Ghostrunners - 39 - You Hate Albuquerque?!?

Episode Date: February 3, 2020

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Everyone, welcome to the Ghost Runners podcast, episode 39. If you're familiar with the TV show, The Office, there is a certain scene where Michael Scott is either gonna get really good news from Holly Flax or really bad news. Brad made a good point that we are in a similar situation right now. Recording this on Friday, January 31st.

Our Chiefs play in the Super Bowl on February 2nd, but this is being uploaded on February 3rd So we don't know how to react yet. Our stakes have never been higher. So we are going to record two different Reactions reactions to this game. Yeah, and the one you're about to hear right now is the one based on how the Chiefs perform Sunday Sunday. We're the best! Oh my goodness! I cannot believe it. We told all of you guys at the beginning of the season. Yeah, we did. Remember when we were trying to get Gunnar to come to that Sunday night Annapolis Colts game? Yeah. And we were like, Gunnar, what do you want to be able to tell your grandkids? Do you watch them comfortably at home? Or do you want to say, hey, Morpheus and Lucinda, I was at a Sunday night primetime game in the year the Chiefs won the Super Bowl.

Yes. Look who's laughing now. Oh my gosh. Us two. I was watching the game and I cried. I cried like a baby when they won. I seriously did, Jake. I swear.

I know I did. My daughter and my wife are right there. And I just said, Hattie, this is a special day. This is a special day. We won. I hope you guys could feel how exciting this is for two Kansas boys like us. Go Chiefs. It's time. It's time to talk about Patrick Mahomes. He's the greatest of all time. Oh my gosh. Sign him, Sign him for life. However much money he wants or needs. However much the bank can make, give it to Patrick Mahomes.

I don't care. Go to the Federal Reserve and just say, I want the Mahomes. I want it all. Give me the mint. We did it, guys. I cannot believe it. We won. We were literally the best at this game.

And you know what? This is one of, I'm going to say it, six. Six. One of six Super Bowls with Patrick Mahomes. What's that LeBron famous quote when he goes- Not one. Not two. Not three.

Yeah, he went on for a long time. That's us, baby. It's us. Mahomes, Tyreek, Kelsey. Bring it. Anybody. We're so much better. Everyone in the national media is like, oh, the 49ers are going to do so great.

If anybody's going to have a blowout of a game, it's going to be the 49ers killing the cheese. Blah, blah, blah. Shut your trap about the 49ers. ESPN, I wish you would just shut your big yap. Oh, man. I am so pumped up thinking about us winning the Super Bowl right now. It's happening. We did it. It's hard to think it has happened like this oh man we got the parade on wednesday can't wait we got just something huge

for the parade we got oh my gosh the ghost runners are going to be like you know the second most important thing at the parade probably we're going to find ourselves in the parade somehow yes in your truck yes yes in the truck i like that idea oh man we. Yes. Yes! In the truck! I like that idea. Oh, man. We'll find a way. Felt the Gs on that truck. Oh! See the Chiefs in that truck.

Anyway. The Chiefs won, guys. And you know what? Just for kicks and giggles, here's our reaction, just in case they would have lost. Here's how we were going to react. Oh. Oh. Oh.

Oh, oh, oh, oh. Nice. It's interpretive music. It's a sad tomahawk chop. Oh. Oh, oh, oh. Ha, ha, ha. Anyway, we're back.

Back to your regularly scheduled programming. If you're new here, we don't talk about the Chiefs that often, but definitely like when they're in the Super Bowl, it gets brought up. Oh, for sure. Yeah, it's our life. We talk about our life and our Chiefs are not our life. We do not rise and fall completely with the Chiefs. Somebody messaged me this past week that was like, I'm genuinely worried about Brad's well-being if the Chiefs was a Super Bowl. Oh Oh no, no, no, no. My identity is on the chiefs. That's good.

But I just, I really do enjoy sports and it's fun to watch. So a guy yesterday was actually one of Trey's roommates tried to tell me, so he was giving me a hard time. He's like, I saw you made another bachelor video, dude. You're addicted, huh? You can't stop watching it. And I'm like, I know it seems like I probably do like it because I talked about the podcast and I watched it again and made a video. But I was like, I made a decision not to watch it on Monday. I didn't watch it on Tuesday. And I wouldn't have seen it had I not, you know, I'm just explaining like, I really don't

enjoy the show. And he's like, I get it. It's not for everyone. You know, it's just entertainment. I'm like, yeah. So we're like agreeing on it. He's like, you know, it's just like sports to some people. And at first I was like, yeah. And I was like, i was like wait no no it's way different he's like no

the bachelor's the same as like nfl football you know what does he mean like some people he said his words it's just reality tv and i don't know him super well but i was like yeah huge difference in working 10 plus years towards something finally getting there and having to perform on a daily basis that challenges your body and your mind in the utmost degree compared to trying to kiss a guy for 30 days and yeah are we really by definition we're calling the bachelor reality tv but that stuff i don't know if's staged, but it's certainly not showing the whole story. It's certainly curating the whole, you know, the whole episode is not what everything is going on, obviously. Yeah, it's very much like, you know, the puppeteer in charge of his puppets.

Like, we're going to record you nonstop 24 hours for however long, I don't know, a month, two months. Yeah. And then we're going to create the story from what we have. Right. Whereas sports is like, this is so awesome because there's no scripting it at all. And it's very hard to predict. Right. March Madness. It's beautiful. So beautiful. So they're not the same. They're not the same. I understand like the idea of like, yeah, some people just like it and some people don't. Yeah. That's like sports, but that's like, that's like life. Yeah. That's everything you could ever. Yeah. Mushrooms, you know, just like sports. Some people like them. Some don't. Yeah. So true, man. Good analysis.

Jogging, you know, people, people compare jogging to sports. It's definitely for some people. Yeah. Um, I don't know. Getting up early. Yeah. It's like people, people say it's the NFL of, of routines. I don't know like this is like the extroverted introvert yeah have you are you sometimes tired but sometimes like super energetic holy i oh my gosh yeah you might be an extroverted introvert the other night like 1 a.m i was so tired you know i know for a fact bread we've hung out after 1 a.m and you've been just fine just like just like the nfl dude you just never know you just never know it's just like

gosh it's just like overtime you know in the nfl sometimes people are tired sometimes they have fresh legs and that's the bachelor oh the girl's got some fresh legs oh yeah that was a weird dog bark i was out of breath and didn't have much left but you you kept it going still trying yeah anyway while we're still somewhat on football, I have this story to read you. It's just like a quick story, a tweet from Patrick Mahomes, our favorite. Just when I thought I couldn't possibly love him anymore. Do you want to read it in Patrick Mahomes' voice? For the first three words, please.

And then you... Let me try and find it. Because I love what make you do impersonations because you're not the best at them. Yeah, not comfortable with it. Okay, let me try to think. A few weeks back. No, dang it. A few, how does it go?

Yeah, man. Yeah. It's like a certain amount of your throat you need. Not too much throat. Right. How did it go? Give me the sentence. Kind of guttural.

Give me a few words to say. Yeah, say the lazy dog jumped over the stick. Yeah. So the lazy dog just jumped over the stick. That's so good. I don't know how to find that in my throat. I like just don't have that gene. Just like replicating a voice.

That's okay. Go ahead. Yeah. A few weeks back. A few weeks back, Patrick Mahomes and his girlfriend were having dinner at a pizza place near their home in Kansas City. Obviously everyone there recognized them, but nobody interrupted them at all, allowing them to enjoy a peaceful meal.

They paid their bill and started to head out the door, and still nobody's jumping up to ask for a selfie or an autograph or anything. Pat stops at the door, turns back, everyone looks up. He says to the entire restaurant, thanks for letting us enjoy our dinner. This is why I love Kansas City. You guys are awesome.

After he and Brittany left, it was revealed that they had paid for the bill at every single table. Oh, that's awesome. That's so cool. Yeah. Shout out, you know, Nebraska Furniture Mart for the, you know, extra signing deals while he's still on his rookie contract, helping pay for meals. I love that, dude.

I love that. Yes. Gosh. Kansas City's the best. I love it in so many ways. And yeah, he's easily the most, the biggest superstar ever in Kansas City. Yeah. Like there's been other good athletes, but no one like this, especially not anytime in

our lifetime. And even when he got injured this season, it was like bad for the NFL as a whole. Like to have a 23 year old MVP. Right. He is. He's kind of the face of the NFL right now. Him and Lamar Jackson. Totally.

Yeah. People in Maryland. Well, maybe not Maryland. That's a bad example. People california are acting like pretending like they're mahomes you know yeah in the in the streets like playing football uh maryland they're probably acting like they're lamar jackson but um i know i just thought of like a random the worst yeah random state and of course yeah um but it's so cool that like yeah kansas city and new like hey we're gonna be down to earth enough not to distract them too much, not to bother them too much.

Because we have friends who work at the Ward Parkway Chick-fil-A. And they're like, yeah, Patrick comes through most mornings. Yeah. Like through the drive-thru. And, you know, I think it's because he could trust like he's going to be treated normally. I want to say that I would be cool, but I would have to talk to him. I would say something at least. I don't know.

And I wonder like what they, what they prefer. Maybe it sounds like he would prefer to just be chill, but I don't know. Every once in a while I'm like, well, they probably don't mind that much, you know? And it's a lifetime thing. You can speak to it now because of our big interaction at Chick-fil-A a few days ago. Tell everyone what that was like from your side of things. Oh man. First. Well, yeah. Okay. So first of all, Jake and I were in the corner booth and this girl walks up to us and she's like, she didn't say, are you Brad Ellis? She said, are you Jake Triplett?

And I said, no. No, I'm just kidding. I said, Jake was like, yeah. Oh my gosh. She was like a huge Trey Kennedy fan. Yeah. Huge. Like, like huge.

I effing love Trey Kennedy. She was not. It was NSF CFA. That's what she was. Not safe for Chick-fil-A. Not safe for Chick-fil-A. She didn't say effing. No,

she did not. I was like, it's pretty loud. The play place has the door open. Come on. Come on. What are you doing over here? Don't you know it's a family establishment?

NSF CFA PP, especially. Especially. Yeah. And so just raved about how much she loved Trey's videos that Jake obviously makes or contributes very intensely to making. And thought you were hilarious. And then she's like, and don't you have your own podcast? Jake's like, yeah, we do.

This is the other guy. And then she proceeded to act like she definitely knew both of us. Oh, my gosh. You guys are hilarious. I was like, you've never listened to us. You have no idea who this guy is. like she definitely knew both. Oh my gosh. You guys are hilarious But she was so nice she was Great she's like she's freaking out right now I'm gonna be whatever this is transparent, but she was she was really really sweet and nice

But we were continuing on just talking after she left she like sat right behind us and i hear her like on her phone like very quietly be like you're never gonna guess what just happened like like we are so normal jake was wearing his one dollar hat that he bought as like a joke at lowe's and like we're just sitting there eating chick-fil-a it's not like we're at like some nice restaurant and it was enough of an experience for her to like call her friend. Oh my gosh. I love it. Yeah. So funny. So. And fast forward like five or probably fast forward 20 minutes. She's done with her meal. She goes to leave. Uh, Mr. James like sees the whole thing and he's like, uh, you know, nice being at the presence of some celebrities today. And then he asked her, he's like, do you guys want a picture or do you want a picture with them?

And, uh, Brad's like, oh, I could just take it. And she's like, no, I want you in it. She's like, no, Brad, you have to get in it too. I'm like, you didn't know my name like 20 minutes ago. You have no idea this guy, you guys are just so hilarious. And it wasn't like we were really saying funny things to make her think we were hilarious. We were just saying like, oh, thank you. Oh, thank you so much. And you're like, oh, that's awesome. Yeah. I wonder if that's like a strong belief that people just assume we're funny all the time. Cause we not no we just we talk like normal people sometimes just talk about just normal mundane things that aren't funny that's what's so great about the podcast is like people think this is funny this is this is us yeah yeah so great yeah it's true

come see us at the chick-fil-a on medcalf sometime and we'll probably be there. We're there so often. We're only there at lunch. Yeah. Pretty much. Every time. Yeah. 90% of the time. And you can count on Brad being there way more than I can. Don't tell my wife.

She's rolling her eyes right now that you just said that. I've had to deny you Chick-fil-A like probably three times in the last two weeks. Are you getting tired of it? A little bit. Are you? A little bit. Well, not, I mean, I say tired of it. I had it twice for lunch this week. So clearly I'm not that tired of it? A little bit. Are you? Well, not, I mean, I say tired of it. I had it twice for lunch this week.

So clearly I'm not that tired of it. But like had it, I think Monday and Thursday for lunch. And so I didn't want to go back to back today. Yeah, that's fair. Well, we're still appreciative of the Chick-fil-A hookup. Every time I get it, I'm just like, this is nuts. Yeah. If you're new here, we get free Chick-fil-A basically for kind of no reason.

No. I mean, kind of, kind of no reason. Like there's no strings attached to it. Yeah, you're right. Like, like James was like, Hey, I noticed you guys didn't put the Chick-fil-A cup in the videos this week. So you're going to have to pay. Yeah.

He's the man. He is. And James is on our life update for you guys for both Brad and I. We joined Monday. I get a call from this rec basketball league and they're like, hey, I don't know if you remember, but you signed up for a basketball league about two months ago and not a single member of your team has signed up or paid yet. So do you still want to play?

I was like, oh, shoot. Totally forgot about that. Don't worry. Or like, don't worry about it. We'll just not play. And like, well, you would lose your $100 deposit if you don't find a team in the next 24 hours. Yes, I would like to play. I am very interested in playing now. Thank you 24 hours? Yeah, basically, because they got

to hurry and make the schedule and stuff. Yeah. So that's why you... Okay, go ahead. Yeah. So long story short, basically, we filled the team really quickly and then Brad texted me, dude, guess what? Mr. James is on our team. I was like, no way. That's awesome. And so we played last night. So there'll be plenty of updates to come with our basketball season, our flourishing friendship with Mr. James and how things go. Yeah, man, we're really, yeah, we're going to the next step of friendships with dudes. We're going from free food to playing on intramural basketball teams. From food to dude. From foods to, yeah, from free foods to gleeful dudes. Nice. Yeah.

Anyway, I missed last night much to my sugar in. Good word. Because I was at a play that I was notified or I was invited to from my parents much before Monday night when Jake frantically texted me like, hey, can you play in a basketball league? Game start this Thursday. Remember that one time when we all said we could play Thursdayursdays i signed us up and now we're in so do your parents take in a lot of theater a lot of local yeah they are they have season tickets to the kaufman center which is like so they go to hamilton and yeah i mean it's like pretty high up their theater not they're not like

a off broadway people you know they're they're high end you know not really but uh we went to this this uh play last night that my parents had seen once before. And I think when they were watching it last year, they were like, Oh my gosh, Catherine would love this. And so they invited Catherine and I, and it was about the underground railroad, but it was like spiritual ties to the underground railroad and everything. So it was like historical, um also spiritual. What my mom failed to tell me before experiencing this performance was that there were no words. No words. It was like an interpretive dance play. Like a silent film of dancers.

Yes. Was it in color? Yes. Because of Underground Railroad. Oh, gosh. Yes. Very stark, stark contrast. Sure.

Sure. But yeah, it's funny. Yes. Very stark, stark contrast. Sure. Sure. Um, but yeah, it's funny. Thanks. But yeah, it was like the first five minutes I was like, Oh, this is really sweet. This is nice. And then that, you know, that piece got over and the next one started, okay, let's get into the story. Yeah. The next one started and no one was talking and I turned over to Catherine. I was like, are there words in this thing? And she's like, I don't know. She's like mortified. I was like, Hey mom, uh, can you go ahead and let us know like next time that there's not going to be any words. Um, so there were, there were times of it where I was like, I don't know how good this is, but by the end of it, I, I'm not gonna lie. I was emotional. I had a, I had some tears welling up in the old ducks. Tear ducks or other ducks? Yeah. Mallards, the tear mallards. Do, did they end up using words?

They had some songs that had words in them, which honestly helped a lot. I would say, yeah. Yeah. It's going to carry the show. Well, that was the other thing is like, there were a few times where I was like, I don't understand what just happened because it's like dance, you know, they're dancing their way to like fighting and you know, it's like choreographed, everything's choreographed, which is amazing to do for two and a half hours or whatever it was. Um, nah, two hours. But it was also like, wait, what just happened?

You know? And so there was a few times where my mom would like lean over to us and be like, those are the slaves that got away. And then like two minutes later I was like watching it and I was like, I don't, I don't think that's, that's right. I think that's a free man dancing right there. And my mom was like, yeah, I was wrong about a few things, you know? So you're having to like investigate what you think is true.

And then also like filter out the bad news from your mom. And like, what's true? I had seen it before. So I just assumed she was right. Anyway, it was really great. So it was called the underground or just called underground. It's in Kansas city. If you're ever interested in seeing it, um, also learned that Kansas city, Kansas has a, uh, uh, a town underneath it of like for the underground railroad for back in the day. Like, that's like pretty, uh, refurbished, not refurbished, like Ikea owns it and everything. No, I'm just kidding. Uh, but like pretty, not refurbished, like Ikea owns it and everything.

No, I'm just kidding. But like pretty, what's the right word? Like historically preserved. Oh, good word. And so you can like go down and see it. There's like 26 rooms or something down there or something. From the Underground Railroad. Yeah.

It was really cool. I thought, maybe it's going to make me sound dumb. I really thought Underground Railroad was a metaphor. And you're not actually going underground. I think maybe to hide people like they were getting hit in underground. Gotcha. Because like what happened in the play, and they didn't say anything, but what I interpreted. Were they dancing under the ground? They would, the people were looking for the slaves.

They would open up the doors, you know, and these other people would be like, kind of like Anne Frank style. Like, I don't know. They're not in here. Gotcha. So I think maybe that's more of what it is, but I could be, could be wrong. I'm going to, I'm going to go check it out though. It was pretty interesting. Like sounding like, wow, like a, I don't think it's like a whole town, but that's what they called it. Anyway, pretty cool. So I enjoyed that. Would have preferred it not being on the same night as the first basketball game, though. Because it sounds like you guys need a big vanilla. Yeah, we could have used you. But it was fun.

It was good to see. I mean, you brought a friend, even though you didn't come there. Yeah, shout out. You brought a friend, too. Shout out, Scott. Shout out, Scott. Got to meet him.

Trey brought a friend. So, I mean, socially, it was a great night for me. Got to see some old friends, some new friends. Loved it. Awesome. But yeah, the games didn't go as good as they could have. We'll update you next week. See if I, you know, verbally abuse a ref.

See if I have to stand up for Jake getting tackled. Or what happens. Or anything else. Yeah. Quick life update for me. I am somewhat working for Chick-fil-A. I know you know that, but they don't know that. Yeah. A quick life update for me. I am somewhat working for Chick-fil-A. I know you know that, but they don't know that. Right. There's a new Chick-fil-A going in town in Kansas City, and I've been asked to help out with some marketing efforts, which is kind of fun. So

I've been starting to make videos for them and start planning a bunch of social media stuff. And they really trust me and given me a lot of free reign to just like do whatever I want with the marketing. Free range. Is that what you said? Yeah. Free. Nice, dude. On your feet.

Food puns on your feet. Chicken and marketing. The perfect blend. GMOs on your feet. They've given me free range chicken and free range with the ideas on how to market this chicken. And so it's fun just trying to dream up. Okay. Because, you know, it's fun being like, how do we get people to our Instagram or our Facebook or

in our stores more? I'm like, I love Chick-fil-A and I don't follow them on Instagram. I don't follow a local Chick-fil-A franchise on Instagram. So how could we get that to happen? You know? So it's kind of fun. So yeah, that'd be an interesting, like new challenge. Cause obviously you have a huge following already on Instagram. And I think that that just makes things maybe not easier, easier, but like a new, a different kind of challenge. Like you're, you're trying to get them more engaged rather than trying to just have people follow. You already have the followers. Whereas with this, you're like starting from scratch basically. And so it's like, not only do you, you know, getting 50 people engaged is great, but you have

to get the followers first. Or maybe it's the other way around. Maybe it's like, hey, we get these 50 people engaged. They're going to blow it up to everybody. So that'd be a fun new trial, whatever you want to call it. New obstacle. It's just fun to have like a client, quote unquote, that I love so much anyway. It's like, well.

Oh, yeah. You believe in the product 100%. Yeah. And that's another thing. Like, do I really need to do that much because like the chicken is so good right how much do you even need me but it's like okay but how much are you really wanting to follow a restaurant social media account so that's where you got to figure out like yeah try to figure out ways to give people value because that's what that's why we download the mcdonald's app it gives us value

right which the chick-fil-a app may not better than the mcdonald's app but very good yeah it's a great app yeah yeah two best by far mount rushmore of apps food apps food apps yeah not no paypal's a better paypal's a huge app for me yeah that one's fun yeah uh brad i would consider myself a good person most of the time would you say good good person yeah okay thank you yeah i feel like most of the time i do the right thing last night after basketball i am a sweaty boy but kind of feeling like i want uh something fun to eat i go to andy's and i realize uh-oh uh it's 10 59 i felt really bad and so i got to the window and said i'm so sorry i'm coming in at 10 59 what's the easiest thing for you to make? They said floats. I ordered a root beer float. I didn't want a root beer float,

but I felt like that's the right thing to do. Okay. Yeah. However, a couple of days ago, I got my oil changed. Okay. And it's the, the Valvoline oil drive-thru oil changes one by your house. I didn't go to that one, but I went to a different one. You get to stay in your car while they do everything for you. And there's really not very many moments in life where i feel like i'm a bad person but one of them is when people are like trying to say something and they can't find the word and i know what word it is sometimes i really love seeing them struggle through it and trying to find what word to say really you don't like help them out.

Sometimes I do, I guess. Like just now with preserved, did you know the word? No, I had no idea. Historically, it's preserved, you dummy. I had no idea what you're going for, right? Honestly. Okay. This was, you know, I'm rolling my window down. They're doing some checks like, all right, turn on your, start the car for us. Turn on the headlights. Okay. Now you're bright. Okay. Now, um, go ahead and, uh, click the, um, uh, click, click down, make the light go, put, put down on your driver's side. I mean, seriously, like struggling this bad. And he's like, uh, you're, uh, turn on your blinker. I'm like, oh, okay. Oh, that was it. The whole time struggled for like maybe nine seconds long enough to ride a bull professionally to say blinker yeah that guy could be in the you know american royal sometime it was awesome like that stuff i love it i love it so much well that's odd because that guy says

that he's 50 times a day that's the thing it's like he doesn't deserve to be bailed out here like i'm like this justice man is on drugs or something what's going on the uh just flip down the uh flip the stinker no the uh bing bong it's something yeah yeah yeah yeah let me let me make that sound yeah it was yeah no because i thought too i was like he says this all the time why can you not think of this word is he reading off a list even no okay he just knows it he just knows what to say but not then but that dawned on me i was like that's kind of a bad quality to have to just like watch someone struggle it's kind of it's pretty consistent in your life that you do that no i don't think so okay i just like it dawned on me then i was like i think i've done this before where i i have a

little sinister and watching people like how long is it to take you to say the word blinker? Oh, that's funny. But, uh, another funny thing that they, cause I feel like you go to oil change or like an auto shop and they're like notorious for like trying to upcharge you. Now here's your filter. Here's what it's supposed to look like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I'm like, can it still drive now? It'll still be operational. All right. We're fine then. You know, I'm not paying for any of this stuff. Now here's the color of your transmission fluid like i have no idea what color this is supposed to be right they did they reversed it on me this time they i'm they have me turn on my lights they're like oh your uh passenger side headlight is out so i'm like oh snap okay i didn't

realize that thank you for letting me know things move along they change my oil yada yada we're done they're like all right let's just make sure everything's still working and turn on my headlights. And I could see like in the reflection of the garage that my passenger headlight is still out. So I'm like, oh, can you guys fix that for me? And like, it's all like, oh sure. No problem. Didn't know if you wanted it. Yeah. Oh, you do? Yeah, I do. Okay. That's a headlight out. Oh, really? Oh, is that surprising? That's surprising to me. What? Why would I not want them to fix something that's like...

Well, because it's more expensive than fixing it yourself. Oh, I've never... No, I have no idea how to install a headlight. It's so... It's painfully easy. Oh, really? That's why I thought like... Oh, yeah.

Like other things like oil change. I've learned how to do that, but I would never do that myself unless i like really needed it headlight like cost like three dollars and you could do it in a minute oh wow it's yeah that maybe that's why they don't charge you that i mean they probably like charge like 12 bucks for or something like it's not like crazy so maybe it was just surprising to me that they like found a problem and then made no initiative to like fix it it's so backwards of how they normally operate well maybe yeah maybe that guy's like i'm tired of like trying to upsell people like if you want it just let me know i'm letting you know that the headlights out but he probably

couldn't think of the word for it he's like you're uh you know what forget it your your thing is out but your car lamp you're like you're your thinker your hood ramp lamp oh gosh what is it called um uh yeah stead stead fight no head head might uh anyway that's funny well yeah i'm glad that you got that fixed man thanks yeah yeah i don't know anything about cars clearly yeah those weird parts of adult like i got my suit dry clean this week for formal Fridays. You're doing some pretty responsibly adult things. Thank you. Which is great.

Thank you. And I feel like I'm doing a good job of my resolutions. They were silly, but I'm still doing them. Are you? I'm wearing more hats. Are you going to, are you going to bed?

Oh no, I have not done that. That's the one that I'm like, Jake's not going to bed. That's the one I've not even come close to doing well, but I've worn hats. I've gotten sweatier way more often. Basketball league, boxing still, and wear more suits. I haven't played checkers yet but that's coming that's okay yeah that's good get your suit on go to the you know the park that

you always see in movies where like old men are playing checkers out in the public which is not a thing and no it is no no no go to go to go to the kansas you find underground there the the underground checkers leagues. And yeah, play with some old men. Remember that old Pixar short? Yeah. That was great. Huge schnoz on that guy.

Remember that? Yeah. Yeah, that guy was celebrating Rosh Hashanah. Sure. That's not the right word. Yom Kippur. There you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was down to agree with whatever. Sure. Yeah, you were going to get racist like I was. I feel like that would be a fun experience. Like just find an old man in a park, just like there with his granddaughter or something. Hey, do you want to play checkers? No, don't even ask. Don't even ask. Just go up to him, unfold your board, put it out, and be like, I'll be red.

And then just play. Start playing. And he'll just, he'll king, you'll get kinged. Or he'll king you so bad. So quickly. What? What now? What?

Now I forgot my dentures. Is that going to be a problem? Playing an old man in the park. Gosh, that sounds fun. That sounds like a bucket list item. Yeah, just something that like, you're going to hear something. You're going to know his political beliefs within the first five minutes. I look forward to that.

Now when Reagan was president. Yeah president yeah exactly that's funny uh what was i saying oil change oh dry cleaning same with like changing a headlight i dropped off my my suit and they didn't charge me because i guess you just pay when you pick it up right but it was one of those things like i have no idea how much to expect this to cost like they come in like five dollars or they'd be a hundred dollars like great thanks i guess that's the that's the way of the way of the suit world. That's how much it costs. I guess. I have no idea. That's a good business strategy. Like you accept my terms. Okay. Okay. I'll tell you how much it costs later. All right. Maybe if it's not standard, they'll call you and be like, Hey, not there. We found this bad spot that

we had to do extra to is that okay that we yeah we give you the ink blot i don't know do you come in for a rock shark test got an ink blot on your suit they were asking all these questions like now just in case you do ever end up washing your clothes with us you want high starch medium starch low starch no starch like whoa sounds like a dr Seuss poem or something. I have no idea. And would you like red starch, blue starch? One starch, two starch. Horton, here's a who starch. I will not starch you, Jake the snake. I will not starch you in a lake. So I said, you know, I don't know how to answer these questions. Like I'm never going to wash my clothes here, but no starch, I guess. Sure.

That's what I did. That's funny. Oh man. I went to Chick-fil-A this week just to say hi. That was kind of a weird moment. James told me that. He's like, yeah, I don't even know if he got anything. He just, he's just in here.

Oh, it was when I was doing my oil change. It was, I was right there next to Chick-fil-A. Oh yeah. I just had lunch. And so, oh, I'll tell you what I kind of went in there for. changed it was i was right there next to chick-fil-a oh yeah i just had lunch and so oh i'll tell you what i kind of went in there for now i'm like from well remembering this as i'm saying it it's because i had this idea that morning i was like whoa chiefs win the super bowl how do we get in the parade as the chick-fil-a cow just throwing sandwiches at people like that could be our in

that's how we get in the parade is as the chick- herd of cattle coming through that would be sweet i don't know how likely it is but that was one of the things i went in there to talk about is getting in the what do you say well are they going to be like there you think no they're going to be working okay paul was pretty excited because they do have that like chick-fil-a mobile that they can rent out sometimes cool so that's an option they win, we start making some calls. Yeah, dude. What else could we do like that? Like we could, I don't know, go with a bank that's a sponsor of the Chiefs and free money

or... I don't know. Yeah, if they win, and this is going to be a sad segment to listen to if they did end up losing, but if we win, I think we legitimately need to spend some time brainstorming. Like this could be like, I want it to be a really fun day, but like much, I like the Royals parade.

Like was it really fun for us? And we had to make a video that was really funny. Right. Like, what can we do that again? Now that we have like listeners and an audience to like capitalize. Yeah. So for those who don't know about the Royals parade,

the Royals won the world series in 2015. And Jake and I went and did an interview video with Peter. Peter was also one of the three. And we had like these fake credentials and everything. So people thought we were like kind of legit, even though we were using like a little, you know, a small camera, it wasn't like a news camera or anything. Uh, but we just like messed with people the whole time. Basically. Um, Brad interviewed a woman through a glass wall and she was like super into the interview. Yeah.

Like she cannot hear a word Brad saying and she's like trying to yell through the wall. Yeah. That was my favorite. It was amazing. But honestly, so, so I have,

I have a lot of like, I look back on that with fond memories, but I also look back on that with a lot of regrets because I, for some reason, I think the parade started at 10 or 11. I didn't think it started till like noon or one. And so I was kind of sandbagging a little bit like, okay, let's wait. Eventually they like shut off the streets. Like when we first got there, we could walk freely

because, because what I like, what I had, I had the thought of like, okay, once we get enough people in the streets, I'm going to go in the middle of the street and you're going to record me running down the street, being ridiculous with all these people going nuts because like the, the, uh, excitement is so palpable at those parades. Like everyone, like you can yell anything about the team that just won and people will freak out. Like, you remember with the parade, I just said, let me hear you say go Royals. And all these like people like freaked out around like this high school kids. And it was like, like like i just have regrets of like we could have been so much bigger we could have done gone so much crazier and so if we do another one at the parade i'm just gonna go uh i'll wear my suit what's what's

a more appropriate thing than this i'm gonna go crazy i was gonna say i was gonna go basketballs towards the wall yeah edifice edifice supporters. So anyway. You were going to go, what else is there? I'm going to go hard. I'm going to go. Yeah, that works. Yeah, I'm going to really be fervent in my aspirations. Nice.

Yeah. So anyway, I'm very excited about the idea. I don't know what it would look like exactly, but maybe, maybe you guys already know what our plans are. If you're listening to this on Friday, you know, you know what we did. Yeah. Who knows? So, uh, kind of a cool milestone for the podcast. We will more than likely hit a hundred thousand downloads next week as a show. Wow. It's kind of crazy a hundred thousand yeah a hundred thousand and thirty nine episodes wow that's great that's pretty cool yeah so that's like

you know 45 50 000 people a week that are listening yeah that's i do the math right that's exactly right wow we're huge we're coming for you i don't know jay leno he doesn't have a podcast we're coming for you dac shepherd conan oh Jay Leno. He doesn't have a podcast. We're coming for you, Dax Shepard. Conan. Oh, yeah. Does Conan have a podcast? I think it's the number one podcast. Oh, we're coming for you, Conan. Yeah.

Maybe not number one. I think Joe Rogan's the number one, but Conan's up there. Okay. Big time. Sweet. Before we go any further, guys, we have a new podcast. No, this is the same podcast. We have a new sponsor.

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You know, we kind of try to teach her yes, ma'am, no ma'am kind of thing. Cause my wife's from Texas and it's just what we do. But lately she's been saying it in more of a full, not a full sentence, but she's been saying, yeah, yeah, I do. Or yeah, I am. So it's like, how do you, uh, do you want to go to Chick-fil-A? Yeah, I do. Or, you know, did you watch the chiefs win on Sunday? Yeah, I did. It's just like so funny to me, uh, like that she just has like this little personality. It's just so cute. So today we went to, uh, we went to union station. They have like the chiefs, like this little personality it's just so cute so today we went to uh we went to union station they have like the chiefs like this big chief sign like all these different chiefs photo ops basically union station just a really pretty historic place in kent city anyway yeah um so i was like i'm just gonna give had or katherine some time alone kind of the whole saturday morning

on nice nice nice um so we went to union station and took some pictures so i was like do you want to go take some pictures with the chief stuff? Yeah, I do. And it's just like so cute and funny to me. Anyway, she's just as excited about the chiefs as anybody, I think. Yeah. So it's just cute. I hope her responses only get more and more excited and animated.

Right. How do you – do you want to eat the rest of your mashed potatoes? You bet I do, dad. Bring it on. Oh, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. Do you want more broccoli? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. You know, that's one thing. It's funny. It's Friday night. And so we always have Friday night movie nights and we always eat pizza with our movies. And for whatever reason, she's kind of come around not now, but she was preferring vegetables over pizza. Psycho.

Seriously. It was like, how do you, like, we had to like kind of reprimand her, like discipline her, be like, how do you need to put the cucumber down? It's time to, it's time to have a bite of pizza. Put the, put the baked cheese and sauce in your mouth. Put down the cucumbers. All right. Put the processed food right in there. Anyway. So, uh, that's the main, main life update for me is just getting some good time with Catherine and Hattie. Uh, business stuff's going well. It's been, it's been kind of a fun thing. It's a slower time for me january and february are always just slower for ellis custom creations ellis custom creations.com

i'm wearing the shirt hello it looks good on you by the way thank you brings out your eyes because i've been boxing yes exactly oh sorry keep going so anyway been slow for me uh but honestly that's kind of been a blessing in disguise because i've found or i've like rediscovered some loves of woodworking that I didn't have, you know, or didn't, wasn't experiencing as much. Like when you get an order for a table, that's so exciting because it's like this deeper excitement of like, I'm going to build this table for this family to grow around. And I love, I love that excitement. To eat their pizza and cucumbers on.

Yes, exactly. You need to put down, put down the broccoli and eat that cheeseburger. And think of Brad while you're doing it. Yeah. You need, yeah. So I'm really excited to like build these tables for families to just scold their kids around. And, but, but a lot of times it's like the same table that I've built 30 times before, you know, this year or whatever. Like, whereas these past couple of months, I've just been experimenting with different designs with scrap wood that i have and it's been really fun i'm kind of getting more into the modern look which is kind of fun i saw that yeah um and it's been really fun to like learn how to do different techniques and woodworking and stuff so that's

my big update is that i'm not necessarily like killing it on orders which i never do in january and february anyway because i think christ is just, it sucks everybody's money. People spend a lot of money there and they don't have any left over. But I'm like learning new skills. You're modernizing. Yeah, exactly. That hopefully will transfer into, you know, new portfolios and people won't just be like, oh, that guy makes farmhouse tables.

It's like, no, that guy just does woodworking of all sorts. So you are Creed Bratton after he dyed his hair. Yeah. You're trying to ride the bull. I'm 30. Yeah. Well, next week I'll be 30 or whatever. He's a red bull in here, brah.

Sometimes I just had to ride the bull. That's what you are. Yeah, exactly. You're not going to get kicked out. So it's been really fun. I've just been, not that I don't, like I said, not that I don't get excited about making tables because obviously that helps, you know, provide for my family and provide cool things for other people's families to grow closer around. But it's been really fun to be like, look at this thing I made.

It's completely on my own, like without any kind of inspiration from anything else. So anyway, fun times. So that's the main update. And then another just random thought I had. We can go back and forth if you want. You don't have to tell me everything at once. Unless it correlates to that. It doesn't.

Okay. Okay, Brad, would you rather hear about, let's see, we got three options. Garden, Atlanta, boxing. Atlanta. Atlanta. So very exciting this week. The tour with Trey that I get to go up

and be a part of and open up for finally got announced so cool to just i even put it on my uh i think like close friend story like i got a notification from stubhub that was like don't miss out on trey kennedy on tour and it was so cool to get a notification for an event i will be performing at i would never thought i would see the day however not that i should or can't complain. I'm mainly doing this for entertainment, but surprising amount of people with not so positive things to say on tour, mainly like this. No Atlanta. Oh, you hate Chicago. No love. You commented on my Instagram. No love for Bismarck. Oh, you hate Brazil. This guy hates Brazil, I guess.

What, no Sao Paulo? Huh? I guess every comedian's dream, I guess we're just skipping over Portland. I guess we just forgot about Tegucigalpa. Huh? No Hondurans in that building? Your first tour ever and just skipping over Grand Rapids. I tell you what.

The nerve. Kalamazoo is a comic staple in this country. And you will come there or you will pay my wrath. I will spend $35 and you'll make me laugh. Yeah. That $35 could change your life, man. It's Fargo.

We have TV shows and a movie. Golly. Come perform for me. Oh, goodness. That's funny. Portland, Maine? Not Portland, Oregon? Come on. movie golly come perform for me oh goodness that's funny but portland maine not portland oregon come on we got nike i don't care about arcadia national park no one even knows about it we can't compete with

zion give me a break he's in in the NBA now. Yeah, he's overweight. Golly. Just one time. I want to see a comedian come to... I'm out of cities. What do you hate? Albert Kirk? And Bolivar?

Bolivar. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Come on. What is this? I can't stop laughing. So that's basically what my messages and Trey's comments have looked like. Where's Nantucket?

We say **** to those who don't Nantucket. Ruck. Ruck up the podcast. Ruck up Nantucket! I feel like we're ruining Isaac's movie upstairs, so we'll stop that. I don't know if I'm ready to stop yet. I might scream some more every once in a while if I think about it. I'll keep talking and you think of other cities that maybe rhyme with other stuff. That is funny, though, that people just assume that you can just make it to every single city.

Oh, where's Atlanta? Like, well, maybe we just didn't go to Atlanta this time. And I don't expect them to fully know the back end of what a tour looks like. I don't expect anyone to understand that. But to think that, one, I would personally have a say in it. To think that the opener, I go to, so here's what I assume they think in their mind. Okay, so Jake went to Trey and he said, hey man, I know this is your tour and I know that you quite frankly

don't really know how this works either because it's your first time too. But can you somehow talk to the right people, your booking agent or the tour company? I don't even know which one because there are multiple companies involved. And can you ask them, for me, Jake, I just have a vendetta against like the suburbs of Atlanta.

Just even the Atlanta Metro. Can I not perform there? I watched Too Fast, Too against like the suburbs of Atlanta. Just even the Atlanta Metro. Can I not perform there? I watched Too Fast, Too Furious the other day. I really just decided I hate Ludacris. So can we just skip Atlanta? It was confusing. T.I. had that album, T.I. versus T.I.P. And I was like, so is he two people?

Is he one? And so since then, I was just like, no Atlanta. Right. I didn't have very many friends in high school. So the band Outkast was like pretty offensive to me. Can we just skip Atlanta? Is that cool? So that's what all of those people think.

They think that I personally. I can't believe you, dude. Chose. And some of them are probably kind of joking because they understand I can't go to every city. But to me. You think most of them are serious? It's hard to tell. I bet most of them are joking.

Sure. Hopefully. Well, here's the thing. And here's the part that is not. It's hard to tell. And I bet most of them are joking. Sure. Hopefully. Well, here's the thing. And here's the part that is not the internet. Not that funny because it's more like, let's say they are completely joking. Yeah. Still, if I had a friend going on tour and they weren't coming anywhere near Kansas City, the text would look something like, dude, so excited.

You're going on tour. Bum, you're not coming anywhere near me, but like so excited for you. Yeah. So these are like friends. These aren't, these aren't like fans of yours it was like fans and friends alike both say said the same thing but i was surprised by like the amount of friends who like there's no positive reinforcement it's just no chicago gosh that's the only text i got yeah like oh and after you get like 20 30 of these it's like i'm saying to broad bolivia are you happy for me yeah just it's really exciting for those who live in the cities we're going to and that's it

apparently yeah it was just funny i you know i you always expect that a little bit or like i would have i saw it coming i guess a little bit i was just surprised at the amount of just like oh bum bummer dude you're not coming to like Greenville. The funny thing to me is you can have selfish feelings, but you're not in a conversation. Like you have to literally like, think about it. Think about your selfish feeling, type it out. Maybe put it publicly too. If it's like a comment or something, maybe even like, like, that's the funny thing to me is like, like, oh, sometimes I think like, I don't really think that's very funny, but I'm not going to be like, hey, you've done better. That's not very funny. Like, I'd be like,

no, I should probably keep that to myself. You know, it's so easy to be negative. Sure. And so I try not to do it. Sure. Because it would be so easy to be a pessimistic person. Oh, yeah. It takes more energy and more thought to be positive and optimistic. You think so? I think so. I hate that. I'm just kidding. I think that sucks. I think that's the worst attitude I've ever heard. Yeah. Bunk that. Ruck that. Ruck that up, baby. No, I love being positive, man. Love it. It's a fun way to live life. My friend, Jeremy Holliday, the one that is just teasing is his life motto is be the person who everyone else asks why is he smiling all the time it's a it's it's deeper but spiritual and it's cool and he's the happiest person i've ever met in my life that's awesome so i guarantee you people in their lives have said why is that guy happy all the time like why is he smiling all the time so anyway

everyone has that friend who is just like, so perfect. And like, he's got to have something like I had that friend in college. Like you're, you, you play shortstop for the baseball team in college. You're this amazing solid dude. You're leading all these Bible studies. Like I want to catch you doing something. Like there's no way you could be this perfect. You'd be a great paparazzi. Like that's all the time. What dorm are you in? Yeah. I would like to investigate. You like plant something under their pillow. Whoa. We're eating chocolate after 10 p.m.

You said you were hanging out with Mary Jane. I thought you meant the co-ed down on the third floor. Huh? You sound like a 60-year-old man who plays checkers in the park. The co-ed down the hall. No, I'm the RA. I'm the RA. RA has definitely used. The co-ed down the hall. No, I'm the RA. I'm the RA. RA has definitely used the term co-ed.

Those nerds. I'm just kidding. Co-ed down the hall. Oh, when you said paparazzi, it reminded me. A podcast I listen to, he was saying that he got to hang out with Justin Bieber a couple weeks ago, and he was talking about what that was like to see him at his home and everything. He's like, dude, it's really sad. He's like, Justin is an amazing guy and like way more humble than you would expect has way better perspective just on life than you would

expect for a guy who's been in the spotlight since he was, you know, 13 or whatever. And anyway, he was like, we rolled to his house and there's just cars just lined down his driveway. So I thought he had a bunch of people. I thought maybe he was having a party. He's like, I asked Justin what was going on. He's like, oh, that's just the paparazzi. They're there all day. What? Just cars down his road, just waiting for him to leave down the road not in his drive not in his driveway but like aligning the road i was imagining like a circle drive and people like paparazzi just hanging out yeah i was like you should be able to tell them to get off your property no i'm sure he has a gate but just outside of the gate is paparazzi just waiting for him to leave and as soon as he leaves they just follow him you know he needs and that's been his

life that is 10 years he needs a And that's been his life for 10 years. He needs a historically preserved underground society where he can get out. Now we're talking. Justin, if you're listening. That's crazy. That's sad. I've got shovels.

Yeah. I did a report back in the day on the Great Escape. I can help out there. Do you know about that? Yeah, I know the movie. What? Yeah, there's a movie. Oh, Steve McQueen.queen yeah sure i saw the movie like after i did the lightning's dad yes it was the biology is confusing okay sure it's just let's just say an exhaust pipe is involved they called the big bang because it was lightning you know the exhaust pipe was involved hello you didn't need to call you didn't need to call back you know

whatever sorry just glaze over it uh anyway yeah it's crazy it's like a really cool thing that happened in world war ii that not a lot of people know about these uh prisoners dug their way out of this concentration camp using like little like metal tins like slowly like and very methodically like dug elaborate tunneling systems out of this concentration camp it's really cool and really fascinating that's crazy dude so yeah i love digging holes tunnels yeah or justin bieber escape routes i'm interested in although for for morgan freeman to be the narrator of that eventual movie that justin bieber comes out with now justin bieber and i we were the best of friends anyway um what's your update brad oh that's oh oh the

update has to do with netflix um well just the way i think that netflix is changing our watching habits and obviously it's changing our like we're binging a lot more you've been watching better call sol but you quit i heard yeah i got slow i'm on ozark now ozark awesome show so there's a few shows that i've watched on like network tv the most recent one that's like a drama is the blacklist i i was pretty into that with katherine like we were we watched it pretty much every week i think that netflix is kind of ruining my ability and maybe society's in general, but my ability to remember what happens from week to week on an episode, because Netflix spoils you because you just get to watch episode after episode. So you remember every detail. You don't need recaps. Yeah. You just watched it five minutes ago. Of course,

I remember what just happened in that little detail. Whereas like Catherine and I would watch the blacklist and be like, no, who's that guy? No, what, what was going on again? And we'd both be like, I don't know. And then we got behind a few weeks. So then we hadn't been, we hadn't watched it for like four weeks. And then we tried to watch it and we just like stopped watching it. We were going to watch it once it comes out on Netflix, I think, because it's just like, do they not do recaps? Not usually. And if they, if they do, they're not... No, no, they don't usually do it, I don't think. So anyway, it's just like hard to watch.

I think back in the day, I would have been better at that. Like I remember watching Breaking Bad at the end of its tenure and enjoyed watching that, you know, week to week. But now that it's this, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It's interesting how things I noticed just when I was watching you, how, uh, just like shows, uh, when you were like, like just like in your house, not like all the time, just like I had like an extra GoPro and I didn't know what to do with it. Oh my gosh. I felt it. I was like,

what are you doing? Yeah. I put it in your bed. I don't know why I thought that would be like a good idea. I can't see anything. I can just hear things and that's the worst. I would rather see than just hear. That's disgusting. Watching you. Anyway, watching you, the show. Yeah, it's confusing in a sentence form. What's this in my muffler pipe?

Gross. The show, you know, is a Netflix original. It's made for Netflix. It's never going to go anywhere other than the internet. And so there's no like title sequence or whatever there's no like credits as like you know like most netflix shows or just a most tv shows have the option to skip intro there is no intro which that was the first show of mine that i noticed yeah because it's just like well it doesn't even say you ever at the beginning it comes up it's like a five second thing so i

guess that's a new thing that's a new thing every Every show is doing that. Okay. So I just, I, you know, I just got a TV a month ago, so I'm back in the show. So I'm like, I'm rediscovering what's probably been happening for years. I think what I've heard is that because of, um, yeah, because of the online presence, kind of what you're saying, like people fast forward so often that, uh, theme songs and like stuff like that are becoming more obsolete because it's like oh people are just gonna get scared yeah and the show you has a recap every episode but if it if you've been watching them back to back it'll just skip it for you which i think is cool that's nice that's nice i appreciate that that's nice that's nice i love watching you dude ah just whenever i

can i love watching you i had a scrambled egg yesterday uh for breakfast and then at lunch i went to chick-fil-a of course i remember seeing that yeah and then after that i got i just skipped the recap there because like this is kind of the same thing that's great yeah i have not watched that show but i feel like it's got to be on the docket because everyone else is talking about it yeah i mean you can assume that for most things or at least i do like if everyone's talking about it it must be good and it must be good for certain reasons. So I'll just give it a shot. I give it, I give it a little time every once in a while. Cause I'm like, sometimes shows have a great first season and then it just drops off. And so I'm like, Oh,

I'm going to, I'm going to let it simmer a little bit longer. Watch, watch more people get into it. And then I'll get into it. Especially cause it's like, I got time. I can watch, like, it's going to be there for me. It's not like I have to like go dig it up like back in the day. Dig it up. Let's show digging. Dig it up. Yeah. Anyway.

So boxing this week and not that I truly don't try to like come back with a story from boxing every time. It's just something unique seems to happen every time. And this one's a good one. Okay. We got multiple things. It's a doozy. First thing I do when I walk in is there's a girl in there I don't recognize.

I feel like I got the people pretty much scoped out who work there and everything. New girl. As soon as I walk in, she goes, Who's that girl? She's new. She's new. She addresses me and she says something like, Well, look who it is.

And I'm like, oh, maybe I should know who this is. And I'm like, oh, hey, have I met you? And she's like, I'm the one who's been posting you on her Instagram. And I was like, oh, have you really? And she goes, this is a direct quote. She says, I had no idea you were a little Instagram star. I was like, thanks, mom. That was weird that you called me that.

Like, that's offensive. Like, I'm huge. You don't say little anymore. I'm worth $14 million, new girl. And so, no, but it was fun. And so I was like, oh, cool. Yeah. Or, you know, I didn't really know what to say. Trying to downplay it, but also like, it seems like she works for corporate maybe. So I even said, I was like, yeah, that's cool. I've been noticing that. She's like, yeah, we should talk sometime. And I was like, oh, okay.

But then she just walks out the door behind me. And so I was like, all right, I guess we'll talk later. She's like, yeah. So I was like, okay, that was weird, but cool. We'll talk sometime. Okay. So I then pause that subplot. Now we just go to class. We got a new instructor too.

Who's that instructor? Who's that instructor? It's. He's new. He's new. Don't remember his name. But most of the time I get called out in class. It's because i'm not angry

enough or i'm kicking the wrong way you're too positive but this time i got called out and he said look at the way he's doing this i got used as an example that's never happened before yeah i got used that as an example while i was like punching his hands like we were doing like combos yeah i felt like a real boxer and then you may got it. I contact with him You just missed his Face You like that He's like wow see what I mean guys. That's how it's done. See how angry he is. He punched me in the throat Do you see that my Adam's apple just got swallowed?

so that was really cool, it felt really fun and Afterwards after class is over now i that girl is back new girl is back in the store so i'm like well i'm not leaving here without having a conversation with her there's that girl she's back yeah nice she is back and but she's talking to the instructor so i as i'm leaving i like fist pound the instructor like you know thanks dog for today whatever as my entry into this conversation with new girl yeah before i can even get to new girl he's like dude it's fun seeing you out there bro i haven't seen you around you box a lot and i was

like i mean i still have the red gloves on which is what they give to the the new people i was like so you know once a week he's like you got a lot of power you know uh i think we could really like turn you into something. And I kind of started to chuckle. I'm like, I'm not really looking to be turned into anything. I don't know. I'm sure a guy like me, it looks like I get into a lot of fights. I have a pretty rough life, but no, you know, Tuesday nights at title boxing is enough. I got a good life. I got a good life. I got a good life. And so they're kind of laughing at that and whatnot. And he's like, no, you know, hey man, I'm just saying Kansas city, you never know. A couple of homies run up on you and they say this white boy looks soft. And then, you know, and then like, I cut him off. So I'm like,

where's this guy? I cut him off. He's like a couple of white boys or they come to this white boy. And I'm like, none of him with a chap cross, chap cross. And they laugh at that. So then I guess I was just feeling confident or maybe wanting to impress new girl. I don't know. But then I just launch into this full routine, basically. This performance piece, basically, where I'm pretending like I'm about to beat up these street thugs, but I need to get my hands wrapped first. I'm like, oh, no, hold on, guys. Hold on, guys.

I need to wrap my hands. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hold on. And then, no, wait, 10-minute warm-up. And then I'm doing the things that I was doing, warm-ups, and just went on this. And they were loving it. And so I think I've really secured a spot.'ve got the bag the boxing bag yeah the uh the heavy bag the punching bag so still so i was like anyway uh let me know about like instagram stuff or

whatever you had in mind she's like yeah we'll be in touch so i guess we just wait okay or do you reach out to her now like do you do a follow-up? Like, hey, great meeting you. Or you don't know who she is though, I guess. No idea. She's just new girl. But she's the one posting your stuff on Instagram. So if you DM her, it's probably her. Sure.

Plain hard to get though. Okay. Yeah. Because, not because of this, but also cool. Old Spice emailed me this week. Okay. I'm back. You're back, baby.

Old Spice hair. Ooh. Get this. I'm back. You're back, baby. Old Spice hair. Ooh. Get this. I'm on the phone with the person yesterday. She says, yeah, we were just reaching out to influencers who have good hair. Really? I would have never thought either of those two things would be grouped with me. Influencer, good hair.

Yeah, we're trying to get one from each color. So for you, we've got a redhead for you. That's what I thought. Okay. So they need me to, we should just brainstorm this now. They need me to, kind of the same as last time, a i carousel post probably like a series of pictures just in one post and just something about hair that's funny or something so one of my initial thoughts was trying to take a picture of my hair in different lighting and like one with red hair

one is blonde hair one is brown hair right and then like having it be like a competition or like voting in the comments or something like that yeah Yeah. I think it would be a highly engaging post about my hair, which is probably what they're wanting. In the official hashtag for this campaign, because they're promoting thicker hair, is thick with just like eight C's. That's like literally what I'm supposed to use. Thick. Hashtag sponsored. That boy thick.

Hashtag ad. Yeah. So I'm going to try to stay away from thick being like any kind of punchline or anything but that's great yeah good for you man i mean i'm sure that if you put the gel in your hair it's gonna change the color some or whatever it is what yeah like if you put color changing gel if you're if well if your hair's wet it's darker oh i see what i'm saying like yeah so not like dying it but like slightly affecting it to look right yeah oh man yeah for those of you who don't know my friend connor and i have gotten into quite quite the arguments

about whether or not jake's got red hair or brown hair i even considered like okay you swipe and like you see blonde you see red you see brown and then swiping again and you see the text exchange between you and connor it's like going at each other about my hair color there's there's there's so many there's too many texts we argued about it for like two days straight it was great and i won connor's gonna listen to this right now and go no i guarantee you he's gonna yell it but he knows he knows i'm right he knows he knows and he knows jay trippett is strawberry blonde that was dumb edit edit that i shouldn't have done that golly crap no love for amarillo oh that was a good bit yeah so if you said one of those things to me i'm not upset but just next time when your friends goes on tour,

say something nice at the beginning. Hamburger it, you know? Positive, negative, positive. I have two friends. Nice, dude. I have two friends. Yeah, my wife and my daughter. I have two friends

that are, we'll call them, pretty popular on social media. You and my friend Jake. Sorry. Gosh. Are you having a stroke? Let's edit.

Edit this. I have two friends. I have two main friends. Heidi, Catherine, Jake, and then you. Everybody pout. Everybody pout. Button says, two friends? Then they say, Jake and Jake.

And I say, everybody Jake. Everybody Jake. That's Will Ferrell from The Office, everyone. You don't have to point it out, Jake, okay? I think some people don't know that. I'm just kidding. You said that earlier about the muffler thing. Yeah, that's different.

That was, I said something inappropriate, and like, let's not like hone in on this. You know, like, let's not. Like, you ever say something inappropriate at camp, and you're like, oh, I'm just gonna keep going so we don't address that. Shouldn't have said that. One time I said, I was trying to to say i was being a hillbilly and i

was trying to say we should uh rope that snake and i said we should uh rape that snope no you didn't yeah straight up said right you said we should rape that snope oh my gosh and so then i said but if that don't work then we'll you know just like hurry move on if that don't work we'll just go do a bible study or something. Yeah. Oh, gosh. You did it in like a deliverance accent, like a southern accent. That's a good looking snake over there.

Can I tell? I have a story. You should rape that snope. I have a story about like camp being somewhat inappropriate. Let's put a bookmark in two friends. Two friends. Two friends. Yes. So first summer, worked there. My my friend i think i've told you

the story my friend nox was my co-counselor nox was the oldest brother of six so he was awesome with kids because we were like with seven to eleven year old kids amazing with kids it was my first summer i got so impatient a few times and he would just like be loving it and i'm like how is he doing this? He's so impressive. So just like so patient with these crazy rambunctious kids. But we had this pretty tough kid named Jonathan. And I'm going to tell you two stories about Jonathan. We're going to have to edit some words, just FYI. But the first one, so it's a big thing at K country. Whenever we're eating, and maybe you guys do it too. Whenever we're eating at the end, we pass around our silverware and we say we lick it

and then we stick it into this whiffle that you put all the silverware in just to kind of help consolidate them. Yeah, to get washed. And with seven-year-olds, you know, you got to, hey, don't forget to lick and stick, blah, blah, blah. And we had this super, super sweet camper and the sweet camper was going around Jonathan. Don't forget to lick and stick. And Jonathan was just like, like no hesitation. Um, just goes, how about you lick and stick my and like, it just like took me by surprise. Cause like campus, like this utopian society where like

every person is like behaving the perfect way, you know, like we're just all focused on the right things. And so you just never expect a country. Yeah. You don't hear those words unless it's like a King James version of the Bible. Then you would hear that word. Jesus might ride one of those, but he's not looking at sticking it. No way. Exactly. Like if you're singing, what child is this? And you're doing the third verse, maybe ox and ass are feeding but besides that you don't say it no and so we just i couldn't believe it but i was also like that's hilarious i just said that like i can't believe a little kid just said that uh but we're like hey you can't say that like that's really inappropriate um so anyway jon, pretty troubled kid struggling, you know, the rest of

the week with behavior issues, uh, near the end of the week or two weeks, we are on camp out, which at K country is kind of a joke. Like camp out just means we go down to a different cabin and sleep in that cabin for the night with the, with the campfire. Yeah. Um, but one of the traditions of camp out is there's a boys campout and a girls campout. And the boys like always – No co-ed. No co-ed. I see you over there with Mary Jane. But the tradition is that the boys always go sneak across this field and scare the girls.

And so all the boys wanted to do it, eight-year-old boys. So we're all like sneaking, trying to be quiet, like, hey me quiet like hey and um i think somebody was poking jonathan uh with this like with with this with this thing they found by the you know by a bush or something and you know poking jonathan we're all trying to be quiet i'm in the very back knocks my friendly gentle giant six foot eight probably a huge baseball player in the front, uh, leading all the kids. And I just hear this kid kind of being like, stop. Like Jonathan, Jonathan say, stop, stop. And then I hear him say, stop, stop poking me with that grass. And some kid just like snarkily goes, it's not grass, it's ragweed. And he goes like, without Jonathan, without hesitation, how about I stick that ragweed up your and, and Knox, you know, we're all trying to be so quiet, like going throughout

this field. Knox turns around and just said like screams at this, not screams, but talks very, very, very proclaimed. What did you say? And Jonathan's like, I don't know. And, you know, Knox just goes, I know exactly what you said. You said you were going to stick that ragweed up his a**. And, like, went from us. You just don't say that at camp. Like, you don't say those words at camp. Even if you're repeating something. Knox, like, this super patient brother of six.

Like, so sweet. Like, like huge guy, like big personality, just yells this at this kid. Jonathan! When we're trying to all be so quiet and it was just like, I could not believe it. I had the biggest eyes. I was like, okay, Nox, calm down. Anyway, needless to say, we did not surprise the girls. Girls saw us coming a little bit.

I think Normandy Beach, D-Day. They were ready for us. Now he's got a Richard for his ragweed What's going on? It was Jonathan. Yeah So those are those are two pretty pretty Stubly stories. Look and stick my behind ragweed up your muffler pipe, so Anyway, I don't know how we got two friends, two friends,

everybody pound two friends, Jake and Greg, uh, are both popular on social media. Um, and I think there's an assumption that whenever you are popular on social media, you don't listen or you don't always read the comments. Or if you do read the comments, you just kind of shrug them off. I've experienced very firsthand from Greg. And it sounds like somewhat firsthand from you, as we were discussing this stuff that you do take the stuff personally that people say you're, you're regular people that whenever people say negative things or like ridicule you, it's like, that's, that's still hurtful. Yeah. Cause it's almost, you've built this platform off of the gratification you've been given.

So why would you not continue to like seek that gratification or just seek feedback in general? Yeah. And so when it becomes to the percentage of negativity gets higher, it's like, oh, yeah, I don't like this. My friend Greg is like crazy, crazy popular in the world of agriculture. So it's like a very niche market. But at the same time, the niche is like millions of people yeah he's got 15 20 million views on some of his videos and but he'll still read comments from people in like

australia or asia or whatever and like get so like triggered by them like oh they don't get it like no that's not what we do like you know like yeah they'll be like i noticed this one time where you had a little bit of plastic in this and he's like oh no we don't feed our dog our cows plastic yeah anyway it's just so like he would get so frustrated and I'm sure he's better now because he's been doing it for a while but yeah anyway I'm sure it's just really hard to drown that out and I will say I get very very little negative feedback it's always even surprised me like this video I made has now whatever it be, has gone viral to the point where people who don't know me are watching it. And I'm still not getting any negative feedback about something that could have definitely been taken the wrong way. I feel like that's when you know, you're like truly reaching people making it.

Yeah. It's like when there's just very irrational people all over the place, even commenting. Yeah. And so for the most part, yeah, I want to be very clear. I get such little negative feedback. It's crazy. But when I do get, it's funny, like, cause want to be very clear. I get such little negative feedback. It's crazy. But when I do, it's funny, like, because my dad will like, he'll see stuff. And not that he gets super upset about it. He's like, how'd you not respond to that person? You know, like, because he gets upset when someone doesn't get it. Like when someone will like take a joke and, you know, there's 50 comments ahead of it that are all like crying, laughing emoji.

And this person's like, why would he say that? That's not true. And, you know, my dad's like, how can you not see this as a joke? Every other commenter is saying, this is funny. How do you not see that this is supposed to be funny? Okay. Next time you post something, I'm going to go to every single comment and respond if it's anything negative and just like roast. You don't have to do that. I'm just kidding. I don't think you want me to, but I would, man. I'd do it for you. Yeah. For the it doesn't really listen here buddy unless it's because he's not a little social media guy all right he's average i gotta i got some negative feedback from my bachelor video just saying that

i'm just like degrading women and tearing down females or that like i i just i don't see the full side of the story and you know it's, it's not like I'm like, that's ridiculous. That's so stupid. How could they think that? But I just try to be like, look, I, you know, it's common. My Instagram is, is meant to, for me to try and be funny. And like, yeah, I put not a lot of thought into this. It's meant to be entertainment. If you were legitimately offended by it, let's continue to have a conversation and I'll walk you through why I said the things I did. But if you're just saying this to try and rile me up, then it's not going to, because it's just, it's comedy. And that's a part of a bigger issue, especially with like this kind of

movement of kind of hyper offensive people in the world nowadays that are starting to pop up more. When it comes to comedy, it's like you can't pick and choose. You can't not get offended at the climate change joke and not get offended at the abortion joke. But then when someone makes a cancer joke and that strikes home with you, you say, okay, too far. Okay. That crosses the line. Yeah. You know, like, I think you have to stay, you have to have similar boundaries and say like, I don't want to listen to a comedian who jokes about any of that stuff or, you know, or at least just keep it to yourself if something does offend you. Yeah. I think that's fair, but i think it's also like hard to know that you're choosing one way or the other until it does offend you and then you're like oh shoot i don't like that he said that but then again like i said like

you don't you think those things but then yeah you don't you don't say them like you're like is this really that big of a deal that i'm going to take time out of my day to get riled up about this now i'm just going to get riled up a little bit to myself and then be done with it anyway chris delia always responds to fans pretty funny on twitter like when they'll just like reply to him like not going to your show anymore after this joke he'll be like oh no we gotta shut it down cancel the tour you know ashley's not coming to my milwaukee show and i just that's not how i would respond to things but it's funny to look at and be like, wow, I just torched that girl. Like makes her feel really bad. Probably. It's kind of funny anyway. Oh, two friends remind me one time. I think I probably told you this

because there was a video out of it. I shot a set for a, uh, like a concert for this DJ group called two friends and Lawrence. Yeah. They didn't have a green room and I got locked in the janitor's closet. Yeah. That's the whole story i guess did we talk about that on the podcast maybe actually it kind of sounds familiar sorry you can do this for a while it's so hard to know what you've said what you haven't is okay and i think we say things more than once every once in a while because probably everyone not everyone's listening to every single episode we've ever yeah and if they have they're not gonna yeah they're gonna forgive us they're not gonna be like oh heard that one you know unless they're binge watching or binge listening, you know,

and then it's really recent. It was 39 weeks ago, potentially that you said that story. Yeah. You know what I mean? So they might not remember. We don't do recaps every, every episode. So if you did, you could just skip them if you were binging, but we don't do that. Oh, that reminds me of, we want to know your guys' feedback about, uh, putting up more video content. Uh, you you know right now we put about three clips per week on our instagram uh it's ghost runners podcast on instagram okay do not use the pound sign do not use exclamation point it's not venmo it's not the cash app not a hashtag it's instagram not a stock symbol no no no no that'll

not yet not but spoiler spoiler alert not yet wait till the uh my title boxing girl No, no, no, no. That'll, whoa. Not yet. Not, but. Spoiler, spoiler alert. Not yet. Wait till the, my title boxing girl gets back to me. At GST. Anyway, so it's not a ton of work, but, you know, we've got two cameras going. We got two cameras, one for the Jake and one for the Brad. But there's been a decent amount of demand over the past few months to like get our show on YouTube.

Brad and I share a similar sentiment in that it seems crazy to me that anyone would ever watch us for an hour and a half straight. But we get it that people consume things in different ways and maybe like it's somewhat on in the background. Maybe on your like desktop browser, but you can click over and see our faces at certain parts if you want to. Right. Basically, we don't know what the best way to do it is. We don't know how much time it'll dedicate to do this. I think there's basically two options. We put up a full YouTube video of our show, or we choose longer segments. Instagram would try to keep it to 60 seconds, but we start a YouTube channel and it becomes like five minute videos, 10 minute videos, 15 minute, like full on segments, like with no cuts, just like a 15 minute portion of the show.

Yeah. Or a third option if you guys can come up with any as well. Yeah. I think my thought behind it is like, I think it's fun whenever I watch our videos, like you edit 90% of our videos, but there was a couple of weeks where I edited videos and it's just fun to watch our reactions to each other. And so that's the only thing I would think. And sometimes we have physical humor that we're doing. Like we're like throwing our hands around and flying backwards and stuff. I did notice on the slam poetry, Kirstie was like, wow, the hands really add to it. And I looked at my hands like, whoa, my hands are really like moving. Yeah, you're flying back and forth with those hands and no one's seeing it. And that's a fun challenge for us as doing this podcast of like, hey, we just have to be funny with our voices. But I think, yeah, I think we would be

funnier if people could watch us some, I don't know if, yeah, like you said, I'm not going to just stare at a podcast recording for an hour and a half though. That just sounds like ridiculous. Yeah. So, but yeah, we'd love to hear people's thoughts on that because I don't know. Maybe we'll put up a poll on our Instagram story Monday of like, would you legitimately seek out a full-length YouTube video or whatever? We'll try to figure it out. Yeah, because you always hear people be like, dude, I would totally come to that.

And then like you have a party or something, no one comes. Yeah, or like- Two friends, my two friends come, that's it. If you made a shirt, like totally get it or whatever. Oh, bro, totally. And then like three people order Ellis Custom Creations shirts. I mean, find me on Instagram, elliscustom Two friends. My two friends come. That's it. If you made a shirt, like totally get it. Oh, bro, totally. And then like three people order Ellis Custom Creations shirts. I mean, find me on Instagram,

elliscustomcreations.com. Let me know what kind of shirt you want. I'm just kidding. But you've been selling a lot of shirts though. Yeah, which is, I was telling you, it's really crazy to see how many different states,

like we have people that want our merchandise all over the place, which is so cool. That is cool. It just, yeah. It's almost like the internet is like this global thing. Yeah, it's an international network. That's what it's called, right?

That's what WWW stands for, I think. Internet-er. W-W-International Wetwork. Wherever. Wherever. Hey. Wherever you want it. Where you want it, yeah.

Where are we here? Tegucigalpa? Yeah, it's here. Trey Kennedy will not be performing there, but we got the internet. want it where you want yeah where are we here tagusa calpa yeah it's here trey kennedy will not be performing there but we got the internet yeah no no love for trey but uh love for the internet the international network which is not what internet stands for anyway let's get to our reviews of the week can we talk about this really fast actually actually? I'm sorry. Yes. The artwork. Yes. I'll need to see the back of it. But we have a fan of ours who sent us this amazing artwork.

Her name is Chelsea Kuhn. And, yeah, it's the first thing we have in our studio that is not from Jake or I. Nice. It's a gift. And so it's this really dope um artwork of these microphones it's just very simple um but awesome at the same time so um i just want to read this because it's just so cool and if you're interested in also being a part of this is really cool so um yeah in may of 2017 kenan is their daughter, was diagnosed with a rare genetic

disorder called glycogen storage disease type 1A. Due to this, she was placed on a feeding tube, a specialized diet, glucose checks, and a lot of doctor's appointments. Through this adversity, we have resolved to grow stronger as a family and in our faith. Heart work, which is H-E and then capital A-R-T, work, was born from this resolve when we began taking Kenan's paintings and cutting them into hearts to frame and hang in our home.

When others began to ask for them, we knew we had something special. Our goal with this project is to wipe out Kenan's bills, which began three years ago in the hundreds of thousands and today are under 30,000. Ephesians 4.20 says, God will achieve infinitely more than our greatest request, our most unbelievable dream, and today are under 30,000. Ephesians 4.20 says, God will achieve infinitely more than our greatest request,

our most unbelievable dream, and exceed our wildest imagination. So thank you for your support. Anyway, we can, I don't know, put a link to this or something. But it's just cool. It's just a cool idea, and it's cool that they're fans of the podcast, and her husband works for Bath & Body Works.

So they sent me some foaming hand soap, among other things. And he's from Kansas City. So just all around great things. And he's a can of cut guy too. But they wrote down, Brad and Jake, we know art is subjective. So if this isn't your style, our feelings won't be hurt. It's absolutely my style. I love it.

I feel like they're the kind of people that would probably like modern furniture because they have really dope looking, simple design. So anyway, really cool thing that they did. Their website is Kinnan, K-I-N-N-E-N, Francine, F-R-A-N-C-I-N-E. Shout out, Arthur. KinnanFrancine.com. Starts with W-W-W. For international. World Winters.

Wherever. Wherever. So W-W-W um so www.ken and francine.com really cool they didn't ask me to advertise i don't think they were ever expecting to advertise i just was moved by it that was really cool and so it's really cool artwork so anyway uh we're gonna get that po box alias address up for you guys soon so you can send us other things. But my goal by next year at this time is to A, keep podcasting. B, to have this whole space just like filled with things. So every week I'm going to bring something to add to it.

But I got to find more knickknacks. Yeah, we got to get more shelves too. Yep, yep. Yeah, hey, all around. Yep, yep. Okay. We got another 17 reviews this week. Amazing.

We plateaued over or not plateaued. We surpassed 400 this week. Oh, ratings. Yes. Yeah. Up to 412. I think is what 412. That's what this website is telling me. Oh my gosh. I just checked and it was like 402. That's a difference of 10. That's crazy. That's exciting. I can't find the one that was my favorite. Uh, but I'll choose one right now just for the sake of maybe some conversation because it asks us a question. It says, if you guys had to move to another country, which one would it be? Yeah, I saw that. Do you have an answer?

Because I thought about it and it was not an easy answer for me. I think New Zealand. Yeah? Yeah, pretty easy. Queenstown, New Zealand. Favorite city I've ever been to. Yeah, so I originally thought like Irelandireland or spain because i love those areas but then i had to think practically of like what about our families that are not anywhere near those things

so maybe that's why yours is easier is because you're just by yourself and you're alone i like the way you worded that you have two friends one of them is me and one was myself maybe it's here think about this jake maybe it's easier for you to move because, I mean, you have no attachment to anyone around you. You don't even know to bed, do you? No one would even notice if you left. That's the craziest thing. You could easily move tomorrow. I don't know if anyone would even pay attention.

Shoot, shoot, yeah. Yeah, exactly, dude. I actually kind of don't understand your point, though. What is the difference in moving to Ireland or Spain? They're both very far away. Right. And so my thought was, okay, maybe I need to move to, maybe I would say Mexico or Canada because those are closer. Yeah. I'm not, I'm not saying, uh, like you think your family's going to drive to see you.

I think they would travel easier. It'd be cheaper to travel to Mexico. Maybe not drive, but they could fly. See, I don't think it's even that much more cheaper to fly. If you live in Cabo or if you live in even Mexico City, I mean, they're not going to drive you to these places. But it's more convenient. It's a three-hour flight. The flight is shorter. Yeah. Yes. From Dallas to Cancun or whatever.

I think either, like if you've got to get on a flight to see your family, it's kind of all the same. You think so? Kind of. I don't think it should be that big of a deal. If you, like if Spain's your favorite country in the world. Yeah, Spain is awesome. Kind of. I don't think it should be that big of a deal. If Spain's your favorite country in the world and it's going to take an extra six hours on an airplane twice a year when you see your family and they come see you, I think you should just move to Spain. But you don't think that my family would visit me more if I were in Mexico? I bet they'd visit more than twice a year.

I guess that's a good point. Southwest flies to Mexico. Parents got the Southwest credit card. So your answer would be which city in Mexico? Probably Juarez. Tijuana? What's the one they do Narcos in? Guadalajara?

Juarez. We took the limo to Juarez. Did you? Yeah. And you got it out. We didn't really broadcast that because we didn't want our parents to be scared. there's no you turns there hombre okay okay i don't know um my answer is seville spain that's where i that's where i studied abroad and i loved it nice yeah or mijas so wait why did we just talk about all that stuff?

If you're just going to choose Spain and we talked about, we didn't even talk about New Zealand. Because I was saying it was a hard, it was a hard decision for me. I had to, I had to weigh my options. Okay. But then you're,

you talked me into it. You're like, yeah, Hey, don't be ridiculous. If you like it that much, your family will understand. Yeah.

Quality of life. Yeah. It should be prioritized. Gosh, there's so many cool places in the world. I can think of three right now. Kansas City, Kansas. Kansas City, Missouri.

Prairie Village. Yeah. That place is awesome. Yeah. That's a good question. This is the same guy who asked us, it's Alexander Herr. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did he ask?

Like four episodes ago, he asked us a really good question that led, whatever it was, thanks again. You always ask good questions with your reviews hot in So hot and her nice the review that was my favorite of the week. I can't find but it was Somewhere they were you remember that was reading the one that said I was legitimately trying to find this true crime podcast That had the word ghost in the title actually clicked on yours and ended up loving it and like they, they're like a huge fan now. Yeah, I see it. I'm looking at it. Okay. From jibbs92 or jibbs92. Yeah. You want me to read it? Yeah. I was listening to a crime podcast last night and ended up getting really scared slash

anxious to the point I couldn't sleep. You guys are usually my monday my morning podcast but you know oh this is not the true crime one this is not it but thank you hey jibs never mind thank you for that i'm just kidding that was that was sweet though that was a nice one there's one where they i don't know why it's not showing up this website's kind of janky but it legitimately yeah they were searching for a completely different podcast that had a ghost in it and then now now they're listening to us, which is so cool. So thanks. Which one are you looking at? What website are you on?

I'm on like the Chartable website. Oh, okay. I'm just on the podcast.apple.com where you can review or you can- And it's not on there either? I'm not seeing it. I definitely read it somewhere. Whatever. Brad, what is your review of the week or the review that maybe you would like to defend because they gave you a one-star review do you have anything come to mind I have yeah

that one hurt they gave me a one-star review and I don't want to point out because then people would be like yeah totally I get it which is fair they called me out for chewing my ice which is a probably probably my biggest vice in the world is how much ice i choose i have a vice for ice um i got the vice for ice i got a vice the vice for ice but it said please stop crunching ice while recording i'm holding my five-star review hostage until this changes i I'm going to wait until they review me five stars this week, and I'm going to get back on the frozen dihydrogen monoxide train, baby. I don't care what they say.

Do you care what I say? Because I've always asked you. Jake's also frustrated. I saw that review, and I was like, is this you that just has an alias here? Yeah, Brad Screenshot was like, this is you, isn't it? I'm like, no, but I agree with the sentiment. But, yeah, you're tired of saying like this is you isn't it i'm like no but i uh agree with the sentiment but yeah you're you're tired of saying it so you texted your friend and we're like hey i got a po box to review basically that's how it works exactly thing i really can't find that

review anywhere are you sure that's what it said i mean i don't know why i would have just made it up but i also don't know i'm just wondering if you got it confused with this one, this one that they were listed to a crime podcast. Because that's what I was thinking. And I started reading this one. And then I remembered, oh, they weren't looking for the crime podcast. They just were listening to one. They got scared. So then they listened to us as a way of falling asleep.

I really don't think I made up the whole part about searching for the word ghost and then finding us. If you, that's a lot to make up. If you are able to look and find a review on our podcast, um, go ahead and raise five stars and let us know which review that is. And we, we'd really appreciate that. Um, gosh, I hate, I hate and love this segment every week because I genuinely appreciate all of them. And so I don't, I don't know how to choose. Maybe you can choose one before we get to here. Okay. You just already have it ready. Tell me what's yours. What do you mean? Tell you, tell me what yours is. The ghost one. Where is it? I had it in my mind. So you're not as prepared as we think. I am always prepared. I don't want to hear it. I'm always prepared. I'm like an elephant that way. I'll do this one.

Super duper love you guys. My name is Kaylee. I'm 16. Listen to each episode of your podcast three times. That's a lot. You are both so hilarious

and really, this has got to be the new record because we don't know anything else. So three times the record. Let us know if you, the five star review if you listen to them

all four times. This is by far my favorite podcast. I absolutely love it. This is my review you, the five star review if you listen to them all four times. This is by far my favorite podcast. I absolutely love it. This is my, this is my review of the week right here. Thank you.

Podcasts number one is the name of this one. Wow. Three times over. It's a lot of times over. It is. Thank you. Thank you

for all the reviews. Another 17 of them this week. Really, really nice things. There's one who, from the woman who's like, I'm old enough to be their moms, but I still love them.

Like they're my own kids and everything. And people have friends with expensive espresso machines and just all sorts of inside jokes. But from here, let's go. I think we just have one, two voice memos. Did you say you got them off Instagram or something? Jake, are you not prepared or what?

No, there's no one off Instagram, okay? I thought you said, before we started recording, you said, did you hear? Oh, that was for this. Okay, got it. Okay, so we just have one voice memo. Hey, y'all. This is Malia Swerdloff calling from Houston, Texas. Oh, I don't know why I just said it like that.

I'm so sorry. But I don't have the podcast app. Or I do, but I don't use it. I don't know how to do the real voice memo thing. So I'm just going to send this to Jake. And if you can use it, then okay, that's awesome. Just wanted to say I really enjoy listening to you guys. I didn't think I would enjoy being a fly on the wall of two random men's, man's, I don't know the plural.

I don't, I don't know how to say that grammatically correct of y'all of two males conversations. And I really enjoy it. Um, you're very entertaining. Thank you. So I'm going to leave Jake with a challenge to brush your teeth with warm water for one week straight and tell me you don't love it. I know you'll love it. It's so great. It makes brushing your teeth just a calming experience instead of like cold, just like shocking cold water touching your teeth. And it you know that doesn't feel nice so um i challenge you to

do that brad i'm glad you already do that i don't even have a challenge for you you're doing everything right just keep doing what you're doing uh yeah y'all are great bye that was a long one i thought they cut you off she well that's what she was saying explaining the beginning she wasn't sure how to do it so she just texted me that oh so you know this girl uh-huh oh okay she might have met you before she came up one time she came to kent city one time malia yeah well malia um in the uh tune of being prepared uh you are not uh i don't really know why I said it that way. Houston, Texas. Next stop, go.

Kabanga. But thank you for the voicemail and the kind words. Jake, what do you think about that? I'm up for the challenge. I mean, she makes a good point. Cold water is more shocking than warm water. To me, there's something associated with cold water and like being fresh though. Like having a minty sensation in your mouth while cold water is also being sloshed around a little bit seems fresher than like warm water true what a mosquito is like warm warm puddles of water so

like whenever you take a shower you're like oh i just gotta take a nice cold shower just nice and fresh just you know hear me out you, you know? You're right. You're right. Cold water is associated more with like freshness. Like you need to wake up, you take a cold shower and you need like your mouth to wake up and be, but I see the point she's saying. If you're brushing it before bed, you don't want to wake up. That's right. So. That's a good point.

It plays into. It opens up the pores of the teeth too, if you have warm water. I, uh, I'm not sure. Look it up. The state of my pores, my teeth pores. Ask Anderson, he's a dentist. I don't, from what I know about skin and pores. They're the same.

I don't. Largest organ of the body, skin. Second largest, your molars. Now that's true. That I can say. I just wasn't sure about the pores. Well, yeah, we all know that part. I didn't know you were going to say that.

Yeah, of course. Okay, I will try it. Warm water brush all week long. And I guess I'll let were going to say that. Of course. Okay, I will try it. Warm water brush all week long. And I guess I'll let you know how it is. Double down. Brush them in the shower. I really do that and I enjoy it a lot. Really?

Yeah. Sometimes I'll take a shower just to brush my teeth. I'm just kidding. You know what? What's kind of the order of operations for you in the shower? Turn on the water let's uh you still use the same acronyms as please excuse my dear aunt sally so parentheses p oh so like i do p what i'm sorry order of operations where that comes from like it comes from mathematics right you do to do like multiplication or division yeah p-e-m-d-e-a-s please excuse me i'm confused

about like how so tell me your shower okay order of operations still using the same acronym p-e-m-d-a-s so i use like the letter p yeah to tell me the first thing you do in the shower okay so i pull open the shower curtain okay see this is fun i emancipate the water from uh the spout so where it comes down good good good and then i you make sure i matriculate my body into the shower i don't know if that's the right word for it but i'm there uh pem and then i douse myself with soap body wash soap I'm a soap guy I'm a loofah guy I can afford my own loofahs so I use a iris spring and a loofah nice PEMD and then after that I apply shampoo and face wash and then I scrub myself clean on my hair follicles. And that's, that's,

those are all the acronym things. So I, I, I, you never got to the tooth brushing. That's the whole point. I do that usually at the end though. So here's a true story. I put my, so you could have said like scrub my body and then my teeth. Correct. Yes. Okay. And I put my toothbrush often, uh, still on my counter of the bathroom. And so I have to like reach it. Like I have to like open the shower a little bit to reach and get the toothbrush. A little drippy. Catherine gets so frustrated. She's like, cause it gets on the floor and stuff. And she does not like that. No one likes a drippy bathroom. No, no one likes to drink like a drippy bee.

So why don't you just keep your toothbrush in the shower at all times? I don't know. Cause it's never going out of there. Right? Well, no, why don't you just keep your toothbrush in the shower at all times? I don't know. Because it's never going out of there, right? Well, no, I don't always, like at night, I don't shower. What if you had a shower toothbrush and sink toothbrush? Why don't you just do that? I have done that before, actually.

Why'd you stop? But there's only one toothpaste, so you got to move them. You got to move the toothpaste no matter what, so. I mean, it's just as easy to buy a second toothbrush as it is a second toothpaste. It was more expensive to buy a second toothpaste. You're going to use them either way. It's like buying an 85-pack of paper towels. It's like as easy to buy a second toothbrush as it is a second toothpaste it was more expensive to buy a second toothpaste you're going to use them either way it's like buying a 85 pack of paper towels it's like this seems like a lot but i will use these eventually you're right

but dave ramsey says you know i'm just kidding i don't take what you can but not more than you need that's right is that what he says yep but he does it with the pimdas p oh everything everything it's all comes back to pimdasDAS. That's right. Yeah. Anyway, I'm doing better than I deserve, according to Dave Ramsey. So that's my order operations there. But yeah, the toothbrushing is at the end normally. I'm not a big like I have to do it in this order all the time, though. In the shower.

Right. Nice. Good for you, dude. Thanks, man. Well, I think that'll end us off here for episode 39. 39? We, yeah, I guess at the moment of recording. Don't know if the Chiefs won the Super Bowl,

but we have a lot to look forward to in our personal lives in two days. I'll tell you right now, they won the Super Bowl 45 to 31, right? Or 38 to 17. Or 38 to 17. Pit Bull definitely played at the halftime show. It's in Miami. It's Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, and it's in Miami. I think Will Smith.

Love that idea. Pitbull and Will Smith? Oh. Will Smith? That's hot. The old Will Smith. You know, I'm going to Miami. Bienvenido.

Done it! Done it! Anyway. What was it? Sorry. I'm going to Miami. Bienvenido. Dale, dale. Anyway, what was it? Sorry. Now I've got 40. What are you trying to say? My score. 45, 31.

Yeah. And Sammy Watkins, Super Bowl MVP, which is just crazy. That's crazy by the time this comes out, that'll all be true. Party in the city where the heat is on all night on the beach with the break of dawn. Dale, dale, dale. Mr. Worldwide. Yep. That's our,

that's our jingle for this week. Uh, but yeah, this is episode 39. If, uh, you want to come see me on tour, do some standup comedy.

Uh, I will be in some cities, but not all of them. So just know that, uh, go buy tickets. It's Trey, Kennedy.com slash crap.

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So just go to TreyKennedy.com while you're there and pick up some merch. Click on tour. Yeah. Watch the videos. I think it's TreyKennedy.com slash tour.

Yeah. But, yeah, I did. We did it, dude. Hit us with a jingle to end this episode, please.

Okay. Give me a, can you give me any kind of prompt? I'm not prepared. I want it to the tune of I Love Rock and Roll by Joan Jett. Oh, okay. I love the Ghostrunners. Jake and Brad every Monday morning.

I love the Ghostrunners. Come out with new episodes. Chiefs are Super Bowl champs. I hope that's true or this is awkward. We are number one. Number one for the rest of the season. Yeah! Strong ending.

Yeah. That was good. I liked that one. That was always the, when Guitar Hero first came out, that was the very first song. It was like beginner. You want to start with I Love Rock and Roll? Sure. Sure. Sure. Weird I liked that one. That was always the, when Guitar Hero first came out, that was the very first song. It was like beginner. You want to start with I Love Rock and Roll? Sure.

Sure. Sure. Weird Al had that song. I Love Rocky Road. Ooh. Which is true. Yeah. I do love Rocky Road.

All true. I do love Rocky Road. Okay. It's all gold. Yeah. Check out the Rock Up podcast. Link in description for that. Check out the,

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