Ghostrunners - 324 - Mouse in the House

Episode Date: April 22, 2024

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Brad, what were you saying you saw out your window this week? I saw a man in a truck walk into your house with suspenders on. Yes, very Cousin Moe's of him. He came over. Do you have any guesses who this man is? I had a, honestly, okay, I didn't see the guy. Catherine did. So I don't know.

In my head, he was some kind of service. Like maybe you're, I was like, I don't know. Jake doesn't talk to me about everything. Maybe they're thinking about upgrading their windows or something. Honestly, I thought it was like some guy talking. I have a no window talking policy at work. Listen, we, we, we say a lot of things to each other, but when it comes to double pain versus triple pain, it's like, you're on your own. We see very differently. Yeah. We see it very differently. It's best if we just don't bring it up. Yeah. So I thought it was something like that. Like, yeah, it was like, okay,

it's some kind of like, I don't know how long, it seemed like he was there over an hour. So there for a while, I was like, who knows? His name is Ryan. And he's a man that I'm very loyal to. He's my task rabbit. Oh!

He's like the task, like you've contacted him multiple times. He's mine. Yes, I'm very detached. Like you've, you've contacted him multiple times. He's mine. Yes. I'm very loyal. Cause I thought about getting some other guy who was available quicker. And I was like, I want Ryan. I developed a relationship with them. Yeah.

Um, have you, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. Have you gotten to the point where you now have his contact number and you contact him directly? I was surprised he didn't make that pitch. Oh yeah. You gotta like, well, he's got to, he needs to, that's what all the people that ever move for me that I find from

you ship.com. They're always like, and by the way, if you want to just surpass this, save you a little bit of money, save me a little bit of money. Here's my, here's my card. Yeah. Yeah. Mr. Uh, what kind of animal you got did the same thing for me? I was like, well, you offended me earlier. So I'm going to go to the website again next time uh but so this is uh i remember when i booked him this time i i noticed on there like you know i'm doing my research here these other people they have four reviews ten review ryan's got thousands of reviews i was like this is amazing no wonder i picked him the first time and so i thought to ask him when he's like all done i was like how close is this to getting to be like a full-time gig for you because i just just had a feeling and he's like, it's, it's been full-time for two years.

Oh yeah. I was like, I thought maybe it was like the amount of work you're doing and all this, that's really cool, dude. And you know, he's talking about, yeah, you know, I think my, the next plan would be to do this full-time on my own, you know, task grab, it doesn't take a fee or anything. And so Rachel and I are both talking to him and having a good time. And Rachel's like, oh yeah. I mean, if you started your own business, I mean, this could be something. I know so many high school boys who could do this. Trying to be really like, I work in a school.

Oh yeah. I work with underprivileged and undereducated kids that would love this. They would be oh my gosh this and you probably don't like have a you don't make a ton of money but it's more than they're used to having so oh i mean suspenders i mean you probably don't have a college degree yeah there's no way and the car you drove up in like yeah oh that's so funny what He was just like, yeah, yeah? You know, yeah, spot on. No, he actually said,

he said like 70% of his job is like mounting things. It's not like furniture assembly. And so he was like, oh, I would not trust high school kids for a lot of what I'm doing. And then Rachel's like, oh my gosh. I offended him once, and now I've offended him twice.

Oh, how hard is it? Yeah, it's actually, I offended him by suggesting it. I've offended him twice. Oh, how hard is it? Yeah. Yeah, it's actually, I offended him by suggesting it. Now it's like, it doesn't even make sense. He's like, I would not trust high school boys mounting a TV.

And you know, Rachel's backpedaling. Boy, oh, oh, oh, that, oh my gosh. Like a nightstand. Yeah. My dad works with his hands all year round, and I wouldn't trust him

mounting my TV. I don't even like my dad. That dude's old. You're awesome. You're hot, too. Yeah, you're... I'm so glad you're doing this instead of my husband. He's not mounting anything, if you know what I mean.

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Ghost Brothers Podcast. Ghost Brothers Podcast. So yeah, that's TaskRabbitRyan. Honestly, it was kind of fascinating. I was like, maybe we should get him on the podcast. Yeah. Just pay him his hourly rate. He has been here before during the podcast. He's heard us before. Yeah. Yeah. He's like a great guy and I'm just curious how it works. He's just full-time gigging. How? Yeah. Let's talk about this guy's skill. Cause I am as a furniture, sometimes I buy chairs and just put them

together. And so I get pretty intense or get excited about like how quickly you can do it. Like what's this guy, what's this guy working? I mean, so was it that thing behind the couch that he did for you? Yeah. So it's two different side tables and tables that we kind of put together. And for my dad and any other dad out there, I just, my son. I promise it's worth it. All he's doing is making these jokes all day about, you know, being in the wrong

century and diarrhea and polio and he's got to hire some, you know, working hair task rabbit. I don't know what it's called. Working hair. Bugs bunny. Some bugs bunny over here coming on, hopping on over and doing all the manly work in

his house and i just say what what what the heck what happened dude okay sorry what the heck real quick bow had a all-time what the heck this morning it was elongated he just goes what that's amazing it was it was incredible what happened to make him say that i don't even remember that's like uh what what was it he was in the kitchen heck i don't remember what it was maybe it wasn't anything like that exciting either it was just so funny anyway uh that's amazing that was great so yeah go ahead With your dad and anybody else. If Bugs Bunny, who does this full time, I learned, all he does all day long is do stuff like this.

If it takes him an hour and a half, how much longer would that take me? Twice as long, maybe? Yes, I could put together a table with instructions. Yeah. But is three hours of my time worth what I paid him to do it? Three hours might be generous too, honestly. Yeah, it might take longer than that. Because he has tools and he knows how to use all of his tools.

He probably didn't even look in directions. So I just want to defend myself. No. I really think it makes sense to do this. I think there's certain things. I mean, you could, as a homeowner, you can DIY all day long. But I've had so many arguments with Catherine while we're DIY. You know what Rachel and I did while Ryan was DIYing for us? We went on a run and then a walk. No fights. Yeah. No fights. Just love. Just love

and health. Not too much. Not too much, but got the heart rate up yep on the run so yeah no no arguments no strife just uh just somebody putting together something for you while you're yeah grown close came home got to know more about him insults him he was on his way it was awesome look forward to seeing him next time so yeah he was great but yeah it was pretty cool it's like that's pretty neat you just quit your job two years ago you just full full-time task grab it. Yeah. Awesome. I guess it's, so mounting is the big thing though. Like, so if you're out there in high school and you want to make a lot of money,

just undercut these guys mounting TVs. Yeah, that might be a lot of, I don't know. Yeah, picture frames, decor. Oh, picture frames. Shelves perhaps. I don't know what he's mounting exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But probably a lot of TVs.

Shelves are a maybe. Shelves count as mounting, I think. Okay, so this guy's suspenders were thicker. What? In my head. The heck? What do you mean, thicker than what? What?

The heck? I mean, in my head, these suspenders were hipster, just little like, I'm wearing suspenders to be quirky. Oh, these are working man suspenders. These are working man suspenders. Yeah, working hair. Yeah, these are like, what are those? Carhartt.

Yeah. Suspenders. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, got to keep his pants up. He's crawling around on the ground. He's a pro, dude. He comes in, he lays out a blanket. Oh, yeah.

And everything goes on the blanket. He brings his own broom. He sweeps up afterwards. He cleans up. He leaves the assembly goes on the blanket. He brings his own broom. He sweeps up afterwards. He cleans up. He leaves the assembly instructions on the table for you. Just in case. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a couple.

I can put some felt pads underneath there for you. Yeah, that'd be great, Ryan. Yeah, I'll take four felt pads, thanks. The guy wants his reviews. And he does this. This is great, too. Before he leaves, he said, hey, I asked this to all my clients. Is there anything I've done today to not deserve a five-star rating?

I said, five stars coming your way. Love it. That's a great move. Yeah. Because one, I feel guilty not reviewing it. I almost basically signed up for it. Yeah. And two, I definitely have to give him five-star reviews, a five-star review, because I just

told him he hasn't done anything to not deserve it. Yeah. It's great. And he's proactive. He's like, I would love to fix this. I'll fix it. If there's not a five-star review here. Yeah.

Love it, man. Ryan. So very satisfied customer of Ryan. Give him a little tip. Okay. I said, sorry about my wife. I love it, dude. Does he use...

One more thing about Taz, right? Yeah. Because so many of those things come with Allen wrenches. Oh, no. I mean, he'd been in my house eight seconds. I'm like, Hey, I'll leave you be, I'm going to be in this room. And I was like, Oh yeah. I mean, seriously, immediately he was screwed something in. It was impressive. That's awesome. Yeah. I, yeah. Cause I can imagine the most frustrating thing for me is understanding

how to initially assemble it. Like, and so if he's done it before, which I guarantee you most of the time, he's doing something new every time. That'd be so hard for me. Yeah. Like that's the hard part is not, it's like a breakthrough. You go in this room, like what's the,

what's the strategy here? What's the, I know I'll figure it out, but why is it, what's the honeycomb? And then, okay, that's a distraction.

Yeah. Do you, do you give him like a link to the picture or anything of like what it's supposed to look like? I just sent him like the amazon link beforehand like hey this way you're gonna be assembling yeah that's nice and also my wife also she's gonna be a problem she'll she think she's we're gonna work on it on our run that's why we're having you do this so i can talk to her about that uh dude okay on your run i have this written down in my notes i just have is our neighborhood cool have you noticed lately a lot of people running just like normal cool looking people have you noticed this i will say the people look better than the houses do because when i go on my runs

i think it's our neighborhood gross but then other times but you see the attractive people like out of nowhere it was like it was like a switch was like the June bugs came out of the ground. We got hot people now. Like, like before it was like, it was like a huge deal. Like Catherine and I would be like, Oh,

those people look like they could be our friends. And now it's like, everybody looks like they could be our friend. They all do. Now I'm like worried. I'm not cool enough for them. Yeah. Have you noticed this?

Like there's just like normal looking people all of a sudden, like, cause our, our neighborhood is not like the nicest area, but maybe because it's affordable. Now people are able to like normal people are like, Hey, this is a pretty good idea. Nice folks are coming in. A lot of dogs in the neighborhood, a lot of dogs being walked, which I like. Yeah. I was, I, when I like walking or running, I was not at the human and I not at at the human and not at the dog i yeah i always smile at the dog first if it's a german shepherd i say officer and i keep running yes i'm getting my tags renewed right got pulled over again yeah yeah

they just kind of i was like i i don't know it's up you could believe me if you want but i promise i've never been pulled over for this in two years, and I just got pulled over last week. It was in Shawnee, and I was in Leawood at the time, and he's like, do you have proof of it? I was like, I could pull up a podcast for you where I talk about it, but no. Just plug the podcast.

Oh, man, let me see if it's on my, you know, one of my, like, five YouTube channels that have, like, a ton of followers. No. Like, just pull the privilege card. He was getting real close. Hey, I'm going to trust you. I'm going to trust you. You've been very honest. You've been very forthcoming. I'm going to trust you, but you do need to get that taken care of.

I know. I know. They should have something in your six-month temporary record that just says, hey, we pulled them over, but just gave them a warning. He knows. He knows. What they should do is let me sign up right then. And that'd be great customer service. Hey,

we got an iPad for you. Do you want to sign up for new license plates? Yes, I would love to, but it's impossible. Cause I even told him, I was like, I tried to sign up for him.

The last officer told me I can.com or whatever Kansas thing. And it's not working. I put in my van, I put in my plate. I know that's right. He's like, Oh, well,

if it takes long enough, they make you go in. I was like, see, this is what I'm saying. It's so annoying. I move every year plate. I know it's right. He's like, oh, well, if it takes long enough, they make you go in. I was like, see, this is what I'm saying. It's so annoying. I move every year. So this is annoying. It gets into Peter's address. Not my fault. Kind of my fault. If it's anybody's fault, it's probably yours.

But, you know. It's nobody's fault. It's the technology in America's fault. It's an election year. Jeez. But yeah, is our neighborhood cool? Our neighborhood's getting kind of cool. And as I've been, I went on a long walk last Friday to prepare for our little gig we had. Let's talk about that soon.

And I got a little far away, and I also texted Rachel and said, see if you could come find me. So we did a little hide and seek. So Rachel drove around trying to find me. Oh, that's cool. That was kind of fun. Did she? She did. Okay.

And there are some very unique houses, though. You start going a little bit, and I do like how we're not in a typical neighborhood where every house looks the same. Definitely not. They look very different. That's the fun thing. Some are way too nice. Like you spent way too much on like rebuilding this house.

There's a house like, yeah, five, six doors down from me. That's probably a million dollar house. Yeah. That was, they messed up. Or more. Yeah. Like, yeah, there's just random. I think there's a lot of pride of ownership. Not everybody, but a lot of them are nice. And then every once in a while, it's like,

that's just a dump, you know? But like, there's a lot of like older, nice houses that just aren't like super big or like extravagant or anything. But yeah. Um, so you've, yeah, you were, you were found. Yeah, she did find me. It was actually right as she was giving up. I saw that I was getting a call from Rachel, and I looked down, and she also pulled on the street when she was calling me. I was like, ah, that worked out. Yeah.

It's kind of fun. Tommy, how's your neighborhood? Is it cool? It's pretty cool. It's not, it's like... All right, so... No, I'm just kidding. It's pretty spread apart.

It's not crammed or anything, so it's nice. Could you throw a ball and hit your neighbor's house? Like from, from our front door or something? From your fence. You're touching a wall. You're, you know,

beginning of dodgeball. Uh, I could not. Someone with a pretty good arm could though. Okay. Yeah. So you're not wide open spaces. Like there,

there are houses nearby. Yes. Okay. Like across are houses nearby. Yes. Okay. Like across the street. But we have like, we're kind of on like a corner of the neighborhood road. So like there's like a big kind of like, there's a grassy area, like our driveway, kind of like a loop. And there's houses like across the street.

I'd love to come over sometime if your parents ever invite us over for dinner. Just kidding. Just kidding. Just kidding. I would hate that. Just kidding. I saw your mom posted a comment in the facebook group this past week oh fun you see that uh maybe it was about beef recipes i believe oh yeah some casserole thing yeah yeah that's fun someone was like asking like any good

recipes with i forget what it was exactly and then your mom was like you know tywin's never loved a casserole in his life but he's been loving this one lately what is it it's okay i i will say i was like i don't i feel maybe a little misrepresented i was like i misrepresented i i like i liked it it wasn't like i i'm just not a huge i never had a huge casserole guy but this was like a pretty like i enjoyed eating this casserole i think it was like a i think i described it like, it seems like you took a bunch of food they sell at a fair and just threw it in one dish. It has French fries in it,

but it's kind of like a cheeseburger thing. I don't know. It's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, cheeseburger casserole. I think that's what it's called. That's classic. I was always...

My mom was always so... I mean, this is classic, my mom, but she was always so good at literally taking our words and writing them down in a recipe book. So if I'm like, this tastes so good, like she would write down in quotation marks, tastes so good, Brad. And then 98. And of course there's times where I'm like, I mean, this is not my favorite thing, but I'm going to be nice to my mom. She asked me. Yeah. And so then she'll make it like two months later and be like, Oh, I, I'm not always nice to my mom so i'm like oh we're having that tonight she's like you said this tastes

amazing thank you for having me or whatever like thank you for making this for me and i'm like dang it so i i understand like time is like listen i i like yeah it's a casserole it was good yeah it wasn't i was it's a casserole we've taught good can it be yeah we've taught hattie like to say it's not my favorite that's so say that uh i mean it's not my favorite so anyway two nights in a row now rachel has made some kind of like little treat and two nights in a row something has been like kind of off with them and it's so funny like you know we've been together long enough now where I feel like I can be a little bit more just like honest. If we both acknowledge the truth about it.

Sure. But Rachel loves to like fake, make me feel bad. So like last night, like I think she nailed, she made chocolate chip cookies, nailed the, like when to take him out,

the temperature, everything. But then when she took him out, left him on the pan for too long. And so they kind of continued to bake. And so the bottom got like very hard and like overcooked. Yeah. And so like the top, you know, was perfect.

And so Rachel's like, I feel like these cookies are awesome, but the bottom, I just like ruined it. I'm like, you didn't ruin it. She's like, but would it be better if the bottom was like different? I was like, well, yeah. She's like. Just the saddest thing. Oh, i was afraid you'd see that stop don't even fake be extremely sad i don't even like that yeah it's like killing you oh god i was afraid of that dang it it's like that uh chris farley show remember that uh the snl? Yeah. Was this where he would like fake,

like be upset of something so stupid? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He would ask like a pretty obvious question. They would be really nice about like the answer. Yeah.

Like he's just like, yeah. Yeah. He's like, so there are all those rumors out that we're saying Paul is dead. And if you did this and let's do it backwards he's like yeah i would say you're dead he's like that that was a hoax right he's like well yeah well yes chris i wasn't really dead he's like oh yeah he like freaks out just goes absolutely nuts on himself

rachel says like she's trying to win an Academy Award for like a widowed mom. Yeah, she puts the veil over her face. Before I forget, let's talk about a little goof we made. Last Wednesday, we were supposed to have a Main Street Roasters ad and we did record it

and then forgot to put it in. So we just want to say, we love Major Roasters. Boy, do we. My bad. My bad. What's that from? That's from Greg walking into my room sleepwalking. My bad.

My bad. That was preparing you for Rachel. That was. Yeah, yeah. That was a scary night. That was scarier than anything Rachel wasachel was done i did not like that um so yeah just what just made sure we love you oh nothing's changed nothing's changed yeah you can still get last last week we said that you can get 10 off if you use grkc mainstream.com still applies yep it's inflation proof yes um so yeah

mainstream is the best. Yes. But yeah, I went on a walk last week because we had a little gig Friday night. Yeah, dude. Okay, talk about it from your perspective. Tell everyone what it is, and then I'll tell you my opinion. But I would be curious to hear, obviously, you do 100 gigs a year. How did this compare to everything and all that stuff?

We got this gig because Brad ran into a pastor at McLean's. I was reading my Bible out loud, evangelizing to people. People love that. I don't need it. I'm a pastor. Okay. No, go ahead. And anyway, yeah, we ended up getting this gig. He's a Shawnee guy as well. And it was like, we're doing this marriage conference. We'd love guys have you guys out for like an hour of entertainment uh friday night and so yeah kind of left it up to us whatever we wanted to do so we end up coming up with kind of a mix of some videos of ours that deal with marriage uh primarily stand up and then a little bit of a game and i would say it was uh it was a new challenge for me me because we were doing new stuff and I wanted to, I didn't have it memorized.

So there was some stuff that obviously I do on the road, but it's in a different order. I still needed a win to say those certain things. So yeah, it took some prep work for sure. And it felt like a lot of the stand-up part should probably fall on me. Like, I need to make sure I know my stuff. Right. And you can kind of like help back me up. Yeah.

But having the stand-up stuff was key for sure. Yeah, that was nice. It was so awesome to be like, oh, Jake's got this for the next three minutes. They're going to laugh. Yeah, do your thing. It works. Yeah. So it was fun.

We get there, and it's not at their church. It's at a Doubletree Hotel ballroom. And good-looking ballroom. I'm a big fan of Doubletrees. Doubletrees is nice. You get a free chocolate chip cookie. Beautiful atrium. Yeah, with a great printer.

Complimentary printer access. Dude, how about it? Life hack. If you need a quick print. There was no room number. There was no sign-in. Brad was on Google Chrome in 10 seconds, printing 30 seconds later.

It really was like one of those like, whoa, is Brad a hacker right now? You went docs.google.com, sign in. Bella Sturdy. I knew they were going to, yeah, two-factor authentication. I had my phone out like, no problem, no problem. Guess, confirm.

We're in. We're in. We're in. Yeah, Brad put it off. We had a little set list at our feet so we can keep track of where we're at. I'm glad we did that. Good idea. At first, first i was like it's not that big of a deal whatever and then looking back dude i like that i should do this every show yeah genius and so we go this

ballroom and they got a little jazz band playing and this jazz band uh actually they're pretty cool because they have the guinness world record for loudest jazz band of all time it was so loud dude it was it was wild it was crazy and they sat us front row baby could not have been closer to the saxophone if we tried like we were the closest people to the jazz band um it was so so loud and it wasn't like oh i bet it was loud because they were really close to him i guarantee you the people in the very back also were like what what'd you say and i understand like there's a there's it would be hard to be a band like that and not be loud i guess i don't know but like you can tone it down a little it was so loud i think the genre calls for this to

be a little more toned down because when he first got soulful jazz it wasn't as soulful as saxophone yeah but i think the first 30 minutes there were no vocals it was kind of just background jazz and that's what did not need to be so loud that's not even like a performance they're not doing a song this is just like just chill. Just give us JCPenney's elevator music jazz in the background. Then they start doing some, this is a Kansas City original, you know him, you love him.

Johnny Ferris or something. They did do like the most like, yeah, you've heard of Laramie Holiday before, I'm sure. The Green Lady Lounge knows this guy. They did a few originals. Did they? Yeah. Oh, wow. I mean, they were very good.

Yeah, definitely talented, but just real loud. Four-piece band. We had sax, drums, stand-up bass. Like... Not like a guy was playing bass standing up. Yeah.

The electric bass guitar. He had a strap on his bass. Got it. Got it. Stand up bass. Is that the right? Is that what I should call what he was doing? Upright.

I knew it was something. I like stand up bass. The guy was making jokes as he was playing his bass. So anyway, I'm like, that's not a pirate. That's my wife. He was doing a sign. That's a great idea. There's like stand up bass.

Emphasize your jokes with like a baseline. That'd be kind of funny. A lot of people do, but no one's saying. Yeah, they were just extremely loud. And yeah, saxophone, electric guitar, bass. Oh yeah, electric guitar. Drums. and um yeah saxophone electric guitar bass oh yeah electric guitar drums and so we're at a table with uh the campus pastor who hired us and his wife another couple and would have been amazing

to get to know them yes but i was so discouraged i was sitting across the table from them it was so loud and i got to perform soon and i kind of just checked out not really like on my phone but just kind of sitting there bro it was just so loud It was just so loud. It was like, I could talk to Jake because we were next to each other. Yeah. But I couldn't even talk to Rachel, two down from me. Yeah. Unless I literally screamed. Oh, bad idea to probably scream at people right before you're supposed to go scream for an hour.

That one woman, three doors down from you, asked you a question. And you were like, you tried to communicate. She said what, you said what. And then you had to get over and just sit down and talk to her. Yes. Three seats down from you. I'm like, I'm so sorry. Yeah.

I'm so sorry. Four kids. No, Ray keeps saying six. No, we're a family of six. We don't know each other that well. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, there was like a little bit of a brief pause in the songs one time.

And I was like, hurry. So how are you doing? Are you, you feel good about this event? Is it going well for you? Yeah. Okay. Oh, it was something. Yeah, okay. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba! Oh, it was something to behold, man.

And yeah, it made me, I felt self-conscious. Did you feel self-conscious of like, these people maybe were like, who knows what their relationship is with Ray and his wife? Don't even remember her name because I couldn't hear it. But maybe they were sitting at our table because they're like, oh, we're fans of them. Can we sit with you? And totally maybe they were. Maybe they were like, these people are just jerks that don't want to talk to it. And it's like as far this thing from the truth. But man, it's so hard. And so I was just was like, I just feel like they're

going to think I'm such a mean person here. I definitely felt self-conscious as well. But I also felt like, I mean, I can't scream for an for an hour. I just can't do that right now. So I gotta not do this. Yeah. So it was, I, we, we, we joked about you and I, which is, we were next to each other. We could talk to each other. We joked about saying something on stage. Like, Oh yeah. Should we joke about what was their name? The grand Marquis. Thank you for grand Marquis, uh it so we don't have to have awkward small talk for the last hour. Something like that. Yeah, they had Napoleon Dynamite playing drums.

Think about calling him up there. Give it up for Napoleon Dynamite on the drums. Apparently Grand Marquis was not quite as respectful to us as we were to them. Oh, yeah. So to start off, yeah, it was like all right, you guys know we've got some entertainment for the night. But first, here's a video from Jake and Brad. And it was our one month of marriage

versus 10 years of marriage, which is fun. I've never seen our videos in front of a live audience. Received very well. Yeah. Not a given. Just because it gets views online that it gets a laugh out loud response. And it did. People really laughed, which is really fun. That was fun. Yeah, to see. But there's only one projector screen and it's in the corner. It's not centered.

It's not coming from the top. It's coming from the floor on a cart is where the projector is. The screen's in the corner. And I will say we did not get the Grand Marquis treatment. This volume was not super loud. Shout out Justin for putting captions on our videos. Shout out Justin. Because that did our videos. Shout out Justin.

Because that did help a lot. Good idea, Brad, to do that. And another thing we were fighting against was a little something called the stand-up bass because it was being walked in between the projector and the projector screen. Every instrument had a turn being walked in front of. It was amazing the lack of, like,

you're an entertainer. You know performance. You know how this works. It was amazing the lack of, like, you're an entertainer. You know performance. You know how this works. How are you not conscious of everyone's looking in this direction. The sound is coming from this direction. Let's just walk in front of the screen. Let's just make it so they don't hear that joke

because they can't hear it very well and they can't see it very well. It was one of those things where I just kind of laughed. I was like, okay. That's the biggest deal, but it can wait, dude. Surely or every instrument took a turn going by and it wasn't like, it was like walking quick. Just, just, just chill. It's not a long video, like two minutes long. Like, or like, it wasn't like the projector was right by somebody's table. They could have easily gone behind the projector. Yeah. Or just packed up their stuff somewhere. Yeah.

Or even done like the half, you know, half hearted, just like bend over as you're going past the projector to acknowledge that you're, or, or like a little jog. Yeah.

No, they walked as slow and as confident as I've ever seen someone walk. You know how like somebody, when they are like, when you're opening, holding the door for them, like, Oh,

and you're not walking any faster, but you're kind of moving. Your arms are popping. Sorry about that. They didn't have any remorse. Smug. They thought it was funny. Yeah, so smug and arrogant. Anyway, I haven't even got to the performance

yet. Time to just be real. Time to just be real. Time to be real. I just looked at time and he just goes, Hey, but reel all you need to. Love it, dude. you gotta have it um anyway so yeah that was that was something uh yeah the performance itself i don't know yeah tell me like sorry again tell me your experience because in my humble opinion it wasn't like whoa brad and jake 100 a plus whatever but I don't feel like there was really much to be super negative about.

Yeah. True or false. I wonder what a lot of entertainment, like knowing what we were paid, knowing that we're in Shawnee, Kansas, I wonder what typical hour-long entertainment looks like. Yeah. Obviously, we don't know that because I think we did a pretty good job. I think is where I'm going with that. Right.

But here's what I'll say right away. That was different. No monitors. Monitors, if you know music or performing are speakers facing you so you can hear yourself time and time is not long time and time and that's why the jazz was so loud yeah they had no idea um so that's tricky when it's uh when it's a one-man performance not a huge deal like lucas when he performs he's like just turn my monitors off i don't care but a two-man performance this is tricky to not talk over each other because you're not, you know, it's like not wearing headphones while podcasting. Another thing, the lights are on as bright as possible.

So you can see everybody. Not the biggest deal, but. It didn't phase me at all because I'm not used to that. Yeah. You know, opposite of that. And in reality, I don't know how much it phased me, but it's just. You noticed it. You could just see when someone's like not smiling, when someone else is or something.

Or you could see... Then again, I told a story while we were stalling one time, and I saw Pastor Ray doubled over laughing. So I was like, I wouldn't have seen that if the lights were off. He was really rocking in his chair. Really? That's fun. That's interesting.

Trying to think what else. And yeah, it was just interesting doing stand-up with a second person for the first time. But I think all things considered, no, we did a very good job. I told you this. I told Catherine this. I thought you did a very good job. I've done what we did on stage 250 times.

You've done it four. So it's a little different to have the composure, have the confidence to not just be on stage. I think stage presence comes naturally to certain people. But to do stand-up comedy in front of, like, sober church people, you know, it's not easy. They had iced tea. Oh, that's right.

Yeah, so they were caffeinated. Mormons are like, you think they're sober? There's a decent amount of caffeine. Ask Mr. Smith about that. Yeah, thanks, dude. Yeah, it was, I was so, I mean, not in, like, a disrespectful or, like, thanks dude. Yeah. It was, I, I was so, I mean, not, not in like a disrespectful or like whatever way, but I was just not nervous. Like I was not nervous. I had respect for the event

and I wanted to do a good job. That's what I'm trying to say. But like, just like, like, but because I was with you, I think that's, that makes it so much easier. Right? Like, it's like, I don't have to, if, if I have an awkward joke or whatever, it's like, okay, they didn't really laugh at that. Jake, you say something.

We got the next one though. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Whereas like, if I'm just up there by myself, that, that could really like,

it'd be a rough hour. It's like, Oh man, that really like hurt my, you know, that hurt my confidence. It hurt my whatever. I started to get a little warm now.

Whereas it was just like, all right, Jake, your turn. Like tell them not that I can remember like one joke being like, that not funny at all but like yeah i i told my puddle city story and i was like afterwards i was like i don't know if that was the best my best performance of that or whatever um at the same time though yeah i mean it's there was enough amazing and fun things going on that yeah i don't think it would that like bomb necessarily uh see how it's fun we open it up just by um doing a little like uh introductions of ourself a little crowd work

yeah which is fun we got to know i mean it's funny like doing crowd work not necessarily in a comedy club or in a comedy environment like right at marriage conference but still doing like like i was kind of making fun of people yeah i took a chance on one joke and thankfully it i don't know 60 landed which one it was when i was like where you from and he said kansas oh right which has a number of different stereotypes but one immediately came to mind and so i already had the joke but i was like let's build this up a little more i was like how long you how long you been there and he said all my life and so i said wow so you must be fluent in spanish um because there was a lot of latino people

live there in kid city uh-huh and a little risky for like the second joke out of the gate. But luckily they did. And they were like these old white people. They were not. Yeah. They did like laugh. Half of them laughed, I think. So like, all right, this is going to be fine.

And then we're doing some more. I think Brad was telling a story or somehow we got talking to someone else. And Brad's like, anybody else do home births? And then one woman, I mean, you could have picked her out of a lineup. Which one of these women else do home births and then one woman uh i mean you could have picked her out of a lineup which one of these women did a home birth like that woman did and brad quickly just jumps it up you know what gonna do a little home birth bingo real quick uh sourdough yeah yep kombucha essential oils what else did i say you went four for five i think i think sourdough was the one that she said no on oh i thought it was like cold pressed

juices did she say yes to that maybe but i know she said no on. Oh, I thought it was like cold-pressed juices. Did she say yes to that? Maybe. I know she was, and she homeschools her kids. I was like, homeschool? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And she also just looked the part. You even said that. You're like, the woman who's head to toe.

Four-length dress, hair in a bun. Shocker. Yeah, she did look the part. So yeah, we had fun. It was just kind of a mix of yeah we do a little crowd work we we knew what we were trying to get to and try to make it flow as naturally as possible and we do a little crowd work or sorry a little comedy and then do another video and then yeah a little more comedy and we would take turns and brad did a good job like not stepping on the

punch lines but as i'm building towards a joke or whatever like interjecting or there was a few times where i almost just like knew is coming. And I was almost like, I almost said, I want to say this is good guys. Listen to this. And Brad being quite the performer in the actor, you know,

and I have like some misdirection joke, Brad's acting like he's hearing it for the first time. Oh my gosh. Kind of, kind of like borderline, like in a, not inappropriate, but just like a dark humor.

I can't believe you said that. That's the sign of a good performer. Yeah. Yeah. So that was also nice. We said that like, Hey, like we can laugh at each other's jokes. And therefore, even if we bomb a joke, at least we're laughing at each other on a microphone, you know? Um, yeah, it was, it was a good time. I'll try. Oh. And like so much of it was just, I don't think it's like this hard balance of like, Hey, let's prepare well, but let's also make sure like we're just ourselves, which is more off the cuff, more like,

yeah. Interacting with the people and joking around with the home birth bingo. And that part was so fun. Same with, you said, um, I said some joke and it wasn't even like a planned joke. It was just like, we were talking about who's been new, like newlyweds here. And I was like, sometimes I still feel like a newlywed. And then I talked about how, but then other times my wife, you know, as I'm leaving, I'm hoping she'd say, I love you, you know, good luck. And she said, Hey, don't forget to grab some eggs on the way home. And pretty good laugh just on that. Yeah. It's like, okay, Brad keeps going. so then i was like and so uh you know then she texted me later i don't know what i said something like and thinking like okay maybe it'll be like sorry i was in a rush whatever

it just said eggs just just not even make sure to get eggs just eggs you know yeah people laughed at that that was a good bit yeah yeah this is dude. Honestly, I told you this in the parking lot after Rhodesville. I was like, dude, my comedy alarm bells are going off. There's a lot of material to be had about that 10 years of marriage type crowd. They love the jokes of like, I still love my wife kind of thing. Or like, oh, yeah, you guys have plans on the weekend? That would be nice. Yes, right.

That kind of style of comedy. Yeah. Yeah, just the middle class, middle-aged type marriage stuff was working really well that whole night. Yeah, it was, it was, it was fun time. And, and so, yeah, then at the end of the night, we kind of capped it off with the newlywed game, quote unquote, whatever, a trivia game with spouses. Cause it wasn't a new, it was like that newlywed couple, that old couple from KCK. Yeah. And then home birth couple. And then home birth couple where it's like, let's bring them all up. And, uh, it was kind of like a, you know, young, middle, old. Yeah. Kind of. And, and it worked out great. That was, that was one of those times where it was like,

this, this is what's so, this is where Jake and I are the best. Yeah. This is, yeah. We've had the most experience doing stuff like this. It's just like, Hey, we ask a pretty normal question with a pretty normal, like premise of an idea for the game, but then we just make it fun. No matter what you say, I bet we can have something funny to say. Right. After it's even just like the newlywed couple.

Okay. You guys go on honeymoon. Yes. We do. Okay. Where'd you go? And they go Italy. You and I both go,

Oh, okay. Okay. I bet those in Casey Caden go to Italy. Where'd you guys go? The Ramada, you know, in. So, yeah, my favorite thing from the newlywed game was the middle couple, we'll call them, the home birth couple. I think I asked, you know, we have the wives leave the room.

We asked the husband some questions. So whatever, it doesn't matter. But the question was, what is one adjective that your wife would describe you as? And this guy, middle, middle, you know, whatever my age, basically kind of looking guy. Anyway, he was like, Oh, I'm trying to remember what an adjective even is, you know, whatever. Um, which is funny because they said they homeschool their kids. I was like homeschool. Yeah. Their teacher. Yeah. This is great. Uh, that was, that was pretty fun. And then later, I think I asked a question that was like, wives, what is the subject of your dumbest or stupidest fight or something like that?

And this woman's like, of Mr. Adjective Guy, was like, well, it was when he called that other woman exceedingly beautiful. Yeah. One time he called this waitress exceedingly beautiful. Like the guy with no adjectives. I was like, adjective guy? Oh, just,

yeah, anyway. He was a great sport. They were so fun. I loved, that was a great question. What's been the topic of your dumbest fight?

Because the old couple, they, you know, they had different answers and both of them like warranted a story. Well, initially it was like,

the time I got her a scale for her birthday. I was like, that's amazing. And another answer was, well, the time I got her flowers from another woman, it was like, what? And then he's explaining that. I like, I like full Steve Harvey, that one. Like, I just like dropped my microphone and walked off the stage. Like, oh my gosh, what are you thinking? Kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was just fun time with those people. And, um, yeah, I don't know. So as far as events go, I was very happy with it. Yeah. Very pleased. Um,

did you race anything to you since then? Yeah. He just said that was so great. Loved it. Thanks so much. And then he said, uh, Doug and Cheryl, who's the old couple, Doug and Cheryl are going to follow you on YouTube. Yes. Doug, Cheryl, maybe you're listening right now. That's right. So anyway, it was a great time. It's one of those things where I don't get to do stuff like that very often, so it is energizing to me to hear people laugh.

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Fun. Permission granted. Tymon's going to help me out. I thought it'd be fun to tell you my normal, like, Ghostrunners-type life update story via song. Duke Silver style. Oh, via song. Via song.

Okay. So you just sit back and enjoy the story. Just pretend it's like any other, just like life update. Okay. From the podcast. But I'm not going to talk. No.

Hold on. Bluetooth. No, it says connected. It says you're there. Oh. Embarrassing. Can I say something else the uh gig while you're figuring that out roadcast are not connected so i needed a break from the super loud band so i went to the bathroom about halfway through dinner and as i'm going number one in the urinal i go to zip up my fly and my fly doesn't want to zip back up and zip back. And I, I, for like, it was like

10 seconds where I was like, what am I going to do? What am I going to do? I'll say it again. I was like internal monologue. What am I going to do? I was like, I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to make Catherine come with four kids to bring me pants and I'm going to be late. Or I can like, try to like hike them up and just pull my shirt down really far. I'm going to be late, or I can try to hike them up and just pull my shirt down really far. I was trying to figure it out. The entire evening, you're just over here, just shoving your shirt. New City Church, how we do it!

I mean, it was one of those things where it's just like, what do you do? I've gotten nervous. There's been a handful of times where it's like the first night of a weekend of shows. I go to like get ready. You know, of course, I'm not getting ready till 630. So I'm like, all right, pull my jeans.

And for a split second, I can't find my jeans in my bag. And you start going like, what would I do? What would I do? And I think the answer is take Alan's jeans or something and just give it to him afterwards. I don't know. Would I have found joggers? I'd have like walked over like, hey, man, you look what what what waste are you waste it'll do all right like i'm like wearing some super tight pants like up there it's a european cut yeah man i mean it was it was longer than like one failed tug and

then force it up it was like like there was some there was some there was a thread in the way or something. It was like, oh, gosh. Oh, my gosh. After a while, you got to be careful. I'm going to have to yank hard enough. Something's got to budge. Me or the zipper. I got to get out of the way and crank it like a chainsaw. Yes. Luckily,

I family force-fived that thing all the way up. It was fine. I think I said that right. I was like, dude, my fly almost didn't zip back up. And I said, what? Yo, that's crazy. What? Hold on.

What? Oh, just text it to me. Grand Marquis on again. Did you hear those people across from us like at the table? I was like, do you have kids? And they go grandkids. Did you hear that? Oh, us at the table? I was like, do you have kids? And they go, grandkids. Did you hear that? And I mean, they seemed young.

Yeah. And I couldn't tell if they were joking or serious. But I didn't want to get into it because I was like, oh, okay. Yeah. I bet a high schooler could do that job. Bet you did the job in high school. I'm glad the video didn't load. That was a great little segment there.

All right, let's see if this is working now. Oh, yeah. So, yeah, I thought this would be fun. Just want something to happen this week. Last Friday night, just flicking through the shows. I saw a little guest, but Rachel, she don't know. Kept it calm, kept it cool. I didn't cause a scene, because Ratatouille's in the kitchen looking right at me.

There's a mouse in the house, and he's staying the night. There's a mouse in the house, so this ain't right. Moving up, moving down, got me on my toes. I'm scared to death And I think he knows House and he's ready to eat There's a mouse in the house Not planning to leave

There's a man in the house Standing tall and brave With a plan in his hand And a wife to save Ooh, mouse in that house Oh, you're having a blast Enjoy tonight's meal Cause I hope it's your last

Rachel's on the couch And boy, she's so oblivious You just went in the sink, but boy, you're so mysterious There he goes again, he's on another run Chocolate-covered pretzels, always having fun Buttered sides, oatmeal pies, what a buffet Get Rachel back to bed, and out of my way A bucket and a plank, some peanut butter too

A spinning ax awaits for the guy to come through Up the ramp, he's got a a plane but I've got mine as well Ratatouille's gonna have a brand new place to dwell Oh mouse in the house, you met your match today I hope you like swimming cause there ain't no other way Next morning Rachel wakes up and gives me a shout Cause there's a bucket in the kitchen with a mouse in it no doubt There's a mouse in the house and he's staying the night

There's a mouse in the house so this ain't the night There's a mouse in the house, oh, this ain't right Moving up, moving down, got me on my toes I'm scared to death and I think he knows There's a mouse in the house and he's ready to eat There's a mouse in the house, not planning to leave There's a man in the house, standing tall and brave With a plan in his hand and a wife to save Mission accomplished, the house is secure

Rachel's still in shock, but at least now she's sure there's a man in the house. Thanks for listening closely. Just another story from me to the ghosties. Wow, dude. Let it roll.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fun song. Probably get your medal. That is fun. It sounds like something else. It doesn't matter.

Kind of like going down for real a little bit. Lowrida? But not. That's not what I was... Yeah, anyway. Wow, dude. Okay. So break it down a little bit more.

So you were watching TV and the mouse was where? You saw it by the TV? That's all a true story. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it started actually at dinner. This is when? What night? Friday night.

This is Friday night. This is the night before you came over. So we had a mouse problem when you came over Saturday night. I didn't tell you, though. That is dramatic irony at its best. So I saw it once when I was at the kitchen table and Rachel was on the couch. I was like, oh, man. First mouse.

And I think I've said on the podcast before, this house was built in the 30s. I can't believe we haven't had mice yet. Well, it's time. Yeah. Saw one. I was like, oh, boy. All right. We got mice.

I was like, I'm not going to tell Rachel. And then we start watching the show, and then I start hearing them. Wait, wait, wait. Where did you see the mouse first? Now we're, oh, like kind of just outside the podcast studio. Okay. And then we're watching a show late at night on the couch, and I start hearing him.

I look back, and he's like on our kitchen counter, and Rachel doesn't hear him, and she's like kind of falling asleep. So I was like, and he's on our kitchen counter, and Rachel doesn't hear him, and she's kind of falling asleep. So I was like, great, she'll need to know. So I'm just kind of watching him, just having a time. He got in the chocolate-covered pretzels bag. He got into Elizabeth Virgil's oatmeal cream pies.

It was truly a buffet. I mean, the song is accurate to what happened. It's like, no wonder there's mice. Yeah, there's food everywhere. Yeah, we could have done a little better. But anyway, so. You got into the chocolate-covered pretzel bag? In the bag, yeah. And you're just watching this?

Yeah, yeah. Dude. So I'm kind of watching this mouse, and then you just kind of hear like a. Like, oh, he's having a good time in those pretzels. Oh, wow. Okay. Just keep an eye on him.

So yeah, like the song said, i like woke rachel up at some point i was like hey why don't we go to bed she's like you coming to bed i was like not not right now i gotta work on something okay okay what are you working on i don't worry about it just gonna evaluate our time with new city church so yeah then i um like like scared him off got him out of the kitchen and starting to put away all the the food that's out and everything and then you weren't nervous to scare him off of course i was scared to death i was so scared brother yeah okay i put shoes on how'd you scare him hey yeah yeah it was mainly just like loud stomps okay okay easy then, yeah, got to work. You know the drill.

Oh, yeah. Ramp, bucket. You had all that? Peanut butter. I went and got it. Okay. And, yeah, next morning, Rachel says, hey, got a mouse in the bucket. Wow.

So she knew about the mouse. Yes, she did. Yeah, she knew about the plan. You did that? The bucket caught a mouse in a bucket. How did you spend it? I'll show you. It's in the garage. Yeah, well, I'm just impressed that you did you drill holes and everything.

I did not drill holes. Okay, just tied off. Just task rabbit. Ryan, he's really, he's really, really good. Yeah. Anybody that judged Jake earlier for like, you know, TaskRabbit in his console table or whatever, like, look at this. Got a mouse in a bucket.

And there's more. There's more. I saw, so I was like, maybe we just had the one. Maybe we just ratted two. He's the only one. But no, two nights ago, I was up late and I saw a little friend and the trap was set. I had the bucket out. Woke up the next morning so excited.

He didn't take the bait. So I don't know what... You putting peanut butter on it? A lot of it. Yeah. Like as much as I can for the axle to still spin. Yeah, I was going to say, have you analyzed it?

Because sometimes I've noticed they're getting the peanut butter but not falling in. It looks like the trap is perfect. Yeah. Man. That was so fun. That was a great song.

Thanks. There's a mouse in the house. You know what I just thought of? I should play Tymon's voice memo. Can I do that, Tymon? Oh, man. I love it, dude. So I, yesterday, I'm, it's like, I think yesterday morning, I was like, Tymon, I found

this amazing instrumental. Like, listen to this. I want to do a song about whatever. I think yesterday morning, I was like, Tymon, I found this amazing instrumental. Listen to this. I want to do a song about whatever. I want to surprise Brad with a song. I was like, the chorus starts at like 22 seconds. I think it'll be this. Will you send me a voice memo of just how you see the melody going?

And I'll figure out the syllables and everything. And so this is what Tymon's sending. I hate this. No, it's fine. I promise. Sometimes it doesn't work. I kind of forgot this. My favorite is the last second, so stick around for that Something like that?

I don't know I loved it It's like hearing a Charlie Puth voice It's like, I don't know It's easy, simple like that Yeah, whatever This flows out of him I texted Tyman and i said dude this

is amazing i need you to see the environment i'm in right now smiling to myself listening to you say but up up up up up up and it was a picture of me at a pizza all you can eat pizza buffet at 11 a.m which you also text me like five minutes later and i was like dude when i'm done with my buffet i'll get i'll get right to that it's like you went to a pizza buffet without me yeah dude those are two of my favorite things what are you thinking anyway just to wrap that up it was fun to have a little make a little song with time in a little bit and to tell a story via song that must be how like if you're in public in 2016 and all of a sudden a flash mob breaks out and you're not a part of it that's what he felt like.

You're just like, I would love to sing along, but I don't know what's going on here. I don't know the moves. Is it repeat next time? There's a mouse in the house. I'm like, okay, I think I got it. Oh, bridge. Oh, we're doing a bridge now.

That's great. Yeah, I was like, oh yeah, you guys are getting it. Yeah. You guys are having so much fun yeah so that was awesome that was so fun thanks and so is pizza street yeah let's talk about it you texted me yesterday you're like dude you know i love pizzas and buffets obviously i would love to go with you i love those things together and you said uh either a really confident person or a real psycho goes to a pizza buffet in the middle of the day.

Which one are you? No, not the middle of the day. Or what did you say? 11 a.m. All right, 11 a.m. You were waiting for it to... Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. Dang it.

Yeah, that's the punchline. There's a mouse in the house in the middle of the day. Frick! Go ahead. Say it again. I was going to go back to our text and figure it out. Yeah, you're really confident. Very confident people are psychos

could pull this off to go to a pizza street by yourself. Which one are you? And I said, I'd like to think I'm confident, but sitting in my car until they open felt like a psycho move. Like when I got there at 10. So the reason I went, I was in between Trey's house and a dentist appointment.

And it was that part of town. I was like, I need to go somewhere where I could sit. And it was just only like Wendy's and Chipotle. They don't have coffee shops over there. Not really. It's like on Mid-America Nazarene's or Midwest Seminary. Theological Seminary. Yeah.

And anyway, so I went to Pete Street and got there at 1045. So I'm just sitting there waiting for them to open. And there was one other guy also sitting in his car. And he looked like he's done this before. He was raring to go at 11. He knew the employees' names. Oh, dude. Also, business life hack.

There's a sign when you walk into Pizza Street. It says, by government ordinance, government law, you must pay for a buffet before walking past this point. Like, that's amazing that they just force that on you i meant to take a picture of the sign because i forget what it said exactly yeah but something like there's no pizza by the slice there's no just doing the arcade yeah you can't just like loiter with your friends there basically probably right like yeah i guess so like you have to pay for a buffet like that's awesome i'm gonna do that bondi hey just if you come in yeah you gotta buy a bowl see this this is the yeah this is the no cross zone or whatever yeah yeah yeah yeah okay so yeah pizza street doing just fine uh dude pizza's pretty good yeah

yeah i loved it it's fresh good uh service too i mean every like five minutes they come by taking more of my plates thank you thank you appreciate it yeah what's what's what's it up to these days cost wise i think 11.99 no way seriously yeah what is that good do you remember growing up maybe you guys don't because you didn't have pizza street yeah oh they have a jingle pizza street pizza street only 3.99 buffet it's all you can eat. No way. Pizza Street, great pizza, great price, all you can eat for $3.99. And then it was like, Pizza Street, Pizza Street, only $4.49 buffet, it's all you can eat. And it kept going up. Pizza Street, inflation sucks, we're up to $8.99 today.

Great pizza, kind of good price, all you can up to $8.99 today. Great pizza, kind of good price. All you can eat for $11.99. Bidenomics are hurting us. Joe Biden, ouchie. $11.99. Stimulus checks really boned us. It's now in 1999. Financial hardships.

Yeah. When I think of a buffet, I think of like 11-ish dollars. So that's all I- That's fair, but have you been to a pizza street? Like, no, like the only buffets that I think of having been to

is like Pizza Ranch and Pizza Street. Yeah. And that's what I think of. Pizza Ranch is a step up. Oh, I thought Pizza Ranch seemed like a step down. Is it? I'm not sure. I've only been to Pizza Ranch once.

What the difference between them is. Yeah. Pizza Ranch is when we were in Branson, and the guy kept coming back every four seconds. Oh, yeah. Pizza Ranch, you can request your own pizza at the table. Really? Right? I don't know.

Yeah. That's nice. Yeah, that is nice. This felt like you get what we give there's no you don't communicate with them they'll give you already did alfredo we already did alfredo we're doing cheese next all right it felt like honestly it was impressive they're keeping their overhead low because no one really works there there's like one chef really i'm not joking one chef and one bus boy okay so the guy who makes the pizza 11 a.m yeah it's true 11 a.m on a

tuesday but a very diverse crowd there i was one of the only white people really yeah it's fun yeah i mean like the pizza there was a pizza street i don't maybe it's still there in olathe but that's where we went all the time with the youth group and stuff like yeah it was a classic spot like good dessert we're doing we're doing advanced laser tag and pizza street and they have an arcade pizza street it's's a claw machine and Gallagher. Yeah. So don't go too hard on one. It was like a full like room dedicated to this arcade,

but it was only two things. Yeah. Maybe a racing game. Yeah. It's pretty, we can't play that. We can't play the violent zombie one. It's too scary.

John had nightmares. You knew crazy taxi. Yeah. Crazy taxi. Forks are by the ice cream machine. Also next to the ice cream machine is Main Street Roasters. Oh, Main Street Roasters will energize you up. GRKC for 10% off.

MainStreetRoasters.com. Yes. You guys know Main Street Roasters. You heard with Mike Hell. Well, more often than not. He was drinking Main Street Roasters. His skin color. The horse's name was Main Street Roasters.

Horse's name. His skin color. Yeah.'s name was Main Street Roasters. Horse's name. His skin color. Yeah. It was a caramel latte. He prefers a mocha, if you know what I mean. Puerto Rican me crazy. They have Jamaican me crazy for Mike L. They switched it.

My wife loves it. It's flat white. 10% off, GRKC. You know. You know. You get it. You guys get it. Pizza Street, dude.

Good for you. Yeah, Pizza Street. Steven Swick the other day. Oh, I was just about to start singing. Pizza Street! There's a pizza in the street and I'm ready to eat. I want people to write a parody of Mouse in the House. A jingle for us based off of Mouse in the House.

Based off a song you made up. That's fun. Yeah, come up with your own lyrics to Mouse in the House. A jingle for us based off of Mouse in the House. Based off a song you made up. That's fun. Yeah, come up with your own lyrics to Mouse in the House. The YouTube instrumental, it's called Fashion Saxophone Stylish by Infraction.

You search that, you'll find it. Fashion Saxophone... Yeah, that is tough. A lot of... Fashion Saxophone Stylish by Infraction. It didn't even say, like, instrumental or pop or pop. I'm going to try to say this. Fashion saxophone stylish by infraction.

Well done. I was not expecting to do that well. It also says no copyright music, so it better not be. Yeah, right. These days. Sorry. You go. You go.

The other day, Steven Swick just texted me, and he was like, I'm starting to worry that you guys, you know, I'm here eating my here eating my Chipotle in my car and I'm starting to worry that you and Jake are getting a little too healthy. You always, you know, random thoughts on white meat, fast food on repeat. He's like, I feel like you guys aren't eating out anymore. And I, first of all, Jake just went to pizza street. Second, I put the hurt. I got my 1199.

He texted me that while I was sitting in a McDonald's. And I was like, well, good. Richard just canceled their promotion with us. And I'm sitting at McDonald's. So you tell me. All right, man. I'm poor, dude. I have to do this. I was sitting there just unironically like I like McDonald's because sometimes I don't

want to see anybody in a coffee shop. I just want to be by myself. And no one goes inside McDonald's anymore. Trey and I were just talking about this. Maybe I talked about this on the podcast, but I was doing crowd work in Denver, I think, wherever I was and picky eater. And what'd you have for dinner?

McDonald's? What'd you have for lunch? Burger King? I was like, oh my gosh. You just don't hear about that these days. Are you massive? Are you doing all right back there? Yeah.

Jeez. So it's kind of a fun surprise when someone's there. Like, oh, yeah, good. Yeah, dude. Yeah, I've been going to the one over by Lowe's. By Lowe's. And I'm sure McDonald's is doing just fine. Even Burger King. I made the point. I was like, who's going to Burger King? But then, you know, you

look at the amount they're spending on commercials. That money's coming from somewhere. Like, they must be doing all right. Yeah, maybe. I think it might just be different types of people go to birking maybe at least the ones by our house though it's like no one's at the birking i don't know maybe what the heck um i don't know how this came up in my head but i thought of a segue but now I can't remember it. I have written down in my notes, a half big business idea. Just one. Yesterday I was getting my haircut, was talking to this. My barber also has a Cuban sandwich. Cuban on.

Cuban on. Cuban sandwich food truck business. They just started recently, last year or two. And, you know, whatever we're talking about it. He's like, dude, he's like trying to get it into one of the sports venues in town, all these different things. Really cool. And he's like,

yeah, you know, and then everyone's going to want Cuban. So I was like, well then once everyone wants Cubans, like you should hire Mark Cuban to be an investor, you know, whatever,

it's just a perfect thing. And then I, my half big business idea is finding people with famous names and having them invest very minimally in your business so that you can say, Mark Cuban's an investor in our company. Yeah. Mark Zuckerberg. Can I get a quote from you, Mark Zuckerberg? And it's some guy from Lexington, Kentucky. And he's just like, this is the new big thing, you know? And you're not lying. No, Mark Cuban's an investor. He did. He invested. Mark Cuban. Yeah. He's put five of his own

dollars in. That is, that's a good business idea. Just get all like, and, and imagine how much I could then pay those people with famous names that are probably annoyed by having famous names at this point. Like Kevin O'Leary for 45 years of his life was just fine, and then all of a sudden Mr. Wonderful comes along, and he's like, yeah, my name's Kevin O'Leary. Yeah. Uh-huh. But now all of a sudden I'm giving him $100 for every transaction.

Yeah, he's an investor. He's literally an investor. It's not just like a marketing thing. Like he's an investor in the company. This is like the movie Office Space. Okay. You ever seen that? He has the name. Shoot, what's it? Michael. Shoot, what's his investor in the company. This is like the movie Office Space. Okay. You ever seen that? He has the name.

Shoot, what's it? Michael. Shoot, what's his name? He has the name of a famous person. And that's a big like plot point in the movie. He's like, I had it first. Because everyone's just like, oh, like the singer. Oh, Michael Jackson?

Office Space. Dude, has Google Chrome been doing this to you? I'll be in the middle of searching in the URL and it'll open a new tab on Bing.com. No. It's the weirdest quirk. Michael Bolton. Michael Bolton.

That's pretty funny. I'm going to say Michael Richards because we were talking about Kramer before this. Michael Bolton. Oh, Michael Bolton, like the singer. Yeah, like the singer. He's just miserable. I mean, yeah.

There's somebody out there with the name Elsa Anna Smith. And for six years of her life, she was great. And then Frozen came out. And from now on, everyone's like, oh, I mean, you get this a lot, huh? It's like, yeah, I do. And they're miserable, Jake. Even our friend Elsa Jane. She was just fine for 16 years of her life.

And all of a sudden, Elsa is a really fun name. Correct. Yeah. Let's ease the pain for him a little bit. The errands of the world, male errands. And then A.A. Ron. A.A. Ron. That ruined that.

Jake from State Farm. Yeah. Wine Bros did it to me recently. It's still happening. That commercial is 11, 12 years old. It's still happening. 11 years old? It's so old.

Is that right? Holy cow. Let's look. Um, yeah, I, do you know, uh, you remember, Oh, what's that show cash cab? Yeah. Uh, the Ben Bailey, the guy that like was the host of that. I saw a standup bit of him recently. It was like, Hey, thanks to the company been gay, um, for just ruining my childhood, you know, like same with like Karen, like if your name's karen you were just fine forever and now it's like you're karen the original jake from state farm commercials uh appeared in 2011 no way 13 years old uh khakis wow yeah so just little things like

that i don't know just just a little anyway just That's a great half-baked idea. Yeah. Figure out a name for it, Ghosties. What do we call it? It's a marketing idea. It could really be part of the business. And I really, I think it's also philanthropic

towards these people that are being kind of neglected for their name being Michael Jordan, but they're not Michael Jordan. Yeah. Let me throw you a bone here. Yeah. Help you out.

I just feel for them. Yeah. Yeah. Let me throw you a bone here. Yeah. Help you out. I just feel for him. Yeah. Yeah. That's fun. Um, should we wrap this up? Move on to Wednesday. What do you think? Let's wrap this up.

Move on to Wednesday. Wednesday for your, it's Tuesday tomorrow for you guys, but then Wednesday, make sure you listen. Tuesday. Is there anybody in your life that says Tuesday? Maybe some old Tuesday people from Stratford. Shout out to my friend Phil. He says Tuesday. He's got an old soul. Oh, so shout out on my end to the Facebook group. There are so many posts. It is getting hard to keep up with, but don't stop. It's so fun. Oh,

yeah. So shout out to you guys. It's this weird feeling where every time I open up Facebook, I know there's going to be a new post. You know what I mean? It's the biggest blessing in the world. It's so fun. Someone made a post just last night. They're like, hey, I'm a rather new ghosty. Never posted, never been a posty. But I just want to say, I don't know if you guys are aware, this is a really unique, amazing community. This is a really positive group of people. So shout out, Jake and Brad, what you've created. I know I already know that,

but that's still such a good reminder. It's like, this is crazy. For such an extended period of time, there's just no drama. There's just no negativity. It's just like, we're on the same page. We're all good. It's great.

And every once in a while, there's a little bit of strife and it gets worked out. It's like, let it go. They'll figure it out. Sometimes it's best to just let them finish.

Let them finish. So, yeah, I agree. I echo all those sentiments, Jake. Also, not a shout out to me

last Monday episode. I feel like I got so many things wrong. I ruined my dad's birthday. Olga P is not going to Portugal the same time I am. Got that wrong somehow. Did you heard from your dad like, yeah, that's... Yes.

Let me share with you the text he sent me. What an idiot. Eight exclamation points. The one time I was going to surprise your mother with a good birthday present. I guess I'll give it to her tonight. So he did. He called me that night.

The present? Yeah, yeah. Okay. And he's like, your mom just got done listening to the podcast, so I just got done giving her her cozy pajamas. Ooh, pajamas. That's fun. So, yeah.

And there was a couple other things that Ghosties brought up to me. Like, did you mean to say this? Or do you got this wrong? Like, I I don't know I am out to lunch listen what's going on you should start saying that a real piece of boy am I out to lunch right now that's uh that's a Steve Koop I heard him say that one time I was like that's great he was just like spacing out like yeah hey are you listen sorry I am out to lunch I feel like I've heard that before but like not often like we should make that a common occurrence oh yeah oh sorry i am out to lunch i feel like i've heard that before but like not often like we should make that a common occurrence i'm gonna start using that oh yeah oh hi i'm out to lunch right now sorry guys that's like olga p yeah it's some old so how

many olgas we're not we shouldn't assume in our small podcast world that there's more than one olga maybe it was another olga i don't know who it was somebody let me someone is going to be at the no somebody said it was olga with the last name starts with an S. Oh, it really was. Yeah. Okay. Well that's okay.

That's a decent, a lot of people would have made that mistake. Yes. Also, uh, Janelle Boniello's mom's name is Olga. Shout out to you, Janelle.

No. Yeah. Yes. No. Yes, dude. You were out to lunch right now. Where are you at brunch right now?

What? Can't find you. Da heck. Don't out to lunch right now. Where are you at? Brunch right now? What? Can't find you. Da heck? Don't take my review. Fine. You go first. Yes. Timon, does the name Evelana sound familiar?

Yes. Yes. All right, so my review is from Eva Pets. I've heard that before. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why, why, why? What'd she say about me? Go ahead.

The title, five stars, came for Timon, stayed for Jake and Brad. My ghostly origin story is different than most. I actually learned about the pod through hearing Tymon go on and on about it. She didn't say that. Talk about it at Greenleaf, parentheses, theater. From the name, I figured it was about

paranormal true crime stories or something and decided I wasn't interested and also thought it was weird for Tymon to or something and decided i wasn't interested and also thought it was weird for her time to be into a couple months later i decided to give it a try after constantly hearing green leafers discussing inside jokes and boy am i glad i did well i first thought it was really weird the time it was on this podcast with two random adult men i quickly realized they were very entertaining random adult men and i'm currently listening to old episodes from the beginning i my family frequently takes months or more long road trips.

That's the homeschooler. Such a humble brag. We can afford to not work for a while. My dad is just fine, so he can work on the road. Long road trips in our brand new, really nice RV. Yeah. No, she's dead. And the pod has helped me feel connected to KC

while I'm away. If you're looking for down-to-earth, relatable, clean humor, look no farther. P.S. Yes, Pandora still exists. I'm a sheltered homeschooler who still uses it to listen to the pod. Signed, Evelana. And then a parentheses. Apologies for the Apple ID.

I chose it at age eight. The Apple ID is Eva Pets. Eva Pets. Eva Pets. Eva Pets. Eva Pets. I don't know. What do you like to do? I like to pet things. I don't know. Okay, Eva Pets. Thanks for getting us a listener, Tymon.

Thanks, Evelana. That's one, Tymon. Evelana. Was she in the... What show did we go see? Dang it. I knew it was alliteration. She wasn't in that one.

She was in the one you didn't come see, Crossing Switchblade. We didn't know if you were going to stick around that long. I was performing for Olga. Somewhere probably. Catherine's ready to go see Les Mis. The Pops concert that he's doing. With Les Mis. Did we do five-star Kay haley last week no good i just want to make sure i don't know five star best talk show of all time i was

astonished to realize i have been a ghosty for five plus years apparently i have not left a five-star review that is a long time my number one genuine my number one comfort podcast these guys are so real and genuine what you hear on the pod is exactly who they are. I love the way they tell stories and make regular life so interesting. Yeah, via saxophone song. Also, the most wholesome and wonderful fan base you'll ever be a part of. Loved getting to hang with not only Jake, Brad, and Tymon, but also the fellow ghosties at Grande Boo last summer.

10 out of 10 would recommend anyone to get addicted to the pod. Fun. Great review. Yeah. Great review. Yeah. Every review helps. So we really do appreciate it. Every review helps. And every comment gets read.

Every Facebook post gets read. Yes. We're still not that popular podcast. So, you know, we still see everything. It's a healthy spot to be in. Yeah, it is. It's fun. It's we don't respond to everything, but we see it all and we respond in our head and

we appreciate it. So it's fun being a small podcast. Your sponsors can leave you suddenly, and then... Hey, there's hope. There's hope, baby. We'll see. You know who we do appreciate is one sponsor that hasn't left us? MainstreamRoasters.com.

We will never forget to read off their... We will try our best. We will do our best, brother. On a weekly basis. Yes. And if they leave us next week, I get i i get it it's timing's head that's right if if yeah if they leave and timing leaves too you'll know why he's swimming with the fishes don't ask yeah break his kneecaps off going to the rivers he's in the bucket in my garage swimming with ratatouille dude my mom recently has been uh like i've noticed like she's kind of genuinely laughing like my war dogs laugh but like kind of in like a like oh this person was trying to be funny and

so i'll laugh at it but i'm like mom i think this is kind of a habit uh yeah we were at my grandma's burial service in ohio and this guy oh i'm trying to remember his joke his name's tim oh what was it dang it he made some pun on his name dang it it's gonna bother me now that i can't remember it but it was like where did i come from i am from east side of state now you're probably thinking i'm from tim buck too yeah something like. And my mom just goes, I was like, all or nothing. I was like, mom, that's the joke. That's the laugh.

Dang it, it's going to bother me. It wasn't Tim. Doesn't matter. I'll think about it and I'll tell you Wednesday if I can remember it. Brad, would you like to end this episode with a jingle? Yes, with Tymon. I'm excited for this one. I might just join you for the choruses. That's okay.

Is that fine? Yes, Tymon's going to join me for the choruses. Tymon's going to join me for the choruses. This one's from Gina Carrow. It's good. It's good. No, no, let's do it. Who's this from?

Gina Carrow. Let's call her. Who's this from? Gina Carrow. Carrow. Carrow. Let's call her Olga. There's a lot of them. K-A-R-O-W. How do you say that? Carrow.

Carrow. Car. That's just a Carrow. Need to scare Carrow. Volume's turned up. Hey. Wait, wait. Sorry from the beginning.

Sorry. I think that was the beginning. I Wait, wait. Sorry from the beginning. Sorry. I think that was the beginning. I wasn't ready. We'll start it. Do the thing from the beginning. Five, six, seven, eight. Dang it. I'm sorry.

I'm skittish. Do we need to? Yeah. Is it because it doesn't seem like a stage Instagram reel? Let me get a sign that says anybody... Gina, thank you for writing this.

Is this you? You're having a bad day? Have a seat. Alright, let me think of this song off the top of my head that you've never heard before. That's me. But you're going to be able to understand exactly what it means and what it's about right off the before. That's me. But you're going to be able to understand exactly what it means and what it's about right off the bat. That's a cool piano you have right there.

Chill, chill. I'm about to have a good day. Another podcast on the way. The sun is shining in KC. Jake and Brad are singing praise I'm about to have a good day Time to hit us with that nay The God who made the universe

By Ghost Runners it's fame So it's a good day Jake and Rachel running through the neighborhood Living for the address Wouldn't change them if I could. I remember back when Chick-fil-A was all the buzz. Now it seems like Good Ranchers is all Brad does. Boy, I love to screw through and through.

Hear them say and let them watch. I know they've got my back. That's why I'm saying that. I'm about to have a good day. Another podcast on the way. The sun is shining in KC. Jake and Brad are singing praise. I'm about to have a good day.

Good day. Tom and Hitters with that name. The God who made the universe. ghost runners it's fame so it's a good day it's a good day nope it's great everything we hope for and it's never late monday wednesday morning we never have to wait ask us if we love it we'll never hesitate boy i love this crew through and through. Hear them say and let them watch. Let them watch.

Hope they've got my back. That's why I'm saying that. I'm about to have a good day. Another podcast on the way. The sun is shining in KC. Jake and Brad are singing praise I'm about to have a good day Time to hit us with that nay

The God who made the universe Brought Ghostrunners its fame So it's a good day Nay, nay, nay, nay, nay I don't know Nay, nay, nay, nay. I don't know. Nay, nay, nay, nay, nay. Nay, nay, nay, nay, nay.

It's a good day. Nay, nay, nay. Nay, nay, nay, nay, nay. Nay, nay, nay, nay, nay. Nay, nay, nay, nay, nay. It's a good day. It's a good day It's a good day Day, day

Did that help you with your mood? You feel better? Thanks, man You feel better with that kid? That kid? In the stroller That kid's real in the stroller? Yeah

He's not crying? Yeah, thanks Really? Yeah You're welcome You need a hug? Dang Dang, dude That was awesome In real time Through my headphones Yeah. You're welcome. You need a hug? Dang. Dang, dude.

That was awesome. In real time, through my headphones, I mean, your voice already had effects on it. There was reverb. You were like, there was like two parts to it. Like you were singing over the top of yourself. I had no idea. Even though you're recording it live. Yeah, it was live.

How does that work? It was really, yeah, just mixed well. It was already mastered. Yeah, that's crazy. Jake, if I'm thinking of like a good day, give me like three words that you want to use. Rug. I was probably thinking like, I don't know.

Birds. Neighborhoods and Chick-fil-A. You got it, man. Brad. It's fire. Thank you to Gina for the awesome, awesome jingle. And thank you to Main Street Roasters. I don't know if we've mentioned them yet.

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You want ground? You want whole? We do it all. MainStreetRoasters.com. And get some Rowe back. We love Rowe backck here i wear it constantly uh grkc20 is the promo code there yes get yourself some uh some summer clothes yeah the shorts are new they didn't used to be like this they got they got some variety now

yeah whatever they're sending me now it's nice real nice a nice mint color rachel loves them oh rachel is into them high schoolers out there, you can wear them. High schoolers, you would love it. You would like it. Cool. We'll see you guys Wednesday. Love you guys. Ghost from the Spotcast. Every Monday morning we're taking care of Ghost from the Spotcast.

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