Ghostrunners - 44 - Sling Your Shot

Episode Date: March 9, 2020

Brad fought through his cold to deliver you guys this heater of an episode. This week we talk squirrels, fine china, and definitely say some factually incorrect things about the coronavirus. Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P  Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right. So it's like Beastie Boys style. So it's like you just freestyle, rap, whatever you want to talk about. And at the end, every single end of the line, that word I'll try to like predict and do with you. Okay. So it's like, I really apologize if I'm terrible at this. It's like a, so I'll be freestyling. And then you also were having to guess what you think my last word is going to be. Correct. Wow. It's like two improv games. You just, you just rap and I'll try to get on your level. Okay. Should we find a Beastie Boys beat?

No, just free verse. Just prose. Okay. Not prose. It's going to rhyme. I just realized like, wait, I don't have a topic. Okay. Groceries.

Going to the grocery store. Is that good? Okay. I feel like there's lots of food options you could do. Groceries. Five, six, seven, eight. Good start. Good start.

I walk in the store. My bag is loose. I go to the vegetables to get some- Juice. Produce. Produce. Yeah. And then I go to the back. Two percent because I like it like-

That. Oh, yeah. It's real silky white in my glass you know that's my milky oh yeah go to the front self-check out wow what rhymes with front oh a bad word uh bunt cake crap okay did we do it yeah that's good enough okay okay weird start welcome to episode 44 of the ghost hunters podcast 44 uh forrest gump's number when he played for Alabama. Was it? Yeah.

Okay. Barack Obama. Okay. And? The multiple of 11 times 4. Yes. Yep. The multiple of 11 times 4.

That's not the right word for it. The solution. Good, good, good, good, good. Good. Brad, what's up? You seem a it. The solution. That's what, good, good, good, good, good. Good. Brad, what's up? You seem a little congested today. I'm very congested. Which I saw you last night at 11.30 PM. I was doing just fine.

Just fine. Actually, I was kind of feeling sick yesterday, but got it considerably worse overnight. So I don't know what happened there. But yeah, just last night I could taste, I could smell. This morning, I cannot. I could, I could smell this morning. I cannot, I don't know. It's kind of sad, but I've learned that even though you can't taste, you can still tell when something tastes good or does not taste good. There's something like texture.

There's, there's texture. There's, there's an aspect to food. That's all about texture. That no, no congestion can take away. Correct. Is what you're saying. It's like the Unami. You heard that? It's like a tsunami, but it's're saying. It's like the unami. You ever heard that?

It's like a tsunami, but it's not wet. It's like the... Yeah. It's like not wet. It's like the... Yeah, just the texture. Like the texture aspect of food. Like there's like the smell, the taste, the unami.

Oh, cool. Why is that word randomly foreign? In other words, you know, smell, taste. Unami. Unami. Unami. I don't know. What is edamame? It's the same exact thing.

Oh, yeah. Little known fact. Same thing. It's synonyms. Perfect synonyms. Edamame is good, dude. You get that like a sushi restaurant. Okay.

Yeah. I knew it's something with food. Yeah. They have beads. Like they have the thing in the middle. It looks kind of like a pea. Maybe it is a pea. Honestly.

I think it's a bead. It's not a part of my tongue or anything though not that i know of okay not my tongue maybe your tongue i don't i can't speak for your body parts thank you your body your choice thank you uh but your body your mom your your mommy your choice mommy your mommy your whoo okay hey maybe you feel uh not so great tonight because you're we are out celebrating our huge 25-point dominant win last night. Let's go, baby. We're in the playoffs. We're talking rec league, Kansas basketball.

We haven't really given you guys that many updates, mainly because the season has not been going that well. We need to talk about it, though. We found our stride. Yeah, we did. It's starting to look like we don't deserve to be in the lower division anymore, if you know what I'm saying. Yeah, did we mention any of that? I don't deserve to be in the lower division anymore if you know what i'm saying yeah did we mention any of that i don't think so i've been too embarrassed okay so we are playing this is like the third or fourth time we've played in this league and every other time we played the middle the intermediate division yes there's

there's a competitive intermediate wreck i made a boo-boo you know i don't even know if it was a boo-boo actually i think it was the only time that was available maybe i didn't make a boo-boo? You know, I don't even know if it was a boo-boo actually. I think it was the only time that was available. Maybe I didn't make a boo-boo. There was, there was not very, we were, we were signing up kind of late. Jake's like, Hey, I guess we got to do rec. That's kind of embarrassing. We're just going to run, you know, well, I guess we'll use our left hands, you know, whatever. And so we signed up for rec. One of our good friends who kind of carried our team couldn't play because on rec, you can't have any collegiate basketball players. Correct. And so. And also in the intermediate league last year, we came in second. Yeah.

So it's not like this confidence came out of nowhere. Right, right, right. It's like, it would be, it's weird to go from second place and then drop down a division. I was like, that may not be that fun. So like, so then we heard like, okay, the first week of intermediate, you. Of recreational. Sorry, of rec, you have a little like mini tournament to, to seed you to see how, like, to see if you're going to be in the upper Wreck or the lower Wreck. We're like, well, at least we'll be in the upper Wreck and be able to compete and have a little bit of competition.

First week, we lose two out of three of our mini games. Uh-oh. And so we are not only in the lowest division, we're in Wreck, but we are also in the lower region of Wreck. And we're like, that's embarrassing, guys. I guess we'll just have to have fun and just like dominate the lower division. First week we get there, the people there are, I think we maybe talked about this, 50 years old. And not even like an athletic 50. I'm talking like a George Costanza 50-year-old.

Like multiple of those guys. We're like, oh my gosh, this isn't even going to be fun. We freaking lose to him. We did not win. It was really bad. Uh, then I don't, I don't remember. I think we ended up being one and two. I don't know if we lost the first two of them.

Even the games we would win though, we would be up by 20 and then we would like end up winning by four. Yeah. It's like, this wasn't even fun. Cause we almost lost. One of the games we did lose, we were up by 20 points and we ended up losing. How did that happen? A good time.

Uh, however, two weeks in a row, we've won by over 20 points. We found our stride. Yeah. Last night. Yeah, are you going to tell the story at the end? Yeah. Okay. So the game is going pretty well.

I've played great. I'm feeling confident. At one point, I got a rebound. I'm going for a fast break. You know, i nutmeg a guy i throw it between his legs and continue dribbling pass off to isaac for the layup let me let me just pause you that was so impressive that i thought for a second maybe jake didn't even do that on purpose because it was so quick thank you but i know you did do it i did do it

on purpose it was awesome jason williams pete maravich birth of a legend that's right so there's 10 seconds left in the game the other team is shooting free throws uh isaac mcdonald this is espresso isaac this is consensual dog kennel isaac just so you guys are familiar with this character yeah cdk the uh isaac randomly has a 42 inch vertical highest in shawnee mission history it's unbelievable and yeah pretty fun to watch and so yeah there's 10 seconds in the game and normally i try to be cautious to like not be showboaty or like at that point of the game like in garbage time like i think we were by 20 last week and gunner's like shot a three with his left hand yeah i'm not gonna do that yeah i was like uh-oh i don't know about

this but uh sorry gutter it was it was a good shot. But however, back up. With like 30 seconds left, they sent in just like a sixth man. It was an inbounds play. And the guy just like came in off the bench and went in the corner. They passed it to him. And they made a three. Yeah. And then the refs didn't say anything.

We're like, what? Okay. So I mean, I know. He's like, okay, I guess it's fine. So I guess the rules don't matter. So once they did that, I was like, okay, we got to end with a bang here. So the other team was shooting free throws with 10 seconds left. I get Isaac's attention and I say, hey, if I get it,

throw it to you off the backboard. He's like, all right, cool. Yeah. I absolutely understood. End with the bang. I'll tell you that right now. So Brad did not hear this conversation. No.

The guy misses the free throw. Gunner gets the rebound. I call for it at half court. Gunner feeds me the ball. Great job, Gunner. Thank you. Thank you for listening every week. And left-handed.

Gunner hits it to me. And it's like working out perfectly. I'm on the right side. Isaac is streaking down the left side. And so I'm like, this is awesome. We're going to end the game with an off the backboard alley-oop dunk. Yeah. Brad, why don't you tell us? You forgot about escalate streaking right down the middle though, baby. Between Isaac and I. I had no idea that Isaac was behind me. And so I'm joking. I was like, yeah, Jake, throw the hoop. I don't hear this at all. Jake throws it.

Yeah, off the backboard. I was like, oh, sweet. He's actually doing this. I jumped not 42 inches off the ground, more like 16 inches off the ground. And then I feel this like pretty, you know, strong force behind me. And I was like, why is this guy trying to rebound so hard? Where's this defender been all game? And then I heard Jake go, oh, Brad!

Oh, it was so funny, though. Isaac was even trying to do a reverse dunk, I think. It was probably going to be pretty nasty. And the next team was waiting to get on. We had an audience for that. It was so funny, though. It's one of those things, maybe it was for the

better like if you would have missed that dunk they're like ah you know whatever but now we'll never know we'll just assume it would have went in it would have been awesome and now it's funny it's amazing that like isaac still landed on his feet somehow because like he went for it and you were underneath him ready to catch him with your shoulders i have no idea man i had no idea i need to be in tune with Jake. He's the general. Oh, gosh. Oh, yeah.

I would love to see the replay of that. But I'm sure somebody has on their phone. You know, I mean, we have we had fans there. Oh, yeah. I mean, the media at Tomahawk Ridge Community Center is crazy. Next week is the semifinals and championship. And our entire team is going to be gone. So not big

vanilla i'll say you'll be there i'll be streaking down the middle all day long and you and isaac can fight for alley oops just have to find someone new to pass it to you i'll open to isaac this time how's that's better yeah i'll take your place basically i'll dump bag and yeah that's great trey and i are going to be gone on tour uh which brad has been trying to convince us what was your idea last night on how a train I could still come to the game? Oh, it was coronavirus. It's like, say you have the coronavirus. So you have to cancel your show for that night and then sort of go fund me.

Trey would, I said like, Trey would easily raise 50,000. Jake would probably raise like 8,000. And we just pocket that. Yeah. Yeah. Use that as your flight home. And they would, no fact check. You know, it would be at Tomahawk Ridge Community Center Thursday night at 730.

And then we can make it. Yeah, over the park off 119th Street in Metcalf. If you guys want to come, Brad will be there. Trey didn't seem like he was as into it as I was, though. Really? I think he wants to go make thousands of dollars while he does comedy. I think, I mean, I can't speak for Treyy but i think this is something he's been looking forward to for a while well i think but it's rec basketball it's lower division lower division rec basketball from

the ashes we rose four seeds stuck into the playoffs team butter team butter i represented team butter last night on that alley-oop i'll'll just say that. You were very smooth. It's not team skim milk. You know, Isaac was getting up there way too high. It's team butter, baby. It's whole fat. Yeah. On the coronavirus real quick. Yeah.

Last week, I said I was scared of it. I've changed my mind. Okay. I have looked more into it. We don't need to be scared. Good for you. Yeah. Did you know on the back of Lysol and Clorox wipes,

it says like the things that can prevent. And one of them says human coronavirus. Really? That's a fun fact. Okay. Or maybe not even that fun. That's just a fact. Well, we were talking, I did not know that. That is interesting. I know that like Lysol has crazy things. Yeah. Look at the wipes. We were talking to Mr. James wife last night. She's a nurse. Jamie. Jamie. Jamie James. Miss Jamie's. Mrs. James. Jamie's. And she basically said, yeah, the coronavirus or a strand of coronavirus is pretty common. Oh, I didn't even hear her talking about it.

Yeah. But this one specific strand is what's been so fatal or so harmful. But she's like, it's a global issue, or it's an international issue, but it's not necessarily like a Kansas City. You should be harmed or worried. global issue but or it's an international issue but it's not necessarily like a kansas city yeah you should be harmed or worried i was just scared just because i was like i've never seen like uh you know thing in the medical field or in the health field like you know plummet our stock market or like it is amazing like when systems in place start to like be affected by it i was like uh-oh yeah but i've you know i don't actually watch the news. I just have a Twitter account.

So that's where I get the headlines of the article. Yeah, I think I know what's going on. Yeah, but it seems like the only people who are dying from the coronavirus, which is still sad, but our old people are people with like already terrible immune systems. Like it's essentially the same as the flu, just with a new name. Sure. Like the flu rebranded. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Good for it. Yeah. It had a marketing consultant come in and be like, it was probably no longer the flu. no longer the flu yeah people don't like the flu influenza is just starting to sound too much like influencer and it's getting confusing they say instagram influenza and then it's just all around that's not good for us we're gonna come in and the corona beer we're gonna take them down that is also hilarious that they're like losing that sucks for them just because it's like somewhat related you know like what if some some uh disease came out soon that was like triplenenza or something like that you're like anybody with

last name triplet no longer people people find them slightly less attractive and therefore you don't want to go to your show anymore triplenenza triplenenza really thought you're gonna make a comparison to like another beer but you compare to me i was thinking of you yeah yeah we don't talk about we don't we don't do we don't do, we don't do beer this podcast. No, I can't get into it. No. Acquire taste.

Yeah. No, thanks. No, thanks. Dr. Pepper tastes amazing right now. It does.

It's so good right now. And no one's ever like, Hey, nice Dr. Pepper, pepper belly. What do they say? That's Dr.

Pecker. That's Dr. Pepper, pepper. Jeez. Dr. Pepper belly. I see what you're saying now. Anyway yeah it not not a not a beer guy

uh brad how's your week been um it's been fine my my mother-in-law's been in town all week oh i didn't know that yeah she just left what's her name mimi mamo uh mimo gigak pp uh what is it? Pee-pah. That's what he says on The Office. Like, what's her name? Pee-pee? Or something. Pee-pah.

No, her name is Honey. That's right. Yes. Honey was in town helping us kind of set up all the nursery stuff for the boy. Have you heard of nesting? Like the idea of nesting? It's like a thing that women go through when they're pregnant. Oh, you were going to guess. I'm sorry. No, that was what exactly what I was going to guess. Okay.

Where they like set up like a kind of a circular shaped, like straw structure for their child. Right. It's basically outdoor, like, especially if they're going to have it in the summer, it's just like, Hey, we have a tree. Let's go ahead and set up a tree house crib. Let's begin nesting. I'll get my mother-in-law to come in and help with the nesting. Right. And if it's around Easter, they have a nest egg. Okay. And yeah. And then if you have somebody from the South, you have nest Robert E. Nestle. So anyway, nesting is just a really- Is that where they get the Nestle chocolate eggs from? Yes. 100%.

That makes sense now. Nestle eggs. Nestle chocolate. Nestle eggs. Nestle eggs eggs um yeah and so anyway uh it's like a thing that like women go through when they're like they just want to get everything in order a couple months before they have their baby which makes sense but katherine's like very nesting right now and so she's like that's why we're working really hard in that basement that's why we worked it's part of the nest yes, cause she wants to have everything ready to go, which makes sense. Once you have a baby, it's pretty hard to get things accomplished. So, um, Ooh, fun opportunity for you. Okay. Remember the, like the dubstep group base nectar. Oh yeah. It sounds like you're making a base net. You are a

base nester. Oh, I love it. Kind of. That wasn't that good uh basement nester yeah i i had i asked katherine today i was like okay since your mom is the first one to stay in our basement guest room uh and her name is honey can we call uh the basement the honey hole or the honey pot honey and she like i asked katherine like this was obviously a joke like we don't have to call this even if we do call this it's not a big. But she like really had to think about it. She's like, okay, maybe, maybe. And I'm like, you could just go with it. Like yes or no. This is not a serious thing at all. Like, but yet you're still managed to find a way to offend me with this. Yeah. I don't know, Brad, maybe. I mean, I wouldn't be lying if I said this hadn't also crossed my mind what we were going to call it when

she visits, but I just don't know. Honeycomb reminds me of the cereal, which I didn't love. It was just funny. So that's funny. But yeah, the basement turned out amazing. I'm really, really happy with it. And it's gotten me like a little bit of a fever of like, I'm, I'm freaking Chip and Joey and like, I'm, I'm Chip Gaines now. I can do anything. Which is not, hey Chip. But, overall, the week's been good. Just been working a lot on house stuff still and getting ready for a baby, which is weird. It still doesn't feel completely real to me, but it is. It's happening.

It's a hat trick. It's a babe. It's a babe trick. And you just had an exciting meeting, which, you know, we'll see what happens. But that's pretty cool for business. Yes. It's a babe trick. And you just had an exciting meeting, which, you know, we'll see what happens. But that's pretty cool for business. Yes. Yeah.

Met with a large coffee shop in Kansas City about making some furniture for him, which would be amazing. Yeah. Yeah. That'd be really fun. So business is picking up again, which is exciting because it's been pretty slow, January, February. People are starting to finally be like, hey, can we order some tables? I'm like, yes, you may please do. EllisCustomerCreations.com. Find us on Instagram. Yeah. Maybe they're nesting their living room for meals.

Yes. That's probably it. Dinner nesting. That's exactly. Yeah. You get it. Tell me about your week. My week, Brad, has been pretty busy, actually. I don't really like it. Too busy. Yeah. I don't really like it. Too busy. Yeah, not that fun. There's a threshold where you've passed that threshold of like, this is fun to be busy, not anymore.

Not that fun. It feels generally like the most stressed slash busy I felt since like finals week of college, probably. Really? Which I think I was sharing this with you last week off the podcast. I feel I'm at the age now where I almost feel self-conscious saying that I'm stressed because I'm like, I'm not married. I don't have a kid. What did I say to you though?

How stressed can I really be anymore? At least compared to the people around me. And you said, Hey, that's relative. Yes, it is. It's all relative. Yeah. So I don't know what it's like to be stressed by a kid. So I guess this is me just being stressed.

Imagine like you were a high schooler. You probably had times where like, gosh, I feel so busy. It's like, you're in high school. Chill out. You know? Yeah. I'm kind of in the high school of adulthood right now. It's like, I thought I was stressed here. But it's just like, that's what people are going to say to you the rest of your life. You could always be like, well, gosh, like having a kid is hard. Yeah. Wait till you have two kids. And it's like, okay. Okay. So we're not allowed to have these emotions hard. Yeah. Wait till you have two kids. And it's like, okay. Okay. So we're not allowed to have these emotions now. Yeah. Gosh, I'm pretty stressed right now, but I know I don't have kids and I don't have like this. It's like, you still feel that way.

So just feel it. Yeah. That's a good point. Yeah. Yeah. So it was just a lot of, I think I had more respect. I've come away this week having more respect for people who like, like nurses or people who work 12 hour shifts. Yeah. Um, who just, yeah, just exhausting. Like Monday I worked 10 to 10 and then went to sleep at 10 30. So I didn't do anything. Okay. I'm really excited for this podcast. Cause it's like, oh, this will be, this is something fun.

This is something fun to do this week. Basketball is great. Yeah. I worked like 10 to 10 Monday and then just went to sleep. And then Tuesday I shot a big old Chick-fil-A documentary, which was fun. A documentary. It's a six part documentary. I did not realize that. I thought it was like a little like teaser. I mean, it's like a mini doc, like a doc series, but still like a lot of planning and execution. So we shot from like eight to six. Um, did you really? Yeah.

It was just a long time to shoot. I'm just like, I know that's what normal people work in a day, but I feel like from what I've heard about corporate America, you're not really working eight hours straight. So that, and then the next day, I think it was like another hours, by the way, not eight hours, eight to six. Oh, you're right. So, okay. Definitely not working 10 hours. Take that Cerner. Yeah. And then the next day I worked, I think 10 to eight. Uh, and then I left my house at eight and then went and booked flights to Hawaii. Yeah. So it was a crazy day. Gosh. Um, so anyway, it's just been a very full week. And so all three, so hold on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, very busy. None of those things were staying up comedy, which is the big thing that's happening very soon. So I think

that's what made me stress is like, I'm being insanely productive and I'm so pleased with how much work I'm getting done, but it's not really what I should probably be doing. You're like, I still feel unprepared, even though I'm getting, even though I'm accomplishing things right now. Yeah. That's tough. Um, but it's okay. I got a ton of stuff done this week.

And if anything, that's just a good, like momentum builder. It's just like, yeah, just keep getting stuff done. Yeah. Keep it going, baby. Yeah. Keep that, keep that, uh, attitude of like, just, okay, what can I do now? What can I do now? Yeah.

But it's all good. You know, basketball last night, podcast today. It's downhill from here. We're getting to play pickleball tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be fun. And then, yeah, tour starts on Tuesday.

So fly out then. And yeah, pretty exciting. Is the first thing Tuesday night or is the first thing Wednesday? Wednesday. Okay. This will be the only time where we fly out a day before just because it's the first one to kind of get settled and ready and everything. Where are you going to be Wednesday? Uh, Louisville. Louisville. I was actually, I took a walk yesterday, which I, you've done before, right? I have. I never had,

but I'd heard that people do this. By yourself though is a thing, is a different thing. Really? I took my, uh, my, my note cards, my comedy note cards. I was about to say, by yourself without anything in your hands. Like if you're, if you have a stroller or a dog, no problem walking. Cause you have something to do with your hands.

I had note cards. That's the same thing. Which I don't know, it's maybe weird to see like from your front window. What's this guy with note cards doing? I love it. But, uh,

Oh, I was just thinking, I was like running through what the Louisville show would be like. And I was like, maybe there's an opportunity to make a, make a joke about Louisvilleville which obviously would not work in any other city but i feel like it's such a thing like how do you pronounce it yeah you know because i always used to think it was louisville louisville slugger yeah of course yeah it turns out no no no

no no no and so i don't know what the joke would necessarily be but like you know i was talking to some of you guys and from what i can understand like the less actual sounds i make the closer i am to pronouncing it where are you sure tonight little oh yeah great city mumble through the whole thing yeah i think get more and more exaggerated yeah great to be in uh you know kentucky tonight the beautiful city alone i think you should yeah i think you practice a little bit more yeah no i i think i think that could be funny i don't know you sprinkle it every once in a while like it's it's a great like you've already got them laughing a little bit more. Yeah, no, I... But I think that could be funny. I don't know. You sprinkle it every once in a while. Like, it's a great, like, you've already got them laughing a little bit

and then you just say, and thanks, Lil. You know, and they keep going. Like, people laugh, you know? You guys are seriously great. I'm so glad we get a little... Yeah, I think it'd be great. If it works the first time,

then yeah, you come back to it a few different times. If it doesn't, you're like, well, Brad was wrong. Crap. At least I'm going to Knox going to know if you're listening to this right now and you're going to the show at louis in louisville please laugh so hard every time just so he can validate that like brad knows what he's talking about or if you were like found out who i was for the first time at the louisville show leave us a five-star review and tell us what you thought about the joke. Yeah, yeah. Oh man, it's so, yeah, terrifying that I'm about to go do this, but.

You're gonna thrive, dude. You're gonna do great. I think it is gonna be great, but it's hard not to feel anxious and just feel like, and I don't deserve this. I shouldn't be doing this. I haven't earned this.

But at the same time, I am decently confident. I don't wanna make it seem like I'm scared or anything. It just, you know, it's a big deal. What do you, what do you think about the people like that go to that first show of a tour? Do you think that they like on one level, it's like, oh, but they kind of get shortchanged because these guys are not as ready as, as well polished. But on the other side, it's like, these guys are pumped out of their minds for this first show. You know what I mean? That's how I felt about a first term campers yes camp oh i felt so bad the parties were always like gosh we just got to survive this

thing i would always tell the campers like don't come to the first term we don't know what we're doing but the first campers that come through those gates the counselors freak out yeah yeah there's there's there's a palpable energy you can cut it with a fork it's so palpable yeah uh i ran into my old programs not ran into the whole reason i went to branson last week was to see a couple people one of them was my first ever programs partner it was so fun just getting to relive those memories and it was fun because isaac was there so it wasn't just stew and i reliving memories it was like getting to tell stories yeah and we were laughing those um you did like camper intros right oh they're so fun

it's like an improv show for two hours. Yeah. And Ward, my director, really is like, guys, you can really keep it to 10 seconds if you want to. And we're like, no, that's fine. Yeah. You got to make it so fun. We're like doing it so long. Like the mom's like, she was recording and her arm has now gotten tired. Like, okay, well this, this has gone on for too long. It's my son. There is one that I still remember. We were introducing two kids and it just happened so fast. I'm pretty sure Stu was the one who made the joke, but I still remember it. It was like, what's your name? Kindle. Okay, awesome. What's your name? Brooks. Oh, okay. Awesome. I love to read Brooks on my Kindle. I was like, oh my gosh. That was so good. That was you? No, I think I was

Stu. I was on stage, but I remember it. That's good. So credit for remembering. Credit for... But yeah, that first term camp, nothing ever goes well. No. But yeah, you're definitely excited. But there's a difference, yeah, in like, there's something fresh about that first time, you know, first show. So I love how you said that you ran into Stu and then you're like, well, that was the whole

reason I went down there. Like... I bumped into him. Like, it's like a funny thing about, yeah, I ran into my doctor the other day when he was giving me a physical. I turned my head and coughed. There's my doctor. I don't know. It's just funny.

I ran into my ex-wife the other day in a divorce court. Divorce court, yeah. It was crazy. Judge Cudi ran into the IRS the other day whenever I hadn't paid my taxes. Yeah. Which – Yeah, which kind of happened actually. Do you want to talk about that? Uh, that's kind of embarrassing, but I guess. Why

don't we just say Brad's got a little run in with the law and I might be, I might be doing this show solo for the next few weeks. Let's just say the bullet pointed version. So people don't get the wrong impression by imagining things is that I didn't realize that this is so embarrassing as a business owner that I didn't realize that you had to pay sales tax on things. I didn't know that. I thought that whenever I filled out my turbo tax, that I'm good. I would have assumed that. Don't or else you'll get in trouble later on. Wait, am I in trouble? Maybe. I don't sell goods though. Do you think that's different? I don't think it is oh crap i don't know oh this show is not going to exist we're both gonna oh we can make it cellmates no no yeah yeah listen there's

reverb in this place on your feet i ran into my friend brad uh in the jail cell the other day what are you doing here bud don't drop the soap irish spring like we used to talk about on our podcast yeah you got your own loofah. Good for you, bud. I printed a pack of cigarettes for it. Thanks, mom. Yeah, thanks. Thanks for the camels.

No, basically the idea was that I didn't pay these sales tax. I paid federal tax, but I didn't pay my state sales tax. And I've been having this business for a while now. And they've been sending me these letters, I think, to a different address because I've moved around like four times. Because you're trying to lay low, stay off the ground. Yeah, I'm trying to. I move every three months and change my phone number. Lay low, find a safe house for a while because I probably wanted for tax fraud.

Yes. And so basically, our friend Peter lives at my old house. This police officer came up to the door the other day and said, hey, we're looking for Brad Ellis of Ellis Custom Creations, elliscustomcreations.com, elliscustomcreations on Instagram and Facebook. And Peter was like, I think I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. Once you said the email on Facebook. Peter's like, he doesn't live here anymore, but I can tell you where he lives. And the police officer's like, no, that's okay. Just tell him to call us. Oh, so we're not going to jail. Yeah. Whenever Peter told me that, I was like, okay, so if you give a criminal, if you give the police officer a

criminal's like address, he's going to take you up on that and go find you if you're really wanted. Yeah. So basically what I learned is that I need to pay those things or else they'll start taking things away from me. Uh, Oh, it was like your nest, my dignity. Uh, my, yeah, my, my truck, maybe my kids. I don't know. Who do I need to talk to about this? KSrevenue.org is where you need to go. Oh, yeah. Because I've lived in Missouri, Texas, and Kansas in the last two years. Yeah.

Oh, geez. That's a little tricky. You know what? I'm going to let them try to track me down. There you go. That's more fun for them. It is. Yeah. I've lived a lot of places, one of them being a limousine for 80 days. So, you know, if you could find me, you deserve to have my money. Oh man. That's what the Canadian border patrol is all trying to figure out. I, I just could not

believe I was, I was talking to this woman on the phone. I was like, I promise I'm like a good guy. Like I'm not, it's just a small business. Like I'm not my credit score. Yeah. Yeah. It's insane. Oh man. So that happened, but it's all squared away. We're good. Really? You already paid it and everything. Yeah. I, oh yeah. I could not, I had a hard time sleeping. I was like, I got to figure this out. Yeah. So anyway, Peter, I called Peter about it. He's like, is this your one call from jail? And I was like, no, I love my own cell phone. You jerk. Uh, that's funny. Anyway. Uh, the all new fan dual sports book and casino is bringing you more action than ever.

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It's like poetry in motion. Benjamin Moore, see the love. I thought of something that I think you will appreciate. This is on my way to Gunner's house to book some flights two nights ago. I stop at Subway and... Great choice. Thank you. I've been enjoying it a lot lately.

Sure. I found kind of what I like because at first I used to get some things with red meat, you know, maybe some pepperoni, some bacon. Oh, sure. Some salami, pastrami. Yeah. The Tix said no to that. But I found a new thing i like

the reason i want to tell the story is because the coke freestyle machine gets brought up frick that place however before we get to that it's just kind of fun side note i think you'd enjoy i said can i have a foot long on white please he said ah our white bread's a little too hot to serve right now i was like okay like like how how much longer will it be you think like i just take it outside for a few minutes and yeah yeah and he was like ah i don't know kind of hard to say right now and i was like okay what if i and he seemed like a cool guy so i was like okay what if i promise to not sue you like i will not sue you like i'll just sign up i won't eat it for 10 minutes yeah i'll treat it like a swimming pool i'll wait 30 minutes before i eat

it or something and uh he didn't laugh at that as much as Yeah. Treat it like a swimming pool. I'll wait 30 minutes before I eat it or something. And he didn't laugh at that as much as I wanted. He was just like, ah, just kind of policy. You can't say like, okay, he's by the book. Yeah. But then I started thinking, well, I'm going to toast this sandwich. So there's no way it could be hotter now than it would be after 90 seconds in a toaster oven.

Probably good thought. Yeah. And so I was like, well, I'm going to get it toasted anyway. So it does that cancel it out. He's like, nah, it doesn't work that way. It's like, okay, well, do you have any, I just don't know, like, should I wait or how long is it going to be? And so then he goes, this is where I was like, what?

You seem like you're by the book and this does not seem like how they teach you to do it. He goes to the back. I mean, just the back of the wall that I can see and feels the bottom of the pan with his right hand. And he goes, hmm, five, 10 minutes. Like that's the system. You're like so nervous about getting in trouble.

Like, no, it's our policy. If it's too hot, it's like, you have no idea how hot this is. You're feeling it with your hand. If you could feel it with your hand for multiple seconds, you'll be okay. So anyway, that was just like a really strange thing. I was like, well, I wish there was someone else here

because this is absurd to me. This whole scenario of the white bread being too hot and I'm going to get toasted and you're feeling it. You're putting your hand on the pan, but I can't put the bread in my mouth. You can't put the hand on the pan. You can put the bread in the mouth. Yeah.

Okay. We get all that settled. I go to the Coke Freestyle Machine and I just, I was feeling just classic Coke. It's like, that sounds nice. Yeah. Coca-Cola classic. And I think I have a new theory on how the Coke Freestyle Machines work. Debunking your theory, which I'll admit, I kind of believed in.

I still believe in it. You, Garrett, and I were talking about it's Coke with vanilla flavoring in it. The more I thought about that, I was like, that makes perfect sense. They have separate canisters. You know, the vanilla can go into any drink and the Coke can get mixed with other flavors, orange, raspberry, whatever. However, the Coke was out, but I could still get orange Coke, vanilla Coke, raspberry Coke, cherry Coke.

Really? So, which makes me think they're all in their each individual canisters. Vanilla Coke has its own diet. Coke has its own. Okay. Interesting. And Coke has its own. That's what that told me.

Or like, that's what logically that tells me. Yeah. Yeah. My only pushback is maybe it's like the Coke is completely out, but we've already like dispersed some of the Coke to the vanilla, to the orange, to the whatever. And those are, those are going to be out after two people get there. You know what I mean? No, that's definitely true.

I didn't think about that. Because yeah, I totally understand what you're saying. Like why would, yeah. Why would the main thing be out? But the other things that rely on that main thing still work. Okay. Unless they're separate. Exactly. Interesting. So just guys just be, you know, woke out there for lack of a better word. Stay woke. Stay woke. When it comes to the Coke freestyle machines, like there's something

going on. We need to figure out how these work. I'll tell you how they work. They, they make you think it's a good idea. And so all these businesses go in on it. And really it's a terrible idea. I'll tell you, if you go to subway at eight 45, no one else is there. So you'll have a tears. I have plenty of time to think about what you want, but the great thing or the worst thing about a cook freestyle machines is even

if you go to subway eight 45, there's one person in front of you, you're going to be waiting for a good one minute, 30 seconds for that cook freestyle machine. That seems long, but I see your point. Uh, speaking of drinks kind of random

i guess but have you noticed that whenever you have a guest to your house they always choose the most random cups it's like we never use that cup what are you doing with using that cup you don't even know that cup existed still kind of shame i'm like why are you looking in the upper like corner of the cover yeah we don't use the Shakespeare's pizza cup? We don't ever use that one. We don't use that. Yeah. Stop. You know what I mean?

Idiot. It's like, yeah, what do you do with that cup? We all know which cups we use and which cups we don't. What are you doing with that one? Have you ever noticed that? No. I'm kind of just going along with you for fun. Just think about it.

There's a cup up there right now in your cupboard that I bet you've never seen anybody use. And for whatever reason, the next time Peter comes over here, he's going to, he's going to use that cup. It's like, what? I feel like I've been on the receiving end of that. Probably. Or like, I'll like choose a, a, a bowl or something like, oh, we don't really use those bowls for cereal.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a whipped cream bowl. Okay. So I can, or like, are you upset that I'm using this or, or should I not? I don't know. What do you want me to do? You can, you can. It's fine. Just, we don't, we would never do that. It's like, it's like you look, maybe that's part of it is like, you look in different cab or cupboards that it's like, not really the bowl cupboard, but there's a bowl there. So you're

like, yeah, there's a bowl. You just take it. And I don't know. So you're like, that's a bowl. I found my bowl cupboard. I'm good. You're like, that's a bowl. I found my bowl cupboard. I'm good. You're like, that's not where you get the bowls. That's not. You're not even going to like it. Here, pour it out. Let me get it.

Yeah. Get some fresh milk. Yeah. Get it in there. Anyway, I just noticed that the other day. I was like, why are the guests always picking out like the, you know, faded orange cup from the top shelf? Like what made you choose

that one? Do you guys have in your house like nice plates? Yeah. It's like, you can't use those unless it's a nice dinner. We, we bought two different sets of plates, um, for like for a wedding. We like registered for them. And for the longest time we were like, Oh, these are like our, they weren't China, but they were like fancier plates. We never used them for like five years. Then all of a sudden Catherine's like, hey, we should probably use these. So I'm going to switch them out with the other ones. So we use them all the time now, but yeah. So we, but they're the nicer ones for sure. I like the plastic. I'm all, I'm great with plastic plates. I go paper. Yeah. Yeah. Paper plates are great. Cause you just throw them right away. Yes. Yeah yes yeah i i can't plastic plates i

meant like the reusable plastic plates not like the plastic version of paper plates that you can also just throw away yeah i don't remember if it was like at my grandma's house or somewhere recently where yeah i grabbed like i guess the nice dinner plate yeah and they're like oh that's that's for like our nicer things here. Why don't you use this? And I'm like, what is, what do you have? Like a, like the president coming over tomorrow. Isn't that so funny how people always idealize like, yeah, we're going to have this big get

together. Yeah. All these people are going to be there. And just like the plate is still serving its purpose. I'm going to eat off of it. It's going to get washed the same. Yeah. It's going to be available by tomorrow if you need it.

Like, is there like the pun intended? Is there a shelf life on fine china that i don't know about that like oh they can only go through like 45 washes honestly maybe i guess because of like the intricate designs on them or something and coronavirus came from china so maybe it's one of those oh my god you have to protect your fine china That's definitely where your grandma got it from. Probably. Maybe they're also hand washed only. Hand? Wuhan? Wuhan? Wuhan Peninsula?

Oh my gosh. Wow. Wow. Take that mattress firm. We figured it out. Yeah. A new conspiracy theory. Oh man.

Have you watched these videos? The guy's name is Joey Molinaro. He's the one that does like the Colin Coward and the – Oh, yeah. I think he – All those different – Yes. I think he's so funny.

I don't follow him, but I've seen a couple of his videos blow up. I kind of choose – this is maybe a weird thing. I'll go ahead and say it. I kind of choose not to follow certain people even though I like them because that way I'll only get the things that a lot of other people like on my feed like specifically Twitter okay because Twitter which I like this aspect is they show you things that a lot of other people also have already liked that you follow yeah Twitter is a good algorithm yeah and so it's like oh because maybe not every single one of his videos is funny but the ones I

see are always hilarious and so so you're kind of hoping twitter will do i don't know a job for you like filtering stuff yeah because i've like followed i'm trying to think who like lebron james lebron james tweets a lot of things that are things that i don't need to read like i'm like okay thank you taco tuesday exclamation point i don't need to read that in my timeline but if he says something really cool or he has a cool video or he responds really funny, you're more likely to see it if you're not following him. That's a good point. Isn't it? It sounded kind of crazy at first,

but for Twitter, I think that makes sense. Yeah. I don't know about how that works with everything else, Instagram and everything. But even then, like if you go to your discover page on Instagram, do you ever look at that on Instagram?

I do a lot actually. Cause there's so many woodworkers out there. Like the woodworking Instagram market is pretty big. And so if they're going viral at the time, there's a cool video or something on there. Yeah. I might be in the minority there. Cause I never look at it. And so I've always thought like, why is everyone, why is every creator or influencer trying to get on the explore page? No one even looks at it, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe people do look at it. I'm also kind of weird about how many people I follow. Like, I don't like following too many celebrities and stuff. Cause I don't like it. I many people i follow like i don't like following too many celebrities and stuff because i don't like it i don't like that i don't

like seeing too many of that stuff unless i'm like in the mood to seek that out i guess like i'd much rather see things about my friends than about justin bieber yeah so anyway oh there it is we won every episode that was perfect timing. Josh Madison, man. Tell you what. Josh. Go Grizz. Oh, man. That's funny.

Brad, while your sound is still on, you should probably play everyone the Joe Biden clip from this week. Oh, yes. And set it up for those who don't know. I hadn't seen this. So, yeah, I'm sure some of you out there haven't seen it either. Yeah, I don't know how much to set it up because I don't really truly know exactly where he was when he was doing this. It looked like he was at some kind of rally. The background, they have signs that say Texas for Biden.

But basically, my wife told me, she's like, have you seen this thing about Joe Biden, the Declaration of Independence? I said, no, I haven't. She's like, oh, you got to pull it up. So here it is. We hold these truths to yeah self-evident doesn't come I mean, like there's two very like, I'm going to translate it. There's like two very obvious points of struggle. Yeah. Self-evident. Doesn't come out great.

Self-evident. Self-evident. And then very quickly into men and women are created equal. He realizes. You know the thing. Yeah. He realizes, I don't know this. Yeah.

I don't even have anywhere close to like a factual knowledge of what the end of the sentence is. You know the thing. I like it. That's pretty composure though to like continue factual knowledge of what the end of the sentence is. You know the thing. I like it. That's pretty composure though to like continue talking after that. Like I would have just been like, I'm sorry. Whew. Where was I? You know, he just keeps going.

We owe these truths to be self-evident. Self-evident. All men and women created by the cult, you know the thing. Oh my gosh. That's amazing. the men and women created by the, go, you know the, you know the thing. Oh my gosh. That's amazing. All women and women created by the, go, you know the thing.

I like that he says thing. I think that really makes it funny. Not like, you know, the sins, you know, the phrase. Like in English class,

like you were never allowed to use the word thing. It's lazy. Yes. It's like, what is thing? It's a catch all word. Yeah. You know the thing and it's like it's lazy yes it's like what is the thing it's a catch-all word yeah you know the thing that's so awesome i love that he did that i'm gonna start doing i'll do that on tour yeah uh you know you get the joke uh yeah thank you lou you you know where you are you know the thing that i was trying to say oh no brad you just knocked off the chick

flake cup that's okay it's a bad omen maybe it's just kidding i don't believe in omens but i did watch the movie the omen when it came out on june 6 2006 666 you devil pretty scary yeah um actually i don't remember what the movie is about, but omens. Omens baby. It's a trick. Do you have anything else before we go into some voice memos that you want to talk about? One quick thing. Okay. In Branson this weekend, last weekend, it was, I don't know if I've been subliminally seasonally depressed.

That's maybe a little extreme. I don't know what happened to me, but I've, I've never been high. You know that about me. You know, you know that. You always know that. that's maybe a little extreme i don't know what happened to me but i've i've never been high you know that about me you know you know that you always know that i think last saturday was the closest i've ever been just high on life really 65 degrees so the sun i think did a number on me oh yeah there was all this anticipation of like i'm gonna see such good friends today and i'm driving down the road with the windows down and like the sun, like on my skin, just like felt amazing. And then I was listening to music and all this music I was listening to like sounded better than it's ever sounded. It was like the perfect

atmosphere for it. Yeah. It was weird almost. It was like, I don't know. I don't know what to think about it. It was just like, from what I know about being high, I think this is it, but I'm still able to drive a car and have a conversation. I'm just so excited. Really? About life. That sounds better than high. I think so. Getting to operate heavy machinery is a huge bonus that you lose out on when you start doing drugs. Sure. Absolutely. Yeah. You cannot operate the forklift. Forklift, the baler. No. Backhoe. No, no backhoes for the marijuana bros is what they say. Yes. Also not a good nickname for your loved one. No, I have found out go with ball and chain. That's

way better than backhoe. But, uh, also one of the songs, quick plug my girl, lady Gaga. Yeah. The first eight seconds of her new song is the greatest eight seconds to any song I've ever heard. That's extreme, but it's so catchy. And I think it's what helped me get high. Oh, that's good. I, yeah, I know what you mean. Like those, like I hate, I don't hate. I wish that I weren't as affected by the weather as I am. That's what surprised me. I was like, whoa, this is really changing my mood. Right. Like, I wish that I could be very happy in, you know, five degree winter days.

But there's something about like 75 degree weather, drive it down the road. Yeah. Yeah. Remember the Titans talked about it. Sunshine. Sunshine. They knew. Yeah.

Yeah. It's interesting. It's like like i thought i was in a good mood but then once i started driving in the sun i was like oh no no no it gets way better yeah it's way way better shout out to like san diegans out there san diegans they they just have good weather all the time i think it rains eight days a year in san diego man just not much they're probably like every time it rains they're probably like oh gosh this is gosh. This is the worst. Yeah. Moving out of here. You don't like the weather? Wait five minutes.

Someone said that to me this week, and I didn't even, like, courtesy laugh. I was like, we've all heard this. Get out of here with that. Oh, geez. Yeah, we have so many voice memos, though. So let's get down to business and defeat the Huns. Brad, Jake, what is up? My name is Sam.

Gosh, there are just so many things to say in this next minute. I'm from Nebraska, and I live down here in Texas. So I just kind of love it when Brad rags on Texas a little bit as a Midwesterner. Man, every time I think this podcast can't get better, it does. I just feel like we are just such good pals already. And you guys don't even know me. That's probably why we're such good pals. The hot rod quotes.

Man, love that. We got drinking out of cups out here. No way. No way. Get real. Don't pay for this, Floyd. Not me. Not never.

Oh, good stuff. So I just want to know, what is your favorite Hot Rod quote? Yeah, I think that's it. Love you guys. Bye. Love you too, man. Thanks for being our best friend, Sam. Thank you, Samuel. You have an answer? Hot Rod. Let's see. I haven't seen it that many times, actually. Like maybe three. Okay. I'll back you up.

I've seen it a few times. A myriad of times. Ten, maybe. Whoa. Seven. I don't want to be too crazy with Hot Rods. The answer for me is don't even ask, just bring it. Dang it.

You know, that was probably probably gonna maybe be mine i love that scene where where the dave's uh sister is like uh where should i put this i don't know brainiac it's your house too or something like that maggie don't even ask just bring it don't ask just bring it yeah that right before that he says pools are great for holding water that's a great quote yes um there's lots of good ones but that that's the one that i find myself actually using today like i'll just be like don't even ask just bring it don't ask just bring it uh try to bring the demons out of me huh i watched hot rod for the first time in high school with my then girlfriend and she had seen it before and as had her friends and they just laughed at everything and like quoted it a good three seconds before it actually happened so the first time i watched i was like

this is not funny to me because it's like my friends are the ones in the movie yeah it's like it's like you because sometimes it's like a random thing that happens out of nowhere almost but they're already laughing at it so anyway i, I do think it's funny now though. I think my answer is when they say, uh, I think it's Bill Hader. He's like, cause the bathrooms here are nuts. The bathroom here is nuts. That is a good one too. Uh, yeah.

Great quote. Yeah. Thank you for the question, Sam. Glad you enjoyed the movie quotes. Hi guys. My name is Jamie listening from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This isn't something I would usually do leaving a voice memo on a podcast, but I figured you two would be the only ones that would understand my frustration right now. Just went through the Taco Bell drive through and they say it's going to be 20 minutes to order anything. Um, so I obviously left and went down

the street to Wendy's, but didn't know what you guys would do in that situation. I don't even know how that's possible. 20 minutes to order anything from Taco Bell. Um, so just wanted to see what you guys would do in that situation. Also, um, I've never wanted Chick-fil-A more in my life, but I have a peanut allergy, so I'm afraid to order because they fry everything in peanut oil. Wanted to see what you thought about that too. Love the podcast. Just finished catching up and don't know what I'm going to listen to now, but thanks guys. Well, let's just start at the end there. We are thinking about recording seven episodes a week in the upcoming year right yes yes we're going to do one every day 365 episodes

just kidding that's not wait i've i've lost she said i don't know what i'm going to listen to now that i'm all cut up it's like doesn't matter you're not going to be caught up soon because we're gonna that's not true we it's too hard for us to do that but um the answer is well brad and i would have very different answers there probably okay what's my answer i think you would just be i would leave the driveway a lot drive through a lot sooner than you would probably yeah yeah um based on some behavior i saw at the mcdonald's drive through like four weeks ago or so you were there for a long time oh man i just justice is a real thing i don't care i don't care where you are what you're doing you should tell that story um well to answer your question real quick yeah first name start with a j j jadison jamie jamie yes pretty much jadison

i would probably be like oh i would probably just ask some questions and try to figure out why, but ultimately just drive away with my tail between my legs and go to Wendy's like you did. The worst part is if she were sandwiched in between people, and so she couldn't get out of the line. There was an immediate or something. I would, A, I would not go to Wendy's because I think Wendy's is very overrated. B, I would say, I'll wait 20 minutes. Can I get it for free? So it's going to take so long. And then they say no. And I say, okay, can I talk to

your manager? And then they say, Hey, it's the manager. I say, Hey, can I get it for free? If they say no, I'll say, okay, what's your name? And then I'm going to call Taco Bell corporate and I'm going to get my free Chalupa. I'm a lot more brave in those situations if there's somebody else with me. Sometimes if I'm by myself, I'll just be like, ah, whatever. But if we feel like, like Jamie, you had to read the situation. I don't know what time it was, whatever. The thing that frustrates me most

and we get to it with the McDonald's thing. What frustrates me the most is when you're not close, but you say you are still, you are still, still closed say you are still. You are still. Still closing no apple pies. Not knowing when you're closing.

Sorry to make you sing when you're congested. That's all right. Oh, fun fact. The lead singer of Rascal Flatts'' daughter, huge fan of Trey Kennedy, they're going to try to maybe set something up. Like, I think they're going to come to a show, and then who knows what happens after that. Yeah, this is her wish. You're going to get set up.

That's exciting. Yeah. And awesome. Yeah, he told me that last week. Hey, yeah, that'd be great. What was I saying? Oh, what frustrates me the most is if we think that the 20 minutes is legit or not. If it's legit, I'm patient to an extent.

Like I understand sometimes you run out of food. You're really busy. Sometimes you run out of everything at the same time. That's the thing though. If it's like, if it's like, yeah, we're close to closing. So we're just going to say it's going to take a long time to hopefully make you leave. That is when I fire back. And that's what happened to McDonald's. And so we went to McDonald's the other night after our basketball game. And what was it? 10 42. I think before that it was like, they closed at 10 and it was like nine 42. Okay.

Okay. Uh, and the doors to the lobby were already closed. Like they were locked. We were knocking on them, trying to get in. It was like, it clearly says 10 o'clock. And I just, I was very frustrated about that. I was like, we've talked about it on the podcast before. If it says 10 o'clock and I'd be there at 9.58, then let me in. And you're the biggest restaurant in the world. Yeah. Be open.

Yeah. Take my money. Yes. If I'm there at 10.01, absolutely. It's 10.01. Those are the rules. That i don't care that's your ice so you decided to go through the drive-thru and give a piece of your mind yeah so i went through the i'm kind of embarrassed about these like uh whatever it's me it's who i am sometimes i went to the drive-thru once and the guy said oh no we actually closed the lobby down at 9 tonight.

I said, oh, I thought it said 10 o'clock on the sign. He's like, no, it said 9. I said, okay. And I like accepted. I was like, maybe I was wrong. Like I was like, that could be. Maybe it's 9. So then I drove around and looked at the sign and it clearly stated 10 o'clock.

Uh-oh. And I drove up to the drive-thru again. And by this time, it was no longer 9.42. It was 9.49, we'll say. And the guy's like, well, we're only open for like 11 more minutes. So are you just going to eat for 11 minutes and then leave? I was like, well, I didn't get here at 9.42. You know, I was like, it was like we were like arguing about these things back and forth.

He's like, well, just tell me what you want. I'll just get it for you here. I was like, well, no, I have friends and we're all in different cars. We all wanted to eat together. And it was like hard for him to understand that we wanted to go inside and eat at his restaurant. He's like, no one ever wants to hang out here. Yeah. This is weird.

So anyway, we kind of went back and forth for longer than we should have. Probably three minutes, which if you think about it, that's kind of a long time to argue with somebody over at Intercom. And then I finally said, you know what? They've already gone to another McDonald's. so I'm going to go with them. Taking our talents and our money to 95th and Metcalf. That's right. We've never been back to the other one. No, we don't go.

We're holding a grudge. We don't go to that McDonald's until they serve everyone at 942. Jamie, as far as the Chick-fil-A thing goes, we'll talk to Mr. James about it. We'll see if he can send over some non-peanut chicken to you. You can get the grilled nuggets, can't you? Surely. Surely there's something. And ice cream cones?

Yeah. That's what people really crave when they go to Chick-fil-A is ice cream. Dr. Pepper? Yes. All right. Thanks, Jamie. What's up, Jake and Big Daddy? This is Mr. Steez checking in from Duluth. And my question for you guys is if you could take four people with you to survive an impending zombie apocalypse, who would you take?

Now, you can get a little creative. You can take historical figures. You could take a fictional character. So, for instance, someone like Yoda. Or you could just take real people, too. So I'm really interested to hear what you guys have to say and what you guys come up with. You guys are awesome. Oh, and by the way, Dallas.

Oh my God. Who is this guy? He's probably saying I love, but he's leaving it out because he's embarrassed. Probably. I love Dallas. This's bleeping it out because he's embarrassed. Probably. I love Dallas. This is such a great question and one that we could probably really have a funny answer to if we had more time, but whatever. We'll just answer it now. Let's just go back and forth.

Okay. One after another. Clearly, number one, David with the slingshot. Yeah. I mean, he's proven his talent and his character when it comes to fighting. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. David, mine. Yours? That's it? Oh, okay. Oh, like, do you fighting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. David, mine.

Yours. That's it? Oh, okay. Oh, like, do you want me to tell more? No, no, no. That's a good enough reason. Okay. He took down a giant.

He took down a giant. Yeah. With a rock. And he wasn't scared. He was very confident that the Lord would provide for him. So I think that if I have David on my side, then I've got the Lord on my side as well. I think pregame huddle, you look over at David and you say, Hey, keep that same energy. Yeah. Slinger shot. Slinger shot, baby. That's funny. Yeah. Thanks. Mine would probably be,

I think Abraham Lincoln. Okay. Just seems like he, he really took what he wanted in life. I think he was also six, four. I would love to have some height on my team, like from the get-go. That's so funny because I was thinking Napoleon Bonaparte. There's definitely going to be some shortened zombies out there. And you can't discount the shortened zombies. And so Napoleon could, you'd be like, Napoleon, go get those guys. That makes sense. And he would slay them with his, I'm assuming he had a sword. Scepter maybe?

Yeah, yeah, scepter. Scepter was more popular scepter scepter is more popular at the time i think so i got napoleon and david did you hear are there women's voices upstairs impossible that sounds like girls impossible isaac greg what's happening okay so napoleon barbara's your actual answer napoleon and david so far okay um after abraham lincoln okay so i got a power forward i would probably probably take, oh, Dash from the Incredibles. Oh my gosh. Always my favorite Incredible.

Of course. And I just think like having speed is going to be huge. I think the Chiefs proved that this year. Sure. Tyree Kill. Sure. You know, it's just tough to play man coverage. And the zombies would be forced to go cover two, maybe a deep three against us.

I love how we're continuing to riff off each other. Cause you just said that if my next person is Peyton Manning. Really? Yeah. For morale for one great guy. Yeah. As far as a strategist goes and like somebody who's going to know where to go and what to do at the right time, he's going to be, he's going to know he's always three steps ahead of you. And audibles. If you need to make changes fast, Omaha, Omaha, Omaha. And as a spokesperson goes, like he's, he's going to get you guys pretty well connected. Papa Murphy's. Right.

Nationwide. Right. Other companies I can't remember. MasterCard. Sure. Cut that meat. Cut that meat. Forgot about that.

Yeah. He'll get you there. ESPN. He'll get you connected to all the outlets. And so maybe you need to have like a nationwide like, hey, we need to get this out to people in the nationwide, uh, sphere of influence. Nationwide is it like national, not the insurance company. Okay. That's very confusing. Sphere of insurance, sphere of influence. Uh, he would, he would be able to connect you with the right people at ESPN to say, Hey, meet at this place. We're, we're running, we're running WASP.

Sure. Sure. Anyway. So who have you got on your team so far? David, Napoleon, Peyton, and me, of course. Can't discount me. Okay. But you've still got a fourth spot ready. Oh, yeah.

Let's see. My third person. Let's see. Real or fake from all time. I would probably take, oh sacagawea just instinctually one of the one of the best is this sacagawea or chicago oh oh yeah how does katherine pronounce it chicago is how she says it yeah that's always been so weird to me i guess you know she's yeah that's how they pronounce it they just didn't learn didn't learn better yeah homeschool sure

what you're gonna do you don't have classmates to learn from sure you ever see her drink out of a water fountain holy cow she also didn't learn that just kidding kath she just puts her mouth completely over the spout yeah she's probably got some corona in her spray with lysol i would take who did i say harry or no i would take sagatria i was thinking about harrietubbin and i switched it okay so uh good for you for diversifying and get a woman on the board. Oh, I didn't even notice. I don't see race. Good for you.

Dang it. I said the wrong thing. I was trying to make a stupid joke and I've made myself even stupider. I was, I don't see gender. What? Um, I don't believe in it.

Yeah. Anyway, I do see race and gender and Chicago is none of mine. Uh, but that doesn't matter. I still want her on my team and I just think if she could find the Pacific Osh

in the 18 hundos like she can ward off some zombies with nothing more than a wet noodle probably sure I've always said that that is yeah this is not I was wondering yeah it was out of context like written on your wall one time but I was like what does that mean but now I understand why you say that.

Yeah. You'll see, baby. All right. For this specific question. Your fourth person. My fourth person is. This is such a fun question. And let me tell you, like I'm kind of going for more strategy than I am, um, brawn and

I already have David. I have David. He's going, he's going to slay any giant. Um, and so now I'm going to go with the man, the myth, the legend E equals MC squared, Albert F. Einstein. Oh, if you need to split an atom. Yes, we're going. I mean, the dude helped invent the atomic bomb.

He's going to be able to invent something that's going to be like, yeah, we're going to invent. He's going to call it the atomic ZOM. Or I was thinking atomic ZOM. Or wait, that's what you said. Yeah. I was thinking atomic ZOM actually. Dang it, now that you said it, I forgot what my pun was. Dang it. He's the ZOM.com. Dang it, now that you said it, I forgot what my pun was. Zom. Dang it.

He's the Zom.com. Dang it. Yours just like replaced mine in my brain. Like, I can't get back what I had. Atomic Zom. That's good. That's good. So we got.

Atomic Zom. So rounding out the team, we got Big Vanilla. We got David, Napoleon, Peyton Manning, Albert Einstein. That's a pretty well-rounded team. It is. Short, though. Very short. Peyton Manning's pretty Einstein. That's a pretty well-rounded team. It is. Short though. Very short. Peyton Manning's pretty tall.

Tall forehead. Yeah, he's probably six foot. How tall is David, you think? So short. How many, what are these, cubits? How many cubits was old Dave? Two and a half, maybe. Maybe two and a half cubes.

Yeah. Okay, so I've got, that's a great team. I think so. I've got Sacagawea, Abraham Lincoln. Who was the first guy? Or no, Dash from the Incredibles. I think so. I've got Sacagawea, Abraham Lincoln. Who is the first guy? Or no, Dash from The Incredibles. I love it. And then the fourth person is going to be Marcus Luttrell,

who I just remembered as a guy. Remember who that is? He's the main guy from The Lone Survivor. Oh, okay. Do you remember in that movie when he gets shot like eight times and is fine? Not fine, but like he keeps going. And then he falls off a cliff. I haven't seen this movie in like six years,

but I remember thinking at the time, like I'm never complaining about a physical injury again. He has gone through it all. Yeah. And I assume most of that was pretty accurate

and pretty true. Like, so I'm saying like he could like take some hits. If you don't mind me, if you don't mind me poking a few holes in this, once you take a hit

from a zombie, you usually turn into a zombie. So he might be alive, but he's going to be alive and dead at the same time. This could definitely turn on us. Yeah. And then you got one of the most intense guys fighting against you as a zombie. He's in close quarters already because he's around you.

Sacagawea gets bit in the neck. I'm like, all right, she's done. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Marcus Latrell gets bit in the neck. I'm probably falsely assuming like, he's fine. No, you sleep in the tent with us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I wake up dead. Yeah. Or, or you're getting bit. I wake up dead. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Atomic's off. Anyway, you could come over to my camp and we could press a button with Albert and kill everybody right away. Man, that's a fun question. I don't know if that was entertaining for you to listen to, but that was fun for me. I feel like we could do that question every week and have great answers every time. You can just say anything. I normally don't enjoy those type of like, where would you go for a zombie? You're like, what would your weapon be? Right when he asked, I was like, I'm terrible at these. But I feel like it was pretty good.

Yeah, but that was fun. Good job, Alex. Whoever you are. Steez. Steez. Hey, Jake and Brad. My name is Makai. I am 10 years old.

I am a lefty. I have a twin sister who is a righty. Oh. My parents have been doing plasma thanks to Jake's suggestions, and they have raised money for a blood diamond. And we have tried GRODE PB&J thanks to... What's his name? Brad. Sorry about that.

Well, anyway, I have two questions for you today. My first is, if you could have an accent, what would it be? And my second one is, if you could switch personalities with someone for one entire day, who would it be with? Well, anyway, love you guys. Have good day bye that was great that was a great voicemail very well-spoken 10 year old yeah i'm not gonna remember his name because he doesn't remember mine but uh jake and that other guy he does he does woodworking it's not interesting to me because i'm not old enough to care jack black no thank you for listening and thank you for the voice memo. Those are both really good questions too, actually. Accent, I'd have to go like Australian or New Zealand.

Really? I guess specifically New Zealand. I think I would choose. I think that's so cool and hot. I'll say it. Guys or girls? It's a hot accent. You think girls?

I don't think girls with that accent are as good. Oh, I love it. But I think guys are super hot with that accent. Yeah. That's a good answer. I am not going to say the same thing as you because that's no fun. I would say Boston. You know, just wicked.

Wicked hot. I think it'd be really fun to talk like that and not be ironic about it. It would be cool. Smart car. Yeah, smart pack. My father was a cop. His father was a cop. Great movie. What was the other one? If father was a cop. His father was a cop. Great movie.

What was the other one? If we could switch personalities. Switch personalities. I've never... Personalities. I like that idea because it's not the... I've never been asked this question. Not the bodies, but just the personalities.

Just the brain. Movie. Or most of the brain. I'm not sure if I want to go... Like one route would be like go Steve Jobs route. Just to feel what it's like to just be a prick for a day, but like a really like innovative visionary type personality. Yeah. Like, I don't know.

It'd just be cool to like think that way and just see how, yeah, someone else lives. Like not really regarding people's feelings or thoughts towards you. Sure. Be kind of freeing. Actually, I don't think that's that good of an answer. I don't think that's my answer. Okay. That's honorable mention.

Person. How? That's a really good one. Cause like, yeah, if it was like switch places with somebody for a day, I'd't think that's that good of an answer. I don't think that's my answer. Okay. That's honorable mention. Personal, that's a really good one. Cause like, yeah, if it was like switch places with somebody for a day, I'd be like LeBron James or some athlete, but I don't know if I want to have LeBron James personality and I'm still Brad. You know, I can't dunk if I have LeBron James personality, especially not for a day. Like maybe if I had his personality for a year, I could be motivated enough to. That would be a breakthrough in science though. If we find out your brain is what controls everything it's like you don't even need to work

out no it's just your brain yeah that would be cool you switch personalities and you could dunk all of a sudden oh man it would explain zion's vertical right he defies gravity i feel like yeah that's kind of krista chitoweth is my answer no i'm just kidding um switch personalities with the day. This is not a great answer either, but I like Jimmy Fallon. I don't know if he's really legit in real life like that, but I think he's a really fun guy on his talk show. And like, he just seems like he's loving life.

And so I would switch personalities with him and I guess see how he sees the world. Yeah, no, I like that. That's a good answer. I think mine would be Bo Burnham. Oh, okay. Always respected the mess out of him. Think he's so smart and so talented and it would be cool to have his brain for a day.

Clint McCann is what his name is on Parks and Rec. Oh, yes. I have seen like an episode or two, I think, where he's in there. And I was like, oh, oh. Yeah, there he is. I know him. That's a great question. Thanks, Malachi, or whatever your name is. Very well spoken for a 10-year-old. Keep it up. Seriously. Keep speaking. Keep talking. Hey, Jake and Brad,

this is Lane McCandless from Branson, Missouri. And I just want to tell you guys how much I enjoy your podcast. But also, Jake was in Branson this past weekend and my fiance bought me show tickets to the end of March with Trey Kennedy and Jake. And I was just so excited, but he had it planned with her, showed up to Applebee's and surprised me and hung out. But probably my favorite part was he was telling the story and I remembered it from the podcast. So I just jumped in and started telling it like verbatim. And then we both realized what was happening and started laughing because I absolutely was not there. I just listened to you guys so much that it was like it was actually happening. But anyway, you guys are great. Keep up the good work.

So you surprised this guy? Yeah, that's cool. I wasn't necessarily going to tell the story, but it's really cool. You were hot. That was why you were high you were at applebee's you didn't mention that of course uh that was yeah on that note i had already eaten lunch and then i went to see them and so the waitress was like you gonna you have anything today and i was like no just here for the atmosphere didn't crack a smile i was like oh okay just a joke so you're not tipping me today okay yeah anyway uh yeah this guy's fiancee um who i don't know either just messaged me on instagram probably a week ago you don't know that at all no love it and which is like hey i'm surprising my fiancee with tickets to your show uh so excited would you want to like make a video kind of like

letting him know and like you know that he's got tickets to like make a video kind of like letting him know? And like, you know, that he's got tickets to your show now or whatever. I was like, oh, cool. Yeah, for sure. But then I looked at her Instagram bio or something like clued me into like, that they live in Branson. I was like, whoa, I'm going there this weekend. What if we just did some like surprise in person? And so, yeah, I was just like texting her back and forth and we just coordinated something. So I just like showed up at Applebee's one day and yeah, it was pretty cool. He's just like, what are you doing here? I was like, oh, I didn't really plan what I was going to say. What am I doing here? Why am I here? Came for the bottomless

wings? I don't know. I was just like, no, I'm here to, I'm here because you got tickets to my show in St. Louis. I'm here because your wife paid me $200 to be here. It's my appearance fee. I thought you knew. Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah it sounds really cool thanks for the voice of elaine and yeah it was fun to kind of yeah talk about the podcast and did he say which uh show they're going to st louis okay i have fun with that hey jake and brad this is cassie from st louis i'm a retired washed up college softball player where i played first base crazy not only that I work for a baseball and softball company currently, so I feel like that's worth double the voice memo bonus points.

My question for Brad is, what do you have against St. Louis? That's so perfect. Just wondering, and would also wonder how I can help reconcile that relationship. And then for Jake, you're actually coming to St. Louis on your tour. My roommates and I have tickets. We're super excited to see you and Trey. My friend Lane. My question is, what city are you most excited to visit?

And my pitch for St. Louis is we actually have the country's largest laser tag arena and plenty of Chick-fil-A's. So if y'all want to hit up some laser tag, just let us know. We'd love to do that. Love your podcast, guys. Listen every week. Thanks for everything you do. And the real question though is who's on first. Oh,

nice. That could not have been more perfect. Yeah. Like that came right after lanes. Oh man. That is so funny. I don't want to get into it too much because one time we had a discussion about Missouri versus Kansas and I'll let you say whatever you want.

It just, no, it's fine. Okay. So first of all, let me just say that it's, it's dramatic. I don't, I don't truly think that it's, it's so impossible to generalize any place at all. Like, right. Like you can pretend to, but there's so many nice people and there's so many mean people wherever you go. That's just the world. Yeah. I have an idea of what people in Boston are kind of like, but not really, but there's very nice people in Boston. I'm sure there's very nice. There's very mean people in

Boston in Kuwait. Sure. Um, so let me just preface it by saying it's more dramatic than anything. I just like hating on St. Louis. Uh, obviously I'm not from Missouri. Thank the Lord. Um, but I think, so I grew up a KU Kansas fan and Kansas and Mizzou have a huge rivalry. And I do not love, uh, from what I know, the people that go to Mizzou all the time. I, I, they, a lot of the personalities there are not my favorite. And the older I got, the more I realized, Oh, most of the people I don't like from Mizzou are not from the Kansas City side of the state. They're from the St. Louis side of the state. So then I learned more about St. Louis. I learned that they like soccer more than they like football and basketball and baseball, which maybe that's not true. I don't know. They boast that they have really good

barbecue there, which just irks me. I'll say it, because Kansas City is the barbecue place. St. Louis then says, well, we might not have as good a barbecue as you, but we have this toasted ravioli. Oh, awesome. Congrats on your toasted ravioli. I do love toasted ravioli. That's good.

I would take a rack of ribs over toasted ravioli, 10 out of 10, or whatever the poultry equivalent to that is. I i was gonna say pre-june of 2019 i would have said yes right give me some yeah give me some burnt ends over toast over t-rav any day of the week yeah um st louis didn't support their football team well enough to keep them in the town they claim that they're the best fans in baseball from the cardinals um but it's kind of like this ironic thing because everyone outside of St. Louis kind of gives them a hard time for that. One of my friends recently went to a St. Louis

Cardinals game. He's from Memphis, went to the game and had one of those big, this is a funny story. He had one of those big helmets of nachos, you know, like you can buy it, which is hilarious. Yeah. Cause those things are like $20. And I don't know exactly the extent of it or how it happened, but it sounds like he accidentally spilled his nachos onto the guy in front of him who was wearing like a nice Cardinals jersey. The guy was very uncool about it. Like, which of course, yeah, you're frustrated that this guy did this, but like reamed him for the entire game.

My friend offered like, I will help. I will pay for your dry cleaning. I'll give you money for this. The guy's like, no, you have to buy me an entirely new jersey. I don't think my friend bought him a jersey. I think he just gave him $30 or whatever to get it dry cleaned. But anyway, it was just like one of those things. It was like, that's what I'm talking about.

But in reality, St. Louis has some great things. City Museum is like one of the things i was like that's what i'm talking about uh but in reality st louis has some great things city museum is like one of the coolest places i think st louis like i would rather live in kansas city but like for 24 hours st louis can be really fun yeah you go to carl's game you see the arch you see the city museum anheuser-busch is pretty cool you go to the laser the biggest laser tag yeah which i didn't know that they called um the biggest uh crime ring uh tag, but apparently that's the thing because St. Louis is very high in crime. Homicide must mean something else. Yeah. We're trying to rebrand it.

Let's go play laser tag. No, I'm just kidding. All love. I like teasing around. I obviously think Kansas is great because I live here and I'm proud of where I'm from, but it's, it's silly to think that you can generalize anything truly. So thanks for the question.

That was, that really was funny. Like me joking around about, Oh, have fun at St. Louis. Have fun at, yeah,

whatever. Old spaghetti factory. Same as bread. Co. Yeah. That's the other thing. Call it Panera. Everyone else calls it Panera except for you guys.

Oh man. That's too good. Okay. Uh, thank you the other thing. Call it Panera. Everyone else calls it Panera except for you guys. Oh, yeah, that's too good. Okay. Thank you, Cassie. Hi, Ghost Runners. My name is Isaiah. I live in Norfolk, Virginia, not pronounced Norfolk or Norfolk. I love listening with my mom. It makes me laugh.

And here is my question. Which dirty job would you rather do? Plumber or exterminator? Bye. Isaiah. I love that. I think, judging by the name on the voicemail,

that was Malachi's brother. Both biblical names. Yeah. Good for them. Makes sense. They probably would pick David on their team. I would think. Plumber or exterminator, Jake? Moses would be nice to have too, though. Things he could do with that staff.

Sorry, I'm thinking about like the zombie thing again. Okay, yeah. Just like, you know, turning it into a snake. Part of the Dead Sea. Yeah. Which is all the zombies. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

Sorry, what'd you say though i said plumber or exterminator is his question i think both jobs you would get use to the negatives of the job yeah i'm trying to think which one uh they would both not be good no they're dirty that's what he said dirty job does anything immediately come to mind for you i'm still deciding i uh cleaned out a clog in my bathroom drain, bathroom sink drain the other day. And it was gross, but at the end of it, it felt like you were accomplished. And I felt like I did all right at it. And so that's my answer is I'd rather be a plumber exterminator. I think of like the really nasty ones, like a possum or a raccoon. I would, I would get scared.

I get, you know, I get skittish with deer. I get, I get very skittish if I was in a crawl space and there was a family of raccoons in the corner. I, I don't want to be anywhere near that. Raccoons are scary. I think I've said this before, but I had one hiss at me one time and it was such a weird sound. Yes. Freaked me out. Yes. Whereas like plumber, like surely they make something that if it smells bad, you could put some kind of really good covering mask over your nose. Maybe some anti-corona Lysol wipes. Yes, exactly. Yeah. You'd be fine. Yeah. I think there's definitely, you know, you're not, if you're a plumber, you're only going there if like something is definitely

wrong. I think there could be upsides to exterminator because some of it could just be like proactive. Like I'm just going to spray your house so you don't get bugs. That would be, those would be the good days. However, yeah, yeah if you're gonna get a crawl space and there's an infestation yeah that would be a bad day yeah and that's what i'm trying to think maybe there's maybe i'm not thinking of the extreme things with plumbing because yeah like the same with the spraying on the outside was probably like the equivalent to me cleaning out this sink drain that just had old corroded rubber in there or something like corroded virus coronavirus oh yeah um so what is like the nasty i mean without getting too graphic i guess like

if your toilet backs up or something and the plumber has to come and do something on that or like like it's got to be with the sewage right like sewage is is your worst day definitely i don't know i'd probably pick yeah plumber i do too i think you'd get used to it quicker and you not have to deal with yeah fear yeah yeah like even even if you're not scared of that raccoon you have to understand that it could get you rabies yeah like worst worst thing that you get on your as a plumber is just some really nasty fecal matter like uh so speaking of being scared of animals i this is kind of weird to admit i bet i've spent eight minutes today just looking out my front yard we have so many squirrels oh i noticed one when i came in at one point no

joke i saw 11 squirrels this is just out my window so it's not like a full 100 at the same time at one time i could see 11 that's too many squirrels it's so many squirrels it was like a disney movie was being filmed they're like all talking to each other it'd be like sprig time it's pretty sprung it seemed like they were on a set they're twitterpated yeah for something and but it was kind of fun to watch like i've just never seen this many squirrels before they're all friends they're all making noise together it's just fun to go up the tree going down the tree around the trees it's fun i went to go get panda express uh came came back. Oh, another thing about Panda Express. I told that little joke on my story today or whatever.

Oh, yeah. That's good. And went to the window. He said, hey, man, do you ever go to comedy clubs? Oh. I was so taken aback. See you there. Casey Improv.

I said, I've been kind of waiting for him to maybe say more like, oh, were you there and saw me? Or like, you know who I am? And he's like, cool, man. You're funny. You're a funny guy. And I just drove away. So I guess he just, he sees a lot of me. Okay. But came back from Panda Express and there's squirrels all in the bushes right next to my front door. And I was scared. Yeah.

Cause I was like, what if they come after me? It just takes one. It just takes one to go rogue. And knowing that there's 11 that are friends. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One up the pants, one down the shirt. Mob mentality. Yeah. One in my mouth. Oh, a squirrel in. Yeah. Yeah one up the pants one down the shirt Bob mentality. Yeah one in my mouth Oh a squirrel the mouth it could be like parent trap where the lizard goes in Cruella de Vil's mouth, okay? Real quick question if a squirrels in your mouth, do you bite it to kill it? No, what do you do? Get that out of there I grab it by the tail as i'm and i yank it out and then use as a weapon yeah yeah i kind of teach them a lesson like you see this you see your friend and i start hitting them with their friend yeah stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself yeah i'm not doing this

yes yeah that's what i do if squirrels ganged up on me which when you leave you're gonna notice there's a lot of squirrels on my break for it yeah yeah i saw some squirrels yesterday on my walk doing well i don't know if this is kind of inappropriate to even say maybe i'll edit it out they're the hanky panky they were doing yeah they're doing the hanky panky yeah but i didn't know that at first at first i just heard them like noises i was one in the world yeah and then i see there are three squirrels engaging in something well a hanky-panky triad i could a squirrel g i could only see three tails but they're like but so yeah it was crazy i'm on this walk by myself like this is a really weird thing to observe in the animal

kingdom wow in overland park. Right. Who do? So I've just been looking at squirrels a lot, I guess. I didn't plan on saying any of that stuff. It's that time of year. Love is in the air. And nested something. Yeah, that's right. Thanks for the call. Voice memo Isaiah.

Oh, geez. We got all the way there from Isaiah's question. Hey, Jack. Hey, Tom. This is Kevin from Tennessee. Hopefully you all haven't recorded this next week's podcast yet, or else this voice memo won't make much sense. I never played any competitive sports in high school, but there was this one time during a church co-ed softball practice that I played

first base because the girl who usually started couldn't make it. So yeah, that qualifies me. First quick question. What is your perfect breakfast? And then second, just a quick suggestion. Think that you guys should start a Ghostrunners March Madness bracket pool. Let the ghosters sign up and winner gets to interview you guys over the phone ask any five questions they want to and it gets featured on a future podcast yep that's it thanks bye that's great that's a great idea

I'm glad he played first base or else we would have never heard that yeah I think the ghost runners March Madness thing is a great idea we'll have to have a good name for it we'll think about it yeah we'll figure it out but yeah that's a great idea and yeah some sort of like the winner gets to be on the episode or something like that i love it that would be cool what he asked before that uh no we can remember we got this did he ask something before he definitely did wow how can we not remember we're so dumb no we're not we're not

i feel dumb don't okay i'll try to remember let me think he said oh your favorite breakfast i got it not dumb not freaking dumb your favorite breakfast breakfast has kind of been ruined for me there were so many red meat options that i loved sausage bacon that's mainly it but those would have definitely been in my perfect breakfast dude we had breakfast or dinner last night had he hadie had, I'm not exaggerating. I think she had three pieces of bacon by herself, which is a lot. Full strips? Yes.

Whoa. She kept saying, can I have more bacon? And I'm like, I want more bacon. But I was like, yes, you can. Yes, you may. Okay, so do you have any, let's say, let's live in a great world where you can have red meat. Oh, okay.

I'm gonna do some French toast. We're gonna throw some strawberries on there some maple syrup red meat galore and oh okay i'm gonna take advantage of this french toast easy that's the main course french toast strobs maple syrup and then several strips of bacon i prefer it to be uh less crispy more flappy what would you call it less crispy, more flappy. What would you call it? Flappy. Flappy bacon. Yeah, you like some flap to your pig.

Yes. Kind of flappy bacon and sausage patties. Or links, actually. I don't care. Just good sausage. You don't care, though? No. What are the others?

Surprise me. That's pretty good. And then orange juice. Oh, like good orange juice. Good orange juice. I saw someone, who did I see? It doesn't really matter. Someone who I hadn't seen since a guy's bachelor party a long time ago.

He goes, I still remember when we were at Matt's bachelor party one morning, we were at Topgolf and you're like, oh, this is cool. Everyone's getting orange juice. I'll take an orange juice too. And then we had to tell you we were all having mimosas. I was like, oh man. So you have orange juice and everyone else had mimosas? Yeah. I don't even remember this at all. Now I don't know who even told me that story. This happened like three days ago. That's great.

But I was like, that's funny that you remember that. I don't. Okay. What's your favorite? Perfect. Breakfast. Yeah. I'm going to say two and one. It's going to be half and half. It's going to be, and it's specifically from this one place in New York, two places actually. Cafe Lalo has the best Belgian waffles in the world with strawberries and whipped cream and syrup. Okay. And then on the other half of that same, it's going to be the same waffle we'll say, but there's a place in New York called Jacob's Pickles that has the best home style chicken and waffles in the world. Okay. And it is so good. Look at you getting some poultry in your favorite breakfast. Yes. Right.

It's so good. We should switch bloodstreams. Maybe so you'd have your links or your patties and I'll have my chicken. Yeah. Yeah. So that's my perfect. I'll keep it simple. Say that. That's awesome. That's a good answer. It's good that you know too. Yeah. Yeah. If I, if I can go perfect world, I'm going to go with things that I can't get everywhere. So, and I think, you know, you're, let's be honest, you're somewhat like it's outside the realm of possibilities that you do end up in some sort of like tax evasion, like death row, your final meal. Yeah. What's your, I know what I want. Give me to New York city. You either pay your $500 worth of sales tax, or you could just give me Jacob's pickles.

Give me Jacob's pickles. I'm in this place is is good cafe lalo is where they met for the first time and you've got mail it's like the where they met up meg ryan and tom hanks in the movie i love that and um the other guys were talking about how they met and you know he has like um poison ivy like in his butt you know just kind of your classic you know you know or whatever. And they're like, didn't that how they met? And you've got mail like, no, no, that's how they met. That's how it was in the movie. That's funny. All right. Two more. Wow. Hey, Jake and Brad love the podcast. So funny. I'm a sad San Diego Chargers fan. So congrats on the chiefs. I don't know what that would feel like. Brad, your woodwork is dope. Keep teaching Hattie to throw that rock. There's nothing better than being able to play and talk sports with the best of them when you grow up. That's how my dad raised

me, and I'm sure you'll do the same. Jake, you seem like a really special guy. I know you're going to find an equally special girl who deserves you. My question comes from my homeschool background. No, I didn't live in a bunker yes i'm socialized yes i loved it but we did invent this question if you're ever at a homeschool gathering you will be asked if you could have any superpower what would you choose and why bonus question what would your superhero name be love the podcast god bless guys, guys. Love it. That was really encouraging. Yeah, it was. I really enjoyed that. That was very sweet. You will find somebody that's equally as great as you.

Thanks, Brad. You're equally yoked. Thanks. And I'm not just talking about breakfast food. Yeah, because I don't like eggs. In fact, if she's into yolk, then we are unequally yoked. I'll tell you that. No. If you like eggs out there and are really attractive and fun and smart, it could still work.

It's not a deal breaker. We'll make it work. You need to have hair, though. You need to have hair. Yeah. Not willing to budge on that. Okay. She asked us the superpower question, right?

Yeah. I was hoping you would forget again. Crap. I think flying. Flying is just so hard to beat for me personally. So hard to top. Pun. You know, you just fly above everything. Okay. I would agree with that, but I'm going to say something else. And the answer is reading people's mind. I think that'd be very good.

No, you would not like that. Oh, because people would say mean things about you? Yeah. Oh, I don't think you'd like that. Okay. Well, I wanted to say flying, but it's not fun if people say the same thing. You ever see What Women Want? No, but it sounds like it would be a fun movie. Mel Gibson, he can read women's minds, but it's not realistic at all. So just know that that movie looks cool, but you don't want that power.

So, yeah, I'm assuming that did not go well for Bill. I saw it when I was probably 11. Okay. So I don't remember that much. Okay. But you were like, at the time, you were like, this isn't how it works. Even back then, I was like, no, everyone says a lot of negative things in their mind. Huh.

Okay. Then if I can't fly, if, okay, I take it back. I take it back. And I'll say that I would like to be able to teleport anywhere I would in the snap of a finger. That is pretty cool. Which is similar to flying. That's a good answer though. Yeah. You don't have the sensation of flying but it goes so much faster

like i could literally be like like i'd be like hey can you head home for dinner it's time to be here boom yeah babe what's up we have breakfast dinner how do you have three strips of bacon what's going on i'll tell you the closest thing to teleporting sleep your entire flight to australia and just wake up and it's it's the day it's the it's the next day right but is it the next day or is it the same day you you jump ahead a day going across the international date line so about the way back then you go back in time teleport yeah i had two march 24th wow or march 12th or something like that uh i think my actually i changed my answer superpower would be choosing, um, the right

size lid on the first try when I'm at a restaurant. Oh, oh yeah. I just can't get it. No, I choose large when it's medium or medium when it's large. I feel that way about Tupperware when I'm trying to put away leftovers at the end of a meal. It's like so many of these things and I never get it right on the first try. So that's good. Yeah. So my name would be, if I could have both. Yeah. You just call me fly lid. Fly lid. Yeah. That sounds dope. Eyelids? Like no. No, no, no. That sounds stupid. No. Fly lid. Yeah. Fly lid. Fly lid. Kind of say it with like a. But my suit would kind of look like eyelids a little bit. Oh, snap. Yeah. I'd have a cape, but like thin material like like horse's hair like as a cape like eyelids okay i heard they make violin strings out of horse's hair do you think that's true yeah

it's true okay cool it glue out of the hair out of something that yeah you kill it you kill it something with the horse no you kill it uh and it goes to the glue factory that's like a thing oh so you could have like a glue farm like where, where's the glue? It's in those horses. You see that thing underneath you that you're riding on? You see Buster over there? That's eight gallons of Elmer's. Three to four years? Yeah.

Well, yeah, we'll have Titebond 2 waiting for you. Glue comes from horses. Look it up. I'm pretty sure. No, I believe you. I'm just trying to... Because Catherine had horses growing up. And next time I look at a horse, I'm going to try to figure out which part of it is gluey.

I think it's the mane it doesn't stick on there by anything else how else would it stay on it's got to be sticky what would your name be give me one I'm the teleporting daddy porta daddy

porta daddy kind of like boot daddy great thing from Andy's porta potty but yeah port of daddy port of potty or i could just be a i could just be very popular in podcasts and they call me port of potter that's true either way hey jake and brad it's your boy knack baxter first time caller but an og ghosty through and through you know being one of the few male callers on this show i was a little hesitant to call especially after what happened to poor young brayden may his soul find eternal rest i played first base in

little league for years um i think first base played a real role in my personal growth after i got nailed in the throat with a line drive you know in that moment i couldn't breathe but you better believe i picked up that ball and tagged him out. Anyways, I got two quick things for y'all. One, where is the Ghostrunner merch? You guys could design 10 hit t-shirts on the spot with the amount of quotes y'all churn out on this podcast. And with your cult following, you'd make a fortune. So would love to see some of that soon.

Also, Jake coming out to your Louisville show this Wednesday with the wife. Super excited. I think you guys are going to do awesome and love to show you around the town afterwards if you'd be down for it, man. All right. Take it easy. Y'all keep doing what you're doing. Love the podcast. That's great. Wow. That's awesome. Knack Baxter. He is an OG for sure. Yeah. And even though I don't know him, he was one of the guys that when I went live on Instagram while watching The Bachelor, he was one of the guys that called in. So I kind of know him. And I remember thinking in my head,

like filing away, Knack Baxter, cool guy. Cool guy. That's what I have him filed under. Knack Baxter does not give up on a play, even if the ball hits him in the throat. That's intense. And he'll go and do like a, you know, a tag when it's just a force out at first.

Well, maybe it hit his throat and it went like halfway down the base pass. So he had to run and kind of waddle to it. Whoa. That was my waddle to it. Whoa. That was my waddle noise. That was a good ring knock. Ring pop. What was this question? You asked about the Ghost Rider merch,

but did you ask anything else? I think that was it. Okay. First of all, I've learned through selling my t-shirts that you don't make any money on t-shirts unless you sell them for a lot, which I feel like I sold them for not cheap and by the time granted i use like nicer t-shirts that like i could have used that's the thing do you want to sell someone a gildan shirt probably not you

want to be proud of it right like i think mine are really comfortable uh but by the time i bought them and paid taxes and paid shipping and everything sales tax not yet well cops coming for it uh but yeah it i don't think i made very much money at all so where's where's the merch maybe we'll get it we'll see how it works but uh yeah i'm up for that if you are jake yeah i think so i think hopefully stuff with like the whole tour and everything will allow me anyway to just do like less my goal would be to do less video editing less videos for other people oh nice yeah i didn't realize that i always want to really do less on this tour like god blessed me with a talent and i should use it uh i'm hoping career-wise i get to a point where i can do less freelance gosh i'm gonna keep saying it i get to a point where I can do less freelance. Gosh, I'm going to keep saying it.

I want to do less. I'm going to decrease my freelance. Okay, decrease freelance stuff and really only focus on either trade stuff or podcast stuff. And in turn, we'd be able to think about this more than just Friday afternoons. Sure. And be able to do stuff other days of the week. Yeah, we're not big enough yet to really legitimize any kind of thing like that. Like you're right. We have enough of a following to make money off shirts, but like

if you guys keep telling people, keep writing five-star reviews, then I think we could get there. Honestly. Like, I think it's been amazing to see how we've grown. And I don't feel like it's like this exponential growth by any means. It's not like it's like viral growth. It's just like, which is kind of my, like my favorite way to grow anything right almost don't want to grow because people are instantly yeah so it's just a matter of just continuing that like word of mouth kind of stuff but we're not there yet we hope to be there someday but yeah it's one of those things like we could hire someone but then we end up breaking even probably everything that we hired that person to do like right we hired someone to make us more money. All right. We're back to where we were.

Yeah. Whatever. Maybe someone was a little more generous with their ad reads. Maddie. Just kidding. Yeah. That's a, that's a good thought.

I'm sure it'll be out soon. If anyone wants to be our merchandise manager, let us know. Yes. Merch band. Is that all the voice moves? It is. Awesome.

Well, you guys, we have to record another episode in three days. So, well, basically the day you're listening to this, if it's Monday, leave us a voice memo because that's the day we're probably gonna record our next one because I leave for two on Tuesday. So two for Tuesday, get your, get your voice memos in while they're hot, while they're ready this week. Yep. Yep. Yep. Before we in this episode though, let's get to review of the week. Mine is titled babe of the week from Kyle Turner.

He said, just wanted to give a shout out to my babe of the week, Amber Turner. Turns out she's my wife for our three year wedding anniversary. She got me tickets to see Jake and Trey in Birmingham, Alabama on April 11th. Anyway, we can get Brad to open up with Jake in Birmingham. Great. Listen, can't wait for the show. Yeah, so we've been talking to Trey about it and he's honestly just a little insecure about me coming on because he's like,

I don't want people to take away my fans. And I'm like, I get it, Trey. I am equally, if not better looking than you. I can sing better, obviously. No. That'll be fun. Someday, maybe. But not right now. Speaking of Trey singing, new music video.

Oh, look at you, dude. Did you watch it yeah it was good thanks man it was very good by far the most effort i've ever put into a music video and trey too because it's like actually a legit song not a parody it was well recorded sounds nice stream it on spotify there you go or wherever you listen to music sure yeah i love when people say that stream it on we're on spotify podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts like if it's not those two you can probably figure out where to listen to it like windows media player soundcloud limewire frostwire hit it up frostwire ever heard that oh yeah uh that's sweet kylo kylo turner kylo Mine, of course, has to be from Gabrielle, Isaac Samara, who says, Came for Jake, stayed for Brad. What? I can't see this one.

Really? Why don't I have this one? It's a new one today. It says, Love Jake from Trey's podcast, but I got to know Brad from this show, and I'm glad I found this podcast. No way. I like Brad's positivity and already like Jake, but you guys are great to listen to for sure. Keep up the good work.

God bless and have a great podcasting experience. So that was sweet. I hope we do have a great podcasting experience. I'd say so far we are having one. It's yeah. It's always fun to hear people, people say that nice things about you. So thank you, Gabriel, Gabrielle, whatever your name is. Yeah. Whoever you are. Thank you out there. Yeah g buddy yeah so cool well we could probably talk longer but like i said we have to record again in like two or three days so we're gonna save it for that and what was i gonna say i can't remember whatever leave this voice memo i'll see you guys on tour knack baxter little little uh yeah i can't wait to you know it's too bad our next episode will come out after or you know yeah yeah, after I've been on tour,

but unfortunately won't have any, you know, recaps from the tour yet. But two Mondays from now, I'll tell you guys how Louisville joke went. And I'll probably tell you about something else that went terrible or went well. I'll have some good stories. Can I just try to use the power of the podcast real fast and say, if you are going to the show in Louisville, like Knack Baxter, see if you can record a little Louisville joke. Send it to us. Yeah.

It'll be like at the very beginning, probably. Oh, man. Something like that makes me nervous. Right? Just thinking about it. Oh, geez. That makes me anxious. You're going to do great.

Oh, man. So many people, dude. Oh, it's good, though. This is fun. Dude, I needed this i i just needed this for me something fun this week maybe yeah yeah yeah come on you guys are awesome it's so cool that you listen to the podcast so thank you for doing it thanks if you're telling your friends even if you're not thanks anyway for listening follow us on instagram you can see videos of us you can see

quotes yeah brad anything you want to end with? Maybe a jingle? Maybe a little janky junk. Maybe a little Django Unchained soundtrack. Monday, we record every Monday. We're the ghost runners here to say that Jake and Brad will be here for tomorrow and record Monday again because we're leaving on Tuesday.

Woo! Yeah. Even with a congest. You knocked it. You can never tell. You can never tell. Blue game. Probably still be congested on Monday.

I want to hear an athlete who has a corona game. That's going to be the next thing. Oh, remember LeBron's corona game? He went off for 44. I hope that's, I hope that's a joke. I hope that never actually happens. Like that'd be so sad if somebody had coronavirus and died. I think it's, Oh, well not, no, not died. Just like had the coronavirus and still play. Just still play. Like, ah, I'm fine. Yeah. He just played through it. Shrug it off. Yeah. He's got a good immune system. He eats tacos on tuesdays he switched personalities with me for a day he's feeling optimistic yeah okay well we see you guys next

monday for episode 45 yeah baby peace Here we go.