Ghostrunners - 51- If You Know, You Know

Episode Date: April 27, 2020

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Jake, what do you think about dolphins? Oh, the humans of the sea. So what? Was that a parrot? That was my dolphin. No, that was my dolphin. I'm not good at it. That's okay.

They're so smart. In Kauai, I saw spinner dolphins. What type of motion do you think they make when they come out of the water? Spinners. They fidget. Yep. Yeah. That is exactly what-

Fidget, fidget. Is that what they do? You nailed it welcome back to episode 51 of the ghost runners podcast uh ichiro suzuki oh yeah his episode 17 times three really um i'm pretty sure what else is 50 oh randy johnson really yeah two mariner legends yeah wow uh what do you think of what you think of randy johnson i think of actually him with the diamondbacks in that time when they beat the yankees remember that i think of like a guy who is a janitor, you're high school now, but you have no idea the kind of athlete he used to be like, cause he has a mullet now. So you just don't expect him to be that good at anything. But it's like, oh man, you should have seen RJ

back in the day. He could have passed as a janitor from day one. I think that's why he has that stereotype in my brain. Definitely janitor at some point. I don't know what he looks like now, but surely old RJ has not aged well. He just, anyone 6'10 or above. Yeah. I feel like kind of grows out of their body. Like it was hard enough for them to grow into their body in seventh grade. Right. And then now like post career.

Yeah. Whatever it is, like you grow out of it weird. Like he wakes up every single morning and does a little groan when he gets out of bed like oh my god fidget fidget something like that yeah something like that oh man how do you think ichiro's doing dude he's got to be perfect the dude is the best i don't know i'm sure i'm sure he's in great shape i'm sure he could still probably hit you know 300 in today's MLB. Yeah. I saw him.

I remember his rookie, quote-unquote, rookie season. Rookie year when he was 29. Yeah. And he was so good, dude. It was 2001, I think. Him and Pools were both just incredible rookies, if I remember correctly. Yeah, it was such a big deal. Both rookies, 1AL, 1NL, are so good.

Yeah, man. And that's why we're the ghost runners because it's a baseball podcast this has been baseball talk with the ghost runners baseball talk how we doing how we doing how we doing uh pretty good it's a short week for us we only recorded about four or five days ago so not much has transpired but you know there's different there's different forms of j. There's video editor Jake. There's comedian Jake. Last few days, business Jake has been in session. Really?

Yeah. I like it. Some stuff that we've talked about that we're not ready to share with you guys quite yet, but just like fun behind the scenes. Teasers. Type podcast stuff. Just trying to grow the biz. Yeah.

So fun stuff like that to work on um so for trey and i is always moving and shaking um so yeah i've been good for the most part i uh editing a music video right now that'll be out by the time this comes out um i have a question about business jake yes or just a statement and then leading into a question sometimes i almost enjoy the planning more than i do the execution of stuff like this. Like, like I really enjoy talking to you about podcasts, thoughts, and it is fun to talk about it. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Like, it's obviously really fun to actually do it as well, but sometimes it's just like, man, this is just fun to like be in this mindset of like, let's be strategic here. How can we do this differently? Yeah. The potential energy is so exciting. Right. I think it's fun up until,

and then when you launch whatever it is, it's still fun. A little bit of kinetic energy to keep the scientists still listening. And then shortly after that, it kind of loses its luster. Now it's just a thing that you do. It's not warm anymore.

It's not thermal. Yeah. Once you're like, when you're still in the brainstorming slash like, yeah, idealizing stage, it's so fun. Yeah. Because anything's possible.

And then it's really fun if you execute it and it goes well. Yeah. It's like, oh, people are into this. It's like, great. But not so much if they're not. Yeah. Which that's never happened to us. No.

People are going to buy my ice cream out of a truck. They will. Yeah. I hear that you've looked into that a little bit, more or less. A little bit more. I actually talked to my dad more about it last night. And he hey here's a business idea for you okay drive-in movie theater you would be the what oh you would be a circus master sorry and i would lure them in from miles around you the business

idea is just you running a drive-in movie theater yes so i thought it was like a revolutionary like you drive in this truck and you like have like a projector for them or something and i was like okay i could see this happening i guess not business idea but like business to start okay because it's not a new idea yeah yeah like it's the perfect time right to have a drive-in movie theater it's like any other kind of out of home entertainment is closed yeah but you stay in your cars my parents just went to a drive-in concert the other day crap they went to a barbecue restaurant what's up kansas city and while they were there it was like wednesdays and sundays it's like this you know live concert you said go and roll your windows down well you can also like

tune it in on your transmit okay that's that's what I was going to do too. A little FM transmitter. Yeah, and my dad, it's like the funniest thing. My dad thinks it's revolutionary amazing. He's told me like four different times. And I'm like, Dad, I know that there's not that much going on in our lives right now, but I've heard about the concert live that you could go to. And then the other day he butt dialed me.

It left me like a four and a half minute voicemail. And I hear him talking to one of his friends. Yeah. You know, and you can go there and you just roll down your windows or you can turn on your FM radio and they'll deliver you food and have live music. It's just so great. Like he just gets on kicks. I think Isaac's kind of the same way. Like Isaac will get on those little kicks of like, he'll tell you the same thing like three times. I'm like, dude dude we just talked about this like in decent decent detail you know so anyway nothing but love for those guys though the next time i see your dad which who knows when in the world that'll be but i'm gonna bring up i'm gonna try to like bait him into it oh totally we should uh brad we should do our

podcast sometime where like people in like a nearby like geographic region could tune in like is there like a way to like like cars nearby could listen to us well you know i went to a barbecue restaurant the other day georgia and i we loved it got some great ribs my dad i don't know if i'm talking about this on the podcast yet but my dad is i don't know if it's like an age thing or if it's just his stage of life which i guess is the same thing but um he is like so uh he like gives everything the most extreme accolades these days like man those are the best ribs those are the best ribs i've had in a long time that's what he always says those are the best best you know best blank i've had in a long time he goes a long time a long time he always

repeats long time like man those are the best ribs i've had in a long time a long time and it's just so funny how he does it like oh that that music that they had you know playing with that live ribs oh that was the best music i've heard in a long time a long time it's so funny like everything's the best burger everything's the best whatever you know which i i kind of love about him like he's always finding the positives better than that than the like other way of it i've totally i remember it used to be better i remember when things weren't like this which is almost the more stereotypical thing for old people like this is not this is not as good as it used to be he is anti-cremudging like most people do not do right he's pro-mudging that's right yeah yeah vote yes on pro-mudging on your upcoming ballots you guys guys. Let's pro-mudge. Oh, yeah.

Scoop up the sludge and pro-mudge. Get him out of here. No incumbents. Brad, how are you? I'm great, man. People are going to think that you cut that audio right there. Because it happened so fast. Because it was so quick, but you did not. No, that was live.

Stop the sludge. Brad, how are you doing, man? Then I told him, those are chrysanthemums. Brad, how's it going? So a little preheat, reheat. I'm him, those are chrysanthemums, Brad. How's it going? So a little preheat, reheat. I'm great, man. I should always review my week before I come in here because I never remember what's going on. I'm bad at it too.

I'm like, I know what the last few hours was like. I've done things. Yeah. I've done things this week. I feel very tired right now because I think I've done a lot. I don't know what's going on. I've been working on this table, this order that I have. And so that's been the latest thing. But besides that, from the anniversary husband who forgot about it to last minute. Yes. Needed it Tuesday,

needed the chair placeholder. Yes. Which we can get it more into that table later. We will. We will. Yeah. Everything's going well, man. Still, still no baby, which we're grateful for and excited. I've seen a few different videos of people with their young kids, and I'm getting pumped, dude. Like I was kind of not dreading it, but it's not exciting. Like the newborn stage is kind of obviously a lot of work, and you don't get much sleep. But I saw some videos of like, for example, Kirstie Swick.

We talk about her five times in an episode probably, but she has a girl around hattie's age and then another little girl cute kids oh yeah and it's like i can't wait for hattie to have a little little brother i want to bathe him in the sink yeah exactly yeah exactly i want to have a home home bath did you see big baby trending on twitter yesterday hey big baby no i didn't what's oh speaking of new davis big big baby? No, like an enormous baby. Oh boy. Look it up right now. Look up big baby. I, it doesn't look real. I'll say that anyone out there listening, go ahead and Google right now, big baby, or look for it on Twitter and you're going to have the same. You'll be able to react in real time with Brad. Big baby.

No. What? Is it the image of him like in a diaper sitting on his, like straddling his dad? Yeah. Oh, wait. No, something just popped up. Freaking. Once you turn your ad blocker off.

Yeah. I'm just going to go to images. No way. How old is this kid? I don't know. It's so freaky looking. How old is this kid? I don't know. It's so freaky looking. Like that looks like me in fourth grade. Yes.

Oh my gosh. It's freaking the whole internet out. No one knows what to think about it. What? No. How? He's so tall. He could beat me up.

Like he could easily pass as a kindergartner. I'm nervous to say something about him because he'll find a way to come in my home. You took my last chocolate milk. I'm coming for you, boy. No way. Yeah, that's creepy, dude. It's weird. And like, obviously you can't see the whole picture of the dad, but the dad looks decently normal sized.

So how big is this mama? Mama's behind the camera. Right. We could have a Shrek after sunset situation going on. I don't know. Also weird in that video, which I don't know how normal this is.

I have not raised or given birth to that many kids. Okay. But I guess there's just big baby loaded up with baby powder in the diaper.

So he's bouncing on his dad and there's just like baby powder squirting out of him, which I think is kind of a weird thing to see. Wait, wait, wait. Here it is. Yeah, he's getting after it.

What is happening? No. This is what TikTok is doing to America, man. It's making big old babies. Oh, Catherine, don't google it you're gonna get you're gonna get so scared of having a baby you have nightmares yeah i got that coming out of you oh man she wants the pitocin after seeing that you know oh i know what that you don't get that joke but moms will oh oh boy crush it with the moms oh yeah that's poor guy

i hope he whatever he's gonna be like that that's randy johnson someday could be that's a future rj if he's left-handed my gosh that has to be like someone like the rock or someone like you look at the rock and you're like how were you ever small and it's like maybe he wasn't maybe he was a big baby too but was he six feet tall like this baby this baby's a good three and a half feet right now i think yeah and still in dypes yes dude not even powder in them anti-chafe types i've seen some large uh fetuses and babes in my life yes nothing like this when you say large babes you mean like panama city beach like oh wow yeah like what are they doing with that on yeah or that not on uh yeah yeah that's what i

mean yeah it gets me excited for childbirth should be fun for you guys big baby on twitter yeah that's my joke is like every you know every week that we don't have the baby because we were thinking we might have it early you know i'm like oh that just means it's going to be bigger and bigger it's going to have a big head like me and katherine's like don't say that so i got a big head sorry mom in other news we finally finished up arch madness bracket uh my dad made us a little video today which is great brad loves it i had to call jake because i was laughing i was like i laughed out loud which is a pretty rare thing for me yeah Yeah. Like I, we talked about it before. I enjoy a lot of things,

but I don't always laugh out loud at them. And I laughed out loud multiple times at this thing. It was so funny, dude. And he's so effortless when he does it. Like that's what's so impressive to me is it's like he does it so well without trying or seeming to try so hard. So it's probably why he's a good salesman.

Imagine saying no to him. He's trying to sell you something. That dude, he does have like a nice timbre to to his voice good word is that the right word you're thinking of tambourine which is what it that tambourine means a nice voice but musically oh with an instrument the latin word in means like well it's on a motor product like timbre no no it's timbre like nice and in means instrument instrument instrument hey i want you to play this instrument it has a nice tambour we call it the tambourines from it you also give like like a magic potion with it yeah the tambourines i mean like the

saudi arabian jester arabian tambourine yeah whatever, whatever. I don't know. Anyway, that's finally done. And so, Brad, if you maybe want to start getting it queued up. Yeah. Our girl Riley doesn't actually look like she's going to end up with a perfect bracket, which is too bad. Oh, really? She had no Wi-Fi winning and the people voted and voted. Last I looked, it was like 55% body odor.

So that's probably going to swing it or that's probably enough to keep it swung that direction. So but either way, I looked and she's still I mean, she got everything right. But the champion wrong and all the other people in like second, third and fourth place got the champion wrong as well. So she's still in first. Our girl Riley, we don't know her at all. And I was like, hey, are you free tonight for a call around like 9 p.m.? I don't know what we're going to talk about. Sorry.

I don't know. We have no preparation into this. We're just going to call her up and see what happens. Congratulate her on her big March Madness victory. Riley, what up? Let's see. Can you hear us? Here we go.

Can you hear me? Hey, I can hear you. What's up? Oh my gosh, this is so crazy.'s it going it's great how are you guys doing great how are you jake hi riley i'm good thanks for joining us congrats on the great bracket great bracket i'm honored i feel like i don't deserve it like i didn't put it i don't know and it's just so lucky you just yeah yeah yeah you just chose all the top seeds and that was probably the right right call you know for real you turn her down a little bit i was like okay one or jacob brown i picture you guys just like arguing about every single one

and then i was like just trying to channel what you guys would ultimately come up with maybe have a couple of sets but seemed to work love it. Can you tell us anything else that's going to happen in the future? Just of anything. Economy, tomorrow, my own personal life. What else do you have for us? Oh, absolutely. I know that we're probably going to have an interruption here in a couple seconds because. Yo, big man.

What is happening? Oh, now that's a normal size baby. Riley, what do you do? How'd you find the podcast? Oh, that's a great story. I was actually thinking about this. I was like, they'll probably ask me this question. Again, I can just foresee these things, you know? Yeah. She's good. She's good. I actually followed Trey Kennedy first, like probably a lot of the listeners. And I was watching his videos and I feel like the first one I saw Jake make an appearance in was the paper straw one. And literally, I think you're in a clip for like five seconds. And I laughed so hard at your delivery. I was like, who is that guy? like he is so yeah yeah and so I don't remember if

Trey like credited you in that video or whatever but I was like oh he's so funny like I want to follow him and then I followed you and like I wasn't even super into podcasts like I'm still not your guys your guys is like the only one I listen to and once I found it I was like this is so awesome and so I just listened to it like every Monday it comes out and I normally I'm like it's just so fun because I'm like cleaning or I'm going grocery shopping and it's like I still feel like I'm having fun even though I have to do something productive and it's just so great so well thank you for listening genuinely we we appreciate it a ton so shout out to Trey Kennedy paper paper straws. Yeah. Who? Yeah.

Trey, who would have thought paper straws would get us more listeners would bring us our, our March madness winner, baby. Forget everything negative. I said about paper straws. So,

uh, what do you do Riley? So I am actually a stay at home mom. Yes. There he is. What's his name? This is Carden. what up carden and he's actually like the same about the same age as hattie so it's always funny to hear your stories oh yeah they're in the same kind of developmental things that's awesome yeah is

he potty trained yet because we need to potty train him real bad no that's what we've been trying to do and i was like i think he knows that quarantine is like almost too convenient of a time to be potty trained right like you gotta take advantage of this time and it's not working we're not doing it yeah so yeah we haven't done that yet I don't know when we're gonna do it but yeah yeah oh man that's awesome where are you where do you live where are you coming from yes so I'm from Utah I was gonna say okay I'm like probably I know you have a lot of Utah listeners I'm from Utah. I was going to say, I'm like, probably, I know you have a lot of Utah listeners. I'm like just that basic white girl, like stay at home mom. I am a member of the church of Jesus Christ, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Everyone says, and I was going to say, I just have to defend Utah a little bit. Like every time we listen, like the one thing was you guys brought up cafe Rio and seriously, like we make homage to like cafe rio like we go there it's really it's a big deal and so jake needs to revisit it okay well if you want to know how they're handling covet 19 i could forward you the email because i'm not i'm done with it i don't need to see it anymore well that was like the one email you probably should have like saved was cafe rio is just the best the other thing i was gonna say brad sorry it's like so weird because

i it's like so unbalanced i know so much about your guys's life and you like know nothing about me so it's like that's okay tell us more a couple episodes ago you're like it came up about your um your ideal home your your dream home. And you're in the mountains, but close to the city. And Jake's like, Salt Lake City, baby. And I was like, yes, heck yes. And you're like, I don't know, which is fair enough. That's kind of what I feel about Kansas.

I don't know a ton about Kansas. I'm sure it's still. Right. But one thing, one pitch for Utah is there are really big families, which means bigger tables for LSU. Yes. Banquet tables all day. Gosh, that's good. That's a great point. Yeah. Yeah. I'm in a stereotype. I think Mormons a lot of times have big families. True or false? Oh, absolutely true. A hundred percent true. All the Mormons I know, but my friend is my best friend, Mormon, and he is one of three. And it's like the only family I know that doesn't have more than three. It's like super rare. Gosh, you're so

right. I need to move to at least for a stint and just sell, sell to all the Mormons and then get out of there or stay, you know, maybe I'll, maybe I'll stay. And plus it's like all these people who value just like small businesses. Like every Mormon mom has like an Etsy shop. Everyone wants like little custom things. Like it's your market. Okay, good. That's pretty exciting. Okay. Let's do it. Okay. I'll go. Yeah. We're in, we're, we're coming. Riley, we're moving in. Yeah. I'm sleeping with Carden. I don't know if you guys remember, but like a couple of days ago, I saw your picture. We set up a pickleball court in front of my house. So quarantine, like come visit us. We can still pick a ball.

I know how important that is to you. It's definitely a priority for us too. So priority to pickle for sure. P2P. P2P for she, she. Yes, absolutely. That's awesome. What do you think about Jake's dad? I mean, I'm fishing for compliments here, but my gosh. I was like in tears. It was amazing.

His whole setup and delivery, I thought for sure it was going to be him and Jake or something. But when he stood up and switched sides, it was like a division of toilet paper. Toilet paper. Genius. Yeah. So good. Oh man. It was amazing. And I was like literally rooting for each side. I could see each point. I don't know any other person in the world who could like debate with himself. Oh man. Yeah. My favorite part was how he like, kind of like ridiculed the other uh point like oh i'm so glad you brought out brought up moses yeah that cracked me up oh it's awesome so good

that's awesome wow thanks for all the nice words about my dad yeah let's let's what else do you think like do you think he was dressed nice or i'm just kidding everything was well kept you know he didn't look like he had body odor. No, absolutely not. No, he's a triplet. Yeah. He's immune. His son works for Old Spice. I was surprised he threw in the Old Spice thing. Oh yeah. That was great. That was great. So that was awesome. Cool. Anything else you want to say? Thanks for, thanks for being an awesome, loyal listener. We appreciate it. Oh, of course. I pitch it to all my friends. It's just makes my week every week. Thank you. That's awesome. Anything that we can be doing more of or better

like, like, oh man, these guys should do this. Like longer episodes. Okay. Somebody told me one time they were like, Hey, I really like, I think it was my sister. She was like, your podcast is cool, but it's just so long. So Julie, if you're listening, they like them long. Anyway. All right. Well, thank you Riley so much for joining us. Um, we, we appreciate it. Have a great night in Utah. Uh, go Cougars. Are you a Cougar fan? Are you kidding me? Like, absolutely. Go Cougs. Gemma for life, you know?

Yeah. Like, and they were – it was actually the first time in a long time where we were supposed to have, like, a decent team to be in the Cougars. So, like I said, winning this has really filled a void for me. That's funny. You can tell that to, you know, the head coach at BYU. Like, hey, I know you didn't get to the big dance but look at what i've done my own little dance yeah yeah and it's fine that's yeah riley good to talk to you as soon as i'm allowed to

go places i plan on going to utah and going to like bryce or moab or zion or it's all lake so i'll let you know absolutely like i was gonna say if you guys ever need a place to stay you are more than welcome to stay with me. I know some other girl in Utah said if you show up at her porch with, I don't remember what it was. Yeah, waffle fries. The butts of the potato fries. Okay, Riley, time out. My husband and I. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who are you inviting over to our house, Aaron?

Oh, man. That's funny. It would not be weird. You guys are more than welcome. And I would love to play pickleball or show you around awesome seriously hit us up like okay have fun so perfect that's rowdy well thank you so much for yeah joining with us it's fun talking thank you guys you guys are so awesome you're such stand-up guys and i just love the podcast thank you love everything so awesome thank you so much we'll talk to you later see you later all right bye okay thank you riley that was fun you're only our second guest ever on the podcast and our first one not to be with us

so fun that was that was a good time yeah do it again sometime uh i think maybe it's time to bring back an oldie but a goodie segment don't call it a comeback blanks of the week thanks all the week we haven't done that in forever forever forever let's do it baby but i think it's time why why we neglected this let's bring it back um let's i'll start us off with a good old poultry of the week. Who could forget the classic? It was there from day one. If you're a new listener, this is something that Brad and I each have beef with. But because I'm allergic to beef, I don't want to take any chances. I don't even want to say it.

So it is my poultry of the week. And this week it is worth the keyboard key caps lock. Oh. Specifically on a Macintosh computer. Okay. Because they have done a thing software wise they did a thing they did a thing they done a thing where they're like hey people are hitting caps lock on accident too much so we're only gonna make it work the second time you hit it what well

i got some dexterity fingers i'm not hitting caps lock on accident. I'm hitting it when I mean it, when I want to start screaming like I am now. But have you noticed that? Like it doesn't. Oh, really? So only you have to, you have double click the tap caps lock. Yes. Double tap the caps. Like if you do it fast, like in the middle of a sentence, it doesn't work. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I said hit it four times. Now you're your cap's locking! What is this?! That's... Wouldn't happen with Steve as a lie, I'll tell you that right now! Steve is... Steve thought that we were competent! Rolling in his futuristic grave, probably his head's on ice somewhere, but it's rolling around.

What in the world? Oh, it drives me nuts. In the middle... mid-sentence, I want to start screaming? Nope, still normal volume. Oh my gosh! It's just really been, uh, grinding my... my gosh. It's just really been grinding my gears. Your wings of the poultry. My wings, yes. My chicken legs have been grinded up.

I'm more fired up about yours than mine. I might just have to piggyback on it. I just think it's silly. It is silly. I haven't found a way to like, not just initiate the caps lock rule or whatever that is. I can't find it in settings. Yeah, there's gotta be a, you would think.

I want you to trust me What what's next? No, like what like okay? I want to go back I had to hit it seven times before it starts going back for you. I've been hitting backspace on accident So we're gonna make it a three-factor authentication system. I can't believe that if you want to hit backspace We will send a code to your phone Yeah And then you type that in and then you can backspace to make sure you need it and then we'll charge your credit card double check that it's

your credit card and then you'll get refunded for it yeah just a few pennies what in the heck i can't believe this yeah i don't like it i like to move and shake when i'm tight or not moving shake i'm just like my fingers are moving you're a typist yeah and so yeah i want to switch to caps lock um and it just it oh man i'm like feeling it a little bit dude i am i'm feeling in my bones i don't like it like when business jake is in session he's trying to crank out these emails i just can't apparently scream in emails is that the only button that does that you think for what i've noticed yeah it's just caps lock and it just started happening i'd say in the last like year or. I don't think it always used to be this way. That is so silly.

Yeah. Oh, man. Trump's America. Didn't used to be like this. Thanks, Obama. Wait. Okay. My poultry of the week.

Yeah, I can't get over this. Yours is legitimate. I saw you hit it four times and it didn't work. Four times? I had to hit it so many times. It was like, are you sure? Are you sure? Are you sure? You're sure? You're sure.

You can go. Don't go yet. That's crazy, man. Okay. My poultry of the week is a simple one. It is DIY YouTube videos, making things look too easy. And then let's, let's, let's broaden it, I guess, a little bit to HGTV, whatever. Home improvement. Yeah. Tim Allen. Yeah. Whatever. Tool man.

Like he just makes it look so easy to burn down a tool time set every single episode. No, but like, so we've done home renovations a lot recently doing the basement, everything. And it was like, Oh, here's how you rewire a light switch. Oh, here's how you fix that leak in your toilet. Here's what happens every time, Jake. I watch, I'm going to say, I watch an extensive amount because I want to make sure I know what I'm doing. I watch, we'll say one hour worth of videos.

Whoa. Yeah. Because a lot of times that's the other beef. So a lot of times, that's the other poultry. Thank you. We'll fix it in post. And that's the other thing is that it's 15 minute long video

that could easily be done in three minutes. Tutorial videos on YouTube deserve their own poultry. Yes, true. They're so long. The first two minutes, I don't care what the tutorial's over, skip it.

It's like clip art, like spinning onto the screen. It's like always this 55 year old man named norm like what are you doing here norm 50 and older it's like the people who leave google reviews are also doing youtube tutorials yeah and they're like in like the most like echoey room in their whole house and like you can barely hear them it's oh it's so frustrating but anyway i watch these hour like hour plus of videos thinking like okay i think i got it and then i'll work on it myself for probably an hour and I'll inevitably, inevitably make the problem worse. And then I'll eventually just call somebody to fix it for me. But every time I'm like, no, like surely this

isn't that big of a deal to fix this one little problem on our toilet or to, to change out this electrical switch or something. And then I get shocked or I, you know, get, you know, whatever toilet water in my face. And I'm like, I'm not doing it. I'm calling somebody. But every time you just are like a little bit too frugal to do it right at the beginning. Cause it's like, yeah, I can do this. So anyway, DIY, like, like same with fixer upper, fixer upper, we bought our house thinking, oh, we could do all that stuff. We can paint that stuff. We can blah, blah, blah. It is so stressful. Every single house project we ever do is stressful. And I think part of the reason is because we have unrealistic expectations because of Chip and freaking Jojo. Okay. I'm just saying it right now. So thanks a lot guys

for making it look like it only takes an hour to flip a house. That's my poultry. You would say it takes longer? It does. My gosh, it it does unless you have a really big bulldozer to just flip it real quick or a big trampoline can you imagine oh what if it was literally like hey we just want to flip this house some guy some guy literally was like i'll do that for you boys brings it over one two three and they all double bounce it it flips over oh man did you ever read amelia bedelia growing up no those were girl books okay yeah i totally didn't read it either yeah uh but hattie hattie has them and i never read them before her but she just does all the things literally so like draw draw the drapes. She takes, she draws the

drapes, put the lights out. She literally puts lights out on like a clothesline. So flip that house. Amelia Bedelia would freaking be like, okay, let's lift this thing on three boys. One, two, three, you know, Amelia, get out of town. What are you doing here? Okay. I'll start packing. Okay. Anybody got a bus ticket for me? Anyway, that's my poultry. I feel like the DIY type videos that I see, typically never intentionally. It's just like DIY life hack. And it's like, want to get toothpaste out of your tube easier?

Here's what you do. Take a clamp, put it on the end. Then you're going to want to take four limes. Roll them around the undercarriage of of the toothpaste then flip it upside down get some scotch tape wrap it around there you're gonna need two double a batteries connect them to a lemon you know it's just like like i have none of those things in my house and just like it's pretty easy to get toothpaste out now i don't need a life hack for this totally like most life hacks you see they're blowing up buzzfeed or whatever that your friend from high school is sharing on Facebook. It's like, look at how you can grow

these plants. It's like, they have flower pots for that. You don't need a bottom of a two liter. Like not done with your soda can. Here's a way to keep it fresh. It's like, if I can't finish 12 ounces, I got bigger problems. Right. Oh man. I finished 12 ounces before I even get to my meal. Yeah. My gosh. Give me two of those. The breath I take before I sneeze, I could finish 12 ounces. That like big, 12 ounces gone right there. Yeah. The life hacks are just so ridiculous these days.

That's so true. People run out of content. So like we got to do something with like bright colors. Yeah. They will glue people in the first five seconds. Totally. Totally. Goodness gracious.

Blanks of the week. Next one. What do we say we're going to do? Oh, product of the week. Product. Oh, totally. Goodness gracious. Blanks of the week. Next one, what do we say we're gonna do? Oh, product of the week. Product, oh, I got one I like. Okay, you wanna go first? Oh, I do. Okay.

You've probably heard of it if you're a Shark Tank fan, but it is what I like to call the scrub daddy. What? No, I don't know what this is. You've never heard of scrub daddy? No. Oh, man. seems like a weird nickname but go on yeah it is it's like yeah in the fraternity showers community showers i don't know about you but i'm uh fixing for a scrub daddy you want to come uh yeah bro um no it is a dish cleaning

utensil like you know how they have like the brushes or whatever to brush off stuff. I love those. Yeah. I'm telling you, dude, this is 100% better. It is literally like this little sponge looking thing that has two eyes and a mouth and you use the mouth to like, you put the spoons in there to like wash the spoons really well.

It gets really, it gets like harder and like more whatever the word is to like help you Oh, it gets really, it gets like harder and like more. Fidget. Whatever the word is to like help you like, like rigid to like, if you get it cold, it gets rigid. So you can get the really hard stuff off, like bacon grease or something or whatever. But then it gets soft in warm water, dude, I'm telling you, it will revolutionize your life for $5.99.

Whoa. That's cheap. Also, I think it's the most successful Shark Tank product ever. Whoa. Yeah, it's so great. Here's a high-maintenance thing about me. Okay. When I'm doing dishes, I don't like getting my hands wet.

You know? That is very high-maintenance. I try to accomplish it. Like, yeah, I have the handle with the brush. Oh, so you would not like the scrub daddy then? That's what I was going to say. It's like, I'm going to get just brush and so you would not like the scrub daddy that's what i was gonna say it's like i'm gonna get just so so yeah wet oh wow which is fine that's an easy habit to just like okay just accept like my hand's gonna get wet but as it is now i can typically do the dishes scrub you know the pizza roll excess off the pan oh without getting my hands wet oh

man i am so the opposite with like details like that. Like I'm like, I'll just get wet and just dry later. I'll be fine. I just want to go fast. So interesting. Anyway, Scrub Daddy, dude. Don't try it, I guess. But if you're out there and you haven't tried it. Sounds like a good product.

It's amazing. I need to watch more Shark Tank again. That was a good show. It is a good show. I know. Great idea. They've interviewed a bunch of the Shark Tank hosts on Pardon My Take.

Very good interviews. Oh. Very fun. They're interviewed a bunch of the Shark Tank hosts on Pardon My Take. Very good interviews. Oh. Very fun. They're pretty candid, like pretty transparent about stuff. Yeah, I would say so. I think the ones I've listened to, yeah, I've listened to four of them. Damon John, Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, and Kevin O'Leary. Kevin O'Leary is probably my favorite one.

Yeah. He's so funny, dude. So. What do you think about this? Okay. Here's a new product. Not a product of the week show of the week bachelor meets shark tank okay tell me more come in the four sharks are four women you come in hello my name is jake triplet uh i am a single entrepreneur and i am looking to i'm seeking unconditional love for 20 to 30 of my heart you go in and uh you say your little

pitch like that that's what you're seeking yeah um i think the girls could ask very similar questions to what the sharks ask like would you be willing to take me into stores uh big box you say your little pitch like that, that's what you're seeking. Yeah. I think the girls could ask very similar questions to what the sharks ask. Like, would you be willing to take me into stores? Big box retailers? Yeah. How do you see this? How do you see this going over time?

Are there any other investors? Right. Do we have anyone else involved? Right. I could say like, well, I've been in the business since I was 18. Yeah. Been a little more motivated recently

to really get it going. Right. This could be, that'd be a fun video idea. And be like, and then somebody recently to really get it going. Right. This could be a, that'd be a fun video idea and be like, and then somebody just wants to hit it and quit it. They'll be like, no, let's just, I'll take royalties on this. Yeah. Or there's like one of the, one of the sharks is a guy at the very end of the thing. He's like, Hey, Hey, Jake, loved your pitch. Uh, I'm not gay though. And for that reason I'm out or they'll like lean over, like lean down to the guy at the end and be like, hey, do

you want to go in on this together? Be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey. That's what I was going to say. Like, yeah, maybe I'm like, now, Sarah, would you be willing to partner up with Ashley? Because two sharks would be ideal. I really want to have a multi-shark deal all my life. Ideally, there's at least two sharks involved. Yeah.

I would love to. Yeah. When the shark's's at least two sharks involved yeah i would love to yeah when the shark's like i would i love this i would love to distribute with you quickly yeah awesome i think we should get to distributing quickly yeah why wait that's great i like that a lot i like that i'm out for for that reason i love when they say that for that reason i'm out i'm out oh man i want to start doing that in my normal life like hey can you come play pickleball tonight uh katherine just had a Uh, and it's one of the largest babies we've ever seen. It's getting really big on Tik TOK. So for that reason, he's out. Baseball is finally back. Get in on major league action and swing for the fences with

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I know. It's like, I don't think I'm young enough to do this. I see the things on there and I'm like, that's stupid. Why are you guys doing these things? Yeah. But at the same time, I like watching them like they're just goofy funny things like what you talked about last week but no i haven't done anything yet yeah it's weird maybe we need to do one together i think yeah we need to do a dance trey made one dance for like the girls during

quarantine video and it blew up so then he did another dance and it blew up and he's like i can't be the guy who does dances but they're so easy and they're getting more views than all these videos. Yeah, I was effort into I Made a talk tonight. Did you I did it was so hard to find the motivation to make a 10-second video It was so hard and I just I was like because of a silly Yeah, just do it just get up and just do it and I did Isaac was right there He just watched me and I still was like, all right, that's fine. I'm posting it. I haven't even checked.

I don't even know if anyone's liked it at all. I haven't even looked. That's funny. Just made fun of girls on Earth Day. I'm sure we probably follow different girls on Instagram, but I've seen a lot of them. I think we follow very different girls because you like the joke about the face masks,

like girls doing face masks. I don't think I've ever seen a girl post an Instagram about her face mask. Really? I was like, girls and just couples all the time. No, never. Anytime a couple is doing a face mask, it has to go on Instagram. Anyway, a lot of girls who want to celebrate Earth Day,

but they happen to be in bikinis while they're celebrating Earth Day. Look how beautiful this beach is. Yeah. So that was my TikTok. It's like, you can barely see the water. I was like, it's Earth Day. Look. Oh, yeah. Unbuttoning my shirt. You can barely see the water. I was like, it's Earth Day. Look. Oh, yeah.

Unbuttoning my shirt. Look at the Earth. Like turn around and show my butt. Look at the Earth. Just look at it. Look at it. That's funny. I told you about my, what's the word?

What's that show that's like the weird, weird obsessions? What's that called? Star Trek? Maybe. My Strange Addiction. My Strange Addiction. the weird weird obsessions what's that called like star trek maybe my strange addiction my strange addiction my new strange addiction is uh quote unquote watching all my instagram stories basically being caught up on instagram stories it is a sickness it's weird i hate it i i but i have like this thing now where i like have to go through every single instagram story so that it says i

don't have any more to watch weird thing to feel thing to feel led to do. Once you do it once though, it's like you're, it's kind of like a streak in Snapchat. Like, like once you started it, it's like, I got to keep going, which I never, I never felt the Snapchat thing. I never, I was never into that, but yeah, now I'm like, gosh, I just, you know, there's only four here, so I'm just going to go through it real fast. But then you get to a person that has like, you know, like those 15 stories and you're like, dang it, I should just unfollow this person. i don't i don't even need it that reminds me our ghost runners account followed someone this week who i don't know at all did you know who that is or did you mean to do that oh i think i know what you're talking about somebody mentioned us in their story

and i knew it was one of katherine's sisters you can't see it without yes okay and so i followed her and then i unfollowed her sorry peyton but i just want just wanted to see what she said. Yeah, no, that's fine. So have a public Instagram next time. Yeah. No, just kidding. Thanks for tagging us in your story. My product of the week is headphones. I have been looking for a new set of headphones

for the last three to four weeks. I have bought four pairs of them and we have finally found ones that I like. However, I've not taken back any of the other three pairs so i'm about five hundred dollars deep in headphone debt uh that i need to get my money back for but okay i just for some reason i think i have a pretty normal head you said that about me before i was like dude your head's so normal you get in the car i'm like hey nice normal head yeah and i believed you when you said it yeah you looked endearing and but for some reason i had

trouble finding headphones that either yeah like worked great or felt great huh but i found them now okay give me the four brands and i'll guess which one is the right one oh i am not gonna remember okay one was target brand one was something german so they weren't like bows sony they were candy and beats look at you i don't know if sony is a real headphones company no they are they're big are they yeah they make them remember cost back in the day they were like the five dollar ones at walmart they like major ears koss they were like in ears but they were so uncomfortable they were like cardboard in there that's nice but didn't get costed but yeah that's my product i'm just happy every time i put them on just a little reminder like you found them

you did it we did it yeah like you didn't take the easy way out because that's my product. I'm just happy. Every time I put them on, just a little reminder, like you found them. You did it. We did it. Yeah. Like you didn't take the easy way out. Cause that's how I am a lot of times. Like it'll work. Yeah. It's a 2006 Toyota Camry. It'll work. So is it like more the fit of them that you really like, or is it the sound or is it all

together? Like, is it like just mittens for your ears and that's what really going for you? The more into it, I got, it became more about the fit, which I would have, I would have more assumed like, Hey, they all are going to fit great. Let me see which ones sound the best. But it more so became, okay, every set of over ear headphones all sound good. Yeah. But there's a lot of them that are surprisingly not that comfy.

Or like after 30 minutes, I'm like, oh, the top of my head hurts. Yeah. I have a normal head. I got to protect it. You have those things in for a long time. Long time. Well, good, man. Found them.

But you don't even know the brand. You can't even, you can't even shout it out. The brand I have is Sennheiser. Sennheiser. Oh yeah. I've heard of them. Yeah. They're, they're not bad, but the other ones I don't remember. They make like soundboards and stuff too. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of audio stuff. Cool. Um, next blank of the week is failure of the week, which is going to be a good one. Brad gave me a little preview on the pickleball court last night and I'm excited to hear about it. Would you like to go first or second? Sure, I'll go first. Yeah, I was kind of limping around last night.

Take the kickoff. And I was like, hey, Jake, I'm not going to tell you too much because I'm going to save it for the podcast. But I had a table fall on me this week. One in the morning. That was the joke during pickleball. Brad couldn't reach over and get it. What happened? The table didn't fall on me.

Yeah, what have I gotten there? I got table back. So imagine with with me two sawhorses can we all know what sawhorses are not seahorses two a-frame pieces of whatever that and i had this this anniversary table if you will by tuesday and he requested that it would be built out of four by fours four by fours are large pieces of wood inches and feet um yes sure uh i don't know yes sir moving on and so i had propped it up on these two saw horses uh in my yard to paint and so i had painted most of it um before it got dark but then i was kind of putting finishing touches on it when it was dark which is probably probably a stupid idea, but whatever. That was the timetable. Cause I was playing pickleball earlier, whatever. It doesn't matter. Um, and so I was like getting done for the night had worked really long, you know, one o'clock in the morning and I was getting ready to take it

back in. And I was like kind of planning out my path to take it back in. Cause it's a heavy, big old boy. And I was like, okay, I can take this in, uh, take this path. I'll put it right here in my garage. So I lifted up and I'm like barely shuffling backwards. Like, you know, just struggling with this thing. Like feet are staying on the ground. Pretty much moonwalking. Exactly. Um, and so I was like barely shuffling and I had forgotten that in between my grass and my driveway, there's probably like three inch, uh, ledge for the driveway. I don't know what I was thinking for years. Right. And I just hit my back heel on the ledge and this big old table just fell on top of me. Sounds scary. It was honestly, your forehead sounds susceptible to damage. I don't know. I'm imagining it like, like I, like as I was falling, I was like, oh man, this is that you're falling. Like you're done bad. This is really bad. Honestly. I'm like surprised I didn't hurt

myself worse, but I let out some noises, uh, that I was like, but I was, then I was like, okay, don't wait, Catherine up. Don't, don't like freak her out. Cause the worst thing in the world is to be a husband. That's supposed to be like this tough man on the ground with a table on top of you, watching your pregnant wife like sprint out of the house trying to do something about it. And you're screaming saying, call 911 and get the jaws of life. Get it off of me. Get it off of me.

You don't go get an AD. Yeah. You don't want that. Oh man. Hattie, go grab me a Cinnabon while I'm down here. I loved that quote. That's like one of my favorite quotes. Yeah, that's solid.

All the ghost stories. But genuinely, but the worst part was like, yeah, so I was like screaming in pain, but then like kind of like the grape lady probably. Screaming in pain? Maybe not screaming, but I was like, I was yelping. Squirming. Oh, yelping. Like I was like, oh gosh.

Like I was dead. I'd say moaning. Moaning. Good. Yelping is like youming. Oh, yelping. Like I was like, oh gosh. Like I was dead insane. I'd say moaning. Moaning. Good. Yelping is like you accidentally step on a dog's tail. All right. I might have done some of that too. I don't know.

It was wild. Whatever was going on. Like a metaphorical tail step. Oh man. But the worst part was that once I fell and I like tried to get off of me, it was really hard to get it off of me. Like I was having a hard time lifting it off of, I was like, I think I'm stuck. I may have to yell for Catherine at this point. I saw a tray, tried to bench press his fiance today. And I can tell you it's a hard,

like position to put your body in. You have to push up weight, especially when you're like flat on the ground. You have like no, even to, you know, when you're bench pressing, you usually have your feet, your elevated. Yeah. You're back a your back a little right i was i don't remember how i got it off i don't know what happened uh but the next day i was pretty bruised on one of my legs and it was bad it was it was frustrating it was you know i was working hard on this table all day and then it fell on top where did it get you i that's i think it just got my leg mostly my leg and my knee my knee felt like it was like really messed up. And then the next day it wasn't terrible, but man, that would not feel good

though. Yeah. Like afterwards walking on it, I was like limping pretty bad and all this stuff. So anyway, I, that was a frustrating failure of the week for me, but success of the week is that I built it well enough that it stayed plenty intact. It felt pretty hard too on the concrete. They're ledge proof. There's yeah. Even the paint was pretty good. So I had to touch up a few spots, but overall,

you know, Justin, if you're listening to this, your table's just going to be just fine. Okay. It's got way more character than most. Most of them have not been moaned under. Let's just say that.

They're built to be moaned on top of. It's not a consensual dog kennel. Yeah. Anyway. Who was that the other day who met Isaac and they're like, you made any kennels under a bed? Oh, it was Carson. Our guy Carson.

Oh, yeah. Oh, that was Carson. We didn't know that he was a listener of the pod. I didn't know. I did. He kept throwing things out. And I was like, okay, maybe that's a coincidence. He called me Bog one time and I was like, okay, he probably just heard other people. And then he was like, hey, bring your best. And I was like, you podcast listener.

Or did you watch that very mediocre woodworking show five years ago? So shout out, Carson. Carson, my failure of the week. I couldn't really think of anything that good, especially compared to a table moaning. But about two hours ago, I went to Chipotle. And I've already shared plenty of times, especially with my roommates, about how every time I go to Chipotle, I come back with a story without even meaning to. It's just like they know what I say, like what happened this time. And I don't have to exaggerate. I don't have to fabricate. Something a little strange happens every time.

There's a language barrier or they're so inefficient. They do things weird. They get my order wrong, whatever. This time, there's a lot barrier or they're only they're so inefficient they do things weird they give me order wrong whatever this time uh there's a lot of us and it's raining uh so i think we all are in a position where we want this to go as fast as possible it's not going that fast but whatever i could be patient this guy rolls up on his car and cuts all of us in line kind of weird thought someone was going to say something missouri plates probably yeah hey you gotta you liked miss Missouri though this week. What'd they do?

Tell everyone what they did. Well, we'll shout it out later. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Stay tuned for what Missouri did this week. Anyway, that was a weird thing. Like no one called this guy out, me included.

It was just like, whatever. I just want to get my food. So I've been waiting there for probably five, six minutes. And she comes out and she hasn't asked me my name yet. Cause that's how they, they take your name, they go in, they get your burrito, they bring it back out for you. Girl comes outside. She goes, uh, order for a yaki. Yaki. Yaki. And I thought I didn't obviously register at first that this could have been my name. Did you say little yaki? I had, Oh, I actually literally had teriyaki for lunch

today. So that would make sense. Uh, but after a few moments I registered, no one else is claiming this. Okay. This could be me. I understand how Spanish works in my name. And so I'm like, do you understand that you never use the Y sound for J's? Yeah. I don't know if she understands, but I was like, Jake. And she kind of like gives me a nod of approval. And so I was like, I'll be your Yaki. And so everyone's kind of laughing or whatever, like, yeah, I'll be Yaki. And so I go up there and apparently I go to grab it and she goes, uh, Kristine-eth? So I was like, what? What's happening? Yeah. So everyone's watching this too. Like there's no one speaking. We're all six feet

apart in the rain. So I go to grab it. She says, Kristine. And so I guess she meant like, this is Kristine. But like Yaki's is inside. Like Yaki's is ready. I guess. How is that something you're supposed to understand? I don't know. It was the failure. Not on my part.

Failure on this lady to just execute any of this. So then I just like try to be dramatic and funny. I just like lower my head down. I go, God, she duped me. Do the George Michael Bluth like walk away like sad. Yeah. I think I said she teased me or something and everyone laughed again. So I got my fill, my comedy filled the day at Chipotle.

This yaki is funny, man. Oh, they love me up there. Yeah. Every time I go. Chipotle has plenty of workers that speak English very well. Why are they putting the people that don't speak it very well out on the front lines lines because was this on the podcast or just a personal conversation the mr pibb thing they can never understand that i want pibb i don't know but yeah there's only five options of coke pop whatever yeah and you were saying that like the short i sound or whatever is not really in

spanish maybe this was off the podcast we were talking about this but pibb pibb so start saying mr peep please yeah que quiero quiere un mr peep i don't know but um it just in their app still doesn't let you decide a drink so every single time they bring me my burrito that maybe that's maybe that's why they didn't have your burrito the first time because they were going to get your drink and then bring them all out at once well it still took a third trip so then she comes back out brings me my burrito no she didn't no this happens every time it's always two trips they come out they bring the burrito and then they say what's for your drink and then i say pib and that takes a while they're like okay okay okay okay we've got is that water so favor of the week goes to chipotle at 91st and metcalf i it hasn't stopped me from going there but every single time something happens.

Man. Last week, Isaac and I are there and there is, once again, it's like noon. So it's pretty packed. There's a lot of people there. This old man, just classic boomer walks up. Hey, I have an order for noon. I have a pickup order at noon. It's like, dude, we all do. That's why we're here to pick up an order from Chipotle, dude. Like how lack of self-awareness like greater than now like I'm here. I want my food. I'm an old white guy I built this country by the way. Oh Isaac I just could not believe the nerve of this guy He was like trying to cut everyone in line. Oh, yeah, he just cut everyone and just miss miss I have a pickup order at noon. It's like dude. I would not want to be your grandson You just do not seem like a nice person at all.

I can't believe you live your life this way. Oh, man. Jeez. That's funny. People are so different. He's not pro-mudgeon. No. He's definitely cur-mudgeon.

Cur-mudgeon. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Our last review. Oh, I spoiled it. Now they're going to know. Our last Blank of the Week is Review of the Week.

Don't forget, Brad, that Missouri thing. Oh, yeah. Do you want to talk about now? Sure. Yeah. So easy way to not forget a shout out to Missouri. This is, I got to give them props. I don't give Missouri props very often. Uh, but this one was awesome. I said the other night to Jake and Gunnar, Hey, shout out to Missouri because they are the first state to file a lawsuit against China. What? Missouri suing China. We say this and then like another friend playing big ball with us, Eli, was like, oh, I was reading an article the other day about, you know, this like starts talking about something else.

I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Can we get back to- Let's talk about Missouri suing China. Yeah. Can we circle back, please? Jefferson City taking on Mao. Yeah. Do we know anything more about it?

I was pulling up an article. It said, according to a news release from the attorney general, the suit alleges that their actions to suppress information, arrest whistleblowers, and deny the contagious nature of the 2019 novel coronavirus led to loss of life and severe economic consequences in Missouri. So they're just saying like China, you screwed up. Sorry, you messed up. I'm saying

screwed up a lot. Catherine does not like that. But they're saying, hey, you messed up and therefore because of that, we're all being affected here. Well, I don't know anything about law. I just couldn't believe it. A state could do that? A state could sue a country?

Shouldn't our federal government be doing this? Because then it's just a slippery slope. every state is gonna follow suit right and sue i don't know you would think you would think what a trailblazer move i know i know dude get it popping and sue beijing unbelievable so anyway i hope we win i've been watching uh i just finished the netflix show from the oj simpson. I watched the documentary with you like four years ago. The Cuba Gooding Jr.? Yeah, the drama. I've never seen.

Which one do you like better? From my memory, I think the documentary was still slightly better. I think it was so much better, personally. But the show was still really fascinating. And just like, yeah, you're just re-reminded again like how crazy it is. Yes. Like especially the DNA stuff. Yes.

So if you guys aren't that familiar with the OJ Simpson case, I mean, it is yes like especially the dna stuff yes like so if you guys aren't that familiar with the oj simpson case i mean it's a trial of the century and it's just fascinating for so many different reasons they have his dna they and the the show does a good job i can't remember the doc that well but the show does a good job of like showing you how new dna was right like it was like they don't understand it they don't understand it yeah it was brand new it had to be like one of the first like years that dna was like a thing right like now it would just be like hey we have his dna and they'd be like oh yeah okay he wouldn't even plead not guilty right nowadays he would he would just like try to take a plea because like he's obviously going to get convicted but back then they have oj simpson's dna

like and like everywhere it should be if you're the the homicide guy. The defense attorney? No, not the defense attorney. Basically, if you're the murderer, his DNA was everywhere. The defendant. No, the... Whatever, the perp. The perpetrator.

Perpetrator, the purple perpetrator. And the jury didn't care. It was amazing. It was like a one in seven billion chance or something, or 14 billion. It was like, you know, more than there are people on the earth. And it shows like Robert Kardashian's like inner turmoil.

Right. In the show too. Like he starts to realize like, wow, my best friend, the godfather of my children committed this crime. Yeah. And is getting away with it. Yeah. And I can't imagine being in that. In that situation.

Gosh, that would be awful. I guess they don't talk. Like he kind of severed their friendship after that. Yeah. Which is crazy. The whole thing is nuts, dude. So that's, yeah, I don't like Cuba Gooding Jr.

I don't think very much. Because he's OJ Simpson? No, no, no. I think that's the reason I didn't love that document or that show. Oh, I thought they could have found a better OJ.

Yeah. He doesn't look like OJ Simpson. And he's not, yeah, he doesn't have a low voice. Like he doesn't feel like a football player to me. I thought it was weird that they casted him. Yeah, me too.

They almost could have casted kind of like a no-name who just looked a lot like OJ Simpson. Like you don't need a Cuba Gooden Jr. type actor to play OJ there. Well, the main lawyer, the main defense lawyer, Chris Darden or whatever, he did such a good job, I thought. And he looked so much like the real Chris Darden. Yeah, and he went on to, he's like one of the stars of This Is Us. Right, yeah.

Good for him. He propelled. He perpetrator propelled. Good drink, propel. Yeah. Anyway, okay, so Missouri is suing China, and here is my review of the week. It says, hi, Ghostrunners. My name is Noah.

I'm 12 years old. I live in Washington, which is in the Pacific Northwest, wherever you guys think that is. I literally listen to you almost every single day of the week. I started listening on my iPod Touch. Love that he included that. That's awesome. I started listening to my iPod Touch after I heard an episode my mom was listening to. And I think I've started a new record because I've listened to every episode five times.

Noah, that's insane. What? You think you listen to the podcast a lot? I know a guy who's listened to it more. Wait, how many times have you listened? Five. Noah. Way.

Comedy. Comedy Jake's back. That's good. He's back, baby. Please get back to me if that is a record. Brad, I think that Hattie's voice is so cute. I'm happy that you're having another baby, and I think that you're perfectly right to chew ice.

It is your podcast, and you choose how to do it. P.S., I do it all the time. Your podcast, your ice. Jake, I found your name in a world record book next to Josh Horton's name. Also said that you are the karate master in middle school Maddox. You should dress up like Rex from Napoleon Dynamite.

I also have a question for both of you. If you can make any world record, what would it be, and how would you do it? I love your podcast so much. Happy 50th episode anniversary. Bye bye. Bye bye. I love the bye bye's catching on.

Yes. Noah, thank you. That was such a well-written, very just encouraging review. So thank you. Seriously, by a 12 year old. Yeah. I don't think I wrote that long of an essay ever

until I was at least 13. Yeah. Yeah. A whole year. I mean, that guy is way out of his time that's awesome yeah if you guys didn't know i'm in the world record book i haven't if you didn't what i said if they if they didn't know if they didn't know i'm in the world record book if you didn't know about it what is it four i don't know which record i've actually never seen it people just like told me that's all i'm about it. What is it? Four. I don't know which record. I've actually never seen it. People just like told me that I'm in it.

So I'm like, I guess I should get my hands on it, but I don't even know which record it is, but I'm in the book. I should get it probably. That's awesome, dude. What world record

would we accomplish together, Brad? Something sports related is what I've always wanted to accomplish. Not like longest fingernails or anything? Not like that. accomplish. Like not like longest fingernails or anything. Not like that. No,

I would like to do like most three pointers in a row or something like that. Or most, most windmill dunks. No, no, no. Something attainable. Something like,

uh, I'm a sharp shooter. They call me the page of story. Occupants of my day, something attainable. Okay. That's hurtful, but... Like maybe there's a woodworking world record.

Like most tables stained. That would be fun. Yeah. How many tables you stained? Not as many as me. Okay. Yeah. Most tables stained is our answer.

Okay. That's going to be awesome. And if any of you happen to own the 2020 Guinness Book of World Records book, leave us a five-star review and tell me which record I broke. I generally don't know which one it is. How does that work? Can you just say, hey, I've done this, and if no one else says, no, I've done that more. Obviously, you have to have some proof of something,

but can you make up your own world records? World records are kind of interesting because we all see Guinness as the official one. the official one well they were the book fair so that's why you always chose of course yeah clifford the big red dog that's what you think of when you think of big red dog but they don't own that you got franklin clifford and guinness book of world records everyone can have their own big red dog yeah so guinness is the same way where we think of them as the official record holders and everything but they're just like a private company like we you and i could start official world records.com and we could be just as legitimate of a company so yeah everyone views them as the official ones but it's really like it's such a gray area it's such a you know it's the wild west essentially like there was a website called record setter that also had a ton

of world records you could beat on there okay but do they have a list and then you have to like try to beat those or can you like it would show like yeah yeah like someone you would send in your video like someone got 18 in july oh but someone just got 20 last month okay so it's kind of fun you could see the progress of other people gotcha um guinness is annoying to work with even though so our channel i don't know if i've even talked about this on the podcast before but we would break a world record every wednesday but world record wednesday is the series you would think we would have a great relationship with guinness and we did not at all. And they,

uh, it costs like $6,000 just to get an adjudicator to come out and just like say, yep, you broke it. Or even if you don't break it. Yeah. Just to come out.

Just their appearance. Yeah. Wow. So it's just very annoying. So we broke who knows how many hundreds of world records, but only like, but you can't just prove it from a video. It's very,

very hard to prove it from a video because they think you could edit it yeah yeah it's very annoying you have to have so many different camera angles everything has to be time stamped no cuts no you know it's just yeah it's kind of frustrating so yeah i think i have a five official ones i don't know what's in the book we can stop talking about me though i'm self-conch br, what's your review of the week? Mine is from Waggy Sir, and it says, Anticipating the Yellow is the name of it. Anticipating the Yellow. Waggy Sir.

And we're going through. It says, absolutely hilarious. I probably look like a weirdo laughing while driving so much, but I don't care. You guys are true brogles. Oh, like Einstein brogles. Like the Cincinnati brogles. Oh, of course.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bengals. Oh, like Einstein brogles. Like the Cincinnati brogles. Oh, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Banjos. Oh, banjos. Anyway. Daniels. Hey, Packers. Oh, man. That'll never not make me laugh.

Packers. At Guy and the McDonald's. Poor Clayton. Packers. Okay, okay okay sir that was the best part okay okay sir let's just keep our hands

to ourselves dude Packers can maybe be a t-shirt yeah maybe I think we might get some copyright issues if we made a shirt

what if there's a ton of S's in ours that's a whole different team it's something with like I don't know how you do this hand motion in a shirt but just

like squeezing around like there's two hands oh like squeezing the side of the shirt yeah oh that'd be cool oh i wasn't like that like 3d like hands at your obliques and right in there it just says backers i don't know like a fanny pack style shirt uh anyway like a cummerbund actually is what i want to sell just a cummerbund that says packers on it uh but they say each time i think i've heard the best story from you guys you unknowingly top it within two episodes i love how it says within two episodes like sometimes you have an episode where you don't have very many funny stories nothing topped anything but no thank you waggy sir speaking of that that's a good segue i thought we were going to have to like

create new segments during quarantine because we were going to be so like lacking content so i came up with story time and then turns out we haven't needed that but we could do story time right now if you'd like to do one brad it's your turn if you want to tell a little story i do have a thought for one story time time to tell a story from brad's mouth to your ears. I like how you leaned into the totally on purpose the first time. Totally on purpose. Okay, I have two different stories. I have either

the story from my cousin, which is hilarious, or the story from me. I'm going to tell the story from my cousin. That was a fun game for me. I'm glad I got to choose that. No, no, no. Tell your cousin. I think this one's better. It was from last week. He posts on our big extended family Facebook group that we're in.

Hey, don't brag. Don't brag. Yeah, I'm sorry. You're right. Humongous Facebook group. It is sick. There are 28 members in here, and we like everything. 27 active members.

It's awesome. Great percentage. Okay, so he says, I've got a story straight out of the movies great great first line i don't know what to expect out of that so this is my cousin uh i'll try to give you a little bit of backstory he's 35 ish and he's the one that worked at camp with ben rector uh he used to be a programs guy joel yeah great guy really fun also the one that ordered a dr pepper with lime at one point if you remember that story what again just one of my favorite one of my favorite guys in the world like i love him and so anyway he lives down in austin texas now keep it weird so he says i've got a story straight out of the movies this morning i was out for a jog and suddenly a bird swooped down from behind me

and hit me right in the head oh my gosh gosh. I was confused until a second later, the bird swooped down at my head again. Oh, this used to happen to my dogs out on the farm. Really? Keep going. This time I tried to dodge it and it took a pretty hard, painful spill. When I got up, the bird came at me again. I ran to the other side of the street, but the bird kept swooping at me. I ran back across the street and of the street, but the bird kept swooping at me. I ran back across the street and it kept coming. At some point, I took another spill and ultimately sprinted back up the block with the bird continuing to chase me. Finally, I escaped, but quickly realized I had hit my head and hurt my elbow pretty bad. All in all, it came up my head seven or eight times. Long story short, I went to urgent care

and discovered that I had fractured my elbow. Oh my gosh. It's a radial head fracture for the science geeks out there. I also learned from the neighborhood Facebook group that a bird has been attacking people at that intersection for about a week. And then he gets like serious. I was like laughing out loud reading this. And he goes, we could use your prayers.

Pray for quick healing that I won't need surgery. Anyway, he says a little bit more, but I just, I just comment back, you know, what I'll pray for you, you to become a man. How about that? You to learn how, how a food chain works and how to survive a bird attack. Honestly, though, birds like that's, that's one of the, I, like I said, this is why I'm scared of deer. You just never know, man.

All it takes is for one animal to go rogue. That's all I'm saying. Like birds, you never think that bird's coming for you. That bird, you're so much bigger than them. We always say, no, no, no. They're scared of you. Like raccoons, like they'll, they'll get out of your way, whatever. Like all the birds, you know, just, oh, they'll get away, get out of your way. And then all of a sudden one bird comes and just comes at you. That would scare me so much. I will say I've always hated that defense for snakes. Like they're more scared of you than you're scared of them. Well, the snake is not wetting his pants. I'll tell you that. So something's up. Someone's lying. Whether he's scared or not, he's still going to potentially accidentally get onto me or something. Like,

anyway, I just thought this was hilarious. Like the imagery of it is like, so funny. You're running like in this random neighborhood that you don't live in or whatever. And all of a sudden this bird just comes at you hard. That would be scary. Oh my gosh. And then, and then you're like, Oh, that was, that was happenstance. Like, like the other night, I accidentally had a mouth or a moth come into my mouth while we were playing pickleball. Oh, that was funny. Whatever that moth didn't mean it break your elbow no uh but then you realize no that bird is attacking me that bird's not just like accidentally it's on purpose i didn't get in his way like randy johnson and that bird wow randy johnson circle my gosh you know and you know i didn't get in that

it wasn't just like random coincidence this bird is is coming for me. Uh, he broke his elbow, but it's, I'm assuming it's not a bird of prey, right? This is like a little like, yeah. So then row or something, maybe a little swallow. Yeah. Then we had some, uh, comments down here. Uh, let's see. He called it, Oh, where'd it go? My Uncle Marty asked. Thank goodness for Uncle Marty. It was a big black grackle. Grackle. Not familiar. Probably not a hawk or an eagle.

You never heard the Olathe South grackles. No, they don't make it into the Birds of Prey sports teams list. It looks kind of, I just Googled it, it looks kind of like a crow. I don't know, man. A crow with like a rough upbringing a little bit. Right. Lashes out at humans.

Right. It gets a little territorial. It was in the Crips. It was a Crip Crow. Crip Crow? I don't know, man. That is scary. Crip Crow Pro.

It was a professional. Crip Crow Pro. That's funny. Yeah, for all the lawyers out there. Yeah. Anyway. Swick. Which my cousin, Joel,

a lawyer. Holy crap. Full circle again. Oh, I got two circles now. Wow. Got a Venn diagram. Yeah. Anyway. Swick. Which my cousin, Joel, a lawyer. Holy crap. Full circle again. Oh, I got two circles now. Wow. Got a thin diagram. Yeah, we're going thin diagram on it. Wow.

Anyway, thought it was hilarious. I had a little run in with an ant. Not run in, but just this rabbit wasn't scared of me yesterday. That always gets me, man. I'm like, oh, you think we're friends? Actually, here's what I texted Isaac about it, because I don't know why. Like Andy, when he's like mad pigeon action. Wow. You think we're friends? Actually, here's what I texted Isaac about it, because I don't know why. Like Andy, when he's like, mad pigeon action. He's like, I got to text someone about this animal thing.

No, that's a text. Okay, it looks like I sent about eight texts in a row. Here they are. Yo, I just got mad close to a rabbit in our yard. Mad close. We should start feeding them. Then they start to trust us. Next thing you know, I changed my name to Jake Exotic. Get our own Netflix special. Rabbit King.

You could be Bhagavan. How dare you? Sorry. I forgot that's how that ended. I didn't know it was going to look that bad for me. Did he say anything back? He said, brilliant. Nice.

Yeah, but it's kind of weird. It catches you off guard when a bird or any animal like doesn't act how you're used to them there you go are you rabid are you coming are you a rabid rabbit rabid rabbit yeah are you coming for me so anyway joel if you're listening out there man sorry hope you're doing all right thanks for that story time brad story time big black grackle coming on my elbow and then hit me in the face anyway i don't like the term big black grackle right like yeah hey bring me that big black grackle oh yeah don't let my phone hear you i gotta clear my search history i don't know what kind of ads i'm gonna get big black grackle uh here's something for you guys uh and i'm starting to think we're already pretty far into this we save

the voice memes for next episode because we're gonna record in like three days anyway so i could work out actually okay um but as we told you guys and i've been telling you guys we've got a big uh some big things coming next episode for episode 52 our one year anniversary of the ghost runners podcast and we can tell you guys one of those things now brad give me one of those louis armstrong drum rolls we're going on youtube that's right uh you can now see our faces and our bodies and our desks and you know how video works uh-huh for extended periods of time in fact an entire episode's worth no longer will it just be little clips on instagram but we're gonna be uploading our full episode on video on youtube.com man and we are so much funnier if you can see our faces guys

oh my kind of a kind of a jim carrey oh yeah yeah yeah the faces we have look at brad's right now oh my gosh oh my goodness that's a good funny face funny face brad oh yeah we're really excited uh the second half of the surprise you will will find out when episode 52 comes out. So make sure you click on that video. As soon as it comes out, you'll be the first to know. We're going to be uploading on YouTube slightly before we upload anywhere else. I don't know. I just said that.

Sounds fun, though. Sure. Maybe not. I don't know. We'll see. It sounded like a fun thing to do. But I think there will be, uh, some fun things about YouTube.

I mean, obviously getting to see us, uh, especially when, you know, the country is on lockdown. It's probably more enjoyable to watch a podcast nowadays. Um, sorry, go ahead. No. What are you going to say? Do you think that we're going to like, uh, even be more animated now that we know, like people are watching us all the time? Oh, I know.

I will be like, I'll look at the camera a lot more. Like more like you think i'll stand on my chair ever i bet you will do you think i will i bet you will do you think i will not yet dude we're not on youtube yet save it save it you just got hit by a table hit by a table attacked you seven times a big black grackle table radial elbow fracture my gosh so yeah we're really excited. Ghostrunners podcast on YouTube. I don't know how searchable it is. I'm sure SEO is not great when you have zero subscribers and no videos uploaded, but I know that if you search it a lot, then SEO helps find it. Keep searching. So search us a lot. There'll also be a link in our description to go subscribe to us and, you know, ring those bells, as they say. So you get a notification. Ring-a-ding-a-dingy.

Alarm bells going off in my ear. I was going to say, oh, three of you who subscribe in the next week are going to get a little something special from Brad and I. So three lucky people, chosen at random, who subscribed to our YouTube channel are going to get personalized videos sent to them. So I'll get in touch with you some way or another. And Brad and I will send you something, a little jingle, a little slam po, a little encouraging message, who knows what, but that sounds fun. Either. If it doesn't subscribe to us on YouTube, that was a lot. That was business Jake. I did go business. That was promoter Jake. That was Vince McMahon,

you know, business and promoter. I had to go a little business there but youtube.com episode 52 next uh monday it'll be out we're very excited it's going to be lit i even have surprises for brad that he doesn't know about also coming up in 52 you mentioned that very very briefly right before we started recording and i thought to myself i love surprises like good surprises like i'm you're gonna like i'm not i'm not like gonna overhype it or anything but i'm i'm so it just makes me feel loved i think it's a loved thing like it's like oh you were thinking of me and i'm going to surprise you with this thing that you're yeah whatever you know yeah and go ahead and raise those standards because i feel good about my surprise expect whatever you want to i feel good about it awesome and um can't wait baby it's fun yeah it's fun to be on the receiving end or the giving end of surprises like yeah i'm so withholding right now but it's fun to be on the receiving end or the giving end of surprises. Yeah. I'm so withholding right now, but it's fun.

Oh, man. Because I don't have to be withholding for much longer. I don't know if I get surprised very often. I got surprised with that table saw for my birthday. So that's my standard. They're going to say that table falling on you. Oh, boy. Yeah, that helped with that table falling on me.

I think I am kind of a surprise-y guy now that I think about it. You give or get giving yeah like surprised you that was mainly isaac's thing but still surprising you with the table saw and then isaac and i surprised maybe isaac and i are just surprise guys surprise guys um surprise gunner with a pickleball paddle for his birthday yeah surprising you for your son slash episode 52 yeah that was a that was a red herring it has nothing to do with your son um or or is it literally a red herring that you're gonna give me gonna give you a fish yeah stuffed animal red herring for brad jr i watched the office episode today like how

was my summer and i did this that i watched inception or at least i did yeah a lot of good one-liners when they're recapping their summer. That is good. Brad, anything else on your heart, on your mind, on your legs? No, there's a bruise on my leg. Just a bruise. Also, I've been having this weird phantom warmth in my right foot for a long time. Yeah. It's not going away. Phantom of the warmth. It's like, it's like phantom vibration on your phone, you know, in your pocket. It's like all of a sudden I just get this random warmth in my right foot. I don't know what's going on, dude. If you're a doctor out there and it's alarming, leave us a five-star review and let us know.

If you're a doctor out there and it's not that alarming, just go ahead and leave us a five-star review and tell us why we do it. Or subscribe to us on YouTube. You know, either way. YouTube.com. Backslash a bunch of random letters because you can't reserve it until you have a thousand subscribers but someday oh interesting i think so pull back the curtain there it was there you go uh but yeah nothing else on my legs except for warmth in the right foot i don't know what's going on with it my left thumb was twitching for like

three days a while ago and i was like here come the parkinson's but then it went away here comes the palsy yeah so i was fine that's good i went away yeah i wasn't very good at texting for a while but i'm fine well i'd say we ended this strong with the right foot warmth and this is a good segment twitching hey yeah good stuff this has been ending strong with the ghost runners why don't we end it with a jingle, Bradley? Okay. Okay. Greatest voice of our generation, Benjamin J. Rector. Oh, let's hear it.

Ghost runners. Ghost runners. We are the Ghost Runners pod. And we are Jake and Brad every Monday morning. Ghost Runners pod. We love when you listen to us on podcasts and YouTube. Leave us a five-star review. And we will love you forever. Maybe you'll be our review of the week.

Thank you for listening to episode 51. 52 is going to episode 51. 52's gonna be lit. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, man. Good stuff. Benjamin J. Benjamin J. Don't know his middle name. Julius.

It is. His parents founded Orange Julius. Little known fact. Thank you guys for listening we're so excited to be able and willing to still be putting these episodes out thank you guys for still

listening to them and yeah follow us on Instagram subscribe to our YouTube channel maybe win a personalized video from Brad and I yes and

I guess that's it love you all mostly Catherine and Hattie but not Longtime not Longtime do not love Longtime time. I don't like that person. Love for just like an unspecified amount of time. Can I tangent real quick? Yeah.

Love you long time was like a poultry, irrationally strong opinion thing. I have a new irrationally strong opinion thing that I do not like people say. If you know, you know. Yes. What? I don't. It's becoming too. I don't know, but I want to know. Just tell me. I think, was it our friend Emily put up just like a picture of just like something in like a baking pan? That's hilarious because you know, you know.

The person in my head that I was thinking of was Taylor, her twin sister. I think it might've been Emily. It might've been Emily. And I was like, no don't know what are you making tell me i want to know i don't know why are you posting it if people already know if it's an inside joke send it to someone don't put it in front of my eyes oh man it's like what are those cookies are they some kind of peanut butter oatmeal goodness are they lactation cookies if you know you know Catherine could use yes give me some oatmeal give me some lcs girls are so good at knowing just a perfect thing to entice you in like someone was supposed to post a picture of like a swimming pool if you know you know am I invited or what's are you having a party what's going on why is if you know you know

I don't ever who's backyard I don't ever like approach them about it when I don't know. Oh, I think about it though. Because yeah, me too. But then I think, oh, they're probably going to be like, oh, I was just saying that I'm about to go swimming. And it's like, well, that's not worth not knowing. And then knowing, you know what I mean? The allure of the unknown is way more exciting than the evidence will be.

Right. If you know, you know, it's like, oh, I was, I was about to take a dip, you know, off the high dive. Oh, cool what if you know you know oh those cookies are really good oh nice anyway i've noticed that for yeah months now it irritates me as well yes dude if you know you know it just it's uh it's people like loving the idea of withholding information, which is what I do when I have surprises, but I'm not, you know, showing it off for anyone. Like, what if I posted like just a picture of me and you together on our ghost runners podcast, Instagram, and just said like, only the real ones will get it.

It's just like, what, why would you like purposely make people feel left out? Right. I think that's the heart of the matter. it's like the hipsters of our day like if you know you know but i'm not gonna tell you so good luck figuring out what's going on idiot yeah you can't stupid you can't google this picture like you can't reverse image search this thing and tini.com it's not gonna work for that nope nope nope nope nope nope nope so so good good late late episode tange there roll it I feel, I feel, I feel brand new. I feel brand new.

I feel, I feel, I feel brand new.