Ghostrunners - 389 - The Glossary Episode

Episode Date: December 4, 2024

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Ladies and gentlemen, the ghosties wanted it, the ghosties got it. Welcome to the glossary episode. Uh oh, ooh I think this tight beat means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white meat too. Midwest best friends eating fast food on repeat so come along let's have some fun and go ahead get on your feet cause it's the Ghost from the Spark House. I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark and I'm a spark You should start like, like friend style. All right, we are here. My name is Brad Ellis. My name is Jake Triplett.

Yeah, we are doing a glossary episode because our podcast, the Ghost Runners podcast is getting to be what? I don't know how many episodes we have now. 300 some episodes. 390 ish. That's a lot of episodes. It's hard to just jump right into this thing

with no context. We talk about random people, random inside jokes all the time. And so some ghosties have said, oh, sorry, some Ghostrunners fans, Ghosties have said, Hey, it's kind of hard to just jump into this thing without some kind of context. So please give us some context. Yeah, I think we unintentionally, uh, had some, there was some unintentional strategy behind, I guess what we're doing. And also some unintentional alienation of like, we're not gonna always just refer to like, oh, my friend the other day, oh, my wife. It's like, we use real people's names. We use first and last names. We use real,

you know, real events. And so of course there's going to be a, just like catching up to do, you can't start anything six seasons in and try to figure out exactly what's going on. Sure. So on one end, I think it makes people go back and listen, but also it's a little daunting. Yeah. A little daunt. So, uh, we're just going to try to do this. We have a little bit broken down category by category, but, um, we might jump around

a little bit, uh, and yeah, we'll just try to break it down as much as we can for you though. So Yeah, we like I said, my name is Brad Ellis. I grew up in Olathe, Kansas. I Where is Olathe at? Olathe Kansas, Kansas City area. Yeah, basically Kansas City. Basically Kansas City And yeah went to Kansas State University where I studied marketing in Spanish I thought I was gonna do international business instead. I talked to my best friend every week And yeah, went to Kansas State University where I studied marketing and Spanish. I thought I was gonna do international business. Instead, I talked to my best friend every week. And yeah, I'll start there.

How about that? My name is Jacob Garland Triplet. I was born in Springfield, Missouri, but spent most of my childhood in a small town just outside of Springfield, Missouri called Stratford. They used to be called the Stratford Indians. It's now 2024 and they are still called the Stratford Indians. Gotcha.

You almost got me. I was like, no way, this is news. So Stratford Indians. Stratford Indians. What'd you do? I got unplugged. Well, it was gonna happen. It's all good.

No, Jake. So this is a Christmas tree. If you're unfamiliar. So we're Christians here. It's not a holiday tree? Oh! Golly. That was gravity.

Just explain everything. That's right, exactly. So it's green. Green is yellow and blue together. Yeah, I grew up in Southwest Missouri and then I went to college just up the road in Southwest Missouri, Southwest Baptist University. I got a degree that didn't really exist at the time. I'm sure at some point in the podcast, I told the story, but essentially it was not accredited

when I was there. I took strange classes. It was called sports marketing. I never took a sports marketing class. My second semester senior year, I was taking PE and business and they were, they were like, you can obviously see how these two blend together, figure it out. Um, and then the biggest joke was on me because I didn't get my diploma in the end for not going enough chapel credits Yes, which is ironic because then I end up working in full-time ministry. Yes, and they still wouldn't give me the chapel credits, right? Which is great. So Jake and I met is that is I good enough for?

Backgrounds family. We both yeah family. I grew up on the I'm the baby of my family. I have two older sisters that are much older than me, eight and ten, much older, like super old. They're unfathomably old. I don't even know if they can find this podcast. I mean, I can send them the link. Even then you may need to like put it on their iPad in front of them. Right? Yeah, exactly.

Maybe I'll email it to them. So yeah, one of my sisters has a hotmail email address. That's how old she is. So no love, love my two older sisters. Just loved being the baby of my family. What are their names? Dana is the oldest. Julie is the middle child. And then Brad is my name and I'm the youngest. So wonderful parents, wonderful sisters growing up. And yeah, you have a family of your own.. You have a family of your own. I do have a family of my own. Yes, so I have a lovely wife of 10 years named Catherine.

And then I have four kids. I don't know. Yeah, I guess it's better to tell you the ages now or whatever, it doesn't matter. I have two girls, two boys. Hattie is seven, Bo is four, Rosie is two, Henry is eight months, give or take. So, uh, wonderful, wonderful family. Love being a dad. And, uh, yeah, it's been fun. If you do end up listening to the

old episodes, Hattie was the only baby that we had when we started this thing. So you can literally live like through three pregnancies with us. Um is so fun. And three deliveries, we had a crazy delivery with Rosie. No spoilers, but fun times. I was born to Steve and Trish, the oldest of two, my younger sister, Caitlin, also lives in Kansas City. Currently in my rental house, no spoilers. No spoilers. No spoilers.

Slight spoilers. Would be terrible for spoilers. Millions No spoilers. No spoilers. No spoilers. Slight spoilers. Would be terrible for spoilers. Millions of spoilers. Crazy amount of spoilers. Incredible spoilers though. Oh yeah. And I am married to my wife, Rachel. We got married a year and a half ago. Memorial day weekend, 2023. Wow. No other additional family members to speak of. Sure. No spoilers. No spoilers. Okay, so people want to know often, hey, well, and I'll say this.

I think both our childhoods were marked a lot by sports. We both love sports, grew up with great friends and great sports loving friends. So yeah, love sports, basketball, baseball, football, I think were our main three, correct, growing up? Yes, I was, for a while there, I was football. I think we're our main three, correct? Growing up. Yes, I was for a while there. I was determined.

I was going to be the first professional athlete to do all three at the pro level. Yeah. And instead you chose one. Well, you figured it out. Yeah. Well, eventually I was like, wait, my mom's five one. She's a good cheerleader.

So my dad one time caught his own punt in high school football. So yeah, this may not work out. Yeah, that's amazing. Oh man. So okay, let's talk about the origin of Jake and I and how we became friends. So we both worked together. Nope. We both worked at a summer camp called Canna Cuck.

Canna Cuck is in Branson, Missouri. And it's kind of confusing because it's one overarching camp. But there's what? Eight, ten different locations of the camp. Yeah. If you count K.A.A. Right. Which I do, which I do, Jake. Which I do. Yes, it's a Christian athletic camp. Yeah.

And different specific camps are more focused on sports, less focused on sports. And they're also different ages and different periods of time. One week, two week, four week. So I worked there for summers. Jake worked there 18 summers. I did. Yes, from six to 24. Did you actually work? I worked six summers from 2011 to 2016. OK, I worked there. And we were working,

we overlapped for a couple years, didn't know of each other. But we had a very, we had the exact same position at our respective camps. That position was called special programs, which basically meant we were in charge of casting game planning, executing the big picture fun that happened at our camps. So that's a lot of, that's a lot of parties. That's a lot of themed parties. That's a lot of, that's building the music, the playlist, always being the DJ for everything. Skits.

Anything you do, yes, skits, being on the microphone, introducing campers, any type of like corporate, public speaking, fun, we were in charge of making memories at a big picture level. So we didn't have like a cabin full of campers. We did when we first started. We kind of got promoted. And so yeah, for several years, that was our jobs.

And it's kind of funny, we joke often now, we were doing adult programs. We did it at the camper level, middle school level, elementary level, and now we kind of do it with adults. Yeah, I think that's the most fun job ever is working at Kinnacook. So many amazing special memories. That's where I, spoiler I think that's the most fun job ever, is working at Canna Cook. So many amazing special memories. That's where I, spoiler alert, that's where I met my wife,

is working together there. However, yeah, that we're pretty close to having this fun job again, you know, as adults, doing the same thing, putting on events together, and yeah, just trying to make memories with people. So yeah, so we both worked at different Canuckuck camps. I was at K country, Jake was at K West, and then we met through K life is what it's called. So Canuckuck has, they call it a para church ministry.

So it's similar to a youth group, but it's not affiliated with the specific church. Kind of like young life. If you heard that it's like K Life, similar. Canna Cook is the K. And you wanna explain a little bit about- Yeah, where Canna Cook does an amazing job with college kids who are counselors, with younger kids who come there as campers

for three months out of the year over the summer. It's a summer camp. What K Life does is tries to further implement good habits and a good community summer camp. What K Life does is tries to further implement good, good habits and good community and continuing to to encourage kids on their faith journey throughout the year. So it's a nine month program in different cities, where they take kind of the foundation that Cancun is built with different, you know,

families and campers and people in these cities. And they do kind of a youth group type looking organization. Yeah. So when I got married, Catherine, my wife was already working for K Life. And so I lived at the K Life house with her. They provided us a house in Kansas City, in Kansas City. Yeah. Thank you. And then next door to our house, we were at the girls K life house next door was the boys K life house, uh, where the, the men's staff, uh, lived slash where they did a lot of their ministry out of. Um, and so my first year,

I believe, uh, Jake was still in college. Uh, my first year married and living there. And then near the end of that semester is when we met, Jake came up to visit and interview to work as one of the men's staff. And I just remember hitting it off with Jake immediately. It was very fun. It was very easy. I'd heard of you. People were like, hey, this is like the K-West version

of Brad Ellis. And I meet you and I'm like, no, he's not. Look at this guy. We could not look more different. You know what I mean? This is your king. This is the one you sent for me. Yeah, we hit off right off the bat.

Just goofing, just laughing, messing with people. I mean, I was still in college. So I was probably messing with people. I didn't mind doing that. Yeah, it was just fun. And yeah, Peter Casey, no spoilers, but a friend of ours. He was the men's director and I knew him from SBU. He was a baller or kid, he went to SBU.

We were friends, he was a Canica guy as well. So we were friends and he was the one really hounding me. I really want you to work here. Just begging me, just please interview, at least just get an interview. And I was like, all right, fine, I'll do it. I loved it, ended up taking the job. I'm moving with Peter,

which is also next door to Brad and Catherine. So that's how we met. So we were next door neighbors. I mean, truly next door neighbors, even more than we are now. No spoilers for two straight years. Yeah, literally next door. I mean, we played MLB Slugfest video game

late into the night. What a great era. A lot of Madden. There was one point where we tried to beat each other with every team in Madden. That's so fun. We were like 12 years old again. 100%, dude. There was one point where we tried to beat each other with every team in Madden. That's so fun. We were like 12 years old again. 100%.

It was amazing. It was like we had no, because eventually, so I, when I graduated college, my first job was working at this company called Cerner, which is like a health care IT company, big company in Kansas City. And eventually I quit that job because I started developing love for woodworking. I started my own woodworking business called Ellis Custom Creations. And so I was working out of my house, had all the free time, all the flexibility in the world. So I'd be like,

yeah, I can stay up as late as I want to play these video games with these guys. Yeah. And most of our work was done after school. Once kids are out of school, go hang out with them, go to their games or have people come over. So yeah, from nine to three, we were chilling. We were doing just fine. So yeah. Yeah, I don't know. That's kind of how we originally met.

We did some skits together a little bit at K Life. Yeah, we'd goof. Yeah, we goofed a little. We did a Justin Bieber. Was that the first video we did together? Oh Yeah, I swear saying yeah, that was like non k-life related, but we did have fun Yeah, making like YouTube videos together. Yeah, we did we've done a ton of stuff like that But maybe the Royals one was the first one we did I can't remember it could have been but we went interview people in

The streets and had a blast with that. So yeah, that's where our friendship started I mean it was two years of spending a ton of time together, next door neighbors, watching the Royals, playing video games, and that's where it all started. And even back then, I feel like there was no, it wasn't, there was never any point where it was like, we almost started a YouTube channel, or we almost started a podcast.

I mean, that was not on our radar at all. I think we were both really excited about our individual jobs, and really, it never crossed my mind to do anything together. No, not anything more than we were just already kind of doing. Yeah, you help out with K-Life,

you lead worship and stuff. Yep, eventually I, yeah, I was, so hard to like keep it all together, but like, yeah, I had this woodworking business that then also allowed me to have some flexibility to be a part-time worship leader at my church. And then eventually was doing woodworking and part-time worship leading in part-time youth ministry. And so that we did like some youth ministry events together a few times. Yeah, that's right. Tadashi. We did a, we did a concert with Tadashi. Yeah. Which was fine.

Yeah. But anyway, so we did stuff together. I'm not about that. Anyway, but then from there, Jake got finished with K Life and decided he was gonna do something else. Yes. I know it's kind of going off a little bit, but not exactly. Yeah, where did I?

I wrote it down, but I think I can, should be able to remember what I did in my life. So here, yeah, I went from K Life to then that's where, so on the Monday's episode, I talked about how Black Friday is what led me to where I'm at now anyway. I bought a camera on Black Friday. I started making videos with it.

I did that for about my last year while I was still on staff with K Life. And then towards the tail end of that, I'm starting to get asked to like do random gigs. You know, you want to film my wedding, you want to film this little thing. Along the way, I'm posting to Facebook. I had a guy named Josh Horton hit me up

who we had only one mutual friend on Facebook. And it was the brother-in-law of this freshman when I was a senior at SBU. So extremely, extremely distant connection. This brother-in-law's name was Joel Harney, who ended up being the officiant at my wedding. He was the brother-in-law of one of my best friends now, Garrett Gibson, who just went on a hunting trip with us.

So it's all intertwined, it's really cool. But Josh hits me up. His Instagram was actually Juggling Josh. And he says, hey, he has a ton of followers. He's a world famous juggler. He's really good at it, but also crushing social media. He's saying, I'm wanting to start a YouTube channel, looking for a guy to help.

You wanna do it? Long story short, I say, you know what? I'm young, I've got nothing I'm attached to. I'm gonna do it. I finished up my three-year contract at K-Life and I take the plunge. First person in my family to ever not live in Missouri or Kansas City, I guess. And yeah, moved out of Dallas, where I knew I would have a bunch of friends from Kanaka and whatnot. And yeah, moved into Josh's house. He had a wife and didn't know them at all, but moved in with them, started this YouTube channel and

lived in Dallas. Yeah. Killed it too. Like you guys made a lot of good videos. Yeah, originally I was just supposed to be his videographer and then very quickly I think he was like, oh you're good on camera. Oh, you're like pretty coordinated too. All right. Let's just make the whole channel about us together instead of it being called Jugger and Josh. YouTube channel is called Jake and Josh. We got up to 170,000 subscribers in one year. This is before YouTube Shorts. This was like pretty crazy growth.

A year passes. I'm having fun. It's overall going well. A ton of travel, a ton of craziness in one year. I mean, we filmed with Logan Paul twice when he's at the peak of his career. I would say we filmed, we went on and we were on MTV. We were on Russia's Got Talent.

Pam Anderson gave me a kiss on the cheek. What else did I do? I was on the Today Show. I got in the Guinness Book of World Records book. A lot happened in one year. And I was having fun for sure. I don't like go back and romanticize it and be like, I just wasn't, I wasn't truly happy. I was happy. I was having fun. My life was a nine out of 10,

but I was like, I bet it could be a 10 out of 10. And so anyway, that leads into the next stage of life, which is me hitting up Trey Kennedy out of the blue and trying to find a reason to move back to Kansas City. I'll just keep going. just real quick. This is kind of a cool story. I don't know how much I've ever talked about on the podcast, doesn't matter. This is a Gloucester episode. Yeah. Doesn't matter.

So around the time I leave Kansas City, Trey Kennedy moves to Kansas City, and I'm starting to see this from a distance. I start to see that he's becoming friends with some of my friends, kind of. I don't know any of them super well. And so I think springtime rolls around. I've been in Dallas for 10 months now or so.

And I get put in a group text from someone and they say, hey, bachelor watch party this Monday night. Let me know who can make it. I'm thinking, wow, these people clearly don't know me that well. One, I don't watch the bachelor. Two, I haven't lived in Kansas City in 10 months. So it shows you how good of friends we are.

Why am I in this group chat? Hey, but this friend changed your life. It did change my life because whoever sent that text, you know, people were chatting, oh, I can make it. I'll be there. I'll bring cheese. This person, I can't make it. Someone says, Trey, are you coming?

I'm sort of put the piece together. I'm like, I think these guys are friends with Trey. I think Trey Kennedy is in his group text. Trey never responds though. No one ever responds to that text. So I started digging. I look up where Trey's from on Wikipedia, Oklahoma City, okay, Oklahoma City area code,

it's 405, okay, great. Start looking, dang, there's three numbers in this group chat that I don't know that all start with the area code 405. Like, well, I don't know, what's worse gonna happen? One day, just one afternoon, I call the first one, no idea if it's Trey or not. Guy answers the phone, goes, hey, this is Trey.

Like, oh, here we go. It's happening. I go, hey, man, my name is Jake Triplett. And I just kind of pitch myself to him. Hey, I love your stuff from afar. I notice, I could tell that everything's being shot on a tripod. I don't know if you're looking to get a videographer

in the mix, have a second guy kind of in the huddle, but I'd love to like throw my hat in the ring to help you out. And Trey, he seemed like, he wasn't like, no, definitely not, but he was like, yeah, I'd have to, I'd have to think about that. And I didn't hear from him for like a week. And so then I called him again.

I was like, hey man, I've just been thinking about it. I think I could really help and give him like specific ways I could add value. Don't hear from him for a week. Then I call him another week later. I'm like, hey, I just wanna like reiterate, this does not have to be a full-time job for me. And I'm glad I said that because I think he was thinking it did. He's like, am I ready to bring someone on full time? So I was like, dude, I can work as little as you want. So he's like, Oh,

prove myself to you. Well, yeah, great. Sure. Let's do it. And so to a lot of people's surprise, including Josh, uh, I just called Turkey quit one day. Peace out. You love that. Talk about it. Last episode. This. Dude, what's crazy is I wish I could say everything that was going on.

For other people's like, I don't know, protection. Maybe I shouldn't, but I go on to do this. Timelines. Basically, I'll get back to protection, maybe I shouldn't, but I go on to do this, timelines. Basically, I'll get back to peace out. I decide, I'm gonna make sure he does. Okay, I'm just gonna be done. I know this is crazy. Our channel is like-

There's no reason. On a great, like just trend right now. We're gaining so many subscribers. This is my full-time job. I'm a YouTuber, just like that. This is so cool. And I had a great last year in my life. I'm like, I'm gonna throw it all away.

And I'm just gonna like go move back to Kansas City to work with this guy for like five hours a week. And so I told Trey, I was like, all right, I'll quit. Let's do it. He said, when can you start? I said, this was like June or July. And I was like, I right, I'll quit. Let's do it. He said, when can you start? I said, this was like June or July. And I was like, I think it was June. And I said, well, if it's okay if I start later in the fall,

either something I'd like to do between now and then. He's like, sure, man, just whatever. Just let me know whenever you're in Kansas City. So I was like, great. From that point on, and then I'll shut up after this, I did what every guy wants to do at some point, go on an epic road trip. I grabbed two buddies and well, three to start.

And we started this Facebook page, this YouTube channel, this brand called Ellen, we bought a limo. We bought a limo off of Craigslist in Maine. We bought off Maine intentionally because we aim to drive it through every lower 48 state United States. Eventually end up in Los Angeles. The goal is by the time we get to Los Angeles, can we be on the Ellen show? And it was one of the most incredible summers of my life. Had a ton of fun, made so many memories, shot so much content. I have those memories with me forever. And I've captured them. We ended up getting on the Ellen DeGeneres show.

It was really cool, great summer. Yeah, 10 days in. So I mean, I quit very quickly and also very quickly. I was like, I'm going on a limo trip. I mean, it all happened fast. It looked like I was escaping some scandal or something probably, but we were so backlogged on content, Juggler, Josh and I, that it took weeks before

it was even time to announce that I had left. I'm already on the limo trip by the time it's like, well, we're out of content, Juggler, Josh and I, that it took weeks before it was even time to announce that I had left. I'm already on the limo trip by the time it's like, well, we're out of content now. And so Josh is busy making this kind of goodbye video and he's like, hey, would you wanna film something? And so to start off this content journey in the limo, I was like, we're gonna post every single day. This is gonna be insane.

I don't care how hard I have to work. And I was working crazy hard to make it happen. But it's too much work. It's not sustainable. I'm not sleeping. Videos are going out and people are loving them, but I'm not sleeping. And I'm exhausted.

Amidst that, we have a controversy. We have a scandal within the limo. Oh yeah. It's the guy who didn't end up making it the rest of the trip. We never explained it on camera. We tried to at least be gracious in that way. But yeah, he was a guy who did not need to be with us,

did not need to be on camera. Was borderline running from the law and doing it in our limo. So we kicked him out. We told him, go home. The day that we discovered all of that happening is when Josh is like, hey, I really need that video today.

And so then I'm like, Ty, can you like hold the camera? I gotta say this goodbye. And man, I wish I've not ever watched it because I know how cringe it probably is, but I know I could have done a better job. I think you did a great job of conveying that you were solemn.

I mean, the thumbnail is just you like straight up like piecing out. Yeah. That's how you edit you're like my Peace out. Oh, it's it's my favorite Jake video of all time. You can never top it Yeah, it looks like an apology video where it's like it's definitely a screenshot as a thumbnail It's called Jake is leaving the channel, right? So good Yeah, I just quit my job in front of 170,000 people. They were not happy. Amazing.

I got called some funny, funny words. Words you don't really say anymore. Oh, that's right. No offense, but you're an idiot. No offense, but you're the R word. Yeah. Oh my gosh, so good. So, okay, because of all of that,

you're done in Dallas, you're moving back to Kansas City, and so we're hanging out again. Oh, that this is, this is how I remember it. And I saw, I always tell people, but correct any of this, if you're, if you remember it differently, but I remember there were a few times while you lived in Dallas that you drove or you came to Kansas city, you'd fly up there and you'd stay with us. And I remember at that time, I always say like comedians and cars getting coffee that TV show Jerry Seinfeld was really popular Yeah, and I remember we would be driving back. I'd like take you to the airport at whatever You know 5 a.m. In the morning or 8 p.m. At night or whatever

I hate that I just said a.m. In the morning and p.m. I hate that. Oh Edit this thing Anyway, and but I remember thinking like this is like we have some pretty funny banter here, like comedians and cars. It's going all right. You know, but like, whatever. I was just, I was just like, we're pretty funny together. Whatever. You move back to KC, we're hanging out some, it's awesome.

It's so fun. You're doing your thing with Trey, doing all this freelance stuff. And I don't remember the conversation. Do you remember? I'm sure you were the one that brought it up with the podcast thing. I don't remember the conversation. Do you remember? I'm sure you were the one that brought it up with the podcast thing. I don't remember talking about it though. How we got to the podcast.

When I moved to Dallas is right when I got into serial, which I think is most people's like, if you were early on podcasting, this was your gateway. A true crime podcast was done really well. So I listened to serial, I really liked that. And then I started to find comedy podcasts. The two that I listened to evenial, I really liked that. And then I started to find Comedy Podcasts. The two that I listened to even back then, they're still going today, kind of,

was the TMG podcast and the Basement Yard. And both podcasts were similar setups to ours now. We're just two guys just riffing, good friends. And as a consumer of that, I think enough time passed where I was like, I could do this. And I just like it. I like being an audience member, I'd like I could do this. And I just like it. I like being an audience member. I'd like to contribute to this. And we were playing at rec basketball a lot and going

to McDonald's after where afterwards. And I think we just enjoyed our own conversation a lot. It was talking for like three hours, just having four, you know, cups of Coke and just like, yeah, but I don't, I don't remember you saying we should start this thing or whatever, I don't remember that. I don't remember how it went. Honestly, it might've been a text. I think that's why I don't really remember it,

but I was just like, hey, something along the lines of like, I think it was just like, would you want to do a podcast with me? Yeah, and I remember, I remember going to Chick-fil-A and you, we picked out podcast mics on Amazon. And I think we spent $50 mics, uh, on Amazon. And I think we spent $50 each, like for these things. And I remember being like, Oh, I guess we're committed now. I hope this works.

Yeah. It might've been like 79 or 89. Were they? Yeah. They might've been. They were nice mics guys. And then we had to get some other, you know, splitters and stuff. Yeah.

Software, hardware. So we started this pocket. I had never listened to a podcast before. I had listened to like two episodes of this woodworking podcast called made for profit or something like that. And I didn't know what I was doing, but I was like, I'll just talk to Jake. I guess that's how I do this thing. And so yeah, we just started podcasting. We, we did the first, however many episodes in my basement late at night. Um, we didn't know what to call it the first time. And so I just threw out the idea.

I was like, well, as a Bay, I always wanted to name, uh, a band that I was in ghost runner on second, like you would say back when you were playing baseball as a kid, you know, Hey, ghost run second. And I think then you were like, OK, let's just be called Ghost Runners then. Yeah. OK. I think it's a little too baseball-y,

but I'm down with Ghost Runner. Yeah. And so I loved the band Death Cab for QT as a kid, and everyone just calls them Death Cab. And so I was like, yeah, we call Ghost Run Second Ghost Runner. Ghost Runners podcast. So didn't think anything of it. I think we could definitely have figured out

a different name that wasn't so like, is it about ghosts? Is it whatever? Um, but we started it that way. And first couple episodes, I remember being like, I don't know why anybody would listen to this. Right? Like I, I remember the first episode we ever put out, uh, you, I think post on your story

or something like, you know, screenshot that you're listening to this, and we'll repost it or something. And I remember Mason Cappell, a youth group kid of mine, and KLife kid, was like, dude, I'm two minutes into this thing and I'm already crying laughing. Wow. I was like, what? Seriously?

What? Like, what are you laughing? I was just so not confident that this was anything. I remember a little bit of that first episode. I've never gone back and listened to it, but yeah, five and a half years later. So I remember the only time, I mean, Brad and I have never, I can't emphasize this enough,

had any kind of strategy when it comes to like the content of like, well, let's make sure we do this at the beginning and then reference in again at the end. I mean, we are truly just talking with shorthand notes in front of us about what happened to us this week. But the one thing I would say that I was like, I've been very consistently passionate about is like, I wanna get into it quick.

And I don't wanna like waste people's time. Like, you know, like if they are giving us a time of day, let's add value immediately. And so one of the things I remember, cause I remember feeling a little bad about it in the moment. I mean, we started like, all right, here we go. It's a podcast.

Brad, how's it going? Not a good start by me. And you're like, it's good, man. It's, we're just like saying nothing. And internally I was like, we have to move something along. And I was like, I'm gonna interrupt you right there. I remember this, and you're talking about your armpit. Yes, because it was truly something going on.

And I felt a little bad. I was like, that was not, that was an aggressive start, but I was like, I'm ready to get into it. We have to start doing something funny and right away, you're aggressive one out of the two of us for sure. So, yeah, but I remember some joke. This might've been what Mason capital was crying, laughing at. You said something I was like, have you ever just been sweating, not doing anything? You're like Jacob and overweight my whole life. Of course I've been sweaty, not doing anything. Yeah, buddy. Yeah, I understand that one. Yeah, exactly.

So. And that's about all I remember. Yeah. So we started this thing. We eventually went from my basement, you know, while we're being kind of quiet because my two-year-old daughter is upstairs sleeping. My wife's sleeping.

And then we moved out to my wood shop because I have a shop, you know, detached garage at our house. And we got a little bit louder out there. I remember we we did some. Yeah, some fun things out there. We had a pretty iconic episode where we drove around in my truck the whole time. Yeah, I went through a drive through at Chick-fil-A, saw our old neighbor

mailman, mailman Moe. Great times with that. It's crazy that that's the same show as this. Correct, yes. Yeah, that's fun. It's wild, all the differences. And yeah, went from there, we recorded. Then Jake moved into his own place.

He was renting with some friends. So we started recording in that basement. The blue walls. Yep, yeah, we made some walls for ourselves. We had a little studio at that point. Yeah, we called it Yeah, we made some plywood L shaped desk Lived there for a year new rental house Recorded in that in that basement. Yep had some floating cube shelves a lot of floating

Rented that house for a year bought a house It had like a bonus room like Like a no window, just like. Yeah, probably an office. It meant to be an office or like a storage room. It was tight, but we made it work. Card table. We had a card, we never advanced from that card table there. We were always just content.

That was like a borrowed card table from my parents. It was kind of a sad looking studio. Oh, it was very sad. We did not care about the visual representation at all. Yeah. There was nothing on those beige walls at all. So. And then from there, then bought this house

and then recorded in one of our guest bedrooms. So. Okay. A lot of studios over the years. I also wrote down in the notes theme song. There's not that much to say about it. I do kind of remember we've done multiple, I like recorded songs. I sing, we do end of the episode with jingles that

kind of randomly happened one time. Jake just spurred it on me and it stuck ghosties. Ghost runners fans started writing jingles and parody songs and stuff, a lot of things. And anyway, I've done different songs. And I think the theme song was one that I was recording or like trying to make on Jake's computer. Jake had left to go do something. His computer was about to die. And I had like, I was like, I don't have much opportunities here.

Or maybe I had to, whatever I was on a time crunch. I just remember being like, I don't know. I like mess with some like effects on my voice to sound a little like reverby and like had a little echo-y thing, harmony and stuff. And then put Hattie, my daughter's voice at the bottom or at the end of it from a voice memo that she said. And it stuck. And the beat was from Ghostrunners fan, a ghosty that sent it to us. And I was like, I don't know. I'll just mess with it. So I bet I wrote that thing in Seven minutes like I don't I mean it it was not yeah

Added it super quickly people have been asking like who all singing in there someone say like I swear I hear Jake other times I swear I hear Trey. It's all Brad and Hattie. Yeah. Yeah, it's just me like messing around Yeah with Hattie at the end there. So Just the origin of the theme song. Nothing crazy with it. I just remember literally thinking the battery's gonna run out on this thing and I don't wanna come back and mess with this. I remember that. So, yeah, that's that.

Let's, you wanna talk about? Alongside studios, just real quick. I wrote down all the different cities I've lived in, in order, so I've been in Kansas City. Prairie Village, then went to Dallas. Leewood, Kansas City, Missouri Overland Park Merriam Olathe Shawnee There's a lot to kind of keep track of but that's the all the ones I've lived and tripped up with Lee would when you live And that was when I live with the shoemaker's basement sure with the dog with the dog. Yeah, you love that dog moose moose

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So like I said, I met Katherine. She's from Texas originally met her working together at Kana Cuck And then she worked for K life and yeah, we've been married 10 years 2014 is when we got married before I even knew Jake I've been married ever since yep We've known each other Jake's never known me as a fun guy I'm just kidding I met you like right after you got married kind of yeah yeah yeah there shortly after eight months after you got married so we've been married yeah a long time and she's wonderful she is our wives are hanging out together right now yeah

they're playing mahjong yeah we were not invited to Mahjong. I am not that disappointed. I am not super Mahjinterested. I like Mahjoo football. Mungnay night football. That's Catherine. I met my wife Rachel three years ago. Initially kind of at Topgolf with Brad. She like somewhat recognized

Brad. She listened to a couple of podcast episodes while running half marathon one time, said hi to Brad, didn't acknowledge or say hi to me. We think that's kind of fun. We talked about her on a podcast episode and had no interest in pursuing this random stranger. But then we saw the very next week together again, Brad and I on Meadowbrook Park, Pickleball Courts, the very following Tuesday night. So and we have footage of it because we like we talked about this other podcast. Let's make a Patreon video. So we have footage, which is kind of cool. Rachel and I meeting for the first time is crazy.

You can kind of see me standing up tall, sizing her up, trying to see like, am I taller in this division one volleyball player? I don't know. And so yeah, I went back that night and Googled Rachel Coupe, Northern Iowa. I guess I didn't know her last name. I was trying to find her last name and trying to find her height.

And so figured out her name, found her Instagram. It's all she was listed as, 59. I said, we're good. We're good. We're good, just barely. Wear some high heels, you know. Some lifted insoles, we're good. We're good. We're good. Just barely. We're some high heels, you know, lifted insoles. Yeah, exactly. That's where I met. And yeah, we've been here in a year and a half. Crazy. Got married in Iowa. That's that's such a fun story.

Yeah. Think about so it's great. There's some different characters that you might hear as reference. My characters, I mean, people that we talk about. I feel like one of the things that we kind of accidentally did that I love is just include our fans as like minor character celebrities within the podcast. Like it's Jake and Brad on the Ghostrunners, but there's a million, we could say so many different people

that aren't on this list. Yeah. But for time's sake, first and foremost, Ghostrunners character, super fan, extraordinary, Kirstie Swick, in my opinion, she was the first person that I can remember that was a fan of ours. Yeah, the first person to really show interest, like on a deeper level.

She started a fan account, before we even had our own Instagram account, there was a Ghost Runners fan account, and it was so funny. It was like deep cuts from the podcast, like deep jokes. Like making her own graphic design type stuff and office themes. I was like, this person, guy, I don't know.

They're very funny. So good. They understand us well, they understand the office well. It was kind of a wild feeling to be like, is this, do we have a fan? Like, do we have fans that they don't know who we are and they're just doing this? Or is this my mom?

I remember like intricately looking at one of the pictures they posted and were like, those look like a guy's hand. But earlier it seemed like it was a girl. Who is doing this? It was Kirsty Swick. We've now become friends with her. Her husband just went hunting with us. And yeah, he's, I was trying to think of some joke.

His safety's never on. That's, I was trying to think of some joke. His safety's never on. That's why he has four kids. There you go. Something like that. Something. Yeah, so shout out to Kirstie. Yeah, I'll just keep going down this list. Knack Baxter's another one.

Both of them. Both of them, yeah. Tell that story. Yeah, just real quick. We've got, there was this Knack, his name is Nicholas Butler, who was just an early fan, really funny, loved any contribution he had to the podcast, and I think he named himself Knack Baxter.

Yeah, it's like his screen name or whatever on. And then somewhere along the way, there was someone else named Knack Baxter, who also listens to this podcast. Or yeah, Nick Baxter, I think. Yes. Yeah. And an equally awesome guy, I had a phone call with him just a couple months ago.

Yeah. He runs food trucks. Yeah. Really helpful. I love them both. Good guy. So that's Nick. He's a Doc, Knack Baxter, original doctor.

Yep. Good guy. There was a season where we got free Chick-fil-A for like a year. Every time we went in, if this one person, this very special person was working, his name is Mr. James. Yeah It was unreal

It was like we would we would get up to the front of the line to order and be like I miss is James here today and they go back and get him and then whatever we ordered this every time I mean a long time. I mean it was unbelievable. I yeah, I still think about those days. I'm like, I mean we made thousands of dollars We I bet I was going four or five times a week I think we hurt the overall the Chick-fil-a corporate bottom line a little we affected it. Yeah, we put the hurt on Yeah, the Kathy's yeah yacht was a little smaller that year So mr. James is awesome. He's a tall skinny white guy A lot of people joked at one point when they finally saw what he looked like,

because we did an episode inside at Chick-fil-A. They were really surprised. They thought maybe he was an Indian guy or a black guy. Nope. Tall, skinny white guy. He also made an appearance at our first ever somewhat Ghostrunners kind of meetup. It was called F12 and Mr. James was sitting right there front row. Yeah. And people got to meet him as well. And I still hear Mr. James occasionally. He, he's getting into pickleball. So we're not gonna talk about that. That's fun. And then another wonderful employee from Chick-fil-A is named Domi. Still there. D-O-M-I for people curious. Yep. Still there. She's a wonderful Mexican woman who is just, she's, she's an older woman and very blunt, very ready to talk to you, rather than tell you if you did something wrong.

So friendly though. When Catherine was pregnant, she got frustrated with her for drinking kombucha. She really wants us to go Catholic. That's her big like quote that you might see people saying, or you should really go Catholic. That's the big thing. You should really go Catholic.

You should really go Catholic. So if you hear us say any kind of, you should really go blank, that's a Domi reference. You should really go Catholic. You should really go Catholic. So if you hear us say any kind of, you should really go blank, that's a Domi reference. You should really go Catholic. So that's Domi. She's wonderful. Yeah, she's still working there. She's still killing it every time you see her.

Welcome to Chick-fil-A. Where's your friend? Where's your friend? Where is your table friend? It's not free anymore, Domi, so he doesn't come. No. Yeah, we're getting free Chick-fil-A. We saw her a lot.

And we were there. That's like that mission Chick-fil-A was where we did all sorts of planning for Ghostrunners, all sorts of like, you know, scheming and dreaming and everything alongside some free chicken, which is great. So, um, all right. Neighbor Henry is next. Yeah. Neighbor Henry is just one of my down the street neighbors, uh, who just happened to stop by one time when I was out working in the wood shop. Uh, he's kind of hard to explain in a few words, but he's just a goofball. Uh, he's Polish, I believe from Chicago and he just got a great accent. Jake, I can't even do it right now.

I'm going to be just, he's just a goofball. I don't know how to really describe them. I can't really even think of like a great, like. Look at that Shema. Look at that Shema. I mean, just look at that Shema. Yeah, he just loves like, he's an engineer, I believe. And so he's got like all this technical knowledge of wood

and always want to talk. He just talks your ear off about it. But in the nicest, most fun way, every once in a while, I'm like, Henry, you got to leave. It's, I've been talking to you too long, but. I've been living across a while I'm like, Henry, you gotta leave. I've been talking to you too long. I've been living across the street from Brad for a year and a half now, never met him.

Some people ask, I've yet to meet him. Yeah, that's another thing people wanna know. He's not like a very close neighbor proximity wise. I bet he lives a mile away from me. No way, I didn't even. He's like at the end of, the street that you run to, maybe it's half mile, cause you go there and back. Wow. Okay.

He's at the end. Half a mile. Yeah. That's funny. He's like at the end and like the country back there. Oh, okay. Cool. He's got some acreage. So he cuts down his own trees. I got some Kentucky coffee bean.

I got some Walnut trees back there, Brad, but nothing that big. That's neighbor Henry for you. You go ahead for some, Jake. And then we've got some, not locally here in Kansas City, but just some ghost runner, some ghosty legends. From the get go, there was Janelle Benyell. She was friends with a friend of mine that I met in Dallas

and I think she started following me along the way. And when I announced the podcast, she listened to episode one, Janelle Benyell. Shout out to you. She's been to almost every, all but one ghosty meetups. She's always there, you can count on her. And was also a ringleader of like, I don't know, organizing things behind her back.

Like, hey, we're gonna write the, we're gonna write Jacob Bratt a song. We're gonna get them a gift. She's a ringleader. She's wonderful. She's wonderful. Yes. I also wrote down a few more.

Heatherly, you just hear her referenced a lot and even in like modern jingles. People will reference Heather Lee because she was the first very accomplished songwriter of Ghosty Jingles. She wrote some great ones. She's talented. Yeah, and just was on a heater for a while.

It was like everyone she wrote was so good. So yeah, we talk about Heather Lee a lot. Also, Rindle Weaver is a name you might hear all the time. People use it as an exclamation, as an expletive, as a fill in the blank. And it's a real person's name. He's the way he said that. And it's a real person. And biggest shock of all, it's actually a real guy.

It's not a made up. Yeah, he's a guy who lives in Amish country, Ohio. We won a golf tournament with him a couple months ago, the healing waters, the safe water open with healing waters. And yeah, he left a review one time and ended the review by saying, Rindle Weaver exclamation point. And then Brad just took care of the rest. Yeah.

Just made it an inside joke. Oh, Rindle Weaver. Oh, Rindle Weaver. Free Chick-fil. Maybe the Weaver. Randall Weaver. Free Chick-fil-A every time Mr. James is here. Randall Weaver. Oh, yeah. So it's just a great name. It is a great name. It fills in the blank.

Yeah. Randall, you Randall, my Weaver, whatever, all the different things. I saw someone else ask this kind of a ghosty Santorini McCluskey. So let's know who that is. That was just a character I mean every once while we get in characters, we improv different things I can't remember how that one started but that was me doing this like New Yorker. I don't know. I think he sells Mazdas. Yeah, maybe so

He's done a few different jobs. All right Just this goofy guy that I remember it was in the uh, the wood shop era of Casting that we did Santorini Santorini McCleskey aka Santo Mac Santo Mac And you might have some mafia ties. Maybe worked in life insurance. No, no, no. Yeah, it's just Don't worry about it. I take care of you. You take care of people. Yeah, how's your mom? He loves asking people about their mom care of you, you take care of me. Take care of people. Yeah.

How's your mom? He loves asking people about their mom. So yeah, there's a, every once in a while we do different characters, different inside jokes. You'll hear about Santo Mac. Uh, somebody in the Facebook group, their alias is Santo Mac. Yeah. I don't know who that is.

It's not the real one. I'll tell you that right now. All right. He's off the grid. So, uh, yeah, that's some characters. I'm sure there's a thousand more that we're not thinking of. Oh, the I'm Down boys are just wonderful. Michigan high school kids who had an era

where they just called in for voice memos a lot. Just said hilarious things on there. Anyway, we can go on and on. Next, we've got our personal friends who you hear us reference a lot because we got a good crew of friends here. Scott Peck, who was on the Monday episode, who used to be on the podcast,

somewhat as kind of a producer role. He had a think pad. So, you know. He sat there and laughed a lot. He was like a laugh track more than a producer. Yes, he was a laugh track. We had a season with Scott, we're in the sad studio. Yes, we were recording at night, then back in the day,

so Scott would join us. Now we're big time boys, recording the daytime. Well, we were recording at night then back in the day, so Scott would join us. Now we're big time boys, recording the daytime. Well, not tonight, I guess. It's 10, 15 at night, I'll record this. But Scott Peck, Brad's childhood friend, is the same person as Scott Sell. Because when Brad put him in his phone initially back in the day, it was Scott's cell phone.

So Scott Sell is Scott Peck. Yeah, so Scott Holm or Scott Sell. When you're, whatever, I was 16 years old when I got my first cell phone. You didn't see any kind of foresight to having a second friend named Scott. Yeah. And so it's just Scott Scott. And so to this day, we call him Scott cell. People are like, wait, that's the same guy. Uh, spoiler alert.

He now does pickleball stuff with Jake. Um, yes. Uh, him and Brad went a while without seeing each other. And then I think in 2018, 2019, we needed a last minute sub for our rec basketball He now does pickleball stuff with Jake. Yes. Him and Brad went a while without seeing each other. And then I think in 2018, 2019, we needed a last minute sub for our rec basketball game. Brad's like, I got this buddy. He lives down South here.

No, he doesn't. He'll drive down South here and he, he plays basketball. It's got got introduced. We all hit it off with him and just became friends, started inviting him to play more sports with us. And then I think COVID rolls around and we're all playing pickleball constantly and then we really started seeing them a lot more Looking back how like obvious was it that scott was going to say yes to that rec basketball? Right, like scott's just the most talk about an i'm down boy. Like he's just always always up for anything very excitable guy

super fun Um, all right. Another one that's just a staple that has also been on the podcast quite a bit is Isaac. Uh, Isaac has, he, he's a, a former youth group kid of ours. So I think we met him when he was a middle schooler probably. Uh, so he's, I don't know, eight years younger than us, something like that. Uh, nine, I think nine younger than me. Yeah. So, uh, quite a bit younger, but like has always kind of been a friend slash mentee of mine and Jake's like, uh, in a lot of ways, brother, you know, of sorts, like older brother, younger brother kind of thing.

Uh, he also did woodworking. Um, and so we became really close. And then when Jake was looking for roommates, Isaac was graduating high school, not gonna go to college, was gonna do the woodworking thing. And so live with Jake and he's just so fun. He is accident prone to the max. And so there's always good stories about Isaac.

We need to talk about that in the hunting episode, but he like really dislocated his finger. Like it was zigzagging and he just popped it back into place. Wild. It was like, of course, Isaac. Of course it's Isaac. His pinky catching a football. Very accident prone, a lot of concussions,

a lot of nosebleeds, but we love them. And yeah, I lived with Isaac for three and a half years leading up to me getting married. Yep. It was a good time. Peter is another one of our friends, Peter Casey. He worked at K Life with Catherine and Jake, great guy. He was the landlord for Jake for a little while

in one of his houses. So that's Peter, he's awesome. Peter was kind of the reason Isaac and I became roommates because I had a living situation that I enjoyed, but Peter was just texting people like, hey, I just bought this house, I'm looking for renters. Would you be interested if you know of anyone? And I was like, well, you know, it would help out Peter.

And then Isaac's like, hey, I'm thinking about moving. I don't wanna go to college and I don't wanna live with my parents anymore. And I was like, great, I can help out Peter, get to live with Isaac. Let's do it. Then COVID hit and you guys were partying all the time. Hung out a lot.

So that's Peter. During COVID, or I mean, right before COVID hit, one of our good friends now, Harrison Pollard, moved to Kansas City. He moved here, specifically they work on the leadership team for a new Chick-fil-A that was gonna be opening and moved here. And he had kind of bummer timing that COVID hit,

but at the same time, we were playing so many games and sports and everything that we just got Harrison super involved and played a bunch of pickleball with him. And when it came time to join a basketball league, Harris would come and when we play football now, Harrison comes. I mean, he was just like all these guys. He was a groomsman at my wedding and was on the hunting trip and she's a great friend. Eventually married a Canna Cuck friend of ours. Yeah. I married a girl that I've known for 10 years from Canna Cuck. Then there's Gunner. Gunner is, we know him from Canuckuck as well.

It's a lot of Canuckuck connections. I met Gunner at, we were at the dumpster at the same time. Canuckuck. Checks out. Yeah, it was fun. He's just super fun, really into water sports, big wakeboarding guy, but really set down for anything. We have an episode that we do,

or I did with Peter Harrison and Gunner together, if anybody wants to check that out. What was the part of that episode there once her dying laughing at Peter talked about we were doing like a? Fashion trends like like a like a Mount Rushmore of Fashion trends and he did one about his pants that unzipped into shorts Yeah, and then he said something about he got baptized in him or something like that. I think that was what he started dilapidating. I got baptized in those. Oh man. I lost it. So anyway, good, good episode. Fun. I wrote down different Luke's. I've had people ask that before. They're like, how many different Luke's are there? I know there's two Scots, not true, just the one Scott. So there was a guy named Luke Crenshaw,

who was my roommate in 2016, 2017, my last year at K Life. And then there is another guy who we might've referred to on the podcast as roommate Luke, who lived with me leading up to me being married in the Aletha house. His name is Luke Thomas, and he's a ghostie, he still listens, shout out Luke Thomas. And then we also have Luke Hoagland, who sponsored the podcast for a little bit, his mortgage company, and he's a ghostie. He still listens shout out Luke Thomas And then we also have Luke Hoagland who sponsored the podcast for a little bit his mortgage company and he's a good friend of ours

He was a groomsman on my wedding as well great golfer. So three different Luke's Crenshaw Thomas and Hoagland. Wow, that is crazy when you wrote down different Luke's I was like I can't think of other ones It's like oh, yeah people have asked before about that. So Good times. The last thing I have written down here, I mean, like everything, I'm sure we're missing other friends and things, but I just wrote down integrated

with TJ and Jefferson Bethke. So my friends, your friend first, TJ Macias is his name. He runs Walk in Love with his wife, Brooke, and was friends with Jake, listened to the podcast a little bit. Brooke felt like they should sponsor me for this fatherhood mastermind called Integrated. And so TJ texted me out of the blue, got my number from Jake, texted me and said, Hey, would you be interested in this thing?

I'll pay for your first year in this thing. And it radically changed a lot of my life and made me see family in a different way, made me more motivated as a father and as a business owner. And that was run by Jefferson Bethke and Jeremy Pryor. And so we've had TJ on the podcast multiple times. We've had Bethke on for a few episodes as well. And they're just good guys. Bethke is a Christian influencer of sorts. He's an author and does different things. Just so fun. If you're interested in just like a high energy, who's even talking right now episode,

listen to that one in Hawaii. But they're just really good guys and really good men. And yeah, that's them. Those are our friends. Next, Brad, you should give a rundown of your kids and slash their births. Yeah, let's see. I don't want to give too much of specifics, I guess, but Hattie was born 2017.

I remember when we told you we were pregnant with Hattie and it was so that was like one of my favorite. You're one of my favorite people to tell when we were pregnant because you were just like, you had like a existential crisis or something. I was freaking out. Oh my gosh. Like, whoa, dude.

I don't know, was I your first friend to like have a kid? Yeah, I think you had to, oh well. Maybe not. Yeah, but like more in like later adulthood. Like, whoa, you guys are like, like in my stage. I'm gonna see this kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So H, like in my stage. I'm going to see this change. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so how does the oldest and then bow bow was born right after our first

episode, a video episode, I believe in 2020. Wow. Ish. Um, and so yeah, he's wonderful. Uh, Rosie was the one that has the crazy birth story. Uh, so I give the spoiler alert now, I suppose I should, if that's what we're doing here, but listen to the crazy, crazy birth story episode, but long story short, we delivered her at home and the midwife did not make it in time. And so I delivered her at home, uh, with my wife's help. And, uh, and then Henry was born this past year at home as well.

So, uh, they're all great. They're all so fun. And yeah, I can't say enough great things about being a dad to them. So they're all great. They're all so fun. And yeah, I can't say enough great things about being a dad to them. So they're wonderful. Great. Next in the glossary, we've kind of went over a little portion of this, but we're talking about our jobs that we've had over the course of Young Adulthood and the podcast. So in order of different things I've done and kind of the brands have started. So it started from college go to K life then I go to jugglin Josh Then I take the limo trip and then I began working for Trey

Super part-time while still being like a freelance videographer doing a lot of weddings commercials, whatever a year goes by I I didn't become full-time with Trey as his writer Videographer editor everything around that time was when we start Ghostrunners and become full time with Trey as his writer, videographer, editor, everything. Around that time was when we start Ghostrunners. Shortly after that is when I started doing standup comedy with Trey. From there, a year or two later,

we get Brad involved with the content, we start Jean Shorts Comedy, then Trey asked me to be on Correct Opinions full time, then we start Girls Gone Mild, the female comedy channel. We have friends Lindsay and Morgan. Then Trey and I start Mood Swings. Then I start Friday Pickleball. Which is what?

Sorry. Mood Swings is golf. Yep. It's golf comedy. Golf, yeah, golf videos. Still going today. Yep. I got an email from Vice today though.

I said, we're no longer sponsoring you. Well. No worries. No, no, no. This is a Gloucester episode, so let's not include that because we don't know. Hey, respond back to him and say the heck you aren't. And then I started Friday Pickleball. And then most recently, I franchised a food truck called Bondi Bowls that has been open one day so far.

It was a great day though, Jake. It was a great day. It was a magical day. Yep. It's a food truck that we sell. It was a great day. It was a magical day. Yep, it's a food truck that we sell smoothie bowls, hoping to have a big 2025. Huge. By the time you're listed this probably-

Billions of bowls. You know all about the bowls. They're great bowls all over Kansas City. I did not write down my list here, but yeah, like I said, worked at Cerner Healthcare IT, quit there to work, do my own thing, making custom furniture with Al's Custom Creations while doing that also led worship church for almost five years and did youth ministry stuff. Like kind of like interim, but then became full time permanent for a second. Yeah, you passed her there for a bit. Yeah, it was kind of like this is interesting.

And then, yeah, started Ghostrunner, started Jeanshorts. Oh, $5 joke writer. That's true. Jake found a comedy gig on Craigslist that was like, we'll send you $250 for 50 knock, not knock joke jokes, but like like terrible cheesy jokes for kids. Yeah. And for whatever reason I could, I could spout them off. Like it was, it was, you know,

breathing. Yep. Yeah. And so I bet I made $5,000 doing that at least like I made so much money. Just I, that was how I spent my time. Like my, I'd be driving and I'd see a random sign. I'd be like, I could write a joke about that sign Just voice mellowing. Oh just notes all boom boom boom So they I made some money doing that I've done some speaking gigs. I've dabbled in stand-up, but not anything like Jake Jake's done 500 shows and Yeah

That's about it. Oh started table setters with my friend. It's not, we're not making money off of anything, but it's kind of similar to our integrated thing I was talking about. It's a fatherhood mastermind in Kansas city. So it's kind of what I'm into these days, but we'll see big 2025 for table. Big 2025, billions of bulls.

Yeah. So next, this is probably where a lot of people are hoping to gain some insight, different inside jokes from the podcast. people are hoping to gain some insight, different inside jokes from the podcast. I know we're leaving some out, but we tried to take all your considerations. We'll quickly explain them all.

Amish Jams, one of people's favorite early segments. Brad saw a sign driving on the road that said Amish Jams. He thought it was a funny observation because clearly they're selling like jams and jellies, but it makes it sound like they were selling Amish music. We went on a tirade talking about what kind of music they could possibly have raking back some hay. Florence and No Machine. Yes.

All those kinds of things. Next is a voice memo from LJ Del Papa back in the day. He said, what would you say if you landed on the moon? Yeah, hard question to answer you know not one step for you know What is it one small step for man giant step for mankind? I just said not bad Can't look around People really ran with that and loved it we have merch that says not bad with like an astronaut on top Not bad, so yeah, we say. We have merch that says not bad with like an astronaut on top of it.

Not bad. So yeah, we say that sometimes. You'll hear it's not bad. Also in 2020, the Blue Wall Studio era came the time where we learned I can't say the word rural very well. And I've tried to get better. It's still tough for me.

R-U-R-A-L if you were curious about what word it is. Rural. Yeah. Yeah, I grew up having trouble with my R's, had a bit of a speech impediment With speech class I got most of them down now, but there's few give me trouble silver dollar city whole wide world Rural whole wide world huh sometimes. It's just like the multiple of the same thing together Just tongue twisters in general tricky Yeah, I world doesn't seem tongue twisty that was was a fun segment. A lot of people got enjoyment out

of that. Got to watch that one if you haven't seen it. It's that's one of the hardest I've ever laughed on the podcast. I think it has its own dedicated video on our YouTube channel. I think so, too.

You find that early, early on, Brad had talked about his old driver's ed teacher. Yeah, Mr. Lamping, he would always say as you're driving, anticipate the yellow, anticipate the yellow. And then if you're getting close and it's still green,

he goes, and we're going through. And so anticipate the yellow became a pretty popular inside joke for a while. I saw a comment, someone wanted to explain the inside joke about eating the hot dog. I don't know if we have merch about that, maybe we do. We sure do, Jake. Okay, that's probably why they're wondering. I don't know if we have merch about that. Maybe we do. We sure do, Jake. Okay, that's probably why they're wondering.

I'm a capitalist, if you haven't learned. They're like, what is this T-shirt? Yeah. I have a allergy to red meat that I got from a tick bite that I suffered. I suffered this injury, this allergy, pretty much right where the podcast was starting, which is kind of funny.

Anyways, so I can't have red meat. And there was a time where I found myself between a rock and a hard place. Someone had me over for dinner. They had no other options. And so they were serving hot dogs. And so I just ate the hot dog. And so it was just a funny,

just ultimate people pleaser moment. I'm literally allergic to this thing. God forbid I ask him if he's got peanut butter and jelly. I just ate the hot dog. So it's a sign of just like, just- Suck it up. Suck it up, dying to yourself and being polite. Yep, eat the hot dog. So it's a sign of just like, just suck it up, suck it up, dying to yourself and being polite. Yep. Eat the hot dog.

Eat the hot dog. Inside joke of coach or that's my coach. Hi coach. So my childhood baseball coach, unbeknownst to us until five years into our friendship, is Jake's uncle. And we figured this out after being pretty tight friends. And there's some funny stories.

There's one iconic one about me not being able to hop a fence, a four foot chain link fence as a kid. And, you know, my coach getting frustrated about it, whatever. But anytime we talk about Jake's uncle, who's this hilarious guy with a million amazing stories about him, you know, I'll chime in and be like, that's my coach. I think it started on my bachelor party, right? Yeah, yeah, your uncle came to the bachelor party with us, which is iconic.

Oh, it was so fun. I want to relive that weekend. But yeah, anytime Michael is doing anything, Brad or just like cheer him on, everyone look at my coach. Good job, coach. That's my coach. You know, like or just like cheer him on. Everyone look at my coach. Good job coach. That's my coach. You know, like just like this cheesy like.

He'll always be my coach. That's right coach. Good job coach. So I'm just the other day I called him coach. I don't think I've ever called him uncle John or John or anything like that. That's my coach. I still remember when we like discovered that,

you're like your cousin Steve Fulbright then. I was like, yes dude. You got it. Steve-o, yes. Yeah, dude. You got it. Steve-o. Yeah. Another fun little tidbit of that is that I would go up in sub for this. I lived in Springfield, Stratford.

I would drive three hours just to go play in the final day of a baseball tournament up at kids sitting. And that was because Scott, who grew up LDS, was not playing baseball on Sundays. So I would go up there and I would fill in for Scott. Crazy. Scott Sell.

Scott's never met young Jake, but I remember young Jake. Yes, crazy. With the coat. Intertwined. Yeah. Next one, thank you. That's one you're gonna hear quite a bit more recently. There's something that my wife, Rachel, pointed out to me

that when I'm in a hurry or just like a very systematic type conversation of, you know, toll booth drive through, I'm still polite, but I think I get in a rhythm instead of saying, thank you, I say, all right, thank you. Thank you. And Rachel pointed it out and everyone's ran with it. Yeah, a lot of memes, gifs, just saying thank you.

On your feet is the next one. So yeah, I think this originally started from your friend Grant in Australia. Yes, it was, yeah, Grant Hutterberg and I went to Australia and New Zealand in 2019. Yeah, started saying On Your Feet and then I loved it. And so I started saying it in Trinidad on a, I went on a mission trip to Trinidad and Tobago with some church people.

And I remember like that was, we sat on your feet so many times, like in public, where it's like kind of okay to yell, but like everyone knows that you're yelling. Like, you know, we were at a beach and everyone on the beach could hear us be like, Oh, Tobago on your feet. It just means get excited. Yeah, let's go. Get on your feet guys. And so, yeah, that's, all right, that's a big one too. Another, another popular one.

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GRKC for 10% off, of course. Thank you. Of course. One from about, I don't know, a year and a half ago or so, Cinnamon Swirl. I was doing a stand-up show, I was on the road on tour. I think it was in Spokane, Washington, and I do what I often do is I walk around

and I talk to local people, baristas, trying to get content for the night. What do I need to know about Toledo? What do I need to know about smoking? I'm a comedian, I'm performing tonight. And just the least informative person of all time, she's like, man, it's just, there's really not much traffic, you know, one of those.

But I was like, well, I should at least buy something. She recommended the Cinnamon Swirl, and it did a number on me. And I- It had red meat in it, let's just put it that way. Yeah, it just, it really, really did not react well with my stomach. And so it was just a story from the podcast

that now cinnamon swirl almost replaces like the word diarrhea. I feel like I got the cinnamon swirls. And I had several ghosties after, oh, I think there was some part of that story where I ran out of boxers or something too. Yeah, you were commando for some reason. Yeah, Or I got really sweaty that day and then I had the Simmons roles. I didn't have time to shower. I just think it was a gross night. Yeah. Yeah. We went golfing that day or played pickleball or something. It's not a great day. Yeah. So did

you say you've been on your tour for standup? Yeah. And then perform that night. Yeah. Yeah. Send high to fans, to pictures of ghosties They had no idea what I went through That's wild Okay, head gobbler is another one. That's just a funny time where we laughed really hard Scott when he was here one time Scott sell was Talking about the turkey trot and we convinced him somehow. He could be a bit gullible at times very gullible. It's so fun We convinced him that one person has to dress up

like the turkey. Well, it's a turkey trot, but there's a real turkey you're trying to find. Right, yeah, that's right. It's like a scavenger hunt for the turkey. And so I started trying to explain it. We could tell, Jake and I have done so many improv things like this where we can tell.

Oh, we can mess with Catherine. We can mess with anyone new to the group. Oh yeah, and so I started explaining this idea of the head gobbler and I I couldn't get that was the breaking point dying laughing And yeah, we just messed with Scott. So head gobbler head gobbler just made up. Yeah, you might see the horses Ornament on Brad's camera right now become an inside joke for the past year One of our segments, Schmores, which is short for Mount Rushmore, it means your top four favorite things,

like the four presidents. We did the Schmores of smells, Timon's first pick was horses, which the first thing you think about horses is just like a gross stable with poop. Yeah. And it just, it really shocked Brad and I that was his first pick.

And we'll talk about who Timon is here second too. Yes, good point. Yeah. So yeah, Timon horse's thing is cause he chose that as his first pick. And we'll talk about who Tymon is in a second too. Yes, good point. Yeah. So yeah, Tymon horse's thing is cause he chose that as his favorite smell. Yeah, the idea of smelling and how horses smell. So let them watch is another one that's been kind of more popular recently.

Let them watch, let them watch, let them watch. It's a quote from a Disney movie. Let them watch. Yeah, it's Moana I think, let them watch. Let them watch. It's such a small, small moment in a rather big movie. Inappropriate movie called Wolf of Wall Street. Similar to The Basement Yard and probably TMG.

Like, don't listen to these things. Don't watch these things. But yeah, bring your sister over here. Let him watch. Let him watch. He's like lifting weights. So for whatever reason, I thought that quote was so funny. We started saying it. Let him watch. Let him watch. He's like lifting weights. So for whatever reason, I thought that quote was so funny. We started saying it. Let him watch. Let him watch. And then there are other iterations. Oh, you dropped it. Let him botch. You need some tape

on that. Let him botch. It's just a fun thing. Let him watch. So that's let him watch. Scott still loves it. Next one. I'll try to tell us one quickly. Someone commented it though. Ply and Turnbow. like where does that come from? This is a story that I told the podcast, but it happened back in college. Very improvised, very quickly, almost like what Brad and I were talking about with the head gobbler.

We decided to play a prank on this guy, pretty good prank if they're global enough, where we convinced a guy named Brian Turnbull that he had a speech impediment, although he didn't. And this was the first time he's ever being told he has a speech impediment, so he's freaking out. And we're making him like say his name and we're like you don't hear that you're saying boy in tone, though No, I don't hear no one's ever told me that and yeah, it's just a fun story, but she called his mom We lost it. I was like no, you don't have a speech impediment. Your friends are messing with you

So so good. I think he lives in Kansas City. I just I know we have mutual friends I mean obviously but anyway, I need to see him sometime and ask him he remembers that that's great Well, well, well if it isn't blind turn Why'd you say it like that? Oh Well, I thought that's why you say blind we're good friends. We can joke about it. That's so good All right. Next one. We have a couple more jokes here. This one is just, this is spicy. Gotta say it with like, there's a scene in Home Alone 2 where Joe Pesci gets knocked into the wall,

Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, knocked into the wall by a tool chest. That was the sound of a tool chest falling down the stairs. I was telling my sister this past weekend, I was like, you would not believe how well Brad and Catherine know Home Alone. It's like how well I know the office. I mean, it's a crazy to the extent they know it.

Really? Yeah. We love Home Alone. It's one of the things I have in the next section there. But there was one time, I don't remember, I think one of the kids, we were eating. I was feeding them lunch or something. And yeah, they go,

Oh, this meat's spicy. And I just, I just like gotten this weird, you know, dad mood. Cartoon character. This meat is spicy. And I just did it 20 times. They thought it was the funniest thing. I mean, it's so fun to have kids because you can, I mean, what an audience. And so, you know, we just, instead of spicy, we, we, you know mean what an audience and so, you know, we just instead of spicy we You know now we I see you know, whatever all these different goofy goofy Yes, yeah, whatever that Hockey rink is I see these beats are pickly

So that's that that's that and then last one is an inside joke that comes from the Scott era when he was our laugh track. If he would ever get talking a little too much, Brad would remind him, this is my podcast. My podcast. My podcast, my podcast. My podcast. Every once in a while I'll do it to time and to, but as you're gonna learn soon enough,

it's kind of time and it's podcast too. Time is a freaking man. He's not here today, but he's awesome. So, whoops. I, no more lights. We've done some segments over the years. Let's just go through them real quick. We did, we've done voice memos.

We've done blanks of the week, which was like anything, you know, just another way of doing our normal podcast. But it's like, we do it now with win of the week. We've done it with poultry of the week, which is something you have beef with, but I can't have beef. So we call it poultry of the week. Yeah, so we'll still sometimes be like I got poultry with this I have poultry something. Yes. That's the origin of that inside joke other blanks of the week would just be a baby of the week Yeah, Brad's was always his wife. We'd have I don't know

Enlightenment of the week drink of the week. Have we ever done enlightenment? I don't know. That sounds good I talked about schmores recently. Yep. And since the beginning, for the most part, we've had some sort of jingle on the podcast. Sometimes it's improvised, sometimes it's planned. We do reviews of the week. Currently trending, sometimes mediocre life updates,

all sorts of different things, but they're pretty self-explanatory. Yes. Let's talk about some of the help we've had on the podcast. Before there is time in, make sure we give a shout out to Justin. Oh, got it. Justin was there, the first person we ever hired. It was right when it was kind of during COVID, it was like, we're going to get on YouTube.

I need to, I should go back and see because it, you know, a lot of people applied. I narrowed it down and then I got it between two and it was so hard to choose between these two for whatever reason I went with Justin and the Justin was really a part of our lives for a long Time he's the editor for a long time He once we found time and then Justin went on to be our made jean shorts editor So great guy the reason he's not our editor anymore is because We eventually moved like a three camera setup that has to have somebody live switching everything around. And so Justin is, he was living in Alabama at the time. Now he's in Tennessee.

So couldn't do that. So yeah, time and time and stepped in. So let's talk about time in a little bit. So time and Impsh is at a time of recording this 18 years old, at a time of recording this pubescent, no, I'm just kidding. At the time of recording this 18 years old, at a time of recording this pubescent, no I'm just kidding, at the time of recording this, he is a homeschool kid, he's wonderful,

he comes from a large family, I believe he's the second oldest of eight, and just a wonderful kid, loves theater, loves choir, loves musicals, and has just blossomed into his own. I think he's been helping us for a year and a half now. Originally got connected with us because he messaged you or Jeanshorts.

I just went to find it. Okay. December 13th, 2022. Hey, what's up, Jake? I'm Tymon Emsch, a big fan of your comedy. I'm a videographer and editor. I live in Kansas City. I love to be a part of your shoots with your Jeanshorts,

whatever videos you work on, helping hand, filming, editing. I don't know if you're looking for any help, but that I'd love to be a part of your shoots with your jean shorts whatever videos you work on helping hand filming editing I don't know if you're looking for any help, but that I'd reach out Always looking for experience and meeting new people. I mean truly just a great DM. He left his Email his phone number right here. Oh, oh It's gone and I never saw it I didn't reply and then two months later mid-February. He replied to story and said, funniest gene towards video I've ever seen. I said, Hey man, first of all, sorry, I'm just not seeing your earlier message. I'm pumped you love the video today though.

And yeah, man, we should talk about potentially work together. Your stuff looks really great. And you clearly understand social media as well. And he said, yeah, it'd be really fun to work something out. Let me know if there's ever some of you guys work on and anyway, shot him a text. We got coffee. I texted Brad said, he's a man found our guy. He's wonderful. He's gone from like this guy that's behind the you know scenes to now He's even on camera. We call it T on C which stands for time and on camera

which has only been a couple weeks now, but we love him and Podcasts wouldn't be the same without him. He's definitely added a new flavor to the podcast in many ways. He can sing like crazy, which Jake's not. He kind of replaced me there as the other singer. So Jake was in the theme song for a while and then doesn't need to do any more. So, yeah, classic. Yeah. Timon's the man.

He's just a great guy and just adds so much. So adds a lot of value, has a really good sense of humor. It just is always done a very good job balancing. Like it would be hard to sit in a room of podcasting and not contribute constantly. I would have a tough time doing that. And he has a very good job like letting us talk. But when he does contribute, I mean, it's like

it would be very easy for that to become an awkward position. I've thought about that. We're like, you contribute and it's like, that wasn't really funny. You're stop Timon's always always done a very good job of that Inside joke with timon is every once in a while we just put him on the spot We're like what timing did you have something you were gonna say? Yeah, and uh, that's always started off as a bit time You were raising your hand. He never had his hand raised. No, never and it's so fun

He's gotten better, but I think he had a hard time with improvising for a while. Yeah. No, duh. It's just fun. He provides a new perspective. He's obviously a different generation. He's also not a sports guy.

He's a theater guy. And when we do these live shows, which we'll talk about soon, then he really adds a lot of value. Right. Yeah, let's go down to live shows real quick. Let's do it. Yeah, so we've done, I don't know, seven or eight looked like here events.

Our first one that we ever did where we met fans was we were playing in a rec basketball league and it was looking like we were going to make the championship and where we were playing our basketball games was at this old arena in Kansas city that, I mean, they renovated and to make these awesome basketball courts, but they still have hundreds and thousands of seats at this old arena in Kansas City that, I mean, they renovated and to make these awesome basketball courts, but they still have hundreds and thousands of seats at this place that no one sits in. And so I thought, what if we just invited our Ghostrunners fans, ghosties to the game? I was obsessed with that idea. I couldn't believe how good of an idea. We should absolutely do this. How far would it be if like 20 fans showed up?

And then these other teams like, what are these 20 people doing here? And so it seemed like a lot of people were coming. There was somebody coming, a family coming from Virginia, Oregon. I was like, this is gonna be amazing. And then- Next Thursday, guys, next Thursday.

Guys, put it on your calendar. You're like, it's gonna be so fun. We're gonna make it so fun. We're gonna do a podcast next day, whatever. And we get a message, what, two days before? That was like, hey, FYI, the grad there's a graduation, um, the same time. So we have to move your game back a week. I remember exactly where I was and the exact panic I felt. I had just parked my car, um,

in downtown Kansas, about to go into messenger coffee. We were going to like have a little riding session together. Yeah. And I mean, they got back in my car. I texted Trey emergency just came up. I'm not gonna be in there for 15 minutes And then I think called you texted you I remember texting you dude. That's all I text it dude. Yes That's that's when you know, it's bad like dude and we just go into you know PR spent, you know trying to figure out So I think I recorded a voice memo on my phone Two minutes long and I posted it as a podcast. So it was like, emergency pod, if you're playing,

I'm coming to the game, it just got canceled. So we didn't really have a Facebook page back then. We had no way to communicate very well. Maybe we had Instagram. We might have had Instagram. Crazy, I mean, could not have been whatever. Such a bummer, our first ever in-person event. So we still like met up with the people

that were planning on coming, went to barbecue with them and stuff, but ended up doing it the next week, and we had like met up with the people that were planning on coming, went to barbecue with them and stuff, but, uh, end up doing it the next week. And we had like 90 some people came. Oh, they dressed up. They made signs. My parents came up. Yeah. There were people that dressed up like bananas and like, yeah, all these different inside jokes and amazing things, uh, huge banner, like all these fun things, uh, end up losing the game. I was gonna say, do you remember, I think we had to play two games that night. The semi-final was, so we win the semi-final and we're like, all right, good. We fulfilled what we meant to do.

They're here for the championship game. And then the other team is like, all right, y'all can just have it. We're gonna head out. We're like, what? No, these people are here to see the championship game. Yeah, we bored away and begged them. Yeah, they're like, I mean, you guys are gonna win.

Look at all these fans. We're exhausted. We played earlier in the year. Yeah, we whooped them. It's like, all right. Yeah. They're like, no, you guys just take it. Like, no, no, seriously. Like, we've got people. I mean, you were like, bagging them.

Like, these guys right there, see those guys? Those are high school kids who drove here from Oregon. Yeah. Or whatever. Two day long drive. They came here to watch the championship game. Can you please just play against us? Yes.

It was, I was about to get really bad. I was like, oh my gosh. You're just going to bail because we have fans here? Listen, man, there's a bunch of people that graduated last year or last week and that's when they missed it. Finally convinced them to play us and then we lost. And then we lost, so that was our own doing.

Anyway, still have never won a rec tournament or a rec. That last one's hard to win. Hard to swallow. How does no homes do it? Yeah, exactly. F12 was our next event, which just happened in February. On February 12th, we call it F12. Just had the idea of that was a really fun event

with the basketball game. We got to do something else. Nothing fun happens in February, so let's invite people to do something in February. Yep, that was the rationale. It was great. I mean, we did it at like a, was it a Plex pod? Yeah, like a co-working space had it like a large. Yeah event space

I mean tickets were ten dollars or something and sold 250 300 tickets 300 or more. Yeah, that was insane and very well attended. It was so fun This was like my intro like I introduced Rachel everyone we had been kind of like privately dating for months at that point, six months probably. And it was Rachel's parents first time seeing really anything I'd ever done before. And so that was a big weekend for us. It was so fun.

And it was just also a special weekend. Like we put a lot of work into it. Justin was there to help us out a ton. And yeah, it was just a very memory filled. Oh yeah. We went to Chick-fil-A after and we had, yeah, we had 300 people in this Chick-fil-A. It was one of the crazier scenes I've ever been a part of. It was like wall to wall, shoulder to shoulder at Chick-fil-A.

But it was so, like the Chick-fil-A people loved it. Yeah, Ghostie sang us a song. I cried, whatever. I cry all the time. So that's fine. But great times. It was great. Somewhere in the next year or so, I

got hit up by this influencer tourism type company. It's like we help influencers take their fans on trips We got pretty far down the road on this and then credit to Brad. He was just like dude I think we just do this on our own Of course to me. I'm just like dude, but what if we just paid someone it didn't have to worry about it and Anyway, yeah, we know like we love the concept of this. It was gonna be in Belize I think is where we're gonna try to go. Yeah, and it was like $4,000 per person and they're like it's a private island, but you don't have that super water or Yeah, maybe air conditioning or something. I was like we can't charge this but all the hammocks you could want but dude private island

Yeah, that always sells people right like fire fest like a year So yeah, then we start planning this out and Yeah, we do our first ever ghosty getaway I mean still to this day Maybe the first podcast in history to take their fans on vacation with them and actually like sleep alongside them like we're in the same Room you were in the same room as them. Yeah.

Bunk room. I mean, a little bit of a risk on our end, but we had a lot of belief in our fans and our audience and it went off extremely successfully. So fun. So much so that we did another one this past year instead of Florida and Gulf Shores. And another great sign was that

we had so many repeat customers. Yeah. So many people who came to the first one wanted to come again to the second one and just further just, or just like that deepened the friendship even more like now we've went on two vacations together right i've been on two vacations so my best friends totally yeah it was special and super fun we just described as like a summer camp for adults basically yeah it will be more there were there were there were some uh structured stuff but also a lot of just having fun joking

around laughing on so lots of fun and then more recently last couple months or i don't know There were some structured stuff, but also a lot of just having fun, joking around, laughing on. So lots of fun. And then more recently, last couple of months, or I don't know, recently 2024, we've, we had two different events, one in Branson and one in Indiana. We did an event in Branson with Silver Dollar City, which is their amusement park there. We also did a pickleball night beforehand and then a worship service Sunday morning after. And that was a ton of fun. I could get in the habit of doing that every year. I think, and I loved Indiana too.

I mean, it was so great. I think both those were relatively easy for how much fun and sweet it was. Cause when you compare it to, oh, we should, GrandiBoo, forgot to talk about that. Oh, I'm sorry, yeah, GrandiBoo in between. GrandiBoo was the thing we did, which it's so fun. I don't know if we ever talked about this.

We'd been planning it for a long time. Like, make sure you guys mark your calendars. August 26th, it's gonna be the Comedy Central Roast of Jake Triplett, and we're going to the Trey and Jake comedy show, like, it's gonna be an amazing weekend. Bondi Bowl's coming up here, but we never had a name for it. And it's like, all right, we need to finally tell all the details on the podcast. Yeah, we're sitting right here.

And we're like, time is over there. Like, what are we going to call it? It's we're brainstorming. And then, I mean, right then and there, Brad was like, what about Grande? Boo. It's like, oh, we're not going to come up with anything better than that. So it happened very spontaneously. But great name. Grandeville was fun. Yeah. Because it was like, hey, we're getting people together. Rendezvous, Grande name. GrandiVu was fun. Yeah.

Cause it was like, hey, we're getting people together. Rendezvous, Rendezvous. But we're ghosts. Boo. Yeah. So I would say we're somewhat on a yearly rhythm now where it's like one vacation that 30 people can come to and one bigger event that's more maybe podcast,

live podcast focused, comedy focused that hundreds of people can come to. Yeah. And so we've done a few of those in Kansas City. And then recently we did one in Missouri and Indiana and they were both fun. Indiana, we have a sponsor, Main Street Roasters, which I'm sure you've heard about by now.

I mean, I would think. Yeah, but they are in a small town in Indiana and we just hung out with ghosties all day in Indiana. It was so much fun, so sweet. Well, sometimes when I'm describing this to people, I'll say like, our podcast is not big enough to go on tour, so instead we invite our fans to come to us. Like we do one show per year and you have to come to us.

Sure, yeah. Like reverse going on tour. That's how I was telling it to Kenny. Good boy. Good boy. Yep, just went on a pheasant hunting trip, if you don't know that. If you really just started listening. Literally, this is your first episode. And there was a guy named Kenny who said, good boy. Yep, just went on a pheasant hunting trip, if you don't know that. If you've really just started listening.

Literally, this is your first episode. And there was a guy named Kenny who said, good boy. Good boy. Anyway, good times. We'll end with a few of these things, and then Jake, if you have anything else, but I just wrote down some favorites of ours, host favorites.

Some of these are me, some of these are Jake, some of these are both of us. We both love Chick-fil-A and Chipotle. Those are two of our favorite places to eat. We've eaten there together quite a bit. Also Raising Canes, anything that starts with a C. Yep, C and it's chicken, I'm there. Jake loves the movie Prince of Egypt. Yep.

And man, do a lot of people resonate with that. There was a handful of very small things in my life that I've been early on and like early like claim I like it before there was like societal like I Don't know group think that it's good. Yeah, it was the Hunger Games in Prince of Egypt. Okay. Those are your claims to fame Yes. Yeah, I knew those were good Prince of Egypt. Yeah, it's like if you think of Prince of Egypt you think of Jake It's just one of the same. And most. Like Jake alluded to, I love the movie Home Alone.

Definitely my favorite Christmas movie, if not one of my favorite movies of all time. You have a laugh that you do that comes from the movie War Dogs. Jonah Hill's character. He does a great job. It's a great movie if you like. Well done action. I wouldn't say I'm an action movie fan, but This is like comedy and action. It's based on true story Yeah, we went to it on your birthday one year kind of out of the blue. Like I don't know

I don't I've never heard of this movie. Let's go check it out and It's not gonna win Oscars, but it's like one of those movies. I think you and I just both love I'll watch it for the rest of my life. I'll watch it once a year for the rest of my life, at least. Yep. Yeah. Poor dogs. Jake got really into Elvis.

Yeah, makes sense. My dad really like, what's that called? Were you like a mother in the wild? You imprint. Oh yeah. My dad imprinted on me, Elvis, at a young age. Old home videos of me liking Elvis.

And then I strayed away from Elvis and then that Austin Butler movie came out and I really, I was all in on Elvis again. Back to your first love, yeah. Yeah, love me some Elvis. In a similar way, I love The Beatles because I think my parents played them some for me growing up and they're my favorite band of all time.

And so yeah, I love The Beatles. One of the first two, three podcast episodes ever, 2019, Brad was like, I've been listening to this new band called Surfaces. Yeah. Still, they're making great music, really fun vibe, they've gone on to be much more popular than they were back then, so good job.

At one point, 99.9% Spotify rapped, I was, for Surfaces. Oh, I see. I was in the top 0.1% one year. I just, I listened to nothing but Surfaces. I went 1% one year. I just, I listened to nothing, but sir, I went, went to Hawaii one year and I just ever since we went to Hawaii, we went to Hawaii in January too for like, eh, whenever it was, I just listened to it forever. So, another thing that I'm really into, I love coffee, but specifically I have a keg in a kegerator at my house that serves nitro coffee, which is just this awesome

coffee. I don't know how to describe it. So I just smooth. Yeah. Got like a smooth feel to it. So nitro coffee, love nitro. Next this gets a lot of good feedback and commentary. Diva detergent, which Brad knew about this a long time ago. I don't know what led to me actually. I mean, maybe I can't remember why I initially tried it out, but then I fell in love with it. It was like, I love the smell. I don't care how much it costs.

I want to smell like this. And there were go-sees at the Nappany meetup who claimed they were two quarts over from me, but they were downwind. Like I knew you were over there because I could smell the Diva. I was like, there's no way these clothes haven't even washed that recently.

Dude, that's why Diva's so wild though. It's very strong. But like, yeah, and it stays. That's what's crazy. Like I've had stuff that like was washed with Diva three years ago that I haven't worn since then, that I find in like the back of my drawer or something, and I could, you could tell.

Yeah, so it's strong. There's been multiple instances where I've told podcast stories where like, men, women, women doesn't matter They will compliment me in public strangers. I mean like what kind of cologne do you have? Yeah, what's that smell? I'm smelling Yeah, like it's just my detergent man my detergent, bro And then a few more we both love love love the KC chiefs and always have Yes, I don't know if you guys know what the chiefs have won two in a row, maybe three by the time they're listening.

I don't know when you're listening to this. Two Super Bowls in a row, but we have grown up Chiefs fans. We suffered as Chiefs fans. I'm not trying to act like we suffered that much. Growing up, they were awesome for a long time too, but then they stunk. Yeah, like high school, college years.

That was bad. Two and 14. You know, I was telling Jensen this. Jensen. Jensen's another one. You gotta talk about him. Jensen this, Jensen. Jensen's another one. Gotta talk about him. Yeah. Jensen is a guy we met on our very first ghosty getaway,

the vacation in Seaside, Florida. He was just any other fan who came and paid to be there. And we just really clicked with Jensen, both of us did. He works in youth ministry and just a stud of a guy. And I've become good friends with him now. But he was my roommate on the hunting trip and I was telling him, I was like, there's a year, I think 2012,

the Chiefs went two and 14 and sent six people to the Pro Bowl. Yeah. It's crazy. We had all this individual talent, but no quarterback, so it doesn't matter. It truly doesn't. And then we got him. Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

We got him. So, huge into the Chiefs. We're on the Chiefs email list. We know some people. Yeah, we've been to some got them. So, huge into the Chiefs. We're on the Chiefs email list, we know some people. Yeah, we've been to some Chiefs. That's a big accomplishment. Yeah, we didn't get paid, but we did some cool things for the Chiefs.

In fact, the borderline got humiliated with the barbecue sauce. Yeah, we got kind of abused actually, but we love the Chiefs still. That's how loving we are towards them. Yeah, I guess if we're trying to explain everything, this year for the first game of the game, we were invited to be participants in the world's largest tailgate is what it's an online like tele, televised game, like whatever competition back and forth. And,

uh, one of the competitions was like this relay race. We had to put barbecue sauce in buckets, buckets on top of your head and run back and forth. And Jake just got barbecue sauce everywhere. Yeah, it was like barbecue sauce with like meat in it. And so it was just like, not that I even forget the allergy, but just like, just like stuck in your teeth and stuff. And it was extra. I think that heat index was like 95 or something.

It was so hot. Yeah, it was wild. Yeah, brutal day. But abuse is% of that day. It was so hot, yeah, it was wild. Brutal day. Abuse is a good word. But man, we still love it. Still love the Chiefs. I also, I think that's pretty much your main fandom is the Chiefs.

Yeah, it's about the only team I care for. Similar fandom for University of Kansas basketball. Even though I went to Kansas State, a lot of people give me a hard time, but I've always loved Kansas basketball. You know, I always will. My dad has season tickets and we go quite often. So that's all I have written down here, Jake.

I don't know. That's who we are. That's who we are. That's who we love. That's what we love. Yeah, so I'm sure we're forgetting things. Feel free to continue to ask questions. Happy to answer them.

Yeah, that's about it. What is the Patreon Brad? What's that? I hear that word every now and then. What's that word? Yeah. There's a bunch of different ways that you can support us. One of them is through patreon.com slash ghost runners, I believe. Sounds right. It's just a subscription that you can pay either five, 10 or $15 a month. And since we have a free podcast, it's a way that you can kind of show your love to us, show your support to us. We release the episodes a day early, most of the time, time.

And we also put some, you know, exclusive. Yeah, every now and then, if there's anything that makes extra sense to put on, you know, to give to you guys, we'll put on the Patreon first. Sometimes the patrons have given us ideas for segments or things like that. And then if there's anything that makes extra sense to put on, you know, to give to you guys, we'll put on the Patreon first. Sometimes the patrons have given us ideas for segments or things like that. So try to kind of have a little bit of a sounding board on there at times.

But mainly it's just a way that we have some exclusive content in exchange for some extra support from you. We also have merch that you can buy. And it always helps if you support our sponsors as well. So yeah, we're very blessed with this thing. I don't think we ever anticipated any, like, like Jake said, I don't think we ever anticipate any of this happening. It's just completely providential.

I feel like that it's gone the way it has and that we're making money off this thing. And so we're just thankful that you're here, thankful for listening. And yeah, we hope that you enjoy this. Hope this is a good kickstart for you, I suppose. If you've listened to this whole episode, it was a long episode, but we got longer, so. Yes, we would humbly ask that you tell a friend. Yes. The best way for us to grow the podcast.

That might be the only way. Honestly, I just- It's the best and only way, a personal recommendation. We've had, we've gone through Seasons where we try to go viral on like clips on Instagram. It's done jack squat. What's the point? I mean, it's one of these I think you got to go viral a hundred times Before you see any type of right? So the main thing you can do is tell your friends. This might be a good episode to start if they're a little bit on the fence

But we're usually even more high energy than this. I know we're going crazy right now, but, yeah, thank you guys for listening. Yeah. This podcast right now is recording. It's 11 p.m. And I've already done three podcasts earlier today. Wild. No problem. No problem, though. High energy. It's what we do. So, all right. We love you guys. We'll see you Monday with another new episode

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