Ghostrunners - 54 - Blindfolded & Shirtless on the News

Episode Date: May 18, 2020

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I feel like the lockdown and the quarantine is going to give us a whole new definition and meaning of words. My gosh. For instance, just one that I thought of this week per a actual conversation I had was someone saying like, oh, my birthday was actually pretty good. I had a couple of friends do a drive-by. It's like, oh, perfect. That's awesome.

You did a drive-by for your birthday. Oh, it's so sweet when they do that. I saw a little kid did a drive-by with all his friends the other day too. Yeah. It's like, what? I think I saw some boys downtown celebrating a birthday. They were all dressed in red. They had these cute little bandanas. I wonder whose birthday it was then. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'll get there yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll get there. I'll get there. I'll get there. Let me get in there.

It's our theme song. We do it every week this way. It's never been different. Here he goes. Just wait. Just wait. Adjust the volume on my headphones. Turn my headphones up.

Let's go, Brad. Yeah, yeah. Uh-oh, uh-oh. Ooh, I think this tight beat means it's going down with some random buzzer like me hey hey every monday morning hey hey ghost runners podcast hi great work great work that was a fun one

every monday jake and brad in his basement boom boom boom what a great what a great riff that'll get you started for we're already excited this episode's episode 54. We're flowing today, baby. Does that number ring a bell, Brad? Oh, I don't know. Maybe the Super Bowl to the Chiefs. Pew, pew, pew, pew. 5-4, L-I-V. Chiefs, we won. That's it. The Super Bowl.

And this is our episode. I can't wait for episode 55 because that's going to be the prophetic episode where we win the Super Bowl again next week, next year. And we make some bold predictions for Super Bowl 55 next week. Awesome. That would be fun. Love it. Cool.

So, Brad, you had a child. Oh, I did, didn't I? Yes. Yes. Yeah, you did. Yeah. I knew one of my friends. Yeah, it was you, right?

Yeah, it was me. Trey, I think, is a few years away, he says. I was just at his house and I did not see a kid. Okay, yeah, it was me. It was me then. You did come to my house and saw the kid. That makes sense. Okay. That was it was it yes so we had our baby that is the news of the week of the month of the year for us robert bradley ellis we're calling him bow because of

boast runners you wanted something that you could work with the podcast and bogovan yeah bogovon yeah uh yeah call him bogovon when he gets on the court um people what up uh so yeah man i i i could go for for a long time about all the things i could tell you about the process but i'll tell you right now just uh bird's eye view is that it went great catherine is amazing i'm more proud of her than i've ever been in my life honestly honestly. And anytime you ever see a mom now, just be like, hey, thank you. Happy Mother's Day. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh man, like, but seriously, like obviously I remembered her going through labor

the first time with Hattie, but then you see it again and you're just reminded again, like, wow, that is amazing that you do that. Thank you for doing that. I texted Catherine, among other things I was texting her, and I said, I was just staring at a picture of your son

and I just was, yeah, just crazy. I I was like that thing was swimming inside of you yesterday right and now it's in the high dive Bob's arms right it's crazy it was so wet now so dry oh yeah actually wait how do baby how do fetuses breathe they have something like that's the umbilical cord is like that's amazing yeah something like that. It just does everything? Then the placenta. There's some kind of placenta in there. You always eat that. Yes. It's good on eggs.

Right, yes. With humble salt. It's really great. Yeah, we love the placenta. That's not true. We don't really do that. We're not that crunchy. If you are, there you go.

You did it. Anyway, but yeah, I decided um having a child is the most like like watching katherine have that child it was this weird feeling where i was so simultaneously jealous and like yeah jealous of her for being able to do this but also so grateful that i don't have to do this like i was like that would be so cool to experience the feeling of having a baby. Like, like I'm never going to do that. Obviously. Probably. Probably. Well, Elon's doing some crazy things out there. You never know. Never know. Mars baby as a boy. Um, I don't know, but yeah, but obviously also she is just looking like she's having the worst time of her life at the same time. So I'm like, okay, I don't want to do that part. But the part where

you get to hold this baby that came out of you is really crazy. Yeah. I meant to compliment Catherine and I forgot, but she listens to the pod. You'll hear it now, Catherine. And this is, uh, it's gonna be hard to not, uh, have someone be the butt of the joke here, but I feel like most times you see a little Facebook picture right after they had the kid, maybe a couple hours after the mom is usually in somewhat rough shape sure which is understandable it is very very understandable what your body your hormones your muscles what everything just went through right and the picture i saw of katherine oh she's a babe she looked exactly the same yeah two hours after having a kid how did she do that uh she did shower beforehand she woke me up that's

what it was no she like she like showered and put on makeup she's like i want to i want to make sure i look kind of nice you know uh so let me just tell you the quick yeah well but it didn't even look like she had just exhausted her her mind and body for hours on end i'm like most of the time it's not because girls didn't shower it's just because you went through so much yeah let me think of how to like say this without being sounding rude i don't know like i think that she looked great but i think she looked even better before she went through the process obviously and so like i think she looked dynamite when she went into the hospital what are you talking about you look dynamite well yeah like a person who's tough um i yeah she looked wonderful and then by the end of it

she still looked i mean she looked 10 out of 10 she at the end she looked 9 out of 10 you know she she had some hairs out of place. Probably a few split ends. Still radiant, though. If we're zooming in. Yeah, but still, oh my gosh. What a babe. How did she do it?

So let me just give you a quick rundown of how it went down. How's that? Is that okay? The rundown of how it went down? Yes. Double down on me. And she, yeah, the baby went down out of her. That was the position you're in.

Yeah. Spoiler alert. That's what happens eventually. So we get there. Spoiler alert. If you guys haven't. So we get there. Spoiler alert. If you guys haven't seen the birth video, then go ahead and skip this next few minutes. Go ahead and go to www.ghostbirthers.com. If you want to see the live stream.

Rate us five stars. So we get there. It's like four o'clock in the morning. Love that you texted me at 3.30, by the way. Yes, because I knew. I was like, if anybody's up, it's Jake or Isaac. So I said, hey, FYI, I'm going to the hospital right now or something like that. Yeah, I was awake.

You were like, yeah, baby. So we get to the hospital and we go to this triage room, which basically is just like this holding room before they get our other room ready. And this nurse is like, hey, FYI, I do have to test you for coronavirus, Catherine. Brad doesn't have to be tested, but you do. Did I mention that last week? No. Okay, so yeah, she had to be tested. I did not. I felt really bad. I was like, I can,

I can be tested if you want. If you want to, she's like dreading this. And you know, I'm like, I think you have more to dread than just this coronavirus thing. Dude, when I used to sell my plasma, I would dread the finger prick. I was like, that was the worst part. Leave a needle in my arm for 45 minutes, but not the finger prick. I swear my iron's great right yeah i'm good i promise i had a nutritious meal last night yes um wheat bread so if you know have you seen somebody get tested for coronavirus no always wanted to never i don't have hbo you haven't seen a video yeah you haven't seen a video of one or anything no so so basically what they do is they

take this i'll say nine to ten inch turkey baster, nine to 10 inch long. Yeah. Just super long, pretty skinny looking spoon. Okay. And just stick it. Basically they touch your brain with it up your nose. Really? Yeah, seriously. Uh, it's pretty skinny. Uh, is that the best way? Well, I don't, yeah, I'm sure they know the best way. It just seems weird to me. No. Yeah. Yeah. Healthcare professionals always have your best interest at heart so the brain touch okay no so they they they and and the first time that this woman tried to do it katherine it was hilarious katherine just instinctively like basically slapped this woman's hand love it and like yanked it out it's just like no and you know it's like 4 30 in the morning katherine's sleep deprived she's like oh i'm so sorry you know she felt no one's ever

touched my brain with a stick before so she had to like hold my hand and the nurse's hand as this woman just like oh yeah i don't like that stuff it was it was rough so i was like katherine the hard part is truly over you're good this is it for the year on out uh so from there they took us to our other room we uh you know she basically contracted longer and got more painful and everything awesome uh we did listen to the playlist that she made for about five minutes and it was the most like juxtaposing thing ever. Like there's like Catherine over here, just like an incredible writhing pain. Cause she didn't do Catherine did all natural, no anesthesia. Natty baby. Wow. Yeah. She went Natty and she's pretty skinny. So she was a Natty light. That's what we called her. And so, um, yeah. And and she so she's just writhing in pain and there's like

this beautiful like jj heller like uh christian song about a mom and her baby boy or something going on like with this melodic stuff and i'm like oh kath like this is so bad but i'm at this point i'm like you're doing great you know just trying to keep her chill and then she's like maybe i should listen to ghost runner so we listened to our podcast for what three minutes yeah because she hadn't listened to last week's episode yet three minutes and she's not listening to a word you know she's just just struggling through this pain hey we'll take the we'll take the download we'll take the lesson yeah exactly thanks kevin hopefully you got to the ad read uh so we got some extra money for that but um so then she's like hey like they had offered her jello earlier and she's like maybe i'll take that Jell-O. And so I press the button and I'm like, hey, just FYI, we would love some Jell-O whenever you have a chance.

Okay, bring that right up. Is there a Jell-O button? How does this work? Is it labeled Jell-O? No, they say Jell-O. And I say, hi, we'd like some Jell-O. It can get confusing. You say, Jell-O.

A guy comes in a huge. Jell-O, you got a face. Little nepotism. And so anyway got order the jello and i mean 30 seconds later katherine's like brad i cannot take this anymore i'm ready to push right now and so and so she's like and there's no other nurses or doctors in the room which maybe is something that people don't realize if you haven't had a baby just you guys yeah they're so chill because they're used to seeing babies being born all the time. But for us, it's like, this is a huge deal. This is only what, maybe the second time you've ever done it.

Right. First time Natch. First time Natty Light. And so, and so it's like, I was like, okay, I'll press the button and call them. And I pressed the button and it wasn't doing anything. Oh no. There's like this remote that you have in the hospital that like controls everything. It controls the lights, controls the TV.

So I see this power button. So I press the power button. It starts turning on, you know, like whatever, you know, reruns of Seinfeld or something on TV. I'm like, oh, that does a TV. I was like, Catherine, I don't think the button's working. So I don't know what to do. And she's in terrible pain. I just froze.

I was like, I don't know what to do. She's like, in the nicest way possible, she's like. Can you change the channel? She's like, just walk out there possible. She's like, can you change the channel? She's like, just, just walk out there and tell somebody that I'm in pain. And so I was like, uh,

hello, my wife would like to push now. Um, so anyway, starts pushing. And did, did they bring Jello? They never,

we never got the Jello. Dang it. Never got any Jello. Um, they did bring me a Pepsi about 30 minutes earlier. So they're like, if in case you need to, uh,

pass out or you feel like you're going to pass out, have somei i was like no way i'm passing out well there is a wait yeah uh so she starts doing her thing i i would describe the the feeling of it it started out you know the day was like i was trying to be very peaceful like a babbling brook like you're doing great babbling like with your mouth horse lips dude that's actually a thing you're supposed to have horse lips when you push the woman is you're supposed to have like a loose jaw and so so katherine's like just teach me like maybe that's work for the jello yeah give you a loose jaw we did not think about horse lips while we were doing this but it was like i was going going from peaceful babbling Brooke to like max day on like the weight room. Like I was like, let's go. You can do it. You know, I was like, yeah. Cause you're the doula. Yes, I was. I was trying to, yeah. I was trying to do my doula

doula diligence. And so, uh, and so I was, I was doing my thing and, uh, without getting too much detail, I nearly threw up. I mean, this is a big day for you. You've got to do a lot. I think I was stressed and whatever. And I almost threw up. And so I had to go to the corner of the room and mind over matter, mind over matter. And so I come back and I'm like, because she's like, okay, it's time to push again. She's like, Brad, I need you.

And so I'm like, yeah, of course. And so I was like, I can't believe that Pepsi lady was right. I am about to pass out. I should have had Coke or something else. And so I was like, I can't believe that Pepsi lady was right. I am about to pass out here. I should have had Coke or something else. And so I was like, mind over matter. Just find a spot on the wall. And so I'm like hunkering down on her leg, like hunkering down, finding the spot on the wall, and just trying to think about anything besides this crazy thing that's going on.

And for whatever reason, the first thing I could think of was Patrick Ewing. Of course. So I'm like hunkering down. I'm like, Patrick Ewing, Patrick Ewing. And I'm like, you're doing great. You got this patrick you you know like come on come on like looking at this spot on the wall and long story short she pushed it out and we have a baby boy and he's awesome so thank you patrick

if you're listening yes it's patrick ewing if you're listening to this i know you're a big fan of the show um patrick come on the pod tell us about your experience with brad's baby oh yeah and so anyway yeah it was uh that that's the long story short we have more more i could tell you more about the hospital afterwards i accidentally walked in the wrong wrong room at one point was it easy to know you were in the wrong room pretty quickly very very quickly man was she up in the stirrups uh no this was like post uh delivery and so luckily she already this woman i think i never actually got to see the woman i saw her husband disturbed yeah i went to go get uh dinner for us

at culver's and i came back and i was so excited because i got like ice cream and i got you know i was like oh so excited to give it to her and i walk in does bo like culver's is that why you got it for him yeah bulvers yeah he loves it and so I walk in, and there's kind of this inside joke. The first time that Catherine had a baby, this guy was like, this doctor came in to give her her epidural, like her anesthesia, and he had this super low voice. He just knocked on the door and walked in. He goes, anesthesia.

And so from now on, any time I walk in a room with Catherine, or if she's brushed her teeth or something, I'll knock on the door Catherine or like, you know, if she's like brush her teeth or something, I'll like knock on the door and be like anesthesia. And so I walk in with this Chipotle or this Culver's so excited with this ice cream, knock on or just walk in. And I was about to be like, but then I hear like this man talking, I was like, Oh, maybe a doctor's in here. I'll just be chill. I'll be cool about it. And then I'm like, hello. And then the guy goes, he didn't even say anything. He just kind of was like, uh, and I was like, oh man, I'm in the wrong room. And he goes, yeah. And I just turned around. I was like, Catherine,

I went to the wrong room. So anyway, that happened. More things happened, but I feel like that's a lot of talking. Um, so yeah, good times. We had a lot of fun. Congrats on having a kid. Catherine did it. I genuinely, it was so impressive. Thank you for saying congrats, but it was truly all her. So congrats, Catherine. Yeah. Dude, I got some catching up to you. Your kid is going to be just so much more athletic than mine and older and bigger and

stronger. Yeah. He's going to bully the heck out of little triplets. Exactly. Oh yeah. I need to go to target, I guess. I don't know. He's going to babysit for you probably someday.

That's going to be cool. That is going to be kind of crazy to think about. It's weird. Whenever you're a parent, once you have a kid, you kind of just become on the level playing field age-wise. I know people that are 35 years old and I'm 29, but we have kids the same age, so it kind of feels like we're the same age. If that makes sense. Maybe we have a kid at the same time, and then you're good. We got, we got one that's together. Thank goodness. Yeah. We can have a kid together is what I'm trying to say.

So at the same time. Yeah. I would love to have a kid with you. Yeah. Some weekend we'd figure out, we can talk about it more. Tell me about what's going on. Probably the biggest thing in my life this week. Uh, you guys probably remember two weeks ago in the Chick-fil-A episode, uh, me recounting my experience on a lonely Friday night joining an Instagram live stream that I won't say I was necessarily ashamed that I was a part of, but it just did not go great. It was a love is blind dating thing. I was very unliked. It just did not go well. You guys remember it, right?

I get done playing pickleball a few nights ago this week, and I see that I have a text, not from one, but from multiple people, sending me pictures, and all of the messages say, OMG, you're on the news. They did a story on KCTV5, like the biggest channel in Kansas City, on the Love is Blind thing. And they used my picture. They've interviewed so many people. How did they have that many pictures of me? They did not spread it out.

Like these are the 18 contestants we've had. They had a lot of footage of you. A lot of me. So I'm here to say, if you guys remember that one joke I told you guys about two weeks ago, they used that screenshot. In fact, I'll put up the screenshots right. If you watch on YouTube, I'll put up the screenshots right now for you guys to see some of them. I was, here's all you need to know. If you're not on YouTube, I was on the news shirtless and blindfolded. Put Tinder down

and start putting up your tripod. There's a new social experiment in town. Casey blind love quarantined edition. This is Jake, our dater for the night. Friends Ashley Sivels and Blank Tomazin launched the virtual concept. It's a riff off the widely popular Netflix series, Love is Blind. The duo sets up singles on dates, which are live streamed to the world every Friday night on Instagram. Oh yeah, and daters are blindfolded for the first part of the date. They talk to each other like this

until the hosts say they can take it off. It's kind of a little bit of a social experiment to try to figure out what the conversations are gonna be like when the blindfolds are on and then how they're gonna react whenever they take them off. Two, one. Okay.

Wow, this is awesome. Okay. Yours isn't off. Oh, wait, what did you take off? We've seen a lot of awkward moments and a lot of cool moments. But let's be serious. The more awkward, the more the audience seems to like it. I mean, this is for entertainment. White or red?

It's kind of like, based off of the weather right now, it's kind of gone back and forth. So, you come here often? To apply, daters fill out a quick form on Instagram, and usually within the week, they're off on live virtual dates. Moving beyond the week, they're off on live virtual dates, moving beyond the swipe, singles, hinging on the hope that love is truly blind.

I look like a POW. Yeah, you do. You look like, what's that, Bird Box or whatever, that Sandra Bullock movie? It looked like you were auditioning for Bird Box. I'm just shirtless on the news, blindfolded. Oh, I reacted the same way that that michael does when he finds out toby's still in the office he's like no no god no oh my gosh i'm amazed that so many people watch the news yeah how are people seeing that shout out scott he was the first one to break

the news to me scott sell my guy and uh he was supposed to be at pickleball that night and he didn't show and now he's got watch this i'll show him he's got yeah pictures of me on the news so if you want if you watch the local news will you leave a five-star review because i don't know very many people under the age of 50 that do but apparently they're out there yeah um yeah i watched the replay of that news story and it was great because you could kind of pause oh you watched it yeah well maybe i didn't watch the i watched whatever did scott send us videos he just sent us pictures yeah i watched it somehow i i think i googled it or something i saw it somehow dang and yeah you

so google kctv5 no it's so bad it's so embarrassing but yeah you could like pause it and like read these people's comments of what they're saying. Did I not tell you they hated me? They were roasting you. All the comments are like, wow, this guy really loves to hear him talk. Oh, this guy's not funny. Yeah, we can't get a word in. Let her talk.

Yeah, they didn't. Oh, it was wonderful. They didn't like me at all. No, I was so pumped to see that. I can't believe that. Of course, like that's one of those things that like to anybody else that'd be like crazy what that happened but it's like of course it happens to jake of course you get on the news without even knowing about it and yeah i haven't told anyone until just now didn't want anyone to know about this yeah i've been on the news so much in

my life but that is by far the the weirdest and probably the least happy i've been about being on the news but it's okay, man. Did they use my name? I didn't see. I knew your name, so I wasn't looking for it, but I'm not sure if they put it on there or not. I think they just put your screen name on there. That's why you're a good friend.

Yeah, right. Oh, man. Anyway, so that's probably the biggest thing that happened to me by far. How do you top that? I don't know if you do. But in other news, it's been long enough for us to kind of see how our youtube channel is doing and you guys really like it cool you guys it's so funny like you know trey and i will probably you know get 40 million views this month but getting a thousand i was like no way i i seriously don't understand like how did we get a thousand views

on our first video of the podcast? Who are you? Who are you out there listening and watching our podcast? I mean, obviously, there's more than 1,000 of you who listen, but I just could not believe. To me, for some reason, that feels not obviously cooler. If we had 40 million views, I'd feel very cool. But it's cooler because I think that those 1,000 people

feel like they really like and know us for who we are. Intimate. Versus like, yeah, I'm a fan of Ty kennedy's it's like no i like know these guys you know i don't know if there were if there were 40 million people watching our stuff i guarantee you we would not know very many of those people you know what i mean if that does that make sense like yeah yeah there's just more intimate aspects of it so what we're saying is like we do not want to go viral please do not share us don't your friends. Don't rate us five stars on podcast. Don't subscribe on YouTube, you know, whatever. So yeah, over a thousand views on the first video, been a ton of comments

of the second video. So it's awesome. I'm glad you guys are enjoying the YouTube videos. And I think it's clear that it's something we need to keep doing because we're kind of just doing a trial around with it, but no, it's awesome. Yeah. Thank you guys for watching the video. This episode's over. Thank you guys for watching. Yeah this is the this episode's over thank you guys for watching yeah i appreciate it it's been fun we gotta go play pickleball sister ghost sons podcast okay uh what about i have so many random thoughts i've had uh your turn uh this is this i'm gonna have two different um statements and they're not going to be related okay okay um my mother-in-law came and stayed with us for basically five days after beau was

born just left this morning um so that's statement one okay statement two is i think it's funny that people uh keep the door closed after they go number two in the bathroom those are those are random those aren't those aren't connected at all i think it's funny i to me it's like you're containing that that that uh smell so much more if you just keep the door closed in the bathroom than if you open it up and let it go out into the vast area of the house. And I think that the smell, unless it's like very strong, which, like I said, totally not related at all. Those two statements. This is hypothetical. They're very strong.

But if they're not, then I think that it's going to disseminate before it gets to anywhere. Here's what you have to look at. You have to look at the bathroom location in the house. Okay. Let's say hypothetically, I'm staying with my daughter and son-in-law and I'm staying in their basement. Yeah. And if I make a poopsie, I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to leave that door open. Yeah. What word did you use? Disseminate? I'm going to disseminate it like crazy in the air because I'm pretty distanced from the above. Yeah. However, in my current house, bathroom is probably dead center of the house. We all share the hallway in which the air disseminates outwards from.

You're a closed door guy, aren't you? Just in this house. Okay. So that means that I should be a closed door guy too because my house is similar to your house and the setup. Then again, it's your wife. Okay. But wait, what if you're over there? Close it, please. Okay. See, I just, I've never lived my life that way. I've always had a mantra. Keep it open. Just in general. Okay. Hey, hey, keep it open the tab, the door, whatever. Operating hours. Yeah. You go to ellis custom creations on facebook it'll say always open that's your mantra fact check me on that while you're there like like the ellis

custom creations page please cool um thank you guys for doing that just a random thought for you i didn't know i'm sure captain's going to absolutely love that i talked about this but like i said there's no correlation no correlation whatsoever so um that happened thank you yeah i got my stimulus check this week finally yes good you wanted some weird you spent that money before you got it yeah yeah yeah so it wasn't even that exciting to finally get it so i already spent it but here's the weird thing a little a little conspirious of me but i am uh questioning how i got it via mail that's that's pretty weird that's pretty conspirious wait wait you got it via mail. That's pretty weird. That's pretty conspirious. Wait, wait.

You got it by mail? Yes. Are you pumping my gas? I thought it was going to be food. Oh, okay. Are you over-easing my eggs? Now we're talking. I hadn't even done my 2019 taxes.

I've moved twice since I did my 2018 taxes, and I got it mailed to me. How does anyone know I live where I live? You blowing on my soup? Yeah, keep keep going my driver's license in missouri car insurance still think i live in missouri whoa you pleading my pants no one knows i live at this address except for the government somehow oh boy because they mailed me a check obviously i'm grateful for this but a little spooky yeah that they found me that's crazy right like i wouldn't believe that i would say like oh come on i don't believe you you're you're trimming my hedges right now but you know hey i've never been the type to boop your nose like i'm being for real yeah you you're right you were very honest

you never snooze your alarm clock around me that i did quite a bit today actually but not around you so you're right right so all that to say i'm a little conspirious but i've been stimulated so what up it's been a good week. That's awesome, dude. Yeah, thanks, Todd. It's a great feeling to just have that money. Isn't it crazy that the government just gave me money? It's wild. It's pretty cool. Let's not get into politics. Can't wait for round two,

baby. Get the Tesla. Love it, dude. Let's talk about Steve Triplett. We gotta get there. Steve Triplett is my father. Is your father, my friend. Probably held my mom's hand as they were giving me birth yeah trish you can do this you can do this keep pushing keep pushing i believe in you uh we played pickleball with cinquenta steve he came up for mother's day yes he always sees me on mother's day you know my mom's parents are in lee summit yeah um and it was so, first of all. I love your dad for so many reasons, but one of the reasons is because I get to literally see what you are going to be like when you're his age.

And where I came from. And where you came from. Yeah. And so we got to play pickleball with him. He was completely cordial. Never beat me once, I don't think. But I felt really bad about this thing that happened. So he's playing.

Your sister came and played with us, which was fun. KT, shout out. But your mom stayed back with her parents. I guess she loves them or something. But he said, hey, I got to leave. Trish is saying it's time to go, whatever. And I was like, come on. You can play one more game.

Just play one more game. What's another game? He played with you his last, you know, whatever. And I was like, come on, you can play one more game. Just play one more game. What's another game? He played with you his last quote unquote last game and you guys didn't fare too well. I think you guys lost pretty bad. Hey, hey, hey. 11 to five or so. No, no, no, no.

Tell me. We were down seven to nothing. It was not looking good. And then we lost 11 to nine. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay, okay. Because I remember saying, I was like,

that was the game we were down seven nothing. We almost won. So I think that's- I thought that was Caitlin. No. It was Steve. Okay. Yes. I thought he was like, man, I can't go was like that was the game we were down seven nothing we almost won so i think that was caitlin no it was it was steve okay yes i thought he was like man i can't go out like that and so i was like yeah play one more yeah because we almost won it was like yeah yeah got it do one more and he did and he said he heard a snap i believe is the word he used yeah uh did something to his calf and i felt felt 100% to blame.

That's why you never peer pressure people, is because if they get into an accident, it's your fault. Yeah. I called him on the way home. I just told him thanks for playing and how much fun we had, and he was like, yeah, I injured this calf about two weeks ago. It's way worse now. He's like, I don't know what I did to it,

but it's not as good as I would like for it to be. Steve, if you're listening, I apologize. I just genuinely love you playing. So I want you to play longer. I have a personality where I just want to always keep playing. And so it's hard for me to stop. And it's hard for me when other people stop. So I'm sorry.

Yeah. But it was a fun time with him, man. Oh, such a fun time. He's an athlete. Yeah. For his age, especially. Yeah. Like he's not that much farther back than my dad. My dad would not compete with Steve. My dad's an athlete as well, but he's just a little less

spry than old cinquaint Steve. Spry Steve. That's what we call him. Here's something that I would like for us to educate the listeners on, Brad. And maybe I'm doing this for selfish reasons. Maybe I'm being helpful. Basically, over the past two months, I think quarantine is making this kind of, is provoking this out of people. But I would say on average, I have four phone calls a week with personal friends of mine.

Sometimes people reach on Instagram and I always just say, hey, just call me and I'll talk to you about it. People who reach out saying, hey, I want to start a podcast. How do I do it? And happy to do that every single it. People who reach out saying, hey, I want to start a podcast. How do I do it? And happy to do that every single time.

But it's come to a point where I'm like, what if I just get this out there? And then I don't have to have four phone calls every single week with people saying the same thing. So, Brett, how do we start a podcast? What do they need? Best friend. Yes, you need a motive. Whatever reason you're doing it for. Are you asking how do you start one logistically or?

Sorry, I could kind of start. I just kind of left it up to you. Do a microphone. You need somewhere to record. Yes. You need a microphone. Yes. You're going to want to host it on anchor.fm when you're starting.

It's free. It's free. Super user friendly. That's still where we do our voice memos from. You're going to want to not get a cheap microphone think about a podcast it's the only piece of technology that is going from the host to the listener so you don't get something that cheap find out what's in your price range and then buy something nice and our microphones weren't cheap but they weren't super expensive the first ones we bought yeah and so you

can get a decent one for not terribly cheap yeah not terribly expensive. Get one for $80. If it's $80, it's good enough, probably. Use some kind of recording software, whether it's GarageBand. We use Adobe. Yes. For Audition. If you have a Mac, GarageBand is free. If you have a PC, Audacity is free.

I pay for the Adobe Suite, so I already have Audition. So that works. Sweet. People ask, is there a limit to how much you can upload? No it's the internet yeah go crazy it's a cloud there's i don't know if you've heard about this cloud thing but it's out there uh there's cumulus there's nimbus yeah cirrostratus cirrostratus yep yes i think those are the only ones i know cirrus stratus cumulus and nimbus yeah cumulonimbus yeah did you ever have those blueberries and lampy the cumuloblubus do you know what i'm talking about that sounds from i thought yes i've heard

of that but i don't it was like the thunder muffin with the ice cream and chocolate syrup yes so it wasn't just blueberry i was like oh sorry massive blueberry yes it was like the muffin with ice thunder muff yeah oh it's like six dollars but hot dog was worth every penny that's six dollars are you turning down my bed sheets right now um yeah anyway i'm trying to think of other podcast things because uh it seems like a lot of people are interested in it and i'm like should i just like write one blog post i could send people to i'm like maybe i could just tell people in the podcast you never know i think that's logistically most of the things you need to know. Marketing wise.

I don't know. I don't know anything about growing a podcast. Ours is who knows. I don't know how we got here as far as ours go. We had a decent following from you already. It helps a little bit, but yeah. And then we just are really, really good. And so that helps too.

I think I'm just kidding. We had 400 listeners our first episode. And so it's not like we started off, you know, I think I had 15,000 followers. So don't expect your Instagram followers to follow you to, um, wherever you're going. Last thing I'll say is I think video is important. Obviously we didn't get on YouTube until our 52nd episode, but I, for the first 52, first 51, I use videos to promote the podcast on my own Instagram. That helps. And I think that's smart. Yeah. Just, just anywhere where you can do cross platform.

Yeah. People don't want to always just listen to your stuff on Facebook or Instagram. That helps. And I think that's smart. Yeah. Just anywhere where you can do cross-platform. Yeah, people don't want to always just listen to your stuff on Facebook or something. They want to see it. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. It's much more engaging to see something. And then, you know, there's like that old adage in advertising.

It takes like seven touch points before people know about your product. You know, that's what I did on my Instagram story. I did 25 Mondays in a row of posting a podcast episode. And then eventually people were like, you know what? Maybe I'll give it a shot. So there is some free advice.

Take it. You're still welcome to call me if you have any questions about podcasting. But you do charge an hourly rate for calls. $600 an hour. $600 an hour. But if it's under an hour, free. Free. So it's a pretty good deal for you guys.

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Fired up. All right, Brad, what else happened to you this week? Oh, man. Okay. Tony Hawk's coming back. The video game. They're releasing. I was like, he died?

He rose back. No, they're releasing a new Tony Hawk 1 and 2 conglomerate. Is that the right word? 3? No, it's going to be like... 1.5? It's just 1 and 2 together in the same game. And it's like, I obviously love video games, but I love the idea of playing the same video

game that I've always played, but on a new console. So much so that I'm like, I kind of want to buy a console. What console do I need? I don't know. I think they're probably cross-platforms. You know, they were on Sega Dreamcast console do I need? I don't know. I think they're probably cross-platforms. They were on Sega Dreamcast last time. Well, I didn't know.

They're making a Tony Hawk for PS4, like the newest console. I believe so, yes. Oh, okay, cool, cool, cool. I don't honestly know too much about it. I just know that it's one and two together, and it's going to be awesome. I just love those games. I'm not a skater.

I'm not a skater, boy. I said, see you later, Troy. I did not like your ollie there. I did not like your Ollie there. But I do like your... Hair. Hair. Yeah. But anyway, it's coming back and I'm excited.

That's one thing. Sweet. That's one thing. That is one thing. I'm also trying to convince Catherine to get a minivan. Oh, minivans are awesome. Yeah. You hear it?

You hear it? You hear it? Right there. Right there for you. Minivans are sweet. So much room hear it? You hear it? You hear it? Right there. Right there for you. Minivades are sweet. So much room. So much room. Gas mileage is great.

They drive smooth. As long as you don't think about what you look like on the outside, which is really not that bad of a look. Function over fashion. Oh my gosh. I'll be honest. Look at our podcast studio. Yeah.

We're fine. Look at my face. Look at my wife. Look at the structure of my body i'm fine you know uh no just yeah look at the the whole thing um take it in ladies uh just obviously we're not like in a market for a new car anytime soon but she's like oh yeah i'd really like to eventually like once bo gets bigger and stuff, have a bigger SUV. And I'm like, do you know how – those are really expensive.

We don't need four-wheel. Like, why do you need to go off-roading in this thing? We don't need to have a Chevy Suburban. I don't know Bo's interest yet, but I don't think he's going to care about that that much for a while. We're thinking about getting him into motocross. So we'll see. But even then, like – Motocross? Motocross, yeah.

Like it. Anyway. That kid's going Boto Cross, yeah. Like it. Anyway. That kid's going to have some wordplay. It's amazing. As long as I'm around him. Yeah. Hey, Boto Cross. I have thought about Bo Burnham songs more since you've had your son.

I was thinking about your kid. And I was thinking like, oh, Bo. That's one of his best songs. And it's so catchy. And I think about him all the time now. Perfect. I love it, dude. Thanks, Bo. Thanks, Bowie. To both. Bowie. David Bowie. Yeah. that's like one of his best songs and it's so catchy and i think about him all the time now perfect i love it dude thanks bo thanks bowie to both um david bowie yeah i kind of i always put

an extra syllable on there katherine does not like i call him bobo sometimes she's like i don't like that that's what people call my grandma does that help that helps a lot actually i think she had a no it helps me think it's sweeter sweet yeah no because she was like, no, Bobo sounds like he's a bozo. Like a clown? Yeah. Hey, Bobo. You call him Bojangles? Mr. Bojangles, yeah.

Anyway, I was like, oh, minivan. Whenever we get in the market, I want her to get a minivan and she does not want to. So if you're out there and you have an opinion on minivan, please let us know

one way or the other. We'd love to hear it in the Facebook, YouTube comments, five-star review, anything you want to, Ellis Custom Creations review. Hey, they're out there.

Fill out the form on the website and talk about minivans. Anyway, that's another thing. Cool. I have something. This is pretty cool. Last week, I was talking about how day one versus day 50 quarantine video. I was so excited about it. Yes, dude.

I felt like it was the most I had contributed to a video in a long time. Number four trending video in the world on YouTube. I'm just gonna, yeah, butter my own basket here, but it was, I was just crazy. Trey's never been on the trending page. I've never been on the trending page. Oh, I loved it, dude. Yeah. That was a great one. I couldn't believe it. Yeah. I don't know how you could number four in the world, especially because he's so popular. Like even he has never been in the trending thing. That's crazy. Like that you got there. We did it.

That's nuts. How many did it end up hitting? Like what's the peak or what? I think a 1.3 right now. That's awesome. Pretty cool for YouTube. So that's all I have to say. I just thought that was cool.

Like, yeah, it already be cool. But I thought it was cool that on the podcast, I talked about like how excited I was about that video. I wonder how many of those like top five or top 10 trending things you've ever had on Facebook. They just don't tell you. Cause I feel like you kill it on Facebook a lot. Yeah. Like Facebook's where you get most of your views, right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And so I wonder if you ever like really killed it there probably. Right. Yeah. You would think, um, yeah, that was awesome. Yeah. It was pretty exciting. You texted me. I was like, dude,

that's nuts. That's nuts. nuts like because i see people reposting trey and i want to be like hey i know the guy very very well that like that basically makes trey who he is no i'm just kidding uh and trey trey's my small ford yeah in the winter time right yeah he yeah he he gets mad at me for not rebounding all the time box out he did actually one time do that not exactly that but did you box out no but it was it was like it was like that frustrated thing that he sometimes like jokingly like does like no uh like he did that to me he's like come on i was like sorry i'm not very good at this i played in ninth grade and that was it

oh man anyway okay uh story time for you unless you have more to say back to you okay um hattie got some new quote-unquote library books this week from my aunt brad why do you put quotes in those quote-unquote because we got them from uh my aunt her library doesn't sound like a library at all no she's correct but she got some new books this week one of them was called what will i be and it's all about like all these things you can grow up to be a career kind of thing and uh we read is president on there no sexist not yet yeah yeah it was it's like from the 80s so i mean yeah reagan wasn't about all the kids are white in the drawings exactly yeah pretty much anyway i asked

her like while we were reading i was like well what do you want to be when you grow up and i thought this was kind of deep on that on accident she goes i want to be an adult and i was like oh wow that's smart i think you'll get there yeah um but then later on i was like i thought that was kind of a cute answer so i was like hey mom like guess what how do you want to be when you when she grows up how do you her? And how do you just goes, I want to be a ghost runner. What? Unprovoked. Never heard her say that in my life. I was like,

I was like, I wish I got that on video. That was so sweet. I want to be a ghost runner. She wants to be a ghost runner. We should make children's books and turn other kids into ghost runners. Yeah. Or at least shirts that say,

I want to be a ghost runner. I don't know something like, I just, I just, oh man. Oh, I want to be a ghost runner. I don't know, something. Like, I just, I just, oh, man. Oh, I want to be a ghost runner. I want to feel the heat.

With a ghost runner. Why not? Anyway, I just thought that was so cute and so amazing. And, like, just genuinely, I've never even mentioned. Obviously, I've had her say ghost runners podcast., but we don't talk about Ghost Runners. We talk about the podcast sometimes and say podcast, but anyway. You should, for Halloween, dress up as a Ghost Runner. Oh my gosh, that's a great idea.

I don't know what that looks like. There's just a microphone and Chick-fil-A. I can just put a pillow over her with some slits in it and just have her maybe with a white horse, but then get off of it whenever she's ready to run how's that is that a good idea take her to arkansas like storms into the town yeah uh anyway no you're the you're the dutch you're the duchess of this the ghost runner actually no you're the duke you're the you're the david duke of the ghost runners i don't know um anyway no oh you can just have her like just to have some like

really cool running shoes and look like a ghost oh and then she's a good that makes more sense i was trying to dress up like a podcaster man a pac-man character like one of those kind of ghosts you know like the yeah like droopy and gloopy and snoopy maybe that's not their names they actually have names she got one of the library no i know i'm close book yeah but it's not droopy and Gloopy. I'm going to look it up. Let's try to guess one. We get one guess.

Okay. You know what? I'm going to stick with Gloopy. Gloopy is probably. That feels right. Yeah, dang it. You're right. I'm going to go with Buzzy. Okay.

Pac-Man characters, Gloopy and Buzzy. This should be coming up. Demi. No. Oh, one of them is also a little dwarf boy. What is it called? Magma Chamber. No, what is the...

Yeah, Seven Dwarfs. Okay. Dopey. Nope. Sneezy. Bashful. Bashful. So we got Shadow, Bashful, and Pokey.

No way. Those are all close to... What did I say? Gloppy? Gloopy. Gloopy. Dang. Pokey. Gloomy Snoopyopy you call them gloopy okay well you learned something today guys shadow bashful and pokey those are kind of weird names they don't seem that related that's cool good for hattie though she wants to be a

ghost runner i can't wait sweet thanks hattie okay your turn uh my turn what else happens oh man i just remembered. I don't even know how to... I haven't even really thought about this. I don't know how to tell a story. I go to Domino's last week, carry out, because I'm always looking for any excuse to leave my house. I'm signing the receipt, and out of my peripheral

vision... Are you an actual Jake Triplett signer on your receipts, or do you just kind of scribble? I do okay. Okay. I'd say i give it seven out of ten effort what was that seven seven out of ten you hold these truths to be self-loving you know the thing okay sign in your receipt and i see what looks like a hand in my upper peripheral vision and i look up and there's a guy wanting to shake my hand and i'm like first of all pandemic we're not really doing this. Oh, that also reminds me.

I went into a Chipotle yesterday, and that was so weird. You went inside? They let you go inside? Do you know what I mean? Now I'm remembering. I didn't know that we could go inside. I sat outside for probably three minutes just standing out there. Like, no one is coming to, like, talk to me.

Oh, that's like a quarantine problem for sure. I don't even see my bag on the counter. The service is terrible here. Yeah. And, like, I probably would have sat out there another 10 minutes. And then the guy rolls up in his just walks right in i'm like oh okay i'm an idiot it's like it's like a push instead of a pull on the door like it's locked he walks right in just walks right past me don't even say anything that's great and uh but yeah

it's crazy how in less than two months it already feels so weird to me to get my own fountain drink like it felt weird i cannot wait for everyone else to experience that you Like, you're, like, looking over your shoulder, like, is anybody seeing this? Oh, yeah, it was awesome. Anyway. Shaking your hand. This guy's wanting to shake my hand, and I'm thinking, uh-oh, this is going to be like the...

Did I talk about the Target thing on our podcast when that girl knew me, but she had a mask on? No. Oh, dang it. That happened. Yeah, I was like, uh, you're recognizing me, but the mask is covering your face, so I was like, oh, here we go.

This is going to happen again. But no. This was a guy I went to college with who was russian and had one ear oh my gosh so he was easy to recognize yeah i was like i have a mask on because i couldn't i was like oh vladimir oh what's up dude vladimir guerrero and uh shakes my hand gives me a hug and he just goes right back to making pizzas. Oh, he was working at Domino's? He was working at Domino's. Oh, wow.

Yeah. Made a pizza, shook my hand, gave me a hug. Wow. Asked how it's going. Not Vlad. How are you? And went back to it. Yeah.

Just like never was there. I think it was like a birth defect. Okay. Wow. I don't know, but. Crazy. Yeah, it was awesome. Wow. Okay. So. That's fun i feel like you went to school how big is sbu i think like 2 000 undergrads i think you have seen

at least 1 000 of those undergrads with me or you've told me about them like i feel like you see people from sbu more than i see people from k-state and k-state's what 20 000 or something like that like it's crazy in k-state people should be in Kansas city too. It's not like, it's crazy how many people you see that are like, that's an SPU girl. Like that, that guy went to SPU with you. It's like, yeah. It's like, what the heck? They just everywhere. Yeah. And I will say, and I think this would be backed up by any of my friends in college. Like I knew everyone on campus. Sure. Like if you had a meal plan and like ate at the cafeteria i knew you like if you lived on campus you're yeah you know yeah yeah i knew him so and running

the bookstore you know i saw everyone who read books it still just blows my mind though how many people you see because it's like it's so fun i love seeing people i've missed that the last two months i know i can't wait to see people again abriana and target i knew who it was eventually so was that an sbu or as well uh k west k state you should have been there dude oh Abriana and Target. I knew who it was eventually. So was that an SBU as well? K-West, K-State. You should have been there, dude. Oh, Abriana. Oh, yeah.

I had a meal plan, so I knew her. I think I lied to her. She married a K-State guy. Oh, that's right. I went to that wedding. I went to that wedding because I go to all the K-State weddings.

K-State wedding. Yeah. Here's an idea. Okay. How do you feel about playing a little game that you used to play at SBU called Guess That Slap?

Oh, love it. have i told you about this before yeah we've played wait we've played this yeah on the podcast uh i don't know about on the podcast we've talked about on the podcast i think i just thought of it this week and i was like what a fun game love it yeah okay um so if you guys don't know it well this song is fun and it has like a fun little like jingle that goes with it. So if I'd say... It's time... Oh, you're going to do it. No, no, no. I was just going to say, it's time to play Guess That Slap. It's time to guess that...

Slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap. That's how it goes. So one of us will close our eyes. The other one will slap a body part, and then you have to guess where it came from. And to be clear, the first time I played, I didn't know that you're supposed to slap your own body part. Yes. So don't have Jake close his eyes and me go slap him, you know, where the sun doesn't shine.

And I'll say, where the sun doesn't shine. And he'll say, got it. Yeah. Okay. Isn't it funny that in movies, they always talk about like when you get racked, that like your voice goes up really high. I've never experienced that.

Barry Bonds did for like his life. I think that's different than what we're talking about. Yeah, it is funny. Isn't it weird how you inject your body with steroids for 10 years and then it changes things about your testosterone? No.

Yeah, I've never been like, yeah, hit and then be like, ah. No, me neither. It's always just like, I can't really talk at all. I just go, oh.

Yeah. And then you fetal. You fetal till it goes away my hot dog oh my my hot dog oh okay um all right guess that slap follow along on youtube to see it in action um i'll close my eyes first i'll double cover heard a lot of movement i know i was about to go ahead i think it was uh i'm gonna guess the back of the forearm right here which forearm which forearm right or left you slapped with your left on your right forearm incorrect it was my left thigh okay okay close your eyes wait let me turn up my volume okay

oh that was very that was very i wanted to have a good slap but i think i went for it a little bit um that was the oh gosh that was the uh i like that you're keeping your eyes closed uh-huh oh yeah it's all part of it i'm visualizing sensory deprivation that was your left pec close left neck oh that's what i meant what did i say what is it yeah what left pec you're talking about scott pec right left scott pec yeah we left scott pec at the park back at the park. Peck at the park. Left Peck at the park. Okay, I have a mark on my thigh for sure.

Yeah, I was wanting you to close your eyes. Is mine still there? Oh, yeah, big time. Sweet. Okay, we got to go until one of us gets it right. Okay. Oh, I'll close my eyes. Wait.

I haven't thought about it yet. Oh, that was deep. Wait, what was the first one left thigh i think that was like the cusp of your like knee pit that was my left pec dang that explains why it was so deep did you go from under did you cup it i it? I thought about it, but I went over the shirt action. Really? Not over the shirt, under the shirt. You took your shirt off and did it? I thought about it. These people have to get on YouTube to see this.

That's for Catherine's Eyes Only, baby. Or if I walk in the wrong room. Okay, one more. All right. I'm going to slap. Got it. Left hand to right hand. Dang it.

Was that too obvious? No. Was I getting it right? Was it left to right? Yeah. I knew it. I could tell the trajectory. I felt a little wind afterwards.

I think that's a little obvious compared to like smack yourself on the forehead. Really? Yeah, that sounded like a... Pretty dense. Yeah, like a bunt in baseball. We used to play in the shower and the shower is fun because you've got, you know, all the surface area in the world and you're so wet that everything's loud and it's just funnier. It's just funnier if you're wet.

Yeah. I've always said that. Yep. That's good. Dude, I went to Shield shields for the first time this week yes they have a fish tank when you first walk in they have so many crazy things i walked in and just started great fish tank staring yeah it's awesome it like it's like in columns and so the fish can go from column to column okay and so i'm just staring at this when i walk in

and lady's like sir can i help you and was like, I swear I've seen fish before. I just, I was not expecting to see fish today. Not like this. I haven't. And I'm still counting. Hot dog. Yeah. So I think they thought I had some sort of, you know, issue right from the get go.

You were like analyzing like the personalities of the fish. Like now that fish seems pretty serious in this column. But when he goes over to this column, he seems to relax a little bit. Is that where he works over there? No, I'm trying to figure out where his dad is, and I think he doesn't have a great relationship with his dad, and that's probably why. Right. They seem a little distant right now.

Is it because of the quarantine, or are they just getting a little tired of each other and finally excited to have other people in here, or what? Yeah, Shields is amazing. Yeah, I stared at the fish tank for a while. I go in deeper. Shields is a sporting goods store, sorry, for anybody that doesn't know't know yeah but they have a ferris wheel they have a ferris wheel tell me tell me more it's crazy they have a pickleball section a whole section first just for shoes it goes cross training basketball pickleball what what do they look like shoes okay they have a

soul you've seen shoes yeah they look like that except more expensive didn't end up getting the pickleball shoes but then i find the pickleball paddle section i sent you pictures you saw yeah it was beautiful so many colors there are so many paddles so many pads so i'm there for a while to where i think they're worried about me again so a woman comes up hey are you fine everything okay this one hits a ball uh this one hits a ball a little different yeah and uh yeah i was just like i've just never i was not expecting to see this today i was just bored and it was awesome and uh she was like well what kind of paddle are you looking for and i was like i'm

probably not gonna buy anything you know i don't know i'm just kind of i just got really into pickleball so this is fun to look at yeah she's like well if i can make a recommendation you know sometimes uh you know they have these paddles that are more like uh shorter and wider and these that like are a little thinner but they they go up taller and so like you know like a short guy like you would probably want to get like the one of the taller paddles so you can reach the balls easier that's the way to sell your your product yeah just yeah here's a few things i'll say on that one 510 not exactly like you know not getting to ride roller coasters anytime soon like i'm fine

yeah uh two it was already kind of a weird conversation or not that weird but just like she had been there long enough to the point where i was like i think you're maybe digging my chili and you're not here to sell me pickleball paddles yeah which i guess is not that annoying but it's just like yeah for a short really toned physique like yours i mean let's see packers yeah with some thick hair i would say you don't need a hat but you need one of those yeah yeah and so it's already like i'm just trying to like you know this is like i'm in disneyland right now with all these pickle pals i just want to do this on my own right and as soon as she said that i was like okay excuse excuse excuse and immediately i was like you know there's guys in baseball who are like five six like professional athletes who play baseball they don't get a short or bad like they're still capable of doing the same things

i love that you clap back i love that you don't just like say okay cool yeah because i really do that yeah i totally just be like okay no yeah sounds good like hey there's these shoes over here for the the more obese uh there's sketcher shape ups if you need one of those and i see your wife over here her her backside's a little flat so if you want one of those uh heel to what was it heel to hide a heel oh sure oh my product yeah hide heels over here for her i don't know uh yeah i was just like is this her flirting technique just insult my height but uh yeah i was like no there's a lot of parathletes who don't have to get special equipment because they're not six feet tall it was weird um did you see uh at shields the statues uh-huh they have statues oh out front no thought it was a person yes but then

they're all around the store as well didn't see store statues like abraham lincoln oh i saw thomas jefferson okay yeah he was speaking to me yeah you can press them and then they talk to you yeah nuts yeah i was i didn't stay that long there but i did wonder what does thomas jefferson have to say to me at a sporting goods store it's the most like branson sporting goods store i've ever been to yeah like it's like this should be in branson like thomas jefferson just randomly they played steven curtis chapman over the speakers while i was there i wish it was speechless i don't know that one it's nice okay anyway yeah so they they're a christian organization they belong in branson like All of them do. Me, my turn. I've decided to start hanging up on telemarketers.

I'm done. I'm done. Dude, yes. I know that's bad. They've been hitting me hard. So much. And I don't know about you, but for me, my business, I have to answer almost every phone call I get.

Yeah. Unless I know for sure that this is Marriott calling me for the fifth time this week, I'm going to answer it. And so I answer the phone call, and then I hear somebody on the other line that I'm like that this is Marriott calling me for the fifth time this week, I'm going to answer it. And so I answer the phone call and then I hear somebody on the other line that I'm like, this is their job. Like they are normal people that just, this is their job. This is what they are paid to do. And so they're not being mean to me, but I've just, I've started just like once he starts to spiel, I just hang up and I feel so bad, but I can't do it anymore. I have two kids. I don't have time for that.

Yeah, no, I get it. It's tough. I ended a phone call yesterday with someone because I was like, oh, I'm getting a phone call right now. This could be someone because it was different than the normal. I've got the normal numbers down. I know which numbers they are. They're getting good because now they're doing your local area codes. Yeah.

Gladstone. Don't answer from Gladstone or Joplin. Well, there's both missouris or is that kansas either of those so i in this phone call yesterday with someone felt so bad because then i was like i texted i was like sorry that was cvs telling me which i know is not telemarketer but for that chick-fil-a little docuseries we did two three months ago we went and printed a photo there like in their area and they're still calling me to tell me your photo is available for pickup i'm like i'm telling you i picked it up in the store the day i bought it how do you even have my information stop calling we're good yeah got the picture it's been filmed

it's this has been on the internet that i have this picture for two months stop calling me about it oh man it's crazy that it's allowed yeah it is sorry like anyone's allowed to call me and try to sell me something are you with me now are you having a stroke no i got a text okay uh you do your thing i'll just keep talking about this like you get uh you know let's look at a billboard ad i chose to you know drive down the street i entered public land and now i'm seeing an ad i chose to go to a website and now i'm seeing a banner ad i chose to go on instagram and i'm seeing an ad but to just get called it's so personable for one and two just like uh interrupted interrupting of my life just to try to sell me something that i don't want you're listening to a podcast and all of a sudden

you have to choose whether or not you have to answer this phone call like i would hate that completely yeah like you but i know what i would do i wouldn't i wouldn't stop listening to the podcast no i would never stop listening to this podcast or any other podcast that uh is like ours which is like middle class money middle class mcm man candy man crush monday middle class money yeah that's what we say uh do you take a break are you good i think i'm fine yeah okay is it did bo text you is he okay no he doesn't text yet really that's good you guys haven't gotten my phone yeah we're trying to limit screen time for the first few weeks how's your screen time been you've been watching anything love the last dance dude oh i watched episode eight last night so

so hot episode seven was my favorite one so far i like five and eight what was oh dude they're like two minute sequence at the end of episode 7, though, was gnarly. I watched that multiple times. It's so good. Oh, hot dog. And he starts crying? Yeah. Yes, it's so good.

It's so good. Isaac and I were a little thrown off until he started crying. But it's cool that he's that serious about the way he plays the game. Right. And he's like that. I think he maybe realizes that he was a jerk. But, like, okay, so for those who don't know. Michael Jordan is a basketball player. He played for for those who don't know michael jordan's

basketball player he played for chicago bulls um shooting guard from north carolina and at the end of this episode like the whole episode was talking about how he was just a very very intense teammate and how he just rode his player like his teammates he's pretty hard on him yet to be good um and at the end of the episode it was like hey people say that uh you know i pushed him so hard but i promise i never pushed them harder than i pushed myself you know i never asked him to do anything that i wouldn't do and like i think he got so emotional about that because he was like you know he saw like yeah maybe i burned some bridges because of that but you know that's how he believes the game should be played right Right. And so it was really cool.

I've watched that multiple times. It's such a good documentary. It's so good, dude. Yeah. And I know that. Still waiting for those dance moms, but I have enjoyed it thus far. I know that like everyone believes this, but I truly believe that we lived like we grew up in the best generation of sports and just in general like steroid era baseball seriously awesome they're

going to make a documentary about mcguire and sosa in the home run race that was my childhood yes huge st louis carlos fan and then he's hitting 70 homers a game sure whoa oh can you imagine a season yeah but like you know just like so many fun things were going on back then i'm sure people look back i don't know in the two thousands that are 20 years old now and think, Oh, that was the best time. That's when they grew up and that's when they have formative years. But like, it's just so fun for me to watch that documentary and something, there's something more mystical, magical about it because there's not this abundance of footage. Like there's obviously a lot of footage of Michael Jordan, tons of footage, but compared to what

would be out there now, like you, you could up lebron james on youtube and literally watch videos for months on him like just on a loop and so many different things while you're on youtube you could also look up ghost runners podcast and watch like hours worth of stuff absolutely you know but you know what i mean like like this is so so cool because it's like i've never seen this footage before yes you know i've never i i haven't had this like easy access to all this stuff as you know whatever and so it's just so fun to watch and i don't know it's just so special so i just loved watching last dance um trying to think of specific it's crazy that he goes to play baseball too like you imagine can you imagine that that's what i kept saying isaac i was like think of lebron james left yes for a year and a half and just comes back at the

end of the season right just. Just from playing baseball. He's like, I'm going to take my talents to South Beach. He meant that he was going to go two on two volleyball. He's going to win the gold in the Olympics. Him and Misty May Trainer are doing a co-ed team together. Right. And he would be very good probably. He'd be great at volleyball.

I loved, like, that's so crazy to me though. He went from being like this all-star stud, like icon, like the icon of the world to then the biggest superstar in the world being a very mediocre baseball player like he got good obviously he did he progressed but he wasn't like it wasn't like he was going from the top of base or top of basketball the top of baseball it was like i'm going from the top of basketball to the double a league of baseball it's just a wild story that i can't like wrap my head around right like if patrick mahomes retired tomorrow it was like i'm gonna i'm gonna go ahead and you'll try out basketball i'm like no no you're not like can you imagine the heartbreak in chicago when that

happened patrick if you're listening don't do that don't do it um i've been watching mcmillian's have you heard about that or seen that i loved it oh my gosh so good also hot dog hot dog yeah yeah that's a great one the italian mob yes who would have guessed i'm not done with it but jerry yeah yeah oh man yeah it's crazy that's a i highly recommend mcmillions yeah i've been loving it yeah um it's pretty clean for the most part i'm sure there's language but it's not bad it's a it's a it's. I'm sure there's language, but it's not bad. It's like, it's a, it's an okay watch. Like you can watch it. Watch it with your newborns.

It's fun. Anyway. Yeah. That's a crazy one. That's it's. And the crazy thing is, I don't know if they've, if you've seen this part yet, it's not like a huge spoiler alert, but all that stuff kind of went down. Like it kind of culminated like August of 2001.

So September of 2001, a pretty huge thing happened in the news. And so you don't really hear about it. That's why that's, that's part of like why all this stuff was disseminated so quickly. Uh, that makes sense. Yeah. Cause yeah, it was from 1989, 2001, but I never heard about it. And Monopoly is still a thing that happens. So I guess they figured it out.

Did you play the Monopoly board game? It was awesome. Oh yeah. I got, I got, uh, was it boardwalk every time or park place one of the two i think they they give you park place they don't give you board like you always get park place and as a little kid i just got suckered in 50 of the way there yes i have half a million dollars basically i do is get one more million fry mom let's get one more million fry i won't even eat it i promise it's like yeah you're not gonna get that literally. Literally, it's staged.

I think that's where I learned about supply and demand for the first time. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah, it's a great one. I would recommend it. We watched Spider-Man 2 last night for Catherine's birthday. Oh, Bo loves that movie.

She was like talking about all these like really like chick flicky movies. And then out of nowhere, she's like, actually, how about we watch Spider-Man 2? Oh, Bobby Maguire. Yeah, Bobby Maguire. Kirsten Bones. she's like actually how about we watch spider-man 2 oh boby mcguire yeah boby mcguire kirsten bones she's like yeah we could do a walk to remember the notebook obviously classic or spider-man 2 no yeah it was like uh wind calls the heart never heard that some tv i bet a horse is on the hallmark channel i think definitely a horse yes probably uh the the wind is the horse's name horse lips anyway yeah um okay okay i don't know if you're gonna keep telling me no just cool yeah speaking of screen time real quick had some weird screen

time earlier with trey um for we did a brand deal for a i guess i won't say the brand but for a dating app okay and so for this to work, Trey is like, okay, I guess I'm supposed to make a profile and I need you to make a profile as a girl. And then like, they'll just match us together and do it all. Like, I'll just give you your email. Okay. Whatever. So it's like, okay.

So I just chose a random girl. First girl that came to mind, Sydney Pritchard. What up? She's a listener of the podcast. So you like took her pictures and everything? Yeah. Did you text her beforehand? No. I don't like you're already laughing so much you just catfished this girl so so yeah no i didn't

catfish her catfish trey yeah okay okay but what i didn't think about i really thought that because the way trey kind of worded it of like hey just like make this and like you know the company will match us together right i guess i was just like sydney loves trey trey's videos you know we're good friends she's very pretty like she'll be a great person to just like do this for i don't know she's first name came to mind and instantly 40 dudes just hitting me up just random dudes so like oh no oh no works yeah there's some thirsty boys out there i'm not not city. Please stop saying, oh, this is so gross. Ew, please stop saying stuff.

So then I try to hide it, and then Trey's like, then we try to take a picture of Trey to be the girl anyway, but then it won't let you have a picture of a guy with a beard. So good for this app. It won't let you catfish people. They discriminate against beards? Yes. Really?

Isn't that disgusting? That's terrible. In today's world, man, that's the worst thing I've ever heard. That's why I didn't want to say their name because they're awful people. No, it's pretty impressive software that could see a beard. Anyway, so I've catfished who knows how many men in the Kansas City area on accident. Oh, you should have. I deleted it.

Did you respond to any of them and been like no oh you should have been like messing with them i felt so weird sorry not enough of a facial hair for you no i just i was like oh gosh i felt so bad for well not so bad for sydney but i was just like oh i just like i involved her weirdly in this thing that but sydney now knows hey if i get on a dating app i am gonna get hit up. Yeah. Hoover Dam has opened up. That's awesome. With hot dogs. Hot dogs.

You dog. Love it, dude. Have you ever been catfished? I don't know. I've been like asked like by random people. Go canoodling? Yeah. A lot of people like on Facebook will be like, hey, you want to be my friend?

I look at their profile. I'm like, that's not a real person. Would you rather be catfished or go canoodling canoodling is where you like go and reach down yeah your fist goes into a hole and you wait for the catfish to eat your fist and then you yank it out i'd rather do the first thing for sure that sounds terrible you go i get scared of animals you know me yeah i would be very startled by a by a fish and going shoulder deep into a catfish's magma chamber no way dude no no zero percent yeah apparently my grandpa used to do it all the time what he'd canoodle where do you is it like near the lake where you do yeah yeah real real uh you know swampy one oh yeah swampy why like molasses yeah ah you gotta have bad and I guess I'm asking questions like Harry Carey, too.

That old SNL thing. Yeah. Would you rather be the greatest scientist in your field or have mad cow disease? I thought you were going to choose mad cow. That's great. Trey and I were both comparing or sharing stories. We've both been catfished before, so it's kind of fun. Really?

Yeah. Tell me about yours. I mean, nothing too crazy. Just a girl who didn't seem like she could possibly be a real person turns out wasn't a real person on a dating app or what was this on no this was on like snapchat back in college oh really yeah but even back then i was like pretty keen to it and i was like there's just no way this can be real and so i would have her i was like okay send me a picture it's like she was a pow i'm like send me pictures of today's newspaper i didn't do today's newspaper but i did like uh i did like um send me a picture holding up like three fingers yeah something

specific yeah and couldn't do it yeah got real quiet so yeah even back in the day i knew i feel like it's so easy to tell when you're getting scammed like i it amazes me when people these days are like well look at this email i got i was like no look at the look at the it says at google.com not google.com like this is not look at something email I got. I was like, no, look at the, look at the, it says at google.com, not google.com. Like this is not. Just look at something for 10 seconds. Yeah. They have so many spelling errors in here.

Like this is not real. Or in the case of being catfished by a woman, look at yourself and how you look. Self-evaluate. There's no way. Think about, wait, does. Wait, that girl's in Transformers. I think that's Megan Fox, like DMing me. This this is crazy i guess you finally saw when i wrote her when i was 12 that's not lauren daigle anyway so um yeah that's been my week great man that's like

you know a tenth of it love it dude we've got a ton of voice memos yeah i think we're already like an hour 10 minutes so we'll do some. Okay. I do want to keep it short. Let's do three. How many do we have? Let's do half of them. I don't know.

We got, maybe it does. Oh, let's do half does. All right. First one from our girl, Sarah. I don't know her. I don't know why I said our girl. Hey, Ghost Runners. This is Sarah from Western North Carolina.

And I have a question for you. Western. This quarantine has broken me. I told myself I would never download TikTok, and here I am watching TikToks at night. But they don't seem to be as funny to me as vines used to be. So I'm wondering, what is your favorite classic vine? For me, it's a tie between Free Shavacadu or the Flying Lawnmower. Both of those can get me dying laughing every single time I see them.

But I'm wondering, what is your favorite classic vine? Thank guys thanks sarah yeah vines are great i think vines are so great too because like it was so hard to be funny in six seconds so when you found something it had just amazing like rewatch ability like i'm gonna watch this you know so many times in a row because it's so easy to because it's six seconds what's your favorite vine i never had vine i'm so sorry so my favorites are the ones i saw like years later whenever it was like rip vine and they would show like a the twitter thread of like their favorite ones can you remember any of them uh i'm about to whip up some dinner come on uh i i truly that's the only one i could i i i know that trey got really famous off yeah so trey's my favorite vine of course yeah

the first vine I saw of Trey was actually a singing one and not even like a comedy one I still remember singing yo by Chris Brown okay which is funny my favorite vine is probably Drew Gooden I still follow him he's got a funny YouTube channel but it was the uh road work ahead yeah I sure hope it does oh yeah I've seen I've seen that one you've seen that R.I.P. vine uh-huh nice do you know the free shivakadu one the one she's talking about it's like a marquee board that says fresh avocado but it's like it's the words are split up weird and so it's free shivakadu the guy's a funny voice that's good oh wait speaking of avocados you ever i don't know if this is vine or not uh they wrap

on christmas day they wrap up an avocado and christmas wrap. And this little kid is just like so gracious. He's like, oh, an avocado. Thanks. It's so precious. Yeah, he's like genuinely happy about it. Oh, he's so excited. Like he loves avocados that much. An avocado, thanks. That's so cute.

I like that. Sarah, great, fun, just easy, quick question. Quick question. Thanks. Love it. Hi, guys. It's Heather Lee again. Sorry to double voice you name weeks in a row.

Today, when I was watching episode 52, I couldn't believe I was seeing Brad sitting in that Chick-fil-A booth, not getting any love from the fans. So I thought that he also deserved some compliments. Brad, you are absolutely hilarious. You bring such an energy to the podcast whenever you're telling a story or whenever you're screaming to Catherine or your mom. It is so funny every single time. Or your mom. You have such an amazing voice when you're singing or doing impressions. They are always spot on, always very impressive. Also, you've taught me everything I know about woodworking, which isn't really that much, but it's a lot more than I knew before. And finally, on a more serious note, I think you set a really amazing example for how to

talk about your spouse and your child and just how loving and respectful you are whenever you talk about them. I think everyone can really look up to that. So Jake, you're wonderful. But Brad, you are also. Also what? I don't know what she's going to say. She probably was going to say something really rude.

That was probably my least favorite voicemail we ever gotten that was just pointless no i'm just kidding that was very nice heather heather lee again heather leegan leegan in another leegan um a leegan of their own yeah leegan of their own um justice leegan stop stop major leegan baseball pudding um pudding thank you heather i don't know what to say that wow Justice League and... Stop, stop. Major League in baseball. Pudding. Pudding. Thank you, Heather. I don't know what to say to that.

Wow, that was really sweet. I didn't really know what she was alluding to exactly. People were just hyping you up and not me. I can't really remember that. I'm sure that's true because... That doesn't sound... Because you're the celebrity and I'm... You know, you're Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen.

I'll be Luke Longley, let's be honest. Luke Longley. No, be honest. Luke Longley. No, thank you. That's really sweet. Where is Luke? Why haven't they interviewed him yet? Every other person's been interviewed. I don't know.

Judd? I don't even remember Judd and he's getting interviewed all the time. I remember him. Really? Yeah. He didn't play though. He never played.

Okay. That's okay. Luke Longley was a starter. That's what I'm saying. I don't ever remember Judd playing. I don't know. And he's in all the interviews. Where's Luke?

Anyway, thank you. That's sweet. Yeah. I don't know what to say's in all the interviews. Where's Luke? Anyway, thank you. That's sweet. I don't know what to say except for thank you. That's, yeah, that's very kind, and I don't deserve that praise, but I appreciate it. Hey, Jake and Brad. My name is Michelle. I'm from the great north of Butte, Montana. I'm in my last year of medical school and will be going into OBGYN, i.e. the doctors who deliver babies.

So I felt I had to leave this voice message because of last episode's discussion about birthing positions, doulas, C-sections, etc. in the Chick-fil-A. That was one of the funniest things I have ever watched in my life. Oh, wow. Props to Brad for all of his knowledge about birthing positions, etc. But my hot take is he should cut the umbilical cord. If you already have a baby, congrats. If not, cut the cord. My other hot take is newborns are extremely slippery.

So props to Dwight Schrute for knowing this. My question for you guys along those lines is what is the grossest most queasy thing you have ever witnessed all right love the podcast hope to hear from you bye-bye thank you michelle i love or i think that like doctors like that and nurses oh would you it's like they love asking other people what makes them queasy because they they're so uh immune to it yeah they're like i think they've got to be so curious like i can't believe that would make you feel weird because I've seen something. I remember when Kevin Ware, remember like when his leg basically just like got popped out of his body, the bone at least popped out of his leg. All my medical friends were like,

oh, I see that kind of stuff all the time. Yeah. Give me more. And I was like, oh my gosh, I cannot believe that. Um, I don't know if we should talk in too much detail about what makes this queasy. Cause I was like, that would just be weird asmr to get people queasy i'll just say i'll say what i saw on uh tuesday morning uh medical center did pretty well for me um yeah yeah stuff not like super nasty stuff but just like kind of quirky weird stuff that makes me queasy is like the idea of touching your own eyeball okay oh which i have contacts i have somebody sent me new contacts by the way that's huge dude congrats on that shout out to tabitha tabby tabby little tabby cat yes shout out to her uh is awesome but yeah that doesn't bother me at all the idea i remember in fourth

grade learning about the i had to do this project on the Egyptians and learned that one of their torture techniques were to rip off your fingernails and let you bleed out that way. What? The idea of fingernails still makes me, I need to, I need to get the head scratcher out and calm me down. That was. I don't know what makes me queasy. Yeah.

Get some. Um, I don't know. I would say like the insides of animals, just animals in general, like, like, like roadkill, like roadkill or like, uh, like, like the other day we were walking and there was a possum. There was a dead possum on the side of the sidewalk and it grossed me out. That didn't make me want to get queasy, queasy, but also didn't make you hungry. Not for possum.

I'm pretty hungry all the time. I was eating chilies while watching the Alex Smith documentary and that was fine. I was a little nervous at first. I was like, can I make it through this? And I was fine, but he didn't touch his eyeballs. So that's why I was fine. I think it's funny. I'm interested to hear why she said I should cut the umbilical cord. I don't, I want to know what the advantage to that is. Like, do I feel closer to my kid? I'm hopefully I'm going to have more kids. So let me know know if there's something if there's a reason for that i they they said dad do you want to cut the cord they did that thing where they dad dad baby's got a cord for you baby baby's cords out dad you want to cut it no i don't doctor i don't know can i ask how long is a typical u-cord i don't

honestly know where it starts and where something else stops, but I want to say it's two feet maybe. I really don't truly know. You didn't get a good look at it? No, that's funny that you asked that. I didn't, honestly. I don't know. I had a lot of questions. They cut it really quick because I think he had it around his neck maybe,

and so that's not obviously good, something like that. So they cut it quicker than normal. Sometimes they have this thing called delayed cord clamping. Seriously, where you wait, I don't know how long oh delayed oh i actually i thought colombian coffee crystals they do this thing called delayed hey brudda i read yeah no they delayed i was like what did you say delayed cord clamping. I don't really know how long they wait, but yeah. They put the baby on the mom to get... Still corded up. Yeah, corded up.

Like a landline. Yep, exactly. I think that's like a... 10, 10, 220. A jargon for it. Yeah, 100%. Hey, we landlining that baby. And everyone knows what it means.

It means delayed cord cutting, but... Yeah, one time somebody actually said, we flatlining that baby. And they're like, what? Oh, sorry, sorry. I meant landlining. Landlining, sorry, sorry, sorry in landlining yeah yeah let's go wireless let's go wireless yep we let's t-mobile that thing okay let's do uh maybe just one more for this week sarah our girl sarah hey jake and brad this is sarah from texas wanted to leave a fun fact and a question the fun

fact is a long pods ago brad was talking about uh the message from graham dodd that he never responded to and that name just rung a bell graham dodd where have i heard that name i know that name turns out he was my can of crush talk about a babe of the week back in 0809 that's hot yeah there's some really old uh facebook tagged photos of both of us maybe i'll send those over to the ghost runners account on insta and the second thing i wanted to ask you question is if you were on cake boss and you had to make a cake any shape color size what would it be and who would you dedicate it to mine would be a dragon dedicated to my mom all right stay safe there. Thanks for always putting a smile on my face every Monday morning. And Brad, congrats on your baby!

That was a great ending. Granddad. What are you going to say about Granddad? I got nothing to say. I'm just kidding. I got nothing to say to that man. Sarah, thank you. Babe of the week.

Babe of the week, am I right? GD. GD, that's the week the week am i right gd the gd game grave babe of the week okay cake boss i love how have you ever seen that show she's like said it so casually like if you were on cake boss i'm like i have never watched cake boss never talked about never had a conversation about cake boss and i thought we had just talked about cakes but that was my dad yeah that was funny you're like oh we're just talking about this i was like we were no that was my dad i know i got sidetracked from a text message earlier but i didn't think i got that sidetracked i tell you even outside of this i have for a long time liked the idea of like telling someone something via cake but like something that's like not important not even like

congrats on your baby but just like asking a girl on a second date with a cake okay something that like you went through all this effort for something that's like not that big of a deal. I think that's funny. Let's move the meeting up an hour later today. Yeah, exactly. Something like that. Like, did you get my email

like on a cake? I have a new cell phone number. Yeah, something funny like that. I like that. Abigail, if you're listening, that should be on our Instagram this week. A cake that says,

did you get my email or something like that. Love it. So the question was, if we were to make our own cake, what would we do, basically? I'd probably, I know this is probably like what every cake boss does. So I apologize if they do. This is a basic boss answer. But I would make a custom made table cake, right? Like I would make it completely out of American walnut,

favorite wood species out there. Black walnut, of course. Don't discriminate. And I would make it just to the exact custom size and flavoring that they want. Sure. And I'd dedicate it to my new son because Bo is my newest Ellis Custom Creation. That's the name of my company that I have,

Ellis Custom Creation. And you can find us everywhere. So that's my answer. Dang, that's such name of my company that i have ls custom creation uh and uh you can find us everywhere so that's my answer dang that's such a good answer is that i i steal yours i know i that's why i went first because i was like that's i'm probably gonna steal it and now i have nothing to say because i was gonna be my answer and i knew even thinking of it i was like this is probably what everyone says right and what do you know yep exactly everyone says it yeah i don't watch a but i'm sure that's what they do on there i don't know that's the channel that it's on but yeah great stuff well uh to both sarahs thank you for the uh voice memos thank you everyone for the voice memos we're gonna end uh the voice

memo section there for this week trying to keep it to around an hour and a half per soad but let's get to our review of the week brad i don't want to speak for us but do we have the same answer again we got it we got this one is an all-time review oh you know what actually yeah go i'll have another one on here i just read that it's a new one for me so you okay you do that one i'll do this one okay sweet uh here's the review of the week from hannah krezel i'm gonna get a big breath of air because this is a lot and this is amazing this is amazing it It's almost entirely. Well, you'll see. You'll see what it is. Beat it. If you're out there, leave a five star review and beat it.

How do I describe what's simply beyond words? It's incalculable. I tried other podcasts before this. I tried, but it was like trying to be best friends. It was like trying to be friends with an evil snail, but with ghost runners. Well, it was love at first sight. Actually, no, it was when I heard Brad and Jay's voices. It was love at first sight actually no it was when i heard brad and jace voices it was love at first see with my ears they're friends who joke with one

other hey you're poor hey your mom is dead that's what friends do the show is really just them starting sentences and not knowing where it's going they just hope to find it along the way like an improv conversation an improvisation sometimes you have to take a break from being the kind of podcast that's always trying to teach people things. Sometimes you just have to... Oh, sorry. There's a lot of sentences

here and I've got to dance my eyes across the screen. Sometimes you just have to be the podcast of dancing or ghost running. And starting last week, they even got YouTube to come down and tape their shows. Brad is a little kid lover being married with two kids so that he can have two friends and no one can say no to being his friend boom roasted and as the sole proprietor of ellis custom creations brad creates an attitude of

friend first boss second and probably entertainer third he is not usually the butt of the joke he's usually the face of the joke jake also has kids of his own that he wants someday. And yes, it is true. Jake has signed up with some online dating services and is ready to date. Well, he wishes he could, but can't. Well, can, but won't.

Should, maybe, but short. But that's okay because he's got plenty of female friends. His mom, Brad's mom, Hattie, although she just blocked him on IM.

In the podcast, the only time he sets the bar low is for limbo. Jake is Beyonce, always. In summary, I would not miss a Monday of the show, but if something else came up, I would definitely not listen. They say that laughter is the best medicine, so everyone throw those pills away and get on your feet. You are cured. Listen to every episode ASAP as possible.

No need to think about it long and hard. And that's what she said. On YouTube, you could pin comments. I wish you could pin reviews. Yeah. Because that is everything I want to be in a podcast. Oh! Let's go, Anna!

How long have you been there? Isaac's fired up. He heard the review. Killed it, Anna. Let's go. Isaac loves it, too. See? We wish we could pin

this review it's next level isaac we're almost done we'll be pickling soon yeah brad what is your review of the week my review of the week i'm not going to read it all but it's from ave lee 24 and she wished happy birthday to katherine it was katherine's birthday yesterday and i just yeah i thought it was sweet that she wished her happy birthday so thank you and you kind of asked people on it i definitely asked people and then she obliged so maybe there's gonna be more coming we'll see the the reviews sometimes take a few days to process or disseminate yeah disseminate we're just gonna this this this episode's gonna be called dissemination no breathing dissemination no breathing uh anyway yeah oh should that lead us into review of the week?

Papa Roach? Review of the week? Dang it! I was like, sure. I was like, why don't you know what I'm saying, Brad? It's easy. I just want to say real quick about Catherine. I want to honor her real fast. Wait, who?

My wife. Oh, okay. Sometimes I don't know which Catherine you're talking about. So it was obviously Mother's Day Sunday, her birthday yesterday. So it was like very, very just Catherine heavy. The belt, hey. You would be the belt. Yeah.

Sorry. Catherine Natty Light. Natty Light, yeah. We had lots of Natty Lights for her, let me tell you. Doesn't that get in the breast milk? Please don't talk about my breast milk. No. I tried to basically serve her and honor her well for two days in a row, and it was just

almost impossible for me. Like not almost impossible. It's like she does this every day and I try to do it for two days. I can't, I can't do it. You know, it's like, she's, she's just wonderful. She's great and amazing. And so I just wanted to wish her happy birthday. Happy mother's day.

I love you. And thanks for Ava Lee also saying the same exact thing. It's funny you said, I was thinking this morning in the shower about women in general. Well, that sounds weird. I was thinking about women in the shower this morning. But just how different, well, similar and different that we're created. Women just have this, for the most part, this natural, just serving, instinctual, motherly ability. Somewhere in their brains that just

like can like turn on once they have a kid or some people like have it for life and they just, they grow up being nannies and babysitters. They can't wait to have a kid. That's just fascinating to me. It's so cool. Yeah. It's just something that I don't have. It has not been unlocked.

Sure. And like, that's crazy that like we're humans and we're so different. Yeah. It's wonderful. Like think about like a, a uh a silverback gorilla that is a species of ape that is a specific gorilla and we see them and like you're all the same yeah a bottlenose dolphin they're all for the most part the same a golden retriever purebred all the same sure humans same species so different yeah that's why we do things differently than

animals that's why we drink milk we drink milk yeah that's that is why we do things differently than animals that's why we drink milk we drink milk yeah that's that is why we drink milk you hear me we love milk we love milk and we don't care who knows on this podcast milk we do we do two percent one percent brown milk white milk don't discriminate but we do disseminate it down my body discriminate disseminate yeah i'm gonna go to t-shirt idea with got milk lettering on it disseminate have like a half drink uh milk carton that's a t-shirt you have to explain what's your what's your t-shirt goodbye stink there's a milk mustache that says don't discriminate disseminate milk mustache love it oh man okay are you ready for a jingle?

I'm ready. To end it. Let's do Papa Roach. Yeah, I'm giving you the Papa Roach Last Resort instrumental. Oh, wow. Okay. Well, that's what the song you said. Dissemination.

Okay, I'm just going to play it. Got to add Blocker on, so don't worry. Oh, so loud. Yeah! We are the Ghostbusters Podcast. Every Monday morning, we are on. Chicken bread, chicken bread, Ghost Runners Podcast. Every Monday morning, we are on. Chicken bread, chicken bread, Ghost Runners Podcast. Ghost Runners Podcast.

We are here every Monday morning for your entertainment. Ears. Oh, crap. And I have a baby. His name is Bo. And a Hattie Hattie. And Catty Catty. And Bratty Bratty. And Jake Daddy Daddy. Not really him. I'm the Daddy Daddy Daddy. baby his name is Bo and the Hattie Hattie and Katty Katty and Braddy Braddy and Jake

Daddy Daddy not really him I'm the Daddy Daddy Daddy and we are here to say that we love you all. This is yeah yeah go go yeah yeah just so ridiculous that was my moment you dancing last week that was the moment of like wow we're growing man in a basement just yeah screaming about here it is again we. Wow. I went ham on the head scratcher. Check it out on YouTube. I'm going to have some scars from that.

I'll tell you that. The jingles, in my opinion, are way better with the instrumental. That's awesome. That was, I didn't even recognize that as like the, I don't know that song as well as I thought I did. All I know is Suffocation, No Breathing. Right. Me too.

That is it. After that, it's a new song. I thought you did great though. Oh man. Thank you guys for listening. Check out our episodes on YouTube. If you like looking at things, leave us a voice memo,

five-star review. If you like typing things with your tongue or thumb... Please type with your tongue and let us know that you're doing it. And leave a voice memo with your thumb. You guys are great. Anything else?

Any closing thoughts? Any last things? What do you say? No. Not at all. I love my family. That's it. Me too.

Yeah. Same thing to Steve. Happy Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day to Trish. Brad and I are going to go play pickleball now. Bye. Bye now. Bye-bye.

Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Go for a podcast.