday to this caring, loving, gracious woman. Uh, you know, who's just really taught me a lot about God. It's like, and then you repost that for whatever reason that just, just a frustrating thing to me.

Like, I feel like you're just like kind of acknowledging, like, or maybe not acknowledging, but I feel like you're just like bragging about yourself through like very subtly, passively, aggressively bragging about yourself. I don't think I, I don't think I really mind it if it's like, Hey, just hung out with Jake triplet. Here's a picture of him. And then you repost that of like, Hey, I hung out with Brad, you know, but it's an irrationally strong opinion. I understand it's irrational. I get frustrated when it's somebody's birthday and they post everybody else's story on their story about how great they are. It's just weird because you're consciously having to add that to your story. It's not like it's like going on your Facebook

timeline. It's not like Facebook. You got tagged in a picture. Exactly. You made the decision to repost it. Yes. And it just, here we go. Get the bleep button ready. It irks me. So I, uh, I think it's tough and yeah, good for you for having the boldest is cause pretty much everyone I know does this. Let me, let me come back with a quick rebuttal that I think I understand what a lot of people are going to say is that I think that maybe, but I don't think this is the pure thing for everybody, that maybe some people are reposting it to say, hey, I acknowledged that you went out of your way to post this really nice thing about me. Sorry. I acknowledge that you went out of your way to post this thing about me. Thank you. Let me repost it to thank you.

But you can also text somebody that. that's all I have to say. I think, uh, to try and get inside other people's heads and why they do this. I think on one end, they would probably admit like, yeah, this is a little like braggy. Like I want to be seen as these things. So I'm going to post it. And I, I know that it's a little arrogant maybe, but I'm okay with that. I think they would say that and then too i think people you know are self-aware enough to be like okay it is my birthday and i want people to know but i don't want to be in their face about it i don't want to just put up a post and say it's my birthday celebrate me so this is like a little way of saying that it is my

birthday you know i think that's the middle ground that most of society has taken like this is my way of telling people it's my birthday like if you hung out with me and you posted birthday brunch with Brad, I would repost that and I wouldn't think that's arrogant. But if you were like, birthday brunch with Brad, he's so great. He also is a good rapper. Don't like that. But like I said, irrationally strong opinion. And keep posting them. It's great to see, you know, the picture of you and that girl from six months ago.

Hmm. Urgo. Urgo. Urgo. Could be anybody. Next up, let's go to review of the week. And then we'll finish up with babe of the week at the very end. But review of the week.

So many good ones. There's a lot of wholesome ones. Someone took a lot of time out of the day to write a big old paragraph about my tick bite. I really appreciated that. What? I missed that one. Did you see it? Yeah. It said, poopsies, red meat allergy. And they did a lot of research and everything you said is true. That is the tick that bit me. That is the sugar molecule that I'm allergic to. So you nailed it. How did I miss that? I don't know. I check like five times a day. No, I didn't miss that, but yeah. Appreciate the time you put into that.

Other people say that this podcast is their babe of the week. People saying that they feel like we are their new best friends and they're devastated now that they're all caught up. Just so many nice things. I realized I didn't choose a review of the week so you can choose one which one's your favorite i mean the one that let's see i really like the one that was from

karen afelipelli um slowly but surely making my way through this podcast and it's so great the 90s kid episode had me wanting to go dig out the sega from my parents basement and play sonic also grits is money when t-mac toby mac comes in for that rap bit love the content and yes i had to look up how to spell philip ellie um yeah anytime where we can talk about grits and the 90s just like those are some of my favorite things to talk about on the podcast i straight up don't remember even talking about grits but that's awesome i don't either but oh maybe we said ooh ah back in the day or something. Yeah. Weepin' and sheepin' and weepin'. Hey, oh, right around we go.

Weepin' and sheepin' and weepin'. Ah, here we go. We go. So we get up, we get up. Brad can rap? Whoa, Brad. Brad, how'd you do that? You should have told me you could rap.

Oh, so were you in like choir as a kid? You must. You must have some sort of professional training. Okay, babe of the week. Mine goes to uh i have two babes i'm going to drop a deuce i got two babes it is hannah with two h's at title boxing and hannah with one h at title boxing same same nice the same uh that was I was going to move on from that. Whatever. Why is that so funny to you? It's not that funny.

It's just a funny inside joke. Digs are chilly, dude. Yeah. Okay. Go ahead. So I go to box last night and immediately. Okay. How did down yeah right when i walk in i'm running a little late um packed house didn't even get my own bag to punch but um hey can i share it can we share a bag do you mind i did i was in the corner with the fire extinguisher eventually there was not a lot of room the fire extinguisher was your bag yeah uh yeah we're all out of bags

you can use this expired extinguisher back here we used it a couple years ago never refilled it so don't worry nothing's gonna happen we used it like what happened back in the day but what's in the corner with a fire i'm just imagining like a cartoon of you like back there like just a sad cartoon jake with his fire extinguisher in the corner i don't know why that's what comes to mind but that's just it's a funny funny thought no me it's a cartoon why am i i don't know it's like calvin and hobbes style and you're back there no that's fine that's fine i'll still fight you though you keep that up and i'll actually box you you keep it up i'll give you a right right hook right to the face huh yeah oh missed the bag twice last night no joke on the left hook so both of the

left it just the bag's moving and i don't know it's just not that coordinated i guess with the left anyway the um the i walk in and hannah goes jake there you are uh we have so much to tell you something like that i'm like oh what's up because i haven't been in like two weeks she said we found your podcast and immediately i'm like oh boy oh what did i say oh what did i say that box they played it over the you know intercom while that's what she said they listen to it at work like when they're cleaning up or whatever they listen to it oh no way episodes while they're there like multiple of them i don't know who's been listening and so at first i was like did they just like go to my like file i filled out with my emergency contact you and then i found out that one of our listeners taylor follows hannah

with one h on instagram hannah puts up a little picture great session today leading the class at title boxing and i guess taylor commented like hey is this a Kansas city? This guy's podcast I listened to might've went to your class. And then they find out, Oh, that is the same class. That is the guy. And then I guess they looked at the podcast and they see one episode called boxing day. So just listen to it. And then they just, yeah, they found it and they said they loved it. Oh, that's awesome. It was really cool. So were they giving you a hard time like the whole time last night no and they they definitely could have they had the right to like sure give me a hard time but they were just like we loved it that was so funny and they were like you got to get brad in here and like that's what i'm saying he

needs to see how hard of a workout this is i believe it that's why i'm not going that's why i'm scared to go it's so intense um but yeah it was really fun and it gave me like a sense of community a little bit it's like i got friends in here now that is that that is that makes all the difference yeah it does me and the hannas that's awesome yeah okay so both the hannas whoo my deuce babes okay brad what is your you're my deuce babe babe of the week gotta babe that week oh um so yeah babe of the week uh this week as always um is just going to somebody really special in my life uh this this girl you know this week we've been doing a lot of fun things together uh went and looked at christmas lights together tonight oh cool um you know she's always in the front seat next to me when I'm doing fun things.

And then I just had this realization, holy cow, turns out she's my wife. No way. Yes. Her name is Catherine Ellis. But even crazier, babe of the week is the babe inside that bag. Let's go. Freaking baby! We're having a baby!

Catherine! Hey, mom! You're going to be a meanie! You hear me? Oh, man. I have been waiting for that moment for so long. The babe inside of the babe of the week. The babe inception!

Get my totem! Where's my totem? Oh! Broke this chair I think maybe. Worth it, worth it. Oh boy, yes. We are pregnant. Catherine's pregnant and baby coming in early May. So be thinking of names now. Uh, Brad definitely wants to go ghost runner jokes

inside only inside jokes only. Yeah. I think Brad's dream for a long time has been to name his kid off of something a podcast listener suggested him. So that would be a dream come true for him. Please, please, please. Oh, man. So yeah, we're very excited. Very blessed.

So Catherine's doing well. Yeah. So exciting, dude. Yes. So exciting. You've known for a while, ever since Texas. This is what we told you. If you remember, I mean, probably 15 episodes ago, we drove down to Texas

and on the way there, we were trying to get, it's me, Peter, Isaac, and Brad, you know, a guy's car and then plus Catherine, cause she's awesome. And we're trying to get her so badly. Like, Hey, you got to come to the casino with us tonight. It's going to be so fun. And we were just not letting up. Why would you not come with us? It's going to be so fun. And then she just couldn't take it any longer. She's like, well, I probably come with us? Persistent. It's going to be so fun. And then she just couldn't take it any longer. She's like, well, I probably shouldn't be around secondhand smoke. Because you're pregnant. Or when you're pregnant or something like that.

And I remember looking in the rearview mirror and just seeing Isaac kind of listen and then make eye contact with me and just bug out his eyes real quick. What? It was pretty fun. So we are excited about it. We can't wait to have another addition to the Ellis pack. Nice. Clan. The Ellis.

Yeah. Oh, man. That's so exciting. I'm so glad that people get to know. Yes. Now you know. So be praying for us if you want to. Or just send money donations, however small.

That's it. You definitely have to do one of the two things. It's either prayer or money. So your choice. I mean, Joel Osteen is one of my favorite pastors. Do you want to be blessed? Show me. Show me how many dollars.

Prove it over here, huh? Let's see it. Let's see your wallet. Hold up your wallet right now now hold it up and show me how much you uh love this dude i went to a church accidentally like that in kent city like three or four years ago where they literally had people hold up really like their credit cards or the dollar amount they were going to donate that day it was so uncomfortable yeah yeah wrong yes yikes um it was weird.

Literally, they held him up. Yeah. It was funny. I was like, maybe I told you that story. They were literally doing that before the offering. I was like, oh, I don't like this. That should not be how it's done. Anyway.

Wow. What an episode. The back half was hot. We got it going there. Man. Oh, baby. Literally. Flagged for holding.

Might have to be the title for this. Or no, I guess it's going to be about the office. The babe within the babe. Babe within the babe. Babeception. That's great. Well, I think that about wraps up for me. I've done about three hours worth of talking in front of a camera today.

Yeah, you're good, buddy. I want a monologue for the next 15 or so. Yes, you can take it. I'm going to head out. But you do whatever you need'm gonna monologue for the next 15 or so yes you could take i'm gonna head out uh but you you do whatever you need to do just explore the space man yeah thank you guys so much for listening as always and all the reviews and all the nice comments uh thanks for those who follow our instagram it's been fun ghost runners podcast podcast yeah there's video clips of us up there the the makeover is coming uh you know move that bus style it's gonna be really cool yes and then we've actually been hanging on to uh quite the

i guess i don't want to build it up too much because who knows what's going to happen but we've got something in our back pocket for our instagram that i've been waiting until it looks a little nicer just in case this thing goes a little viral i would like to you know you don't want to have a house party over and then not have your mess, you know, picked up. Right. You want to have it looking nice. Whoa, that's the pillow you use? Come on.

Yeah, there's not even a pillowcase on it. What are you doing over there? Yeah. So that's us. Vacuum up. Closing thoughts, Brad? No. Okay.

I'm going to Mexico in two days, so I'm sure I'll be back with some fun stories. Fruit of Tulum? Fruit of Tulum Fruit of Tulum alright yeah still a good pun still not sure how to incorporate that as far as Instagram goes probably just gonna do nothing

people are gonna love it okay thank you yeah yeah so if we have any listeners in Tulum let me know I'll see you soon see you soon in Tulum see you soon in Tulum

Brad hit him with a jingle to end this one baby episode 32 Brad, hit him with a jingle to end this one, baby. Episode 32. The Ghost Runners podcast is with Jake and Brad. Yeah. We are on every Monday morning and we just might make you not sad. Yeah. We just talk about random nonsense in the office. Office.

But we love that you listen and we hope you always continue to do so. Perfect rhyme with office. Ghostrunners podcast is our name. And we are in the Kansas Sexy Hall of Fame. We don't know what we're going to talk about, but we always figure it out. Jake and Brad Ellis, Ellisiscustomcreations.com. We don't have much more to this song, but we record in a wood shop, custom made furniture place, and we love half of your faces. We are the ghost runners we hope that you think that we are funners

what was that half our faces like like we don't we don't like no no no we like like there's half of you that we like their faces half of you we don't like hey nice face not man i don't really get this joke but that's okay i'm just saying like half of you are attractive half of you oh okay just i don't know it's a fun thing to be like to like be like very specific like hey guys just want to say i'm really thankful for seven of you uh here today yeah like the very the pilot episode of the office i would say i get along with my subordinates with four exceptions or whatever like specific yes i see that on instagram i would there'd be like a group picture of five people and i would comment wow four of my best friends and kind of let them figure out

who i'm talking about love it yeah okay cool we wrapped it up solid all right thank you guys for listening and now for weird al's hardware store. Check it out. Love you, baby. feature hangers, paper cutters, waffle irons, window shutters, paint removers, window louvers, masking tape and plastic gathers, kitchen faucets, folding tables, weather stripping, jumper cables, huts and tackle, grout and spackle, power foggers, spoons and ladles, pesticides, refilling gation, high performance lubrication, metal roofing, water pusing, multi-purpose insulation, air compressors, brass connectors, wrecking chisels, smoke detectors, higher gauges, snaps or cages, thermostats and bug deflectors, trailer-wishing magnetizers, automatic circumcisors, Santa's brackets, Anglo brackets, Duracell, and Energizer, socket panels, circuit directors, circuit cleaners, copy makers, calculators, generators, matching salt and pepper shakers. I can't wait. I can't wait. When are they going to open up that door? I'm going.

Yes, I'm going. I'm going to the, going to the hardware store.