Ghostrunners - 69 - Let's Get Down to Business

Episode Date: August 31, 2020

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Brad, I have a new business idea. Oh yeah. Back in the day, I had a few Corona themed ideas, bubble soccer, you know, whatever, socially distanced ideas. This one is just, um, no pandemic needed for this one. Oh really? And I think it works in all climates, all climates. Yeah.

All economic climates, all temperature climates. I think you're going to really like it. Uh, but let me set the scene first. So I had this idea when I got done playing pickleball. So that somewhat affects it. No, you're good. It's a small little hut, like a scooter's coffee-shaped building. Very small.

Only a drive-thru. Okay. What do we serve? Slash what's the business called? Just drinks. Just drinks. Just drinks. Hey slash what's the business called? Just drinks. Just drinks. Just drinks. Hey, what do you want here?

Just drinks. Just drinks. Now, what all do you serve here? Just drinks. You know I'm all about this. Wouldn't it be great? You know it. Sometimes, I mean, once again, thanks for the sweet tea.

Of course. I really appreciate it. It's tradition. Yes. Like, I go get drinks from McDonald's all the time, but there is a little part of me that's like, well the line's long there's other people who like are getting burgers or fries yeah yeah at my place it'll be just drinks what are these just drinks just drinks like there's you'll never have to wait on like our fries aren't quite done there's a level of weight

or and how fast will just drinks drive through that's what i was going to say yeah even if it's crowded it's only it's a drink at a time just Just drinks. Just drinks. Just a drink for you? Just a drink. Just a drink for you. One drink, two drinks, just a drink. Okay, just a drink. What would you have? Do you want any fries with that?

No, of course you don't because it's just a drink. I love it. That's perfect. That's my idea. I think it's great. It would be so awesome. Just drinks. Easy startup cost.

And I don't even know if I mentioned this. We would only serve drinks. Okay. That's it. Why not? It would I mentioned this. We would only serve drinks. Okay. That's it. Why not? It would be so easy. We're starting it. Just drinks.

Okay. We're starting that. We're starting the episode. Episode 69. Here's the theme song. Woo. Hey. Oh.

We can talk. So just drinks. And then we're going to have a parent company. It's going to be called, uh, just lunch. Oh, I think this is my beat. It means that it's going. I was on. Oh,

eating faster. Leave it all in. This is raw, baby. No, no. Go back. Leave it all in. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. You ready? Here it comes. Leave it all. This is raw, baby. No, no. Go back. I mean, go back. Leave it all in. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay. You ready?

Here it comes. Here it comes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-oh. Ooh, ooh. I think that this tight beat means that it's going down on some random thoughts on white meat. Two mid-rush best friends eating fast food on repeat.

So come along. Let's have some fun. Go ahead, get on your feet. Here we go. This is Ghost Runners Pod. Yeah. Ghost Runners Podcast. Yeah.

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Hey. Yeah. What? Just drinks Woo! Anna Kendrick, if you're listening, tell us what you think of Brad's version. Anna Kendrick on your feet, yeah. When I watched Twilight for the first time a couple weeks ago, I had no idea Anna Kendrick was in that movie. I really thought her first movie ever was pitch perfect. Yeah, she's in there. She's not like the main girl, though. She's not the main girl.

Kristen Chinoweth. Not Kristen Pattinson. Christina Applegate yes yes yes that's her i'm kristin stewart christina applegate joke on anchorman you get it yeah just drinks just i'm fired up about just drinks wouldn't be sweet i would i would easily fund your entire business if if you opened one near anywhere near it'd be like oh like you know how people are like oh gosh we just got chick-fil-a near me like say goodbye to my diet like that would be me i'd be like oh cath we just gotta just drinks say goodbye to our faucet i'm not gonna need water anymore who needs it you get all your aquafina right there yeah i had that idea sometime this weekend and isaac was fired up about too he's like dude you could legitimately just go buy one of those like large um like sheds that low sells and just do it out of that just drink shed just drink shed just

just drink shed oh my gosh yeah it'd be great i i can't like the efficiency of it will be off the charts and it's kind of like sonic i think like there are a lot of drinks you can get but at the end of the day it's just drinks No, and they're all right there, because you're in the Just Drinks chat. It's going to look a lot like the Cups performance, when you're making those drinks. Oh, maybe that's the music video advertisement. I got my Just Drinks right

here next to me. We can add some cherry to your limeade. If you want something healthier, we got carbonated water or anything else that you say hey that's the slight rhyme yeah so yeah oh man sometimes yeah just drinks uh you're out of town for a bit and now you're back in a different town yes i was at the lake again and i think i mentioned last week i didn't end up doing it but I was going to make a Patreon video potentially of the street signs. Roach, Missouri. But what I did do is I was like, I'm going to expand my

radius for street signs a little bit longer and just basically do the country highway from, oh, what is it? Collins. Yeah. I know Collins. Yeah. They have a gas station that I stop at. So from Collins all the way to Roach, like, okay, let's, let's figure some of these out. And so what I did, Jake, is I actually have a little game for you to play no way yeah a little gamey game prepared a game for me um so what i do is there's one two three four five six seven of these i think um seven uh seven roads and then uh seven fake roads okay amazing and so you're gonna have to just pick which one's which and then give us an example of why they named it that so okay um first one we'll start off easy and i'm gonna try to do the exact same um intonation for every one of them so you can't read into yeah yeah yeah um brooks landing lonely ridge one of those is real one is fake correct

well you did good on whichever one the fake one is this both sound very real brooks landing lonely ridge brooks landing or lonely ridge um lonely whichever one the fake one is. It's both. It's not very real. Brooks landing, lonely Ridge, Brooks landing or lonely Ridge. Um, lonely Ridge is the real one. That was a widowed woman, um, who named that it used to be called,

um, covenant bond Ridge. And then once she lost her husband, she named it back to lonely Ridge. You are correct. Yes. About all of every aspect. Okay.

Okay. Next one. Rocky top About all of every aspect. Okay. Okay. Next one. Rocky top acres. Oh my gosh. Or bent edge road. Oh, those are both good. Rocky top acres or bent edge. Rocky top.

I think it Rocky top is the real one. And why do you think? Oh, because a late or a descendant of John Denver always loved his work and was like, well, we don't really have the mountains down here, but I can name my road after him. Yeah, we got some acres over here. And the roads sure are rocky. Jake, you are two for two. You are good. Yep.

Yep. Okay. One lamp road or Kenny's hollow. I was going to say two lamp road. Kind of a Paul Revere situation. One if by lamp, two if by Ozark. One lamp road, Kenny's hollow. Kenny's hollow.

So I know Kenny's holler is a street, and I think that's, you were trying to get me. Kenny's hollow is fake. It's one lamp road. And why? They call it one lamp road. Oh, okay. This is a long improv i think that's you were trying to get me kenny's hollow is fake it's one lamp road and why they call it one lamp oh okay this is a long improv game for me so one lamp road um it was uh kind of an aladdin knockoff yes you remember when ants and a bug's life kind of came out around the same time it's like one seems like another is a little suspicious it was like pixar came in first the bug's life was great okay ants came in second people don't know this there was like an Aladdin competitor back in it was called one lamp one lamp yeah and it never really made it to theaters Aladdin beat it just like a month yeah there was a guy with like a lisp that they tried to

call Prince are we Prince are we and there's like why is that guy in there not the Fulton the Fulton yeah. I knew what you were saying. Prince, are we fabulous? He, are we a Bob? Why? Anyway. So your answer is one lamp. You are incorrect, sir. Kenny's hollow.

Okay. So is Kenny's hollow. Because there was sugar. So I learned recently that holler and hollow are basically the same thing. So like sugar holler. Okay. It's just like a colloquialism for hollow or just like a, just like a, just like a fancy or a redneck way to say country bump conversion.

Yeah. Okay. All right. I'll, I'll help you out if you need some help on these improv things. Uh, so next one, we got Tate circle or charger lane,

Tate circle, charger lane. Um, Oh, you know, I heard that this one's easy. Golden Tate. Yeah. long time receiver detroit lions clc hawks and everywhere six other teams um i think he just bought a house yeah down in like rural missouri yeah yeah road roll yep you got it and he named it tate circle yep uh that's

not i hope that's true but that's not the answer. Charger lane, actually. Charger lane. Okay. Charger. I hardly even have golden taint on my fantasy team. Um, all right. Next one. Dixie way.

Tangled trail. I think you're trying to, you're trying to, you think so? Or is it so easy? You're like, oh, he'll for sure. I think Dixie way is the real thing, but turns out it's true. Dixie way is definitely a street. Oh, Jake, you're, you're like oh he'll for sure think dixie way is the real thing but turns out it's true dixie way is definitely a street oh jake you're you're down now two three you did try to start it started so strong oh i knew you would over analyze all right uh sixth and penultimate is sycamore falls or rhino road sycamore falls seems so real but this is rural missouri the streets are named

sugar holler yeah and other things would i even write down sycamore falls would you even think of that yes you would it's fake the other one's real what's the other one rhino road rhino road is correct okay three to three the rubber match here baby this is what you guys came here to see all right the last one sideway just side side and then wy sideway or geronimo springs road sideway or geronimo springs road yeah i think sideway um i think geronimo springs is the real one. Correct, Jacob. Oh, and it's strong. Southwest Missouri really got you through that. Thank goodness. Sideway was tricky, though.

That was a good one. Yeah, thank you. I thought that was like, oh, that's kind of fun. Like, oh, of course, I'm going to write that one down. It's on there. So anyway, yeah, we went to the lake this weekend. It was great. On the way there, I was thinking, like, this is what, like,

this is probably what Catherine and I i dreamed of as a as as young lovers uh whenever we were working at canicook like bow was sleep or bow was crying in the back he was like having a hard time so katherine crawled back there and was like trying to calm him down with hattie and hattie and katherine literally sang canicook like songs no for 30 minutes like it was like all like the camp songs, like all like the, like super goofy, like, like, uh, the clinic. Keep them in, keep them in like the thing in the boat. Like very, yeah.

So like little red wagon. Did you guys read? I, we didn't really sing any of them as boys, but like the girls sang all these, you can't ride my little red wagon. And then Hattie would repeat it, you know? And it was like all, it was like, it was like the scene from, uh, step brothers where he's like trying to sing with his family. Oh, yeah. I'm going to save it here. Yeah, that's exactly what I felt like.

I was like, this is so cheesy. It's so like, you know, your parents of kids. Like I felt like such a dad in that moment. Yeah. And not not necessarily in the greatest way, but at the same time, I loved it. That is cool. It's very wholesome. It was super wholesome, super wholesome. So that's sweet. What else do the lake um it was actually pretty chill we just we went swimming and kind of just hung out uh we were the only people with kids there it was like my parents and my aunt and uncle and my aunt so it was like a lot of old people and us so we had lots of babysitters we got to hang out and played some games played five crowns you ever heard of that no what's that about it's um it's a story uh no i don't think so okay fiction yeah i think it's just a it's just a card game

only um but yeah it was a good time so yeah it was it was a quick trip but it was a fun trip and i'm glad we did it so that's cool thanks for making that game for me you're welcome dude i was like at first i was just writing them down. I was like, you know what would be kind of fun? Is if I tried to think of other ones. Because it's so ridiculous. What you're saying is those roads are so ridiculous that you never know. That could be a real road.

Oh, for sure. Or that's too normal of a road. You know, whatever. Sycamore Falls. Yeah. So, yeah. What's up? I stayed here this weekend.

Oh, Scott's cell phone. Yeah. And I played in a pickleball tournament yesterday. No way. Because, well, originally I was going to play with Isaac, and he was like, oh, I'm going to be out of town. Okay. And then so I text Scott, and then 30 minutes later, Isaac's like, dude, I'm not going to

be out of town. I was like, too late, dude. I'm sorry. All right. Yeah. So, yeah, we've been fake beefing that i you know i cheated on him like right in front of his face um but it was funny so it was yes sunday morning it was yesterday i woke up went all the way up to chicken to pickle played a three-hour tournament

won the tournament and was back home before isaac woke up it was amazing so that way that way he like he didn't you didn't cheat on him because like he didn't know about it. Yeah. That's how it works. A lot of things, and I don't know if you've ever looked into like a prenuptial agreement, but a lot of them say stuff like that. Like if they're unconscious. It's fine.

Anything goes. Coma. Yeah. Comas mean I'm with my bromas. Yeah. Yeah. It's a little bylaw. I don't know if you guys know about it.

So yeah, it was fine. Oh man. I bet you made Scott's day. It was fun. He gets, Scott, bet you made Scott's day. It was fun. He gets – Scott, if you think that we get excited about things, Scott gets 20 times more excited about everything than we do. And it's awesome. Like, it's so – I love that about him.

He just gets so pumped. He does, yeah. I'm sure he was very pumped to win that tournament. He was a passionate guy. Yeah. He's still alive. He's a passionate guy. He died doing what he loved.

God rest his soul. Yeah. Buried him out by Rocky Top acre uh yeah it's fun the news showed up which is hilarious oh yes so did you take off your shirt when they came no but i was trying to figure out something yeah like i was really trying to figure out i was like we should have like if they if they are to ask us to be in it i want want to have a story ready. I don't want to just interview normally. You're like your foreign exchange students. You know, Sven and Svetka. And English isn't our strong suit.

It's my forehand. It's my main thing that brought me here, not my English. I'm sure Scott was loving it, man. Yeah, it was great. It was fun. Won the tournament. Let's go. Yeah, two for two.

Would you say that you're done with Isaac then? I would say that when he's sleeping anything goes and when he's awake he better watch his back like isaac's kind of like kobe but then shack moved on from kobe and d wade won him some titles that's true with udonis haslam so i'll be i'll be haslam okay in the background just cheering you on yeah that works oh man it's awesome uh but yeah it Oh, remind me when we're done recording. I got to tell you something. I can't say it on the podcast, but I got to tell you something else about this day. Oh, it's so funny.

Okay. Basically, there was an investigation going on during the whole tournament. There was something else going on that we were like, forget pickleball. We need to get to the bottom of this. I can't say it on the podcast. Okay, great. It's good stuff. Good stuff.

Speaking of things that are not on this podcast, Patreon. Patreon.com. Nice. Yeah. We just uploaded a bonus episode with our friend Isaac. Yeah. The man who I just cheated on. And it is so funny.

You guys should go watch it. He did such a good job. Like he was really, I think he was nervous going into it. He's like, guys, I know you guys want me to do this, but I'm not going to do a good job. Yeah. He's like, I don't really know. I'm like, dude, you're going to do great. And even me, I was like, he's going to do a good job,

but he might be a little uncomfortable. He was awesome. It was funny. And it got like, if you listen to it, like it gets better and better. Like by the halfway point, it gets really funny. By the tail end, like it's so funny. The story about him breaking his arms.

Oh my gosh. At one point in time, was he sixth or seventh grade? He was in two full arm cast and so we asked him i never heard either of the stories how he because he broke him at different times yeah and he broke down each of those stories and it was awesome yeah we we had some fun yeah i would say i mean if you're out there here's a here's a life hack for you is that you can subscribe to patreon and if you don't like what you see, you can get out before you pay. Yeah. So just try it out. Yeah. Get in there. You get a free trial. Get messy in there. I mean, yeah, yeah. Yeah. You can check it out for free. And then if you don't

like it, get out. But I think we really try to make it fun for everybody. So check it out. And no one really leaves. It seems like once people dip their toes in, they're like, let me just cannonball in this baby. That is, that is encouraging. Yeah. For five bucks a month, you can get all the like content that's already there like all the bonus episodes like trey's and catherine's are there so um think about it so um think about it okay so i was at the library this week with hattie um we did a little daddy daughter day dadder day if you will i'm trying to make a thing yeah yeah but it wasn't on saturday but dadder days are any days baby maybe that should be a shirt dadder days are any days hey you hanging out later should be a shirt. Data days are any days. Hey, you hanging out later? Can't with my daughter. It's data day.

Data and data day. Yeah. Um, so we went to the library and we went to the park and then we went and got an ice cream cone at McDonald's. If that's not the American dream, I don't know what freaking, I can't think of it. Maybe a tire swing, but that's it. That's it. That's the only thing I would add. Um, or just drinks. Just golly, dude. Don't, don't say just drinks. Does you want me psyched? I will, I will buy that business up. Um, so we were at the library and you know how the, you know, the classic library, like be quiet kind of thing. It's really, it's not really that big of a deal if you make noise, but how do you runs in? She gets so excited to go look at curious George and all that stuff. That's awesome.

Okay. Let's chill a little bit. And so we're over there in the kids section. It's not a huge library, but it's whatever. It's fine. It's fair size. And on the clear other side of the library, um, somebody's ringtone goes off. And first of all, like who the heck uses a ringtone anymore? Like if you, if you do use do use one it's like a it's like a standard something from your phone right yeah and even that is crazy that is like why are you not on vibrate right what song i'm so excited okay so so what song is this i'm gonna keep setting up a situation a little bit more so it's on the complete other side it is gotta be as full blast as possible and it is this old man like i'm saying 70 years old at least like

covid scares him quite a bit probably i don't know he was there with his ringtone on his phone um but you would never guess in a million years his ringtone for whatever reason i have no idea how this can i guess you can big girls don't cry by fergie better dang it it was cyclone no yes so that cannot be real i'm serious so like on the complete other side of the entire library i just hear it oh oh oh shut it up and then like it was it was classic it was like classic old man and so he And so he did not know how to like answer his phone for like 20 seconds. So it like went on. He moved about it like a cycle. Make the money with it all night long.

Make the money with it all night long. And I'm like, what is happening? And this guy is like struggling to like get his phone out of his pocket and all this stuff. And I'm just like, this is not real, you know? And at first I didn't realize an old man. I first, I thought it was like, okay, this is probably some young whippersnapper, but he, but those people don't use ringtones.

Yeah. So I don't know if this guy like just inherited this phone from his, you know, grandson seven years ago or what? Like what, how did this happen? But I heard it like, i heard the first two oh oh and i was like oh my gosh that's awesome that brings me back and then i see it's like this old dude like fumbling fumbling his phone like trying to get it out oh my gosh i'm sure he was probably like legitimately dancing trying to get his phone out he's like oh god god it was so wonderful it was wonderful i was like

hattie i'm so glad that we came to the library today how do you go and be as loud as you want not gonna be louder than baby bash that was like that was like the third funny thing it's like it's funny that's a ringtone it's funny it's that ringtone it's funny that's an old man but the juxtaposition i don't know if that's the complete right word but like the the idea of that it's an old man, but the juxtaposition, I don't know if that's the complete right word, but the idea of it's supposed to be this quiet place, and it's just as loud and echoey as possible. It was just amazing. I mean, it almost sounds like a prank video. Like, hey, we're going to dress up this old man, like Johnny Knoxville style, and have it just be the weirdest, loudest thing in the library.

I'm down, boys. Should do that. I'm down, boys. Oh, my gosh. Choose different songs from 2007. And we're going to tape your cell phone together so you can't, well, I guess that's old. You can't, you can't flip it open to answer it. So it just keeps going. Oh, it was awesome. That'd be a fun challenge. Your phone is plugged into a megaphone somewhere in the library.

And like, and at some point it's going to go off. Like you're not leaving until you shut it off and you're just kind of walking around and then the song just goes off maybe there's two phones two megaphones and then there's like a you know a detonator for each of them and you each hide the detonator oh you know what i mean so like each team is looking for the other person's like detonator once you get it pressed off then the other team has to like try to go back and turn off the phone that's fun what should their ringtones be um i think um psycho is pretty good i'll tell you right now psycho's gonna be hard to top oh man walk it out by dj onk yeah it's got to be something that just like hits hard right away like i forgot about that song snap your fingers yeah maybe just a lot of t-pain yeah bartender that opening son That opening song. Eh. You hear that note. Go, go, go.

Bartender, bartender. Sullivan, you go. Beeline. Yeah, whatever. What were the I'm Down Boys names? Lachlan. Lachlan. That's the only one I remember.

Lachlan didn't want to be there. Nick, I think. I don't know. Cam. Who do we got? I don't know. Anyway, it was awesome. So I have that to talk about from that trip,

thatter day trip. And then also, I just wanted to really quickly just kind of touch on the idea that at the playground, I do not know how to talk to other little kids. I don't know how to interact with them. Oh, you're a parent. So I know. Imagine how bad I am.

Oh, no. You're not allowed to be at a playground. There's no way that you should ever be within, you know, 30 feet of talking to them. So what's going on today, kids? Yeah, yeah, yeah what what kind of pjs you got going on these days huh paw patrol seems a little overhyped huh i mean what's the big peppa pig yeah peppa pig's kind of cool right uh because it's like like you see these like this little girl you know for example the other day was like you know doing the same stuff hattie was she was a little bit older so she was faster and stronger and

you know made hattie feel a little down about herself, but it's okay. And, and so I was like, she walked by me one time. I was just like, hi. And even that just like, was like, cause she was like, who's this guy? And I was like, oh gosh. I was. And then I like tried to really reemphasize like, okay, how do you're doing great? Like, you know, I have someone here. Yeah. And it's like, oh man, you know, but it's, I don't know. Like it, I just don't know what to do. I don't know how to interact with those girls or boys. Like, or do I, do I not?

And then I'm just like this creepy guy that's kind of standing there. Like seeming scary. I don't want to do that. How far away are their parents? Um, the other day there was one other mom that was in the playground, but then the, that girl and her sister, their moms were like having a meeting under the picnic shelter, you know, kind of far away. Oh yeah.

So like far enough away that they couldn't hear exactly what I said to him. I'll tell you that right now. So, uh, uh, how do you take baths? You guys take baths or, uh, what do you guys do? You guys get cell phones soon? What's the deal with this TikTok thing? Huh? I've been hearing

a lot you guys know about ambridge ambridge you guys listen to podcast that's what you do you guys old enough for podcast yet i'll show you one it's pg-13 yeah whenever you guys get sick of dora hit me up i got something to rock your world right oh man it's just like it's just an awkward like like there's just such a small line between like kind man and just creepy do friendly yeah too friendly like literally I said hi to the hi that's all I said hi honey and then I was like I said that I'm such a creep just said hello or hey something more formal probably be a shorter like staccato hi like hi hi what about bravado hi what's bro bravado means like go ahead

hi hello that'd be cool yeah maybe i should that's probably the answer you're welcome okay so anyway i just didn't know exactly what to do and so just kind of tried to no that's funny hey you're doing great you're doing great so i think you just a lot of like our podcast catchphrases i think can easily work in a playground setting with children i think you walk up first you kind of look around your hands on your hips you blow out a lot of air not bad there's a nice slide hey how do you fall down hey hey come on on your feet on your feet and then hattie kind of was like hey dad i just had an accident he's like come on poopsie dang it you're like one ahead of me every time and then hattie's leaving it's like okay let's tell

him tell him tell him you see you later and hattie's like bye bye nice yeah yeah yeah and then you're like oh why aren't are you coming tomorrow and they say no i'm actually um i have to go to mass oh really and then they say oh yeah that's good a lot of inside jokes there yep and then and then uh never mind i had like half of a thought i was gonna try to like find hit him with a jingle in there somehow, but I don't know what I was going to do. No worries.

No worries. Back on the pickleball thing, not me specifically, but Brad, I feel like you should talk about your thing you got going on right now. Franklin Pickleball. Oh, yeah. I was like the table thing. Anyway, yeah. So if you guys haven't noticed I'm sure you have

kids all over the internet it's probably going viral right now on reddit I don't know I don't know I don't get on read it too much but Franklin pickleball who if you remember Franklin is like the company that has like all the wiffle ball bats and stuff yeah we're like batting gloves like yes like six dollar batting gloves yeah Franklin was just like this got a crappy brand honestly. Yeah. Franklin was just like, this got a crappy brand, honestly. Yeah. But Franklin pickleball just, they're trying to get into the game and they have a really nice paddle that

they actually sent you. Yeah. And it's, it's a paddle that's sponsored or like, you know how like, uh, certain paddles are, you know,

endorsed by a certain professional athlete or whatever. Like, like I used to have like the, I'm trying to remember what my glove was. Derek Jeter. It wasn't Derek Jeter. Yeah. They would have stuff like that.

Yeah. It had like his autograph on it. Like a King Griffey Jr. bat. Yes, totally. Something. So this is the Ben Johns paddle. I think he's like the best in the world now.

Oh, he is. Sorry, MacGuffin. Take that, MacGuffin. MacGuffin. So the Ben Johns paddle. And, uh, and so they're giving one away. They're giving away one of their paddles to one person who like comments and tags three people like the classic Instagram giveaway.

But I try to take it a step further and they like posted it maybe three or four days in a row of Ben Johns reminder. Yeah. Yeah. Check this paddle out by Ben Johns, you know, comments in that post or whatever. And in every single one of the posts that they posted about Ben Johns, I did some kind of Ben Johns pun, but I don't remember what they were. They were asking, which is like, Hey, tag a friend. Yeah. They did not, they did not say like cleverest comment wins, but I was just like, maybe I can get their attention a little bit by just saying something a little bit goofier.

So do you remember what they are? I don't remember. Oh, really? I figured you'd remember. I remember like the idea, one of them was like, um, cause, and I tried to use the Ben Johns in all the puns. So it was like, oh man, I've been Johnson for a, uh, paddle like this for a long time. Like Ben Jones, Ben Jones in for a paddle like this. And then, um, another one was it. Yeah. There's such like Brad sentences. The other one was something like, um, they look better in a, in a sentence form. Yeah. It's a read them. Something was like, like man if i had this paddle i think next saturday there's no no wait hold on riding the bench i wouldn't be riding the bench on saturday i wouldn't be riding the bench on saturday um and then the latest one i did i found the picture you sent me it was great

i told scott about it he was dying let's see let's see if i can remember the third one first because i think that last one is my favorite one um ben john's oh it was like talking about binging binging on something like oh oh i would love to binge on some pickleball something like that several hours in a row i can really binge on this one no okay so it's the fourth one that i'm looking at that you sent me do you remember that one i don't remember it word for word i i yeah it was a little bit longer one yeah so there was it was a, it was a slow bird. So that was already three in three days, which is already great. Yeah. And this one, a lot of people are calling me the next great pickleball player, namely because of my can do attitude. That's

Sitton's one. No, no pun yet. I'm often caught saying under my breath. I think I can. I think I can. So people have begun calling me the little binjun that could. Great. It's awesome. The little binjun that could. I was proud of that one. I was sitting at the lake and I was like, this is pretty funny. So anyway. Yeah.

So they better. We'll see. I mean, even though it's probably like some random number generator deciding that hopefully someone on their team will like look at that yeah dang i told you one time there was a tool giveaway one time and it was just the same idea but i i commented like with a bunch of wood puns you know it was like a woodworking tool and i won it and it might have just been random but maybe not no yeah you won them over probably maybe so anyway gosh that's great i'm also still thinking about that old man playing Cyclone. That's crazy.

I cannot tell you how awesome it was. Did he look like a storm chaser? Do you think that was what it was? No, dude. He looked like he, I don't even know. I don't know. He looked like the kind of guy that went to McDonald's every morning at like 630 with his friends and just like.

Read the paper. Yeah. Read the paper. Talked about what they read. Like summarized it. Did a quick MLA essay on it. Yeah. I read the paper, talked about what they read, like summarized it, um, did a quick MLA essay on it. Sure. And then, uh, yeah, just like probably went to bed by seven 30 every night. Oh, I know the exact one you're talking about. Yeah. He had like the, uh, the tall, like tube socks, you know, like halfway up the calf and like the cargo shorts,

which apparently were hard to, you know, reach and get a phone out of so many pockets. Like which one's my phone. And the funny thing is I haven't even told Catherine about that story yet. Cause I was like, I want it. I want this to be so fresh. I want to tell nobody about this story. There were so many times this week where I was like, I'm going to tell Jake that story. I was like, Nope, Nope.

I'm going to keep it. I'm keeping it. So that's crazy. Yeah. Cyclone. I would have never like legitimately guessed that. I might've guessed it as a joke, but I would have never legitimately thought an old senior center citizen had

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Keep your standards low. No, no, no. It's not that crazy. Hey, I'm going to be... Okay. No, it really isn't. The first one's strictly an observation. Okay.

But, oh, gosh. Okay, sorry. I'll stop. I'll stop. It's going to bother you. No, I just think you're going to be let down if you're getting... Whatever. Basically, I've talked about before how, like, drive-by has a new term.

Yeah. Yeah. Your face. if you're getting whatever basically i've talked about before how like drive-by has a new term yeah yeah your face like how drive-bys have become like a nice thing i've noticed a new thing that i'm doing now is i'm like dang that line is so long i'm like oh that's a socially distance line you know i'm like that's that's fine right because they're six feet apart yeah totally no whatever that's real i think that's real yeah i've started to notice that more and more i'm like this is becoming such a real thing now it's like dang this line is out the door it's like oh they're six feet apart yeah totally no whatever that's real i think that's real yeah i've started to notice that more and more i'm like this is becoming such a real thing now it's like dang this line is out the door it's like oh they're six feet apart this is like nothing like no one's here that's how worlds of fun was the other day because it was roller coasters yeah well yeah because like

uh you know you usually go with a group of people and so the line like the markers were like 12 15 feet apart and so it really like dang it's a line. And then it went in 10 minutes every time. Yeah. We're gonna have to like redefine what a long line is. Right. That's interesting. The second thing that happened was, um, so let's say this would have happened not in a pandemic.

Okay. Already would have been a little like, yeah, maybe you shouldn't do that. Okay. Uh, but inside of Chipotle day, I dropped my straw on the ground. So I had this, you guys know, a very pro immune system, right. You know, but I was like, man, that's pretty dirty. And you know, no, no wrapper at all. Or like, no, I had already, I had, I was so thirsty when I got Chipotle.

So I actually, I filled up my drink large, took my mask off and just started drinking mask off. Yeah. Um, drank a lot. And so then I went to refill and then try to get the straw back in and it fell on the ground straw and lid combo is on the ground okay did like fling wing uh fling bing yeah fling being on the ground okay and i'm sitting there looking at it and i have this like weird pep like pump up talk with myself i'm like what are you scared what are you scared of the coronavirus pick it up yeah it doesn't get transferred on feet yeah and then like you

breathe on your feet much? Well, Jake, that's still dirty. I'm like, oh, so you're scared of that too, huh? No, you're not scared. Pick it up. And so I did. I picked up the straw and lit off the ground and put it back in. Stuck it back in, baby.

And I was like, my back's to all the patrons behind me. Not people from patreon.com backslash ghost runners, but maybe. Yeah. There's a lot. But I was like, they all saw me do this. They're judging me. Oh, yeah. Mid-pandemic, straw off the ground.

That's fine. I did it. Yeah, you'll be fine. I wasn't scared. How are you feeling? Stronger. Stronger than ever. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Kelly Clarkson, stronger. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Stronger. Stronger. Stronger. Oh, that's good. Fun fact, Kelly Clarkson's show emailed me this week.

She has a talk show, apparently. I was going to say, fun fact, there's a Kelly Clarkson show. That's exciting. Yeah, they emailed Trey and I both, which was kind of fun. But they liked the COVID coma video. Oh, yeah. That was the one that you were excited about. Oh, it was the one I was excited about.

Yeah, I just knew. I was like, this one's a slapperino. Yeah. And I don't even totally get the emails. I was like, we loved the video. We, it's a slapper Reno. Yeah. And I don't even totally get the emails. Like we love the video. We'd love to talk to you more about it. It's like about like, uh, yeah, whatever. So we use a camera to shoot it. Yeah. 24 frames a second. And it's pretty standard 1920 by 10 80 full HD. Um,

and so who knows what's going to happen to that? Probably nothing, but funny that the Kelly Clarkson show. Yeah. I wonder how that. Yeah. I wonder how all this stuff works. Like, do they just, how many, how many people do they send that same email out? Yeah. And then Kelly decides, I don't know.

No way is Kelly decide, dude. They just give her like, Hey, you're way too cool for 12 guys who had a viral video. Yeah. What do you, do you want to talk to any of them? I like Kelly Clarkson a lot. I do like Kelly Clarkson. She can sing really well. I like her.

She can sing really well. Well, her. She can sing really well. Well, hey, that's good for you for saying that. Yeah. On the podcast, much less. Yeah. I liked her a lot. And then I've started to like her more once 40 Old Virgin came out and Steve Crowley used it as a cuss word.

And I was like, that's fun. That's fun to say her name. Wasn't there like that scene where he said that was like one take, right? Have you heard that? Oh, I heard it was real. Like he was getting waxed. Yeah. I wonder if that was like improvised. Probably was right. I'm sure so much of Kelly Clarkson. Have I told my Kelly Clarkson story with my sister? I don't think so. No,

it's not like we had an interaction with Kelly Clarkson or anything. It was like one of the three times ever though, that I was like a punk as a kid. So you met Ruben stuttered. No. Oh dang it. So my sister, my sister's eight years older than me, Julie. And she, uh, was working at Chili's the night that the,

uh, first season of American idol, uh, got over like, like it aired. So she recorded on the VCR and she came back and she was like getting in the shower after Chili's, uh,

before she was going to watch it. And she's like, and I of course watched it cause I'm a huge Kelly fan. Yeah. Actually, I was a big Ruben fan at the time, I'll be honest. Yeah, no pun intended. And so for me or Ruben. And so anyway, she was like, Brad, don't tell me who won.

I'm going to get in the shower and I'm going to watch it. And for whatever reason, as a little kid, I just blurted out, Kelly wins. And she was so mad at me. And I have no idea why I did that. Like, I was not like a – I had no bad intentions towards my sister. We got along great all the time. You just couldn't help it. But for whatever reason, I just – I blurted that thing out.

And she – what a jerk. What a jerk by me to be like – Yeah, for real. Like, that's the classic don't watch it until the third inning kind of thing. It was the worst. But, like, ten times worse for her. Yeah. That was her Super Bowl. You know worst. Ten times worse for her. Yeah. That was her Super Bowl, you know, and I ruined it for her.

It's funny you still remember it. I'm sorry, Julie. Oh, I feel terrible about it. And I'm telling you, like, I didn't do things like that barely ever, so I definitely remember. And she had just gotten back from a hard night at Chili's. A hard night serving baby back ribs, awesome blossoms, Cajun chicken pastas.

Loaded boneless wings. Old-timer burgers. Quesadilla Explosion Salads. Yes. Chips and Salsa. Margarita. What do they call their margarita? Something cool.

Yeah. Yeah, all those things. Shirley Temple. Oh, they have something like the Molten Chocolate Lava Cake. Yes, that one's good. Sorry, Julie. Anyway. Skillet Queso.

I think that's a thing. That is a thing, and it's good. anyway skillet queso i think that's a thing that is a thing and it's good yeah um you ever been axe throwing no no interest you're yeah you're fine oh really you don't need to go when'd you go several years ago i don't know why i just thought of that something with something you said a chili so you think of axe throwing chilies is kind of like it kind of has that aesthetic of an axe throwing place like it's kind of like pretty wooden yeah yeah there's like something in the interior way is definitely wooden yeah i don't know why i just thought of that no i have no interest in that like and i saw it and i was

like that's a fad yeah i really wasn't into any those fads that kind of came out there was there was axe throwing and there was also escape rooms and i've heard nothing but good things about escape rooms but i'm still not interested in them right axe throwing i was like no that's gonna come and go and people are gonna be like why did we spend so much money to throw things at a wall? Yeah. So I went once and I was like, you know what?

I think I'm good on this for the rest of my life. I think I'm fine with this. Yeah. I really don't have much to say. I just thought of axe throwing. Did you go above the head? Oh yeah, you have to. Oh, you do?

I am good at it. I will say that. I'll challenge any of you guys out there listening, come to Kid City. But you don't want to go. And pay for my axe throwing and I'll beat you in it. I will say that. I'll challenge any of you guys out there listening. Come to Kid City. But you don't want to go. And pay for my axe throwing. And I'll beat you in it. Pay for my axe.

Yeah. Speaking of. Sorry. Do you have something else? Last thing is just you should go to an escape room. I think you'd like it. Okay. I think so too.

It's just kind of expensive. And I hated group projects as a kid. And I just imagined it being like a group project that you pay for. Where like one person kind of takes over over and everyone else is kind of just like watching over their shoulder which i hear is not true at all but that's just what i think well maybe don't go you have a lot of weird preconceived notions about escape rooms so maybe you wouldn't like it no i hear it's awesome like they have all those like cool escape you know or secret doors and stuff like that i'd never been to one with secret door

when was your door with gunner and emily duckworth oh really yeah yeah katherine wanted to go for and stuff like that. I'd never been to one with Zero Door. Went one with Zero Door. With Gunnar and Emily Duckworth. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, Catherine wanted to go for her 30th birthday and then coronavirus it. When was that? May 11th, 2020. The year of our Lord. Oh, I do remember the coronavirus. Yeah. Okay.

Okay, that makes sense. What were you going to say? Oh, you said Axe, and it reminded me this weekend when I was at the lake, I just used whatever body wash they had in the shower. Oh, okay. And you know, ax, body wash, whatever.

And I use some that was, it was dial for men brand and it was called, it was, it was called an attraction enhanced body wash. It said magnetic, magnetic on the top. Attraction enhanced. Yeah. So I started putting it on and I swear, Catherine, you know, like I am legend when those like zombies are like trying to claw into the house yeah yeah katherine was just like just jumping on the door really like cat like chill out like a rottweiler yeah let me dry off first okay yeah yeah yeah she was just yeah rabid over there and i was like okay

all the roaches came out i've heard of this wait what did it say on the thing attraction enhanced and what else magnetic was the other word the magnetic it's like what i mean what's that bringing about you know opposite to tract you know what i'm saying so that sounds like something that axe would have done like sounds like their branding it's dial from in dial from it you're better than that dial yeah you're better than that that's like the dial from inner like the or dial is like the company that you use like just generically in your schools and stuff yeah that's kind of the cheap stuff yeah what are you doing it smelled nice though attraction enhanced yeah how recently did you have like increased pheromones or something like that too they had pheromones on the front i don't know

and what are those again that's um the like that's like the people at the carnivals who like just like scream a lot when they're on the rides like that are the pheromones oh because they moan so much yeah interesting how recently did you put this on uh this was on saturday okay can you still i was gonna say how long does it 48 hours i was wondering why your face was getting a little closer to mine i was gonna say did you notice when you walked in and i was like i felt like i was moonwalking towards you well you you walked in and then like you saw me and then you got closer and came and talked to me and i was like what's what's that about it's probably like just you didn't stay right at the front door like you usually do i continued walking yeah it's probably

the body wash and then we came down here and we were even closer than we were in the living room talking that's true so i ain't when we had to scoot past the door, we were close. I don't know if we've ever gotten that close before. I don't know if we have either. We shimmied real good. That would be funny to say, just blame everything on the body wash. It's like someone bumps into you. I'll do it. That's what, what can you do? Attraction enhanced. There's an inside joke for you. We need to make a video or a document or something about all our pickleball inside jokes. Uh, one of them is nothing you can do nothing you do like anytime anytime like you screw up or something got like an easy

shot or you know maybe it's not that easy but and and like i'm you know i'm just like hey nothing you can do nothing you do about that like so many of our inside jokes came from eli who was only here for like a month and then he left for camp and now he's at college oh but he said a lot of one-liners in his time eli yep yeah because it came from he like he just straight him like legitimately just like hit it into the net yeah right and he's nothing you do nothing you do on that it's like well you can hit it over the net you could have just hit it in uh yeah so now that's our thing like you easily could have hit a better shot ah i mean what can you do on those there's nothing you could do on that's right nothing you do about that um we got a bunch of great inside jokes fun idea is another one kind of

the same same vein like hey fun idea i said that one time and kevin maclevay got so like made fun of me so much a fun idea yeah fun idea hit it out anyway we didn't notice we had all those inside jokes until other people start playing with us it was like we're not even making sense they don't even know what we're talking about right right the butterfly on the ball remember that one like there's so many random ones if it's back let it bounce yeah oh speaking of kevin kind of uh i don't know if you saw this from any of your friends but kevin's wife allison got hacked on vinmo and it was like send 30 to me asap i need it for gas i'll send it back to you soon.

Oh, no way. Yeah. And it said Allison McElvain, you know, and then had like some other word like Belton or something on the end of it. And like, I was at the lake and I saw this and I was like, okay, like she's counting on me. She knows that I'm like really quick on my phone. So I'm going to respond. And I was so close to responding back and like paying this random person $30. Wow. So she got, I don't know if you had seen that. No, no, no. I never even heard of this scam. It's a good one though.

It's a really good one because you're like, you're like trying to be so quick because you're thinking like, oh, they're in a huge. And then you think about it's like, how do you take $30 from Venmo and use it for gas? Yeah. That didn't make sense. And then you go to their actual profile. It's not anything. It has their, it has her picture on it. Same the same picture smart so vinmo is now getting hacked kind of it is funny yeah

because i wouldn't even thought of that but i'm like what is money in this cloud gonna do for you i know right now at a gas station hey i'm in silicon valley where vinmo was founded they have a vinmo gas station you can use it here i'm a jam. They don't even have like Apple ID or Apple pay on gas stations. Most of the places. No. Yeah. They're pretty old fashioned still. Yeah.

Anyway, I've ever told you about the scam. One time, my grandparents got a call from someone and this was like the day after camp. So luckily I was like, had my phone and could have like, and was able to help.

But basically they got a call from someone posing to be me. And it said, Hey grandma. And it didn't sound like me. And you know, my grandma was like, you know, whatever, it doesn't sound like you. And, but the reason I was calling is because I got in a drunk driving accident and I was the one drunk and, but I was too embarrassed to tell my parents. So I was calling and i said i'm in jail right now i need you to you know send some money whatever like a western union thing i need to send some money to here yeah to get me out of jail because i'm like so embarrassed that i did this and you know my grandma's like well you that jake this doesn't really sound like you test him and i guess the guy was like holding his nose that's what we think

like just try to sound really nasally he's like oh, Oh, I just, I broke my nose in the car crash. That's why I sound like this. So, and that's like kind of believable. Yeah. And then, so they were about to send it and then they're like, why don't we just call Jake?

Like, let's just call a cell phone just to make sure. Yeah. And then they called me and I answered it the day after camp. They would have been out. However, like $1,200, $1,200.

It was expensive jail. Oh my good for them for being great grandparents. Oh i would have been like son stay in there a while yeah you know what you learn a thing or two twelve hundred dollars for three days you can stay in there and have some bad food for a few days some jello the best part is yeah this is my dad's dad which is so great yeah once they figured out i was fine my grandpa called him back oh and just sent him on this like just hunt just for like i mean just like mess with him that's that's what you should do yeah he's like hey jake and he always like yeah he's like we love to send you the money you know it just has to do all these things i want

you to meet me here and then calls him again actually can you meet me over here or whatever and just like do all this stuff and just mess with him i was like that's awesome can you meet me because you're in jail right now yeah i forgot awesome what he was saying exactly but yeah i love that just mess with him but yeah it's a good scam elderly people are got to be the easiest ones to hack off for so many reasons but like yeah i captain's grandma said she admitted she got like scammed for like 150 dollars on like a virus for their computer like really and they almost like were about to like get on her computer like be able to access her. And then she finally got wise to it and turned it off.

Nice. Good for her for being wise. You know what they say about old people. Although slow and dangerous behind the wheel, senior citizens can still serve a purpose. Senior citizens, although slow and dangerous behind the wheel, can still serve a purpose. What does he say?

What's the next line I got oh He's like I got robbed by a little old lady on a motorized cart cart. Yeah, the way he says cart like yeah Because he comes yeah, he's like on his knees. Oh What's wrong Lloyd? Rob by oh a sweet old lady on a motorized car. Yes, we don old lady on a motorized cart. I didn't even see it coming. Where's the booze? I got robbed by a sweet old lady on a motorized cart. I didn't even see it coming.

Okay, I have two different things that I could talk about next. Let's start with the first one. Okay, lawnmower. Is that the one talk about next. Let's start with the first one. Okay, lawnmower. Is that the one you want to start with? That's fine. Okay, so I'm not going to get into too much details, but I fired my lawnmower a few weeks ago. He just wasn't coming very often anymore.

Oh, they made the machine. Oh, no, this is a person. So you have like a Roomba for your yard, and I fired him. El Toro over there. John Deere, you're out. Go find a new lawn. I'm going with Kubota. I'm going with Kubota. I'm going with Kubota.

Get out of here. Yeah. Go down the street. Get. Yeah. Maybe they'll like your kind a little more. No. So, no.

I pay somebody to mow my lawn. It's a pretty decently big lawn and just feel like time is money. So, I'm like, you do a better job than I do, Daryl. But Daryl wasn't coming. So I fired him. And then long story short was just looking for a new lawnmower. And I'd seen this one guy, Hispanic man driving through our neighborhood before kind of lived down the street from us. And so I was like, if I see that guy again, I'm going to, I'm going to try to like track him down. And so I saw him driving down my road and I like ran after him with my hand up like this. Good for you. Hey, and he stops and it's like five 30 in the afternoon. He's probably going home. And I'm like, you mow lawns. He's got like a lawn mower trailer in the

back. Like, of course he mows lawns. He's like, yeah. I was like, you want to mow my lawn? And he goes right now. And I go, sure. And so we negotiate on price and it's $40. And I'm like, great. That sounds good. And he gets out, he just starts mowing it's 40 and i'm like great that sounds good and he gets out he just starts mowing right there that's awesome and katherine's making dinner and she looks up and there's efraim right there mowing the lawn that sounds like him and uh and then like we get down sit down for dinner it takes him like an hour 45 minutes probably i mean it takes him a long time to mow and weed eat and all that stuff and i'm about to put how you down for bed and like and i'm kind of like watching him because he's finishing up trying to watch him put how you down for bed i

look out my window again efraim's gone oh my gosh i have no idea i think i think i know it's in his name free efraim yeah that's his service efra. Efraim. Efraim. Efraim. My thought is like, maybe he'll come back sometime this week or something, but I haven't seen him. Old fashioned. Yeah. Tax collector.

I don't know if that's just a normal thing for lawnmowers to just be like, I'll just get it next time or whatever. But like, yeah. Now you're looking over your shoulder. You got a debt to pay to society. And the sucky, here's the sucky thing is that he didn't do a very good job.

So if he comes back again and just starts mowing my lawn like whoa like no i don't want i don't want you again efraim i didn't realize i set up for like a subscription service here yeah yeah it's like a one time well he asked me then that's that's fair i did say like he's like every week you want it and i was like yeah every week yeah because the other guy was coming like once every two weeks and it was becoming a jungle oh so i was like ephraim come on have you seen those billboards for jungle law so bad are those only in kansas city or those elsewhere i hope only in kansas city but i don't know it's like yeah that's better call saul of uh yeah actually yeah very strange billboards and like one they get it you're talking about it though yeah i mean you're talking right now yeah one is i've heard this rumor that it's his wife either way a voluptuous woman oh he's front and center on

a billboard yeah and it says ever been sexually harassed at work i have yeah that's what a lot of their stuff is it's like it's like what it's like they're really leaning into the me too stuff but it's like they're kind of like they're disrespecting you yeah they're like using sexuality to draw you in yeah and then using it's really awkward no totally there's tons of them there's yeah there's all the and they're like workman's comp kind of lawyers and stuff like that so uh it is interesting i've never heard of anybody that's ever gone to them no but then again maybe people are and we just don't know about it. I have not been sexually harassed at work. Trey keeps his hands to himself. At work, you have not.

Yes. Okay, good. That's good. I thought about everyone who's posting first day of school pictures today. I thought about trying to take a picture of Trey. First day of school pics. Look at the video of Jake singing the cool rap song. It's awesome.

Still out there. Yeah, I thought about taking one of Trey. With Trey, first day of school. We were recording a podcast today. This is the second one of the day. Two-timing today out there. Yeah. I thought about taking one of Trey. Like with Trey, like first day of school. Like we were like recording a podcast today. This is the second one of the day. Two time in today. Wow. Yeah.

And you were ready though. Oh yeah. Fired up. Dude, I'm ready for this. This is the best. Oh yeah. It's so fun. Did you take first day of school pics growing up?

Oh yeah. Me too, man. I loved it. Yeah. Showered, hair was parted, everything. Backpack on. Oh yeah. New shirt, new shoes. Probably and one.

Yeah. Oh yeah. Definitely. Backpack on. Oh, yeah. New shirt, new shoes. Probably and one. Yeah. Oh, yeah, definitely. And one shirt, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where it had, like, the first part of the tagline on the front and then on the back. Yeah. It dissed them so bad.

Call me the bus driver. Yeah. Because I'm taking kids to school. Yes. Yes. I cannot believe I just remembered that. Yes. They were awesome like that.

I was like, oh, I'm going to get so burned when I read the back of this. I got to see what's on the back of Jeremy's shirt, but I know it's going to be bad for me. He's taking a kiss at school. Oh, it's me. Yes. He does have a good crossover. I had another one. I still remember white and like Tar Heel blue.

They were like graphics were very like abstract, but cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very like jagged features. Kind of like My Giant-esque. Your what? My Giant, like the movie jagged kind of like my giant-esque your what my giant like the the movie anyway sorry my giant on that one my giant looked a lot like my giant-esque listen here you can you can put that bus driver crap all over my giant-esque no but there's a guy like a crossover on the front and it said, what goes around on the back comes around. And it was him like crossing someone up and they're on the ground.

I had that shirt. I'm looking up some right now. The school bus driver. I just saw other kids have, I think Tyler Robertson had that shirt. Ooh. Okay. I'm going to read some of these. Okay.

So first one is him writing or looking at a piece of paper and pointing to it and says, check the one ads. Your game needs work the one it adds yeah oh nice um let's see oh come on oh here's a good one call me benjamin because i'm on the money that's not okay let me try to guess the back of the shirt hope you like oh this guy's a Duncan. Hope you like the view. This was not very good. Because you just got posterized.

I'll be up here all day long. Oh, okay. Oh, this one's just a classic. I'm sorry. That's the first part. Do you want to go again? Rise of the office. Still said it. Still said it.

Still said it. Oh, no. What is it? I'm sorry. I thought you could play. Oh, nice. Oh, no. What is it? I'm sorry. I thought you could play. Oh, nice. Oh, yeah. These are very mean t-shirts to wear.

Oh, this one hits hard. My game's tighter than your mom's wig. Oh. Oh, snap. My game's butter. Your toast. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, the 90s were great times for early 2000s whatever it was for like yes slightly discriminatory just like mean-spirited graphic tees that are basketball related stop pinching yourself the nightmare is real these are so got them i got them they're so dumb but that's what i was wearing on the first day of school you wanna hear how cool i was my first year senior first day of school senior year i wore um one of my junior high shirts because we were like so oh i see what you're saying we're like so proud of our junior high like back in the day it's so dumb so we all wore like frontier trail shirts nice yeah that's sick dude like's like frontier trail undefeated city

champs cool you're senior in high school man i remember like my sophomore year of college of what i wore to the first day of school because i'd worked at camp that summer and i'm meeting uh not like that summer camp was just full of fashion experts and forward thinking you know fashion designers but you do meet people from bigger schools, from different areas of the country. The South is always a little bit ahead of where we are. Yes. And the Ebola virus and fashion and a lot of stuff. Yep. And, uh, I learned that like tanks were kind of in memory. There was like a nine month gap where tanks ran maybe like two summers worth. Yeah. Two summers of tanks. A hundred percent. And so that was kind of a thing. And so I'd bought like a a couple tanks that summer and wore

it to school the first day of school didn't even think much not much of it and so many people gave me crap like oh tank dude and i'm not trying to like be super weird about it but i'm in my head thinking like no it's cool like you guys don't know but like this is in you're just you know we're in bolivar missouri so you don't know but i don't want to say that out loud you know you don't be like no right trust me guys oh you're out loud. You don't want to be like, no, trust me, guys. Oh, you're going to regret this. Oh, it's going to be so sick. Oh, I can't wait to see your face

when you're in. People always gave me a hard time for wearing chacos. Oh, yeah. And they kept calling me Arkansas frat. Oh, what's up? You go to Arkansas or something? And I was like, oh, good one.

Yeah. I was like, I just like them. They're really comfortable. I don't know if they're the coolest things in the world, but they're comfortable. And you could transfer from land to water effortlessly. Easily, yeah. Yeah. It was like, I just like them. They're really comfortable. I don't know if they're the coolest things in the world, but they're comfortable. And you could transfer from land to water effortlessly. Yeah. Yeah.

Absolutely. They're the greatest. Oh, you can handle all earthly elements. If there is a fire, you can escape the fire from a third floor. Yeah. Easy. Jump or run out. Yeah.

Or if you need a quick meal on the go or dessert on the go, they're called Choco. So they can serve as not only vanilla, but chocolate. Chocolate. Yep. Or let's say you're just driving. You're just driving to get just drinks. Just drinks. They still feel great.

So my gosh, just drink. Oh, just drink. Let's go. Let's go. Was that both your things? What was your second thing? First one was lawnmower. Yeah.

The second thing is that Hattie's in her in that classic age where she's asking why a lot. Oh, beyond that, she's also asking. And I think she knows she's messing with us, but she's asking why a lot. But beyond that, she's also asking, and I think she knows and she's messing with us, but she's asking the definitions of words. Dude, sometimes it's really hard to define a word. Okay. Like, like, uh, the other day she's like, like, I was like, Hey, we can do this until it's time for dinner. And she goes, dad, what's until mean? And it's like, until just, it's so hard to not just be like, it just means until it means that you've heard of

until right yeah and i totally know she knows what i'm saying when i say until but she's like messing with me until is just like um we can do this until like it's like so hard to not you know how things happen and then another thing happens until it's between those things until yeah it's like we i'm saying that we can do this and then when dinner happens then we have to stop doing this because dinner's happening okay i don't think that's the explanation until means that i don't think that's the one oh it's so hard though like like when it's just such an easy word like that like it's just or what is a second she asked what is a second because i said just a second what's a second oh my gosh this is what you have to deal with yeah and i think she's messing with me she's very smart so she knows martin van buren i think she could figure

out a measurement of time yeah we were you came over the other night and you asked oh yeah yeah she knew all about it um okay so it's funny you mentioned that literally this week i had a similar thought not with words but with sensations um i don't know if this is going to transfer to where i really thought this out but my left leg fell asleep. It fell asleep. Like one of those bad ones. Yeah. It's really asleep.

Yeah. I feel like that is one of the hard, like if you were to describe that to someone who'd never had their leg fall asleep before, where do you even start describing that feeling? Yeah. And more so the feeling of when it starts to come back to life and it like pins and needles kind of hurts, but it's more just like extreme

uncomfortability not quite pain yeah just discomfort extremely like yeah like my face is making some weird gestures yeah it's like it's like i'm it's good that it's coming back but it's like it also yeah it's like acupuncture or something like my mouth is just open i think i'm just like i just wait for it to be over. Oh yeah. Oh, it's the, it's the weirdest feeling. Yeah. I can't believe we get to experience it. I think it's kind of cool. I almost would call it pain. I don't know. Yeah. But then again, it's like, is it really hurting you? Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Like, I don't want this to keep happening, but I don't know if I'm in pain. It's just really silly. It's a silly thing in my life. what is happening over here uh can you say silly

what's silly it's like oh my gosh it means until so yeah anyway it's just it's a tough tough world being a dad i tell you that is tough um so um one last thing i want to say and we'll get into voice memos great or whatever um a lot of great YouTube comments already from last week's video. One of them specifically, though, terrified me. I did not like it. It terrified me, dude. And I'm not even you. Last week, I talked about how there was a beagle sound under my bed.

I just described it as like flapping. And this girl said something along the lines of like, not to freak you out, Jake, but that could have been a bat under your bed. One time I had a bat under my bed. Not to freak you out, though. But hey, just go to sleep and don't think about it. Because people aren't usually scared of bats. It's kind of like puppies, basically. And, I mean, nighttime, what a weird time to be scared.

Right. Like when the lights are off, what are you going to do? And people sleep at night. Bats sleep at night, right? I mean i mean i'm sure they do i'm sure they're not up to anything so there's a chance that a bat i guess could have been under my bed last week and it just i mean i had the bat that at the church so and i've been to that church it's very quiet like that church was very quiet during like the bat was very quiet during church during the day so it could still be down there i haven't looked i thought about it well i'm probably like an hour ago i told you i went in my room to get my computer and i said just killed a spider on my bed yes do you think they're bats eat spiders i would not be

surprised if they do a spider under my bed it was frantically trying to get away but i don't know what that was all about dark creature i didn't look at it i don't know what it was dude i mean how the heck does that bat get in your house though now that i'm thinking about it you know sometimes you have like you keep cats around to catch the mice maybe not so bad of a thing if i got spiders in my bed dude it's already kind of a downer keep the bats around to eat them i am absolutely never going to get a cat katherine if you're listening i'm still holding true to that. But I've had the thought of like, it'd be really nice to have it. Like to just, oh, business idea.

Here we go. Borrow a cat. Just cats. Just cats. Just cats. Cats being beat. Like a two-week farm cat. Yeah.

The cat is just, yeah. And this is a hunting cat. Yeah. Like it's trained to go out and find it. Yeah. Because when we had that mouse problem, I was like, it'd be sweet if we had a cat right now. Every other day, I don't want one. But you come home and kind of you check the harvest. Like how'd he do?

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Like that cat's looking a little plumper. Yeah. I bet he ate one. Uh-huh. I bet he got one today. Yeah.

Yeah. Or like instead of like being declawed, they're like sharpened. Yes. At Just Cats. Just Cats. Cat and mouse. What do you want to call it? Cats, cats, cats. No, no sharpened. Yes. At Just Cats. Just Cats. Cat and mouse. What do you want to call it? Cats, cats, cats.

No, no, no. Just Cats. Just Cats. Just Cats. Just Cats. It's Just Cats. Oh, so you're like a pet adoption. Yeah, but it's Just Cats.

Just Cats. Just Cats. That should be your only explanation. Like you should have like legal paperwork that says business description and you just write Just Cats. Like you never explained to anybody ever business plan so like what do you guys do just cats um you want the short version a long version all right let's go short just cats okay what is the long version just cats yeah meow yeah i threw that in there shouldn't have shouldn't have shouldn't have

should know it might have thrown you off the vision that is just just cats just drinks just cats all right let's do some vms yeah vms where is that link i found it okay where do we leave off okay here we go got one hey guys this is amanda o'connell you might know me as manda o'connor as you seem to pronounce it manda oaken you guys also reposted my first ever insta story of my ghost runners t-shirt holy cow court first off jake you called out my jingle song choice as random so i'm gonna call you out i started watching the we bought a limo, and in New York, your bear got flipped on you, and you had to strip while walking down the street. Nice baby blues.

Seriously, guys, though, if you haven't seen those, you need to watch them. Second, Brad, you'll have to explain this to Jake, but if you had a treat-yourself day, like Donna and Tom, how would you treat yourself? Last, thanks to your friendship and subsequently this podcast

you guys have helped me fix my friendship with my college bestie it's been five years and it was you guys that brought us back together so thank you shout out to my girl krista finzel aka miss fine girl hey ducky bye-bye whoa whoa okay there were some things i didn't understand here at the end but that's really cool and mean, that was beautifully timed at 59 seconds. Here are college best friend. They rekindled. Yeah, that's cool. Wow.

That's crazy. Sweet. Thanks, man. Man. Oh, God. I'm genuinely curious how we did that, though. What? Just like, hey, did you listen to this podcast?

Oh, you should check it out. I think you'd like it. Like, is that I don't know't know what part we play in that. I don't think we did much. That's cool, though. That's really cool. Also, I was a little lost in the first third. I don't know.

Maybe let's do it again. Because I thought she was going to call me out for a song I used in that video. And then she said, you stripped. And I saw those baby blues. I think she was just flirting a little bit a little flirty little flirty vm mandy oka mando oka mando oka uh no i don't know what did i what did i say to her initially i guess i called her out so she was the one that wrote the jingle uh last oh for sweet but psycho yeah it seems so random

uh-huh i think that was gotcha i mean i stand by that i feel like it was a random song yeah okay and yeah i had teal underwear on so mandio con that even more like specific than just blue well yeah because they really weren't baby blue i remember yeah i'll call you out it was still specific um okay so i don't think i have to explain very much you know tom and donna are yes donna big black woman yes tom arabian skinny little man from south carolina fun fact what is his heritage is he middle eastern indian indian gotcha um he's america he's from america now he's from america now who cares so and they, you could probably guess, treat yourself.

They like a self self care day. Yeah. And it's just like, Hey, you've been wanting that thing. Go get it. That's cool. You want that?

Treat yourself, treat yourself. I've been wanting to get a massage recently. Treat yourself. I would do that. Like they'd be like, this massage is expensive and I don't know if it's really necessary. And then the other person will go treat yourself.

Oh, it's just them to do that. Yeah. That's kind of fun. And then, other person will go treat yourself. Oh, it's just them to do that. Yeah. That's kind of fun. And then, and then one time they invite somebody else, but cool. When we won the chicken and pickle tournament yesterday,

they gave us like a prize and a little green envelope. And there was just like a certificate in it. And people were like asking what it was. So I was joking like, Oh, we got many pennies. Oh, sweet Scott.

We should do these together. It'd be awesome. What was it? Just a chicken pickle. Um, gift card, many pennies. It was actually what? No. Um, dude, do these together. It'd be awesome. What was it? Just a chicken pickle gift card? Manny Pettys. It was actually what?

No. Dude, try it out. I've gotten pedicure before. Me too, one time. I really liked the part at the very end when they grabbed some mysterious lotion and rubbed my calves with it. Oh, yeah. That part was sweet. Did you have one that had fish in it, in the tub?

There's some that have, I don't remember if mine did or if it was like next to me. It was like extra for the fish. But there's like fish that like eat your dead skin on your feet. I've heard of this. I've heard of it. I did not want it if I had it. I don't think I did. I did.

Catherine gives me a hard time because we only went once together. I thought it would be a fun date night. It's a classic like before you're married. I guess that's a classic like before you're married like and i didn't think about it and like put my feet in but i didn't roll up my pants and so one of my yeah it's like classic i'm such a i'm so kevin james and pitch like that is my that's my real life person so anyway i did something similar that one time with the pedicure um but instead of the fish getting the dead skin off me i went into a pool with a bunch of dead fish and i guess the smell is just supposed to like you're joking

there's dead fish everywhere shut up it was like i don't you ever read the book of exodus where the blood the blood turns the nile or the nile turns into blood and like fish are just like coming to the shore it looked like that that's terrifying dead fish everywhere oh and they said just stick your feet in but i jumped all the way in i was like well this is good for my feet i might as well be good everywhere i genuinely i think you're joking it was great for my skin i don't know i mean i don't know why but they said just like like yeah turns out like dead fish will help dead skin even better i'm not gonna i'm not gonna definitively tell if you're joking or not just don't don't. No, I'm telling the truth. Okay. What would I do?

I'd like the idea of massages, but I've been to some massages that are really nice. Other ones where it's like, this is excruciatingly painful. Deep tissue? No, thanks. Yeah. Light tissue, please. Please. I'll take a small Kleenex.

Yes. I want somebody who's just learning how to have muscles in their hands. Give me a massage. Almost like a small, like, chimpanzee. Okay. I would take a massage from a small chimpanzee. The other day, Hattie, like, just crawled over me when I was laying on the bed on my stomach, and she just crawled over me. It was nice.

So maybe just a bunch of toddlers in there just crawling. Here's what you do. This solves your problem perfectly. You go to a playground. Now, I'm sure what to say, just lay on your back or lay on your stomach and then walk over your back just lay down i'm i'm a bridge come on over kids lonely bridge my dad used to play that game with us he called it tree stump and it was basically taking a nap yeah it was a game for him to watch tv but it was a game for me and my sisters climb all over them. I love it. That's like classic dad, like ingenuity. Ingenuity. Ingenuity. Thank you. Thank you. I did find out about age five or six that I could get him to move. I had to dig my head into his like rib cage

and that would tickle. So that was like my one move that I had. I gave him a deep tissue. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. But yeah. Oh, deep tissue massagers suck okay so shallow tissue massage treat yourself yeah that's what i would choose what about like a thing that you if you were like hey this is not necessary to buy i don't need it but i want it what would you buy oh probably a tesla oh wow big time treat yourself big treat treat treat joey laudemus okay wow that would be mine what about you um i've always wanted a drone but i've Oh, wow. Big time treat yourself. Big treat. Treat Joe Elon myself. Okay. Wow. That would be mine.

What about you? I've always wanted a drone, but I've never really felt like I need one. You know, there's no reason for me to have one, but I think it'd be really fun to play with. I think it'd be a fun toy for me. I got hit up to do some drone videography work, and I turned it down. Throw it your way if you want to practice. See, that's what I'm saying. Yeah.

He paints houses, and he's like, I want to do before and after shots of the houses i paint yeah um but i turned it down by like hey i got a friend who said he's always wanted a drone i don't know if that does anything for you yeah will you pay him enough to have him buy one for himself you know make it worth worth as well yeah i've always wanted a drone and i've always um i think i'll probably maybe get a really nice espresso machine like isaac's too those are sweet better than my nespresso i'm gonna say it i'm gonna say it well i'll come pick you up at a tesla see that's the thing some lattes like you would be so high like on the tier as far as like you really treat yourself that i would be easily justifiable to buy a drone and a espresso machine that That's how you pivoted to Catherine.

How you froze a deer. Jake spent $35,000. I'm spending like $2,000, maybe. I don't know how much drones are. They're pretty expensive. You can get one for $2,000. You can get one. Yeah, a Mavic.

Nice. Mavic Raptor. Viper. It's a two-syllable word. Mavic. Mavic is the right word. No, I thought there was something else in there and then it's like either Air or Pro

DJI DJI Mavic okay thank you Mandiokan next one what's up Jake and Brad this is Cole from Indiana the Middle East I believe is where I'm located I just had a question regarding the Olympics

so they did get cancelled and pushed until next year. But if you were to create one game, one Olympic game, that anybody could participate in, you know, any average Joe, doesn't have to be super athletic or coordinated. You just pull somebody off the couch and they can play this game. What would it be? Think of some stuff crazy, can't do pickleball, because that is way too easy and way too obvious.

But something anybody could do. Thank you. pod keep it going guys thank you cole nice to have a listener from the middle east always what do you think who's your daddy um pick a fence this is not a uh i'm not gonna make up the game i don't i don't think i can do that very well right now okay but my idea is bell ball. If you haven't ever played bell ball, it is legitimately the most fun game ever. And I think that anybody could play it and have a chance of winning. I've not thought about bell ball in a while.

It is so fun. So it's essentially dodgeball, but every man is for themselves and there's no boundaries. And if you have the ball, you cannot move your feet. Yeah, it's like Ultimate Frisbee. Yes. And you're always in the game game the way we play at least you're always in the game until uh one person is left so you might get hit and you get you're not but you're not out you're just on your feet and you can stay on your knees

i'm sorry not on your knees on the ground you can stay on your knees but you can kind of lunge and move and stuff and if you on your knees on the ground. And you can stay on your knees, but you can kind of lunge and move and stuff. And if you on your knees touch somebody else below their knees, then you're in, they're out. Or if the ball comes to you, you catch it and you throw it at somebody who's in, they're now out, you're back in. It's great. And so at the beginning, it's like there's a big, huge playing field. But by the end, it's like there's all these zombies basically trying to get back in. And there's only two people, but they're kind of like trying to avoid all these other people who are always playing like you're trying to play dodgeball so you're trying to move around

to dodge the ball but there's people everywhere who could touch you it is so fun yeah it's so fun and you can like yeah people will take the ball and like kind of throw it off the wall to themselves so they can like kind of run to another area yeah that's exactly how we played it and so you find like you got to find the right um area for it because it can't be too small or else you just can't move around at all but it can't be too big or else you're moving around too much for the amount of people you have so you have to find like it's like the perfect youth group game and honestly our church had the perfect spot yeah bell ball and it was so fun so i actually played bell ball at the k-life house with my uh small group boys one time i don't know if you were living there yet yeah you broke the fan well one of the kids just like threw it yeah

we were playing the living room it was so fun uh but one of the kids yeah threw it without thinking that the silly fan was right above him and just just knocked a blade off yeah just one of the fins just flew so i was there um that's a great game it's a great decision it's an awesome game please play it in a similar fashion i in college used to play this game that i i still to this day think it's the perfect co-ed game it's very hard to find a really good co-ed game sure i think pickleball is not bad i think kickball can sometimes be not bad okay um sometimes volley if it's like sand volleyball maybe sand it's kind of an equalizer, but tiger ball is what we called it in college. And it was at the beginning of the game.

It's just soccer, just normal soccer, two teams playing soccer. But if at any point the ball is like kicked in the air and you catch it, it now becomes kind of like a, like rugby almost. Now you can run with the ball. Okay. So like handballs are allowed if you can catch it that sounds awesome so if anyone ever okay so then once you catch it how do you get then you can run with it you get tackled though no sure no like it's like kind of like uh what's like an ultimate football i think in a way or i guess ultimate frisbee in a

way no wait what is that like but they can't run in those there's some backyard game we used to play whatever you can run until you get touched and then but you could like chest pass it to a team or whatever so once you get touched you chest pass it or once you get touched the other team gets it uh you just have to pass it okay and there was so kicking it in is worth two points throwing it is worth one and heading it is three so it's also fun to try and like you know pass with your hands right right to someone's head because you're very accurate with your hands and like head it in do you ever just throw it right at the goalie's face just hope it ricochets yeah i mean it was just so funny because because headers were three you're constantly

throwing it at your teammates head head it just concussions everywhere and they're like they're using their chest to hit it. And they're like, use your head, dude. It's worth three. The head's great. I'm throwing it at your neck. Make an adjustment. Oh, that would be a really fun game to watch, too.

That's a fun idea for the Olympics to watch, I think. Yeah, I think it's got some decent spectatorship to it. But yeah, Tiger Ball is a big game. Yeah. You could just do it with anyone, really. Any guys or girls, athletic, semi-athletic, just get out there. I want to play that. Because if you grew up playing soccer, then you definitely prefer to keep on the ground.

But me, I'm like, kick it up to me. Let me run. Yeah, right. Please. Someone kick me the ball. Oh, that sounds awesome. So sweet. Sorry.

I'm curious about those rules now because I might genuinely want to play this. Yeah. So once you throw it, do they have to catch it in the air? Yeah. So if they botch it, then it just goes back to soccer again. Yeah. There like once you throw it, do they have to catch it in the air? Yeah. So if they like botch it, then it just goes back to soccer again. Yeah. There's not really any,

like you did this wrong. So it's the other team's ball. Like it never really stops. Okay. It's just like, you got touched, get rid of the ball. And so you just throw it up in the air sometimes.

Cool. It's awesome. Play never stops. It's good. Tiger ball. Oh, it sounds awesome. I want to go do something like that right now.

Oh my gosh. Let's stop. Hey, thanks guys. Hey guys, this has been five. I has been five six nine we'll see you guys next monday ghost runs podcast i was thinking today i was like before we know it like it's not going to be warm again i need to keep being outside every day i need to keep pickling keep tiger ball and whatever i hope i hope you're wrong but you're right well i told you last week that they're calling for this winter to be colder than the summer. So like it's common.

Yeah. They, they went out, they, they stake their reputation on it. They're like, it's going to be colder. If it's not colder in the summer, fire me,

fire me. If it doesn't get colder. And that's, that's not a, that's not me saying you should get rid of my job. That's me saying literally like put a fire, like put a campfire in my house. I said it was gonna fire me not be hot

anymore so to punish me i want you to keep me very hot set me on fire yeah it's gonna get cold but i am determined to keep pickleball going yeah i mean we played when it was pretty chilly it was chilly but fine but was it that chilly compared to what it gets in december like it was probably 40s yeah maybe maybe not even you think it was 40s uh yeah i think it was i think it was probably forties. Yeah. Maybe, maybe not even, you think it was forties. Yeah, I think it was, I think it was like forties,

low wind. We would still play. That's right. I remember one time playing and I had like multiple layers of jackets on. Yeah, it was cool. It's still playing. We'll be good.

We'll be good guys. We'll be good guys. Okay. Two more left. Here's Tim. What's up Jake and Brad. This is Tim from Denver, Colorado.

I just wanted to take a second and wish my sister Emily a very happy first day of college, freshman year of school today, August 24th. She's been a huge fan of you guys' show. That's actually how I found out about this show, and I have loved it. I'm all caught up, started listening at the end of July, and have finished all 67 episodes. Thank you guys so much for all the laughs. And, Emery, happy first day of school. That's awesome.

Wait, that's like... First time ever. 20 episodes a week. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe closer to like 15. Either way, a healthy consumption of Jake and Brad. It's the 24th, and if you said the end of July. Yeah, so that's three to four weeks.

Yeah. That's awesome. 67 episodes. Tim tim this timbo i could be wrong never mind there you think you might know who it is but maybe it's not yeah well either way thanks tim hey if i'm gonna act like this is tim okay uh tim one time messaged us and was asking about uh like some different questions he was the one that was uh trying to predict what we looked like. I don't know if it's actually Tim, but I'm gonna say it's Tim. And he predicted like, okay, this Jake guy

probably looks like this, Brad guy looks like this. And then he heard in one of the podcasts that we recorded in my truck, like my turn signal or something, he was trying to predict what kind of truck I had. He's like, I'm a big truck guy and I heard your turn signal, so I'm curious what you have. So anyway, I sent him like a video all about my truck.

So Tim, that's funny. You know, you know what the Matt Blackboard looks like. I don't think that's the same Tim. I don't think her name was Emily. Okay. Is what it is. Oh crap. You're right.

Because they definitely had the first name or first letter was the same in both. Well, Tim, nevermind. Hey, you're a good guy though. You're a good guy. I mean, anybody who listens to that much of us must really like it tim i i mean this i'm gonna look you right in the eyes whenever we open just drinks first customer i want you coming through just drinks on me just drinks on me right now just drinks on three one two three just drinks wait so you're willing to pay for like a meal no just drinks oh just drinks oh cool yeah just just tim and just drinks. Oh, cool. Yeah. Just Tim and just drinks. Not Emily.

Sorry, Emily. Should have left a voice memo. Study harder. Okay. Next voice memo. Last one of the week. Hey, guys. This is Brianna.

I'm from East Tennessee, and I'm a big fan of the podcast. Oh. And I'm Jake. Oh. And I'm also a big fan of the podcast from Virginia. And we are getting married at the end of November. So, Jake, we are planning on doing our honeymoon in Kauai. So we'd like some places to go.

So if you have any suggestions, that would be awesome. And we are also big tennis players, and we would love to get into pickleball. So any pointers that you guys would have, we stumbled up on some pickleballers tonight and we were too shy to approach them. They looked pretty intimidating. So what are some good ways to get in with the pickleball people? And Brad, you and I are ACL twins and i'm your biggest fan you guys both went to austin city limits together she just threw that in at the very end and i'm your biggest fan like and i think about you every night when i fall asleep and i hope you're my bat and i would love to get just drinks with you just drink just drink stuff

i'm your biggest fan acl twins does that mean that we've both torn them i guess that's awesome oh so not the music festival no yeah we both have them no acl was crazy acl was crazy back in the day with with her yeah yeah it was awesome i saw the weekend like right when he was popping off he was there feist was there of course yes fish played a set i didn't go to their stage but heard about it gautier you know somebody i used to know just you you think it's good on on a record dude live there's nothing like it really oh and dave matthews dude what wristband you have oh you read i had read i had yeah i had read i'm not I'm not trying to say too much, but yeah, I have connection. So you probably, you know Migos personally then now, probably, right?

You were able to go backstage? Yeah, I just call him Tanner and Josh. Yeah. They asked me to call him that. Hey, man, don't call me Migos. Quavo? Tanner, actually. You think that's Quavo?

It's not. It's not. It's Tanner. That must make you offset. Josh, actually. Josh. I 100% did not know that i've heard of both those people i had not though that's that's who migos was i did not know offset was migos oh i'm such a dad i'm such a freaking dad singing little red wagon in the car

instead of listening to Tanner and Josh. Oh, my gosh. That's funny. That's funny that their names would be Tanner and Josh. Holy cow. Just like super lame names. Sorry. Those are normal names, but just super lame names for people that are Migos.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's funny. I really want to hang out with these people. I would love to show them pickleball. I would love to show them kawaii. Yeah.

I doubt they're going to let me go on her honeymoon. Probably not. She might let you. Maybe. Could you think? I mean, if, if she's my biggest fan, she will definitely,

if I said like, Hey, if you don't mind just spending my, or spending money on the ticket, I'll go ahead and also come with you. You know, I'll, I'll make the accommodations to get to the airport in Kansas city.

If you can, if you can then get me out to Kauai and I would love to hang out with you for a week. If they each get a plus one, Jake could take me. That makes sense. Yeah. Jake on Jake. Yeah.

Jake on Jake. Jake drinks. And then, uh, she takes you. That'd be awesome. Cause we're ACL twins. Yeah. I love it. Okay.

So they asked about pickleball and Kauai. Um, give me a quick bullet list of, I was going to say, maybe just send them some, I feel like I have a wealth of knowledge of both. Right. Um, I just want to hang out with you guys. What's the first image when you think of Kauai. Give me a quick bullet list of, or maybe just send them some stuff. I feel like I have a wealth of knowledge of both. Right. I just want to hang out with you guys. What's the first image when you think of Kauai? What's the first image that pops into your head? Nepali coast. Gotta go. Favorite pictures. Nepali coast. Favorite things I've ever seen in my life.

The whole reason I went to Kauai was to see this coastline, spend the money on the $200 boat tour, and see the Nepali coast. Cool. And don't go on a small boat, because that's when you get sick. The waves are pretty big. I would suggest going going on a bigger size boat but it's worth it three of our girls still got sick i was strong okay maybe take a little dramamine or just drinks or whatever beforehand yeah or i'd start now start like brushing those straws against the ground build your immune system up you'll be fine so you don't throw up yeah on the boat

um so yeah i could honestly yeah dm me on instagram and i will send you some kawaii tips triple jake um it's triple jake on instagram.com pickleball i mean the paddle kind of matters so if you think it's something you're going to get into spend a little money on the paddle i was such a hater of that theory for a long time like surely it doesn't make that big of a difference i use a nice one the last couple times i'm like nice i'm playing a little bit better yeah you did last time we played yeah much better i'm like i don't think it's just because of me having a good night so um we have a local like shields here where do they say they're at denver was that the last person no that was tim timbo they're tennessee and virginia east tennessee yeah in virginia yeah whatever

shields around here great Great pickle policy. They're just like, yeah, use it, return it for free, whatever. So I tested out a bunch of paddles there. That's a tip. And then just, you know, I don't know. They said like, hey, we're tennis players and we were, you know, a little bit intimidated by pickleball players as a pickleball player, more than a tennis player. I'm here to say, do not be intimidated because pickleball players are just posers of tennis players. Like we're not, yeah, absolutely. So if you play tennis, you can,

you can easily come play pickleball. So legitimately, I wish I had a tennis background because everyone who's phenomenal at pickleball, it was great at tennis. Like that would be, it's like, um, it's the white privilege of pickleball. It's like, man, you just have a leg up from the get go. You're already on second base. This is so nice. So you'll be good at it. Although I will say the fear is valid. I have had such little luck. Like Isaac and I have gone up to Meadowbrook a couple times just for ourselves. Like, hey, we have like an hour free. Let's just go to Meadowbrook and try to get some games with people.

We are like 0 for our last three asking people to play with them and being told, yes, you can play with us. So it's not really a social like community sport right now. I don't know. It needs to be cultivated a little bit more as far as like, hey, let's just all come together and just find people can play with us. So it's not really a social community sport right now. I don't know. It needs to be cultivated a little bit more as far as like, hey, let's just all come together and just find people to play with. Isaac and I can't figure it out. We're like, do we look? I think what it is is we look like we won't be good.

I think we look like kids who just – I mean, we really don't know. We don't know what else it is. No one will play pickleball with us. I guess I don't know your exact instances when you're doing this, but I'm imagining like if we go, I'm not ever going to say yes to anybody else playing. Cause we've like,

we already have at least four people. We don't, we don't want to have anybody else, but are you asking like potentially two other people? Are you asking people that are in a game, but we're like, Hey, if you guys ever need a break,

if anyone ever wants to sit out or like when two of you leave, we'd love to play with you guys and give them options. Okay. And then they're always like, well, I think we're good for today okay thank you though yeah because that's my only thought is like people come there with a set amount of people so therefore they're expected to play i guess but we've never i mean i don't know but yeah i've never told anyone no yeah like when isaac and i go up there people ask us like we

always say yes yeah there you go so it is a thing that people do. We just need to do it more. Which has been pickle frustrated, you know? No one will play with us. Like, we're better than you. Let me beat you. Seriously. Maybe that's it.

They've heard. They're like, no, these guys are a little bit higher than us. I don't want to play. I'm not ready for them yet. That guy's like 6'3". Oh, my gosh. Look at that guy. Freaking nature on your team.

Yeah. So anyway. Gosh, there's some good voice memos this week. Holy cow. You got a little teary-eyed in one of those. I forget what I said. Tanner and Josh. Tanner and Josh.

Gotcha. Thinking of Migos. Tanner and Josh. I'm just impressed that I knew that Migos was two guys. Honestly. It's not. It's three. No, it's not.

Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I wasn't going to say that part. Oh, that's embarrassing. But it's like the three Amigos. That's right. It's Tanner, Josh, and Heath. That's not it's three no it's not yeah oh my god i wasn't gonna say that part oh that's embarrassing like the three amigos that's right it's tanner josh and heath that's what it is yeah the widest name the widest name possible i wait now i'm questioning i'm pretty sure it's based off the three amigos and that's why they're called migos um oh yeah the other one i've never even heard of takeoff takeoff takeoff mask off take a mask yeah it used to be mask off and then take off i was gonna say

i thought it was three but i couldn't remember his name yeah i thought i've seen some videos and it was just two of them i must be thinking of a completely different two chains that's actually one guy that's probably what you're thinking of that's confusing too two chains one guy yes there's a video okay don't look it up one republic is also just one guy then that would make sense right if two chains is one guy maybe one republic is two guys one republic is i don't know how many or two chains on one guy i don't know i don't pop culture i don't know i have multiple friends who work for ryan tedder one republic really gunner's step sister-in-law yeah they work with Ryan. And then my other friend, Ted.

If anyone ever worked at K7, you probably also know Ted. Ted and Tedder? Really? And when they get together, they have TED Talks. Yes. Yeah.

Nice. Oh, wow. Yeah, Ted and Tedder. Yeah. Okay. I'm distracted. Where's that? Oh, yeah.

I'm like, why am I on Migo's Wikipedia page? What's going on? Where am I at? Oh, reviews. Reviews. That's what I'm doing. I'm like, why am I on Migo's Wikipedia page? What's going on? Where am I at? Oh, reviews. Reviews. That's what I'm doing. I'm like, why am I on my browser? What is happening?

Review of the week. There were some good ones. Hard to choose just one for me, but I did enjoy the path that this one took. It said, I love the podcast. This is from Bella, by the way. I have a long and funny story on how I found y'all. So my friend introduced me to Tim Hawkins. And then I watched Tim's podcast, which he had John Crist on as a guest.

And I really liked his video, Bible Characters Taken in Uber with Trey Kennedy. So then I watched Trey's videos and I loved them. And then I found Jake in them. And then I found his Instagram and found y'all's podcast from there. What a marketing funnel that just accidentally just fall in line. And then I learned what stream of consciousness was and I,

I typed out this review. Yeah. And the whole time I never learned what a comma was. So I just been typing and typing and typing ever since. Regrettably,

comma, Bella, comma. That was a run on sentence, period. She also said, also, I laughed so hard.

We know we're talking about the astrology signs and BuzzFeed quizzes. By the way, I'm an introvert expert. Oh, well, bye bye. That was an old episode, but yeah, Buzz, I laughed so hard. We know we're talking about the astrology signs and BuzzFeed quizzes. By the way, I'm an introvert expert. LOL. Bye bye. That was an old episode.

But yeah, BuzzFeed is the worst. But pretty cool, Bella. That's sweet that you're here from Tim Hawkins. Yeah. That's pretty crazy. Tim Hawkins was like the first comedian that I remember thinking like, okay, maybe there are going to be some funny Christian people out there. Maybe this is possible. Yeah. For real. This was like, like Brian Regan was like clean and funny for the most part. And Jim Gaffigan was clean and funny,

but they weren't Christians. And like, okay, Tim Hawkins is pretty funny. Yeah. Like I still think he's kind of cheesy, but he was funny. I still remember one of his bits, which is such a good premise for so many things so good for you tim if you're out there listening you and um uh anna kendrick i don't know if you guys still listen but uh tim had a bit that was uh tim and ted right they listen together tim and ted's excellent adventure tim whose sister is a freshman in college today yes uh the the premise was oh he heard about this um atheist church that was starting and so he was like so what do they do at church like what do their worship songs sound like oh yeah you know

and that's just such a great premise yes it was like shout to the void like that was great i had a bunch of good songs so like what awesome atheist worship would look like is he still around he's alive yeah i'm not sure how much she's doing how do you become around versus just alive you know what I mean like he's still around like like yeah kinda does he mows on lawn or is somebody else just mow it for him and leave or like house what's what's going on with how many TVs yeah yeah right TV yeah is he doing okay in the basement like is he just down the basement all the time that's the new class only TV yes the house is basement yeah that's that like

the the benchmark right how's his basement is it just is just like a clutter space right now i mean surely it's finished but like is it organized but just kind of used for storage is it finished are they excited to show guests their basement right is it just the hand-me-down furniture oh they're renting it out oh oh oh so it's a foreign exchange student so oh okay so he's around so they're missional they're missional um yeah what is your review of the week uh mine's from ashley tenor i'll just let you know the way the ways to get to my review of the week heart just talk about brad talk about brad or just roast on my friend thomas kennedy the third aka trey so it says so i found you guys because of correct opinions

don't tell trey but you guys are now my favorite podcast you hear that Trey more than Tim's podcast Tim more than Tim if I'm driving I'm listening to Ghost Runners I probably look like a fool smiling and laughing while I drive but you guys are definitely the cheese oh that's that's the cheese so my family's going to Traverse City Michigan oh my god shout out for the I'm Down Boys they're the cheese I'm gonna be real I've never heard of Traverse City, like three weeks ago when someone left a message and now it's like, I'm learning, like my, I told my parents about Traverse city this weekend and they're like, yeah, it's like a vacation spot. Like we want to go there sometime. We should go on tour there because all of our fans are there. Yeah. I'm down. Boys will open up for us. Oh my gosh. That'd be

awesome. They'd be like the, uh, like stunt people. Yeah. The people used to like take dirt bikes and ride around in that globe yeah like three people at once i got a story about that i'll save it okay but yeah i'm down boys they go in like crowd surf and just get people going yeah oh yeah uh so love them up love them up there's another uh inside joke from pickleball that comes from andy bernard love them up love them up love them up love them up so we just say it all the time and pickleball uh my family's going to traverse city michigan for a vacation this weekend my husband doesn't know it yet but he'll be listening to you guys on the way up north five stars would recommend from ashley ten or thank you ashley tanner hope your husband is not tired of us yeah he's probably listening right now oh what do you think they're talking about

oh they're definitely like well they're not talking they're listening okay but what if they were talking uh they're talking about refinancing the home you know mortgage rates are down mortgage rates are down you go 30 to 15 like dave says you know they didn't know when they really first got their loan so go ahead and refinance mortgage rates are down fannie mae's coming back up soon okay you know get your get your fanny into the bank before fanny gets down on your mortgage rates. That's what I've seen the commercials. That was dumb. Hey, hey, no.

It was dumb. Hey, no. Positive self-talk. I think Ashley kind of has to go to the bathroom, but she's afraid to tell her husband because she has kind of a small bladder. She knows he's going to like, again. Ashley has the small B. Yeah. I've seen those commercials yeah

and but i think if she would just say him she doesn't know that like he kind of he's got to go a little bit too yeah and he loves he loves pnmms first of all he said pn into the m&ms he loves pnm he loves pnm i was like what kind of freak is this guy yeah well i know things about him that you don't he's not allowed anywhere near a kid at a playground. Let me tell you that right now. Oh man. Okay. Okay.

Well, those are, we got a lot of reviews this week actually. So it's kind of hard to choose. One shout out to Caden Hudson for getting on his mom's phone or my brother's phone to write us another review. Yeah. Shout out.

Yeah. Appreciate that Caden. Yeah. Okay. So it's time for the jingle. Oh, it's going Appreciate that, Caden. Yeah. Okay. So it's time for the jingle of the week. It's going to be something. And we had one written for us.

Yep. Yep. Once again, Amanda Ocon again. No way. Two in a row. Sweet, but psycho.

Sweet, but psycho. And you probably guess like if like the brother song, just sweet, but psycho is I'll make a man out of you by Mulan, which, which ironically is like, howie's obsessed with Mulan right now. So I've been listening to this song a lot. Those two songs do go together.

Kind of a Tanner and Josh thing. A hundred percent. They could form a group. Tanner and Josh. And Heath. Yep. Yeah. And Heath. Don't forget about Heath in the corner.

He's easy to forget. Who do we got? Yeah. Lachlan. Lachlan over there. Okay. So she wrote some lyrics for me. Youachlan. Lachlan over there. Okay. So she wrote some lyrics for me. You guys know how confident and how much I love singing.

So this would be great. But anyway, let's get down to business. Let's sing this song. Oh. Do you know that's the first line? You're kidding. That's so smart of you. That was a complete accident.

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Mando, full song. You did good, Brad. Thank youad thank you you did well as well as good as well yeah good job i did it a well job what i'm capable of doing which is fine be a ghost runner so that'll be stuck in your head the rest of the day so you're welcome for that um this has been episode 69 i hope you enjoyed it. If you did, leave us a five-star review. Leave us a five-star review. If you didn't, don't say anything. If you didn't, don't say anything. Feel free to follow us on Instagram. Feel free to follow us on Instagram and Patreon.

Nice. That was good. Yeah, we appreciate it. You guys are awesome. We're starting to think about our next wave of merchandise which would be cool um so look out for that oh i'm wearing the the first round right here i kind of forgot about it you look hot jrgc yeah yeah hot but cool you know fire me fire me it's gonna be cold this winter uh okay any final thoughts brad nope i love you

guys love you the most jake it excites my family. I'll take it. Bo's really cool. I haven't said that enough because he's such a chill baby, but I love my son, Bo. He's really cool. More than... Nope. Nope. Nope.

It's the same. It's crazy how it works. It's crazy. It's crazy. Equal. It's crazy. Separate but equal. I would never love anybody like you, Hattie.

And then this new baby is like, I really love him too. He's really fun so that's cool good for you yeah love you guys okay you bow and haddie and katherine and my mom george ann and my dad dave and my sister julie and dana and all their kids aunt cindy and cindy for sure i love it she texted me during this episode about paying your phone bill i was a little late but she just texted me said thanks for your payment your payment. She was considerate of, she was like, I don't know if I should

text Jake on the weekend. Like, is he out of town this weekend? Like, I don't want to text him if he's out of town. Oh, text me,

text me Cindy. It's texting. It's not, it's not a phone call. I'm on my phone constantly. So yeah, bring it on. Okay.

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