Ghostrunners - 52 - Birthing Coach in a Chick-Fil-A

Episode Date: May 4, 2020

Jake tries to find blind love (spoiler: gets milk shamed), Brad made another Tik Tok, and the famous Mr. James stops by for a bit! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3cQSPnw  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

Brad, the last few weeks I've had different coronavirus type business ideas. Okay. I'm just going to keep them coming. I got a new one this week. We had ice cream truck. We had drive-in movie theater. This week, bubble soccer. Try and find me another sport that's more quarantine approved than bubble soccer.

Bring back bubble soccer. Yes. Yeah. You're like isolated. There would be no sharing of the bubble balls. Yes. You would do a good wipe down before each usage. Of the bubbles?

Whatever. Wipe down. Hey, your bubble, your choice. Wipe each usage. Of the bubbles? Whatever. Wipe down. Hey, your bubble, your choice. Wipe me down. Your bubble, your ball. Yeah. Yeah. I think we should get Cuban on the phone.

Well, why stop at soccer if we're going bubble? Why not go bubble basketball? Bubble basketball. Bubble ball. We could get Double Bubble involved as a sponsor. Bubble water polo. Oh, that would actually be good for people who can't swim that great. Right.

For all ages. ages great all right coming soon to nursing homes bubble water polo what's up youtube that's right we are on Go for a podcast. What's up, YouTube? That's right. We are on the website, YouTube.com. Finally. We're here at Chick-fil-A, Lenexa. Our guy right over there, Drew Severance, our friend of ours.

He's the owner-operator here. The Drewster. He let us in, letting us film in here, and we're so excited. Cock-a-bingle Drew. That's what everyone calls him every single time. That's true. That's true. And so, yeah, we're here and we're so excited drew that's what everyone calls them every single time that's true it's true and uh so yeah we're here we're excited we got some i mean this is an operating store obviously the dining room isn't open because of uh what was it again um i think they had some kind of bacteria in one of their um fryers that's right they call it corona fryers

there it is uh but they're still operating and so they're letting us come in and record our podcast. So we're excited. Yeah, it's kind of funny that we're like, like it's obviously still going on, but it feels so slow because we're in the area that no business is happening. And so it's like, is really anything going on right now? But this is the main thing going on right now. People are flowing through that drive-thru right now. Oh, you've got Chick-fil-A and Lenexa. Let's get here. 87th and 435. Brad, how's your week been? Man, I'm going to be honest.

The last three days have been what we would call rough, specifically because we're doing something called, I don't know if you've heard of it. It's like a newer thing with kids, but it's called potty training. Oh, yes. It's where you teach them how to pee. Yes.

Specifically pee not in their pants is potty training a dog different than potty training a kid honestly i googled potty training tips and one of the first things that came up was like just like if you're potty training a dog and then fill in the blank so you want them with uh treats right think about getting a shot caller just throw them outside every once in a while. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's, it's, uh, it's been really rough. Honestly. It's been like, like I'm not cut out for this. I feel very proud of how I act normally as a husband and a dad, but not with poopoo pee pee. I don't, I don't want to be a good dad when it comes to potty training. I just want to, I just want to let Catherine do it all. I'm like, this is, I can't do this. It's too hard. How did you do when you first had Hattie and you had to wipe the bottom? Were you good with that?

Oh, I could wipe butts all day. Yeah. That's going to come in handy when we start the bubble ball business too. You can be a head wiper. Head wiper. I would actually, I would like to offer you the position now as head wiper. I'll take it. Thought about going wipest and then.

Head wipest. Yeah. Yeah. I have, I have wipe supremacy, I think is what they call it. I'm pretty good at it. So. If you're one of the best. I'm a wipe supremacist. yeah. Yeah, I have I have wife supremacy, I think is what they call it. I'm pretty good at it. So if you're one of the wife supremacists. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. But anyway, it's just been like, man, I'm ready to give up.

This is like the third time we've like halfheartedly tried to potty train. And every time it's just gone like after a day, we're just like, forget it. We'll do it later. This time I'm ready to give up myself. So I got to say just a great idea good timing on katherine's part that's what i'm saying she she walked in the other day had he did in her underwear i'm not going to use the p word that katherine uses because i think it's awkward oh yeah i don't like that right either we're not we're not going there i had to rifle through a few before i got to what you're talking about but yes sorry yeah it rhymes with schmanties yes um and we don't like it uh but hattie calls him that and i i'm like

hey can you what are you doing with your undies you know whatever yeah um so anyway she comes in and her undies and i look back at katherine i'm like you're crazy what are you doing caddy like why are you why are you trying to do this we're literally having a baby any day now. Maybe by the time this podcast comes out, you have a kid. Yeah. Another one. And Catherine's like, no, this is the right time to do it because then we'll never do it once we have a newborn, which kind of makes sense. But why didn't we have this foresight at the beginning of this pandemic where we're supposed to stay inside all the time? Yeah. Uh, I can't, I can't blame her though. She's my wife, so I have to have to love her and support her, but it's been rough today. Catherine went and visited some of her

friends, um, gave him some cookies. And in the, in the meantime, uh, Hattie and I stayed back in her undies and, uh, she was refusing to go try quote unquote. And so I was like, okay, you know what? Rather than like okay you know what rather than like you know forcing you to try i'm going to steer into the skid a little bit here i'm going to put out a nice picnic blanket that's like it's like uh that kind of material that wicks moisture pretty well like wicks liquid pretty well and so if she did go to the bathroom on it you could wipe it up pretty easily okay so we put a picnic blanket on the living room floor watched uh tv and while we were watching i said anytime you need to go just let me know just let me know i'll put your little potty chair right here you can go

did you keep rhyming the whole time and then um if you have a rip in your shirt we can sew um no i i no no oh um i did not rhyme the whole time, but it was pretty sublime. Trying to rhyme. But anyway, so we were watching the show, and I asked her probably every five minutes, hey, do you need to go potty? No. No. And then all of a sudden, she stands up, and she says, I want a snack.

And I said, okay we're gonna we're only gonna have snacks if you go potty we're gonna have have snacks you go potty and all of a sudden i just hear this like stream like it's i like loud enough where i thought what is that noise outside yeah the are the firemen testing the hydrants what's going on the lawnmowers here like what's going on i didn't know they uprooted old faithful from yellowstone national park and put it on on my driveway right exactly yeah Who's borrowing our hose? And then all of a sudden, no, it was right below me. And I felt it and I heard it and I said, howdy, howdy, howdy.

And I tried to throw her on the little potty chair. Too late. And so now she's just, she's peeing all over the floor and we're just having to take it. And I don't like it. Does it make you want to get hardwood floors everywhere? Yes, honestly. Honestly, 100%. Because she peed on the carpet.

Because we have some parts that are carpet, some parts that are hardwood floor, and it was just, oh, it was a mess. That's going to get in the carpet pad. Man, I tell you what. You know how Catherine also cleaned the carpet today? Whenever Hattie peed on it? She used shaving cream.

Ever heard of that? I've heard of the word shaving cream, but I never heard of it as a cleaner. A carpet cleaner. I don't know. That's the thing. It's just Southern things. It's just different. So anyway, that's how I'm doing.

She's not from the South. She's from Texas. So get it right. Just like I'm from the Central West, you know? I love that that's become a recurring thing because no one really knows. And everyone's got their own opinion. Right. And i'm sticking to that the middle east needs to be a thing yeah so anyway uh jake how are you man i am well my both of my roommates went out of town this weekend to see their ladies so it's just been me at the house um how do you like that

oh i don't mind it yeah i'm pretty introverted or more introverted than people would think so uh especially during quarantine so it's fine yeah i do just fine i thought about making an instagram story which would have been fun because i haven't made one and i think like 35 days what i haven't made a story wow it's been over a month and i realized i think it's because i always do that as like an outlet like no one else is around so it's like well i'll just go and seek gratification from this because i don't even want to talk to you but in quarantine you got people to talk to you all day long yeah so I got close yesterday but still didn't do you have like a I know you have a list in your

phone of like different potential jokes do you have different potential Instagram stories as well no not for stories okay always just like bigger videos like for a and stuff yeah yeah it's more like let's just think of something on the fly right now let's combine the bachelorette and shark tank or something are you doing it that was last episode we talked about that oh yeah you're right you and i you're like oh that sounds kind of cool well it's funny we're recording on monday afternoon i haven't listened to today's episode that just came out oh right on no so uh anyway that's funny you're right we did do that we're so funny gosh this podcast is great man uh but no i've been good i've been watching slightly more netflix

than normal i finished the oj simpson documentary i started watching outer banks and then was like i think this is made for people 16 years old that are women so i stopped and then I started watching. I watched Django yesterday. Django. Here's something. Slavery was so bad. Oh yeah. It's something that I don't think about very often, but Django makes you think about it.

Hot take. Yeah. And it is just, I can't believe we did that for so long. Yeah. It was, it was really uncomfortable. I went to, I saw that movie in theaters and when I was watching it, there were all these black people that were just laughing the whole time.. I went to, I saw that movie in theaters, and when I was watching it,

there were all these black people that were just laughing the whole time. And I was like, this is not funny to me. It's like the biggest black eye that our country has ever and probably will ever have. Yeah. It was, whatever. It was crazy. Good movie, though.

Good movie. Watched Django, and then I've been watching, not as much as you, but The Last Dance, the MJ documentary. We got to talk about it. Love it, dude. I first turned it on, thought it was about dance moms. I kept waiting for dance moms to show up, but that's the thing about dance moms.

They show up when you least expect it. So you kept watching. So I've seen the first two episodes. It's mainly about Michael Jordan, and they showed some cheerleaders during one of the scenes. Oh, yeah. But I still... You're like, here we go.

Okay, okay, now it's happening. But then it was the end of the episode, so I got to wait until next week. I told you that I watched Narcos Mexico. Remember this? Yeah, yeah. You thought still. You're like, here we go. Okay. Okay. Now it's happening. But then it was the end of the episode. So I got to wait until next week. I told you that I watched Narcos Mexico. Remember this? Yeah. Yeah. And like.

You thought it was about narcolepsy. I just kept thinking like, yeah, they're going to fall asleep soon. I kept thinking Narcos Mexico. I knew like Pablo Escobar was like the main character of Narcos. So I was like. Anytime now. And so he comes in like episode four. And I'm like, oh, here we go.

Here we go. It's Pablo time. I didn't realize it wasn't Narcos. It was the first Narcos thing I ever watched. So I just thought, oh, this guy must have a really good part if he's only in here for 15 minutes. And he just makes every commercial that you see on the show. It's an honest assumption, though, because if all you see is Narcos Mexico, why would you assume that's the sequel? You're like, oh, everyone just abbreviates it as Narcos.

I guess. I didn't, yeah. But then also maybe a little bit of knowledge of where Pablo Escobar is from. Right. Because then I googled Narcos, and it was like Narcos season 5. I was like, wait, there's only one season here that I'm seeing. And I was like, oh, I'm watching the wrong Narcos. Anyway, Michael Jordan. Last Dance, what do you think?

What are your thoughts? If you guys don't know, it's a documentary film crew. It's not really about Michael Jordan. It's about just the Bulls 97 98 season which is kind of cool it's just like a little uh microcosm of jordan's career in a way and they go back focuses on jordan more than everybody else they talk about his life so did the 97 98 bulls so sure but it's uh fascinating it's fun because of like most documentaries you see nowadays are either one like a tiger king thing that's like sure recent but I had no idea what was going on. You were learning information for the first time or two.

It's something like, uh, I don't know, some Ted Bundy thing where you're learning about it, but it was, it was in the past. It's like, this is old information. And this is fun because like, we're learning more about something that we grew up with. Like, especially the 97, 98 bulls are like the oldest Jordan bulls team for me to remember that won a

championship. Like I was seven years old when they won that. And I remember that play that Jordan did. He pushed off Byron Russell. He hit the shot at the elbow in Utah. And then he did this fist pump afterwards. Because I remember in my driveway, I would do that too. I would try to hit the same shot and I would hit the fist pump.

And I remember that team. So it's fun to like peel back the curtain and see so much about this team that I loved. Right. Like my Bulls in my head are the Tony K curtain and see so much about this team that I loved. Right. My Bulls in my head are the Tony Kukoc Bulls, the Steve Kerr Bulls. Totally. Me too. I don't remember BJ Armstrong except for on NBA Jam. Yeah.

I don't remember Bill Cartwright very well. I remember having their cards back in the day, but I didn't know who they were. I just knew they were on the Bulls, so I was like, I'm going to keep this one. But I love it. No, me too. I think it's so fun because it's, it's cool to see how all these people that are younger than us, like, like we have people, we have a lot of people in our lives, Jake, since we're, we've done youth ministry that are quite a bit younger than us. Like Isaac McDonald, like guys that we love and that we're close to and that we forget sometimes

are so much younger than us. Sure. Like Isaac is literally 10 years younger than I am. And so sometimes I think like, I think I've Isaac is like four years younger than me or something, but he's never even seen any of Michael Jordan ever play. You know what I mean? Like, and so would be very surprised if he's ever downloaded anything and burned it onto a CDR. Sure.

Yeah. CD ROM for sure. Yeah. Or a DVD or a CDRW. That's what it was. It was a read, right. Yeah.

You had to get the read, right. Once. Um, anyway, he, so it's just, it's cool to see those people that are like, Oh wow. Michael Jordan scored 63 points and he didn't shoot three pointers. Yeah. You had to get the read right ones. Anyway, so it's cool to see those people that are like, oh, wow, Michael Jordan scored 63 points and he didn't shoot three pointers?

Yeah. Like what? And then there's other people that are like. And scored 63 points and lost a playoff game. Also true, yeah. So anyway, it's cool to see those people that are now having a new appreciation for Michael Jordan. It's cool us to relive it because that's that's when we, like, first started loving sports. Yeah.

It's, like, at the end of his career. Then there's other people that are probably, like, very into it that were watching it from the 80s and 90s. Anyway, it's just been really, really fun to watch and to hear all these backstories and see all this footage that was, like, literally never released. Yeah. Just crazy to me.

One thing we need to talk about, Brad. I did something this week i didn't tell a single other person i was doing it actually that's a lie i told my roommate as i was leaving greg he said where are you going and i said i said i'm going to go on an instagram live stream uh where i so the show love is blind do we ever talk about that on the podcast no because i never watched it but i know what it's about. Yeah. It's like, it looks a lot like Monsters, Inc.

They all go into these doors and these pods at the same time. And then you date people without being able to look at them. Well, these people in Kansas City have started that, which props to them. Creative idea. Something to do during quarantine. Oh, yeah. Instagram live streams where people are dating, but blindfolded. And so a friend of them hit me up and I was like, you know sure i got nothing else going on it was raining that night so i knew no pickleball was going to happen i was

like all blindfolded date some women it went even worse than you could probably think it would go really i went into it being like i mean very transparent which is crazy because love is blind was like perfectly like executed right like there was no there was no drama everything was great they all ended up together and no one had any like questions or qualms with like the process as a whole everyone's like this is how it's supposed to be yeah and so then you add in a live stream aspect to it and it's crazy that it didn't go perfect but i i went into it just being very transparent like i'm here to do this for entertainment reasons like if this is a live stream i'm not going to go into it and like ask deep deep questions about her family dynamic and relationships. Like this should be fun for people

to view. Let me, let me stop you real quick. Logistically, you said you were leaving your apartment to go do this, but it was a live stream. So one, I didn't want to do it on my own account. And two, I kind of needed someone to help me like invite these girls in. And like, it helps like have a second person since i can't see i got for most of it okay because yeah yeah you would have been publicly people could have publicly watched you do this yeah okay i wanted to keep this for the most part in the dark which is why you're you're now telling us all on podcast yeah it's and it was a great story for the podcast so uh okay so you're not you're not asking like serious questions you said not really but also not

being like an idiot not just, would you rather poop out of your mouth or like have a fox's tail? You know, I'm like, I'm being myself, but just like a fun version of myself. And it just, these were not my people. Let's see. There was one. How are these girls finding out about this thing? They're like applying like to this Instagram account.

Like I would love to be like one of the bachelorette women or whatever. And so three different girls get there. I will say the first one was a pickleball aficionado. So jumped off the page. Oh yeah. I was like, Madeline, I will play you in pickleball and I will destroy you. Let's cross the kitchen lines and shake hands and let's go for this thing. Let's break down some gender roles and let's both get in the kitchen what do you think about that and um so i would say stuff like that like funny things like that was for the most part went very unappreciated okay and not that maybe she was smiling not laughing no i'm talking about the comments oh uh not the girls themselves necessarily but people just like

genuinely on the on the instagram yeah not really enjoying me not appreciating me being pretty mean because after the the date oh so here's like a fun thing i did okay here's you'll love this so i so wish i could have been there to just roast you like who is this guy all right so here's one thing i did so you go on the date for a few minutes or like however long you want to and then it's like all right let's take our blindfolds off so this is such a great idea what i did uh which i think you'll love too is after maybe five six minutes talking to the first girl i'm like all right we're ready to uh take them off now she's like all right let's do it so i take my shirt off i'm just standing there with my blindfold on. I'm like, wow, okay, this feels better. This is fun.

I feel free. Yeah. You? And she's like, uh, uh. I'm like, what? What? And just like, she's not getting it. Everyone in the comments is like, what is he doing?

What is he thinking? I'm like, this is, I think, a pretty funny joke. Sure. And yeah, i just went so unappreciated and everything so that got the ball rolling uh with just people not really loving me uh second girl comes on i found out later afterwards that she went back and told those girls that she didn't uh find my whole thing very entertaining or funny but here's the kicker i looked her up on instagram she follows trey

kennedy so i think she does think i'm funny yeah she she does similar humors yeah oh come on the third girl yeah it all builds up with this shows up pretty sloshed to the to the date really already yeah like like slush like uh she had a lot of sonic or She had slushie all over her. I was like, come on. Like slurped. I showered for this. I'm so slurped right now. I'm sorry. And first question out of the gate is, what's your favorite bar?

That was by you or by her? By her. Okay. Good clarification. She invited me to take a shot with her. I obviously don't have the things to do this. You didn't have a basketball? No, but I faked one.

People in the comments did not like that oh they're uh did not like me and what i realized afterwards was that like they're going live from their public accounts so all their followers are getting a notification so the people watching are like they're already big fans they're already big fans of the women and i guess not me which maybe in hindsight you should have done the same thing and people would have been defending you like can you imagine logan cleaver on those comments like he would have had your back for days yeah so they everyone just wanted me to take it more seriously oh i gotta ask my favorite drink more seriously like the girl that was asking you to do a shot it was taking it seriously yeah i don't know dude it was so weird i felt like so like not like super bummed but just like

like my head hung a little low after that. I was like, that didn't go great. That was not that fun. I got asked two different times what my favorite bar was or like what my favorite drink was. The first time, oh, they said, what's been your quarantini? Oh, boy. And I was like, probably Mr. Pibb from Chipotle. People thought that was so stupid.

Then I get asked again, what's your favorite drink? She said red wine. I said chocolate milk. Roasted over that too. I was like, it's good. It's such a good drink. These were just not my people. It's better.

It's better than red wine. Write it down right now. I don't get it. I don't get wine. Chocolate milk's better. It was just not. What else happened? Oh, remember that Wichita State player, Ron Baker?

Oh, yeah. His sister was the third girl. He was in the comments. No. So he was there. You got roasted by a millionaire NBA player. Oh, man. I talked about the OJ documentary.

Almost got into an argument with one of the commenters because he kept saying that OJ was innocent. And I was like, there's just no way, dude. There's just no way. You cannot look at that with, like, impartial eyes and say that he is innocent oh man anyway oh i love it was just so weird and i guess i wasn't ashamed it was just the drive home like why did i do that what was i thinking was gonna happen do you feel like maybe you need to do it again with me um knowing your name and we could we could really revive this thing because i would love to watch this and be on your side the whole time.

Just be like a fanboy for you. No, I'm done. Chocolate milk's incredible. Yeah. I needed a hype man is what I needed. Someone literally over my shoulder who just like would fill in where like ad libs. Pimp, pimp, pimp. Yeah.

Chocolate milk. He likes chocolate milk. And then you say 2%. Yes. Just like right there, like a rap concert. I'm sorry for you, man. Maybe that's why you weren't making instagram stories because your your confidence was blown i'm gonna get roasted

yeah if i say anything but yeah they oh my gosh the chocolate milk thing just sent them off who is this guy i don't understand i know it's an acquired taste but wine is gross dude have you do you like wine uh if i'm gonna have, I would prefer it to be white wine and pretty cold. Sure. Once it starts to get even. It's not very good. Yeah. That's why you need it to be cold and not very strong.

Like imagine. Yeah. That's I have a whole bit on acquired taste because like, what if I said like, oh, I like, yeah, Jennifer's a great, as long as like she does all of her makeup and like, I'm in a really good mood. And we're like with a bunch of my friends, you'd be like, oh, so you don't really like this girl that much. That's how alcohol is like, oh, so you don't really like this girl that much. That's how alcohol is.

Like, oh, you don't like beer? Well, just it's an acquired taste. You're like admitting that it doesn't taste good right now. You have to, I don't have it. I have to acquire it. Yeah, well, after you drink it 50 times, you'll love it. Yeah, yeah. Spend several hundred dollars and then you might like it.

Then you'll at least find the type. Yeah, you'll be okay with it. You'll still really like chocolate milk more, but you'll pretend like you like beer more because it's a cooler thing to do. Think of all, think of these things and how much you enjoyed them the first time you had them. Cherry limeade. Okay. Dr. Pepper. Your mother's nipple.

I don't remember that one. Oh, I do. Okay. They were amazing the very first time. You put your mouth on them them i don't have to acquire any kind of taste for these things sure you know yeah that's my argument i think we're in a public place it's fine this guy man oh boy i didn't say that on the live stream i probably should have yes just went a whole can you imagine how funny they would have thought that was?

Gosh, I cannot emphasize enough how I've never been so unliked before. And maybe just they were a vocal minority, but it was just like, geez, I've lost it. Yeah, really? I really thought I was good at winning people over, but not when I'm dating their friend on Instagram. Wow. I'm sorry about that. So that's how I spent my Friday night. Did you watch a movie? Did have friday night movie night we had friday night movie afternoon um because we ended up having our friends gunner and emily come over for a little dinny din

dinner um and so we watched jungle book which one the barecessities. The original. The cartoon. I always felt like me and Mowgli kind of had a similar thing going on. Like both men? Yes. Yes. That's kind of where it started and ended. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Both little boys. Yeah.

I was always kind of jealous of just wearing a loincloth. I was like, that looks cool. Well, you lived out in the country. You probably could have done it. Not when that movie came out. It was still in Springfield. Oh, okay. Yeah, that movie lived out in the country you probably could have done it uh not when that movie came out it's still in springfield okay two two or yeah that movie came out in 1967 so yeah back when you were in springfield uh yeah yeah moakley when it came out for me it's a fun movie it's a

really good one i'd recommend it that reminds me let's go let's go back real quick first girl that i dated i'm like where you live springfield oh but do you live in kid city regularly no i'm about to move to st louis Then why are we even doing this? Oh, yeah. Don't even live here. What are you doing here? What am I supposed to do? Talk to her on the phone? No. Gas ain't free. What are you doing?

Exactly. And she's moving to St. Louis? Where's her judgment? Can you imagine? Oh, I have some positive things to say about St. Louis. We'll talk about that later, though. Yeah, we'll talk about that in another episode, maybe. Different episode. Anyway, Jungle Book is great. Jungle Book's great.

Yeah, man. No other movie night things besides that. Hattie's just potty training, so. Just pooping on the floor. Just yagging on the floor. Actually, that reminds me of a story i have about junior high um health class have we talked about this before we never know but junior high it's dangerous yeah it's a subject yeah um so anyway i'm like falling asleep in the back row and then all of a sudden i hear this kid

in the front like skater boy like back like a kind of kind of a yeah hipster before it was a hipster was a was a hipster was a word. Did he, like, I'm going to try to tell you some things he did. You tell me if it's accurate or not. Like, he had holes in his jeans. Oh, yeah. And he would, like, take an ink pen and, like, draw on his leg. 100%.

Like, with a hole in his knees. Yeah, he tatted himself up all day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Had, like, etnies. Yeah. Yeah, the shoes. Scratches on his hands. Like, are you scratching yourself?

Yeah. Where do you get these scratches from? Long, like, curly hair. Like, how do you get your hair so wavy john anyway so all of a sudden john just i'm in the background i just hear this and everyone like of course you're in seventh grade so everyone like pops up like what happened what happened and john had thrown up and they get it all cleaned up and everything and all obviously all these boys are just so hyped up like what was going on what was that you know that was crazy john yak uh yeah exactly and we have this coach coach hoke who's

his name great voice he kind of talks well let me let me get into it okay kind of talks like this kind of talks like and he was like he's like all right all right let's calm down i know we had a big distraction with john yak and all over the floor. And you still remember him saying that? I remember that is exactly how he said it. Those exact words. Yes, that exact cadence and everything. And we all lost it again whenever he said yakking all over the floor. So anyway, don't know how that came up.

Oh, because Hattie was pooping all over the floor. Hattie was poop yakking. Anyway, yeah. I have a new conspiracy theory. I love it. I'm in not uh i've talked about my thoughts on mattress firm on this podcast before i've got a new one security bank do you know what that is no i know those two words but not together yes yes this is the the precipice of where i'm going right near my house there's a building in or there's a bank allegedly security bank very nice two stories huge huge bank takes up a ton of space it's right by

the 95th and metcalf mcdonald's right there oh yeah no i know i know exactly where it is oh mcdonald's yeah i'm good now uh i'm so convinced that they are also laundering or they're they're doing something sketchy over there because one never heard of security bank never heard of anyone banking there i think it's security and it's just such a like a yeah catch all words security bank why don't you just call it money bank or something genesis international like what are you talking about yeah you're just saying words finance mutual sure yeah it's just like i don't even know what that is and i just think one kind of like mattress firm are people are not buying mattresses very often once every 10 years on average people are going into banks less and less right why would you ever even need to go in a bank anymore no never i was talking about this with trey and he's

like i still bank at my bank where i'm like my old hometown because all it would take for me is to go to my bank here and switch it and i still don't want to do it that's all it would take just one visit and i still don't do it. Because there's not much of a need for it. Because you can bank from wherever. It's all online. Sure. So we've got a two-story building called Security Bank that's brand new.

Something's going on. They're laundering something. And I think... Maybe they're in cahoots with the mattress firm. Probably. They're in cahoots with the firm. Who do you think they're laundering it for who who's like probably like a face mask dealers nowadays it's like where'd you get your money oh i yeah no i'm a cp uh cfo at security bank

yes absolutely i don't know man just be on the lookout okay do you think it's a chain i don't know okay i'll check Okay. I'll check it out. I'll check it out next time I'm there. I mean, I'll go to McDonald's today probably. And I'll be like, Hey, I got a drink from there earlier today. I want to look up how many security banks are in town. Cause, uh, yeah, I just think something's going on. Anyway. Uh, last week I talked about how woman at Chipotle. Oh, there's a ton of them. Oh my. Of course there are. Oh. Oh my gosh.

This is like the mattress firm thing again. Really? I think we've got an equal like Chipotle to security bank ratio. This is crazy. I can't wait till next week we learn that like Bank of America was bought out

by security bank. Yeah, it's like the third largest bank in America or something. Let me count real quick. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifty sixty seventy eighteen nineteen twenty i didn't even look that over i didn't even know that's a round number 20 security banks for a bank that i've never even heard of something's up see i do i i see the light the security light here all of the taste isaac uh okay okay so speaking of that speaking of weird voices last week gosh shout

out to we're gonna get him on the podcast later but mr james is here just had a meeting in the play place so as not to disturb us i don't want that to go unnoticed thank you james appreciate that thanks for looking out for our audio james actually james are you free can you get in here now for a little bit okay one second um speaking of pronouncing names weird, last week I talked about Chipotle lady. Yaki? Order for yaki? I went the very next day with Isaac, and I was like, this is the yaki girl. I'm like warning him.

And she comes up to Isaac and I and just looks at me and says, you want a drink? It caught me off guard a ton. James, get on in here. Because she didn't ask Isaac what he wanted, didn't ask me my name, didn't ask me anything. Just, do you want a drink? I have learned she knows my name. I think the yucky scenario, like the whole mishap with pronouncing my name. And you really played it up, too.

Yeah, yeah. You were ashamed. Yeah, I think that helped her learn. I am Jake, and I'm the guy who gets the burrito and the Mr. Pibb every time. So then I went the next day. She brought out my Mr. Pibb. No, she knows. Which is great because Mr.

James is here. That's how it all started. You just go enough and you just get it built into their minds and then they got it ready for you. I've only been known by one person to know their... Ooh, I'll start again. There's only been one person in my life that's known my order for something and it's Mr. James. So you've got it at two different

places. And he's here on the podcast. Everyone welcome. Everyone give it up for Mr. James. Oh wow, a lot of claps, a lot of claps. James? Glad to be here. Thanks for having me. Hey, get in there, get in there. Put your mouth on it. Hey. James, why don't you tell everyone just anything. I'm just kidding, I'll ask you a question. What's your, how did you first, I guess like your introduction to brad and i talk about that and then i want to know what's your favorite uh aspect of the uh behind the

counter to like do like are you like oh i love when i'm on catering or i love whipping up mac and cheese definitely or refilling the tubes headset i love crushing some headset just talking to the people you like love seeing the long line and i just make that thing go disappear you like it fired up by the productivity oh yeah sweet yeah headset's awesome introduction to you guys well you guys just kept showing up a lot at the restaurant which was awesome i'm like who are these guys yeah and uh i would see jake you're always work on your laptop up to something. Yeah, I was like, okay So I went over and just started talking to you asking you some questions what are you up to things of that nature and

Yeah, memorizing the order kind of impressing you guys and just befriending you yeah, you know, we're on the court playing basketball. Yeah Getting sweaty. It's awesome team butter team, but and we got to see you on the pickleball court soon i've never played pickleball but i am excited to sure i've i've heard from you guys that yeah it's something easy to pick up yeah oh yeah can't wait i mean literally i mean it is easy to pick up i mean the paddle weighs what do you think six seven ounces the ball is very lightweight it's so easy to pick up in my range yeah yeah yeah you can handle it um it's the back and forth i don't know the agility tie your shoes tie the shoes yeah you'll be all right knee braces no no no no you should be fine um have you had any fun run-ins with like people

who maybe recognize you or like listen to the podcast and they've like found out who you are anything like that yeah there's a there's a couple instances actually so thank you guys for that which is awesome hey no problem dude no problem no a couple of you know middle-aged moms coming into chick-fil-a and they read the the mr james name i don't think i knew about this yeah and they're just like the first one particularly just you know you're famous right and i'm just like, what? What do you mean? And she's like, you know, from the Ghost Runners podcast. Oh, you're Mr. James. I'm like, yeah, I am.

That's me. Thanks. Yeah. So that was awesome to be kind of recognized that way. And then from one of the new employees over here at the Lenexa store, I was just briefing you guys on that recently. Yeah. One of the employees just saying that he listens to it.

I was like, well, do you know Mr. James on that podcast? And he's like, yeah, I do. Well, that's me. No way. And I was like, yeah, why don't you believe that? Well, I always pictured a bald Indian guy. That is what we were going for. We were trying to, like, typecast you as that.

And it worked. Pretty close. Pretty close. Yeah, if you guys aren't watching on YouTube, you're out on just the bald indian man that mr james is you gotta look at this you gotta take a look at it um well thanks for all the uh all the free food uh thanks for being our friend all the buckets on the court uh and for being our first guest ever in year two of the ghost runners podcast let's go hey i appreciate it ever for yes yeah yeah thanks for all the cups and the videos guys of course that's where it all started right here so that's yeah that's how it actually did start

so let me rewind to what we talked about earlier yeah the initial conversation was hey thanks for having the cup in there and then you guys started eating for free it was awesome that was the best day of my life we talked about on the podcast about like how i was like i'm pretty sure that we only get one free meal like or no i said i'm pretty sure we get unlimited free meals and jake's like no surely not no way he's like i think we only get one is what he was saying and then we came back the next week it was unlimited baby i was wrong it may have been one but i kind of adjusted the rules a little bit for you guys but hey thanks for having me yeah of course man

I wanted people to see your face finally because you've been like an anonymous person yeah for a long time white guy yes all right thanks for joining us dude everyone would think like wait James is, your age and he's white? People would be like, no, I think that guy's a big black man, like an old black man. I don't know why we did that or how we were able to do that, but we duped everybody. Like, people think that Catherine's white. That's funny. That is weird.

Everyone assumes Catherine is, like, has hair and is white. Like, maybe if I started calling her Katrina, like her real name is, people would understand that she's a little bit more spicy than they really are. She's from Texas. Puerto Rico. Yeah. Anyway. Oh, Mr. James. What a guy. The all-new FanDuel Sportsbook and Casino is

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Live stream. Something else that I watched this week. Have you seen, it's like on the Netflix homepage every time you get on it, but the coronavirus explained. It's just like a limited series. Oh, I saw somebody recommend it. It is kind of interesting. It's just fun to be extremely educated objectively about something so relevant. You should check it out. I feel like we've always been educated. That's why we've made the predictions that we have

about the coronavirus. When it comes to two podcasters just being so spot on and with uh coronavirus you've come to the right place um because of the coronavirus we are only allowed to have one person in the hospital with us aka or one person in the hospital with katherine aka our doula is no longer available to be there no modula no mo do ma yes so jackie is no longer available to be there. No Modula. No Moduma. Yes. So Jackie is no longer, we might FaceTime her or something,

but basically it just means that I have a lot more responsibilities in the old. You are the doula. I'm the doula. I'm the pregnancy coach, if you will. And so it's just like, I got a whole playbook I got to memorize in a week. Anytime now,

you could be thrusted into, literally thrusted maybe into a pregnancy coach position right i think you first thing you you really lean into it you dress in all nike and your catchphrase is just do it okay that's your thing just do it guys do it just do it yeah like a like a jumpsuit kind of oh yeah yeah bright colors monochromatic oh bright colors i was i was thinking like straight black no no no no no okay you want to walk in there and people know like oh this guy's a doula yeah he just doulas it this guy this guy does it like uh like hussein bolt showing up to the olympics and like a bright

green like jamaican flag oh can you imagine if i did the bolt as i'm as i'm walking in the oh yes okay this is good i think that's what you do katherine's about to start pushing and you're like push it this way like push it out like out out out this way that could be fun do you think you'll call like audibles and stuff for her like have like a playbook yeah we're gonna run the uh white 80 xy cross uh all right here let's let's practice so I'm Catherine, I guess. I don't know how loud to be in a Chick-fil-A, but... Brad, should we get an epidural? No, no. It's too late.

Too late for the epidural. People are looking at us so hard. I thought you were going to call an audible. We don't have to do this. Why did he... XY... I don't know what the... Blimp! oh i don't know whatever you want to do i'm a basketball coach uh we're gonna run the alley-oop

you passed it and i'll catch i'll catch it and throw it down newborns are slippery though newborns are slippery but that's okay the office taught taught us that. Is there butter on it? Yeah. New words are slippery. I just imagine myself just being like, like, come on, you can do it. You know, just like motivational speaker, like Matt Foley-esque out there. Yeah. No, doc, I can't see too well. Is that Catherine, Catherine Ellis or? Muhammad Ali. Jeez. The pure strength. It's going to be wild, man. It's going to be wild. Might have already been wild.

Who knows? Because she could be in labor right now. Holy cow. Your phone's on airplane mode. Holy. Oh. I told her I was going to have my phone on loud. No, your computer still gets text.

You're right. You're fine. I do like that every time we play pickleball, Isaac asks you, Brad, you had a kid yet? And you say, no, I would tell you if I did. He texted me yesterday. Have you had that kid yet? And I thought about texting him a picture of Hattie when she was a newborn.

Because you probably couldn't tell the difference. No, they're all the same. But I didn't. Because I was half asleep when he texted me. I was taking a nap. You have been napping more. I've been napping. I've been tired a lot lately but yeah just been been a nappy practice you have this burden of doula probably coming on you my gosh uh wait so what does a birthing coach normally do like jackie was supposed to be in the room with you guys like coaching like yelling at

her uh depending on the person i think you could have that but probably not yelling at her? Depending on the person, I think you could have that, but probably not yelling at her. I think they just have a deeper understanding and knowledge of the whole process, and so they can both help the mother with the process and also help the doctor, because there's all these different options of how to have a baby. Obviously, there's the main way where you just push it out. Yes. Right, that way. you just push it out. Yes. Right. That way.

Caesarean section. There's all, yeah. I mean, but there's like all these different positions you can be in all these different medicines that you can take or not take, you know, I like the positions one. Yeah. Oh, I read a book, Jake. They're not going to get into it too much cause it's pretty graphic. Tell me what it's called though. It's called mama naturals birth to baby something oh they they wasted an opportunity

there so many things you could have named the positions and have your child in oh what are the positions called i don't remember what the positions are called that's the name of the book yeah no i was asking i think they just they could have gotten clever with that oh yeah there's all these different positions you can there's one i think what's called the power position nice which gotta be the right gotta be the one that you it's like you're about to power clean but nope you push out a baby yeah instead of instead of cleaning up you push down um everything yeah there's all sorts of different things you could do man it's it's wild so anyway and i think that she would just help ease katherine katherine's anxiety towards everything that's going on and stuff

like that in ways that i think you can you know how it's like sometimes you're almost too close to somebody like with your spouse I know you don't have one but like you can imagine like you get frustrated with your parents but then if your you know coach says something you're like oh I'll listen to the coach you know I mean yeah so like she might get frustrated not listen to Brad but if Jackie says it oh okay Jackie's right. I can't do this. I think I'm going to take it a step further, Lord willing, if I ever have a kid someday. Have it just a complete stranger in there.

Oh, yeah. Don't even know him. Just like, hey, do you pass out at graphic scenes? No? Okay, would you like to help my wife coach her through having a baby? Any position you want, we'll listen to you. We don't care. Like that girl right there at the Chick-fil-A, like taking the Chick-fil-A stuff.

I would let her. Yeah. Yeah. I'll get her attention when... She's pretty scrawny, so she might pass out quick, but she'll be fine. No. We'll check her blood. She's got good iron. Yeah, oh yeah.

So... How many different positions are there to have a kid in, honestly? Six? In this book, I think there was like six, but I'm sure... That's what... All the books I've read, there were six. Every single movie i've seen where there's something in there about it it's always just one just one they're just you see them just pushing and sweating like a lot what's that one called that one's the push and sweat push and sweat uh just push it by salt and

sweater that makes sense um yeah there's all sorts of things man i didn't know i didn't know there was options it seems like there could be one yeah i mean if you're gonna get weird with it let gravity help you out a little bit 100 that's that's a that's a absolutely oh they should tell me if this is in the book you know when you're like two years old and you're in that like almost like body harness zipline under the door frame and you're kind of bouncing around oh yeah put catherine in one of those uh-huh like zero gravity machine right the baby bouncers that you can call it and then just have a bunch of pillows underneath yeah yeah or like a bathtub like a trampoline yes and then it hits the trampoline baby right back into your hand and that's an alley oop yeah that's the that's what you call the alley in the oop that's why you audible to it yep cool um yeah

did you know there's also a thing right after the baby's born? There's this like really, it's really important for them to have skin to skin contact. And so you're supposed to like take the baby and like put them directly on your chest right away. Really? It's like supposed to help the baby with all these nutrients and stuff. Cool. Yeah.

Or all this connection. I don't really understand why you do it exactly. I'm gonna be honest, but I think it's some of that stuff. Some guy out there listening right now is going to use this as a pickup line on Tinder. Hey, you know when we were first born, we used to have skin-to-skin contact. It's my birthday. I want to celebrate my first birthday with some skin-to-skin contact. Anyway, just some.

Hey, Drew, did you do skin-to-skin with your babies whenever they were born? No. What a loser. His babies are going to be sick. His wife did. Your wife did? Oh, his wife did. do skin-to-skin with your babies whenever they were born? No. What a loser. His babies are going to be sick. Your wife did? Oh, his wife did. Oh, okay. Thank goodness.

Never mind. He's in the bathroom. I was about to ask some more personal questions about his birthday process. I was about to say, what position was she in? That's a weird thing to say. Conception or birth? Very similar in both, actually. Anyway, so it's going to be a good time.

I might be distracted for our next podcast recording, one way or the other. I know. I keep thinking, like, oh, what should we do if you start to have a kid? Yeah. Yeah, we should keep pumping them out before you have a kid in case we get a little behind. Somebody hurt my feelings in the most rational way possible last week and said, Mr. Triplett should fill in for Brad whenever he's on paternity leave. And I thought...

Oh, like my dad? Yeah. I was like, that hurts. But at the same time, he would be great. So... I think we should get the three of us on at some point. That would be the most fun. Absolutely.

Yeah, I'll make it happen. Speaking of microphones, we forgot to mention this. My surprise to Brad was brand new audio audio equipment i don't know if you can tell obviously we're filming in a chick-fil-a so you probably see that it looks different but it may or may not sound different right now i don't know oh but i hope it does in our headphones it sounds it sounds wonderful i have never heard my voice sound better so warm so thick like a just like molasses is coming into my ears right now. Yes. But anyway, yeah. This model here

is actually called All of My Stimulus Money. So it's cool. You could find that on irs.gov. Actually, my stimulus money has not even came in yet, so I spent money I don't have. Did you get it? No. Okay. Me and Isaac both haven't gotten it. You've got it. Roommate Greg's got it. I don't think Isaac's getting it. Do you think he will? I think he will.

Because he's a dependent. No, no, no. He's not? He filed himself as an independent. So it's like, sorry parents. So now his parents have to pay. But I think his parents filed I think he will. Because he's a dependent. No, no, no. He's not? He filed himself as an independent. So it's like, sorry, parents. So now his parents have to pay. But I think his parents filed him as a dependent. They hadn't filled out their... Isaac did his 2019 taxes before his parents did. So sorry, Scott and Kathy.

They procrastinated. So they just lost hundreds of dollars. A lot of money, actually. Yeah, a lot of money. Thousands of dollars, maybe. I'm sure they loved that. Yeah, I don't think they were that happy. Oh, man.

Should we get into some voice memos? I think we should. Let's do it. Okay. I just refreshed the page, and I'm scrolling down. Oh, you can do it. I've been doing it lately for us. Oh, it's coming straight from my computer.

Love it. Okay. I think this is the first one. We got some good ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, here we go. Hey, Ghost Runners. It's your boy, Knack Baxter.

Hope you guys are doing well during quarantine. So something happened to me, and I was wondering if it has happened to you. My wife tried cutting my hair, and it didn't go very well. We ended up having to buzz the whole thing. I got a straight razor, tried to give myself a stripe. I look sort of dumb. But yeah, none of the barbershops are open. So I was wondering if you guys have had any similar experiences like a bad hair day or you tried to cut your own hair or your wife tried to cut your own hair. Well, not Jake. Sorry.

But yeah, just let me know. And I hope you guys are doing well. Talk to you later. Knack. Our boy. Yeah, I met him at the Louisville show. Louisville. His hair looked nice then, from what I remember.

Because he was getting professionally cut. He didn't make fun of me for not having a wife then, though. So he's obviously changed. He's different. Hey, quarantine's changed you, Knack. Yeah, you didn't used to be like this when you had all your hair. Call you a Knack. Just kidding.

Edit. So I have not gotten a haircut since Christmas, I think. It was the episode right before we recorded. When did you go to Mexico? Decembercember like 13th yes so like that episode i had just gotten my haircut and i don't think i've gotten my haircut since then why not uh so for a while saving kinda for a while i was uh on like this i just had this like running joke challenge in my head of like hey i'm on i'm gonna drought here business-wise i'm gonna, I'm in a drought here. Business-wise, I'm going to wait until I get a good order, like a solid order. And I'm going to,

cause I don't have money right now. So I'm, I'm not making money. So what a fun running joke with yourself. Not a joke. I don't know what it was. It was just like a, I don't need a haircut right now. And so I didn't get a cut for the longest time. And then by the time I got some orders, it was quarantine season and so yeah just have very long hair right now uh i don't know what to do it in a week things are opening back up right from what i've heard like phase one i think in kansas like hair salons and stuff like that is opening back up like massage parlors i think oh yeah like restaurants with like limited seating are opening back up i think okay good i know that in Kansas City, Missouri, it's supposed to be till May 15th.

Yeah. Kansas though. Kansas, baby. I mean, it writes itself, you know, the jokes write themselves. You can get massaged earlier. It's obviously the better state. Yeah, you can get rubbed down earlier. During a pandemic.

Yeah. Anyway, so I'm very excited to get my hair cut for multiple reasons, mostly just because it's annoying to have long hair, but it also just doesn't look the best. I've thought about having Catherine cut my hair. She cut my hair once in college, and she did a pretty good job, but it took her genuinely over an hour to cut. And so just not up for that right now.

You're busy. Sure. Got a jungle book. Yeah. Cool. Well, thanks, Knack Baxter. Next one is from Cameron. Hey. Cool. Well, thanks, Nick Baxter. Next one is from Cameron. Hey, Jacob. Hey, Bradford. This is Cameron from beautiful Great Falls, Montana.

So this last week you talked about starting an ice cream truck and then you mentioned how growing up you never really went to the ice cream man and that got me thinking about how when my siblings and i were small children uh our parents told us that it was not selling ice cream but they were actually giving out vaccinations to kids and that was a way to get us to never ask for ice cream from the ice cream truck and that got me thinking is there any lies that your parents told you growing up just to get you to not want to do something or brad is there any lies that you are telling hattie or would tell her because i don't know you just don't want her doing something so yeah i love the podcast hopefully you're all doing well and keep up the good work thank you cameron that's funny i uh that's a good idea they're giving up shots it's the vaccine truck who wants one it's the

syringe mobile not a bad idea should we start one yeah that's that's the business right there um especially in these times that's's what I'm saying. Yeah. Do you lie to Hattie? Because if you do, you're a bad parent. I'm sure I've lied to her before, but I don't lie regularly to her. I don't know. No, I don't think I lie. Yeah, I can't remember.

I'm sure my parents told me some stuff to get me to shut up or to fool me about something, but I don't remember it. I will say, parents, if you're listening to this with kids uh who have beliefs in holiday um people fun holiday fun uh fast forward the next 30 seconds are you doing it fast forward if you have kids okay uh i remember asking my mom over and over again back in the day mom is santa real is santa real and i was the youngest and so the cat was out of the bag for my sisters i hope um my mom just kept being like yes brad yes brad and then i can remember i guys pestered her enough i guess and she finally just stopped and she looked at me she goes no brad santa's not real and so my mom lied to me for a while about that.

But beyond that, I don't think, I don't remember any lies like that. I also remember, this is kind of just like a fat kid story, I guess. But I remember when I started ordering actual meals at McDonald's instead of happy meals. Nice. Thinking I was such a big kid. And I was like, yeah, I bet Julie and Dana didn't do this for way older than me. And my mom just kind of looked around. And I could just like, oh, she's been playing me for a while. I could have ordered these years ago.

And I was getting a Happy Meal until I was like eighth grade. No, I'm kidding. But those are the only two things I can remember like that. I would lie to my campers every now and then for fun. Oh, yeah. But never my own children. No, not yet. We'll see.

But that is fun. The vaccine truck is coming to the neighborhood. Can you imagine? What would you think about these other kids, like your friends running up there like, hey, you know they're going to stick you, right? Yeah. Like, why are you going?

Jeremy goes like once a week. Must be sick. Some kids just like that stuff. Must be sick. Yeah. Okay, thank you, Cameron. Next one is from Mackenzie. Hey, guys is mckenzie from austin texas uh i'd like to weigh in on texas definitely being the south uh mostly because i think we invented the term y'all uh and also really

culturally i could go knock on someone's door and be like hey Hey, I need help. And they'd be like, yeah, I'm here to help. Also here's some sweet tea or Waterloo or like a freaking margarita. I don't know. Um, and they would help me. Uh, also it should be known that I did grow up in North Carolina, which I also believe is the South for the same reason. I know that's been debated. Um, so that's my hot take and I stand by it. Uh, also Jake, I'm jealous. That girl gets to be your dentist for the rest of forever. Would you like a personal trainer for free for the rest of forever? Because let's do it. I'm down. Let me know.

We all function on zoom right now. So why not? Okay, great. Uh, minutes almost up. Love you guys. See you later. Okay. There's a lot in there what is waterloo uh when

does she start becoming my trainer i just googled that waterloo is a type of drink it's like a la croix makes sense that water being the title because that's basically all it is yeah tantalizing aromatics for a delightfully bubbly drink huh nah i don't want any southerners coming to my door and asking between uh ice cream bites sure maybe to yeah reset the palate yeah uh definitely forgot about my dental girl i don't i guess i need to hit her up or something i forgot about that or she needs to get through dental school yeah something thanks for uh offering that service of personal training to jake because if one of us needs a personal trainer it's definitely jake why is brad not getting the love here um yeah i appreciate. I've never had a fitness trainer before, but it could be fun. Oh, I'd love to watch you go to a personal trainer. I think I just feel

like they just like kill you. I'm scared to go to a spin class. Those people, those people are probably doulas. Honestly, they love just yelling at people, their own age. Just imagine like a spin class though. And you're the only one there there that's what personal training sounds like to me like they will absolutely know if you did not do 100 of the reps they asked you to do you know what i mean i mean i think there's some personal trainers where they just all they do is create the workout for you just like here are the sets and the reps that you should do okay because i think josh madison's wife does that for people yeah emily madison shout out yes yeah um maybe emily weigh in and five-star review yeah come on the pod as far as the south goes it just i get her argument but so

are we supposed to is hospitality part of the rubric i mean it could be something that i think that every almost every single region in america thinks they have the corner on people like southern hospitality midwest hospital like people in minnesota minnesota nice is a huge thing that almost every single region in America thinks they have the corner on. People like Southern Hospitality, Midwest Hospitality, like people in Minnesota. Minnesota Nice is a huge thing up there. Yeah. So I don't think that's like,

oh, if you came to their door needing something that you were in trouble, they would help you. Like that's not just a Southern thing. I think it's more prevalent there. But yeah, it's just tough to establish a rubric for this thing. It's partly geographical.

It's partly cultural, like the original 13 and everything. everything yeah we just don't know I don't know where anyone is how can but Montana nor north for sure yeah what's his name one thing we agree on Cameron Cameron is in the north he the ice cream guy yes from Montana okay cool yeah I I don't think how do you know who invented y'all by the way I think you know who invented y'all, by the way? I think you. How do you know who invented a word?

Unless it's like a word from like a movie or a song or something. Shakespeare invented hundreds if not thousands of words. Which, not a movie, but in his day, practically a movie. Yeah. His version of a movie. Yeah. Which is cool. I like the initiative it takes to be like, you know what?

I'm not satisfied with the current, you know, dictionary we have. I'm going to it takes to be like, you know what? I'm not satisfied with the current dictionary we have. I'm going to add in several hundred of my own. Okay, right now. Let's think of a word. Okay. First, let's solve a problem. Is there a word that doesn't exist for a feeling or an emotion that happens? Is there a void somewhere in our dictionary?

I know this is not the most sexy answer, but the other day when I was playing pickleball, I had a random pain in my toe and I could not describe how it felt. Yeah, like an annoying pain. Like, oh, do you need to lie down? It doesn't kill. It doesn't hurt so bad that it's paralyzing. It's just a little...

Like, sculpting. Yes. Sculpting's a word, is it? Sculpting? Yeah, you're right sculpt let's just go sculpt yeah yeah but you would you would say like if it was like a verb or like it was if it was a feeling adjective noun okay sculpting is not a word okay there it is sculpting yeah i just got a little sculpt oh is it oh it's bleeding no it's just kind of like that sculpting pain yeah that works that's great we're the shakespeare's of our generation that was so easy Yeah, I just got a little sculpt. Oh, is it bleeding? No, it's just kind of like that sculpting pain. Yeah, that works.

That's great. We're the Shakespeare's of our generation. That was so easy. No wonder he did it hundreds of times. That was so easy. The first thing I thought of is not a word. Sculpting. You just threw it out there. I love it.

I can't believe it worked. I'm more impressed. Yeah, I'm like, how is that not a word? That's probably a really hard. Okay, if you're listening out there right now. Try to think of one. I'm going to give you five seconds to think of a word that you've never heard of before. I'm going to do it too.

Okay, I'm going to think of a word. You go first. Think of a word. Say it out loud. I'm going to say... Go first, you guys. Santors. Santors. Santors. S-A-N-T-E-R-S? Yep. Santors?

Santors. I love... oh, it's a band. Rick Santers. Santers.com. Sarah Huckabee Santers. I think it might not be. Santers. I love the process of struggling through it. Sandpents.

I think that's the way you got to do it. Just like start saying something and like, oh, that sounds like something. Just keep going. Be like chicken, chickenapolis. I don't know. So I think it's's really genuinely hard to think of a word that's why i was so impressed with myself right out of the gate it's not a word that doesn't exist all right so scoping pain okay thank you mckinsey brad jake what's up joel from columbus i spread 90 bags of mulch on Saturday. It took me four hours, and I listened to you two talk about pickleball. It seemed like the entire time.

So I have a question about pickleball, thinking about picking it up. I've heard about runner's knee. I've heard about tennis elbow. Oh, my gosh. I'm wondering if there is a body part that I am putting at risk by picking up pickleball. Is there a pickleball body part that I need to be concerned about? I really had nobody else on planet earth to ask. So I'm asking you the ghost runners,

please help me. Thank you. That is crazy. JT, man, that is crazy. The timing that that was completely on accident too. And to make it better,

even last week when you were talking about it and you're like it's kind of like turf toe but different i called it pickle toe oh you did yeah i was like oh you got pickle toe yeah yes my left index toe i don't know if that's what we call it has been sculpting it's been sculpting like crazy man sculpting hot oh man and it it's it's enough to be really uncomfortable but not i mean you're not gonna have to lay down because of it i mean you know sculpting yeah it's that yeah be really uncomfortable, but not, I mean, you're not gonna have to lay down because of it. I mean, you know, sculpting. Yeah. It's that. Yeah.

I have found my right butt cheek. Yeah. Which I shared with everyone. I was like, anyone else's right butt cheek kind of hurt playing pickleball? I like how you just said it like in a different way. And you're just like, that's okay to say it like that. Butt cheek.

Butt cheek. Yeah. And no one else seems to have that same. No, no, but then it might've been like a mental thing, but after you said it the next day i was like oh it does kind of hurt i think the way you like hit a forehand swing it if you're right-handed i think it yeah you're like glutes get squeezed a little bit i think hey i've got a physical trainer i'll just ask her right dude mckenzie i don't know what it is because pickleball

is like like we've talked about before you can play for three hours and not be tired so it's not like you're like – Are we playing tonight? Yeah, of course. Hope. Yeah. Yeah. We got to find the players. Mr. James will play.

James is in. Pickleball tonight. What time you get off? He's in. Oh, perfect. That's literally perfect. I got something at 7, so see you at 8. Cool.

Okay. We got players. So like every single time we play you can play forever but then when i get done and i'm walking from my truck back to my house i feel like i broke every muscle in my body which i know you don't break muscles but like i'm so sore and the next morning i'm fine but like something's getting worked out in pickleball that's not normal like i feel the tennis elbow do you ever feel that no man we hear our forehand is pretty different it's more your elbow my butt which is stronger imagine if we combine those things baby oh hot dog oh hot see his butt and

his elbow huh have we ever told that story on the podcast the hot dog i don't even know what the story is oh you don't remember this i just feel like it's like a chicago yeah like thing to say so when i studied abroad in spain we were doing our orientation the first day, and there was this guy that studied abroad with me, Joel. I don't remember his last name, but he was from New Jersey. He was from New York and New Jersey and went to school in the other one. But he's a Northeastern guy, had a great accent, and they were at the school in Spain.

They were explaining all these different amenities. Wait, Northeast. Northeast. Northeast. I think I know where that is. Like if you knock on their door to get lemonade, they'll be like, get the heck out of here. I've got Waterloo, but that's it. I don't want any trouble, huh? I don't know if that's what they say.

But anyway, they were talking about all these accommodations that the school had. And they were like listing off like this bullet point list of like different things. And after every single one, he was getting so excited he would just go oh hot dog we've got uh air conditioning we got a continental breakfast uh it starts at 6 a.m we've actually got a siesta time in the afternoon hot dog it was awesome like he was so it was he was especially excited i think about like the gym that they had available and maybe the cafeteria, but he was just like hot dog. We got a cafeteria full of hot dogs,

hot dogs, hot dogs. He was like the stereotypical, like Northeastern, like shrimpy little guy that you would never want to get in a fight with. Cause he's got dad strength. You know what I mean? Like,

or he's just like kind of like that guy that went viral, like for freaking out at that restaurant that one time. Bagel Boss. Yes, Bagel Boss. Not really like Joel, but had the same energy as Joel. Joel was a pretty little dude, but you're like, don't mess with Joel, man. Scary, unpredictable. Joel loved his gin and tonics.

He would always get a gin and tonic. And he would never know how to speak Spanish. He'd be like, me lamo, Joel. And we'd be like, Joel, no one can understand you. Yeah one can understand yeah you're out to get a gin and tonic anyway but hot dog i i love what he would say that so i would i would say that all the time in spain and i brought it back to america people people had never heard that phrase before hot dog how do you think bagel boss is doing what's he up to now uh i think he's graduated to Bagel Bites. I don't know.

I saw he was on Cameo for a little bit. Thought about getting one for Trey. He was just, or no, we thought about getting one for the video, the short man syndrome video that we made. You saw the video, right? We looked it up at that guy. He's like, you are not God, my father, or my boss. Oh, the video of him. Yeah, I've definitely seen the video of him. Yeah, I thought you meant the one my father oh yeah yeah or my boss oh the video of

him yeah i've definitely seen the video of him yeah i thought you meant the one of trey i think i've seen that one of trey too but um or my boss that was my favorite part or my boss good line well joel yeah you should be fine you're not that a guy you played college soccer right i didn't even realize that his name was joel i didn't even put that hot dog hot dog that's a that's a good irony oh i'll just take a gin and tonic with joel thank you for the voice memo yeah joel hey it's rose hope you guys are staying safe so i work as a physical therapist and first wanted to confirm that a fractured bone is the same as a broken bone but there are terms like displaced or common neuted that elaborate on the severity of the fracture neuter anyways the rest of this message is to appreciate but jake brad you're also awesome

but right now we have to get on our feet for jake all right i'll be right it's based on some stories from the recent episode so i just gotta say jake dude anyone who questions whether you're funny or attractive just can't handle your level of awesome let's go they can't handle the quick wit thanks for the formal friday flare or the dimples or your t-h-i-c-c-c-c-c oh oh you are amazingly awesome my brother and i are still laughing about your cameo in the introvert versus extrovert video and we definitely try to talk to our delivery guys and make them uncomfortable uh since seeing that anyways keep up the good work know you always have people rooting for you in california bye california the midwest the midwest midwest hospitality is west of the middle hospitality yeah get some water rose that was so encouraging rose wants that chili rose wants that chili

but i didn't know better but i didn't know better. But I didn't know better. I would think Rose was wanting to start paying rent and start building a little home right in this left dimple, is what it sounds like. Chewing through the dimps, dude. Thank you, Harrison. Wow, Harrison, off the clock, still serving his patrons. That's how they do it in Chick-fil-A and the Nexa, baby. If you guys aren't watching on YouTube, you're missing out.

A lot of things visually happening. Rose, that really is so nice. And it comes at a great time, right when I'm feeling discouraged because I can't blindfold the date women at the level that I would want to, that anyone would want to. Can you imagine how funny they would be, though, if they saw you? Like, you are a funny-looking guy. Like, that's probably the issue is that they didn't realize how funny-looking you were.

Where is this joke coming from? Like, those girls didn't love is that they didn't realize how funny looking you were. Where is this joke coming from? Like, those girls didn't love you because they couldn't see you. Oh. But if they would have seen you, they would have been like, oh, that guy. Because it's really the face. Yeah, you're very charming. You're very funny looking. That is so kind of you, Red.

Thank you. I see you and I'm like, oh, hot dog. Oh, hot dog. Rose, that is really kind. I'm glad you liked the little cameo. I think maybe just two videos in a row, my cameo on trey's videos were just me at the door so that's kind of become my thing now just kind of a delivery guy yeah that's my thing door dash yeah um all right maybe someone will talk about you in the next uh voice memo brad no no no thanks rose

hey guys big fan from ohio here i wanted to let you guys know I really have enjoyed the March Madness bit. Without basketball, it's making it a little easier. I think that biting the tongue got less recognition than it deserved. But nevertheless, I think the person that deserves the most recognition is Steve Triplett. Regardless of who the winner is announced tomorrow, I'm his biggest fan and he gets my vote with whatever he wants to do. Steve Triplett, 2020, 2024, I will be there.

I will be his campaign manager, whatever he needs. We've learned he's multifaceted. He can stand up for what he believes in and, you know, but also reach across the aisle if he needs to, if he needs to. And so the most important part, I think, is he doesn't stink. And that's always number one. So anyway, Steve, I'm your biggest fan.

Oh, man. Wow. Another voice memo. No love for Brad. Yeah, I was going to say not only no love for me, but literally love for my replacement. What's the word now? Your paternity leave. Your pater for my replacement. What's the word now? Paternity leave. Your paternity leave replacement.

I'm being Wally Pipped by Steve Triplett. Wally Pipped by Steve Tripp. We'll talk to the CEO of Ghostrunners.org and see what our paternity process looks like, see if we can get Brad freed up for some or not. If only Steve Triplett were here to comment. Oh, wait. Here he is right now.

Hey, Kirstie. That wasn't bad. I just want to say thank you for your love for me and Jake, Caitlin, Trish. You know, during these quarantine times, we're just having a lot of hard hard uh hard problems that we're trying to solve and um you know waking up every day with Trish is just honestly just it's getting a little old for me uh you know so that was a really good uh

break for me and I can't wait to uh take over take over that big boy's big boy's chair and just just go to town on the ghost runner so thank you so much I can't wait for take over that big boy's chair and just go to town on Ghostrunner. So thank you so much. I can't wait for that baby to come out so I can finally get my time in the spotlight. That was great. Thanks, Dad. Gosh, that guy.

I tell you what. In and out so fast. Thank you, Kirstie, for the voice memo. Really appreciate it. Seriously, though, I'll say it again. Steve Triplett, funniest thing that's ever the voice memo. Really appreciate it. Seriously, though, I'll say it again. Steve Triplett. Funniest thing that's ever happened to our Ghostwriter story. Yeah.

It was great. And at 8 a.m., no less. My favorite, we already analyzed this last week, but my favorite part was he just goes, what? Yeah, the silence leading up to this grand reaction is such a funny concept. He's good at that. Thanks, Kirstie.

Thanks. Hi, guys. It's Heather Lee from Florida. I've been a little behind on the podcast, but I'm starting to try to catch up. I normally have been going on a lot of walks and runs as well because of quarantine. And so I'll listen to you guys while I walk or I'll listen to a crime podcast. And I've noticed it is definitely a different walk when you're listening to a crime podcast. Um, today I was listening to episode 50 of you guys and just walk past a neighbor and was like, Hey, how's it going? Um, six feet of course, but just feeling friendly versus if I'm listening

to a crime podcast, I will be a little more suspicious of my neighbors and like, hmm, better keep an eye on that guy. I'm not sure about him. So I'm not saying you guys make me a better neighbor, but you kind of do. Also, today while I was listening to episode 50, at the end of the episode, I was thinking you guys should put together a compilation of all your jingles because they're all so good. And I think people would really like that.

So I don't really have a question, but that is a suggestion. So keep it up you guys are hilarious heatherly thank you uh two things one the compilation idea i have been thinking about for a while now that these are going to live somewhere permanently the full episodes it'll be so much easier to go back and be like hey let's go and get all the jingles or just like someone could put together all of just like you know i think a great idea someday would be like ghost runners out of context, just like,

you know, random little sentences here and there that somewhat flow together, but make no sense. They're kind of funny. So that'll happen eventually. I think the first thing she was talking about reminds me of, uh, Mr.

Deeds, that movie where, uh, the guy, the crazy eyes guy, he like thinks his mailman hates him. And he's like, yeah,

he came up the other day. He was all like trying to cast a spell on me or something. And he's like, maybe he's just waving. And he's like, oh yeah. Yeah other day he was all like trying to cast a spell on me or something and he's like maybe he's just waving he's like oh yeah yeah i think that's heatherly like listen to the cry podcast like this guy is just staring at me smiling and he's getting rid of water through this like little pipe outside of his house like onto his flowers like psychotic behavior freak is doing that why would you not want water yeah listen to the ghost runners he had to open up this huge door to get his car out. And I was like, what is going on over there?

Like, get a normal-sized door, freak. Like, it goes from, hey, how's it going, to, hey, how's it going? You know, like, kind of a little more of a, yeah, imposter tone. Our garage door got fixed this week. Was it? What was messed up? You had to hold down the button the whole time it was going down. More annoying than you would think.

Totally. So how'd they fix it? I don't know. Peter said, Hey, I'm here to mow the lawn. He left garage door worked. Don't know what he did.

Peter. He did more than mow the lawn, I guess. I'm not going to say it for sure. I'm just going to do two different things that maybe you can put together yourself. Peter, Jesus Christ,

very similar in books. That's all I'm going to say. all i'm gonna say i don't know i don't know but anyway like a good neighbor the ghost runners are here is really what we need to know we are your neighbors all right next one from luke what's up y'all my name is luke and i've been listening to a couple of podcasts now. I had lots of laughs, especially about Aldi's and the marching for COVID. That was a good time. Anyway, so I wanted your opinion on a couple of random foods. So cottage cheese, that's number one. Peanut butter powder, that is number two.

And then the third is a Thanksgiving classic, cranberry sauce. Only the ones that come out of the can in the little rings. All right. Y'all have a good one. Luke works out, for sure. Yeah. For sure. If he's asking about cottage cheese and protein powder, peanut butter.

Yeah. Or peanut butter, whatever, butter whatever powder uh cottage cheese once upon a time i was making a video with trey kennedy and we were making things out of letter boards just trying to be like weird and came up with a joke right then and there that i think is still pretty funny i said cottage cheese nope got it milk never expires if you love cottage cheese exactly i know that's not actually how cottage cheese works but kind of it's like it's like a mistake i feel like yeah it's like the the hot dog of the pig it's like well we got leftovers we can make something out of it oh hot dog hot dog at the pig caught cheese yeah i i just don't understand i think it's fine but no thank you

very rarely do i enjoy a chunkier version of something that I already like. Yeah, exactly. Milk is good, but can it become chunkier? Haley. Can it become, oh. Do you want a milkshake? Oh, yeah. Do we want a milkshake?

Is the Pope Catholic, Haley? Come on. We were just speaking of daring. Thank you. There you go. Enjoy. And this is great because it doesn't become chunkier. Thicker, sure.

Thanks, Hales. Chunk, no. Wow. I think I told you that time I was DJing a wedding and the father of the bride asked me to play a song called Chunky by Bruno Mars. Got put in a really weird position. First of all, I never heard the word chunky, but I can imagine what it's about. When Bruno Mars is singing about it, it's definitely not about food.

I kept going back and forth. Like, yeah, okay, he's the father of the bride. I should do what he says. Okay, now let's look at the other side of things. This is a song called Chunky. Probably not going to be that appropriate. Now let's go back. That's the father of the bride. I should do what he says. Okay, now let's look at the other side of things. This is a song called Chunky. Probably not going to be that appropriate. Now let's go back. That's the other side.

It's a song called Chunky. Now let's go back to the dad side. Kind of weird because the father is asking to play a song at his daughter's wedding that's about a girl's looks, presumptuously. You know what I'm saying? It's going to be about... Oh, I know exactly your predicament. Like, why would a dad even request this

for his daughter's wedding? Like, what if my dad comes up at Caitlin's wedding, hey, I made a little playlist for you. It's called Wiggle. Yeah, I want... You know what to do. And he's like,

and make sure it's unedited. I want the explicit version. I want all the words in there, okay? I need all the bombs. Do you have the Whisper Song by the Ying Yang Twins? I want to start the night with that one. Now, do you know Freak-A-Leak by Petey Pablo? Oh, man.

Did not end up playing it. Good. I was like, oh, well, the Wi-Fi is weird. I only have the songs already downloaded on my computer. He's like, no like no dude i used to make salsa every year for her on christmas day and i always would make it chunky and so that was our song he's like i don't think that's what it's about man chunky chunky just a weird word don't say chunky unless it's like unless you're a scary doll and then take out the end yeah chucky so as far as cottage cheese goes brad and i not a fan of second thing peanut butter powder i never tried it but don't why

yeah peanut butter already tastes great as it is and it's pretty cheap so i don't i imagine peanut butter powder is like a cheaper version like if you're camping maybe but i'm like i peanut butter is already like they have some like low calorie substitute peanut butter called p2 maybe i don't know if that's what it's called for sure. P4, some P and something. And PB3. Is that what it's called, James? PB2.

PB2. It says Haley. And I don't want to try. Is it powder? Yeah, it's like dehydrated peanut butter. It's like dehydrated. And do you like it? I mean, it's good in smoothies.

Good in smoothies. Huh. So maybe I should try it. Dehydrated. there should be there's a new word we gotta come with a new word for like dehydrated gets such a bad rap like my body is not great with it's when it's dehydrated but there's like my body's flunked like like evaporated milk makes me feel like well where is it then so i don't have any just add in a little evaporated milk just add in like, well, where is it then? So I don't have any? Just add in a little evaporated milk. Just add in a little dehydrated peanut butter. Yeah, just a little flunk butter. I'm like, for some reason in my head, it just doesn't

compute. I'm like, there's going to be nothing there. If we dehydrate it, if we evaporate it, where'd the milk go? Left out of the sun. Now it's cottage cheese. Yeah, don't ruin a good thing. Peanut butter is a good thing. There's substitutes for everything out there. Just keep peanut butter the way it is, please. There's a lot of substitute teachers out there. Not today. Not anymore. What's the third thing? Raspberry rings. Never eat the cranberries.

Cranberry. At Thanksgiving. There's already way too much good food for the small real estate that you have on your plate on Thanksgiving. There's no way I'm putting even one sixteenth of it with cranberries. I would agree. Hard pass. I've had it before and it doesn't crack my top eight. And I've only got like four slots really. And I'm going to put at least one quarter of that with like rolls. Love

the rolls. Rolls, mashed potatoes. There's some sort of hash brown casserole involved. Sure. Okay, next voice memo. I'm pretty sure this is a girl who DM'd us. This is her ordering in the drive-thru her voice memo does that sound right did you see that dm i wasn't yeah yeah yeah that's right i think this is it so here we go i haven't listened to it yet four piece chicken nugget with some awesome sauce and then a small fry and a small strawberry lemonade that's your order that's a yeah that's exactly what i order there is a 4p spicy regular nuggets regular

and i have kind of sauce i have barbecue soy sauce honey mustard and rice uh do you guys not have the awesome sauce no sorry. Okay, I'll do the barbecue sauce. Okay, baby. That's it. Wait, wait, wait. 462, thank you. Can we rewind the options? I think she said something similar.

Okay, okay. Second one she said. Regular. So barbecue. And I have a kind of sauce, I have barbecue, soy sauce, honey mustard, and ranch. Soy sauce, honey mustard, and ranch. There's no way soy sauce is an option. How does soy sauce crack the top four?

But sauce-some sauce? That was sauce-some sauce. She said awesome sauce. Different, right? Isn't it sauce-some with an S? It is. But I mean, that woman definitely said soy sauce. That's Wendy's fault.

No, let me do it like she did it. Okay, so I have barbecue, sauce-some sauce, soy sauce. That was a good try. I know, I tried. Soy sauce? There's no way, sauce and sauce. Soy sauce. That was a good try. I know, I tried. Soy sauce? There's no way it's soy sauce. That's what she said, though. You get a packet of soy sauce to dip your tenders in?

I've never heard of that. I'm not that familiar with the Wendy's menu. Maybe there's something there that is a little more soy sauce appropriate. I'm just familiar with the way soy sauce works and you don't dip chicken in there. I don't know. She might not be from the midwest though all these restaurants are minnesota i think taking away the sauce that i like mcdonald's so all these restaurants started come out with their own like

canes sauce pretty much just yellow barbecue sauce mcdonald's came out with signature sauce winnie's did saw some sauce both of those restaurants have retired the sauce i'll tell you one place that sauce will never get retired. Where's that? That's chicken filet, baby Right This guy over here. I can't tell be smiling. He's wearing a mask probably he's seeing his cheekbones a little bit though Probably his eyes narrow a little bit They will never they'll never read and and all those other places are basically trying to do similar things to what Chick-fil-A already does

with their sauces. Darren, I forgot for a second that I was in a Chick-fil-A. I was talking about cane sauce for a little bit. Not going to get invited back. Another thing... Oh, no. This will be very pro Chick-fil-A. Here's a challenge for you. Because Isaac and I do this almost every night after Pickleball. We go to McDonald's and we get dollar drinks.

Chick-fil-A, where's your dollar drinks? Something that never happens. In fact, it happened once, actually. And I texted Isaac about it this weekend because it was such a big deal. I said, you've missed so much. I said, Greg and I played Call of Duty together. McDonald's worker said, how are you? The podcasting equipment I'm surprising Brad with came in the mail.

Got publicly ridiculed for no good reason. Got milk shamed. Got mad close to a rabbit again again i had a lot to send him but it's such a challenge of the week try to get a mcdonald's worker to ask you how you're doing every single time i go it's the same interaction and it's like different locations different workers hey what can i get for you today hey how's it going we're gonna get for you that happens all the time it's crazy no not even like they don't even respond to your how's it going yeah yeah no hey how's it going like i'm directly asking the question they're like what do you want like you they just all do not want to be there so bad really like across the board any mcdonald's you go to they

will not ask you how you're doing that's to the point where it seems like it's it's company policy hey just get the order don't ask you do not need to know about their days. Don't treat them like a human. No, just take their card and let's go. It's crazy. Isaac and I can't believe it every time. And it's almost double challenge of the week. Go to McDonald's, do like that,

and then see if you can ever not have somebody answer you at Chick-fil-A drive-thru. Yeah. Because how do you do it? They will tell you their sign, their Enneagram, when their dog died. They'll tell you, you know, their sign, their Enneagram, you know, whatever, like, you know, when their dog died, like, they'll tell you anything that you want to know about them. Just like without even asking, how are you doing today?

Oh, you know, I've been better. You know, I woke up, you know, one of my pant legs was, you know, halfway ripped off my pajamas last night. And it was kind of cut off the circulation to the point where my ankle is kind of sculpting me today. Like, I'm fine. I'm still here at work. I'm fine. I had some flunk milk and it was fine. But yeah. How do you spell flunk? Let's see if it's a word. F-L-O-N-K-K.

Oh. I bet that's not a word. That's not how I was planning on spelling it. Nope. Looks like you're good. Flunkerton is where I got that, I guess. Okay, we have one last voice memo. Hi, guys. My name is Noah.

I live in the Pacific Northwest. I absolutely love listening to your podcast. I've listened to each episode five times. Is that the new record? Also, my family has a pickleball court in our backyard, and I think it would be fun to play a game. You guys against me and my dad. Anyways, my question for you both is if you could have your very own country, what would you name it?

And what would your flag look like? Also, if you had all the equipment you needed to invent anything, what would you invent? All right. keep up the good work bye bye bye bye bye thanks noah okay noah a lot of things here first of all five times through every episode you probably made us a hundred dollars by yourself so thank you thank you make sure you listen to all the whole ad we don't know oh yeah we don't know you're right but maybe uh first of all did not know what he said for a while i think he said your own how would you design your flag you think that was the second

question country right yeah which i call everyone flaggy that's what i thought i said at first let me call some people flaggy since the fifth grade. Okay, your own country? I mean, mine would be called Sculptopia. Okay. I was thinking Bradministan for mine. In the Middle East, you think? Yeah, like probably Gahanna, Ohio, where Joel Trainor lives.

Mine would be the Middle East of Mars. Yep. What? Sculptopia. What is the topography in the Middle East and Mars? It's a lot like Western France. Remember we talked about them? Oh, yeah.

Same. The Alps. I don't think so. No? The French Alps? Maybe. Do you know? No, I don't.

Okay. I don't know. What would my flag be? All these questions. I don't know how to would my flag be all these questions i don't know i don't know how to answer any of these my flag would just be hattie just a just a face of hattie really well no it's gonna it's gonna be zoomed in so you don't like you can kind of tell it's a face but like not the whole face i think mine would be a thing that like if you see it like on a screen or on print it looks just it's a 2d image that's pretty simple and plain there's some blue and orange in there i like those colors however

there's like little known facts about my flag you know you like hold up a 20 bill into the sun you can see like watermarks and things in between it my the literal flag itself and like sold in stores i would have watermarks in my flag that's how you know it's a real flag yeah it's how you know it's real because you see my face and just for good measure benjamin franklin's face is also in there because it reminds me of a hundred dollar bill oh yeah both of our faces are in there and uh verified yeah people are gonna be like oh yeah it's been verified oh it's been verified that's got a watermark on his face and then people are gonna say didn't ben franklin have chlamydia and i'd say yes but i don't yeah i'm norman yeah so it would work out great and then the third question if you had all

the equipment what invention would you make was that what it was something like that what a question that is so extreme moon boots oh because you're Because you're already there. I mean, you're already in Mars. I wasn't even thinking about that, but yes, I guess I'd call them Mars boots. There was an episode of Arthur where they had moon boots and they worked really well. Had a rich kid in my neighborhood, got a pair of shoes that had springs on them,

did not work nearly as well as Arthur's did, but I have all the equipment in the world. Okay. Gosh, I have no no idea i'm so bad at that stuff well just think about something you want like i did with moon boots what do you want to do i really want to i would create triple ducker basketball ducker or dunker triple decker oh this is cool so you're sitting on the shoulders of two other people oh no there's three um basketball hoops okay three-story basketball on both sides okay and um there's trampolines and so it's like but they're really good trampolines that's what i admit i admit like some kind of ridiculously

amazing trampoline so you could get up there and you could dunk on triple decker it's extra point like on nba jam with the hot spots you know yeah of course that's a four pointer like you get up there in the top triple decker you get three points okay triple deck basketball yep okay that is all the voice memos thank you guys for sending them in uh always appreciate it there's a link in our description to send us one for next week's episode if you'd like um from here brad should we get into review of the week view of the week i think we should okay let's do it uh we've gotten a lot this week what do we get we got 17 last week we've gotten 10 just in the last three days so that's awesome one of them just quick shout out honorable mention was from a guy i assume this is the guy i went to college with

uh and i think he knows the guy about the poetic justice story I told a few episodes ago. And he just said, I'm sorry, Jake. You are funny. Oh. So he's apologizing on that guy's behalf for SBU. I was curious about that one. I was like, did he say something in another review or something?

No, I'm pretty sure that's an SBU guy, so he knows. He knows. Ooh. I love it. It's kind of like the petty feuds in the NBA, like where people say little things, and you're like, I don't understand what it's coming from. But if you know, you know, gosh, if you know, you know about that. Yeah. Which I didn't know. Now I do. Now you're filled in. week will be the probably the jingle um but i'll say this one unless you are going to take it are you going to take the one from you you got your boo nope that's you uh you you got your boo this is me uh it says genuine dudes good listening i started to listen to this podcast

whoa because i heard jake on correct opinions and thought he was funny. He is funny. Turns out I love this podcast even more. Brad and Jake flow so well. And have a natural chemistry that translates well into the podcast. It's purely genuine which makes this podcast relatable. Fun to listen to. Then she talked more about where she's from. She's from Georgia.

Lives in Kentucky. Would not consider Kentucky the south culturally or geographically. I think I would agree. Maybe. But I guess the Middle East. So she's saying Kentucky's the Middle East. So thank you, Yuga Jabu.

Great username. Kentucky's definitely the Middle East. I think so. In my opinion. Yeah, it's smack dab. Middle East. My review of the week comes from Caden Hudson. He said, hey, joke and Brad.

Don't know if that was on purpose. Hopefully. Freudian slip. The rest of the time, my name is spelled. He said, hey, Joke and Brad. Don't know if that was on purpose. Hopefully. Freudian slip. The rest of the time, my name is spelled correctly, though, so I don't know. I've been following Jake since he was doing YouTube with Josh Horton. I remember when Jake and Josh were doing a drive-through pun challenge live stream on Jake's birthday, which is so specific. Shout out to him for remembering. Because we only live streamed twice ever, I think.

One of the words that he had to use was flippers. He asked the guys if the things that they used to flip the burgers were called flippers. The guys responded and said, no, they're called spatulas. I thought of this because my mom just asked me to grab a flipper from the store. I said, do you mean a spatula? So just thought that would be fun to share. Sending thanks from Utah. Have a great day. Yes. Cafe Rio, Utah, Caden. Oh, is that the same guy? No no i don't know if it's the same guy oh okay every time i think here utah now i just think of cafe rio cafe rio oh man no one has been i keep saying to guys but if you want me to tell you how they're handling covet 19 i have the email i could send it

to you no one is asking but i can forge you their email guys it's real simple like i'm very curious about it i you know go ahead bls30 gmail. Okay. And what if I wanted to email your business or find your business's website or anything? So we make it very easy. We make it... I don't know if you have Instagram. Dot com? Instagram.com. Yes.

LS Custom Creations. Have you heard of Facebook? The Facebook company? The Facebook company? Yeah, sure. They changed that, by the way, on this next episode of Last Dance. Did you notice that? They were sponsored, the first two, by the Facebook company.

Did they switch? And people got... They gave them a bunch of flack for it. So these last two sponsored, the first two, by the Facebook company. Did they switch? And people got, they gave them a bunch of flack for it. So these last two episodes, they were just sponsored by Facebook. Wow, quick change. Anyway, facebook.com slash EllisCustomerCreations EllisCustomerCreations.com 913-327-9072. Whoa. I mean, it's out there. You want to text me? That's my number. Oh, wow.

Yeah, edit it. I don't know. That's how you, that's how you can send it to me. Okay, great. Yeah. That's how you can send it to me. Okay, great. Yeah. What's your... Oh, yeah. Someone sent us a song this week. Yeah.

I don't know the original song. Do you? Mm-hmm. Beverly Hillbillies? How does it go? Just hum it real quick. Yeah, I never saw the show or anything, but... Me neither. Okay. I know the song. Yeah. I don't the show or anything, but okay.

I know the song. Yeah, I don't know how we cover it. That's the review of the week. If you guys want to go look. I can sing it. Yeah? I'll sing it for the jingle. How's that?

Oh, okay, great, great, great, great, great, great, great. Cool. We're at an hour and a half, so we can wrap it up. Any closing thoughts, Bren? No, not particularly. I'm getting low on my contact lenses, so I'm getting a little nervous that once I run out, how am I going to get more?

You can't buy them? Not without going and getting a prescription. Like, you have to get, like, your eyes checked. They change that often? I don't think so, but I think it's, like, legally, maybe, you're not allowed to order them. I don't know how it works. Huh. So getting your iron tested before you give blood? Maybe. Yeah. So I have like three left because I just put one in the other day and it already

ripped on me. Poultry of the week. I don't know anything about contact lenses or anything. Just know they're supposed to last more than a few days. Okay. Mine are at least mine are supposed to last two weeks to a month. Have you considered just trying to see better? I've tried. Yeah, I squint all the time. It doesn't work. It doesn't work as well.

Is that what a C-section is? They do, like, surgery on your eyes to help you see better? No, no, no. It's like whenever you look like a whale, like you're pregnant, you have a lot. So you're in the C. It's like you're one with the C. Like in the C-section. And so it's like, hey, let's get that C-section out of here and then so the part that makes you look like a whale we just

excrete from your body love that word and then the rest of you is just normal so cool yeah c-section that's fun and then once you kind of like you know you have it then you're like back on land section like oh you look you look like you're going to beach you look good oh hot dog hot dog you look a hot looking dog hot golden dog. Golden retriever. The best part was how he just like, he was like kind of closing his eyes and shaking his head. Oh, hot dog. Hot dog. Anyway, that's all I have as my closing thoughts is that I'm getting nervous about my contacts.

So if you're an optometrist out there that wants to fulfill my eye prescription, holler. Okay. Five star review. One last question for you, Brad. How's your TikTok? I'm sorry. I did not hear you correctly. How's your TikTok?

How's my TikTok? I put a few more out there. I think I actually put one out there. It's really funny. Do you see the one of Hattie? So there was some instagram story effect or whatever where it just made her look extremely ridiculously ugly honestly like it's like one of those like like scrunches you up and looks like a troll kind of oh sure and i just thought it was a pretty clever funny caption of like i said i know

every parent thinks their kid's the cutest ever but i mean come on and on. And it's a video of her, and she just looks terrible. That's funny. Yeah, and it's like a really sweet little song that I put in there with it. It hasn't blown up or anything. I think it's got like 300 views or something like that, but I think it's really funny. So check it out. Woodwalker.

W-O-O-D-W-O-K-K-E-R. That sounds like a radio station. W-O-K-K-E-R. That sounds like a radio station. W-O-K-K-E-R. Kansas City. I have a fun fact for you. You know, some radio stations, or like broadcast stations in general, they all start with either a K or a W. You ever notice that?

Okay. Yeah. It's completely by the Mississippi River. Everything to the west of the Mississippi River, it starts with a K. Everything east is a W. Isn't that weird that we let that dictate radio stations everything to the east is a w so what do you know what it stands for at all no idea interesting might just be arbitrary oh i like that i like that fact i remember growing up and everything was caller 10 ky3 up here you know it's

kctv 5 stuff like that and then i remember watching bruce almighty he's up in buffalo new york and it was like wctv wait so even the news stations? I think any type of broadcast station, yeah, with like a four-digit letter code. Oh, interesting. They all start with a K or W. So I just assumed KCTV5 was because of Kansas City. Has to start with a K. No.

Yeah. Wow. I'm almost positive. This is also information that I learned, I think, pre-Google. This is something I heard when I was probably in eighth grade because I was just curious about nerdy stuff like this, and I've just stuck with it. Don't know if it's true anymore.

You know, the best part is that we could easily fact-check this, but we're not going to. We're going to let you guys fact-check it for us. We're already here in Chick-fil-A. I don't want to use their Wi-Fi. That would be overstepping my bounds a little bit. We're getting on their waves. No, I don't want to slow them down.

One last thought on TikTok. Yeah. Honest thoughts. For my account, I was... no i don't want to slow them down no uh one last thought on tiktok yeah honest thoughts for my account i was i'm just so i don't want to make anything for it i'm just going to continue uploading old stuff i have i remember i was like hey i've got a pretty exciting time in my life about a 80 day span where i was traveling the country in a limo. I got a lot of vertical content for that. Should I, A, make a just like, there's TikToks that go viral that's like, once upon a time, I did this, I did this, I did this,

I got on Ellen, you know, shorten the whole thing into 60 seconds, because I feel like that's pretty high chance of going viral. Or could I pretend that it's happening now? And do I have the motivation to keep up with it? Be like, I'm going to go buy a limo today with my friends. And just like this entire summer,

pretend like it's happening in real time with old videos I have. I'm leaning towards the montage. Yeah. It's up to you. What are you trying to accomplish with it, you know? Not much. Less than most. It's just a thought I had. are you trying to accomplish with it? You know, I don't know. Less than right. Than most.

It's just a thought I had. I was like, that could be fun. I do have I've got the ammunition for it. Honestly, you could do both. You could do the montage because a lot of people that are seeing your stuff are just seeing it randomly. That's true. Yeah, they don't know. That's what I've learned is like like anytime I'll be like scrolling through and it'll be

like a like for part two. I never like for part two. If I do, I'm not coming back. I really want to. Honestly, I'm like, dang. But I'm like, Hey, like for part two, I never like for part two. If I do, I'm not coming back. I really want to, honestly, I'm like, dang, but I'm like, no, this is too much work. So, so you could easily, yeah, get, get on somebody's page once with the montage and get on somebody else's page with the other thing. Be like, uh, like for part two, Cuba, good junior and radio, both,'s that about is that about food or something uh radio which kind of pie you want both both i think i've seen that movie once so i don't really know how i remember that came out in like 2004 probably but all those movies at that age were

just like just remember like crazy bruce almighty and radio was the most quotable time of our lives they say yeah i think i didn't google it but I think that's true. Probably true. Yeah. All right, you ready to sing? Jingle of the week, Brad. All right. Also with our review of the week. Beverly Hillbillies theme, so it's very relevant to today's.

Ooh, do you think I could find? Do you want to do it with the instrumental? Or do you want to just go on your own? Well, you can try it. For your sake, it could be fun. We have headphones for the first time ever. Karaoke instrumental track. I'm just going to click it and trust it, and we'll see what happens.

Thank you. Well, here's a little story about Jake and Brad. Two good old Kansas boys making people's hearts so glad. Then one day while recording the pod, they looked to their side and said, Yeah, from God. A poultry meal. Chick-fil-A that is, honey roasted barbecue sauce. First thing you know, ghost runner's trying to run. Talking pickleball and having lots of fun.

In roasted, single and free, what in the world, just how can it be? In the words of Lauren Daigle, that is What is going on? Casting Start again From the top? I don't know Yeah You get the joke

You know the thing Sure I didn't pause long enough Between verse one and verse two That was my fault That's okay That was my fault. That's okay. That was, from what I know, I think your first time performing that song with those lyrics.

With that music. With that instrumental in your ear live in a Chick-fil-A. Yes. I think they appreciated it. Okay. I think you did good. Do you want to keep going now? No, I'm good. Okay.

I don't want to, you know, cut your chords. Vocal chords. Oh, hey. I might be cutting that umbilical cord do you do that is that like a thing that's like an option that i'm not going to do i don't understand the the the allure to it i mean like dad you want to cut the cord maybe no no it's just a once in a lifetime like opportunity because i doubt anyone else is going to let you cut their kid's cord i don't't know. And maybe if I'm really good at this doula job,

I might get more doula jobs. You could see more business soon. No. Yeah, I don't understand the allure to it. I also don't like when people use the third person in pregnancy things. Like, how's dad doing? How's mom doing?

Like, talking directly. Why do they do that? I don't know. Baby's doing great. It's like, no, no, no, no. Just say he's doing well. We're still speaking English. Yeah. Dad, you want to cut the cord? My name't know. Baby's doing great. It's like, no, no, no, no. Just say he's doing well. We're still speaking English. Yeah.

Dad, you want to cut the cord? My name's Brad, and I do not. I don't know. What would be? I do not want the job. Just take it. You don't want the job. Daddy, do you want to cut the cord for mommy?

No, big poppy. You want to come over here and cut my cord? No, no. No, thank you. That's weird. Well, sorry you're having to go through all that anyway if you know you know if you know you know i think that's what we can all say you know you know the thing 52 episodes jacob yeah we did it can you believe this kind of it's just it's just funny to think about it's funny to think about like the evolution of our whole podcast from going from this so mediocre

setup to now look at our nice headphones and i took five trips from my home to my car getting all this in here at least five trips i think which is that is kind of crazy but crazy that's kind of yeah i think i yeah not that i saw this coming but like yeah i when i when i start things i'm like it's gonna not that it's gonna to go well, but I don't know. I think I have a lot of confidence in the things that I start out. Sure. And so I'm not that surprised that we're here. It's just fun to think about, though.

Let's just talk about this for a little bit. When we first started recording our podcast, we literally put them on shelves that were adjustable shelves for books in my basement. That were just like, I guess we could put on this. And we had a camera that recorded our videos, but it could only record for 30 minutes at a time. And so we were like, well, I hope we say something funny in the first 30 minutes,

or we're gonna have to stop this and go back and do it. And just thinking about it. And then we moved to a wood shop and then did that for a while. We've gone from basement to a workshop, to your car a couple times yeah to my basement it's just crazy man yeah and uh who knows where after my basement maybe like an actual studio at some point have you ever thought about like right now just think about one of the funnest or like best things that we've done on the podcast? Just like a bit that we've done on.

Sure, a bit or a moment or. The role play at Urgent Care was pretty fun. Yeah. I remember that happening a long time ago, which is pretty funny. I think one of my favorite things is just seeing like unintentionally creating a community of people who are all in on the same inside jokes. i didn't necessarily see coming yeah we have so many inside jokes that are like just on like every like so many voicemails now end with bye-bye that wasn't even us that was just like that was your feet yeah yeah and like everyone is like talking about like you know we got a review this week uh let me try and find it real quick um it was her username is jen from ohio aka the midwest like

just like the fact that people are so into right being a part of what we're saying like it makes it so fun yeah it's so those that's probably like my favorite part of this it's just like the the community that's been created around it because it still feels so small which is fun you know like like we know like oh knack baxter just you know put his we're like yeah dude what's up knack yeah yeah i've dm'd you right absolutely cole clayborne you know curtsy swick whatever you know and so um no i think i have a lot of fun memories obviously i think the one though that like made me think like okay we're really hitting our stride here is whenever we recorded at like three in the morning and we recorded give me the girth you remember that one yeah i remember thinking like this is funny like really like i knew that we were obviously

funny people but i don't feel like it was always like super well translated to the podcast but i was like this is like us actually being like goofy and normal oh that's awesome is that when we double-headed it that was yeah that was just do another one i think yeah we're just like let's just keep going because you're going to hawaii or something i think yeah i was going to colorado and you were going to new york new york yeah and so like let's just do two in. I think, yeah. We were just like, let's just keep going. Because you were going to Hawaii or something. Yeah, I was going to Colorado and you were going to New York. New York, yeah. And so like, let's just do two in a row. New York was the XYZ. That was the XYZ.

That was when I was in New York was the XYZ. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, so we've had a lot of fun times and learned how to become more comfortable and just be ourselves on here. And anyway, it's just fun. Obviously, we're not stopping anytime soon, but it feels like feels like I'm just saying a farewell speech. I'm not. We just really genuinely appreciate everyone being in on this with us and

making it so fun for us. It is so fun. You guys are very kind and very nice. All the voice memos, very complimentary. All the reviews. It's crazy how many we get and how many are so nice. It's easy to take it for granted that all the reviews are going to be five stars but they don't have to be. They can be anything. And you guys are really nice. Sometimes accidentally they're't have to be. They can be anything. Right. And you guys are really nice. Sometimes accidentally, they're four stars.

Sometimes. Anyway. But yeah, we still have more exciting things coming within the next month or so. I would say we have another big announcement probably coming. Brad's going to have a kid soon. And yeah. Still taking suggestions for names.

Yeah? Yeah. We're not settled on one. Wow. Okay. Well, there you go. Hope you guys enjoyed our first ever youtube episode hope you enjoyed seeing uh mr james's face uh and hearing his voice for the first time who wouldn't uh i gotta see hayley's face bringing his milkshakes um if you didn't put the connection there this is the chick-fil-a that

i helped make some videos for um a couple months ago when they were launching and everything so we love it here we love love Chick-fil-A. And we will see you guys next Monday. Yes, sir. Love you, baby. Adios.